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Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Many Mahlon Smiths
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:30:24 EDT


Thank you, Carly.

I am going to quote from a paper published by Marfy Goodspeed with my notes
in [ ].
I don't have the date published, but Marfy monitors this site and can
provide that for you.

History: There is “no reservation of the yard” in deeds. [Dot Williamson
believes she has proof that there is a reservation]. In 1909, Anna S. La Rue
visited “the farm of Jacob Smith on the top of Pine Hill” and copied the
gravestones she found there. She wrote that the cows had done a lot of damage. In
1941, Hiram E. Deats and Andrew Johnson Dalrymple also visited the burying
ground for the same purpose. Hiram Deats also did a deed search back to 1809
for the Smith farm, subsequently owned by Amos A. Smith and Edward Pavlica, but
found no reservation for a graveyard. The farm was originally owned by
William Williamson. He bought it from Tunis and Paul Amerman in 1735, which makes
him one of the earliest settlers in Delaware Township. The lot has seen hard
times and suffered considerable neglect. Tony Szwed was going to clean it up
in 1994 for a scout project, but was unable to do so.
[I just recently found out that the farmer renting the land had crops in the
field and did not want anyone in the field]
The full text is at my web site. Also, pictures of the "cleaned-up" burial
ground.

Richard Williamson
Tucson, AZ
http://members.aol.com/rrw122433/INDEX.htm

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