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Woodward & Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties. 1883 Southampton is one of the interior townships of Burlington County, and is bounded on the east and northeast by Pemberton, on the south by Woodland and Shamong, on the southwest and west by Medford, on the northwest by Lumberton, and on the north by Pemberton and Eastampton townships. It was taken from Northampton Township in 1845, and contains twenty-eight thousand, eight hundred and thirty-three acres of land, of which, in 1870, nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-one acres were improved and mostly under cultivation. The population in 1880 was two thousand two hundred and sixty-nine. The act of the General Assembly describing the boundaries reads as follows, viz.: “Section 1. All that is part of the township of Northampton, in the County of Burlington, contained within the following bounds, to wit: Beginning in the line between the townships of Evesham and Northampton, on the south branch of the Rancocas Creek, at Haines’ bank landing, near Lumberton; thence running north 74º38 ½´ East, about fifty links to a pine tree marked with four blazes and twelve hacks, standing on the bank of said creek; thence continuing the same course two hundred and eighty-five chains to a stone standing on the edge of the north bank of Rancocas Creek, near the upper side of the abutment of the bridge across said creek near Shreveville; thence continuing the same course about fifty links to the middle of the said creek; thence continuing up the middle of the said north branch of the Rancocas Creek, the several courses thereof, until it strikes the line between the townships of Northampton and New Hanover; thence still along said creek between the townships of Northampton and New Hanover, the several courses thereof until it strikes the line between the counties of Monmouth and Burlington; thence along said line until it strikes the line between the townships of Little Egg Harbor and Northampton; thence along said line until it strikes the line between the Townships of Washington and Evesham; thence along said line until it strikes the line between the townships of Evesham and Northampton; thence along said line to the place of the beginning shall be and is hereby set off from the township of Northampton, in the county of Burlington, to be called and known by the name of ‘the township of Coaxen.’ ” This act approved March 1, 1845. An act supplemental to the act approved March 1, 1845: “Section 1. The name of the township of Coaxen, in the County of Burlington, shall be changed to ‘Southampton,’ and the inhabitants shall hereafter be styled and known by the name ‘the inhabitants of the township of Southampton, in the County of Burlington’. “Section 2. All parts of the act to which this is a supplement and not consistent herewith shall be and the same is hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect immediately.” Approved April 1, 1845.
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