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Those in Hamilton bearing the name of Dye are descended from Henry Dye, who lived on the farm now owned by Joseph Bowers.
The De Cous were among the early settlers.
Nearly all, if uot quite all, of the Taylors of Mer- cer County seem to be descended from one John Tay- lor, who settled near Yardville, in the early part, or towards the middle, of the last century. He owned a large tract of land. In 1759 he built the house now owned by John Beck, of Yardville. He married a Quixsy, or Quicksall, and had a son Joel, and a daugh- ter, who married a De Cou. Joel married a Vander- beek, and it was through this marriage that the Tay- lors came to be numbered among the numerous heir- of the Trinity Church property in New York City.
Joel Taylor had numerous children. Among them were Beniamin, Joel, and I-rael (who bought land near Hamilton Square ), and Stacy ( who lived between Yardville and Allentown), and several daughters. Their descendants are numerous in the county.
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Hon. John Taylor, Esq., now senator for Mereer County, is a descendant of Joel Taylor. The old stoek of Taylors were Quakers.
Richard Howell was born in Delaware. He eon- manded a New Jersey regiment from 1776 till 1779; was clerk of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and Governor of New Jersey from 1794 till 1802, when he dicd. He was one of the young men who burned the tea landed at Greenwich, N. J., Nov. 22, 1774. He was the author of the ode to Washington, eom- mencing "Welcome, mighty chief, once more," and had a brother, Rednap Howell, who settled in the South, and was also somewhat of a poet. Richard Howell, after the war, moved to the vicinity of Tren- ton. He had a son, Arthur, who lived near Trenton, iu Hamilton, and two other sons, who lived above Trenton. One of his daughters married Jesse Cole- man, of Hamilton, and another, Thomas Riall, of Trenton. Arthur Howell had a sou, Richard, who lived on the farm now of the William G. Cook estate in Hamilton, and he was the father of Arthur Howell, of Hamilton Square.
Three brothers, John, William, and Joshua Norton, came from England near the middle of the last cen- tury. John was born Dec. 20, 1725, and settled in East Windsor township. He married Grace Gilham, and had seven children, the most of whom died un- married. One son, Joshua, born in 1752, married Lydia Combs, daughter of Thomas Combs, and John Norton, Jr., born 1761, married Mary Ely, daughter of Richard Ely. Joshua, who married Lydia Combs, settled in Hamilton, near White Horse. He had chil- dren, of whom Joshua married Hannah Condit and settled in Hopewell ; John married Ann Van Scho- ick and lived on his father's place; William married Sarah Hughes first, and secondly Henrietta Hill, and lived on a part of the homestead now owned by Caleb Pitman, of Hamiltou; Sarah married Joseph Ander. son, of Pennsylvania; Ann married Joseph Hill, of Trentou ; and Hannah married Charles Hunt, of Hopewell. The descendants of all are numerous. William Norton had thirteen children, and they mar- ried into the families of Hutchinson, Lee, Clark, Coleman, Tilton, Hendrickson, and Beecroft, and many of their descendants live in Hamilton and other parts of the county. The other branch of the Nortons, of East Windsor, and their connections are also very numerous.
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The descendants of John Norton, who had four children, are not numerous.
Coleman, who married a daughter of Governor Howell. The family and their connections are numerous.
One Abram Eldridge, in the last century, owned a tract of land extending northeast from Hamilton Square, and including a part of the village. It was nearly a mile square, and extended beyoud the town- ship-linc into East Jersey.
The homestead house was in the eentre of the farm now owned by James C. Robbins. Abram Eldridge was one of the founders of the Baptist Church in Hamilton Square. The descendants of the family are numerous but much scattered. Two of the de- seendants of Abram Eldridge live on parts of the old tract.
It is family tradition, but not verified, that some of the Hutehinsons are descended from Thomas Hutch- inson, an early settler in Ewing, and others from George Hutchinson, who settled at Burlington about 1678. - There were two branches, but their connection is not proved. One John Hutchinson married Eliza- beth Pearson, daughter of the second Robert Pearson, who was born in 1710, and from them the Hutchin- sons of Yardville and many others are deseended. One Amos Hutchinson, who was one of the founders of the Presbyterian Church at Hamilton Square, owned a large tract of land north of Miry Run, in Hamilton and West Windsor. He had a large family, and his descendants live at Windsor, in the vicinity of Trenton, and elsewhere in this section. His daughter Betsey was the first person buried in the Presbyterian churchyard at Hamilton Square.
There was another branch that settled about the locality of James I. Hutchinson's mills. The house now owned by J. I. Hutchinson, a descendant, was built by one of this family in 1785. The descendants of this branch are numerous, and many of them live in Hamilton, Washington, and East Windsor. One Daniel Hutchinson, of this branch, married Deborah Hammell, daughter of John and Mercy Hammell, who was born in 1755. Their descendants live about Edinburg, in Washington township, and at Hamilton Square and elsewhere.
Those bearing the name of Ivens in Hamilton are descended from one Daniel Ivens, who married Theo- dosia, daughter of John and Mercy Hammell.
Those bearing the name of Steele are descended from one of this family who married Mary, daughter of Bartholomew West, who was born prior to 1750.
William and Matthias Mount lived in this town- ship in the last century. Both were connected with the Presbyterian Church at Hamilton Square in its infancy. Matthias Mount owned a large traet, of which the part containing the homestead hou-c is now owned by Jasper Mount. Matthias had children, -Richard, Robert, Matthias, Samuel, Elijah, al. others, and from them almost all bearing the name in this section are descended. A daughter of Matthias
The Colemans were early settlers of the northern portion of Hamilton and Lawrence. The different branches could probably be traced to one family orig- inally. J. B. Coleman, of Mereerville, is descended from Timothy Coleman, who settled near what is now Baker's Basin, in Lawrence. J. B. Coleman repre- sents the fourth generation of Colemans of this line. The other Colemans, of Hamilton, represented by Benjamin, Elijah, David, and others are of Jesse | Mount married Elisha Jewell, of Penn's Neck.
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Thomas Tindall owned land in Nottingham in route for Princeton, and there are yet living some who 1692. He was a native of England. It is supposed , have heard their parents tell of being awakened on that all of this family are descended from hint. He : the morning of Jan. 3, 1777, by the booming of the lived in the neighborhood of Trenton. The Tindalls cannon at Princeton. Less than twenty years ago a lady named Lanning died at Hamilton Square, aged ninety-six, who lived near Princeton at the time of the battle, and who stated that her father sent her with the rest of the family into the cellar during the action. of West Windsor township are descended from John Tindall, who married Amy Hammell, daughter of John and Mercy Hammell, who was born in 1761. The first graves made in the Baptist churchyard at Hamilton Square were those of this branch of the Tindalls, and in all probability were the parents of the above John Tindall. The homestead of the above family was the house now owned by Alexis Rainear, near Edinburg.
The Scholey family were among the English Qua- kers that came to Burlington about 1678. In 1695 one Sarah Scholey owned land in this township. She was probably the widow of one of the emigrants of that name. In the last century one Samuel Scholey bought the Scholey's mountain tract in Morris County. He had a brother, Joseph Scholey, who lived in Burlington County, and who had several children, one of whom was James, who bought of David Cale the large tract of land lying to the north and west of Hamilton Square, joining the Apple- tons, Mounts, Eldridges, and others. James Scholey had a large family, and his children married into the Hughes, Ivens, and Wainwright families, and others.
The Wainwright family are descended from one Daniel Wainwright, who was an early settler of Mon- mouth County. He had a son who was a prominent official of Monmouth County during the Revolution, and was killed by the Price brothers, who were noto- rious refugees. The Wainwrights of Hamilton town- ship represent the fourth and fifth generations of this family.
There are several branches of the Robbins family, all of which descended from early settlers of the name in Monmouth County. The progenitors of Dr. G. R. Robbins, of Hamilton Square, and others of that branch, formerly lived in the vicinity of Allentown. Some of the Robbins were among the soldiers who saw service in the Revolution.
The Johnsons, Nutts, Middletons, Asays, Fagans, Andersons, Savidges, Chambers, Hendricksons, Cono- vers, Scattergoods, Souths, Cales, Applegates, Gor- dons, Williamses, Bowerses, Coxes, Ginglens, Woods, Naptons, Curtises, Woodmancys, Allens, Gaskills, Tasstums, Nelsons, Butchers, Rossells, Seeds, Ab- botts, Stewarts, Wilkinsons, and others are descended from families who lived in the township in the last century.
Revolutionary Incidents .- During the dark days of 1776-77, when the British were encamped at Tren- ton, at Princeton, and at Bordentown, this township was sometimes overrun by foraging, scouting, and plundering parties of troops.
The night before the battle of Princeton, Washing- ton and his troops passed through Mercerville en
The barn on the old Eldridge homestead was struck by a cannon-ball during the Revolution. This shot is thought to have been fired by a prowling party of the enemy with a field-piece, as no action took place in that vicinity. The British officers forbade their inen to fire at buildings thus, but their orders were sometimes disobeyed.
" When the British troops marched from Philadel- phia, on their way to Monmouth, in June, 1778, they came through this part of the country in three de- tachments,-one by Mount Holly, one through Co- lumbus, and the third by Bordentown. The latter attempted to cross Crosswicks Creek over a draw- bridge near the latter place. The Continental troops and a great part of the militia stationed in that vi- cinity under Gen. Dickinson had been withdrawn, excepting those of Cols. Phillips and Shreve, who had been previously detached to. guard a ford one mile farther up the creek, and only the three regi- ments of Cols. Frelinghuysen, Van Dike, and Webster remained when a party of the enemy appeared, and with great zeal began to repair the bridge, the planks of which had been pulled up and the draw raised. For this purpose they ripped off the planks from an adjoining hay-house. Upon their approach the troops rushed down with the greatest impetuosity, and a small party from one of the regiments happen- ing to be considerably advanced, caused them to re- tire with the loss of four killed and several wounded. This detachment then united with the other two at Crosswicks, and in the course of the same day attempted crossing the bridge there, which had also been destroyed by the Americans. Another skirmish occurred, in which a British officer and two or three men were shot. The wounded officer was conveyed to the dwelling now occupied by Mr. Thomas Newell. An American named Clevenger was killed. He had cut away the last sleeper of the bridge, and while retreating was shot in the back of the head, fell among the high grass, and was discov- ered a few days after by the stench of his decompos- ing body. The next day the enemy repaired the bridge and proceeded on their march. During this skirmish the Americans, who were stationed on the Woodwardville side of the creek, fired several can- non-balls, one of which lodged in the Friends' meet- ing-house, and there remained until the house was repaired a few years since. Soon after the battle of Trenton, the American troops for a time occupied the Friends' meeting-house for barracks. On Sun-
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day the benclics were arranged and worship held as usual." 1
A gentleman with the troops during thesc skir- mishes expressed his opinion of the importance of thesc encounters in a publication of the day, as follows :
" The conduct of the militia saved, in my opinion, Trenton and the country adjacent from rapine and desolation. In short, their conduct during the whole time gave me the most pleasing ideas of the strong lore of liberty which is natural to the human soul. Surely while the farmers of the country are induced by the mere fondness of freedom to leave all their domestic concerns at this season of the year and undergo the hardships of a soldier's life, to suffer the severest fatigues, and with pleasure face every danger, I say. while this continues, Americans must and will be free!"
There were some royalists in this township. Some were doubtless royalists from choice. Some had not sufficient faith to foresee the victory so long delayed, and were royalists from policy.
In the list of the names of New Jersey soldiers who served in the Revolution, published some years ago, are those of men from Hamilton.
: In the early part of the present century, Joseph L. West plowed up a six-pound ball on the farm now of the Samuel Hughes estate, near Hamilton Square. How it came there is not known. Two cannon-balls have been found on the Hunt farm, south of the draw- bridge, which were fired by the Americans during the skirmish there previously referred to.
Organization. - Hamilton was taken from the now extinct township of Nottingham, and erected into a separate township by an act of Assembly passed March 11, 1842.
Civil List. CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS.
Samuel Jacques, 1842.
Joshua Wright, 1842.
Robert C. Hutchinson, 1843-45, 1847-49.
Elijah Mount, 1843-50.
Josiah Buzby, 1846, 1866-67.
Tilton Rogers, 1863-65.
Joseph Walen, 1850-51.
George llowell, 1866-68.
Robert L. Hutchinson, 1851-54.
Lewis R. Wilkerson, 1869-71.
Jeremialı Lelor, 1852-54, 1858.
David S. llutchinson, 1872-73.
James G. West, 1855.
C. F. Forman, 1876-79.
George W. Norton, 1855-57.
TOWNSHIP CLERKS.
Charles Borden, 1842-43.
William 11. West, 1862-66.
James B. Coleman, 1844-47, 1849- 54.
A. Cubberley, 1867-68. Josephi H. Hill, 1869.
Joseph Walen, 1818.
William C. Vannest, 1870-74.
Sylvester Hutchinsou, 1955.
Joseph 11. West, 1875-77.
Charles Il. llughes, 1857-60, 1866. ; Henry N. Burk, 1878-80.
G. O. l'arber, 1861.
Elijah C. Hutchinson, 1881.
ASSESSORS.
George H. Steward, 1942, 1845-46. George W. Norton, 1861-63.
George W. Borden, 1843-44.
Charles 11. Hughes, 1864-66.
Robert L. Ilutchinson, 1847-49.
Joseph S. Mount, 1867-70.
Amos H. Lee, 1850.
Samuel C. Appleton, 1871.
Tilton Rogers, 1851-52.
Abraham G. Staats, 1872.
William H. Wynkoop, 1853-55.
: Thomas Cubberley, 1873-76.
HI. A. Andersou, 1856-57.
John H. Coleman, 1858-60.
Thomas F. Applegate, 1877-79. : Joseph H. West, 1880-81.
COLLECTORS.
William S. West, 1842-44.
William C. Sinclair, 1848-49, 1851.
John C. Cubberley, 1849.
George W. Norton, 1852-53.
Samnel C. Appleton, 1854.
John McCanay, 1855. James B. Coleman, 1856-57. Tilton Rogers. 1858-60. Eden Rogers, 1861.
Timothy Scobey, 1880-81.
CONSTABLES.
Thomas S. Pearson, 1842-43.
Joseph West, 1844, 1849. Satunel C. Thorne, 1845-46.
Major Voorhees, 1845.
John Appleton, 1846.
John Holeman, 1847-51.
William Inghes, 1850.
William Y. Ford, 1851-53.
Thomas Parent, 1851, 1953.
HI. B. Moore, 1852.
Johu H. Coleman, 1871-75.
Alexander Eldridge, 1854-56, 1858- Benjamin F. Wood, 1871.
60, 1872, 1878.
Asher S. Cubberley, 1855.
Ira Jolinson, 1856-62.
31. S. Ellis, 1873, 1875, 1877.
Clark T. Forman, 1857, 1862, 1864- J. Nelson, 1874. 67.
Arthur R. llowell, 1859-60.
John Worthley, 1859-61, 1869.
Martin Adams, 1861, 1865.
Samuel H. Nutts, 1861.
James C. Robbins, 1862-69, 1873-77.
William King, 1864.
llenry Hendrickson, 1864.
George A. Morris, 1881.
Thomas P. Parent, 1865-69.
Henry N. Burk, 1881.
TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE.
Enoch Middleton, 1842.
James B. Coleman, 1842, 1843.
Encch Knowles, 1842.
John H. Rulon, 1842, 1844, 1846-47, 1849.
W. Redman, 1842, 1851-54.
Samuel Chambers, 1843-47, 1849.
George H. Steward, 1843.
Henry Tusker, 1843.
John West, 1853-44. James Anderson, 1844-46.
Lewis Redford, 1844.
Marvel Shove, 1845.
David Lee, 1862-66, 1871-72, 1874.
Clark T. Forman, 1863.
Israel J. Woodward, 1845-47.
T. W. Robling, 1864-66.
Peter Decow, 1847.
Samuel Allison, 1867-68. Samuel Applegate, 1868-69.
Samuel N. West, 1868-70. John S. West, 1869-71.
Jolin H. Clark 1863-70.
--- Samuel lInghes, 1849. Major Voorhees, 1850, 1855.
Jeremiah Lalor, 1850.
Caleb Coleman, 1850-54. 1856.
Daniel Ivens, 1850. Joseph Hendrickson, 1851.
George C. Dye, 1873.
Thomas F. Applegate, 1874-76, 1980, 1881.
Redway Robbins, 1875-77.
Benjamin Goldy, 1875-76. Edward Eversham, 1875-77.
Amos 11. Cole, 1876-78.
Charles Blake, 1877-79. Timothy Scoby, 1877-78.
Samnel M. Smith, 1878-80. Sammel H. Labow, ISTS-80. M1. Robbins, IS81.
Edward Cubberley, 18:1.
1 Burber and Howe's Collectione, 1844.
David C. Rulon, 1855. Charles I. Hughes, 1855. William S. Titus, 1856. Abel Taylor, 1857-58.
George S. Cubberley, 1857-60, 1866 -68, 1872.
. Josephi Whiteiread, 1857-58. John Hammell, 1857-58. Charles H. Ilutchinson, 1859-62.
Eden Rogers, 1859-60, 1 8€2-65. William Coleman, 1859-60, 1866. John L. Hammond, 1859-61.
Samuel Vaudergrift, 1861-67, 1870- 71.
Edward P. Tindall, 1861, 1863-65, 1867-69.
Alfred Mitchell, 1845-48.
William Tindall, 1848. Nathan Robbins, 1848, 1850-53. Asher S. Cubberley, 1848. George S. Cook, 1818, 1849.
John F. R. Combs, 1849.
Charles A. Ashton, 1870-71. Joseph H. Hill, 1871-72. Joseph S. Middleton, 1872-73.
Levi Mather, 1872-74. Matthew Decow, 1873, 1875.
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George A. Hutchinson, 1831-54, 1856-58, 1861-62, 1867, 1873-74. Thomas F. Dye, 1852-54, 1856. Titton Rogers, 1854. Josiah Buzby, 1855. George Andersou, 1855-36.
Jolin Hammell, 1862-64.
David C. Relon, 1865-70. Charles V. Mead, 1871.
William Hammell, 1872. Ralph Hooper, 1873.
Charles A. Beecraft, 1874-76.
William Clark, 1877-79.
' llenry P. Parent, 1866-68, 1ST0, 1871, 1873-80.
Charles McClosy, 1866. James B. Harden, 1867, 1868.
Joseph Loveless, 1869, 1871-74.
N. B. Burroughs, 1870.
George W. Bowers, 1870, 1872. R. W. Taylor, 1870. Joseph H. West, 1870.
Albert S. Douglass, 1871.
Levi Brady, 1872.
Henry Jolinson, 1876.
Alfred Hughes, 1876-78, 1880, 1881.
T. F. Van Camp, 1876. William Van Brunt, 1877.
Jacob R. Inghes, 1878-81. Singleton Hooper, 1878-20. Franklin E. Frazier, 1881.
Clarksou Hutchinson, 1856-58. Joseph S. Mount, 1859-62.
R. Rowland Hill, 1859-61. .
Sylvester llutchinson. 1862-65, 1880-81.
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JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
I. J. Woodward, 1845.
Edward R. Shoebrick, 1857.
Joel Taylor, 1:45.
S. Reed, 1857.
James B. Coleman, 1845, 1850, 1855, 1856, 1861, 1866.
Edward F. Tindall, 1858.
Asher S. Cubberley, 1859, 1864,1869.
William C. Sinclair, 1845.
William Ilaminell, 1859-60, 1865, 1870, 1875.
Daniel Wainwright, 1850, 1857-38, 1874.
1877.
Joseph Waln, 1855, 1863.
William H. Rusling, 1867.
George W. Cubberley, 1855.
George R. Borden, 1868, 1873.
Joel Middleton, 1855.
Z. Wood, 1871.
William L. Titus, 1835.
D. C. Rulon, 1873.
Robert L. Hutchinson, 1856.
. J. Buzby, 1878.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
I. J. Woodward, 1842-43.
! Henry Tucker, 1844.
William f. Ellis, 1842.
John H. Corrier, 1844.
Peter Decow, 1842-45.
Able R. Taylor, 1845-46.
John West, 1843, 1846. John C. Cubberley, 1845-46.
SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS.
I. J. Woodward, 1847 ..
Edward Shoebrick, 1861.
Marvel Shove, 1848-51.
11. A. Anderson, 1862-64.
William H. West, 1852-33, 1857-60.
Robert S. Manning, 1865-67.
Samuel T. Duffell, 1855-56.
Roads .- The roads at first were nothing more than paths through the woods marked out by common consent, and in various directions so as to come as near as possible to each house. The road running east and west through Hamilton Square was one of these crooked paths leading from Trenton to Allen- town (Monmouth County ), or in that direction, and was probably used as early as 1725. The road through Hamilton Square is the original road, but on leaving that village at eaeli end it veered to the southeast of Hamilton Square, passed to the south of R. F. West's shop, and continued in that direction until near : George S. Cubberley's, when it veered to the north, entering Newtown where the present road is. West of the village it passed south of Hooper's and Pryor's, and south of John S. West's, when it deviated to Mercerville, and continued to Trenton in a crooked manner on the line of the present Hamilton Avenue. This was the only road to Trenton from this part of the township until about 1808, when the present straight road was surveyed, four rods wide, and fork- ing to the west of Mercerville, making two roads lead- ing into Trenton, which are known as the "Mill- ham" and " Millhill" roads.
Villages and Hamlets .- HAMILTON SQUARE .- Among the early settlers at Hamilton Square and its immediate vicinity were the Scholeys, the Apple- tons, the Cubberleys, the Hutchinsons, the Eldredges, and others. The families of Wilgus, Hughes, Nelson, Buteher, Taylor, Hill, Chambers, and Reed were resi- dents there in the last century, and many of their de- scendants are to be found there. This village is in . the eastern part of the township north of the eentre, on the road from Trenton easterly. In 1750 there were probably not more than three or four farm- houses on its site. Among the oldest houses standing there during late years may be mentioned some
buildings on the farm of C. L. Rogers, on a beam in one of which is the date 1764, the year in which it is supposed to have been erected ; the old Nelson house torn down a few years ago by Jacob Snediker; the old Ivens' house, removed still earlier; the house on the southeast corner of Main and Mercer Streets ; and the Wainwright farm-house. The Nelson house is probably the oldest house in the village. The house on the southeast corner of Main aud Mercer Streets was built about 1766. The Sinclair house is also an old one. The Wainwright farm-house, out of the village, was built by the Scholeys, and took the place of a log house on the same spot.
At the time of the Revolution the settlement probably consisted of six or eight houses and a black- smith-shop. In 1835 there were about twenty dwell- ings, two churches, a tavern, two stores, a ehair-fae- tory, some cabinet-shops, and brick-yards. The number of dwellings had inereased to about twenty- five in 1848, when there were ninety inhabitants, and to thirty-nine in 1851. In 1876 there were seventy- one dwellings (counting double houses as two each ), and two hundred and ninety-seven inhabitants. In 1882 the number of domieiles is seventy-three, and the population is three hundred and twenty-five.
It is deemed probable that a tavern of some sort was kept in the place during the Revolution, but there is no reasonable tradition to that effect. The present publie-house was built by William Nutt about 1790, but was not oceupied as such until about 1805. A descendant of Nutt's states that when the latter sold the house he bound his successor to enter- tain all preachers who might hold meetings in the village free of expense if they ehose to avail them- selves of his hospitality. About 1800 an inn was kept in the old Nelson house, on the northeast corner of Main and Mereer Streets. Among those who have done the honors of these hostelries sinee 1800 have been Samuel Gordon, William Napton, William Nutt, David Gordon, Benjamin South, Isaae Barber, Sylvanus Hutchinson, Thomas Buteher, Sr., Hannah Jackson, William Buteher, Thomas Buteher, Jr. (1828), William Ogborn, Aaron Eldredge, William Ginglen, David Ginglen, George Nauness, John An- derson, 1848; Joseph West, 1849; F. M. Hall, 1852; Mary Hall, 1854; Elijah Hughes, 1856; Israel Pear- son, 1866; R. W. Taylor, 1868; William Hall, 1870.
Christopher Harrer kept a store in the place as early as 1800, and for many years thereafter. at first in the old house mentioned as having been demol- ished by Jacob Snediker, afterwards in various places about the village. The next merchant was John R. Combs, about 1832, in the old house at the corner where the White Horse road enters the village. The next was Simeon Reed, first in a building where Hooper's store now is, later on the southeast corner of Main and Mercer Streets until 1849. In 1834, Marmaduke Earle kept a store on the corner of Main Street and the White Horse road, and for some
Marvil Shove, 1850.
John H. Rulon, 1850.
Clark T. Forman, 1860.
Edward P. Good, 1866-67, 1872,
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ycars there were two stores in the village. In 1849 Amos Lce had a store on the southeast corner of Main and Mercer Streets.
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