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Guy, While researching the property I was very interested in seeing where the canal met Beaver Run and also the point where it turned toward the cranberry company bogs. I was planning to get there soon but your description of the dense woods is discouraging me. I am sure I will still venture...

Hey Ed. I live around the corner from you on Old Indian Mills Road. Saw your post. Not really interested in the Grolsch bottles but the kegs, regulator, and other equipment interests me. Maybe we could get together and you could let me know how much money you need to get. I brewed years ago and...

Can anyone tell me where a stream that was once called Duckenhat (or Duckinhat) might be found? It was in Burlington County and may have been within a few miles of Four Mile Circle. Possibly in what is now Pemberton or Woodland Township. Thanks

I am having difficulty saying what I mean to say. Should have paid more attention in English class. I think what you will find when you look into it is that the metes and bounds that describe this property (28 courses) encompasses more than 14800 acres. The 30 plus exceptions to the tract...

Indeed, the Edward Brinley survey is just as you described. The problem is that in many places the so called "outer boundary" is not exactly as you would think because the exceptions are often not completely within this line. In many cases these exceptions straddle the line sort of eating into...

Yes, in property descriptions I have seen that stones were later placed where a tree with blazes once stood.

from an 1848 deed for land in that area . . .by which it run 5th South sixteen degrees and forty five minutes West seven chains and sixty four links to a stone lettered JM 1742 on the North side and WP 1700 on the South side, it being the beginning corner to the aforesaid 30 acres originally...

It's hard to say from the map. Both these streams and others form the headwaters of the main branch of Cedar Creek. Do you believe that Webb's Mill Branch is a more substantial stream than Chamberlain? I wonder if deeds to property along Webb's Mill Branch call it the main branch of Cedar...

Guy, I looks like you will have your hands full with this project! Almost 15000 acres before the dozens of exceptions. Looking forward to hearing about your progress. Good Luck.

My copy of the Rutherford Tract survey begins: I have completed the following survey for John Rutherfurd, commenced by Francis W. Brinley the late surveyor general in November 1858 viz. All that tract of unappropriated land, situate . . . and ends: . . . Surveyed in November 1858 by Francis...

It reminds me of the Skit Mill pond but I am not very convinced of my guess.

Thanks rooftree and spung-man for getting me started. Indeed my lead to this place is its association with the Pomona Fruit Company. The problem that I am dealing with is that this enterprise had property in several counties. Their various bogs seemed to be spread far and wide and there were...

I am looking for any information on a place called Pomerania, NJ - Especially as it relates to cranberry culture. I see that there may have been an area in Trenton by that name but has anyone ever heard the name used with respect to a location in the Pines?

No information, just a deed with the metes and bounds that describe two GS stones. I may PM you my best guess at coordinates for the GS stones and you can tell me how far away I was when you find them. There is a related deed that has another incised stone not far from there. I have been...

An early survey to William Rogers places Mott's Mill on the Wading before 1752. The survey says "beginning at a pine tree corner to Thomas Mott's mill place on the west side of the Wading River about 3/4 of a mile above the Great Bridge." Mott's survey itself says the property is 1/2 mile...

I was very surprised to see how much remained. To think these pilings may be more than 250 years old! I was similarly shocked when I discover what I believe to be the remains of the so-called "Tunking Mill" on the Green Limb Branch of the Batsto.

Yes, it is a great post that I have read and pondered often. In particular I too have been stumped by Balangee's Mill. That I recently came across evidence of a Mott's Mill at what would later become Harrisville and that there was a William Roger's Mill in the area adds to the mystery.

I know that you were exploring on the other (west) side of 539 but I was curious if you ever located either of the two GS stones along the Chamberlain? I know you had been looking some time ago.

I have been planning to explore some of the mill sites along the Wading River this summer and finally got a chance to start some adventures last Thursday. One particular place that I hoped to explore was a sawmill site just upstream of Evans Bridge. Daniel Smith purchased a 60 acre tract there...

If you are referring to the property by the sharp bend, it may be owned by the Philadelphia Herpetological Society. Could be an area of study for that organization. Long ago the area was called Goose Pond. Later the bogs upstream were associated with Martin Luther Haines of Hog Wallow fame...