Timbuctoo Cemetery, Westhampton, NJ (1820)

Located along the Rancocas Creek, about one mile from Mount Holly, Bucktoâ or Bucktown, as it is commonly called, was a community of freed slaves and a haven for fugitive slaves.  In 1860, the New Jersey Mirror, a local newspaper, reported on an incident called the Battle of Pine Swamp, in which armed residents of Timbuctoo prevented a Southern slave catcher aided by sympathetic local Whites from capturing Perry Simmons, a fugitive slave living in the town.