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Sergeant’s Mills, part three

June 23, 2017 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, E. T. Bush, Green, Historians, Lair, Reading, Rosemont, Sergeant Tags: architecture, early settlers, land titles, proprietors

Being part three in a four-part post about an article written by Egbert T. Bush titled “Sergeant’s Mills Once a Prosperous Place” and published in the Hunterdon County Democrat on January 16, 1930.

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Sergeant’s Mills, part two

June 3, 2017 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, E. T. Bush, Families, Historians, Opdycke, Rittenhouse, Sergeant Tags: bridges, land titles, maps, mills, schools

After this article was published, some careful readers alerted me to a few errors which merit attention.

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Sergeant’s Mills, part one

May 27, 2017 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, E. T. Bush, Historians, Lair, Opdycke, Sergeant Tags: bridges, early settlers, houses, land titles, mills

In a recent post on the life of John P. Rittenhouse, I mentioned that his parents, Samuel & Hannah Rittenhouse, lived near the covered bridge in Delaware Township. This reminded me of the interesting article written by Egbert T. Bush about the history of the area around Sergeant’s Mill.

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