Joseph "Coffee" Jones Philadelphia coffee merchant Joseph Jones, who renamed it Port Norris after his son Norris. Coffee built a tavern near the ferry landing for John Ogden and Norton Harris. The area was known as Peak of the Moon, as this is the highest ground in the area so the first place to see the moon rise. Coffee had the largest sheep ranch on the east coast, with almost 7,000 in his heard, though most were lost to disease. During the War of 1812 with England, the British captured on of Coffee’s boats, the “Plowboy”, which was carrying lumber to Philadelphia. They held it the ransom of $1,000 in gold, a small fortune in those On November 16, 2008, Coffee Jones was recognized as a Legend of Port Norris. |