Stagecoach robber Joe Mulliner

In the 1770s Joe Mulliner victimized the stagecoaches that ran through the pine barrens.The bottleneck at Quaker Bridge,where 4 different roads met was his favorite spot.Often after robbing the passengers,he would buy drinks for all at the nearby Quaker Bridge Tavern.Captured in 1781 at a dance at a tavern in Nesco,he was taken to Burlington City,jailed for 6 weeks,then tried and hanged .His body was sent to his wife in Pleasant Mills,a village in the pine barrens,where she buried him.About 1850 his bones were dug up by a group of drunken woodsmen and taken to Batsto as a trophy,but were returned to his original grave.