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  1. manumuskin

    Old road running through Mordecai Swamp

    I think the plan was to sneak up the Mullica and attack Batsto by night?
  2. manumuskin

    Old road running through Mordecai Swamp

    More breastwork/entrenchments? https://boydsmaps.com/#16.00/39.628807/-74.605213/lidar2021bw/0.00/0.00
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    Old road running through Mordecai Swamp

    https://boydsmaps.com/#16.00/39.636830/-74.619118/lidar2021bw/0.00/0.00 Matter of fact looks like a breastwork to me encircling this coord to the east of it making a good blocking position approaching batsto from the east or the south (If the swamp was cleared for a field of fire so the British...
  4. manumuskin

    Old road running through Mordecai Swamp

    Actually this breastwork or ridge is not the road and if I recall what you see here were trenches.The road is south of here and angles se to crowleytown https://boydsmaps.com/#16.00/39.634541/-74.621328/lidar2021bw/0.00/0.00
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    Old road running through Mordecai Swamp

    Brainstorm? Could the road have originally been a breastwork and later this was taken advantage of to make a road out of it? Hmmm??? :)
  6. manumuskin

    Old road running through Mordecai Swamp

    If the road was no there then the trenches that follow it were not either so Gabe would be right about those trenches,that would not explain however the ones further south where there is no apparent road,unless of course the trenches are older then the road and the road just happened to follow...
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    Old road running through Mordecai Swamp

    Okay have established that the man who built Crowleytown wasn't even born till 1788 so the town was not there.Could the road have followed present 542 on down the river to Tuckerton? or somewhere else on the coast or maybe just went to an old landing on the Mullica near present Crowleytown?the...
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    Old road running through Mordecai Swamp

    One section of trench is visible on 2021 LIDAR https://boydsmaps.com/#16.00/39.636107/-74.630076/lidar2021bw/0.00/0.00 Also where the trenches do follow the road why are they only on the southern side? The road is much bigger and higher then could account for the little bit of sand that...
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    Old road running through Mordecai Swamp

    I am going to plan a trip to Mordecai soon as the weather warms up a bit but before the leaves come out.I"m going to map the trenches and photo them. I remember many of them being quite far south of the road. They were large enough for me tpo get in on my hands and knees and almost deeo enough...
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    Old road running through Mordecai Swamp

    British regulars against iron workers and maybe some militia? Why suicidal?
  11. manumuskin

    Old road running through Mordecai Swamp

    Ditches in places shaped like redoubts? And some of them are along island edges hundreds of yards from the old road.The Brits were not after cannonball caches but to destroy the source of the cannonballs and cannon forged at Batsto. Many of the ditches are along the islands strung out to the...
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    Old road running through Mordecai Swamp

    I"ve canoed through there and your right it is very shallow but they would have left the ship downstream and rowed their smaller boats up the batsto probably to the forks and then marched up the space between the river which would have protected their flanks
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    Old road running through Mordecai Swamp

    Some entrenchments built by Batsto Patriots for a battle with the British that never happened are out there as well. The British intended to sneak attack batsto by sailing up the Mullica but were caught in the act at Chestnut neck by patriots whom they got into a battle with.The British won that...
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    Two Firms Eyeing Sites In Shamong For Cannabis Operations

    This may put all the Maurice River twp boys uit of business. Come to think of it I ain't found no clandestine weed fields in the woods in awhile.
  15. manumuskin

    Where is this?

    There is a South Millville gun Club on Tuckahoe/Belleplain rd just south of Weatherby rd. Thats not even the same county as Millville.
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    Fall/Winter Stone Searching 2021/2022

    I like powder for walking in the woods.All you here is swish swish swish,almost silent.Wet snow is great for tracking but once it freezes it turns into this stuff I hate.Obnixiously loud and crunchie.The critters have a hard time getting through it to food.It's just miserable stuff.I call it our...
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    Fall/Winter Stone Searching 2021/2022

    I just went out to hunt some monuments and a few stones on a new deed I found for the Bevan area just five minutes away.I already know of some stones in the area that were connected to this deed anyway which helped a bit. I know it was supposed to hit 46 yesterday and rain all day.When I got out...
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    Fall/Winter Stone Searching 2021/2022

    Now thats a new one! I have never found a snake in the snow!
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    Winter Storm Watch

    I"d say about five inches so far in Laurel Lake.A wet snow man snowball type snow.I prefer powder,better walking in the woods,quieter and less exhausting but if you want a snowball fight this is your stuff
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    Winter Storm Watch

    I just drove home from work in Bridgeton and there was barely a coating there.I swear as I crossed Cedarville rd on Buckshutem it jumped to four inches deep within two hundred yards.
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