Papers by Janet L Sheridan
New Jersey studies, Jan 13, 2016
Owning New Jersey by Joseph A. Grabas tells state history with a focus on land and place. From a ... more Owning New Jersey by Joseph A. Grabas tells state history with a focus on land and place. From a professional title searcher's vantage point, Grabas argues that New Jersey's history is "underpinned by landownership," and therefore records of land transactions, such as deeds, mortgages, etc., are a rich source for revealing its history. Land transfers do that in the myriad detail of the chain of title and financing of each land parcel, transferred over the centuries of New Jersey's existence from person to person, each record being a snapshot in time of people and their relationships and circumstances. He also contends that such records are largely
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New Jersey Studies, 2020
A Research Note on findings on Salem County agricultural complexes and outbuildings in Salem Coun... more A Research Note on findings on Salem County agricultural complexes and outbuildings in Salem County is presented. Sites include farmsteads which differ somewhat in settlement history and outbuildings. Farmhouses varied in form, size, material, and style, perhaps related to socioeconomic status or cultural origin. I found farm and domestic outbuildings of similar types, but always varying somehow farm to farm, showing individualized innovations on common themes of traditional building.
New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Owning New Jersey by Joseph A. Grabas tells state history with a focus on land and place. From a ... more Owning New Jersey by Joseph A. Grabas tells state history with a focus on land and place. From a professional title searcher's vantage point, Grabas argues that New Jersey's history is "underpinned by landownership," and therefore records of land transactions, such as deeds, mortgages, etc., are a rich source for revealing its history. Land transfers do that in the myriad detail of the chain of title and financing of each land parcel, transferred over the centuries of New Jersey's existence from person to person, each record being a snapshot in time of people and their relationships and circumstances. He also contends that such records are largely
Marshalltown National Register nomination , 2013
paragraph The John and Charlotte Wistar Farm in lower Mannington Township includes a three-acre f... more paragraph The John and Charlotte Wistar Farm in lower Mannington Township includes a three-acre farmstead and 61 acres of crop land. In the farmstead are three contributing buildings. A two-story frame farmhouse with twostory kitchen wing stands as a transformed one-third Georgian-plan house with service wing into a full Georgian-plan house just after the Revolutionary War using late colonial finishes that show early Federal trends. A circa 1825 remodeling introduced early Greek Revival mantles and Grecian profiles on late Federal millwork in two parlors. The house stands with an associated crib barn and hay/dairy barn stand dating from the early national years. The farmstead, laying on the south side of Mannington Creek adjacent to Mannington Meadow, faces south on east-west Harris Road. The house displays design and workmanship from the second half of the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century, and minor additions and historic preservation and rehabilitation from the mid and late twentieth century. The one-story barn consists of three main sections with later extensions that began with two hewn barns, one of which was a three-bay English, the other, a cow barn. The third main section is a twentieth-century stabling or milking barn that was later used for vegetable sorting and packing. The crib barn or wagon house is a two-story drive-through corn crib, which may have served also as a granary, dating from the early nineteenth century. The surrounding historically-associated farm fields constitute a contributing site.
Salem County Historical Society Newsletter, 2019
A previously undocumented patterned brickwork house was found in Lower Alloways Creek, Salem Coun... more A previously undocumented patterned brickwork house was found in Lower Alloways Creek, Salem County, NJ. Once stuccoed, this coating has been wearing away, slowly revealing a banded pattern of vitrified bricks.
Salem County Historical Society Newsletter, 2019
Salem County Historical Society Newsletter, 2020
This article examines the particular designs called coronets in Salem County, NJ within the conte... more This article examines the particular designs called coronets in Salem County, NJ within the contexts of patterned brickwork architecture, their builders' social history, and the colonial settlement of the region.
Salem County Historical Society Newsletter, 2020
This article documents the patterned brickwork Mayhew House built in 1762 and 1792 in Upper Pitts... more This article documents the patterned brickwork Mayhew House built in 1762 and 1792 in Upper Pittsgrove, Salem County. Here, a pattern known as a coronet was recently discovered after being hidden from public view for 228 years.
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Papers by Janet L Sheridan