Hello Again Fair Researchers, The third installment (paragraph) of the Sesqui-Centennial Address of Sussex County given by Justice Francis J. Swayze on 2 Sep 1903 and printed by the Sussex Independent newspaper.... " THE EARLY SETTLEMENTS Just prior to 1750, notices of settlements became more and more frequent. In 1742, the same year in which Decker settled in Sussex, two Germans, John Peter BERNHARDT and his son-in-law , Casper SHAFER, located in Stillwater, and were soon followed by another son-in-law, Peter WINTERMUTE. Henry BALE, also a German, settled at Lafayette and built a log grist mill fifty yards east of the present railroad station, about 1750. Thomas WOOLVERTON, Darius YOUNG and John BUCHNER settled in the neighborhood of Huntsville about the same time, and in 1752, Samuel HUNT, of Lawrenceville, now Mercer county, died while visiting and improving his property at Hunt's Pond, and is buried there; in 1756, Joshua OPDYKE purchased 320 acres from Richard GREEN, including land of the late Samuel B?. HUNT; the county was rapidly filling with settlers. The early returns recorded at Perth Amboy for lands along the Papkating and the Wallkill date from 1750. Most of them are made to the heirs and assigns of Anthony SHARP and the devisees of Mary ALEXANDER." Happy Hunting, Cathy DiPietro, listowner NJSussex-L