The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-01-27
Centennial Anniversary.


Association was one hundred years of
age yesterday. The affair was observed
by serving refreshments at the old school
house on Brainard street and the reading
of an historical paper by Miss Ellen c.
Curtis.
A request that the paper be loaned to
THE News for publication was turned
down. We therefore give below sub
stitute in the shape of paper prepared
by the late Barclay White, loaned to us
by Joseph c. Cowgirl The real thing
will doubtless appear in some other
newspaper.
The paper written by Mr.. White gives
also history of the old school house,
now occupied and controlled by the
Benevolent Association.
At meeting of citizens of the town.
ship of Northampton in the county of
Burlington and western division of the
province of New Jersey, held on the 2Sth
day of June, 1853, the following named
persons entered into certain article of
agreement to raise stock fund for the
purposes of the education of youth, and
divided the said fund into % shares, sub
scribing their names and becoming
stockholders of the fund, viz: Henry
Paxson, John Hatkinson, John Clark,
Alexander Ross and John Bispham, two
shares each; John Morrow, one and
half shares; Josiah White, John Clafton,
Thomas Shinn, Daniel Jones, Ebenezer
Doughty, Samuel Clark, Aaron Smith
Earl Shinn, Zachariah Rossell, Joseph
McCullah, Aquila Shinn and John
Budd, one share each; John Forker,
James McIlhigo and Adam Forker, one
half share each; and then and there APP
pointed Henry PaXson, John Morrow,
Alexander Ross, John Clark and John
Hutchinson, trustees, mot only to pur-
chase lot of ground and take a deed
for the same in trust, as well as for the
uses of the other subscribers as for
themselves" and for the particular uses
and purposes mentioned in the above
recited article.
On the twenty-frst day of September,
A. ID. 1853, said trustees purchased from
John Brock, of the township of Chester,
in said county, miller, for and in CON
sideration of the sum of eight pounds,
ten shillings, proclamation money, the
following named lot ''for school land"
One certain lot of land, situate, lying
and being on the north side of New
street, in Bridgetown, in Northampton
aforesaid and is butted and bounded as
followeth, viz: Beginning at point by
the north side of the said street, corner
to land formerly belonging to Thomas
Shinn, deceased and is bounded by the
said street north SO degrees east rs links
| to a point; then by land formerly be-
longing to John Fisher north Z degrees
one chain and Al links in the said
Thomas Shinn's line; by which it runs
north Sc degrees east II links to a point
corner to said Shinn, and then by the
same south degrees west one chain and
47t links to the place of beginning, con-
tanning Ia square perches, be the same
more or less.
This lot of land the said John Brock
purchased from John Fisher the 18th
day of October, A. d. 1751, and is part
of larger lot of land which said Fisher
purchased from William Morrell the
2Sth day of April, A. d. 1744. Said
deed of conveyance from John Brock to
Paxton, Morrow and others, trustees,
''for school purposes, is recorded in
Book I of Deeds, page 179, &C., in the
office of the Secretary of State in
Trenton.
After obtaining possession of the
aforementioned lot of land, the brick
school house now standing was soon
after erected upon it. Its dimensions
are "a feet 3 inches by 20 feet inches,
walls feet high to caves, with sloping
roof of tin: one room within with arched
ceiling about 10 feet high in the centre,
i. On the 18th day of November, IT'S,
an assessment of 8 pounds Is shillings
pence was made upon the stockholders,
1t being shillings pence upon each
: share of stock, and the stockholders sub
scribed their names to paper agreeing
to pay the same to John Hatkinson
treasurer, for the following named pur-
! poses:
, ITO be applied toward purchasing q
Cain stove for the school house and
whatever repairs is needful to be done to
said house"
t On the Goth day of January, 1914, the
following named women of Mount Holly
and vicinity formed themselves into
1.-The Female Benevolent Association
) for the following purposes: ITO endeavol
to afford some relief to the poor and dis
tressed, or so many as may stand in
need of assistance in any way that is in
our power to bestow, and we also wish t
extend our views toward opening {
( school at some future time for the in
struction of poor children, if our presen
undertaking meets with sufficient en-
couragement:'
Mary Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Am
: Pippit, Margaret Bispham, Elizabeth
o Hatkinson, Sarah Read, Ann S. Budd
: Sarah b. Dugdale, Elizabeth West
= Rachel West, Jane West, Sarah West
Sarah Budd, Margaret Nugent, Eliza II
b Neale, Rebecca Burr, Ann Carr, Mary
n Carr, Eliza Cox, Rebecca Shinn, Ann
: Davidson, Lucy NJ. Dobbins, Elizabetl
Shiras, Esther Rogers, Agnes Rush, Jr.
II Hannah Cox, Martha Hughes, Hannal
V Burr, .Lettice Nj. Butterworth, Abigail
: Bullock, Ann Chambers, Maria Budd
:, Eliza Rossell, Margaret Rossell Beulal
Gasllill, Jane Kemble, Rebecca Bispham
o These, with their successors in mem
+. bership, have continued the association
o until the present. time, obtaining fror
the Legislature of New Jersey, Februar
l. Is, A. ID. 1874, an act of incorporate
Y under the name and title of 1.-THE Noun
Holly Female Benevolent Association.