Ocean County , NJ History

 Jackson News 18 Jul 1968

 New Jersey Courier 27 Feb 1851 In Timbuctoo, near Mount Holly, on Friday last, HEZEKIAH HALL, ( colored ) aged about 60 years. The deceased, in early life, was a slave, and belonged to Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. He escaped from bondage in the year 1814.  He settled in our midst about the year 1824, since which time he has resided here. He was regarded by every one(sic) as a man of unblemished character, and his truly upright walk and Christian deportment commanded the highest respect. His remains were followed to the grave on Sunday last by a very large concourse of friends and neighbors.

Ocean Emblem 12 Mar 1856 and then the follow-up article on 3/26/1856

from the New Jersey Mirror 13 Feb 1862: Perry Simmons, the colored man, whose attempted arrest as a fugitive slave, on two occasions, created considerable excitement in our neighborhood, died in Timbuctoo, a week or two ago. Perry had not been well since the last attempt to capture him, in consequence of taking a severe cold on that freezing night. It will be recollected that he was forced to fly suddenly from his bedroom to the garret, where he was obliged to remain till morning, suffering severely from the cold. Perry is at last beyond the reach of his Southern master.

New Jersey Mirror 13 Feb 1862 Perry Simmons, the colored man, whose attempted arrest as a fugitive slave, on two occasions, created considerable excitement in our neighborhood, died in Timbuctoo, a week or two ago. Perry had not been well since the last attempt to capture him, in consequence of taking a severe cold on that freezing night. It will be recollected that he was forced to fly suddenly from his bedroom to the garret, where he was obliged to remain till morning, suffering severely from the cold. Perry is at last beyond the reach of his Southern master.

New Jersey Mirror 7 Apr 1819 STOP THE SWINDLER! Ten dollars reward will be paid to any person who will secure a Negro man, whose real name is Daniel Clark, but has passed under the following assumed names: Thomas Kitchen, Thomas Field, Paul Cuffee, David Mapp, Richard Allen, Jacob Stapler, John Gloster, and James Chatman. He is about 5 feet , 8 or 9 inches high, well set, very black, and looks remarkably well--is very insinuating in his manners and a complete adept in every species of Theft and Swindling. He sometimes calls himself a free-willed Baptist Preacher--sometimes says he is a Methodist preacher--and has preached for both persuasions at different places. When last seen, he had on a black coat and black vest, grey cassinett pantaloons, boots, a common fur hat, and very neat in his appearance.He has reported that he was raised by William Newbold, of Springfield, NJ, but his native place is not known. He took numerous articles with him from Mount Holly. He is probably either in...

Found this story in the Tuckerton Beacon of 12 Jun 1914. Asbury Park, June 6 --- A rather good looking young woman who says she is Mrs. Raymond Miller, colored, but who the police say is a white girl from a Forked River family, was sentenced to 60 days in the county jail in the city court this morning as a disorderly person. Detective Sergeant Broderick told Judge Borden the girl had been supporting Raymond Miller, a west side negro, by the money she made on the streets. Miller did no work, and lived with the girl in a three room bungalow on Borden Avenue. The girl said she had been married to Miller last June in Belmar by a Hamilton justice whose name she could not remember. She said she was colored because her father had been a Cuban. She declared that she had left Miller when he tried to force her to a life of shame in order to suupport him. She had obeyed him, she declared, until she sickened of it. Beside Miller, there was a second man in the Borden Avenue house whom the ...