Excerpt from The Vineland Pioneers The first purchaser was an Englishman, J, G, Colson, who bought ten acres October 24. The second sale was to Captain George L. Post of Connecticut who began the erection of a house, the first on the Vineland tract. With the opening of 1862, the new settlement having been advertised in the New York and Boston news papers. Visitors came and a number of sales of farms and village lots made. Among those who came this year was Capt. Samuel F. Holbrook. Who at first was any thing but pleased with the appearance of the place, then a dense wilderness. As he stepped from the cars to the ground, there was no depot, no building in sight, he saw a young man standing by a wagon, and asked for Mr. Landis. I am Mr. Landis, replied the young man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.