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Annals of Camden No 3 - Old Ferries - Camden NJ Download In this age of inventions, improvements and ever-changing modes of transportation, the ferry boat is still an important factor in carrying the traveller across that "goodly and noble" river which forms the boundary between the two Quaker Colonies of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Abraham Browning, a distinguished attorney in Camden, achieved the position of New Jersey Attorney General during his career. Born near Camden on July 26, 1808, he joined the New Jersey Bar in September 1834.
The act that established Camden County required an election to determine the county seat, held on August 12, 1845. Camden won 1062 votes, Gloucester 822, Haddonfield 422, and Mount Ephraim 33, with a total of 2339 votes.
ISAAC ANDERSON was appointed to the Camden Fire Department on November 6, 1872 to serve as Driver with Engine Company 2 . His brother John Anderson was appointed to Engine Company 2 on February 8, 1873 as driver.
The West Jersey Ferry, also known as the Market Street Ferry, was more than just a means of transportation — it was a lifeline that connected the bustling cities of Camden, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Excerpted from History of Camden County, New Jersey, George Reeser Prowell, 1885 THE WEST JERSEY FERRY , familiarly known as " The Market Street Ferry ," extends from Market Street , Camden, to Market Street, Philadelphia, and is now, and has long been one of the leading lines of· transportation across the Delaware between the two cities.
by Howard M. Cooper A revision and amplification of a paper read before the Camden County Historical Society, June 13, 1899.
From George Reeser Prowell's History of Camden County, New Jersey , 1886 Newton Friend's Meeting About the year 1800, when the general opening of roads made it no longer important to be on the water, Newton Friends determined to move from their old meeting-house on Newton Creek to a place more central; and in Fourth Month, 1801, Joseph Kaighn gave them the lot of land-at the corner of the Mount Ephraim road and Mount Vernon Street , in the present city of Camden, on which, in the same year, they built the brick meetinghouse that now stands there.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Camden, elected Abraham Browning and Marmaduke B. Taylor as wardens and a vestry that included Maurice Browning, William J. Sewell and Jesse W. Starr.
The Camden Water Works Company was incorporated by an act of the Legislature approved April 2, 1845 and authorized "to supply the city of Camden with pure water under such terms, regulations and conditions as city council shall by ordinance ordain and establish." The principals in the company were Isaac Cole, Benjamin W. Cooper, Charles Kaighn, Henry Allen, William Folwell, Nathan Davis, Benjamin T. Davis, John W. Mickle, and James Elwell.