History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . ^2jM^^^ ^/o^u-dL^c6. SOUTH BRUNSWICK. 791 the village until 1870, when Cornelius Van Dujnwas appointed postmaster, succeeding C. B. Moore,and removed it across the line into Middlesex County. The first merchant in Kingston, in South Bruns-wick, was Joseph C. Higgins, who opened a storethere in 1867. Mr. C. B. Jloore formerly had a storein the northern part of the village, and removed tothe South Brunswick side of the road a few yearsago. Higgins was not long in trade, and Ezra DeHart
History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . ^2jM^^^ ^/o^u-dL^c6. SOUTH BRUNSWICK. 791 the village until 1870, when Cornelius Van Dujnwas appointed postmaster, succeeding C. B. Moore,and removed it across the line into Middlesex County. The first merchant in Kingston, in South Bruns-wick, was Joseph C. Higgins, who opened a storethere in 1867. Mr. C. B. Jloore formerly had a storein the northern part of the village, and removed tothe South Brunswick side of the road a few yearsago. Higgins was not long in trade, and Ezra DeHart, P. Robinson, James Gray, and a man namedThome each had stores there for a short time. Mapletown, which received its name from theMaple family formerly resident there, is a somewhatancient hamlet on the straight turnpike fromTrenton to New Brunswick, now nearly connectedwith Kingston by a continuation of dwellings. Gor-don mentions it in his Gazetteer, published in1832, as follows: A hamlet on Millstone River, ashort distance above the mouth of Stony Brook, twomiles southeast of Princeton and fifteen miles fromNew Brunswick,
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