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A History of Pleasant Mills
by Jerseyman ©2010What follows is a history of the Pleasant Mills complex that I thought I would share with all and any interested in the property. For those seeking even more minutiae about the place,...
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The Battle of Long Bridge? Perhaps Not!
by Jerseyman ©2010A number of twentieth-century local historians contend that a battle or skirmish occurred in current-day Hainesport Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. In more recent years,...
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Kenilworth Lake, Evesham Township, Burlington County, New Jersey
by Jerseyman ©2010Extracted from Village Improvement, a publication of the Moorestown Improvement Association. Vol. I, No. 10, September 1905, pages 2-3.CAMP KENILWORTHBY GEORGE DE COU.Camp Kenilworth...
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The Upper Delaware River Steamer COLUMBIA
by Jerseyman ©2010The Delaware River has had a long history of hosting steamboats, beginning with the very first steamer—John Fitch’s boat of 1787. Although Fitch operated three different steamboats on...
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The Hugg/Harrison/Glover House (New Saint Mary’s Cemetery), Borough of...
by Jerseyman ©2010HistoryIn April 1677, Robert Turner, Robert Zane, Thomas Thackara, William Bates, and Joseph Sleigh, all Quakers and residents of Ireland, purchased one whole share of proprietary...
View ArticleJERSEYISMS
by Jerseyman ©2010While conducting some etymological research on local colloquialisms and idioms a year or two ago, I came across the incredible source provided below, which I have completely...
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“The Best Laid Schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft Agley”
(From “To A Mouse” by Robert Burns, 1785)by Jerseyman ©2010Evidence of the London and Yorkshire Friends’ erstwhile settlement plans for the Eastern Shore of the Delaware River below the Falls and why...
View ArticleGrist for the Mill: An Operational Guide
by Jerseyman ©2010A gristmill exists to grind a variety of grains into flour, meal, or feedstock. While some mills derived their power from the wind, the water-powered mill ground the largest quantity...
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The Plantation Yclept Bromley
In present-day Borough of Mount Ephraim, Camden County, New Jersey.by Jerseyman ©2010The Harrison family of Gloucester Town began its West New Jersey experience with émigré Samuel Harrison, the...
View ArticleTetamekon, now Grenloch, Gloucester Township, Camden County
Local Gleanings.Up the County, August 1, 1850I went to Spring Mills and Tetamakin [sic, et seq.] Works, under the proprietorship of Wm. H. Carr, of Philadelphia, and driven by the power of that noted...
View ArticleMerry Christmas 2010
Written on Christmas Eve, 1513I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not. But there is much,very much, that, while I cannot give...
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The Prospect Hill Association
by Jerseyman ©2010Researched and written at the request of a true friend to New Jersey history.Beginning in the early nineteenth century, a variety of gentlemen societies established clubhouses along...
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“I am in your hands; you may revenge yourselves.”
Carl Emil Kurt von Donop, 1777.The Battle for Fort Mercer at Red Bank, Gloucester County, New Jersey by Jerseyman ©2011In my article titled, “The Plantation Yclept Bromley,” I detailed the Hessian...
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“And Wait to Watch the Water Clear, I May”
[from Robert Frost, The Pasture (1914)]The City of Burlington’s Insatiable Need for a Clean and Dependable Water Supplyby Jerseyman ©2011Like many urban centers, the history of public water...
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Settlements of Friends’ Meetings in New Jersey
by Jerseyman ©2011I have extracted the following article on New Jersey Friends’ Meetings from the weekly journal, The Friend. This publication serially ran the text of this historical account in...
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