Ocean County , NJ History

  Woodward, E.M., History of Burlington and Mercer Counties. pp. 58-63. CHAPTER X. CANALS AND RAILROADS. "IN Beecher’s Magazine for January, 1872, Judge Lucius Q.C. Elmer published an article entitled ‘General Bernard and Joseph Bonaparte.’ In December, 1823, an act was passel by the Legislature of New Jersey appointing Lucius Q.C. Elmer, Peter Kean, and George Holcombe commissioners for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability and expediency of a canal to unite the tidewaters of the Delaware and Raritan Rivers. There was at that time a board of engineers, organized by virtue of a special act of Congress as a board of internal improvements. This board came into New Jersey, and in conjunction with the State board made a hasty examination of the route previously surveyed, in 1816, by a State commission under John Randel, Jr., Esq. The final result of this examination was that the plan of making the canal a State or national work was abandoned, and in 1830 the Delaware and Rari

New Jersey Mirror 18 Oct 1905 George Bevins, employed at the Roebling plant at Kinkora, was shot and killed by his son, William Bevins, aged 23, on the latter's house boat in the Delaware river at Trenton, shortly after six o'clock on Monday evening(presumably a reference to October 16, 1905). Young Bevins claims that he fired the shot in order to save the lives of his mother, sisters and himself and all the circumstances surrounding the tragedy appear to corroborate the young man's story. The elder Bevins was a hard drinker and lately in his rum-crazed condition had threatened the lives of his family. He had threatened the lives of other relatives and it is believed that at the time the bullet from his son's revolver pierced his heart he was prepared to do murder. Recently on account of the violent conduct of the dissipated husband and father the Bevins home had been broken up and Mrs. Bevins with four of her children had been living with relatives, taking her meals