![]() ![]() Evans received word of inquiries being made about Joshua by his old master, who was in New Jersey on business. ![]() Upon learning of his new employer's negative feelings on slavery, Joshua Saddler told him of his escape. He reached New Jersey and soon found work with Josiah or "Cy" Evans, a local Quaker farmer. ![]() We do know that in the early 1800s a fugitive slave, Joshua Saddler escaped from a Maryland plantation. Records show that Jonathan Fisher was Joshua Saddler's son-in-law and not an alias for Joshua himself. Joshua Saddler (1785 - 1880)ĭescendants of Joshua Saddler and the Haddon Township Historical Society are currently researching the story of Joshua Saddler and new information and changes to some records will be ongoing as we learn more about Joshua Saddler. As the trees disappeared, the ecosystem of the forest was badly compromised. When Europeans first arrived in the area known today as Haddon Township, (in the early 1600’s) the forests which covered New Jersey were cleared for farms, pastures, residential and commercial use and timbered for lumber and fuel. A Leni Lenape trail running between the ferry at Cooper's Point in Camden and Haddonfield is now Haddon Avenue. The landscape was heavily forested around the creek area. Before European settlers arrived, the area around Newton Creek was inhabited by the Leni Lenape Native American tribes. Saddler's Woods is a 25.8 acre, old growth forest fragment which provides a good example of what the landscape looked like when European settlers arrived. ![]()
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