The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-08

that William Calvert had been paying
rent for shop to John Woolman.
From the 2lst, 7th no., ITO, VIM.
Calvert by agreement, to pay IL s per
quarter for the shop" When John
Woolman made ready to sail for Eng
land, in l772, he settled all the ac-
counts he had as far as possible, and
his son in-law had the settlement of
the remainder The following is also
found;
ITO the remainder of lease for the
shop on mothers lot, which expires
the 9Th, 9th mo-, 1776, for which thou
agreed to pay me ten pounds" This
account is with VIM. Calvert:
Josiah White
Mo. L d
IL 1873 To boards had by thy
tenant $50 ioot s
To foot more IL
To small house taken
from mothers lot 5 10
BY calamus water and
metheglin 4
q, 8, III
By cash toward house 10 0
30, 5, 4" By cash year rs Z 6
WooIman was 81 years old when he
made this purchase. He had come TO
work in shop in Mount Holly six
years before. He learned the trade of
tailor, and after his employer gave
up shopkeeping Woolman opened a
shop OF his own and worked at his
trade for some time, finally abandon
ing it because he feared it encouraged
people to spend more money for cloth
ing than they could afford. The Mill
street house is not the one in which
Woolman wrote his famous journal,
nor is it the one in which soldiers were
billeted on him in 1858, but it may
have been the location of his shop,
which has been long unknown. There
is considerable evidence to strengthen
such belief. The shop would un-
doubtedly be on Mill street, then the
centre of such business as the little
town could boast. The site was nearly
opposite the grist mill and only a short
distance from Daniel Jones' Three
Tun tavern, so both business and
pleasure seekers were attracted to the
neighborhood. 1t is unlikely that
Woolman would conduct a store
on Branch street, then country road,
although he owned property there.
He held the Mill street dwelling dur
ing much of the time he engaged in
trade, and his mothers will mentions
frame shop" on the lot. Septem-
Der %, 1776 John Shields advertised
that ''he has opened store at the
upper end of Mount Holly, in the
house where the late Mr.. John Wool
man lived"
+ The spirit with which Woolman
undertook his trip'to England is visi-
BILE in the way he arranged his worldly
affairs before embarking for the
voyage.
l John Woolman of Mountholly in
Burlington county West Jersey hav-
ing bought in time past some lands,
and John Comfort son of Stephen
Comfort having married our Daughter
Mary and / the said John Woolman
Having in my heart to prepare for a
Voyage to Great Britain on Religious
Visit do not see any way in which |
may dispose of my Land and Buildings
which possess more to my own peace
4 fn - Il
Stephen Comfort In Trust for my Use
and for the use of my beloved wife
Sarah during the time that we and
the Survivor Of us may live in this
world, And that the said Stephen
Comfort may convey or devise all
the Lands which | now possess to his
Son John or to our Daughter Mary or
to either of them, and to their Heirs
and Assigns or to any other Person or
Persons their Heirs q Assigns forever
as he in fear of the Lord may believe
right Now for the Uses aforesaid l
John Woolman do fully clearly and
heartily Grant Convey and Confirm
all the Lands Buildings and Improve
ments which | hold in fee Simple To
the said Stephen Comfort his Heir &
| assigns To the only proper Use and
lDCAOOl VI bAC SdlO obCHuCA NOullOIb
his Heirs and Assigns forever only
reserving to me and my Beloved Wife
and to the Survivors of us the whole
Benefit of all the said Lands Buildings
and Improvements during the time of
our living IN this world In confirm
alton whereof l hereto set my hand
and seal the twenty seventh day of
the fourth Month in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred
and seventy two
John Woolman
Signed Sealed and delivered in the
| presence of us
Aaron Barton
Bathsheba Barton.
The Woolman memorial on Branch
street was built for this Mary Comfort
Another interesting discovery by
Mr.. Harris is that a meeting house
was situated on a plot of ground in
the rear Of the Schmidt baker,
property, about seventy feet north of
Mill street. In deed from Peter
Shiras to Joseph Cooper. dated May 26,
1904 it is recited that said Shiras pur-
chased of Joseph Mullen, sheriff, on
December l, 1888, "a messuage lot of
land situate in Mountholly aforesaid,
on the north side of Mill street, being
1 fbo l;ttIo