GOODSPEED HISTORIES – Page 43 – New Jersey History and Genealogy

Poulson Family Tree

May 18, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Families, Poulson Tags: family trees

The first of the Poulson family to appear in Hunterdon County was Rev. Israel Poulson, born in Somerset County. He must have arrived in Hunterdon by the mid 1790s, for he married a Hunterdon woman, Esther Moore, about 1794.

Rev. Israel Poulson was one of those people with enormous influence on those who lived anywhere near him. He must have been fairly charismatic, considering how many people who were named after him. There are ten that I am aware of, not including his son Israel P. Poulson, Jr.

Owners of the Hart-Taylor Cemetery

May 4, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, Fisher, Headquarters, Moore Tags: early settlers, land titles, proprietors

There are two ways of writing about a cemetery. One is to portray the people buried there, which I attempted to do in my previous article. The other is to relate how the cemetery came to be—in other words, the history of the property where the cemetery is located. It usually makes sense to focus on the place since many of its early owners were buried in the cemetery. At first I thought that in this case, none of them were. But, research has changed my mind.

A Fisher Family Tree

May 4, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Families, Fisher Tags: family trees

Some time ago, I published a family tree for the Fishers of Amwell, because they figured in my article on the Hart-Taylor Cemetery. Then I began researching the area that was taken from Delaware Township and given to East Amwell Township in 1896 (A Shrinking Township, parts 1 and 2), and learned that a large part of that area was owned by the Fisher family.