title: Good Intent, New Jersey
text: # Good Intent, New Jersey
  
  Good Intent is an unincorporated community located in Deptford Township in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
  
  The community is located along a tributary of Big Timber Creek.
  
  ## History
  
  An early settler, George Ward, purchased 250 acres (100 ha) of land at Good Intent in 1701 and erected small mills.
  
  A cloth mill was erected in 1829. The three-story building was destroyed by fire in 1840, but was soon rebuilt. About eight years later it burned down again, and was again rebuilt. A mail stage coach began service in 1834 "to leave Good Intent every morning, Sundays $excepted".^{:449}$
  
  In 1836, a factory was established at Good Intent which manufactured handles for pitch forks and shovels. The raw lumber was brought in on scows, and the finished product was transported to Philadelphia.
  
  The Good Intent Church was noted to exist during the 1840s.
  
  An improved road to Good Intent was built from Williamstown (then called "Squankum") in 1853.
  
  