Figure 2 Schermerhorn’s original $300 mortgage to Morgan, dated May 27, 1809, as recorded by the Middlesex County Clerk’s Office, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and prominently witnessed by Judge Jacob Van Wickle’s daughters. Judge Van Wickle was a principal in the Old Bridge, New Jersey, pottery concern in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and also owned land on the southwest end of Old Bridge, near Schermerhorn’s newly acquired property.