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Historic Cold Spring Village
720 Rt. 9 South
Cape May, NJ
08204
Phone:(609) 898-2300
Info@hcsv.org
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The Coxe Hall Cottage |
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Original Owner – Daniel Coxe Daniel Coxe
(1640-1730) was an English court
physician and Colonial New Jersey
entrepreneur who acquired 95,000 acres
in Cape May County purportedly through a
land grant from King Charles II. He had
strong ideas about community planning
and encouraged the establishment of a
town on the Delaware Bay in Lower
Township, along with a whale fishery.
Coxe involved the earliest settlers in
his whaling enterprise and wrote “I have
the Expence of above three thousand
pounds settled a Towne and Established a
fishing for Whales which are very
numberous about Cape May both within the
Bay and without all along the seas coast
which I am assured if well managed will
bring in above 4000£ per Annum all
charges defrayed.” Located at the mouth
of New England Creek, the town became
known alternately as New England Town,
Cape May Town or Portsmouth. The coastal
site of the original town of Portsmouth
eroded away during the 1800’s and is now
underwater west of the town of Town
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Copyright [2006] Historic Cold Spring Village. All
rights reserved
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