long-a-coming

Updated: May 11, 2025

There was a trail, for example, from the modern Camden opposite Philadelphia, following up Cooper's Creek past Berlin, then called Long-a-coming, crossing the watershed, and then following Great Egg Harbor River to the seashore. Another trail, long used by the settlers, led from Salem up to Camden, Burlington, and Trenton, going round the heads of streams.

Sydney George Fisher - The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware