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Contact Us. In this history of our township, Mr. Pedlow traced the progress of the first settlers to invade this territory of the Lenni-Lenape Indians. One family of particular interest was that of Richard and Margaret Haines who set sail from Northamptonshire, England in The land grant for which the Haines family emigrated covered approximately acres, including a portion of the present Mount Laurel Township.

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Their son, Joseph Haines, who was born in mid-ocean, purchased a tract of land beyond Lumberton covering several hundred acres, including the Village of Long Bridge which was the original name of Hainesport. The village was named after the long wooden toll bridge crossing the south branch of the Ancocas Rancocas Creek on the only road leading from Moorestown to Mt.

Holly, known as the Philadelphia Road. The Haines family were Quakers, as were most of the original settlers to this area. Tall timber stands, fertile fields, and a tidal passage to the Delaware River attracted these dedicated pioneers to our area. The major means of livelihood was lumbering and agriculture, although some settlers turned to trapping and fishing along the Rancocas Creek.

During the Revolutionary War, the area of Long Bridge Hainesport and surrounding Burlington County found itself in the midst of the area of activity, but never directly in the center stage. There were some minor conflicts, but the deciding battles took place elsewhere; i.

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In , local American patriots destroyed the Long Bridge in order to delay the advance of the Hessian troops to Mt. A minor skirmish developed with the resulting death of five unnamed American patriots. Almost a century later, the Civil War erupted and Hainesport was already a part of the County link in the Underground Railway. Records still exist of runaway slaves helped to freedom by citizens from the other nearby communities.