Leeds Point

It is always almost attached to the pines of South Jersey.

The Pine Barrens is sometimes specifically Leeds Point within the Pine Barrens.

The devil's mother is usually a woman named Leeds or Mother Leeds of Burlington, but other names such as the Shords have occasionally been forwarded.

According to the most recounted origin tale, in 1735, a woman named Leeds had 12 children, and after discovering she was pregnant, For the 13th time, she cursed the child in frustration, declaring, Let the child be the devil.

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So in a different telling, the Jersey Devil is not localized at Leeds Point, but at Estaville near Mays Landing.

Miss Leeds became pregnant around, in this story, 1855 and rejected her baby, wishing a stork would deliver a devil.

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Um, she lives in Leeds Point, New Jersey, right on the edge of the Parent Bi- uh, the Pine Barrens.

Pine Barrens.

She does have 12 living children as of 1736.

This one has an origin story with a date on it, a birthday, a mother, a home address.

The people of South Jersey will tell you it was born in a house near the marshes of Leeds Point in 1735, the 13th child of a woman the legend calls Mother Leeds, and that it went up the chimney on the night it was born and has been out in the pines ever since.

That's better than 170 years between the birth and the panic of 1909, and it's been well over a century since.

nearly 300 years of screams over the treetops, hoof prints in the snow, and a winged thing crossing the road in somebody's headlights.

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Not from a birth in a house by the marsh, but from a smear campaign.

a family branded as devils by their church, mocked as ghosts by Benjamin Franklin, with a bat-winged dragon printed on the family publications, living at a place that carries their name to this day, Leeds Point, on the edge of the marshes where the pines meet the bay.

Over generations, in Regal's telling, the Leeds Devil of the Pamphlet Wars slowly turned into the Leeds Devil of the Pines, a political insult hardening into a flesh-and-blood monster the way a rumor hardens into a memory.

One party reportedly tracked the marks for almost four miles before they disappeared.

The Jersey Devil was no longer confined to a forest legend around Leeds Point.

It was moving through populated communities, appearing near homes, and crossing state lines.

A January 22nd Delaware newspaper announced that the creature had arrived there as well.