notice on the 1880 Census for Atsion, Shamong Township, Burlington Cty, the last page says this is the part of Atsion in Burlington County. What other county might Atsion been a part of in 1880. Any help--most appreciated. Joan in Tucson

going clockwise, Burlington is bordered by Mercer (which holds trenton), Monmouth, Ocean, Atlantic, and Camden; looking generally at a map, I would look at Atlantic and Camden Linda in Tucson Joan Eddy wrote: > notice on the 1880 Census for Atsion, Shamong Township, Burlington Cty, the last page says this is the part of Atsion in Burlington County. What other county might Atsion been a part of in 1880. Any help--most appreciated. > >Joan in Tucson > > >==== NJ-GSNJ Mailing List ==== >Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~njgsnj/genmag.html > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > > > >

Joan, Suggest you post this query to the Ocean County list. Joan in Virginia :) NJOCEAN-L@rootsweb.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Eddy" <eddyjoan@comcast.net> To: <NJ-GSNJ-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 12:45 AM Subject: [GSNJ] County lines for Atsion > notice on the 1880 Census for Atsion, Shamong Township, Burlington Cty, the last page says this is the part of Atsion in Burlington County. What other county might Atsion been a part of in 1880. Any help--most appreciated. > > Joan in Tucson

Hi Joan Can you list the ED and page where that message appears? I'm curious as to how it's actually worded. I'm looking at the book _The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries_ and don't see anything to suggest that parts of Shamong Twp would have been a part of any other county prior to 1902. Atsion is not listed as a separate entity. The books says that Shamong Twp was formed in 1852 from Medford, Southampton and Washington Twps. In 1866 part of Shamong Twp was transferred to Woodland Twp. In 1901 part of the Twp was transferred to Tabernacle Twp. As far as I can tell - all of these related twps were always only part of Burlington County. Lastly, in 1902, tiny parts of Atlantic and Camden Counties were transferred into Shamong Twp. So - it may be that the wording is only intended to indicate that this was a part of Burlington County and might not have been intended to indicate that there was any other "part" in another county or township... And now a plug for the book - NJ Civil Boundaries... It's a very useful book - as you can see from the detail it lists just for Shamong Twp. It also has maps that show the additions and changes in the boundaries. I recommend it to anyone with border questions. It should be available for purchase on the BooksNJ website - and probably other places as well - but why not help support the NJ State Archives and NJ Historical Commission and buy from BooksNJ? The website is: http://www.booksnj.com/ Regards, Joan Joan M. Lowry mailto:jmlowry@earthlink.net