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- Bradford, St Peter (Bradford Cathedral), Yorkshire, England
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- Roberts Monument Maple Shade, NJ
John Robers
and Sarah
his wife
from
Northampton
England 1677
settled
here 1682
- erected
by their
descendants
1898
more info about Chester, New Jersey
Maple Shade (Fomerly Chester) Township was first settled by the Roberts family in 1682 and developed in the early years, before the independence of the colonies, as primarily agricultural. For its first one hundred years, only Kings Highway served the area, providing poor travel, and residents chose travel by boat rather than overland as a result, until 1794 when the road that was to be Main Street was constructed to connect Kings Highway with the Cooper River ferry. Afterwards, new settlers and the families of the original settlers encouraged the division and sharing of the large plantations into smaller holdings, still agricultural in nature. .
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The Settlement became more firmly established as a community in 1811 when the property was set aside by Joseph Burrough for the construction of a one-room brick school house, now known as the Little Red Schoolhouse, on Main Street, just west of Coles Avenue. The school served the residents of the Township for 97 years, closing in 1909. About the time of the establishment of the schoolhouse, a sawmill was built on the Pennsauken Creek where Mill Road now crosses Route 38. In 1847 a blacksmith shop and wagon works, constructed on the south side of Main Street just west of Spruce Avenue, operated until it was destroyed by fire in 1940. As in many settlements in the country, the coming of the railroad right-of-way purchased in 1864 and placed in operation in 1867 - brought identity to the area in the form of a station and a rail stop. The railroad also changed the complexion of the community, giving it the potential to have single family residents commuting by rail to employment outside of the Township. The railroad also brought other businesses and industry including brick making in 1867, butchering and meat processing, as well as clothing manufacturing in 1883. As the population grew, so did the community. Naturally, the establishment of churches followed, beginning in 1888 with the Episcopal congregation and adding through the years, Roman Catholic, Congregational, Baptist, Lutheran, and Jehovah’s Witness congregations. With the establishment of the community came the demand for public services which, in turn, required the creation of provisions to govern the methods of offering public service, the types of service to be offered to the community, and their future maintenance. The demand for a public water source let to the first water works in 1893; telephones in 1893; a local post office in 1887; and the first police officer in 1911. The first fire company formed in 1899, and it received its first hand pump in 1912. Following the closing of the Little Red Schoolhouse in 1909, in that year, a new two-room facility was opened on North Poplar Avenue. A second school was built in 1920 on Chestnut Avenue and, ultimately, two more grade schools and a high school.
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The community was known as Chester Township, and existed essentially as a neighborhood of Moorestown Township. In 1922, the residents of Chester Township voted to separate from Moorestown, electing a Township Committee. The first Municipal Building on Main Street was completed in 1927, and in it was placed the first public library in 1930. In 1945, the community chose to become Maple Shade Township.
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Early Settlers
Early Maple Shade (Chester) Citizens
Stiles, Lippincott, Roberts, Coles, Matlack, and Rudderow.
Trace Your Home's deed back and you will come across a few of these Early Maple Shade residents. Several streets are named after them. Rudderow Ave., Stiles Ave., Lippincott Ave., and Coles Ave., Mill Road (The Roberts family saw mill was on it)
In England the Quakers came under serious persecution from 1660 onwards and suffered great hardship. Many were imprisoned for their Quaker beliefs, for refusing to swear oaths in court, not doffing their hats to local magistrates, and for non-attendance at the Parish Church. As a result of this intolerance, many decided to emigrate to America.
The Foundation of Burlington, New Jersey
From: "Friends in Burlington" by Amelia Mott Gummere (held by the Friends Library, London, on reference 098.4961 GUM).
"King James 11, while Duke of York, received by a grant from his brother Charles, possessions that included the entire territory between the Hudson and the Delaware rivers. Previously this land had been in the hands of the Dutch. Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret purchased the land from the Duke of York in 1664 and held it during the many Dutch versus English disputes that followed. By 1674 Lord Berkeley, elderly and in poor health, had determined to sell his portion and made it immediately known in England that the land was available."
Fabulous stories of the American provinces had reached the ears of the persecuted Quakers. Their leader, George Fox, had travelled widely in New England and, in 1672, reported the soil and water good. Hardships at home determined some of the Quakers to purchase all the land for £1,000. However there was an argument between them, which resulted in a division of the land. One tenth was retained by John Fenwick, who ultimately settled on the lower Delaware. The remaining nine tenths was kept by Edward Billynge. This land was sold in small portions chiefly to Quakers willing to emigrate, with William Penn, Gawen Lawrie and Nicholas Lucas acting as trustees. From 1677-81 over a thousand families sailed to New Jersey. When the ship ‘The Kent’ sailed from London there were 230 Quakers on board, half from London and half from the northern counties. The ship ‘The Shield’ followed a few months later. .
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Maple Shade's first settlers of the West Jersey settlement.
On November 14th, 1682, Daniel Leeds surveyed 267 acres for John Roberts and his wife Sarah, at the Indian town of Penisoakin between the two branches of the Cimsissinck Creek.
Also on the same day, November 14th, 1682, was surveyed for Timothy Hancock, 100 acres at Pemisoakin, adjoining John Roberts, and for William Matlack, 100 acres at Pemisoakin betw. the two branches of Simsissinck Cr. next to Timothy Hancock.
William Matlack married, in 1682, Mary Hancock, who came from Brayles, Warwickshire, England, with her brother Timothy, in the ship "Paradise" in 1681. He was granted one hundred acres of land by Thomas Olive, between the branches of the Pennsaukin creek, in Chester township, adjoining lands of his brother-in-law, Timothy Hancock.
Timothy Hancock settled on a tract adjoning the Matlack homestead. Hancock's land also was reckoned to be 100 acres. In 1684, about three years after his sister became Mrs. Matlack, Timothy Hancock took as his bride Rachel Firman.
These three settlers were the first to settle on the Pennsauken Creek. My theory is that they all came the same day with surveyor Daniel Leeds down the Delaware River from Burlington, NJ in a small boat or two, then traveled up the North branch of the Pennsauken Creek. It wasn't a long voyage as they would have knew the waterways.
Maybe the place they all landed the first day was the reason for the spot of the latter Pensauken Graveyard. Historian Purdy believes that the graveyard's location was chosen so relatives could travel by boat to visit the cemetery since it was located on the North branch of the Pennsauken accessable from the Delaware River.
OR... that was just a first survey of the land and John Roberts and William Matlack didn't settle there until 1684. George DeCou thinks John Roberts, and some others settled on their tracts at later dates then their land surveys. Roberts after 1683 or 1684. I think William Matlack has another survey dated in 1684 which also throws a question as to his date of settlement.
In October of 1684, 100 acres were surveyed on the Pensauken Creek adjoining the Roberts tract to the east for William Clarke, and shortly after on December 10th, 1684, for John Clarke and John Rudderow, was surveyed 650 acres between the North and South branches of Pemisoakin Cr., adjoining Wm. Clarke's land, and extending to the forks of the creek. A little later, 475 acres of this tract was resurveyed for John Rudderow.
1684 was about the time when John Rudderow and his wife Lucy settled on the creek adjoining lands of his brother-in-law, Robert Stiles.
Robert Stiles arrived from England about 1682 and settled for a few years in Philadelphia. In 1695 he purchased 425 acres on the north branch of the Pensauken Creek about two miles west of Moorestown from Charles Reade of Philadelphia. One historian, George DeCou thinks that his settlement and first survey was probably in 1684, and that 1695 refers to a later survey.
Another theory is that Robert Stiles first lived North of the South branch near land of latter Samuel Roberts', then him or his son came to the South side of the North branch near the Rudderows later. That would coinside with a 1698 writeup that said he was from Gloucester County. There wasn't a Camden County then and this could be what is now Cherry Hill.
On May 13th, 1682 for Samuel Cole, was surveyed 500 acres on the South branch of Pemisoakin Creek. This is his first tract, near Kings Highway and the Colestown Cemetery. He bought later tracts and Crooked Lane which passed into Burlington County and Chester Township was the site of early Colestown.
The following excerpt is from the book, and some are Moorestown area ones.- Moorestown Old And New by James C. Purdy, on page 189- At the western end of the township, between and at the junction of the north and south branches of the Penisaukin Creek, there was surveyed and laid off to John Clark and John Rudderow, in the tenth month, 1684, six hundred and fifty acres of land. About the same time, and in between the branches of the said creek, land was located or settlements made by John Roberts, Timothy Hancock, William Matlack, Samuel Coles, and John Cowperthwaite, and on the north side of the north branch of said creek by John Appleton, Matthew Bellows, Thomas French, Thomas Wallis, Robert Stiles, Thomas Moss, Peter Long, and Stephen Day.
They were part of the settlers of Western NJ with William Penn being one of its organizers.
"The Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors, Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Province of West New Jersey in America" was drawn up and signed in England on March 3rd, 1676. This document was signed by 151 men, including William Penn, who were directly interested in West Jersey. John Roberts and William Matlack signed it..
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Passengers aboard the Kent
From Salem County Genealogical Data, Vol. 1, by H. Stanley Craig
H. Stanley Craig, Publisher, Merchantville, N.J.
Passengers on the Ship Kent - Gregory Marlow, Master
Arrived at Raccoon Creek, West Jersey 8-23-1677
Acton, Benjamin, surveyor, tanner and currier
Alinn, John
Ash, Jane
Barnard, Mary
Beckett, Martha
Bradway, Edward, London
Bradway, Mary, wf. Edward
Bradway, Mary, dau. Edward
Bradway, Susannah, dau. Edw'd
Bradway, William, s. Edward
Buckell, Thomas
Button, Thomas
Clayton, William
Cripps, John
Drewett, Morgan
Emery, William
Eves, Thomas
Farnsworth, Thomas
Foulke, Thomas
Guy, Richard
Harding Thomas
Helmsley, Joseph
Hibbs, William
Jennings, Henry, Clemond Deane, Surry, England.
Jennings, Margaret, wife of Henry
Kinsey, John
Lovett, Samuel
Macklack, William, Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire, Eng.
Nossiter, Thomas
Olive, Thomas
Peachy, William
Penford, John
Penton, William
Powell, Robert
Power, Mary wife of Robert
Power, Robert
Roberts, John
Roberts, Sarah, wife of John
Saunders, Christopher
Scott, Benjamin
Stacy, Benjamin
Stokes, Thomas
White, Christopher, London
White, Esther, wf. Christopher
White, Esther, dau. Christopher b. 1669
White, John, s. Christopher, b. 9/18/1663
White, Josias, s. Christopher, b. 1675
Wills, Daniel, physician
Wills, Daniel, son of Dr. Daniel
Wills, Elizabeth, dau. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Jane, dau. Dr. Daniel
Wills, John, s. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Joseph, s. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Mary, wf. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Mary, dau. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Samuel, s. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Samuel, s. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Samuel, s. Dr. Daniel
Woodmancy, William
Woolston, John
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- Raccoon Creek (New Jersey)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Raccoon Creek, also called the Raccoon River, is a 22.6-mile-long (36.4 km)[1] tributary of the Delaware River in southern New Jersey in the United States.
Raccoon Creek rises to the west of Glassboro, and flows west, meeting Cartwheel Brook at Wrights Mill. Just below, it is impounded to form Gilman Lake. It turns to the north and is again dammed to form Ewan Lake. Clems Run and Miery Run empty into the stream, which is steeply banked on the east side. It flows through Mullica Hill (formerly the head of navigation), where it is dammed to form Mullica Hill Pond, and turns west again, flowing through a wide but steep valley. The South Branch (of the creek) joins it about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of the town. Flowing along the north side of Swedesboro, the creek becomes tidal and passes under the Locke Avenue Bridge, a swing bridge replaced in 2002 by a fixed span. The creek turns north again and meanders through the marshlands, passing under the (fixed) Interstate 295 bridge and running along the west side of the Pureland Industrial Complex, one of the largest industrial parks in the United States. A tangle of marshy channels leads to the west side of Bridgeport, where the creek passes under moveable spans of the Conrail's Penns Grove Secondary[2] and U.S. Route 130. It empties into the Delaware River just south of the Commodore Barry Bridge where it crosses Raccoon Island (now connected to the mainland by fill).
History: During the 17th century, Swedish settlers from the Swedish colony of New Sweden came upstream along Raccoon Creek to found and settle the communities of Bridgeport (originally called New Stockholm) and Swedesboro.[3][4]
Tributaries: South Branch (Raccoon Creek)
Miery Run
Clems Run
Cartwheel Brook
more info about Chester, New Jersey
Maple Shade (Fomerly Chester) Township was first settled by the Roberts family in 1682 and developed in the early years, before the independence of the colonies, as primarily agricultural. For its first one hundred years, only Kings Highway served the area, providing poor travel, and residents chose travel by boat rather than overland as a result, until 1794 when the road that was to be Main Street was constructed to connect Kings Highway with the Cooper River ferry. Afterwards, new settlers and the families of the original settlers encouraged the division and sharing of the large plantations into smaller holdings, still agricultural in nature. .
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The Settlement became more firmly established as a community in 1811 when the property was set aside by Joseph Burrough for the construction of a one-room brick school house, now known as the Little Red Schoolhouse, on Main Street, just west of Coles Avenue. The school served the residents of the Township for 97 years, closing in 1909. About the time of the establishment of the schoolhouse, a sawmill was built on the Pennsauken Creek where Mill Road now crosses Route 38. In 1847 a blacksmith shop and wagon works, constructed on the south side of Main Street just west of Spruce Avenue, operated until it was destroyed by fire in 1940. As in many settlements in the country, the coming of the railroad right-of-way purchased in 1864 and placed in operation in 1867 - brought identity to the area in the form of a station and a rail stop. The railroad also changed the complexion of the community, giving it the potential to have single family residents commuting by rail to employment outside of the Township. The railroad also brought other businesses and industry including brick making in 1867, butchering and meat processing, as well as clothing manufacturing in 1883. As the population grew, so did the community. Naturally, the establishment of churches followed, beginning in 1888 with the Episcopal congregation and adding through the years, Roman Catholic, Congregational, Baptist, Lutheran, and Jehovah’s Witness congregations. With the establishment of the community came the demand for public services which, in turn, required the creation of provisions to govern the methods of offering public service, the types of service to be offered to the community, and their future maintenance. The demand for a public water source let to the first water works in 1893; telephones in 1893; a local post office in 1887; and the first police officer in 1911. The first fire company formed in 1899, and it received its first hand pump in 1912. Following the closing of the Little Red Schoolhouse in 1909, in that year, a new two-room facility was opened on North Poplar Avenue. A second school was built in 1920 on Chestnut Avenue and, ultimately, two more grade schools and a high school.
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The community was known as Chester Township, and existed essentially as a neighborhood of Moorestown Township. In 1922, the residents of Chester Township voted to separate from Moorestown, electing a Township Committee. The first Municipal Building on Main Street was completed in 1927, and in it was placed the first public library in 1930. In 1945, the community chose to become Maple Shade Township.
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Passengers aboard the Kent
From Salem County Genealogical Data, Vol. 1, by H. Stanley Craig
H. Stanley Craig, Publisher, Merchantville, N.J.
Passengers on the Ship Kent - Gregory Marlow, Master
Arrived at Raccoon Creek, West Jersey 8-23-1677
Acton, Benjamin, surveyor, tanner and currier
Alinn, John
Ash, Jane
Barnard, Mary
Beckett, Martha
Bradway, Edward, London
Bradway, Mary, wf. Edward
Bradway, Mary, dau. Edward
Bradway, Susannah, dau. Edw'd
Bradway, William, s. Edward
Buckell, Thomas
Button, Thomas
Clayton, William
Cripps, John
Drewett, Morgan
Emery, William
Eves, Thomas
Farnsworth, Thomas
Foulke, Thomas
Guy, Richard
Harding Thomas
Helmsley, Joseph
Hibbs, William
Jennings, Henry, Clemond Deane, Surry, England.
Jennings, Margaret, wife of Henry
Kinsey, John
Lovett, Samuel
Macklack, William, Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire, Eng.
Nossiter, Thomas
Olive, Thomas
Peachy, William
Penford, John
Penton, William
Powell, Robert
Power, Mary wife of Robert
Power, Robert
Roberts, John
Roberts, Sarah, wife of John
Saunders, Christopher
Scott, Benjamin
Stacy, Benjamin
Stokes, Thomas
White, Christopher, London
White, Esther, wf. Christopher
White, Esther, dau. Christopher b. 1669
White, John, s. Christopher, b. 9/18/1663
White, Josias, s. Christopher, b. 1675
Wills, Daniel, physician
Wills, Daniel, son of Dr. Daniel
Wills, Elizabeth, dau. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Jane, dau. Dr. Daniel
Wills, John, s. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Joseph, s. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Mary, wf. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Mary, dau. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Samuel, s. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Samuel, s. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Samuel, s. Dr. Daniel
Woodmancy, William
Woolston, John
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Sarah and John Roberts - Early Settlers
Roberts Mill road is named after A. Roberts saw mill located near Mill road and route 38. The Official Maple Shade website states that the Roberts family is the first to settle here from England. This is more misleading then explaining about the new landholders brought by William Penn to settle in Burlington County, etc... The following excerpt is from the book- Moorestown Old And New by James C. Purdy, including CHESTER TOWNSHIP By Clayton Lippincott Bicentennial Edition, The Historical Society of Moorestown 1976..
About a mile south of Colestown, in the southwest corner of the township, formerly stood a saw- mill and fulling- mill. They were owned and operated by Joseph Roberts during his life, but after his decease they were not much used, and but little remains to mark the place where they once stood. There was no land located or settlements made in the central part of the township until after the road from Burlington to Salem had been laid out. - That sure sounds like right about where the Roberts Mill Apartments are. The following exerpt is taken from the book- Moorestown And Her Neighbors: Historical Sketches by George DeCOU Third Edition Historical Society Of Moorestown 1973.
Roberts-John and Sarah Roberts of Overton, Northamptonshire, arrived on the "Kent" in 1677. On November 14th, 1682, Daniel Leeds surveyed 267 acres for John Roberts "at the Indian town of Penisoakin between the two branches of the Cimsissinck Creek. Cimisissinck sometimes spelled Simissinck, was the Indian name for Pensauken Creek. The word Pensauken which is spelled in many ways in the early records was the name of an Indian tribe who lived between the two branches of the creek, probably on the Roberts plantation. They apparently did not settle on this tract before 1683 or possibly 1684, as the Burlington Meeting record of the birth of their daughter Hannah, reads "Hannah, daughter of John and Sarah Roberts of Northampton River, born in Sixth month, 1683." The Roberts Monument on the southern side of Camden Pike just over the bridge across the north branch of Pensauken Creek, marks the aproximate location of their first home. Family tradition says they lived for a time in a cave on the bank of the creek. This monument is located on Main Street in Maple Shade between the two jughandles going onto the Route 73 Highway.. David, Joseph H., William H., and Horace Roberts of Moorestown as well as practically all other families in this neighborhood bearing the name Roberts, are directly descended from John and Sarah Roberts. I went up to Main Street and Route 73 and copied down what the monument says-.
- Historical Marker photo: JOHN ROBERTS AND SARAH HIS WIFE FROM NORTHAMPTON ENGLAND 1677 SETTLED HERE 1682 ERECTED BY THEIR DESCENDANTS 1898 William Matlack and Timothy Hancock
The Matlacks made their home on a tract between two branches of Pennsauken Creek, then spelled Penisauken, in which was then the Township of Chester, across the Burlington County line. This is now identified as the Maple Shade area. .
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- Passengers aboard the Kent
From Salem County Genealogical Data, Vol. 1, by H. Stanley Craig
H. Stanley Craig, Publisher, Merchantville, N.J.
Passengers on the Ship Kent - Gregory Marlow, Master
Arrived at Raccoon Creek, West Jersey 8-23-1677
Acton, Benjamin, surveyor, tanner and currier
Alinn, John
Ash, Jane
Barnard, Mary
Beckett, Martha
Bradway, Edward, London
Bradway, Mary, wf. Edward
Bradway, Mary, dau. Edward
Bradway, Susannah, dau. Edw'd
Bradway, William, s. Edward
Buckell, Thomas
Button, Thomas
Clayton, William
Cripps, John
Drewett, Morgan
Emery, William
Eves, Thomas
Farnsworth, Thomas
Foulke, Thomas
Guy, Richard
Harding Thomas
Helmsley, Joseph
Hibbs, William
Jennings, Henry, Clemond Deane, Surry, England.
Jennings, Margaret, wife of Henry
Kinsey, John
Lovett, Samuel
Macklack, William, Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire, Eng.
Nossiter, Thomas
Olive, Thomas
Peachy, William
Penford, John
Penton, William
Powell, Robert
Power, Mary wife of Robert
Power, Robert
Roberts, John
Roberts, Sarah, wife of John
Saunders, Christopher
Scott, Benjamin
Stacy, Benjamin
Stokes, Thomas
White, Christopher, London
White, Esther, wf. Christopher
White, Esther, dau. Christopher b. 1669
White, John, s. Christopher, b. 9/18/1663
White, Josias, s. Christopher, b. 1675
Wills, Daniel, physician
Wills, Daniel, son of Dr. Daniel
Wills, Elizabeth, dau. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Jane, dau. Dr. Daniel
Wills, John, s. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Joseph, s. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Mary, wf. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Mary, dau. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Samuel, s. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Samuel, s. Dr. Daniel
Wills, Samuel, s. Dr. Daniel
Woodmancy, William
Woolston, John
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Sarah and John Roberts - Early Settlers
Roberts Mill road is named after A. Roberts saw mill located near Mill road and route 38. The Official Maple Shade website states that the Roberts family is the first to settle here from England. This is more misleading then explaining about the new landholders brought by William Penn to settle in Burlington County, etc... The following excerpt is from the book- Moorestown Old And New by James C. Purdy, including CHESTER TOWNSHIP By Clayton Lippincott Bicentennial Edition, The Historical Society of Moorestown 1976..
About a mile south of Colestown, in the southwest corner of the township, formerly stood a saw- mill and fulling- mill. They were owned and operated by Joseph Roberts during his life, but after his decease they were not much used, and but little remains to mark the place where they once stood. There was no land located or settlements made in the central part of the township until after the road from Burlington to Salem had been laid out. - That sure sounds like right about where the Roberts Mill Apartments are. The following exerpt is taken from the book- Moorestown And Her Neighbors: Historical Sketches by George DeCOU Third Edition Historical Society Of Moorestown 1973.
Roberts-John and Sarah Roberts of Overton, Northamptonshire, arrived on the "Kent" in 1677. On November 14th, 1682, Daniel Leeds surveyed 267 acres for John Roberts "at the Indian town of Penisoakin between the two branches of the Cimsissinck Creek. Cimisissinck sometimes spelled Simissinck, was the Indian name for Pensauken Creek. The word Pensauken which is spelled in many ways in the early records was the name of an Indian tribe who lived between the two branches of the creek, probably on the Roberts plantation. They apparently did not settle on this tract before 1683 or possibly 1684, as the Burlington Meeting record of the birth of their daughter Hannah, reads "Hannah, daughter of John and Sarah Roberts of Northampton River, born in Sixth month, 1683." The Roberts Monument on the southern side of Camden Pike just over the bridge across the north branch of Pensauken Creek, marks the aproximate location of their first home. Family tradition says they lived for a time in a cave on the bank of the creek. This monument is located on Main Street in Maple Shade between the two jughandles going onto the Route 73 Highway.. David, Joseph H., William H., and Horace Roberts of Moorestown as well as practically all other families in this neighborhood bearing the name Roberts, are directly descended from John and Sarah Roberts. I went up to Main Street and Route 73 and copied down what the monument says-.
- Historical Marker photo: JOHN ROBERTS AND SARAH HIS WIFE FROM NORTHAMPTON ENGLAND 1677 SETTLED HERE 1682 ERECTED BY THEIR DESCENDANTS 1898 William Matlack and Timothy Hancock
The Matlacks made their home on a tract between two branches of Pennsauken Creek, then spelled Penisauken, in which was then the Township of Chester, across the Burlington County line. This is now identified as the Maple Shade area. .
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- - Roberts Landing Monument
Location: Entering Maple Shade from Moorestown over the "Iron Bridge" which crosses the north branch of Pennsauken Creek, on the left hand side of the road, between the north and south ramps on Main Street leading to Route 73. It is across the ramp from the Maple Shade VFW building. Large brown-colored electrical generators are adjacent to the site. It is best to park at the VFW parking lot. .
Significance - "On the 14th day of November, 1698 (er, 1898 -jcw20141130) about 100 persons, more or less related to each other, gathered on the pasture of John R. Mason, in Chester Township, near what is known as the "Iron Bridge" over the north branch of the Pennsauken Creek on the Moorestown and Camden turnpike road at about 2:30 o'clock" according to a publication memorializing the event. They were there to dedicate the obelisk-shaped monument which can be seen today on this site. The monument marks the spot of the original settlement of the Roberts family in New Jersey, in 1682. The inscription on the monument reads: "John Roberts and his wife Sarah from Northampton, England 1677 settled here 1682. Erected by their descendants, 1898". .
John and Sarah Roberts were among about 230 people, most of them Quakers, who, having sailed from England, arrived in New Jersey on August 16th, 1677 on "The Kent". They made their way first to Burlington, and with their fellow Quakers, established a community there. John had purchased a 267-acre plantation on the north branch of the Pennsauken Creek and laid claim to it in 1682. He and Sarah took a boat up the Pennsauken Creek, disembarking at their new property and while they were building their first home lived in a cave at the spot marked by the Roberts monument today. .
Directions: Take Rt. 537 (Camden Avenue in Moorestown; Main St. in Maple Shade) west into Maple Shade. Access to this main street in Maple Shade can be via Rt. 73, Lenola Road (Rt. 608), Forklanding Road or Coles Avenue. The monument is just off the Rt. 73 ramp. It is just over the border from Moorestown on the left hand side of the road, across the ramp from the Maple Shade VFW. .
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