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From left to right. Robert D. Pitney, Andy Pitney (son), Elizabeth Hoffman Pitney (Robert's wife), Amy Pitney (daughter), Charlie Pitney (son), Phillip Pitney (son), Elwood S. Piney (son).
Family Trees
A FARm StoRy
When the russet oaks and fiery sugar maples are
bare and the leaf peepers are gone for another
season, life goes on at this 6th generation family
farm in Chester.
By C.G. Wolfe l Photos by Stacey Roessler
Vintage Photos Courtesy of Hacklebarney Farm
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From left to Right - Kevin Collins, Karen Jacobson Collins,
with their Golden Retrievers, Carl and Henry
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t9s easy to see why Robert Pitney and his new wife, Elizabeth
(Hoffman) chose this spot in a remote corner of Morris
County, to build their new home in 1851. Their Victorian farmstead in Chester, New Jersey, sits amid towering evergreens in
Lower Hacklebarney 3 a storied place along a rock-strewn river
where Lenape legends dwell beside the tales of fortune seekers,
and miners who experienced boom and bust during Chester9s
short-lived iron heyday.
Robert Pitney was a scion of the prominent Pitney family of
nearby Mendham, but the Biographical and Genealogical History
of Morris County, N.J. (Lewis Publishing Company, NY, 1899)
reports that Robert
