Ocean County , NJ History

I have found almost no information about this tiny village aside from learning of it's existence from three censuses: In 1905, only three families lived at the site, apparently involved in the production of cranberries. By 1920, there were six families at Friendship; evidently all that was there at that time was a sawmill and the families of the workers who ran it. In 1930, there were only five residences occupied at Friendship. Below are described the families of Friendship of which I am aware. Alloways Family: Mark Alloways was born somewhere in New Jersey in October of 1858; his wife Carrie in March of 1864. By 1905 they were living in Friendship with their four children. Mark owned his home there, while the other two families in 1905 rented their's, presumably from him. The children of Mark and Carrie Alloways were: Garfield Alloways, born in September 1880. Fifteen years later, he would be married to a woman named Anna and laboring in the Friendship sawmill. He had

This place was (or is?) in Mt. Laurel Township. The first home here was owned by a David Claypole; in the 1880s that home was owned by a George Roberts. The second home was erected by Abraham Matlock. In the 1880s, there were three prominent farms that made up most of the village--they were owned by Mahlon Haines, Carlton Evans, and Charles Hugg. There were also two stores, run by Thomas Roberts and Joseph Fish. With that information, I went to the 1880 census to find Joseph Fish, on the assumption that I could isolate at least some of the homes from Fellowship to determine who lived there. The census enumerator made no such distinction, so it's difficult to know where Fellowship began and ended in 1880. But Joseph Fish's information was there. Naturally, the writing is unbearable on that portion of the census, but Fish was 48 years old in 1880 and worked as a grocer. His wife's name looks like Emma Jane, age 42. They had two children with them as well: Emily B., age 23

Notes on Bridgeboro This town was, or maybe still is?, located in Delran Township in Burlington County. It was on the west bank of the Rancocas River, mostly on the land that had once belonged to the Rancocas Toll Bridge Company. At present, some of the only residents I have come across of this town were posted to a mailing list about 10 years ago. They were Daniel and Mary (Applegate) Vandergrift. They had a daughter, Martha Lippincott Vandergrift, born in 1852 in or near Bridgeboro. Her later married name was Hullings. There was another child of Daniel and Mary, also, by name of Mary Heaton Vandergrift. Another resident of this town is mentioned in the New Jersey Mirror on Jul 24 1889; it says:: Samuel L. Litle, of Bridgeboro,finally succeeded in committing suicide Friday by hanging himself up to a rafter in his blacksmith shop, where he was found by Smith Loyd and William Meeks early in the morning dead. Mr. Litle who has for some time shown signs of derangement and who has b