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Old Hunt Farm A Place of Interest

August 14, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in E. T. Bush, Stockton Tags: cemeteries, houses, land titles

Ancient “Plantation” Has One of the County’s Oldest Dwellings
Workman Leveled Stones

by Egbert T. Bush, Stockton, NJ
published in the Hunterdon Co. Democrat, June 4, 1931

The following is a transcript of the article written by Egbert T. Bush. My comments and annotations are in the footnotes. Unlike the articles by J. M. Hoppock in the Democrat-Advertiser, there were no pictures published along with the Bush articles in the Hunterdon Co. Democrat. So I have taken the liberty of adding my own.

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Old Ink, 2/2/2012

February 3, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in Uncategorized Tags: "The Post", cemeteries, Going, Old Ink, thoughts

For those of you who read the Hunterdon County Democrat, you will be familiar with a long-time feature of the newspaper. Titled “Old Ink,” it gives short excerpts from stories 125, 100, 75 and 50 years ago. For a little while, they were publishing items from 175 years ago, which I much appreciated, but the editors changed their minds and went back to the old formula.