New Jersey

William and Jane Merrill House, Ringoes, NJ 08551 (40.480079, -74.907405)

Felling dates: Winter 1797/8, Summer 1797, Winter 1795/6, Winter 1794/5

Site Master 1711-1797 (white oak) RONJx1 (t = 7.33 HOLL2016; 7.05 MWHPY; 6.50 NJ008).

The William and Jane Merrill House is the oldest section of a three-part farmhouse. The first floor has a two-room plan with a large kitchen with cookhearth in the front of the house, a bed chamber, and a stair hall formerly with boxed stairs in the rear of the house. The second floor has two chambers and a stair hall with boxed stairs.

Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the building was constructed from timbers felled over a span of time stretching from the winter of 1794/5 to the winter of 1797/8.

Worthington, M J and Seiter, J I 2024 “The Tree-Ring Dating of the William and Jane Merrill House, Ringoes, New Jersey " unpublished Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory archive report 2024/30

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