November 6, 1822 - Page 2
I believe the conjecture as to New Jersey to be well founded. I believe it from experience. The late Joseph Copper of Camden had a most abundantly
productive Native vine from which he made excellent white wine. I have drank at his house, some of it seven years
old and it was as good as the common run of Madeira wine. – Ed. Dem. Press.
[submitted by Nancy Piper]
February 22, 1882 - John H. Pasco, a saloon-keeper at Camden, has been arrested for forging a physician's name
to a certificate of disability in connection with his application for a pension. It seems that Pasco was entitled
to a pension, and had all the necessary papers except the certificate of the physician who attended him while disabled.
The physician has been dead about four years.
[submitted by Shauna Williams]
Philadelphia Inquirer June 6, 1909
Leper Still at Large in Jersey
Blackwood, N.J., June 17, 1909
No trace of Charles CLARK, the colored leper boy who escaped from the County Hospital at Blackwood, has not been
found as of yet. It is the supposition that he has gone to New York, where he has a brother, or else has joined
his father, Price CLARK, who cannot be located. The report that the county officials supplied him with a new suit
and sufficient funds to make his escape is denied by Robert Jaggard, superintendent of the county Almshouse. ...
The super also declares that the report that the boy is getting better is false. He is growing slowly but steadily
worse.
[Submitted by Candi H.]
The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 23, 1893
Camden County's Almshouse, at Blackwood, has 160 inmates. [Submitted by C. Horton.]
Philadelphia Inquirer July 14, 1902
There are 201 patients in the Blackwood Asylum and 180 in the Almshouse. [Submitted by C. Horton.]
