In a message dated 6/28/03 11:41:43 PM, [email protected] writes: << I have been coming across a place or a name of a river called Ceariae River >> From the passages below it appears that the Caesaria River and the Cohansey River are one and the same. ----------------------- Source Information: HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF GLOUCESTER, SALEM, AND CUMBERLAND NEW JERSEY by Thos. Cushing, M.D. & Charles E. Sheppard, Esq. PHILADELPHIA: EVERTS & PECK. 1883 PRESS OF J.B. LIPPINCOTT & SONS, PHILADELPHIA. Fairs - The number of people at Cohansey, or Greenwich, increasing, the Assembly passed an act in May, 1695, for the holding of two fairs yearly "at the town of Greenwich, at Cohansey, alias Caesarea, River," the first to be held on April 24th and 25th, and the other on October 16th and 17th of each year, and enacted that it should be lawful for all persons to buy or sell all manner of lawful goods, and to be free from arrests on said days and for two days before and after the fair days, except it be for breach of the peace. ----------------------- This is the first mention of the name Cohansey, and tradition says that it was the name of an Indian chief who resided in this region. The correct spelling of the Indian name is supposed to be Cohanzick. The whole region drained by that river was called Cohansey for many years, but the town above provided for soon took the name of Greenwich. Except as the name of the river, this Indian cognomen is now known only as the name of a small cross-roads post-office, established in 1870, near the head-waters of the river and close to the Salem County line, and as the name of one or two beneficial societies. It is much to be regretted that this beautiful Indian name was not retained for Greenwich, or that when the old name of Cohansey Bridge for the county-seat was changed, the last of the two words was not dropped instead of the first. The Indian name of the river, according to some authorities, was Canahockink, but on the earliest map of the Delaware and its shores, made by the eminent Swedish engineer, Peter Lindstrom, in 1654 and 1655, the Indian name of the Cohansey is given as Sepahacking. Fenwick, in his will, directed that it should thereafter be called Caesaria River, but that name never came into general use.