James John gives the wrong name, 1923
New Egypt Press 6 Sep 1923
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Blake family of Dover Forge
A man named James Blake was apparently a boardinghouse manager at Dover Forge in 1826. He was paid for ‘4 hands in full @ $2 a week’ and ‘washing for ditto’, a total of $3.50, by the Dover Forge on 10 Jun 1826. [i] James Blake was paid $1 on June 28, 1826 for hauling 1 hogshead of molasses from Toms River to Dover. A few weeks later, on 9 Aug 1826, he was again mentioned as carting molasses from Toms River to Dover. On 11 Nov 1826 he was paid for work he had done at the forge. Then, on 15 Dec 1827, there is an entry that mentions an ‘execution’ (court order?) for James Blake against Oliver Perry in favor of Allen Cowdrick, Thomas Clayton, and Lewis Chambers; as he ran a boarding house, it may be that he had an order to evict Oliver Perry, but it’s not clear who the other names were or why this would be in their favor. James does not appear anywhere in Ocean County on the 1830 Federal Census. There is only one man by that name in New Jersey in 1830, though it’s n...
Beames family of Bamber
This family lived in Bamber in the 1880s. William Beames and his wife, Jane Wolcott of Eatontown, came to Bamber prior to 1870. He was employed there by William Hurry. Beames owned a store, the room above which was used as the schoolhouse for a time. He was also station master and postmaster. Beames had six children, all born at Bamber, before leaving for Asbury Park in 1886. One was William, born in 1870; another was Elizabeth Beames, who married a man named Walton in 1897. [i] An ad in the Courier from 1870 for the Toms River nursery on Grand Avenue carries the names of its proprietors, William J. Griffin and William Beames. The Dec 12, 1873 New Jersey Courier newspaper contains an ad for Beame’ store: “NOTICE: The subscriber having made a...
Attison Family of Dover Forge
A man named William Attison was paid for work done at the Dover Forge on 23 Jun 1827. He does not appear to have done any other work for the forge for the rest of 1827. A William ATTERSON family appears on the federal census in 1830, which could potentially be the same man.
Jim McQuillan's coins, Route 37,Toms River 1974
2608 Rt 37 E is today the location of Twin City Glass, just east of the Bandwagon diner.
Nathan Atkinson of Dover Forge?
A man named Nathan Atkinson sold 15 lbs. of scrap iron to the forge on 26 Dec 1826; in all likelihood he didn’t actually live at the forge but merely sold them raw material from elsewhere. So far I've learned nothing else about this man.
Arney family of Dover Forge
Joseph Arney appears for the first time in the Dover Forge account books in an entry for 23 May 1827, stating that he was paid for chopping wood at the forge. He was paid again for wood chopping on 21 Jul 1827, and then does not appear to have been paid again for the rest of the year.