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Don: To say that my visit to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania last evening was disappointing would be an understatement! I reviewed every box of material from the Foster-Clement Collection that they could find and there was not a single piece of paper from Foster’s connection with the...

Don: I had recalled the Richards v. Drinker, et al. case ended up before the New Jersey Supreme Court and I just happened to come across a digitized version of the proceedings in conducting another search. Here is the URL: http://books.google.com/books?id=g1AtAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA307&lpg The...

Sorry for misunderstanding your reference, Don. As I mentioned in that posting about Lock’s Bridge in 2009, I think that map will likely be found at the New Jersey State Archives. Best regards, Jerseyman

Don: The case files you found in the basement during the 1970s from various county courts are now at the NJ State Archives. In addition, you can visit the NJ State Library and in the Law Library on the main floor, you can search for published court cases, which the state began during the late...

Don: Welcome to the forums! I remember viewing the original Fruitland survey map years ago at the clerk’s office, but like other important public documents there, it has been missing for several years. Another map that had disappeared more then ten years ago is the 1795 map of Taunton...

Gee—you would think a professor and “aviation historian” would know the difference between a blimp and a dirigible! What a revoltin’ development this is!! Albright? Perhaps Not-too-Bright. Jerseyman

I can’t make any pronouncements with absolute authority, but if I had to hazard a guess at the identity of this sawmill, I would say it is the ruins of the mill that once stood at Hockamick, powered by Jumping Brook. I know with certainty, given the date of the photograph (January 1938), that...

Yes, that toll house appears on the West Deptford plate of the Everts and Stewart 1876 atlas. Like the others, the house stands on the west side of the road immediately below the Grove Road-Kings Highway intersection (NOT Mantua Grove Road). The toll house from this location may still exist in...

This would be the Old Stephens Burial Ground. It is still there, located between Crown Point Road and I-295 in a small wooded area at the end of an old lane leading off Crown Point Road. The burying ground contains 25-30 graves, but only about 11 of them have markers that can be read. The oldest...

Typical—the article is rather misleading and terribly conflates the timeline. While the Colonial Assembly did authorize a road be laid out between Burlington and Salem in 1681, the toll houses along this portion of King’s Highway date to 1851, when the New Jersey State Legislature approved an...

Tench Francis owned Paradise Farm, once located on Paradise Lane in West Deptford Township, Gloucester County. If you look closely at the photographs of the stone barn, you will notice some narrow vertical slits in the stonework, placed there for ventilation. A number of nineteenth- and...

Wrangleboro: The information about the Crick Angels I know about first-hand and did not come from Watson, although he knew of them as well. There are numerous branches of the families I identified and not all of the members of those families can be identified as Crick Angels. But for those who...

Guy: As I noted on Willceau’s blog concerning this photograph, the brother is wearing bathing shoes, which you would put on to swim in the ocean. Best regards, Jerseyman

Wrangleboro: I DO like the location you listed for yourself. The Irish Wharf was the first wharf on the Rancocas Creek, now located at the foot of Kennedy Way in Willingboro in the Martins Beach section of the township. During the eighteenth century, this wharf served Royal Governor William...

Right you are, Dogg! Here is a picture of the Clementon Lake (nee the millpond) with the old mill in the background: And a close-up view of that mill: Along the Atlantic City Railroad tracks, you could find Schellinger’s steam-powered sawmill: Best regards, Jerseyman

Gibby: You bring back some really great memories from the late 1980s and early 1990s, when my late friend Richard and I would make the twice-annual trek out Route 30 to the Rough and Tumble Museum in Kinzers, Pennsylvania, to engage all of our senses in the touch, sights, sounds, smells, and...

Gee—I thought it was a “capital” idea myself! ;) Jerseyman

It appears someone wanted someone else to go pound sand! Jerseyman

Guy: Here is the compass rose from the 1849 map. As you can see, the map is tilted considerably westward from due north: Best regards, Jerseyman

Guy: No umbrage taken and you are correct: north is not straight up on the 1849 map. I do not have the map currently in front of me, but my recollection is that north is somewhere between 30 and 40 degrees or more counter-clockwise feom zero degrees on this map. Let me know when you want to...