History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . blished as a newspaperby Rivington: Last Saturday the Reverend Mr. Caldwell, minister of the Dissent-ing congregation at Elizabeth-Town, was shot dead without provo-cation at Ihe Point by a native of Ireland named Morgan, one of therebel twelve months men. The Conjuers Inquest brought a verdict ofwillful murder against him. Mr. Caldwell had ever been an active zealotin the caU>e of Indepeudence, and was much esteemed and confided inby Mr. Washington and the Republican leader
History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . blished as a newspaperby Rivington: Last Saturday the Reverend Mr. Caldwell, minister of the Dissent-ing congregation at Elizabeth-Town, was shot dead without provo-cation at Ihe Point by a native of Ireland named Morgan, one of therebel twelve months men. The Conjuers Inquest brought a verdict ofwillful murder against him. Mr. Caldwell had ever been an active zealotin the caU>e of Indepeudence, and was much esteemed and confided inby Mr. Washington and the Republican leaders. It is said he lately pro-moted a petition to the New Jersey Assembly lor recalling the refugeesto the repossession of their estates. HequieBcat in pace. I Branch Mills.—This hamlet, on the extreme bor-der of Westfield township, on the line of Springfield,has some fifteen dwellings, a school-house called theUnion School for both townships, one paper-mill(Aaron and Charles Parkhurst, proprietors), aud twogrist-mills, one carried on by the Parkhurst Brothers, I See History of the Revolution in this ^^ ^^^^-y TOWNSHIP OP WESTFIELD. 335 and the other by William Drake, and owned by SilasD. Miller. These mills are fed by a mill-pond nowknown as Echo Lake. This lake is said to be sixtyfeet in depth, and on the easterly side a distinct an-swer or echo may be heard from the hill. The wateris beautifully clear, surrounded mostly by fine trees,and is somewhat a resort for picnic as well as boatingand fishing parties. The outlet of this lake is in the mill-stream until itforms itself into a branch of the Norniahiggen (an In-dian name, said to signify clear stream I, which emp-ties into the Rahway River. This stream passes closeby what is known as the Indian burial-ground. Wenotice an Indian relic at the Parkhurst mill, being alarge stone in front of the mill-door, having an excava-tion of some nine inches and about twenty-two inchesacross, said to have been an Indian mortar for
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