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USA > New Jersey > Gloucester County > History of the counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland New Jersey, with biographical sketches of their prominent citizens, vol. 2 > Part 51
USA > New Jersey > Cumberland County > History of the counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland New Jersey, with biographical sketches of their prominent citizens, vol. 2 > Part 51
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l'airfield ....
3.011
3,215
Downe
3,335
1,687
Maurice River.
2,42
2,374
Millville :
l'iret Ward
1,663
2,217
Second Wirl
2.1+0
2,892
Third Ward
2,2-4
2,551
6,107
7,600
Bridgeton : 1
First Ward
3,103
3.784
S-co .. J Ward.
1,919
Third Ward.
1.8
2,527
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Landis5 ...
7,077
6,005
Commercial
2,265
Total ...
34,693
35,6=7
Since 1890 the county has increased very rapidly, and now has over forty thousand inhabitants.
CHAPTER XCI.
CITY OF BRIDGETON.
Formation and Boundaries .- The township of Bridgeton was set off from Deerfield township by an act of the Legislature, approved Feb. 18, 1845. Its boundaries began at the mouth of Ogden's or Stone Bridge Run, where it empties into the . Cohansey ; then up the middle of that run to western line of Samuel W. Seeley's land, where it crosses said run; then a straight course to head of Lebanon Branch, about or at the late Joel Smith's corner of land ; then down Lebanon Branch to Chatfield Branch ; then up Chatfield to the head thereof; and then a direct line to the licad of Parvin's Branch or Coney's Run, and down that stream to the Cohansey, and up the Co- hansey to the beginning.
The township of Cohansey was set off from Hope-
1 Bridgeton set off from Deerfield in 1$ 15.
2 Cohanary set off from Hopewell in 1518.
3 Divided into three wards in 180G.
4 Tos tchip of Bridgeton divided into Firel and Second Wards of city of Bridgeton, and tuwuship of Cobansey made Third Ward of said city In 1865.
' Laodis set off from Millville in 1964.
6 Commerci d set off fron. Downe in 15.8.
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well township March 2, 1848. Its boundaries began where Island Branch or Cabby's Hollow stream empties into the Cohansey River ; then up the Co. hansey to the Tumbling Dam ; then westward!y along the dam and the southerly edge of the pond to a cur- ner on the shore of the pond ; then on a straight line to a stone on the north side of Irelan's mill-poud, near the water's edge; then a southwesterly course across the pond to a corner; thence due south to Cubby's Hollow stream, and down that to the begin- ning point.
Previous to this efforts had been made to have Bridgeton made a separate township, owing to the increase of the population of the town, which became more rapid after about 1820. After the census of 1820 showed the population of the town to be two thou- sand and forty-four, the desire on the part of some for a new township led to the holding of a public meet- ing on Dec. 1, 1831, to petition the Legislature to make Bridgeton a separate township, but nothing came of it. On Nov. 6, 1832, another meeting was held for the same purpose, and two weeks afterwards a meeting to oppose it was held, and the project was dropped. But the increasing number of the popula- tion finally united all in favor of a separate organiza- tion, and the two townships were set off as above stated.
The same reasons which led to the setting off of the two townships with the continued growth of the town led to a desire to unite them in one organiza- tion, and on March 29, 1864, an act was approved to take effect March 1, 1865, by which the two town- ships of Bridgeton and Cohansey were incorporatedl into the city of Bridgeton. All that portion of the township of Bridgeton north of Commerce Street was made the First Ward, all that portion south of Com- merce Street was made the Second Ward, and the township of Cohansey was made the Third Ward.
Early History and Growth .- When the county was set off from Salem, and Cohansey Bridge was made the county-seat, in 1748, it was not even what would be called a village at this day. On the west side of the river there was a two-storied hip-roofe.l house belonging to Silas Parvin, and in which he kept a tavern, which stood south of Commerce and east of Atlantic Streets, as they now are. The road at that time ran a southwesterly course from the foot of the bridge up the sile of the hill to the court-house, and then along Broad Street to now Law- rence Street, then a southwesterly course through the present graveyard, and so on to Greenwich. A branch of this road ran down the river to the marshes, from the neighborhood of the court house, on which there stood a house a short distance back of where the court-house now stands, owned by Jeremiah Sayre, a shoemaker. On the site of the present court-house stood the house of John Hall, with hi- . blacksmith-shop a little west of it. He also kept a tavern in this house. It caught fire in December.
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1758, and was burned to the ground, together with the adjoining court-house, to which the fire was com- municated. Hall rebuilt his house, and at December term, 1759, was granted another license for a tavern, and continued to keep one there until 1766.
South of the Parvin house, along the river, just north of Broad Street, was a house fronting the north, built by Capt. Elias Cotting, who was appointed the first clerk of the county, and who resided there. An- other house stood not far from Parvin's, on the side of the hill near the road, owned by Benjamin Sayre. These, with the house on the farm north of what is now Jeddy's Pond, and a store-house of cedar logs near the bridge, comprised about all the buildings on the west side of the river. On the cast side of the river there was a wharf near the present Broad Street bridge, and a house owned and occupied by him standing near it on the east side of the road, which ran about where South Laurel Street now is, from the main road to this wharf. On the west side of this road was a house occupied by Isane Smith, where the courts of the county were held when they first con- vened at Cohansey Bridge, in February, 174 ;. This house faced the south, and was afterwards occupied by James Boyd, who kept a store there, and after his death by his widow. It stood until after the begin- ning of this century, and is remembered by the late Judge Elmer as empty and dilapidated some seventy years ago. A house also stood on what is now the Buck property, at Laurel and Jefferson Streets, near where the present house stands. The old Hancock saw-mill was standing near where Pine Street crosses the original bed of the stream close to the hill, and the mansion-house belonging to it stood on the site of the residence of David Edwards, on the north side of Pine Street. Ephraim Seeley's mill stood in the low ground now covered by the water of East Lake, about east of the easterly end of Cedar Street, and his mansion-house stood on the hill northwest of the mill and near the pond. A house stood on the In-
which he called Cumberland. He sold a few lot, by this plan, but only two of the streets were opened in! ' a short distance, and that plan was never carried out. Moore was the first person who kept a store at Co- han-ey Bridge, as far as is known. He built a hou-e on the north side of Commerce Street, which stood ahout sixty fect west of the present Cohansey Street. and his store-house, built of cedar logs, stood where the clothing-store of D. J. Stathems now is, at the northeast corner of Commerce and Cohansey Streets .. The log store-house was taken down by his grandson, John Moore White, after he came into possession of the property in 1791, and the dwelling was removed in 1830, when Dr. William Eliner erected the row of brick buildings now standing. Moore sold the land south of Commerce. Street before his death in 1786, and the lots on Front Street, now South Laurel, were among the first built upon east of the bridge.
At the time of the Revolution the town had in- creased to from one hundred and fifty to two hundred inhabitants, the larger part of whom lived on the west side of the river, mostly on Main or iligh, now Broad Street, and on Vinn Street, while those on the east side were mostly along the main road castward from the bridge (now Commerce Street), and along the road to the lower landing already referred to inon South Laurel Street ).
Ebenezer Miller, who laid a survey of four hundred and twenty acres in 1748, on the land lying between How Oak Street and about where Hampton Street now is, sold off the lots on the south side of Broad Street, west of the court-house, and on Vine Street, west of Fayette, previous to 1759, and in that year sold the remainder of his survey. in the present built-up por- tions of the city, to his son, Josiah Miller, by whom lots were sold off, and a number of them built upon.
John Moore White, after he came into the posses- sion of his property, commenced to sell lots, and the portion of the town north of Commerce Street began to improve. The number of inhabitants, by an ent. dian Fields road, on top of the hill between East i meration made in 1702, was three hundred. By 1800 Avenue and the run now known as the Slash, but formerly called Keen's Run. A tavern was kept in this house by John Keen from 1754 to 1775. Be- tween this house and the West Jersey Railroad was an old graveyard, all trace of which has long since disappeared. Those included all the houses on the east side of the river in 1748 within the built-up por- tions of the present city. A mile cast of the bridge was the Indian Fieldis settlement, a collection of farms owned and occupied by William Dare, John Dare, Robert Hood, James Riley, and Manoah Lummis. the number had increased to the neighborhood of four hundred, and the houses then existing, secord- ing to Judge Elmer, were as follows: On the east side of the river, north of Commerce Street, the Ephraim Seeley mill and mansion ; a house on the north side of Commerce Street, opposite the Methodist grave- yard, built by Mr. Fauver, now the double dwelling belonging to Benjamin T. Bright; the house at the northwest corner of Commerce and Bank Street .. built by Judge Ephraim Sceley a short time before his death, in 1799; the late residence of Judge L. 12. C. Elner; the academy on Bank Street, with the In 1752, Alexander Moore purchased of the West Jersey Society a truet of nine hundred and ninety acre- of land, including all the east side of the river to the line of the Indian Fields survey, and two years afterwards he had a town laid out for him on the cast side of the river by Daniel Elmer, Jr., a surveyor, Masonie lodge in the second story, as at the present day ; the house on Irving Avenue, fronting Bank Street, built by Joseph Buck, then owned by Eben- ezer Sveley, and now Leake's Hotel; a one-story house on the south side of Irving, between Bank and Pearl Street-, still standing; the mansion house of
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Alexander Moore, then a tavern; two houses near there, on the north side of Commerce Street; John Moore White's residence, on the northwest corner of Commerce and Lanrel Streets, now the Davis Hou-e hotel; the house of Eden M. Merveilles, now a part of the Gro-seup's Hall property ; a house east of this, built by Reuben Burgin, afterwards the residence of Governor Elias P. Sceley, and since moved to the rear of the lot, and now stands on Church Lane; a blacksmith-shop at the northwest corner of Com- merce and Pearl Streets; the house on the east side of Pearl Street, now the residence of Samuel W. Seeley ; a house where the First Presbyterian Church now stands; the one-story house nearly opposite on the west side of Laurel Street, owned by James Hood, a Scotchman, who followed the business of making wrought nails, and his shop adjoining ; a blacksmith- shop on Washington Street, near the corner of Lau- rel : the stone house at the southwest corner of Laurel and Irving Streets, built that year by Zachariah Law- renee, and torn down by Ner Allen a little over a year ago; two small houses near there ; three houses | above, on the same street ; and a store-house on the northeast corner of Laurel and Irving Streets.
On the south side of Commerce Street a one-story stone house, at the southeast corner of Pearl Street, owned by Mark Riley, torn down about 1846 to make way for the present brick row built by Samuel Harris; five frame houses on South Pearl Street; the house at the Hancock saw-mill, then owned by Col. Enos Seeley, long known as the Widow Jay house : the house of David Seeley (now Mrs. Buck's), at corner of Jefferson and Laurel Streets; the I-aac Smith house, long known as the Boyd mansion ; the store- house still standing at the southeast corner of Com- merce and Laurel Streets, built by Eden Merveilles; a house on Laurel Street, adjoining the last, occupied by Col. Joseph Buck in 1791, and taken away a few years ago to make room for the present brick build- ing ; a house on the northwest corner of Laurel and Warren Streets, and a house north of that on the ad- joining lot, built by Henry Bitters, who came to this country as a Hes-ian soldier in the Revolution, but deserted and settled in Upper Hopewell ; a house just south of Warren Street, long owned by Dr. John Garrison, and torn away within a year or two to make room for the brick building built by Constant Albert- son ; the story and a half house just north of Jeffer- son Street, then owned by Samuel Woodruff; and now the property of William G. Nixon; a stone house on the west side of Laurel Street, where the Stratton row of frame houses now stands; a store-house at the southwest corner of Commere and Laurel Streets, torn away about 1871, when the present handsome brick building was built; a shoemaker-shop and house on the south side of Commerce Street, opposite Cohanzey Street, built by James Burch, and long the residence of James B. Potter ; and a -tore-house near the bridge, on the south side of the street.
On the west side of the river the old Parvin house, torn down about 1525, by Smith Bowen ; a stone house near it, on the north side of Commerce Street ; the old Cutting house. then Enoch Boon's, which was torn down abont forty years ago; the Benjamin Sayre house ; three other houses on Atlantic Street ; a house on Broad Street, below the jail ; three houses on the north side of that street, between Atlantic and Franklin Streets, one of which, next to the present hotel, was a tavern at that time; two houses on the west side of Franklin Street; Col. David Potter's brick house and store, now standing, at the northwest corner of Broad and Franklin, built in 1780 by Col. Potter, on the site of a frame house which was built by William Waggoner about 1762, and sold by his executors to Col. Potter in 1773, and destroyed by fire in 1780; two or three houses between that and Giles Street ; Gen. Giles' residence, which he built in 1792, for many years past the residence of the late Rev. S. B. Jones, D.D .; two or three houses on the north side of Cmamerce Street, above Gen. Giles ; the brick house built by Ebenezer Miller, known of late years as the residence of Mrs. Saney Read, deceased ; the frame house still standing just west of Fayette Street, then occupied by Col. Seth Bowen ; the house at the southwest corner of Bread aud Giles Streets ; three or four other houses on the south side of Broad ; three houses on the west side of Fayette Street; a large three-storied house where the courthouse now is, long used as a tavern ; five or six houses on Vine Street ; a one-story school-house where the public school-house on friles Street now is ; the old Presby- terian Church, the jail and the court-house, the latter in the middle of Broad Street.
The ouly wharves at this time were one below the bridge on the west side, another lower down on the same side belonging to Col. Potter, one on the east side, about half-way from Commerce to Broad Street, belonging to Seeley & Merseilies, who occupied the store-house near the bridge, and the old Smith or Hance Woolson wharf, then much dilapidated.
The growth of the place was slow for many years. After 1800 it increased more rapidly on the east side of the river than on the west, and by 1820 the east side had become the more populous.
On Feb. 20, 1322, the greatest freshet ever known in this section did a great deal of damage throughout the county. In Bridgeton the dam of Elmer's mill- pond, at the eastern end of the town, was carried away by it, and the foundation of the woolen-mill occupied by Ennch 11. Moore was undermined and the mill washed away, Mr. Moore losing all he was worth. The tumbling-dam was broken, and a break was also made at the foot of the race leading to the iron-works. Outside of Bridgeton immense damage was done. John S. Wood's grist-mill at Jericho was destroyed, and every mill-dam in the county wa, broken. It was estimated that the damage was thirty thousand dollars in this county.
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In 1829 the number of families was three hundred and forty-two, and the total of the inhabitants seven- teen hundred and thirty-six. At this time large quan- tities of grain, lumber, and cordwood were shipped from here. Twenty-five ve-sels were engaged mostly in the wood trade, and over twenty-eight thousand cords of wood and large quantities of lumber were yearly sent to Philadelphia. In 1830 the population of the town was two thousand and forty-four. May 8, 1838, a meeting of the inhabitants of Bridgeton was held, and committees appointed to take a census and name the streets, which committees reported at a meeting held on the 22 that the
" number of inhabitants, 2115, of whom 1513 were on the east side atul SU2 on the west side, of TE are colored persons; 422 are hearts of families. Number of dwellings and other buildings, 47 : the public buildings are a brick court-house, fire-proof jail. an l county officea: there are also 2 Presbyterian, I Methodist, and I Baptist church ; ) bank with a capital of $20 1,000, 4 large hotals, 2 academies, high school, female senitnary. and & other schools; ) printing-office, employing on book, new-paper. and jobwork 10 hands: 1 pulite library, an extensive nail-factory, rolling-mill, and fonn )ry, emndaying 13s hands ; 1 wrought-nail and spike manufactory, a large hullow -ware glass-factory, I large paper-mill, I woolen manufactory, 2 merchant gri-t-mitl3. 1 sax-null, 1 pottery, 9 stores, 2 targo drug. and confectionery stores, " small confectionation, 5 millinery-shops, 3 carriage-maker shops, & black-with-shops, i boot and hoe tuanufactories, 7 tallor-shops, 3 sa belle- and harnes -- maker shops, 1 trunk ninufactory, 2 elock- and watch-Diaker shops, 2 bakeries, 3 bar- berlingo, + carriage-makers, 3 butters, ) tin, sheet-fron, and store- maker, 1 pump-maker, I traning and currying establishment, ) lunt- bullders' shop, 1 limekiln, 3 livery stabiles, I hay.senle, + lumber. yards, 4 fire-euglnes. In the town are & practicing physicians atul + lawyers. There are Buschowners and shops belonging to the place, of from 50 to 150 lons burden ; 2 large schooners and ? - loops are being built. There are 2 daily and 1 tri-werkly lines idf stages to Philadelphin ; 2 1u- corporate beneficial sucirting, with 20 . members; 2 temperance socle- ties, having 600 meinbers ; 3 Sabbath-schools, embracing more than 400 children."
The street committee reported the names for the streets by which they are now called. The number of inhabitants was probably overstated, as at the , upon, was laid out four rods wide in 1796, and at the United States census in 1840 the number is given at 2296. At the census of 1850 there were 670 dwell- ings, independent of stores, and the population was 3480. In 1860 it was 5104, and in 1870 it was 6830, , previously laid, in 1758, a slightly different course.
with: 1325 dwellings, besides other buildings, which was increased to 8722 in 1980, and in 1883, by an ac- tual enumeration, made by order of the board of edu- cation, it is 10,000.
The subsequent progress of the city has been steady, with no remarkable incidents, and will be found out- liued in the sketches of its manufactures, and in other chapters of this work :.
Streets in Bridgeton .- Broad Street was laid out one hundred feet wide by the first proprietors, in ac- cordance with the Concessions and Agreements, aud is the oldest street in Bridgeton. Below the court-house it was so gullied, owing to its steepness, that it was scarcely used until abont 1802, when it was made pas- The old King's Highway, after crossing to the cast side of the bridge over the Cohansey, rau about the . pre-ent course of Commerce Street to about half-way sable for wagons by George Burgin, who built the stone building at the northwest corner of Broad and Atlantic Streets, which was then used as a store, and . between Laurel and Pearl Streets, where it turned to now as a lager beer saloon.
Previous to 1800 the road from the top of the hill :
to the bridge, which was a portion of the old King's Highway from Salem and Greenwich to Maurice River, passed obliquely down the side of the hill from the court-house in a northeasterly direction, near the southeast corner of the large stone dwelling on the west side of Atlantie Street, directly to the end of the bridge. The steepness of the hill rendered that part of Broad Street impassable for wagons, and Commerce Street, west of the river, and Atlantic Street were not then in existence. This road down the side of the hill was regularly laid out, four rods wide, in 1757. In 1703, when the four-rod road from Greenwich to Cohansey Bridge was laid, it passed down the hill below the court-house sixteen rods to Water Street (now the corner of Atlantic), and then a straight course to the end of the bridge. In 1771 the road up the side of the hill was turned, and laid out up the. hill where Commerce Street now is, and then across nearly where Franklin Street now is to Broad Street, six rods west of the court-house, which then stood in the street. The old road down the side of the hill continued to be used, both Commerce and Broad Streets being sandy gullies, scarcely passable for wagons. In 1800 Atlantie Street, from Broad to Com- merce, was laid as it now is, and so much of the road down the side of the hill as was east of this street was vacated, and after George Burgin improved the Broad Street hill, about 1802, it became the main road up the hill. The old road down the side of the hill from the court-house to Atlantic Street was shut up in 1815, and in 1825 the Commerce Street hill was cut down and improved, and became thereafter the main highway for travel.1 Commerce Street above Frank- lin was opened by Dr. William Elmer in 1805. Vine Street, which had been previously opened and built same time a road was relaid southward from Broad Street, which is now Fayette Street, and the Dutch Neck road to Cubby's Hollow. This road had been
The road from Greenwich formerly came across the present l'reshyterian graveyard south of the church, and ran into Broad Street at the corner of Lawrence, but in 1795, soon after the church was erceted, Broad Street (or Main Street, as it was called; the names Main, High, and Broad being all applied to it in that day) was extended to the west end of the church- yard, and West Street was laid out at the same time from Vine Street to Muddy Run, where the New Jer- sey Southern Railroad now erosses it north of Com- merce Street. In 1800, Lawrence from Broad to Vine, and Atlantic between the same were both laid out. AAcademy Street was laid out in 1829.
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the northeast through the woods to near the corner of East and Irving Avenues, and on out the Indian Fields road. Some distance above Commerce Street the road to Deerfield branched off' to the northward. From the bend at Commerce Street the road con- tinued nearly the present course to the line of the Indian Field, tract near the Methodist Church, where the road to Fairfield turned to the southwar over Mill Creek, and the road to Ephraim Secley's mill ran to the northward of Commerce Street to the mill which stood about east of the end of Cedar Street, the mill-dam at that time being about half- way up the present pond. In 1763 the road to Fair- ton was laid out as above, beginning at the bridge; and in 1768 the road to Deerfield over the above course was relaid. also beginning at the bridge. In 1775 Commerce Street was laid as it now runs from the bridge to the line of the Indian Fiells tract.
In 1752 a road was laid from Commerce Street to the lower end of Ilance Woolson's wharf, which was near the Broad Street bridge, on the east side of the rivef. This road ran nearly the course of South Laurel Street to Jefferson. In 1775 it was relaid from the lower landing, on the north side of South (now Jefferson) Street, a direet course and nearly in the line of the present Laurel Street, till it intersected the old Deerfield road, this side of North Street. After John Moore White came of age he had a plan made of his lands north of Commerce Street with streets to be opened, but only a part of them were ever opened. Laurel Street was relaid in 1791 from At the meeting of the board of freeholders, Ang. i, 1799, the board resolved to build a new bridge, " con- siderably wider than the present one," and at the next meeting, in September, they adopted a plan for a bridge with stone abutments and sixteen feet wide. The former bridge was probably not over ten or twelve feet wide. The stone abutment on the east side was built that year. In December the board re- solved to make the bridge twenty-one feet and nine inches wide in the clear, and to support it on posts. and not on two piers in the river, as was at first pro- po-ed. The fight about its location was renewed, George Burgin and his friends desiring to remove it : to Broad Street, but without success. The bridge and west abutment were built in 1800, but the latter was so poorly doue that in September of the same year it was ordered taken down and rebuilt. The whole rost for by Mr. White, was about three thousand dollar -. In 1817 wings were put to the bridge, in order to protect it from injury, at a cost of over sixteen hun- Commerce to the north line of the Indian Fields tract, and in 1796 the road to Deerfield was relaid as far as Loper's Run, beginning at the bridge and running up Commerce to Laurel, and up Laurel to the bendl this side of North Street, making no alterations in them, but north of the bend laying it out as the turn- pike-road now runs. In 1785 South Pearl and Wil- low Streets were laid out, the road to Fairfield being changed so as to run down Pearl and over Enos Sceley's dam and mill-race (where the stone bridge now is, Seeley owning the Ilancock mill tract), and up the road, now Willow Street, to the old road. Pearl Street from Commerce to Irving and Irving Avenue from Laurel to the Slash were laid out in 1792. Io 1811 Pearl Street north of Irving and its continuation to Carll's Corner, was opened. North Street was laid out from Laurel to Sayre's grist-mill, 1 of the bridge, exclusive of the draw, which was paid which stood near the river at that time, in IS19. | Irving Avenue was relaid as it now is in 1818, Marion Street between Laurel and Pearl was opened in 1829.
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