Pine BarrensField Notes

Wild-men reports · Hunterdon County

The Hunterdon farm-damage report

Contemporary source summarized

A newspaper digest claimed that an unidentified man roaming Hunterdon County was damaging farm equipment.

The report

The notice appeared in a roundup of New Jersey items. Its sole claim was that a person described by the paper as a “wild man” was moving around Hunterdon County and breaking plows and harrows. No name, town, date of a particular incident, witness, arrest, explanation, or outcome accompanied the claim.

Source

  1. Unidentified newspaper, “Affairs in New Jersey,” 1878 assigned by the source collection; the issue date is not visible; issue date and page not visible.

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