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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...

Only if he was wearing a wizard's hat! Jerseyman

Sorry, George, but the ship’s number is actually 798, not 79. The pole is very nicely hiding the numeral “8.” As you note, she is the U.S.S. Monssen, a Fletcher class destroyer. Here is a quicky reference to her history: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/dd798.htm Best...

Whip: You are correct about steamboats stopping at Lanning’s Wharf. During the late 1880s, Billy Thompson, the so-called Duke of Gloucester, purchased the New York steamers Sylvan Glen and Sylvan Dell to aid in bringing the teaming throngs to his amusements at Gloucester Beach, known to Quaker...

Gibby: I’ve been watching the development of this thread with some fascination and amusement. You are correct: three of the workmen are holding half-hatchets (splitting blade on one end and forged with a hammerhead on the other end) and one is holding what appears to be a tack or nailing...

Lost Town Hunter: My “absence of a response” was due to looking for a research folder from a documentary project I completed back in the early 1990s. I am well aware of the Braddock-Rogers article, but that article is a secondary source at best and a tertiary source at worse. Braddock-Rogers...

Thank you for the definitions. That definition, however, does NOT appear in the OED, my standard for etymological sourcing. Both of the references you provided define the woman as disreputable and, in the latter source, ill-tempered. It says nothing about the woman being an indentured servant...

Ben: I can’t speak with certainty here—and I can’t explain why the center channel does not appear on the historic maps—but with the forge working off the one raceway and the sawmill operating on the main stream, if you have the gates shut on both head races, then you still need a way to allow...

The earliest use of the toponym “Stop the Jade Creek” to be found is in a survey of Daniel Leeds lands dating to 1719. The survey references a sawmill belonging to Thomas Budd on Stop the Jade. Sorry to say, but I have never heard the term “Jade” applied to a slave or indentured servant. I’m...

Gentlemen: Just to clarify: I am not disputing the two mill locations on the Wading River branches; I merely disagree with Hawthorne’s assertions concerning who constructed and operated the skit mill. Hawthorne indicates it is unknown and I contend that Evi Bellangee, either Sr. or Jr., built...

There were all kinds of permutations of mill combinations. For example, I documented an eighteenth-century windmill in Burlington that began as a gristmill and then later was converted into a combination linseed oil and snuff mill. Certainly there are numerous examples, particularly along the...

Gabe: When I have a few minutes, I will check some sources, but it has always been my understanding that Bellangee owned the skit mill. I will double-check later this evening or tomorrow and reply again. I remember reading Hawthorne’s article when it first came out in the magazine and disagreed...

Lost Town Hunter: Any mention of Watson Buck always brings a smile to my face as I recall my many trips into the countryside with him. We shared a commonality of friendship with Watson! Lost Town Hunter and pinelandpaddler: I think most people who know the history of Harrisville and Evi...