Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of Land Titles in the Vicinity of Quakertown, New Jersey
Q. E. Snyder. A former/resident of Q'uakertown, a gentleman of unques-t tioned veracity, states that the late Elizabeth Clifton, whose family long owned and occupied the dwelling, told him when a boy that it had been built one hundred and sixteen years. He cannot fix the date of the conversation exactly, but thinks it may have been about 1840. This would indicate its erection to have been about two years prior to Stevenson s purchase, but as there i's.no men-tion of any tenement in his d'eed, it seems most reasonable to suppose it was built by him in 1727. The messuage or tenement sold to Farnsworth and being already in his possession was doubtless one which tradition says stood farther east and some distance back from the road; some traces of it existed within the memory of some of our recently deceased old people. Farnsworth may have occupied it as a tenant and farmer previous to his purchase. The deed to Farnsworth shows that there had been a small lot containing three-tenths of an acre sold out of the northeast corner. Anyone who is familiar with the premises will readily see that this was done to give water privileges to the land adjacent on the east. This lot was again incorporated with the original tract many years ago.
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