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THE DAILY UNION
HISTORY OF
ATLANTIC CITY AND COUNTY,
NEW JERSEY.
CONTAINING SKETCHES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT OF ATLANTIC CITY AND COUNTY, WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS SPECIALLY PREPARED.
BY JOHN F. HALL.
COPYRIGHTED JUNE, 1899
974.901 At 6ha
ISSUED FROM THE OFFICE OF THE DAILY UNION PRINTING COMPANY ATLANTIC CITY, N. J 1900
CONTENTS.
Introduction 5
Acknowledgment
7 Golf at the Country Club. 338
Atlantic County 11
Hammonton 69
Atlantic City Before Railroads, 169
Horse Show. 243
Advance in Real Estate. 315
Hotel Luray 241
Atlantic City Hotels. 233
Hotel Rates and Capacity 237
Allen Block. 321
Atlantic City Bar.
55
Hotel Windsor 239
Assemblymen
63
Homeopathic Club. 331
Atlantic County Bar.
39
Hotels ou Easter Sunday 251
47
Bacharach & Sons. 322
Bakersville
110
Invalids 203
Lay Judges. 65
Land Company and Surf Hotel. 187
Boardwalk and Piers
253
Leading Churches 273
Building the Narrow Gange
193
Bounds of Old Galloway 101
Map of the County
8
Census 136
Central M. E. Church 301
City Officials from 1854 157
City Coat of Arms. 139
City Water Supply. 213
City Hospital.
327
City Appropriations for 1900. 343
City Resources for 1900. 313
Old Fort and Its Defenders 97
Chief Calorie's Address, 10
Cottage Homes. 227
Climate at the Shore. 201
County Medical Society 330
Cost of City Government 342
County Bar Association 53
County Clerks. 50
Dolf Parker's Adventure 145
Drives and Good Roads 339
245
Earliest Settlers. 137
Egg Harbor City 111
Early Church History 287
Episcopal Church of Ascension. 281
Election Returns. 135
Easter Railroad Records. 251
First Baptist Church. 277
First Church at May's Landing. 309
First Colored Man 341
First Iron Pier. 260
First M. E. Church. 273 First Presbyterian Church. 275
First Publie Building. 341
First Quail and Rabbit. 339
First Visit and First Train. 173
First Railroad. 177
Five Banks. 311
Friendship M. E. Church. 305
Fire Department. 147
German Presbyterian Church. 2.83
Sea Air.
353
Sheriff's
61
Six Thousand Buildings 319
Sketch of Old Weymouth. 23
Sonth Jersey in Congress. 345
St. Andrew's Lutheran Church. 303
St. Nicholas' R. C. Church. 295
St. Paul M. E. Church. 281
State Senators. 63
Storms and Wrecks 141
Supreme Court Judges 59
Surrogates 61
Walker's Forge. 109
West Family
35
West Jersey Railroad. 199
139
Plenty of Black Snakes
341
Prosecutors of the Pleas.
57
Public Schools.
263
Ryon Adams Moves Up.
167
Real Estate Investment Co. 313
School Superintendents. 63
323
Ocean Piers. 257
Old Gloucester County 17
Old Church at Weymouth. 303
Old Church at Tuckahoe 309
Old Salt Works. 155
Olivet Presbyterian Church. 285
Our Lady, Star of the Sea. 299
Persistent Publicity 325
Port Republic. 89
Pleasant Mills.
103
Plenty of Wild Game.
357
Members of Council
344
Morris Guards. 333 261
New Steel Pier.
9
Brigantine
351
Board of Health
330
Hotel Rudolph 239
Batsto 81
Important Trials.
Indians
Life in the Sands, by Dr. Baily. 363
Beautiful Longport. 347
Marine Algae.
Newspapers
Easter at the Shore.
Gravity System Sewerage. 225
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Introduction 442.
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Plate. Sketeb.
Hudson, Shepherd S ..
130
.179
Abbott, Chas. T ..
444
443
Ingersoll. Robert II.
336
346
443
Frelan, Emory D.
Adams, Alfred, Sr. .
445 Jackson, George W
Adams, Alfred, Jr.
1.84
445 Jackson, Marcellus L.
482
Adams, Israel G.
268
Jeffries, N. J ..
132
517
Adams, Israel Scull
120
447
Jordan, Albert M
92
183
Adams, Harrold F
116
44ti
Joy. J. Addison.
210
483
Adams, James B.
162
447
Kelley, Arthur W
152
484
Adams, John B ..
447
Kelley. Samuel II
156
484
Adams, Lewis R.
186
448
Kuchnle, Louis, Sr.
408
415
Albertson, Levi C.
370
Leedom, Jacob Il
1.80
485
Allen, George
449
Lee, Edward S. .
366
485
Baake, Charles A
176
Lingerman, Joseph E
344
480
Babcock, Charles (
1.54
450
Loudenslager, Wm. B.
38
487
Bacharach, Harry
316
450
Lippincott, Barclay
487
Baily, Alfred W
274
515
Madden E. H .. 94
487 488
Barstow, Joseph A
36
451
Mehrer, John E.
48
488
Balliet. L. Dow.
304
375 451
Morse, Silas R.
266
489
Bell, William A
148
452
Munson, M. L.
490 490
Brown, Benj. H.
58
4.15
North. Edward
70
490
Bryant, John L.
62
455
North. James
112
491
Bryant, Lewis T
123
454
Osborne, Richard B.
178
492
Boyer, Charles B.
453
Osgood, Cyrus F
72
492
Berchtoldt. F
127
452
Pettit, Clarence
190
494
Boice, Peter and wife.
328
376
Pennington. B. C
416
417
Boire. Henry
453
Parkhurst. L. H.
492
Bourgeois, George A.
453
Parsons, John W 31-
493
Byrnes, Richard J.
457
Perry, Samuel E
124
4º
Champion, John B.
30
457
Pollard. Wm. M
52
49
Champion, Joseph S
170
458
Reed. Thomas K
5-
4:
Collins, Isaac
2016
387
Reed. Edward S.
1:
Collins, John
60
3.80
Reed, Lewis, Sr.
Cook. Franklin P
196
458
Richards, Benj. W
Colwell, Stephen
174
516
Richards, John
-15
Corson. Rodman.
96
460
Richards. William
142
497
Cordery, Mary Clark
459
381
Rochford, John J
216
408
Crosby, George W
302
462
Ryon, James
288
98
Crosby, O. H.
306
463
Ryon, Pardon
272
498
Cresse, Lewis M.
324
461
Schaufler, Alois
46
49
Cromwell, Lydia H.
224
4+12
Nehleeht. Adolph
56
517
Currie. George F.
12
463
Senseman, Wilson
10
501
Darnall. Wm. Edgar.
464
Scott, Lewis P
418
499
Davis, Hannah Somers
146
405
Seull. Joseph
130
500
Dickerson. Thos. J
44
466
Sooy. Walter C.
308
505
Disston, Henry
90
467
Somers, Job B ..
134
437
Down, L. A. .
468
Southwick, James D
08
505
Endieott, Allen B.
396
468
Shackelford. W. E
118
501
Endicott. Charles G.
394
464
Shumway, I. J
194
502
Endieott. George T
392
469
Stephany. August
214
506
Endicott. Mordecai T.
398
469
Stephany. Robert E.
506
Evans, Charles
1-
470
Stewart W. Blair.
182
507
Evans. Lewis
18
471
Stoy. Franklin P.
507
Farrell. William E. 104
471
Stiles. Arthur H.
100
507
Fedigan, John J.
206
207
Smith. Thomas J
472
Somers. Richard
20
504
Fralinger. Joseph
126
472
Thompson. Jesse B
SON
French. John T.
473
Tilton, Wilbur R.
474
Fler. Charles E.
126
509
Gardner, John J
16
Vaughn. Shepherd 1I.
292
500
Gardiner, Wm. G.
208
414
Wahl. Charles F
106
510
Godfrey. Carlton
166
475
Westney. A. W.
300
510
Gorman, John L.
160
475
White. Daniel S., Jr.
511
Heston, Alfred MI
470
477
Wootton. Harry
150
311
Highee. Enoch A.
168
477
Wootton. Jonah, Ir.
161
51
Heekler, Henry
320
478
Wright. Elias
512
Hoopes. Wm. G.
31.8
470
Wright. Willard
26
514
Hoffman. V. P. .
114
Young. John L.
144
515
Hoffman, Samuel D
516
Youngman. M. D.
51.
Ball, Joseph
451
Madden, Hosea
Morris, Daniel
488
Bartlett, William G
374
Boysen, Theo. H
121
454
McConnell, Tobias
North. Joseph II., Nr.
74
191
Breder, George F.
Cordery, Enoch
42
459
Richards, Samuel B.
424
Corson. Walter A.
200
460
Risley, John C.
464
Seull. Henry 8.
431
Devine, Michael A.
34
4196
Seull, Lewis, W
504
Fleming. John R.
978
472
Thompson, Joseph
Westcott, John N
284
510
Godfrey, Burrows C
475
516
Wootton. Jonah. Nr.
511
Hoopes, Martha E
172
448
Leeds, Robert B.
Aikman, James M.
208
445 Jacobs, John C
1:2
-182
Adams, Clement J.
481
Abbott, Joseph E. P.
458
Richards, Jesse
Conover, Smith
Deakyne. H. H.
:
502
Fleming. Caleb K
Garrison, Wm. I.
GENEALOGICAL INDEX.
Introduction
368
Frambes Family 400
Albertson Family
369
Lake Family
406
Bahrock Family
373
Leeds Family
407
Bartlett Family
375
Pennington Family
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Boice Family.
Reed Family
121
Bryant Family
Richards Family
124
Clark Family
379
Scull Family
428
Collins Family .
384
Somers Family
133
Doughty Family
389
Steelman Family 138
Endicott Family
391
Townsend Family
440
INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.
Ahove the Clouds.
202
Four Legs. 356
An Old Whaler ..
140
Friends' Meeting House. .. 301
Atlantic Avenue in 1870.
120
First Jail .. 342
Allen Store and Flats.
321
Friendship Church. 307
Aylesford Mansion.
103
Galen Hall. . 246
Bacharach Building.
211
Group of Churches.
276.
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Bank Buildings.
312
Group of School Houses
264
Bargaintown Mill.
17
(frist Mill at Batsto.
Batsto Lake ..
87
Hammonton Lake
73
Batsto Store and Lawn.
Home of Andrew Leeds,
169
Beach Scenes
.241. 6.
192
Home of James Leeds
171
Beach Scene at Longport
354
Home of John Leeds.
171
Beach Scenes of ISTO.
244
Beautiful Longport.
347
Hotel Shelburne.
238
Bellevue Avenue, Hammonton
Honse at Etna Furnace.
27
Beach and Boats. ..
Bell Buoy, Absecon Inlet. 350
Hotel Islesworth.
248
Birthplace of Hannah Somers Davis
137
Hotel Rudolf.
234
Boardwalk and Steel Pier.
2.57
Hotel Shelburne
242
Boardwalk View. .
Hotel St. Charles
236
City Hall, Egg Harbor City
291
Hotel Traymore
254
Catawba Church.
37
Hotel Windsor
240
Catawba Graves
27
Inlet Scenes
204
City Seal
137
In Days of Old.
138
City War Money
158
Iszard Iron Foundry
13
Colwell Mansion. ..
27
Lighthouse
260
Cottage Homes of
Longport Breakers.
348
Allen, George
205
Mansion House in 1876.
420
Adams, C. 1.
218
Morris Guards ..
332
Champion, John B.
230
Crosby, George W
New Steel Pier 262
310
Net Haul on Young's Pier.
259
Currie, George F.
Old Church at Tuckahoe
310
Down. L. A.
230
Evans, Charles
232
Old Etna Furnace.
028
Old Buttonwoods.
107
Fleming, J. R.
Old Catholic Church.
108
First Mayor
231
Old Ocean House.
219
Godfrey, B. C.
Old Surf House.
189
Godfrey, Carlton
Old-time Bathers ..
261
Hemsley. Fred ..
Oll School House.
265
Jacobs, Mrs. J. C.
218
Old Somers Mansion. .
504
Jordan, A. M.
249
Paper Mill at Pleasant Mills.
105
Kelley, S. H.
227
Paper Mill at Weymouth.
228
Pond at Walker's Forge
109
North, James
211
Pumping Station. .
Parsons, B. G.
207
Pennington Homestead.
119
Parsons, John W
209
Residence of Judge Byrnes
71
Petroff, E. J.
205
Residence of William J. Smith. 77
Quigley, F. P.
217
Richards' Mansion. .. 83
Reed, E. L. .
231
Richards' Yards and Barns. 85
Somers, Samuel.
999
Ryon Adams' House. 171
Sweigard, A. L ..
Saalman Vineyard.
129
Thompson, Joseph.
230
Sailboat in Clouds.
220
Young, John L ..
Salem Church. .
291
Upham Cottage.
215
Schaufler's Hotel.
23.1
Wahl, Win. F
232
Sea Algae. .. 18
360
Cottages at Longport
352
Sea and Sky
201
Country Club House, Northfield ..
Seaside House.
250
Country Road in Egg Harbor City
State Senator's Home
108
Court House and Jail.
11
St. Nicholas' Church.
205
Dennis Cottage
322
Sea Shells 364.
367
Dewey Wine Vaults.
131.
The Roller Chair.
203
Doughty Cabin. .
137
Tomb of Jesse Richards. 83
Easter on the Board Walk
247
Egg Harbor School House
121
Under Full Sail. .
Endicott Homestead.
397
United States Hotel.
First Boardwalk.
Views of Long Ago.
First City Hall.
221
Yacht Race. .
First City Depot.
179 Zion Church
340
Champion, Jos. S
255
Boardwalk and Youngs Pier
Hotel Luray.
Central Church. Bakersville.
293
Insane Asylum.
Mosquito Boat.
Old Church at Weymouth. 29
Evans, Lewis.
932
Munson, L. M.
928
238
117
133
The City from the Ocean.
Hospital, Showing Boice Annex.
320
Horse Show.
INTRODUCTION.
UNDREDS of bright writers have found pleasure and profit in picturing Atlantic City, these many years, and it is more of a pastime than a task for one who, during the last twenty years has been writing of and for the city, to tell the story of its phenomenal growth and gratifying prosperity. From the most inaccessible and least habitable corner, this island has become the most populous and attractive business centre of Atlantic County. From a briar-covered area of duck ponds and sand hills, these acres have become a modern city of fine hotels and handsome cottages, and attractive stores and business blocks; a summer health resort, and winter sanitarium, with regularly laid out and paved streets; ample water supply ; complete sewerage; electric lights; first-class fire protection, and all the appoint- ments of a modern city.
From being the home and plantation of a stalwart soldier of the Revolution, the scene of shipwrecks, and a resort for an occasional sportsman, and summer "beach parties," this strip of sand on the edge of the Continent has become famed throughout the world as the most popular bathing resort in summer and the most comfortable and satisfactory health resort in winter, for persons who would escape the vigorous climate of Northern cities, and find rest and milder tempera- ture not too far from great business centres.
Natural causes and well warranted enterprises have operated to effect the remarkable changes of forty-five years. The decline of Atlantic County in thrift, and manufacturing enterprises, is not less striking than the rise of Atlantic City like a Phoenix from forbidding sand dunes to be what it is to-day.
English Quakers and their associates, two hundred years ago, took posses- sion of West Jersey in search of religious liberty, and laid the foundation for the thrift and progress which has followed through their descendants. They dealt justly with the Indians and lived peaceably with each other, and made it possible for an educated, religious, and prosperous people to subdue the wilderness, ereet glass and iron works, build ships out of the cedar swamps, and enjoy the great natural privileges of the bays and rivers of the coast.
In spite of the devastation of the War for Independence the progress of West Jersey continued. Roads were opened, churches built, and good old-fash-
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ioned families raised. The sailors and whalers from Long Island and New Eng- land moved down the coast, till the territory now included in Atlantic County, at the beginning of the century, had a population of four thousand, which fifty years later, when the first railroad was built, had increased to ten thousand people.
To sketch clearly and concisely the honorable record of Atlantic County, since it was created, and forge accurately the strong links in the interesting chain of events that have made Atlantic City as the stranger finds it to-day, its favored location, out in the sea, its sanitary conditions and surroundings, its commendable enterprises, its leading citizens, its popular features, up-to-date hotels, and unsur- passes railroad facilities will be the scope and purpose of this book.
BEACH SCENE, ATLANTIC CITY.
H CKNOWLEDGMENT.
HE writer would make due acknowledgment to all whose assistance and encouragement has made it possible at so much labor and expense to com- pile this book. An earnest endeavor has been made not to disappoint our friends and to produce a volume that will be accepted as authentic history. giving proper credit to the good men and to the enterprises that have contributed so much to the early development of Atlantic County, and to the more recent up- building of Atlantic City.
To Rear-Admiral Mordecai T. Endicott, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Department of the Navy, Washington, D. C., are we indebted for the sketches of the Pennington and Endicott families.
To Miss Gertrude Albertson, especially, are we indebted for compiling thes records of the Leeds, Scull. Lake and Collins families and otherwise assisting.
To Arthur W. Kelley, Esq., for articles on the county bar, important trials, the courts, lay judges, etc.
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To Mr. Hubert Somers are we indebted for researches in the line of the Somers and Frambes genealogy.
To Mr. Valentine P. Hoffman, for his authentic sketch of Egg Harbor City; to Dr. James North, for original designs and the story of Hammonton; to Dr. W. Blair Stewart, for his article on Sea Air; to Mrs. M. S. Mccullough, for her chapter on Sea Algae; to Dr. A. W. Baily, for his story of Shell Fish.
To Edward S. Reed and to S. R. Morse, for views of Atlantic City, and to others who have taken a kindly interest in and generously co-operated in the production of this volume do we extend our thanks and acknowledge our lasting obligations.
The Author.
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WALKERS FORGE
The Last of the Indians.
THERE are still to be seen in Atlantic County a few of the skull bones, flint arrowheads, earthen pots and stone hatchets of the red men who populated this region for centuries before the days of William Penn. A few of the shell mounds are still left along the coast where their campfires burned when they feasted on the products of the bays. There were Indian shell mounds on this island when the white man first came here not far from the present site of the Island House at Baltic and Georgia avenues.
In the sand hills nearby Indian bones were unearthed by Andrew Leeds about 1850, and were carefully preserved till quite recently.
The Delaware Indian occupied all of New Jersey south of the Raritan river. and were a branch of the large and powerful Leni Lenappi tribe of New York State. By an act of the Colonial legislature of August. 1758. on record in the State Library, it is recited that the legislature to satisfy the just demands and wants of the Indians, appointed five commissioners to pay them from any money "which may be current for the present war," for any and all just rights and claims that may be due the Indian nations of the Colony. Such sum shall not exceed 1600 pounds, and that for the Delawares south of the Raritan the sum so ex- pended shall not exceed 800 pounds.
The Delawares wanted part of the money expended for land on which they could settle, and the legislature wanted the Indians to have in their view "a last- ing monument" to the justice of the Colony toward them. Careful provision was made for the protection of the Indians on such reservation. On August 29. 1758, Benjamin Springer and Hannah, his wife, sold to this commission in the name of Governor Francis Bernard, for 74 pounds. 3044 acres of land at Edge Pillock, near Atsion, in Burlington County. It is now known as Indian Mills. Here for years John Brainard, the famous missionary, labored among them before the Revolution when the settlement was called Brotherton.
The legislature provided for raising money by lottery to pay for these lands. From 1758 to about 1800 this remnant of the Delaware tribe, about sixty persons. were in possession of these lands and enjoyed hunting and fishing privileges elsewhere.
On March 17, 1796, the legislature appointed another commission to lease these lands and apply the proceeds to the needs of the Indians, which was done. Another act passed December 3. 1801, provided for the sale of the Brotherton tract, the proceeds to be applied to the removal of the survivors to Stockbridge. near Oneida lake, in Columbia County, New York. The two tribes had agreed to unite. After several years at Stockbridge, in conjunction with several other tribes, they purchased of the Menomonie Indians a tract of land near Green Bay. in Michigan, on the Fox river, and formed a settlement there called Statesburg.
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They subsisted almost entirely from agricultural pursuits. In 1832, when only about forty of the Delawares were left, cherishing a tradition of their hunting and fishing rights in New Jersey, which they had abandoned, they delegated B. S. Calvin, one of the tribe, to obtain from the New Jersey legislature compensation for their relinquishment. Bartholomew S. Calvin, among his own people, was known as Shawuskukung or Wilted Grass. He was educated at Princeton Col- lege at the expense of the Scotch Missionary Society, and taught school for years both for whites and Indians at Brotherton. He was a soldier in the Revolution and was highly respected. He was 76 years of age when he presented to the legislature his numerously signed petition, written in his own hand. The petition was referred to a special committee, which recommended the payment of $2,000, which was promptly done and was all that was asked.
CALVIN'S ADDRESS.
MY BRETHREN :- I am old and weak and poor, and therefore a fit representa- tive of my people. You are young and strong and rich, and therefore fit repre- sentatives of your people. But let me beg you for a moment to lay aside the recollection of your strength and our weakness that your minds may be pre- pared to examine with candor the subject of our claims.
Our tradition informs us, and I believe it corresponds with your records, that the right of fishing in all the rivers and bays south of the Raritan, and of hunting in all uninclosed lands, was never relinquished, but on the contrary was expressly reserved in our last treaty held at Crosswicks, in 1758. Having myself been one of the parties to the sale, I believe in 1801, I know that these rights were not sold or parted with.
We now offer to sell these privileges to the State of New Jersey. They were once of great value to us and we apprehend that neither time nor distance nor the non-use of our rights has at all affected them, but that the courts here would consider our claims valid were we to exercise them ourselves or delegate them to others.
It is not, however, our wish to thus excite litigation. We consider the State legislature the proper purchaser and throw ourselves upon its benevolence and magnanimity, trusting that feelings of justice and liberality will induce you to give what you deem a compensation.
And as we have ever looked up to the leading characters of the United States, and to the leading characters of this State in particular, as our fathers, protectors and friends, we now look up to you as such and humbly beg that you will look upon us with that eye of pity, as we have reason to think our poor untutored forefathers looked upon yours, when they first arrived upon our then extensive but uncultivated dominions and sold them their lands, in many instances, for trifles in comparison as "light as air."
From Your Humble Petitioners, BARTHOLOMEW S. CALVIN,
In Behalf of Himself and His Red Brethren. Trenton, N. J., March, 1832.
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HISTORY.
ATLANT
DF
COUNTY.
LOUCESTER COUNTY at one time extended from the Delaware to the sea, including what is now Camden, Atlantic and Gloucester Counties. Camden was made a county by an act of the legislature passed March 13. 1844, seven years after Atlantic County had been created.
COUNTY JAIL AND COURT HOUSE AT MAY'S LANDING.
On February 7. 1837, an act was passed creating Atlantic County. There were then only four large townships or voting places in this county: Egg Harbor, Weymouth, Hamilton and Galloway. Mullica was created later out of Galloway. and the town of Hammonton out of Mullica. Buena Vista, in 1867, was created out of Hamilton and Atlantic City set off from Egg Harbor township in 1854.
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GEORGE F. CURRIE.
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SKETCH OF OLD GLOUCESTER COUNTY.
The first deed was recorded by J. H. Collins, the first county clerk, on May 4, 1837, and was for 40 acres of land in Egg Harbor township, sold by 1. Robart and wife to Samuel Saunders.
Samuel Richards and wife gave the Board of Freeholders the lot at Mays Landing for the county buildings, by deed dated May 25, 1838, and the present court house was soon after erected thereon.
At the annual meeting of the Board of Freeholders of Gloucester County, held in May, 1836, 28 members constituted the Board, while at the annual meet- ing on the roth of May, 1837, 20 members composed that body, the townships of Hamilton, Weymouth, Egg Harbor and Galloway having been set off from Gloucester County, forming a new county called Atlantic, by an act of the legislature, passed the 7th day of February, A. D. 1837. At this meeting commissioners were appoint- ed to value the public buildings at Woodbury, the almshouse property, and other assets of the County of Gloucester, and to ascertain OLD ISZARD FOUNDRY. what proportion of such valuation would be due to the county of Atlantic, according to the ratio of population determined by the last census.
The commissioners appointed for Gloucester County were: John Clements, Elijah Bower and Saunders; for Atlantic County, Daniel Baker, Joseph Endicott and Enoch Doughty. These gentlemen met at the court house in Woodbury on the gth day of May, 1837, at 10 o'clock, and were each sworn or affirmed faithfully and impartially to value the public properties of Gloucester County, which appears as follows:
Two tracts of land in Deptford township, adjoining lands of John Swope, containing 248 47-100 acres. $ 850 00
Movable property at almshouse. 3.728 00
The entire almshouse lands, with the buildings and improvements. .. 16,150 00
The courthouse, jail, clerks and surrogates' offices, with their contents,
with all other property at Woodbury, "including the man O'Hoy"
11,400 00
Total
$32,128 00
From which deduct the debts of the county
7,932 55
Balance to be divided between the two counties.
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