the hill on kings highway by this land was known for years as craft's hill. this land included the 200 acres that had been surveyed to stephen jones about 1696. In 1822 george craft bought 230 acres of land and about 1825 built the tenant house at 48 east wolfert station road. joseph wolf planted a large apple orchard and had a cider mill and distillery near the stream running along side the farm.
In 1802 joseph wolf, wheelwright built two rooms and attic now at the left of the homestead on 160 cedar road. in june 1777 samuel tonkin manumitted four slaves to conform with friends principles and then received into friends membershp in july 1777. in 1808 he donated one acre and five perches to the friends for the little red schoolhouse ground. in 1799 he donated a half acre of land to the friends for their meeting house. On masamuel tonkin bought the house at 522 kings highway from the heirs of bodo otto. the current friends meetinghouse was built in 1799 on land donated by samuel mickle and samuel tompkin. the original friends meeting house in "upper greenwich" was about two miles below the site of the present one, and was called solomon's meeting after solomon lippincott on whose land the friends first met. in 1697 they purchased 510 acres on the east bank of the delaware, extending eastward to coopers creek. they emigrated to the united states in 1682.
they had been members of lisbon friends meeting in ireland. the original mickles were archibald and sarah watts mickle. his ancestors came to america in the same year that william penn arrived. Samuel mickle was a local resident said to be a very public spirited citizen. mickleton park, dedicated to honor laura getsinger is also located here. Solomon's graveyard, the friends meeting house, and the little red school house, and haines pork shop are located in mickleton.
mickle ogden standing by the construction and decided to call the town mickleton. a local legend reports that the railroad men saw storekeeper s. one source says that after considerable discussion the railroad company named the station mickleton in honor of the mickle family. railroad authorities objected to the name as there was another town named greenwich nearby. Mickleton was known as "upper greenwich" from about 1756 until 1868 when the swedesboro branch west jersey railroad was built. a skirmish, called the battle of saunders run took place near his home in mickleton in 1778. this land seems to be near the former home of arthur sherman, on rattling run road.Ĭolonel bodo otto, jr., a revolutionary war physician under general george washington lived here. In 1759 a survey of land to william harrison was part of a previous survey of the west new jersey societies called indian town tract. this land surrounded the house at 828 kings highway. about 1696 thomas gardiner surveyed 600 acres on one of the northly branches of homan's creek south of stephen jones "lynd" for samuel harrison, a mariner in gloucester town. this land surrounds the house at 622 kings highway. On manicholas young, sawyer, late of burlington, received 100 acres of land from thomas scholey of ony-onickhon, west jersey. native american darts of fine flint, and stone axes with the grooves worked around them had been found near the old "carter's farm" on cedar road.
the occupants resided there for a long time and were peaceable. scott in "east greenwich township centennial-1881 to 1981," tradition says that at the entrance of still run with homan's creek was a point of land with a cluster of native american wigwams. The observatory’s twitter account paid homage to their fallen feline in a heartfelt tweet on Monday.Today, mickleton is considered roughly that section of east greenwich township south of the source of the nehonsey creek. In addition to keeping the summit dwellers company at the highest peak in the northeast, Marty was also known as the mountain’s mascot.Ĭats have accompanied staff at the Mount Washington Observatory - known as the “home of the world’s worst weather - since 1932. “As a past observer who lived on the summit for four years, I can tell you Marty was a special companion, entertainer and so incredibly loved by observers and state park staff and will be sadly missed,” she wrote. Marty, a black Maine coon cat who also helped his humans patrol the mountain’s observatory, succumbed to “an unforeseen illness,” summit operations manager, Rebecca Scholand, said in a Monday news release. Tulsi Gabbard compares Biden to Hitler, less than a week after ditching DemsĪ beloved cat who spent the past dozen years comforting weather observers atop New Hampshire’s Mount Washington has died. Small plane crashes into New Hampshire building, killing all aboard 'Could've been saved': Mom speaks out after 5-year-old was allegedly beaten to death by dadįather of missing girl charged for her murder
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