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Folks: With all of the misinformation provided in the other thread regarding Margaret “Peggy” Clevenger, I think it is time that we conduct documentary research with due diligence to find the facts about Mrs. Clevenger. She was born circa 1786 as Margaret Blake, the daughter of Thomas and...

Every issue of Weird New Jersey carries photographs and articles about historic sites that are often in extremely fragile condition. The publicity the magazine gives to these sites promotes increased visitation, which, in turn, brings irreparable degradation of the site. A good practical example...

Anyone read Weird New Jersey lately? Oh, the gratuitous tedium of banality. :rolleyes: Jerseyman

Great stuff, Guy! The property being private notwithstanding, the bridge could not be a Civilian Conservation Corps project if it predates 1931. President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not sign the enabling legislation to form the CCC until 1933. Best regards, Jerseyman

Folks: Here is a great image showing a turn-of-the-twentieth-century sawmill located at Clementon, New Jersey: Note the two steam tractors providing power to the mills and the loaded horse-drawn log carriage similar to the one that Woodjin found. Best regards, Jerseyman

Yonaguni: While I think your visit to the cemetery is commendable and you probably enjoyed yourself there, I am not at all surprised that you failed to find a gravestone for Peggy Clevenger. As I indicated in my posting above, her reported wealth amounted to “two or three cents,” not nearly...

Yonaguni: If we can literally interpret the article I placed in the previous thread on Peggy Clevenger* and that she was actually buried in Wrightstown, the only cemetery then in existence belonged to the Wrightstown Methodist Episcopal Church, founded in 1756. (Detail from the 1859 Map of...

Folks: Here is another article I pulled from the New Jersey Mirror last Friday while conducting research. This item dates to 28 February 1861: RECENT SALES OF PINE LANDS. A correspondent of the Monmouth Democrat, writing from “The Pines, Burlington County,” gives the following account of the...

Folks: While conducting some research today for an address I am making a week from this Sunday, I discovered these two articles, spaced one week apart in December 1857, about poor Peggy Clevenger. I thought you would enjoy reading them as I did: A TERRIBLE AFFAIR. We learn that the dwelling...

LTH: I do not have the set in my library, but I do have access to it through a subscription website, but I have looked at it for quite a while. Best regards, Jerseyman

LTH: Today I spent a little bit of time running names through the SGO survey book index and then checking the surveys on microfilm. I have found at least one later survey associated with the original 1796 survey. I have not yet completed this process, but I do expect to find others before I...

Guy: Rutherford Stuyvesant was born Stuyvesant Rutherford, the son of Lewis Morris Rutherfurd and Margaret Chanler Rutherfurd (the change from “furd” to “ford” is intentional and accurate in this narrative). In 1847, his great uncle by marriage, Peter Gerard Stuyvesant, died. In his will...

LTH: I am working with TeeGate in an attempt to determine, once and for all, the source of this toponym. Meanwhile, I can tell you that the name “Aserdaten” predates Stuyvesant’s birth. The earliest documentary source for the place name known at this time is a manuscript map dated 1839. I have...

Guy: If you can send me the information you have already assembled, particularly for the eighteenth century, I will run the names through the colonial conveyances index and also the Surveyor General Office survey books index. I suspect the latter source will yield some important information...

Ed: The Oliphant family was known to be millers, among other occupations. While the image included in the website you reference shows the sawmill, here is a view of Oliphant’s gristmill in Medford Township: Best regards, Jerseyman

Al: As the old saying goes, “you’re in the right church, but the wrong pew.” If you look at the map below, the mill you have identified is Oliphant’s Mill (delineated with the purple arrow). The mill depicted on the post card is actually located where the red arrow points on the map below...

I am looking forward to seeing all my friends at this year’s LINES ON THE PINES at the Frog Rock County Club in Hammonton. Don’t forget to set your clocks ahead one hour Saturday evening so you will arrive at the proper time on Sunday. I hope you all have a great time there! Best regards...

Jack: You can thank RednekF350 for bringing this thread back to the surface. I had totally missed your recent added postings to this old thread. If your interest is Winslow Township, cadastral maps for that locality extend back in time to 1850, when R. Pearsall Smith published a regional map...

Gasoline and oil price setting is based on a complex paradigm. While there is little doubt that petroleum corporations take full advantage of price shifts, it is a proven policy construct that just a hint or, better yet, a more direct threat by the United States to tap more of its own domestic...

Dragonfly Whisperer: The Morris Beach development has fascinated me for some years now. About eight or nine years ago, I worked on a project involving the Jobs Point Bridge. As a result, I had to conduct research on Morris Beach. Here is the survey plan for the development from August 1939...