Another thought on the "Blue Mountains". Ringoes is not that far from Blawenburg in Somerset County--right in the Sourland Mountains area. The town of Blawenburg was founded by Hendrick and John Blauw who had mills there on the Great Road. The name Blauw over the years has come down in various spellings. One of the main spellings is now "Blue". The association for the descendents is the National Blue Family Association (NBFA) which holds bi-annual reunions in Romney, West Virginia where descendent John Blue settled after moving with his family there from Somerset County. If one called the area of the Sourland Mountain area that was near Blawenburg the "Blue Mountain" because of it's proximity to Blawenburg, it is not that much of a stretch to think that people from Ringoes would go there to hunt as it is not that far, and today is still a wilderness area (Sourland Nature Preserve). Jackie Lubinski (Blauw descendent) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Hartman Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:29 AM To: NJHUNTER Subject: [NJHUNTER] Blue Mountains found in New Jersey! To everyone who responded, thank you very much. Yes there are Blue Mountains in New Jersey as well as in Pennsylvania! Wikepedia has a nice article on the Pennsylvania ridge and notes that it runs into New Jersey. It is part of the Kittatinny mountain range. By coincidence, I found an article written in 1885 which notes the Blue Mountains in New Jersey as running from the Delaware Water Gap over to the falls on the Passaic River. See: http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/usa-newjersey.htm These mountains would be close enough for the 2 hunters from Bloomsbury, noted in the Hunterdon Republican article, to travel to. These 2 men had also taken fishing trips together to Pennsylvania in past newspaper items. This still leaves the Ringoes group's excursion by wagon to the Blue Mountains in doubt. Since the time frame was not given in the item, it would be difficult to assume that they travelled some 40 or 50 miles up to Northern New Jersey for their outing. We will probably never know. However, I have sent an email to the Park Ranger for the Sourland Mountain Preserve and perhaps an answer is forthcoming!? I Googled ["Blue Mountains" "Sourland Mountains"] and got 2 hits. Both of them where in Australia or New Zealand! Again, thanks for all who responded, if I get anything further, I'll post it! MrBill Visit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message