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I hate to say so—and it will be a whole lot more work for Ben and Guy—but perhaps the time has come for potential new members to apply for membership rather than just being able to join unimpeded. The rate at which these spammers are joining is unprecedented and I fear it will only continue to...

Gee—I didn’t know it was lost! :) Jerseyman

Gentlemen: We had the same jurisdictional discussion on the Locks thread. As time permits, I am looking at a wide array of research material to develop a response to this issue. At the moment, I will point out that in March 1902, State Senator Horner presented a bill to the New Jersey State...

Gabe: The mention of a herring fishery at the landing strongly suggests that it was a commercial operation. If that is the case, then it owned a set distance for its net throw limit. It likely had one or two skiffs for deploying the net and possibly a capstan onshore the net haul. They may...

Don: If you reread the information from the broadside I posted, it states that the Sleepy Mill Tract was situated 3 miles from Atsion, not the mill. Given its size—700 acres—I think the 3-mile descriptor is likely appropriate. Best regards, Jerseyman

The only Penn Gun Club of which I am aware had its origins in Norristown, Pennsylvania in the late nineteenth century. Best regards, Jerseyman

Folks: Foster, et al., sold the Sleepy Creek Mill sometime during the late 1780s or early 1790s. In 1795, Samuel Murdock, a succeeding owner, advertised the mill and property for sale: FOR SALE, SIX hundred acres of PINE LAND, in New Jersey, bounded by Atsion river and Sleepy Creek, about...

Don, Guy, and Gabe: The 1872 Atlantic County sheet map places the Sleepy Creek Millpond in Atlantic County, but it appears the dam stood right at the mouth of the creek, placing the dam, and consequently, the mill, in Washington Township, Burlington County, although the physical location of...

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...