Ocean County , NJ History

 There is a record of a Joseph Batterson who was married at Pleasant Mills on 26 June 1859; the name of his wife is unclear. How he fits into the families listed below, who appear on the 1860 Census for Washington Township, Burlington County, is also not known. House # Family # Surname Given name Age Place of Birth Occupation 295 306 Batterson John 68 NJ Laborer Hannah 64 NJ Joseph W. 32 NJ The enumerator skipped over house and family #296/307, or simply made an error while numbering them. 297 308 Batterson John B. 31 NJ laborer Jane A. 27 NJ Theodore 11 NJ George W. 5 NJ Analiza 3 NJ

from the New Jersey Mirror 8 May 1907: The jury empaneled by Coroner Seeds to investigate the killing of David Beebe, at Chairville, the previous Saturday night , heard the evidence presented at the inquest at Medford on Friday, and after brief deliberation held Caleb Rogers, Theodore Wells and Walter Simons, three of the seven suspected men taken from the county jail to Medford by Deputy Sheriff Fleetwood to give testimony before the coroner, if they so desired. Harvey Reeves, another one of the men arrested on suspicion of having been implicated in the killing, was not held for his connection with Beebe's death, but was committed to jail in default of $350 bail on the charge of carrying a concealed deadly weapon. There has been a determined effort on the part of the court to break up the practice so common among a certain class of young men, of carrying revolvers, and it is possible that a term in prison awaits young Reeves, even though he escaped detention on the more serious ...