The Jersey Devil's Birth House
On November 2nd, 2013 Kenneth Sooy Sr met up with us to provide a detailed interview
concerning the Jersey Devil. He is the town historian and proved to be a wealth of
information concerning the legend and history of the Jersey Devil and the surrounding
area. Ken is a descendant of the Shrouds and his wife is a Leeds.
We met at Scott's Landing Road in Leed's Point/Galloway area and conducted the interview
at this location. Afterwards he showed us the location where the famous Shroud's House
once stood. The house burned to the ground in 1952 and only a small "overgrown clearing"
remains.
Afterwards he took us to a location in Smithville that is protected by development and we
walked to a very old cemetery and then over to the lake where the cement foundations of a
house still rests that burned in the 1950's. This location also has been claimed to be the
birthplace of the Jersey Devil..on both the Leed's and the Shroud's side of the tree.
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