From the following items it would seem that off Toms River the State of Pennsylvania had salt works and also that there was one there built by Congress.

In the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, Nov. 2, 1776, it was

"Resolved, That an officer and twenty-five men be sent to the salt works at Toms River (erected by this State in Toms River, N. J.) as a guard, and twenty-five spare muskets and two howitzers and a sufficient quantity of ammunition to defend in case of attack."

In Continental Congress, 1776, the President of Congress "was requested to write to Gov. Livingston of New Jersey, for two companies of militia to guard salt works near Toms River."

Mention of Government salt works near Toms River is occasionally met with in ancient deeds and of a windmill connected therewith.

During the war nearly all the salt works along our bay were either destroyed by the British or by storms, (some notice of which will hereafter be given.) Those destroyed by storms appear to have been built up again.

I know of no salt works along our coast of late years, except at Absecon (Atlantic county), some fifteen or twenty years ago, which probably was not much used then.

In the New Jersey Gazette, July, 1778, is a notice from the Board of Proprietors, signed James Parker. President, calling upon owners of salt works along the bay, who wish to buy wood of them from their outlands, to meet them at Freehold in August and they would dispose of it in parcels near salt works.