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Thanks, Spung-Man, if I come across a question that can be answered in one of those volumes, I'd make the drive. I'll let you know :). Google has a digitized copy of the general index. It's very interesting, but so far I have only managed to find volumes 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 19, 23, 26, and 29...

I'm hoping one of you historian types can help straighten me out on the several series of volumes that seem to go by the combined name of "The New Jersey Archives." So far I've identified: "Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey." I've located five of the first...

Lol, no kidding? So no historical basis at all? I'll forget about it then.

When you say "it's all Sweetwater" do you mean in the same sense that "The Forks" in actual usage encompassed Pleasant Mills, Batsto, and the houses, taverns, wharfs, warehouses, etc., on the river south of there? Where in the timeline from "Nescochague" to "Pleasant Mills" was the name...

Excellent, thanks for that link.

Based on the feedback here I've basically discounted Hall, and the other sources that appear to be derivatives of the same misconceptions. I'm looking forward to Heart of the Pines. Googling Dr. Craig led me to this... http://nc-chap.org/cranehook/pdfs/census_1671.pdf Is this the research...

So... Sweetwater. Some of the sources I've read claim that was the original name of Pleasant Mills, but what is labeled as Sweetwater on the map today is south and east of there. What's the story?

Great idea, and thanks for taking the time to do it. I love reading Beck for color and texture, and personalities. I find him a little frustrating to do research in, and this addresses one of the reasons why. Typically I'm looking for the answer to a specific question or set of questions, and...

You've seen more info on Mullica than I have. So apparently we know when he was born? How did the river come to have Mullica's name, if we assume he didn't discover it, and was just one of perhaps a few hundred settlers in the region at the turn of the century? I was aware of the original...

I had 1689 in my head for some reason, but 1698 seems correct for the Leeds. Pierce places the arrival of the first white settlers at Nescochague in 1707. He implies that they were offshoots of those who fled Charles II's war against the Kirk and arrived in the southern counties after Penn took...

Interesting. So there was no connection between Eric Mullica and the discovery of the river? I assume not, because if he settled around 1695, then I think by that time there were already Scotch Quakers around Leeds Pt. and Pleasant Mills, right?. My tale doesn't hinge on getting these early...

Ah, ok. That location at the end of Hay Rd. was my best guess for a spot on the south bank. 1695 makes a lot more sense for the settlement of Clark's Landing... but wouldn't that make Eric Mullica a little old to be the person who discovered the river sometime in the first half of the century...

Trying to piece this all together is incredibly fun, and also frustrating sometimes :). This sort of information helps immensely. Where exactly was Clark's landing? Pierce describes it as seven miles below Pleasant Mills, about halfway to the mouth of the river. I see a Clark's Landing Rd. but...

Pierce in "Iron in the Pines" states that Clark's Landing was founded by Thomas and Hannah Clark, parents of Elisha, who went on to become so prominent in Pleasant Mills. That gentleman was the owner of a sawmill and gristmill, and builder of "Clark's Little Log Meeting House". Does that ring true?

I spoke with a very nice lady at the Batsto Visitor's Center, and they have plenty of the $60 copies of the second edition. So I guess I'll be taking a drive south this weekend.

That's great insight, JerseyG, and I appreciate it. I've dredged up most of those sources at this point, and I'm picking and choosing what seems most reliable. Generally they either all agree because they are repeating the same tale from the same earlier sources, or they are wildly divergent and...

Came upon this in Fithian's diary... [ANDREW HUNTER, SR., TO PHILIP FITHIAN.] COHANSIE Febx ro 1 . 11 1772. SIR. I am very sorry that I have the melancholy occasion to inform you of something that will try all the religion and fortitude you have, to bear up under it. I need not keep...

Here's a difficult to read plain text version, including the 1760s when he was at Princeton. Perhaps that's the period when he traveled South Jersey, Bob. In the 1770's he seems to have gone to Virginia. http://archive.org/stream/vickersfithianat00fithrich/vickersfithianat00fithrich_djvu.txt

Thanks, Bob! I found one of a Quaker evangelist named Joshua Evans who lived in Gloucester approx. 1740-1798, but it turns out to be 95% religious in content. I also found the journal of Thomas Hopkins who managed a salt works called "Friendship" that was probably located near Absecon...

Anyone know of any diarists who wrote about traveling in the area around the time of the Revolution?