Who are the Henrys, and Why Is the Government Stealing Their Property?

In 1850, a man named Joseph McGill bought 21 acres on South River Road in the town of Cranbury, N.J. He built a farmhouse and began growing crops on the land that would stay in his family for generations to come. It wasn’t always easy. The house burned in 1879, but he rebuilt it. In 1936, his son, who now owned the property, died, leaving his wife and daughter to manage the farm. By 2012, McGill’s great-grandsons, Andy and Chris Henry, inherited the land where they’d grown up. They invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into it, and today, they lease it to cattle and sheep farmers. 

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The area, which was once filled with family farms like the one that belongs to

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