Broken Jeep Joe,
Restore and Mary Shinn sold Hampton as you said. The same Shinn family sold "The Gate Tavern" property at Hampton Gate. (See Brotherton by Geo Flemming page 181 & 214)
There was also a Henry Shinn living at Atsion in 1800 census. And one in Northampton in 1770, census. Northampton must have had tavern's but none located near Atsion at that time, I don't think.
1800 census
Name:
Henry Shinn
Gender:
M (Male)
State:
New Jersey
County:
Burlington County
Town:
Evesham Township
Ward:
Atsion
Residence Year:
1800
Household Remarks:
Improved acres 0; unimproved acres 0; houses and lots 0; covering horses 0; horses and mules 0; "Neat" cattle 0; householders 1; "Merchants &c" 0; saw mills 0; grist mills 0; tan yards 0; forges 0
1770 census
Name:
Henry Shinn
Gender:
M (Male)
State:
New Jersey
County:
Burlington County
Town:
Northampton Township
Residence Year:
1770
Household Remarks:
Acres 0; cattle/horses 0; servants/slaves 0; single men & horse 0; single men 0; vessels 0; merchants 0; "Griss" mill 0; saw mill 0; fulling mill 0; "Furneses" 0; forges 0; chairs/wagons 0; household
Don & All,
Good info on the Shinn name and sales. So in the articles the Feb 5 one states the roads near are Philly to Little Egg Harbor, which is said to be Quaker Bridge and Burlington to Great Egg Harbor which is said to be Middle Road. I'm sure there is some way we can figure out if Quaker Bridge or Middle Road was actually the Egg Harbour Road mentioned in the article at the time of the sales? If so, would that mean the Henry Shinn tavern was somewhere along the way prior to the Quaker Bridge Tavern being built if it happened to be on that road, or possibly a location on what is now Middle Road?
The Shins were a big family and there were many of them living in the New Hanover, North Hampton and Evesham townships. Restore and Mary Shinn did in fact sell to Clayton Earl and Richard Stockton, but according to the survey recorded in the Surveyor General's at Burlington, only 10 acres were ever surveyed to Restore Shinn. This may have also included a preexisting sawmill. According to the Wharton Ledgers, this 1795 transfer cost Stockton and Earl 1000 pounds. According to John E. Pearce, 1000 pounds is "an enormous sum for for ten acres" and possibly a saw mill... I dunno.
But there is a twist... The Restore Shinn property, as part of the Hampton furnace property is mentioned in a legal agreement between George and William Ashbridge (the succeeding owners of Hampton after Earl, Stockton, Lane, & godfrey) and Job Prickett dated Dec. 29, 1800 which states...
"Whereas disputes have sometimes past arisen, and are still subsisting between George G. Ashbridge and William Ashbridge of the one part to claim two surveys viz: - one survey of one hundred and ninety three acres surveyed to Philo Leeds recorded in the surveyor General's at Burlington in Lib. A. folio 331. - one survey of ten acres surveyed to Restore Shinn, recorded in the office aforesaid in Lib. - P. folio 34,..."
This gets me thinking - the high price paid by Stockton and Earl, coupled with this conflict over land five years later... did the Shinns sell Stockton and Earl land that wasn't theirs - land belonging to Job Prickett?
Regardless, the reason i'm going through all this is so I can pose a question to Don Catts.
Don mentioned... "The same Shinn family sold The Gate Tavern property at Hampton Gate" Although Hampton Furnace eventually may have acquired as much land as to encompass the "Gate", the 10 acres, or even the 190 acres couldn't extend North to there. In the book "Brotherton", did he mean this same Restore and Mary family, or some other member of the Shinn clan?
There is one other thing I'm seeking clarity on. I got the impression that pinelandpaddler and Broke Jeep Joe have gotten the idea that Henery shinn was the tavern keeper at the "Gate", but judging by the underlined "
property" in your above statement #125 that you mean just that, and not suggesting that the Shinn family were proprietors of the tavern. The earliest tavern keeper at The Gate Tavern that I'm aware of is David Cavileer. After 1824, Cavileer was succeeded by his widow. Years later it was known as J. Smith's Hotel.
