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 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…

By Tim O’Connor

The William Alexander archive in the New York Historical Society houses many letters from the pre-revolutionary and wartime eras. During an exploration of that archive I encountered two letters from Hibernia Furnace in Morris County, New Jersey which bore interesting superscriptions. They are the topic of this report.

By John Lupia

Albert Charles Roessler, Jr. (1883-1952), 140 South Parkway, East Orange, New Jersey, coin and stamp dealer, began trading as a stamp dealer in Denver. Roessler was both a stamp and coin collector and dealer. His coin business lasted over thirty years. His stamp business was extraordinary and novel, introducing a myriad of artistic illustrations for stamps…

By Don Bowe

Three interesting items in my collection are checks which were used for payment of transportation of the mails and associated expenses. They are from three different dates, May 26, 1856, Sept. 17, 1859, and February 25, 1861. It is an opportunity to see the differences.