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From 1797 to 1838, John Allen, close to the Revo- lution, and, I think, before it also, as my grandfather went to school to Mr. Butler ; James Butler, Joel Chessire, Greenberry Whitman, Aaron Bellangee, Yankee Blackstrap, William Howell, Kirkbride East- burn, Isaac Hemmingway, Israel Lippincott.
The old brick house was then removed to its present location at the corner of Crosswieks and West Streets and rcopened in the autumn of 1839.
From 1839 to 1848, Henry Moore, James Thorn, Mr. Devlain, a lady.
There was a school-house attached to the old Bap- . tist Church. The following is the list of teachers in it :
From 1824 to 1834, Rev. Thomas Larcombe, Han- nah Lawrence, Huldah Thorn, Miss Buzby, Miss Milner.
The school-house was torn away at the same time the old ehureh was taken down. I was an eye-witness to the vandalism.
schools, one for boys and the other for girls, was opened in the basement of the church.
Teachers in the girls' school from 1836 to 1847: Catharine Kellum, Hannah Stivers, Catharine Clark, Mary Thompson, Susan S. Herbert, Angeline Thomp- son.
Teachers in the boys' school from 1838 to 1847: 1. D. French, Ellis B. Hall, Albert II. Sanborne, James Thorne.
In the spring or summer of 1840, William Hilton opened a Friends' boarding- and day-school near the foot of Walnut Street. The teachers who taught in it were: 1, Miss Black; 2, Susan S. Herbert, who afterwards taught in the Baptist school (my wife) ; 3, Rebecca Davis; 4, Ellen Hilton. This school was under the control of the trustees of the distriet, the day scholars drawing from the public funds the same as the scholars of the district school.
SELECT SCHOOLS .- From 1825 to 1834: 1, Mies Mary Bullock ; 2, Miss Nutt.
The following is a list of those persons who taught : in Bordentown since my recollection in private resi- dences or their own private school-houses. These schools were classed as district schools. Some of them would now be called infant schools. They all drew from the public funds and were under the con- trol of the trustees of the distriet :
There are now three school distriets and four public school-houses in the township. . The aggregate value . emy, now the Bordentown House; 2, Mrs. Isabella of the school property in 1866 was thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars; now it is twenty-eight thou- sand three hundred and eighty-six dollars, being an increase of nearly one hundred and five per cent. Norcross; 3, Mrs. Mott; 4, Amanda Oliver; 5, Sarah Updike; 6, Mrs. Burns; 7, Mrs. Caroline Carman ; : 8, Mrs. Elizabeth Carman; 9, Mr. Stout; 10, Miss Mary Shreve; 11, Miss Sarah Bennett; 12, Mrs. Arnel; 13, a married lady, who taught on Farnsworth Avenue, three doors south of Crosswicks Street.
Trom 1827 to 1847: 1, Mr. Elkiuton, in the acad-
Lettie Starkey's School .- This lady kept a school for small children more than eighty years ago. A very aged lady residing here (Vincentown) told me a few months ago (by the way she is a relative of the Borden family) she remembered her when she was a child, and the house stood on the west side of Second Street, near the Trentou road. It was the famous school of the day. I have heard persons in Borden- town also talk about it. This must not be forgotten.
Thorn's School .- There was also a celebrated school kept near Bordentown, on the Crosswieks road, about one mile out of town, known as Isaac Thorn's school. Isaae, the brother of Anthony Thorn, owned the school-house. Kirkbride Eastburn taught in it the winter of 1826 or 1827; then a famous teacher ste- ceeded him by the name of Anson P. Brooks. He was from Connecticut.
Yankee Blackstrap .- This gentleman, whose name I can't remember, dressed in black, wore rutlled shirts, and acquired the title of Y. B. by keeping a black strap coiled up on his desk. If a scholar was inattentive, he threw the strap at it and made it bring it to him, and then flogged it on the palm of the hand. He was
After the second house of worship was erected two i the terror of all us small children. If he had been
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the devil, I could not have been more afraid of him. He came by our door one day and spoke to me. I screamed, and he gave me a tippenny-bit to be still.
John Bull .- Many years ago I heard a lady speak of this gentleman as once having taught in Borden- town. He was a Baptist, and I think that he must have taught a select school, but where I could not ascertain. It must have been eighty or eighty-five years ago. I think in all probability he taught about the time ; the necessary conveniences of horses and carriages Mrs. Starkey taught. It may have been in the old enjoyed by the country portion for attending the : polls, and they desired to have a polling district of their own. The question of schools was also iu- volved. These reasons led to the establishment of the borough. briek school-house, but his being a Baptist makes me think he must have tanght a select school, for the 1 Friends, who had control of the old brick, generally employed persons of that persuasion. Mr. Bull sub- sequently went to Pemberton, and taught a private school there. He was a finished scholar. I have often seen him in the streets therc. He was very aged, and died a few years ago.
Mrs. Arnel had a school built on her premises. After Mary Thompson left the basement of the Bap- tist Church she had one built adjoining her house that stands on the southeast corner of Walnut and Second Streets (?). Hannah Lawrence, after she vacated the school-house attached to the Baptist Church, had one built on what was called Lawrence's Alley.
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Miss Herbert commenced teaching in Hilton's school in Bordentown in the fall of 1840, and continued there until the fall of 1846, then went into the basement seliool of the Baptist Church, and remained until February, 1847, when she went back to New Egypt. I married her in 1848. She died four years ago last December, and was buried in the Bordentown eemetery.
The first person I went to sehool to was Mrs. Nor- eross. Her daughter Sarah taught me to read the Bible when I was about five years old. I have never kept any diary of the schools or school interests in Bordentown, but what I have written is a part and pareel of my childhood days that I have revolved over and over in my mind until they have become a part of myself. The periods I recollect from cir-
cumstances and my age at the time, but I havean Eu- clid in which I wrote my name at Dr. Arnold's school.
The Borough of Bordentown .-- Bordentown for many generations remained part of Chesterfield town- ship. The elections were held alternately at Cross- wicks. Recklesstown. and Bordentown. The popu- lation of Bordentown gradually increased until it became a large village. The citizens were without
On the 13th of February, 1849, an act of the Legis- lature of New Jersey was approved incorporating the borough of Bordentown, with bounds as follows : "That all that part of the township of Chesterfield, in the county of Burlington, and all that part of the township of Nottingham, in the county of Mercer, which is included in the limits and boundaries here- inafter mentioned, that is to say: Beginning at a small bridge, commonly called 'Savage's Eridge,' in the township of Chesterfield, in Thomas Richards' land (park), adjoining Crosswicks Creek ; thenee run- ning from said bridge, on a northwesterly course, which will strike James I. Taylor's house, to low-water mark in the river Delaware; thence down the said ; river Delaware, a straight course, to Black's Creek ;
I commenced teaching on Farnsworth Avenue, in a building that stood one door above Mr. Freder- ick G. Wiese's store ( west side of Farnsworth Avenue, , north of Church Street). It was an arcade, as we sometimes ealled such buildings. Garritt S. Cannon, : thence up the middle of said creek, the several courses Esq., had his office in one room, a book and stationery- thereof, to the flood gates at Justice's Mills (now Dunn's) ; thence along the dam, and up the middle of the public road leading from said mill until the same intersects the public road leading from Borden- town to Mansfield Square; thence a northerly course across and by lands of Charles Mickle, Aaron Bel- langee, and Joseph H. Cook to the intersection of the plaster-mill road ("the Thorntown road") with the road leading from Bordentown to Crosswicks ; thenee a northwesterly eourse to the culvert near the Mile Hill, under the publie road leading from Bor- store was kept by T. T. Bleyer in another. I eom- i menced teaching on the 1st of September, 1839, stayed there until the spring of 1840, and succeeded Mr. Moore, who opened the old brick, at the forks of Cross- wicks and West Streets, in the winter of 1839. Stayed there several years, when, being over-zealous (being pushed ahead by demagogues) on the temperance question, I was summarily ejected and obliged to move my school to my father's residence on West Street. I stayed here six months, and then moved into the basement of the Baptist Church, and closed there : dentown to Trenton ; thence down the run from said in the spring of 1847.
culvert to the place of beginning."
The officers provided for the borough were a mayor, a recorder, and seven Common Councilmen. These were constituted one body politic, and corporated by the name, style, and title of "the Mayor, Recorder. . and Common Council of the Borough of Bordentown," . and vested with the usual powers and privileges in such cases granted. Under the eharter the first elec- tion was held at the town hall on the 9th of April. 1849, and the following-named persons were chosen :
Mayor, Edward Robbins ; Recorder, Ezra B. Rob- bins ; Common Council, Peter H. Kester, George W. Thompson, Nicholas F. Smith, Abraham Probasco, Robert Hankins, Aaron Bellangee, ami William 1. Shreve ; Judge of Election, Clayton Aaronson ; As. sessor, David Levin. ; Commissioners of Appeal, ! Peter Shreve, Amos P. Ellis, and Horatio Furman;
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Treasurer, Whitall Stokes ; Collector, Jonas Bechtel ; Constables, William Cowles. William Buntine, and Benjamin Barton ; Pound-Keeper, James P. Ryan.
were unwilling to allow, and therefore it became . running down Crosswicks Creek to the Delaware
The Township of Bordentown .- The growth of population called for further accommodations, which the country portion of the township of Chesterfield necessary for a division of the township, and an act ; creating the township of Bordentown was passed and approved Jan. 31, 1852, with the following-prescribed boundaries :
. " Beginning at the line of the State of Pennsylvania. opposite the month of Black's Creek, on the Delaware River ; thence running down said river, along said State line. to a point opposite the middle of that part of said river. which runs between Newbold's, or Biddle's Island and the main or Jersey Shore ; thence along the middle of the same, around said island, to a point opposite a certain slnice, known as Emiley's sluice, on the river road leading from Bordentown to Burlington; thence up said sluice, or main ditch, to the old York Road ; thence along the south side of said road to Black's bridge over Black's Creek ; thence still along the north side of said York Road to the intersection of the Mill road; thence still up the north side of said York Road to a stake standing in the line of William Black's, from abont one hundred yards northeast of a small tenant house belonging to Samuel C. Taylor ; thence north five degrees east along said line, commonly known as Edward Field's line, now Black's, to a stone corner to land of Clement Rockhill ; thence by the same, along the lauds of said Rockhill and Aun Newbold, to a stone in the woods, corner of William Carslake, said Rockhill's and Newbold; thence north thirty-six and a half degrees west, to a stake corner of land of Lewis W. Pancoast; thence north five degrees, west and along the line of lands of said Carslake and Pancoast to the main road leading to Carslake's corner from Bordentown ; thence across said main road to a road leading from said Main road to Sand Hills; thence along the west side of said road to the intersection of the Groveville and Trenton Road ; thence along the west side of said Groveville Road, sonth sixty-eight degrees east along said road, down to the middle of Crosswicks Creek ; thence down the middle of said creek to its junction with the Delaware River at Bordentown ; thence down the Delaware River, along the line of the State of Pennsylvania, to the place of beginning. Set off from the township of Chesterfield and Mansfield and erected into the town- ship of Pordentown."
Fifteen years of continued growth of population demanded a change in the form of government, and in April, 1867, an act was passed authorizing the erection of a city goverment. The number of coun- cilmen was changed from seven to nine, and the Council was empowered to levy taxes without the consent of the people, to the extent of seventy-five cents on the hundred dollars, on all real and personal estate. The first election under the city charter took place on the 13th of April, 1868, and the following- naincd persons were chosen to fill the various offices :
Mayor, Leo H. DeLange; Recorder, Joseph H. Thorn; Council, N. D. Thompson, S. E. Burr, Wil- liam Venable, Charles A. Butts, Thomas Wood, Jonas Bechtel, Fred G. Wiese, Henry H. Vanatta, and P. F. Hyatt ; Assessor, Nathan B. Wilson ; Col- lector, William H. Atkinson; Commissioners of Ap- peal, David M. Carslake, Ezra B. Robbins, and H. P. Wilgus; Marshal, John D. Mitchell ; Constables, George Whitely and Benj. T. Howell ; Judges of the ; Election, John Holloway, Levi K. Schenck, Lang- horn Thorn, William S. Herbert, Fred G. Wiese, and Joseph Wilson ; Harbor-Master, James McGovern ; Pound-Keeper, Thomas Hendrickson.
The mayor, under the new charter, not being presi- dent of Council, communicated with that body by message.
The city boundaries are the same as those of the borough, with the exception that the part lying in Mercer County was cut off, the line as now altered River.
BORDENTOWN BOROUGH.
1843 .- Mayor, Edward Bobbins; Recorder, Ezra B. Robbins. No record made of the members of Common Council this year.
1850 .- Mayor, George W. Thompson ; Recorder, Ezra B. Robbins ; Com- mou Council, William Thompson, Millin Paul, Clement Rockbid, Joseph Bodine, Samuel C. Taylor, Peter Saxton, Thomas Carman.
1851 .- Mayor, George W. Thompson ; Recorder, Ezra B. Robbins. Count- cil again omitted in the records.
IS52 .- Mayor, George W. Thompson ; Recorder, Ezra. B. Robbins. No record of Council made this year.
1853 .- Mayor, William P. McMichael !; Recorder, Ezra B. Robbins. No record of members of Council.
1854 .- Mayor, Joseph B. Johnson ; Recorder, Joseph HI. There; Com- . mon Council, Peter Sexton, Michael Higgins, John Sbreve, Josep !: D. Claypole, Mahlon F. Shreve, George A. Stowell, Middleton Carslake.
1855 .- Mayor, George B. Raymond; Recorder, Joseph R. Thorn; Com- mon Council, James L. Jaques, Clement Rockhill, Joseph Bodine, Elisha Nevins, Mahlon F. Shreve, William Steele, Middleton Carslake.
1856 .- Mayor, Richard Thorn : Recorder, Heury P. Reed; Common Conseil, William A. Shreve, James L. Jaques, David Carslake, Joseph Bodine, George Whitely, Malilon F. Shreve, Clement Rockhill.
1857 .- Mayor, Richard Thorn, Sr .; Recorder, James Stratton; Common Conacil, William A. Shreve, George Whitely, William Alsto!, David M. Carslake, Peter Einly, Mahlon F. Shreve, James L. Jaques. 1838 .-- Mayor, George M. Wright; Recorder, Edward Clift; Commen Council, Robert S. Van Rensselaer, George B. Raymond. Nicoll 5. Smith, Samuel C. Forker, William S. Herbert, Joseph Norris, Peter Werts.
I853 .- Mayor, George M. Wright; Recorder, Edward Clift; Common Council, Robert S. Van Rensselaer, George B. Raymond, Peter Werts. Samuel C. Forker, Williamu S. Herbert, William Cook, M.D., Nicol F. Smith.
1860 .- Mayor, George M. Wright; Recorder, Edward Clift; Common Council, Robert S. Van Rensselaer, William H. Yan Nortwich, George B. Raymond, William s. Herbert, William Cook, M.D., Nicol F. Smith, Clement Richardson.
1861 .- Mayor, William P. McMichael ; Recorder, Edward Clift : Common Council, R .. S. Van Rensselaer, William H. Van Nortwick, Benjamin T. Smith, Peter Werts, James W. Allen, N. D. Thompson, Willatto S. Herbert.
1862 .- Mayor, William F. McMichael ; Recorder, Edward Clift; Com- mon Council, R. S. Van Rensselaer, Benjamin T. Smith, William U. Var Nortwick, Peter Werts, James W. Allen, William S. Herbert, Thomas Bennett.
1863 .- Mayor, Sammuel C. Forker; Recorder, Edward Clift; Corimon Council, Thomas Bennett, Thomas Wood, William S. Herbert, Thomas W. Dunu, John Carlton, Leo H. De Lange, Langhorn Thorn.
1864 .- Mayor, George W. Thompson ; Recorder, Edward Clift ; Common Council, Thomas W. Dunn, Henry Wilgns, Thomas Wood, William Burns, William &. Herbert, Leo H. De Lange, Langhorn Thorn.
1865 .- Mayor, George W. Thompson ; Recorder, Joseph Il. Thora ; Common Council, Wiliam H. Black, David M. Carslake, Heury P. Wilgus, William S. Herbert, Joseph K. Tantum, Levi Schenck, Pearson Thorn.
1568 .- Mayor, Andrew J. Kinck ; Recorder, Joseph II. Thorn ; Comman Council, Samael C. Forker, David M. Camlake, Lienty P. Arnel. Sammel E. Burr, William 11. Black, Henry H. Vanatta, Henry P. Wilgn ..
1867 .- Mayor, Andrew J. Kinek ; Recorder. Joseph Il. Thorn ; Common Conneil, Heory P. Arm 1, Samuel E. Barr, Charles J. Ap; ist. ms. Davul M. Carslake, Robert stewart, Henry H. Vanatta, William Veunble.
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CITY OF BORDENTOWN.
1868 .- Mayor, Leo H. De Lange; Recorder, Joseph H. Thorn ; Common Council, N. Douglass Thompson, Samuel E. Burr, William Venable, Thomas Wood, Jonas Bechtel, Fred. G. Weise, leury H. Vauatta, P. F. Ilyatt.
1869 .- Mayor, David L. Hall; Recorder, Joseph Il. Thorn : Common Conuicil, James Trout, Ilenry P. Arnel, Moses R. Wolf, Ralph S. Vankirk, James Coll, Jr., Robert Stewart, Fred. G. Weise, Joseph B. Taylor, Thomas S. Stevens.
1870 .- Mayor, David L. Ilall; Recorder, James Coll, Jr. ; Common Coun- cil, Fred. G. Weise, Robert Stewart, Moses Wolf, Joseph B. Taylor, G. Warner English, Enoch W. Applegate, Robert K. Allen, William H. Atkinson, A. Judson Sexton.
1871 .- Mayor, Edward Robbins; Recorder, James Coll, Jr. ; Common Council, Thomas Wood, William S. Herbert, Robert Stewart, Lewis C. Gerlach, Samnel G. Wright, Henry P. Arnel, Moses Wolf, William H. Black, James Powell.
1872 .- Mayor, Edward Rol bins; Recorder, James Coll, Jr. ; Common Council, Robert K. Allen, Michael Higgins, William H. Atkinson, John J. Rogers, Francis II. Iliggins, Moses Wolf. Thomas S. Stevens, Charles W. Brown, Sanmel L. Roberts.
1573,-Mayor, Edward Robbins; Recorder, Henry P. Arnel ; Common Council, Michael Higgins, Moses Wolf, John E. Edwards, John Os- mond, Israel Frazier, William Bunn, John Waters, Jr., Daniel R. Eldrige, Thomas Kerr, Jr.
1874 .- Mayor, Moses Wolf ; Recorder, Henry P. Arnel ; Commou Coun- cil, Michael Iliggins, Daniel Eldridge, John Waters, Jr., Powell Clift, Thomas Brady, Patrick Rattigan, William S. Herbert, G. War- ner English, Edgar Wright.
1875 .-- Mayor, Moses Wolf; Recorder, Henry P. Arnel; Common Coun- cil, Edgar Wright, Daniel Eldridge, William S. Herbert, Thomas Brady, Patrick Rattigan, Charles Ashton, Joseph Higgins, Joseph Newell, William Steele.
1876 .-- Mayor, Moses Wolf, Recorder, Samuel P. Hartman; Common Council, Daniel Eldridge, Joseph Higgins, John O. Hudson, Joseph N. Newell, Johu J. Rogers, John B. Taylor, Edgar Wright, Williamn S. Herbert, Michael Higgins.
1877 .- Mayor, Thomas Bennett; Recorder, Henry P. Arnel; Common Council, Joseph Higgins, Jolin O. Hudson, Patrick Rattigan, George W. Thompson, William S. Herbert, Charles R. Ellis, Powell Clift, Michael Quain, William F. Stout.
1878 .-- Mayor, Thomas Bennett; Recorder, Henry P. Arnel ; Common Council, John O. IIndson, William H1. Black, Patrick Rattigan, John J. Maxwell, George W. Tapper, Thomas Wood, Sr., William Steele, Jolin II. Kempton, William S. Herbert.
1879 .- Mayor, Shreve Ilartshorn; Recorder, William H. Torr ; Common Council, William Steele, Clement Rockhill, Asher Brakely, William D. Rogers, Charles Reeder, Sr., E. Parker Ferris, J. Price Campbell, Richard Allen, Robert S. Murphy.
1880 .- Mayor, John O. Hudson; Recorder, David F. Waker; Common Council, Joshua Lanison, Ilenry P. Arnel, John II. Hemphill, Wil- liam II. Thompson, John J. Maxwell, John F. Mechellis, Alfred W. Hounslow, Charles Parker, Milton W. Maitland.
1881 .- Mayor, John O. Hudson; Recorder, David F. Waker ; Common Council, Joslma Lamson, Milton W. Maitiand, John II. Hemphill, Alfred W. Hounslow, Michael Herron, John J. Maxwell, Charles Parker, Gotlieb Bruker, George W. Moore.
1882 .- Mayor, Jolin O. Indson ; Recorder, David F. Waker ; Common Council, Henry J. Fillinan, B. Frank Thompson, James Powell, John H. Hemphill, Gotlieb Bruker, Clinton Mendenhall, Milton W. Mait- land, Isaac D. Gabel, John P. Reed.
Presidents of Common Council .- David M. Carslake, Henry P. Arnel, Fred. G. Wiese, Robert Stewart, Jolin J. Rogers, Moses Wolf, Edgar Wright, William S. Herbert, John O. Hudson, Asher Brakeley, John J. Maxwell, Heury J. Fillman.
Chosen Freeholders, Bordentown Township .- 1852-53. George W. Thomp- son; 1854, Whitall Stokes; 1855-56, Peter Werts; 1857-60, William Thompson ; 1861-63, Samuel C. Forker; 1864-66, George W. Thomp- son ; 1867-70, William S. Herbert; 1871-73, Joseph L. Vansant ; 1874-82, Peter Werts.
fifty thousand dollars. Isaac Post was the engineer that superintended their construction. The capacity of the gasometer is twenty-five thousand eubie feet. The length of the main pipe thirteen thousand feet. Of service-pipe, between four thousand and five thou- sand feet. The number of public gas-lamps is forty, and of private consumers about one hundred and fifty. The works are in a first-class condition, and capable of supplying three times the amount of gas at present used. The illuminating power of the gas is equal to that manufactured in any city in the country, and the price per thousand feet, $3.80, com- pares very favorably with that of any city of the same size. J. O. Hudson is the superintendent of the works.
In 1855 the water-works were constructed at a eost of forty thousand dollars, the contractor being Col. Joseph W. Allen. The capacity of both reservoirs are 684,466 gallons. Length of six-ineh main to res- ervoirs, 5450 feet. Total length of six-inch main-pipe, 10,900 feet ; of three-inch pipe, 12,750 feet. Total length of pipe, nearly four and a half miles. Num- ber of fire-plugs, 30; of private hydrants, 326. The engine is a Worthington compound duplex of twenty- five horse-power ; a pumping capacity of 144,000 gal- Ions of water, at a consumption of 1100 pounds of eoal, every ten hours. The head of water in the basin is sixty feet above the level of the city. John M. Steele is the superintendent.
THE BORDENTOWN BANKING COMPANY .-- This company was organized Oet. 5, 1851, and opened a State bank in Bordentown on the 25th of November following. The charter members were John L. Mc- Knight, G. S. Cannon, E. R. McCall, Elijah McCall, F. B. Gordon, Robert Hankins, F. R. Combs, Thomas Cormick, Henry H. Longstreet, Sarah W. McCall, Joseph Wall, Rebecea J. MeKnight, Emily G. Me- Knight, Nicholas Wall, George Gaskill, and John W. McKnight. The capital stock was $73,750, the surplus is $35,000, and undivided profits $5904.40. The company erected their building in 1851, have always been distinguished for conservative action, and enjoy the confidenee of the community. John L. Mcknight served as president from its organiza- tion until February, 1869, Robert C. Hutchinson from from 1869 to August, 1882, and Dr. H. H. Longstreet from December, 1882, until the present time. Dis- count days of the bank, Tuesdays and Fridays. The present officers of the bank are Dr. Henry H. Long- street, president ; A. J. Claypool, cashier ; Joseph R. Deacon and R. B. Holloway, tellers ; Henry H. Long- street, Gershom Mott, Clark Hutchinson, Jacob M. Bunting, G. S. Cannon, Mahlon Hutchinson, John P. Hutchinson, and G. M. Wright.
THE WHITE HILL FOUNDRY AND MACHINE- WORKS .- Lewis P. Thompson, proprietor of these works, was born near Freehold, Momonth Co., N. J.,
Industrial Pursuits and Business Interests of Bordentown City and Township .- In 1852 a com- Sept. 12, 1829. His parents were Charles Thompson pany was formed, and commenced the building of the (1784-1852) and Sarah MeKnight (1792-1844). His present gas-works, which they completed at a cost of : father was a blacksmith by trade, but carried on farm-
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ing during the latter part of his life. The family in- cluded eight children, of whom six grew to years of maturity, viz .: Samuel (1811-58), Joseph (1813-44), Mary (1817-46), Alfred (1823-68), N. Douglass (1826 -70), and Lewis P. Thompson, subject of this sketch. Samuel was connected with the Loper & Baird Pro- peller Line of New York and Philadelphia, and for many years filled the position of transportation agent of the old Camden and Amboy Railroad Company. Joseph was freight agent with the same railroad com- pany, but died in carly manhood. Mary was the wife of H. S. Brown, of Windsor, N. J.
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