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A The Walter C. Black Bicentennial Coalition Commemorative Quilt, representing what Hightstown
used to look like. Composed of eighteen story-telling squares and seventeen white quilted squares. The
eighteen story squares represent, from top left to right:
• New Jersey’s First Locomotive (Mary Mastoris);
• The Coalition Logo (Suzanne Huntoon and Audrey Roth);
• Wilson Hall (Helen Hemenway);
• The Sweetest Story Ever Told (Dorothea Pullen);
• Washington and Lafayette (Patricia Barron);
• Fountain Square (Elizabeth Carson);
• Farm House Scene (Catherine Murphy Spencer);
• Mercer Oak (Dorothea Pullen);
• The Norton House (Grace Rogers);
• Peddie Bridge and Lake (Helen Mills);
• John and Mary Hight (Eleanor J. Hutchinson);
• Grist Mill (Sheri Nadler);
• Lenape Indian (Lilian Meyers);
• First Meeting House of the Baptists (Catherine Grover Hernwall);
• Norton Tower (June M. House);
• Washington and His Troops (Edith Doscher);
• Hightstown (Sylvia Light Hutchinson);
• Early Schoolhouse (Lillian Meyers).
B Photograph of Huldah Ely, the last original member of the Ely Family to live in this house. She
obtained the house from her father, Joseph Ely. Huldah worked for many years as a 2nd grade teacher at
the Stockton Street School.
C Umbrella stand, circa 1888. This was a wedding present to Elizabeth Ely’s parents (Mary Alice
Hendrick married William Witlock Smock on March 22, 1888, in Freehold.)
D Set of Hitchcock chairs, circa 1830. (Rush-bottom chairs with painted backs.) Round Walnut
Pedestal Table. Electrified oil lamp with raised globe, circa 1890s.
E Pencil drawing of Baptist Church, by James Marlatt.
F Painting by Ethel Erving.
Reference Description
A The Walter C. Black Bicentennial Coalition Commemorative Quilt, representing what Hightstown
used to look like. Composed of eighteen story-telling squares and seventeen white quilted squares. The
eighteen story squares represent, from top left to right:
• New Jersey’s First Locomotive (Mary Mastoris);
• The Coalition Logo (Suzanne Huntoon and Audrey Roth);
• Wilson Hall (Helen Hemenway);
• The Sweetest Story Ever Told (Dorothea Pullen);
• Washington and Lafayette (Patricia Barron);
• Fountain Square (Elizabeth Carson);
• Farm House Scene (Catherine Murphy Spencer);
• Mercer Oak (Dorothea Pullen);
• The Norton House (Grace Rogers);
• Peddie Bridge and Lake (Helen Mills);
• John and Mary Hight (Eleanor J. Hutchinson);
• Grist Mill (Sheri Nadler);
• Lenape Indian (Lilian Meyers);
• First Meeting House of the Baptists (Catherine Grover Hernwall);
• Norton Tower (June M. House);
• Washington and His Troops (Edith Doscher);
• Hightstown (Sylvia Light Hutchinson);
• Early Schoolhouse (Lillian Meyers).
B Photograph of Huldah Ely, the last original member of the Ely Family to live in this house. She
obtained the house from her father, Joseph Ely. Huldah worked for many years as a 2nd grade teacher at
the Stockton Street School.
C Umbrella stand, circa 1888. This was a wedding present to Elizabeth Ely’s parents (Mary Alice
Hendrick married William Witlock Smock on March 22, 1888, in Freehold.)
D Set of Hitchcock chairs, circa 1830. (Rush-bottom chairs with painted backs.) Round Walnut
Pedestal Table. Electrified oil lamp with raised globe, circa 1890s.
E Pencil drawing of Baptist Church, by James Marlatt.
F Painting by Ethel Erving.