The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-05-29

it was known for many years as the |
great road leading to Philadelphia"
before it received any special name. |
Amos Bullock's map of 1848 calls it |
Washington street, while Osborn's |
map of 1856 calls it Reynolds street. 1t
was at one time termed Irishtown,
from the fact $50 tradition says that
the workers at the Iron Works lived in
that section. L well remember hearing
it spoken of as Irishtown, although
do not think that term was general.
LATER STREETS AND ROADS
The next streets to appear would be
Water and Garden streets. Water
street was the result Of survey made
June 16, IVA. The road started from
the north end Of Asher Woolman's
plantation and ran the various courses
to the great road near Mount Holly
meeting house. The road was directed
to be opened and cleared out, and
made convenient for travellers by Octo-
Der 3. This survey was not recorded
until March %, 1775. The later date
that the survey was recorded is easily
explained by the fact that when the
mention was made of the meeting
mouse no BuCu UuIlulnS oAlSOctt, Uub IL
must have been pretty we'll understood
next year. This Asher Woolman was
son of John Woolman, ST., and
lived in the homestead near the forks
of the creek. Christopher Snuff, who
married Grace, daughter of Nathaniel
Cripps, through whom considerable
land descended, was quick to see the
n IN lilynlrr RI. h. H,
ming of this road into town, and in
1776 he laid out part of the same in
sundry lots on both sides of a new
road laid out from the new Quaker
meeting house in Mount Holly down
| along the north side of the said creek,
meaning the Rancocas," which road
or street was resurveyed in 1898 and
again in 1901, at which time it is
spoken of as 1.-The new road or street
called Water street, lately laid out
| from the west side of High street."
and alludes to Benajah Butchers new
brick house fronting on High street.
This is the property owned and occu-
pied by the South Jersey Tobacco
Company.
Garden street was surveyed March
Is, 1775, by John Goldy and John
| WOOlUQau, Vi 11AW0A0
| Black and John Tonkin, of Spring
| field, Thomas Rodman and George
Deacon, of Burlington, and recorded
the same day. It extended from near
| the corner OF John Comforts orchard
across John Sleeper's and out by Jo-
seph Benefits into the Burlington
road. Having the consent of John
| Sleeper, John Brainard, and other own
ers of the lands, the road was ordered
ITO be opened in the month of August
and made good road by the petition
ers, the sufficiency Of which is to be
referred to our judgement and after
that we order it to be public charge. !"
In 1851 John Brainard purchased Of
the Edward Tonkin estate considerable
land. In January, IT'S, he sold it to
Robert Parrish, of Philadelphia, the
deed for which calls for 500 feet $40
inches on the north side Of Garden
street. This purchase extended east
from the corner property then owned
by Joseph Bennett, and also around 1t,
so that he had about AZ feet on High
street. In 1885 Parrish laid his pur-
chase out into IA lots and sold them al
public SALE Lots and fronted High
street, adjoining Joseph Bennett on
the north. He disposed of IL of them
Nos. 10 and IA were not sold at that
time. Each Of these Garden street lots
. had a frontage of 40 feet, excepting No
! IA, which by q deed from the assignees
OF Parrish, dated February 4, 1887, we
find had 100 feet inches. This take
} about the space up to ButtonwooC
street, No. IL think, being the prop
/ erty owned by Mrs. w. p. Melcher, ad
joining the Baptist church. These lot
! deepened as they ran east and extend
i ed back to Buddle Shinn's orchard.
| have a deed which speaks of Garder
J street in 1853, but which is clearly {
t clerical error.
OF the various roads leading to o
from Mount Holly you must not ina
CINE them as you see now, as it il
nothing unusual to find them Spoken
Of, as in deed from John Wool mar
TO Benaiah Andrews in 1850, for in
: stance, the ''old road from John Wool
ston's to Bridgetown x to q ston'
T in the field where the road had used Il
, CO." During the twenty years imme
diately following the Revolutionary
war there seems to have been consider
able Strengthening Of roads. In 49,
the New Jersey Assembly appointed
commissioners for this special purpose
} From return dated 9th mo. 18th, 1894
! we find that they met agreeably to tn
l directions of said law, examined tn
I grounds, and do lay out the road a
4 follows, viz: Beginning at the westerl,
s end of the bridge over the main nortl
$ branch of the Ancocas creek in Noun
Holly and runs XXX to the south
: branch OF the Ancocas creek (which
: would be Hainesport) Xxx to stalk
? westward of the meeting house il
MoorestOwn XXX to Cooper's creeI
and thence to the river Delaware a
7 Joshua Cooper's Ferry" One NOR
allusion to the great road to Philadel
phia think will suffice. In a deeC
dated 10th Of Sd month, 1913, we fine
the following: Beginning at pos
: standing on the southermost side O
the old road leading from Mount Holll
to the place where the bridge formsrl,
7 stood over Rancocas or eek commons
called New Long Bridge (Hainesport
now vacated, and runs thence alon,
] the southermost side of said old road.
l In 1897 the road to Lumberton wa
s partially vacated, no doubt in order tx
4 straighten it: Beginning at stake oil
> the new Mount Holly road one chair
. and five links to the westward of tn
red house belonging to the church,
DC. The resurvey Of Mill street in 179
is mentioned as beginning at /,
station about the middle of Higf
street in Mount Holly on the north
side of the Market House to tn,
: intersection of the new road leading
from Mount Holly to Monmouth courl
house." In 1903 the road to Burling
ton was re-run in this manner, "Be
ginning at stake in scite of the ole
court house in the centre OF BroaC
street and High street in Burlington
to a stake in the present ole
road leading from Mount Holly to Bur
lington at the top of Cripps' hill nea
Mount Holly" These changes would
fit and apply to all the roads, so tina
you see the roads of today are not a
e all like the ones of $50 years ago.
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