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William G. IFull
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108
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Anthony Heminover
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Margaret Kinney.
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Joseph MeNear
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William Mearing.
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73
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Hannah Miller.
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John Nixon ....
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Robert Oliver.
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John Phillips.
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Byram Pitney.
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110
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Jacob Rosa
70
John Rose ...
60
Jncol Rose, Jr.
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300
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Andrew Rose, Jr
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110
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Jahn Rutherford.
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120.00
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1111
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Richard Schooley, est
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John Stevenson
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Cornelius Sickly ...
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John Smith
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William Zerk
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Elizabeth Staples.
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Thomas Rowland
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Samuel Smith
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George Smith
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Reading Slaght.
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Jacob Sutton
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John Siduer.
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William Sheldon
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Robert Slaght.
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Abraham Shurz
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John Spencer
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Henry Tenta.
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Conrad Tenta.
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Jumuen Wallin, Jr.
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Josoph Wilgus
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Ephraim Wright ..
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Aaron Whitehead.
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Joseph Wallin ..
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l'residents, Directors, and C'om-
pany of the State Bank at
91.20
" Single Mru."
John Mell, Hartla Johnson, Torrence Mcdonough, Michael sutton, Jo- soph Conn, Daniel Tutte, Thomas Shepherd, Thomas Drake, Charles Lowin, Charles Manson, Michael O'Conner, Benjamin Tricket.
Included in the properties assessed were 1 slave, owned by John Bedell ; 95 horses, 342 cattle, 57 dogs, and 3 " rocking-chairs." Of forges, John Budd owned a half of one, L. M. DeCamp, a half; John B. Dick- erson, two; M. F. Dickerson, one; Benjamin Hay- ward, one; Abram Hathaway, one; Samuel Johnson, a half; Seely Leach, a half; Josiah Munson, Joseph l'erry, a half; John Smith, one; Robert Slaght, a half.
Of saw-mills, John B. Dickerson, M. F. Dickerson, Anthony Heminover, and Charles Randolph each owned one, and Charles Randolph owned a grist-mill. The assessed valuations of improved lands ranged from 50 eents to $1 per aere, and of unimproved lands from 10 to 70 cents. The total regular assessment aggregated $214.06, the road-tax $322.21, and the log-tax $18.81.
A BOUND APPRENTICE.
Appended is a copy of an indenture made in 1808 on behalf of John Chambers, a poor child of the town :
" THIS INDENTURE madethis twenty-ninth day of March io the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Eight Witnesseth that Juha Will- gus and Nickolas Byrum overseers of the pour of the township of Byram County of Sussex and State of New jersey by and with the consent of Abram Hunt and Lemmel D camp Justices of the pease of Sussex County whose names are hereunto Subscribed Have put and placed and by these presanta do jenit and place John Chambers a poor Child belonging to sall tuwn muito Samnel Wright of the placo alive montloned with him to dwell and serve for the term of six years and five months untill he shall arive to the full uge of twenty-one years all which time he the sail ap- printive his said master faithfully shall serve his secrets keep ninl ITis Lawfull command« every where gladly obey he shall ilo to hurt to his said master nor suffer it to be done by others without giving notice there of to his said master at cards dice nor au unlawfull game he shall not play where by he may injure his said master he shall not commit fornication nor contract matrimony within the said term but in all things demean himself to his said master and mistress becomeing an ap- printice and the said Wright doth covenant and agree with the said overseers that he will allow sufficient meat drink apporrel washing and Loging fitting for such apprintice and to do hls best indeviours to teach him in the ort of tanning and shoemaking and at Expiration of said term give and allow him the said apprintice besides tenchlog to read write and Cypher so that he will be abel to keep his own books of acounts one suit of Sunday clothes fitting all parts of his body besides good every day clothes aud a good set of tools, for the true performance of which the parties bind themselves to Each other by these presents sealed with our seal and dated this 29th day of March in the year of our Lord 1808.
" JOHN WILLGI'S,
" NICHOLAS BYRAM,
" LEMUEL DE CAMP, Justice,
" ABRAM HUNT, EsQ.
" Present
" ALBERT MICKAIN."
III .- TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION.
The act creating the township of Byram, passed Feb. 5, 1798, -ets forth as follow- :
" WHEREAS, a number of the inhabitants of the township of Newton, in the rounty of Sussex, by their petition have set forth that they labor under many and great disadvantages by reason of the great extent of the said township; for the remedy thereof,
" Be it enueted by the Council and General Assembly of this State, unul it is hereby enacted by the authority of the mime, that all that part of the town- ship of Newton lying to the south of the following Hne-to wit, begin- ning in the road that leads from the red meeting-house, on the Wallkill, to Sussex court-house, where the line between Hardyston and Newton crowvery wald road; from theure along the top of the ridge of mountains. northwesterly side of the Long meadows, which is a southwesterly courso to the height of said mountain. between Nathan Whitehead's and Her- man Milheim's; from thence a straight line to within one chain of the wutheasterly side of the place known by the name of the Narrows, on the rond leading from Newton Sussex court-house to Morristown ; from thence the samo course to the Independence line-shall be, and the same is hereby, set off from the township of Newton; and the same in horaly established a separate township, to be called by the name of ' Hyran."
The name was chosen as a mark of honor to the Byram family, who located in the township perhaps
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SUSSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.
shortly after the elose of the Revolution, and of whom the head in 1798 was Jephthah Byram.
The inhabitants of the township met at the house of Adam Turner, innholder, on the second Monday in April, 1798, for the purpose of holding their first town election. The following persons were chosen on that occasion : Moderator, Jephthah Byram; Town Clerk, Samuel Landon ; Collector, Jephthah Byram ; Assessor, Simeon Dickerson; Jndges of Appeals, Anthony Heminover, Samuel Landon, Jonathan Hunt; Chosen Freeholders, Silas Dickerson, An- thony Heminover; Surveyors of Highways, Benja- min Pitney, Andrew Rose; Overseers of the Poor, Nicholas Byram, Abijah Chambers; Constable, John Cooper ; Judge of Election, Asahel Lovewell; Town Committee, Andrew Rose, Michael Dixon, David S. Canfield; Overseers of Roads, Adamı Turuer, David S. Canfield, Simeon Dickerson, Anthony Heminover, Benjamin Pitney, William Seig.
At a special meeting held at Samuel Landon's, Sept. 15, 1798, the sum of $20 was voted for incidental charges, and $170 ordered to be raised to discharge balance due to the township of Newton. The records fail to show what was done at the election in 1799. The following were chosen annually from 1800 to 1880 to be judges of election, elerks, assessors, and collectors :
JUDGES OF ELECTION.
1800-1, J. Byram ; 1802, S. Landon ; 1803-5, S. Dickerson ; 1806, J. Dick- erson; 1807, L. De Camp; 1808, S. Dickerson ; 1809-10, E. Condit ; 1811, D. Perry ; 1812, S. Johnson; 1813, D. Perry; 1814, J. Rose; 1815, D. Perry; 1816-30, J. Rose; 1831, H. Munson; 1832-33, D. Jackson; 1834-36, A. Rose; 1837, D. Jackson; 1838, A. Rose; 1839, no record : 1840-42, D. Jackson ; 1843-44, A. McKain; 1845, A. A. Smalley; 1846-52, A. Mckain; 1853-60, P. Smith; 1861, J. M. Knight; 1862, C. S. Leport; 1863, S. O. Lowrance; 1864-72, W. H. Stackhouse; 1873-77, S. M. Crosson; 1878-80,* C. J. Cottrell.
CLERKS.
1800-1, S. Dickerson : 1802, D. S. Canfield; 1803-4, M. Dixon ; 1805-12, J. Rose; 1813, E. Condit; 1814-38, J. Munson; 1839, no record; 1840-45, J. White; 1846-48, C. S. Leport; 1849, A. G. King; 1850, C. Munson; 1851-57, C. Leport ; 1858-62, E. A. Reeder; 1863-64, J. S. Van Arsdale; 1865, S. S. White; 1866-67, W. T. Leport; 1868-69, S. O. Lowrance; 1870-80, J. McConnell.
ASSESSORS.
1800-1, S. Dickerson; 1802-5, M. Dixon : 1806-9, D. Perry ; 1810-16, S. Dickerson; 1817-21, J. B. Dickerson; 1822-25, L. M. De Camp ; 1826 -31, A. S. Lawrence: 1832, A. Lawrence; 1833-38, J. White; 1839, no record; 1840-42, J. McGowen ; 1843-44, A. S. Lawrence; 1845-48, L. De Witt, Jr. ; 1849, F. F. Thompson ; 1850, A. S. Lawrence; 1851, L. Dewitt; 1852, A. S. Lawrence ; 1853-57, William White; 1858-59, J. C. McConnell; 1860-61, William White; 1862, H. A. Franks; 1863-80, J. MeMickle.
COLLECTORS.
1800-16, J. Rose; 1817, J. Bedell; 1818-33, A. McKain; 1834-36, A. S. Lawrence; 1837, H. Munson ; 1838, A. McKain; 1839, no record; 1840-42, A. McKain ; 1843-49, William White; 1850-55, J. White; 1856-59, A. Durham: 1860, H. A. Franks; 1861-62, J. S. Van Ars- dale ; 1863, W. II. Stackhouse ; 1864, W, White; 1865-66, J. L. Conr- scu ; 1807-80, J. Il. Case.
At the town-meeting held in 1880 there were voted $1500 for roads; $1000 for schools; $200 for the poor; $300 for town purposes.
IV .- SCHOOLS.
The school district called Stanhope, and numbered 37, had doubtless a school before 1800, although at the first town-meeting no money was set apart for the support of schools. The first school at Stanhope touching which there is now human recollection was taught in 1815 by a Wilmot Howell, who was in his day a somewhat noted merchant of New York City. He met with financial reverses, lost his busi- ness and fortune, and in the course of subsequent wanderings visited Stanhope, where he encountered an old friend in Richard Lewis, then the landlord of the village tavern and proprietor of the grist-mill. Lewis was exceedingly anxious to provide school privileges for his children, and proposed to Howell that if he would stop and teach school a school-room would be prepared in the upper story of the grist- mill. Howell assented and opened the school, much to the gratification of the parents of families; but, unfortunately, Howell, despite his ability as a teacher, marred his usefulness by a fondness for strong drink, and after a six months' term as teacher retired from the task to become again a wanderer. Not long after that he died a pauper's death in the Morris County poor-house.
Before his death, in 1807, Silas Dickerson projected and nearly completed a building on the Morris County side of the river, which he intended for an academy, and which he himself promised to foster and encour- age. His death left the enterprise unfinished, and so it remained ever after. A school was taught a while in one of the rooms of the structure and religious meetings were held therein, but education never ob- tained a permanent foothold there.
The first school-house built in Stanhope was erected ' upon the site of the present one in 1818, and measured about 20 by 30. Before 1818 school was held as op- portunity served, but opportunities were irregular and uncertain. The house now in use-a two-story frame with two departments-was built in 1855. The average attendance is 110, out of an enrollment of 185. A. B. Cope is the principal, and Miss Julia Cottrell assistant. The district trustees are Joseph H. Bissell, George C. Herrick, and A. S. Wills.
In the Waterloo School District there was no school before 1840, for until that time there was scareely any effort to concentrate a settlement, and Lockwood school supplied all needs. The first school-house built at Waterloo was erceted in 1840, and is still doing duty. It is a stone structure, stands a quarter of a mile east of the village, and has an average at- tendance of 40, out of an enrollment in the district of 100. The trustees for 1880 were S. R. Smith, N. Cas- sidy, and J. Chamberlain. The teacher was Miss E. J. Shorter.
The first school-house in the Roseville Distriet was built in 1812, upon a site about half a mile west of the present one. The teachers there the first year were Rachel Horton and William Merrin. In 1816
* In 1880, 340 votes polled ut the general election.
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BYRAM.
the children who attended school there included those of the Suttons, the Wrights, Whites, Conns, and Me- Kains. The second house was built in 1826. The present house is the third one. The first Lockwood school-house was a frame, built in 1816, and occupied a place three-quarters of a mile south of the present one. The earliest teachers were Andrew MeLay, Mr. Doyle, and Mr. Richardson. Before the date named a school was taught by Nathan Solomon in the old De Camp forge - building, at Ohl Andover. The present house at Lockwood is a stone edifice, built in 1850. The trustees for 1880 were Elmer Hemin- over, Martin Helms, and - Hyler.
V .- CHURCHES.
LOCKWOOD METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
As early as 1820 a Methodist class was organized at Lockwood, and after holding services as opportunity for preaching offered, during a period of fifteen years, at the district school-house, built a church edifice in 1835, and on the 31st of October of that year dedi- cated it. It was a large framed house, and in it Methodists from far and near assembled regularly for worship for several years, one of the earliest and most faithful of the class-leaders being Delancey McConnell, a cheery blacksmith, who wielded the sledge at Lockwood with much vigor, and with equal energy devoted himself on the Sabbaths to pointing the way along religion's inviting path. The first trustees chosen by the society were John Smith, An- drew Rose, and Alexander MeKain, all of whom were men of mark not only in ordinary affairs of the com- munity, but in church matters as well. A burial- place was laid out at the church in 1835, but long before that similar grounds had been located at Waterloo and near Stanhope. All of these, however, are now in disuse. Services were hell at Lockwood with more or less regularity until 1859, when, a major portion of the members withdrawing for convenience' sake to Waterloo, the Lockwood church was aban- cloned.
WATERLOO METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Although the Methodists at Waterloo went to church occasionally at Lockwood until 1859, they had organized a home class previous to that time under the leadership of l'eter Smith, and were hold- ing services in the district school-house. In 1859 they built the present house of worship, and then went no more to Lockwood.
From 1859 to 1880 the church has had as pastors Revs. G. T. Jackson, A. H. Brown, Mr. Wambaugh, J. B. Heward, W. W. Voorhees. T. S. Haggerty, William II. McCormick, T. C. Meyhan, W. C. Nel- son, and George Miller. The class-lenders have been James C. Ayers, Peter Smith, John Burrell, and Syl- vanus Lawrence. The membership in December, 1880, was 30. The trustees were then S. T. Smith, S. R. Smith, P. D. Smith, N. A. Smith, O. R. Van Dorn, W. N. Gray, Elmer Hunt, William Hunt, and
P. Hubert. The Sunday-school superintendent was S. T. Smith.
STANHOPE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Methodist preachers penetrated to Stanhope shortly after the beginning of the nineteenth century, and in 1810 or 1812 organized a class. Meetings were held in dwellings and in a building put up in South Stanhope by Silas Dickerson for an academy. When the village school-house was built it served as a temple of worship for all religious denominations, but there was no reg- ular preaching until about 1840. There was then a class of perhaps 10 members, of whom Abrain L. Clark was leader, and affairs were pushed forward so briskly that the erection of a church edifice was begun in 1843, and completed in season to permit the dediea- tion, April 11, 1844. The first trustees were Andrew Rose, John Rowland, A. A. Smalley, - Stull, and --- Martin. The first Quarterly Meeting in Stan- hope was held in 1841, by Rev. Manning Force, in the loft of what was known as the " storage-house," located on the canal-bank. Among the earliest pas- tors the names of only Revs. Decker, Lawhead, and John Scarlet can be recalled.
The church membership. December, 1880, was about 140. Rev. George Miller, on the Stanhope and Waterloo charge, was then the pastor. The trustees were Amos Smith, John Osborn, R. F. Baldwin, Isaac Kennicutt, Isaac Shields, and James McCon- nell. The Sunday-school superintendent was R. F. Baldwin.
ST. MICHAEL'S (ROMAN CATHOLIC) CHURCH.
Although occasional Roman Catholic services have been held at Stanhope for many years by priests from Hackettstown, a church was not erected until 1880. It stands in South Stanhope, and was dedicated De- cember 8th of the year mentioned. The congregation then included about fifty families. The trustees were James Todd and Philip Caldwell.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF STANHOPE.
The first Presbyterian sermon heard in Stanhope was probably delivered by Rev. Holloway W. Hunt, of Pleasant Grove, in 1836. He occupied the village school-house, which until 1844 was the only available local temple of worship. In 1837, Rev. Joseph C. Moore, of Succasunna Plains, preached for the Stan- hope Presbyterians, and at his suggestion application was made to the Presbytery of Newark for a church organization. In response to that application, Rev. Asa Hillyer and Elder Cyrus B. Byram visited Stan- hope, June 11, 1838, armed with authority to organize a church should the way prove clear. Twenty-seven persons presenting themselves with letters of dismis- sion from the Succasunna Church and petitioning for organization as a church, were so organized as " The First Presbyterian Church of Stanhope, N. J." Their names were :
flimm Miller, Elizabeth Miller (wife of Hiram), Joseph W. Manning. Mary Ann Manning (wife of J. W.), Miriam Munson (wife of Josiah),
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SUSSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.
Josiah Munson, Ezekiel B. Henion, Jane Henion (wife of E. B.), Jo- sephus Sands, Maria Sands (wife of J.), Caleb Ayres, Lucinda Ayres (wife of C.), Nancy L. Thompson (wife of J. L.), Marinda Thompson (Mrs. Vance), Eliza Lloyd (wife of E. A.), Arabella Doxtader (wife of George), Susan Wells (wife of Thomas), Rebecca Lawrence (wife of Jacob), Ann Maria Lewis (wife of Charles), Maria Lewis, Frances H. Lewis (Mrs. Hann), Amanda Danly (wife of S.). Elizabeth Hann (wife of Peter), Margaret Decker (wife of F.), Charity Mandeville, Emeline Hayward (Mrs. Alpaugh), George Henick.
Joseph W. Manning and Hiram Miller were chosen elder and deacon respectively, and on the second Sab- bath in July, 1838, Rev. Joseph C. Moore held the first sacramental service.
Mr. Moore continued to preach for the Stanhope Church until late in 1838, when for a year or more thereafter irregular services were held by Revs. Frame, Kellogg, Johnson, Cleaveland, and Cochrane.
Early in 1840, Rev. Enos A. Osborn preached in Stanhope and taught school at Succasunna. In the summer of 1840 he was engaged as stated supply for the Stanhope Church, and remained so for a period of about three years. During his ministry 19 members were added. There was at this time an exciting stir over the secession to Mormonism of a few members of the church who listened to the seductive voices of two traveling Mormon priests and were baptized by them at midnight in the waters of the canal. Popular indignation drove the priests from the town, and then the deluded ones lost no time in returning to the fold.
The first resident minister was Rev. Nathaniel Elmer, who began his labors in 1843 and remained a year, during which he busied himself successfully in obtaining subscriptions for the erection of a church edifice, which cost $2000, was completed late in 1844, and dedicated Jan. 1, 1845, the services on that occa- sion being condneted by Revs. Wood, Osborn, and Moore. In 1845, Rev. John Ward was engaged as pas- tor and continued the relation three years, and from 1849 to 1850 Rev. Stephen D. Ward was stated supply. Rev. Asahel Bronson took charge Sept. 10, 1850, and ended his service Nov. 10, 1851. After that depend- ence was upon supplies until 1852, when Rev. Oliver W. Norton entered the pastorate and remained from June, 1852, to February, 1854. From 1854 to 1870, Revs. Robert Crossett, Alexander O. Peloubet, O. H. P. Deyo, Chas. Milne, S. A. Stoddard, and Jas. Mor- ton occupied the pulpit. April 10, 1870, Rev. John J. Crane became the pastor, and so remained until April 18, 1880, when he resigned. During his min- istry 62 members were added. Since 1838 the church has received 204 members, of whom about 60 remained Dec. 1, 1880.
The church building, which was enlarged and im- proved in 1868 and 1869, at a cost of $3000, is a sub- stantial and commodions structure.
The trustees in 1880 were Aaron S. Wills, C. J. Cottrell, J. D. Lawrence, J. S. Wills, D. L. Best, Gilbert Chardavoyne, and M. R. King. J. S. Davi- son is the superintendent of the Sunday-school, which has an average attendance of 35.
VI .- VILLAGES.
The village of Stanhope lies upon the Musconet- cong River, at the extreme southern point of Byram township. The village proper, occupying territory in Sussex County, contained in July, 1880, a population of 672. South Stanhope, lying in Morris County, across the river, was created mainly by the location there of the Morris and Essex railway station, and has a population of about 600.
"Stanhope has been identified since 1800, to a greater or lesser extent, with the manufacture of iron, but at no time within its history to so great a degree as at present. In the earlier days two iron-forges, a grist- mill, saw-mill, etc., comprised the town's business interests. In 1825 the completion of the Morris Canal added to those interests, as Stanhope did con- siderable in the way of receiving and shipping canal freights for the upper country until the completion of the Sussex Railroad. In 1841 the establishment of the Sussex Iron-Works at that point helped the vil- lage along, and in 1864 a greater and more enduring prosperity was supplied by the creation of the exten- sive business enterprise known as the Musconetcong Iron-Works.
Who bestowed the name Stanhope upon the village and just why it was bestowed are unanswerable ques- tions, but the presumption is fair that the English people first resident there christened it after the somewhat noted Stanhopes of England. Certain it is that the place was known by that name about 1800, and mayhap before. Not far from that date Silas Dickerson and Seely Canfield had two iron-forges there, and carried on also a grist-mill and saw-mill. There was plenty of ore in the neighborhood, and the village was composed mainly of the forge pro- prietors and their employees. They had also a small store to accommodate the country-folks who came to mill, and added in a little time a nail-making ma- chine. In 1807, Silas Dickerson was accidentally killed in the nail-factory, aud in 1810 Canfield left the locality. The village continued to live, however, for the forges and mills were pressed into service by other active hands, and then, too, the opening, in 1807, of the Elizabeth and Newton road, known as the Union turnpike, gave Stanhope excellent means of communication with the outer world and couuted as a help. On that road Simeon Dickerson opened a village tavern in 1810, in the house earlier used by Scely Canfield as a dwelling, and now composing a portion of Knight's hotel.
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