Take Uzzell's account "seriously". Would I be more serious if I accept, without a corroborating source, that the first sentence is correct.
You seem to accept quite a bit of that first sentence. I don't care whether you accept the rest or not, but I'd prefer it if you quit pretending you "discredited" the parts you don't accept. You haven't discredited a word of that first sentence, have you?
Your point escapes me once again.
More like you are trying to "escape" my point. You claimed you discredited Uzzell's version of how Crump came to know the property. You haven't. All you've disproven is the single clause about the inheritance.
We disagree. Move on.
Before we move on I'd rather you clarify just what it is you think you have discredited, and provide proof thereof. You must realize you haven't really discredited anything but the inheritance.
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Why do you think I have a problem with the 1910 statement. I asked you what you thought of it. You're being needlessly argumentative. Please stop attributing positions to me.
In the context of that paragraph it seemed odd to me. I was thinking about Crump's self-described "landing on" or "happening on" the property in 1912 and this article saying he began "work" (however you want to define it) in 1910 on producing the finest layout on the property that Uzzell said Crump's father bought and sold some time previously. Seemed like a disconnect to me.
You've repeatedly suggested that the 1910 mention doesn't ring accurate, yet you scold me for asking you what problem you have with it? Even though the rest of your response indicated you do have a problem with it? Yet I am the one being needlessly argumentative? That's rich.
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If you are seriously emotionally attached to Crump's father buying the property don't let me get in the way.
So much for your stated desire to "move on." Or did you mean that I was to "move on" while you continued to take shots at me about the Uzzell issue? If you want to continue to put words in my mouth and take these petty pot shots at my position, you might want to refrain for a post or two from lecturing me for supposedly doing these same things.
I am not "attached to Crump's father buying the property." I don't know whether or not he ever owned the land and neither do you. I don't care whether he did or not.
The land in question could have been the Crump family hunting grounds whether or not he ever had a formal ownership interest. You keep trying to tie the hunting story to the ownership of the property but that doesn't wash. It was and is quite common for well connected people to hunt land owned by others. I've explained this to you many times but you ignore it and keep putting different words in my mouth to try and twist my position to one more to your liking.
I asked you where you thought the road, if that is what it is, went from and to. It starts on the course and ends on a green. Seems like a strange road. There were no allowances in the deeds for a road or ROW across the course.
It starts on the course? Another unsupported assumption on your part. We don't know where it starts because the topo map does not extend beyond the borders of the property. The map makers didn't even bother to draw the features (such as the contour lines) to the border of the property. If it was a road used for accessing the property by the owners of said property, a ROW would be redundant. One does not need a ROW across ones own property. To support your assumption, you'd have to check previous titles to the property to the south --NOT the deed where PV was purchasing said property because PV's purchase would extinguish the need for such a ROW by making it redundant (same would apply to any other restrictions previously reserving rights for the person who bought the property.)
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Once again, you pervert what I say so that you can take a shot. Good start to 2012.
I don't think I perverted what you wrote, You have no high ground to stand on when it comes these things. Perhaps you should work on cleaning up your own act instead of lecturing others.
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I looked a little bit into hunting culture in New Jersey around this time. From what I can glean after a quick look, it sounds as if the only woodland suitable for hunting in Camden County was in the southern part of the county. The area around Clementon was particularly known for its quality rabbit and quail hunting. Because of overcrowding and depletion on publicly accessible lands, well off sportsman tended toward hunting on privately owned land. Sometimes they formed clubs or associations to secure exclusive access to private land for the members of the club or association.