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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...

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...