| |
| | Hibernia or Adventure Furnace and Forge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | In 1765, Ford, who was a nephew of Colonel Jacob Ford Sr., and his wife sold "an equal and undivided third of the Hibernia Iron Works to each of two purchasers, James Anderson Sussex County and Benjamin Cooper," trading as Anderson and Cooper. |
 | | Several tracts of land in the vicinity of Hibernia had already been acquired by Sterling, as shown by deeds dated in 1763, 1766, 1768, and 1769. |
 | | The late Hibernia Company at this place is dissolved, and the works are now carried on for the account of the Right Honorable the Earl of Sterling, the present sole proprietor thereof. |
| www.gti.net /rocktwp/hibmine.html (677 words) |
|