Mount Pleasant (Burlington County, New Jersey)

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Mount Pleasant is an old community in Mansfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey located about three miles east of Columbus at the intersection of Mount Pleasant Road and Gaunt's Bridge Road. Named for a small but conspicuous hill with a pointed top, Mount Pleasant was settled by Quakers during the latter part of the 17th century. Mount Pleasant hill is located in a field in the southwest quadrant of the intersection.

In 1699, Caleb Shreve purchased a plot of land and built a house a short distance to the west of Mount Pleasant hill. The west side of the house was completed in 1725, the east side in 1742. This property, which was named Mount Pleasant, was the homestead of the Shreve family for many years. It is the birthplace of steamboat captain Henry Miller Shreve and may be viewed via the Internet link shown below.

The Barzilla and Sarah Newbold house is located in the northeast quadrant of the intersection. It was completed in 1740 and may be viewed via the Internet link shown below.

[edit] References

Allen, Luther Prentice (1901), Genealogy and history of the Shreve family from 1641, Greenfield, Illinois: Privately printed, 672 pages; reprinted by Higginson Book Co., Salem, Massachusetts, 1999, ISBN 07404 10024

[edit] External links

  • Newbold house at Mount Pleasant Nathaniel Rue Ewan's photograph of the Barzilla and Sarah Newbold house at Mount Pleasant as it appeared during the 1930s.
  • Early houses Nathaniel Rue Ewan's photographs of early houses of Burlington County, New Jersey.