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Len Peck ~ SUSSEX COURT HOUSE ~ First Sussex County P.O.As the postal route assigned to Samuel Moffat went through the towns of Warwick &Shawangunk as well as Ward's Bridge, New York, only one month went by before post officeswere applied for and established in these places as well. This is indicated in the followingletter addressed to Mr. James Wilkin, the postmaster at Goshen, New York.General Post OfficePhilad'a 17 July 1792James Wilkin, EsquireSir;I have your letter inclosing Moffat's & Seward's Contracts, Bonds & Oaths—ThePortmanteaux & Bags they require, I shall forward to them by this days post—Permit me totrouble you again, by requesting your attention to the packages accompanying this forWarwick, Wardsbridge & Shawangunk; they being for the Postmasters at those places. TheRider will please to deliver them personally.I am Sir, etc., P. W.*****The Sussex Court House post office would change its name to Newtown in 1797 (hencedo not confuse Sussex Court House with the present Sussex, N.J. post office); and in 1825, thisbecame the current and still operating Newton post office.Illustration from Barber and Howel 12Fig. 4: A view of the court house in Newton, NJ, for which the Sussex Court House post office was named in1792. This building burned in 1847, and was replaced with another building. The post office remained SussexCourt House until 1797, when the name was changed to Newtown. It was later changed to Newton.Vol. 35/No. 4213NJPHWhole No. 168 November 200724
SUSSEX COURT HOUSE ~ First Sussex County P.O. ~ Len PeckCovers cancelled Sussex Court House in its five years of existence from 1792 to 1797are yet to be found; hence I do not have one to show (although I have been actively looking forone since moving to Sussex County in 1928!). However the following cover, mailed fromHackettstown in 1823, is addressed to that post office during the period when it was referred toas Newtown.Fig. 5: An 1823 cover sent from Hackettstown [then in Sussex County] addressed toNEWTOWN, NJColes indicates the name change from Newtown to Newton occurred in 1825, althoughthe cover shown below indicates that this may in fact have occurred (at least informally) muchearlier:Fig. 6: Manuscript-cancelled cover from NEWTON, datelined September 24, 1816,from Isaac Bassett, addressed to Dennis Dalrimple, Morristown Mason.Vol. 35/No. 4214NJPHWhole No. 168 November 200725
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