Ocean County , NJ History

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

Nugentown, 1915 Below is the State Census taken in June of 1915 in the village of Nugentown. I have tried where possible to give as much information as I can find on each of these families by way of annotating the census, rather than just listing the data in a table. There were 24 occupied dwellings in Nugentown in 1915, and around 90 residents total. JOHN H. KOHLER FAMILY John H. Kohler was born in Kentucky in N ov 1867. Both of his parents were from Germany. In 1915, he was residing in the town of Nugentown and working as a farmer. H Is wife, Harriet, wsa born in Apr 1868 in England. Living with them in 1915 was a young man named William McGarry--he was born in Nov 1897, making him just about 18 at this time. He was born in New York; William's father was from Ireland and his mother from England. His relationship with John Kohler isn't clear, but there is another person in the house: Mary Kohler, born Aug 1899. In 1920, when the family was living on Clay ...