The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-02-20

Crosswicks has a name believed to be of
Indian origin, Crosswicksung, meaning
separation, and history running back to
the time of Charles the II. of England.
Soon after this King ceded New Jersey to
Berkeley and Carteret, if not before, the
country began to be settled, almost exclu-
sively by Quskers Landing from ships
that crossed the Atlantic and sailing up
the Delaware as far as Burlington they
scattered in various directions.
The earliest landing was made in 1878,
and it is believed that the first settlers
came to this place soon after. Some of
these are represented among the inhabi-
tants of this day by their descendants,
notably the Newbold, Ellis, Woolman,
Satterthwaite and Bunting families.
Here was built the first grist mill in
West Jersey, previous to 1880, and here
the General Assembly met in November,
I716.
1t was at Crosswicksung that David
Brainard met with his greatest success
among the Indians in 1857. The old
brick meeting house, built by the Friends
during the Revolutionary war, is still
standing and bears the marks of the
cannonade by the Colonial army while in
position across the creek. The British
were driven from the meeting house.
In this building is a stove still older, hav-
ing been made at the Atsion furnace and
purchased in IVA for about fifty dollars
The plates composing the stove are fully
three-quarters of an inch thick, very I'M
even, and bear the marks of the sand in
which they were cast.
AS early as 1872, Bishop Francis As
bury, of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
began to visit Crosswicks and afterward
often stopped here on his travels.
September 3, 1888, land was decided to
Bishops Asbury, Cook, and others for q
church, and their property is still in the
possession of the Methodist Church. To
day, besides the original Friends meet
ing house and the Methodist Episcopal
Church, there is the Orthodox Friends
meeting house and the Protestant Epis-
copal Church. The Orthodox Friends
have a fund school here which divides
the duties and honors of education with
the public schools.
The large Touring mill, with capacity
of one hundred barrels day, and the
saw mill are run by our enterprising
business man. w. Scott Hartman, who
also has a wagon and carriage factory.
Another growing industry is the pork es.
Enlistment Of Charles D. Lippincott,
where over $4,000 lbs. of pork are work.
ed up into lard, sausage, smoked and
homeless ham. E. Brick, starting with 6
hand chopping knife and turning out q
batch of so pounds of mince meat, now
has large and we'll equipped factory
turning out 700 pounds at batch, with q
capacity of oyer 5000 pounds day, and
an actual output of over half million
pounds year and making shipments ovel
territory extending to Boston. Detroit
Akron, and Washington, d. C. Mr. Brick
has also laid the foundation for an extern
siYe canning business should he care tC
increase it. Depending more upon the
local demand, is the business of T. B. An
derson, builder and dealer in lumber
lime, builders supplies and coal; and thai
Of ]. Braislin. whose brick kilns are 10
Gated here.
Crosswicks has lodge of Odd Fellows
and council of Jr. 0. U. A. M. This en-
terprisng council having already given s
flag to our own pablo school, will, on this
Washington's Birthday, present flags tc
the schools at Cross Roads. and at Reck
lesstown.
And now. having brought this history
from the dim, distant past, to the very
threshold of the future. this account viii
close without seeking permission from
fancy to cross that threshold.