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NEW YORK FOLKLORE QUARTERLY
Vol. III, No. 3, Autumn 1947

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HANGED IN THREE PLACES, BURIED IN TWO
Henry Charlton Beck

I AM always a little surprised when I find those who, boasting familiarity with off-the-main-highway New Jersey, confess to knowing nothing at all about the Mordecai Swamp. That is because, tracking down one legend or another, I seem to have been mucking about in that watery wasteland, filled with punk-dry “islands,” at various intervals over the last twenty years.

The quest usually has been for some evidence of the loot or at least the hideaway of Joe Mulliner. Joe was a refugee, a leader of those outlaws of Revolutionary days who, refusing to adhere to the patriot cause and abhorring the notion of siding with the King, enjoyed their own brand of “fun” while their friends and neighbors were away from home.

Joe’s band chased cattle into the woods, scattered pigs into the pineland forests, and recurrently stooped to pillage and murder. That the homespun barnyard raiders made a thorough job of running pigs into the swamps is borne out in the lingering name of at least one forgotten town, Hog Wallow, once the center of hog hunts long before deer hunting required a legal season.....



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