Essays on Sussex County and New Jersey Postal History
Essays on Sussex County and New Jersey Postal History
Essays on Sussex County and New Jersey Postal History
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CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF SUSSEX POs ~ Len PeckSUSSEX COUNTY IN 1795 4Fig. 2: In 1792, <strong>Sussex</strong> <strong>County</strong> included all of Warren <strong>County</strong>. The first post office to be established there was<strong>Sussex</strong> Court House, in 1792. <strong>Sussex</strong> Court House would change its name to <strong>New</strong>town [<strong>and</strong> later to <strong>New</strong>t<strong>on</strong>]. Itwas so<strong>on</strong> followed by Hackettstown in 1794. A change in the post rider’s route was made in 1794 5 so that the postrider’s return from <strong>Sussex</strong> Court House went by way of Hackettstown <strong>on</strong> his circuit from <strong>New</strong>ark & Elizabethtown<strong>and</strong> Morristown to <strong>Sussex</strong> C. H. Hackettstown is in that part of <strong>Sussex</strong> <strong>County</strong> which became Warren <strong>County</strong> <strong>on</strong>Nov. 20, 1824.Vol. 36/No. 4199NJPHWhole No. 172 November 20082
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