From: mlake at melake.erols.com (Marshall Lake)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:04:51 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Andrew Leake of NJ

I'm not sure of the source of this info.

Samuel Tucker, Sheriff.
Trenton, February 16, 1764.
To be sold at public vendue, to the highest bidder, on Monday, the 16th
Day of April next, on the Premises, between the Hours of 12 and 5 o'clock,
a plantation, containing 335 acres of land, situated in Twixbary, bounded
on Alametunk River on the East, South by Hugh M'Can, West by the Society's
Lands, North by lands of Andrew Leake;  there is on the Premises a good
dwelling-house, barn, store-house, with other out-houses, a fine young
orchard, a quantity of good meadow, also a forge for making bar-iron,
with three fires, coalhouses, and houses for workmen to live in, near
the Forge, which is on a fine stream, called Alametunk, in a fine part
of the country for wood, for making coal.  Also sundry negroes, men,
women and children, cows,

[the piece cuts off here]



From: mlake at melake.erols.com (Marshall Lake)
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 23:12:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Andrew Leake of NJ

From "Traditions of Hunterdon" (NJ) by D H Moreau in 1957 ...

A road leading by the New Mills built by Andrew Leake, in Readington
township, was laid by 1761, "beginning at a black oak on the main road
leading from Germantown, and along lands of Andrew Ten Eyck, along a
wheat field," &c.