1915: JOSIAH ALLINSON NOW LOCUST HILL

All the COUNTLESS hours I have spent over the past 35 years in digitizing local history has given me unlimited resources that allow me to share this incredibly interesting local history with the local communities which I try to include in the Hamilton Township Local History Collection. The graphic is one of MANY that are part of a "Power Point" type on screen presentation wherein I add some delightful backgrounds to a specific image. This slide is from my "YARDVILLE" on screen program which is open ended and allows for new material to be included as an update. Here in the year 2016, "Locust Hill" and "Montage" community take up a large part of the old Allinson Farm on Yardville-Hamilton Square Road.

1848:THE HISTORIC ALLINSON FAMILY OF HAMILTON

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.

1848 AND 1937: LOCUST HILL; THE ALLINSON FARM

I would loved to have met Mr. Allinson. My dear friend, the late Bob Simpkins lived across the street from the Allinson Farm. Bob's family had the Simpkins Dairy Farm. He told of the time when he was a boy when Mr. Allinson took him to the attic in the old Burholme homestead and showed him the markings on the wall that were made by tenants who were fleeing the south via the Underground Railroad. Over the many years that the Allinson Farm was in existence, going way back to the earliest years when William Allinson acquired the property.There are many classified ads advertising the sale of chickens, eggs, apples, apple and other fruit trees.

THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF HAMILTON TOWNSHIP CURRENTLY HAS ON PUBLIC DISPLAY A NUMBER OF RARE RELICS FROM THE EARLY YEARS OF HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, INCLUDING MATERIAL RELATING TO THE ALLINSON FAMILY OF HAMILTON.

1848: THE ALLINSON FARM, YARDVILLE

Today it is the beautiful development called "LOCUST HILL" on the Yardville-Hamilton Square Road. Back in the early years of Hamilton's rural history it was the site of the Allinson farm, a huge piece of land that some say had a part as a terminal for the Underground Railroad. The late Bob Simpkins, whose farm was across the highway, told of an experience he had as a boy when Mr. Allinson took him to the upper floor and told him that the room was where the Allinson family sheltered southern African Americans as they moved north to various areas.

1916: OBIT OF RACHEL ALLINSON

MISS ALLINSON IS THE SISTER OF JOSIAH ALLINSON FROM THE ALLINSON FARM. TODAY'S LOCUST HILL DEVELOPMENT WAS THE SITE OF THE ALLINSON FARM, STEEPED IN HISTORIC TRADITION. MR. BOB SIMPKINS, OUR TREASURED HAMILTON HISTORIAN LIVED ACROSS THE ROAD ON THE SIMPKINS BROTHERS DAIRY FARM. BOB TELLS OF THE DAY MRS. ALLINSON TOOK HIM TO THE UPPER ROOM IN THE ALLINSON HOME AND SHOWED HIM WHERE THE FUGITIVES FROM THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STAYED ON THEIR JOURNEY NORTHWARD.