Buffins Meadows
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Here is something.
July 29, 1890
A cranberry syndicate_ A syndicate of English capitalists is about to engage in the culture of cranberries on a scale never before attempted in this country. The agent of the syndicate in New York says it is proposed to have over 500 acres of cranberries under cultivation within the next two years. He has been negotiating with George B. Upton, of Boston, who owns 26,000 acres of land in Burlington and Ocean counties, New Jersey, on the line of the Pemberton and Seashore Railroad, for a tract including Deer Park and Buffin's Meadow. It is understood that the price to be paid is $10 an acre.
Along with manumuskin, I have stone searched on the Deer Park tract which is named after the stream there. It is along the Pemberton and Seashore railroad and would have been perfect for making bogs. But nothing ever happened there.
July 29, 1890
A cranberry syndicate_ A syndicate of English capitalists is about to engage in the culture of cranberries on a scale never before attempted in this country. The agent of the syndicate in New York says it is proposed to have over 500 acres of cranberries under cultivation within the next two years. He has been negotiating with George B. Upton, of Boston, who owns 26,000 acres of land in Burlington and Ocean counties, New Jersey, on the line of the Pemberton and Seashore Railroad, for a tract including Deer Park and Buffin's Meadow. It is understood that the price to be paid is $10 an acre.
Along with manumuskin, I have stone searched on the Deer Park tract which is named after the stream there. It is along the Pemberton and Seashore railroad and would have been perfect for making bogs. But nothing ever happened there.
NJPineBarrens Maps
maps.njpinebarrens.com
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Interesting. Thank you Guy.
I have a prospectus for this company from the early 1860s. Looking at your map, I see Baffin Brook. It my have originally been called Baffins Meadow, as the handwriting may be interpreted as either an a or a u.
I'm intersted in anything you may dig up.
I have a prospectus for this company from the early 1860s. Looking at your map, I see Baffin Brook. It my have originally been called Baffins Meadow, as the handwriting may be interpreted as either an a or a u.
I'm intersted in anything you may dig up.
Attached is the prospectus from, i'm guessing, 1866. I don't think it is the White property, as the Whites were related to the Jones family, which is how they got the property. Fenwick was the nephew of Benjamin and a cousin of Richard and Samuel's. Benjamin or R&SH Jones sold Fenwick those lands.
The original prospectus was drawn by Richard Jones in an attempt to sell a portion of his land holdings.
The original prospectus was drawn by Richard Jones in an attempt to sell a portion of his land holdings.
Guy, this is also in my file - see the following. This is likely how Upton came into possession of the Buffin/Baffin location. A. S. Morris was the trustee for a mortgage on Richard's lands, which, after the end of the Civil War, went into bankruptcy.
Friends of mine lived at Buffins Meadows in the 1970's. It is where Baffin Brook meets Pasadena Rd. Were there cranberry bogs built in that area in 1866?
It is. He was Richard's brother-in-law and operated the grist mill in Pemberton. The two end up at odds with each other when all is said and done.
Not quite sure where this is. On Vermeule's topo (~1870-1880) there is "Buffins Brook" with
a bog shown at the southeast end.
https://boydsmaps.com/#15/39.9376/-74.5116/vermeule
The Cook Topo (~1880-1890) shows it a little better
https://boydsmaps.com/#15/39.9376/-74.5116/cook
If you look at the newer topo's, the name changes to "Baffin Brook". But I don't see where it meets Pasadena Rd, unless I'm looking at the wrong brook or road.
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Jessica and I have spent quite a lot of time in those area's stone searching. It is a wild area that very few people have even been to. One stone we have looked for at least 5 times is from the property that Anthony JONES Morris sold to J. J. White.
An old map I have. It claims the Beaver Branch watershed is 8 miles. I have not found the stone mentioned...yet.
An old map I have. It claims the Beaver Branch watershed is 8 miles. I have not found the stone mentioned...yet.