Pleasant Mills - Batsto

Pleasant Mills - Batsto is a New Jersey historical marker in Atlantic County, dedicated 1932.

Atlantic County · dedicated 1932 · Northwast intersection Pleasant Mills Road with Rt. 43 - opposite · location approximate

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Five miles from here stood a tavern kept by a Col. Morgan, a haunt for privateers and Refugees. In front of the tavern was the "Punch Bowl", a large cage secluded in a tree in which Tories hid and planned crimes against patriots and their property.

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under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s

what this marker records spans 1777 to 1789, overlapping William Gabby's years here

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Pleasant Mills - Batsto

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