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Title: Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present: Year: 1868 (1860s) Authors: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885. [from old catalog] Howe, Henry, 1816-1893, [from old catalog] joint author Subjects: New Jersey -- History. [from old catalog] New Jersey -- Description and travel. [from old catalog] New Jersey -- History, Local. [from old catalog] Publisher: New Haven, Conn., J. W. Barber Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing After Image: Friends Meeting-house, Haddonfield Drawn in 1842, these houses are substantial brick edifices. The Episcopal churchnow (1842) erecting, is of wood. The first house of worship erect-ed in this township was for Friends. It was built about the year1690, on what is now called the Collins road, about 2^ miles SW.of Haddonfield. This house was removed about 30 years since,and the one near Camden line erected. The village of Haddon-field derives its name from the family of John Haddon, who pur-chased about 400 acres of land at this place, about the year 1710. Having no sons, he sent his daughter Elizabeth, a young woman about 20 years ofage, to make a settlement on the land, build a house, &c., under an expectation that hewould remove himself and family to the place after the settlement was made. She builta large brick house on the premises, in the year 1713, and the great road or kings high-way being laid out through the land from Burlington to Salem, on which a town beganto be built. S

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