History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Pioneers and Prominent Men, Part 85

Author: W. Woodford Clayton, Ed.
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia: Everts
Number of Pages: 1224

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Boyle (Boyell), William, and Samuel Boyle are men- tioned as early as 1696-97 ; most likely they emigrated from Ireland together. Solomon married a French girl in this county. He purchased of the East Jersey proprietors six hundred acres of land west, adjoining the Berkely tract in the Passaic Valley and along the Long Hill, crossing to the river. He had ten children. His son, John Boyle, built a grist-mill, saw-mill, and forge, which afterwards went by the name of Dunn's Mills. John Boyle married Hannah Frazee, and had five children. Solomon Boyle, Jr. (son of Solomon 1st), married Margaret Hull; they had eight chil- dren. Col. Solomon Boyle (fifth child of Solomon, Jr.) married Elizabeth Pierson, lived on the original tract of six hundred acres, and had only one child. There was a Dr. William Boyle (the sixth child of Solomon, Jr.) ; he married Maria Lafferty, and had three children.

Broadwell, William, first mentioned in 1677 as cordwainer at Elizabethtown, married Mary Morse. He is spoken of again in 1678 as being owner of land purchased from Luke Watson at Elizabethtown, William Broadwell, of Turkey (New Providence), must have been his son. He drew lot No. 13 of the Elizabethtown survey, and probably built a house upon it by the brook, where the Parson family afterwards lived. He also drew lot No. 18, south of No. 13, where Isaiah Meeker subsequently lived; he had three children. Josiah Broadwell is mentioned with William Broadwell, Sr., as a committee in 1757 to confer with the Rev. Jonathan Elmer respecting his settlement as a minister of the Presbyterian Church in New Providence. Previous to this " a scheme of a lottery in Turkey, in Elizabeth Town," was adver- tised Aug. 8, 1748, "to raise a sum of money [£152 58. Od.] for building a parsonage house, consisting of fourteen hundred and fifty tickets at 148. each." The highest prize was £30. "The drawing to commence ou or before the first Tuesday in November next, at the house of Benjamin Pettit, Esq., in Turkey, if filled by that time, under the care and management of Messrs. Benjamin Pettit, David Day, Elnathan Cory, John Badgley, Nathaniel Davis, and Josiah Broad- well."

William Broadwell's headstone is of the oldest date of any in the Presbyterian graveyard; it is of a red sandstone and in good state of preservation. The epitaph is as follows :

" Here lies ye body of William Broadwell, who departed this life March 11th, 1746, in the 64th year of hie age."

Burrows, Waters, married Frances Meeker (daugh- ter of James, son of Robert Meeker). They lived where Stephen Day lived. He died in 1815, aged sixty-nine years. He had a son, Rev. Waters Bur- rows, an esteemed clergyman in the Methodist Epis- copal Church, who married a Miss Margaret Wood. He died in 1865, and is buried in the Methodist Cem- etery.

Vancampen, Johannes (in English called John

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Camp). (There are other branches that spell the Camden, N. J. ; and Apollos Elmer Cory, born April, -, resides in New York State. William Cory was killed while helping to remove a building, one of name De Camp.) He owned three hundred or four hundred acres of land, lots Nos. 50, 51, 52 of the Elizabeth Town Associates. He had a son by the | the timbers falling upon him, in the year 1873. He name of Aaron Camp, who died in 1788, and his farm was divided among his children ; and again the record has it that Aaron Camp died and his widow married Deacon William Connet. This may have been Aaron 2d, son of Aaron Ist.

Caldwell (Cauldwell), James, with his wife, Mary, emigrated from Ireland about the year 1732, when his son was six years old, and settled on Long Hill, on lot No. 30, addition of the Elizabeth Town lots, which he appears to have drawn. From tradition among the families it would seem, and I am led to believe, that James Cauldwell's wife was a Mary Gaston, sister of the father of Hugh Gaston, of Pea- pack, N. J. Hugh Gaston was brother of Capt. Wil- liam Logan's wife, and probably also brother of the wife of Thomas Kirkpatrick, at Liberty Corner. His children called him " Uncle" Hugh Gaston, and the family claimed him kin to the Cauldwell family.

Corey (Cory). This family probably came from Southold, L. 1 .; one John Corey appears in 1700 as one of the memorialists. There were living in Southold, L. I., as early as 1662 Abraham, Jacob, and John Corey, and likely these three were brothers, and from this branch came the family of Coreys in this vicinity. Elnathan is made mention of in 1748. He lived in a house where now stands the residence of Rev. Waters Burrows. His wife's name was Han- nah. He owned about three hundred acres of land ; part was of lot No. 33 of the Elizabeth Town tract. He died the 8th October, 1766, in his sixty-fifth year. His headstone is still to be seen in the Cory lot in the Presbyterian burial-ground, well preserved. His wife died 24th January, 1785, and is buried in the same plot. He left his land to his five sons. The family tradition is interesting. Many of his children have settled not only in this State but in the West and South, where a large number of their descend- ants are to be found. Joseph Cory, his son, lived in 1775 in a house that stood in William Kindell's orchard, south of Benjamin Pike's house. John Cory, the grandson of Elnathan Cory, married, 15th June, 1774, Rebecca Raimond, and went with the militia to Ticonderoga during the Revolutionay war, and there died. George Cory, the eighth child of Ebenezer, married Rachel Price. He had ten chil- dren. William Cory, his fifth child, born 13th July, 1802, married Harriet Laforge, who was born 4th August, 1802, daughter of Abraham Laforge, of Som- erset County, N. J. They have had four children,- Morrell Cory, born 1st August, 1828, who resides in New Providence, and physician there. He is con- siderable of a writer, and is now collecting the Cory family history. Mary Elizabeth Cory (who mar- ried Charles Ulrichs), born 31st August, 1835; William Ryckbeck Cory, born 8th April, 1837, resides in

desired that he should be buried where the old church stood in the Methodist cemetery, just under the altar, which has been done by the family. His grandson, the only son of Dr. A. M. Cory, an estim- able and beloved young man, lies near by his grave. The whole community were deeply affected by his early death. . There is erected a fine block of Quincy granite, with the following epitaph :

"Cornelius Leveridge, son of Dr. A. M. & E. J. Cory, Born July 28, 1856, Died Oct. 21, 1875.

lle said, Morality is a social Duty ; Salvation is only in Jesus."

Day, George, came to New Jersey from Long Island and moved into this valley. The family are quite numerous throughout this township. David Day, Esq. (son of George Day), owned a farm where Peter Hill, William Crane, and John Littell lived. He sold fifty acres to Jacob Bedell. He had five daughters but no sons.1 The Rev. James Caldwell, who was murdered by Morgan during the Revolu- tionary war, married Hannah Ogden, sister of Ste- phen Day's wife, Jemima Ogden, from whom a large family have descended. The following epitaph is in the Methodist Cemetery of the

" Rev. Mulford Day, Born April 8, 1801, Died June 26, 1851."

He was the son of Capt. Stephen Day, of the militia during the Revolutionary war, and who did good service for his country. Rev. Mulford Day was a member of the New Jersey Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a useful and devoted minister of the gospel.

Note .- The Rev. James Caldwell, the father of Esther, the wife of the Rev. Robert Finley, D.D., was shot by a soldier standing as a sentinel at Elizabeth Town Point, the 24th November, 1781. (The senti- nel was hung for the act.) He left nine children. His wife was shot the 25th of June, 1780, by one of a party of British passing through Springfield. The children, nine in number, were taken to the house of Stephen Day, Esq., whose wife was a sister of Mrs. Caldwell, where O. Day now lives.

De Haert (Hart), Jeremiah, lived on the southeast corner of the forks of the road at the Presbyterian Church at New Providence. He was born 9th De- cember, 1714, and died 17th November, 1749. His wife, Sarah, born 11th June, 1718. They had four children. This is the branch of family the Harts in this valley are from.

Hole, Charles, came about the year 1763; lived close by the Blue Brook (Feltville) ; he owned a large tract of land near and adjoining Uriah Hedges, John and James Badgley. The family at one time were quite prominent in this township, and a large number of his descendants are now in the West (none of that

1 Little's Passaic Valley.

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name reside in this township now). He had a son, John Hole, who was one of the first physicians here, who married for his first wife Hannah Clark, and his second Mercy Ludlow, daughter of Jeremy Ludlow ; they went to Ohio. The following epitaph is to be ' 1835 at Pittsburgh, and in 1840 and 1846 at Philadel- seen in the old burial-ground of the Presbyterian Church :

" H.

Mary, Daughter of Dr. John Hole and Maasee Hole, Died Jnly ye 12, 1787, Aged 6 years, 16 Daya. A dropary fore loog time i bore Forfitiona vere in vain Till Gode alooe did hear my moan And ease me of my pain."

Littell, Nathaniel, was son of David, son of Sam- uel, son of John, son of George, who emigrated from London, England, to Newbury, Mass., it is supposed in the year 1635. Nathaniel Littell, Esq., married Mary Cauldwell, daughter of William Cauldwell, son of James, who emigrated from Ireland in 1732. He bought the lot in 1786 of John Bedell, on which he built his house in 1787, where his son John lived, and where he kept a store till he died, the 18th Feb- ruary, 1811, aged fifty-eight years. He was a justice of peace, an elder in the Presbyterian Church of New Providence. Mary, his wife, was born 14th February, 1757, and died 8th January, 1823. They had nine children,-John, Hugh, Polly, Aaron, Luther, Nancy, Betsey Thompson, Huldah, and David Cauldwell Littell. Their second son, Hugh, born 3d September, 1781, married 22d January, 1814, Susan W. Scudder, daughter of Dr. Benjamin R. Scudder, son of Richard Scudder. He was a master-mason in New York, was engaged in the erection of ten brick houses, when, on the 9th of November, 1822, he was ascending a ladder to the upper story of one of them, lost his balance, and fell to the curbstone of the street, broke in his skull, and died immediately. He had no children.1

John Littell, first son of Nathaniel, son of David Littell, was born 28th November, 1779. He married the 6th May, 1809, Miss Mary Conklin, daughter of William Conklin, Esq., of Basking Ridge. He lived where his father did, in Passaic Valley, near Littell's Bridge, and with his brother Luther kept a store from 1811 to 1828, when he dissolved partnership, and he continued the store alone till 1838, when he sold out the goods to Mr. Jonathan Valentine, who continued it till 1839.

He was twice elected to the Legislature, viz., 1837 and 1838; was appointed justice of the peace and also judge of the court in 1814, and appointed justice of peace in 1828, and continued by reappointments till the year 1848; was then again elected under the new constitution, and was in 1849 appointed by the Legis- lature a commissioner of deeds, and by successive appointments continued many years in that office.

He was elected and installed an elder in the Pres- byterian Church in 1835, and was appointed one of the delegates of the Presbytery of Elizabeth Town to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in phia, and 1851 at St. Louis.

Mr. Littell was considerable of a writer, and many interesting incidents are told by the present genera- tion of the olden time that he had told in years past of this early settlement. For many years arranging and compiling his genealogy of the early families, called by him "Family Records or Genealogies of the Passaic Valley (and vicinity) above Chatham, with their ancestors and descendants as far as can now be ascertained, by John Littell. Published at Stationer's Hall Press, Feltville, N. J., David Felt & Co., Stationers and Printers, 1851."

This volume is an octavo, in cloth, of 504 pages, in- cluding an appendix. This genealogical work has now become scarce. The edition is exhausted, bring- ing, a large price. Those families who possess it will under no consideration part with the work.

Mr. Littell was a gentleman of the olden times, looked up to by this community. Many acts of be- nevolence and kindness are recorded, many admo- nitions to the erring and to the community at large. He was respected and loved, and in death lamented.

In the Littell family plot in the burial-ground just back of the Presbyterian Church stands a white mar- ble tablet, on which is inscribed his epitaph :

" John Littell, Born Nov. 28, 1779, Died Feb. 18, 1854."

The following is taken from his genealogical work, arranged by himself :

" John Littell (Ist child of Nathaniel) and Mary Conklin hnd children:

"1. William Conklin born 15th April, 1810, and died 27th September, 1813.

"2. Mary, born 29th February, 1812, married, 25th July, 1838, Jona- than Valentine, son of Peter D. Valentine, and hud children : 1, Samnel Rntan; 2, Luther Littell ; 3, Eliza Littell ; 4, William, who died in in- fancy ; 5, Jolin, who died in infancy ; 6, Mary Abigail.

"3. William, born 10th October, 1815, married, 26th October, 1836, Mebetabel Bonnel, daughter of Jonathan C. Bonnel, son of Nathaniel Bonnel 3d. He keeps a store at the Summit of the Morris and Essex Railroad, and is postmaster there.

"4. Eliza, born 16th December, 1815, married, 9th March, 1842, Jamea K. Hurin, a merchant of Lebanon, Ohio, and wout there and died 19th May, 1843, leaving a young child named Eliza, who died at three months old, and he again married 5th June, 1845, Cynthin Halsey.

"5. Harriet, born 14th November, 1817, married, 16th May, 1848, John T. Wilcox, son of Jonathan M. Wilcox, son of Levi, and had a son George. He kept store in New Providence village.

"6. Susan, born 27th February, 182", and married, 1st November, 1857, Charles Whitaker, son of Deacon Stephen Whitaker, of Cleveland, Ohio, and lives there.

"7. Jolin, born 30th January, 1822, married, 24th September, 1851, Deborah Hall, horn 24th December, 1821, daughter of Jonathan A. Ilall, of Penn Yan, N. Y.

"8. Luther, born 21st April, 1824, graduated at Princeton College 25th June, 1844; atudied theology nt the Princeton Theological Seminary, and wns licensed to preach 4th October, 1849, by the Elizabethtown Presby- tery, and was ordained to preach the gospel, and installed over the church at Mount Hope, Orange Co., N. Y., the 25th September, 1850, by the l'resbytery of lindaon.

"9. Huldah Rebecca, born 3d June, 1826, married, 2d May, 1850, to

1 Little's Paasnic Valley, p. 246.

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John Thomas, of Hamilton, Butler Co., Ohio, and went there. Mr. Thomas was born 20th July, 1822, is a lawyer, a son of the Rev. Thomas Thomas, a native of Wales, who graduated at Oxford, England.

"10. A daughter not named, born 16th January, 1830, and died the same day."

Jeremiah Ludlow lived in New Providence, where James M. Morehouse lived. He died 1st of August, 1764, aged sixty-seven years. His widow died 12th March, 1790, in her ninety-first year. They had two children, from which sprang this numerous family.

Col. Cornelius Ludlow, the second son, married Catherine Cooper. He was first major (lieutenant- colonel) in the Morris County battalion, Jan. 13, 1776 ; a major in Col. Martin's battalion, Heard's brigade, June 14, 1776; lieutenant-colonel again of Eastern Battalion, Morris, May 23, 1777 ; resigned Nov. 13, 1777, disability. He had also a son Ben- jamin, who became major-general of the militia of New Jersey. The ancestors of the present Governor Ludlow, of New Jersey, came from this township, and Col. Benjamin Ludlow was his grandfather. He is buried in the graveyard of the Presbyterian Church. His epitaph reads :

" In memory of General Benjamin Ludlow, who died Jan. 27, 1817, in the fifty-fourth year of his age."

He was for many years judge of the court of Morris County, and was several times elected to the Legisla- ture as member of the General Assembly. He married Eleanor Harris, and by her had eleven children. His wife died 4th September, 1819, in her forty-eighth year. His son Cornelius, who married Julia Anne Disborough, of New Brunswick, was also justice of peace and judge of County Court of Morris County. He had five children,-George, Jane, and three others. He died 24th November, 1836. 2d. Israel, born 1796, and died 21st December, 1819, unmarried. 3d. Mary, who married Dr. John W. Craig, of Plainfield, and died in 1846, without children. 4th. Martha, horn 1801, and died 17th November, 1802. 5th. Susan, born 1803, and died 27th March, 1823, unmarried. 6th. George Harris, born 1805. He was successively in public offices. 7th. Martha, the second child by that name, married her cousin, George H. McCarter, 17th November, 1840; she died in 1845, without chil- dren. 8th. Eliza, born 1809, and died 19th March, 1838, unmarried. 9th. Charlotte, born 1810, died 22d July, 1830, unmarried. 10th. Eleanor, born 181-, and died 4th March, 1849, unmarried. 11th. Ben- jamin, born 8th August, 1814, and died the 17th No- vember following.

Capt. Daniel S. Wood came from Long Island to Passaic Valley about the year 1754, and learned the blacksmith trade with a Mr. Moore. Mr. Wood, when he became of age, bought the farm of Mr. Moore, and set up business for himself, and lived on the farm till his death, which occurred the 8th day of February, 1832, aged ninety-one years. The farm is part of lot No. 20 of the Elizabeth Town lots, sur- veyed in 1736-37, above the First Mountain. He mar-

ried Mary Potter, of Hanover, and had two children, who died young, and his wife died 18th February, 1768. He then married Sarah Johnson, sister to Uzel Johnson ; she died 12th April, 1806, in her fifty- sixth year. He had nine children,-1st, John, who died young ; 2d, Sally ; 3d, Dacia; 4th, Daniel ; 5th, Joseph; 6th, Samuel ; 7th, Elizabeth A., who mar- ried Capt. Stephen Day, son of Benjamin Day, Esq., as his second wife ; Sth, Margaret Williston, who mar- ried the Rev. Waters Burrows, son of Waters Bur- rows : 9th, David, who married Sarah Bonsal, of Spring Valley, Morris Co., N. J. He kept a grocery in Newark, N. J., and had four children.

Mention is made of John Carle, son of Jacob Carle, who lived on Long Hill, on the five-hundred-acre tract, which was divided between him and his brother Jonas. He was a justice of peace, a judge of the court, and several times a member of the Legislature of the State, and in 1783 was a member of the Privy Council. He married Providence Layton, and had three children,-Jemima, Sally, and John Carle (2d), who became a Presbyterian minister.

New Providence ceased to have any connection with the old township of Elizabeth Town Feb. 4, 1794, they believing they would be better accommodated by annexation to Springfield township, but it was not until the year 1809 that they became a distinct township. There is an area of about six thousand five hundred acres in the township.

Civil Organization .- This township did not until April 13, 1840, hold an election by ballot. Aaron Doty served as moderator at this election. There were polled at this time 140 votes, of which the Whig ticket had 73 votes and the Democratic ticket 67 votes. The Whigs carried the election by 6 majority. Dan- iel H. Wood had 72 votes, and was elected town clerk. Abraham Lockwood had 71, and was elected judge of election, and Dayton Badgley and Stephen Marshall were elected surveyors of highways. The pound- keeper elected was John Wilson. School commit- tee, John Little, John S. Smith, and Amasa Denny. The first overseers of the highway elected by ballot were Benjamin Weed, Johu Little, Jonathan Potter, John Marshall, Johu Stephenson, Noah Willcox, John Wilson, John T. Wilcox, William Moore, Israel B. Long, Amos Morehouse, William Littell, Matthias Osborn. The assessor was Jonathan Val- entine, and collector, John S. Smith.

The first grand jurymen elected in this township were Amos Potter and Nathaniel Bonnel. The mem- bers of Legislature, John Littell, Jonathan Valentine (he also was surrogate of the county), Stepheu Day, Jr., Daniel H. Noe.

The following have been justices of the peace :

Jolın Littell, 1845-53, Jolın Wood, 1848-58.

John Valentine, 1845. Israel O. Maxwell, 1879.

Simon Peter Debbie, 1879-80.

Jolin Noe, 1858.

William Littell, 1860.

Jacob B Maxwell, 1861.

William A. Ostrander, 1867.

Juseph C. Noe, 1874-79.

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TOWN CLERKS.1

Elias Runyon, 1810-12.

Luther Littell, 1813.

Israel O. Maxwell, 1856-59.

Jotham Potter, 1814-23.

John N. Doughty, 1860.

Peter D. Valentine, 1824-25.

Erastue D. Crossfield, 1826-28.

Henry W. Tuttle, 1829.

Apollas M. Elmer, 1830-33. Eugene S. Donghty, 1834-38. Heury W. Tuttle, 1849.

Daniel H. Wood, 1840-41. Jonathan Valentine, 1842-43. John J. Wilcox, 1844-46. Jonathan Valentine, 1847. John Littell, 1848.

John 31. Wilcox, 1870. Edward Barnes, 1871. John Wood, 1871. Edward Barnes, 1872.

William Stavers, 1873-76. Peter T. Wood, 1877.

Samuel R. Valentine, 1878.

Peter T. Wood, 1879-81. (Complete list.)

ASSESSORS.

Cornelius Mulford, 1810.

Stephen Day, Jr., 1846-48.

Joseph Line. 1811.

Jonathan M. Willcox, 1849-51.

Coraeline Mulford, 1812-20.

Joseph C. Noe, 1852-53.

Luther Littell, 1821-23.

Stephen Day, Jr., 1854.

Jonathan M. Wilcox, 1824-28.

Levi Clark, 1829.

Joseph C. Noe, 1855-56. Amos Potter, 1857-59. William Kendell, 1860-62.

Luther Littell, 1830-31.

Willian R. Kendell, 1863-65.

Jonathan M. Willcox, 1832. Levi Clark, 1833-37.

Amos Potter, 1866-68.

John Lyon, 1838.

Joseph C. Noe. 1872.

Jonathan Valentine, 1839-40.

Jonathan M. Willcox, 1873. William Crane, 1874-75.

Daniel S. Clark, 1842.

Israel O. Maxwell, 1876-77.

Joseph C. Noe, 1878.

John Wood, 1879-81.

COLLECTORS.

Stephen Day, 1810. Stephen Day, 1824.

Stephen Day, 1827.

Stephen Day, 1829.

Amos Willcox, 1831.

Daniel S. Clark, 1834-35. John S. Smith, 1840-41.

John Wood, 1844-46.

Daniel R. Valentine, 1849.

Maline M. Bounel, 1855.

Daniel R. Valentine, 1853-54. William Valentine, 1856-57. John T. Wilcox, 1859.

Maline M. Bonnel, 1860-62.

Jacob B. Maxwell, 1863-64.

Joho A. McEachsoo, 1865-67.

Joseph C. Noe, 1874.

William E. Samson, 1878-81.

CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS

Levi Clark, 1840-42.

William Kendall, 1855-56. Jolın S. Clark, 1856-57.

Daniel H. Noe, 1857-58.

Daniel R. Valentina, 1858-59. Jacob D. Mulford, 1859-60. Israel Doughty, 1860-61. Nathaniel Bongel, 1861-63. Israel O. Maxwell, 1862-64. James C. Pitta, 1864-65. Msline M. Bounel, 1865. Jonathan M. Muir, 1866-67. Isaac Meeker, Jr., 1866-67. Joha W. Clark, 1868-69. W. A. L. Ostrander, 1870-71. Cornelius A. Runkle, 1874-81.

Ezra Wilcox, 1854-66.

1 There are no recorde to be found earlier than the year 1810, they havlog been mislaid or destroyed. The list of those who enlisted and Berved ae volunteers in the army during the Rebellion is not to be fouad.

The name of this township was changed from Tur- key in 1778. The cause of this change is worthy of mention. Several years previous to this date, while the people were assembled in their unfinished house of worship, the beams of the gallery, only loosely covered, gave way, precipitating amidst falling boards and timbers that part of the congregation which were seated above upon those who were below, and all so suddenly as to afford no time to retreat or to make preparation for the event. Yet no one was seriously injured. This the people considered as a remarkable interposition of Providence for their preservation, and in pious remembrance of it resolved that this township and (church) should be called NEW PROVIDENCE.

The population of New Providence township from census report is 782; New Providence, about 500; Stony Hill and Feltville, 282. The whole number of votes in the township in 1853 was 182.

The township, April 8, 1844, was a tie in some of the offices, and the Township Committee broke the tie between John Littell and Israel Doty by the ap- pointment of John Littell as chosen freeholder.

Villages and Hamlets .- New Providence is the largest village in this township, and was settled prior to 1794. It was formerly quite a business place. Hatteries, shoe-factories, and tanneries were carried on quite extensively. It contains at the present two churches (Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal), a large new school building which cost over ten thou- sand dollars, two blacksmith-shops, two grist-mills, one scroll and fancy wood mill, a tavern, two stores, post-office, and about seventy dwellings. Henry F. Barrill, Esq., has a fine collection of geological speci- mens and many fine specimens in natural history. He is the Third District school clerk of the township. The roads surrounding the village are kept in excel- lent condition, and with the fine hills surrounding the village make it quite picturesque and pleasing. The Passaic River passes in the northwesterly part of the town. Many of the old historic homes of the first pioneer settlers can be. seen, and many of the same name, descendants of these families, still own and live here, tilling the same farms. The village proper con- tains a population of about 500 inhabitants. The names of the first who kept houses of entertainment (taverns) are, as far as can be learned, as follows :

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History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Pioneers and Prominent Men, Part 85

Author: W. Woodford Clayton, Ed. Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Philadelphia: Everts Number of Pages: 1224

Author: W. Woodford Clayton, Ed.
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia: Everts
Number of Pages: 1224