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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.

Charles George & the Hunterdon Gazette

February 17, 2017 By Marfy Goodspeed in Flemington, Hunterdon Tags: architecture, maps, newspapers

Thanks to the controversial election of 2016 and recent developments in Washington, people are paying a lot more attention to the news, and coming to appreciate the importance of a free press. This got me thinking about newspapers in Hunterdon County.

The Daybooks of Dr. Bowne

November 20, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Twp, Barber, Bowne Station, Delaware Twp, E. T. Bush, Historians, Hunterdon Tags: early settlers, maps, occupations, old ways

Recently I attended a workshop given by archivist Don Cornelius on the holdings of the Hunterdon County Historical Society. They are extensive, far more than I realized. Among them are the original daybooks of Dr. John Bowne of old Amwell Township, filled with the names of his patients and their treatment. These Daybooks are so important to genealogists that someone at the Historical Society has gone to the considerable effort of indexing the names into a card catalog, and—primitive as it may seem to be today—it’s a very useful genealogical tool for the time period of 1791 through 1857.