Wow, haven't seen anyone talk about "Aserdaten" in years. Aserdaten appeared on a 1948 Topo map produced by the Geo.survey. The one feature that made it a usable tract is it's elevation. It was approx 3 ft. higher than the surrounding swamp.
I'm as sure as I can be that I have been on the site. My guide was one Chester Mathis, aka "Uncle Chet". Chet was the typesetter for the Tuckerton Beacon for 50 years, and had an uncanny knowledge of obscure S. Jersey history. [Chet was extremely proud of never having spent a single night out of NJ] When he took me to the site we had to trek through from the Batsto side of the swamp. [This was in the early 60's, before the "Restoration" of Batsto. Confirmation of the location came from the "postmaster" at the Batsto store, Rod Koster.]
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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 Franklin’s Deer Park estate. Rumors abound that early on, Lena Blackburne derived his famous baseball rubbing mud from a mud hole adjacent to Irish Wharf, although I have always considered the Pennsauken Creek as the probable original source.
Do you reside in Martins Beach?
Many years ago, when Watson Buck was still alive and we took one of our junkets around Willingboro and Rancocas, we stopped down by Irish Wharf and he proceeded to tell me about the Rancocas Cement Block Company, a decorative concrete block plant that stood there, incorporated in February 1910. When the Great Depression hit, the plant closed down. Watson told me that the “Crick Angels” had all of the scrap metal stripped out of the facility in six weeks. The “Crick Angels” lived along both banks of the Rancocas and comprised members of the Fenimore, Ireland, Dolan, and Armstrong families. From intermarriage, they all had similar physical features, including bulbous noses, cherubic faces, little tufts of hair projecting from their heads, and usually short of stature. And these features applied equally among the men and the women! When I resided in Rancocas Village back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I encountered numerous people from their tribe.
Welcome aboard, Wrangleboro!
Best regards,
Jerseyman