I found this Irish token from 1600s in NJ with my 800 and found out how it got to Philadelphia area. Andrew Robeson dropped it after coming to America from Clonemel Ireland. The coin has both his name and Irish county on it. He was a proprietor of West Jersey. Immigrated to the Province of West Jersey from Clonmel, Ireland in 1676, along with his wife Elizabeth Robeson, his son Samuel Robeson, and his nephew, Andrew Robeson, Jr. They were originally from Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland. He lived at "Shoomac Park" near Philadelphia, having bought the estate on November 11, 1690. He renamed it Roxboro. First coin that I could trace back to the original owner From An Historical and Genealogical Account of Andrew Robeson: of Scotland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and of His Descendants from 1653 to 1916, "He died in Nov. 1694, and was buried in the 'Friends' burying-ground,' Phila. Pa., though Mr. Hudson states that he was 'not a Friend.' His wife, and son Samuel, were also buried there, probably that being the only available place of burial at that time."
Found by Bill B., New Jersey Metal Detectorists.
