Washington Inn Dance Ends In Pine Robber Joe Mulliner's Hanging
Henry Charlton Beck recounts a tale from New Jersey’s pine barrens where Joe Mulliner disrupts a Washington Inn wedding dance. The Pine Robber, known for looting coaches and aiding the poor, is captured after a tense chase and hanged by a bride’s kin, with his grave later rediscovered near Crowley on Mullica River lands.
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New Jersey
Joe Mulliner
Pine Robbers
Hidden histories of the Mullica valley ghost towns
The article recalls Pleasant Mills Tuckerton and nearby settlements as thriving colonial shipping hubs on the Mullica River. It notes ironworks glass towns and sawmills, legends of the Jersey Devil, famous residents like Joseph Bonaparte, and a Revolutionary raid thwarted by small militias before railroads and industry reshaped the region.
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Artha Furnace
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John Watson
Hiladelphia
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Joseph Bonaparte
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Bordentown
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Tucker
Pineland
South Jersey
Pulaski
Bake
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Joe Organs
Matt Clark
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Temple
Crowlet
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India
King Gun Club
Fort Dig
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Alan Eisae
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Weetwater
Kate Aylesford
Mount Misery
Les American Weekly
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Bamber
Ha Wright
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James Wainwright
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Wen
Ure
Heradt
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Aserda
Aserdaten
Erdaten
Dayton
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Shourds
Leeds
Sorma
Harrisia
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