More "Hard Core Hamilton History:"
This is Josiah Allinson, son of
Samuel Allinson who founded the New Jersey State Home for Girls in
Ewing, and also the State Home for Boys in Jamesburg. Mr.Josiah Allinson
is shown in the graphic I composed with an accompanying 1848
advertisement for fruit trees which the his father, Samuel Allinson
cultivated on the Farm which is on today's Yardville-Hamilton Square
Road in the development known as "Locust Hill.". The family home was
known as "Burholme" The derivation of the name "Burholme" is unknown.
There is a Pennsylvania connection to that name. The Allinsons were
ardent followers of the Quaker religion and were regular attendees of
the Crosswicks Meeting.
Very interesting! Burholme and Allinson are now names of two of the streets in the Locust Hill development.
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