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The Bray Inheritance

April 16, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in Bray, Delaware Twp, Families, Locktown, Rittenhouse Tags: churches, crime, houses, land titles, portraits, roads

This post is a follow-up to the previous one about the Bray family of Delaware Township, Andrew Bray and Sarah Rittenhouse. That post includes copies of the portraits of Andrew and Sarah Bray by William Bonnell.

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Andrew Bray and Sarah Rittenhouse

April 9, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in Bray, Delaware Twp, Families, Locktown, Rittenhouse Tags: churches, portraits, roads, schools, The Revolution

I am not ready to write at length about Gen. Daniel Bray. But in order to write about his son Andrew, something must be said of the father.

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Hunterdon’s Oldest School House

April 9, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Twp, Bray, Delaware Twp, Families, Gordon, Heath, Historians, Hoppock, Hunterdon, J. M. Hoppock, Lair, Opdycke, Rittenhouse, Sergeant, Williamson Tags: early settlers, schools

by Jonathan M. Hoppock
published in The Democrat Advertiser, January 25, 1906

This article was written by J. M. Hoppock. I have added corrections and additions in footnotes. Mr. Hoppock’s very specific description of this building, which was demolished long ago, is invaluable to students of the township’s history and early architecture.

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