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From: Pam Bush <>
Subject: Fwd: [NJHUNTER-L] Van Nest's Mills
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 21:47:13 -0400

>Subject: [NJHUNTER-L] Van Nest's Mills

>What is the current name of Van Nest's Mills?

According to the Somerset County Historical Quarterly, Vol. II, pp. 77-78,
is this edited statement:
"The only Van Neste's Mills....as existing during the Revolution was at the
place then called 'Van Neste's," now Weston, about four and one-half miles
south-south-west from Washington's Camp at Middlebrook. Hon. Abraham Van
Neste, a locally distinguished patriot of the time, resided near the mills
there, and from that the name must have originated, although we know of no
evidence that he was ever actual owner of the mills. ........ Rev. George
J. Van Neste, who died in 1898, aged seventy-five, was was of the Weston
family wrote, in 1891, in answer to an inquiry as to the origin of the name
Weston, that it was from his earliest recollections called "Van Neste's",
then "Bayard's," then "Rodgers," after the mill owners.......On the whole
we have no doubt "Van Ness' Mills (or Van Neste's Mills) was at Weston.
Signed by the editor, A. Van Doren Honeyman.
If you took the major roads from Bound Brook south to Millstone, Weston P.
O. in 1873 was 2/3rds of the way.
Pam Bus

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