{"id":1576,"date":"2020-01-09T05:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2020-01-09T18:58:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T18:58:29","slug":"1-10-20-west-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/1-10-20-west-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"1.10.20 West Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Asa Hunt House Update Part Nine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou from Jersey? Yeah? What exit?\u201d Or perhaps we should ask, \u201cYeah? Which province?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 1, 1676, four greedy men named Penn, Lawrie, Lucas\nand Byllynge had a legal thumb-wrestle with a fifth greedy man named Carteret\nover who owned a new British province called New Jersey. The resulting\nagreement, called the Quintipartite Deed, split the province in two, giving\nWest Jersey to the foursome and East Jersey to Carteret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once this was resolved, the argument quickly pivoted to the\nissue of where to draw the border. In 1686, Surveyor-General George Keith was\nassigned to create the official boundary. He started in Little Egg Harbor on\nthe south Jersey coast, and drew an arrow-straight line north-northwest up\nthrough the center of the province, until he came to the Sourland Mountains\njust north of Princeton. Foiled by the convoluted terrain and perhaps by Lenape\nnatives, he stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In subsequent years, two more complete surveys were undertaken, first the Thornton Line (1696) and then the Lawrence Line (1743), which became the final border for legal purposes. But the Keith Line had already left a long-standing mark. If you look at today\u2019s map of New Jersey municipalities you can see it running straight and unbroken, separating the counties of Burlington and Ocean, and Hunterdon from Somerset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here in Mercer County, the Keith Line endures in the form of a local road called Province Line, which separates the snobs in Princeton in the East from us laid-back country folk in Hopewell Township in the West. Yep, the Asa Hunt House sits about 3 miles west of Province Line Road. Which means that, as loyal West Jerseyans, we are supposed to root for the Eagles over the Giants, and order our breakfast sandwiches with \u201cPork Roll,\u201d as opposed to \u201cTaylor Ham.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, too bad. We\u2019re Denver Broncos fans, and we don\u2019t eat\nmuch in the way of meat by-products. On the other hand, it has come to our\nattention while doing our renovation that our old farmhouse is West Jersey\nthrough and through. Our living room mantle came from Philadelphia; some of our\nfurniture was manufactured in Camden and upholstered in Trenton; all of our\nantiques were restored in Lambertville; and we salvaged bricks and flooring\nfrom an old house in Flemington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here\u2019s what we\u2019ve decided. With our renovation nearing\ncompletion, the last major thing we need is a chandelier for the dining room.\nFor this house the only thing that will suit is something brass with glass\nchimneys, perhaps a refurbished gasolier. We could find one pretty much\nanywhere. But to get ours, we are headed…west. This weekend we are crossing\nthe Delaware (in the not-so-famous direction), continuing on past greedy old\nMr. Penn\u2019s house, and right on down to Philadelphia, where there are several\nmassive antique and salvage warehouses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fingers crossed. The Asa Hunt House is nearly complete. And\nwe’re counting on the Spirit of ’86 for the last missing piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asa Hunt House Update Part Nine \u201cYou from Jersey? Yeah? What exit?\u201d Or perhaps we should ask, \u201cYeah? Which province?\u201d On July 1, 1676, four greedy men named Penn, Lawrie, Lucas and Byllynge had a legal thumb-wrestle with a fifth greedy man named Carteret over who owned a new British…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1735],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-quintipartite-deed-keith-line-west-jersey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/West-Jersey.jpg?fit=1056%2C1866&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}