by Jean R. Walton

Along the Johnsonburg-Allamuchy Road (County Route 612) is an historic marker – much like Benjamin Franklin’s post road mileposts – which tells the traveler he is approaching Logg Gaol. The sign alongside indicates the stone was erected in 1754. Why would Logg Gaol have warranted such a marker, on what today is a back road? The sign explains that Logg Gaol was the original county seat of Sussex County. Logg Gaol became today’s Johnsonburg in Warren County, one of today’s “forgotten New Jersey towns.” But it once was an important crossroads and a mail center. This article explains its former stature

By Vernon R. Morris, Jr., MD

New to philately and first noted by Roland Cipolla, is a 1721 cover to New York, Figure 1, with manuscript 6d in the upper right corner, Figure 2. The internal dateline revealed a very early September 27, 1721 date, Figure 3. The letter is handwritten from Sherowesbury, 1 Figure 4. Manuscript 6d was indeed consistent with Crown post rates during 1721. Although no provincial colony of origin had been cited, important collateral information about the addressee, sender, and postal zone may be very helpful for that determination.

by Captain Lawrence B. Brennan, US Navy (Retired)

Eighty years ago, the United States Navy ordered Battleship Number 62, ultimately to be named USS New Jersey, to be built at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.3 Today, that ship is moored across the Delaware River at Camden, New Jersey as a Museum Ship. During the intervening nearly 50 years…