Ocean County , NJ History

 Lakewood Times and Journal 16 Jun 1883

According to E.M. Woodward's History of Burlington County (1883): "Flyatt is the name of a little hamlet in the northern portion of the township, and is merely a collection of a few dwelling houses in a farming district. At one time Flyatt loomed up and became a thriving little hamlet. but, like some of her sister towns, she only flourished for a short time."

Woodward provides a map of this area, presumably from about the time of his book's publication (1883), showing the tracts of land and who owned them on the Brotherton tract. Lot # Owner 1 William Branin 2 Gersham Perquite 3 Amos Wilkins 4 Amos Wilkins 5 Charles ??? 6 Samuel Reeves 7 Samuel Reeves 8 John Burd, then Thomas Wilkins 9 John McAllister 10 Joshua Stokes 11 Joshua Stokes 12 Joshua Stokes 13 Wm. Griffith 14 Josiah Foster 15 Japhet Garwood 16 John Taylers 17 Josiah Reeves 18 Francis Prickett 19 John Troth 20 Stacy Haines 21 Stacy Haines 22 Job Peacock 23 Job Peacock 24 Arthur Thompson 25 John Troth 26 Barzila Branin 27 Isaac Wilkins 28 George Painter 29 George Painter 30 Stephen Cunningham 31 Stephen Cunningham 32 John Groom (?) 33 John Piper 34 Solomon Parker

from the Hunterdon Democrat, 15 May 1883: A sad story comes from Ancora, a little village on the line of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, in Camden county. A six-year-old daughter of Edward Fowler, a prominent resident of Ancora, was taken sick a week ago with smallpox. The father became alarmed and sent for the wife, who had been separated from him for over five years, to return to her home and nurse her child. The mother had only a short time before recovered from an attack of smallpox. She came to the bedside of her suffering daughter, and there did all that a fond mother could. The disease assumed a complicated form, and Dr. Junkey, of Hammonton, it is said, was telegraphed for, but for some unknown reason failed to respond to the summons... On Wednesday night the child died. As there was not an undertaker within several miles the parents set at work to prepare the body for burial themselves... By the pale light of the moon the coffin was lowered into the grave.