Event: Mershon Annual Meeting
Date: August 13 & 14, 2010
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ,
Contact: E. C. Mershon, (503) 252-7139, ECMershon@aol.com
Information: Plan now to attend our 2010 Mershon Annual Meeting and Reunion to be held in Lawrenceville and Princeton, NJ, on Friday and Saturday, August 13 & 14, 2010. The meeting date was moved to August this year to accommodate school & vacation schedules and thus offers more people the opportunity to attend.

Recommended lodging is at the Clarion Palmer Inn, 3499 US Highway One South, Princeton, NJ 08540. You can visit the hotel website by searching online for “Clarion Palmer Inn, Princeton, NJ.” See the registration form on the following page for more information.

On Friday afternoon, August 13, from 1 pm to 4 pm, we will host an open house in the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville Chapel, 2688 Main Street (Route 206), Lawrenceville, NJ, for persons wishing to view our Mershon archives and our Mershon genealogy materials. Our Mershon Association Genealogist, Teresa Mershon, plans to be present. At the church, we will provide map directions to the Henry Mershon II gravesite at the nearby Lawrenceville Upper Cemetery and to the former Andrew Mershon Colonial Tavern. We will also have maps so you can drive by the former Houghton3 Mershon house on the site of the first plantation owned by Henry II, the Princessville Tavern site and the lands given to Peter3 and Henry3 by their father, Henry II (superscripts refer to Mershon generation numbers).

On Saturday morning, August 14, our 2010 Annual Meeting will begin at 9 am, in the Garden Room at the Clarion Palmer Inn. We are holding our meeting at the air-conditioned Clarion Palmer Inn because of concerns about potential hot weather in mid-August.

After our morning business meeting, our special programs will begin with a presentation by re-enactor Clarissa Dillon of Haverford, PA, on Food and Drink in Colonial Inns and Taverns. Clarissa has a doctorate in history from Bryn Mawr and has been active in “living history” since 1973. You can read more about Clarissa by searching online for “Clarissa Dillon.” Our program will be of special interest to those of us with colonial tavern keepers in our ancestry.

We will have a catered lunch in our meeting room at the Clarion Palmer Inn.

Following lunch and a brief stretch, Harrison and Linda Hunt of Port Washington, NY will present a program on the early history and development of the Newtown settlement on Long Island, NY. Newtown is where Henry Mershon II lived before moving his family to Maidenhead (now Lawrenceville), NJ in about 1700. Newtown is now the Elmhurst section of Queens County in New York City. Among other topics, their talk will discuss reasons behind the migration of a number of Newtown residents, including the Henry Mershon II family, to the Maidenhead area of New Jersey. There are not many traces remaining of the original Newtown settlement, but Harrison and Linda will show photographs of the area today. Harrison is a recently retired senior curator of the Nassau County (NY) Parks Department and Linda is a retired librarian.

Marie Louise (Reeder) Stokes, affectionately known as “Weedie” of Lawrenceville, NJ, will present a program on Mershon descendant Abner Reeder (1766-1841), a well-known silversmith in Trenton and Philadelphia. Abner was a son of John and Hannah4 (Mershon) Reeder and a grandson of Andrew3 Mershon. Weedie will display her collection of Abner Reeder spoons made of coin silver.

We will have a program opportunity for attendees to show any Mershon related items they want to share with our family.

On Saturday evening, we will have a group dinner at a local restaurant.

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Registration Form for 2010 Mershon Annual Meeting in Lawrenceville and Princeton, NJ August 13 & 14, 2010

Accommodations:
Recommended lodging is at the Clarion Palmer Inn, 3499 US Highway One South, Princeton, NJ 08540, telephone (609) 452-2500. You can visit the hotel website by searching online for “Clarion Palmer Inn, Princeton, NJ.” We have a special group room rate of $92.99/night. Breakfast is included in the room rate. Be sure to mention you are with the Mershon Association when you register.

Name _______________________________ Phone ___________________
Address _____________________________ Email ___________________

Names of other persons in your party: _____________________________________________________________________

Lunch Reservations for our Annual Meeting on Saturday, August 14, at the Clarion Palmer Inn:

_______ Adults @ $9.00 ea. = _________
_______ Children under 14 @ $6.00 ea. = _________

Please return this form with checks written to the Mershon Association for lunches by August 6 to:

E. Clare Mershon
3809 NE 136th Place
Portland, OR 97230-2720