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Len Peck ~ SUSSEX COURT HOUSE ~ First Sussex County P.O.SUSSEX COURT HOUSE: FIRST POST OFFICE IN SUSSEX COUNTYBy Len PeckOn February 20, 1792, the 2 nd Congress, Session I, Chapter VII, passed “An Act to establishthe Post office and Post Roads within the United States.” (See Fig. 1.) Previous postal legislationunder the Continental Congress and then under the Constitutional Government had been enacted,which held together an inherited postal system, but this was the first that outlined the entireConfederation Post Office. It is the first that mentioned Sussex Court House in Sussex County, N.J.Fig. 1: Page from the Journal of Congress, 2 nd Congress, Session 1, Chapter 7 Feb. 20, 1792, Act to Establish thePost Office and Post Roads within the United States. Route a.) describes the route between New York andPhiladelphia; b.) describes the route from Philadelphia through Bethlehem and Easton to Kingston and Rhinebeckon the Hudson – mentioning Sussex Court House, and c.) describes the route from Newark/ Elizabethtown to SussexCourt House. Of these, the a.) route was long established, and mail was carried on it by this time through contractswith stage companies. Routes b.) and c.) both required a post rider A pdf version of the complete text of the Act isavailable. 1This act confirmed some 48 post offices that were formerly established on the mainNorth/South route between Wiscassett in the Maine Territory and Savannah, Georgia and addedthree more. It also confirmed 25 post offices that formerly existed under the British ColonialSystem on minor or cross routes, and added 66 to those routes as well. This brought the totalnumber of post offices in the 13 states to 142.Vol. 35/No. 4201NJPHWhole No. 168 November 200712
SUSSEX COURT HOUSE ~ First Sussex County P.O. ~ Len PeckAll in all, when this legislation was written in 1792, there were nine pre-existing postoffices in New Jersey. All existed under the British Colonial System; they were Newark,Elizabethtown, Woodbridge, Brunswick, Princeton, Trenton, Bridgetown, Morristown andAmboy. This act specifically mentioned two new post offices: Salem and Sussex Court House(now Newton). Sussex Court House, which had not previously had a post office, now founditself on not one, but two postal routes.Base map is an 1839 map by David H. Burr. 2Fig. 2: Showing routes established 1794, which now include Sussex Court HouseVol. 35/No. 4202NJPHWhole No. 168 November 200713
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