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BURLINGTON COUNTY POST TOWNS: PART 2 ~ Jack EdgeFig. No. 21: St. Mary’s Church, Burlington.~ ~BUSTLETON POST OFFICE ~ Established January 15, 1800Bustleton or Bustletown was a stagecoach stopping point on the Old York Road. Thisroad, also called the Post Road, ran from Burlington through Bustletown, Three Tuns (Hedding),Rising Sun Tavern (Mansfield Square) to Crosswicks and on up to Perth Amboy.Postal records tell us that a post office was established here January 15, 1800. John Sageris listed as the first postmaster and the office was closed the same year, but no date of closure isrecorded. It is possible the office was never in operation.In 1882, John W. Frazier proposed a post office to be called Bustleton, but at a distanceof about ½ mile from the older settlement once called Bustletown. It was to be moved fromwhere the Old York Road and Burlington-Bustleton Road intersected, southward, to theintersection of Columbus Road with the Old York Road, as stated ½ mile distant. Mr. Frazierexplained, “The population is greater and more improvements at Bustleton, than old Bustleton,which latter is decaying, and not so central.”It was the proposed postmaster’s claim, that Bustleton’s population was 40, with 200 ormore living within one mile of the village, also known as Frazier’s Corners. By 1887 this officewas closed. The bustle had gone from Bustleton.January 15, 1800Post office opened (as Bustletown)1800 Post office discontinued (probably never in operation)April 11, 1882Re-established (as Bustleton)October 6, 1887Post office discontinued - service from Burlington[This series on The Post Towns of Burlington County by Jack Edge will becontinued in future issues of NJPH]NJPH 100Vol. 33/No. 2May 2005 Whole No. 158