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GENEALOGICAL 


AND 


MEMORIAL  HISTORY 


OF  THE 


STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY 


A   RECORD   OF  THE    ACHIEVEMENTS    OF    HER    PEOPLE    IN    THE 

MAKING  OF  A  COMMONWEALTH  AND  THE 

FOUNDING  OF  A  NATION 


COMPILED  UNDER  THE   EDITORIAL  SUPERVISION  OF 

FRANCIS  BAZLEY  LEE 


VOLUME  II 


ILLUSTRATED 


NEW   YORK 
LEWIS  HISTORICAL  PUBLISHING  COMPANY 

1410 


COPVKIC.HT   1910 
BY 

Lkwis   Historical  Pi'blishing  CoMPA^■^•. 


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STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY. 


"^  This  name  in  America  is 

COLT-COULT  not  a  common  one,  and 
outside  of  Connecticut 
and  New  Jersey  has  not  received  thorough  and 
painstaking  research  to  ascertain  the  relation 
existing  between  the  different  local  families. 
Only  two  of  the  name  appear  in  the  excellent 
dictionary  of  living  Americans,  "Who's  Who 
in  America":  Le  Baron  Bradford  Colt,  United 
States  circuit  judge  of  Rhode  Island,  and  Sam- 
uel Pomeroy  Colt,  a  brother  of  the  judge  and 
a  lawyer  of  Paterson',  New  Jersey.  In  the 
Biographical  Dictionary  of  the  distinguished 
dead  we  find  record  only  of  James  Denison 
Colt  (1819-1881),  justice  of  the  Massachusetts 
supreme  court,  and  Samuel  Colt  (1814-1862), 
the  inventor  of  Colt's  revolver,  which  made 
the  name  as  familiar  as  Smith,  Brown  or 
Jones  in  the  vocabulary  of  Americans.  The 
rarity  in  number  of  the  family  is  discovered 
only  in  the  course  of  genealogical  research. 
John  Coult,  who  came  to  America  with  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Hooker,  in  1636,  and  settled  in 
Hartford,  Connecticut  Colony,  is  the  pro- 
genitor of  all  of  the  name  above  mentioned, 
whether  spelled  Colt,  Coalt  or  Coult,  as  his 
name  appears  on  Colonial  records  spelled  the 
three  ways. 

(I)  John  Colt,  immigrant,  was  born  in  Col- 
chester, Essex,  England,  in  1625,  and  came  to 
Dorchester,  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  when 
eleven  years  of  age.  He  was  probably  a  ward 
of  the  Hooker  company  and  went  to  Hartford 
with  them  about  1638.  There  is  much  con- 
fusion in  regard  to  the  individuality  of  John 
Coult,  the  progenitor,  as  three  generations 
bore  the  name,  and  the  second  and  third  Johns 
are  rarely  distinguished  by  "Captain  John" 
and  "John  Jr."  They  appear  indiscriminately 
as  John  Colt  or  John  Coult,  which  spelling  of 
the  name  appears  in  the  Colonial  records,  John 
"Coult"'  having  September  i,  1675,  been  shot 
at  by  the  Indians.  Styles  "History  of  Ancient 
Windsor"  fixes  the  date  of  this  occurrence  as 
August  31,  1675,  and  names  the  person  John 
Colt,  of  Windsor,  mentioning  him  again  as 
one  appointed  in  1672  to  work  on  the  high- 
ways. The  same  authority  records  the  sale 
in  1679  of  a  house  by  Joseph  Fitch  to  John 


Colt,  and  names  John  Coult  as,  October  11, 
1669,  a  freeman  of  Windsor,  Connecticut.  He 
married  (first)  Mary  Fitch;  (second)  Ann, 
born  in  Hartford  in  1639,  baptized  February 
7.  1646,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Loomis) 
Skinner.  His  children  were  born  in  Hart- 
ford as  follows:  i.  Sarah,  baptized  February 
7,  1646-47,  in  the  church  at  Hartford.  2. 
John,  born  1658,  see  forward.  3.  Abraham, 
married  Hannah  Loomis,  July  i,  1690;  re- 
moved to  Glastonbury  in  1691,  where  he  died 
in  1730.  4.  Joseph,  married  Ruth  Loomis, 
October  29,  1691  ;  lived  in  Windsor,  Connecti- 
cut, where  he  died  January  11,  1719.  5. 
Jonathan,  who  died  in  171 1.  6.  Jabez.  7. 
Esther,  who  married  Stephen  Loomis,  January 
I.  1690-91  ;  she  died  November  6,  1714.  The 
English  family  of  Coult,  from  which  John 
Coult,  the  immigrant  ancestor,  came,  lived  in 
Colchester,  England.  The  coat-of-arms  of  the 
Coults  originated  here  and  is  three  horses 
heads  and  a  broken  spear.  The  name  has 
been  traced  from  Sir  John  Coult  through  six 
generations  to  the  American  immigrant  of  the 
same  name  as  follows:  (i)  Sir  John  Coult, 
born  about  1440.  (II)  Peter.  (Ill)  John. 
(I\')  John  (2).  (V)  John  (3).  (VI)  John 
(4)-  (VII)  John  (5),  whose  son  (VIII) 
John  (6),  was  one  of  the  founders  of  New 
London  county,  Connecticut  Colony,  and  was 
probably  one  of  the  officials  who  named  one 
of  its  early  inland  towns  Colchester,  after  his 
father's  birthplace. 

(II)  Captain  John  ( 2), eldest  son  of  John  (i), 
immigrant,  and  Mary  (Fitch)  Colt,  was  bom 
in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  in  1658.  After  his 
marriage  he  removed  to  Lyme,  at  the  mouth 
of  the  Connecticut  river,  where  he  was  a 
farmer  and  leading  citizen  of  the  town.  He 
was  in  1709  established  and  confirmed  by  the 
general  assembly  to  be  ensign  of  the  company 
of  train  band  of  the  town  of  Lyme,  under  the 
command  of  Captain  William  Eely.  His 
name  is  here  "John  Coult  of  Lyme."  In  the 
general  assembly  of  Connecticut  Colony,  May 
8-23,  1 7 12,  he  was  present  as  a  deputy  from 
Lyme,  and  his  name  is  then  printed  "Ensign 
John  Colt."  On  October  10,  1717,  he  was 
commissioned  lieutenant  by  the  general  assem- 

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bly.  and  on  October  lo.  1723,  he  was  com- 
missioned captain  of  the  north  company  of 
Lyme.  He  was  deputy  to  the  general  assem- 
bly for  seven  sessions  of  that  body,  1718-24. 
He  married  Mary  Lord,  and  their  children 
were  as  follows:  i.  A  daughter  who  married 
a  Air.  Sterling,  of  Niantia.  2.  A  daughter 
who  married  Thomas  Ayers,  of  Saybrook.  3. 
Benjamin,  born  1698,  see  forward.  4.  A 
daughter  who  married  a  Mr.  Comstock,  of 
Hadlyme.  5.  Samuel,  born  1705,  died  1743; 
married,   November  7,   1734,  .\bigail  Mervin. 

(HI)  Benjamin,  eldest  son  of  Captain 
John  (2)  and  Mary  (Lord)  Colt,  was  born 
in  Lyme,  Connecticut,  in  1698,  died  in  1754. 
He  resided  in  Lyme,  where  he  was  a  deacon 
of  the  church  and  lieutenant-colonel  in  the 
militia.  He  married.  May  26,  1724,  Miriam 
Harris,  and  their  children,  born  in  Old  Lyme, 
New  London  county,  Connecticut,  were  as 
follows:  I.  John,  born  1725,  died  1784:  mar- 
ried (first)  Mary  Lord;  (second)  Mary  Gard- 
ner ;  ( third )  Abigail  Masten.  2.  Joseph.  3. 
Mary.  4.  Sarah.  5.  Temperance.  6.  Harris. 
7.  Polly.  8.  Benjamin,  born  1740.  9.  Peter. 
10.  Lsaac,  see  forward.  It  is  known  that  Isaac 
Coult,of  Sussex  County,  New  Jersey,  came  from 
Connecticut,  He  is  probably  the  tenth  child 
of  Benjamin  Coult  and  born  at  Lyme  in  1743. 
The  birth  of  one  of  the  children  of  Colonel 
Benjamin  Colt  or  Coult,  as  both  he  and  his 
father  and  grandfather  frequently  had  their 
names  written,  was  in  1725  and  another  in 
1740,  and  the  natal  year  of  none  of  the  others 
is  given.  Or  Isaac  Coult,  of  Sussex,  may 
have  been  the  son  of  Samuel,  as  above  stated, 
born  in  1705,  who  married  Abigail  Mervin. 
This  it  is  safe  to  say  that  Isaac  was  a  grandson 
of  Captain  John  and  great-grandson  of  John 
Coult,  the  immigrant.  Further  research  in 
family  records  may  make  the  parentage  of 
Isaac  Coult  clear,  but  the  weight  of  available 
evidence  is  in  favor  of  the  line  as  here  laid 
down,  and  we  venture  to  give  it  as  presumably 
correct.  The  Coults  in  Connecticut  were 
farmers,  and  naturally  they  took  up  the  same 
vocation  in  New  Jersey  among  the  rich  high- 
lands of  Sussex  couniy.  The  name  Joseph 
Coult  appears  in  each  generation,  both  in  Con- 
necticut and  New  Jersey,  with  this  difference, 
that,  in  Connecticut  portions  of  the  family 
wrote  the  name  after  the  first  two  generations 
Colt,  while  Isaac  preserved  the  original  spell- 
ing Coult,  as  did  the  family  of  that  name  in 
New  T^ondon  county,  Connecticut. 

(IV)  Isaac  Coult,  probably  son  of  Colonel 
Benjamin    and     Miriam    (Plairis)    Colt,   was 


born  in  Lyme,  Connecticut,  in  1743,  died  in 
Sussex  county.  New  Jersey,  in  1837.  He 
came  from  Connecticut  to  New  Jersey  when  a 
young  man.  He  married,  July  13,  1766,  Sarah 
llulbart,  born  in  1747,  died  in  New  Jersey  in 
1833.  Their  children,  born  presumably  in 
Papakating,  Sussex  county.  New  Jersey,  were 
as   follows:     i.   Abigail,   born     1770,   married 

Hetzcl.     2.     Isaac,      1772,     married 

Nancy  Aiorris.  3.  Anna,  1774,  marrieil 
Norris.  4.  Ashel,  1776,  died  1804,  un- 
married.    5.  Sarah,  1778,  died  1779.     6.  John, 

1781,  married  English.     7.    Elizabeth, 

1783,    married    Bryant,     8.    Joseph, 

1788,  see  forward.  9.  Lucy,  1789,  married 
Mattison. 

(\  )  Joseph,  fourth  son  of  Isaac  and  Sarah 
( Holbart )  Coult,  was  born  in  Papakating, 
Sussex  county.  New  Jersey,  1788.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  in  1809.  Jerusha  Price,  and  their 
children  born  in  Papakating,  New  Jersey,  were 
as  follows:  i.  Robert,  1810,  died  unmarried  in 
1838.  2.  Sarah,  1812.  ^  Elizabeth,  1814, 
married  Charles  Roe.  4.  Abigail,  181 5,  mar- 
ried John  Couse.  5.  Lucy,  1817,  married 
Charles  Roe.  6.  John,  1819,  married  Cather- 
ine Titman.  7.  Henrietta,  1821.  8.  Isaac, 
1823,  married  Jane  Ketchum.  Mr.  Coult  mar- 
ried (second)  1825,  Hannah  Coursen.  who 
bore  him  two  children.  9.  Jerusha,  1826.  10. 
Joseph,  see  forward. 

(\T)  Joseph  (2),  second  child  of  Joseph 
(i)  and  Hannah  (Coursen)  Coult,  was  born 
in  Papakating,  Sussex  county.  New  Jersey, 
May  25,  1834.  He  was  educated  in  the 
Rankin  School  at  Deckertown,  studied  law 
under  Thomas  N.  McCarter,  and  later  in  the 
Law  School  at  New  Albany,  New  York,  grad- 
uating with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  state  of 
New  York  and  began  the  practice  of  law  in 
New  York  City.  Shortly  afterward,  how- 
ever, he  returned  to  his  native  state  and  was 
admitted  as  an  attorney-at-law  there  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1 861.  He  became  a  law  partner  with 
Thomas  Anderson  in  Newton,  conducting  a 
general  law  practice,  the  partnership  continu- 
ing for  several  years  and  being  attended  with 
signal  success.  He  was  made  a  full  attorney 
and  counsellor-at-law  under  the  laws  of  New 
Jersey  in  1864,  and  in  1871  entered  into  part- 
nership with  Louis  Van  Blascom.  In  1873 
he  withdrew  from  the  firm  and  removed  to 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  becoming  junior  part- 
ner in  the  firm  of  Leonard  &  Coult.  In  1893, 
when  Chancellor  Theodore  Runyon  withdrew 
from  the  practice  of  law  in  order  to  accept  the 


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position  of  United  States  minister  to  Ger- 
many, as  successor  to  William  Walter  Phelps, 
imder  apoointment  of  President  Cleveland,  the 
firm  of  Leonard  &  Coult  succeeded  to  his  ex- 
tensive law  practice  and  they  made  a  specialty 
of  mtmiciiial  law.  Mr.  Coult  was  counsel  for 
the  city  of  Newark  for  twelve  years  and  prose- 
cutor of  pleas  for  one  year.  He  is  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics,  taking  an  active  interest  in 
all  matters  pertaining  to  the  welfare  of  his 
party,  and  on  numerous  occasions  he  has 
served  as  delegate  to  conventions  of  various 
kinds,  having  the  honor  of  having  assisted  in 
the  nomination  of  no  less  than  three  of  the 
men  who  have  stood  at  the  head  of  the  nation. 
He  was  a  delegate  to  the  Baltimore  convention 
that  nominated  Lincoln  for  a  second  term, 
the  convention  at  Philadelphia  which  nomin- 
ated Grant,  and  the  Cincinnati  convention 
which  nominated  Hayes.  His  club  affilialfcns 
included  membership  in  the  Lfnion  Club,  the 
North  End  Club  and  the  New  York  Republi- 
can Club.  Mr.  Coult  married,  at  Branchville, 
New  Jersey,  May  25,  1859,  Frances  A.,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  A.  and  Margaret  Osborne. 
Their  family  consists  of  three  daughters  and 
one  son :  Margaret,  Eliza,  Lillian,  married 
Frank  W.  Kinsey,  and  Joseph,  who  married 
Edna  Pierson  Wheeler  and  has  two  children, 
Edna  Clare  and  Joseph. 


The  Mercers  are  of  Scotch 
MERCER    origin,  and  for  centuries  before 

the  coming  of  persons  of  their 
blood  to  this  country  the  name  was  a  distin- 
guished one  both  in  church  and  state,  but  par- 
ticularly in  the  kirk,  where  we  find  them  among 
the  foremost  in  a  land  and  time  noted  for  their 
eminent  divines  and  reformers.  The  great- 
grandfather of  the  founder  of  the  jNIercer 
family  in  New  Jersey  was  John  Mercer,  who 
was  the  minister  of  the  kirk  in  Kinnellan,  Aber- 
deenshire, from  1650  to  1676,  in  which  latter 
year  he  resigned  his  incumbency,  probably  on 
account  of  feebleness  or  age,  as  his  death 
occurred  about  a  year  later.  This  worthy 
divine  married  Lilian  Row,  a  great-grand- 
daughter of  the  reformer,  John  Row,  and  from 
their  union  sprang  three  children,  one  of  whom 
was  Thomas  Mercer,  baptized  January  20, 
1658,  and  mentioned  in  the  poll  lists  of  1696. 
This  Thomas  married  (first)  Anna  Raite,  and 
(second)  a  woman  whose  last  name  is  un- 
known but  vi'ho  was  christened  Isabel.  Seven 
children  were  the  result  of  one  or  both  of  these 
marriages,  but  the  records  at  present  available 
are  insufificient  to  enable  us  to  determine  which 


wife  was  the  mother  of  any  one  or  more  of 
them.  One  of  these  children  was  baptized 
William  on  the  25th  of  March,  1696,  and  he 
is  an  important  personage,  not  only  on  his 
own  account,  but  also  because  he  w-as  the 
father  of  two  great  families  of  his  name  in 
this  country,  both  of  them  worthily  held  in 
high  honor  by  New  Jersey,  although  only  one 
has  made  this  colony  and  state  its  home.  Will- 
iam Mercer  followed  in  the  footsteps  of  his 
grandfather,  the  Rev.  John,  and  being  edu- 
cated for  the  ministry,  made  a  name  for  him- 
self and  won  a  prominent  position  in  the  estab- 
lished kirk  of  Scotland,  from  1720  to  1748 
being  in  charge  of  the  manse  at  Pittsligo,  .Aber- 
deenshire. He  married  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir 
Robert  Munro,  of  Foulis,  who  was  killed  in 
1746,  while  commanding  the  British  troops  at 
Falkirk.  By  this  marriage  the  Rev.  William 
Mercer  had  three  children,  one  a  daughter 
named  Eleanor  or  Helen;  another  Hugh,  who 
emigrated  to  America  in  1747,  settling  first  in 
Pennsylvania  and  later  in  Virginia,  and  won 
for  himself  undying  glory  and  national  grati- 
tude, first  as  captain  of  militia  in  Braddock's 
unfortunate  expedition,  and  afterwards  as 
brigadier-general  of  the  continental  army  in 
the  campaign  culminating  in  the  battles  of 
Trenton  and  Princeton  where  he  met  his  doom  ; 
and  lastly  William,  the  founder  of  the  Mercer 
faiuily  of  New  Jersey. 

(  I )  William  Mercer,  the  colonist,  above- 
mentioned  as  the  son  of  the  Rev.  William 
Mercer,  of  Pittsligo,  was  born  about  171 5,  in 
.A.ldie,  Scotland,  shortly  after  his  father's  ordin- 
ation to  the  ministry,  and  died  in  New  Bruns- 
wick, New  Jersey,  March  10,  1770,  in  the  fifty- 
sixth  year  of  his  age.  From  all  accounts  Will- 
iam Mercer,  the  colonist,  was  a  man  of  retiring 
and  quiet  disposition,  inclining  more  to  the 
study  and  the  workshop  rather  than  to  the  field 
and  forum  of  public  life.  He  was  a  scholarly 
gentleman  and  physician,  whose  mills  were 
an  easily  recognized  and  well  known  landmark 
not  only  throughout  New  Jersey  but  in  New 
York  as  well.  From  May,"  1747,  about  six  or 
seven  years  after  his  emigration  to  this  coun- 
try, until  February,  1768,  about  two  years 
before  his  death,  the  New  York  Gasettc  and 
Weekly  Post  Boy  and  the  Nctv  York  Gazette 
and  JVeekiy  Mercury  contain  many  adver- 
tisements of  lands  for  sale  and  houses  to  sell 
or  rent  which  were  either  owned  by  Dr.  Mercer 
himself  or  which  though  owned  by  others, 
were  to  be  recogiiized  by  their  pro.ximity  or 
relation  to  "Dr.  Mercer's  Mills,"  which  were 
situated  in  the  "blue  hill  countrv  of  Somerset 


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county,  on  the  road  through  Johnstone  s  bap 
o  the   \-allev   between   the   hrst   and   secor^d 
mountains."  '  Dr.  Mercer  s  own  home  ^a.    n 
New    Brunswick,   where   he   held  the  title  to 
considerable  properties,  one  of  them  being     a 
house  and  large  garden  situated  upon  the  bank 
o     the  river.-'  the  house  having  "three  good 
fine  rooms  upon  the  first  floor  and  four  rooms 
on  the   second,   with   a   good   kitchen,   cellar, 
pantry.  &c.,  below,"  and  the  outbuildings  con- 
Sted'of  "a  large  barn  with  very  convenient 
stabling  in  it,  and  other  outhouses,  also  two 
large  convenient  storehouses  adjoining      This 
prmxTtv  Dr.  Mercer  had  bought  trom  W  ilham 
Donald'son.  who  had  afterward  rented  it  from 
him  for  a  number  of  years,  and  then  having 
e  erni.ned  to  go  back  to  England,  had  given 
up  his  lease,  whereupon  Dr.  Mercer  advertised 
it  as  for  rent  in  the  New  York  papers.     From 
another  advertisement  in  the  A' ^-u'  >  ork  Gazette 
and    ir<-c'A-/v   Mercury   of   January    ]S-^77'^' 
about  six  years  after  Dr.  Mercer  s  death    we 
learned   that   he   was   one   of   the   old   Jersey 
slave   owners,  as  on  that   date  Colonel  John 
Reid  advertises   forty  shillings  reward   for  a 
runaway   negro   man,   named   Sam,   who   haU 
formerly  belonged  to  and  lived  m  the  family 
of  Dr    Mercer.     Dr.  Mercer  s  will  is  recorded 
in  Liber  K.  page  208,  of  the  East  Jersey  wis^ 
and  is  on  file  in  the  vaults  of  the  office  of  the 
secretary  of  state  in  Trenton,  New  Jersey    By 
his  wife^  Lucy  (Tyson)   Mercer    Dr.  W  1  ham 
Mercer   had    nine    children:      William,    John, 
Isaac      Gabriel.     Peter,     Martha,     Achibald, 
Helen  and  Robert.     Two  of  these  sons  went 
to  West  Indies,  one  of  them,  William,  settling 
about  "five   years   after  his   father's   death   in 
Bermuda,  and  the  other  in  Barbadoes.  Another 
of  his  sons  settled  in  New  Orleans,  and  two 
more  of  his  sons  died  leaving  no  record  be- 
hind them.  Of  Martha,  the  oldest  of  his  daugh- 
ters nothing  is  known.   Melen,  his  other  daiigh- 
ter  'married  Samuel  Highway,  who  settled  m 
Cincinnati,    Ohio,    and    after    her    husbands 
death,  somewhat  later  than  1814.  returned  to 
New  lersev  and  made  her  home  with  her  niece, 
M rs  ■  Theodore    Frelinghuysen,    at    Newark, 
New    lersev,   where    she   died    in    November, 
1822.  "Robert,  the  youngest  son  of  Dr.  William 
Mercer    the  colonist,   settled  in   Philadelphia, 
Pennsyivania,  having  married  Eleanor  Titten- 
nary,  December  2.    1783.  who  bore  him  four 
children :  Eleanor  Tittennary  Mercer,  who  be- 
came the  wife  of  Samuel  Moss  and  the  mother 
of  five  children  :  Joseph,  Lucy,  Thomas  Freling- 
huvsen,    Charlotte    Frelinghuysen    and    Maria 
Moss-  Letitia  Mercer,  who  died  young;  Rob- 


ert Mercer  who  followed  his  uncle  to  New 
( )rleans  ;  and  Mary  Strycker  Mercer,  who  mar- 
ried and  left  one  child,  Isaac  Sydney  Jones. 

(H)  Archibald,  sixth  son  of  Dr.  Wdliam 
Mercer  of  New  Brunswick,  was  born  in  1747, 
either  shortly  before  or  just  after  the_  father 
came  to  this  country.  He  died  m  Newark 
New  Jersey,  May  4,  1814,  after  a  long  and 
useful  life,  the  early  part  of  which  was  spent 
in  New  Brunswick  and  New  York,  the  man- 
hood and  middle  age  in  Millstone,  Somerset 
county  New  Jersev,  and  the  declining  years 
in  Newark  where  he  took  his  place  as  a  prom- 


inent  citizen  of  the  growing  town  and  the  close 
and  valued  friend  of  such  men  as  General  John 
\    Gumming,  James  Kearney,  Elias  E.  Boudi- 
nut    William  Halsey.  John  and  Stephen   \  an 
Courtlandt,  Tesse  Gilbert,  Ashbel  Upson,  David 
I  vman.   Abraham   W^ooley,   Archippus   Priest 
and*  William   Hillhouse.     The  early  years  ot 
Archibald    Mercer's    life    were    spent    in    his 
father's  home  in  New  Brunswick,  and  here, 
under   the    scholarlv    doctor's   tuition,    he    re- 
ceived his  early  education.     When  he  was  be- 
tween fifteen  and  twenty  years  of  age,  young 
Archibald  went  to  New   York  where  he   re- 
mained until  after  the  birth  of  his  first  child 
but  whether  he  went  there  to  enroll  himself 
amon'-  the   students   of   King's   College,   now 
Columbia  University,  or  whether  he  went  to 
the  citv  in  order  to  start  himself  in  a  business 
career'is  uncertain.    That  he  was  there  during 
this  time,  however,  we  learn  from  the  fact  that 
his  eldest  child  was  born  in  New  \ork.  and 
that  during  the  period  above  mentioned  there 
occurs  in  the  advertisement  already  mentioned 
which  his   father  inserted  in  the  newspapers 
the  phrase  "For  further  particulars  enquire  ot 
Doctor  Mercer  at  New  Brunswick,  or  Arcfij- 
bald  Mercer  at  Walter  and  Samuel  Frank  in  s 
store   in    New    York."      The   times   in   which 
\rchibald  IMercer's  youth  and  early  manhood 
were    passed   were   indeed    stirring   ones   and 
iust  what  part  he  took  in  them  we  have  never 
been    able    to    ascertain.      The    only    military 
record  left  by  the  New  Jersey  Alercer  is  that 
of  Captain  John,  who  at  the  beginning  of  the 
war  was  an  ensign  in  Captain  Howell  s  com- 
l)any,  f^rst  battalion  of  the  first  establishment 
of  the  Jersey  line,  who  on  November  14.  17/3. 
became  first  lieutenant  of  the  same  company. 
On  November  2g,  1776,  Lieutenant  John  Mer- 
cer was  transferred  to  Captain  Morns  s  com- 
panv    first  battalion  of  the   second  estabhsh- 
ment  of  the  lersev  line,  and  on  February  15. 
1777,  was  promoted  captain  of  the  same  com- 
pany.    He  was  taken  prisoner  of  war  and  ex- 


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changed  on  Xovember  6,  1780,  and  he  was 
finally  retired  September  26.  1780.  Unless  this 
Captain  John  Mercer  was  Archibald  Mercer's 
elder  brother,  of  whom  no  other  record  now 
remains,  it  is  probable  that  he  was  either  not 
at  all  or  at  most  only  distantly  related  to  the 
family  we  are  now  considering.  However 
this  may  be,  of  one  thing  we  can  be  reasonably 
sure,  Archibald  Mercer's  position  in  later  life, 
the  fact  that  in  1794  he  was  judge  of  the  court 
of  common  pleas  for  Somerset  county,  the 
fact  that  the  men  whose  names  we  have  already 
mentioned  were  his  bosom  friends  and  con- 
sidered that  they  were  honored  by  being  reck- 
oned such,  all  goes  to  show  that  he  must  have 
played  his  part  well  and  done  his  duty  man- 
fully, whatever  it  was.  in  those  times  that 
"tried  men's  souls."  Mr.  Mercer's  children 
with  the  exception  of  the  first  born  were  all 
of  them  born  in  Millstone,  Xew  Jersey,  so  that 
between  the  years  1776  and  1794  that  was 
probably  his  home.  At  some  time  between 
then  and  the  beginning  of  the  new  century  he 
removed  to  Newark,  Xew  Jersey,  for  in  1806 
we  find  that  he  was  chairman  of  the  committee 
that  made  the  contract  for  the  construction  of 
the  Newark  turnpike,  his  fellow  committeenaen 
being  John  X.  Gumming,  Jesse  Gilbert,  Ashbel 
Upson,  David  Lyman,  Abraham  Wooley, 
Archippus  Priest  and  William  Hillhouse.  On 
March  10,  181 1,  he  and  George  Scriba,  Esquire, 
were  sponsors  in  Trinity  Church  for  Joseph 
.A.ugiistus,  son  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Wheeler, 
the  second  rector  of  the  parish.  On  September 
29.  1812.  about  six  weeks  after  his  second 
marriage,  Mr.  Mercer  wrote  his  will,  which 
is  recorded  in  the  Essex  Wills,  book  .\..  page 
500,  and  is  preserved  in  the  vaults  at  Trenton. 
In  this,  after  the  customary  instructions,  com- 
mitting his  soul  to  God  and  his  body  to  the 
earth  "to  be  buried  at  the  discretion  of  his 
executors,"  he  divides  his  property,  after  cer- 
tain legacies  have  been  deducted,  equally  among 
his  five  surviving  children.  To  several  of  his 
grandchildren  he  leaves  legacies  varying  in 
amount ;  to  the  rector,  wardens  and  vestrymen 
of  Trinity  Church  he  bequeathes  all  the 
accounts  he  has  against  the  church,  and  re- 
serves his  pew  for  the  use  of  the  members  of 
his  family  and  expresses  the  "hope  that  they 
will  at  least  sometimes  go  there ;"  to  his  sister, 
Helen  Highway,  and  to  his  "unfortunate 
brother,  Robert,"  he  leaves  Sio.ooo.no  each; 
he  appoints  as  his  executors  his  four  children, 
Peter,  .Archibald.  Gertrude  and  Charlotte :  his 
two  sons-in-law.  Dr.  James  Lee  and  Theodore 
Frelinghuysen,  and  his  friend,  James  R.  Smith, 


of  Xew  York;  he  concludes  by  saying  that  he 
desires  "to  be  buried  alongside  of  my  deceased 
son.  William,  and  that  the  remains  of  my  dear 
wife  be  removed  and  laid  in  the  same  pit  with 
me.  .\nd  now  farewell  my  beloved  children, 
the  best  legacy  I  can  leave  you  is  to  conjure 
you  to  live  so  as  to  merit  the  favour  of  your 
God."  This  will  is  witnessed  by  John  N.  Gum- 
ming, James  Kearney  and  Elias  E.  Boudinot, 
and  was  proved  June  18,  1814.  The  inventory 
of  his  estate  made  June  i,  1814,  by  General 
John  X.  Gumming  and  William  Halsey, 
amounted  to  $120,609.88. 

The  first  wife  of  the  Hon.  Archibald  Mercer 
and  the  mother  of  all  of  his  children  was  Mary 
(Schenck)  Mercer,  of  Somerset  county,  New 
Jersey,  whom  he  married  July  23,  1770.  She 
died  in  Newark,  January  i,  1808,  aged  sixty 
years,  after  bearing  him  nine  children,  seven 
of  whom  survived  her.  Their  names  and  birth- 
days are  as  follows:  Maria,  August  19.  1771  ; 
Peter  Schenck.  June  14.  1776;  Louisa,  August 
5,  1778;  Gertrude,  October  25,  1781  ;  Char- 
lotte. February  5,  1784;  William,  March  2, 
1786;  Eliza,  June  14,  1787;  xArchibald,  Decem- 
ber I,  1788;  John,  May  9,  1790.  Two  of  these 
children  died  in  infancy.  Eliza,  March  9,  1793; 
and  John,  July  I,  1794-  Two  more  of  them 
married  and  died  before  their  father,  Louisa, 
who  married  John  Frelinghuysen,  son  of  the 
Hon.  Frederick  Frelinghuysen,  who  is  con- 
sidered elsewhere,  and  William,  who  will  be 
referred  to  later.  Maria  Mercer,  the  eldest 
child,  married  Dr.  Peter  T.  Stryker,  and  died 
childless.  July  8,  1841.  Peter  Schenck  Mercer, 
the  eldest  son,  died  April  i,  1833,  in  Xew 
London,  Connecticut,  after  being  twice  mar- 
ried; by  his  first  wife  he  had  four  children, 
Mary  .Schenck,  .Archibald,  John  PYelinghuysen, 
and  Frederick ;  but  all  that  remains  of  record 
of  them  or  their  mother  is  a  gravestone  in  the 
"Red  brick  grave  yard"  on  the  road  leading 
from  Millstone  to  Somerville,  inscribed  "Mar- 
garet Mercer,  1814,  aged  thirty-one  years,  wife 
of  Peter  Mercer  and  their  infant  children." 
P)y  his  second  wife,  Rebecca  Starr,  he  had  four 
more  children,  Peter,  who  died  young;  .Abigail, 
who  married  Captain  John  French  ;  Margaret, 
who  married  a  Winthrop  ;  and  Elizabeth,  whose 
husband  was  Frederick  Bidwell.  Gertrude 
Mercer,  the  fourth  child  and  third  daughter, 
died  January  26,  1830,  having  married,  July 
22,  1808.  Dr.  James  Lee,  of  Xew  London,  to 
whom  she  bore  at  least  one  daughter,  who  was 
afterwards  Mrs.  Robert  .A.  McCurdy  and  the 
mother  of  Richard  A.  McCurdy.  of  Morris- 
town.      Qiarlotte    Mercer,   the   next   child    to 


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Gertrude,  married  Theodore,  another  son  of 
the  Hon.  Frederick  Frelinghuysen,  and  will  be 
referred  to  under  that  family.  Archibald  Mer- 
cer, junior,  the  next  to  the  youngest  child,  died 
in  New  London,  Connecticut,  October  3,  1850. 
He  was  twice  married  ;  the  first  time  to  Abigail 
Starr,  March  11,  1812,  who  bore  him  two  chil- 
dren. Charlotte  Frelinghuysen.  afterwards 
Mrs.  James  Alorgan,  and  Sarah  Isham,  after- 
wards the  wife  of  George  S.  Hazard.  By  his 
second  marriage,  June  18,  181 7,  to  Harriet 
Wheat,  who  died  February  20,  1854,  he  had 
eight  more  children :  Louisa  Frelinghuysen 
and  Helen  Highway,  who  died  in  infancy; 
Harriet,  John  Dishon  and  Abigail  Starr,  who 
died  unmarried :  William,  who  married  Ellen 
C.  Allen :  Gertrude  Lee.  who  became  Mrs. 
Adam  F.  Prentice ;  and  Maria  Stryker,  after- 
wards the  wife  of  Samuel  H.  Grosvenor,  whose 
only  son  is  the  Rev.  William  Mercer  Gros- 
venor, D.  D..  the  present  rector  of  the  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  Church  of  the  Incarnation, 
New  York  City.  A  little  over  four  years  after 
his  wife's  death,  Archibald  Mercer,  senior, 
married  (second)  Jidy  5.  1812,  Catharina 
Sophia  Cuyler,  widow  of  John  \'an  Cortlandt, 
who  survived  him  about  nine  years,  dying 
March  25,  1823.  Of  this  marriage  there  was 
no  issue.  By  her  first  husband.  Mrs.  Mercer 
had  one  son,  James  \'an  Cortlandt,  whom  to- 
gether with  her  mother,  Martha  Cuyler,  she 
mentions  in  her  will,  written  August  3,  1821, 
and  proven  August  9,  1823,  her  estate,  left 
wholly  to  these  two.  amounting  to  $6,737,961. 
(HI)  William  (2),  sixth  child  and  second 
son  of  the  Hon.  Archibald  Mercer,  Esquire,  of 
Somerset  county  and  Newark,  was  born  in 
Alillstone,  New  Jersey.  March  2,  1786.  died  in 
Newark  less  than  three  years  after  his  mar- 
riage, and  within  eighteen  days  of  his  twenty- 
sixth  birthday.  From  several  of  the  ex- 
pressions in  his  father's  will  it  would  appear 
as  though  he  were  to  some  extent  the  favorite 
son,  but  whether  this  was  due  to  the  promise 
of  a  brilliant  career,  or  to  innate  and  acquired 
characteristics  that  endeared  him  to  those  with 
whom  he  came  in  contact,  or  to  a  delicate  con- 
dition of  health  that  rendered  necessary  an 
extra  amount  of  care  and  devotion  on  his 
father's  part,  tiiere  is  now  no  means  of  deter- 
mining. William  Mercer  died  intestate,  but 
from  his  father's  will  we  learn  that  Archibald 
Mercer  kept  a  careful  account  of  all  the  money 
he  had  given  to  his  children  at  any  time,  and 
the  reasons  therefore.  On  the  date  of  his  son. 
William's  death  he  closed  these  accounts  and 
his  will   mentions   the  totals   with   the  ledger 


page  devoted  to  each  child,  and  notes  that  in 
the  case  of  "Lucy"  (i.  e.  Louisa)  and  William, 
both  deceased  "these  two  accounts  are  not  to 
be  made  account  of  except  as  so  much  towards 
the  legacies  of  their  children."  In  the  case 
of  the  other  children  the  amounts  given  to 
them  were  to  be  charged  against  their  respec- 
tive shares  of  his  estate  as  were  also  any  addi- 
tional sums  advanced  to  them  since  that  date. 
The  totals  vary  all  the  way  from  Charlotte's 
.$737.00  to  Peter's  $5,768;  and  William's  $2,- 
600.00  is  fourth  in  the  whole  list,  but  in  the 
amounts  loaned  to  his  sons  it  is  only  exceeded 
by  Peter's  amount.  Only  the  ledger,  if  it  is 
still  in  existence  and  can  be  found,  will  tell  us 
with  certainty  the  purpose  for  which  these 
'loans  were  made;  but  judging  from  the  fact 
that  four  out  of  his  nine  children  died  before 
reaching  the  prime  of  life,  from  the  sad  his- 
tory of  Peter's  first  marriage  and  the  early 
deaths  of  his  wife  and  children,  together  with 
the  fact  that  the  greatest  amounts  were  loaned 
to  Peter.  Louisa.  Gertrude  and  W'illiam,  the 
first  of  his  four  grown  up  children  to  die,  and 
also  reniembering  that  the  most  of  William's 
married  life  was  spent  at  a  health  resort,  there 
is  a  possibility  that  the  expenses  of  sickness 
rather  than  the  opportunities  of  business  and 
fortune  were  to  a  greater  or  less  degree  the 
controlling  factors.  William  Mercer  married, 
-November  11.  180Q,  Eliza  Vardell,  daughter 
of  Thomas  \'ardell.  of  New  York  City,  and 
shortly  after  his  marriage  went  to  Bermuda  to 
visit  his  uncle,  William  Mercer,  where  their 
first  child  was  born,  died,  and  was  buried 
in  the  family  vault.  He  and  his  bride  remained 
at  Bermuda  until  a  little  while  before  his  death, 
when  they  returned  to  his  father's  home  in 
Newark.  Here  \\'illiam's  only  son  was  born, 
just  twenty-three  days  after  his  father's  de- 
cease, in  the  old  house  of  his  grandfather  on 
liroad  street  upon  the  present  site  of  the  Con- 
tinental Hotel.  Children:  Margaret  Willett, 
born  May  3,  1810,  died  March  10,  181 1  ;  Will- 
iam Theodore,  who  will  now  be  considered. 

(  1\'  )  William  Theodore,  only  son  of  Will- 
iam (  2)  Mercer,  was  born  March  7,  1812.  died 
in  Newark,  June  28,  1886.  His  mother  sur- 
vived her  husband  only  a  few  years,  and  left 
her  child  an  orphan  of  about  four  or  five  years 
(lid.  William  Theodore  was  then  adopted  by 
his  .\unt  Charlotte,  the  wife  of  the  Hon.  Theo- 
dore Frelinghuysen,  and  in  their  house  in 
Newark  he  passed  his  early  years  and  later 
on  in  life  made  his  home.  His  preparatory 
education  was  gained  in  the  old  Newark  Acad- 
emy, which  had  been  established  by  an  asso- 


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elation  in  1792,  and  which  for  many  years  was 
regarded  as  one  of  tlie  largest  and  most  promi- 
nent academic  institutions  of  the  country.  Dur- 
ing the  time  young  Mercer  spent  there  as  an 
undergrachiate  it  was  enjoying  the  zenith  of  its 
reputation.  In  1827,  when  he  was  about  fif- 
teen years  old,  William  Theodore  Mercer 
entered  the  sophomore  class  at  Williams  Col- 
lege, Williamstown,  Massachusetts,  and  grad- 
uated there  three  years  later,  in  1830.  He  then 
went  to  New  London,  Connecticut,  where  his 
uncles,  Peter  Schenck  Mercer  and  Archibald 
Mercer,  and  his  aunt,  Gertrude  Lee.  who  died 
the  year  of  his  graduation,  had  made  their 
homes,  and  there  began  the  study  of  medicine 
in  the  office  of  his  uncle,  Archibald  Mercer. 
He  remained  here,  however,  only  for  a  short 
while,  and  then  returning  to  his  Aunt  Char- 
lotte's home  in  Newark,  he  finished  his  pre- 
paratory medical  studies  under  the  tuition  of 
Dr.  Lyndon  A.  Smith,  of  that  city.  In  1834 
\\  illiam  Theodore  Mercer  graduated  from  the 
Jett'erson  Medical  College,  of  Philadelphia,  and 
settling  himself  in  practice  in  his  home  town 
he  almost  immediately  met  with  great  success 
and  built  up  an  enormous  practice,  which, 
however,  soon  undermined  his  health,  as  it 
demanded  from  him  far  greater  physical  labors 
than  his  inherited  delicacy  of  constitution  could 
bear.  Conse(|uently  after  about  ten  years  of 
strenuous  and  vigorous  work.  Dr.  Mercer  re- 
tired from  active  practice,  and  devoted  himself 
to  the  study  of  materia  medica  and  therapeu- 
tics, in  connection  with  which  he  established  in 
Xewark,  about  1845,  a  drug  business  that  he 
managed  successfully  for  over  forty  years, 
until  the  day  of  his  death.  A  short  while  after 
he  had  received  his  degree  of  ^L  D.  and  estab- 
lished himself  in  the  practice  of  his  profession. 
Dr.  Mercer  became  a  member  of  the  Essex 
County  Medical  Societ)-,  in  the  proceedings 
and  work  of  which  he  took  a  very  great  inter- 
est and  a  most  active  part,  being  a  number  of 
different  times  sent  by  the  association  as  its 
delegate  to  the  State  Medical  Society,  and  for 
nineteen  years,  from  1839  to  1858,  was  the 
association  secretary.  During  the  whole  of 
his  long  life.  Dr.  Mercer  was  considered  to 
lank  at  the  head  of  his  profession,  and  he  was 
lield  in  greatest  esteem  by  his  contemporaries 
not  only  for  his  intimate  and  thorough  techni- 
cal and  professional  knowledge  of  medicine, 
but  also  for  his  manly  and  great  personal  and 
social  qualities  and  attainments.  Dr.  William 
Theodore  Mercer  married,  July  7,  1835,  Ger- 
trude .Ann,  daughter  of  Frederick  Frehnghuy- 
sen  and  his  wife.  Jane,  the  eldest  daughter  of 


Peter  Dumont,  of  Somerville.  Mrs.  Mercer 
was  the  niece-in-law  of  the  aunts  of  Dr.  Mer- 
cer, Louisa  and  Charlotte,  and  was  therefore 
a  connection,  not  a  cousin,  of  her  husband. 
h>om  this  marriage  there  were  seven  children, 
all  of  whom  reached  maturity,  although  only 
four  of  them  had  issue.  The  three  immarried 
children  and  one  of  the  others  are  dead,  the 
remaining  children  are  still  living.  These  chil- 
dren were:  i.  Charlotte  Frelinghuysen  Mer- 
cer, born  August  25,  1836;  died  unmarried, 
March  4,  1895.  2.  Gertrude  Eliza  Mercer, 
born  July  30,  1838;  died  May  11.  1899:  mar- 
ried. April  23,  1866,  William  Whitehead,  and 
had  one  child,  Gertrude  Mercer  \\'hitehead, 
who  died  in  infancy,  a  few  months  after  her 
father.  3.  Frederick  Frelinghuysen  Mercer, 
referred  to  later.  4.  Theodore  Frelinghuysen 
Mercer,  referred  to  later.  5.  William  Mercer, 
born  December  21,  1845  ;  died  unmarried,  Sep- 
tember 9.  1884.  6.  Archibald  Mercer,  referred 
to  later.  7.  Dumont  Frelinghuysen  Mercer,  born 
|anuar_\-  2^.  1850  ;  died  single,  January  19,  1882. 
(  \' )  P'rederick  I'Velinghuysen,  oldest  son 
and  third  child  of  William  Theodore  Mercer, 
was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  November 
7,  1840,  and  is  now  living  with  his  family  at 
^^^  Washington  street,  in  the  house  and  city  of 
his  birth.  For  his  early  education  he  was  sent 
to  a  private  school  in  Newark,  where  he  was 
prej^ared  for  college  and  from  which,  in  1857, 
he  entered  the  freshman  class  of  Rutgers  Col- 
lege, New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
received  his  A.  B.  degree  in  1861  and  later  on 
his  A.  M.  Turning  his  attention  to  the  law, 
Mr.  Mercer  read  and  studied  for  three  years 
with  the  Hon.  Frederick  Theodore  Freling- 
huysen, his  uncle,  and  at  that  time  attorney- 
general  for  New  Jersey.  Three  years  later, 
in  i8r)4,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  began 
the  life  of  a  general  practitioner,  and  in  this 
he  was  engaged  for  several  years  when  he  gave 
it  up  in  order  to  enter  other  fields  of  work. 
Since  1885  he  has  been  connected  with  the 
Equitable  Life  Insurance  Company,  of  New- 
York.  In  politics  Mr.  Mercer  is  a  Republican, 
but  has  never  held  nor  desired  office.  He  has 
had  no  military  experience,  but  he  is  a  member 
of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Zeta  Psi  college  fraternity,  but 
beyond  this  has  formed  no  club  affiliations.  He 
is  a  member  of  Trinity  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church.  On  April  14,  1868,  Frederick  Freling- 
huysen Mercer  was  married  in  Staten  Island, 
New  York,  to  Kate,  born  February  29,  1844, 
daughter  of  William  Henry  .\nabie,  of  New 
York,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Barnard   (Steele) 


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Anable.  She  bore  him  five  children,  all  of  whom 
are  still  living  and  three  of  whom  are  married  : 
I.  Frederick  \Villiam,  born  June  9,  1869 ;  super- 
intendant  of  the  loan  department  of  the  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company,  of  Kew  York;  mar- 
ried, April  28,  1897,  Mabel  Russell,  who  has 
borne  him  two  chiklrcn,  Russell  Barnard  and 
(iertrude.  2.  Alice  Louise,  born  December  15, 
1871  :  become  the  wife  of  Easton  M.  Davitt,  of 
216  Belleville  avenue,  Newark;  she  had  one 
child,  Alercer,  who  died  in  infancy.  3.  Dumont 
Frelinghuysen,  born  May  31,  1874;  educated 
in  the  public  and  high  schools,  and  is  now  with 
the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company,  of  New 
York.  4.  John  Eccleston,  born  November  19, 
1876;  was  a  member  of  the  Seventy-first  New 
^"ork  Regiment  during  the  Spanish  war.  5. 
(/iertrude,  born  March  7,  1881  :  married  Cap- 
tain Frank  Wheaton  Rowell,  and  has  two  chil- 
dren :  Gertrude  and  Katharine  ;  one,  Wheaton, 
died  in  infancy. 

(  \' )  Theodore  Frelinghuysen,  fourth  child 
anil  second  son  of  William  Theodore  Mercer, 
was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  October  18, 
1842,  and  is  now  living  at  662  High  street,  in 
that  city.  For,  his  early  education  he  attended 
a  private  school  and  then  entered  the  Newark 
Academy,  on  leaving  wdiich  he  went  into  the 
drug  business  with  his  father  and  continued 
with  him  for  fifteen  years  when  he  withdrew 
in  order  to  accept  a  position  as  clerk  in  the 
money  order  dejiartment  of  the  Newark  post 
office.  Here  he  remained  for  twelve  years 
longer,  and  then  took  up  a  position  with  the 
Delaware,  Lackawanna  and  Western  Railroad 
Conipany,  which  he  retained  for  fifteen  years 
longer,  and  finally  resigned  in  1903  in  order 
to  undertake  the  work  in  the  mathematical  de- 
partment of  the  Mutual  Benefit  Life  Insurance 
Company,  where  he  now  is.  Mr.  Mercer  is  a 
Repul)lican  and  a  communicant  of  Trinity 
I'rotestant  Episcopal  Church,  Newark.  On 
January  24,  1876,  Theodore  Frelinghuysen 
Mercer  married,  in  Trinity  Church,  Newark, 
Josephine,  daughter  of  Elias  N.  Miller  and  his 
wife,  Susan  Maria  (Coats)  Miller,  who  has 
borne  him  one  daughter,  Maria  Coats  Mercer, 
l)orn  November  4,  1878,  and  now  the  wife  of 
(ieorge  Bache  Emory,  M.  D.,  son  of  Thomas 
b'.mory,  of  Confederate  Navy,  and  Percy  (Mc- 
Carthy) Emory,  of  Syracuse,  New  York,  and 
grandson  of  Brigadier-Cieneral  William  Hems- 
ley  F.mory,  Cnited  States  .-Vrmy,  and  Matilda 
Wilkins  (Bache)  Emory,  the  si.xth  child  of 
Richard  P)ache,  the  younger,  of  Philadelphia. 
They  have  one  child,  Thomas  Mercer  Emory, 
born  March  (\  \t)o8. 


( \' )  .Archibald  fiercer,  M.  D.,  fourth  son 
and  si.xth  child  of  Dr.  William  Theodore  Mer- 
cer, of  Newark,  was  born  December  23,  1847, 
and  is  now  living  at  31  Washington  street, 
Newark,  New  Jersey.  Following  in  his  father's 
footsteps,  he  obtained  his  preparatory  educa- 
tion at  the  Newark  Academy,  and  in  1864 
matriculated  at  Rutgers  College,  New  Bruns- 
wick, New  Jersey,  where  he  graduated  in  1868. 
He  then  began  the  study  of  medicine,  taking 
the  course  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  in  New  York,  and  receiving  his  de- 
gree from  that  institution  in  1871 ;  since  which 
time  he  has  been  a  practitioner  in  Newark. 
On  leaving  the  medical  school  in  1871,  Dr. 
Mercer  was  appointed  physician  in  charge  of 
S.  I5arnabas  Hospital,  in  Newark,  which  posi- 
Uon  he  held  for  about  nine  years,  until  1880, 
and  then  he  finally  decided  to  make  surgery 
his  specialty.  A  year  later,  in  1881,  he  became 
visiting  surgeon  of  the  Newark  City  Hospital, 
and  four  years  later,  in  1885,  was  appointed  to 
the  same  position  in  S.  Barnabas'  Hospital. 
These  positions,  in  spite  of  the  great  demands 
upon  his  time  and  energies  made  by  his  outside 
professional  and  other  duties,  he  still  continues 
to  hold.  In  1873  Dr.  Mercer  received  the 
appointment  of  United  States  examining  sur- 
geon for  pensions,  and  in  1 88 1  that  of  police 
surgeon  for  the  city  of  Newark,  but  the  press- 
ure of  other  work  upon  him  became  so  great 
that   in    1883   he   resigned  both  of  them.     In 

1 891  he  accepted  the  office  of  surgeon  to  the 
New  Jersey  Home  for  Disabled  Soldiers,  but 
was  obliged  by  the  exacting  nature  of  his  other 
duties  and  responsibilities  to  resign  it  in  1897, 
just  as  in  1894  he  was  compelled  to  decline 
the  honor  of  his  election  as  surgeon  of  the 
Esse.x  troop.  Outside  of  his  practice.  Dr. 
Mercer's  professional  interests  and  activities 
have  been  many  and  varied.  Since  1878  he 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Esse.x  County  Medi- 
cal Societ\',  of  which  his  father  was  for  so 
long  a  time  an  active  member  and  efficient 
secretary,  for  twenty-six  consecutive  years  was 
elected  secretary,  thus  making  a  total  of  nearly 
half  a  century  that  he  and  his  father  held  this 
position.  In  1905  he  was  chosen  the  vice- 
president  of  this  society  and  during  the  year 
1906  he  was  the  association's  president.    Since 

1892  he  has  also  been  treasurer  of  the  Medical 
Society  of  New  Jersey.  In  1894  he  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Medical  and  Surgical  .Society  of 
Newark.  In  1889  he  became  secretary'  of  the 
Society  for  the  Relief  of  the  Widows  and 
Orphans  of  the  Medical  Men  of  New  Jersey, 
of  which  association  he   was  in   1899  chosen 


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vice-president.      In   addition    to   these   duties. 
Dr.  Mercer  has  also  for  a  time  been  the  mecH- 
cal  examiner  for  many  insurance  companies, 
and  in  1904  was  appointed  one  of  the  medical 
directors  of  the  Mutual  Benefit  Life  Insurance 
Company.      Beyond   the   bounds   of    his   pro- 
fession,   Dr.    piercer's   interest   and   activities 
are  in  the  main  patriotic  and  educational  in 
their  broadest  sense ;  although  the  calls  which 
have  been  made  by  different  members  of  his 
own  family  upon  the  highly  valued  and  widely 
recognized  business  qualifications  and  execu- 
tive abilities  have  been  by  no  means  inconsider- 
able.   On  July  14.  1886,  he  was  appointed  the 
chief  executor  of  his  father's  estate,  and  a  few 
months  later,  on  October  30,  in  the  same  year, 
was  called  upon  to  act  in  the  same  capacity  on 
the   property   of   his   mother,   and   nine   years 
later,  on   Alarch    15,   1895,  he  performed   the 
same  office  for  his  unmarried  sister  Charlotte, 
and   again    in    1899    ^°^   h'S   sister   Gertrude, 
widow   of   William   Whitehead.     Dr.    Mercer 
has   for  years  been  a  member  of  the   Esse.x 
Club:  he  is  a  communicant  of  Trinity  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  Church,  in  the  early  days  and 
welfare  of  which  liis  great-grandfather  took 
such  an  active  interest  and  part,  and  in  con- 
nection with  his  brother  now  owns  two  pews 
in  Trinity  Church,  which  were- deeded,  Decem- 
ber 16,  1822,  by  the  rector,  wardens  and  vestry 
of  the  church  to  the  children  of  his  great-great- 
grand  father,  the  two  pews  being  originally  one 
s(|uare  pew  which  was  owned  by  him.     He  is 
also  one  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion, and  a  life  member  of  the   New  Jersey 
Historical  Society.     In  1903  he  was  appointed 
for  four  vears  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Free 
Public   Library,  of  Newark,  and  in   1907  he 
accepted  his  reappointment  for  five  years  to 
the   same   office.      In    1908  he   was   elected   a 
member  of  the  Cathedral  Chapter  by  the  con- 
vention of  the  Episcopal   Church,   diocese  of 
Newark.    In  1909  he  was  influential  in  starting 
the  Newark  Art  Museum  Association  and  was 
elected   one   of   the   charter   members   of   the 
board   of   trustees   and   also  chairman   of   its 
executive  committee.     On  November  21,  1888, 
Dr.  Archibald  fiercer  married  Katrina,  daugh- 
ter of  .Alexander  Campbell,  of  Newark,  by  his 
wife,  Emma  (Field)   Campbell;  they  have  no 
chiMren. 


The  name  of  Howe  is  not  only 
HOWE     scattered  through  the  registers  and 

records  of  all  parts  of  England, 
but  the  bearers  of  the  name  have  written  it  in 
their  blood   and   graven   it   deeply  with   their 


swords,  high  up  on  their  coimtry's  roll  of 
honor.  The  Howe  banner  is  in  the  chapel  of 
Henry  YH.,  and  in  the  struggle  between  France 
and  hingland  in  the  New  World,  Howes  fought 
and  fell,  notably  at  Ticonderoga  and  on  the 
Nova  Scotia'  frontier.  Among  the  more  fam- 
ous members  of  the  family  may  be  named  Rev. 
John  Howe,  chaplain  to  Oliver  Cromwell, 
whose  noble  features  are  preserved  in  old  en- 
gravings ;  and  Lord  Charles  Howe,  created 
baronet  by  James  I.,  November  18,  1606,  and 
made  Earl  of  Lancaster  by  Charles  I.,  June  8, 
1643.  It  is  with  the  latter  that  John  Howe,  of 
Sudbury,  founder  of  the  present  family,  is  re- 
ported to  be  connected. 

(I)  John  How  was  born  in  England,  in 
1602,  and  came  to  New  England  with  his  wife 
Mary,  between  1630  and  1640.  He  settled  in 
Watertown,  but  in  1639  removed  to  Sudbury, 
where  he  was  made  freeman  the  following 
vear,  in  1642  was  chosen  selectman,  and  in 
1655  was  appointed  by  the  pastor  and  select- 
men "to  see  to  the  restraining  of  youth  on  the 
Lord's  Day."  He  was  the  first  white  man  to 
settle  in  Marlborough,  Massachusetts,  about 
ih57,  where  he  built  his  cabin,  a  little  east  of 
the  'Tndian  planting  field,"  aiid  where  his  de- 
scendants lived  for  many  generations.  In  1661 
he  opened  the  first  public  house  in  Marl- 
borough, and  about  nine  years  later  petitioned 
for  a  renewal  of  his  license.  He  was  highly 
respected  for  his  justice  and  impartiality  by 
his  fellow  townsmen  as  well  as  by  the  Indians, 
and  was  frequently  made  arbiter  of  their 
disputes.  .According  to  one  annalist  he  died 
in  1680,  aged  seventy-eight,  but  another  gives 
the  date  as  1687.  His  will,  proved  in  1689, 
mentions  wife,  Mary:  sons,  Samuel,  Isaac. 
Jonah,  Thomas  and  Eleazer ;  daughters,  Sarah 
\\'ard  and  Mary  Weatherby ;  and  grandson, 
John  How,  Jr.,  son  of  John,  deceased.  His 
property  was  inventoried  at  £500.  Samuel, 
his  eldest  son,  married  Hepzibah  Death,  in 
1700:  he  was  opener  and  proprietor  of  the 
Howe  tavern  at  Sudbury,  immortalized  by 
Longfellow  in  his  "Tales  of  a  Wayside  Inn." 
.Samuel's  descendants  kept  and  owned  it  until 
it  was  sold,  about  twenty-five  years  ago. 

(II)  Thomas,  son  of  John  How,  was  born 
in  Sudbury,  June  12,  1656,  and  died  at  Marl- 
borough. February  16,  1733.  He  was  one  of 
the  most  prominent  citizens  of  the  town,  at 
various  times  filled  some  of  the  principal  offices, 
and  seems  to  have  always  had  the  welfare  of 
his  fellows  at  heart.  Nor  were  his  efforts  con- 
fined to  his  home  and  town.  He  was  represent- 
ative  in   the   general   court,   and   one  of  His 


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Majesty's  justices  of  the  peace.  He  was  a 
well  trained  and  efficient  soldier,  proving  his 
worth  in  the  severe  action  at  Lancaster,  and  in 
the  early  wars  against  the  Indians.  For  many 
years  he  served  in  the  colonial  militia,  and  a 
special  legacy  to  him  in  his  father's  will  is 
"the  horse  he  troops  on."  He  retired  with  the 
rank  of  colonel.  He  was  keeping  a  public 
house  at  Marlborough  in  1661,  but  whether  he 
was  carrying  on  the  business  established  by 
his  father,  or  was  founding  a  new  venture  of 
his  own.  cannot  be  determined.  He  married 
(first)  June  8,  1681,  Mary  Hosmer,  who  died 
-April  7,  1724;  and  (second)  December  24, 
1724,  Widow  Mary  Baron.  Children,  all  by 
first  wife:  i.  Tabitha.  born  May  9,  1684.  2. 
James.  June  22,  1685.  3.  Jonathan,  .April  23, 
1687.  4.  Prudence,  .August  27,  1689.  5. 
Thomas,  June  16,  1692.  6.  Sarah,  .August  16, 
1697. 

(HI)  Jonathan,  son  of  Thomas  How,  was 
born  in  Marlborough,  April  23,  1687,  died 
there  June  22,  1738.  His  entire  life  was  passed 
in  his  native  town.  He  married,  April  5,  171 1, 
Lydia  Brigham ;  children:  i.  Timoth}'.  born 
May  24,  1712:  died  October  15,  1740.  2.  Pru- 
dence. Xovember  3.  1714.  3.  Bezaleel ;  of 
whom  further.  4.  Charles,  April  20,  1720.  5. 
Eliakim,  June  17,  1723.  6.  Lucy.  May  20, 
1726.  7.  Lydia,  .April  12,  1729;  died  young. 
8.  Mary,  .Kugust  12,  1730.    9.  Lydia,  June  29, 

( I\  )  Bezaleel,  third  child  and  second  son 
of  Jonathan  How,  was  born  in  Marlborough, 
June  19,  1717.  Records  concerrning  him  are 
few  and  imperfect,  and  the  family  traditions 
of  him  rest  mainly  in  the  reminiscences  of  his 
grandson.  Rev.  John  Moflfat  Howe.  M.  D.,  and 
upon  researches  made  in  1844  by  another 
grandson.  Rev.  Bezaleel  Howe,  the  mss.  of 
which  are  in  possession  of  Andrus  Bezaleel 
Howe,  of  Montclair,  New  Jersey.  From  these 
materials  we  learn  that  he  married  lAnna 
I-'ostcr,  and  that  of  their  at  least  seven  chil- 
dren, three  sons  and  two  daughters  were  born 
in  Marlborough,  and  the  other  two,  both  sons, 
at  some  place  on  the  family  journey  to  Hills- 
borough, New  Hampshire,  whither  they  re- 
moved shortly  before  the  death  of  the  father. 
Of  his  two  daughters.  Susanna,  lx)rn  1740.  and 
Edith.  1744,  little  is  known,  and  one  of  them 
apparently  died  young.  His  .sons  were : 
Timothy,  born  1742;  Darius,  1746;  Bezaleel, 
1750;  and  Baxter  and  Titus,  birth  dates  un- 
known. Of  Titus  no  record  is  left.  The 
others,  especially  Bezaleel  (q.  v.),  have  bril- 
liant militarv  records.     Darius  was  a  lieuten- 


ant in  the  revolution.  Timothy  served  in  the 
I'Vench  war,  and  soon  after  his  marriage  to 
Elizabeth  Andrus,  of  Stillwater,  New  York, 
removed  to  Wyoming,  Pennsylvania,  where 
the  family  lived  until  driven  out  by  the  In- 
dians and  Tories,  in  July,  1778.  At  the  time 
of  this  famous  massacre,  Timothy  was  serv- 
ing as  first  lieutanant  under  Captain  Hewitt. 
Baxter  was  a  lieutenant  in  Colonel  Jonathan 
Brewer's  regiment  of  the  New  Hampshire 
line,  and  later  an  artillery  captain  in  the  army 
under  Washington.  He  died  of  fever  at 
Ethron,  during  the  forced  march  to  York- 
town,  and  left  a  son,  Brigham  Howe,  of  New 
A'ork  City. 

( \' )  Bezaleel  (2),  youngest  son  of  Beza- 
leel (  I  )  Howe,  was  born  December  9,  1750. 
He  was  the  first  of  the  family  to  give  the  fam- 
ily nanie  the  form  of  Howe,  with  the  final  "e." 
He  was  very  young  when  his  father  died,  leav- 
ing the  family  in  straitened  circimistances,  and 
his  opportunities  for  education  were  limited, 
though  he  managed  by  stealth  to  secure  one 
(|uarter's  tuition  at  night  school.  He  made 
a  brilliant  record  during  the  revolutionary 
war.  ".About  three  weeks  before  the  battle 
of  Bunker  Hill,"  writes  his  son  in  his  rem- 
iniscences, "officers  were  recruiting  soldiers 
to  withstand  the  British  in  Boston.  On  the 
morning  when  the  soldiers  were  to  march,  my 
father  stood  looking  on ;  there  was  one  of  the 
recruits,  described  by  him  as  an  old  man,  sur- 
n:)unded  by  his  wife  and  daughters,  who  hung 
about  his  neck  and  we]3t  bitterly.  The  scene 
affected  my  father's  heart,  and  with  a  dash  he 
came  to  the  man  and  said,  'Here,  give  me  your 
old  gun,  and  I  will  go  for  you,  and  if  the  gov- 
ernment ever  gets  able  to  give  me  a  gun,  I  will 
send  your  old  thing  back  to  you.'  So,  taking 
the  old  gun  and  cartridge  box,  he  fell  into  line 
and  marched  to  the  music  of  the  fife  and 
drum."  Such  was  the  beginning  of  his  mili- 
tary career,  which  covered  a  period  of  twenty- 
one  years.  He  was  present  at  the  battle  of 
Bunker  Hill,  although  not  brought  into  action, 
being  held  with  the  reserves,  and  he  continued 
with  the  army  throughout  the  war.  Enter- 
ing as  a  private,  he  was  promoted  from  one 
position  to  another.  As  lieutenant  he  served 
in  the  Long  Island  and  New  Jersey  campaigns, 
and  for  the  last  six  months  was  an  auxilliary 
lieutenant  in  the  personal  guard  of  the  com- 
mander-in-chief. Once  at  least  he  was  sent 
ti>  Philadelphia  with  dispatches,  and  he  was 
|)resent  at  the  execution  of  Major  Andre.  He 
was  taken  prisoner  by  the  British  shortly  after 
the  battle  of  Long  Island,  and  at  the  close  of 


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the  war.  as  captain,  commanded  the  escort 
that  brought  General  Washington's  baggage 
and  papers  to  Mount  \'ernon.  He  subse- 
(|uently  served  in  the  Indian  wars  under  "Mad 
Anthony  \Va>Tie,"  with  whom  he  continued 
for  three  years.  He  resigned  about  1792.  His 
mihtary  record  appears  as  follows  in  the  "His- 
torical Register  of  Officers  of  the  Continental 
Army  during  the  War  of,  the  Revolution," 
|)ul)lished  in  W'ashington,  D.  C,  by  F.  B. 
licitman,  1893:  "Second  lieutenant  ist  N.  H. 
Regt.,  8th  November,  1776;  wounded  at  Still- 
water (Freeman's  Farm)  N.  Y.,  19  Sept., 
1777;  first  lieutenant  23d  June,  1779,  and 
served  to  close  of  war ;  lieutenant  2d  U.  S. 
Infantry,  4th  March,  1791  ;  captain  4th  Xo- 
vember,  1791  :  assigned  to  2d  sub-legion  4th 
September.  1792:  major,  20th  October,  1794; 
honorably  discharged  ist  November,  1796." 

.\fter  resigning  from  the  army,  ^lajor 
Howe  went  to  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  in- 
tending to  establish  himself  in  business,  but 
changed  his  mind  and  soon  returned  to  New 
York,  where  he  received  appointment  as  cus- 
tom house  inspector,  a  position  which  he  jjrac- 
tically  held  until  his  death,  although  he  was 
three  times  removed  on  political  grounds,  due 
to  change  of  Federal  administration.  He  mar- 
ried, September  16,  1787,  Hannah  Merritt,  of 
Mamaroneck.  New  York,  who  died  September 
18,  1789,  leaving  an  infant,  Maria,  born  January 
6,  1789,  who  married  November  2^.  1805,  John 
Guion.  and  became  the  mother  of  eleven  chil- 
dren, two  of  whom,  William  H.  and  .Stephen 
H.  Cjuion,  were  the  founders  of  transatlantic 
line  of  steamers  known  by  their  names.  Major 
Howe  married  (second)  February  15,  1800, 
Catherine,  youngest  daughter  of  Rev.  John 
Moffat  and  Maria  (always  called  Margaret) 
his  wife.  Three  of  the  children  of  this  mar- 
riage died  in  infancy.  The  others  were:  i. 
George  C,  born  September  23,  1802,  died  De- 
cember 4,  1841  :  married.  May  24,  1832,  Hes- 
ter Ann.  daughter  of  Michael  and  Betty 
(Gregory)  Iliggins;  four  children.  2.  Mar- 
garetta,  born  February  22  or  27,  1804,  married, 
.August  I,  1820,  George  Washington  Dupig- 
nac :  nine  children.  3.  John  Moffat,  see  for- 
ward. 4.  Catherine,  born  September  21,  1812, 
died  March  4,  1883;  married.  October  11. 
1831,  Samuel  R.,  son  of  Phineas  Spelman ; 
three  children.  5.  Bezaleel,  born  August  17, 
181 5.  died  January  18.  1858:  married,  .August 
5,  1838.  Jane  Cordelia,  daughter  of  Jacob 
Frank  and  Mary  Barnet ;  one  child,  Jacob 
Frank  Howe,  M.  D.,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York. 
Major    Bezaleel    Howe    died    September    3. 


1825,  and  his  remains  were  interred  in  the 
Dutch  Reformed  burial  ground  in  Houston 
street.  New  York,  and  fifty  years  afterward, 
when  the  bodies  there  were  removed  his  re- 
mains, with  those  of  his  son  George  C,  were 
carefully  gathered  up  and  reinterred  in  the  plot 
of  another  son.  Rev.  John  Moffat  Howe,  M.  D., 
in  Greenwood  Cemetery,  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
Major  Howe  was  an  original  member  of  the 
Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  and  at  his  death  the 
membership  passed  to  his  eldest  son,  George 
C.  Howe,  whose  son,  George  Bezaleel  Howe, 
died  without  male  issue,  surviving  him,  and 
membership  passed  to  his  cousin.  Dr.  John 
Morgan  Howe,  of  New  York,  son  of  Rev. 
John  Moffat  Howe,  who  is  the  present  repre- 
sentative of  the  family  in  the  .society. 

f\'I)  Rev.  John  .Moffat  Howe,  M.  D.. 
fourth  child  and  second  son  of  Major  Beza- 
leel Howe,  by  his  second  wife,  was  l)orn  at  12 
Rose  street.  New  York,  January  23,  1806. 
His  school  davs  began  when  he  was  about 
four  years  old  and  continued  eight  or  nine 
years,  when  his  father's  straitened  circum- 
stances obliged  him  to  seek  a  self-supporting 
career.  .At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  entered 
the  employ  of  a  merchant  tailor  in  Maiden 
Lane,  and  at  the  same  time  attended  night 
school.  Later  he  and  Obadiah  Peck  estab- 
lished a  tailoring  business,  and  young  Howe 
applied  himself  so  sedulously  to  his  work 
that  his  health  failed,  and  after  three  years 
the     partnership     was     dissolved.     Later,     in 

1826,  he  established  himself  as  a  dentist  in 
New  York.  He  took  into  his  office  and  under 
his  instruction  (  dental  schools  being  then  un- 
known )  many  who  rose  to  the  front  rank  of 
the  profession,  among  them  two  of  his  own 
sons :  John  Morgan  Howe  and  Charles  Mor- 
timer Howe.  As  to  himself,  he  worked  out 
his  own  professional  education,  his  only  ad- 
vantages being  the  few  volumes  on  dentistry 
then  in  existence,  such  articles  as  ajipeared  in 
medical  and  other  journals,  and  his  own  per- 
sistent practical  eft'ort.  To  this  period  of  his 
life  belongs  his  service  in  the  New  York 
militia,  which  was  then  compulsory.  After 
service  in  the  ranks  he  was  commissioned  lieu- 
tenant in  the  Two  Hundred  and  Thirty-fifth 
Regiment.  May  17.  1828,  and  September  21, 
1830.  was  appointed  quartermaster.  In  1833, 
while  visiting  near  Oswego,  New  York,  Dr. 
I  lowe  was  licensed  an  exhorter  in  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  church,  and  March  9,  1836,  in 
the  Greene  Street  Church,  he  was  made  a 
licensed  preacher.  From  this  time  his  labors 
as  a   local   minister   were  constant.     He  was 


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ordained  deacon  .May  19,  1839,  by  Bishop 
Elijah  Hedding,  and  elder  by  Bishop  Thomas 
A.  Morris,  in  the  Seventh  Street  Oiurch,  New 
York  City,  May  21,  1843.  From  the  latter 
date  began  his  long  career  of  activity  under 
the  old  "circuit  system,"  now  all  but  entirely 
disappeared.  At  first  he  occupied  pulpits  in 
the  city  or  adjacent  suburbs,  often,  when  no 
vehicle  was  readily  procurable,  walking  con- 
siderable distances  to  meet  his  appointments. 
In  1835  he  supplied  the  pastorate  at  Astoria, 
Long  Island,  and  June  6,  1837,  was  appointed 
chai)laiii  of  the  New  York  Hospital.  About 
a  year  after  assuniing  the  duties  of  the  latter 
position,  his  health  failed  to  such  a  degree 
that  his  physicians  advised  a  voyage  to  Europe, 
as  the  only  hope  for  saving  his  life,  and  he 
sailed  for  England,  June  7,  1838,  spending 
several  months  there,  and  also  visiting  France, 
eventually  returning  in  greatly  improved  con- 
dition. 

.About  1848  Dr.  Howe  took  up  his  residence 
in  Orange,  New  Jersey,  making  daily  trips  to 
New  York  for  business.  In  1853  '^^  made  his 
final  change  of  residence  to  Acquackanonk 
(now  Passaic),  New  Jersey,  where  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life  was  passed,  and  from  this 
time  he  became  especially  identified  with  the 
interests  of  the  city.  As  it  grew,  he  opened 
streets  and  ways,  and  erected  houses.  He 
took  a  profound  interest  in  educational  affairs. 
He  founded,  in  1859,  the  private  school  known 
as  Howe's  ^Academy,  which  he  conducted  until 
1868.  On  March  28,  1865,  he  was  appointed 
by  the  governor  of  New  Jersey  to  the  position 
of  trustee  of  the  State  Normal  School,  which 
he  held  to  nearly  the  end  of  his  life,  having 
among  his  official  associates  as  pioneers  of  the 
state  school  system,  Charles  Elmer,  Elias 
Cook,  Dr.  Maclean,  Rev.  William  H.  Steele, 
and  ex-Chancellor  Williamson.  Dr.  Howe 
(bed  December  5.  1885,  from  a  stroke  of 
paralysis,  after  a  few  days'  suffering,  and  his 
remains  were  laid  to  rest  in  Cedar  Lawn  Cem- 
etery, on  the  banks  of  Dundee  Lake,  between 
Passaic  and  Paterson,  in  a  plot  selected  by 
himself.  He  left  behind  him  the  record  of  a 
man  of  exceptional  ability  in  his  chosen  pro- 
fession, as  one  of  the  most  prominent  local 
])reachers  of  his  day,  and  as  one  of  the  dis- 
tinguished band  who  founded  the  free  public 
school  system  of  New  Jersey. 

He  married,  October  31,  1838,  Mary,  born 
.\ugust  10,  1S17,  died  October  15,  1841, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  and  Mary  W. 
(Morgan)  Ma.son.  Children:  i.  Frances 
Raniadge.  born  .'Xugnst  10,  1839,  married,  Sep- 


tember 18,  1859,  Rev.  John  .Andrew  Alunroe, 
of  .Annapolis,  Maryland,  son  of  Rev.  Jonathan 
and  Matilda  (Keiser)  Munroe;  seven  children, 
of  whom  five  are  now  living.  2.  Mary  Mason, 
died  in  infancy.  Dr.  Howe  married  (second) 
Ann  W.,  born  in  Philadelphia,  March  18,  181 5, 
youngest  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
( Chambers)  Morgan.  Airs.  Howe  died  Oc- 
tober 19,  1844,  in  giving  birth  to  a  son,  John 
Alorgan  Howe,  who  married,  October  17, 
i8(/),  Emma,  daughter  of  David  and  Emma 
Eliza  (Blois)  Roe;  five  children.  Dr.  Howe 
married  (third)  May  7,  1846,  Emeline,  young- 
est daughter  of  Barzillai  and  Susan  (Bar- 
nard) Jenkins.  Children:  i.  George  Row- 
land, see  forward.  2.  Edwin  Jenkins,  born 
July  2,  1849.  died  March  14,  1905;  married, 
.\ovember  18,  1875,  Sarah  Louise,  daughter 
of  Henry  and  Sarah  Simmons,  of  Passaic. 
He  was  a  prominent  physician  in  Newark.  3. 
Charles  Mortimer,  born  May  i,  1851,  married, 
October  12,  1876,  Margaret  Ida,  daughter  of 
Caleb  .Augustus  and  Sarah  Hall  (Withington) 
Canfield ;  child,  Ella  Louise,  married  Ansel 
Bartlet,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  A. 
(Gurney)  Maxim,  who  died  .April  24,  1886, 
to  whom  she  bore  a  daughter,  and  she  later 
married  Professor  Byron  D.  Halsted,  and 
died  leaving  a  daughter  by  him.  4.  Emeline 
Jenkins,  born  June  i,  1856,  married  on  same 
day,  twenty  years  later,  David,  son  of  Rev. 
John  and  Maria  (Harper)  Carlisle;  four  chil- 
dren. 5.  Susan  Elenora,  born  October  15  or 
18,  1858,  married,  January  7,  1883,  Byron 
David,  son  of  David  and  Mary  (5lechem) 
Halsted;  two  children. 

(\  II)  George  Rowland,  eldest  son  of  Rev. 
John  Moft'at  and  Emeline  (Jenkins)  Howe, 
was  born  in  New  A'ork  City,  October  21,  1847, 
and  was  baptized  there  by  Rev.  Dr.  Nathan 
Bangs.  His  ]5reparatory  education  was  mostly 
by  private  tutors  and  in  select  schools.  He 
entered  the  University  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  class  of  1868,  but  left  in  his  sophomore 
year  and  accepted  a  position  with  Carter,  Hale 
&  Company,  manufacturing  jewelers,  Newark, 
New  Jersey.  In  1876  changes  were  made  and 
Mr.  Howe  was  admitted  as  a  partner,  the  new 
firm  name  being  Carter,  Hawkins  &  Sloan, 
and  after  several  changes  became,  in  1902, 
Carter,  Howe  &  Company.  Since  1881  Mr. 
Howe  has  been  manager  of  the  manufacturing 
tlepartment.  While  his  business  qualities  have 
long  been  recognized  by  his  associates  and  the 
business  jjublic,  Mr.  Howe  is  well  known  by 
his  connection  with  the  religious  interests  of 
Newark  and  East  ( )ranire.     He  has  been  iden- 


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tified  with  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation of  Newark  for  more  than  twenty-seven 
years,  serving  upon  its  board  of  managers, 
later  as  president,  and  as  a  trustee.  He  has 
always  been  deeply  interested  in  beautifying 
city  and  suburban  surroundings,  especially 
those  of  his  chosen  home  in  East  Orange,  and 
on  Januarj-  i,  1901,  he  was  elected  president 
of  the  Municipal  .Art  League  of  that  town. 
For  five  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  East 
Orange  school  board ;  is  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  Newark  Technical 
School,  and  by  appointment  of  Governor  Fort 
is  a  member  of  the  preliminary  commission  on 
industrial  education.  He  is  one  of  the  di- 
rectors of  the  Howard  Savings  Institution. 
He  is  deeply  interested  in  historical  subjects, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  managers  of 
the  Washington's  Headquarters  .Association, 
at  Morristown,  and  a  trustee  of  the  New  Jer- 
sey Historical  Society.  He  is  an  elder  in  the 
Mann  .Avenue  Presbyterian  Church  of  East 
Orange.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Essex  Club, 
and  the  Lawyers'  Club  of  New  York,  and  in 
politics  is  a  Republican. 

Mr.  Howe  married,  January  11,  1879, 
Louisa  Anna,  youngest  daughter  of  Paris  and 
Jane  (Eno)  Barber.  She  is  a  descendant 
from  Thomas  Barber,  who  emigrated  from 
England  to  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  in 
1635,  and  in  1637  settled  in  Windsor,  Con- 
necticut, the  line  of  descent  being  Samuel  (2), 
David  (3),  David  (4),  David  (5),  Aaron  (6), 
Jedediah  (7),  who  was  the  father  of  Paris  Bar- 
ber. Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Howe :  i.  George 
Rowland  Jr.,  who  died  in  infancy.  2.  Her- 
bert Barber,  born  in  Newark,  October  25, 
1882,  attended  preparatory  school,  Williston 
Seminary,  Easthani]3ton,  Massachusetts,  and 
graduated  from  Williams  College  in  1905.     3. 


Ruth  Eno,  born  .April  22,  1886,  is  a  graduate 
of  the  Dana  School,  Morristown.  New  Jersev. 


The  name  is  evidently  .Anglo- 
SHINN      Saxon  and  not  Celtic.     In  Frisia, 

Batavia,  Holland  and  Bohemia 
the  name  is  found  "Schyn"  or  "Shyn."  One 
of  the  earliest  historians  of  the  Moravians  was 
Herman  "Schyn,"  "Shyn"'  or  "Schynn."  His 
work  was  published  in  1728  and  he  was  a  resi- 
dent of  Holland.  The  variation  of  spellings 
is  the  result  of  the  effort  of  different  trans- 
cribers to  reproduce  in  writing  or  type  the 
sound  of  the  name  as  it  comes  to  the  ear. 
Before  the  time  of  the  historian,  Herman 
Shinn.  the  name  is  found  among  the  knights 
of  Bohemia  engaged  in  the  Hussar  Wars  and 


is  written  "Schynn."  The  ancient  respecta- 
bility of  Shinn  as  a  surname  is  established  by 
that  well-founded  English  authority,  the  land- 
mark of  genealogical  and  antiquarian  lore,  the 
venerable  and  invulnerable  Domesday  Book  of 
England.  The  parish  registers  of  England 
give  abundant  examples  of  the  name  in  its 
various  spellings,  all  coming  to  or  approach- 
ing the  pronunciation  of  the  letters  as 
arranged  in  "Shin"  and  broadened  into 
"Sheene."  The  recorded  wills  in  England 
have  the  name  Shene,  Sheen ;  Shinn ;  and 
Shinne. 

In  .Smith's  History  of  Nova  Caesarea,  New 
Jersey,  is  found  a  partial  list  of  immigrants, 
who  in  the  spring  of  1672  left  England  in  the 
ship  "Kent"'  for  West  Jersey.  There  were 
two  hundred  and  thirty  Quakers  who  left 
London  on  this  ship  about  equally  divided  be- 
tween the  two  strongholds  of  the  people  of 
that  faith,  London  and  Yorkshire,  and  who 
landed  at  the  present  site  of  Burlington  and 
began  a  settlement  they  called  New  Brierly, 
changing  the  name  to  Bridlington  after  a  town 
in  Yorkshire,  from  whence  many  of  the  set- 
tlers had  come,  but  it  subsequently  became 
known  as  Burlington.  As  the  name  of  John 
Shinn  does  not  appear  on  this  list,  he  may  have 
been  with  one  of  the  ship  loads  that  followed 
between  1678  and  1680,  as  in  a  general  list 
without  designating  the  ship,  the  name  of  John 
Shinn  does  not  appear. 

(1)  John,  the  son  of  Clement  and  Grace 
Sheene,  and  grandson  of  F"rancis  Sheene,  of 
Freckenham  Parish,  Herfordshire,  England, 
was  born  in  that  shire  in  1623.  He  was 
brought  up  in  the  established  Church,  but 
became  a  follower  of  George  Fox  in  spite  of 
the  strong  religious  influence  of  his  family 
and  his  religious  sponsors.  For  this  heresy 
he  was  persecuted  and  imprisoned  in  the  Hert- 
fordshire jail,  and  before  1678  he  left  his 
home,  taking  with  him  his  family,  consisting 
of  his  wife  and  nine  children,  and  took  pas- 
sage in  one  of  the  numerous  ships  at  that  time 
departing  with  full  passenger  lists  of  dissat- 
isfied families  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and 
sought  a  haven  of  peace  in  the  promised  land 
of  Nova  Caesarea  or  New  Jersey  in  America. 
Fie  seems  to  have  had  a  full  knowledge  of  the 
endeavors  of  the  London  Meeting  of  Friends 
to  obtain  strong  men  to  direct  this  movement, 
and  as  soon  as  he  reached  Burlington  in  West 
Jersey  he  was  made  a  freeholder  and  the  com- 
missioners at  once  made  him  a  member  of  the 
grand  jury,  their  highest  tribunal.  The  earl- 
iest  communication   received  by  the   London 


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Yearly  Meeting  from  the  P'riends  in  Burling- 
ton, West  Jersey,  was  dated  the  seventh  day 
of  the  twelfth  month  1680,"  and  John  Shinn 
w-as  a  member  of  the  ?klen's  Monthly  Meeting 
and  subscribed  his  name  with  sixteen  others 
as  being  absent  at  the  time  the  report  was 
drawn  up,  but  wished  to  approve  of  the  same 
before  it  was  sent  to  the  London  Yearly  Meet- 
ing. Thus  we  are  able  to  say  that  John  Shinn 
was  in  West  Jersey  as  early  as  1680  and  ]irob- 
ahly  as  early  as  1678  and  that  he  was  a  free- 
holder and  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 
We  also  find  liim  to  be  the  head  of  a  family, 
who  came  with  him  to  America.  On  Septem- 
ber 18.  1680,  he  purchased  of  William  Emley, 
one  of  the  commissioners  sent  out  to  overlook 
the  affairs  of  the  colonists  until  they  could 
form  a  government  by  the  people  themselves, 
one-fifteenth  of  one  of  the  one  hundred  shares 
of  West  Jersey,  and  by  a  deed  dated  July  17, 
1697,  John  Shinn,  of  Springfield  township, 
Burlington  county,  wheelwright,  conveys  to  his 
son,  James  Shinn,  one  hundred  and  twenty 
acres,  being  part  of  the  one-fifteenth  of  the 
property  bought  of  William  Emley,  Septem- 
ber 18,  1680,  and  by  deed  dated  July  15,  171 1. 
John  Shinn  conveys  to  John  Shinn  Junior,  the 
remainder  of  the  one-fifteenth  of  a  share 
bought  as  aforesaid.  He  was  thus  a  landed 
proprietor  and  we  find  him  joining  with  other 
proprietors  arranging  for  the  survey,  purchase 
and  sale  of  the  lands  as  purchased  from  the 
Indians  and  in  one  or  more  of  the  recorded 
deeds  he  is  distinguished  as  John  Shinn,  of 
Springfield  Lodge.  In  the  prospectus  sent  to 
England  by  these  proprietors  inviting  immi- 
gration, they  not  only  dwell  on  the  salubrity 
of  the  climate  and  the  good  temper  of  the 
Indians,  with  general  directions  as  to  manner 
and  cost  of  migration,  but  they  frankly  speak 
of  the  ills  they  will  meet  with  these  words: 
"All  persons  inclined  unto  these  parts  must 
know  that  in  their  settlement  there  they  will 
find  their  exercises.  They  must  labor  before 
they  reap ;  and  until  their  plantation  be  cleared, 
they  must  expect  the  mosquitoes,  flies,  gnats 
and  such  like,  may  in  hot  and  fair  weather 
give  the  same  disturbances,  when  people  pro- 
vide not  against  them." 

John  Shinn  was  one  of  the  landed  pro- 
prietors of  the  township,  and  a  man  respected 
and  esteemed.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  proprietors,  who  purchased,  sun-eyed 
and  distributed  the  lands  among  the  members 
of  the  Society  of  Friends,  who  followed  him 
to  America.  He  owned  part  of  the  first  mill 
site  and  was  proprietor  of  the  first  saw  and 


grist  mill  in  the  township  and  probably  the 
first  manufacturer  of  bolted  flour  in  Burling- 
ton. He  owned  and  carried  on  a  bolting  mill 
at  Bridgeton  in  171 1.  He  took  an  active  part 
in  the  formation  of  the  government  of  the 
township  under  the  Democratic  rule,  as  ob- 
tained among  the  Society  of  Friends  in  all  their 
conduct  with  their  fellowmen.  His  will  was 
dated  January  14,  1712,  and  was  probated  Feb- 
ruary 30,  1712,  and  his  death  occurred  be- 
tween these  dates,  but  the  exact  date  is  not 
preserved.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  an 
overseer  of  the  Burlington  J\Ieeting  and  had 
been  prominent  in  the  erection  of  the  Octagon 
Meeting  House,  which  existed  and  was  in  use 
1683-1787,  and  in  which  his  eldest  child,  John, 
announced  on  April  6,  1686.  in  open  meeting, 
his  intention  to  marry  Ellen  Stacy  and  Ellen 
likewise  in  the  same  manner  announced  in 
open  meeting  her  intention  to  marry  John 
Shinn,  Junior.  This  intention  was  repeated 
in  the  same  manner  May  5,  1686,  when  they 
were  granted  by  the  meeting  liberty  to  marry. 
The  nine  children  of  John  and  Jane  Shinn 
were  all  born  in  England,  as  follows :  i.  John, 
married   (first)   Ellen  Stacy,  the  third  month 

and  third  day,  1686,  and  (second)  Mary ; 

on  the  seventh  month  and  eleventh  day,  1707. 
2.  George,  married  Mary  Thompson,  fifth 
month,  sixth  day,  1691.  3.  ^lary,  married 
( first )  John  Crosby,  n'inth  month,  eighth  day, 
1686,  and  (second)  Richard  Fennimore,  1691. 
4.  James  (q.  v.).  5.  Thomas,  married  (first) 
Sarah  Shawthorne,  fifth  month,  first  day,  1687, 
and  (second)  Alary  Stockton,  first  month, 
sixth  day,  1692-93.  6.  Sarah,  born  1669;  mar- 
ried Thomas  Atkinson.  7.  Esther,  never  mar- 
ried. 8.  Francis,  never  married.  9.  Martha, 
married  (first)  Joshua  Owner,  first  month, 
third  day,  1696-97;  (second)  Restore  Lippin- 
cott  (2),  in  1729. 

(II)  James,  probably  the  youngest  child  of 
John  and  Jane  Shinn,  was  born  in  England, 
and  came  with  his  parents  and  his  eight 
brothers  and  sisters  to  America  and  they  all 
settled  in  Burlington,  West  Jersey,  before  1780. 
His  sister,  Martha,  accompanied  by  Joshua 
Owen  had  appeared  in  meeting  on  March  3, 
1697,  to  make  their  second  intentions  of  mar- 
riage and  at  this  meeting  it  became  noised 
around  that  James  Shinn  and  Abigail  Lippin- 
cott  had  declared  their  intentions  of  marriage 
without  coming  before  the  meeting.  This 
rumor  led  to  the  appointment  of  a  committee 
to  speak  to  the  parents  of  the  two  delinquents 
as  well  as  to  the  delinquents  themselves  and 
ascertain   why  the   rules  of  the  meeting  had 


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not  been  observed.  The  committee  reported 
on  April  5,  1697,  to  a  meeting  that  crowded 
the  Octagon  Sleeting  House  to  the  doors, 
anxious  to  learn  the  result.  The  report  was 
that  the  young  people  could  not  obtain  their 
parents  consent  to  marriage  and  that  therefore 
they  could  not  pass  meeting.  Thereupon,  John 
Shinn  and  Restore  Lippincott  walked  out  of 
the  Meeting  and  began  to  discuss  the  matter, 
while  standing  under  a  stately  beech  tree  on 
the  lawn  of  the  Burlington  Meeting  House. 
Their  wives,  Jane  and  Hannah,  soon  joined 
them  and  the  paternal  consent  was  given  to 
the  marriage  of  James  and  Abigail  and  the 
party  returned  to  the  ;\Ieeting  House  and  the 
intention  of  the  marriage  duly  announced  by 
both  James  and  Abigail,  before  the  assembled 
multitude,  accomjianied  by  applause  from  a 
large  number  of  young  people  in  attendance. 
One  month  later,  on  their  second  declaration, 
they  were  given  liberty  to  marrj'  and  the  cere- 
mony of  marriage  was  recited  by  the  two  at 
the  home  of  Restore  and  Hannah  Lippincott 
in  the  presence  of  a  large  assemblage  of  invited 
guests,  the  first  people  of  the  township.  John 
.Shinn  shortly  after  deeded  to  his  son,  James, 
one  hundred  and  twenty-one  acres  of  land  in 
what  is  now  Nottingham  township  and  the 
happy  couple  began  house-keeping.  James 
added  to  his  estate  the  same  year  by  the  pur- 
chase from  John  Butcher,  and  in  1705  he  be- 
came the  sole  legatee  of  the  estate  of  his  brother, 
Francis.  In  1709  he  purchased  land  of  John 
Garwood,  and  in  May,  17 12,  his  father-in-law 
conveyed  to  him  two  hundred  and  twenty- 
three  acres  of  land  in  Nottingham  township. 
This  with  his  large  accessions  by  purchase  in 
both  New  Hanover  township,  Burlington 
county,  and  in  Ocean  county  made  him  one  of 
the  largest  land  owners  in  West  New  Jersey. 
He  died  without  a  will  as  did  many  of  the 
members  of  the  Society  of  Friends  from  prin- 
ciple, and  the  genealogist  is.  therefore,  deprived 
of  that  fruitful  service  of  data  as  to  his  chil- 
dren. 

Abigail  Li[)pincott  was  by  birth  and  wealth 
an  attractive  personality  of  the  time.  Her 
father.  Restore  Lippincott,  was  the  third  son 
of  Richard,  the  immigrant,  who  came  from 
Devonshire.  England,  and  his  ancestors  are 
easily  traced  to  the  Domesday  Book,  compiled 
in  the  days  of  William  the  Conqueror.  Rich- 
ard Lippincott  landed  in  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts Bay  Colony,  and  lived  in  Dorchester, 
where  he  was  made  a  freeman  in  1640.  He 
returned  soon  after  to  England,  the  Puritans 
making  it  none  too  agreeable  for  the  Quakers 


in  Boston,  and  he  became  the  largest  share- 
holder in  the  Company  of  Friends  that  colon- 
ized the  lands  on  the  Shrewsbury  river  in  West 
New  Jersey,  and  was  an  active  and  influential 
officer  of  the  colony.  His  son,  Restore  Lippin- 
cott, was  born  in  England,  in  1653,  ^"^  re- 
moved to  Shrewsbury,  West  New  Jersey,  with 
his  father  in  1669.  In  1674  he  married  Han- 
nah Shattock,  a  native  of  Boston,  and  they 
made  their  home  in  Northampton  township, 
Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  where  his 
wealth  and  character  gave  him  great  influence. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  governor's  council  of 
West  Jersey  in  1703-05.  The  children  of 
Restore  and  Hannah  (Shattock)  Lippincott 
were:  Samuel,  Abigail  (q.  v.),  Hannah,  Hope. 
Rebecca,  James ;  Elizabeth,  who  married 
George,  son  of  John  Shinn  (2);  James  and 
Rachel. 

James  Shinn  was  a  member  of  the  Society 
of  Friends  in  good  standing,  and  in  Queen 
Anne's  war  the  Burlington  Monthly  Meeting 
of  April  II,  1704,  attested  that  he  belonged 
to  the  Society  of  Friends  and  could  not  con- 
scientiously bear  arms.  The  list  of  names  thus 
sent  out  to  all  captains  and  other  military 
officers  included  the  names  of  George  Shinn, 
of  Springfield,  and  James  Shinn,  of  Northamp- 
ton. He  gave  large  tracts  of  land  to  his  chil- 
dren and  they  in  turn  became  possessed  of  the 
ambition  to  become  like  their  father  large  land- 
holders. He  died  in  his  own  home.  New  Han- 
over township  (Wrightstown ),  where  he  had 
lived  for  many  years,  "at  a  ripe  old  age,"  in 
1 75 1.  The  children  of  James  and  Abigail 
(Lippincott)  Shinn  were:  i.  Hannah,  who 
married  John  .Atkinson,  9-21,  1 7 16.  2.  Hope, 
who  married  Michael  Atkinson  4-23,  1720.  3. 
Francis,  born  8-25,  1706:  married  Elizabeth 
Atkinson,  8-13,  1729.  4.  Joseph,  who  married 
Mary  Budd,  1726.  5.  James,  who  married,  in 
1739,  Hannah  Shinn  (cousins).  6.  Solomon 
(q.  v.).  7.  Clement,  who  married  Abigail 
Webb,  "out  of  meeting."  The  following  three 
were  also  probably  their  children :  8.  Abigail, 
who  married  Henry  Rieve,  in  1728.  9.  Sus- 
anah,  who  married  Bartholomew  West,  1727; 
lived  in  Monmouth  county,  New  Jersey,  where 
he  had  a  large  family  and  three  of  his  sons 
were  soldiers  in  the  American  revolution.  10. 
Marcy  or  Mercy,  who  died  young. 

(Ill)  Solomon,  fourth  son  and  sixth  child 
of  James  and  Abigail  (Lippincott)  Shinn,  was 
born  in  Springfield  township,  Burlington 
county.  New  Jersey,  and  was  married  in  Spring- 
field Meeting  House  on  1-17,  1739,  to  Mary, 
daughter   of   Thomas   and   granddaughter   of 


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John  Antrim.  He  was  a  farmer  in  New  Han- 
over townsliip  for  many  years.  He  inherited 
lands  in  that  township  as  well  as  in  New 
Egypt,  Monmouth  county,  and  was  a  large 
purchasers  of  lands  in  Evesham  and  other  parts 
of  Burlington  county.  His  wife,  Mary,  died 
after  bearing  him  nine  children,  and  he  mar- 
ried as  his  second  wife  Mrs.  Mary  Bishop,  a 
widow  with  several  children,  in  1782,  an(l  he 
died  intestate  in  1785.  The  names  and  dates 
of  births  of  his  children  were  inscribed  in  the 
back  of  the  marriage  certificate  given  by  the 
Meeting  at  the  time  of  his  marriage  to  Mary 
.Antrim  and  the  additional  data  is  the  work 
of  the  genealogist  from  the  minutes  of  the 
various  meetings.  The  children  of  Solomon 
and  Mary  (. Antrim  )  Shinn  were  born  on  the 
dates  given  as  follows:  i.  Thomas,  September 
17,  1740;  he  married  (first)  Sarah  Vinacomb, 
in  1764,  and  (second)  Merebah  Warren,  in 
1812.  2.  .Asa  (q.  v.).  3.  James,  January  2^, 
1744;  married  Lavinia  Haines,  in  1768.  4. 
Sarah.  June  10.  1747  ;  married  Nathaniel  Pope, 
in  i/(X).  5.  Unity,  February  9,  1749-50;  mar- 
ried Joseph  Pancoast,  in  1767.  6.  Caleb,  May 
3,  1752;  married  Mary  Lucas,  in  1771.  7. 
Mary,   November   14.   1754,  who  died  young. 

8.  Alary,  .Kugust  29,   1756.     9.  Abigail,  April 

9,  1751;;  married  David  Johnson,  November 
30,  I779- 

(I\')  Asa.,  second  son  and  child  of  Solomon 
and  Mary  (Antrim)  Shinn,  was  bom  Novem- 
ber 27,  1742.  He  was  a  devout  member  of  the 
.Society  of  Friends  by  birthright  and  living, 
was  made  an  overseer  of  the  Burlington  Meet- 
ing in  1 79 1  and  an  elder  in  1792.  No  charge 
of  any  kind  was  ever  jirinted  against  him  and 
liis  record  is  that  of  a  blameless  life.  The  date 
of  his  death  does  not  appear  on  any  record 
of  the  society  and  is  not  preserved  by  the 
family.  He  was  married  by  Friend's  Cere- 
mony, after  due  publication  of  intention  in 
open  meeting,  in  1769,  to  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Sarah  P.lack  Gauntt,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Zebulon  and  Sojjhia  (Shourds) 
Gauntt  and  of  William  and  Sara  (Rockhill) 
Black.  The  dignified  overseer  reported  to 
Burlington  Meeting  that  the  marriage  was 
conducted  in  an  orderly  manner  "except  an 
appearance  of  too  great  lightness  on  the  part 
of  some  young  people."  His  widow,  Sarah, 
left  a  will  which  named  .Asa,  son  of  Israel; 
two  granddaughters,  Sarah  IT.  and  Anna, 
daughters  of  Israel :  two  grandsons.  Joseph 
and  Solomon,  sons  of  Solomon  ;  granddaugh- 
ter. Mary,  dauglitcr  of  Solomon  ;  four  grand- 
children, Stacy,  .Ann,  Rebecca  and  Eliza,  chil- 


dren of  son,  Joshua ;  daughter,  Sarah ;  sons, 
\\  illiam,  Samuel,  Isaac  and  Asa,  as  legatees. 
The  children  of  Asa  and  Sarah  (Gauntt) 
Shinn  were  born  as  follows:  I.  Hannah,  Jan- 
uary 12,  1770;  married  Samuel  Croft,  May  5, 
1803.  2.  Israel,  January  25,  1772;  married 
.Ann  Curtis.  3.  William  (q.  v. ).  4.  Isaac,  No- 
vember 2,  1775  ;  married  Frances  Van,  in  1827. 
5.  Samuel,  October  10,  1777;  married  Frances 
(\'an)  Shinn,  in  1840.  6.  Solomon,  Septem- 
ber 8,  1779;  married  Mercy  Lamb,  July  15, 
1805.  7.  Joshua,  April  4.  1781  ;  married  Ann 
Gaskell,  November  17,  1803.  8.  Asa,  April  2, 
1783:  married  (first)  Hannah  Gauntt,  in  1828, 
and  (second)  Elizabeth  Blackwood,  February 
26.  1833.  9.  Sarah,  October  30,  1784;  died 
unmarried,  February  12,  1826.  10.  Joseph, 
March  30,  1786;  died  unmarried.  11.  Anne, 
February  17,  1789;  married  Stacy  Haines, 
July  14,  1813. 

(V)  \Villiam,  second  son  and  third  child  of 
Asa  and  Sarah  (Gauntt)  Shinn,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1774,  and  brought  up  in  the  faith  of 
the  Society  of  Friends,  being  a  birthright  mem- 
ber. He  was  a  farmer  near  Jobstown,  Burling- 
ton county,  New  Jersey.  He  died  May  i, 
1832,  and  his  widow,  .Ann,  June  3,  1855.  He 
was  married  in  conformity  of  the  rules  of  the 
.Society  of  Friends,  his  certificate  of  marriage 
to  Ann  Forsyth,  given  by  the  Friend's  Meet- 
ing at  Mt.  Holly,  bearing  the  date  February 
16,  1815.  His  wife  was  born  January  12, 
1781,  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Phoebe  (Shreve) 
Forsyth,  and  granddaughter  of  Caleb  Shreve, 
a  private  in  the  Burlington  regiment  of  militia 
in  the  .American  revolution.  The  children  of 
WilHam  and  .Ann  (Forsyth)  Shinn  were  six  in 
number  and  born  as  follows:  I.  Shreve,  No- 
veniber  23,  1815;  married  Emily,  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Lydia  Woolman,  December  17, 
1840.  2.  Phoebe,  February  15,  1817;  died 
October  14,  1893.  3-  Walter,  April  i,  1818; 
died  June  20,  1844.  4.  .Anne,  April  5,  1820; 
married  William  Conrow,  son  of  Joseph  Han- 
cock. March  20,  1840.  and  had  no  children. 
3.  Elwood,  May  27,  1822;  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Aschah  Hartshorn, 
March   14,  1861.    6.  Willit  (q.  v.). 

(\"1  )  Willit,  fourth  son  and  youngest  child 
of  William  and  .Ann  (Forsyth)  Shinn,  was 
born  on  his  father's  farm  near  Jobstown,  Bur- 
lington county.  New  Jersey,  January  5,  1825. 
In  1841  he  removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  he 
learned  the  trade  of  bricklayer  and  he  was  a 
master-bricklayer  in  Philadelphia  up  to  the 
time  of  the  death  of  his  mother,  which  occurred 
Jinie  3,  1855,  when  he  returned  to  Burlington 


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county,  and  with  his  brother,  Elwood,  pur- 
chased the  homestead  in  partnership.  They 
so  carried  it  on  up  to  1871,  when  he  sold  out 
his  interest  to  Elwood  and  made  his  home  in 
Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey,  where  he  was  still  a 
resident  in  1909.  Willit  Shinn  never  married 
and  when  he  left  the  homestead  at  Jobstown 
he  provided  a  comfortable  and  attractive  home 
in  the  village  of  Mt.  Holly,  where  he  sur- 
rounded himself  with  all  the  modern  require- 
ments of  home  life  and  extended  a  generous 
hospitality  to  not  only  his  large  circle  of  kins- 
folk, but  to  his  friends  and  neighbors  generally. 
His  board  was  always  shared  by  some  of  his 
brothers,  sisters,  nephews  and  nieces  and  he 
kept  in  touch  with  his  relatives  in  his  work  as 
a  genealogist,  which  he  took  up  in  his  later 
life  and  no  one  of  the  Shinns  has  a  better 
knowledge  of  the  genealogy  of  the  Shinn  family 
in  all  its  extensive  lines.  This  labor  of  love 
has  brought  him  in  epistolary  touch  with  thous- 
ands of  his  kinsfolk,  who  have  corresponded 
with  him  and  given  answers  and  furnished 
data  to  his  in(|uiries  as  to  the  lives  of  their 
immediate  family  circles.  He  has  thus  become 
a  philanthropist,  as  well  as  a  teacher  of  the 
charm  and  fascination  of  the  study  of  gene- 
alogy, when  applied  to  one's  own  kindred.  No 
one  who  has  tasted  at  this  spring  of  knowleflge 
ever  regretted  the  thirst  thus  created  and  their 
lives  have  been  the  happier  and  their  wisdom 
has  increased  as  they  have  gone  deeper  and 
deeper  in  this  most  fascinating  of  studies.  Mr. 
Shinn's  days  have  undoubtedly  been  lengthened 
by  the  exercise  of  this  literary  taste,  which  has 
by  its  welcome  commands  left  on  his  hands 
and  mind  no  idle  moments  in  which  to  enter- 
tain idleness  or  the  many  other  sappers  of 
vitality  in  men  well  advanced  in  age.  At 
eighty-four  years,  "young,"  he  promises  to 
continue  to  work  and  exercise  all  his  faculties 
of  mind  and  body  alike,  and  who  will  say  that 
he  may  not  have  another  generation  of  Shinns 
to  hunt  up  and  give  a  place  on  the  family  tree, 
leaves  of  the  eighth  and  ninth  generations 
from  seed  planted  by  John  Shinn,  the  immi- 
grant. 

The  family  of  Wash- 
WASHIXGTON  ington  is  not  only  char- 
acterized by  a  most  hon- 
orable and  distinguished  record  in  England, 
and  a  glorious  prestige  in  this  country,  but 
it  can  also  boast  of  an  unbroken  lineage  of 
twenty  centuries,  from  the  present  day  back 
to  Odin,  the  founder  of  the  kingdoms  of  Scan- 
dinavia in  the  year  70  before  Christ.     In  the 


reign  of  George  the  H  of  Great  Britain, 
Leonard  Washington,  the  great-great-grand- 
father of  General  George  Washington,  the  first 
president  of  the  United  States,  was  obliged  to 
leave  the  home  of  his  ancestors  at  llowgie 
Mountain  in  Westmorland  and  to  settle  with 
his  five  sons  at  Bethnal  Green,  one  of  the 
metropolitan  boroughs  of  greater  London. 
From  here  two  of  his  sons  emigrated  to  Vir- 
ginia and  became  the  ancestors  of  the  cele- 
brated colonial  family.  The  other  three  sons 
remained  in  England  and  contiiuied  the  long 
line  which  even  then  enumerated  twenty  gen- 
erations on  English  soil  and  as  many  more  in 
Denmark  and  Scandinavia.  The  English  gen- 
erations reckoning  backward  are  as  follows : 
Leonard,  Lawrence,  Lawrence,  Lawrence, 
Thomas,  Robert,  John,  Robert,  John,  John, 
John,  Robert,  Robert,  Robert,  Walter,  Hondo. 
Akaris,  Bardolf,  and  Torfin  the  Dane,  who  as 
the  old  Scandinavian  and  Danish  records  show 
was  the  direct  descendant  of  Odin  the  con- 
c|ueror  of  the  Norcsland  nearly  an  hundred 
_\'ears  before  Christ. 

( I )  One  of  the  sons  of  Leonard  Washing- 
tun  of  Howgie  Mountain  and  Bethnal  Green, 
who  remained  in  England  was  Robert,  whose 
son  returned  to  Westmorland  and  settled  on 
a  farm  at  Kendal,  from  which,  about  1830,  his 
son  emigrated  to  Canada,  and  founded  another 
line  of  the  Washington  name  and  blood  in  the 
new  world.  The  name  of  his  wife  is  un- 
known, but  he  left  six  sons  to  perpetuate  his 
name,  Stephen,  Anthony,  George,  John, 
Robert  and  Joseph. 

( II)  John,  the  son  of  Stephen  Washington, 
of  Westmoreland  and  Ontario,  Canada,  mar- 
ried Janet  Scott,  and  left  seven  children: 
Walter  Scott,  referred  to  below ;  Eleanor, 
Henry  J.,  Charles,  Stephen  Frederick,  Joseph 
and  Agnes  Edith. 

(III)  Walter  Scott,  son  of  John  and  Janet 
(.Scott)  Washington,  was  born  in  Bowmans- 
ville,  county  Durham,  Ontario,  Canada,  and 
with  his  family  is  now  living  at  12  Washing- 
ton place,  Newark,  New  Jersey.  For  his  early 
education  he  was  sent  to  the  public  schools  of 
county  Durham  and  to  the  Bowmansville  Col- 
legiate Institute,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1869,  after  wdiich  he  received  a  first  and 
second  class  certificate  from  the  British  mili- 
tary school  at  Toronto,  having  .served  in  the 
infantry  and  artillery  divisions  of  the  militia. 
In  1870  he  emigrated  to  the  L^nited  .States  and 
settled  for  a  short  time  in  Roscommon.  Michi- 
gan, returning  however  to  Coburg,  Ontario,  in 
order  to  attend  the  Collegiate  Institute  there. 


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and  Trinity  ^Medical  College,  Toronto,  from 
which  he 'was  graduatetl  in  1876,  being 
awarded  the  highest  honors  of  his  class  and 
receiving  a  special  diploma.  In  the  same  year, 
1876,  he  was  appointed  coroner"  of  Rosconi- 
mon,  Michigan,  and  also  Roscommon  county 
physician.  He  was  also,  one  of  the  organizers 
and  the  chairman  of  the  board  of  supervisors 
of  the  poor,  and  at  various  times  held  several 
of  the  local  offices,  such  as  village  treasurer, 
school  inspector  and  health  officer.  He  was 
also  one  of  the  surgeons  of  the  Michigan  Cen- 
tral railroad,  a  position  he  held  for  ten  years 
and  resigned  in  1887,  when  he  settled  in  New- 
ark. In  that  year  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
Dr.  J.  D.  Bromley,  which  continued  for  some 
time.  In  1894  he  was  appointed  county 
physician  of  Essex  county,  which  office  he  held 
for  eight  years.  Dr.  Washington  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Essex  County  Medical  Society,  of 
which  he  is  ex-president,  and  the  president 
and  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the  Essex 
County  Anatomical  and  Pathological  Society, 
as  well  as  a  member  and  president  of  the  Prac- 
titioners' Club.  He  is  a  Mason,  member  of 
St.  John's  Lodge  of  Newark,  and  attends 
Trinity  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  New- 
ark. September  3,  1879.  Walter  Scott  Wash- 
ington, M.  D.,  married  Catharine,  daughter  of 
Richard  Williams  and  Louisa  (Jerolamon) 
Conkling,  and  they  have  one  daughter.  Louise 
Janet  Washington,  born  April  12,  1885. 


The    Frylings    belong    to    the 
FRYLING     later  comers  to  the  new  world 

and  to  New  Jersey,  there  being 
only  two  generations  in  this  country,  the 
earlier  of  which  is  that  of  the  emigrant 
founder  of  the  family. 

(i)  William  Fryling  was  born  in  Holland, 
from  which  country  he  emigrated  to  America 
in  1871  as  a  young  man.  He  resided  in  New- 
ark and  died  August  3,  1894.  He  married 
in  Holland,  Elizabeth  G.  Habbema,  who  has 
borne  him  nine  children:  i.  William  now  a 
Prc.sb;yterian  minister  at  Easton  Center,  Mass- 
achusetts, who  married  Mabel  Owen  and  has 
one  child,  Owen  Fryling.  2.  John,  died  in 
infancy.  3.  Elizabeth  G.,  died  in  infancy.  4. 
John,  who  lives  at  132  First  street,  Newark, 
New  Jersey;  married  Matilda  Giesele  but  has 
no  children.  5.  Gerhard,  who  lives  at  127 
North  .Second  street,  Newark,  New  Jersey; 
married  Alice  .Smalls  and  has  three  children: 
Charles,  Lillian  and  Edna  Fryling.  6.  Annie, 
married  William  H.  Hall,  of  255  Bleecker 
street,    Brooklyn,   Long   Island,   and   has  two 


children.  John  Henry  and  Gertrude  Hall.  7. 
Henry  H.,  referred  to  below.  8.  Elizabeth, 
married  Peter  Guthrie,  of  424  Fourth  avenue, 
Newark,  New  Jersey.    9.  George,  single. 

( H)  Henry  H.,  seventh  child  and  fifth  son 
of  William  and  Elizabeth  G.  (Habbema)  Fry- 
ling. was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1876.  about  five  years  after  his  father 
hail  emigrated  to  this  country,  and  is  now 
living  at  424  Fourth  avenue,  Newark,  New 
Jersey.  For  his  early  education  he  was  sent 
to  the  Newark  public  schools,  after  leaving 
which  he  entered  the  Newark  technical  school, 
and  then  later  on  studied  law,  being  admitted 
to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  an  attorney-at-law 
in  February,  1897,  and  as  a  counsellor  in  1900. 
Shortly  after  being  admitted  as  attorney  he 
began  to  specialize  in  the  department  of  cor- 
poration law  and  he  is  now  one  of  the  recog- 
nized authorities  on  that  subject.  Mr.  Frj'- 
ling  is  a  Republican,  but  has  held  no  office  and 
does  not  seek  one ;  nor  has  he  seen  any  military 
service.  He  is  a  past  master  of  Triluminar 
Lodge,  No.  112,  Free  and  .\ccepted  ]\Iasons, 
a  member  of  the  Scottish  Rite  and  one  of  the 
officers  of  Salaam  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Esse.x  County  Country 
Club,  a  trustee  of  the  Roseville  Athletic  Asso- 
ciation, treasurer  of  the  Lawyers  Club  of 
Esse.x  county,  as  well  as  a  member  of  the 
Republican  Indian  League,  Lincoln  Republican 
Club  of  Roseville  and  of  the  Newark  Board 
of  Trade.  He  is  a  Presbyterian.  On  June 
30,  1909,  he  married  Florence  Ohl,  eldest 
daughter  of  Adam  George  and  Caroline 
(Buehler)  Ohl. 


This  name  is  o'f  seldom  oc- 
HARGROYE  currence  in  United  States 
history  or  biography.  The 
most  notable  is  Rev.  Robert  Kennon  Har- 
grove (1829-1905),  son  of  Daniel  J.  and  Lao- 
dicia  H.  Hargrove,  grandson  of  Richard  (2) 
and  great-grandson  of  Richard,  who  with  his 
brother,  Reuben  Hargrove,  came  from  Eng- 
land before  the  American  revolution.  Rich- 
ard Hargrove  had  two  sons,  John  and  Richard 
(2),  and  this  Richard  settled  in  North  Caro- 
lina, while  John  settled  in  New  Jersey,  thus 
forming  two  branches  of  Hargroves,  the  sons 
of  Richard  producing  the  southern  branch  and 
those  of  John  the  northern  branch.  We  see 
by  this  that  the  southern  branch  gave  to  the 
Methodist  church  south  its  noted  educator, 
preacher  and  bishop,  Robert  Kennon  Har- 
grove, who  was  bom  in  Pickens  county,  Ala- 
bama, and  whose  father,  Daniel  J.,  was  prob- 


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ably  born  in  N'orth  Carolina  about  1800,  and 
migrated  upon  arriving  at  his  majority,  about 
1821,  to  the  new  opening  fields  of  Alabama, 
rich  in  agricultural  promise,  and  where  he 
married  Laodicia.  Daniel  J.'s  father,  Richard 
Hargrove  Jr.,  probably  was  born  in  North 
Carolina  about  1775,  and  Richard's  father, 
Richard  Sr.,  was  the  immigrant,  born  in  Eng- 
land probably  in  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth 
century  and  arrived  in  America  during  the 
early  manhood  with  his  brother  Reuben,  who 
was  a  soldier  in  the  American  revolutionary 
army.  Andrew  Coleman  Hargrove  was  grad- 
uated at  the  University  of  Alabama,  A.  B., 
1856,  and  at  Har\^ard  College  Law  School,  LL. 
B..  1859;  was  professor  of  e(|uity  and  juris- 
prudence in  University  of  Alabama,  and  died 
in  1895.  He  was  probably  a  brother  of 
Robert  Kennon,  the  bishop  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church,  south.  Taking  the  south- 
em  branch  as  our  guide,  we  should  begin  the 
generations  of  the  New  Jersey  branch  with 
Richard  (q.  v.),  one  of  the  immigrant  Har- 
groves,  and  follow  with  John  (q.  v.),  who  is 
said  to  have  settled  in  New  Jersey. 

( I)  Richard  Hargrove,  the  immigrant,  came 
from  England  to  America  previous  to  the  be- 
ginning of  the  American  revolution  and  was 
accompanied  by  his  elder  brother,  Reuben,  who 
joined  the  revolutionary  army  and  probably 
never  married.  Richard  Hargrove  did  marry 
and  he  had  two  sons:  (i)  John,  who  settled 
in  ^^'est  Jersey,  probably  in  Bui  lington  county. 
2.  Richard  (2),  who  went  south  and  located 
in  North  Carolina  and  his  descendants  in  Ala- 
bama. 

(U)  John,  son  of  Richard  Hargrove,  was 
of  the  second  generation.  He  married  and 
had  a  son  William  (q.  v.). 

(HI)  William,  son  of  John  Hargrove,  of 
•West  New  Jersey,  was  born  in  Buddtown, 
Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  in  1794.  He 
was  a  farmer  in  Wrightstown  in  the  same 
county.  He  married  Ann  E.,  daughter  of 
John  and  Mary  Curtis.  She  was  born  in  1791 
and  by  this  marriage  ten  children  were  born. 
The  date  of  her  death  is  1877  and  that  of  her 
husband,  \\'illiam  Hargrove,  October  31,  1854. 
These  children  all  born  in  Buddtown,  Burl- 
ington county.  New  Jersey,  were  in  the  order 
of  their  birth:  i.  Goldin.  1816.  2.  Joseph, 
1817.  3.  Jonathan,  1819.  4.  Mary,  1820.  5. 
Maria,  1822.  6.  Hannah,  1825.  7.  Margaret, 
1828.  8.  James  M..  1830.  9.  Sarah,  1832. 
10.  Martin  \'an  Buren  (q.  v.). 

(IV)  Martin  Van  Buren,  youngest  child 
and  fifth  son  of  William  and  Ann  E.  (Curtis) 


Hargrove,  was  born  in  Buddtown,  Burlington 
county,  New  Jersey,  December  2,  1837.  He 
was  a  pupil  in  the  public  school  of  his  native 
town,  and  while  quite  young  went  to  Philadel- 
phia as  clerk  in  a  grocery  store  for  a  time,  but 
returned  to  his  father's  farm.  On  the  out- 
break of  the  civil  war,  he  was  much  interested 
in  the  political  condition  of  affairs  and  in  1862 
was  constrained  to  give  his  service  to  the 
country  at  a  time  it  was  most  in  need  of  men. 
He  enlisted  in  the  Twenty-third  New  Jersey 
\'olunteers  and  was  assigned  to  Company  E, 
commanded  by  Edward  Burd  Grubb,  who  was 
promoted  to  major  and  lieutenant-colonel  in  the 
Twenty-third  Regiment  and  became  its  colonel 
in  1863,  and  in  1864  he  recruited  and  served 
as  colonel  of  the  Thirty-seventh  Regiment  and 
was  brevetted  brigadier-general,  Marcli  13, 
1865.  Private  Hargrove  was  mustered  into 
the  service  of  his  country,  September  13,  1862, 
and  became  orderly  sergeant  of  Company  E. 
He  was  a  participant  in  the  disastrous  battle 
of  Fredericksburg,  December  13,  1862,  and  in 
the  retreat  he  was  wounded  and  sent  to  the 
regimental  hospital.  He  was  mustered  out  of 
the  volunteer  service,  June  27,  1863,  the  term 
of  enlistment  having  expired,  but  he  served 
as  volunteer  wagon  master  and  cattleman  in 
the  army  for  six  months,  after  which  he  re- 
turned home.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he 
went  to  Iowa,  where  he  spent  one  year  in  a 
timber  camp  and  on  a  farm.  He  returned 
home  and  taught  school  in  Pemberton,  New 
Jersey,  for  a  year,  and  in  1867  he  took  charge 
of  the  store  of  Earley  &  Reeves  at  Brown's 
Mills,  New  Jersey,  and  he  remained  in  charge 
of  the  store  1867-70.  In  1870  he  bought  out 
the  business  and  continued  it  in  his  own  name 
up  to  1879,  when  he  sold  it  to  Vaughn  & 
Kinsley,  having  been  ap]5ointed  postmaster  of 
Brown's  Mills  during  the  administration  of 
President  Hayes,  and  he  continued  to  hold 
that  office  under  the  administrations  of  Presi- 
dents Garfield,  Arthur,  Cleveland,  Harrison 
and  Cleveland  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  in 
1892.  He  also  held  the  office  of  notary  public, 
commissioner  of  deeds,  pension  attorney,  tax 
assessor,  member  of  the  township  committees, 
etc.  He  affiliated  with  the  Democratic  party 
and  with  the  Masonic  fraternity,  being  a 
member  of  the  New  Eg>'pt  Lodge,  Ancient 
F"ree  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  of  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  of  Pemberton. 
His  religious  affiliation  was  with  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  church,  in  which  organization 
he  was  chairman  of  the  board  of  stewards  at 
the    time    of    his    death,   which    occurred    at 


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Brown's  Mills,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
August  5,  1892.  He  married,  in  1870, 
Hannah  Brown  Scattergood,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Brown  Scattergood, 
and  they  had  one  daughter  who  died  in  infancy 
and  one  son  Miles  Warner  (q.  v.). 

(  \" )  Allies  Warner,  only  son  of  Martin  \'an 
Burcn  and  Hannah  Brown  (Scattergood) 
Hargrove,  was  born  at  Brown's  Mills,  Burl- 
ington county.  New  Jersey,  July  8.  1873.  He 
attended  the  public  school  of  his  native  town- 
ship, and  was  also  taught  to  a  considerable 
extent  by  his  father,  who  was  a  school  teacher, 
as  well  as  a  soldier,  merchant,  and  town  and 
governmental  official.  When  sixteen  years  of 
age,  his  father  purchased  the  business  of  J.  N. 
Smith  &  Brother  of  B.rown's  Mills,  New 
Jersey,  and  put  him  in  charge  of  the  store, 
giving  him  the  business  when  he  attained  his 
majority  in  1894  and  the  profits  he  earned 
from  the  business  the  six  years  he  had  con- 
ducted it  when  under  age.  During  President 
Cleveland's  administration  he  was  made  post- 
master after  the  death  of  his  father  in  1892, 
and  he  has  filled  the  position  from  that  time 
under  Republican  administrations  to  the  entire 
satisfaction  of  the  citizens,  irrespective  of 
party  politics.  He  is  also  notary  public,  pen- 
sion attorney,  commissioner  of  deeds,  and  lias 
filled  various  town  offices,  including  township 
clerk  from  the  date  of  his  majority.  He  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Pemberton  Na- 
tional Fiank  and  has  served  as  director  since 
the  organization.  He  was  made  secretary  and 
general  manager  of  the  Farmers'  Telephone 
Company,  secretary  of  Brown's  Mills  Cran- 
berry Company  and  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  Forest  Lake  Poultry  Company.  His 
church  afiiliation  is  with  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church,  of  which  he  is  a  steward.  He  is 
a  member  of  Xew  Egypt  Lodge,  F.  and  .A..  M. ; 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Felli)ws,  hold- 
ing membership  in  the  Pemberton  Lodge ; 
Knights  of  Pythias,  and  Improved  Order  of 
Red  Men. 

He  married  (first)  August  25,  1895,  Addie 
H.,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Catherine  (Ecker- 
son  )  Haring,  and  by  this  marriage  one  son, 
Lynden  Haring,  was  born  July  4,  1896.  Mrs. 
Hargrove  died  August  5.  1899.  Mr.  Har- 
grove married  (second)  March  8.  1903.  Mary 
A.,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Sally  (Beck) 
Harker,  of  Wrightstown,  New  Jersey. 

(The   Brown   I>ine). 

James  Brown,  of  Cairns  Kirn.  North  An- 
trim, Ireland,  a  descendant  of  Robert  Brown, 


sailed  from  England  in  1677  and  landed  near 
the  present  site  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  set- 
tled and  married.     He  had  a  son,  John  (q.  v.). 

(II)  John,  son  of  James  Brown,  the  im- 
migrant, wa's  born  either  in  Ireland  or  on  the 
banks  of  the  Delaware  river  near  the  present 
site  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  When  a 
young  man  he  went  to  England,  where  he  mar- 
ried and  had  two  children:  I.  William,  born  in 
England    171 5.     2.   Alexander    (q.   v.). 

(III)  Alexander,  son  of  John  Brown,  was 
born  in  England  in  1720,  came  to  America  and 
settled  in  Burlington,  New  Jersey.  He  mar- 
ried and  had  a  son,  Abraham  (q.  v.). 

(  I\')  Abraham,  second  son  of  Alexander 
Brown,  was  born  in  Burlington,  New  Jersey, 
and  purchased  the  mills  at  Biddle's  Mills,  and 
after  the  purchase  the  place  took  the  name  of 
Hrown's  Alills.  which  it  retains  to  the  present 

day.     He  married  Elizabeth  and  they 

had  a  son,  Joseph  R.   (q.  v.). 

I  \' )  Joseph  R.,  son  of  Abraham  and  Eliza- 
beth Pirown.  was  born  at  Brown's  Mills,  New 
Jersey.  May  5.  1776.  died  there  September  11, 
1850.  He  married  and  had  a  daugh- 
ter. Elizabeth,  who  became  the  wife  of  Thomas 
Scattergood,  of  Brown's  Mills,  and  their 
daughter.  Hannah  Brown  Scattergood,  became 
the  wife  of  Martin  \'an  Buren  Hargrove  (see 
Hargrove ) . 

Among  the  colonists  who  em- 
RUTGERS  barked  at  Texel  on  the  "Rens- 
selaerswyck,"  Jans  Tiebkins, 
master,  on  October  i.  1636,  was  one  Rutger 
Jacobsen  \'an  Schoenderwoerdt.  The  ship 
was  bound  for  Fort  Orange  in  the  service  of 
the  first  patroon.  Rutger.  as  his  last  name  in- 
dicates, came  from  the  pretty  Dutch  village  of 
Schoenderwoerdt,  distant  two  miles  north  of 
Leerdam  and  four  miles  from  \'iauen,  where 
\"an  Rensselaer  had  a  country  seat.  In  the 
jirimitive  settlement  of  Fort  Orange  (now 
Albany,  New  York)  Rutger  became  a  man  of 
considerable  repute  and  wealth.  In  1649  he 
went  into  partnership  with  Goosen  Gerritse 
\'an  Schaick  and  rented  the  patroon's  brewerv 
for  four  hunilrcd  and  fifty  guilders,  and  in  the 
second  year  they  used  fifteen  hundred  schep- 
els  of  malt.  In  1^154  Rutger  bought  Jan  Jans 
\^an  Noorstrant's  brew-hou.se.  which  stood 
opposite  the  Middle  Dutch  church,  as  situated 
in  1 886.  But  he  was  not  only  a  brewer,  for 
he  dealt  in  beaver  skins,  and  owned  a  sloop  on 
the  river,  which  he  sometimes  commanded 
himself,  but  at  other  times  he  employed  .Abra- 
liam  de  Truwe  as  master.     He  also  frequently 


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bought  and  sold  building  lots  in  the  village  and 
farming  lands  in  the  vicinity.  In  1661  he 
owned  a  share  in  Mohicander's  island.  While 
Rutger  thus  was  becoming  rich  he  was  held  in 
honor  by  his  fellow  townsmen  and  was  magis- 
trate in  1665  and  probably  held  that  office  until 
his  death.  He  took  part  in  the  proceedings  of 
a  peace  commission  appointed  to  treat  with  the 
Indians.  In  the  records  he  is  mentioned  as 
Hon.  Rutger  Jacobsen,  and  his  name  is  found 
frequenth'  so  written.  In  1652,  when  the  new 
church  was  built,  he  was  selected  to  lay  the 
corner  stone.  He  died  in  1665,  and  at  a  sale 
his  personal  effects  brought  nine  hundred  and 
eighty-three  guilders,  ten  stivers,  and  his  silver 
and  jewelry  sold  for  five  hundred  and  twelve 
guilders,  fourteen  stivers.  In  June,  1646,  he 
married  Tryntje  (Catherine)  Jansse  Van 
lireesteede,  in  Ss'ew  Amsterdam  (  Xew  York). 
After  his  death  she  married,  in  1695,  Hen- 
drick  Janse  Roseboom,  and  is  supposed  to  have 
died  in  171 1.  Margaret,  one  of  the  daughters 
of  her  first  marriage,  became  wife  of  Jan 
Jansen  Bleecker,  who  was  mayor  of  Albany 
in  1700.  Engeltje,  another  daughter  of  Rut- 
ger, is  believed  to  have  married  Melgert  Abra- 
hamse  \'an  Deusen.  Rutger's  only  son  was 
Harman  Rutgers. 

The  Rutgers  family  of  Xew  York  and  the 
particular  branch  thereof  under  consideration 
here  is  descended  from  Harman  Rutgers, 
whom  Pearson  in  his  "Albany  First  Settlers" 
says  was  a  son  of  Rutger  Jacobsen  who  is 
mentioned  in  the  preceding  paragraph ;  "but 
this  is  improbable,"  says  a  more  recent  ac- 
count in  the  "Xew  York  Genealogical  and 
Biographical  Record"  (  iSyg).  "Harman  mar- 
ried a  daughter  of  Anthony  de  Hooges,  secre- 
tary of  the  'colonic'  of  Rensselaerswyck,  after 
wdiom  the  mountain  'Anthony's  Nose'  in  the 
Hudson  Highlands  was  named." 

(I)  Harman  Rutgers  is  first  mentioned  in 
the  records  as  private  in  the  Burgher  Corps 
of  Xew  Amsterdam  in  1653.  He  was  a 
brewer  and  inherited  from  his  father  the  Van 
Noorstrant  brew-house,  but  in  March,  1675, 
he  bought  a  brewery  on  the  eastern  half  of 
the  present  (1886)  Exchange  block  in  Albany, 
and  sold  it  after  two  months.  The  Dutch 
church,  of  which  he  and  his  wife  were  mem- 
bers, called  on  him  to  supply  brew  for  funer- 
als. About  1693  the  Indians  caused  him  so 
much  trouble,  destroying  his  barley  crops,  that 
he  removed  to  Xew  York  with  his  two  sons, 
Anthony  and  Harman  Jr.,  both  of  whom  were 
brewers.     His    daughter    Elsie     remained     in 


Albany,  having  married  David  Schuyler,  once 
mayor  of  the  city. 

(II)  Harman  (2),  younger  son  of  Harman 
(i)  Rutgers,  married  Catharina  Meyer  and 
load  several  children.  On  Christmas  day, 
1706,  he  wrote  in  his  family  Bible:  "I, 
Harman  Rutgers,  was  married  to  Catharine 
Meyer,  by  Domonie  De  Booys.  May  the  Lord 
grant  us  a  long  and  happy  life  together, 
.\men."  And  again:  "171 1,  December  4th: 
Were  moved  from  mother's  house  to  our  own 
place  in  the  Vly,  and  have  made  the  first  beer 
there  on  the  29th  of  December.  May  the 
Lord  bless  the  work  of  our  hands." 

(II)  Anthony,  son  of  Harman  (i)  Rut- 
gers, was  a  baker  and  was  admitted  freeman 
in  Xew  York  in  1699.  In  1705  he  bought  a 
dwelling  house  and  lot  in  Smith  (now  \\  ill- 
iam )  street  and  a  lot  beyond  the  land  gate  on 
Xew  street.  In  1710  he  had  become  a  resi- 
dent of  the  north  ward,  above  Wall  street,  and 
in  that  year  and  the  two  years  following  he 
v/as  assistant  alderman  from  that  ward.  He 
represented  the  ward  as  alderman  from  1727 
to  1734,  and  was  member  of  the  colonial  as- 
sembly from  1726  to  1737.  In  17 17  he  bought 
land  on  Maiden  lane  and  had  a  brew-house  and 
residence  on  the  north  side  of  that  street  be- 
tween William  and  Xassau  streets.  He  also 
purchased  a  tract  of  farm  land  lying  north- 
west of  the  intersection  of  Broadway  and 
Chambers  street  and  extending  to  the  North 
river.  In  1723  he  bought  ten  acres  of  land 
here  and  in  1725  purchased  thirty-six  acres 
more.  Anthony  Rutgers,  then  known  as  Cap- 
tain Rutgers,  was  still  living  near  William 
street  in  173 1,  but  about  that  time  built  him- 
self a  house  on  his  new  farm.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  grand  jury  which  in  1741  investigated 
the  "Xegro  plot"  to  burn  the  city  and  the  fort. 
He  married  (first)  December  30,  1694,  Hen- 
drickje  \'an  de  Water,  of  Xew  York,  and 
after  her  death  he  married  (second)  .A.ugust 
25,  1 7 16,  Widow  Cornelia  Ben.son,  daughter 
of  Johannes  Roos.  Captain  Anthony  Rut- 
gers died  in  1746  and  his  widow  survived  him 
until  1760.  He  had  eight  children,  all  born 
of  his  first  marriage  and  all  baptized  in  New 
York:  i.  Harmanus,  November  5.  1699.  2. 
Petrus,  May  4,  1701.  3.  Catryna,  December 
20,  1702.  4.  Anneke,  March  31,  1704.  5. 
Catharina,  Xovember  21,  1705,  died  young. 
6.  .-Vnthony,  February  9,  1707,  died  young.  7. 
Catharina,  October  27,  1708.  8.  Anthony, 
April  29,  171 1. 

(III)  Captain    Anthony    (2),   son    of   An- 


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thony  (i)  and  Heiidrickje  ( \'an  de  Water) 
Rutgers,  was  baptized  April  29,  171 1,  in  New 
York,  and  died  before  his  father.  He  mar- 
ried. January  10,  1741.  Margarita  Klopper 
( Clapper )  and  by  her  had  an  only  son,  An- 
thony A. 

(  IV)  Anthony  A.,  only  son  and  child  of 
Anthony  (2)  and  Margarita  (Klopper)  Rut- 
gers, received  under  his  grandfather's  will  the 
brew-house  and  residence  in  Maiden  lane,  a 
share  in  the  farm  on  Xorth  river,  and  also  owned 
the  Ranelegh  gardens  at  the  head  of  Broad- 
way, where  Duane  street  now  crosses  it.  The 
gardens  were  leased  to  one  Jones,  who  gave 
entertainments  there :  a  band  of  music  played 
there  on  Mondays  and  Thursdays.  In  1775 
Anthony  A.  Rutgers  is  named  as  captain  of  the 
second  company  of  artillery  one  of  the  "new 
companies  raising."  Subsequently,  however, 
he  removed  to  Newark,  New  Jersey,  and  died 
there  in  1784,  leaving  four  sons  and  two 
daughters.  He  married,  June  6,  1762,  Gert- 
rudye,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Gouverneur,  of 
Newark. 

(V)  Nicholas  Gouverneur,  son  of  Anthony 
A.  and  Gertrudye  (Gouverneur)  Rutgers,  was 
born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  September  20, 
1771,  started  in  business  with  his  grandfather's 
house,  Gouverneur  &  Kemble.  and  afterward 
was  at  the  head  of  the  firni  of  Rutgers,  Sea- 
man \-  ( )gden,  whose  place  of  business  was  in 
I'earl  street,  and  who  also  acted  as  agent  for 
Anthony  Rutgers,  4th.  Nicholas  G.  Rutgers 
for  many  years  was  jjresident  of  the  Mutual 
Insurance  Company  and  member  of  the  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce.  He  married,  March  27, 
1796,  Cornelia,  daughter  of  John  Livingston 
and  granddaughter  of  Robert  Livingston, 
third  owner  of  the  manor  (see  Livingston). 
After  her  death  he  married  his  third  cousin, 
Eliza  Hoffman,  and  died  in  1857,  at  the  age 
of  eighty-six  years.  He  had  ten  children:  i. 
Maria  .Ann  LeRoy,  born  January  18,  1797. 
2.  Robert  Alfred,  .\ugust  27,  1798.  3.  Clem- 
entina. May  24,  1800.  4.  Ilenry  Livingston. 
December  28,  1801.  5.  Nicholas  Seaman,  No- 
vember 26,  1803.  6.  Catharine  Elizabeth,  April 
13,  1807.  7.  Gulian  McEvers,  March  23,  1809. 
8.  John  Livingston,  July  13,  1813.  9.  Edward, 
May  II.  1816.     ID,  William,  May  10.  1821. 

(\T)  John  Livingston,  son  of  Nicholas 
Gouverneur  and  Cornelia  (Livingston)  Rut- 
gers, was  born  in  New  York  City,  July  13, 
1813.  and  for  forty  years  was  a  member  of  the 
merchantile  house  of  L.  M.  Hoffman  &  Com- 
pany. He  was  a  business  man  exclusively,  a 
Reiniblican  in  politics,  but  not  active  in  public 


aUairs,  and  in  religious  preference  was  an 
Episcopalian.  He  married,  November  30, 
1843,  Anna  Maria  Livingston,  born  in  Hud- 
son, New  York,  October  i,  1817,  daughter  of 
Robert  LeRoy  Livingston,  who  married,  July 

2,  181 1,  Anna  Maria  Digges.  John  Livingston 
and  Anna  Maria  (Livingston)  Rutgers  had 
five   children:      i.    Cornelia,   born   September 

17,  1844.     2.  Anna  Maria,  February  15,  1846. 

3.  Mary  Rutgers,  .April  10,  1847.  4.  Nicholas 
(iouverneur,  November  12,  1850.  5.  Henry 
Livingston,  .August  2/,  1852. 

(\TI)  Nicholas  Gouverneur  (2),  son  of 
John  Livingston  and  Anna  Maria  (Livings- 
ton )  Rutgers,  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
November  12,  1850,  and  received  his  education 
at  George  C.  Anthon's  school  and  the  Pro- 
fessor Elie  Charlier  Institute,  both  of  New 
York,  and  Rutgers  grammar  school,  New 
Brunswick,  New  Jersey.  His  business  career 
was  begun  as  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  LeRoy 
.Shot  and  Lead  Company,  and  he  continued 
in  that  capacity  for  twenty  years.  In  March, 
1893,  '"'^  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  Norfolk 
&  New  Bnmswick  Hosiery  Company  and  still 
retains  that  office.  In  .April,  1902,  he  also  was 
elected  president  of  the  New  Brunswick  Sav- 
ings Institution,  an  office  he  still  holds.  Mr. 
Rutgers  is  a  Republican,  but  not  active  in  poli- 
tics. He  is  a  communicant  at  Christ  Church, 
Episcopalian,  of  New  Brunswick,  being  rec- 
tor's warden,  and  for  more  than  twenty  years 
has  been  treasurer  of  the  church.  He  married, 
November  10,  1880,  at  New  Brunswick,  Alice 
Noel  .Xeilson,  born  New  York  City,  February 

18,  1850,  daughter  of  John  Butler  Coles  Neil- 
son,  who  married  Helena,  daughter  of  Dr. 
John  Neilson,  of  New  York.  John  Butler 
Neilson's  children  were:  Alice  Noel,  Helen 
and  Henry  .Augustus  Neilson.  Mr.  Rutgers's 
only  child  is  Nicholas  Gouverneur  Rutgers, 
born  October  19,  1888,  graduated  from  Rut- 
gers Preparatory  .School,  New  Brunswick,  and 
now  employed  in  the  office  of  a  New  York 
Citv  stock  broker. 


According  to  tradition, 
LI\'INGSTON     Leving     or     Living,     the 

earliest  known  ancestor 
of  the  Livingstons  in  Scotland,  was  a  noble 
Hungarian  who  came  to  that  country  in  the 
train  of  Margaret,  when  she  and  her  brother 
Edgar  the  .Atheling  took  refuge  at  the  court 
of  Malcolm  Canmore,  in  1070.  Margaret 
afterward  married  Malcolm  and  many  of  her 
followers  remained  in  Scotland  and  had  lands 
granted  them  by  her  husband.     But  this  tra- 


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ditioii,  like  many  others  of  like  kind  relating 
to  ancient  Scotch  families,  will  not  stand  in- 
vestigation ;  and  there  is  no  need  of  going  so 
far  as  Hungary  for  the  origin  of  the  surname. 
In  England  the  surname  Living  was  not  un- 
common and  appears  in  a  Saxon  charter  in  the 
ninth  century.  It  was  the  name  of  the  arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury  who  crowned  Canute, 
and  the  more  famous  bishop  of  Crediton  and 
Worcester,  the  friend  of  Earl  Godwine,  has 
come  down  to  us  in  the  words  of  the  old  Saxon 
chronicle  as  "Lyfing  the  Elo(iuent"  {"Lyfi>i{j 
sc  wordsiwtcra  biscop"). 

And  besides  these  two  great  churchmen 
there  are  many  others  having  the  same  name 
mentioned  in  the  Saxon  charters,  one  of  them 
being  .Staller,  or  master  of  the  horse  to  Edward 
the  Confessor;  and  moreover,  according  to 
Doomsday  Book,  several  persons  of  the  name 
were  landholders  before  the  conquest:  there- 
fore it  is  highly  probable  that  the  earliest 
known  ancestor  of  the  Livingston  family  in 
Scotland  was  of  Saxon  origin.  Living  was 
one  of  the  Saxon  landholders  mentioned  in 
Doomsday,  and  as  to  whether  the  Norman  in- 
vasion drove  him  to  take  refuge  in  Scotland 
an  authentic  charter  and  one  of  the  earliest 
relating  to  the  abbey  of  Holyrood  makes  it 
certain  that  the  Scottish  Living  held  lands  in 
the  reign  of  Alexander  I  (1107-1124).  where 
the  present  village  of  Livingston.  Linlithgow- 
shire, now  stands ;  "that  his  son  Thurstan,  who 
between  1128  and  1159  was  one  of  the  wit- 
nesses to  a  charter  of  Robert,  Bishop  of  St. 
.'\ndrews.  confirming  King  David's  grant  to 
the  monks  of  Holyrood.  himself  confirms,  in 
the  charter  alluded  to  above,  his  father  Liv- 
ing's gift  of  the  church  of  Livingston  with 
half  a  camcate  of  land,  and  a  toft,  in  free  and 
perpetual  alms  to  the  same  abbey."  The  name 
of  Living's  lands  was  written  either  in  the 
Latin  form  of  "Villa  Leving"  or  in  the  Saxon 
e(|uivalent  of  "Levingstun,"  both  meaning  the 
dwelling-place  or  homestead  of  Leving.  It 
was  therefore  simple  enough  when  surnames 
did  come  into  use  for  his  descendants  to  adopt 
theirs  from  the  name  of  their  territorial  pos- 
sessions. 

(I)  Rev.  John  Livingston,  father  of  the  im- 
migrant Robert,  first  "Lord  of  the  ^lanor," 
was  a  Scotch  clergyman  of  remarkable  abilit\', 
a  lineal  descendant  of  the  fifth  Lord  Living- 
ston, ancestor  of  the  Earls  of  Linlithgow  and 
Callendar.  Rev.  John  was  a  preacher  of  the 
Reformed  church  in  Scotland,  a  non-conform- 
ist who  would  yield  nothing  to  those  opposed 
to    his    views    and    convictions    of    right    and 


righteousness ;  and  for  this  he  suffered  perse- 
cutions and  ultimate  banishment  and  fled  to 
Holland,  and  died  in  Rotterdam  in  1672,  hav- 
ing made  at  least  two  unsuccessful  attempts 
to  emigrate  to  America.  In  writing  of  him  as 
immediate  ancestor  of  the  founder  of  the 
family  in  America,  Mrs.  Schroeder  says  of 
Rev.  John  Livingston  that  he  was  the  son  of 
another  well  known  covenanting  minister,  Rev. 
William  Livingston  of  Lanark,  who  acted  as 
spokesman  for  his  party  in  its  welcome  of  the 
Marquis  of  Hamilton  into  Edinburgh  as  the 
king's  commissioner  in  1638.  The  Rev.  Will- 
iam Livingston  died  in  1641.  He  again  was 
the  son  of  another  Scotch  minister,  the  Rev. 
.■\le.xander  Livingston,  of  Monybroch  (now 
Kilogth  ) ,  and  from  some  ancient  family  deeds 
now  in  possession  of  Sir  Archibald  Edmon- 
stone,  of  Duntreath,  it  is  proved  that  he  had 
been  presented  to  this  benefice  as  its  first  Re- 
formed minister  by  William,  sixth  Lord 
Livingston,  previous  to  March  15.  1560-61, 
for  on  that  date  he  executed  a  deed  by  which 
he  feued  half  his  glebe  to  another  William 
Livingston.  According  to  a  statement  by  Rev. 
John  Livingston,  the  father  of  .Alexander  Liv- 
ingston, was  "a  son  of  the  Lord  Livingston, 
which  house  thereafter  was  dignified  to  the 
earls  of  Linlithgow,"  and  was  slain  at  "Pinkie 
I'ield  anno  Christi  1547." 

The  Rev.  John  Livingston  was  ordained  in 
Ireland  by  Bishop  Andrew  Knox,  but  was  sus- 
pended by  the  bishop  of  Down  for  noncon- 
formity ;  but  later  he  was  restored  to  his  eccle- 
siastical office.  The  Scottish  bishojjs.  however, 
gave  him  no  peace,  but  informed  against  him 
with  others  for  inciting  the  people  against  the 
ritual  of  the  church.  They  all  were  tried  and 
■suspended  and  afterwards  were  restored,  and 
iluring  the  period  of  suspension  he  took  pas- 
sage for  New  England,  but  gave  up  the  at- 
tempt. He  married,  June  23,  1635,  Barbara, 
daughter  of  Bartholomew  Fleming,  merchant 
ol  Edinburgh.  The  young  couple  went  to 
Ireland,  where  the  husband  was  immediately 
deposed.  Soon  afterward  he  set  sail  for 
.Vnierica  in  the  ship  "Eagle  Wing,"  but  after  a 
tempestuous  voyage  of  several  weeks  the  leak- 
ing vessel  came  to  anchor  in  Loch  Fergus, 
where  the  little  band  broke  up  and  John  Liv- 
ingston and  his  wife  went  to  his  mother's 
house  at  Irvine,  Ireland.  From  there  he  went 
back  into  Scotland,  from  whence  in  1604  he  was 
sent  by  the  Scotch  parliament  to  treat  with 
Charles  I  at  The  Hague  for  liberty  anfl  secu- 
rity of  religion.  Later  Cromwell  sent  for  him 
to  settle  religious  matters,  and  still   later  on 


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the  accession  of  Charles  I  he  was  called  before 
the  Council  of  Edinburgh  and  with  seven 
others  was  banished,  in  1662.  He  then  sailed 
for  Holland  and  was  followed  by  his  wife  and 
two  children,  four  others  of  their  children  re- 
maining in  Scotland. 

(  II )  Robert,  first  "lord  of  the  manor,"  son 
of  Rev.  John  Livingston,  was  born  in  1654, 
and  came  to  Xew  York  about  1675,  two  years 
after  the  death  of  his  father,  and  when  he 
himself  was  thirty  years  old.  He  settled  at 
Albany,  then  a  frontier  post,  where  by  reason 
of  his  knowledge  of  the  French  and  Dutch 
languages,  acquired  while  living  in  Holland, 
he  soon  received  an  appointment  as  secretary 
of  the  commandant  and  commissioners,  who 
then  constituted  the  governing  power  of  the 
post.  But,  coming  to  the  new  country  with 
little  else  than  his  education  and  remarkable 
quality  of  perseverance,  he  succeeded  through 
many  vicissitudes  and  much  hardship  in  amass- 
ing a  large  fortune  and  also  in  acquiring  a  vast 
estate  in  lands  amounting  to  one  hundred  and 
sixty  thousand,  two  hundred  and  forty  acres. 
That  his  success  should  make  him  many  ene- 
mies in  the  new  country  was  only  natural  and 
he  was  forced  to  contend  against  many  petty 
jealousies  on  the  part  of  associates,  and  a 
standing  feud  with  other  proprietors  who  re- 
garded themselves  less  favored  than  he ;  but 
so  often  as  these  differences  were  settled  they 
broke  forth  again.  But  his  political  differ- 
ences need  no  full  presentation  here,  although 
he  held  many  important  offices  under  the 
colonial  government.  Lord  Belmont,  writing 
to  the  Lords  of  Trade,  referring  to  French  in- 
trigues with  the  Five  Nations,  says  "It  falls 
out  unluckily  that  Colonel  Schuyler  and  Mr. 
Livingston,  who  are  the  men  of  best  figure 
in  Albany,  and  are  the  most  popular  with  the 
Five  Nations,  and  are  the  principal  men  in 
managing  them  and  keeping  them  firm  to  our 
interests,  are  at  this  time  full  of  discontent, 
and  not  without  reason,  for  both  of  them  had 
good  estates,  but  by  victualling  the  companies 
they  are  almost,  if  not  quite,  broke." 

Robert  IJvingston  built  flour  mills  and 
.storehou.ses  on  his  property  and  good  dwell- 
ings for  his  tenants  and  offered  many  induce- 
ments to  settlers.  He  was  sent  to  the  assem- 
bly and  was  speaker  of  the  house  for  seven 
years  before  his  death.  His  most  important 
office  was  that  of  secretary  of  Indian  affairs, 
which  had  to  do  with  the  fur  trade,  and  he 
held  it  for  nearly  fifty  years.  His  son  Philip 
was  appointed  in  his  j^lace  a  few  years  before 
his  death,  in   1728.     lie  was  secretary  of  In- 


dian affairs  from  1675  to  1 72 1,  and  mayor  of 
.\lbany  from  1710  to  1719.  He  married  Alyda 
(Alida),  widow  of  Rev.  Nicholas  Van  Rens- 
selaer and  daughter  of  Philip  Schuyler.  Their 
children  and  the  dates  of  their  baptism  are  as 
follows:  I.  Philipina  Johamia,  February  3, 
1684.  2.  Philippus  (Philip),  July  25,  i()8f).  3. 
Robert.  July  29,  1688.  4.  Gysbert,  Alarch  5, 
1690.  5.  William,  March  20,  1692.  6.  Johanna, 
December  20,  1694.  7.  Catrine, 'July  17,  1698. 
(HI)  Colonel  Philip,  son  of  Robert  and 
Alida  (Schuyler- Van  Rensselaer)  Livingston, 
was  born  in  Albany,  July  25,  1686,  died  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1749.  He  succeeded  his  father  as 
proprietor  of  Livingston  Manor  and  also  as 
incumbent  of  the  several  offices  his  father  had 
held.  In  1710  he  served  with  the  rank  of 
colonel  in  the  expedition  that  captured  Port 
Royal,  and  after  its  reduction  he  made  a  jour- 
ney to  Quebec  with  a  French  officer  as  a  bearer 
of  dispatches.  In  October,  1725,  he  was  ap- 
pointed member  of  the  council,  which  office 
he  retained  so  long  as  he  lived.  In  1737  he 
was  appointed  commissioner  to  run  the  bound- 
ary line  between  New  York,  New  Hampshire 
and  Massachusetts.  Colonel  Livingston  died 
in  1749,  and  his  funeral  is  said  to  have  cost 
five  hundred  pounds,  which  his  widow  de- 
clared "a  most  wasteful  expenditure."  Colonel 
Livingston  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New 
York  in  1 7 19.  He  lived  in  .A.lbany  in  his 
father's  house  at  the  corner  of  State  and  Pearl 
streets.  He  married,  September  19,  1707, 
Catharina,  daughter  of  Pieter  Van  Brugh,  of 
.Vlbany,  and  who  was  the  mayor  of  that  city 
in  1699,  just  two  hundred  and  ten  years  ago. 
Pieter  Van  Brugh  was  a  son  of  Johannes  Van 
Brugge  (or  \'erbrugge),  a  man  of  substance 
and  who  also  was  mayor  of  Albany  in  1658. 
Catharina  \'an  Brugh  was  a  notable  house- 
keeper and  had  been  carefully  trained  in  all 
the  duties  of  maidens  of  her  day.  Her  mar- 
riage chest,  which  contained  all  of  her  house- 
hold linen,  is  still  in  existence,  and  is  men- 
tioned by  Mrs.  John  King  Van  Rensselaer  in 
her  admirable  work  "The  Goede  \'roew  of 
Ma-a-ha-ta."  Colonel  Livingston's  children, 
with  date  of  baptism  of  each:  i.  Robert,  De- 
cember 25,  1708.  2.  Pieter  ( \"an  Brugh) 
November  3,  1710.  3.  Pieter,  .\pril  20,  1712. 
4.  Johannes,  .April  11,  1714.  5.  Philippus, 
January,  1717,  died  June  12,  1778.  6.  Hen- 
drick,  .April  5.  1719.  7.  Sara,  Alay  17,  1721, 
died  young.  8.  William,  December  8,  1723. 
9.  Sara.  Novouibcr  7,  1725,  married  General 
Lord  .Stirling.  10.  Alida,  July  18,  1728.  11. 
Catharina,  April   15,   1733. 


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(IV)  Robert  (2),  son  of  Colonel  I'liilip  and 
Catharina  (Van  Brugh)  Livingston,  was  born 
December  25,  1708,  died  in  1790.  He  was 
third  and  last  lord  of  the  manor,  but  had 
hardly  come  into  possession  of  his  vast  estate 
before  he  began  to  be  harrassed  by  the  people 
of  Massachusetts  to  such  an  extent  that  in 
1752  he  laid  his  case  before  Governor  Clinton, 
who  presented  the  questions  involved  to  the 
governor  of  Massachusetts,  but  without  satis- 
factory settlement  of  the  difficulty  until  many 
years  afterward.  The  third  proprietor  was 
possessed  of  more  than  ordinary  business  ca- 
pacity and  spared  neither  labor  nor  expense 
in  the  development  of  his  property.  Mills  of 
various  kinds  were  built,  churches  were 
erected  and  settlement  was  promoted  in  every 
way.  Iron  ore  was  found  and  works  for  its 
reduction  were  established  at  Ancram,  but  not- 
withstanding his  remarkable  energy  the  third 
proprietor  did  not  live  to  see  the  end  of  the 
troubles  which  threatened  his  peace  and  vast 
possessions.  He  married,  in  New  York,  I\Iay 
20,  1731.  Mary  Tong  (sometimes  written 
Maria  Thong). 

(V)  John,  son  of  Robert  (2)  and  Mary 
(Tong)   Livingston,  married  Mary  LeRoy. 

(VI)  Robert  LeRoy.  son  of  John  and  Alary 
(LeRoy)  Livingston,  married  Anna  Alaria 
Digges.  of  Washington. 

(VII)  Anna  Maria,  daughter  of  Robert 
Leroy  and  .\nna  Maria  (Digges)  Livingston, 
married  John  Livingston  Rutgers  (see  Rut- 
gers VI). 

The  family  name  Frickitt  is 
FRICKITT  fond  at  an'early  date  in  Burl- 
ington county,  and  of  course 
has  relation  to  the  New  Jersey  family  of  the 
generally  accejned  name  of  Frickitt,  the  latter 
being  the  family  purposed  to  be  treated  in  this 
place,  and  supposed  to  have  descended  from 
John  Frickitt,  of  Gloucestershire,  England,  a 
"persecuted  Friend,"  in  1660,  who  is  men- 
tioned in  the  narrative  entitled  Besse's  "Suf- 
ferings." There  was  a  Josiah  Frickitt,  of 
lUirlington.  who  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
Cranberry  in  1697.  and  of  whom  the  "History 
of  the  Colony  of  New  Jersey"  (Barber  and 
Howe,  1844)  says  "Cranberry  is  one  of  the 
oldest  places  in  this  part  of  the  state.  It  was 
settled  about  the  year  1697  by  Josiah  Frickett, 
'butcher,  of  Burlington.  The  following  year 
he  sold  out  to  John  Harrison  of  Flushing. 
Long  Island." 

(I)  Zackariah  (or  Zachariah)  Frickitt.  the 
earliest  known  ancestor  of  the   familv  under 


consideration  here  of  whom  we  have  delinite 
knowledge  settled  in  Northampton,  Burlington 
county,  and  is  said  to  have  brought  with  him 
a  large  property,  which  he  invested  in  lands. 
His  will  bears  date  February  28,  1727,  and 
was  admitted  to  probate  March  14,  of  the 
same  year.  The  baptismal  name  of  his  wife 
was  Ellipha,  and  so  far  as  the  records  dis- 
close their  children  were  as  follows:  i.  John. 
2.  Zackariah,  married,  1721,  Mary  Troth.  3. 
Jacob,  see  post.  4.  Elizabeth,  married.  1723, 
John  Feacock.  3.  Hannah,  married  Fhilip 
Ouigley. 

(II)  Jacob,  son  of  Zackariah  and  Ellipha 
Frickitt.  had  a  wife  Hannah,  who  bore  him 
eight  children  and  who  died  12  4nio.  1759, 
aged  fifty-three  years.  Their  children:  i. 
Josiah.  born  23  8mo.  1733,  married  Sarah 
Cowjierthwaite.  2.  Jacob,  born  18  9mo.  1735, 
married  Elizabeth  Fhillips.  3.  Barzilla.  bom 
22  9mo.  1737,  married  Sarah  Sharp,  4,  Ann, 
born  20  lOmo.  1739,  died  4  4mo.  1759.  5. 
Rosannah,  born  11  2mo.  -1742.  6.  job.  see 
post.  7.  Hannah,  born  26  6mo.  1746.  married 
Amaziah  Lippincott.  8.  Sabyllah,  born  24 
9mo.  1748. 

(  III  )  Job,  son  of  Jacob  and  Ilamiah  Frick- 
itt, was  born  the  24th  of  4th  mo.  1744,  and 
married  Ann.  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Eliza- 
beth Smith.  Their  children:  i.  Rachel,  born 
5  1 1  mo.  1770,  married  James  Allen.  2.  Sab- 
illah.  born  9  omo.  1772,  died  unmarried.  3. 
Josiah,  born  29  gmo.  1775,  died  young.  4. 
Job,  born  9  7mo.  1777,  married  Ann  Huff.  5. 
Josiah,  see  post.  6.  Barzilla,  born  20  2mo. 
1781.  married  Martha  Haines.  7.  Ann,  born 
13  2mo.  1782.  married  Allen  Joyce.  8.  Zack- 
ariah. born  4  I  mo.  1784,  married  .Agnes  Sharp. 
9.  Stacy,  born  14  lomo.  1785,  married  Jane 
Conover.  10.  John,  born  28  5mo.  1787.  mar- 
ried Jenetta  Shar]).  11.  Elizabeth.  l)i)rn  9 
7nio.   1789  died  unmarried. 

I  I\' )  Josiah,  son  of  Job  and  .Ann  ( .Smith) 
Frickitt,  was  born  near  Medford,  Burlington 
county.  New  Jersey,  the  25th  day  of  2d  mo. 
1779.  and  married  Hannah  (sometimes  writ- 
ten .Ann)  Sharp,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Esther  (  Brooks  )  Sharj).  Josiah  Frickitt  lived 
in  a  house  built  for  him  at  the  time  of  his  mar- 
riage and  which  stood  on  the  highway  about 
opposite  to  the  house  in  which  he  was  born, 
lie  died  in  1859.  His  children  :  i.  Amos,  born 
I  3mo.  1805,  died  young.  2.  Mary  Ann,  born 
2"/  iimo.  1806.  3.  Josiah  J.,  born  10  6mo. 
1808.  4.  Nathan,  bom  18,  3mo.  1810.  5. 
Allen,  born  I  3mo.  1812.  6.  Esther,  born  24 
5mo.    1814.     7.   Thomas,  see  post.     8.   -Sarah, 


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born  17  4010  1818.  9.  Ezra,  born  i  31110. 
1820.  ID.  Mark,  born  7  71110.  1822.  11.  Eliz- 
abeth, born  5  9mo.  1824.  12.  Lemuel  J.,  born 
16  6nio.  1826.  13.  Amos,  boni  15  51110.  1828. 
14.  Edwin,  born  20  8mo.  1831. 

( \' )  Thomas,  son  of  Josiah  and  Hannah 
( .SharpJ  Prickitt,  was  bom  near  Red  Lion, 
New  Jersey,  the  20th  day  of  6th  month,  1816, 
died  in  1870.  He  was  given  a  good  academic 
education  and  evidently  embraced  every  op- 
portunity to  improve  his  store  of  knowledge, 
for  he  always  was  looked  upon  as  a  very  well- 
informed  man.  His  chief  occupation  was 
farming  and  in  this  his  business  life  was  a 
success.  He  was  a  thorough  practical  farmer, 
a  director  of  the  Burlington  Fair  Association, 
a  Republican  in  politics  and  a  strict  Friend. 
He  married  Ann  Engle,  born  1834,  died  1899, 
daughter  of  .Arthur  and  Elizabeth  Engle  (see 
Engle),  and  by  her  had  seven  children:  i. 
Nathan,  lives  in  .Atlantic  City.  2.  Robert, 
lives  in  Mt.  Holly.  3.  Elmer  D.,  see  post.  4. 
Frank,  business  man  and  druggist,  having 
stores  at  Bryn  Mawr  and  Rosemont,  Penn- 
sylvania. 5.  Mary,  died  young.  6.  Elizabeth, 
died  young.     7.  William,  died  young. 

(\T)  Dr.  Flmer  Delaney,  son  of  Thomas 
and  Ann  (Engle)  Prickitt,  was  born  in  Lum- 
berton  township,  Burlington  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, May  17,  1863,  and  after  gaining  a  good 
education  in  public  schools  and  the  Friends' 
College,  at  Westtown,  Pennsylvania,  he  taught 
school  at  Lumberton  for  one  year.  He  then 
took  a  position  as  druggist's  clerk  and  there 
laid  the  foundation  of  a  thorough  course  at 
the  Pliiladel[)hia  College  of  Pharmacy,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1884.  In  1886,  after 
graduation,  he  went  into  the  drug  business  in 
company  with  Dr.  Harrington,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Prickitt  &  Barrington.  This  part- 
nership relation  was  maintained  until  1893, 
wdien  the  firm  was  dissolved,  and  since  that 
time  Dr.  Prickitt  has  carried  on  business  alone. 
In  the  meantime,  however,  he  had  taken  up 
the  study  of  medicine  and  having  grounded 
himself  properly  Dr.  Prickitt  matriculated  at 
the  Aiedico-Chirurgical  College  of  Philadel- 
phia, made  the  course  of  the  famous  institu- 
tion and  graduated  with  the  degree  M.  D.  in 
1898.  Since  that  time  he  has  practiced  gen- 
eral medicine  in  Mt.  Holly  in  coiuiection  with 
business  i)ursuits  as  druggist  and  pharmacist. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  As- 
sociation. New  Jersey  .State  Medical  Society, 
BurlingtdU  County  Medical  Society,  member 
of  the  meilicrd  staff  of  the  Burlington  County 


Hospital  and  has  served  three  terms  as  physi- 
cian to  the  board  of  health  of  two  townships. 
He  is  an  active  figure  in  Republican  politics, 
but  not  an  aspirant  for  political  honors ; 
member  of  Mt.  Holly  Lodge,  No.  14,  F.  and  A. 
.M..  Mt.  Holly  Lodge,  No.  848,  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks,  a  Knight  of  Pythias 
and  a  Forester  of  America.  In  1886  Dr. 
Prickitt  married  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Nelson 
and  Ellen   (Deacon)  Deacon. 

The  Deacon  family  is  made  the  subject  of 
in(|uiry  in  these  annals,  but  in  this  place  we 
have  two  distinct  lines  of  descent  from  a 
common  ancestor.  George  Deacon  (I),  im- 
migrant, had  a  son  John  (II),  who  had  a  son 
Joseph  (III),  who  had  a  son  John  (IV),  who 
had  a  son  Nelson  (V),  whose  daughter 
Eleanor  (VI)  married  Elmer  Delaney  Prick- 
itt. Again:  George  Deacon  (I),  immigrant, 
had  a  son  John  (II),  who  had  a  son  Barzilla 
(  HI ),  who  had  a  son  Barzilla  (IV),  wdio  had 
a  son  Samuel  (V),  whose  daughter  Ellen 
(VI)  married  Nelson  Deacon  (V)  and  had  a 
daughter  Eleanor  (VII)  who  married  Dr. 
Prickitt. 

(The  Engle  Line). 

This  surname  appears  prominently  among 
the  early  settlers  of  New  Jersey,  and  is  found 
in  Burlington  county  among  the  Friends  who 
founded  the  earliest  settlements  in  tliat  part 
of  the  colony.  The  family  is  of  English  an- 
cestry and  from  the  time  of  the  immigrant  has 
been  noted  for  the  honest  endeavor  and  up- 
right character  of  its  representatives  in  all 
succeeding  generations. 

( 1  )  Robert  Engle,  immigrant,  with  whom 
our  present  narrative  begins,  came  from  Cam- 
bridgeshire England,  and  settled  in  Evesham 
township,  Burlington  county.  He  appears  to 
have  been  a  man  of  considerable  enterprise  and 
acquired  a  goodly  estate  in  lands  and  other 
liroperty.  He  died  in  1696,  leaving  a  will 
which  was  executed  shortly  before  his  death 
and  was  admitted  to  probate  during  the  same 
year.  He  married  4th  of  5th  month,  1684, 
Jane  Home,  who  survived  him  and  married 
23d  of  9th  month,  1703,  Henry  Clifton,  of 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  Robert  and  Jane 
(  Home)  Engle  had  an  only  son  John. 

(H)  John,  only  son  and  child  of  Robert 
and  Jane  (Home)  Engle,  died  in  1 72 1,  leaving 
a  good  estate,  an  upright  life  record,  and  a 
family  of  honorable  children.  He  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Jane  Ogborn, 
and  by  her  had  five  children:  i.  Robert,  see 
post.     2.   John,    married    Hannah   Middleton. 


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427 


3.  Mary,  married  Nathaniel  Lippincott.  4. 
Hannah,  married  Isaac  Lippincott.  5.  Jane, 
married  John  Turner. 

(Ill)  Robert  (2),  eldest  son  and  child  of 
John  and  Mary  (Ogborn)  Engle,  was  born  in 
Evesham  township,  Burlington  county,  New 
Jersey,  in  1708.  died  there  in  1774.  He  mar- 
ried, in  1728.  Rachel  \'inicum,  and  by  her 
had  five  children:  i.  Robert,  born  29  3mo. 
1738.  2.  Jose]>h.  see  post.  3.  Abraham,  born 
1744.  4.  Rachel,  born  26  4mo.  1746.  5. 
Sarah. 

(I\')  Joseph,  son  of  Robert  (2)  and  Rachel 
(Vinicum)  Engle,  was  born  in  Evesham  town- 
ship, Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  the  24th 
day  of  7th  month,  1740.  He  married  Mary 
Borton.  born  Evesham  3  6mo.  1737.  and  by  her 
had  nine  children  :  I.  John,  born  16  8mo.  1761, 
died  18  lomo.  1823.  2.  Obadiah,  see  post.  3. 
.A.aron,  born  6  iimo.  1764,  died  1842.  4. 
.'^iisanna.  born  22  2mo.  1766,  died  31  6nio. 
1838.  5.  Phebe,  born  7  2mo.  1769,  died  12 
2mo.  1840.  6.  Asa,  born  7  iimo.  1770,  died 
25  4mo.  1829.  7.  Ann,  born  15  3mo.  1774. 
8.  Joseph,  born  16  7mo.  1776,  died  13  8mo. 
1856.  9.  Rachel,  born  i  4mo.  1783,  died  14 
2mo.   1883. 

{ \'  I  Obadiah,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary 
(Borton)  Engle,  was  born  in  Evesham  town- 
ship. Burlington  county,  the  i6th  day  of  3d 
month.  1763,  died  the  12th  day  of  9th  month, 
1843.  He  married  Patience  Coles,  born  19th 
day  of  1 2th  month,  1 77 1,  and  died  24th  day 
of  4th  month,  1844.  They  had  ten  children  :  I. 
Ann,  born  17  4mo.  1795,  died  21  8mo.  1797. 
2.  Job.  born  13  i2mo.  1796,  died  9  lomo. 
1862.  3.  Arthur,  see  post.  4.  Aaron,  born  6 
4mo.  1801,  died  31  3mo.  1864.  5.  Elizabeth, 
born  5  2mo.  1803,  died  13  6mo.  1890;  mar- 
ried Abel  Moore,  of  Lumberton.  6.  Mary, 
born  12  4mo.  1805,  died  27  6mo.  1893.  7- 
Rachel,  born  24  6mo.  1807,  died  25  i2mo.  1888. 
8.  Samuel,  born  11  imo.  1810.  died  27  41110. 
1858.  9.  Sarah  .Ann.  born  25  5nio.  18 12,  died 
24  4nio.  1879.  10.  Nathan,  born  I  lomo.  1817, 
died  at  Washington  in  1875. 

(VI)  Arthur,  son  of  Obadiah  and  Pa- 
tience (Coles)  Engle  was  born  in  Eve- 
sham township.  March  9,  1799,  and  died, 
there  September  29.  1876.  He  married 
Elizabeth  Engle,  born  April  25.  1802, 
died  October  24.  1863.  daughter  of  Robert  and 
Mary  (Woolman)  Engle.  Their  children  were: 
I.  Ezra,  married  Sarah  Prickitt.  2.  Emeline. 
married  Josiah  Prickitt.  3.  Ann.  born  1834. 
died  1899;  married  Thomas  Prickitt,  born 
1 8 16,  died  1870  (see  Prickitt).  4.  Mary,  mar- 


ried Joseph  Roberts.     ^.  Robert,  married  Jane 
Darnell. 


(For  preceding  generations  see  Zacharian  Prickitt  1 ). 

(\')   Lemuel   T-  Prickitt,  son 
PRICKITT     of  Josiah  and  Hannah  (Ann) 

( Sharp)  Prickitt,  was  born 
in  Medford,  New  Jersey.  June  16,  1826,  and 
was  a  birthright  Friend.  He  received  his  edu- 
cation in  a  Friends"  school  and  was  known  as 
a  man  of  upright  character  and  good  under- 
standing. In  business  life  he  was  a  farmer 
and  lived  on  his  farm  until  the  time  of  his 
death,  about  1875.  In  political  preference  he 
was  a  Republican.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Haines,  bom  in  Salem  county.  New  Jersey, 
and  died  in  1897.  Children :  Cooper  Hancock, 
see  post.  Eva  married  Charles  P.  Darling,  of 
Detroit,   Michigan. 

(\T)  Cooper  Hancock,  son  of  Lemuel  J. 
and  Elizabeth  (Haines)  Prickitt,  was  born  in 
Medford,  New  Jersey,  January  23,  1863,  and 
received  his  education  in  public  schools,  the 
Friends'  School  at  Easton,  New  Jersey,  and 
at  Brv'ant  &  Stratton's  Business  College  in 
Philaclelphia,  graduating  from  tlie  latter  insti- 
tution in  1883.  .After  leaving  school  he  began 
his  business  career  in  a  clerical  capacity  for 
the  firm  of  William  Mann  &  Company,  manu- 
facturers of  and  wholesale  dealers  in  blank 
bcxiks  and  stationery,  and  he  is  still  connected 
with  that  firm,  although  for  a  number  of  years 
his  duties  have  been  those  of  assistant  treas- 
urer of  the  company.  Mr.  Prickitt  is  not  only 
a  successful  business  man  in  connection  with 
personal  concerns  and  the  management  of  the 
company  of  which  he  is  assistant  treasurer,  but 
also  is  something  of  a  public  man  in  that  for 
many  years  he  has  been  prominently  identified 
with  several  of  the  leading  institutions  of 
Burlington.  For  the  past  eleven  years  he  has 
been  a  member  of  the  board  of  education  of 
the  city  and  for  nine  years  has  been  president 
of  the  board,  serving  in  that  caj^acity  in  1909. 
In  this  connection  it  may  be  said  that  he  was 
largely  instrumental  in  securing  the  erection 
of  the  Lawrence  school  building  in  the  city. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  communicant 
in  the  Episcopal  church,  and  secretary  of  the 
Church  Club  of  the  Diocese  of  New  Jersey. 
He  also  stands  high  in  ATasonic  and  other  fra- 
ternal organizations,  and  is  past  master  of 
liurlington  Lodge,  No.  32.  F.  and  A.  M. ;  past 
high  priest  of  Boudinot  Chapter.  No.  3,  R.  A. 
M. :  past  eminent  commander  of  Helena  Com» 
mandery.  K.  T..  of  Burlington,  and  has  fol- 
lowed up  in  the  craft  to  the  thirty-second  de- 


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gree.  holding  membership  in  Scottish  Rite 
bodies,  and  also  in  Lu  Lu  Temple,  A. 
A.  O.  X.  M.  S.,  of  Philadelphia.  Ik- 
has  also  served  as  district  deputy  grand 
master  of  the  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge,  F. 
and  A.  M.,  of  New  Jersey.  He  has  also 
served  as  niember  of  the  New  Jersey  Masonic 
Home  committee  having  charge  of  the  Ma- 
sonic Home  at  Burlington.  Mr.  Prickitt  also 
is  an  Elk  and  a  member  of  Oneida  Boat  Club. 
He  married,  November  21,  1888,  Sarah 
Howells,  daughter  of  Dr.  Jacob  and  Hannah 
(Toy)  Phillips,  and  granddaughter  of  An- 
thony Philli])s,  (if  X'incentown,  blacksmith, 
who  married  Clarissa  Edmunds  and  had  seven 
children:  John,  Theodore,  Anthon)%  Eliza, 
Dcl)orali,  Clarissa  and  Jacob  Philli]is.  Dr. 
Phillips  was  born  in  X'incentown,  educated 
there,  and  fni-  a  time  wurked  with  his  father 
as  a  blacksmith.  Later  on  he  studied  for  and 
became  a  practical  dentist  and  settled  for  prac- 
tice in  Piurlington.  where  for  many  years  he 
was  a  ])rominent  figure  in  ]orofessional  and 
business  circles.  He  was  an  Odd  Fellow,  a 
Republican  in  politics  and  attended  services  at 
the  -Methodist  F.piscopal  church.  He  married 
( first )  Emeline  Clark,  and  by  her  had  two 
children  :  Thomas  and  Jacob  Phillips  ;  married 
(second)  Hannah  Toy,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Elizabeth  Toy,  of  Mt.  Holly,  and  had  four 
children:  William,  died  young;  Harry,  a  ma- 
chinist of  Burlington;  Sarah  Howells,  married 
CiHi|ier  Hancock  Prickitt;  Elizabeth,  married 
William  Hall,  of  Bristol,  1  Sucks  county,  Penn- 
syl\-ania,  who  died  in  1905.  Mr.  and  ]\Irs. 
Prickitt  have  one  child,  Joseph  Mann  Prickitt. 


The  rise  of  the  people  called 
SHRE\'E  Quakers  is  among  the  most 
memorable  events  in  the  history 
of  intellectual  freedom.  They  proclaimed  in- 
tellectual freedom  to  be  an  invaluable  birth- 
right, due  to  man  and  not  to  be  circumscribed 
by  theological  form  or  governmental  policy. 
The  Quaker  doctrine  was  philosophy  as  here- 
tofore taught  only  in  the  cloister,  the  college 
and  the  .saloon,  given  freely  to  all  seekers,  even 
to  the  most  despised  ])eople.  "The  Imier 
Light"  was  to  be  the  rule  and  guide  of  life 
and  that  light  was  the  voice  of  God  in  the 
soul,  able  to  join  the  whole  human  race  in 
unity  of  etjual  rights.  The  triumvirate  of 
Quakerism,  as  far  as  it  belongs  to  civil  history, 
was  intellectual  freedom,  the  supremacy  of  the 
ijiind.  universal  enfranchisement. 

In  England  the  Quaker  was  persecuted  by 
the  Established  Church  as  well  as  bv  the  Puri- 


tan :  by  the  peers  and  by  the  king  as  well  as 
by  the  commoner,  and  even  in  New  England 
and  in  the  Dutch  Colonies  of  the  New  Nether- 
lands, they  were  exposed  to  perpetual  trials 
and  dangers.  In  England  they  were  whipped, 
kept  in  jails  with  felons  and  in  dungeons  out 
of  reach  of  mankind  or  of  God's  sunshine ; 
they  were  fined,  exiled  and  sold  into  bondage. 
\\  hen  their  meeting  houses  were  burned  or 
torn  down,  they  gathered  on  the  ashes  and  de- 
bris and  continued  worship.  Armed  men 
were  unable  to  dissolve  them  and  when  threat- 
ened with  being  smothered  by  earth,  they  stood 
close  together  "willing  to  have  been  buried 
alive  witnessing  for  the  Lord."  On  the  re- 
turn of  George  Fox  in  1674  from  the  pilgrim- 
age through  the  English  colonies  in  America 
from  Carolina  to  Rhode  Island,  Lord  Berkley 
sold  for  a  thousand  pounds  the  moiety  of  New 
Jersey  to  John  Fenwick  in  trust  for  Edward 
Bellinge  and  his  assigns,  to  be  a  place  of 
refuge  and  haven  of  rest  for  the  despised 
Quakers. 

In  1(175  Fenwick  with  a  large  com]3any  in- 
cluding several  families  set  sail  in  the  "Griffin" 
for  this  "Asylum  of  Friends."  The  voyage 
was  mack  across  the  Atlantic  to  the  Chesa- 
peake bay  and  up  the  Delaware  river  and  land- 
ing was  affected  in  a  fertile  spot  and  they 
called  it  Salem,  for  it  seemed  to  them  the 
thvelling  ])lace  of  ])eace.  Desiring  to  preserve 
sufficient  territory  when  they  could  institute 
a  government,  they  etifected  an  exchange  with 
Carteret,  who  owned  the  other  moiety  of  New 
Jersey,  in  .\ugust,  1676,  by  which  they  had 
contiguous  lands  on  which  they  could  be  free 
from  outside  encroachment.  The  message 
sent  them  from  the  Quaker  proprietors  in 
England  was  as  follows :  "We  lay  a  founda- 
tion for  after  ages  to  imderstand  their  liberty 
as  christians  and  as  men,  that  they  may  not  be 
brought  into  bondage  by  their  own  consent ; 
for  we  put  the  power  in  the  people." 

In  March,  1677,  the  charter  or  fundamental 
laws  of  \\'est  New  Jersey  were  perfected  and 
jjublished  and  in  that  year  Burlington  was  laid 
out  and  rude  huts  were  built,  being  copied  in 
construction  from  the  Indian  wigwams.  Im- 
mediately after  other  English  families  flocked 
to  V\'est  New  Jersey,  carrying  with  them  the 
good  wishes  of  Charles  II,  and  commissioners 
holding  temporary  power  accompanied  them 
to  administer  affairs  until  a  popular  govern- 
ment could  be  instituted.  The  land  was  pur- 
chased from  the  Indians  claiming  ownership 
and  the  body  of  Quaker  immigrants,  aggre- 
gating   four    hundred    souls,    began    to    build 


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homes  and  plant  iheir  farms.  A  huge  sailcloth 
tent  was  their  first  meeting  house  and  in  1678 
they  were  formally  welcomed  by  Indian  sa- 
chems gathered  in  council  in  the  forest  ad- 
jacent to  the  settlement  and  their  message  to 
the  new  settlers  was:  "You  are  our  brothers 
and  we  will  live  like  brothers  with  you.  We 
will  have  a  broad  [lath  for  you  and  us  to  walk 
in.  If  an  Englishman  falls  asleep  in  this  path, 
the  Indian  shall  pass  him  by  and  say:  'He  is 
an  Englishman ;  he  is  asleep  let  him  alone.' 
The  path  shall  be  plain.  There  shall  not  be 
a  stump  in  it  to  hurt  the  feet."  Thus  the 
light  of  peace  dawned  on  West  New  Jersey. 
In  May,  1682,  I'urlington  was  made  the  cap- 
ital of  the  province,  and  in  1684  the  assembly 
divided  the  province  into  four  counties : 
Bergen,  Essex,  IMiddlese.K  and  Monmouth. 
Amid  these  surroundings  the  Shreve  family  is 
first  found.  Its  religion  and  political  creed 
was  that  of  the  Quakers. 

(I)  Thomas  "SheriiTf."  as  the  name  first  ap- 
pears, is  found  in  Plymouth,  Massachusetts, 
in  an  action  of  trespass,  December  7,  1641,  and 
on  December  10,  1666,  he  was  a  granter  in 
a  conveyance  at  Portsmouth,  Rhode  Island, 
where  an  inventory  of  his  estate  is  filed,  June 
II,  1675.  He  was  probably  born  before  1620, 
and  his  wife  Martha  not  later  than  1635.  His 
death  occurred  in  Portsmouth,  province  of 
Rhode  Island,  May  29.  1^75,  and  his  widow 
married  (second)  Thomas  Hazard  and  (third) 
Lewis  Hues,  who  was  found  to  have  absconded 
with  much  of  his  wife's  property  and  this 
caused  her  to  transfer  her  remaining  property 
to  her  son  Jolin  by  her  first  husband,  Thomas 
SherifT.  Savage  says  that  John  Shreve,  of 
Portsmouth,  was  the  son  of  Thomas  of  Ply- 
mouth, but  other  authorities  do  not  agree  with 
him  and  we  are  led  by  these  other  authorities. 
who  are  personally  connected  with  the  Shreve 
family,  to  try  find  the  American  progenitor 
elsewhere.  To  do  this  we  have  to  depend  on 
the  family  tradition  for  the  exi.stence  of  one 
Sir  William  Sheriff,  who  is  said  to  have  come 
from  Greece  or  Turkey  where  the  name  of 
SherifT  is  not  uncommon  and  to  have  married 
Elizabeth  Fairfax  in  England,  and  thev  had 
a  son,  William,  who  married  a  voung  ladv  in 
.Amsterdam.  Holland,  by  the  name  of  Ora 
Ora.  or  Oara  Oara.  the  tlaughter  of  a  wealthy 
nobleman.  .After  this  marriage  they  came  to 
Portsmouth,  Rhode  Island,  where  it  is  posi- 
tive they  had  John  and  Caleb  and  probably  a 
third  son.  William,  who  left  no  issue.  From 
an  old  deed  still  in  the  family,  given  by  John 
Cooke,  of  Portsmouth  in  the  Colony  of  Rhode 


Island,  to  John  .Shreve  of  the  same  town, 
Cooke  conveys  three- fourths  of  all  his  right 
and  property  in  Shrewsbury,  New  Jersey,  to 
John  Shreve.  This  deed  is  dated  January  9, 
1676-77,  and  on  the  back  is  a  transfer  from 
the  said  John  Shreve  to  his  beloved  brother, 
Caleb  Shreve.  Caleb  Shreve  also  received 
warrants  for  land  from  the  East  New  Jersey 
Proprietors  as  early  as  1676,  and  as  he  must 
have  been  of  age  at  that  time  we  fix  the  approx- 
imate date  of  his  birth  as  1650-55.  This 
would  make  the  birth  of  Sir  William,  1590, 
which  tradition  places  at  near  the  close  of  the 
sixteenth  century,  but  this  does  not  prove  the 
parentage  of  John  and  Caleb  Shreve.  The  chil- 
dren of  Thomas  ancl  Martha  SherifT  or  Shreve, 
born  in  Portsniouth  and  little  Compton,  Rhode 
Island,  were  as  follows:  i.  Thomas,  September 

2.  1649.  2.  John,  married  Jane  Havers,  Au- 
gust, 1686:  died  October  14,  1739.  3.  Caleb 
(q.  v.).  4.  Mary,  married  Joseph  Sheffield, 
Febniary  12,  1685;  died  after  1706.  5.  Su- 
sannah, married  a  Thomas:  died  after  1714. 
.6.   Daniel,    born    in    Little    Compton,    Rhode 

Island,  married  Jane  ,  1688:  died  1737.  7. 

Elizabeth,  married  Edmund  Carter  and  died 
childless,  June  5,  1719.  8.  Sarah,  married 
John  Moon:  died  June  24,  1732.  In  the 
second  generation  the  name  appears  as  Shreve. 

fll)  Caleb,  probably  the  third  child  and 
third  son  of  Thomas  and  Martha  Sheriff  or 
Shreve,  of  Rhode  Island  Colony,  was  born 
about  1652,  in  Portsmouth,  Rhode  Island.  He 
married  Sarah  Areson,  daughter  of  Diedrich 
for  Deric)  Areson,  of  Long  Island,  about 
1680,  in  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  to 
which  place  he  had  removed  from  Rhode 
Island  about  1699.  His  house  was  about 
seven  miles  east  of  the  present  site  of  Mt. 
Holly.  As  his  children  went  from  the  home- 
stead, he  gave  each  a  fine  farm  in  Burlington 
county,  where  they  continued  to  reside.  He 
made  his  will,  which  was  executed  February 
28,  1740-41,  at  which  time  his  widow  was 
living  with  her  son  Benjamin  on  the  home- 
stead. The  names  of  the  children  of  Caleb 
and  Sarah  (" Areson)  Shreve  are  as  follows. 
The  order  of  their  birth  cannot  be  determined 
with  exactness.  These  children  were:  I. 
Martha,  168 — ,  married  Benjamin  Scatter- 
good,  of  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  in 
1704.  They  were  married  by  the  Friends' 
ceremony  at  Chesterfield  Meeting.  2.  Thomas, 
168 — .  married  Elizabeth  Allison,  May  16, 
171 1,  at  Burlington  Meeting.  He  died  in 
P.urlington    county.    New   Jersey,    July,    1747. 

3.  Joseph,    168 — ,   married  Hope  Harding  by 


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Friends  ceremony  at  Burlington  Meeting  after 
July  3,  171 1.  He  (lied  before  i/S".  4- 
Joshua  (q.  v.).  5-  Caleb,  1(19 — ,  married 
(first)  Mary  Hunt,  May  8,  1713,  at  Chester- 
field Meeting,  and  (second)  Ann .     He 

died  1746.  6.  Mary,  169 — ,  married  Isaac 
Gibbs.  Jr..  January  5,  1722,  at  Chesterfield 
Jileeting.  7.  Sarah.  169 — ,  married  John  Ug- 
borne,  January  ig,  1724,  at  Chesterfield  Meet- 
ing. 8.  Jonathan,  169 — ,  married  Hannah 
Hunt.  P'ebruary  4,  1720,.  at  Chesterfield  Meet- 
ing. He  died  1756.  9.  David,  169 — ,  died 
after  1735.  10.  Benjamin,  June  9,  1706,  mar- 
-ried  Rebecca  French,  February  23,  1729,  at 
Springfield  Meeting. 

(HI)  Joshua,  probably  the  fourth  child  and 
third  son  of  Caleb  and  Sarah  (Areson) 
Shreve,  was  born  in  Monmouth  county.  New 
Jersey,  April  5,  1692.  He  was  a  minister  of 
the  society  of  Friends  and  was  accustomed  to 
make  long  journeys  on  horseback  as  far  south 
as  Virginia  and  as  far  north  as  Massachu- 
setts, holding  and  attending  meetings  on  his 
journeys  going  and  returning.  He  lived  in 
Springfield  township  adjoining  Richard  Stock- 
ton, and  he  gave  to  the  Society  of  Friends 
four  acres  of  land  from  his  farm  on  which  to 
erect  a  meeting  house  and  prepare  a  graveyard. 
The  meeting  house  was  erected  in  1739  and 
this  date  over  the  door  in  the  brick  wall  is 
still  discernable,  the  meeting  house  being  still 
in  use.  The  building  is  one-half  mile  from 
Wrightstown  and  is  known  as  Upper  Spring- 
field Meeting.  Previous  to  its  erection  the 
Friends  attended  the  Crosswicks  Meeting.  On 
May  6,  1749,  Chesterfield  Meeting  granted  him 
a  certificate  "to  make  a  religious  visit  to  the 
government  of  Pennsylvania,  Maryland  and 
Virginia,"  April  7,  1750,  he  procured  a  certifi- 
cate  from  Fairfax,   Virginia,   which  was  "to 

satisfaction."     Fie  married  Jane  ,  but 

place,  time  or  surname  is  not  known.  They 
had  eight  children,  born  in  Springfield  town- 
slijp.  as  follows:  i.  Mary,  married  a  Curtis. 
2.  Sarah,  married  Thomas  Shreve,  March  i, 
1742.  3.  Mercy,  married  Alicajal  Mathis, 
March  7,  1747;  she  died  1804.  4.  Faith,  mar- 
ried Israel  Butler,  January  i,  1750.  5.  James 
(q.  v.).  6.  Caleb,  August  16,  1717,  married 
Hannah  Thorn,  January  16,  1737.  He  died 
in  Bedford  county,  Pennsylvania,  February  8, 
1810.  7.  Martha,  married  William  Sliinn 
Burlin.gton,  November  5,  1728.  8.  Susannah, 
married  John   Beck,  July   I,   1737. 

(IV)  James,  probably  eldest  son  and  fifth 
child  of  Joshua  and  Jane  Shreve,  was  born  in 
Springfield  township,  Burlington  county,  New 


Jersey.  He  married  Leah  Davis,  July  i,  1737. 
Date  of  birth  and  date  and  place  of  death  un- 
known. The  child  of  James  and  Leah 
(Davis)   Shreve  was  Joshua  (q.  v.). 

(\')  Joshua  (2),  probably  the  only  child  of 
James  and  Leah  (Davis)  Shreve,  married  Re- 
becca, daughter  of  Joseph  and  Rebecca 
(  Budd)  Lamb,  granddaughter  of  William  and 
Elizabeth  (Stockton)  Budd,  who  were  mar- 
ried in  1703  by  Friends  ceremony  in  the  home 
of  Richard  Stockton,  of  Springfield,  New 
Jersey;  great-granddaughter  of  William  Budd, 
who  with  three  brothers  came  from  England 
to  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  in  1678. 
He  was  an  extensive  land  owner.  Rebecca 
Lamb  was  bom  March  26,  1742,  died  Decem- 
ber 9,  1800,  while  her  husband,  Joshua  Shreve, 
died  in  1819  at  an  advanced  age.  The  Spring- 
field Meeting  Society  records  the  names  and 
dates  of  birth  of  their  eight  children  as  fol- 
lows: I.  Gersom,  October  6,  1761,  died  un- 
married while  quite  young.  2.  Theodosia, 
April  28,  1766,  married  Joseph  Earl,  of  Pem- 
berton.  New  Jersey.  She  died  January  12, 
1848.  3.  Alexander  (q.  v).  4.  Leah,  April 
8,  1 771,  married  Joseph  Burr,  and  died  in  Vin- 
centown.  New  Jersey,  when  over  eighty  years 
of  age.  5.  Sarah,  December  25,  1775,  married 
George  Holmes  in  1801  and  died  April  7,  1847. 
6.  James,  March  i,  1778,  married  Elizabeth 
Smith,  December  29,  1808,  and  died  at  One- 
aneckon.  New  Jersey,  October  i,  1852.  7. 
Charles,  April  7,  1781,  married  Rebecca  Pit- 
man Co.x  in  1805,  and  died  at  Mt.  Holly,  New 
Jersey,  December  11,  181 5.  8.  Rebecca,  De- 
cember 3,  1785,  married  Isaac  Hulme,  of 
Hulmeville,  Bristol,  Pennsylvania,  November 
6.  1806,  and  died  in  Bucks  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania. April  25,  1865. 

(  \'l)  Alexander,  second  son  and  third  child 
of  Joshua  (2)  and  Rebecca  (Lamb)  Shreve, 
was  bom  at  the  homestead  in  Wrightstown, 
New  Jersey,  March  3,  1769.  He  first  engaged 
in  trade  in  his  native  village,  but  later  removed 
to  Northampton  township,  Burlington  county, 
where  he  was  a  farmer  for  seven  years.  He 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Taunton  and  Mary 
(Haines)  Earl,  and  granddaughter  of  Charles 
Haines.  She  was  born  May  25,  1767,  and 
with  her  husband  were  members  of  the  Spring- 
field Meeting  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  whose 
records  furnish  authentic  dates  and  names  of 
tiieir  children  except  the  youngest.  She  died 
in  1843  and  her  husband  December  4,  1854. 
Their  children  were  seven  in  number  and  were 
born  as  follows:  i.  Joshua  (q.  v.).  2.  Mary, 
April   19,   179s,  died  November  8,   1796.     3. 


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Sarali,  July  20,  1797,  died  unmarried.  4. 
Mary  Ann,  June  9,  1799,  married  Joseph  K. 
Hulme,  April  15/  1814,  and  died  in  L'pper 
Springfield,  New  Jersey,  January  26,  1884. 
5.  Taunton  E.,  February  23.  1802,  married 
Sarah  T.  Merritt.  6.  Rebecca,  September  5, 
1805.  married  Thomas  Xewbold.  7.  Alexan- 
der, in  Wrighlstown,  New  Jersey,  October  2, 
1812.  married  Marv  A.  Levelers  in  the  spring 
of  1873. 

(  \  II )  Joshua  (3),  eldest  child  of  Alexan- 
der and  Alary  (Earl)  Shreve,  was  born  in 
Springfield  township,  Burlington  county.  New 
Jersey.  March  25,  1793.  He  married  Sus- 
anna Ridgeway,  of  Springfield,  November  16, 

1 81 4,  and  he  died  September  21,  1851.  The  ten 
children  of  Joshua  and  Susanna  (Ridgeway) 
Shreve  were  born  as  follows:  i.  Charles  Smith, 
Wrightstown,     New    Jersey,    September    30, 

181 5,  married  Mary  Louise  Josephine  Ken- 
nedy, of  Mobile,  Alabama,  January  i,  1840, 
and  died  in  Mobile,  December  16,  1857.  2. 
Edwin.  October  14,  1817,  married  Elizabeth 
Wyckoflf,  of  Monmouth,  New  Jersey,  and  died 
at  ^\'erd  Millpoint,  Mrginia,  January  21,  1863. 
3.  Barzillia  Ridgeway  (q.  v.).  4.  Joshua 
Burr.  Northampton,  New  Jersey,  April  25, 
1823.  died  August  6,  1826.  5.  Alexander,  Au- 
gust 9,  1825.  married  Edith  Ann  Ivins,  Sep- 
tember 27,  1848,  and  died  at  Point  of  Rocks, 
\'irginia,  September  12,  1864.  6.  Joshua  Earl, 
December  17,  1827.  never  married  and  died  in 
San  Francisco,  California,  October  9,  1871. 
7.  Henry,  July  8,  183 1,  never  married,  died  at 
Red  Wood  City.  California,  about  1876.  8. 
Susan  Ridgeway,  January  29,  1834,  married 
Richard  C.  Ridgeway,  of  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania, December  13,  1866,  and  resided 
there.  9.  Anna  M.,  August  19,  1836,  unmar- 
ried, resides  in  Philadelphia.  10.  Richard 
Lott  Ridgeway,  April  4,  1840,  married  Mar- 
garet Webb,  of  Philaclelphia,  in  1861,  died  on 
the  battlefield  of  Chancellorsville,  Virginia, 
May  6,  1864. 

f\Tn)  Barzillia  Ridgeway,  third  son  and 
child  of  Joshua  (3)  and  Susanna  (Ridgeway) 
Shreve,  was  born  in  Northampton,  New 
Jersey,  August  20,  1820.  He  carried  on  a 
large  stock  farm  in  Pemberton  township  and 
made  a  specialty  of  breeding  fine  horses  and 
cattle.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  Friends  by  birth- 
right. He  held  important  town  offices  and 
was  a  member  of  the  United  States  Grange. 
He  married  Agnes  Edith  Haines,  of  Pem- 
berton, New  Jersey.  By  this  marriage  he  had 
seven  children,  as  follows:   i.  John  A.  L.,  who 


married  Louise  Davis  and  died  in  1870.  2. 
Mary  Earl,  who  lives  in  Pemberton,  New 
Jersey.  3.  Edith  Ella,  who  married  Samuel 
Kirkbride  Robbin,  October  4,  1882,  and  lives 
in  Morristown,  New  Jersey.  4.  Charles 
Smith,  who  died  unmarried  about  1862.  5. 
Florence  Alurrell,  who  died  unmarried  in  1873. 
6.  Sarah  Coat,  who  married  Edwin  Rex 
Keisel,  February  20.  1889,  and  lived  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania.  7.  Thomas  Coat  (q. 
V.)  Barzillia  Ridgeway  Shreve  died  in  Phila- 
delphia. Pennsylvania,  December  12,  1893. 

(IX)  Thomas  Coat,  third  son  and  seventh 
and  youngest  child  of  Barzillia  Ridgeway  and 
Agnes  Edith  (Plaines)  Shreve,  was  born  in 
Pemberton,  New  Jersey,  September  23,  i860. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  Mt. 
Holly  Academy,  and  he  worked  from  very 
early  boyhood  on  his  father's  farm.  On 
reaching  his  majority,  his  father  turned  the 
management  of  the  farm  with  all  its  varied 
interests  to  him,  wliich  was  an  evidence  of  his 
acquired  skill  as  an  agriculturist.  Like  his 
father  he  was  a  Democrat  and  he  served  in  the 
board  of  taxation  of  the  county  of  Burlington 
and  on  the  township  committee  of  his  native 
town  as  well  as  being  director  on  the  school 
board  for  twenty-seven  years.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Grange  and  of  the  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  Lodge,  No. 
848,  of  Mt.  Holly.  He  married,  February  3, 
1892,  Florence  Eugenia,  daughter  of  John  B. 
and  Elizabeth  Wain  (Ridgeway)  Deacon,  and 
a  descendant  in  the  seventh  generation  from 
(I)  George,  the  immigrant  through  (II)  John, 
(III)  George,  (IV)  John,  (V)  Thomas 
Eagad,  (V.I)  John  B.,  of  Springfield  town- 
ship. New  Jersey.  Thomas  Coat  and  Florence 
Eugenia  (Deacon)  Shreve  have  children  born 
as  follows:  Agnes  Elizabeth,  June  11,  1893; 
Anne  R.,  October  13,  1905;  Helen  Deacon, 
July  27,  1908. 

This  name  is  of  undoubted  Scotch 
ROSS  origin,  whether  we  find  the  name 
as  immigrants  to  Holland,  to  the 
North  of  Ireland,  or  directly  to  the  colonies 
or  states  of  North  America.  When  we  find  a 
family  coming  from  Holland  bearing  this 
name,  but  have  no  definite  data  as  to  the  na- 
tionality, we  look  into  the  business  career  of 
the  known  progenitor  and  by  his  trade  or  pro- 
fession determine  the  probability  of  his  na- 
tionality. In  this  case  the  subject  is  the  son 
of  a  piano  manufacturer,  born  in  Holland,  and 
the  question  naturally  arises :  Is  he  of  Dutch 
origin  ?    The  makers  of  pianos  are  to  be  found 


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in  all  nations,  but  skilled  workmen  at  the  trade 
have  come  largely  from  Scotland,  as  have  the 
inventors  of  various  parts  of  the  pianoforte. 
It  is  noticeable  that  few  come  from  France,  or 
from  other  parts  of  the  continent  of  Europe. 
Scotland  has  furnished  a  remarkable  list  of 
piano  builders  and  inventors.  James  Stewart, 
the  first  partner  of  Jonas  Chickering,  we  find 
to  have  been  a  Scotchman.  Robert  Stodart, 
to  whom  we  owe  the  upright  piano,  and  John 
and  James  Shudi  Broadwood,  eminent  Lon- 
don manufacturers,  were  Scotchmen,  who 
went  to  London  to  manufacture  the  piano- 
forte. F"rancis  Melville,  inventor  of  metallic 
tubular  bracing  for  use  in  the  construction  of 
the  piano-forte,  was  also  a  Scotchman,  and  Dr. 
Hopkinson,  of  Philadelphia,  an  Edinburgh 
graduate  in  medicine,  made  the  first  piano,  or 
harpsichord,  as  it  was  called,  with  an  iron 
frame.  Then  the  nanie  Campbell  is  promi- 
nently connected  with  the  sale  of  the  piano- 
forte in  New  York  City  in  the  early  days  of 
the  use  of  that  instrument. 

That  a  Ross,  a  native  of  Scotland,  should 
be  found  in  Amsterdam,  Holland,  in  1800,  who 
was  skillei^  in  the  manufacture  of  the  piano- 
forte, is  no  cause  of  wonderment  and  there  is 
no  reason  to  question  his  nationality.  In 
America,  we  find  the  rule  applies  universally 
and  in  tracing  the  genealogy  of  a  Ross,  we 
naturally  turn  to  Scotland  and  not  to  Holland 
as  the  fatherland.  The  Rosses  of  Scotland 
have  furnished  to  America  notable  men  of  the 
past  as  w-ell  as  shining  examples  of  the  pres- 
ent. Of  the  past  w-e  have:  George  Ross 
(1730-1779),  clergyman;  lawyer;  delegate  to 
congress;  judge  of  the  court  of  admiralty 
and  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 
Jack  Ferrill  Ross  (1791-1837),  ]3ioncer  finan- 
cier of  Alabama ;  officer  in  the  United  States 
army,  1813-17;  territorial  and  state  treasurer 
of  Alabania,  1818-22;  sheriff  of  Mobile  county 
and  an  Alabama  legislator.  James  Ross 
(1762-1847),  United  States  senator  from 
Pennsylvania.  1794-1803:  attorney  for  George 
Washington,  in  charge  of  his  estate  in  Penn- 
sylvania ;  twice  the  defeated  candidate  for  gov- 
ernor of  Pennsylvania.  John  Ross  (1770- 
1834),  husband  of  Mary  (Jenkins)  Ross,  who 
made  and  presented  the  "Stars  and  Stripes," 
which  became  the  national  flag,  to  General 
Washington  in  Philadelphia  in  1777,  and  who 
was  himself  a  lawyer  in  Easton,  Pennsylvania  ; 
rejiresentative  in  the  LTnited  States  congress, 
1809-18  :  ])residing  judge  of  the  seventh  district 
of  T'ennsylvania.  1818-30,  and  judge  of  the 
supreme  court  of  the  state,  1830-34.    Jonathan 


Ross  (1826-1905J,  teacher,  lawyer,  legislator, 
educator,  judge  and  chief  justice  of  the  state 
supreme  court  of  Vermont,  United  States  sen- 
ator and  chairman  of  the  state  railroad  com- 
mission of  X'ermont.  Lawrence  Sullivan  Ross 
{1838-1898),  Indian  fighter;  general  in  the 
Confederate  arm}- ;  member  of  the  Texas  state 
constitutional  convention,  1875 ;  state  senator, 
1881-86;  governor  of  Texas,  1887-91.  Leonard 
Fuller  Ross  ( 1823-1901 ),  soldier  in  the  Mexi- 
can war ;  brigadier-general  in  the  civil  war, 
1861-65;  delegate  from  Illinois  to  the  Demo- 
cratic national  conventions  of  1852-56  and  of 
the  Republican  national  convention  of  1872. 
Lewis  Winans  Ross  (1812-1895),  lawyer; 
state  representative  ;  delegate  to  the  state  consti- 
tutional conventions  of  Illinois,  1861  and  1870, 
and  Democratic  representative  from  Illinois  in 
the  thirty-eighth,  thirty-ninth  and  fortieth  con- 
gresses, 1863-69.  William  Henry  Harrison 
Ross  ( 1814-1887),  colonel  of  calvary  regiment 
in  Mexican  war ;  delegate  from  Delaware  to 
Democratic  national  conventions  of  1844-48- 
56-60,  and  governor  of  Delaware,  1851-55. 

( I )  John  Ross,  son  of  a  piano  manufacturer 
in  Amsterdam,  Holland,  and  probably  a  native 
of  Scotland  or  descended  of  Scotch  ancestors, 
was  l)orn  in  Amsterdam,  Holland,  about  1805, 
and  immigrated  to  America  when  a  boy  in 
company  with  an  uncle,  landing  in  New  York 
City.  He  found  a  home  and  employment  with 
Dr.  Canipfield,  of  Ameystown,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  cared  for  the  horses,  worked  in  the 
garden  and  did  all  .sorts  of  chores  incident  to 
the  home  of  a  country  doctor.  He  next  went 
to  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  where  he 
became  an  apprentice  to  a  wheelwright  by  the 
name  of  Morton,  and  on  being  discharged 
from  his  apprenticeship  he  engaged  in  the 
wheelwright  business  at  Newbald's  Corner, 
New  Jersey,  for  several  years.  He  next 
located  in  Vincentown,  Burlington  county.  New 
Jersey,  where  he  established  a  wheelwright's 
shoj)  and  he  continued  in  that  place  and  busi- 
ness up  to  near  the  time  of  his  death  at  the 
probable  age  of  eighty-three  years,  in  1888. 
He  had  thus  spent  a  long,  active,  as  well  as 
useful  life  in  that  town  and  helped  in  its  growth 
and  development.  He  was  a  director  in  the 
Mncentown  National  Bank  for  a  number  of 
years.  He  married,  1845.  Maria,  daughter  of 
William  and  Mary  (Woolston)  Bishop,  and 
they  had  three  children  born  in  Vincentown.  as 
follows:  I.  Samuel  Oregon,  born  1846;  died 
1008.  He  was  brought  up  and  educated  in  his 
native  place,  and  on  leaving  school  obtained  a 
place  in  the  Vincentown   Bank,  of  which  his 


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father  was  a  director,  and  he  remained  in  the 
employ  of  the  bank,  passing  through  the  grades 
of  messenger,  clerk,  teller  and  cashier,  and 
after  forty  years  of  continuous  service  he  died 
while  holding  the  position  of  cashier.    Samuel 

().  Ross  married  Beulah  ^^'.,  daughter  of 

Piudd,  of  Buddtown,  Xew  Jersey,  and  they 
had  one  child,  William  Bishop,  born  Xovem- 
Ver,  1870,  who  succeeded  his  father  as  cashier 
of  the  \'incentown  National  Bank.  William 
Bishop  Ross  married  ]\Iary  Lippincott,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  Nesbit.  2.  .Mary,  born  1848; 
married  Rev.  Harry  Tratt,  and  they  resitled 
in  Riverside,  California,  where  a  daughter, 
Ida  Tratt,  was  born.  3.  Thomas  Woolston 
(c].  v.).  John  Ross,  the  father  of  these  chil- 
dren died  in  \'incentown.  New  Jersey,  1888. 

(II)  Thomas  Woolston,  second  son  and 
youngest  of  the  three  children  of  John  and 
Maria  ( Woolston )  Ross,  was  born  in  \'in- 
centown.  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  July 
I,  1851.  tie  attended  the  public  school  and 
academy  at  X'incentown  and  learned  the  trade 
of  wlieelwright  in  his  father's  shop,  beginning 
his  ajjprenticeship  when  he  was  fifteen  years 
old,  in  1866,  and  he  continued  as  an  apprentice 
and  journeyman  up  to  1882,  when  he  engaged 
in  the  same  line  of  business  on  his  own  account 
with  excellent  results.  He  continued  the  per- 
sonal supervision  of  the  business  there  estab- 
lished up  to  1898,  when  he  retired  to  assume 
the  duties  of  postmaster  of  X'incentown,  having 
been  ajjpointed  to  that  office  by  President  Mc- 
Kinley,  with  every  assurance  in  iQog  that  the 
position  was  a  life  tenure  if  he  did  not  volun- 
tarily resign.  He  was  always  active  in  town 
affairs  and  in  the  councils  of  the  Republican 
party.  He  served  in  the  board  of  registration 
for  five  years  and  holds  the  position  of  director 
of  the  water  board  of  Vincentown.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Baptist  church  and  served  as 
clerk  and  treasurer  of  the  society.  His  fraternal 
affiiliation  was  with  the  Order  of  American 
Mechanics,  in  which  organization  he  wa.s  in 
high  esteem.  He  married,  February,  1872, 
Cornelia  H.,  daughter  of  Charles  and  I\lartha 
( Loveland )  Haines,  of  Mncentown,  and  they 
had  two  children,  as  follows:  i.  Frank  B., 
born  in  X'incentown,  December  22.  1873;  a 
pupil  in  the  ])ublic  schools :  a  graduate  at  the 
College  of  Pharmacy,  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  1893,  ^""^1  'is  practiced  his  profession 
in  the  clrug  store  of  Frank  S.  Hilliard  in  \'in- 
centown  for  four  years,  when  he  resigned  to 
take  a  similar  position  in  a  more  extensive 
drug  store  in  Camden,  New  Jersey.  Here  he 
was  in  charge  of  the  prescription  and  com- 
"—3 


pounding  department  and  subsequently  in  one 
at  Chester,  Pennsylvania.  In  1896  he  estab- 
lished the  clrug  business  on  his  own  account  at 
Fifty-fourth  and  Pearl  streets,  Philadelphia, 
and  made  it  known  as  the  "Pearl  Pharmacy," 
under  which  trade  mark  he  built  up  a  large 
business.  He  established  a  second  drug  store 
at  P'i f ty-second  and  Haverford  streets,  in  1900, 
to  which  he  thereafter  gave  his  personal  ser- 
vices. Frank  B.  Ross  married  Grace,  daugh-. 
ter  of  Frank  S.  Hilliard,  of  X'incentowm,  who 
died  leaving  a  son,  Donald  Ross.  2.  Charles 
H.,  born  in  X'incentown,  October,  1886,  attend- 
ed the  public  schools  at  X'incentown,  and 
Pierce's  Business  College,  Philadelphia,  where 
he  was  graduated  in  1906.  From  the  business 
college  he  went  to  the  wholesale  store  of  L.  D. 
Burger,  of  Philadel])hia,  where  he  was  made 
head  bookkeeper  and  placed  in  charge  of  the 
finances  of  the  establishment. 


In  writing  of  the  origin  and  signifi- 
BL'DD  cation  of  the  surname  Budd,  one 
investigator  of  the  early  history  of 
this  family,  himself  a  Budd,  says  "that  statisti- 
cal facts  and  definitions  of  English  from  trans- 
lations prove  that  the  name  has  origin  from 
'bud,'  to  increase  into  beauty  and  fragrance, 
and  grow  into  good  fruit,  and  fruit  fulness,  and 
as  'buds'  must  have  existed  in  the  garden  of 
Eden,  to  bring  forth  fruit,  and  the  fruit  thus 
grown,  and  eaten  by  Adam  and  Eve,  gives  the 
combinations  of  the  name  a  force  which  has 
ever  influenced  the  race  of  Adam  from  the 
beginning.  It  is  therefore  very  natural  that 
we  find  the  name  of  prominence  among  the 
Asiatic  races.,  the  Mongolians  and  the  Hindoos 
as  well  as  among  the  most  enlightened  nations 
of  the  world.  In  the  early  days  of  the  Franks 
and  the  Gallic  races  and  the  formation  of  Nor- 
mandy and  the  French  empire,  Jean  Budd,  a 
baron  of  influence,  took  an  active  part,  his  de- 
scendants held  positions  of  political  and  relig- 
ious influence  and  were  possessors  of  w'ealth, 
and  in  some  one  of  the  political  and  religious 
strifes  for  which  the  Norman  and  French 
people  are  noted  in  history,  three  of  the  Budd 
brothers  took  up  the  cause  of  the  then  weak  side 
in  the  defence  of  freedom  and  religious  liberty. 
Their  relations  with  their  forces  in  power 
crushed  this  effort  and  persecutions  com- 
menced. They,  to  save  their  heads  being  taken 
off  by  the  battle-axe  of  the  executioner,  escaped 
to  Normandy  and  with  XX'illiam  the  Conqueror 
landed  successfully  with  their  families  in  Eng- 
land. In  Normandy  and  England  they  breathed 
freer  and  after  a  time  recovered  losses,  taking 


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a  part  in  the  relations  of  the  government  and 
progressive  pursuits.  Their  children  married 
and  intermarried  and  according  to  information 
from  different  sources,  one  Thomas  Budd  or 
John  Budd  married  the  sister  of  a  subsequent 
occupant  of  the  throne  and  became  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Church  of  England.  They  had 
a  number  of  children  who  as  they  grew  up 
were  fond  of  adventure,  activity  and  change. 
'John  Budd,  the  elder,  and  Joseph  Budd  came 
to  this  country  about  the  year  1632." 

(I)  Rev.  Thomas  Budd,  father  of  the  immi- 
grant brothers,  figures  as  the  immediate  an- 
cestor of  the  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  Budds. 
He  was  rector  of  Martosh  parish  in  Somerset- 
shire and  renounced  his  living  there  to  become 
a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends  and  a 
minister  among  them.  In  1661  he  was  recjuired 
to  take  an  oath  of  obedience  under  the  sta^ates 
prescribed  by  James  I.,  "for  the  better  discover- 
ing of  papist  recreants,"  but  while  he  was  will- 
ing to  "affirm"  he  refused  to  be  sworn,  and  for 
this  offense  against  the  dignity  of  the  crown  he 
was  indicted,  adjudged  guilty,  and  languished 
out  his  few  remaining  years  of  life  in  prison; 
he  died  there  June  22,  1670,  still  firm  in  the 
faith  unto  which  he  had  declared  himself.  His 
sons  were  Thomas,  William,  John  and  James. 

(H)  Thomas  (2),  eldest  of  the  sons  of  Rev. 
Thomas  ( i )  Budd,  was  born  in  England  and 
first  came  to  this  country  in  1668.  Subse- 
cjuently  he  returned  to  England  and  in  1678 
brought  over  his  family.  In  later  years  he 
became  one  of  the  principal  characters  in  the 
early  history  of  the  colony  of  New  Jersey. 
W^hen  the  first  form  of  government  was  estab- 
lished he  was  one  of  those  selected  to  assist 
the  governor  in  framing  a  code  of  laws  for 
the  maintenance  of  order.  He  entered  into 
mercantile  business  in  Burlington,  lived  there 
until  1690,  then  removed  to  Philadelphia  and 
was  a  merchant  in  that  city  until  his  death  in 
1697.  His  will  bears  date  Sejitember  9,  1697, 
and  bequeaths  to  his  sons  John  and  Thomas 
and  his  daughters  Mary  and  Rose,  leaving  his 
eldest  son  John  and  his  widow  Susannah 
executor  and  executrix  of  his  estate. 

(II)  William,  son  of  Rev.  Thomas  (i) 
Budd,  was  born  in  England  and  came  to  New 
Jer.sey  in  1678,  with  his  eldest  brother  Thomas, 
and  his  other  brothers  John  and  James,  and 
their  families.  Fie  located  and  became  pos- 
sessed of  large  tracts  of  land  in  West  Jersey, 
largely  in  Burlington  county,  where  he  always 
lived.  He  and  his  brother  Thomas  were  the 
original    locators   and    proprietors   of   all   the 


land  included  in  the  township  of  Pemberton 
and  east  and  west  thereof  for  two  or  three 
miles,  and  from  them  most  of  the  titles  were 
devised.  Their  lands  extended  from  the  ridge 
of  hills  known  as  Juliustown  and  Arney's 
Mount,  several  miles  wide  in  a  southerly  direc- 
tion to  the  north  branch  of  Rancocas  creek. 
Although  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of  a 
considerable  tract  of  land  in  West  Jersey, 
\\  illiam  Budd  appears  less  conspicuously  in 
the  early  history  of  the  region  than  his  brother 
Thomas  by  reason  of  the  fact  that  he  took 
small  part  in  the  political  affairs  of  the  colony, 
preferring  the  more  quiet  and  to  him  for  more 
congenial  pursuit  of  farming.  Besides  this  he 
dift'ered  with  his  brothers  in  religious  views, 
and  if  he  ever  in  part  accepted  the  faith  of  his 
father  and  other  members  of  the  family  he 
must  iiave  renounced  it  in  favor  of  that  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  church.  \\'hile  the  name 
of  his  brothers  Thomas,  John  and  James  ap- 
pear fre(|uently  in  the  records  of  the  Friends' 
meetings  in  Burlington,  his  name  appears  there 
only  once,  and  that  a  mention  of  his  voluntary 
subscription  to  the  fund  for  building  a  new 
meeting  house  at  Burlington  in  1682.  In  the 
records  of  St.  Mary's  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  at  Burlington  is  found  mention  of  the 
baptism  of  the  children  of  W'illiam  Budd.  In 
his  will  he  left  a  benefaction  to  the  church,  in 
which  he  appears  to  have  been  a  communicant 
only  for  a  short  time.  His  will  bears  date 
March  I,  1707-08,  and  is  recorded  in  Trenton. 
The  baptismal  name  of  his  wife  was  Ann,  but 
her  family  name  is  unknown.  She  died  in 
1722,  having  borne  her  husband  seven  chil- 
dren: I.  William,  1680;  see  post.  2.  John, 
married  Hannah  W^ilson.  3.  Thomas,  married 
Deborah  Langstaft'.  4.  Susanna,  married 
Samuel  W^oolston.  5.  Ann,  married  James 
P.ingham.  6.  James,  married  Sarah  Tyndall. 
7.  Sarah. 

fill)  William  (2),  eldest  son  and  child 
of  William  (  I  )  and  Ann  Budd,  was  born  in 
Northampton  township,  Burlington  county. 
New  Jersey,  in  1680,  died  after  November  11, 
1725,  the  date  of  his  will.  He  was  born,  lived 
and  died  on  the  original  farm  on  which  his 
father  settled,  having  inherited  the  same ;  and 
he  inherited  also  in  a  marked  degree  the  char- 
acteristics of  his  father,  and  led  a  quiet 
domestic  life  at  the  old  home  on  Arney's  mount. 
Fie  was  perhaps  the  most  prolific  of  any  of  the 
Budds  of  Burlington  county,  having  nine  chil- 
dren, and  it  is  said  that  more  than  one  half  of 
all   the   persons  buried   in   the  old   Methodist 


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graveyard  at  Pemberton  are  his  descendants. 
On  December  2,  1703,  William  Budd  married 
Eliza,  daughter  of  Richard  Stockton,  of 
Springfield,  New  Jersey.  Their  nine  children 
were  Thomas,  see  post ;  William,  David,  Sus- 
annah, Rebecca,  Abigail,  Elizabeth,  Ann  and 


(IV)  Thomas  (3),  son  of  William  (2)  and 
Eliza  (Stockton)  Budd,  was  born  on  the  old 
homestead  at  Arney's  Mount  in  1708,  died 
December  15,  1775.  He  too  became  well  pos- 
sessed of  lands  and  owned  a  heavily  timbered 
tract  of  land,  whereon  he  built  a  saw  mill  and 
engaged  in  extensive  lumber  operations.  He 
not  only  conceived  the  idea  of  erecting  the 
mill  and  developing  the  resources  of  the  region, 
but  as  well  he  caused  to  be  built  a  number  of 
dwelling  houses  for  his  employees  and  thus 
founded  Buddtown,  named  in  allusion  to  the 
enterprising  founder  of  the  village  settlement. 
The  little  settlement  soon  became  a  prosperous 
center  of  trade,  with  its  saw,  grist  and  turning 
mills,  wheelwright,  blacksmith  and  cabinet- 
makers' shops,  two  taverns,  three  stores  and 
all  the  other  essential  elements  of  a  small  munic- 
ipality. Thomas  Budd  was  one  of  the  most 
enterprising  men  of  the  township  in  his  time 
and  was  known  for  his  many  sterling  (jualities 
and  ujiright  character.  He  made  his  will  July 
20.  1775,  and  died  in  December  following,  aged 
sixty-seven  years.  His  wife,  Jemima  (Leeds) 
Budd,  who  died  July  17,  1768,  was  daughter  of 
Philo  Leeds,  and  by  her  he  had  nine  children : 

1.  Philo,  born  December  14,  1736;  died  young. 

2.  .Anthony,  September  27,  1739;  died  young. 

3.  Thomas,  December  5,  1741,  died  young.  4. 
Thomas,  .-Vugust  3,  1744;  died  1766.  5.  Isaiah, 
March  13,  1747.  6.  Lavinia,  April  2,  1749; 
died  1838.  7.  Ann,  July  20,  1751.  8.  Isaac, 
May  19,  1754;  see  post.     9.  Joseph,  October, 

1756. 

(V)  Isaac,  son  of  Thomas  (3)  and  Jemima 
(Leeds)  Budd,  was  born  in  Easthampton  town- 
ship, Burlington  county,  ]\Iay  19,  1754.  died  in 
1823.  He  was  a  farmer  by  principal  occupa- 
tion, and  like  his  father  was  an  enterprising 
and  successful  business  man.  He  married 
(first)  Ruth  \\'oolston,  and  after  her  death  he 
married  Ann  King.  He  had  tliree  children  by 
his  first  and  seven  by  his  second  wife:  i. 
Lydia.  2.  Thomas.  3.  Jemima,  married  Rev. 
.Solomon  Sharp.  4.  Isaac,  see  post.  5.  Sam- 
uel K.  6.  John  F.  7.  Theodosia.  8.  Ruth. 
9.  Sarah  Ann.     10.  Stacy  W. 

(\'l)  Isaac  (2),  son  of  Isaac  d)  and  .Ann 
(King)   Budd,  was  born  in  Pemberton,  New 


Jersey,  June  6,  1788.  died  in  1845.  ^^'^  father 
gave  him  a  good  farm  and  his  business  life  was 
devoted  to  agricultural  pursuits.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  ^lethodist  Episcopal  church, 
and  in  politics  a  Democrat.  Mr.  Budd  mar- 
ried (first!  Mary  Ann  Hayes,  by  whom  he 
had  six  children.  He  married  (second)  Ann 
llriggs,  born  1791,  died  November  i,  1859, 
daughter  of  George  Briggs,  and  by  whom  he 
had  three  children.  His  children:  i.  William 
H.,  married  Eliza  Haines;  one  child,  Michael. 
2.  Rebecca  Ann,  born  May  18,  1815  ;  died  June 
30,  1820.  3.  Ellen  M.,  died  September  26, 
1852,  aged  thirty-seven  years.  4.  Margaret, 
born  February  7,  1818;  married  William  S. 
Fort.  5.  Michael,  born  December  5,  1819;  died 
in  Ottawa,  Illinois,  June  6,  1871.  6.  Mary 
Ann,  died  aged  twenty-two  years.  Children 
by  second  wife:  7.  Alfred,  born  1829;  killed 
by  an  accident  in  Pemberton,  December  24, 
1889.  8.  Isaac  Henry,  born  March  21,  1831  ; 
died  in  Portsmouth,  Iowa,  December,  1892.  9. 
Theodore,  see  post. 

(VII)  Theodore,  youngest  son  and  child  of 
Isaac  (2)  Budd,  was  born  in  Southampton 
township,  November  7,  1833.  He  received  his 
earlier  literary  education  in  public  schools, 
then  attended  the  Pennington  Seminary,  but 
was  compelled  by  ill  health  to  leave  before  the 
completion  of  his  course.  He  then  turned  to 
farming  pursuits,  in  which  direction  he  has 
been  abundantly  successful,  having  been  a  large 
grower  of  cranberries  for  forty-five  years, 
during  which  time  he  has  probably  cleared  and 
made  productive  more  swamp  land  than  any 
other  man  in  the  state  of  New  Jersey.  He  was 
one  of  the  pioneer  cranberry  growers  of  the 
state.  He  conducted  the  business  of  cranberry 
culture  with  his  usual  energy,  and  when  success 
was  achieved  he  divided  his  realty  with  his  two 
sons,  thus  securing  their  interest  and  co-opera- 
tion in  the  management  of  a  large  estate.  Mr. 
Budd  is  also  interested  in  public  affairs  and 
lias  been  chosen  to  serve  in  various  official 
ca])acities.  such  as  freeholder,  member  of  the 
township  committee  and  member  of  the  house 
of  assembly,  having  hekl  the  latter  office  during 
four  years.  He  was  one  of  the  incorporators 
and  first  president  of  the  Pemberton  National 
Bank,  serving  in  the  capacity  of  president  at 
the  present  time.  He  is  also  vice-president  of 
the  Mt.  Holly  Safe  Deposit  &  Trust  Company. 
In  1856  Theodore  Budd  married  .\chsah, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Beulah  Edmands,  of 
Buddtown.  Children:  i.  Isaac  Watson,  see 
post.    2.  Clifford  E.,  see  post. 


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(\TII)  Isaac  Watson,  eldest  son  of  Theo- 
dore Budd,  was  born  in  Southampton  township. 
BurUngton  county.  New  Jersey,  January  8. 
1858.  He  received  his  education  in  the  schools 
of  Peniberton  and  the  South  Jersey  Institute 
at  Ilridgeton.  In  1878  he  went  to  Illinois, 
locating  at  Crescent  City.  lrcn|uois  county, 
where  he  engaged  in  mercantile  business  until 
January,  1902,  when  he  returned  to  Pemberton, 
New  Jersey,  and  engaged  in  cranberry  grow- 
ing, which  line  of  work  he  has  since  followed. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  Pemberton  National 
Bank.  He  married  (first)  June  22.  1880,  Ida 
E.  Barber,  of  Crescent  City,  lllionis:  she  died 
June  6.  1889.  Married  (second)  January  12, 
1892,  .Alma  Grace  Cast,  of  Crescent  City,  Illi- 
nois. Children  of  first  wife:  I.  Homer  T., 
born  l''el)ruary  T9,  1882;  died  in  Pemberton, 
[uly  10,  1891.  2.  Bernice,  born  November  17. 
1883:  married  Charles  Brook  Wallace,  of 
Moorcstown.  New  Jersey :  one  child,  Charles 
Brook  W'allace,  Jr.  3.  Harriet,  born  June  14, 
1885:  married  Horace  Johnson;  one  child, 
Robert.  4.  Ada.  born  October  3,  1886;  died 
July  I,  1889.  Child  of  second  wife:  Gladys, 
born  June  22,  1893. 

(  \'"l  11  )  Clififord  E..  second  son  of  Theodore 
I'.udd.  was  born  in  Southampton  township, 
I'lurlington  count)-.  New  Jersey,  February  26, 
1 86 1.  When  eight  years  of  age  his  parents  re- 
moved to  Pemberton  where  he  was  reared.  He 
attended  the  schools  of  Pemberton  and  Hights- 
town.  New  Jersey.  He  resided  with  his  father 
until  his  marriage,  after  which  he  settled  on 
the  farm  where  he  was  born  and  engaged  in 
agricultural  pursuits,  making  cranberry  grow- 
ing a  specialty,  in  which  line  he  has  been  highly 
successful.  He  resided  on  the  farm  until  1894, 
when  he  removed  to  Pemberton  and  now  occu- 
])ies  one  of  the  finest  houses  there.  He  was 
for  a  number  of  years  a  director  of  the 
h'armers'  National  Bank  of  Mt.  Holly,  and 
since  the  organization  of  the  Pemberton  Na- 
tional Bank  has  served  as  vice-president  and 
director.  He  is  a  member  of  Central  Lodge. 
No.  44,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  Vincentown.  He 
is  indej)endent  in  politics.  He  married,  Febru- 
ary 2.  1887,  iuiinia  Hilton,  born  near  Hartford, 
New  Jersey.  January  (■>.  li^io.  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  i  lannah  I  Lippencott )  Hilton. 
Children:  I.  Helen,  born  October  27,  1887, 
died  aged  fifteen  months.  2.  Theodore  H.. 
born  September  28,  1889;  graduate  of  the 
Penn  Charter  .School,  of  Philadelphia,  class 
of  I90().  3.  Ethel,  born  Februarv  13,  1891. 
4.  J.  Norman,  born  November  18.  i8()9:  died 
August  18.  1903. 


The  anti(|uary  finds  in  the  Isle 
KAIGIIN  of  Alan,  in  the  Irish  Sea,  and 
only  sixteen  miles  from  the 
mainland  of  Scotland  much  of  interest  that 
dates  back  to  times  when  names,  deeds,  and 
even  legends  are  unrecorded  or  mean  but  little 
to  the  present  generation.  On  this  little  island 
but  little  more  than  twelve  miles  in  breadth 
and  thirty-three  miles  in  length  are  well  pre- 
served today ;  Castle  Rushen.  probablv  the 
most  perfect  building  of  its  date  extant,  found- 
ed by  Gothard,  son  of  King  Orry  in  947,  and 
near  are  the  ruins  of  Rushen  Abbey,  pictur- 
esc|uely  situated  and  dating  from  11 54.  Besides 
these  are  numerous  so-called  Druidical  remains 
and  Runic  monuments  scattered  through  the 
island.  To  the  painter  the  coast  scenery  from 
.Manghold  head  on  the  east,  passing  south  to 
I'eel  on  the  west,  bold  and  picturesque  views 
present  their  temptations  to  the  artist  to  stop 
and  study  and  imitate.  Especially  will  he  be 
encliantetl  as  he  reaches  the  neighborhood  of 
the  Golf,  where  Spanish  head,  the  south  ex- 
tremity of  the  island  presents  a  sea  front  of 
extreme  grandeur.  Here  is  a  county  unique 
in  history  as  well  as  in  its  grandeur  of  scenery 
and  well  preserved  ruins.  Here  the  Welsh 
kings  ruled  from  the  sixth  century  until  the 
end  of  the  ninth  century,  when  Harold  Haar- 
feger,  the  Norwegian  adventurer,  invaded  and 
dethroned  the  Welsh  Kingdom.  Tradition 
tells  of  Orry  the  Dane  effecting  a  landing  in 
the  beginning  of  the  tenth  century,  and  being 
adopted  by  the  inhabitants  as  their  king.  He 
is  reputed  to  have  been  the  founder  of  that 
excellent  and  long  sustained  Manx  Constitu- 
tion .still  in  force  on  the  island.  Next  come  a 
line  of  Scandinavian  kings  only  broken  by 
Magnus  of  Norway  when  he  ceded  his  right 
in  the  island  and  in  the  Hebrides  to  Alexander 
HI.  of  Scotland  in  1266.  At  the  close  of  Alex- 
ander's life  the  Manx  placed  themselves  under 
the  ]irotectiim  of  Edward  I.  of  England,  and 
since  that  time  they  have  had  a  constitution 
and  government  of  their  own  and  a  degree  of 
independence  of  imperial  rule.  The  island  has 
its  own  Manx  church,  its  own  canons  and  an 
independent  convocation.  It  has  produced 
learned  men  and  industrious  and  worthy  immi- 
grants who  have  carried  with  them  sound  ideas 
of  religious  and  political  freedom.  The  name 
Cain.  Caine  and  Kaighn  are  truly  Manx  names, 
and  besides  Hall  Caine  have  others  of  the 
nanie  entitled  to  recognition. 

(  I  )  John  Kaighn.  also  written  Kaighin  and 
Kaighan,  came  to  .America  from  the  Isle  of 
.Man.    I-'ngland.  before    1688.      He  apparently 


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came  as  a  bound  apprentice  to  a  carpenter  of 
the  name  of  Thomas  Warne^  and  landed  in 
New  York  and  completed  his  term  of  indenture 
in  Perth  Amboy,  Monmouth  county.  East  New 
Jersey.  The  Archives  of  New  Jersey  give 
him  as  living  at  the  Spottswood's  Middle 
Brook,  November  4,  1687,  and  on  July  2,  1688, 
as  patentee  of  one  hundred  and  forty-five  acres 
of  land  at  Spottswood,  South  Brook,  then  un- 
ap])ropriated  land  to  be  taken  out  of  Thomas 
\\'arne's  property  in  Monmouth  county,  de- 
scribing the  patentee  as  "John  Kaighen  late 
apprentice  to  Thomas  Warne  of  ^Ionmouth 
county,  East  Jersey,"  and  again  on  July  7, 
1688,  "John  Kaighin  late  of  Monmouth  county. 
New  Jersey,  made  deed  to  Robert  Ray  of  same 
county  145  acres  at  Spottswood  South  Brook." 
The  next  record  is  made  in  Gloucester  county. 
West  Jersey,"  made  September  20-21,  1686, 
when  Samuel  Norris  conveyed  to  Robert 
l''armcr  a  tract  comprising  two-sevenths  of  a 
jjropriety  granted  by  the  trustees  of  Edward 
Byllinge,  situated  in  Gloucester  county,  and 
surveyed  b}-  Samuel  Norris  in  May,  1685, 
lying  and  being  on  the  east  bank  of  the  Dela- 
ware river  and  secured  by  John  Kaighn 
through  various  purchases  made  by  him  from 
divers  owners  or  lessees  between  1695  and 
1725  until  Kaighn  owned  and  possessed  a  large 
area  comprising  several  hundred  acres  one 
purchase  made  and  deed  secured  December  14, 
1696,  of  four  hundred  and  fifty-nine  acres  and 
thereafter  known  as  Kaighns  Point  and  now 
the  site  of  the  city  of  Camden.  We  find  John 
Kaighn  in  Byfield,  Bucks  county.  Pennsylvania, 
working  at  his  trade  of  carpenter  when  these 
purchases  and  sales  were  made,  and  he  prob- 
ably lived  in  I'ybury,  1688-96.  A  grist  mill 
was  established  on  the  Newton  township  tract 
and  he  took  possession  and  built  a  house 
thereon.  He  was  married,  1693,  to  Ann, 
daughter  of  William  Albertson,  of  Newton 
township,  Gloucester  county,  West  New  Jersey, 
and  widow  of  Walter  Forrest,  of  Bybury. 
Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  a  miller  by  trade 
and  occupation.  John  and  .Ann  (.\lbcrtson) 
(Forrest)  Kaighn  had  one  child  .\nn,  born  in 
Bybury,  June  24,  1694.  The  mother  died  July 
6,  1694,  and  the  daughter  died  unmarried  in 
1715,  according  to  a  will  executed  October  22, 
1715,  of  "Ann  (Cain)  Kaighn,  daughter  of 
John  of  Gloucester  county,  bequeathing  lands, 
lots,  house.  &c.  to  her  father,  John  Kaighn,' 
and  after  his  death  to  brothers  John  and  Joseph 
Kaighn."  John  Kaighn,  the  father,  was  exec- 
utor of  the  will  which  was  proved  November 
27.  1720. 


John  Kaighn  executed  a  deed  June  18,  1685, 
to  John  \'ance  near  Salem,  West  Jersey,  miller, 
for  three  hundred  acres  near  Salem,  also  a 
grist  mill  on  (jreat  Mill  Creek.  In  this  deed 
he  is  described  as  "John  Kaighn  of  l:>yfiel(i, 
Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  late  husband  of 
Ann,  formerly  widow  of  Walter  Fforrest  of 
the  same  place,  miller;  and  guardian  trustee  of 
his  daughter  by  said  Ann:  Ann  Kaighin."  This 
property  was  deeded  by  John  \'ance  of 
Brothers  Forest,  Salem  county,  March  26, 
1701,  to  Thomas  Killingsworth,  of  Salem 
Town,  gentleman,  being  the  property  bought 
of  John  Kaighin,  &c.  &c.  In  1696  John  Kaighn 
married  as  his  second  wife  Sarah,  widow  of 
.\ndrew  Griscom,  and  sister  of  John  Dale,  who 
lived  in  Newton  township.  .Andrew  Griscom 
flied  possessed  of  a  tract  of  land  adjoining  that 
lately  purchased  by  John  Kaighn  which  was 
also  a  part  of  the  Norris  survey,  and  in  1723 
this  property  stood  in  the  name  of  John  Kaighn. 
He  built  a  house  on  his  purchase  in  Newton 
township.  West  Jersey,  and  it  still  stands  in 
Camden.  By  this  second  marriage  John  Kaighn 
became  the  father  of  two  sons:  i.  John  (2), 
born  December  30,  1700.  2.  Joseph,  born  De- 
cember 4,  1702.  The  mother  of  these  two  chil- 
dren died  soon  after  the  birth  of  Joseph,  and 
in  1710  he  married  Elizabeth  Hill,  of  Burling- 
ton, Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  who  had 
no  issue.  Through  a  letter  addressed  "To 
John  Kaighn,  Linener,  in  West  New  Jersey, 
nigh  on  Delaware  river  side  opposite  to  Phila- 
delphia City  America"  his  mother,  Jane  Kaighn, 
then  living  at  Kirk,  Isle  of  Man,  under  date 
August  26,  1702,  informed  him  of  the  death 
of  his  father  and  gave  other  famdy  news. 
(3n  the  same  sheet  John  Kaighn  wrote  prob- 
ably the  unfinished  copy  of  the  letter  he  sent 
in  reply  to  which  he  stated  that  he  had  :  "lost 
two  good  and  loveing  wives  in  a  few  years' 
time  and  had  been  left  alone  with  two  young 
babes  the  youngest  still  at  nurse."  He  was 
made  by  legislative  action  one  of  the  county 
judges  of  Gloucester  county  in  1699,  and  he 
served  on  the  bench  for  three  years.  On 
March  7,  1708,  the  Newton  Meeting  made  him 
a  menilK?r  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  meet- 
ing, and  in  1710  he  was  sent  to  Trenton  as  a 
representative  in  the  state  legislature.  On 
March  3,  1723-24,  John  Kaighn,  of  Newton 
township,  Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey,  made 
his  will  in  which  he  names  his  wife  Elizabeth 
and  sons  John  and  Joseph,  leaving  his  house 
and  lot  in  Philadelphia  to  his  widow  and  his 
real  estate  in  Newton  township  to  his  two 
sons.     His  will  was  foiuid  June  12,  1724,  and 


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his  personal  property  inventoried  at  £76-13, 
the  inventory  being  made  at  the  house  of  de- 
ceased. The  date  of  his  death,  exce])t  the  year 
(1724)  is  not  know.  Mis  widow  married  John 
Wills,  of  Haddonfield,  New  Jersey,  in  1726. 
(II)  John  (2),  eldest  son  of  John  (i)  and 
Sarah  (Dale)  (Griscom)  Kaighn,  was  bom 
in  Newton  township,  Gloucester  county,  New 
Jersey,  December  30,  1700.  He  inherited  one- 
half  of  the  real  estate  left  by  his  father,  and 
the  next  year  after  his  father's  death  Joseph 
conveyed  to  him  all  his  interest  in  the  real 
estate  devised  to  them  and  soon  after  John 
reconveyed  the  entire  homestead  property  to 
Joseph,  who  afterward  lived  there.  John  mar- 
ried Abigail,  daughter  of  John  Henchman,  in 
1732,  and  followed  the  trade  of  blacksmith  for 
several  years,  and  late  in  life  removed  to  a 
farm  on  Newton  creek,  where  he  died  in  1749, 
and  was  buried  in  the  old  Newton  graveyard. 
The  children  of  John  and  Abigail  (Henchman) 
Kaighn  were  born  in  Haddonfield,  New  Jersey, 
as  follows:  i.  Sarah,  bom  1733,  who  inherit- 
ed the  Haddonfield  estate.    2.  Elizabeth,  1736. 

3.  Samuel,  1737,  married  1768,  Mary  Gerrard. 

4.  John,  1740.  5.  .\nn,  1744.  Abigail  (Hench- 
man )  Kaighn  married  as  her  second  husband 
.Samuel  Harrison,  of  Gloucester,  about  1750, 
and  she  sui"vived  her  second  husband  and  died 
in  1795  at  the  home  of  her  son-in-law,  Richard 
Edwards,  at  Taunton  Iron  Works,  Burlington 
county,  New  Jersey. 

(II)  Joseph,  second  son  of  John  (2)  and 
.Sarah  (Dale)  (Griscom)  Kaigltn,  was  born  in 
Newton  township  in  the  house  erected  by  his 
father  on  Kaighn's  Point,  December  4,  1702. 
I  lis  mother  died  soon  after  his  birth,  anrl  he 
was,  with  his  brother  John,  with  a  nurse  until 
the)'  were  eight  and  ten  years  of  age  respec- 
tively, when  his  father  married  and  their  step- 
mother came  into  the  family  and  assumed  the 
duties  of  a  mother  to  the  boys,  and  they  were 
brought  up  and  given  a  good  education.  Joseph, 
in  the  division  of  the  ])roperty  between  the  two 
brothers,  received  from  John  the  homestead, 
and  he  continued  to  live  there  on  the  home- 
stead, his  brother  removing  to  Haddonfield. 
1  le  married,  in  1727,  Mary,  daughter  of  James 
Estaugh.  of  Philadelphia,  and  niece  of  John 
Estaugh,  of  Haddonfield.  Joseph  Kaighn 
ma'le  his  will  May  7,  1749,  by  which  his  estate 
descended  to  his  cliildren,  naming  their  divi- 
sion as  follows:  To  James  part  of  the  estate 
south  of  the  lane  (  Kaighn  Avenue)  ;  to  Joseph 
part  of  the  land  south,  and  to  John,  Isaac  and 
Elizabeth  the  land  north  of  the  lane.  The 
testator  died  the  same  year  in  which  the  will 


was  made  (1749),  and  his  five  children  wert 
all  minors.  The  five  children  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  ( Estaugh )  Kaighn  were  born  in  the 
homestead  on  Kaighn's  Point  as  follows:  I. 
Joseph  ((].  v.).  2.  John,  who  studied  medi- 
cine and  practiced  in  Newton  township ;  he 
died  unmarried  when  about  forty  years  of  age. 
3.  Isaac,  who  died  before  maturity.  4.  James, 
married  Plannah  Mason.  5.  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried Arthur  Donaldson.  Mary,  the  widowed 
mother  of  these  children,  married  (second) 
Robert  .Stevens,  of  Newton  township. 

(Ill)  Joseph  (2),  eldest  child  of  Joseph 
(  I  )  and  Alary  (Estaugh)  Kaighn,  was  born  in 
the  homestead  on  Kaighn's  Point,  Gloucester 
county.  New  Jersey,  about  1750,  and -after 
receiving  his  portion  of  the  estate  of  his  father 
he  built  a  house  known  as  the  Ferry  House,  in 
which  he  continued  to  reside,  and  which  is 
still  standing,  but  is  used  for  other  than  resi- 
dential purposes.  He  married,  1767,  Prudence 
(Rogers)  Butcher,  a  widow,  and  they  had 
four  children  born  to  them  in  the  Ferry  House  : 
William,  Mary,  John  and  Joseph,  the  youngest, 
who  alone  of  the  four  lived  to  a  mature  age. 

(  I\')  Joseph  (3),  youngest  son  of  Joseph 
(2)  and  Prudence  (Butcher)  Kaighn,  was 
born  at  Ferry  House,  Gloucester  county.  New 
Jersey,  about  1768.  He  received  a  good  edu- 
cation and  became  prominent  in  town,  county 
and  state  affairs.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
state  legislature,  both  in  the  house  of  assembly 
and  in  the  council,  being  re-elected  for  several 
terms  by  the  \\  big  party  of  which  he  was  a 
leader  in  the  state.  He  was  an  early  advocate 
for  granting  a  charter  to  build  the  Camden  and 
.\mboy  railroad,  and  largely  through  his  influ- 
ence the  charter  was  obtained  and  the  road 
built.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  the  board 
of  directors  and  held  a  directorship  during  his 
entire  life.  He  made  up  the  gathering  of  inter- 
ested citizens  who  went  over  the  propo.sed 
route  before  it  was  surveyed.  In  the  legisla- 
ture he  was  also  an  advocate  for  building  a 
state  prison  at  Trenton,  and  a  member  of  the 
committee  in  charge  of  building  the  same.  He 
was  the  first  to  advocate  a  steam  ferry  be- 
tween Kaighn's  Point  and  Philadelphia,  and 
when  the  Federal  Street  Ferry  Company  was 
organized  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  board 
of  directors.  He  died  at  his  home  at  Kaighn's 
Point,  New  Jersey,  February  23,  1841.  and  his 
.widow  Sarah,  daughter  of  Joseph  Mickle,  to 
whom  he  was  married  in  1795,  died  the  next 
year.  The  children  of  Joseph  and  Sarah 
(Mickle)  Kaighn  were  born  at  Ferry  House, 
Camden  county.  New  Jersey,  as  follows:     i. 


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John  M.,  married  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin Cooper.  2.  Charles,  born  February  30, 
1806:  married  Mar\-  Cooper,  of  Woodbury; 
he  was  the  sixth  mayor  of  Camden,  removed 
to  Philadelphia,  and  died  there  F""ebruary  19, 
1868.  3.  Wilham  R.,  married  Rachel  Cole, 
widow  of  Burroughs.  4.  Mary,  mar- 
ried John  Cooper,  of  Woodbury. 

(  11 1  )  James,  second  son  of  Joseph  (  1  )  and 
Mary  ( Estaugh )  Kaighn,  was  born  at  the 
homestead  on  Kaighn's  Point,  Gloucester 
county,  New  Jersey,  about  1752.  His  share 
of  his  father's  estate  was  north  of  the  lane, 
and  he  continued  to  live  on  the  homestead.  He 
laid  out  his  property  in  lots  in  1812,  and  that 
was  the  first  plot  so  laid  out,  and  now  the 
entire  Kaighn  estate  is  divided  up  and  built 
upon.  The  children  of  James  Kaighn  were 
born  at  the  homestead  on  Kaighn's  Point  as 
follows:  I.  Isaac.  2.  Mar\-,  who  died  young. 
3.  John  ((|.  v.).  4.  Elizabeth,  married  Jona- 
than Kniglit,  in  1797.  5.  James.  6.  Hannah, 
married  Benjamin  Dugdale.  8.  Sarah.  9. 
Mary.  10.  .\nn,  1795:  died  in  1880.  11.  and 
12.  Charity  and  Grace  (twins),  both  deceased. 

(IV)  John,  second  son  and  third  child  of 
James  Kaighn,  was  born  in  the  homestead  on 
Kaighn's  Point,  Camden  county.  New  Jersey, 
about  1785,  where  he  followed  the  occupation 
of  farming,  as  had  his  ancestors  from  the 
time  of  the  settlement  of  the  Point  and  the 
building  of  the  homestead  by  his  great-grand- 
father, John  Kaighn.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Bartrani,  great-grandfather  of  John  Piartram 
(see  I'.artram  family  following  this  sketch). 
John  and  Elizabeth  (  Bartram )  Kaighn  had 
eight  children  born  at  Kaighn's  Point,  Caniden 
county.  New  Jersey,  as  follows :  James,  Joseph 
(q.  v.),  John  Elizabeth,  Rebecca,  Ann  Mary, 
Hannah. 

(V)  Joseph  (4),  second  son  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Bartram)  Kaighn,  was  born  at 
Kaighn's  Point,  Camden  county.  New  Jersey, 
i8io.  He  was  brought  up  on  the  homestead 
farm  and  later  in  life  worked  a  second  farm 
at  Chew's  Landing,  where  he  was  living  during 
his  declining  years  and  where  he  died.  He 
was  a  birthright  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  and  he  was  married  by  Friends  cere- 
mony to  Susannah,  daughter  of  Jacob  and 
Rachel  (Troth)  Evans,  and  granddaughter  of 
Nathan  and  Sybella  Evans,  and  of  William 
and  Esther  (Borton)  Troth.  Susannah  Evans 
was  born  twelfth  month  sixth  day,  1813.  The 
children  of  Joseph  and  Susamiah  (Evans) 
Kaighn:  i.  Amos  Evans  (q.  v.).  2.  John, 
born  near  Marlton ;  died  young.     3.  Elizabeth, 


born  near  Marlton ;  died  young.  4.  Rebecca, 
kirn  at  Chew's  Landing:  married  Hamilton 
Haines,  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  and  lived 
near  Haddonfield,  where  three  children,  Joseph, 
Wilber  and  Bertha  Haines,  were  born. 

(\'I)  Amos  Evans,  eldest  child  of  Joseph 
(4)  and  Susannah  (Evans)  Kaighn,  was  born 
at  Kaighn's  Point,  Camden  county,  New  Jersey, 
July  15,  1838.  About  1840  the  family  removed 
to  Chew's  Landing.  He  attended  the  district 
school  and  Westtown  Friends  Boarding  School, 
and  worked  with  his  father  on  his  farm  at 
Chew's  Landing  until  1868,  when  he  carried 
on  the  Hunt  farm,  adjoining  Chew's  Landing, 
1868-76.  He  then  purchased  a  farm  near 
Ellisburg,  and  in  1890  removed  to  Moorestown, 
built  a  house  and  retired  from  farm  life.  He 
was  a  birtliright  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  and  a  member  and  elder  in  Friends 
Meeting  at  Moorestown,  New  Jersey.  He  mar- 
ried, in  1867,  Lucy,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Elizabeth  (Troth)  Engle,  of  Medford,  New 
Jersey.  Samuel  Engle  was  born  iith  mo.  12th 
1803,  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  was  a  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Edith  (Lippincott)  Nott.  The 
children  of  .\mos  Evans  and  Lucy  (Engle) 
Kaighan  were  born  at  Chew's  Landing,  New 
Jersev,  as  follows:  i.  Elizabeth  Engle,  born 
March  7,  1870,  married,  October  10,  1901,  Dr. 
William  Martin,  of  Bristol,  Piucks  county, 
Pennsylvania,  and  their  daughter,  Edith  Kaighn 
Martin,  was  born  July  3,  1905.  2.  Joseph, 
September  30,  1872,  attended  the  district  school 
and  We-sttown  Friends  Boarding  School,  was 
a  student  at  law  in  the  office  of  Thomas  E. 
I'Vench,  of  Camden,  was  admittetl  to  the  bar  as 
an  attorney  and  as  a  councillor-at-law ;  he  is 
(  11)09)  living  with  his  parents  at  Moorestown, 
and  practicing  law  in  Camden,  unmarried. 

(The  Bartram  Line). 

John  Bartram,  the  "father  of  .American 
botany,"  was  born  in  Marple,  Delaware  county, 
Pennsylvania,  March  2^.  1699.  He  began  his 
studies  with  the  purpose  in  view  of  taking  up 
the  practice  of  medicine,  but  changed  the 
course  to  the  science  of  botany  as  applied  to 
American  plants.  He  began  his  work  in  classi- 
fication early  in  life,  and  his  botanical  garden 
was  the  first  of  the  kind  in  America.  He  was 
commended  by  Linnaeus  as  the  most  accom- 
plished botanist  of  the  world.  His  research 
was  made  through  long  excursions  in  different 
zones,  and  his  collection  was  most  rare.  His 
reputation  in  England  was  such  as  to  com- 
mand him  to  the  Royal  family  and  George  HL 
made  him  his  .American  botanist.    The  title  of 


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the  great  work  illustrates  his  versatile  labors 
and  journeyings.  It  was  published  in  1/5 ^ 
and  entitled  "Observations  on  Inhabitants, 
Climate.  Soil,  Rivers,  Productions,  Animals 
and  Other  Matters  Worthy  of  Notice,  Made 
by  Mr.  John  Bartram  in  his  travels  from 
Pennsylvania  to  Onondaga,  Oswego  and  the 
Lake  Ontario  in  Canada."'  He  married,  and 
at  least  one  of  his  sons  left  descendants  but 
not  the  one  who  evidently  inherited  his  genius 
as  well  as  became  the  possessor  of  his  collec- 
tion and  added  to  his  accumulation  of  speci- 
mens and  followed  out  his  projects  of  investi- 
gation mapped  out  before  he  died,  which  event 
occurred  September  22,  1777.  This  son.  Will- 
iam Bartram,  was  born  in  Kingsessing.  Penn- 
sylvania. February  9,  1729.  and  was  bred  in 
the  botanical  atmosphere  in  wdiich  the  father 
had  accomplished  so  great  work  and  left  so 
valuable  and  tangible  records  of  his  accomplish- 
ments. William  ]niblished  in  1792  "Travels 
through  North  &  South  Carolina.  Georgia, 
East  and  West  Florida,  the  Cherokee  County, 
the  Extensive  Territories  of  the  Muscogules 
or  Creek  Confederacy,  and  the  Country  of  the 
Chocktaws."  He  aided  Alexander  Wilson  in 
his  scientific  work,  his  ornithological  studies 
being  very  extended.  I  le  published  a  memoir 
of  his  father  and  made  a  list  of  American 
birds,  lie  lived  alone  with  his  specimens  of 
living  plants  that  made  up  the  greatest  botani- 
cal garden  in  America  at  the  time,  and  was 
visited  only  by  learned  men  anxious  to  con- 
verse with  him  and  to  study  from  his  collec- 
tions. He  never  married,  carried  his  eccentric- 
ities to  his  dress  which  was  primitive  to  an 
extraordinary  degree,  his  outside  clothing 
being  made  entirely  of  leather.  He  con- 
versed with  the  ease  and  politeness  of 
nature's  noblemen,  in  spite  of  his  hermit  life 
and  avoidance  of  the  society  around  him.  He 
died  July  22,  18,^3.  only  si.x  years  from  the 
century  mark.  The  catalogue  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania  gives  two  of  the  name  among 
its  graduates:  Moses  Bartram,  A.  B.,  1782; 
A.  M.,  1785;  B.  M.,  1786;  M.  D.  1790,  which 
would  give  his  birth  about  1762.  He  is  put 
down  as  a  physician  and  druggist.  In  the  class 
of  1783  we  find  George  Bartram,  born  1767, 
died  in  Philadelphia.  May  8.  1840.  .A..  B.  1783: 
A.  M.,  1786;  alderman  of  the  city  of  Pliila- 
deli)hia.  and  president  of  the  select  council. 
1809-11.  lie  was  a  brother  of  Moses,  and 
they  were  both  grandsons  of  John,  the  botanist, 
and  nephews  of  William,  the  botanist,  who  had 
a  brother  Moses,  born  17.^7  nr  1741. 


Although  the  Mountain 
MOL'NTAIN      family  are  among  the  later 

emigrants  to  this  country, 
they  belong  to  the  same  stalwart  stock  from 
which  is  derived  so  much  of  the  best  among 
the  families  of  the  early  and  original  settlers 
of  the  old  colonies,  their  name  being  for  cen- 
turies traceable  among  the  old  records  of 
Yorkshire. 

(I)  The  first  of  the  family  of  whom  we 
have  any  definite  knowledge  as  the  progenitor 
of  the  .'\merican  branch  is  Joseph  William 
Mountain,  born  in  Yorkshire  in  1764,  died 
there  in  1834.  Shortly  after  his  marriage  he 
removed  with  his  bride  to  London,  and  there 
spent  the  remainder  of  his  life,  all  his  children 
being  born  in  that  city.  He  married,  in  York- 
shire. Catharine  Ann  Slater,  born  in  1769.  died 
in  1854.  Their  children  were:  i.  Catharine 
Ann,  born  in  1789;  died  in  1870;  married  Rob- 
ert Edward  Holme  and  had  five  children : 
Elizabeth,  Catharine,  Robert,  Edward,  Robert 
Mountain,  born  January  17,  1836,  married 
Helen  James  and  had  five  children,  of  whom 
only  one,  Frank  James  Hc)lme,  born  1884, 
reached  maturity.  2.  Joseph  William,  born 
1804,  (lied  1855;  married  Miriam  Welsh,  but 
had  no  children.  3.  John,  referred  to  below. 
4.  William,  born  about  1808,  died  1856;  mar- 
ried Hannah  Pearsall,  and  had  several  chil- 
dren. 5.  Hannah,  born  in  1812.  died  in  1892; 
married,  in  1837.  Albert  Paine,  removed  to 
Dusche.  Germany,  and  had  two  children : 
Catharine,  born  1839;  died  1865;  and  Albert, 
born  1841.  who  married.  They  had  eight 
other  children  who  died  in  infancy. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Joseph  William  and  Cath- 
arine Ann  (Slater)  Mountain,  was  born  in 
London,  January  31,  1807,  died  there  in  1893. 
He  married,  February  6,  1837,  Mary  Ann 
Furmage.  born  in  Wandsworth,  Surrey,  Eng- 
land, November  14,  1806.  daughter  of  \\'illiam 
and  Ann  h'urmage,  and  granddaughter  of 
James  and  Mary  Ann  (Wadbrook)  Furmage. 
William  Furmage,  her  father,  was  born  about 
1782,  and  died  1854:  and  his  wife,  Ann  (Hall) 
Furmage,  was  born  about  1780.  died  about 
1830.  Her  grandfather.  James  Furmage,  was 
born  about  1752,  died  in  1827;  and  her  grand- 
mother. Mar\'  Ann  (Wadbrook)  Furmage. 
was  born  about  173 1,  died  in  1825.  The  chil- 
dren of  John  and  Mary 'Ann  (Furmage) 
.Mountain  were:  i.  John  Joseph,  born  Decem- 
ber 17,  1837,  died  in  1900.  2.  Cleeves,  Janu- 
ary 16.  1839,  still  living.  3.  Joseph  William. 
A]iril   19.  1843,  died  in  the  civil  war.  in   1863. 


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5.  .Mary  Ann  Slater,  Ajjril  3,  1844,  married. 
June  3,  1867,  Albert  Farnam  Tucker,  and  ha<l 
one  child,  Albert  Mountain  Tucker,  born  April 
20,  1868,  died  December  12,  1899;  married, 
October  31,  1895,  ■  6-  Frederick,  re- 
ferred to  below.  7.  Robert  Edward.  January 
28.  1848.  died  in  1849.  All  these  children  were 
born  in  London. 

(Ill)  Frederick,  sixth  child  and  fifth  son 
of  John  and  Mary  Ann  (Furmage)  Mountain, 
was  born  in  London,  England,  January  2J, 
1846,  died  in  East  Orange.  New  Jer.sey,  April 
16,  1907.  Emigrating  to  this  country  he  lived 
for  awhile  in  Brooklyn,  Long  Island,  and  finally 
settled  in  East  Orange.  He  married  Irene 
Adclia  Tallman,  born  November  I.  1848.  and 
had  two  children:  1.  W'orrall  iM-ederick.  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  Milton  Tallman.  born  Jan- 
uary 23,  1893. 

(I\')  Judge  W'orrall  Frederick,  eldest  child 
of  Frederick  and  Irene  Adelia  (Tallman) 
Mountain,  was  born  in  Brooklyn.  Long  Island. 
March  10.  1877.  and  is  now  living  at  1 13  North 
Walnut  street,  East  Orange,  New  Jersey.  His 
father  removing  to  East  Orange  shortly  after 
liis  birth,  he  was  sent  for  his  early  education 
to  the  public  schools  of  that  place,  from  which 
he  entered  the  Newark  Academy,  and  after 
leaving  that  institution  went  to  Princeton  Uni- 
versity, where  he  received  his  Bachelor  of 
-Science  degree  in  1900,  and  three  years  later 
his  degree  of  Master  of  Science.  He  then  took 
a  course  in  the  New  York  Law  School,  from 
which  he  obtained  his  LL.  B.  degree,  and  after 
this  entered  the  office  of  Halsey  M.  Barrett, 
Escjuire.  and  later  of  A.  Q.  Keasbey  &  Sons, 
where  he  read  law,  receiving  his  admission  to 
the  New  Jersey  bar  as  an  attorney  in  Novem- 
ber. 1904.  and  as  a  counsellor  in  1907.  Sep- 
tember I,  1908,  he  entered  into  partnership 
with  Judge  Thomas  L.  Raymond,  Andrew  \'an 
P.larcom  and  Theodore  McC.  Marsh.  He  is 
a  Republican  in  politics,  was  appointed  judge 
of  the  district  court  of  the  city  of  East  Orange 
on  June  i,  1909,  by  Governor  Fort.  He  was 
formerly  a  member  of  the  Essex  Troop,  and 
now  the  Lawyers  Club  of  Newark,  the  Prince- 
ton Club  of  New  York,  and  the  Republican 
Club  of  East  Orange.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
North  Orange  Baptist  Church.  He  married, 
June  3,  1908.  in  East  Orange.  Ethel  Marion, 
daughter  of  John  and  Jean  (Paulson)  Spohr. 
of  121  North  Grove  street.  East  Orange.  Of 
this  marriage  a  son.  W'orrall  Frederick.  Jr., 
born  June  28.  1909. 


The  Boggs  faiuily  of  New  Jersey 
BOCiGS    belong    to    that    group    of    Irish 

patriots  who  came  over  to  this 
country  in  the  early  part  of  the  eighteenth 
century,  making  homes  for  themselves  at  first 
in  Delaware  and  Pennsylvania  and  thence 
spreading  out  into  New  Jersey,  Maryland  and 
X'irginia  and  giving  to  the  new  nation  some 
of  the  best  blood  and  brawn  that  have  gone 
towards  making 'up  its  special  characteristics 
and  genius. 

(I)  Ezekiel  Boggs,  founder  of  the  family 
under  consideration,  came  from  Ireland  and 
settled  in  Delaware,  where  he  left  behind  him 
one  son  James,  who  is  referred  to  below,  and 
one  daughter,  Rebecca,  who  married  a  Mr. 
Rish.  of  I'hilatlelphia. 

(II)  James,  son  of  Ezekiel  Hoggs,  was  born 
January  22,  1740,  but  whether  in  this  country 
or  in  Ireland  is  uncertain.  Coming  from  Dela- 
ware to  Philadelphia,  he  studied  medicine,  and 
then  settled  in  Shrewsbury.  Monmouth  county. 
New  Jersey,  where  he  remained  until  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  revolution  when  he  joined  the 
British  army  as  a  surgeon,  and  continued  with 
it  until  the  close  of  the  war,  when  he  went  to 
Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  where  he  lived  until  his 
death  at  a  very  advanced  age.  He  was  highly 
esteemed  as  a  physician,  and  manifested  great 
interest  in  the  promotion  of  the  science  of 
medicine.  He  became  a  member  of  the  Medi- 
cal Society  of  New  Jersey  the  year  after  its 
organization  and  was  an  influential  member 
until  the  breaking  out  of  the  war.  His  man- 
ners were  pleasant  and  gentlemanly  and  he 
took  great  delight  in  his  old  age  in  relating 
incidents  and  adventures  which  occurred  in 
his  personal  history,  more  particularly  when 
the  British  were  in  possession  of  New  York 
and  his  family  living  for  the  time  near  Perth 
Amboy.  whom  he  could  only  visit  by  stealth. 
Dr.  James  Boggs  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Robert  Hunter  Morris,  of  New  Jersey,  and 
left  a  large  family  behind  him,  many  of  his 
descendants  being  now  found  in  Halifax. 
Prince  Edward  Island,  and  the  provinces  of 
Lower  Canada.  He  left,  however,  five  chil- 
dren, three  sons  and  two  daughters  in  this 
country,  from  whom  have  come  the  New 
[ersev  branch  of  the  family,  .\mong  their 
children  were:  I.  Robert,  referred  to  below. 
2.  lames,  who  went  into  business  in  Xew  York 
City,  where  he  became  the  senior  member  of 
the  old  firm  of  Boggs,  Thompson  &  Company ; 
his  children  were  :    Mary,  married  a  Mr.  Ray  ; 


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Julia,   married   Lewis   Livingston.     3.   A   son 
who  died  young  in  Wilmington,  Delaware. 

(III)  Robert,  eldest  child  of  Dr.  James  and 
Mary  (Morris)  Boggs,  was  brought  up  to- 
gether with  his  other  brothers  and  sisters  whom 
his  father  had  left  behind  him  in  New  Jersey, 
in  the  home  of  his  uncle.  Judge  Morris,  of  New 
Brunswick,  with  whom  he  studied  and  prac- 
ticed law,  spending  his  life  in  that  city  where 
he  was  at  one  time  clerk  of  the  United  States 
district  court.  He  died  in  New  Brunswick, 
in  1831.  He  married  (first)  his  cousin.  Mary 
Morris,  by  whom  he  had  one  child,  Robert, 
who  married  Jane  Dunham,  and  had  three  chil- 
dren. He  married  (second)  Mary,  the  sister 
of  James  Lawrence,  United  States  navy,  who 
commanded  the  frigate  "Chesapeake"  in  her 
engagement  with  the  "Shannon."  She  bore 
him  three  children:  i.  Brenton,  of  the  United 
States  navy.  2.  Mary,  married  J.  S.  Blauvelt, 
of  New  Brunswick.  3.  Charles  Stuart,  re- 
ferred to  below.  He  married  (third)  Maria 
Brenton,  born  in  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  in 
1780,  died  in  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey, 
in  1866.  They  had  one  child :  Edward  Bren- 
ton, referred  to  below. 

(IV)  Charles  Stuart,  youngest  child  and 
second  son  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Lawrence) 
Boggs,  was  born  in  New  Brunswick  in  181 1, 
died  in  1888.  Entering  the  United  States 
navy  as  a  midshipman  in  1826,  he  became  lieu- 
tenant in  1837,  served  in  Commodore  Connor's 
s(|uadron  in  the  Mexican  war,  in  April,  1862, 
distinguished  himself  under  Farragut  at  New 
Orleans,  and  was  the  same  year  raised  to  the 
rank  of  captain.  In  1870  he  became  a  rear 
admiral,  and  three  years  later  was  retired. 

(I\')  Edward  Brenton,  the  only  child  of 
Robert  and  Maria  (  Brenton)  Boggs,  was  born 
in  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  December  7, 
1821,  died  May  9,  1904.  He  was  educated  at 
the  public  schools,  and  then  graduated  from 
the  General  Theological  Seminary  in  New 
York  City,  and  was  then  ordained  priest  in  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  church.  He  graduated 
from  Rutgers  College  in  1842  and  later  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  D.  D.  He  married  Eliza- 
beth Dunham,  daughter  of  George  Deshler,  of 
Easton,  Pennsylvania,  and  his  wife,  Cathar- 
ine (Dunham)  Deshler,  of  New  Brunswick. 
Elizabeth  Dunham  (Deshler)  Boggs  was  born 
in  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  December 
26,  1822,  died  in  1903.  She  bore  her  husband 
four  children:  i.  George  Brenton,  married 
Hannah  Thom])son,  of  Bloomsburg,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  has  three  children  :  Edward  Thomp- 
son,  Frank   Thompson,   who  married,  and  is 


now  a  captain  of  engineers  in  the  L^nited 
States  army,  and  Jeannette  Thompson.  2. 
Charles  Deshler,  married  Caroline  Coles,  and 
has  four  children:  Clara,  married  William 
Lull,  a  professor  at  Yale  University,  and  has 
one  child,  Dorothy,  Elizabeth  Deshler,  Edward 
Brenton,  married  a  Miss  Chamberlain  and  now 
lives  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  William  Coles. 
3.  Francis  Cranston,  who  is  also  married.  4. 
Herbert,  referred  to  below. 

(V)  Herbert,  youngest  child  of  the  Rev. 
Edward  Brenton  and  Elizabeth  Dunham 
(Deshler)  Boggs,  was  born  in  Swedesborough, 
New  Jersey,  June  3,  1853,  and  is  now  living 
in  Newark,  New  Jersey.  For  his  early  edu- 
cation he  was  sent  to  the  public  schools  of  New 
Brunswick,  and  then  he  entered  Rutgers  Col- 
lege, graduating  therefrom  in  1873.  After 
his  graduation  he  went  into  the  office  of 
Parker  &  Keasby,  where  he  read  law,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  attorney 
in  November,  1876,  and  as  counsellor  in  No- 
vember, 1879.  He  then  started  in  for  him- 
self, specializing  in  municipal  law,  and  becom- 
ing the  city  attorney  for  Newark,  during  the 
years  1890  to  1893  ^.nd  again  appointed  in 
1909  to  the  same  office.  Mr.  Boggs  is  a  Dem- 
ocrat, but  other  than  the  attorneyship  men- 
tioned above  he  has  held  no  political  office. 
He  belongs  to  the  Lawyers'  Club  of  Newark. 
He  -is  a  communicant  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal church.  He  married,  May  9,  1893,  in 
Newark,  Frances  May,  daughter  of  Henry  and 
Fanny  (Van  Buren)  Le  Viness,  of  New  York 
City,  whose  two  brothers  are  Edward  and 
Henry,  and  her  sister  Charlotte,  who  married 
Henry  \'an  Bronson.  The  child  of  Herbert 
and  Fanny  May  (Le  Viness)  Boggs  is  Helen 
Cranston,  born  in  Newark,  September  21, 
1894-  

L^nlike  so  many  of  the  families  of 
HINE     New  Jersey  that   have  come   into 

the  state  from  Europe  by  way  of 
the  New  England  colonies,  the  Hine  family  of 
Orange  travelled  from  Connecticut  to  the 
Ohio  valley  and  then  returned  and  found  a 
permanent  home  in  Essex  county,  thus  revers- 
ing the  usual  current  of  emigration  which 
passed  through  New  Jersey  on  its  way  to  the 
west.  But  little  is  known  about  the  family 
on  the  other  side  of  the  Atlantic.  The  earliest 
record  is  in  1548  when  a  certain  John  Hinde 
was  appointed  J.  C.  P.  of  England,  that  is 
practitioner  of  the  common  law  (juris  com- 
munis) or  in  other  words  as  we  should  say 
today,  was  admitted  to  the  English  bar  as  at- 


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torney.  Family  tradition  has  it  that  the  fam- 
ily is  of  Scotch-Irish  descent  and  emigrated 
to  this  country  during  the  Commonwealth,  and 
this  is  supported  by  the  earliest  records  we 
have  of  the  family  in  this  country. 

(I)  Thomas  Hine,  founder  of  the  family, 
settled  in  Mil  ford,  Connecticut,  and  had  there 
a  home  lot  and  a  two  acre  meadow  adjoining, 
January  28,  1646.  In  1655  he  bought  land 
at  Derby,  although  he  does  not  seem  to  have 
removed  thither,  except  possibly  for  a  time, 
as  January  22,  1676.  he  drew  lot  number  8 
in  Alilford,  and  on  the  tax  list  of  1688  he  is 
assessed  ig6.  5s,  wdiile  his  sons  John  and 
Stephen  were  assessed  respectively  £38  and 
£18.  His  will,  proved  at  New  Haven,  was 
written  May  9,  1694.  He  had  at  least  four 
sons  and  probably  other  children.  The  sons 
were:  i.  John.  2.  George.  3.  Stephen.  4. 
Samuel,  who  is  referred  to  below.  The  last 
two  mentioned  are  the  only  children  that  re- 
mained in  Milford. 

(II)  Samuel,  son  of  Thomas  Hine,  lived  in 
Old  Milford  but  there  is  very  little  known 
about  him  except  what  can  be  gathered  from 
an  old  account  book  kept  by  his  son  George, 
referred  to  below,  from  an  entry  in  which  we 
learn  that  Samuel  and  his  wife  went  to  live 
with  their  son.  May  10,  1769.  Samuel  Hine 
died  December  23,  1771,  and  his  wife  Decem- 
ber 10,  1773. 

(III)  George,  son  of  Samuel  Hine,  was 
born  in  Old  Milford,  and  followed  the  occu- 
pations of  farmer,  teamster,  fisherman  and 
merchant.  His  old  account  book  is  full  of 
interesting  examples,  of  which  the  following 
is  a  fair  example  :  "January  13th,  1755.  Then 
reckoned  with  Moses  Malory  and  cleared  of 
all  accounts  from  ye  beginning  of  ye  world  to 
this  day,  as  witness  our  hands."  George 
Hine  and  his  family  removed  from  Old  to  New 
Milford  some  time  before  October  i,  1793, 
and  was  probably  among  the  first  settlers  of 
that  place.  From  the  fact  that  her  name  is 
signed  with  his  to  a  contract  for  a  fishing 
privilege  at  Fowler's  island  on  Stratford  river, 
it  is  supposed  that  the  name  of  George's  wife 
was  Jean.  His  children  were:  i.  Thomas.  2. 
Samuel.  3.  George  Jr.  4.  Daniel,  who  is 
referred  to  below.  There  may  have  been 
others. 

(I\' )  Daniel,  son  of  George  and  Jean  Hine, 
was  born  in  Old  Milford  in  1750.  While  in 
Old  Milford  he  was  a  fisherman  and  leased 
for  ninety-nine  years  a  privilege  of  fishing 
at  Fowler's  island  at  the  mouth  of  Strat- 
ford  river  on   Long  Island   Sound.      In   Mav, 


1795,  he  removed  from  New  Milford  to 
\Varren,  Litchfield  county,  Connecticut,  where 
he  lived  for  eleven  years.  In  the  spring  of 
1805,  hearing  glowing  accounts  of  the  w-est- 
ern  reserve,  he  sent  his  son  David  to  accom- 
pany Erastus  Carter  and  others  on  a  tour  of 
inspection.  The  journey,  both  ways,  was 
made  afoot,  and  the  report  was  so  favorable 
that  the  following  September  two  of  his  sons, 
Daniel  and  Hezekiah,  emigrated  with  others 
to  Johnstown,  Ohio,  and  in  the  succeeding 
spring,  Daniel  Sr.  followed  with  the  remain- 
der of  the  family.  He  remained  in  Johnstown 
till  the  ensuing  December,  and  then  moved  on 
to  Canfield,  Ohio.  Here,  two  years  later,  he 
moved  into  the  home  of  his  son  David,  on  the 
same  farm  that  is  now  owned  and  occupied  by 
his  niece,  Airs.  Betsy  Comstock.  His  son 
Hezekiah,  having  located  in  Shalersville,  Port- 
age countv,  Ohio,  Daniel,  being  better  pleased 
with  that  situation,  moved  thither  in  February, 
1 8 10,  and  settled  finally  not  far  from  the 
centre  of  the  township,  where  he  lived  until 
his  death,  September  16,  1828.  Daniel  Hine 
was  married  three  times,  but  all  his  children 
were  by  his  first  wife.  About  1775  he  married 
(first) Mary  Stone,  of  Old  Milford,  who  died 
in  Shalersville,  February  5,  1812,  at  the  age 
of  fifty-six  years.  His  second  wife,  Eunice 
(Sutliff)  (Crosby)  Hine,  the  widow  of  Tim- 
othy, died  July  17, 181 7.  His  third  wife,  Phoebe 
(  Clark)  Hine,  was  a  native  of  Williamstown, 
\'ermont,  and  died  aged  seventy-two  years. 
The  children  of  Daniel  and  Mary  (Stone) 
Hine  were:  i.  Daniel,  born  May  30,  1776,  died 
January  19,  1858;  married  Laura  Finney.  2. 
.\bel,  .September  11,  1778,  died  September  21, 
1855  :  married  a  Miss  Frelove.  3.  David,  who 
is  referred  to  below.  4.  Polly,  September  27, 
1784,  died  October  29,  1859:  married  Au- 
gustus Adams.  5.  Hezekiah,  May  29,  1789, 
died  July  21,  1867;  married  Mary  Atwater. 
6.  Elizabeth,  February  16,  1790,  died  Febru- 
ary 14,  1867;  married  Thaddeus  Bradley.  7. 
Lyman,  September  9,  1792,  died  December  16, 
1870;  married  Sabina  Crosby.  8.  Abigail.  .Au- 
gust 7,  1795,  died  Alarch,  1865;  married  Dan- 
iel Burroughs.  All  these  children,  save  the 
last  who  was  born  in  Warren,  were  born  in 
Old  Alilford. 

(V)  David,  third  child  and  son  of  Daniel 
and  Mary  (Stone)  Hine,  was  born  in  Old  Mil- 
ford, Connecticut,  December  9,  1780,  died  in 
Canfield,  Ohio,  April  19,  1856.  He  was  fif- 
teen when  his  father  went  to  Warren,  Litch- 
field county,  and  twenty-five,  when  April,  1805, 
he  set  out  with  Erastus  Carter,  Daniel  Beach 


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and  John  Morris,  for  Johnstown,  where  he 
bought  land  for  $3.00  an  acre,  and  after  build- 
ing a  small  shanty  returned  home  with  his 
report  to  his  father.  He  then  guided  his 
brothers,  Daniel  and  Hezekiah,  out  to  the  new 
lands  and  returned  home  again  with  the  team, 
remaining  in  Warren  for  that  winter,  and  in 
F"ebruarj',  immediately  after  his  marriage,  set- 
ting out  on  a  final  trip  to  Johnstown,  accom- 
jianied  by  about  sixty  of  their  friends  and 
relatives.  In  the  following  autumn  he  settled 
on  the  farm  in  Canfield  spoken  of  above.   May 

3,  1810,  David  Hine  was  commissioned  by  the 
governor  of  Ohio  Captain  of  the  Third  Com- 
pany, First  Battalion,  Second  Regiment,  Fifth 
Brigade  and  Fourth  Division  of  the  Ohio  state 
militia.  .'\s  such  he  served  for  five  years  and 
was  in  active  service  during  the  War  of  181 2, 
his  regiment  forming  a  part  of  the  land  forces 
at  Cleveland,  during  Perry's  naval  engage- 
ment and  victory,  September  6,  1812.  After 
the  war  he  became  conspicuous  in  civil  affairs, 
being  commissioned  Alay  13,  1822,  by  Gov- 
ernor Allen  Tremble,  justice  of  the  peace,  and 
in  many  ways  interesting  himself  in  politics. 
David  Hine  married,  February  20,  1806, 
Achsah,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Sackett, 
of  Warren,  born  there  January  21,  1786. 
died  in  Canfield.  Ohio,  March  23.  1831.  She 
bore  her  Inisljand  at  least  eight  children  of 
whom  one,   David,   is  referred   to  below. 

(\T)  David  (2),  eighth  child  of  David  (i) 
and  Achsah  (Sackett)  Hine,  was  born  in  Can- 
field,  Ohio,  August  16,  1822,  died  in  Wash- 
ington, District  of  Columbia,  January  12,  1872. 
He  graduated  from  Williams  College,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1830,  taught  in  the  academy  at 
Warren,  Connecticut,  for  four  years,  and  in 
the  autumn  of  1854  moved  out  to  Ohio  and 
accepted  a  position  as  principal  of  the  Malio- 
ney  Academy.  He  here  became  a  neighbor 
and  later  a  warm  friend  of  General  James  .\. 
Garfield,  through  whose  influence  soon  after 
the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war  he  was  ap- 
pointed to  a  position  in  the  office  of  the  second 
auditor  of  the  treasurer  in  \\'ashington,  which 
he  held  until  his  death.  While  at  college  he 
boarded  with  .\.  M.  Bridges,  a  descendant  of 
Benjamin,  son  of  Edward  Bridges,  of  Tops- 
field,  Massachusetts^  in  1664.  Here  he  made 
the  acc|ainiance  of  Harriet  Amelia,  daughter 
of  Samuel  Bridges,  of  Williamstown,  born 
April  20,   1828.  died  in  Washington,  October 

4,  1874.  whom  he  married  September  24,  1850. 
The  children  of  David  and  Harriet  Amelia 
'' Bridges)  Hine  were:  i.  Helen  Blanche,  born 
December  25,  185 1,  died  October  7,  1883.     2. 


Edwin  Warren,  who  is  referred  to  below.  3. 
Charles  Augustus,  May  2..  1857,  died  young. 
4.  Irene  Bridges,  July  12,  1861,  died  1862.  5. 
Irene  Bridges,  March  23,  1862,  died  1866. 

(\'II)  Edwin  \Varren,  second  child  and 
eldest  son  of  David  (2)  and  Harriet  Amelia 
(Bridges)  Hine,  was  born  in  Warren.  Litch- 
field county,  Connecticut,  March  17,  1854,  and 
is  now  living  at  112  Park  avenue.  Orange, 
Xew  Jersey.  He  was  in  his  infancy  when  his 
parents  went  to  Ohio,  and  he  was  thirteen 
when  they  went  to  Washington,  where 
he  received  his  education  in  the  public 
and  high  schools,  obtaining  a  position  in  a  sta- 
tioner}' store  in  \\'ashington  and  retaining  it 
until  he  accepted  a  position  as  entry  clerk  with 
the  firm  of  (_leorge  A.  Olney  &  Company,  sta- 
tioners, with  whom  he  , remained  until  their 
failure.  In  1872  he  removed  to  Orange  and 
was  for  two  years  with  Thomas  P.  Bayes, 
dealer  in  books  and  stationery,  and  in  1874 
started  for  himself  in  the  flour  and  feed  busi- 
ness in  the  old  academy  building  on  Main 
street,  near  Cone  and  Day.  In  1877  he  bought 
out  the  old  firm  of  W.  P..  Tichenor  &  Com- 
[lany  who  were  in  the  same  line  of  business. 
In  1888  he  became  interested  in  the  Harvey 
Steel  Company,  and  in  the  following  year  be- 
came a  director  of  that  corporation,  being  now 
the  only  survivor  of  the  original  board  of 
five.  In  May,  1890,  together  with  Mr. 
Harvey,  he  organized  the  American  Washer 
and  Manufacturing  Company,  of  which  he 
was  elected  and  remained  for  many  years  the 
president.  He  now  sold  out  his  old  flour  and 
feed  business,  and  in  1903  became  the  sec- 
retary of  the  public  service  corporation  of 
Xew  Jersey.  In  1878  he  was  elected  for  a 
term  of  three  years  to  represent  the  fir.st  ward 
of  ( )range  in  the  common  council,  and  being 
the  iinly  Republican  in  that  body  at  the  time 
was  given  the  sobriquet  of  the  "Lone  Star." 
In  1879  he  was  first  elected  to  the  board  of 
chosen  freeholders,  of  which  body  he  con- 
tinued a  member  until  1887.  In  1884  he  was 
a  candidate  for  the  office  of  sheriff,  and  in 
1887  was  elected  to  that  office  by  a  majority 
of  2.600.  He  discharged  the  duties  of  this 
office  "without  fear  or  favor,  retiring  in  1890 
with  a  clean  record  and  the  hearty  good  wishes 
of  his   fellow  citizens,  irrespective  of  party." 

Colonel  Hine  began  his  military  career  in 
1882.  as  the  chief  organizer  of  the  Orange 
rifles  of  which  he  was  elected  the  first  lieu- 
tenant. January  n,  i88(S,  he  was  commis- 
sioned as  first  lieutenant  and  adjutant  of  the 
third  battalion  of  the  National  Guard  of  the 


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state  of  Xew  jersey,  by  Governor  Leon  Ab- 
bett.  This  position  he  held  for  five  years. 
until  tlie  reorganization  of  the  first  brigade. 
which  resulted  in  the  consolidation  of  the 
first,  second,  and  third  battalions,  forming  the 
second  regiment.  June  25.  1892.  Lieutenant 
Hine  was  commissioned  as  captain  and  judge- 
advocate  of  the  second  regiment  under  Colonel 
J.  Weeland  Moore.  At  the  election  wdiicli 
])receded  this  commission,  Mr.  Hine  had  been 
nominated  for  one  of  the  majorships,  and  it 
is  an  indication  of  his  deserved  popularity  that 
he  secured  for  it  all  of  the  votes  of  the  Essex 
county  battalion.  .April  25,  1893.  Colonel 
Moore  was  retired  on  his  own  application, 
Lieutenant-colonel  Samuel  \'.  S.  ^iuzzy  was 
promoted  to  his  place,  and  Captain  Hine  was 
chosen  lieutenant-colone!  to  fill  the  vacancy. 
November  8,  1897.  Colonel  Muzzy  retired  as 
brevet  brigadier-general,  and  there  was  but 
one  man  it  was  felt  wdio  could  take  his  place, 
namely.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Hine.  Conse- 
quently his  election  to  the  head  of  the  regi- 
ment gave  general  satisfaction  as  he  was 
greatly  liked  by  both  officers  and  men.  and 
when  his  commission  was  issued,  bearing  tlate 
of  December  7.  1897,  it  was  a  time  of  great 
rejoicing  in  the  regiment.  He  had  hardly 
seated  himself  firmly  in  the  saddle  and  grasped 
the  reins  before  he  was  called  upon  to  prove 
the  trust  reposed  in  him.  The  "Maine"  was 
blown  u]\  the  Spanish  began  capturing  prizes 
in  the  Carribean  and  Colonel  Hine  was  among 
the  first  in  the  country  to  ofifer  his  regiment 
for  active  service.  During  the  w'ar  the  regi- 
ment was  stationed  first  at  Sea  Girt,  and  then 
at  Jacksonville.  Florida,  and  it  was  mainly 
due  to  the  efficient  carrying  out  of  his  instruc- 
tions by  Colonel  Hine  that  the  regiment  won 
its  place  and  reputation  as  the  best  in  the 
camp,  and  received  from  the  old  Confederate 
war-veteran  and  then  commanding  officer, 
Cjencral  ]""itzhugh  Lee,  the  compliment, 
"Thank  God.  we  have  one  regiment  equipped 
for  service,  but  that  is  the  way  New  Jersey 
ahvays  sends  out  her  soldiers."  May  2.  1899, 
came  the  order  of  Governor  \'oorhees  disband- 
ing the  Second  Regiment  and  Colonel  Hines  was 
retired.  In  1902,  as  a  result  of  the  great  fire 
in  Paterson.  the  Fifth  Regiment  came  into 
being,  and  from  the  very  first  it  was  felt  and 
said  tha'.  there  was  only  one  man  for  its  com- 
manding officer.  The  feeling  of  resentment 
over  the  disbanding  of  the  Second  Regiment 
was  strong.  It  was  felt  that  its  commanding 
officer.  Colonel  Edwin  Warren  Hine.  had  acted 
the  part  of  a  gallant  officer  and  had  handled 


his  regiment  with  rare  discretion  and  skill  in 
the  south,  and  not  only  among  the  officers  of 
the  old  regiment  identified  w'ith  the  new.  but 
also  among  the  people  of  northern  New  Jersey 
as  well,  it  was  most  strongly  indicated  and 
urged  that  the  command  of  the  new  Fifth  was 
Colonel  nine's  by  right.  The  devotion  of  the 
officers  of  the  Second  Regiment  to  their  com- 
manding officer  had  been  a  matter  of  comment 
throughout  the  entire  .Seventh  army  corps,  and 
while  there  was  some  discssion  about  other 
officerships  in  the  regiment,  September  19, 
1902.  Colonel  Hine  was  unanimously  elected 
to  the  command  which  he  has  held  ever  since. 
From  1883  to  1886  Colonel  Hine  was  chairman 
of  the  Essex  county  Republican  committee, 
while  for  three  years  he  was  the  chairman  of 
the  Orange  Republican  committee  and  for 
twelve  years  its  treasurer.  He  is  also  an 
active  member  of  the  New  England  Society. 
He  is  a  member  of  Union  Lodge,  No.  11,  F. 
and  A.  M..  of  Orange,  and  also  past  master. 
He  belongs  to  the  Union  Club  of  Newark,  to 
the  Lotus  Club  of  New  York,  and  to  the 
Hamilton  Club  of  Paterson.  lie  attends  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  (Jrange.  Colonel 
nine  received  a  most  unusual  honor  at  the 
time  of  the  Hudson-Fulton  celebration  by 
being  selected,  over  the  heads  of  officers  of 
higher  rank,  to  be  the  personal  representative 
of  the  governor  on  the  official  reviewing  stand 
at  I'ifth  avenue  and  Forty-second  street,  dur- 
ing the  military  parade.  September  30.  1909. 

Colonel  Edwin  Warren  Hine  married. 
March  2^,  1874,  Nellie,  daughter  of  David  and 
]\Iargaret  ( Rockafeller)  Sturtevant,  a  de- 
scendant of  the  early  settlers  of  Plymouth, 
Massachusetts,  born  in  1854.  Their  children 
are:  i.  Helen  Blanche,  born  February  13.  1876. 
died  in  infancy.  2.  Walter  Robbins,  Decem- 
ber I,  1877.  married  .A.nnabell  P)agley.  and  has 
one  son.  Walter  Robbins  Jr.,  born  May  6, 
1908.  3.  Marguerite.  September  20,  1879. 
died  March  17,  1885.  4.  James  Sayers,  born 
July  14.  1882. 


The  George  family  of  Newark 
GEORGE     has  already  made  a  name  and 
place  for  itself  in  the  industrial 
world   of   Newark,   although   its   existence   in 
this  country   has  only   been    for  two  genera- 
tions. 

(1)  Christian  George,  the  founder  of  the 
family  in  this  country  was  born  in  F"rance.  June 
25.  1847.  died  in  Newark.  New  Jersey.  July 
1^1,  1898.  By  his  wife.  .Sophia  (Vollmer) 
George,  who  survives  him  and  is  now  living 


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at  3g4  Eighteenth  avenue,  he  liad  three  chil- 
dren :  Edward  C,  see  forward;  Henry  1'.. 
Louis  I'". 

(11)  Edward  C.  the  eldest  child  of  Chris- 
tian and  Sophia  (  \'ollnier  )  George,  was  born 
in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  August  i,  1877,  and 
is  now  living  in  that  city.  After  attending  the 
public  schools  where  he  was  sent  for  his  early 
education,  he  entered  the  New  York  Univer- 
sity Law  .School.  He  read  law  in  the  office 
of  Charles  A.  Feick,  Esquire,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  New  Jersey  bar  in  June,  1899,  as 
attorney,  and  as  counsellor  in  November,  1908. 
He  has  turned  his  attention  to  the  specialty  of 
real  estate  law,  and  he  is  rapidly  winning  for 
himself  a  name  and  place  as  one  of  the  most 
judicious  and  acute  of  the  younger  lawyers 
who  are  dealing  with  that  subject.  In  politics 
Mr.  George  is  a  Republican,  and  for  four 
years,  from  1901  to  1905,  was  one  of  the  com- 
missioners of  public  school  education  in  New- 
ark. He  is  a  member  of  Cosmos  Lodge,  No. 
106,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  Newark, 
and  also  a  member  of  Lodge  No.  21,  Benevo- 
lent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He  mar- 
ried, June  26,  1907,  in  Newark,  Pauline  B., 
daughter  of  August  E.  and  Pauline  Kleeman, 
of  493  South  Sixteenth  street,  Newark,  whose 
children  are:  August  J\L,  Pauline  B.,  Emil  H. 
and  Amelia.  Edward  C.  and  Pauline  B. 
(  Kleeman  )  George  have  no  children. 


"That  the  bearer  John  Mc- 
McCARTER  Carter  is  a  single  Person  & 
was  born  in  the  parish  of 
Gaughboyn  &  County  of  Donegal  in  Ireland 
of  honest  Protestant  Parents  &  from  his  in- 
fancy behaved  Soberly  and  inoffensively  &  at 
his  leaving  this  Kingdom  a  regular  member  of 
the  dissenting  congregation  of  St.  Johnstown 
&  whereas  he  designs  to  transport  himself  to 
the  ])lantations  in  America  to  improve  his 
worldly  circumstances  he  is  hereby  recom- 
mended to  the  blessing  and  protection  of 
Almighty  God  and  to  regards  of  all  Christian 
Peo|)le  whom  it  may  concern  as  a  person  fit 
to  be  entertained  and  encouraged.  This  is 
certified  and  recommended  at  St.  Johnstown 
August  15th,  1774,  by  Thos  Bond.  V.  D.  M." 
(I)  Such  was  the  testimonial  brought  to 
this  country  by  the  founder  of  the  McCarter 
family  of  New  Jersey,  when  he  left  the  home 
of  his  father,  Robert  McCarter,  in  the  small 
hamlet  of  Carrigan's  in  the  parish  and  county 
above  mentioned.  Landing  in  Philadelphia  in 
1774,  in  his  own  words,  "consigned  with  a 
regular  bill  of  lading,  like  a  bale  of  merchan- 


dise to  a  friend  of  his  father's  family  residing 
there."  When  he  came  over  he  was  about 
twenty-one,  and  for  a  short  time  taught  in 
Delaware,  then  enlisted  in  the  revolutionary 
army  and  after  the  war  settled  in  Mendham, 
Morris  county,  New  Jersey.  He  began  his 
revolutionary  service  in  1776  when  he  enlisted 
as  a  volunteer  in  Colonel  Craighead's  Dela- 
ware rifle  corps,  w'ith  which  he  fought  at  Wil- 
mington and  Trenton.  In  1777  he  became  a 
commissary  under  General  Wayne,  and  later 
under  General  Lamb  and  General  Hazen. 
Finally  he  was  at  West  Point  and  Philadelphia. 
For  these  services  his  widow  was  granted  a 
pension  dating  from  March  4,  1836,  which  she 
received  until  her  death.  In  1784  he  entered 
into  a  mercantile  connection  with  Messrs.  Grier 
and  Brooks  wdiich  continued  for  several  years 
until  his  health  failing  he  went  to  the  coun- 
try near  Mendham,  where  he  purchased  some 
iron  works  and  ran  them  successfully  until 
1794  when  he  lost  everything  in  a  freshet. 
He  rebuilt  but  his  works  were  washed  away 
twice  more  and  the  failure  of  some  friends 
with  whom  he  had  left  for  safety  a  large  sum 
of  money  caused  him  to  go  into  bankruptcy. 
.\t  this  juncture  he  found  a  warm  friend  in 
Governor  Bloomfield,  wdio  appointed  him  sur- 
rogate of  Morris  county,  and  later  a  master 
in  chancery.  Still  later  he  became  clerk  of 
Morris  county,  and  held  that  position  until  his 
death.  Mr.  McCarter  took  a  warm  and  active 
interest  in  public  affairs,  was  an  ardent  ad- 
mirer of  the  person  and  a  fervid  advocate  of 
the  principles  of  Thomas  Jefferson,  and  was 
a  fre(|uent  .contributor  to  the  newspapers  on 
I>olitical  topics,  his  articles  over  the  signature 
of  "The  old  man  of  the  Mountain"  attracting 
much  notice  and  exerting  much  influence  on 
the  public  nund.  John  McCarter  had  been 
well  educated  and  even  before  coming  to  this 
country  had  shown  evidences  of  literary  abil- 
ity and  was  at  one  time  connected  with  the 
Londonderry  Journal,  a  semi-weekly  still  in 
existence  and  one  of  the  most  influential  papers 
in  the  north  of  Ireland.  In  atldition  to  his 
frequent  communications  to  the  press  on  po- 
litical topics,  Mr.  McCarter  wrote  many  odes 
and  addresses  for  public  occasions  and  his 
letters  are  many  of  them  literary  gems.  He 
died  at  Morristown  in  1807,  and  the  local 
paper  of  that  day  contains  a  very  full  account 
of  his  life,  ]niblic  services  and  business  career. 
November  21,  1786,  John  McCarter  married 
Agnes,  daughter  of  George  and  Mary  (Boyd) 
Harris,  and  granddaughter  of  William  and 
Elizabeth    (Blair)    Harris,   who  came  to  this 


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country  from  Ireland  in  1742.  She  liad  one 
aunt,  her  father's  sister,  Isabel,  who  married 
her  cousin,  Robert  Harris,  M.  D.,  who  hved 
in  1791  in  Spruce  street,  Philadelphia,  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  College  of  I'hysicians 
and  Surgeons  and  one  of  the  pliysicians  who 
remained  in  the  city  during  the  yellow  fever 
epidemics  of  1793  and  1795.  Her  father  died 
February  23,  1790,  at  Hackettstown,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  owned  a  mill  and  left  some 
property.  Her  mother,  Mary  (Boyd)  Harris, 
died  in  1780,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Robert 
and  Janet  (McAllister).  Boyd,  who  came  from 
Scotland.  Agnes  (Harris)  McCarter  was 
born  in  New  Vernon,  New  Jersey,  October  21, 
1769,  died  at  Morristown,  February  8,  1851. 
She  was  "a  woman  of  high  principle,  strict  in- 
tegrity, unflinching  fortitude  and  cool,  calm 
judgment,  *  *  *  somewhat  stern  and  re- 
served in  manner,  but  warm  of  heart  and  full 
of  kindness,  not  only  to  her  own  relatives,  but 
to  every  deserving  person  with  whom  she  came 
in  contact."  The  children  of  John  and  Agnes 
(Harris)  McCarter  were:  i.  Mary  Eleanor, 
born  April  i,  1789,  died  October  7,  1868,  after 
"a  long  life  filled  with  loving  service  to  her 
family,  so  whole-hearted  and  so  simple  that 
no  idea  of  self-sacrifice  ever  occurred  to  her 
or  to  any  of  those  she  served."  2.  Martha 
Isabella,  born  March  5,  1791,  died  IMay  2, 
1845:  married,  late  in  life,  Luther  Y.  Howell, 
of  Newton,  New  Jersey,  but  left  no  children. 
3.  Jlobert  Harris,  who  is  referred  to  below.  4. 
Benjamin  Ludlow,  born  December  24,  1796, 
who  died  unmarried  at  the  age  of  thirty-two. 

5.  George  Harris,  born  November  5,  1797,  died 
1843,  he  married  (first)  Hannah  Maria, 
daughter  of  George  Rorbach,  of  Newton,  and 
(second)    his   cousin,    Martha   Lyon   Ludlow. 

6.  John,  born  January  26,  1799,  died  October 
31,  1864;  married  Mary,  the  aunt  of  the  Hon. 
Henry  C.  Kelsey,  at  one  time  secretary  of  state 
of  New  Jersey ;  their  youngest  son  was  the 
Hon.  Ludlow  McCarter,  judge  of  the  Essex 
common  pleas.  7.  James  Jefferson,  born  De- 
cember 14,  1800,  died  February  17,  1872; 
spent  most  of  his  life  in  Charleston,  South 
Carolina:  married  (first)  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Jonathan  and  sister  of  the  Hon.  George  S. 
Bryan,  judge  of  the  LTnited  States  district 
court  of  South  Carohna,  and  (second)  his 
first  wife's  younger  sister,  Mary  Caroline.  8. 
Daniel  Stuart,  born  December  2,  1803,  died 
August,  1868;  married  I\Iaria  Hayden,  of 
Georgia.  9.  Eleanor  Cordelia,  bom  Alarch  2, 
1807,  died  July  27,  1883;  married  Dr.  Harvey 
Hallock. 


(11)  Robert  Harris,  third  child  and  eldest 
son  of  John  and  .\gnes  (Harris)  McCarter, 
was  born  at  .Mendham,  March  16,  1793,  died 
March  8,  1851.  His  father's  death,  when  he 
was  fifteen,  leaving  him  as  the  eldest  son  of 
nine  children,  compelled  him  to  do  something 
which  would  aid  in  supporting  the  helpless 
family.  Sylvester  Russell,  who  had  been  ap- 
pointed county  clerk  to  succeed  John  Mc- 
Carter, gave  him  the  position  of  assistant  clerk, 
where  he  began  his  study  of  the  law,  and  at 
the  end  of  Air.  Russell's  term  of  five  years 
was  himself  although  not  c|uite  twenty-one 
_\ears  old  appointed  to  the  office  of  clerk.  In 
1826  he  removed  with  his  wife  and  two  boys 
from  Alorristown  to  Newton  and  engaged  in 
mercantile  business  with  his  brother  George 
H.,  his  mother  and  sisters  also  removing  to 
the  same  place.  Here  he  remained  until  his 
death.  After  his  removal  to  Newton  he  be- 
came judge  of  the  common  pleas  and  a  justice 
of  the  peace,  presiding  for  a  long  time  in  the 
.Sussex  county  court  of  common  pleas  and 
serving  also  three  terms  in  the  court  of  gen- 
eral quarter  sessions.  He  was  also  appointed 
supreme  court  commissioner,  and  in  1840, 
v.'hen  his  brother  George  H.  was  made  sheriff 
acted  as  his  deputy.  Governor  Haines  ap- 
])ointed  him  a  judge  of  the  court  of  errors 
and  appeals.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat, 
v.as  thoroughly  informed  on  the  j^olitical  his- 
tory of  the  country  and  inherited  from  his 
father  an  intelligent  devotion  to  democratic 
principles  as  they  were  then  understood,  and 
he  was  frequently  appointed  a  delegate  to  the 
county,  congressional,  and  state  conventions 
of  his  party,  and  was  nominated  for  presiden- 
tial elector  on  the  Jackson  ticket  in  1828.  He 
was  a  director  of  the  Sussex  Bank  and  of  the 
Morris  Turnpike  Company.  After  the  death 
of  his  brother  George  H.,  he  took  his  oldest 
son  into  partnership  with  him  and  continued 
the  mercantile  business  as  R.  H.  McCarter  & 
Son,  and  later  John  McCarter  &  Company 
until  it  was  dissolved  by  the  death  of  the 
senior  partner.  \\'hile  in  Morristown,  Robert 
Harris  McCarter  married  Eliza,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Nesbitt,  who  had  emigrated  to  this 
country  from  the  north  of  Irelantl  and  settled 
at  Somerville,  on  a  farm  on  the  Raritan  river 
at  what  is  now  Finderne.  The  children  of 
Robert  Harris  and  Eliza  (Nesbitt)  McCarter, 
the  two  eldest  born  in  Morristown  and  the 
three  youngest  in  Newton,  were  :  i.  John,  com- 
monly known  as  Jolm  McCarter  Jr.,  born  in 
1822,  died  October  3,  1886,  leaving  a  widow, 
the  daughter  of  Colonel  Joseph  E.  Edsall,  of 


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Jlainbiirg.  and  two  daughters.  2.  Thomas 
-N'csljitt,  who  is  referred  to  below.  3.  Agnes, 
born  Alay  8,  1828,  died  March  22,  1881.  un- 
married. 4.  Frances  Meeker,  born  October  6, 
1830,  (lied  May  u.  1897.  married  Samuel 
Henry  Potter,  of  Deckertown  and  Newton, 
New  Jersey,  and  later  of  Janesville,  Wiscon- 
sin, and  had  Robert  Harris  McCarter  Potter, 
of  Chicago.  5.  Susan  Thomjison,  born  July 
17,  1832.  died  July  4,  1895.  unmarried. 

(Ill)  Thomas  Nesbitt,  second  child  and 
younger  son  of  Robert  Harris  and  Eliza  (Nes- 
bitt )  McCarter.  was  born  in  Morristown  Janu- 
ary 31,  1824.  After  attending  the  Newton 
.-\cademy,  he  entered  the  junior  class  of 
Princeton  L'niversity  and  graduated  from  that 
institution  in  1842.  He  then  began  studying 
law  in  the  (jffice  of  Martin  Ryerson,  Esquire, 
and  was  admitted  to  tlie  New  Jersey  bar  in 
1845.  I'rom  that  time  until  1853  he  i)ractised 
in  partnership  with  his  instructor,  and  when 
Mr.  Ryerson  removed  to  Trenton,  Mr.  Mc- 
Carter continued  practising  in  Newton  alone 
until  1865,  when  he  removed  to  Newark  and 
became  highly  successful  in  the  prosecution  of 
his  profession.  In  1868  he  became  associated 
in  practise  with  Oscar  Keen,  Estjuire,  and  this 
partnership  continued  until  1882.  After  this 
he  became  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of 
McCarter,  Williamson  &  McCarter.  As  a  cor- 
poration lawyer,  Mr.  McCarter  enjoyed  a 
high  reputation  both  in  Sussex  and  Essex 
counties.  During  his  residence  at  Newton  he 
was  the  director  of  and  counsel  to  the  Sussex 
Railroad  Company,  and  for  several  years  he 
was  also  a  director  of  and  counsel  to  the 
Morris  Canal  and  Banking  Company.  He  was 
the  counsel  to  the  Lehigh  \'alley  Railroad 
Company,  to  the  Delaware,  Lackawanna 
and  Western  Railroad  Company,  to  the 
Morris  and  Essex  Railroad  Company,  to 
the  New  Jersey  Railroad  and  Transporta- 
tion Company  and  to  other  similar  cor- 
])orations.  In  addition  to  these  professional 
connections  Mr.  McCarter  was  prominently 
identified  with  various  corporate  bodies  as 
a  director,  among  which  were  the  Peoples' 
Mutual  Insurance  Company  of  Newark,  and 
the  Easton  and  Amboy  railroad.  His  well 
known  abilities  as  a  lawyer  induced  Governor 
Olden  in  i860  to  tender  him  a  seat  on  the 
bench  of  the  supreme  court  of  New  Jersey, 
and  in  1866  the  offer  was  renewed  to  him  by 
Governor  Ward.  On  both  occasions,  how- 
ever, he  declined  the  honor,  preferring  to  re- 
main at  the  bar.  He  was  nevertheless  willing 
to  become  a  chancery  reporter  and  accepted 


the  position  offered  him  in  1864  by  Chancellor 
Green,  but  after  issuing  two  volumes  of  re- 
ports he  was  obliged  to  resign  on  account  of 
his  increasing  practise.  Prior  to  the  civil  war, 
Mr.  McCarter  was  a  pronounced  Democrat, 
and  as  such  was  elected  a  member  of  the  gen- 
eral assembly  from  Sussex  county.  The  fol- 
lowing year,  however,  he  declined  a  renomina- 
tion  and  subsequently  abandoned  the  party  be- 
cause of  its  opposition  to  the  war.  In  1864 
he  advocated  the  re-election  of  President  Lin- 
coln and  since  that  time  was  a  staunch  Re- 
]niblican.  He  was  twice  a  candidate  for  pres- 
idential elector,  once  on  the  Douglass  ticket 
in  i860,  and  once  on  the  Hayes  and  Wheeler 
ticket  in  1876.  He  was  also  one  of  the  com- 
mission appointed  to  settle  the  boundary  line 
between  New  York  and  New  Jersey.  He  was 
a  trustee  of  Princeton  University  which  con- 
ferred upon  him  the  honorary  degree  of  LL. 
D..  in  1875,  fo''  ^  time  was  one  of  the  trustees 
of  Evelyn  College,  was  an  organizer  and  the 
only  president  of  the  old  Citizen's  Law  and 
( )rder  League  of  Newark,  was  an  honorary  in- 
cor]3orator  of  the  Dickinson  law  school  at  Car- 
lisle, Pennsylvania,  a  fellow  of  the  American 
Geographical  Society,  vice-president  of  the 
Scotch-Irish  Society  of  America,  and  a 
member  of  the  Princeton  Club  of  New  York. 
December  4,  1849,  Thomas  Nesbitt  McCarter 
married  Mary  Louise,  daughter  of  Uzal  C. 
1  laggerty  of  Newton.  He  died  June  28,  i8g6, 
leaving  six  children:  i.  Fanny  A.,  wife  of 
Charles  S.  Baylis.  2.  Jane  Haggerty,  wife  of 
Edwin  B.  Williamson.  3.  Eliza  Nesbitt.  4. 
Robert  Harris.  5.  Uzal  Haggerty.  6.  Thomas 
Nesbitt  Jr.,  see  forward. 

(TV)  Thomas  Nesbitt  (2),  son  of  Thomas 
Nesbitt  (  I  )  and  Mary  Louise  ( Haggerty) 
McCarter,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
October  20.  1867,  and  now  resides  at  Rumson, 
Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey.  He  began 
his  early  education  in  private  schools,  and  then 
attended  the  preparatory  school  of  Dr.  Pingry, 
in  Elizabeth.  He  then  entered  Princeton 
LTniversity,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in 
1888,  at  the  age  of  twenty-one.  He  read  law 
under  the  masterly  direction  of  his  father,  and 
further  pursued  his  professional  studies  in  the 
Law  School  of  Columbia  L'niversity,  New 
York  City.  He  was  admitted  to  the  New 
Jersey  bar  as  attorney  in  June,  1891,  and  as 
counsellor  in  June,  1894.  From  the  time  of 
his  admission  to  the  bar  he  was  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  McCarter,  Williamson  &  McCar- 
ter, (of  which  his  father  was  the  senior  part- 
ner )  until  May  i,  1899,  when  he  withdrew  to 


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carry  on  practice  alone.  He  has  occupied 
various  positions  of  importance,  both  within 
and  without  his  profession.  On  April  i,  1896, 
he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Griggs,  to  the 
position  of  judge  of  the  first  district  court,  and 
in  which  he  served  acceptably  for  three  years, 
resigning  in  April,  1899.  In  the  autumn  of 
the  same  year  he  was  elected  to  the  state 
senate.  At  the  close  of  his  senatorial  term 
he  was  appointed  attorney  general  by  Gov- 
ernor Murphy,  and  served  as  such  until  1903, 
when  he  resigned  to  accept  the  presidency  of 
the  I'ublic  Service  Corporation  of  New  jersey, 
a  most  important  body  holding  the  ownership 
and  management  of  nearly  all  the  electric 
railways  and  lighting  properties,  IxJth  gas  and 
electric,  in  the  state.  He  is  also  connected 
with  the  Fidelity  Trust  Company  and  the 
Union  National  Bank,  both  of  Newark.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  University  Club,  the 
Princeton  Club,  and  the  Raquet  and  Tennis 
Club,  all  of  New  York  City.  Air.  McCarter 
married,  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  February  9. 
1897,  Madeleine  George,  fourth  child  of 
George  and  Ellen  (Schaefer)  Barker,  of  that 
city.  The  children  of  this  union  are:  i.  Ellen 
George,  bom  May  9,  1898.  2.  Thomas  Nes- 
bitt,  November  29,  '1899.  3.  Uzal  Haggerty, 
October  15.  1901.  4.  Madeleine  Barker,  Sep- 
tember 20,  1904. 


The  Heller  family,  members  of 
HELLER  which  have  been  prominently 
and  actively  identified  with  the 
industrial  prosperity  of  the  city  of  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  along  their  special  line  of  busi- 
ness, numbers  among  its  ranks  men  of  integ- 
rity and  character,  who  have  served  as  the  best 
types  of  citizenship  and  whose  example  is  well 
worthy  of  emulation. 

(I)  Elias  Heller,  the  founder  of  the  fanv 
ily  in  the  United  States,  was  a  native  of 
Darmstadt,  Germany,  and  in  order  to  avoid 
the  conscription  for  his  son  at  the  time  of  the 
Napoleonic  wars  he  gave  up  his  farm  and 
brought  his  wife,  Laura,  and  his  son,  Elias, 
to  this  country,  settling  in  West  Orange  town- 
shi]),  Esse.x  county.  New  Jersey,  where  he  es- 
tablished a  home,  winning  and  retaining  the 
respect  and  confidence  of  his  fellow  citizens, 
(in  Elias  (2),  son  of  Elias  (i)  and  Laura 
Heller,  was  bom  in  Darmstadt,  Germany,  and 
there  received  a  practical  education.  At  the 
age  of  about  twenty-five  years  he  accompanied 
his  parents  to  the  L'nited  States,  settling  with 
them  in  Essex  county,  New  Jersey,  from 
whence  he  removed  to  Paterson,  same  state, 


subsecjuently  to  Newark,  and  in  1837  to  West 
Orange,  where  he  spent  the  remaining  years 
of  his  life.  He  married,  after  his  emigration 
to  this  country,  Mary  Laegle,  a  native  of 
France,  daughter  of  George  and  Catherine 
Laegle,  also  natives  of  France,  from  whence 
they  came  to  the  l'nited  States  about  the  year 
1832.  Children:  I.  Elias  (ieorge,  referred  to 
below.  2.  Peter,  married  Elizabeth  Baldwin. 
3.  Emily,  married  John  Morrow.  4.  George 
Elias,   referred  to  below.     5.   Lewis,  married 

Ellen  .     6.  John  J.,  referred  to  below. 

7.  .\  child  who  died  in  infancy.  After  a  long 
and  useful  life,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Heller  passed 
away  at  their  home  in  West  Orange  and  their 
remains  were  interred  in  Fairmt)unt  cemetery. 
She  lived  to  the  age  of  ninety-six  years. 

(Ill)  Elias  George,  eldest  child  of  Elias 
(2)  and  Mary  (Laegle)  Heller,  was  born  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  April  27,  1837.  He  at- 
tended the  public  schools,  acquiring  a  practi- 
cal education,  and  at  the  age  of  si.xteen  went 
to  tlie  city  of  New  York  and  secured  a  position 
with  Tiffany  &  Company,  with  whom  he  re- 
mained until  i860,  when  he  became  a  clerk 
for  Paul  A.  Brez.  In  1863  he  accepted  a  po- 
sition with  his  father,  who  was  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  files  and  rasps,  and  possessing 
great  mechanical  ability  he  became  an  expert 
in  that  line  of  work.  In  1865,  two  years  later, 
he  joined  his  brothers,  Peter  and  Lewis,  in  the 
founding  of  the  firm  of  Heller  Brothers,  and 
the  following  year  they  built  a  plant  in  the 
centre  of  the  business  district  of  Newark. 
Lewis  withdrew  about  1870  from  the  firm, 
and  Peter  withdrew  in  1880,  and  the  brothers 
George  and  John  were  made  members  of  the 
firm.  Their  trade  steadily  and  rapidly  in- 
creased until  at  length  they  were  olaliged  to 
seek  more  commodious  quarters.  Conse- 
quently, in  1872,  Mr.  Heller  purchased  a  large 
plot  of  land  on  Mount  Prospect  avenue,  fac- 
ing the  Greenwood  Lake  division  of  the  Erie 
railroad,  in  the  northern  district  of  Newark, 
at  that  time  only  a  farming  district,  now 
known  as  the  suburb  of  Forest  Hill.  Here 
they  erected  a  large  factory  with  all  the  facil- 
ities at  that  time  available,  and  extended  their 
operations  by  adding  to  their  other  enterprise 
the  manufacture  of  steel  and  a  complete  line 
of  farriers'  tools.  From  time  to  time  ad- 
ditions have  been  made  to  the  plant  until  the 
present  time  it  is  one  of  the  largest  in  the  coun- 
try. In  1880  Elias  G.  Heller  formed  the  North 
Newark  Land  Company,  which  later  became 
the  Forest  Hill  .\ssociation,  and  they  pur- 
chased a  tract  of  land  near  his  manufacturing 


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plant  and  the  station  on  X'crona  avenue,  con- 
sisting of  fifteen  acres  devoted  to  farming 
purposes,  and  thereon  built  many  residences, 
some  of  which  were  sold  and  others  rented. 
The  comjjany  purchased  most  of  the  land 
bounded  by  Mt.  Prospect  avenue,  Ballantine 
Parkway  and  the  Greenwood  Lake  branch  of 
the  Erie  Railroad,  which  included  the  Sidman 
farm  of  one  hundred  acres,  the  estate  of  Fred- 
erick Smith  and  lands  owned  by  Messrs. 
Weeks,  Kean  and  others.  This  was  divided 
into  city  blocks,  streets  were  curbed  and 
flagged,  water  and  sewer  connections  were 
made,  all  within  a  few  years.  Air.  Heller 
opened  Heller  Parkway,  a  fine  boulevard  two 
hundred  feet  wide,  parked  in  centre,  which 
is  one  of  the  handsomest  thoroughfares  in  that 
section  of  the  state.  Forest  Hill,  the  name 
given  to  this  section,  has  an  elevation  of  over 
one  hundred  and  sixty  feet  above  tide  water, 
commands  an  extended  view  in  every  direc- 
tion, and  as  the  soil  is  sandy  and  dry  it  is  an 
exceeding  healthful  place  to  reside  in.  Land 
all  sold  under  all  restrictions.  It  has  all  the 
city  conveniences  with  the  delightful  country 
surroundings.  It  has  ample  police  and  fire 
protection,  excellent  mail,  express,  telegraph 
and  telephone  service,-  churches  of  all  denom- 
inations, public  and  private  schools  of  the 
highest  type,  golf  links,  tennis  courts,  base 
ball  and  foot  ball  grounds,  a  well-ecjuipped 
club  house,  and  the  Forest  Hill  Field  Club  is 
located  on  the  property.  In  1873  Mr.  Heller 
erected  a  fine  house  on  Mt.  Prospect  avenue, 
where  he  made  his  home  until  1891,  when  he 
erected  his  present  elegant  residence  facing 
Elwood  avenue,  equipped  with  every  modern 
appliance  for  the  comfort  of  its  inmates,  the 
grounds  embracing  three  city  blocks. 

Mr.  Heller  has  been  a  firm  adherent  of  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party  since  the 
days  of  Fremont  and  Lincoln,  having  cast  his 
first  vote  for  President  Lincoln,  and  has  taken 
an  active  part  in  the  aft'airs  of  the  same,  serv- 
ing as  a  member  of  the  board  of  education  for 
four  years  and  a  member  of  the  common 
council  of  Newark  for  three  years.  He  at- 
tends the  Forest  Hill  Presbj-terian  Church, 
serving  as  president  of  the  board  of  trustees 
for  twenty-five  years.  He  is  president  of  the 
Woodside  Building  and  Loan  Association,  of 
the  Fcjrest  Hill  Association  and  the  Forest 
Hill  Land  Company,  being  a  founder  of  the 
two  latter  named,  and  is  president  of  Woman's 
and  Children's  Hospital  of  Newark.  In  1886 
he  was  chosen  president  of  the  File  Manufact- 
urers'   Association   of   the   United    States,    in 


which  capacity  he  has  served  ever  since.  He 
is  a  member  of  Bellevue  Lodge,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted ]\Iasons.  and  has  been  its  treasurer  for 
four  years,  member  of  the  North  End  Club, 
Northern  Republican  Club  and  the  Forest  Hill 
Field  Club. 

Elias  G.  Heller  married,  in  Newark,  New- 
Jersey,  October  14,  1867,  Sophie  C,  born  in 
New  York  City,  June  5,  1843,  daughter  of 
Nicholas  C.  and  Frances  (Doclow)  Geoffrey, 
who  were  the  parents  of  four  other  children, 
among  whom  were :  Hortense,  married 
Munroe  Doremus ;  Lucy,  married  Jefi^erson 
Doremus,  of  Madison,  New  Jersey;  Ernest, 
married  Elizabeth  Eagles.  Children  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Heller:  i.  Paul  E.,  referred  to 
below.  2.  Arnaud  G.,  referred  to  below.  3. 
Reuben  Arthur,  an  attorney-at-law  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey. 

(IV)  Paul  E.,  eldest  child  of  Elias  George 
and  Sophie  C.  (Geoffroy)  Heller,  was  born 
in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  February  6,  1869. 
He  graduated  from  the  Newark  Academy  in 
1887,  engaged  in  his  father's  business,  and  is 
now  serving  in  the  capacity  of  vice-president 
and  treasurer.  He  attends  the  Forest  Hill 
Presbyterian  Church,  and  is  a  Republican  in 
politics.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Essex  County 
Country  Club,  Forest  Hill  Field  Club,  Deal 
Golf  Club,  Troy  Madison  Fish  and  Gun  Club 
and  the  New  Jersey  Automobile  Club,  of 
which  he  is  president.  He  resides  with  his 
father  at  242  Elwood  avenue.  He  is  un- 
married. 

(IV)  Arnaud  G.,  second  child  of  Elias 
George  and  Sophie  C.  (Geofifroy)  Heller,  was 
born  it:  Newark,  New  Jersey,  August  2,  1871. 
He  graduated  from  the  Newark  high  school 
in  1890,  and  then  entered  his  father's  busi- 
ness, continuing  to  the  present  time,  now  serv- 
ing in  the  capacity  of  director  in  the  firm  of 
Heller  Brothers.  He  attends  the  Forest  Hill 
Presbyterian  Church,  and  is  a  Republican  in 
politics.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
Automobile  Club  and  the  Forest  Hill  Field 
Club.  He  married,  February  8,  1897,  in  New- 
ark, Harriet  J.,  daughter  of  Lewis  and  Isa- 
belle  (Voorhees)  Jackson.  One  child,  Elaine 
Jackson,  born  in  Newark,  November  24,  1901. 

(IV)  Reuben  Arthur,  the  third  and  young- 
est child  of  Elias  George  and  Sophie  C.  (Geof- 
froy) Heller,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey. 
March  22,  1873,  and  has  always  lived  in  that 
city.  For  his  early  education  he  was  sent  to 
the  Newark  Academy  and  afterwards  to  a 
private  school  in  New  York  City.  He  then 
entered  Columbia  College,  from  which  he  grad- 


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uated  ill  1894.  After  his  graduation  he  entered 
the  office  of  Coult  &  Howell  in  Newark  and 
read  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey 
bar  as  attorney  at  the  February  term,  1895,  and 
as  counsellor  at  the  same  term,  1898.  Since 
that  time  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  general 
practice  of  his  profession  in  Newark,  having 
his  office  at  788  Broad  street.  Air.  Heller  is  a 
Republican,  but  has  always  been  identified 
with  the  reform  faction  of  said  party.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  New 
York,  of  the  Lawyers'  Club  of  Newark,  and 
of  the  Forest  Hill  Golf  Club.  He  married, 
March  21,  1899,  at  Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island, 
Adele  E.,  only  daughter  of  George  and  Ella 
(Sarvent)  Courvoisier,  of  Oyster  Bay.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Arthur,  born  April  15,  1900.  2. 
Frances,  July  6,  1902.  3.  Ruth,  September  7, 
1904.    4.  Wren,  August  15,  1906. 

(Ill)  George  Elias,  fourth  cliild  and  third 
son  of  Elias  and  Alary  (Laegle)  Heller,  was 
born  in  \\'est  Orange  township,  Essex  county, 
January  26,  1848,  and  is  now  living  at  Lake 
street  and  Delavan  avenue.  Newark.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  and  until  he  was 
eighteen  lived  at  his  father's  residence.  He 
then  went  into  the  file  manufacturing  shops  of 
his  brother,  Elias  George  Heller,  where  by 
close  application  and  resolute  pursuit  of  his 
purpose  he  mastered  the  business,  and  in  1873 
became  a  partner  in  the  enterprise,  together 
with  his  brothers  Elias  George  and  Peter. 
Since  then  he  has  been  continuously  identified 
with  the  firm  of  Heller  Brothers,  in  the  manu- 
facture of  rasps  and  files.  He  is  widely  known 
as  a  man  of  excellent  business  and  executive 
ability,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  Heller 
Tool  Company,  the  Corey-Heller  Paper  Com- 
pany, and  the  New  Jersey  Wick  Company. 
He  is  a  Republican.  His  one  club  is  the  Wood- 
side  Social  Club.  His  family  attend  the  Pres- 
byterian church.  He  married  (first)  January 
26,  1872,  Caroline,  daughter  of  Jacob  and 
Mary  Greeney,  a  family  of  German  descent, 
who  died  August  20,  1875,  in  giving  birth  to  a 
son  George,  born  that  same  day.  He  married 
(second)  in  Newark,  September  6.  1876, 
Emma  C.  born  June  10,  1855,  in  Newark, 
daughter  of  Louis  and  Mary  (Becker)  PfeiflFer. 
Her  mother  was  born  in  1820  and  died  in  1893, 
after  bearing  her  husband  five  children:  i. 
Emma  C.  referred  to  above.  2.  Ida,  married 
John  Millwood,  and  has  three  children.  3. 
John,  whose  wife's  name  is  Katharine,  and  has 
two  children.  4.  Louis,  Jr.,  who  has  two  children. 
5.  Lena,  who  married  John  J.  Heller,  brother 
to  George  Elias  referred  to  here.    The  children 


of  George  Elias  and  Emma  C.  (Pfeiffer) 
Heller  are:  i.  Lucy,  born  November  28,  1878, 
married  Bount  Johnson.  2.  Alfred,  July  19, 
1880,  married  Edna  Burkhardt,  and  has  one 
son  George.  3.  Emma  Lyda,  Februarj'  28, 
1882,  married  George  Somden.  4.  Walter, 
October  3,  1884.  5.  Gertrude,  December  8, 
1886.  6.  Mabel,  September  2,  1888.  7.  Leo, 
April  21,  1893.    8.  Viola,  October  2,  1898. 

(III)  Jolin  ].,  son  of  Elias  and  Mary 
(Laegle)  Heller,  was  born  in  West  Orange 
township,  Essex  county,  May  20,  1850,  and  is 
now  living  in  Newark.  For  his  early  education 
he  went  to  the  public  schools,  and  lived  at 
home  with  his  parents  until  he  was  twenty 
years  old,  when  he  moved  to  Forest  Hill, 
Newark,  and  entered  the  employ  of  his  brother, 
Elias  George  Heller,  the  well  known  manu- 
facturer of  rasps  and  files.  In  1873,  with  his 
brothers  Elias  George  and  George  Elias,  he 
formed  a  partnership,  which  has  ever  since  been 
known  by  the  name  of  Heller  P.rothers.  Mr. 
Heller  is  aRepublican.  Ilemarried,  April4, 1874, 
Lena,  daughter  of  Louis  and  Alary  (  Becker) 
Pfeiffer,  and  the  sister  of  Emma  C.  Pfeiffer, 
the  wife  of  his  brother,  George  Elias  Heller. 
They  have  eight  children:  i.  Ida  Alary,  born 
December  25,  1874;  married  Joseph  Benson 
Stewart  and  has  one  child,  Helen.  2.  Lucy, 
April  21,  1877,  died  July  14,  1877.  3.  John 
Walter,  who  is  referred  to  below.  4.  Florence 
Helena.  Alarch  13,  1881,  died  November  5, 
1906;  married  Stockton  Barnett  and  has  one 
child,  Gordon.  5.  John  Elias,  November  12, 
1885,  died  February  28,  1889.  6.  Benjamin 
Harrison,  April  14,  1889.  7.  Russell  Alill- 
wood,  Alarch  29,  1891.  8.  Naomi,  December 
27,  1894. 

(IV)  John  Walter,  third  child  and  eldest 
son  of  John  J.  and  Lena  (Pfeift'er)  Heller, 
was  born  in  Newark,  August  29,  1878,  and  is 
now  living  in  that  city.  For  his  early  educa- 
tion he  was  sent  to  the  public  schools  of  New- 
ark, graduating  from  the  high  school  in  1897. 
He  then  went  to  Cornell  University,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1901,  and  since  then  he 
has  turned  his  attention  to  civil  engineering. 
From  1901  to  1903  he  was  with  the  Erie  rail- 
road;  from  1904  to  1906  he  was  one  of  the 
assistant  engineers  of  the  Brooklyn  Rapid 
Transit  Company:  during  1906  and  1907  he 
was  the  superintendent  of  the  Church  Con- 
struction Company ;  and  since  then  he  has  been 
in  business  for  himself,  as  engineer  and  con- 
structor. He  is  a  Republican  and  a  member 
of  Kane  Lodge,  No.  55,  F.  and  A.  AI.  His 
clubs  are  the  Cornell  University  Club  of  New 


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York  City,  the  Cornell  Club  of  Northern  New 
Jersey,  of  which  he  is  the  vice-president,  the 
Civil  Engineers'  Club  of  New  York,  the  Brook- 
lyn Engineers'  Club,  and  associate  member  of 
American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  lie  mar- 
ried, .\pril  26,  1906,  at  Lynn,  Massachusetts, 
Bertha,  bom  in  East  Wellington,  Connecticut, 
February  5,  1882,  only  child  of  Charles  Ash- 
ley Ryder,  D.  D.  S.',  and  Sarah  Elizabeth 
(Rldredge)  Ryder.  Her  father  practiced  in 
liridgepurt,  Connecticut,  and  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  and  she  was  educated  in  Lynn,  Swamp- 
scott  and  Newark.  The  only  child  of  John 
Walter  and  Bertha  (Ryder)  Heller  is  Ruth 
Elizabeth,  born  in  Newark,  October  14,  1908. 


Early  records  of  this  old  Bur- 

H.VRBERT  lington  county  family  are  not 
found  in  any  of  the  local  or 
general  genealogical  reference  works. 

(I)  George  Harbert,  the  earliest  ancestor 
of  the  family  of  whom  there  appears  to  be 
any  definite  knowledge,  lived  in  Burlington 
county,  but  the  period  of  his  life  is  not  known. 
It  is  known,  however,  that  he  married  and  had 
three  children,  Anna,  John  and  George. 

{II )  George  (2),  son  of  George  (i)  Har- 
bert, was  born  in  Southampton  townsliip,  Bur- 
lington county.  New  Jersey,  in  1802,  and  ilied 
in  Northampton  or  Mt.  liolly  in  18S1.  As 
near  as  is  known,  during  the  early  part  of  his 
business  life,  he  was  in  charge  of  a  transporta- 
tion vessel  running  from  Lumberton  to  Phila- 
delphia, and  also  through  the  Raritan  canal  to 
.New  York  City.  On  these  trips  his  cargo  was 
chieHy  charcoal.  The  later  years  of  Mr.  Har- 
bert's  life  were  spent  on  a  farm  near  Alt. 
Holly,  where  now  stands  the  Children's  Home. 
He  also  bought  and  sold  timber  lands  and  dealt 
in  lumber  and  wood.  He  married  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Troth,  of  Gloucester  county, 
New  Jersey,  and  their  children  were:  Sarah, 
Thomas,  George  P'rank,  the  latter  the  only 
survivor. 

(  III  )  Geoige  I'Vank.  son  of  George  (2)  and 
Mary  (Troth)  Harbert.  was  born  at  Lumber- 
ton,  New  Jersey,  June  3,  1838.  His  young 
life  was  spent  on  his  father's  fami,  and  after 
attending  the  township  public  school  he  was 
sent  for  a  time  to  the  tuition  school  kept  by 
William  W.  Collum  in  Mt.  Holly.  .After  leav- 
ing school  he  learned  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith, 
and  later  set  up  a  shop  in  Mt.  Holly,  where  he 
carried  on  a  general  blacksmithing  and  horse- 
shoeing business  until  1887,  in  which  year  he 
was  elected  high  sheriff  of  Burlington  county, 
serving  three  years   in   that  capacity.      From 


1890  until  about  1900  he  conducted  a  fami  in 
Lumberton,  which  he  still  owns,  and  in  1899 
was  elected  by  popular  vote  steward  of  the 
Burlington  County  .-\lmshouse,  which  office  he 
is  filling  at  the  present  time  {1909),  serving 
on  his  fourth  term.  In  1877  Mr.  Harbert  was 
appointed  United  States  ganger  for  the  coun- 
ties of  Burlington,  Monmouth,  Mercer,  Ocean, 
.\tlantic,  Cumberland,  Salem,  Camden  and 
Cape  May,  under  the  administration  of  Presi- 
dent Hayes  (  William  B.  Tatum,  collector).  He 
also  served  under  the  administration  of  Presi- 
dents Garfield  and  Arthur.  Upon  the  election 
of  Grover  Cleveland  to  the  presidency,  he  ten- 
dered his  resignation,  but  it  was  not  accepted 
until  eighteen  months  later.  He  was  again  ap- 
pomted  upon  the  election  of  William  H.  Harri- 
son to  the  presidency,  and  resigned  upon  the 
second  election  of  Grover  Cleveland.  During 
this  period  of  time  Isaac  Mofifitt  acted  as 
collector.  Mr.  Harbert  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  freeholders  of  Mt.  Holly  in  1876-77 
and  1879-80.  He  is  a  member  of  Mt.  Holly 
Lodge,  No.  Uj,  1.  O.  O.F'. :  .New  Jersey  Lodge. 
No.  I,  K.  of  P.,  and  is  an  attendant  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

Mr.  Harbert  married,  February  10,  1863, 
Mary  T..  daughter  of  Zachariah  Rogers  and 
Mary  .Ann  (Carlisle)  Reeves,  of  Mt.  Holly. 
In  December,  1868,  they  removed  to  Crystal 
.S[irings,  Copiah  county,  Mississippi,  where  on 
June  27,  1869  Blanche  R.  Harbert  was  born. 
In  January,  1870,  they  returned  to  Mt.  Holly, 
New  Jersey.  Ijlanche  R.  was  graduated  from 
Mt.  Holly  Iiigh  school,  1885,  and  from  Borden- 
town  Female  College,  1888.  She  married, 
March  9,  1892,  Edgar  G.  .Allen,  and  their 
children  were:  Barclay  H.,  born  February  i, 
1894,  and  Mary  E.,  May  i,  1896.  Mr.  .Allen 
died  from  the  effects  of  a  railroad  accident. 
January  3,  i9o:j.  The  second  child  of  George 
Frank  and  Mary  T.  Harbert  was  Eugene,  born 
in  Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey,  May  22.  1875;  he 
attended  Professor  Walradt's  .Academy  in  that 
town,  afterwards  spent  two  years  at  Peddie 
Institute,  Hightstown,  New  Jersey,  graduat- 
ing with  the  class  of  1897.  He  entered  the 
metlical  department  of  the  l^niversity  of  Penn- 
sylvania, and  received  his  degree  of  M.  D.  in 
June,  1S99.  He  was  associated  with  Dr.  Enoch 
Hollingsliead,  of  Pemberton,  New  Jersey,  and 
in  U)00  was  appointed  physician  of  Burlington 
County  .Almshouse,  and  when  the  insane  asylum 
of  the  county  of  Burlington  was  completed  in 
1901,  he  was  the  first  physician  appointed  to 
that  institution.  He  married  Cora,  daughter 
of   Garrett    Logan,   of   Beverly,   New   Jersey, 


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October,  1902.  In  ]\Iay,  1903,  removed  to 
East  Orange,  New  Jersey,  and  there  practiced 
his  profession  very  successfully,  removing  to 
Beverly,  New  Jersey,  in  1908.  Children :  Gar- 
rett Logan,  born  in  Orange,  January  5,  1905, 
died  July  26,  1907.  Eugenia,  born  in  Orange, 
September  8,  1908. 


The  German  mechanic,  notably 
GROBEER    the  workers  in  wood  and  those 

accustomed  to  the  various  pro- 
cesses of  vaneering,  inlaying  and  the  deft  art 
of  coloring  and  shatling  by  the  use  of  the  light 
or  dark  colored  woods^  have  almost  invariably 
made  in  America  quiet,  home-loving  and  in- 
dustrious citizens.  They  could  possibly  find 
behind  them  an  ancestry  worthy  of  note  and 
preservation,  but  the  spirit  of  the  immigrant 
from  Germany  has  been  generally  to  depend  on 
the  future  rather  than  on  the  past  and  to  look 
ahead  and  not  backwards.  On  leaving  the 
fatherland,  they  cut  loose  from  tradition  and, 
with  their  first  American  ancestor  as  their 
starting  point,  are  making  name  and  fame  dur- 
ing their  first,  second  and  third  generations  in 
America. 

(I)  Augustus  \\'illiam  Grobler  was  born  in 
Germany,  in  1835,  where  he  attended  school 
according  to  law,  and  when  fourteen  years  of 
age,  with  his  brother  \\'illiam  came  to  .\merica. 
(His  sister  W'illinictta  remained  in  Germany). 
They  landed  in  New  York  City  in  1849.  -"^^'" 
gustus  William  worked  on  a  farm  in  Vin- 
centown,  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  when 
he  first  landed,  and  then  was  an  apprentice 
to  the  cabinet  making  business  at  Elizabeth- 
town,  and  subsequently  at  Juliustown  for  Joel 
Mount,  in  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey.  He 
worked  at  liis  trade  of  cabinet  making  in  Pem- 
berton  in  the  same  county  for  Edward  Dob- 
bins, cabinet  maker  and  undertaker.  At  the 
breaking  out  of  the  civil  war  his  inherited  love 
of  military  life  and  desire  to  aid  the  country 
he  had  adopted  as  his  own,  prevailed  on  him 
to  raise  a  company  of  volunteers  and  the  Union 
army  in  the  defense  of  the  United  States 
against  disruption  by  secession.  The  sentiment 
that  most  strongly  appealed  to  him,  as  it  did 
to  most  foreign  born  citizens,  was  the  freedom 
of  the  negro  from  enforced  slavery.  He  found 
but  little  difficulty  in  gathering  one  hundred 
recruits  who  agreed  to  join  liim  in  forming 
a  company,  and  on  August  26,  1862,  he  was 
commissioned  captain  of  the  company,  which 
was  made  Company  E,  Twenty-third  Regi- 
ment New  Jersey  Volunteers,  of  which  Ed- 
ward Burd  Grubb,  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey, 


was  lieutenant-colonel.  The  regiment  enlisted 
for  nine  months  service,  and  was  mustered 
into  the  United  States  service,  September  13, 
1862.  On  February  23,  1863,  Captain  Grobler 
resigned  on  account  of  disability,  and  re-enlist- 
ed .-Vug^ist  25.  1863,  and  was  nuistered  into 
service  September  21,  1863,  and  commissioned 
second  lieutenant  of  Coiupany  C,  Thirty-fourth 
New  Jersey  Volunteers,  enlisted  for  three 
years  service.  He  soon  received  promotion  to 
first  lieutenant,  and  served  with  the  regiment 
and  participated  in  all  its  battles  up  to  the  close 
of  the  war,  when  he  was  mustered  out  and 
honorably  discharged,  his  last  duty  being  at  the 
United  .States  Navy  Yard,  Philadelphia. 

He  remained  in  Philadelphia,  where  he 
established  the  business  of  retail  grocer.  He 
also  established  himself  in  that  city  as  a  manu- 
facturer of  caskets,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Grobler  &  JMiddleton.  In  1874  he  returned  to 
Pemberton.  where  he  bought  out  the  business 
of  his  former  employer,  then  owned  by  Ed- 
war<l  Remine.  and  conducted  the  business  of 
cabinet  making  and  undertaking  up  to  the  time 
of  his  death,  which  occurred  at  Pemberton, 
New  Jersey,  May  20,  1901.  He  was  a  member 
of  Mount  Holly  Lodge,  No.  14,  F.  and  A.  M. ; 
Pemberton  Lodge,  No.  49,  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows  :  Amo  Lodge,  No.  1 1 1.  Knights 
of  Pythias,  Pemberton  ;  a  comrade  of  General 
.•\.  E.  Shires  Post,  No.  26,  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic,  and  he  was  an  officer  in  the  several 
organizations  e.xcept  Mt.  Holly  Lodge,  No.  14, 
F.  and  A.  M.  He  was  treasurer  of  the  Pem- 
berton Building  and  Loan  Association  at  the 
time  of  his  death,  and  also  a  trustee  and  dea- 
con in  the  Baptist  church.  He  had  served  for 
several  terms  as  commissioner  of  appeals  and 
road  commissioner  of  the  town  of  Pemberton, 
and  was  held  in  high  esteem  as  a  citizen, 
patriot  and  trusted  official.  He  married,  1864, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Sanuiel  C.  and  Drusilla 
( Johnson )  Rambo,  and  granddaughter  of 
Benjamin  Rambo,  born  in  Woodbury,  Glou- 
cester county.  New  Jersey,  and  his  wife  Mary 
(Coojjer)  Rambo,  who  had  besides  Mary  five 
other  children:  Joseph,  Samuel,  Martha, 
Epecorus  and  Sarah.  Her  brothers  and  sisters 
were:  Joseph  J.  Rambo,  born  in  Pemberton, 
New  Jersey,  May  10,  1842,  who  married  (first) 
Rebecca  Cliver,  who  with  her  first  born  child 
was  drowned,  and  (second)  Florence  Cliver, 
his  deceased  wife's  sister,  who  had  one  child, 
Rebecca;  Lydia,  who  was  the  second  wife  of 
Captain  .-Kugiistus  Grobler ;  and  Anna,  who 
married  John  J.  Branda.  Mary  (Ramlxj) 
Grobler  was  born  in  Pemberton,  New  Jersey, 


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in  1845,  and  died  in  1871,  leaving  one  child, 
Augustus  Badger  Grobler  (q.  v.).  Captain 
Grobler  married  (second)  Lydia,  sister  of  his 
deceased  wife,  and  b\'  her  had  three  children: 
William,  Mary  and  Effie. 

(II)  Augustus  Badger,  only  child  of  Cap- 
tain Augustus  William  and  Mary  (Rambo) 
Grobler,  was  born  in  Pemberton,  Burlington 
county,  New  Jersey.  July  18,  1865.  He  attend- 
ed the  public  schools  of  his  native  town,  and 
engaged  in  cabinet  making  and  the  undertaking 
business  with  his  father  as  soon  as  he  reachetl 
his  fifteenth  year,  and  under  his  direction  and 
through  the  introduction  of  the  latest  methods 
in  manufacturing  and  handling,  the  business 
•increased  both  in  volume  and  profits.  He 
followed  his  father  in  political  faith,  and  was 
elected  to  the  ofiice  of  coroner  for  Burlington 
county,  serving  in  that  office  for  three  years. 
He  affiliated  with  Central  Lodge,  No.  44,  F. 
and  A.  M.,  of  V'incentown ;  with  Pemberton 
Lodge,  No.  44,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows;  with  Amo  Lodge.  No.  iii.  Knights 
of  Pythias,  of  Penil>erton,  and  gained  admis- 
sion to  the  Grand  Lodge ;  with  the  Protective 
Order,  Sons  of  America,  Camp  No.  49,  of 
Pemberton :  with  the  Benevolent  and  Protec- 
tive Order  of  Elks,  Lodge  No.  848,  of  Mount 
Holly;  and  with  Maumee  Tribe  of  Red  Men, 
No.  53.  of  Pemberton.  He  was  brought  up 
in  the  faith  of  the  Baptist  denomination,  of 
which  church  his  father  was  a  leading  member, 
and  he  contributed  generously  to  the  work  and 
financial  support  of  that  society.  He  married, 
July  18,  i8y2.  Laura  J.,  daughter  of  Charles 
P.  and  .\dlie  (Johnson)  Nutt,  of  Pemberton, 
their  first  child,  Daniel  Earl,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 19,  1893,  and  their  second  child,  Edith 
Kingdom,  November  5,  1899. 


The  civil  war  was  a  school  of 
KXB'iHT     instruction    and    discipline   that 

turned  out  many  notable  grad- 
uates, who  but  for  the  opportunity  thus  offered 
might  have  lived  and  died  in  oblivion.  \''ery 
few  of  the  veterans  who  escaped  the  deadly 
efifects  of  change  of  climate  and  mode  of  living 
that  rendered  so  many  permanent  invalids,  or 
will  I  came  back  with  whole  bodies  uninjured 
by  the  bullets  of  the  enemy,  failed  to  succeed 
in  civil  life.  They  had  e.x])erienced  a  process 
of  preparation  that  made  them  men  of  thought 
and  action  and  not  drones  in  the  busy  hive  of 
life.  The  country  had  taken  a  new  grij)  on 
prosperity  and  needed  just  such  men  to  help 
along  the  wheels  of  progress  and  rehabitation. 
It   is   helpful   to   the   young  to   read  of   these 


examples  of  heroic  endeavor,  fired  as  they 
were  by  patriotism  and  proving  proof  against 
imbecility  or  cowardice.  In  the  instance  before 
us  we  have  as  well  the  apparently  entire  ab- 
sence of  the  influence  of  parents  or  guardians. 
Left  alone  from  early  youth  and  forced  to 
fight  the  battle  of  life  among  strangers,  we 
find  pure  gold  comes  out  of  apparent  dross. 

(  I  )  Gilbert  W.  Knight  was  the  only  child 
of  his  parents  who  lived  in  Philadelphia,  where 
he  was  born  in  1 83 1.  He  had  no  knowl- 
edge of  the  names  or  future  of  his  parents,  as 
he  came  to  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey, 
when  quite  young  and  lived  at  Tabernacle. 
He  learned  the  blacksmith  trade,  which  he 
followed  until  1862,  when  he  enlisted  in  the 
Twenty-third  New  Jersey  \'olunteer  Regiment 
under  Colonel  Henry  O.  Ryerson  for  nine 
months  service.  He  was  assigned  to  the  com- 
pany of  which  Lieutenant  E.  Burd  Grubb,  of 
lUirlington,  New  Jersey,  was  in  command  and 
from  which  rank  Lieutenant  Grubb  was  pro- 
moted to  major  on  November  23,  1862.  The 
regiment  was  assigned  to  the  First  Brigade, 
Colonel  A.  T.  A.  Torbert ;  First  Division, 
P.rigadier-General  William  T.  H.  P.rooks ; 
Si-vth  .\rmy  Corps,  Major-General  William 
Farror  Smith ;  Left  Grand  Division,  Major- 
General  William  B.  Franklin ;  Army  of  the 
Potomac,  Major-General  Andrew  E.  Burnside, 
and  in  that  position  fought  the  Confederate 
army  of  General  Robert  E.  Lee,  at  Fredericks- 
burg, \'irginia,  December  13,  1862,  and  the 
h'ederal  army  was  repulsed  with  a  loss  of  fif- 
teen hundred  and  twelve  killed  and  six  thous- 
and wounded.  His  next  battle  was  at  Fred- 
ericksburg, May  3,  1863,  known  as  the  Battle 
of  Chancellorsville,  the  army  having  been  re- 
formed and  General  Joseph  Hooker  placed  in 
command.  The  relative  position  of  the  Twenty- 
third  New  Jersey  Volunteers  in  the  army  was 
the  same  as  occupied  on  the  first  battle  of  De- 
ccmljer  13.  the  changes  in  command  placing 
Major  E.  Burd  Grubb  as  lieutenant-colonel  in 
command  of  the  regiment  and  the  fortunes  of 
battle  giving  the  command  of  the  brigade  to 
Colonel  Henry  W.  Brown,  Colonel  William 
H.  IVnrosc,  Colonel  Samuel  L.  Buck  and  back 
to  Colonel  William  H.  Penrose  and  the  .Sixth 
Army  Corps  to  Major-General  John  Sedge- 
wick.  The  main  battle  fought  on  Sunday, 
May  3.  again  resulted  in  the  defeat  of  the 
Federal  troops,  and  in  the  meantime  General 
.Sedgewick  with  the  Sixth  Corps  had  crossed 
the  Rappahannock  and  occupied  Fredericks- 
burg, but  he  was  also  defeated  and  compelled 
to  retire  to  the  northern  bank  of  the  river,  not 


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being  able  with  a  single  corps  to  sustain  his 
posts  against  the  entire  army  of  General  Lee. 
This  battle  cost  each  army  at  least  fifteen 
thousand  men  in  killed,  wounded  and  prisoners. 
Soon  after  the  disaster  at  Chancellorsville, 
that  changed  the  fortunes  of  war  in  favor  of 
the  Confederate  army,  the  term  of  enlistment 
of  the  Twenty-third  Xew  Jersey  had  expired 
and  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  camp  at 
Beverly,  Xew  Jersey,  preparatory  to  being 
mustered  out,  when  the  news  of  the  invasion 
of  Pennsylvania  by  Lee's  army  reached  camp 
and  the  regiment  under  Colonel  Budd  volun- 
teered to  serve  as  emergency  men.  They 
reached  Harrisburg  before  any  other  regular 
troops  had  reached  that  city,  and  they  pro- 
ceeded to  entrench  the  place,  but  before  they 
were  ordered  to  the  front  they  were  summarily 
directed  back  to  camp  at  Beverly  and  disband- 
ed, June  27,  1863.  Thereupon  Colonel  Burd 
set  about  reforming  the  regiment  as  the  Thirty- 
seventh  and  they  left  Trenton,  June  28,  1863, 
to  report  to  General  Butler  at  Bermuda  Hun- 
dred, \'irginia,  where  they  took  part  in  the 
battles  before  Petersburg,  for  which  one  hun- 
dred days  service  the  regiment  was  compli- 
mented in  general  orders  by  General  Berry 
as  being  unexceptionally  a  superior  regiment  of 
one  hundred  days  men.  Gilbert  W.  Knight 
was  married  soon  after  the  close  of  the  civil 
war  in  1865  to  Elizabeth  }..  daughter  of  Will- 
iam Bareford,  of  Tabernacle,  Xew  Jersey,  and 
their  only  child  was  Harry  Laban  (q.  v.). 

(  H )  Harry  Laban,  only  child  of  Gilbert  W. 
and  Elizabeth  J.  ( liareford)  Knight,  was  born 
at  Tabernacle,  Burlington  county,  Xew  Jersey, 
July  24,  1 868,  and  he  worked  on  farms  and 
attended  the  public  school  of  his  native  place. 
On  arriving  at  his  majority,  he  found  employ- 
ment in  the  railroad  office  at  Medford,  where 
in  addition  to  his  labors  as  clerk  and  station 
agent  he  learned  the  art  of  telegraphy.  He 
remained  in  charge  of  the  railroad  station  at 
Medford  from  1891  to  1906,  when  he  resigned 
to  accept  the  position  of  postmaster  at  Med- 
ford, of  which  office  he  still  had  charge  in  1909. 
He  was  also  interested  in  the  cranberry  cid- 
ture  as  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Xew 
Jersey  Cranberry  Sales  Company,  and  as  owner 
and  cultivator  of  twenty  acres  of  cranberry 
bog  in  Burlington  county,  which  he  had  in  ten 
years  brought  to  a  high  stage  of  productive- 
ness and  profit.  Besides  being  postmaster, 
Mr.  Knight  has  served  as  township  clerk,  col- 
lector of  taxes,  and  member  of  the  board  of 
education.  His  affiliations  with  benevolent  and 
fraternal  associations  included  membership  in 


the  Medford  Lodge,  Xo.  178,  Ancient  Free 
and  Accepted  Alasons,  of  Medford,  of  which 
lodge  he  is  past  master;  in  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  Lodge  Xo.  100,  of 
IMedford ;  in  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  Lodge 
Xo.  108,  of  Medford ;  in  the  Junior  Order  of 
L'nited  American  Mechanics,  sub-council  No. 
9,  of  Medford:  in  the  Knights  of  the  Golden 
Eagle,  sub-castle,  of  Meilford:  of  the  May- 
flower Council,  Xo.  33,  Order  of  Settlers  and 
Defenders  of  America,  incorporated  in  1899. 
Mr.  Knight  married,  April  21,  1893,  Lillie  R., 
daughter  of  Arthur  and  Amanda  M.  (Austin) 
Haines,  of  Tabernacle,  Xew  Jersey,  and  their 
only  child  \'erna  L.  was  born  in  Medford, 
Xew  Jersey,  June  29,  1897. 


The    family    of    this    name 
G.\R\\'OOD      have  been   residents  of  the 
state  of  Xew  Jersey  for  sev- 
eral centuries,  and  those  who  represent  it  today 
move  among  the  best  circles  of  social  and  busi- 
ness activity. 

( I )  Japhet  Garwood  the  first  of  the  name 
of  whom  we  have  record,  was  born  in  LIpper 
Evesham  township,  Burlington  county,  Xew 
Jersey,  1720,  married  and  among  his  children 
was  Israel  (q.  v.). 

(II)  Israel,  son  of  Japhet  (jarwood,  was 
born  near  Medford,  Xew  Jersey,  1750,  mar- 
ried and  was  the  father  of  five  children : 
Thomas,  William,  Samuel  (q.  v.),  Elizabeth, 
Mary. 

(  III)  Samuel,  thiril  son  of  Israel  Garwood, 
of  Upper  Evesham  township,  Burlington 
county,  Xew  Jersey,  was  born  in  Southampton 
township,  Burlington  county,  Xew  Jersey, 
1779.  He  was  a  farmer  in  his  native  township 
and  also  carried  on  a  distillery  and  was  an  all- 
around  meclianic,  also  to  do  both  carpentering 
and  working  in  iron  as  a  machinist.  He  mar- 
ried Mary  Xevvton,  of  Southampton  township, 
and  they  had  seven  children,  born  at  follows : 
Hannah.  William.  Elizabeth,  Joshua  (q.  v.), 
Samuel,  Mary  Jane,  Israel,  March,  1825,  and 
living  in  Medford  in  1909.  Samuel  Garwood 
died  at  his  homestead,  October  25,  1865. 

(I\')  Joshua,  second  son  and  fourth  child 
of  Samuel  and  Mary  (  Xewton)  Garwood,  was 
born  in  Southampton  township,  Burlington 
county,  Xew  Jersey,  1803.  He  attended  the  dis- 
trict school,  was  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm, 
and  he  continued  in  the  same  calling  on  reach- 
ing manhood.  He  added  to  his  income  by  deal- 
ing in  cattle  from  the  west,  which  he  gathered 
up  and  shipped  to  Burlington  and  other  markets 
by  the  carload.     He  also  bred  fine  stock  and 


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blooded  horses  and  moulded  and  burned  brick, 
made  from  clay  found  on  his  fami.  He  was 
a  Democrat  in  party  politics,  and  a  member  of 
the  Society  of  Friends,  attending  the  Hicksite 
Meeting  in  Medforcl.  He  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Job  and  Hope  Braddock,  of 
Gresham  township,  and  they  lived  in  Medford, 
where  they  had  ten  children  born  to  them,  as 
follows:  I.  Henry,  who  lives  in  Aledford, 
New  Jersey.  2.  Sarah,  married  William  Allen, 
a  farmer  who  carried  on  a  farm  near  Vin- 
centown.  New  Jersey,  where  she  died.  3. 
Ellen,  who  lived  to  be  seventeen  years  of  age. 
4.  Job,  died  young.  5.  Hannah,  died  unmar- 
ried. 6.  I'rank,  died  unmarried.  7.  Hope, 
married  Joseph  Taylor,  a  farmer  of  Woodford, 
where  she  died.  8.  Samuel  (q.  v. ).  9.  Charles, 
lives  in  Medford.  10.  J.  IMaurice,  a  merchant 
in  Medford.  Joshua  Garwood  died  at  his 
lii>mc  in  Southampton  township  in  1866. 

( \' )  Samuel  (2),  fourth  son  and  eighth 
child  of  Joshua  and  Hannah  (Braddock)  Gar- 
wood, was  born  in  Medford,  Burlington  county, 
New  Jersey.  November,  1857.  He  attended 
the  Haines'  Corner  school  house,  a  pay  school 
in  Medford,  and  Pierce's  Business  College  in 
Philadelphia,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1876. 
His  em]iloyment  was  clerk  and  bookkeejier  in 
a  large  boarding  house  at  Atlantic  City,  where 
he  remained  four  years,  when  he  returned  to 
Medford,  where  he  established  a  business  as 
painter  and  house  decorator,  which  business 
he  carried  on  for  ten  years.  In  1889  he  joined 
John  B.  Mingin,  Frank  Reiley  and  others  in 
organizing  the  Star  Glass  Company,  which  is 
carried  on  as  a  joint  stock  company,  amply 
captalized,  with  a  business  office  and  sales- 
rooms in  Phila(lel])hia  and  Mr.  Mingin  as  presi- 
dent and  superintendent  of  the  manufacture 
of  glass.  A  general  store  was  started  in  con- 
nection with  the  glass  works  in  1892,  and  Mr. 
Garwood  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  store 
in  Medford.  He  was  also  made  a  director  of 
the  Medford  Gas  Company.  His  political  faith 
was  that  of  the  Democratic  party,  anil  his 
religious  faith  that  of  the  Hicksite  branch  of 
the  Society  of  Friends  and  he  attended  the 
Hicksite  Meeting  at  Medford.  He  was  affili- 
ated with  the  Masonic  fraternity  through  Med- 
ford Lodge,  No.  187,  of  which  he  is  past 
master.  He  was  advanced  to  the  Royal  .\rcli 
Chapter  and  made  a  Ivnight  Temjjlar  at  Bur- 
lington. Mr.  Garwood  was  married  in  188 1  by 
Friends'  ceremony  to  Ella,  daughter  of  Ed- 
mond  and  Rebecca  (Andrews)  Prickett,  of 
Medford,  and  they  had  two  children  born  of 
this  marriage  as  follows:  i.  Carlton,  born  Sep- 


tember 19,  1883,  at  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey, 
and  after  graduating  at  Union  Business  Col- 
lege, Philadelphia,  he  became  assistant  man- 
ager of  the  Star  Glass  Company  at  Medford. 
lie  married  Ray,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Caro- 
line (Brown)  Wright,  of  Indian  Mills,  New 
Jersey,  and  their  first  child.  Samuel,  born  in 
Medford,  July  21,  1908,  is  of  the  seventh  gen- 
eration from  Japhet  (jarwood,  the  immigrant 
ancestor.  2.  Irene,  born  in  Medford,  New 
Jersey,  December  13.  1891,  educated  at 
(-"leorge's  Friends'  School,  Newtown,  Pennsyl- 
vania. 


The  Seaver  family  of  New  Eng- 
SE.W'ER     land  is  descended  from  Robert 

Seaver,  who  was  born  about 
the  year  1608.  March  24,  1633-34,  at  the  age 
of  about  twenty-five  years,  he  took  the  oath 
of  supremacy  and  allegiance  to  pass  for  New 
England  in  tlie  ship  "Mary  and  John,"  of  Lon- 
don, Robert  Say  res,  master  (see  "Founders 
of  Newbury,"  Drake).  On  the  loth  of  De- 
cember, 1834,  he  married,  in  Roxbury,  Massa- 
chusetts, Elizabeth  Ballard.  A  William  Bal- 
lard took  the  oath  at  the  same  time  with  Rob- 
ert Seaver,  and  presumably  was  a  fellow  pass- 
enger and  a  relative  of  Elizabeth.  The  church 
records  show  that  "Elizabeth  Ballard,  a  maide- 
servant  she  came  in  the  year  1833  and  soone 
afterward  joined  to  the  church — she  was  after- 
ward married  to  Robert  Seaver  of  this  church 
were  she  led  a  goodly  conversation."  Robert 
Seaver  was  made  freeman  April  18,  1637.  He 
built  a  house  over  a  half  mile  from  the  meeting 
house,  but  was  allowed  to  keep  it  by  vote  of 
the  town,  1639,  and  the  "halfe-mile  law"  was 
repealed  in  1640.  He  was  a  selectman  of 
Ro.vbury.  1665.  Elizabeth,  his  wife,  died  June 
6.  1657.  "1657  buryed,  mo.  10  day  18,  Sister 
.Seaver  ye  wife  of  Robert  Seaver."  "Also 
1669  mo.  10  day  18,  wife  to  Robert  Seaver, 
buried."  He  must  have  had  a  third  wife,  for 
in  his  will  made  January  16,  16S1,  he  pro- 
vides for  his  wife,  christian  name  not  given, 
and  four  children.  Names  of  latter :  Shubael. 
Caleb,  Joshua,  and  son  Samuel  Crafts,  who 
married  his  daughter  Elizabeth.  The  latter 
was  probably  dead  at  the  date  of  the  will. 
Robert  Seaver  died  (town  records)  Alay  13, 
1683,  aged  about  seventy-five  years.  Rox- 
bury church  record  says  "1683,  mo  4  day  6 
Robert  Seaver  an  aged  Christian  buryed." 
These  dates  are  not  uniform.  Robert  and 
Elizabeth  (Ballard)  Seaver  had:  i.  Shubael, 
born  January  31,  1639,  died  June  18,  1729.  2. 
Caleb.  l)orn   .August  30,   1641,  died  March  6, 


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^7^3-  3-  Joshua  (twin  with  Caleb),  died 
beore  1730.  4.  Elizabeth,  born  1643,  married 
Samuel  Crafts  (Crafts  Genealogy)  :  they  had 
nine  children  and  he  died  December  9,   1709. 

5.  Nathaniel,  born  January  8,   1645,  see  post. 

6.  Hannah,  born  and  died  1647.  7.  Hannah, 
born  1650,  died  1653. 

(H)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Robert  and  Eliza- 
beth (Ballard)  Seaver,  was  baptized  in  Ro.x- 
biiry,  January  8,  1645,  and  was  slain  by  Indians 
in  the  battle  at  Sudbury,  Massachusetts,  April 
21,  1676,  during  King  F^hilip's  war.  He  was 
one  of  ten  Sudbury  men  who  were  killed  on 
that  day  and  served  in  Captain  W'adsworth's 
company.  The  site  of  tlie  battlefield  where 
Captain  Wadsworth  so  long  held  the  Indians 
at  bay  is  on  what  is  now  called  "Green  hill." 
While  an  attack  was  being  made  on  a  small 
body  of  eighteen  minute-men  under  Edward 
Cowell,  Cajitain  Wadsworth  and  his  company 
came  upon  the  scene  and  seeing  a  small  party 
of  Indians  rushed  forward  with  imjietuous 
haste  and  were  caught  in  the  usual  ambuscade, 
for  when  within  about  a  mile  of  Sudbury  they 
were  induced  to  pursue  a  body  of  not  more 
than  one  hundred  Indians  and  soon  found 
themselves  drawn  away  about  a  mile  into  the 
woods,  where  on  a  sudden  they  were  encom- 
passed by  more  than  five  hundred,  and  were 
forced  to  a  retreating  fight  toward  a  hill  where 
they  made  a  brave  stand  for  a  time  (one  au- 
thority says  four  hours)  and  did  heavy  execu- 
tion on  the  enemy  until  (Hubbard  says)  the 
night  coming  on  and  some  of  the  company  be- 
ginning to  scatter  from  the  rest  their  compan- 
ions were  forced  to  follow  them,  and  thus 
being  surrounded  in  the  chase  the  officers  and 
most  of  the  company  were  slain.  It  is  said 
that  the  savages  set  fire  to  the  woods  and  thus 
forced  the  disastrous  retreat,  and  only  thirteen 
out  of  the  entire  company  escaped  to  Noyes' 

mill.    Nathaniel  Seaver  married  Sarah , 

and  by  her  had  two  children:  i.  John,  born 
August  18,  1671.  see  post.  2.  Sarah,  died 
.\nril   18,  1674. 

(Ill)  John,  only  son  of  Nathaniel  and 
Sarah  Seaver,  was  born  in  Ro.xbury,  Massa- 
chusetts, August  18,  1671.     He  married  Sarah 

,  and  by  her  had  ten  children  :  I.  .Sarah, 

born  February  4,  i6q6,  married,  December  15, 
1714,  Aucariah  \N'inchester.  2.  Nathaniel,  De- 
cember 22,  1697,  see  post.  3.  John,  October  6, 
1699, died  Brookline. October  21.  1767.  4.  .Anna, 
1701.  married,  April  9.  1724,  Thomas  Stedman, 
Jr.  3.  Lucy.  November  24,  1703,  married,  1725, 
John  Goddard,  of  Brookline.  6.  .\ndrew, 
1705.     7.  Mary,  1707.    8.  Richard,  1710,  mar- 


ried, November  30,  1748,  Hannah  Everett,  of 
Roxbury.  9.  Esther,  November  13,  17 12,  mar- 
ried, December  i,  1756,  Edward  Sheaf,  of 
Cambridge.   10.  Elizabeth,  September  12,  17 15. 

(  I\' )  .Nathaniel  (  2  ).  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
."weaver,  was  born  in  Roxbury,  December  22, 
1(197,  died  in  Brookline,  Massachusetts,  Octo- 
ber 2,  1768.  He  married  (first)  Hannah 
White,  who  died  in  Brookline,  February  20, 
1742,  and  married  (second)  October  23,  1746, 
Sarah  Stevens.  Nathaniel  Seaver  had  eleven 
children:  i.  Benjamin,  born  September  11, 
1729,  died  before  September  17,  1768.  2.  Han- 
nah, November  13,  1730.  3.  Lucy,  November 
24,  1731.  4.  Sarah,  April  12,  1733.  5.  Han- 
nah, born  July  16.  1735,  died  May  31,  1821  ; 
married  John  Goddard,  of  Brookline.  6.  .Abi- 
jah.  .\ugust  31,  1737,  see  post.  7.  Lucy,  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1739-40.  8.  ^lary.  9.  Elizabeth. 
10.  Susanna.     11.  Nathaniel. 

(  \' )  Abijah,  son  of  Nathaniel  (2  )  and  Han- 
nah ( W'hite  1  Seaver,  was  born  .August  31, 
1737,  and  married.  March  29,  1764,  .*\nne 
\Vinchester.  of  Brookline.  They  had  five  chil- 
dren :  I.  William,  bom  May  6,  1765.  married, 
December  i,  1796,  Lucy  Heath.  2.  Benjamin, 
September  28,  I76(),  died  June  29,  1815;  mar- 
ried. May  25,  1794,  Debby  Loud.  3.  Joseph, 
baptized  January  20,  1771,  see  post.  4.  Na- 
thaniel, baptized  May  16,  1773,  married,  No- 
vember I.  1798,  Lydia  Wilson.  5.  Polly,  mar- 
ried Levi  Pratt. 

(\'I)  Joseph,  son  of  .Abijah  and  Anne 
(Winchester)  Seaver,  was  baptized  January 
20,  1 77 1,  and  married,  November  17,  1799, 
.Abigail,  ilaughter  of  Elisha  Whitney.  They 
had  five  children:  i.  Joseph,  born  June  17, 
1804.  see  post.  2.  Elizabeth  Whitney,  married, 
June  29,  1823,  George  Seaver.  3.  William 
Whitney,  born  April  6,  1806.  4.  Nathaniel, 
September  24,  1808.  5.  Abigail  Dana,  Septem- 
ber 16,  18 10,  died  single. 

(\TI)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i)  and 
.Abigail  (\\  hitney)  Seaver,  was  born  in  Rox- 
bury, Massachusetts,  June  17,  1804.  He  mar- 
ried', in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  Phebe  S. 
Elmes,  born  Augusta,  Maine,  and  by  her  had 
nine  children:  1.  Joseph  H.,  born  January  22, 
1834,  see  post.  2.  Emma.  3.  Thomas  Elmes. 
4.  Maria  E.  5.  William  Archer.  6.  Frank. 
7.  Charles.    8.  Mary.    g.  James  R.  S. 

(\TII)  Joseph  H.,  son  of  Joseph  (2)  and 
Phebe  S.  (Elmes)  Seaver,  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  January  22,  1834,  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  public  schtxils  and 
for  many  years  has  been  actively  identified 
with  the  business  life  of  that  city,  member  of 


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STATE    OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


the  stock  exchange  and  former  member  of  the 
brokerage  firm  of  E.  W.  Clark  &  Company. 
Mr.  Seaver  is  a  RepubHcan  in  pohtics  and  a 
consistent  member  of  the  Presbxterian  church. 
In  1871  he  married  Mary  Gillespie,  born  1838, 
daughter  of  Franklin  Gillespie,  who  was  born 
in  New  Castle,  Delaware,  a  descendant  of  Rev. 
GeoTge  Gillespie,  who  was  a  son  of  Rev. 
George  Gillispic,  the  latter  of  whom  attained 
fame  through  the  authorship  of  a  Scotch  Pres- 
byterian catechism.  He  purchased  from  Will- 
iam Penn  a  considerable  tract  of  land  in  the 
upper  part  of  Delaware.  Joseph  H.  and  Mary 
(Gillespie)  Seaver  had  three  children:  i. 
Jessie  (iillespie,  born  1872,  married  William 
Percy  Simpson,  of  Overbrook,  Pennsylvania, 
president  of  Eddystone  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany. One  child,  William  Simpson.  2.  Archer 
\\'hiting,  1874,  died  IQ02;  married  Marion 
.Skinner,  a  native  of  North  Carolina,  and  had 
one  son,  .Vrcher  Whiting  Seaver,  Jr.  3.  How- 
ard Eves,  see  post. 

( IX  )  Howard  Eves,  youngest  son  and  child 
of  Joseph  H.  and  Mary  (Gillespie)  Seaver, 
was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennslyvania,  May 
31.  1878,  gradated  from  Princeton  College  in 
i8y8,  and  during  the  following  year  engaged 
in  corundum  mining  in  North  Carolina.  His 
subsequent  business  career  may  be  mentioned 
as  follows :  Employee  in  the  office  of  Strong, 
Sturgis  &  Company,  brokers,  of  New  York 
City,  one  year ;  associated  in  business  with  his 
father  in  Philadelphia,  two  years ;  went  west 
as  traffic  manager  for  PiCll  Telephone  Company 
and  remained  there  about  four  years ;  with 
Sloane  Howe  Company,  Philadelj^hia.  iron  and 
steel  commission  house  ;  and  in  1908  ])urchased 
a  farm  of  fifty  acres  at  Brown's  Alills,  New 
Jersey :  and  has  recently  established  what  is 
known  as  the  Pine  Park  Poultry  Farm,  mak- 
ing ample  preparations  for  carrying  on  an  ex- 
tensive business  in  raising  poultry  and  poultry 
products  for  the  market. 


The  Kirkjiatricks  of 
KI1\I\1'.\TR1C1\       .\'ew  Jersey  come  of  an 

honorable  and  note- 
worthy Scottish  lineage,  having  from  their 
first  ajipearance  in  history  showed  the  forcible 
characteristics  and  c|ualities  which  by  the  end 
of  the  eighteenth  century  had  numbered  them 
among  the  families  of  principal  imjiortance 
and  worth  in  New  Jersey.  Originally  a  Keltic 
family,  they  settled  in  Scotland  in  early  times 
and  by  the  ninth  century  had  established  them- 
selves in  various  parts  of  Dumfriesshire,  espe- 
cially in  Nithsdale,  where  in  1232  the  estate  of 


Closeburn  was  granted  by  King  Alexander  II., 
to  Ivon  Kirkpatrick,  the  ancestor  of  the  Lords 
of  Closeburn.  In  1280  Duncan  Kirkpatrick, 
of  Closeburn,  married  the  daughter  of  Sir 
David  Carlisle,  of  Torthorwald,  who  was  nearly 
related  to  William  Wallace,  and  their  son,  Ivon 
Kirkpatrick,  was  one  of  the  witnesses  to  the 
charter  of  Robert  Bruce.  In  1600  the  Kirk- 
patricks  of  Closeburn  were  appointed  by  decree 
of  the  Lords  in  Council  among  the  chieftains 
charged  with  the  care  of  the  torder.  Sir 
Thouias  Kirkpatrick  in  the  reign  of  James  VI. 
of  Scotland,  one  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  privy 
chamber,  obtained  a  patent  of  the  freedom  of 
the  whole  kingdom  and  his  great-grandson, 
also  Sir  Thomas,  was  created  in  1686  baron  of 
Nova  Scotia.  The  modern  baronetcy  dates 
from  1685.  when  the  following  arms  were 
registered:  Arms:  .Urgent,  a  saltire  and  chief 
azure,  the  last  charged  with  three  cushions  or; 
Crest :  a  hand  holding  a  dagger  in  pale,  distill- 
ing drops  of  blood;  Motto:  I  mak  sicker  ("I 
make  sure").  Among  the  noteworthy  de- 
scendants in  this  line  of  the  Kirkpatricks  is 
the  Empress  Eugenie,  whose  maternal  grand- 
father was  William  Kirkpatrick,  of  Malaga, 
Spain,  whose  ancestor  was  Sir  Roger  Kirk- 
patrick, eighth  baron  of  Kylosbern  or  Close- 
burn. 

(  1  )  .Me.xander  Kirkpatrick,  the  .American 
progenitor  of  the  family,  was  one  of  the  scions 
of  the  Closeburn  family,  and  was  born  at 
Watties  Neach,  county  Dumfries,  and  died  at 
Mine  Brook,  Somerset  county.  New  Jersey, 
June  3,  1758.  He  was  a  Presb}'terian,  but  was 
warmly  devoted  to  the  cause  of  the  Stuarts, 
and  took  part  in  the  rising  under  the  Earl  of 
Mar  for  the  old  ])retender.  On  account  of  this 
falling  under  the  disfavor  of  the  English  gov- 
ernment, he  emigrated  first  to  Belfast,  Ireland, 
and  in  the  spring  of  1736  came  over  to  Amer- 
ica, landed  in  Delaware,  and  went  to  Philadel- 
phia, but  finally  settled  in  Somerset  county, 
New  Jersey,  building  his  home  on  the  southern 
slope  of  Round  Mountain,  about  two  miles 
from  the  present  village  of  Basking  Ridge. 
He  was  accompanied  to  this  country  by  his 
brother,  Andrew  Kirkpatrick,  and  the  latter's 
two  sons  and  two  daughters,  and  this  branch 
settled  in  Sussex  county.  New  Jersey.  By  his 
wife  Elizabeth,  whom  he  married  in  Scotland, 
-Vlexander  Kirkpatrick  had  five  children:  I. 
.\ndrew,  who  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Joseph  (laston.  who  emigrated  to  New  Jersey 
about  1720.  They  had  one  son,  Alexander, 
and  seven  daughters.  He  inherited  the  home- 
stead at  Mine  Brook,  but  sold  it  soon  after  his 


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father's  death  to  his  brother  David  and  re- 
moved to  what  was  then  called  the  "Redstone 
country"  in  Pennsylvania.  2.  David,  who  is 
referred  to  below.  3.  Alexander,  who  w^as  a 
surveyor  and  also  a  merchant  at  Peapack, 
Warren  county;  married  Margaret  Anderson, 
of  r)Ound  Brook,  and  had  Martha,  who  mar- 
ried John  Stevenson.  4.  Jennet,  who  married 
Duncan  McEowen  and  removed  to  Maryland. 
5.  Alary,  who  married  John  Bigger  and  re- 
moved from  New  Jersey. 

(II)  David,  the  second  child  and  son  of 
-Alexander  and  Elizabeth  Kirkpatrick,  was 
born  at  Watties  Neach,  county  Dumfries,  Scot- 
land. February  17,  1724,  and  died  at  Mine 
Brook,  New  Jersey,  March  19,  1814.  Com- 
ing to  America  with  his  father,  he  bought  from 
his  brother  Andrew  the  paternal  homestead  at 
Mine  Brook,  and  lived  there,  "greatly  esteemed 
and  loved."  In  his  habits  he  was  jilain  and 
simple,  while  he  was  noted  for  his  strict  integ- 
rity, his  sterling  common  sense,  and  his  great 
energy  and  self  reliance.  In  1765  he  was  a 
member  of  the  legislature  of  New  Jersey.  He 
built  at  Mine  Brook  the  stone  mansion,  still 
standing,  over  the  doors  of  which  he  carved 
the  initials  "D.  M.  K."  David  Kirkpatrick 
married,  March  31,  1748,  Mary  McEowen, 
born  in  .Argyleshire,  August  I,  1728,  died  at 
Mine  Brook,  New  Jersey,  November  2,  1795. 
Their  seven  children  were:  I.  Elizabeth,  born 
September  2-j,  1749,  died  1829;  married  (first) 
a  Air.  Sloan  and  became  the  mother  of  the 
Rev.  William  B.  Sloan;  pastor  of  the  Presby- 
terian church  at  Greenwich,  Warren  county, 
New  Jersey;  she  married  (second)  William 
Maxwell.  2.  .Alexander,  born  September  3, 
1751,  died  September  24.  1827;  married  Sarah 
Carle,  daughter  of  Judge  John  Carle,  of  Long 
Hill.  Morris  county,  and  had  thirteen  children, 
the  fourth  of  whom  was  the  Rev.  Jacob  Kirk- 
patrick, D.  D.,  of  Ringoes,  New  Jersey,  whose 
son,  the  Rev.  Jacob  Kirkpatrick,  D.  D.,  was 
for  many  years  a  clergj-man  at  Trenton,  New 
Jersey.  3.  .Andrew,  who  is  referred  to  below. 
5.  David,  born  November  i,  1758.  6.  Mary, 
born  November  23.  1761,  died  July  i.  1S42: 
married  Hugh  Gaston,  of  Peapack.  New  Jersey, 
the  son  of  John  or  Robert,  and  the  grandson  of 
Joseph  Gaston,  the  emigrant.  7.  Anne,  born 
March  10.  1769,  married  Dickinson  Miller,  of 
Somerville.  New  Jersey. 

(III)  The  Hon.  Andrew,  third  child  and 
second  son  of  David  and  Mary  (McEowen) 
Kirkpatrick.  chief  justice  of  New  Jersey,  was 
born  at  Mine  Brook.  February  17,  1756;  died 
in  New  Brunswick.  New  Jersey,  in  183 1.     In 


1775  he  graduated  from  the  College  of  New 
Jersey,  now  Princeton  University,  and  later 
received  from  that  institution  and  also  from 
Queens,  now  Rutgers  College,  the  degree  of 
M.  A.  He  was  for  many  years  one  of  the 
trustees  of  his  alma  mater.  His  father,  who 
was  an  ardent  Presbyterian,  wished  him  to  be- 
come a  minister,  and  for  several  months  after 
his  graduation  he  studied  divinity  with  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Kennedy ;  but  his  preference  lay  in 
the  direction  of  the  law,  and  he,  owing  to  his 
father's  anger  at  his  stopping  his  theological 
studies,  accepted  a  tutor's  position  in  a  \'ir- 
ginia  family,  and  somewhat  later  a  similar  one 
with  a  family  at  Esopus.  New  York.  He  then 
went  to  New  Brunswick,  where  he  tutored 
men  for  college,  and  entered  the  law  office  of 
the  Hon.  William  Paterson.  at  one  time  gov- 
ernor of  New  Jersey,  and  later  justice  of  the 
United  States  supreme  court,  and  one  of  the 
most  eminent  lawyers  of  New  Jersey  of  his 
day.  In  1785  Mr.  Kirkpatrick  was  admitted 
to  the  New  Jersey  bar,  and  for  a  short  time 
he  practiced  in  Morristown,  but  his  office  and 
library  having  been  destroyed  by  fire,  he  re- 
moved again  to  New  Brunwick,  where  he  be- 
came noted  for  his  great  native  ability,  untir- 
ing industry  and  stern  integrity.  In  1797  he 
was  elected  to  the  New  Jersey  assembly  from 
Middlesex  county,  and  sat  for  the  first  part 
of  the  term,  but  resigned  in  January,  1798,  in 
order  to  assume  the  office  of  associate  justice 
of  the  supreme  court  of  New  Jersey,  which 
office  he  held  for  the  ensuing  six  years,  w^hen 
he  became  chief  justice,  succeeding  Chief-Jus- 
tice Kinsey.  To  this  post  he  was  twice  re- 
elected, and  in  this  capacity  he  served  continu- 
ously for  twenty-one  years.  His  decisions  were 
marked  by  e.xtensive  learning,  great  acumen, 
and  power  of  logical  analysis,  and  his  strictly 
logical  mind  and  great  personal  dignity  coupled 
with  his  other  qualities  made  him  one  of  the 
great  historical  characters  of  the  New  Jersey 
bench.  Among  other  things  he  created  the 
office  of  reporter  of  the  decisions  of  the  su- 
preme court.  He  was  eminently  public  spirit- 
ed, and  was  the  founder  of  the  theological 
seminary  at  Princeton,  and  for  many  years 
the  first  president  of  its  board  of  directors. 
He  was  in  politics  an  Anti-Federalist  or  Re- 
publican, the  party  now  known  as  the  Demo- 
cratic, and  at  one  time  w-as  its  candidate  for 
governor  of  New  Jersey.  Among  his  many 
excellent  qualities  he  was  especially  esteemed 
and  admired  for  his  keen  sense  of  justice,  his 
considerateness  and  loyalty.  November  i, 
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Jane,  born  July  12,  1772,  died  February  16, 
1851,  seventb  child  and  eldest  daughter  of 
Colonel  John  P.ubenheini  Bayard,  by  his  first 
wife,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Andrew  Hodge. 
She  was  widely  known  for  her  accomplish- 
ments, her  benevolence,  and  beautiful  christian 
character,  and  was  the  author  of  "The  Light 
of  Other  Days,"  edited  by  her  daughter,  Mrs. 
Jane  E.  Cogswell.  The  children  of  Andrew 
and  Jane  (Bayard)  Kirkpatrick  were:  i. 
Mary  Ann  Margaret,  died  March  17,  1882; 
married  the  Rev.  .Samuel  B.  Howe,  pastor  of 
the  P'irst  Reformed  Church  at  New  Bruns- 
wick. 2.  John  Bayard,  who  is  referred  to  be- 
low. 3.  Littleton,  born  October  19,  1797;  died 
August  15,  1859;  graduated  at  Princeton, 
1815;  a  leader  of  the  New  Jersey  bar,  promi- 
nent in  public  life;  attorney-general  of  New 
Jersey,  and  a  member  of  congress  from  New 
Jersey.  4.  Jane  Eudora.  died  March,  1864; 
married  the  Rev.  Jonathan  Cogswell,  D.  D., 
professor  of  ecclesiastical  history  at  the  East 
Windsor  Theological  Seminary.  5.  Elizabeth. 
6.  Sarah.    7.  Charles  Martel. 

(IV)  John  Bayard,  the  second  child  and 
eldest  son  of  the  Hon.  Andrew  and  Jane 
(Bayard)  Kirkpatrick,  was  born  in  New 
Brunswick,  August  15,  1795;  died  there  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1864.  He  was  one  of  the  most  con- 
spicuous of  the  merchants  of  the  town,  and 
was  engaged  largely  in  foreign  trade.  For 
some  time  he  was  the  third  assistant  auditor 
of  the  United  States  treasury  department  at 
Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  but  in  1851 
he  returned  to  New  Brunswick.  In  1842  he 
married  Margaret  Weaver,  who  died  in  June, 
1889,  and  their  children  were:  I.  Andrew, 
who  is  referred  to  below.  2.  John  Bayard, 
born  February  14,  1847;  now  living  in  New 
Brunswick,  graduated  from  Rutgers  College 
in  1866,  and  is  active  in  business  and  in  the 
financial  interests  of  his  town  ;  he  is  commis- 
sioner of  public  works,  city  treasurer  and  a 
trustee  of  Rutgers  College.  June  28,  1871,  he 
married  Mary  E.  H.,  daughter  of  John  Phil- 
lips, of  New  York  City. 

(V)  The  Plon.  Andrew  (2),  eldest  son  of 
John  Bayard  and  Margaret  (Weaver)  Kirk- 
patrick, was  born  in  Washington,  District  of 
Columbia,  October  8,  1844;  died  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  May  3,  1904.  Returning  with  his 
parents  to  New  iirunswick,  he  was  educated 
in  New  Jersey,  at  Rutgers  grammar  school, 
Princeton  College,  where  he  remained  for 
three  years  and  left  to  graduate  at  Union  Col- 
lege, Schenectady,  New  York,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1863,  receiving  his  honorary  de- 


gree of  M.  A.  from  Princeton  University  in 
1870,  and  in  1903  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  from 
L'uion  College.  He  then  entered  the  office  of 
the  Hon.  Frederick  Theodore  Frelinghuysen, 
of  Newark,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New 
Jersey  bar  as  attorney  in  1866,  and  as  coun- 
sellor in  1869.  For  several  years  he  practiced 
as  one  of  the  members  of  the  firm  of  Frederick 
Theodore  Frelinghuysen,  and  then  he  went 
into  partnership  with  the  Hon.  Frederick  H. 
Teese.  He  was  eminently  successful,  and  was 
a  recognized  leader.  In  April,  1885,  he  was 
appointed  judge  of  the  Essex  county  court  of 
common  pleas  by  Governor  Abbett,  and  con- 
tinuously reappointed  until  1896,  when  he  re- 
signed to  become  judge  of  the  United  States 
district  court  for  New  Jersey,  which  position 
was  then  offered  to  him  by  President  Grover 
Cleveland.  This  position  he  held  until  his 
death.  "His  career  on  the  bench  showed  a 
wide  knowledge  of  the  law,  together  with  a 
large  fund  of  common  sense,  and  his  methods 
were  celebrated  for  this  latter  trait.  He  ac- 
(juitted  himself  with  honor,  and  the  brevity  of 
his  charges  to  juries  was  frequently  comment- 
ed on  *  *  *  His  legal  knowledge  was 
brought  to  bear  on  the  cases,  to  the  disen- 
tanglement of  many  knotty  problems.  His 
record  as  a  federal  judge  was  brilliant,  and  to 
his  courtesy  and  humanity  there  were  hun- 
dreds to  testify,  (luick-witted,  intolerant  of 
shams  of  any  kind,  and  broad-minded.  Judge 
Kirkpatrick  conducted  cases  to  the  admiration 
of  lawyers  and  jurists  of  many  minds  *  *  * 
He  possessed  wide  reading  and  because  of  the 
soundness  of  his  judgment  his  opinions  car- 
ried weight  in  the  legal  world.  They  were  re- 
garded as  peculiarly  clear  in  stateinent  and  had 
the  quality  of  being  easily  comprehended  by 
the  lay  mind.  He  was  a  keen  student  of  human 
nature,  a  man  of  force  and  insight  of  char- 
acter." Among  the  important  commercial  and 
corporation  cases  determined  by  him  were  the 
United  .States  .Steel  Company,  the  United 
States  Shipbuilding  Company,  and  the  "As- 
phalt Trust."  He  was  essentially  the  lawyer 
and  the  judge  with  administrative  powers  of  a 
high  order,  and  on  one  memorable  occasion  he 
exercised  these  powers  for  the  great  advantage 
of  one  of  the  most  extensive  businesses  in  the 
country.  In  1893  the  Domestic  Manufactur- 
ing comi^any  failed,  and  Judge  Kirkpatrick 
was  appointed  receiver  with  authority  to  con- 
tinue the  business  of  making  and  selling  Do- 
mestic sewing  machines.  Notwithstanding  the 
unexampled  financial  depression  which  mark- 
ed the  year  of  the  World's  Fair  he  discharged 


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his  trust  with  such  skill  that  works  with  hun- 
dreds of  employees  continued  in  operatKin.  and 
at  the  expiration  of  his  official  term  as  receiver 
he  delivered  the  property  to  the  stockholders 
entirely  freed  from  its  embarrasments  and 
with  assets  sufficient  to  pay  all  of  its  creditors 
in  full.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  for 
some  time  was  president  of  the  Eederal  Trust 
Company,  a  director  in  the  Howard  Savings 
Institution,  treasurer  of  the  T.  P.  Howell 
Company,  a  director  in  the  Fidelity  Title  and 
Deposit  Company,  a  directcir  in  the  Newark 
Gas  Company,  a  member  of  the  Newark  city 
hall  commission,  and  a  member  of  the  New- 
ark sinking  fund  commission.  He  was  the 
type  of  all  that  is  highest  and  best  in  Ameri- 
can civilization,  of  the  purest  integrity,  and 
the  loftiest  ideals,  devoted  to  the  obligations 
of  his  family  and  bound  to  his  friends  by  at- 
tachments most  amiable  and  attractive  in  his 
private  character.  He  was  the  treasurer  and 
one  of  the  original  governors  of  the  Essex 
Club,  and  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Sons 
of  the  American  Revolution.  In  i86g  he  mar- 
ried (first)  Alice,  daughter  of  Joel  W.  and 
Margaret  (Harrison)  Condit,  the  sister  of 
Estelle  Condit,  who  married  Thomas  Tal- 
madge  Kinney.  Their  three  children  were : 
I.  Andrew,  of  New  York  City,  born  October 
12,  1870;  educated  at  St.  Paul's  school.  Con- 
cord, New  Hampshire ;  spent  one  year  at  Cor- 
nell, and  five  years  in  the  Pennsylvania  rail- 
road shops  at  Altoona ;  became  assistant  road 
foreman  of  engines  of  the  Pennsylvania  rail- 
road, and  is  now  in  the  automobile  business  ; 
he  married  Mae  Bittner  and  has  one  child, 
Andrew,  Jr.  2.  John  Bayard,  who  is  referred 
to  below.  3.  Alice  Condit,  born  December  11, 
1874;  graduated  from  St.  Agnes  school,  Al- 
bany, New  York.  In  1883  Judge  Andrew 
Kirkpatrick  married  (second)  Louise  C, 
daughter  of  Theodore  P.  and  Elizabeth  W'ood- 
rufT  (King)  Howell,  of  New  York  City,  and 
their  three  children  are:  4.  Littleton,  who  is 
referred  to  below.  5.  Isabelle,  born  January 
18,  1886;  married  Albert  H.  Marckwald,  of 
Short  Hills,  New  Jersey.  6.  Elizabeth,  born 
August  2,  1895. 

(VI)  John  Bayard,  the  second  child  and 
son  of  the  Hon.  Andrew  (2)  and  Alice  (Con- 
dit) Kirkpatrick,  was  born  in  Newark,  New- 
Jersey,  May  I,  1872.  and  is  now  living  in  that 
city.  Preparing  for  college  in  St.  Paul's  school. 
Concord,  New  Hampshire;  he  graduated  from 
Harvard  LTniversity  in  1894,  and  from  the 
same  institution's  law  school  in  1897.  He 
then  read  law  with  Coult  &  Howell  and  was 


admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  at  attorney  in 
February,  1898,  and  as  counsellor  in  Febru- 
ary, 1891.  For  the  ne.xt  three  years  he  worked 
in  partnership  with  Joseph  D.  (lallegher  and 
then  set  up  in  practice  for  himself  in  Newark. 
Mr.  Kirkpatrick  is  a  Democrat,  but  has  held 
no  office  nor  does  he  belong  to  any  secret  soci- 
eties. He  is  a  member  of  three  of  the  Har- 
vard clubs,  namely  those  of  New  Jersey,  New 
York  and  Philadelphia,  and  also  a  member 
of  the  Lawyers'  Club,  the  Union  Club,  the 
Essex  Club,  the  Engineers'  Club,  of  New 
York.  He  is  a  communicant  of  Grace  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  Church,  of  Newark,  and  is 
one  of  the  trustees  of  St.  Matthews  Church. 
He  is  a  director  in  the  Neptune  Meter  Com- 
pany, in  the  New  Jersey  Patent  Holding  Com- 
pany and  the  New  Jersey  Title  and  Abstract 
Company.     He  is  unmarried. 

(\'I)  Littleton,  the  only  son  of  the  Hon. 
Andrew  .(2)  and  Louise  C.  (Howell)  Kirk- 
patrick, was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
September  2,  1884,  and  is  now  living  at 
243  Mount  Prospect  avenue  in  that  city. 
For  his  early  education  he  went  to  the  Newark 
Academy,  and  then  jirepared  for  college  in  St. 
Paul's  school.  Concord.  New  Hampshire,  after 
leaving  which  he  graduated  from  Princeton 
University  in  1906.  He  then  became  superin- 
tendent of  the  blast  furnace  of  the  New  Jersey 
Zinc  Company  at  Palmerton,  Pennsylvania, 
and  a  year  later  went  to  Cuba  as  assistant 
treasurer  for  the  Stewart  Sugar  Company. 
After  a  year  of  this  he  returned  to  Newark 
and  is  now  in  the  real  estate  and  insurance 
business,  imder  the  firm  name  of  Kirkpatrick 
&  Young.  Mr.  Kirkpatrick  is  a  Democrat, 
but  he  has  held  no  office  and  he  belongs  to  no 
secret  societies.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Prince- 
ton Club,  of  New  York;  of  the  University 
Cottage  Club,  of  Princeton,  and  of  the  Union 
Club,  of  Newark.  June  9,  1908,  Littleton 
Kirkpatrick  married,  in  Newark,  Amanda 
Lewis,  the  fourth  child  and  third  daughter  of 
Edward  Nichols  and  Cordelia  (Matthews) 
Crane,  born  December  3,  1884.  They  have 
one  daughter. 

This  name,  so  closely  identified 
CC^RB     with     the     early     iron     industries 

founded  in  Essex  county.  New 
Jersey,  at  the  beginning  of  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury, first  appears  in  Massachusetts  in  connec- 
tion with  the  same  industry  founded  at  Taun- 
ton, Plymouth  Colony,  in  1639.  Already  the 
W'inthrop  Company  at  Braintree  had  estab- 
lished a  bloomery  and  forge,  having  imported 


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skilled  workmen  from  Wales  to  operate  the 
works.  The  absence  of  a  circulating  medium 
except  wampum,  and  measures  of  Indian  corn, 
found  a  new  medium  in  the  manufactured  iron 
and  even  in  the  pig  as  it  came  from  the  bloom- 
ery.  Plows  and  hoes  were  a  prime  necessity 
in  the  cultivation  of  Indian  corn,  the  chief  food 
of  the  Colonists,  and  the  iron  industry  as- 
sumed an  importance  second  to  no  other  in  the 
colony.  At  Two  ]\Iile  river,  near  Taunton,  the 
supply  of  iron  ore  appeared  to  be  ine.xhaust- 
able  and  the  proprietors  of  that  town  at  once 
set  about  to  develop  the  mines.  The  pro- 
prietors of  the  First  Company  organized  in 
i''53"54  included  twenty-three  residents  and 
proprietors  of  the  town,  and  the  thirteenth 
one  on  the  list  of  subscribers  was  John  Cobb, 
or  Cob,  as  then  written.  Additional  capital 
was  furnished  from  Plymouth,  Boston,  Salem 
and  Braintree,  in  Massachusetts,  and  by  Provi- 
dence and  Newport,  in  Rhode  Island.  The 
product  of  the  bloomeries  and  forges  there 
established  was  transported  by  wagon  to  Bos- 
ton and  Salem  and  by  small  sloops  to  Provi- 
dence, Newport  and  even  to  New  York.  This 
trade  put  Taunton  in  close  touch  with  the 
western  world  as  it  then  existed,  and  for  the 
time  the  iron  mines  of  Taunton  were  the  gold 
mines  of  more  favored  Spanish-America.  The 
mines  at  Taunton  were  in  charge  of  Henry 
and  James  Leonard  and  Ralph  Russell.  Cap- 
tain Thomas  Cobb  married  a  daughter  of 
James  Leonard  and  in  this  way  the  Cobbs  be- 
came more  firmly  allied  to  the  iron  industry, 
and  when  the  iron  mines  of  Morris  county. 
New  Jersey,  presented  new  fields  of  quickly 
acquired  wealth,  we  find  the  Cobbs  at  Rocka- 
way.  East  New  Jersey.  The  progenitor  of 
these  thrifty  and  enterprising  colonists  was 
Henry  Cobb  (q.  v.). 

(I)  Henry  Cobb,  one  of  the  "Men  of  Kent." 
was  born  in  county  Kent,  near  London,  Eng- 
land, in  1596.  He  had  been  brought  up  in  the 
established  church,  and  when  the  non-con- 
formist party  took  a  stand  against  the  religious 
intolerance  that  became  more  and  more  un- 
bearable, young  Cobb  attended  the  meetings 
held  by  Lathrop  and  his  followers  in  London 
and  became  a  disciple  of  Congregationalism, 
He  was  not.  however,  of  the  twenty-four  mem- 
bers who.  with  their  preacher  Lathrop,  con- 
fined in  the  "foul  and  loothsome  prisons"  of 
London,  but  it  was  his  privilege  a  few  years 
after  to  welcome  Lathrop  to  New  England 
and  helj)  to  organize  for  him  a  school  at  Scit- 
uate,  Plymouth  Colony.  It  is  probable  that 
Henry    Cobb    was    a    passenger    of    the    ship 


"Anne"  that  reached  the  New  England  coast 
in  1629.  He  was  at  Plymouth  that  year  and 
remained  in  the  oldest  established  town  in 
America  up  to  1633,  when  the  church  at 
Plymouth  gave  him  a  letter  of  dismissal  to 
Scituate,  which  was  common  land  of  the 
colony,  and  where  a  considerable  body  of  set- 
tlers had  located  and  stood  in  need  of  a 
church  and  preacher.  A  town  government 
was  organized  by  Cobb  and  his  associates  and 
incorporated  by  the  general  court  of  Plymouth, 
July  I,  1633.  The  next  year  Mr.  Lathrop 
arrived  from  London  and  was  installed  min- 
ister over  the  church  organization  and  Henry 
Cobb  was  made  senior  deacon.  This  position 
marks  the  estimation  in  which  he  was  held  by 
the  fellow  Pilgrims.  The  town  and  church  grew 
and  prospered,  and  in  1638  he  was  dismissed 
to  go  to  Barnstable  and  established  a  town  and 
church  goverment  there  which  was  affected 
March  5,  1738.  He  was  made  ruling  elder  of 
this  church  and  was  thereafter  known  as 
Elder  Cobb.  Besides  holding  the  highest  ot^ce 
in  the  town  and  church,  he  was  deputy  to  the 
general  court  at  Plymouth,  1645-47-52-59-60- 
6r.  He  married  (first)  in  Plymouth,  in  April, 
1 63 1,  Patience,  daughter  of  Deacon  James  and 
Catherine  Hurst,  of  that  town,  and  by  her  he 
had  eight  children  and  of  these  the  first  three 
were  born  in  Plymouth,  the  next  two  in  Scit- 
uate and  the  otliers  in  Barnstable  which  be- 
came his  permanent  home  and  where  he  died 
in  1679,  aged  eighty-three  years.  The  children 
were  born  in  the  following  order:  i.  John 
(q.  v.).  2.  Edward  (q.  v.).  3.  James,  Janu- 
ary 14,  1634;  married  Sarah,  daughter  of 
James  Lewis,  December  26,  1663,  and  died 
1695.  4.  Mary,  March  24,  1637;  married  Jon- 
athan Dunham,  of  Barnstable,  October  15, 
1657.  5.  Hannah,  October  5,  1639;  married 
Edward  Lewis,  May  9,  1681,  and  died  January 
17.  ^7i^-  6.  Patience,  March  19,  1641 ;  mar- 
ried (first)  Robert  Parker,  August,  1667; 
(second)  Deacon  William  Crocker,  1686.  7. 
Greshom,  January  10,  1645  •  niarried  Hannah 
David,  June  4,  1675  ;  he  was  beheaded  by  the 
Indians.  8.  Eleazer,  March  30,  1648.  The 
mother  of  these  children,  Patience  (Hurst) 
Cobb,  died  May  4,  1648,  and  Elder  Cobb  mar- 
ried (second)  Sarah,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Sarah  Hinckley,  who  were  also  the  parents  of 
Governor  Thomas  Hinckley.  By  this  marriage 
Elder  Cobb  had  eight  children,  all  born  in 
Braintree  as  follows :  9.  Mehitable,  Septem- 
ber I,  1652;  died  March  8,  1653.  10.  Samuel, 
October  12,  1654;  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Richard  Taylor,  December  20,  1680;  died 


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December  27,  1727.  11.  Sarali.  January  15, 
1658;  died  the  same  year.  12.  Jonathan,  April 
10.  1660;  married,  March  i,  1683,  Hope, 
daughter  of  John  Chipman  and  widow  of  John 
Hukins,  a  '"JNIayfiower"  descendant.  13.  Sarah 
(2),  Marcli  10,  1663;  married  Deacon  Samuel 
Chipman,  December  27.  1689.  14.  Henry, 
September  5,  1665  ;  married  Lois,  daughter  of 
Joseph  Hallett,  A]M-il  10,  1690;  removed  to 
Stonington,  Connecticut  colony.  15.  Mehit- 
able,  February  15,  1667;  died  young.  16.  Ex- 
perience, September,  1671  ;  died  young. 

(H)  John,  eldest  son  of  Henry  and  Patience 
(Hurst)  Cobb,  was  born  in  Plymouth, 
Plymouth  colony,  January  7,  1632.  He  was 
brought  up  in  Barnstable,  where  he  was  mar- 
ried, August  28,  1658,  to  Martha,  daughter  of 
William  Nelson,  of  Plymouth,  and  by  her  he 
had  six  children  as  follows,  all  born  in  Barn- 
stable: I.  John,  August  24,  1662;  died  Octo- 
ber 8,  1727;  he  married  Rachel  Soule,  grand- 
daughter of  George  Soule,  the  "Mayflower" 
passenger,  1620.  2.  Samuel,  1663;  settled  in 
Tolland,  Connecticut  colony,  where  he  became 
very  prominent  in  town  and  colonial  affairs. 
3.  Elizabeth,  1664.  4.  Israel,  1666.  5.  Pa- 
tience, August  10,  1668;  married  John  Barett, 
of  Middleburgh.  6.  Ebenezer,  August  9,  1671 ; 
married  (first)  Mercy  Holmes,  March  22, 
1694;  (second)  Mary  Thomas;  he  died  in 
Kingston,  Plymouth  colony,  January  29,  1752. 
7.  Elisha,  April  3,  1679;  married  Lydia  Ryder, 
February  4.  1703.  8.  James,  July  20,  1682; 
married  Patience  Holmes,  July  21,  1705.  The 
mother  of  these  children,  except  the  last  two, 
Martha  (Nelson)  Cobb,  died  and  her  husband 
married  as  his  second  wife,  in  Taunton,  June 
13,  1676,  Jane  Woodward,  of  Taunton,  and 
by  her  had  Elisha  and  James.  He  had  re- 
moved to  Taunton  in  1659,  and  been  allotted 
thirty  acres  of  land  in  the  division  of  the  town 
lots,  and  he  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  in  1659, 
as  did  Edward  Cobb.  On  June  6,  1668,  John 
Cobb,  of  Taunton,  with  thirty-five  other  of 
the  settlers  of  Plymouth  colony  purchased 
from  Thomas  Pence,  Josiah  Winslow,  Thomas 
Southworth  and  Constant  Southworth  the 
territory  lying  in  the  north  of  Taunton  and 
known  as  Taunton  North  Purchase  and  where 
John  and  William  Cobb  became  permanent 
settlers,  the  place  being  incorporated  as  the 
town  of  Norton,  May  17,  1710.  John  Cobb, 
of  Taunton,  paid  taxes  into  the  treasury  of 
Plymouth  colony  according  to  the  records  in 
1668  at  the  October  court,  July  8.  1669;  Janu- 
ary, 1670,  was  on  the  jury  at  Plymouth  for 
Taunton,  and  was  one  of  seven  of  the  twelve 


men  on  the  jury  able  to  write  his  name,  the 
other  five  making  their  marks.  He  was  super- 
visor of  highways  and  entrusted  with  the  lay- 
ing out  of  boundaries  as  well  as  roads  in  1666. 
He  returned  to  Barnstable  but  his  sons,  Who 
did  not  remove  to  Connecticut,  remained  in 
Taunton. 

(H)  Edward,  second  son  of  Henry  and 
Patience  (  Hurst )  Cobb,  was  born  in  Plymouth, 
1633,  and  took  the  oath  of  fidelity,  1659.  He 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  William  and  Ann 
(Hynd)  Hoskins,  November  28,  1660.  He 
removed  to  Taunton  in  1657,  where  he  died  in 
1675,  and  his  widow  married  (second)  Samuel 
Philips.  The  children  of  Edward  and  Mary 
(Hoskins)  Cobb  were:    Edward  and  John. 

(HI)  Edward  (2),  eldest  son  of  Edward 
(i)  and  Mary  (Hoskins)  Cobb,  was  born  in 
Taunton,  Plymouth  colony,  about  1662.  He 
married  but  we  find  no  record  as  to  name  of 
wife  or  date  of  marriage.  He  had  children  as 
follows:  I.  Ebenezer  (q.  v.).  2.  Mary,  who 
married  Seth  Dean,  and  had  sons,  Ichabod 
Paul  and  Silas  Dean ;  she  married  (second) 
John  Rosher  and  (third)  Nicholas  Stephens. 
Edward  (2)  gave  his  son,  Ebenezer,  fifteen 
acres  of  land  in  Taunton  taken  from  the  north- 
erly portion  of  his  homestead  farm.  The  deed 
for  this  land  is  dated  February  22.  1733. 

(IV)  Ebenezer,  eldest  child  of  Edward  (2) 
Cobb,  was  born  in  Taunton,  Massachusetts, 
May  6,  1696;  died  in  1769.  He  married,  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1 7 17.  ^lehitable,  daughter  of  Increase 
and  ]\Iehitable  (Williams)  Robinson,  and 
granddaughter  of  Increase  Robinson,  baptized 
in  Dorchester,  Massachusetts  Bay  colony,  May 
14,  1642,  son  of  William  and  Margaret  Robin- 
son (1635).  She  was  born  January  12,  1695, 
died  1 761.  The  children  of  Ebenezer  and 
Mehitable  (Robinson)  Cobb  were  born  in 
Taunton,  Massachusetts,  as  follows:  i. 
Jemima,  Jime  21,  1718.  2.  Sarah,  December 
6,  1719.  3.  Ebenezer,  December  13,  172 1.  4. 
John  (q.  v.).  5.  Abiel,  November  15,  1725; 
married  Sarah  Van  Winkle,  January  4,  1750; 
died  1805.  6.  Mehitable,  January  9,  1728; 
married  (first)  a  Woodruff";  (second)  a  Bald- 
win, and  (third)  Thomas  Gould,  of  Caldwell, 
New  Jersey.  7.  Edward,  July  15,  1731  ;  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Bowers,  born  1746,  died  1788; 
he  died  1813.  8.  Mary,  October  12,  1733 ;  died 
1805.  9.  Ann,  June  27,  1738;  married  John 
Gould;  died  1780. 

(V)  John,  second  son  and  fourth  child  of 
Ebenezer  and  Mehitable  (Robinson)  Cobb, 
was  born  in  Taunton,  Massachusetts,  Decem- 
ber  27,    1723.      He   removed   to    Rockaway, 


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Morris  county.  New  Jersey,  attracted  to  the 
place  by  the  iron  mines,  in  which  business  he 
had  became  famihar  in  Taunton,  the  family 
always  having  had  an  interest  in  the  business 
from  the  time  his .  great-great-grandfather, 
John  Cobb,  had  helped  to  found  the  business 
in    Taunton,    in    1639.      He    married    Rhoda 

•  and  by  her  he  had  seven  children  as 

follows,  all  born  in  Parsippany,  New  Jersey : 
I.  Samuel,  baptized  June  3,  1753.  2.  Sarah, 
baptized  June  3,  1753.  3.  Clisby,  baptized  June 
10,  1753.  4.  John  (q.  v.).  5.  Rhoda,  baptized 
April  20,  1755.  (1.  Robert,  baptized  October 
18,  1 77 1.  7.  (probably)  Thomas,  born  Janu- 
ary 16,  1760:  a  revolutionary  soldier,  who 
died  January  17,  1845  >  his  wife  was  Clara  A., 
born  March  3,  1786,  died  April  20,  1863:  the 
graves  of  the  revolutionary  soldier  and  his 
wife  are  both  at  Parsippany.  John  Cobb  had 
another  son  in  the  American  revolution,  Clisby, 
the  third  child.  lie  served  in  Captain  Josiah 
Hall's  company,  of    Denville.   New   Jersey. 

(\'I)  John  (2),  third  son  and  fourth  child 
of  John  ( I )  and  Rhoda  Cobb,  was  born  in 
Parsippany,  Morris  county,  New  Jersey,  No- 
vember 24,  1750,  and  was  baptized  in  the 
Rockaway  Church,  June  10,  1753.  He  had  a 
forge  at  Troy  Hills  and  Franklin;  was  sheriff 
of  Alorris  county,  1792;  justice  of  the  peace, 
receiving  his  appointment  1797  and  a  man  of 
large  interests  and  influence  in  the  community. 
He  died  December  7  (or  17),  1805,  and  is 
buried  at  Parsippany.  He  married,  October 
31,  1773,  .'Knn,  daughter  of  George  Parrott, 
who  was  born  March  30,  1756,  died  May  17, 
1805.  The  children  of  John  and  Ann  (Par- 
rott) Cobb  were  born  in  Parsippany,  New 
Jersey,  as  follows:  i.  Lucinda,  November  2, 
•1774:  died  1777.  2.  Eleanor,  February  18, 
1777;  died  April  12,  1777.  3.  Henry  (q.  v.). 
4.  John,  Octoljer  19,  1780;  died  1782.  5.  John 
Joline,  M.  D.,  August  23,  1784:  married  Jane 
Jacobus,  July  9,  181 1  ;  died  February  4,  1846. 
6.  Jane,  .\ugust  7,  1786;  married  James  S. 
Condit ;  died  July  25,  1855.  7.  Samuel  .\llen, 
January  10,  1790;  died  September  27,  1795. 
8.  Israel,  November  11,  1794:  died  the  same 
year.  9.  A  son,  who  died  soon  after  his  birth, 
1797. 

(VH)  Henry,  eldest  son  and  third  child  of 
John  (2)  and  Ann  (Parrott)  Cobb,  was  born 
in  Parsipi)any,  Morris  county,  New  Jersey, 
May  23,  1778.  He  married  Maria  P.aldwin, 
of  Newark,  born  January  5,  1786,  died  March 
I,  1864.  Henry  died  June  25,  1837,  and  they 
are  both  interred  in  the  Parsipi)any  burial- 
ground.     He  was  a  large  landholder  in  Morris 


county,  both  by  inheritance  and  purchase.  The 
children  of  Henry  and  Maria  (Baldwin)  Cobb 
were  born  in  Parsippany,  New  Jersey,  as 
follows:  I.  Alexander  A.  (q.  v.).  2.  Anna 
Maria,  who  married  John  O.  Cordict.  3.  John 
A.,  November  26,  1810;  died  March  14,  1880. 
4.  Archibald,  who  married  a  Miss  Rrown.  5. 
Cornelia,  1813;  died  August  30,  1881  ;  unmar- 
ried. 6.  Eliza,  who  was  living  in  Troy,  New 
Jersey,  in  1902.  7.  Henry,  August  9,  1819; 
died  .\pril  15,  1887.  8.  Sarah,  who  married  a 
De  Hart.  John  .\.  Cobb  with  his  father, 
Henry  Cobb,  were  owners  of  the  Cobb  home- 
stead property  in  the  town  of  Troy  which  his 
grandfather,  John  Cobb,  purchased  from 
Isaac  and  Mary  Beach,  May  15,  1788,  and  the 
survey  of  which  property  was  made  by  Lem- 
uel Cobb,  May  14,  1788.  The  homestead  was 
sold  by  William  Ripley  Cobb,  and  the  other 
heirs  to  Jobn  Monteith,  of  Newark,  New 
Jersey.  Lemuel  Cobb  was  born  in  Parsippany. 
New  Jersey,  September  5,  1775;  married,  Au- 
gust 8,  1819,  Elizabeth  Shaw,  and  died  June  i, 
1858.  Their  son,  Andrew  Bell  Cobb,  died 
January  31,  1873. 

(VIII)  Alexander  A.,  eldest  child  of  Henry 
and  Maria  (Baldwin)  Cobb,  was  born  in  Par- 
sippany, Morris  county.  New  Jersey.  He  was 
a  contractor  and  builder  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  1845,  and  n^arried  Clarissa,  daughter  of 
Phineas  and  Rebecca  (Bryan)  Chidester, 
granddaughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Hannah 
(Haywood)  Bryan,  and  great-granddaughter 
of  Joseph  and  Sarah  (.\llen)  Bryan.  Eben- 
ezer Bryan,  born  1692,  settled  in  East  Bridge- 
water,  Plymouth  colony,  where  he  married,  in 
1744,  Hannah  Haywood,  born  1690.  They 
removed  to  Mendham,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
was  judge  of  "ye  County  Courts  1738-41  ; 
major  of  militia,  but  known  as  Captain  Bryan." 
His  third  child,  Japhet,  born  1721  ;  married 
Sarah  .A.llen,  in  1742.  He  was  a  private  in  the 
New  Jersey  militia  and  was  called  out  several 
times  in  the  revolutionary  war.  The  children 
of  Alexander  A.  and  Clarissa  (Chidester) 
Cobb,  were  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  as 
follows:  I.  John  .Alexander  (q.  v.).  2.  George 
B.,  1846.  3.  .Aiuiie  M.,  who  married  Harry 
W'aters. 

(IX)  John  Alexander,  eldest  son  of  .Alex- 
ander A.  and  Clarissa  (Chidester)  Cobb,  was 
born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  1844;  died  in 
that  city,  November  5,  1881.  He  was  gradu- 
ated at  the  College  of  New  Jersey,  now  Prince- 
ton University,  A.  P>.,  1866,  became  a  law 
student  in  the  office  of  Theodore  Runyon,  sub- 
se(juently  chancellor  of  the  state,  and  he  was 


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admitted  to  the  Xew  Jersey  bar  as  an  attorney 
at  law  in  1869  and  as  a  counsellor  at  law  in 
1872.  He  practiced  law  in  Newark  continu- 
ously 1869-81.  Mr.  Cobb  married,  December 
I,  1876,  Mary  Caroline,  daughter  of  William 

A.  and  Caroline  (Ward)  Ripley,  granddaugh- 
ter of  David  (1803-1883)  and  Mary  Ann 
(Wattles)  Ripley,  and  of  Erastus  and  Sallie 
(Thomas )  Wattles :  great-granddaughter  of 
Peleg  and  Mollie  ( Bartlett )  Thomas,  and  of 
Rev.  William  (1768-1822)  and  Lucy  (Clift) 
Ripley,  and  great-great-granddaughter  of  Rev. 
Hezekiah  (1743-1851)  and  Dorothy  Ripley. 
The  Rev.  Hezekiah  Ripley  was  chaplain  in 
General  Stillman's  brigade  in  part  of  the  cam- 
paign of  1776  in  \\'ashington's  army,  encamp- 
ed around  New  York,  Harlem  and  in  New 
Jersey.  Her  great-great-great-grandparents 
were  David  (1697-1781)  and  Lydia  ((jorrey) 
Ripley,  and  her  great-great-great-great-grand- 
parents were  Joshua  (1658-1739)  and  Hannah 

B.  (Bradford)  (1662-1671)  Ripley.  Hannah 
B.  Bradford  was  the  daughter  of  \\'illiam 
(1624-1704)  and  Alice  Richards  (1627-1671) 
Bradford  and  granddaughter  of  Governor 
William  (1588-1623)  and  Mrs.  .Alice  South- 
wood  Bradford,  the  emigrant  progenitor  of 
the  Bradfords  of  New  England.  This  makes 
Mary  Caroline  Ripley  a  descendant  in  the 
tenth  generation  from  Governor  Bradford  and 
her  son,  William  Ripley  Cobb,  of  the  eleventh 
generation.  The  two  children  of  John  Alex- 
ander and  Mary  C.  (Ripley)  Cobb  were  born 
in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  as  follows:  i.  Will- 
iam Ripley  (q.  v.).  2.  ^liriam,  December  25, 
1881  :  married,  October  i,  1902,  Rufus  New- 
ton Barrows  and  their  children  in  1909  were : 
John  Alden  and  Daniel  Newton  Barrows. 

(X)  William  Ripley,  eldest  child  of  John 
Alexander  and  Mary  C.  (Ripley)  Cobb,  was 
born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  November  i, 
1879.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  city:  was  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Dwight  School,  of  New  York  City,  was  stu- 
dent at  Princeton  University  in  class  of  1901. 
He  studied  law  in  the  offices  and  under  the 
direction  of  Hon.  John  Franklin  Fort,  of  New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  and  at  the  New  York  Law 
School,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey 
bar  as  an  attorney  in  1901,  and  as  a  counsellor 
in  1904.  He  engaged  in  general  practice  and 
came  to  be  recognized  as  a  careful,  painstak- 
ing and  discriminating  attorney  and  counsellor, 
learned  in  the  law  and  possessed  of  all  the  attrib- 
utes that  go  to  make  up  a  successful  lawyer: 
He  affiliated  with  the  Lawyers'  Club,  the 
North  End  Club  and  the  Wednesday  Club,  of 


Newark.  As  a  young  Republican  he  exerted 
a  strong  influence  among  young  men  and  was 
not  timid  in  pointing  out  the  defects  he  found 
in  the  older  organizations  of  the  party  and  the 
necessity  of  reforms  that  would  keep  pace  with 
the  new  conditions  that  were  to  be  met  and 
contradicted  by  the  Republican  party.  His 
church  affiiliation  was  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal faith  and  he  was  a  member  of  Grace 
Church,  Newark.  Mr.  Cobb  married,  October 
I,  1902,  at  lielmar.  New  Jersey,  Annie  Wald- 
ron,  daughter  of  Manning  and  Julia  Condit 
(Waldron)  Force,  born  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  March  15,  1879,  and  their  child,  Nancy 
Ripley,  was  born  August  2,  1907,  representing 
the  eleventh  generation  from  Elder  Henry 
Cobb,  of  Barnstable. 


Descended  from  an  arnis- 
C.\RPENDER    bearing    family    of    county 

Hereford.  England,  the 
Carpenders  have  been  established  in  .America 
since  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century. 
The  first  of  the  line  in  this  country  was 

(I)  George  Carpender,  of  New  York  City. 
He  is  buried,  with  his  wife  Elizabeth,  in  Trin- 
ity cliurcli\ard.  Issue:  I.  George,  remained 
in  England.  2.  William,  in  England,  for 
his  health,  in  1774.  3.  Benjamin  (?).  4. 
John,  see  below.  5.  Catharine,  married  Cap- 
tain Samuel  Bayard.  6.  Elizabeth,  married 
Sidney  l!reezc.  7.  Sarah,  married  Dr.  Rich- 
ard Ayscough,  whose  daughter  Sarah  married 
Colonel  William  Malcolm.  Sidney  Breeze  and 
Dr.  Ayscough  are  buried  side  by  side  in  Trin- 
ity churchyard.  Their  grandchildren  were 
made  the  heirs  of  Captain  Bayard,  who  mar- 
ried the  other  sister,  Catharine  Carpender. 

( II )  John,  fourth  child  of  George  and  Eliz- 
abeth Carjiender,  born  1721,  lived  in  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  and  died  1793.  He  was  buried  in 
St.  Ann's,  Brooklyn,  whence  his  remains  were 
removed  to  Greenwoixi  Cemetery.  He  married 
(first)  ;\Iarcy  Weaver;  (second)  Catharine 
Briant :  (third)  March  6,  1772,  Sarah  Stout 
(died  April  21,  1808)  widow  of  James  Tag- 
gart.  Children  by  his  third  marriage:  i. 
William,  see  below.  2.  Sarah,  married  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel  William  Walton  Morris.  3. 
Frances,  married  Captain  Jacob  Stout,  who 
had  before  married  her  half-sister  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  John  Carpender  and  Catharine 
Briatit.  4.  Ann,  married  (as  his  second  wife) 
.Arthur  Breese,  of  Utica,  New  York. 

(III)  William,  eldest  child  of  John  Car- 
pender by  his  third  wife,  Sarah  Stout;  born 
1773,   died    1816,  and   is  buried   in   Belleville, 


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New  Jersey.  He  was  a  merchant.  He  mar- 
inarried  Lucy  Weston  Grant,  who  died  in 
1845,  and  is  buried  in  Shrewsbury,  New  Jer- 
sey. She  was  the  daughter  of  Edward  Butler 
Thomas  and  Catharine  (Walker)  Grant,  both 
of  English  birth;  granddaughter  of  John  and 
Martha  (Butler)  Grant;  great-granddaughter 
of  Rev.  John  Grant,  canon  of  Exeter  and  arch- 
deacon of  Barnstajile,  England,  by  his  wife, 
Elizabeth  Weston  (  who  was  the  daughter  of 
Stephen  \\'eston,  bishop  of  Exeter)  ;  and 
great-great-granddaughter  of  Dr.  John  Grant, 
prebendary  of  Rochester,  by  his  wife,  Jane 
Colchester  (who  was  a  descendant  of  a  sister 
of  William  of  Wickham,  founder  of  Winches- 
ter College,  Chancellor  of  England,  etc.). 

(I\')  Jacob  Stout,  son  of  William  and  Lucy 
Weston  (Grant)  Carpender,  was  born  in  Rum- 
son,  Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey,  August  15, 
1805.  He  was  a  merchant  and  banker  in  New 
York  City,  member  of  the  stock  exchange,  and 
for  many  years  secretary  of  the  Atlantic 
Mutual  Alarine  Insurance  Company.  Retiring 
from  active  business  in  1852,  he  removed  to 
New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  where  he  resided 
for  the  remainder  of  his  life,  and  where  he 
died  on  September  22,  1882.  He  married,  June 
21,  1838,  Catharine  Neilson,  born  March  17, 
1807,  died  September  21,  1888,  daughter  of  Dr. 
John  and  Abigail  (Bleecker)  Neilson.  Chil- 
dren and  descendants  of  Jacob  Stout  and  Cath- 
arine (Neilson)  Carpender,  the  fifth,  si.xtli  and 
seventh  generations  of  this  line  of  the  Car- 
pender family  in  America : 

I.  Mary  Noel  Carpender,  born  in  New  York 
City,  August  30,  1840,  married,  January  21, 
1868,  Francis  Kerby  Stevens,  son  of  Henry 
Hewgill  and  Catharine  Clarkson  (Crosby) 
Stevens. 

This  branch  of  the  Stevens  family  descends 
from  Erasmus  Stevens,  one  of  the  founders 
(1714)  of  the  New  North  Church  of  Boston, 
Massachusetts.  His  son,  Ebenezer  Stevens, 
lived  in  Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  and  married 
Elizabeth  Weld,  a  descendant  of  Rev.  Thomas 
Weld,  one  of  the  first  nonconformist  clergy- 
men to  flee  from  England  to  Holland,  who 
later  emigrated  to  Massachusetts.  They  were 
the  parents  of  the  distinguished  revolutionary 
jjatriot,  General  Ebenezer  Stevens,  born  in 
Boston,  May  11,  1751  (o.  s.),  died  in  New 
York  City,  September  22,  1823.  (For  an  ac- 
count of  his  career  see  the  very  able  mono- 
graph by  his  grandson,  the  late  John  Au.stin 
.Stevens).  He  married  (second)  May  4,  1784, 
Lucretia  Ledyard.  daughter  of  Judge  John 
Ledyard,  of  Flartford,  Connecticut,  and  widow 


of  Richardson  Sands.  One  of  their  children 
was  Henry  Hewgill  Stevens,  born  in  New 
York,  February  28,  1797 ;  merchant  in  that 
city ;  died  October  6,  1869.  Married,  Novem- 
ber 9,  1836,  Catharine  Clarkson  Crosby,  died 
February  6,  1882,  daughter  of  William  Bed- 
low  Crosby,  who  was  a  grand-nephew  of 
Henry  Rutgers  and  Harriet  Ashton  Crosby. 

hVancis  Kerby  Stevens  was  born  in  New 
York  City,  August  18,  1839.  For  some  years 
he  was  engaged  in  business  in  Poughkeepsie, 
.\ew  York,  retiring  from  active  life  on  account 
of  ill  health.  He  was  an  officer  in  the  civil 
war  (Twenty-third  Regiment  of  New  York 
\olunteer  Infantry),  and  was  wounded  at 
Chancellorsville.  Died  in  Aiken,  South  Caro- 
lina, I'ebruary  22,  1874.  His  widow  resides  in 
New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey.  Children :  i. 
Henry  Hewgill  Stevens,  born  November  20, 
1869;  resides  in  Roselle,  New  Jersey;  identi- 
fied with  the  Union  Metallic  Cartridge  Com- 
pany of  New  York;  married,  June  27,  1901, 
Ethel  Griffin,  daughter  of  George  W.  Griffin. 
ii.  William  Carpender  Stevens,  born  Alarch  13, 
1872,  resides  in  New  Brunswick,  iii.  Frances 
Noel  Stevens,  born  January  13,  1874,  resides 
in  New  Brunswick. 

2.  Lucy  Helena  Carpender,  born  in  New 
York  City,  April  i,  1842,  married,  June  19, 
1884,  Rev.  Charles  Edward  Hart,  D.  D.,  born 
February  28,  1838,  in  Freehold,  New  Jersey, 
only  son  of  Walter  W'ard  and  Sarah  (Bennett) 
Hart.  He  is  a  descendant  in  the  si.xth  genera- 
tion of  Deacon  Stephen  Hart,  who  was  one  of 
the  original  proprietors  and  settlers  of  Hart- 
ford and  Farmington,  Connecticut  (coming 
with  the  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker),  through  his 
son.  Captain  Thomas  Hart.  The  father  of 
Rev.  Dr.  Hart  removed  from  Connecticut  to 
Freehold.  Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey;  he 
was  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  of 
that  county,  and  identified  with  mainifacturing 
interests.  Sarah  Bennett,  mother  of  Dr.  Hart, 
was  the  daughter  of  W^illiam  H.  Bennett,  of 
IMonmouth  county,  and  descended  from  an  old 
New  Jersey  family.  Charles  Edward  Hart 
was  graduated  from  Princeton  College  in  1858, 
and  from  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  in 
1861  :  in  the  latter  year  was  called  to  the  Mur- 
ray Hill  Presbyterian  Church,  New  Y'ork  City, 
continuing  there  until  June,  1880,  when  he 
became  pastor  of  the  North  Reformed  Dutch 
Church  of  Newark,  New  Jersey;  resigned  that 
charge  in  1880  to  accept  the  chair  of  English 
Language  and  Literature  in  Rutgers  College, 
whicli  he  retained  until  1897;  from  1897  to 
1906  was  professor   of   Ethics   and   the   Evi- 


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dences  of  Christianity  in  the  same  institution ; 
has  since  been  professor  emeritus  of  Ethics ; 
received  the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Rutgers  in 
1880.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Hart  reside  in  New 
Brunswick. 

3.  \\'illiam  Carpenderj  born  in  New  York 
City,  January  30,  1844.  He  was  long  identi- 
fied with  financial  interests  in  New  York, 
being  until  recently  a  member  of  the  stock  ex- 
change ;  resides  in  IMassapequa,  Long  Island. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution, 
Union  League  Club,  New  York  Yacht  Club, 
and  Saint  Nicholas  Society.  He  married,  No- 
vember 26,  1878,  Ella  Floyd-Jones,  daughter 
of  William  and  Caroline  (Blackwell)  Floyd- 
Jones,  i.  Edith  Carpender,  born  April  i,  1880, 
married,  November  19.  1905,  Edward  H. 
Floyd  Jones,  ii.  Noel  Lispenard  Carpender, 
born  iklay  6.  1882,  member  of  the  New  York 
stock  exchange :  resides  in  Alassapequa,  Long 
Island ;  married,  April  24,  1906,  Isabel  Gour- 
ley,  daughter  of  John  H.  Gourley,  and  has  one 
child,  Isabel  Floyd-Jones  Carpender,  born 
February  9,  1907.  iii.  Jeannie  Floyd-Jones 
Carpender,  born  November  29,  1887.  iv.  Ella 
Floyd-Jones  Carpender,  born  October  9,  1892. 

4.  John  Neilson  Carpender,  born  in  New 
York  City,  November  4,  1845,  received  his 
early  education  in  private  schools  and  was 
graduated  in  1866  from  Rutgers  College  as 
Bachelor  of  Arts,  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts 
being  conferred  on  him  in  1869.  From  the  lat- 
ter year  until  1879  he  was  a  member  of  the 
New  York  stock  exchange.  In  1877  Mr.  Car- 
pender became  identified  as  treasurer  with  the 
Norfolk  and  New  Brunswick  Hosiery  Com- 
pany of  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  serving 
in  that  capacity  until  1885 ;  and  he  has  since 
been  president  of  the  company.  He  is  vice- 
president  and  member  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  National  Association  of  Wool 
Manufacturers  of  the  L^nited  States.  As  a 
citizen  of  New  Brunswick  he  has  always  taken 
an  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of  that  com- 
munity. From  1878  to  1882  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  common  council,  and  from  1880  to 
the  present  time  has  been  the  commissioner  of 
the  sinking  fund.  He  is  president  of  the 
John  Wells  Memorial  Hospital,  trustee  of  the 
Children's  Industrial  Home,  director  in  the 
National  Bank  of  New  Jersey,  and  trustee  of 
the  New  Brunswick  Mutual  Fire  Insurance 
Company.  A  member  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal church,  he  occupies  several  important 
official  positions  in  that  connection ;  is  trustee 
of  the  American  Church  Building  Fund,  presi- 
dent of  the  Church  Club  of  the  diocese  of  New 


Jersey,  and  treasurer  of  the  Ixiard  of  trustees 
of  the  Episcopal  Fund  of  the  diocese  of  New 
Jersey.  His  society  and  club  memberships  in- 
clude the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  Delta  Phi 
and  Phi  Beta  Kappa  societies,  and  the  Univer- 
sity Club  and  Saint  Nicholas  Society  of  New 
York.     He  married,  in  New  York  City,  April 

9,  1874,  Anna  Neilson  Kemp,  born  in  New 
York  City,  February  18,  1855,  daughter  of 
Alfred  Francklin  and  Cecilia  (Neilson)  Kemp. 
Her  paternal  grandjiarcnts  were  Henry  Kemp, 
of  county  Kent,  England,  and  Susanne  Ur- 
sula Penelope  de  la  Bruyere,  of  Huguenot 
ancestry.  Her  father,  .\lfred  Francklin  Kemp, 
was  born  September  12,  181 7,  in  county  Kent, 
England,  came  to  America  in  early  life,  and 
died  on  Staten  Island,  September,  1873;  mar- 
ried. May  18.  1852,  Cecilia  Neilson,  daughter 
of  Uilliam  Neilson,  of  New  York  City,  and 
Haiuiah  Coles.  Children :  i.  John  Neilson 
Carpender,  born  January  16,  1875,  graduated 
at  Rutgers,  1897;  in  mercantile  business  in 
New  York;  resides  in  New  Brunswick,  ii. 
Catharine  Neilson  Carpender,  born  December 
7,  1876,  married,  November  26,  1901,  Frank- 
lin Duane,  son  of  Rev.  Richard  Bache  Duane 
and  Margaret  Ann  Tams,  and  a  descendant  of 
Benjamin  Franklin:  they  reside  in  Baltimore; 
their  children  are  Howard  Duane.  bom  Octo- 
ber 23,  1902,  and  Margaret  Franklin  Duane, 
born  June  7,  1904.  iii.  Alfred  Cecil  Carpen- 
der, born  November  27,  1878,  died  November 

10,  1894.  iv.  Anna  Kemp  Carpender,  bom 
March  15.  1880.  v.  Henry  de  la  Bruyere  Car- 
pender, born  May  15,  1882,  resides'  in  New 
Brunswick:  in  business  in  New  York.  vi. 
Arthur  Schuyler  Carpender,  born  October  24, 
1884,  officer  in  the  United  States  navy.  vii. 
William  Carpender,  2d,  born  October  29,  1888, 
student  in  Rutgers  College. 

5.  Charles  Johnson  Carpender,  born  in  .New 
York  City,  October  31,  1847,  was  educated 
under  private  instructors.  In  1870  he  organ- 
ized, with  John  Nicholson,  the  firm  of  Nichol- 
son &  Carpender,  and  embarked  in  the  manu- 
facture of  wall  paper  in  New  Brunswick. 
Upon  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Nicholson  in  1872 
Mr.  Carpender  established  with  Colonel  Jacob 
J.  Janeway  the  new  co-partnership  of  Jane- 
way  &  Carpender,  from  whicl^  he  withdrew  in 
1888,  the  firm  having  since  been  continued  by 
Colonel  Janeway  under  the  original  style.  Mr. 
Carpender  has  always  resided  in  New  Bruns- 
wick. He  is  a  director  of  various  industrial 
and  other  corporations,  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  and  the  Saint  Nich- 
olas Society.    He  married,  June  9,  1875,  Alice 


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Brown  Robinson,  born  Noveinbcr  lo,  1850, 
daughter  of  Edwin  and  Frances  (Brown) 
Robinson.  Edwin  Robinson,  born  July  30, 
1807,  died  August  14,  1863,  was  of  Richmond, 
\'irginia,  son  of  John  Robinson,  and  descend- 
ed from  an  old  \'irginia  family,  related  to  the 
Beverly  Robinsons  of  Staten  Islanii  and  also 
to  the  Canadian  Robinsons.  (See  Hayden's 
Genealogies).  He  married,  October  6.  1836, 
Frances  Brown,  of  Bedford  cnunty.  \'irginia. 
Issue  of  Charles  Johnson  and  .\lice  Brown 
(Robinson)  Carpendcr :  i.  Alice  Haxall  Car- 
pender.  born  September  5,  1876,  married,  Oc- 
tober 30,  1901.  Ciustavus  Abeel  Hall,  son  of 
John  A.,  of  Trenton,  Xew  Jersey,  and  Anna 
( .\beel )  11  all;  they  now  reside  in  Cleveland, 
(  ihio,  where  Air.  Hall  is  in  charge  of  the  inter- 
ests of  the  Roebling  Company;  their  children 
are  John  Alexander  Hall,  born  November  4, 
1002.  Charles  Carpender  Flail,  born  May  29, 
iijof),  and  Abeel  Xeilson  Hall,  born  July  2^, 
1907,  died  .April  30,  1909.  ii.  Charles  Johnson 
Carpender,  Jr.,  born  June  6.  1878,  resides  in 
\ew  Brunswick;  engaged  in  the  chemical 
industry  at  Little  Falls,  New  Jersey,  iii.  Kath- 
arine Xeilson  Carpender,  born  January  2, 
1881.  died  June  29.  1 881.  iv.  and  v.  twins, 
born  June  17,  1882,  Aloncure  Conway  Car- 
])eniler,  mechanical  and  electrical  engineer  at 
Plattsburg,  New  York,  and  Edwin  Robinson 
Carpender,  resides  in  New  Brunswick,  vi. 
.Sydney  Ijleecker  Carpender,  born  November 
24,  1884,  refrigerating  engineer  in  New  Bruns- 
wick. 


The  first  Levis  of  whom  we  have 
LEX'LS  any  definite  knowledge  is  Philippe 
I.,  Seigneur  de  Levis,  who  lived  in 
the  twelfth  century.  The  most  ancient  docu- 
ment in  which  he  is  mentioned  is  dated  Febru- 
ary 5,  1 181,  and  is  signed  by  him  and  his  wife, 
Elizabeth.  In  the  year  1200  he  assisted  in 
making  a  treaty  of  peace  between  the  Kings  of 
England  and  France.  He  died  in  1204-05. 
His  wife  was  still  living  in  1210,  but  the  date 
of  her  death  is  not  known.  They  had  five  chil- 
dren— Milon,  Gui.  I'hilip])e,  Alexander  and 
Simon.  The  second  of  these,  Gui  de  Levis  I., 
married  Guiburge,  sister  of  Simon  de  Alont- 
fort.  Earl  of  Leicester.  His  great-granddaugh- 
ter. Jeanne  (daughter  of  Gui  de  Levis  HI.), 
married  Philippe  de  Montfort  II..  a  descendant 
of  a  brother  of  Simon  de  Montfort.  Tiiere  is 
much  evidence  of  the  close  relationship  of  the 
two  families. 

Tlie   history  of  the    French    family   is  well 
known,  but  it  is  not  known  when  the  first  Levis 


went  to  England.  It  is  probable,  however,  that 
it  was  during  this  relationship,  as  not  only  was 
Simon  de  Alontfort  a  person  of  great  rank, 
influence  and  power  and  naturally  gathered 
about  him  many  of  his  compatriots,  but  many 
of  the  French  settled  in  England  during  this 
period.  The  first  known  English  record  of 
the  family  is  in  the  parish  register  of  Beeston, 
near  Nottingham,  dated  1558.  It  is  to  be  noted 
that  Beeston  is  in  the  district  which  was  under 
the  influence  of  Simon  de  Alontfort.  The  earli- 
est parish  register  in  England  began  in  1538. 
There  are  earlier  dates  entered  in  some  of 
them,  l)Ut  no  registers  existed  until  the  year 
mentioned,  so  they  must  have  been  inserted 
afterward. 

The  Beeston  records  began  in  1558,  and  in 
this  first   year   there   is   an   entry  as    follows: 

"1558  Robt.   Levis  was  buryed  ."     At 

the  bottom  of  the  second  page  of  the  earliest 
registr}-  book  (  1558)  belonging  to  Beeston 
parish  church  in  the  county  of  Nottingham, 
the  name  of  "Rich.  Levis  occurs  as  one  of  the 
churchwardens,"  and  continues  on  the  pages 
u]i  to  the  year  1599.  .-Vltogether  there  are  one 
hundred  and  two  entries  in  the  name  of  Levis, 
the  last  being  dated  January  27,  1768.  The 
last  (ine  we  are  interested  in  is  the  baptism  of 
Christopher  Levis,  September  20,  1621,  it 
being  the  fifty-fourth  Levis  entry. 

The  following  wills  and  administrations 
relating  to  the  Levis  family  of  Beeston  are 
entered  in  the  York  Probate  Registry  prior  to 
1652,  Nottinghamshire  being  in  the  ecclesias- 
tical district  of  York. 

1.  1580 — Christopher  Levice.  of  Beeston — 
Administration. 

2.  1585 — Alary  Levise,  of  Alswortha — Will. 
1 61 3 — Richard  Levis,  of  Beeston — Will. 
i()i6 — Christopher    Levis,   of    Beeston — 


3- 

4- 

Will. 

5- 
6. 


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16 1 6 — Richard  Levis,  of  Beeston — Will. 
1620 — Edwarde  Levis,  of  Beeston — Will. 
1638 — Edward  Levis. of  Saxondale — W  ill. 

Of  these  numbers  one  and  three  are  the 
only  ones  connected  with  the  direct  line  we  are 
considering,  but  all  have  been  hcl]5ful  in 
establishing  the  facts.  The  most  interesting 
will  is  that  of  Christopher  Levis,  who  died  at 
Ilarby,  Leicestershire,  in  1677.  It  is  dated 
October  19,  1677,  and  was  admitted  to  probate 
December  31,  1677,  in  the  district  registry  at 
Leicester.  The  original  will  and  inventory  are 
still  on  file  and  were  recently  examined  by 
Mr.  Howard  C.  Levis,  formerly  of  Alt.  Holly, 
New  Jersey,  but  now  of  London. 

The  e.xact  relationship  of  Robert  Levis  men- 


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tioneil  in  the  table  with  the  others  which  follow 
is  not  known.  The  Richard  who  was  church- 
warden is  not  mentioned  in  the  table  as  he  is 
not  in  the  direct  line,  and  it  is  not  certain  that 
the  Christopher  who  was  buried  in  1580  w^as 
the  son  of  the  Edward  who  was  buried  in  1564. 
This,  however,  is  of  no  importance  as  unt|ues- 
tionably  the  persons  with  the  name  of  Levis  in 
this  small  parish  were  of  the  same  family.  It 
is  also  to  be  noted  that  Harby  in  Leicester- 
shire, where  a  Christopher  Levis  died  in  1677, 
is  not  many  miles  distant  from  Beeston. 
Whether  Christopher  or  his  father,  Richard, 
was  the  first  to  leave  Beeston  for  Harby  is  not 
knoW'U,  but  it  was  probably  the  father,  as  his 
death  is  not  recorded  at  Beeston.  The  early 
records  of  Harby  parish  are  not  in  existence, 
and  in  any  event  would  be  of  little  value  to  us, 
as  Christopher  had  become  a  Quaker  and  there- 
fore nothing  would  be  recorded  in  the  parish 
registers. 

The  Levis  family  of  Xew  Jersey  traces  its 
ancestry  back  directly  in  this  line : 

(  I )    Robert  Levis  was  born  in  1558. 

(H)    Edward   Levis,  buried  May   10,   i''>54, 

married  Yssabell ,  buried  June  3,  1593. 

They  had  a  son,  Christopher,  and  other  chil- 
dren. 

(HI)   Christopher    Levis,    buried    May    g, 

1580,  married  Agnes .  buried  February 

4.  1584.  They  had  a  son,  Richard,  and  perhaps 
other  children. 

(I\')  Richard  Levis,  buried  March  2.  161 2, 
married  (first)  June  29.  1577,  Elizabeth  Clark, 
buried  January  25,  1593:  married  (second) 
May  15,  1594,  Constance  Smalley,  buried 
March  3,  1597.  Of  this  second  marriage  there 
was  born  a  son,  Nicholas,  baptized  February 
24,  1597.  buried  August  5,  1607. 

(V)  Richard  (2),  son  of  Richard  (i)  and 
Elizabeth  (  Clark )  Levis,  was  baptized  April 
ir,  15S5.  He  married,  but  the  name  of  his 
wife  is  not  known.  He  neither  married  nor 
was  buried  in  the  parish  at  Beeston. 

(VI)  Christopher,  son  of  Richard  (2)  Levis, 
was  baptized  September  20,  1621.  and  died  in 
1677.  I^^  married,  in  IMarch.  1648,  Alary 
Need,  of  Harby,  England,  and  had  children. 

(\ni)  Samuel,  son  of  Christopher  anfl  Mary 
(Need)  Levis,  was  born  at  Harby,  July  30, 
1649,  ^"d  his  will  was  admitted  to  probate  in 
1734.  He  came  to  America  in  1682,  from  Lan- 
cashire, England,  remained  here  a  short  time, 
then  returned  to  England  for  his  family  and 
again  came  over  in  1684,  with  his  wife :  son, 
Samuel,  and  sisters,  Sarah  and  Hannah.  He 
erected  a  large  brick  house  on  Darbv  creek,  in 


Delaware  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  had 
a  grant  of  two  thousand  acres  of  land.  Tlie 
old  mansion  house  is  still  standing  and  is 
owned  by  his  descendants.  He  was  a  man  of 
considerable  means  and  much  influence,  espe- 
cially in  the  Society  of  Friends,  being  a  min- 
ister of  that  faith,  and  a  very  devout  man  in 
his  walk  in  life.  He  was  among  the  first  set- 
tlers in  Delaware  count}-,  and  at  one  time  was 
a  member  of  the  provincial  council,  of  the  state 
of  Pennsylvania.  He  married,  in  1680,  Eliza- 
beth Clator,  of  Nottingham,  England,  and  by 
her  had  several  children. 

(\'III)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Sanuiel  (i)  and 
Elizabeth  ( Clator)  Levis,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land. December  8,  1680,  died  in  1758.  He 
married.  October  15,  1709,  Hannah,  daughter 
of  losei^h  Stretch,  of  Philadelphia,  and  they 
had  children. 

(IX)  Samuel  (3),  son  of  Samuel  (2)  and 
Hannah  (Stretch)  Levis,  was  born  August  21, 
171 1,  and  married.  December  6,  1742,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Joshua  and  Alartha  Thomson,  and 
they  had  children. 

(X)  Samuel  (4),  son  of  Samuel  (3)  and 
Mary  (Thomson)  Levis,  married  Elizabeth 
Garrett,  and  they  had  children. 

(XI)  William,  son  of  Samuel  (4)  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Garrett)  Levis,  was  born  in  Darby, 
Pennsylvania.  March  17,  1774.  died  September 
22,  1823,  and  was  a  paper  maker.  He  mar- 
ried, March  11,  1798,  Esther  Pancoast,  who 
died  September  15.  1848.  daughter  of  Seth 
Pancoast.  Their  children  were :  Samuel 
Franklin,  see  post ;  I'ancoast,  Robert  J.,  Eliz- 
abeth and  Ann. 

(XII)  Samuel  Franklin  Levis,  progenitor 
of  the  Mt.  Holly  family  of  that  surname,  son 
of  ^\'i^iam  and  Esther  (Pancoast)  Levis,  was 
born  in  Darby,  Pennsylvania,  June  8,  1805. 
died  at  Mt.  Holly,  December  10.  1887.  He 
received  a  good  early  education  in  the  Darby 
town  schools  and  also  in  the  Friends'  school, 
and  began  his  business  career  as  clerk  in  a  gen- 
eral merchandise  store  in  Philadelphia  then 
under  the  proprietorship  of  Bennett  &  Walton. 
Soon  after  1820  he  was  sent  by  his  employers 
to  Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey,  to  take  charge  of 
their  mill  there,  which  was  operated  in  the 
manufacture  of  wall,  book  and  newspaper.  He 
continued  to  live  in  Mt.  Holly  until  the  time 
of  his  death,  in  1887.  Mr.  Levis  married 
twice.  His  first  wife,  whom  he  married,  No- 
vember 20.  1830,  was  Sarah  P.iddle  Hulme, 
born  June  26.  1804.  died  April  i.  1843.  daugh- 
ter of  George  and  Sarah  B.  (Shreve)  Hulme 
(.see  Hulme).     He  married  (second)  Novem- 


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her  20.  1845,  Alaria  B.  Hulnie,  born  October 
23,  1S14,  and  still  living  in  Mt.  Holly.  She 
also  is  a  daughter  of  George  and  Sarah  B. 
(  Shreve  )  Hulme.  Mr.  Levis  had  three  chil- 
dren by  his  first  and  two  by  his  second  wife: 
I.  George  Hulme,  born  April  30,  1832;  died 
June  26,  1889;  married,  November  i,  1854, 
Alary  Holby,  daughter  of  Charles  Magargee 
and  Ann  (Cooper)  Hicks,  and  had  children: 
i.  Clara  M.,  born  November  30,  1855,  married, 
lune  2^,  1877,  Brinckle  Gummey,  and  had 
daughter,  Mary,  born  December  6,  1877 ;  ii. 
Anne  Hicks,  born  September  21,  1857,  mar- 
ried, June  12,  1882,  Frederick  Hemsley,  and 
had  daughter,  Frances,  who  married  and  had 
children  ;  iii.  Charles  Magargee,  born  October 
r>,  1859,  married  Jean  Rowland,  and  had  chil- 
dren. 2.  Franklin  Burr,  born  July  28,  1834; 
see  post.  3.  Sarah  Maria,  born  August  12, 
1839;  married,  November  3,  1883,  Daniel  Gar- 
wood. 4.  Emily  Hulme,  born  September  6, 
1847.  5.  Adelaitle  Shiras,  born  October  28, 
1851  ;  died  April  10,  1873. 

(Xni )  Franklin  Burr,  son  of  Samuel  Frank- 
lin and  Sarah  Biddle  (Hulnie)  Levis,  was  born 
in  IVIt.  Holly,  New  Jersey,  July  28,  1834,  and 
attended  public  and  private  schools  of  that 
town  until  he  was  fourteen  years  old,  when  he 
was  sent  to  Westown  to  a  boarding  school  to 
prepare  for  college.  He  entered  Haverford 
College  in  1849,  remaining  until  1851,  and  then 
entered  Princeton  College  and  graduated  there 
in  1853.  After  leaving  college  he  took  up  the 
study  of  law  with  Hon.  John  L.  N.  Stratton, 
of  Mt.  Holly,  and  was  admitted  attorney  at 
law  at  the  June  term  of  the  supreme  court  in 
1856.  He  at  once  began  active  practice  in  his 
native  town  and  since  that  time  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Burlington  county  bar,  although 
in  connection  with  these  pursuits  he  has  been 
somewhat  identified  with  the  political  history  of 
his  town  and  county.  He  is  a  Republican  of  un- 
doubted quality,  was  one  of  the  organizers  of 
that  ])arty  in  Burlington  county,  and  for  more 
than  half  a  century  has  been  looked  upon  as 
one  of  the  most  earnest  exponents  of  Repub- 
lican principles  in  the  state.  During  the  civil 
war  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Olden 
judge  advocate  of  the  first  division  of  New 
Jersey  militia,  and  in  that  capacity  assisted  in 
enrolling  men  and  organizing  companies  for 
service  which  had  been  raised  by  draft.  In 
1862  he  was  apjiointed  deputy  collector  of 
internal  revenue  for  the  second  district  of  the 
state  and  held  that  office  for  several  years. 

.-\  ftcr  the  close  of  the  war  and  particularly 
after  he  ceased  to  be  deputy  collector  of  inter- 


nal revenue,  Mr.  Levis  devoted  his  attention 
to  professional  pursuits,  and  in  connection 
with  the  general  practice  of  law  he  has  been 
appointed  to  various  positions  incidental  thereto. 
He  is  the  senior  member  of  the  Burlington 
county  bar  and  still  in  practice  notwithstand- 
ing his  advanced  years.  He  is  attorney  and 
counsellor  at  law,  a  master  in  chancery,  su- 
preme court  commissioner  and  special  master, 
and  outside  of  the  profession  he  was  for  a  long 
time  a  director  of  the  Union  National  Bank, 
of  Mt.  Holly,  and  a  director  of  Mt.  Holly  Safe 
Deposit  and  Trust  Company ;  director  and 
vice-president  of  Mt.  Holly  Water  Company, 
and  a  director  of  the  Mt.  Holly,  Lumberton 
and  Medford  Railroad  Company.  For  forty- 
seven  years  he  has  been  secretary  of  the  Mt. 
Holly  Building  and  Loan  Association,  except- 
ing for  a  short  period  when  that  office  was 
held  by  his  son,  Howard.  He  is  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Burlingtiin  County  Lyceum  of 
History  and  Natural  .Science,  member  of 
the  board  of  trustees  of  Mt.  Holly  Circulating 
Library,  member  of  Mt.  Holly  Lodge,  F.  &  A. 
AL,  and  a  communicating  member  of  St.  An- 
drew's Church,  Episcopal,  and  one  of  the  dele- 
gates to  the  Pan-Anglican  convention  held  in 
London,  England,  in  June,  1908.  He  was 
instrumental  in  founding  Trinity  Church,  of 
Mt.  Holly,  for  many  years  was  one  of  its 
wardens,  but  subsequently  transferred  his 
membership  to  St.  Andrew's  Church.  .\t  one 
time  also  Mr.  Levis  was  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Mt.  Holly  Gas  Company,  director 
in  the  Burlington  County  Telephone  Company 
and  president  of  the  Mt.  Holly  Opera  House 
.Association. 

On  October  14,  1857,  Mr.  Levis  married  Re- 
becca Browning,  daughter  of  Peter  Van  Pelt 
and  Eleanor  (Hollinshead)  Coppuck,  and  by 
whom  he  has  five  children:  i.  Howard  Cop- 
puck,  born  Mt.  Holly,  March  21,  1859;  see 
post.  2.  Franklin  Burr,  Jr.,  born  Mt.  Holly, 
March  25.  1862;  died  March  26,  1862.  3.  Ed- 
ward Hulme.  born  .April  11,  1864;  see  post.  4. 
Gertrude  \'an  Pelt,  born  Mt.  Holly,  February 
23.  1871  :  died  June  24.  1871.  5.  Norman  Van 
Pelt,  born  Mt.  Holly,  .April  11,  1872;  see  post. 

(XIA)  Howard  Coppuck,  eldest  .son  and 
child  of  Franklin  Burr  and  Rebecca  Browning 
(Coppuck)  Levis,  was  bom  in  Mt.  Holly,  New 
Jersey,  March  21,  1859,  acquired  his  earlier 
education  in  private  schools,  then  took  a  special 
law  course  at  Columbia  College.  New  "S'ork.  later 
read  law  under  the  instruction  of  his  father 
and  was  admitted  a  member  of  the  Burlington 
county  bar.     For  several  years  he  practiced  in 


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association  with  his  father  and  then  received 
an  appointment  as  assistant  counsel  for  the 
W'estinghouse  Electric  Company.  His  duties 
in  that  capacity  called  him  to  live  for  some 
time  in  Pittsburg,  I'ennsylvania,  and  after- 
ward in  Chicago  as  western  counsel  of  the 
Thomson-Houston  Electric  Company,  and 
still  later,  when  lie  became  assistant  cimn- 
sel  for  the  General  Electric  Comjiany,  he 
lived  temporarily  in  St.  Paul,  Minnesota, 
and  afterward  in  Schenectady,  New  York,  in 
which  latter  city  are  located  the  principal 
works  of  the  General  Electric  Company.  In 
1902  Mr.  Levis  was  elected  managing  director 
of  the  British  Thomson-Houston  Company, 
of  London,  England,  and  since  that  time  he 
has  lived  abroad.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Pil- 
grims, Ranelagh,  City  of  London,  and  liurling- 
ton  Fine  Arts  clubs,  of  London,  and  the  (irolier 
Club,  of  New  York.  He  married.  April  _'4. 
1884,  Jane  Chester,  daughter  of  the  late  Hun. 
William  A.  and  Jane  (Chester)  Coursen,  of 
Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  and  by  whom  he  has 
two  children:  1.  Chester  Coursen,  born  Janu- 
ary 18,  1885.  2.  Edith  diet  wood,  born  Octo- 
ber 31,  1886. 

(XI\')  Edward  Hulme,  third  son  and  child 
of  Franklin  Burr  and  Rebecca  Browning 
( Coppuck)  Levis,  was  born  in  Mt.  Holly, 
April  II,  1864,  received  his  literary  education 
in  public  schools  in  Mt.  Holly  and  also  at 
Peekskill  Military  Academy.  Oswego 
county.  New  York,  and  afterward  began  his 
business  career  in  a  clerical  capacity  with  the 
banking  firm  of  Jay  Cooke  &  Company,  of 
Philadelphia.  He  continued  in  that  employ 
during  the  life  of  the  firm  under  that  name, 
and  later  with  the  successor  firm  until  July, 
1907,  when  he  became  junior  partner  of  the 
house  of  C.  D.  Barney  &  Co.,  whose  members 
are  J.  Horace  Harding,  J.  Cooke,  3d,  and  Mr. 
Levis.  He  maintains  his  residence  at  Mt. 
Holly.  Mr.  Levis  married,  January  12,  1892, 
Theodora,  daughter  of  the  late  Theodore 
Risden,  of  Mt.  Holly,  and  by  whom  he  had 
two  children:  i.  Dorothy,  born  November  8, 
1895,  fli^cl  the  same  day.  2.  Dorothea,  born 
March  23,  1901,  died  .August  15,  1901. 

(XIV)  Rev.  Norman  \'an  Pelt,  youngest 
son  anrl  child  of  Franklin  Burr  and  Rebecca 
Browning  (  Coppuck  )  Levis,  was  born  in  Mt. 
Holly,  April  11,  1872.  He  was  educated  in 
public  schools  of  his  home  town,  Peekskill 
Military  Academy,  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania and  Alexandria  Theological  Seminary, 
Alexandria,  \'irginia,  in  the  latter  of  which  he 
studied  for  the  Episcopal  ministry.     After  one 


year  there  he  continued  his  studies  at  the 
Philadelphia  Divinity  School,  graduated  and 
was  ordained,  and  became  assistant  rector  of 
St.  John's  Church,  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey. 
After  about  one  and  one-half  years  at  St. 
John's,  Mr.  Levis  was  made  rector  of  Christ 
Church,  Westerly,  Rhode  Island,  remained 
there  four  years,  and  in  1904  was  called  to  the 
Church  of  the  Incarnation,  Philadelphia,  of 
which  he  since  has  been  rector.  Mr.  Levis 
married,  June  15,  1889,  Grace  Royal  Tyng,  of 
Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  by  whom  he  has  two 
children:  i.  Russell  Tyne,  born  July  13,  1900. 
2.  Norman  \'an  Pelt  Jr.,  born  August  29,  1906. 

iThe    Hulme    Line). 

In  our  narrative  of  the  Levis  family  in  these 
annals  it  is  written  that  .Samuel  Franklin  Levis 
married,  first,  Sarah  Middle  Hulme,  and  after 
her  death  married,  for  his  second  wife,  Maria 
I').  Hulme,  sister  of  his  first  wife.  In  this 
connection  a  brief  account  of  the  Hulme 
family  will  be  found  of  interest. 

( I )  George  Hulme,  immigrant  ancestor  of 
the  family  here  treated,  was  born  in  England 
and  came  to  this  country  from  old  Cheshire 
in  the  year  1700.  He  settled  in  Newtown,  Mid- 
dletown  township,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylva- 
nia, and  was  still  living  in  1732. 

(II)  George  (2),  son  of  George  (i) 
Hulme,  the  immigrant,  was  born  in  England, 
came  to  America  with  his  father's  family  in 
1700,  and  died  in  1729,  his  father  surviving 
him  about  three  years.  He  married  (first) 
October  2,  1708,  Naomi,  daughter  of  John  and 
Christina  Palmer.  She  died  in  1709,  having 
borne  her  husband  one  child^  who  died  in  1709, 
at  or  about  the  time  of  his  mother's  death. 
He  married  (second)  in  October,  1710,  Ruth 
Palmer,  sister  of  his  first  wife,  and  by  her 
had  four  children,  Eleanor,  Naomi,  Hannah 
and  John. 

(III)  John,  only  son  of  George  (2)  and 
Ruth  (  Palmer )  Hulme,  was  born  probably 
about  1716-18,  and  died  in  1776.  He  married 
(first)  in  1744,  Mary  Pearson,  daughter  of 
Enoch  and  Margaret  Smith,  and  by  her  had 
six  children.  He  married  (second)  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  (Biles) 
Cutter,  and  by  her  had  three  children.  John 
Hulme  had  in  all  nine  children:  I.  John,  "born 
June  3,  1747.  2.  Mary,  August  31.  1748.  3. 
George,  November  25,  1750.  4.  William,  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1752.  5.  Thomas,  January  28,  1755, 
died  young.  6.  Margaret,  .\ugust  25,  1767.  7. 
Ruth,  October  23,  1771.  8.  Thomas,  1774. 
9.   Benjamin,    1778. 


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(IV)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (  i)  and  Mary 
(Pearson)  Hulme,  was  born  June  3,  1747.  and 
married,  May  5,  1770,  Rebecca  Mihier,  born 
December  3,  1748,  died  April  11,  1806, 
daughter  of  William  Milner,  of  Falls  town- 
ship, Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania.  Xiiie  chil- 
dren were  born  of  this  marriage:  i.  William. 
July  10,  1771.     2.  John,  September  20,   1773. 

3.  Samuel,  September  15,  1774.  4.  George, 
October  24,  1776.  5.  Isaac,  October  26,  1778. 
6.  Mary,  November  5,  1780.  7.  Amos,  Oc- 
tober 29,  1782.  8.  Joseph,  August  25,  1784. 
9.  Rebecca,  February  25,  1787. 

(V)  George  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Rebecca  (Milner  )  Hulme,  was  born  in  Hulme- 
ville,  Pennsylvania,  October  24,  1776,  dieil 
there  July  16,  1850.  He  married  Sarah  Biddle 
Shreve,  born  1774,  died  April,  1847,  daughter 
of  Joshua  Shreve,  and  by  her  had  seven  chil- 
dren:  I.  James  S.,  born  September  27,  1802. 
2.  Sarah  P.iddle,  June  26,  1804,  married  Sam- 
uel F.  Levis,  of  Mt.  Holly  (see  Levis).  3. 
Rebecca  Ann,  March  30,  1806.  4.  John,  Au- 
gust 17,  1808.  5.  George,  November  6,  1811. 
6.  Maria  B..  October  23,  i8i4.''hnarried  Samuel 
F.  Levis  (his  second  wife).     7.  Charles.  July 

4,  1809. 

The     late     Charles     Dunham 

D1':SHLFR    Deshler,    of    New    Brunswick. 

New  Jersey,  was  of  the  sixth 

generatinn   of  the   Deshler   family  and  of  the 

eighth  generation   of   the   Dunham    family   in 

America,  his  ancestral  lines  being  as  follows : 

Paternal  Line.     (I)  Johann  Deshler.  born  in 

Germany,  came  to  America  in  1730.    ( II )  Adam 

Deshler,  lived  near  .\llentown,   Peimsylvania. 

inirchased,  in  1742,  from  Frederick  .\ewhard, 

two  hundred  and  three  and  one-half  acres,  on 

which  he  built  in  ijCto  the  stone  dwelling  called 

Fort    Deshler    (still   standing);   furnished  the 

provincial  troops  with  supplies  in  the  French  and 

Indian  war;  married  .\pollonia .     (IIP) 

l);ivid  1  )esliler.  born  at  Egy]3t.  Pennsylvania, 
1733.  died  at  ISienj's  Bridge.  Pennsylvania.  De- 
cember. 1796  :  built  in  ( icrmantown.  1772-73,  the 
famous  dwelling  (afterward  the  residence  of 
the  Morris  family)  known  as  the  Morris- 
De.sliler  house,  which  at  one  time  was  the 
liead(|uarters  of  the  P.ritish  General  Howe, 
and  in  1793,  during  the  yellow  fever  scourge, 
was  occujiicd  by  President  Washington  as  the 

e.Kecutive  mansion  ;  married   Susanna  . 

iW')  John  .\dam  Deshler.  burn  \y&y.  died 
1820:  married  Deborah  Wagencr.  (V) 
(ieorge  Wagener  Deslder,  born  in  .\llentown, 
Pennsylvania,  September   17,  1793,  died  1836; 


lived  in  Fasten,  Pennsylvania;  protbonotary  of 
Northampton  county,  Pennsylvania  ;  editor  for 
some  time  of  the  Belvidere  (New  Jersey) 
Apollo:  married.  May  4.  1818,  Catharine  Law- 
son  Dunham.  (W)  Charles  Dunham  Desh- 
ler, see  forward. 

Maternal  Line.  (I)  Deacon  John  Dunham, 
born  in  England  in  1589.  came  to  New  Eng- 
land in  the  ship  "James"  in  1630,  and  died  in 
Plymouth,    Massachusetts,    in    1669;    married 

Abigail .     (II)    Benajah  Dunham,  born 

1640,  in  Plymouth,  Massachusetts,  died  De- 
cember 24.  1680,  in  Piscataway,  New  Jersey; 
married,  October  25,  1660,  Elizabeth  Tilson. 
(Ill)  Rev.  Edmund  Dunham,  born  in  Piscat- 
away township.  Middlesex  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, July  25,  1661,  died  March  7,  1734;  mar- 
ried, July  15,  1681,  Mary  Bonham  (born  Oc- 
tober 4,  1661,  died  1742).  (I\')  Rev.  Jona- 
than Dunham,  of  Piscataway,  born  August 
16.  i(k>4,  died  March  10,  1777;  married  Au- 
gust 15.  1714.  Jane  Pyatt.  (V)  Colonel  Aza- 
riah  Dunham,  born  in  Piscataway,  New  Jer- 
sey, 1719.  died  January  22,  1790;  noted  land 
surveyor;  active  in  the  revolutionary  war, 
being  a  member  of  the  committee  of  corres- 
pondence ;  married  Mary  Ford,  of  Morris- 
town,  whij  was  born  Sejjtember  22,  1734,  in 
the  old  Ford  house  at  that  place,  afterward 
Washington's  headc|uarters.  (\^I)  Dr.  Jacob 
Dunham,  of  New  Prunswick.  born  September 
30.  17(17,  died  August  23,  1832;  married  Eliz- 
abeth Lawson.  (\II)  Catharine  Lawson 
Dunham,  born  July  14,  1791,  died  March  26, 
1875;  married.  May  4,  1818,  George  Wagener 
Deshler.      (VIII)   Charles    Dunham    Deshler. 

( \'I )  Charles  Dunham  Deshler,  eldest 
child  and  only  son  of  George  Wagener  and 
Catharine  Lawson  (Dunham)  Deshler,  was 
born  in  Easton,  Pennsylvania,  March  i,  1819. 
When  about  four  years  old  he  was  sent  to 
New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  to  make  his 
home  with  his  grandfather.  Dr.  Jacob  Dunham, 
who  then  resided  on  Peace  street,  at  the  foot  of 
t.'hin-ch.  in  a  house  which  is  still  standing, 
though  remodeled.  He  was  educated  in  pri- 
vate schools  and  at  the  Rutgers  Preparatory 
.School,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1832  at 
the  age  of  thirteen.  After  his  grandfather's 
death  in  the  latter  year,  he  was  aj^in-enticed  as 
clerk  to  Richard  S.  McDonald  in  the  drug 
business  in  New  Brunswick.  Succeeding  Mr. 
McDonald,  he  conducted  the  business  under 
the  firm  styles  of  Deshler  &  Carter.  Deshler  & 
I5oggs,  and  finally  C.  D.  Deshler.  During  this 
]ierio(l  he  took  an  active  and  iirominent  part  in 
organizing    the    New    Brunswick   gas    works, 


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savings  institution,  and  circulating  library,  as 
also  the  New  Brunswick  public  school  system, 
of  which  he  has  always  been  regarded  as  the 
founder. 

Moving  to  Jersey  City,  Mr.  Deshler  became 
editor  of  the  American  Standard,  resigning 
that  position  to  accept  the  editorship  of  the 
Newark  Daily  Advertiser,  and  conducted  these 
papers  with  marked  ability  during  a  portion  of 
the  civil  war.  .Appointed  by  Governor  Joel 
Parker  commissioner  for  the  sick  and  wound- 
ed Jersey  troops,  he  spent  considerable  time 
in  the  south  caring  for  the  wants  and  interests 
of  the  New  Jersey  and  other  troops  in  the 
various  hospitals.  In  1865  he  went  to  the  oil 
regions  of  Pennsylvania,  occupying  the  posi- 
tion of  treasurer  of  the  Farmers'  railroad, 
which  ran  from  Petroleum  Center  to  Oil  City. 
He  resigned  that  place  to  become  secretary  of 
the  International  Life  Insurance  Company,  of 
Jersey  City,  and  later  was  engaged  in  business 
interests  and  literary  work  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  was  at  various  times  editor  of  the 
Christian  Intelligencer,  secretary  of  the  United 
States  Dairy  Comjiany,  secretary  of  the  Har- 
ney Peak  Tin  Mining,  Milling  and  Manufac- 
turing Company,  and  book  reviewer  for  the 
publishing  house  of  Harper  Brothers. 

Re-establishing  his  residence  in  New  Bruns- 
wick, ^Ir.  Deshler  was  until  his  death  a  promi- 
nent and  highly  esteemed  citizen  of  that  com- 
munity. He  was  lay  judge  of  the  Middlesex 
county  court  of  common  pleas,  postmaster  of 
New  Brunswick  1  ajipointed  by  President  Cleve- 
land), and  agent  for  the  Mutual  Life  Insur- 
ance Company.  For  many  j'ears  he  was  vestry- 
man of  Christ  (Episcopal)  Church.  Through- 
out his  very  long  life  he  was  strongly  inter- 
ested in  public  affairs,  and  he  was  associated 
on  intimate  terms  with  many  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished political  leaders.  Originally  an 
ardent  \\  hig  (  his  first  vote  being  cast  for  Har- 
rison and  Tyler  in  1840),  he  later  became  a 
member  of  the  so-called  Know  Nothing  party, 
and  finally  of  the  Democratic  organization. 
By  appointment  from  Governor  McClellan  he 
served  as  one  of  the  commissioners  for  the 
Blind  and  Feeble-minded,  having  charge  of 
the  erection  of  buildings,  etc.  At  the  centen- 
nial of  the  New  Jersey  state  legislature  he 
delivered,  by  the  invitation  of  that  body,  one 
of  the  addresses.  .\  man  of  accomplished  lit- 
erary ability,  for  a  portion  of  his  life  (as  we 
have  seen)  a  professional  writer  and  editor, 
and  at  all  times  occupied  more  or  less  with 
literary  studies  and  composition,  no  account  of 
his  career  would  be  adequate  without  a  some- 


what particular  allusion  to  this  phase  of  it. 
llis  reading  was  most  extensive,  his  tastes  in- 
clining especially  to  the  study  of  English  liter- 
ature, of  which  he  had  a  scholarly  knowledge, 
and  upon  which  he  wrote  and  published  val- 
uable critical  essays  and  other  contributions. 
He  was  the  author  of  "Selections  from  the 
Poetical  Works  of  Geoffry  Chaucer"  ( Put- 
nam, 1848)  and  "Afternoons  with  the  Poets" 
(Har]5er,  1879  I.  He  also  devoted  much  atten- 
tion to  historical  researches,  and  in  this  con- 
nection published  many  sketches  and  addresses. 
The  George  W.  Deshler  Memorial  Library  of 
the  New  Brun.swick  high  school  was  given  by 
him  in  memory  of  a  son.  Mr.  Deshler  died  at 
his  residence  in  New  Brunswick.  May  10, 
19CX),  in  his  ninety-first  year. 

He  married.  May  30,  1841,  Mary  Moore 
Holcombe,  born  October  10,  1824,  in  New 
Brunswick,  died  September  7,  1893,  daughter 
of  Theophilus  Moore  and  Catherine  Neilson 
(Farmer)  Holcombe.  The  Holcombes  in  this 
line  were  an  older  Quaker  familv,  originally 
of  Lambertville,  New  Jersey.  Children:  I. 
Edward  Boggs.  2.  George  \\'ageni?r,  graduate 
of  West  Point  Military  .Academy,  and  after- 
ward first  lieutenant  of  Company  A,  First 
.Artillery,  Lhiited  States  army ;  died  of  yellow 
fever  at  Fort  Barrancas,  Florida,  July  28. 
1875.  3.  Monroe  Holcombe  (deceased).  4. 
James.  5.  Kate.  6.  Theophilus  Holcombe 
(deceased).  7.  Mary  Holcombe.  8.  Elizabeth 
Dunham  (deceased).  9.  Charles.  10.  Fred- 
erick.    II.  Edith. 

(VII  )  James  Deshler,  fourth  child  of 
Charles  Dunham  and  Mary  Moore  (Hol- 
combe) Deshler,  was  born  in  New  Brunswick, 
New  Jersey,  May  9,  1850.  He  received  a 
public  school  education  and  at  an  early  age 
engaged  in  mercantile  employment  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  subsequently  being  a  clerk  in  the 
ofifice  of  the  general  ticket  agent  of  the  New 
Jersey  Central  railroad.  Wall  street.  New 
York  City.  From  1865  to  1874  he  was  in  the 
Pennsylvania  oil  regions,  occupying  positions 
as  clerk  for  the  Farmers'  railroad  and  with 
George  H.  Bissell  &  Company,  bankers  at 
Petroleum  Centre.  In  the  latter  year  he  re- 
turned to  New  Brunswick,  where  he  became 
connected  with  the  New  Jersey  Rubber  Com- 
pany. He  has  since  continued  with  that  manu- 
facturing interest,  which  in  1876  took  the  name 
of  the  New  Jersey  Rubber  Shoe  Company,  and 
in  1892  was  merged  in  the  United  States  Rub- 
ber Company ;  and  he  now  occupies  the  posi- 
tion of  superintendent  and  manager  of  the 
New  Jersey  factory  of  the  L'nited  .States  Rub- 


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ber  Company.  Mr.  Deshler  is  president  of  the 
New  Brunswick  Trust  Company.  He  mar- 
ried Ellen  Slater,  their  children  being:  i. 
Mary,  married  George  W.  Wilniot,  of  New- 
Brunswick.  2.  Anna  H.,  married  Frank  K. 
Runyon,  of  New  Brunswick.  3.  Katherine, 
married  Dr.  Frank  L.  Hindle,  of  New  Bruns- 
wick. 4.  Louise,  married  Robert  E.  Ross,  of 
New  Brunswick.  5.  George  Ray,  married 
Mabel  Dickson,  of  New  Brunswick.    6.  Helen. 


The  family  name  Dunham  is 
DUNHAM  a  surname  derived  from  a 
place  and  in  part  from  per- 
sonal qualities.  Dun  is  a  Celtic  adjective  mean- 
ing brown  and  "ham"  in  early  Anglo-Saxon 
stood  for  house.  Therefore  the  town  house 
of  the  Duns  was  Dunham.  In  early  times  the 
name  was  variously  written,  according  to  the 
peculiar  fancy  of  the  writer,  hence  the  familiar 
Dunham  patronymic  is  found  otherwise  as 
Doneham,  Denham  and  Duneham.  In  its 
origin  the  name  dates  back  to  some  remote 
period,  even  before  the  Saxon  invasion  of 
England.  Most  all  words,  whether  names  of 
persons,  places  or  things,  have  a  history,  "the 
ancestry  of  which,  as  of  individuals,  is  often  a 
very  noble  part." 

(I)  Deacon  John  Dunham,  immigrant  an- 
cestor and  founder  of  this  family  in  America, 
is  said  to  have  come  from  Lancashire,  Eng- 
land, in  the  ship  "Hope"  in  1630-31.*  He  set- 
tled at  New  Plymouth,  became  landholder  in 
1632  and  was  made  freeman  of  the  colony 
there  in  1633.  Soon  afterward  he  became 
identified  with  the  Pilgrim  church,  in  1638 
being  elected  deacon  of  the  religious  society. 
At  that  time  in  the  "Old  Colony,"  as  after- 
ward in  most  other  New  England  colonies, 
none  but  church  members  were  admitted  to 
full  citizenship.  John  Dunham  was  one  of 
the  four  deputies  elected  in  1638  to  represent 
the  Plymouth  settlement,  and  for  each  succes- 
sive council  during  the  next  twenty  years  he 
was  chosen  to  this  responsible  office  in  the 
legislative  assembly.  He  was  born  in  England 
in  1589,  and  after  coming  to  Plymouth  con- 
tinued to  live  there  until  he  was  eighty  years 
old.  The  public  records  mention  his  upright 
character  as  a  lawmaker  and  his  pious  life  as 


•It  is  claimed  by  tlie  autiior  of  tlie  recent  Dun- 
ham Genealogy  (1907)  tliat  he  was  identical  with 
John  Goodman  of  the  "Mayflower."  having  assumed 
and  for  some  time  l)orne  the  name  of  Goodman  in 
order  to  conceal  his  personality  from  his  Episcopa- 
lian relatives  in  England,  who  bitterly  resented  his 
association  with  the  Pilgrims. 


a  faithful  deacon  of  the  Plymouth  church.  At 
his  death  in  1668-69  it  was  written  in  the  town 
records  that  he  was  "an  approved  servant  of 
("lOd,  and  a  useful  man  in  his  place."  He 
made  his  last  will  January  25.  1669,  which  was 
witnessed  by  two  staunch  Pilgrims,  John  Cot- 
ton and  Thomas  Cushman.  His  wife,  Abigail, 
was  appointed  to  administer  his  estate,  an  in- 
ventory of  which  was  made  by  Thomas  South- 
worth.  Of  his  children  seven  sons  and  tliree 
daughters  survived  him,  all  of  whom  lived  to 
mature  years  and  became  founders  of  large 
families.  Of  this  large  and  influential  family, 
which  greatly  multiplied  and  replenished  the 
earth,  all  of  the  children  settled  at  first  in  the 
New  England  colonies,  except  Benajah,  who 
emigrated  to  East  Jersey  about  1671.  Chil- 
dren of  Deacon  John  and  Abigail  Dunham: 
I.  John,  born  in  Leyden,  1620.  2.  Abigail, 
born  England.  1623 :  married.  November  6, 
1644,  Stephen  Wood.  3.  Samuel,  born  Eng- 
land, 1625  ;  married,  June  29,  1649,  Mrs.  Mar- 
tha Falloway.  4.  Thomas,  born  1627;  mar- 
ried, in  1651,  Martha  Knott.  5.  Hannah,  born 
1630;  married,  October  31,  1651,  Giles  Rich- 
ard. 6.  Jonathan,  born  1634;  married  (first) 
November  29,  1655,  Mary  Delano;  (second) 
October  13,  1657,  Mary  Cobb.  7.  Joseph,  born 
1637;  married  (first)  November  18,  1657, 
Mercy  Morton;  (second)  August  20,  1669, 
Hester  Wornall.  8.  Benajah.  born  1640;  see 
post.  9.  Persis,  born  1641  ;  married,  October 
15.  1657.  Benajah  Piatt.  10.  Daniel,  born 
1649;  married,  about  1671, . 

(II)  Benajah,  son  of  Deacon  John  and  .Abi- 
gail (Wood)  Dunham,  was  born  in  Plymouth, 
New  England,  in  1640,  and  died  at  Piscata- 
way.  New  Jersey,  December  24,  1680.  He 
bought  lands  in  Piscataway  in  1672,  but  lived 
I)reviously  in  Eastham,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  was  a  court  officer  in  1669.  He  was  made 
freeman  in  1664  and  in  1673  was  appointed 
captain  of  militia.  He  married,  October  25, 
1660.  Elizabeth  Tilson,  of  .Scituate,  Massa- 
chusetts, daughter  of  Edmund  Tilson,  of 
Plvmouth.  They  had  seven  children:  i.  Ed- 
mund, see  post.  2.  John,  born  August  28, 
1663;  died  September  6,  1663.  3.  Elizabeth, 
born  November  20,  1664;  died  December  31, 
1667.  4.  Hannah,  June  4,  1666;  died  Decem- 
ber 25,  1667.  5.  Benjamin,  born  October  28, 
16(17;  died  young.  6.  Mary,  born  New  Jersey, 
in  1669;  married Thompson.  7.  Eliza- 
beth, born  1670;  married,  July  15,  1691,  Jonas 
Wcwd. 

(III)  Rev.  Edmund,  son  of  Benajah  and 
Elizabeth    (Tilson)    Dunham,    was    born     in 


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Plymouth,  July  25,  1661  ;  died  March  17.  1734. 
He  was  one  of  the  founders,  1689,  of  the 
church  at  Piscataway,  New  Jersey,  also  being 
deacon  and  lay  preacher ;  and  he  was  ordained 
in  the  ministry  at  \\"esterly,  Rhode  Island,  in 
1705.  In  the  same  year  he  founded  the  Sev- 
enth Day  Baptist  church  at  Piscataway  and 
was  the  foremost  leader  of  that  church  in  New 
Jersey  during  the  period  of  his  life.  He  also 
performed  the  duties  of  magistrate,  having 
been  commissioned  justice  by  Queen  Anne  in 
1709.  He  married,  July  15,  1681,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  Bonham,  whose  w-ife 
was  Hannah,  daughter  of  Samuel  Fuller,  son 
of  Edward  Fuller  who  with  wife  Ann  came 
over  in  the  "Mayflower."  Samuel  Fuller  mar- 
ried Jane  Lothrop,  daughter  of  Thomas  Loth- 
rop,  son  of  Robert  Lothrop,  whose  father  was 
John  Lothrop,  of  Cherry  Burton,  England, 
and  afterward  one  of  the  [jrominent  characters 
of  New  England  history.  Rev.  Edmund  and 
Mary  (  Bonham  )  Dunham  had  eight  children  : 

1.  Benajah,  born  August  13,  1684;  died 
.•\ugust  II,  1742;  married,  August  20,  1704, 
Dorothy  Martin.  2.  Elizabeth,  born  No- 
vember 26,  1689;  married,  August  21.  1704, 
Jonathan  Martin.  3.  Edmund,  born  January 
15,  iCk)\  :  married  (first)  March  11,  1717, 
Dinah  Fitz  Randolph;  (second)  Mary  Hill. 
4.  Jonathan,  see  post.     5.  Ephraim,  born  May 

2,  1696;  married,  June  16,  1716,  Phebe 
Smalley.  6.  Ruth,  born  November  26,  1698; 
married  David  Thomas.  7.  Mary,  born  July 
I,  1700:  married,  June  12,  1721,  Elisha 
Smalley.  8.  Haimah,  born  April  14,  1704; 
married,  March  29,  1724,  Josiah  Davis. 

(IV  I  Rev.  Jonathan,  son  of  Rev.  Edmund 
and  Mary  (Bonham)  Dunham,  was  born 
March  4,  1693;  died  March  10,  1777.  In 
1746  he  succeeded  his  father  in  the  ministry 
and  for  many  years  held  a  position  of  great 
prominence  in  the  church  of  his  faith.  He 
preached  in  Pennsylvania  and  Rhode  Island, 
in  the  latter  state  at  Westerly  and  Newport. 
He  married,  .\ugust  15,  1714.  Jane  Pyatt,  who 
died  near  Stelton,  New^  Jersey,  September  15, 
1779,  aged  eighty-four  years.  Of  this  mar- 
riage eight  children  were  born:     i.  Elizabeth, 

jborn  1715;  married,  1739.  Micaiah  Dunn.     2. 

lAzariah,  born  February  9,  1718;  married 
(first)  MaryTruxton;  (second)  Mary  (Fordj 
Stone.  3.  Jonathan,  born  j\Iay  23,  1721  ;  mar- 
ried Keziah  Fitz  Randolph.  4.  David,  see 
post.  5.  Isaac,  born  August  10,  1725  ;  died 
young.  6.  Ruth,  born  January  3,  1727;  mar- 
ried, February  25,  1746,  James  Martin.  7. 
Samuel,   born   November   27,    1730;   married, 


May   8,    1750,    Mary    Lucas.     8.    Jane,   born 
April  2,  1734. 

(V)  David,  son  of  Rev.  Jonathan  and  Jane 
(Pyatt)  Dunham,  was  born  in  Piscataway, 
New  Jersey,  March  14,  1723;  died  October  6, 
1806.  He  married,  October  14,  1750,  Rebecca 
Dunn,  who  bore  him  six  children :  i.  Jonathan, 
born  1751  ;  died  October  6,  1806;  married 
(first)  Sarah  Lenox;  (second)  Susanna  Flal- 
sey.  2.  Sarah,  born  1752;  married  Abel  Stelli. 
3.  David,  born  1755  ;  married  Keziah  Dunn.  4. 
Jeremiah,  born  1758;  died  January  11,  1831  ; 
married  Phebe  Fitz  Randolph.  5.  Azariah, 
see  post.  6.  Phineas,  born  1764;  married 
Zeruiah  Dunham. 

(VI)  Azariah,  son  of  David  and  Rebecca 
(Dunn)  Dunham,  was  born  December  24, 
1760:  died  October  7,  1839.  He  married,  Oc- 
tober 7,  1792,  Elizabeth  Dunham,  daughter  of 
David  Dunham,  Esq.,  and  granddaughter  of 
Colonel  .\zariah  Dunham.  She  died  April  12, 
1827.  Three  children  were  born  of  this  mar- 
riage: I.  Jephtha,  born  June  22,  1793;  see 
post.  2.  Aaron,  born  June  4,  1795;  married 
Eliza  Carlisle.  3.  Mary,  married  Job  Wolver- 
ton. 

(\']I)  Jephtha,  son  of  .\zariah  and  Eliza- 
beth (  Dunham )  Dunham,  was  born  June  22, 
1793,  and  married,  October  11,  1815,  .\nn 
Runyon.  They  had  five  children:  i.  Jane, 
born  July  16,  1816,  marrieil  .\ugustus  T. 
Stout.  2.  Nelson,  born  September  18,  1818, 
see  post.  3.  Lewis  Runyon,  born  .August  22, 
1824.  4.  Jeremiah  Stelle,  born  November  19, 
1 83 1,  married.  September  24,  1867,  Frances 
.\ugusta  Lawton,  born  August  30,  1846.  5. 
Elizabeth,  born  .August  10,  1834,  married 
Henry  Waters. 

(\TII)  Nelson,  son  of  Jeptha  and  Ann 
(Runyon)  Dunham,  was  born  in  New  Bruns- 
wick, New  Jersey,  September  18,  1818.  He 
was  a  merchant  of  New  Brunswick,  engaged 
in  a  general  dry  goods  business,  successful  in 
his  ow^n  endeavors,  and  prominently  identified 
with  the  political  life  of  the  city  for  many 
years.  During  the  last  thirty  years  of  his 
life  he  was  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  New 
F)runswick  Savings  Institution,  having  given 
up  mercantile  pursuits  to  manage  the  business 
of  the  bank.  At  different  times  he  served  as 
alderman  of  the  city  and  member  of  the  board 
of  education.  In  politics  he  was  a  republican 
and  in  religious  preference  a  Baptist.  Mr. 
Dunliam  married,  at  New  Brunswick,  Febru- 
ary I,  1844,  Elizabeth  .\ugnsta  Linant,  born 
March  7,  1818,  daughter  of  .Andrew  Linant, 
born  Rouen,   France,   December  8,    1785,  son 


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STATE    OF    XE\\^    JERSEY. 


of  Andre  X'incent  A.  Linant,  who  married 
July  7.  1817,  Margaret,  widow  of  John  Marsh, 
and  whose  family  name  was  Manning.  She 
was  a  daughter  of  Josepli  Manning,  of  Plain- 
field,  New  Jersey,  niece  of  Rev.  Dr.  James 
Manning,  first  president  of  Brown  Univer- 
sity, and  grancldaughter  of  Judge  Daniel 
Cooper,  of  Morris  county.  New  Jersey.  Mar- 
garet Manning  also  was  descended  from  Jef- 
frey Manning,  died  1693,  who  married  Hep- 
zibah  .\ndrews,  daughter  uf  Joseph  Andrews, 
of  Hingham,  Massachusetts.  James  Man- 
ning, son  of  Ilepzibali.  married  Christiana 
Laing,  and  had  a  son  James,  who  married 
Crace  Fitz  Randolph  and  had  a  soii  Joseph, 
who  married  Providence  Cooper  and  had  a 
daughter  ?ilargaret,  wdio  married  ( first )  John 
Marsh  and  (second)  .\ndrew  Linant.  Nelson 
and  Elizabeth  Augusta  (Linant)  Dunham  had 
two  children:  i.  Andrew  Linant,  born  New 
P.runswick,  December  g.  1844,  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Dr.  John  Magee  and  had  Albert 
Xewell,  who  married  Jane  De  Camp  Felch, 
and  Rev.  Clarence  Manning,  not  married.  2. 
Charles  .-Vrndt,  see  post. 

( L\ )  Charles  Arndt,  second  son  and  child 
of  Nelson  and  Elizabeth  Augusta  (Linant) 
Dunham,  was  born  in  New  Brunswick,  New- 
Jersey,  .-Xugiist  25,  1850,  and  acquired  his 
earlier  education  in  public  and  private  schools 
in  that  city,  and  his  higher  literary  education 
at  Rutgers  College,  where  he  graduated  in 
1872.  Since  leaving  college  he  has  been  iden- 
tified in  one  capacity  and  another  with  the 
business  management  of  the  New  Brunswick 
Savings  Institution,  and  since  1885  has  been 
its  secretary  and  treasurer.  He  holds  mem- 
bership in  the  Massachusetts  and  New  Jersey 
societies  of  Mayflower  Descendants,  is  a  Re- 
publican in  political  preference  and  an  attend- 
ant at  the  services  of  the  Baptist  church.  Mr. 
Dunham  is  not  married. 


years  was  engaged  in  the  rubber  business,  and 
is  the  son  of  the  present  Clarkson  Runyon, 
also  of  New  Brunswick,  who  is  identified  with 
financial  interests  in  New  York  City,  being 
a  member  of  the  Stock  Exchange,  and  of  his 
wife,  Laura  Nichols  Phillips,  daughter  of 
John   Phillips,  of  New  York. 


Laurance  Phillips  Runyon, 
RUNYON  M.  D.,  of  New  Bruns- 
wick, .New  Jersey,  was  born 
in  that  city,  h'ebruary  5,  1877.  He  was 
graduated  from  Rutgers  College  in  1899,  and 
from  the  Ccillege  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
New  \nrk  City,  in  1903.  After  three  years 
in  hospital  work  in  New  York  he  embarked 
m  medical  practice  in  New  Brunswick,  which 
he  has  since  pursued  with  success  and  repu- 
tation. He  is  a  member  of  the  state  and 
coimty  medical  societies. 

Dr.    Riui\-on    is   the   grandson   of   Clarkson 
Runyon.   of   New   Bnmswick,   wli<i    for  !nany 


The  first  little  band  of  German 
COX.VRD  emigrants  set  sail  for  Pennsyl- 
vania in  the  ship  "Concord," 
July  24,  1683.  There  were  thirteen  men  with 
their  families,  comprising  thirty-three  persons, 
nearly  all  of  whom  were  relatives,  and  all  from 
Crefeld,  a  city  of  the  lower  Rhine  in  Germany, 
a  few  miles  from  the  borders  of  Holland. 
.Among  the  number  on  board  the  ship  was 
Thones  Kunders,  a  man  at  that  time  about 
twenty-five  or  thirty  years  old,  and  his  wife 
Elin,  who  is  supposed  to  have  been  a  sister 
of  William  Streypers,  who  also  was  one  of 
the  immigrants.  Probably  all  of  those  on 
board  the  "Concord"  on  this  voyage  were 
Menonites  and  Friends  in  religious  faith,  and 
lioth  of  these  sects  believed  in  inward  piety  and 
a  godly  humble  life,  considered  all  strife  and 
warfare  as  unchristian,  abstained  from  taking 
oaths,  opposed  a  paid  ministry,  favored  silent 
prayer  and  exercised  strict  discipline  over  their 
members.  Before  starting  for  America 
Thones  Kunders  had  purchased  a  warrant  for 
five  hundred  acres  of  land  to  be  located  in 
Pennsylvania,  being  the  same  which  one  Len- 
art  Arets  had  previously  bought  of  William 
Penn.  The  land  was  at  Germantown,  in  the 
north  part  of  the  present  city  of  Philadelphia, 
and  it  was  there  that  our  ancestor  settled  down 
with  his  wife  and  three  boys  to  work  out  for 
himself  a  livelihood  in  America.  \\'hile  liv- 
ing in  Crefeld  he  had  carried  on  the  trade  of 
a  blue  dyer,  and  continued  the  same  after  set- 
tling at  Germantown.  In  1683,  very  soon 
after  their  arrival,  the  first  meeting  of  Friends 
was  held  in  the  house  of  Thones  Kunders, 
and  it  is  jtrobable  that  the  meetings  were  con- 
tinued to  be  held  there  until  the  erection  of 
the  first  meeting  house,  in  1686.  In  the  course 
of  time  this  ancestor,  Thones  Kunders,  came 
to  be  known  as  Dennis  Conard,  or  Conrad,  as 
otherwise  frequently  written.  He  had  seven 
children :  Cunraed,  Madtis,  John,  .Ann,  Agnes, 
Henry  and  Elizabeth,  the  first  three  of  whom 
were  born  in  Crefeld  and  the  others  at  Ger- 
mantown. This  Thones  Kunders,  or  Dennis 
Conard,  was  progenitor  of  a  numerous  family 
of  descendants,  who  in  later  generations  have 
become    well     scattered    throughout    Chester, 


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Montgomery  ami  I'liihulelphia  counties  in 
Pennsylvania  and  also  in  the  bordering  states 
of  Delaware  and  New  Jersey. 

(II)  Mathias  Conard,  son  of  Thones  Kun- 
ders,  was  born  in  Crefeld,  Germany,  Novem- 
ber 25,  1679.  died  in  Germantown,  Pennsyl- 
vania. 1726.  His  children  were:  Anthony. 
Margaret.  Cornelius,  Magdalene.  W  illiam, 
John  and  Mathew. 

I  III)  Cornelius,  son  of  Mathias  Conard, 
was  born  in  Germantown,  Pennsylvania,  mar- 
ried Priscilla ,  and  had  a  son  Joseph. 

(  R' )  Joseph,  son  of  Cornelius  Conard,  was 
born  April  21,  1742.  He  married  Martha 
Penfield ;  children :  Paul,  Daniel,  Joseph,  Cor- 
nelius, John,   Priscilla  and   Martha. 

(\')  Joseph  (2).  son  of  Joseph  (i)  Conard, 
was  born  February  19,  1778,  in  Chester  county, 
Pennsylvania.  Later  he  resided  in  the  city  of 
Philadelphia,  where  at  one  time  he  had  charge 
of  the  Callowhill  street  bridge  across  the 
Schuykill  river.  Froin  there  he  removed  to 
New  Jersey  and  settled  on  a  farm  below 
Camden,  near  Mt.  Ephraim  or  Haddonfiekl. 
He  married  JNIaria  Roberts,  born  July  23, 
1789.  Children:  i.  Paul,  born  September  15, 
1809.  2.  Martha,  born  May  15,  181 1,  died 
January  5,  181 3.  3.  John  R.,  born  October 
21,  1813.  4.  Charles,  born  August  15,  1815. 
5.  Lewis  K.,  born  July  5.  1818.  6.  David, 
born  November  20,  1820.  died  in  1905.  7.  Re- 
becca, born  April  18,  1822,  died  October  24. 
1823.  8.  Joseph,  born  June  13,  1825,  died 
July  13,  183 1.  9.  Sarah,  born  June  14,  1827. 
10.   William,    mentioned   below. 

(  \T  )  William,  youngest  son  of  Joseph  (2) 
Conard,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylva- 
nia. January  10,  1833,  died  November  23, 
1903.  He  removed  with  his  parents  to  New 
Jersey,  was  educated  there  and  afterward  for 
a  time  taught  school  near  Blackbrook.  From 
1859  and  throughout  the  period  of  the  civil 
war  he  was  in  the  employ  of  the  company 
which  afterward  became  the  Pullman  Car 
Company,  in  the  capacity  of  conductor,  hav- 
ing charge  of  trains  for  transporting  officers 
and  troops  to  and  from  the  south.  After 
the  close  of  the  war  he  became  connected  with 
the  firm  of  A.  H.  McNeal  &  Company,  manu- 
facturers of  iron  pipe  at  Burlington,  and  still 
later,  under  Colonel  Whitman,  he  acted  as  in- 
spector of  iron  pipe  and  other  manufactures  of 
iron  intended  for  markets.  During  the  war 
he  enlisted,  but  was  not  called  into  active  serv- 
ice. He  was  a  prominent  figure  in  the  Ma- 
sonic order,  a  member  of  the  Societv  of 
Friends    and    a    Republican    in    politics.     He 


married.  January  i.  18(12.  Julia  A.  Powell, 
born  January  I.  1837,  died  AjMil  28,  1909, 
daughter  of  Joseph  L.  and  Rebecca  Ann 
(I'lreng)  Powell.  Children:  i.  George  P., 
mentioned  below.  2.  Anna  L.,  died  February 
23,  1909.  3.  William  Roberts,  mentioned 
below. 

Thomas  Powell,  grandfather  of  Julia  A. 
(Powell)  Conard.  came  from  Slirevvsbury, 
England,  to  America  about  1751 ;  he  was  a  son 
of  wealthy  parents  and  was  a  student  at  col- 
lege when  he  was  impressed  in  the  British 
navy  and  brought  to  America  during  the 
l'>ench  and  Indian  war.  He  was  a  musician 
and  served  as  drum  major  in  an  American 
regiment.  He  was  a  school  teacher,  writing 
master  and  followed  the  occupation  of  sur- 
veying. He  married  (first)  in  1769,  at  New 
Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  Jane  Henry;  (sec- 
ond )  Hannah  Smith,  at  New  Brunswick,  New 
Jersey.  July  3,  1791.  Children  of  Thomas  and 
Hannah  Powell:  Peter,  born  May  2,  1792; 
Hannah,  January  4,  1794;  Elizabeth  H.,  No- 
\'ember  11,  1796;  Joseph  L.,  February  19, 
1799.  died  June  i,  1878;  father  of  Julia  A. 
(Powell)  Conard;  Mary  A.,  September  2, 
1802. 

{\TI)  George  P.^  eldest  son  of  William 
Conard.  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylva- 
nia. February  16,  1864.  He  attended  the 
Burlington  public  schools,  and  after  complet- 
ing his  studies  acce]3ted  a  position  in  the  shoe 
manufacturing  firm  of  Robert  Wood  &  Son. 
Later  he  was  employed  in  the  car  accounting 
department  of  the  Pennsylvania  and  West 
Shore  railroad,  and  at  the  present  time  (1909) 
is  serving  as  president  of  the  Railway  Equip- 
ment Publication  Company  of  New  York.  He 
resides  in  Brooklyn,  New  York.  He  is  a 
deacon  of  the  Lafayette  Avenue  Presbyterian 
Church  of  that  borough,  and  a  Republican  in 
politics.  He  married,  October  10,  1888,  Helen 
Mary  L'nderwood,  born  near  London,  Eng- 
land. May  17,  1862,  daughter  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  Underwood,  formerly  of  England, 
later  of  New  Durham,  New  Jersey.  Children  : 
I  :  Edith  Cnderwood,  born  in  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  April  26,  1890.  2.  Frederick  Under- 
wood, December  17,  1891.  3.  Helen  Evelyn. 
December  17.  1896.  4.  Lillian,  March  13, 
1900. 

(\'ir)  William  Roberts,  youngest  son  of 
William  Conard,  was  born  in  Burlington.  New 
Jersey  May  19.  1872.  In  addition  to  the  in- 
struction he  received  in  jjublic  schools  and  the 
Trenton  Business  College,  he  has  devoted 
much  attention  to  improving  his  education  by 


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self  study.  When  old  enough  to  work  he 
found  employment  in  various  clerical  capaci- 
ties up  to  1895,  when  he  took  up  the  work  of 
inspecting  and  testing  iron  pipes,  which  he  had 
learned  partly  from  his  father  but  in  greater 
part,  perhaps,  through  his  own  studies  and 
practical  experience.  This  inspection  work 
has  become  his  chief  occupation,  in  the  per- 
formance of  which  he  maintains  an  office  in 
Burlington,  while  his  actual  work  frequently 
calls  him  to  distant  parts  of  the  country.  He 
is  a  thorough  business  man  and  in  his  special 
field  of  work  is  regarded  as  an  expert.  Mr. 
Conard  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  education 
and  also  of  the  city  council  of  Burlington. 
He  is  a  member  of  Burlington  Lodge,  No.  32, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  Boudinot  Chap- 
ter, No.  3,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  Helena  Com- 
mandery.  No.  3,  Knights  Templar ;  Crescent 
Temple,  Ancient  Arabic  Order  Nobles  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine,  of  Trenton ;  Burlington  Lodge, 
No.  22.  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows ; 
Evening  Star  Council,  No.  38,  Junior  Order 
L^nited  American  Workmen,  of  Burlington, 
and  past  state  councillor  of  that  order ;  mem- 
ber and  trustee  of  the  Broad  Street  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  of  Burlington. 

.\Ir.  Conard  married  Corabelle  Topping, 
born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  June  23,  1863, 
daughter  of  Clarence  W.  and  Augusta  (Nich- 
ols) Topping,  the  latter  of  whom  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  H.  Nichols,  who  was  a  ship 
master  in  the  American  Navy  during  the  war 
of  1812.  Children:  i.  Wilfred  George,  born 
in  Burlington,  September  8,  1896.  2.  Robert 
Powell,  Burlington,  November  2,  1898.  3. 
Corabelle  Augusta,  Burlington,  January  27, 
1902.  4.  Esther  T^aurie,  Burlington,  March 
10,  1905. 

James  Donohue,  a  native  of 
DONOHl^E  Ireland,  came  to  America 
when  a  young  man  and  set- 
tled in  New  Brunswick,  living  there  until  the 
time  of  his  death  in  1880.  He  married  Jane 
Reynolds,  born  in  Ireland  and  died  in  New 
Brunswick  in  1883. 

(II)  Dr.  Frank  M.  Donohue,  son  of  James 
and  Jane  (Reynolds)  Donohue,  was  born  in 
New  Brunswick,  August  17,  1859,  and  ac- 
cjuired  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools 
and  grammar  school  of  that  city.  Subse- 
quently he  took  a  special  course  in  chemistry 
at  Rutgers,  and  later  for  two  years  was  a 
student  at  St.  Francis  Xavier  College,  New 
York  City.  He  studied  medicine  under  the 
direction   of   Dr.    Clifford   Morrogh,   of   New 


lirunswick,  one  of  the  leading  men  of  his  pro- 
fession in  the  state,  and  made  the  course  of 
the  medical  department  of  the  New  York 
University,  graduating  M.  D.  in  1881,  magna 
cum  latidc,  winner  of  the  highest  prize  of  five 
hundred  dollars  for  general  proficiency.  And 
as  he  won  high  honors  as  a  student  of  the 
medical  course  at  the  university,  so  too  has  he 
attained  distinction  in  professional  life,  for  he 
has  come  to  be  recognized  as  one  of  the  most 
successful  surgeons  of  this  state.  Since  he 
came  to  the  degree  Dr.  Donohue  has  practiced 
general  medicine  and  surgery  in  New  Bruns- 
wick, although  his  fame  as  a  surgeon  is  known 
throughout  the  region.  He  was  the  first  sur- 
geon in  New  Jersey  to  successfully  perform 
the  Caesarian  section  operation,  and  this 
achievement  alone  has  given  him  wide  celeb- 
rity, although  his  skill  and  success  in  general 
surgery  in  later  years  have  added  to  his  popu- 
larity in  all  professional  circles.  He  is  a 
clo.se  and  constant  student,  avoids  the  compli- 
cations of  politics  and  devotes  his  attention 
solely  to  professional  employments.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  American  Medical  Association, 
the  New  Jersey  State  Medical  Society,  ex- 
president  of  the  Middlesex  County  Medical  So- 
ciety and  an  honorary  member  of  the  Somer- 
set County  Medical  Society. 

The  hospital  and  other  principal  professional 
appointments  of  Dr.  Donohue  are:  Visiting 
surgeon  to  St.  Peter's  General  Hospital  and 
the  Wells  Memorial  Hospital ;  consulting  sur- 
geon to  the  Somerset  County  Hospital  at  Som- 
erville ;  railroad  surgeon  for  the  Pennsylva- 
nia Railroad  Company;  medical  examiner  for 
the  Equitable  Life,  Mutual  Life,  Metropolitan 
Life,  Mutual  Benefit  Life,  Prudential  Life. 
Provident  Life  and  Trust,  Connecticut  Mutual 
Life,  and  Northwestern  Life  insurance  com- 
[lanies,  and  confidential  examiner  for  the  Trav- 
ellers' Life  Insurance  Company.  He  is  a 
trustee  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Home  for 
Boys,  a  vice-president  and  director  of  the 
People's  National  Bank  of  New  Brunswick, 
director  of  the  New  Brunswick  Trust  Com- 
jiany.  and  trustee  of  the  New  Brunswick  Sav- 
ings Institution.  He  is  the  owner  of  a  hand- 
some country  property  of  one  hundred  acres, 
"Cedarcrest,"  near  Bound  Brook,  New  Jersey. 

In  1884  Dr.  Donohue  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  George  Buttler,  for  many  years  a 
leading  citizen  and  business  man  of  New 
Brunswick.  He  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of 
the  gold  regions  of  California,  a  "49er,"  and 
after  a  few  years  in  the  far  west  he  returned 
east  and  afterward  became  prominently  iden- 


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tified  with  the  industrial  hfe  of  New  Bruns- 
wick, proprietor  of  a  large  sash,  door  and 
blind  factory  and  planing  mill,  and  one  of  the 
foremost  business  men  of  the  city  for  many 
years.  He  married  Harriet  Ann  Voorhees. 
Dr.  Frank  M.  and  Elizabeth  (Buttler)  Dono- 
hue  have  three  children,  all  born  in  New 
Brunswick:  ,Mary  D.,  born  August  7,  1885; 
Elizabeth.  March  27,  1897;  Frank,  March  12, 
1899-  

The  Booraem,  Boerum  and 
BOORAEM     Van  Boerum  families  belong 

to  that  noble  and  stalwart 
group  of  colonists  and  settlers  wdio  came 
originally  from  Holland  to  New  Netherland, 
and  then  emigrated  again  from  the  province 
of  New  York  to  the  province  of  New  Jersey 
where  they  made  names  and  homes  for  them- 
selves and  reputations  for  their  descendants 
to  be  proud  of  and  to  imitate. 

(I)  Willem  Jacobse,  founder  of  the  family, 
was  a  resident  of  the  little  village  of  Boerum 
in  Friesland,  and  being  a  staunch  adherent  of 
the  Prince  of  Orange,  he  found  himself  obliged 
in  order  to  escape  the  persecution  under  the 
Duke  of  Alva  and  the  Spanish  Inquisition,  to 
leave  his  native  land  for  the  freedom  and  safety 
of  the  western  world.  Consecjuently  he  emi- 
grated with  his  two  sons,  Hendrick  and  Jacob, 
to  New  Amsterdam  in  1657,  and  settling  at 
Flatbush  spent  there  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  He  was  born  in  1617,  and  died  before 
1698.  In  1657  and  in  1662  and  1663,  he  is  re- 
corded as  being  one  of  the  magistrates  of  the 
town.     His  name  is  on  the  assessment  roll  of 

1675,  and  he  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  there 
in  1687.  He  married  Geertje  Hendrickse,  and 
had  four  children  who  are  of  record:  i.  Hen- 
drick \\'illemse,  who  is  referred  to  below.  2. 
Jacob  Willemse,  emigrated  with  his  father  and 
brother,  died  before  iCigS,  and  married,  June 
15,  1684,  Geertruyd  De  Beavois,  from  Leyden. 
3.  Geertruy  Willemse,  probably  the  person  of 
that  name  who  married  Francis  du  Puis.  4. 
Hillegont  Willemse. 

(II)  Hendrick  Willemse  van  Boerum,  the 
eldest  son  of  Willem  Jacobse  and  Geertje  Hen- 
drickse, was  born  in  Boerum,  about  1642,  ac- 
companied his  father  in  his  emigration  to  this 
country,  and  is  found  in  Flatbush  in  1675  and 

1676,  and  in  the  census  of  1698  is  registered 
among  the  inhabitants  of  New  Lots.  In  1687 
he  took  the  oath  of  allegience  in  Flatbush,  and 
two  years  previously  he  was  one  of  the  pat- 
entees of  the  town  in  the  charter  of  Governor 
Dongan.     May    27,    1679,    he    bought    of    his 


father  a  farm  in  Matbush  adjoining  on  the 
south  side  his  father's  plantation  and  on  the 
north  that  of  the  Widow  Hegeman,  deceased, 
with  meadows  at.Canarsie  and  lot  number  16 
in  the  new  lots  of  the  said  town.  About  1663 
he  married  Maria  Ariaens  and  had  four  chil- 
dren of  record:  i.  Hendrick,  baptized  July  22, 
1683.  2.  Arie  or  Adriaen,  who  removed  to 
Freehold,  New  Jersey,  born  1666,  married 
Sarah  Smock.  3.  Louise,  baptized  in  I'"lat- 
bush,  October  24,  1680.  4.  Hendrick,  who  is 
referred  to  below. 

(Ill)  Hendrick,  the  son  of  Hendrick  Will- 
emse and  Maria  Ariaense  Boerum,  was  born 
in  Flatbush.  He  changed  the  name  to  its 
present  spelling;  he  moved  to  Bound  Brook. 
Among  his  children  was  Nicholas,  who  is  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(lY)  Nicholas,  the  son  of  Hendrick 
]i5ooraem,  was  born  near  Bound  Brook,  So- 
merset county,  New  Jersey,  in  1714,  and  set- 
tled near  New  Brunswick.  Among  his  chil- 
dren was  Nicholas,  who  is  referred  to  below. 

(V)  Nicholas  (2),  son  of  Nicholas  (i) 
Booraem,  was  born  near  New  Brunswick,  New 
Jersey,  in  1736,  and  served  in  in  the  revolu- 
tionary army.  Among  his  children  was 
Nicholas,  who  is  referred  to  below-. 

(\T)  Nicholas  (3),  son  of  Nicholas  (2) 
Booraem,  was  born  near  New  Brunswick,  New 
Jersey,  and  died  in  1869.  During  the  war  of 
1812  he  served  with  distinction  as  the  colonel 
of  a  New  Jersey  regiment  and  lost  his  hearing 
by  the  explosion  of  a  cannon  during  a  battle. 
He  was  a  Whig,  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
assembly,  one  of  the  associate  judges  of  the 
court  of  common  pleas  for  Middlesex  county, 
and  for  forty-two  years  the  county  treasurer. 
He  was  also  an  elder  in  the  First  Reformed 
Church  of  New  Brunswick.  By  his  wife, 
Sarah  (\\'illet)  Booraem,  who  came  also  of 
revolutionary  stock,  he  had   twelve  children : 

1.  Eliza,  married  the  Rev.  John  Van  Arsdale. 

2.  Ellen,  married  Thomas  Booraem.  3.  Eme- 
line,  married  Charles  Smith,  M.  D.  4.  Louisa, 
married  Nicholas  Edgar  Bookstaver.  5.  Henry 
who  entered  the  United  States  navy  and  was 
killed  while  home,  in  the  great  tornado  that 
swept  over  New  Brunswick,  1836.  6.  Au- 
gustus, M.  D.  7.  Theodore,  who  is  referred 
to  below.  And  five  other  children  who  died 
in  their  youth. 

(\'II)  Theodore,  son  of  Nicholas  (3)  and 
Sarah  (Willet)  Booraem,  was  born  in  New 
Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  in  1831,  and  died 
there  in  1885.  He  studied  law  with  Senator 
Schenck  and  Judge  Wan  Dyke,  and  then  began 


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as  a  general  jiractitioner  in  Xcw  Crunswiek. 
He  went  into  the  insurance  business  and  gave 
niucii  ijf  his  time  to  tlie  settling  up  of  estates. 
IFe  was  a  RepubHcan,  and  for  some  time  was 
the  collector  of  .Middlesex  county.  Ily  his 
wife.  .Mary  (Foster)  l!i«iraeni.  he  had  three 
children:  i.  Tlicdilore  !'>.,  who  is  referred  to 
l.)elow.  2.  Margaret,  married  Rev.  Henry  J. 
Scudder  and  is  now  with  her  husband  a  mis- 
sionary of  the  Relornied  Church  in  America 
in   India.     3.  Harriet. 

(  \'lll  )  Theodore  LS.,  son  of  Theodore  and 
.Mary  (Foster)  Ilooraem.  was  born  in  New 
lirunswick,  .\ew  Jersey,  .\|jril  30,  1861,  and 
is  now  living  in  that  city.  He  graduated  from 
Rutgers  College  in  1881  with  honors,  and  then 
studied  law  w  ith  A.  \'.  Schenck.  He  was  ad- 
mitted t(i  tile  .\c\v  Jersey  bar  as  attorney  in 
1SS4,  and  as  cnunsellor  in  1887.  He  then 
began  ])ractising'  in  .\ew  Krunswick,  where 
his  success  was  brilliant  and  his  advancement 
rapiil.  In  iSyj  he  formed  a  partnership  witli 
John  S.  \  oorhees,  which  continued  until  the 
ilcath  of  the  latter,  lie  has  devoted  much 
time  to  corporation  law  and  its  ]iroblems,  is  the 
representative  of  many  nf  the  principal  firms  in 
New  iirunswick,  and  is  officially  connected 
with  many  companies.  In  1904  he  was  ap- 
piiinted  assistant  L'nited  States  attorney  for 
the  district  of  Xew  Jersey,  which  office  he 
held  until  .\])ril  I,  iyo(j,  when  he  resigned  and 
Ijccame  judge  of  the  Middlesex  county  court 
(_)f  common  pleas,  in  which  position  he  re- 
mained until  .\]iril,  iip9,  when  he  became 
l^rosecutor  of  the  pleas  of  Middlesex  c.ounty, 
which  office  he  now  holds.  He  has  also  been 
city  attorney  for  the  city  of  New  Brunswick, 
and  a  director  in  a  number  of  business  corpo- 
rations of  the  city.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
many  organizations,  among  them  being  the 
Holland  .Society  of  New  York,  and  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  .Association,  of  which  he  is 
an  active  member.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Second  Reformed  Church  of  New  Brunswick. 

.\pril  iCi.  1895,  Theodore  B.  Booraem  mar- 
ried Ilclen  Constance  Randall,  of  New  Bruns- 
wick, whose  maternal  grandfather,  .Abraham 
Suydam.  was  one  of  the  prominent  early  pio- 
neers of  New  Brunswick,  ])resident  of  the 
Farmers'  and  Mechanics'  National  Bank,  and 
at  one  time  owned  half  of  the  site  of  the  pres- 
ent citv. 


Charles   Tiebout   Cow- 
COW'ENHOX'EN     enhoven.  of  the  city  of 
New    Brunswick,    law- 
yer, ex-judge  and  ex-prosecutor  of  the  pleas. 


is  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  earliest  colonial 
families  of  .America.  The  immigrant  ances- 
t<ir,  W'olfert  ( lerritse  \'an  Cowenhoven,  came 
fr(jm  Holland  in  1630  and  founded  the  colony 
of  New  Amersfoort  on  Long  Island,  a  patent 
for  the  lands  having  been  granted  hiin  by  Gov- 
ernor \'an  Twiller.  One  of  this  family  was 
Jacob  Wcilpherson  A'an  Cowenhoven,  delegate 
to  the  states-general  of  Holland ;  and  a  famous 
descendant  in  the  .American  line  was  Egbert 
Benson,  the  eminent  jurist.  .Another  early 
ancestor  of  Charles  Tiebout  Cowenhoven  was 
Nicasius  de  Sille,  one  of  the  nine  selectmen 
in  the  council  (.)f  Governor  Stuyvesant, 
Scheijen,  and  mentioned  in  the  list  of  "great 
citizens"  in  the  year  1657. 

Charles  Tiebout  Cowenhoven  is  a  great- 
grandson  of  Catherine  Remsen  and  is  grand- 
son of  Garetta  Tiebout,  his  parents  having 
been  Nicholas  Remsen  Cowenhoven  (who 
came  to  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  from 
Brooklyn,  New  York),  and  .Anna  Rappelyea 
(  who  was  born  in  Somerset  county.  New  Jer- 
sey). Judge  Cowenhoven's  father  was  not  en- 
gaged in  professional  or  business  occu])ation, 
but  lived  a  cjuiet  and  retired  life,  and  was  rec- 
ognized and  respected  as  a  gentleman  of  tlie  old 
school.  His  family  consisted  of  the  follow- 
ing children:  i.  Garreta  T.,  married  David 
P)ishop,  of  Bishop  Place,  College  avenue.  New 
Brunswick.  2.  Catherine,  married  (as  his  first 
wife)  Rev.  Dr.  W.  J.  R.  Taylor,  a  distin- 
guishe(l  divine  of  the  Reformed  church,  and 
father  of  Rev.  Dr.  Graham  Taylor,  of  the 
Chicago  University,  and  of  Rev.  Dr.  William 
R.  Tavlor,  pastor  of  the  Brick  Church  of 
Rochester,  "New  York.  3.  Maria  SetTerts, 
married  (second  wife),  her  brother-in-law, 
l^ev.  Dr.  \V.  J.  R.  Taylor.  4.  Sarah  Left'erts, 
married  Oscar  Johnson  Jr.,  of  the  old  Johnson 
family  of  Long  Lsland,  nephew  of  the  late 
Mishoii  Whitehouse,  of  Blinois.  5.  Cornelia 
\'an  Vechten,  died  unmarried.  6.  Marianna 
.\.,  resides  with  her  brother  in  New  Bnms- 
wick.  7.  Nicholas  Remsen,  died  young.  8. 
Charles  Tiebout. 

Charles  Tiebout  Cowenhoven  was  born  in 
.Xew  I'runswick,  New  Jersey,  December  i, 
1844.  lie  was  graduated  from  Rutgers  Col- 
lege in  June,  i8{)2,  studied  law  in  the  office  of 
.Abraham  \'.  Schenck,  of  New  Brunswick,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  attor- 
ney in  November,  1865,  and  as  counsellor  in 
February,  1869.  From  186910  1874  he  served 
as  president  judge  of  the  court  of  common 
jileas  of  Aliddlese.x  county,  being  the  youngest 
man  appointed  to  that  bench.     He  was  prose- 


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ciitor  of  the  jjleas  of  Middlesex  county  from 
1877  to  1882,  and  was  again  president-judge 
of  tlie  court  of  common  pleas  from  1885  to 
1890.  Judge  Cowenhoven  has  always  prac- 
ticed his  profession  in  New  Brunswick.  He  has 
a  large  general  clientage,  and  is  known  for  par- 
ticular ability  and  success  as  an  advocate.  He 
has  conducted  many  important  criminal  cases, 
and  es])ccially  has  made  a  marked  reputation 
in  noteworthy  capital  trials.  His  membership 
in  organizations  includes  the  Masonic  order 
and  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  fraternity. 
Married,  1870,  Helen  A.  Towle,  whose  father, 
Henry  Towle,  Esquire,  was  of  English  birth 
and  a  prominent  merchant.  Children:  i. 
Charles  Tielxjut  Cowenhoven,  Jr.,  counsellor- 
at-law  in  New  York  City ;  married  Emily 
Kearney  Rogers.  2.  Marie  T.  3.  Nicholas 
Remsen  Cowenhoven,  attomey-at-law  in  New 
lirunswick. 


Peter  Francis  Daly,  attorney  and 
DALY  counsellor  at  law,  and  surrogate  of 
the  county  of  Middlesex,  was  born 
in  the  city  of  New  York,  May  19,  1867,  son  of 
Timothy  and  Catharine  (O'Grady)  Daly,  na- 
tives of  county  Galway,  Ireland.  When  he 
was  six  years  old,  his  parents  removed  to  New 
Brunswick,  New  Jersey.  His  early  educa- 
tion was  gained  at  St.  Peter's  parochial  school 
and  the  Livingston  high  school,  both  in  New 
Brunswick.  He  studied  law  in  the  office  of 
Hon.  James  H.  Van  Cleef,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  at  the  November  term  of  court  in 
1888.  being  then  in  his  twenty-first  year.  Soon 
afterward  he  became  a  member  of  the  law  firm 
of  Van  Cleef,  Daly  &  Woodbridge,  which  re- 
lation was  continued  for  three  years,  and  since 
that  time  Mr.  Daly  has  practiced  alone.  Dur- 
ing the  first  ten  years  of  his  professional 
career,  he  was  engaged  in*  most  of  the  im- 
portant criminal  cases  tried  in  the  county,  but 
now  and  for  the  past  ten  or  more  years  his 
practice  has  been  almost  wholly  on  the  civil 
side  of  the  courts;  it  is  extensive,  important, 
and  of  general  range.  He  has  been  counsel 
for  the  Workingmen's  Building  and  Loan  As- 
sociation of  New  Brunswick,  one  of  the  most 
important  and  progressive  organizations  of 
its  kind  in  the  state,  since  its  incorporation, 
about  fourteen  years  ago. 

Ever  since  he  came  of  age,  Mr.  Daly  has 
been  an  influential  factor  in  politics  in  New 
Brunswick  and  Middlesex  county,  and  he  oc- 
cupies a  prominent  position  in  the  councils  of 
the  Democratic  party  of  the  state.  He  early 
became  a  luember  of  the  city  Democratic  com- 

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mittee  with  the  specific  purpose  of  purifying 
the  politics  of  his  own  ward,  the  sixth.  His 
intense  earnestness  and  strong  personality 
soon  marked  him  as  a  leader,  and  he  had  the 
pleasure  of  causing  to  be  adopted  a  set  of  rules 
for  primaries  calling  for  clean  methods.  Hav- 
ing secured  the  necessary  legislation,  he  set 
about  to  see  it  put  in  force,  and  proved  equally 
successful  as  an  executive  officer.  His  ener- 
getic fight  for  above-board  primaries  is  a  part 
of  the  history  of  the  ward.  He  was  almost 
killed  at  one  of  the  primaries,  when  the  lights 
were  smashed  and  the  building  fired,  but  he 
has  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that  since  then 
there  has  not  been  a  dishonest  Democratic  pri- 
mary in  the  sixth  ward  or  any  other  ward  of 
the  city.  Such  a  spirit  proved  his  strength 
and  brought  credit  and  confidence  to  his  party. 
He  has  been  called  upon  by  his  party  to  pre- 
side at  its  gatherings,  has  efficiently  filled  the 
office  of  chairman  of  city,  county  and  congre- 
gational conventions,  and'  was  for  several  years 
the  chairman  of  the  Middlesex  County  Demo- 
cratic executive  committee.  The  sixth  ward 
elected  him  to  the  office  of  alderman,  show- 
ing its  appreciation  of  his  services  by  giving 
him  a  rousing  majority.  He  ran  far  ahead 
of  his  ticket.  As  party  leader  in  the  board  of 
aldermen,  and  as  chairman  of  the  finance  com- 
mittee, during  his  two  years'  term,  his  duties 
were  arduous.  It  was  while  he  was  chairman 
of  the  finance  committee  that  over  five  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars  of  the  bonded  indebted- 
ness of  the  city  matured.  The  bonds  had 
been  bearing  seven  per  cent  interest,  and  they 
were  'renewed  at  four  per  cent,  and  some  as 
low  as  three  and  one-half  per  cent.  That 
year  was  known  as  the  great  refunding  year, 
and  was  the  most  important  period  in  the 
financial  history  of  the  city  in  a  quarter  of  a 
century. 

The  distinction  of  being  the  father  of  the 
resolution  that  reduced  the  rate  of  interest 
on  unpaid  taxes  from  12  to  8  per  cent  falls 
to  Mr.  Daly.  As  chairman  of  the  sewerage 
committee  he  put  through  the  big  sewer  in  the 
sixth  ward,  down  Hamilton  street  and  along 
the  Mile  Run  brook  to  the  canal,  the  beginning 
of  the  sewerage  system  in  that  section  of  the 
city.  He  personally  negotiated  for  and  se- 
cured the  right  of  way  for  the  sewer  over 
private  property  without  the  cost  of  one  penny 
to  the  city  or  to  the  property  owners  benefited. 
His  public  services  were  always  heartily  given. 
He  was  called  upon  to  act  as  treasurer  of  the 
aldermanic  committee  of  relief  for  the  fami- 
lies of  the  local  soldiers  who  so  bravely  left 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


the  city  to  espouse  their  country's  cause  in  tlie 
Spanish-American  war.  He  was  a  valued 
member  of  the  city  centennial  committee  and 
was  secretary  of  the  committee  on  memorial 
to  the  local  sailors  who  lost  their  lives  upon 
the  ill-fated  "Maine."  In  shorty  he  is  a  rep- 
resentative citizen,  a  man  of  the  people,  whose 
sympathies  have  been  with  every  public  en- 
terprise that  tended  to  the  advancement  of  the 
city's  and  country's  interest.  In  May,  i8y9, 
he  was  appointed  counsel  of  the  board  of  free- 
holders. As  counsel  to  the  board  Mr.  Daly 
retained  his  independence  and  fearlessly  op- 
posed all  measures  which  appeared  to  liim  to 
be  against  the  public  good.  Politics  never 
dictated  his  duty  to  him.  He  rendered  his 
opinions  without  fear  or  favor  and  was  sub- 
servient to  no  one.  These  things  show  the 
character  of  the  man. 

He  was  deputy  and  attorney  to  Leonard 
Furnian,  surrogate  of  Middlesex  county,  from 
1892  to  iy02,  and  in  the  year  last  mentioned 
was  himself  elected  surrogate  of  the  county. 
He  served  one  full  term  of  five  years, 
and  in  1907  was  re-electetl  to  a  sec- 
ond term  in  the  same  office.  At  his  first 
election  in  1902,  he  ran  nine  hundred  votes 
ahead  of  his  ticket,  and  when  a  candidate  for 
a  second  term  he  ran  eighteen  hundred  ahead 
of  the  general  ticket.  During  his  connection 
with  the  surrogate's  office,  he  has  made  a  par- 
ticular study  of  the  matters  pertaining  to  that 
office,  and  to-day  he  is  considered  by  the  bar 
of  the  county  a  specialist  in  probate  practice 
and  pleading,  one  whose  opinion  is  sought  by 
other  members  of  the  bar.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  New  Jersey  State  Bar  Association.  He 
was  the  counsel  who  directed  the  incorpora- 
tion of  the  boroughs  of  South  River,  Roose- 
velt and  Spotswood,  and  now  is  counsel  for 
those  munici])alities  and  also  for  the  borough 
of  Helmetta.  At  dififerent  times  he  has  been 
township  attorney  for  Piscataway,  Raritan, 
Monroe,  East  Brunswick  and  Sayreville  town- 
ships. He  is  noted  for  oratorical  ability,  both 
at  the  bar  and  before  popular  gatherings,  and 
enjoys  extensive  personal  popularity. 

Mr.  Daly  was  founder  and  first  grand  knight 
of  .\'ew  Brunswick  Council,  Knights  of  Co- 
lumbus, and  is  a  charter  member  and  past  ex- 
alted ruler  of  the  local  lodge  of  Elks.  He  was 
president  of  the  Catholic  Club  when  twenty 
years  old,  president  of  Division  No.  5  of  the 
Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians  at  twenty-two, 
and  still  holds  membership  in  both  of  those 
bodies,  and  also  in  the  Royal  Arcanum,  Ger- 
man Society,  Aurora  and  the  Catholic  Benevo- 


lent  Legion.     He  is  a  member  of  St  Peter's 
Church.  New  Brunswick. 

Air.  Daly  married,  in  September,  1893,  ^^ 
the  church  of  the  Sacred  Heart,  New  Bruns- 
wick, Mary  Rose  Mansfield,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam and  Alargaret  (Fitzgerald)  Mansfield,  her 
father  being  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Harding 
iv  Mansfield,  wholesale  and  retail  shoe  dealers. 
They  have  one  daughter,  Marearet  Rosina 
Daly,  born  in  New  Brunswick.  February,  1895, 
now  a  student  at  Rutgers  Preparatory  School. 


It  cannot  be  for  a  moment 
BOWNE  doubted  that  the  Quakers  were 
in  their  principles  of  religious 
freedom  on  a  much  more  higher  plane  both 
morally  and  in  e(iuity  than  the  Puritans.  They 
were  indeed  a  better-hearteil,  harder-thinking, 
and  therefore  broader-minded  class  of  men. 
They  were  perfectly  aware  that  their  acts  were 
frequently  such  as  to  make  them  felons  in  the 
strict  sense  of  the  written  law,  yet  their  strong 
sense  of  right  and  justice  were  such  that  they 
dared  to  render  a  passive  resistance  so  power- 
ful that  these  laws  were  finally  repealed.  Al- 
though the  crime  for  which  the  Quaker  suf- 
fered in  England  was  far  graver  than  any  of 
his  transgressions  on  New  England  soil,  the 
severe  penalties  in  the  mother  country  being 
for  refusal  in  times  of  great  political  danger 
to  take  the  oath  of  allegience  and  supremacy 
and  to  pay  the  legal  tithes  in  the  parishes  in 
which"  they  resided,  the  ])enalties  inflicted  by 
the  English  authorities  never  reached  the  stern 
punishment  and  brutal  treatment  meted  out 
to  the  followers  of  George  Fox  by  the  Pil- 
grim Fathers,  their  associates  and  the  Dutch 
inhabitants  of  New  Netherland.  This  per.se- 
cution  was  at  its  height  during  the  early  days 
of  the  settlement  of  the  new  world,  and  one 
of  the  greatest  sufiferers  from  it  and  also  one 
oi  the  most  eminent  examples  of  successful 
resistance  to  it  is  the  case  of  the  founder  of 
the  Bowne  family  and  his  illustrious  son. 

(I)  In  the  year  1649  ^  certain  Thomas 
Bowne,  born  at  Matlock,  Derbyshire,  Englantl, 
in  th^  Fifth  month,  1595,  and  baptized  the 
following  25t!i  tlay,  arrived  in  Massachusetts 
Bay.  and  shortly  afterwards  settled  in  Flush- 
ing, Long  Island,  then  belonging  to  the  Dutch 
government.  He  died  September  18,  1677, 
leaving  behind  him  three  children:  i.  John,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  Dorothy,  born  August  14, 
1631,  removed  to  Boston.  Massachusetts,  in 
1049.     3.  Truth,  who  remained  in  Englan<l. 

(H)  John,  only  son  of  Thomas  Bowne,  the 
emigrant,  was  born  in  Matlock,  March  9,  1627. 


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(lied  in  I'lushing,  Long  Island.  December  20, 
1695.  Accompanying  his  father  to  the  new 
world,  he  returned  to  England  in  1650,  and  re- 
turned to  America  the  following  year,  visiting 
Flushing  with  Edward  Farrington,  who  is  sup- 
posed to  have  married  his  sister,  Dorothy. 
Soon  after  this  the  entire  family  settled  in 
Flushing,  and  in  1661  he  built  the  "Bowne 
House"  which  was  used  as  a  meeting  place 
for  Friends  for  nearly  forty  years.  In  1656 
his  wife  Hannah  became  a  Friend,  and  her 
husband,  a  Church  of  England  man,  attending 
one  of  the  meetings  from  curiosity,  was  so 
deeply  impressed  with  their  form  of  worship, 
that  he  invited  them  to  meet  at  his  house  and 
soon  after  became  a  member  himself.  These 
Quaker  meetings  in  a  town  founded  by 
Massachusetts  Puritans  under  a  Dutch  gov- 
ernment, was  more  than  the  townsfolk  could 
stand,  and  August  24,  1662,  complaints  were 
made  by  the  Flushing  magistrates  "that  many 
of  the  inhabitants  are  followers  of  the  Quak- 
ers who  hold  their  meetings  at  the  house  of 
John  Bowne."  Under  the  Dutch  colonial  law 
at  that  time,  religious  gatherings  of  any  kind 
except  those  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  religion, 
were  subject  to  a  penalty  of  fifty  guilders  for 
the  first  offence,  double  for  the  second,  and 
arbitrary  correction  for  every  other.  Accord- 
ingly. September  i.  1662,  John  Bowne  was 
arrested  and  charged  with  "harboring  Quakers 
and  permitting  them  to  hold  their  meetings  at 
his  house,"  and  was  cast  into  prison  at  Fort 
.Amsterdam.  Two  weeks  later  he  was  tried 
and  condenmed  to  pay  £25  Flemish  and  the 
costs  of  his  trial,  and  warned  that  a  second 
offense  would  mean  double  this  fine,  while 
any  further  persistence  in  such  conduct  would 
bring  banishment  from  New  Netherland. 
John  Bowne  refused  to  pay,  was  confined  in 
a  dungeon  on  bread  and  water  and  still  re- 
maining obdurate  he  was  finally  sent  as  a  pris- 
oner to  Holland.  He  was  finally  released  and 
returned  to  America  by  way  of  England  and 
the  island  of  Barbadoes,  reaching  Flushing, 
March  30,  1663.  The  document  which  the 
directors  of  the  West  India  Company  sent  to 
the  officials  of  New  Netherland  is  too  long  to 
quote  here,  but  it  is  of  peculiar  historic  inter- 
est as  the  first  official  proclamation  of  religious 
liberty  for  any  part  of  America  except  Mary- 
land, and  its  promulgation  stopped  the  perse- 
cution of  the  Friends  on  Long  Island  with  the 
exception  of  the  unauthorized  acts  of  Gov- 
ernor Peter  Stuyvesant. 

August  7.  1656,  John  Bowne  married  (first) 
Hannah,     daughter     of     Lieutenant      Robert 


l-"eake,  who  died  February  2,  1678,  at  the  resi- 
dence of  John  Edson,  in  London,  England. 
Her  mother,  Elizabeth  Fones,  the  widow  of 
Henry,  son  of  Governor  John  Winthrop,  of 
Massachusetts,  was  the  daughter  of  Thomas 
Fones,  an  apothecary  of  London,  by  his  first 
wife,  daughter  of  .Adam  Winthrop,  of  Gro- 
ton.  1  ler  jjcdigree  begins  with  William  Fones, 
Es(|uire,  who  married  the  daughter  of  .Sir 
Robert  Hyelston,  knight,  and  w-as  the  father 
of  (ieorge  Fones,  of  Saxbie,  who  married  a 
Malbanck  of  Malpas,  Cheshire,  and  had  a 
son  William  of  Saxbie,  whose  grandson,  John 
of  Saxbie,  was  the  great-grandfather  of 
Thomas  Fones,  of  London,  the  grandfather  of 
Hannah  (Feake)  Bowne.  Hannah  ( Feake ) 
B(j\\ne  became  a  minister  among  hYiends  and 
made  two  religious  visits  to  England  and  Ire- 
land and  one  to  Holland.  Her  husband  joined 
her  in  England  in  1676  and  accompanied  her 
in  her  religious  service  until  she  died  the 
following  year,  and  his  testimony  concerning 
her.  given  at  her  funeral  at  the  Peel  meeting, 
is  remarkable    for  its  tenderness  and  beauty. 

John  and  Hannah  (Feake)  Bowne  had  eight 
children:  1.  John,  born  March  13,  1657,  died 
.August  30.  1673.  2.  Elizabeth,  October  8, 
1658,  died  February  14,  1722;  married  Samuel 
Titus.  3.  Mary,  January  6,  1661.  4.  Abigail, 
February  5,  1663,  died  ;\Iay  14,  1703;  married, 
March  25,  1686,  Richard  Willets,  of  Jericho, 
Long  Island.  5.  Hannah,  April  10,  1665,  died 
December  30.  1707;  married  Benjamin,  son 
of  Anthony  Field,  of  Long  Island.  6.  Samuel, 
referred  to  below.  7.  Dorothy,  March  29, 
1669,  died  November  26,  1790;  married.  May 
2-/.  1689,  Henry,  son  of  Matthew  Franklyn,  of 
Flushing.  8.  Martha  Johannah,  August  17. 
1673,  died  August  11,  1750;  married,  Novem- 
ber 9,  1695.  Joseph,  son  of  John  Thorne. 

February  2.  1680,  John  Bowne  married 
(second)  Hannah  Bickerstaff,  who  died  June 
7,  iThjo.  She  bore  him  six  more  children:  9. 
Sarah,  December  14.  1680,  died  May  18,  1681. 
10.  Sarah,  February  17,  1682.  1 1.  John,  Septem- 
ber 10,  1683,  died  October  25,  1683.  12. 
Thomas,  November  26.  1684,  died  December 
17,  1684.  13.  John.  September  9.  1686,  mar- 
ried, July  21,  1714,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Mary  (Townley)  Lawrence.  14. 
Abigail.  July  5.  1688,  died  July  13.  1688.  June 
26,  1693,  John  Bowne  married  (third)  Mary, 
daughter  of  James  and  Sarah  Cock,  of  Mat- 
tinecok.  Long  Island,  who  bore  him  two  more 
children:  15.  Amy,  April  i.  1694.  \(^.  Ruth. 
January  30.  1696. 

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of  John  and  Hannah  (.Feake)  Bowne,  was 
born  in  Flushing,  Long  Island,  September  21, 
1667,  died  May  30,  1745.  He  was  a  minister 
among  Friends.  October  4,  1691,  he  married 
(first)  at  Philadelphia  Meeting,  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Ca])tain  Becket,  who  died  Augu.st  21, 
1707.  She  bore  him  ten  children:  I.  Samuel, 
referred  to  below.     2.  Thomas,  bom  April  7, 

1694.  married,  March  7,  1715.  Hannah,  daugh- 
ter of  John   L'nderhill.     3.  Eleanor,  .A.pril  20, 

1695,  married,  Octuber  9,  1718,  Isaac  Horner, 
of  Mansfield,  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey. 
4.  Hannah,  March  31,  1697,  married,  .April 
().  1717,  Richanl  Lawrence.  5.  John,  Sep- 
tember II,  itigS,  died  1757;  married,  1738, 
Dinah  Underbill.  6.  Mary,  October  21,  1699, 
married,  January  14,  1720,  John  Keese.  7. 
Roabord,  January  17,  1701,  died  before  July 
3.  1 74' I,  when  ills  daughter  Mary  married 
ilenry,  son  of  Robert  and  Rebecca  Haydock, 
married  November  16,  1724,  Margaret,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  Latham  of  Cow  Neck,  Hemp- 
stead, Long  Island.  8.  William,  April  i,  1702, 
died  y\])ril  15,  1702.  9.  Elizabeth,  October 
II,  1704.  10.  Benjamin,  March  13,  died  May 
13.  1707.  December  8.  1709,  Samuel  Bowne 
marrieci  (second)  Hannah  Smith,  of  Flush- 
ing, who  died  October  11,  1733.  She  bore 
him  five  more  children:  11.  Sarah,  September 
30.  1710,  married,  March  12,  1729,  William, 
son  of  William  Burling.  12.  Joseph,  Febru- 
ary 25,  1712,  married  (first)  November  13, 
1735.  Sarah,  daughter  of  Obadiah  Lawrence, 
who  died  January  5.  1740,  and  (second)  June 
13,  1745.  Judith,  daughter  of  Jonathan  ^lor- 
rell.  13.  .'\nne,  October  17,  1715.  14.  Ben- 
jamin, .\ugust  I,  1717.  15.  Elizabeth,  Novem- 
ber 26,  1720.  November  14,  1735,  Samuel 
Bowne  married  (third)  Mrs.  Grace  Cowper- 
tlnvaitc,  wlio  died  November  22,  17^.  .'-^he 
bore  him  no  children. 

(I\')  Samuel  (2),  eldest  child  of  Samuel 
(i)  and  Mary  (Becket)  Bowne,  was  born  in 
Flushing.  Long  Island,  January  29,  1693,  died 
in  1769.  .September  20,  17 16,  he  inarried 
.Sarah  Franklin,  who  bore  him  six  children : 
T.  William.  March  6,  1720,  died  October  18, 
T747;  married  Elizabeth  Willett,  who  died  the 
same  year  as  her  husband.  2.  Samuel,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  Mary,  March  3,  1724, 
married  Joseph  F^arrington.  4.  .\my,  1724, 
married  George  Embree.  5.  Sarah,  1726, 
married  William  Titus.  6.  James,  1728,  mar- 
ried, 1767.  Caroline  Rodman  ;  his  son  Walter 
married  Eliza  Sonthgate  and  was  mayor  of 
New  York  City. 

(V)   Samuel   (3),  second  child  and  son  of 


Samuel  (2)  and  Sarah  (Franklin)  Bowne,  was 
born  May  14,  1721.  He  married  Abigail 
Burling,  born  February  25,  1724.  Their 
eleven  children  were:  I.  Edward,  bom  Sep- 
tember 3,  1742,  died  September  22,  1742.  2. 
James,  March  20,  1744.  3.  Samuel,  .-Kugust 
4.  1746,  died  August  21,  1746.  4.  Elizabeth, 
November  19,  1748,  died  November  22,  1752. 
3,  .Samuel  Jr.,  June  25,  1750,  died  July  23, 
1752.  6.  Matthew,  July  19,  1752.  7.  Abigail, 
October  21,  1754.  8.  Sarah,  January  14,  1757, 
died  May  22.  lyho.  9.  Mary,  .August  8,  died 
.August  24,  1761.  10.  William,  referred  to 
below.  II.  .Samuel  Jr..  .April  5,  I7f>7,  married 
Hannah . 

( \T )  William,  tenth  child  and  si.xth  son, 
the  fourth  to  reach  maturity,  of  Samuel  (3) 
and  .Al)igail  (Burling)  Bowne,  was  born 
March  9,  1763.  May  11,  1791,  he  obtained 
in  New  Jersey  a  marriage  license  to  marry 
Sarah  Nevvbold,  born  March  22,  1769.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  Caleb  Newbold  and  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Haines  and  Lydia,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Deliverance  (Horner) 
Stokes.  .Samuel  was  the  grandson  of  Rich- 
ard and  .Abigail  Haines,  the  emigrants,  and 
son  of  William  Haines  and  Sarah,  daughter  of 
John  Paine,  the  emigrant.  Caleb  was  the  son 
of  Thomas  Newbold  and  Edith,  daughter  of 
Marmaduke  and  Ann  (Pole)  Coates,  the  emi- 
grants. Thomas  was  the  son  of  Michael  New- 
bold  and  Rachel,  daughter  of  John  Clayton, 
the  emigrant,  and  Michael  was  the  son  of 
Michael  Sr.  and  Ann  Newbold,  the  emigrants 
to  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey.  The  chil- 
dren of  William  and  Sarah  (Newbold)  Bowne 
were  :  i.  Samuel,  who  died  unmarried.  2.  Abi- 
gail, married  George,  son  of  Budd  and  Sarah 
(Haines)  Hawwood.  3.  ^Villiam,  who  died 
unmarried.     4.   Edward,  referred  to  below. 

(  \'II)  Edward,  youngest  child  and  the  only 
son  to  marry  of  William  and  Sarah  (New- 
bold)  Bowne,  was  born  in  Flushing,  Long 
Island,  October  16,  1798,  died  in  Springfield 
township,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
February  9,  1871.  He  was  a  farmer  and  a 
large  cattle  dealer,  at  one  time  owning  four 
large  farms.  He  was  one  of  the  representa- 
tive men  of  .Springfield  townshi])  and  one  of 
its  most  prominent  business  men. 

February  6,  1834,  Edward  Bowne  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Lip- 
pincott)  Woodward,  who  died  January  7, 
1875.  Their  children  were:  i.  Sarah  New- 
bold,  born  January  19,  1835,  married  David  T., 
son  of  David  and  Deborah  (Troth)  Haines, 
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Joseph  Matlack :  Annie,  married  Isaac  Lippin- 
cott ;  and  Emily.  2.  John  Woodward,  August 
3,  1836,  married  (first)  Anna  Satterthwaite, 
and  (second)  Sarah  Campion.  3.  William 
Newbold,  April  i,  1838,  died  unmarried.  4. 
Rebecca  Woodward,  January  6.  1840,  married 
Israel  Stokes,  son  of  Henry  C.  and  Elizabeth 
( Stokes  )  Deacon,  and  has  four  children :  Ed- 
ward Howne,  married  Rachel  Jones ;  Eugene, 
married  Helen  Lippincott ;  Eva,  married  Xew- 
lin  Haines :  and  Anna,  married  C.  William 
Snyder.  5.  Edward  Lawrence,  September  9, 
1 84 1,  married  Mary  Etta  Deacon.  6.  Anna 
Matilda,  referred  to  below.  7.  Walter  1!., 
March  18,  1845,  married  Edith  Johnson.  8. 
Emily  Xewbold,  .\ugust  25,  1847,  unmarried. 
9.  Franklin  Woodward,  January  8,  1850,  mar- 
ried Laura  Lip-iincott. 

(Y'lII)  Anna  Matilda,  sixth  child  and  third 
daughter  of  Edward  and  Elizabeth  (W^ood- 
ward )  Piowne.  was  born  in  Springfield  town- 
ship, Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  May  12, 
1843.  S-'if'  '*  "o^^'  living  at  Mt.  Holly,  Burling- 
ton count)'.  She  married  (  first )  Henry  Irick. 
born  January  i,  1833.  died  February,  1892,  the 
eldest  child  of  Henry  C.  Deacon  and  Elizabeth, 
daup^hter  of  Israel  Stokes  and  Sarah,  daughter 
of  Joshua  and  Elizabeth  N.  ( Woolman )  Bor- 
ton.  Israel  was  the  son  of  David  Stokes  and 
Ann,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Bar- 
low) Lancaster,  and  the  granddaughter  of 
Thomas  Lancaster,  the  emigrant,  and  Phebe, 
daughter  of  John  Wardell,  the  emigrant. 
David  was  the  son  of  John  Stokes  and  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Jervis  and  Mary  Stogdelle, 
and  the  grandson  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Green)  Stokes.  June  23,  1894,  Anna  Ma- 
tilda (Bowne)  Deacon  married  (second) 
Oliver  L.  Jeft'rey.  who  died  without  issue,  Au- 
gust 23,  1908.  Oliver  L.  Jeffrey  was  born  at 
Toms  River,  a  son  of  James  Jeffrey.  When 
a  young  man  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile 
business  in  Columbus,  New  Jersey,  later  re- 
moved to  Mt.  Holly,  where  he  conducted  a 
successful  business  as  a  merchant  for  more 
then  forty  years :  and  retired  a  few  years  be- 
fore his  death.  He  married  (first)  Mary  Ann 
Lippintott. 

The  progenitor  of  the  Irick  fam- 

IRICK     ily  in  .America  was  Johan  Eyrich, 

of  Palatina,  Holland,  who  landed 

at  Philadelphia  with  his  brother  William  about 

.A.  D.   1730-60. 

(I)  John  Irick  (Johan  Eyrich)  came  to 
Pemberton,  New  Jersey,  and  lived  with  Dr. 
William    I'.udd.   a  large  owner  of  proprietory 


lands,  and  at  his  death  John  Irick  remained 
with  the  widow  for  some  years,  becoming  in- 
terested in  purchasing  large  tracts  of  lands, 
by  which  he  laid  the  foundation  of  the 
future  wealth  of  the  family.  We  have  not 
been  able  to  establish  the  fact  that  he  must 
have  been  possessed  of  a  competency  upon  his 
arrival  in  this  country,  but  it  is  believed  that 
he  was  so  possessed,  for  he  could  not  in  such 
short  time  have  amassed  the  large  estate  of 
which  he  died  possessed.  He  with  others  was 
naturalized  by  the  provincial  legislature  in 
1770,  his  name  being  anglicized  to  John  Irick. 
The  record  of  his  marriage  shows  that  General 
Elias  Boudinot  became  the  bondsman  in  five 
hundred  pounds  at  that  time,  which  fact  in- 
dicates that  he  was  not  yet  twenty-one  years 
old.  Besides  being  a  man  of  large  means,  he 
was  a  strong  churchman,  and  for  many  years 
was  prominently  identified  with  St.  Mary's 
Church  ( Episcopal )  of  Burlington.  .Among 
his  possessions  was  a  large  estate  between 
I'.urlington  and  Mt.  Holly,  and  there  he  spent 
the  greater  part  of  his  life,  engaged  in  agri- 
cultural pursuits.  He  married,  2  mo.  28,  1761, 
Mary  Sailer,  and  (second)  2  mo.  26,  1781, 
-Mary  Shinn.  He  died  in  1826,  aged  about 
eighty-si.x  years.  His  children,  William  and 
John,  were  by  the  first  wife,  Mary  Sailer. 

(II)  General  William  Irick,  elder  son  of 
John  and  Mary  (Sailer)  Irick,  was  born  near 
I'.urlington,  New  Jersey,  in  1767,  died  Janu- 
ary 26,  1832.  Immediately  after  his  marriage 
he  removed  from  his  father's  homestead  on 
the  road  from  Mt.  Holly  to  Burlington,  to 
\  incentown,  New  Jersey,  and  settled  on  the 
farm  now  owned  and  occupied  by  his  grand- 
son, Henry  J.  Irick.  He  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  academic  schools  of  Burlington, 
and  after  leaving  school  took  up  surveying  and 
conveyancing  in  connection  with  his  extensive 
farming  o]jerations.  His  public  documents, 
deeds,  articles  of  agreement,  etc.,  are  well  and 
accurately  written,  and  still  serve  very  well  as 
models  from  which  to  copy.  He  early  became 
interested  in  public  afl^airs,  and  filled  many 
positions  of  trust  and  honor  ;  was  a  member 
of  the  house  of  assembly  in  1804,  and  again 
from  1811  to  1814,  inclusive,  and  member  of 
the  governor's  council  from  18 15  to  181 7. 
During  the  second  war  with  the  mother  coun- 
try he  was  in  command  of  the  state  militia  at 
Billingsport  and  thus  actjuired  the  military 
title  by  which  he  was  ever  afterward  known 
and  addressed.  In  politics  General  Irick  was 
a  staunch  Whig.  His  death  was  much  la- 
mented  by  a  wi<le  circle  of  devoted    friends, 


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chief  among  whom  was  Chief  Justice  Ewing, 
with  whom  he  always  maintained  an  intimate 
friendship.  He  married  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Job  and  Anne  (Alunro)  Stockton;  children: 

1.  Anne,  married  Colonel  Thomas  Fox  Budd, 
of  \incentown.  2.  Mary,  married  Marzilla 
Coat,  also  of  Burlington  county.  3.  William, 
see  post.  4.  Job,  see  post.  5.  J(.)hn  Stock- 
ton, see  post. 

(Ill)  General  William  {2)  Irick,  son  of 
General  William  ( i  )  and  Margaret  ( Stock- 
ton )  Irick.  was  born  on  the  Irick  homestead, 
near  \'incentown,  Burlington  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, December  20,  1799,  died  .\ugust  17,  1864. 
He  followed  in  the  footsteps  of  his  father  as 
a  surveyor  and  business  man,  and  always  lived 
in  V'incentown.  He  also  was  honored  by  his 
fellow  townsmen  with  many  public  oftices,  and 
was  the  last  member  of  the  old  council  of  New 
Jersey  from  Burlington  county  under  the  con- 
tinental constitution.  His  acts  of  charity  and 
benevolence  were  uiiboimded,  and  he  always 
was  ready  to  lend  a  heljiing  hand  to  his  neigh- 
bor. He  was  a  man  of  fine  stature,  standing 
full  six  feet  tall,  weighing  two  hundred  and 
twenty-five  pounds,  energetic  and  painstaking 
in  all  of  his  business  transactions.  He  took 
great  interest  in  military  atYairs,  and  he  and 
his  staff  were  a  soldierly  looking  body  of  men. 
In  his  magisterial  capacity  of  justice  of  the 
peace  he  married  many  of  the  very  first  people 
of  his  and  the  adjoining  counties.  At  the  out- 
break of  the  civil  war,  notwithstanding  his 
physical  infirmities.  General  Irick  tendered  his 
services  to  Governor  Olden,  but  under  a  re- 
organization of  the  state  militia  about  that 
time  he  was  legislated  out  of  liis  military  office. 
He  did  the  ne.xt  best  thing,  however,  in  aiding 
the  government  by  pledging  his  ample  fortune 
through  Jay  Cooke  &  Company  in  support  of 
the  union  cause.  General  Irick  married 
(first)  Sarah,  daughter  of  Amos  and  Lydia 
Heulings,  of  Evesham  township,  Burlington 
county.  She  died  in  1852,  and  he  married 
(second)  Mrs.  Sarah  Eayre.  He  had  five 
children — all  daughters — by  the  first  wife,  and 
one  child  by  his  second  wife:  i.  Lydia  H.,  mar- 
ried  Franklin   Hilliard,  of  Burlington  county. 

2.  Margaret,  married  David  B.  Peacock,  of 
Philadehihia.  3-4.  Eliza  Ann  and  Mary  Ann, 
twins;  Eliza  .\nn  died  in  early  womanhood; 
Mary  married  Benjamin  F.  Champion,  of 
Camden  county.  3.  Cornelia,  married  John 
W.  Brown,  Esq.,  of  Burlington  county.  6. 
William  John,  now  president  of  the  First  Na- 
tional  I'lank  (if  \'inccntown.  and  whose  home 


is  near  the  paternal  home  in  Southampton 
township. 

(Ill)  Job,  second  son  of  General  William 
( I  )  and  Margaret  (Stockton)  Irick,  was  a 
land  surveyor  and  successful  farmer,  but  he 
died  early  in  August,  1839,  at  the  age  of  thirty- 
seven  years.  He  married  Matilda  Burr,  and 
lived  and  died  in  .Southampton  township.  He 
had  one  son,  William  H.  Irick  (  father  of  Mary 
Irick  Drexel),  and  two  daughters,  both  of 
whom  married  and  lived  in  Philadelphia. 

(HI)  General  John  Stockton,  third  son 
of  General  William  (i)  and  Margaret 
(  Stockton  )  Irick,  was  born  on  the  old  home- 
stead in  Southampton  township,  August  4, 
181 1,  died  .August  4,  1894.  In  May,  1832,  he 
married  and  being  so  nearly  of  age  at  that 
time,  his  brothers,  William  and  Job,  executors 
of  his  father's  will,  permitted  him  to  occupy 
his  inheritance  at  once^  and  took  him  into 
])artnership  in  working  off  and  marketing  the 
timber  growing  on  the  broad  acres  devised  to 
them  jointly.  Both  he  and  his  wife  having  a 
handsome  landed  estate,  their  way  in  the  world 
was  successful  from  the  beginning,  until  along 
in  the  fifties,  when  he  joined  with  nine  other 
men  in  the  iron  foundry  business  at  Lumber- 
ton,  as  partners,  without  being  incorporated, 
each  member  being  personally  responsible  for 
all  its  obligations,  and  trusting  to  the  manage- 
ment of  two  of  the  partners,  at  the  end  of  a 
very  few  years  the  concern  became  heavily  in- 
volved, and  he  realized  the  fact  that  he  was 
held  responsible  for  $250,000.  all  that  he  was 
worth  at  that  time.  But  with  the  same  energy 
that  always  characterized  his  actions,  he  took 
hold  of  the  concern,  came  to  the  aid  of  the 
bankrupt  cities,  built  their  gas  and  water 
works  and  financed  them,  and  soon  paid  off 
the  indebtedness  and  saved  a  handsoiue  profit 
while  the  others  stood  off  without  ottering  any 
material  aid.  The  war  of  the  rebellion  broke 
out  at  about  this  time,  and  under  the  reor- 
ganization of  the  state  militia  he,  with  three 
others,  was  ajjpointed  by  Governor  Olden  to 
organize  and  command  it.  with  the  rank  of 
major-general.  Upon  the  election  of  Gov- 
ernor F'arker.  he  was  continued  and  gave  his 
time  and  services  throughout  the  war.  He, 
like  his  brother  William,  tendered  through  Jay 
Cooke  his  fortune  in  defence  of  the  I'nion.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  house  of 
assembly,  1847-48-49,  and  never  lost  his  in- 
terest in  public  affairs,  always  takitig  an  active 
[)art  in  politics  as  an  ardent  \\  hig  and  Repub- 
hcan.      His  only   other  iniblic  office  was   that 


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of  freeholder,  serving  as  director  of  the  board 
chiring  his  three  years'  term.  It  was  largely 
through  his  efforts  that  the  first  railroads  in 
Burlington  county  were  built  and  he  was  a 
director  in  all  of  them.  He  also  was  instru- 
mental in  organizing  the  First  National  Rank 
of  Y'incentown,  being  its  president  until  his 
death,  when  William  John  Irick  succeeded 
him.  He  died  August  4,  1894,  upon  his 
eighty-third  birthday,  leaving  a  large  circle  of 
acquaintances  and  friends.  General  Irick  mar- 
ried, May  17,  1832,  Emeline  S.  Ijishop,  a 
Quakeress,  daughter  of  Japheth  and  Rachel 
Bishop.  She  was  born  in  \'incentown  in  18 14, 
died  .April  2,  1895;  children:  l.  Henry  J., 
see  post.  2.  Rachel  B.,  September  9,  1835: 
married  Charles  Sailer.  3.  Samuel  S..  .-\ugust 
30,  1838;  married  Susan  Butterworth.  4. 
^Iargaret  .\.,  January  i,  1841  ;  married  Henry 
B.  Burr.  5.  Job,  .August  8.  1844;  died  young. 
6.  John  B.,  see  post.  7.  Emeline,  1848;  died 
young.    8.  Robert  H.,  June  30,  185 1  ;  died  young. 

(1\')  Henry  Ja])heth.  son  of  (ieneral  John 
Stockton  and  Emeline  S.  (Bishop)  Irick,  was 
burn  in  \'incentown,  New  Jersey,  March  13, 
1833.  and  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  in  his  home  town,  in  Norristown  Semi- 
nary, under  Samuel  .Aaron,  and  at  Willis  .Acad- 
emy, Freehold,  New  Jersey.  .After  marriage 
he  lived  for  about  seven  years  on  a  farm  owned 
by  his  father,  located  between  Mt.  Holly  and 
Burlington,  and  then  returned  to  the  old  home- 
stead at  \'incentown,  where  his  father  had 
lived  for  sixty  years,  and  where  he  himself 
has  now  lived  for  more  than  thirty-five  years. 
Following  in  the  footsteps  of  his  grandfather, 
he  has  been  actively  engaged  in  farming  and 
surveying,  and  is  highly  regarded  as  one  of 
the  prominent  general  business  men  of  his 
section  of  the  state. 

From  early  young  manhood  he  took  an 
active  interest  in  politics.  He  attended  the 
first  Republican  convention  in  New  Jersey, 
which  nominated  Dr.  \\'illiam  A.  Newell  for 
governor,  in  1856.  He  has  been  called  to  vari- 
ous public  positions  of  honor  and  trust.  He 
was  made  justice  of  the  peace  when  twenty- 
one  years  old ;  was  elected  member  of  the 
house  of  assembly  in  1862,  and  served  three 
years;  was  elected  state  senator  in  1871.  While 
in  the  legislature  he  was  chairman  of  the  joint 
committee  for  the  reorganization  of  the  legis- 
lative bodies  of  the  state;  member  of  the  com- 
mittee on  educational  affairs  ;  chairman  of  the 
committee  on  engrossed  bills  ;  and  lay  member 
of  the  judiciary  committee.  He  also  was  ap- 
pointed  by    fiovernor    Stokes   to   membership 


on  the  state  board  of  equalization  of  taxes,  and 
still  serves  in  that  capacity.  Soon  after  his 
appointment  to  this  position,  he  was  tendered 
the  appointment  of  stone  road  commissioner 
of  New  Jersey,  in  1908,  also  in  IQ09  he  was 
tendered  by  Governor  b^ort  the  appointment  of 
a  lay  judge  of  the  court  of  errors  and  appeals, 
the  highest  court  in  New  Jersey,  and  the  high- 
est honor  to  be  given  by  the  governor.  How- 
ever, he  was  compelled  to  decline  both  appoint- 
ments on  account  of  age,  besides  being  already 
a  member  of  the  state  board  of  equalization  of 
taxes,  he  felt  it  his  duty  to  fill  out  his  term,  in 
justice  to  the  agricultural  interests  of  the  state, 
tlirough  which  influence  he  was  appointed  to 
the  position.  Previous  to  his  appointment  to 
the  state  board  of  taxation,  Mr.  Irick  was  a 
director  of  the  several  companies  in  which  his 
father  had  been  similarly  interested,  but  these 
connections  he  severed  before  becoming  a  mem- 
ber of  the  equalization  board.  He  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Burlington  City  Loan  and  Trust 
Company  for  nearly  two  years.  For  more  than 
half  a  century  he  has  been  a  member  of  Cen- 
tral Lodge,  No.  44,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
and  past  master  for  forty-eight  years ;  and  is 
also  a  member  of  Union  League,  Philadelphia, 
Pcnnsvlvania.  He  is  a  member  of  Mt.  Holly 
Lodge,  No.  848.  B.  P.  O.  E.,  and  although 
briiuglit  up  under  the  influences  of  the  Society 
of  b'riends  he  attends  services  of  the  Prot- 
estant Episcoi^al  church. 

In  1862  Mr.  Irick  inarried  Harriet  R.,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  E.  and  Hannah  (Roberts)  Clem- 
ent. Children:  I.  H.  Clementine,  born  Feb- 
ruarv  24,  1863.  2.  .Anne  H.,  June  21,  1865; 
married  William  J.  Irick,  banker  of  \'in- 
centown.  3.  John  Ellis,  December  9,  1867; 
graduate  of  Rutgers  College. 

(IN)  John  Bisho]),  son  of  General  John 
.Stockton  and  Emeline  S.  (Bishop)  Irick,  was 
born  at  V'incentown,  November  28,  1845,  and 
received  his  education  in  academic  schools  at 
Burlington  and  Lawrenceville.  He  began  busi- 
ness life  on  his  father's  farm,  and  carried  it  on 
about  five  years,  then  for  twentv-eight  years 
was  proprietor  of  a  gristmill,  and  now  is  en- 
gaged in  a  general  hniiber  business.  For  four- 
teen years  he  was  tax  collector  of  Burlington, 
and  in  1905  was  elected  member  of  the  New 
Jersex-  house  of  assembly  and  has  been  re- 
elected at  the  end  of  each  successive  term. 
Since  1871  he  has  been  a  director  of  the  bank 
in  \incentown.  He  holds  membershii)  in  Mt. 
Holly  Lodge  of  Elks,  No.  848,  has  been  a 
vestryman  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church 
for  tliirty  years,  and  is  a  lifelong  Republican. 


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Mr.  Irick  married,  September  13,  1871, 
Clara  Moore,  of  Philadelphia,  daughter  of 
Carlton  R.  and  Mary  (McClure)  Moore;  chil- 
dren: I.  \'incent,  born  June  12,  1872;  grad- 
uated from  Rutgers  College  in  1898,  and  is  now 
engaged  in  mercantile  business  in  New  York 
City :  married  Blanche  Van  Alstyne,  of 
Kinderhook,  New  York.  2.  Carlton,  May  5, 
1877.  3.  Hector  Tyndall,  November  31,  1883; 
graduate  of  Philatlelphia  Dental  College. 


Jonathan  Hamilton  Kelsey,  at- 
KELSEY  torney  at  law,  resident  of  Pem- 
berton,  New  Jersey,  descends 
from  an  old  New  England  family  that  early 
settled  in  the  state  of  \"ermont.  His  great- 
grandfather. Jonathan  Kelsey,  was  born  in 
North  Danville,  \'ermont :  married,  and  had 
issue. 

(  I )  Robert  Lee,  son  of  Jonathan  Kelsey, 
was  born  in  North  Danville,  Vermont.  He 
was  a  fanner,  and  an  influential  man  in  his 
community.  He  was  a  Democrat,  very  active 
in  politics  and  held  many  public  offices  of 
honor  and  trust.  He  was  four  times  married, 
and  had  the  following  issue :  Hiram,  Ichabod, 
Jonathan  ]!.,  see  forward,  Harvey,  and  Betsey, 
who  is  living  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  at 
a  very  advanced  age. 

(H)  Jonathan  B.,  son  of  Robert  Lee  Kelsey, 
was  born  in  North  Danville,  Vermont,  in  De- 
cember, 1827,  and  died  April  2,  1903.  He  was 
educated  in  the  schools  of  his  native  town  and 
at  St.  Johnsbury,  Vermont.  When  a  young 
man  he  was  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  for  a  short 
time  pursued  the  study  of  medicine,  a  pro- 
fession, however,  which  he  never  fully  quali- 
fied himself  to  enter.  Later  he  located  in 
.Vrkansas  and  invested  largely  in  farm  prop- 
erty. He  had  a  large  plantation  at  I'oco- 
hontas,  Arkansas,  on  the  I'.lack  river,  operated 
with  slave  labor  which  he  owned  before  the 
war.  He  became  interested  in  the  study  of 
law  and  served  as  clerk  of  court  in  Randolph 
county,  .Arkansas.  .-\t  one  time  he  was  a 
Mississippi  and  Ohio  river  pilot,  running  be- 
tween New  Orleans  and  Cincinnati.  He  ac- 
c|nired  an  interest  in  river  steamboats  and 
]iiloted  his  own  boats.  Owing  to  the  reverses 
caused  by  the  war  and  the  luisettletl  condition, 
Mr.  Kelsey  aliandoned  the  south  as  a  resi- 
dence, and  about  the  year  1876  located  in  Cam- 
den, New  Jersey.  He  engaged  in  the  insur- 
ance business  and  was  general  agent  for  the 
Lancastershire  Insurance  Company  of  Eng- 
land. He  maintained  his  business  ofiice  in 
Philadelphia.     In  1880  he  settled  in  Pember- 


ton.  New  Jersey,  which  was  his  home  until 
his  death,  exce]iting  three  years  temporary  ab- 
sence as  proprietor  of  a  hotel  in  .Atlantic  City. 
In  Pemberton  he  continued  in  the  msurance 
business.  He  became  identified  with  the  New- 
ark board  of  underwriters  and  acted  as  their 
secretary  for  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Kelsey  pur- 
chased a  large  farm  at  Pemberton,  and  became 
a  breeder  of  fancy  cattle,  in  which  he  took  a 
deep  delight.  He  imported  fancy  Jerseys  and 
other  blooded  animals  for  the  improvement  of 
his  herds.  He  remained  in  active  business  life 
to  within  a  short  time  previous  to  his  death. 
Mr.  Kelsey  was  a  Democrat  in  politics.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  tax  revision, 
and  at  the  taking  of  the  census,  in  which  he 
assisted,  Mr.  Kelsey  inaugurated  methods  that 
proved  acceptable  and  are  now  in  use.  He 
affiliated  with  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and  was 
I)ast  master  of  Central  Lodge,  No.  44,  Free 
and  .Accepted  Masons,  of  Vincentown,  New 
Jersey.  In  the  Scottish  Rite  he  has  attained 
the  thirty-second  degree. 

Jonathan  B.  Kelsey  married  (first)  Helen 
Hamilton,  of  Rising  Sun,  Ohio.  She  bore 
him  seven  children,  five  of  whom  were  carried 
off  l)y  an  epidemic  of  yellow  fever.  The  two  who 
survived  were  Minnie  Blanche  and  \  irginia 
Helen  Kelsey.  Mr.  Kelsey  married  (second) 
Laura  Mrginia  Hamilton,  sister  of  his  first 
wife.  She  survives  him  and  resides  on  the 
farm  at  Pemberton.  .Albert  Hamilton,  father 
of  his  two  wives,  was  a  merchant  of  Rising 
Sun,  cJhio.  He  married,  and  had  five  chil- 
ilren  :  Mary,  marrietl  Samuel  F.  Covington, 
whose  ancestors  founded  Covington,  Kentucky  ; 
.Albert:  Helen,  Airs.  J.  B.  Kelsey  (first); 
Laura  X'irginia,  Airs.  J.  B.  Kelsey  (second), 
and  Emma  Hamilton. 

The  children  of  Jonathan  B.  and  Laura  \  ir- 
ginia (  Hamilton  )  Kelsey  are  two  wlio  died  in 
infancy,  Robert  Lee,  Judith.  Jonathan  IL,  see 
f(  rward  ;  Harriet  (  Airs.  John  C.  .Altar,  of  Alil- 
ford,  Delaware),  Mary  .Alberta,  Clara  Edith, 
a  teacher  in  the  Pemberton  high  school;  Hiram 
Albert,  with  the  Baldwin  Locomotive  Works 
in  Philadelphia,  and  Ellwood  H.,  who  manages 
the  home  farm  for  his  mother. 

(HI)  Jonathan  Hamilton,  son  of  Jonathan 
B.  and  Laura  \'.  (Hamilton)  Kelsey,  was  born 
in  Davenport,  Iowa,  May  19,  1873.  He  came 
to  New  Jersey  when  a  child  with  his  parents. 
He  was  educated  in  the  Pemberton  schools 
and  under  the  special  instruction  of  Professor 
Creorge  Shepherd.  He  had  determined  on  the 
legal  profession,  and  registered  as  a  law  student 
in   the  i/ffice  of  Sanniel   K.    Robbins,  a  noted 


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lawyer  of  Moorestown  and  Camden,  New 
Jersey.  He  remained  with  Lawyer  Robbins 
three  years.  He  was  then  in  the  law  office  of 
William  A.  Slaughter,  of  Mt.  Holly,  New 
Jersey,  for  the  next  two  years.  Mr.  Kelsey 
was  admitted  to  the  Burlington  county  bar  at 
the  June  term  of  court  in  1903.  He  at  once 
opened  offices  for  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  Mt.  Holly  and  Pemberton.  In  addition  to  his 
legal  business  he  is  a  member  of  the  real  estate 
and  insurance  fimi  of  Kelsey  &  Killie,  of  Mt. 
Holly.  New  Jersey.  Mr.  Kelsey  has  the  super- 
vision of  his  brother's  large  estate  as  well  as 
other  trusts  and  properties.  He  was  an  incor- 
porator of  the  Peoples'  National  Bank  of  Pem- 
berton, and  serves  on  the  board  of  directors 
and  as  attorney  for  the  bank  ;  this  bank  was  in- 
corporated in  1906  with  Theodore  Budd,  presi- 
dent ;  Clifford  K.  Budd,  vice-president,  and 
Wilson  D.  Hunt,  cashier.  Mr.  Kelsey  is  a 
Democrat  and  for  five  years  served  Pemberton 
township  as  justice  of  the  peace,  was  re-elected 
but  declined  to  serve ;  he  is  a  member  of  the 
board  of  councilmen  for  the  borough  of  Pem- 
berton. He  is  a  member  of  the  Grange,  and  of 
Company,  No.  49,  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of 
.America.  He  is  an  attendant  of  the  Baptist 
church. 

Jonathan  H.  Kelsey  married,  .\ugust  13, 
1904,  Rebecca  Maud  .\ntrim,  of  Juliustown, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Lydia  Antrim, 
granddaughter  of  Isaac  .Antrim,  who  was  a 
descendant  of  Lord  Antrim  and  settled  on  a 
grant  of  land  near  Jobstown,  New  Jersey,  that 
has  never  been  out  of  the  family's  possession. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kelsey  have  one  child,  \'irginia 
Antrim,  born  at  Pemberton,  New  Jersey,  Sep- 
tember 7,  1906. 


The  name  is  a  very  common 
POWELL      one  in  the  Colonial  history  of 

New  Jersey,  and  in  fact  there 
are  few  that  are  more  so.  It  is  probable  that 
many  of  these  have  sprung  from  the  same 
source  before  coming  hither,  but  nothing  can 
be  found  now  to  establish  the  family  connec- 
tion founded  on  the  name.  Those  bearing  it 
have  been  prudent,  industrious,  of  good  repute, 
and  are  still  contributing  their  proportion  in 
the  moral  and  physical  development  of  the 
state. 

( I )  .Ajiiong  the  passengers  on  the  ship 
"Kent,"  that  brought  the  first  settlement  of 
the  English  colony  to  Piurlington,  were  Robert 
Powell  and  his  wife  Prudence,  and  their  two 
sons,  Robert  and  John,  the  latter  an  infant. 
They  came  from  London,  but  a  tradition  has 


come  down  through  separate  branches  of  the 
family  that  they  originally  came  from  Wales. 
.Shortly  after  their  arrival  here  was  born  to 
them  a  daughter  Elizabeth.  These  are  all  that 
are  known.  The  local  record  reads :  "Eliza- 
beth Powel,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Prudence 
Powel,  was  Borne  in  Biirlington  the  7th  Sea- 
venth  month,  1677,  latte  of  London,  chandler, 
witnesses  then  p'sent  Ellen  Harding,  Mary 
(."ri])s,  Anne  Peachee."  This  is  the  first  rec- 
orded birth  in  the  colony.  In  another  record, 
showing  the  deeil  from  Thomas  Clide  to  Rob- 
ert Powell,  the  latter  is  styled  clothier.  His 
name  is  connected  with  several  real  estate 
transactions.  In  1681  one  hundred  acres  were 
surveyed  for  him  along  Mule  Creek  (Willing- 
ton  township),  and  in  1693  two  hundred  acres 
in  the  fork  of  the  Racocus.  Robert  Powell 
was  one  of  the  "stalwarts"  among  the  Quakers 
in  the  Colony,  his  name  appearing  as  one  of 
the  signers  of  the  declaration  against  George 
Keith.  He  was  also  one  of  the  signers  of  an 
epistle  sent  by  Burlington  Monthly  Meeting 
to  London  Yearly  Meeting,  dated  12,  7  month, 
1680,  the  first  official  communication  received 
by  the  London  Yearly  Meeting  from  a  meet- 
ing in  .America.  There  is  no  will  of  record, 
but  it  is  certain  that  he  died  prior  to  January 
13,  i6(j4,  as  a  deed  given  by  his  sons  on  that 
date  shows.  His  wife  died  before  him  and 
according  to  the  record  was  "layd  in  ye  ground 
ye  loth  of  ye  4  month,  1678."  In  this  record 
Robert  Powell  and  wife  are  recorded  "late  of 
Martin,  Legrand,  London."  The  elder  son 
married  Mar\^  Perkins  in  1696  and  died  in 
1706. 

(Ill  John,  younger  son  of  Robert  and  Pni- 
dence  Powell,  was  born  1676  and  his  name  ap- 
pears in  the  census  of  Northampton  township, 
in  1709.  He  died  in  171 5-16.  He  was  mar- 
ried at  Burlington  Monthly  Meeting,  12  month, 
23  day,  1698,  to  Elizabeth  Parker,  born  1676, 
daughter  of  George  and  Sarah  Parker.  She 
survived  him  and  was  married  in  1720  to  Ricli- 
ard  Brown.  In  her  will,  her  father,  George 
Parker,  is  referred  to  as  of  "East  Jersey." 
John  Powell's  children:  i.  John,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Sarah,  born  1701.  3.  Rebecca,  1703; 
married  (first)  Christopher  Scattergood,  and 
(second)  an  Aaronson.  4.  Elizabeth,  1705. 
3.  Isaac,  December  21,  1706;  married  Eliza- 
beth Perdue  or  Punly,  died  about  1773.  6. 
Prudence,  married  Roland  Owen,  in  1738.  7. 
Jacob.    8.  Robert.    9.  Samuel. 

(Ill)  John  (2),  eldest  child  of  John  (I) 
and  Elizabeth  (Parker)  Powell,  was  born  1700 
and  settled  on  a  plantation  at  or  near  Wood- 


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STATE    OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


pecker  Lane,  near  Mt.  Holly,  where  his  grand- 
son, Josejih  Powell,  lived  in  1818.  He  was 
married,  in  1725,  at  Burlington  Monthly  Meet- 
ing, to  \'irgin  Crips,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
and  Grace  ( Whitten)  Crips.  The  last  named 
were  married  January  9,  1694.  Tradition  says 
that  Nathaniel  was  a  brother  of  John  Crips, 
mentioned  in  Smith's  "History  of  New  Jersey," 
but  it  seems  more  probable  that  he  was  his  son. 
They  lived  near  where  Mt.  Holly  now  is  and 
on  the  northeast  side  of  the  mount.  The 
Friends'  graveyard,  denominated  in  1818  the 
old  graveyard,  was  a  part  of  their  land,  and  the 
mount  was  then  called  "Crips  Mount"  because 
of  this  ownership.  Children  of  John  (2) 
Powell:  I.  Jacob,  married  an  Atkinson.  2. 
Christoi)hcT,  married  Sarah  Gaskill.  3.  John, 
married  Deborah  Harbour.  4.  Joseph,  men- 
tioned below.  5.  Elizabeth,  married  William 
Jones,  (j.  Grace,  married  Joseph  Gaskill.  7. 
Sarah,  married  Thomas  Rogers. 

(I\')  Joseph,  fourth  son  of  John  (2)  and 
X'irgin  ( Crips )  Powell,  was  born  September 
20,  1739  :  died  April  18,  1805.  He  probably  re- 
sided in  Northampton  township,  and  engaged 
in  farming.  He  married,  November  g,  1765, 
Anne  P>ishop,  born  July  12.  1744;  died  July 
12,  1805.  Children:  i.  X'irgin,  Sejitember  27, 
1766;  married  Joshua  W'ill-s.  2.  Rebecca.  3. 
.\tlantic,  August  5,  1773;  died  Sejitember  30, 
1825.  4.  Japhet  15ishop,  September  18,  1780. 
5.  Joseph,  mentioned  below.  6.  Hannah,  F"eb- 
ruarj'  15,  1788:  died  July  24,  1814. 

(V')  Joseph  (2),  younger  son  of  Joseph  (i) 
and  Anne  (Bishop)  Powell,  was  born  Alay  7, 
1783,  and  lived  in  that  part  of  Northampton 
township  which  is  now  East  Hampton.  He 
was  a  farmer  by  occupation,  and  died  at  the 
age  of  thirty-six  years.  He  married  Mary 
Batcher  and  they  were  the  parents  of  a  daugh- 
ter and  a  son,  Ann  B.  and  Benajah.  The 
former  became  the  wife  of  James  (iariliner 
and  resided  on  the  homestead  in  Easthampton. 
Tlie  family  belonged  to  the  Society  of  Friends. 
After  the  death  of  Joseph  Powell,  his  widow 
married  Isaac  Fennimore.  and  died  at  the  age 
of  about  si.\ty-two  years. 

( \T )  Benajah,  only  son  of  Joseph  (2) 
and  Mary  (Batcher)  Powell,  was  born  in  No- 
vember, 1812,  in  East  Hampton,  died  May  3, 
1872.  lie  resided  in  a  part  of  the  parental 
mansion  and  engaged  in  general  farming.  He 
was  a  I'Viend,  an  adherent  of  the  Whig  party 
during  its  existence  and  an  earnest  Republican 
from  the  inception  of  the  party.  He  served 
nine  years  as  town  collector  and  held  that  jiosi- 
tion   at   the  time  of   his  death.      He  married 


Martha  Ann  Fennimore,  who  was  born  in 
Medford.  Xew  Jersey,  a  daughter  of  Isaac  and 
Martha  (Moore)  Fennimore.  Of  their  eight 
children,  six  grew  to  maturity:  I.  Mary, 
widow  of  Zebedee  R.  Wills,  and  resides  in 
Northampton  township.  2.  Joseph,  mentioned 
below.  3.  Isaac,  was  a  farmer  in  Lumberton 
townshiji;  died  in  Philadelphia.  4.  Allen  F., 
a  farmer,  residing  in  East  Hampton.  5.  Mar- 
tha, resides  in  Lumberton.  6.  Annie,  died 
while  the  wife  of  D.  Budd  Coles,  of  Lumber- 
ton. 

(  \'II )  Joseph  (3),  eldest  son  of  Benajah 
and  Martha  Ann  (Fennimore)  Powell,  was 
born  April  24,  1843,  in  Northampton,  and 
was  educated  at  Willis  Institute,  Freehold, 
New  Jersey.  At  the  age  of  twenty  years 
he  left  school  and  engaged  in  agricul- 
ture on  the  farm  of  his  grandfather, 
Isaac  Fennimore,  in  Medford,  and  this  farm 
he  now  owns  and  rents.  He  has  always  been 
an  earnest  supporter  of  the  Republican  party 
and  has  ben  called  to  a  position  of  much  re- 
sponsibility. After  serving  some  time  as  col- 
lectcjr  of  his  home  town,  he  was  elected  county 
collector  in  1881,  and  has  contiinially  filled 
this  office  since  by  repeated  re-elections.  He  is 
unmarried  and  makes  his  home  with  his 
brother-in-law,  Mr.  Coles,  in  Lumberton.  He 
attends  and  supports  the  worship  of  the 
Friends'  Society.  He  is  a  charter  member  of 
Mt.  Holly  Lodge,  No.  848,  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He  is  a  director  of 
the  Mount  Holly  National  Bank  and  president 
of  the  I'eo]iles'  Building  and  Loan  Association 
of  Mt.  Holly.  Mr.  Powell  partakes  of  the 
characteristics  which  have  distinguished  the 
Friends  of  New  Jersey  and  enjoys  the  respect 
and  esteem  of  the  entire  county.  His  integ- 
rity and  business  ability  are  attested  by  his 
long  service  in  the  office  of  county  collector. 


According  to  well  established 
WORRELL  records  the  W'orrells  are  an 
old  and  highly  respected 
family  of  Burlington  county,  but  by  reason  of 
the  lamentable  absence  of  information  concern- 
ing some  of  the  earlier  generati(ins  of  the 
family  the  names  of  the  immediate  and  more 
remote  ancestors  of  James  Worrell  are  un- 
known. 

( 1 )  James  Worrell,  the  earliest  ancestor  of 
the  family  of  whom  there  appears  to  be  any 
definite  account,  is  said  to  have  been  born  in 
\'incentown,  Southampton  township,  Burling- 
ton county,  probably  about  the  year  1785,  al- 
though   the    exact    period    of    his    life    is    not 


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known.  His  wife  was  Elizabeth  (Taylor) 
Worrell,  and  their  children  were  Janies  T., 
Isaiah  S.,  John  H.  and  Lavinia. 

(II)  James  T.,  son  of  Janies  and  Elizabeth 
(Taylor)  Worrell,  was  born  at  \'incentown, 
lUirlington  county,  in  1815,  and  died  at  the 
home  of  his  son  in  Mt.  Holly,  in  October, 
1907.  He  was  a  farmer  by  occupation,  ami 
during  his  active  career  lived  on  the  same 
farm,  continuing  his  residence  there  until 
within  a  few  years  of  the  time  of  his  death. 
Mr.  Worrell  was  a  thrifty  and  fairly  success- 
ful farmer,  a  man  somewhat  active  in  public 
affairs  in  the  township,  serving  for  some  time 
as  member  of  the  board  of  school  trustees.  In 
politics  he  was  first  a  ^^  hig  and  afterward  a 
Republican,  and  in  religious  preference  a  Bap- 
tist church  member.  His  wife  was  Mary 
(Allen)  Worrell,  who  was  born  in  1832  and 
died  in  February,  1904.  Children:  I.  Ed- 
ward A.,  a  farmer  of  X'incentown,  who  died 
aged  fifty-two  years.  2.  Samuel  M.,  a  farmer 
living  at  \'inceiito\\  n.  3.  Cieorge  W.,  car- 
penter, of  X'incentown.  4.  James  S.,  farmer, 
of  \'incentown.  5.  Lydia,  married  and  lives 
in  Philadelphia.  6.  Lavinia,  married  Walter 
.•\nderson  and  lives  in  Mt.  Holly.  7.  Henry 
I.,  farmer,  of  Southampton  townshij).  8.  Job 
I.,  farmer  of  \"incentown.  9.  William  Walter, 
see  post.      10.  Charles  S.,,  lives  at  X'incentown. 

( III )  William  Walter,  son  of  James  T.  and 
Mary  (Allen)  Worrell,  was  born  in  South- 
ampton township,  Burlington  county,  in  1862, 
and  received  his  education  in  public  schools  at 
lUiddtown  and  X'incentown  and  in  a  private 
school  in  X'incentown  of  which  John  G.  Her- 
bert was  then  the  master.  XX'hen  about  nine- 
teen years  old  he  went  to  work  as  clerk  in  a 
large  general  store  at  Marlton  owned  by  H. 
&  J.  M.  Brink,  and  remained  in  the  employ  of 
that  firm  during  the  next  twelve  years.  In 
1898  he  became  proprietor  of  a  wholesale 
tobacco  business  at  Mt.  Flolly  and  since  that 
time  has  been  counted  among  the  substantial 
business  men  of  that  city.  Besides  being  a 
prominent  business  man  for  manv  years.  Mr. 
XX'orrell  also  has  been  something  of  a  public 
man,  and  is  counted  among  the  foremost  Re- 
publicans of  Burlington  county.  From  1893 
to  1898  he  was  clerk  of  Burlington  county. 
In  1902  he  was  appointed  auditor  by  the  board 
of  chosen  freeholders  to  fill  an  unexpired  term, 
and  in  1903  he  was  nominated  for  and  elected 
to  the  same  office,  serving  until  the  general 
election  in  November,  1908,  when  he  was 
elected  high  sheriff'  of  the  county.  This  office 
he  now  holds.      Mr.   XX'orrell   is   president   of 


the  South  Jersey  Tobacco  Company;  member 
of  the  Junior  Order  of  American  Mechanics, 
having  passed  the  several  chairs ;  member  of 
Mt.  Holly  Lodge,  No.  14,  F.  and  A.  M. ;  Mt. 
Holly  Lodge  of  Elks,  No.  848;  and  meml>er 
and  trustee  of  the  Baptist  church. 

In  1880  Mr.  XX'orrell  marrie<l  Lizzie  M., 
daughter  of  John  and  Edith  (Haines)  Chris- 
tian, of  Marlton.  Children:  i.  John  Harold, 
born  Marlton,  January  22,  1882.  2.  Russell 
E.,  bom  Mt.  Holly,  1884;  died  December  7, 
1907.  3.  .-Xlbert  C..,  born  Mt.  Holly,  February 
22.  1896.  4.  XX'illiam  E.,  born  Mt.  Holly,  July 
18,  1905. 


The  surname  Melcher  is  said 
MELCHER     to    be    of    ancient     Hebrew 

origin,  and  indicates  a  long 
line  of  ancestors.  The  meaning  of  the  word 
is  said  to  be  "the  king,"  "the  kingly  one,"  or 
"the  royal  one."  The  true  spelling  of  the  name 
is  .Xlelchoir.  It  is  a  comon  name  in  Switzer- 
land and  in  Germany.  It  is  not  known  who 
was  the  immigrant  ancestor  of  the  Melcher 
families  in  New  England,  and  Savage  gives 
us  an  account  of  Edward  Melcher,  who  was  in 
Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  as  early  as  1684, 
and  (lied  there  in  1695. 

However,  the  Melchers  of  the  jiarticular 
family  here  treated  are  believed  to  have  come 
to  this  country  from  XX'ales,  and  while  the 
year  of  immigration  is  not  definitely  known, 
it  is  certain  that  the  progenitor  of  the  family 
here  under  consideration  was  in  Portsmouth, 
New  Hampshire,  as  early  as  i6f36,  and  Edward 
Melcher  was  among  those  "that  subscribed  in 
the  years  1658  and  ir)fi6  to  the  maintenance  of 
ye  Minister."  They  located  at  Portsmouth 
and  later  went  to  the  garrison  house  in  Sea- 
brook.  They  took  up  their  farm  from  the 
wilderness  and  while  clearing  it  returned  to 
the  garrison  house  at  night.  On  one  occasion 
Mrs.  Melcher,  being  desirous  of  seeing  the 
farm,  walked  up  alone  through  the  woods  to 
gratify  her  curiosity.  .Xt  that  time  the  Indians 
were  very  much  feared.  One  day  while  Ed- 
ward Melcher  was  at  the  farm  he  left  his 
shoes  and  stockings  with  his  gim  in  the  cabin 
and  went  out  to  hoe  his  peas.  Soon  afterward 
he  saw  three  Indians  enter  the  cabin,  upon 
which  he  lay  down  under  the  pea-vines  until 
they  had  gone  away,  and  on  entering  the  cabin 
he  foimd  that  his  gun  and  other  effects  were 
undisturbed,  probably  having  been  overlooked 
by  the  intruders  who  sought  only  Mr.  Melcher 
himself,  .\fter  the  family  had  movefl  out  to 
the  farm  Mrs.  Melclur  was  one  dav  alone  in 


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the  house  and  saw  three  Indians  approacli  the 
door,  which  happened  to  be  fastened.  She 
promptly  greetetl  them  with  a  bucket  of  boil- 
ing water  from  an  upper  window  and  caused 
their  hasty  retreat  from  the  premises. 

Sanuiel  Melcher,  doubtless  a  son  of  Edward 
Melcher,  married,  May  i6,  1700,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Crane.  He  died  in  1754, 
aged  eighty-seven,  hence  was  born  about  1667. 
His  wife  died  in  1756.  aged  eighty-six  years. 
Their  children  were  John,  born. \ugust  22, 1703; 
Elizabeth,  August  10,  1705,  married  Ezekiel 
Sanborn ;  and  Samuel.  They  may  have  had 
other  children  of  whom  we  have  no  account. 

Samuel  Melcher,  son  of  Samuel  and  Eliza- 
beth (Crane)  Melcher,  married,  in  1735, 
Esther,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Green.  He 
died  in  1802,  aged  ninety-four  years,  and  his 
wife  Esther  dieil  in  1797,  aged  eighty-seven 
years.  Their  children  were  Samuel,  Jonathan, 
John,  I'jlward,  Hainiah,  Elizabeth,  Benjamin 
and  Esther. 

.Sannrel  Melcher,  son  of  Samuel  and  Esther 
(Green)  Melcher,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Jonathan  Hilliard.  He  died  in  1823,  aged 
eighty-six  years,  and  his  wife  died  in  1826, 
aged  eighty- four  years.  They  had  two  sons, 
Levi  and  Joseph.  Levi  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Caleb  Tilton,  and  was  a  merchant 
in  Boston.  Joseph  lived  on  the  homestead  and 
was  always  mentioned  as  Judge  Melcher.  He 
married  Polly  Rowell,  and  died  in  1858,  aged 
eighty-nine  years. 

There  is  very  little  doubt  of  the  close  rela- 
tionship of  the  Melchers  referred  to  in  pre- 
ceding paragraphs  and  those  of  the  province 
of  Maine,  with  whom  our  present  narrative 
must  begin,  for  we  only  know  that  two 
brothers,  Samuel  and  Joseph  Melcher,  settled 
in  Brunswick,  Maine,  about  the  year  1757,  and 
were  progenitors  of  the  families  of  their  sur- 
name in  that  region.  Samuel  settled  at  New 
Meadows,  and  in  1767  built  the  house  in  wdiich 
Deacon  James  Smith  was  living  a  (|uarter  of  a 
century  ago.  He  died  March  3,  1834,  aged  ninet\- 
years,  hence  was  bom  about  1744.  He  mar- 
ried Isabella,  daughter  of  Judge  Aaron  Hinck- 
ley. She  died  August  17,  1832,  in  her  eighty- 
sixth  year.  Their  children  were:  i  Reliance, 
born  .\oveniber  15,  1768,  died  November  29, 
1804.  2.  Mary,  August  3,  1771.  3.  .A.aron, 
February  23,  1773.  4.  Samuel,  May  8,  1775, 
died  March  3,  1862.  5.  Elizabeth,  May  13, 
1777.  ^-  Lois,  July  2,  1780.  7.  Rebecca, 
March  6.  1783.  8.  John,  May  19,  1785.  9. 
Noah,  May  30,  1788,  died  young.  10.  Rachel, 
February  23,  1793. 


( I )  Joseph  Melcher,  brother  of  Samuel 
Melcher  who  is  mentioned  in  the  preceding 
]3aragra])h,  settled  at  Bunganock,  on  the  farm 
where  Jedidiah  Mariner  dwelt  in  1878.  He 
was  a  "housewright,"  or  carjjentcr  by  trade, 
and  died  April  21,  1821,  aged  nearly  eighty-si.x 
years,  hence  was  born  about  1736.  He  mar- 
ried, in  1757,  Mary  Cobb,  of  Gorhamtown, 
who  died  Alay  18,  1825,  in  her  eighty-seventh 
year.  They  had  a  large  family  of  fourteen 
children,  of  whom  the  history  of  Brunswick, 
Maine,  mentions  the  names  of  five:  Noah, 
Nathaniel,  Abner,  Josiah  and  Samuel. 

( II )  Abner,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  ( Cobb) 
Melcher,  was  born  at  Oak  Hill,  near  Bruns- 
wick, Maine,  and  was  a  farmer  by  occupation. 
He  married  Maria  Frost,  and  their  children 
were  Benjamin,  William  H.,  Maria  and  George. 

(III)  W'illiam  Henry,  second  son  and  child 
of  Abner  and  Maria  (Frost)  Melcher,  was 
born  at  Brunswick,  Alaine,  May  9,  1824,  and 
is  still  living  (1909)  at  the  advanced  age  of 
eighty-five  years.  At  the  age  of  twelve  years, 
when  a  boy  in  school,  he  showed  an  aptitude 
for  mechanical  work  and  even  then  began  mak- 
ing shoes  :  and  at  fourteen  years  he  built  a  sub- 
stantial sleigh,  doing  all  of  the  work  himself. 
He  was  hardly  more  than  a  boy  in  years  when 
he  went  to  Bath  to  work  in  a  shipyard  and 
there  he  learned  the  trade  of  shijibuilding, 
becoming  a  competent  workman  in  the  course 
of  a  few  years.  Later  on  he  began  building 
vessels  on  his  own  account  and  followed  that 
ocupation  for  many  years.  For  the  last  few 
years  he  has  held  the  position  of  suj^erintend- 
ent  of  woodwork  for  the  Bath  Iron  Works, 
and  is  still  active  notwithstanding  his  years. 
Mr.  Melcher  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  trus- 
tee and  consistent  member  of  the  Free  Will 
Baptist  church.  In  1846  he  married  Sarah 
Jane  Alexander,  of  Richmond,  Maine,  and  by 
her  had  three  children ;  Ella  Price,  William 
Palmer,  .Ada  Maria. 

(  I\')  William  Palmer,  only  son  of  William 
Henry  and  Sarah  Jane  (Alexander)  Melcher, 
was  born  in  Brunswick,  Maine,  April  10,  1849, 
and  was  a  child  two  years  old  when  his  father 
removed  with  his  family  to  Bath.  He  fitted 
for  college  in  the  Maine  State  Seminary  and 
Nichols  Latin  School,  then  entered  Bowdoin 
College  and  was  graduated  .A..  15.  in  1871.  .After 
leaving  college  he  turned  his  attention  tem- 
porarily to  teaching,  then  matriculated  at  the 
medical  department  of  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania, Philadelphia,  and  graduated  from 
there  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1876.  Dr. 
Melcher  began  his  professional  career  in  Cam- 


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den  and  practiced  in  that  city  until  1879,  when 
he  removed  to  I'eniberton,  New  Jersey,  Uved 
there  until  1882  and  then  settled  permanently 
at  Alt.  Holly,  where  in  later  years  he  has  built 
up  a  remunerative  practice.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  American  Medical  Association,  the  New 
Jersey  State  Medical  Society,  and  the  Burling- 
ton Countv  Medical  Society.  He  is  a  member 
of  Mt.  Holly  Lodge,  No.  848,  B.  P.  O.  E.,  and 
in  politics  is  a  Republican.  For  fifteen  years 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Mt.  Holly  board  of 
education. 

March  13,  1884,  Dr.  Melcher  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Theodore  and  Martha  (Snyder) 
Gaskell,  (the  former  a  steward  of  the  county 
almshouse  at  New  Lisbon  ),  and  has  three  chil- 
dren: I.  Theodora,  born  March  29,  1886.  2. 
Stanwood  .Alexander,  September  15,  1893.  3 
Charlotte  I'atton,  June  9,  1896. 


The  Sharp  family  of  New  Jersey 
SHARP  is  descended  from  English  ances- 
tors, and  previous  to  the  immi- 
gration to  America  the  particular  family  here 
treated  was  settled  in  the  parish  of  St.  Ann, 
Limehouse,  Middlesex.  This  was  the  family 
of  Francis  Sharp,  of  Oak  Lane.  William  and 
Thomas  Sharp,  sons  of  Francis  Sliarp,  came 
with  their  families  to  America  in  the  ship 
"Samuel"'  in  1682,  and  settled  in  Evesham 
township  in  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey. 
The  children  who  came  with  William  and 
Thomas  Sharp  were  John,  William  and  Hugh 
Sharp,  whom  tradition  says  were  brothers  and 
children  of  William,  although  this  relation- 
ship has  not  been  fully  established  and  the 
fact  has  been  assumed  by  genealogists  of  the 
family  as  being  in  accordance  with  probabilities 
and  with  nothing  to  indicate  to  the  contrary. 
(I)  William  Sharp,  the  immigrant,  was  born 
in  England,  and  on  his  arrival  in  this  country 
settled  in  the  old  township  of  Evesham,  where 
he  was  a  person  of  considerable  consequence, 
althoiigh  accounts  of  his  life  are  quite  meagre 
so  far  as  the  records  tend  to  indicate.  Some 
relics,  however,  of  his  generation  and  time 
have  been  preserved  by  his  descendants,  among 
them  Bibles,  a  clock  of  ancient  construction, 
a  case  of  drawers,  and  a  two-gallon  bottle ;  and 
of  which  with  others  of  less  importance  are 
said  to  have  been  brought  over  with  him  in 
1682.  The  name  of  his  wife  does  not  appear, 
but  there  came  with  him  the  three  sons,  John, 
William  and  Hugh,  to  whom  casual  reference 
has  been  made. 

Cil)  John,    presumably   the   eldest    son    of 
William    Sharp,  the   immigrant,   was  born   in 


England  and  came  to  this  country  with  his 
father  in  1682.     He  married.  4th  month  17th, 

1688,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Paine.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  William,  born  1689,  see  post.  2. 
Elizabeth,  1692.  3.  John,  1693:  married  (first) 
Jane  Fitchardall,  (second)  Ann  Haines.  4. 
Thomas,  1698;  married  Elizabeth  Smith.  5. 
Hannah,  1700;  married  Thomas  .Xdams.  6. 
Samuel,  1702;  married  Elizabeth  Haines.  7. 
Sarah,  1705. 

(HI)  William  (2),  son  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth ( Paine )  Sharp,  was  born  loth  month  2d, 

1689,  and  married  (first)  1716,  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Francis  and  Mary  (Borton)  Austin. 
I'rancis  Austin  was  progenitor  of  the  family 
of  his  surname  in  New  Jersey,  and  his  wife, 
Mary  Borton,  was  daughter  of  John  and  Ann 
Borton,  progenitors  of  the  Borton  family  of 
New  Jersey.  \\'illiam  Sharp  married  (sec- 
ond) Hannah .    Children:     i.  Rebecca, 

born  1719;  married  Solomon  Haines.  2.  Han- 
nah, 1721 ;  married  Jonathan  Haines.  3.  Hugh, 
1724,  see  post.  4.  Esther,  1727;  married  Job 
Haines.  5.  William,  1730;  married  Mary 
Haines.  6.  Sarah,  1735;  married  Barzilla 
Prickitt.  7.  Samuel,  1737.  8.  Jane,  1739;  mar- 
ried Robert  Engle.  9.  Child,  1741 ;  died  in 
infancy.  10.  Isaac,  1744;  died  young.  11. 
Josiah,  1748.     12.  Elizabeth,  1751. 

(IV)  Hugh,  son  of  William  (2)  and  Mary 
(Austin)   Sharp,  was  born  nth  month,  15th, 

1724.      He   married    (first)    Sabillah   , 

who  died  having  borne  him  three  children; 
married  (second)  Ann,  daughter  of  Mark  and 
Anna  (Hancock)  Stratton.  Children:  i. 
Sabillah,  born  1755.  2.  Hannah,  1757.  3. 
Thomas,  1759.  4.  Job,  1761.  5.  William,  see 
post. 

(V)  William  (3),  son  of  Hugh  and  Ann 
(Stratton)  Sharp,  was  born  3d  month  loth. 
1770,  and  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Zane)  Rakestraw. 
Thomas  Rakestraw  was  a  son  of  Thomas 
Rakestraw  and  grandson  of  Thomas  Rake- 
straw, whose  wife  was  Mary,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Wilkinson.  Children:  i.  Eli,  mar- 
ried Catherine  Sinnickson.  2.  Franklin,  mar- 
ried Eliza  Braddock.  3.  William,  see  post.  4. 
Isaac,  married  Hannah  Engle.    5.  Charles.    6. 

■  Maria,  married  Benjamin  Wilkins.     7.  Eliza- 
beth,  married  Japheth  Bowker.     8.  Amanda, 

married  RIorford.     9.  Susan,  married 

Wesley  Evans. 

(VI)  William  (4),  son  of  William  (3)  and 
Elizabeth  (Rakestraw)  Sharp,  was  born  in 
Aledford,  New  Jersey,  in  1796,  died  there  in 
1844.     He  was  a  man  of  education  and  judg- 


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nicnt,  a  careful  and  constant  reader,  and  while 
in  business  life  was  a  contractor  and  builder, 
always  retaining  his  early  love  of  books  and 
good  reading.  L"ntil  he  was  sixty-hve  years 
old  he  continued  to  live  on  his  farm  and  then 
moved  to  Medford  village.  He  married 
Jemima,  daughter  of  Darnell  and  Sarah 
(Rogers)  Braddock.  Children:  I.  Fredinand 
F".,  married  Lydia  Thomas.  2.  Hugh,  mar- 
ried Jane  Ann  Sharp.  3.  Benjamin,  married 
Adeline  Garwood.  4.  Jemima,  married  Edwdn 
Crispin.  5.  Abbie,  married  Edward  Darnell. 
6.  Jervis,  married  Sarah  A.  R.  Githens.  7. 
Andrew,  married  Lydia  S.  Darnell.  8.  Lewis 
L.,  see  post.  9.  Henry,  married  Annie  Wil- 
kins.  10.  Edward,  married  Rebecca  Stilwell 
Bailey. 

(VH)  Dr.  Lewis  L.,  son  of  William  (4) 
and  Jemima  ( Braddock )  Sharp,  was  born  in 
Medford,  New  Jersey,  November  i,  1841,  and 
after  receiving  a  good  elementary  education  in 
]iublic  schools  in  Medford  and  Aloorestown, 
he  entered  the  medical  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  F^ennsylvania,  graduating  with  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  in  1864.  After  graduation 
he  began  his  professional  career  in  Medford 
and  has  since  been  engaged  in  active  general 
practice.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Medical  Association,  the  New  Jersey  State 
Medical  Society,  the  Burlington  County  Medi- 
cal Society  and  has  served  as  president  of  the 
Burlington  County  District  Medical  Associa- 
tion. He  is  a  Master  Mason,  a  Republican  in 
politics  and  in  1890-91  was  a  member  of  the 
New  Jersey  house  of  assembly. 

July  12,  1904,  Dr.  .Sharji  married,  Mrs.  Re- 
becca Stilwell  Bailey  Sharp,  widow  of  Edward 
Sharj),  Dr.  .Sharp's  brother.  By  her  former 
marriage  Mrs.  Sharp  had  one  daughter,  Flor- 
ence Broomell  Sharp,  born  July  25,  1885,  died 
January  17,  1900. 


The  ancestor  of  the 
W.MXWT^IGHT  Wainwright  families  in 
this  country  was  a 
Yorkshire  Englishman,  by  birth  and  ]-)arentage, 
and  wdio  as  an  officer  of  the  British  navy  was 
sent  to  Bermuda,  West  Indies,  as  commandant 
of  the  British  naval  station  there.  He  is  said 
to  have  had  three  sons  who  came  to  America 
and  settled,  one  in  New  York  city,  one  in 
riiiladelphia.  and  one  at  Halifax.  Nova  Scotia, 
liishop  Wainwright.  of  New  York,  came  of 
the  son  who  settled  in  that  city,  and  the  family 
purposed  to  be  treated  in  this  place  comes  of 
the  son  who  located  in  Philadelphia.  But, 
indeed,   of   this   son   the   historical   and   gene- 


alogical references  give  us  no  account  what- 
ever, and  we  only  know  that  Jonathan  Wain- 
wright, a  Hicksite  Quaker,  was  among  the 
descendants  of  that  one  of  the  three  immigrant 
brothers  who  settled  in   I'hiladel])hia.   ^^— 

(  1)  Jonathan  Wainwright  was  born  in  Phil- 
adel|)hia  in  1795  and  died  in  that  city  in  1870. 
He  was  a  manufacturer  of  pully  blocks  and 
also  carried  on  a  business  of  dealing  in  lumber, 
and  it  is  evident  that  he  was  a  man  of  consider- 
able consequence  in  the  business  life  of  the 
city  and  at  one  time  was  president  of  the  Kens- 
ington Bank.  He  married  Susan,  daughter  of 
( ieorge  and  Martha  ( HoUingshead )  Eyre, 
granddaughter  of  Jehu  Eyre  and  great-grand- 
daugliter  of  George  Eyre,  who  came  over  to 
.\nierica  with  Penn's  colony.  Children:  i. 
Matilda,  now  dead;  married  Hanson  Withers, 
of  Philadelphia.  2.  Susan,  now  dead;  married 
Henry  L.  Tripler.  3.  Isaac  Harrison,  now- 
dead.  4.  Richard  S.,  now  tlead.  5,  Jonathan 
E.,  see  post.  6.  Charles  B.,  of  Camden,  New- 
Jersey.     7.    Chandler    Price,   of    Philadelphia. 

(H)  Jonathan  Eyre,  son  of  Jonathan  and 
-Susan  (Eyre)  Wainwright.  was  bom  in  the 
city  of  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  and  died 
at  Norristown,  Pennsylvania.  He  was  reared 
under  the  influence  of  the  Society  of  Friends 
and  received  his  early  education  in  Friends' 
schools  and  also  in  the  township  public  schools. 
After  leaving  school  he  became  connected  with 
the  house  of  Cope  Shipping  Company  and  in 
1849  was  sent  to  California.  On  his  return  to 
the  east  he  became  interested  with  his  father 
in  the  luniber  business  and  continued  it  after 
the  death  of  his  parent.  Mr.  Wainwright 
was  a  Mason,  niember  of  Harmony  Lodge, 
I',  and  A.  M.,  of  Philatlelphia,  an  Episcopalian 
in  religious  preference  and  a  Republican  in 
politics.  He  married  Elizabeth  Lynn  Tripler, 
of  Philadelphia,  born  January,  1829,  and  still 
living.  Children:  i.  Jacob  T.,  of  Chicago, 
melailurgical  engineer  in  iron  and  steel  con- 
struction.    2.  Isaac  Harrison,  see  post. 

(Ill)  Isaac  Harrison,  younger  son  of  Jon- 
athan Eyre  and  h21izal>eth  Lynn  (Tripler) 
Wainwright,  was  born  in  the  city  of  Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania,  January  6,  1856,  graduated 
from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1875, 
,  and  immediately  found  employment  as  rod- 
/man  in  the  engineering  department  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company.  He  was 
stationed  first  at  .Mtoona,  and  since  that  time 
has  been  engaged  in  the  company's  service  in 
various  parts  of  southern  and  central  Pennsyl- 
vania and  southern  New  Jersey ;  and  from  the 
]K>sition  of  rodman  he  has  advanced  through 


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grades  of  promotion  to  that  of  supervisor  in 
charge  of  a  part  of  the  .-Vniboy  division,  with 
offices  in  Mt.  Holly.  Mr.  W'ainwright  has  been 
continuously  in  the  service  of  the  company  for 
more  than  thirty-five  years,  lie  holds  member- 
ship in  Perry  Lodge,  No.  458,  F.  and  A.  M., 
of  JMarysville,  Pennsylvania ;  Newport  Chap- 
ter, No.  238,  R.  A.  M.,  of  Newport,  Pennsyl- 
vania ;  \'an  Hook  Council,  R.  and  S.  M. ; 
Cyrene  Commandery,  No.  7,  K.  T.,  of  Cam- 
den ;  also  the  various  bodies  of  Scottish  Rite 
and  the  Mystic  Shrine. 

In  1881  Mr.  W'ainwright  married  Sally  B. 
Pennell,  of  Duncannon,  Pennsylvania,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Catherine  (Keyser)  Pennell, 
and  a  granddaughter  of  Andrew  Pennell,  a 
native  of  Ireland  and  the  ancestor  of  the  family 
in  this  country. 


Dr.    Ira    Clayton    Leedom,    of 
LEEDOM      Bordentown,  New  Jersey,  de- 
scends from  a  family  long  resi- 
dent of  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  Dr. 
Leedom  also  was  born. 

1 1 )  John  Leedom,  the  earliest  ancestor,  was 
born  in  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  all 
his  life  he  followed  agricultural  pursuits.  He 
had  sons:  Ceorge.  Samuel,  Howanl  and  Al- 
fred ;  daughters :  Lucy,  Ann,  Mary  and  Sarah. 
( II)  Samuel,  son  of  John  Leedom,  was  born 
in  Bucks  county.  Pennsylvania,  1828.  He  re- 
ceived the  usual  education  of  sons  of  farmers, 
and  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter.  He  form- 
ed a  partnership  with  his  brother  Alfred  in 
Southampton,  Pennsylvania,  and  most  of  his 
active  life  wa.s  spent  there.  They  were  well 
known  contractors  and  builders  and  erected 
many  public  and  private  buildings  in  the 
county.  Mr.  Leedom  retired  from  active  life 
about  1895  and  is  now  living  in  Philadelphia. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church,  and 
while  living  in  Danville.  Pennsylvania,  was  a 
deacon  and  trustee  of  the  church  there.  He  is 
a  Republican,  and  a  member  of  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  the  Improved 
Order  of  Red  Men.  He  married  Catherine 
\'an  Cleve,  born  in  1832  in  Montgomery 
county,  Pennsylvania,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Rachel  (Fetter)  Van  Cleve.  Samuel  Van  Cleve, 
her  father,  was  born  in  Freehold,  New  Jersey, 
the  son  of  Benjamin  \'an  Cleve, and  grandson  of 
Benjamin  Van  Cleve,  all  of  Monmouth  county. 
New  Jersey.  Children  of  Samuel  and  Cath- 
erine (Van  Cleve)  Leedom:  i.  Alfred,  de; 
ceased  ;  he  was  a  funeral  director  of  Southamp- 
ton. Pennsylvania;  married  Emma  Dubois  and 
left  a  son,  Guy  R.  Leedum.     2.  Doric  \'.,  a 


master  ship  carpenter  at  the  League  Island 
I'nitcd  States  navy  yard.  Philadelphia :  mar- 
ried Margaret  Pritchard  ;  children:  J.  Firth, 
Clarence  and  Ethel.  3.  Ira  Clayton,  see  for- 
ward. 

(Ill )  Dr.  Ira  Clayton,  youngest  son  of  Sam- 
uel and  Catherine  (\  an  Cleve)  Leedom,  was 
born  at  Southampton,  Bucks  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania. January  21,  1871.  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  town.  He 
entered  lUicknell  University  and  was  grad- 
uated from  that  institution  with  the  class  of 
1 89 1.  Having  chosen  medicine  as  his  pro- 
fession and  Homeopathy  as  his  school,  he 
entered  Hahnemann  Medical  College,  Phila- 
delphia, graduating  therefrom  in  1894.  In  the 
same  year  he  located  in  Bordentown,  New 
Jersey,  and  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his 
profession.  He  is  a  well  known  man  of  the 
town  and  esteemed  highly  as  a  physician  and  a 
citizen.  He  is  Republican  in  politics  and  has 
served  the  city  as  president  of  the  board  of 
education,  president  of  the  excise  commission, 
secretary  of  the  board  of  health  and  as  city 
collector.  He  stands  high  in  the  Masonic 
fraternity.  He  is  past  master  of  Mt.  Moriah 
Lodge,  No.  28,  Free  and  .Accepted  Masons ; 
past  eminent  commander  of  Ivanhoe  Com- 
mandery, Knights  Templar,  No.  11,  and  a 
Royal  .Arch  Mason  of  Mt.  IMoriah  Chapter, 
No.  20,  all  of  Bordentown,  and  a  thirty-second 
degree  Mason  of  the  Scottish  Rite,  Trenton 
Consistory.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Borden- 
town Knights  of  Pythias,  the  Knights  of  the 
Golden  Eagle  and  the  Brotherhood  of  Amer- 
ica. 

Dr.  Leedom  married,  in  1895,  Frances  Rush, 
daughter  of  John  and  Mary  Rush,  of  Warren 
county.  New  Jersey.  One  child,  F.  Benson, 
born  in  Bordentown,  New  Jersey,  1896. 


It  is  said  by  antiquarians  that  the 
E.ARL     family  of  Earle  is  of  very  ancient 

origin  and  can  be  traced  back  to  a 
.Sa.xon  ancestor  of  a  period  more  remote  than 
that  of  the  Norman  conquest.  In  the  reign  of 
Henry  II.,  crowned  A.  D.  1154,  there  were 
Earles  in  Beckington,  Somersetshire,  and  by 
one  author  it  is  .stated  that  "so  far  back  as  the 
seventh  Henry  II.,  John  de  Erlegh  paid  five 
marks  for  the  scutage  of  his  lands  at  Becking- 
ton." Thus  it  is  seen  that  the  Earles  are  a 
very  ancient  family  of  England  and  were  it 
desirable  abundant  proof  is  available  to  show 
that  the  family  also  is  one  of  much  distinction. 
There  were  no  less  than  eleven  coats-of-arms 
granted   to   various  members   of   the   English 


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family,  but  as  the  author  of  the  work  entitled 
"Raljjh  Earle  and  Mis  Descentlants"  says  "in 
all  my  intercourse,  either  personal  or  by  writ- 
ten correspondence,  I  have  found  none  who 
wore  or  bore  a  coat-of-arms,  and  in  only  one 
instance  have  I  heard  of  one  in  the  possession 
of  any  family." 

(I)  Ralph  Earle,  immigrant,  first  appears 
in  New  England  colonial  history  as  of  New- 
port, Rhode  Island,  where  his  name  is  found 
in  the  records  as  early  as  1638.  Of  his  birth- 
place or  place  of  residence  previous  to  immi- 
grating to  America  there  appears  nothing  like 
reliable  information.  There  always  has  been 
a  tradition  among  his  descendants  that  he  came 
from  E.xeter  in  1634,  and  there  is  little  doubt 
that  he  married  in  England  and  that  his  wife 
came  over  with  him,  although  her  family  name 
is  unknown.  She  was  called  Joan,  although 
her  baptismal  name  appears  so  written  and 
also  lone  and  Jone.  Ralph  Earle  was  ad- 
mitted inhabitant  of  "the  Island  now  called 
Aqueedneck"  in  1638,  and  appears  to  have 
been  a  person  of  some  consequence  in  the 
plantation  .  April  29,  1650,  Ralph  Earle  and 
five  others  were  chosen  "for  the  committee  for 
the  General  Assembly  at  Newport  in  May 
ne.xt,"  and  on  November  12,  1650,  it  was 
"voated  &  granted  that  Ralph  Erl's  house 
wherein  he  now  dwelleth  be  recorded  &  Inn, 
in  ye  room  of  ye  former  vote  that  he  was  an 
Innkeeper."  In  165 1  he  was  elected  one  of 
the  committee  "to  proportion  every  man's 
farm,"  and  in  the  same  year  he  was  chosen 
town  treasurer.  He  fulfilled  various  other 
offices,  serving  as  grand  juror,  witnessing  deeds 
and  other  instuments,  and  in  1667  joined  the 
"troop  of  horse"  of  which  subsequently  he 
became  captain.  He  claimed  ownership  of 
"the  lands  of  the  Dutch  House  of  Good  Hope, 
now  Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  commenced 
a  lawsuit  therefore,  '  claiming  that  he  pur- 
chased the  land  of  Underbill  in  August,  1653, 
and  paid  twenty  pounds  sterling  for  it.  He 
died  in  Portsmouth,  Rhode  Island,  in  1678. 
He  and  his  wife  Joan  had  five  children:  i. 
Ralph,  married  Dorcas  Sprague.  2.  \\'illiam, 
see  post.  3.  Mary,  married  (first)  William 
Cory,  (second)  Joseph  Timberlake.  4.  Mar- 
tha, married  William  Wood.  5.  Sarah,  mar- 
ried Thomas  Cornell. 

(II)  William,  son  of  Ralph  and  Joan  Earle, 
is  first  mentioned  in  1634,  when  he  sold  his 
interest  in  certain  lands  to  one  James  Sands. 
In  1658  he  became  freeman  of  Portsmouth, 
Rhode  Island,  and  in  the  same  years  was  ad- 
mitted freeman  of  the  colony.     In  1665  it  was 


ordered  that  William  Earle  and  William  Cory 
have  "one  acker  of  land  on  the  hill  cauled 
Briges  hill,  or  some  other  conveniant  place  in 
this  Townes  Comons,  and  a  quarter  of  an  acker 
of  land  lying  aganst  ye  towne  pond  over  against 
William  Earle's  new  dewlinge  house,  and  these 
two  parcells  of  land  they  are  to  have  and  to 
enjoy  to  them  and  theres,  so  long  as  they  main- 
tain a  wind  mill  in  this  town  for  the  townes 
use.  Provided  that  if  they  maintain  not  the 
said  mill  then  the  said  pearcclls  of  land  it  to 
be  returned  and  laid  down  to  the  townes  use 
and  dispose."  In  1668  the  wind  mill  had  been 
erected  and  the  town  at  the  request  of  Earle 
and  Cory  annulled  the  above  order  and  ex- 
changed two  acres  of  ground  belonging  to 
Earle  and  Cory.  "The  Eare  marke  of  Wiliam 
Earl's  cattell  is  a  hapeny  under  the  side  of  ye 
further  Eare  and  a  slit  on  the  Nere  Eare,  of 
12  yeares  standing,  and  Entred  upon  Record 
by  me,  Richard  Bulgar,  towne  Clarke,  Deec  ye 
5th.  i()67."  In  1670  William  Earle  removed 
to  Dartmouth,  Rhode  Island,  where  he  had 
large  interests  in  lands,  and  remained  there 
several  years.  He  owned  two  thousand  acres 
from  his  claims  in  the  original  division  of  the 
land.  The  records  show  that  he  was  a  man  of 
importance  as  well  as  a  large  land  holder,  and 
in  1691  "the  General  Assembly  for  their  Ma- 
jesties Collony  of  Rhode  Island  and  Providence 
Plantations,  in  New  England,  in  Portsmouth 
on  said  Rhode  Island,  for  the  Election  of  Gen- 
eral Officers  for  the  said  Collony,"  was  held 
"at  the  house  of  William  Earle,  it  being  re- 
moved from  Newport  by  reason  of  the  Dis- 
temper." In  1692  he  was  a  member  of  the 
"grand  Inquest  at  Newport,"  was  deputy  from 
I'ortsmoutli  to  the  general  assembly  at  Provi- 
dence in  October,  1704,  and  at  Newport  in 
1706.  He  made  his  will  November  13,  1713, 
and  provided  well  for  his  children  and  other 
members  of  his  family.  He  married  (first) 
Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Katherine  Walker, 
and   after   her   death    he    married    Prudence 

.     She  died  January   18,   1718,  having 

survived  her  husband  three  years,  he  having 
died  January  15,  1715.  He  had  seven  chil- 
dren: I.  Mary,  born  1655;  married  John 
Piorden.  2.  William,  see  post.  3.  Ralph,  born 
1660,  married  Mary  Hicks.  4.  Thomas,  mar- 
ried   Mary   Taber.      5.    Caleb,   married    Mary 

.      6.    John,    married    Mary    Wait.      7. 

Prudence,  married  Rcnjamin  Dnrfee. 

(HI)  William  (2).  son  of  William  (i)  and 
Mary  (Walker)  Earle,  was  born  in  Ports- 
mouth, Rhode  Island,  and  after  his  marriage 
settled  in  Dartmouth,  Massachusetts,  where  he 


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was  juryman  in  1694,  and  constable  in  1695-96. 
It  appears  that  he  was  engaged  in  a  small  way 
in  the  shipping  business,  owning  an  interest  in 
a  sloop  in  which  he  carried  on  a  coasting  trade 
along  the  coast  of  New  England,  New  York 
and  New  Jersey.  In  December,  1697,  he  came 
to  Springfield,  New  Jersey,  where  he  purchased 
the  farm  on  which  he  ever  afterward  lived. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends, 
many  of  his  descendants  followed  his  example 
in  their  religious  relations  and  many  of  them 
still  continue  in  that  faith.  It  appears  too  that 
this  William  Earle  wrote  his  name  without  the 
final  "e,"  which  example  has  been  followed  by 
nearly  all  of  his  descendants.  The  exact  date 
of  his  death  is  not  known,  but  his  will  dated 
September  23,  1732,  was  proved  May  10,  1733. 
The  baptismal  name  of  his  wife  was  Elizabeth, 
and  by  her  he  had  five  children:  i.  Mary, 
married  Jonathan  Borden.  2.  Martha,  mar- 
ried Thomas  Shinn.  3.  Child,  njme  unknown; 
married  John  \\'ebb.  4.  William,  married 
Mrs.  Mary  Sharpe.     5.  Thomas,  see  post. 

(1\')  Thomas,  son  of  William  (2)  and  Eliz- 
abeth Earl,  was  born  in  Springfield,  New 
Jersey,  and  died  there  in  1778.  After  the 
death  of  liis  elder  brother,  William,  he  lived 
on  his  father's  homestead,  and  devised  it  to 
his  son  Thomas.  He  married,  September  6, 
1727,  Mary  Crispin,  born  May  12,  1705,  daugh- 
ter of  Silas  and  Mary  (Stockton-Shinn)  Cris- 
pin, and  by  her  had  four  children:  i.  Tanton, 
born  March  9,  1731,  see  post.  2.  Thomas, 
married  (first)  Rebecca  Newbold,  (second) 
Leah  Tucker.  3.  William,  died  before  his 
father.     4.  John,  died  before  his  father. 

(V)  Tanton,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary 
(Crispin)  Earl,  was  born  in  Springfield,  New 
Jersey,  Alarch  9,  1 73 1,  died  there  October  24, 
1807.  He  was  a  farmer  and  spent  his  life  in 
Springfield.  He  married  Mary  Haines,  born 
September  12,  1732,  died  June  3,  181 1,  having 
borne  her  husband  ten  children:  i.  Thomas, 
born  December  13,  1754;  married  Edith  Sykes. 
2.  Caleb,  December  21,  1756;  married  Esther 
Gardner.  3.  John.  October  25,  1758;  married 
(first)  Abigail  Smith,  (second)  Abigail 
Haines.  4.  Joseph,  see  post.  5.  Elizabeth, 
March  7,  1763;  married  Jonathan  Curtis.  6. 
Mercy,  March  19,  1765,  died  September  20, 
1805.  7.  Mary,  May  25,  1767,  married  Alex- 
ander Shreve.  8.  Letitia,  May  31,  1769,  died 
March  15,  1774.  9.  Tanton,  October  23,  1772, 
died  January  29,  1796.  10.  Daniel,  January 
21,  1774;  married  Hannah  Shinn. 

(\'I)  Joseph,  son  of  Tanton  and  Mary 
(Haines)  Earl,  was  born  in  Springfield,  New 

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Jersey,  January  2,  1761,  died  in  Pemberton, 
New  Jersey,  February  25,  1839.  He  was  a 
farmer  and  spent  much  of  his  life  in  the  town 
of  Pemberton.  He  married  Theodosia  Shreve, 
born  April  28,  1766,  died  June  12,  1848,  daugh- 
ter of  Joshua  Shreve,  and  by  whom  he  had 
eleven  children:  i.  Esther,  born  October  9, 
1786;  married  John  Mullin.  2.  Caleb,  March 
5,  1788;  died  Alarch  10,  1795.  3.  Benjamin, 
December  14,  1789;  died  March  6,  1791.  4. 
Joshua  S.,  November  5,  1792,  died  January  27, 
1831  ;  was  deputy  surveyor  and  member  of 
of  the  board  of  proprietors  of  West  Jersey; 
sheriff  of  Burlington  county  three  years,  and 
member  of  the  legislature;  died  unmarried.  5. 
■Janton,  October  31,  1794,  died  September  25, 
1801.  6.  Joseph  Biddle,  January  23,  1797; 
married  Rachel  (Allen)  Hinchman.  7.  Re- 
beca  S.,  October  7,  1799,  died  November  21, 
1856;  married  Israel  English.  8.  Tanton,  Oc- 
tober 26,  1801,  died  December  21,  1868.  9. 
Richard  W.,  .\ugust  7,  1804;  married  Mary 
D.  Howell.  10.  Sarah  B.,  November  14,  1807, 
married  Joseph  J.  Budd.  11.  Franklin  W., 
see  post. 

(VH)  Franklin  W.,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Theodosia  (Shreve)  Earl,  was  born  in  Pem- 
berton, New  Jersey,  December  i,  181 1.  He 
was  instantly  killed  May  17,  1883,  by  a  train 
of  cars  while  crossing  the  railroad  track  in  his 
carriage  at  Mt.  Holly.  He  was  a  man  of  much 
intelligence,  a  deputy  surveyor  and  a  member 
of  the  council  of  proprietors  of  West  Jersey. 
He  served  as  township  clerk  of  Pemberton, 
township  committeeman  and  school  trustee, 
and  held  other  oflSces  of  importance.  He  was 
a  Democrat  in  politics  and  once  stood  as  his 
party  candidate  for  a  seat  in  the  legislature. 
He  held  membership  in  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  and  in  religious  preference 
was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  He 
married,  March  15,  1838,  Rebecca  W.  Smith, 
died  September  26,  1886,  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Sarah  Smith,  and  by  her  had  eight  chil- 
dren:  I.  Joseph,  born  April  4,  1839;  died 
May  17.  1859.  2.  Elizabeth  S.,  October  22, 
1840;  died  March  11,  1873;  married  Joshua 
Fors}th,  Jr.  3.  Joshua,  November  12,  1842; 
married  Mary  Adelaide  Oliphant.  4.  Eleanora, 
September  5.  1844;  married.  December  6,  1867,' 
Franklin  S.  Gaskill.  5.  Charles,  December  4, 
1846;  married  Elizabeth  H.  Davis.  6.  Flor- 
ence W.,  April  6,  1852:  married  Emma  R. 
Davis.  7.  Frank,  see  post.  8.  Tanton,  Decem- 
ber 26.  1859;  died  November  5,  1876. 

(VHI)    Frank,  son  of  Franklin  W.  and  Re- 
becca W.   (Smith)  Earl,  was  born  near  Pem- 


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berton.  New  Jersey,  March  2,  1856,  and  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  pubHc  schools  of 
his  native  town  and  for  two  years  was  a 
student  in  an  academic  school  in  Bethlehem, 
Pennsylvania.  On  his  return  home  he  began 
his  business  career  as  a  surveyor  with  his 
father,  and  from  that  tiine  has  been  an  active 
and  successful  business  man,  a  conveyancer, 
deputy  of  the  council  of  proprietors  of  West 
Jersey,  three  years  township  committeeman 
and  several  years  school  trustee.  During  his 
professional  life  he  has  done  a  large  amount 
of  work  as  surveyor  and  civil  engineer  in  the 
counties  of  Camden,  Burlington  and  Atlantic. 
On  May  21,  1877,  Mr.  Earl  married  Julia 
C  Jones,  born  October  7,  1857,  daughter  of 
W'ilkins  and  Keziah  (Shinnj  Jones,  of  Wood- 
ford, New  Jersey.  Five  children  were  born  of 
this  marriage:  i.  Minnie  Rebecca,  born  August 
2T^,  1878;  married  Carl  Tietz,  Jr.,  of  Chicago, 
private  secretary  to  the  chief  engineer  of  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad  Company.  2.  Marion 
Estella,  April  29,  1881,  died  at  the  age  of 
eighteen  years.  3.  Aimer  Jones,  April  2,  1883  ; 
was  educated  at  the  Friends'  School,  Philadel- 
phia ;  became  a  civil  engineer  engaged  in  the 
service  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  Com- 
pany, remained  two  years;  worked  as  civil 
engineer  in  the  states  of  Illinois,  Tennessee, 
Alabama  and  Louisiana.  Since  leaving  the 
employ  of  the  company  above  mentioned  he 
has  engaged  in  work  with  his  father.  He  mar- 
ried. August  II,  1907,  Ila,  daughter  of  Thomas 
J.  Hurley,  of  Jasper,  Alabama.  4.  Franklin 
\V.,  October  15,  1884;  graduate  pharmacist, 
now  living  at  Overbrook,  West  Philadelphia. 
5.  John  H.  P.,  April  29,  1895. 


The  Haines  family  is  said  by 
HAINES  antiquarians  to  be  of  Saxon 
origin,  and  first  appears  in 
Devonshire,  in  the  West  Saxon  kingdom,  in 
the  early  part  of  the  sixth  century,  among  the 
following  of  Hengest  and  Horsa,  when  the 
name  was  known  as  Hayne.  The  family  was 
found  in  England  at  the  time  of  the  conquest, 
seated  in  Hayne,  Stow- ford  parish,  near  the 
Tamcoe  on  the  borders  of  Cornwall.  The 
name  was  written  Hayne  until  the  compilation 
of  Doomesday  Book,  when  it  was  changed  to 
Haines,  although  certain  branches  of  the 
family  still  retain  the  original  form  of  spell- 
ing. 

( I )  I-iichard  Haines,  of  ,\ynhoe,  Northamp- 
tonshire, England,  husbandman,  with  his  wife 
Margaret  and  their  children,  Richard,  William, 
Thomas  and  Mary,  sailed  from  Downs,  Eng- 


land, in  1682,  in  the  ship  "Amity,"  for  Amer- 
ica, but  Richard  the  father  never  reached  the 
shores  of  this  country,  having  sickened  and 
died  on  the  voyage.  A  fifth  son,  Joseph,  was 
born  on  board  the  ship.  John,  the  eldest  son, 
had  come  over  about  1680,  and  made  himself 
a  house  below  Lumberton,  on  the  south  branch 
cjf  Rancocas  creek,  in  New  Jersey.  The  family 
settled  in  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  and  in  1685 
the  vN'iilow  Margaret  married  a  second  husband, 
Henry  Bircham,  of  Nesmamony,  Pennsylvania. 
Thus  it  is  that  because  of  the  death  of  Rich- 
ard Haines  in  mid-ocean  we  have  no  account 
of  him  in  this  country.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Society  of  Friends.  By  his  wife  Mar- 
garet he  had  six  children,  none  of  whom  were 
born  in  America.  Their  children:  i.  John, 
married,  1684,  Esther  Burton.  2.  Richard, 
married,  1699,  Mary  Carlisle.  3.  W' illiam,  born 
1672  (see  post).  4.  Thomas,  born  1674;  mar- 
ried 1692,  Elizabeth  Austin.  5.  Mary,  born 
1676.  6.  Joseph,  born  1682;  married  (first) 
1704,  Dorothy ;  (second)  1722,  Eliza- 
beth Thomas. 

(  II )  William,  son  and  third  child  of  Rich- 
ard and  Alargaret  Haines,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land, in  1672,  and  located  one  hundred  acres 
of  land  "near  Nancutting's  Old  Plantation"  in 
16S9.  In  1712  he  acciuired  lands  in  Northamp- 
ton and  settled  there.  He  appears  to  have  ac- 
quired considerable  tracts  of  land,  and  evi- 
dently was  a  person  of  some  importance.  His 
will  is  dated  in  1752,  and  was  admitted  to  pro- 
bate April  29,  1754.  In  1695  he  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  John  Paine,  at  the  Friends'  meet- 
ing in  Burlington,  and  by  her  had  si.x  children : 

1.  Jacob,  born  169*);  married  Hannah  Stokes. 

2.  Marget  (Margaret),  born  1701.  3.  Nathan, 
born  1703;  married  Sarah  Austin.  4.  Samuel 
(see  post).  5.  Nathaniel,  born  1707;  married 
1731.  Mary  Hervey.  6.  Jeremiah,  born  1713; 
married,  1736,  Hannah  Bounell. 

(HI)  Samuel,  fourth  child  of  W'illiam  and 
.Sarah  (Paine)  Haines,  was  born  in  1705,  and 
married,  in  1734,  Lydia,  daughter  of  Thomas 
antl  Deliverance  (Horner)  Stokes;  children: 
I.  Jacob,  married  Bathsheba  Burroughs.  2. 
.Sarah,  married  Caleb  Newbold.  3.  .Samuel 
(see  post).  4.  Thomas,  married  Elizabeth 
Mullen. 

(iV)  Samuel  (2),  son  and  third  child  of 
Samuel  (i)  and  Lydia  (Stokes)  Haines,  mar- 
ried (first)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  and 
Mary  (Wills)  Buzby;  (second)  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Cornell  Stevenson,  and  had  seven  chil- 
dren by  his  first  and  five  by  his  seconil  wife: 
1.  William,  born  .April  17,  17(1)8;  married  Mary 


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Eayres.  2.  Mary,  born  November  15,  1770; 
married  Jacob  Hollingshead.  3.  Aaron  (see 
post ).  4.  Abel,  born  Septeml>er  30,  1775  ;  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Stokes.  5.  Joseph,  born  April 
I,  1778;  died  1793.  0.  Elizabeth,  born  July 
15,  1780.  7.  Samuel,  born  December  13,  1783: 
married  Susannah  Chapman.  8.  Lydia,  born 
July  31,  1789.  9.  Robert,  born  January  2, 
1791  ;  married  Edith  Rogers.  10.  Sarah,  born 
November  31,  1792;  died  July  17,  1795.  11. 
Ezra,  bom  September  26,  1795  ;  married  (first ) 
Lucy  Bishop;  (second)  Phebe  Pierce.  12. 
Hannah,  born  Alay  15.  1798;  married  Joseph 
R.  Bishop. 

(\'j  Aaron,  third  child  of  Samuel  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Buzby)  Haines,  was  born  March  25, 
1773,  and  was  a  farmer  in  Rancocas,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  was  born  and  died.  His 
wife  was  Martha,  daughter  of  Jervis  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Rogers)  Stokes;  children:  i.  John 
S.  (see  post).  2.  Jervis,  married  Elizabeth 
Reeves.  3.  Edith  S.,  married  Isaac  Haines, 
his  first  wife.  4.  Samuel,  married  Ann  Wood- 
man.    5.  Elizabeth,  married  Joseph  Elkington. 

(\T)  John  Staples,  eldest  son  and  child  of 
Aaron  and  Martha  (Stokes)  Haines,  was  born 
in  Rancocas,  New  Jersey,  October  i,  1798, 
and  died  in  1875.  He  was  an  energetic  busi- 
ness man,  a  blacksmith  by  trade,  but  a  farmer 
and  manufacturer  of  brick  by  principal  occu- 
pation. He  owned  and  carried  on  a  good  farm, 
and  as  his  farm  lands  contained  a  considerable 
deposit  of  clay  of  excellent  quality  for  brick 
he  devoted  a  large  share  of  his  attention  to 
that  manufacture  and  furnished  employment 
to  a  large  number  of  workmen.  He  retired 
from  active  pursuits  about  twelve  years  be- 
fore his  death,  after  which  the  farm  and  brick- 
makinp-  were  carried  on  by  his  son  Stokes. 
Mr.  Haines  was  in  all  respects  a  substantial 
man.  a  born  Quaker,  although  his  wife  was  a 
Methodist,  and  he  was  a  firm  Democrat  of  the 
Jacksonian  type.  He  married  about  1820, 
Mary  Ann  Woolston,  born  October  2,  1800, 
died  1882,  a  daughter  of  John  Woolston.  Ten 
children  were  born  of  this  marriage:  i.  Ben- 
jamin, (lied  in  infancy.  2.  John  Woolston, 
died  in  infancy.  3.  Eliza.  4.  Aaron  Stokes, 
born  1828,  died  December  2,  1908.  5.  Cyla- 
nia  W.,  married  Isaac  H.  Trotter,  is  now  a 
widow,  living  in  Vincentown.  6.  Lydia  \\'., 
died  in  1864.  7.  Adeline,  died  1906.  8.  Mar- 
tin Luther,  born  March,  1837,  died  September, 
1905.  9.  John  Woolston  (see  post).  10. 
Stokes,  a  cranberry  grower  of  Vincentown. 

(\TI)  John  Woolston,  ninth  child  of  John 
Staples  and   Mary  Ann    (Woolston)    Haines, 


was  born  at  \'incentown,  in  Southampton 
township,  March  8,  1839,  and  was  brought  up 
to  farm  work.  His  business  career  was  begim 
as  a  farmer,  but  at  the  end  of  about  four  years 
he  turned  attention  to  dealing  in  live  stock  and 
poultry,  which  he  has  continued  until  the  present 
time,  although  during  the  period  of  more  than 
forty  years  in  which  he  has  been  identified  with 
the  business  life  of  \inccntown,  Mr.  Haines 
has  been  interested  in  various  other  directions. 
For  two  years  he  was  proprietor  of  a  mercan- 
tile business  there  and  at  one  time  he  owned  a 
cranberry  bog,  which  afterward  he  sold  to  his 
brother.  He  is  a  democrat  in  politics  and  as 
such  has  frequently  been  elected  to  public  of- 
fice. He  served  one  year  as  assessor,  three 
years  as  collector,  and  several  years  as  school 
trustee,  twenty  years  as  member  of  the  town- 
ship committee,  and  in  1879  and  1880  was 
member  of  the  New  Jersey  House  of  Assem- 
bly. He  is  a  past  master  of  Central  Lodge 
No.  44,  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  \'incentown,  and 
member  of  Vincentown  Lodge  No.  23, 
I.  O.  O.  F. 

Mr.  Haines  married  (first)  in  i860,  Mary 
Elizabeth  Budd,  born  Buddtown,  New  Jersey, 
in  August,  1839,  died  1880,  daughter  of  John 
S.  Budd.  He  married  (second)  in  1890,  Alice 
Huston  Hargrave,  of  Tabernacle,  daughter  of 
Josiah  Huston.  She  died  July  4,  1905.  Mr. 
Haines  had  six  children,  all  born  of  his  first 
marriage:  I.  Theodosia,  died  young.  2.  John, 
died  young.  3.  .Addie  G.,  married  Clifford  S. 
Cowperthwaith,  of  Medford,  and  has  one  child 
Norman  Woolston,  married  Edith  Moore,  of 
\'incentown.  4.  Eugene  O.,  dealer  in  stock  and 


poultry,     \'incentown. 


home.     6.  Man',  lives  at  home. 


Martha,     lives    at 


(For  flcst  generation  see  preceding  sketclit. 

(II)  Richard,  second  son  and 
HALVES  child  of  Richard  and  Margaret 
Haines,  was  born  in  England, 
and  came  to  America  with  his  father's 
family.  He  settled  in  Evesham  township, 
Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  near  his 
brother  John,  and  was  a  farmer.  He  died  in 
1746.  at  an  advanced  age,  having  become  pos- 
sessed of  a  good  estate  in  lands,  most  of  which 
was  set  off  to  his  children  before  he  died.  He 
married,  in  1699,  Mary  Carlile,  who  also  died  in 
1746,  and  both  she  and  her  husband  were  bur- 
ied in  the  family  bur}ing  ground  on  the  old 
Richard  Haines  farm,  Fostertown,  Burlington 
county.  Richard  and  Mary  (Carlile)  Haines 
had  ten  children:  i.  Abraham  (see  post).  2. 
Richard,  married     172 1,   Agnes  Hollingshead, 


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of  whom  mention  is  made  in  this  narrative. 
3.  Mary,  married.  1720,  Timothy  Alatlack.  4. 
Carhle!  married,  1721,  Sarah,  daughter  o^' 
William  and  Mary  (Hancock)  ]\Iatlack.  5. 
Rebecca,  married,  1 721.  Richard,  son  of  Will- 
iam Matlack.  6.  Rachel,  married,  1725,  Isaac 
Albertson.  7  .  Enoch.  8.  Barthanah.  9. 
Sarah,  married  Edward  Hilliard.  10.  Eliza- 
beth, married Newberry. 

(III)  Abraham,  eldest  child  of  Richard  and 
Mary  (Garble )  Haines,  was  owner  of  a  large 
estate  in  lands  at  Evesham,  and  also  in  Fred- 
erick county.  \'irginia,  and  was  withal  a  man 
of  considerable  prominence.  He  died  in 
1758.  He  married.  May  14,  1719,  Grace, 
daughter  of  John  and  Agnes  (Hackiaey)  Hol- 
lingshead.  She  died  in  1769,  having  borne 
her  husband  eleven  children:  i.  Abraham,  set- 
tled in  Frederick  county,  Virginia,  and  died 
there  in  1760;  married,  1744,  Sarah  Ellis.  2. 
Henjamin.  born  1725  (see  post).  3.  Noah, 
married,  1761,  widow  Hannah  Thorne.  4. 
Edmund,  married  Elizabeth  Warrington.  5. 
Isaac,  married.  1758,  Deborah  Roberts.  (>. 
Josiah.  7.  Isaac,  married  Sarah  Wilkins.  8. 
Simeon,  married  1760,  Mary  Stratton.  9. 
Mary,  married  1752,  W'illiam  Sharp.  10. 
Agnes,  married  Joseph  Hackney.     11.  Joshua. 

(IV)  Benjamin,  second  son  and  child  of 
Abram  and  Grace  ( HoUingshead)  Haines, 
married  (iirst)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John 
and  Mary  (Elkinton)  Roberts.  She  bore  him 
si.x  children,  and  died,  and  he  married  (sec- 
ond) Alargery,  daughter  of  James  and  Eliz- 
abeth Belanger.  She  died,  and  he  married 
(third)  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
Butcher.  He  had  six  children  by  his  first  and 
four  by  his  third  wife:  i.  Abraham,  born  Jan- 
uary 25,  1753,  died  1816:  married  Deliverance 
Haines.  2.  John,  born  October  27,  1754;  mar- 
ried Mary  Middleton.  3.  Mary,  born  April 
10,  1757,  died  1823;  married  Caleb  Crispin. 
4.  William,  born  October  20,  1759,  died  1814; 
married  Agnes  Lippincott.  5.  Job.  born  Janu- 
ary 24.  1763.  died  1844;  married  Sarah  Carr. 
6.  Benjamin,  born  June  18,  1765,  died  1820; 
married  Elizabeth  Kirby.  7.  Charles,  born 
March  10,  1778,  died  1800.  8.  Clayton,  born 
February  28,  1779,  died  in  infancy.  9.  Oay- 
ton,  born  May  20,  1780  (see  post).  10.  Re- 
becca, born  March  24,  1782,  died  1803;  mar- 
ried Amos  Wills. 

(V)  Cla\'ton,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah 
(Butcher)  Haines,  was  born  in  Evesham  town- 
shi]),  Burlington  county.  May  20,  1780,  and 
died  on  the  same  farm  on  which  he  was  born. 
Fie  married  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Zebedee  and 


Priscilla  (Moore)  Wills;  children:  i.  Zebedee, 
born  November  20,  1807  (see  post).  2.  Sarah 
['>.,  October  30,  1814;  married  William  E. 
Haines.  3.  Cla\1:on,  November  5,  1816,  died 
April  18,  1817.  ■ 

(\T)  Zebedee,  eldest  child  of  Clayton  and 
Rebecca  (Wills)  Flaines,  was  born  in  Med- 
ford,  Evesham  township.  New  Jersey,  Novem- 
ber 20.  1807,  and  died  about  1858.  He  was 
given  a  good  education  in  the  Samuel  Cium- 
mere  grammar  school  at  Burlington  and  after- 
ward became  a  fanner,  which  was  his  principal 
occupation  in  life,  and  in  which  he  was  very 
successful,  at  the  time  of  his  death  being  owner 
of  two  good  farms.  He  took  an  earnest  in- 
terest in  public  aft'airs,  although  not  for  his 
personal  advancement,  and  was  looked  upon 
as  one  of  the  influential  men  of  the  township. 
Originally  he  was  a  Whig  and  later  became  a 
Rei)ublican,  although  he  died  soon  after  the 
organization   of   the   Republican  party. 

Mr.  Haines  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Jo.seph  and  Elizabeth  Hendrickson,  of  Cross- 
wicks,  and  by  her  had  twelve  children:  i.  Re- 
becca, born  February  11,  1831.  2.  Margaret, 
born  March  10.  1832,  died  young.  3.  Jane, 
born  April  7,  1833;  married  Samuel  J.  Eves. 
4.  Priscilla  N.,  born  January  18,  1835  > 
married  (first)  Joseph  B.  Evans;  (second) 
Ezra  Bell.  5.  Amy,  born  March  27,  1836; 
married  Joseph  Nicholson.  6.  Clayton,  born 
Alay  7,  1837;  married  Lydia  McGrew.  7. 
Joseph  H.,  born  December  7,  1840  (see  post). 
8.  Elizabeth  F.,  born  August  5,  1842;  married 
Howard  Darnell.  9.  Zebedee,  born  August 
20,  1843;  niarried  Anna  P.  Harvey.  10.  John 
G.,  born  October  20,  1848;  married  Rebecca 
]*atterson.  11.  Ellis,  born  July  22,  1852;  mar- 
ried Catherine  P.  Howard.  12.  Lydia,  born 
July  19,  1853. 

(\II)  Joseph  Hendrickson,  son  and  sev- 
enth child  of  Zebedee  and  Elizabeth  (Hend- 
rickson) Haines,  was  born  in  Medford,  Burl- 
ington county.  New  Jersey,  December  7,  1840, 
and  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  township  and  also  at  the  Friends'  school 
in  Weston,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  a  stu- 
dent during  two  winter  terms.  As  a  boy  and 
young  man  he  worked  at  home  on  his  father's 
farm,  where  he  was  born  and  which  he  now 
owns,  for  he  eventually  succeeded  to  owner- 
ship of  the  old  home  place.  But  he  has  other 
farming  lands  besides  the  homestead,  and  is 
known  among  the  practical  and  successful 
business  men  of  the  county.  Mr.  Haines  also 
is  interested  in  mercantile  business,  being 
senior  partner  of  the  firm  of  Joseph  H.  Haines 


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&  Sons,  general  dealers  in  coal,  lumber  and 
agricultural  implements,  and  also  proprietors 
of  a  large  pressing  business.  In  this  firm, 
however,  Mr.  Haines  is  hardly  an  active  part- 
ner, the  business  management  being  entirely 
in  the  hands  of  his  two  sons,  Morris  \\  .  and 
Everett  H.,  both  young  men  of  excellent  busi- 
ness qualifications,  energetic,  straightforward 
and  perfectly  reliable.  The  father  is  head  of 
the  house  and  the  conduct  of  the  business  is 
in  safe  hands.  Besides  these  interests  Mr. 
Haines  has  for  many  years  been  closely  iden- 
tified with  the  business  and  civil  life  of  the 
town,  being  a  director  of  the  water  company 
of  Medford  and  chairman  of  the  board.  In 
politics  he  is  a  firm  Republican  and  has  given 
efficient  service  as  member  of  the  school  board 
and  also  of  the  township  committee.  His 
family  and  himself  are  members  of  the  So- 
ciety of  Friends. 

In  1877  Mr.  Haines  married  Anna  Wills, 
born  January  21,  1850,  daughter  of  Henry  W. 
and  Lydia  (Stokes)  Wills,  of  Rancocas. 
granddaughter  of  Joseph  and  Virgin  (Powell) 
Wills,  great-granddaughter  of  Aaron  and 
Rachel  (Warrington)  Wills,  great-great- 
granddaughter  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (  W'ool- 
ston  )  Wills,  great-great-great-grandaughter  of 
John  and  Hope  (Delefaste)  Wills,  and  great- 
great-great-great-granddaughter  of  Dr.  Dan- 
iel Wills  and  Elizabeth,  his  first  wife  (see 
Wills).  Joseph  H.  and  .Anna  (Wills)  Haines 
have  three  children:  I.  Julia  F.,  born  Decem- 
ber 13,  1880;  married  Henry  Moon,  of  the 
William  H.  Moon  Nursery  Company  of  Bucks 
county,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  one  son,  Harris 
Moon,  born  May  26,  1906.  2.  Morris  W., 
twin  with  Everett  H.,  born  August  24,  1883; 
member  of  the  fimi  of  Jo.seph  H.  Haines  & 
Sons.  3.  Everett  H.,  twin  with  Morris  W.. 
born  -August  24,  1883;  member  of  the  firm  of 
Joseph  H.  Haines  &  Sons. 


Among  the  early  settlers 
COMPTON     from     England     who     have 

made  homes  for  themselves 
and  families  who  braved  with  them  the  k)ng 
and  dangerous  voyage  across  the  .Atlantic  were 
the  Comptons,  who  settled  in  Monmouth 
county.  New  Jersey,  in  1667.  The  leader  of 
this  family.  William  Compton,  was  induced  to 
become  a  permanent  settler  and  proprietor  of 
the  proposed  township  of  Middletown,  which 
was  sheltered  from  the  bleak  east  winds  of  the 
Atlantic  Ocean  by  the  Navesink  highlands  and 
the  long,  sandy  beach  terminating  in  Sandy 
Hook,    the   guide    for    mariners    entering   the 


lower  bay  en  route  for  the  safer  harbors  of 
Xew  York  bay  and  the  Raritan  bay.  He  was 
appointed  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  town 
and  had  two  hundred  and  eighty  acres  of 
farming  lands  apportioned  to  him,  on  the  di- 
vision of  the  township  lands  in  1679.  Among 
the  descendants  of  this  pioneer  settler  was  a 
name.sake.  William  ((|.  v.).  Assuming  him 
to  be  the  grandson  of  the  immigrant,  we  place 
him  in  the  third  generation. 

(Ill)  William,  probable  grandson  of  Will- 
iam Comj)ton,  the  immigrant,  1667,  was  born 
in  IMonmouth  county.  New  Jersey,  about  1730. 
He  married  a  daughter  of  David  Baird  and 
thev  resided  in  Clarksburg,  in  the  southern 
part  of  Monmouth  county,  near  the  border  of 

Ocean  county.     William  and  (Baird) 

Conijiton  had  a  hrge  family  of  sons,  who  ar- 
rived at  manhood  about  the  time  of  the  .Ameri- 
can revolution  and  we  find  on  the  rolls  of  the 
First  or  "Old  Monmouth"  Regiment,  in  the 
battle  of  Monmouth,  Sunday,  June  28,  1778. 
the  names  of  eight  privates,  bearing  the  name 
of  Compton,  as  follows,  a  majority  of  whom, 
if  not  all,  were  sons  of  William,  as  follows: 
fob  Comi^ton,  who  was  promoted  from  the 
ranks  to  lieutenant ':  John  Compton,  who  also 
served  in  the  Continental  army  subsecjuent  to 
this  battle:  Joseph  Compton;  Lewis  Compton. 
who  served  in  Captain  Elisha  Waltrous'  com- 
pany ;  George  Compton.  who  al.so  served  with 
the  state  troops  and  in  the  Continental  army : 
Jacob  Compton  (q.  v.)  :  James  Compton,  who 
was  in  Captain  Brueries'  company,  also  in  the 
state  troo])s  and  in  the  Continental  army :  and 
John  Compton.  He  also  had  sons,  David  and 
"ichabod,  who  settled  at  Morristown,  Cumber- 
land county. 

(  l\' )  Jacob,  one  of  the  eight  sons  of  Will- 
iam and (Baird)   Compton.  was  born 

on  his  father's  farm  near  Clarksburg  in  Mon- 
mouth county,  Xew  Jersey,  in  1761.  died  there 
in  1808.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  First  or 
"Cld  Monmouth"  Regiment  that  took  an  im- 
portant part  in  the  battle  of  Monmouth.  He 
was  also  in  the  Continental  army  as  were  some 
of  his  brothers.  He  purchased  a  farm  in 
Plum's  tract  townshi]i.  Ocean  county,  where 
he  married  Rachel  Robbins  and  they  had  three 
sons  and  two  daughters  born  on  the  farm  as 
follows:  lohn,  David  ( q.  v.).  Tames,  Ellen. 
Mary. 

(  V  )  David,  second  son  of  Jacob  and  Rachel 
(  Robbins)  Compton,  was  born  in  Plums  tract 
township.  Ocean  county.  New  Jersey.  1798, 
died  1852.  He'  married  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Kenneth    and    F.lizal)eth    (\"andervere )    Han- 


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kinson.  and  granddaughter  of  William  Han- 
kinson.  Captain  Kenneth  Hankinson  was  an 
officer  in  the  American  army  in  the  revolution- 
ary war  and  was  one  of  the  patriots  who 
fought  at  the  battle  of  Trenton.  David  Comp- 
ton  carried  the  United  States  mail  in  Trenton, 
\ew  Jersey,  up  to  1829.  David  and  Sarah 
(Hankinson)  Compton  had  eleven  children, 
two  born  in  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  and  the 
others  in  New  Egypt,  Ocean  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, to  which  place  they  removed  from  Tren- 
ton in  1829.  These  children  named  probably 
in  the  order  of  their  birth  were :  Jacob  Han- 
kinson ( q.  V. ),  William,  Elizabeth,  John,  Ellen, 
George,  Kenneth.  Adeline,  Rachel,  Emma, 
David. 

( \T  )  Jacob  Hankinson,  eldest  child  of 
David  and  Sarah  (Hankinson)  Compton,  was 
born  in  Trenton,  Mercer  county,  New  Jersey, 
November  30,  1826,  and  he  was  taken  by  his 
parents  to  their  new  home  in  New  Eg)-pt, 
Ocean  county,  New  Jersey,  in  1829.  Here  he 
attended  school,  learned  the  trade  of  cigar 
maker,  and  continued  to  work  at  that  trade 
during  his  entire  business  life,  first  in  com- 
pany with  his  father  and  after  the  death  of  his 
father  in  1852  continued  the  business  alone,  or 
in  company  with  his  son  James  up  to  1883, 
when  he  retired.  His  son  continued  the 
business,  in  which  his  father  assisted  from  time 
to  time,  as  he  found  the  work  more  enjoyable 
than  to  remain  idle.  Jacob  Hankinson  Comp- 
ton was  a  pronounced  Democrat  in  political 
opinion,  and  he  served  as  a  member  of  the 
board  of  commissioners  of  appeal  and  judge 
of  elections.  He  married,  February  28,  1859, 
Sarah  Ann,  daughter  of  Clayton  Coward,  of 
New  Egypt,  New  Jersey,  who  was  a  son  of 
Jonathan  Coward,  granclson  of  Jonathan  and 
great-grandson  of  John  Coward,  the  immi- 
grant, who  came  from  England  in  1736  and 
was  a  preacher  in  Emilytown,  New  Jersey. 
The  children  of  Jacob  Hankinson  and  Sarah 
Ann  (Coward)  Compton  were  born  in  New 
Egypt  as  follows:  i.  George  F.,  i860,  who  be- 
came cashier  in  the  First  National  Bank  of 
New  Egypt,  he  married  Alary,  daughter  of 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Dunphy)  .A.pplegate.  and 
had  children :  Laura,  Eugene,  Kenneth  and 
Elizabeth.  2.  James  Robbins  (q.  v.).  3. 
Sarah,  wdio  married  Thomas  Hartshorn,  a 
prosj)erous  farmer  in  New  Egypt,  and  has 
children :  Rebecca,  Walter  and  Henr\-  Hart- 
shorn. 4.  Joseph,  who  married  Laura  Church- 
ill, who  died  soon  after  marriage  and  left  no 
children,  Joseph  Compton  is  connected  with 
the   (jreen    Copper    Mining   Company    and    in 


1909  was  in  Mexico  in  charge  of  the  mines. 
(\II)  James  Robbins,  second  child  of 
Jacob  Hankinson  and  Sarah  .Ann  (Coward) 
Compton,  was  born  in  New  Egypt,  Ocean 
comity,  New  Jersey,  May  18,  1862.  He  was 
a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  of  New  Egypt, 
learned  the  business  of  cigar-making  in  his 
father's  manufactory,  and  in  1883  took  entire 
charge  of  the  business  and  conducted  it  in  his 
own  name,  his  father,  James  H.  Compton, 
withdrawing  from  all  business  connection  with 
the  former  firm  of  J.  H.  Compton  &  Son.  He 
carried  on  a  branch  of  the  manufactory  at 
.\sbury  Park,  Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey, 
1858-91.  He  is  not  married  and  has  no  con- 
nection with  any  fraternal  or  religious  asso- 
ciations. He  is  a  member  of  the  Democratic 
party  and  has  served  as  a  member  of  the 
county  committee. 


The  family  name  Stack- 
STACKHOUSE     house    is   somewhat    un- 

■  common  and  wherev-er  it 

appears  as  the  name  of  a  white  person  there 
is  good  reason  to  believe  that  if  there  were 
records  extant  we  could  in  all  instances  trace 
it  back  to  the  family  who  in  remote  times 
gave  the  name  to  or  received  it  from  the  little 
hamlet  of  Stackhouse  in  the  West  Riding  of 
Yorkshire.  England.  Because  the  name  is  un- 
common it  attracts  the  attention  of  the  family 
genealogist  whenever  he  sees  it  in  print.  It 
is  generally  supposed  that  the  Quaker  con- 
tingent of  the  family  who  settled  in  Bucks 
county.  F'ennsylvania,  in  the  eighth  decade  of 
the  seventeenth  century  v^^ere  the  pioneers  of 
the  name  in  .\merica.  .Some  years  ago,  how- 
ever, while  rummaging  among  the  dusty  annals 
of  the  past.  Dr.  Asa  Matlack  Stackhouse  was 
surprised  to  learn  that  one  Richard  Stackhouse 
was  among  the  Puritan  colonists  of  Mas.sa- 
chusetts  almost  fifty  years  before  Thomas  and 
John  Stackhouse  came  to  Pennsylvania.  In 
Felt's  ".-Vnnals  of  Salem"  we  find  that  land  was 
granted  to  Richard  Stackhouse  in  1635.  None 
of  the  genealogists  of  the  Stackhouse  family 
have  been  able  to  trace  a  descendant  of  this 
Richard  and  it  is  supposed  the  male  line  died 
out.  It  is  probable  that  he  was  in  somewhat 
reduced  circumstances,  for  in  1653,  "for  the 
relief  of  his  family"  the  profits  of  the  ferry 
"towards  Ip-switch"  were  granted  to  him  pro- 
vided he  could  jirocure  boats  and  men.  This 
ferry  was  at  Beverly  and  it  appears  he  held 
the  ferry  privilege  until  1686,  and  lived  at  that 
place.  His  wife's  name  was  Susanna  and  she 
"joined  the  church"   in    1648.      His  children. 


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Jonathan,  Abigail  anil  Hannah,  were  baptized 
in  May.  1648;  Ruth,  July  8,  1649;  Samuel, 
February  13.  1653;  Mary,  June,  25,  1654. 

So  far  as  is  known  the  first  member  of  the 
Stackhouse  family  who  attempted  to  collect 
genealogical  data  of  their  history  was  Amos 
Stackhouse,  1757-1825,  a  great-grandson  of 
Thomas,  the  immigrant.  He  was  a  man  of 
some  literary  attainments  and  for  some  years 
was  engaged  in  teaching  school  at  Mt.  Holly, 
New  Jersey.  His  life  was  passed  mainly  in 
that  place  and  in  Philadelj^hia.  The  results 
of  his  labors  were  somewhat  meagre  and 
mostly  confined  to  tradition,  however,  a 
nucleus  was  established.  His  son,  Powell 
Stackhouse  Sr.,  1785-1863,  took  up  the  work 
where  the  father  laid  it  down  and  pushed  his 
ini|uiries  still  further.  His  interest  in  the 
work  led  him  to  loi.^k  up  everyone  bearing  the 
name,  if  accessible.  He  lived  in  Philadelphia 
and  in  those  days  there  were  many  of  the 
name  there.  The  story  is  told  that  on  one 
occasion  he  learned  that  a  family  of  the  name 
of  Stackhouse  resided  in  the  lower  part  of  the 
city  and  one  morning  he  sallied  forth  to  in- 
terview them  and  find  out  "where  the  relation- 
ship came  in."  To  his  intense  disgust  the 
family  turned  out  to  be  negroes.  It  is  need- 
less to  say  that  he  abandoned  summarily — abo- 
litionist as  he  was — all  desire  of  establishing 
relationship.  In  explanation  of  this  it  may  be 
said  that  in  colonial  days  when  slavery  existed 
in  the  north,  many  of  the  slaves  assumed  the 
names  of  their  masters  and  this  was  the  case 
no  doubt  in  this  instance. 

The  researches  of  Powell  Stackhou.se  Sr. 
materially  enriched  the  collection  of  his  father 
.\mos.  His  mantle  in  turn  fell  upon  his  son, 
Powell  Stackhouse  Jr.,  1827-1900,  par  excel- 
lence the  historiographer  of  the  Stackhouse 
family.  Soon  after  1890  William  R.  Stack- 
house,  a  great-grandson  of  .\mos,  became  in- 
terested in  the  family  history  and  began  the 
work  of  tracing  the  descent  of  certain  branches 
of  John,  the  immigrant,  that  had  not  previ- 
ously engaged  the  attention  of  Powell  Jr. 
This  was  successfully  carried  on  and  other 
branches  were  then  traced  in  collaboration  with 
Powell  Jr.  His  attention  then  was  drawn 
more  particularly  to  the  earlier  English  his- 
tory of  the  family  and  the  book  entitled 
"Stackhouse,  An  Old  English  Family  Some- 
time of  Yorkshire,"  recently  published  by  The 
Settle  Press  of  Moorestown,  New  Jersey,  is 
largely  the  result  of  his  researches.  Our  pres- 
ent   narrative    has    to    deal    particularly    with 


Thomas  Stackhouse  and  some  of  his  numerous 
descendants. 

The  ancestry  of  the  Stackhouse  family  is 
traced  in  England  to  the  year  1086  and  in 
America  traces  back  to  the  year  1682,  when 
Thomas  Stackhouse,  of  the  village  of  Stack- 
house,  in  the  deanery  of  Craven,  West  Riding 
of  Yorkshire,  came  to  America,  arriving  at 
New  Castle  lomo.  27.  1682,  accompanied  by 
his  wife  Margery  and  two  nephews,  Thomas 
and  John  Stackhouse.  They  all  settled  in 
Middletown  tov\Tiship  and  took  up  large  tracts 
of  land.  Thomas  Stackhouse,  the  elder,  lost 
his  wife  Margery,  who  died  iimo.  15,  1682, 
and  he  married  in  imo.,  1702,  Margaret  .Atkin- 
son, daughter  of  Christopher  Fell,  of  New- 
town, Lancashire,  and  widow  of  Christopher 
Atkinson,  who  had  died  on  board  the  "Britan- 
ica"  in  1699  on  his  way  to  Pennsylvania. 
Thomas  Stackhouse  died  in  1706  without  issue. 
Thomas  and  John  Stackhouse  both  reared 
large  families  in  Middletown.  and  have  both 
left  numerous  descendants.  The  latter  died 
in  Middletown  in   1757. 

(  I )  Thomas  Stackhouse  was  a  very  prom- 
inent man  in  the  community,  representing  his 
county  in  the  colonial  assembly  of  Pennsyl- 
vania for  the  years  171 1  to  1715  inclusive,  and 
then  declining  a  re-election.  He  also  was  col- 
lector of  proprietary  quit-rents  for  Bucks 
county ;  served  as  one  of  the  commissioners 
to  lay  out  roads  and  in  many  other  capacities 
of  trust.  He  was  one  of  the  active  members 
of  Middletown  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends 
and  built  their  meeting  house  in  1690.  He 
took  up  five  hundred  and  seven  acres  of  land 
in  Middletown  on  the  .Xeshaminy  and  in  1707 
bought  twelve  hundred  acres  of  Francis  Rich- 
ardson. He  died  41110.  26,  1744.  Thomas 
Stackhouse  married  (first)  at  Middleton 
Meeting,  7th  mo.  27,  1688.  Grace  Heaton.  born 
Yorkshire  ist  mo.  14,  1667,  died  8th  mo.  8, 
1708,  daughter  of  Robert  and  .Alice  Heaton, 
who  cp.me  to  Philadel])liia  in  the  "Welcome" 
with  William  Penn  in  1682.  He  married 
(second)  ist  mo.  i,  171 1,  at  I'alls  Meeting, 
Bucks  county.  Pennsylvania,  Ann  Mayos,  died 
5th  mo.  6,  1724,  widow  of  Edward  Mayos. 
He  married  (third)  8th  mo.  1725,  Dorothy, 
widow  of  Zebulon  Heston.  Thomas  Stack- 
house  had  in  all  fourteen  children,  nine  by 
his  first  and  five  by  his  second  wife :  I.  Samuel, 
born  8th  mo.  17,  1689,  married  Eleanor  Clark. 
2.  John,  born  3d  mo.  27,  169 1.  3.  Robert, 
see  post.  4.  Henry,  born  loth  mo.  7,  1694, 
married  Jane  — .     5.  Grace,  born  i  ith  mo. 


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7,  1696,  died  6th  mo.  5.  1777;  married  David 
Wilson.  6.  Alice,  born  2d  mo.  i,  1699.  mar- 
ried  Euclydus   Longshore.     7.    Thomas,   born 

5th  mo.  20,  1703,  married  Elizabeth .   8 

Joseph,  born  5th  mo.  20,  1703,  married  Sarah 
Copeland.  9.  Benjamin,  born  loth  mo.  25, 
1705,  married  Sarah  Gilbert.  10.  (by  second 
wife)  Isaac,  bom  3d  mo.  11,  1712,  died  2d  mo. 
4,  1714.  II.  Jacob,  born  8th  mo.  25,  1713, 
married  Hannah  Watson.  12.  Ann^  born  5th 
mo.  15,  171 5,  married  Charles  Pkimley.  13. 
Sarah,  born  6th  mo.  6,  1718,  died  5th  mo.  25, 
1808;  married  Samuel  Gary.  14.  Isaac,  born 
7th  mo.  5,  1720,  died  ist  mo.  17,  1791  ;  married 
Mary  Harding. 

(II)  Robert,  third  son  of  Thomas  and 
Grace  (Heaton)  Stackhouse,  was  born  9th 
mo.  8.  1692.  He  married  Margaret  Stone  and 
settled  on  a  tract  of  land  purchased  by  his 
father,  "adjoining  Pigeon  Swamp"  in  Bris- 
tol township,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania, 
which  later  was  devised  to  him  by  his  father's 
will.  He  later  removed  to  Berwick  on  the 
Susquehanna,  where  he  lived  until  his  death 
in  1788,  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-si.x 
years.  Robert  and  Margaret  were  the  par- 
ents of  eight  children  :  Thomas.  Joseph,  James, 
Grace,  Benjamin,  .\lice,  William  and  Robert. 

(III)  James,  third  son  of  Robert  and  Mar- 
garet (Stone)  Stackhouse,  was  born  in  Bucks 
county,  Pennsylvania,  11  mo.  (January)  11, 
1723-26,  and  married,  10  mo.  13,  1750,  Martha 
Hastings,  who  was  b<jrn  4  mo.  27,  1722. 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Hill)  Hast- 
ings, and  granddaughter  of  Joshua  Hastings, 
who  represented  Chester  county  in  the  colonial 
assembly,  living  then  near  Chester,  but  later 
removed  to  Philadelphia.  His  son  John  Hast- 
ings married  (irace  Stackhouse,  sister  of 
James.  The  children  of  James  and  Martha 
(Hastings)  Stackhouse  were:  Margaret,  Hast- 
ings, Mary,  Amos,  Martha,  James  and  another 
.Amos,  who  died  in  infancy.  James,  the  father, 
died  in  Philadelphia  8  mo.  16,  1759,  and  his 
wife  Martha  died  6  mo.  23,  1806.  He  is 
buried  in  the  Arch  street  Friends'  burv'ing 
ground. 

( I\' )  .\mos,  second  son  of  James  and  Mar- 
tha (Hastings)  Stackhouse,  was  bom  5  mo. 
4,  1757,  and  was  married  at  Mt.  Holly,  New 
Jersey,  I  mo.  14,  1779,  to  Mary  Powell,  born 
7  mo.  9,  1763,  daughter  of  John  and  Susanna 
(Bryan)  Powell,  granddaughter  of  Isaac  and 
Elizabeth  (  Perdue )  Powell,  who  were  married 
August  10,  1729,  Isaac  being  a  son  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  (Parker)  Pcnvell,  and  a  grand- 
son of  Robert  and   Prudence  Powell,  the  for- 


mer of  whom  came  to  New  Jersey  in  the  ship 
"Kent,"'  6  mo.  16,  1667,  and  settled  near  Burl- 
ington, West  Jersey.  Amos  Stackhouse  died 
4  nio.  5,  1825,  and  his  widow  Mary  7  mo.  15, 
1841.  They  were  the  parents  of  thirteen 
children :  Susanna,  Hastings,  Martha,  Powell, 
Esther,  Martha,  second  of  the  name ;  James, 
Samuel  P.,  Amos,  Robert,  Mary  P.,  John  P., 
and  another  Robert  who  had  died  in  infancy. 
( \' )  Robert  (2),  son  of  Amos  and  Mary 
( Powell )  Stackhouse,  was  born  in  Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania,  December  1,1801,  died 
January  6,  1881.  He  attended  school  in 
Philadelphia  and  Westtown,  then  learned  the 
trade  of  a  tailor  and  afterward  for  several 
years  kept  a  dry  goods  store  in  the  former 
city.  After  that  he  engaged  in  various  oc- 
cujiations,  and  was  in  the  merchant  tailoring 
business  in  Alexandria,  Virginia,  for  a  few 
years,  later  was  bookkeeper  for  Carey  &  Hart, 
publishers,  and  afterward  made  bookkeeping 
his  chief  occupation  in  life.  At  the  end  of  a 
long  period  of  business  endeavor  he  came  to 
New  Jersey  and  spent  the  remaining  years  of 
his  life  in  Chester  township,  where  he  died. 
Mr.  Stackhouse  married  (first)  4th  mo.  23, 
1829,  Elizabeth  Davis  Kimber,  daughter  of 
Riciiard  an<l  Elizabeth  Kimber,  and  by  whom 
he  had  three  children.  He  married  (second) 
0th  mo.  21,  1841,  Ann  Roberts  Matlack, 
daughter  of  Asa  and  Tamar  (Roberts)  Mat- 
lack  (see  Matlack),  and  by  whom  he  had  one 
child.  Robert  Stackliouse"s  cliildren:  i.  Tacy 
J.,  born  3d  mo.  13,  1830,  died  11  mo.  2,  1837. 

2.  Edward  Livingston,  born  3d  mo.  27,  1833. 

3.  Tacy  Elizabeth,  born   11  mo.  25,   1838.     4. 
.-\sa  ^latlack,  see  post. 

(\T)  Asa  Matlack,  son  of  Robert  (2)  and 
.Ann  Roberts  (Matlack)  Stackhouse,  born  7th 
mn.  21,  1845,  was  educated  in  the  jjublic 
schools  of  Aloorestown.  New  Jersey,  and  en- 
tered the  junior  class  of  the  L^niversity  of 
Pennsylvania,  graduating  from  that  institution 
in  the  class  of  i8C)5.  He  subse(|uently  stud- 
ied medicine,  graduating  from  Hahnemann 
Medical  College  of  Philadeli)hia  in  1868,  and 
practiced  medicine  in  Attleborough  (now 
I^anghorne).  Bucks  county,  and  elsewhere  for 
a  lumiber  of  years,  but  has  now  retired  from 
jiracticc  and  lives  at  Moorestown,  New  Jersey. 
He  has  always  taken  an  interest  in  local  his- 
tory and  the  genealogy  of  the  old  families  of 
I'uck's  county  and  vicinity,  and  has  contrib- 
uted a  number  of  articles  on  these  subjects  to 
local  papers. 

Dr.  Stackhouse  married,  at  Allentown, 
Petnisylvania,     12     mo.    8,    1868,    Ella     Jane 


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Romig.  daughter  of  William  J.  and  Alary  Ann 
Catharine  (Rover)  Romig,  and  they  are  the 
parents  of  two  children:  i.  William  Romig,  of 
Moorestovvn.  New  Jersey,  who  was  born  in 
Chester  township,  Burlington  county.  New 
Jersey,  January  10,  1870,  and  marrietl  Re- 
becca Gibson.  2.  Ernest  Robert,  born  at  Al- 
lentown,  Pennsylvania.  December  3,  1884. 
Another  chikl,  Ernest  Raymond,  born  Janu- 
ary 17,  1874,  died  young.  William  Romig 
Stackhouse,  mentioned  above,  for  several  years 
past  has  been  engaged  in  connection  with  his 
cousin,  the  late  Powell  Stackhouse,  in  exten- 
sive genealogical  researches. 


The  narrative  here  written  is 
MATLACK     to    record    something   of   the 

lives  and  achievements  of  the 
representatives  of  several  generations  of  one 
of  the  notable  old  colonial  families  of  New 
Jersey.  The  family  has  been  made  the  sub- 
ject of  narrative  by  various  chroniclers,  for 
its  marriage  connections  have  been  as  notable 
as  is  the  history  of  the  family  itself,  and  in  the 
main  the  accounts  of  these  several  writers  are 
in  accord. 

(I)  William  Matlack,  or  as  his  family  name 
appears  in  some  old  records,  Macklack,  was 
born  in  England  about  1648  and  was  one  of 
the  colony  of  Friends  who  came  from  Crop- 
well  Piishop.  a  small  village  in  Nottingham- 
shire, in  the  year  1677,  in  the  ship  "Kent," 
which  was  sighted  off  Sandy  Hook  August  14 
of  that  year.  The  vessel  followed  along  the 
coast  to  Raccoon  creek,  where  her  passengers 
disembarked.  The  commissioners  appointed 
by  \Mlliam  J\nn  and  the  other  proprietors, 
and  \\  illiam  Matlack  with  them,  took  a  small 
boat  and  went  up  the  Delaware  river  to  Chy- 
goes  island,  whereon  Burlington  now  stands, 
almost  surrounded  by  a  creek  named  for  an 
Indian  sachem  who  lived  there.  Matlack  was 
the  first  to  leave  the  boat,  just  as  in  later  years 
he  was  foremost  in  the  work  of  development 
of  the  region  in  various  other  respects.  He 
was  a  carpenter  and  built  or  helped  to  build 
the  first  two  houses  in  Burlington  and  also 
helped  to  build  the  first  corn  mill  in  West 
Jersey.  He  came  over  to  America  as  the 
servant  of  one  Daniel  Wills,  commissioner  and 
proprietor,  and  after  serving  him  four  years 
bought  from  his  former  master  one  hundred 
acres  of  good  land  between  the  north  and  south 
branches  of  Penisaukin  creek,  in  Chester  town- 
ship. Burlington  county,  as  afterward  created. 
It  is  understood  that  the  purchase  price  of 
the   land   thus   acquired   was   his   four  years' 


service  and  "current  country  pay."  The 
greater  part  of  this  tract  is  still  owned  and  in 
possession  of  William  Matlack's  descendants. 

.\t  the  time  of  his  emigration  to  America 
William  Matlack  was  a  young  man  less  than 
thirty  years  old.  "He  saw  a  town  rise  up  in 
the  midst  of  the  forest,  surrounded  by  a  thriv- 
ing population,  busy  in  clearing  the  land  and 
enjoying  the  reward  of  their  labors.  His  leis- 
ure hours  were  spent  among  the  natives, 
watching  their  peculiarities  and  striving  to  win 
their  good  will.  Following  the  advice  and  ex- 
ample of  the  commissioners,  every  promise 
made  by  him  to  the  aboriginies  was  faithfully 
kept,  and  every  contract  strictly  adhered  to." 
He  and  Timothy  Plancock,  with  whom  he 
worked  in  common  in  many  things,  "soon 
found  their  neighborhood  was  a  desirable  one ; 
for  new  settlements  were  made  there  in  a  short 
time,  and  went  on  increasing  until  a  meeting 
of  Friends  was  established  at  the  house  of 
Timothy  Hancock  by  consent  of  the  Burling- 
ton Friends  in  1685."  In  1701  William  Mat- 
lack  purchased  about  one  thousand  acres  of 
land  in  W'aterford  and  Gloucester  townships, 
in  Camden  county  (then  Gloucester),  lying  on 
both  sides  of  the  south  branch  of  Cooper's 
creek.  In  1714  he  gave  to  his  son  George 
five  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Waterford  town- 
ship, being  part  of  the  one  thousand  acre  tract 
purchased  of  Richard  Heritage.  In  1717  he 
bought  two  hundred  acres  of  John  Estaugh, 
attorney  for  John  Haddon,  and  there  his  son 
Richard  settled  in  1721.  In  1714  he  gave  his 
son  Timothy  the  remaining  part  of  the  Heri- 
tage purchase,  and  on  this  tract  Timothy  set- 
tled and  built  his  house.  The  tract  of  lands 
owned  by  William  Matlack  and  his  sons  John, 
Timothy  and  Richard  extended  from  the 
\\'hite  Horse  tavern  on  both  sides  of  the  high- 
way and  contained  about  fifteen  hundred  acres. 

\\'illiam  Matlack,  the  immigrant  ancestor, 
married  Mary  Hancock,  and  of  this  event  Mr. 
Clement  writes  thus:  "In  1681  there  came 
from  Brayles  a  small  town  in  the. southern 
part  of  \\'arwickshire,  a  young  man  named 
Timothy  Hancock,  accompanied  by  his  sister, 
who  was  about  fifteen  years  of  age.  Without 
friends  or  means,  they  lived  in  a  very  humble 
manner  among  the  settlers,  but  the  demand  for 
work  soon  found  Timothy  employment,  and 
the  demand  for  wives  did  not  leave  Mary  long 
without  a  suitor."  She  married  William  Mat- 
lack  in  1682,  and  they  then  removed  to  a  tract 
of  land  which  he  had  located  between  the  north 
and  south  branches  of  Penisaukin  creek,,  in 
Chester  township.     Her  brother  also  located 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


an  adjoining  survey,  and  in  1684  married 
Raclicl  l''irnian.  Tims  it  is  that  the  ^latlack 
family  in  New  Jersey — a  prolific  family  in- 
deed— began  with  William  and  Alary.  Just 
when  William  died  is  not  certain,  but  it  was 
after  1720,  and  he  lived  to  see  his  youngest 
daughter  the  mother  of  seven  children.  Tra- 
dition says  that  he  died  in  his  ninetieth  year, 
or  ninety-first,  "and  would  have  lived  longer 
if  his  tools  had  not  been  hid  from  him,  for 
he  took  delight  in  having  his  accustomed  tools 
to  work  with,  and  when  he  could  not  have 
them  he  died."  His  children  were:  i.  John, 
married  (first)  Hannah  Horner,  (second) 
Mary  Lee.  2.  George,  married  (first)  1709, 
Mary  Foster,  (second)  Mary  Hancock.  3. 
Mary,  married  (first)  in  1711,  at  Newton 
meeting,  Jonathan  Haines,  ( second )  Daniel 
Morgan.  4.  William,  see  post.  5.  Richard, 
married  (first)  1721,  Rebecca  Haines,  at  Eve- 
sham meeting,  (second)  in  1745.  Mary  Cole 
at  Chester  meeting.  6.  Joseph,  married  at 
Chester  meeting  in  1722,  Rebecca  Haines.  7. 
Timothy,  married  in  1725  at  Haddonfield 
meeting.  Mary  Haines.  8.  Jane,  married  Irvin 
tiaines.  9.  Sarah,  marrieil  in  172 1  at  Eve- 
sham meeting.  Carlyle  Haines. 

(H)  William  (2),  son  of  William  (i)  and 
Mary  (Hancock)  Matlack,  was  born  at  Pene- 
saukin  creek,  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey, 
December  2,  1690,  died  July  25,  1730.  He 
married,  September  17,  1713,  Ann,  daughter 
of  John  and  Frances  Antrim,  of  Burlington, 
and  by  her  had  eight  children :  i.  Rebecca,  born 
.August  16,  1714,  died  July  30,  1798:  married 
(first)  John  Bishop,  (second)  Caleb  Carr.  2. 
Jeremiah,  bom  March  4,  1716,  died  January 
18.  1767.  3.  Rachel,  born  June  11,  1718,  died 
February  5,  1762;  married  (first)  Thomas 
Bishop,  (second)  Philip  Wikard.  4.  Leah, 
born  .August  29,  1720,  died  February  25,  1731. 
5.  .Ann.  born  December  11,  1722,  died  July  26, 
1728.  6.  William,  born  June  30,  1725,  see 
post.  7.  James,  born  June  13,  1728,  died  No- 
vember 24.  1728.  8.  Mary,  born  January  6, 
1730,  died  April  15,  1759. 

(  IH)  William  (3),  son  of  William  (2)  and 
.Ann  (Antrim)  Alatlack.  was  born  June  30. 
1725,  died  May  15,  1795.  He  married,  at 
Haddonfield  meeting,  (ictober  I,  1748.  Marv. 
daughter  of  John  and  Jane  Turner,  and  by 
her  had  ten  children  :  i.  .Atlantic,  born  Novem- 
ber 13,  1750,  died  February  21,  1775:  married 
Samuel  Stokes.  2.  William,  born  Alay  15, 
T752.  3.  John,  born  March  26,  1755,  died 
.August,  1831  :  married  Rebecca  Shute.  4. 
Reuben,   born   November   17,    1757,   see  post. 


3.  Jane,  Ixjrn  February  11,  1760,  died  Alay  3, 
ij(jo.  6.  .Samuel,  born  June  7,  1761,  married 
Sarah  Shute.^  7.  Rebecca,  born' February  13, 
1765,  died'  May  18,  1842;  married  Amos 
Buzby.  8.  Joseph,  born  August  21.  1767,  died 
.August  26.  1814;  married  Anna  Shute.  9. 
George,  born   March  6,   1770,  married  Sarah 

Roberts.      10.   ,   born    .August   4,    1772, 

died  February  9,  1790. 

(I\')  Reuben,  son  of  William  (3)  and 
Mary  (Turner)  Matlack,  was  born  nth  mo. 
'/•  1757-  died  8th  mo.  2.  1808.  He  married 
I  mo.  ZT,,  1783,  Elizabeth  Coles,  a  descendant 
of  Samuel  Coles  and  of  William  and  Thomas 
Budd,  all  early  members  of  the  colonial  as- 
sembly of  New  Jersey. 

( \  )  Asa,  son  of  Reuben  and  Elizabeth 
(Coles)  Matlack,  was  born  loth  mo.  21,  1783, 
died  1 2th  mo.  3,  1851.  He  married,  5th  mo. 
12,  1807.  Tamar  Roberts,  born  6th  mo.  13, 
1783,  died  9th  mo.  2,  1850,  daughter  of  John 
and  L.etitia  Roberts.     They  had  two  children : 

1.  Alordecai,  born  3d  mo.  14,  1808.  2.  .Ann 
Roberts,  born  3d  mo.  4.  1810,  died   loth  mo. 

2,  1893;  married  Robert  Stackhouse  (see 
.Stackhouse). 


George  Albert   .Allinson.  of 

.ALLLNSON  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  de- 
scends from  a  very  old 
Burlington  county  family. 

(I)  Thomas  Allinson,  the  earliest  known 
ancestor,  was  a  resident  of  burlington  county 
all  his  life,  following  the  occupation  of  a 
farmer. 

(H)  John,  son  of  Thomas  .Allinson,  was 
born,  lived  and  died  in  Burlington  county. 
His  death  occurred  about  the  year  i860.  He 
was  a  large  land  owner  and  farmer.  He  mar- 
ried Nancy and  had  three  sons — .Abra- 
ham R.,  John  M.,  Samuel — and  a  daughter 
Mary  .Ann. 

(  HI)  Abraham  R.,  son  of  John  and  Nancy 
Allinson,  was  born  in  Burlington  township, 
Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  1822,  died  in 
1869.  He  received  a  good  common  school 
education.  His  first  employment  was  in  a 
general  store  in  Burlington.  He  learned  the 
tracle  of  a  shoemaker  and  carried  on  that  busi- 
ness in  Burlington  for  many  years.  Later  he 
conducted  an  undertaking  establishment  in 
Burlington  and  that  was  his  business  until 
within  a  short  time  before  his  death.  His  lat- 
ter years  he  lived  a  retired  life.  Mr.  Allinson 
was  a  lifelong  Democrat  and  served  as  town- 
ship and  city  tax  collector  for  several  years. 
He    belonged     to    the     Methodist     Episcopal 


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church  of  Durhngton,  and  to  Burhngton 
Lodge,  Xo.  22,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows.  He  nian-ied  Eliza  A.  English,  of 
Springfield  township,  Burlington  county,  New 
Jersey.  Children:  Theodore  C,  deceased; 
George  A.,  see  forward ;  Samuel  E. ;  .Annie  B. ; 
Sarah  AI.    (Mrs.  George  E.  Gilbert). 

(  I\' )  George  .Albert,  son  of  Abraham  R. 
and  Eliza  .-\.  (English)  Allinson,  was  born  in 
lUnlington,  New  Jersey,  July  9,  1850.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  and  private  schools 
of  his  native  city.  He  learned  the  carpenter's 
trade  in  Philadelphia  and  combined  with  that 
an  intimate  knowledge  of  architecture.  He 
became  an  architect  and  builder  and  was  ac- 
tively engaged  in  the  prosecution  of  his  busi- 
ness in  Burlington  and  surrounding  country 
until  the  year  1902  when  he  retired.  During 
his  active  business  life  as  a  builder,  Mr.  .\llin- 
son  designed  and  erected  many  buildings  of 
both  a  public  and  private  character,  and  was 
highly  regarded  as  a  competent  and  thoroughly 
satisfactory  architect  and  builder.  In  other 
lines  of  business  activity,  Mr.  Allinson  is  also 
prominent.  He  is  superintendent  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Burlington  Water  Company,  a 
connection  that  has  existed  for  the  past  thirty 
years,  and  to  this  company  and  its  successful 
development  he  has  contributed  largely. 
Other  Burlington  institutions  with  which  he 
is  connected  in  an  official  capacity  are  the  Me- 
chanics' National  Bank,  of  which  he  is  vice- 
president  ;  Burlington  Trust  Company,  serving 
on  the  board  of  directors ;  Burlington  Electric 
Light  C<)m])any,  of  which  he  is  vice-president. 
All  these  responsible  positions  Mr.  .\llinson 
fills  with  a  marked  ability  and  fidelity  that  con- 
tributes largely  to  the  success  of  these  corpora- 
tions. For  the  past  thirty  years  he  has  been 
secretary  of  the  Burlington  Building  and  Loan 
.Association.  In  political  faith  he  has  always 
been  a  Democrat.  During  the  years  1876-77 
he  was  city  clerk  of  Burlington.  He  served 
in  the  common  council  of  that  city  for  nine 
years,  eight  of  which  he  was  president  of  the 
council.  In  1904-05-06  he  was  mayor  of 
Burlington,  giving  that  city  an  efifective,  busi- 
ness administration.  His  fraternal  affiliations 
are  with  the  leading  orders  of  his  city.  He  is 
past  master  of  Burlington  Lodge,  Xo.  32, 
Free  and  .Accepted  Masons ;  a  member  of  Bou- 
dinot  Chapter,  Xo.  3,  Royal  .-\rch  Masons: 
Heleva  Comniandery,  Xo.  3,  Knight  Tem- 
plars :  Lulu  Temple,  .Ancient  .Arabic  Order 
Xobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Philadelphia : 
Hope  Lodge,  No.  13,  Knights  of  PNthias : 
Phoenix   Lodge,   Xo.  92,   Independent   Order 


of  Odd  Fellows,  of  which  he  is  past  grand ; 
Leni  Lenape  Tribe,  Improved  Order  of  Red 
Men,  of  which  he  is  past  sachem  and  past 
deputy  sachem ;  Mt.  Holly  Lodge,  Xo.  848, 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  Mr. 
.Allinson  is  unmarried. 


The  \\'imer  family  of  Palmyra, 
WTMER     Burlington  county,  New  Jersey, 

descended  from  an  old  Pennsyl- 
vania family.  Joseph  Wimer,  the  great- 
grandfather of  George  X..  married,  July  9, 
1809,  Elizabeth  Sheed,  daughter  of  George 
and  Rebecca  Sheed.  George  Sheed  was  born 
in  the  year  1756,  died  July  7,  1830.  Rebecca, 
his  wife,  was  born  in  the  year  1764,  died  .Au- 
gust 25,  1837.  George  and  Rebecca  Sheed 
were  the  jiarents  of  twelve  children:  I.  Chris- 
tian, daughter,  born  July  11,  1786,  died  Xo- 
vember  7,  1786.  2.  Isal>ella,  born  1787,  no 
record  of  death.  3.  Elizabeth,  born  March  26, 
1789,  died  August  12,  1869;  married,  July  9, 

1809,  Joseph  Wimer.  4.  Ann,  born  June  15, 
1 791,  died  June  22,  1816;  married,  August  14, 
1814,  Walter  Raleigh;  child,  Susan  Raleigh, 
died   June  22.    1816.     5.   Mary,   born   August 

28,  1793.  died  May  8,  1812.  6.  Peter,  born 
December  7,  1795,  died  June  22,  1816.  7.  Re- 
becca,  born    July   29,    1797,    married    

Ely,  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends ;  she 
died  in  July  or  August,  1875-76,  leaving  one 
daughter,  Lavinia,  wife  of  .Albert  Paxson.  who 
was  brother  to  Justice  Edward  Pa.xson,  lately 
deceased.  .All  of  these  died  at  the  homestead 
near  Holicong,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania.  8. 
Susannah,  born  September  5.  1799,  no  record  of 
death.  9.  Margaretta,  born  October  4,  1803, 
married  William  Stavely,  of  the  firm  of  Mc- 
Calla  &  Stavely,  publishers  of  Episcopal  Peri- 
odical— either  Register  or  Recorder ;  six  chil- 
dren were  born  to  them ;  they  died  at  their 
home,  Partridge  Hall,  near  Labraska,  Bucks 
county,  Pennsylvania.  10.  .Amy,  no  date  of 
birth  or  death.  11.  Lavinia,  born  March.  1807, 
died  July  28,  1873.     12.  Christian,  born  March 

29,  1809.  Children  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth 
(Sheed)    Wimer:    i.   George,   born   April   18, 

1810.  2.  .Amanda,  October  11,  i8ii,  married 
Edward  Mlley,  a  silversmith,  and  died  in  the 
month  of  June,  1831.  3.  Joseph,  see  forward. 
4.  Rebecca,  January  13,  1816. 

(H)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i)  and 
Elizabeth  (Sheed)  Wimer,  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia Pennsylvania.  October  13,  1 81 3,  died 
in  his  native  city  October  29,  1881.  He  was 
a  plasterer  by  trade,  was  actively  interested  in 
the  political  afifairs  of  his  city,  and  held  office 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


in  tiie  city  government.  Joseph  Wimer  mar- 
ried, September  4,  1835,  Mary  Engles,  of 
Philadelphia ;  children :  i  Albert,  born  Octo- 
ber 22,  1839,  a  soldier  of  the  civil  war,  died 
from  woimds  received  at  the  battle  of  Antie- 
tam,  September  6,  1863,  unmarried.  2.  Will- 
iam E..  .see  forward.  3.  Mary  E.,  resident  of 
Philadeljihia.  born  September  14,  1845. 

( III )  William  E.,  second  son  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  (Engels)  Wimer,  was  born  in  Philadel- 
phia, April  4,  1843.  He  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  city.  For  a  number  of 
years  he  was  a  commercial  salesman  traveling 
for  the  house  of  Dr.  D.  Jayne  &  Son.  In  the 
early  seventies  Mr.  Wimer  entered  the  employ 
of  the  I'ennsylvania  Railroad  Company  as 
clerk,  and  has  since  been  continuously  in  the 
em])loy  of  that  corporation  in  Philadelphia. 
In  1875  he  removed  to  Palmyra,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  remained  until  1894,  when  he  again 
took  up  his  residence  in  Philadelphia.  In 
political  faith  Mr.  Wimer  is  Republican.  He 
is  a  meml>er  of  the  I'almyra  Lodge  of  Odd 
Fellows,  the  Brotherhood  of  America,  and  the 
Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle.  He  is  a  com- 
municant of  the  Baptist  church.  William  E. 
Wimer  married,  July  6,  1865,  Emma  C.  Ru- 
dol])h,  daughter  of  Alfred  Rudolph,  of  Phila- 
del])hia.  She  died  December  2,  1904.  The 
children  of  this  marriage  are:  i.  George  Nell, 
see  forward.  2.  Albert  L.  3.  Mamie,  died 
aged  five  years.  4.  Alfred,  died  at  age  of 
twenty-one  years.  5.  Irene,  died  in  infancy. 
6.  Francis,  died  in  December.  1908,  aged  twenty- 
eight  years.  7.  William  W..  8.  Howard.  9. 
Ella.      10.  Edna. 

(IV)  George  Nell,  eldest  son  and  child  of 
William  E.  and  Emma  C.  (Rudolph)  Wimer. 
was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Penn.'^ylvania,  May 
II,  1866.  He  was  educated  in  the  Philadel- 
phia public  schools.  His  early  employment 
was  in  a  produce  commission  house  and  as 
clerk  in  Philadelphia.  He  then  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Pencoyd  Iron  Works  (now  the 
American  Bridge  Company),  remaining  with 
them  until  1897  '"  charge  of  the  contracting  and 
billing  departments.  On  September  30,  1897, 
Mr.  Wimer  was  appointed  postmaster  at  Pal- 
myra, New  Jersey.  He  resigned  his  position 
with  the  American  Bridge  Company  in  April, 
1904.  In  1906  he  resigned  his  position  as  post- 
master. In  1905  Mr.  Wimer  opened  an  office  in 
Palmyra  for  the  transaction  of  the  real  estate 
and  insurance  business,  and  in  this  line  of  activ- 
ity he  has  since  been  actively  engaged.  He  also 
has  an  office  at  209  Market  street,  Camden, 


for  the  same  purpose.  Mr.  Wimer  is  a  Re- 
publican and  is  a  member  of  the  Burlington 
county  tax  board  of  e(|ualization,  appointed  in 
1906  by  Governor  Stokes  and  re-appointed  by 
Governor  Fort.  He  is  an  active  member  of 
the  various  fraternal,  social,  and  athletic  clubs 
and  societies  of  Palmyra  and  vicinity,  notably 
the  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of  America,  Brother- 
hood of  America,  Tacoma  Tribe,  Improved 
Order  of  Red  Men,  Junior  Order  of  American 
Mechanics  of  Beverly,  New  Jersey,  Senior  Or- 
der of  the  same,  Bordentown,  New  Jersey, 
Ijenevolent  and  Protective  (Jrder  of  Elks,  of 
Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey,  Union  League  Club, 
Palmyra  Bicycle  Club,  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows,  Turner  and  Maennerchor  soci- 
eties of  Riverton.  New  Jersey.  George  Nell 
Wimer  married,  December  12,  1889,  Sally  A. 
Cress,  daughter  of  Theodore  and  Emma  Cress, 
of  Philadelphia,  Peiuisylvania.  One  child  has 
f)een  born  to  Mr.  and  Airs.  George  N.  Wimer, 
Mildred  Helen,  born  in  Palmyra,  March  3, 
1906. 

The  family  names  of  Rigg  and 
RIGG  Riggs  have  been  known  in  New 
England  since  colonial  times,  and 
now  their  representatives  are  well  scattered 
throughout  the  country.  Whether  written 
P'gg  or  Riggs  the  name  applies  to  the  same 
general  family,  and  both  trace  back  to  the  still 
older  family  which  was  seated  in  Old  England 
for  many  generations  previous  to  the  time 
when  the  first  immigrant  Riggs  came  over  to 
.\merica. 

( I )  Christopher  Rigg,  immigrant  ancestor 
of  the  family  here  treated,  came  to  this  country 
about  the  year  1820.  He  was  born  in  North- 
Hampstead,  England,  of  English  parents,  and 
on  coming  to  America  he  settled  in  Burlington, 
New  Jersey.  He  was  a  thrifty  and  prosperous 
farmer  for  many  years  and  became  possessed 
of  extensive  farm  tracts,  and  besides  carrying 
on  his  farms  he  bought  and  sold  timl>er  lands, 
dealt  in  huuber  and  wood,  manufactured  brick 
and  tiling,  and  also  built  and  operated  a  grist 
mill  in  Burlington  township.  In  the  latter 
business  one  of  his  sons  had  an  interest  with 
his  father.  Mr.  Rigg  was  one  of  the  direct- 
ors of  the  Merchants'  National  Bank  of  Burl- 
ingfton,  one  of  the  principal  organizers  of  the 
Mt.  Holly  .Agricultural  Society,  and  in  many 
ways  showed  his  excellent  business  qualities 
and  genuine  public  spirit  by  his  connection 
with  enterprises  which  were  intended  to  pro- 
mote the  general  welfare  as  well  as  personal 


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concerns.  lie  marrieil,  in  England.  .Sarah 
riaskett,  who  also  was  born  in  England.  Their 
children  were:  John,  Edward,  George  and 
Ann,  all  born  in  Burlington. 

( II )  George,  son  of  Christopher  and  Sarah 
( I'laskett )  Rigg.  was  born  in  Burlington,  New 
Jersey,  January  14,  1846,  graduated  from 
I'rincettm  College  in  1867,  and  afterward  ac- 
c|uired  considerable  celebrity  as  a  pedagogue, 
while  as  a  mathematician  he  became  famous. 
He  taught  school  in  Burlington  county  and  also 
at  the  Penn  Charter  school  in  Philadelphia, 
and  while  he  excelled  especially  as  a  teacher 
of  mathematics  he  was  equally  proficient  as  a 
teacher  of  languages.  Latin,  Greek  and  French. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Republican  and  frefjuently 
was  chosen  to  serve  in  some  public  capacity. 
During  the  greater  part  of  his  life  he  was  a 
justice  of  the  peace,  also  served  as  island  man- 
ager, tax  collector,  member  of  the  board  of 
education,  and  during  two  terms  was  mayor 
of  the  city  of  Burlington.  As  a  man  of  su- 
perior educational  attainments  and  high  char- 
acter he  was  much  respected  in  the  community 
in  which  he  lived.  He  was  an  Odd  Fellow  and 
member  of  the  Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle. 
j\Ir.  Rigg  died  in  Alarch,  1897.  He  married 
Ellen  F.  Estilow,  born  Burlington,  April  7, 
1847,  daughter  of  Christopher  and  Sarah 
(  Lowden  )  Estilow.  Children:  i.  Annie,  born 
August  14,  1868;  married  Thomas  Antrim,  a 
fanner  of  Burlington,  now  dead;  one  child, 
Martha  E.  Antrim.  2.  Sarah  Jane,  born  Sep- 
tember 10,  1870;  married  Edward  T3rler,  of 
Burlington,  an  engraver ;  two  children :  Paul 
R,  Tyler,  born  July  14,  1895 ;  Blair  W.  Tyler, 
born  October,  1902.  3.  G.  Harry,  born  April 
I,  1872  ;  died  July,  1908;  was  a  harness  maker. 
4.  Charles  A.,  born  August  9,  1875;  deputy 
surrogate  of  Burlington  county  :  married  Grace 
Kimball,  of  Philadelphia.  5.  George  P.,  born 
1877;  an  engraver,  and  lives  in  Philadelphia; 
married  Elizabeth  \\'iest,  and  has  one  child, 
Milton  \V.  Rigg.  6.  Ellen  E.,  born  1880;  mar- 
ried LaRoy  C.  \  an  Rensselaer,  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, an  electrical  engineer  and  bookkeeper. 
7.  Budd  Marter,  born  August  10,  1883;  see 
post.  8.  Kate  P.,  born  1885;  lives  with  her 
mother.  9.  John,  bom  September,  1887;  drug- 
gist in  Burlington. 

(III)  Btidd  Marter,  son  of  George  and 
Ellen  F.  (Estilow)  Rigg,  was  born  in  Burling- 
ton, New  Jersey,  August  10,  1883,  and  acquired 
his  earlier  literary  education  in  public  schools 
and  the  \'an  Rensselaer  Seminary,  Burlington, 
from  the  latter  of  which  he  was  graduated  in 


iijiij.  ]  le  took  up  the  study  of  law  with  Jo- 
seph 11.  Gaskill,  of  Camden,  attended  lectures 
at  the  Philadelphia  Law  School,  and  was  ad- 
mitted as  an  attorney  in  1905,  and  as  counsellor 
in  1908.  He  practiced  for  a  time  in  Camden 
in  asssociation  with  Judge  Gaskill,  his  former 
preceptor,  but  soon  afterward  opened  offices 
for  himself  in  both  Burlington  and  Camden. 
Mr.  Rigg  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  member 
of  the  board  of  aldermen  of  Burlington ;  mem- 
ber of  Burlington  Lodge,  No.  32,  F.  and  A. 
M. :  Phoenix  Lodge,  No.  92,  I.  O.  O.  F. ;  Hope 
Lodge,  No.  13,  K.  of  P.,  and  of  Evening  Star 
Council,  No.  38,  Jr.  O.  U.  A.  M. 

He  married,  June  11,  1905,  Elsie  R.  Alorton, 
born  October  31,  1882,  daughter  of  Newton  and 
Mary  (^Applegate)  Morton,  of  Florence,  New 
Tersev. 


This  is  a  name  seldom  met 
W'HOMSLEY  in  the  records  of  this  coun- 
try, but  is  an  ancietit  one  in 
England,  although  not  borne  by  a  large  num- 
ber of  persons.  The  first  record  of  this  family 
is  the  fact  that  one  Richard  W'homsley  was  in 
the  service  of  the  English  sovereign  in  1650; 
there  are  persons  of  this  name  living  at  the 
present  time  in  the  city  of  Manchester,  in  Lan- 
cashire, England. 

( I )  William  W'homsley,  the  first  of  this 
family  to  emigrate  to  America,  was  born  in 
1789,  in  England,  and  came  to  America  about 
the  year  1831,  probably  settling  in  Philadelphia. 
He  first  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  woolen 
and  cotton  products,  and  afterwards  removed 
to  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  where  he  embarked 
in  the  grocery  business,  and  remained  until  his 
death.  September  15,  1863.  He  married  Mary 
Potter,  who  was  also  born  in  England,  and  was 
the  daughter  of  an  Episcopal  clergyman.  They 
had  four  children,  all  born  in  England — John 
Potter,  William,  Thomas  and  Annie. 

(II)  John  Potter,  son  of  William  and  Mary 
(Potter)  Whomsley,  was  bom  October  4, 
1828,  in  Bolton,  Lancashire,  England,  and  died 
at  Graniteville,  South  Carolina,  September  i, 
1897.  He  was  about  three  years  of  age  when 
he  accompanied  his  parents  to  America.  After 
an  education  received  in  the  public  schools, 
he  learned  the  business  of  macliinist,  and  espe- 
cially as  regards  stationary  engines.  In  1870 
he  became  employed  by  the  firm  of  Sleeper, 
Wells  &  Aldrich,  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey, 
mnning  their  stationary  engines,  and  after 
remaining  with  them  for  six  years  removed 
to  Graniteville,  South  Carolina,  where  he  was 


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employed  in  tlie  same  capacity  by  the  Granite- 
ville  ^lamifacturing  Company.  He  was  an 
Independent  in  politics,  an  Episcopalian,  and 
a  member  of  Sampson  Lodge,  Knights  of 
Pythias,  of  Philadelphia.  He  married  Martlia 
Shaw,  daughter  of  Jesse  and  Mary  Cox,  born 
.Ma_\-  12,  1827,  at  Kensington,  Pennsylvania, 
(lied  October  4,  1865,  and  they  had  nine 
daughters  and  one  son,  five  of  whom  died  in  in- 
fancy. Among  their  children  were:  Mary, 
who  died  young;  Emma,  deceased;  Kate;  Ida, 
deceased  ;  and  George  Cox. 

(Ill)  George  Cox,  only  son  and  seventh 
child  of  John  Potter  and  Martha  Shaw  (Cox) 
Whomsley,  was  born  August  18,  1857,  at  Nor- 
folk, \'irginia,  and  received  his  education  in 
the  common  schools.  Mount  \'ernon  school, 
and  in  the  schools  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  Burlington.  New  Jersey.  He  learned 
the  business  of  plumbing,  and  has  made  same 
his  occupation  ever  since,  going  into  business 
on  his  own  account  February  5,  1898,  at  Bur- 
lington, since  which  time  he  has  met  with  very 
good  success.  He  is  an  interprising  and  use- 
ful citizen,  and  is  interested  in  public  move- 
ments and  improvements.  For  thirty-five 
years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
church,  and  has  served  several  years  as  asso- 
ciate superintendent  of  its  Sunday  school.  He 
served  one  year  as  deputy  sheriff  of  Mt.  Holly, 
and  is  secretary  of  the  water  board  of  Burling- 
ton, which  city  is  his  present  residence.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  order  of  Ancient  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  being  affiliated  with  Bur- 
lington Lodge,  No.  2,2,  Boudinot  Royal  Arch 
Chapter,  No.  3,  and  Helena  Commandery,  No. 
3,  Knights  Templar ;  he  is  also  a  member  of 
Burlington  Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows,  No.  22,  and  Hope  Lodge,  No.  13, 
Knights  of  Pythias. 

Mr.  Whomsley  married  (first)  November 
I,  1880,  Louisa  Powell,  daughter  of  John  and 
Grace  A,  Allen,  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey, 
who  died  October  26,  1882,  and  he  married 
(second)  September  30,  1884,  Mary  Ella, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Margaret  Poole 
Kaighn.  of  Burlington.  By  his  second  wife  he 
had  children  as  follows:  i  Joseph  Howard, 
born  November  25,  1885,  is  at  present  em- 
ployed as  pipe  inspector  by  W.  R.  Conard,  of 
Ihirlington;  he  married  Josephine,  daughter 
of  Harry  and  Margaret  Woolman.  2.  Edward 
Clemence,  January  2,  1888,  is  associated  with 
his  father  in  the  plumbing  business.  3.  John 
Albert,  April  2.  1894.  4.  James  Madison  Hare, 
April  II,  1895.  5.  (leorge  Allinson,  October 
21,  1901. 


That  the  name  of  Barrows  is 
BARROWS  prominent  in  English  history 
and  genealogy  is  attested  by 
at  least  twelve  coats-of-arms,  extant,  dating 
from  1500  on.  The  names  Barrow,  Barowe 
and  Alborough  were  of  the  same  origin,  De 
Burgh.  Burg  de  Burgh  was  created  a  peer  in 
1327.  In  1487  we  find  reference  to  Thomas 
Burg  or  Borough,  Baron.  In  Lincolnshire, 
England,  in  the  Church  of  Wynthorpe  is  a 
monumental  bronze  in  memory  of  Richard 
Barrows  "sumtyme  merchant  of  the  stayples 
of  Calys"  who  died  in  1505.  Richard,  in  his 
will,  dated  1502,  names  three  sons:  Thomas, 
John  and  Richard.  Dr.  Isaac  Barrow  was  a 
son  of  Thomas,  linen  draper  to  Charles  I,  and 
he  may  have  been  a  descendant  of  Thomas,  son 
of  Richard,  buried  at  Winthrop.  In  1477  a 
grant  of  arms  was  made  to  Thomas  Barowe 
and  his  heirs.  In  the  time  of  Richard  HI, 
1483-85,  Thomas  Barrowe,  brother  of  Rich- 
ard, merchant  of  Calais,  was  made  master  of 
Rolls.  One  of  the  early  Puritan  martyrs  exe- 
cuted with  John  Greenwood.  April  6,  1593, 
was  Henry  Barrowe,  "son  of  a  gentleman  of 
Norfolk."  The  family  living  in  Norfolk  and 
Suffolk  uniformly  spell  the  name  Barowe  and 
Barrowe,  while  the  family,  numerous  in  other 
parts  of  England,  spell  it  Barrow.  The  first 
American  ancestor  of  the  family  is  recorded 
in  the  Rolls  Office  in  London  as  John  Barowe 
(q.  v).  He  was  of  Yarmouth,  the  chief  sea- 
port of  Norfolk  county. 

(I)  Copying  from  the  Rolls  Office,  Chan- 
cery Lane,  London,  a  large  volume  bound  in 
vellum,  contains  among  the  names  of  some 
of  the  early  immigrants  bound  for  Virginia, 
under  date  May  15,  1635,  "Jo:  Barrowe  aged 
26  years,  embarked  in  the  "Plaine  Joan"  the 
portico  having  brought  attestation  of  their 
confirmities  to  orders  and  discipline  of  the 
Church  of  England."  "May  10,  1637,  is 
recorded  in  the  examination  of  John  Borowe 
of  Yarmouth,  Cooper,  aged  28  years  and  Anne 
his  wife  aged  40  years — desirous  to  pass  to 
Salem  in  New  England,  there  to  inhabit."  The 
ship  on  which  they  reached  Salem  was  prob- 
ably the  "Mary  Ann,"  Captain  William  Goose, 
master.  The  records  of  Salem,  August  14, 
1637,  state:  "Jno.  Barows  is  received  an 
inhabitant  of  Salem,  and  is  alowed  five  acres 
of  land"  and  on  November  9:  "Jno  Barrowes 
is  allowed  ten  acres,  with  his  former  five." 
Subsequently  we  find  "Jno.  Burroes  is  alowed 
one  half  acre  of  marsh  and  salt  meadow  land." 
This  was  the  usual  allowance  for  two  persons, 
and   probably   was    for   himself   and   his   first 


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wife  whom  he  married  in  England  and  brought 
to  America,  and  by  whom  he  had  one  child, 
Robert  (q.  v.).  On  March  25,  1644,  he  is 
made  surveyor  of  fences  in  place  of  Thomas 
Weeks.  We  find  no  further  records  in  Salem 
of  his  name,  which  is  in  each  place  spelled 
differently.  We  next  find  him  in  Plymouth 
records,  March  6,  1665-66,  where  he  is  fined 
by  the  court  ten  shillings  for  refusing  to  give 
evidence  in  the  grant  inquest.  February  15, 
1668,  the  list  of  townsmen  include  John  Bar- 
row and  the  record  of  voters  in  town  meeting 
June  16,  1668,  gives  the  names  of  John  Barow 
and  Robert  Barrows  (no  doubt  father  and 
son).  April  9,  1684,  the  town  laid  out  to 
John  Barrow  ten  acres  of  upland  against  his 
meadow  on  the  northeast  side  of  the  river. 
The  wmII  of  John  Barrow  executed  January 
12,  1691-92,  and  on  record  in  Plymouth,  names 
his  eldest  son  Robert,  and  other  sons  Benajah, 
Joshua  and  Ebenezer,  not  then  of  age,  and 
mentions  two  daughters  and  his  loving  wife 
whom  he  appoints  sole  administratrix  of  the 
will.  He  signs  the  will  with  an  S  mark,  and  it 
is  witnessed  by  John  Ciray  and  the  T  mark  of 
John  Barrows,  the  eldest  son  of  his  son 
Robert,  who  was  at  that  time  twenty- four 
years  of  age.  The  children  of  John,  the  immi- 
grant, and  Deborah  Barrow,  named  in  his  will, 
were  probably  in  the  following  order:  i. 
Robert.  2.  Joshua,  who  married  Deliverance 
Wedge,  and  died  about  1750.  3.  Benajah, 
born  1683.  married  (first)  Lydia  Buckler; 
(second)  Elizabeth  Lincoln;  (third)  Hannah 
Bennett.  4.  Ebenezer.  married  Elizabeth 
L)nn.  His  two  daughters  were  :  3.  Deborah, 
who  married  Archippus  Fulton,  of  Plympton, 
December  20,  1687,  and  had  children.  6. 
Mary,  who  married  John  Wormall,  of  Dux- 
bury,  January,  1698,  and  removed  to  Bridge- 
w-ater,  and  had  five  children.  John  Barrow 
died  March  12.  1692,  and  his  will  was  proved 
before  William  Bradford,  Esc|.,  deputy  gov- 
ernor of  Plymouth  Colony,  and  Ephraim  ^Ior- 
ton,  assistant,  April  6,  1692. 

(H)  Robert  Barrows,  only  son  of  John  and 
Anne  Barrow,  was  born  probably  in  Salem. 
Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  and  removed  with 
his  father  to  Plymouth  Colony,  the  immigrant 
evidently  not  finding  the  I'uritanical  atmos- 
phere of  Salem  to  agree  with  churchmanship. 
He  married  (first)  November  2S.  1666.  Ruth, 
daughter  of  George  and  Sarah  (Morton) 
Bonum.  of  Plymouth.  His  homestead  in  Ply- 
mouth contained  two  or  more  acres  of  ground 
on  the  northerly  side  of  Mill  street,  then  a 
common     road     leading   into    Plymouth,    and 


afterwards  known  as  the  King's  Highway,  and 
now  Summer  street.  This  estate  was  conveyed 
to  Robert  Barrows,  January  30,  1669,  by 
George  Bonum,  and  bounded  by :  "ye  Great 
street  on  ye  Southerly  side  of  ye  town  of  Ply- 
mouth, and  by  ye  street  that  goeth  up  from 
ye  grist  mill  to  ye  Fort  Hill  so  called  with  ye 
dwelling  house  therein."  The  original  will  of 
Robert  Barrows  is  on  file  in  the  Plymouth 
probate  office.  It  is  dated  December  9.  1707, 
and  signed  "T  the  mark  of  Robert  Barrows." 
It  mentions  by  name  his  wife  Lydia,  who  w-as 
his  second  wife,  to  whom  he  was  married 
probably  1684-85,  and  two  only  of  his  sons: 
Robert  and  Thomas.  In  a  codicil  he  makes  no 
mention  of  the  children  by  his  first  wife  "be- 
cause they  have  already  received  their  pore- 
tions  of  his  estate"  but  names  "Elisha  and  my 
daughters  by  my  second  wife."  Lydia,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Dunham,  who  was  his  second  wife, 
is  made  executrix  of  the  will  which  was  pro- 
bated December  19,  1707,  before  Nathaniel 
Thomas,  judge.  The  children  of  Robert  and 
Ruth  (Bonum)  Barrows  were  born  at  the 
homestead  in  Plymouth  as  follows:  i.  John, 
born  1667,  who  married  (first)  Sarah  Briggs, 
and  (second)  in  1714,  Betliia  King;  resided  in 
Plymouth  and  Plympton ;  he  died  in  1720.  2. 
Eliezer,  September  15,  1669,  died  December, 
1669.  3.  George,  1670,  married  three  times; 
died  in  Plympton,  Alassachusetts,  1758.  4. 
Samuel,  1672,  married  (first)  Mercy  Coombs; 
(second)  Joanna  Smith;  died  in  Middleboro, 
Massachusetts,  December  30,  1755.  5.  Mehit- 
able,  married,  June  20,  1717,  .\dam  Wright, 
and  were  first  settlers  of  Plympton.  The  chil- 
dren of  Robert  and  Lydia  ( Dunham)  Bar- 
rows were:  6.  Elisha,  March  17,  1686,  died 
1689.  7.  Robert,  November  8,  1689.  married 
Bethia  Ford,  lived  in  Plymouth,  Massachu- 
setts, and  in  Mansfield,  Connecticut,  where  he 
died  August  17,  1779.  8.  Thankful,  Decem- 
ber 8.  1692,  married,  February  11,  1713-14, 
Isaac  King.    9.  Elisha,  June  16,  1695,  married 

(first)  Thankful  ,  and  (second)   Nellie 

■;  died  in  Rochester,  Massachusetts.    10. 


Thomas,  February  14,  1697  (q.  v.).  11.  Lydia, 
March  19,  1699.  married,  October  11,  1720, 
Thomas  Branch,  of  Plymouth,  where  she  lived 
and  died. 

(Ill)  Thomas,  the  eighth  son  and  tenth 
child  of  Robert  Barrows,  and  the  fourth  son 
of  Robert  and  Lydia  (Dunham)  Barrows,  was 
born  in  Plymouth,  Massachusetts,  February 
14.  1697,  removed  with  his  father  and  family 
to  Mansfield.  Connecticut,  about  1720,  where 
he  died  October  28,   1776.     He  was  married 


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June  14,  1721,  to  Esther  Hall,  and  they  had 
nine  children  born  in  Mansfield,  Connecticut, 
as  follows:  i.  Samuel,  August  10,  1722,  a  pri- 
vate in  Captain  Hanchett's  company,  Second 
Regiment,  taken  prisoner  at  Quebec,  Decem- 
l)er  31,  1775.  2.  Isaac  f  q.  v.).  3.  John,  July  22, 
1727.  4.  (jreshom,  April  19,  1730;  served  as 
ensign  for  eight  days  in  the  American  revolu- 
tion. 5.  Hannah,  June  11,  1732.  6.  John, 
July  13,  1734.  7.  Elisha,  December  20,  1736. 
8.  Esther,  December  16,  1739.  9.  Thomas, 
September  20,  1742;  he  served  at  Saratoga, 
New  York,  as  private  for  twenty-six  days, 
corporal  in  the  American  revolution  in  Captain 
Gallup's  regiment,  discharged  November  5, 
1777.  Esther  (Hall)  Barrows,  the  mother  of 
these  children,  was  received  in  the  Congrega- 
tional church  in  Mansfield,  1722.  She  died  in 
Mansfield,  Connecticut. 

(IV)  Isaac,  second  son  of  Thomas  and 
Esther  ( Hall)  Barrows,  was  born  in  Mans- 
field, Connecticut,  April  I,  1725.  He  was 
married  on  July  13,  1764,  to  Rebeckah,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Turner,  Isaac  Barrows  was  a  lieu- 
tenant in  the  revolutionary  army,  serving  for 
three  days  as  lieutenant,  and  as  private  in 
Tenth  Company,  Captain  Ripley  Huntington's 
eighth  regiment,  from  July  28,  1775,  to  De- 
cember 18,  1775.  Lieutenant  Isaac  and  Re- 
beckah (Turner)  Barrows  were  the  parents  of 
eleven  children,  born  in  Mansfield,  Connecti- 
cut, as  follows:  i.  Roger,  June  4,  1765.  2. 
John  (q.  v.).  3.  Jesse,  October  28,  1770.  4. 
Sybil,  April  5,  1773.  5.  Jabez,  July  14,  1775. 
6.  Sybil,  April  26,  1778.  7.  Jesse,  October  24, 
1780.  8.  Juliana,  February  11,  1783-84.  9. 
Leander,  December  28,  1785.  10.  Stephen, 
November  24,  1789.     11.  Polly,  April  26,  1792. 

(V)  John  (2),  second  son  of  Lieutenant 
Isaac  and  Rebeckah  (Turner)  Barrows,  was 
born  in  Mansfield,  Connecticut,  August  30, 
1767.  He  was  a  farmer,  removed  to  Willing- 
ton,  Connecticut,  probably  before  his  marriage, 
and  the  birth  of  his  children,  as  we  find  no 
record  of  him  in  Mansfield,  Connecticut,  rec- 
ords, except  his  birth,  and  he  removed  to  New 
York  state  before  his  death.  He  had  five  chil- 
dren born  probably  in  Willington,  Connecticut, 
as  follows:    i.  John.    2.  Orrin.    3.  Aimer   (q. 

v.).  4.  Lucinda,  who  married Peckham. 

5.  Kate,  who  married Phelps,  and  their 

son,  William  Pitt  Phelps,  settled  in  Merchant- 
ville.  New  Jersey. 

(VI)  Aimer,  third  son  of  John  Barrows, 
was  born  in  Willington,  Connecticut,  July  5, 
1794.  He  attended  the  district  school,  and 
learned  the  trade  of  comb  maker,  at   which 


trade  he  worked  until  he  was  past  middle  life. 
He  owned  a  farm  at  Willington.  Connecticut, 
and  carried  it  on  while  pursuing  his  trade  as 
comb  maker,  as  was  customary  with  mechan- 
ics, who  owned  farms,  so  as  to  have  profitable 
work  both  winter  and  summer.  He  was  an 
active  member  of  the  Democratic  party  in 
Connecticut,  and  his  church  affiliation  was 
with  the  Methodist  denomination.  He  mar- 
ried, 1822,  Serepta,  daughter  of  Don  Ferdi- 
nand and •  (Palmer)  Brigham,  of  Cov- 
entry, Connecticut,  her  ancestors  being  origi- 
nal settlers  of  Coventry.  Serepta  Brigham 
was  born  in  1804,  and  died  in  1861.  The  chil- 
dren of  Aimer  and  Serepta  (Brigham)  Bar- 
rows were  born  in  Willington,  Connecticut, 
as  follows:  i.  Don  Brigham.  2.  Serepta.  3. 
Henrietta.  4.  Emily.  5.  Walter  Aimer  (q.  v.). 
Aimer  Barrows  late  in  life  retired  from  busi- 
ness and  removed  to  Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey, 
his  wife  having  died  in  1861,  and  his  four 
eldest  children  being  also  deceased,  to  spend 
his  last  days  with  his  youngest  son.  Captain 
Walter  Aimer  Barrows,  who  resided  in  that 
place,  where  he  was  practicing  law,  and  he 
died  at  the  home  of  his  son  in  Mt.  Holly,  New 
Jersey,  1876,  in  the  eighty-second  year  of  his 
age. 

(VII)  Walter  Aimer,  second  son  and 
youngest  child  of  Aimer  and  Serepta  (Brig- 
ham) Barrows,  was  born  in  Willington,  Con- 
necticut, December  27,  1839.  He  was  prepared 
for  teaching  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town,  and  when  seventeen  years  of  age  he 
taught  a  district  school  in  Willington,  Con- 
necticut, for  two  years,  and  for  one  year  in 
Cape  May,  New  Jersey ;  in  1859-60  he  attend- 
ed an  academy  at  Monson,  Massachusetts,  to 
better  fit  himself  as  a  teacher.  He  was  teach- 
ing at  Cape  May  in  1861,  when  the  civil  war 
called  him  from  the  school  room  to  the  defence 
of  his  country  on  the  battle  line,  and  he  enlist- 
ed August  23,  1861,  in  Company  A,  Seventh 
New  Jersey  Volunteers,  and  he  accompanied 
the  regiment  to  Virginia  and  became  a  part  of 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac  under  General 
George  B.  McClellan.  He  took  an  active  part 
with  his  regiment  in  the  battles  of  Yorktown, 
Williamsburg  and  Fair  Oaks.  The  hardships 
of  the  soldier  in  that  active  campaign  in  the 
swamps  of  Virginia  rendered  him  physically 
incapacitated  for  further  service,  and  he  was 
honorably  discharged  from  active  service  No- 
vember II,  1862.  He  was  sent  to  the  United 
States  Hospital  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  and 
having  recruited  his  strength  and  health  he 
was  discharged  from  hospital,  and  again  offer- 


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ed  his  services  to  the  government,  lie  was 
commissioned  by  President  Lincoln  captain  of 
Company  C,  One  Hundred  and  Fifteenth 
United  States  Colored  troops,  July,  1864,  was 
stationed  at  Bowling  Green,  Kentucky,  guard- 
ing railroad  communication.  He  joined  the 
Army  of  the  James  with  the  colored  regiment 
in  February,  1865,  and  took  part  in  the  san- 
guinary, but  decisive  battle  that  led  to  the  fall 
of  Richmond.  In  the  occupation  of  the  Con- 
federate capital,  he  took  an  active  part  with  his 
regiment  in  putting  out  the  fires  kindled  by  the 
retiring  army  of  General  Lee,  and  thus  saved 
much  valuable  property.  In  May,  1865,  he 
resigned  his  commission,  but  was  re-appointed 
captain  of  a  company  in  the  Fifth  Regiment, 
United  States  Colored  troops,  and  he  was  with 
the  regiment  at  Camp  Chase,  Columbus,  Ohio, 
in  November,  1865,  when  he  was  honorably 
discharged  from  the  United  States  volunteer 
service.  He  passed  two  years  as  an  invalid 
at  Cape  May,  New  Jersey,  and  in  1868  he  took 
charge  of  Aaron's  select  school  for  boys  at 
Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey,  in  which  school  he 
successfully  taught  for  three  years.  He  at  the 
same  time  took  up  the  study  of  law,  and  he 
was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  an 
attorney-at-law  in  1873,  and  he  took  up  the 
practice  of  his  new  profession  in  Mt.  Holly. 
He  served  as  county  superintendent  of  schools, 
1873-76.  In  1876  he  was  admitted  as  a  coun- 
sellor-at-law,  and  in  1879  was  made  a  special 
master  and  supreme  court  commissioner  and 
notary  public.  In  1905  he  also  opened  a 
branch  law  office  at  Riverside,  New  Jersey.  In 
the  New  Jersey  state  militia  he  was  captain  of 
Company  F,  Seventh  Regiment,  and  took  an 
active  interest  in  sustaining  the  espirit  de 
corps  of  the  state  militia.  His  military  service 
to  the  United  States  secured  him  comradeship 
in  the  General  Shiras  Post,  No.  26,  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  and  a  companionship 
in  the  Pennsylvania  Commandery  of  the  Mili- 
tary Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United 
States. 

His  fraternal  affiliations  include  membership 
in  Mt.  Holly  Lodge,  No.  19,  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  since  1868.  He  joined 
Cape  Island  Lodge,  No.  30,  Ancient  Free  and 
Accepted  IMasons,  Cape  May,  New  Jersey, 
and  was  transferred  to  Riverside  Lodge,  No. 
187,  and  he  is  a  member  of  Boudinot  Royal 
Arch  Chapter,  No.  3,  Burlington,  and  Helena 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar  of  Burling- 
ton, and  is  past  eminent  commander  of  the 
Commandery.  In  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen,  he  became  past  grand  master  work- 

ii  -8 


man  of  the  district  including  the  states  of  New 
Jersey,  Delaware,  Maryland  and  Virginia.  He 
also  represented  Pocahontas  Tribe,  No.  18,  in 
the  United  States  Great  Council  of  the  Im- 
proved Order  of  Red  Men.  in  two  councils. 
He  held  the  high  office  of  grand  chief  of  the 
Order  of  Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle  of  New 
Jersey  for  the  years  1895-96,  through  his 
membership  in  New  Jersey  Castle  No.  4  of  Mt. 
Holly.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Benevo- 
lent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  Mt.  Holly 
sub-lodge,  No.  848.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  polit- 
ical faith.  His  church  affiliation  is  with  the 
Presbyterian  church,  and  he  is  president  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  church  in  Mt.  Holly. 
He  married  (first)  December  9,  1862,  Mary 
H.,  daughter  of  Judge  Eli  B.  and  Sarah 
(Hughes)  Wales,  of  Cape  May,  New  Jersey, 
and  the  children  born  of  this  marriage  are:  i. 
Walter  Aimer  (2),  born  in  Cape  May,  New 
Jersey,  December  31,  1865;  graduated  from 
Rutger's  College,  B.  S.,  1886,  a  chemist  by 
profession,  and  interested  in  developing  iron 
and  copper  industries  with  head(|uarters  in 
Cleveland,  Ohio;  he  married,  September  28, 
1888,  Sarah  Byers,  of  Cleveland,  and  they 
have  two  children :  Walter  Aimer  (2)  and 
Donald.  These  children  represent  the  ninth 
generation  from  John  Barrows,  Salem,  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  Colony,  1635.  2.  Helen  W^ork, 
born  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  October, 
1867,  married  (first)  Charles  K.  Chambers,  of 
Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey ;  children :  Mary  and 
Frances  Chambers.  After  the  decease  of  the 
father  of  these  children  she  married  (second) 
Joshua  E.  Borton,  of  Moorestown,  New  Jer- 
sey, attorney,  president  of  the  Security  Trust 
Company  of  Camden,  New  Jersey.  3.  Mary 
Wales,  born  Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey,  March  8, 
1876,  married  the  Rev.  James  Harvey  Dun- 
ham, pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Mt. 
Holly,  and  their  son,  Barrow-s  Dunham,  was 
born  October  10,  1905.  The  mother,  Mary  H. 
W'alcs  Barrows,  died  March  3,  1902,  and  was 
buried  at  the  Brick  Church  at  Cape  May,  New 
Jersey.  Her  husband  luarried  as  his  second 
wife  on  August  22,  1907,  Amanda  L.  Bishop, 
widow  of  James  Bramoll,  and  they  reside  at 
Riverside,  New  Jersey. 


Charles  Shoemaker  Burley  de- 
BURLEY     scends  in  the  fourth  generation 

from  John  Burley,  a  brave  sol- 
dier of  the  revolution,  serving  from  Connecti- 
cut, and  the  first  of  the  family  to  settle  in 
South  Jersey.  John  Burley  was  reared  in  the 
town  of  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  where  he  was 


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born  about  tbe  year  1760.  On  January  i, 
1777.  he  enlisted  in  the  Continental  army,  join- 
ing Colonel  Lamb's  Connecticut  Artillery.  He 
served  from  that  date  until  the  close  of  the  war 
in  1783.  He  came  to  New  Jersey  about  the 
year  1787  and  settled  in  Cape  May  county, 
where  he  died  from  the  effects  of  a  sunstroke, 
(Jctober  I,  1802.  He  married  Phoebe  Breen, 
daughter  of  William  Breen,  of  Egg  Harbor. 
New  Jersey.  William  Breen  was  also  a 
patriot  although  it  is  not  known  that  he  was  an 
enlisted  soldier.  He  was  one  of  a  number  of 
patriots  in  South  Jersey  who  used  their  knowl- 
edge of  the  bays  and  inlets  of  the  coast  to  lay 
in  wait  for  and  capture  British  vessels  that 
ventured  near  their  retreats.  On  one  occasion 
he  was  captured  by  the  enemy  although  he  had 
assisted  in  the  successful  capture  of  many 
prizes. 

{II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Phoebe 
(Breen)  Burley,  was  bom  in  Cape  May  county. 
New  Jersey,  January  i,  1803.  He  was  left  an 
orphan  the  following  year,  his  father  dying 
October  i,  1802.  But  little  can  be  told  of  his 
early  life  further  than  that  he  was  a  ship  car- 
penter and  followed  that  then  lucrative  trade 
all  his  life.  He  became  an  owner  of  vessels 
and  with  his  sons  built  and  owned  many.  He 
died  in  the  county  of  his  birth,  December  16, 
1875.  He  married  Roxana  Champion,  of 
Tuckahoe,  New  Jersey,  July  14,  1827.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Joseph  Champion,  see  forward.  2. 
and  3.  died  in  childhood.  4.  John,  Jr.  5. 
Nathan,  deceased.  6.  Sallie  (Mrs.  Benjamin 
Weatherley,  of  Tuckahoe,  New  Jersey).  7. 
Julia  M.  (Mrs.  Richard  Townsend).  8.  Mary 
(Mrs.  Samuel  Champion).  9.  William,  a  min- 
ister of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  be- 
longing to  the  Newark  conference. 

(HI)  Joseph  Champion,  eldest  son  of  John 
(2)  and  Roxana  (Champion)  Burley,  was 
born  in  Tuckahoe,  New  Jersey,  1828,  died  in 
1903.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools, 
and  learned  the  trade  of  a  ship  carpenter  under 
the  instruction  of  his  father  with  whom  he  and 
his  brother  were  joint  owners  of  considerable 
vessel  property.  In  1865  he  went  to  Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  employed 
at  his  trade  in  the  navy  yard  and  at  Cramp's 
ship  yard  as  well  as  at  Coopers  Point,  Camden. 
In  his  later  years  he  removed  to  Ocean  City, 
New  Jersey,  which  was  his  home  until  death. 
He  was  a  Republican  in  political  faith,  and  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
where  he  served  as  both  steward  and  trustee. 
He  married,  in  1830,  Sallie  W'heaton,  born  in 
Tuckahoe,    New    Jersey,    1832,    daughter    of 


Everett  and  Sarah  Wheaton.  Children:  i. 
Adelia,  born  in  1852,  married  James  A.  De- 
laney.  of  Camden,  New  Jersey,  and  has  Emma, 
Howard  and  Cora  Delaney.  2.  Lizzie,  de- 
ceaseil ;  she  married  Samuel  Whittaker,  of 
Williamstown,  New  Jersey.  3.  Charles  Shoe- 
maker, see  forward.  4.  Alilton,  married  Ella 
Wilson.  5.  Enoch  W.  6.  Margaret,  married 
Ira  Wells. 

(IV)  Charles  Shoemaker,  eldest .  son  and 
third  child  of  Joseph  Champion  and  Sallie 
(Wheaton)  Burley,  was  born  in  Cumberland 
county,  New  Jersey,  October  31,  1858.  His 
education  was  obtained  in  the  schools  of  Cam- 
den, New  Jersey,  which  was  his  home  for 
many  years  and  where  he  gained  his  first  busi- 
ness experience.  He  was  employed  as  a  gro- 
cery clerk  in  that  city  for  ten  years,  until  1883, 
when  he  opened  a  grocery  store  on  his  own 
account  in  the  city  of  Bristol,  Pennsylvania. 
This  store  was  a  success  and  encouraged  Mr. 
P.urley  to  expand  and  extend  his  business.  In 
1881;,  in  company  with  his  brother-in-law, 
Samuel  Whittaker,  he  opened  a  grocery  store 
in  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  to  which  was  added 
others  until  they  had  in  successful  operation 
five  stores,  three  in  Trenton  and  two  in  Bristol. 
In  1 90 1  he  removed  to  Camden  and  was  there 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business  for  two  years. 
C)n  March  26,  1903,  he  opened  his  present 
store  in  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  where  he  is 
further  interested  in  business  along  other  lines 
than  the  grocery.  Mr.  Burley  adheres  to  both 
the  political  and  religious  faith  of  his  forbears. 
He  votes  with  the  Republican  party,  and  wor- 
ships with  the  congregation  of  the  Broad  Street 
Methodist  Church  in  Burlington,  also  serving 
as  a  steward  on  the  official  board. 

Mr.  Burley  married,  January  11,  1887, 
Emma  B.  Moore,  of  .Salem,  New  Jersey, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Franklin  Moore.  Children  : 
I.  Edna,  born  at  Bristol,  Pennsylvania,  1888, 
died  in  infancy.  2.  Russell  Leroy,  born  in 
Trenton.  New  Jersey,  May  23,  1889,  was 
educated  in  the  Burlington  high  school,  Drexel 
Institute,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  and  at 
the  Trenton  Business  College. 


The  family  here  described  were  liv- 
S.ACK  ing  in  that  part  of  Russia  which 
borders  Prussia,  in  the  seventeenth 
century.  In  America  they  have  made  for 
themselves  a  place  in  business  and  social  circles, 
and  their  integrity  and  steadfastness  of  pur- 
pose are  recognized  by  all  who  have  had  deal- 
ings with  them. 

(I)   A  son  of  this  family,  Ferdinan^l  George 


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Sack,  emigrated  in  the  latter  part  of  the 
eighteenth  century  to  Prussia,  Germany,  wan- 
dered from  there  to  Seesen,  Duchy  of  Bruns- 
wick, Germany,  where  he  estabhshed  a  bakery 
business,  settled,  married  and  had  four  sons 
and  two  daughters,  one  of  the  former  being 
George  Henry  Ferdinand. 

(II)  George  Henry  Ferdinand,  son  of  Fred- 
inand  George  Sack,  was  born  October  9,  1781, 
at  Seesen,  Duchy  of  Brunswick,  Germany.  He 
married.  February  i,  1810,  Johanna  Christiana 
Henriette  Fischer,  born  August  13.  1789,  at 
Seesen,  and  their  children  were:  i.  Sophia 
Dorethe  Cliarlotte.  2.  Sophia  Louise  Chris- 
tiana. 3.  Cliarles  William  Ferdinand.  Mr. 
Sack  was  a  farmer,  grain  dealer,  millwright 
and  ilour-miller. 

(III)  Charles  William  Ferdinand,  son  of 
George  Henry  Ferdinand  and  Johanna  Chris- 
tiana Henriette  (Fischer)  Sack,  was  born 
April  21,  1825,  at  Seesen,  Duchy  of  Brunswick, 
Germany,  where  he  followed  the  same  occu- 
pations as  his  father,  carrying  on  farming  and 
being  millwright  and  miller,  in  Germany.  In 
September,  1869,  with  his  wife  and  children, 
he  emigrated  from  the  seaport  town  of  Bre- 
men, (iermany,  on  the  ship  "Columbus,"  land- 
ing in  New  York  City  in  October.  After  he 
came  to  this  country,  Mr.  Sack  worked  chiefly 
as  cigar  sorter  and  packer.  He  was  of  the 
Lutheran  faith,  and  in  politics  was  a  Demo- 
crat. Mr.  .Sack  married,  December  24,  1849, 
at  Gross  Schwuelper,  Germany,  Molly  E. 
Wulfes,  born  I'ebruary  19,  1823,  at  Grossen 
Use,  Hanover,  Germany.  Her  father,  Peter 
Henry  W'ulfes,  was  born  ALirch  27,  1769,  at 
Grossen  Use,  and  married  Elizabeth  Braini, 
born  October  18,  1788,  at  Hildesheim,  Han- 
over. Mr.  Sack  and  his  wife  had  children  as 
follows:      I.    Charles   John   Henry   Herrman. 

2.  Herrman  August  Charles,  born  February 
10,  185s  :  married,  in  1880,  in  New  York  City, 
Jennie  Meyer,  and  their  children  are:  Hugo 
IL.  born  Rlay  13,  1881,  at  New  York,  and 
-Alwine,  born  March  25,  1883,  ^t  Philadelphia. 

3.  .Ahvine  Caroline  Louisa,  born  August  23, 
1857,  died  in  New  York  City.  4.  Curt  Emiel 
Hugo,  born  June  4,  1864,  died  at  New  York 
City. 

(I\')  Charles  John  Henry  Herrman,  the 
eldest  son  of  Charles  William  Ferdinand  and 
Molly  E.  (Wulfes)  Sack,  was  born  September 
3,  1850.  at  Gross  Schwuelper.  Hanover,  Ger- 
many, and  when  a  young  man  accompanied  his 
parents  to  .\merica.  living  in  New  York  until 
.August,  1875,  when  he  removed  to  Philadel- 
])hia,  and  in  1888  from  there  to  Riverside,  New 


Jersey,  which  is  still  his  residence.  He  re- 
ceived the  education  given  by  the  public  schools 
of  Germany,  being  also  taught  F"rench  and 
English  by  private  tuition.  In  Germany  he 
held  positions  incident  to  dealing  in  grain,  such 
as  millwright  and  miller,  also  clerk  in  a  grain 
and  produce  business.  In  .America  he  has  kept 
hotel  and  conducted  a  fruit  farm,  being  also 
interested  in  the  culture  of  bees.  He  is  an 
energetic  and  public  spirited  citizen,  and  has 
served  in  several  public  offices,  among  them 
member  of  the  township  board  of  education 
and  park  commission,  and  for  five  years  he 
served  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  freeholders 
of  llurlington  county.  New  Jersey.  Mr.  Sack 
is  affiliated  with  the  Independent  Order  of 
Mechanics,  Olive  Branch  Lodge,  No.  26,  Ger- 
man Beneficial  Society,  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks,  and  is  treasurer  of 
Eureka  Beneficial  Society.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Riverside  Fire  Company,  and  of 
the  German  Turngemeide  and  Maennerchor, 
at  Riverside.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat, 
and  belongs  to  the  Lutheran  church.  His  wife 
and  family,  however,  are  members  of  St. 
Peter's  Roman  Catholic  Church  of  Riverside. 
Mr.  Sack  married,  July  11.  1875,  at  River- 
side, Hannah  Stecher,  born  August  22,  1850. 
at  Philadel()hia.'  Her  father,  Rudolph  Stecher. 
was  a  cabinet-maker,  carpenter,  builder  and 
tavern-keeper,  married  Pauline  Raup,  and 
their  children  were:  Hannah,  Rudolph,  Mary, 
Loui.se,  August  C,  Henry,  Frank,  Frederick 
(deceased)  and  William.  Four  generations  of 
the  Sack  family  were  living  at  Riverside,  New 
Jersey,  in  1900,  and  in  that  year  they  cele- 
brated golden,  silver  and  one  year's  wedding, 
res])ectively.  Charles  John  Henry  Herrman 
and  Hanah  (Stecher)  Sack  had  children  as 
follows:  I.  Herrman  Rudolph,  born  Septem- 
ber 9,  1876,  at  Philadelphia,  deceased.  2. 
Charles  Laurence,  born  February  12,  1878,  at 
Philadelphia,  is  a  watch  case  turner,  and  re- 
sides at  Elgin,  Illinois ;  he  married,  in  July, 
iqoo,  Sadie  Johnston,  and  their  children  are: 
Charles  Joseph,  Joseph,  Adela,  Mildred  and 
Arthur,  all  born  at  Riverside,  New- Jersey,  and 
Rudolyih,  born  at  Elgin,  Illinois.  3.  Emily, 
born  November  11,  1879;  married  Joseph  6. 
Johnston,  a  watch  case  maker,  at  Riverside, 
and  their  children  are  :  Cecilia,  William,  Paul- 
ine and  Herrman.  4.  William,  born  August 
30,  1881,  at  Philadelphia,  deceased.  5.  Will- 
iam Henry,  born  July  9,  1884,  at  Philadelphia, 
is  a  bartender,  married  Catherine  Fleming, 
and  they  have  one  child,  Doloris.  6.  Herrman. 
born  November   i,   18S6,  at  Philadelphia,  is  a 


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watch  case  maker,  and  resides  at  Elgin,  Illi- 
nois; he  married,  December  25,  1908,  Mamie 
Bowen.  7.  Frederick,  born  February  11,  1889, 
at  Riverside,  New  Jersey,  deceased.  8.  Flor- 
ence, born  September  30,  1892,  at  Riverside, 
deceased.  ^Ir.  Sack  gave  his  children  a  liberal 
education,  in  the  public  and  parochial  schools 
of  Philadelphia  and  Riverside,  and  has  reason 
to  be  proud  of  their  position  and  standing. 


William  Herman  llisbing  de- 
PjISBIXG  scends  from  an  old  Pennsyl- 
vania family.  The  earliest 
known  ancestor  was  George  Bisbing,  a  well-to- 
do  farmer,  who  lived  on  Barron  Hill,  some- 
times called  Bisbing's  Hill,  in  the  township  of 
Whitmarsh,  Montgomery  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania. He  was  a  large  property  owner.  He 
conducted  a  hotel  calletl  Farmer's  Inn,  and  was 
a  prominent  citizen  of  the  town.  He  married 
Catherine .  Children:  I.  George,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  William.  3.  Catherine.  4. 
Elizabeth. 

(II j  George  (2),  son  of  George  (i)  and 
Catherine  Bisbing,  was  born  in  Whitmarsh, 
near  Ambler,  Pennsylvania,  1808,  and  died  in 
1898.  He  followed  the  occupation  of  farming 
on  the  homestead  for  many  years.  Leaving 
the  farm  he  located  at  Concolioken,  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  he  engaged  in  the  grocery  busi- 
ness until  his  death.  He  was  tax  collector  of 
the  town,  and  a  man  of  influence  in  the  com- 
munity. He  married  Sarah  Hansell,  born  in 
Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania.  Children  : 
I.  William,  mentioned  below.  2.  Alberta,  de- 
ceased. 3.  Clara,  married  Augustus  Hart,  of 
Northampton  county,  Pennsylvania.  4.  Annie, 
married  Charles  Dilton  (deceased)  of  Phila- 
deli)hia.     5.  George,  deceased.    6.  Catherine. 

(HI)  William,  first  born  of  George  (2)  and 
Sarah  (Hansell)  Bisbing,  was  born  at  Penn 
Lynn,  near  Ambler,  Peinisylvania,  1839.  He 
received  a  good  common  school  education.  He 
was  apprenticed  to  a  wheelwright  and  as  all 
wagon  and  carriage  work  at  that  time  was 
done  by  hand,  he  obtained  a  thorough  knowl- 
edge of  that  trade.  After  leaving  his  trade 
Mr.  Bisbing  and  his  brother-in-law,  Augustus 
Hart,  opened  a  shop  and  store  in  Norristown, 
Pennsylvania,  where  they  built,  repaired  and 
sold  vehicles  of  all  descriptions  that  were 
common  to  the  ncighl:)orhood.  In  1869  Mr. 
Bisbing  removed  to  Florence,  Burlington 
county.  New  Jersey,  where  he  has  since  resided. 
He  is  now  in  the  employ  of  R.  D.  Wood  & 
Company.  lie  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
church,  although  he  was  formerly  a  Lutheran. 


He  is  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of 
Foresters,  the  American  Mechanics  and  the 
Florence  Foundry  Aid  Society,  all  of  Florence, 
New  Jersey.  He  married,  in  1859,  Eliza  H. 
Groff,  born  in  1844,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Louise  Groff,  of  Hadtlonfield,  New  Jersey. 
Children:  i.  Albertus,  born  in  Norristown, 
Pennsylvania,  now  a  pattern  maker  of  Savan- 
nah, Georgia.  2.  .Sarah  Louisa,  born  in  Flor- 
ence, New  Jersey,  died  in  childhood.  3.  Charles 
E.,  born  at  Florence,'  New  Jersey,  where  he  is 
engaged  in  mercantile  business ;  he  married 
Hannah  Ivins,  of  Camden,  New  Jersey;  chil- 
dren: Claude  H.  and  Marion  M.  Bisbing.  4. 
\Mlliam  Herman,  mentioned  below. 

(  I\' )  William  Herman,  third  son  and  young- 
est child  of  William  and  Eliza  H.  (Groff)  Bis- 
bing, was  born  in  Florence,  New  Jersey,  No- 
vember 23,  1879.  He  was  educated  in  the 
pul)lic  and  parish  schools  of  his  native  town, 
lie  learned  the  trade  of  machinist  and  worked 
at  that  business  for  seven  years  in  Florence. 
He  then  entered  the  employ  of  the  Camden 
and  Trenton  Street  Railway  Company  and  re- 
mained with  them  six  years  as  machinist  and 
dispatcher,  having  headquarters  at  Riverside, 
New  Jersey.  For  two  years  he  was  with  the 
Pennsylvania  Railroad  Comjjany,  running  be- 
tween Camden  and  Jersey  City.  On  August 
29,  1908,  Mr.  Bisbing  having  settled  on  a  mer- 
cantile life,  opened  a  store  in  Riverside  for 
the  sale  of  gentlemen's  furnishing  goods,  and 
to  that  business  and  to  his  official  duties  as 
coroner  of  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  he 
devotes  his  entire  time.  He  is  a  Republican 
and  was  elected  coroner  in  November,  1908, 
for  the  term  of  three  years.  Mr.  Bisbing  has 
a  partner,  Mark  Freeman,  the  firm  name  being 
Bisbing  &  Freeman.  In  December,  1908,  the 
Riverside  Business  Men's  Association  was 
forme<l  with  Mr.  Bisbing  as  one  of  the 
directors.  He  is  fond  of  out-door  sports  and 
is  treasurer  of  the  Riverside  Athletic  Associa- 
tion. He  is  a  member  of  Riverside  Lodge,  No. 
128,  Free  and  .-Xccepted  Masons:  Dakota 
Tribe,  No.  ill.  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men 
of  Camden;  Court  Delaware,  No.  592. 
Independent  Order  of  Foresters,  of  Florence ; 
Burlington  Lodge,  No.  996,  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks,  of  Burlington. 


The  Stecher  family  of  River- 
STECHER     side,  New  Jersey,  are  of  Ger- 
man origin,  and  belong  to  the 
incomers  of  the  middle  of  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury. 

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family,  was  born  in  Baden  Baden,  Germany, 
about  1825,  and  came  over  to  I'hiladelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1847.  He  died  in  Riverside, 
New  Jersey,  in  188S.  ITe  was  a  cabinet  maker 
by  trade,  and  served  his  apprenticeship  before 
he  emigrated.  After  coming  to  .America  he 
follcnved  tile  same  line  of  work,  and,  engaging 
in  the  lumber  business  in  Philadeljihia,  came 
to  Riverside  for  his  permanent  home  in  1854. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  was  a  contractor  and 
builder,  and  he  also  engaged  in  the  canning 
business,  building  the  first  canning  factory  and 
the  first  glass  works  in  the  town.  In  i860  he 
went  into  the  hotel  business  in  Riverside,  open- 
ing the  Riverside  Hotel,  now  conducted  by 
his  son  Rudolph,  and  continued  it  until  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  was  a  Republican,  and 
a  member  of  the  school  board.  He  was  also 
a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows  at  Bridgeborough.  He  was  a  com- 
municant of  the  Roman  Catholic  church.  In 
1847  'is  married  Paulina  Raupe,  at  Baden 
Baden.  She  is  now  living  at  the  Riverside 
Hotel.  Their  children  were  :  i.  Hatuiah,  mar- 
ried Charles  Sack,  of  Riverside.  2.  Child, 
died  young.  3.  Rudolph  F.,  jiroprietor  of  River- 
side Hotel,  Riverside.  4.  Mary,  married  Henry 
Frick,  a  farmer.  5.  Louise,  married  George 
\MTitney,  a  mail  agent,  of  Cape  May.  6.  Au- 
gust C...  who  is  referred  to  below.  7.  Frank, 
a  painter,  of  Riverside.  8.  Henry,  deceased. 
9.  Frederick,  deceased.  10.  \\'illiam,  who  con- 
ducts a  cigar  store  at  Riverside. 

(IT)  August  C,  son  of  Rudolph  and  Paul- 
ina (Raupe)  Stecher,  was  born  at  Riverside, 
New  Jersey,  September  16,  i860,  and  died 
there  June  29,  1908.  He  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools,  and  engaged  in  the  shoe  busi- 
ness, in  the  real  estate  and  insurance  business, 
and  in  the  pension  business.  He  served  as 
postmaster  under  President  Harrison  and  again 
under  President  McKinley,  1896,  and  filled  that 
position  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  a 
prominent  Republican  and  active  in  the  affairs 
of  his  party.  In  1894  he  was  a  member  of  the 
assembly,  and  also  served  on  town  and  state 
committees.  He  was  a  member  of  Lodge  Xo. 
996,  B.  P.  O.  E.,  of  Burlington,  and  a  founder 
of  the  Eureka  society.  He  was  a  communicant 
of  the  Roman  Catholic  church.  In  1884  Mr. 
Stecher  married  Matilda  Liusner,  born  May 
13,  1861,  daughter  of  August  and  Annie  Lius- 
ner, of  Westfield,  New  Jersey.  She  is  now 
living  at  Riverside.  Their  children  are:  i. 
Arthur  Franklin,  referred  to  below.  2.  So]ihia. 
died  aged  eighteen  years.  3.  Bertha.  4.  Charles, 
died  aged  fifteen  years.     3.  Mary.     6.  Henry. 


7.  August,  Jr.     8.   Naomi.     9.   (ieorge.     The 
last  five  are  all  at  school,  in  1909. 

(Ill)  Arthur  Franklin,  eldest  child  of  Au- 
gust C.  and  Matilda  (Liusner)  Stecher,  was 
born  at  Riverside,  New  Jersey,  June  27,  1885, 
and  is  now  living  in  Riverside.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools,  in  the  parochial 
school  of  St.  Peter's,  and  at  a  business  college, 
and  has  been  engaged  in  the  newspaper  busi- 
ness for  most  of  his  life,  having  been  con- 
nected with  the  Burlington  Enterprise,  the 
Philadelphia  North  Aun-rican,  the  Philadelphia 
Inquirer,  the  Philadelphia  Public  Ledger,  the 
Trenton  Times,  and  Piiblieity  Press,  and  still 
corresponds  for  most  of  them.  Lie  has  been 
identified  with  the  Trenton  Times  for  eleven 
years.  \\'hen  his  father  died  he  was  appointed 
acting  postmaster,  and  in  August,  1908,  he 
received  his  permanent  appointment  to  that 
position  to  succeed  his  father,  for  four  years 
beginning  December  16,  1908,  under  President 
Roosevelt.  He  is  the  youngest  second  class 
postmaster  in  the  state.  He  is  a  Republican,  a 
member  of  the  Lodge,  Xo.  996,  B.  P.  O.  E.,  of 
Burlington  ;  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  of 
Riverside ;  of  St.  Peter's  Benevolent  Society, 
of  Riverside,  and  an  honorary  member  of  the 
Firemen's  Association,  of  Riverside,  and  the 
Musical  and  Literary  Society.  He  is  a  com- 
miuiicant  of  St.  Peter's  Roman  Catholic 
Church. 

Wolfret  (jerretse,  the  common 
M.VRTER      ancestor  of  the  \'an  Couwer- 

hovens.  with  his  wife  Neiltje. 
immigrated  with  his  family  from  the  province 
of  L'trecht  in  the  Netherlands,  was  employed 
first  as  early  as  1630  as  superintendent  of 
farms  by  the  Patroon  of  Rensselaerswick. 
afterwards  cultivated  a  farm  on  Manhattan 
Island,  purchased  land  in  June.  1637,  from  the 
Indians  in  Flatbush  and  Flatlands.  Long 
Island,  which  were  patented  to  him  by  Director 
\'an  Twiller,  June  16.  1637.  He  made  his 
mark  to  documents.  Children:  Gerret  Wol- 
fertse.  1610;  Jacob  W'olfertse,  and  Peter  Wol- 
fertse.  Jacob,  the  eldest  son  of  Wolfret,  came 
with  his  father  to  Xew  .Amsterdam,  in  1630, 
was  with  him  in  Rensselaerwick,  1641,  mar- 
ried Hester  Jansen,  and  (second)  September 
26.  1655,  Magdaleentje  Jacobuse  Bysen.  Was 
a  brewer  in  New  Amsterdam,  on  Pearl  street, 
traded  in  a  sloop  to  .Albany;  was  one  of  the 
nine  men  represeiiting  the  Xew  Netherlands, 
1647-40-50;  member  of  Dutch  church  of  New 
^'ork.  i6/t6.  Peter  and  Hester  Jansen  \'an 
C'ouwerhoven  had  children:      i.   Xepltjc,  bap- 


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tized  September  25.  1639,  married,  January  6, 
1662,  Cornelius  I'luvier.  2.  John  or  Johannes, 
of  New  York,  baptized  March  29,  1641  ;  mar- 
ried, April  II,  1664,  Saartje  I'Yans,  of  Haer- 
lem.  3.  Lysbeth,  1643.  4-  Acltje,  1645.  5- 
Petronelletje,  1648.  John,  born  May  29,  1641, 
was  a  member  of  General  Llisler's  council  in 
1684,  and  also  of  the  court  of  the  exchequer. 
He  had  Jacob,  1664;  Francis,  1666;  Hester, 
1669;  Lysbeth,  1671  ;  Jacomytje,  1673;  Johan- 
nes, 1677;  Maria,  1679;  Catelyntje,  1682,  and 
Peter,  if>83.  (Jf  these  children,  Hester,  bap- 
tized in  the  Reformed  Dutch  church  in  New 
York,  married,  in  February,  1688,  Johannes 
Martier,  of  New  York,  and  their  descendants 
are  said  to  have  resided  in  Gloucester  county. 
New  Jersey.  Bergen,  in  his  "Genealogies  of 
Long  Islantl"  says  that  the  Couwerhovens, 
after  the  conquest  of  New  York,  went  some 
to  the  Raritan  valley,  some  to  Monmouth 
county,  in  the  neighborhood  of  Middletown 
and  Freehold,  some  in  Burlington  county,  and 
some  to  Gloucester  county.  This  would  lead 
us  to  place  Hester  and  her  husband,  Johannes 
Martier,  with  these  migrants,  as  his  name  does 
not  a])pear  in  the  New  York  records  beyond 
this  mention.  In  the  list  of  Jerseymcn  in  the 
revolutionary  war  we  find  Andrew  Mart  from 
( iloucester  county,  as  a  private  in  the  state 
troops ;  and  James  Martero  in  the  Second 
Regiment,  Continental  Troops,  Jersey  Line, 
but  as  the  name  is  so  like  Masters  when  writ- 
ten, the  Clement,  John  and  Stephen  in  the 
Jersey  line  may  one  or  more  be  misspelled. 
We  find  the  first  of  the  name  of  whom  we 
are  certain  in  Thomas  Marter  (q.  v.). 

(  1  )  Thomas  Marter  was  an  early  citizen  of 
W'illingborough  township,  where  he  was  a  large 
landholder.  He  was  born  probably  about  1740, 
and  his  name  appears  on  the  records  of  the 
building  of  the  Coopertown  Meeting  House 
about  1800,  as  a  subscriber  of  $25.00  toward 
meeting  the  expenses  of  the  building,  he  being 
among  the  largest  subscribers.  He  was  one 
of  the  si.x  trustees  to  whom  the  deed  for  the 
meeting  house  ground  was  given  in  trust  Au- 
gust, 1802.  Fie  died  a  few  years  after  this 
deed  was  given.  He  had  sons :  Michael,  Abra- 
ham. Thomas.  Richard,  whose  names  appear 
<in  the  subscri])tion  list  for  smaller  sums. 
Michael,  $10:  Thomas,  $5;  Richard  and  .Abra- 
ham, .S5 ;  and  the  three  an  additional  $1.50 
each,  when  the  sum  raised  ap()earcd  to  be 
inadequate.  In  1806  the  meeting  house  was 
completed. 

(II)  .Abraham,  apparently  the  second  son 
of  Thomas  Marter,  was  born  in  Willingborough 


township,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
about  1770.  He  was  a  trustee,  committee- 
man and  treasurer  of  the  Coopertown  Meet- 
ing when  the  meeting  house  was  enlarged, 
used  exclusively  by  the  Friends,  and  the 
burden  of  the  repairs  borne  entirely  by 
that  society.  The  building  had  heretofore  been 
used  by  all  denominations  caring  to  use  it.  In 
the  subscription  list  of  1836  he  heads  the  list 
with  $10,  his  son  Charles  with  $10,  and  the 
names  of  Thomas  (2),  Richard,  Hannah,  Will- 
iam and  Lewis.  We  have  not  determined  the 
date  of  the  death  of  Abraham  Marter. 

(  HI )  Charles,  probably  eldest  son  of  Abra- 
ham Alarter,  was  born  in  Burlington  township, 
Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  about  1800. 
He  was  a  large  landholder,  and  he  lived  on 
what  is  now  known  as  Wood  Lane,  a  road 
leading  from  Edgewater  Park  to  the  Camden 
and  Burlington  road.  His  estate  includetl  over 
seven  hundred  acres  of  land,  and  besides  farm- 
ing he  was  an  extensive  fruit  grower,  and  his 
apples  and  peaches  were  well  known  in  the 
markets.  His  interest  in  the  Coopertown  Meet- 
ing is  shown  by  his  subscription  to  the  enlarg- 
ing of  the  Coopertown  Meeting  House  in  1836, 
when  he  and  his  brother  .Abraham  each  sub- 
scribed $10.00.  He  married  Hannah  Steven- 
son, and  they  had  nine  children  as  follows:  i. 
Thomas  A.  2.  Charles.  3.  John  W.  4.  Edwin 
K.,  lives  at  Edgewater  Park,  New  Jersey.  5. 
Macajah  S.,  lives  at  Beverly.  6.  Ezra  B.  (q. 
v.).  7.  Flope,  married  John  H.  Adams,  of 
Beverly.  8.  Hannah.  9.  Eliza,  married  .Abram 
Perkins,  and  became  the  mother  of  the  Rev. 
C.  M.  Perkins,  rector  of  Trinity  Church,  of 
\'ineland.  New  Jersey. 

( I\' )  Ezra  Budd,  si.xth  son  of  Charles  and 
Hannah  (Stevenson)  Marter,  was  born  in 
I'urlington  township,  Burlington  county.  New 
Jersey,  1829,  died  there  Jamiary  2"],  1902.  Fie 
was  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm,  attended 
the  district  school,  and  became  a  skillful  and 
prosperous  farmer.  During  the  civil  war  he 
dealt  e.xtensively  in  pork  packing,  and  he  pur- 
chased large  rjuantities  of  hogs,  either  on  the 
hoof  or  dressed,  and  found  ready  market  for 
both  salt  pcirk  and  salted  and  dried  bacon, 
shoulders  and  hams,  for  the  use  of  the  army 
in  the  field.  He  built  a  fine  residence  which 
became  the  home  of  his  son  Ezra  Budd  (2"). 
I  le  was  an  active  member  of  the  Republican 
party,  and  was  a  representative  from  Beverly 
township  in  the  state  legislature  for  two  terms, 
and  a  chosen  freeholder  for  many  terms.  His 
fraternal  affiliation  was  with  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd   Fellows  through   the   Beverly 


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Lodge.  Ezra  Budd  married  Sarah  Ellen, 
daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Rodman) 
Shedaker,  and  they  had  live  children  born  in 
Burlington,  New  Jersey,  as  follows:  i.  Emma, 
died  in  infancy.  2.  John,  died  in  early  child- 
hood. 3.  Hannah,  married  Ellis  W.  Scott,  of 
Burlington ;  he  is  a  farmer.  4.  Ezra  Budd 
(c|.  v.).  5.  Walter  S.,  now  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  W'ilmington  Steamboat  Company, 
and  a  resident  of  I'.urlington,  New  Jersey. 

(V)  Ezra  Budd  (2),  second  son  and  fourth 
child  of  Ezra  Budd  (i)  and  Sarah  Ellen 
(Shedaker)  Marter,  was  born  in  Burlington, 
New  Jersey,  January  31,  i860.  He  was  brought 
up  on  his  father's  farm,  and  was  a  pupil  in  the 
.Shedaker  school  in  Burlington  township  and 
in  the  jniblic  high  schot)!  in  Burlington,  and 
continued  to  aid  his  father  in  carrying  on  his 
large  farming  interests  until  he  had  reached 
his  majority,  when  he  took  the  homestead  farm 
under  his  own  control  and  continued  the 
methods  aind  improvements  introduced  by  his 
father,  notably  the  raising  of  large  quantities 
of  fruit,  making  this  a  specialty.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  township  committee  for  five 
years  previous  to  the  separation  of  the  city 
and  townshi])  governments.  His  fraternal 
affiliations  included  membership  in  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  through  Bur- 
lington Lodge,  No.  22 ;  and  membership  in 
the  I'.enevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks 
through  sub-lodge,  No.  996,  of  Burlington, 
New  Jersey. 

He  married,  March,  1888,  Anne,  daughter 
of  Edward  and  Frances  (Ellis)  Horner,  of 
Camden,  and  their  five  children  were  born  in 
Burlington,  New  Jersey,  as  follows:  i.  John 
Deacon,  December  25,  1888,  and  a  main  de- 
pendence of  his  father  on  the  farm.  2.  Fannie 
H.,  May  19,  1890.  3.  Sarah  E.,  December  11. 
1891.  4.  Caleb  Ridgeway,  April  24,  1893.  5. 
Agnes  Pieideman,  June  14,  1900.  In  1909  these 
children  were  all  members  of  the  homestead 
household,  where  they  were  born. 


Warren  Carleton  Pine,  pharmacist 
PINE  of  Riverside,  New  Jersey,  descends 
from  an  old  Gloucester  county. 
New  Jersey,  family.  His  great-grandfather, 
Daniel  Pine,  was  l)orn  in  that  county,  mar- 
ried, and  reared  a  family  there.  The  family 
have  always  been  members  of  the  Hicksite 
.Society  of  Friends. 

(II)  Joshua,  son  of  Daniel  Pine,  was  born 
in  Gloucester  county.  New  Jer.sey,  where  he 
grew  up  and  followed  the  occupation  of  a 
farmer.      Later  in  life  he  removed  to  Marv- 


land,  where  he  died.   He  married  Mary , 

and  had  issue :  .\llen,  Elizabeth,  Samuel,  Clay- 
ton, Benjamin,  Elwood  (see  forward).  Eliza- 
beth married  Charles  Roberts,  of  Philadelphia, 
who  is  now  deceased. 

(HI)  Elwood,  son  of  Joshua  and  Alary 
Pine,  was  born  in  Repaupo,  Gloucester  county. 
New  Jersey,  during  the  year  1839,  and  died 
in  Maryland,  in  1893.  He  removed  ti)  Mary- 
land with  his  father  and  family,  and  always 
lived  there  until  his  death.  He  was  possessed 
of  a  good  education  and  held  various  township 
offices.  He  was  a  Republican  and  a  member 
of  the  Society  of  Friends.  Elwood  Pine  mar- 
ried, in  1858,  tiannah  Allen,  born  in  1840, 
(laughter  of  Richard  and  Ann  Allen,  of  Mullica 
Hill,  (Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey.  The 
two  children  of  Air.  and  Airs.  Elwood  Pine 
are:  i.  Alary  Ann,  married  Lewis  AI.  Shuck, 
a  merchant  of  Swedesboro,  New  Jersey,  and 
has  Walter  and  Howard  Shuck.  2.  Warren 
Carleton. 

(I\'j  Warren  Carleton,  only  son  of  Elwood 
and  Hannah  (.-Mien  )  Pine,  was  born  in  Alickle- 
ton,  Cjloucester  county.  New  Jersey,  February 
I,  1866.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  at  the  Friends'  .\cademy  in  Alickle- 
ton.  His  early  life  was  spent  on  the  farm  and 
in  a  newspaper  office  in  Woodbury,  where  he 
worked  for  three  years.  Having  decided  to 
become  a  pharmacist,  he  entered  the  drug 
store  of  D.  Farley  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  he  remained  five  years.  Going 
before  the  Pennsylvania  state  board  of  exam- 
iners he  passed  a  successful  examination  as 
he  (lid  later  before  the  New  Jersey  board.  He 
is  a  registered  pharmacist  in  both  states.  In 
1894  he  located  in  Riverside,  Burlington  county. 
New  Jersey,  and  established  a  drug  store.  Air. 
Pine  has  been  very  successful  in  his  business 
and  has  been  compelled  to  make  changes  to 
larger  (|uarters  until  now  he  has  a  lucrative 
business  located  in  perhaps  as  handsome  a 
store  as  can  be  found  in  any  town  of  the  state. 
Air.  Pine,  while  devoted  to  his  business,  takes 
an  active  interest  in  the  public  affairs  of  his 
own  town,  particularly  in  educational  matters. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Riverside  board  of 
education  and  on  the  executive  committee  of 
the  Piurlington  county  board  of  education.  He 
was  one  of  the  incorporators  and  is  a  director 
of  the  Riverside  National  Bank.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  both  the  New  Jersey  and  American 
Pharmaceutical  associations  and  the  National 
Association  of  Retail  Druggists.  Air.  Pine  is 
fraternally  connected  with  the  leading  orders 
of  his  town.     He  is  a  Alaster  Mason  of  River- 


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side  Lodge,  a  Royal  Arch  Mason  of  Boudinot 
Chapter,  BurHiigtoii,  a  Knight  Templar  nf 
Helena  Comniandery,  a  Shriner  of  Lulu  Tem- 
ple, Philadelphia,  and  a  thirty-second  degree 
Scottish  Rite  Mason  of  the  New  Jersey  Con- 
sistory. Me  further  affiliates  with  the  Elks 
Lodge  of  Burlington,  the  Odd  Fellows  of 
Bridgeboro,  anil  the  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of 
America,  Delanco.  He  is  also  a  life  member 
of  the  Riverside  Turngemeinde  and  Maen- 
nerchor  societies.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends. 

Warren  C.  Pine  married,  September  2,  1S93, 
Ida  Birch,  daughter  of  George  \V.  and  Cath- 
erine Birch,  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 
They  have  a  son,  Lynnwood  Carleton  Pine, 
born  June  19,  1S95. 


The  name  of  Torrie  or  Torrey 
TORREY     has    been    associated    with    the 

history  of  the  inhabitants  of 
New  England  from  early  times.  There  have 
been  noted  educators  and  other  professional 
men  in  this  family,  as  well  as  persons  in  other 
occupations.  Many  of  the  name  took  part  in 
the  revolutionary  war,  several  of  them  being 
officers. 

(I)  Jesse  Torrey,  born  in  Pittsfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, is  mentioned  in  revolutionary  records 
as  "belonging  to  Captain  Amos  Turner's  Com- 
pany, in  the  Regiment  of  Foot,  commanded  by 
Brigadier  General  John  Thomas,  belonging  to 
the  Army  of  the  United  Colonies."  By  his  first 
wife  he  had  three  children,  as  follows :  Royal ; 
Dr.  Jesse,  a  noted  .Abolitionist,  and  .A-nna,  who 
became  Mrs.  Cha])man.     He  married  (second) 

Azubah    West,    by    whom    he    had    two    sons, 
I  liram  Dwight  and  John. 

(II)  Hiram  Dwight,  son  of  Jesse  and 
.'\zubah  (West)  Torrey,  was  born  June  24, 
1820,  at  New  Lebanon,  New  York,  and  died  in 
1901.  He  received  a  good  education,  being  a 
graduate  of  VYilliams  College,  and  his  natiu'al 
ability  and  desire  was  along  the  lines  of  poetry 
and  painting.  At  the  age  of  twenty-five  Mr.  Tor- 
rey left  home  and  spent  some  time  on  the 
staff  of  a  prominent  newspaper  published  at 
I'ottsville,  Pennsylvania,  and  later  took  up  the 
study  of  engineering  and  architecture.  He 
liad  a  natural  talent  for  the  making  of  jiortraits, 
and  some  of  his  early  efforts  received  such 
favorable  comment  that  he  was  fortunate  enough 
to  become  a  pupil  of  a  famous  portrait  painter, 
and  tiierc  learned  so  much,  both  of  technique 
and  the  language  of  his  art,  that  he  became  a 
lecturer  on  the  subject:  while  delivering  a  lec- 
ture on  art    in   a  church,   he  was  heard  by  a 


member  of  the  faculty  of  the  female  seminary 
at  Washington,  Pennsylvania,  and  as  a  result 
thereof  finally  became  professor  of  painting 
and  drawing  at  the  institution,  which  position 
he  held  ten  years.  He  then  spent  a  short  time 
at  Alilwaukee,  Wisconsin,  after  which  he  re- 
moved to  Reading,  Pennsylvania,  where  he 
met  with  great  success  in  his  chosen  field  of 
art.  making  and  selling  portraits,  as  well  as 
a  lunnber  of  landscapes.  While  in  that  city  he 
became  leader  in  a  musical  society,  which  de- 
veloped into  the  Ringold  Band.  In  i8(>7  Mr. 
Torrey  went  to  Europe,  and  there  spent  thir- 
teen years  in  study  and  work ;  he  spent  some 
time  in  Scotland^  and  while  there  painted 
portraits  of  many  famous  men,  among  them 
professors  in  universities,  doctors  of  divinity, 
men  in  public  office,  literary  men  and  several 
private  citizens  of  wealth.  He  also  painted 
many  fine  landscapes,  both  for  Scotch  and 
American  patrons.  He  visited  many  famous 
collections  of  pictures,  and  was  entertained  by 
several  noblemen  as  honored  guest  in  their 
castles.  Upon  his  return  he  took  up  his  resi- 
dence in  Delanco,  New  Jersey,  where  he  de- 
voted the  remainder  of  his  life  to  painting. 
Mr.  Torrey  took  great  interest  in  political 
matters,  was  a  Re]3ublican.  and  in  national 
camijaigns  made  speeches  in  all  parts  of  New 
Jersey  ;  at  one  time  he  held  a  debate  with  Henry 
George,  the  advocate  of  single  tax.  He  was 
an  Episcopalian  in  religious  views,  and  be- 
longed to  the  Knights  of  Malta,  also  to  the 
.\ncient  Free  and  .Accepted  Masons,  of  Potts- 
ville.  Pennsylvania.  He  married  (first)  Mary 
Woodward,  cousin  of  Chief  Justice  George 
Woodward,  of  Pennsylvania,  and  their  chil- 
dren were:  i.  Mary  Woodward,  married  Will- 
iam K.  Aloore,  deceased,  of  Delanco,  New 
Ytirk,  and  they  had  a  son,  William  K.,  de- 
ceased. 2.  William,  a  gold  miner,  lived  in  New 
Zealand.  Mr  Torrey  married  (second)  in 
1862,  Clara  \'.  Moore,  of  Philadeli)hia,  born  in 
1834.  daughter  of  James  P.uUers  and  Mary 
Clifford  (  Knowles  )  Moore,  and  they  had  two 
children:  1.  Hiram  Dwight.  2.  James  Moore, 
born  in  1871,  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  is  a  printer, 
and  resides  at  Delanco,  New  Jersey,  with  his 
brother:  he  married  Sarah  Hillney,  and  has 
one  son  James  and  one  daughter  Marlelaine. 

(Ill)  Hiram  Dwight  (2).  son  of  Hiram 
Dwight  (  I  )  and  Clara  \'.  (Moore)  Torrey, 
was  born  in  i86C),  at  Pottsville,  Pennsylvania. 
\\  hen  one  year  old  he  was  taken  by  his  par- 
ents to  Scotland,  and  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  Glasgow,  which  he  supplemented  on  his 
return    to   .America,    after    thirteen   vears,   hv 


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attending  the  schools  at  Delanco,  New  Jersey. 
He  learned  the  trade  of  printer  in  the  office 
of  the  Enterprise,  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey, 
later  becoming  foreman  of  the  press  room,  and 
he  worked  on  the  first  daily  issue  of  the  paper, 
in  1884.  Air.  Torrey  is  now  editor  and  pro- 
prietor of  the  Bitrlington  County  Press,  pub- 
lished weekly,  at  Riverside,  New  Jersey,  having 
brought  out  the  first  issue  Alarch  3,  1887  ;  from 
the  first  issue,  of  four  pages,  edited  and  i)rint- 
ed  in  a  single  room,  by  the  unaided  efforts  of 
its  enterprising  proprietor,  under  the  name 
of  The  N eii'  Jersey  Sand  Burr,  the  paper  has 
become  enlarged  to  an  eight-page  publication, 
occupying  a  modern  building,  and  each  issue 
the  product  of  a  plant  boasting  up-to-date 
machinery  in  the  way  of  presses,  folding  ma- 
chines, etc.  At  first  Air.  Torrey  was  in  part- 
nership with  John  H.  \\'eidmann,  who  financed 
the  undertaking,  though  he  did  none  of  the 
actual  work  of  issuing  the  paper,  and  after  his 
death  in  1890,  Mr.  Torrey  purchased  his  inter- 
est, being  now  sole  owner.  Though  a  Republi- 
can in  his  political  views,  Mr.  Torrey  makes 
the  ])aper  independent  in  politics,  and  through 
its  sheets  is  able  to  espouse  the  cause  of  every 
movement  on  foot  for  the  general  good  of  the 
communtiy.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Eire 
Company  of  Riverside,  of  the  State  Firemen's 
.\ssociation,  of  which  he  was  for  three  years 
vice-president,  and  a  trustee  of  the  Plremen's 
I  lome,  at  Roontown,  New  Jersey.  He  also 
belongs  to  the  Cirand  Fraternity,  to  the  Benev- 
olent and  IVotective  Order  of  Elks,  No.  996, 
of  iJurlington,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Pen  and 
Pencil  Club,  of  Philadelphia. 

Mr.  Torrey  married,  in  1888.  Julia  Walton 
Wells,  daughter  of  Isaiah  and  Elmira  (King) 
Wells,  of  Bridgeboro,  New  Jersey,  and  they 
have  no  children. 


This  name,  in  the  various  forms  of 
HOLT     Holt,     Hoult,     Holte,     and    many 

others,  has  been  for  centuries  com- 
mon in  England,  where  it  has  boasted  many 
ilistinguished  members.  Sir  John  Holt  was 
at  one  time  chief  justice  of  England.  In  our 
own  country  there  have  also  been  men  of  this 
name  who  have  taken  an  honorable  jiart  in  the 
building  up  of  its  resources,  and  some  of  the 
name  have  taken  part  in  every  war  since  the 
earliest  settlement. 

(I)  James  Holt  was  born  in  Lancashire, 
England,  and  died  in  1862,  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania.  In  his  native  country  he  re- 
ceived his  education  and  learned  the  trade  of 
silk  making,  which  he  followed  until  the  time 


of  his  emigration  to  .America,  in  1842.  His 
wife  and  children  followed  three  years  later. 
His  residence  was  Philadelphia,  and  for  many 
years  he  was  employed  as  traveling  salesman, 
in  the  line  of  perfumery  and  notions.  Mr. 
Holt  married  Hannah  Priestly,  of  England, 
and  their  children  were :  Alary,  Sarah,  John, 
James,  Samuel,  who  is  proprietor  of  a  store 
near  Davenport,  Iowa ;  William,  Betty. 

(II)  William,  fourth  son  of  James  and 
Hananh  (Priestly)  Holt,  was  born  July  26, 
1836,  in  Lancashire,  England,  antl  in  1845  was 
brought  by  his  mother  to  Philadelphia,  receiv- 
ing his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Dela- 
ware county,  Pennsylvania.  When  a  young 
man  he  worked  two  years  in  a  woolen  mill  at 
Derby  Creek.  Pennsylvania,  and  then  removed 
to  Philadelphia,  where  he  worked  in  a  pa])er 
bo.x  factory.  In  company  with  his  father  and 
brother  Samuel,  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
of  paper  boxes,  under  the  firm  name  of  James 
Holt  &  Sons,  which  firm  did  business  until  the 
death  of  James  Holt  in  1862,  when  the  business 
was  carried  on  by  the  sons.  At  the  outbreak 
of  the  civil  war,  Air.  Holt  enlisted  in  Com- 
I^any  D,  Twenty-third  Pennsylvania  Regiment, 
and  served  seventeen  months.  Having  been 
wounded  at  the  battle  of  Fair  Oaks,  he  spent 
seven  months  in  the  hospitals  at  Washington 
and  Philadelphia ;  he  was  mustered  out  Janu- 
ary 3,  1863.  At  this  time  he  resumed  the 
manufacture  of  paper  boxes,  in  Philadelphia, 
and  two  years  later  removed  to  Bristol,  Penn- 
sylvania, spending  two  years  there  in  the  em- 
ploy  of  John  Bardley.  In  1867  he  removed  to 
Alt.  Holly,  New  Jersey,  and  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  Semple  &  Sons,  manufacturers  of 
thread  and  made  paper  bo.xes  for  this  firm 
over  seventeen  years.  Mr.  Holt  established  a 
factory  for  himself,  at  Alt.  Holly,  in  the  same 
line  of  business,  in  1884,  and  continued  same 
until  18)9,  when  it  was  combined  with  the 
business  he  and  his  son  William  H.  had  estab- 
lished in  1897  at  Riverside,  New  Jersey,  under 
the  name  of  William  Holt  &  Son;  in  1899  Air. 
Holt  retired  from  active  business,  and  the 
plant  has  since  been  carried  on  by  the  son.  He 
is  a  Republican,  and  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
church.  He  married  (first)  in  1857  Sarah 
Noble,  by  whom  he  had  no  children.  He 
married  (second)  in  1864,  Elizabeth,  davighter 
of  Samuel  and  .Atlantic  Aliddleton,  who  be- 
came the  mother  of  his  five  children,  and  he 
married  (third)  Ruth  Ann  Alajor,  of  Mt. 
Holly.  His  children  were:  i.  Harry,  de- 
ceased. 2.  Samuel  AL,  a  printer,  resides  in 
Washington,    District    of    Columbia.      3.    .Atty 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


A.  riooz,  lives  at  Harrisburg,  Pennsj'ivania. 
4.  William  Henry.  5.  Clara  May,  died  in  in- 
fancy. 

(Ill)  William  Henry,  third  and  youngest 
son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Middleton) 
Holt,  was  born  Jnly  9,  1872,  at  Mt.  Holly,  New 
Jersey,  in  the  house  still  ocupied  by  his  father. 
He  received  his  education  in  the  schools  of 
his  native  town,  and  at  an  early  age  entered  the 
factory  of  his  father,  continuing  ever  since  in 
the  same  line  of  work.  He  entered  into  part- 
nership with  his  father  in  1897,  and  since  1899 
has  had  the  entire  charge  of  the  business ;  lie 
purchased  his  father's  interest  in  1907,  and 
since  then  has  been  sole  owner  and  proprietor, 
though  the  name  is  William  Holt  &  Son  Paper 
Box  Manufactory.  Since  1897  he  has  resided 
in  Delanco,  New  Jersey,  where  he  takes  a 
prominent  part  in  the  affairs  of  the  community, 
being  a  member  of  the  board  of  education  of 
Beverly  township.  He  is  a  Republican,  and 
attends  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  is  a 
member  of  Lodge,  No.  996,  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks,  of  Burlington,  New 
Jersey,  being  a  past  exalted  ruler,  and  in  1908 
was  sent  to  Texas  as  delegate  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  this  order.  He  has  been  successful 
in  his  business  ventures,  and  has  the  respect 
of  all  who  know  him,  and  a  large  circle  of 
friends. 

Mr.  Holt  married,  August  31,  1892,  Rena. 
daughter  of  John  Reeve,  of  Mt.  Holly,  New 
Jersey,  and  their  children  are:  i.  Raymond 
G.,  born  July  16,  1893,  at  Mt.  Holly.  2.  Emma 
D.,  October  10,  1895,  at  Mt.  Holly.  3.  William 
L.,  December  12,  1897,  at  Mt.  Holly. 


The   Taubel    family   is   another 
T.\LTBEL     of  the  group  forming  the  colony 
of  German  origin  which,  emi- 
grating to  this  country  in  the  middle  of  the 
nineteenth  century,  found  a  permanent  home 
for  themselves  in  Riverside,  New  Jersey. 

(  I )  The  father  of  the  founder  of  the  family 
lived  an<l  died  in  Germany,  where  he  left  five 
children :  Lewis,  William,  Charles,  referred 
to  below  :  Mar)-,  Catharine.  His  wife  died  in 
I^hiiadel])hia  at  the  advanced  aged  of  eighty- 
four  years. 

(H)  Charles  Taubel  was  born  in  Germany, 
in  1 82 1,  died  in  Riverside,  New  Jersey,  Sep- 
tember 6,  1905.  He  secured  a  common  school 
education  in  his  native  town,  and  then  learned 
the  shoemaking  trade.  He  came  to  this  country 
in  1848.  stn|i])ing  first  in  New  York  City,  then 
removing  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  remained 


for  several  years  working  at  his  trade.  In 
1855  he  came  to  Riverside,  New  Jersey,  where 
he  set  up  for  himself  as  a  shoemaker,  and  kept 
up  his  active  work  until  his  death.  He  was  a 
I  )emocrat,  a  member  of  the  school  board,  and 
a  member  of  the  Moravian  church.  In  1850 
he  married,  in  Philadelphia,  Cornelia  Clutt, 
born  in  Germany.  Their  children  were:  i. 
John,  born  in  Philadelphia,  now  living  in 
Riverside.  2.  Rosa.,  born  in  Philadelphia,  now 
living  in  Riverside.  3.  Lewis,  now  engaged  in 
business  in  Norristown.  4.  Henry,  referred 
to  below.  5.  George,  deceased.  6.  William, 
who  has  a  large  mill  in  Riverside  and  five 
mills  in  Pennsylvania.  7.  Mary,  deceased.  8. 
Kate,  married  a  Mr.  Schneider.  9.  Lizzie,  de- 
ceased. 10.  Hannah,  married  Mr.  Webber. 
II.  Sophia,  deceased.  Both  married  daughters 
lived  in  Riverside. 

(Ill)  Plenry,  son  of  Charles  and  Cornelia 
(Clutt)  Taubel,  was  born  in  Riverside,  New 
Jersey,  in  1858,  and  is  now  living  in  that  town. 
He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  and 
followed  farming  until  nineteen  years  old, 
when  he  went  to  Philadelphia  and  learned  the 
machinist's  trade,  working  in  a  machine  shop 
in  that  city  from  1879  to  1891,  when  he  re- 
turned to  Riverside  and  became  a  dyer  in  the 
hosiery  mills  of  his  brothers,  William  and 
Lewis,  in  the  original  plant  started  by  them  and 
now  occupied  by  himself.  He  remained  with 
his  brothers  as  boss  dyer  for  seventeen  years, 
quitting  on  February  i,  1908.  He  started  in 
to  manufacture  hosiery  on  his  own  account 
in  company  with  his  son  under  thf  firm  name 
of  Henry  Taubel  &  Son,  April  12,  1908.  Mr. 
Taubel  is  a  Democrat,  and  is  now  serving  his 
third  term  as  township  committeeman.  He 
has  also  served  for  twelve  years  on  the  board 
of  school  directors  and  is  still  a  member  of 
the  board.  For  fourteen  years  he  has  been 
one  of  the  directors  of  the  Riverside  cemetery, 
and  he  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  and  insti- 
tuted the  J.  O.  M.  in  Riverside  in  1894,  and  he 
is  a  trustee  of  the  order.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  several  German  licneficial  and  social 
organizations. 

In  1882  Henry  Taubel  married  Louisa  Koh- 
ler,  of  Philadelijhia ;  children:  I.  Gertrude, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  June,  1884;  married 
William  Wright,  now  in  the  newspaper  busi- 
ness in  Wildwood,  New  Jersey ;  they  have  one 
child,  (Jertrude.  2.  Charles,  born  in  Philadel- 
phia in  1886,  educated  in  the  Riverside  public 
schools,  spent  two  years  in  a  textile  school  in 
Philadelphia  and  is  now  with  his  father  in  the 


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firm  of  licnry  Taubel  &  Son.  He  is  an  expert 
(Iyer  and  has  entire  charge  of  that  branch  of 
the  \vori<.  He  married  Alary  Bergnekes,  of 
Delaiico.  and  they  have  one  daughter  Gertrude. 


This  is  an  old  Pennsylvania  name 
RUE  foimded  in  that  state  early  in  the 
eighteenth  century,  and  is  presumed 
to  have  gone  thither  from  New  Jersey.  Tradi- 
tion says  it  is  a  Huguenot  family,  tracing  back 
to  France.  Franz,  Jacc]ues  and  Abraham  Le 
Roy  came  to  New  Amsterdam  (now  New 
York)  from  Manheim,  in  the  Pfalz,  prior  to 
1680,  having  fled  to  the  Palatinate  from  France 
some  years  earlier.  The  descendants  of  Abra- 
ham, the  youngest  of  the  three  brothers,  are 
quite  numerous  in  Bucks  county,  whither  they 
migrated  from  New  Jersey  in  the  closing  years 
of  the  seventeenth  century.  The  name  was 
sjielled  La  Rue,  Larrew,  and  in  various  forms 
in  the  early  records,  but  eventually  assumed  its 
present  spelling.  The  Bucks  county  family  is 
not  nearly  related  to  or  associated  in  any  way 
with  that  of  Rue,  and  there  appears  no  points 
of  similarity.  The  descendants  of  Jacques 
(James)  Le  Roy,  who  settled  in  Bergen  county, 
New  Jersey,  and  on  Staten  Island,  spelled  the 
name  in  various  forms,  and  it  may  be  tliat  the 
Bucks  county  family  is  descended  from  them. 
The  first  record  of  the  name  Rue  is  the  grant 
of  two  hundred  acres  of  land  "above  the  Falls 
of  Delaware"  in  New  Jersey,  in  1699,  to  John 
Rue,  of  Staten  Island.  He  may  have  been  the 
father  or  grandfather  of  James. 

( I )  James  Rue  purchased  the  old  \'ansant 
farm  in  Bensalem  in  1718,  and  died  there  in 
December,  1759,  "advanced  in  years,"  leaving 
a  widow  Mary,  who  died  in  1769,  and  chil- 
dren :  Richard,  Matthew,  Samuel,  Joseph, 
Mary  (married  Timothy  Roberts  in  1735), 
Catherine  (married  James  Rankins  in  1744), 
Elizabeth  (married  Samuel  Yerkes  in  1743), 
Sarah  (married  James  Kidd). 

( II )  Matthew,  son  of  James  Rue,  purchased 
an  interest  in  the  Milford  Mills  (now  Hulme- 
ville),  and  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Middletown 
township,  Bucks  county,  in  1730,  and  lived 
there  until  his  death.  In  a  conveyance  to  his 
son  Lewis  in  1731,  no  wife  joins,  but  his  will 
mentions  wife,  Mary,  who  was  probably  a  sec- 
ond spouse,  and  a  sister  of  Benjamin  Towne 
who  married  his  eldest  daughter.  He  died  in 
1770.  leaving  an  ample  estate,  dividing  several 
hundred  acres  of  land  among  his  children,  and 
including  a  large  personal  property.  He  had 
five  children:  i.  Matthew,  the  eldest,  died 
before  his  father  leaving  two  sons,  Benjamin 


and  Lewis.  2.  Mary,  married  Thomas  Case,  of 
Trenton,  in  1734.  3.  Richard,  mentioned  be- 
low. 4.  Katharine,  married  Benjamin  Towne. 
5.  Lewis,  married,  in  1736,  Rachel  Vansant, 
and  died  in  1752,  leaving  six  children. 

(III)  Richard,  second  son  of  Matthew  Rue, 
inherited  from  his  father  a  farm  of  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  acres  in  Mitldletown  township 
and  spent  his  whole  life  in  that  township, 
where  he  died  in  1785  and  was  burietl  with  his 
father,  where  many  other  members  of  the 
family  of  later  generations  lie,  in  the  Rue 
graveyard,  on  the  farm  now  occupied  by  Rich- 
ard Rue,  near  Hulmeville.  He  married,  Jan- 
uary 6,  1735,  Jane  Van  Dyck.  He  seems  to 
have  married  a  second  time  late  in  life  as  he 
is  joined  in  making  deeds  in  1772  by  a  wife 
Elizabeth.  No  wife  seems  to  have  survived 
him.  Children ;  Anthony,  Elizabeth,  Lewis, 
Catherine,  (wife  of  Isaiah  Van  Home),  Rich- 
ard and  Matthew.  The  heirs  of  Richard  and 
Lewis  succeeded  to  the  homestead  which  was 
purcha.sed  by  these  two  in  1786. 

(IV)  Mathew  (2),  youngest  child  of  Rich- 
ard and  Jane  (Van  Dyck)  Rue.  was  a  minor 
in  1770,  when  he  was  mentioned  in  the  will  of 
his  grandfather,  Matthew  (i).  In  this  will 
he  received  a  negro  boy,  Charles,  provided  he 
lived  to  come  of  age  and  to  be  a  farmer.  At 
the  time  of  his  father's  death,  he  was  living 
on  a  small  farm  purchased  by  his  grandfather 
in  1765,  a  part  of  a  large  plantation  once 
owned  by  James  Rue  (I).  He  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  .Adam  and  Christiana  Weaver,  of 
Bensalem,  and  lived  at  different  periods  in 
Middletown,  Bensalem  and  Bristol  townships. 
This  farm  was  conveyed  to  him  by  his  broth- 
ers and  sisters,  and  at  the  death  of  his  father- 
in-law  in  1812,  forty  acres  of  land  in  Bristol 
was  devised  to  his  children,  to  remain  in  his 
possession  and  care  until  the  youngest  of  them 
should  arrive  of  age.  He  last  appears  on 
record  in  a  deed  to  his  son,  Adam,  for  a  part 
of  the  land  conveyed  to  him  by  his  brothers 
and  sisters  in  1786.  This  deed  bears  date 
April  I,  1822,  and  is  joined  by  his  wife,  Grace. 
Their  residence  was  then  in  Bristol  township. 
No  will  or  letters  of  administration  on  his  es- 
tate appear  in  the  probate  records  of  Bucks 
county.  Adam  Weaver,  the  father  of  his  first 
wife,  was  a  blacksmith  and  purchased  land  in 
Bensalem  in  1760.  He  subsequently  bought 
land  in  Middletown  of  Richard  Rue,  and 
owned  considerable  land  in  Bristol.  His 
daughter,  Mary,  wife  of  Matthew  (2)  Rue, 
was  not  living  when  his  will  was  made  Janu- 
ary   12,    1802.     Matthew    (2)    and   Mary   Rue 


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STATE    OF    NEW    lERSEV. 


had  children:  i.  Adam,  tlied  in  Bristol,  1849, 
leaving  two  sons  and  three  daughters.  2. 
Richard,  died  unmarried.  3.  Lewis,  men- 
tioned below.  4.  IJarsheba,  wife  of  Joshua 
Wriglit.     5.  Christiana.     6.  Elijah.     7.  Jacob. 

(V)  Lewis,  third  son  of  Matthew  (2)  and 
Mary  (Weaver)  Rue,  was  born  January  31, 
1788,  in  Middletovvn  township,  died  at  New- 
portville  in  Bristol  township,  August  9,  18O3. 
He  was  a  harness  maker  and  lived  all  his  life 
in  Bristol.  He  married  Aim,  daughter  of 
Stephen  Stackhouse,  born  January  30,  1797, 
died  December  2,  1868.  Children:  Edmund, 
Samuel  S.,  Elizabeth  (married  Charles  Wal- 
ton) of  Andalusa,  Bucks  county),  Henry  and 
Marv  Ann.  The  second  son  was  for  many 
years  an  undertaker  in  Bristol,  where  he  was 
succeeded  by  his  son,  Harvey. 

(\T)  Edmund,  eldest  son  of  Lewis  and 
Ann  (Stackhouse)  Rue,  was  born  October  23, 
1825,  in  Newportville  and  died  in  Burlington, 
New  Jersey,  September  26,  1897.  He  attended 
the  common  schools  of  his  native  town,  and 
learned  the  harness-makers'  trade  with  his 
father,  which  furnished  his  occupation  during 
most  of  his  life.  He  retired  from  active  busi- 
ness about  five  years  previous  to  his  death. 
In  March,  1865,  he  removed  to  Burlington, 
New  Jersey,  and  was  there  engaged  in  the 
harness  business  on  his  own  account  until  his 
retirement.  He  .was  a  Methodist  and  active 
in  church  work,  being  a  member  of  the  official 
board  and  treasurer  of  the  L'uion  street  Meth- 
odist Church  in  Piurlington  for  a  period  of 
thirty  years.  In  politics  he  was  a  consistent 
Republican.  He  married  Roxanna  S.  Allen, 
daughter  of  William  and  Eliza  (Gofcirth) 
i\llen,  born  October  16,  1825,  died  January  6, 
1909.  \\'illiam,  son  of  Israel  Allen,  was  born 
June  24,  1793.  Eliza,  daughter  of  William 
and  Isabella  Cioforth,  was  li(_)rn  December  31, 
1792,  died  October  28,  1829.  Children  of 
Edmund  and  Roxanna  S.  (Allen)  Rue:  Will- 
iam A.,  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-five  years; 
Eugene,  died  in  childhood  ;  Caleb  Taylor,  men- 
tioned below. 

(VII)  Caleb  Taylor,  only  surviving  child 
of  Edmund  and  Roxanna  S.  (.\llen)  Rue,  was 
born  June  20,  1859,  in  Newportville  and  grew 
up  in  I)Urlington  county,  New  Jersey,  whither 
the  family  removed  when  he  was  about  six 
years  old.  He  received  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  that  town  and  Burlington 
College,  a  military  institution.  Early  in  life, 
he  went  to  work  for  the  I'ennsylvairia  rail- 
road, on  Foiu-th  street,  Philadelphia,  in  the 
office  of  auditor  of  passenger  receipts,  and  re- 


mained there  two  years.  He  subsequently 
engaged  in  the  wool  business  with  Edward  A. 
Green  &  Company  of  Philadelphia,  and  for  the 
last  twelve  years  has  been  engaged  in  the 
trade  in  cotton  yarns  with  a  commission  house 
in  the  same  city.  For  seventeen  years  he 
traveled  through  the  country  from  the  east  to 
the  middle  west  and  is  now  city  salesman  for 
MuUer,  Riddle  &  Company,  located  at  206 
Chestnut  street  in  Philadelphia.  He  has  con- 
tinued as  a  resident  in  Burlington.  Mr.  Rue  has 
always  taken  an  active  interest  in  political 
matters,  acting  with  the  Republican  party, 
and  was  president  of  the  common  council  of 
Burlington  in  1894.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  convention  which  nominated  John  W. 
Griggs  for  governor  of  New  Jersey,  and  of 
that  which  chose  delegates  to  the  national  con- 
vention in  1908.  In  November,  1906,  he  was 
elected  mayor  of  Burlington  and  discharged 
the  duties  of  that  office  with  credit  to  himself 
and  to  the  satisfaction  of  his  constituency.  He 
is  a  member  of  Burlington  Lodge,  No.  32,  A. 
F.  and  ."X.  M. ;  of  Boudinot  Chapter,  No.  3, 
R.  .\.  M.:  and  Helena  Commandery,  No.  3, 
K.  T.  He  has  been  for  twenty  years  affiliated 
with  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and  is  a  member 
of  Lu  Lu  Temple,  Nobles  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine,  of  Philadelphia.  He  is  a  member  of 
Burlington  Lodge,  No.  22,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  of 
P.urlington,  and  of  Lodge  No.  996,  B.  P.  O.  E., 
of  the  same  place.  The  principles  of  fellow- 
ship and  charity  towards  mankind,  as  main- 
tained by  these  orders,  have  been  governing 
principles  in  the  conduct  of  Mr.  Rue's  life,  and 
lie  enjoys  the  esteem  and  regard  of  a  large 
number  of  people. 

He  married,  in  1893,  Mary  CoUom,  daughter 
of  I'llias  D.  and  Kate  (Love)  Collom,  of  I'hil- 
adelphia.  She  is  a  granddaughter  of  William 
Collom,  wdio  maintained  a  boarding  school 
many  years  ago  at  Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey, 
was  a  Baptist  clergyman,  and  served  a  term 
in  the  state  legislature.  He  also  filled  a  re- 
sponsible ])osition  under  President  Lincoln 
(luring;  the  civil  war. 


P>om  the  records  of  the  pro- 
STROUD     ceedings  of  the   English  house 

of  commons  we  learn  that  on 
Wednesday,  April  16,  1621,  Sir  \\'illiam 
Stroud  moved  that  "Tobacco  be  banished 
whollv  out  of  the  kingdom  and  that  it  may  not 
be  brought  in  from  any  part  nor  used  amongst 
us."  This  was  during  the  reign  of  King  James 
I.  and  shows  that  the  knight  was  even  then  im- 
bued with  the  s])irit  of  reform.     That  he  was 


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a  favorite  with  liis  constituents  is  proven  by 
the  fact  that  he  kept  his  seat  through  the  stir- 
ring days  of  the  reign  of  Charles  I. 

History  also  states  that  Pym,  Hampden, 
Hazelrigg,  Hollis,  and  Stroud,  all  members  of 
the  house  "bravely  resisted  this  king  in  his  un- 
just measures."  So  much  more  vehement 
were  they  than  the  others,  that  January  4, 
1642.  His  Majesty  "suddenly  appeared  in  the 
House  and  after  calling  the  names  of  these 
five  men,  accused  them  of  treason  and  de- 
manded that  they  be  given  up  to  him."  As 
is  well  known,  the  house  refused  to  do  any 
such  thing,  and  many  descendants  of  Sir  Will- 
iam Stroud  are  now  to  be  found  in  Great 
Britain,  especially  in  the  town  of  Stroud, 
county  Gloucester,  and  it  is  said  that  it  is 
from  among  his  grandchildren  that  the 
Strouds  of  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey  are 
descended.  The  crest  of  the  Stroud  family 
was:  Demi  lion  couped.  Motto:  Malo  mori 
(|uam  faedari.  meaning,  I  would  rather  die 
than  be  dishonored.  A  copy  of  the  same  can 
be  seen  in  the  Fairburn  Rook  of  Crests,  plate 
10-12. 

(1)  Thomas  Stroud,  founder  of  the  pres- 
ent branch  of  the  family,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land, September  30,  1758,  and  came  to  this 
country  when  he  was  yet  a  young  man,  set- 
tling in  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  where 
he  farmed  until  his  death,  Febniary  6,  1822. 
Thomas  .Stroud  married.  May  22,  1787,  Sarah 
Ho.xworth,  a  native  of  \'alley  Forge,  Ches- 
ter county,  Pennsylvania,  born  August  20, 
1767,  died  December  29,  1838.  Both  she  and 
her  husband  were  buried  in  Hephzibah,  the  old 
Chester  county  Baptist  graveyard.  Mrs. 
Stroud's  sister  Elizabeth  married  Benjamin 
Franklin  Hancock,  of  Philadelphia,  and  one 
of  their  two  children  was  General  Winfield 
Scott  Hancock  The  Floxworths  originally 
spelt  their  name  Hawkesworth,  and  members 
of  the  family  which  was  of  English  and  Welsh 
extraction  served  in  the  French  and  Indian 
wars,  in  the  revolution,  and  in  the  war  of 
1812.  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Hoxworth) 
Stroud  had  eleven  children:  i.  Margaret, 
born  February  14.  1788,  died  August  28,  181 1 ; 
married  James  Potts  and  moved  west.  2. 
Mary,  January  2,  1790,  married  Lewis  Windle, 
July  25,  1810,  and  had  twelve  children.  3. 
Peter,  referred  to  below.  4.  Thomas,  De- 
cember 28,  1794.  5.  Sarah,  April  11,  1797. 
6.  Israel.  April  8,  1799,  died  1880;  married 
Margaret  Gibson,  of  Chester  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania. 7.  Elizabeth,  August  i,  1801.  8.  Will- 
iam,   January    20,     1804,    married    Ann    M. 


Merves.  9.  Joshua,  January  22,  i&oCi,  married 
Hannah  W.  Merves,  and  died  November  i, 
1876.  10.  Eleanor,  July  6,  1808,  died  June  8. 
1878;  married  Isaac  Hinkson.  11.  Charlotte, 
October  8,  1810,  died  February  27,  1887;  mar- 
ried Samuel  Hinkson. 

(H)  Peter,  third  child  and  eldest  son  of 
Thomas  and  Sarah  (Hoxworth)  Stroud,  was 
born  in  Highland  township,  Chester  countv, 
Pennsylvania,  April  29,  1792,  died  there  March 
26,  1847,  after  an  illness  of  one  year.  He  was 
a  farmer.  He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Shields,  of  Chester 
county,  in  1821.  She  was  born  November  29, 
1795,  at  East  Fallowfield  township,  died  Sep- 
tember 22,  1865,  after  an  illness  of  ten  days 
from  a  carbuncle  on  the  back  of  her  neck.  The 
chililren  of  Peter  and  Margaret  (Shields) 
Stroud  were :  I  Jefferson  Mountford,  born 
November  4,  1819;  died  August  18,  1844; 
married  Ruth  Ann  Parke.  2.  Benjamin  Frank- 
lin, .\ugust  17,  1821  ;  died  April  8,  1870;  mar- 
ried Hannah  Ann  Fritz.  3.  Joseph  Cassius, 
referred  to  below.  4.  Thomas  Shields,  Octo- 
ber 16,  1825;  died  April  8,  i860;  unmarried. 
5.  David  Parke,  February  6,  1828;  died  Au- 
gust 8,  1861  ;  unmarried.  6.  Caleb  Hurford, 
July  20,  1830;  died  September  18,  1900;  mar- 
ried Louise  Harley.  7.  Joshua  Van  Horn, 
July  30.  1831  ;  died  September  27,  1831.  8. 
Elizabeth  Jane,  September  13,  1833;  died  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1907 ;  married  John  R.  McClellan.  9. 
Peter  \'an  Buren,  June  24,  1836;  a  practicing 
physician  at  Marlton,  New  Jersey;  he  read 
medicine  with  his  brother,  Dr.  Joseph  C. 
Stroud,  and  graduated  from  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  March  14,  1861.  10.  Lee  An- 
drews, January  5,  1839;  married  Emily  AL 
Snare;  he  died  very  suddenly,  November  13, 
1905. 

(HI)  Joseph  Cassius.  third  child  and  son  of 
Peter  and  Margaret  (Shields)  Stroud,  was 
born  near  Parksburg,  Chester  county,  Penn- 
.sylvania,  August  21,  1823;  died  May  23,  1890; 
he  was  buried  in  the  Colestown  cemetery,  near 
I\Ioorestown.  He  graduated  from  Marshall- 
town  Academy  in  1842,  worked  on  his  father's 
farm  and  then  learned  the  wheelwright's  trade, 
and  worked  at  that  until  1846.  He  then  studied 
medicine  under  Dr.  Andrew  W.  Murphy,  of 
Parkesburg.  until  1848,  when  he  entered  the 
Jefferson  Medical  College  in  Philadelphia, 
graduating  therefrom  March  6,  1851,  and  com- 
ing to  Moorestown,  New  Jersey,  in  September 
of  the  same  year  where  he  began  the  practice 
of  his  profession.  December  25,  1851,  Joseph 
Cassius    Stroud,    married     (first)     Elizabeth, 


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dauglitcr  of  J.  S.  Fletcher,  of  Philadelphia. 
SeiHember  9.  1852,  she  was  injured  by  the 
e.xplosion  of  a  coal  oil  lam]),  and  died  from  the 
effects  five  days  later ;  without  issue.  January 
15,  icS(;)2.  he  married  (second)  .-\nnie  .M.,  born  in 
I'hiladelphia.  February  19,  1840,  daughter  of 
George  and  Eliza  Dull,  of  Moorestown.  Their 
children  were:  I.  Franklin  (jilbert,  referred 
to  below.  2.  Lincoln  ( irant,  born  March  11, 
1865;  tiled  January  29,  1897;  unmarried.  3. 
Jose])h  Haines.  May  2"],  1867;  married  (first) 
October  29,  1892,  Ida  Green  of  Philadeli)hia, 
born  November  21,  187 1,  died  September  13, 
1893,  without  issue;  married  (second)  April 
22,  1896,  Abbie  Eldridge,  of  Cape  May,  who 
has  borne  him  two  children,  Paul  Eldridge, 
December  14,  1896,  and  Mildred,  February  26, 
1898. 

(  I\' )  Franklin  Gilbert,  eldest  child  of  Dr. 
Joseph  Cassius  and  .'\nnie  M.  (Dull)  Stroud, 
was  born  at  Moorestown,  New  Jersey,  C)cto- 
ber  30,  1862,  and  is  now  living  and  practicing 
the  profession  of  medicine  in  that  town.  He 
graduated  from  the  Giffin  Academy,  near 
Moorestown,  in  1881,  and  in  the  fall  of  the 
same  year  entered  the  Jefferson  Medical  Col- 
lege at  Philadelphia,  from  which  he  graduated 
April  2,  1885.  He  began  the  jiractice  of  his 
profession.  In  1886  he  decided  to  take  up  a 
specialty  of  the  diseases  of  the  throat  and  nose, 
and  removing  to  Camden,  New  Jersey,  he  was 
appointed  a  consulting  physician  in  that  de- 
partment of  the  Jefferson  Medical  College 
Hos])ital.  In  the  summer  of  1887  he  decided 
to  continue  his  studies  in  Europe,  and  in  con- 
se(|uence  he  spent  nine  months  in  the  general 
hos])itaIs  of  \'ienna,  Austria,  and  three  more 
in  the  hospitals  of  London,  Dublin,  I'aris, 
Brussels  and  Heidelberg.  On  his  return  he 
went  into  general  practice  with  his  father  in 
Moorestown  as  his  father's  health  was  then 
very  much  impaired.  Dr.  Stroud  is  very  active 
in  state,  county  and  township  affairs  and  also 
in  secret  society  matters.  He  is  and  always 
has  been  a  staunch  Republican.  He  has  served 
as  coroner  for  the  county,  on  the  board  of 
education,  on  the  board  of  health,  and  as  health 
insjiector.  Owing  to  his  carefulness  he  holds 
the  jiosition  of  medical  examiner  in  several 
large  life  insurance  companies.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  national,  state,  county  and  local 
medical  societies,  and  has  been  honored  by 
being  chosen  |)residcnt  more  than  once  in  most 
of  them.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  F.  and 
K.  M.  His  religious  belief  is  with  the  Baptist 
denomination. 

October  30,   1890.   Franklin  Gilbert  -Stroud 


married  Martha  Rudolph,  born  at  ^Lirlborough 
.New  Jersey,  March  4.  i8<')8,  daughter  of  Ed- 
mund and  Julia  Ann  (Stretch)  Shimp,  of 
Camden,  New  Jersey,  and  they  have  one  son, 
Frank  Edmund,  born  at  Moorestown,  Novem- 
ber 17,  1891,  in  the  same  room  of  the  same 
house  in  which  his  father  was  born 


The  New  Jersey  branch  of  the 
OSMOND     Osmond     family     was    trans- 

]ilanted  from  Bucks  county, 
Pennsylvania,  where  the  family  settled  at  an 
early  date.  The  first  of  the  family  of  record 
was  Isaac,  who  was  born  in  Bristol,  Bucks 
county ;  married  .A.nn  Hughes  and  had  issue. 

(  II )  John  Thomas,  son  of  Isaac  and  Ann 
(  Hughes)  Osmond,  was  born  in  Bristol,  Penn- 
sylvania, November  26,  1816;  died  August  28, 
1896.  His  education  was  received  in  the  com- 
mon school.  He  learned  the  trade  of  carriage 
])ainting  and  trimming,  at  which  he  was  em- 
jjloyed  as  a  journeyman  until  his  removal  to 
P)Ordentown,  New  Jersey,  where  he  engaged 
in  business  for  himself.  Retiring  from  busi- 
ness life,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  old  Cam- 
den &  .^mboy  railroad,  rising  with  rapid  strides 
to  the  responsible  position  of  train  despatchcr 
at  Bordentown,  the  headquarters  of  the  Camden 
&  .\mboy  railroad.  During  the  war  the  Camden 
&  Amboy  moved  large  bodies  of  troops  over 
their  lines  and  the  duty  of  handling  the  great 
number  of  e.xtra  trains  devolved  upon  Mr. 
Osmond.  .A.fter  the  leasing  of  the  Camden 
&  .Vmboy  by  the  Pennsylvania  railroad,  he  was 
retained  by  the  latter  company  and  appointed 
ticket  agent  at  Bordentown.  New  Jersey,  where 
he  remained  in  charge  until  within  a  few  years 
of  his  death.  His  political  faith  was  Demo- 
cratic, and  as  representative  of  that  party  he 
served  as  county  commissioner,  common  coun- 
cilman, and  in  many  local  positions.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  a 
trustee  and  class  leader.  He  married,  Decem- 
ber 30,  1837,  Lydia  McGill,  born  July  6,  1816, 
in  Lowelville,  C)hio,  died  May  17,  1900,  the 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Rebecca  Howell  Mc- 
Gill. Joseph  McGill  was  born  in  Scotland  or 
on  the  high  seas,  the  son  of  John  McGill,  who 
came  from  Scotland  to  America,  settling  in 
Ohio  with  his  wife  Nancy  (Howell)  McGill. 
Six  children  were  born  to  John  Thomas  and 
Lydia  (McCrill)  C)smond :  i.  Rebecca,  married 
James  \\'.  Rice,  of  Bordentown  ;  both  deceased. 
2.  Edward,  a  locomotive  engineer :  now  de- 
ceased ;  married  Elizabeth  Keen,  of  Columbus 
New  Jersey,  and  left  Charles,  Sarah,  Edward, 
Morgan  and  Blanche.  3.  Thomas,  a  locomotive 


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engineer;  resident  of  riiilaiielphia ;  married 
Mary,  daugiiter  of  Edgar  and  Annie  Wright, 
of  Bordcntown.  4.  George,  a  cigar  manu- 
facturer, of  Bordentown  ;  now  deceased  ;  mar- 
ried Abigail,  daughter  of  William  and  Sarah 
Atkinson,  of  Bordentown,  and  left  children, 
Joseph  D.,  Lydia  and  Clara.  5.  Joseph  Lott, 
see  forward.  6.  John  F.,  a  railroad  conductor; 
resident  of  Newark.  New  Jersey ;  married 
Ann  Evans,  of  Bristol,  Pennsylvania. 

(Ill)  Joseph  Lott,fifth  child  of  John  Thomas 
and  Lydia  (AIcGill)  Osmond,  was  born  in 
Bordentown,  New  Jersey,  December  29,  185 1. 
He  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  his  native 
town.  Jle  early  became  interested  in  his  father's 
business,  antl  having  learned  telegraphy  enter- 
ed the  employ  of  the  Camden  &  Amboy  rail- 
road in  Bordentown,  New  Jersey,  later  became 
train  despatcher  at  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  for 
the  Pennsylvania  railroad,  where  he  worked 
for  a  year,  then  until  1875  in  Jersey  City  and 
New  York.  Since  1875  h^  '^^s  been  in  Phila- 
delphia, and  for  the  past  thirty  years  has  been 
chief  operator  of  the  Philadelphia  office  of  the 
Pennsylvania  railroad.  During  his  thirty-five 
years'  service  in  Philadelphia,  j\Ir.  Osmond 
has  maintained  his  residence  in  Bordentown, 
where  he  is  actively  interested  in  the  business, 
religious  and  social  life  of  that  city.  He  is 
president  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  and  Improve- 
ment Association ;  director  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  ;  president  of  the  Citizen  Hook  and 
Ladder  Coni])any ;  member  of  the  Board  of 
Sewer  Commissioners;  member  of  Chosen 
Friends  Encampment,  No.  6,  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows ;  recorder  of  Good  In- 
tent Lodge,  No.  19,  Ancient  Order  United 
Workmen.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Presby- 
terian church  and  an  elder  of  the  Bordentow-n 
congregation  of  that  faith.  He  is  a  Democrat 
in  politics,  and  for  two  terms  represented  his 
ward  in  the  common  council. 

Mr.  Osmond  married,  November  14,  1876, 
Josephine  B.,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Sarah 
Ann  (Bowker)  Shreve,  of  Barnsboro,  New- 
Jersey.  Children:  i.  Carrie,  born  December 
26,  1877 :  married  Corbit  Strickland  Hoflr'man, 
of  Clarksboro,  New  Jersey,  a  lieutenant  in  the 
regular  L'nited  States  army.  First  Infantry,  at 
present  stationed  at  \'ancouver  Barracks,  state 
of  Washington ;  they  have  one  son,  Corbit 
Hoffman.  2.  Sarah  Shreve.  3.  Charles  Shreve, 
twin  of  Sarah,  born  June  24.  1874,  at  Borden- 
town, New  Jersey;  he  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Bordentown  and  Pearce's 
Business  College,  Philadelphia,  and  finishing 
at    the    Bordentown    Military    Institute;    he 


studied  architecture,  and  for  seven  years  was 
with  Furnace  Evans  &  Company,  of  I^hiladel- 
phia;  in  1905  he  entered  the  service  of  the 
International  ^Mercantile  Marine  Company  as 
passenger  agent  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
a  coimection  that  is  yet  unbroken;  he  has  at- 
tained high  rank  in  the  Masonic  order  in  his 
native  city;  he  is  worshipful  master  of  Mt. 
Moriah  Lodge,  No.  28,  PYee  and  Accepted 
•Masons ;  past  high  priest  of  Mt.  Moriah  Chap- 
ter, No.  26,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  and  past 
eminent  commander  of  Ivanhoe  Commandery, 
No.  26,  Knights  Templar;  he  is  a  noble  of  the 
Crescent  Temple,  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  ; 
he  is  a  member  of  Yepew  Boat  Club  and  Citi- 
zen Hook  and  Ladder  Company;  in  political 
belief  he  is  a  Republican.  Charles  S.  Osmond 
married,  October  4,  1907,  Ainiee  Evans,  daugh- 
ter of  James  and  Elizabeth  Robinson,  of  Bel- 
fast, Ireland;  now  resident  of  Trenton,  New 
Jersey. 

Like  many  others  of  the  okl 
COMFORT     pioneers  to  the  new  world  in 

search  of  a  place  where  they 
could  worship  God  according  to  their  own 
ideas  in  peace,  the  founder  of  the  Comfort 
family  had  to  seek  it  in  more  than  one  place. 
Consequently  pilgrim,  as  he  is  sometimes  called, 
would  seem  to  be  rather  his  proper  title  than 
pioneer. 

( I )  John  Comfort,  the  first  of  the  name 
about  which  anything  is  known,  came  over 
to  the  new  world  and  for  a  wliile  lived  in 
Flushing,  Long  Island,  but  having  either  be- 
fore or  after  his  arrival  in  America  adopted 
the  tenets  of  George  Fox  and  his  disciples,  he 
found  himself  so  out  of  sympathy  with  his 
surroundings  that  he  renK)ved  to  Bucks  county, 
Peinisylvania,  in  1 7 19,  and  the  following  year 
married  there  Mary,  daughter  of  Stejihen  and 
Sarah  (Baker)  Wilson.  Her  mother,  who  had 
married  Stephen  Wilson,  in  1692,  was  the 
daughter  of  Henry  and  Margaret  Baker,  who 
had  come  from  Derby,  county  Lancaster,  Eng- 
land, to  Bucks  county,  Peinisylvania,  bringing 
a  certificate  from  the  Ilardshaw  meeting  in 
1684.  The  two  children  of  John  and  Mary 
(Wilson)  Comfort  were:  i.  Stephen,  referred 
to  below.     2.  Robert. 

(II)  .Stei^hcn,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Wil- 
son) Comfort,  was  born  in  Bucks  county, 
Pennsylvania,  February  26,  1721 ;  died  Decem- 
ber II,  1800.  He  married,  in  1744,  Mercy, 
born  December  28.  1724,  daughter  of  Jeremiah 
Croasdale  and  Grace,  daughter  of  Robert 
Heaton  and  Grace,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 


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Grace  Pearson.  Jeremiah  Croasdale  was  the 
son  of  Ezra  and  Ann  (Peacock)  Croasdale. 
The  children  of  Stephen  and  JMercy  (Croas- 
dale) Comfort  were:  i.  John,  born  October 
5,  1745;  married,  1771,  Alary,  daughter  of 
John  Woolman,  and  died  in  February,  1820. 
2.  Ezra,  referred  to  below.  3.  Jeremiah,  born 
.\ugust  26,  1750,  of  whom  it  is  related  that 
having  passed  the  meeting  for  marriage  he 
had  a  "concern  on  his  mind"  which  prevented 
him  from  proceeding,  and  his  presentiment  was 
shortly  afterwards  verified  by  his  death.  4. 
Stephen.  Jr.,  born  February  26,  1753;  married, 
1776,  Sarah  Stephenson.  5.  Grace,  August  5, 
1755  ;  married  Jonathan  Stackhouse.  6.  Mercy, 
born  September  28,  1757  ;  married,  1787,  Aaron 
F'hilips.  7.  Moses,  born  April  4,  1760;  died 
.-\pril,  1838;  married,  1782,  Elizabeth  Mitchell. 
8.  Robert,  born  December  24,  1763;  died  June 
12,  1851  ;  lived  in  Knox  county,  Ohio,  and 
married,  1786,  Mary  Parry.  9.  Hannah,  born 
July  10,  1765. 

( III )  Ezra,  second  child  and  son  of  Stephen 
and  Mercy  (Croasdale)  Comfort,  was  born 
October  8,  1747;  died  January  15,  1820.  He 
married,  in  1776,  Alice  Fell.  One  of  their 
children  relates  in  regard  to  this  marriage  that 
"the  pig  would  have  been  killed  for  the  wed- 
ding only  that  it  got  out  the  night  before  and 
ran  away."  .Mice  (Fell)  Comfort  died  No- 
vember 6,  1840.  The  children  of  Ezra  and 
Alice  (Fell)  Comfort  were:  i.  and  2.  Eliza- 
beth and  Mercy,  twins,  born  November  12, 
1772.  3.  Cirace,  March  2,  1774.  4.  John,  Sep- 
tember 17,  1775.  5.  Ezra,  Jr.,  referred  to 
below.    6.  Alice,  February  23,  1779. 

(IV)  Ezra  (2),  fifth  child  and  second  son 
of  Ezra  (i)  and  Alice  (Fell)  Comfort,  was 
born  in  Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania, 
April  18,  1777;  died  Augiist  29,  1847.  He  was 
a  farmer,  a  speaker  in  Friends'  meeting  and 
very  active  in  everything  pertaining  to  the 
society.  He  married,  at  Qnakertown,  Peim- 
sylvania,  Margaret  Shoemaker,  who  died 
March  31,  1873,  at  the  age  of  ninety-one  years. 
Their  children  were:  i.  Sarah,  died  April  i, 
1884,  aged  eighty-three  years;  married  Hughes 
Bell,  of  Haddonfield,  New  Jersey.  2.  Jane, 
died  March  17,  1873,  aged  sixty-eight  years; 
married  Charles  Lippincott.  3.  Ann,  married 
Lsaac  Jones.  4.  John  S.  5.  Alice,  married 
George  I  laverstick.  6.  Jeremiah,  died  June 
27,  1887,  aged  seventy-one  years.  7.  David, 
referred  to  below.  8.  Margaret,  died  Septem- 
ber 8,  18 — ,  aged  forty-one  years;  married 
Henry  Warrington.  9.  Grace,  married  Charles 
Williams. 


(V)  David,  the  seventh  child  and  third  son 
of  Ezra  (2)  and  Margaret  (Shoemaker)  Com- 
fort, was  born  at  Norristown,  Pennsylvania, 
May  24,  1818;  died  November  12,  1899.  He 
was  educated  at  the  \\'esttown  boarding  school 
in  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  for  a 
time  engaged  in  farming  in  Norristown,  later 
coming  to  .Moorestown,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
l)iiught  a  farm  and  continued  his  occupation 
until  late  in  life.  He  was  a  Rejiublican,  and  a 
member  of  the  Orthodox  Friends,  being  one 
(if  the  overseers  and  sitting  at  the  head  of  the 
meeting  for  nearly  twenty  years.  He  married 
-Sarah  Ann,  born  August  14,  1822,  died  July, 
1888,  daughter  of  John  and  Ann  (Hall)  Bacon, 
of  Greenwich,  New  Jersey.  Their  children 
were:  i.  John,  who  is  in  business  at  Columbus, 
lUirlington  county;  a  director  in  the  Union 
I'lank  and  TrusL  Company,  of  Mt.  Holly;  he 
married  (first)  Sarah  .\.  Leech,  who  bore  him 
one  child,  Alary  R.,  who  married  Charles  Cars- 
lake,  and  has  three  children  :  William.  Edward 
and  Sarah;  he  married  (second)  Annie  C. 
Wright,  and  (third)  Elizabeth  Lippincott.  2. 
Alaurice  Bacon,  referred  to  below.  3.  Anna 
M.,  married  Howard  G.  Taylor,  a  farmer  of 
Riverton,  New  Jersey,  and  secretary  of  the 
Horticultural  Society,  and  has  two  children: 
Howard  G.  and  Alice  C. 

(\T)  Alaurice  Bacon,  second  child  and  son 
of  David  and  Sarah  Ann  (Bacon)  Comfort, 
was  born  at  Moorestown,  March  11,  1854,  and 
is  now  living  in  the  place  of  his  birth.  He  was 
educated  in  the  Aloorestov^'n  schools  and  West- 
town  boarding  school,  Chester  county,  Penn- 
'^ylvania,  and  has  ever  since  followed  farming, 
having  a  large  stock  farm  outside  of  the  town 
where  he  makes  a  specialty  of  boarding  horses 
for  city  persons  and  others.  He  has  served  as 
member  of  Burlington  county  committee,  and 
of  the  Chester  township  committee.  He  has 
also  served  as  a  delegate  to  many  state  and 
countv  conventions.  In  Alarch,  1898,  he  was 
appointed  by  President  Theodore  Roosevelt  as 
postmaster  of  Aloorestown,  and  he  has  devoted 
all  his  time  since  then  to  this  position  which  he 
still  holds.  He  is  an  Orthodox  Friend.  He 
married  (first)  Caroline  Hartman,  daughter 
of  lulward  Randolph  Alaule,  of  Aloorestown, 
who  died  July  28,  1899,  leaving  him  with  one 
child,  Edward  Alaule.  referred  to  below.  May, 
1908,  he  married  (second)  Catharine,  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  and  Catharine  T.  Shotwell,  of 
Philadelphia. 

(VII)  Edward  Maule,  only  child  of  Alaurice 
Bacon  and  Caroline  Plartman  (Maule)  Com- 
fort, was  born  in  Aloorestown,  July  i,   i^"" 


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He  was  educated  at  the  Moorestown  school 
and  graduated  from  the  Westtown  boarding 
school,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania.  He  is 
now  in  the  dry  goods  house  of  Watson  &  Com- 
pany, of  Philadelphia,  and  lives  with  his  father 
in  Moorestown. 


The  branch  of  the  Megargee 
MEGARGEE  family  that  settled  in  New- 
Jersey  descends  from  the 
Pennsylvania  family  of  that  name.  It  is  not 
possible  to  say  just  when  the  family  first  set- 
tled in  Pennsylvania.  The  records,  however, 
show  that  they  were  farmers  and  land  owners 
near  Philadeliihia  prior  to  the  year  1800. 
While  it  is  not  possible  to  clearly  show  the 
connection,  it  is  strongly  believed  that  the  New 
Jersey  branch  is  of  the  same  lineal  descent  as 
Jacob  Megargee,  and  the  Philadelphia  family 
descending  from  him. 

(I)  George  Megargee,  who  died  March  3, 
1835;  married,  at  .A.bington,  Pennsylvania, 
Sarah  Myers,  born  May  17,  1785,  died  Octo- 
ber 17,  1866.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Philip 
and  Mary  (Kaheen)  Myers,  who  were  mar- 
ried, November  19,  1778.  Qiildren  of  George 
and  Sarah  (Myers)  Alegargee:  i.  Deborah, 
born  May  4,  1805;  died  April  30,  1854;  she 
married  Hiram  Rice.     2.  George  D.,  October 

19,  1806.  3.  Kizia,  April  30,  1809:  died  Octo- 
ber 6,  1826.  4.  Myers,  February  3,  181 1  ;  died 
April  14,  1836.  5.  Albanus.  July  9,  1814.  6. 
Jane,  April  3,  1817;  died  July  31,  1818.  7. 
John  T.,  June  24,  1820;  died  November  25. 
1823.  8.  Amanda,  August  19,  1823;  died  Oc- 
tober 2,  1866.    9.  James  White,  see  forward. 

(H)  James  White,  youngest  son  and  child 
of  George  and  .Sarah  (Myers)  Megargee,  was 
born   in    Philadelphia,    Pennsylvania,   October 

20,  1829;  died  August  18,  1900.  His  father 
died  when  he  was  but  five  years  of  age,  and 
he  was  taken  into  the  home  of  Charles  Haines, 
who  resided  on  a  farm  near  Riverside,  New 
Jersey.  He  was  educated  in  the  town  schools, 
and  reared  to  the  life  of  a  farmer,  which  occu- 
pation he  followed  all  his  life.  He  became  a 
land  owner  and  cultivated  his  own  farm.  In 
his  later  days  he  was  a  member  of  the  house- 
hold of  his  son,  George  Elwood  Megargee, 
then  residing  on  a  farm,  near  Moorestown, 
New  Jersey.  James  W.  Megargee  was  a  Dem- 
ocrat and  held  fraternal  affiliations  with  the 
I.  O.  O.  F.  He  married  at  Moorestown,  New 
Jersey,  October  24,  1851,  Sarah  W.,  daughter 
of  Elwood  and  Alary  (Wright)  P.orton,  and 
granddaughter  of  Abram  Borton.  Nine  chil- 
dren were  born  to  James  W.  and  Sarah  W. 

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(Borton)  Alegargee:  i.  George  Elwood,  see 
forward.  2.  Flora  Virginia,  born  June  2,  1855  ; 
died  August  I,  1855.  3.  Anna  Alary,  January 
10.  1858.  4.  Margaretta  S.,  November  22, 
1859:  died  October  14,  1881.  5.  Edward  Royal, 
March  10,  1865,  married  Alary  Horner.  6. 
James  Harrison,  February  14,  1867;  died  Sep- 
tember 24,  1908;  he  married  Margaret  Carter, 
of  Camden,  New  Jersey,  and  has  Helen  and 
Sarah.  7.  Elizabeth  Borton,  May  27,  i8f)8; 
married  John  M.  Stow,  and  has  Margaretta 
and  (ieorge  Clifford  Stow.  8.  William  Clif- 
ford, January  14,  1875;  clied  February  19, 
1893.  9.  Ella  Borton,  Januarv  18,  1876;  mar- 
ried Leroy  Pickersgill,  D.  D.' S.,  of  Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania. 

(Ill)  George  Elwood,  eldest  son  and  child 
of  James  White  and  Sarah  W.  (Borton)  Me- 
gargee, was  born  near  Moorestown,  New 
Jersey.  He  was  educated  under  private  tuition 
and  at  Farnum  Preparatory  School,  Beverly, 
New  Jersey.  He  decided  upon  the  profession 
of  teaching  as  his  life  work  and  after  fitting 
himself  for  the  work  he  began  teaching  in  the 
district  schools.  He  is  a  well  known  and  valued 
instructor  who  has  earned  the  promotions  that 
have  come  to  him  through  his  earnest  and  de- 
voted eft'orts  to  better  school  conditions  and 
raise  the  standard  of  excellence  in  the  schools 
for  whose  welfare  he  was  responsible.  For 
eleven  years  he  was  a  teacher  in  the  Friends' 
high  school,  of  Moorestown,  going  from  there 
to  assume  the  duties  of  principal  of  the  Moores- 
town public  school.  He  later  was  made  super- 
vising principal  in  charge  of  all  the  schools  of 
Chester  township.  For  sixteen  years  he  has 
held  this  important  post  and  they  have  been 
years  fruitful  of  good  to  the  pupils  and  pat- 
rons of  the  schools.  Professor  Alegargee  had 
also  served  the  town  as  a  member  of  the  board 
of  education  of  Cinnaminson  township.  This 
has  not  been  through  the  favor  of  either  poli- 
tical party  as  he  is  extremely  independent  in 
politics.  He  is  a  member  and  vestryman  of  the 
Moorestown  Protestant  Episcopal  church.  He 
holds  fraternal  fellowship  in  the  I.  O.  O.  F. 
He  resides  on  a  fine  farm  outside  of  Moores- 
town and  in  his  "ofi^  duty"  hours  there  indulges 
in  his  inherited  love  of  the  soil.  Professor 
Megargee  is  unmarried. 


This  name  has  been  common  in 
REEDER     New  Jersey  since  the  beginning 

of  the  eigliteenth  century,  and 
the  members  of  the  family  have  been  promi- 
nent in  all  public  affairs.  Four  brothers,  Jacob, 
John,  Jeremiah  and  Joseph  Reeder,  appear  on 


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the  patent  uf  the  town  of  Newton,  Long  Island, 
in  i(i86,  and  the  history  of  that  town  states 
they  came  from  England  direct  to  this  place, 
altiiough  there  is  a  tradition  that  a  John  Reeder, 
who  lived  in  Salem,  Massachusetts,  in  1050, 
afterwards  removed  to  Newton.  Many  of  the 
family  removed  from  Newton  to  Ewing,  New 
Jersey,  in  1710,  and  since  that  time  the  name 
has  been  frequently  met  with  in  that  state. 

(I)  Thomas  H.  Reeder  was  born  May  15, 
1790:  died  September  15,  1857.  He  was  a 
carpenter  and  bridge  builder,  and  worked 
chietiv  in  the  vicinity  of  Lambertville,  New 
(ersey.  Mr.  Reeder  married  (first)  Anna, 
born  January  9,  1794,  died  May  25,  1838, 
daughter  of  \\'illiam  and  Sarah  Wilson ;  Will- 
iam Wilson  was  born  March  15,  1756,  died 
October  13,  1812;  Thomas  H.  and  Anna 
Reeder  had  seven  children:  i.  William  W., 
born  September  25,  181 5.  2.  Charles,  August 
2,  1817.  3.  Thomas  H.,  Jr.,  August  18,  1819. 
4.  John,  January  27,  1822.  5.  Joseph,  March 
24,  1823.  6.  Sarah  Ann,  October  9,  1825.  7. 
Elizabeth,  January  31,  1830.  He  married  (sec- 
ond )  Rosanna  Smith,  by  whom  he  had  two 
children:  8.  John  Wesley,  October  28,  1847; 
lives  at  Jenkintown,  near  Philadelphia.  9.  Ed- 
ward B.,  February  16,  1852;  resides  in  Phila- 
delphia. 

(II)  Joseph,  son  of  Thomas  H.  and  Anna 
(Wilson)  Reeder,  was  born  March  24,  1823, 
at  Lambertville,  New  Jersey;  died  January 
14,  1886.  When  a  boy  he  engaged  to  work 
for  twenty-four  dollars  a  year,  and  went  to 
school  winters  only.  Later  he  removed  to 
Trenton,  New  Jersey,  where  he  learned  marble 
cutting.  He  had  charge  of  a  business  in  New 
York,  established  himself  in  business  in  Flem- 
ington.  New  Jersey,  and  also  engaged  in  busi- 
ness m  the  same  line  on  his  own  account  in 
Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey.  Later  he  removed  to 
Duck  Island,  where  he  began  raising  tobacco. 
He  was  a  pioneer  in  the  sand  business,  at 
White  Hill  engaged  in  procuring  sand  for 
building  purposes,  and  later  had  dredges  on  the 
river  for  raising  sand ;  he  continued  this  lucra- 
tive business  until  his  death,  a  period  of  many 
years.  He  was  president  of  a  dredging  com- 
pany at  the  time  of  his  death,  and  had  also 
been  for  some  time  superintendent  for  the 
Knickerbocker  Ice  Company.  Mr.  Reeder  was 
a  Republican  in  his  views,  but  took  no  very 
active  part  in  political  affairs,  and  in  his  relig- 
ious opinions  was  very  liberal.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  .\merican  Mechanics.  He  mar- 
ried Catherine,  daughter  of  Truman  and  Lucy 
Sweet,  of  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  and  they  had 


nine  children,  the  first  two  of  whom  died  in 
infancy.  Those  who  arrived  to  years  of 
maturity  were:  I.  Josephine,  married  James 
Harris.  2.  Lucy  Ann,  married  Samuel  H. 
Russell.  3.  Horace  Greeley,  referred  to  below. 
4.  Clara  E.,  married  Harry  Carter,  of  Newark, 
New  Jersey.  5.  Alice,  married  Theodore  Car- 
ter. 6.  Lillie,  married  William  H.  West,  of 
Newark.  7.  Thomas  A.,  steamboat  captain : 
resides  at  White  Hill,  New  Jersey. 

(Ill)  Horace  Greeley,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Catherine  (Sweet)  Reeder,  was  born  October 
31,  1853,  at  Mount  Holly,  New  Jersey.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Fieldsboro 
and  at  Haas  School,  now  the  site  of  the  mili- 
tary school.  When  a  young  man  he  learned 
the  trade  of  machinist  with  Thompson  &  Mott. 
at  Wliite  Hill,  serving  three  years,  and  then 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Knickerbocker  Ice 
Company,  locating  machines  and  tilling  ice 
plants.  In  1881  he  was  employed  by  the  dredg- 
ing company  with  which  his  father  was  con- 
nected, and  by  his  diligence  and  zeal  worked 
his  way  up  until  he  was  the  owner ;  he  is  now 
manager,  superintendent  and  director  of  the 
Delaware  River  Sand  Dredging  Company,  in 
which  he  owns  most  of  the  stock.  He  is  also 
the  owner  of  boats  by  which  sand  is  trans- 
ported to  Philadelphia  for  building  purposes. 
He  often  receives  commissions  from  the  United 
States  government  for  dredging,  planting 
buoys,  etc.  Mr.  Reeder  is  thorough  master 
of  all  the  details  of  the  business  in  which  he 
is  engaged,  and  has  made  a  thorough  study  of 
the  machinery  and  methods  of  dredging.  In 
1886  he  invented  a  labor  saving  device  to  use 
on  dredges,  namely :  a  dredge  machine  distrib- 
utor, and  was  the  first  to  use  a  belt  instead  of 
cogs  on  the  machine.  As  a  member  of  the 
-Atlantic  Deeper  Waterways  Association,  whose 
offices  are  in  the  Crozer  building,  Philadel]ihia, 
Pennsylvania,  and  whose  object  is  the  dcvelo])- 
ment  of  Interior  Waterways  along  the  Atlantic 
Coast,  Mr.  Reeder  was  one  of  a  party  of  seven 
appointed  in  May,  1909,  to  inspect  the  Dela- 
ware and  Raritan  Canal;  the  other  members  of 
the  party  were  Messrs.  Moore,  Atkin,  Wanger, 
Donnelly  and  r)Urk.  The  purpose  of  the  trip 
was  to  obtain  information  at  first  hand,  and  by 
observation,  of  present  canal  conditions,  as 
well  as  to  obtain  photographs  illustrating  the 
general  subject.  No  great  use  is  made  of  the 
Delaware  and  Raritan  Canal  at  present  for 
two  reasons,  first  because  the  canal,  built  more 
than  seventy  years  ago,  is  too  small  to  permit 
of  economical  shipments  in  the  present  day, 
and    seccind   because   its   management   for   the 


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last  thirty  years  has  been  directed  towards  a 
diversion  of  the  canal  business  to  the  parallel 
and  competing  railroads.  Mr.  Reeder  takes 
a  keen  interest  in  public  affairs  and  improve- 
ments, and  is  a  Republican  in  his  politica: 
views.  He  has  served  ten  years  as  a  member 
of  the  school  board,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
township  committee.  He  is  a  member  of 
Mount  Moriah  Lodge,  No.  28,  Ancient  Free 
and  .Accepted  Masons;  Mount  Moriah  Chapter, 
Xo.  20,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  of  Bordentown  ; 
Atlantic  Deeper  Waterways  Association,  and 
the  Yapiwi  Aquatic  Boat  Club.  He  is  liberal 
in  religious  views.  He  resides  at  Bordentown. 
Mr.  Reeder  married,  in  1876^  Alice  H., 
daughter  of  John  and  Maria  (Vail)  Harned, 
of  Yardville,  New  Jersey.  She  is  a  Friend  in 
religion  and  belongs  to  the  meeting  at  Cross- 
wicks.  New  Jersey.  Children:  i.  Horace 
Greeley,  Jr.,  born  October  24,  1876;  died  at 
the  age  of  ten  years.  2.  \\'alter  Lewis,  born 
September  16,  1879;  after  preliminary  edu- 
cation attended  high  school  and  business  col- 
lege, and  then  took  a  course  at  the  Scranton 
School  of  Correspondence ;  at  the  age  of  nine- 
teen he  took  charge  of  work  on  dredging  ma- 
chines, and  is  now  connected  with  dredging 
and  tug  boats,  being  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  Delaware  River  Sand  Dredging  Com- 
pany. 3.  Ralph  Howard,  born  May  3,  1883; 
attended  high  school  and  business  college ;  em- 
ployed by  the  New  York  Shipbuilding  Com- 
pany, and  now  has  charge  of  one  of  the  dredges 
on  the  river.  4.  Joseph  R.,  born  Octol>er  7, 
1880:  is  attending  Dre.xcl  Institute.  Philadel- 
phia. 5.  Grace  Ingersoll,  born  January  23, 
1888:  resides  at  home.  6.  John  Harned,  born 
January  23.  1891  ;  is  now  attending  Drexel 
Institute,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  Walter 
Lewis  and  Ralph  Howard  are  members  of 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  Royal 
Arch  Chapter,  and  Shrine. 


The  name  of  IJppincott 
LIPPINCOTT  is  one  of  the  oldest  of  the 
English  surnames  of  local 
origin,  having  been  traced  back  to  the  "Love- 
cote"  of  the  Domesday  Book  of  William  the 
Conqueror,  compiled  in  1080.  The  place  still 
bears  its  ancient  name  and  is  an  estate  lying 
near  Hinghampton,  Devonshire,  England.  Its 
earliest  known  derivative  occurs  in  the  name 
of  Roger  de  Lovecote,  who  is  recorded  in  the 
rolls  of  the  king's  court  of  the  time  of  King 
John,  1 195.  In  1274.  in  the  reign  of  Edward 
1,  the  names  of  Jordanus  de  Loginggetot  and 
Robertus  de  Lyvenscot  and  Thomas  de  Luf- 


kote  appear  in  the  Hundred  Rolls;  while  the 
manor  of  Luffincott,  now  in  the  parish  of  that 
name,  on  the  west  border  of  Devonshire,  and 
twenty  miles  distant  from  Lovecote,  and  an 
estate  comprising  nearly  one  thousand  acres, 
was  in  1243  the  property  of  Robert  de  Lughen- 
cot,  and  remained  in  his  family  until  141 5,  the 
property  being  also  described  in  1346  as  "per- 
taining to  Robert  de  Lyvenscot."  Another 
branch  of  the  family  resided  at  Webworthy. 
pronounced  "Wibbery,"  in  northwestern 
Devon,  where  they  held  extensive  estates  for 
three  hundred  and  fifty  years.  The  name  in 
this  case  is  spelt  Luppingcott  and  Luppin- 
cott.  Of  this  line  the  last  was  Henrj'  Lupijin- 
cott.  who  lived  at  Barcelona,  Spain,  and  died 
in  1779.  A  branch  of  this  family  removed 
from  "\\ebworthy  to  Sidbury  in  East  Devon 
about  the  middle  of  the  sixteenth  century,  and 
from  them  was  descended  Henry  Lippmcott, 
who  became  a  distinguished  merchant  of  liris- 
tol,  vi'as  made  a  baronet  in  1778  by  King 
George  III,  and  through  his  son  Sir  Robert 
Gann  Lippincott,  baronet,  became  the  ancestor 
of  Robert  Cann  Lippincott  and  his  sons  Robert 
C.  Cann  Lippincott  and  Henry  Cann  Lippincott. 
whose  descendants  are  probably  the  only  liv- 
ing male  representatives  of  this  ancient  branch 
of  the  family  in  England.  The  residence  of 
this  branch  of  the  family  is  at  Overcourt.  near 
Bristol. 

That  the  Lippincotts  of  England  held  a  good 
position  in  the  world  is  evidenced  by  the  nu- 
merous coats-of-arms  granted  to  them,  no  less 
than  eight  coats  appearing  to  have  been  be- 
stowed upon  gentlemen  of  the  name,  some  of 
them  almost  if  not  c|uite  as  early  as  1420,  in 
which  year  John  Lippingcott,  of  \\'ibbery,  is 
found  bearing  his,  from  which  by  modification 
several  of  the  later  coats  seem  to  be  derived. 
.Another  arms,  which  diverges  widely  from  the 
rest,  and  was  most  probably  granted  as  early 
as  the  Crusades  to  one  whose  name  was  spelt 
Luffyngcotte,  is  thus  described:  "\  black 
eagle,  sprinkled  with  drops  of  blood  and  dis- 
played upon  a  shield  of  silver."  In  still  an- 
other branch  of  the  Devonshire  Lippincotts 
the  name  appeal's  to  have  gone  through  the 
transformations  of  Leppingote,  Leppingcotte, 
Leppyncott.  and  Li]3pincott.  and  according  to 
the  latest  authorities  it  is  from  this  branch  that 
the  American  Lippingcotts  are  descended 
although  the  earlier  authorities  favor  one  of 
the  other  lines. 

(  I )  Richard  Lippincott,  the  founder  of  the 
family  in  New  Jersey  and  Pennsylvania, 
although  belonging  to  a  branch  of  the  familv 


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of  his  contemporaries  and  fellow-believers  of 
too  mild  and  peaceable  a  disposition  to  be 
either  happy  or  contented  amidst  the  con- 
ditions that  prevailed  in  England  during  the 
latter  years  of  the  reign  of  Cliarles  I,  in  con- 
sec|uence  associated  himself  at  an  early  date 
with  the  settlers  of  the  colony  of  Massachu- 
setts Bay.  and  taking  up  his  residence  at  Dor- 
chester he  became  a  member  of  the  church 
there,  and  April  i,  1640,  was  chosen  to  one 
vi  the  town  offices,  being  made  freeman  by 
the  court  of  Boston.  May  13,  1640.  Here  his 
eldest  son  was  born  and  was  baptized  Sep- 
tember, 1641.  A  few  years  later,  however, 
he  removed  to  I.oston  where  his  second  son 
and  eldest  daughter  were  born  and  their  bap- 
tisms entered  on  the  records  of  the  First 
Church  at  Boston ;  in  the  entry  of  the  son  the 
father  being  noted  as  "a  member  of  the  church 
at  Dorchester."  This  baptism  was  Novem- 
ber 10,  1644.  Even  New  England  Puritanism, 
however,  was  of  too  militant  a  character  for 
Richard  Lippincott,  and  he  began  to  differ 
more  and  more  from  his  brethren  of  the 
church  in  regard  to  some  of  their  religious 
doctrines,  and  so  tenacious  of  his  opinions  was 
he  that  on  July  6,  1651,  he  was  formally  ex- 
communicated. About  a  year  later,  in  1652. 
Richard  Lippincott  returned  to  England  in  the 
hope  that  under  the  Commonwealth  he  might 
find  a  greater  degree  of  religious  liberty  than 
was  obtainable  among  his  fellow-colonists  in 
Massachusetts.  That  to  some  extent  at  least 
his  hopes  were  gratified  seems  evident  from 
the  name  of  his  third  son.  Restore  or  Re- 
stored, who  was  born  at  Plymouth,  England, 
in  the  following  year,  1652,  as  there  can  be  no 
doubt  that  he  received  his  name  in  commemo- 
ration of  his  father's  restoration  to  his  native 
land  and  to  the  communion  of  more  congenial 
spirits.  Just  what  Richard  Lippincott's  relig- 
ious views  at  this  time  were  can  only  be  a 
matter  of  conjecture,  but  they  evidently  har- 
monized more  or  less  with  those  of  (jeorge 
Fox  and  his  adherents  as  shortly  after  his  re- 
turn to  England  he  became  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends,  and  soon  after  his  pro- 
fession of  faith  became  a  partaker  with  his 
fellow  believers  in  their  sufferings  for  their 
princijjles  and  in  the  persecutions  to  which 
they  were  subjected.  In  February.  1655, 
while  he  was  residing  at  Plymouth.  Devon- 
shire, the  mayor  of  that  town  caused  his  arrest 
and  imprisonment  in  the  town  jail  near  the 
castle  of  Exeter,  his  offense  being  it  would 
appear  that  he  had  made  the  assertion  that 
"Christ  was  the  word  of  God  and  the  Scrip- 


tures a  declaration  of  the  mind  of  God." 
Several  months  later,  in  May,  1A55,  according 
to  Sewell's  History  of  the  Quakers,  he,  with 
others,  testified  against  the  acts  of  the  mayor 
and  the  falsehood  of  the  charges  brought 
against  them.  In  commemoration  of  this  re- 
lease from  imprisonment  he  named  his  next 
son.  born  that  same  year.  Freedom.  The 
following  few  years  seem  to  have  been  com- 
paratively quiet  ones  with  him,  the  only  note- 
worthy events  in  his  life  being  his  making  of  a 
home  for  himself  and  family  at  Stone- 
house,  near  Plymouth,  and  the  birth  of  his 
daughter  Increase  in  1657,  and  of  his  son 
Jacob  in  iftSo.  In  this  last  mentioned  year  he 
was  again  imprisoned  by  the  mayor  of  Ply- 
mouth for  his  faithfulness  to  his  religious  con- 
victions, being  arrested  by  the  officers  at  and 
taken  from  a  meeting  of  Friends  in  that  city. 
His  release  was  brought  by  the  solicitations  of 
Margaret  Fell  and  others  whose  efforts  in  be- 
half of  ini])risoned  Friends  were  so  influential 
with  the  newly  restored  King  Charles  II  as  to 
obtain  the  liberation  of  many.  In  compari- 
son with  this  treatment  in  Boston,  Richard 
Lippincott's  experiences  in  Plymouth  were 
such  that  he  at  length  determined  to  make  an- 
other trial  of  the  new  world,  and  once  more 
bidding  farewell  to  his  native  land  he  sailed 
again  for  New  England  in  1661  or  1662,  and 
took  up  his  residence  in  Rhode  Island,  which 
}UEJ3[0}  Xj3a  Xuo[OD  }si}dEc|  E  ^q  01  punoj  3i[ 
of  varied  forms  of  belief.  Here  his  youngest 
son,  Preserved,  was  born  in  1663,  and  received 
his  name  in  commemoration  of  his  father's 
preservation  from  persecution  and  from  the 
perils  of  the  deep.  le  is  a  curious  fact  that,  omit- 
ting the  name  of  his  third  child,  Abigail,  wdio 
lived  only  a  few  weeks,  the  names  of  the  chil- 
dren of  Richard  and  Abigail  Lippincott,  taken 
in  the  order  of  their  birth,  form  the  words  of 
a  prayer,  which  needs  only  the  addition  of  an- 
other son,  called  Israel,  to  be  complete,  thus : 
Remember  John,  Restore  Freedom,  Increase 
Jacob,  and  Preserve  (Israel).  Whether  this 
arrangement  was  accidental  or  was  due  to  a 
premeditated  design  cannot  be  determined  ;  it 
is  probably  a  coincidence,  as  although  in  strict 
accordance  with  the  ways  in  fashion  among 
the  Puritans  of  that  day,  so  complete  an  ar- 
rangement as  this  is  extremely  rare. 

In  the  Rhode  Island  colony  each  of  the  set- 
tlements was  at  first  regarded  as  an  independ- 
ent establishment:  hut  in  1642  it  was  deter- 
mined to  seek  a  ])atent  from  England,  and 
Roger  Williams  having  gone  to  the  mother 
country    for   that   purpose,   obtained    in    1644, 


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533 


through  the  influence  of  the  Earl  of  Warwick, 
a  charter  from  Parliament  uniting  the  settle- 
ments as  the  "Incoq)oration  of  Providence 
I)lantations  in  the  Xarragansett  Bay  in  New 
England."  Complete  religious  toleration  was 
granted  together  with  the  largest  measure  of 
political  freedom,  but  owing  to  jealousies  and 
exaggerated  ideas  of  individual  importance, 
the  settlements  did  not  become  really  united 
until  1654  and  it  was  nine  years  later  that  they 
sought  and  obtained  their  charter  of  "Rhode 
Island  and  the  Providence  plantations,"  from 
King  Charles  II,  which  served  as  the  constitu- 
tion of  the  colony  and  state  down  to  1843.  ^" 
the  following  year,  1664,  the  Dutch  Colony  of 
New  Netherland  came  into  the  possession  of 
the  English,  and  the  next  year,  1665,  an  asso- 
ciation was  formed  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island, 
to  purchase  lands  from  the  Indians,  and  a 
patent  was  granted  to  them.  This  movement 
had  been  initiated  by  the  people  of  Gravesend, 
Long  Island,  but  the  residents  of  Newport 
were  considerably  in  the  majority  and  the 
success  of  the  movement  is  mainly  due  to  them 
and  to  their  efforts  in  raising  the  greater  part 
of  the  money  to  pay  the  Indians  for  their  land 
and  in  inducing  persons  to  settle  on  it.  Of  the 
eighty-tiiree  Newport  subscribers  who  con- 
tributed towards  buying  the  Monmouth 
county.  New  Jersey,  lands  from  the  Indians 
and  towards  defraying  the  incidental  exjjenses 
in  treating  with  the  natives,  Richard  Lippin- 
cott  gave  by  far  the  largest  subscription,  £16, 
10  shillings,  which  was  more  than  twice  that 
of  any  other  contributor  except  Richard  Bor- 
den, whose  amount  was  ii  i,  10  shillings.  The 
first  deed  from  the  Indians  is  dated  March  25, 
1665,  and  is  for  the  lands  at.  Nevesink.  from 
the  sachem  Popomora  and  his  brother  Mish- 
acoing  to  James  Hubbard,  John  Bowne,  John 
Tilton,  junior.  Richard  Stout,  William  Gould- 
ing  and  Samuel  Spicer.  for  and  on  behalf  of 
the  other  subscribers.  April  7,  1665,  Popo- 
mora and  his  brother  went  over  to  New  York 
and  acknowledgetl  the  deed  before  Governor 
Nicolls.  and  the  official  copy  is  in  the  office  of 
the  secretary  of  state.  New  York,  liber  3,  page 
I.  Another  copy  is  preserved  in  the  records 
of  the  proprietors  of  East  Jersey  at  Perth 
Amboy,  where  there  is  also  a  map  of  the  land 
embraced  in  the  purchase,  while  still  a  third 
copy  may  be  found  in  the  office  of  the  secre- 
tary of  state  at  Trenton.  Two  other  deeds 
followed  and  on  April  8,  1665,  Governor 
Nicolls  signed  the  noted  Monmouth  patent,  one 
of  the  conditions  of  which  was  "that  the  said 
Patentees  and  their  associates,  their  heirs  or 


assigns,  shall  within  the  space  of  three  years, 
beginning  from  the  day  of  the  date  hereof, 
manure  and  plant  the  aforesaid  land  and  jirem- 
ises  and  settle  there  one  hundred  families  at 
the  least."  The  reason  for  the  founding  of 
the  Monmouth  settlements  is  given  in  the  pat- 
ent as  the  establishment  of  "free  liberty  of 
Conscience  without  any  molestation  or  dis- 
turbance whatsoever  in  the  way  of  worship." 
In  accordance  with  the  terms  of  this  patent. 
Richard  Lippincott  and  his  family  removed 
from  Rhode  Island  to  Shrewsbury,  New  Jer- 
sey, among  the  earliest  settlers  of  the  place. 
With  him  went  also  a  number  of  other  mem- 
bers of  the  Society  of  Friends  and  they  at 
once  formed  themselves  into  the  Shrewsbury 
Meeting,  which  for  a  long  time  met  at  Rich- 
ard Lippincott's  house.  He  himself  was  one 
of  the  most  active  of  the  Friends  in  the  meet- 
ing and  he  was  also  one  of  the  most  prominent 
in  all  ]niblic  matters.  In  1667  the  inhabitants 
of  Midilletown.  Shrewsbury  and  other  settle- 
ments included  under  the  Monmouth  patent, 
found  themselves  so  far  advanced,  with  dwell- 
ings erected  and  lands  cleared  that  they  had 
opportunity  to  take  measures  to  establish  a 
local  government.  Their  grant  from  Nicolls 
authorized  them  to  "pass  such  prudential  laws 
as  they  deemed  advisable"  and  as  early  as 
June.  1667,  they  held  an  assembly  for  that 
pur])ose  at  Portland  Point,  now  called  High- 
lands. On  December  14  following  another  as- 
sembly was  held  at  Shrewsbury;  and  although 
Governor  Carteret  and  his  council  considered 
these  assemblies  as  irregidar  they  are  never- 
theless the  first  legislative  bodies  that  ever  met 
in  New  Jersey.  This  "(jeneral  Assembly  of 
the  I'atentees  and  Deputies"  continued  to  meet 
f(ir  many  years  and  its  original  proceedings 
are  still  preserved.  In  1669  Richard  Lippin- 
cott was  elected  a  member  of  the  governor's 
council  as  one  of  the  representatives  from 
Shrewsbury,  but  being  unwilling  to  take  the 
rath  of  allegiance  unless  it  contained  a  proviso 
guaranteeing  the  patent  rights  of  the  Mon- 
mouth towns  he  was  not  allowed  to  take  his 
scat.  In  the  following  year,  1670,  he  was 
elected  by  the  town  as  an  associate  patentee, 
one  of  the  "five  or  seven  other  persons  of  the 
ablest  and  discreetest  of  said  inhabitants"  who 
joined  w-ith  the  original  patentees  formed  the 
assembly  above  mentioned,  which  according  to 
Nicolls  patent  had  full  power  "to  make  such 
pectdiar  and  prudential  laws  and  constitutions 
amongst  the  inhabitants  for  the  better  and 
more  orderly  governing  of  them,"  as  well  as 
"liberty  to  try  all  causes  and  actions  of  debt^ 


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STATE    OF    NEW    IKRSEY. 


and  trespass  arising  amongst  the  inhabitants 
to  the  value  of  f  lo."  In  1676  the  governor's 
council  passed  a  law  providing  that  any  town 
sending  deputies  who  "refused  on  their  ar- 
rival to  take  the  necessary  oaths,"  should  be 
liable  to  a  fine  of  fio;  consequently  Richard 
LipI)incott  who  was  chosen  to  rejiresent  his 
town  in  1677,  did  not  attend,  and  as  a  result 
the  council  passed  another  act  fining  any  mem- 
ber who  absented  himself,  ten  shillings  for 
each  day's  absence.  In  1670  the  first  meeting 
for  worship  was  established  by  the  Friends; 
and  in  1672  this  was  \'isited  by  George  Fox 
who  was  entertained  during  his  stay  by  Rich- 
ard Lippincott.  His  residence  was  on  Passe- 
queneiqua  creek,  a  branch  of  South  Shrews- 
bury river,  three-fourths  of  a  mile  northeast 
of  the  house  of  his  son-in-law,  Samuel  Dennis, 
which  stood  three-fourths  of  a  mile  east  of  the 
town  of  Shrewsbury.  Soon  after  this  Rich- 
ard Lippinciitt  made  another  and  final  voyage 
to  England,  where  he  was  in  1675  when  John 
Fenwick  was  preparing  to  remove  to  West 
Jersey ;  and  on  August  9,  1676,  he  obtained 
from  Fenwick  a  patent  for  one  thousand  acres 
of  land  in  his  colony,  which  he  probably  pur- 
chased as  a  land  speculation  since  neither  he 
nor  his  children  ever  occupied  any  part  of  it. 
May  21.  i''>79,  Richard  Lippincott  divided  this 
plantation  into  five  equal  parts,  giving  to  each 
of  his  sons  a  two  Inuidred  acre  tract.  Having 
at  length  found  a  fi.xed  place  of  residence 
where  he  could  live  in  peace  and  prosperity. 
Richard  Lippincott  settled  down  to  "an  active 
and  useful  life  in  the  midst  of  a  worthy  fam- 
ily, in  the  possession  of  a  sufficient  estate,  and 
happy  in  the  enjoyment  of  religious  and  ]io- 
litical  freedom."  Here  he  passed  the  last  eight- 
een years  of  his  life  of  varied  experiences,  and 
here  he  died  November  25,  1683. 

Two  days  before  his  death  Richard  Lippin- 
cott made  his  will  and  acknowledged  it  before 
Joseph  Parker,  justice  of  the  jjeace.  January 
2  following  his  widow,  Abigail  Lippincott, 
gave  her  bond  as  administratrix,  her  fellow 
bondsman  being  her  son's  father-in-law,  Will- 
iam Shattock,  and  Francis  Borden.  There 
seems,  however,  to  have  been  some  irregularity 
in  the  will  or  its  provisions,  particularly  in 
omitting  mention  of  an  excutor ;  for  on  the 
day  when  the  widow  gave  her  bond.  Governor 
Thomas  Rudyard  issued  a  warrant  or  com- 
mission to  Joseph  Parker,  John  Hans  (Hance) 
and  I'lliakim  Wardell  "or  any  two  of  them,  to 
examine  Abigail,  the  widow  of  Richard  Li]>- 
pincott.  as  to  her  knowledge  of  any  other  las; 
will  made  by  her  husband."    .An  endorsement 


on  the  will,  dated  May  21.  1684,  states  that  the 
"said  Abigail  has  no  knowledge  of  any  other 
will  and  that  she  will  faithfully  administer  the 
estate."  The  inventory  of  the  personal  estate, 
£428,  2  shillings,  including  debts  due  £30,  and 
negro  servants  £60.  was  made  by  Eliakim 
Wardell,  William  Shattock^  Francis  Borden 
and  Joseph  Parker. 

The  Dutch  proprietors  of  New  .Amsterdam 
had  long  been  engaged  in  the  slave  trade  and 
at  the  surrender  to  the  English  in  1664  the 
colony  contained  many  slaves,  some  of  whom 
were  owned  by  Friends.  As  early  as  1652 
members  of  this  society  at  Warwick,  Rhode 
Island,  passed  a  law  requiring  all  slaves  to  be 
liberated  after  ten  years  service  as  was  the 
manner  with  the  English  servants,  who,  how- 
ever, had  to  serve  but  four  years.  In  1683  the 
court  at  Shrewsbury  passed  a  law  against 
trading  in  slaves.  These  are  the  earliest 
known  instances  of  legislation  in  behalf  of 
negro  emancipation.  Richard  Lippincott  was 
the  owner  of  a  number  of  slaves ;  and  in  her 
will,  dated  June  28.  1697,  and  proved  .\ugusu 
7  following,  his  widow,  Abigail  Lijipincott, 
frees  most  of  them  besides  leaving  to  her  chil- 
dren and  grandchildren  much  real  estate  and 
considerable  bequests  in  money. 

Remembrance,  the  eldest  son  of  Richard  and 
.Abigail  Lippincott,  lived  at  Shrewsbury,  mar- 
ried Margaret  Barber,  of  Boston,  and  died  in 
1722.  aged  eighty-two  years.  He  was  promi- 
nent in  colonial  affairs,  a  bitter  opponent  of 
George  Keith,  and  clerk  of  the  monthly  and 
quarterly  meeting  of  Friends  at  Shrewsbury. 
His  children,  four  of  whom  died  in  infancy, 
were  Joseph,  Elizabeth,  Abigail,  Richard,  Eliz- 
abeth again,  Josejih.  William.  Abigail  again, 
Sarah,  Ruth,  Mary  antl  Grace.  His  descend- 
ants through  his  sous  Richard  and  William  are 
luniierous,  and  many  descendants  of  Samuel, 
son  of  William,  now  resides  in  Pittsburg  and 
other  western  cities. 

John,  "yeoman  of  Shrewsbury,"'  second  son 
of  Richard  and  Abigail  Lippincott,  married 
(first)  Ann  I^>arber,  and  on  her  death  in  1707 
he  married  Jeannette  Austin,  and  died  in  1720. 
The  eight  children  borne  by  his  first  wife  were 
John.  Robert,  Preserved,  Mary,  Ann,  Mar- 
garet, Robert  and  Deborah.  Their  descend- 
ants are  now  found  chiefly  in  Monmouth 
county,  New  Jersey,  Green  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  New  York  City. 

Abigail  Lippincott,  born  January  17,  1646, 
died  March  9,  1646.  Restore  Lippincott  is 
treated  below.  I-'reedom.  the  fifth  child  and 
fourth  son  of  Riciiard  and  Abigail  Lippincott, 


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535 


was  a  tanner ;  lived  on  Rancocas  creek,  about 
where  Bridgeboro  now  stands ;  he  was  also  a 
blacksmith,  and  was  killed  by  lightning  while 
shoeing  a  horse  in  the  summer  of  1697.  By 
his  wife,  Alary  (Curtis)  Lippincott  he  had 
five  children :  Samuel,  Thomas,  Judith,  Mary 
and  Freedom  Junior.  His  descendants 
through  his  sons  Samuel,  Thomas  and  Free- 
dom, are  numerous  in  the  western  townships 
of  Camden  and  Burlington  counties. 

Increase,  the  only  daughter  of  Richard  and 
Abigail  Lippincott  who  reached  maturity,  mar- 
ried Sanuiel  Dennis  and  removed  to  Salem 
county,  Xew  Jersey.  Of  this  branch  of  the 
family  there  has  for  many  years  been  no  trace 
remaining  in  the  state. 

Jacob,  the  fifth  son  of  Richard  and  Abigail 
Lippincott,  lived  at  Shrewsbury,  and  by  his 
wife,  Grace  (Wooley)  Lippincott,  had  two 
children :  Jacob  and  Ruth.  Preserved,  the 
youngest  son  of  Richard  and  .\bigail  Lippin- 
cott, died  March,  1666,  aged  three  years  and 
one  month.  Freedom,  another  son.  is  written 
of  elsewhere. 

(II)  Restore,  or  Restored,  fourth  child  and 
third  son  of  Richard  and  .Abigail  Lippincott, 
was  born  in  Pljniouth,  Devonshire,  England, 
July  3,  1652,  and  died  near  Mt.  Holly.  Burl- 
ington county.  New  Jersey,  about  July  20, 
1741,  in  the  ninetieth  year  of  his  age.  He  was, 
however,  regarded  by  his  contemporaries  as 
a  much  older  man  than  he  really  was ;  for  the 
noted  Quaker  minister,  Thomas  Chalkley,  who 
attended  his  funeral,  notes  in  his  journal,  "On 
fourth  day,  the  22(1,  I  was  at  Mount  Holly,  at 
the  burial  of  our  ancient  friend  Restored  Lip- 
pincott:  he  was  as  I  understood,  nearly  one 
hundred  years  of  age.  and  had  upwards  of 
two  hundred  children,  grandchildren  and 
great-grandchilflren,  many  of  whom  were  at 
his  funeral."  Restore  was  brought  to  this 
country  when  his  parents  returned  from  Ply- 
mouth and  accom]ianied  them  from  Rhode 
Island  to  Shrewsbury.  When  he  was  twenty- 
two  years  old  he  married,  and  settled  down  at 
Shrewsbury  on  land  near  his  father,  for  which 
in  1677  he  and  his  wife  received  a  patent  under 
the  "Grants  and  concessions  made  by  the  pro- 
prietors," a  record  of  which  is  preserved  in 
the  land  warrant  records  in  the  office  of  the 
surveyor  general  of  East  Jersey,  at  Perth 
Amboy.  This  estate  comprised  two-hundred 
and  forty  acres,  and  ten  years  later,  in  Janu- 
ary, 1687,  Restore  added  to  it  considerably. 
On  January  2,  he  received  a  patent  for  q6  1-2 
acres  "at  Passequenecqua,  North  Richard 
Stoutt  junior.  South  William  Scott,  East  Pass- 


equenecqua Creek,  West  George  Keith" ;  this 
[jatent  also  included  three  and  a  half  acres  of 
meadow,  "East  Peter  White,  West  John 
Havens,  North  and  South  uj)land."  (  East 
Jersey  deeds,  liber  B,  page  264.)  On  Janu- 
ary 22  following,  he  received  still  another  pat- 
ent for  "217  acres,  counted  as  193,  on  Ram- 
sonts  Neck.  East  John  Claytone,  North  Nave- 
sinks  River,  West  a  road.  South  grantee  and 
.\braham  Browne ;  also  7  acres  of  meadow  ad- 
joining." (  East  Jersey  deeds,  liber  B,  page 
271.)  September  21,  1692,  Restore  Lippin- 
cott, styled  in  the  deed,  "late  of  Shrewsbury, 
East  Jersey,  now  of  Northampton  River,  West 
Jersey,  husbandman,"  bought  of  Thomas 
Ollive  of  W'ellingborough  a  plantation  of 
five  hundred  and  seventy  acres  in  Northomp- 
ton  "along  the  line  between  the  two  Tenths, 
adjoining  Widow  Parker  and  John  Woolston." 
January  10.  1699.  Restore  deeded  three  hun- 
dred and  nine  acres  of  this  property,  eight 
acres  of  it  being  meadow,  to  his  son  Samuel ; 
and  about  a  year  and  a  half  later  bought  him- 
self another  plantation  of  three  hundred  acres 
from  Isaac  Horner,  the  deed  bearing  the  date 
of  June  20.  1701.  The  following  month,  in 
company  with  John  Garwood,  he  bought  of 
Susanna,  the  widow  and  executrix  of  Thomas 
Budd,  of  Philadelphia,  two  thousand  acres 
more  in  Burlington  county,  "on  the  north 
branch  of  the  Northampton  River,  near  Mount 
Pi.sgah,  and  adjoining  William  Budd."  The 
two  hundred  acres  of  his  Cohansey  property 
in  Fenvvick's  colony  which  had  been  given  him 
by  his  father  he  disposed  of  to  Robert  Eyres, 
giving  to  Joseph  Eastland,  of  Cohansey,  Au- 
gust 12.  1699.  a  power  of  attorney  to  make 
the  delive^)^  In  1701  Restore  Lippincott  was 
chosen  as  the  representative  of  Burlington 
county  in  the  West  Jersey  assembly,  and  the 
same  year  he  joined  with  the  Provincial  coun- 
cil and  the  members  of  the  assembly  in 
a  petition  to  King  William,  for  the  confirma- 
tion of  .Andrew  Hamilton  as  the  governor  of 
the  colony.  This  was  the  last  assembly  to 
meet  under  the  old  proprietary'  government  of 
West  Jersey,  since  in  the  following  year  the 
proprietors  surrendered  their  governmental 
rights  to  the  Crown  and  Lord  Combury  was 
appointed  as  the  first  of  the  royal  governors 
of  the  province  of  New  Jersey.  In  1703  Re- 
store Lippincott  was  elected  as  the  represen- 
tative of  Burlington  county  to  the  first  of  the 
Royal  provincial  assemblies,  which  met  at 
Perth  .\niboy;  in  1704  he  was  re-elected  to  the 
same  office  and  continued  to  serve  in  that 
capacity   until    1706.     Restore   Lippincott   be- 


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came  one  of  the  most  influential  of  the  Burl- 
'ington  Friends,  and  up  to  1716,  when  the  meet- 
ing house  at  Mt.  Holly  was  built,  the  meeting 
of  Friends  were  often  held  at  his  home.  This 
was  especially  the  case  during  the  severe  win- 
ter of  1704-05,  when  the  records  of  the  old 
Springfield  meeting  tell  us  that  they  held  their 
meetings  there  too,  "considering  the  badness 
of  the  way  in  going  to  the  usual  house."  In 
the  minutes  of  the  Burlington  monthly  meet- 
ing there  is  a  very  interesting  record  which 
illustrates  not  only  the  carefulness  and  dili- 
gence of  the  Friends  in  regard  to  all  the  de- 
tails of  their  religious  life,  but  also  at  the 
same  time  throws  a  genial  light  ujjon  the  char- 
acter of  Restore  himself.  At  the  monthly 
meeting  of  January  23,  1704,  one  of  the  mem- 
bers, Thomas  .\tkinson,  presented  the  follow- 
ing memorial  in  writing:  "Friends:  whereas  I 
was  charged  in  the  face  of  the  meeting  by  Re- 
store Lippincott  that  I  pulled  off  my  hat  when 
John  Langstaff  was  burietl  is  not  true.  I  have 
many  witnesses  to  the  contrary."  When  this 
memorial  was  read.  Restored  Lippincott  imme- 
diately arose  and  demanded  that  a  committee 
be  appointed  to  investigate  the  charges ;  and 
si.x  or  seven  months  later,  on  August  6,  1705, 
the  committee  reported  to  the  meeting  that 
"Whereas  some  time  since  there  was  a  paper 
sent  in  by  Tho.  .Atkinson  that  Restore  Lippin- 
cott charged  him  falsely  in  the  face  of  the 
meeting  with  ])ulling  off  his  hat  att  the  time  of 
John  Langstaft's  funeral  whilst  the  priest  was 
.speaking,  for  which  at  our  last  meeting  some 
Friends  were  to  speak  to  Restore  Lippincott 
to  be  at  our  last  Monthly  Meeting  to  answer 
to  itt  for  himself,  and  he  making  it  appear  by 
several  evidences  to  be  true,  it  is  this  meet- 
ing's Judgment  that  Restore  Lippincott  did  not 
accuse  Tho.  .Atkinson  falsely."  Restore  was 
buried  in  the  friends  ground  at  Mt.  Holly;  and 
in  his  will,  which  is  dated  March  16,  1733,  and 
proved  December  13,  1741,  he  leaves  legacies 
to  his  son  James,  his  daughters  Rachel  Dawson, 
Abigail  Shinn,  Rebecca  Gaskill  and  Elizabeth 
Shiiui.  and  his  granrlsons.  Joseph  and  Restore 
Lii)]iincott  Junidr.  ami  David  and  Jonathan 
Jess. 

November  6,  1674,  Restore  Lippincott  mar- 
ried (first)  llannah.  daughter  of  William 
Shattock.  wild  was  born  Julv  8,  if>54.  in  Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts,  and  died  before  1729, 
when  he  married  (second)  Martha  ( Shinn ) 
Owen,  the  daughter  of  John  and  Jane  Shinn, 
the  emigrants,  and  the  widow  of  Joshua  Owen. 
His  second  wife  bore  him  no  children;  by  his 
first  wife  he  had  eight,  all  of  whom  reached 


maturity  and  married,  i.  Samuel,  born  Sep- 
tember 12,  1675,  married,  July  3,  1700,  Ann 
Hulett,  and  the  descendants  of  his  son  Samuel, 
who  married  Mary  Amey,  are  many  of  them 
residing  on  the  purchase  between  Mt.  Holly 
and  Pemberton.  2.  Abigail,  born  February  16, 
1677,  married.  May  3,  1697,  James,  the  young- 
est child  and  the  longest  lived  son  of  Jolin  and 
Jane  Shinn,  the  emigrants,  and  their  descend- 
ants are  very  numerous  throughout  South  Jer- 
sey. 3.  Hannah,  born  in  October,  1681,  mar- 
ried William  Gladding  in  1701.  4.  Rebecca, 
born  November  24,  1684,  married,  in  1704, 
Josiah  (jaskill.  5.  James,  treated  below.  6. 
Elizabeth,  born  ilarch  15,  1690,  married,  June 
12,  1712,  (jeorge.  eldest  son  of  John  and  Ellen 
(  .Stacy )  Shinn,  nephew  to  James  Shinn,  the 
husband  of  his  wife's  sister,  Abigail,  and 
grandson  of  John  and  Jane  Shinn,  the  emi- 
grants. 7.  Jacob,  born  in  August,  1692,  mar- 
ried, in  17 16,  Mary,  daughter  of  Henry  Burr, 
and  his  descendants  are  numerous,  chiefly  in 
(iloucester  and  Salem  counties;  among  them, 
however,  was  Joshua  Lippincott,  of  Philadel- 
phia, at  one  time  a  director  of  the  Bank  of 
the  United  States  and  president  of  the  Schuyl- 
kill Navigation  Company.  8.  Rachel,  born 
January  8,  1695,  married  (first)  Zechariah 
Jess,  and  (second)  Francis  Dawson. 

(HI)  James,  the  fifth  child  and  second  son 
of  Restore  and  Hannah  (Shattock)  Lippin- 
cott, was  born  June  11,  1687,  at  Passequen- 
ecqua,  near  Shrewsbury,  and  died  in  1760,  at 
his  home,  inherited  from  his  father,  near  Mt. 
Holly.  September  12,  1709,  he  married  Anna, 
the  eldest  daughter  of  Thomas  and  his  second 
wife  .Anna  lives,  and  granddaughter  of 
Thomas  Fives,  "barber  in  London,"  who  came 
to  liurlington  in  1677,  in  the  ship  "Kent." 
They  had  six  children  who  reached  maturity 
and  married:  1.  Jonathan,  married,  March  13 
1746,  Ann,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary 
(  Thompson")  Shinn-Eves,  a  first  cousin  of  her 
husl)and's  mother,  being  the  granddaughter  of 
Thomas  and  .Anna  Eves,  and  great-grand- 
daughter of  Thomas  Eves,  of  London  and 
liurlington.  Her  motiier  was  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Thompson,  and  widow  of  George, 
son  of  John  and  Jane  Shinn,  the  emigrants. 
2.  .Aaron,  treated  below.  3.  John,  married 
Elizabeth  Elkinton.  4.  Daniel,  married  Eliza- 
beth Pim.  5.  Moses,  married  in  1750,  Mari- 
bah  Mullin  or  Miller.  6.  Anna,  married,  .Au- 
gust 6,  1746,  Thomas  Taylor.  The  descend- 
ants of  these  children  have  resided  for  the 
most  ]iart  in  .Vorthampton,  in  Evesham,  and 
in   Philadel])hia,   the  most  noteworthy  among 


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537 


them  being  Joshua  BalHnger  Lippincott,  the 
distinguished  publisher;  Judge  Benjamin  H. 
Lipi)incott,  of  Burlington  county,  who  is 
treated  below,  and  x\aron  S.  Lip])incott,  a 
successful  cotton  manufacturer  of  Philadel- 
phia. 

(  1\' )  Aaron,  second  child  and  son  of  James 
and  Anna  (Eves)  Lippincott,  married  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Ephraim  and  granddaughter 
of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  Tomlinson,  the  emi- 
grants, and  was  the  sister  of  Mary  ( Tom- 
linson) (iardiner,  the  great-grandson  of  Dr. 
Thomas  (.iardiner,  the  emigrant.  Aaron  and 
Elizabeth  (Tomlinson)  Lippincott  had  five 
children  who  reached  maturity  and  married. 
I.  Moses,  treated  below.  2.  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried (first)  John  Butcher,  who  died  leaving 
no  issue,  and  his  widow  then  married  Isaac, 
son  of  Jonathan  and  Hannah  (Sharp)  Haines, 
grandson  of  Jonathan  Haines  and  Mary, 
daughter  of  William  Matlack,  the  emigrant; 
great-grandson  of  John  Haines  and  Esther, 
daughter  of  John  Borton  the  emigrant ;  and 
great-great-grandson  of  Richard  and  Margaret 
Haines,  the  emigrants.  By  this  marriage  there 
were  three  children :  Elizabeth,  Ephraim,  and 
a  second  Elizabeth.  3.  Sarah,  married  Caleb 
Lippincott.  4.  Mary,  married  a  Quicksall.  5. 
Aaron,  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Xathan- 
iel  and  Margaret  Snowden,  and  widow  of  Job, 
son  of  Rehoboam  Braddock  and  Jemima, 
daughter  of  John  Darnell,  the  emigrant : 
grandson  of  Robert  Braddock  and  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Bates  and  Mercy,  daugh- 
ter of  James,  son  of  Gregory  Clement,  the 
regicide ;  and  great-grandson  of  Robert  Brad- 
dock, the  emigrant,  and  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Timothy  Hancock,  the  emigrant,  and  Rachel 
Firman,  his  first  wife. 

(V)  Moses,  eldest  son  and  child  of  Aaron 
and  Elizabeth  (Tomlinson)  Lippincott,  mar- 
ried (first)  October  3,  1778,  Mary,  daughter 
of  Joseph  Hewlings  by  his  second  wife,  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Laban  Langstafif,  and  widow 
of  William  Hammitt ;  granddaughter  of  Laban 
and  Susanna  (Warrington)  Langstaff,  also 
granc'daughter  of  Jacob  Hewlings  and  Doro- 
thy, daughter  of  Thomas  and  Anna  Eves, 
children  of  Thomas  Eves,  of  London  and 
P>urlington  ;  and  great-granddaughter  of  Will- 
iam Hewlings  and  Dorothy,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Eves,  of  London  and  Burlington. 
Moses  and  Man,*  (Hewlings)  Li])[)incott  had 
five  children  who  reached  maturity  and  mar- 
ried :  I.  Rebecca,  married  (first)  Josiah,  son 
of  Isaac  Haines  and  his  first  wife  Mary, 
daughter    of    Thomas    Wllkins    and     Mary, 


daughter  of  Enoch  Core,  the  emigrant,  and 
Sarah,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Roberts, 
the  emigrants;  granddaughter  of  Thomas  and 
Susannah  Wilkins.  the  emigrants.  Isaac 
Haines  was  also  the  grandson  of  Jonathan  and 
Hannah  (Sharp)  Haines  whose  ancestry  is 
given  below.  After  her  first  husband's  death, 
Rebecca  Lippincott  married  (second)  Isaac, 
son  of  John  and  Mary  Wilson.  2.  Elizabeth 
married  (first)  William  Austin  and  (second) 
Josiah  Costiil.  3.  Dorothy,  married  Joseph 
Matlack.  4.  Sarah,  married  John  Hoile,  of 
Jefferson  county,  Ohio,  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
Hoile,  who  lived  in  the  north  of  England.  5. 
Benjamin  H.,  treated  below.  After  his  first 
wife's  death,  Moses  Lippincott  married  (sec- 
ond) Sarah,  daughter  of  David  Stratton,  who 
bore  him  three  children.  6.  John  S.,  married 
Hannah  .Alberston.  7.  Eli  Stratton,  married 
Elizabeth  \'andyke.  8.  Mary,  who  died  un- 
married. 

(\  I)  Benjamin  H.,  youngest  child  and  only 
son  of  Moses  and  Mary  (Hewlings)  Lippin- 
cott, was  born  in  Salem  county,  New  Jersey, 
and  settled  in  Burlington  county,  same  state, 
where  he  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  per- 
sons in  his  day.  He  was  a  surveyor,  a  con- 
veyancer, and  also  served  as  one  of  the  judges 
of  the  court  of  common  pleas.  Like  his  an- 
cestors, he  belonged  to  the  Society  of  Friends. 
He  married  (first)  Elizabeth  Wilkins,  who 
was  the  mother  of  three  children:  i.  George 
W.  2.  William,  mentioned  below.  3.  Sarah. 
who  became  the  wife  of  Charges  Jessup.  of 
Moorestown.  Mr.  Lip]5incott  married  (sec- 
ond )  Martha  Collins,  who  was  the  mother  of 
I'enjamin  B.  and  Elizabeth  Lippincott.  The 
latter  is  now  the  widow  of  Cieorge  L.  Dilling- 
ham, residing  in  Moorestown. 

(\TI)  William,  second  son  of  Benjamin  H. 
and  Elizabeth  (Wilkins)  Lippincott,  was  born 
in  1812  at  Mt.  Laurel,  near  Moorestown,  and 
died  in  the  latter  place  in  1879.  He  had  a 
farm  of  one  himdred  and  twenty  acres  and 
was  an  industrious,  respected  and  worthy 
citizen.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends  and  was  at  the  head  of  the  meeting 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  married  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Hugh  and  Mary  (Lippin- 
cott) Roberts.  The  last  named,  a  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Priscilla  (Briant)  Lipjjincott,  and 
granddaughter  of  Isaac  and  Hannah  Lippin- 
cott. The  last  named  was  a  daughter  of  John 
['"ngle  and  his  wife  Mary,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Osborn.  John  Engle,  above  named,  was  a 
son  of  Robert  and  Jane  (Home)  Engle,  the 
immigrants.     Samuel  Lippincott  above  named 


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was  a  grandson  of  Thomas  Lippincott,  the 
latter  a  son  of  Freedom  and  Mary  (Curtis) 
Lippincott.  Freedom  was  a  son  of  Richard 
and  Abigail  Lippincott.  Thomas  Lippincott's 
wife,  Mary,  was  a  daughter  of  John  and 
Esther  (Borton)  Haines,  whose  ancestry  is 
given  above.  Hugh  Roberts  was  the  son  of 
Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Shute)  Roberts  ;  grand- 
son of  Joshua  Roberts  and  Rebecca,  daughter 
of  Joseph,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Bernard  ) 
Stokes,  the  immigrants,  by  his  wife  Judith, 
daughter  of  Freedom  and  Mary  (Curtis)  Lip- 
pincott. J(3shua  Roberts  was  the  son  of  John 
Roberts  and  Mary,  daughter  of  George  Elkin- 
ton,  who  emigrated  as  a  servant  or  redemp- 
tioner  of  Dr.  Daniel  Wills ;  and  the  grandson 
of  John  and  Sarah  Roberts,  the  immigrants 
who  came  to  West  Jersey  in  the  ship  "Kent." 
\\'illiam  and  Elizabeth  (Roberts)  Lip]jincott 
had  children:  i.  Richard  R.,  enlisted  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  civil  war  as  a  private  in  Com- 
pany I.  .Si.xty-first  Pennsylvania  Volunteers, 
and  served  three  years,  participating  in  all  the 
battles  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  including 
the  Wilderness,  both  engagements  at  Fredricks- 
burg.  Fair  Oaks.  Antietam  and  tiettysburg.  He 
passed  through  the  ranks  of  promotion  to  first 
lieutenant  of  Company  L  was  subsequently 
adjutant  and  major  of  the  regiment.  He  mar- 
ried Ella  Hansell,  of  Rancocas,  and  had  chil- 
dren: Ella,  Ella  M.  and  James  M.  The  daugh- 
ter is  the  wife  of  Richard  Williams,  of  Plain- 
field,  Xew  Jersey,  and  the  son  is  a  farmer  at 
Moorestown.  2.  Sarah  A.^  resides  with  her 
younger  brother  at  Hartford.  3.  Martha  B., 
died  at  Philadelphia  while  the  wife  of  Thomp- 
son Shrouds.  4.  William  Penn,  treated  below. 
(VTH)  William  Penn,  younger  son  of  Will- 
iam and  Elizabeth  (Roberts)  Lippincott,  was 
born  March  22,  1850,  at  Mt.  Laurel,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  was  educated  in  a  rate  school,  such 
as  prevailed  in  his  time.  When  sixteen  years 
of  age  he  left  home  and  went  to  Philadelphia 
to  learn  the  art  of  bricklaying.  After  four 
years  of  apprenticeship  he  continued  five  years 
in  the  occupation,  as  a  journeyman  and  later  as 
a  builder.  In  1876  he  returned  to  New  Jersey 
and  [lurchased  a  country  store  at  Hartford, 
where  he  has  ever  since  made  his  home.  He 
conducted  this  store  for  thirty  years  and  still 
owns  the  building,  having  leased  it  in  1906  on 
the  occasion  of  his  election  to  the  office  of  sur- 
rogate of  liurlington  county  for  a  term  of  five 
years,  which  he  is  now  efficiently  serving. 
For  four  terms  he  served  as  collector  of  his 
township  and  was  three  terms  a  representa- 
tive in  the  legislature.     Like  most  of  his  con- 


freres he  is  a  Republican  in  political  principles, 
and  is  by  birthright  a  member  of  the  Society 
of  Friends.  He  is  a  charter  member  of 
Moorestown  Lodge,  No.  158,  A.  F.  and  A.  M., 
and  was  the  second  master  of  the  lodge  which 
he  also  served  for  a  period  of  sixteen  years  as 
secretary.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Benev- 
olent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  affiliating 
with  Mt.  Holly  Lodge,  No.  848.  As  a  careful, 
shrewd  business  man,  Mr.  Lippincott  has  been 
successful,  and  he  brings  to  the  fulfillment  of 
his  public  duties  the  same  faithful  care  of  de- 
tails and  intelligent  interest  in  his  work  which 
has  characterized  his  private  career.  He  mar- 
ried, November  6,  1873,  Abbie  E.  HoUings- 
head.  who  was  born  in  Aloorestown,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Enoch  and  Rachel  (Atkinson)  HoUings- 
head,  the  last  named  being  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lippincott 
are  the  parents  of  two  children :  Franklin 
Richard  and  Elizabeth  Roberts.  The  son  is 
a  resident  of  Hartford,  New  Jersey,  and  the 
daughter  of  Medford,  same  state,  being  the 
wife  of  Jacob  Kav  Haines. 


(For    first    generation   .see   preceding    sketch). 

(H)  Freedom,  fifth  child 
LIPPINCOTT  and  fourth  son  of  Richard 
and  Abigail  Lippincott, 
was  born  in  Stonehouse,  near  Plymouth.  Dev- 
onshire. England,  September  I,  165 — ,  died  in 
Burlington  county.  West  Jersey,  in  1697,  the 
inventory  on  his  estate  being  dated  June  13  of 
that  year.  He  was  a  tanner  and  lived  near 
Rancocas  creek,  where  the  king's  highway 
crossed  the  stream  and  very  near  where  the 
town  of  Bridgcborough  now  stands.  Having 
sold  the  land  in  Salem  county  given  him  by  his 
father,  he  located  two  hundred  and  eighty- 
eight  acres  here  in  1687.  and  settled  thereon. 
To  the  trade  of  a  tanner  he  jirobably  added 
that  of  a  smith,  and  could  shoe  a  horse  or 
"upset"  the  a.xes  of  his  neighbors  with  some 
skill,  but  his  proficiency  cost  him  his  life,  for 
in  the  summer  of  1697,  while  shoeing  a  horse, 
he  was  killed  by  lightning.  His  widow  and 
five  children  survived  him,  the  oldest  being  but 
thirteen  years  of  age.  His  descendants  of  his 
name  are  most  mmierous  in  the  western  town- 
shij^s  of  Camden  and  P>urlington  counties. 

October  4,  1680,  Freedom  Lippincott  mar- 
ried Mary  Curtis,  and  their  five  children  were: 
I.  Samuel,  born  December  24,  1684,  died  in 
i7f)o;  married  Ho]5e,  daughter  of  John  and 
Hope  (Delefaste)  Wills.  2.  Thomas,  referred 
to  below.  3.  Judith,  August  22,  1689,  died 
August    22,    1745;   married    Joseph,    son    of 


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539 


Thomas  and  Mary  (Bernard)  Stokes.  4. 
Mary,  November  21,  1691.  married  Edward 
Peake.  5.  Freedom  Jr.,  February  6,  1693, 
died  about  1764;  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  John  and  Hope  (  Delefaste)  Wills,  referred 
to  above. 

(Ill)  Thomas,  second  child  and  son  of 
Freedom  and  Mary  (Curtis)  Lippincott,  was 
born  in  Shrewsbury,  Monmouth  county,  De- 
cember 28,  1686^  died  in  Chester  township, 
lUirlington  county,  November  5,  1759.  In 
1708  he  purchased  a  tract  of  one  thousand  and 
thirty-four  acres,  extending  from  I'enisaukin 
river  to  Swedes'  run,  joining  the  No-se-ne- 
men-si-on  tract  reserved  for  the  Indians,  from 
which  the  modern  name  of  Cinnaniinson  is 
derived.  On  the  northern  border  of  this  tract 
the  village  of  Westfield  now  stands.  The 
name  was  originally  given  to  the  meeting  house 
which  was  erected  in  1800,  in  Thomas  Lippin- 
cott's  western  field.  Thomas  Lii:i])incott  was 
an  active  and  useful  man  in  the  atf'airs  of 
Chester  township,  in  which  his  lands  were 
then  included.  His  first  house,  built  about 
171 1,  stood  where  the  old  Samuel  L.  Allen 
residence  was  about  thirty  years  ago,  and  in 
it  and  a  second  house  built  upon  the  same  site 
his  descendants  lived  for  one  hundred  and 
thirty  years.  The  first  meeting  of  Friends  in 
this  district  was  held  in  his  house  and  there 
subsequent  meetings  continued  to  be  held  until 
1800.  The  descendants  of  his  son  Nathaniel 
are  now  to  be  found  in  Burlington  county, 
New  Jersey,  in  Philadelphia,  and  in  the  state 
of  Illinois,  General  Charles  Ellet  Lippincott, 
former  auditor  of  the  last  mentioned  state, 
being  among  them. 

December  19,  171 1,  Thomas  Lippincott  mar- 
ried (first)  Mary,  daughter  of  John,  son  of 
Richard  and  Margaret  Haines,  the  emigrants, 
and  his  first  wife,  Esther,  daughter  of  John 
and  .\nn  Borton,  the  emigrants.  She  was 
born  .April  20,  1603,  ^"'1  '''^'^  after  bearing 
her  husband  six  children:  i.  Nathaniel,  born 
July  2,  1713.  married  Mary  Engle.  2.  Isaac, 
referred  to  below.  3.  Thomas,  married,  1745, 
Rachel  Eldridge.  4.  .Abigail,  married  Thomas 
Wallis  or  Thomas  Wills.  5.  Esther,  married 
John  Roberts.  6.  Mary,  who  died  unmarried. 
Thomas  Lippincott  married  (second)  Mercy, 
widow  of  Thomas  Middleton,  who  bore  him 
three  more  children  :  7.  Patience,  married  Ebe- 
nezer  .Andrews.  8.  Phebe.  9.  Mercy,  mar- 
ried Ephraim  Stiles.  Thomas  Lippincott  mar- 
ried (third)  Rachel  .Smith,  a  widow.  There  is 
no  record  of  children. 

( I\' )    Isaac,  second  child  and  son  of  Thomas 


anil  Alary  (Haines)  Lippincott,  was  born  in 
Chester  township,  Burlington  county,  died  in 
Westfield,  in  the  same  county.  All  of  his  de- 
scendants settled  on  ])art  of  their  grandfather's 
tract  in  Cinnaminson  and  Chester  townships. 
I'urlington  county,  and  in  Philadelphia. 
.Among  them  should  be  mentioned  Joshua,  a 
cloth  merchant  of  that  city,  and  Samuel  R.,  a 
director  of  the  National  State  Bank  of  Cam- 
den, New  Jersey.  In  1739  Isaac  Li])])incott 
married  Hannah,  daughter  of  John  Engle  and 
Mary,  daughter  of  Samuel  anfl  Jane  Ogborn, 
the  emigrants,  and  granddaughter  of  Robert 
and  Jane  (Home)  Engle,  the  emigrants. 
Their  seven  children  were:  i.  Samuel,  married 
Priscilla  Bryant.  2.  Isaac,  married  Elizabeth 
.Antrim.  3.  Thomas,  referred  to  below.  4. 
Mary,  married  Abraham  Eldridge.  5.  Han- 
nah, married  (first)  Jacob  Lippincott,  and 
(  second  I  John  Cahill.  6.  Bathsheba,  who  died 
unmarried.     7.  Esther,  who  died  unmarried. 

( \' )  Thomas  (2),  third  child  and  son  of 
Isaac  and  Hannah  (Engle)  Lippincott,  was 
born  in  Westfield,  and  died  there.  August  15, 
1767,  he  procured  a  license  to  marry  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Nathan  or  Nathaniel  and  Mary 
(Hervey)  Haines,  granddaughter  of  William, 
son  of  Richard  and  Margaret  flaines,  the  emi- 
grants, and  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Paine, 
the  emigrant,  and  Elizabeth  Field.  They  had 
three  children:  i.  William,  referred  to  below. 
2.  Thomas,  married  7\bigail  Borton.  3.  Mary, 
married  Thomas  Rakestraw. 

(\'])  William,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Haines)  Lippincott,  was  born  in 
Chester,  now  Cinnaminson  township,  Burling- 
ton county,  in  1770  or  1771,  died  there  .April 
7,  181 3.  He  lived  on  a  part  of  the  original 
one  thousand  and  thirty-four  acre  tract  pur- 
chased by  his  great-grandfather  on  Swedes' 
run,  where  all  of  his  children  were  born.  Sep- 
tember II,  1793.  he  married  .Ann,  born  near 
.Mt.  Holly,  February  16,  1770,  died  in  West- 
field.  December  12,  1822,  the  ninth  child  and 
fifth  daughter  of  William  Rogers,  of  North- 
ampton townshi]).  Burlington  county,  and 
Martha  "Esturgans,"  tliat  being  the  name  on 
the  marriage'  bond  ])ossibly  since  the  name  has 
never  been  found  elsewhere,  Martha  Esther 
Gans  or  (iano.  William  Rogers  was  a  revo- 
lutionarv  soldier,  and  .April  4.  1781,  was  dis- 
owned by  the  Mt.  Holly  Meeting  for  his  mili- 
'  tary  acts.  He  was  the  son  of  William  Rogers, 
of  New  Hanover,  and  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Branson,  of  New  Jersey  and  Vir- 
ginia, and  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Day,  of 
Philadelphia,  the  emigrant,  and  Elizabeth,  sis- 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


ter  to  Peter  Hervey.  William  was  the  son  of 
Lieutenant  \\'illiam  and  .Abigail  Rogers,  of 
Burlington.  The  children  of  William  and 
.A.nn  (Rogers)  Lippincott  were:  i.  Amasa, 
born  July  3,  1794,  died  February  26,  1862; 
married  (first)  Esther  Collins,  and  (second) 
Hannah  Bishop.  2.  \\'illiam,  January  8,  1798, 
died  May  7,  1879:  married  Catherine  Rud- 
derow.  3.  Israel.  May  17,  1800,  died  May  9, 
1879;  married  (first)  Maria  Wallace,  and 
(second)  .\tlantic  Warrington.  4.  Martha. 
March  3,  1802,  died  May,  1884;  married  Tim- 
othy Pa.xson,  of  Pennsylvania.  5.  Thomas, 
referred  to  below.  6.  Ann^  November  30, 
1805,  died  January  10,  1879,  unmarried.  7. 
Benjamin,  February  6,  1808,  died  March  24, 
1832,  at  Tampico,  Alexico.  8.  Clayton.  Janu- 
ary 19,  1810.  died  December  2ft,  1891  :  married 
Rachel  Collins.  9.  Elizabeth,  April  6,  1812, 
died  August  3,  1834;  married  Nathan  Hunt 
Conrow. 

(X'H)  Thomas  (3),  son  of  William  and 
.Ann  Lippincott,  was  born  in  Cinnaminson 
(formerly  Chester  township),  Burlington 
County,  New  Jersey,  February  8.  1804.  He 
spent  his  boyhood  on  the  parental  farm.  His 
father'.s  death,  in  1813,  left  the  management  of 
aflfairs  with  the  mother  and  the  older  children, 
until  her  death  in  1822.  Thomas  was  ap- 
prenticed at  the  age  of  fifteen  years  to  learn 
blacksmithing  with  .Abram  Li])])incott,  of 
Westfield.  where  he  remained  until  he  reached 
his  majority.  In  1825  he  settled  in  Fellow- 
ship, Mt.  Laurel  township,  as  a  blacksmith, 
and  is  said  to  have  constructed,  under  a  farm- 
er's wagon,  the  first  pair  of  elliptic  springs 
that  carried  a  load  of  farm  produce  to  Phila- 
delphia. In  1856  he  gave  up  his  trade  and 
turned  his  attention  to  raising  fruits  and  ber- 
ries with  fair  success.  He  planted  an  orchard 
of  the  best  varieties  of  fruits  when  jjast  fifty 
years  old,  and  lived  to  reap  the  profit  of  it  in 
his  old  age.  He  was  a  strong  character,  hon- 
est in  his  dealings,  firm  in  his  convictions  of 
the  truth,  and  plain  of  speech.  He  was  a  great 
reader  with  a  very  retentive  memory,  and  few 
men  were  better  informed  in  the  history  of 
the  country.  After  his  decease,  which  oc- 
curred I-'ebniary  16,  1895.  the  Philadelphia 
Record  noted  the  death  of  "the  venerable 
Thomas  Lippincott,  aged  ninety-one  years, 
and  one  of  the  most  scholarly  farmers  of  the 
county  of  Burlington."  He  married,  in  1831, 
Ihnnah.  daughter  of  William  and  Rachel 
(Borden)  Rudderow,  of  Chester,  who  was 
born  May  9.  1812.  She  was  a  devoted  wife 
and    mother,    a    iTicmber    of    the    Society    of 


Friends,  and  died  August  8,  1863,  leaving 
children :  Lydia  R.,  Lusanna,  Emma,  William 
R..  and  Eliza,  who  married  Nathan  S.  Roberts, 
of  Camden,  New  Jersey,  and  their  children 
are  Wilmer  L.,  Alvin  T.  and  Elizabeth. 

(Vni)  William  Rudderow,  only  son  of 
Thomas  (3)  and  Hannah  (Rudderow)  Lip- 
pincott, was  born  in  Fellowship,  Burlington 
county,  December  15,  1843.  He  received 
most  of  his  education  in  very  early  life  from 
Samuel  Smith,  a  famous  mathematician  who 
taught  a  boarding  school  at  Fellowship  more 
than  fifty  years  ago.  William  inherited  his 
father's  strong  constitution  and  retentive 
memory,  but  his  mother's  early  training  did 
much  toward  shaping  his  course  through  life. 
He  began  to  teach  school  at  seventeen  years 
of  age.  and  after  attaining  his  majority  took 
an  interest  in  public  affairs.  He  held  office 
for  a  number  of  years  in  his  township,  and, 
like  his  father,  was  fairly  successful  in  farm- 
ing and  fruit  growing.  He  became  connected 
with  the  New  Jersey  state  board  of  agricul- 
ture, was  instrumental  in  shijiping  the  agri- 
cultural and  horticultural  products  of  the  state 
to  several  E.xpositions.  and  in  1897  was  made 
treasurer  of  the  board.  He  took  great  interest 
in  the  movement  for  improving  the  common 
roads  in  New  Jersey,  and  was  appointed  en- 
gineer in  charge  of  the  construction  of  a  num- 
ber of  the  macadam  roads  in  the  vicinity  of 
Moorestown.  He  became  connected  with  the 
Burlington  County  Safe  Depi)sit  and  Trust 
Company  soon  after  its  organization,  and  in 
1902  was  made  its  treasurer.  In  1903  he  was 
elected  vice-president  of  the  Moorestown  Na- 
tional Bank,  and  after  the  death  of  the  presi- 
dent in  1906  was  elected  to  the  presidency.  Mr. 
Li]ipincott  married  Tacie,  eldest  daughter  of 
the  late  Hon.  Chalkley  .Albertson,  of  Camden 
county,  and,  like  many  other  men,  owes  much 
of  his  success  to  the  good  counsel  and  help  of 
his  wife.  Their  home.  "Gillinghani  Place," 
near  Mt.  Laurel,  is  one  of  the  landmarks  of 
the  neighborhood. 


The  name  .Austin  is  an  old  Eng- 
.AL'STLX      lish    contraction    of    the    Latin 

-Augustinus,  the  cognomen  of 
the  family  of  .\ugustus.  and  meaning  origin- 
ally, "venerable."  "worthy  of  honor" ;  and  the 
family  that  bears  the  name  in  New  Jersey  have 
a  record  which  fully  bears  out  tlieir  right  to 
the  title,  from  the  time  that  the  founder  of  the 
family  arrived  among  the  earliest  of  the  set- 
tlers down  to  the  present  day. 

(I)    Francis    .Austin,    founder   of   the    fam- 


STATE   OF   NEW    JERSEY. 


541 


ily,  came  over  to  West  Jersey  from  England 
some  time  before  December  24,  1688,  when 
he  bought  fifty  acres  on  Birch  creek  from  John 
Antrani.  This  is  as  yet  the  first  Austin  record 
that  has  come  to  light.  May  3,  i(>8q,  Francis 
bought  another  fifty  acres  adjoining  his  first 
lot  from  Percival  Towle,  and  Xovember  i, 
1694,  he  sold  the  entire  one  hundred  acres  to 
Thomas  Scattergood  Jr.  In  all  of  these  deeds 
he  is  styled  as  a  resident  of  Burlington  and  a 
car{)enter.  Four  years  previous  to  the  sale 
of  this  land,  Francis  Austin  had  bought  an- 
other one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  Symon 
Charles.  .April  2.  1690.  and  this  he  in  turn  sold 
January  2,  1693,  to  George  Porter:  as  about 
a  month  previously,  December  10,  1694,  he 
had  purchased  from  Henry  and  Mary  Grubb 
and  Thomas  and  Abigail  Raper  a  large  farm 
of  three  hundred  and  fifty  acres  in  Evesham 
township,  on  which  he  finally  made  his  home 
and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  .About  a 
year  later  he  made  his  final  ac(|uisition  of  land 
by  buying  from  Thomas  W'ilkins,  whose  land 
adjoined  his  own,  a  small  tract  of  three  acres 
which  logically  went  with  his  own  property. 
Where  Francis  Austin  came  from  in  England 
has  not  yet  been  discovered,  but  he  emigrated 
to  this  country  as  a  young  man  accompanied  by 
his  sister.  Elizabeth,  who,  in  1692.  married 
Thomas,  son  of  Richard  and  Margaret  Haines, 
the  emigrants.  His  W'ill.  which  is  undated, 
was  proven  July  30,  1723.  the  inventory  of  his 
personal  estate,  amounting  to  £280,  having 
been  made  by  John  Sharp  and  Thomas  W'il- 
kins, the  preceding  day. 

In  1696  Francis  Austin  was  married  in  the 
Chester  monthly  meeting  to  Mary,  daughter 
of  John  and  .Ann  Borton.  the  emigrants,  who 
bore  him  ten  children,  the  last  one  being  post- 
huinous.  Children:  i.  Amos,  referred  to  be- 
low. 2.  William,  married  (first)  in  1741,  Mary 
Robeson,  and  (second)  in  1749.  Hannah 
Thomas.  3.  Jonathan,  married,  1747,  Rebecca 
Mason.  4.  Mary,  married,  as  her  first  husband, 
William  Sharp.  5.  Elizabeth,  married,  1719, 
Henry  Warrington.  6.  Sarah,  married.  1725, 
Xathan  Haines.  7.  Ann,  married,  1727,  Josiah 
.Albertson.  '  8.  Hannah,  married,  1735,  Will- 
iam Sharp.  9.  Martha,  married,  1744,  John 
Hughston.  10.  Francis,  married.  1748.  Deb- 
orah Allen. 

(II)  Amos,  eldest  son  of  Francis  and  Mary 
(Borton)  .Austin,  was  born  in  Evesham  town- 
ship, Burlington  county,  and  died  there  in 
1770.  his  will,  written  January  15.  1763,  being 
proven  by  affirmation  December  15,  of  that 
year.    In  1736,  the  license  being  obtained  Sep- 


tember 27,  he  married  Esther,  daughter  of 
Caleb  Haines  and  Sarah,  daughter  of  Henry 
and  Elizabeth  (Hudson)  Burr.  Caleb  was  the 
son  of  John,  son  of  Richard  and  Margaret 
Haines,  the  emigrants,  by  his  wife.  Esther, 
daughter  of  John  and  Aim  Borton,  the  emi- 
grants, and  sister  to  Mary,  wife  of  Francis 
.Austin  (I).  Children  of  Amos  and  Esther 
(Haines)  Austin:  i.  Caleb,  married,  1758, 
Lydia  Mason.  2.  Vesti,  married,  1754,  John 
Rogers.  3.  Mary,  married.  1761,  John  Somers. 
4.  Seth,  referred  to  below.  5.  Patience,  mar- 
ried, 1 77 1.  John  Alott.  6.  Esther,  married 
either  John  Wright  or  Isaac  Barber.  7.  Amos, 
Jr. 

(HI)  Seth.  fourth  child  and  second  son  of 
.Ainos  and  Esther  (Haines)  Austin,  was  bom 
in  Evesham  township,  and  died  in  1822,  in 
W'ellingborougli  township,  Burlington  county. 
His  father,  in  his  will,  left  him  "Plve  shillings, 
he  haveing  received  his  full  part  before  the 
(late  hereof."  In  his  own  will,  written  April  2, 
181 5.  when  he  was  "weak  of  body,"  he  disposes 
merely  of  his  moveable  property,  which  was 
inventoried  after  his  death  at  $1.079. 56)4, 
and  his  home  plantation,  which  he  leaves  to  his 
youngest  son,  Caleb,  on  condition  that  he  pays 
certain  legacies  to  his  brothers  and  sisters  men- 
tioned before.  He  mentions  his  wife,  but  only 
to  leave  her  $400.  a  clock,  and  provision  for 
her  maintenance.  Seth  Austin  was  married 
three  times  and  as  yet  it  is  impossible  to  deter- 
mine which  of  his  children  were  borne  him  by 
each  union.  The  first  four  were  undoubtedly 
by  the  first  wife,  Hannah,  and  possibly  the 
fifth  and  sixth.  The  seventh  was  undoubtedly 
by  his  second  wife,  Lydia  Xaylor,  whom  he 
married  in  1770,  and  she  may  have  been  the 
mother  of  his  three  youngest  children  also,  or 
one  or  all  of  these  may  have  been  the  chil- 
dren of  his  third  wife,  Sarah,  who  survived 
him.  Children  of  Seth  Austin:  i.  Letitia, 
who  is  said  to  have  married  an  Austin.  2. 
Cain,  referred  to  below.  3.  Seth.  4.  Hannah, 
married,  1795.  Thomas  Buzby.  3.  Vashti,  mar- 
ried a  Gardiner.  6.  Esther,  married  a  Hammel. 
7.  Lydia,  married  a  Naylor.  8.  Abigail,  mar- 
ried a  Pippit.    9.  Amos.     10.  Caleb. 

(IV)  Cain,  second  child  and  eldest  son  of 
Seth  and  Hannah  Austin,  was  born  in  W^ell- 
ingborough  township,  Burlington  county,  De- 
cember 2,  1766.  He  married  Tabitha.  daugh- 
ter of  Ilezekiah  and  Gertrude  (Hammel)  Gar- 
wood: children:  i.  .Samuel,  born  Xovember 
2C\  1789:  served  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  about 
1820  went  to  Ohio.  2.  Hannah,  May  i,  1792: 
married  William  Fenimore  Smith,  of  Burling- 


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ton.  3.  Hezekiali.  February  5,  1794;  served 
in  the  war  of  1812.  4.  Rebecca,  April  9,  1797; 
married  Pearson  Johnson.  5.  Gertrude,  Au- 
gust 2,  1799.  6.  Joseph,  X'ovember  25.  1801. 
7.  Seth,  May  17,  1804.  8.  David,  September 
24,  1806.  9.  Charles,  referred  to  below.  10. 
Esther,  July  26,  1814;  married  Josiah  Vennel. 
( \' )  Charles,  ninth  child  and  sixth  son  of 
Cain  and  Tabitha  (  Garwood)  Austin,  was  born 
at  Bridgeborough,  ijurlington  county,  June  4, 
1810.  He  married  Ann,  born  at  Rising  Sun 
village,    Philadelphia,    Pennsylvania,   February 

9,  1813,  and  still  living  (  1909),  daughter  of 
I'eter  and  Susanna  (Neglee)  Dull.  They  had 
ten  children,  only  two  of  wdiom  are  now  living: 
I.  Samuel  C.  2.  William.  3.  Evelyn.  4.  Ed- 
win. 5.  Miriam,  b.  .Ann  Elizabeth.  7.  Charles, 
now  a  sergeant  of  police  in  I'hiladelphia,  who 
married  Rosanna  Catherine  Segrest,  and  has 
one  child,  Miriam,  married  Morris  Simmons, 
of   Philadelphia.     8.    George    H.     9.    Lemuel. 

10.  Eliza,  referred  to  below. 

(Vl)  Eliza,  youngest  child  and  sixth  daugh- 
ter of  Charles  and  Ann  (Dull)  Austin,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  and  is 
now  living  in  that  city  at  1024  Brown  street, 
having  her  office  at  501  Witherspoon  building. 
For  her  early  education  she  was  sent  to  the 
public  schools  of  Philadelphia,  and  then  she 
entered  the  Pierce  Business  College.  Later 
she  became  connected  as  clerk  and  secretary 
with  several  religious  newspapers,  and  in  De- 
cember, 1898,  became  the  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  religious  magazine  entitled  Oz'cr 
Sea  and  Land,  published  by  the  Women's  Home 
and  P'oreign  Missionary  Society  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Church,  at  Philadelphia.  This  posi- 
tion she  is  now  holding. 


(I'or  preceding  generations  see  preceding  .sketcli). 

(\')  Seth  .Austin,  seventh  child 
AUSTIN  and  fourth  son  of  Cain  and 
Tabitha  ( (Garwood  )  Austin,  was 
bom  May  17,  1804.  He  married  Martha 
(Mathis)  Mathis,  daughter  of  Ilarzillai  and 
Elizalieth  (Edwards)  Alathis,  and  the  widow 
of  Samuel,  son  of  Hezekiah  Mathis,  to  whom 
she  had  borne  tw'o  children:  I.  i'^lnura,  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  Senderling,  and  had  two  daughters. 
2.  Robert.  Her  grandparents  were  James  Ed- 
wards, of  Barnegat,  and  Micajah.  son  of  John 
Mathis  (or  Matthews),  the  emigrant,  and  his 
wife,  .'Mice,  daughter  of  Edward  .Andrews,  the 
founder  of  Tuckerton,  and  widow  of  John 
Tligbee.  Her  grandmother  was  Mercy,  daugh- 
ter of  Joshua  and  Jane  Shreve,  of  Upper 
Springfield,    P>urlington   county.      Children   of 


Seth  and  Martha  (Mathis)  (Mathis)  Austin 
were:  i.  .Sarah,  married  (Jeorge  W.  William- 
stm.  of  Philadelphia,  and  had  children:  George 
W.,  William,  Mary,  Charles,  Anna,  Clara  and 
John.  2.  Charles  Seth,  referred  to  below.  3. 
Mary,  married  Thomas  Field,  of  Philadelphia, 
and  had  Martha,  Sarah,  Elizabeth,  Alary, 
Charles,  Emma,  Henry,  Alfred,  Edwin,  Wal- 
ter and  Austin. 

(\T)  Charles  Seth,  the  only  son  of  Seth 
and  .Martha  (Mathis)  (Mathis)  Austin,  lived 
in  Philadelphia,  and  was  for  twenty-five  years 
the  teller  of  the  People's  Bank  in  that  city.  He 

married    Margaret   Roe,   daughter   of  

and  Sarah  (Van  Home)  Brower ;  children: 
I.  Robert  Seth,  referred  to  below.  2.  William 
Putt.  3.  Charles  Seth,  Jr.  4.  Thomas  Jeffer- 
son, born  July  4,  1855.  5.  Martha,  married 
Frank  F'.  Fisher,  of  Tacony,  Philadelphia,  and 
has  two  children:  Roy  and  Linden.  6.  Mary 
Ellen.  7.  Ellen  Marcv  McClellan.  8.  George 
B.  McClellan. 

(VH)  Robert  Seth,  eldest  child  of  Charles 
.Seth  and  Margaret  Roe  (Brower)  Austin,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia.  .August  t6,  1849,  and  is 
now  living  in  that  city  with  his  office  in  room 
801,  of  the  Reading  Terminal  building,  on 
Market  street.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Philadelphia  and  the  Philadelphia  .Academy 
of  Fine  .Arts,  where  he  studied  art.  .After 
leaving  school  he  was  for  a  time  in  the  office 
of  Henry  Disston  &  Company,  the  saw  manu- 
facturers. He  next  learned  the  art  of  glass 
cutting  and  the  decorating  of  glass  globes.  Then 
he  became  coimected  with  the  Reading  railroad 
in  1866,  or  rather  at  that  time  the  road  that  he 
was  with  was  called  the  North  Pennsylvania 
railroad,  and  ran  from  F5ethlehem  to  Philadel- 
phia. Pennsylvania.  His  position  here  was 
that  of  liisjiatching  clerk.  This  road  subse- 
quently, in  1879,  became  a  part  of  the  Reading 
railroad  system,  and  Mr.  .Austin  became  chief 
clerk  in  the  auditor's  department  of  the  latter 
road,  with  his  offices  in  the  Reading  Terminal. 
He  has  been  for  over  forty  years  connected 
with  the  railroad  where  he  still  remains.  Mr. 
.Austin  is  a  Republican,  and  is  not  a  member 
of  anv  church  although  he  attends  the  Baptist 
and  .Methodist  churches.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  "Order  of  Spartans,"  a  member  of  the 
Reading  railroad  veteran  employees  associa- 
tion, em]iloyment  by  the  railroad  for  twenty- 
five  years  being  necessary  before  one  can  be 
eligible  to  this  association.  Mr.  Austin  was 
born  with  an  innate  natural  faculty  for  art  and 
painting.  This  fact  together  with  his  art 
studies  at  the  art  school  in  Philadelphia  have 


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made  it  possible  for  him  to  secure  a  number  of 
prizes  given  at  art  exhibitions  in  the  city  of 
Philadelphia  and  elsewhere,  notwithstanding 
his  responsible  position  as  chief  clerk  of  the 
auditing  department  of  the  Reading  railroad, 
which  of  course  requires  most  of  his  time  and 
attention.  Mr.  Austin  seems  to  have  quite  as 
nuicli  ability  as  a  marine  artist  as  a  landscape 
painter,  wliich  is  unusual. 

Robert  Seth  Austin  married  Mary  Lawson, 
who  is  now  dead.  Their  children  were:  i. 
George  Wise,  deceased  ;  married  Jennie  Cama- 
han,  and  has  two  children :  Mildred  and  Doro- 
thy. 2.  Charles  Seth,  married  Mazie  Weldon, 
and  has  Charles  Weldon,  Frank  Cody,  Bertha 
and  Russell.  3.  Robert  Matthew.  4.  Henry 
\\  ashington  Rihl,  now  living  in  Te.xas.  5. 
Margaretta,  died  at  the  age  of  seven  years. 


.•\  distinguished  family  of  this 
WOLCOTT  name  has  illuminated  the 
pages  of  New  England  his- 
tory, and  any  Wolcott  would  be  honored  by 
such  a  progenitor  as  Henry  Wolcott,  the  immi- 
grant, who  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Saunders, 
had  a  son,  Simon,  who  married  Martha  Pitkin 
before  1779.  They  were  honored  by  a  son, 
Roger,  who  was  bom  in  the  frontier  town  of 
Windsor,  Connecticut  colony,  January  4,  1679, 
was  made  a  member  of  the  general  assembly 
of  the  colony  in  1709;  was  placed  upon  the 
bench  of  justices  of  the  local  court  of  the 
colony  in  1710;  was  commissary  of  the  Con- 
necticut stores  in  the  expedition  against  Can- 
ada in  171 1  ;  was  a  member  of  the  colonial 
council  in  1714;  judge  of  the  county  court, 
1724;  of  the  superior  court  1732;  deputy  gov- 
ernor and  chief  justice  of  the  supreme  court 
in  1741.  He  was  commissioned  major  general 
in  the  expedition  against  Louisburg  in  1745, 
by  Governor  Shirley,  of  ^lassachusetts,  and 
held  rank  second  only  to  Pepperell.  On  re- 
turning from  that  e.xpedition  he  was  elected 
governor  of  Connecticut,  and  served  as  such 
175054.  He  died  in  Windsor,  May  17,  1767. 
His  son  by  his  wife,  Sarah  Drake,  Oliver,  born 
in  Windsor,  November  26,  1726,  was  a  grad- 
uate of  Yale ;  a  captain  in  the  volunteer  army 
sent  to  protest  the  north  frontier  against  the 
French  and  Indians  ;  became  a  student  of  metli- 
cine ;  was  the  first  sheriff  of  Litchfield  county, 
1751-71  ;  representative  in  the  general  assem- 
bly, 1764-70:  assistant  to  the  governor,  1771- 
86;  judge  of  the  court  of  probate,  1772-95; 
chief  judge  court  of  common  pleas,  1774-86; 
held  the  rank  of  colonel  in  the  state  militia 
for    1774;    delegate    to    continental    congress. 


1775-78:  one  of  the  immortal  signers  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  adopted  July  4, 
1776;  was  promoted  to  brigadier-general,  1779; 
member  of  continental  congress,  1780-83  ;  lieu- 
tenant governor  of  Connecticut,  1786-96:  gov- 
ernor of  the  state,  1796-97,  and  died  in  Litch- 
field. December,  1797.  His  son  by  his  wife, 
Lorroene  Collins,  to  whom  he  was  married, 
January  21,  1755,  was  named  Oliver  (2).  He 
was  born  in  Litchfield,  January  11,  1760;  grad- 
uating at  Yale,  class  of  1778;  served  with 
his  father  in  the  colonial  and  revolution- 
ary wars ;  was  member  of  the  committee 
of  the  pay-table,  1782-88;  comptroller  of 
public  accounts,  1788-89,  auditor,  1789- 
91  ;  comptroller  United  States  treasury,  1791- 
95 ;  secretary  of  the  United  States  treasury, 
'795-1800;  governor  of  Connecticut,  1817-27; 
and  died  in  New  York,  June  i,  1833.  His 
great-grandson  through  his  son,  Frederick,  and 
Elizabeth  Huntington,  his  grandson,  Joshua, 
and  Cornelia  Frothingham,  was  Roger  Wolcott, 
born  in  Boston,  July  13,  1847:  died  there  De- 
cember 21.  1900.  He  graduated  at  Harvard,  in 
the  class  of  1870:  was  lieutenant  governor  of 
Massachusetts,  1892-95;  governor,  1895-98. 
That  the  New  Jersey  Wolcotts  are  from  the 
same  stock  is  undoubted,  but  their  direct  con- 
nection with  Henry,  the  immigrant  ancestor  of 
the  Connecticut  W'olcotts,  has  not  been  estab- 
lished. The  first  known  ancestor  of  the  New 
Jersey  Wolcotts  is  .Samuel  Wolcott  (  see  for- 
ward I . 

(I)  Samuel  Wolcott  died  at  Tintonfalls,  in 
the  township  of  Shrewsbury,  Monmouth  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  about  1693  or  1694.  He  ap- 
parently married  a  Widow  Williams  who 
brought  him  a  stepson,  Edward  Williams.  She 
also  gave  birth  by  her  marriage  to  Samuei 
Wolcott  to  a  son,  Nathaniel  (see  forward) 
who  became  the  progenitor  of  all  the  Wolcotts 
in  New  Jersey,  except  those  who  came  within 
the  last  century  from  Connecticut,  and  who 
have  an  established  line  of  descent  from 
Henry,  of  Windsor,  Connecticut. 

(HI)  Peter,  probably  son  of  Nathaniel,  and 
grandson  of  Samuel  Wolcott,  had  a  son,  Henry, 
see  forward. 

(I\')  Henry,  son  of  Peter  Wolcott,  was 
born  in  Shrewsbury  township,  New  Jersey, 
about  1690;  died  in  1750.  He  married  but  the 
name  of  his  wife  is  not  known.  He  had  a  son, 
Benjamin,  see  forward. 

(  \' )  Benjamin,  son  of  Henry  Wolcott,  was 
bom  in  Shrewsbury,  New  Jersey,  July  18. 
1724:  died  in  1790.  He  married  (first)  in 
1749,   Rachel   Wainwright,   who  died   without 


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issue.  He  married  (second)  February  zj , 
1753,  Clementine  Cook,  and  among  their  chil- 
dren was  Benjamin,  see  forward. 

(\T)  Benjamin  (2),  eldest  son  of  Benjamin 
(i)  and  Clementine  (Cook)  Wolcott.  was 
born  1758;  married  .A.nn  Lewis,  and  their  first 
son  was  Benjamin,  see  forward. 

(\TI)  Benjamin  (3),  eldest  son  of  Ben- 
jamin (21  and  Ann  (Lewis)  Wolcott,  was 
born  in  Shrewsbury,  Monmouth  county,  New 
Jersey,  1789.  He  married  I'hebe,  daughter  of 
JetTrey,  and  they  lived  in  Eatontown,  Mon- 
mouth county.  New  Jersey,  where  their  son 
Edmond,  see  forward,  was  born. 

(VTH)  Edmond,  son  of  Benjamin  (3)'  and 
Phebe  (Jeffrey)  Wolcott,  was  born  in  Eaton- 
town,  Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey,  May,i4, 
1816.  He  married  .Sarah  Ann,  daughter  of 
John  and  Sarah  Dangler,  and  they  had  a  son 
William  Henry,  see  forward. 

(IXj  William  Henry,  son  of  Edmond  and 
Sarah  Ann  (Dangler)  Wolcott,  was  born  in 
Eatontown,  Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey, 
February  15,  1846.  He  was  a  farmer  of 
Eatontown,  where  he  spent  his  life,  and  died 
January  21,  1889.  He  was  a  member  of  In- 
dependent Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  He  mar- 
ried Martha  M.,  daughter  of  Charles  W.  and 
Mary  A.  Higginson,  of  Shropshire,  England, 
and  they  had  two  children,  born  in  Eatontown, 
New  Jersey,  as  follows:  i.  Edith  Maude, 
March  20,  1877,  unmarried.  2.  Wilfred  Bon- 
sieur,  see  forward, 

(X)  Wilfred  Bonsieur,  only  son  and  second 
child  of  William  Henry  and  Martha  AL  (Hig- 
ginson) Wolcott,  was  born  in  Eatontown, 
Monmouth  county,  .New  Jersey,  March  11, 
1880.  He  was  a  student  in  the  public  schools 
of  Eatontown,  the  high  school  of  Long  Branch, 
New  Jersey,  graduating  in  the  class  of  1897, 
and  from  the  LTniversity  of  Pennsylvania,  de- 
partment of  law,  LL.  B.,  1900.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  New  Jersey  bar  November,  1901, 
as  an  attorney,  and  was  made  a  counsellor  in 
November,  1904,  in  conformity  with  the  laws 
of  the  state  which  impose  a  legal  practice  of 
three  years  as  an  attorney-at-law,  before  being 
admitted  as  an  attorney  and  counsellor-at- 
law,  at  which  time  they  come  into  general 
practice  in  all  the  courts  of  the  state.  He  was 
appointed  assistant  city  council  of  the  city  of 
Camden,  January  i,  1907,  and  was  made  a 
member  of  the  Camden  County  Bar  Associa- 
tion, and  of  the  Camden  Rejjublican  Club.  He 
affiliated  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows  through  membership  in  Amity  Lodge, 
No.   1 06,  of  Camden,  New  Jersey,  and   with 


the  Junior  Order  of  American  Mechanics 
through  the  membership  in  Diamond  Council, 
No.  14,  of  Swedesboro,  New  Jersey.  His  col- 
lege affiliations  include  membership — the 
.A.lumni  .Association  of  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania and  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the 
Law  Department  of  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania. His  church  affiliation  is  with  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  denomination  through 
membership  in  the  Alethodist  Episcopal  church 
of  Merchantville,  New  Jersey. 

He  married,  March  18,  1902,  Mary  Aline, 
daughter  of  J.  Howard  and  Lydia  Kirkbride, 
of  Camden,  New  Jersey.  Children,  born  in 
Merchantville,  New  Jersey,  as  follows:  i. 
Mary,  August  20,  1904.  2.  Wilfred  Bon- 
sieur (2),  May  17,  1906. 


This  family  was  founded  in 
CAMPION  New  Jersey  by  a  boy  who 
came  over  as  an  apprentice 
and  was  associated  with  the  Quakers,  although 
he  does  not  seem  to  have  been  a  member  of 
the  society.  Many  of  his  descendants  now  re- 
side in  the  vicinity  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  settled. 

(I )  John  Campion  is  supposed  to  have  been 
born  in  Northamjitonshire,  England.  Accord- 
ing to  the  family  tradition,  he  came  from 
Yorkshire,  which  seems  very  probable,  as  the 
party  with  which  he  came  doubtless  sailed 
from  the  town  of  Hull  in  Yorkshire.  He  was 
probably  less  than  fifteen  years  of  age  on  his 
arrival,  and  he  lived  as  an  apprentice  in  the 
home  of  John  Eves,  whose  wife,  Mary 
(Stokes)  Eves,  was  born  in  Northampton- 
shire and  it  is  supposed  that  John  Campion 
came  under  the  instruction  of  John  Eves 
through  the  relatives  of  the  latter's  wife.  As 
a  member  of  the  Eves  household,  young  Cam- 
pion undoubtedly  attended  the  Friends  Meet- 
ings. He  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter  under 
the  instruction  of  Eves,  and  after  the  latter's 
sudden  death  he  received  a  legacy  by  will  dated 
June  25,  1738.  Campion  evidently  continued 
to  reside  in  Evesham  township,  where  he  was 
married  by  license,  May  12,  1752,  to  Mary, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Shinn)  Eves, 
of  Evesham  (see  Eves  II).  She  was  a  birth- 
right Friend,  and  in  1759  she  made  acknowl- 
edgement of  marriage  out  of  meeting  at  the 
Evesham  meeting  and  was  received  again  into 
full  membership  of  the  society.  About  1760 
John  Campion  moved  to  the  neighborhood  of 
P)Urlington,  and  in  1762  his  wife  presented  a 
certificate  of  removal  from  the  Evesham  meet- 
ing to  that  of  Burlington,      in  1766  and  1767, 


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by  two  purchases,  John  Campion  aceiuirt-d 
from  Jacob,  and  WiUiani  Wills,  respectively, 
two  tracts  of  land  amounting  to  one  hundred 
and  fourteen  acres  together  with  a  dwelling 
house.  This  plantation  is  located  in  what  was 
then  the  eastern  part  of  Northampton  town- 
ship, now  Southampton  township,  about  one 
mile  northeast  of  the  village  of  X'inccntown. 
The  house  has  been  somewhat  altered  but  is 
still  standing  and  occupied  by  Harry  Bowne, 
the  present  owner.  Here  John  Campion  re- 
sided and  died  between  July  22  and  August  13, 
1774,  the  dates  respectively  of  signing  and  pro- 
bating of  his  will.  His  younger  brother, 
Richard  Campion,  born  1733,  came  to  New 
Jersey,  but  the  date  of  his  arrival  does  not 
ajjpear.  He  was  married  March  22,  1753.  by 
license,  to  Sarah  Borradaille.  In  December, 
1767,  he  was  accidentally  shot  while  duck 
hunting  at  Long  Beach,  New  Jersey,  and  let- 
ters of  administration  were  granted  to  his 
brother,  John  Campion,  and  his  widow,  Sarah 
Campion,  January  8,  1768.  John  Campion's 
wife  died  before  him.  Children:  Joseph, 
mentioned  below  ;  Sarah,  married,  November 
23,  1777,  Joab,  son  of  IJeiijamiii  and  Eliza- 
beth (Carter)  Jones. 

(H)  Joseph,  only  son  of  John  and  Mary 
(Eves)  Campion,  was  born  March  26,  1753, 
in  Evesham,  died  September  23,  1829,  on  his 
father's  plantation  in  Southampton,  which  he 
inherited.  He  was  not  a  birthright  Quaker, 
but  applied  November  6,  iJ/S-  to  the  Burling- 
ton Monthly  Meeting  for  admittance  to  the 
Society,  and  after  examination  by  a  committee 
appointed  for  that  purpose  he  was  admitted 
the  following  month.  He  was  married  by 
Friend  ceremony  early  in  1776,  probably  at  the 
home  of  the  bride,  to  Mary,  daughter  of  Fran- 
cis and  Zilpha  \'enicomb.  Shortly  after  his 
marriage  he  took  up  residence  upon  his 
father-in-law's  plantation  and  there  continued 
until  the  death  of  Mr.  Venicomb  in  1785,  after 
which  he  returned  to  his  own  plantation  and 
continued  there  the  remainder  of  his  life.  In 
accordance  with  the  principles  of  the  Friends, 
he  took  no  part  in  the  revolutionary  war  and 
seems  not  to  have  participated  in  the  manage- 
ment of  civil  aflfairs,  though  he  enjoyed  the 
respect  and  confidence  of  the  community  and 
served  frequently  as  executor  and  adminis- 
trator of  estates.  During  the  last  fourteen 
years  of  his  life,  he  was  confined  to  the  house 
with  palsy,  an  affliction  which  he  bore  with 
great  patience  and  composure  of  mind.  He 
survived  his  wife,  who  was  born  December  4, 
1755,  died  April  13,  1826,  and  both  were  buried 


in  the  burying  ground  at  the  meeting  house  in 
Mount  Holh'.  Children:  i.  Sarah,  born  No- 
vember 10,  1776;  married,  February  2,  1802, 
William  Penn  Horner;  died  December  5,  1853. 

2.  John,  mentioned  below.  3.  Richard,  May 
23,  1782;  was  a  prominent  business  man,  mem- 
ber of  state  assembly  and  of  the  governor's 
council,  died  in  Alarch,  1850.  4.  Francis, 
April  24,  1784,  died  June  21,  1841.  5.  Joseph, 
September  13,  1786,  died  April  29,  1861.  6. 
Stacy  Budd,  mentioned  below.  7.  William, 
June  30,   1793,  died  August  9,  1827. 

(HI)   John   (2),  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  (  \  enicomb)  Campion,  was  born  March 

3,  1779,  in  Southampton,  died  March  19,  1855. 
He  was  educated  in  the  country  schools  of 
Northampton,  and  was  still  a  boy  when  ap- 
prenticed to  Benjamin  Hooton,  a  hatter  of 
Philadelphia,  whose  residence  and  shop  was 
No.  14  North  Second  street.  The  confining 
work  of  a  hatter  was  distasteful  to  Campion, 
and  after  completing  his  apprenticeship  he 
returned  to  the  active  out-door  life  of  the 
farm.  He  rented  from  Benjamin  Cooper  a 
farm  adjacent  to  that  of  his  father,  on  which 
he  resided  until  his  retirement.  He  married, 
P'ebruary  2,  1804,  Sarah  Hall,  born  May  13, 
1782,  died  November  3,  1830,  daughter  of  James 
and  Sarah  (Wynne)  Hall.  James  Hall  was  a 
native  of  London,  a  clock  maker  by  trade,  and 
settled  in  Germantown,  Pennsylvania,  where 
he  married  in  1772  Sarah,  daughter  of  John 
and  Sarah  (Pastorius)  Wynne,  of  that  place. 
.\fter  the  death  of  his  wife,  his  daughter 
Sarah  removed  to  the  home  of  her  mother's 
sister,  Anne,  wife  of  Thomas  (2)  Hooton,  of 
Burlington,  New  Jersey.  The  latter  was  a 
nephew  of  John  Campion's  preceptor,  and  was 
also  a  hatter  by  trade.  Here  Sarah  Hall  met 
John  Campion  to  whom  she  was  married  by 
Samuel  Bispham,  a  justice  of  the  peace.  She 
was  well  educated,  wrote  a  fine  hand  and  her 
gracious  manners  and  charming  disposition 
won  the  love  and  respect  of  the  community. 
Her  death  was  caused  by  consumption  after 
many  years  of  suflfering  and  she  was  buried 
in  the  Friends  burying  ground  at  Mount  Holly, 
.^fter  all  her  children  were  married,  her  hus- 
band retired  and  resided  with  his  brother, 
Stacy  B.,  at  Campion's  Hotel,  at  Mount  Holly, 
and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  either  there 
or  with  one  or  another  of  his  children.  They 
were:  i.  Charles  Hall,  born  February  2,  1805, 
died  February  2,  1840.  2.  James,  June  10, 
1806.  died  February  14,  1836.  3.  Joseph  Hall, 
mentioned  below.  4.  Sarah,  April  9,  1813; 
married,   March   31,    1835,   Rev.   Josiah   Flint 


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Canfield ;  died  January  22,.  1840.  5.  Benja- 
min Cooper,  Alarch  14,  181 5,  died  February 
2.  1898.  6.  Elizabeth,  .March  22,  1817;  mar- 
ried, Xovember  2,  1840,  George  Dugdale ; 
died  November  g,  1844.  7.  Rebecca,  died  aged 
two  years. 

(IV;  Joseph  Hall,  third  son  of  John  and 
Sarah  (Hall)  Campion,  was  born  June  12, 
1808,  in  Southampton,  died  December  i,  1895, 
in  Philadelphia.  He  was  educated  at  the 
country  schools  in  Northampton  ;  he  was  so 
small  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years  that  his  father 
believed  he  would  never  grow  large  enough 
to  engage  in  the  arduous  labors  of  the  farm. 
He  accordingly  apprenticed  him  to  learn  the 
trade  of  cabinet-maker  under  the  instruction 
of  Mr,  William  Fling,  of  Philadelphia,  whose 
place  of  business  was  located  at  435  Chestnut 
street  ( old  number ) .  He  became  rapidly 
skilled  in  the  use  of  tools  and  developed  a 
taste  for  mechanics,  largely  inherited  from 
several  of  his  forebears.  He  grew  in  body  to 
such  an  e.xtent  that  although  slender  he  stood 
nearly  six  feet  in  height.  He  was  very  active 
and  particularly  fond  of  athletics,  being  a  very 
proficient  skater  upon  ice.  After  completing 
his  term  of  apprenticeship  he  took  emjjloyment 
with  John  ^lillington,  civil  engineer  and  ma- 
chinist, formerly  a  professor  of  mathematics 
in  the  Royal  Institute  of  Great  Piritain  and  of 
natural  philosophy  in  Gays  Hospital,  London. 
Mr.  Millington  engaged  in  business  in  Phila- 
delphia as  an  importer  and  manufacturer  of 
engineering  supplies.  Mr.  Campion  did  not 
remain  long  with  him.  Upon  leaving  this  em- 
ployment, Mr.  Campion  received  from  him  a 
letter  of  recommendation,  saying  in  part,  "He 
is  an  excellent  workman  of  very  steady  and 
industrious  habits  and  perfectly  sober,  honest, 
and  honorable  in  all  his  dealings,  and  quite 
worthy  of  the  confidence  of  any  person  with 
whom  he  may  form  an  engagement  of  busi- 
ness, besides  which,  he  is  of  a  good  tempered 
and  obliging  disposition.  The  only  reason  of 
our  parting  was  his  desire  to  travel  and  visit 
tiie  different  parts  of  his  native  country,  and 
as  I  part  with  him  with  regret,  I  voluntarily 
and  without  his  request,  offer  him  this  testi- 
monial of  my  regard  for  liim  and  my  appro- 
bation of  his  conduct,  while  he  was  with  me. 
thinking  it  might  prove  of  use  to  him  in  any 
new  connections  he  may  fonn  with  strangers, 
who  would  be  unable  to  appreciate  his  merits 
before  they  became  ac(|uaint«!  with  him." 
Mr.  Campion  traveled  for  a  time  through  the 
south  and  returned  in  1834  to  Philadelphia, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  furn- 


iture in  partnership  with  Thomas  Moore  under 
the  style  of  Aloore  &  Campion,  their  factory 
and  offices  being  located  at  261  South  Second 
.street.  P'or  thirty-five  years  this  business  was 
successfully  conducted,  and  when  the  pro- 
prietors retired  it  was  continued  several  years 
by  ^Ir.  Campion's  son,  in  partnership  with  an- 
other under  the  firm  name  of  Smith  &  Cam- 
pion. Joseph  H.  Campion  was  a  Republican 
in  [jolitics  and  an  abolitionist,  but  took  no 
active  part  in  the  war  of  the  rebellion.  He 
became  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club 
of  Philadel|.)hia  shortly  after  its  formation. 
He  resided  for  many  years  at  236  Pine  street, 
Philadelphia,  whence  he  removed  to  327  South 
Seventeenth  street,  where  his  death  occurred 
at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-eight  years,  hav- 
ing survived  his  wife  for  a  period  of  sixteen 
years.  He  married,  January  17,  1839,  Martha 
Reeve,  born  December  28,  i8i(),  died  Septem- 
ber 30,  1879,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Sarah 
(  Sleeper  )  Reeve.  Both  are  buried  in  the  fam- 
ily lot  in  South  Laurel  Hill  cemetery,  Phila- 
delphia. Children:  i.  John  W.,  born  Febru- 
ary 29,  1840,  died  January  7,  1907.  2.  Rich- 
ard Reeve,  February  1 1,  1842,  died  February 
2,  1881.     3.  Harry  Clifford,  mentioned  below. 

(\')  Harry  Clifford,  third  son  of  Joseph 
Hall  and  Martha  (Reeve)  Campion,  was  born 
.\ugust  13,  184O,  in  Philadelphia,  died  Novem- 
ber 15,  1905,  in  that  city.  He  was  educated 
at  the  Friends  Central  School  at  Philadelphia, 
and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  years  entered  the 
employ  of  Joel  Bailey  &  Company,  where  he 
continued  six  years.  i\s  a  result  of  a  severe 
strain,  lie  was  obliged  to  take  a  vacation  in  the 
year  iSixj  and  traveled  through  the  far  west, 
spending  considerable  time  in  California.  On 
his  return  to  Philadelphia  he  engaged  in  busi- 
ness with  his  brother,  John  W.  Campion,  and 
so  continued  until  the  time  of  his  death,  which 
was  the  result  of  an  accident.  He  married, 
April  28,  1877,  Ann  Mary  Keen,  born  De- 
cember 18,  1850,  daughter  of  James  Styles 
and  Emily  Eliza  (Catherwood)  Keen.  She, 
with  an  only  son,  survives  him. 

(VI)  Harry  Clifford  (2),  only  son  of 
Harry  Clifford  (i  )  and  .\nn  Mary  (Keen) 
Campion,  was  born  February  13,  1878,  in 
Philadelphia,  and  resitles  in  IVIedia,  Delaware 
county.  Pennsylvania.  He  married,  June  16, 
1903,  Mable  Maria  Cam])ion,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam H.  and  Emma  Jane  (  Shepard  )  Campion. 
Children:  .\nn  Louise,  born  June  5,  1904; 
Richard  Reeve,  Alay  7,  1906;  John  Wynne, 
September  30,  1907,  died  before  one  year  old; 
Emma  Jane,  March  i,  1909. 


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(  III  I  Stacy  Biidd,  fifth  son  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  (  X'enicomb)  Campion,  was  born  August 
17,  1791,  in  Southampton,  died  April  16,  1866, 
in  Camden,  Xew  Jersey.  He  was  named  for 
his  father's  family  physician,  a  famous  prac- 
tician residing  in  .Mount  Holly.  Stacy  I!. 
Campion  attended  the  public  schools  near  his 
home,  and  early  engaged  in  business  with 
Henry  Burr,  Jr.,  at  Lumberton,  New  Jersey, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Campion  &  Burr. 
This  partnership  was  dissolved  June  13,  1820, 
and  the  business  was  continued  by  Mr.  Cam- 
pion for  a  few  years.  Before  1828  he  re- 
moved to  Mount  Holly  where  he  succeedeil 
Griffith  Owen  as  proprietor  of  the  Black  Horse 
Tavern,  which  formerly  stood  on  the  east  side 
of  Main  street,  one  door  above  Mill  street.  In 
the  year  1833  Mr.  Campion  purchased  the 
State  -Arms  Hotel,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the 
street,  occupying  the  southern  portion  of  the 
ground  now  occupied  by  the  Arcade  Hotel. 
This  historic  old  hostelry  has  been  continu- 
ously in  business  since  before  the  revolution- 
ary war  and  on  its  ancient  sign  board  was 
painted  the  arms  of  the  state  of  New  Jersey, 
with  the  motto:  "Peace,  Liberty  and  Safety." 
Mr.  Campion  enlarged  the  hotel  to  double  its 
former  size  and  conducted  it  five  years,  at  the 
end  of  which  time  he  sold  out  and  removed  to 
a  farm  near  X'incentown.  In  1843  '"-^  went 
to  Camden,  New  Jersey,  where  he  rented  the 
Cooper's  Point  ferry  property  and  hotel  of 
William  Cooper  and  was  succeeded  by  William 
Cooper's  grandson,  William  Wood  Cooper, 
who  had  married  his  only  surviving  daughter. 
Returning  to  Mount  Holly,  Mr.  Campion  jnir- 
chased  the  Washington  Hotel,  sometimes 
called  the  Upper  Hotel,  and  continued  there  in 
business  for  alxnit  ten  years.  At  the  end  of 
this  period,  he  sold  out  to  Morgan  Lippincott 
and  returned  to  Camden.,  where  he  lived  in  re- 
tirement until  his  death.  He  was  a  man  of 
very  genial,  hospitable  manner,  and  well- 
known  throughout  the  state  particularly 
among  the  members  of  the  legal  profession, 
many  of  whom  were  his  guests  while  attending 
court  at  Mount  Holly.  He  served  as  one  of 
the  assessors  of  Northampton  township  in 
1840-41-42.  He  married,  June  20,  1820, 
Maria  Dungan,  born  February  9,  1799,  died 
February  19,  1886,  daughter  of  Josiah  and 
Alary  ( Butterworth)  Dungan,  of  New  Mills 
(now  Pemberton).  She  was  a  Baptist  by 
birth,  joined  the  society  of  Friends  after  her 
marriage  and  was  a  ])rominent  member  of  the 
Mount  Holly  Meeting,  being  custodian  of  the 
records    for   many  years.     She    survived   her 


husband  almost  twenty  years.  Children;  i. 
Richard,  died  in  infancy.  2.  Mary  Dungan, 
died  young.  3.  Rebecca  \enicomb,  diecl 
young.  4.  Ann  Butterworth,  born  October  9, 
1825;  married,  November  8,  1849,  William 
Ciioper;  died  I'\>bruary  i(>.  1883.  5.  William, 
died  young.  (>.  Stacy  Budd,  November  30, 
1833,  died  April  25,  '1896.  7.  John  C,  died 
young.  8.  William  Henry,  August  14,  1838, 
died  July  22,  1898.  9.  Harrison,  February  i, 
1840.     10.    Richard,    mentioned   below. 

(I\")  Richard,  youngest  child  of  Stacy 
P>udd  and  Maria  ( Dungan )  Campion,  was 
boni  August  13,  1842,  on  his  father's  farm 
near  V'incentown,  and  attended  the  schools 
of  his  native  locality  and  also  received  private 
instruction.  At  an  early  age  he  entered  a 
dry  goods  store  on  Market  street,  Philadel- 
phia, where  he  continued  seven  years  and  be- 
came familiar  with  the  business.  For  three 
years  succeeding  this  jieriod  he  was  engaged 
in  the  same  business  on  his  own  account  in 
Philadelphia.  In  1869  he  became  a  manu- 
facturer of  worsted  yarns,  and  is  still  identi- 
fied with  this  industry,  his  office  being  located 
at  Chestnut  street  in  Philadelphia.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  National  Association  of 
Woolen  Manufacturers,  and  of  the  American 
Priitective  League.  Mr.  Campion  enlisted  a.-- 
a  soldier  of  the  civil  war  at  Philadelphia  in 
1862,  in  what  was  known  as  Star's  Battery, 
and  was  attached  to  the  First  Regiment  of 
Pennsylvania  Volunteers.  He  is  a  member  of 
Meade  Post,  No.  i.  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public, of  Philadelphia,  and  the  Veteran  Corps, 
and  is  president  of  the  New  Jersey  Society  of 
Pennsylvania.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
I'nion  League  Club;  Rittcnhouse  Club  of 
Philadelphia:  Hartford  Club  of  Hartford. 
Connecticut ;  Hope  Club  of  Providence,  Rhode 
Island :  and  Home  Market  Club  of  Boston, 
Massachusetts.  He  is  a  member  and  vice- 
president  of  the  Manufacturers'  Club  of  Phila- 
delphia ;  the  Pennsylvania  Historical  Society 
and  the  Pennsylvania  Genealogical  Society. 
Mr.  Campion  is  an  ardent  Republican,  and  has 
recently  been  appointed  a  member  of  the  in- 
ternal water  ways  commission  of  Pennsylva- 
nia. 

He  married,  June  8,  1886,  Susan  Hulme 
Grundy,  born  October  25,  1848,  daughter  of 
Edward  N.  and  Emma  (Shoemaker)  Grundv, 
of  Philadelphia. 

(The    Eves    Line). 

This  is  an  early  New  Jersey  family  which 
came  with  the  early  Quakers  and  settled  upon 


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STATE    OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


the  Delaware  river.  Its  descendants  are  still 
numerous  in  Burlington  county  in  the  vicinity 
of  the  first  settlement  and  are  settled  through 
other  regions. 

( ]  )  Thomas  Eves  came  from  London  to 
llurlington.  New  Jersey,  among  the  first  ar- 
rivals of  that  Quaker  settlement  upon  the 
Delaware.  That  he  came  for  religious  free- 
dom cannot  be  doubteo,  but  that  he  was  a 
native  of  London  is  certain,  although  people 
of  that  name  were  living  there  at  the  time. 
It  is  probable  that  for  a  few  years  he  lived 
in  the  town  of  Burlington  where  he  had  taken 
up  a  town  lot  as  part  of  his  one  thirty-second 
of  a  proprietary  share  of  (one  one-hundredth 
part)  West  Jersey.  On  September  29,  1680, 
he  located  by  survey  a  tract  of  thirty  acres, 
and  January  12,  1682,  a  tract  of  one  hun- 
dred acres,  the  former  at  Assiscumct,  now 
called  Mill  Creek,  and  the  latter  at  Rancocas 
Creek  in  what  is  now  Willingboro  township 
of  Burlington  county.  He  removed  to  this 
before  February  6,  1683,  and  there  in  the  year 
1708  his  wife  and  two  sons,  Daniel  and  Ben- 
jamin, died  and  were  buried  in  the  Friends' 
burial  ground  at  Rancocas.  The  winter  of 
this  year  was  very  severe,  the  frost  at  times 
penetrating  to  the  depth  of  four  feet,  and  it 
is  quite  probable  that  these  three  deaths  oc- 
curred from  some  contagious  disease,  pos- 
sibly small  pox,  to  which  disease  many  of  the 
whites  and  Indians  fell  victims.  Thomas 
Eves  took  other  lands  in  Burlington  county 
which  completed  his  one-thirty-second  of  a 
proprietary  share,  some  of  which  lay  in  what 
was  always  called  Evesham  township,  being 
named  after  his  family.  After  the  marriage 
and  settlement  of  all  his  sons  he  removed  to 
this  township  and  there  died  in  the  fall  of 
1728.  Children:  I.  Thomas,  died  April, 
1757.  2.  John,  died  March,  1740.  3.  Daniel, 
born  in  Willingboro,  1681,  died  1708.  4. 
Samuel,  mentioned  below.  5.  Benjamin,  born 
1686,  died  1708.  6.  Ann,  born  1689;  married, 
November  10,  1709,  James  Lippincott.  7. 
Dorothy,  married  Jacob  Hewlings. 

(in  Samuel,  fourth  son  of  Thomas  and 
Anna  Eves,  was  born  July  20,  1684,  in  Will- 
ington  township,  died  in  Evesham,  February, 
1759.  He  was  a  farmer  and  resided  in  Eve- 
sham, being  a  member  of  the  meeting  of 
Friends  of  that  name.  He  married  (first) 
Deceml)er  2,  1713,  Jane  Wills,  born  1692,  died 
1716,  daughter  of  John  and  Hope  (Delefast) 
Wills.  lie  married  (second)  in  November, 
1721.  Mary  Shinn,  l)orn  1694,  daughter  of 
George   and    Mary    (Thompson)    Shiim,   who 


sur\'ived  him.  Children  of  second  marriage : 
I.  Anne,  married  her  cousin,  Jonathan  Lippin- 
cott, son  of  James  and  Ann  (Eves)  Lippin- 
cott. 2.  John,  died  1772.  3.  Joseph,  married 
Rebecca  Haines.  4.  Mary,  married,  May  12, 
1752,  John  Campion,  of  Evesham  (see  Cam- 
pion, I ). 

Salem,  Massachusetts 
THORNE-THORN  Bay  Colony,  was  es- 
tablished August  23, 
1630,  and  was  looked  upon  as  the  permanent 
seaport  of  Massachusetts  Bay.  This  fact  at- 
tracted the  attention  of  English  capitalists  and 
men  of  family  desiring  to  leave  England  either 
for  political  or  religious  lietterment ;  so,  as  no 
bounds  had  been  set,  the  land-seekers,  not  in- 
terested in  the  merchant  marine,  settled  both 
north  and  south  of  Salem  harbor  and  the  town 
of  Saugiis  was  established  July  5,  163 1,  and  in 
1635,  the  bounds  between  Saugus  and  Salem 
were  defined.  On  November  20,  1637,  Sau- 
gus took  the  name  of  Lynn  and  among  the 
adventurous  spirits  of  this  time  among  its  set- 
tlers was  William  Thorne  (q.  v.).  The  name 
has  the  usual  number  of  spellings  and  the  dif- 
ferent branches  of  the  same  family  could  not 
agree  as  to  using  or  dropping  the  final  e  and 
the  same  is  true  to  this  day.  The  immigrant 
and  the  next  three  generations  spelled  the 
name  T-h-o-r-n-c,  and  those  who  went  to  West 
Jersey  dropped  the  final  e,  making  it  T-h-o-r-n 
and  we  shall  observe  this  distinction  in  the 
following  sketch  of  William  Thorne  and  his 
descendants. 

(I)  William  Thorne  came  probably  from 
Essex.  England,  and  was  made  a  freeman  of 
Lynn,  Massachusetts,  May  2,  1638,  and  the 
same  year  had  "thirty  and  ten"  acres  of  land 
apportioned  him  in  that  town.  We  ne.xt  find 
him  in  Flushing,  Long  Island,  in  1645,  as  one 
of  the  eighteen  original  patentees  of  the  town, 
the  patent  having  been  granted  by  Governor- 
General  Keift,  October  19,  1645.  The  list  of 
grantees  were :  Thomas  Applegate.  Thomas 
Beddord,  Laurina  Dutch,  Robert  Field, 
Thomas  Farrington,  Robert  Firman,  Edward 
Hart,  John  Hicks,  John  Lawrence,  William 
Lawrence,  John  Marston,  Michael  Millord, 
William  Pidgeon,  Thomas  Saul,  Henry  Sau- 
telle,  Thomas  Stiles,  John  Townsend  and  Will- 
iam Thorne,  and  according  to  Onderdonk  the 
date  was  October  10,  1645.  In  1646  William 
Thorne  was  granted  a  plantation  lot  in  the 
town  of  Gravesend,  Long  Island,  of  which  lot. 
Lady  Deborah  Moody,  her  son,  Sir  Henry 
Moody,   Ensign   George   Baxter  and  Sergeant 


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Hubbard  had  received  a  general  patent  Decem- 
ber i6,  1645.  In  1647  William  Thorne  was 
one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  town  of  Jamaica, 
Long  Island,  which  had  been  conveyed  to  the 
white  settlers  in  1646.  He  probably  resided  in 
Jamaica  for  a  long  time,  as  his  daughter  Sus- 
annah Thorne  "of  Jamaica"  married  John 
Loctierson  (  or  Ockerson  ),  of  Flushing.  Will- 
iam Thorne  Senior  and  William  Thorne 
Junior  (probably  at  the  time  a  boy  in  years, 
as  he  only  made  his  mark)  were  among  the 
thirty-one  signers  of  a  remonstrance  to  Gov- 
ernor-General Stuyvesant  against  severe  treat- 
ment of  the  Quakers.  This  remonstrance 
was  drawn  up  in  a  [Meeting  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  under  the  large  oak  tree  wliere 
George  Fox  preached  in  167 1,  in  Flushing,  De- 
cember 27,  1657.  The  four  sons  of  William 
Thorne  and  his  wife,  whose  name  is  not  on 
record,  were  probably  named  in  the  order  of 
their  birth:  William,  John  ( q.  v.),  Joseph, 
Samuel,  and  their  only  daughter  was  Susan- 
nah, who  married  at  Jamaica,  July  10,  1667, 
John  Lockerson  (or  Ockerson).  It  is  gener- 
ally believed  that  both  William  Thorne  and  his 
wife  were  buried  in  the  burial  grounds  of  the 
Friends'  Meeting  House  at  Flushing,  Long 
Island,  built  in  1695  and  still  standing  in  ex- 
cellent condition  as  originally  erected,  the  re- 
pairs being  made  in  conformity  with  the  ma- 
terial used  in  building.  On  the  separation  of 
the  Hicksites  in  1827,  the  Meeting  House 
passed  into  the  hands  of  the  Hicksites  Friends. 
(II)  John,  second  son  of  William  Thorne. 
the  immigrant,  was  made  a  "freeman  of  Con- 
necticut if  he  will  have  it"  May  12,  1664,  at 
which  date  he  had  probably  just  arrived  at 
legal  age,  which  if  true  would  make  the  year 
of  his  birth  1643.  He  was,  therefore,  prob- 
ably born  in  Lynn,  Massachusetts.  On  Au- 
gust 12,  1667,  he  with  his  brother  Joseph  and 
twelve  others,  men  subject  to  bear  arms  "rep- 
resent themselves  to  governor-general  Kcift 
and  give  their  names,  men  of  Flushing  ready 
to  serve  His  Majesty  under  his  honorable  com- 
mand on  all  occasions."  He  died  in  Flushing, 
Long  Island,  in  1709.  His  will  was  made 
July  23,  1709,  and  recorded  the  same  year, 
in  which  he  leaves  "housing,  lands  and  mead- 
ows, goods  and  chattels"  to  his  wife  and  chil- 
dren, which  he  mentions  by  name,  restricting 
his  wife's  share  in  case  she  should  be  married 
again.  We  find  among  the  early  transfers  of 
land  in  Flushing  a  record  of  a  deed  recorded 
July  21,  1(596,  which  reads:  "John  Thorne  of 
Flushing,  in  ye  North  Riding  of  Yorkshire" 


to  .\nthony  FU)ytl  of  ye  aforesaid  place,  of 
fifty  acres,  more  or  less. 

John  Thorne  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Nicholas  and  Sarah  Parsell  or  Fearsall  or 
Purcell.  The  children  of  John  and  Mary 
Thome,  named  in  the  order  of  their  birth, 
were:  i.  William,  who  was  sole  e.xecutor  of  his 
father's  will.  He  subsecjuently  removed  to 
Nottingham  township,  Burlington  county, 
West  Jersey,  where  he  had  a  farm,  and  when 
his  building  burned  in  1725  the  Chesterfield 
Friends  Aleeting  raised  money  to  help  him  re- 
build. He  was  married  at  Shrewsbury  Meet- 
ing, eleventh  month,  second  day,  1708,  by 
Friends'  ceremony,  to  Meribah  Ailing,  daugh-- 
ter  of  Jediah  and  Elizabeth  Allen,  and  Susan- 
nah and  Joseph  Thorne  were  among  the  wit- 
nesses. According  to  the  I'riends  record  they 
had  eight  children.  He  died  near  Crosswicks, 
New  Jersey,  in  1742.  2.  John  (q.  v.).  3. 
Joseph,  of  Flushing,  who  married  Alartha  Jo- 
hanna, daughter  of  John  Bowne,  and  had 
seven  children  all  born  in  Flushing,  where  he 
died  in  July,  1753,  and  his  widow.  July  6, 
1750.  4.  Mary,  who  married  William  Fowler 
antl  hail  a  daughter  Mary  and  both  mother  and 
daughter  were  bajjtized  in  Grace  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  in  Jamaica  in  171 1.  5. 
Elizabeth,  who  married  a  Schurman.  6.  Han- 
nah, who  married  in  1701  Richard,  son  of 
John  and  Mary  (  Russell )  Cornwell,  and  had 
ten  children  between  1703  and  1723.  7. 
Sarah,  who  married  Joshua,  son  of  John  and 
Mary  (Russell)  Cornwell,  and  had  four  chil- 
dren between   1696  and   1701. 

(  III  )  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Mary 
(  Parsell )  Thorne,  was  born  in  Flushing,  Long 

Island,   where   he   married   Catherine , 

also  of  Flushing,  both  names  appearing  as 
man  and  wife  i:i  1698  and  we  find  them  in 
Chesterfield,  Burlington  county,  Nev;  Jersey, 
in  1700,  where  he  bought  one  hundred  and 
eighty-one  acres  of  land,  August  26,  1717, 
which  he  sold  .\nthony  Woodward  Junior,  for 
one  hundred  pounds,  August  7,  1725,  and  on 
August  26,  1717,  purchased  a  plantation  fur- 
ther down  the  creek  below  where  the  village 
of  Crosswicks  stands.  He  was  constable  in 
1710  and  held  the  office  up  to  1749.  He  was 
also  town  collector.  He  was  a  carpenter  and 
a  farmer,  and  his  will  dated  February  16, 
1735,  was  proved  June  14,  1737,  in  which  he 
names  his  children.  He  made  his  mark  in- 
stead of  signing  the  w'ill  himself,  but  this  was 
probably  owing  to  his  infirmity,  as  he  no  doubt 
received  a  good  education  for  the  time  and  at 


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least  could  read  and  write.  His  widow,  Cath- 
erine, also  made  a  will,  dated  November  19, 
1766,  and  proved  November  29,  1766,  and  she 
also  made  her  mark  but  as  the  will  was  written 
but  ten  days  before  her  death,  that  easily  ac- 
counted for  it  on  account  of  her  physical  weak- 
ness. Her  will  also  mentions  the  children, 
omitting  those  who  had  died  between  1735  and 

The  twelve  children  of  John  and  Catherine 
Thorne  were  all,  except  possibly  the  first,  born 
in  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  and  are 
named  in  the  will  in  the  following  order:  i. 
John,  who  died  intestate  at  Borilentown,  New 
Jersey,  May  8,  1759.  2.  Mary.  3.  Elizabeth. 
4.  Deborah,  who  married  a  Simmons  and  died 
before  the  time  of  her  father's  death  and  left 
one  child.  5.  Joseph  (q.  v.).  6.  Samuel,  who 
married  in  October.  1730,  Hannah  Clay,  and 
died  in  April,  1777.  at  Crosswicks,  New  Jer- 
sey, leaving  six  children.  7.  Benjamin,  who 
married  in  .April,  1740,  Sarah  Bunting,  and 
died  in  1789,  leaving  no  children.  8.  Cather- 
ine, who  married  in  March,  1728,  Francis 
King.  9.  Sarah,  who  married  David  Wright 
in  March,  1743.  10.  Thomas,  who  died  in- 
testate at  Bordentown  in  1765.  11.  Rebecca, 
who  married  a  Simmons.  12.  Hannah,  who 
was  married  in  January,  1737-38,  to  Caleb  (2), 
son  of  Joshua  and  grandson  of  Caleb  Shreve. 
Of  this  large  family,  only  two  of  the  sons, 
Joseph  and  Samuel,  left  descendants  to  per- 
petuate the  name  of  Thorne. 

(I\')  Joseph,  second  son  and  fifth  child  of 
John  (2)  and  Catherine  Thorne,  was  born  in 
Crosswicks.  New  Jersey,  and  married  in  Ches- 
terfield Meeting,  after  both  parties  to  the  mar- 
riage had  twice  declared  their  intention  in 
open  meeting  to  marry  each  other,  the  cere- 
mony being  performed  and  the  marriage  cer- 
tificate duly  signed  by  the  witnesses  present  at 
public  meeting  held  in  March,  1723,  the  other 
contracting  party  being  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Mary  Foulke.  natives  of  England, 
who  settled  in  Ijurlington  county.  New  Jer- 
sey. The  children  of  Joseph  and  Sarah 
(F'oulke)  Thorn  were:  i.  "Elizabeth,  born  fifth 
month,  third  day.  1724,  married,  tenth  month, 
1748.  .Abraham  Tilton,  son  of  Samuel  Tilton, 
of  Middletown.  New  Jersey,  and  they  had 
three  children.  Flamiah.  Sarali  and  Lucy.  2. 
Joseph  (2),  born  fourth  month,  nineteenth 
day,  1727.  3.  John  (2),  third  month,  fourth 
day,  1730,  died  eighth  month,  twenty-second 
day,  1807;  married,  fourth  month,  1750,  Dia- 
damia,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Lydia  (Brown) 
Joins.     4.   Michael,  tenth  month,  second  day. 


1731  ;  died  unmarried.  5.  Thomas  (q.  v.). 
6.  Mary,  married,  in  1767,  Cornelius  Hendrick- 
son  of  Monmouth  county,  New  Jersey. 

(\' )  Thomas,  second  son  and  third  child  of 
Joseph  and  Sarah  (Foulke)  Thorn,  was  bom 
at  Crosswicks,  New  Jersey,  July  21,  1733.  He 
married,  in  1759,  Susanna,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam and  Jane  Biles,  of  Bucks  county,  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  ceremony  of  the  Society  of 
Friends  at  F'alls  Meeting  in  Bucks  county. 
They  settled  near  Crosswicks,  New  Jersey. 
Thomas  died  at  Crosswicks,  February  25, 
1801,  and  many  of  his  descendants  are  still 
residents  of  the  same  vicinity.  The  children 
of  Thomas  and  Susanna  (Biles)  Thorn  were 
born  on  the  Thorne  homestead  near  Cross- 
wicks, Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  as  fol- 
lows:  I.  Benjamin,  January  5,  1763.  2.  Ann, 
July  4,  1764.  3.  William  Biles  (q.  v.).  4. 
George  Biles,  August  29,  1767.  5.  Lang- 
thorn,  March  8.  1769.  6.  Sarah,  October  9, 
1772.  7.  Enoch,  January  6,  1775.  8. 
Thomas,  February  17,  1782. 

( \'I )  William  Biles,  second  son  and  third 
child  of  Thomas  and  Susanna  (Biles)  Thorn, 
was  born  at  Crosswicks,  New  Jersey,  March, 
26.  I7()6.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Hugh  and  .Ann  Hutchins,  who  was  born  De- 
cember 29,  1769,  died  April  15,  1832.  The 
children  of  William  Biles  and  Elizabeth 
(Hutchins)  Thorn  were  born  on  the  home- 
stead farm  near  Crosswicks,  as  follows;  i. 
,\nn,  December  6,  1791.  2.  Sarah  B.,  October 
12,  1792,  married  Robinson  Tindale  and  was 
the  mother  of  Genera!  George  Hector  Tindale. 
3.  Thomas  B.  (q.  v.).  4.  William  B.,  Decem- 
ber 23,   1756. 

(\'H)  Thomas  B.,  eldest  son  and  third 
child  of  William  Biles  and  Elizabeth  (Hutch- 
ins) Thorn,  was  born  on  the  homestead  farm 
at  Hardwick,  New  Jersey,  .August  15,  1794. 
He  was  a  school  teacher  and  was  an  excellent 

penman.      He  married  Sarah  and  they 

had  their  home  at  Chews  Landing,  where  four 
children  were  born  as  follows:  i.  John,  who 
went  west  and  settled  there.  2.  Mary,  married 
Frank  Peabody.  of  Elgin,  Illinois,  and  made 
her  home  in  that  place.  3.  Elizabeth,  married 
Mr.  .Ailing,  of  Naugatuck,  Connecticut.  4. 
William   H.,    (q.  v.). 

(  \TII)  William  H.,  third  son  and  youngest 
child  of  Thomas  B.  and  Sarah  Thorn,  was 
educated  in  the  district  school  of  his  native 
place  and  there  learned  the  rudiments  of 
knowledge,  including  what  was  familiarly 
kunwii  as  the  three  R's.,  Reading.  'Riting.  and 
'Rithmatic,  but  he  continued  to  study  at  home. 


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while  an  apprentice  to  a  shoemaker  at  Had- 
donfield,  Camden  county,  which  useful  trade 
he  became  master  of.  He  became,  through 
careful  reading  of  well-selected  books,  a 
learned  man  for  one  in  his  position  in  life. 
He  went  from  the  shoeshop  in  Haddonfield  to 
one  in  Med  ford  in  Burlington  county,  where 
he  worked  for  the  grandfather  of  Governor 
Stokes,  who  was  a  noted  boot  and  shoe-maker. 
He  subsequently  began  the  manufacture  of 
shoes  on  his  own  account  and  he  continued  the 
business  for  ten  years,  when  he  retired  and 
spent  his  time  in  the  care  of  his  accumulated 
estate  and  investments.  He  was  a  strong 
Abolitionist  in  the  days  when  considerable 
odium  was  attached  to  men  having  such  views, 
and  on  the  advent  of  the  Republican  party  he 
naturally  became  associated  with  the  new 
party.  His  fraternal  affiliation  was  with  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  Medford 
Lodge,  Xo.  100,  and  he  was  the  first  member 
initiated  in  that  lodge.  He  was  by  birthright 
a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends  of  the 
llicksite  branch.  He  married  Margaret  W., 
daughter  of  Barzilla  Prickitt^  born  in  1827, 
in  Medford,  died  at  her  home  in  Medford, 
New  Jersey,  in   1908.     These  children  were : 

1.  Thomas  B.,  named  for  his  grandfather, 
learned  the  trade  of  his  father  and  engaged  in 
the  shoe  manufacturing  business.  On  retir- 
ing he  lived  with  his  father  in  Medford.  He 
married  Anne  Xutt  and  had  four  children : 
William    Garfield,   Alice,   Mary    and  Charles. 

2.  Henry  Prickitt   (q.  v.). 

(IX)  Henry  Prickitt.  second  son  of  Will- 
iam H.  and  Margaret  W.  (Prickitt)  Thorn, 
was  born  in  Medford,  Burlington  county.  New 
Jersey,  January  27.  1853.  He  was  educated 
at  Friends'  School  in  Medford  and  M.  H. 
.-Mien's  private  school  in  the  same  town,  and  he 
worked  as  a  clerk  in  his  father's  shoe  manu- 
factory during  vacations.  He  was  graduated 
at  the  College  of  Pharmacy,  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1875,  ^n*:!  the  same  year  pur- 
chased the  drug  business  then  being  carried 
on  by  Mr.  Stokes,  uncle  of  Governor  Stokes, 
and  he  greatly  enlarged  the  business  and  be- 
came one  of  the  leading  pharmacists  in  Burl- 
ington county.  He  also  engaged  in  the  busi- 
ness of  raising  cranberries  on  a  bog  of  fifteen 
acres  from  1888,  which  under  his  methods  of 
cultivation  has  proved  to  be  very  profitable. 
He  is  a  director  in  the  Burlington  County 
Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Company  of  Moorcs- 
town,  Xew  Jersey,  and  president  of  the  Burl- 
ington County  Xational  Bank  of  Medford. 
New  Jersey,  since  1898.     He  is  also  a  director 


in  the  Gas  and  Water  Company  of  Medford ; 
secretary  of  the  Burlington  County  Associa- 
tion for  Insurance,  and  has  served  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Xew  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation. Mr.  Thorn  is  active  in  local,  state 
and  national  political  affairs ;  he  served  as  a 
delegate  to  the  Republican  National  convention 
at  Alinneapolis  in  June,  1892,  when  William 
McKinley  was  nominated  for  president  of  the 
L'nited  States,  and  was  chairman  of  the  Re- 
])ublican  county  committee  of  Burlington 
county.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Burlington 
County  Historical  Society  of  Moorestown. 
He  (lepartetl  from  the  religious  faith  which  he 
inherited  as  a  birthright,  as  it  did  not  seem  to 
meet  the  demands  of  the  present  day  religious 
work  as  carried  on  in  institutional  churches. 
In  doing  so,  he  did  not  regret  the  inheritance 
he  had  been  heir  to,  or  the  religious  training 
he  had  received,  as  both  added  to  his  effective- 
ness as  a  worker  and  trustee  in  the  Methodist 
church  and  a  member  of  the  county  committee 
in  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  and 
no  man  better  appreciated  the  value  of  the  in- 
fluence of  the  Society  of  Friends  on  the  early 
political  and  religious  history  of  our  country 
as  witnessed  in  West  Jersey,  Pennsylvania, 
Long  Island  and  "Rhode  Island.  He  affiliated 
with  various  fraternal  and  benevolent  asso- 
ciations, his  Masonic  fellowship  beginning  in 
Mt.  Holly  Lodge.  No.  14,  F.  and  A.  M.  and 
extended  to  Siloam  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  No. 
19.  Camden.  New  Jersey;  Cyrene  Comman- 
dery.  Knights  Templar,  No.  7,  of  Camden ; 
and  Lu  Lu  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Phila- 
delphia. He  was  also  initiated  in  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  through  Lodge 
Xo.  100.  of  Medford.  Xew  Jersey,  and  in  the 
Order  of  Knights  of  Pythias  through  Metlford 
Lodge,  Xo.  108.  He  is  a  member  of  Red 
Cross  Castle,  Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle, 
founded  in  1873,  and  which  distributed  annu- 
ally u.pwards  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  thou- 
sand dollars  in  benefits,  and  of  the  Aledford 
Lodge.  Xo.  42,  Ancient  Order  of  L'nited 
Workmen,  founded  in  1868,  and  which  had 
distributed  up  to  1903  in  benefits  one  hundred 
an  1  twenty  million  dollars  since  its  organiza- 
tion. The  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order 
of  Elks,  founded  in  1868,  and  which  had  dis- 
tributed in  benefits  up  to  1903  one  million,  two 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  has  a  lodge 
Xo.  848.  in  Mt.  Holly.  Xew  Jersey,  of.  which 
Mr.  Thorn  is  a  member. 

Mr.  Thorn  married.  June  22.  1880.  Clara  T.. 
daughter  of  George  and  Caroline  Wilson 
Branin.   of   Medford,   New   Jersey,   and   their 


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chililreii  were  born  in  tliat  place,  as  follows: 
1.  Henry  Xorman,  July  i8,  1881,  attended  I\It. 
Holly  Military  School,  was  graduated  at 
Haverford  College  in  1904;  in  the  employ 
of  the  firm  of  Harris,  Jones  and  Cadbury 
Company.  ])lumbers  supplies.  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania.  2.  Helen  B.,  October  12,  1887, 
graduated  at  St.  Mary's  Hall,  lUirlington,  New 
Jersey,  in  igob. 

The  first  that  is  known  of  the 
FO.STER     name  of  Foster  was  about  the 

year  io&5,  A.  D.,  when  Sir 
Richard  Forrester  went  from  Normandy  over 
to  England,  accompanied  by  his  brother-in- 
law,  \Villiam  the  Con(|ueror,  and  participated 
in  the  victorious  battle  of  Hastings.  The 
name  was  first  Forrester,  then  Forester,  then 
F'oster.  It  signified  one  who  had  care  of 
wild  lands ;  one  who  loved  the  forest,  a  char- 
acteristic trait  which  had  marked  the  bearers 
of  the  name  through  all  the  centuries  that  have 
followed.  The  Fosters  seem  to  have  located 
in  the  northern  counties  of  England,  and  in 
the  early  centuries  of  English  history  jiartici- 
pated  in  many  a  sturdy  encounter  with  their 
Scottish  foes.  The  name  is  mentioned  in 
"Marmion"  and  the  "Lay  of  the  Last  Min- 
strel." I'"rom  one  of  these  families  in  the 
seventeenth  century  appears  the  name  of  Reg- 
inald Foster.  Tiring  of  the  tyrannic  rule  of 
Charles  I,  he  came  to  America  and  settled  in 
Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  in  about  the  year 
1638.  He  was  a  prominent  figure  in  the  early 
days,  as  the  colonial  records  show.  During  its 
existence  the  Foster  family  has  been  a  hardy, 
persevering  and  jirogressive  race,  almost  uni- 
versally endowed  with  an  intense  nervous 
energy ;  there  have  been  many  instances  of 
higli  attainments :  a  bearer  of  the  name  has 
been,  ex-officio,  vice-president  of  the  Repub- 
lic (Hon.  Lafayette  G.  Foster,  president  pro- 
tem,  of  the  senate  during  Andrew  Johnson's 
administration)  ;  another,  Hon.  John  W.  Fos- 
ter, of  Indiana,  was  premier  .of  President  Har- 
rison's cabinet:  another,  Hon.  Charles  Foster, 
of  Ohio,  was  the  secretary  of  the  treasury. 
Many  have  attained  high  positions  in  financial 
life,  and  many  have  gained  prominence  in  mili- 
tary aflfairs.  The  record  of  Major-General 
John  G.  Foster  through  the  Mexican  War  and 
the  war  of  the  Rebellion  stam])ed  him  as  a 
soldier  without  fear  and  without  reproach. 
Professor  P.ell  is  the  reputed  and  accredited 
inventor  of  the  telephone,  but  before  that  dis- 
tinguished man  had  ever  conceived  the  jilan 
of  electric  transmission  of  the  human  voice. 


Joseph  Foster,  of  Keene,  New  Hampshire,  a 
mechanical  genius,  had  constructed  and  put 
into  actual  use  a  telephone  embodying  prac- 
tically the  same  working  plan  as  the  Bell  ma- 
chine. Query :  Could  it  be  possible  that  Jo- 
seph Foster's  telephone  afforded  the  suggestion 
to  Professor  Bell?  The  Foster  family  has  an 
authentic  record  covering  a  period  of  nearly 
one  thousand  years.  It  has  furnished  to  the 
world  its  share  of  the  fruits  of  toil ;  it  has 
contributed  its  share  of  enterprise  and 
progress.  Wherever  it  appears  in  the  affairs 
of  men  it  bears  its  crest ;  the  iron  arm  holding 
the  golden  javelin  poised  towards  the  future. 

( I )  Reginald  Foster  came  from  England  at 
the  time  so  many  emigrated  to  Massacliusetts, 
in  1638,  and  with  his  famil}'  was  on  board  one 
<if  the  vessels  embargoed  by  King  Charles  I. 
He  settled  at  Ipswich,  in  the  county  of  Essex, 
with  his  wife,  five  sons  and  two  daughters: 
where  he  lived  to  extreme  old  age,  with  as 
much  peace  and  happiness  as  was  compatible 
with  his  circumstances  in  the  settlement  of  a 
new  country.  The  names  of  his  five  sons  wdio 
came  with  him  from  England  were :  Abraham, 
Reginald.  \\'illiam,  Isaac  and  Jacob.  One  of 
the  daughters  who  came  with  him  from  Eng- 
land married  (first)  a  W'ood,  and  after  his 
death  she  married  a  Peabody.  His  other 
daughter  married  a  Story,  ancestor  of  Dr. 
Story,  formerly  of  Boston,  and  of  the  late 
Judge  Story.  It  is  remarkable  of  this  family 
that  they  all  lived  to  extreme  old  age,  all  mar- 
ried, and  all  had  large  families  from  whom 
are  descended  a  very  numerous  progeny  set- 
tled in  various  parts  of  the  L^nited  States. 

(II)  Abraham,  eldest  son  and  third  child 
of  Reginald  Foster,  of  Boxford,  Essex,  Dev- 
onshire, England,  by  the  first  of  his  three 
wives,  who  became  the  mother  of  seven  chil- 
('ren.  who  came  with  theiu  to  Ipswich.  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  Colony,  in  1638,  was  born  in  Ex- 
eter, England,  1622.  His  two  sisters  were 
his  senior.  Mary  was  born  about  1618  and 
when  a  widow  married  Francis  Peabody,  the 
immigrant  ancestor  of  the  Peabodys  of  New 
England,  who  came  from  St.  Albans,  Hert- 
fordshire, England,  in  the  ship  "Planter"  in 
1633  and  settled  in  Ijiswich,  Massachusetts, 
and  she  became  by  this  marriage  the  mother 
of  fourteen  children.  She  died  April  9,  1705. 
Sarah,  born  in  1620,  married,  about  1640, 
William  Storey,  of  Ipswich,  and  by  this  mar- 
riage had  seven  children  and  she  died  subse- 
quent to  1668.  His  brothers  in  the  order  of 
their  birth  were:  I.  Isaac,  born  in  1630.  mar- 
ried   (first)    Mary    Jackson,    1658,    (second) 


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liannah  Downing,  1668,  and  (third)  Martha 
Hale,  1679.  He  had  fourteen  children,  eleven 
by  his  first  wife  and  three  by  his  second.  He 
died  after  he  was  sixty-two  years  of  age.  2. 
William,  born  1633,  married,  1661,  Mary  Jack- 
son :  lived  in  Roxford  ;  had  nine  children  ;  died 
May  17,  1713-  3.  Deacon  Jacob,  born  1635, 
married  (first)  1658,  Martha  Kinsman,  and 
(second)  1667,  Abigail  Lord;  lived  in  Ipswich, 
where  fourteen  children  were  born,  five  by  his 
first  wife  and  nine  by  his  second.  He  died 
Jnly  7,  1710.  4.  Reginald,  born  1636,  married 
Elizabeth  Dane,  lived  in  Chebacco,  Ipswich, 
and  had  by  this  marriage  twelve  children. 
Abraham  married  Lydia,  daughter  of  Caleb 
and  Martha  Burbank,  of  Rowley,  Massachu- 
setts He  was  a  farmer  and  he  joined  the 
church  at   Ipswich  in   full  communion,   April 

12,  1674.  He  was  sixty-seven  years  of  age, 
September  26,  1698,  when  he  made  deposition 
relative  to  land  of  Rev.  John  Norton.  There 
was  no  will  or  administration  of  his  estate, 
which  he  distributed  among  his  family  by  deed 
December  21,   i6g8.      (See  Essex  deeds,  liber 

13,  page  206.)  The  ten  children  of  Abraham 
and  Lydia  (Burbank)  Foster  were  born  in 
Ipswich  as  follows:  i.  Ephraim,  October  9, 
1657,  married  (first)  Hannah  Fames  and  (sec- 
ond) Mary  West.  2.  Abraham  (q.  v.).  3. 
James,  January  12,  1662;  he  is  not  mentioned 
in  his  father's  distribution  of  the  estate,  so  it 
may  be  presumed  that  he  died  before  1698. 
4.  A  child  born  December  27,  i6(;)8,  died  un- 
named, twin  of  Isaac  5.,  who  died  unmarried 
I'"ebruary  13,  1717.  6.  Benjamin,  1670.  married 
.Ann  .  7.  Ebenezer,  July  15,  1672,  mar- 
ried Mary  Berman.  8.  Mehitable,  October  12, 
1675,  married  Ebenezer  Averill,  December  31. 
1700.  9.  Caleb,  November  9,  1677,  married 
Mary  Sherwin.  10.  Ruth,  who  married, 
.April  16,  1702,  Jeremiah  Perley,  of  Box  ford. 
.\l)raham  Foster,  the  father  of  tliese  children, 
(lied  in  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  January  25, 
171  I. 

(Ill)  .Abraham  (2),  second  son  of  Abra- 
ham (  1  )  and  Lydia  (Burbank)  Foster,  was 
born  in  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  October  16, 
1O59.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  military  serv- 
ice of  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts  "and  was 
wounded  in  the  public  service  and  is  to  receive 
eight  pounds  out  of  the  public  treasury  for 
smart  money."  Lie  resided  first  in  Ipswich 
and  then  removed  to  Topsfield,  where  he  died 
Alav  23.  1741.  The  three  children  of  Abra- 
ham and  Alary  (Burbank)  Foster  were:  i. 
Abraham  (  q.  v.).  2.  Nathan,  May  17,  1700, 
married    Hannah    Standish.     3.    Daniel.    .Ajiril 


13,   1705,  married    (first)    Hannah    Black  and 
(second)   Elizabeth  Davis. 

(I\')  Abraham  (3),  eldest  child  of  Abra- 
ham (  2 )  and  Mary  (  Burbank )  Foster,  was  born 
in  Ipswich,  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  Janu- 
ary 12,  1696.  He  was  married  to  Sarah  Dun- 
nell.  who  was  born  in  1696.  The  intention  to 
marry  was  published  in  the  Church  at  Tops- 
field,  April  3,  1718,  but  we  have  not  the  date 
of  the  marriage  ceremony.  She  was  admitted 
to  the  church  at  Topsfield,  July  2,  1732. 
.Abraham  Foster  was  a  carpenter  and  letters 
of  administration  on  his  estate  were  granted 
to  his  second  son,  Thomas,  June  29,  1767,  he 
having  died  April  23,  1767.  Abraham  and 
Sarah  ( Dunnell )  Foster  had  seven  children, 
born  in  Topsfield,  as  follows:  i.  Abraham, 
May  4,  1719.  married  Briscilla  Todd.  2. 
Sarah.  Alay  4,  1721,  married  .Abraham  .Adams, 
who  died  September  18,  1771.  3.  Thomas 
(q.  v.).  4.  Hannah,  September  18,  1726,  died 
unmarried  in  1802.  5.  .Amos,  baptized  De- 
cember 22,  1728;  he  purchased  land  in  Rowley 
in  1758.  6.  Ruth,  baptized  March  17,  1734, 
died  unmarried  in   1806.     7.  Abigail,  baptized 

April  3.  1737- 

(A)  Captain  Thomas,  second  son  and  third 
child  of  Abraham  (3)  and  Sarah  (Dunnell) 
Foster,  was  born  in  Topsfield,  Massachusetts, 
.August  II,  1724.  He  was  a  captain  in  the 
Colonial  militia,  and  resided  in  Ipswich.  He 
married,  April  5,  1748,  Mehitable,  daughter  of 
Matthew  and  Mehitable  Peabody.  She  was 
born  December  24,  1728,  and  her  intentions 
to  marry  Captain  Thomas  Foster  was  pub- 
lished November  21,  1747.  She  was  admitted 
to  the  church  at  Ipswich,  .April  29,  1750.  She 
became  by  this  marriage  the  mother  of  seven 
children  and  her  husband's  estate  was  granted 
administration,  December  8,  1789.  The  chil- 
dren of  Captain  Thomas  and  Mehitable  (Pea- 
body)  Foster  were  born  in  Ipswich.  Massa- 
chusetts, as  follows:  i.  Elijah,  February  19. 
1749.  2.  Allen,  .April  24.  1751,  married  Lucy 
Patten.  3.  .Abigail.  .A]5ril  19.  1753.  published 
intention  to  marry,  Alarch  13,  1773,  Moses  or 
Thomas  Palmer.  4.  Ebenezer,  March  24, 
1755.  5.  Mehitable,  March  24,  lyOo.  6.  Dan- 
iel ( q.  v.).  7.  Thomas,  March  27,  1766.  mar- 
ried, .April  14.  1787.  Lydia  Batclielder. 

(  \  I  )  Daniel,  fourth  son  and  sixth  child  of 
Captain  Thomas  and  Mehitable  ( Peabody) 
Foster,  was  born  in  Ipswich,  Massachusetts, 
Alarch  12,  1762.  He  fought  in  the  American 
revolution  and  was  a  soldier  in  Lafayette's 
select  battalion  and  was  presented  by  Genera! 
Lafavette  with  a  sword  as  a  mark  of  esteem 


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He  was  a  prominent  town  officer  in  Newbury- 
port  and  was  employed  in  the  naval  office.  He 
had  the  esteem  of  his  descendants  as  being  a 
cultured  and  respected  gentleman,  which  no 
doubt  was  cjuite  true  and  had  much  to  do  with 
his  gaining  the  esteem  of  the  French  com- 
manding general.  He  married.  December  i8. 
1783,  Dorothy  Pingree,  who  was  born  in  New- 
buryport,  June  4,  1762,  died  there  May  15, 
1834,  the  mother  of  seven  children,  born  in 
Rowley  and  Xewburyport  as  follows:  I.  Na- 
thaniel, F"ebruary  28,  1797,  married  Fannie  B. 
Brockway.  2.  Daniel,  who  married  Chomy 
Fuller.  3.  Solomon,  who  removed  to  I'otts- 
ville,  Pennsylvania.  4.  Jesse  (q.  v.).  5. 
Thomas.  6.  Louisa,  wlio  died  unmarried.  7. 
Millicent,  who  died  unmarried. 

(Xll)  Jesse,  fourth  son  of  Daniel  and 
Dorothy  (  Pingree )  Foster,  was  born  in  New- 
buryport,  Massachusetts,  but  the  date  of  his 
birth  has  not  been  preserved.  He  was  married 
to  .Ann  E.  Toppan,  of  Newburyport.  and  they 
removed  to  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  and 
subsequently  to  Pottsville,  Pennsylvania, 
where  he  died  when  about  ninety-three  years 
of  age.  Jesse  and  .Ann  E.  ( Toppan )  Foster 
had  four  children  born  in  Portsmouth,  New 
Hampshire,  as  follows:  i.  Thomas  (q.  v.).  2. 
Frederick  L.,  born  in  1820,  became  a  distin- 
guished citizen  of  Philadelphia  and  is  the  cus- 
todian of  the  sword  presented  to  his  grand- 
father Daniel  ( q.  v.).  3.  Ann  Eliza.  Novem- 
ber I.  1 82 1,  married  Oliver  Dobson.  Septem- 
ber 7.  1842,  and  resided  in  Pottsville,  where 
five  children  were  born  of  the  marriage  as 
follows:  Emma  Louise  Dobson,  September  i. 
1843;  Mary  Eliza  Dobson,  July  17,  1846; 
Caroline  Briggs  Dobson,  x\pril  6.  1849,  mar- 
ried John  E.  Waters,  May  17,  1871,  and  had 
two  children,  Oliver  and  Grace  Waters,  who 
live  in  Bridgeport,  Ohio;  Oliver  Dobson 
Junior,  June  9,  1831,  died  P^ebruary  22.  1877; 
Hannah  Dobson,  ()ctober  7.  1853.  "^''^^  July 
26.  1854.  4.  Clement  Storer.  .August  18,  1823, 
married  Rebecca  McCanimet. 

(\"I11)  Thomas  (2)  second  son  of  Jesse 
and  .Ann  E.  ( Toppan )  Foster,  was  born  in 
Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  July  20,  1819, 
died  in  Pottsville.  Pennsylvania.  December  13, 
i88().  lie  married.  March  15,  1842,  .Amanda 
IVL  Ruch.  of  .Sunbury,  Pennsylvania,  born  .\u- 
gust  25.  1822,  and  they  had  seven  children, 
who  were  all  living  in  1909  as  follows  except 
the  youngest  child,  who  was  at  that  time  de- 
ceased. The  names  and  location  of  these 
children  was  at  that  time  as  follows:  i. 
Thomas  Jefferson   ((|.  v.).     2.  Solomon,  born 


December  25,  1844,  a  resident  of  Scranton, 
Pennsylvania.  3.  Alary  .Agnes,  February  21, 
1847,  married  W.  H.  Daniels,  of  Pottsville. 
4.  Henry  .A.,  of  Pottsville,  Pennsylvania,  Oc- 
tober 9,  1847.  5.  William  Wetherill,  June  5, 
1855,  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  6.  John 
Ruch,  September  2"],  1857,  of  Baltimore, 
Maryland.  7.  Jacob  S.,  October  18,  1862, 
married  Cecelia  .A.  Schelling,  of  Philadelphia. 
Pennsylvania.  Thomas  Foster  was  a  boot  and 
shoe  dealer  in  Pottsville,  Pennsylvania,  for 
forty  years. 

( IX )  Thomas  Jefiferson,  eldest  child  of 
Thomas  (2)  and  Amanda  M.  (Ruch)  Foster, 
was  born  in  Pottsville,  Pennsylvania,  Decem- 
ber 31,  1842.  He  was  graduated  at  Pottsville 
high  school  and  at  Eastman  Business  College, 
Poughkeepsie,  New  York.  He  became  editor 
and  |)roprietor  of  the  Shenandoah  Herald, 
Shenandoah,  Pennsylvania,  in  1872.  He 
originated  and  planned  a  system  of  study  of 
business  methods  by  correspondence  so  as  not 
to  interfere  with  regular  labor,  necessary  for 
daily  needs  in  cases  of  self-supporting  young 
men,  who  could  not  afford  time  or  money  to 
take  a  course  in  a  business  college.  .\  trial 
of  his  system  provetl  its  practicability  and  he 
organized  and  incorporated  the  International 
Correspondence  School,  established  at  Scran- 
ton, Pennsylvania,  in  1891,  of  which  he  is  pro- 
prietor, and  he  also  organized  and  incorporated 
the  International  Text  Book  Company,  of 
which  he  is  president.  The  two  corporations 
are  under  the  one  direction  and  management, 
the  Text  Book  Company  supplying  the  books, 
blanks  and  stationery  necessary  in  carrying  out 
the  Correspondence  School  methods.  He  also 
promoted  other  business  ventures  in  Scranton 
and  is  a  director  of  the  Traders'  National 
Bank.  Mr.  Foster  was  captain  of  a  company 
from  Pottsville.  Pennsylvania,  and  served 
through  the  entire  civil  war. 

He  married  (first)  Fannie  Mellet ;  children: 
I.  .Amanda  Rook,  who  married  .Stanley  P. 
.Allen,  secretary  of  the  International  Corre- 
spondence School  at  Scranton.  2.  Mary 
Eliza,  who  married  H.  C.  Barker,  of  Scranton. 
3.  Joel  McCammet  (q.  v.).  4.  Emma  Louise, 
who  resides  in  Scranton.  Pennsylvania.  5. 
Jeremiah  M  ugh.  who  resides  in  Scranton.  Fannie 
(Mi'llet)  Foster  died  in  Scranton,  November 
I,  1892,  and  Mr.  Foster  married  (second) 
Blandina.  daughter  of  David  Harrington,  and 
their  son,  Thomas  Jefiferson,  was  born  in  Scran- 
ton. 

(  X  )  Joel  McCammet,  eldest  son  and  third 
child  of  Thomas  Jefferson  and  Fannie  (Mellet) 


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I-'oster,  was  born  in  I'ottsville,  Pennsylvania, 
January  i6,  1876.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  and 
was  graduated  in  1892  at  Nazareth  Hall  Mora- 
vian College,  a  military  school.  He  found  em- 
ployment on  leaving  college  with  the  National 
Drilling  and  Boring  Company,  of  Scranton, 
Pennsylvania,  for  one  year,  and  at  the  end  of 
that  time  he  was  for  a  short  time  employed  in 
the  National  Gas  Engine  and  Metre  Company, 
of  P>rooklyn,  New  York.  He  returned  to 
Scranton  in  1894  to  take  the  position  of  organ- 
izer and  su[)crintendent  of  the  field  force  of 
the  International  Correspondence  School,  of 
Scranton,  of  which  his  father  is  proprietor, 
anil  he  remained  in  this  position  up  to  1904, 
when  he  was  obliged  to  resign  on  account  of 
ill  health,  and  he  established  a  poultry  farm  in 
southern  New  Jersey,  which  he  relinguished  in 
1906.  He  established  another  at  P>ro\vn's  Mills, 
Pjurlington  county,  which  he  named  the  Ran- 
cocas  Poultry  Yards,  which  he  made  one  of 
the  largest  established  of  the  kind  in  the  east, 
and  where  in  1909  he  had  ten  thousand  egg 
producing  hens  and  the  output  of  the  yards 
amounted  to  thirty  thousand  dollars  per  annum. 
He  served  the  township  as  justice  of  peace  and 
truant  officer,  and  he  was  also  president  of 
the  Ilrcnvn's  Mills  Protective  Association.  His 
church  affiliation  is  with  the  Presbyterian  de- 
noniination  and  his  political  faith  that  of  the 
Ke])ublican  party.  He  married,  June  14,  1898, 
Grace  .\ddie,  daughter  of  James  Gilbert  and 
.•\ddie  Mary  (Finch)  Bailey,  of  W'averly, 
Pennsylvania,  and  their  daughter,  Frances 
.Adelaide,  was  bom  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  May 
20,  1899,  and  in  1909  is  a  student  in  Friends" 
School,  Moorestown,  New  Jersey. 

(The  Roe  Line). 

\  chieftain  by  the  name  of  Roo  or  Rollo 
with  a  herd  of  followers  came  from  Norway 
to  the  kingdom  of  the  Franks  where  they 
acijuired  by  force  of  arms  ownership  to  large 
estates  which  they  called  Normandy,  including 
the  city  of  Rouen  which  they  took  possession 
of  in  842  and  made  it  the  cai)ital  in  France  of 
the  Northmen  or  Norsemen.  These  Norwegian 
\'ikings  in  982  pushed  themselves  in  their  little 
boats  across  the  North  Atlantic  sea,  landed  in 
(Greenland,  and  in  1002  they  went  further  west 
and  south  along  the  coast  of  Labrador  and 
established  \"ineland  on  the  coast  of  New  Eng- 
land anil  thus  preceded  Columbus  in  the  line 
of  discovery  by  nearly  five  hundred  years.  But 
the  Norsemen  were  bold  invaders  and  not  per- 
manent home  makers  and  took  possession  of. 


rather  than  created,  cities,  towns  and  villages. 
Their  descendants  are  the  Normans  of  history, 
a  warlike,  vigorous  and  brilliant  race  rapidly 
adapting  themselves  to  the  more  civilized 
forms  of  life  that  prevailed  in  the  Frankish 
kingdom.  Roo,  Rolf  or  Rollo  had  been  ban- 
ished by  Harold  Haarfager  on  account  of  his 
heracies  and  he  forced  Charles  the  Simple  to 
grant  him  possession  of  all  the  land  in  the 
valley  of  the  Seine  to  the  sea  and  by  the  time 
Charles  the  Bold  obtained  the  crown  the  in- 
vaders had  firmly  planted  themselves  in  the 
countr)'  which  then  went  by  the  name  of  Nor- 
mandy. They  adopted  the  religion,  language 
and  manners  of  the  conquered  Franks,  and 
ins])ire(l  their  borrowed  results  of  a  better 
civilization  with  their  own  splendid  vitality. 
By  the  twelfth  century  they  had  developed  a 
school  of  narrative  history  rivaling  in  celeb- 
rity the  lyric  troubadours  of  the  more  famed 
parts  of  the  southern  kingdom  of  the  Franks. 

William,  the  duke  of  Normandy,  born  1027, 
had  made  his  great  genius  as  a  leader  felt 
throughout  Normandy,  and  when  he  came  to 
the  dukedom  he  continued  his  conquests  even 
beyond  the  confines  of  the  land  of  the  Franks 
to  England  where  Norman  influences  was  very 
prominent  in  the  covenants  of  Edward  the 
Confessor.  {;]ut  when  Harold  was  chosen  to 
succeed  the  Conqueror  on  the  English  throne 
the  Normans,  under  the  lead  of  William,  as- 
serted their  rights  due  to  an  alleged  promise 
from  Edward  that  William  of  Normandy 
should  be  his  successor.  The  battle  of  Hast- 
ings, October  14,  1066,  gave  to  William  the 
crown  which  he  accepted  December  25,  1066, 
and  the  war  against  the  Sa.xons  soon  reduced 
that  foe,  and  Scotland  soon  followed  as  a 
trophy  to  the  Coni|ueror.  Failing  to  subdue 
Denmark  he  withdrew  his  armada  from  their 
coast  and  raised  an  army  and  invaded  France, 
but  in  the  midst  of  the  ashes  of  Nantes  his 
horse  failed  him  and  the  fall  of  the  charger 
resulted  fatally  to  the  rider  as  he  died  Sep- 
tember 9,  1087.  William  the  Conqueror  gave 
to  his  attendants  in  arms  the  English  name  of 
Roe  and  as  a  coat-of-arms  a  Norman  shield 
emblazoned  with  a  Roebuck.  King  James  I. 
made  Sir  Thomas  Roe,  great-great-grandfather 
of  John  Roe  (q.  v.),  the  American  immigrant, 
embassador  to  Constantinople,  and  he  was  also 
one  of  the  esquires  of  Queen  Elizabeth  who 
sent  the  Roe  family  into  Ireland  where  Pierce 
Roe  was  the  eighth  earl  of  Ormond. 

(I)  John  Roe  came  from  Ireland  to  Amer- 
ica by  way  of  England  in  1628.  He  married 
Hannah   Purrin  in   1635.     They  lived  in  East 


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Hampton,  Long  Island,  and  in  1655  moved  to 
Drowned  Meadows,  near  Port  Jefferson,  Long 
Island,  where  his  home  long  remained  a  land- 
mark. He  died  at  Drowned  .Meadows,  171 1. 
He  left  a  widow  and  several  children,  including 
Nathaniel  ( (|.  v. ). 

(H)  Xatlianiel,  son  of  John  and  Hannah 
( I'urrin  )  Roe,  was  born  in  Drowned  Meadows, 
Long  Island,  now  llrookhaven,  in  1670,  and 
died  there  in  1752.  He  was  active  in  town 
affairs  and  met  death  by  drowning  in  Long 
Island  sound.  He  married  Hannah  Reeves, 
born  1678,  died  1759,  and  among  their  chil- 
dren was  Natlianiel   ( (j.  v.). 

(III)  Nathaniel  (2),  son  of  Nathaniel  (i) 
and  Hannah  (Reeves)  Roe,  was  born  at 
Drowned  Meadows.  Long  Island,  about  1700. 
He  enlisted  in  Captain  Alexander  Smith's  regi- 
ment of  Suft'olk  county  militia  for  service  in 
the  French  and  Indian  war,  April  18,  1758. 
He  married,  about  1730,  Elizabeth  I'hilipse 
and  among  their  children  was  William  {  q.  v.). 

(IV)  William,  son  of  Nathaniel  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Philipse)  Roe,  married  Maria  Van 
Dusen  and  among  their  chiklren  was  Betsey 
(q.  v.). 

(  \' )  Betsey,  daughter  of  William  and  Maria 
(  Van  Dusen  )   Roe,  married  S.  Finch. 

(VI)  William  Roe,  son  of  S.  and  Betsey 
(Roe)  Finch,  married  Mary  'Kirkpatrick, 
and  among  their  children  was  .\ddie  Mary 
((|.  v.). 

( \'ll  )  Addie  Mary,  daughter  of  William 
Roe  and  Mary  (Kirkpatrick)  Finch,  married 
James  Gilbert  Bailey,  a  grocer  in  Scranton. 
Pennsylvania,  and  at  one  time  mayor  of  the 
city.  They  were  the  parents  of  one  chilil, 
(irace  Addie  (q.  v.). 

(\III)  Grace  Addie,  only  child  of  James 
(lilbert  and  .\ddie  Mary  (Finch)  Bailey,  was 
born  in  Waverly,  Pennsylvania,  August  18, 
1878.  She  was  educated  at  Waverly  Academy, 
Wyoming  Seminary  and  Scranton  high  school. 
She  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church, 
and  of  the  i)atriotic  society.  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution,  her  revolutionary  an- 
cestor having  been  Captain  William  Roe.  com- 
manding a  company  in  Colonel  Clinton's  regi- 
ment. Second  New  York  Volunteers.  She 
married.  Jimc  14,  1898,  Joel  McCammet,  eldest 
son  of  Thomas  Jefferson  and  Fannie  (Mellet  1 
Foster,  of  I'.rown's  Mills.  New  Jersey,  of  the 
tenth  generation  of  the  Foster  family.  Their 
ciiild.  l-'rances  Adelaide,  was  born  in  Cincin- 
nati, (  )hi6.  May  20,  1899,  '^"fl  i"  1909  is  a 
])upil  in  the  l''riends'  .'\cademy  at  Moorestown, 
New  Jersey. 


In  the  most  recent  compilation  of 
BCRR     lUirr   family  genealogy  the  author 

of  that  work,  in  commenting  on  the 
New  Jersey  branch  of  the  family  at  large,  says 
that  he  had  supposed  that  "the  many  families 
of  the  name  in  Central  New  Jersey  vv'ere  off- 
shoots from  some  one  of  the  three  Puritan 
branches  of  New  England,  and  had  confined 
his  researches  to  them,"  but  from  data  gathered 
from  various  sources  "it  was  discovered  that 
they  were  descended  from  one  common  an- 
cestor who  emigrated  from  England  as  early 
as  1682  and  settled  near  Mount  Holly,  the 
county  seat  of  Burlington  county." 

(  I )  Henry  Burr,  immigrant  ancestor  of  the 
New  Jersey  families  of  his  surname,  first  ap- 
pears in  the  records  of  the  Friends'  meeting 
house  at  Mt.  Holly,  which  is  a  record  of  the 
birth  of  one  John  Burr,  son  of  Henry  and  Eliz- 
abeth I'urr,  under  date  of  May  29.  1691. 
b'amily  tradition  says  that  this  Henry  Burr 
was  a  friend  of  William  Penn  and  accompanied 
him  on  his  last  voyage  to  this  coimtry.  He  bought 
a  tract  of  land  of  eleven  hundred  acres  in 
Northampton,  Burlington  county,  and  settled 
there.  His  name  appears  occasionally  in  trans- 
actions relating  to  the  purchase  or  sale  of  land 
and  also  in  the  records  of  the  Friends'  meet- 
ings, but  he  does  not  appear  to  have  identified 
himself  conspicuously  with  public  affairs, 
doubtless  from  the  fact  that  he  was  a  devout 
Friend  and  hence  concerned  himself  little  with 
matters  outside  of  his  family  or  the  meetings. 
His  will  bears  date  October  29.  1642,  and  was 
admitted  to  probate  June  11,  1743.  He  mar- 
ried Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Mary 
(Thredder)  Hudson,  the  latter  a  daughter  of 
Richard  and  Mary  Thredder,  of  London.  Eng- 
land. Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Hudson)  Burr 
had  nine  children:  I.  John,  born  May  29, 
1691  (see  post).  2.  Joseph,  born  1694  (see 
post).  3.  Elizabeth,  born  1696;  married  Sam- 
uel Woolman  and  became  mother  of  John 
Woolman.  the  Quaker  preacher  and  annalist. 
a  very  remarkable  man  in  his  way.  who  was  a 
pioneer  in  the  cause  of  slavery  abolition  ami 
one  of  the  most  conscientious  of  men.  4. 
Mary,  born  1698:  married  Jacob  Lippincott ; 
she  was  a  woman  so  highly  esteemed  for  her 
christian  virtues  that  the  Friends  prepared  and 
])ublishcd  a  memorial  of  her  after  her  death. 
3.  Sarah,  born  1701  ;  married  Caleb  Haines, 
of  one  of  the  oldest  families  of  New  Jersey. 

6.  Rebecca,  born   1703;  married  Peter  White. 

7.  Martha,  born  1705;  married  (first)  Josiah 
Holmes:  (second)  Timothy  Matlack.  8.' Will- 
iam, born  1710.     9.  Henry,  born   1713. 


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fll)  John,  eldest  son  and  child  of  Henry 
and  EHzabeth  (Hudson)  Burr,  was  born  May 
29.  169 1,  and  was  a  man  of  considerable  conse- 
cjuence  in  the  early  history  of  Mt.  Holly  and 
the  community  in  which  he  lived.  In  1728  he  was 
appointed  surveyor  general  of  the  western  divi- 
sion of  New  Jersey.  He  married,  3d  mo.,  29, 1712, 
Keziah,  daughter  of  Job  and  Rachel  Wright, 
of  Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island,  and  by  her  had 
six  children.     She  died   April    12,    1731,   and 

John  Burr  married  (  second)  Susanna , 

who  bore  him  two  children.  His  children  :  I. 
Rachel,  born  nth  mo.^  22,  1713.  2.  Henr}', 
born  8th  mo.,  26,  1715  (see  post).  3.  John, 
born  1st  mo.,  25,  1 7 18.  4.  Solomon,  born  nth 
mo.,  27,  1721.  5.  Keziah,  born  2d  mo.,  17, 
1724.  6.  Joseph,  born  2d  mo.,  11,  1726.  7. 
Susanna,  born  8th  mo.,  26,  173^.  8.  Hudson, 
born  5th  mo.,  22,  1745. 

(Ill)  Henry  (2),  eldest  son  and  second 
child  of  John  and  Keziah  (Wright)  Burr,  was 
born  in  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  the  26th  of 
the  8th  month,  1715,  and  was  of  X'incentown, 
New  Jersey.  He  married  Sarah  E^yre,  and 
b)' her  had  four  children:  i.  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried Abraham  Hewlings.  2.  Henry,  born  1769. 
3.  Thomas.    4.  John. 

(H)  Joseph,  second  son  and  child  of  Henry 
and  Elizabeth  (Hudson)  Burr,  was  born  at 
Mt.  Holly,  Xew  Jersey,  in  1694,  and  married 
the  2d  of  i2th  month,  1726,  Jane,  daughter  of 
John  and  .Anna  Abbott,  of  Nottingham,  New 
Jersey.  They  had  ten  children:  i.  Henry, 
born  5th  mo.,  12,  1731  (see  post).  2.  Joseph, 
born  9th  mo.,  25,  1732.  3.  Abigail,  born  nth 
mo.,  I,  1734:  died  4th  mo.,  16,  1671  ;  married 
David  Davis.  4.  Mary,,  married  Solomon 
Ridgway.  5.  Robert.  6.  Jane,  married,  1762, 
David  Ridgway.  7.  Rebecca,  married,  1771, 
James  Chapman.  8.  Ann,  married  George 
Deacon.  9.  William.  10.  Hannah,  married 
Richard  Eayre. 

(Ill)  Henry  (3),  first  son  and  child  of 
Joseph  and  Jane  (Abbott)  Burr,  was  born  at 
Alt.  Holly,  New  jersey,  the  I2tli  day  of  5th 
month,  1731,  and  was  a  man  of  high  character, 
as  is  shown  by  the  following:  "This  is  to 
certify  that  the  Bearer  hereof,  Henry  Burr, 
is  an  Inhabitant  of  the  Township  of  Northamp- 
ton, in  the  County  of  Burlington  (Farmer) 
and  is  a  person  of  good  repute,  and  is  generally 
believed  to  be  clear  of  acting,  doing  or  saying 
injurious  to  the  present  Government  as  Estab- 
lished under  the  authority  of  the  people  ;  there- 
for permit  him  the  said  Henry  Burr  to  pass 
and  repass  through  any  of  the  Counties  of 
this  state  if  he  behaveth  himself  as  becometh  a 


good  citizen.  Given  this  7tli  day  of  .August, 
1779-  Josiah  G.  Foster,  Est].,  Member  of 
Assembly."  Henry  Burr  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  William  and  Hannah  Foster,  and 
by  her  had  three  children:  i.  Hannah,  born 
1754;  married,  1774,  Henry  A.  Ridgway.  2. 
Abigail,  born  1758;  married  Samuel  Stockton, 
of  Chesterfield.  3.  Henry,  born  1763  (see 
post). 

( I\' )  Henry  (4),  only  son  and  youngest 
child  of  Henry  (3)  and  Elizabeth  (Foster) 
lUirr.  was  born  the  loth  day  of  1st  month, 
1763,  in  Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey,  in  which  town 
he  died,  in  1832,  his  will  being  proved  January 
30,  of  that  year.  He  was  a  farmer  and  lived 
on  the  old  family  homestead  in  Mt.  Holly,  his 
lands  including  four  hundred  acres.  He  was 
an  industrious  and  prosperous  husbandman, 
and  as  a  man  enjoyed  the  respect  of  all  persons 
to  whom  he  was  known.  He  married  Phebe, 
daughter  of  Edmund  and  Miriam  Williams, 
of  Shrewsbury,  New  Jersey,  and  by  her  had 
nine  children:  i.  Edmund  W.,  born  2d  mo., 
I,  1792.  2.  Elizabeth,  born  5th  mo.,  18,  1793; 
married  Joshua  Satterthwaite,  of  Crosswicks, 
New  Jersey.  3.  Miriam,  born  nth  mo.,  21, 
1794;  married  Elwood  E.  Smith.  4.  Henry, 
born  loth  mo.,  15,  1796.  5.  George  W.,  born  9th 
mo.,  15,  1798.  6.  William  W.,  born  2d  mo., 
3,  1800.     7.  Tyle  W.,  born  3d  mo.,  15,  1802. 

8.  Charles,  born  7th  mo.,  21,  1804  (see  post). 

9.  Hudson  S.,  born  7th  mo.,  2,  1806. 

(\')  Charles,  son  and  eighth  child  of  Henry 
(4)  and  Phebe  (\\'illiams)  Burr,  was  born  in 
Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey,  the  21st  day  of  7th 
month,  1804,  and  died  there  October  29,  1852. 
He  was  a  man  of  good  education  and  devoted 
much  of  his  life  to  teaching  school,  at  which 
he  was  very  successful  and  enjoyed  consider- 
able celebrity  as  a  teacher.  At  one  time  and 
for  several  years  he  carried  on  a  general  mer- 
chandise store  in  Medford,  New  Jersey,  and  in 
all  respects  his  business  life  was  a  success.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Whig,  but  it  does  not  appear 
that  he  took  an  active  part  in  public  affairs. 
He  married  (first)  Lucy  Ann  Troth,  born 
April  2,  1807,  died  February  20,  1829,  and  by 
whom  he  had  one  child.  He  married  (second) 
February  8,  1830,  Mary,  daughter  of  Obadiah 
Engle  and  Patience,  daughter  of  Job  Cole  and 
Elizal^eth  Tomlin.  Job  was  the  son  of  Kendal 
Cole  and  Ann,  daughter  of  William  Budd  and 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Abigail 
•Stockton,  the  emigrants.  William  was  the  son 
of  William  Budd  and  Ann  Clapgut,  the  emi- 
grants. Kendal  was  the  son  of  Samuel  Cole 
and   Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Kendal,  the 


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emigrants.  Samuel  was  the  son  of  Samuel 
and  Elizabeth  Cole,  the  emigrants.  (  )badiah 
Engle  was  the  son  of  Joseph  Engle  and  Mary 
I'.orton.  referred  to  above.  After  the  death 
of  Charles  Burr,  Mary  (Engle)  Burr  married 
(second)  Isaac,  son  of  Isaac  and  Elizabeth 
(.\ustin)  Haines,  for  whose  ancestry  see 
sketch  of  the  Austin  family. 

(\  1)  Samuel  Engle.  third  child  and  second 
son  of  Charles  and  Mary  (  Engle )  Burr,  was 
born  in  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey.  March 
20,  1836,  and  is  now  living  in  Bordentown, 
New  Jersey.  For  his  early  education  he  at- 
tended private  school  taught  by  his  uncle,  Will- 
iam Burr.  At  the  age  of  eight  years  he  went 
to  his  uncle,  Samuel  C.  Engle,  and  worked  on 
his  farm,  attending  country  school  at  Easton 
during  the  winter  months.  He  resided  there 
until  sixteen  years  of  age,  then  went  to  Moores- 
town  and  worked  in  his  brother's  store  for 
seven  years,  and  on  January  i,  1859.  moved 
to  Bordentown  and  started  business  for  him- 
self under  the  name  of  Richardson  &  Burr. 
This  continued  for  about  one  year,  when  he 
bought  Mr.  Richardson's  interest  and  con- 
tinued the  business  alone  of  general  store.  His 
store  was  located  at  the  corner  of  Farnsworth 
avenue  and  Crosswicks  street,  the  center  of  the 
commercial  activity  of  Bordentown,  and  here 
by  close  application  to  business  and  fair  and 
equitable  methods,  Mr.  Burr  has  steadily  de- 
velo])ed  a  business  of  mammoth  proportions, 
constituting  in  its  several  branches  the  most 
extensive  and  important  enterjirise  in  that  sec- 
tion of  Ikirlington  county.  At  first  the  busi- 
ness was  carried  on  by  Mr.  Burr  and  his 
brother,  but  upon  the  death  of  the  latter  Mr. 
Burr  became  the  sole  owner.  When  his  son, 
Charles  Engle  Burr,  became  of  age,  he  was 
admitted  into  partnership  in  the  insurance 
branch  of  the  business  as  Samuel  E.  Burr  & 
Son,  a  general  insurance  agency  which  Air. 
Burr  started  in  1868.  For  five  years  he  was 
the  special  agent  of  the  Franklin  Fire  Insur- 
ance Company,  with  the  power  of  appointing 
all  other  agents  in  New  Jersey,  three  years  in 
Trenton  as  secretary  of  the  Standard  Insur- 
ance Company,  of  Trenton,  New  Jersey.  This 
company  was  about  to  wind  up  its  business 
when  he  took  charge  :  he  built  up  its  business 
and  had  it  paying  dividends  inside  of  one  year. 
In  1879  lie  built  the  Burr  block  in  Borden- 
town. He  is  the  president  of  the  Bordentown 
board  of  health  and  of  the  water  board.  He 
lias  been  a  member  of  the  common  council, 
and  a  number  of  years  ago  was  the  candidate 
of  the   assembly.      In    November,    1908,    with 


several  t>ther  prominent  citizens,  Mr.  Burr 
organized  the  First  National  Bank,  of  Borden- 
town. which  in  six  weeks  had  .$50,000.00  on 
deposit.  In  1893  ^^^-  Burr  organized  the 
Samuel  E.  Burr  Hardware  Company,  with 
himself  as  president  and  treasurer,  and  his  son 
as  secretary.  In  September,  1903,  he  disposed 
of  the  grocery  and  provision  branches  of  his 
business  to  Cramer  &  Rogers,  but  he  retains 
under  his  individual  management  the  dry  goods 
and  notions  lines  at  2  Crosswicks  street.  In 
1882  Mr.  Burr  organized  as  an  individual 
undertaking  the  public  telephone  service  in 
['ordentown.  .\fter  he  had  secured  a  sufficient 
number  of  subscribers  to  place  the  service  on 
a  remunerative  basis  he  turned  it  over  to  the 
telephone  company  and  the  exchange  is  located 
on  the  second  floor  of  the  Burr  building.  Mr. 
Ilurr  is  a  Piaptist  and  a  member  of  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  of  the 
.Ancient  Order  of  United  W^orkmen,  of  Borden- 
town, to  the  former  of  which  he  has  been 
attached  for  fifty  years. 

November  9,  1857,  Samuel  Engle  Burr  mar- 
ried (first)  Sarah  E.,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
and  Hannah  Richardson,  who  died  April   18. 

1894.  having  borne  him  one  child,  Charles 
Engle,  w'ho  is  referred  to  below.     January  3, 

1895.  Samuel  Engle  Burr  married  (second) 
Elizabeth  Coward,  daughter  of  John  Wesley, 
died  November,  1904.  and  Anna  (Coward) 
Thompson, and  granddaughter  of  .\llen  Thomp- 
son, a  Methodist  minister  who  died  aged  one 
hundred  _\-ears,  his  father  having  lived  to  the 
age  of  one  hundred  and  three  years.  The  chil- 
dren of  this  marriage  have  been  two:  i.  Sam- 
uel Engle,  Jr.,  born  December  6,  1897.  2. 
.\nna  Thompson,  born  March  12,  1900. 

(VII)  Charles  Engle.  the  only  child  of 
.Samuel  Engle  and  Sarah  E.  (Richardson) 
Burr,  was  born  in  Bordentown,  Burlington 
county.  New  Jer.sey,  Sejjtember  4,  1868.  For 
his  early  education  he  w^as  sent  to  the  Borden- 
town Alilitary  Institute,  after  which  he  S]ient 
one  year  in  the  Model  school  at  Trenton,  and 
then  entered  the  Boston  School  of  Technolog\-, 
which  last  institution  he  was,  however,  obliged 
to  leave  after  only  a  short  stay,  owing  to  ill 
hcaltli.  This  was  in  1888,  and  he  then  went 
abroad  and  spent  some  time  in  travelling 
through  England,  France  and  Germany,  and 
returning  went  for  a  visit  to  California.  In 
1893  he  went  into  business  with  his  father  as 
secretary  of  the  hardware  company.  In  1889 
was  made  a  partner  in  the  insurance  business. 
Mr,  Burr  is  a  director  in  the  First  National 
l?ank,  of  Bordentown  :  secretarv  of  the  Borden- 


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town  Cemetery  Association,  and  for  the  last 
five  years  has  been  chief  of  the  five  depart- 
ment of  the  city.  He  is  also  the  treasurer  of 
the  Firemens'  \'olunteer  Relief  Association. 
He  organized  the  Yapwes  Boat  Club  and  from 
its  inception  has  been  its  secretary  and  treas- 
urer. Mr.  Burr  is  a  Democrat,,  he  has  served 
as  a  councilman,  in  1900  being  president  of  the 
common  council.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  Mount  Moriah  Lodge. 
No.  28;  of  the  Mount  Moriah  Royal  Arch 
Chapter,  No.  20,  and  of  Ivanhoe  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar,  No.  11.  He  is  also  a  past 
master,  past  high  priest,  past  commander  and 
commander  of  Lu  Lu  Temple,  Philadelphia: 
of  Crescent  Temple,  Trenton ;  of  Scottish  Rite 
bodies,  Trenton,  and  a  thirty-second  degree 
]Mason.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  No.  16;  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  No.  ^^ ;  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen,  No.  9,  and  of  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  No. 
105,  of  Bordentown.  April  12,  1893,  Charles 
Engle  Burr  married  Helen  A.,  daughter  of 
Ca])tain  Robert  and  Jane  (Allen)  Bloombury, 
of  Bordentown,  and  they  have  one  child,  Sarah 
Jane,  born  May  24,  1895,  who  has  been  edu- 
cated at  private  schools  and  at  the  Model 
school  in  Trenton. 


(For  early  generations  see  preceding  sketch). 

(IV)  Henry  (3),  only  son  and 
BURR  youngest  child  of  Henry  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (^ Foster)  Burr,  was  born 
the  loth  day  of  1st  month,  1763,  in  Mount 
Holly,  New  Jersey,  in  which  town  he  died,  in 
1732,  his  will  being  proved  January  30,  that 
year.  He  was  a  farmer^  and  lived  on  the  old 
family  homestead  in  Mount  Holly,  his  lands 
including  four  hundred  acres.  He  was  an  in- 
dustrious and  prosperous  husbandman,  and  as 
a  man  enjoyed  the  respect  of  all  persons  to 
whom  he  was  known.  He  married  Phebe, 
daughter  of  Edmund  and  ^^liriam  Williams,  of 
Shrewsbury,  New  Jersey;  children:  i.  Ed- 
mund W.,  born  2d  mo.,  i,  1792.  2.  Elizabeth, 
Sth  mo.,  18,  1793:  married  Joshua  Satter- 
thwaite,  of  Crosswicks,  New  Jersey.  3.  Mir- 
iam, iith  mo.,  21,  1794;  married  Elwood  E. 
Smith.  4.  Henry,  loth  mo.,  15,  1796.  5. 
George  W.,  9th  mo.,  15,  1798.  6.  William  W., 
2d  mo.,  3,  1800.  7.  Tyle  W.,  3d  mo.,  15,  1802. 
8.  Charles,  7th  mo.,  21,  1804  (see  post).  9. 
Hudson  S.,  7th  mo.,  2,  1806. 

(V)  Charles,  son  and  eighth  child  of  Henry 
(3)  and  Phebe  (Williams)  Burr,  was  born  in 
Alount  Holly,  New  Jersey,  the  21st  day  of  7th 


month,  1804,  and  died  there  October  29,  1852. 
He  was  a  man  of  good  education,  and  devoted 
much  of  his  life  to  teaching  school,  at  which 
he  was  very  successful,  and  enjoyed  consider- 
able celebrity  as  a  teacher.  At  one  time  and 
for  several  years  he  carried  on  a  general  mer- 
chandise store  in  Medford,  New  Jersey,  and 
m  all  respects  his  business  life  was  a  success. 
In  politics  he  was  a  W  big,  but  it  does  not  ap- 
pear that  he  took  an  active  part  in  public 
affairs.  He  married  (first)  Lucy  Ann  Troth, 
born  April  2,  1807,  died  February  20,  1829, 
and  by  whom  he  had  one  child.  He  married 
(second)  February  8,  1830,  Mary  E.  Engle, 
born  March  20,  1805,  daughter  of  Obadiah  and 
Lucy  Fugle,  of  Easton,  New  Jersey.  He  had 
eight  children,  one  by  his  first  and  seven  by 
his  second  wife:  i.  .\lfred  H.,  born  March  20, 
1827.  2.  Lucy  Ann,  January  10,  1831  ;  married 
Anthony  Cuthbert.  3.  Mamre  George,  Decem- 
ber 19,  1832.  4.  Samuel  E.,  March  20,  1836. 
5.  -Aaron  E.,  January  28,  1841  (see  post).  6. 
William  W.,  November  24,  1838.  7.  Charles 
O.,  October  24,  1843.  8.  .Augustus  Walter, 
June  5,  1847. 

( \TI )  Aaron  Engle,  son  of  Charles  and 
Mary  E.  (Engle)  Burr,  was  born  in  Mount 
Holly,  New  Jersey,  January  28,  1841.  He 
attended  school  until  he  was  fifteen  years  old, 
and  began  his  business  career  as  a  merchant 
in  Burlington,  in  partnership  with  a  Mr. 
Heaton,  under  the  firm  name  of  Burr  &  Heaton, 
He  was  in  business  from  18^)2  throughout  the 
war  period  and  afterward  until  1869,  when  he 
sold  out  his  intrest  and  went  into  a  proprietary 
medicine  business  at  Moorestown,  New  Jersey. 
He  was  thus  engaged  until  1882,  and  after- 
ward for  several  years  was  a  state  and  county 
detective  in  the  service  of  the  Pemisylvania 
Railroad  Comjiany.  He  then  determined  to 
enter  the  profession  of  law,  and  to  that  end 
registered  as  a  student  and  began  a  course  of 
law  studies  under  the  direction  of  Hon.  Sam- 
uel K.  Robbins,  of  Moorestown.  In  1895  he 
was  admitted  to  practice,  being  then  fifty-five 
years  old :  and  it  is  said  that  Mr.  Burr  is  per- 
haps the  oldest  man  ever  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  Burlington  county,  if  not  in  the  state  of 
New  Jersey.  The  first  case  in  which  he  ap- 
peared as  attorney  was  for  a  client  who  then 
was  one  hundred  one  years  old.  However, 
Mr.  Burr  is  a  capable  and  successful  lawyer, 
and  while  his  practice  is  general,  his  attention 
is  devoted  largely  to  mercantile  collections.  He 
is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  as  the  candidate 
of  his  jiarty  has  frequently  been  elected  to 
service    in    public   offices,    such    as    constable. 


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township  clerk,  overseer  of  the  poor,  and  is 
serving  his  second  term  as  justice  of  the  peace. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen,  the  Patriotic  Order  of  Sons  of 
America,  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, the  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  the 
Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle  and  in  religious 
preference  inclines  strongly  to  the  teachings 
of  the  Society  of  Friends. 

On  December  31,  1862,  Mr.  IJurr  married 
Sarah  S.,  daughter  of  David  and  Mary  (Eng- 
lish )  Heaton.  of  Burlington,  and  by  whom  he 
has  had  seven  children:  i.  W'illiam  H.,  born 
June  22,  1864;  died  August  11,  1865.  2. 
Charles  E.,  born  January  8.  1867;  died  July  3, 
1867.  3.  Mary  A.,  born  July  2.  1868;  married 
Frank  Flagg,  of  Hasbrouck  Heights,  Bergen 
county,  New  Jersey,  and  has  two  children, 
Esther  and  Donald  Flagg.  4.  Rebecca  A.,  born 
August  13,  1870;  married  Howard  G.  Taylor, 
of  Moorestown^  a  commercial  traveller.  5. 
Aaron  R.,  born  January  14,  1876;  died  July 
29,  1S76.  f).  David  H.,  born  May  6,  1877; 
married  -Ada  Brock.  7.  James  B.  E.,  born 
September  6,  1884;  an  electrician  living  at 
Port  Carbon,  Pennsylvania ;  married  Ella 
Turner,  and  has  one  child,  Theodosia  Burr. 


(For  preceding  generations  see  preceding  sketches). 

(\T)  Alfred  Henry,  only  child  of 
BURR     Charles    and    Lucy    .\nn    (Troth) 

Burr,  was  born  in  Medford,  Bur- 
lington county,  New  Jersey,  March  20,  1827, 
and  is  now  living  in  Moorestown,  in  the  same 
county.  For  his  education  he  was  sent  to  the 
select  schools  of  Medford  and  to  boarding 
school,  after  which  he  went  as  clerk  into  the 
wholesale  dry  goods  store  of  William  C.  Mor- 
gan &  Company,  of  Philadelphia,  with  whom 
he  remainecl  for  si.x  years.  In  1849  he  went 
into  business  for  himself  in  Moorestown,  where 
he  kept  a  general  store,  selling  dry  goods, 
groceries,  hardware,  etc.  In  this  business  he 
remained  until  1897  when  he  retired  from 
active  business.  Mr.  Burr  has  large  real  estate 
interests  both  in  Burlington  county  and  also 
in  Florida,  where  for  a  good  many  years  he 
has  spent  every  winter.  Among  his  interests 
in  the  south  was  a  plantation  in  Florida  of 
about  eight  thousand  acres  of  which  he  was  the 
])rincipal  owner.  In  Burlington  county  he 
owns  a  number  of  farms,  both  small  and  large, 
and  several  town  properties  including  the  large 
business  block  in  which  he  carried  on  his  own 
business  for  nearly  half  a  century.  He  is  the 
treasurer  of  the  Oil  and  Mining  Company,  and 
is  the    director   an<l    the   treasurer   of    several 


building  and  loan  associations  in  connection 
with  which  he  handles  over  $500,000.00  every 
year.  He  is  also  a  director  in  the  bank  of 
Moorestown  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
original  promoters  and  organizers.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
I'ellows,  of  Philadelphia,  in  politics  he  is  a 
Republican,  and  in  religion  is  a  member  of  the 
.Society  of  h>iends,  December  26,  1850,  .\lfred 
1  lenry  Burr  married  Elizabeth,  born  Decem- 
ber 25,  1826,  daughter  of  John  and  Julia  Hart- 
man,  of  Philadelphia,  who  died  August  14, 
1904.  Their  children  were :  i.  Lord  Hartman, 
referred  to  below.  2.  Alfred  Troth,  born  in 
Moorestown,  April  16,  1855;  died  December 
20.  1896;  he  was  in  the  general  merchandise 
business  with  his  father ;  married  Florence  V. 
Ford  and  left  one  child,  Ethel  Marie,  a  grad- 
uate of  Vassar  College,  having  won  two 
scholarships. 

(VIIj  Lord  Hartman,  elder  son  of  Alfred 
Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Hartman)  Burr,  was 
born  in  Moorestown,  July  25,  1852,  and  is 
now  living  in  that  place.  After  attending  the 
Moorestown  public  schools,  he  went  into  his 
father's  store,  and  when  the  trust  company  was 
organized  in  Moorestown  about  twenty  years 
ago,  accepted  a  position  in  that  institution  and 
is  now  its  secretary.  He  is  also  interested  in 
the  Building  and  Loan  Association,  of  Moores- 
town, of  which  he  is  the  treasurer.  In  politics 
Mr.  I')urr  is  a  Republican  and  in  religion  is  a 
communicant  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
church.  Lord  Hartman  Burr  married  (first) 
]\Iary  Hartman,  who  bore  him  one  child,  Lord 
Hartman,  Jr.,  who  won  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania's  scholarship  to  the  West  Indies. 

Mr.    Burr  married    (second)   ,  and  by 

this  marriage  he  has  had  three  children  :  Alfred, 
Elizabeth  and  Jeannette,  twins. 


"I  Joseph  Pancoast,  son  of 
PANCOAST     John  and  Elizabeth  Pancoast 

of  Ashen,  fieve  miles  from 
Northampton  Town,  in  Northampton  Shire, 
England,  born  1672  the  27th  of  eighth  month 
called  October;  and  in  the  year  i(j8o,  C_)ctober 
4th  came  into  America  in  the  ship  'Paradise,' 
William  Evelyn,  master :  and  I  settled  in  W'est 
New  Jersey,  Burlington  County,  and  on  the 
14th  of  the  eighth  month,  October  1696,  I  took 
to  wife  Thomasin  Scattergood,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Scattergood,  of  Step- 
ney Parish,  London,  who  also  transported 
themselves  into  Burlington  County  in  Amer- 
ica." The  above  quotation  is  from  an  old 
document  in  the  possession  of  Henry  Pancoast 


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of  Mesopotamia,  Ohio,  and  tells  us  the  origin 
of  the  Pancoast  family  in  this  country. 

( 1 )  John  Pancoast,  the  founder  of  the 
family,  came,  as  the  document  says,  to  West 
Jersey  in  1680,  bringing  with  him  his  family 
of  children.  It  is  uncertain  whether  his  wife 
accomi)anied  him  or  whether  she  died  very 
shortly  after  her  arrival  in  America.  At  any 
rate  John  Pancoast  was  married  a  second  time 
within  two  years  of  his  coming,  and  shortly 
before  his  death  he  took  to  himself  a  third. 
wife.  His  children  are  believed  to  have  been  all 
of  them  the  issue  of  his  first  marriage.  He  set- 
tled at  the  mouth  of  the  east  branch  of  the 
.Assiscunck  creek,  was  one  of  the  signers  of 
the  noted  "Concessions  and  .\grecments,"  and 
owned  proprietary  rights  in  the  province.  In 
1681  he  was  appointed  regulator  of  weights 
and  measures  for  P)Urlington  county,  in  1683 
he  was  chosen  constable,  and  in  1685  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  assembly  of  West 
Jersey.  His  will  is  dated  November  30,  and 
was  proved  December  22,  1694.  The  name  of 
liis  first  wife  was  Elizabeth:  his  second,  whom 
he  married  in  the  Burlington  monthly  meeting 
in  1682,  was  .Ann  Snowden,  and  the  name  of 
his  third  wife  was  Jane.  His  children  were: 
I.  Mary,  married  Seth  Smith.  2. '.\nn.  3. 
William,  referred  to  below\  4.  Joseph,  re- 
ferred to  above  in  the  extract,  who  married 
Thomasiu  Scattergood.  5.  Elizabeth,  married 
Joseph    P)acon.      6.    Sarah,    married    Edward 


Roidton. 


Hannah.     8.    .Susanna,   married 


Ral];)h  Cowgill. 

(11)  William,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
Pancoast,  was  born  in  England,  and  accom 
panicd  his  father  to  this  country.  He  was 
probably  the  eldest  of  all  of  liis  children  and 
was  the  sole  executor  of  his  father's  will.  He 
settled  near  his  father  in  Mansfield  town.ship, 
Purlington  county,  and  seems  to  have  lived 
there  all  his  life,  although  in  1700  he  had  sur- 
veyed for  him  two  hundred  and  seventy  acres 
on  Rock  creek,  near  Little  Egg  Harbor.  Sep- 
tember I,  1695,  he  married  in  the  Burlington 
monthly  meeting,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Elizabeth  Scattergood,  the  sister  of  his 
brother  Joseph's  wife,  and  there  are  records 
of  four  of  his  children.  He  undoubtedly  had 
other  children  and  the  tradition  which  makes 
E'Uvard  who  is  referred  to  below  and  William 
who  married  Meribah  Allen  his  sons,  is  most 
probably  correct.  The  four  children  whose 
marriages  are  recorded  in  the  Chesterfield  and 
Burlington  monthly  meetings  are:  I.  John, 
married  Mary  Crusher.  2.  Joseph,  married 
Mary  Ogborne.    3.  Elizabeth,  married  Marma- 


duke  Watson.  4.  Hannah,  married  Matthew 
Watson. 

(Ill)  Edward,  son  of  William  and  Hannah 
(Scattergood)  Pancoast,  was  born  in  Mans- 
field township,  and  spent  the  early  part  of  his 
manhood  in  Bordentown,  where  in  1756  he 
advertises  for  the  apprehension  of  a  runaway 
servant,  Patrick  Weldon.  Some  time  after  his 
marriage  he  removed  from  Bordentown  to 
Salem  county,  where  his  descendants  became 
numerous  and  influential.  .August  15,  1761,  he 
took  out  a  license  to  marry  Hannah  King  and 
there  is  record  of  at  least  two  children  to  this 
marriage:  I.  Samuel,  married  Dorcas  Stratch, 
and  became  one  of  the  most  influential  mem- 
bers of  the  Salem  monthly  meeting.  2.  W'ill- 
iam,  referred  to  below. 

(I\')  William  (2),  son  of  Edward  and 
Hannah  (^King)  Pancoast,  married,  in  1784, 
the  license  being  dated  February  19,  Sarah 
Lishman,  and  had  at  least  two  sons:  i.  Sam- 
uel.    2.  Henry,  referred  to  below. 

(\")  Henry,  son  of  William  (2)  and  Sarah 
(Lishman)  Pancoast,  was  born  in  Salem 
county,  Xew  Jersey,  F'ebruary  2,  1792,  died 
there  September  9,  1835.  He  married  Han- 
nah Ivins  Hackney,  born  in  1796,  died  .\pril 
18,  1882.  Their  children  were:  i.  Mary,  born 
October  10.  1818.  2.  Caroline,  January  27, 
1821.  3.  Rebecca  Hackney,  March  16,  1822. 
4.  William  Hacknev,  September  10,  1824.  5. 
Henry  Jr.,  June  8, '1828.  6.  BarziUai  B.,  May 
23,  1831.  7.  Edward  Hackney,  referred  to 
below. 

(  \  1 1  Edward  Hackney,  youngest  child  of 
Henry  and  Hannah  Ivins  (Hackney)  Pan- 
coast,  was  born  near  Woodstown,  Salem 
county.  May  12,  1835  and  is  now  living  at 
Riverton,  Xew  Jersey.  His  father  died  when 
he  was  about  four  months  old,  and  after  re- 
ceiving a  common  school  education  he  was  put 
out  as  apprentice  when  eight  years  old,  and 
when  twenty-two  years  old  he  had  a  small 
farm  on  wdiich  he  carried  on  truck  farming. 
Previous  to  this  as  a  young  man  he  taught 
school  for  a  time,  and  later  he  had  a  flour  and 
feed  business  in  Bridgeboro.  In  1862  he  en- 
listed in  Company  G,  Twelfth  Regiment  of 
Xew  Jersey  Volunteers,  and  was  mustered 
into  service  in  August,  1862.  The  company 
was  then  sent  to  Baltimore  and  was  on  police 
duty  for  a  time.  He  was  in  the  battles  of 
Chancellorsville  and  Gettysburg,  and  was 
taken  prisoner  in  the  second  day's  fight  of  the 
latter  battle.  He  was  taken  to  Belle  Island, 
Richmond,  where  he  was  kept  for  three 
months,  and  then  sent  to  Annapolis,  Maryland, 


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and  later,  after  his  exchange,  went  to  the  hos- 
pital at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  He  was 
discharged  from  service  in  May,  1865.  Re- 
turning to  New  Jersey  he  located  at  Riverton, 
where  he  took  up  carpentering  and  contracting, 
and  built  many  of  the  houses  of  Palmyra  and 
Riverton.  This  line  of  business  he  followed 
for  some  twenty  years,  and  then  went  into 
the  real  estate  and  insurance  business,  in  which 
he  is  active  at  the  present  time.  Mr.  F'an- 
coast  is  a  Republican  and  has  served  as  coun- 
cilman for  several  years.  He  has  also  served 
on  the  board  of  assessors,  and  on  the  board 
of  education  for  many  years,  and  he  has  been 
one  of  the  chosen  freeholders.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Covenant  Lodge,  No.  161,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  of  Palmyra,  of  which  he 
was  first  master;  Boudinot  Chapter,  No.  3, 
Royal  Arch  Alasons,  of  Burlington,  of  which 
he  is  past  high  priest ;  Helena  Commandery, 
No.  3,  Knights  Templar,  of  Burlington,  of 
wdiich  he  is  past  eminent  commander.  He  is 
also  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  of  Camden.  New 
Jersey,  and  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason.  He 
is  a  member  of  Washington  Camp,  No.  2;^.  I^a- 
triotic  Order  Sons  of  America,  of  Palmyra ; 
Cinnaminson  Lodge,  No.  201,  Inde])endent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  of  Palmyra ;  Knights 
of  the  Goklen  Eagle,  No.  22,  of  Palmyra:  a 
life  member  of  the  Fire  Association  of  I^iver- 
ton  ;  a  member  of  William  P.  Hatch  Post,  No. 
^7,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  of  Camden, 
and  a  member.,  trustee  and  district  steward  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

Edward  Hackney  Pancoast  married  Re- 
becca A.,  born  in  Bridgeboro,  daughter  of 
.A.hab  and  Sarah  (Sharp)  Bishop.  Their  chil- 
dren are:  i.  Laura,  born  June  4,  1857,  died 
March  29,  1877.  2.  Martha  Austin,  born  Sep- 
tember 10,  1858,  widow  of  Hugh  Glendening 
White,  whose  children  are  :  Edward,  who  is  mar- 
ried and  is  surgeon  in  the  United  States  navy, 
William  and  Laura  P.  White.  3.  Stacy  Strat- 
ton,  referred  to  below.  4.  Annie  Brown,  born 
March  4,  1861,  died  September  13,  1898:  mar- 
ried Alfred  J.  Briggs,  and  had  one  child, 
Alfred  Stacy  Briggs,  who  married  and  had  a 
son  .Mfred  Briggs.  5.  Edward,  born  June  Q, 
1862,  died  August  15,  1863. 

(VTI)  Stacy  Stratton,  third  child  and  only 
son  of  Edward  Hackney  and  Rebecca  A. 
(l'>ishop)  Pancoast,  was  born  in  Chester  town- 
ship, Burlington  county,  March  5,  i860,  and 
is  now  living  at  Delanco,  New  Jersey.  He 
was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Riverton,  in  the 
Farnham  preparatory  school  at  Beverly,  New 
Jersey,  anfl  at  the  Crittenden  Commercial  Col- 


lege in  Pliiladelphia,  graduating  from  the  last 
named  institution  in  1878.  He  then  worked  in 
Philadelphia  as  a  clerk  and  bookkeeper  for 
several  years,  after  which  he  went  into  the 
office  of  W.  Frederick  -Snyder  for  three  years, 
and  in  1885  opened  an  office  for  himself  in 
Philadelphia,  where  he  conducted  a  real  estate 
any  conveyancing  business,  in  which  he  con- 
tinued until  1888,  when  he  went  to  Alabama 
on  account  of  his  health.  From  there  in  1892 
he  went  to  West  \'irginia,  where  he  built  a 
mill  and  carried  on  the  lumber  business  for 
three  years,  when,  his  mill  having  been  de- 
stroyed by  fire,  he  returned  north  and  settled 
at  Delanco,  New  Jersey,  in  1895,  taking  a  po- 
sition as  assistant  manager  to  The  G.  O.  Ham- 
mell  Company  in  the  lumber  business.  In 
1898  he  was  made  manager  and  treasurer  of 
the  company,  and  this  position  he  now  holds. 
Mr.  Pancoast  is  a  I-iepublican,  and  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  order,  of  Merchantvdle  Lodge, 
No.  33, of  the  Boudinot  Royal  .\rch  Chapter,  No. 
3,  of  Burlington,  of  the  Helena  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar,  No.  3,  of  Burlington,  and 
he  is  also  a  past  master  of  the  lodge  and  past 
eminent  commander  of  the  Knights  Templar. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  L  O.  R.  AL,  the 
Tacoma  Tribe  of  Delanco ;  Washington  Camp, 
No.  35,  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of  .America,  of 
Delanco,   New  Jersey. 

In  November,  1884,  Stacy  S.  Pancoast  mar- 
ried Mabel  D.,  daughter  of  Henry  D.  and  Ma- 
tilda M.  Games,  of  Camden,  New  Jersey. 
Child,  Harry  G.,  born  .\ugust  10,  1885,  died 
October  15,  1885. 


(For  ancestry   see  preceding  sketch). 

Caleb  C.  Pancoast  is  a  great- 
PANCOAST     grandson  of  John  Pancoast, 
the  emigrant.     As  to  which 
of  John's  two  sons  he  is  the  grandson  there 
is  some  doubt,  but  the  evidence  seems  to  point 
to  his  being  the  grandson  of  William  and  Han- 
nah   ( Scattergood)    Pancoast,   through   a   son 
Caleb,  whom  tradition  assigns  to  these  parents. 
(1\')   Caleb  C.  Pancoast  was  born  in  Mul- 
lica  Hill,  Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey,  was 
a   farmer   and   lived   and   died   where   he   was 
born.     By  his  wife  Deborah  he  had  at  least 
three  children:  I.  Rhoda,  married  a  Mr.  Rob- 
erts.    2.    Hannah,   married    Captain    Thomas 
Dixie.     3.  Nathan  Dunn,  referred  to  below. 

(V)  Nathan  Dimn.  son  of  Caleb  C.  and 
Deborah  Pancoast,  was  born  in  MuUica  Hill. 
Gloucester  county,  December  10,  1804,  died  in 
1898.  After  being  educated  in  the  town 
schools  he  taught   school   for  two  winters  at 


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5f>3 


•Miillica  Hill  and  for  some  time  followed  fann- 
ing. In  1838  he  removed  to  Mapleshade, 
Burlington  county,  where  he  remained  until 
1850,  when  he  removed  to  Moorestown,  where 
he  lived  until  the  time  of  his  death.  He  had 
large  farming  interests,  was  a  very  successful 
farmer,  and  owned  and  operated  several 
farms.  In  1861  he  built  the  large  frame  house 
on  the  main  road  about  a  mile  out  of  Moores- 
town. He  was  a  Republican,  and  active  in 
politics,  but  he  was  not  an  office  seeker.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Hicksite  branch  of  the 
Society  of  Friends.  He  married  Sarah  Ann 
Moiifatt,  born  at  Carpenter's  Landing,  Glou- 
cester county,  in  1811  or  1812,  and  died  in 
1889.  Their  children  were :  i.  Josiah  Dunn,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  Thomas  MofTat,  referred 
to  below.  3.  Caleb  C,  who  was  a  member 
of  the  Assembly  from  Woodbury,  New  Jersey. 
4.  George  W.,  a  farmer,  who  removed  to 
Williams  county,  Ohio.  5.  Nathan  Dunn  Jr., 
who  lives  at  Moorestown.  6.  Amanda,  who 
is  living  at  Moorestown.  7.  Sarah.  8.  Deb- 
orah, who  married  Aaron  E.  liorton,  of 
Moorestown. 

(\T)  Josiah  Dunn,  eldest  child  of  Nathan 
Dunn  and  Sarah  Ann  (  Moffatt)  Pancoast,  was 
born  at  Mullica  Hill,  Gloucester  county,  in 
1833,  died  in  1903.  He  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools,  and  about  1856  was  engaged 
in  farming  on  the  Maple  Shade  farm,  three 
and  a  half  miles  from  Moorestown,  where  he 
remained  seven  years.  He  then  moved  to 
Magnolia  Vale,  where  he  spent  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  He  was  a  Re])ublican.  and  was  at 
one  time  supervisor  of  roads,  and  for  eleven 
years  was  on  the  board  of  freeholders.  Was 
a  member  of  the  Grange  and  a  Hicksite 
Quaker.  He  died  July  i,  1903.  He  married, 
March  19,  1857,  at  the  Chesterfield  Monthly 
Meeting,  Sarah  Middleton,  daughter  of  Ilen- 
jamin  and  Sarah  (West)  Thorn.  Mrs.  Pan- 
coast  is  now  living  near  Moorestown.  Their 
children  were:  I.  Henry  Norwood,  referred  to 
below.  2.  George  W.,  born  .August  15,  1862, 
married  Mary  Trimble,  of  Philadelphia,  but 
has  no  children.  3.  Thomas  J.,  born  July  13, 
1865,  a  dealer  in  lumber,  coal  and  hardware 
in  Merchantsville,  married  Catharine  Collins 
and  has  four  children  :  J.  .\rthur,  Norwood  H., 
Russell  Thorn  and  Norman  Lester;  died  in 
infancy.     4.    Laura    G.,    born    February    12, 

1868,  married  Walter  Holmes,  a  farmer  near 
Moorestown.  and  has  two  children :  Samuel 
G.  and  William   Bartram.     5.  Anna  T.,  born 

Vpril  3,  1870,  married  Clayton  Lippincott  .An- 
drews, of  Moorestown.  and  has  three  children  : 


Thomas  Clayton,   Norwood    Henry  and    Ed- 
ward Benajah. 

(All)  Henry  Norwood,  eldest  child  of 
Josiah  Dunn  and  Sarah  Middleton  (Thorn) 
Pancoast,  was  born  in  Mapleshade,  Burlington 
county,  January  30,  1859,  and  is  now  living  in 
Riverton,  New  Jersey.  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  Moorestown  and  in  pri- 
vate schools  near  there,  and  for  two  years 
as  a  young  man  he  worked  on  his  father's 
farm.  He  then  went  to  Galesburg.  Illinois,  in 
1884,  as  a  clerk  in  a  grocery  store,  and  after 
spending  two  more  years  there  he  went  west 
in  1886  to  Colorado  where  he  found  employ- 
ment on  a  cattle  ranch  on  the  Platte  river  as 
foreman  of  the  ranch.  Here  he  remained  for 
four  years,  returning  east  in  1890  and  taking 
to  farming  on  his  grandfather's  farm  near 
Moorestown,  which  he  carried  on  for  three 
years  and  then  for  four  years  took  charge  of 
his  father's  farm.  In  1897  lie  came  to  River- 
ton,  and  engaged  in  a  flour,  grain  and  coal 
business,  established  by  Haines  Brothers,  his 
principal  occupation  being  the  manufacture  of 
flour,  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Haines 
i;rothers,  who  had  been  established  there  since 
1892.  Until  December,  1904,  the  firm  con- 
tiinied  doing  business  under  the  old  name,  and 
then  reincorporated  itself  under  the  title  of 
H.  N.  Pancoast  &  Company,  under  which  name 
it  has  been  doing  business  ever  since.  Mr. 
Pancoast  is  a  Republican,  and  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  election  board  at  Moorestown  and 
is  at  ])resent  a  member  of  the  borough  council 
of  Riverton.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Grange 
and  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  In  1891  Henry 
Norwood  I'ancoast  married  Elizabeth  L.,  born 
at  Haines  Mills,  Burlington  Pike,  near  Bridge- 
borough,  daughter  of  John  W.  and  Hannah 
M.  (Lewis)  Haines,  born  July  31,  1859,  died 
in  .-\ugust,  1907.  Besides  four  boys  who  died 
in  infancy  they  had  one  child:  Mary  Haines, 
born  near  Moorestown,  September  13,  1892, 
who  is  now  attending  George's  school,  near 
Newtown,  Pennsylvania. 

(\T)  Thomas  Moffatt,  second  child  and  son 
of  Nathan  Dunn  and  Sarah  Ann  ( Mofl'att ) 
Pancoast,  was  born  at  ^Mullica  Hill,  Gloucester 
county,  September  5,  1834,  and  is  now  living 
at  Moorestown,  Burlington  county.  New  Jer- 
sey. He  was  educated  in  the  town  schools  of 
Midlica  Hill  and  in  .Samuel  .Varonson's  school 
at  Norristown,  Pennsylvania,  after  which  he 
went  to  farming  with  his  father.  He  did  a 
large  truck  farming  business,  driving  to  mar- 
ket with  produce  and  drawing  back  from  the 
city    fertilizers.     He   kept    up    this    work    at 


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Moorestown  for  his  father  until  his  marriage 
and  then  he  went  to  work  farming  for  himself. 
He  was  appointed  postmaster  of  Moorestown 
under  President  Arthur,  and  served  also  under 
his  successor.  President  Cleveland,  for  four 
years,  and  then  remained  in  the  office  as  as- 
sistant j)ostmaster  under  his  successor  for 
three  years  longer.  In  1907  he  retired  from 
active  life  and  moved  into  the  village  of 
Moorestown,  where  he  now  lives.  Mr.  Pan- 
coast  is  a  Republican  and  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  P^riends. 

In  i860  Thomas  Moffatt  Pancoast  married 
(  first )  Sarah  \\'.,  daughter  of  West  Jessup,  of 
Mantua,  Gloucester  county,  who  died  in  1873. 
In  1886  he  married  (second)  Harriet  S., 
daughter  of  Cjeorge  S.  Hulme,  of  Mt.  Holly. 
In  1907  he  married  (third)  Mary  Grisconi 
Lippincott.  widow  of  Albert  Lippincott,  and 
daughter  of  David  Griscom,  who  was  president 
of  tlie  Moorestown  Bank  at  the  time  of  his 
death.  Thomas  Moffat  Pancoast  has  no  chil- 
dren. 


Of  the  founder  of  the 
TOxMLINSON  Tomlinson  family  of  West 
Jersey  it  has  been  said, 
"There  are  doubtless  very  many  interesting 
incidents,  which,  by  patient  research  among 
tlie  musty  records  still  extant  could  be  brought 
to  light,  and  would  show  much  of  the  history 
of  his  time,  in  connection  with  the  progress 
(if  the  people  in  their  social,  judicial  and  po- 
litical condition.  That  he  was  a  progressive  man 
is  shown  by  his  selecting  his  home  so  far  away 
from  the  first  settlements,  in  the  depths  of  the 
wilderness,  surrounded  only  by  the  aborig- 
ines, where  nothing  but  industry  and  persever- 
ance could  procure  him  a  farm.  In  connection 
with  these  difficulties  he  became  ])roficient  in 
legal  knowledge.  He,  therefore,  attracted  the 
attention  of  the  community,  and  was  called 
to  fill  the  responsible  positions  before  named. 
These  tilings  stamp  him  as  a  man  whose  ca- 
reer through  life  is  worthy  of  being  traced  and 
recorded." 

(1)  Jose])h  Tomlinson,  the  person  above  re- 
fer! rd  In,  coming  to  West  Jersey  from  the  city 
of  London,  was  a  member  of  the  Hocsley- 
down  Meeting  of  Friends,  on  the  Surrey  side 
of  the  river  Thames,  which  even  at  that  day 
had  become  a  ])art  of  the  great  metropolis,  by 
means  of  the  several  bridges  already  erected. 
He  apnears  to  have  been  under  the  patronage 
of  .Anthony,  an  uncle  of  the  celebrated  West 
Jersey  .Surveyor,  Thomas  Sharp,  but  whether 
or  no  he  belonged  to  the  same   family  as  the 


Lancashire  and  Derbyshire  families  of  the 
same  name  who  suffered  for  their  religious 
beliefs  from  1654  to  1690  is  still  uncertain.  He 
arrived  previous  to  1686,  and  became  an  ap- 
prentice of  Thomas  Sharp,  who  had  settled 
on  .X'ewton  creek  five  years  before.  He  had 
received  a  better  education  than  many  of  his 
day,  and  he  was  still  further  fitted  for  the  part 
he  was  to  jilay  by  the  excellent  tutelage  under 
which  he  found  himself.  In  1686  he  agreed 
with  his  master  to  build  him  a  house  for  a 
specified  sum  and  to  furnish  all  the  materials 
e.vcept  the  nails.  He  was  also  prooably  one 
of  those  who  built  the  Friends  fleeting  house 
in  Newton,  the  first  building  of  its  kind  in 
Gloucester  county  and  the  second  in  West  Jer- 
sey. For  .some  reason  the  articles  of  appren- 
ticeship were  set  aside  and  Thomas  Sharp 
agreed  to  pay  Joseph  £5  a  year  for  his  services 
and  four  at  the  end  of  his  term.  In  1690  Jo- 
seph Tomlinson  located  one  hundred  and  sev- 
enteen acres  on  the  east  side  t>f  Gravelly  run 
in  Gloucester  township,  adjoining  a  tract  he 
had  previously  purchased  of  Joseph  Wood  on 
which  he  settled  and  first  lived  after  leaving 
the  house  of  Friend  Sharp.  He  soon  in- 
creased his  possessions  until  they  extended 
from  (.iravelly  run  on  the  north  to  Holly  run 
or  Sharp's  branch  on  the  south.  .\11  of  this 
he  retained  and  willed  after  his  death  to  his 
sons.  His  abode  was  surrounded  by  miles 
of  unbrtiken  forest  and  without  neighbors 
within  half  a  day's  travel.  He  had  to  go  ten 
miles  to  attend  the  Newton  Meeting  and  if  he 
took  his  farm  produce  to  Philadelphia  the 
distance  was  still  increased.  His  leisure  hours 
in  this  secluded  spot  he  gave  up  to  the  reading 
and  studying  of  law,  and  in  1695  he  was  made 
sheriff',  and  the  year  following  became  the 
King's  attorney  or  as  we  should  call  him  to- 
day the  ])rovincial  prosecutor.  He  has  the 
honor  of  being  the  first  attorney  of  record  ir 
Gloucester  county.  In  1700  he  was  reap- 
pointed to  the  same  position,  and  apjjarently 
lie  held  it  continuously  until  1710.  .\ugnst  20, 
1719,  he  wrote  his  will  which  was  proven  Sep- 
tember 18  following,  and  in  it  he  names  his 
wife  Elizabeth  and  ten  children,  there  were 
probably  others  who  died  in  infancy  and  child- 
hood. The  daughters  following  the  fortunes 
of  their  hu.sbands  have  to  a  great  extent  been 
lost  sight  of,  but  the  family  of  to-day  has  not 
lost  its  identity  with  the  first  settler  and  much 
of  the  landed  estate  owned  by  him  still  remains 
in  the  iianie.  His  children  named  in  his  will 
are:  I.  I-^jshraim,  married  (first)  1727,  Sarah 
Corliit,  and   (second)  Catharine  Ridgway.     2. 


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Joseph,  married  (first)  1734,  Lyilia  Wade,  and 
(second)  1738,  Catharine  Fairlanib,  of  Ches- 
ter, Pennsylvania.  3.  Margaret,  married,  1736, 
Edward  Borton.  4.  Elizabeth,  married,  1736, 
liartholomew  Wyatt.  5.  Mary,  married,  1730, 
Samuel  Sharp.  6.  John,  who  is  referred  to 
below.  7.  Ebenezer.  8.  Othniel,  married, 
1744,  Mary  Marsh.  9.  Richard.  10.  \Villiam, 
married,  1731,  Rebecca  Wills. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Joseph  and  l-llizabeth 
Tomlinson,  was  born  in  Gloucester  township, 
(iloucester  county,  West  Jersey,  September  28, 
1699;  died  there  in  1755.  In  accordance  with 
his  father's  will  settled  on  three  hundred  acres 
higher  up  on  Gravelly  run  where  he  spent  his 
life.  In  his  will,  written  January  2,  1755,  anil 
proven  March  21  following  he  leaves  this 
])lantation  to  his  wife  for  life  or  widowhood 
and  then  it  reverts  to  his  son,  Isaac,  who  also 
is  given  twenty-five  acres  of  "Syder  Swamp  " 
on  Great  Egg  Harbour  river  and  fifteen  acres 
of  swamp  on  Hospitality  branch  of  the  same 
stream.  His  personal  estate  he  divided  equally 
between  his  wife  and  his  tw^o  daughters.  His 
executors  were  his  wife  his  brother,  Joseph, 
and  his  son.  Isaac.  He  married,  in  1736,  Mary 
I'^airlanib.  of  Chester  county.  F'ennsylvania, 
who  bore  him  three  children:  i.  Isaac,  who 
is  referred  to  below.  2.  Hannah.  3.  Eleanor, 
married  Josiah  Albertson,  and  had  a  son,  John, 
who  in  1784  was  put  under  the  guardianship 
of  his  Uncle  Isaac. 

(III)  Isaac,  eldest  child  and  only  son  of 
John  and  Mary  ( Fairlamb )  Tomlinson,  was 
born  in  Gloucester  township,  Gloucester  county, 
August  10,  1737:  died  there  in  1817.  In  1783 
he  was  one  of  the  executors  of  the  estate  of 
James  Taggard,  and  the  following  year  was 
appointed  guardian  to  his  nephew,  John  Al- 
bertson. ,jHis  will  written  January  15,  1812. 
and  proved  March  10,  1817,  leaves  the  planta- 
tion to  his  wife  during  life  or  widowhood  and 
then  reverts  it  to  his  son,  Joshua,  his  other  chil- 
dren are  left  money  legacies  and  his  personal 
estate  is  divided  equally  between  his  widow  and 
his  daughter,  Elizabeth,  also  a  widow.  In  1766 
Isaac  Tomlinson  married  Elizabeth  Shever  and 
their  children  were:  I.  Joshua.  2.  Elizabeth, 
married  William  Clark.  3.  Anne,  married 
Jeremiah  Haines.  4.  Isaac.  Jr.  5.  J<ihn.  who 
is  referred  to  below. 

(  I\' )  John  (  2I,  youngest  child  of  Isaac  and 
Elizabeth  (Shever)  Tomlinson,  was  born  in 
Gloucester  township,  Gloucester  county,  April 
15,  1781  ;  died  in  Northampton  township,  Bur- 
lington county,  February  25,  1857.  John  Tom- 
linson and  his  wife.  Elizabeth  had  si.x  chililren: 


1.  Isaac  born  Jul)-  4,    1812:  mentioned  below. 

2.  John  H.,  February  3,  1815;  died  May  7, 
'859.  3.  Joshua,  September  23,  1818;  men- 
tioned below.  4.  Thomas  Chalkley,  .August 
25,  1820;  died  September  2,  1845.  5.  Evans 
R.,  April  5,  1824;  now  (1909)  living  in  Mt. 
Holly.  6,  Benjamin,  November  20,  1831  :  died 
September  5,  1835. 

(V)  Isaac  (2),  eldest  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  Tomlinson,  was  born  in  Northamp- 
ton township,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
July  4,  1812  :  died  in  Gloucester  township,  Cam- 
den county,  on  the  original  grant  of  his  ances- 
tors, July  14,  1849.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
spent  his  early  life  on  the  farm  near  Rancocus. 
He  married  Rebecca  C.  Lippincott,  and  had 
four  children:  i.  Samuel  L.,  who  is  referred 
to  below.  2.  Elizabeth,  born  .Xjiril  22.  1S40; 
married  George  H.  Fancoast.  3.  William  II., 
died  in  infancy.  4.  Thomas  Chalkley,  died  in 
infancy. 

(  \T )  Samuel  Lijipincott.  the  only  son  to 
reach  maturity  of  Isaac  {^2)  and  Rebecca  C. 
(  Lippincott)  Tomlinson,  was  born  on  the  old 
plantation  in  Camden  county.  New  Jersey, 
Sejjtember  18,  1837,  on  a  farm  near  Black- 
wood that  had  been  in  the  Tomlinson  family 
for  five  generations  or  since  the  year  1787. 
He  was  brought  to  Mt.  Holly  in  1849.  Ff"" 
his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  select 
schools  of  Mt.  Holly  and  afterwards  finished 
his  education  at  the  private  school  of  William 
CoUom  at  Mt.  Holly.  He  then  went  as  clerk 
into  his  uncle's  store  at  Columbus,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  remained  from  November  3,  1852, 
until  1861,  when  he  went  to  Meadville,  FVnn- 
sylvania,  in  order  to  accept  the  position  of 
superintendent  and  treasurer  of  the  Meadville 
Gas  Company,  and  became  interested  in  the  oil 
business.  He  returned  to  Mt.  Holly  in  March. 
1866.  vvhere  he  w'ent  into  ]iartnershi]j  with  his 
uncle  in  keeping  a  general  store,  which  they 
conducted  for  four  years.  March  4,  1871,  when 
the  Union  National  Bank  was  organized,  he 
accepted  the  post  of  teller  to  which  he  had 
been  elected  and  which  he  held  January  9,  1883, 
when  he  was  promoted  to  the  office  of  cashier, 
in  which  caj^acity  he  is  still  serving.  For  fif- 
teen years  ^Ir.  Tomlinson  has  been  treasurer 
of  the  Mt.  Holly  Shoe  Company,  and  for  ten 
years  he  was  the  treasurer  of  the  Rendell  Shoe 
Company.  Since  1902  he  has  also  been  the 
treasurer  of  the  Mt.  Holly  Safe  Deposit  & 
Trust  Company.  Mr.  Tomlinson  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Order  of  Free  and  .Accepted 
Masons  since  1863,  first  of  Solomon  Chapter, 
No.    191,  Royal  .Arch   Masons,  of  Meadville 


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Pennsylvania,  and  then  of  Boudinot  Chapter 
in  BurHngton,  New  Jersey.  In  1866  he  be- 
came a  member  of  Helena  Commandery,  No. 

3,  Knights  Templar,  at  Burlington,  and  in  1867 
a  member  of  Mt.  Holly  Lodge,  No.  19,  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  of  Mt.  Holly. 
February  2,  1882,  he  joined  the  Order  of 
L'nited  Workmen  and  has  been  the  receiver 
of  the  lodge  ever  since,  being  one  of  the  char- 
ter members  and  a  representative  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  twenty  different  times.  He  is  also  a 
charter  member  of  Alt.  Holly  Lodge,  No.  848, 
lienevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He 
was  a  member  of  Spring  CJarden  Lodge,  No. 

4,  Knights  of  Burmingham,  until  the  lodge 
went  out  of  existence.  He  married,  Septem- 
ber 20,  1865,  Emma,  daughter  of  Frederick 
and  Emily  Kirby,  of  Meadville,  Pennsylvania. 

(V)  Joshua,  third  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  Tomlinson,  was  born  in  Northamp- 
ton township,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
September  23,  1818;  died  .\pril  23,  1875.  He 
was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Rancocus.  When 
a  young  man  he  went  to  New  York  City  and 
learned  the  trade  of  mason  in  all  its  branches, 
brick  and  stone,  with  Franklin  Haines.  He 
later  fnrmed  a  ])artnership  with  Chalkley  Wills 
and  engaged  in  general  contracting  and  build- 
ing. He  later  formed  a  jjartnership  with 
(ieorge  I).  Hilliard  :  they  conducted  an  exten- 
sive business  and  were  among  the  leading  con- 
tractors in  the  city,  building  the  fir.st  hotel  on 
Coney  Island.  Mr.  Tomlinson  met  with  an 
accident  which  disabled  him  from  active  busi- 
ness and  he  removed  to  Princeton,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  resided  two  years,  thence  to  Mt. 
Holly,  where  he  resided  during  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  He  married  Sarah  E.  Hutchins, 
daughter  of  William  and  Henry  Hutchins. 
Children  :>i.  .Anna,  died  in  infancy.  2.  Evans 
H.,  born  in  New  York,  August  3,  1854;  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  select  schools  of 
Princeton  and  Mt.  Holly,  entered  Swarthmore 
College,  and  later  engaged  as  clerk  for  the 
firm  of  Russell  &  Erwins  in  Philadelphia  in 
the  hardware  manufacturing,  remaining  for 
three  and  a  half  years:  the  following  eighteen 
years  he  engaged  in  farming.  On  March  3, 
1002.  he  entered  the  Union  National  Bank  at 
Mt.  I  lolly  as  clerk  and  is  now  (1909)  serving 
in  the  capacity  of  receiving  teller;  he  married, 
June  24,  1884',  May  H.  Garrison,  of  Mt.  Holly, 
daughter  of  Hedge  and  Adeline  (Haines) 
Garrison;  children:  i.  Marion  G.,  born  Au- 
gust 31,  1883,  married  Chester  .Appleton,  of 
Mt.  Holly,  and  has  one  child,  Elizabeth :  ii. 
Edna,  born   December   i.    iS8().  a  graduate  of 


the  Trenton  Normal  School ;  iii.  Dorothea, 
born  July  19,  1902.  3.  William  B.,  mentioned 
below. 

(\'I)  William  B.,  youngest  son  and  child 
of  Joshua  and  .Sarah  E.  (Hutchins)  Tomlin- 
son, was  born  in  New  York  City,  December  8, 
1858.  He  was  educated  in  the  select  schools 
of  Mt.  Holly,  Princeton  and  at  Swarthmore 
College.  After  completing  his  studies  he  was 
for  a  time  clerk  in  the  firm  of  Russell  & 
Erwins,  of  Philadelphia,  later  engaged  in  farm- 
ing in  Camden  county,  and  at  the  present  time 
(  1909)  is  one  of  the  leading  and  prosperous 
farmers  of  Burlington  county.  He  married 
Ida  Cook,  born  December  19,  i860,  of  Jack- 
sonville, daughter  of  John  and  Hannah  (Scott) 
Cook.  Children:  i.  William  I.,  born  May  20, 
1880,  a  physician,  of  Philadelphia;  married 
Grace  Ma.xwell..  and  has  one  child,  William  B. 
2.  Jay  P>.,  born  January  6,  1893;  an  attendant 
of  Mt.  Holly  high  school. 


The  name  Bard,  Barde  and  Baird 
BAIRD  ai)|iears  in  records  in  various  parts 
of  Europe  as  early  as  the  tenth 
and  extending  to  the  fourteenth  century.  They 
appear  to  have  migrated  from  Lorraine  to 
d'Aosta  in  Piedmont,  and  from  there  to  Nor- 
mandy, finally  settling  in  Scotland.  In  his 
"Irish  (ienealogy"  MacForbes  treats  it  as  a 
joke  that  the  Bairds  claim  an  .\nglo-Sa.xon 
origin,  his  contention  being  that  their  origin 
is  Celtic.  In  "Irish  Pedigrees"  of  which  work 
Dr.  O'Hart  is  the  author,  he  says ;  Owen  Mac 
an  Bhaird,  of  Monycassen,  was  descended 
from  Eocha,  son  of  .Sodlian.  Mac  an  Bhaird 
was  anglicized  Macvvard  and  moilernized 
Ward.  The  descendants  of  Owen  Mac  an 
Bhaird  rendered  the  name  O'Bairdam,  and 
that  in  turn  has  been  anglicized  Baird,  Bard, 
I'arde,  Barden,  Bardin,  Barten,  Bartin,  Berdan, 
Purdon,  Yerdon  and  Warden.  In  1066  Seigneur 
de  Barde  was  among  the  followers  of  William 
the  Coni|ueror.  In  1 178  Henry  de  Barde  was 
a  witness  to  a  charter  of  lands  made  by  King 
William,  the  Lion,  of  Scotland.  In  1 191  Cgone 
di  Hard,  of  the  valley  of  dWosta,  made  alle- 
giance to  I'^rancis  I.,  of  Savoy.  He  owned  a 
castle  on  Bard  Rock,  a  natural  defence,  and 
after  bravely  defending  the  place  was  finally 
driven  out.  He  had  two  sons,  Marco  and 
.\ymone.  In  1 194  Hugo  de  Baird  was  one  of 
the  subscribing  witnesses  to  a  safe  conduct 
granted  by  King  Richard  I.,  of  England,  to 
King  Williaiu.  the  Lion,  and  it  is  said  that  a 
gentleman  by  the  name  of  Piaird  saved  William 
the  Lion    from  a  wild  l)east,  and  he  received 


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for  tliis  deed  large  tracts  of  land  and  coat-of- 
arms,  viz :  A  boar  passant,  with  the  motto 
"Doniinus  fecit."  During  the  Scotch  war  for 
independence  the  Bards  were  able  supporters 
of  the  cause  with  Bruce  and  Wallace.  Robert 
Bard  was  captured  by  the  English,  held  a  pris- 
oner at  Nottingham,  and  an  order  was  issued 
January,  1317,  for  his  removal  to  the  castle  of 
.Summerton.  His  fate  is  unknown.  A  Will- 
iam Bard  was  routed  and  taken  prisoner  with 
Sir  William  Douglass  in  1333,  in  a  skirmish 
with  Sir  .Anthony  Lacy  on  the  English  border. 
Jordan  P)aird  was  a  constant  comjjanion  with 
the  brave  William  Wallace  from  1297  to  1305. 
(leneral  .Sir  David  Baird  was  a  contemporary 
of  Captain  David  Baird,  and  held  command 
unrler  Sir  John  Moore  in  the  Peninsular  cam- 
paign, and  after  the  death  and  burial  of  Sir 
John  succeeded  to  the  command  and  reported 
the  victory  at  Corrunna.  He  was  the  son  of 
.Sir  William  Baird,  the  son  of  Sir  Robert,  the 
son  of  James,  the  son  of  George,  who  was 
living  in  1588.  That  John  Baird  (q.  v.),  of 
Topenemus  neighborhood.  New  Jersey,  was  of 
this  stock  there  seems  little  doubt. 

(I)  John  Baird  came  from  Aberdeen,  Scot- 
land, as  a  passenger  of  the  good  ship  "Ex- 
change," Ca[)tain  James  Peacock,  master,  and 
landed  at  Staten  Island  in  New  York  harbour, 
about  December  ig,  1683.  The  state  archives 
at  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  in  a  list  of  persons 
who  were  deported  from  Scotland  to  Amer- 
ica, and  duly  registered  December  5,  1684,  the 
names  of  John  King,  four  years'  service;  John 
Nesmith,  four  years'  service ;  John  Baird,  four 
years'  service,  etc.,  etc.,  occur.  There  were 
forty-seven  thus  deported.  .After  John  Baird 
had  fulfilled  his  term  of  service  he  acquired 
several  tracts  of  lands  at  New  .Aberdeen, 
To])enemus,  and  on  Millstone  brook  in  East 
Jersey  and  other  places.  It  is  said  that  John 
Baird  dwelt  in  a  cave  with  an  Indian  for  a 
time  before  he  built  a  house  on  the  Topenemus 
tract.  Traces  of  the  cave  are  said  to  be  visible 
on  the  banks  of  Topenemus  brook,  a  little  back 
and  to  the  side  of  the  present  Baird  homestead, 
built  by  James  P.aird,  son  of  Zebulon,  and 
grandson  of  John  Baird,  the  immigrant.  He 
was  a  Quaker,  and  the  Friends'  church  was 
built  near  his  homestead,  where  George  Keith 
and  his  followers  worshipped,  and  where  he 
preached.  When  Keith,  who  was  originally  a 
Presbyterian,  changed  to  the  Society  of 
I'riends,  it  is  probable  that  John  Baird  changed 
with  him  as  he  did  to  the  Episcopal  faith  when 
Keith  took  orders  in  that  church  and  carried 
many  members   of  the   P"riends  meeting  with 


him.  Tradition  has  the  story  of  his  courtship 
and  marriage  as  follows :  "One  day  he  met 
in  the  woods  Mary  Hall,  whom  he  afterward 
married.  As  both  were  bashful,  they  halted 
at  some  distance  from  each  other  under  a  tree. 
It  was  love  at  first  sight.  John,  who  was  a 
Quaker,  broke  the  silence  by  saying  'If  thou 
wilt  marry  me  say  'yea,'  if  thou  wilt  not,  say 
'nay.'  Mary  said  'yea'  and  proved  a  noble 
wife  and  mother."  This  tradition  equals  that 
of  the  courtship  of  John  .Alden  and  Priscilla 
Mullins.  The  four  children  of  John  and  Mary 
(Hall)  E>aird  were  born  as  follows,  and  it  is 
c]uite  probable  there  were  others:  i.  John 
(2),  1707  :  probably  married  .Avis,  the  story  of 
his  gaining  her  for  a  wife  being  as  follows: 
He  had  heard  of  a  shipwreck  on  the  coast, 
and  that  on  board  the  ship  were  several  comely 
women.  He  hurried  to  the  scene  on  horse- 
back, and  there  selected  his  wife  in  the  woman 
of  his  choice.  It  is  said  he  saw  her,  wooed 
her,  won  her,  and  was  comforted.  In  his  will 
dated  P\'bruary  5,  1747,  probated  July  3,  1749, 
he  names  his  sons,  Andrew  and  Zebulon  ;  his 
wife.  Avis,  and  Peter  Bowne,  e.xecutors  of  the 
will,  and  directs  that  after  his  debts  are  paid 
the  residue  of  his  estate  be  given  to  his  wife, 
.Avis  Baird,  during  her  widowhood,  and  in 
case  of  her  re-marriage,  to  be  divided  equally 
between  his  wife  and  children  and  family, 
without  naming  them.  The  children  of  John 
(2)  and  .Avis  Baird,  including  three  sons,  .An- 
drew. Bedent  and  Zebulon,  of  whom  Andrew 
and  Zebulon,  named  for  their  two  uncles,  sons 
of  their  grandfather,  John,  the  Scottish  immi- 
grant, and  with  whom  they  are  often  confused 
by  genealogists.  .After  the  probating  of  their 
father's  will,  July  5,  1749,  at  which  time  they 
must  have  been  of  legal  age,  as  .Andrew  and 
Zebulon  were  with  their  mother  executors  of 
the  will,  they  migrated  to  North  Carolina,  mak- 
ing the  journey  across  the  Blue  Ridge  in  a 
wagon,  and  when  they  reached  Buncomb 
county.  North  Carolina,  they  exhibited  the 
wagon  as  a  curiosity,  the  first  vehicle  of  the 
kind  seen  in  that  mountain  district.  They  ap- 
proached the  house  of  Mr.  George  Swain,  a 
native  of  Ro>bury,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
was  born  in  1763,  through  the  washed-out  chan- 
nel of  the  creek,  there  being  no  roads,  and  the 
future  governor  of  North  Carolina,  David 
Lowrie  Swain,  then  a  mere  lad,  when  he  saw 
the  wondrous  vehicle  thus  approaching  his 
home  he  was  standing  in  his  father's  orchard, 
planted  with  apple  trees,  raised  from  cuttings, 
brought  from  New  England  by  his  father,  and 
waited  the  approach  of  the  thundering  chariot 


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with  wonder  and  awe  as  it  rolled  over  the 
rocky  bed  of  the  creek.  At  its  nearer  approach 
he  took  to  his  heels  and  hid  behind  his  father's 
house,  but  was  brought  out  by  the  command  of 
his  father  to  welcome  and  care  for  the  visitors 
who  were  from  New  Jersey.  They  probably 
were  at  the  time  prospecting  as  they  came  to 
Burke  county,  North  Carolina,  as  early  as 
1760,  where  Andrew  married  .-Xnna.  daughter 
of  Mathew  Locke,  whose  relative,  Colonel 
Francis  Locke,  commanded  three  hundred 
militia  men  from  Burke,  Lincoln  and  Rowan 
counties,  North  Carolina,  and  gained  the  vic- 
t(iry  at  Ramsoor's  Mills,  May  2Q.  1780,  of 
Lieutenant  deorge  Locke,  killed  in  battle,  Sep- 
tember 26,  17S0.  The  descendants  of  Andrew 
and  Anna  (Locke)  Bainl  are  numerous 
throughout  the  south.  Zebulun  also  married 
and  among  his  descendants  was  Zebulon  Baird 
\'ance  (  1830-1894),  governor  of  North  Caro- 
lina, and  L'nited  States  senator.  John  Baird 
(2),  the  father  of  these  North  Carolina 
pioneers,  died  in  Topenemus,  Millstone  town- 
ship, Monmouth  county,  New  Jersey,  Febru- 
ary 6,  1747,  and  was  buried  in  the  Topenemus 
burial  ground,  where  his  father  was  buried. 
2.  David  ((|.  v.).  3.  Andrew,  who  deeded  his 
property  to  .his  brother  Zebulon,  June  15.  1755. 
4.  Zebulon,  born  1720;  died  January  28,  1804, 
aged  eighty-eight  years,  three  months  and  fif- 
teen days,  and  his  wife,  Anna,  died  December 
28,  1794.  aged  sixty-three  years,  four  months 
and  eleven  days,  and  both  are  buried  in  the 
burial  ground  at  To]ienemus.  New  Jersey. 
John  Baird.  the  immigrant,  was  buried  at 
Topenemus,  New  Jersey,  and  on  his  tombstone 
is  the  following  inscription  : 

■■  JOHN   BAIRD 

who    came    from    Scotland 

In    l.Stli    year    of    his    age,    A.    D.    108,1 

died  April       ,  1TS5 

aged  about  90  years,  and 

of  an  lionest  character." 

Mary  liaird  was  admitted  to  the  Lord's  table 
at  the  White  Hill  meeting  house  in  1736. 

(II)  David,  second  son  of  John  and  Mary 
(Hall)  Bainl,  of  Topenemus,  was  born  Octo- 
ber 19,  1 7 10,  was  married,  October  27,  1744, 
to  Sarah  Com]jton.  born  .\pril  18,  1716;  died 
May  I,  1810.  David  Baird  died  June  20,  1801, 
By  this  marriage  there'were  born  four  children 
in  To]ienemus  as  follows:  i.  Jacob,  Novem- 
ber, 1745;  lived  on  a  farm  in  Morris  county. 
New  Jersey,  owned  by  his  father,  and  on  the 
death  of  his  father  it  descended  to  him  by  his 
will.  2.  Mary,  Sejitember  30,  1747:  married 
John,   son   of   James   and   Dinah   Tillyer    Dey 


(  1747-1829),  and  they  had  children:  James, 
John,  David,  Elias,  Mary  B,  and  David  B. 
Dey.  Mary  (Bairdj  Dey  died  1836.  3.  John, 
October  27,  1750;  married  (first)  Phebe  Ely, 
who  died  June  17,  1817,  and  (second)  Eliza- 
beth Eflvvards.  He  was  an  elder  of  the  Old 
Tennent  Church,  and  had  no  children  by  either 
of  his  wives.    4.  Captain  David  (q.  v.). 

(HI)  Captain  David  (2),  youngest  child 
of  David  (  I  )  and  Sarah  (Compton)  Baird, 
was  born  in  Topenemus,  New  Jersey,  July  16, 
1754;  died  December  24,  1839.  He  was  a 
]irivate  in  the  first  regiment  from  New  Jersey 
to  join  the  .American  forces  at  the  time  of  the 
rebellion  against  Great  Britian,  became  ser- 
geant in  1776.  and  was  promoted  ensign,  lieu- 
tenant and  quartermaster,  tie  was  captain  of 
militia  in  1777,  and  also  captain  of  light  horse 
in  Monmouth  county  militia.  He  was  in  the 
New  Jersey  line  at  the  battle  of  Germantown, 
was  called  with  his  company  to  protect  the  salt 
works  at  Tom's  River  several  times,  and  to 
tlie  protection  of  Navesink  Highlands.  He 
also  served  with  General  Dickerson's  forces 
during  the  British  inarch  across  New  Jersey, 
and  was  in  several  skirmishes  and  at  the  battle 
of  Monmouth,  June  28,  1778.  He  married 
(first)  February  27,  1777,  Rebecca  Ely,  and 
by  her  he  had  one  child :  Rebecca,  who  mar- 
ried William  Ely,  and  had  twelve  children: 
David  1!..  Joseph  \\'..  Harvey,  John,  Isaac, 
George  A.,  Mary,  Sarah,  Lucy,  Phoebe,  Eliza- 
beth and  William.  Rebecca  (Ely)  Baird,  the 
grandmother  of  these  children,  died  January 
6,  1778,  and  Captain  David  Baird  married 
(second)  Lydia  (Topscott)  Gaston,  a  widow, 
and  by  her  he  had  six  children  born  as  follows : 
I.  Sarah,  November  i,  1780;  died  April  7, 
1881,  over  one  hundred  years  of  age;  she  mar- 
ried Thomas,  son  of  .Anthony  Applegate,  and 
they  had  seven  children :  Anthony.  Lydia, 
David  B.,  Sarah  D.,  Disbrow,  Thomas  and 
John  Applegate.  2.  Mary,  October  15,  1782; 
married  Leon  Dey,  January  24,  1800,  and  re- 
moved to  Ohio.  3.  John,  March  19,  1784.  4. 
Jacob,  December  19,  1785;  died  April  8,  1822. 
5.  Lydia,  I"\bniary  8,  1788;  married  William 
Johnson,  ami  hacl  four  children.  6.  Phebe, 
November  14.  1790:  married  David  Ferine, 
had  twelve  children;  she  died  December  17, 
1855.  Lydia  (Topscott)  (Gaston)  Baird,  the 
mother  of  these  si.x  children,  died  February  5, 
171)1,  aged  thirty-six  years,  and  Captain  David 
Baird  married  (third)  Mary,  daughter  of 
Lieutenant  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (\'auglin) 
Fdwar<ls,  November  25,  1795,  and  by  her  he 
had  eleven  children  born  as  follows:    i.  David, 


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February  22,  ijijj  ;  married  Amy  1  Icndrickson, 
and  removed  to  Indiana.  2.  Rei,  May  16, 
179S:  held  the  title  of  general;  married  Sarah 
Clayton,  and  had  six  children  ;  he  died  Se])- 
tenilier  7,  1835.  3.  Elizabeth,  March  2,  1800; 
married  I'eter  W'yckoft",  and  had  nine  children  ; 
he  died  December  4,  1895.  4.  Thomas  (ti.  v.). 
5.  Ann,  December  25,  1803;  married  Harts- 
home  Tantiim,  and  had  eight  children.  6. 
Evelina,  October  25,  1805;  married  William 
P.  Foreman,  and  had  four  children  :  she  died 
November  26,  1883.  7.  Joseph,  July  4,  1807; 
died  May  5,  1S14.  8.  James,  June  3,'  1810; 
married  Rebecca  I"".,  daughter  of  Richard  and 
Amy  Ely,  of  Black's  Mills;  he  lived  on  the 
13aird  homestead  or  Millstone  brook,  west  of 
Pine  Hill,  until  1854,  when  he  moved  to  Illinois  ; 
they  had  six  children  :  John,  who  was  killed  in 
the  civil  war,  [Mary,  Amy,  Richard,  Rei  and 
Thomas.  9.  Rachel,  Sc])tember  7.  1812;  mar- 
ried Elias  Riggs,  and  had  four  children.  10. 
Eleanor,  December  13,  1815;  married  George 
W.  .Snt])hen,  and  had  six  children.  II.  Zebulon, 
July  31,  1819;  married  Caroline  E.,  daughter 
of  Joseph  Perrine,  and  removed  to  Illinois  in 
1854;  they  had  seven  children.  Thus  the  de- 
scendants of  Captain  David  Baird  are  eighteen 
chiklren,  over  ninety-four  grandchildren,  and 
more  than  one  liundred  and  forty-nine  great- 
grandchildren. 

(1\  )  Thomas,  fifth  son  and  eleventh  child 
of  Captain  David  (2)  Baird,  and  third  son  and 
fourth  child  of  Captain  David  and  Mary  ( Ed- 
wards)  Baird.  was  born  at  Manalapan,  Mill- 
stone township,  Monmouth  county.  New 
Jersey,  February  6,  1802.  He  was  a  pro- 
gressive farmer,  and  owned  several  valuable 
farms  and  was  reputed  to  have  been  a  very 
wealthy  man  for  the  time  and  occupation  in 
which  he  engaged.  He  married  Eleanor  P., 
daughter  of  Peter  and  Maria  (Ogbourne) 
liilyeu.  The  three  children  of  Thomas  and 
Eleanor  P.  (  Bilyeu)  Baird  were  born  in  Man- 
alapan, New  Jersey,  as  follows:  i.  and  2. 
David  (q.  v.)  and  Jonathan,  twins,  1829;  Jon- 
athan (lied  in  infancy.  3.  Sarah,  married  John 
E.  Hunt.  Thomas  Baird  died  at  his  home  in 
Manalapan,  New  Jersey,  October  i,  1880. 

(  \')  David  (3),  eldest  child  of  Thomas  and 
Eleanor  P.  (Bilyeu)  Baird,  was  born  in  Mana- 
lapan, Millstone  township,  Monmouth  county, 
Xew  Jersey,  in  1829.  He  had  the  advantages 
of  excellent  school  jjrivileges,  and  was  a  pupil 
first  in  the  primary  district  school,  and  then  the 
Freehold  Academy,  where  he  was  graijuatcd, 
and  then  the  higher  Institute  at  Hightstown. 
He  also  had  peculiar  advantages  in  studying 


agriculture  and  horticulture  on  his  father's 
well  conducted  farms,  and  he  became  a  skill- 
ful and  successful  nurseryman  and  fruit 
grower,  carrying  on  tlie  business  both  for 
pleasure  and  profit  during  his  entire  active 
life,  only  retiring  two  years  before  his  death, 
which  occurred  at  Manalapan,  New  Jersey, 
January,  1908,  when  he  was  in  the  eightieth 
year  of  his  life.  He  was  president  of  the  New 
Jersey  State  Horticultural  Society  for  two 
\'ears,  an^  a  member  during  his  entire  busi- 
ness life.  He  was  a  chosen  freeholder  of  the 
township  of  Millstone;  an  active  member  and 
oldest  elder  of  the  Presbyterian  church  at 
Manalapan,  and  one  of  its  largest  contributors 
to  the  support  of  the  church  and  its  various 
missions.  His  political  party  allegiance  was 
Republican,  and  his  interest  in  town,  county, 
state  and  national  affairs  was  manifest  in  his 
clearly  defined  political  opinion  always 
freely  expressed.  He  married,  December  9, 
1852,  Mary  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Isaac  and 
Jane  (Heulett)  PuUen,  born  in  Hightstown, 
New  Jersey,  1828.  The  eleven  children  of 
David  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Pullen)  Baird 
were  born  in  Manalapan,  Monmouth  county, 
New  Jersey,  and  four  of  the  number  died  in 
infancy,  leaving  eight  born  as  follows;  i. 
Emerson  P.,  married  Sarah  Probosco  and  lives 
at  l-Teehold,  New  Jersey.  2.  Sarah,  married 
John  Probosco,  a  farmer  of  Englishtown,  New 
Jersey,  and  their  two  children  are  Charles  and 
Eleanor  Probosco.  3.  Charles  Augustus,  horti- 
culturist and  landscape  gardener  of  Freehold, 
New  Jersey,  who  married  Emma  L.  Rue,  and 
have  four  children;  Mary  E.,  Jennie  R.,  David 
Edward  and  Carl.  4.  Howard,  born  1863  ;  lives 
on  the  old  homestead,  where  he  carries  on  the 
business  of  farmer,  nurseryman  and  fruit- 
grower. He  married  Elizabeth  Lamberton, 
and  their  children  are :     David  L.  and  Louisa. 

5.  Carrie,  married  Archie  T.  Van  Dorn,  of 
Englishtown,  New  Jersey,  and  they  have  chil- 
dren ;     Peter  Forman  and  Gladys  Van  Dorn. 

6.  David  (q.  v.).  7.  John  II.,  was  brought  up 
to  the  business  of  fruit-growing;  marrie  1  Jean, 
daughter  of  Judge  William  T.  Hoffman,  of 
Englishtown,  New  Jersey :  removed  to  Fort 
\  alley,  Georgia,  as  superintendent  of  Hale's 
Fruit  Plantation.  Their  only  child  is  .Vnn 
Hoffman. 

(\'I)  David  (  4), sixth  child  and  fourth  son  of 
David  (3)  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (  Pullen)  Baird, 
was  born  in  Manalapan.  Monmouth  county. 
New  Jerse\-,  February  16,  1869.  He  attended 
the  iniblic  schools.  Freehold  Institute  and  Belle- 
vue  Hospital  Medical  College,  connected  with 


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the  Xew  York  University,  where  he  received 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1891.  He  made  a  tour 
of  the  western  states  for  study  and  observation 
before'settHng  in  the  practice  of  niecHcine,  and 
in  1892  located  at  Florence,  New  Jersey,  where 
he  became  a  member  of  the  board  of  health  of 
the  town  and  a  leading  physician  and  surgeon. 
His  professional  affiliations  included  member- 
ship in  the.  Burlington  County  Medical  Society 
and  the  New  Jersey-  State  Medical  Society,  and 
he  was  a  fre(iuent  reader  and  speaker  before 
the  meetings  of  these  associations.  His  frater- 
nal affiliations  embraced  the  Masonic  frater- 
nity, which  he  entered  through  Mount  Moriah 
Lodge,  No.  28,  of  Bordentown,  New  Jersey, 
and  worked  his  way  to  the  Mount  Moriah 
Royal  Arch  Chapter :  Ivanhoe  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar,  No.  11;  Lu  Lu  Temijle, 
Mystic  Shrine.  He  also  affiliated  with  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  as  a  mem- 
ber of  Burlington  Lo<lge,  No.  22:  with  the 
Improved  Order  of  Red  Men  through  the 
Florence  (New  Jersey)  Tribe;  Knights  of  the 
Golden  Eagle  through  Florence  (New  Jersey) 
Sub-Castle,  and  Indeiiendent  Order  of  For- 
esters, through  Court,  No.  592,  Florence,  New 
Jersey.  He  was  a  vestryman  of  St.  Stephen's 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  Florence,  New 
Jersey,  but  brought  up  in  the  Presbyterian 
faith  in  the  church  of  which  his  father  was 
senior  elder.  He  married,  February  28,  IQOO, 
Lydia,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  Jane 
(Smith)  Spotts,  of  Florence,  New  Jersey,  and 
their  children  were  twins,  John  Everett  and 
David  Emerson,  born  in  Florence,  New  Jersey, 
February  10,  1907.  Dr.  Baird  has  a  beautiful 
home  and  enjoys  an  excellent  practice  in  Flor- 
ence, New  Jersey,  where  he  is  one  of  the  lead- 
ing citizens  and  the  promoter  or  advocate  of 
all  political,  social,  civic  and  sanitary  reforms. 


Dr.  Reiley,  of  Atlantic  City,  New 
REILEY     Jersey,   descends  along  paternal 

and  maternal  lines  from  forbears 
.that  servefl  in  tlie  revolution  and  from  men 
who  bore  their  full  share  in  the  early  and  sub- 
sequent development  of  a  state.  William 
Reiley,  who  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  the 
Rrandywine,  was  a  brother  of  Dennis  Reiley, 
from  whom  Edward  .Anderson  Reiley  de- 
scends. Ensign  John  .\nderson  of  the  "King's 
.Army,"  and  subsei|uent!y  a  captain  in  Wash- 
ington's army,  was  his  great-great-grandfather. 
Through  maternal  lines  he  touches  in  direct 
lineal  descent  Samuel  Fleming,  an  early  pioneer 
and  founder  of  the  town  of  Flemington,  New- 
Jersey.    Colonel  Thomas  Lowry  and  Cornelius 


Hoppock  of  revolutionary  fame  are  his  direct 
ancestors. 

The  branch  of  the  Reiley  family  to  which 
Edward  .A.  Reiley  belongs  was  founded  in 
.America  by  Dennis  Reiley  who  with  his  brother 
William  came  from  Lancaster,  England,  and 
settled  in  Maryland.  They  both  served  in  the 
revolutionary  war,  William  losing  his  life  from 
wounds  received  at  the  battle  of  the  Brandy- 
wine.  The  family  afterward  settled  in 
Ihicks  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  John 
Reiley,  great-grandfather  of  Edward  A., 
was  high  sheriff.  His  son.  John,  was 
a  man  of  means  but  lost  all  his  landed 
estate  through  a  defective  title.  He  then  re- 
moved to  New  Jersey,  being  the  first  of  the 
family  to  settle  in  that  state.  He  located  on  a 
farm  near  F'hillipsburg,  Warren  county,  and 
in  a  measure  retrieved  his  fallen  fortunes.  He 
was  an  uncompromising  \\'hig  and  was  the 
only  man  in  his  voting  district  to  record  a  vote 
against  (jeneral  Jackson  for  president.  He 
was  a  strict  Presbyterian  and  raised  his  family 
under  the  strict  code  of  that  day  and  that  faith. 
He  was  a  man  of  strong  mental  powers  and 
unbending  will.  He  was  greatly  respected  in 
his  neighborhood.  John  Reiley  married  Eliza- 
beth .Arndt,  daughter  of  John  Bernhardt  Arndt, 
who  came  to  .America  in  the  ship  "Penn"  dur- 
ing the  year  1731.  His  wife  was  .Anna  Decker. 
The  children  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Arndt) 
Railey  were:  John,  Nathan,  William,  James, 
see  forward ;  Polly,  Grace,  Phebe  and  Han- 
nah. John  Reiley  lived  to  the  good  old  age 
of  seventy-five,  but  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  sur- 
vived him  many  years,  living  to  see  her  eighty- 
fifth  year.  John  Reiley  died  in  1865.  They 
were  the  parents  of  a  large  family  that  have 
settled  in  dififerent  parts  of  the  country,  some 
of  them,  however,  are  found  in  and  around 
I'hillipsburg,  New  Jersey,  where  they  are  en- 
gaged in  business  and  professions  of  various 
kinds. 

Dr.  lames  Reiley,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(.Arndt)  Reiley,  was  born  at  Durham,  Bucks 
county,  Pennsylvania,  May  27,  1830,  and  died 
during  the  month  of  March,  1872,  at  Succa- 
sunna.  New  Jersey.  He  was  a  graduate  of 
Union  College  at  Schenectady,  New  York,  and 
prepared  for  the  practice  of  medicine  at  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  New 
York  City,  where  he  was  graduated  Doctor  of 
Medicine.  He  practiced  a  year  at  Lambert- 
ville.  New  Jersey,  then  settled  at  Succasunna, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  practiced  his  profession 
for  twenty  years  until  the  outbreak  of  the  civil 
war.     He  enlisted  in  the  Union  army,  .August 


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4.  1862.  anil  was  appointed  surgeon  of  the 
Twenty-fifth  Regiment  New  Jersey  Vohinteers, 
serving  with  that  regiment  until  January  20, 
1863,  when  he  was  honorably  discharged.  He 
re-enlisted  July  15.  1863,  and  became  surgeon 
of  the  Thirty-third  New  Jersey  \'olunteer  In- 
fantr_v.  Twentieth  .\rmy  Corps,  General 
(ieary's  division.  Army  of  the  Cumberland. 
He  was  acting  brigade-surgeon  of  the  First 
Brigade.  Third  Division,  Seventh  Army  Corps. 
He  served  with  honor  and  distinction,  attain- 
ing his  rapid  promotion  through  his  pro- 
fessional merit  only.  He  was  mustered  out 
of  the  service  July  17,  18^15,  with  the  rank  of 
major.  With  the  Thirty-third  Dr.  Reiley  was 
in  the  "March  to  the  Sea"  and  in  all  the  hard 
campaigns. 

Dr.  Reiley  married  Mary  Lowrey  Anderson, 
born  at  Doylestown,  Rucks  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, November  13,  1832,  died  Alarch  12,  1897, 
at  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  John  H.  .\nderson.  To  them  were 
born  three  children:  i.  Dr.  Edward  Ander- 
son, see  forward.  2.  Mary  Logan,  born  .\pril 
23,  1858.  3.  James  Morrison,  April  2.  i860: 
married,  December  14,  1880,  Elizabeth  Gove, 
daughter  of  Frank  W.  and  Hannah  E.  (Tay- 
lor) Gove,  of  Trenton,  New  Jersey.  The 
Gove  family  is  of  English  origin  and  settled 
originally  in  New  Hampshire,  the  first  of  the 
family  being  Nathan  Gove.  Mr.  and  AErs. 
Reiley  have  two  sons,  Frederick  A.  and  Ed- 
ward Morris  Reiley.  James  M.  is  by  trade 
an  expert  machinist.  He  resides  in  Atlantic 
City,  New  Jersey. 

Dr.  Edward  Anderson,  eldest  son  of  Dr. 
James  and  Mary  L.  (Anderson)  Reiley,  was 
born  at  Succasunna,  Morris  county.  New 
Jersey,  October  27,  1855.  He  attended  the 
jniblic  schools  of  his  native  town  and  prepared 
himself  for  college.  In  1873  'i^  entered  Rut- 
gers College,  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey, 
taking  the  scientific  course.  He  was  graduated 
therefrom  in  1877  with  the  degree  of  M.  S. 
He  had  now  decided  to  follow  the  profession 
of  medicine  and  entered  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  the  University  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  graduating  in-  1881  with  the  degree  of 
M.  D.  He  began  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  where  he  re- 
mained two  years.  In  the  month  of  June,  1883, 
he  removed  to  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey,  and 
began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  that 
city.  He  has  been  in  continuous  and  lucrative 
practice  there  from  that  time  to  the  present 
date  (1909).  He  is  a  well  known  and  highly 
esteemed  citizen  as  well  as  a  most  skillful  and 


prominent  i)ractitioner.  Evidences  of  the  high 
standing  hehas  attained  is  found  in  the  pres- 
entation to  him  in  June,  igo8,  of  a  solid  silver 
loving  cup  by  his  fellow  citizens  on  the  com- 
pletion of  twenty-five  years  of  medical  practice 
in  the  city.  Judge  Joseph  Thompson  making 
the  presentation  speech.  In  sanitary  and  edu- 
cation affairs  he  has  served  his  city  well.  From 
1884  to  1887  he  was  president  of  tlie  board  of 
health  and  from  1884  to  1890  was  president  of 
the  board  of  education.  For  six  years  he  was 
a  member  of  the  board  of  water  commissioners. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Medical 
-Association,  the  New  Jersey  Medical  Associa- 
tion :  ex-president  of  the  .Atlantic  County  Medi- 
cal Association ;  ex-president  of  the  Atlantic 
City  Academy  of  Medicine,  and  member  of 
the  New  Brunswick  Chapter,  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 
He  is  an  attendant  of  the  Presbyterian  church. 
He  married,  March  10,  1885,  Martha  Codo- 
wise  Williamson,  daughter  of  Nicholas  W. 
Williamson,  of  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey. 
She  was  born  May  3,  1854,  and  died  March 
9,  1886.  a  brief  married  life  of  one  year,  lack- 
ing but  one  day. 

In  following  the  maternal  lines  through 
which  Dr.  Reiley  descends,  many  interesting 
and  historic  families  are  to  be  named.  Mary 
Lowrey  (Anderson)  Reiley,  his  mother,  was 
great-granddaughter  of  Esther  Fleming,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Fleming,  who  built  the  first 
house  and  founded  the  now  prosperous  town 
of  Flemington,  New  Jersey.  Samuel  Flem- 
ing's wife  was  Esther  Monia,  a  French  Hugne- 
not.  The  Flemings  are  supposed  to  be  from 
Flanders  and  the  name  is  derived  from  the 
tendency  to  call  new-comers  in  the  early  day 
by  the  name  of  their  country.  When  the  family 
fled  to  Scotland  and  Ireland  on  account  of  per- 
secution they  were  called  Flems  or  Flemish, 
the  name  finally  getting  to  the  present  form — 
Meming.  Esther  Fleming,  daughter  of  Sam- 
uel and  Esther,  married  Thomas  Lowrey,  lieu- 
tenant-colonel and  afterward  colonel  of  the 
Third  Hunterdon  County  Regiment,  Conti- 
nental army.  \Mlliam  Lowrey,  son  of  Col- 
onel Thomas  and  Esther  (Fleming)  Lowrey, 
married  Martha  Howe,  one  of  the  matrons 
who  received  General  Washington  at  Trenton 
when  he  was  enroute  to  New  York  for  his  first 
inauguration.  Her  sister  was  one  of  the 
twenty-four  girls  who  sang  songs  and  strewed 
flowers  in  his  path  as  the  Assanpink  Bridge 
was  crossed  on  entering  Trenton.  Mary 
Lowrey,  daughter  of  William  and  Martha 
(Howe)  Lowrey,  married  Thomas  Alexander 
and  their  daughter,  Marv  Martha  .Alexander, 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


married  Juliii  H.  Anderson,  grandfather  of 
Dr.  Edward  A.  Reiley.  The  Andersons  are 
found  at  a  very  early  date  in  Connecticut, 
from  tliere  they  passed  over  to  Long  Island, 
then  settled  at  Maidenhead,  New  Jersey,  now 
I^awrenceville,  and  from  there  going  to  Pi vmter- 
don  county.  New  Jersey.  John  Anderson  held 
an  ensign's  commission  in  the  English  army 
jirior  to  tlie  revolution.  This  commission  is 
still  preserved  in  the  family.  He  took  sides 
with  the  colonies  and  enlisted  in  the  Hunter- 
don county  militia.  He  was  commissioned  cap- 
tain of  Colonel  Johnson's  battalion,  Heard's 
brigade,  June  14,  1776.  He  later  held  a  cap- 
tain's commission  in  the  continental  line.  Caj)- 
tain  John  married  Anna  \'an  Kirk.  Joshua 
Anderson,  son  of  Captain  John  and  .\nna 
(\'an  Kirk)  Anderson,  marrie<l  Elizabeth 
Hoppock,  a  daughter  of  Cornelius  Ho])pock, 
a  captain  of  the  Third  Regiment,  Hunterdon 
County  New  Jersey  militia  in  the  revolution. 
Her  mother  was  Catherine  ( Coyle )  Hoppock. 
John  H.  Anderson,  son  of  Joshua  and  Eliza- 
beth (Hoppock)  Anderson,  married  Mary 
Martha  Alexander,  and  their  daughter,  Mary 
Lowrey  Anderson,  married  Dr.  James  Reiley, 
father  of  Dr.  Edward  A.  This  descent  from 
the  Fleming.  Lowrey,  Anderson  and  Hoppock 
families  entitles  Dr.  Reiley  to  membership  in 
any  of  the  patriotic  societies  that  base  mem- 
bership upon  colonial  or  revolutionary  ances- 
tors. 


The  science  of  prognostication  as 
.SAILER  existing  in  seventh  sons  of  sev- 
enth sons  has  been  ap])arent  in 
various  sootii-sayers  who  use  this  accident  of 
birth  for  business  purposes.  These  lucky  in- 
dividuals, having  judgment  and  discernment 
beyond  tiieir  fellows,  have  generally  carried 
their  extraordinary  gifts  into  (|uestionable  busi- 
ness methods.  Others  into  golcl,  and  made  good 
use  of  botli  the  gift  and  the  gold  for  those  wise 
enough  to  f(.)lIow  the  financial  paths  pointed 
out. 

( I )  Samuel  Sailer  was  the  seventh  son  of 
his  father  and  Ann,  his  wife,  and  was  boni  in 
Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey,  about  1765-70. 
They  had  at  least  seven  sons  and  a  number  of 
daughters.  Their  seventh  son  was  Joseph, 
see  forward.  The  Sailers  were  of  German 
origin  and  came  with  the  early  settlers  of  W'est 
New  Jersey  who  settled  in  Salem  and  Glou- 
cester coiBity,  on  the  banks  of  the  Delaware 
river.  .Ann,  widow  of  .Samuel  Sailer,  lived 
to  be  over  one  himdred  years  of  age. 

(II)  Joseph,    .seventh    son   of    .Samuel    and 


Ann  Sailer,  was  born  in  Clarksboro,  Glou- 
cester county.  New  Jersey,  in  1809.  He  was 
brought  up  in  his  native  town,  obtained  a  good 
education,  lived  first  in  Woodbury,  Gloucester 
county,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty  was  publisher 
and  editor  of  the  IVoodbiiry  Constitution;  he 
went  to  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  where  he 
became  interested  in  journalism  and  finance 
and  became  editor  and  owner  of  the  Philadel- 
phia Tinus  and  still  later  was  associated  with 
George  William  Childs,  of  the  Philadelphia 
Ledger,  at  the  time  a  leading  newspaper  of 
Philadelphia,  and  extensively  read  in  all  the 
large  financial  centres  of  the  world.  He  made 
his  articles  a  feature  of  the  Ledger  and  his 
financial  acumen  was  recognized  by  the  lead- 
ing financiers  of  his  time  as  of  great  value  in 
the  money  market.  He  enjoyed  the  responsi- 
ble position  for  many  years  and  the  financial 
editor  of  the  Philadelphia  Lcrfr/rr  was  acknowl- 
edged an  oracle  in  the  W(.irld  of  finance.  He 
married  I'riscilla  Sparks,  daughter  of  Isaac  D. 
and  .\mi  (Sparks)  Doughten,  who  was  born 
at  Timber  Creek,  New  Jersey,  in  1809.  She 
was  of  Scotch-Irish  descent.  Joseph  and  Pris- 
cilla  Sparks  (Doughten)  Sailer  had  seven  chil- 
dren born  in  Woodbury,  New  Jersey,  and  in 
Philadel])hia.  Pennsylvania,  as  follows:  i. 
Louise,  married  Daniel  Malseed  and  had  five 
children.  2.  Randol]ih,  born  in  Woodbury, 
New  Jerse\-,  Alay  24,  1833  ■  graduated  at  the 
LIniversity  of  Pennsylvania,  A.  R.  1857,  A.  M. 
i860;  studied  at  the  L'nion  Theological  Semi- 
nary, New  York  City,  1857-59:  was  an  agent 
of  the  American  Sunday  School  l'nion  in  1859 
and  his  eyes  failed  and  he  engaged  in  Philadel- 
phia, as  a  manufacturer,  with  Powers  & 
Weightman,  and  died  in  that  city,  January  22, 
1869.  He  married  Josephine,  daughter  of 
\\'ilson  H.  Pile,  M.  D.",  and  they  had  one  child, 
Thomas  Henry  Powers.  3.  Morris  C.  mar- 
ried Mary  Lee,  and  had  two  children.  He  died 
s(X)n  after  the  birth  of  his  second  child.  4. 
.Sarah  .Ann.  never  married.  5.  John,  see  for- 
ward.   6.  Isaac  Doughten.     7.  F^rank. 

(Ill)  John,  third  son  and  fifth  child  of 
Joseph  and  Priscilla  Sparks  (Doughten) 
Sailer,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
.Sei^trmber  6.  1840.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  .schools  of  Philadelphia,  became  con- 
nected with  Pennsylvania  National  Guard  as 
a  member  of  the  Keystone  P>attery,  Captain 
Hastings,  and  in  1862  the  battery  was  muster- 
ed into  the  United  States  Volunteer  .Army  for 
one  year's  service,  but  was  always  known  as 
an  independent  battery.  He  saw  active  ser- 
vice  on   the   battle   field,    1862-63,   serving  as 


statp:  of  new  jersey. 


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second  lieutenant  of  the  battery  under  General 
Meade  in  several  engagements  in  Mrginia,  and 
he  received  promotion  to  stall  duty  as  assistant 
adjutant  general  on  the  staft'  of  (icncral  Alex- 
ander Hayes.  On  returning  from  the  war  at 
the  end  of  his  one  year's  service,  he  engaged 
in  the  banking  business  as  a  clerk,  and  in  1866 
the  banking  house  of  Sailer  &  Stevenson  was 
formed  which  was  still  in  existence  in  1909 
under  the  same  name  with  Mr.  Sailer  as  senior 
member.  The  house  has  withstood  all  the  finan- 
cial storms  of  forty  years  and  always  have  been 
able  to  pay  all  their  obligations  in  full,  and  the 
firm  name  is  a  synonym  for  the  best  financial 
standing,  credit  and  repute  :  never  having  paid 
less  than  one  hundred  cents  on  every  dollar 
of  their  indebtedness  on  the  very  day  on  which 
it  fell  due.  His  financial  acumen,  inherited  no 
doubt  from  his  father,  caused  his  services  to  be 
sought  by  leading  banking  and  benevolent  in- 
stitutions as  director,  and  he  gave  such  services 
to  the  Girard  Xational  Bank,  the  Franklin  Fire 
Insurance  Company,  the  Academy  of  Music, 
of  Philadelphia.  He  has  given  his  services  as 
jjresident  to  the  University  Hospital,  and  as  a 
member  of  the  board  of  managers  of  the  Free 
Museum  of  Archaeological  Science  and  Arts, 
of  Philadelphia,  and  as  member  of  the  execu- 
tive connnittee  of  the  Philadelphia  Board  of 
Trade.  He  was  made  a  member  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Historical  Society,  New  Jersey  His- 
torical Society,  Academy  of  Fine  Arts  and  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Geographical  Society.  He 
has  served  the  Linion  League  Club  as  a  mem- 
ber, as  secretary,  and  as  its  senior  vice-presi- 
dent for  many  years.  His  other  club  affilia- 
tions include  the  Country  Club,  of  TMiiladel- 
]ihia,  and  the  Alarion  Cricket  Club.  His  mili- 
tary service  brought  to  him  comradeship  in 
Meade  Post,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and 
companionship  in  the  Military  Order  of  the 
Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States.  He  has 
served  on  the  staff  of  Governor  Stewart  as 
lieutenant  colonel.  His  inherited  religious 
faith  as  represented  by  the  I'resbyterian  church 
in  .America  was  maintained  during  his  life- 
time, and  he  held  office  as  a  trustee  of  the 
Second  Church,  of  Philadelphia,  and  chairman 
of  its  finance  committee. 

Mr.  Sailer  w-as  married,  in  December.  1866, 
to  Emily,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Ann 
(Pierce)  Woodward,  and  their  children  are: 
I.  Joseph,  born  October  i.  1867;  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Dr.  George  and  Alice 
Strawbridge,  of  Philadelphia,  and  their  chil- 
dren are  :  Alice  Straw-bridge  ;  Mary  Lober  : 
Joseph  (2),  graduated  from  Towne  Scientific 


.School,  biological  department,  1885,  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  Ph.  B.,  1886,  medical  depart- 
ment. University  of  Pennsylvania,  M.  D., 
1891.  He  was  resident  physician  Philadelphia 
Hospital,  1891-92,  and  after  1892  a  general 
practitioner  in  Philadelphia.  He  was  made  a 
member  of  the  Philadelphia  County.  Aledical 
Association.  2.  Anna,  born  1874;  married 
Albion  G  Pennington,  a  banker  of  Philadel- 
phia, and  they  have  no  children.  3.  Emily 
Woodward,  born  1877;  unmarried.  4.  John 
Morris,  born  1886;  he  is  in  the  banking  busi- 
ness with  his  father;  unmarried. 


The  Cowperthwait 
COWPERTHWAIT  family  which  has 
played  so  promi- 
nent a  part  in  the  history  of  the  Quaker  colonies 
along  the  Delaware,  and  later  in  the  states  of 
New  Jersey  and  Pennsylvania,  are  descended 
from  Hugh  Cowperthwait,  the  famous  min- 
ister among  Friends,  of  Flushing,  Long  Island. 
His  children  removed  from  Long  Island  to 
West  Jersey,  in  the  end  of  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury, where  they  intermarried  with  the  families 
of  the  early  and  prominent  settlers  of  that 
region,  and  from  whence  they  have  spread  out 
into  many  of  the  states  of  the  Union.  The 
majority  of  them  have  been  faithful  to  the 
religion  of  their  founder,  and  are  still  today 
members  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  The  great 
exception  was  General  Samuel  Cowperthwait, 
the  founder  of  the  Philadelphia  branch  of  the 
family,  whose  record  as  a  revolutionary  soldier 
was  so  distinguished.  Among  the  grandchil- 
dren or  great-grandchildren  of  Hugh  Cowper- 
thwait was  the  ancestor  of  the  line  at  present 
under  consideration,  but  whether  this  ances- 
tor was  Hugh  or  Thomas,  of  Burlington 
county,  is  at  present  a  little  uncertain. 

f  I )  John  Cowperthwait,  the  records  seem  to 
show,   was  son  of  John,  senior,  who  died  in 

1795- 

(II)  John  Wardell,  son  of  John  Cowper- 
thwait, was  born  in  New  Egypt  in  1821  ;  died 
April  30,  1877.  He  was  always  engaged  in 
farming.  He  married  Matilda  I.  Simons,  who 
died  July  3,  1885.  Their  children  were:  i. 
Amy,  born  March  17,  1861  ;  married  Andrew 
Moon,  and  their  children  are  :  Frank  K.,  Edna 
and  Ole.  2.  John,  December  24,  1862;  died 
July  3,  1884.  3.  Charles  Chapman,  referred 
to  "below.  4.  Charlotte  C,  April  18,  1866; 
married  Joseph  Sison.  5.  Matilda  L,  May  20, 
1868:  married,  in   18S8,  \Villiam  B.  Pearson. 

(III)  Charles  Chapman,  third  child  and 
second  son  of   John  Wardell  and  Matilda  L 


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(Simons)  Cowperthvvait,  was  born  in  Mount 
Holly,  New  Jersey,  November  i,  1864,  and  is 
now  living  in  Mount  Holly.  For  his  earl) 
education  he  was  sent  to  the  public  schools  of 
Mount  Holly,  after  which  he  took  up  the 
course  at  the  Philadelphia  Business  College. 
He  then  learned  the  trade  of  harness  maker, 
which  he  followed  until  1888,  when  he  gave  it 
up  and  for  a  year  worked  in  a  shoe  factory. 
This  position  in  turn  he  gave  up  in  order  to 
accept  the  position  of  clerk  on  the  Pennsyl- 
vania railroad,  which  he  retained  until  1899, 
when  he  resigned  in  order  to  accept  his  present 
position  as  postmaster  of  Mount  Holly,  Bur- 
lington county.  New  Jersey.  This  position  he 
has  held  continuously,  having  been  reappointed 
three  times  since  that  date.  He  is  one  of  the 
most  pO])ular  and  highly  respected  men  in  the 
town  of  Mount  Holly,  and  the  confidence  and 
trust  of  his  fellow  citizens  has  been  demon- 
strated time  and  time  again.  In  1893  '""^  was 
elected  as  a  member  of  the  town  committee, 
and  in  1896  was  re-elected  to  the  same  position, 
while  for  six  years  he  has  also  been  the  treas- 
urer of  the  township.  He  is  a  stockholder  in 
the  L'nion  National  liank,  of  Mount  Holly;  a 
member  of  Washington  Council,  No.  5,  Junior 
Order  of  American  Mechanics;  New  Jersey 
Lodge,  No.  I,  Knights  of  Pythias;  Sons  of 
America ;  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of  America ; 
Mount  Holly  Lodge,  No.  848,  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks;  Ancient  Order  of 
Ignited  Workmen.  Charles  Chapman  Cowper- 
thwait  married  Lillian,  daughter  of  John  and 
Margaret  Goldy,  of  Mount  Holly,  New  Jersey. 


The  various  Ouaker  Atkin- 
ATKLNSON  sons  of  Wesr  Jersey  have 
sprung  from  two  emigrants, 
both  of  them  men  of  prominence  and  im- 
portance in  their  day  and  in  the  foundation 
laying  of  the  prosperous  colonies  with  which 
they  became  identified, 

(I)  John  .\tkinson,  founder  of  the  line  at 
jjresent  under  consideration,  was  a  Yorkshire- 
man  who  lived  for  many  years  at  Newby,  but 
about  1659  removed  to  Thruscross  in  the  same 
county.  He  was  among  the  earliest  of  the 
converts  to  the  tenets  of  George  Fox  in  York- 
shire, and  he  had  at  least  two  sons,  both  of 
whom  came  to  Peimsylvania :  I.  John,  died 
May  2,  168S,  without  issue.  2.  Thomas,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(H)  Thomas,  son  of  John  Atkinson,  of 
Thruscross,  was  born  in  Newby,  Yorkshire, 
before  1660,  died  in  Bristol  township,  Bucks 
comity,    Pennsylvania,  October  31,    1687.     He 


was  a  noted  man  in  the  colony,  a  minister 
among  Friends,  one  of  the  largest  land  owners 
in  Bucks  county,  and  for  many  years  a  mem- 
ber of  the  assembly  and  a  justice  of  the  Bucks 
county  court.  His  parents  took  him  with  them 
from  Newby  to  Thruscross,  and  by  1678  he 
had  removed  again  to  Sandwich,  in  the  parish 
of  Addingham,  county  York,  wdiere  he  found 
his  wife,  but   no  more  is  heard  of  him  until 

168 1  wdien  he  removed  to  West  Jersey  with  a 
certificate    from    the    Beamsley    Meeting.     In 

1682  he  removed  to  Bristol  township,  Bucks 
county,  and  became  a  member  of  the  Nesh- 
aminy  Meeting,  subsequently  joining  the 
Meeting  at  Falls.  June  I,  1685,  he  was  a 
member  of  the  first  grand  jury  of  the  col- 
ony. .\fter  his  death  the  Philadelphia  Meet- 
ing published  a  long  "Testimonial"  of  him  by 
his  wife,  an  action  so  rarely  done  by  the 
Quakers  as  to  stamp  him  at  once  as  a  most 
exceptionally  prominent  character. 

June  4.  1678,  Thomas  Atkinson  married 
Jane  Bond,  who  survived  him,  and  October  11, 
1688,  married  (second)  William  Biles,  of  Falls 
township,  Bucks  county,  to  whom  she  bore  no 
children.  The  children  of  Thomas  and  Jane 
(Bond)  Atkinson  were:  i.  Isaac,  born  March 
2,  1679,  at  Sandwich,  in  the  west  riding  of 
Yorkshire,  England,  died  in  Bristol  township, 
Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania ;  was  a  cord- 
wainer,  yeoman  and  landholder  :  married,  June 
23,  1708,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Richard  and 
Margery  (Clow\s)  Hough.  2.  William,  born 
1681,  ])robably  in  Burlington  county,  West 
Jersey,  died  in  Bristol,  Pennsylvania,  October 
29,  1749;  was  an  active  politician  and  held  a 
number  of  important  offices,  coroner  of  Bucks 
county  for  nine  terms  between  1721  and  1740, 
was  a  member  of  the  county  committee  for 
twelve  years  and  was  collector  of  excise,  be- 
sides serving  two  terms  as  common  councillor 
of  liristol;  married  (first)  at  Falls  Meeting, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Margery 
(Clows)  Hough,  and  (second)  at  Bristol 
Meeting,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Henry  and 
Alary  Baker.     3.  Samuel,  referred  to  below. 

(  HI )  Samuel,  youngest  son  of  Thomas  and 
Jane  (  Bond )  Atkinson,  was  born  in  Bristol 
township,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  July 
17,  1685,  died  in  Chester  township,  Burlington 
county,  or  in  New-ton  township,  Gloucester 
county.  West  Jersey,  February  21,  1775.  He 
removed  from  Bucks  county  to  West  Jersey  in 
1714,  taking  a  certificate  from  Falls  to  Ches- 
terfield Meeting.  November  5,  1719.  he  car- 
ried a  certificate  from  Chesterfield  to  Newton 
Meeting  where  he  probably  spent  the  remain- 


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der  of  his  active  life  and  may  have  died 
although  it  has  been  said  that  his  last  years 
were  spent  in  the  home  of  his  son  Samuel  in 
Chester  townshij).  He  was  a  contractor. 
September  12,  1714,  he  was  married  in  the 
home  of  his  bride"s  father,  under  the  care  of 
the  Chesterfield  Meeting,  to  Ruth  (^ Stacy) 
Beakes,  daughter  of  JMahlon  and  Rebecca 
(Ely  J  Stacy  and  the  widow  of  William 
Beakes,  both  of  Nottingham  township,  Burl- 
ington county.  West  Jersey.  The  children  of 
Sanniel  and  Ruth  (Stacy)  (Beakes)  Atkinson 
were:  i.  Thomas,  married  Susanna,  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  Martha  (Earl)  Shinn,  grand- 
daughter of  Thomas  Shimi  and  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  and  Abigail  Stockton,  the  emi- 
grants, and  great-granddaughter  of  John  and 
Jane  Shinn,  the  emigrants.  2.  Samuel,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  Rebecca,  married  (first) 
Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  and  Deborah  (Lang- 
staff  )  Budd,  and  grandson  of  William  and 
Ann  (Clapgut)  Budd,  and  (second)  Thomas 
Say,  M.  D.  4.  Ruth,  married  as  the  second 
wife  of  Joshua,  son  of  Joseph  and  liannah 
(llubberstie )  Bispham,  and  grandson  of  John 
and  Mary  (Bastwell)  Bispham,  of  Bicker- 
staffe.  West  Derby,  Lancashire. 

(IV)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Samuel  (i)  and 
Ruth  (Stacy)  (Beakes)  Atkinson,  was  born 
probably  in  Chester  township,  Burlington 
county,  West  Jersey,  died  there  in  October, 
1781.  He  was  a  yeoman  and  a  comparatively 
wealthy  and  well-to-do  man.  His  will  was 
written  May  3,  1780,  and  proved  by  affirma- 
tion, October  29,  1781,  his  executors  being  his 
son,  Stacy  Atkinson,  and  his  sons-in-law, 
Moses  Kempton  and  Joshua  Newboid,  and  his 
friend,  Jacob  Hollingshead.  By  his  wife, 
Ann  (Coate)  Atkinson,  he  had  eight  children: 
I.  William.  2.  Elizabeth,  married  Moses 
Kemjiton.  3.  Stacy.  4.  Rebecca,  married 
Joshua  Newboid.  5.  Samuel,  referred  to 
below.     6.   Sarah.     7.    Mahlon.     8.   Beulah. 

(\")  Samuel  (3),  third  son  of  Samuel  (2) 
and  Ann  (Coate)  Atkinson,  was  born  in 
Chester  township,  Burlington  county.  New 
Jersey,  died  in  Springfield  township  in  the 
same  county,  in  1804.     He  married  Elizabeth 

.      Mis    will,    written   January   4.    1802, 

was  affirmed  at  Mount  Holly,  March  y.  1804. 
Children  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Atkinson 
were:  i.  John.  2.  Isaiah,  referred  to  below. 
3.  Caleb.  4.  Josiah.  5.  Samuel.  6.  Esther 
or  Hester,  married  Joseph  Rogers.  7.  Keziah, 
married  Benjamin  Atkinson.  8.  Mary,  mar- 
ried lohn  Atkinson.  9.  Hope,  married  Clem- 
ent Rockhill.     10.  Elizabeth.     11.  Ann. 


(\  I)  Isaiah,  second  son  of  Samuel  (3)  and 
Elizabeth  Atkinson,  was  born  in  Springfield 
township,  Burlington  county,  and  died  there 
in  1845.  In  his  will,  written  February  17, 
and  affirmed  at  Mount  Holly,  October  25, 
1845,  he  names  his  wife,  Sarah  (Eldridge) 
.\tkinson,  and  the  following  si.x  children  :  Will- 
iam E.,  George  Washington,  referred  to  below, 
Elizabeth,  James  E.,  Evans,  Isaiah  Jr. 

(VTI)  George  Washington,  second  son  of 
Isaiah  and  Sarah  (Eldridge)  Atkinson,  was 
born  in  1804,  in  Springfield  township,  Burling- 
tiin  county,  and  died  m  the  same  place  intes- 
tate, in  1866.  By  his  wife,  Anna,  the  daughter 
of  Miles  King,  of  Jacksonville,  Springfield 
township,  he  had  six  children:  i.  Miles  King, 
died  aged  sixty-four  years.  2.  A  baby  who 
died  in  infancy.  3.  Edith  R.,  married  Sam- 
uel Rogers  but  has  no  children.  4.  Budd,  mar- 
ried Mary  Garwood  and  has  two  children : 
Margaret  Garwood  and  Anna.  5.  Isaiah  E., 
married  Ellen  Rogers  and  has  two  children : 
\\'allace  L.  and  Howard.  6.  John,  referred 
to  below. 

(\TII)  John  (2),  youngest  child  of  George 
Washington  and  Anna  (King)  Atkinson,  was 
born  on  the  farm  in  Springfield  township, 
Burlington  county,  and  is  now  living  in  Phila- 
ilelphia  and  in  Llanech,  Delaware  county, 
Pennsylvania.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Springfield  township  and  the  well  known 
Charles  Aaron  school  at  Alount  Holly,  a  Pres- 
bvterian  denominational  school,  .\fter  leav- 
ing school  he  learned  the  trade  of  bricklaying 
anil  then  went  into  business  for  himself  in 
1872  in  partnership  with  George  W.  Royd- 
house.  After  a  number  of  years  successful 
operation  the  firm  was  dissolved  and  Mr.  At- 
kinson continued  in  the  business  alone,  under 
the  name  of  John  Atkinson,  building  mason, 
P.uilders'  Exchange,  South  Seventh  street, 
Philadelphia.  Mr.  Atkinson  is  a  member  of 
the  Afasons  and  Builders  Association  of  Phil- 
adelphia, the  Bricklayers  Company  of  Phila- 
delphia, which  he  served  as  president,  the 
lUiilders'  Exchange  of  Philadelphia,  also  a 
charter  member  of  the  West  Jersey  Society  of 
Pennsylvania.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Lodge 
.\'o.  223,  Odd  Fellows,  and  belongs  to  the 
Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting  of  the  Hick- 
site  Quakers  at  Fifteenth  and  Race  streets. 
Mr.  Atkinson  is  a  Democrat. 

October  5.  1881,  John  Atkinson  married 
Anna,  daughter  of  NA'atson  Welding,  of  Brook- 
Ivn,  Long  Island,  and  has  borne  him  five  chil- 
dren, all  born  at  Philadel]ihia  :  i.  John  Will- 
iam, July  22.  1882.     2.  Roger,  May  12,  1884. 


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3.  Eilitli,  March  11,  1889.  married  Robert  R. 
Blank,  of  Philadelphia,  has  one  child,  Robert 
R.  Blank,  Jr.  4.  Dorothy,  November  11, 
1893.     5.   Richard,   February  5,    1897. 


There  are  at  least  two  and  pos- 
PAYXE  sibly  three  or  more  Payne  fami- 
lies in  New  Jersey  who  are  ap- 
]:>arently  in  no  way  related  to  each  other  or 
the  families  of  the  same  name  in  New  Eng- 
land. They  are  certainly  not  so  related  unless 
such  connection  can  be  traced  out  on  the  other 
side  of  the  Atlantic.  The  family  at  present 
under  consideration  comes  from  the  old  Eng- 
lish seafaring  stock,  and  while  it  cannot  boast 
of  as  many  generations  in  this  country  as  can 
some  of  the  other  families  of  the  same  name, 
it  has  nevertheless  made  its  permanent  im- 
]iress  upon  the  community  in  which  it  has  lived 
and  won  for  itself  a  well  deserved  honored 
reputation  and  esteem. 

(i)  The  founder  of  the  family  was  Macey 
Payne,  a  sea  captain,  who  came  over  to  Amer- 
ica from  England  about  the  end  of  the  eight- 
eenth century,  bringing  with  him  his  wife  and 
children,  settling  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
state  of  New  Jersey,  where  he  still  followed 
his  calling  and  brought  up  his  sons  to  succeed 
him.  By  his  wife,  Deborah,  he  had  five  chil- 
dren: I.  Levi,  who  became  quite  a  noted  Jer- 
sey mariner  and  sea  captain.  2.  Sarah,  mar- 
ried George  Wool  ford.  3.  Samuel,  married  a 
Miss  Shaw.  4.  Macey  Jr.,  who  was  drowned  ; 
unmarried.  5.  Charles  Garrison,  referred  to 
below. 

(11)  Charles  Garrison,  the  youngest  son  of 
Captain  Macey  and  Deborah  Payne,  was  born 
near  Millville,  Cumberland  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, February  18,  1820,  died  in  Millville, 
1891.  He  was  left  an  orphan  when  about 
seven  years  of  age,  and  grew  up  under  the  care 
oi  his  brother,  Captain  Levi  Payne,  whom  he 
accompanied  on  many  of  his  voyages,  and  thus 
spent  most  of  his  life  until  he  reached  man- 
hood on  the  sea.  Tiring  of  this  kind  of  a 
life,  he  set  himself  to  work  to  learn  the  glass- 
blowing  trade,  in  which  he  Spent  the  next 
forty  years  of  his  life,  establishing  his  home  in 
the  town  of  Millville.  His  wife  was  Thank- 
ful, daughter  of  William,  and  granddaughter 
of  Dr.  Lawrence  Van  Hook.  She  was  born 
at  what  was  then  called  "Schooner's  Landing" 
about  four  miles  from  Millville,  and  was  of 
old  colonial  (jerman  descent.  She  died  in 
April,  1893.  Her  father  was  for  many  years 
a  farmer,  but  later  on  he  entered  the  emj)loy 
of   Whital,    Tatum    iv    Company   and    worked 


in  their  Millville  factory.  Two  of  his  broth- 
ers, Benjamin  and  Lawrence  Jr.,  who  followed 
their  father  in  becoming  physicians,  were 
prominent  in  the  early  part  of  the  nineteenth 
century  and  were  particularly  active  during 
the  war  of  1812.  Children  of  Charles  Garri- 
son and  Thankful  ( \'an  Hook)  Payne  are: 
Deborah;  George  ^\'ashington,  referred  to 
below :  Katharine,  married  Henry  Vote,  of 
Philadelphia ;  Charles  Howard,  resides  in 
Philadelphia;  James;  Sarah,  deceased  wife  of 
L.  C.  Leake ;  Fannie,  married  Frank  Board- 
man,  of  Millville ;  Mary,  married  Jeremiah 
Corson,  of  Millville;  Jesse;  Jenny,  married 
Ralph  Kilvington,  of  Wilmington,  Delaware; 
Nora,  married  Michael  Durkin,  of  Millville; 
Rena,  married  George  Howard  Doughty,  of 
Millville;   Harvey. 

(HI)  George  Washington,  the  second  child 
and  first  son  of  Charles  Garrison  and  Thank- 
ful (\'an  Hook)  Payne,  was  born  in  Mill- 
ville, Cumberland  county,  New  Jersey,  Sep- 
tember 7,  1843,  and  is  now  living  in  that  town. 
For  his  early  education  he  attended  the  public 
schools  until  he  was  about  eleven  years  of  age. 
When  he  was  thirteen  he  became  an  apprentice 
in  one  of  the  glass-blowing  factories  in  Mill- 
ville. and  served  as  such  for  the  following  four 
years.  The  civil  war  then  breaking  out  and 
the  glass-blowing  industry  in  the  town  being 
suspended,  young  Payne  took  the  opportunity 
to  go  to  school  again,  which  he  did  for  one 
year,  having  previously  studied  for  six  months 
under  the  tuition  of  Dr.  Parker,  and  later  on 
under  that  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Northrup,  working 
during  the  day  and  studying  at  night,  and  in 
this  way  gaining  considerable  practical  edu- 
cation. Having  once  learned  the  glass-blow- 
ing trade  he  kept  following  it  at  intervals  all 
his  life,  although  most  of  his  time  has  been 
given  to  his  political  career.  This  began  in 
1874,  when  he  was  elected  on  the  Republican 
ticket  by  the  people  of  the  second  district  of 
Cumberland  countv  to  the  state  legislature. 
In  1875  and  again  in  1876  he  was  re-elected 
to  the  same  ofifice,  and  during  his  second  term 
was  the  chairman  of  the  committee  on  cor- 
porations. In  1876  he  was  one  of  the  in- 
spectors of  customs  at  Philadelphia.  In  1877 
he  was  most  active  in  the  passing  of  a  bill  en- 
titled ".^n  act  for  the  better  securing  of  wages 
to  workmen  and  laborers  in  the  state  of  New 
Jersey,"  and  for  this  bill  he  worked  hard  for 
two  years,  finally  getting  it  passed  in  the  year 
above  named.  This  law  made  it  illegal  for 
employees  to  be  paid  in  punch  orders,  due  bills, 
and  the  like  which  were  redeemable  only  at 


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the  company  stores,  and  was  the  first  general 
act  of  the  kind  ever  passed  in  New  Jersey.  It 
has  since  been  amended  for  the  better  pro- 
tection of  the  workingman,  and  it  has  been 
an  especial  boon  to  the  glass-blowers  in  estab- 
lishing a  cash  basis  for  their  labor.  As  a  re- 
sult of  these  labors,  Mr.  Payne  incurred  the 
enmity  of  many  of  the  manufacturers  in  the 
state,  was  blacklisted  and  for  some  time  found 
it  impossible  to  obtain  employment.  When  his 
third  term  as  representative  was  completed, 
Mr.  Payne  was  made  the  assessor  of  the  sec- 
ond ward  of  Millville.  which  office  he  held  for 
eight  years,  and  in  1889  was  elected  to  the 
common  council  of  the  town.  This  latter  po- 
sition he  resigned  in  order  to  become  the 
superintendent  of  the  glass  works  of  Rankins 
and  Lamar  at  Atlanta,  Georgia,  where  he  re- 
mained for  one  year,  returning  in  1891  to 
Millville,  and  being  again  elected  on  the  com- 
mon council  where  he  served  for  three  years 
longer.  In  1895  ^'^  ^^'''^  chosen  as  the  mayor 
of  the  town,  and  in  1908  was  elected  high 
sheriff  of  Cumberland  county  for  the  term  of 
three  years.  Mr.  Payne  was  the  first  national 
secretary  of  the  National  Flint-Glass  Workers 
Union,  which  embraces  membership  in  both 
the  United  States  and  Canada.  This  office  he 
held  for  three  vears,  while  for  twelve  years  he 
was  one  of  the  representatives  of  the  national 
body.  As  a  token  of  appreciation  for  his 
services  the  union  presented  him  with  a  hand- 
some gold  watch,  and  the  employees  of  the 
works  at  Atlanta,  Georgia,  gave  him  a  gold 
chain  to  go  with  it.  Mr.  Payne  is  a  member 
of  the  Order  of  the  Golden  Eagles,  and  is  a 
past  chief  of  the  Select  Councils.  He  is  a 
member  of  Shekinah  Lodge,  Free  and  Ac- 
ce])ted  Masons,  Richmond  Chapter,  Royal 
Arch  Masons,  a  past  commander  of  the  Mys- 
tic Chain,  and  an  honorary  member  of  the 
Order  of  American  ^Mechanics.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  First  Alethodist  Episcopal  Church 
in  Millville. 

December  9,  1865,  George  Washington 
Payne  married  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain John  Stonehill,  born  in  England,  of  Mill- 
ville, New  Jersey.  She  was  born  in  Cape 
May  county,  June  22,  1846.  Their  children 
are:  i.  John  C.,  unmarried.  In  1876  he  met 
with  an  accident  on  the  railroad  and  lost  his 
right  arm  and  left  leg.  2.  Reginald  \\"..  mar- 
ried Ella  Hartman  and  has  one  child)  Bea- 
trice. 3.  William  S.,  married  Sarah  Cham- 
pion and  has  one  child,  Esther.  4.  Georgi- 
anna.  married  Henry  Reid  but  has  no  chil- 
dren.    ^.  Lavina,  married  Samuel  Curlott  and 


has  two  children :  William  George  and  George 
William.  6.  Nelly,  unmarried.  7.  Harold 
H.,  unmarried,  in  the  office  with  his  father, 
serving  as  deputy  sheriff.  8.  Anna,  married 
Robert  Caterson,  of  Philadelphia,  in  Decem- 
ber, 1908. 

The  name  of  Shoemaker 
SHOEMAKER     belongs  to  that  numerous 

class  of  surnames  which 
are  derived  from  the  trades  and  professions, 
and  as  is  the  case  with  the  families  bearing 
similar  cognomens,  there  are  in  all  countries 
many  persons  bearing  the  same  name  yet  in 
no  way  related  to  each  other,  so  also  in  the 
present  instance,  there  are  quite  a  number  of 
families  of  Shoemaker,  whose  common  origin 
is  either  not  traceable  or  is  lost  in  the  obscur- 
ity of  the  past  of  long  ago. 

(I)  Henry  Shoemaker,  founder  of  the  fam- 
ily at  present  under  consideration,  was  born  in 
Holland,  somewhere  about  the  year  1740  or 
1745,  and  emigrated  to  this  country  about 
the  time  of  the  revolution,  when  he  settled  in 
Deerfield  township,  Cumberland  county.  New 
Jersey,  where  he  seems  to  have  become  a  man 
of  considerable  prominence  and  influence,  and 
left,  when  he  died,  a  son  George. 

(II )  George,  son  of  Henry  Shoemaker,  was 
boni  about  1775  or  1780,  in  Deerfield  town- 
ship. Cumberland  county,  New  Jerse\'.  After 
reaching  his  majority  he  removed  into  Salem 
county,  where  he  remained  for  some  time, 
finally  settling  in  Ohio,  where  he  died.  Among 
his  children  was  Hiram. 

(HI)  Hiram,  son  of  George  Shoemaker, 
was  born  in  Salem  county.  New  Jersey,  about 
1815.  When  his  father  removed  to  Ohio,  he 
accompanied  him  and  remained  a  short  time, 
when  he  returned  to  New  Jersey  and  mar- 
ried Sarah  Ann,  daughter  of  Clement  Rem- 
ington Waters,  of  Sharpstown,  Salem  county, 
born  1821,  who  bore  him  eighteen  children: 
I.  Amanda  L.,  married  John  N.  Miller,  of 
Salem  county.  2.  Harriet  Emma,  died  at  the 
age  of  sixteen  years.  3.  Gervuda.  4.  George 
Henry,  died  in  infancy.  5.  Margaret  B.,  mar- 
ried (first)  Owen  S.  Proud,  of  Salem  City; 
(second)  William  H.  Harrison,  of  Moore, 
Delaware  county,  Pennsylvania.  6.  Sarah  J., 
married  J.  Frank  Foster,  of  Salem  City.  7. 
William  Hitchner,  married  Anna,  daughter  of 
Jacob  ^Mitchell,  of  Salem  City.  8.  Clement 
Waters,  mentioned  below.  9.  Missouri  H. 
10.  Louisiana  C,  (twins)  who  were  named  for 
the  states.  Missouri  H.  married  Thomas  H. 
Bowen,    formerly    of    Salem    City,    now    of 


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Bridgeton,  New  Jersey.  Louisiana  C.  mar- 
ried Jacob  Harris,  who  lives  near  Riverton, 
Burlington  county.  1 1.  Hiram  }.,  married 
Eva,  daughter  of  Joseph  Burt,  of  Bridgeton. 
12.  Rachel  Waters,  married  Elijah  J.  Snitcher, 
M.  D.,  of  Salem  City.  13.  Charles  H.,  mar- 
ried Rebecca  Lowe,  of  Camden,  New  Jersey. 

14.  Mary  Emma,  died  at  the  age  of  six  years. 

15.  George  Henry,  died  in  infancy.  16.  Laura, 
married  John  Davidson,  of  Salem,  New  Jer- 
sey. 17.  Robert  Elmer,  president  of  the  Cum- 
berland Glass  Alanufacturing  Company  of 
Bridgeton,  New  Jersey;  married  Mary  Hew- 
lings.  18.  Joanna  H.,  married  HT)n.  George 
C).  Whitney,  of  the  island  of  Bermuda,  who 
was  at  one  time  a  member  of  the  parliament 
of  Great  Britain. 

(1\')  Clement  Waters,  son  of  Hiram  and 
Sarah  .\nn  (Waters)  Shoemaker,  was  born 
on  a  farm  in  Elsinboro  township,  Salem 
county,  New  Jersey,  April  23,  1848,  and  is  now 
living  at  Bridgeton,  Cumberland  county. 
During  his  early  years  he  had  but  little  edu- 
cational advantages.  For  a  time  he  attended 
the  public  schools  in  Elsinboro,  then  attending 
for  a  few  terms  the  Friends'  School  at  Salem 
City.  When  he  was  about  seventeen  years  old 
he  entered  the  store  of  H.  B.  Shoemaker,  who 
was  a  distant  relative^  where  he  dealt  in  gen- 
eral merchandise  anil  gained  his  first  knowl- 
edge of  business.  \\  bile  here  he  also  attended 
some  of  the  classes  of  the  West  Jersey  Acad- 
emy at  Bridgeton.  When  reaching  his  ma- 
jority he  found  he  had  saved  a  sufficient  sum 
to  enable  him  to  enter  Pennington  Seminary, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  remained  for  six 
months  preparing  himself  for  future  useful- 
ness. He  had,  however,  left  his  money  in 
other  hands  to  be  kept  until  he  should  require 
it,  and  the  man  failing,  he  lost  his  savings  and 
was  obliged  to  leave  the  seminary  and  take  up 
work  on  a  farm  in  order  to  make  a  new  start 
in  life.  His  former  employer,  FL  B.  Shoe- 
maker, offered  him  a  one-third  interest  in  the 
business.  He  obtained  his  employer's  con- 
sent to  the  cancelling  of  his  agreement,  and 
after  his  release,  borrowing  the  necessary  cap- 
ital, he  entered  into  partnership  with  Mr. 
Shoemaker.  This  partnership  continued  for 
six  years  and  when  it  was  dissolved  he  found 
himself  with  a  capital  of  one  thousand  dol- 
lars to  his  credit.  For  the  next  year  he 
worked  in  the  employ  of  E.  M.  Ware,  at  a 
salary  of  twelve  dollars  a  week,  and  then  de- 
cided to  go  into  business  for  himself.  He 
bought  the  establishment  of  his  former  part- 
ner,  H.    B.    Shoemaker,   and   introducing  the 


cash  system  of  trading  into  his  business  and 
into  the  city  of  Bridgeton,  he  at  once  began 
to  meet  with  success.  He  continued  this  busi- 
ness for  two  years,  when  he  entered  into  part- 
nership with  Joseph  A.  Clark,  Isaac  L.  Clark 
and  Samuel  AL  liassett,  establishing  a  new 
plant  for  glass  making,  in  addition  to  his  mer- 
cantile enterprise.  He  later  sold  out  his  in- 
terest in  the  grocery  store  to  his  nephew,  J. 
Warren  Miller,  and  gave  his  attention  exclu- 
sively to  the  manufacture  of  glass.  This  busi- 
ness had  become  a  co-partnership  business  in 
1880,  and  in  1885  it  was  made  into  a  corpora- 
tion with  his  brother  Robert  Elmer  as  presi- 
dent, and  himself  as  treasurer.  During  the 
first  year  of  its  existence  it  was  located  on  the 
wharf  near  Cox  &  Sons,  Bridgeton,  but  the 
factory  having  burned  down,  the  firm  bought 
a  large  tract  of  land  on  Laurel  street,  above 
Laurel  Hill,  from  Charles  E.  Grosscup  and 
Rachel  Whitaker,  and  built  there  a  large  plant 
for  the  manufacture  of  rough  plate  glass  for 
floors  and  skylights,  and  also  for  the  making 
of  bottle  and  window  glass.  Some  time  after- 
wards the  manufacture  of  the  rough  glass  was 
discontinued  and  the  Cumberland  Glass  Com- 
pany, as  the  corporation  was  now  known, 
began  the  manufacture  of  fruit  and  battery 
jars.  The  company  is  now  as  it  has  always 
been  doing  a  flourishing  and  successful  busi- 
ness. It  employs  about  one  thousand  men 
when  running  to  its  full  capacity,  and  its  pay- 
roll amounts  to  upwards  of  $600,000  a  year. 
Later  he  organized  the  Bridgeton  Iron  Works, 
of  which  he  is  one  of  the  owners,  which  is 
engaged  in  making  foundry  castings  for  light 
and  heavy  machinery.  It  employs  about 
thirty-five  men  and  boys.  Mr.  Shoemaker  is 
recognized  as  one  of  the  most  public-spirited 
and  philanthropic  men  in  Bridgeton.  He  has 
established  free  beds  in  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Hospital,  of  I'hiladelphia,  for  his  em- 
ployees, and  one  for  the  graduate  nurses  of 
the  same  institution.  He  has  also  established 
a  permanent  fund,  the  interest  of  which  is 
used  for  prizes  in  penmanship,  for  the  best 
English  composition  and  the  best  record  for 
spelling  in  the  Bridgeton  public  schools,  for 
contest  in  oratory  between  the  Bridgeton,  Mill- 
ville  and  N'ineland  high  schools.  He  is  an  ex- 
president  of  the  Law  and  Order  Society  of 
Bridgeton,  which  is  and  has  been  doing  so 
much  to  purify  the  city  from  the  gambling 
dens  and  other  evils  whicli  exist.  He  is  a  di- 
rector in  many  financial  institutions  among 
which  should  be  mentioned  the  Cumberland 
National   Bank,  the  Cumberland  Trust  Com- 


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pany  of  Bridgeton,  tliu  11.  I\.  Mulford  C(jm- 
pany  of  Philadelphia,  the  \  ineland  (irape 
Juice  Company  of  \  ineland,  Xew  Jersey,  and 
the  Bridgeton  City  Hospital.  He  is  also  a 
trustee  of  the  Central  Methodist  Episcopai 
Church  of  Bridgeton,  of  the  Pennington  Sem- 
inary, of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Hospital  of 
Philadelphia,  and  of  the  New  Jersey  Children's 
Home  Society  of  Trenton.  He  served  as 
president  of  the  Sunday  School  Teachers'  As- 
sociation of  Cumberland  county,  is  a  member 
of  the  Sons  of  the  American  flevolution.  At 
one  time  he  was  a  member  of  the  school  board. 
He  served  for  over  thirty  years  as  superintend- 
ent of  the  primary  department  in  the  Sunday 
school  of  the  Central  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  of  Bridgeton,  was  also  one  of  the  class 
leaders  for  several  years,  and  an  ex-president 
of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association. 
He  has  also  been  a  member  of  the  state  e.x- 
ecutive  committee  of  the  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Association.  At  one  time  he  was  a  trus- 
tee of  Dickinson  College.  Carlisle,  Pennsylva- 
nia, and  has  been  a  representative  of  the  New 
Jersey  conference  to  the  general  conference 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

Clement  Waters  Shoemaker  married.  May 
28,  1879,  Rebecca  Ellen,  daughter  of  Joseph 
A.  Clark,  of   Bridgeton.     Their  children  are : 

1.  Joseph  C,  graduate  of  Princeton  Univer- 
sity, class  of  1904;  manager  of  the  Boston 
office  of  the  Cumberland  Glass  Alanufacturing 
Company;  married  Nina,  daughter  of  Ernest 
L.  Mulford,  of  Cedarville.  Cumberland  county. 

2.  Isaac  Loper,  graduate  of  Princeton  Univer- 
sity, class  of  1906:  assistant  superintendent 
of  the  Cumberland  Glass  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany; married  Ruth  Anna,  daughter  of  Elam 
Eisenhower,  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
and  has  one  child,  Ruth  Anna.  3.  Mary 
Erety,  a  graduate  of  Dana  Hall,  Welleslcy. 
Massachusetts,  class  of  1909. 


According  to  Burke's  Landed 
STOKES     Crentry,  the  Stokes  family  is  of 

Norman  origin  and  is  a  branch 
of  the  ancient  and  illustrious  house  of  Monte- 
spedon,  now  believed  to  be  extinct  in  Nor- 
mandy. From  the  old  documents  and  records, 
its  ancestors  must  have  come  over  into  Eng- 
land shortly  after  the  Conquest,  and  received 
honors  and  possessions.  The  records,  how- 
ever, are  scanty  until  the  reign  of  Edward  H, 
when  the  records  of  the  Tower  of  London  tell 
us  that  Sir  Adam  de  Stokke  was  seized  of  the 
manor  of  Stokke,  I'lustaball  and  Wilts. 
Thomas,    his   eldest    son.    held    the   manor   of 


Sendee  with  other  lands  in  Wiltshire,  and 
Riiger,  his  seccjnd  son,  the  manors  of  Wolshall, 
Sanarnargritt  and  Hutigerford  in  the  same 
county.  Roger  and  his  father.  Sir  Adam, 
were  interred  in  the  church  of  Great  Bedwin 
to  which  they  had  been  benefactors,  and  their 
effigies  and  monuments  are  still  to  be  seen 
there.  John,  a  descendant  of  Thomas,  rep- 
resented the  county  in  ])arliament  in  the  reign 
of  Charles  H,  and  in  the  reign  of  Elizabetli, 
we  find  the  Stockeys  (the  first  change  in  the 
sjxdling  of  the  name)  erected  the  church  or 
chapel  of  Sendee  and  lie  interred  there.  In 
the  fifteenth  century,  Christopher  Stokes  held 
the  manors  of  Stanhawes  with  other  lands  in 
Gloucestershire,  and  Edward  Stokes  held  part 
of  the  manor  of  Fetherton  at  a  later  period 
together  with  lands  at  Langley  Burrell,  county 
Gloucester.  About  1700  John  Stokes  held  the 
manor  of  Stanhawes  Court,  Cardington,  with 
other  lands  in  the  same  county.  In  the  coun- 
ties of  Gloucester  and  Bucks  Richard  Stokes, 
of  Cain  Castle,  Wilts,  held  considerable  pos- 
sessions. Some  of  the  family  also  held  lands 
in  Sussex  and  Kent,  and  within  the  last  fifty 
years  possessed  considerable  property  in  the 
counties  of  Wilts,  Gloucester  and  Warwick. 
The  arms  of  the  family  are:  gules  a  lion  ram- 
pant, double  gnewed  erm :  Crest:  a  dove  with 
wings  expanded,  in  the  mouth  an  olive  branch, 
all  proper ;  Motto :  Fertis  qui  insons. 

(I)  Thomas  Stokes,  founder  of  the  fam- 
ily in  .America,  was  the  contemporary  of 
George  Fox,  the  reformer  and  founder  of 
the  Society  of  Friends,  and  of  William  Penn, 
who  was  associated  with  the  trustees  of  Ed- 
ward I'.yllinge,  one  of  the  original  proprietors 
of  New  Jersey,  and  the  founder  of  the  Prov- 
ince of  Pennsylvania.  He  was  sixteen  years 
younger  than  the  former  and  four  years  older 
than  the  latter,  a  convert  to  their  religious  doc- 
trines and  toleration,  with  the  largest  liberty 
for  individual  belief,  but  like  all  pioneers  anrl 
propagandises  desiring  to  avoid  persecution 
and  seeking  new  fields  of  labor,  he  concluded 
to  remove  himself  to  the  New  .American  colo- 
nies and  seek  his  fortune  in  the  new  world. 
His  brother,  John  Stokes,  of  London,  having 
large  proprietary  interests  in  West  Jersey,  bor- 
dering on  the  Northampton  river,  Thomas 
settled  on  a  part  of  the  tract  conveyed  to  him 
by  his  brother.  This  conveyance  of  John  is 
said  to  be  the  only  portion  of  his  interest  ever 
disposed  of  by  him  and  was  doubtless  the  dis- 
posal of  the  whole  of  his  interest.  Thomas 
.Stokes  located  three  hundred  acres  of  land 
fronting  on  the  northerlv  side  of  the  North- 


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amiitoii  river,  and  a  portion  of  the  tract  still 
remains  in  the  possession  of  the  family  hav- 
ing come  down  from  father  to  son  by  will. 
Thomas  Stokes  v^'as  a  man  of  influence,  and 
very  active  in  the  affairs  of  the  colony,  serving 
on  the  first  grand  jury  ever  held  in  Burlington 
county.  His  wife  dying  in  1699,  he  removed 
to  Waterford  townshi]).  Gloucester  county, 
and  resided  there  with  his  son  Thomas,  until 
his  death,  11  of  Seventh  month  1720.  Janu- 
ary 21,  17 19,  he  conveyed  his  Northampton 
township  lands  to  Abraham  Hewlings,  Jr.,  and 
October   13,   1719,  he  wrote  his  will. 

The  30th  of  Tenth  month,  1668,  Thomas 
Stokes,  of  Lower  Shadwell,  married  ^lary 
Bernard,  of  Stepney,  at  the  Westbury  street 
Friends  Meeting  in  London.  They  belonged 
t(.i  the  Devonshire  House  Meeting.  W  ith  his 
wife  and  young  children  he  set  sail  for  the 
new  world  in  the  sliip  "Kent"  and  arriving  at 
New  Castle,  in  the  Si.xth  month,  1677,  pro- 
ceeded to  Burlington  and  settled  on  a  tract  of 
one  hundred  and  si.xty-two  and  one-half  acres 
which  he  called  Stokington.  He  was  one  of 
the  signers  of  the  concessions  and  agreements. 
The  children  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Bernard) 
.Stokes  were:  i.  Sarah,  married,  in  1693,  Ben- 
jamin Moore,  the  emigrant  from  Birmingham, 
county  Linculn,  England,  said  to  have  been 
the  largest  landholder  in  New  Jersey,  and  the 
one  after  whom  Moorestown  is  named.  2. 
Mary,  married,  in  1696,  John,  son  of  Robert 
and  Mary  Hudson,  of  Burlington.  3.  John, 
who  is  referred  to  below.  4.  Joseph,  who  died 
in  1760;  married  (first)  Judith,  daughter  of 
Freedom  and  Mary  (Curtis)  Li|)i)incott,  and 
(second)  Ann  ( Ashard)  Haines,  the  widow  of 
John  Haines  and  the  daughter  of  John  Ashard. 
5.  Thomas. 

(H)  John,  third  child  and  eldest  son  of 
Thomas  and  Mary  (Bernard)  Stokes,  was 
born,  ]irobably  in  London,  in  1675,  and  was 
brought  to  the  new  world  by  his  father  when 
he  was  about  two  years  old.  In  17 19  his 
father  made  him  the  sole  executor  of  his  will. 
In  his  "Mrst  Emigrant  Settlers  of  Newton 
Township"  Judge  Clement  says,  "Nothing  is 
known  of  John  Stokes  save  what  may  be 
gathered  from  the  records  in  the  office  of  the 
secretary  of  state  at  Trenton."  In  1716,  an 
inventory  of  his  estate  was  made,  upon  which 
is  the  following  endorsement:  "Came  to  his 
end  by  an  unnatural  deatli,  in  ye  lower  end  of 
Gloucester  county."  This  inventory  and  en- 
dorsement, however,  must  refer  to  some  other 
John  Stokes  as  it  is  hardly  possible  that 
Thomas   Stokes  would  make  a  man   his  sole 


executor  three  years  after  his  death.  It  may 
possibly  mean  that  John,  the  brother  of 
Thomas,  came  also  to  this  country.  In  17 12, 
John  Stokes  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Green.  She  was 
known  as  Lady  Green,  and  was  the  grand- 
daughter of  Arthur  Green,  of  Bug  Brook 
parish,  county  Northampton,  England.  She 
came  to  America  it  is  said  in  the  household  of 
Dr.  Daniel  Wills,  in  whose  care  she  had  been 
placed  by  her  father.  Being  displeased  by  her 
marriage  to  John  Stokes,  her  father  disin- 
herited her,  and  sent  her  brother  John  to  the 
colony  to  look  after  his  interests  and  invest- 
ments in  New  Jersey.  The  children  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  (Green)  Stokes  were:  i.  John, 
who  is  referred  to  below.  2.  Mary,  married 
in  1734,  Edward  Mullen,  and  had  a  grand- 
daughter, Ixeziah  Burr,  who  married  Richard 
Howell,  afterwards  governor  of  New  Jersey, 
wdiose  granddaughter  married  Jefferson  Davis, 
the  president  of  the  Confederate  States  of 
America.  3.  Elizabeth,  married  Richard 
Blackham.     4.   Sarah,   married   Isaac   Rogers. 

(III)  John  (2)  eldest  child  and  only  son 
of  John  (i)  and  Elizabeth  (Green)  Stokes, 
was  born  in  Gloucester  county,  New  Jersey, 
July  16,  1713,  died  .\ugust  24.  1798.  In  1740 
he  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Jervis  and 
Mary  (Sharp)  Stogdelle,  of  Evesham  town- 
ship, Burlington  county.  Her  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Hugh  Sharp,  possibly  the  brother 
of  William  of  Gloucester  county,  and  John  of 
Burlington  county,  antl  if  so  the  son  of  Fran- 
cis Sharp,  of  Oak  Lane,  in  the  parish  of  St. 
.•\nn,  Limehouse  county,  Middlesex,  England. 
She  was  born  in  1718,  died  June  16,  1790. 
The  children  of  John  and  Hannah  (Stogdelle) 
Stokes  were:  I.  Mary,  born  October  16,  1745, 
married  Isaac  Newton.  2.  John,  August  22, 
1747,  married  Susanna  Newton.  3.  David 
who  is  referred  to  below.  4.  Jarvis,  Novem- 
ber 10,  1753,  died  December  14,  1804;  mar- 
ried, November  27,  1773,  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  William  and  Martha  (Esturgans)  Rogers. 
5.  Hannah,  October  12,  1756,  became  the  sec- 
ond wife  of  Joseph  Haines  and  married  (sec- 
ond) George  Browning.  6.  Elizabeth,  May 
31,  1759,  married  George  French.  7.  Rachel, 
married  Joseph  Flackney. 

(IV)  David,  third  child  and  second  son  of 
John  (2)  and  Hannah  (Stogdelle)  Stokes,  was 
born  in  Burlington  county,  January  12,  1752, 
died  there  September  27,  1830.  Lie  married, 
April  15,  1784,  Ann,  daughter  of  John  and 
FJizabeth  (Barlow)  Lancaster,  of  Gwynedd 
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granddaughter  of  Thomas  and  Phebe  (Wor- 
dell)  Lancaster.  Her  grandfather  had  emi- 
grated from  England  to  America  about  June, 
171 1,  and  was  married  in  the  Wright  stownAleet- 
ing,  Bucks  county.  Pennsylvania,  in  October, 
1725.  His  wife,  Phebe,  was  the  daughter  of 
John  Wordell,  a  minister  among  Friends  who 
had  emigrated  from  Wales,  settled  first  in 
Boston,  and  later  on  in  Wrightstown.  His 
daughter.  Phebe  (Wordell)  Lancaster,  died  at 
the  residence  of  her  son,  John,  at  Richland, 
Pennsylvania,  aged  over  ninety-five  years.  Her 
husband,  Thomas  Lancaster,  was  a  member 
of  the  Richland  Meeting  and  became  a  distin- 
guished minister  in  that  society.  The  Meet- 
ing granted  him  a  certificate  to  travel  and 
preach  in  P.arbadoes  and  the  West  Indies,  and 
having  fulfilled  his  mission,  he  was  returning 
home  when  he  was  taken  sick  and  died,  being 
buried  at  sea,  about  1750.  Ann  (Lancaster) 
Stokes  died  September  25,  1835.  The  children 
of  David  and  Ann  (Lancaster)  Stokes  were: 
I.  Lsrael,  born  November  7.  1785.  married 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Elizabeth  N. 
(Woolmanj  Borton ;  their  daughter  Elizabeth 
married  Henry  C.  Deacon.  2.  John  Lancaster, 
February  24,  1788.  died  in  September,  1822; 
married  Rachel,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Martha 
Burr,  and  their  daughter  Martha  married  Gen- 
eral (ieorge  H.  Stokes.  3.  Charles,  who  is 
referred  to  below.  4.  David,  February  25, 
1794.  died  January  22,  18 17,  unmarried. 

( \' )  Charles,  third  child  and  son  of  David 
and  Ann  (Lancaster)  Stokes,  was  born  in 
Beverly  township,  Burlington  county,  August 
12,  1791.  In  his  early  manhood  he  taught 
school  and  engaged  in  farming,  and  then 
studied  surveying  and  was  one  of  the  head 
surveyors  of  the  Camden  and  Amboy  railroad. 
He  was  for  some  time  a  member  of  the  state 
legislature  and  was  one  of  the  framers  of  the 
state  constitution.  He  was  also  very  active 
in  promoting  and  was  one  of  the  most  influ- 
ential directors  of  the  Mount  Holly  Insurance 
Company.  "This  is  Charles  Stokes'  peculiar- 
ity," said  a  man  who  knew  him  well  in  IQ03. 
"He,  like  the  jjatriarchs  of  old,  is  a  descendant 
of  a  long  line  of  cherished  and  honored  an- 
cestry. And  as  his  portion  he  has  inherited 
that  little  spark :  that  certain  something :  that 
invisible  yet  ever  present  and  all  pervading 
power,  that  raises  up  and  throws  down  who 
it  will.  That  makes  honored  or  dishonored, 
whoever  and  whenever  suits  its  strange  fancv, 
without  which  none  are  great,  and  with  which 
none  are  mean.  \'iew  him  as  you  will,  there 
cannot  be  found  in  him  any  one  art :  any  fac- 


tdty  :  and  ability  to  do  a  i^articular  thing  in  a 
peculiar  way,  whereby  those  who  rise  in  the 
world  usually  climb  into  a  place  above  their 
fellows.  And  yet,  without  wealth,  without 
office,  and  without  title  he  has  risen  to  that 
place  of  prominence  where  he  is  one  of  the 
foremost  citizens  of  his  country  and  state.  As 
Abram  became  Abraham,  so  is  he  the  honored 
Charles  Stokes."  He  married,  October  18, 
1816,  Tacy,  daughter  of  William  and  .\nn 
(Lukins)  Jarrett.  Her  great-grandfather, 
John  Jarrett,  the  name  is  also  spelt  Garrit,  is 
said  by  some  to  have  come  from  Holland,  and 
by  others  from  the  Scottish  Highlands.  About 
January,  1712,  he  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
John  Lukens,  who  emigrated  in  1684  from 
Criffilt,  Germany.  Their  son,  John,  who  mar- 
ried Alice  Conard,  was  the  father  of  William 
Jarrett,  the  father  of  Tacy,  the  wife  of  Charles 
Stokes.  The  children  of  Charles  and  Tacy 
(Jarrett)  Stokes  were:  i.  David,  born  Sep- 
tember 18,  181 7,  died  in  infancy.  2.  Hannah, 
.■\pril  30,  1819,  married,  April  27,  1837, 
Charles  Williams.  3.  Alice,  August  25,  1821, 
married,  in  1843,  William,  son  of  John  R.  and 
Letitia  Penn  (Smith)  Parry.  4.  Jarrett,  April 
29,  1823,  died  Sejitcmber  18,  1870;  married 
Martha,  daughter  of  William  and  Hannah 
(Rowland)  Hilliard.  5.  .Anna,  April  24.  1X25, 
married,  1850,  Chalkley  .Vlbertson.  6.  William, 
who  is  referred  to  below. 

(\T)  William,  sixth  and  youngest  child  of 
Charles  and  Tacy  (Jarrett)  Stokes,  was  born 
in  \\'ellingborough  township,  Burlington 
county,  September  10,  1827,  and  is  now  living 
in  Mount  Holly.  For  his  preparatory  edu- 
cation he  was  sent  to  the  Friends  school  and 
then  he  went  to  .Ale.vandria.  Mrginia,  in  order 
to  finish  his  education.  Returning  to  Burl- 
ington county.  New  Jersey,  he  engaged  in 
farming.  He  is  one  of  the  stockholders  of  the 
Union  National  Bank  of  Mount  Holly,  and  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  He  mar- 
ried, in  1863,  .Anna,  daughter  of  James  and 
Rebecca  (  Spirling )  McTlvaine,  of  Philadel- 
phia. Their  children  are:  i.  James  Mcllvaine, 
born  September  27,  1865,  married  Eveline 
P>artlctt.  and  was  a  farmer  and  supplied  sand 
to  Philadelphia.  2.  \\'i!liam  J.,  married  Mar- 
garet, f'aughter  of  Dr.  Perkins,  and  is  engaged 
in  the  hardware  business  in  New  York  citv. 


(For  first  generation  see  preceding  sketoli). 

(H)      Thomas      (2)     youngest 
STOKES     child  of  Thomas  (i)  and  Mary 
(  Bernard  )  Stokes,  was  born  in 


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purchased  from  Jolm  Kay.  of  .Springwell. 
three  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Waterford. 
now  Delaware  township,  Camden  county, 
New  Jersey,  bounded  cm  the  south  side  by  the 
north  branch  of  Cooper's  creek,  extending  on 
both  sides  of  a  tributary  of  the  same,  antl  in- 
cluding what  is  now  some  of  the  best  soil  in 
the  neighborhood.  On  this  tract  he  settled, 
his  house  standing  near  what  was  about  thirty 
years  ago  the  home  of  Mark  Ballinger.  This 
settlement  was  in  the  midst  of  an  Indian  neigh- 
borhood, and  it  was  not  until  after  the  middle 
of  the  nineteenth  century  that  the  last  of  the 
a  >original  dwellers  passed  away,  and  the  re- 
n  ains  of  their  burying  ground  may  still  be 
seen  near  Tindall's  run,  east  of  the  Haddon- 
rield  and  Berlin  road.  In  1704  Thomas 
-Stokes  married  (first)  Deliverance,  daughter 
of  Isaac  and  Lydia  Horner,  of  Northampton 
township,  Burlington  county,  whose  sister 
Hannah  was  the  first  wife  of  Ji.ihn,  son  of 
William  Matlack,  the  emigrant.  .She  died  be- 
tween 1713  and  1715,  and  bore  her  husband 
six  children:  1.  Hannah,  born  July,  1703,  died 
in  childhood.  2.  Joseph,  July  12,  1706.  3. 
Benjamin.  January  27,  1708,  who  went  to 
North  Carolina,  and  has  sometimes  been  con- 
fused with  his  father.  4.  Lydia,  July  13,  1710, 
married  (first)  1734.  Samuel  Haines,  and 
( second )  Jacob  Lamb.  5.  Thomas,  Novem- 
ber 5.  1711.  married,  1741,  .\bigail.  daughter 
of  Ji.ibn,  son  c>f  William  Matlack,  the  emi- 
grant, by  his  second  wife  Mary  Lee.  6.  De- 
liverance, September  18,  17 13.  married  Darling 
Conrow.  September  i,  1715,  Thomas  Stokes 
married  (  second  )  Rachel,  daughter  of  Job  and 
Rachel  Wright,  of  (Jyster  Bay  or  Westbury, 
Long  Island,  who  died  February  18,  1742, 
having  borne  her  husband  eight  children :  7. 
Joshua,  referred  to  below.  8.  Rachel.  Octo- 
ber 15,  1717,  married,  September  7,  1734,  John 
Cowperthwait.  9.  Job.  October  15.  1717,  twin 
with  Rachel.  10.  Hannah.  June  26,  1719,  mar- 
ried Benjamin  I'ine.  11.  Jaccb,  March  21, 
1721,  married,  1749.  I'riscilla  Ellis.  12. 
Keziah,  January  25,  1724,  married,  1750,  Jo- 
seph Browning.  13.  John,  November  i,  1724, 
married.  1751,  Ann  Champion,  a  widow,  pos- 
sibly of  I'eter  Champion  and  the  daughter  of 
William  and  Sarah  (Collins)  Ellis.  14. 
Rosanna,  May  2,  1728,  married.  May  19,  1748, 
Samuel,  son  of  .Samuel  and  .\bigail  (Ward) 
Collins. 

(HI)  Joshua,  eldest  child  of  Thomas  and 
Rachel  (  Wright )  Stokes,  was  born  in  Water- 
ffird  tnwnshii).  Camden  county.  New  Jersey, 
.\]iril  (1.   171(1,  died  ihvvc  in   1779.     After  the 


death  of  his  father  he  occupied  the  homestead 
fur  the  remainder  of  his  own  life.     December 

10,  1741,  he  married  Amy,  daughter  of  John 
and  .Sarah  Hinchman,  and  the  great-grand- 
daughter of  a  Huguenot  of  Flushing,  Long 
Island,  whose  children  had  removed  into  New 
Jersey.  Her  grandparents  were  John  Hinch- 
man and  .Sarah,  daughter  of  Samuel  Harrison, 
of  Flushing,  and  her  great-grandparents  were 
John  and  Sarah  Hinchman,  of  Flushing,  who 
came  from  France.  The  surname  is  a  very 
curious  example  of  the  racial  group  of  names, 
it  being  really  a  corruption  of  the  word 
"Frenchman"  and  the  first  instance  of  it  oc- 
curring in  the  Flushing  census  of  1698,  where 
the  emigrant  is  listed  among  the  Frenchmen 
in  the  town.  The  children  of  Joshua  and 
.\my  (Hinchman)  Stokes  were:  I.  John,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  Rachel,  married  Nathaniel 
Barton.  3.  Elizabeth,  married  Jacob,  son  of 
Charles  and  .Ann  French.  4.  Ilamiah,  married 
(first)  Haddon,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Sarah 
(Lord)  Hopkins,  and  (second)  Abraham,  son 
of  .Abraham  and  Sarah  Inskeep.  5.  Thomas, 
born  1742,  died  1831  ;  married  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  Abraham  and  Sarah  Inskeep.  6.  Sam- 
uel, married  (first)  1774,  .Atlantic,  daughter 
of  William  and  Mary  (Turner)  Matlack,  and 
(second)  Hope,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Mar- 
tha Hunt.  7.  Jacob,  married  Esther  Wilkins. 
8.  Joshua,  married  Syllania,  daughter  of  Dan- 
iel and  Rebecca  (  Prickitt )  Bishop. 

(IV)  John,  eldest  child  of  Joshua  and  Amy 
(Hinchman)  Stokes,  was  born  in  Waterford 
township,  Camden  county,  but  removed  into 
l'.urlingt<.in  county,  where  he  died.  He  mar- 
ried Beulah,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(  Shreve )  Haines,  granddaughter  of  Nathan 
Haines  and  Sarah,  daughter  of  Francis  and 
Mary  (Borton)  .Austin.  Nathan  was  the  son 
of  William  Haines  and  Sarah,  daughter  of 
I(jhn  Paine,  of  P)Urlington,  in  1695,  the  emi- 
grant. William  was  the  son  of  Richard 
and  Margaret  Haines,  the  emigrants.  The 
children  of  John  and  Beulah  (Haines) 
Stokes  were:  I.  Caleb,  born  1782,  mar- 
ried, 1803,  Ruth,  daughter  of  Levi  and 
Hannah  (Reeve)  Shinn,  and  great-great- 
granddaughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Stock- 
ton )   Shinn.     2.  Samuel,  1784,  married  Mary 

11.  Matliison.  3.  Isaac,  1787,  married  (first) 
Lydia,  daughter  of  Job  and  Elizabeth  (Ball- 
inger) Mason-Collins,  and  (second)  Mary, 
daughter  of  Levi  and  Hannah  Ballinger  and 
widow  of  Job  Collins.  4.  William,  referred 
to  below.  5.  Mary,  1792,  married  Job,  son  of 
.Amaziah   and   Hannah    (Prickitt)    Lippincott, 


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and  granddaughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(  Elkinton )  Lippincott.  6.  Atlantic,  1794. 
married  Daniel  Ihirley,  7.  Rachel,  who  died 
in  childhood. 

(  \' )  William,  fourth  child  and  son  of  John 
and  Beulah  (Haines)  Stokes,  was  born  in 
1790.  He  was  a  master  shoemaker  in  J\Ied- 
ford,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey.  He  had 
a  large  establishment  that  employed  a  number 
of  hands  and  supplied  the  Camden  county 
towns  of  Winslow,  Atco  and  Waterford  with 
shoes.  He  followed  this  trade  all  his  life, 
living  and  dying  in  Medford.  He  was  a  Whig 
in  politics  and  in  religiou  a  Hicksite  Friend. 
He  married  (first)  Ann,  daughter  of  Isaac 
W  ilson  and  Phebe,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Ann  Middlcton,  and  granddaughter  of  John 
and  Mary  Wilson.  Their  nine  children  were: 
I.  Barclay  Wilson,  born  August  18,  1815,  mar- 
ried Hannah  .Ann,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Hope 
(Lippincott)  Haines,  who  after  his  death  mar- 
ried ( second )  Andrew  Cjriscom.  2.  Phebe 
Middleton,  March  2,  1817,  married  (first) 
Edward  Brown,  and  (second)  James  Roberts. 
3.  Wilson,  referred  to  below.  4.  Caspar,  No- 
vember 25,  1821,  died  unmarried.  5.  Whitall, 
October  10,  1823,  married  Almira  Carman.  6. 
Alfred.  March  28,  1826,  died  in  childhood.  7. 
Isaac  Wilson,  May  15,  1828,  married  (first) 
Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Job  Lippincott  and 
Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Beulah  (Haines) 
Stokes,  referred  to  above,  and  (second)  Annie, 

daughter  of   Charles  and    (Hoopes) 

Cooper.  8.  ISeulah,  September  17,  1830,  mar- 
ried Mark,  son  of  Daniel  and  Dorothy  ( Strat- 
ton )  Zelley,  grandson  of  Daniel  and  I'ath- 
sheba  (  Braddock )  Zelley,  and  great-grand- 
son of  Rchoboam  and  Jemima  ( Darnell ) 
Braddock.  9.  Edwin  H.,  married  Matilda 
Kemble,  and  whose  son,  Edward  Caspar,  is 
an  ex-governor  of  the  state  of  New  Jersey. 
William  Stokes  married  (second)  Hantiah 
Livezey.  who  bore  him  no  children. 

(  \T  )  Wilson,  third  child  and  second  son  of 
William  and  .-\nn  (Wilson)  Stokes,  was  born 
in  Medford,  Burlington  county,  September  i, 
1819,  died  there  May  22,  i8g6.  He  received 
his  education  in  the  Medford  select  school  of 
the  Hicksite  Friends,  but  he  afterwards  joined 
the  Alethodist  Episcopal  church.  For  a  num- 
ber of  years  he  was  deputy  clerk  in  the  Burl- 
ington county  clerk's  office,  and  then  he  took 
a  |)osition  in  the  bank  at  Medford  as  teller  and 
biiokkec])er,  becoming  later  assistant  cashier, 
and  eventually  succeeding  Jonathan  ( )liphant 
as  cashier,  which  position  he  held  until  his  own 
death.     His  connection  with  the  bank  thus  ex- 


tended over  forty  years.  He  was  also  a  di- 
rector in  the  Burlington  County  Safe  Deposit 
and  Trust  Company  of  Moorestown.  At  his 
death  he  was  succeeded  in  his  position  as  di- 
rector by  his  brother,  Isaac  \\  ilson  Stokes, 
who  in  turn  gave  place  to  Henry  P.  Thorn,  of 
Medford.  Mr.  Stokes  was  a  Methodist  local 
preacher  for  many  years,  preaching  almost 
every  Sunday  in  the  town  adjoining  Medford. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Republican.  In  1843 
Wilson  Stokes  married  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
Samuel  McKenney,  who  has  borne  him  three 
children:  i.  William  Wilson,  referred  to 
below.  2.  Barclay  Lippincott,  proprietor  and 
manager  of  the  Damp-wash  Laundry  Com- 
pany of  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  who  married 
Hannah  Beatty.  3.  Charles  Wesley,  living  in 
CoUinswood,  New  Jersey,  is  chief  clerk  of  the 
West  Jersey  and  Seashore  railroad,  with  his 
office  in  Broad  street  station,  Philadelphia,  who 
married  a  Miss  Getty. 

(\TI)  William  Wilson,  eldest  chikl  of  Wil- 
son and  Eleanor  (McKenney)  Stokes,  was 
born  in  Vincentown,  Burlington  county.  New 
Jersey,  in  October,  1844,  and  is  now  living 
in  Moorestown,  New  Jersey.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  Medford  select  schools  and  the 
I'ennington  Seminary,  Pennington,  New  Jer- 
sey. He  then  went  into  the  drug  store  of 
Isaac  Wilson  Stokes,  his  uncle,  the  same  store 
now  occupied  at  Medford  by  Henry  P.  Thorn. 
Here  he  remained  for  six  years,  and  then  he 
went  to  New  Egypt,  New  Jersey,  in  1866,  and 
started  in  the  drug  business  for  himself.  Ten 
years  later  he  returned  to  Medford,  and  in 
1876  went  into  the  Medford  Bank  to  assist 
his  father,  becoming  receiving  teller,  and  book- 
keeper of  the  general  ledger.  Nine  years  later 
he  removed  to  Moorestown  and  organized  the 
Moorestown  National  Bank,  which  opened  for 
business  September  14,  1885,  Mr.  Stokes  being 
appointed  the  cashier,  which  position  he  still 
holds,  being  the  first  and  only  cashier  the  in- 
stitution has  ever  had.  In  1890  Mr.  Stokes 
organized  the  Burlington  County  Safe  De- 
posit and  Trust  Company  in  Aloorestown, 
New  Jersey,  and  was  made  its  secretary  and 
treasurer,  which  offices  he  held  until  1902, 
when  he  was  elected  president  and  trust  officer, 
which  he  still  is.  His  ])Iace  as  secretary  and 
treasurer  was  given  to  \\'illiam  R.  Lippincott, 
who  married  Tacie,  ilaughter  of  Chalklcy  and 
.\nna  (  Stokes )  Albertson,  and  granddaughter 
of  Charles  and  Tacy  (Jarrett)  Stokes.  Mr. 
Stokes  is  also  a  director  in  the  Moorestown 
Water  Company.  In  1909  he  was  foreman 
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He  is  a  Republican,  and  attends  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church,  of  which  he  is  the  president 
of  tl>e  board  of  trustees.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  at 
New  Egypt,  New  Jersey.  In  1868  William 
Wilson  Stokes  married  Mary  Hartshorn, 
daughter  of  Anthony  and  Elizabeth  Rogers,  of 
New  Egypt,  who  has  borne  him  one  son, 
Charles  \\'ilson,  referred  to  below. 

(\III)  Charles  Wilson,  only  child  of  Will- 
iam Wilson  and  Alary  Hartshorn  (Rogers) 
.Stokes,  was  born  in  New  Egypt,  in  1869,  and 
is  now  living  in  Moorestown.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  New  Egypt  select  schools.  Fie 
began  his  business  career  in  the  Moorestown 
National  I'.ank  upon  its  organization,  became 
and  now  is  its  receiving  teller  and  general 
ledger  bookkeejier.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
F.  and  A.  M.,  a  charter  member  of  tlie  B.  F. 
O.  E.,  No.  848,,  of  Mt.  Holly,  and  is  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics.  He  married  Estella  Dager, 
daughter  of  Sanuiel  S.  and  Keturah  G.  (Stock- 
ton) Dager,  who  has  borne  him  one  child, 
Keturah  (iertrude,  born  March  31,  1893. 


(For  ancestry   see  Thomas   Stokes   1). 

(V)  Israel,  son  of  David  and 
STOKES  Ann  (Lancaster)  Stokes,  was 
born  the  7th  day  of  the  nth 
month,  1785,  and  married  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Joshua  and  Elizabeth  N.  (Woolman)  Borton. 
They  had  five  children:  i.  Susan,  married 
George  Williams.  2.  Benjamin  R.  (see  post). 
3.  Ann  I,.,  married  William  S.  Emley.  4. 
Israel,  married  Caroline  (Jreen.  5.  Elizabeth, 
married  Ilenry  C.  Deacon. 

(VI)  Benjamin  R.,  son  of  Israel  and  Sarah 
(Borton)  Stokes,  married  Sarah  Zelley,  and 
had  four  children:  i.  Abraham  Z.  (see  post). 
2.  I  loward,  married  Sarah  Hendrickson.  3. 
Rebecca,  married  Amos  Evans.  4.  Sarah, 
married  Ilenry  Kelley. 

(  \  1!  )  Alirahain  Zelley,  son  of  Benjamin  R. 
ami  Sarah  (Zelley)  Stokes,  was  born  in  Jack- 
sonville, New  Jersey,  July  16,  1842,  and  died 
March  i,  1900.  He  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  town  and  also  in  Fhila- 
dclphia,  and  in  business  life  was  a  farmer  in 
Jacksonville,  having  succeeded  to  possession 
of  the  farm  formerly  owned  and  occupied  by 
his  father.  During  the  years  1875-76  he  was 
pr()])riet()r  of  a  mercaiUile  business  at  Colum- 
Dus,  New  Jersey.  He  was  a  man  of  good 
business  capacity,  straightforward  in  all  of  his 
dealings,  upright  in  his  daily  walk,  a  consist- 
ent member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  in 
politics  an   independent    Democrat.      He  mar- 


ried, in  1870,  Hannah  P.  Haines,  born  in  Jack- 
sonville, May  17,  1848,  and  by  her  had  two 
children:  I,  Elwood  H.  (see  post).  2.  Cora 
D..  born  February  23,  1878. 

(  \'III  )  Elwood  Haines,  only  son  of  Abra- 
ham Zelley  and  Hannah  P.  (Haines J  Stokes, 
was  born  in  Jacksonville,  New  Jersey,  Novem- 
ber 24,  1873,  ^"d  received  a  good  early  edu- 
cation in  jHiblic  schools  and  a  business  training 
in  the  College  of  Commerce,  Philadelphia.  He 
afterward  for  a  time  worked  his  father's  farm, 
and  in  1903  started  in  business  on  his  own  ac- 
count as  a  general  coal  dealer  in  Mt.  Holly, 
where  he  has  since  lived.  In  politics  Mr. 
Stokes  is  inclined  to  be  independent  with  Dem- 
ocratic leanings,  but  does  not  take  an  active 
interest  in  public  affairs.  He  is  a  member  and 
past  grand  of  Unity  Lodge,  No.  19,  L  O.  O.  F. 
of  Mt.  Holly,  and  member  of  Mt.  Holly  Lodge, 
No.  848,  B.  P.  O.  E,  He  also  is  a  member 
of  the  Society  of  Friends.  Mr.  Stokes  mar- 
ried, June  14,  1900,  Bessie,  daughter  of  Joshua 
and  Martha  Matlack,  and  has  two  children:  i. 
r.essie  M.,  born  February  8,  1901.  2.  Elwood 
H.  Jr.,  August  14,  1902. 


This  name,  spelled  in  as  many  as 
\V'EEKS     sixty  different  ways,  among  them 

Wekes,  Wikes,  Wix,  \\'ick,  de 
W  \ke  and  \'an  Wyck,  was  first  taken  by  one 
\\  illiam  de  Wrey,  who  about  1370  married 
Katherine  Burnell,  in  England,  and  from  her 
father  inherited  the  Manor  of  North  \Vyke. 
The  name  was  by  him  sjTelled  Wyke  or  Wykes, 
and  a  long  line  of  knights  descended  from  him, 
though  the  last  male  in  direct  line  died  in  1713. 
In  the  year  1635,  four  brothers,  (.leorge, 
Thomas,  Francis  and  Joseph  Weeks,  sailed 
from  England:  Cieorge  settled  at  Dorchester. 
Massachusetts,  Thomas  at  Huntington,  Long 
Island,  Francis  at  Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island 
and  Joseph  was  drowned  in  the  landing. 

(  1  )  George  Weeks  was  living  in  Devon- 
shire, England,  shortly  before  the  time  of  his 
sailing  for  .\merica,  as  his  name  was  affixed 
to  the  will  of  his  brother-in-law,  William 
Clap,  of  Salcombe  Regis,  as  witness.  He  was 
l)orn  about  1596,  as  at  the  time  of  his  sailing 
he  is  described  as  about  forty  years  of  age. 
December  21,  i'i39,  he  was  admitted  to  the 
churcli  at  Dorchester,  he  became  a  freeman  the 
following  year,  and  held  the  office  of  selectman 
in  1645-47-48.  Besides  cultivating  his  land, 
he  was  several  times  employed  by  the  town  in 
laying  out  its  boundaries  and  roads.'  He  died 
December  28,  1650.  George  Weeks  married 
Jane  Cla]),  sister  of  the  famous  Roger  Clap; 


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they  were  descendants  of  Osgood  Clapa,  a 
Danish  nobleman  of  the  court  of  King  Canute, 
who  ruled  England  1017  to  I03().  After  the 
death  of  her  husband  she  married,  as  his  sec- 
ond wife,  Jonas  Humphrey;  he  died  March 
19,  1662,  and  she  died  August  2,  1668.  George 
and  Jane  Weeks  had  five  children,  the  first 
four  born  in  England,  the  fifth  in  Dorchester, 
as  follows:  Thomas,  born  probably  in  1626; 
William;  Jane,  married  Benjamin  Bates,  of 
Hingham,  Massachusetts;  Ammiel ;  Joseph. 

( 11 )  Ammiel,  third  son  of  George  and  Jane 
(  Clap)  Weeks,  was  born  in  1632-33,  in  Eng- 
land, and  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  Dor- 
chester, when  an  infant:  he  died  April  20, 
1679.  at  Dorchester.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
church  in  1656,  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  and 
became  freeman  May  6,  1657,  at  which  time  he 
held  land  in  Dorchester,  and  in  i()73  was  con- 
stable. Like  his  father,  he  often  hekl  com- 
missions to  locate  boundaries.  He  married 
Elizabeth,  thought  to  be  daughter  of  William 
Aspinwall,  born  in  Boston  in  1633.  died  April 
10,  1723,  and  their  children  were:  William, 
baptized  August  26,  1655 ;  Elizabeth,  Septem- 
ber 14,  1656,  died  young;  Elizabeth,  October 
17,  1637,  died  in  1709-10,  unmarried;  Thank- 
ful, born  April  24.  1660;  Ammiel,  September 
15,  1662;  Ebenezcr :  Joseph,  Se])tember  3, 
1667;  Supply,  August  26,  1671  ;  Thomas,  No- 
vember 20,  1673,  enlisted  in  the  expedition  to 
Canada,  and  it  is  supposed  he  died  as  the 
effect  of  exposure;  Hannah,  May  14.  1676, 
died  August  3,  1683. 

(HI)  Ebenezer,  third  son  of  .\mniiel  and 
Elizabeth  (.\spinwall)  Weeks,  was- born  May 
15,  baptized  May  28.  1665,  at  Dorchester, 
Massachusetts,  and  removed  to  Boston,  where 
he  was  a  tailor,  and  died  prior  to  1711-12.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  church  at  Dorchester, 
March  21,  1685-86.  He  married,  May  8, 
1689,  Deliverance,  daughter  of  William  Sum- 
ner, of  Boston,  born  March  18,  1669,  died 
March  21,  1711-12,  a  widow.  She  was  sister 
of  his  brother  Joseph's  wife,  Sarah  Sumner. 
Their  children  were :  William ;  Jane  born 
March  29,  1692;  Ebenezer,  November  23, 
died  December  8.  1693 ;  Elizabeth,  October  25, 
1694,  died  April  5,  1695;  Hannah.  January  5, 
1695-06;  Ebenezer.  September  17,  1699. 

(I\')  William,  the  oldest  son  of  Ebenezer 
and  Deliverance  (Sumner)  Weeks,  was  born 
February  20,  1689-90,  at  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts, and  died  in  1749-50,  at  Portland,  Maine. 
He  was  admitted  as  an  inhabitant  of  Fal- 
mouth, Maine,  December  14,  1727,  on  pay- 
ment of  ten  pounds,  and  lived  on  Chebeague 


Island,  Casco  Bay;  in  1744  he  removed  to 
what  was  called  "The  Neck,"  later  incorpo- 
rated as  part  of  Portland,  He  married  Sarah 
Tukekee,  or  Tukey,  of  Dorchester,  and  their 
children  were :  William,  Lemuel,  Abigail, 
Esther  and  Ann. 

(V)  Lemuel,  secontl  son  of  William  and 
Sarah  (Tukey  or  Tukekee)  Weeks,  was  born 
in  1727-28,  at  Falmouth,  Alaine,  where  he  be- 
came a  merchant.  He  married  Peggy,  daugh- 
ter of  James  Coding,  and  their  children  were: 
James  ;  Elizabeth,  born  about  1754-55  ;  Lemuel, 
about  1757;  Lydia,  about  1759-60;  Joseph; 
Sarah ;  Susannah. 

(\T)  Joseph,  third  son  of  Lemuel  and 
Peggy  (Coding)  Weeks,  was  born  November 
10.  1762,  at  Falmouth,  Maine,  where  he  be- 
came a  ship-master ;  he  died  at  sea,  July  19, 
1797.  He  married,  November  25,  1784,  Lois 
Freeman,  born  February  18,  1760,  died  Janu- 
ary 26,  1829,  and  their  children  were:  Joseph, 
burn  August  3,  1785,  died  unmarried  Decem- 
ber 3,  1865;  Eunice,  January  18,  1787,  died 
unmarried  December  19,  1872;  Daniel,  Sep- 
tember 3,  1788,  was  unmarried,  and  lost  at 
sea  in  February,  1815;  Mary,  born  June  10 
or  II,  1791,  died  March  5  or  6,  1794;  Joshua 
I'Veeman. 

(\'II)  Joshua  Freeman,  third  and  youngest 
son  of  Joseph  and  Lois  (I'Veeman)  Weeks, 
was  born  December  10,  1793,  at  Portland, 
Maine,  where  he  received  his  education,  and 
there  he  learned  the  trade  of  cooper.  Later, 
however,  he  engaged  in  the  grocery  business, 
which  he  carried  on  for  a  period  of  fifty  years, 
and  at  the  age  of  seventy  years  retired  from 
business  life.  He  died  October  13,  1875,  in 
Portland,  in  the  house  in  which  he  was  born 
and  where  all  his  life  was  spent,  and  his 
funeral  was  conducted  by  the  order  of  Ancient 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  which  he  was 
an  honored  member.  Mr.  Weeks  was  promi- 
nent in  all  movements  for  the  progress  and  de- 
velopment of  his  native  town,  and  in  political 
views  was  first  a  \\'hig  and  later  a  Republican. 
He  was  at  one  time  treasurer,  and  later  jjresi- 
dent,  of  the  Aged  Brotherhood.  He  served 
as  member  of  the  city  council  of  Portland,  and 
was  a  prominent  citizen  of  the  town.  Fie 
married,  November  21,  1815,  Elizabeth  Inger- 
soU  ]\Iitchell.  born  February  21,  1795.  died 
()ctober  21,  1883,  and  their  children  were: 
Joseph  Lenmel,  born  July  9,  1817;  William, 
November  2"/,  1819;  Mary  and  Elizabeth, 
twins,  April  11,  1822;  Lois,  March  6,  1824; 
Joshua,  November  26,  1826;  Edward,  June  12, 
1829:  Ceorge,  June  16,  1832,  died  August  19 


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1833;  Robert   Mitchell;   Harriet,  October   18, 
1836;  Maria  Louisa,  October  15,  1840. 

(\"III)  Robert  Mitchell,  sixth  and  3'oungest 
son  of  Joshua  Freeman  and  Elizabeth  I. 
(Alichellj  Weeks,  was  born  July  9,  1834,  at 
Portland,  Maine,  where  after  receiving  his  edu- 
cation he  began  working  in  a  jewelry  store,  but 
later  entered  the  employ  of  the  Locomotive 
Works  anil  there  learned  trade  of  machinist, 
which  he  followed  most  of  his  life.  After 
working  some  time  in  Portland,  at  the  out- 
break of  the  war  he  enlisted  in  April,  1861, 
in  Company  C,  Urst  Maine,  which  was  later 
changed  to  Tenth  Maine,  and  finally  became 
Twenty-ninth  Maine ;  he  served  two  years, 
being  mustered  out  in  1863.  With  his  regi- 
ment he  took  part  in  some  of  the  most  import- 
ant engagements  of  the  struggle ;  he  was  at 
one  time  in  Washington  guarding  the  Balti- 
more &  Ohio  railroad,  and  was  made  sergeant 
of  his  comjiany.  He  took  part  in  the  battles 
of  Antietam  and  Gettysburg,  was  taken  pris- 
oner at  the  battle  of  Cedar  Mountain  and  was 
wounded  at  the  battle  of  Winchester,  after 
which  he  was  taken  to  the  hospital.  Upon  his 
recovery  he  was  made  commissary  sergeant. 
L'pon  leaving  the  service,  Mr.  Weeks  removed 
to  Philadelphia  and  entered  the  employ  of  P>ald- 
win  Locomotive  Works,  which  position  he  held 
for  twenty-five  years,  although  in  1867  he  took 
up  his  residence  iii  Riverside,  New  Jersey, 
which  is  still  his  home.  He  has  for  some  years 
been  retired  from  active  business,  and  lives 
in  the  house  built  by  him  more  than  forty  years 
since.  In  political  views  he  is  Republican.  He 
has  won  many  friends  and  enjoys  the  respect 
of  all  who  know  him.  Mr.  Weeks  married, 
October  22,  1863.  at  Hagerstown,  Maryland, 
Caroline  Berner,  born  March  7,  1837,  and  they 
have  three  children:  i.  Joshua  Freeman,  born 
December  24.  1864,  in  Philadelphia,  is  a  con- 
tractor, and  is  connected  with  the  Baldwin 
Locomotive  Works,  of  Philadelphia.  He  mar- 
ried Piertha  Schell,  of  Riverside,  New  Jersey. 
and  they  have  a  daughter,  Maria.  2.  Edward 
Mitchell,  born  .August  20,  1866,  at  Philadel- 
phia ;  resides  at  Washington,  District  of  Colum- 
bia, where  he  is  a  jjatent  lawyer,  and  is  em- 
ployed in  the  bureau  of  engraving.  He  mar- 
ried Mary  Wolcott,  and  they  have  three  chil- 
dren :  Robert,  Dorothy  and  Ruth.  3.  Emma 
I'auline,  born  .September  13,  1870,  at  Riverside, 
New  Jersey;  is  a  physician;  she  married  Will- 
iam H.  Metzger,  of  New  York,  foreman  in 
the  Watch  Case  Works,  in  Riverside,  New 
Jersey,  and  they  have  one  son,  Joshua  Free- 
man. 


This  word  signifies  "keeper 
WO()D\V.-\RD  of  the  forest,"  and  has  been 
used  in  England  as  a  sur- 
name almost  from  the  date  of  the  first  use  of 
surnames.  It  is  said  the  family  goes  back  to 
the  time  of  the  conquest,  and  certainly  the 
family  in  England  had  many  noble  representa- 
tives. They  settled  in  all  parts  of  New  Eng- 
land, in  early  days,  as  well  as  in  New  York, 
New  Jersey  and  Pennsylvania,  and  as  a  race 
they  have  been  patriotic  and  valuable  citizens, 
fighting  for  their  country  when  duty  called, 
and  working  for  its  progress  and  development, 
fl)  Richard  Woodward,  born  about  1589, 
in  England,  toqk  passage  at  Ipswich,  in  the 
ship  "Elizabeth,"  William  Andrews,  master, 
.'\pril  10,  1634,  for  Boston,  bringing  with  him 
his  wife  and  two  sons,  George  and  John,  aged 
fifteen  and  thirteen  years,  respectively.  His 
age  is  given  as  forty-five  and  his  wife's  as 
fifty.  He  became  one  of  the  proprietors  of 
Watertown,  his  name  being  found  in  the  first 
list  of  that  town ;  he  became  possessed  of  two 
homelots,  containing  ten  and  twelve  acres,  and 
also  twelve  lots,  amounting  to  about  three  hun- 
dred and  ten  acres.  September  8,  1648,  he 
bought  of  Edward  Holbrook  a  mill  in  Boston, 
at  wliich  time  he  is  described  as  of  Boston, 
and  he  sold  same  December  26,  1648,  to  Will- 
iam .\spinwall.  He  became  freeman  at  Water- 
town,  .September  2,  1635  ;  in  1660  he  resided  at 
Cambridge.  Richard  \\^oodward  died  Febru- 
ary 16,  1665.  aged  seventy-si.x  years.  His 
wife,  Rose,  died  October  6,  1662,  at  the  age  of 
eighty,  and  he  afterward  married  .\nn,  widow 
of  Stephen  Gates,  of  Cambridge,  born  in  1603 ; 
their  marriage  settlement  was  dated  April  13, 
1663.  He  had  but  two  children,  George  and 
John,  children  of  his  first  wife. 

(11)  George,  the  older  of  the  two  sons  of 
Richard  and  Rose  Woodward,  was  born  in 
luigland,  about  1619,  coming  in  boyhood  with 
his  parents  to  \Vatertown  ;  he  died  May  31. 
1676,  and  his  inventory  showed  him  owning 
property  to  the  amount  of  one  hundred  and 
forty-three  pounds,  ten  shillings.  He  was 
selectman  in  1(164.  By  his  first  wife,  Mary, 
he  had  eight  children,  and  he  married  (sec- 
ond) August  17.  1659.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Hammond,  of  New- 
ton, Massachusetts;  her  father  left  to  her,  in 
his  will,  proved  in  1675,  one  hundred  acres  of 
land  on  Muddy  River.  After  the  death  of 
( ieorge  Woodward  she  married  Samuel  Trus- 
dale.  George  Woodward's  children  were: 
Mary,  born  .\ugust  12,  1641  ;  Sarah,  February 
6,    T642-43 ;    Amos ;    Rebecca,    December    30, 


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1647:  John:  Susanna,  September  30,  1651; 
Daniel,  September  2,  1653;  Alary,  June  3, 
1656;  George,  September  11,  1660;  Thomas, 
September  15,  1662,  died  in  1666;  EHzabeth. 
May  8,  1664;  Nathaniel,  died  May  28,  1668; 
and  Sarah,  born  October  3,  1675. 

(III )  John,  second  son  of  George  and  Mary 
Woodward,  was  born  March  28,  1649,  and 
lived  at  Xewton ;  his  will  is  dated  February 
26,  1727-28.  He  married  (tirst)  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  Richard  Robbins,  of  Cambridge, 
who  died,  probably,  in  1686,  and  married 
(second)  July  7,  1686,  Sarah  Bancroft,  of 
Reading,  who  died  September  22,  1723.  His 
children  were :  John,  born  September  7,  died 
September  22,  1674;  John,  born  July  18,  1675; 
Richard,  December  26,  1677;  Rebecca,  Octo- 
ber 29,  1679,  died  March  14,  1681-82;  Daniel, 
born  September  22,  1681 ;  Rebecca,  February 
2,  1682-83;  Mary,  October  6,  1684,  died  June 
15,  1689;  Jonathan,  September  28,  1685; 
Joseph;  Ebenezer,  March  12,  1690-91  ;  Abigail, 
May  25,  1695. 

(IV)  Jose])h,  sixth  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
(Bancroft)  \\'ood\vard,  was  born  November 
26.  1688;  died  May  30,  1727;  in  his  will,  dated 
May  13,  1727,  he  is  described  as  of  Windham, 
but  in  his  inventory  he  is  described  as  of  Can- 
terbury, his  family  records  being  found  in  both 
places  and  he  probably  resided  between  them. 
He  bought  land  at  Canterbury,  Connecticut, 
the  deed  for  same  being  dated  June  10,  17 10, 
and  his  removal  from  Newton,  Alassachusetts, 
to  Canterbury,  probably  took  place  about  that 
time,  with  his  brothers,  John  and  Richard.  He 
married,  June  24,  17 14,  Elizabeth  Silsby,  who 
died  May  22,  1727,  a  few^  days  before  his  own 
death.  Their  children  were:  Abigail,  born 
May  13,  1715,  died  May  4,  1727:  Bethia,  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1716-17;  Elizabeth,  January  9,  1723- 
24 :  Joseph. 

(\')  Joseph  (2).  only  son  of  Joseph  (i) 
and  Elizabeth  (Silsby)  Woodward,  was  born 
January  21,  or  February  2,  1725:  died  Julv  8, 
1814:  he  removed  from  Windham  to  Ashford, 
Connecticut,  and  died  at  the  latter  place.  Dur- 
ing his  residence  in  Windham  he  served  the 
town  in  many  public  offices,  and  after  remov- 
ing to  Ashford  was  honored  with  various  pub- 
lic offices  during  ;r  jieriod  of  twenty-six  years; 
his  first  nine  children  were  born  at  Windham, 
the  other  two  at  Ashford.  He  married,  May 
19,  1748,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Captain  John 
and  Elizabeth  (Bushnell)  Perkins,  of  Nor- 
wich, Connecticut,  born  Alay  19,  1733,  and 
their  children  were :  Elizabeth,  born  Mav  22, 
1749;  Joseph,  May  26,   1751,  a  soldier  in  the 


revolution  ;  Jason,  July  19,  1753,  also  a  soldier; 
John;  Martha,  August  13,  1757;  William,  No- 
vember 14,  1759;  Abner,  January  10,  1762; 
I'hineas,  June  3,  1764,  died  1776;  Othniel, 
.September  8,  1766;  Perkins  Bushnell,  August 
17.  1770;  and  Levi,  August  19,  1773. 

(\T)  John  (2),  third  son  of  Joseph  (2) 
and  Elizabeth  (Perkins)  Woodward,  was  born 
June  10,  1755;  died  Februar)'  20,  1844;  he 
sei-ved  in  the  revolutionary  war,  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death  was  living  at  Bloomingburg, 
New  York.  He  married,  April  24,  1783,  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Timothy  Bicknell,  of  Ash- 
ford, and  their  children  were :  Orinda,  born 
July  18.  1785;  Lydia,  June  16,  1787;  Timothy, 
March  31,  1790:  William,  January  5,  1792; 
Benjamin,  Alarch  14,  1796;  John,  Slay  29, 
1798;  Hannah,  March  17,  1799;  Betsey,  Octo- 
ber 22,,  1800,  died  P'ebruary  23,  1802;  Lucius  C. 

(\TI)  Lucius  C,  fifth  and  youngest  son  of 
John  (2)  and  Hannah  (Bicknell)  Woodward, 
was  born  September  3,  1803,  in  Ulster  county. 
New  York;  died  in  1888,  at  Middletown, 
Orange  county.  New  Jersey.  He  married  .Abi- 
gail Bingham,  and  their  children  were:  J. 
liingham ;  Emeline,  deceased ;  William  W., 
importer  and  jobber  of  hardware,  lives  at 
Newton,  Sussex  county,  New  Jersey,  he  mar- 
ried Mary  Johnson,  and  their  children  are: 
Henry  J.,  William  W.,  Jr.,  J.  Bingham,  Cath- 
erine J.  and  Anna ;  Hannah,  of  Newton,  New 
Jersey. 

(  \TII )  James  liingham,  eldest  son  of  Lucius 
C.  and  Abigail  ( Bingham  )  Woodward,  was 
born  May  25,  1830,  at  Wallkill,  near  Middle- 
ton,  New  York,  where  he  received  his  educa- 
tion. He  has  been  working  on  his  ow-n  account 
since  a  boy,  and  in  1850  removed  to  Borden- 
town.  New  Jersey,  where  he  began  working  on 
the  Delaware  and  Raritan  canal,  with  which 
he  has  since  been  identified ;  he  now  has  charge 
of  the  transportation  of  boats  through  the 
canal.  He  was  for  thirty-five  years  a  member 
of  the  state  board  of  education,  and  is  treas- 
urer of  the  following  institutions :  State  Nor- 
mal School,  of  Trenton,  New  Jersey;  Farnum 
Preparatory  School,  at  Beverly  ;  State  Indus- 
trial School  (colored),  at  Bordentown,  and 
State  Normal  School,  at  Montclair,  New 
Jersey.  He  succeeded  Mahlon  Hutchinson  as 
president  of  the  Bordentown  Banking  Com- 
pany, and  has  held  this  position  now  for  four- 
teen years.  In  religious  views  he  is  Epis- 
copalian, and  is  very  active  in  church  work, 
having  been  a  member  of  the  standing  com- 
mittee of  the  diocese  for  the  last  twenty-four 
years.    Mr.  Woodward  married,  June  23.  1868. 


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at  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  Anna  E., 
daughter  of  John  Appel,  of  Easton.  Pennsyl- 
vania, who  died  January  13,  1903,  and  they  had 
one  child,  Richard  C. 

(  IX  )  Richard  C,  only  child  of  James  Bing- 
ham and  Anna  E.  (Appel)  Woodward,  was 
born  April  16,  1873,  at  Bordentown,  New 
Jersey ;  he  received  his  finishing  education  at 
the  Bordentown  Military  Institute,  and  the 
Trenton  Business  College.  In  1892  he  entered 
business  life  in  company  with  his  father,  as 
manager,  of  transportation  through  the  Dela- 
ware and  Raritan  canal.  He  is  an  enterpris- 
ing and  public  spirited  young  man.  and  takes 
a  keen  interest  in  public  atTairs.  In  political 
views  he  is  a  Democrat,  and  he  is  an  Epis- 
copalian in  religion.  He  is  afifiliated-with  the 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  belonging 
to  Mount  Moriah  Lodge,  No.  28 ;  Mount  Mor- 
iah  Chapter,  No.  20,  and  Ivanhoe  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar,  No.  11,  of  Bordentown.  lie 
is  a  member  of  the  Crescent  Temple,  Mystic 
Shrine,  of  Trenton.,  and  has  the  following 
honors  :  I'ast  master,  ])ast  high  priest,  eminent 
commander,  and  is  a  member  of  all  the  grand 
bodies,  besides  being  assistant  grand  lecturer 
of  the  Grand  Chapter.  At  the  meeting  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Masons  at  Trenton  he  was 
elected  junior  grand  warden.  He  is  tmmar- 
ried.  and  resides  with  his  father  at  1-lorden- 
town. 


Many  of  this  name  came  from 
WELL.S  France  to  England  at  the  time  of 
the  conquest,  one  of  the  most 
]iriiminent  being  Richard  de  Quille,  as  the 
name  was  often  spelled.  He  crossed  the  Eng- 
lish channel  and  took  -part  in  the  battle  of 
Hastings,  and  in  recognition  of  his  services 
received  a  manor  in  Dorsetshire,  where  he 
established  a  branch  of  the  family.  Several 
others  of  the  name  came  from  Normandy  at 
about  the  same  time  and  a  little  later.  In  the 
seventeenth  century  many  emigrated  to  Amer- 
ica, where  the  name  was  held  by  men  in  all 
walks  of  life.  They  have  contributed  a  large 
share  tow^ards  the  settlement  and  development 
of  all  parts  of  the  country.  The  family  here 
described  has  been  represented  in  the  state  of 
New  Jersey  for  several  generations,  winning 
an  honorable  place,  and  becoming  useful  and 
valuable  citizens.  They  were  of  the  Quaker 
faith. 

(  1  )  \\  illiam  Wells  was  born  in  \  incentciwn. 
New  Jersey,  his  wife's  maiden  name  was  Col- 
cutt,  and  they  had  children  as  follows :  Sarah, 
Margaret.  Mary  .\nn  and   |osei)h. 


( II )  Joseph,  son  of  William  Wells,  was  also 
born  in  \'incentown,  and  died  in  Pemberton, 
New  Jersey.  He  was  for  some  time  steward 
of  Pennington  Seminary  and  of  the  Burlington 
almshouse.  Joseph  Wells  married  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  \'incent  Sleeper,  of  -Vincentown, 
and  there  cliildren  were:  I.  \\'illiam  A.,  em- 
ployed in  the  chancery  office  at  Trenton.  2, 
Sarah,  who  died  in  childhood.  3.  Joseph,  who 
was  a  prominent  attorney  of  Trenton :  died  in 
1880.     4.  Davis  Coward. 

( III )  Davis  Coward,  son  of  Joseph  and  Re- 
becca (  Sleeper)  Wells,  was  born  January  20, 
1844,  at  \'incentown.  New  Jersey,  and  now 
lives  in  Pemberton,  New  Jersey,  having  retired 
from  active  business.  He  received  his  educa- 
tion in  Pennington  Seminary  and  in  Easton 
Business  College,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  and 
engaged  in  the  hardware  business  in  New  York 
City.  Later  he  embarked  in  the  drug  business, 
and  for  twenty  years  had  a  drug  store  at  Pem- 
berton and  Columbus,  New  Jersey.  He  has 
served  as  mayor  of  Pemberton,  and  is  a  highly 
respected  citizen  of  that  town.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  and  of  the  Quaker  faith. 
]\Ir.  \\'ells  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Aaron  and  Emma  Oliphant  Reid,  of  Pember- 
ton, New  Jersey,  and  they  became  parents  of 
children  as  follows:  I.  Raymond,  salesman 
for  the  drug  firm  of  Mulford  &  Company,  of 
Pittsburg.  2.  Harold  B.  3.  Ada,  married  R.  H. 
Aaronson,  a  dealer  in  real  estate  and  insurance, 
at  Bordentown,  New  Jersey.  4.  Dr.  Edgar, 
residing  at  Elmore.  Pennsylvania.  5.  Cecil,  a 
student  in  PMiiladelphia.  6.  Marguerite.  7. 
Helen,  who  died  in  childhood. 

(I\')  Harold  Bertrand,  son  of  Davis  Cow- 
ard and  Mary  (Reid)  Wells,  was  born  Febru- 
ary 23,  1876,  at  Pemberton,  New  Jersey,  and 
received  his  education  in  public  and  private 
schools.  He  graduated  from  Peddie  Institute, 
of  Hightstown,  with  high  honors,  in  1894,  and 
in  1898  graduated  with  honors  from  Princeton 
College.  At  Princeton  he  had  the  honor  to 
secure  the  George  W.  Potts  Bible  prize,  offered 
to  the  student  standing  the  best  examination 
on  the  ethics  of  the  New  Testament.  Besides 
being  a  noted  athlete  while  attending  college, 
Mr.  Wells  was  popular  socially,  and  his  genial, 
sunny  nature  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  he  was 
voted  to  be  the  funniest  man  in  his  class.  After 
leaving  college  Mr.  Wells  spent  two  years  in 
the  law  office  of  McGee,  Bedle  &  Bedle,  and 
Inter  studied  in  the  office  of  Eckard  P.  Budd, 
of  Mt.  Holly.  He  was  admitted  to  the  New- 
Jersey  bar  in  June,  1902,  and  immediately 
entered  into  practice  at  Bordentown,  where  he 


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has  met  witli  gratifying  success.  He  has  justi- 
fied the  confidence  of  his  many  friends  in  his 
prospects  and  has  shown  great  zeal  and  energy 
in  the  performance  of  his  duties.  At  the  pres- 
ent time  he  is  a  member  of  the  school  board 
of  Bordentown,  and  acts  as  counsel  for  several 
municij^alities.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  and 
acted  as  trustee  of  the  society  in  I'emberton. 
He  belongs  to  Mount  Aloriah  Lodge,  No.  28, 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons. 

Mr.  Wells  married,  April  25,  1905,  Grace 
Ashton,  daughter  of  William  H.  and  Eliza 
Yard  Hiesler,  of  Pemberton,  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, and  they  have  two  children,  namely: 
Harold  B.,  Jr.,  born  June  2,  1Q06',  and  Eliza- 
beth Hiesler.  born  November  30.  1908. 


Jacob  Adams,  founder  of  this 
AD.\MS  branch  of  the  Adams  family  in 
New  Jersey,  came  to  this  country 
from  Germany.  He  was  one  of  the  early  set- 
tlers in  Beverly  township,  Burlington  county. 
New  Jersey.  He  located  on  what  is  now  the 
Walter  S.  Marter  farm  near  Beverly,  where 
the  ruins  of  the  first  log  house  he  built  may 
yet  be  seen.  Children:  John,  William,  Jacob, 
Isaac,  Nancy  (Mrs.  John  W.  Fenimore),  Deb- 
orah (Mrs.  John  Cannon),  Amelia  (Mrs. 
Hendrick  Van  Brunt). 

(II)  John,  son  of  Jacob  Adams,  was  born 
December  15,  1784;  died  December  16,  1859. 
He  was  a  contractor  and  builder,  and  erected 
many  buildings  in  the  neighborhood  of  Beverly, 
New  Jersey.     He  married  Nancy  . 

(III)  Samuel,  son  of  John  and  Nancy 
Adams,  was  born  in  Beverly  township,  Burling- 
ton county.  New  Jersey,  April  26,  1806;  died 
April  22,  1 85 1.  He  was  a  farmer.  He  married 
Margarctta  Smith,  who  bore  him  three  children 
as  follows:  i.  Elizabeth  S.,  born  October  12, 
1828;  married  Edwin  J.  Cadwell.  2.  Richard 
S.,  see  forward.  3.  John  Wesley,  born  De- 
cember 25,  1831  ;  died  December  27,  1875; 
married  Lucy  Borden,  and  had  Samuel,  Mar- 
tha. John  Wesley,  Jr.,  Anna  and  Mary  (Mrs. 
William  Raymond  Sheldon). 

(IV)  Richard  S.,  eldest  son  and  second 
child  of  Samuel  and  Margarctta  (Smith) 
Adams,  was  born  in  Burlington,  New  Jersey, 
July  22,  1830:  died  April  26,  1906.  He  was  a 
well  educated  man,  and  in  his  younger  days 
was  a  teacher  in  the  public  schools.  At  the 
outbreak  of  the  civil  war  he  promptly  enlisted 
in  Company  G  (which  he  organized).  Twenty- 
third  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  and  was  in  active 
service  one  year.     Afterward  he  was  quarter 


master's  clerk  in  the  soldiers'  hospital  at  Bev- 
erly, New  Jersey.  He  married  \'ashti  Austin, 
born  December  14,  1835,  in  Willingboro,  Bur- 
lington county.  New  Jersey,  daughter  of  Caleb 
and  Hannah  Austin,  and  granddaughter  of 
Caleb  Austin,  a  farmer  along  Rancocas  creek. 
The  children  of  Richard  S.  and  Vashti  (Aus- 
tin) Adams  are:  i.  Virginia  R.,  born  August 
I,  1853;  married  Charles  H.  Van  Sciver,  and 
has  Nellie,  Carrie  V.  (Mrs.  Joshua  Sharp), 
Ellsworth  H.,  Mary  (i\Irs.  Kerns),  Maggie 
(Mrs.  W.  C.  Foote),  and  Florence  (Mrs. 
Harry  Sheets).  2.  Ellen,  July  16,  1856;  mar- 
ried Dilwin  Haines,  and  has  Bertha  and  Lulu 
Haines.  3.  Lillie,  June  29,  1859;  married 
Charles  S.  \'an  Sciver.  4.  Hannah  Elizabeth, 
April  16,  1862;  married  John  Fogerty,  and 
has  Walter  and  Helen  Fogerty.  5.  Ellsworth 
S.,  see  forward. 

(IV)  Dr.  Ellsworth  Smith,  son  of  Richard 
S.  and  \'ashti  (Austin)  Adams,  was  born  in 
Beverly,  New  Jersey,  July  23,  1864.  His  aca- 
demic education  was  obtained  in  the  common 
and  high  schools  of  Beverly.  His  professional 
studies  were  pursued  at  the  College  of  Phar- 
macy, Philadelphia,  I'ennsylvania,  where  he 
was  graduated  in  1886,  and  at  Jefferson  Aledi- 
cal  College,  Philadelphia,  from  which  latter 
institution  he  graduated  in  1890  with  the  de- 
gree of  M.  D.  Dr.  Adams,  in  1885,  opened  his 
drug  store  in  Beverly,  and  has  been  in  that 
business  continuously  until  the  present  time 
(1909).  After  receiving  his  degree  from  Jeflier- 
son,  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Bev- 
erly, and  still  continues  in  active  practice.  In 
addition  to  his  business  and  professional  activ- 
ity, he  has  engaged  largely  in  other  lines,  partic- 
ularly real  estate,  and  has  acquired  large  hold- 
ings. He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Medi- 
cal Association,  and  the  local  and  stale  medical 
societies.  He  is  an  adherent  of  the  Republican 
party,  and  during  the  years  from  1889  to  1902 
was  mayor  of  his  native  city,  Beverly.  He  is 
now  president  of  the  board  of  education.  His 
religious  faith  is  Presbyterian.  Dr.  Adams, 
notwithstanding  his  threefold  duties  of  physi- 
cian, pharmacist  and  man  of  business,  exer- 
cises a  lively  interest  in  the  welfare  of  his 
native  town  of  Beverly.  As  mayor  of  that 
city,  he  gave  the  people  a  clean,  business  ad- 
ministration, and  as  president  of  the  board  of 
education,  he  strives  to  keep  the  schools  of 
Beverly  in  the  foremost  rank.  Every  depart- 
ment of  civic  life  in  his  city  finds  in  him  an 
interested,  loyal  supporter.  He  is  a  skillful 
physician,  a  successful  business  man,  and  a 
good  citizen. 


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He  married,  1888.  Cora  A.  Wilson,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Hudnut)  Wil- 
son, of  Brooklyn,  New  York.  Children:  I. 
Ralph,  born  March  21,  1889;  died  aged  seven- 
teen years.  2.  Earle  A.,  August  11,  1890.  3. 
Beulah  E.,  January  23,  1895.  4.  Richard  Ells- 
worth, March  31,   1898. 


The   Wallace    family   at  pres- 

WALLACE  ent  under  consideration  springs 
from  an  entirely  different  stock 
from  most  of  the  families  of  the  same  name 
in  South  Jersey  and  Philadelphia,  and  for  the 
the  connection  which  undoubtedly  originally 
existed  search  must  be  made  among  the  rec- 
ords and  documents  of  the  mother  country, 
Scotland,  where  the  name  has  so  worthy  a 
history  and  distinguished  representatives,  be- 
ginning with  the  famous  father  of  Scottish 
independence,  William  Wallace. 

(Ij  John  West  Wallace,  born  in  Scotland, 
is  the  founder  of  the  branch  at  present  under 
consideration.  He  emigrated  about  the  mid- 
dle of  the  last  century  to  this  country,  and  by 
his  wife,  Ellen  Nesbit  West,  had  a  son,  John 
West,  referred  to  below. 

(H)  John  West  (2),  son  of  John  West  (i) 
and  Ellen  Nesbit  (West)  Wallace,  was  born 
in  Philadelphia,  in  1837,  where  he  became  a 
job  printer  and  spent  his  life.  About  1865  he 
married  Mary  A.,  daughter  of  Henry  W. 
Speel,  also  a  Philadelphia  printer,  and  by  her 
he  had  two  children  :  i.  Henry  Sjjcel,  referred 
to  below.  2.  Eleanor  West,  born  in  Philadel- 
phia, 1870. 

(HI)  Henry  Speel,  eldest  child  and  only 
son  of  John  West  (2)  and  Mary  A.  (Speel) 
Wallace,  was  bom  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, August  7,  1866,  and  is  now  living  in 
Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  of  Philadelphia  and  the  ])rivate 
school  of  St.  Peter's  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  of  the  same  city,  and  then  went  to  the 
Wyoming  grammar  school  at  Sixth  street  and 
Fairmount  avenue,  Philadel])hia.  .After  this  he 
became  a  clerk  in  the  wholesale  hardware  house 
of  Shields  &  Brother,  of  Philadelphia,  and 
subsequently  one  of  the  traveling  salesmen  for 
Thomas,  Thompson  &  Comjjany,  wdiolesale 
upholstery  and  cabinet  hardware  dealers.  His 
next  occupation  was  with  his  father,  with 
whom  he  worked  for  eight  years  in  the  job 
printing  business  in  Philadelphia.  He  then 
came  to  Atlantic  City  where  he  bought  a  half 
interest  in  the  Atlantic  City  Press.  This  was 
in  1898  and  for  the  next  year  he  was  interested 


in.  this,  the  firm  name  being  Edge  &  Wallace. 
He  then  became  the  manager  of  the  Borland 
Advertising  x^gency,  and  acted  in  this  capacity 
until  November,  1906,  when  he  purchased  the 
daily  and  weekly  Atlantic  Rcviczu.  This 
periodical  was  first  established  in  1872  by  A.  L. 
English  and  was  the  first  newspaper  of  .Atlantic 
City.  It  became  the  property  of  John  G. 
Shreve  and  A.  M.  Heston,  March  8,  1884,  and 
after  several  years  of  joint  proprietorship, 
during  which  it  prospered,  it  fell  into  the  sole 
Control  of  Mr.  Shreve.  The  paper  was  an 
early  school  of  journalism  for  many  men  now 
])rominent  in  other  cities,  and  while  never 
aspiring  to  rival  the  Philadelphia  dailies  which 
are  to  be  found  in  the  city  early  every  mornnig, 
it  has  more  than  met  the  demand  for  a  reliable 
and  popular  home  newspaper.  It  now  pos- 
sesses a  stone  and  fireproof  publication  office 
in  the  Bartlett  building,  and  an  excellent  me- 
chanical department,  including  typesetting  ma- 
chines and  all  other  up-to-date  essentials.  The 
paper  has  always  championed  any  improve- 
ments for  the  betterment  of  the  resort,  and  it 
has  done  much  to  help  along  the  grow'th  of 
the  small,  little  known  watering  place  on  the 
Jersey  coast  of  1872  to  the  great  pleasure  re- 
sort of  1909.  Under  Mr.  Wallace's  manage- 
ment the  success  of  the  paper  has  been  even 
more  marked  if  anything  than  it  was  under  his 
predecessors.  Since  assuming  control  of  the 
Rcvieiv,  Mr.  Wallace  has  established  the  \\'al- 
lace  Advertising  .Vgency  in  connection  with  his 
publishing  business,  and  it  is  now  claimed  that 
his  paper  has  the  "best  home  circulation  of  any 
])aper  in  .Atlantic  City." 


The  family  of  Wallis  as  the 
W.ALL.ACE  name  was  spelt  for  the  first 
two  or  three  generations  by 
most  of  its  members,  and  as  it  is  still  spelt  by 
some  of  its  branches,  is  of  Scotch  descent  and 
came  originally  from  Great  Britain  to  the  New 
England  colonies,  from  whence  three  of  the 
founder's  sons  emigrated  to  the  Quaker 
cok)nies  on  the  Delaware  and  became  the 
founders  of  the  New  Jersey  and  Philadelphia 
branches  of  the  family. 

( I )  Of  Philip  Wallis,  the  founder  of  the 
family,  little  is  known,  except  the  fact  of  his 
emigration  to  Boston,  referred  to  above,  and 
the  additional  facts  that  his  wife's  name  was 
Sarah,  and  that  he  had  at  least  three  sons  who 
had  left  New  England  for  the  banks  of  the 
Delaware  before  1682.  These  sons  were:  i. 
Philip,  who  is  referred  to  below.     2.  Thomas, 


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who  settled  on  Penisauken  creek  and  died  in 
1705,  leaving  a  widow,  but  apparently  no  chil- 
dren. 3.  Robert,  who  settled  in  Philadelphia; 
married  Esther  Lakin,  and  had  three  children 
mentioned  in  the  will  of  his  brother,  Thomas. 

(II)  Philip  (2),  sonof  Philip  (i)  and  Sarah 
W'allis.  came  to  West  Jersey  about  the  same 
time  as  his  brothers  and  settled  near  Peni- 
sauken creek,  where  some  of  his  descendants 
have  continued  until  the  present  day.  His  will 
was  proved  INIarch  25,  1755.  He  married 
Sarah,  daughter  of  John  and  Margaret  (Smith) 
Walker,  the  former  of  whom  was  a  son  of 
John  and  Susanna  Walker,  and  the  latter  a 
daughter  of  John  and  .Margaret  (Cripps) 
Smith ;  John  Walker  emigrated  to  .\merica  in 
1675.  The  children  of  Philip  and  Sarah 
(Walker)  Wallis  were:  I.  Thomas,  married, 
in  1750,  Hope  Lippincott,  who  after  his  death 
in  1758  married  (second)  Henry  Jones.  2. 
John,  who  is  referred  to  below.  3.  Jane,  mar- 
ried, in  1729,  Francis  Jones,  of  Burlington. 
4.  Sarah,  married,  in  1729,  Thomas  Vanable, 
of  Burlington.  5.  Esther,  married  a  Mr. 
Casper,  6,  Rachel,  married,  in  1746,  Walter 
or  \\  alker  Atkinson,  of  I5urlington.  7.  Abi- 
gail, married  a  Mr,  Heulings.  8.  Philip,  who 
died  in  1752,  leaving  a  widow  and  five  chil- 
dren. 

(III)  John,  the  son  of  Philip  (2)  and  Sarah 
(Walker)  W'allis,  was  born  about  1720;  died 
in  1779.  He  married  Martha  Decow,  bom  in 
1/35'  'l'*^'!  in  1813,  who  married  (second) 
after  her  first  husbanti's  death,  Isaac  Burroughs. 
The  children  of  John  and  Martha  (Decow) 
Wallace  were:  I.  John,  died  in  1797;  married 
Elizabeth  Chester,  and  had  nine  children,  one 
of  whom,  Rebecca,  married  her  first  cousin 
John  Shivers ;  see  sketch,  2,  Thomas,  who 
is  referred  to  below.  3.  Sarah,  married,  in 
1774.  Andrew  Laurence,  or  Lawrence.  4. 
Martha,  married  William  Rush.  5.  Samuel, 
whose  will  was  proved  January  18,  1785.  6. 
lylary,  buried  in  Old  Coles,  January  6,  1772. 

(I\')  Thomas  Wallace,  son  of  John  and 
Martha  (Decow)  Wallis.  was  born  on  Penisau- 
ken creek,  in  1774;  died  there  August  14,  1832. 
He  married  .\nn  Shivers,  born  November  11, 
1773,  died  October  3.  1853,  who  after  her  first 
husband's  death  married  (second)  Jacob  Hul- 
ings.  The  children  of  Thomas  and  .Ann 
(Shivers)  Wallace  were:  i,  John  Shivers, 
born  November  11,  1795;  died  November  12, 
1869;  married  his  first  cousin,  Rebecca  Wal- 
lace, referred  to  above.  2.  Thomas,  December 
2,  1797:  died  in  1833;  married  Sarah  Hinckle. 


3.  Maria,  November  20,  1799;  died  in  1836; 
married   Israel  Lijipincott.     4.  Josiah,  August 

7,  1802;  died  unmarried,  in  1891.  5.  Samuel, 
.\ugust  26,  1804;  died  in  1840;  married  Eliza- 
beth Fish.  6.  Joseph,  March  10,  1806;  died  in 
181 5.     7.  William,  who  is  referred  to  below. 

8.  Benjamin,  March  11,  1812;  died  in  1855; 
married  Sibilla  Marter.s,  and  had  Edith  11., 
who  married  John  Taylor  Evans.  9.  Hezekiah, 
1814;  died  in  infancy.  10.  Ann,  June  11,  1816; 
now  living  at  Riverton,  New  Jersey,  who  mar- 
ried Benjamin  T,  Rudderow,  bom  November 
2;^,  181 1  ;  died  December  13,  1871. 

(V)  William,  seventh  child  and  sixth  son 
of  Thomas  and  Ann  (Shivers)  Wallace,  was 
born  in  Palmyra,  New  Jersey,  March  26,  1809, 
and  died  there  in  1864.  He  was  a  farmer  all 
of  his  life.  He  married  Rachel  Marters,  of 
Beverly,  New  Jersey,  by  whom  he  had:  i. 
Joseph.  2.  Abraham.  3.  Albert.  4.  Josiah, 
who  is  referred  to  below.     5.  Emily. 

(VI)  Josiah,  son  of  William  and  Rachel 
(Marters)  Wallace,  was  born  in  Palmyra,  New 
Jersey,  December  25,  1845,  ^"d  is  now  living  in 
that  town.  He  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools  of  Palmyra,  and  after  leaving  school 
worked  for  twenty  years  at  farming.  He  then 
began  to  run  freight  scows  on  the  river,  be- 
tween Kinkora,  Burlington,  and  Philadelphia, 
and  continued  in  this  occupation  for  twenty 
years  more.  In  1887  he  built  the  West  End 
Hotel  at  Palmyra,  and  since  that  time  has  de- 
voted himself  to  running  that  hostelry.  He 
has  large  real  estate  interests  in  Palmyra,  own- 
ing besides  his  hotel  property,  five  houses.  He 
also  owns  and  controls  the  baseball  grounds  in 
Palmyra.  Mr.  Wallace  is  a  Democrat,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Mohawk  Tribe,  Improved  Order 
of  Red  Men,  a  member  of  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  a  member  of  the 
.Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  of  Cam- 
den, New  Jersey. 

In  1876  Josiah  Wallace  married  Lydia  W., 
daughter  of  Michel  and  .Abigail  (W'ilkins) 
Korn,  of  Camden,  New  Jersej-,  and  they  have 
had  three  children:  i.  JMinnie,  born  in  Pal- 
myra, September  20,  1878;  married  James  K. 
Hires,  of  P'almyra,  a  bookkeeper  for  Slack 
Brothers,  of  I'hiladelphia.  They  have  two 
children :  Elizabeth  and  James.  2.  Josiah. 
Jr..  born  in  1880:  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Feli.x  and  Elizabeth  Weinkelspecht.  of  River- 
side, New  Jersey.  They  have  three  children : 
Josiah  E.,  Edith  and  Lydia  W.  3.  Elizabeth 
S.,  born  in  1882,  who  lives  at  home  with  her 
parents. 


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(For  early  generations  see  preceding  sketch). 

(W  )  jolm  Shivers,  the  eldest 
W  .\LL.\L'E  child  of  Thomas  and  Ann 
(Shivers)  Wallace,  was  born 
in  what  is  now  Talmyra,  New  Jersey,  Novem- 
ber II,  1795,  and  died  there  November  12, 
i8(xj.  He  married  his  first  cousin,  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Chester) 
Wallace.  Children:  i.  Mary  Ann,  born  De- 
cember 12,  1812.  2.  liezekiah,  July  6,  1817. 
3.  Shivers,  I^-bruary  22,  1819.  4.  Thomas  (or 
William)  Rush,  May  2,  1821.  5.  Elizabeth, 
I'"ebruary  13.  1824.  0.  John,  October  30,  i82(>. 
7.  Isaac,  June  JJ,  1829.  8.  Adeline,  August 
9,  1831.  9.  Caroline,  I'ebruary  5,  1833.  lo. 
Israel,  Fehruaiy  13,  1835.  11.  Smith  U.,  May 
21.  1839. 

(\  1)  John.  M>n  ul  John  Shivers  ami  Re- 
becca (\\'allace)  Wallace,  was  bora  in  what 
was  then  Chester,  now  I'almyra,  New  Jersey, 
October  30,  1S26,  and  died  there  July  9,  1897. 
lie  received  a  common  school  education,  and 
as  a  boy  worked  on  a  farm  and  learned  tlie 
trade  of  car])enter,  which  he  followed  nine 
years.  In  1850  he  engaged  in  the  hotel  busi- 
ness and  continued  in  this  for  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  He  was  a  Democrat,  and  held  sev- 
eral town  offices,  at  one  time  being  commis- 
sioner of  ajjpeals.  He  was  a  member  of  Poca- 
hontas Lodge.  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, of  Moorestown,  New  Jersey,  a  member 
of  encampment,  and  a  member  of  the  I'rcs- 
byterian  church  at  Rivcrton,  New  Jersey.  He 
married,  December  12,  1850,  Mary  M.,  bom  in 
Doyleslown,  Pennsylvania.  October  5,  1832, 
daughter  of  Jacob  and  I'.arbara  (Meyers) 
■^'others.  She  is  now  living  in  Palmyra,  New- 
Jersey.  Children:  1.  ICmina  R.  2.  Caroline 
il.  3,  Levis  H.,  sec  forward.  4.  Jennie  Cath- 
arine \'irginia.  Three  other  children  who  died 
in  childhood. 

(\'ll)  Levis  H.,  son  of  John  antl  Mary  M. 
(Yothers)  Wallace,  was  born  in  Palmyra, 
New  Jersey,  ^L•^rch  23,  1863,  and  is  now  living 
in  that  town.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Palmyra,  and  as  a  boy  worked  on  a 
farm.  When  he  was  twenty-two  years  old  he 
went  into  the  hotel  business  in  Palmyra,  suc- 
ceeding his  father  as  the  owner  and  proprietor 
of  the  Palmyra  Hotel.  Mr.  W'allace  is  a  Dem- 
ocrat and  a  member  of  the  election  board.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  Lodge,  No.  293,  Benev- 
olent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  of  Cam- 
den, New  Jersey;  Brotherhood  of  America,  of 
Palmyra;  Lincoln  Circle,  Knights  of  the 
Golden  Eagle,  of  Palmyra:  an  active  member 
of  the  Independent,  No.  I,  Palmyra  I'ire  Com- 


pany, of  which  he  is  treasurer  ;  a  life  member  of 
the  Cinnaminson  Firemens"  Relief  Association, 
of  which  he  is  treasurer.  He  married,  No- 
vember 28,  1894,  Ardella,  daughter  of  Josiah 
and  Margaret  (Garwood)  Bright,  of  Beverly, 
New  Jersey.  Children,  liorn  in  Palmyra:  i. 
Margaret  liright,  December  10,  1895.  2.  Mary 
Moore,  November  22,  1897. 


The  first  record  of  the  Wilkins 
WILKIN'S  family  of  West  Jersey  is  a 
deed,  dated  September  2,  1687, 
in  which  John  Penfold,  of  Newark,  near 
Leicester,  county  of  Leicester,  England,  gentle- 
man, grants  to  Thomas  \\  ilkins,  of  West 
Jersey,  labourer,  and  to  John  Wilkins,  of 
Cussington,  county  Leicester,  labourer,  both  the 
sons  of  John  W'ilkins,  late  of  Kegham  or  Key- 
ham  in  the  same  county,  husbandman,  one- 
fifteenth  of  one  share  of  the  Province  of  West 
Jersey.  With  this  record  begins  the  history 
of  the  family  in  this  country. 

(I)  Thomas,  son  of  John  Wilkins,  of  Keg- 
haiu,  comity  Leicester,  settled  first  on  ]\lason's 
Run.  near  the  city  of  P.urlington,  where  in 
ii_x)0  he  bought  one  hundred  acres  from 
Thomas  Perkins  and  about  two  months  later 
another  two  hundred  acres  adjoining  from 
Thomas  Gardiner.  Three  years  later  he  sold 
this  property  and  bought  fifty  acres  in  Eves- 
ham township,  Burlington  county,  from  Henry 
Grubb  and  Thomas  Raper,  where  he  spent  the 
remainder  of  his  life  and  died  about  January, 
1735,  his  will  being  proven  on  the  20th  .of  that 
month.  His  wife's  name  is  said  to  have  been 
Susanna,  but  she  is  not  mentioned  in  this  will 
nor  has  any  eviilence  yet  come  to  light  to  show 
whether  he  married  her  in  West  Jersey  or 
brought  her  with  him  when  he  emigrated.  His 
children  were:  I.  Thomas,  born  about  1701; 
died    1791  ;   married    (first)    Mary   Core,  and 

(second)    Sarah    .      2.    William,    died 

1758;  married,  1754.  at  Chester  monthly  meet- 
ing, Elizabeth  Swain.  3.  Amos",  who  is  re- 
ferred to  below .  4.  Mary,  married  Thomas 
Rakestraw.  5.  Sarah.  6.  Rachel,  married 
Francis  Dudley.  7.  Rebecca,  married-Thomas 
Hackney.  8.  Hannah,  married, Jacob  Coffin. 
(H)  Amos,  youngest  son  of  Thomas  Wil- 
kins, was  not  yet  twenty-one  in  1729,  when 
his  father  wrote  his  will.  He  lived  at  Evesham 
in  his  father's  homestead  which  he  had  inherit- 
ed from  his  father,  antl  dieil  about  March, 
1 76 1.  He  was  twice  married,  first  at  the  Ches- 
ter monthly  meeting  to  Susan ,  in  1738, 

and  second  in  I75('>,  by  license  dated  June  17, 
1756,  to  Sarah,  daughter  of  Carlile  Haines  and 


STATE   OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


593 


Sarah,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Han- 
cock) Matlack.  Carlile  was  the  son  of  Rich- 
ard and  Mary  (Carlile)  Haines,  and  the  grand- 
son of  Richard  and  Margaret  Haines,  the  emi- 
grants. The  chiklren  of  Amos  W'ilkins  were ; 
I.  John,  married,  in  1761,  Hannah  Ciwinnal. 
of  Evesham.  2.  Benjamin.  3.  Amos,  Jr.,  who 
is  referred  to  below.  4.  Caleb.  5.  Joshua.  6. 
Samuel,  married  Mary  Eldridge,  of  Evesham. 
From  the  instructions  of  his  will  and  other 
indications  it  is-'probable  that  the  first  three 
sons  were  by  his  first  wife  and  that  the  last 
three  were  the  children  of  Sarah  (Haines) 
W'ilkins.  There  were  probably  also  several 
daughters. 

(HI)  Amos  (2),  the  son  of  Amos  (i)  and 
Susan  Wilkins,  was  born  October  13,  1750; 
died  in  March,  181 1.  He  was  a  distiller  and  a 
brick  manufacturer.  He  married  Lydia,  born 
.August  31,  1765,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
Jenkins ;  she  bore  him  five  sons  and  si.x 
daughters  all  named  in  his  will:  i.  Amos, 
who  is  referred  to  below.  2.  Benjamin.  3. 
Clayton,  who  died  immarried.  4.  David,  mar- 
ried Rachel,  daughter  of  Job  and  Esther 
(Brooks)  Sharp.  5.  Nathan,  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Rebecca  (Eves)  Troth. 
6.  Susanna,  married  Asabel  Coate.  7.  Keturah, 
married  Joseph,  son  of  Aaron  and  Rachel 
(Cox)  Sharp.  8.  Amy,  married  Jonathan, 
son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Reed)  Jones. 
Q.  Lydia.  10.  Atlantic.  11.  Sarah,  married 
Philip  Strieker. 

(I\')  .Amos  (3),  son  of  Amos  (2)  and 
Lydia  (Jenkins)  Wilkins,  was  born  on  the  old 
homestead  which  he  inherited  from  his  father, 
July  7,  1790;  died  there  April  14,  1837.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  did  a  good  deal  of  lumbering 
business,  and  for  a  number  of  years  also  con- 
ducted a  distillery.  He  married,  October  26, 
1815,  Ann,  daughter  of  John  Hew'lings  and 
Lydia,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Crispin  and 
Rachel,  daughter  of  Robert  Braddock  and 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Joseph  Bates  and  Mercy, 
daughter  of  James,  the  emigrant,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Gregory  Clement,  the  regicide. 
Joseph  Bates  was  the  son  of  William  Bates, 
the  emigrant  from  Ireland.  Robert  Braddock 
was  the  son  of  Robert  Braddock  and  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Timothy  and  Rachel  (Firman) 
Hancock,  the  emigrants.  Benjamin  Crispin 
was  the  son  of  Benjamin  Crispin  and  Alargaret, 
flaughter  of  Joshua  and  Martha  (Sliinn) 
Owen.  Benjamin  Crispin  was  the  son  of 
Silas  Crispin  and  Mary  (Stockton)  .Shinn.  the 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Abigail  Stockton,  the 
emigrants,  and  the  widow  of  Thomas  Shinn. 
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Silas  Crispin  was  the  son  of  Captain  William 
Crispin,  of  the  English  navy,  whose  wife,  Anne 
(Jasper)  Cris])in,  was  the  sister  to  Margaret, 
wife  of  .Admiral  Sir  Wilbar,  and  the  mother 
of  William  Penn,  the  founder  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania colony.  John  Hewlings  was  the  son  of 
Joseph  Hewlings  and  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Laban  Langstalf,  and  granddaugliter  of  Laban 
Langstaff,  Sr.,  and  Susanna  Woolston.  Laban 
Langstaff,  Sr.,  was  the  son  of  John  and  Eliza 
I^angstati',  the  emigrants.  Joseph  Hewlings 
was  the  son  of  Jacob  Hewlings  and  Dorothy, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Anna  Eves,  and  the 
granddaughter  of  Thomas  Eves,  the  emigrant 
from  London.  Jacob  Hewlings  the  son  of 
William  Hewlings,  the  emigrant,  and  Dorothy, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Eves,  the  emigrant.  The 
children  of  Amos  and  Ann  (Hewlings)  Wil- 
kins were:  i.  Amos,  married  Jane  Prickett. 
2.  John,  married  a  Miss  Gouldy.  3.  Caleb, 
who  is  referred  to  below.  4.  Rachel,  married 
Uriah  Brock.  5.  Sarah,  married  Charles  Coate. 
6.  Lydia,  married  Thomas  Wilson. 

(V)  Caleb,  son  of  Amos  (3)  and  Ann 
(Hewlings)  Wilkins,  was  born  on  the  old 
homestead  at  Fostertown,  Burlington  county, 
April  9,  1835,  and  is  now  living  near  Medford, 
New  Jersey.  He  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools,  and  then  engaged  in  farming,  and 
started  in  the  cranberry  business  in  1859,  and 
at  present  is  engaged  in  building  houses  in 
South  Atlantic  City.  For  four  years  he  was 
the  commissioner  of  appeals,  and  for  many 
years  he  has  been  a  director  of  the  Union  Na- 
tional Bank,  of  Alount  Holly,  of  which  he  was 
one  of  the  promoters.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends. 

He  married,  January  14,  1869,  Keziah, 
daughter  of  David  and  Susan  Rogers.  Their 
children  are:  i.  Susan  Rogers,  born  October 
10,  1869.  2.  Albertia,  October  29,  1872;  died 
December  10.  1898.  3.  David  D.,  born  March 
19.  1874.  4.  Caleb,  Jr.,  November  28,  1875.  5. 
Mary  H.,  July  6,  1879.  6.  Amos  D.,  June  26, 
1883. 

The  several  Brick  families  of 
BRICK  New  Jersey  are  doubtless  de- 
scended from  John  Brick,  an 
Englishman  by  birth  and  ancestry,  who  came 
to  this  country  previous  to  1680  and  settled 
in  the  Fenwick  colony  in  New  Jersey.  He 
bought  a  large  tract  of  land  on  the  south 
branch  of  Stoe  creek,  which  branch  is  known 
as  Gravelly  run.  The  land  there  was  pur- 
chased from  John  Fenwick  by  one  Deming, 
who  in  turn  sold  to  John  Brick.     He  had  sev- 


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STATE    OF    NEW    lERSEY. 


eral  children,  among  them  sons  John,  Joshua. 
Richard  and  Samuel. 

(I)  William  Brick,  the  earliest  known  an- 
cestor of  the  family  here  to  be  traced  and  pre- 
sumably a  descendant  of  John  Brick  who  is 
mentioned  in  the  jireceding  paragraph,  was 
proprietor  of  a  general  merchandise  store  at 
Marlton,  New  Jersey,  in  1816  and  for  several 
years  afterward.  He  married,  March  i.  1804. 
Mary  Inskeep,  born  January  25,  1784,  daugh- 
ter of  Abraham  and  Hannah  Inskeep. 

(H)  Joseph  Inskeep,  son  of  William  and 
Mary  ( Inskeep  )  Brick,  was  born  December  23, 
1804,  probably  in  Marlton.  and  in  1825  suc- 
ceeded his  father  in  the  proprietorship  of  the 
store.  He  was  also  interested  in  farming  and 
retired  from  mercantile  pursuits  in  1859,  con- 
tinuing his  attention  to  farming.  He  died 
August  31,  1868.  He  married.  February  16, 
1832,  Rebecca  Clement,  of  Timber  creek,  New 
Jersey,  daughter  of  Abel  and  Keziah  (  Mickle) 
Clement.  She  was  born  March  8,  1809,  ami 
survived  her  husband  more  than  seventeen 
years,  dying  November  11,  1885.  Children: 
John  Inskeep  and  Abel  (twins),  William 
French,  Henry,  Edgar,  Joseph  M.,  .\bigail 
(married  George  Cowperthwaite ),  Rebecca, 
and  one  other  who  died  in  infancy. 

(Ill)  Henry,  son  of  Jo.seph  I.  and  Re- 
becca (Clement)  Brick,  was  born  November 
9,  1835,  in  Marlton,  died  July  i,  1898.  He 
was  sent  to  the  township  school  when  a  boy 
and  afterward  was  a  student  at  Hugh  Faulk's 
boarding  school  at  Gwyned.  On  leaving 
school  he  returned  to  Marlton  and  in  1859, 
in  company  with  his  brother  Joseph  \l.,  suc- 
ceeded their  father  in  the  ownership  of  the 
store  and  afterward  continued  the  business 
under  the  firm  name  of  H.  &  J.  M.  Brick,  until 
April,  1886,  when  the  partnership  was  dis- 
solved. After  that  Henry  Brick  was  sole  pro- 
prietor of  the  store  and  business  until  March 
I,  1890,  when  he  took  as  partner  his  son, 
Clayton  H.  Brick.  From  that  time  until  the 
death  of  the  senior  member  of  the  firm,  in 
1898,  the  business  was  carried  on  under  the 
firm  of  Henry  Brick  &  Son.  For  twenty- 
five  years  Mr.  Brick  was  postmaster  of  Marl- 
ton, and  otherwise  in  many  respects  was  one 
of  the  leading  men  of  the  township  for  many 
years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of 
directors  of  the  Haddonfield  National  Bank, 
one  of  the  chief  promoters  of  the  Marhon 
Water  Company  and  its  vice-president.  In 
addition  to  his  mercantile  business  Mr.  Brick 
owned  large    farming   interests,   carried  on  a 


cranberry  bog  and  had  besides  considerable 
timber  lands.  He  was  brought  up  in  the  faith 
of  the  Society  of  Friends  and  never  departed 
from  its  teachings.  He  was  a  school  trustee 
of  Marlton  for  several  years,  member  of 
Mutual  Lodge,  No.  82,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  Chosen 
Friends  Lodge,  K.  of  P.,  and  of  Alodoc  Tribe, 
I.  O.  R.  M.  He  married,  January  4,  1866, 
Agnes  Buckman  Haines,  daughter  of  Clavton 
W.  and  Eliza  (Curtis)  Haines,  of  Philadel- 
phia. Clayton  W.  Haines  was  a  son  of  Abra- 
ham and  Sarah  (Lippincott)  Haines,  great- 
grandson  of  Abraham  and  Grace  (HoUings- 
head  )  Haines,  great-great-grandson  of  Richard 
and  Mary  ( Carlile )  Haines,  and  great-great- 
great-grandson  of  Richard  (the  immigrant) 
and  Alargaret  Haines. 

(I\')  Clayton  Haines,  only  son  of  Henry 
and  Agnes  Buckman  (Haines)  Brick,  was 
born  at  Marlton,  New  Jersey,  March  i,  1869, 
and  received  his  education  at  the  Friends' 
Central  School,  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  a 
student  for  five  years.  At  the  age  of  sixteen 
years  he  became  a  clerk  in  his  father's  store, 
and  on  March  i,  1890,  on  attaining  his  ma- 
jority, he  became  partner  in  the  firm  of  Henry 
Brick  &  Son,  a  firm  well  known  in  business 
and  trade  circles  for  several  years,  continuing 
until  July,  1898,  when  on  the  death  of  the 
senior  partner  it  was  dissolved.  After  thai 
the  son  contiiuied  the  business  alone  until 
1903  and  then  sold  out.  Since  that  time  he 
has  engaged  in  dealing  in  real  estate,  farming 
and  managing  his  cranberry  bog.  Mr.  Brick 
is  a  strong  Republican  and  has  served  in  vari- 
ous official  capacities,  justice  of  the  peace  and 
chosen  freeholder,  both  of  which  offices  he 
now  fills.  He  is  a  Master  Mason  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Baptist  church. 

He  married,  April  9,  i8f)o,  Mary  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Elijah  15.  and  Rachel  (Ins- 
keep )  Woolstcm. 


The  family  names  Reid,  Reed. 
RIED  Read  and  Ried  have  been  well 
known  in  American  history  since 
the  early  time  of  the  colonies,  and  came  into 
the  new  country  from  various  parts  of  Eng- 
land ;  but  the  family  here  treated  seems  to  have 
come  from  German  ancestry  and  has  been 
settled  here  a  little  more  than  half  a  century. 
And  while  the  Reids,  Reeds,  Reads  and  Rieds 
of  colonial  days  gained  fame  among  the  New 
England  colonists  because  of  their  deeds  of 
courage  and  loyalty  during  the  Indian  wars 
and  the  revolution,  so  too  the  immigrant  an- 


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cestor  of  the  family  here  under  consideration 
did  a  loyal  soldier's  full  duty  and  laid  down 
his  own  life  in  defense  of  the  L'nion  during  the 
late  civil  war. 

(I)  Matthias  Ried,  father  of  the  immigrant, 
was  born  of  German  ancestors  and  spent  his 
life  in  Germany.  The  baptismal  name  of  his 
wife  was  Magdalena  and  they  had  children, 
among  them  a  son  Charles. 

(II)  Charles,  son  of  Matthias  and  Mag- 
dalena Ried,  was  born  in  Largen,  Stienhach, 
Baden,  Cjermany,  in  July,  1827,  and  came  over 
to  .\merica  sometime  previous  to  1849,  before 
he  attained  his  majority  of  years,  for  on  No- 
vember 6  of  that  year,  in  the  city  of  Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania,  he  became  a  naturalized 
citizen  of  the  United  States.  In  the  same 
year  he  married,  in  Philadelphia,  W'ilhelmina 
I'ischoft.  who  was  born  in  Diet  Largen, 
Pfortzheim.  I'.aden,  Germany,  March  2t,.  1826, 
daughter  of  Michael  and  Teresa  Bischoff. 
Early  in  the  civil  war  Charles  Ried  enlisted 
for  service  in  the  Union  army,  and  he  was 
killed  June  27,  1862,  in  the  seven  days'  fight 
before  Richmond,  \*irginia.  The  greater 
part  of  his  business  life  in  this  country  was 
spent  in  New  Jersey,  where  he  came  to  live 
after  his  marriage.  Charles  and  Wilhelmina 
(Bischoff)  Ried  had  five  children:  i.  Edward 
F.,  see  post.  2.  Henry  W.,  born  April  12, 
1S53.  3.  Matthias,  born  in  1855.  4.  Wilhel- 
mina. born  October  i.  1857,  now  Mrs.  Oatman. 
5.  Charles  W'..  born  March  4,  i860. 

(III)  Edward  P.,  eldest  son  and  child  of 
Charles  and  Wilhelmina  (Bischoff)  Ried,  was 
born  in  Lumbcrton.  New  Jersey,  May  17, 
1851.  and  died  there  in  1898.  After  leaving 
school  he  learned  the  trade  of  shoemaking  and 
became  a  practical  workman  of  the  days  when 
shoes  were  made  by  hand  instead  of  with  ma- 
chines and  other  modern  mechanical  ap])liances. 
In  1879  he  became  partner  in  the  firm  of  F.  E. 
Shinn  &  Co.,  manufacturers  of  shoes,  and  so 
continued  for  two  years,  when  the  Lumber- 
ton  Shoe  Company  was  incorporated  and  suc- 
ceeded to  the  business  formerly  carried  on  by 
the  firm  of  which  he  was  a  member.  Mr. 
Ried  was  a  director  of  the  company  and  ac- 
tively connected  with  the  operation  of  its  fac- 
tory for  one  year,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time 
he  established  himself  in  the  same  line  of  busi- 
ness under  the  style  of  E.  F.  Ried  &  Co.,  con- 
tinuing the  manufacture  of  shoes  until  the 
time  of  his  death.  Mr.  Ried  was  an  energetic, 
capable  and  straightforward  business  man  and 
his  efforts  in  life  were  rewarded  with  gratifv- 
ing  success.      .\  firm  Democrat,  he  served  in 


various  capacities,  such  a.;  township  clerk, 
school  trustee,  postmaster  under  President 
Cleveland's  administration,  and  other  offices. 
He  was  a  member  and  trustee  of  the  Lutheran 
church,  member  of  the  Junior  Order  of  Ameri- 
can Mechanics  and  also  of  Mt.  Holly  Lodge, 
No.  14,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons.  In  1872 
he  married  .Anna  M.  Karge,  who  was  born  in 
1852  and  by  whom  he  had  eight  children:  i. 
George  Frederick,  born  November  17,  1874, 
see  post.  2.  Edward,  born  October  23,  1876, 
engaged  in  business  with  his  elder  brother ; 
married  Irene  Elder,  of  Lumberton,  and  has 
one  daughter,  Irene  Elder  Ried.  3.  Philip, 
born  March,  1878,  merchant  of  Lumberton: 
married  Sarah  .\.  Amish,  of  Lumberton,  and 
has  one  son,  Kenneth  F.  Ried.  4.  Anna  M., 
born  1 88 1,  married  William  J.  (5atman,  and 
has  two  children,  Gladys  R.  and  Edward  E. 
Oatman.  5.  Caleb  R.,  born  1884,  died  1905; 
married  Anna  M.  Cobb.  6.  Johnson  H..  born 
December  26,  1886,  lives  in  Lumberton.  7. 
Lillian,  born  Mav,  1889.  8.  Francis  \\'.,  born 
1892. 

(  IV)  George  Frederick,  eldest  son  and  child 
of  Edward  F.  and  Anna  M.  (Karge)  Ried, 
was  born  in  Lumberton,  New  Jersey,  Novem- 
ber 17,  1874,  and  received  his  education  in  the 
I)ublic  .schools  of  that  town,  Mt.  Holly  .Acad- 
emy and  Pierce  Business  College,  Philadelphia. 
In  business  life  he  has  been,  until  recently, 
proprietor  of  a  general  merchandise  store  in 
Lumberton,  which  he  started  in  1895,  and  also 
is  connected  with  the  shoe  manufacturing  firm 
of  E.  F.  Ried  &  Company.  Indeed,  since  the 
death  of  his  father  in  1898  .Mr.  Ried  has  been 
an  important  factor  in  the  business  established 
by  his  father,  was  himself  founder  of  the 
New  Lumberton  Shoe  Company,  and  became 
its  president  and  general  superintendent.  In 
1907  he  sold  out  his  mercantile  establishment 
to  his  brother  Caleb  R.  and  since  that  time 
has  devoted  his  attention  to  the  business  man- 
agement of  the  shoe  factory.  Mr.  Ried  is  a 
director  of  the  Farmers'  Bank  of  Mt.  Holly, 
president  of  the  Lumberton  Light  &  Water 
Company,  treasurer  of  the  Firemen's  Relief 
Association  of  Lumberton.  meiuber  of  the 
Junior  Order  of  United  American  Mechanics, 
charter  member  of  the  Daughters  of  .America! 
a  Republican  in  politics,  and  a  member  of  the 
Lutheran  church. 

He  married,  in  1898,  Clara  \'.,  daughter  of 
George  W.  and  \'irginia  M.  (Benny)  Amish, 
of  Lumberton,  and  has  one  daughter,  Majorie 
Ross  Ried,  born  September  7,  1904. 


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The       first       record 

SCHWABENLAND  found  of  this  fam- 
ily they  were  living 
•n  Hessen,  a  town  of  Germany,  located  on  the 
Khine  river,  where  they  were  respected  citi- 
zens. They  have  made  an  honorable  place 
for  themselves  in  whatever  place  in  America 
they  have  located,  and  have  been  useful  and 
successful  citizens. 

(  I  )  Christian  Scliwabenland  spent  his  en- 
tire life  in  Germany,  and  died  there.  Hi'- 
children  were  :  John  J.,  residing  in  West  Phila- 
delphia ;  Lenhart  Christian;  Helena,  deceased. 

(II)  Lenhart  Christian,  second  son  of 
Christian  Scliwabenland,  was  born  in  1835,  at 
Hessen,  Darmstadt,  Germany,  and  died  in 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  June  5,  igo6.  He 
was  educated  in  his  native  town,  where  he 
learned  the  trade  of  cabinet-maker,  and  soon 
after  coming  to  this  country  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  high-class  furniture,  his  loca- 
tion being  Philadel])hia.  He  was  successful 
in  his  enterprise  and  continued  business  up  to 
the  time  of  his  death ;  one  of  his  orders  was 
for  the  furnishings  of  the  capitol  building  at 
Harrisbnrg,  Pennsylvania.  Pi  politics  he  was 
a  Republican.  He  was  affiliated  with  the  an- 
cient Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  was  a 
l)rominent  member  of  the  Order  of  Redmen, 
of  Philadelphia.  He  was  an  active  member 
of  the  Lutheran  church,  of  which  he  was  trus- 
tee. Pie  married  (first)  Helena  Sauer,  born 
in  Germany;  she  died  at  the  birth  of  her  only 
child,  Edward,  in  1858.  Air.  Schwabcnland 
man-ied  (second)  Agnes  Webber,  of  Phila- 
del])liia,  and  their  children  were:  I.  Louisa, 
married  Joseph  W^erst,  a  farmer  of  Sewall, 
New  Jersey.  2.  Henry,  residing  at  Philadel- 
phia. 3.  Emma,  married  William  Grube,  su- 
perintendent of  a  pocketbook  manufacturing 
plant.  4.  Mary,  deceased.  5.  Caroline,  lives 
with  her  mother.  6.  John,  lives  at  home.  7. 
Charles,  also  living  with  his  mother.  Mrs. 
.Scliwabenland  still  resides  at  Philadelphia. 

(HI  I  Edward,  son  of  Lenhart  Christian 
and  Helena  (Sauer)  Schwabcnland,  was  born 
March  i,  1858,  at  Philadelphia,  receiving  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  and  Ringold 
school  of  that  city.  He  began  work  at  the 
age  of  sixteen,  in  a  general  butcher  and  cattle 
business,  being  stationed  at  the  Farmers'  Mar- 
ket, at  Philadeljihia,  and  at  the  end  of  four 
years  embarked  in  business  for  himself  in  that 
city.  His  business  is  still  located  at  Phila- 
deljihia, where  he  carries  on  a  wholesale  com- 
mission business,  though  since  Marcl:  12. 
1888,  his  residence  has  been  at  Riverside,  New 


Jersey.  He  has  spent  much  time  and  money 
in  the  building  up  of  Riverside,  and  owns 
many  valuable  pieces  of  land  in  that  town. 
As  the  result  of  his  efforts  the  land  around 
the  railroad  station  was  converted  from  a 
boggy  swamp  into  a  beautiful  park,  and  he 
was  also  instrumental  in  inducing  the  Watch- 
case  works  to  locate  in  Riverside.  Since  his 
arrival  in  the  town  he  has  been  active  in  its 
afifairs,  was  elected  to  the  school  board  before 
the  building  of  the  handsome  new  building, 
raised  the  fire  company,  and  at  the  present 
time  has  charge  of  putting  in  the  sewerage 
system.  He  is  commissioner  of  appeals, 
county  chairman  of  the  Democratic  party, 
township  committeeman  and  mayor  of  River- 
side. He  has  taken  great  interest  in  the  im- 
provements of  the  town,  and  its  citizens  have 
delighted  to  show  him  all  the  honors  in  their 
gift,  since  his  first  residence  in  Riverside.  Mr. 
Scliwabenland  is  a  member  of  the  Elks,  also 
of  several  German  benevolent  orders,  is  a  life 
member  of  the  Turners  and  Maennerchor,  and 
belongs  to  the  Lutheran  church. 

He  married,  in  1884,  Pauline  M.,  daughter 
of  Jacob  Lund,  and  they  have  children  as  fol- 
lows:  I.  Edward  L.,  born  December  22,  1884. 
in  Philadelphia.  2.  Sophia  Marie,  February 
7,  1891,  at  Riverside,  New  Jersey.  3.  Paul 
Henry,  April  11,  1899,  at  Riverside,  New  Jer- 
sey. These  children  all  received  their  educa- 
tion at  Riverside,  and  live  with  their  parents. 


The  name  of  Shedaker  has 
SPIEDAKER  been  prominent  in  New  Jer- 
sey for  more  than  a  cen- 
tury and  a  half,  though  the  name  is  not  a  com- 
mon one.  The  family  here  described  have 
always  been  enterprising  and  ambitious,  and 
have  contributed  largely  to  the  development 
of  the  natural  resources  of  the  state  and  to  the 
maintenance  of  such  organizations  as  are  of 
great  public  benefit. 

(I)  Jacob  .Shedaker  was  born  in  1746,  in 
P)Urlington,  New  Jersey,  died  there  November 
19,  1786.  By  his  wife  Rachel  he  had  a  son 
Jacob. 

(II)  Jacob  (2),  son  of  Jacob  (i)  and 
Rachel  Shedaker,  was  born  in  1776,  at  Burl- 
ington, New  Jersey,  died  February  5,  1849. 
By  his  wife  Alary,  who  died  in  June,  1819,  he 
had  a  son  John. 

(HI)  John,  son  of  Jacob  (2)  and  Mary 
Shedaker,  was  bom  January  12,  1801,  died 
January  18,  1854.  He  married,  February  8, 
1824.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  and 
Sarah  Rodman,  born  February  12,  1801,  died 


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March  19,  1866,  and  their  children  were:  I. 
W'ilHam  R.,  born  October  30,  1824,  married 
Sarah  Page.  2.  Jacob  D.,  see  forward. 
3.  Sarah  E.,  February  15,  1829,  died  Decem- 
ber 27,  1903 ;  married  Ezra  Budd  Marter.  4. 
John  H..  April  15,  1831,  married  Alary  Hnbbs. 

5.  Charles,  December  10,  1835,  died  in  infancy. 

6.  Henry,   February  6,   1838.  died  in  infancy. 

7.  Elizabeth,  July  6,  1859,  died  in  infancy. 

( l\  )  Jacob  D.,  second  son  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (  Rodman )  Shedaker,  was  bom  in 
1826,  in  Burlington,-  Xew  Jersey,  died  .August 
2,  1907.  Being  a  large  landholder,  he  was  a 
farmer  all  his  life.,  and  made  a  specialty  of 
raising  fine  strawberries,  which  he  was  the 
first  in  that  section  to  grow  in  quantities  and 
ship  to  market  in  the  nearby  citie^.  He  also 
raised  other  fruits,  and  was  the  first  in  the 
community  to  build  and  operate  a  cannery, 
which  did  a  flourishing  business.  The  one 
hundred  acres  which  he  owned  in  the  city  of 
Burlington  was  a  valuable  property,  and  his 
business  ventures  were  very  successful.  He 
was  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  held  several 
town  offices  of  a  minor  nature.  He  was  a 
generous  contributor  to  the  church,  assisted 
materially  in  building  the  .Shedaker  Mission, 
Shedaker  School  and  Shedaker  Station.  He 
belonged  to  Burlington  Lodge,  No.  22,  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  was  the 
last  living  charter  member  of  same.  Mr 
.Shedaker  married,  in  1848,  Esther  .Ann, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Ann  (Keeler)  Du- 
bell,  born  in  1829,  died  in  1889,  and  they  had 
si.x  children,  as  follows:  I.  Charles  H.,  de- 
ceased ;  he  married  Flora  Perkiris,  and  they 
had  a  son  Jacob.  2.  Benjamin  Dubell,  see 
forward.  3.  Elizabeth  Ann.  4.  Janette,  mar- 
ried E.  B.  Heisler.  5.  Aaron,  see  forward. 
6.  Ezra  Budd,  see  forward. 

(  \' )  Benjamin  Dubell,  second  son  of  Jacob 
D.  and  Esther  Ann  (Dubell)  Shedaker,  was 
born  October  25,  1851,  at  Burlington,  Xew 
Jersey,  received  his  education  in  the  Shedaker 
school  and  Farnam  Preparatory  School,  and 
from  1871  to  1878  served  as  agent  of  the 
Shedaker  station.  Later  he  established  him- 
self in  the  seed  busines.s,  in  the  name  of  B. 
D.  Shedaker,  now'  doing  business  as  B.  D. 
.Shedaker  &  Son.,  which  does  an  enoniious 
business  in  this  line,  having  customers  in  all 
parts  of  the  United  States,  also  in  Canada. 
He  also  grows  large  quantities  of  roots  and 
owns  about  sixty  acres  of  valuable  land  around 
E'lgewater  Park,  New  Jersey,  where  he  re- 
sides. He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  served 
five   vears   as  town   collector,   and    the    same 


length  ui  time  as  member  (.)f  the  school  board. 
Mr.  Sheilaker  was  representative  to  the  state 
legislature  from  1902  until  igaS,  and  while 
holding  that  office  was  appointed  on  several 
important  committees,  among  them  being 
chairman  of  committee  on  agriculture  and 
agricultural  college  and  also  chairman  of  com- 
mittee on  state  treasurer's  accounts.  He  was 
a  charter  member  of  Lodge  No.  848,  Mt. 
Holly,  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks,  was  formerly  a  member  of  the  Knights 
of  Pythias,  and  has  been  a  contributor  to  the 
support  of  the  Shedaker  Mission  and  St. 
Stephen's  Church,  of  Beverly.  Mr.  Shedaker 
married,  ^May  29,  1877.  Jennie,  daughter  of 
Gould  and  Mary  (North)  Phinney,  of  Mon- 
roetown,  Bradford  county,  Pennsylvania,  and 
they  had  two  children,  Harry  Phinney,  see 
forward :  \\'illiam  North,  see  forward. 

(  \'I )  Harry  Phinney,  the  older  son  of  Ben- 
jamin Dubell  and  Jennie  (Phinney)  Shed- 
aker, was  born  April  i,  1879,  received  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  and  Rider  Busi- 
ness College,  after  which  he  spent  three  years 
in  the  auction  store  of  \\'illiam  North,  in  Phil- 
adelphia. Pie  next  engaged  in  real  estate 
business  in  Atlantic  City,  which  he  sold,  and 
then  went  to  work  for  Cinnaminson  Electric 
flight  &  Power  Company,  working  up  to  the 
position  of  Superintendent.  He  was  also  as- 
sistant superintendent  and  had  charge  of  build- 
ing the  road  for  the  Camden  &  Trenton  Street 
railway :  he  remained  with  the  company  six 
years,  and  when  the  road  was  sold  he  removed 
to  Staunton,  \irginia,  where  he  spent  a  year 
managing  a  street  railway  and  electric  light 
plant.  In  1907  Mr.  Shedaker  returned  to  his 
native  town  and  became  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  B.  D.  Shedaker  &  Son.  He  married,  April 
29,  1903,  Myrtle,  daughter  of  Senator  Mit- 
chell B.  and  Theresa  (Oliver)  Perkins,  of 
Beverly,  Xew  Jersey,  and  they  have  a  daugh- 
ter, Theresa,  born  April  15,  1904. 

(\'I)  William  Xorth,  second  and  younger 
son  of  Benjamin  Dubell  and  Jennie  {  Phinney) 
Shedaker,  was  born  March  15,  1881,  died 
January  17,  1906.  He  received  his  education 
in  the  Shedaker  school,  supplemented  by  a 
course  at  the  Pierce  Business  College.  In 
1900  he  engaged  in  the  drug  business  in  .At- 
lantic City,  New  Jersey,  having  a  half  interest 
in  the  firm  of  Shedaker  &  Harris,  which  did 
business  one  year,  after  which  he  bought  out 
his  partner  and  the  name  became  William  N. 
Shedaker.  Later  he  became  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Shedaker  &  Budd,  which  owned  and 
conducted  three   drug  stores  in   .Atlantic  City 


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for  a  period  of  two  years;  in  1904  Mr.  Shed- 
aker  bought  out  his  partner  and  incorporated 
the  business  under  the  name  of  Sliedaker  Drug 
Stores,  of  which  his  father  was  president. 
This  business  was  eventually  sold  to  Mr. 
Lang.  Mr.  Shedaker  was  a  prominent  mem- 
ber of  the  Elks  and  Masonic  orders  of  Atlan- 
tic City,  and  at  his  death  was  buried  from  the 
home  of  his  father  in  Burlington,  with  all  the 
honors  of  both  orders,  his  funeral  being  the 
most  largely  attended  of  any  ever  held  in  that 
section  of  the  state.  He  married,  October  19, 
1903.  Edith,  daughter  of  Mrs.  L.  F.  Burch, 
and  is  survived  by  a  son,  William  North,  born 
September  15,  1904. 

( \  I  .Varon.  third  son  of  Jacob  D.  and 
Esther  Ann  (  Dubell )  Shedaker,  was  born  Au- 
gust 18,  1858.  at  the  family  homestead,  in 
Burlington,  New  Jersey.  He  received  his 
education  at  the  [)ublic  school  and  Farnum 
Preparatory  School,  at  Beverly.  He  then 
spent  some  time  in  the  employ  of  the  I'enn- 
sjdvania  railroad  as  station  agent  at  Shedaker 
and  Edgewater  Park  stations,  after  which  he 
settled  down  on  the  home  farm,  which  he  has 
conducted  ever  since.  He  makes  a  specialty 
of  truck  farming  and  small  nursery  stock, 
raising  fine  asparagus  and  rhubarb.  The  old 
house  has  recently  been  torn  down,  and  Mr. 
Shedaker  has  erected  in  the  same  spot  a  com- 
modious, modern  residence ;  the  location  is  in 
a  picturesque  spot  and  the  house  overlooks  the 
Delaware  river.  He  is  a  Re]niblican  in  poli- 
tics, and  has  served  as  township  clerk  since 
the  separation  of  the  city  and  township  of 
Burlington,  in  1894.  He  is  a  member  of  Burl- 
ington Lodge,  No.  22,  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows,  and  also  of  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks,  No.  996,  of  Burlington. 
He  has  met  with  success  in  the  conduct  of  his 
farm,  and  is  a  prominent  and  respected  citizen 
of  his  native  town.     He  is  unmarried. 

(V)  Ezra  Budd,  fourth  and  youngest  son  of 
Jacob  D.  and  Esther  .\nn  ( Dubell )  Shedaker, 
was  born  October  17,  i860,  at  t3urlington.  New 
Jersey,  and  there  received  his  education.  He 
has  lived  on  the  farm  all  his  life,  and  assists 
in  the  management  of  same,  making  his  home 
with  liis  brother,  .^aron.  He  is  also  un- 
married. 


One  of  the  self-made  and  suc- 
TESXOW     cessful  business  men  of  New 

Jersey  is  the  representative  of 
the  (k'rman  family  named  Tesnow,  whose 
father  was  a  tradesman  in  Prussia  before  his 
emigration  to  this  country.     The  name  is  not 


a  common  one  in  this  country,  but  those  of 
whom  we  have  record  are  of  the  enterprising 
and  public-spirited  class  who  make  the  best 
citizens. 

(I)  John  Henry  C  Tesnow  was  born  No- 
vember 7,  1823,  at  Wolgast,  a  seaport  town  in 
Pomerania,  Eastern  Prussia,  and  died  Sep- 
tember 28,  1899,  at  Delanco,  New  Jersey. 
After  receiving  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Germany,  Air.  Tesnow  learned 
fresco  painting.  He  came  to  America  in  1850, 
locating  at  Philadelphia,  where  he  worked  at 
his  trade,  also  doing  fancy  carriage  painting; 
among  the  work  at  which  he  assisted  was  the 
decorating  of  the  Academy  of  Music.  He 
eventually  went  into  business  for  himself, 
making  a  specialty  of  wall-painting  and  panel 
work,  and  this  concern  became  the  largest 
business  of  the  kind  in  the  city.  In  1884  Mr. 
Tesnow  retired  from  active  work,  settling  in 
Delanco.  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  He  was  a  Democrat,  and  a  member  of 
the  Lutheran  church.  He  married,  about 
i860,  Christina  Maria  Ritza,  born  April  13, 
1829,  in  Hanover,  Germany,  died  June  13, 
1906,  at  Delanco,  New  Jersey,  and  their  chil- 
dren were :  Louisa,  who  resides  in  Riverside, 
New  Jersey;  three  who  died  in  infancy; 
Enmia,  who  married  John  A.  Schneider,  of 
Delanco,  and  has  two  children,  \\'alter  and 
Henry. 

(II)  Henry,  son  of  John  Henry  C.  and 
Christina  Maria  (Ritza)  Tesnow,  was  born 
May  2,  1864,  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
receiving  his  education  in  the  public  and  Ger- 
man day  schools,  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen 
years  entered  the  otifice  of  George  W.  Reed, 
a  real  estate  lawyer,  where  he  spent  three 
years  in  work  and  study,  at  the  end  of  which 
time  he  entered  the  L'niversity  of  Pennsylva- 
nia. He  graduated  from  the  law  course,  in 
1887,  taking  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Law, 
and  later  in  the  same  year  entered  Ursinis  Col- 
lege, of  Collegeville,  I'enn.sylvania,  graduating 
from  the  theological  course  in  1891.  Mr. 
Tesnow  spent  twelve  years  in  the  ministry, 
seven  of  which  he  lived  in  Denver,  Colorado, 
and  in  1903  began  to  operate  in  real  estate, 
his  office  being  located  for  a  few  months  in 
Delanco,  New  Jersey,  but  later  moved  to  Riv- 
erside, which  has  been  his  residence  and  place 
of  business  since.  In  connection  with  his 
business  in  the  line  of  real  estate,  Mr.  Tesnow 
deals  largely  in  fire  insurance,  and  has  been 
unusually  successful  in  all  his  un<lertakings. 
Besides  his  large  dealings  in  Riverside,  he 
also  does  a  large  amount  of  business  in  the 


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surrounding  towns,  and  is  considered  a  safe 
and  conservative  investor,  having  gained  the 
confidence  of  the  entire  community.  He  is 
in  great  demand  in  educational  and  social  cir- 
cles, often  giving  his  advice  and  service  on 
important  committees,  and  he  is  a  director 
and  leading  member  of  the  Maerinerchor  and 
Turngemeinde.  of  Riverside.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks,  Kg.  99f),  and  of  several  German  and 
-American  benevolent  associations,  as  well  as 
the  Riverside  Fire  Company.  In  religious 
views  he  is  a  Lutheran,  and  he  carries  out  the 
teachings  of  his  faith  in  his  relations  with  hi^ 
fellowmen. 


The  Shinn  family  is  not  only  one 
SHIXK     of  the  oldest  of  the  New  Jersey 

colonial  families,  but  it  is  also 
one  of  the  oldest  in  Saxon  England,  and  the 
attempt  has  ever  been  made  with  some  plaus- 
ibility to  trace  it  back  through  the  old  Ger- 
manic tribes  of  continental  Europe  to  its 
Aryan  source  in  the  Hymalayan  highlands  of 
xAsia.  Coming  down  to  historic  times,  how- 
ever, and  going  back  to  the  records  of  Great 
Britain,  the  .American  branch  of  the  family 
begins  with  the  parish  of  Freckenham,  county 
Suffolk,  and  the  year  1520. 

(I)  Francis  Sheene,  of  Freckenham,  born 
between  1520  and  1525,  is  registered  there 
and  in  the  neighboring  jiarish  of  Soham  with 
three  children:  i.  .A  daughter  baptized  in  1551. 

2.  Mary,  baptized  in  1564.  3.  John,  who  is 
referred  to  below. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Francis  Sheene,  was  ac- 
cording to  the  record  married  four  times, 
having  nine  cliildren  by  his  first  marriage  and 
one  by  each  of  his  succeeding  unions.  These 
children  were;  By  his  first  wife,  .Anne,  who 
died  in  1617,  I.  Edward,  born  1588,  who  be- 
came the  rector  of  Little  Fransham  in  1610, 
and  had  three  children:  Elizabeth,  1617; 
Lucas,  1623;  and  Edward  Jr.,  1625,  who  mar- 
ried Dorothy,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Jermyn, 
and  left  three  children :  Jermyn,  .Annie  and 
Sarah.     2.  Clement,  who  is  referred  to  below. 

3.  P'rancis,    1595,   married   Joan  ,   who 

died  1631,  and  had:  Elizabeth,  1616;  Francis, 
1618:  John.  1(123  to  1631  ;  anci  Thomas,  1627. 

4.  William,  1604,  married  and  had,  Anna. 
1642:  and  Mary,  1645.  5.  Anna,  1608.  6. 
Margaret,  1610.  7.  John,  born  and  died  1614. 
8.  Nicholas,  1614  to  1615.  John  Shene  had 
also  by  his  second  marriage,  John,  1619.  By 
his  third  marriage,  .Anne,  1621.  By  his  fourth 
marriage  Thomas,  1630  to  1631. 


(HI)  Clement,  son  of  John  Shene,  was  bap- 
tized January  24,  1594.  He  married,  at  Soham, 

Grace  ,   who   bore   him:    i.    Margaret, 

1624.  died  1626.  2.  Henry,  1627,  died  1674. 
3.  Thomas,  1630.  4.  John,  who  is  referred  to 
below.  5.  F"rancis,  1634,  married,  1663,  .Alice 
Carter,  children:  Mary,  Francis  and  .Alice.  6. 
Clement,  who  emigrated  to  New  Jersey,  unless 
the  references  should  refer  to  his  father,  born 
1637.  7.  Grace,  1640,  married,  1663,  John 
Howlett. 

(1\')  John,  son  of  Clement  and  Grace 
Shinn.  was  born  in  Soham  parish,  county  Suf- 
folk, England,  died  in  Burlington  county,  New 
Jersey,  17 12.  The  above  pedigree  is  the  one 
which  is  considered  the  most  probable,  but  it 
should  be  mentioned  that  the  Soham  records 
have  in  addition,  Clement,  son  of  Francis 
Sheene,  born  1592,  married  Sarah,  and  had 
John  who  married  Jane.  In  either  case  it 
seems  reasonably  certain  that  one  of  these 
Clements  is  the  father  and  the  other  the  uncle 
of  John,  the  emigrant.  John  Shinn  was  a 
husbandman  and  a  millwright,  and  the  credit 
of  erecting  the  first  mill  in  West  Jersey  lies 
between  him  and  Thomas  Olive.  In  1680 
John  and  Clement  Shinn  are  freeholders  of 
I'urlington,  but  whether  the  latter  is  the 
brother,  uncle  or  father  of  the  former  is  un- 
certain. Nothing  more  is  known  about  him. 
September  18,  i(>8o,  John  .Shinn  bought  one- 
fifteenth  of  one  of  the  one  hundred  shares  of 
West  Jersey,  and  July  17,  1697,  gave  one  hun- 
dred and  twentv  acres  of  it  to  his  son  James 
and  the  remainder  to  his  son  John.  His  will 
is  dated  January  14,  1711-12,  and  was  proved 
February  30,  171 1-12.  By  his  wife  Jane, 
whom  he  married  in  Soham,  he  had  nine  chil- 
dren :    I.    John,    married     (first)    1686,    Ellen 

Stacy,  and   (second)    1707.  Alary  .     2. 

George,  married,  i')9i,  Mary  Thompson.  3. 
Mary,  married  (first)  i68(j,  John  Crosby,  and 
(second)  1691,  Richard  Fennimore.  4.  James, 
who  is  referred  to  below.  5.  Thomas,  mar- 
ried (first)  1687,  Sarah  Shawthorne,  no  chil- 
dren, and  (second)  1693,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Richard  and  .Abigail  Stockton,  the  emigrants. 
6.  Sarah,  born  1669.  married  Thomas  .Atkin- 
son. 7.  Esther,  died  unmarried.  8.  Francis, 
died  unmarried.  9.  Martha,  married,  1697, 
Joshua  Owen,  tiie  emigrant,  and  (second) 
1729,  Restore  Liopincott. 

(\')  James,  son  of  John  and  Jane  Shinn, 
was  born  in  England,  died  in  New  Hanover 
township.  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
1 75 1.  He  lived  the  longest  and  was  probably 
the  youngest   of  the  children  of  John   Shinn. 


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When  his  sister  Martha  and  Joshua  Owen  de- 
clared their  second  intentions  of  marriage,  the 
members  of  the  meeting  were  informed  that 
James  Shinn  and  Abigail  Eippincott  had  pulj- 
licly  declared  their  intentions  of  marrying 
without  coming  before  the  meeting.  The 
shocked  and  horrified  Quakers  appointed  com 
mittees  to  speak  to  the  obstreperous  young 
folk  and  also  to  their  parents,  and  at  the  next 
monthly  meeting,  these  committees  reported 
that  the  tremble  was  that  the  young  people 
were  determined  to  marry  but  that  not  being 
able  to  gain  their  parents  consent,  they  could 
not  pass  the  meeting.  John  Shinn  and  Re- 
store Eippincott.  the  fathers,  then  went  out 
under  a  large  beach  tree  near  the  meeting 
house  to  discuss  the  matter  and  were  shortly 
after  joined  by  their  two  wives,  and  later 
still  by  some  of  the  grave  and  reverend  elders 
of  the  meeting.  The  result  was  that  they  gave 
their  consent  to  the  marriage,  the  intentions 
were  properly  and  regularly  declare<l  and  the 
young  people  were  married  at  the  house  of 
Restore  Eippincott,  and  John  Shinn  gave  them 
one  hundred  and  twenty-one  acres  of  land  in 
Nottingham  township  for  their  new  home. 
John  Shiun  seems  to  have  had  little  to  do  with 
church  or  [jolitics.  He  owned  land  and  en- 
joyed it.  and  gave  large  tracts  to  his  children, 
and  the  same  traits  have  been  noticeable  in 
their  descendants.  His  brother  Thomas  led 
the  first  migration  southward  in  1750,  and 
many  of  the  grandchildren  of  James  and  Abi- 
gail Shinn  followed  them  into  the  fertile  val- 
leys of  Virginia  and  West  \irginia  whence 
their  descendants  have  spread  into  the  south 
and  southwest. 

James  Shinn  married.  May  3.  1<)')J.  Abigail, 
daughter  of  Restore  and  Hannah  (  Shattock ) 
Eippincott.  Their  children  were:  i.  Hannah, 
married  John  Atkinson.  2.  Hope,  married 
Michael  .Vtkinson.  3.  Francis,  married  Eliza- 
l>eth  .Atkinson.  4.  Joseph,  who  is  referred  to 
below.  5.  James  Jr..  married,  1730,  Hannah, 
daughter  of  George  and  Elizabeth  ( r^ipj)in- 
cott )  Shinn.  and  granddaughter  of  John  and 
Ellen  (Stacy)  Shinn.  6.  Solomon,  married 
Mary  Antrim.  7.  Clement,  married  Elizabeth 
Webb.  8.  Abigail,  married  Henry  Reeve.  9. 
Susanna,  married  Bartholomew  West,  lived  in 
Monmouth  county  and  had  three  sons  in  the 
revoUitionary  army.  10.  Mercy,  who  died  un- 
married. 

(\'T)  J()se])h,  son  of  James  and  Abigail 
(  Eipi)incott )  Shinn,  was  born  in  Nottingham 
township.  lUirlington  coimty,  in  1703.  died  in 
Mount  llnlly,  ■'"ebruary  11,  1759,  being  buried 


in  St.  Andrew's  churchyard  there.  Eeaving 
the  Society  of  Friends,  probably  as  the  result 
of  George  Keitlis's  defection,  he  became  one 
of  the  charter  communicants  of  St.  Andrew's, 
Mount  Holly,  and  had  all  of  his  children  bap- 
tized there  May  30,  1746,  by  the  Rev.  Colin 
Campbell.  He  was  a  large  land  owner  in 
New  Hanover  township,  Burlington  county, 
and  in  I'pper  Freehold  township,  Monmouth 
county.  In  1726  he  married  Mary,  daughter 
of  W'illiam  and  Elizabeth  15udd,  the  latter  a 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Abigail  Stockton,  the 
emigrants,  and  granddaughter  of  William  and 
Ann  (Clapgut)  Budd.  the  emigrants.  Their 
children  were:  i.  I'atience.  2.  Rebecca,  mar- 
ried George  Clapp.  3.  William,  who  is  re- 
ferred to  below.  4.  Vestai.  5.  Joseph  Jr.  6. 
Benjamin.  7.  John,  married  Mary  Allen.  8. 
I<"rancis,  married  Martha,  daughter  of  (jeorge 
and  Sarah  (  Branson )  Owen  Shinn,  and  grand- 
daughter of  George  and  Elizabeth  (Eippin- 
cott )  Shinn.  9.  Abigail,  married  Joseph 
Budd. 

(VH)  William,  third  child  and  eldest  son 
of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Budd)  Shinn,  was  born 
in  New  Hanover  township  or  in  Mount  Holly, 
was  baptized  as  an  adult  in  St.  Andrew's, 
Mount  Holly,  May  30,  1746,  died  in  Burling- 
ton. May.  1767.  and  was  buried  in  St.  Mary's 
churchyard  there.  June  24.  1756,  he  obtained 
a  marriage  license  to  marry  Sarah  PVench,  of 
Burlington,  and  their  children  were:  i.  Mary, 
born  May  22,  1757.  2.  Eydia,  1759,  who  be- 
came the  third  wife  of  Caleb  Arney  Eippin- 
cott. 3.  Eli,  1761,  died  November  9,  1776, 
and  buried  in  St.  Andrew's  churchyard.  Mount 
Holly.  4.  Aaron,  who  is  referred  to  below. 
5.  Joseph,  1765,  married.  1783.  Mary  Eippin- 
cott. 

(  \  HI  )  Aaron,  fourth  child  and  second  son 
lit  W'illiam  antl  Sarah  (French)  Shinn.  was 
born  in  Burlington.  New  Jersey.  In  his  fa- 
tlicr's  will,  written  May  27,  1767,  he  with  his 
brothers  and  sisters  are  mentioned  as  minors. 
Nothing  mere  is  known  about  him  except  that 
he  married  and  had  at  least  one  child  Eli,  who 
is  referred  to  below. 

(IX)  Eli,  son  of  Aaron  Shinn,  was  born  in 
Mount  Holly,  November  13,  1788,  died  there 
June  26,  i86<;,  being  buried  in  St.  Andrew's 
churchyard.  He  married.  April  27,  1791, 
.Sarah  Haines,  by  whom  he  had  one  son. 
CTiarles  Corey,  referred  to  below. 

( X )  Charles  Corey,  son  of  Eli  and  Sarah 
(Haines)  Shinn,  was  born  February  13,  1814, 
married  Dorothy  Southwick,  who  bore  him 
five  children:  i.  Garrett  W.     2.  .\ima  I.,  mar- 


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ried  a  Mr.  Butz.  3.  Beiilah,  married  a  Mr. 
Biidd.  4.  Sarah,  married  a  Mr.  Ga.skell.  5. 
Charles  Henry,  who  is  referred  to  below. 

(XI)  Charles  Henry,  youngest  child  of 
Charles  Corey  and  Dorothy  (Southwick) 
Shinn,  was  born  in  Burlington  county,  Sep- 
tember 18,  1843.  He  was  at  one  time  sheriff 
of  Burlington  county  and  prominent  in  poli- 
tics. He  married,  March  17,  i8()8,  Amia  liliz- 
abeth,  daughter  of  Carlton  Ridgway  and 
Mary  Harde  (  AlcClure)  Moore.  Her  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  David  and  Janet  Mc- 
Clure,  of  Philadelphia.  Benjamin  Aloore,  the 
founder  of  the  family,  came  from  Birming- 
ham, Lincolnshire,  England,  to  ISurlington, 
New  Jersey,  and  married  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  ^lary  (Bernard)  Stokes.  His 
son,  Benjamin,  married,  in  1730,  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Fennimore,  and  their  fifth 
cliild  and  second  son,  Bethuel,  born  March  14, 
1 74 1,  married  Martha,  daughter  of  John  Allen. 
Their  third  child  and  second  son  Amasa,  born 
March  15,  1770,  married  Agnes,  daughter  of 
-Samuel  French,  and  their  eldest  child,  Sam- 
uel French,  born  October  7,  1793,  married 
Rachel,  daughter  of  Nehemiah  IJaines  and 
.■\bigail,  daugliter  of  Noah  Haines  and  Han- 
nah (Thorn)  Turner,  the  widow  of  George 
Turner  and  the  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Le- 
titia  (Hinchman)  Thorn,  and  granddaughter 
of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Bowne)  Thorne. 
Nehemiah  was  the  son  of  Jonathan  Haines 
and  Hannah,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary 
(.Austin)  Sharp,  Samuel  French  and  Rachel 
(Haines)  Moore  had  two  children:  Bloom- 
field  Haines,  who  married  Clara  Jessup,  and 
Carlton  Ridgway.  Carlton  Ridgway  Moore 
was  born  in  Philadelphia,  April  22,  1809,  died 
September,  1905.  He  was  a  cotton  merchant, 
a  member  of  the  Odd  Fellows  and  a  Friend. 
.After  the  civil  war  he  went  to  Northampton 
county,  \"irginia,  where  he  died.  By  his  wife, 
Mary  Harde  (AlcClure)  Moore,  he  had: 
Mary  B.,  who  married  George  Wolfe;  Jacob 
Ri'gway,  died  unmarried;  Carlton  Ridgway 
Jr.,  married  Elizabeth  Van  Ness;  Helen  Clara, 
married  John  B.  Trick,  of  Vincentown ;  Anna 
Elizabeth,  referred  to  above.  Mary  Harde 
(McClure)  Moore  died  March  11,  1861. 
Charles  Henry  and  Anna  Elizabeth  (Moore) 
Shinn  have  one  child,  Samuel  Woolston,  who 
is  referred  to  below. 

(XII)  Samuel  Woolston.  only  child  of 
Charles  Henry  and  Anna  Elizabeth  (Moore) 
.Shinn,  was  born  on  a  farm  near  Mount  Holly, 
October  14,  1870,  died  February  25,  1908.  He 
was  educated  in  private  schools  and  in  a  busi- 


ness college  in  Philadelphia.  He  then  studied 
law  with  E.  P.  Budd,  of  Mount  Holly,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  in  June, 
1895,  begimiing  at  once  to  practise  his  pro- 
fession in  Mount  Holly,  where  he  became  one 
of  the  leading  and  most  successful  lawyers  of 
the  town.  He  was  a  director  in  the  Mount 
Holly  National  Bank^  a  director  of  the  Union 
National  Bank  of  the  same  place  and  a  director 
of  the  Mount  Holly  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust 
Company.  He  was  the  secretary  of  the  Burl- 
ington County  Fair  Association  and  was  one 
of  its  original  promoters,  and  the  one  most  in- 
strumental in  making  it  the  most  successful 
fair  in  the  state.  He  served  as  deputy  sheriff'. 
He  was  a  member  oi  the  Elks  of  Mount  Holly 
and  of  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America. 
He  married,  February  15,  1904,  Anna, 
tlaughter  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  (Austin) 
Powell,  and  their  children  are;  i.  Norman 
Ridgway,  born  February  22,  1906,  died  July 
16,  1906.  2.  Mary  Elizabeth,  August  18, 
1907.  Benjamin  Powell  was  the  son  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Eliza  Powell,  of  Pemberton.  Mary 
( .Austin )  Powell  was  a  daughter  of  Charles 
and  Ilannah  (Lamb)  Austin. 


The  Loder  family  has  for  gen- 
LODER      erations  been  connected  with  the 

history  of  South  Jersey,  where 
it  has  won  for  itself  an  enviable  name  and  rep- 
utation for  integrity  and  ability.  By  its  inter- 
marriages with  the  old  New  Jersey  families 
it  has  also  connected  itself  with  pretty  nearly 
everything  that  is  worth  while  in  the  history 
and  the  civilization  of  the  country. 

(I)  David  Pettitt  Loder,  founder  of  the 
branch  of  the  family  at  present  under  consid- 
eration, was  for  many  years  one  of  the  most 
])riiniinent  contractors  and  builders  of  Bridge- 
ton,  New  Jersey.  His  children  were:  i.  Ben- 
jamin Pettitt,  married  Elizabeth  Nicholson.  2. 
William  Pettitt,  married  .Aner  Daniel.  3.  Ella 
.M.,  unmarried.  4.  Alartha,  died  in  infancy. 
5.  Charles  Henry,  referred  to  below.  Martin 
and  Lemuel,  brothers  of  David  P.  Loder, 
served  in  the  civil  war  among  the  New  Jersey 
volunteers. 

(II)  Charles  Henry,  son  of  David  Pettitt 
Loder,  of  liridgeton.  New  Jersey,  was  born 
at  that  place,  November  29,  1859.  He  was  a 
bookkeeper.  He  married  Laura  Delia,  daugh- 
ter of  Gilbert  S.  and  Emily  R.  (Carman) 
Swing,  of  Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey. 
Her  grandfather  served  with  distinction  in  the 
war  of  1812.  The  children  of  Charles  Henry 
and    Laura   Delia    (Swing)    Loder    were;     i. 


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LeRoy  \\'ard,  referred  to  below.  2.  Emily 
Richer,  born  August  25,  1886.  3.  Martha 
Ann,  March  21,  1889.  4.  ]\Iay  \  annanian, 
CJctober  10,  1895.  5-  Frances  Stanley,  May 
28,  1904. 

(Ill)  LeRoy  Ward,  eldest  child  of  Charles 
Henry  and  Laura  Delia  (Swing)  Loder,  was 
born  at  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey,  December  5, 
1883,  and  is  now  located  at  91  East  Commerce 
street,  in  that  city.  For  his  early  education 
he  was  sent  to  the  public  schools  of  Bridge- 
ton,  and  after  graduating  from  the  Bridgeton 
high  school  he  entered  the  West  Jersey  Acad- 
emy, frum  which  he  graduated  in  1902.  He 
then  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of 
John  S.  Mitchell,  Esquire,  of  Bridgeton,  and 
was  admitted  by  the  supreme  court  to  the  New 
Jersey  bar  as  an  attorney,  in  November,  1905, 
and  June  it,.  1909,  was  admitted  a  counsellor. 
Since  his  admission  as  an  attorney  he  has  been 
engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion at  Bridgeton,  making  a  specialty  of  crim- 
inal cases.  In  politics  Mr.  Loder  is  a  Demo- 
crat and  is  quite  popular  and  prominent  in  the 
affairs  of  that  party  in  his  county.  In  1906 
he  was  the  candidate  of  the  Democratic  party 
as  the  New  Jersey  assemblyman  from  Bridge- 
ton,  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
state  Democratic  auxiliary  committee.  Mr. 
Loder  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  at 
the  West  Jersey  Academy,  Bridgeton  Athletic 
Association,  New  Jersey  State  Bar  Associa- 
tion, and  of  the  Cumberland  County  Bar  As- 
sociation. In  religion  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Presbyterian  church  of  Bridgeton.  He  is  an 
enthusiastic  secret  society  man,  and  a  member 
of  the  Patriotic  Order  of  the  Sons  of  America. 
Among  his  secret  society  affiliations  should  be 
mentioned  the  Cumberland  Lodge,  No.  35,  In- 
dependent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  of  which  he 
is  a  past  grand,  and  secretary  of  Bridgeton 
Commercial  League. 


.Adam  Reber  Sloan,  of  Camden, 
SLO.VN      New  Jersey,  is  the  son  of  James 

Clement  and  Lucy  (Reber) 
Sloan.  The  father  was  born  near  Tuckertoti, 
New  Jersey,  and  the  mother  was  a  daughter 
of  .Adam  Reber.  of  Berks  county,  Pennsylva- 
nia. Their  children  were:  I.  Theodore  Reber, 
an  artist  in  oil-cloth  design  ;  married  Miriam, 
daughter  of  John  Hickman,  and  had  four 
children:  Daisy  II.,  died  a  spinster;  Esther  B.. 
died  in  1908;  the  Rev.  Harold  Paul,  a  Metho- 
dist Episco])al  minister;  Eva  T.  H.,  married  a 
Mr.  Earl.  2.  .Adam  Reber,  referred  to  below. 
.\dam   Reber   Sloan   was  born   in   Camden, 


New  Jersey,  May  11,  1854,  and  is  now  living 
in  .Atco,  New  Jersey.  I'or  his  early  education 
he  attended  the  public  schools  of  Camden,  and 
then  became  a  newspaper  man,  a  profession 
which  he  followed  with  great  success  for  many 
years.  He  has  filled  every  position  in  jour- 
nalism, from  reporter  to  editor.  For  eighteen 
years  he  worked  on  the  staff  of  the  Nczcark 
Evening  Xcws,  and  then,  for  about  twenty 
years,  was  the  editor  of  the  Camden  Democrat. 
For  a  time  also  he  was  the  editor  of  the  Cam- 
den Telegram.  He  took  up  the  study  of  law 
in  the  office  of  Judge  Richard  P.  Miller,  Es- 
<|uire,  of  Camden,  New  Jersey,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar,  November  7, 
i8'-j8.  Since  this  time  he  has  been  engaged  in 
the  general  practice  of  his  profession  in  Cam- 
den, Xew  Jersey.  Air.  Sloan  is  a  Republican 
and  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  of 
.Atco,  New  Jersey,  where  he  resides  with  his 
family.  He  is  an  ardent  and  enthusiastic 
Mason.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Haddonfield, 
.New  Jersey,  Lodge,  No.  130,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons,  of  which  he  is  a  past  master. 
He  is  also  a  past  high  priest  of  Salome  Chap- 
ter. No.  19,  Royal  .Arch  Masons.  In  addition 
he  is  a  member  of  Cyrene  Commantlery,  No. 
7.  Knights  Templar,  of  Camden  :  A'an  Hook 
■  Council,  No.  8,  Royal  and  Select  Masters,  of 
Camden  Consistory  of  Camden,  New  Jersey, 
thirty-second  degree  Masons.  Besides  this  he 
enjoys  the  distinction  of  being  one  of  the  com- 
paratively few  members  of  the  Supreme  Coun- 
cil, Sovereign  (irand  Inspectors  (leneral,  of 
the  Scottish  Rite  Masons,  which  thus  makes 
him  a  thirty-third  degree  Mason.  He  is  also 
an  Odd  Fellow. 

.Adam  Reber  Sloan  married  (first)  Novem- 
ber 7,  1889,  Minnie  L.,  daughter  of  John  H. 
and  Mary  (Sutton)  Wyle,  of  Philadelphia 
Pennsylvania.  Their  children  are:  i.  Dorothy 
Wyle,  now  a  student  at  the  New  Jersey  State 
Normal  School.  2.  Lucy  Emily,  now  attend- 
ing the  public  school  in  Atco,  Camden  county. 
New  Jersey.  Minnie  L.  (Wyle)  Sloan  died 
September  2.  1893,  and  Mr.  Sloan  married 
(second)  December  18,  1900,  Elizabeth  AI. 
Kase.  On  her  wedding  day  she  was  commis- 
sioned by  the  governor  of  New  Jersey  as  a 
commissioner  of  deeds  and  a  notary  public. 


Benjamin  Githens,  of  I'hiladel- 
CiITHENS     i)hia.  is  one  of  the  most  suc- 
cessful   merchants   and    finan- 
ciers  of   that   city,   and   his    family   has  been 
identified  with  New  Jersey  for  many  genera- 
tions.    It  is  unfortunate,  howevei",  that  there 


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are  but  few  records  except  those  of  intermar- 
riages witli  ]:)ruiiiinent  and  influential  branches 
of  the  old  historic  families  of  the  colonies  on 
the  Delaware,  and  the  absence  of  birth  and 
death  records  and  of  wills  and  deeds  make  the 
task  of  tracing  the  genealogy  of  any  given  line 
an  extremely  difficult  one. 

(I)  Clayton  (iithens,  father  of  Benjamin 
Githens,  was  born  in  the  southern  part  of  New 
Jersey,  where  he  married  Sarah  \\  ear  Mun- 
roe,  whose  father  came  to  this  coimtry  from 
Scotland.  He  lived  at  Juliustown,  Burlington 
county,   where  their  children  were  born. 

(H)  Benjamin,  son  of  Clayton  and  Sarah 
VV.  (Munroe)  Githens,  was  born  in  Julius- 
town,  and  there  received  his  early  edu- 
cation and  the  training  which  enabled  him  to 
become  in  later  life,  after  he  had  come  to 
Philadelphia,  the  successful  business  man 
which  he  now  is,  in  Burlington  county.  For 
many  years  he  has  been  the  senior  partner  in 
the  firm  of  wholesale  grocers  and  importers, 
Githens,  Rexsamer  &  Company,  of  Front 
street,  Philadelphia,  and  the  great  prosperity 
of  this  firm  is  in  a  great  measure  due  to  his 
industry,  integrity  and  efTorts.  Mr.  Githens  is 
also  intimately  identified  with  very  many  of 
Philadelphia's  other  mercantile  and  financial  in- 
stitutions. He  is  a  director  and  vice-president 
of  the  Philadelphia  \\'arehouse  and  Cold  Stor- 
age Company,  and  for  twenty-five  years  has 
been  a  director  in  the  Corn  Exchange  National 
Bank,  of  P'hiladelphia,  and  since  1900  has  been 
president  of  that  institution,  which  is  one  of 
the  strongest  of  the  financial  organizations  in 
the  city,  having  a  surplus  and  net  profits  of 
$1,374,673.74,  and  deposits  amounting  to 
$20,002,027.89.  In  addition  to  all  of  these  re- 
sponsibilities, Mr.  Githens  takes  a  great  in- 
terest in  everything  that  pertains  to  the  ar- 
tistic, social  and  historical  prestige  of  Phila- 
delphia and  New  Jersev.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Philadelphia  .\rt  Cl'ub,  City  Club  of  Phila- 
delphia, Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania, 
American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social 
Science  of  Philadelphia,  and  of  the  New  Jersey 
Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

Benjamin  (lithens  married  Mary,  daughter 
of  \Mlliam  Prettyman,  of  Philadel])hia,  and 
their  children  are:  i.  Augustus  Decan.  born  in 
Philadelphia,  i8(n,  a  member  of  the  grocery 
and  importing  house  of  Githens,  Rexsamer  & 
Company ;  married  Mary  McDermot,  of  New 
Jersey.  2.  Mary  D.,  born  in  Philadelphia, 
married  Alan  Calvert,  of  Philadelphia,  who  is 
in  the  tin  plate  and  metal  business.  Thev  have 
two  children,    Benjamin   Githens   Calvert   and 


Jean  Githens  Calvert.  Mr.  Githens  and  fam- 
ily are  members  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  of 
Philadelphia.  He  is  now  one  of  the  trustees 
and  a  deacon. 


According  to  the  opinions  of  anti- 
GREY     (|uarians    who    have    studied    the 

origin  of  surnames  in  Great  Britain 
the  names  Grey  and  Ciray  are  patronymics  said 
to  have  been  derived  from  a  color ;  and  it  is 
to  be  presumed  that  whatever  is  true  in  this 
respect  of  the  English  family  of  Grey  is  also 
true  of  the  branch  of  the  general  family  which 
lived  in  Ireland. 

( I )  Philip  Grey,  who  appears  to  have  been 
the  immigrant  ancestor  of  the  family  under 
consideration  in  this  place,  lived  in  Ireland  and 
came  thence  to  .America  in  1800.  He  married 
and  had  a  family. 

(II)  Philip  James,  son  of  Philip  Grey,  the 
immigrant,  lived  in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  but 
we  have  no  account  of  his  family  life,  except 
that  he  married  and  had  a  family. 

(HI)  Martin  Philip,  son  of  Philip  James 
Grey,  was  born  in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  De- 
cember 7,  1841.  He  married  Jane  Dunham, 
who  was  born  in  Hunterdon  county.  New 
Jersey,  in  February,  1844,  daughter  of  James 
Dunham,  of  Clinton,   Hunterdon  county. 

( I\  )  Norman,  son  of  Martin  Philip  and 
Jane  ( Dunham )  Grey,  was  born  at  Salem, 
.New  Jersey,  Ajaril  3,  1868.  He  received  his 
earlier  literary  education  in  public  schools  in 
Salem,  the  Reading  Military  School,  where  he 
was  a  student  during  the  years  1882-83,  and  at 
Mr.  Turner's  school  at  Maplewood  (Pittsfield), 
Massachusetts,  where  he  prepared  for  college. 
He  then  entered  Princeton  College  and  was 
graduated  A.  B.  in  1889.  He  was  educated 
for  the  law  in  the  law  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  New  Jersey,  as  attorney,  in  1892  and 
as  counsellor  in  1895.  Since  he  came  to  the 
bar  Mr.  Grey  has  engaged  in  practice  in  Cam- 
den, devoting  his  attention  chiefly  to  cases  in- 
volving questions  of  corporation  law  and  also 
to  practice  in  the  e(|uity  courts.  In  April, 
1906.  he  was  elected  president  of  the  West 
Jersey  Trust  Company  of  Camden,  one  of  the 
strongest  financial  institutions  of  that  city,  and 
still  serves  in  that  capacity.  He  is  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics,  a  communicant  of  the  Epis- 
copal church,  member  of  the  l^nion  League 
Club  of  Philadelphia  and  of  the  Princeton 
Club. 

Mr.  Grey  married  Louise  Booth  Sinnickson, 
daughter    of    .Andrew    Sinnickson,    of    Salem. 


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Xevv  Jersty,  and  lias  liad  four  children;  I. 
Louise  Sinnickson,  born  Woodbury,  New  Jer- 
sey, January  12.  1896.  2.  Martin  Philip  Jr., 
born  Wootlbury,  April  17,  1897,  died  February 
19,  1902.  3.  Lucy  Brady,  born  August  20, 
i(->oo.     4.  Norma,  born  October  8,  1903. 


The  Evans  family  trace  their  line 
E\".\NS     of  descent   from  Wales  back  to 

Mervyn  \'rych,  King  of  the  Isle 
of  Man,  who  was  killed  in  battle  with  the  King 
of  Mercia.  A.  D.  843.  Some  branches  of  the 
family  spell  their  name  with  an  "e"  instead  of 
an  "a,"  w'hich  has  arisen  from  a  clerical  error 
of  early  days,  as  the  name  originated  from  the 
five  suns  of  levan,  known  as  Evan  Robert 
Lewis,  who  in  idoi  was  living  in  Wales,  Eng- 
land, the  sons  according  to  the  Welsh  custom 
taking  for  themselves  the  surname  of  ap  Evan. 
These  sons  were  John  ap  Evan,  Cadwalader 
ap  Evan.  (Griffith  ap  Evan,  Owen  ap  Evan  and 
Evan  ap  Evan.  It  is  from  one  of  these  five 
men  that  the  founder  of  the  Evans  family  of 
New  Jersey  sprang. 

( I )  Unfortunately  the  christian  name  of  the 
founder  of  the  family  has  been  lost,  and  while 
it  is  probable  it  is  not  absolutely  certain  that  he 
emigrated  to  this  country.  The  first  mention  in 
the  records  is  the  will  of  his  widow,  Jane,  dated 
February  16,  1696,  in  which  she  styles  heiself 
as  of  Evesham,  liurlington  county.  This  will 
was  proved  November  2,  1697,  by  her  son  and 
executor  William  Evans,  who  is  referred  to 
below.  The  will  also  mentions  a  son  Thomas 
who  is  dead  and  his  wife  Sarah,  and  in  the 
will  of  this  Thomas,  dated  May  2,  1692,  and 
proved  September  23,  1693,  there  is  mention 
of  a  daughter  Agnes,  sister  to  Thomas  and 
William.  ' 

(II)  \\'illiam  Evens,  the  son  of and 

Jane  Evans  (such  are  the  spellings  of  the  sur- 
names in  the  wills)  died  between  February  21. 
1728,  and  March  24,  1728,  the  dates  of  the 
writing  and  proving  of  his  will.  In  this  docu- 
ment he  describes  himself  as  a  yeoman  of  Eve- 
sham, lUirlington  county,  ancl  mentions  his 
wife  Elizabeth,  his  children,  Thomas,  Jane  and 
John,  the  last  of  whom  is  under  age.  His  wife 
Elizabeth  was  a  minister  among  Friends,  his 
daughter  Jane  married  William  Hudson,  and 
his  son  Thomas  is  referred  to  below. 

I  1 11  )  Thomas,  son  of  William  and  Eliza- 
beth livens,  married  (first)  in  1715,  Esther, 
daughter  of  John  and  Esther  (Borton)  Haines, 
who  died  in  1728,  an<l  bore  him  six  children: 
I.  William,  born  September  6.  1716.  married 
Sarah  Roberts.     2.  Elizabeth,  Januarv  8.  17 18. 


married  Joseph  Lippincott.  3.  Isaac,  referred 
to  below.  4.  Esther,  December  6,  1722,  mar- 
ried Samuel  Atkinson.  5.  Jacob,  January  14, 
1725,  married  (first)  Rachel  Eldridge,  and 
(second)  Alary  Cherrington.  (x  Nathan, 
1727,  married  Susanna  Gaskill.  Thomas 
Evans  married  (second)  June  4,  1730,  Re- 
becca, daughter  of  Joshua  Owen  and  Alartha, 
(laughter  of  John  and  Jane  Shinn.  Their 
children  were:  i.  Joshua,  born  September  23. 
1731,  married  Priscilla  Collins.  2.  Caleb,  Au- 
gust 26.  1733,  died  young.  3.  Caleb,  February 
2,  1737,  married  Abigail  Hunt.  4.  Jemima, 
June  I,  1738.  married  and  had  had  issue.  5. 
Martha,  November  16,  1742,  married  Thomas 
Dudley. 

(  I\  )  Isaac,  third  child  and  second  son  of 
Thomas  and  Esther  (Haines)  Evans,  was  born 
in  Evesham  township,  Burlington  county,  Jan- 
uary 21,  1720,  died  there  about  June,  1782. 
At  this  iX)int  there  are  conflicting  traditions 
and  an  unfortunate  lack  of  e.xtant  records,  but 
the  weight  of  evidence  seems  to  be  in  favor  of 
the  hypothesis  that  this  Isaac,  who  is  known 
as  Isaac,  senior,  married  either  Hannah  Rob- 
erts or  Bathsheba  Stokes,  and  had  at  least 
Samuel,  Job  and  Rebecca  and  if  his  wife  was 
Bathsheba,  also  Ann.  This  is  the  conjecture 
therefore  followed  here,  and  Job  is  referred  to 
below. 

(  \' )  Job,  the  conjectured  son  of  Isaac  and 
Bathsheba  (Stokes)  or  Hannah  (Roberts^ 
Evans,  is  said  to  have  been  born,  lived  and 
died  near  Medford,  New  Jersey,  and  to  have 
left  a  son  Isaac,  who  is  referred  to  below. 
Another  theory,  which  has  some  plausibility, 
should  however  be  mentioned  here,  namely,  that 
this  Job  instead  of  being  the  son  of  Isaac,  as 
given  here,  was  his  brother,  the  youngest  son 
of  Thomas  and  Rebecca  (Owen)  Evans. 

(VI)  Isaac  (2),  son  of  Job  Evans,  was 
born  in  Medford,  New  Jersey,  about  1788. 
He  lived  in  Medford  and  was  a  blacksmith 
and  carriage  builder,  he  died  betw^een  1825  and 
1830.  By  his  wife  Margaret  (McNinney) 
Evans  he  had  si.x  children :  James  M.,  referred 
to  below,  William  K.,  Nehemiah  C,  Sarah. 
Elizabeth,  Mary,  who  died  young. 

(\"H)  James  M.,  son  of  Isaac  (2)  and 
.Margaret  (McNinney)  Evans  was  born  in 
Medford,  Burlington  county,  in  1821,  died  in 
Moorestown,  New  Jersey,  1897.  He  received 
a  common  school  education,  and  carried  on  the 
carriage  business  left  by  his  father  who  died 
when  he  was  yet  but  a  small  boy.  He  lived 
in  Medford  most  of  his  life  and  for  eight 
or  ten  years  engaged  in  farming  near  Mount 


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Laurel.  After  this  he  went  into  tlie  carriage 
bu.siness  in  Aloorestown  and  continued  in  this 
until  a  few  years  previous  to  his  death,  when 
he  retired  from  active  business.  Mr.  Evans 
was  a  Democrat  and  held  various  town  offices 
in  Medford.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  church,  and  in  early  life  an  offi- 
cial in  the  church.  He  was  also  a  member  of 
the  .American  Mechanics.  James  M.  Evans  mar- 
ried (first)  Susan,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
Taylor,  of  Philadelphia,  whose  Uncle  David  was 
at  one  time  treasurer  of  the  Pennsylvania  rail- 
road. Their  children  were :  i.  George,  deceased, 
2.  Alfred,  deceased.  3.  Isaac,  deceased.  4. 
Charles,  a  landscape  gardener  in  Moorestovvn, 

who  married  Mary and  has  Isaac  and 

Susan.  James  M.  Evans  married  (second; 
Elizabeth  Taylor,  the  sister  of  his  first  wife, 
and  their  children  were:  I.  John  Taylor,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  James  B.  3.  David.  4. 
Walter.     The  last  three  are  now  dead. 

(\TII)  John  Taylor,  eldest  child  and  only 
surviving  son  of  James  M.  and  Elizabeth 
(Taylor)  Evans,  was  born  in  Medford,  Burl- 
ington county,  September  20,  1852,  and  is  now 
living  at  Moorestown.  For  his  education  he 
went  to  the  public  schools  of  Moorestovvn,  and 
then  learned  the  trade  of  blacksmith  at  which 
he  worked  until  he  was  twenty-two  years  old, 
when  he  went  into  the  employ  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania railroad  as  ticket  agent  at  Hartford 
station  in  1874.  Here  he  remained  for  eight 
years,  and  in  1882  went  into  the  grocery  busi- 
ness in  iMoorestown,  which- he  followed  for 
six  and  a  half  years,  and  then  in  1890  went 
into  the  real  estate  and  insurance  business  in 
Moorestown,  and  has  continued  in  that  ever 
since.  Mr.  Evans  is  a  Republican,  and  for  a 
number  of  years  was  a  inember  of  the  board 
of  commissioners  of  appeals  for  the  township. 
For  eighteen  years  he  has  been  a  member  of 
the  Moorestown  board  of  education  and  for 
nine  of  them  has  been  the  clerk  of  the  board. 
For  fifteen  years  he  has  been  a  justice  of  the 
peace.  He  is  also  a  commissioner  of  deeds, 
having  been  appointed  as  such  by  the  govern- 
ors of  both  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey. 
He  has  also  been  appointed  by  the  governor  of 
New  Jersey  notary  public.  For  forty  years 
he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church 
at  Moorestown.  He  is  a  local  preacher  and 
for  twenty- four  years  has  been  superintendent 
of  the  Sunday  school  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church  of  Moorestown,  and  he  has  also 
a  mission  school  of  which  he  has  been  super- 
intendent for  eight  years.  He  is  also  a  trustee, 
and  steward  of  the  Methodist  church  and  has 


been  treasurer  of  the  society  for  twenty  years. 
Mr.  Evans  is  a  member  of  Pocohontas  Lodge, 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  in 
Moorestown,  No.  107,  and  also  a  member  of 
the  American  Mechanics  Lodge,  No  115,  of 
Moorestown. 

In  1873  John  Taylor  Evans  married  Edith 
H.,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Sibilla  (Mar- 
ter)  Walla.ce,  of  Palmyra,  New  Jersey.  Their 
children  are:  i.  Laura  Virginia,  married  D. 
Walker  Boneau,  of  IMoorestown,  a  stock 
broker  in  Philadelphia.  2.  George  Branin,  an 
attorney  with  offices  in  Camden  and  Moores- 
town and  a  residence  in  the  latter  place,  who 
graduated  from  the  Moorestown  high  school 
and  Swarthmore  College,  then  took  a  business 
course  in  Philadelphia,  and  then  took  a  po- 
sition with  the  American  Bridge  Company 
which  he  held  for  four  years  as  assistant  to 
the  treasurer  of  one  of  the  departments,  study- 
ing law  at  nights  at  Temple  University,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1905  with  the  highest 
honors,  and  was  then  admitted  to  the  bar  and 
is  now  one  of  the  instructors  and  professors  at 
Temple  I'niversity.  He  married  Geraldine 
Albra}-,  of  Newark,  New  Jersey.  3.  Eliza- 
beth K.,  a  music  teacher  who  lives  at  home 
with  her  father.  All  three  children  were  born 
in  Moorestown. 


This  branch  of  the  Adams  fam- 
ADAjMS  ily  in  America  was  founded  by 
Jacob  Adams,  who  emigrated  to 
America  about  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth 
century.  He  was  an  early  settler  in  Beverly 
township,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  and 
became  possessed  of  farming  land  in  that 
township,  where  the  ruins  of  his  log  house 
may  be  seen  on  the  Marter  farm  near  Beverly. 
He  had  issue:  John,  William,  Jacob,  Isaac, 
Nancy  (Mrs.  John  W.  Fenimore),  Deborah 
(Mrs.  John  Cannon),  Amelia  (Mrs.  Hendrick 
Van  Brunt). 

(II)  John,  son  of  Jacob  Adams,  the 
founder,  was  born  December  15,  1784,  and 
died  December  16,  1859.  He  was  a  carpenter 
and  builder.  He  erected  many  buddings  in 
the  vicinity,  and  was  a  successful  contractor. 
He  married  Nancy . 

(III)  Jacob  C,  son  of  John  and  Nancy 
.\dams,  was  born  in  Beverly  township.  New 
Jersey,  in  the  year  1827,  and  died  in  1875. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  and 
followed  farming  all  his  life.  He  had  a  brick- 
yard on  his  farm  and  made  bricks  for  build- 
ing purpose.  This  became  an  important  item 
of  his  business  and  is  still  carried  on  bv  his 


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descendants.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Re- 
publican party,  and  served  as  overseer  of  high- 
ways and  on  the  township  committee.  He  was 
an  Odd  Fellow,  belonging  to  Beverly  Lodge 
No.  22.  His  religious  faith  was  I'resbvterian. 
of  whicli  church  he  was  an  exemplary  mem- 
ber. Jacob  C.  .Adams  married  Mary  .Ann  W'il- 
son,  who  bore  him  three  children;  i.  Henry- 
Clay  (see  forward).  2.  Samuel.  3.  Cornelia 
(Mrs.  Joseph   Gabriel,  of   Philadelphia). 

(IV)  Henry  Clay,  first  born  child  of  Jacob 
C.  and  Alary  .\.  (XX'ilson)  Adams,  was  born 
on  the  homestead  farm  in  Beverly  township, 
Burlington  county.  New  Jersey.  This  is  now 
Edgewater  Park.  He  was  educated  at 
Cooperstown  (New  Jersey).  He  inherited  the 
farm  from  his  father,  making  the  third  genera- 
tion to  own  and  conduct  the  property.  He  con- 
tinues the  manufacture  of  brick,  and  in  ad- 
dition operates  a  coal  and  wood  yard  in  Edge- 
water  Park.  His  specialty  in  agriculture  is 
gardening  for  the  Philadelphia  market.  Air. 
Adams  is  a  Republican,  and  is  on  the  town- 
ship committee.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Pa- 
trons of  Husbandry,  Roncocas  Grange:  Bev- 
erly Lodge  No.  95,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows,  and  of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks,  Burlington  Lodge,  No.  996. 

Henry  C.  .Adams  married,  in  1874,  Levinia, 
daughter  of  William  R.  Christie,  of  Salem, 
New  Jersey.  Children:  i.  Harry  J.,  born  1875  ; 
is  interested  with  his  father  in  both  the  farm 
and  the  coal  yard  at  Edgewater  Park ;  mar- 
ried Bertha  \'.,  daughter  of  James  and  Annie 
C.  (Johnson)  Pennington,  of  Roncocas,  New 
Jersey;  they  have  a  son,  Henry  P.  Adams. 
2.  Herbert  L.,  born  1877;  also  with  his  father 
in  business ;  married  Isabelle,  daughter  of  Rob- 
ert Williams,  of  Trenton,  New  Jersey ;  they 
have  Raymond  and  Joseph  G.  Adams.  3. 
Elizabeth  D.,  born  1880;  married  Hugh  B. 
Miller,  a  contractor  and  builder  of  Edgewater 
Park:  they  have  Lavinia  Helen,  Warren 
.Adams  and  Hugh  Burton  Miller.  4.  D.  Lind- 
say, born  1895.  Two  children  died  in  infancy 
— George  and  Earl. 


Captain  Elton  .Allen  Smith  is  a 
.S.Miril  descendant  on  both  paternal  and 
maternal  sides  from  a  long  line 
of  sturdy  New  England  ancestors.  They  were 
among  the  founders  of  the  Nation  and  passed 
through  all  the  hardshijis  and  privations  inci- 
dent to  tlie  pioneer  life,  defending  themselves 
against  the  Indians  and  wild  beasts  of  the 
forests  which  then  infested  the  country.  They 
participated   in   all  the  early  wars,  were  con- 


spicuous for  the  services  in  the  French  and 
Indian,  revolutionary,  and  the  war  of  1812. 
The  hardships  they  passed  through  in  that 
rugged  climate  bred  in  their  tlescendants  a 
hartliness  and  fertility  of  body  and  brain  which 
has  enabled  them  to  carry  on  successfully 
many  varied  interests  at  the  same  time,  and 
become  leaders  in  the  business  circles  all  over 
the  Continent.  Elton  A.  Sniitii  is  a  worthy 
descendant  of  his  ancestors.  Fie  takes  a  per- 
sonal supervision  of  all  the  details  of  all  his 
varied  interests  in  manufacturing,  transporta- 
tion and  agriculture. 

Elton  .A.  Smith  was  born  in  Woodstock, 
\'ermont,  March  23,  1848,  where  he  was 
reared  until  about  fourteen  years  of  age,  when 
the  family  moved  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
and  in  1866  came  to  Smithville,  New  Jersey, 
soon  after  going  to  sea,  spending  five  years  on 
the  ocean,  finally  locating  in  Savannah,  Geor- 
gia, and  in  the  years  following  engaged  in 
many  enterprises,  following  many  lines  of  bus- 
iness endeavor  for  a  period  of  twenty-five 
years.  His  New  England  ancestry  has  furn- 
ished him  with  a  business  acumen  and  energy 
that  carried  him  successfully  through  the  diffi- 
cult ]M-oblcms  that  confront  the  progressive, 
daring  business  man,  and  he  gained  a  com- 
fortable competence,  as  well  as  becoming  a 
seasoned,  i)ractical  man  of  aiTairs.  Mr.  Smith 
is  em]jhatically  a  self-made  man,  and  he  can 
look  back  upon  the  twenty-five  years  spent 
wrestling  single  handed  with  the  world,  with 
all  the  satisfaction  of  a  victor.  His  residence 
in  the  south  terminated  upon  the  death  of  his 
father  in  1887,  when  he  came  north  and  settled 
in  Smithville,  New  Jersey,  assuming  control 
of  the  H.  B.  Smith  Machine  Company,  estab- 
lished by  11.  1).  Smith  in  1847,  ^"'^1  since  1865 
located  at  .Smithville,  New  Jersey.  This  plant 
manufactures  wood  working  machinery  of 
every  descri])tion,  and  employs  from  three 
hundred  to  five  luuulred  operatives,  covers, 
with  its  extensive  factories  and  grounds  in- 
cluding the  village  owned  by  the  company, 
aljout  one  hundred  acres.  The  company  has 
branches  for  the  sale  of  their  product  in  all 
the  principal  cities  of  this  country  and  nu- 
merous sales  agencies  in  the  dift'erent  parts  of 
the  world.  They  are  among  the  oldest  and 
largest  manufacturers  of  wood  working  ma- 
chinery in  existence  to-dav.  Elton  A.  Smith 
is  president  and  principal  owner  of  the  busi- 
ness. He  is  known  as  one  of  the  leading  busi- 
ness men  of  New  Jersey.  The  fortune  he  has 
accumulated  has  been  fairly  won,  as  it  has 
been   fairly  used,   for  the  comfort  and  happi- 


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ness  of  his  family  and  the  good  of  his  fellow- 
men.  He  has  large  farming,  real  estate  and 
other  interests  outside  of  this  business,  and 
maintains  a  handsome  summer  home  in  his 
native  state,  Vermont.  He  has  fraternal  rela- 
tions with  the  Masonic  order,  holding  all  the 
degrees  up  to  and  including  that  of  Knight 
Templar,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine.  He  is  an  Odd  Fellow  and  an  Elk. 
He  married  Marie  O'Byrne,  of  Savannah, 
Georgia,  and  has  children  :  Regis,  E.  Allen, 
Hilda,  Erie,  X'erona,  Elizabeth  and  Lois.  His 
sons  are  associated  with  their  father  in  busi- 
ness. 


The     family  of    King    at    ])resent 

KING  under  consideration  belongs  to  the 
emigration  of  the  early  nineteenth 
century  which  brought  to  this  country  so  many 
of  the  best  of  England's  middle  class  manu- 
facturing and  industrial  element. 

(I)  Ray  King,  founder  of  the  family,  was 
born  at  Newcastle-on-Tyne,  England,  was  a 
silversmith  by  trade  and  came  to  this  country 
in  the  early  ])art  of  the  nineteenth  century, 
bringing  his  wife  Anna  (Wilson)  King,  and 
they  had  children:  William,  Jose]ih  R..  re- 
ferred to  below,  Abigail,  Eleanor. 

(H)  Joseph  Ray,  son  of  Ray  and  Anna 
(Wilson)  King,  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  about  1803,  died  in  Purlington. 
New  Jersey,  in  1845.  He  was  highly  edu- 
cated, was  quite  a  hnguist  and  followed  his 
father's  trade  of  silversmith.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Society  of  Friends.  He  married 
Mary  (iaskill.  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Elizabeth 
(Williams)  Gaskill,  of  lUirlington,  whose 
father  was  a  large  real  estate  owner,  being 
possessed  of  much  land  where  some  of  the 
best  residences  of  Burlington  now  stand,  and 
besides  this  having  large  lumber  interests. 
The  children  of  Jose])h  Ray  and  Alarj'  (Gas- 
kill)  King  were:  .\nna  \\'ilson.  Elizabeth,  re- 
ferred to  below,  William  Gaskill  and  George 
Gaskill.  twins. 

(HI)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Joseph  Ray 
and  Mary  (Gaskill)  King,  was  born  in  Bur- 
lington, New  Jersey,  educated  at  select 
schools,  at  the  boarding  school  at  W'ilmington 
and  at  the  Westtown  Friends'  school.  In 
1876  she  married  Nicholas  Buzby,  born  in 
Haddonfield,  New  Jersey,  in  1840,  died  in 
1900,  the  son  of  Abel  and  Rachel  Buzby.  His 
father,  Abel  P)Uzby,  was  a  school  teacher ;  he 
lived  in  Philatlelphia  most  of  his  life  and  his 
children  were :  Susanna,  deceased ;  William 
Paul,  a  contractor  in  Philadelphia  :  Nicholas, 


mentioned  aljuve;  Ellen.  Nicholas  Buzby  was 
in  the  banking  business  in  Philadelphia  for  the 
greater  part  of  his  life,  being  for  thirty  years 
with  the  Northern  Liberties  Bank  of  that  city, 
and  at  the  time  of  his  death  being  that  insti- 
tution's head  bookkeeper.  For  the  last 
twenty-six  years  of  his  life  he  had  made  his 
home  in  Burlington.  He  was  an  elder  in  the 
Presbyterian  church,  also  trustee  and  treas- 
urer, a  teacher  in  the  Suntlay  school  and  ac- 
tively identified  with  everything  pertaining  to 
the  church  and  its  interests.  He  was  not  in- 
terested in  politics.  He  was  a  Alason  in  Phila- 
delphia and  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason. 
Nicholas  and  Elizabeth  (King)  Buzby  had 
only  (iue  daughter,  who  died  in  infancy. 


The  members  of  this  fam- 
DONO\'AX  ily  have  not  been  residents 
of  this  country  much  more 
than  half  a  century,  but  in  every  place  they 
have  lived  they  have  been  respected  and  de- 
sirable citizens,  and  have  contributed  to  the 
progress  and  improvement  of  the  community. 

( I )  James  Donovan  was  born  in  Ireland, 
and  lived  there  until  about  1850,  when  he  came 
to  Siiringfield,  Massachusetts,  where  he  re- 
maineil  until  iiis  death.  He  married  Cather- 
ine Hayes,  born  in  Ireland,  died  in  Chicopee 
Falls,  Alassachusetts.  Their  children  were : 
John,  deceased  ;  Mary;  Julia;  Joanna  ;  Patrick, 
died  in  Ireland  ;  Timothy  ;  Daniel. 

(II)  Daniel,  fourth  son  of  James  and 
Catherine  (Hayes)  Donovan,  was  boni  in 
182Q,  in  county  Cork,  Ireland,  and  there 
learned  the  trade  of  shoemaker.  He  emi- 
grated to  America,  landing  in  New  York,  July 
3,  1849,  ^"<^1  later  settled  in  Chicopee  Falls, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  first  worked  at  his 
trade  and  later  became  proprietor  of  a  shoe 
store,  which  he  owned  and  conducted  for  many 
years.  On  his  retirement  from  active  busi- 
ness he  removed  to  Riverside,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  now  resides  with  his  son,  Timothy 
Jeremiah,  also  liis  wife.  He  married  Cather- 
ine Conway,  born  in  1829,  in  county  Claire, 
Ireland,  and  their  children  were:  i.  James.  2. 
John,  living  with  Timothy  J.,  at  Riverside.  3. 
Timothy  Jeremiah.  4.  Belle,  resides  in  Phila- 
delphia. 5.  Jennie,  deceased.  6.  Nellie,  re- 
sides at  West  l^hiladclphia.  7.  Kate,  living 
at  Hartford.  Connecticut.  8.  Lizzie,  living  in 
Philadelphia.  0.  Annie,  deceased.  10.  Dan- 
iel, living  at  West  Philadelphia.  11.  Frank, 
living  at  Philadelphia.  12.  W'illie,  lives  with 
Timothy   ]..  at  Riverside,  New  Jersey. 

(  HI )   Timothy  Jeremiah,  third  son  of  Dan- 


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iel  and  Catherine  (Conway)  Donovan,  was 
born  November  i,  1856,  at  Chicopee  Falls, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  received  his  educa- 
tion and  later  worked  at  manufacture  of  sheet 
iron,  learning  the  trade.  At  the  age  of  twenty 
he  spent  a  year  in  the  west,  spending  most  of 
the  time  in  Alitinesota  and  Texas;  he  then  re- 
moved to  Philadelphia  and  in  1880  embarked 
in  the  hotel  business,  which  he  conducted  for 
eight  years,  and  then  removed  to  Riverside, 
New  Jersey,  where  in  1890  he  opened  the 
Avenue  House,  which  is  still  conducted  by 
him,  and  is  the  best  hotel  in  the  vicinity.  Mr. 
Donovan  is  a  Democrat  in  political  views.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  advisory  board  of  River- 
side, was  one  of  the  organizers  in  1903,  and  is 
now  one  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  River- 
side National  Bank.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and 
belongs  to  the  Riverside  Fire  Company. 

Mr.  Donovan  married  (first)  in  1880,  Eliz- 
abeth, daughter  of  Patrick  Mc(jrath,  of  Phila- 
delphia, and  they  had  one  daughter,  Mabel 
Ella,  who  married  John  Michterlin,  of  Phila- 
delphia, and  has  two  children,  Vincin  and 
Ethena.  Mrs.  Donovan  died  in  June,  1898. 
Mr.  Donovan  married  (second)  in  1899,  Re- 
becca M.,  daughter  of  Jacob  Kerines,  of  De- 
lanco.  New  Jersey,  and  they  had  one  son,  Al- 
bert Jenning,  born  June  14,  1900,  died  .\ugust, 
1903-  _^ 

Lord       John      Aliddleton 
MIDDLETON     married"  at   St.   Andrews, 
Helborn,     December     16, 
1666,  Martha  Carew. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  Lord  John  (i)  and 
Martha  (Carew)  Middleton,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land in  16S6,  died  at  Crosswicks,  Chesterfield 
township,  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  in 
1741.  He  settled  on  a  farm  in  Crosswicks 
which  his  wife  had  inherited,  and  there  spent 
his  life,  living  quietly  and  orderly  as  did  be- 
come a  devout  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends.  He  married,  January  14,  1710, 
Esther  Gilberthrojje,  who  was  born  in  the 
Province  of  West  Jersey,  December,  1684, 
and  died  at  Crosswicks  in  1759,  daughter  c>f 
Thomas  and  Esther  Gilberthrope,  Friends, 
who  came  to  this  country  from  England.  This 
John  Middleton  has  a  son  Thomas  and  other 
sons,  one  of  whom  was  the  father  of  Jacob 
Middleton,  of  Crosswicks,  the  earliest  ancestor 
of  the  family  under  consideration  here  of 
whom  we  have  any  relialile  record  or  informa- 
tion. 

(IV)   Jacob   Middleton,   grandson    of 'John 


of  Crosswicks,  and  great-grandson  of  Lord 
John  of  Helborn,  England,  was  born  at  Cross- 
wicks, New  Jersey,  in  1 75 1,  died  May  6,  1818, 
He  married  and  had  son  Jacob. 

(V)  Jacob  (2),  son  of  Jacob  (i)  Middle- 
ton,  was  born  at  Crosswicks,  New  Jersey,  Au- 
gust 6,  1788,  died  February  5,  1878.  He  was 
a  brick  mason  by  trade  and  a  farmer  by  prin- 
cijjal  occupation.  He  married  Sibylla  West, 
born  January  14,  1791,  died  May  7,  1879. 
Children:  Hannah,  born  1815,  died  1856;  Al- 
bert, February  25,  1817,  see  post;  George  W., 
(lied  young. 

(\T)  Albert,  son  of  Jacob  (2)  and  Sibylla 
(West)  Middleton,  was  born  February  25, 
1817,  died  December  7,  1905.  He  was  a  car- 
penter and  joiner  by  trade  and  followed  that 
occupation  during  the  early  part  of  his  busi- 
ness life.  Subsequently  he  was  appointed 
ticket  agent  at  Hainesport  for  the  Pennsylva- 
nia Railroad  Company  and  filled  that  position 
for  twenty  years,  until  he  retired  from  active 
pursuits,  several  years  previous  to  his  death. 
He  was  first  a  Whig  and  later  a  Republican, 
and  served  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  free- 
holders and  as  member  of  the  township  com- 
mittee. He  also  was  a  member  of  the  So- 
ciety of  Friends.  In  January,  1845,  Mr.  Mid- 
dleton married  .\nn  S.  Middleton,  born  1822 
died  December,  i8qo,  daughter  of  Allen  Mid- 
dleton. Children :  Emma  E.,  born  October, 
1845,  married  Robert  Love,  of  Philadelphia; 
Walter  Jeanes,  see  post. 

(VII)  Walter  Jeanes,  son  of  Albert  and 
Ann  S.  (Middleton)  Middleton,  was  born  in 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  August  17,  1848, 
and  was  a  child  three  years  old  when  his  par- 
ents removed  from  that  village  to  Hainesport, 
New  Jersey.  His  young  life  was  spent  in  the 
latter  town,  and  there  he  was  given  a  good 
common  school  education.  In  187 1  he  opened 
a  general  merchandise  store  in  Hainesport  and 
for  the  next  thirty  years  was  prominently  iden- 
tified with  the  business  life  and  history  of  the 
place,  for  he  was  a  capable  and  prosperous 
Inisiness  man  and  enjoyed  a  wide  acquaintance 
in  the  region.  Mr.  Middleton  retired  from 
active  pursuits  in  1900,  although  he  still  retains 
considerable  property  interests  which  require 
his  attention ;  he  is  also  a  director  of  the 
Hainesport  Mining  and  Transportation  Com- 
pany. He  is  a  Republican  in  political  prefer- 
ence and  for  many  years  was  a  well  known 
figure  in  public  affairs  in  the  township.  He 
served  ten  years  as  postmaster  of  Hainesport 
and  also  served  as  school  director.  Like  his 
ancestors  before  him,  Mr.  Middleton  is  a  mem- 


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ber  of  the  Socitey  of  Friends.  In  1878  he 
married  Anna  AI.,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Jr. 
and  Sarah  (  West  j  Thorn,  of  Crosswicks.  Mr. 
and  Airs.  Aliddleton  have  one  son,  Howard  T., 
born  in  Hainsport,  November  19,  1879.  He 
was  educated  in  the  town  schools,  the  high 
school  at  Moorestown,  and  at  a  business  col- 
lege in  Philadelphia.  He  is  now  an  employee 
in  the  general  offices  of  the  Pennsylvania  Rail- 
road Company  in  Philadelphia. 

Benjamin  Thorn  Jr.  was  born  at  Crosswicks, 
January  18,  1810,  died  in  June.  1890.  He  was 
a  carpenter  by  trade  and  after  his  removal  to 
Hainesjjort  was  captain  of  the  steamer  "Bar- 
clay," i)l,\ing  between  Hainesport  and  the  city 
of  Philadelphia.  He  was  a  substantial  and 
well-informed  man,  an  old  line  Whig  and  later 
a  Republican,  and  an  elder  of  the  Society  of 
Friends. 

lie  married,  in  1832,  Sarah  West,  born  Sep- 
tember 7,  1813,  daughter  of  Thomas  West. 
Their  children  were  George  W.,  of  Aloores- 
town,  New  Jersey ;  Sarah,  married  Josiah  D. 
Pancoast ;  Anna  M..  married  Walter  Jeanes 
Aliddleton ;  Lucy  R.,  married  (first)  George 
Taylor,  (second)  James  Thornton;  Ellen  H. 
married  \\'iniam  Bartram ;  Albert  M.,  a  ma- 
chinist at  Frankfort;  Caroline  R.,  married 
Charles  Ballinger,  a  farmer  of  I^umberton, 
New  Jersey.  Benjamin  Thorn  Jr.  was  a  son 
of  Benjamin  Thorn,  who  was  born  at  Cross- 
wicks in  January,  1763,  died  June  13,  1848. 
He  was  a  storekeeper  at  Crosswicks.  He  mar- 
ried Lucy  Taylor,  born  1768,  died  November 
18,  1842.  Their  children  were  Thomas  B.  and 
Benjamin,  twins,  born  January  18.   1810. 


Hon.  Griffith  Walker  Lewis,  of 
LEWIS  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  de- 
scends on  his  maternal  side  from 
an  old  Burlington  county  family,  the  Kimbles. 
The  founder  of  the  Lewis  family  in  Bucks 
county.  F'ennsylvania,  from  whom  the  Burling- 
ton county  family  descends,  emigrated  from 
Wales  and  had  a  son  Ephraim,  who  was  a 
volunteer  in  the  war  of  1812,  serving  in  the 
Pennsylvania  line.  The  first  of  this  family 
to  come  to  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  was  Grif- 
fith \\'alker  Lewis,  father  of  Hon.  Griffith 
Walker  Lewis,  whose  name  appears  at  the 
head  of  this  record. 

(I)  Griffith  Walker  Lewis  Sr.  was  born  in 
Hatboro,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  1837, 
died  in  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  February, 
looi.  He  received  a  good  common  school 
education,  and  was  reared  on  the  farm  where 
his  early  years  were  spent  in  helping  to  culti- 


vate the  same.  Leaving  the  farm  he  went 
to  Philadelphia,  where  he  obtained  work  in  a 
shoe  factory.  He  became  familiar  with  the 
methods  employed  in  the  manufacture  of 
shoes  as  well  as  an  expert  workman.  He  re- 
moved from  Philadelpliia  to  Burlington,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  started  business  on  his  own 
account,  engaging  in  the  manufacture  of 
shoes.  He  prospered  in  his  business  and  was 
C(in>tantly  obliged  to  increase  his  investment 
and  extend  his  lines  until  1892  when  he  built 
the  ]jresent  factory  at  Burlington.  Here  he 
was  the  active,  energetic,  modern  business  man 
until  his  death  in  1901.  Air.  Lewis  was  inter- 
ested in  other  business  enterprises  and  in  the 
financial  institution  of  Burlington  in  an  official 
capacity  and  as  an  investor.  He  was  a  di- 
rector of  the  Mechanics'  National  Bank,  vice- 
president  of  the  Electric  Light  and  Power 
Company,  and  held  numerous  positions  of 
honor  and  trust.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Alasonic  order,  the  Odd  Fellows  and  the 
Knights  of  Pythias.  He  married  (first) 
Annie  Maria  Kimble,  born  in  1837,  who  bore 
him  three  children :  Robert,  who  died  at  the 
age  of  six ;  Griffith  Walker,  see  forward ;  one 
who  died  in  infancy.  He  married  (second; 
Ellen  I'".  Doolin,  by  whom  there  was  no  issue. 

Annie  Alaria  (Kimble)  Lewis  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  John,  born  1808,  and  Rhoda  (Smith) 
Kimble,  born  1805,  and  a  granddaughter  of 
Tuly  Kimble,  born  1782,  and  Lucretia  (White) 
Kimble,  born  1785.  Her  mother,  Rhoda 
(  Smith  )  Kimble,  was  born  near  London,  Eng- 
land, and  was  one  of  fourteen  children  that 
crossefl  the  ocean  to  America  with  her  parents. 
One  child  was  born  in  America,  John  Kimble, 
father  of  Airs.  Lewis.  Tuly  Kimble,  her 
grandfather,  and  Joseph  Kimble,  her  great- 
grandfather, were  all  Burlington  county  farm- 
ers and  land  owners.  Joseph  Kimble  was  a 
large  owner  of  land  in  the  county,  and  at  one 
time  owned  slaves  who  were  employed  in  cul- 
tivating the  soil.  Tuly  Kimble  had  anotlier 
son  Job  and  a  daughter  Nancy,  who  married 
a  Air.  Fort.  The  Kimbles  also  intermarried 
with  the  Stokes  family  of  New  Jersey,  of 
which  Ex-Governor  Stokes  is  a  member.  The 
children  of  John  and  Rhoda  (Smith)  Kimble 
are :  Sarah  Alorris,  born  in  1832 ;  Susan  Alar- 
tin,  1833;  Daniel,  1835;  Annie  Maria,  1837; 
Charles  Wesley,  1S39;  Frank  Marrel,  1843: 
all  of  these  children  were  born  in  Burlington, 
New  Jersey. 

(II)  Griffith  Walker  (2),  only  surviving 
son  of  Griffith  Walker  (i)  and  Annie  Maria 
(Kimble)  Lewis,  was  born  in  Burlington,  New 


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Jersey,  July  i,  1862.  He  was  educated  in  the 
country  schools  near  Jacksonville,  Burlington 
county.  New  Jersey,  and  at  the  Burhngtori 
Military  College.  After  leaving  school  he 
entered  his  father's  factory  and  thoroughly 
mastered  the  detail  of  each  department  of  shoe 
manufacturing.  After  becoming  familiar  with 
the  factory  work,  Mr.  Lewis  spent  several 
years  on  the  road,  selling  the  goods  made  at 
the  factory.  Previous  to  his  father's  death 
he  was  in  charge  of  the  business,  and  at  that 
time  assumetl  full  control,  which  he  still  re- 
tains. In  addition  to  conducting  his  shoe  fac- 
tory, Mr.  Lewis  has  large  real  estate  interests 
both  in  and  outside  the  city.  He  i_s  actively 
interested  in  the  financial  and  other  business 
institutions  uf  Burlington.  He  was  vice- 
president  of  the  Electric  Light  and  Power 
Company,  succeeding  his  father  in  that  office, 
and  is  now  president  of  the  company.  He  is 
vice-4)resident  of  the  Mt.  Holly  Fair  .Associa- 
tion, director  of  the  Public  Library  Associa- 
tion, director  in  the  City  of  Burlington  Build- 
ing and  Loan  Association,  one  of  the  incorpo- 
rators and  a  director  of  the  Burlington  Loan 
and  Trust  Company.  For  eight  years  he  was 
identified  with  the  Mechanics'  National  Bank 
of  Burlington  as  director  and  vice-president. 
In  1908  he  was  elected  president  of  that  in- 
stitution and  is  now  holding  that  important 
position.  In  politics  Mr.  Lewis  is  a  Repub- 
lican and  his  political  career  has  been  as  active 
and  successful  as  his  business  life  has  been. 
I'or  six  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
city  council,  serving  for  two  years  as  chair- 
man of  the  finance  committee  and  for  one  year 
as  president  of  the  council.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Burlington  county  Republican  executive 
committee  and  has  an  influential  voice  in  the 
councils  of  his  party.  In  1906  Mr.  Lewis 
was  the  successful  candidate  of  his  party  for 
the  house  of  representatives  of  New  Jersey, 
and  was  elected  his  own  successor  in  1907-08. 
.At  the  1909  session  he  was  floor  leader  of  the 
majority  and  chairman  of  the  judiciary  com- 
mittee. In  the  Masonic  fraternity  Mr.  Lewis 
has  attained  high  degree.  He  is  past  master 
of  Burlington  Lodge,  No.  32,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons;  a  Royal  Arch  Mason  of  Bou- 
<lin(it  Chapter,  No.  3;  a  Knight  Templar  of 
Helena  Comniandery,  No.  3:  a  Shrincr  of 
Lulu  Temple,  Philadelphia,  and  a  thirty-sec- 
ond degree  .Mason  of  Camden  Consistory  of 
the  .Scottish  Rite.  He  is  an  Odd  Fellow  of 
Phoenix  Lodge,  No.  92;  a  Knight  of  Pythias 
of  Hope  Lodge,  Xo.  7^,  and  past  e.xalted  ruler 
of  Mt.  Holly  Lodge  of  Elks,  No.  848.     In  re- 


ligious preference  Mr.  Lewis  is  Presbyterian. 
Mr.  Lewis  married,  June  27,  1893,  Mary 
R.  Fenton,  of  Jacksonville,  Burlington  county, 
New  Jersey,  daughter  of  William  Watson  and 
Rhoda  (Falkinburg)  Fenton.  Children:  i. 
Howard  I'enton,  born  in  Burlington,  New 
Jersey,  April  i,  1894,  passed  through  the  pub 
lie  scliools  of  Burlington,  Haines  Preparatory 
.School  and  is  now  a  student  at  the  Trenton 
State  Normal.  2.  Helen  Burr,  born  Octo- 
ber, 1898. 

c  uder  variously  spelleil  sur- 
FRE.\CH  names  the  French  family  ap- 
peared in  England  soon  after 
the  Norman  con(|uest.  The  first  of  the 
line  recorded  was  with  William  the  Conqueror 
at  the  battle  of  Hastings,  October  14,  1066, 
and  the  Yorkshire  records  of  the  twelfth  cen- 
tury frequently  .show  the  name.  Others 
located  in  the  beginning  chiefly  in  the  south- 
eastern counties,  but  later  they  ajipeared  in  the 
west  and  in  the  north  as  far  as  Scotland.  They 
also  settled  at  a  very  early  date  in  Ireland, 
and  one  branch  of  the  family  trace  their  de- 
scent directly  from  Rollo,  Duke  of  Normandy. 
In  England,  before  the  close  of  the  thirteenth 
century,  the  French  family  had  become  e.x- 
tensive,  prosperous  and  influential.  In  York 
the  name  was  spelled  Francais,  in  Berks 
F'frensh.  in  Middlesex  Frenssh,  in  Somerset 
Frensce,  in  Surrey  Frensche,  in  Northampton 
Francais  and  Fraunceys,  and  in  Wiltshire 
French.  In  the  fifteenth  and  sixteenth  cen- 
turies it  is  generally  found  in  Northampton  in 
the  form  ffrench,  the  form  adopted  by  the  an- 
cestors (if  the  line  at  ])resent  under  consid- 
eration. 

(  I  )  Thomas  ffrench,  father  of  the  pro- 
genitor of  the  New  Jersey  branch  of  the 
French  family,  like  his  ancestors  for  many 
generations,  lived  at  Nether  Heyford,  where 
he  was  known  as  an  influential  and  useful 
citizen.  His  home.  Nether  Heyford,  was  a 
parish  in  the  hundred  of  Newbottle  Grove, 
county  Northampton,  seven  miles  south  by 
west  from  the  city  of  Northamjjton,  England. 
The  parish  is  a  very  ancient  one,  and  the 
parish  church,  dedicated  to  SS.  Peter  and 
Paul,  was  erected  in  the  early  part  of  the 
thirteenth  century.  From  1558,  wdien  the 
registers  begin,  down  to  1680,  when  the  emi- 
grant left  his  English  home,  there  are  over 
si.xty  references  to  the  French  family,  all  evi- 
dently referring  to  the  same  line.  Thomas 
fifrench  was  twice  married.  By  his  first  wife. 
Sara,    he    had:     i.    Patience,    born     1637.     2. 


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Thomas,  referred  to  below.  3.  Sara,  born 
1643.  4.  Elizabeth,  1645.  5.  Mary,  1648. 
6.  John,  165 1.  By  his  second  wife,  Martha, 
he  had:  7.  Robert,  1657.  8.  Martha,  1660. 
Thomas  ffrencli  was  buried  May  5,  1673. 
Sara,  his  first  wife,  was  buried   February  9, 

1653- 

(II)  Ihomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i)  and 
Sara  (Trench,  the  progenitor  of  the  French 
family  in  New  Jersey,  was  born  in  1639  and 
baptized  the  same  year  in  the  parish  clinrch 
of  SS.  Peter  and  Paul,  Xether  Heyford. 
\\  hen  the  religious  society  of  Friends  arose, 
he  with  other  members  of  his  family  became 
actively  identified  therewith,  and  at  different 
times  suffered  for  his  faith.  L'pon  one  oc- 
casion he  was  sentenced  to  imprisonment  for 
forty-two  months  for  refusal  to  pay  tithes 
to  the  amount  of  eleven  shillings.  At  this 
time  he  was  a  resident  of  Upper  Norton,  Ox- 
fordshire. An  account  of  this  and  of  other 
sufferings  of  his  is  to  be  found  in  Besse's  re- 
markable book.  "Sufferings  of  Friends,"  in 
which  also  the  names  of  five  other  members 
of  his  family  appear.  In  all  he  was  sentenced 
five  times  and  altogether  he  served  several 
years  in  prison. 

That  Thomas  F"rench  was  a  man  of  great 
force  of  character,  intense  religious  conviction, 
and  earnest,  consistent  life  is  abundantly  evi- 
dent. He  shared  with  his  associates  trials  and 
hardshi])s  and  always  resented  everything 
bearing  the  slightest  resemblance  to  injustice 
and  o]5pression.  He  was  consequently  among 
the  first  to  take  a  practical  interest  in  the  colo- 
nization of  Friends  in  America.  With  Wil- 
liam Penn,  Gauen  Laurie,  and  the  hundred  and 
fifty  others  he  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the 
famous  Concessions  and  .Agreements  at  Lon- 
don in  1676,  which  provided  for  the  settle- 
ment of  New  Jersey.  First  of  all  he  made  a 
preliminary  prospecting  visit  to  this  country 
to  locate  his  land  and  to  select  his  home,  then 
three  years  after  the  arrival  of  the  pioneer 
colonists  according  to  his  own  account  which 
is  still  preserved  he  sailed  from  London  in  the 
ship  "Kent,"  Gregory  Marlowe,  master,  the 
same  vessel  which  brought  the  first  company 
of  settlers,  in  1677,  to  Burlington,  about  .Au- 
gust I,  1680.  with  his  wife  and  nine  children, 
four  sons  and  five  daughters,  the  eldest  being 
si.vteen,  the  youngest  not  yet  four  years  of  age. 
He  settled  upon  a  tract  of  six  hundred  acres, 
along  the  banks  of  the  Rancocas,  about  four 
miles  from  Burlington,  and  throughout  the 
remainder  of  his  life  he  held  an  influential 
place  in  the  colony  and  prospered  in  business^ 


During  1684-85  he  was  the  commissioner  of 
highways.  At  his  death  in  1699,  he  was  pos- 
sessed of  one  thousand  two  hundred  acres  of 
improved  land  and  also  his  proprietory  share 
of  the  unsurveyed  lands,  approximately  two 
thousand  acres.  During  nearly  twenty  years 
residence  as  a  leading  citizen  of  I'urlington 
county,  Thomas  ffrench  trained  all  of  his  chil- 
dren in  ways  of  sobriety,  industry  and  religion, 
they  in  turn  founding  families  in  whom  traits 
i>f  strong  character  were  noted.  It  is  an  in- 
teresting fact  that  part  of  the  original  planta- 
tion of  Thomas  ffrench  is  today  owned  and 
occupied  by  his  descendants,  .^n  interesting 
relic  of  Thomas  ffrench  is  his  family  Bible 
which  he  brought  with  him  from  England  and 
which  is  still  in  existence  and  in  a  fair  state 
of  preservation  although  showing  the  effects 
of  time.  The  record  transcribed  in  it  is  in  his 
own  hand  and  covers  entries  made  during  a 
period  of  over  thirty  years.  In  maintaining 
his  rights  as  a  citizen  and  property  holder 
Thomas  ffrench  felt  himself  called  upon  almost 
at  the  beginning  to  take  action  which  seems  to 
have  excited  comment,  but  he  was  firm  in  de- 
claring the  justice  of  his  case  although  duly 
regretful  that  his  course  had  given  occasion 
for  criticism.  The  most  striking  instance  of 
his  thus  braving  public  opinion  was  a  remark- 
able letter  to  e,x-Governor  Thomas  Olive,  in 
some  respects  the  leading  and  most  influential 
man  in  the  colony. 

June  12,  1660.  Thomas  ffrench  was  married 
(  first)  in  the  parish  church  of  \\  hilton,  by  the 
Rev.  Richard  Morris.  Children:  I.  Sara,  bap- 
tized, as  were  the  first  twelve  children  at  SS. 
Peter  and  Paul,  Nether  Heyford,  March  17, 
1661,  buried  April  10,  1661.  2.  Jane,  born 
about  June  11,  1662.  baptized  .August  8.  1662. 
buried  .April  30,  1671.  3.  Rachel,  born  March 
24,  1664,  baptized  .April  3,  1664;  married 
(first)  Alathew  .Allen,  and  (second)  Hugh 
!>liarp.  4.  Richard,  referred  to  below.  5. 
Thomas,  baptized  October  31,  1667:  married 
(first)  Alary  .Allen,  and  (second)  Mary 
(Pearce)  Cattell ;  died  in  1745.  6.  Hannah, 
baptized  September  5,  1669,  died  7th  month, 
1747:  married  Richard  Buzby,  of  Pennsylva- 
nia. 7.  Charles,  born  March  20.  baptize! 
.Ajiril  2.  1671  ;  married  it  is  supposed  twice, 
the  name  of  his  first  wife  being  Elinor.  8. 
John,    baptized   January   2,    1673,   died    1729; 

married     (first)    in     1701,   Ann    ,   and 

(second)  Sarah  (Mason)  Wickward.  9. 
Sarah,  baptized  February  23,  1674 :  married 
Isaac  \\'o(xl,  of  Woodbury  Creek.  10.  Mary, 
baptized  .August  8.   1675.  died   1728:  married 


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Xichulas  Buzby,  of  lUirlingtun  c<:iu!it_v.  ii. 
Janu.  baptized  Xovember  ig,  167O:  married 
Daniel  Hall.  12.  Lydia,  born  probably  1682; 
married  probably,  1708,  David  Arnold.  13. 
An  infant,  died  8th  month  12,  1692.  Jane 
(  Atkins  )  French  died  at  Rancocas,  8th  month 
3,  i6()2,  and  Thomas  French  married  (sec- 
ond )  7th  month  2^.  ihgO,  Elizabeth  Stanton, 
of  the  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meeting.  To 
this  marriage  there  was  issue  one  child,  14. 
Rebecca,  born  6th  month  8,  1697,  died  1753: 
married  Robert  Miirfin. 

(Ill)  Richard  l^rench,  fourth  chilil  and 
eldest  son  of  Xhomas  (2)  and  Jane  (.\tkins) 
French,  was  born  in  Nether  Heyford,  .Eng- 
land, the  memorandum  in  the  family  Bible  of 
his  father  reading  "December  the  first  about 
ten  at  night  my  son  Richard  was  borne,  1665. 
The  Lord  give  him  grace  that  bee  may  con- 
tinually walk  before  him."  A  long  and  useful 
life  shows  how  fully  this  characteristic  prayer 
of  a  devout  and  loving  father  was  answered. 
Richard  was  a  lad  of  fifteen  when  he  came  to 
America.  So  far  as  is  known  his  youth  and 
early  manhood  were  spent  on  the  Rancoca 
plantation.  That  he  was  devoted  to  farm  life 
is  shown  in  the  fact  that  upon  his  marriage  he 
purchased  an  extensive  tract  of  land,  four 
liundred  and  sixty  acres,  in  Mansfield  town- 
ship, Burlington  county,  where  he  seems  to 
have  resided  for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  A 
deed  of  release  of  all  claim  to  the  home  farm, 
after  his  father's  death,  to  his  younger  brother 
Charles,  shows  the  kindly  relationship  that  ex- 
isted and  his  contentment  with  his  own  lot. 

He  was  a  faithful  and  zealous  Friend,  his 
name  appearing  many  times  in  the  meeting 
records  of  the  period.  In  171 5  he  was  chosen 
overseer  of  the  Chesterfield  Meeting  and  in 
1723  an  elder  and  a  minister.  He  was  also 
fre(|uently  chosen  as  a  representative  to 
c|uarterly  and  yearly  meeting.  Although  now- 
past  middle  age,  he  nevertheless  continued  for 
a  quarter  of  a  century  active  in  the  work  of 
preaching  and  visitation,  journeying  through 
the  wilderness  to  New  England  and  the  South. 
In  the  ])romotion  of  the  religious  life  of  the 
colonies  he  was  conspicuous  and  influential, 
in  business  affairs,  as  his  many  deeds  and  other 
pa])ers  show,  particularly  his  will  and  the  ac- 
companying inventory,  he  was  active  and  pros- 
perous. In  1701  he  was  the  collector  for 
Mansfield  township.  He  raised  a  large  fam- 
ily and  all  of  his  ten  children  reached  a  mar- 
riageable age.  The  peculiar  phraseology  of  his 
recor''ed  jiapers  indicate  a  mind  exceedingly 
careful  of  details,  with  a  just  and  kindly  sjiirit, 


and  the  monthly  meeting  fittingly  leslified  after 
his  death  tiiat  in  the  exercise  of  his  gift  in  the 
ministry  "he  laboured  faithfully  in  his  declin- 
ing age  and  travelled  much  in  North  America." 

Seventh  month,  11,  1693,  Richard  French 
married  (first)  Sarah,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Elizabeth  Scattergood,  of  Stepney  parish, 
London,  England,  and  New  Jersey.  She  died 
about  1700,  leaving  three  children.  Richard 
French  married  (  sectnul )  eleventh  month  13, 
1 701,  Mary,  daughter  of  Harmanus  and  Mary 
King,  of  Nottingham  township,  Burlington 
county.  New  Jersey,  by  whom  he  had  seven 
more  children:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  1(594;  mar- 
ried   William    Scholey.     2.    Richard,    Eighth 

month,  20,   1696;  married  Rachel  .     3. 

Thi.mas.  4.  Mary,  born  ninth  month  3,  1707, 
died  1783;  married  as  his  first  wife  Preserve 
Brown  Jr.  5.  Rebecca,  married  Benjamin 
Shreve.  6,  William,  referred  to  below.  7. 
.Sarah,  born  seventh  month  20,  1715;  married 
W  illiam  ]\larlin.  8.  Abigail,  born  seventh 
month  5,  1717;  married  (first)  James  Lewis, 
of  Philadelphia,  and  (second)  Jacob  Taylor, 
g.  Lienjamin,  twelfth  month  11,  1719,  died 
1747;  married  ]\lartha  Hall,  of  Bordentown. 
10.  Jonathan,  eleventh  month  2J.  1722,  died 
1778:  married  Esther  Matlack. 

(  I\'  I  William,  sixth  child  and  third  son  of 
Richard  and  Mary   (King)   French,  was  born 


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1712,   died   in    1781.      He   lived   and 


died  intestate  in  Burlington  county,  letters  of 
administration  on  his  estate  being  granted  to 
his  son  William,  December  8,  1781,  the  inven- 
tory of  his  goods  and  chattels  having  been 
made  the  previous  October  26.  W'illiam 
French  married,  September  20,  1748,  Lydia 
Taylor,  of  Bordentown,  by  whom  he  had  tliree 
children:  I.  William,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Richard,  born  October  15,  1759,  died  Febru- 
ary 26,  1823 ;  married  Mary  Davis.  3.  Lydia, 
March  19,  1763;  married  Gabriel  Allen,  of 
Bordentown. 

(\")  \\'illiam  (2),  eldest  son  of  William 
(i)  and  Lydia  (Taylor)  French,  was  born  in 
Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  May  10,  1751. 
died  October  27,  1808.  He  was  a  millwright 
and  apjiears  to  have  spent  most  of  his  life  at 
Laniberton,  New  Jersey,  although  he  also 
seems  to  have  for  a  considerable  time  so- 
journed both  in  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania, 
and  in  Fladdonfield,  New  Jersey.  September 
17,  1777,  lie  married  at  Falls  meeting,  Rachel, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Hannah  Rickey,  of 
T  ower  Makefield  township,  Bucks  county, 
Peruisylvania,  who  died  in  Laniberton,  New 
Jersey,     August     27,     1827.     Their     children 


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were:  i.  Eydia,  born  August  25,  1778,  died 
August  18,  1781.  2.  Hannah,  December  5, 
1779,  died  May  22,  1782.  3.  John  Taylor, 
January  27,  1783,  died  November  21,  1831.  4. 
William  Rickey.  November  2Ti.  1785.  5.  Mah- 
lon  Kirkbride,  referred  to  below.  6.  Amos 
Taylor,  January  23.  1791 ;  married  Ruth 
Ewing.     7.  Rachel  Rickey,  February  22,  1794. 

(VI)  Alahlon  Kirkbride,  fifth  child  and 
third  son  of  W'illiam  (2)  and  Rachel  (Rickey) 
French,  was  born  June  12,  1788.  He  married. 
May  15,  1807,  Sarah  Stackhouse.  Among 
their  children  was :  William  Washington,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(\  II)  W'illiam  Washington,  son  of  Mahlon 
Kirkbride  and  Sarah  (Stackhouse)  French, 
was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  Peb- 
ruary  14,  181 1.  The  early  portion  of  his  life 
was  spent  in  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
served  an  apprenticeship  to  the  cabinet  making 
trade.  In  185 1  he  moved  to  Delaware  county. 
Pennsylvania,  from  which  he  removed  in  1861 
to  Philadelphia.  During  the  civil  war  he 
served  in  the  United  States  quartermaster's 
department. 

William  Washington  French  married  Ann, 
born  in  1815.  daughter  of  John  .\iry.  of  Hor- 
dentown,  I'urlington  county.  New  Jersey,  and 
their  children  were:  I.  Maria,  deceased.  2. 
Emma,  deceased.  3.  Anna,  deceased.  4. 
Rachel,  married  the  Rev.  Benjamin  Philips,  a 
Presbyterian  divine.  5.  Harvey,  married  \"ir- 
ginia  Maston  and  had  two  children :  Laura, 
married  Henry  Eccles,  and  Ella,  married  Paul 
Lockenbacher.  Harvey  French  enlisted  in  the 
Eighth  New  Jersey  Regiment  of  X'okmteer  In- 
fantry in  1861.  was  severely  wounded  in  the 
hip  at  the  battle  of  Bull  Run  and  was  taken 
prisoner.  He  is  now  living  at  Haddon 
Heights,  New  Jersey.  6.  Sarah,  deceased.  7. 
William,  lives  in  Philadelphia,  employed  in  the 
Baldwin  locomotive  works.  His  wife  died 
leaving  him  with  one  child,  Lilian.  8.  John 
Ta}lor.  referred  to  below.  9.  George,  a  mill 
worker,  living  in  Philadeljihia  and  married. 
10.  Elizabeth,  deceased.     11.  Ella,  deceased. 

(\TII)  John  Taylor,  the  eighth  child  of 
\\'illiam  Washington  and  Ann  (Airy)  French, 
was  born  in  Delaware  county,  Pennsylvania, 
March  2.  1852,  and  is  now  living  at  Atlantic 
City,  New  Jersey.  For  his  early  education 
he  was  sent  to  the  schools  of  Delaware  county 
and  of  Philadelphia,  .\fter  spending  some 
time  on  a  farm,  he  became  an  apprentice  at 
sixteen  years  of  age  and  learned  the  trade  of 
house  painting.  In  1877  he  removed  to  Ham- 
monton,    New   Jersey,   and    in    1883   built   the 


paint  factory  there,  which  he  has  since  then 
carried  on  so  successfully.  In  connection 
with  this  factory  he  established  in  lyoo  at  At- 
lantic City  a  store  for  paints  and  painters' 
supplies.  His  legal  residence  is  Hammonton, 
but  he  has  also  a  fine  cottage  at  .Atlantic  City 
where  he  spends  a  good  deal  of  his  time  and 
where  many  of  his  business  interests  centre. 
Mr.  French  is  a  director  in  the  Hammonton 
Trust  Company,  and  for  nearly  five  years  was 
the  postmaster  at  Hammonton,  having  been 
ajjpointed  to  that  very  responsible  position  by 
President  (irover  Cleveland  during  his  second 
term.  For  fourteen  years  .he  was  a  member 
of  the  county  board  of  registration  and  elec- 
tions, and  for  a  number  of  years  has  also  been 
a  member  of  the  city  council  of  Hammonton, 
and  an  assessor  of  the  town.  Mr.  French  is 
a  Democrat  and  for  six  years  was  a  member 
of  the  state  democratic  committee.  For  eight- 
een years  he  was  a  director  of  the  Hammon- 
ton Building  and  Loan  Association,  one  of  the 
most  successful  of  that  town's  successful  or- 
ganizations. At  present  he  is  also  president 
of  the  Atlantic  Realty  Company  of  Atlantic 
City.  He  is  also  a  member  of  M.  G.  Taylor 
Lodge,  No.  141,  of  the  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  of  Hammonton :  Improved  Order  of 
Red  Men,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
.\rtisans"  Order  of  Mutual  Protection.  He  is 
an  independent  in  religion. 

In  1873  John  Taylor  French  married  Jennie 
R.,  daughter  of  \Villiam  Alexandria.  Their 
children  are:  1.  John  Taylor  Jr.,  born  Sep- 
tember 15,  1874;  unmarried;  with  his  father 
in  the  paint  supply  business.  2.  Ida  F.,  July 
28.  187*'):  married  Wilson  S.  Turner,  of  Ham- 
monton, and  has  one  child.  Spencer  French 
Turner.  3.  Howard,  July  23,  1878:  with  his 
father  in  the  paint  business ;  by  his  marriage 
with  Mabel  Maxwell  he  has  two  children,  Vir- 
ginia and  Roberta.  4.  Walter,  December  16, 
1880:  married  Elizabeth  Ketes,  but  has  no 
chil  Ven.  5.  Wilbert  .A..  October  21,  1882: 
also  with  his  father  in  the  paint  business: 
married  Martha  Murray  and  has  one  child, 
lohn  Tavlor  P>ench. 


Nathan  Armstrong,  the 
-ARMSTRONG  New  Jersey  pioneer,  was 
born  about  1717,  near 
Londonderry  in  the  province  of  Lister,  Ire- 
land. He  was  a  linen  weaver  by  trade,  a 
Scotch-Irishman  by  race,  and  a  Protestant  by 
religious  faith.  He  came  to  .\merica  about 
1740.  .After  living  a  few  years  in  central  New 
Jersey,  he  went  to  the  northwestern  frontier 


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and  settled  in  Warren  county,  then  a  part  of 
Sussex,  where  he  met  and  loved  and  married 
a  maiden  by  the  name  of  Eupheniia  Wright. 
He  bought  a  tract  of  five  hundred  and  eighty- 
one  acres  of  uncleared  land,  built  a  log  cabin 
thereon  and  became  a  farmer,  and  continued 
thereafter  during  a  period  of  twenty-nine 
years  to  enjoy  the  blessings  of  health  and 
home  and  the  rewards  of  industry  and  thrift. 

The  defeat  of  the  English  army  under 
P.raddock  near  Pittsburg  in  1755  caused  a 
panic  :  and  well  it  might,  for  the  Indians  in 
their  exultation  began  to  murder  the  settlers 
everywhere,  some  of  the  savages  even  coming 
eastward  and  crossing  into  New  Jersey.  Na- 
than .Armstrong  and  his  neighbors  erected  a 
stockade  around  a  log  house  at  Alarksboro  and 
took  their  wives  and  children  there  for  safety. 
His  sons,  George  and  John,  were  at  that  time 
only  six  years  of  age ;  but  when  they  were 
old  men,  they  used  to  tell  how  their  father 
took  them  to  the  barn-yard  and  showed  them  a 
pot  of  money  he  had  buried  under  the  barrack 
and  told  them  if  he  were  killed  and  they  es- 
caped they  should  remember  where  the  money 
was ;  then  they  all  went  to  the  fort  where  the 
children  remained  until  the  danger  was  over. 

Nathan  .Armstrong  was  interested  in  local 
aftairs  and  held  several  offices  in  old  Hard- 
wick.  He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  jus- 
tices and  freeholders  of  Sussex  county  for 
three  years,  1759-61  ;  and  he  was  one  of  the 
original  incorporators  of  Christ  Episcopal 
Church  at  Newton,  being  named  as  such  in  the 
charter  granted  to  that  church  by  the  pro- 
vincial gijvernmont  of  New  Jersey  on  .August 

14.   1774- 

The  .Armstrong  homestead  is  at  Johnson- 
burg  in  the  township  of  Frelinghuysen ;  it  is 
crossed  by  the  Lackawanna  railroad,  and  is 
fourteen  miles  east  of  the  Delaware  Water 
Gap.  Nathan  moved  into  his  new  home  with 
his  wife  and  infant  daughter  during  the  third 
w-eek  of  May,  1748.  At  that  time  Warren 
county  was  really  a  western  frontier.  Some 
Indians  still  lingered  in  the  valleys  of  the 
Paulinskill  and  the  Pequest,  living  at  points 
convenient  for  hunting  and  fishing,  and  feeling 
bitter  and  resentful  at  the  intrusion  of  the 
white  man.  There  was  not  a  single  house  on 
the  groiuKl  now  occupied  by  P.lairstown,  New- 
ton and  Pelvidere;  and  there  were  only  three 
])osti  ffices  in  the  entire  state  of  New  Jersey, 
namely:  Trenton,  Burlington  and  Perth 
Amboy.  .AH  north  Jersey  was  thickly  covered 
witln  heavy  timber:  the  streams  were  without 


bridges,  and  the  king's  highways  were  mere 
paths  through  the  woods. 

Piears,  deer  and  all  kinds  of  game  were 
abundant ;  thousands  of  the  finest  shad  came 
up  the  creeks  and  brooks,  and  millions  of  wild 
pigeons  roosted  in  the  forest.  There  was  a 
panther's  lair  in  every  deep  ravine ;  and  wolves 
fierce  with  hunger  prowled  about,  seeking  to 
earn,-  of?  any  stray  hogs,  lambs  and  calves, 
hunting  in  packs  during  the  day  and  making 
repeated  attacks  at  night  on  sheep-pen  and 
cattle-stall.  There  was  a  bounty  of  si.xty  shil- 
lings for  a  full-grown  wolf,  ten  shillings  for 
a  whelp  not  able  to  prey,  and  fifteen  shillings 
for  a  panther.  Among  the  entries  found  in 
the  account  books  of  the  county  treasurer, 
there  are  several  that  read  thus:  "By  cash  paid 
Nathan  Armstrong  for  one  wolf's  head." 

Nathan  died  of  small-pox  which  he  con- 
tracted while  delivering  produce  at  the  .Ameri- 
can camp  in  Morristown.  He  was  buried  in 
a  private  graveyard,  as  the  custom  was  in  colo- 
nial times,  but  his  tombstone  may  still  be  seen 
at  the  Yellow  Frame  cemetery,  ornamented 
at  the  top  with  the  face  and  extended  wings 
of  a  cherub  carved  in  outline,  and  bearing  this 
inscription  below  :  "Here  lies  the  body  of  Na- 
than Armstrong  who  departed  this  Life  Aug't 
iith.  Anno  Domini  1777,  aged  about  si.xty 
Years."  His  will,  which  is  dated  August  5, 
1777,  is  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  secretary 
of  state  at  Trenton ;  after  making  ample  pro- 
vision for  his  wife,  he  gave  a  sum  of  ilioney 
to  each  of  his  daughters  and  a  farm  to  each 
of  his  sons. 

Euphemia,  Nathan's  wife,  was  born  in  1724, 
and  died  in  181 1,  at  the  age  of  eighty-seven. 
The  Rev.  Caspar  Shaffer,  in  his  Alemoirs, 
speaks  of  her  thus :  "My  grandmother  Arm- 
strong was  a  lady  of  superior  mental  endow- 
ment. She  excelled  in  conversational  power. 
1  well  recollect  in  my  childhood  and  youth  with 
what  a  glowing  interest  and  fi.xed  attention  I 
sat  and  listened  to  her  when  she  was  relating 
to  my  mother  anecdotes  and  reminiscences  of 
earlier  life.  Her  piety,  calm,  consistent, 
and  unobtrusiveness,  shone  in  all  her  daily 
walk  and  conversation."  Nathan  and  Eu- 
phemia .Armstrong  had  seven  children. 
nanKJ}-:  P'lizabetli,  George  and  John,  William, 
.Mary,  Haimah  and  Sarah;  each  one  of  these 
children  grew  to  maturity,  married  and  has 
descendants  living  at  the  present  time. 

I.  Elizabeth  Armstrong,  born  March  12. 
1747.  married  Archibald  Stinson  Jr..  o*' 
X'icnna,  New  Jersey,  and  had  a  son  John  .Stin- 


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son,  who  was  for  twenty  years  a  judge  of  the 
court  of  common  pleas,  and  who  invented  an 
improved  instrument  for  detennining  latitude 
and  longitude  and  secured  a  patent  for  the 
same,  both  in  the  L'nited  States  and  in  Eng- 
land. 

2-3.  George  and  John,  twins;  according  to 
the  original  entry  in  the  first  family  Bible, 
they  "were  born  on  .Sunday,  on  the  20th  day 
of  August  in  the  year  of  Our  Lord  1749,  about 
twelve  o'clock  at  night."  Each  spent  his  life 
on  his  own  half  of  the  old  homestead ;  and  each 
left  a  last  will  and  testament,  now  on  record 
at  Belvidere.  George  died  December  14.  1829. 
in  his  eighty-first  year ;  and  John  died  May  7, 
1836,  in  his  eighty-seventh  year.  .AH  the  fam- 
ilies that  now  bear  the  name  of  Armstrong  and 
that  trace  their  descent  from  Nathan  the  pio- 
neer, have  sprung  from  the  one  or  the  other 
of  these  twins ;  and  this  article  will  give  an 
account  of  all  the  .\rmstrong  households  of 
the  tribe  of  Nathan,  beginning  with  George 
and  John,  and  coming  down  to  the  present 
time;  the  account  will  be  brief  but  accurate; 
and  it  will  be  complete,  for  there  are  no  lost 
lines  and  no  missing  links. 

4.  William  .\rmstrong  served  during  the 
revolutionary  war  as  ensign  in  Captain  Clif- 
ford's company  of  Sussex  militia,  marching 
on  several  e.xpeditions  against  the  Indians  and 
fighting  at  the  battle  of  Springfield.  He  had 
a  large  farm,  and  he  owned  and  conducted  a 
store  and  a  grist-mill  at  Johnsonburg.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Swazye  in  1779,  and  had 
four  daughters:  Lydia,  the  wife  of  Abraham 
Shafer  Jr. ;  Euphemia,  the  wife  of  John  T. 
Bray;  Mary,  the  wife  of  John  C.  Roy;  and 
Sarah,  the  wife  of  Ephraim  Green  Jr.  Wil- 
liam died  in  1842,  at  the  age  of  ninety. 

5.  Mary  .Armstrong  in  1773  married  Robert 
Beavers  Jr..  of  Changewater,  New  Jersey,  who 
served  as  captain  dining  the  revolutionary  war 
and  was  for  fifteen  years  a  judge  of  the 
court  of  common  pleas;  their  children  were 
Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  Jacob  Stinson ;  Mary, 
the  wife  of  John  Little;  Ann,  the  wife  of 
Jacob  Swayze ;  Euphemia,  the  wife  of  James 
Reeder,  of  Ohio;  and  a  son.  John  Armstrong 
Beavers,  who  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  war  of 
1812. 

6.  Hannah  .Armstrong  in  1779  married 
.'\le.xander  Linn,  son  of  Adjutant  Joseph  Linn  ; 
when  a  w-idow  she  removed  in  1800  to  Espy- 
ville,  Crawford  county,  Pennsylvania,  with  her 
six  children :  John  ;  Mary,  who  married  Robert 
Mc.Arthur  ;  .Andrew  ;  Euphemia,  who  married 
Daniel  .Axtell ;  George;  Joseph.     Hannah  was 


the  daughter  of  a  pioneer,  a  pioneer  herself, 
and  the  mother  of  pioneers;  she  died  in  1842 
at  the  age  of  eighty-si.x. 

7.  Sarah  Armstrong  married  Captain  Abra- 
ham Shafer,  of  Stillwater,  New  Jersey.  .Abra- 
ham fought  in  the  revolutionary  war,  was  an 
elder  in  the  Yellow  Frame  church,  served  four 
terms  in  the  state  legislature,  and  commanded 
a  troop  of  volunteer  light  dragoons  in  the  e.x- 
pedition  to  Pittsburg  in  1794,  to  suppress  the 
whisky  insurrection.  .Abraham  and  Sarah  had 
eight  children;  Maria,  the  wife  of  John  John- 
son ;  Rev.  Casper,  M.  D.,  of  Philadelphia ;  Na- 
than .Armstrong  ;  Peter  Bernhardt ;  Euphemia 
Wright,  the  wife  of  Major  Henry  Miller; 
Sarah,  the  wife  of  Rev.  Jacob  R.  Castner ; 
William  .Armstrong;  and  Elizabeth,  the  wife 
of  Rev.  Isaac  Newton  Candee. 

(II)  George,  son  of  Nathan  and  Euphemia 
Armstrong,  was  born  in  1749,  and  died  in  1829. 
He  was  active  in  business  but  he  took  special 
interest  in  all  matters  relating  to  the  moral 
and  religious  welfare  of  the  community,  labor- 
ing earnestly  and  faithfully  during  a  long  life 
to  promote  the  growth  and  extend  the  infiu- 
ence  of  the  Yellow  Frame  church. 

He  was  prominent  in  local  affairs.  He  was 
the  clerk  of  Hardwick  township  for  twenty-two 
consecutive  years,  1779-1801,  and  the  asses.sor 
for  thirty-one  years  beginning  in  1782;  he  was 
also  ta.x  collector  and  a  taker  of  the  census. 
He  was  clerk  of  the  board  of  justices  and  free- 
holders of  Sussex  county;  he  was  also  ap- 
])ointed  tax  collector  for  the  county  in  1791, 
and  served  five  years.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  state  legislature;  on  his  return  from  Tren- 
ton, he  brought  with  him  a  set  of  silver  tea- 
spoons, and  he  was  welcomed  home  by  a  new 
daughter ;  his  great-great-grandchildren  are 
now  allowed  to  use  those  spoons  on  special 
occasions. 

George's  homestead  was  a  busy  place.  The 
fields  were  kept  in  a  high  state  of  cultiva- 
tion. Fruit  trees  of  every  kind  were  plant- 
ed, the  best  varieties  of  each  being  sought 
out ;  and  grafting  was  taught  to  the  boys  as  a 
fine  art.  His  hcuse,  which  stood  on  a  terrace 
and  overlooked  a  broad  meadow,  was  furn- 
ished with  spinning  wheels  and  a  loom.  The 
garden,  wagon  house,  corn  crib,  barn  and 
stackyard,  were  on  the  left;  on  the  right  stood 
the  milk  house  and  the  tenant  house,  and  just 
beyond  these  were  the  apple  bins  and  cider 
presses  and  tanks,  and  a  distillery  forty  feet 
long.  Out  on  the  meadow  was  the  tannery, 
the  vats  being  arranged  in  parallel  rows  with 
wells   at   convenient   distances ;    and    close-by 


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stood  the  bark-house  and  the  bark  grinder  with 
its  circular  horse-path.  In  those  clays  the 
making  of  brandy  was  not  regarded  as  at  all 
reprehensible ;  but  when  the  movement  in 
favor  of  moderation  spread  over  the  country 
in  1825,  George  was  one  of  the  very  first  men 
in  the  community  to  advocate  the  cause  of 
temperance :  and  as  the  first  fruits  of  this 
moral  awakening,  he  destroyed  his  stills  and 
stopped  making  liquor.  Hides  and  skins  were 
tanned  on  shares ;  and  sometimes  he  employed 
skilled  workmen  to  manufacture  his  share  of 
the  leather  at  once  into  boots,  shoes  and  har- 
ness, for  which  articles  there  was  a  ready  sale. 

George  was  a  buyer  and  reader  of  good 
books.  Judging  from  the  dates  of  purchase 
as  entered  under  his  name  on  the  fly-leaves, 
it  seems  to  have  been  his  custom  to  place  upon 
the  shelves  of  his  bookcase  every  year  some 
well-bound  volumes.  Alost  of  these  books 
treated  of  morality  and  religion,  such  as  the 
evidences  of  Christianity,  the  works  of  Ed- 
wards and  of  Witherspoon,  and  sermons  by 
other  Princeton  divines.  The  library  he  thus 
accumulated  did  honor  to  his  mind  and  char- 
acter. He  was  for  more  than  thirty-six  years 
a  ruling  elder  in  the  Yellow  Frame  Presby- 
terian Church;  and  in  the  religious  affairs  of 
the  community  he  stood  at  the  front :  when  the 
church  was  without  a  pastor,  as  was  often  the 
case,  the  spiritual  oversight  of  the  shepherd- 
less  flock  depended  largely  on  Gecrge  .\rm- 
strong. 

Me  married  Sarah  Hunt,  daughter  of  Lieu- 
tenant Richard  Hunt,  and  harl  Rachel,  the 
wife  of  John  Locke;  Richard;  John,  born 
1788,  died  1873;  Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  John 
O.  Rice;  Sarah,  the  wife  of  Japhct  1'.  Ched- 
ister ;  and  David  Hunt, 

(HI)  Richard,  son  of  tjeorge  antl  .Sarah 
.Armstrong,  married  Phebe  Haukinson  and  liad 
one  child,  Samuel  Hunt  Armstrong,  who 
married  Margaret  Wilson  and  had  Nor- 
cena.  the  wife  of  William  Percy  Bennett, 
and  Lozenia,  the  wife  of  Daniel  Joseph  Mc- 
Clurg,  of  Espyville,  Pennsylvania. 

(HI)  John,  son  of  George  and  Sarah  .\rm- 
strong,  married  Lydia  Kirkpatrick,  claughter 
of  Captain  John  and  Lydia  (Lewis)  Kirk- 
patrick, and  had  four  children ;  Sarah,  the 
wife  of  Jacob  S.  Mott ;  David  Lewis;  Will- 
iam, the  sheriff  of  Warren  county;  and  Rich- 
ard Turner.  .After  the  death  of  Lydia,  John 
married  Martha  Luse,  and  had  Lydia  jane, 
will  I  married  Ira  C.  Kerr.  David  Lewis  .Xrm- 
stroiig  married  Elizabeth  R(3y  and  had  two 
children:   Sarah  Matilda,  the  wife  of  Milton 


Howard  Soverel ;  and  George  Byram  Arm- 
strong, who  married  Sarah  Rubina  L'Homa- 
dieu  and  had  Anna  Elizabeth,  the  wife  of 
Alvah  J.  Walters;  Cora  Rubina;  and  Hattie 
\'alentine.  William  .Armstrong,  the  sheriff, 
married  Elizabeth  Mackey,  of  Belvidere,  and 
had  John  Mackey,  Israel,  and  Eutokia. 

(1\')  Richard  Turner,  son  of  John  and 
Lydia  Armstrong,  was  born  January  15,  1823, 
died  November  26,  1902;  he  dwelt  at  Johnson- 
burg,  Xew  Jersey  ;  married  Esther  Ann  Lundy, 
daughter  of  David  and  Sarah  (Wildrick) 
Lundy,  and  had  William  Clinton,  John  W.,  and 
George  Lundy  Armstrong.  William  Clinton 
.Armstrong  married  Stella  Virginia  Lenher, 
daughter  of  George  H.  Lenher,  and  had  a 
daughter  Marion  Lenher,  and  four  sons, 
Richard  Clinton,  George  Lenher,  John  Mac- 
dougall  and  William  Clinton  Jr.  John  W. 
.Armstrong  married  Laura  Ellen  Willson, 
daughter  of  Jesse  Willson,  and  had  Edna 
Mabel,  wife  of  Charles  Watson  Gibbs ;  and 
John  W..  Jr.  George  Lundy  Armstrong  mar- 
ried .Sarah  Frances  Rceder,  daughter  of  Sedg- 
wick R.  Reeder,  and  had  Carrie,  the  wife  of 
ISertram  Drake;  and  ISessie. 

WUliam  Clinton  .Armstrong  graduated  from 
Princeton  College  in  the  class  of  1877.  He  stud- 
ied law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  became 
jarincipal  nf  the  higli  school  at  New  Brunswick, 
Xew  Jersey,  in  1891,  and  in  1899  was  elected 
su])erintendent  of  schools  in  that  city.  In  1895 
he  i)ublished  a  "( lenealogical  Recorfl  of  the  De- 
scendants of  Nathan  .Armstrong,"  in  which  are 
given  the  names  of  all  persons  descending 
from  that  worthy  pioneer,  traced  through  botli 
male  and  female  lines.  In  1902  he  published 
the  "Lundy  Family  and  Their  Descendants 
of  Whatsoever  Surname,"  with  a  biographical 
sketch  of  Benjamin  Lundy,  the  founder  of 
.American  .Abolitionism.  He  has  also  written 
a  series  of  papers  on  "Lord  Stirling  of  New 
Jersey  as  a  Soldier  and  as  a  Man."  He  is  a 
member  of  the  New  Jersey  Society  of  the 
Sons  of  the  .American  Revolution,  and  as  his- 
torian of  that  society  edited  a  volume  which 
was  ]niblished  in  1903  under  the  title  of  "Patri- 
otic Poems  of  New  Jersey." 

(Ill)  David  Hunt,  son  of  George  and 
Sarah  Armstrong,  dwelt  on  his  father's  farm. 
He  married  Mary  .\nn  .Mbertson  and  had 
seven  children:  Sarah  Jane,  the  wife  of  Esaac 
D.  Youmans;  Martha  Elizabeth,  the  wife  of 
.Andrew  Raub  Tcel ;  (Jeorge  A.;  Isaac  A.; 
William  P.:  Milton  N. ;  and  Clinton  Oren 
Armstrong. 

George  .\.  .Vi'mstmng  married  .Marthia  Calla 


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Wintci'iinite,  removed  to  Dorchester.  Nebraska, 
and  liad :  Austin  Craig;  David  William; 
Flora  Delle.  the  wife  of  Henry  Nelson; 
and  Matilda  Ann,  the  wife  of  Dennis  Ross. 
.\iistin  Craig  Armstrong,  now  of  Glencoe. 
Illinois,  married  Minnie  .A.  Weinecke  and 
has  George  Henry.  Isaac  .\.  Armstrong  mar- 
ried Maria  T.  McCallister  and  had  Mary  C, 
Alice  L.,  Edwin  and  Hugh  Hunt.  William 
Preston  Armstrong  married  Alice  Wiklrick 
and  had  Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  Mr.  Gallagher, 
of  Brooklyn.  Milton  Nathan  Armstrong,  M. 
D.,  married  Elizabeth  Blair,  and  has  Robert  R. 
and  Mar}%  the  wife  of  Harold  Hastings 
Cooley.  Clinton  Oren  Armstrong  married 
Elizabeth  S.  Mott.  dwelt  at  .Milford.  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  has  Harold  Rodney,  Ma.xwell  and 
Natalie  Bartow, 

(II)  John,  son  of  Nathan  and  Euphcmia 
Armstrong,  born  1749,  died  1836.  was  a  man 
of  influence.  Flis  long  life  was  filled  with  a 
wide  range  of  business  activities.  He  took  up 
surveying  in  early  life  and  did  much  work  of 
that  kind  initil  his  own  sons  relieved  him.  In 
1776  he  was  assessor  of  Hardwick  townshi]) ; 
the  ne.vt  two  years  he  was  town  clerk ;  then  he 
was  freeholder ;  and  after  that  he  was  the  tax 
collector  of  Sussex  county  for  eight  years. 

During  the  revolutionary  war  he  was  lieuten- 
ant in  Captain  .\aron  Hankinson's  company, 
second  regiment  of  Susse.x  militia  ;  see  papers  of 
the  New  Jersey  Provincial  Congress,  document 
No.  126.  He  became  judge  of  the  court  of 
common  pleas  in  February,  1801,  and  retired 
from  the  bench  in  1831,  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
two,   having   served  thirty  consecutive  years. 

He  was  a  farmer,  who  possessed  the  ambition 
and  ability  to  develop  new  enterprises.  At 
Paulina,  a  half  mile  above  Blairstown,  he 
bought  a  tract  of  land  lying  on  b(3th  sides  of 
the  Paulinskill.  On  the  south  bank  of  the 
stream  he  erected  a  grist  mill,  which  for  two 
generations  was  one  of  the  best  mill  pro]ierties 
in  that  section  of  the  country,  and  which  has 
recently  been  remodeled  into  an  electrical 
power-house. 

Opposite  the  mill  he  constructed  a  forge 
for  refining  iron,  and  this  forge  he  operated 
for  a  number  of  years.  He  bought  raw- 
pig-iron  at  a  smelting  furance  at  .\ndover ; 
the  iron  he  bought  was  in  the  shape  of 
sticks,  each  stick  being  six  feet  long  and 
weighing  about  two  hundred  pounds ;  these  he 
carted  to  the  forge,  a  distance  of  eleven  miles. 
He  purchased  some  timber  laml  on  the  Kit- 
tatinny  mountains  ten  miles  away  ;  and  there 
manufactured   charcoal    which    he    carted    to 


Paulina  to  use  in  the  forge,  .\fter  the  raw 
iron  had  been  purified  into  bar  iron,  it  was 
transported  to  the  Delaware  river,  a  distance 
of  twelve  miles,  floated  down  stream  on  flat- 
boats  and  sold  at  Philadel])hia.  His  enter- 
prise and  energy  overcame  all  difficulties.  But 
the  times  changed  and  the  smelter  at  Andover 
had  to  shut  dcnvn  owing  to  economic  conditions 
that  effected  the  whole  country.  As  a  conse- 
(|uence  no  pig-iron  could  l)e  obtained  and  the 
refining  forge  at  Paulina  was  compelled  to 
close. 

John  .Armstrong  was  vice-president  of  the 
Warren  County  llible  Society,  president  of 
the  Hardwick  Temperance  Society,  and  a 
member  of  the  first  board  of  directors  of  the 
.Sussex  Bank. 

lie  married  Sarah  Stinson ;  their  chiklren 
wire  John,  Jr.;  Nathan;  Jacob;  Mary,  the 
wife  of  Samuel  Snover  King;  Sarah,  the  wife 
I  if  John  R.  Howell;  Euphemia,  the  wife  of 
Wilson  Hunt;  and  Eleanor,  the  wife  of  Isaac 
.'-^hiner. 

(  III  )  John,  Jr.,  son  of  Jnhn  and  .Sarah  .Arm- 
strong, who  removed  in  1819  to  Euclid,  near 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  twice  married.  By  his 
first  wife  Elizabeth  Shafer,  he  had  a  daughter 
Alargaret  Sarah,  who  married  Joseph  W.  Mc- 
Cord ;  by  his  second  wife  Phebe  Stewart,  he 
had  Samuel  Snover;  A'aleria  .Adaline,  the  wife 
of  Jason  Abbott;  Wilson  Hunt;  John  Stinson, 
who  died  in  the  L'nited  States  navy  during  the 
civil  war ;  and  Dewitt  Clinton  Armstrong. 
Samuel  Snover  Armstrong,  of  Nottingham, 
Ohio,  was  tw'ice  married ;  his  wives  w'ere 
Sarah  Lloyd  and  Mary  Gunn ;  he  had  three 
children  by  each  wife.  His  children  were: 
George  VV^ashington  Armstrong,  who  married 
Alary  A.  Rice,  and  had  a  son  F"rank.  of  Alead- 
ville,  Pennsylvania;  Sarah  Elizabeth,  the  wife 
of  .Adolphe  R.  Candy;  Lucy  Ann,  the  wife  of 
Ira  Eddy;  .Ann  Lucretia,  the  wife  of  Almon 
( i.  Dills ;  John  Chester,  of  Trenton,  Michigan, 
who  married  Lillian  M.  Rose,  and  had  a 
daughter  Alice  Elizabeth ;  and  Laura  Adaline, 
the  wife  of  Francis  M.  Rogers,  of  Dunkirk, 
Ohio.  \Vilson  Hunt  .Armstrong,  of  Gallon, 
Ohio,  married  .Almira  Converse  and  had  two 
daughters:  Eleanor,  the  wife  of  Frank  D. 
Bain  ;  and  .Almira,  the  wife  of  James  (i.  White. 
Dewitt  Clinton  .Armstrong  married  .Ann  E. 
Kline  and  had  John  S.,  Lucy  C,  Vernon  D., 
and  Grace  F. 

(HI)  Nathan,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  .Arm- 
strong, married  Elcy  H.  Kerr  and  had  two 
sons :  John  Locke  and  Henry  Palmer.  John 
Locke   .Armstrong  married    Lucretia   Stuphen 


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and  had  two  sons:  Austin  Elisha,  who  was 
killed  at  Roanoke  Island,  and  William  Hamp- 
ton, who  married  Alary  E.  Sutton,  and  had 
three  children  ;  Rev.  Austin  Elisha,  John  Locke 
and  Lucretia  Drake.  John  Locke  Armstrong, 
the  grandson,  married  Lois  A.  Yawger,  tlwelt 
at  Xewton,  Xew  Jersey,  and  had  Roy  and 
Ellsworth.  Henry  Palmer  Armstrong,  of 
Columbia,  New  Jersey,  married  Abbie  Maria 
Harris  and  had  Elmer  Rozell  Armstrong,  of 
Easton,  Pennsylvania,  who  married  Sadie 
Budd  and  has  Donald  liJuild,  Margaret,  and 
Lawrence  Elmer. 

(HI)  Jacob,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  Arm- 
strong, dwelt  on  the  homestead.  He  married 
Nancy  Willson  and  had  Nathan  and  Ophelia ; 
Nathan  married  Martha  Firth  and  had  Edith, 
the  wife  of  William  B.  Banker,  and  Isabella; 
Ophelia  married  James  H.  Couch,  of  Morris- 
town.  New  Jersey. 

Austin  Elisha  Armstrong  enlisted  at  Hope, 
New  Jersey,  in  Company  11.  Ninth  New  Jer- 
sey \"olunteers.  Of  the  whole  regiment  he 
was  the  first  man  to  enlist  and  the  second  man 
to  die.  He  was  killed  at  Roanoke  Island, 
North  Carolina,  on  February  8,  1862.  While 
the  union  troops  were  charging  a  confederate 
battery,  a  bullet  hit  Austin  E.  in  the  forehead. 
He  did  not  think  it  serious  and  tried  to  go  on 
with  his  company,  but  the  wound  bled  freely 
and  his  face  and  hands  and  breast  were  soon 
dripping  with  blood.  He  started  for  the  rear, 
telling  his  companions  that  he  would  be  back 
as  soon  as  he  could  get  something  to  keep  the 
blood  out  of  his  eyes.  He  reached  the  door 
of  the  tent  but  drop])ed  dead  as  he  entered. 
A  shaft  of  marble  stands  to  his  memory  in  the 
cemetery  of  the  \'ellovv  Frame  church. 


The  American  home  of  the  Edge 
EDGE  family  is  Chester  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, although,  as  in  the  case  of 
the  line  at  [jresent  under  consideration,  some 
branches  of  it  have  spread  over  in  New  Jer- 
sey soil,  where  they  have  taken  root  and  grown 
to  flourishing  and  estimable  proportions. 

(I)  John  Edge,  founder  of  the  family  in 
this  country,  came  with  his  wife  Jean  and  fam- 
ily of  small  children  over  to  the  Quaker  colo- 
nies on  the  Delaware,  from  St.  Andrew's,  Hol- 
born  county  Middlesex,  England,  about  1685, 
and  settled  in  Xether  Providence.  He  bought 
from  William  Peim  one  hundred  and  twenty- 
five  acres  of  land  by  deeds  of  lease  and  release, 
dated  March  21  and  22,  1681-82.  He  was  an 
earnest  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and 
the  monthly  meetings  were  sometimes  held  at 


his  house.  In  his  native  home  he  had  been 
subjected  to  heavy  fines  and  imprisonment  for 
refusing  to  act  contrary  to  his  conscientions 
scruples,  and  on  one  occasion  he  was  sub- 
jected to  a  public  trial.  In  Besse's  remarkable 
book,  the  "Sufl'erings  of  Quakers,"  under  date 
of  1680,  we  find  that  "in  Trinity  Term  of  this 
Yeare  Sir  Hugh  \\  indham,  one  of  the  Jus- 
tices of  the  Common  Pleas  brought  into  that 
Court  at  Westminster  several  informations  in 
the  Name  of  Thomas  Moore,  as  informer, 
against  Thomas  Farmborrow  of  London, 
Chainnaker,  Henry  Waddy,  John  Edge  of  St. 
Andrew's  Holborne  in  the  county  of  Middle- 
sex and  John  Jones  of  St.  Andrew's,  Hol- 
borne, Glover,  for  £260  each  of  them,  alleged 
to  be  forfeited  for  their  not  coming  to  hear 
Common-prayer  for  thirteen  months  past  pre- 
ceding the  Information,  on  the  Statute  of  23rd 
Elizabeth  made  against  Popish  Recusants." 
Some  other  Friends  being  in  like  circum- 
stances, a  statement  of  the  case  was  published 
and  presented  to  the  king  and  parliament  and 
the  house  of  commons  resolved  that  such  pros- 
ecution of  Protestant  dissenters  was  danger- 
ous to  the  peace  of  the  kingdom,  but  they 
failed  to  provide  a  remedy.  In  1683  a  war- 
rant was  granted  against  (ieorge  Whitehead 
for  ijreaching  at  a  meeting  in  the  parish  of  St. 
Margaret's,  Westminster.  The  constabulary 
went  to  his  house,  broke  into  it,  seized  his 
goods,  and  when  two  of  his  friends,  John  Edge 
and  Joseph  Peckover,  who  were  among  the 
spectators  to  the  proceedings,  remonstrated 
and  asked  them  to  make  an  inventory  of  the 
goods  seized,  the  police  arrested  them,  fined 
them,  and  committed  them  to  Newgate  prison, 
where  they  were  detained  for  ten  weeks. 
Later  in  the  same  year,  John  Edge,  together 
with  Richard  Butcher,  Christopher  Sibthorpe, 
Antony  Ellwood  and  John  Denton  were  dis- 
trained £9,  13  shillings  for  their  refusal  to  bear 
arms. 

After  coming  to  this  country  John  Edge 
rose  rapidly  in  the  esteem  of  his  neighbors, 
and  with  his  brother  Josejih,  who  accomjjanied 
him  to  this  country,  became  not  only  an  active 
P'riend  but  also  one  of  the  important  and  in- 
fluential members  of  the  civil  life  of  the  com- 
munity. Joseph,  who  with  his  brother  John 
was  a  member  of  the  grand  jury  during  1686- 
87,  probably  died  unmarried,  but  their  sister 
Sarah,  who  tlied  second  month  26,  1692,  mar- 
ried eighth  month,  U186,  Thomas  Bowater. 
juhn  Edge  himself  died  fifth  month,  10,  171 1, 
but  his  widow  Jean,  who  survived  him  and  all 
her   children,    was   living   in   third   month   27, 


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1734,  when  the  Muiithly  Meeting  records  men 
tion  a  collection  of  £1,  5  shillings,  paid  to  her. 
Like  her  husband   she  too  was  a  prominent, 
active  and  influential  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends. 

The  children  of  John  and  Jean  Edge  were: 
I.  Mary,  died  Second  month,  17,  169S;  mar- 
ried James  Sharpless.  2.  Abigail,  died  Xinth 
month  27,  1716;  married  Edward  Woodward. 
3.  John,  referred  to  below.  4.  Jacob,  born 
Third  month  8,  1690,  died  probably  Second 
month  7,  1720;  married,  in  1712,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Rees  and  Hannah  Jones,  and  had 
four  children :  Hannah,  married  John  Lea, 
Jane,  married  (first)  Thomas  Parke,  and 
(second)  James  Webb;  Abigail,  died  unmar- 
ried, and  Sarah,  died  at  nine  years  of  age. 
Jacob's  widow  married  (second)  Caleb  Cowp- 
land.  From  the  above  it  will  be  seen  that  all 
the  descendants  of  John  Edge  bearing  his 
name  spring  froin  his  son  John  Jr. 

(H)  John  (2),  eldest  son  and  the  only  one 
to  bear  male  issue  of  John  (i)  and  Jean 
Edge,  was  born  about  the  beginning  of  fifth 
month,  1685,  died  in  third  month,  1734.  After 
his  marriage  he  settled  on  land  which  his 
father  had  purchased  in  LJpper  Providence, 
ninth  month  30,  1 713,  he  was  chosen  as  over- 
seer of  the  Providence  Meeting  of  Friends  in 
the  room  of  James  Sharpless, his  brother-in-law, 
and  sixth  month  29,  1715,  was  succeeded  by 
Randall  Malin.  In  1 721,  becoming  dissatisfied 
with  certain  members  of  the  Providence  Meet- 
ing, he  changed  his  attendance  to  the  Middle- 
town  Meeting.  He  was  a  farmer  and  a  black- 
smith, and  he  died  intestate,  possessed  of  three 
hundred  and  twenty-eight  acres,  letters  of  ad- 
ministration being  granted  his  widow  May  6, 
1734.  August  30,  1739,  three  of  his  children, 
James,  Mary  and  Rachel,  petitioned  for  guard- 
ians, and  their  uncles,  Thomas  and  deorge 
Smedley,  were  appointed.  His  widow  was  aj)- 
jjointed  eleventh  month  29,  1738-39,  overseer 
of  the  Middletown  fleeting  in  the  place  of 
j\Iary  Pennell,  and  ninth  month  26,  1739,  was 
succeeded  by  Hannah  Howard. 

In  eighth  month,  1709,  John  Edge,  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  George  and  Sarah  Smed- 
ley. of  Middleton,  who  survived  him  and  mar- 
ried (second)  ninth  month,  7,  1739,  at  New- 
town Meeting,  John,  son  of  Francis  and  Han- 
nah (Baker)  Yarnali,  of  W'illistown.  The 
first  intentions  of  John  Edge's  marriage  were 
published  at  Middletown  Meeting,  Sixth 
month  29,  1709,  the  second  intentions  at 
Springfield  Meeting,  seventh  month,  26,  1709, 
and  the  orderly  accomplishment  at  Springfield 


Meeting,  eighth  nmnth,  31,  1709.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  i.  George,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Sarah,  born  about  1713,  died  December  6, 
1805:  married  (first)  Lawrence  Cox,  and 
(second)  David  Reece.  3.  Jane,  died  January 
23,  1779;  married  (first)  James  Albin,  who 
died  September  29,  1750,  in  West  Marlbor- 
ough, and  (second)  Thomas  Downing,  of  East 
Cain.  4.  Jacob,  died  1784;  married,  in  1746. 
.Margaret  Paul,  of  Abington,  and  removed 
thither.  3.  Mary,  born  Seventh  month  2, 
1721.  died  December  13,  1795;  married  Rich- 
ard Downing.  6.  Rachel,  born  Sixth  month 
29,  1725,  died  January  31,  1779;  married  Rob- 
ert \'alentine. 

(Ill)  George,  eldest  child  of  John  (2)  and 
Mary  (Smedley)  Edge,  was  born  in  Upper 
Providence,  Chester  county,  Penns\lvania,  died 
there  in  1 75 1,  intestate,  letters  of  administration 
being  granted  to  .\nn  Edge,  his  widow,  and 
Robert  Pennell,  his  brother-in-law,  with  Law- 
rence Cox  and  William  Pennell,  as  fellow- 
bondsmen.  Ninth  month  19,  1741,  George 
Edge  married  Ann,  daughter  of  William  and 
Mary  (iMercer)  Pennell,  of  Middletown,  born 
eleventii  month  26.  1 72 1.  Robert  I'ennell,  the 
founder  of  her  family  and  his  wife,  Hannah, 
came  from  Boulderton,  Nottinghamshire,  Eng- 
land.and  settled  in  Middletown  township,  Bucks 
county,  Pennsylvania,  as  early  as  1686,  bring- 
ing a  certificate  from  the  Friends  at  Fulbeck, 
dated  fifth  month  three,  1684.  Robert,  in 
1686  was  grand  juryman,  in  the  following  year 
constable  at  Middletown.  In  1691  he  bought 
two  hundred  and  fifty  acres  in  Edgemont 
township,  and  in  1705  two  hundred  and  sixty- 
four  more  acres  on  the  north  of  Philip  Yarn- 
all's  land,  and  extending  from  the  present 
Gradyville  to  the  Willis  town  line.  Both  he 
and  his  wife  were  active  in  Middletown  Meet- 
ing. Of  their  seven  children  William,  the 
youngest,  born  eighth  month,  eleventh,  1681, 
died  1757;  married,  eighth  month,  twenty- 
sixth,  1 7 10,  at  the  Concord  Monthly  Meeting, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Mercer, 
of  Thornbury  township,  who  bore  him  eight 
children.  Thomas,  married  Mary  Yarnell ; 
Hannah,  married  Thomas  Holcome ;  James, 
married  Jemima  Matlack;  Phebe,  probably 
died  young:  .Ann,  referred  to  above,  married 
(first)  George  Edge,  and  (second)  James 
Worrall :  Robert,  married  Hannah  Chamber- 
lin ;  \\'i!liam,  married  Mary  Bell;  Samuel, 
married  (first)  Sarah  Morris,  and  (second) 
Rachacl  Cobourn.  James  Worrall,  the  second 
husband  of  .Ann  (  Pennell)  Edge,  was  the  son 
of  Peter   and    Elizabeth    Worrall,   of   Marple, 


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who  had  married  (first)  Tiannah  Calvert,  who 
hatl  borne  him  seven  children,  among  whom 
was    Lydia,   the    wife   of    Benjamin    Hoopes. 

The  four  children  of  George  and  Ann 
(Penncll)  Edge  were:  i.  Mary,  born  eleventh 
month,  eighteen,  1742,  died  March  thirteenth, 
181 5;  married  William  Baldwin.  2.  John,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  Sarah,  born  eighth  month 
twenty-fourth,  1746,  died  young.  4.  .\nn. 
born  tenth  month,  twenty-sixth,  1748;  married 
(first)  Robert  Parke;  (second)  Benjamin 
Taylor;    (third)    William  Trymballe. 

(IV)  John  (3),  son  of  George  and  Ann 
(Pennell)  Edge,  was  born  at  Upper  Provi- 
dence, twelfth  month,  twenty,  1744,  and  died 
in  East  Cain  township,  September  14,  i8ifi. 
Pie  learned  the  trade  of  miller  with  his  uncle, 
Richard  Downing,  at  Downingtown,  and  when 
he  had  reached  the  age  of  twenty-one,  he  ex- 
ecuted February  the  eighth,  1766,  a  release  to 
his  late  guardians  for  his  share  of  his  father's 
estate.  In  1768  he  was  operating  the  "High 
Mill"  which  as  late  as  seven  or  eight  years  ago 
was  in  the  possession  of  his  descendant, 
Jacob  V.  Edge.  March  21,  1772,  Jacob  Edge 
and  wife,  Jane  Downing,  Widow,  David  Reece, 
and  Sarah,  his  wife,  Richard  Downing,  and 
Mary,  his  wife,  and  Robert  Valentine,  and 
Rachael,  his  wife,  the  heirs  of  John  Edge  ( II ) 
conveyed  their  interest  in  fifty  acres  of  land  in 
Upper  Providence,  allotted  to  the  widow  as 
her  dower,  to  John  Edge,  the  only  son  of 
George  deceased.  April  21,  177 —  Ann  Parke, 
widow,  conveyed  her  interest  in  the  lands  of 
her  father  in  Upper  Providence,  being  three 
liundred  and  forty-four  acres,  to  her  brother, 
John;  and  November  12,  1786,  William  Bald- 
win and  Mary,  his  wife,  do  the  same.  John 
divided  his  Upper  Providence  lands  into  four 
parts.  The  northeast  lot  of  one  hundred  and 
eighteen  acres,  forty  perches,  he  <lisposed  of 
to  Thomas  Bishop  ;  the  northwest  lot  of  ninety- 
one  acres,  forty-six  perches  to  Joseph  Bishop ; 
and  the  soi'thwest  lot  of  one  hundred  and 
seven  acres,  one  hundred  perches,  to  Gideon 
Dunn.  This  was  April  30,  1793;  and  May  10, 
1797,  he  deeded  the  remainder  to  William 
Eachus.  February  17,  17S0,  John  Edge  bought 
from  his  uncle,  Robert  Valentine,  the  messuage 
and  two  tracts  of  land  in  East  Cain,  twenty- 
nine  acres  and  forty-six  perches,  and  succeeded 
his  uncle  as  storekeeper  in  Downingtown.  In 
1790  he  petitioned  for  a  tavern  license,  stating, 
"Your  Petitioner,  Having  for  a  Number  of 
Yeares  followed  the  P.usiness  of  Storekeeping 
in  a  large  Commodious  house,  nearly  opposite 


Rich'd  Downing's  Mill  in  Downings  Town,  On 
the  great  road  from  Lancaster,  to  Philadelphia, 
and  nearly  where  the  road  from  Harrisburg 
intersects  the  same  and  Crosses  to  West  Ches- 
ter. But  finding  ye  bisness  of  Store-keeping 
( Since  the  late  Custom  of  Tavern  Keepers 
opening  store  has  taken  place)  is  by  no  means 
sufficient  to  raise  and  support  his  family  ac- 
cording to  their  usual  Custom,  Hope  There- 
fore you  will  be  iileased  to  recommend  him  to 
the  Executive  Council  as  a  proper  person  to 
keep  a  publick  house  of  Entertainment"  etc. 
There  was  a  counter  petition  opposing  the 
granting  of  this  license,  but  John  Edge  was 
finally  successful,  and  his  inn  became  known 
as  the  famous  "Half  Way  House."  In  1792 
he  purchased  from  Dr.  Thomas  Parke  the 
"Shi])"  projierty,  and  enlarged  the  mansion  to 
double  its  former  size,  and  on  the  western 
half  built  for  his  son,  George,  the  house  now 
owned  by  John  (i.  Edge,  and  established  his 
son.  Thomas,  on  the  tract  lying  in  the  borough 
east  of  the  present  Hunt  tract  and  south  of  the 
Lancaster  road,  extending  to  the  Brandywine : 
to  his  youngest  son,  John,  he  gave  the  "Ship" 
property,  one  hundred  and  sixteen  acres,  lately 
owned  by  Dr.  Eshleman.  John  Edge  is  said 
to  have  possessed  great  force  of  character  and 
an  active  enterprising  temper.  He  was  for- 
tunate in  business,  a  keen  observer,  and  given 
to  sallies  of  humor  and  wisdom,  for  the  benefit 
of  his  neighbors,  many  of  which  were  current 
long  after  his  death.  It  is  a  noteworthy  fact 
that  in  1787,  when  articles  of  luxury  were 
heavily  taxed,  the  only  four  citizens  of  East 
Cain  who  possessed  riding  chairs  for  which 
they  were  taxed,  £1,  10  shillings,  were  William 
Trimble,  John  Edge,  Richard  Downing  and 
Hunt  Downing. 

.August  I.  i7()8,  John  Edge  married  at  the 
East  Cain  meeting  Ann,  born  twelfth  month, 
seventeen,  1747,  died  December.  1826,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Frances  (Wilkinson)  Pirn, 
(if  East  Cain.  William  Pim,  born  at  Lackah, 
Oueens  county,  Ireland,  came  to  America  in 
1730,  was  justice  of  the  peace,  for  many  years 
clerk  of  the  Bradford  monthly  meeting.  He 
married  (first),  in  Ireland,  Dorothy,  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  Dorothy  Jackson,  and  (second) 
.Ann,  widow  of  James  Gibbons,  of  West  Town, 
Thomas  Pim,  third  of  the  six  children  by  his 
first  wife,  born  third  month,  first,  1721,  died 
October  3,  1786;  married,  tenth  month,  24, 
1746,  at  F.ast  Cain  meeting,  Frances,  daughter 
of  James  Wilkinson,  of  W'ilmington,  who  died 
May  7.  1784.  at  sixty-three  years  of  age.     Of 


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thfir  eight  cliildreii  Ann,  referred  to  above, 
who  married  John  Edge,  was  the  seeond  child 
and  eldest  daughter. 

The  children  of  John  and  Ann  (  I'im)  Edge 
were:  i.  Sarah,  born  October  10,  1769;  died 
1823;  married  (first)  Morgan  Reese,  and 
(second)  James  Hannum.  2.  Jane,  October 
18,  1771  ;  died  February  14.  1857;  unmarried. 
3.  Thomas,  January  29,  1774;  died  September 
20,  1 83 1  ;  married  Edith  Pusey.  4.  Anri,  July 
8,  1776;  died  April  16,  1850;  married  Thomas 
A.  Parke.  5.  Fanny,  January  29,  1779;  died 
October  10,  183 1  ;  unmarried.  6.  George,  June 
30,  1782;  died  December  31,  1831;  married 
Sarah  Moopes.  7.  John,  referred  to  below.  8. 
Mary,  October  7,  1787;  died  December  28, 
1841  ;  married  Lea  Pusey.  9.  Pirn,  January  9, 
1792;  died  July  5,  1795. 

(V)  John  (4),  seventh  child  and  third  son 
of  John  (3)  and  Ann  (Pim)  Edge,  was  born 
March  3,  1785;  died  September  12,  1833.  lie 
was  buried  in  the  Cain  meeting  ground,  lie 
lived  and  died  in  the  mansion  house  formerly 
the  old  "Ship"  tavern  wiiich  his  father  had 
given  him  and  in  which  all  his  children  were 
born.  December  18,  181 1,  John  Edge  married 
at  the  Londongrove  meeting  Ruth,  born  De- 
cember 26,  1789,  dietl  at  Downingtown,  May 
10,  1872,  buried  at  Downingtown  meeting 
ground,  daughter  of  Francis  Wilkinson,  of 
Londongrove,  and  his  first  wife,  Hannah  Mode. 
Their  children  were:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  Octo- 
ber 28,  1812;  died  at  Downingtown,  unmar- 
ried, January  2^^.  1890.  2.  Fanny,  October  11, 
1815;  married  John  K.  Eshleman,  M.  D.  3. 
Ruthanna,  C)ctober  25,  1817:  died  October  13, 
1899;  niarried  Nathan  J.  Sharpless.  4.  Will- 
iam, referred  to  below.  5.  John  P.,  June  22, 
1822 ;  unmarried. 

(\  I)  \\'illiam,  fourth  child  and  eldest  son 
of  John  (4)  and  Ruth  (Wilkinson)  Edge,  was 
born  at  East  Cain,  September  4,  1819;  died  in 
Downingtown,  April  i,  1892;  both  he  and  his 
wife  are  buried  in  the  Northwood  cemetery. 
For  several  years  he  conducted  a  warehouse 
on  the  line  of  the  Pennsylvania  railroad  at 
Downingtown.  He  was  one  of  the  most  influ- 
ential citizens  of  that  place  for  many  years, 
and  was  well  known  as  a  man  of  financial 
strength  and  influence  in  Philadel]ihia.  being 
for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Philadel])hia 
stock  ex'change  and  also  president  of  the  Na- 
tional Bank,  of  Downingtown,  in  which  latter 
position  he  was  succeeded  by  his  cousin,  Jacob 
Edge.  September  3,  1844,  William  Edge  mar- 
ried in  Downingtown,  Elizabeth,  born  Mont- 
gomery  county,    Pennsylvania,   July    7,    1824, 


died  June  14,  1892,  in  Downingtown,  daughter 
of  Hiram  and  Elizabeth  (Reed)  McXeill,  of 
Plymouth,  I'ennsylvania.  Their  children  were: 
I.  William,  referred  to  below.  2.  Mary  Eliza- 
beth, born  July  30,  1852 ;  living  unmarried  in 
Downingtown.  3.  Esther  A.,  July  24,  1858; 
unmarried  and  living  with  her  sister.  4.  John 
Howard,  December  19,  1861  ;  living  unmar- 
ried. 

(Nil  )  William  (2),  eldest  child  of  William 
(i)  and  Elizabeth  (McNeill)  Edge,  was  born 
in  Downingtown,  i'ennsylvania,  September  8, 
1845,  'I'l'l  is  now  living  in  Atlantic  City,  New 
Jersey.  He  is  retired.  June  2,  1870,  William 
Edge  marrie<l  (first)  in  J'hiladelphia,  Mary 
Elizabeth,  born  Philadelphia,  July  24,  1848, 
died  there  December  24,  1875,  buried  North- 
wood  cemetery,  Downingtown,  daughter  of 
.Andrew  Wills  and  Elizabeth  (Jeffries)  Evans, 
of  1605  Franklin  street,  I'hiladelphia.  Their 
children  are:  I.  Howard  H.,  born  Tyrone, 
Pennsylvania,  July  5,  1871  ;  educated  in  the 
New  Jersey  public  schools ;  superintendent  of 
a  large  manufacturing  establishment  in  Woon- 
socket,  Rhode  Island,  and  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  ;  January  I,  1895, 
he  married  Lina  Bell  Hustlton,  born  Eastern 
Pennsylvania,  January  28,  1876,  daughter  of 
Daniel  L.  and  Rachael  A.  (Brokaw)  Hustlton, 
of  Brooklyn.  2.  Walter  Evans,  referred  to 
below.  October  28,  1877,  William  Edge  mar- 
ried (second)  Wilhelmina  Scull,  of  Pleasant- 
ville.  New  Jersey.  The  only  child  of  this  inar- 
riage  is  Alfred  James,  born  January  10,  1885; 
died  September  7,  1885. 

(ViH)  Walter  Evans,  second  and  youngest 
child  of  William  (2)  and  Mary  Elizabeth 
(Evans)  Edge,  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  November  20,  .1873,  and  is  now- 
living  in  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey,  of  which 
place  he  is  one  of  the  most  substantial  and 
influential  citizens.  With  his  father  he  came 
to  Pleasantville,  New  Jersey,  in  1876,  where 
he  w-as  brought  up  by  his  stepmother.  After 
graduating  from  tlie  public  school  of  Pleasant- 
ville, he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Atlantic 
City  Review,  as  one  of  their  "printer's  devils," 
in  addition  to  which  he  aided  in  the  distribu- 
tion of  the  newspaper.  After  some  time  in 
this  capacity  he  found  a  position  in  connection 
with  the  New  York  Tribune,  as  one  of  its 
correspondents  and  advertising  agents.  Sev- 
eral years  later  and  before  he  was  twenty-one 
years  of  age  he  had  made  so  good  in  these 
latter  capacities,  that  he  was  sent  to  Florida 
and  Cuba  as  one  of  the  staff  business  repre- 
sentatives of  that  New  York  daily.     This  was 


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before  the  Spanish-American  war.  In  1893 
he  became  connected  with  the  Atlantic  City 
office  of  tlie  Dorland  Advertising  Agency,  now 
one  of  the  largest  corporations  of  its  kind  in 
this  country.  After  the  death  of  Air.  Dorland, 
the  founder  of  the  agency,  Walter  E.  Edge 
purchased  the  business  and  good-wUl  of  the 
agency,  e.xtending  its  work  to  Europe,  now 
conducting  a  prosperous  branch  at  3  Regent 
street,  London,  which  represents  the  leading 
American  newspapers  in  Europe.  He  for  a 
short  time  published  a  distinctly  hotel  paper, 
which  was  known  as  the  Atlantic  City  Daily 
Guest.  This  paper,  from  a  financial  stand- 
point, was  one  of  the  most  successful  publica- 
tions ever  issued  in  Atlantic  City,  and  to  its 
success  is  due  the  stimulus  which  encouraged 
Mr.  Edge  to  undertake  the  work  of  starting 
and  keeping  up  an  all  the  year  daily  newspaper 
in  .-\tlantic  City.  Conseijuently,  in  1895,  he 
started  the  Atlantic  City  Daily  Press,  which 
from  that  day  to  this  has  occupied  a  position 
in  the  city  most  gratifying  to  the  natural  pride 
of  both  its  publisher  and  its  friends.  It  has  at 
all  times  been  a  conservative  newspaper,  and 
perhaps  more  than  anything  else  has  advanced 
the  interests  of  Atlantic  City  as  a  popular  all 
the  year  resort.  It  is  Republican  in  politics, 
but  it  is  noteworthy  that  its  policy,  though 
never  wavering  or  uncertain,  has  never  given 
offence  but  always  commanded  the  respect  and 
often  the  admiration  of  its  opponents.  In  1905 
Mr.  Edge  purchased  the  Atlantic  City  Daily 
Union,  which  is  the  only  evening  newspaper 
in  the  town.  The  first  issue  of  this  ]:)aper  was 
printed  September  3,  1888,  and  it  has  been  con- 
tinuously issued  ever  since,  altlmugh  it  was 
always  in  the  front  rank  in  advocating  meas- 
ures for  the  best  interests  of  the  city,  its  influ- 
ence and  w-orth  have  been  immeasurably  en- 
hanced since  Mr.  Edge  took  possession  of  it 
and  edited  it  as  the  evening  edition  of  the 
Daily  Press. 

In  the  last  presidential  election  Mr.  Edge 
was  elected  one  of  the  presidential  electors  for 
New  Jersey  on  the  Re|nil>lican  ticket.  He  has 
always  been  active  and  influential  in  the  affairs 
of  his  party,  and  has  more  than  once  done  good 
service.  From  1901  to  1904  inclusive  he  was 
the  secretary  of  the  New  Jersey  senate.  He  is 
a  member  (if  Pielcher  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  of  .\tlantic  City:  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks.  Imi)rovcd  Order  of 
Red  Men,  .Atlantic  City  Country  Club,  Repub- 
lican Club  of  .Atlantic  County,  and  the  .Atlantic 
City  Yacht  Club.  He  is  interested  in  many 
financial  and  other  corporations,  of  which  he 


is  one  of  the  most  respected  and  influential 
members.  Among  these  should  be  mentioned 
the  Guarantee  Trust  Company,  Sterling  Realty 
Company,  Eastern  Fire  Insurance  Company, 
in  all  three  of  which  he  is  a  director.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  .Atlantic  City  Board  of 
Trade  and  of  the  Business  Men's  League,  of 
Atlantic  City. 

June  5,  1907,  he  married  Lady  Lee,  daugh- 
ter of  Sanuiel  Philips,  of  Memphis,  Tennessee, 
born  October  i,  1885. 


The  name  Reeves  is  of  old  Eng- 
REEVES  lish  or  Sa.xon  origin  and  be- 
longs to  that  group  of  words 
which  has  given  us  the  surname.  King,  Earl, 
Squire,  Chancellor,  Mayor  and  Reeves.  The 
last  name  was  the  old  Saxon  title  for  sheriff, 
and  its  original  meaning  was  that  of  steward 
or  governor.  The  family  at  present  under 
consideration  is  the  third  of  the  names  which 
have  become  identified  with  New  Jersey  his- 
tory, and  so  far  as  is  ascertainable  at  the  pres- 
ent day  is  distinct  in  its  origin  from  the  fami- 
lies which  have  played  so  prominent  a  part 
in  P)Urlington  and  Salem  counties.  The  pres- 
ent family,  being  stated  by  Mr.  Francis  B. 
Reeves,  to  have  descended  from  the  Long 
Island  family  of  the  name. 

( 1  )  .Abraham  Reeves,  founder  of  the  pres- 
ent branch  of  the  family,  came  to  this  country, 
it  is  said,  in  the  first  quarter  of  the  eighteenth 
century  and  settled  on  Long  Island.  They 
were  I  resbyterians,  and  to  this  day  their  de- 
scendants with  not  more  than  two  known  ex- 
ceptions have  adhered  to  the  religion  of  their 
fathers.  Of  these  pioneer  Reeves  brothers 
little  information  has  come  down.  We  know, 
however,  that  Abraham  Reeves  was  born  in 
irK)8,  died  May  21,  1761,  and  that  his  wife, 
Damaris,  born  1699,  died  December  i,  1771, 
and  that  their  children  were :  John,  referred 
to  below  ;  Abraham,  Stephen,  Lemuel,  Thomas, 
Nancy,  Abigail. 

fll)  John,  son  of  .Abraham  and  Damaris 
Reeves,  was  born  January  30,  1726;  died  May 
4,  1800.  He  married,  .September  12,  1750, 
Alable,  daughter  of  Dr.  James  Johnson,  born 
July  3,  1732,  died  October  23,  1813.  Children : 
I.  Johnson,  referred  to  below.  2.  Elijah,  born 
March  14,  T753.  3.  Lemuel,  March  19,  1755: 
died  iS'Ovember  2,  1777.  4.  Joseph,  June  25, 
I  737.  5.  Mable  Johnson,  November  26,  1739; 
died  .\ugust  30,  1814:  married,  July  30,  1783, 
1  evi  Leake.  6.  Sarah,  January  13,  1762.  7. 
.\braham,  July  30,  1763;  died  November  2, 
1822.     8.  Eunice,  March  6,   1767;  died  .April 


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25,  1825:  married,  Alay  31,  1785,  Datiiel 
Bishop.  9.  Stephen,  February  11,  1769.  10. 
Nancy,  November  6,  1771. 

(Ill)  Johnson,  eldest  child  of  John  and 
Mable  (Johnson)  Reeves,  was  born  August  11, 
1751  ;  died  April  2,  1810.  He  married  Zerviah, 
born  1760,  died  1800,  daughter  of  John  and 
Sarah  (Bateman)  Berrenian.  Children:  I. 
John,  referred  to  below.  2.  Stephen,  married 
Debortdi  Brown.  3.  Lemuel,  married  (first) 
Sarah  Sheppard,  and  (second)  Ann  Steward. 
4.  Sarah  Berreman,  married  the  Rev.  Thomas 
D.   Steward.     5.   James   Johnson,   unmarried. 

6.  Lewis,  married  Hannah  Miller.  7.  Ann, 
married  Samuel  Ellwell.  8.  Ephraim.  9. 
Nancy. 

(I\  )  John  (2),  son  of  Johnson  and  Zerviah 
( Berreman )  Reeves,  was  born  September  6, 
1778:  died  December  9,  1815.  He  married, 
December  25,  1798,  Martha,  born  June  8,  1779, 
died  September  22,  1825,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Mary  (Cook)  Reeves.  Her  father,  Sam- 
uel Reeves,  died  March  30,  1806.  Her  mother. 
Mary  (Cook)  Reeves,  was  the  daughter  of 
Eldad  Cook  and  Deborah,  daughter  of  Daniel 
and  Mary  (  W  ailing  )  Bowen.  Daniel  was  the 
son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (W'heaton) 
Bowen.  Children  of  John  and  Martha  ( Reeves  ) 
Reeves  were:  i.  Johnson,  referred  to  below. 
2.  Samuel,  born  July  7,  1801  ;  died  December 
4,  1879.  3.  Ephraim,  August  13,  1803;  died 
October  15,  1813.  4.  Mary,  September  11, 
1805;  died  September  13,  1807.  5.  Joseph, 
October  i,  1807;  died  June  14.  1890.  6.  Mar- 
tha, January  i,  1810;  died  November  24,  1832. 

7.  Joel  Berreman,  July  10,  1812;  died  F"ebru- 
ary  3,  1886.  8.  ]\Iary,  .August  13,  1814;  died 
Februarv  7.  1894. 

(\')  Jolinson  (2),  eldest  child  of  John  (2) 
and  Martha  (  Reeves)  Reeves,  was  born  Octo- 
ber 16,  1799;  died  July  19,  i860.  Married 
(fir.st)  March  7,  1822,  Elizabeth  Riley,  and 
(second)  October  24,  1854,  Anna  Mariah 
Foster.  His  first  wife  was  the  daughter  of 
Mark  and  Abigail  (Harris)  Riley,  and  was 
born  March  17,  1800,  died  June  21,  1845.  Her 
father  was  the  son  of  Mark  and  Prudence 
Riley.  Her  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Na- 
thaniel and  .Abigail  (Paget)  Harris,  grand- 
('aughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Fllizabeth  Harris. 
Her  grandmother,  Abigail  (Paget)  Harris, 
was  the  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Dorothy 
(Sayre)  Paget.  Children  of  Johnson  and 
Elizabeth  (Riley)  Reeves  were  :  i.  Henry,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  Harriet  Newell,  November 
6.  1824:  died  December  19,  1897;  married. 
March  25,   1846,  Charles   Seeley   Fithian.     3. 


Ruth  Riley,  December  20,  1826;  deceased; 
married,  Aiarch  25,  1851,  Robert  Du  Bois.  4. 
Martha,  .August  20.  1829;  died  April  27,  1833. 
5.  John,  March  9,  1832;  died  December  19 
1895;  married,  Alarch  27,  1856,  Kate  Mills 
Robison.  6.  Martha  Pierson,  born  May  25. 
1834;  deceased:  married  (first)  September  24, 
1854,  .-Xlexander  Lewden  Robeson,  and  (sec- 
ond) January  10,  1884,  George  W.  Bush.  7. 
Francis  Brewster,  October  10,  1836;  married, 
.April  26.  i860.  Ellen  Bernard  Thompson.  8. 
James  Johnson,  September  9.  1839;  deceased, 
married,  1865,  Mary  Caldwell  Butler. 

(VI)  Henry,  eldest  child  and  son  of  John- 
son (2)  and  Elizabeth  (Riley)  Reeves,  was 
born  February  5,  1823;  died  March  13,  1901. 
He  graduated  from  Princeton  University, 
1844.  He  then  taught  in  a  private  school  at 
Pine  Ridge.  Mississippi,  for  two  years.  Re- 
turning to  Princeton,  1846,  he  entered  the 
Theological  Seminary,  graduating  in  1849.  ^^ 
1850  he  was  ordained  to  the  ministry.  From 
May  to  October,  1849,  he  preached  at  Lenox 
Chapel  on  the  Hudson  above  New  Hamburg. 
I'^rom  November,  1849,  to  May,  1850.  at  Wap- 
pinger's  Falls,  New  York.  From  July,  1850, 
to  July,  1858,  was  pastor  at  Belvidere,  New 
Jersey.  From  August,  1858,  to  July,  1864, 
was  stated  supply  at  Fayetteville,  Peimsylvania. 
From  May,  1869,  to  August,  1881,  at  Glou- 
cester City,  New  Jersey.  From  1882  to  1885 
at  the  Pearl  Street  Mission,  at  Rridgeton,  New 
Jersey.  From  1891  to  1901  at  Gloucester  City, 
New  Jersey.  Since  1884  he  was  stated  clerk 
of  the  Presbytery  of  West  Jersey  until  the 
time  of  his  death.  \\'hile  serving  at  Fayette- 
ville he  was  principal  of  the  Young  Ladies 
Seminary,  Chambersburg,  Pennsylvania.  From 
1864  to  1868  he  was  principal  of  Woodland 
Seminary,  of  West  Philadelphia,  and  from 
1881  to'  1891  of  Ivy  Hall,  Bridgeton,  New 
Jersey.  From  1869  to  1875  he  was  editor  of 
Young  Folk's  Wi^'s.  and  from  1871  to  1875  o^ 
Our  Monthly.  In  1886  he  received  the  honorary 
degree  of  Ph.  D.  from  Princeton,  and  1897 
that  of  D.  D.  from  Hanover  College,  Indiana. 

May  6,  185 1,  the  Rev.  Henry  Reeves,  D.  D., 
married  Sarah  Jane,  born  December  17,  1827, 
daughter  of  Phineas  B.  and  Priscilla  (Carr) 
Kennedy,  of  Warren  county,  New  Jersey. 
Their  children  are:  i.  Bessie,  born  February 
12,  1852:  married,  June  29,  1887,  Edward  N. 
Fithian,  of  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey,  and  has 
two  children.  2.  Phineas  Kennedy,  March  16, 
1854:  married,  January  13,  1880,  Hannah  P. 
Trenchard,  and  had  four  children.  3.  Charles 
['"ithian,  .April  13,  1856;  married,  December  10. 


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1884,  Clara  Elizabeth  1  lultnian,  and  had  three 
children.  4.  William  Henry  Green,  April  20, 
1858;  died  September  7,  1859.  5.  Harry,  re- 
ferred to  below.  6.  Arthur  Erwin,  October  19, 
1861  ;  died  April  8,  1868.  7.  Anna  Robeson, 
March  30,  1865. 

(\  II)  Harry,  fifth  child  and  fourth  son  of 
the  Rev.  Henry  and  Sarah  Jane  (Kennedy) 
Reeves,  was  born  at  Chambersburg,  Pennsyl- 
vania, January  30.  i860,  and  is  now  hving  in 
Gloucester  City,  New  Jersey.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  in 
Gloucester  City,  New  Jersey,  and  at  Professor 
Hasting's  .\cademy  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, from  which  he  went  to  the  Chester  \'al- 
ley  Academy  in  Downingtown,  Pennsylvania. 
At  the  Centennial  Exhibition  in  1876  in  Phila- 
delphia, Mr.  Reeves  was  in  charge  of  the  sales 
department  of  the  Ferracute  Machine  Com- 
pany, I'nim  then  down  to  1881  he  was  a  sal'^s- 
man  in  the  wholesale  grocery  house  of  Reeves, 
Parvin  &  Company,  of  Philadelphia.  x\fter 
this  he  went  into  business  for  himself  at 
Bridgeton,  New  Jersey,  with  his  brother 
Charles  Fithian  Reeves,  the  firm  name  being 
C.  F.  &  H.  Reeves.  They  conducted  a  steam 
engineering  and  plumbing  business  with  a 
branch  office  at  Philadelphia.  This  arrange- 
ment continued  for  three  years  and  then  Mr. 
Reeves  bought  out  his  brother's  interest  and 
took  as  his  partner  Charles  F.  West,  the  firm 
name  being  changed  to  Reeves  &  West,  and 
their  works  being  situated  at  Gloucester  City, 
New  Jersey.  After  fifteen  years  of  successful 
operation,  this  firm  was  dissolved  by  Mr. 
Reeves  disposing  of  his  interest  to  his  partner. 
This  he  did  in  order  to  accept  a  position  as 
secretary  and  general  manager  of  the  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company,  of  Camden.  In  1902 
Mr.  Reeves  was  nominated  for  the  office  of 
surrogate  of  Camden  county.  New  Jersey,  on 
tlie  Republican  ticket,  and  he  was  elected  by  a 
majority  of  5,201  votes,  this  being  a  running 
of  several  hundred  ahead  of  his  ticket.  In 
1907,  when  his  term  expired, hewas  renominated 
for  a  second  term,  which  would  expire  in  19 1 2, 
and  this  time  his  majority  was  7,332  votes, 
again  rimning  a  long  distance  ahead  of  his 
ticket.  Mr.  Reeves  has  always  been  active  and 
enthusiastic  in  his  adherence  to  and  his  able 
work  for  the  Republican  party,  to  which  he 
belongs,  and  for  six  years  he  has  been  the 
chairman  of  the  Camden  County  Republican 
Committee.  In  religious  belief  he  is  a  Presby- 
terian, and  for  twenty-three  years  he  has  been 
one  of  the  trustees  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  of  Gloucester  City,  New  Jersey.     He 


is  a  member  of  Cloud  Lodge,  No.  loi.  Free 
and  .\ccepted  Alasons,  of  Gloucester  City ;  Ex- 
celsior Consistory,  No.  15,  of  Camden.  He 
has  taken  the  thirty-second  degree  in  the  Scot- 
tish Rite  Alasonry  and  he  is  a  past  worshipful 
master  of  his  Blue  Lodge,  and  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  Crescent  Temple.of  Trenton,  New  Jersey, 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  In  the  financial  world 
Mr.  Reeves  ranks  exceptionally  high,  and  he 
is  the  vice-president  of  the  New  Jersey  Trust 
Company,  as  well  as  a  director  in  the  Security 
Trust  Company,  of  Camden,  New  Jersey. 

January  6,  1886,  Harry  Reeves  married 
Lizzie  S..  born  June  i,  i860,  daughter  of  Henry 
I",  and  Zeviah  West;  children:  I.  Sarah 
Walker,  born  March  21,  1887.  2.  Bessie 
Fithian.  May  10,  1888:  died  Sejitember  18, 
1888.  3.  Emily  Janvier,  June  15.  1889.  4. 
Chrissie  West,  November  26,  1890;  died  De- 
cember 6,  1891.  5.  Henry  F.  West,  January 
5,  1892;  died  April  13,  1892.  6.  Florence 
Kennedy,  July  13,  1894;  died  January  8,  1895. 
7.  Frances  Wallace,  Alay  2-,,  1896. 


\Miile  the  family  name  Reeves 
REEVES  has  been  known  in  this  country 
since  the  early  times  of  the  col- 
ony, the  immigrant  ancestor  of  the  particular 
family  here  treated  appears  to  have  first  come 
to  America  with  that  distinguished  commander. 
Marquis  de  Lafayette,  who  rendered  such  effi- 
cient service  to  the  colonies  in  the  struggle  for 
national  independence. 

( I  I  Daniel  Reeves,  immigrant,  was  born 
about  1760  and  was  a  young  man  of  about 
twenty  years  when  he  came  over,  as  tradition 
tells  us,  with  Lafayette  to  take  part  with  the 
united  colonies  in  throwing  off  the  oppressive 
yoke  of  the  mother  country.  He  afterward 
remained  here  and  took  up  his  place  of  abode 
in  New  Jersey,  although  information  concern- 
ing him  and  his  family  life  is  quite  meagre. 
The  name  of  his  wife  was  Jane  Shemelia,  and 
bv  her  he  had  sons  Richard,  William  H.,  Isaac 
and  Levi,  and  daughters  Elizabeth  and  Hope. 

(II)  \\'illiam  H.,  son  of  Daniel  and  Jane 
(  Shemelia  )  Reeves,  was  born  in  Ocean  county, 
New  Jersey,  in  1814;  died  at  Brown's  Mills, 
in  that  county,  in  1890.  His  occupation  was 
that  of  a  charcoal  burner,  and  he  lived  much 
of  his  life  at  Cedar  Bridge,  although  his  later 
years  were  spent  at  Brown's  Mills.  He  mar- 
ried Matilda  Ann  Sprague,  and  by  her  had 
eight  children:  John,  now  living  at  Brook- 
ville ;  Israel,  living  at  Barnegat :  Joel  S.,  of 
Brown's  Mills  ;  William,  now  dead  ;  Theodore, 
living  at  Columbus ;  Rachel,  married  Isaac  N. 


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Couch,  of  Brookville ;  Martha,  now  dead ;  and 
Hope  Ann. 

(Ill)  Joel  Sprague.  son  of  William  M.  and 
Matilda  Ann  (Sprague)  Reeves,  was  born  ai. 
Mary  Ann  Forge,  New  Jersey,  in  1840.  Dur- 
ing the  earlier  years  of  his  business  life  he 
was  a  ship  carpenter  by  trade  and  later  follow- 
ed general  carpenter  work  and  farming.  Be- 
fore the  civil  war  he  worked  as  a  ship  carpen- 
ter at  Barnegat,  and  in  August,  1862,  enlisted 
there  for  nine  months  as  private  in  Cqmpany 
H,  of  the  Twenty-ninth  New  Jersey  \'olunteer 
Infantry.  He  went  to  the  front  with  his  regi- 
ment and  took  part  in  the  battles  of  Fredericks- 
burg and  Chancellorsville,  and  at  the  expira- 
tion of  his  term  of  enlistment  returned  home 
and  resumed  work  at  his  trade.  However,  in 
1865  he  was  drafted  for  further  army  service 
and  was  assigned  to  Company  F,  of  the  Thirty- 
third  New  Jersey  Volunteer  Infantry.  '  His 
regiment-  went  to  Newburne,  North  Carolina, 
and  later  did  guard  and  garrison  duty  in  the 
defenses  of  Washington  until  the  close  of  the 
war.  He  then  returned  north  and  again  took 
up  carpenter  work,  having  lived  for  the  last 
thirty  years  at  lirown's  Mills.  Mr.  Reeves  is 
a  memljcr  of  the  Order  of  United  .American 
Mechanics.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  al- 
though not  active  in  public  affairs.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  in  1866,  Lucy  Ann  Cramer,  of 
Cedar  Bridge.  Warrensville,  Ocean  county, 
New  Jersey.  She  died  in  March,  1873,  and  he 
married  (second)  in  1879,  Elizabeth  Parker. 
He  had  six  children,  three  by  his  first  and  three 
by  his  second  wife:  I.  Sarah  /\delia,  married 
Henry  Nickson,  a  farmer,  of  New  Lisbon, 
New  Jersey,  and  has  three  children,  Fenton, 
Carrie  and  Elizabeth.  2.  Walter  M.  3.  W'ill- 
iam  H.,  see  forward.  4.  Lucy,  married  George 
Taylor.  5.  Matilda,  married  Harry  Haines,  a 
farmer,  of  New  Lisbon.     6.  Herbert. 

(I\')  William  Henry,  son  of  Joel  Sprague 
and  Lucy  .-Vnn  (Cramer)  Reeves,  was  born  at 
I'arnegat,  Ocean  county.  New  Jersey,  March 
31,  1870.  At  the  age  of  nine  years  he  went 
with  his  parents  to  live  at  Brown's  Mill,  where 
he  attended  school  and  then  for  three  years 
worked  on  a  farm.  In  1888  he  came  to  New 
Lisbon.  New  Jersey,  to  learn  railroading  and 
telegraphy.  He  was  clerk  in  a  railroad  office 
in  Jamesburg,  New  Jersey,  for  one  year,  and 
in  i8gi  again  returned  to  New  Lisbon  to  take 
charge  of  the  railroad  office  there,  where  he 
has  continued  in  the  capacity  of  station  agent. 
In  1892  he  received  appointment  as  postmaster 
of  the  town  and  in  the  same  year  opened  a 
store,    which    he   manages   in    addition   to   his 

ii— 15 


other  duties.  I'olitically  he  is  a  Republican 
and  has  served  as  tax  collector  and  treasurer 
of  the  town  since  1888.  Mr.  Reeves  also  has 
large  cranberry  interests,  owning  a  bog  of 
about  one  hundred  acres  which  he  ]nit  under 
cultivation  in  1900.  He  is  a  member  of  numer- 
ous fraternal  orders,  as  follows:  Central 
Lodge,  No.  44,  Free  and  Accepted  xMasons,  of 
\incentown;  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order 
of  Elks,  No.  848,  of  Mt.  Holly;  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  of  Pemberton  ;  Knights 
of  Pythias,  of  Pemberton ;  Improved  Order 
of  Red  Men,  Pemberton  ;  Patriotic  Order  Sons 
of  .\merica,  Pemberton ;  Order  of  Railway 
Telegraph  Operators  ;  and  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad  Relief  Fund.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  of  New  Lis- 
bon, and  for  a  number  of  years  was  chairman 
of  the  board  of  stewards  of  the  church. 

]\Ir.  Reeves  married  (first)  in  1891,  Kezzie 
Yeager.  of  Brown's  Mills,  New  Jersey,  and  by 
whom  he  had  three  children,  all  born  in  New 
Lisbon:  i.  Ethel,  born  1892;  lives  at  home. 
2.  .-Arthur,  November  21,  1893;  works  with  his 
father  in  the  railroad  and  post  offices.  3.  Mil- 
ton \'orhees,  February  2,  1895.  His  first  wife 
(lied  June  18,  1897,  and  he  married  (second) 
September  15,  1906,  Mary  Reeves,  daughter  of 
Israel  Reeves. 


Our  present  narrative  concerns 
SP.ARKS      the   family  and  descendants  of 

one  of  three  immigrant  brothers 
— John.  Robert  and  Jared  Sparks — who  were 
of  Scotch  ancestry  but  natives  of  the  north  of 
Ireland,  where  in  earlier  generations  their  an- 
cestors had  found  temporary  refuge  from  the 
persecutions  visited  upon  them  because  of  their 
religious  convictions,  which  were  not  in  accord 
with  the  teaching  of  the  dominant  church. 
Rather  than  yield  to  the  exactions  of  their 
IH'rsecutors  many  Scotch  families  fled  from 
their  native  country  to  Ireland  and  lived  there 
through  several  generations,  and  from  this 
fact  they  came  to  be  known  as  Scotch-Irish, 
but  so  only  in  name  unless  there  were  inter- 
marriages with  Irish  families ;  and  we  have  no 
evidence  that  any  of  the  Sparks  ancestors  were 
allied  with  Irish  families  by  ties  of  marriage. 
None  of  the  three  brothers  is  believed  to  have 
been  married  at  the  time  of  their  immigration 
to  America,  for  they  all  were  young  men  of 
adventurous  spirit  starting  out  in  a  new  coun- 
try to  make  each  for  himself  his  own  way  in 
life.  They  came  over  about  1735  or  1740. 
Our  present  narrative  has  to  deal  with  John 
Sparks  and  his  descendants. 


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(  I )  Jdhii  Sparks  was  burn  in  the  nurth  of 
Ireland  m  1717;  died  in  1802.  He  settled  in 
New  Jersey  and  owned  and  lived  on  the  farm 
now  owned  by  Clement  Reeves,  one  mile  from 
Woodbury  Court  House,  toward  the  Delaware 
river.  His  farm  comprised  two  hundred  acres 
of  land  and  was  considered  one  of  the  best 
in  Gloucester  county.  The  baptismal  naine  of 
his  first  wife  was  Annie,  and  the  name  of  his 
second  wife  was  Mary.  By  his  first  marriage 
he  had  sons  Isaac,  Randall  and  Joseph,  all  of 
whom  were  born  on  the  homestead  farm  where 
their  father  settled.  By  wife,  JNIary,  he  had  a 
son,  John,  and  perhaps  other  chihh-en.  John 
Sparks  founded  the  Presbyterian  burial  ground 
at  Woodbury  and  was  buried  there.  John 
Sparks  was  an  elder  in  the  joint  session  of  the 
churches  of  Woodbury  and  Timber  Creek 
(now  Blackwood).  The  date  of  his  election 
and  ordination  are  not  known,  but  he  sat  as 
ebler  in  the  session  of  the  synod  in  Philadel- 
phia in  1768,  at  the  meetings  of  the  Presby- 
tery of  Philadelphia,  November  3,  1773;  Apri' 
9,  1791 :  October  18,  1796;  October  7,  1797, 
and  October  20,  1801.  He  is  said  to  have  died 
February  18,  1802.  He  also  was  a  member  of 
the  provincial  congress  of  New  Jersey  at  Tren- 
ton, in  May,  June  and  August,  1775.  and  at 
the  meeting  of  the  same  body  at  Burlington  in 
June,  1776,  when  the  resolution  was  adopted 
"that  the  proclamation  of  William  Franklin, 
late  governor  of  New  Jersey,  appomted  at  a 
meeting  of  the  general  assembly,  be  not 
obeyed." 

( II )  Randall,  second  son  of  John  and  .\nnie 
Sparks,  continued  to  live  on  the  old  farm  for 
many  years,  and  his  children  were  born  there. 
In  1815  he  went  to  Woodbury  and  kept  tavern 
there,  at  the  place  once  called  Rachor's,  at  Court 
House,  but  in  181 7  he  removed  to  the  Buck 
Tavern,  at  The  Buck  (now  Westville).  In 
1819  he  went  to  Philadelphia  to  secure  em- 
]5loyment  with  his  cousin.  Thomas  Sparks,  shot 
manufacturer,  living  in  John  street  (now  Car- 
penter) next  to  Shot  Tower.  Failing  to  find 
work  with  his  cousin,  Mr.  Sparks  in  the  follow- 
ing year  removed  with  his  family  to  Camden 
to  keep  ferry  for  Joseph  L.  Turner,  on  the 
north  side  of  Market  street,  and  he  remained 
there  from  1820  to  1824.  Here  he  became 
prosperous  and  ac(|uired  large  tracts  of  land. 
He  owned  twelve  thousand  acres  in  one  tract 
at  the  Dutdi  Mills,  New  Jersey,  below  Will- 
iamstdwn.  which  was  heavily  wooded  and  for 
which  he  ])aid  twelve  and  one-half  cents  per 
acre.  This  he  <leeded  to  Samuel  Downs  and 
Benjamin   Ward,      lie  also  owned  eight  hun- 


dred and  fifty  acres  near  what  now  is  Wenonah, 
and  out  of  which  several  fine  farms  have  been 
made,  the  Clark  farm,  the  William  C.  Sparks 
farm,  the  Stevenson  farm,  and  others.  Ran- 
dall Sjjarks  was  buried  at  Bethel.  Although 
known  as  Randall  his  correct  name  was  .Alex- 
ander Randall  Sparks.  His  will  was  written 
by  Joseph  .Saunders.  He  married  twice  and 
had  six  children.  His  first  wife  died  March 
18  or  19,  181 1,  aged  twenty-five  years.  His 
children,  born  of  his  first  marriage:  i.  Ruth, 
1805.  2.  William,  1805;  died  young.  3.  John, 
C,  1807.  4.  Mary,  i8o8.  5.  William  C,  1809 ; 
see  forward.    6.  Annie,  1810. 

(III)  William  C,  son  of  Randall  Sparks 
by  his  first  wife,  was  born  at  Woodbury,  New 
Jersey,  1809;  died  September  16,  1872.  He 
was  a  farmer,  member  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church,  and  in  politics  a  Republican.  He 
married  Mary  P.  Steen  and  by  her  had  four 
children :  William  Francis,  see  forward ;  John 
Wesley,  Ceorge  W'.  and  Sarah. 

(IV)  William  Francis,  son  of  William  C. 
and  Mary  P.  (^ Steen)  Sparks,  was  born  at 
Dilk's  Mill  (now  Wenonah),  New  Jersey,  May 
4,  1842  ;  died  May  27,  1875.  During  the  earlier 
years  of  his  business  life  he  was  a  farmer  and 
school  teacher  and  afterward  a  railroad  bag- 
gage master.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  war  of 
1861-65  and  enlisted  as  ^\'illiam  C.  Sparks, 
private  Company  I,  Ninth  New  Jersey  Volun- 
teer Infantry.  In  religious  preference  he  was 
a  Methodist  and  in  politics  a  Republican.  He 
married,  November  23,  1865,  Elizabeth  Evans, 
daughter  of  Richard  Evans,  a  native  of 
Llanidloes,  \\'ales,  and  who  by  wife.  Elizabeth 
(Humphries)  Evans,  had  a  son,  Richard,  and 
daughters,  .Anna  and  Elizabeth  Evans.  Will- 
iam Francis  and  Elizabeth  (Evans)  Sparks  had 
only  one  child,  John  W.  Sparks,  see  forward. 

( V )  John  Wesley,  son  of  W^illiam  Francis 
and  Elizabeth  (Evans)  Sparks,  was  born  at 
Cross  Keys,  Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey, 
Se])tember  22,  1866.  He  received  his  earlier 
education  in  public  schools  in  his  native  town. 
He  afterwards  was  a  student  at  and  graduated 
from  the  Pierce  School,  Philadelphia,  later 
attended  the  Pennsylvania  Polytechnic  School, 
still  later  was  a  student  at  Temple  College,  and 
also  took  a  course  at  Palmer's  Shorthand  Col- 
lege. Philadelphia,  where  also  he  was  graduated. 
His  business  career  was  begun  in  the  capacity 
of  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  West  Jersey  Rail- 
road Com])any,  at  Wenonah,  where  he  remain- 
ed for  two  years,  and  then  for  the  next  six 
months  was  telegraph  operator  for  that  com- 
pany  at    .Vtlantic   City,    New  Jersey.     After- 


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ward  for  about  ten  years  he  was  telegrapher 
for  S.  ^Morris  Pryor  &  Company,  stockbrokers, 
of  Philadelphia,  and  during  the  following  three 
years  for  Harris,  Fuller  &  Hurley,  stock 
brokers,  also  of  Philadelphia.  On  January  i, 
1892,  Mr.  Sparks  became  junior  member  of 
the  firm  of  \\'illiam  H.  Hurley,  Jr.,  &  Com- 
pany, stock  and  bond  brokers,  a  relation  which 
was  maintained  until  December  30,  i8(jy,  when 
the  partnership  was  dissolved,  and  was  suc- 
ceeded on  January  i,  1900,  by  the  new  firm  of 
J.  W.  Sparks  &  Company,  as  now  known  in 
business  circles  in  that  city.  Mr.  Sparks  is  a 
business  man.  living  in  Philadelphia,  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics  but  not  active  in  public  affairs. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  New  York  Stock  Ex- 
change, PliiladL'l]ihia  Stock  E.xchange  and  a 
governor  of  the  latter,  and  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade,  the  .-Vmerican 
Bankers  Association,  and  the  Pennsylvania 
Bankers  Association.  He  holds  membership 
in  W'illiamstown  Lodge,  No.  166,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  of  Williamstown.  New- 
Jersey;  Siloam  Chapter,  No.  19,  Royal  Arch 
Masons,  of  Camden:  the  Scottish  Rite  bodies 
of  the  craft  in  Philadelphia,  the  Pennsylvania 
Historical  Society,  the  Art,  Raquet  and  Down 
Town  clubs,  of  Philadelphia,  and  of  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  church.  He  married,  at 
Turnersville,  New  Jersey,  June  7.  1S94, 
Charlesanna  Sickler,  who  was  born  at  Chew's 
Landing,  New  Jersey,  October  11.  1866.  daugh- 
ter and  only  child  of  Benjamin  Franklin  and 
Mary  Elizabeth  Sickler. 


The  Bishops  are  an  English 
BISHOP    family  and  their  surname  is  one 

of  the  most  ancient  in  all  the 
kingdom.  The  name  was  transplanted  on  this 
f.ide  of  the  Atlantic  during  the  early  years  of 
the  colonial  period  and  its  representatives  have 
ranked  with  the  foremost  men  of  the  country 
in  all  generations  to  the  present  time.  There 
are  various  traditions  regarding  the  immigra- 
tion of  the  particular  family  here  treated,  and 
that  which  seems  most  stable  has  it  that  several 
immigrant  brothers  came  from  England  and 
settled  either  on  Long  Island  or  in  the  colony 
of  Connecticut.  There  were  Bishops  on  Long 
Island  at  an  early  period  and  in  Connecticut 
the  name  appears  soon  after  the  first  planters 
made  their  way  into  that  part  of  New  England. 
The  earliest  known  ancestor  of  the  family  here 
treated  is  understood  to  have  come  to  West 
Jersey  from  either  Long  Island  or  Connecticut, 
but  whether  he  was  born  in  England  or  Amer- 
ica does  not  appear.     His  name  is  not  found 


in  any  of  the  genealogical  referencc-s  extant, 
hence  the  place  of  his  nativity  cannot  be  given. 
The  following  account  of  the  early  life  of  the 
family  in  New  Jersey  is  taken  largely  from  the 
reminiscences  of  John  Bishop,  2d,  written  by 
him  about  thirty  years  ago. 

(  I  )  Robert  Bishop,  earliest  ancestor  of  the 
family  of  whom  there  appears  to  be  any 
account,  was  living  near  Lumberton,  Burling- 
ton county.  New-  Jersey,  previous  to  the  revolu- 
tionary war.  In  speaking  of  the  first  settlers 
in  that  locality  the  "History  of  ISurlington  and 
.Mercer  Counties"  says  that  six  brothers  of 
the  Bishop  surname  came  from  England  and 
located  along  Rancocas  creek  from  Bridge- 
boro  to  \'incentown,  one  at  each  of  these 
])laces  and  the  other  four  at  or  near  Lumber- 
ton."  In  a  way  this  account  is  substantially  in 
accord  with  the  previous  statement  that  sev- 
eral brothers  came  from  England  and  settled 
either  on  Long  Island  or  in  Connecticut.  But, 
however  this  may  have  been.  Robert  Piishop 
was  living  near  Lumberton  in  Burlington 
county  previous  to  tlie  revolution,  and  in  1778 
at  and  about  the  time  of  the  battle  of  Mon- 
mouth (ieneral  Knyphausen's  division  (Hes- 
sians )  of  the  British  army  in  its  march  through 
that  region  overran  and  ransacked  Robert 
Bishop's  house  from  cellar  to  garret,  excepting 
only  the  room  in  which  lay  his  sick  wife  and 
her  new  born  child,  John  Bisho]3.  and  it  was 
only  with  difficulty  that  the  common  soldiers 
were  restrained  by  their  ofiicers  from  entering 
and  pillaging  that  room  of  the  house.  They 
also  removed  all  live  stock  and  forage  from 
the  farm,  with  the  exception  of  a  colt,  which 
proved  so  fractious  that  it  could  not  be  taken 
away.  Of  Robert  Bishop's  family,  says  Mr. 
Bishop  in  his  reminiscences,  "I  know  at  pres- 
ent con-iparatively  little  save  that  there  were 
several  brothers  who  en-iigrated  either  from 
Long  Island  or  Connecticut.  The  baptismal 
name  of  his  .wife  was  Jane  and  among  their 
children  was  a  son  John." 

(II)  John,  son  of  Rc-)bert  and  Jane  Bishop, 
was  born  near  Lumberton,  Burlington  county. 
New  Jersey,  the  17th  day  of  6th  month.  1778. 
a  few  days  prior  to  the  battle  of  Monmouth. 
"On  his  mother's  side.''  says  Mr.  FSishop's 
narrative,  "he  was  of  the  third  generation  in 
lineal  descent  of  a  full-blooded  Indian  girl  of 
the  Lenni  Lenappe  tribe,  and  who  previous  to 
her  marriasje  assumed  the  English  name  of 
.Mary  Carlisle  and  married  Richard  Flaines. 
who  with  several  of  his  brothers  emigrated 
from  Northamptonshire.  England,  and  w-ere 
the  original   settlers  of   Burlington  county,  at 


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that  time  a  part  of  the  province  of  West  Jersey. 
John  Bishop'.s  mother,  who  married  Rohert 
Bishop,  and  who  was  a  granddaughter  of  the 
Indian  maiden,  Mary  CarHsle,  was  of  course 
a  quarter  blood  Indian,  and  what  is  singular, 
it  is  said  by  those  who  remember  her  that  slie 
was  of  light  complexion,  a  blonde,  although 
some  of  her  children  with  their  bright,  pier- 
cing, black  eyes  and  swarthy  complexions,  gave 
unmistakable  evitlence  of  their  Indian  origin. 
She  is  represented  to  have  been  a  woman  of 
sweet  disposition  and  possessed  of  the  most 
estimable  traits  of  character.  When  John  Bishop 
was  about  six  years  old  his  parents  removed 
to  the  north  side  of  Rancocas  creek,  where  it 
empties  into  the  Delaware,  and  on  a  part  of 
which  the  town  of  Delanco  is  now  built.  Here 
m  account  ot  the  proximity  lo  the  water,  John 
became  an  adept  as  a  swimmer,  skater  and 
trapper,  the  country  at  that  time  abounding  in 
foxes  and  other  game  and  the  creeks  with 
otter,  mink  and  muskrats,  many  times  going 
and  breaking  the  ice  with  his  bare  feet  to  re- 
move the  game  from  his  traps ;  and  one  of 
his  greatest  pastimes  at  certain  seasons  of  the 
year  was  to  swim  over  to  the  island  at  the 
junction  of  the  river  and  creek  and  bring  geese 
home  to  his  mother.  Soon  after  removing  to 
this  new  home  John  got  his  first  start  in  life 
in  the  ownership  of  a  hen,  which  was  given  to 
him  by  an  Indian  squaw  who  had  come  to  make 
his  parents  a  visit;  and  it  was  not  long  before 
nearly  all  the  chickens  on  the  farm  were  claim- 
ed by  himself  as  sole  owner.  It  is  related  that 
one  day  his  mother  wanting  a  chicken  to  make 
a  potpie  for  dinner,  sent  one  of  the  family  to 
get  one,  when  John  seeing  them  called  out 
'that's  my  chicken,'  and  so  with  the  second  and 
third  attempts,  until  it  was  found  that  they 
were  all  'his  chickens.'  Then  his  father  i)ro- 
posed  that  he  exchange  some  of  his  chickens 
for  sheep,  which  was  agreed  to  and  in  the 
course  of  a  year  or  two,  his  sheep  beginning  to 
multiply  pretty  fast,  his  father,  having  the 
chicken  experience  in  mind,  limited  John's  to 
two,  and  divided  the  others  among  the  neigh- 
bors to  raise  on  shares. 

"When  John  Bishop  was  about  ten  or  twelve 
years  old  his  father  died.  All  the  education 
the  boy  had  was  obtained  in  a  log  schoolhouse 
in  the  ])ine  woods.  At  the  age  of  si.xteen  he 
taught  school  on  what  is  now  (1879)  the 
Moorestown  and  Camden  turnpike,  and  at  the 
end  of  one  winter's  teaching  he  saved  sufficient 
to  'gave  him  an  outfit  to  get  to  Philadelphia.' 
.\ftcr  the  death  of  his  father  he  made  his  home 
with  an  elder  married  brother,  whom  he  helped 


with  the  work  of  the  farm  ;  and  the  latter  hear- 
ing John  talk  of  going  to  I'hiladeljihia,  made  the 
remark  'you'll  come  to  nothing,'  to  which  the 
young  fellow  replied  with  his  characteristic 
spirit,  'I  might  as  well  come  to  nothing  as  to 
stay  with  you  and  work  for  nothing.'  How- 
ever, they  remained  the  best  of  friends  during 
the  entire  period  of  their  lives.  He  went  to 
Philadelphia  and  being  a  young  man  of  fine 
personal  appearance  and  possessed  of  good 
business  ability,  it  was  not  long  before  he 
secured  a  good  position  as  clerk  in  the  counting 
house  of  Harry  Moliere,  a  Frenchman,  who 
had  an  extensive  rope  walk  up  in  Kensington. 
Soon  afterward  he  formed  the  acc|uaintance 
of  a  Scotchman  named  Couslan,  a  practical 
plumber,  and  formed  a  partnership  with  him 
for  carrying  on  the  business,  besides  which  the 
firm  rented  the  first  three  wharves  below  Wal- 
nut street,  and  there  their  plumbing  shops  were 
located.  Their  principal  business  at  that  time 
was  work  aboard  vessels,  but  as  the  shipyards 
were  in  Kensington  the  partners  in  their  work 
were  compelled  to  walk  back  and  forth  be- 
tween that  place  and  the  shops ;  and  it  is  said 
that  never  but  once  did  John  Piishop  find  a  man 
who  could  outwalk  him  in  traveling  this  dis- 
tance." 

After  several  years  of  profitable  partnership 
relation  Mr.  Couslan  died  and  soon  afterward 
John  Bishop  purchased  his  former  partner's 
interest  in  the  business.  Among  their  a]5]iren- 
tices  in  the  shop  w'ere  Thomas  and  Richard 
Sjiarks,  brothers,  the  former  being  an  energetic, 
industrious  young  man,  well  skilled  in  his 
trade,  and  he  became  Mr.  Bishop's  partner. 
Soon  after  this,  however,  difficulty  arose  be- 
tween our  country  and  England  and  France 
regarding  maratime  rights  of  neutrals,  which 
culminated  in  the  war  of  1812  and  also  in  the 
ultimate  ruin  of  the  plumbing  business  carried 
on  by  Bishop  &  Sparks.  In  this  emergency 
the  firm  turned  to  the  manufacture  of  shot, 
and  for  that  purpose  built  a  small  cupola  above 
the  okl  plumbing  shop,  put  in  a  furnace  for 
melting  lead  and  began  a  series  of  experiments 
in  shotmaking,  each  of  which  resulted  in  fail- 
ure ;  but  instead  of  being  discouraged  by  de- 
feat the  members  of  the  firm  renewed  their 
work  with  commendable  courage  and  by  for- 
tunate chance  happened  to  hear  of  an  English 
shotmaker  up  in  Kensington  who  understood 
the  art  of  shotmaking.  They  at  once  secured 
his  services,  although  with  some  difficulty  and 
at  considerable  expense,  and  then  began  mak- 
ing shot  with  most  excellent  success.  From 
that  time,  says  Mr.  Bishop's  narrative,  "money 


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began  to  flow  in  rapidly  and  in  less  than  a  year 
the  shot  tower  in  Soiithwark  was  planned  anil 
built  under  the  direction  of  John  Bishop,  senior 
member  of  the  firm  in  1808."  In  speaking  of 
this  pioneer  industry  of  its  kind  in  this  country 
a  comparatively  recent  issue  of  a  Philadelphia 
paper  had  this  to  say  of  the  old  shot  tower  and 
its  ultimate  removal:  "The  river  wards  be- 
tween Market  street  and  Washington  avenue 
were  never  a  great  manufacturing  centre  and 
the  few  establishments  of  this  kind  they  con- 
tained have  steadily  decreased  until  all  the 
older  ones  are  gone.  One  of  the  latest  to  go 
was  the  historic  shot  tower  on  Montrose  street, 
west  of  Front  street,  built  in  1808,  and  which 
continued  in  operation  until  a  few  years  ago. 
when  it  was  purchased  and  closed  up  perma- 
nently. Its  tall  tower,  standing  sentinel  like 
150  feet  high,  reminds  the  passerby  of  Thomas 
Moore's  'Round  Towers  of  Other  Days.'  and 
calls  attention  to  the  fact  that  beneath  its 
shadow  scores  of  workmen  found  employment 
at  turning  out  buck  and  bird  shot.  During  the 
Moican  war  balls  for  musket  cartridges  were 
manufactured  by  it  by  the  thousand  daily  and 
forwarded  to  the  scene  of  battle." 

The  manufacture  of  shot  and  bullets  con- 
tinued to  be  a  thriving  business  with  John 
Bishop  for  several  years  and  thereby  he 
accumulated  a  comfortable  fortune.  But  event- 
ually he  sold  out  his  interests  in  the  city  and 
purchased  the  Ogston  farm  near  Columbus, 
Xew  Jersey,  being  the  same  propertv  now 
owned  by  Anna  R.  Bishop  and  on  which  his 
grandson,  Jrihn  I.  Bishop,  now  maintains  his 
residence.  John  Bishop  went  there  to  live  in 
1813  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  in 
that  locality.  He  always  possessed  in  his  later 
years  an  interesting  fund  of  anecdote,  and 
never  tired  of  narrating  his  experiences  with 
Stephen  Girard,  with  whom  lie  first  met  while 
serving  as  clerk  for  Harry  Moliere,  and  still 
later  becoming  more  intimately  acc|uainted  with 
that  famous  Philadelphia  merchant  and  phil- 
anthropist while  doing  work  on  his  ships  in 
the  old  yards  at  Kensington.  When  about 
twenty-one  years  old,  John  Bishop  married 
ffirstl  ]\Iary,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Hannah 
Ridgway,  who  lived  near  Mullica  Hill.  Salem 
count V.  Xew  Jersev.  He  married  (second) 
Ann  Black. 

(  III  )  John  (2).  son  of  lohn  (  i  )  and  .\nn 
(Black)  Bishop,  was  born  at  Ogston.  near 
Columbus,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
March  15.  1820.  He  married,  February  5, 
1843.  Rebecca  Field  Riddle,  born  at  the  Riddle 
homestead  at  Mount  Hope,  Kinkora,  Rurling- 


ton  county,  Xew  Jersey,  January  16,  1826, 
diecl  .\pril  4,  1893,  daughter  of  Israel  and 
Sarah  T.  (Field)   Biddle  (see  Biddle.  \'l. 

(I\')  John  I.,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Re- 
becca Field  (Biddle)  Bishop,  was  born  at 
Ogston,  near  Columbus,  Burlington  county, 
Xew  Jersey,  July  4,  1849.  He  received  his 
early  education  in  the  public  schools  in  his 
native  town^  attended  the  Friends'  .Academy 
at  Westtown.  and  graduated  at  the  Poly- 
technic College  of  Pennsylvania,  receiving  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Civil  Engineering  in 
June.  1868,  and  the  master's  degree  three  years 
later.  He  was  continuously  employed  in  engi- 
neering work  by  the  following  railroad  com- 
panies respectively :  The  Camden  &  .Amboy, 
the  West  Jersey,  the  Tuckerton,  the  Columbus, 
Kinkora  &  Springfield,  and  the  Pennsylvania, 
until  1875,  when  he  was  called  to  examine  coal 
lands  in  western  Pennsylvania,  and  later  to 
develop  the  Redstone  Oil,  Coal  &  Coke  Com- 
pany and  Ridgway-Bishop  Coal  Company 
properties,  absorbed  during  1899  by  the  Pitts- 
Imrgh  Coal  Company,  of  which  he  is  a  director 
and  a  member  of  the  executive  committee.  I'or 
twenty  years  he  has  been  manager  of  the  sev- 
eral interests  owned  or  controlled  by  Jacob 
E.  Ridgway.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Union 
League  of  Philadelphia,  the  Duquesne  Club 
of  Pittsburgh,  the  .American  Jersey  Cattle 
Club  of  Xew  York,  and  the  Xew  Jersey  Soci- 
ety of  Philadelphia.  He  resides  at  Ogston 
during  the  summer,  and  in  Philadelphia  during 
the  winter  months. 

Mr.  Bishop  married,  .November  Q.  1871, 
.Anna  Ridgway,  born  in  Philadelphia,  .August 
24,  1850.  daughter  of  Jacob  E.  and  Sarah 
Shreve  Ridgway.  Children:  i.  John,  bom 
December  20,  1875;  '''^cl  March  28,  1884.  2. 
Emily.  (October  24,  1878;  married,  October  8. 
1901,  John  S.  C.  Harvey;  children:  i.  .Anna 
Piishop  Harvey,  born  September  16,  1902;  ii. 
John  S.  C.  Harvey,  Jr.,  .August  14.  1904;  iii. 
Thomas  Biddle  Harvey,  .August  i(),  1908.  3. 
John  v..  July  2,  1886;  married.  January  6, 
1909,  Helen  Bailey. 

(The   BiiicUp   Line). 

The  original  immigrant  of  the  Biddle  family 
came  from  London  to  .America  about  the  year 
1681  and  settled  in  West  Jersey.  He  was  an 
active  man  in  ]uiblic  aft'airs  from  the  time  of 
his  arrival  in  Xew  Jersey  until  his  death,  in 
1 712.  He  held  many  offices  of  trust  and  honor 
and  appears  to  have  devoted  much  of  his  time 
to  public  service.  In  his  will  he  gave  five  hun- 
dred acres  of  land  to  his  cousin,  Thomas  Bid- 


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die,  concerning  whom  a  recent  chronicler  of 
the  family  history  says:  "Of  Thomas  Biddle, 
the  'cousin,'  we  know  absolutely  nothing  save 
that  he  left  descendants.  He  appears  as  a  wit- 
ness on  William  Ijiddle's  marriage  certificate 
in  1665,  and  a  Thomas  Biddle  signs  as  a  wit- 
ness to  the  will  of  William  Righton,  mariner, 
in  Jamaica,  February  5,  1701-02;  and  the  mar- 
riage of  Thomas  Biddle  and  Rachel  Grusbeck 
is  recorded  in  the  records  of  the  First  Pres- 
byterian Church,  I'hiladelphia.  Whether  this 
Thomas  liiddle  was  the  cousin  mentioned,  or 
the  son  of  the  cousin,  is  not  positively  known : 
but  doubtless  he  was  the  ancestor  of  that  line 
of  the  family." 

(  I  )  Thomas  liiddle,  who  is  presumed  to 
have  been  a  son  of  the  Thomas  Biddle  men- 
tioned in  his  will  by  William  Biddle  as  his 
"cousin,"  married  at  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  Philadelphia,  November  8,  1704, 
Rachel  (Iroesbeck.  Children:  Thomas,  Sarah, 
Rachel. 

(II)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i)  and 
Rachel  (Groesbeck)  Biddle,  married,  October 
28,  1728,  Mary,  daughter  of  James  and  Mary 
(Hance)  Antrim,  of  East  Jersey.  They  lived 
in  the  old  family  homestead  at  Mount  Hope 
(now  Kinkora),  New  Jersey,  which  formerh 
was  owned  by  \\'ilHam  Biddle,  the  first.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Sarah,  born  .August  8,  1729,  died  Sep- 
tember, 18 10.  2.  Thomas,  October  17,  1734, 
see  forward.  3.  Rachel,  married,  December  5, 
1772,  Jonathan  Izard. 

(III)  Thomas  (3),  son  of  Thomas  (2)  and 
Mary  (Antrim)  Biddle,  was  born  October  17, 
1734,  died  September,  1793.  He  married 
.\pril  17,  1760,  .Abigail  Scull,  died  September 
in.  17S3,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Scull.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Thomas,  born  September  13.  1761, 
see  forward.  2.  .Abigail,  .September  13,  1763; 
married  John  Harvey.  3.  Alary,  March  20. 
1766;  married  Caleb  Foster.  4.  Sarah,  June 
7,  1769,  died  .August  fi,  1775. 

(IV')  Thomas  (4),  son  (.)f  Thomas  (3)  and 
.Abigail  (Scull)  Biddle,  was  born  September 
13,  1761,  died  in  .Ajiril,  1807.  He  became 
owner  of  a  part  of  Biddle's  island  in  the  Dela- 
ware river,  opposite  Kinkora,  New  Jersey, 
His  real  property  was  divided  among  his  chil- 
dren in  1813.  fie  married  Charlotte  Butler. 
Children:  i.  Thomas,  born  November  28, 
1786;  mar)-i('d  Charlotte  Harvey.  2.  Israel, 
(October  (>.  1788,  see  forward.  3.  .Abigail. 
January  31,  1791,  died  single.  4.  Mary, 
March  17,  171)3:  married  (first)  James  liates, 
(second)  Isaac  Meld.  5.  John,  October  2. 
1795,  died  single.     Ci.  Charlotte,  Julv  27,  1798: 


married,  C)ctober,  1816,  Samuel  Black.  7. 
.Achsa,  January  26,  1801  ;  married  Joseph 
Haines.  8.  William,  May  2;^.  1804;  marrieil 
Elizabeth  Rockhill. 

(A)  Israel,  son  of  Thomas  (4)  and  Char- 
lotte (Butler)  Biddle,  was  born  October  6. 
1788.  He  married  (first)  Sarah  Tallman ; 
married  (second)  Sarah  T.  Filed,  who  died 
near  Mansfield,  New  Jersey,  September  12, 
1885,  aged  eighty-two  years.  Children:  i. 
Charles  (by  first  wife),  married  Sarah  Ann 
Lee  and  had  three  children.  2.  Martha  F. 
(by  second  wife),  married,  1845,  Thomas 
.Newbold  Black.  3.  Israel,  died  young.  4. 
Rebecca  Field,  born  January  16,  1826;  mar- 
rierl,  February  5,  1845,  John  Bishop  (see 
Piishop,  HI,  above).  5.  Sarah,  died  young.  6. 
Israel,  married  Charlotte  B.  Harvey.  7.  Mary 
T.,  married  P'ranklin  Black.  8..  Abigail,  died 
young,  g.  Charlotte,  married  George  B.  Wills. 
ID.  Joseph  W.,  married  Charlotte,  daughter  of 
William  J.  and  Charlotte  Black.  11.  Caroline 
Elizabeth,  died  voung. 


There  is  a  tradition  which  runs 
I'.lSl  K  )P     to  the  effect  that  the  Bishops  of 

New  Jersey  are  descended  from 
seven  brothers  of  Quaker  origin  who  came 
from  England  about  the  middle  of  the  eight- 
eenth century  and  settled  in  various  parts  of 
that  then  province.  But  however  this  may 
have  been  it  is  certain  that  for  more  than  one 
hundred  and  fifty  years  the  surname  Bishop 
has  been  found  among  the  leading  families  of 
this  state  and  always  has  stood  for  the  best 
elements  of  citizenship,  loyalty  to  established 
in>titutions  of  government,  and  enterprise  and 
progressivencss  in  all  of  varied  pursuits  of 
business  activity. 

(I)  Isaac  Bishop,  earliest  known  ancestor 
of  the  family  of  his  surname  purposed  to  be 
treated  in  this  place,  was  living  at  Mt.  Holly, 
B.urlington  county,  about  the  year  1760  and 
afterward  luitil  he  met  death  by  lightning  a 
short  time  after  his  marriage.  Little  else  ap- 
pears to  be  known  of  him,  there  being  no  reli- 
able account  of  his  marriage  or  of  the  name  of 
his  wife,  but  about  six  months  after  his  death 
his  only  son  was  born. 

(II)  Job,  son  of  Isaac  Bishop,  was  born  in 
r76<)  in  Burlington  county,  and  was  a  me- 
chanic. His  life  was  spent  at  Mt.  Holly,  and 
he  died  there  in  February,  1852.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Sarah  Jones,  of  Haddonfield,  who 
c'icd  in  1806,  having  borne  him  four  children. 
He  afterward  married  a  second  wife  and  by 
her    had    one    son.     Children:    I.    Isaac,    died 


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young.  2.  William,  boni  July  17,  1798.  see 
forward.  3.  Mary,  died  unmarried.  4.  Ed- 
ward, died  unmarried.  5.  John  R..  who  be- 
came a  merchant  tailor  and  lived  in  Phila- 
delphia. 

(Ill)  William,  son  of  Job  and  Sarah 
(Jones)  Bishop,  was  born  at  Mt.  Holly.  New 
Jersey,  July  17.  1798,  and  was  a  boy  of  seven 
years  at  the  time  of  the  death  of  his  mother. 
After  that  he  spent  the  next  several  years  on  a 
farm,  where  he  was  brought  up  under  the  care 
of  relatives,  and  then  returned  home.  In  May, 
1814,  he  went  to  Burlington,  where,  dependent 
upon  his  own  resources  for  his  support,  he 
found  employment  in  a  store  kept  by  William 
Ridgway.  with  whom  he  remained  until  1833. 
when  Mr.  Ridgway  died.  Then  in  partnership 
with  Robert  Thomas,  a  .stepson  of  his  former 
employer,  Mr.  Bishop  continued  the  business 
until  1850,  when  he  retired  from  mercantile 
pursuits.  He  died  in  1887,  after  a  long,  hon- 
orable and  successful  business  career,  through- 
out the  entire  period  of  which  he  held  the 
respect  and  confidence  of  the  people  of  the 
regicn  in  which  the  scene  of  his  life  was  laid. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Burling- 
ton Savings  Institution  and  its  president  foi 
thirty-five  years,  until  the  time  of  his  death. 
On  its  organization  in  1857  he  was  elected  its 
vice-president  and  three  months  later  became 
president,  succeeding  Ira  B.  Underbill.  He 
also  was  a  director  of  the  Merchants'  National 
Bank  of  Burlington  for  thirty-one  years,  a  di- 
rector of  the  Burlington  board  of  education 
for  fifteen  years,  and  for  many  years  a  director 
of  the  Burlington  Library.  Probably  no  man 
connected  with  the  financial  and  business  in- 
terests of  Burlington  was  more  painstaking 
or  more  scrupulously  upright  than  Mr.  Bishop, 
r  ike  his  ancestors,  he  was  a  member  of  the 
.Scciety  of  Friends  and  always  led  a  ciuiet  and 
unostentatious  life.  Remarried  (first)  Eliza, 
daughter  of  \\'i]liam  Rirlgway.  of  Burlinsjton, 
She  died  in  1843,  leaving  one  son,  William 
Ridewav  Bishop.  He  married  (second)  Mrs. 
Marv  M..  widow  of  Thomas  Booth. 

(  I\')  William  Ridgway,  son  of  William  and 
F'iza  (Ridgway)  Bishop,  was  born  in  Burl- 
ington. New  Jersey,  in  the  house  in  which  he 
now  lives,  July  3.  1836,  and  received  his  edu- 
cation at  the  Friends'  School  in  Burlington  and 
the  Frien'^'s'  School  at  Westtown,  Pennsyl- 
vania. .\fter  leaving  school  he  worked  for 
about  two  years  as  clerk  in  the  general  store 
kept  in  Burlington  by  Samuel  Taylor  and  af- 
terward taught  school  two  years  at  White  Hill 
in  Piurlington  county.     This  was  before  he  had 


attained  the  age  of  twenty  years.  In  business 
life  he  has  been  a  dealer  in  coal,  fertilizers  and 
seeds.  He  started  in  active  pursuits  in  1864 
and  after  many  years  of  successful  effort  he 
discontinued  the  handling  of  fertilizers  and 
coal  and  since  that  time  has  dealt  only  in  field 
and  garden  seeds.  In  this  direction  his  opera- 
tions have  been  somewhat  extensive,  and  he 
ships  seeds  to  Texas  and  California,  to 
Havana,  and  also  to  various  European  coun- 
tries. Mr.  Bishop  is  a  careful  and  straight- 
forward business  man,  a  Republican  in  political 
preference  and  for  two  years  was  a  member  of 
the  Burlineton  city  council.  He  also  is  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  Friends  and  clerk 
of  the  Burlineton  Meeting.  He  married,  in 
February,  i860,  Mary  Louisa,  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Jane  (Wright)  Lee,  of  Reading, 
Pennsylvania.  Children:  i.  Louisa  Horner, 
born  Burlington,  September  i,  \SCn.  died  1883. 
2.  Eliza  Ridgway,  born  in  Burlington,  lives  at 
home  with  her  parents. 


There  is  a  tradition  in  the  fam- 
BISHOP  ilv  that  sometime  about  the  mid- 
dle of  the  eighteenth  century 
four  Bishop  brothers,  of  Ouaker  origin,  came 
from  England  and  settled  in  New  Jersey,  and 
while  the  family  here  under  consideration  may 
have  been  and  probably  was  descended  from 
one  of  these  four  immigrant  brothers  there 
appears  to  be  no  present  means  by  which  the 
tradition  can  be  substantiated  by  proof.  A 
somewhat  noticeable  similarity  of  christian 
names  leads  to  the  conclusion  that  the  an- 
cestor of  the  family  here  treated  was  closely 
related  to  the  families  of  the  four  brothers. 

(  I  )  Thomas  Bishop,  progenitor  of  the  par- 
ticular branch  of  the  New  Jersey  family  of 
tbnt  surname  here  treated,  was  born  of  Eng- 
lish parents,  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Fricrds.  and  an  early  settler  in  Burlington 
C()unt\-.  where  many  of  his  descendants  are 
still  livine.  The  title  deed  to  lands  owned  and 
settled  by  him  was  ac<iuired  by  purcha.se  from 
the  Indians,  and  the  ancient  document  is  now 
in  possession  of  Henry  J.  Irick.  one  of  his  de- 
scendants, while  the  land  itself  is  owned  by 
Samuel  .S.  Irick.  brother  of  Senator  Irick,  and 
both  are  great-great-crnndsons  of  the  immi- 
grant. The  name  of  Thomas  Bishop's  wife 
does  not  appear,  but  he  married  and  left  four 
children  surviving  him,  as  follows:  i.  William, 
see  forward.  2.  John,  married  Mary  Stock- 
ton :  no  issue.  3.  Elizabeth,  married  Josiah 
Evans  and  removed  to  Ohio.  4.  Vincent,  mar- 
ried   Branin.  and  had  a  large  family. 


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(  II  )  William,  son  of  Thomas  Bishop,  the 
immigrant,  married  Rebecca  Leeds,  and  had 
five  children:  i.  Job,  see  forward.  2.  Rebecca, 
married  James  Branson.  3.  Samuel,  died 
single.  4.  Japheth.  married  Rachel  IJaines, 
and  were  the  parents  of  Emeline  Bisho]j,  who 
became  wife  of  General  John  S.  Irick.  father 
of  Senator  Henry  J.  and  Samuel  .S.  Irick.  of 
whom  mention  is  made  elsewhere.  5.  Will- 
iam, married  Mary  Woolston,  and  had 
William,  who  married  Maria  Hargrave ; 
Japheth.  now  (  lyog)  inmate  of  Masonic  Mome 
in  lUirlington.  married  Margaret  Hargrave; 
Maria,  married  J(.)hn  Ross ;  Esther,  married 
Thomas  Pope :  and  Samuel,  who  married 
Elizabeth  Patterson. 

(Ill)  Job,  eldest  son  and  child  of  William 
and  Rebecca  (Leeds)  Bishop,  was  born  in 
\'incentown.  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
and  was  a  farmer  by  principal  occupation,  al- 
though (luring  the  early  part  of  his  life  he 
taught  school,  being  a  man  of  superior  educa- 
tion as  well  as  of  influence  in  the  township. 
He  died  at  Lumberton,  Burlington  county. 
His  wife  was  Hannah,  daughter  of  Daniel 
Joyce,  and  by  her  he  had  six  children:  i. 
Daniel  J.,  see  forward.  2.  Martha  .Adams.  3. 
Elizabeth  \'oorhees.  4,  Emily.  5.  Dorotha 
A.,  married  Edmund  Jefferson.  ().  Hannah, 
married  Peter  Oliver.  7.  \\  illiani.  died  un- 
married. 

(  I\  )  Daniel  J.,  eldest  son  and  child  of  Job 
and  Hannah  (Joyce )  Bishop,  was  born  in 
\'incentown  in  1816,  died  in  Lumberton  in 
1906.  He  was  captain  of  a  sailing  vessel  and 
for  many  years  a  pilot  on  the  Delaware  river 
between  flainesport  and  Philadelphia.  Cap- 
tain Bishop  married  .Ann  F"razier  and  by  her 
had  six  children.  Hannah.  William  Henry. 
David.  Job.  Daniel  and  Jane. 

(  \' )  William  Henry,  son  of  Ca])tain  Daniel 
J.  and  .Ann  (  Frazier )  Bisho]i.  was  born  in 
Lumberton.  ISurlington  county.  Xew  Jersey. 
March  2"] .  1841,  and  in  one  capacity  and  an- 
other has  been  identified  with  mercantile  pur- 
suits for  more  than  half  a  century.  He  left 
school,  and  went  to  work  as  clerk  and  errand 
boy  for  his  uncle,  William  C  Tiishop,  of  Lum- 
berton, who  was  in  active  business  full  fifty 
years  ])revions  to  his  death  in  1901,  remaitied 
in  his  employ  for  five  years  and  then  was  clerk 
for  another  five  years  in  the  store  of  W.  S. 
iUitterworth.  of  Wrightstown.  Xew  Jersey. 
In  1866  he  became  senior  partner  of  the  firm 
of  Bishop  &  Beck,  general  merchants  of  Pem- 
berton,  and  at  the  end  of  eight  years  bought 
out  his  ])artner's  interest  and  has  since  carried 


on  business  alone.  Mr.  Bishop  is  counted 
among  the  substantial  business  men  of  Burl- 
ington county  and  outside  of  personal  con- 
cerns has  for  many  years  been  identified  with 
some  of  the  best  interests  and  institutions  of 
the  region.  He  is  president  of  the  L'nion  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Mt.  Holly,  a  director  of  the  Mt. 
Holly  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Company  and 
treasurer  of  the  Pemberton  Building  and  Loan 
.Association.  He  is  a  firm  Republican,  but 
without  political  ambition,  although  he  has 
served  as  member  of  the  township  committee. 
He  is  a  member  of  Central  Lodge,  No.  44, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  \'incentown. 
and  of  Mt.  Holly  Lodge,  No.  848,  Benevolent 
Protective  Order  Elks.  In  1865  he  mar- 
ried Sarah,  daughter  of  James  and  Charlotte 
Beck,  of  Wrightstown,  and  who  died  in  1905. 
He  has  one  daughter.  Charlotte,  born  in  Pem- 
berton in  October,  1866.  married  Alfred  Davis, 
druggist,  of   Pemberton. 


The  Trenchard  family  be- 
TRE.\C11.\RD  longs  to  a  good  old  Eng- 
lish stock  which  had  made 
its  name  in  the  old  country  many  years  before 
it  was  transplanted  to  the  new  workl.  The 
family  traces  its  origin  back  to  Pogames  Tren- 
chard. who  held  land  in  county  Dorset  during 
the  reign  of  Henry  I,  in  io()o.  In  the  six- 
teenth and  the  preceding  century  they  had 
intermarried  with  the  Damosels  and  the 
Moleynes. 

( I )  Thomas  Trenchard,  Knight,  of  Wol- 
vertcn,  was  born  1582,  died  1657;  he  was 
knightetl  by  King  James  I,  December  14.  1613. 
and  held  the  office  of  high  sheriff  of  Dorset : 
he  was  the  founder  of  the  branch  of  the  family 
at  present  under  consideration.  His  son 
Thrnias  is  referred  to  below. 

(II)  Thomas  (2).  son  of  Sir  Thomas  (i) 
Trenchard,  was  born  in  Wolverton.  county 
Dorset,  in  1615,  died  in  i()7i.  Like  his  father 
he  was  a  baronet.  In  1638  he  married  Han- 
nah, born  1620.  died  1691,  daughter  of  Robert 
Henley,  of  Bramhill.  Hampshire.  Their  son 
John  is  referred  to  below.  Two  of  his  cous- 
ins, (irace  Trenchard,  who  married  Colonel 
William  Sydenham,  and  Jane,  w-ho  married 
John  Sadler,  of  Ward  well,  were  strong  sup- 
porters of  Oliver  Cromwell. 

(III)  John,  son  of  Sir  Thomas  (2)  and 
Hannah  (Henley)  Trenchard,  was  born  in 
Wolverton,  county  Dorset,  England,  March  30. 
1640.  died  in  16(^5.  He  matriculated  from 
New  College,  Oxford,  in  1665.  He  was 
elected  a  member  of  Parliament  for  Taunton. 


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February  20,  1678.  and  was  a  member  of  the 
club  of  Revolutionaries  which  met  at  the 
King's  Head  Tavern  in  Fleet  street.  Novem- 
ber 2.  1680,  he  spoke  against  the  recognition 
by  parliament  of  the  Duke  of  York  as  the 
heir  apparent,  and  in  July.  1683.  he  was  ar- 
rested as  a  conspirator,  but  released  for  lack 
of  evidence.  In  1687  William  Penn,  who  was 
a  warm  personal  friend  of  Trenchards,  ob- 
tained from  King  James  11  a  free  pardon  for 
Sir  John  and  he  was  again  elected  to  parlia- 
ment. He  was  one  of  those  who  united  in  the 
invitation  to  William  of  Orange  to  come  over 
and  seize  the  English  throne.  October  29, 
1689,  he  was  knighted  at  \\  hitehall  and  was 
appointed  to  the  office  of  chief  justice  of 
Chester,  which  he  held  until  his  death.  In 
November.  1682.  John  Trenchard  married 
Philippa,  daughter  of  George  Speake,  and  the 
sister  of  Charles  and  Hugh  Speake,  by  whom 
he  had  four  sons,  one  of  whom  is  George,  re- 
ferred  to  below. 

(I\')  George,  son  of  John  and  Philipjia 
(  Speake)  Trenchard,  was  born  in  county  Som- 
erset, New  York,  in  1686,  tlied  at  Alloway 
township,  Salem  county.  New  Jersey,  in  1712. 
He  was  probably  married  and  had  several  chil- 
dren. In  his  will  he  names  as  his  children : 
George,  Edward.  John,  Joan. 

( \' )  George  (2),  son  of  George  (I  )  Tren- 
chard, died  in  .Salem  county,  in  the  latter  part 
of  1728.  Coming  to  America  with  his  father 
he  settled  in  .Salem  county,  and  from  1723  to 
1725  was  sheriff.  He  was  also  one  of  the 
deputy  slieriiTs  for  West  Jersey  and  also  one 
of  the  assessors.  By  his  marriage  with  Mary 
Piender,  of  Salem  county,  he  had  five  sons  and 
several  daughters.  The  daughters  married 
into  several  of  the  leading  families  of  Salem 
and  have  left  numerous  descendants.  The 
sons  were:  I.  Curtis,  born  1740.  died  1780: 
from  1778  to  1779  clerk  of  Salem  county,  later 
surrogate.  He  married  the  (laughter  of  At- 
torney Burchan,  of  Salem.  His  son  Edward 
was  in  the  United  States  navy,  commanded 
the  "Ccinstitution"  at  the  siege  of  Tripoli  anil 
the  "Madison"  in  the  war  of  1812  and  other 
famous  men-of-war.  2.  John,  referred  to 
below.  3.  James.  4.  George,  born  1748,  died 
1780;  was  attorney-general  of  West  Jersey 
from  1769  to  1776.  prominent  in  the  Salem 
committee  of  safety  and  the  Camden  Second 
Battalion,  Salem  Country  Light  Horse,  and 
one  of  those  to  whom  Colonel  Mawhood's 
letter  was  addressed.  He  married  Mary, 
da'.ighter  of  Judge  .-Vndrew  .Sinnickson,  of 
.Salem,      s.  Thomas. 


(\'I)  Jolin  (2),  son  of  C]eorge  (2)  and 
Mary  (  Pender)  Trenchard,  was  born  in  1742. 
He  lived  for  a  time  at  Cohansey  Bridge,  and 
about  1768  with  his  brother  bought  a  prop- 
erty at  the  northwest  corner  of  Laurel  and 
Jelterson  streets,  which  was  afterwards  owned 
by  James  Boyd,  at  the  commencement  of  the 
revolution,  where  for  several  years  afterwards 
.\lr.  Boyd's  widow  resided  and  kept  a  store 
there.  In  1769  they  sold  this  pro])erty  and 
afterwards  removed  to  Fairfield,  where  he  died 
in  1823.  He  was  twice  married.  His  first 
wife  was  Theodosia  Ogden,  by  whom  he  had 
ten  children,  three  sons  and  seven  daughters. 
The  sons  were  i.  John,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Curtis.     3.  Richard. 

(\TI)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Theodosia  (Ogden)  Trenchard,  died  in  1863. 
In  early  life  he  worked  as  a  blacksmith  with 
Curtis  Edwards,  whose  shop  w'as  situated  on 
the  old  road  from  Bridgeton  and  Fairfield  to 
Rocap's  Run.  He  continued  in  that  employ- 
ment four  or  five  years,  anil  then  went  into 
business  at  Fairton,  keeping  store  with  Daniel 
P.  Stratton.  When  Mr.  .Stratton  removed  to 
Bridgeton  in  1814  John  Trenchard  continued 
business,  sometimes  alone  and  sometimes  with 
a  partner  for  twenty  years,  being  engaged  in 
building  vessels  and  in  getting  lumber  and 
shipping  same  to  Philadelphia,  this  being  at 
that  time  a  highly  profitable  business.  He  also 
sent  proiluce  to  Bermuda.  In  US43  he  pur- 
chased from  David  Clark  the  mill  property  at 
Fairton  and  in  1845  moved  the  mill  to  its 
present  site,  where  by  close  attention  to  busi- 
ness he  amassed  a  very  considerable  estate. 
During  all  his  life  he  was  most  highly  esteemed 
by  his  associates.  In  early  life  he  was  a  Dem- 
ocrat and  a  supporter  of  John  Ouincy  .Adams 
rather  than  Jackson  and  became  a  W  big.  In 
1827-28  he  was  electetl  a  member  of  the  New 
Jersey  legislature. 

John  Trenchard  married  (first),  in  1803, 
Eleanor  Davis,  who  bore  him  seven  children. 
Married  (second)  Hannah  L.  Pearson,  in 
1816.  She  bore  him  thirteen  children.  Ten 
of  these  children  died  in  infancy.  Children 
of  John  and  Eleanor  (  Davis )  Trenchard  to 
reach  maturity  were:  I.  James  Howell,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  Ethan,  twice  married,  his 
second  wife  being  a  Miss  Diament.  3.  Elea- 
nor. Children  of  John  and  Hannah  L. 
(Pearson)  Trenchard  who  reached  maturity 
were:  4.  John,  M.  D.,  of  Philadelphia,  married 
(first)  Mary  Olnsted  and  (second)  a  Miss 
P.ooth.  5.  Theophilus,  of  Bridgeton,  New 
Jersey.     6.    Emily,   married  the   Hon.   George 


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S.  AMiiticar,  of  Fairton.  7.  Rufiis,  married 
Sarah  Jane  Bennett.  8.  Xancy,  married  the 
Rev.  David  Aleeker,  a  Presbyterian  mini,ster. 
I).  John,  died  unmarried.  10.  Henry  Clay  (q.  v. ). 
(\1II)  Jame.s  Howell,  son  of  the  Hon. 
John  (3)  and  Eleanor  (Davis)  Trenchard. 
was  born  May  20,  181 1,  in  Fairton,  New  Jer- 
sey, died  February  2~,  1877,  after  a  severe 
illness  of  about  ten  days  duration.  He  went 
into  the  mercantile  business  soon  after  his 
marriage,  having  purchased  the  interest  of  his 
father-in-law.  Judge  liarrett,  which  he  con- 
tinued for  a  time  until  he  removed  to  Centre- 
ville  ( now  Centreton )  in  the  fall  of  1839, 
where  he  entered  largely  intu  the  general  store 
and  milling  Ijusiness  and  the  lumber  trade. 
In  early  life  he  was  for  a  while  under  the 
Rev.  Dr.  (ieorge  Junkin,  of  Easton,  Pennsyl- 
vania. He  had  a  liking  for  mathematics  and 
soon  began  surveying  in  this  branch,  abound- 
ing in  intricate  cases  in  great  land  try-outs. 
In  the  fall  of  1848  Mr.  Trenchard  was  elected 
to  the  New  Jersey  assembly  on  the  Whig 
ticket.  He  was  very  popular  in  his  own  neigh- 
borhood and  received  the  votes  of  many  in  the 
townshi])  whose  policies  were  opposed  to  his 
purely  from  personal  considerations.  He  re- 
fused to  run  a  second  time,  the  corruption  of 
the  lobby  and  the  questionable  character  of  a 
large  part  of  the  public  and  private  legislature 
as  then  and  since  directed  having  no  charms 
for  one  nf  his  honest,  frank  and  independent 
manner.  .\t  this  time  Air.  Trenchard  was 
very  frequently  called  upon  to  find  old 
searches,  to  settle  disputes  as  to  title  and  to  act 
as  commissioner,  also  to  engage  in  surveying 
whenever  wanted.  He  did  not  give  his  whole 
attention  to  these  matters  until  he  removed 
to  P>ridgeton  in  the  spring  of  1863.  Here 
his, son  was  with  the  firm  of  J.  H.  and  W.  V,. 
Trenchard,  surveyors,  which  was  then  one  of 
the  most  i)rominent  ones  in  that  section  of  the 
state.  \o  person  in  New  Jersey  had  done 
more  practical  surveying  or  tramped  more 
miles  in  all  weathers  and  under  all  conditions 
llian  h;id  this  James  H.  Trenchard.  .At  vari- 
iius  times  he  had  had  many  of  the  most  valuable 
pajiers  in  his  possession  relating  to  the  lands 
in  the  lower  counties  of  the  state.  Conse- 
quently he  became  thoroughly  conversant  with 
the  title,  butts,  bounds,  courses  and  descrip- 
tions and  all  other  matters  relating  to  lower 
Jersey's  real  estate.  He  always  carefully  pre- 
served co])ics  of  maps  of  all  surveys  made 
by  him,  and  these  are  of  very  great  use  to 
persons  asking  information  in  regard  to  landed 
jiroperty.     lie   possessed   great   natural   kind- 


ness of  heart  and  was  generous  in  his  impulses, 
which  rallied  around  him  earnest  friends.  Not 
the  least  of  his  merits  was  his  imflinching  pa- 
triotism. At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
city  surveyor,  a  position  which  he  had  long 
held.  .\s  such  he  established  the  present  grade 
of  the  Bridgeton  streets,  and  also  at  the  time 
of  his  death  was  serving  his  second  term  as 
councilman  from  the  second  ward.  He  was 
president  of  the  Bridgeton  Water  W'orks  of 
Bridgeton,  New  Jersey,  and  a  forerunner  in 
the  movement  which  secured  the  city's  present 
water  works. 

The  Hon.  James  Howell  Trenchard  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Judge  William  D.  Barrett, 
of  Fairton,  New  Jersey,  who  was  born  in 
181 5  and  who  bore  him  four  sons  and  three 
daughters.  Three  sons  and  two  of  the  daugh- 
ters married.  The  other  one  died  unmarried. 
Children:  1.  Richard,  who  was  killed,  as  was 
also  his  wife,  July  30,  1896,  in  the  Meadow 
disaster,  Atlantic  City,  leaving  five  children. 
2.  William  B.  3.  James  W.  4.  Thomas  W., 
died  aged  fourteen.  5.  Eleanor,  married  J.  T. 
\\'illiams,   of    Philadelphia ;    she  is   deceased. 

6.  Jeanette,  married  Charles  R.  Elmer,  now 
deceased:  she  lives  in  Riverton,  New  Jersey. 

7.  .\raminta,  died  in  infancy. 

(  IX)  William  Barrett,  second  son  of  James 
Howell  and  Mary  (Barrett)  Trenchard,  was 
born  at  Centreton,  Salem  county.  New  Jersey, 
October  i.  1840.  and  is  now  living  in  Bridge- 
ton.  New  Jersey.  For  his  early  education  he 
was  sent  to  the  Centreton  public  schools,  and 
after  leaving  school  went  into  the  milling  busi- 
ness with  his  father  at  Centreton,  New  Jersey. 
His  health  failing,  however,  he  gave  this  up 
and  for  the  next  four  years  went  on  a  farm. 
.\fter  this  he  spent  six  years  in  a  general  store 
at  Fairton.  New  Jersey,  and  then  for  the  fol- 
lowing twenty  years  worked  with  his  father  as 
a  surveyor.  In  1889  Mr.  Trenchard  was 
elected  comity  clerk  of  Cumberland  county, 
New  Jersey.  Five  years  later  he  was  re- 
elected to  the  same  position,  and  in  1899,  when 
his  second  term  of  five  years  had  expired,  he 
declined  to  accept  a  re-nomination  to  a  third 
term,  but  retired  into  private  life  to  spend  the 
remainder  of  his  tlays  in  comfort  at  his  beau- 
tiful home  in  liri'lgeton.  Besides  this  resi- 
dence, which  is  one  of  the  finest  in  the  town, 
Mr.  Trenchard  has  also  near  Bridgeton  a  fine 
farm,  which  he  cultivates  with  profit,  both 
to  his  pocket  and  his  health  and  strength,  and 
from  which  he  derives  the  keenest  sort  of  en- 
joyment. Mr.  Trenchard  is  a  Republican  in 
])()litics,  and  besides  his  service  as  county  clerk 


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he  has  served  three  terms  as  justice  of  the 
peace  of  P)ridgeton,  and  for  six  years  as  one 
of  the  chosen  freeholders  of  Cumberland 
county.  He  is  an  Independent  in  religion,  an 
Odd  Fellow,  past  grand  chancellor  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  in  New  Jersey,  and  one  of 
the  few  ho'norary  members  of  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic,  that  honor  having  been  con- 
ferred on  him  by  Post  No.  42 — "Robeson 
Post" — of   Bridgeton,   New  Jersey. 

William  Barrett  Trenchard  married  Anna 
Alariah  Colder,  daughter  of  Samuel  Colder, 
and  has  one  son,  Thomas  Whitaker. 


(For  ancestry   see   preceding  .sketch). 

(IX)  James  Whitaker 
TRENCHARD  Trenchard.  son  of  James 
Howell  and  Mary  (Bar- 
rett )  Trenchard,  was  born  at  Centreton, 
Salem  county,  Ts^ew  Jersey,  September  17, 
1843.  For  his  early  education  he  attended 
the  Centreton  public  schools,  after  leaving 
which  he  went  into  a  general  country  store 
where  he  remained  until  the  outbreak  of  the 
civil  war,  when  he  enlisted  in  the  Twenty- 
fifth  New  Jersey  Volunteer  Infantry  and  was 
commissioned  as  sergeant  of  Company  D,  and 
served  through  the  full  nine  months  of  his 
term  of  enlistment,  being  mustered  out  of  the 
service  June  20,  1863.  Among  the  engage- 
ments and  battles  in  which  he  took  part  were 
the  battle  of  Fredericksburg  and  the  engage- 
ment near  Sufifolk  and  Chancellorsville,  \  ir- 
ginia,  which  drove  General  Longstreet  into 
retreat.  After  being  mustered  out  Mr.  Tren- 
chard returned  to  the  general  store  as  a  clerk, 
and  in  1870  became  a  clerk  in  the  Cumberland 
National  liank  of  Bridgeton,  in  which  institu- 
tion he  remained  in  various  positions  until 
1883,  when  he  became  the  cashier  of  the 
Bridgeton  National  Bank,  a  position  which  he 
held  until  1903,  when  his  worth  and  services 
were  recognized  by  his  unanimous  election  as 
president  of  the  bank,  a  position  which  he  has 
held  to  the  great  satisfaction  of  everyone  ever 
since.  Mr.  Trenchard's  political  affiliations 
are  with  the  Democratic  party ;  he  attends  the 
Presbyterian  church,  and  is  an  Odd  Fellow, 
a  past  grand  master  of  that  order  in  New  Jer- 
sey. He  is  also  a  member  and  past  com- 
mander of  the  A.  L.  Robeson  Post,  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic.  He  is  also  recording 
secretary  of  the  Second  Battalion,  Veteran 
Association.  Twenty-fifth  Regiment,  New  Jer- 
sey Volunteers.  Among  the  financial  institu- 
tions in  which  he  is  identified  mention  should 


not  be  omitted  of  the   West  Jersey    Marl   & 
Transportation  Comnany. 

James  Whitaker  Trenchard  married  (first) 
Gertrude  C,  daughter  of  Levi  Bond,  of 
Bridgeton,  New  Jersey,  who  died  in  1882,  leav- 
ing one  son,  Frank  h'isk,  born  May  5,  1870. 
died  June  11,  18^4.  He  married  (second) 
April  14,  1885,  Atnanda  M.  Powell,  a  widow, 
of  Fairton,  New  Jersey. 


(For    preceding    generations    see    Tnomas    Trench- 
ard 1). 

(VIII )  1  lenrv  Clay,young- 
TRENCHARD  est  child  of  John  (3) 
and  Hannah  L.  (Pearson) 
Trenchard,  was  born  at  I'^airton,  New  Jersey, 
August  5,  1837,  and  is  now  living  at  Fairton. 
For  his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  public 
schools  of  Fairton,  and  then  went  into  the 
milling  business  with  his  father.  In  addition 
to  this,  he  started  a  tanning  business,  and  also 
conducted  his  farm.  Mr.  Trenchard  is  one  of 
two  surviving  members  of  his  father's  family 
of  ten  children.  Like  his  ancestors,  he  has 
always  been  devoted  to  the  service  of  the  com- 
munity in  which  he  lived,  and  served  for  many 
years  on  the  township  committee  of  Fairton. 
January  15,  1900,  he  received  his  first  appoint- 
ment as  postmaster  at  Fairton,  and  he  has  been 
reappointed  in  1904  and  still  holds  the  office. 
He  is  a  Presbyterian  and  a  member  of  the 
Improved  Order  of  Red  Men. 

Henry  Clay  Trenchard  married  (first) 
Susan  jane  Gilman,  who  bore  him  four  chil- 
dren, one  of  whom  is  living.  He  married 
(second)  Emma,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
Shawn,  of  Fairton,  New  Jersey.  His  chil- 
dren by  his  first  wife  were:  I.  Laura  Anna, 
now  deceased ;  married  Leslie  M.  Ogden  and 
had  four  children ;  the  living  children  are 
Claude  and  Reed,  and  those  deceased  are 
George  and  Harry.  2.  Eva  M.,  married  Bel- 
ford  Stathems,  and  has  one  child,  Floy.  3. 
George  Decatur,  died  at  the  age  of  nineteen 
years.     4.   Ida  Gilman,  died  aged  nine  years. 


The  Rush  family  has  a  long  and 
RL'SH     distinguished  history  behind  it  in 

the    old    country.      It    is    distinctly 
an  F.uglish  family. 

(  I  )  John  Rush,  the  earliest  known  ancestor 
of  the  American  branch,  commanded  a  troop 
of  horse  in  Cromwell's  army.  At  the  close  of 
the  war  he  married  Susan  Lucas,  at  Hortan, 
in  Oxfordshire,  June  8.  1648.  In  1660  he 
embraced  the  principals  of  the  Quakers,  and 


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in  1683  came  to  Pennsylvania  with  seven  chil- 
dren and  several  grandchildren,  settling  at 
Byberry,  thirteen  miles  from  Philadelpliia. 
In  1691  he  and  his  whole  family  became  Keith- 
ians,  and  in  1697  most  of  them  became  liap- 
tists.  He  died  at  Byberry,  May,  1699.  His 
sword  is  in  the  possession  of  Jacob 
Rush,  and  his  watch  in  the  family  of  General 
William  Darke,  of  \  irginia.  His  children 
were:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  June  16.  1649:  mar- 
ried Richard  Collet,  emigrated  to  Philadelphia. 
1682,  in  the  same  ship  as  William  Penn.  2. 
William,  referred  to  below.  3.  Thomas, 
March  7,  1654,  died  in  London,  4th  month,  18. 
1676.  4.  Susanna,  December  26,  1656:  mar- 
ried John  Hart,  emigrated  to  Pennsylvania, 
where  her  husband  became  a  member  of  the 
first  assembly  called  by  William  Penn.  5. 
John,  3rd  month,  i,  1660,  married  and  had 
issue.  6.  Francis,  2iid  month,  8.  1662.  7. 
James.  7th  month.  21,  i6()4.  and  buried  ist 
month.  24.  1671.  8.  Joseph,  10  month,  20, 
1666.  9.  Edward,  9  month,  ij .  1670.  10. 
Jane,  12  month,  27,  1673. 

(  H  )  William,  second  child  and  eldest  son  of 
John  and  Susan  (Lucas)  Rush,  was  born  No- 
vember 7,  1652,  died  at  Byberry,  Pennsylva- 
nia. 1688,  five  years  after  his  arrival  to  this 
country.  He  was  twice  married,  and  accord- 
ing to  some  accounts  the  name  of  his  first 
wife  was  Aurelia.  That  of  his  second  wife 
is  unknown.  By  his  first  wife  he  had  three 
children  and  by  his  second,  two.  Children : 
I.  Susanna,  married  (first)  John  Webster,  and 
(second)  a  Mr.  Gilbert.  2.  James,  referred  to 
below.  3.  Elizabeth,  married  Timothy  Steph- 
enson, who  after  her  death  married  Rachel, 
widow  of  his  brother-in-law,  James  Rush,  by 
the  consent  of  the  senate  of  Xew  York.  4. 
Sarah,  married  David  Meredith.  5.  William, 
married  Elizabeth  Hodges,  and  died  January 
31,  1733.  at  .Boston. 

(HI)  James,  second  child  and  eldest  son  of 
William  and  Amelia  Rush,  died  in  1727.  He 
lived  on  a  farm  on  Poquessing  creek.  I!y  his 
wife  Rachel,  the  youngest  daughter  of  Bryan 
Peart,  who  afterwards  married  the  widow  of 
her  husband's  sister.  Timothy  Stephenson,  re- 
ferred to  above.  James  Rush  had  nine  chil- 
dren :  I.  John,  referred  to  below.  2.  William, 
married  and  had  two  children.  \\'illiam  and 
John.  3.  Jose])h.  4.  James.  5.  Thomas.  6. 
Rachel.  7.  Ann,  married  John  Ashmead.  8. 
Elizabeth,  married  Edward  Carv.  9.  .\urelia. 
died  young. 

(IV)  John  (2),  eldest  child  of  James  and 
Rachel  (Peart)  Rush,  married  Susan  Harvey, 


formerly  Hall,  daughter  of  Joseph  Hall,  of 
Tacony.  Children:  i.  Rebecca,  married 
Thomas  Stam]3er.  2.  Benjamin,  M.  D.,  the 
celebrated  physician  and  signer  of  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence;  married  Julia,  sister  of 
Richard  Stockton,  of  New  Jersey,  a  signer 
of  the  Declaration,  with  his  brother-in-law. 
3.  Jacob,  married  a  Miss  Rench.  4.  Stephen, 
or  .Stephenscjn.  referred  to  below.  5.  John, 
died  young. 

(\')  Stephen,  c.r  Stephenson,  fourth  child 
and  third  son  of  John  (2)  and  Susan  (Hall) 
(Harvey)  Rush,  was  born  in  what  was  called 
the  Skip-Back,  Collegeville,  Montgomery 
county,  Pennsylvania.  He  kept  the  old  hotel 
in  the  town,  and  was  also  for  many  years  the 
proprietor  of  the  Old  Swan  Hotel  on  Third 
street,  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  living  in 
1774.  By  his  wife  Alary  he  had  the  follow- 
ing children:  i.  John,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Stephen.  3.  Jacob,  now  living  in  Philadel- 
phia. 4.  Harry,  living  in  Ogontz,  Pennsylva- 
nia. 5.  George,  living  in  Concordville,  Dela 
ware  cotmty,  Pennsylvania.  6.  Samuel,  living 
in  Media,  Delaware  county,  Pennsylvania.  7. 
Katharine,  died  at  the  age  of  one  hundred  and 
two  years.  8.  Margaret,  now  living  at  Norris- 
town.  Pennsylvania,  in  her  one  hundred  and 
fourth  year.  9.  Sarah.  10.  Mary.  11.  Eliz- 
abeth.    12.  Lydia. 

(\T)  John  (3),  son  of  Stephen  or  Stephen- 
son and  Mary  Rush,  was  born  at  Skip-Back, 
Collegeville.  Alontgomery  county,  Pennsylva- 
nia. February  22,  1814.  He  was  a  carpenter 
and  builder,  and  was  engaged  in  business  in 
Philadelphia  for  fifty  years.  He  married 
Katharine  Mathilda,  daughter  of  Samuel  Yar- 
ger,  of  Reading,  Pennsylvania,  who  was  born 
1826.  Children:  Sarah,  Eveline.  Katharine, 
Jacob,  Stephen  Yarger,  Joseph  B.,  Johanna, 
Jerome  Samuel,  referred  to  below,  Rosalie, 
Henry  P. 

(\'II)  Jerome  Samuel,  eighth  child  and 
fifth  son  of  John  (3)  and  Katharine  Mathilda 
(Yarger)  Rush,  was  born  in  Feglevsville, 
Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania.  May  8, 
1858.  and  is  now  living  at  Ocean  City,  New 
Tersev.  For  his  earlv  education  he  went  to 
the  public  schools  of  Philadelphia,  after  leav- 
ing which  as  a  boy  he  went  to  work  in  one  of 
the  wholesale  cotton  warehouses  of  that  city. 
This  work  he  gave  up  in  order  to  become  a 
news  agent,  which  occupation  he  pursued  on  a 
number  of  railroads  of  the  Ignited  States. 
After  this  he  embarked  in  the  business  of 
fresco  painter  and  sign  writer.  In  the  pur- 
suit  of  this  last  business  he  came  to  Ocean 


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City,  New  Jersey,  May  10,  1890;  six  years 
later  he  entered  in  the  real  estate  business  in 
that  town.  He  has  been  very  active  in  politics, 
and  in  everything'  which  makes  for  the  welfare 
of  the  town  in  which  he  lives.  In  1897  he  was 
appointed  sealer  of  weights  and  measures  of 
Ocean  City,  which  office  he  still  continues  to 
hold.  In  1904  he  was  elected  overseer  of  the 
poor  of  Ocean  City,  and  the  same  year  was 
elected  one  of  the  justices  of  the  peace,  which 
latter  office  he  still  continues  to  hold.  For 
two  years  he  was  chief  of  the  Ocean  City  vol- 
unteer fire  department,  and  for  three  years 
foreman  of  the  No.  i.  volunteer  fire  company 
of  Ocean  City.  He  is  a  Republican,  and  is  now 
serving  a  third  term,  and  his  twelfth  year  as 
commissioner  of  the  state  of  Pennsylvania,  in 
New  Jersey.  He  attends  the  Presbyterian 
cliurch.  In  secret  societies  and  fraternal  or- 
ganizations he  has  taken  a  prominent  part. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Improved  Order  of 
Red  Men,  Kalmia  Tribe,  No.  220,  of  Ocean 
City,  of  which  he  is  past  sachem,  and  of  the 
Loyal  Order  of  Moose,  Lodge  No.  1 16,  .\t- 
lantic  City.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Inter- 
national Fire  Engineers'  Association,  New 
Jersey  Fire  Chiefs'  Association  and  Keystone 
Fire  Chiefs'  Association. 

Jerome  Samuel  Rush  married,  April  21, 
1887,  .Mary  Cottingham,  second  daughter  of 
the  Rev.  Edward  Townsend.  a  Methodist  min- 
ister, whose  family  is  one  of  the  oldest  of  the 
early  pioneers  of  Virginia.  On  the  maternal 
side  she  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  the  family  of 
the  poet,  Thomas  Moore,  and  Sir  John  Moore. 
On  both  sides  her  patriot  ancestry  give  her  a 
right  to  membership  in  the  organizations  of  the 
Daughters  of  the  Revolution  and  the  Colonial 
Dames.  A  son  born  of  this  marriage  died  in 
infancv. 


In  1681  William  Penn  ob- 
TO\\'NSEND     tained    from   the   Crown  a 

grant  of  the  immense  ter- 
ritory now  embraced  in  the  state  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  lieu  of  a  monetar\-  claim  against  the 
Crown  for  sixteen  thousand  pounds  left  to  him 
by  his  father.  Admiral  Sir  \\'illiam  Penn,  on 
his  death  in  September,  1670.  Had  Penn  been 
allowed  his  own  way,  he  would  have  called  the 
territory  Sylvania,  by  reason  of  its  beautiful 
forests,  but  the  King,  Charles  II,  good  hu- 
moredly  insisted  on  the  prefix  of  Penn,  hence 
Pennsylvania.  Penn's  great  project  was  to 
establish  a  home  for  his  co-religionists  in  the 
New  \\'orld  where  they  might  freely  preach 
and    practice    their    convictions    unmolested. 


Penn,  with  several  of  his  most  intimate 
friends,  leaders  of  the  .sect  in  England,  em- 
barked on  the  ship  "Welcome"  September  i, 
1682,  and  landed  on  the  west  bank  of  the  Dela- 
ware river  at  New  Castle,  Delaware.  Octo- 
ber 24,  1682,  and  was  received  by  the  members 
of  the  Society  of  Friends,  who  had  preceded 
him  and  were  settlers  on  both  sides  of  the 
river,  but  principally  in  Burlington  county, 
West  Jersey.  With  Penn  came  two  of  his 
nearest  friends,  Richard  and  Robert  Town- 
send,  and  they  were  with  Penn  on  November 
30,  1(582,  when  the  famous  interview  with  the 
Indian  tribes  took  place  under  the  large  elm 
tree  at  Sackamaxon,  now  Kensington,  and 
when  he  planned  and  named  the  city  of  Phila- 
delphia. 

Richard  Townsend,  born  in  1644,  settled  at 
Westchester,  about  twenty  miles  west  of  Phila- 
del])hia.  where  he  built  a  saw  and  grist  mill, 
carried  on  his  trade  of  millwright,  preached 
the  Ouaker  doctrine,  experienced  the  usual 
vicissitudes  experienced  in  pioneer  life  and 
gained  the  respect  of  every  one  with  whom  he 
came  in  contact.  He  died  in  1 7 14,  leaving  one 
child,  a  daughter. 

His  brother,  Jose]jh,  came  to  .America  later 
with  another  brother,  William,  settled  in  Phila- 
delphia in  1712  and  is  the  ancestor  of  Joseph 
11. ,  Henry  C.  and  J.  William  Townsend  of  that 
city.  John  Kirk  Townsend  (1809-1851),  born 
in  Philadelphia,  was  an  associate  of  J.  J.  Audu- 
bon and  assisted  him  in  the  preparation  of  his 
"American  Ornithology."  He  also  accompan- 
ied Thomas  Nuttall  on  his  journey  west  of  the 
Mississippi  river,  across  the  Rocky  mountains 
to  the  Columbia  river  and  later  visited  the 
Sandwich  Islands  and  South  America  in  pur- 
suit of  his  profession.  He  also  had  charge  of 
the  ornithological  department  of  the  Smith- 
sonian Institution  at  Washington,  District  of 
Columbia,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Philadel- 
phia .Academy  of  Natural  Sciences.  He  is  of 
the  same  Ouaker  ancestry  as  is  Hon.  Lawrence 
Townsend,  181 1  Walnut  street,  Philadelphia, 
United  States  minister  to  Portugal,  1897-99, 
and  to  Belgium,  1899-1905, 

\\  illiam  Townsend,  who  lived  in  Philadel- 
phia, 1712-15,  settled  near  Westchester  in  1725 
and  advanced  the  cause  of  righteousness  and 
peace  as  promulgated  by  the  Society  of 
I'Viends  in  that  place,  taking  up  the  work  un- 
finished by  his  brother,  Richard.  It  was  Rob- 
ert Townsend.  the  companion  of  W'illiam  Penn 
and  Richard  Townsend  on  the  ship  "W'el- 
come,"  who  was  probably  the  ancestor  of  the 
Townsends  of  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey. 


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Robert  Townsend,  one  of  the  four  sons  of 
Richard  Townsend,  of  Cirencester,  Gloucester- 
shire, England,  was  born  probably  in  1646  and 
sailed  in  1682  on  the  ship  "Welcome"  in  com- 
pany with  William  Penn  and  his  own  brother, 
Richard,  to  assist  in  the  founding  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. He  located  at  (iermantown,  now  a 
part  of  Philadelphia,  and  the  place  grew  rap- 
idly, receiving  large  accessions  from  the 
Quakers  and  other  immigrants  who  came  not 
only  from  England  but  largely  from  the  (ier- 
man  Palatinate  and  from  Holland,  hence  the 
name,  Germantown.  His  grandson  probably 
lived  in  Springfield  township,  Burlington 
county,  .\'ew  Jersey,  had  a  wife  Betsey  and 
seven  children:  Jonathan,  Daniel,  Benjamin, 
Firmon,  Hope,  Ann,  Elizabeth.  He  was  a 
farmer  and  leading  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends. 

(  I )    Firmon,  fourth  son  and  fourth  child  of 

and    Betsey   Townsend,   was   born    in 

Springfield  township,  Burlington  county,  New 
Jersey,  about  1810,  and  was  a  wheelwright  in 
Columbus,  as  well  as  a  farmer  and  lumber- 
man. His  jjosition  in  the  township  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Society  of  Friends,  as  a  mechanic, 
as  a  lumberman  and  as  a  useful  and  cjuiet  citi- 
zen appears  to  have  been  universally  conceded. 
He  was  an  anti-slavery  Whig  and  on  the  for- 
mation of  the  Republican  party,  which  ab- 
sorbed the  Free  Soil  advocates,  he  naturally 
found  his  political  home  in  that  party.  He 
was  married  by  Friends  Ceremony  about 
1832-33,  to  Amy,  daughter  of  David  Taylor. 
Children:  John  I!.,  P.arclay  B.,  Charles  H. 

(H)  John  B.,  eldest  child  of  Firmon  and 
Amy  (Taylor)  Townsend,  was  born  in  Colum- 
bus, Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  December 
31,  1834.  He  was  a  pupil  in  the  public 
school  of  Mansfield  township,  was  brought 
up  on  his  father's  farm,  and  was  like  his  father 
an  .\nti-slavery  Whig  and  on  the  birth  of  the 
Republican  jiarty  a  member  of  that  political 
organization.  His  only  public  offices  were 
those  of  deputy-sherifif  of  Burlington  county, 
1893-96,  under  ajipointment  from  his  son.  who 
was  high  sheriff  of  the  county,  and  member  of 
the  board  of  townshij:)  committeemen,  but  he 
did  not  allow  his  public  duties  to  prevent  his 
close  attention  to  his  extensive  farming  in- 
terests. He  was  affiliated  with  Columbus 
Lodge.  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows; 
Columbus  'i'ribe.  Improved  Order  of  Red 
Men  :  Columbus  Sub  Council.  Order  of  United 
American  Mechanics.  He  married  (first) 
October  23,  1856.  Abigail,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam E.  and  Mary  .Ann  A\tkinson.  of  Springfiekl 


township.  She  was  born  September  12,  1833, 
.'ied  August  6,  1896.  Children:  i.  William 
A.  2.  Clara,  married  John  B.  Colkitt,  a 
farmer  of  i\Iansfield  township,  and  is  now  de- 
ceased. 3.  Charles  Firmon,  lived  on  the  old 
h.omestead  and  died  there  October  24,  1903. 
4.  Ella,  married  \Villiam  E.  Shinn.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  January  24,  1897,  Annie,  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  G.  and  Mary  Elizabeth  Buckis. 

(  HI)  William  A.,  eldest  child  of  John  B. 
and  Abigail  (Atkinson)  Townsend,  was  born 
in  .Springfield  township,  Burlington  county, 
Xew  Jersey,  November  27,  1859.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  near  Jackson- 
ville, and  remained  on  the  farm  with  his  father 
until  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age.  He 
then  engaged  in  farming  on  his  own  account 
in  ?ilansfield  township  and  continued  until 
1893.  wlien  he  was  elected  high  sherift'  of 
I'lUrlington  county,  holding  the  office  until  No- 
vember, 1896.  He  then  purchased  the  home- 
stead formerly  owned  by  his  maternal  grand- 
father. William  E.  Atkinson,  and  engaged  in 
farming,  which  line  of  work  he  followed  suc- 
cessfully for  the  following  eleven  years,  dur- 
ing which  time  in  connection  therewith  he  en- 
gaged in  the  coal  and  feed  business  in  company 
with  S.  R.  Ware  in  Columbus,  New  Jersey,  the 
management  of  the  business  being  conducted 
by  Mr.  Ware.  In  January,  1908,  upon  the 
death  of  Mr.  Ware,  Mr.  Townsend  removed 
to  Columbus  and  purchased  the  interest  of  the 
willow  of  Mr.  Ware,  and  is  now  extensively 
engaged  in  that  business.  He  is  also  serving 
in  the  capacity  of  director  in  the  Mt.  Holly  Na- 
tional Bank,  and  for  the  convenience  of  the 
citizens  of  Columbus  and  surrounding  locali- 
ties Mr.  Townsend  conducts  a  private  bank- 
ing business  in  that  village.  He  has  served  as 
a  member  of  the  township  committee  for 
three  years  and  as  district  clerk  of  the  board 
of  education  for  three  years.  He  -is  a  member 
of  Lodge  No.  117,  American  Mechanics'  As- 
sociation; Columbus  Lo;'ge,  No.  loi.  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows :  Mt.  Holly 
Lodge,  No.  848,  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks.     He  is  a  Republican  in  politics. 

Mr.  Townsend  married.  January  19.  18S0, 
Rebecca,  born  in  Burlington  county.  New  Jer- 
sey. September  4,  1861,  daughter  of  Charles 
A.  and  Rebecca  (.-\ntram)  Braddock.  the 
former  a  son  of  Jacob  Braddock,  of  Med  ford. 
Burlington  county,  and  the  latter  a  daughter  of 
|i)hn  .Nntram,  a  representative  of  an  old  fam- 
il\-  (if  P.urlington  county.  Children  of  Mr. 
and  .Mrs.  Townsend:  I.  ]\Iabel.  born  July  31, 
1881  ;    married    Clifford    R.    Bowers,    of    Mt. 


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Holly,  Xew  Jersey;  one  child,  Rhea.  2. 
Floyd,  January  28,  1883:  attended  Alt.  Holly 
high  school  and  Trenton  iJusiness  College ; 
now  a  rural  mail  carrier ;  married  Julia  I'oin- 
sett,  of  Columbus,  Xew  Jersey.  3.  Lottie, 
March.  1885,  died  eight  years  of  age.  4.  Au- 
gustus, January  12,  1888;  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  and  Trenton  Business  College ;  re- 
ceived instruction  as  a  taxidermist  through  a 
correspondence  school  at  Omaha,  Nebraska. 
5.  Clara,  February  16,  1893.  6.  Bessie,  De- 
cember 28,  i8(/j.  7.  Charles  Stanley,  Janu- 
ary 16,  1900. 


This  name  has  been  com- 

'1"0\\  XSEXD  mon  in  New  Jersey  and 
Long  Island  for  several 
generations.  The  first  of  the  name  who  at- 
tained ])rominence  was  Henry  Townsend,  who 
for  the  sake  of  his  religion  underwent  many 
persecutions  and  indignities.  They  have 
almost  without  exception  been  Friends  or 
yuakers,  and  held  in  high  regard  by  their  as- 
sociates, marrying  generally  into  their  own 
sect. 

(I)  William  Townsend,  the  pioneer  an- 
cestor of  the  family,  came  to  America  in  1793, 
landing  in  Xew  York.  He  married  and  be- 
came the  father  of  five  children,  namely : 
Thomas,  William,  John,  Mary,  Samuel,  see 
forward. 

(H)  Samuel,  youngest  son  of  William 
Townsend,  was  born  in  Xew  York.  He  re- 
moved to  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  where 
he  was  a  real  estate  dealer. 

He  married  Anna,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
ALirgaret  ( \'an  Hook )  \'aughan,  and  they 
were  the  parents  of  eight  children,  namely : 
George  Xathaniel,  Henry  Burman,  Thomas 
X'aughan,  see  forward,  Anna,  William,  Sam- 
uel Jr.,  Mary  Ella,  Lizza. 

(IH)  Thomas  Vaughn,  son  of  Samuei 
Townsend,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania, March  4,  1840.  He  married.  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1863,  Jessemine  Button,  of  Balti- 
more, born  September  4,  1845.  They  are  the 
parents  of  eight  children,  all  living:  i.  James 
X'aughan.  born  at  Baltimore,  Maryland,  mar- 
ried Hattie  Martin,  of  Atlantic  City,  New  Jer- 
sey: they  have  two  children:  Ruth  and  Mar- 
garet. 2.  .Aramittie,  born  at  Baltimore,  Marv- 
land.  married  Uric  Skirven.  of  Baltimore. 
Maryland:  no  chih'ren.  3.  Mary  Ella,  born  at 
Baltimore.  Maryland,  see  forward.  4.  Sam- 
uel Dclmar.  born  at  Baltimore.  Maryland,  mar- 
ried Claude  Riddell,  of  Williamsport,  Penn- 
sylvania :   one   son,   Delmar.     5.    Laura   Jane, 


born  at  Baltimore,  Maryland,  married  \'on 
Mark  Kleman,  of  Philadelphia,  Pennslyvania; 
have  one  child.  Jessamine.  6.  Ida  May,  born 
at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  7.  Harry 
Burman,  born  at  Philadcljihia,  Pennsylvania, 
married  Hannah  Fenton,  of  Atlantic  City, 
Xew  Jersey.  8.  Walter  Rogers,  born  a\.  Lim- 
erick Square,  Pennsylvania,  married  Elizabeth 
Oakley,  of  Atlantic  City,  Xew  Jersey. 

(I\  )  Mary  Ella,  daughter  of  Thomas 
X'anghan  Townsend,  was  born  at  Baltimore. 
-Maryland,  June  24,  1868.  She  received  her 
early  education  in  the  public  schools  and  acad- 
emy of  Atlantic  City,  Xew  Jersey,  receiving 
a  diploma  from  the  latter.  In  1890  she  en- 
tered the  Womans  Medical  College  of  Penn- 
sj'lvania,  and  in  1895  graduated  with  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  She  began  the  gen- 
eral practice  of  her  profession  at  .Atlantic 
City  in  1895.  She  frequently  writes  able 
articles  for  the  various  medical  journals 
on  some  subject  which  has  become  of  special 
interest  in  the  course  of  her  practice.  She  is 
a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Associa- 
tion and  the  Atlantic  County  Medical  .Associa- 
tion, and  keeps  abreast  of  the  times  in  all  mat- 
ters pertaining  to  her  chosen  profession.  Dr. 
Townsend  is  unmarried. 


The  sufferings  and  jjcrsecu- 
WHITE  tions  of  non-conformists  to  the 
Church  of  England  during  the 
reign  of  Charles  H  caused  many  British  mem- 
bers of  the  Society  of  Friends  to  seek  in  the 
colonies  that  liberty  of  conscience  which  had 
been  denied  them  in  the  mother  country.  Among 
those  who  suffered  under  the  "Non-Conformity 
and  Coventicle  Acts"  of  that  reign  were  Thoinas 
White,  of  Cumrew,  county  of  Cumberland, 
and  Christopher  White,  his  son,  then  of  Lon- 
don. 

(  L)  Christopher  White  was  born  at  Cum- 
rew, Cumberland  county,  England,  in  1642. 
removed  to  I^ondon  in  1666,  and  in  1668  mar- 
ried Hester  Biddle,  born  at  Poplar,  in  Step- 
ney parish,  nigh  London,  whose  father  was 
John  Wieat.  In  1677  Christopher  White,  his 
wife,  their  two  children  and  two  servants, 
sailed  for  .America  in  the  ship  "Kent,"  and 
landed  at  Salem,  New  Jersey,  June  23  of  that 
year.  Like  several  other  immigrants,  he  pur- 
chased one  town  lot  in  Salem  with  one  thou- 
sand acres  of  fami  lands  before  leaving  Eng- 
land. He  continued  to  live  at  Salem  until 
1682.  and  then  took  possession  of  his  allot- 
ment of  land  at  .Alloways  creek.  In  1690  he 
built  a  large  brick  house  on  his  property,  and 


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the  king's  highway  from  Salem  to  Cohansey 
ran  through  his  lands.  There  is  a  tradition 
in  the  family  that  he  sent  to  England  for  archi- 
tectural jjlans  from  which  his  house  was  built, 
and  also  that  the  bricks  used  in  its  construction 
were  imported.  Christopher  White  died  about 
the  year  1693.  He  ajipears  to  have  been  an  ener- 
getic man  of  high  moral  character,  and  those 
traits  were  transmitted  to  his  descendants  for 
several  generations  after  him.  He  left  a 
widow  Hester  and  five  children:  Hester. 
Thomas,  Sarah,  Josiah  and  Joseph. 

(H)  Josiah,  son  of  Christopher  White,  was 
born  in  England,  /mo  13,  1675,  and  lived  on 
the  farm  previously  owned  by  his  father  at 
-Alloways  creek,  where  he  died  May  i,  1713, 
leaving  his  landed  estate  to  his  son  Josiah.  He 
married,  when  about  twenty-three,  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Powell,  and  by  her  had  five 
children:  I.  Christopher,  born  23  6mo.  1699, 
died  before  attaining  his  majority.  2.  Josiah, 
mentioned  in  succeeding  paragraph.  3.  Hes- 
ter, lj(.)rn  1707.  4.  Hannah,  born  at  Alloways 
creek,   1710.     5.  Abigail,  born  1713. 

(HI)  Josiah  (2),  son  of  Josiah  (i)  and 
Hannah  \Miite,  was  born  6  mo.,  21,  1705,  and 
died  5  mo.,  12,  1780.  He  was  a  man  of  marked 
enterprise,  and  it  was  he  who  built  the  dam 
across  Alloways  creek  and  put  a  sufficient 
sluiceway  to  drain  all  the  lowlands  above  what 
afterward  was  known  as  Hancock's  bridge. 
This  work  was  undertaken  in  1728,  and  his 
work  was  guaranteed  to  stand  for  one  year 
before  he  received  his  pay.  Before  the  end  of 
the  year  the  dam  broke,  and  a  tradition  says 
that  it  was  purposely  cut  on  the  night  before 
the  year  expired.  However  this  may  have 
been,  Josiah  White  was  compelled  to  sell  his 
large  patrimonial  estate  to  pay  the  debt  in- 
curred in  erecting  works  for  the  benefit  of 
others.  At  that  time  he  was  only  twenty- 
three  years  old,  and  many  persons  in  the  same 
adversity  would  have  been  discouraged,  but 
not  so  with  him  who  had  inherited  from  his 
father  and  grandfather  those  qualities  which 
enabled  him  to  withstand  more  than  ordinary 
trials.  After  disposing  of  his  estate  he  had 
five  hundred  pounds  left,  and  then  determined 
to  leave  his  native  county,  not  having  any  fam- 
ily. He  removed  to  Burlington  county,  and 
settled  at  or  near  Mt.  Holly,  and  there  pur- 
cha.sed  land  on  the  headwaters  of  Rancocas 
creek.  Soon  afterward  he  constructed  a  dam 
across  that  stream,  then  built  a  fulling  mill 
and  carried  on  the  business  of  making  cloth 
during  the  greater  part  of  his  later  life.  He  was 
a  minister  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  many 


incidents  are  related  of  his  plain  and  truthful 
speech,  his  skill  in  the  treatment  of  disease 
with  roots  and  herbs,  his  generosity  in  refus- 
ing pay  for  any  of  his  medical  services,  and  his 
honesty  in  every  walk  of  life.  When,  durmg 
the  revolutionary  war,  the  British  and  Hes- 
sian troops  were  at  Alt.  Holly,  in  1777,  a  large 
field  of  employment  was  opened  for  his  benev- 
olence. He  administered  to  their  infirmities 
and  diseases  such  simple  remedies  as  he  found 
to  be  effectual,  and  many  of  those  relieved  by 
him  sought  in  various  ways  to  show  their 
gratitude.  He  then  took  occasion  to  reason 
with  them  on  the  principles  upon  which  their 
unhallowed  war  was  conducted,  and  by  pres- 
enting the  matter  in  its  true  light  brought 
many  of  them  to  consider  how  wicked  it  was 
for  them  to  come  thousands  of  miles  with 
guns,  swords  and  camion  to  kill  their  fellow 
creatures;  and  he  said  to  them:  "Even  me, 
who  have  been  so  willing  and  ready  to  assist 
you  in  sickness  and  relieve  your  disorders  and 
afflictions,  you  came  to  destroy  with  the  rest." 
He  was  very  firm  in  his  opposition  to  human 
slavery  in  every  form,  and  from  early  man- 
hood, whenever  opportunity  offered,  labored 
privately  with  persons  holding  slaves  in  order 
to  effect  emancipation.  In  this  and  other 
matters  of  benefit  to  his  fellowmen  his  prac- 
tice was  consistent  with  his  profession,  and 
he  most  carefully  rejected  any  dyestuffs  which 
had  a  tendency  to  injure  the  cloth,  and  all  arti- 
cles in  the  manufacture  of  which  slave  labor 
entered  or  by  which  health  might  be  im- 
paired. 

Josiah  White  marrietl.  10  mo.,  i,  1734,  Re- 
becca, daughter  of  Josiah  and  Amie  Foster 
(nee  Borden),  of  one  of  lUirlington  county's 
best  old  families,  and  a  dcscenilant  of 
the  Borden  family  from  whom  Bordentown, 
on  the  Delaware  river,  receives  its  name.  She 
was  born  10  mo.,  i,  1708,  and  bore  her  hus- 
band six  children:  i.  Amy,  born  5  mo.,  13, 
1737,  died  yt)ung.  2.  Hannah,  born  11  mo.,  28, 
1739.  married  (first)  1762,  Thomas  Prior, 
(second)  Daniel  Drinker,  1796.  3.  Josiah, 
born  4  mo.,  2,  1743,  died  5  mo.,  31,  1745.  4. 
Rebecca,  born  3  mo.,  15,  1745,  married  Thomas 
Redman.  5.  John,  born  7  mo.,  9,  1747,  see  for- 
ward. 6.  Joseph,  born  8  mo.,  22,  1750,  died 
young. 

(I\')  John,  son  of  Josiah  (2)  and  Rebecca 
(  Foster)  White,  was  born  7  mo.,  9,  1747,  died 
8  mo.,  22,  1785,  aged  about  thirty-eight  years. 
He  married,  6  mo.,  7,  1775,  Rebecca,  daughter 
of  Jeremiah  Haines,  of  Burlington  county.  She 
was  born  7  mo.,  2",  1744,  and  died  3  mo.,  22, 


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1826,  having  borne  her  husband  four  children  : 

1.  John,  grew  to  manhood  and  died  unmarried. 

2.  Christopher,    died    unmarried.     3.    Josiah, 
born  3  mo.,  14,  1781.    4.  Joseph,  see  forward. 

{V }  Joseph,  youngest  child  of  John  and 
Rebecca  (Haines)  White,  was  born  in  Mt. 
Holly,  12  mo.,  28,  1785.  Soon  after  marriage 
he  entered  into  a  partnership  with  Samuel  Lip- 
pincott  in  the  hardware  business  in  Philadel- 
phia. In  181 1  he  left  that  city  on  horseback 
with  the  intention  of  travelling  into  the  south 
and  southwest  as  far  as  St.  Louis,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  collecting  moneys  due  his  firm ;  and 
while  in  Brownsville,  I'ennsylvania,  he  ob- 
served a  man  standing  in  the  door  of  a  store, 
whose  garb  indicated  that  he  was  a  Friend. 
He  entered  the  store  to  purchase  some  trivial 
article,  and  there  made  the  acquaintance  of 
the  Friend  whom  he  saw,  and  whose  name  was 
Elisha  Hunt,  with  whom  Joseph  White  after- 
ward had  a  long  business  association.  On 
that  evening  he  was  asked  to  join  the  Hunt 
family  circle,  and  there  the  proposition  was 
made  that  if  he  (White)  would  give  up  his 
proposed  western  trip  on  horseback,  and  assist 
them  in  building  and  freighting  a  keelboat, 
Caleb  Hunt  would  join  him  on  the  journey  to 
St.  Louis,  and  such  an  arrangement  was  agreed 
upon.  In  the  spring  of  1812  Joseph  White 
and  Caleb  Hunt,  with  a  crew  of  I'rench  Can- 
adian boatmen,  started  their  keelboat  from 
Brownsville,  bound  for  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 
"During  the  previous  nth  month  an  earth- 
(|uake,  which  is  known  as  'the  earthquake  of 
Xew  Madrid,'  had  changed  and  rent  the  banks 
of  the  Ohio  River."  As  far  as  the  mouth  of 
the  Ohio  the  voyage  was  comparatively  easy, 
but  from  the  Ohio's  mouth  to  St.  Louis  the 
passage  became  so  difficult  that  the  number  of 
boatmen  was  required  to  be  doubled.  Return- 
ing by  keelboat  to  the  mouth  of  the  Cumber- 
land river,  they  then  left  their  boat  and  on 
horseback  returned  to  their  respective  homes. 
At  Bowling  Green,  Kentucky,  Mr.  White 
records :  "I  fell  in  with  the  proprietor  of  a 
Cave  (Mammoth  Cave),  who  wanted  me  to 
purchase  it ;  he  asked  $10,000.  With  five  men 
he  makes  one  hundred  pounds  of  saltpetre 
per  day :  to  make  it  costs  him  from  five  to  six 
cents  per  pound ;  it  is  now  worth  twenty-five 
cents  per  pound  in  Lexington,  Ky.  "  In  181 2 
Joseph  White  and  Elisha  Hunt  organized  a 
company  for  purchasing  the  right  of  Daniel 
French  in  a  device  for  propelling  a  boat  by 
steam  power,  and  when  organized  Mr.  White 
owned  one-third  of  the  stock  of  the  enterprise. 
The  company  acquired  the  privilege  of  oper- 

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ating  French's  patent  west  of  the  Alleghany 
mountains,  and  forthwith  built  shops  at 
Brownsville,  Pennsylvania,  for  the  construc- 
tion of  the  steamboat  "Enterprise,"  which  was 
built  in  the  latter  part  of  1813,  at  a  cost  of 
$15,000,  and  which  sailed  from  I'itt.sburgh, 
Pennsylvania,  for  Xew  Orleans,  under  com- 
mand of  Captain  Henry  Shreve,  son  of  Israel 
Shreve,  of  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  a 
colonel  in  the  revolutionary  army.  On  its 
arrival  at  New  Orleans  the  "Enterprise"  was 
seized  by  a  marshal  at  the  instance  of  Fulton 
and  Livingston  for  coming  within  the  limits  of 
Lousiana,  but  a  bond  secured  the  release  of 
the  vessel  and  they  returned  up  the  river  with 
a  full  cargo  of  freight  and  passengers,  mak- 
ing the  trip  up  the  river  to  Pittsburgh  in  the 
short  time  of  twenty-six  days,  thus  proving 
the  practicability  of  navigating  the  Mississippi 
by  steam.  The  "Enterprise"  was  the  first 
steamboat  that  ever  made  a  voyage  from 
Pittsburgh  to  New  Orleans  and  return.  This 
pioneer  vessel  afterward  had  an  eventful 
career,  and  on  her  second  trip  to  New  Orleans 
was  pressed  into  government  service  by  Gen- 
eral Jackson  and  sent  to  Alexandria,  on  the 
Red  river,  with  a  cargo  of  army  stores  and 
provisions.  Elisha  Hunt  died  at  Moorestown, 
New  Jersey,  at  the  age  of  almost  ninety-four 
years.  In  a  letter  he  wrote  he  says :  "The 
little  office  connected  with  our  Brownsville 
store  was  the  rendezvous  of  many  intelligent 
and  enterprising  young  men,  and  there  all  the 
recent  inventions  for  travel  'were  discussed. 
Among  our  regular  visitors  were  Neil  Gilles- 
pie Blaine  (grandfather  of  James  G.  Blaine), 
Robert  Clark,  Stephen  Darlington  and  others." 
.Among  other  merchandise  consigned  to  Joseph 
White  by  the  Hunts  for  market  in  Philadel- 
phia during  the  year  1813  or  '14  was  one 
barrel  of  "Seneca  oil,"  gathered  at  Oil  Creek, 
Pennsylvania,  which  was  sold  by  Mr.  White 
to  Daniel  Smith,  druggist,  of  Philadelphia,  for 
medicinal  purposes.  Mr.  White  was  exten- 
sively engaged  in  coal  operations  in  the  Lack- 
awanna and  Schuylkill  regions  during  the  later 
years  of  his  life,  and  he  died  in  Philadelphia, 
25  5  mo.  1827,  aged  forty-one  years.  He  was 
one  of  the  pioneers  in  developing  the 
resources  of  the  country  in  many  directions, 
and  in  every  respect  was  one  of  the  foremost 
men  of  his  day.  His  wife  was  Rebecca 
(Smith)  White,  and  by  her  he  had  eight  chil- 
dren: John  ]..  Daniel  S.,  Elizabeth,  Sarah  S., 
.Anna,  Howard,  Barclav  and  Anna  Alaria 
White. 

(VI)   Barclay,  youngest  son  of  Joseph  and 


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Rebecca  (Smith)  White,  was  born  in  Phila- 
ilelphia,  Pennsylvania,  4  mo..  4,  1821,  and  died 
Xoveniber  2;^,,  1906.  He  received  liis  early 
education  in  public  schc)ols  in  his  home  town, 
later  was  a  student  under  a  private  teacher, 
Daniel  Smith,  of  Wilmington,  Delaware,  and 
still  later  attended  a  boarding  school  at  Wes- 
town,  Pennsylvania.  However,  he  left  school 
at  the  age  of  fifteen  years  and  turned  his  at- 
tention to  farming,  and  farming  and  agricul- 
ture were  an  important  part  of  his  business 
occupation  in  all  subsequent  years,  although 
during  several  years  of  that  period  he  was 
in  the  public  service,  and  when  not  so  engaged 
he  devoted  his  time  to  conveyancing  and  man- 
agement of  trust  estates  in  connection  with 
farming  interests.  In  1871  he  was  appointed 
by  President  Grant  superintendent  of  Indian 
affairs  and  went  to  Omaha,  Nebraska,  where 
he  had  full  charge  of  si.x  Indian  agencies.  He 
remained  in  the  west  six  years  in  connection 
with  the  duties  of  his  official  position,  then 
returned  to  Alt.  Holly,  X.  ].,  and  opened 
an  office  for  conveyancing  and  the  care  of  trust 
interests.  He  owned  two  large  farms,  of  three 
hundred  or  four  hundred  acres,  which  were 
devoted  chiefly  to  the  production  of  hay  and 
grain.  He  possessed  decided  literary  tastes. 
and  cultivated  them  fully  and  to  good  purnose 
even  during  the  later  years  of  his  long  and 
useful  life;  he  wrote  an  autobiography  after 
having  passed  his  eightieth  year.  He  was  origi- 
nally a  strong  Whig,  and  one  of  the  organizers 
of  tiie  Republicani  party  in  the  locality  in  which 
he  lived.  While  never  a  seeker  after  political 
advancement,  he  held  various  local  offices  of 
minor  importance  to  which  he  was  chosen  by 
fellow  townsmen.  Throughout  the  period  of  his 
life  Mr.  White  never  departed  from  the  teach- 
ings of  the  Society  of  Friends  under  which  he 
was  brought  u]),  and  at  one  time  he  was  assist- 
ant clerk  of  the  Philadelphia  Yearly  fleeting. 

He  married  (first )  12  mo.,  22,  1842,  Rebecca 
Merritt  Lamb,  of  Springfield,  New  Jersey, 
who  was  born  3  mo.,  22,  1824,  and  died  2  mo., 
22,  1850  (see  Lamb),  by  whom  he  had  four 
children:  I.  Howard,  of  Lansdowne,  Pennsyl- 
vania. 2.  Joseph  J.,  of  New  Lisbon,  New 
Jersey.  3.  George  Foster,  president  of  Lans- 
downe Trust  Company.  4.  liarclay  Jr..  M.  D., 
now  dead.  He  married  (second)  in  1852, 
P.eulah  S.  Shreve,  by  whom  he  had  three 
children  :  3.  Daniel  S.,  proprietor  of  the  Tray- 
more,  .\tlantic  City.  New  Jersey.  6.  Eliza- 
beth, now  dead.     7.  James,  now  dead. 

(\11)  Joseph  Josiali,  son  of  Barclay  and 
Rebecca  Alerritt   (Lamb)   White,  was  born  in 


Springfield,  New  Jersey,  January  22,  1846, 
and  was  educated  at  Jobstown,  Aaron's  school 
at  Alt.  Holly,  Jackson's  school  at  Darby,  Penn- 
sylvania, the  boarding  school  of  William  A. 
(iarrigues,  near  Aloorestown,  New  Jersey,  the 
I'Viends'  Central  school,  Philadelphia,  and  the 
Philadelphia  Polytechnic  College.  In  1867  he 
became  a  cranberry  grower,  and  was  there- 
after closely  identified  with  that  industry,  al- 
though somewhat  actively  interested  in  other 
business  enterprises.  In  1870  he  wrote  a  book 
on  "Cranberry  Culture,"  which  was  published 
by  Orange  Judd,  of  New  York,  passed  through 
two  eilitlons.,  and  is  still  the  standard  work  on 
that  subject.  Air.  W'hite  was  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  the  .American  Society  of  Mechanical 
Engineers,  having  joined  the  society  at  its 
organization  in  1880.  He  obtained  letters 
jiatent  of  the  United  States  for  a  number  of 
useful  inventions,  among  which  was  an  im- 
proved journal  box  for  which  the  Franklin 
Institute  of  Philadelphia  awarded  him  the 
Longstreth  Aledal.  On  June  23,  1903,  he  re- 
ceived a  patent  for  an  improved  machine  for 
assorting  and  grading  cranberries.  This  was 
the  only  machine  ever  devised  that  would  suc- 
cessfully remove  frosted  from  sound  cran- 
berries. Twenty-four  of  these  separators 
were  installed  in  his  warehouse.  In  1890  Air. 
White  in  company  with  his  brother,  George 
Foster  White,  organized  the  Pennsylvania  Ala- 
chine  Company  of  Philadelphia,  and  operated 
it  as  sole  proprietors  until  1895,  when  he  sold 
his  interest  to  his  brother.  After  that  date 
Mr.  White  devoted  most  of  his  time  to  cran- 
berry culture,  becoming  one  of  the  largest  and 
most  successful  growers  in  the  Cnited  States. 
He  gave  employment  to  six  hundred  and  fifty 
people  during  the  picking  season,  and  in  the 
years  1907-08  produced  sixty  thousand  bushels 
of  cranberries.  He  was  president  of  the 
Growers"  Cranberry  Company  during  the  first 
fourteen  years  of  its  existence.  This  co-oper- 
ative sales  company,  with  headquarters  in 
Philadelphia,  was  organized  by  a  number  of  the 
oldest  and  largest  cranberry  growers  of  New 
Jersey  and  New  England,  for  the  purpose  of 
selling  their  fruit.  He  was  vice-president  of 
the  Farmers"  National  Bank  of  New  Jersey, 
at  Alt.  Holly.  Mr.  White  was  a  Republican, 
having  filled  various  town.ship  offices  and 
served  on  township  committees,  yet  he  was  in 
no  sense  a  politician  or  seeker  after  political 
office.  He  was  a  Friend,  having  been  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Alt.  Holly 
Monthly  Aleeting. 

On   November   11,    1869,  he  married   Alary 


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Anne,  daugiitcr  uf  James  A.  and  Mary  E. 
(Cashell  j  Fenwick.  and  by  whom  he  had  seven 
children:  I.  Rebecca  ^L,  now  dead.  2.  EHza- 
beth  Coleman.  3.  Mary  Fenwick.  4.  Beulah 
Sansom.  5.  Joseph,  now  dead.  6.  Barclay, 
now  dead.  7.  Anne  Pearson,  wife  of  Frank- 
lin S.  Chambers,  M.  E.,  chief  engineer  of  the 
Parker  I 'oiler  Company,  Philadelphia. 

(The   Lamb   Line). 

Rebecca  M.  Lamb,  who  married  Barclay 
White,  12  mo.,  22,  1842,  mother  of  Howard, 
Joseph  J.,  George  F.  and  Barclay  White  Jr., 
was  descended  from  Alfred  the  Great  through 
the  Mauleverer  line,  of  England  (see  the 
Mauleverer  Chart  in  the  library  of  the  His- 
torical Society  of  Pennsylvania).  Her  de- 
scent is  as  follows : 

(I)  Alfred  the  Great,  born  849.  died  901  ; 
married  Elswitha. 

(Ill  Princess  Alfrith,  died  in  929;  married 
llaldwin  H  of  Flanders,  died  January  2,  918. 

(Ill)  Arnould  I,  of  Flanders,  died  964; 
married  Alex  of  \'ermandois. 

(I\')  Baldwin  HI,  of  Flanders,  died  961; 
married  Matilda,  daughter  of  Ik-rnian,  duke 
of  Saxony. 

.(V)  Arnould  II,  of  Flanders,  died  988; 
married  Roselle,  daughter  of  Berengarius  III, 
King  of   Italy. 

(  \'I )  Baldwin  1\',  of  Flanders,  died  lo.u. 
married  Conegonde,  of  Luxemburg. 

(  \'II  )  IJaldwin  \',  of  Flanders,  died  1067: 
married  Adele.  daughter  of  Robert,  King  of 
France.  Baldwin  \'  aided  his  son-in-law 
William  in  the  Conquest  of  England,  1066. 

(\'I1I)  William  the  Conqueror,  born  1027, 
died  1087;  married,  1052,  Matilda  of  Flan- 
ders, born  1031,  died  1083. 

(IX)  Henry  I,  born  ioC)8,  died  1 135;  mar- 
ried Matilda,  born  about  1077,  died  May  i, 
1 1 18,  daughter  of  Malcolm  and  Margaret. 

(X)  Matilda,  died  9mo  10  1167;  married, 
8mo  26  1127,  Geoffrey  Count  of  Anjon. 

(XI)  Henry  H,  born  1133,  died  1189;  mar- 
ried Eleanor  of  Acquitaine. 

(XII)  John,  born  1167,  died  1216;  married 
Isabella  of  .\c(|uitaine. 

(XIII)  Henry  HI,  born  1207,  died  1272: 
married  I''lcanor,  daughter  of  Count  of  Prov- 
ence. 

(XI\')  Edwanl  I,  born  1239,  died  1307: 
married  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Alphonso  X  of 
Castile. 

(X\')  Edward  H,  born  1284,  died  1327: 
married  Isabella,  daughter  of  Phillip  II  of 
France. 


(X\'I)  Edward  HI,  married  Philippa, 
daughter  of  Count  of  Hainault. 

Note. — There  are  twenty-six  lines  through 
which  the  Mauleverers  are  descended  from 
Edward  I,  one  of  which  only  is  here  given,  and 
all  of  which  are  to  be  found  in  "Burke's  Peer- 
ages Extant  and  Extinct." 

(  X\TI)  John  of  Gaunt,  Duke  of  Lancaster, 
fourth  son  of  Edward  HI. 

(XV'HI)  Lady  Margaret,  daughter  of  John 
of  Gaunt,  married  Richard  Nevill,  first  Earl 
of  Westmoreland. 

(XIX J  Lady  Alice,  granddaughter  of  John 
of  Gaunt,  married  Sir  Thomas  Gray  de  Heton. 

( XX )  Lady  Elizabeth,  married  Philip,  4th 
Lord  Darcy. 

(XXI)  Thomas,  fifth  Lord  Darcy,  married 
Margaret. 

(XXII)  Philip,  si.xth  Lord  Darcy. 

(XXIII)  Elizabeth,  daughter  'of  Philip 
sixth  Lord  Darcy,  married  James  Strang- 
vvayes. 

(XXI\')  Eleanor  Strangwayes,  married 
Edmund  Alauleverer,  of  Wothersome  and 
Anneclifl^e,  Yorkshire,  will  dated  lomo  7 
1488. 

(XXV)  Robert  Mauleverer,  died  3mo  10 
1495,  will  probated  at  York,  2  mo  25  1496; 
married  Joane  Vasasour,  daughter  of  Sir 
llenry  Vasasour  of  Haslewood,  Knight. 

(XX\  I)  Sir  William  Mauleverer,  knighted 
at  I-'lodden,  15 13.  married  Anne  Conyers, 
daughter  of  Sir  William  Conyers,  of  Stock- 
burne. 

(XX\'II)  Robert  Mauleverer,  second  son 
and  heir,  buried  January  31,  1540:  married, 
1524,  Alice  Markinfield,  daughter  of  Sir 
Ninian  Markinfield  and  Dorothy  nee  Gas- 
coigne. 

(XXVIH)  Sir  Edmund  Mauleverer,  buried 
4mo  27  1571;  married,  1541,  Mary  Danby, 
daughter  of  Sir  Christopher  Danby. 

(XXIX)  William  Mauleverer,  buried  1618, 
will  executed  4mo  14  1618;  married  Eleanor 
Aldborough,  born  1553,  died  1644. 

(XXX)  James  Mauleverer,  born  2mo  i 
1590,  died  4mo  1664;  married  Beatrice  Hut- 
ton,  daughter  of  Sir  Timothy  Hutton,  died 
about  1640-42. 

(XXXI)  Edmund  Mauleverer,  born  1630, 
died  iimo  28  1679;  married,  31110  i  1666, 
Anne  Pearson,  of  Mowthorpe. 

(XXXII)  Anne  Mauleverer,  born  2mo  28 
1678,  died  2mo  17  1754:  married,  3mo  26, 
1696,  John  .Abbott,  born  1660,  in  Nottingham- 
shire, England,  died  8mo  10  1739. 

(XXXIII)  Jane    Abbott,    born     3nio    9th 


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I/OI,  died  imo  3  1780:  married,  i2mo  16 
1726,  Joseph  Burr,  born  iimo  5,  i'j93,  died 
4ino  13  1767. 

(XXXIV)  Mary  Burr,  born  6mo  11  1729. 
died  imo  17  1802;  married,  iimo  20  1747, 
Solomon  Ridgwav,  born  8mo  18  1723.  died 
1788. 

(XXX\')  I'.enjaniin  E,  Ridgway,  born  ()mo 
20  1770,  died  4mo   14  185'):  married,  8mo  17 

1794,  t'rudence  Borton  Ridgway,  born  i2mo 
25  1762,  died  3mo  25  1854. 

(XXXVIj    Mary    Ridgway,    born    6mo    12 

1795,  died  3  mo  25  1837;  married.  4mo  18 
1822,  Restore  S.  Lamb,  born  i2mo  27  1788, 
died  8mo  16  1867. 

(XXXX'II)  Rebecca  Merritt  Lamb,  born 
31110  22  1824,  cHed  2mo  22  1850:  married, 
121110  22  1842,  Barclay  White,  born  41110  4 
182 1,  died  Iimo  2},  1906. 

(XXXVni)  Joseph  J.  White,  born  imo. 
22,  1846.  married,  iimo.  11,  1869,  Mary  Anne 
Fenw'ick,  born  91110,  21,  1847.  Their  surviv- 
ing children  are:  Elizabeth  Coleman,  Mary 
Fenwick,  Beulah  Sansom  and  .\nne  Learson, 
the  latter  wife  of  Franklin  S.  Chambers,  M    E. 


The  ship  "Francis  and  Eliza- 
BIXDER  beth"  arrived  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  and  September 
21,  1742,  her  adult  male  passengers  (|ualified 
before  the  authorities  of  the  province  of  Penn- 
sylvania. Among  those  male  passengers  were 
John,  George,  Jacob,  see  forward,  and  Moses 
Binder.  The  exact  relationship  that  existed 
between  these  men  is  not  known. 

( F)  Jacob  Binder,  or  Bender  as  the  name 
was  sometimes  written,  was  born  in  Ober- 
isingen.  Duchy  of  Wurtemberg,  Germany, 
January  19,  1736,  died  in  Kensington  (an  out- 
lying district  of  Philadelphia  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, before  the  consolidation  of  the  city  in 
1854).  March  18,  1804.  He  emigrated  to 
America  and  settled  in  Philadeljjhia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  1754.  The  following  records  are 
taken  from  the  archives  of  Pennsylvania,  last 
edition,  second  series.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Independent  Troop  of  Horse  and  Inde- 
pendent Company  of  Foot,  1756,  in  the  Pro- 
vincial service.  He  was  a  private  in  Captain 
Campbell's  company  ( Associators),  City 
Guard,  1776;  first  lieutenant  of  Fourth  Com- 
pany, Third  Battalion,  (Associators)  Colonel 
Morgan  commanding;  lieutenant  of  the  Fifth 
Company,  Second  Battalion  of  militia,  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel T'cnjamin  (j.  Eyre  commanding, 
1780.  Jacob  Binder  married,  July  28,  1767. 
Maria   \\'cisbacken,   this   record   appearing   in 


the  Bible  of  William  Binder,  son  of  Jacob 
Binder,  which  is  now  in  possession  of  the 
widow  of  Horace,  brother  of  the  Rev.  Clar- 
ence K.  Binder,  of  Camden.  New  Jersey,  of 
whom  this  sketch  treats.  The  record  in  the 
archives  of  Pennsylvania,  last  edition,  second 
series,  gives  the  date  as  July  27,  1767,  and  the 
name  as  Wisebaugh.  Mr.  and  ^Irs.  Binder 
were  the  parents  of  a  number  of  children 
among  whom  was  William,  see  forward. 

( II  )  William,  son  of  Jacob  Binder,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  April  24, 
1768;  died  October  4.  1842,  aged  seventy-four 
years,  five  months,  eleven  days.  He  was  a 
citizen  of  Philadelphia  throughout  his  life.  In 
1806  he  became  associated  with  General  Peter 
.\.  Muhlenberg,  John  Goodman  and  others  in 
a  society  whose  design  was  to  induce  the  con- 
gregation of  Sion  and  St.  Michael's  Evangeli- 
cal Lutheran  Church  (one  corporation  with 
two  church  edifices)  to  permit  preaching  in 
one  of  the  two  churches  in  English  every  Sun- 
day, and  also  to  pemiit  English  catechetical 
instruction.  William  Binder  acted  as  secre- 
tary of  this  society  at  its  first  meeting  held 
January  8,  1806,  and  continued  in  this  office 
until  the  following  September  when  he  was 
succeeded  by  Isaac  Wampole.  The  Germans 
continuing  obstinate  in  their  refusal  to  permit 
any  English  services  whatever,  the  society  pro- 
ceeded to  organize  "St.  John's  Evangelical 
Lutheran  Church  of  Philadelphia  and  \'icin- 
ity."  This  was  the  first  successful  effort  to 
establish  a  congregation  of  the  Lutheran  faith, 
in  which  the  English  language  was  to  be  used. 
William  Binder  was  a  hatter  and  furrier,  and 
amassed  quite  a  large  fortune  for  those  days. 
He  was  honored  by  his  fellow  citizens  to  serve 
them  for  several  terms  in  the  Pennsylvania 
state  legislature.  He  married  Mary  Rice  and 
among  their  children  was  William,  see  for- 
ward. The  remains  of  William  Binder,  Sr., 
lies  in  St.  John's  burial  ground,  right  behind 
the  church,  which  is  situated  on  the  north  side 
of  Race  street  above  Fifth  street,  Philadelphia. 
The  stone  that  marked  the  spot  was  removed 
manv  vears  ago. 

(Ilf)  William  (2),  .son  of  William  (i) 
I'inder,  was  born  in  Philadeljjhia.  Pennsylvania. 
December  14,  1793;  died  in  i860,  and  was 
buried  in  Laurel  Hill  Cemetery  (Section  O), 
Phi!adeli)hia.  He  married,  prior  to  1819, 
Louisa  Elizabeth  Stam,  who  bore  him  a  num- 
ber of  children  among  whom  was  George  Au- 
gustus, see  forward. 

(I\')  George  .'\ugustus,  son  of  William  (2) 
Binder,  was  born  January  6,   1821 ;  died  Au- 


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giist  13,  1894.  and  is  buried  in  Section  O. 
Laurel  Hill  Cemetery,  Pliiladel])hia.  He  car- 
ried on  the  lumber  business  in  partnershij)  with 
his  elder  brother,  Jacob,  under  the  firm  name 
of  J.  &  G.  A.  Hinder.  Their  place  of  business 
was  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Sixth  and  Ox- 
ford streets,  Philadelphia.  They  also  had  a 
saw  mill  and  enjoyed  a  monopoly  of  the  trunk 
and  box  board  business  for  many  years.  George 
.■\.  Binder  retired  from  business  in  1864,  owing 
to  impaired  health,  after  which  he  became  an 
active  member  of  the  .\cadeniy  of  Natural 
Sciences  of  Philadelphia.  Shortly  after  at- 
taining his  majority  he  entered  politics,  and 
before  the  consolidation  of  the  city  in  1854 
he  was  elected  to  several  important  offices  in 
the  old  district  of  Penn,  and  was  elected  to 
represent  the  twentieth  ward  in  the  common 
branch  of  the  first  city  council  that  was  organ- 
ized after  the  consolidation  of  the  city.  At 
the  expiration  of  his  term  of  office  he  declined 
re-election  and  retired  from  politics.  Mr. 
Binder  married  Miriam,  daughter  of  Jesse  and 
Maria  or  Mary  (Kunckel)  Trump,  and  grand- 
daughter of  John  Kunckel,  a  resident  of  Phila- 
delphia, and  a  soldier  in  the  American  revolu- 
tion, serving  in  a  Pennsylvania  regiment  and 
wounded  at  the  battle  of  Brandywine,  Sejitem- 
ber  II,  1777,  at  the  time  Lafayette  was  wound- 
ed in  the  leg  and  carried  to  Bethlehem  where 
the  Moravian  sisters  nursed  him  during  his 
confinement.  Among  the  children  of  George 
.■\.  and  Miriam  (Trump)  Binder  was  Clarence 
Kunckel,  see  forward. 

(V)  Clarence  Kunckel  Binder,  son  of  George 
Augustus  and  Miriam  (Trump)  Binder,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvam'a.  March  8. 
184Q.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  city  up  to  his  fifteenth  year,  when  he 
entered  the  Pennsylvania  Agricultural  College 
known  now  as  the  Pennsylvania  State  College. 
He  left  at  the  end  of  his  freshman  vear,  and  in 
1865  became  a  pupil  of  Henry  D.  Gregory 
who  has  a  school  in  Philadelphia  on  Market 
street,  above  Eleventh  street.  From  this  school 
he  entered  the  Polytechnic  Colletje,  leaving  in 
March,  1866,  but  returning  in  1867  and  grad- 
uating with  the  degree  of  B.  S.  A.  in  1870. 
Between  1870  and  1872  he  was  employed  in 
the  offices  of  several  architects  and  of  a  builder 
in  Philadelphia.  In  1872  he  returned  to  the 
Polvtechnic  College  as  assistant  professor  of 
mathematics,  architecture  and  drawing.  He  re- 
signeil  this  position  in  1876  and  opened  an  office 
in  Philadelphia  as  a  professional  architect,  con 
'Uicting  the  business  up  to  August,  1879,  when 
he  returned  to  the  Polytechnic  College  to  take 


the  chair  of  pure  mathematics,  which  chair  he 
resigned  in  September,  1880,  in  order  to  take 
up  theological  studies  in  the  Lutheran  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  Philadelphia,  where  he  com- 
pleted a  three  years  course  and  was  ordained 
to  the  ministry  May  22,  1883,  and  on  May  23 
of  the  same  year  he  was  installed  pastor  of  the 
Epiphany  Evangelical  Lutheran  Church,  Cam- 
den, New  Jersey,  where  he  has  continued  to 
conduct  a  successful  pastorate  to  the  present 
time  (1909).  The  Rev.  Mr.  Binder  is  the 
author  of  a  history  of  the  Lutheran  Sunday 
Schools  of  Philadelphia,  and  also  of  "A  Critical 
P^stiniate  of  John  Chryostom"  (347-407),  one 
of  the  early  fathers  and  most  accomplished 
orators  of  the  ancient  Greek  church.  These 
two  |)apers  were  |)ublished  in  the  Lutheran 
Church  Rci'icw.  He  is  also  a  contributor  to 
current  church  periodicals.  He  holds  member- 
ship in  the  .Ministeriuni  of  Peiuis_\-lvania. 
which  is  a  district  synod  of  the  (General  Council 
of  the  Lutheran  Church  of  America.  His 
home,  study  and  church  office  is  at  432  Penn 
street,  Camden,  New  Jersey.  Rev.  Mr.  Binder 
married.  December  4,  1883,  Clara,  daughter  of 
George  and  Mary  .\nn  (Becker)  Shimer,  of 
Camden,  New   Jersev. 


The  Rossell  family  is  of  Uan- 
R(  )SSELL  ish  origin  and  derives  its  name 
from  one  of  the  fiefs.  The 
village  and  township  of  Le  Rossell  are  in  Nor- 
mandy, about  a  mile  from  the  sea  coast.  The 
name  given  to  the  castle  and  the  family  inhabit- 
ing it  appears  to  have  been  imposed  by  some 
of  the  early  settlers  in  that  part  of  Normandie, 
the  name  implying  "the  tower  of  the  water," 
from  Roz,  the  rook  and  castle  to  the  chess- 
board, and  el  is  synonym  for  eau  water.  The 
first  one  who  appears  to  have  used  the  surname 
of  De  Rossell  is  Hugh  Bertrand,  born  1021. 
The  lineage  of  the  family  can  be  traced  back 
to  the  old  vikings,  beginning  with  Sveide,  the 
\"iking,  760-780,  to  Ilalfdin,  800:  Ival  Jahl,  of 
Upland,  830,  who  married  the  daughter  of 
Listen  Glumru,  Count  of  Trondheim:  Listen 
(ilimiru.  of  \"orse,  870;  Rogvald  Jarl,  of 
Moere.  father  of  Rollo.  Duke  of  Normandy; 
Hrt)lf  or  Robert  Turstain,  920,  who  married 
Gerlotte,  daughter  of  Theobald,  Count  of  Blois, 
then  from  the  descendants  of  the  barons  of 
Bri(|uebec  to  Hugh  Bertrand,  1021,  the  father 
of  Hugh  De  Rossell,  whose  son,  Ralph  De 
Rossell,  married  Agnes  Deboves  and  establish- 
ed the  family  on  English  soil.  From  him  the 
line  runs  in  unbroken  descent  down  from  Will- 
iam De  Rosell,  Knisrht  of  the  Shire  for  Derby, 


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in  1325,  to  John  Rosell,  an  officer  in  Crom- 
well's anny  and  the  founder  of  the  family  in 
America. 

( I )  John  Rosell  was  the  Cromwellian  officer 
referred  to  above,  and  came  to  this  country 
and  became  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Long 
Island  in  1650,  his  name  a]ipcaring  on  the  char- 
ter of  Governor  Thomas  Dougan.  Among  his 
children  were;  i.  Francis,  referred  to  below. 
2.  .\athaniel,  settled  in  the  district  of  Hope- 
well, New  Jersey.  3.  One  who  settled  at 
Eayrestown,  New  Jersey. 

(II)  Francis,  son  of  John  Rosell,  removed 
to  Ihicks  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  dieil 
in  1694,  his  will  being  dated  December  i,  1690. 
and  approved  January  i,  1694.  He  ordered 
his  body  to  be  buried  at  Burlington,  New 
Jersey.  Left  legacies  to  his  sister,  Jane,  the 
wife  of  Dr.  Wells,  surgeon  of  London.  Ap- 
jiarently  his  only  son  was  Zachariah,  referred 
to  below. 

(  III  )  Zachariah,  who  is  said  to  have  been 
the  son  <if  Francis  Rosell,  of  Bucks  county. 
Pennsylvania,  although  he  may  have  been  the 
nephew  and  the  son  of  the  Rossells  who  settled 
at  Eayrestown,  New  Jersey,  married  in  June, 
1709,  in  the  Burlington  and  Mount  Holly 
monthly  meeting,  Mary  Hiliiard,  and  among 
his  children  were  Zachariah,  referred  to  below. 

(I\")  Zachariah  (2),  son  of  Zachariah  (i) 
and  Mary  (Hiliiard)  Rossell,  was  born  at 
Eayrestown,  New  Jersey,  in  1723;  died  there 
February  21,  1815.  He  lived  in  Mount  Holly 
and  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  under  King 
(leorge  III.  His  early  and  active  service  in 
the  cause  of  the  liberty  of  his  country  marked 
him  nut  for  the  vengeance  of  the  British  and 
when  in  1776  they  overran  the  Jerseys,  his 
house  and  other  buildings  were  given  up  to  the 
l)hmder  of  the  soldiery,  who  dragged  him  to 
prison  on  foot  to  New  York,  where  he  suffered 
in  common  with  his  fellow-prisoners  hard- 
ships peculiar  to  an  English  jail.  He  happily 
survived,  however,  and  always  continued  his 
zealous  assertions  of  the  principles  of  the  revo- 
lution. He  was  an  extremely  devout,  christian 
man,  beloved  and  respected  by  all  who  knew 
him.  in  1759  Zachariah  Rossel!  married  (first ) 
Margaret  (Curtis)  Clark,  who  bore  him  a  son, 
William,  referred  to  below,  an<l  two  daughters  : 
Mary,  Jaiuiary  25,  1770,  married  Isaac  Wood, 
of  Mount  Holly,  and  Martha,  born  February 
7,  1771,  married  Jo.se])h  Read,  of  Mount  Holly. 
Margaret  (Curtis)  (Clark)  Rossell  died  Jan- 
uary 20,  1780,  at  the  age  of  sixty-six  years. 
Zachariah  Rossell  married  (second)  Elizabeth 
(  Ross)   Beckett,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue. 


(  \'  )  William,  eldest  child  of  Zachariah  (2) 
and  Margaret  (Curtis)  (Clark)  Rossell,  was 
born  ( )ctober  25,  1760,  in  Springfield  town- 
ship, Burlington  county.  New  Jersey;  died  in 
Mount  Holly,  June  20,  1840.  For  twenty-two 
years  he  was  a  judge  of  the  supreme  court  of 
.\'ew  Jersey,  anil  for  a  long  time  he  also  served 
as  one  of  the  L'nited  States  district  judges. 
He  married  Ann  Hatkinson,  who  died  July  16, 
1832,  aged  seventy-one  years,  who  bore  him 
seven  children;  i.  Zachariah,  born  November 
17,  1788;  died  July  21,  1842;  married  Lydia 
Beakes.  a  great-granddaugliter  of  the  Hon 
William  Trent,  the  founder  of  Trenton,  and 
left  two  sons,  Nathan  Beakes  and  \\'ilham 
Henry.  2.  William,  referred  to  below.  3. 
Eliza.  4.  Margaret.  5.  Joseph.  6.  Mary  .Ann, 
married  W  illiam  Chapman.  7.  Catherine, 
married  Samuel  Allen. 

(\T)  William  (2),  son  of  the  Hon.  William 
(  i)  Rossell,  had  among  other  children  a  son, 
William,  referred  to  below. 

(\'I1)  William  (3),  son  of  William  (2) 
Rcissfll,  (if  Mount  Holly,  a  retired  fariuer, 
lived  in  .Sjiringfield  township,  P)urlingtiin 
county.  New  Jersey ;  married  a  Miss  Brown. 
Children  ;  (ieorge  Edward,  referred  to  below  ; 
I'rank,  Elwood,  .\mbrose,  Harvey ;  Joseph,  de- 
ceased ;  Charles,  deceased ;  .Anna,  deceased. 

(  \'III  )  ( jeorge  Edward,  son  of  W'illiam  (3) 
Rossell,  was  born  in  .Springfield  township.  New 
Jersey,  in  1854.  and  married  Caroline  Johnson, 
born  in  1856.  He  is  still  living  and  is  a  farmer. 
Ills  mother  belongs  to  one  of  the  old  families 
of  the  same  township  as  her  husband.  Chil- 
dren :    Edward  Wood,  referred  to  below  ;  Ella. 

( IX  )  Edward  Wood,  son  of  George  Edward 
and  Caroline  (Johnson)  Rossell,  was  born  in 
.Springfield  township,  Burlington  county.  New 
Jersey,  November  28,  1887.  He  was  a  pujiil  in 
the  public  schools  in  his  native  township  for  his 
early  education,  after  which  he  entered  the 
College  of  Pharmacy  in  Philadelphia,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1899.  ^^^  then  pur- 
sued a  post-graduate  course  in  the  Medico 
Chirurgical  College  in  Philadel]ihia,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of 
.M.  D.  in  1905.  He  immediately  began  the 
general  ])ractice  of  his  profession  in  Camden. 
.New  Jersey,  where  he  was  made  a  member  of 
the  medical  staff  of  the  Camden  City  Dispen- 
sary. In  addition  to  this  he  built  up  for  him- 
self a  private  practice  which  increased  very 
ra|)idly,  and  with  it  also  grew  his  reputation 
as  a  skillful  and  careful  practitioner,  so  that 
now  he  is  regarded  by  every  one  as  one  of  the 
rising  doctors  <if  the  younger  generation.      In 


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politics  Dr.  Rossell  is  a  Republican,  and  in 
religion  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  His  home  and  offices  are  at  322  North 
Ninth  street,  Camden,  New  Jersey.  He  is  a 
member  of  Camden  County  Medical  Society, 
Camden  City  Medical  Society,  the  Artisans 
Order  of  Mutual  Protection,  and  the  I.oyal 
Order  of  Moose. 

In  June,  1908,  Edward  Wood  Rossell,  M.  D.. 
married  Ursula  M.,,  daughter  of  Edward 
Knauss. 


The  Bacon  family  of  New  Jersey 
R.ACON  has  from  the  early  days  of  the 
settlement  of  Salem  county  play- 
ed a  most  important  part,  not  only  in  the  civil 
and  social  life  of  the  community,  but  also  in 
the  religious  affairs  of  the  Society  of  Friends, 
with  which  many  and  almost  all  of  the  earlier 
generations  were  associated.  In  these  latter 
days  numbers  of  the  family,  which  is  an  ex- 
tremely large  one,  have  formed  other  religious 
associations,  especially  in  the  Bajitist  denomi- 
nation, and  in  that  church  also  they  have  made 
their  mark. 

(  1  )  The  earliest  known  member  of  the 
family  in  the  record  of  Salem  county  men- 
tioned is  John  Bacon,  of  Cohansey,  who  is  said 
to  have  been  the  son  of  Samuel.  In  1720  John 
Bacon  married  Elizabeth,  born  3rd  month  3, 
daughter  of  John  Smith,  of  Smithfield,  and 
grandc'aughter  of  William  Smith,  of  county 
Kent,  England,  and  Salem,  New  Jersey,  one 
of  the  executors  and  intimate  friend  and  said 
to  have  been  a  relative  of  John  Fenwick.  Judge 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Smith)  Bacon,  of  Co- 
hansev.  had  seven  children:  1.  Thomas,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  John.  3.  l^^lizabeth,  mar- 
ried John  Denn,  of  .Alloways  Creek.  4.  David, 
settled  in  I'hilalelphia ;  accumulated  fortune 
as  a  hatter:  married  and  left  two  children. 
Joseph  and  Hannah.  The  latter,  the  mother 
of  Thomas,  who  married  Catharine  Wistar. 
5.  Martha.    6.  Mary.     7.  Job,  see  sketch. 

(II)  Thomas,  eldest  child  of  Judge  John 
and  Elizabeth  (Smith)  Bacon,  was  born  in 
Cohansey  in  1721.  He  married  and  left  two 
sons,  Charles,  referred  to  below,  and  John, 
married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Paul  Demi,  of 
.Alloways  Creek,  and  had  five  children: 
Thomas.  Eleanor.  Martha,  Hannah  and  John. 

fill)  Charles,  elder  son  of  Thomas  Bacon, 
married  and  settled  on  his  father's  property 
in  I'acon's  Neck,  Greenwich  township.  Salem 
county.  He  married  and  had  five  children  :  I. 
Thomas,  married  a  Miss  Wright,  of  Manning- 
ton,  and  left  one  son,  Thomas.     2.  Benjamin, 


referred  to  below.  3.  David,  unmarrietl ;  for 
several  years  a  merchant  in  Salem,  but  ended 
his  days  at  Woodstown,  leaving  a  legacy  to 
the  Piles  Grove  monthly  meeting  for  the  erec- 
tion of  a  school  house,  long  knt)wn  as  Bacon's 
School.  4.  Charles,  died  unmarried  at  an  ad- 
vanced age.  5.  Rachael,  married  a  Mr.  Shep- 
pard.  and  became  the  mother  of  Moses  Shep- 
l)ard,  of  Greenwich. 

(I\")  Benjamin,  second  son  oi  Charles 
Bacon,  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being 
an  .\llen,  who  bore  him  two  children,  one  of 
them  .Abel,  referred  to  below,  and  the  other 
a  daughter  whose  name  is  unknown.  His  sec- 
ond wife  was  Susan,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Dallas. 

( \' )   .Abel,    son   of    Benjamin    and    

( .Allen )  Bacon,  was  a  farmer  of  Bacon's  Neck. 
New  Jersey,  living  on  the  farm  which  he  had 
inherited  from  his  father.  Children  :  William, 
referred  to  below ;  Smith,  .Abel.  .Aseral. 

(\'l)  William,  son  of  .Abel  Bacon,  was  one 
(if  the  most  celebrated  men  of  his  day  and  gen- 
eration in  .Salem  county.  He  was  born  at 
Bacon's  Neck,  June  30,  1802.  He  was  a  clergy- 
man and  a  physician,  and  during  a  long  life 
served  an  able  ministry  in  Alloway  Pittsgrove 
and  Woodstown,  New  Jersey.  After  receiving 
his  early  education  at  Greenwich,  New  Jersey, 
lie  entered  the  I'niversity  of  Pennsylvania 
with  the  idea  of  becoming  a  minister.  .After 
coni])leting  his  college  course,  however,  he 
entered  the  medical  department  of  the  univer- 
sity from  which  he  graduated  at  the  early  age 
of  twenty  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  He  then 
commenced  the  practice  of  his  profession  at 
.AUowaystown,  New  Jersey,  and  while  there 
became  convinced  that  it  was  his  duty  to 
preach  the  gospel.  He  was  consequently  or- 
ilained  as  an  evangelist,  and  began  journeying 
throughout  counties  of  South  Jersey  preach- 
ing. In  1830  the  Rev.  William  Bacon  became 
pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Pittsgrove,  and 
in  1833  he  went  to  Woodstown,  finally,  in  1841, 
assuming  charge  of  the  church  at  Dividing 
Lreek.  Here  he  remained  for  the  ne.xt  eleven 
years.  In  1852  he  retired  from  the  ministry 
and  devoted  himself  entirely  to  his  medical 
practice.  For  two  terms  the  Rev.  William 
Pjacon,  M.  D.,  was  a  member  of  the  New 
Jersey  state  legislature,  and  for  twelve  years 
he  was  one  of  the  superintendents  of  schools 
or  chosen  freeholders  of  Newport,  Dividing 
Creek,  Port  Norris,  Mauricetown  and  Bucks- 
liuten,  Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey.  He 
ilied  in  February,   1868. 

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Ray,  of  I'hiladelpliia,  who  died  in  October. 
1869.  Their  children  were:  I.  Clementine, 
married  (first)  Lewis  Rementor.  of  I'hiladel 
phia  ;  (  second  )  Robert  Mayhugh.  a  merchant 
of  Mount  Sterling,  Kentucky,  who  lost  his 
property  in  the  civil  war,  moved  to  Missouri 
and  died  there;  (third)  a  Mr,  Sutherland,  of 
\'irginia,  a  Union  soldier.  2.  William  Ray,  of 
Trenton  and  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey.  3.  Re- 
becca, married  Samuel  Spence,  of  Port  Eliza- 
beth, New  Jersey.  .She  died  in  Alissouri  and 
he  in  liridgeton.  New  Jersey.  4.  Abel,  unmar- 
ried. 5.  .Stetson  Levi,  referred  to  below.  6. 
Smith,  a  builder  and  contractor  of  Bridgeton, 
New  Jersey,  who  served  in  the  civil  war  in 
the  Tenth  New  Jersey  Volunteer  Regiment, 
was  taken  prisoner  and  confined  for  eight 
months  in  Andersonville  until  finally  exchang- 
ed.    He  married  Keziah  Husted. 

(  \"II  )  Stetson  Levi,  fifth  child  and  third 
son  of  the  Rev.  William,  ^L  D.,  and  Mary 
(  Ray )  Bacon,  was  born  at  Woodstown,  Salem 
county.  New  Jersey,  April  21,  1836,  and  is 
now  living  in  Port  Norris,  New  Jersey.  After 
attending  the  public  schools  of  Newport,  New 
Jersey,  he  went  to  the  Tremont  Seminary  at 
Norristown,  Pennsylvania,  and  then  studied 
medicine  under  his  father's  direction,  at  the 
same  time  teaching  school.  After  two  years 
of  this  work  and  training,  in  1856,  he  entered 
Jefferson  Medical  College  in  Philadelphia. 
I'ennsylvania,  and  received  his  degree  of  M. 
D.  frt>m  that  institution  in  1858.  He  then 
began  to  practice  his  profession  with  his  father 
at  Newport,  New  Jersey,  where  he  continued 
for  the  next  eleven  years.  .After  his  father's 
death,  in  i8f)8,  he  removed  from  Mantua,  New 
Jersey,  where  for  a  short  time  he  associated 
with  himself  a  Dr.  Turner,  lie  then  came  to 
Port  Norris  at  a  time  when  that  place  was  very 
small,  the  railroad  to  it  being  only  just  built. 
He  was  the  first  physician  in  the  town,  and  he 
is  today  the  oldest  medical  jiiractitioner  in 
southern  New  Jersey.  In  his  long  and  useful 
career  he  has  been  most  successful,  has 
thoroughly  endeared  himself  to  the  community 
in  which  he  has  chosen  to  cast  his  lot,  and  no 
citizen  of  Port  Norris  is  more  highly  esteemed. 
Like  his  father,  Dr.  Bacon  is  a  member  of  the 
Ba])tist  church  and  a  Republican.  He  is  a 
member  also  of  the  Cumberland  County  Medi- 
cal Society  ;  for  tliree  years  was  coroner  for 
Cumberland  county,  and  for  thirty  years  was 
the  overseer  of  the  poor  of  Commercial  town- 
ship, Cumberland  county.  He  has  always  been 
a  great  lover  of  books  and  has  gathered  to- 
gether a  most  magnificent  library:  he  has  now 


practically  retired  from  business  and  has  given 
himself  up  to  the  enjoyment  of  his  books  and 
a  comfortable  old  age. 

December  23,  .1859,  Dr.  Stetson  Levi  Bacon 
married  Martha  Washington,  daughter  of 
John  L.  and  granddaughter  of  Ezekiel  May- 
hew.  Her  grandfather  was  a  farmer.  Her 
father  was  one  of  the  early  business  pioneers 
of  Greenwich  township.  He  lived  to  the  age 
of  ninety-three,  and  at  various  times  held  the 
office  of  assessor,  collector,  member  of  the 
townshi]-)  committee,  and  chosen  freeholder. 
Children  of  Stetson  Levi,  M.  D.,  and  Elizabeth 
(  Mayhew  )  Bacon  : 

1.  Elizabeth  Mayhew,  born  June  i.  1864: 
married,  June  21,  1890,  the  Rev.  William 
.\.  Walling,  a  Baptist  clergyman,  of  Wil- 
mington, Delaware,  who  graduated  in  1896 
from  the  University  of  Rochester,  New  York. 
Her  husband  renounced  the  ministry,  took  up 
the  study  of  law  in  Columbia  University,  New 
York,  and  after  his  graduation  settled  as  an 
attorney  in  New  York  City.  His  wife  attend- 
ed the  public  schools  of  Port  Norris,  and  the 
South  Jersey  Institute  at  Bridgeton.  She  is  of 
a  literary  turn  of  mind  and  has  contributed 
many  short  stories  to  the  current  periodicals, 
besides  puljlishing  one  book  entitled  "Phebe." 

2.  William  .Ray,  born  March  27,.  1871,  at 
Newport,  New  Jersey :  attended  the  Port 
Norris  public  schools  at  the  South  Jersey  In- 
stitute and  then  went  to  the  L^niversity  of 
Rochester,  .\fter  his  graduation  he  entered  the 
Columbia  L'niversity  Law  School,  from  which 
he  received  his  degree,  LL.  B.,  and  entered  on 
the  practice  of  his  profession.  New  York  City, 
where  he  liecame  corporation  counsel  for  the 
.\Ietroi)olitan  Street  Railroad  Company. 


(Kill-    firsl    generation    .see    preceding    sketcli). 

(II)  Job.  youngest  son  of  Jtihn 
r.ACON  and  Elizabeth  ( Smitli )  liacon, 
was  born  in  Cohansey,  1733.  He 
married  .Mary,  daughter  of  John  Stewart,  of 
.Xlloways  Creek,  Salem  county.  They  had 
three  children:  I.  Job.  referred  to  below.  2. 
Elizabeth.  3.  George.  Job's  widow  married 
(second)  Richard  Wood.  Jr.,  of  Cumberland 
county. 

(Ill)  Job  (2),  son  of  Job  (I)  and  .Mary 
(  Stewart )  Bacon,  was  twice  married,  having 
two  children  by  his  first  wife  and  four  chil- 
dren by  bis  second.  His  second  wife  was 
Ruth,  daughter  of  John  Thompson,  of  Elsin- 
borough.  The  name  of  his  first  wife  is  un- 
known. His  children  were:  i.  John,  referred 
to  below.    2.  Martha.    3.  Mary,  married  Clem- 


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ent  Actun.  4.  Sarah,  died  uninarried  at  Green- 
wich. 5.  Ann.  married  Moses  Slieppard.  (>. 
Josiah,  a  merchant  of  I^hiladelpliia  and  a 
director  of  Pennsylvania  railroad. 

( I\')  John,  eldest  child  of  Job  (2)  Bacon 
b)-  his  first  wife,  lived  in  Greenwich,  Cvnnber- 
land  county.  New  Jersey.  He  married  .Ann 
Hall,  of  Piacon's  Xeck.  She  was  a  lineal  de- 
scendant of  William  Hall  who  emigrated  to 
this  country  in  idjj  from  Dublin.  Ireland,  and 
settled  at  Salem,  New  Jersey.  Their  children 
were:  i.  Job.  referred  to  below.  2.  John. 
died  in  infancy.  3.  Josiah,  deceased.  4. 
Maurice,  deceased.  5.  George  W..  now  living 
in  York,  New  Jersey. 

(\')  Job  (3),  son  of  John  and  Ann  (Hall) 
Bacon,  was  born  at  Greenwich,  New  Jersey. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  at  one  time  engaged  in 
the  vegetable  canning  business.  He  married 
Rachel,  daughter  of  Moses,  Jr.,  and  .Ann 
(  Bacon )  Sheppard.  his  half  first  cousin.  Her 
grandfather  Moses.  Sr.,  was  the  son  of  John 
and  Priscilla  ( Wood )  Sheppard.  and  her 
grandmother  the  daughter  of  Charles  and  Re- 
becca (Miller)  Bacon.  Charles  Bacon  was 
the  grandson  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Smith) 
Bacon,  referred  to  in  the  first  generation.  Chil- 
dren of  Job  and  Rachel  (Sheppard)  Bacon 
were:  i.  John  Murray,  living  in  Boston,  Mass- 
achusetts, anil  engaged  in'  the  paint  and  od 
business;  married  a  Miss  Bailey,  of  Philadel- 
phia, and  has  one  son.  George.  2.  Anna 
Thompson,  born  in  1856;  unmarried.  3.  Caro- 
line Wood,  died  in  1893:  married  \\'illiam 
Bacon,  no  relation.  4.  (leorge  Sheppard.  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(\'I)  George  Sheppard.  youngest  child  of 
Job  (3)  and  Rachel  (Sheppard)  Bacon,  was 
born  in  Greenwich,  Cumberland  county.  New 
Jersey,  .\ugust  23,  1864,  and  is  now  living  in 
Millville,  New  Jersey.  His  mother  died  when 
her  son  was  about  three  years  old.  For  his 
early  education  he  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Greenwich  and  liacon's  Neck,  New  Jersey, 
and  the  boarding  school  at  \\'esttown,  Penn- 
sylvania. After  leaving  school  he  entered  the 
office  of  Whitall,  Tatum  &  Company,  of  Phila- 
delphia, where  he  remained  for  about  a  year 
and  then  was  transferred  to  the  office  of  the 
same  firm  at  their  works  in  Millville.  By 
faithful  service  as  boy  and  man  for  this  firm 
he  won  his  promotion  from  grade  to  grade 
until  he  has  now  reached  his  present  position 
of  general  manager  and  superintendent  of  their 
large  glass  works,  and  has  become  a  stock- 
holder in  the  corporation.  Mr.  Bacon  is  a 
member  of  the  Societv  of  Friends,  as  have  been 


all  of  his  family  back  of  him.  and  in  politics  he  is 
a  Reiiublican.  He  is  a  director  ni  the  West 
jersey  antl  Seashore  Railroad  Comisany. 

In  November,  1889,  George  Sheppard  Bacon 
married  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Lorenzo  and 
Hannah  Mulford.  Her  father  is  a  contractor 
of  Millville.  They  have  four  children:  i. 
Margaret  Mickle.  jjorn  March  23,  i8yi  ;  now 
at  Miss  Lord's  private  school  at  Stamford, 
C\)nnecticut.  2.  job  Lawrence,  November  24, 
1892  ;  now  at  the  Penn  Charter  School  in  Phila- 
delphia. 3.  Caroline  Wood,  August  2y,  1894. 
4.  Elizabeth  Mickle,  August  3,  1900. 


For  many  years  the  Sherk  family 
SHERK  has  left  its  impress  upon  the  his- 
tory and  institutions  of  Lebanon 
cimnty,  I'ennsylvania.  and  it  is  rather  with  that 
state  than  witli  New  jersey  that  its  affiliations 
ought  to  be  found.  Dr.  Harry  Huber  Sherk. 
however,  has  already  added  to  New  Jersey's 
roll  of  honor  the  name  of  his  family,  and  it  is 
impossible  to  speak  of  the  representative  men 
of  Camden,  New  Jersey,  without  giving  some 
account  of  what  he  is  and  has  done.  Dr.  Sherk 
is  the  grandson  of  Casper  Sherk,  and  the  son 
of  .Abraham  and  Rebecca  (Huber)  Sherk,  of 
Lebanon  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  was 
born  March  24,  1859.  His  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  Abraham  Huber.  of  Chambers- 
burg,  Franklin  county.  Pennsylvania.  His 
father  was  born  .August  12,  i8oy.  in  Lebanon 
county. 

Dr.  Sherk  was  sent  for  his  early  education 
to  the  public  schools  of  Lebanon  county,  and 
then  entered  the  Lebanon  \alley  College  at 
.Anvil,  Pennsylvania.  After  leaving  this  insti- 
tution he  v.'ent  to  the  College  of  Pharmacy  at 
Philadelphia,  where  he  graduated  with  the 
degree  of  Ph.  G.  He  then  went  to  the  Jeffer- 
son Medical  College,  of  Philadelphia,  from 
which  he  received  his  ^L  D.  degree  in  1886. 
immediately  after  which  he  came  to  Camden, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  became  connected  with 
the  dispensary  of  the  Cooper  Ho.spital.  After 
remaining  here  for  a  time,  he  set  up  in  the 
general  practice  of  his  profession  in  Camden, 
where  he  has  remained  ever  since.  His  prac- 
tice rapidly  increased,  and  his  pleasing  person- 
ality, skill  in  the  treatment  of  disease,  and 
acumen  in  diagnosis,  rapidly  brought  him  suc- 
cess and  a  most  lucrative  practice.  In  the 
medical  society  to  which  he  belongs  he  is  re- 
garded as  one  of  the  great  authorities  and  his 
opinion  carries  the  greatest  weight.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Medical 
.As.sociation.  Camden  County  Medical  Society. 


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Camden  City  Medical  Society  and  State  Medi- 
cal Society.  In  politics  he  is  an  independent.  He 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  East  Side 
Trust  Company,  of  Camden,  New  Jersey,  and 
from  its  organization  has  been  a  member  of 
the  corporation  board  of  managers  and 
directors.  lie  is  a  director  in  the  East  Side 
Building  Association,  of  Camden. 

Harry  Huber  Sherk,  AI.  D.,  married  Emma 
Katharine,  daughter  of  Andrew  Light,  of  Leb- 
anon county,  I'eiuisylvania,  where  she  was 
born  March  21,  i860.  Children:  i.  Kath- 
arine Rebecca,  born  May  15,  1888.  2.  Helen 
Emma,  July  13,  1891.  3.  Clara  Louise,  1892, 
died  aged  seventeen  months.  4.  Abraham  Lin 
coin,  August  29,  1896.  5.  Mary  Alice,  Decem- 
ber 5,   1902. 

The   Roberts    family   of   New 
R(  )r>ER  rS    Jersey  is  another  instance   of 

the  men  who  sought  peace  and 
prosperity  and  the  free  exercise  of  their  newly 
acquired  religious  convictions  in  the  Quaker 
colonies  of  West  Jersey,  the  founder  of  the 
family  being  among  those  who  came  over  to 
the  new  world  in  the  second  ship  which  left 
English  ports  for  the  Delaware. 

( I )  John  Roberts  and  his  wife,  Sarah,  be- 
longed to  the  parish  of  Ourton,  county  War- 
wick, England,  and  having  been  converted  to 
the  tenets  of  ( ieorge  Eox  they  embarked  for 
West  Jersey  in  the  ship  "Kent"  and  landed  at 
New  Castle  on  the  Delaware  in  August,  1677, 
with  the  first  shipload  of  settlers  sent  out  by 
the  ]iroprietors.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  settled 
on  two  hundred  and  sixty-seven  acres  which 
he  had  surveyed  to  him  on  the  north  branch 
of  the  Penisaukin  creek,  living  with  his  family 
in  a  cave  until  his  log  house  could  be  erected. 
He  afterwards  had  other  tracts  of  land  sur- 
veyed for  him  further  up  the  stream  and 
reaching  into  l'"vesham  townshii).  In  1682  he 
and  \\  illiani  Matlack  and  Timothy  Hancock 
established  the  I'>iends  meeting  called  the 
.Adams  meeting.  His  house  was  built  near  the 
present  turnpike  between  Moorestown  and 
Camden.  His  widow,  who  survived  him  many 
years,  was  an  exceptionally  bright  and  clever 
woman  with  a  keen  intellect  and  a  remarkable 
business  ability.  In  1696  she  signed  the  agree- 
ment as  one  of  the  taxpayers  when  the  town- 
ship of  Chester  was  organized,  and  she  was 
one  of  the  grantees  of  the  land  for  the  Adams 
meeting  burying  ground  in  1700.  John  Rob- 
erts tlied  in  1695,  intestate,  the  inventory  of 
his  estate  being  made  May  7,  and  letters  of 
administration    being   granted    to    his    widow. 


Cktober  12,  of  that  year.  John  and  Sarah 
Roberts  had  four  children:  i.  John,  referred 
to  below.  2.  Sarah,  married,  in  1705,  Enoch 
Core.  3.  Hannah,  married  (first)  1699,  Sam- 
uel Burrough,  and  (second)  in  1733,  Richard 
Bidgood.  4.  Mary,  married,  in  1699.  Thomas, 
son  of  Thomas  and  Ann  Eves,  the  emigrants. 

(H)  John  (2),  the  only  son  of  John  (i) 
and  .Sarah  Roberts,  died  September  9,  1747, 
and  was  buried  in  Aloorestown,  where  his  wife 
was  afterwards  laid  beside  him.  He  was  a 
prosperous  farmer  and  business  man.  In  1736 
he  erected  on  the  property  which  he  inherited 
fmm  his  father  the  large  brick  house  which 
the  faiuily  have  owned  for  several  generations 
and  which  is  still  standing  and  known  by  his 
name.  His  widow  dieil  February  11,  1759. 
He  married  in  the  Chester  Friends  meeting  in 
1 71 2,  Mary,  daughter  of  George  Elkinton,  of 
Burlington,  the  emigrant,  and  had  eight  chil- 
dren:  I.  John.  2.  Joshua,  referred  to  below. 
3.  Mary,  married  Thomas,  son  of  Henry  and 
Elizabeth  ( Austin )  Warrington.  4.  Sarah, 
married  William,  son  of  Thomas  and  Esther 
(Haines)  Evans.  5.  Enoch,  married  Rachel, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Kendall) 
Coles.  6.  Hannah,  married  Isaac,  son  of 
Thomas  and  Esther  (Haines)  Evans.  7.  Eliz- 
abeth, married  Benjamin,  son  of  Abram  and 
Grace  (Hollingshead)  Haines.     8.  Deborah. 

(Ill)  Joshua,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Mary 
(  Elkinton)  Roberts,  was  born  May  27,  1715; 
died  January  28,  1795.  In  1741  he  married 
Rebecca,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Judith  (Lip- 
pincott )  Stokes,  born  March  28,  1720,  died 
November,  1815.  Children:  i.  John,  married 
Phebe  .Andrews.  2.  Samuel,  married  Eliza- 
beth Shute.  3.  Rebecca,  married  Hugh,  son 
of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Burden)  Cowperthwait 
and  grandson  of  John  and  -Sarah  (Adams) 
Cowperthwait.  4.  William,  married  Elizabeth 
Cjrinslade.  5.  Joseph,  referred  to  below.  6. 
Joshua,  died  unmarried. 

( I\' )  Joseph,  son  of  Joshua  and  Rebecca 
(  Stokes)  Roberts,  was  born  June  8,  1742,  died 
February  22,  1826.  He  was  a  farmer,  one  of 
the  leading  men  in  his  tow'nship,  and  lived  in 
the  house  built  in  1736  by  his  grandfather. 
He  married  Susanna,  born  Octobei  3,  1751. 
died  Sejitember  29,  1828,  daughter  of  Kendall 
Cole  and  .Ann,  daughter  of  William  Budd  and 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  and  .Abigail 
.Stockton,  the  emigrants.  \\'illiam  was  the  son 
of  William  and  Ann  (Clapgut)  Budd,  the  emi- 
grants ;  and  Kendall  was  the  son  of  Samuel 
Cole  and  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Kendall, 
the  emigrant,  and  Mary,  daughter  of  Francis 


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LolliiKs.  the  iniinigraiU.  and  his  second  wife, 
Mary  (Biidd)  GosHn,  the  widow  of  Dr.  John 
(josHn,  of  Burhngton,  and  daughter  of  Thomas 
Hudd,  the  emigrant,  and  brother  to  WiUiam 
lUidd.the  emigrant.  Samuel  was  the  son  of  Sam- 
uel and  Elizabeth  Cole,  the  emigrants.  Children 
of  Joseph  and  Susanna  (Cole)  Roberts  were: 
I.  Alary.  2.  Joseph,  married  Rachel,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Eves)  Evans.  3. 
William,  married  Ann  Brick.  4.  Rebecca,  inar- 
ried  Joseph,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Eves) 
i'"vans.  5.  George,  married  Abigail  Brown.  6. 
Josiah,  married  Mary  French.  7.  Abel.  8. 
.■\im,  married  John,  son  of  Jabez  and  Sarah 
(Evans)  Buzby.    9.  David,  referred  to  below. 

( \' )  David,  son  of  Joseph  and  Susanna 
(Cole)  Roberts,  was  born  F"ebruary  14,  1792 
<lied  December  9,  1880.  He  inherited  the  old 
homestead.  He  married  Rachel,  daughter  of 
Joshua  and  Rachel  Hunt,  of  Redstone,  Fay- 
ette comity,  Pennsylvania,  by  whom  he  had  nine 
chiUlren :  i.  Esther,  born  August  23,  1816; 
died  unmarried,  October  4,  1896.  2.  Elisha, 
referred  to  below.  3.  Edwin,  February  24, 
1821  :  married  Anna  B.  Passmore.  4.  Joseph, 
July  25,  1823;  died  in  childhood.  5.  Mary, 
August  21,  1825;  unmarried.  6.  Rebecca,  Au- 
gust 7,  1827;  died  unmarried.  7.  .A.nna  B., 
October  7,  1829.  8.  Susanna,  January  4,  1832; 
married  Jcmathan  G.  Williams.  9.  Rachel 
liunt.  January  30,  1834;  unmarried. 

(  \  1  )  i'llisha,  second  child  and  eldest  son  of 
David  and  Rachel  (Hunt)  Roberts,  was  born 
June  30,  1818,  in  Chester  township,  Burling- 
ton county.  New  Jersey.  He  married,  Febru- 
ary 24,  1842,  Elizabeth  W.  Hooten,  born  in 
Evesham,  now  Alount  Laurel  township,  Bur- 
lington county.  New  Jersey,  July  16,  1819. 
-She  is  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Hooten,  son  of 
William  Hooten,  who  came  from  F^ngland  in 
the  year  1677  and  settled  in  Plvesliam,  now 
Mount  Laurel  township,  Burlington  county, 
Xew  Jersey,  and  married  Mary  Lippincott.  of 
.Shrewsbury,  New  Jersey,  in  1697.  William 
Hooten,  son  of  Thomas  and  Marv  Hooten, 
was  born  Sejitember  2,  1698.  and  was  married 
in  Friends'  meeting  house  in  Evesham  to  .\nn 
Sharp,  widow  of  John  Sharp,  and  daughter  of 
Thomas  Haines,  of  North  Hamjiton,  Burling- 
ton county,  November  21,  1730.  Thomas 
Hooten,  son  of  William  and  Ann  Hooten,  was 
born  March  17,  1734,  died  May,  1825.  He 
married.  January  21,  1760,  Bathsheba  Brad- 
dock,  born  .August  3,  1738,  died  -September  7, 
17(39,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Elizabeth 
(  Bates)  Braddock,  and  granddaughter  of  Rob- 
ert Braddock,  the  emigrant.     Thomas  flooten 


married  (second)  December  i,  1774.  Atlantic 
Stokes,  widow  of  Joseph  Stokes,  in  Friends' 
meeting  house  in  Moorestown,  New  Jersey. 
.\tlantic  was  the  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Mary 
ISispham,  and  was  born  March  22,  1737,  while 
crossing  the  ocean  and  named  by  the  captain 
of  the  vessel,  Atlantic  or  Atlantica,  who  pre- 
sented her  with  silk  for  a  dress.  Thomas  and 
Bathsheba  (Braddock)  Hooten  had  three  chil- 
dren: i.  William,  born  December  10,  1762;  ii. 
Deborah,  born  1764,  married  Joshua  Stokes, 
son  of  Joseph  and  Atlantic  Stokes  ;  iii.  Thomas, 
born  1766,  died  June  11,  1806;  married  Ann 
Wynn,  who  died  .\ugust  6,  1857.  Thomas  and 
.\tlantic  ( I!isi)ham-Stokes )  Hooten  had  four 
children:  i.  Benjamin,  bom  .-Xpril  2,  1776,  died 
.\pril  4,  1862;  married  Beulah  Mullen,  who 
ilied  January  21,  1861 :  ii.  Joseph,  referred  to 
below;  iii.  Isaac,  born  November  3,  1781,  un- 
married: iv.  William,  born  February  9,  1784, 
died  November,  1853;  married  ElizalDeth  West, 
of  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  who  died  July  18. 
1864.  Joseph,  son  of  Thomas  and  .\tlantic 
(  Bispham-Stokes )  Hooten,  was  born  June  4, 
1778,  died  November  11,  1839.  ITe  married, 
November  11,  1813,  in  Friends'  meeting  house 
in  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  Sarah  Pippett,  born 
February  7,  1788,  died  September  21,  1869, 
daughter  of  Moses  and  Sarah  Pijipett,  Their 
children  were:  i.  Isaac,  born  January  19, 
1815,  died  aged  eighteen  months:  ii.  Joseph, 
born  .\ugust  30,  1817,  died  November  8,  1878: 
married.  May  25,  1843,  in  \\'estfield  meeting 
hou.se.  Anna  Warrington,  daughter  of  Henry 
and  .\nna  Warrington :  iii.  Elizabeth  West, 
born  July  lb,  1819,  married  Elisha  Roberts, 
referred  to  above;  she  died  March  13,  1889. 
The  children  of  Elisha  and  Elizabeth  West 
(Hooten)  Roberts  were:  r.  .Sarah  H.,  born 
January  29,  1843;  married  Samuel  L.  .Allen. 
2.  .Anna  \\'.,  born  Alarch  15,  1845  !  drowned  at 
.Atlantic  City,  July  10,  1874.  3,  Joseph  H., 
born  December  15,  1846;  died  July  26,  1847. 
4.  Elizabeth  H..  born  April  20,  1848;  married 
Edward  B,  Richie,  5.  David,  referred  to  be- 
low. 6.  Samuel  S.,  born  July  24,  1852;  died 
March  21,  1854.  7.  Joseph  Hooten,  referred  to 
below.  8.  Esther,  born  June  29,  1857  ;  died  Au- 
gust 8,  1858.  9.  William  H.,born  .Kpril  16,  1859. 
(VTI)  David,  son  of  Elisha  and  Elizabeth 
West  (Hooten)  Roberts,  was  born  near 
Moorestown.  June  ig,  1850,  and  is  now  living 
in  that  town.  He  was  educated  in  private 
schools  and  at  boarding  school,  and  then  en- 
gaged in  farming  until  1886,  when  he  engaged 
in  the  hotel  business  with  his  brother,  Joseph 
Ho(iten   Roberts,   at   .Atlantic  City.     In    1893- 


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94  he  built  his  present  residence  in  Moores- 
town  and  retired  from  business  in  1898.  He 
has  a  large  farm  near  Moorestown,  where  he 
carries  on  a  milk  and  dairy  business  and  truck 
farming,  taking  his  products  to  the  Philadel- 
phia markets.  He  has  served  as  one  of  the 
township  committeemen,  and  he  is  a  member 
of  the  Society  of  P^riends.  He  married,  in 
1876,  Elizabeth  L..  daughter  of  John  C.  Allen, 
the  founder  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy  in 
Philadelphia.  Children:  i.  Anna  Warrington, 
died  at  sixteen  years  of  age.  while  at  boarding 
school.  2.  David  Allen,  a  member  of  an  elec- 
tric and  construction  company  in  Philadelphia ; 
he  married,  April,  1909,  Helen,  daughter  of 
John  Bushnell,  of  Plainfield,  New  Jerse).  and 
lives  in  a  beautiful  house  which  he  has  built 
next  to  his  father.  3.  Elizabeth  Allen.  4. 
Herbert  .-Mien,  a  member  of  the  firm  of  George 
D.  Wetherill  &  Company.  ])aint  dealers.  Phil- 
adelphia. The  last  two  meuti(Mie<l  live  with 
tlieir  father. 

(\'II)  Joseph  Hooten,  son  of  Elisha  and 
Elizabeth  West  (Hooten)  Roberts,  was  born 
in  Moorestown,  .\pril  29,  1854,  and  is  now 
living  in  that  town.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Moorestown,  and  then  went  with 
his  brother  to  the  Westtown  boarding  school 
in  Chester  county.  Pennsylvania.  F"or  the  fol- 
lowing twelve  years  after  leaving  school  he 
engaged  in  farming.  He  then  engaged  in  the 
hotel  business  at  .\tlantic  City  with  his  brother, 
David  Roberts,  conducting  the  Chalfonte  Hotel, 
built  by  his  father  and  conducted  by  him  from 
1868  to  1885.  In  1897  Joseph  H.  Roberts  built 
his  present  house  in  Aloorestown.  and  the  fol- 
lowing year  he  and  his  brother  gave  up  the 
hotel  business  and  came  to  Moorestown  to 
reside.  Like  his  brother.  David,  he  conducts 
a  large  truck  and  dairy  farm  near  Moorestown. 
He  is  a  director  in  the  Moorestown  Bank  and 
in  the  Burlington  County  Safe  Deposit  and 
Trust  Company.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Soci- 
ety of  Friends.  He  married,  October,  1880. 
Mary  C,  daughter  of  Isaac  Collins  and  Mar\- 
(  Percival)  Stokes,  granddaughter  of  Isaac  and 
Lydia  (Collins)  Stokes,  and  great-grand- 
daughter I  if  John  and  Beulah  (Haines)  Stokes. 
Children:  i.  .Alfred  Stokes,  now  a  student  in 
Haverford  (^'ollege.  2.  Mary  Stokes,  now  a 
student  in  W'ellesley  College. 


( F'^oT-    [)r<'ctMliiig    g:encrations    set-    .Jolin     Uoboi-t.'^    1). 

(Ill)    Enoch,  son  of  John  and 

ROBERTS     Mary  (  Elkinton  )  Roberts,  was 

born  in  1717;  died  in  1784.    In 

1744  he  married  Rachel  Coles,  born  1716,  died 


1738.  Children:  i.  Mary,  born  1744;  mar- 
ried Anthony  .\llen.  2.  Samuel,  referred  to 
below.  3.  Elizabeth,  1747;  married  Jonas  Cat- 
tel.  4.  Rachel,  1749;  married  Joshua  Dudley. 
5.  Esther,  1751  ;  married  Joshua  Hunt.  6. 
Sarah,  1753;  died  1758.  7.  Enoch,  Jr.,  1756; 
died  1758. 

(  I\' )  Samuel,  second  child  and  eldest  son 
of  Enoch  and  Rachel  ( Coles )  Roberts,  was 
born  in  1746.  He  married  Hannah  Stiles. 
Children:  i.  Rachel,  born  1773;  married  Job 
Dudley.  2.  Sarah,  1776;  married  George  ^iat- 
lack.  3.  Mary,  1779;  married  Joshua  Lippin- 
cott.  4.  Hannah,  1781  ;  died  1782.  5.  Lydia, 
1785  :  died  1797.  6.  Enoch,  1787;  married  Ann 
Matlack.  7.  Samuel,  1789;  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Eves)  Evans. 

8.  Hannah,    1792:    married    l.evi    Lippincott. 

9.  .Asa,  referred  to  below. 

( \' )  Asa,  youngest  child  of  Samuel  and 
Hannah  (Stiles)  Roberts,  was  born  in  1795, 
on  the  original  land  which  had  been  owned  by 
his  father  and  direct  ancestors  from  John 
Roberts  down.  He  married  (first)  Anna, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Priscilla  (Brion) 
Li]ipincott :  married  (  second  )  Rachel  P)alliuger  ; 
(third)  Hannah  (  Ballinger )  Stiles.  His  chil- 
dren, all  from  .Anna  Lip]Mncott.  his  first  wife, 
were:  I.  Samuel  L.,  born  in  1822;  died  in 
1881  ;  married  Sarah  W.  Jones.  2.  Lydia, 
1824;  married  Josiah  Roberts,  son  of  Josiah 
and  Mary  (French)  Roberts.  3.  Isaac,  1827; 
died  1830.  4.  Charles,  1829:  died  1830.  5. 
Emmor.  referred  to  below.  6.  Susan,  1833: 
remained  unmarried  :  was  actively  engaged  in 
early  life  in  teaching  and  later  as  one  of  the 
editors  of  Friends'  Iiiti'lli(/ciiccr,  of  Philadel- 
phia: she  died  in  1888.  7.  Priscilla  P.,  1835: 
died  1835.  8.  Elizabeth,  1836  ;  married  Nathan 
Haines,  of  Baltimore;  she  is  still  living. 

(  \'l  I  Emmor,  son  of  .Asa  and  Anna  (Lip- 
pincott )  Roberts,  was  born  in  Evesham  town- 
slii]).  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  Febru- 
ary 16,  1 83 1.  He  received  a  very  goixl  educa- 
tion for  a  farmer's  son  of  that  day,  having 
been  sent  to  the  school  of  Benjamin  Halloweli 
at  Alexandria,  A'irginia.  He  afterwards  was 
a  teacher  in  the  same  school  and  taught  mathe- 
matics there.  .As  many  of  the  students  in  the 
school  were  sons  of  congressmen  being  pre- 
pared for  West  Point,  the  instruction  given 
was  necessarily  very  thorough',  especially  was 
this  so  with  the  mathematics.  In  1837  he  mar- 
ried Martha,  daughter  of  Israel  and  Maria 
(Wallace)  Lippincott.  By  that  time  he  had 
become  a  farmer,  which  business  he  continued 
to  follow  as  his  principal  occupation   for  the 


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remainder  of  liis  life.  He  was  always  a  public 
spirited  useful  citizen  and  left  the  marks  of 
his  energy  and  good  sound  sense  on  many 
organizations  and  enterprises.  We  first  find 
him  taking  part  in  the  little  local  affairs  of  his 
neighborhood,  township  clerk,  clerk  of  the  dis- 
trict school — a  thankless  position  of  consider- 
able responsibility  which  he  held  for  many 
years.  .A.  little  later  we  find  him  a  member  of 
the  broad  of  chosen  freehoUlers  of  the  county 
and  director  of  the  board ;  director  of  the 
Mount  Holly  Insurance  Company  and  of  the 
.Moorestown  and  Camden  Turnpike  Company. 
For  the  last  twenty-five  years  of  his  life  he 
was  the  president  of  the  last  named  company. 
For  thirty-six  years  he  served  as  a  director  of 
the  National  State  Bank,  of  Camden,  and  was 
for  a  few  years  near  the  close  of  his  life  vice- 
president  of  that  institution.  He  was  on  the 
board  of  managers  of  Swarthmore  College 
from  1877  to  the  time  of  his  death,  serving  on 
many  of  the  important  committees  of  that 
board.  For  over  twenty  years  he  was  chair- 
man of  the  executive  committee  of  the  board. 
Besides  such  positions  of  a  semi-public  char- 
acter he  acted  as  executor  or  administrator  in 
settling  a  number  of  estates,  and  did  some  sur- 
veying and  conveyancing.  He  was  a  birth- 
right member  of  the  Society  of  Friends  and 
always  took  an  earnest  and  devoted  interest  in 
that  body  and  their  meetings.  For  a  period 
of  ten  years  or  more  he  was  the  clerk  of  his 
(juarterly  meeting,  and  for  fifteen  years,  from 
1886  to  1901,  he  served  as  clerk  of  the  yearly 
meeting  of  Friends  which  meets  at  Fifteenth 
and  Race  streets  in  Philadelphia  (sometimes 
called  Hicksites).  He  died  April  7,  1908,  leav- 
ing his  widow'  and  four  children  surviving  him. 
His  children  are:  i.  Israel,  born  in  1858; 
studied  law  and  now  a  member  of  the  New 
Jersey  bar.  2.  Alice,  born  in  1861  ;  married 
John  J.  Williams,  of  Norristown,  Pennsyl- 
vania, son  of  Charles  and  Hannah  (Stokes) 
Williams.  3.  Horace  Roberts,  born  in  1868: 
married  (first)  Emma  Thomas  and  had  by 
her  three  sons :  Emmor,  Preston  Thomas  and 
Byron  Thomas  Roberts;  married  (second) 
Elizabeth  P.  Hooton,  and  by  her  he  has  three 
children,  Horace,  Jr.,  Mary  H.  and  Martha. 
Horace  lives  on  his  father's  old  homestead 
farm  and  is  successful  and  prosperous.  He 
has  acquired  several  other  farms  and  makes 
the  raising  of  fruit  his  specialty.  4.  Walter, 
M.  D.,  born  1870;  married  Lydia  Parry,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  S.  and  Anna  (Satterthwaite) 
Williams,  has  two  daughters,  Anna  S.  and 
Lvdia  \\'.  Roberts.    He  lives  in  Riverton,  New 


Jersey,  and  makes  daily  trips  to  Philadelphia 
to  attend  to  his  practice  as  a  specialist  on  the 
ear.  nose  and  throat. 


The  Hildreth  family  of  New 
HILDRETH     Jersey  comes  from  that  stal^ 

wart  band  of  seafaring  men 
who  throughout  the  whole  course  of  its  history 
has  given  Cape  May  county  a  place  and  rank 
unique  in  the  state  and  Cnion.  As  in  the  case 
of  other  families  descended  from  these  noble 
mariners,  it  is  difficult  from  the  lack  of  authen- 
tic records  to  trace  the  earlier  generation  of 
the  Hildreth  family  in  this  country. 

( I )  George  Hildreth.  of  Cape  May  county. 
New  Jersey,  lived  at  Cold  Spring,  New  Jersey, 
and  became  a  pilot  on  the  Delaware  river.  He 
was  one  of  New  Jersey's  staunchest  Demo- 
crats and  served  his  township  in  various  local 
offices.  In  religious  belief  he  was  a  Presby- 
terian and  was  very  active  in  the  work  of  the 
old  historic  Cold  Spring  Church  and  did  all  in 
his  power  to  uplift  humanity  and  better  the 
conditions  of  human  life.  Children:  i.  .\lvin 
Parker,  referred  to  below.  2.  Eliza  E.,  mar- 
ried Lafayette  Miller.  3.  Daniel.  4.  Ann  Jane, 
never  married. 

(II)  Alvin  I'arker,  eldest  child  of  George 
Hildreth,  was  born  in  Cold  Spring,  New 
Jersey,  June  11,  1831,  died  in  Cape  May  City, 
.\ugust  3,  1897.  In  early  life  he  was  engaged 
in  teaching  school  and  completed  his  education 
within  the  classic  walls  of  Yale  University. 
He  was  a  man  of  strong  individuality  and 
marked  intellectuality,  and  in  public  life  was 
frequently  called  to  positions  of  prominence 
and  trust.  For  some  time  he  was  engaged  in 
the  hotel  business  in  Cape  May,  and  was  after- 
wards the  proprietor  of  the  Metropolitan  Hotel 
in  W^ashington,  District  of  Columbia.  Subse- 
quently he  returned  to  Cape  May,  where  he 
conducted  one  of  the  leading  hotels  in  that 
sections  of  the  state.  Prompt,  energetic  and 
thoroughly  reliable,  his  reputation  in  business 
circles  was  indeed  enviable,  and  he  had  the 
happy  faculty  of  winning  warm  friendships. 
He  was  a  recognized  leader  in  Democratic 
circles,  and  at  one  time  was  a  member  of  the 
riparian  commission  of  New  Jersey,  and  twice 
was  elected  to  represent  his  district  in  the 
assembly  of  the  state.  In  local  affairs  he  exer- 
cised a  marked  influence,  and  his  co-o])eration 
was  always  given  to  movements  and  measures 
that  were  calculated  to  advance  the  progress 
and  welfare  of  the  community.  His  Masonic 
relations  w'ere  with  the  Cape  Island  Lodge, 
of  which  he  was  a  valued  and  influential  mem- 


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ber.  He  married,  in  December,  1854,  Lydia 
Hughes,  born  October  28,  1832,  died  January 
4,  i8()2,  daughter  of  Eh  B.  and  Sarah 
(Hughes)  Wales.  Children:  Howard  Wales, 
Frank  Harding,  James  Alonroe  Edmonds,  see 
below  ;  Alvin  Parker,  Jr. 

Desire  ( Howland )  Gorham,  who  died  at 
r.arnstable,  Massachusetts,  October  13,  1683, 
was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Tilley)  Howland,  and  granddaughter  of  John 
Howland,  one  of  the  "^Mayflower"  passengers, 
who  died  February  23,  1673;  married  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  John  Tilley,  another  "May- 
flower" passenger.  Hannah  Gorham,  daughter 
of  Captain  John  and  Desire  (Howland)  Gor- 
ham, was  born  at  Barnstable,  Massachusetts, 
Xovember  28,  1663:  married,  about  1683,  Jo- 
seph W'hilldin,  of  Yarmouth.  Hannah  Whill- 
din,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Alary  (Wildman) 
W'hilldin,  granddaughter  of  Joseph,  son  of 
Joseph  and  Hannah  (Gorham)  W'hilldin,  was 
born  about  1690,  died  at  Cape  May,  March 
18,  1784:  married  Ellis  Hughes.  Ellis  Hughes, 
son  of  Ellis  and  Flaimah  (W'hilldin)  Hughes, 
was  born  August  16,  1745,  died  April  16,  1817; 
married  1762,  Thomas  Hirst,  born  January  10, 
1769,  died  November  10,  1839,  married,  De- 
cember 3,  1788,  was  the  son  of  Ellis  and  Elea- 
nor (Hirst)  Hughes.  Sarah  Plughes,  born 
Alay  31,  1800,  was  the  daughter  of  Thomas 
Hirst  and  Lydia  (Page)  Hughes;  married,  in 
1818,  Eli  B.  Wales.  She  was  the  mother  of 
Lydia  Hughes  Wales,  who  married  Alvin 
Parker  Hildreth. 

(HI)  James  Monroe  Edmonds,  third  child 
and  son  of  Alvin  Parker  and  Lydia  Hughes 
(Wales)  Hildreth,  was  born  in  Cape  May  City, 
New  Jersey,  December  9,  1858.  He  spent  the 
early  years  of  his  life  in  his  native  city  and 
was  then  taken  to  Mount  Holly  where  he  com- 
pleted his  education  in  the  Mount  Holly  .'\cad- 
emy.  an  excellent  institution.  Determining  to 
enter  the  legal  profession  he  became  a  student 
in  the  law  office  of  his  uncle,  Walter  A.  Bar- 
rows, and  also  studied  under  the  direction  of 
the  Hon.  Joseph  H.  Gaskell,  later  president 
judge  of  Burlington  county.  He  diligently 
a])|ilied  himself  to  the  task  of  mastering  the 
principles  of  jurisprudence,  and  after  a  care- 
ful ]jre]iaration  he  was  admitted  to  practice 
in  the  courts  of  New  Jersey  in  June,  1881. 
I  K-  tlu-n  ri'turneil  to  Cape  May  City  and  enter- 
ed upon  the  practice  of  his  profession,  and  his 
business  has  steadily  increased  until  now 
(  1909)  he  has  an  e.xtensive  and  distinctly 
representative  clientage.  His  devotion  to  his 
clients  is  ])r()verbial.  yet  it  is  saiil  that  he  never 


advised  any  one  to  enter  litigation  except  to 
right  a  wrong.  He  is  an  indefatigable  and 
earnest  worker,  and  the  litigation  with  which 
he  has  been  connected  has  been  of  a  very  im- 
portant character.  His  practice  has  been  gen- 
eral and  he  is  proficient  in  every  department 
of  the  law  ;  his  keenly  analytical  mind  and  his 
broad  knowledge  of  the  principles  of  jurispru- 
dence have  enabled  him  to  apply  to  the  point  in 
controversy  the  law  which  bears  most  closely 
upon  it,  citing  authority  and  precedent  until 
the  strengtii  of  his  case  is  seen  clearly  by  both 
judge  and  jury.  His  deductions  are  logical  and 
the  force  of  his  argument  is  shown  in  the  many 
verdicts  which  he  has  won  favorable  to  his 
clients.  He  is  also  interested  in  Cape  May 
real  estate,  and  owns  much  property  in  the  city 
and  vicinity.  All  enterprising  movements  re- 
ceive his  encouragement  and  substantial  aid 
is  given  to  matters  and  measures  for  the  public 
good.  He  is  a  Mason,  a  Heptasoph  and  a 
Red  Man. 

In  both  political  and  business  circles  he  is 
known  throughout  New  Jersey.  His  has  been 
a  career  commendable  for  its  fidelity  to  duty  in 
all  the  relations  of  life,  and  he  has  honored  the 
state  and  district  which  he  has  represented. 
In  business  he  is  the  soul  of  honor  and  integ- 
rity. In  social  circles  he  is  affable  and 
courteous,  and  his  whole  career  has  been  per- 
meated by  the  kindliness  and  sympathy  that 
have  arisen  from  a  personal  interest  in  his 
fellowmen.  His  political  prominence  is  the 
result  of  eminent  fitness  for  leadership  and  the 
ability  which  he  has  shown  in  the  discharge  of 
the  duties  entrusted  to  him.  In  February, 
1888,  he  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar 
as  a  counsellor.  In  1883  he  was  chosen  by 
the  city  council  for  the  oiifice  of  city  solicitor,  a 
position  which  he  held  for  two  terms,  and  in 
which  he  won  the  highest  commendation  of  all 
by  the  maimer  in  which  he  performed  the 
duties  that  devolved  upon  him.  In  March, 
1893,  he  was  chosen  as  the  chief  executive  of 
Cape  May  City,  and  in  that  year  he  was  instru- 
mental in  holding  a  Fourth  of  July  celebration, 
which  will  ever  be  memorable  in  the  history 
of  the  city.  Benjamin  Harrison,  e.x-president 
of  the  United  States,  was  the  distinguished 
guest  and  the  princijial  speaker  on  that  occa- 
sion, and  Mr.  Hildreth  introduced  Mr.  Harri- 
son and  presided  over  the  ceremonies  in  a 
manner  that  elicited  the  warmest  praise  of  his 
fellow  townsmen.  During  his  mayoralty  mark- 
ed improvement  was  made  in  the  city  in  many 
ways,  and  yet.  so  economical  was  his  manage- 
ment of  his  business  affairs  of  Cape  May,  that 


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each  taxpayer  was  saved  fourteen  per  cent  of 
the  usual  net  amount  of  his  tax.  In  1895  the 
city  council  again  elected  Mr.  Hildreth  to  the 
office  of  city  solicitor,  and  in  1897  he  was  again 
elected  mayor.  To  those  who  are  acijuainted 
with  him  it  it  needless  to  say  that  his  adminis- 
tration was  progressive  and  henehcial.  In 
1898  he  was  a  prominent  candidate  for  con- 
gressional honors  in  the  first  district,  and  al- 
though he  did  not  seek  the  nomination  he  re- 
ceived the  most  flattering  vote  of  eighty-one 
hallots.  In  1900  he  was  also  spoken  of  prom- 
inently by  his  friends  as  a  candidate  for  con- 
gress. In  1904-05-06  he  was  elected  to  the 
New  Jersey  legislature  from  Cape  Alay  county, 
and  1907  was  elected  the  city  solicitor  of  Sea 
Isle  City,  a  position  which  he  still  retains.  In 
1906  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Stokes  of 
New  Jersey  judge  of  Cape  May  county. 

Judge  Hildreth  is  an  earnest  champion  of 
the  principles  of  the  Republican  party,  and 
although  he  has  held  local  positions  he  is  by 
no  means  a  politician  in  the  commonly  accejJted 
sense  of  the  office  seeker.  He  has  been  a  close 
student  of  the  problems  of  government,  and  he 
always  places  the  welfare  of  the  state  and 
nation  before  personal  aggrandizement.  He  is 
an  active  member  of  the  Cape  May  City  Golf 
and  Yacht  clubs,  in  which  he  is  associated  with 
some  of  the  most  eminent  and  distinguished 
citizens  of  i'hiladelphia  and  Cape  May.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in 
Cape  May  City.  He  is  a  rejiresentative  Amer- 
ican citizen,  energetic  in  business,  courteous 
in  social  life,  and  loyal  to  the  duties  of  citizen- 
ship and  to  his  native  land.  Although  one  of 
the  busiest  of  men  he  always  has  a  smile  of 
welcome  for  all,  graciously  giving  his  time  to 
those  who  ask  it,  and  thereby  adding  to  his 
long  list  of  friends. 

Judge  James  Monroe  Edmonds  Hildreth  mar- 
ried, November  12,  1884.  Martha  Orr,  daughter 
of  Jeremiah  and  Mary  (Orr)  Mecray.  They 
have  one  child,  Mary  Mecray,  born  October 
24,  1885:  married,  April  5,  1906,  John  Daniel 
Johnson,  Jr..  of  Alount  Holly,  New  Jersey, 
and  they  have  one  child,  Kathryn  Hildreth 
Johnson,  born  May  18,  1907. 


The  name  of  Lloyd  speaks  for 
LLOYD      itself  in  both  Great  Britian  and 

in  this  country  in  the  distinguish- 
ed ecclesiastics,  jurists,  authors  and  others  who 
have  so  nobly  borne  it,  but  the  branch  of  the 
family  at  present  under  consideration  has  been 
for  so  short  a  time  in  this  coimtry  that  its  rec- 
ord except  in  the  persons  of  the  honored  Cape 


May   City   representative    and    his    esteemed 
father  lies  on  the  other  side  of  the  water. 

(I)  William  Harris  Lloyd,  the  father,  was 
born  at  Tenby  in  the  south  of  Wales,  but  in 
his  early  manhood  came  over  to  this  country 
and  settled  in  Pennsylvania.  Shortly  before 
his  arrival  in  America  he  married  Elizabeth 
Phillips,  who  like  himself  was  a  native  of 
W  ales,  and  their  son,  Ernest  William,  referred 
to  below,  was  born  to  them  here. 

(II)  Ernest  William,  son  of  William  Harris 
and  Elizabeth  (Phillips)  Lloyd,  was  born  at 
Weatherly,  Pennsylvania,  November  26,  1877, 
and  is  now  living  at  Cape  May  City,  New 
Jersey.  He  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Weatherly,  and  then  became  a  clerk 
in  a  grocery  store.  After  this  he  taught  school 
for  a  short  time  in  Hundonvale,  Pennsylvania, 
and  in  1899  removed  to  Bridgeton,  Cumber- 
land county,  New  Jersey,  where  he  became  a 
clerk  in  the  hardware  store  in  that  town. 
Finally  he  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  the 
office  of  James  J.  Reeves  in  Bridgeton,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  Jersey  as  an 
attorney  in  1903,  and  as  a  counsellor  in  1908. 
In  1904  Mr.  Lloyd  opened  his  office  and  com- 
menced his  practice  of  his  profession  in  Cape 
May  City,  in  which  place  he  has  remained 
ever  since,  enjo^'ing  the  distinction  of  being  the 
Noungest  prosecutor  of  the  pleas  ever  ajipointed 
in  the  state  of  New  Jersey.  This  appointment 
he  received  in  1908.  when  he  was  only  thirty- 
one  years  old,  and  his  term  is  for  five  years, 
terminating  in  191 3.  Mr.  Lloyd  is  a  member 
of  the  Cape  May  Bar  Association,  Association 
of  the  Prosecutors  of  the  Pleas,  and  Cape 
Island  Lodge,  No.  30,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  of  Cape  May  City.  He  is  also  vice- 
president  of  the  Cape  Alay  City  Board  of 
Trade,  and  a  member  of  the  Cape  May  Yacht 
Club.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church  of  Cape  May  City. 

March  2,  1904,  Ernest  William  Lloyd  mar- 
ried Maude  Dare,  daughter  of  James  Dare 
and  Laura  (Bateman)  Co.x,  of  Salem,  New- 
Jersey,  who  is  a  graduate  of  the  South  Jersey 
Institute.  They  have  one  child.  Laura  Eliza- 
beth, born  in  Cape  May  City.  .Kugust  13.  1905. 


John  B.  Slack,  son  of  Wesley 
SL.\CK     Hunt     and     Annie     (Langstaff) 

Slack,  was  born  in  Paducah, 
Kentucky.  November  4.  1873.  His  primary 
and  [jreparatory  education  was  obtained  in  the 
Mount  Holly  .Academy.  Mount  Holly,  New 
Jersey.  In  the  fall  of  1891  he  entered  Lehigh 
I'niversity  for  a  four  years  scientific  course. 


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which  he  com])leteil  in  1895,  graduating  with 
the  degree  of  E.  E.  Deciding  upon  tlie  pro- 
fession of  law,  he  returned  to  \Iount  Holly 
where  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Judge 
Charles  E.  Hendrickson.  In  1899  Mr.  Slack 
was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  an  at- 
torney, and  in  1902  was  admitted  a  counsellor. 
Immediately  upon  receiving  his  credentials  Mr. 
Slack  located  in  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey,  and 
entered  upon  the  active  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession. In  ]iolitical  faith  he  is  Republican. 
He  is  a  vestryman  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of 
the  Ascension  of  .-Xtlantic  City  and  secretary 
of  the  parish.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New 
Jersey  State  and  Atlantic  County  Bar  Asso- 
ciations, and  the  Atlantic  City  Country  Club. 
John  L!.  Slack  married,  October  23,  1901, 
Maud  Walker  Wetherill,  daughter  of  William 
Delaney  and  Louise  (Stratton)  Wetherill.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Slack  are  the  parents  of  John  Blake 
Jr.,  born  February  22,  1903,  and  Louise  Weth- 
erill, September  30,  1908.  Mrs.  Slack  is  a 
member  of  the  I'hiladelphia  Wetherill  family 
and  a  lineal  descendant  of  Colonel  Isaac 
Sharp  (son  of  Anthony  Sharp,  of  Dublin, 
Ireland),  the  colonial  statesman  and  soldier. 
Colonel  Isaac  Sharp  was  one  of  the  proprietors 
of  council  of  West  Jersey  (the  governor's 
council )  :  surrogate  of  Salem  county.  New 
Jersey,  and  later  i)resident  judge  of  the  same 
county,  and  a  member  of  the  provincial  New 
Jersey  general  assembly.  Through  another 
line  she  descends  from  John  Price,  a  soldier  of 
the  revolution.  Her  father  was  the  eldest  son 
of  Robert  and  Phoebe  (Delaney)  Wetherill, 
Lower  Merion  township,  Montgomery  county, 
Pennsylvania,  where  William  D.  was  born 
December  16,  1845.  He  died  in  Philadelphia, 
February  18,  1887.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Penn.sylvania  bar  to  which  he  was  ad- 
mitted June  3,  1868.  He  was  a  lawyer  of  high 
standing  and  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Historical  Society.  William  D.  Wetherill 
married  Louise  Stratton,  daughter  of  John 
Stratton,  of  Mount  Holly,  New  Jersey,  who 
bore  him  John  Stratton,  who  died  in  infancy, 
and  Maud  Walker,  who  became  Mrs.  John  B. 
Slack. 


This  name  has  been  ])rominent 
BISSELL     among  the  early  settlers  of  most 

of  the  English  Colonies,  fam- 
ilies, and  has  had  many  distinguished  repre- 
sentatives in  the  professions  of  medicine,  law 
and  the  ministry,  as  well  as  private  citizens 
who  have  been  of  great  service  in  the  growth 
and    development    of    the    American    nation. 


There  have  been  soldiers  of  this  name  in  all 
the  important  wars  since  the  earliest  settle- 
ment. The  name  is  found  in  the  early  records 
of  the  Carolinas,  where  they  were  honorably 
known  for  many  generations. 

( I )  \\'illiam  Rombough  Bissell  was  born 
in  181 1,  at  Wilmington,  North  Carolina,  and 
after  a  preliminary  education  attended  a  south- 
ern military  academy.  Mr.  Bissell  was  one 
of  those  who  emigrated  to  California  at  the 
time  of  the  discovery  of  gold,  and  he  acquired 
and  developed  a  mine  in  that  state,  but  later 
returned  to  the  east,  taking  up  his  residence 
in  Maryland,  where  he  became  a  successful 
farmer.  At  the  time  of  the  breaking  out  of 
the  civil  war,  his  sympathies  being  naturally 
all  with  the  interests  of  his  native  state  and  the 
southland,  he  enlisted  in  Company  A  of  the 
Eighth  \'irginia  \olunteer  Confederate  Regi- 
ment, of  which  he  was  made  captain.  He 
served  with  great  bravery  until  the  battle  of 
Gettysburg,  and  in  the  famous  tight  of  the 
third  day,  which  turned  the  tide  of  battle, 
and  so  greatly  affected  the  outcome  of  the 
struggle,  he  was  killed ;  in  this  advance  he  was 
a  part  of  the  famous  Pickett's  division  (Gar- 
nett's  brigade)  so  vividly  described  in  every 
history  of  the  famous  battle.  Mr.  Bissell  mar- 
ried ^largaret,  daughter  of  Captain  John 
Adams  Webster,  of  the  United  States  revenue 
service.  (See  Webster,  VII.)  Their  chil- 
dren were:  i.  Elizabeth,  married  Dr.  William 
S.  Richardson,  of  Harford  county,  Maryland. 
2.  Nancy,  married  Dr.  Joseph  S.  Baldwin,  of 
Freeland,  Maryland.  3.  Virginia,  married 
John  Holland,  of  Belair,  Maryland.  4.  Will- 
iam Thomas.  5.  Josephine  D.,  lives  in  Balti- 
more, Maryland,  and  is  unmarried.  6.  Joseph 
Spalding,  a  farmer,  living  in  Harford  county, 
Maryland.  7.  Mary  Jarrett,  widow  of  John 
N.  Wilkerson,  of  Norfolk,  Virginia.  The  fol- 
lowing is  the  inscription  on  the  tombstone  of 
William  R.  Bissell  in  the  Churchville  Presby- 
terian cemetery,  Harford  county,  Maryland: 
"In  memory  of  our  beloved  Father,  William 
R.  Bissell,  who  fell  at  the  battle  of  Gettysburg 
on  the  3rd  of  July  and  died  of  his  wounds  on 
the  17th  of  July,  1863,  in  the  53rd  year  of  his 
age."  "I  have  fought  a  good  fight,  I  have 
finished  my  course,  I  have  kept  the  faith." 

(H)  W'illiam  Thomas,  eldest  son  of  Will- 
iam Rombough  and  Margaret  (Webster)  Bis- 
sell, was  born  October  31,  1848,  in  Harford 
county,  Maryland,  where  his  father  carried  on 
a  farm.  He  received  his  cilucation  at  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Belair  and  the  Harford  Acad- 
emy, after  which  he  learned  the  art  of  print- 


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iiig  in  the  office  of  the  Acyis  &  IntcUiyciiccr. 
oi  Ilelair,  and  then  spent  eight  years  in  the 
employ  of  Allen,  Lane  &  Scott,  a  firm  of 
printers,  located  at  Philadelphia.  Me  subse- 
i|uently  removed  to  Camden,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  became  interested  in  real  estate,  and 
in  1894  transferred  his  interests  to  eastern 
Pennsylvania,  and  purchased  land  which  he 
developed  and  made  into  town  lots.  His  ne.xt 
enterprise  w^as  developing  a  tract  of  land  in 
.\'ew  Jersey,  which  now  comprises  the  town 
of  .Alpha,  containing  three  or  four  thousand 
inhabitants.  He  has  met  with  great  success 
in  all  his  real  estate  dealings,  and  has  been  in- 
strumental in  developing  and  settling  many 
tracts  of  land,  among  them  suburbs  of  Allen- 
town,  York,  the  beautiful  town  of  Paxtoiiia, 
near  Harrisburg,  and  a  tract  on  the  Columbia 
Turniiike  near  Lancaster,  all  in  Pennsylvania, 
also  a  tract  near  Dover,  Xew  Jersey.  .\t  the 
present  time  (  1909)  Mr.  Bissell  is  engaged  in 
developing  and  settling  a  piece  of  land  at 
Mount  Holly,  New  Jersey.  He  makes  his 
home  at  Camden,  Xew  Jersey,  where  he  has 
a  large  circle  of  friends  and  acquaintances, 
and  where  he  is  affiliated  with  several  organ- 
izations. He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
church,  and  also  of  the  following  fraternal 
and  social  orders :  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks,  Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle, 
Fraternal  Order  of  Eagles ;  Camden  Com- 
mander\',  Xo.  34,  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of 
America ;  the  Patriotic  Order  of  America. 
In  political  views  he  is  an  Independent.  He 
is  recognized  as  a  man  of  business  acumen  and 
good  sense,  and  in  all  his  dealings  is  upright 
and  honorable. 

He  married  Georgia  Ida,  daughter  of  John 
W.  Wilson,  a  lumber  merchant  of  Baltimore ; 
five  children:  i.  Lillie  May,  married  Nicholas 
Everly,  of  Bloomsbury,  New  Jersey ;  they 
have  one  child,  Ida  May.  2.  Margaret  Web- 
ster, married  John  AI.  Hunt :  they  had  seven 
children:  Pearl  Webster,  William  Ridgely, 
Georgia  Esther,  Bessie  May,  Herbert,  Blanch 
Ethel,  John  Ralph.  3.  William  R.,  married 
Mrs.  Kerziah  Terry,  of  Pennsylvania ;  he  died 
in  1907.  4.  Emma  J.,  married  William  E. 
Duftner,  who  died  July  4,  1908:  they  had  no 
children,  they  are  both  deceased.  5.  Wilson 
Cleveland,  died  unmarried  in   1908. 

(The   Webster   Line). 

This  name  has  been  borne  in  our  country 
by  men  who  had  few  equals  in  eloquence  and 
scholarship.  Among  the  prominent  men  of 
this  name  are  to  be  found  John  Webster,  who 


became  governor  of  Connecticut,  as  well  as 
Daniel  the  orator  and  Noah  the  lexicographer. 
The  family  here  described  has  been  repre- 
sented in  \'irginia  records  almost  since  the  first 
settlement  there,  and  from  it  have  sprung 
many  men  who  have  been  a  credit  to  their 
name  and  country. 

(I)  John  Webster's  name  appears  first  in 
the  Virginia  Colonial  Records  in  the  will  of 
one  William  Batts,  July  18,  1632;  in  1639,  by 
act  of  assembly,  John  Webster  is  named  as 
one  of  the  viewers  of  tobacco  crops  for  .-Kcco- 
mac  county,  and  an  inventory  of  the  estate  of 
John  Webster,  deceased,  was  taken  in  court, 
August  18,  1650.     He  had  a  son  John. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Webster, 
was  perhaps  born  in  England,  and  was  living 
on  Savages  Neck,  Northampton  county,  \'ir- 
ginia,  before  1630,  with  his  father;  later  he 
removed  to  Hovekills,  now  Lewes,  Delaware, 
where  before  1680  he  was  petitioner  for  a 
court  for  the  county  of  St.  James.  He  had  a 
son  John. 

(III)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  Webster, 
was  born  in  1667,  in  Northampton  county, 
\'irginia,  and  died  in  1753.  He  removed  from 
Hovekills,  Delaware,  to  Maryland,  where  in 
1733  he  lived,  near  the  town  of  Joppa.  The 
boundary  between  Maryland  and  Pennsylva- 
nia was  frequently  in  dispute,  and  in  1740 
John  Webster  testified  on  the  question 
before  the  commission  from  the  two 
states  which  met  at  Joppa,  then  in 
Baltimore  county,  now  in  Harford  county. 
By  his  first  wife,  Hannah,  he  had  several  chil- 
dren, among  them  ]\Iichael  and  Isaac.  His 
wife  was  probably  a  sister  of  Isaac  Butter- 
worth,  who  in  his  will  of  Alay,  1728,  men- 
tions his  nephews,  Michael  and  Isaac,  sons 
of  John  Webster.  John  Webster  married 
(second)  March  17,  1729-30.  at  Palapsco, 
Sarah  Giles,  and  (third)  in  February,  1735, 
Mary,  widow  of  John  Talbott,  of  West  River, 
Maryland. 

(I\')  Isaac,  son  of  John  (3)  and  Haimah 
Webster,  was  born  about  1700,  probably  in 
Maryland,  and  died  October  11,  1759.  He 
married,  November  22,  1722,  Margaret 
Lee,  who  died  in  1783,  and  they  had  thir- 
teen children,  the  youngest  of  whom  was 
Samuel. 

( \' )  Samuel,  youngest  son  of  Isaac  and 
Margaret  (Lee)  Webster,  was  born  in  1746, 
died  December  13,  1817.  He  married,  in 
March,  1769,  Alargaret  Adams,  of  Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania,  and  of  their  twelve  chil- 
dren John  .\dams  was  the  tenth. 


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(\  Ij  John  Adams,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mar- 
garet (Adams)  Webster,  was  born  September 
19,  1787.  in  Harford  county,  Maryland,  died 
July  4,  1877,  at  the  home  erected  by  him  on  part 
of  his  father's  estate,  which  he  named  Mount 
Adams,  and  he  was  there  buried  in  the  fam- 
ily graveyard.  Captain  Webster  early  evinced 
a  liking  for  sea  life,  and  at  the  age  of  four- 
teen embarked  for  South  America  on  a  mer- 
chant vessel,  which  trip  was  followed  by  many 
others  to  distant  ports.  At  the  time  of  the 
war  of  1812  he  was  appointed  to  various  po- 
sitions of  responsibility,  where  he  acquitted 
himself  with  great  efficiency  and  bravery.  In 
1814  he  had  charge  of  a  six-gun  battery  be- 
tween Forts  McHenry  and  Covington,  and 
September  13  of  that  year,  in  the  engagement 
during  which  he  was  twice  wounded,  he  was 
one  of  the  defenders  of  the  city  of  Baltimore, 
and  for  his  gallantry  was  presented  with  two 
gold-mounted  swords,  one  from  the  city  of 
Baltimore,  and  one  from  the  state  of  Alary- 
land.  It  was  at  this  time  that  the  national 
anthem,  "The  Star  Spangled  Banner,"  was 
written.  In  1816  he  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Madison  as  sailing  master  in  the  navy, 
and  November  22,  1819,  President  Monroe  ap- 
pointed him  captain  in  the  revenue  marine 
service,  which  position  he  held  until  his  death, 
at  which  time  he  was  the  senior  captain  of  that 
service.  During  the  war  with  Mexico,  Captain 
Webster  had  command  of  eight  revenue  ves- 
sels, and  co-operated  with  the  army  and  navy 
upon  the  Rio  Grande  river  and  at  the  battle 
of  Vera  Cruz.  He  lost  a  thumb  when  Wash- 
ington was  burned  by  the  British,  was  wounded 
once  in  the  shoulder,  and  at  one  time  had  a 
horse  shot  under  him ;  congress  \>a.'u\  him  for 
the  loss  of  the  horse  and  gave  him  a  pension 
of  twenty  dollars  a  month. 

Cai^tain  Webster  married,  February  8,  181 6, 
Rachel,  daughter  of  Colonel  Joseph  Biays,  who 
was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution,  and  they  had 
fifteen  children,  among  them:  i.  Margaret.  2. 
Ur.  James  Biays.  3.  Susan  A.  4.  Laura  A., 
wife  of  John  C.  Patterson.  5.  William  S. 
These  five  are  living,  and  those  deceased  are : 
Jose])hinc,  who  became  the  wife  of  Dr.  Will- 
iam I)alli)m;  Cajjtain  John,  who  entered  the 
revenue  marine  service;  Mary  A.,  who  married 
A.  S.  Horsey;  Benjamin  M.:  Rachel  C,  who 
married  ( ieneral  F.  A.  Bond ;  and  Isaac  P. 
Captain  John  ,'\dams  Webster  was  a  man  of 
large  build,  being  six  feet  high  and  weighing 
two  hundred  pounds.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Presbyterian  church,  and  took  an  interest 
in  all  the  affairs  of  his  native  state  and  coun- 


try ;  his  old  age  was  spent  at  his  home  in  Flar- 
ford  county.     Mrs.  Webster  died  in  1869. 

(\TI)  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  Adams 
and  Rachel  (Biays)  Webster,  was  born  De- 
cember 13,  1817,  died  February,  1908,  in  Har- 
ford county,  Alaryland  ;  she  married.  Septem- 
ber II,  1834,  William  Rombough  Bissell. 
{  See  Bissell,  1.) 


This  name  came  into  England 
M(  )(  )RE  with  William  the  Conqueror,  in 
1006.  Thomas  de  More  was 
among  th&  survivors  of  the  battle  of  Hastings, 
( )ctober  II,  of  that  year,  and  was  a  recipi- 
ent of  many  favors  at  the  hands  of  the  tri- 
umphant invader.  All  the  antiquarians  of 
Scotland  and  the  authorities  on  genealogy  are 
agreed  that  the  name  Dennis-toun  of  Dennis- 
toun.  ranks  with  the  most  eminent  and  ancient 
in  the  realms  of  the  United  Kingdom.  It  cer- 
tainly dates  back  to  1016  and  probably  earlier, 
and  Joanna,  or  Janet,  daughter  of  Sir  Hugh 
Dangieltown.  married  Sir  Adam  More,  Row- 
allan,  and  became  the  mother  of  Elizabeth 
More,  who,  in  1347,  married  King  Robert  H, 
of  Scotland,  from  whom  sprang  the  long  line 
of  Stuart  monarchs.  Another  Janet,  about 
1400.  married  her  cousin.  Sir  Adam  More,  of 
Rowallan.  This  motto  has  been  preserved  by 
the  Dennis-touns :  "Kings  come  of  us;  not 
we  of  kings."  The  name  of  Moore  has  been 
numerously  borne  in  England,  Scotland,  and 
later  in  Ireland,  representatives  of  this  family 
having  filled  distinguished  positions  in  the 
L'nited  Kingdom,  and  several  of  them  occupied 
seats  as  members  of  parliament.  They  have 
also  been  eminent  in  military  afi^airs.  Rich- 
ard Moore  came  in  the  "Mayflower"  to  Scitu- 
ate,  Massachusetts,  and  the  name  is  common 
in  the  records  of  Plymouth,  Newbury  and 
Salem,  the  earliest  settlements  in  the  state. 
.\mong  the  later  immigrants  was  a  fine  Quaker 
family  which  located  at  an  early  period  in  New 
Jersey  and  has  continued  in  the  vicinity  of  its 
first  settlement,  with  many  worthy  descend- 
ants. Abstemious,  sober  and  industrious  till- 
ers of  the  soil,  they  cared  not  for  jiolitical  pre- 
ferment, had  large  families  and  generally  lived 
to  a  good  old  age. 

(I)  Benjamin  Moore,  progenitor  of  the 
New  Jersey  family,  came  from  Birmingham. 
Lincolnshire.  England,  in  company  with 
Thomas  Stokes,  in  the  ship  "Kent,"  and  ar- 
rived at  New  Castle  in  August.  1677.  He  pro- 
ceeded up  the  Delaware  river  to  Burlington, 
West  Jersey,  and  is  said  to  have  been  the 
largest  land  holder  in  the  colonv  in   his  line. 


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He  was  married  in  1693  ^'^  Sarah,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Stokes,  who  was  born  in  1670. 
Children:  John,  Benjamin,  Thomas,  Joseph, 
Samuel,  Sarah,  Elizabeth,  Dorothy  and  Mary. 

(II)  Joseph,  fourth  son  of  Benjamin  and 
Sarah  (Stokes)  Moore,  was  born  about  1700, 
in  Burlington,  and  resided  in  that  vicinity. 
He  married  Patience  W'oolman,  born  Octo- 
ber 27,  1718,  daughter  of  Samuel  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  Woolman,  a  granddaughter  of  Sam- 
uel ( I )  Woolman,  who  was  a  son  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Borton)  \\'oolman,  the  progenitors 
of  the  W'oolman  family  of  New  Jersey.  The 
last  named  was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Ann 
Borton,  progenitors  of  a  numerous  family  of 
that  name.  They  came  from  the  parish  of 
Aynhoe  in  Northamptonshire,  England. 
Joseph  Moore's  children :  Mary,  borji  Septem- 
ber 3,  1740;  Elizabeth,  July  13,  1744;  Patience, 
November  8,  1750;  Uriah,  November  8,  1753; 
Jona,  April  6,  1758:  Cyrus,  mentioned  below; 
and  John. 

(III)  Cyrus,  third  son  of  Joseph  and  Pa- 
tience (Woolman)  Moore  was  born  Decem- 
ber 3.  1760,  in  Burlington,  and  lived  on  a  farm 
containing  about  two  hundred  acres  which  was 
willed  to  him  by  his  father  who  had  in  turn 
received  it  by  will  from  his  father.  This  was 
purchased  from  the  proprietors  of  South  Jer- 
sey, which  adjoins  a  two  hundred  and  thirty 
acre  farm  willed  to  Abel  Moore.  In  1754 
Joseph  Moore  built  the  brick  mansion  upon 
this  homestead,  which  is  still  standing  in  good 
repair  and  has  descended  to  his  grandson, 
Cyrus  Moore,  of  Columbus,  New  Jersey.  He 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Re- 
becca (Mason)  Austin,  of  Eversham  town- 
ship. New  Jersey.  Jonathan  was  a  son  of 
Francis  .Austin,  progenitor  of  the  family  of 
that  name  in  New  Jersey.  Cyrus  Moore's 
children:  i.  Joseph,  born  P'ebruary  5,  1790. 
went  to  Ohio.  2.  .\bel,  mentioned  hereinafter. 
3.  Patience,  October  26,  1792.  4.  Charles, 
February  19,  1794.  5.  Rebecca,  October  12, 
1795-  6.  Eliza,  February  12,  1797.  7.  Cyrus, 
mentioned  below.  8.  Pariah,  October  2.  1800. 
9.  Mary,  June  24,  1802.  10.  Martha,  July 
5,  1804.      II.  John.  July  21,  1808. 

(I\')  Abel,  second  son  of  Cyrus  and  Marv 
(Austin)  Moore,  was  born  April  20,  1791,  in' 
Burlington,  and  died  in  Lumberton  township, 
March  23.  1863.  He  was  a  farmer  upon  the 
farm  of  two  hundred  and  thirty  acres  above 
mentioned,  it  having  been  inherited  from  his 
father.  He  married  Elizabeth  C.  Engle. 
daughter  of  Obadiah  and  Patience  P^ngle,  of 
Evesham    (see   Engle,   V).     The   last   named 


was  a  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Coles. 
Elizabeth  C.  Engle  was  born  F"ebruary  5, 
1803,  and  died  June  13,  1880.  Children:  i. 
Ciranville  \V.,  born  May  18,  1823,  died  March 
I,  i>S74.  2.  Cyrus,  March  12,  1825,  married 
(first)  Hope  Lip])incott ;  (second)  Esther 
Prickett.  3.  Aaron  E.  November  13,  1827. 
died  June  25.  1840.  4.  Anna,  December  6, 
1830.  married  Lemuel  Prickett,  and  died  .\u- 
gust  21,  1881.  5.  Patience,  June  30,  1833,  died 
December  6.  1834.  6.  John,  February  27, 
1835,  died  November  17,  1903.  7.  Elizabeth, 
June  I.  1838,  died  February  21,  1878.  8. 
Ceorge  W.,  mentioned  below.  9.  Barbara  H., 
May  31,  1843,  died  October  3,  1908. 

(\')  George  W.,  fifth  son  of  Abel  and 
Elizabeth  C.  (Engle)  Moore,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 6.  1840,  in  Lumberton,  and  was  edu- 
cated ill  the  public  schools  of  Easton  and  the 
Medford  Friends'  school.  He  remained  upon 
the  homestead  farm  with  his  parents,  for 
whom  he  cared  in  their  old  age,  and  after  their 
demise  purchased  the  interest  of  the  other 
heirs  to  the  homestead.  To  this  he  added  by 
purchase,  extending  his  domain  to  about  two 
InuKlred  and  eighty  acres.  He  did  an  exten- 
sive business  in  shipping  moulding  sand  which 
was  carried  by  boats  to  Philadelphia  to  the 
amount  of  about  ten  thousand  tons  annually. 
He  also  carried  on  successfully  general  agri- 
culture. In  1889  he  bought  a  farm  of  fifty 
acres  in  Mt.  Holly,  to  which  he  removed  and 
has  since  made  his  home  thereon.  Though 
born  a  Friend,  Mr.  Moore  is  an  attendant  of 
the  I'aptist  church.  In  politics  he  adheres  to 
the  Republican  party,  but  has  no  desire  for  po- 
litical honors.  He  married  (first)  in  May, 
1880.  .Anna  R.,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Eliza- 
beth Prickett.  She  died  August  24,  1881, 
leavingf  an  infant  son,  George  Engle  Moore. 
He  was  married  (second)  in  1882,  to  Cather- 
ine Owen,  of  Philadelphia,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Fox,  daughter  of  William  and 
Catherine,  of  Philadelphia.  They  have  one 
child.  Howard  Evans,  born  September,  1883. 
in  Lumberton,  who  was  educated  at  the  ]iub- 
lic  schools  of  Mt.  Holly,  learned  the  machin- 
ist trade  in  Philadelphia  and  Smithville,  New 
Jersey,  and  is  now  associated  with  his  father 
on  the  farm. 

(\T)  George  Engle,  only  son  of  George  W. 
and  Anna  R.  (Prickett)  Moore,  was  born  Au- 
gust 12,  1 88 1,  in  Lumberton  and  was  edu- 
cated in  the  Friends'  School  at  Easton  and  the 
Jamison  private  school  at  Mt.  Holly.  Tie  ob- 
tained a  situation  as  salesman  with  Straw- 
bridge    i!t    Cl<ithier's    jewelry    department,    of 


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Philadelphia,  and  while  in  this  situation  pur- 
sued a  course  at  Pierce's  Philadelphia  Busi- 
ness College,  carrying  on  his  studies  at  night. 
He  later  was  for  two  years  with  Litz  Brothers. 
After  a  time  he  entered  the  employ  of  Kime 
&  Sons,  in  the  same  line  of  husiness  in  Phila- 
(lel]:)liia.  as  salesman,  and  this  arrangement 
has  continued  to  the  present  time.  Mr.  Aloore 
makes  his  home  on  his  father's  farm  at  Mt. 
Holly,  and  travels  to  and  from  l'h)ladel|)hia 
each  day.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Friends' 
.Association,  and  attends  the  Ba]5tist  church  in 
^It.  Holly.  In  political  principles  he  is  a 
staunch  Republican. 

(I\')  Cyrus  (2)  fourth  son  of  Cyrus  (i) 
and  ]\Iary  (Austin)  Moore,  was  born  Novem- 
ber 30,  \ji)S,  in  Burlington  and  died  Decem- 
ber 5,  1880.  He  married,  Mav  17,  1838,  EHz- 
abeth  Stokes,  born  September  18,  1808,  died 
March  i,  1884,  daughter  of  Jarvis  and  Abigail 
(Woolman)  Stokes,  the  former  born  Novem- 
ber 5.  1780.  and  the  latter  October  31,  1789, 
died  February  28,  1859.  Cyrus  Moore's  chil- 
dren: I.  Cyrus  S.,  mentioned  below.  2.  Jar- 
vis,  born  February  7,  1843,  died  at  ten  years 
of  age.  3.  Abigail,  June  26,  1845,  niarried 
Amos  Harvey,  Aiay,  1883.  4.  Mary  R..  born 
June  23,  1849, 

(V)  Cyrus  Stokes,  eldest  child  of  Cyrus 
(2)  and  Elizabeth  (Stokes)  Moore  was  born 
January  28,  1840,  and  resides  upon  the  ancient 
homestead  in  the  brick  house  built  by  Joseph 
Moore  in  1754.  He  married,  June  6,  1907, 
Susan  ( Haines  )  Troth,  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  Stokes  (  Haines)  Troth.  She  was  born 
June  3,  1855. 

<The  Prickitt  I^ine). 

The  family  name  of  Prickitt  is  found  a.'. 
an  early  date  in  Burlington  county,  and  of 
course  has  relation  to  the  New  Jersey  family 
of  our  generally  accepted  name  of  Prickitt, 
the  latter  being  the  family  purposed  to  be 
treated  in  this  place,  and  supposed  to  have  de- 
scended from  John  Prickitt,  of  Gloucester- 
shire, England,  a  "persecuted  Friend,"  in  1660, 
who  is  mentioned  in  the  narrative  entitled 
Besse's  "Sufferings. "  There  was  a  Josiah 
Prickitt,  of  P.urlington,  who  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  Cranberry  in  1697,  and  of  whom 
the  "History  of  the  Colony  of  New  Jersey" 
(Barber  and  Howe,  1844)  says  "Cranberry 
is  one  of  the  oldest  places  in  this  part  of  the 
state.  It  was  settled  about  the  year  1697  by 
Josiah  Prickitt,  butcher,  of  Burlington.  The 
following  year  he  sold  out  to  John  FTarrison, 
of  Flushing,  Long  Island," 


(I)  Zachariah  (or  Zackariah )  Prickitt,  the 
earliest  known  ancestor  of  the  family  under 
consideration  here  of  whom  we  have  defi- 
nite knowledge,  settled  in  Northampton,  Burl- 
ington county,  and  is  said  to  have  brought 
with  him  a  large  property,  which  he  invested 
in  lands.  His  will  bears  date  February  28, 
1727,  and  was  admitted  to  probate  Alarcli  14, 
of  the  same  year.  The  baptismal  name  of  his 
wife  was  Ellipha,  and  so  far  as  the  records 
disclose  their  children  were  as  follows:  I. 
John.  2.  Zackariah,  married,  1721,  Mary 
Troth.  3.  Jacob,  see  forward.  4.  Elizabeth, 
married  1723,  Tohn  Peacock.  5.  Hannah, 
married  Philip  Quigley. 

(II)  Jacob,  son  of  Zackariah  and  EUijiha 
Prickitt,  had  a  wife  Hannah,  who  bore  him 
eight  children  and  who  died  12  4mo.  1759, 
aged  fifty-three  years.  Their  children:  i.  Jo- 
siah, born  23  8mo.  1733;  married  Sarah  Cow- 
perthwaite.  2.  Jacob,  born  18  9mo.  1735; 
married  Elizabeth  Phillips.  3.  Barzilla,  born 
22  9mo.  1737;  married  Sarah  Sharp.  4.  ,\nn. 
born  20  lomo.  1739,  died  4mo.  1759.  5.  Ro- 
sannah,  born  11  2mo.  1742.  6.  Job,  see  for- 
ward. 7.  Hannah,  born  26  6mo.  1746:  mar- 
ried Amaziah  Lip]3incott.  8.  Sabyllah,  born 
24  9mo.  1748. 

(HI)  Jacob  (2),  son  of  Jacob  (i)  and 
Hannah  Prickitt,  was  born  November  18, 
1735,  and  married  Elizabeth  Phillips. 

(R)  Job,  son  of  Jacob  (2)  and  Flannali 
Prickitt,  was  born  the  24th  of  4th  mo.  1744, 
and  married  Ann,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Elizabeth  Smith.  Their  children:  i.  Rachel, 
born  iimo.  1770;  married  James  Allen.  2. 
Sabillah,  born  g  gmo.  1772,  died  unmarried. 
3.  Josiah,  born  29  gmo.  1775,  died  young.  4. 
Job,  born  9  7mo.  177 — ;  married  Ann  Huff. 
5.  Josiah,  see  forward.  6.  Barzilla,  born  20 
2mo.   1781  :  married  Martha  Haines. 

(  \' )  .\nn  R..  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Phillips)  Prickitt,  was  married  in  May, 
1880,  to  George  W.  Moore.      (See  Moore,  V.) 


The  name  Moore  and  the  place 
MOORE     of  residence,  Londonderry  in  the 

north  of  Ireland,  remind  us  of 
the  Scotch  bard  and  of  the  siege  of  London- 
derry and  we  presume  such  a  combination  to 
name  a  man  of  Scotch-Irish  blood,  and  Scotch 
ancestry.  The  north  of  Ireland  has  given  to 
America  splendid  examples  of  the  amalgama- 
tion of  the  two  races  and  when  we  find  a 
Tiiomas  Moore  and  that  his  wife  was  Jean, 
we  are  sure  of  our  subjects  as  capable  of  pro- 
ducing a  noble  race  of  men,  whatever  may  be 


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their  sphere  in  hfe.  They  have  been  fitted  by 
inheritance  and  environment  to  be  selectmen, 
poets,  authors,  physicians,  clergj-men.  lawyers, 
school  teachers,  artisans,  miners  or  farmers, 
and  in  any  of  their  pursuits  arc  likely  to  be 
men  of  mark. 

(I)  Henry  JVIoore,  son  of  Thomas  and  jean 
Moore,  was  born  in  Londonderry,  Ireland. 
January  i,  1736.  He  emigrated  to  America 
about  1735  and  probably  landed  at  Philadel- 
[ihia,  where  he  married  Catherine  Fleming, 
who  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1730.  He 
was  a  school  teacher  at  Xew  Egypt,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  was  known  as  "Master  Henry." 
They  removed  to  Stony  Brook.  Middlesex- 
county,  Xew  Jersey,  where  their  only  child 
John  was  born  July  15,  1774.  Catherine 
(Fleming)  ^loore  died  after  the  birth  of  his 
child,  and  Mr.  IMoore  married  as  his  second 
wife  Sarah  Jackaway.  who  was  born  at  .Apan- 
pick,  Jiliddlesex  county.  Xew  Jersey,  March 
-3-  1757-  ^li^  ^^'^s  ^'i^  daughter  of  Reuben 
and  ^largaret  Jackaway.  Henry  and  Sarah 
(Jackaway)  Moore  named  their  first  l)orn 
son  Henry,  see  forward. 

(II)  Henry  (2).  eldest  son  of  Henry  (  i  ) 
and  Sarah  (Jackaway)  Moore,  was  born  in 
Jacobstown.  Burlington  county.  Xew  Jersey. 
in  1787,  died  in  187 1.  He  married  Ann  Hor- 
ner, who  was  born  Xovember  g,  1798.  died 
August  2,  1880.  The  children  of  Henry  and 
Ann  ( Horner )  Moore  were  born  in  the  order 
as  follows:  i.  Margaret.  July  2,  1815.  2.  .\bi- 
gail,  Xovember  4,  181 7.  3.  Henry,  June  18. 
1818.  4.  Francis.  May  29.  1822.  5.  Barzeha. 
September  21,  1824.  6.  Ezekiel,  October  25. 
1827.  7.  Ann.  Xovember  8.  1829.  8.  Hen- 
rietta, January  30,  1832.  9.  Rachel.  Xovem- 
ber 20.  1833.     10.  Hugh,  see  forward. 

(III)  Hugh,  tenth  child  and  fifth  son  of 
Henry  (2)  and  Ann  (Horner)  Moore,  was 
born  in  Xew  Egypt.  Ocean  county,  Xew  Jer- 
sey, March  31.  1836.  He  received  his  school 
training  in  the  district  school  and  worked  on 
his  father's  farm  in  summer  and  at  basket 
making  in  the  winter  months.  He  removed 
from  .Xew  Jersey  to  Smyrna,  Delaware,  where 
he  carried  on  the  business  of  basket-making 
for  several  years,  returning  to  New  Egj-pt, 
Xew  Jersey,  in  1885.  He  was  married  in  Oc- 
tober, 1856,  to  Sarah,  daughter  of  Xathanie! 
and  Isabel  (\'an  Sciver )  Smalley.  who  lived 
near  Allentown.  Monmouth  county,  Xew  Jer- 
sey, where  Sarah  was  born  in  September. 
1836.  The  children  of  Hugh  and  Sarah 
(.Smalley)  Moore  were:  i.  Frank,  who  was  a 
basket  maker  at  CoIIinswood,  Xew  Jerscv.     2. 


Rachel,  married  Joseph  Evans  and  lives  at 
Xew  Egvpt,  Xew  Jersey.  3.  Harry,  a  sta- 
tionary engineer  in  Philadelphia.  4.  Elvira, 
married  D.  L.  Lowery,  of  Philadelphia.  5. 
William,  has  a  meat  marki't  at  Bradley  Beach, 
Xew  Jersey.  6.  Harvey,  a  hardware  mer- 
chant in  Xew  Egypt.  Xew  Jersey.  7.  Thomas, 
a  contractor  and  builder  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
8.  Joseph,  a  physician  and  surgeon  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania.  9.  Addison  Urie.  see 
forward.      10.   Walter   Clement,   see    forward. 

(1\')  Addison  Urie,  seventh  son  and  ninth 
child  of  Hugh  and  Sarah  ( .Smalley )  Moore, 
was  born  in  Smyrna.  Delaware.  .August  3.  1879. 
and  while  he  was  a  mere  lad  his  parents  re- 
turned to  their  native  state  and  settled  in  Xew 
ligypt.  Ocean  county.  Xew  Jersey.  Here  he 
attended  school  and  became  an  apprentice  to 
the  village  ])rinter.  In  1897  he  established  a 
I)rinting  office  in  Xew  Egypt  in  company  w'ith 
his  brother.  Walter  Clement,  under  the  name 
of  Moore  Brothers,  and  the  same  year  they 
began  the  publication  of  the  Advertiser  a  smal' 
weekly  newsjiaijer.  In  1899  they  rechrist- 
ened  the  paper  the  Neiv  Egypt  Press  and 
issued  it  in  a  new  dress  and  enlarged  form. 
Tlic  business  also  included  a  constantly  in- 
creasing trade  in  job  printing.  The  Moore 
Brothers  through  the  Press  created  a  senti- 
ment in  favor  of  the  establishment  of  the 
Mrst  Xational  Bank  of  Xew  Egypt,  and  they 
were  also  instrumental  in  establishing  and 
maintaining  the  yearly  Lake  Carnival.  Ad- 
dison W.  Aloore  was  made  secretary  of  the 
N'illage  Improvement  Society,  and  his  public 
spirit  manifested  itself  in  the  activity  infused 
by  his  example  and  suggestion  in  the  w-ork  of 
the  society.  His  ])olitical  creed  was  Demo- 
cratic, and  his  fraternal  and  jiatriotic  affilia- 
t  .ns  'icluded  membership  in  the  Order  of 
I'nited  American  Mechanics,  and  of  the  Set- 
tlers and  Defenders  of  America,  a  new  heredi- 
tary patriotic  order  incorporated  in  1899.  He 
also  was  a  member  of  the  Crange  and  a  regu- 
lar attendant  of  the  .Methodist  E])isco]5aI 
church. 

(  I\  )  Walter  Clement,  yoimgest  and  eighth 
son  of  Hugh  and  Sarah  (  Smalley)  Moore,  was 
born  in  Chester.  Pennsylvania.  July  2,  1881. 
He  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  New  Egypt. 
Xew  Jersey,  when  only  an  infant  and  w-as 
brought  up  and  educated  in  that  village.  He 
was  sent  to  the  West  Philadelphia  .Academy 
and  Teachers"  College,  where  he  was  gradu- 
ated in  1898.  He  paid  his  way  through  col- 
lege by  teaching  at  Brindle  Park.  Xew  Jersey, 
for  almost  a  year.      He  did  the  cnmmercial  art 


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work  and  cartooning  for  the  Burlington  Daily 
Entcrfrisc,  Burlington,  Xew  Jersey,  and  re- 
mained in  charge  of  the  art  department  of 
that  paper  for  about  two  years  when  he  again 
took  up  teaching  sfhool,  first  for  two  years 
at  Brindle  Park,  for  one  year  at  Collier's 
Mills,  for  two  years  at  Cassville,  for  one  year 
at  Columbus,  and  in  1006  he  became  head 
master  or  principal  of  the  Xew  Egypt  high 
school.  He  was  a  correspondent  of  the  daily 
press  and  wrote  for  educational  journals. 
His  literary  work  in  behalf  of  educational  in- 
terests included  a  manual  on  "School  Rckjui 
Exercises"  and  "Practical  Methods  in  Edu- 
cation" both  of  which  works  are  highly  valued 
by  pedagogists.  He  was  also  associated  with 
his  brother,  .\ddison  I'.  Aloore.  in  the  print- 
ing and  publishing  business  and  did  much  edi- 
torial work  for  the  A'rii'  Egypt  Press  from 
the  time  of  its  first  issue  in  1897.  He  was 
made  vice-president  of  the  New  Egypt  Village 
Improvement  Association  and  its  healthy  con- 
dition and  active  working  organization  is 
largely  due  to  his  wise  judgment  and  willing 
help.  He  serves  the  Methodist  church  of  Xew 
Egypt,  of  which  he  is  a  member,  as  one  of  its 
trustees,  and  his  fraternal  association  is  with 
the  Patriotic  Order  of  Sons  of  America,  of 
Xew  Egypt.  His  political  afliliation  was  with 
the  Democratic  party. 

He  married.  Xovember  10.  lyoo,  .May 
Harker.  daughter  of  Atwood  and  Susie 
(Hyers)  Harker,  of  Xew  Egypt,  and  their 
first  child  was  Wardell  Cecil,  born  in  Cass- 
ville, Xew  Jersey.  March  22,  1902 ;  their  sec- 
ond. Paul  Stanley,  born  in  Columbus,  Xew 
Jersey,  October  15.  1903;  and  their  third. 
Elinor  Harker,  born  in  Xew  Egypt,  Xew  Jer- 
sey, December  15,  1907. 


This  name  is  a  prominent  one 
MORRELL     in  the  early  Dutch  settlers  of 
Long  Island,  and  among  the 
early  members  of  Xew  Amsterdam. 

(  I  )  Peter  Morrell  is  the  progenitor  of  the 
laniily  in  ,\merica.  bearing  the  name  of 
.\lbertis  of  Burtis.  In  1643  he  married  Judith 
Jans  Meynie,  of  .Amsterclam,  Holland.  He 
lived  on  the  Heeren  Grocht,  now  Broad  street, 
Manhattan,  an<l  owned  a  tobacco  plantation 
in  the  W'allabout,  Brueeklyn,  which  estate  he 
l)atcnted  June  17,  1643.  The  children  of  Peter 
and  Judith  Jans  (Meynie)  Morrell  who  ar- 
rived at  maturity  were:  I.  John  A.,  born  1643. 
2.  .\rthur  (.\crt),  1647.  3.  Mary,  1649,  mar- 
ried John  P.  Bauh.  4.  William.  1652.  5. 
I'Vancina.     1654,    married    John     .Mien.     The 


three  sons :  John,  .\rthur  and  William,  re- 
moved to  Mespath  Kills  (Xewtown,  Long 
Island)  and  William  and  Arthur  subsecjuently 
located  at  Hempstead  and  the  brothers  were 
connected  with  St.  George's  Church,  Prot- 
estant Episcopal,  at  Hempstead. 

(  II)  John  .\lbertus.  eldest  son  of  Peter  and 
Judith  Jans  (Meynie)  Alorrell,  was  born  in 
Xew  Amsterdam  (Xew  York),  1643,  died  in 
Middletown,  East  New  Jersey,  April  i,  1791. 
He  removed  to  Newtown,  North  Hempstead, 
locating  at  Mespath  Kills  as  a  farmer  and  to- 
bacco raiser.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Scudder,  of  North  Hempstead, 
and  they  had  children  as  follows:  i.  William. 
2.  John,  see  forward.  ■  3.  Samuel,  who  in- 
herited a  large  share  of  his  father's  estate  at 
Mespath  Kills  and  married  and  had  children. 
4.  Elizabeth,  who  married  John  Stewart.  5. 
Alehitable.  who  married  James,  son  of  William 
Lawrence,  of  Middletown,  Monmouth  county, 
Xew  Jersey.  John  .\.  Morrell  died  in  April, 
1691,  and  his  widow  married,  in  1693,  Will- 
iam Lawrence  Sr.,  of  ^liddletown,  New  Jer- 
sey. 

(Ill)  John,  second  son  of  John  A.  and 
Elizabeth  (Scudder)  Morrell,  was  born  in 
.Mespath  Kills,  Long  Island,  about  1680.  He 
married  Phebe  Albertis  and  they  had  one 
child  only,  John,  see  forward. 

(I\')  John  (2),  only  son  of  John  (  i  )  and 
Phebe  (.\lbertis)  Morrell,  was  born  in  Mid- 
dletown, Xew  Jersey,  October  31,  1733.  He 
was  the  first  importer  of  china  and  earthen- 
ware in  the  Cnited  States  and  removed  during 
his  business  life  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  was 
the  founder  of  the  well  known  china,  glass  and 
earthenware  importing  house  of  John  Morrell 
&  Company.  He  was  a  zealous  member  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  church  in  .America  and  in 
I 'hiladel])hia  became  a  member  of  Christ 
Church  and  subse(|uently  of  St.  James  Church. 
FTe  had  a  son  Richard,  see  forward. 

(  \' )  Richard,  son  of  John  (2)  Morrell,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  about 
1775.  He  was  brought  up  to  the  business  of 
his  father  and  was  the  successor  in  the  busi- 
ness of  importing  china  and  glassware.  He 
was,  like  his  father,  a  supporter  of  St.  James 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  Philadelphia. 
He  married  Sarah  Grover,  of  Philadelphia, 
and  she  died  in  that  city  July  30,  1819,  when 
her  sons  Richard  fi.  and  \\'allace  (twins) 
were  two  and  one-half  years  of  age.  Richard 
.Morrell  died  in  Pittsburg.  Pennsylvania,  at  the 
home  of  his  son  Wallace,  with  whom  he  lived 
during  his  last  years. 


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(\'l)  Richard  H.,  son  of  Richard  and 
Sarah  (Grover)  Morrell,  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania.  January  30,  icSiS.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
city.  His  mother  died  when  he  was  c|uite 
young  and  he  went  to  live  with  his  Grand- 
mother Morrell :  when  he  was  thirteen  years 
of  age  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  importing 
house  of  Destouet  P.rothers  of  Philadelphia, 
imjiorters  and  dealers  in  silk  goods.  He  was 
a  jirecocious  child  and  youth  and  was  especially 
earnest  and  painstaking  and  desirous  of  pleas- 
ing his  employers  and  learning  the  business 
thoroughly.  When  only  seventeen  years  of 
age  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  business  in 
the  capacity  of  manager  and  he  held  this  po- 
sition for  four  years  until  he  reached  his  ma- 
jority, ^[eantime.  he  was  economical  and 
saving,  and  after  he  had  attained  manhood  he 
joined  George  T.  Stokes,  an  employee  of  the 
silk  importing  house  of  John  R.  W'orrell  & 
Company,  in  purchasing  the  business  of  that 
firm,  and  the  firm  of  ]\Iorrell  &  Stokes,  import- 
ers, commission  merchants  and  general  dealers 
and  manufacturers  of  fine  silks  and  trimmmgs 
came  into  existence  with  store  and  warehouse 
at  211  Church  street,  Philadelphia.  In  1856 
Mr.  Morrell  became  a  resident  of  Beverly, 
continuing  to  go  in  and  out  from  his  residence 
to  his  store  in  Philadelphia.  In  1862  the  firm 
was  dissolved  by  mutual  consent  and  Mr. 
Morrell  retired  from  active  business  life  and 
became  interested  in  real  estate  and  stocks  as 
buyer  and  seller  on  the  exchanges.  Following 
his  successful  career  as  a  merchant  his  ven- 
tures in  real  estate  and  listed  stocks  proved 
almost  uniformly  successful  and  his  advice  was 
sought  by  investors  and  his  market  purchases 
or  sales  were  watched  and  followed  by  specu- 
lators. He  became  one  of  the  largest  real 
estate  owners  in  Pieverly.  Xi  w  Jersey,  and 
purchased  and  remodeled  a  beautiful  residence 
and  made  a  charming  home  on  Coo])er  street. 
His  political  affiliation  was  with  the  Whig 
party,  his  first  ]ircsidential  vote  being  cast  in 
1840  for  the  Harrison  and  Tyler  elections,  and 
when  the  Republican  party  came  into  exist- 
ence in  1856,  he  considered  it  simply  as  the 
successor  to  the  W  hig  party  and  gave  it  his 
immediate  and  unequaled  support  and  every 
presidential  election  found  him  at  the  polls 
voting  and  working  for  the  Republican  elec- 
toral ticket  and  at  all  elections  he  was  as  well 
present  to  cast  his  vote  for  the  partv  candi- 
dates, state,  county,  city  and  local.  He  served 
the  city  of  Beverly  as  a  member  of  the  councd 
for  twelve  vears.     He  was  a  member  of  St. 


Ste])hen"s  Protestant  E])iscopal  Church  of 
Beverly  and  his  wife  and  children  were  bap- 
tized and  confirmed  in  that  faith.  He  was 
married  to  Elizabeth  B..  daughter  of  John 
Thomson,  of  Philadelphia.  November  IQ, 
i84r).  John  Thomson  was  born  .August  14, 
1799,  and  became  a  very  prominent  member 
of  the  Masonic  fraternity  passing  from  Lodge 
\o.  51  of  Philadeljihia  which  he  joined  in 
1827.  to  secretary,  1829-31  ;  junior  warden. 
1831-32;  senior  warden.  1832-33:  worshipful 
master.  1833-34:  secretary,  1835-36:  treasurer, 
1837-38:  secretary,  1838-44:  junior  warden, 
18-14-45:  senior  warden,  1845-46;  secretary, 
1853-59;  treasurer,  1864-69.  through  all  the 
degrees  and  holding  the  highest  offices  in  suc- 
cession. Also  grand  master  and  secretary  of 
tlie  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania.  Thomson 
Lodge.  Dufl:"yron  Mawr,  Chester  county,  Penn- 
svlvania,  was  named  in  his  honor.  He  died  in 
Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  in  October,  1889. 
The  children  of  Richard  H.  and  Elizabeth  B. 
(Thomson)  Morrell  were  born  in  Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania,  as  follows:  i.  John  Thom- 
son, see  forward.  2.  Sallie,  born  October  5. 
1S50.  died  .\pril  6.  1896.  3.  Mary  Thomson. 
Richard  H.  Morrell  died  in  Beverly,  Xew 
Jersey,  May  8,  1906. 

(  \  II  )  John  Thomson,  eldest  son  of  Rich- 
ard H.  and  Elizabeth  (  Thomson)  Morrell,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  June  22, 
1848.  He  was  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  city  and  passed  the  Beck's  Academy 
examination  preparatory  to  entering  the  Phil- 
adelphia high  school,  which  institution  is  a 
chartered  college  conferring  the  college  de- 
grees. His  parents  removing  at  this  time  to 
Beverly.  Xew  Jersey,  he  did  not  matriculate  at 
the  high  school  but  entered  journalism  and  be- 
came interested  as  a  contributor  to  the  Beverly 
IVccklx  I'isitor,  the  first  newspaper  established 
in  Beverly  and  which  journal  subsequently 
passed  to  the  management  of  John  K.  Haffey 
and  became  known  as  the  Bcz'crly  Banner. 
He  remained  with  the  newspaper  up  to  1894. 
and  besides  his  contributions  he  became  the 
Beverly  correspondent  for  the  Philadelphia 
Press  in  1883,  and  also  grave  local  news  items 
in  that  section  of  Xew  Jersey  to  other  news- 
jiapers.  He  likewise  engaged  in  the  insurance 
business  as  agent  for  West  Xew  Jersey  for  the 
F"ire  Association  of  Philaflelphia,  the  Insur- 
ance Company  of  Xorth  America,  the  Union 
Insurance  Companv,  and  the  Franklin  Insur- 
ance Company,  all  of  Philadelphia.  He  was  a 
Republican  by  inheritance  and  choice,  and  in 
1880    became     associated     with     the     United 


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States  census  bureau  as  census  taker  for  Bev- 
erly, New  Jersey.  He  is  serving  his  seventh 
consecutive  term  as  a  member  of  the  city 
council  of  Beverly,  being  president  in  1907. 
He  attends  St.  Stephen's,  Protestant  Episco- 
pal Church,  Beverly,  of  which  the  family  are 
all  attendants  and  birthright  members  by  bap- 
tisms and  to  which  church  he,  like  his  father 
and  grandfather,  is  a  liberal  and  willing  con- 
tributor and  supporter.  He  also  affiliates  with 
the  Masonic  fraternity,  being  a  member  of 
Beverly  Lodge,  No.  107,  Ancient  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons.  He  also  became  associated 
with  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks,  through  membership  in  Lodge  No.  996 
of  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  and  Keepawa 
Tribe,  No,  257,  Improved  Order  Red  Men. 


The  ancient  Dutch  fam- 

LONGSTREET  ily  to  which  the  family 
of  Longstreet  traces  its 
descent  is  highly  respected  in  Holland.  The 
name  was  originally  a  place  name,  and  spelled 
Langestraat.  The  family  has  always  been 
thrifty  and  industrious,  and  numbers  among 
its  descendants  many  distinguished  members. 

(I)  Dirck  Stoffelse  Langestraat,  immigrant 
ancestor,  was  born  in  Holland  and  married 
there  Catherine  Yan  Siddock.  He  came  to 
.■\merica  in  1657,  and  at  an  early  date  pur- 
chased lands  at  Shrewsbury,  New  Jersey.  He 
afterwards  gave  these  lands  to  his  son  Richard. 
He  married  (second)  Johanna  Havens,  widow 
of  Johannis  Holsaert.  Children :  Richard, 
.Adrian,  mentioned  below.     Other  children. 

(  H  )  .-Xdrian  Langestraat  or  Longstreet.  son 
of  Dirck  Stoffelse  and  Catherine  I  \'an  Sid- 
dock)  Langestraat,  died  in  1728.  He  was  a 
cordwainer  by  trade  and  owned  a  farm  or 
plantation  at  Freehold,  Monmouth  county, 
New  Jersey.  He  married  Styntje  or  Chris- 
tiana Janse.  Children :  John,  mentioned 
below,   Derick,  Stoffelse.     Five  daughters. 

(HI)  John  Longstreet,  son  of  .Adrian  and 
Styntje  (Janse)  Longstreet,  married,  Decem- 
ber 17,  1736,  Ann  Covenhoven,  daughter  of 
Peter  and  Patience  (Dawes)  Covenhoven. 
Children :  .\aron,  died  young,  Pietras,  Jan, 
Elias,  Aaron,  mentioned  below,  Antje. 

(  IV)  Aaron,  son  of  John  and  Ann  (Coven- 
hoven )  Longstreet,  resided  in  Holmdel,  New 
Jersey.  He  married,  March  9,  1778.  Will- 
iampe  Hendrickson.  Children :  Hendrick, 
mentioned  below,  John,  Lydia,  .Annie,  Nellie. 

( V  )  I  lendrick,  son  of  .Aaron  and  W'illiampe 
(Hendrickson)  Longstreet.  was  born  May  14. 
1785,    and    lived    in    Holmdel    township.     He 


married,  October  11,  1805,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Nellie  Holmes.  Children :  Aaron, 
Eleanor,  Lydia  H.,  Ann  H.,  Emeline,  Joseph, 
Hendrick  H.,  mentioned  below,  Mary  .Ann, 
born  1 82 1,  John  H.,  Jonathan. 

( \'I )  Hendrick  H..  son  of  Hendrick  and 
Mary  (Holmes)  Longstreet,  was  born  on  the 
old  homestead  near  Holmdel,  Momnouth 
county.  New  Jersey,  January  11,  1819,  died  in 
1 89 1.  He  received  his  earlier  education  at  a 
select  school  in  the  village  of  Middletown 
Point,  now  known  as  Matawan,  New  Jersey, 
and  finished  his  academic  course  at  the  sem- 
inary at  Lenox,  Massachusetts.  Having  de- 
termined to  pursue  the  study  of  medicine  he 
became  a  student  under  Dr.  Robert  W.  Cooke, 
of  Holmdel,  and  subsequently  enjoyed  the 
same  relation  under  that  distinguished  physi- 
cian and  writer.  Dr.  John  B.  Beck,  professor 
of  Materia  Medica  and  Jurisprudence  in  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  New 
York,  and  author  of  "Beck's  ^kledical  Juris- 
])rudence"  and  other  standard  works.  .At  that 
institution  Dr.  Longstreet  attended  several 
courses  of  lectures,  and  in  1842  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Aledicine  was  conferred  uoon  him 
by  the  same.  He  immediately  located  in  the 
jiursuit  of  his  profession  at  Bordentown. 
where  he  continued  in  uninterrupted  and  suc- 
cessful practice  of  his  profession.  .As  a  physi- 
cian he  stood  in  the  front  rank  of  his  profes- 
sion and  probablv  no  other  in  the  state  was 
more  widely  and  favorably  known.  In  prac- 
tice he  was  the  uncompromising  foe  of  every- 
thing savoring  of  empiricism  and  devoted  all 
of  his  energies  toward  the  elevation  of  the 
standard  of  his  profession.  Possessed  of  a 
well-stored  and  analytical  mind  his  judgments 
were  matured  and  generally  correct  and  his 
advice  and  counsel  were  fre(|uently  sought 
after  by  his  professional  friends  and  acquaint- 
ances. With  ample  facilities  for  study,  pos- 
sessed of  one  of  the  largest  and  best  selected 
libraries  in  the  state,  he  became  a  careful  stu- 
dent of  his  profession,  thoroughly  familiar 
with  the  most  recent  and  most  improved 
methods  of  medical  and  surgical  practice  and 
in  the  enjoyment  of  a  large  and  remunerative 
practice.  His  reputation  is  not  alone  con- 
fined to  the  locality  in  which  he  passed  so  many 
years  of  his  life,  but  extended  into  the  adjoin- 
ing counties  and  states. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  .Vmerican  Medical 
.Association,  of  the  State  Medical  Society,  of 
which  he  was  often  a  delegate,  and  of  the 
District  Medical  Society  of  I'urlington  county, 
of  which  he  served  as  president   for  several 


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terms.  He  was  identified  with  the  growth  and 
development  of  Bordentown  for  over  forty 
years  and  was  recognized  as  one  of  its  most 
active,  public-spirited  and  valuable  citizens. 
He  was  a  director  and  president  of  the  Bor- 
dentown (ias  Company,  of  the  Water  Company 
and  of  the  \'incentown  Marl  Company.  He 
was  also  president  of  that  useful  and  popular 
local  institution,  the  Board  of  Health.  A  man 
of  decided  views  upon  every  subject  command- 
ing his  attention,  bold  and  fearless  in  the  ex- 
pression of  his  opinions,  he  numbered  among 
Iiis  ac(|uaintances  many  warm  friends  to  whoin 
he  was  thoroughly  devoted  and  who  learned 
to  a]3i)reciate  the  real  worth  and  character  of 
the  man.  He  lived  in  an  unostentatious  and 
quiet  way,  contributing  liberally  from  the  for- 
tune which  he  acquired  by  faithful  labor  in  his 
profession  to  the  support  of  all  worthy  ob- 
jects. He  took  a  warm  interest  in  local  and 
national  politics  but  avoided  the  acceptance  of 
public  office. 

Dr.  Longstreet  married  (first)  in  1848. 
Hannah  .Ann  Taj'lor.  of  New  Jersey,  who  died 
in  1857.  He  married  (second)  in  1869.  Eliz- 
abeth, daughter  of  Joseph  Newbold.  a  prom- 
inent merchant  of  W'rightstown,  New  Jersey. 
Children  by  first  marriage:  i.  Hendrick.  2. 
Joseph  Henry,  died  young.  3.  .A  child,  who 
died  in  infancy.  4.  Jacob  Holmes,  referred 
to  below.  Children  by  second  marriage :  5. 
Mary,  died  in  1883. 

(VH)  Jacob  Holmes,  son  of  Hendrick  H.. 
M.  D..  and  Hannah  .\nn  (Taylor)  Longstreet. 
was  born  at  Bordentown.  New  Jersey.  1856. 
For  his  early  education  he  attended  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Bordentown.  after  which  he  went 
to  the  Lake  Mohegan  .Academy,  near  Peeks- 
kill.  New  York,  and  finally  in  order  to  fit  him- 
self for  the  profession  of  electrical  engineer 
he  took  the  course  at  the  Stevens  Institute  of 
Technology  in  Hoboken.  New  Jersey,  from 
which  he  graduated  with  high  honors.  In 
i87<)  he  went  into  business  for  himself  in  .\'ew 
Yt)rk.  manufacturing  electrical  instruments 
and  remained  there  until  1888  when  he  came 
of  I'ordentown  and  established  the  Riverview 
Iron  Works  which  he  has  managed  ever  since 
He  has  built  up  a  large  and  a  prosperous  busi- 
ness for  himself  and  is  known  in  the  com- 
munity as  one  of  the  most  substantial  men  of 
the  town.  About  a  mile  from  the  centre  of 
Bordentown  he  has  a  model  farm  comprising 
about  two  hundred  acres,  and  here  he  keeps 
a  large  herd  of  cows  and  winters  over  one 
hundred  and  fifty  head  of  mules.  He  is  also 
interested  in  many  of  the  local  enterprises  of 


the  town  and  the  ])ublic  service  corporation, 
and  he  has  been  president  and  director  of  the 
Bordentown  Gas  Company,  the  Bordentown 
Water  Company  and  the  Bordentown  Bank- 
ing Company.  Mr.  Longstreet  is  a  mechanical 
genius  of  a  very  high  order.  He  has  taken  out 
a  number  of  extremely  valuable  patents  espe- 
cially on  telegraph  instruments.  He  has 
served  for  several  terms  on  the  board  of 
chosen  freeholders  of  the  city.  He  is  a  former 
member  of  the  Holland  Society  of  New  York 
and  of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order 
of  Elks,  No.   105,  of  Trenton,  Xew  Jersey. 


The  Riddle  family  in  .\nierica  is 
RIDDLE  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  the  name 
is  usually  spelled  Riddell  or  Rid- 
dle, but  there  are  many  other  variations.  Ridel, 
Rydlyn,  Ridlon,  Ridell,  etc.  The  family  is 
numerous  in  England,  Scotland  and  Ireland, 
while  their  descendants  may  be  found  thickly 
scattered  over  the  states  of  Pennsylvania.  New 
York.  .New  Jersey,  .Maryland  and  \  irginia. 

(  1 )  Samuel  Riddle,  the  first  of  the  family 
to  come  to  America,  was  born  in  Newton  Stew- 
art. Ireland,  from  whence  he  emigrated,  set- 
tling in  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  about  1790. 
where  he  took  out  naturalization  papers  in 
1792.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812 
and  was  wounded  in  the  battle  of  New  Or- 
leans. He  was  an  enlisted  member  of  the 
"Independent  Blues."  a  company  of  the  Fiftieth 
Pennsylvania  militia.  He  married  Ann,  daugh- 
ter of  Hugh  McPherson.  of  .Aberdeen.  Scot- 
land. 

(  II )  William,  son  of  Samuel  Riddle,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania.  1820.  died 
December  13.  1859.  He  was  the  first  to  en- 
gage in  the  business  of  bottling"  mineral  waters. 
He  was  an  influential  man  of  the  city  and  took 
an  active  part  in  public  affairs.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Philadelphia  city  council  for 
ten  years,  and  was  president  of  the  board  of 
guardians  of  the  poor,  serving  in  the  latter 
capacitv  several  years.  He  was  one  of  the 
promoters  and  early  supporters  of  the  Cam- 
den &  Atlantic  railroad  ( now  West  Jersey  & 
Seashore  railroad.  Pennsylvania  system),  the 
first  railroad  from  Philadelphia  to  Atlantic 
City.  His  son,  William,  has  in  his  possession 
a  receipt  signed  by  Alfred  Negus,  the  first 
treasurer  of  the  road,  that  shows  he  was  the 
second  man  to  whom  stock  was  issued.  The 
date  is  September  19,  1852.  William  Riddle 
married  ( first )  Caroline  Wetherill  Earl,  of 
Burlington,  New  Jersey,  by  whom  he  had  two 
sons:     Samuel,  a  member  of  the  Philadelphia 


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firm  of  E.  K.  Tryon,  Jr..  &  Company,  and 
Robert.  He  married  (second)  Mary  Ann 
Durnell.  daughter  of  James  and  Hannah 
(Fabian)  Durnell,  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania. Their  children  are  :  Caroline,  married 
Robert  D.  Kent,  of  Passaic,  New  Jersey,  the 
organizer  of  the  Passaic  National  Bank,  the 
Passaic  Trust  Company,  the  Maiden  Lane 
National  Bank,  of  New  York  City,  and  was 
the  first  cashier  and  incorporator  for  the  At- 
lantic Citv  National  Bank ;  they  have  a  son, 
William  Riddle  Kent.     William,  see  forward. 

Mrs.  Mary  A.  (Durnell)  Riddle  was  a 
woman  i>f  rare  business  ability  and  keen  fore- 
sight. .'\fter  being  left  a  widow  she  was 
obliged  to  conduct  her  own  afl^airs,  and  in 
looking  for  business  opportunities  she  fore- 
saw the  possibilities  of  a  tract  of  land  situated 
just  beyond  the  southern  limits  of  .\tlantic 
City.  She  secured  options  on  the  property 
after  considerable  difficulty  and  formed  the 
Chelsea  Beach  Company,  composed  entirely  of 
women,  organized  July  i8,  1883.  This  prop- 
erty has  developed  into  the  most  beautiful  and 
exclusive  of  any  of  Atlantic  City's  suburbs, 
and  proved  highly  profitable  to  the  promoters. 
No  li(|uor  salocms  or  other  objectionable  places 
are  allowed,  and  strict  rules  govern  the  sani- 
tary arrangements.  Chelsea  is  the  finest  resi- 
dential section  of  Atlantic  City,  and  is  a  monu- 
ment to  the  energy  and  foresight  of  Airs.  Mary 
A.  Riddle. 

(HI )  William  (2),  only  son  of  William  (i) 
and  Mary  A.  (Durnell)  Riddle,  was  born  in 
Philadelphia  Pennsylvania,  June  30,  i860.  He 
was  educated  in  the  North  West  grammar 
school  of  that  city,  corner  of  Fifteenth  and 
Race  streets.  In  1875  he  left  school  and  was 
for  a  time  employed  in  the  office  of  the  Bald- 
win Locomotive  Works  with  Mr.  Converse, 
Mr.  French  and  ]\Ir.  Stroud,  then  employees. 
and  now  members  of  the  company.  He  took 
up  tlie  study  of  shorthand  and  telegraphy,  and 
was  for  a  time  private  secretary  to  Ilenry 
Rentley.  of  the  Philadelphia  Local  Telephone 
Company.  From  that  position  he  went  to  New 
York,  where  he  remained  until  1881.  He  ne.xt 
went  to  Chicago,  where  he  remained  until  1886 
in  the  grain  business  on  the  Chicago  Board  of 
Trade.  In  1886  he  was  in  New  York  in  charge 
of  the  office  of  V.  K.  Stevenson  &  Company, 
real  estate  dealers  at  the  corner  of  Fifty-second 
street  and  Fifth  avenue.  In  1888  Mr.  Riddle 
located  in  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
has  since  resided.  In  igoi  he  was  elected  on 
the  Democratic  ticket  as  assessor  of  taxes.  In 
this  coiniection  he  made  a  practical  application 


of  some  of  the  modern  theories  of  taxation 
with  good  results.  In  1902  he  was  elected 
state  senator  from  Atlantic  county.  He  was 
barely  eligible,  under  the  "four  years  residence" 
clause  of  the  constitution,  and  his  seat  was 
successfully  contested  by  his  defeated  oppo- 
nent because  of  race  track  legislation.  For  the 
past  eight  years  from  1901  Mr.  Riddle  has  been 
a  member  of  the  council  of  Atlantic  City,  where 
he  has  served  his  constituents  most  acceptably. 
He  has  been  at  different  times  chairman  of  the 
boardwalk,  electric  and  finance  committees  of 
councils.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Marine  Trust 
Company,  of  Atlantic  City,  of  which,  with 
Alax  Weinmann,  he  was  the  founder.  He  is 
vice-president  of  the  Atlantic  City  Fire  In- 
surance Company,  of  which  he  is  the  largest 
individual  shareholder.  Mr.  Riddle  owns  the 
only  beach  front  farm  in  .Atlantic  City.  It  is 
located  in  Chelsea  and  covers  an  entire  square. 
He  holds  fraternal  membership  in  the  Eagles, 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
Knights  of  Pythias,  and  Brotherhood  of  Amer- 
ica. 

William  Riddle  married  Florence  M.  Sailor, 
a  graduate  of  Philadelphia  high  school,  and 
has  four  sons:  Hugh,  Donald,  Bruce  and  Alan. 


Although  the  name  of  Smith,  as 
SMITH     Elizabeth  Drinker,  that  pretty  and 

fascinating  Quakeress,  observed  in 
her  iiuaint  and  interesting  diary  nearly  two 
hundred  years  ago,  "is  perhaps  the  most  com- 
mon name  in  the  world,"  the  representatives 
of  the  branch  at  present  under  consideration 
have  carried  it  far  above  the  level  of  the  com- 
mon-nlace  and  placed  it  upon  a  pedestal  which 
would  well  excite  the  admiration  and  emula- 
tion of  every  one.  In  addition  to  this,  this 
family  by  marriage  has  allied  itself  with  some 
of  the  best  and  strongest  of  the  old  colonial 
blood  and  stock  and  worthily  deserves  an  envi- 
able nlace  and  mention  among  the  representa- 
tive families  of  New  Jersey. 

(I)  Georee  Lemuel  Smith,  born  at  "The 
Btittonwoods"  near  Cold  Springs  at  head  of 
Mtdlica  river.  .Atlantic  county.  New  Jersey, 
lanuarv  31.  T845.  is  now  living  in  Atlantic 
Citv.  retired.  For  the  .ereater  part  of  his  life 
be  followed  the  sea  as  did  and  do  most  of  his 
contemporaries  and  neiffhbors.  By  his  mar- 
riage to  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Conover, 
he  had  two  sons  and  two  daughters:  i.  Harry 
Ellsworth,  see  forward.  2.  Alma,  wife  of 
George  W.  Wells,  of  Olean,  New  York.  3. 
Leonora,  wife  of  George  Bender,  of  Colorado 
.Springs.     .4.  Walton  Randolph,  deceased. 


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(II)  Harry  Ellsworth,  son  of  George  Lem- 
uel and  Elizabeth  ( Conover)  Smith,  was  born 
at  Tuckahoe,  New  Jersey,  May  15,  1870,  and 
is  now  living  at  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey. 
While  he  was  yet  a  child  his  parents  removed 
to  W'eekstown.  .Atlantic  county,  and  later  to 
Ehvood,  New  Jersey,  where  Harry  Ellsworth 
attended  the  public  schools.  Owing  to  the 
necessities  of  the  family,  while  he  was  yet  a 
boy,  he  was  obliged  to  obtain  work  in  a  shoe 
factory  at  Hammonton,  New  Jersey,  where 
he  learned  the  trade  of  shoe  cutting.  After 
remaining  there  for  seven  years,  he  came  to 
.\tlantic  City  in  1891  and  became  a  clerk  in 
the  Currie  hardware  store  on  .\tlantic  avenue, 
where  he  remained  for  the  ensuing  three  years, 
liecoming  ami)itious  to  get  into  the  newspaper 
business,  he  asked  Colonel  ^\'alter  Edge  of 
The  Press,  the  new  newspaper  which  the  colo- 
nel was  about  that  time  starting  in  .Atlantic 
City,  for  a  position.  Colonel  Edge  complied 
with  his  request  and  Mr.  Smith  obtained  the 
first  subscribers  to  the  Atlantie  City  Dail\' 
Press.  His  abilities  were  soon  recognized  by 
the  manager  of  the  newspajier,  and  he  was 
given  the  ]iosition  of  circulating  manager  of 
The  Press.  Subsequently  he  was  promoted 
and  made  the  head  of  the  advertising  depart- 
ment, and  finally  given  the  position  of  genera! 
manager.  He  remained  with  The  Press  for 
thirteen  years,  and  during  that  time,  or  for  a 
short  time,  travelled  in  the  interest  of  the  Dor- 
land  .\dvertising  .\gency,  which  w'as  uniler 
the  management  of  Colonel  Edge,  in  all  the 
large  cities  of  the  country.  While  with  Colo- 
nel Edge  on  The  Press,  Mr.  Smith  was  the 
manager  in  building  the  Preston  apartment 
house  in  Atlantic  City. 

[Q08  Mr.  .Smith  purchased  the  Siiiulay 
Gacette  of  .Atlantic  City,  which  was  at  that 
that  time  an  eight-page  paper,  but  under  the 
management  of  Mr.  Smith  it  became  in  one 
year  a  sixteen-page  paper.  It  is  the  only  Sun- 
day newspaper  in  Atlantic  City  or  in  south 
Jersey.  Its  politics  are  Republican,  and  it 
gives  particular  attention  to  real  estate.  It 
was  founded  in  1891. 

For  si.vteen  years  Mr.  Smith  has  been  a 
member  of  the  famous  Morris  Guards  of  .At- 
lantic Cit\'.  This  independent  company,  at 
the  beginning  of  the  Spanish-.American  war, 
volunteered  its  services  to  the  United  States 
and  was  accepted  officially  by  Governor  \'oor- 
hees,  June  30,  1898.  July  12  following  the 
company  left  for  Camp  \'oorhees,  at  Sea  Girt, 
New  Jersey,  with  a  muster-roll  one  hundred 
and  twenty  strong.     Two  days  later,  July   14. 


they  were  formally  sworn  into  the  service  of 
the  United  States,  and  after  remaining  at 
Camp  \'oorhees  until  October  8,  they  were 
transferred  to  Camp  Meade,  near  Gettysburg, 
Pennsylvania,  where  they  remained  until  No- 
vember 12,  and  the  day  following,  November 
13,  they  were  sent  to  Camp  Wetherill.  Green- 
ville, .South  Carolina,  at  which  post  they  re- 
mained until  mustered  out  .\i)ril  6,  1899.  The 
comjiany  was  in  the  Fourth  New  Jersey  \'ol- 
unteer  Infantry,  under  Captain  Bryant.  Mr. 
Smith  at  that  time  w-as  a  corporal,  but  was 
promoted  to  sergeant.  On  his  return  home 
with  his  company  he  was,  in  1899,  elected  sec- 
ond lieutenant  of  the  Morris  (juards.  In  1903 
he  was  chosen  first  lieutenant,  and  in  the 
spring  of  1907,  after  a  contest  which  showed 
the  great  personal  popularity  of  Mr.  Smith,  he 
was  elected  captain  of  the  Guards,  and  the 
company  has  never  been  in  a  more  flourishing 
condition  than  it  has  been  since  his  election. 
Mr.  Smith  is  a  singer  of  some  note,  and  is 
a  master  of  the  cornet,  which  he  has  played  for 
some  years.  While  living  at  Hammonton  he 
])layed  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church. 
Since,  he  has  sung  in  the  Presbyterian  church 
of  .Atlantic  City.  He  is  a  Republican,  and  an 
independent  in  religion.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  A'entnor  Yacht  Club,  a  member  of  the 
Paint  and  Powder  Club,  a  dramatic  organiza- 
tion composed  of  the  members  of  the  Morri., 
Guard--,  in  which  he  always  takes  a  leading 
part. 

In  the   line  of   Peter  J.   Young, 

\'()L".\G  the  well-known  merchant  of  the 
city  of  New  Brunswick,  five  gen- 
erations of  the  Young  family  have  been  traced 
in  the  state  of  New  Jersey.  The  descent  is  as 
follows : 

(  1  )  Peter  Young,  owner  of  farms  in  Hunter- 
don and  Somerset  counties:  married  Lizzie 
Hummer.  Children :  Three  sons  and  three 
daughters. 

I  11)  Jacob,  son  of  Peter  and  Lizzie  (Hum- 
mer )  Young,  was  a  farmer  in  Hunterdon 
county.  Married  Rebecca  Trout,  and  had 
four  sons  and  three  daughters. 

(Ill)  Peter  ]..  son  of  Jacob  and  Rebecca 
(Trout)  Young,  was  a  farmer,  residing  near 
Pingoes,  Hunterdon  county:  married  Betsey 
Gutter.  Children:  I,  .Amos,  unmarried.  2. 
lohn,  married  Miss  Blackwell,  their  children 
being  Elizabeth,  unmarried,  and  Frank,  mar- 
rierl  Miss  Barnet  and  has  children,  Charlena 
and  Earle.    3.  Jacob,  referred  to  below. 

(  I\   I    Tacob  (2),  son  of  Peter  J.  and  Betsey 


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( Glitter )  Young,  was  born  on  the  paternal 
farm  near  Ringoes,  Hunterdon  county,  Maj' 
20,  1832,  died  there  February  6,  1869.  Mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Xevius,  daughter  of  George  W. 
Nevius,  of  Clover  Hill,  New  Jersey.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Peter  J.,  referred  to  below.  2.  Han- 
nah X..  liorn  July  8,  1867;  married  Jacob 
Schenck  Higgins,  stock  dealer  and  farmer; 
they  reside  in  P'lemington,  New  Jersey,  and 
have  one  child.  Catherine  N.  Higgins. 

(V)  Peter  J.  (2),  eldest  child  and  only  son 
of  Jacob  (2)  and  Elizabeth  (Nevius)  Young, 
was  born  on  the  farm  owned  by  his  Grand- 
father Young  (where  his  parents  resided), 
near  Ringoes,  Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey, 
C'ctnber  28,  1865.  In  early  boyhood,  owing  to 
the  death  of  his  jiarents,  he  went  to  live  with 
his  (irandmother  Nevius  at  P'lemington,  New 
Jersey,  and  in  that  place  he  was  reared,  entered 
upon  his  business  career,  and  lived  until  the  year 
1893.  His  maternal  uncles,  Jacob  and  Austin  G. 
Nevius,  were  associated  in  mercantile  business, 
their  operations  gradually  acquiring  extensive 
range  and  resulting  in  the  establishment  of 
large  and  imjjortant  stores,  under  the  firm  style 
of  J.  &  A.  G.  Nevius.  at  Flemington,  Somer- 
ville  and  Trenton.  The  nephew  was  early 
given  employment  as  clerk  in  the  Flemington 
store,  and  there  learned  all  the  details  of  the 
business.  In  1893,  pursuant  to  the  policy  of 
the  firm  to  enlarge  its  interests,  Mr.  Young 
came  to  New  Brunswick,  purchased  the  dry 
goods  establishment  of  A.  L.  Mundy  at  27 
Church  street,  and  embarked  upon  a  mercan- 
tile career  in  which  he  has  since  continued  with 
marked  success.  From  the  Church  street 
quarters  he  removed,  February  1,  igo8,  to  the 
large  new  building  at  the  corner  of  ( leorge  and 
Paterson  streets,  the  most  conspicuous  busi- 
ness location  in  the  city.  His  store,  conducted 
under  his  personal  name,  is  the  largest  and 
most  complete  of  its  kind  in  New  [5runswick. 
and  employs  at  the  present  time  thirty-five 
clerks.  Air.  Young  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
fraternity — L'nion  Lodge,  Free  and  .-Vccepted 
Masons,  Scott  Chapter,  and  Temple  Com 
mandery.  He  married,  October  17.  1894,  ."\nne 
Ht)])eweU,  daughter  of  John  B.  and  Anne  M.  F. 
Hnpewell.  (if  Flemingtt)n,  New  Jersey. 

(The   Noviu.s  Linet. 

This  family  is  of  Netherlands  origin,  and 
so  far  as  is  known  the  name  sustains  no  gene- 
alogical relation  whatever  to  the  strictly  Eng- 
lish one  of  N'evins.  The  patronymic  Nevius  is 
the  Latinization  of  the  original  Hollandish 
forms  Neef.  Neeff,  Neve,  dc  Neve,  etc.     For  a 


scholarly  and  highly  interesting-  account  of  the 
origin  of  the  family  and  its  early  associations, 
the  reader  is  referred  to  the  recent  genealogical 
work,  "Joannes  Nevius  and  His  Descendants, 
.\.  I).  1627-1900,"'  by  .\.  \'an  Doren  Honey- 
man. 

(I)  Joannes  Nevius.  son  of  Rev.  Johannes 
Neef  (or  Nevius)  and  Maria  Becx,  baptized 
at  Zoelen,  Holland,  March  14,  1627,  came  to 
.\msterdam  (  now  New  York  City)  about  1651  ; 
merchant,  prominent  citizen,  and  city  secre- 
tary: afterward  lived  on  the  Long  Island 
(Brooklyn)  side  of  the  East  river,  and  had 
charge  of  the  ferry:  died  1672:  married,  in 
the  Dutch  Church,  New  Amsterdam.  i<^)53, 
.\riaentje  Bleijck  :  their  sixth  child  was 

(II)  Peter  Nevius,  baptized  in  New  Am- 
sterdam, F"ebruary  4,  1663:  removed  to  F'lat- 
lands.  Long  Island:  died  .\pril  29,  1740;  mar- 
ried, June  22,  1684,  Janetje  Roelofse  Schenck: 
their  second  child  was 

(  III  )  Roelofl^  Nevyus,  born  about  1687;  re- 
moved to  Three  Mile  Run,  Somerset  county. 
New  Jersey,  where  he  was  an  active  su]iporter 
of  the  ministry  of  Rev.  Theodorus  Jacobus 
Frelingliu\sen  :  died  after  1736:  married  Cata- 
lyntje  Lucasse  \'an  \'oorhees,  daughter  of 
Lucasse  Stevense  \'aii  \"oorhees,  of  Flatlands : 
their  fourth  child  was 

(  1\' )  Peter  Nevyus,  baptized  .\]iril  >},.  1727  : 
lived  at  various  times  near  Three  Mile  Run. 
New  Brunswick,  and  Clover  Hill ;  died  on  his 
farm  near  Clover  Hill  (Hunterdon  county), 
after  1800:  married,  about  1751,  Maria  \'an 
Doren  :  their  tenth  child  was 

(  \' )  Jacob  Nevius,  born  near  Clover  Hill. 
May  20,  1769,  died  there  about  1855:  married 
(second)  August  10,  1806.  Hannah  Fanning: 
their  fourth  child  was 

(\'l)  George  Washiiigtcm  .Xevius,  born 
near  ('lover  Hill.  .September  i').  1812:  mer- 
chant of  that  place:  died  March  17.  1858:  mar- 
ried. June  I,  1841,  Hannah  Gray,  daughter  of 
.Austin  Gray,  of  Nechanic :  their  first  child  was 

(\II)  Elizabeth  Nevius,  born  at  Clover 
Hill,  January  22,  1842,  died  April  28,  1874: 
married  (first)  Jacob  Young;  (second)  Ira 
Higgins:  two  children  by  her  first  marriage, 
the  eldest  being 

(\'HI)    Peter   I.  Young,  above. 


Dr.  James  Richardson, 
RICHARDSON     of     701      North     Sixth 

street,  Camden,  New 
Jersey,  is  a  descendant  of  old  colonial  stock, 
which  has  done  yeoman  service  in  the  preserva- 
tion   and    upbuilding   of    the   nation,   in   more 


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than  one  state  antl  colony.  His  ancestors  came 
over  to  this  country  and  settled  first  in  Vir- 
ginia, from  whence  they  moved  into  Maryland, 
and  later  into  Delaware,  where  Dr.  Richard- 
son was  born.  His  grandfather,  Benjamin 
Richardson,  was  a  miller  and  an  itinerant 
Methodist  preacher,  who  traveled  all  over  the 
state  of  Maryland,  and  whose  father  came 
from  Virginia.  His  father,  James  Brummell 
Richardson,  was  born  at  Smyrna,  Kent  county, 
Delaware,  .August  24,  1810.  He  was  a  miller 
and  a  farmer:  he  died  in  1884.  His  mother, 
.Mary,  was  the  daughter  of  William  Rutledge, 
a  descendant  c^f  a  most  distinguished  family. 

Dr.  James  Richardson,  son  of  James  Brum- 
mell and  Mary  (Rutledge)  Richardson,  was 
born  near  Dover,  Delaware,  on  his  father's 
farm,  April  12,  1862,  and  is  now  living  in 
Camden,  New  Jersey.  For  his  early  education 
he  was  sent  to  the  public  schools  near  Dover, 
and  to  the  Dover  Classical  Academy,  the  prin- 
cipal of  which  at  that  time  was  Professor  \\'ill- 
iam  .\.  Reynolds,  .\fter  leaving  the  academy 
he  entered  in  1883  the  Jefferson  Medical  Col- 
lege, in  Philadelphia,  from  which  he  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  April,  1885.  He 
entered  at  once  upon  the  general  practice  of 
his  profession  at  Camden,  New  Jersey,  but 
after  a  time  removed  to  Kent  county.  Dela- 
ware, and  set  up  in  general  practice  there,  and 
also  in  New  Castle  county.  Here  he  remained 
until  1898,  when  he  removed  to  Riverside. 
New  Jersey,  After  remaining  in  Riverside 
until  1907,  he  returned  once  more  to  Cam<len, 
where  he  now  resides.  At  one  time  Dr.  Rich- 
ardson thought  that  he  would  make  himself  a 
specialist  in  skin  diseases,  and  therefore  took 
up  a  course  in  that  subject  in  the  .Skin  Hos- 
pital of  Dr.  John  Shoemaker,  in  Philadcl])hia. 
Dr.  Richardson  is  a  Republican  and  he  has 
been  active  and  enthusiastic  as  well  as  of  great 
value  to  the  advancement  of  the  interests  of 
his  party.  He  enjoys  the  distinction  of  being 
one  of  the  first  legislators  of  the  state  of  Dela- 
ware ever  elected  to  that  body  on  the  Repub- 
lican ticket.  He  was  elected  in  1888  from 
Kent  county,  and  while  serving  in  the  legis- 
lature was  a  member  of  the  committee  on  edu- 
cation, the  committee  on  claims,  and  the  com- 
mittee on  fish  and  oysters.  At  one  time  he 
was  a  member  of  and  also  the  first  of  the 
school  board  at  Leipsic,  Delaware.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Delaware  State  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, and  at  one  time  was  also  a  member  of 
the  Burlington  County  New  Jersey  Medical 
Society.     He  is  a  member  of  the  State  Street 


Methodist  Episcojial  Church  of  Camden,  .New 
Jersey. 

James  Richardson,  M.  D..  married,  in  1873, 
.\nnie.  daughter  of  Conklin  Raynor,  a  de- 
scendant of  one  of  the  oldest  families  in  this 
country,  and  one  of  the  founders,  first  of 
W'ethersfield.  Connecticut,  second  of  .Stam- 
ford. Connecticut,  and  lastly  of  Southamp- 
ton, Long  Island.  The  children  of  James  and 
.\nnie  ( Raynor )  Richardson  who  are  now 
living  are:  i.  Martha,  married  William  M. 
Cofiin,  of  Maryland.  They  are  now  living  at 
Camden,  New  Jersey.  2.  Marie,  a  student  in 
the  Camden  high  school. 


The  Bailey  family  of  New  Jersey 

P>.\ILEY  or  rather  that  branch  which  is  at 
present  under  consideration  is 
distinct  from  the  old  New  England  branch  al- 
though there  are  the  same  christian  names  in 
the  two  families  and  would  lead  one  to  suggest 
that  there  was  some  connection.  The  records, 
however,  show  that  such  connection  exists 
farther  back  than  this  side  of  the  ocean. 

fl)  Thomas  Bailey,  a  native  of  Bristol. 
England,  which  was  in  his  day  one  of  the  most 
important  cities  of  England,  came  over  to 
\merica  in  i()82  and  purchased  land  in  Bucks 
county.  Pennsylvania.  By  occupation  he  was 
a  bodice  maker.  Among  his  children  was 
Thomas,  referred  to  below. 

(11)  Thomas  (2).  son  of  Thomas  (i) 
P>ailey.  immigrant,  married  Mercy  Lucas  and 
among  his  children  was  Edward,  referred  to 
below. 

(  III  )  Edward,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  and 
Mercy  (  Lucas)  Bailey,  married  Ann  Satter- 
thwaite  and  among  their  children  was  William, 
referred  to  below. 

(IV)  William,  son  of  Edward  and  Ann 
(  Satterthwaite )  Bailey,  was  born  in  Glouces- 
ter county.  New  Jersey.  He  was  a  farmer. 
He  married  Keziah  Skinner,  whose  father  was 
in  the  revolutionary  war.  Among  their  chil- 
dren was  William,  referred  to  below. 

(V)  William  (2).  son  of  William  (i)  and 
Keziah  (Skinner)  Bailey,  was  born  in  (jlou- 
cester  county.  New  Jersey.  .April  i,  1808.  He 
was  a  farmer  ;  in  religion  a  Methodist,  and  in 
politics  a  W'hig  and  afterwards  a  Rei)ublican. 
He  married  Lydia,  daughter  of  Leven  Densten, 
of  \'irginia,  who  was  born  in  Gloucester 
county.  New  Jersey,  in  September,  1812. 
.■\mong  their  children  was  George  Washing- 
ton, referred  to  below. 

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(2)  and  Lydia  ( Denstenj  Bailey,  was  bom 
near  Clarksboro.  (iloucester  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, December  5,  1840,  and  is  now  living  in 
Philadelphia.  F'ennsylvania.  He  was  burn  on 
his  father's  farm,  and  for  his  early  education 
was  sent  to  the  public  schools  of  Gloucester 
county  and  to  the  State  Normal  School.  After 
the  civil  war  he  entered  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  the  L'niversity  of  Pennsylvania,  from 
which  he  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.  D. 
in  1868,  and  then  engaged  in  the  general  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  in  Philadelphia.  In  1872 
his  health  began  to  fail  under  the  strenuous 
lalxir  in  which  he  was  engaged,  and  he  was 
compelled  to  abandon  his  practice.  He  then 
for  a  time  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business 
in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  and  after  this  in  the 
wholesale  coal  business  in  Philadelphia.  Finally 
he  entered  into  the  business  of  mining  and 
shipping  coal,  and  was  for  many  years  an  influ- 
ential member  of  the  boards  of  directors  of  a 
number  of  business  corporations.  He  was  one 
of  the  prominent  organizers  of  the  Camden 
National  Bank ;  at  present  he  has  withdrawn 
from  his  connection  with  all  financial  organiza- 
tions with  the  exception  of  the  Bridgeton  Na- 
tional Bank  and  the  Glassboro  National  Bank. 
.•\mong  the  other  important  organizations  with 
which  Dr.  fiailey  has  been  j)rominently  con- 
nected should  be  mentioned  W'hitney  Glass 
Works  Company.  In  1906  he  finally  withdrew 
from  active  business.  Since  early  manhood 
Dr.  Bailey  has  been  greatly  interested  in  the 
organization  and  advancement  of  Sunday 
school  work  and  he  was  a  prominent  and  active 
member  of  some  of  the  most  important  asso- 
ciations and  organizations  with  that  object  in 
the  country.  He  was  for  many  years  the 
president  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Sunda\' 
School  Association,  and  the  chairman  of  its 
executive  committee.  He  is  now  chairman 
emeritus  of  the  executive  committee  of  that 
association.  For  many  years  also  he  was  the 
treasurer  of  the  International  Sunday  .School 
Association,  and  is  now  the  chairman  of  the 
executive  committee  of  the  World's  .Sunday 
School  .Association.  In  religion  he  is  a  Pres- 
byterian and  he  was  for  many  years  a  member 
of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  general  assem- 
bly of  that  denomination  as  well  as  the  vice- 
president  of  the  general  assembly's  board  of 
education.  He  is  also  a  member  of  several 
special  committees  of  that  body,  and  a  member 
of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Presbyterian 
Hospital  and  also  vice-chairman  of  the  West 
Jersey  ( )r])lianage  for  Destitute  Colored  Chil- 
dren.    In  politics  Dr.  Bailey  is  a  Republican. 


and  although  he  says  that  he  has  never  held 
any  office  worth  mentioning  he  has  been 
staunch  and  active  in  promoting  the  welfare 
of  his  party,  into  which  he  points  with  pride 
that  he  was  born  remarking  that  his  first  lesson 
in  politics  was  from  the  Ncic  York  Tribune. 
He  served  loyally  and  faithfully  on  the  Union 
side  in  the  civil  war  as  a  sergeant  in  Company 
E,  Twenty- fourth  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  witli 
distinguished  service  at  Fredericksburg  and 
L'hancellorsville.  His  social  club  is  the  Union 
League  of  Philadelphia.  He  is  also  a  demitted 
member  of  Trimble  Lodge,  No.  117,  P'ree  and 
Accepted  Masons,  of  Camden,  New  Jersey, 
and  he  is  one  of  the  ex-presidents  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Social  Union. 

George  Washington  Bailey,  M.  D.,  married 
(first)  December  8,  1872,  in  Hurfifville,  New 
Jersey,  Rebecca  Hyder  Hurff,  born  September 
ID.  1848,  daughter  of  Thomas  W.  Hurff,  a 
farmer,  who  at  one  time  served  in  the  lower 
house  of  the  New  Jersey  legislature,  and  Han- 
nah (Hyder)  Hurff'.  There  were  no  children 
by  this  marriage.  Mrs.  Bailey  died  October  10, 
1888.  Dr.  Bailey  married  (second)  June  18, 
1 89 1,  at  Wenonah,  New  Jersey,  Annie,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  July  26,  1864,  daughter  of 
( leorge  L.  McGill,  a  molasses  merchant 
of  Philadelphia.  Children:  i.  Grace  Lydia, 
born  April  18,  1892,  attended  the  Friends' 
Select  School  in  Philadelphia,  from  which  she 
graduated,  class  of  June,  1909.  2.  Anna  Mc- 
(rill,  born  June  28,  1893.  Both  children  were 
lii>rn  in  Wenonah. 


The  Roesch  family  iif  I'hiladel- 
ROE.SCH     phia.  Pennsylvania,  and  .\tlantic 

City,  New  Jersey,  are  among 
the  newer  comers  to  America,  there  being  but 
two  full  grown  generations,  both  of  whom  are 
still  living  to  represent  and  speak  for  it ;  but 
the  well-deserved  success  which  has  crowned 
the  eft'orts  of  the  emigrant  father  and  his  sons 
entitles  them  to  rank  among  the  representa- 
tives of  successful  achievement  of  modern 
New  Jersey. 

( 1 )  Charles  Roesch,  founder  of  the  family, 
was  born  in  Germany  and  came  over  to  this 
country  in  1855.  Settling  in  Philadelphia  he 
established  the  house  of  Charles  Roesch  & 
Sons,  manufacturers,  packers  and  meat  dealers, 
and  before  long  he  was  able  to  start  a  branch 
house  at  .'\tlantic  City,  where  they  are  now 
doing  the  largest  business  in  the  city,  supply- 
ing all  the  leading  hotels  of  the  resort.  He 
married  Alariah  E.,  born  in  Germany,  daugh- 
ter of  Jacob  Kleefeld,  and  by  her  he  had  four 


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children:  Elizabeth,  who  died  in  infancy; 
William,  Charles,  George  Jacob.  The  last 
three  are  referred  to  below. 

(II)  William,  second  child  and  eldest  son 
of  Charles  (i)  and  Mariah  E.  (Kleefeld) 
Roesch,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1858.  He 
married  (first)  Annie  A.  Alathus.  who  died 
leaving  him  with  two  children  :  Marie  and 
William,  Jr.  Remarried  (second)  Anna  Loos, 
win)  has  also  diefl  leaving  him  with  two  more 
children  :     Elsie  and  Helen. 

(II)  Charles  (2),  third  child  and  second 
son  of  Charles  (i)  and  Mariah  E.  (Kleefeld) 
Roesch,  w-as  born  in  Philadelphia,  October  19, 
1 861,  and  is  now  living  at  .\tlantic  City,  iVew 
Jersey.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Philadelphia  and  then  the  Pierce  Business  Col- 
lege of  the  same  city,  and  after  his  graduation 
from  the  latter  institution  he  became  connected 
w^ith  his  father's  extensive  business  in  Phila- 
delphia, and  in  1888  also  with  the  Atlantic 
City  end.  Here  the  business  increased  to  such 
an  extent  that  in  1891  he  became  a  resident  of 
the  city  and  gave  his  entire  time  to  looking 
after  the  interests  of  that  branch,  in  which  he 
has  been  very  successful.  He  is  a  member  of 
E.xcelsior  Lodge.  Xo.  491,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  of  Philadelphia,  and  St.  John's  Chap- 
ter, Royal  Arch  Masons,  of  Philadelphia.  He 
has  also  taken  all  the  degrees  in  the  consistory 
rites  of  masonry  up  to  and  including  the  thirty- 
second.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Lu  Lu  Temple, 
of  Philadelphia:  of  X'ictory  Lodge,  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  of  Philadelphia, 
and  is  also  a  member  of  the  Tall  Cedars  of 
Lebanon,  of  Atlantic  City.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Atlantic  City  Yacht  Club,  Atlantic  City 
Board  of  Trade,  and  German  Reformed  Luth- 
eran Church.  His  brother,  William,  is  presi- 
dent of  the  Lutheran  Church  Society,  of  Phila- 
delphia and  his  father  was  a  member  of  the 
same  church.  j\Ir.  Roesch  is  a  Republican. 
He  W'as  the  first  jiresident  of  the  Business 
Men's  League,  of  .Atlantic  City,  and  he  is  the 
treasurer  of  the  Atlantic  City  Publicity  Bureau. 
In  1883  Charles  Roesch  married  (first)  Sally, 
daughter  of  William  Trefz,  of  Philadelphia, 
who  died  after  bearing  him  two  children:  i. 
Carl  Trefz,  born  in  1888:  unmarried;  in  the 
.\ttantic  City  branch  store.  2.  Eva,  died  in 
infancy.  In  1897  Charles  Roesch  married 
(second)  Frederica,  daughter  of  William 
Trefz,  of  Philadelphia,  sister  of  his  first  wife. 

(II)  George  Jacob,  fourth  and  youngest 
child  of  Charles  (i)  and  Mariah  E.  (Kleefeld) 
Roesch,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  in  1864.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Charles  Roesch  & 


Sons,  and  attends  to  the  Philadelphia  end  of 
the  business,  residing  in  that  city,  and  having 
a  beautiful  summer  residence  at  Atlantic  City. 
He  married  Matilda  H.  Poth^  of  Philadelphia, 
and  has  two  children :  Clara  Matilda  and 
Helen. 


The  Woodruff  iamil_\-  of 
WOODRl'FF     New  Jersey,  not  only  m  its 

Elizabethtown  branch,  but 
also  in  its  West  and  South  Jersey  representa- 
tives, has  won  for  itself  so  distinguished  and 
enviable  reputation  that  it  is  very  much  to  be 
regretted  that  the  documents  up  to  the  present 
brought  to  light  have  failed  to  establish  con- 
clusively the  complete  genealogy  of  the 
branches  in  Burlington,  Gloucester,  Salem  and 
other  West  Jersey  counties.  It  is  to  be  hoped 
that  time  and  further  research  among  old 
family  papers  and  records  will  complete  a  gene- 
alogy which,  while  certain  in  its  outlines,  is  at 
present  sketchy  in  its  details. 

(I)  Lewis  Woodruff,  of  Woodruff',  Bridge- 
ton,  New  Jersey,  was  one  of  the  largest  and 
most  inlluential  land  owners  of  the  region 
where  he  dwelt  in  his  day,  and  it  is  in  his 
memory  and  honor  that  the  place  of  his  home 
has  been  known  ever  since  by  his  name.  When 
he  died  he  divided  his  enormous  property 
among  his  six  children,  two  of  whom  were  by 
one  of  his  wives,  and  the  other  four  by  the 
other  of  his  wives.  These  sons  were :  Thomas 
(iithens.  referred  to  below;  Edward,  Robert, 
John,  Lewis,  Albert. 

(II)  Thomas  Githens,  son  of  Lewis  Wood- 
ruff, of  Woodruff,  Cumberland  county.  New 
Jersey,  was  born  at  Woodruff"  in  1845.  He 
spent  his  life  on  the  farm  which  he  inherited 
from  his  father.  By  his  wife,  Sarah  Elizabeth 
(  Bowen)  Woodruff"  he  had  three  children:  i. 
.Malcolm  Bowen,  referred  to  below.  2.  Grace, 
born  in  1868;  married  John  Sanders,  of  Lin- 
wood,  Atlantic  county.  New  Jersey,  and  now 
living  at  Wildwood,  New  Jersey,  with  hei 
husband  and  two  children,  Ethel  and  Milton. 
3.  Milford,  born  in  1888;  unmarried;  now  in 
the  water  department  of  Atlantic  City. 

(III)  Malcolm  Bowen,  eldest  child  of 
Thomas  Githens  and  Sarah  Elizabeth  (Bowen) 
\\'oodruft',  was  born  at  \\oodruff".  Cumberland 
county.  New  Jersey,  November  9,  18(36,  and  is 
now  living  at  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey.  For 
his  early  education  he  w^as  sent  to  the  public 
schools  of  Cumberland  county  and  of  Atlantic 
City,  w'here  as  a  boy  in  the  latter  place  he  look- 
ed after  the  ponies  on  the  Beach  also  on  the 
celebrated    Broadwalk.      Coming    to    .\tlantic 


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City  in  i^79,  lie  for  some  time  drove  a  hack 
in  the  town,  after  which  he  became  connected 
with  the  Adams  Express  Company  and  sub- 
secjuently  with  the  Atlantic  City  poHce  depart- 
ment, at  first  as  one  of  the  summer  poHcemen. 
This  was  on  June  4,  1891,  and  December  10 
of  the  same  year  he  was  promoted  to  the  reg- 
ular police  force,  and  after  serving  as  an  officer 
for  eight  years  became,  March  15,  1899,  cap- 
tain of  police,  and  November  18,  1907,  was 
appointed  chief  of  the  police  department  by 
Mayor  Stoy.  From  special  policeman  to  his 
present  position  at  the  head  of  an  energetic 
and  efficient  police  force  to-day  he  has  occu- 
])ied  every  position  in  the  department  from 
the  liiwest  to  the  highest  during  a  period  of 
eighteen  years  in  all.  and  in  the  whole  time 
he  has  never  lost  a  day's  duty  or  a  day's  pa\'. 
This  record  sjjeaks  for  itself.  Mr.  Woodruff 
is  a  member  of  Belcher  Lodge,  No.  180,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Atlantic  City,  and 
he  is  also  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows.  He  is  a  Republican  and  at- 
tends the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 


The  Glaspell  family  of  New 
GL.ASPELL  Jersey  is  apparently  one  of 
the  late  comers  into  the  state, 
but  it  is  so  connected  with  the  old  and  promi- 
nent families  of  Salem  and  Cumberland  coun- 
ties that  no  account  of  the  representative  fami- 
lies of  that  section  of  New  Jersey  would  be 
complete  without  making  mention  of  them,  as 
for  three  of  four  generations  they  have  been 
identified  with  the  history  and  fortunes  of  the 
state. 

(I)  Thomas  Dennis,  son  of  John  Glaspell, 
is  the  first  of  the  name  to  be  distinctly  identi- 
fied with  New  Jersey.  He  was  born  in  Cum- 
berland county.  New  Jersey,  in  October,  1813. 
By  his  marriage  with  Christiana  Clinton, 
daughter  of  Charles  Beatty  and  Mary  (Ewing) 
Fithian  (see  Fithian,  V).  He  became  linked 
with  all  that  is  best  in  the  old  New  Jersey 
colonial  stock.  Children  of  Thomas  Dennis 
and  Christiana  Clinton  (Fithian)  Glaspell 
were:  i.  Enos  E.,  married  (first)  Martha  O. 
Tyler,  and  (second)  Mary  E.  English,  both  of 
them  descendants  of  old  New  Jersey  families. 
2.  Theophilus,  died  unmarried.  3.  Mary  Eliza- 
beth, died  unmarried.  4.  Edwin  Miller,  mar- 
ried Eliza  Mulford,  one  of  Salem  county's 
oldest  and  most  prominent  families.  5.  Thomas 
Bowen,  died  unmarried.  6.  John  N.,  referred 
to  below.  7.  Mary  Fithian,  married  Charles 
Ruddcrow. 


(H)  John  N.,  sixth  child  and  fifth  son  of 
Thomas  Dennis  and  Christiana  Clinton  (  Fith- 
ian )  Glaspell,  was  born  at  Greenwich,  Cum- 
berland county.  New  Jersey,  October  29,  1850. 
For  his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Cireenwich,  after  leaving  which 
for  two  winters  he  attended  the  South  Jersey 
Institute.  He  then  for  the  next  sixteen  years 
taught  school  in  Cumberland  county.  For  two 
years  he  had  charge  of  the  district  school  in 
the  neighborhood  where  he  was  born,  and  in 
1876  he  became  the  princi])al  of  the  school  at 
Mauricetown,  New  Jersey,  where  he  remained 
for  eleven  years.  For  the  following  year  he 
taught  at  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey.  In  1887  he 
took  up  the  trade  of  butcher,  at  which  he  re- 
mained for  eighteen  months.  In  1891  he  be- 
came ]jrincipal  of  the  second  ward  school  at 
Bridgeton,  and  in  1895  was  appointed  by  the 
New  Jersey  state  board  of  education  county 
sui)erinten(lent  of  public  schools  for  Cumber- 
land county.  New  Jersey,  which  position  he 
has  held  to  the  great  satisfaction  of  the  county 
for  fifteen  years.  When  he  was  first  made 
su]3erintendent  of  the  county  schools.  Mr.  Glas- 
pell had  only  one  hundred  and  eighty-five 
teachers  under  his  jurisdiction.  Under  his 
able  management  the  educational  problem  had 
been  so  well  handled  and  the  cause  of  educa- 
tion'so  much  advanced  in  Cumberland  county 
that  he  now  has  charge  of  seventy-five  schools 
and  two  hundred  and  si.xty-five  teachers.  Mr. 
Cdaspell  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  he  has 
done  splendid  work  for  his  party  and  his  state 
during  his  active  life.  In  1890-93-94  he  was 
elected  from  the  first  ilistrict  of  Cumberland 
county  to  the  New  Jersey  assembly.  For  a 
while  after  this  he  acted  as  the  bookkeeper 
of  the  New  Jersey  State  Mutual  Building  and 
Loan  .-XESociation,  of  Camden,  and  March  7. 
1895,  he  was  appointed  to  fill  the  unexpired 
term  of  Charles  J.  Hampton,  the  county  super- 
intendent of  schools.  He  was  elected  in  1908, 
under  the  new  charter  of  Bridgeton,  a  member 
of  city  council,  and  became  its  first  president. 
Mr.  Glaspell  is  a  member  of  Neptune  Lodge. 
No.  75,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons;  Royal 
Arch  Alasons  of  Cumberland  county.  Olivet 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  Millville.  New 
Jersey,  and  for  four  years  was  the  worshipful 
master  of  his  Masonic  lodge  in  Mauricetown. 
New  Jersey.  He  is  also  a  past  high  priest  of 
the  Royal  Arch  Masons.  Mr.  Glaspell  is  also 
a  member  of  the  National  Teachers'  Associa- 
tion and  of  the  Order  of  Elks.  In  religion  he 
is  an  attendant  of  the  Presbvterian  church. 


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t/  (The  Fithian  Line). 

According  to  the  traditions  of  the  Fithian 
family  they  are  of  Welsh  descent.  For  cen- 
turies they  have  been  among  the  most  promi- 
nent of  the  families  of  Cumberland  and  Salem 
counties  of  New  Jersey,  and  also  in  many 
other  portions  of  the  country. 

(I)  William  Fithian,  founder  of  the  fam- 
ily in  this  country,  is  said  to  have  been  a 
soldier  in  Cromwell's  army,  having  been  pres- 
ent at  the  execution  of  Charles  the  First;  he 
was,  after  the  restoration  of  Charles  the  Sec- 
ond, proscribed  and  obliged  to  flee  the  coun- 
try. He  came  first  to  Boston,  whence  he  re- 
moved to  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  then  to  New 
Haven,  and  finally  to  East  Hampton,  Long 
Island,  where  he  remained  until  his  death, 
between  1678  and  1682.  By  his  wife,  Mar- 
garet, he  had:  i.  IMartha,  died  in  1678.  2. 
Lieutenant  Enoch,  died  February  20,  1726; 
married.  June  25,  1675,  Miriam  Burnett. 
3.  Sarah.  4.  Hannah.  5.  Samuel,  referred  to 
below. 

(H)  Samuel,  son  of  William  and  Margaret 
Fithian,  born  in  East  Hampton,  removed  to 
Cohansey,  Cumberland  county,  New  Jersey, 
about  1698,  died  there  in  1702.  The  original 
residence  of  the  family  was  at  what  was  for- 
merly known  as  the  New  England  Cross  road, 
in  Fairfield  township,  New  Jersey.  March  6, 
1679,  Samuel  Fithian  married  Priscilla,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Mary  Barnes,  of  East 
Hampton,  Long  Island,  and  had:  i.  John, 
born  September  i,  1681.  2.  Josiah,  May  6, 
1685,  died  April  3,  1741 ;  married,  November 
7,  1706,  Sarah,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Philip 
Dennis.  3.  Samuel,  referred  to  below.  4. 
Esther,  March  6,  1691.  5.  Matthias,  February 
3,  1694.    6.  William,  March  25,  169S. 

(HI)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Samuel  (i)  and 
Priscilla  (Barnes)  Fithian,  was  born  April  17, 
1688.  in  East  Hampton,  Long  Island,  died  in 
Fairfield,  Cumberland  county,  New  Jersey, 
November  2,  1777.  He  married,  September 
3,  1741,  Phebe,  daughter  of  Ephraim  Seeley, 
who  died  March  12,  1764.  Their  children 
were:  i.  Hannah,  born  August  4,  1742,  mar- 
ried Nathan  Leake,  of  Deerfield,  and  died 
November  8,  1842.  2.  Rachael,  July  7,  1744, 
died  October  22,  1882;  married  Daniel  Clark, 
of  Hopewell.  3.  Amy,  July  16,  1746,  died  No- 
vember 20,  1824;  married  Joseph  More,  of 
Deerfield.  4.  Joel,  referred  to  below.  5. 
Elizabeth.  December  13,  1750,  died  February 
6,  1788;  married  Ephraim  Seeley.  6.  Mary, 
April  I,  1752,  died  November,  1793;  married 


Joshua  Brick.  7.  Sarah,  March  3,  1754.  died 
November  23,  1779:  married  Thomas  Brown, 
of  Hopewell.  8.  Ruth,  May  25,  1756,  died 
December  3,  1846;  married  David  Bowen. 
9.  Seeley,  October  15,  1758. 

(IV)  Joel,  son  of  Samuel  (2)  and  Phebe 
(Seeley)  Fithian.  was  born  September  29, 
1748,  died  November  9,  1821.  He  was  one  of 
the  most  prominent  members  of  his  familv  in 
New  Jersey.  September  3,  1771.  he  married 
(first)  Rachael,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Jr.  and 
Anna  (Dominick)  Flolmes,  granddaughter  of 
Jonathan  Holmes,  and  great-granddaughter  of 
Obadiah  Holmes,  born  at  Preston,  county 
Lancaster,  England,  emigrated  to  Boston, 
1639,  located  at  Salem,  Massachusetts,  and 
then  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  where  he  died 
December  15,  1682.  Rachael  (Holmes)  Fith- 
ian was  born  March  14,  1750,  died  leaving  one 
child,  Josiah,  of  Bridgeton,  born  September 
30,  1776,  died  July  14,  1842.  March  4.  1780, 
Joel  Fithian  married  (second)  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  Charles  Beatty,  a  de- 
scendant of  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  promi- 
nent families  of  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania. 
Children  of  Joel  and  Elizabeth  (Beatty)  Fith- 
ian were:  i.  Charles  Beatty,  referred  to 
below.  2.  Samuel,  born  February  26,  1785, 
died  September  28,  1806.  3.  Philip,  January 
20,  1787,  died  January  16,  1868.  4.  Ercuries 
Beatty,  August  14,  1789,  died  May  26,  1816. 

5.  Enoch,  M.  D.,  of  Greenwich,  New  Jersey, 
May  10,  1792. 

(V)  Charles  Beatty,  eldest  child  of  Joel  and 
Elizabeth  (Beatty)  Fithian,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 18,  1782,  died  November  21,  1858.  He 
married  Mary  Ewing,  January  16,  1805.  She 
was  born  May  20,  1787,  died  April  24,  1849. 
Their  children  were:  i.  Ann  Elizabeth,  born 
October  14.  1805;  married,  February  19,  1825, 
Richard  Fithian.  2.  Enos  Ewing,  February 
22,  1807,  died  September  28,  1837.  3.  Sarah 
Ewing,  January  2,  1809,  died  August,  1903; 
married  William  K.  Sheppard.  4.  Ercuries 
Beatty,  December  20,  1810,  died  April,  1896; 
married,  September  17,  1833.  Hannah  Hard- 
ing. 5.  Rachael  Ewing.  August  16,  1813.  died 
July  18,  1842;  married,  October  24,  1833, 
Robert  S.  Garrison.  6.  Samuel  R.,  August 
30,  1815;  married,  October  12,  1840,  Amelia 
Bacon.  7.  Christiana  C,  April  23,  181 7,  died 
June,  1896;  married  Thomas  Dennis  Glaspelf 
(see  Glaspell,  1).     8.  Alary  Clark,  September 

6,  182 — ,  died  February  6,  1907.  9.  Emily 
Seeley,  September  13,  1823;  married  Samuel; 
S.  Lawrence. 


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The  Carmany  family  of 
CARMAXY  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jer- 
sey belonged  to  that  sturdy 
group  of  German  settlers  who  came  over  to  this 
country  in  the  latter  part  of  the  eighteenth 
and  the  early  of  the  nineteenth  century,  and 
have  grown  up  with  the  new  nation  in  the 
Western  World. 

(I)  Philip  Carmany,  founder  of  the  branch 
of  the  family  at  present  under  consideration, 
came  over  to  this  country  with  three  or  four 
of  his  brothers,  and  possibly  his  father,  and 
settled  in  Lebanon  and  Anwill,  Lebanon 
county,  Pennsylvania.  By  his  wife,  Mary 
Esterline,  he  had  eleven  children:  i.  Eliza- 
beth, born  December  8,  1801.  2.  John,  No- 
vember 9.  1803.  3.  Catharine,  November  2"] . 
1805.  4.  Rebecca,  April  21,  1808.  5.  Henry, 
referred  to  below.  6.  Sarah.  January  25,  1813. 
7.  Cyrus.  March  15.  1815.  8.  Joseph.  Novem- 
ber 14,  1817.  g.  Maria,  April  14,  1820.  10. 
Jacob.      II.   William.   November  25,    1825. 

(II)  Henry,  fifth  child  and  second  son  of 
Philip  and  Mary  (Esterline)  Carmany,  was 
born  June  15,  1810.  He  married  in  Anwill, 
Lebanon  county,  Pennsylvania,  Sarah  Phil- 
ippy.  Their  children  were:  i.  Jeremiah,  born 
November  4,  1833.  2.  Cyrus,  referred  to 
below.  3.  Henry,  June  30,  1838.  4.  William. 
October  8,  1841.  5.  Mary,  September  18, 
1844.  6.  George.  January  25,  1847.  7.  Sarah. 
.A])ril  10.  1830.  8.  Joanna.  December  21. 
1853.     II.  Abraham  Lincoln,  March  zj,  1861. 

(HI)  Cyrus,  second  child  and  son  of  Henry 
and  .Sarah  (Philippy)  Carmany,  was  born  in 
Anwill.  Lebanon  county,  Pennsylvania,  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1836,  and  is  now  living  retired  in 
Roxborough,  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  for 
many  years  engaged  in  the  dyeing  business. 
He  was  for  two  terms  a  member  of  the  city 
council  of  Philadelphia.  He  married  Adeline, 
daughter  of  John  Stober,  of  Schafferstown, 
Pennsylvania.  Their  children  are:  i.  John, 
born  June  23,  1859;  he  was  married  three 
times,  the  names  of  both  of  his  first  two  wives 
being  Caroline,  that  of  his  third  wife  Sarah  ; 
his  diildren  are  Rertha.  John  and  Harry.  2. 
Edward.  February  8,  1862;  married  l>ella 
Ferguson.  3.  George  Walter,  referred  to 
below.  4.  Mary  Ella,  April  29,  1866;  married 
Charles  M.  Stout  and  has  five  children: 
Charles  M.  Jr.,  Stober.  Mary,  Mildred  and 
Helen.  5.  Harry  S.,  M.  D..  Ju'ly  14,  1868:  un- 
married. 6.  Alema  Aldine,  December  31. 
1872;  married  Harry  Binns.  physician,  and  has 
one  child,  Adeline.  7.  Sallie.  July  14.  1875.  8. 
William,  August  21,  1877;  a  physician;  mar- 


ried Ray  Craven  and  has  one  child,  Lillie 
Craven.  9.  Bessie  Adeline.  February  19, 
1880;  married  Dr.  William  MacKinney. 

(IV)  George  W'alter.  third  child  and  son 
of  Cyrus  and  Adeline  (Stober)  Carmany,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  February 
2'j.  1864.  and  is  now  living  in  Atlantic  City, 
New  Jersey.  For  his  early  education  he  went 
to  the  public  school  of  Philadelphia,  and  then 
became  a  cash  boy  to  the  store  of  Straw-bridge 
&  Clothier,  in  that  city.  With  this  firm  he 
remained  as  boy  and  man  for  about  eight 
years,  and  by  his  diligence,  application  and 
ability  rose  to  the  position  of  clerk  in  their 
clothing  department.  He  then  became  one  of 
the  representatives  of  a  firm  in  Berlin,  Ger- 
many, which  dealt  in  dyestufts,  which  had 
branch  offices  at  122  Walnut  street,  Philadel- 
phia, and  this  firm  he  still  represents.  In 
1889,  owing  to  the  poor  health  of  one  of  his 
children,  he  removed  his  residence  from  Phil- 
adelphia to  Atlantic  City,  where  his  wife  in 
1 89 1  opened  a  small  hotel  known  as  the  Fre- 
domia,  which  has  been  in  most  successful  and 
poi>ular  operation  ever  since,  located  at  No. 
158  South  Tennessee  avenue,  Atlantic  City. 
Mr.  Carmany  is  the  alderman  of  Atlantic  City. 
that  city  being  peculiar  in  having  only  one 
which  is  elected  by  the  city  at  large.  In  virtue 
of  this  ofifice  he  is  the  president  of  the  city 
council,  and  in  the  absence  or  sickness  of  the 
mayor  he  is  ex-officio,  the  acting  mayor.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  and  is  also  a  popular,  prominent, 
influential  and  enthusiastic  secret  society  man. 
Among  the  numerous  societies  and  associa- 
tions of  which  he  is  a  member  should  be 
noted :  Lodge  No.  276,  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks,  in  Atlantic  City ; 
Lodge  No.  9,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of 
Philadelphia,  of  which  in  1896  he  was  wor- 
shipful master;  Chapter  No.  250.  Royal  Arch 
Masons,  of  Philadelphia,  of  which  he  was  one 
of  the  committeemen ;  the  Kadosh  Command- 
ery.  No.  29.  Knights  Tem])lar,  of  Phila- 
delphia ;  the  Lu  Lu  Temple,  Mystic  Shriners, 
of  Philadelphia ;  the  Order  of  Sparta,  Phila- 
delphia ;  the  Washington  L.  S.  of  Honor, 
Philadelphia;  Lodge  No.  11,  Tall  Cedars  of 
Lebanon,  of  /Vtlantic  City.  Mr.  Carmany  is 
also  a  prominent  social  clubman,  being  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Philadelphia  Athletic  Club,  Phila- 
delphia Quartet  Club,  and  of  the  Harmony 
Singing  Society  of  Philadelphia.  All  this, 
however,  does  not  interfere  with  his  taking  a 
prominent  and  an  active  part  in  the  business 
interest  and  welfare  of  the  city.    He  is  a  mem- 


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ber  not  only  of  the  Hotelmen's  Association  of 
Atlantic  City,  but  also  of  the  National  Hotel- 
men's  Association.  He  is  the  harbor  master 
of  the  Atlantic  City  Yacht  Club,  an  active 
member  of  the  City  Troop  of  Atlantic  City,  a 
contributing  member  of  the  Morris  Guard  of 
.Atlantic  City,  a  member  of  the  Atlantic  City 
lUisinessmen's  League,  and  a  member  of  the 
.Atlantic  City  I'oard  of  Trade. 

(ieorge  Walter  Carmany  married.  October 
31,  1887,  Catharine  Crosland,  daughter  of 
Charles  Storey  and  Elizabeth  (Goldsmith) 
Crosland.  Her  grandfather,  John  M.  Cros- 
land, was  one  of  the  earliest  pioneers  of  Potts- 
ville,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  died  at  the  age 
of  eighty-three.  He  was  born  in  Ridley  town- 
ship. Delaware  county,  .August  25,  1810.  and 
came  to  Poltsville  at  the  age  of  nineteen.  He 
learned  the  trade  of  ship  carpenter  and  boat 
builder,  and  he  built  the  first  boat  in  which 
coal  was  shipped  to  New  York  for  George  H. 
Potts  Sr. ;  Mr.  Crosland  had  personal  charge 
of  the  boat  on  the  trip.  He  subsequently 
entered  into  the  boat  building  business  on  a 
site  near  where  the  present  .-\tkins  Furnaces 
are  located,  and  this  business  he  carried  on 
successfully  a  number  of  years.  During  this 
time  he  saved  three  persons  from  drowning. 
one  of  whom  was  Dr.  A.  H.  Halberstadt.  He 
was  an  active  politician,  and  a  lifelong  Demo- 
crat. He  spoke  in  almost  every  county  in 
Pennsylvania ;  he  was  able,  eloquent  and  forci- 
ble, and  always  in  demand.  At  one  time  he 
was  elected  a  representative  to  the  Pennsyl- 
vania legislature,  at  another  he  was  chosen  as 
a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  held  that  office  for 
a  number  of  years.  He  was  twice  a  writer 
for  The  Press.  During  his  life  he  was  the 
oldest  Odd  Fellow  in  the  state  of  Pennsylva- 
nia, and  was  the  third  or  fourth  oldest  past 
grand  master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pemisyl- 
vania.  He  was  a  member  of  Girard  Lodge, 
No.  53.  In  1842  he  was  elected  chief  burgess 
of  Pottsville.  tie  left  thirteen  children, 
among  whom  are  Charles  S.,  John  J.,  George 
\\'.,  Lewis,  Wilson,  Mrs.  John  Nagle,  Mrs. 
John  W.  Pawling,  also  twenty  grandchildren, 
and  eight  great-grandchildren,  all  of  whom 
are  still  living.  In  religion  Mr.  Crosland  was 
a   Universalist. 

Children  of  George  Walter  and  Catharine 
(Crosland)  Carmany,  are:  i.  Charles  Cyrus, 
born  .August  8,  1889;  attended  the  imblic 
schools  of  Atlantic  City,  the  \\''enonah  Mili- 
tary Academy,  and  is  now  at  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania.  2.  George  Walter  Jr.,  born 
October  11,  1898;  was  for  four  years  at  the 


Friends'  school  in  Atlantic  City,  and  is  now 
attending  the  public  sclmol  of  that  place. 


Joseph  Rusling  Bartlctt  is  a 
RARTLETT    is  a  member  of  one  of  the 

old  Atlantic  county.  New 
Jersey,  families.  His  grandfather,  William 
I'artlett,  was  ajipointed  keeper  of  the  "Abse- 
con  Light  House"  at  .Atlantic  City  in  1862  by 
President  .Abraham  Lincoln.  He  continued  in 
that  office  until  his  death  in  1866. 

(I)  Joseph  Rusling  Bartlctt  was  born  at 
Mays  Landing,  .Atlantic  county,  New  Jersey, 
April  13,  1836.  In  early  life  he  was  a  worker 
in  iron — a  core  maker.  He  became  an  iron 
master,  his  father  having  built  the  iron  foun- 
dry at  Mays  Landing  and  at  (doucester.  New 
Jersey.  He  died  at  Mays  Landing,  New  Jer- 
sey, during  the  year  1876.  Joseph  R.  Bartlctt 
married  Mary  Turner,  born  March  14,  1838, 
daughter  of  John  Turner,  of  Mays  Landing. 
She  survives  her  husband  and  is  a  resident  of 
Tuckahoe,  New  Jersey.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph 
R.  Bartlett  were  the  parents  of  two  sons, 
Joseph  Rusling,  see  forward,  and  Harrison 
T..  who  died  in  the  year  1895,  unmarried. 

(II)  Joseph  Rusling  (2), first  son  of  Joseph 
Rusling  (I)  and  Mary  (Turner)  Bartlett,  was 
born  at  Mays  Landing,  New  Jersey,  April  28, 
1857.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  town  and  of  Atlantic  City,  after 
which  he  took  a  course  of  study  and  was  grad- 
uated from  a  business  college  of  Philadel])hia 
in  1873.  ?^fter  leaving  school  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Camden  and  Atlantic  railroad, 
and  from  1876  to  1895  ^^'^s  a  conductor  on 
that  road,  now  the  W'est  Jersey  and  Seashore 
railroad,  part  of  the  Pennsylvania  railroad 
system.  In  1882  Mr.  Bartlett  removed  to 
.Atlantic  City  and  has  since  been  closely  identi- 
fied with  the  public  affairs  of  that  city.  He  is 
a  Republican,  and  from  1S90  to  1892  was  city 
recorder.  In  1892-93-94  he  was  alderman  of 
the  city  and  president  of  the  city  council.  He 
later  became  health  insjiector,  being  appointed 
by  the  board  of  health.  October  i,  1908,  he 
was  chosen  clerk  of  the  district  court  of  At- 
lantic City,  which  office  he  now  holds  (1909). 
Mr.  Bartlett  is  an  attendant  of  the  Baptist 
church,  and  is  secretary  of  the  Brotherhood  of 
the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Atlantic  City.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and  is 
I)ast  master  of  Unity  Lodge,  No.  96,  of  Atlan- 
tic City.  He  is  a  Royal  .Arch  Mason  of  Trin- 
ity Chapter,  No.  38,  of  the  same  city.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Young  Men's  Republican 
League,  and  trustee  of  the  Second  Ward  Re- 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


publican  organization,  both  of  Atlantic  City. 
Mr.  r.artlctt's  activity  as  is  shown  touches  all 
lines  of  i)ublic  interest,  political,  religious  and 
fraternal. 

Joseph  Rusling  Bartlett  married,  June  26, 
1878,  Ida  May  Williams,  born  March  14, 
1857,  daughter  of  Robert  L.  Williams,  of 
Frc-nchtown,  New  Jersey.  Their  children  are : 
I.  Theresa  Williams,  born  September  16, 
1879;  graduate  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Nor- 
mal school:  married  Frank  IloUingsworth,  an 
architect  of  Cranford,  New  Jersey.  2.  Kath- 
erine  Turner,  January  7,  1881  ;  graduate  of 
the  New  Jersey  State  Normal  and  a  teacher  in 
the  Atlantic  City  public  schools.  3.  Robert 
William.  April  7,  1884;  receiving  teller  of  the 
Atlantic  City  Second  National  Bank;  married 
Elizabeth  T.  Bew,  born  in  dcrmantown, 
Pennsylvania,  February  S.  i8Sr\  daughter  of 
J.  T.  Bew. 

Horace  Franklin  .Sutton,  Es- 
SUTTON     quire,  ranks  as  one  of  the  fore- 

mo.st  of  the  legal  profession  in 
Camden,  New  Jersey,  where  he  was  born  Oc- 
tober 26,  1S76.  He  is  the  son  of  Benjamin 
Franklin  and  Emily  (Hammell)  Sutton.  His 
father  was  born  in  Camden  county  in  1841, 
and  his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Ann  Hammell,  of  the  same  county.  For 
his  early  education  Mr.  Sutton  attended  the 
public  schools  of  Camden,  New  Jersey,  and 
then  began  the  study  of  law  in  one  of  the 
offices  of  his  native  city.  In  June,  1901,  he 
was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  an 
attorney,  and  in  February,  1908,  as  a  coun- 
sellor. Since  this  time  he  has  been  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Camden, 
where  he  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  rising  men 
of  his  profession  and  generation.  In  politics 
Mr.  Sutton  is  a  Republican,  and  in  religious 
belief  a  member  of  the  Methodist  I'lpiscopal 
church. 


The  Beyer  family  of  Egg  Har- 
BEYER  bor,  New  Jersey,  and  of  Atlantic 
Citv,  are  another  illustration  of 
the  fact  that  this  country  has  drained  Europe 
of  some  of  its  best  blood  and  brawn  in  order 
to  increase  its  own  worth  and  wealth ;  and 
although  but  three  generations  of  the  family 
have  made  America  their  home,  their  name 
among  the  communities  amongst  which  they 
have  lived  and  worked  stands  for  character, 
success  and  jiopularity. 

(I)  Gottfried  Beyer,  born  in  Germany,  died 
in  Egg  Harbor,  New  Jersey,  was  the  first  of 


the  family  to  come  to  this  country,  and  though 
little  is  now  known  about  him  except  the  year 
of  his  death,  1861,  he  left  behind  him  a  son, 
Albert,  referred  to  below. 

(II)  Albert,  son  of  Gottfried  Beyer,  was 
born  in  Hanover,  Germany,  April  6,  1827, 
died  in  Egg  Harbor,  New  Jersey,  October  15, 
1894.  He  was  a  miller,  a  lumber  dealer,  and 
the  keeper  of  a  country  store.  He  came  to 
this  country  in  1853,  but  whether  with  or  after 
his  father  is  uncertain.  In  1854  he  married  in 
Philadelphia,  Magdalena  Woertz,  who  that 
year  had  come  to  America  from  Ulm,  Ger- 
many, where  she  was  born  July  14,  1833,  and 
immediately  he  and  his  bride  left  the  city  and 
took  up  their  residence  in  Egg  Harbor.  The 
issue  of  this  marriage  was  a  son,  Albert,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

I  III  )  Albert  (2),  the  eldest  child  of  Albert 
(1)  and  Magdalena  (Woertz)  Beyer,  was 
born  at  Egg  Harbor,  New  Jersey,  May  12, 
1859,  and  is  now  living  at  617  Pacific  ave- 
nue, Atlantic  City.  When  he  was  thirteen 
years  old  he  left  home  and  coming  to 
Philadelphia  learned  the  trade  of  a  fresco 
painter,  at  which  he  worked  until  he  was 
twenty-two  years  old,  being  employed  in  the 
wiwkonmany  of  the  Roman  Catholic  churches 
of  New  York  City.  In  18S2  he  came  to  At- 
lantic City  and  engaged  in  the  hotel  business 
with  his  father,  who  was  running  Beyer's 
Hotel  on  the  corner  of  Arctic  and  Maryland 
avenues.  In  this  business  he  continued  for 
the  ne.xt  twenty-five  years.  In  1894  he  was 
elected  to  the  city  council  of  Atlantic  City,  and 
in  this  body  he  has  served  until  June  15,  1906, 
when  he  was  appointed  treasurer  of  the  city  to 
fill  a  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of  the  then 
incumbent.  This  unexpired  term  came  to  an 
end  two  years  later,  in  1908,  and  Air.  Beyer 
was  then  re-elected  as  the  treasurer  of  the 
city  for  the  full  term  of  three  years,  in  which 
capacity  he  is  now  serving  the  city.  Mr.  Beyer 
is  a  member  of  Trinity  Chapter,  No.  38,  Royal 
Arch  ]\Iasons,  of  Atlantic  City;  Belcher 
Lodge,  No.  182,  Free  and  Accepted  iMasons, 
of  Atlantic  City ;  Atlantic  Commandery,  No. 
ID,  Knights  Templar,  of  Atlantic  City;  Cres- 
cent Temple,  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Trenton,  New 
Jersey  :  Tall  Cedars  of  Lebanon  Forest,  No.  1 1, 
of  Atlantic  City;  .\merican  Star  Lodge,  Inde- 
])endent  C)rder  of  Odd  Fellows,  of  Atlantic 
City,  and  also  of  the  Encampment ;  Peqnod 
Tribe,  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  of  Atlan- 
tic City ;  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
(•"Iks.  Air.  Beyer  is  a  Republican  and  a  member 
of  the  Lutheran  church. 


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Alarch  8,  1888,  Albert  Beyer  married  Char- 
lotte, born  in  Atlantic  City,  March  13,  1859, 
daughter  of  Christian  Rom,  of  Atlantic  City. 
Their  children  are:  i.  Magdalena  Bom,  born 
December  24,  1888,  unmarried.  2.  Rose  Bom, 
April  27,  1890,  unmarried.  3.  Albert  Victor; 
January  12,  1892.  4.  \\'illiam  Lewis,  Decem- 
ber 14,  1894.  5.  Eugene  Edward,  November 
13,  1896.  6.  Lotta  Main  Bom,  February  14, 
1898.     7.  Walter  Edmund,  March  23.  1900. 


The  Goldenberg  family 
GOLDEN  BERG  of  Atlantic  City  is  of 
German  origin,  and  has 
been  located  in  this  country  but  little  more 
than  a  half  century,  but  the  two  generations 
which  have  made  the  United  States  their  home 
and  country  have  not  only  allied  themselves 
with  descendants  of  some  of  the  best  blood  in 
the  land  but  they  have  also  by  their  own  per- 
sonal worth  and  actions  placed  themselves  in 
the  forefront  of  those  who  are  entitled  to  be 
recognized  as  the  representatives  of  the  .Amer- 
ican  people   and    principles. 

(I)  Charles  D.  Goldenberg,  son  of  Charles 
Goldenberg,  was  born  in  Darmstadt,  (ier- 
many,  in  1836,  and  came  to  this  country  when 
he  was  only  eleven  years  old,  in  1847.  '"^t  the 
outbreak  of  the  civil  war  in  1 861,  he  enlisted 
at  Philadelphia,  and  was  assigned  to  the  One 
Hundred  and  Tenth  Regiment  of  Pemisylva- 
nia  Vohmteers,  an  infantry  regiment.  \Vhile 
serving  w'ith  this  regiment  he  was  wounded  at 
the  battle  of  Winchester,  and  on  account  of 
his  wounds  he  received  his  discharge.  January 
24,  1863.  Later,  on  the  same  account,  he  re- 
ceived a  pension  imtil  his  death.  Unable, 
however,  to  restrain  his  patriotic  ardor  for  the 
land  of  his  adoption,  Mr.  Goldenberg  enlisted 
a  second  time  at  Camden,  New  Jersey,  Jaiui- 
ary  23,  1864,  and  became  the  first  lieutenant 
of  Company  D,  of  the  Thirty-fourth  Regi- 
ment of  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  and  served 
with  this  infantry  regiment  during  the  re- 
mainder of  the  war. 

After  the  war  was  over  Charles  D.  Golden- 
berg married  Mary  Woodruff,  born  in  1840, 
daughter  of  Samuel  \\'.  and  Elizabeth  (Duf- 
field )  Kemble.  Her  father  was  a  farmer  near 
Woodbury,  Gloucester  county,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  lived  and  died,  but  about  the  time 
his  daughter  Mary  \\'oodruff  was  born  he 
was  serving  as  a  constable  of  Gloucester 
county.  Her  mother,  Elizabeth  (Duffield) 
Kemble,  was  of  Scotch  extraction  and  lived 
to  be  ninety-three  years  old,  dying  in  .Ambler, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1893.     The  cliildren  of  Sam- 


uel W.  and  Elizabeth  (Duffield)  Kemble 
were:  W'illiam  H.,  Thomas,  Samuel,  Eph- 
raim,  Ross,  Margaret,  Mary  WoodruiY,  llhz- 
abeth,  Amelia,  Jane,  and  one  child  that  died  in 
infancy.  Children  of  Charles  D.  and  Mary 
Woodruff  (Kemble)  Goldenberg  were  :  i.  Clar- 
ence L.,  referred  to  below.  2.  Elizabeth  Kemble, 
deceased.  3.  William  Kemble,  born  May  2, 
1874.  4.  Augusta  Linda,  married  Frederick 
Gates,  and  who  died  August  31,  1909.  5. 
Thomas  Kemble,  born  May  6,  1878;  engaged 
in  the  office  with  his  brother,  Clarence  L. 
Goldenberg,  at  Atlantic  City. 

(II)  Clarence  L.,  eldest  child  and  son  of 
Charles  D.  and  Mary  Woodruff  (Kemble) 
Goldenberg,  was  born  at  Cape  May  Court 
House,  New  Jersey,  December  12,  1866,  and 
is  now  living  at  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  of  Philadel- 
])hia.  and  then  studied  law  in  the  office  of 
George  G.  Cookman,  the  eldest  son  of  the 
Rev.  .Alfred  Cookman,  an  eminent  Methodist 
minister,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Philadelphia 
bar.  October  2,  1897.  At  first  he  started  in 
the  practise  of  his  profession  in  Philadelphia, 
and  continued  there  until  1903  when  he  came 
to  .Atlantic  City  and  was  admitted  to  the  New 
Jersey  bar  as  an  attorney  in  June,  1903,  and 
as  a  counsellor  in  June.  1906.  Beginning  in 
.Atlantic  City  as  a  general  practitioner  he  soon 
attracted  much  favorable  notice,  and  March 
17,  1908.  the  governor  of  New  Jersey  appoint- 
ed him  prosecutor  of  the  pleas  for  Atlantic 
county  for  a  term  of  five  years,  and  he  is  now 
serving  in  that  office.  In  September,  1893,  he 
was  made  a  I'Vee  Mason  in  Merchantville 
Lodge.  Free  and  Accepted  Masons.  Later  he 
demitted  from  that  lodge  and  became  one  of 
the  charter  members  of  Belcher  Lodge,  No. 
180,  of  .Atlantic  City.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks 
of  Atlantic  City.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
New  Jersey  Bar  .Association,  and  one  of  the 
members  of  the  committee  on  prosecution.  He 
is  also  a  member  and  first  vice-president  of 
the  Atlantic  County  Bar  .Association.  He  is  a 
Republican  and  attends  the  Methodist  Episco- 
pal church. 

December  28,  1887,  Clarence  L.  Goldenberg 
married  Emma  .Atwood  Bennett,  of  Philadel- 
phia, where  she  was  born  January  28,  1866, 
and  they  have  had  three  children:  i.  Charles 
Clarence,  born  September  10,  1889;  gradu- 
ated from  the  .Atlantic  City  high  school  in  1909. 
2.  Mary  Kemble.  born  May  12.  1891  ;  also  a 
graduate  from  the  .Atlantic  City  high  school  in 
l()r.9.     3.  William  Kenil)le,  born  May  10,  1893. 


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STATE    OF    NEW    )ERSEY. 


Reuben  J 'otter  was  burn  in 
PLOTTER  Middlesex  coimty,  New  Jersey, 
about  1772,  died  about  1863. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  resided  in  Middlesex 
county.  New  Jersey,  all  his  life.  He  married 
and  had  children  :  Ellis,  James  Rowland,  men- 
tioned below  ;  Joanna. 

(  II  )  James  Rowland,  son  of  Reuben  Potter, 
was  liorn  in  Raritan  township,  Middlesex 
count}-.  New  Jersey,  181 1,  died  November, 
1887.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools 
of  his  native  town.  He  owned  a  large  amount 
of  real  estate.  He  was  a  farmer  all  his  life, 
and  accumulated  a  comfortable  fortune.  He 
was  a  Democrat  in  politics  before  the  civil  war, 
but  afterwards  became  a  Republican.  He  mar- 
ried .Sarah  A.,  born  1818,  near  I'laintield,  New 
jersey,  died  May,  1881.  daughter  of  William 
Maud.  Children:  i.  Sarah  H.,  born  1837, 
died  in  1S7S;  married  Henry  F".  Slout,  of  Jer- 
sey City.  2.  Reuben  C.  1839;  resides  in  New 
Haven,  Connecticut;  married  Clara  Brown, 
who  died  1900;  had  Nellie.  Catherine  and. 
Harry.  3.  William  II. ,  1841  ;  resides  on  the 
homestead.  4.  Apollos,  resides  in  Rahway, 
New  Jersey.  5.  Josephine  De  Foreest,  resides 
on  the  homestead.  6.  Frederick  James,  men- 
tioned below.  7.  Ellis,  September,  1855:  a 
dentist  by  profession. 

(  IIT  )  Frederick  James,  son  of  James  Row- 
land I'citter,  was  born  in  Raritan  township, 
.New  Jersey,  March  31,  1853.  He  received  his 
education  in  the  ])rivate  schools  and  Pennington 
Seminary,  with  a  supplementary  course  at  Rut- 
gers College,  .New  lirunswick,  New  jersew 
from  whicli  he  graduated  in  1872.  I  le  entered 
the  employ  of  the  Pennsylvania  railroad  in 
the  maintainence-of-way  de])artment  as  a  civil 
engineer,  November,  1872,  and  won  promotion 
from  time  to  time  until  he  attained  the  position 
of  sujiervisor  of  the  maintainence-of-way  de- 
partment, which  position  he  now  holds.  He 
has  been  with  the  company  for  thirty-seven 
years.  For  the  i)ast  twenty-seven  years  he 
has  made  his  home  in  Itordentown,  New  Jer 
sey,  where  he  is  a  prominent  citizen.  He  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  h'irst  National 
Hank,  of  Hordentowu,  in  November,  1908,  and 
was  chosen  its  first  president,  still  holding  that 
i;ffue.  In  politics  he  is  an  active  Re]iublicari 
and  has  served  as  president  of  the  city  council. 
He  has  also  served  as  city  collector  and  town- 
ship collector.  He  is  at  present  a  member  of 
the  board  of  water  commissioners,  is  president 
of  the  board  of  e.xcise  commissioners,  and  has 
always  been  a  faithful  ])ublic  servant.  He  is  a 
ineml)er  oi  'i'renton   Lodge.   No.   5,    I'ree  and 


.\cce[)ted  Masons;  Mount  .\loriah  Chapter,  .\o. 
20,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  of  Uordentown ;  Ivan- 
hoe  Council,  No.  11,  Knights  Templar,  of 
Bordentown.  In  religion  he  is  a  Baptist  and 
is  the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
his  church. 

He  married  (first)  1872,  Louisa,  died  April, 
1880.  daughter  of  (ieorge  T.  Price,  of  New 
Brunswick,  New  Jersey.  He  married  ( sec- 
ond) .November,  1881,  Sarah  B.,  born  i860, 
daughter  of  hMwin  and  Harriet  Wright,  of 
Rucks  county,  Pennsylvania.  Children  of  first 
wife;  1.  James  R.,  born  in  New  Brunswick, 
New  Jersey:  now  a  contractor  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania.  2.  Frederick  A.,  born  New 
Brunswick,  New  Jersey;  an  engraver,  residing 
in  Syracuse,  New  York ;  married  Jessie  Ten- 
ney,  of  Syracuse,  and  has  Helen,  Ellis,  Doro- 
thy, Jessie,  Frederick,  Ralph  and  James.  3. 
Child,  died  young.  Children  of  second  wife; 
4.  Marion,  born  Bordentown,  December,  1882, 
died  aged  nine  years.  5.  Robert,  born  Borden- 
town, June,  1884.  6.  Edward  W.,  born  Bord- 
entown, died  aged  four  years.  7.  Ellis,  born 
P.ordentown.  died  atred  two  vears. 


In   the   \ear    1712   a   Swiss   colony 

1 1  ES.S  came  to  America  and  among  them 
was  Samuel  Hess,  who  settled  at 
Pecjua  and  had  a  large  family.  He  was  the 
first  of  his  name  in  this  country. 

(II)  Jacob,  son  of  Samuel  Hess,  took  up  a 
tract  of  two  hundred  acres  of  land  one  mile 
t'ast  of  Lititz,  now  Warwick  township.  Lan- 
caster County,  Pennsylvania,  in  1734. 

(  HI  )  John,  son  of  Jacob  Hess,  lived  on  the 
old  home  place  with  his  father.  He  died  in 
1778,  being  interred  in  the  old  graveyard  sit- 
uated on  the  plantation.  He  left  two  sons  and 
eight  daughters.  The  sons  were  named  Chris- 
tian and  John.  His  daughters  married  John 
Brubaker,  Daniel  Brubaker.  Rev.  Dr.  Eby, 
Jacob  Metzler,  Daniel  Borhlorder,  David  Mar- 
tin, Henry  Hess,  of  Lancaster.  .Abraham 
lluber. 

(  I\  )  Christian,  eldest  son  of  John  Hess,  of 
Pe(|ua,  Lancaster  county,  was  born  in  1766. 
In  1785  he  married  a  widow  by  the  name  of 
Suavely  who  bore  him  three  sons  and  three 
daughters.  The  sons  were:  lolin.  Christian, 
referred  to  below  ;  Jacob. 

(  \  )  C'hristian  (2),  second  son  of  Christian 
(  I  )  Hess,  was  born  December  29,  1787,  died 
.Se])tember  26,  1857.  He  was  one  of  the  county 
CI  inmissioners  of  Lancaster  county  and  lived 
at  Pe(|ua  with  his  wife,  Elizabeth  (  Wenger  I 
Hess.  b(  ru  May  if),  1790,  die  1  May  2/.  1870. 


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Among  their  cliililri-n  was  joliii.  referred  to 
below. 

(VI)  John  (2).  the  son  of  Christian  (2) 
and  EHzabeth  (W'enger)  Hess,  removed  from 
I'ennsylvania  to  New  Jersey  at  the  time  the 
iron  foundry  and  stone  works  were  opened 
at  the  head  of  the  Ttickahoe  river.  Among  his 
children  was  John  Denny,  referred  to  below. 

(\  II)  John  Denny,  son  of  John  (2)  Hess, 
was  born  at  the  head  of  the  Tnckahoe  river, 
Atlantic  county,  Xew  Jersey,  July  20,  1836. 
For  many  years  he  was  in  the  lumber  business 
at  Helle  Plaine,  Cape  May  county.  Xew  Jer- 
sey. He  married  Rachael  A.,  born  (Jctober  (j, 
1843,  daughter  of  Samuel  Mason,  of  Cape 
.May  county.  Their  children  were:  r.  Eliza- 
beth, married  Jnhn  A.  Chandler,  of  Easton, 
Pennsylvania,  an  iron  worker.  2.  Charles  P.", 
married  Reba  S.  Turner,  of  .Millville,  Xew 
Jersey,  and  has  four  children.  Mabel.  Ira.  Rob- 
ert and  .\nna.  3.  Eleanor,  married  (ieorge 
Warren,  of  Millville,  Xew  Jersey,  and  has  four 
children.  Howard,  Cora,  Charles  and  Mary. 
4.  Emma,  married  Samuel  Mason,  has  Bertha 
and  IJeatrice.  5.  Lilbern  Murphy,  referred 
to  below.  (>.  Rutherford  H..  referred  to  below. 
There  is  a  tradition  in  the  famil}-  of  Rachael 
A.  (Mason)  Hess  that  her  grandfather,  Sam- 
uel Mason,  having  heard  of  the  Llritish  troops 
coming  into  the  Delaware  bay  and  stealing  pigs 
and  cattle,  armed  himself,  although  he  was  only 
a  young  bo)'  at  the  time,  vvitli  his  father's  rifle, 
which  his  grandfather  had  borne  during  the 
revolution,  and  started  out  to  drive  them  away. 

(  \'HI  )  Lilbern  Murphy,  son  of  John  Denny 
and  Rachael  .\.  (.Mason)  Hess,  was  born  at 
.Steelmautdwu.  Cape  May  county,  Xew  Jersey, 
June  6,  1874,  and  is  now  living  at  Tuckahoe, 
Cape  May  county.  Xew  Jersey.  For  his  early 
education  he  was  sent  to  the  public  school  of 
Cape  May  county,  after  leaving  which  h?'took 
a  technical  course  in  electricity,  under  private 
teachers  in  F^hiladelphia,  Pennsylvania.  He 
was  the  first  man  in  the  eastern  states  to  opjjose 
the  liell  Telephone  mono|ioly,  and  he  was  the 
first  man  also  to  interest  capital  by  hard  work, 
and  then  to  organize  that  capital  into  a  work- 
ing opjiosition  to  the  Hell  Telephone  Company 
in  southern  Xew  Jersey.  This  he  did  by 
organizing  the  Enterprise  Telephone  and  Tele- 
graph Company,  of  which  he  was  appointed 
the  general  manager.  This  company  estab- 
lished its  line  in  twenty-seven  towns  and  cities 
in  southern  Xew  Jersey,  and  connected  by 
means  of  their  wires  the  counties  of  Cumber- 
land, Cape  May  and  Atlantic.  The  company 
was  finally   sold   to  the   Interstate   Telephone 


Company,  with  which  Mr.  Mess  was  connect- 
ed in  their  <le[)artment  of  right  of  way.  Mr. 
Hess  finally  turned  his  attention  to  the  stricter 
financial  field  of  business  and  organized  the 
Tuckahoe  Xational  Bank,  of  which  he  became 
the  first  cashier  under  its  charter,  in  1907. 
This  bank  started  with  a  capital  of  $25,000.00 
and  it  is  today  in  a  most  prosperous  and 
flourishing  condition,  in  the  two  years  of  its 
e.xistence  having  already  accumulated  a  sur- 
plus of  over  $7,000.00.  In  1908  Mr.  Hess 
with  other  gentlemen,  organized  the  IMillville 
Trust  C<impan\-.  of  Millville,  Xew  Jersey,  of 
which  institution  he  was  elected  the  first  presi- 
dent. This  company  has  a  capital  of  $100,- 
000.00,  and  its  surplus,  after  one  year  existence, 
has  amounted  to  $5,000.00.  In  addition  to 
this  Mr.  Hess  has  just  com])leted,  in  the  spring 
of  1909,  the  formation  of  the  Tuckahoe  Light 
(It  Fuel  Company,  of  which  he  has  been  chosen 
the  treasurer.  Mr.  Hess  is  a  Republican  and 
an  independent  in  religion.  He  is  a  member 
of  Shekinah  Lodge,  Xo.  58,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons,  of  Millville.  Xew  Jersey.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  Richmond  Chapter,  No. 
22.  Royal  .-\rch  Masons,  of  Millville,  Xew  Jer- 
sey, and  a  member  of  Olivet  Commandery, 
Xo.  10.  Knights  Templar,  of  Millville.  Xew 
Jersey.  He  is  a  most  enterprising  and  wide- 
awake citizen  of  his  town. 

.April.  1893,  Lilbern  .Murphy  Hess  married 
.Mary  L.,  daughter  of  Willis  Young,  of  Peters- 
burg, Cape  May  County,  Xew  Jersey.  They 
have  two  children  :  Arthur  Young,  born  June 
5.  1896.  and  Paul  de  Wolf,  .April  14,  1899. 

(\'1II)  Rutherford  P,..  youngest  child  of 
Ji)hn  Denny  and  Rachel  A.  (.Mason)  Hess, 
born  March  4,  1877,  is  agent  for  the  Pennsyl- 
vania railroad  at  Belle  Plaine,  Xew  Jersey, 
lie  married  Maude  C.  Layton,  and  has  one 
child,  l.olita.  born  March,  1904. 


The  family  here  described  is 
RF.PETTC)  of  Italian  origin,  and  the  rep- 
resentatives of  same  wdio  have 
made  the  I'nited  States  their  home  have  been 
of  the  higher  class  of  emigrants,  eager  to  learn 
the  though.ts  and  opinions  of  the  country  of 
adoption  and  to  adopt  such  manners  and  cus- 
toms as  appeal  to  them  as  worthy  of  emulation. 
.Such  men  have  contributed  largely  to  the 
growth  and  transmission  of  high  ideals  and 
mrrals  among  the  peojjle. 

(  I )  Augustine  Repetto  was  living  in  Genoa, 
Italy,  at  the  time  of  the  birth  of  his  son  An- 
tonio. He  emigrated  to  .America  with  his 
family,  landing  at   Philadelphia  in   1854. 


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(II)  Antonio,  son  of  Augustine  Repetto, 
was  born  in  Genoa,  Italy,  in  1845,  and  was 
brought  to  Philadelphia  with  his  parents  in 
1854.  In  1880  he  removed  to  Atlantic  City, 
New  Jersey,  and  established  himself  as  a  fruit 
dealer,  meeting  with  pleasing  success ;  subse- 
quently, in  connection  with  his  son,  engaged 
in  keeping  a  restaurant  at  the  same  place.  He 
married  Marie  Stormnio,  born  in  Genoa,  1847: 
children:  I.  Theresa,  born  January  3,  1867: 
married  John  W.  Smith  and  they  have  four 
children  living,  Thomas  L.,  Louis  R.,  Augus- 
tine and  \'iola.  2.  Louis  Augustine.  3.  Au- 
gustine Bartholomew,  born  1870,  in  Philadel- 
phia, received  an  education  in  law  and  is  now 
practicing  his  profession  at  717  Walnut  street, 
Philadelphia  :  married  Annie  Anthony  and  has 
one  son,  Augustine,  born  in  igoT). 

(III)  Louis  Augustine,  son  of  Antonio  and 
Alarie  ( Stormmo )  Repetto,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 10,  1868,  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylva- 
nia, and  there  began  his  education  in  the 
parochial  school  of  the  Italian  Catholic  church 
of  that  city,  and  continued  same  in  the  public 
school  at  Atlantic  City.  In  1880  his  parents 
removed  to  the  latter  city,  and  he  graduated 
from  Sacred  Heart  College  of  Vineland.  New 
Jersey,  in  1800,  with  degree  B.  A.  He  then 
began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  James 
B.  Nixon,  of  Atlantic  City,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  attorney,  in  1891. 
He  has  since  been  practicing  his  profession  in 
Atlantic  City,  and  has  been  very  successful 
in  securing  an  increasing  clientage.  He  is  a 
whole-hearted  and  patriotic  American  citizen, 
lias  imbibed  the  spirit  of  the  times  and  insti- 
tutions of  the  state  and  nation,  and  is  keenly 
interested  in  all  pertaining  to  the  public  wel- 
fare. He  is  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
Bar  Association  and  Atlantic  County  Bar 
Association.  He  belongs  to  the  Catholic 
church,  of  which  he  is  an  active  supporter, 
and  in  political  views  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  AMantic  county  board  of  elec- 
tions, and  for  ten  years  has  been  secretary  of 
the  Atlantic  County  Democratic  committee. 

Air.  Repetto  married,  March  7,  1901,  Elcora, 
daughter  of  Louis  and  Catherine  Delapiana, 
and  they  have  one  child,  Josephine  Margaretta, 
born  January  21,  1902,  at  .Atlantic  City,  New 
Jersey. 

'i"he  main  and  cullateral  branches 
h'lSII       of  this    family   lead  back  to  early 

days  in  Pennsylvania,  when  the 
Kerns.  Palmers  and  Alulhallon's  were  promi- 
nent  in   war.  ])olitics  and  business.     Through 


maternal  line  Dr.  Clyde  AL  Fish  traces  through 
five  generations  to  his  great-great-grandfather, 
Nicholas  Kern,  as  follows : 

(I )  Nicholas  Kern  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  "Committee  of  Observation"  of  North- 
amjiton  county,  Pennsylvania,  December  21, 
1774.  serving  on  that  committee  until  October 
2,  1775.  He  then  enlisted  in  the  First  Bat- 
talion, Northampton  County  Associators,  and 
was  commissioned  captain  of  the  town  com- 
pany, Alay  22,  1775.  The  First  Battalion  was 
under  the  command  of  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Peter  Kaehlein  and  formed  part  of  the  forces 
commanded  by  Colonel  Joseph  Wait.  They 
were  engaged  at  the  battle  of  Long  Island, 
August  21,  1775. 

( II )  Jacob,  son  of  Nicholas  Kern,  was  at  one 
time  speaker  of  the  Pennslyvania  house  of 
representatives.  He  married  Alary,  daughter 
oi  Siu'veyor-General  Palmer,  born  F"cbruary 
17,  1797,  died  Afarch  3,  1851. 

(III)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Jacob  and 
Alary     (l^ilrner)     Kern,    married    Dr.    John 

Clyde  Ahilhallon,  son  of  Anthony  and  

(Clyde)  Alulhallon,  of  the  Northampton 
county.  Pennsylvania.  Scotch-Irish  family  of 
that  name. 

(1\")  Alary,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Clyde 
and  Elizabeth  (Kern)  Alulhallon,  was  born 
near  Bath,  Northampton  county,  Pennsylvania, 
Alarch  23.  1844.  She  married,  June  14,  1871, 
Hiram  Barr,  only  child  of  William  and  Julia 
(  Barr )  Fish.  William  Fish,  a  lumber  dealer 
of  White  Haven,  Pennsylvania,  was  born  in 
September,  1819.  Julia  Barr.  his  wife,  was 
born  in  1822  and  died  in  1847.  Hiram  Barr 
Fish  was  born  December  2,  1845,  in  Lancaster 
county,  Pennsylvania.  Fie  is  a  civil  engineer- 
Alary  Alulhallon  Fish,  his  wife,  is  a  member 
of  Lafayette  Chapter,  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution,  of  .Atlantic  City,  New 
Jersey,  her  home.  They  are  the  parents  of  a 
daughter.  Bertha  Alary,  born  .April  23,  1873 
and  a  son  Clyde  AL,  see  forward. 

(A)  Clyde  Alulhallon,  only  son  of  Hiram 
Barr  and  Alary  (  Alulhallon )  Fish,  was  born 
at  Bath,  Pennsylvania,  Alay  21,  1875.  He  at- 
tended the  ])ublic  schools  of  Bath  and  finished 
his  academic  education  at  the  Aloravian  School 
at  Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania.  He  chose  medi- 
cine as  his  profession  and  Rush  Aledical  Col- 
lege for  his  alma  mater,  entering  in  1893  and 
graduating  in  i89fx  He  next  entered  Jeffer- 
son Aledical  College  in  1896,  remaining  one 
year,  graduating  in  1897,  Doctor  of  Aledicine. 
In  the  same  year  he  located  in  Atlantic  City 
enterirg  the  (  ffice  of  Dr.  B.  C.  Pemiingtim.  of 


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that  City.  He  remained  with  Dr.  Pennington 
until  1901,  practicing  at  the  same  time  in  the 
.Atlantic  City  Hospital,  with  which  he  was 
officially  connected.  In  1901  he  settled  in 
Pleasantville,  New  Jersey,  where  he  is  now 
practicing.  Dr.  Fish  is  a  skillful  physician, 
and  enjoys  a  lucrative  practice.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Aledical  and  New'  York 
State  Medical  associations.  Atlantic  Ct)unty 
-Medical  Society,  of  which  he  was  elected 
Ijresident  in  1908  and  1909,  and  the  Philadel- 
phia Medical  Club.  His  fraternal  member- 
ship is  with  the  Odd  Fellows.  Dr.  Fish  is 
unmarried. 


The  branch  of  the  Corn- 
CORNW'ELL  well  family  which  has  for 
several  generations  been 
identified  with  South  Jersey  is  almost  un- 
doubtedly a  branch  of  the  family  which  has 
become  so  wide  spread  in  New  England,  and 
belongs  with  the  early  colonists  of  the  New- 
World.  I'n  fortunately  however,  the  docu- 
ments which  have  so  far  come  to  light  with  re- 
gard to  the  family  are  insufficient  to  establish 
the  line  in  unbroken  succession  from  father  to 
.son,  and  connect  the  original  emigrant  with  all 
his  descendants  at  the  present  day. 

(  I  )  Lot  Cornwell,  of  Cape  May  county, 
.\ew  Jersey,  is  the  founder  of  the  New  Jersey 
branch,  and  the  earliest  known  representative 
of  the  family  in  that  section  of  the  country. 
He  was  for  many  years  a  farmer  and  carried 
on  at  the  same  time  a  grocery  business.  Ac- 
cording to  family  tradition  his  mother  was  a 
Woodruff,  and  her  brother  it  is  said  was  one 
of  the  participants  in  the  Philadelphia  Tea 
party,  when  the  tea  was  burnt  on  the  banks 
of  the  Delaware.  It  is  also  said  that  this 
same  brother  was  captured  later  during  the 
revolutionary  war  by  a  British  merchant  shi]) 
which  compelled  him  to  pilot  a  tea  boat  up  the 
Cohansey  river.  Among  the  children  of  Lot 
Cornwell  was  John  Tomlin,  referred  to  below. 

( II  )  John  Tomlin,  son  of  Lot  Cornwell,  of 
Cape  May  county.  New  Jersey,  was  born  at 
Goshen,  Cape  May  county,  in  1858,  and  fol- 
lowed the  trade  of  miller.  By  his  marriage 
with  Mary  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Judson 
(iarrison.  a  contractor,  he  had  a  son,  \\'illiam 
Leslie,  referred  to  below,  and  a  daughter, 
Maud  W..  died  aged  twenty. 

(Ill)  William  Leslie,  son  of  John  Tomlin 
and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Garrison)  Cornwell,  was 
born  in  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey,  Alarch  11, 
1883,  and  is  now  living  in  that  city.  For  his 
early  education  he  attended  the  public  school.^ 


of  Bridgeton  and  graduated  from  the  high 
school  in  that  town  in  1900.  He  then  went  to 
the  West  Jersey  Academy,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1902,  and  in  the  fall  of  that  year 
entered  the  Jefferson  Medical  College  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  from  which  he  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  M.  I),  in  1906.  Upon  leaving 
the  Jefferson  Medical  College  he  went  to  the 
City  Hospital  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  w'here 
for  two  years  and  three  months  he  was  one  of 
the  internes.  October  14,  1908,  he  came  from 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  to  Bridgeton,  Cumber- 
land county,  where  he  established  himself  in 
the  general  practice  of  his  profession.  E>r. 
Cornwell  is  a  member  of  all  of  the  larger  and 
most  influential  medical  societies,  among  them 
being  the  New  Jersey  State  Medical  Society, 
Cumberland  County  Medical  Society,  New- 
ark City  Hospital  Ex-Internes'  Society,  and 
while  in  college  he  was  a  member  of  the 
W.  W.  Kean  Surgical  Society  of  the  Jef- 
ferson Medical  College  and  the  W.  M.  L. 
Coplin  Pathological  Society  of  the  same  insti- 
tution. He  is  an  active  and  influential  secret 
society  man,  being  a  member  of  Ahwahneeta 
Tribe,  No.  97,  Improved  Order  of  Red 
Men,  of  pjridgeton.  Among  the  other  socie- 
ties and  associations  to  which  he  belongs 
should  be  mentioned  the  Bridgeton  Athletic 
Club,  the  Alumni  of  West  Jersey  Academy,  the 
Alumni  Association  and  the  .\lplia  Kappa 
Ka])pa  of  Jefferson  ?^Iedical  College. 

November  15,  1908,  William  Leslie  Corn- 
well,  M.  D.,  married  Lily  May,  daughter  of 
Samuel  \\'hitaker,  of  Paterson,  Xew  Jersey. 
One  child,  William  Leslie  Jr. 


For  over  a  century  anil  a  half  the 
LOPER      Loper  family  has  been  connected 

with  the  history  of  Salem. county, 
and  while  numbers  of  its  representatives  have 
risen  to  great  distinction  and  honor  in  Salem 
county,  the  family  as  a  whole  is  remarkable 
for  its  consistency  in  almost  every  individual, 
of  those  virtues  and  qualities  which  have  done 
so  much  to  place  Salem  county  and  the  state 
of  New  Jersey  at  the  head  of  the  counties  and 
states  of  the  great  nation  of  the  west. 

(I)  The  earliest  ancestor  of  the  family  of 
whom  there  is  any  accurate  record  at  present 
is  Uriah  Loper,  who  on  March  26,  1776,  filed 
his  account  as  the  administrator  of  Ephraim 
Gillman,  late  of  Cumberland  county,  deceased. 
He  died  in  1807  or  1824,  and  among  his  chil- 
dren was  Eli,  referred  to  below. 

(II)  Eli,  son  of  Uriah  Loper,  owned 
and    operated   a    sash     and     door     factory    in 


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Bridgeton.  which  liis  sun  now  ojKTcates.  By 
his  wife,  Amanda  (Davis)  Lopcr,  he  had 
children:  Alfree^  French,  referred  to  below, 
Carrie  and  Ida.    He  is  still  living. 

(Ill)  -Alfred  French,  son  of  EH  and 
.\nianda  (Davis)  Loper,  was  born  in  Bridge- 
ton,  New  Jersey.  He  married  Caroline  Car- 
melia,  daughter  of  John  and  Ellen  Carmelia, 
of  Salem  county.  New  Jersey.  Children : 
John  Carmelia,  referred  to  below,  Eli,  Myrtis. 
Elsie,  and  one  who  died  in  infancy. 

( I\')  John  Carmelia,  son  of  Alfred  French 
and  Caroline  (Carmelia)  Loper,  was  born  at 
Bridgeton,  New  Jersey,  October  9,  1881,  and 
is  now  a  practicing  physician  in  that  city.  For 
bis  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  public 
schools  of  Bridgeton.  New  Jersey,  and  gradu- 
ated from  the  Bridgeton  high  school  in  1S99. 
He  then  entered  the  JetTerson  Medical  College 
in  I'hilaiielphia,  from  which  he  graduated  with 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1903,  and  then  went  to 
Bridgeton  where  he  at  once  engaged  in  the 
general  practice  of  his  ])rofession,  and  is  re- 
garded n()w  as  one  of  the  brightest  and  most 
able  of  the  rising  young  men  of  his  generation. 
Dr.  Loper  is  a  member  of  the  staff  of  the 
Bridgeton  Hospital,  American  Medical  .Asso- 
ciation, New  Jersey  Medical  Society,  Cum- 
berland County  Medical  .Society,  of  which  he 
is  the  president,  H.  H.  Hare  Medical  .Society  of 
Jefferson  Medical  College,  Francis  X.  Dercum 
Neurological  Society  of  Jefferson  Medical 
(College,  and  also  of  the  .Alpha  Kappa  fra- 
ternity of  the  same  institution.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  board  of  health  at  Bridgeton, 
and  in  February,  ii;0(),  was  appointed  as  the 
health  officer  of  the  city.  He  is  a  member  of 
Brearly  Lodge.  No.  2.  Free  and  .Accepted 
Masons,  at  I'ridgeton.  This  lodge  is  the  old- 
est one  in  .\'e\\  Jersey.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Order  of  \\'<x)dmen  of  .America,  Royal 
Arcanum,  and  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows.     He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics. 

June  8,  1904,  John  Carmelia  Loper,  .M.  D., 
married  .Alynda.  daughter  of  Henry  and  Mary 
(Dare)  Dickinson,  of  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey, 
wliose  mother  was  a  native  i:)f  Daretown. 
Their  child  is  Le  (irand  Dickinson,  born  in 
February.  1903. 


Edward  Morrell  Wall- 
NX  \1 .1 . 1  .\(  iT(  )X  ington,  late  president  of 
the  Vineland  Crajjc 
Juice  Company,  son  of  George  Edward  W'all- 
ington,  of  Trenton,  was  born  in  that  city,  June 
30,  1868.  The  comi)any  of  which  he  was  the 
j)resident  started  its  factory  at  \'ineland  eleven 


years  ago,  and  is  now  the  second  largest  manu- 
factury  of  grape  juice  in  the  world,  having  a 
cajiacity  of  two  hundred  thousand  gallons,  and 
have  an  enormous  business  transporting  their 
])roduct  to  every  state  in  the  Lnion,  including 
California,  and  to  many  foreign  countries. 
Their  product  i'S  prepared  in  accordance  with 
the  most  rigid  of  the  pure  food  laws,  while  its 
vineyards  are  conducted  on  the  most  scientific 
method.  ( )n  the  property  is  located  the 
I'nited  States  agricultural  department,  experi- 
mental vineyard  of  the  Middle  .Atlantic  States. 
The  factory  stands  in  the  midst  of  tributary 
vineyards.  The  plant  is  the  finest  and  most 
complete  in  the  country.  It  has  immense 
storage  vaults,  i)orcelain  lined  vessels  which 
prevent  salts  and  other  impurities  from  being 
I)rescrved  in  the  liquid,  while  cleanliness  is 
carried  to  an  extreme  even  for  these  days  of 
hygienic  precaution.  Low  chemicals  or  arti- 
ficial preservatives  are  not  used  anywhere  in 
its  processes.  Their  grape  farm  in  Landis  town- 
■-hip  consists  of  one-hundred  and  thirty  acres, 
and  their  factory  is  used  by  the  United  States 
government  department  of  agriculture  for  its 
e.x]3eriment. 

Mr.  Wallington,  late  president  of  this  com- 
]iany,  did  more  than  almost  anyone  else  to 
bring  about  the  unrivaled  reputation  enjoyed 
by  the  Vineland  (irape  Juice  Company  and  its 
])roflucts.  He  was  a  Republican  and  staunch 
to  the  principals  of  his  party,  although  he  did 
not  care  for  political  life.  He  was  an  ardent 
and  enthusiastic  secret  society  man,  a  member 
of  Benevolent  Lodge,  No.  28,  Free  and  .Ac- 
cepted Masons,  of  New  York  City ;  Newport 
Chapter,  Royal  .Arch  Masons,  of  Newport, 
Rhode  Island :  Palestine  Commandery,  No. 
4,  Knights  Templar,  of  Trenton,- New  lersey, 
and  Lulu  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Philadel- 
))hia.  His  social  club  was  the  A'ineland  Coun- 
trv  Club,  and  besides  serving  as  president  of 
the  \ineland  Grape  Juice  Com]ianv,  he  was  a 
director  of  the  A'ineland  National  Bank  and  of 
the  A'ineland  Trust  Company.  He  was  a  com- 
municant and  a  vestryman  of  the  Protestant 
Episcn])al  church  in  Vineland. 

Edward  Morrell  Wallington  married  .\nna 
Eliza  Goodfellow,  born  in  Germantown,  Penn- 
sylvania. Children:  i.  Edward  Casewell.  2. 
Merton  Goodfellow.  3.  .Anna  Wallington. 
.\lr.  Wallington  died  October  i,  1909. 


In  the  year  1707  a  small  band 
\'(  )L(iI  IT     of  Lutherans  under  the  leader- 
ship of  the  Rev.  John  Kocker- 
tlial  left  the  lower  Palatinate  countrv  in  Ger- 


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main-  and  went  to  England  to  lay  before 
Queen  Anne  an  account  of  their  grievances, 
with  the  result  that  her  gracious  majesty  pro- 
vided for  their  transportation  to  America, 
there  to  dwell  in  peace  and  worship  according 
to  the  dictates  of  conscience.  Three  years 
later,  in  1710,  a  second  colony  of  inimigi"ants 
came  over  in  the  ship  "Lyon"  and  landed  at 
New  York ;  but  the  voyage  was  temjjestuous 
and  attended  with  many  unfortunate  incidents, 
such  as  lack  of  attention  and  jpoor"  food  fur- 
nished on  board  the  vessel,  with  the  result  that 
a  considerable  number  of  the  ])assengers  died 
on  the  voyage.  W  hen  the  ship  arrived  at  New 
York  the  passengers  were  denied  the  privilege 
of  going  ashore  because  of  the  fear  of  infec- 
tion among  the  people,  and  they  were  ordered 
to  Governor's  Island,  where  doctors  were  sent 
to  attend  such  of  them  as  needed  attention,  of 
whicli  number  there  were  many. 

Among  the  voyagers  in  the  "Lyon"  in  this 
immigration  were  Simon  Vought  and  Chris- 
tina, his  wife,  who  were  founders  of  several 
of  the  now  quite  numerous  \'ought  families 
in  this  country  ;  and  their  descendants  are  now 
well  scattered  throughout  eastern  New  York 
and  northern  New  Jersey.  In  the  same  year, 
1 7 10.  Governor  Hunter  purchased  from  Rob- 
ert Livingston,  lord  of  the  manor,  a  consid- 
erable tract  of  land  near  the  site  of  the  present 
city  of  Newburgh,  New  York,  and  provided 
homes  there  for  many  of  these  immigrants, 
such  of  them  as  would  go  there  and  settle ; 
but  some  of  them  preferred  to  remain  in  New 
York  City,  and  among  the  latter  were  Simon 
\^ought  and  his  wife  Christina.  In  the  course 
of  a  few  years,  however,  he  removed  across 
the  Hudson  and  settled  in  western  New  Jersey, 
and  his  descendants  soon  became  numerous 
in  Middlesex  and  Hunterdon  counties,  while 
not  a  few  of  them  ultimately  w-ent  over  into 
the  valley  of  the  Hudson  river  in  the  province 
of  New  York  and  established  homes  in  that 
region.  Simon  Vought,  immigrant,  was  born 
in  Germany  in  1680,  and  married  previous  to 

1 7 10  Christina  ,  who  was  born  in  1684. 

They  had  four  children,  all  born  in  this  coun- 
try :  Johannes,  Christoftle.  Margaretta  and 
Abraham. 

.Such  in  brief  is  an  outline  of  the  circum- 
stances attending  the  coming  over  of  the  first 
representatives  of  the  \'ought  family  on  this 
side  of  the  Atlantic  ocean,  but  within  the  next 
half  centur\-  after  the  arrival  of  Simon  and 
Christina  \'ought  there  came,  about  1750,  an- 
other family  of  the  same  name,  perhaps  a  rel- 
ative, although  there  is  no  proof  or  claim  of 


relationship.  The  latter  was  the  family  which 
furnished  three  of  its  sons  to  the  American 
service  during  the  revolutionary  war,  and  two 
grandsons  to  the  second  war  with  Great 
Britain. 

(I)  Joseph  X'ought,  immigrant,  a  native  of 
Holland,  came  from  Omisjiac  or  Horrispac  in 
that  country  to  America  about  the  year  1750. 
and  took  up  his  residence  in  the  Hudson  river 
valley  in  what  is  now  Westchester  county, 
where  he  was  a  farmer.  He  brought  with  him 
his  wife  Christina  and  probably  some  of  their 
children,  of  wdiom  there  were  nine  in  all.  The 
Westchester  records  give  us  no  reliable  account 
of  the  family  of  Joseph  \'ought,  although  he 
is  known  to  have  been  a  sturdy  Dutchman  of 
progressive  qualities,  which  traits  seem  to  have 
been  inherited  by  his  sons  and  other  descend- 
ants in  later  generations.  His  children  were: 
Henry,  see  forward;  John,  Peter,  a  soldier  of 
the  revolution:  Joseph,  see  forward:  Godfrey, 
soldier  of  the  revolution  :  C)ntuatue,  Hester, 
Margaret  and  Katie. 

(II)  Henry,  eldest  son  and  child  of  Joseph 
and  Christina  X'ought,  was  born  in  Holland 
and  came  to  America  with  his  parents.  He 
lived  in  Westchester  county,  and  during  the 
war  of  the  revolution  was  a  private  with  his 
brothers  Peter  and  Godfrey  in  the  Third  Regi- 
ment of  Westchester  county  militia,  com- 
manded by  Colonel  Pierre  \'an  Cortlandt  and 
Colonel  Samuel  Drake.  He  married  Rebecca 
Nelson  and  by  her  had  twelve  children:  i. 
Joseph.  2.  Henry,  see  forward.  3.  Nicholas, 
see  forward.  4.  David,  married  Phebe  Brown. 
5.  James,  died  in  Mobile,  .Alabama.  6.  John, 
soldier  of  the  war  of  1812:  married  Phebe 
Rockwell  and  had  son  fackson  and  daughters 


Mary  and  Hannah. 


Thomas,  a  sailor :  mar- 


ried .Susan  Conklin  and  had  sons  Josc]ih  and 
.Albert.  8.  Isaac,  see  forward.  9.  Margaret. 
married  Isaac  Barton  and  had  Jennie.  Kather- 
ine.   Susan,  Julia,   .Abbie   and   Jenny    Barton. 

10.  Jane,   married McCoy    and    had 

Henry  McCoy.  11.  Christina,  married  Thomas 
McCoy  and  had  Beckie,  Delia,  John.  George, 
Isaac.  Daniel,  Rufus,  .Augusta.  Frank,  Eliza- 
beth. Katherine  .McCoy.      12.  Eleanor,  married 

Smith,  and   had    Rebecca,   Katherine, 

Mary  .Ann,  Phebe  Ellen,  Martha,  Jacob. 
Thomas.  Nicholas  and  .Abraham  Smith. 

(II)  Joseph  (2),  fourth  son  and  child  of 
foseph  (  I )  and  Christina  X'ought,  lived  in 
Westchester  county.  New  York.  He  married 
Millie  Conklin.  They  had  twelve  children : 
I.  Maria,  married  a  Barr.  2.  Katie,  married 
a  Clark.     3.  .Abbie  Jane,  married  a  Green.     4. 


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Eliza,  married  a  Clark,  5.  Hester,  married  a 
Ward.  6.  Nicholas.  7.  Jacob.  8.  Elijah.  9. 
\\'illiam.  10.  Henry,  see  forward.  11.  Louis. 
12.  .Sallie,  married  a  Saunders. 

(HI)  Henry  (2),  son  of  Henry  (i)  and 
Rebecca  (Nelson)  \'onght,  was  born  near 
I'eckskill  on  the  Hudson,  and  spent  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  on  a  farm  at  Cornwall.  His 
farm  lay  over  beyond  Storm  King  mountain, 
in  the  valley  back  of  Deerhill,  and  besides  this 
he  (iwned  a  large  tract  of  woodland.  He  was 
an  energetic  farmer  and  gained  a  fair  compe- 
tency. He  served  in  the  .American  army  dur- 
ing the  second  war  with  the  mother  country. 
He  married  Martha  Weeks,  of  an  old  Peeks- 
kill  family,  and  by  her  had  six  children:  i. 
Edward,  married  .\manda  X'ought.  and  had 
James  H.,  Sarah,  Edward,  Ezra,  Lester. 
.Annie  and  Jennie.  2.  Nathan  C,  see  for- 
ward, 3.  Sarah,  married  (first) Wil- 
son and  had  Hattie  \\'ilson  :  married  (seconil) 
Henry  Barton  and  had  .Minnie,  Mattie,  Addie 
and  Henry  Barton,  4.  Julia.  5.  Mary,  mar- 
ried Ezra  Drew  and  had  Townsend,  .Albert, 
Nicholas  and  J.  H.  Drew.  (1.  Eleanor,  mar- 
ried Frank  Quinn  and  had  Juliette,  Nellie  and 
Elbert  Ouinn. 

(HI)  Nicholas,  son  of  Henry  (i)  and  Re 
becca  (Nelson)  \'ought,  was  born  near  Peeks- 
kill  on  the  Hudson,  and  was  a  farmer.  He 
married  Dolly  Lent  and  by  her  had  twelve 
children:  I.  Margaret,  married  Barney  Quincy 
and  had  Harriet,  David.  Mary,  Emma,  Mar- 
tha and  Ellen  Quincy.  2.  Jose])h.  3.  Katie, 
married  Wright  Bunce  and  had  Maria.  Frank. 
Will  and  Lottie  Bunce.  4.  Jackson,  married 
and  had  son  Charles.  5.  Isaac,  married  Jane 
DeW'itt  and  had  DeWitt  and  Joseph,  6.  Lent, 
7.  Jane,  married  Cuyler  Carter  and  had  Delia, 
-Stephen  and  (ieorge  Carter.  S.  Christina, 
married  Charles  Bigelow  and  had  Anna  and 
Nicholas  P)igelow.  9,  Eliza,  married  ;\Ianoah 
Dulling  and  had  Mary,  Jackson,  Luther,  Nicii- 
olas,  Sarah  and  George  Dclling.  10.  Sylves- 
ter. II.  Nicholas,  married  .Mahala  I'alnier 
and  had  Dnra  and  Edward.  12.  David,  mar- 
ried Alaria  C])ham  and  had  Nicholas,  Mvra 
and  Luna. 

(Ill)  Isaac,  sun  of  Henry  (i)  and  Re- 
becca (.Nelson)  Vought,  was  born  near  Peeks- 
kill  on  the  Hudson,  and  was  a  farmer.  He 
tnarried  Alartha  McCarty  and  by  her  had 
children:  i.  Elizabeth,  married  Oscar  Delling 
and  had  P'llery  and  Mytte  Delling.  2.  Theo- 
dore, married  Sarah  .Snyder  and  had  Oscar 
and  Floyd.  3.  Ivdward,  married  and  had 
Elizabeth.  Cieorge.  Charles.  Herbert,  Edward, 


Ida  and  Nina.  4.  Oresta,  married  Josephina 
Sa.x  and  had  William  and  Clayton.  5.  Ellen, 
married  Henry  Roberts  and  had  Theodore 
Roberts.     6.  Nelson.     7.  Eva. 

(IN)  Nathan  C,  son  of  Henry  (2)  and 
-Martha  (Weeks)  Vought,  was  born  at  Corn- 
wall-on-Hudson  in  1825.  died  in  1900.  His 
farm,  like  that  of  his  father,  lay  over  beyond 
old  Storm  King  mountain,  and  besides  farm- 
ing he  also  carried  on  a  livery  stable  at  Corn- 
wall. His  wife  before  her  marriage  was  Eliz- 
abeth Lent,  and  she  bore  him  five  children:  I. 
Isaac  S..  senior  ])artner  of  the  firm  of  A'ought 
&  Williams,  of  New  York.  2.  Henry  H.  3. 
Edward  Thomas,  see  forward.  4.  Nathan 
Franklin.     5.  Katherine. 

(V)  Edward  Thomas,  son  of  Nathan  C. 
and  Elizabeth  (Lent)  Vought,  was  born  a: 
Cornwall-on-Hudson,  -April  9,  1855,  and  dur- 
ing the  earlier  part  of  his  life  worked  for  his 
father,  wdio  was  keeper  of  a  livery  at  that 
])lace.  Later  on  he  went  to  New  A'ork  City 
and  there  engaged  in  business,  dealing  in  hard- 
ware, iron  and  other  metals,  as  member  of  the 
firm  of  \'ought  &  Williams,  as  still  known,  for 
Mr.  \'ought  is  still  head  of  the  firm.  He  mar- 
ried, 1883.  Ida,  adopted  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Elizabeth  Pope,  of  Paterson,  and  by  whom 
he  had  three  children,  -Samuel  P.,  and  two 
others,  both  of  whom  died  in  infancy. 

{W)  Samuel  Pope,  son  and  only  surviving 
child  of  Edward  Thomas  and  Ida  (Pope) 
Vought.  was  born  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  No- 
vember 10.  1883,  and  received  his  education  in 
the  grammar  and  high  .schools  of  that  city,  and 
New  York  L^niversity,  where  he  was  a  student 
for  some  time  but  did  not  graduate.  He  lives  in 
Paterson  and  is  engagetl  in  the  real  estate  and 
brokerage  l)usiness,  and  is  treasurer  of  the 
Pope  Realtv  Investment  Company  of  Pater- 
son. He  is  a  meml>er  of  the  Hamilton  Club 
of  Paterson  and  the  Ridgewood  Driving  Club. 

.Mr,  X'ought  married,  June  28.  1906,  Ida 
-May,  born  July  2.  1885,  daughter  of  Ogden  H, 
rianck.  of  Paterson,  and  by  whom  he  has  one 
child.  Lorene  X^ought,  born  March,   1907. 


On  .August  7.  I7'i4,  a 
STIAE.NSON  tract  of  twenty-five  thou- 
sand acres  of  land  situ- 
ated at  what  is  now  Salem.  XX'ashington 
county.  New  York,  was  granteil  .Alexander 
Turner  and  twenty-four  others  residing  in  Pel- 
ham,  Alassachusetts  Bay  Colony,  and  these 
])ro]3rietors  conveyed  an  undivided  half  to 
Oliver  Delancy  and  Peter  Dubois,  of  New 
York   Citv.     The   whole   tract    of   twentv-five 


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thousand  acres  was  marked  ott  into  three  hun- 
dred and  four  small  farms  of  eighty-eight 
acres  each,  suitable  to  the  requirements  of  a 
Scotch-Irish  farming  colony. 

The  "New  Light  heresies"  which  in  the  mid- 
dle of  the  eighteenth  century  sowed  dissen- 
sions in  the  I'resbyterian  churches  in  Scotland 
and  Ireland  caused  an  Irish  Presbyterian  com- 
munity in  and  about  Monaghan  and  Ballibay 
U>  petition  the  Associate  Burgher  Presbytery 
of  Glasgow,  Scotland  to  furnish  them  with 
orthodox  preaching.  Rev.  Thomas  Clark,  M. 
D.,  an  ordained  minister  of  this  ( ilasgow  Pres- 
bytery, was  thereupon  sent  "as  a  missionary 
to  Ireland,"  and  shortly  after  was  regularly 
ordained  and  installed  by  a  committee  of  the 
Glasgow  P'resbytery  over  the  church  at  Balli- 
bay, where  he  became  greatly  honored  and  be- 
loved for  his  piety  and  zeal.  Bitter  persecu- 
tion, however,  instigated  by  prominent  mem- 
bers of  the  rival  Presbyterian  church  in  Balli- 
ba}'  induced  Dr.  Clark  and  a  large  portion  of 
his  flock  to  seek  a  new  home  in  the  wilds  of 
America.  Dr.  Clark  and  his  parishioners 
sailed  for  New  York  from  Neury,  Ireland, 
May  10,  1764,  arriving  there  July  28,  1764. 
The  unique  feature  of  this  interesting  emigra- 
tion is  the  fact  that  the  entire  church  organi- 
zation was  transferred  from  Ireland  to 
America.  An  Irish  Presbyterian  church  with 
a  Scotch  pastor  affiliated  ecclesiastically  with 
a  Scotch  Presbyterian  Assembly  was  thus 
transferred  to  America  in  a  body.  As  stated 
in  the  "Salem  Book"  "there  were  none  of  the 
formalities  of  organizing  a  church.  No  ad- 
mission of  members  or  election  of  trustees. 
The  company  was  already  a  perfectly  orga- 
nized religious  society  with  its  pastor,  its  eld- 
ers, its  members,  all  regularly  constituted.  Dr. 
Clark  had  never  resigned  nor  had  the  Presby- 
tery released  him  from  his  pastoral  charge 
over  these  people.  We  doubt  if  any  other  re- 
ligious society  has  been  transferred  from  the 
old  to  the  new  world  in  a  manner  so  regular 
and  orderly  and  with  so  little  to  vitiate  its 
title  to  a  continuous  identity."  Dr.  Clark 
searched  for  a  suitable  place  on  which  he  and 
his  people  could  establish  their  church  and 
their  homes,  and  after  much  investigation  and 
travel  he  secured  on  September  13,  1765,  from 
Delancy  and  Dubois  their  undivided  share  of 
the  twenty-five  thousand  acre  tract,  which 
already  had  been  sub-divided  into  farms  as 
above  stated.  The  result  of  acquiring  rights 
to  the  allotment  of  farms  distributed  through- 
out a  large  tract,  instead  of  acquiring  the 
whole  of  a  tract  which  the  colonists  could  di- 


vide among  themselves,  was  that  the  Scotch- 
Irish  and  Scotch  colony  under  Dr.  Clark  were 
intermingled  over  a  wide  territory  with  a  New 
England  colon}-  who  divided  among  them- 
selves the  farms  which  represented  the  half  of 
the  tract  which  Dr.  Clark  did  not  purchase. 
Dr.  Clark  and  his  people  were  under  obliga- 
tion after  five  years  to  jmy  a  rent  of  one  shil- 
ling per  acre,  and  hence  they  no  doubt  urgently 
invited  their  co-religionists  from  Scotland  as 
well  as  from  Ireland  to  join  them,  and  within 
ten  years  from  the  original  settlement  a  very 
substantial  addition  to  the  co'ony  was  made 
by  emigrants  from  the  part  of  Scotland  from 
which  Dr.  Clark  had  come.  Dr.  Clark  named 
the  settlement  New  Perth,  while  the  New  Eng- 
land settlers  called  it  White  Creek.  On  March 
2,  1774,  the  legislature  of  New  York  combined 
both  tracts  into  the  township  of  New  Perth, 
thus  establishing  a  legal  name,  which  remained 
until  March  7,  1788,  when  in  dividing  the 
whole  state  into  counties  and  towns,  the  name 
New  Perth  was  changed  to  Salem,  located  in 
Washington  county,  New  York.  This  was  the 
objective  point  to  which  the  pas.sengers  of  the 
brig,  "Commerce,"  were  bent  on  April  20, 
1774,  when  James  Stevenson  and  his  family 
left  Scotland  for  the  New  World. 

(I)  James  (2),  son  of  James  (i)  Steven- 
son, a  shawl  weaver,  of  Scotland,  was  the 
founder  of  this  family  in  America.  He  was 
born  in  the  home  of  his  parents  on  the  bank 
of  the  Bonnie  Doon  in  Ayrshire,  Scotland, 
about  the  year  1747.  \\  b.en  a  young  man  he 
removed  to  Paisley,  where  he  learned  the  trade 
of  silk  and  linen  weaver.  He  joined  the 
Scotch  Presbyterian  church  in  Paisley,  at  that 
time  having  as  its  pastor  the  distinguished 
divine,  John  \Mtherspoon.  While  a  citizen  of 
Paisley  he  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
David  Brown,  of  Stewartsorf,  Scotland,  and 
while  residents  of  Paisley  three  children — • 
James,  Jane  and  John — were  born.  The  fam- 
ily embarked  at  Greenock,  Scotland,  April  20, 
1774,  in  the  brig,  '"Commerce,"  with  several 
other  families,  their  destination  being  the 
Scotch  settlement  at  New  Perth  in  the  state 
of  New  York.  He  had  alotted  to  him  a  farm 
located  two  miles  east  of  the  present  village 
of  Salem,  Washington  county,  whereon  he  set- 
tled and  lived  during  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
In  1896  this  farm  was  owned  by  tvi^o  of  his 
grandsons,  Thomas  S.  and  Robert  M.,  sons  of 
Thomas  and  Agnes  (McMurray)  Stevenson. 
The  first  election  held  in  the  town  of  New 
Perth,  now  Salem,  was  on  September  8.  1774. 
and    lames   Stevenson  voted  at  that  election. 


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Soon  after  the  American  revolution  had  as- 
sumed a  definite  purpose,  he  vokinteered  for 
military  service  in  the  New  Perth  Company, 
commanded  by  Captain  Alexander  AIcNitt. 
Upon  his  arrival  James  Stevenson  became  a 
member  of  the  church  of  Dr.  Thomas  Clark 
and  was  afterward  one  of  its  ruling  elders. 
When  Dr.  Clark  severed  his  relations  with  the 
congregation  in  1782,  Mr.  Stevenson  went  on 
horseback  through  the  almost  unbroken  wilder- 
ness from  Salem,  New  York,  to  Pequea,  near 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  to  endeavor  to 
persuade  the  Rev.  James  Proudfit  to  become 
pastor  of  the  church  at  Salem  as  suc- 
cessor to  Dr.  Clark,  who  had  resigned  to 
join  another  Scotch  settlement  in  South 
Carolina  as  their  pastor.  In  this  mission 
he  was  entirely  successful  and  Dr.  Proud- 
fit  became  the  second  pastor  of  the  Scotch 
church  in  Salem.  Mr.  Stevenson  brought 
with  him  from  Paisley,  Scotland,  a  large- 
library  of  e.xcellent  books,  and  a  quantity  of 
fine  linen,  the  product  of  the  industry  of  his 
family,  and  these  heirlooms  are  highly  prized 
by  his  descendants. 

Children  of  James  and  Margaret  (  Brown  ) 
Stevenson:  i.  James,  see  forward.  2.  Jane, 
born  in  Scotland;  married  George  Telford 
and  settled  in  Argyle,  New  Y'ork.  3.  John, 
born  in  Scotland :  married  Katherine  McLeod 
and  settled  in  Howard,  Steuben  county.  New 
York,  where  he  died  in  1863.  4.  David,  born 
in  Salem,  New  York,  died  there  unmarried. 
5.  Thomas,  born  in  .Salem;  married  (first) 
Agnes,  daughter  of  John  McMurray;  married 
(second)  Mary,  daughter  of  Joshua  Steele; 
his  children  were:  Thomas  S.,  Robert  M.  and 
James  B. ;  Thomas  Stevenson  lived  on  the 
liomestead ;  was  an  elder  in  the  church  at 
Salem  for  nearly  half  a  century;  died  in 
.Salem,  1854,  agecl  seventy-five  years.  James 
Stevenson,  father  of  these  children,  died  in 
Salem,  New  York,  April  19,  1799,  and  his 
widow  died  the  following  year. 

(11)  James  (3),  eldest  child  of  James  (2) 
and  Margaret  (Brown)  Stevenson,  was  born 
in  Paisley,  Scotland,  January  8,  1762.  He 
came  with  his  parents,  sister  Jane  and  brother 
John  to  .\merica  in  1774.  He  was  prepared 
for  college  by  his  father,  and  then  entered  the 
Mackensack  Classical  Academy,  conducted  by 
Dr.  Peter  Wilson,  afterwards  of  Columbia 
College,  and  was  graduated  at  Queen's  now 
Rutgers  College,  .\.  !*>.,  1789.  He  was  prin- 
cipal of  the  academy  at  Morristown,  New  Jer- 
sey, the  Rutgers  grammar  school,  and  in  181 1 
was   appointed    principal   of   the    Washington 


Academy,  Salem,  New  York,  in  which  insti- 
tution he  proved  himself  one  of  the  ablest 
classical  teachers  in  the  country.  Among  his 
pupils,  several  of  whom  have  written  eulogis- 
tically  of  his  character,  his  attainments  and  his 
e>traordinary  skill  and  cajiacity  as  an  in- 
structor, were  Dr.  Philip  Lindsay,  vice-presi- 
dent of  Princeton  and  president  of  Nashville, 
Tennessee,  University,  Professor  Henry 
Mills,  of  Auburn  Theological  Seminary,  Sam- 
uel L.  Southard,  Theodore  Frelinghuysen, 
Rev.  Jacob  Kirkpatrick  and  Rev.  Dr.  (ieorge 
W.  Bethune.  That  eminent  scholar.  Dr.  Tay- 
lor Eewis,  professor  in  Union  College,  who 
was  a  pupil  for  two  years  in  the  Salem  Acad- 
emy, in  some  reminiscences  which  he  writes 
of  his  beloved  instructor,  says:  "He  stands  in 
my  remembrance  as  the  best  model  that  I  ever 
knew  of  the  most  honorable  and  dignified  pro- 
fession, the  schoolmaster's.  Some  of  the 
thoughts  respecting  him  come  to  my  mind 
when  I  read  Dr.  Arnold,  the  best  sample  of 
a  teacher  that  England  ever  produced." 
James  Stevenson  was  a  trustee  of  Washington 
.•\cademy,  incorporated  February  18,  1791,  the 
fourth  academy  incorporated  in  the  state  of 
.New  Y^ork  and  the  first  free  academy  estab- 
lished in  the  state  outside  of  New  Y'ork  City. 
He  contributed  to  the  newspapers  and  maga- 
zines of  the  time  devoted  to  educational  and 
religious  subjects. 

James  Stevenson  married  1  lannah,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  Johnson,  of  Morris  county. 
New  Jersey.  Children :  James,  Sarah,  Mar- 
tha, Richard,  Paul  Eugene,  Anna  Louisa. 
James  Stevenson,  father  of  these  children,  died 
( )ct((ber  9,  1843,  '"  the  eighty-second  year  of 
his  age. 

(Ill)  Paul  luigene.  son  of  James  (3)  and 
I  lannah  (Johnson)  Stevenson,  was  born  in 
New  ISrunswick,  New  Jersey,  October  14, 
1809.  He  planned  to  engage  in  scientific 
work,  and  when  he  was  (|ualified  to  enter  col- 
lege matriculated  at  the  Rensselaer  Polytechnic 
Institute,  Troy,  New  York,  where  he  v^'as 
graduated  B.  A.  (R.  S. )  in  1830.  On  leav- 
ing the  institute  he  changed  the  purpose  of  his 
life  and  decided  to  enter  the  ministry,  and  to 
that  end  he  took  a  course  in  arts  at  Union  Col- 
lege, Schenectady,  New  York,  where  he  was 
graduated  A.  B.  in  1833.  He  then  entered 
Princeton  Theological  Seminary  and  was 
graduated  1!.  D.,  1837.  He  was  ordained  by 
the  Presbyterian  ministrv,  and  was  pastor  of 
the  Presbyterian  church  in  Staunton,  \'irginia, 
1837-43.  He  then  accepted  a  call  from  the 
South     Third     Street     Presbyterian     Church. 


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Williamsburg,  New  York,  and  served  that 
church  until  1850.  His  next  church  was  at 
Wyoming,  J'ennsylvania.  but  soon  after  going 
there  he  yielded  to  the  urgent  request  of  his 
Presbytery  to  accept  the  principalship  of  the 
Luzerne  County  Presbyterian  Institute,  which 
was  at  the  time  in  a  critical  financial  condition 
and  poorly  e(|uipped  for  the  W(5rk  of  so  im- 
portant an  institution,  as  it  had  been  designed 
to  represent  in  the  policy  the  church  denomina- 
tion for  which  it  was  named.  He  set  to  work 
to  build  it  up  and  re-estaWish  its  reputation  as 
a  high  class  seat  of  learning  and  was  eminently 
successful,  far  beyond  the  expectation  of  the 
officers  of  the  school  or  his  own  optimistic 
hopes.  Some  years  later  he  resigned  this  post, 
and  for  one  year  was  principal  of  the  West 
Jersey  Academy  at  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey, 
from  which  place  he  removed  to  Madison, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  conducted  a  private 
school  for  a  number  of  years.  In  1866  he 
established  the  Passaic  Falls  Institute,  a  school 
for  girls,  at  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  which  he 
continued  to  conduct  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death,  March  17,  1870. 

Rev.  r''aul  Eugene  Stevenson  married,  May 
18,  1841,  Cornelia,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Na- 
thaniel Scuddcr  and  Julia  .Ann  (Jermain) 
Prime,  granddaughter  of  Dr.  Benjamin 
Youngs  (1733-1791)  and  Mary  (Wheel- 
wright) Greaton  Prime,  of  Huntington,  Long 
Island,  New  York,  and  of  Major  John  and 
Margaret  (Pierson)  Jermain,  of  Sag  Harbor. 
Long  Island.  New  York,  and  great-grand- 
daughter of  the  Rev.  Ebenezer  (1700-1779) 
and  Experience  (Youngs)  Prime,  and  great- 
great-granddaughter  of  James  Prime,  of 
Huguenot  descent,  who  came  from  Doncaster, 
Yorkshire,  England,  with  his  brother,  Mark 
Prime,  and  settled  in  Milford,  Connecticut 
Colony,  in  1644,  and  of  Benjamin  Youngs,  of 
Southold,  Long  Island,  New  York.  She  was 
a  sister  of  the  Rev.  Edward  Dorr  Griffin 
Prime  (1814-1891),  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  I. 
Prime  (1812-1885),  a"''  of  the  celebrated 
lawyer  and  editor,  William  Cow-per  Prime 
(1825- 1 905).  Rev.  Paul  Eugene  and  Cornelia 
(Prime)  Stevenson  had  seven  children  of 
whom  the  following  lived  to  maturity:  i. 
Archibald  .Alexander,  born  October  2,  1845, 
died  unmarried  I'ebruarv  10,  1870.  2.  Pres- 
ton, October  29,  1847;  a  lawyer  practicing  in 
New  York  City  and  residing  in  Nutley,  New 
Jersey.  3.  Eugene,  June  28,  1849,  see  for- 
ward. 4.  Mary  Margaretta,  born  March  7, 
1852.  umarried.     5.   Edward  Irenaeus  Prime, 


born  in  Madison,  New  Jersey,  January  29, 
1858:  an  editor,  critic,  lecturer  and  author; 
never  married ;  now  resides  abroad. 

(  I\')  Eugene,  son  of  the  Rev.  Paul  Eugene 
and  Cornelia  (  Prime)  Stevenson,  was  born  in 
Williamsburg,  which  city  became  the  eastern 
district  of  Brooklyn.  New  York,  June  28, 
1849.  He  was  prepared  for  college  by  his 
father  and  was  graduated  at  the  L'niversity  of 
the  City  of  New  York,  now  the  New  York 
L'niversity,  A.  B.  and  LL.  B.,  1870.  He  prac- 
ticed law  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  from  1873 
up  to  the  time  he  went  upon  the  bench  as  vice- 
qhancellor  of  the  court  of  chancery  of  New 
Jersey.  He  served  a  single  term  as  prosecutor 
of  the  pleas  for  Passaic  county. 

He  married,  June  11,  1884,  Helen,  daugh- 
ter of  the  Rev.  Dr.  William  Henry  and  Ma- 
tilda (Butler)  Hornblower,  of  Paterson,  New 
Jersey,  granddaughter  of  Chief  Justice  Joseph 
Coerton  (1777-1864)  and  Mary  (  Burnet)  Horn- 
blower,  great-granddaughter  of  Josiah,  the  del- 
egate, (1729-1809)  and  Elizabeth  (King.sland) 
Hornblower.  Josiah  Hornblower  came  to  Amer- 
ica in  1753,  at  the  suggestion  and  request  of 
Colonel  John  Schuyler,  bringing  with  him  the 
first  steam  engine  ever  used  in  the  L'nited 
States,  which  was  employed  in  pumping  water 
in  the  copper  mines  near  Belleville,  New  Jer- 
sey, of  which  mines  he  was  made  superintend- 
ent. He  served  in  the  French  and  Indian  war 
with  the  rank  of  captain  of  militia,  was  a 
representative  in  the  New  Jersey  legislature, 
1776-80,  speaker  of  the  house  in  1780,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  state  council,  1781-85,  delegate  to 
the  Continental  congress,  i785-8('),  judge  of 
the  Esse.x  common  pleas  from  1790  up  to  near 
the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  in  New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  January  21,  1809.  His  wife, 
Elizabeth,  was  the  daughter  of  Colonel  Will- 
iam Kingsland,  of  New  Barbadoes,  New  Jer- 
sey. Mrs.  Stevenson  was  the  sister  of  the 
well-known  architect,  Joseph  Coerton  Horn- 
blower, of  Washington,  District  of  Columbia, 
born  1848.  married  (^'aroline,  daughter  of  As- 
sociate-Justice Joseph  P.  Bradley,  of  the 
supreme  court  of  the  L'nited  States,  also  of 
William  Butler  Hornblower,  LL.  D.,  the  emi- 
nent New  York  lawyer,  born  May  13.  1851. 


The     Krementz    family    of 

KREMENTZ     Newark  belongs  to  the  later 

arrivals  in  this  country,  but 

it  has  already  established  itself  in  a  prominent 

and  important  position  in  the  business  w-orld 

of  the  country  of  its  adoption,  and  its  repre- 


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sentativcs  to-day  rank  second  to  none  in  the 
honor,  esteem  and  confidence  of  the  com- 
munity in  which  they  reside. 

(I)  George  Krementz.  founder  of  tliis 
family,  came  in  185 1  from  Wiesbaden,  Ger- 
many, where  he  was  born  in  1838.  At  the 
time  of  his  coming  lie  was  a  young  man,  and 
going  to  Xew  Albany,  Indiana,  he  for  some 
time  worked  on  a  farm.  About  1855  he  re- 
turned east  to  Newark,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
learned  the  jewelry  trade,  and  started  in  busi- 
ness for  himself  in  1866.  About  the  same 
time  he  married  Louise  Hendrichs;  children: 
I.  Louise.  2.  Ann,  married  F.  Kecr  and  has 
one  child.  3.  Clara,  married  Charles  Irving 
Taylor,  member  of  the  firm  of  Beardsley  & 
Henimens,  lawyers,  of  Wall  street,  New  York 
City,  who  has  one  child,  George  Krementz. 
4.  Richard,  referred  to  below.  5.  Walter 
Martin. 

(II)  Richard,  eldest  son  of  George  and 
Louise  (Hendriclis)  Krementz,  was  born  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  January  26,  1877.  For 
his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  public 
schools  of  Newark,  and  was  graduated  from 
the  high  school  of  that  city  in  1895.  He  then 
went  to  Yale  University,  and  after  completing 
the  course   in   the   Sheffield   Scientific   School 

•there  received  his  degree  of  Ph.  .15.  in  1898. 
He  then  came  to  his  father's  factory  in  order 
to  learn  the  manufacture  of  jewelry,  and  he 
has  worked  up  steadily  until  he  has  reached 
his  present  position  of  superintendent  of  the 
factory,  having  under  his  control  two  hundred 
and  twenty-five  men.  In  politics  Mr.  Krem- 
entz is  an  Independent.  He  is  a  member  of 
Union  Club  of  Newark  and  the  Y^ale  Club  of 
New  Y'ork  City,  and  of  several  college  fratern- 
ities. May  17,  1906,  Richard  Krementz  married 
Elsie,  daughter  of  Henry  P.  and  Ada  Emily 
(Anderson)  Jones.  Child,  Elsa  Louise,  born 
Spring  Lake,  New  Jersey,  August  16,  1907. 

(H)  Walter  Martin,  youngest  child  of 
George  and  Louise  (Hendrichs)  Krementz, 
was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  March  21, 
1 88 1.  For  his  early  education  he  was  sent  to 
the  public  schools  of  Newark  and  was  gradu- 
ated from  the  Newark  high  school  in  1898. 
He  then  went  to  Yale  University,  where  he 
took  the  academic  course,  and  was  graduated 
in  1902  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts. 
Returning  home  he  entered  his  father's  fac- 
tory, and  has  worked  himself  up  until  he  is 
now  the  superintendent  of  the  firm  of  Krem- 
entz &  Company,  manufacturing  jewelers, 
whose  specialty  is  brooches,  scarf  pins  and 
necklaces,  and  a  general  line  of  jewelry.   They 


are  also  the  manufacturers  of  the  famous 
"Krementz  One  Piece"  collar  buttons.  Mr. 
Krementz  is  an  Independent  in  politics,  a  mem 
ber  of  Yale  Chapter  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon, 
.\utoniobile  Club  of  New  Jersey,  Essex  County 
Country  Club,  and  Yale  Club  of  New  York. 
April  25,  1906,  Walter  ]\Iartin  Krementz 
married  in  East  Orange,  Edith  Lillie  Cordelia, 
horn  January  29,  1883,  second  child  and  only 
daughter  of  James  H.  and  Lillie  Letitia 
( Blanchard )  Hart  (see  Hart).  Their  only 
child  is  James  Hart,  born  November  28,  1907. 


lames  F'rancis,  third  son  of 
KRIODY  Philip  and  Annie  (Brophy) 
Briody,  was  born  in  Paterson, 
New  Jersey,  August  5,  1876.  He  was  a  pupil 
in  the  public  schools  of  Paterson,  graduating 
from  the  high  school  in  the  class  of  1893.  ^^^ 
then  matriculated  at  Rutgers  College,  New 
Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  and  took  the  regular 
course  up  to  the  senior  year,  when  he  entered 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons. 
Columbia  University,  and  was  graduated  M. 
D.  1898.  He  returned  to  his  native  city, 
where  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine  and 
soon  gained  recognition  as  a  skilled  practitioner 
in  all  the  branches  of  his  profession  and 
built  up  a  large  private  practice.  His  popu- 
larity was  recognized  by  the  city  government 
and  they  made  him  medical  inspector  of  the 
public  schools,  the  very  schools  in  which  he 
had  passed  his  youth  and  laid  the  foundation 
upon  which  he  had  built  his  professional  life. 
He  held  the  position  of  medical  inspector  of 
schools  for  several  years,  until  his  private 
practice  demanded  the  time  he  was  obliged  to 
give  to  his  public  duties,  when  he  resigned. 

In  1907  the  office  of  city  physician  was  va- 
cant and  the  city  officials  appointed  Dr.  Briody 
and  he  accepted  the  trust  and  he  was  holding 
the  office  in  1909  b_v  reappointment.  His  pro- 
fessional standing  was  recognized  by  his  fellow 
practitioners  in  the  city,  county  and  state  by 
electing  him  to  membership  in  the  Passaic 
County  Medical  Society. 

His  fellowship  outside  of  his  profession  was 
recognized  by  the  members  of  Paterson  Lodge, 
No.  60,  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks,  who  urged  his  acceptance  of  member- 
ship in  their  exclusive  order  and  he  became 
one  of  the  most  popular  members  of  the  lodge. 


Dr.  James  Rotrock,  or  Rod- 
RODROCK     rock,  was  a  native   of  Scot- 
land, born   in    1787;   he  was 
the  first  of  this  family  to  settle  in  the  United 


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States ;  he  took  up  his  residence  in  Xorth- 
anipton  county,  Pennsylvania,  while  a  young 
man.  He  was  an  educated  physician,  having 
taken  a  regular  course  of  lectures  at  an  insti- 
tution of  medical  instruction  and  received  a 
license  to  practice.  In  1818  he  began  prac- 
tice at  Ereemansburg,  Pennsylvania,  but  soon 
afterward  removed  to  Macungie,  Pennsylva- 
nia, wliere  he  lived  for  a  short  time  only.  He 
went  from  that  place  to  Haines  Hill,  in  Berks 
county,  and  is  mentioned  as  having  kept  public 
house  for  a  number  of  years  previous  to  his 
death.  The  family  name  of  his  wife  was 
Dreisbaugh.  and  she  bore  him  twelve  children, 
among  whom  were  James,  John,  Belinda,  Kate 
and   DeW'itt  Clinton  Rod  rock. 

(H)   Rev.  DeW'itt  Clinton,  son  of  Dr.  James 

and  (Dreisbaugh)  Rodrock,  was  bom 

in  the  township  of  Bath,  Northampton  county, 
Pennsylvania,  January  6,  1828,  died  in  Pater- 
son,   New  Jersey,   August  24,    1903.     He   re- 
ceived a  good  early  education  in  the  schools  of 
his  native   town,    prepared   there    for   college 
and  then  entered  Franklin  and  Marshall  Col- 
lege,  at    Lancaster,   Pennsylvania,   where    he 
comjileted  the   course   and   was  graduated   in 
1848,  with  honors  of  the  valedictory.     He  soon 
afterward  entered  the  ministry  of  the  Dutch 
Reformed    church   of   America    and    labored 
earnestly  and  to  good  purpose  in  the  work  of  his 
church  until  thebeginning  of  the  late  civil  war. 
He  then  became  chaplain  of  the  Forty-Seventh 
Pemisylvania    \'olunteer     Infantry    and    con- 
tinued in  service  until  the  close  of  the  war. 
In   1866  he  became  pastor  of  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed church  in  Blaine,  Perry  county,  Penn- 
sylvania,  and   afterward   served   in  the   same 
capacity  at  Chambersburg,   Marysville,   Stone 
Church,    all    in    Pennsylvania,    but    while    in 
the    latter   pastorate    he    became    broken     in 
health  and  retired  from  the  hard  work  of  the 
nu'iiistry   in    1879.     Soon    afterward    he     re- 
moved to  Paterson  and  lived  quietly  in  that 
city  until  the  time  of  his  death,  August  24, 1903. 
In  the  work  of  his  church  Mr.  Rodrock  was  re- 
garded as  a  man  of  much  strength,  and  after  his 
retirement  from  the  ministry  his  services  were 
utilized  by  his  people  in  the  writing  of  arti- 
cles   for   The  Messenger,  one  of  the  leading 
jniblications  of  the  church.     He  was  a  Mason, 
member  of  the  lodge  at  Easton,  Pennsylvania. 
Rev.    Dr.    Rodrock   married    Julia    Marga- 
retta  Weldy;  children:  i.  Warren  Weldy,  died 
at  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  1861,  aged  six 
months.     2.  Ida,  died  aged  nineteen  years.     3. 
Mary   Shaff,   married   Hiram   M.    Quick   and 
resi'^'es   at   Paterson,   New   Jersey.     4.    Sarah 


L!lanch,  married  Charles  A.  Fitch.  5.  Edward 
-M.,  see  forward.  6.  Alice  Gray,  married  A.  C. 
Nightingale.  Julia  Margaretta  (Weldy)  Rod- 
rock died  at  Paterson,  New  Jersey.  August  24, 
1905. 

(HI)  Edward  M.,  son  of  Rev.  DeWitt  Clin- 
ton and  Julia  Margaretta  (Weldy)  Rodrock, 
was  born  in  lilaine.  Perry  county,  Pemisylvania, 
July  12.  1866.  He  received  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  that  township  and  also  in  the 
city  schools  of  Paterson,  to  which  place  his 
father  removed  in  1879,  when  Edward  M.  was  a 
boyof  about  thirteen  years.  After  his  school  days 
were  over  he  started  out  to  make  his  own  way 
in  life,  and  for  a  time  was  engaged  in  an  ex- 
press business  and  later  took  up  the  trade  of 
painting.  Still  later  he  became  a  dealer  in 
clay  products  and  from  that  beginning  grad- 
ually enlarged  his  business  operations  until  in 
1905  he  became  a  general  dealer  in  coal  and 
masons'  supplies  and  materials.  He  is  a  prompt 
and  capable  man  of  business  and  enjovs  an  ex- 
tended and  favorable  acquaintance  throughout 
the  city  of  Paterson  and  in  Passaic  county. 
Mr.  Rodrock  is  a  member  of  Lafayette  Lodge, 
No.  2j.  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Rah- 
way. 

He  married,  November  29,  1887,  Emma, 
born  February  28,  1868,  daughter  of  William 
and  Margaretta  (Rogers)  Clark,  of  Paterson. 
One  child.  Harold  Edward,  born  July  4,  1896. 


The  life  career  of  William  Mil- 
BROCK  ton  Brock,  an  accomplished  elec- 
trician of  the  day,  now  superin- 
tendent of  the  electric  department  of  the  Pub- 
lic Service  Corporation  for  the  district  of 
Passaic  and  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  presents  a 
forceful  illustration  of  the  achievements  possi- 
ble in  this  age  to  the  industrious  and  ambitious. 
Samuel  Gowan  Brock,  father  of  William 
Milton  Brock,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  where  he  was  educated.  He  became  a 
shipwright  and  worked  at  his  trade  until  about 
the  beginning  of  the  civil  war,  when  he  enlist- 
ed in  the  army,  went  to  the  front  and  was 
never  afterward  heard  of — probably  one  of 
those  heroes  who  rest  in  southern  graves  mark- 
ed "Unknown."  He  married  Elizabeth  Dough- 
erty, of  New  Eg}'pt,  New  Jersey.  Of  their 
four  children  the  first  born  died  in  extreme 
infancy.  Those  coming  to  maturity  were: 
William  Milton,  see  forward;  Beulah,  mar- 
ried William  Force,  of  Clifton,  New  Jersey; 
Ella,  married  Henry  Holbert,  now  of  Pater- 
son, New  Jersey. 

William  Milton,  son  of  Samuel  Gowan  and 


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Elizabeth  (Dougherty)  Brock,  was  born  in 
Brooklyn,  New  York.  November  3.  1856,  and 
was  only  about  eight  years  old  when  his  father 
entered  the  army,  never  to  rejoin  his  family. 
The  mother  soon  removed  with  her  children 
to  Dover,  Illinois,  where  she  resided  until  the 
summer  of  1863,  when  she  went  to  Pennsyl- 
vania. There  William  j\I.  at  the  age  of  eleven 
years  began  to  aid  his  mother  in  caring  for 
the  family,  a  task  which  he  jserformed  with 
self-sacriticing  devotion  until  she  and  her  chil- 
dren were  comfortably  established  in  life.  He 
first  found  em[jloyment  as  breaker  boy  in  a 
coal  mine.  In  the  course  of  three  years  the 
mother  returned  to  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
where  William  M.  engaged  in  various  labors 
— with  a  watchmaker  and  jeweler,  and  later 
as  a  helper  in  a  blacksmith  shop.  In  1869  the 
family  removed  to  Shamokin.  Pennsylvania, 
where  the  lad  passed  two  years  more  of  coal- 
breaking  life.  He  then  found  more  congenial 
employment  as  a  telegraph  messenger  for  the 
Mineral  Railroad  and  Mining  Company,  in 
which  he  continued  for  nearly  three  years. 
While  thus  occupied  he  made  a  study  of  teleg- 
raphy, and  in  a  short  time  became  an  expert 
or>erator,  besides  acquiring  a  considerable 
knowledge  of  the  principles  and  science  of 
electricity,  and  had  no  lack  of  constant  em- 
ployment which  brought  to  him  steady  ad- 
vancement. In  1879  he  was  employed  by  the 
Central  Pennsylvania  Telephone  Company  in 
the  important  work  of  opening  a  new  field  for 
its  lines  in  the  region  in  %vhich  he  was  then 
living,  carrying  on  this  work  during  his  em- 
ployment as  a  telegraph  operator.  In  1882  the 
Edison  Electric  Illuminating  Company,  of 
Shamokin,  was  incorporated  and  one  of  the 
first  Edison  "three  wire"  plants  was  installed 
for  commercial  lighting  in  that  town  under  the 
personal  supervision  of  Mr.  Edison.  During 
the  work  of  construction  Mr.  Brock  was — 
after  a  personal  examination  by  Mr.  Edison — 
engaged  as  manager,  which  position,  as  well 
as  manager  of  the  local  telephone  company,  he 
held  until  1885,  when  he  resigned  both  posi- 
tions to  accept  a  more  lucrative  engagement 
as  manager  of  the  Edison  Electric  Illumina- 
ting Comjjany,  of  Lawrence,  Massachusetts. 
He  continued  in  the  management  of  this  com- 
pany until  early  in  1889.  when  he  resigned  his 
position  to  acce]H  that  of  secretary  and  general 
manager  of  the  Edison  Electric  Illuminating 
Comi)any.  of  Paterson,  New^  Jersey,  his  pres- 
ent home.  .At  that  time  there  were  two  elec- 
tric lighting  companies,  the  Edison  Electric 
Illuminating    Company,    whicli    had    been    in 


operation  a  little  over  one  year,  and  the  Pater- 
son Electric  Lighting  Company,  a  much  older 
enterprise.  At  the  end  of  two  or  three  years 
of  unprofitable  competition  (about  1891 )  the 
two  companies  were  consolidated  under  one 
management,  under  the  name  of  the  Edison 
Electric  Illuminating  Company,  of  Paterson. 
The  rapid  development  of  the  electric  business 
in  a  few  years  taxed  the  capacity  of  the  two 
plants  to  their  utmost  capacity,  and  in  1895  it 
was  decided  to  seek  a  new  location  for  a  more 
modern  plant.  The  conditions  leading  to  and 
the  e.vecution  of  the  work  is  best  described  by 
the  following  extracts  from  the  Electrical 
Enqiuccr.  of  New  ^'ork.  dated  December  9, 
1896: 

"Linked  with  the  history  of  Paterson,  New 
Jersey,  is  the  name  of  Alexander  Hamilton, 
who  realized  immediately  after  the  Revolution 
that  manufacturing  industries  were  necessary 
to  utilize  our  raw  products,  and  supplv  those 
manufactured  articles  which  had  been  previ- 
ously shipped  to  us  by  England.  He  selected 
Paterson  as  a  natural  manufacturing  center, 
it  having  the  advantages  of  water  power  and 
close  pro.ximity  to  the  metropolis  of  the  coun- 
try. Under  his  guidance,  the  water  power  was 
improved  and  made  valuable ;  the  factories 
soon  outgrew  the  capacity  of  the  water  power, 
and  the  city  of  Paterson  became  dotted  with 
factories  of  all  kinds,  the  silk  industry  taking 
the  lead.  There  are  over  one  hundred  silk 
mills  in  Paterson  now,  and  it  has  been  called 
"The  Lyons  of  America."  Among  the  other 
prominent  products  at  the  present  time  are 
locomotives  structural  iron  and  fla.x  thread. 

"Early  in  the  art,  Paterson  was  supplied  by 
electric  light  from  the  Hochhausen  system.  In 
the  year  1888.  this  system  was  bought  by  the 
Paterson  Electric  Light  Company,  w'ho  install- 
ed the  Thomson-Houston  arc  and  series 
system  for  municipal  lighting,  and  also  a  dupli- 
cate of  the  Edison  three-wire  system  for  power 
and  domestic  lighting. 

"Later  in  the  same  year,  the  Edison  Elec- 
tric Illuminating  Company  of  Paterson,  was 
formed  in  competition  with  the  Paterson  Elec- 
tric Light  Company,  and  they  installed  a  three- 
wire  plant,  operating  under  the  Edison  patents. 
They  located  their  station  on  Paterson  street, 
near  Market,  and  it  was  constructed  accord- 
ing to  the  best  engineering  practice  of  that 
date,  and  has  always  proved  a  very  profitable 
investment.  To  compare  the  station  of  1888 
with  the  station  of  1896  has  a  historical  value 
and  shows  great  progress  of  lighting  and 
I)ower  stations. 


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"A  fierce  competition  was  carried  on  be- 
tween these  two  companies,  which  resulted  in 
the  Edison  company  absorbing  its  rival  in 
April,  1890.  Since  that  time  both  stations  have 
been  operated  by  the  Edison  Electric  Ilhmii- 
nating  Company,  using  the  old  Paterson  Elec- 
tric Light  Company's  Station  only  as  an  arc 
light  plant,  and  the  Edison  Comjiany's  as  a 
combined  lighting  and  power  jjjant. 

"With  the  advent  of  electric  railways,  the 
Edison  Company  made  a  bid  and  succeeded  in 
securing  all  contracts  to  supply,  with  power, 
the  railways  in  Paterson  and  its  vicinity. 
Under  conservative  management,  the  business 
increased  so  rapidly  that  at  a  meeting  of 
directors,  in  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1894,  it 
was  decided  that  Mr.  ^^'illiam  llrock.  general 
Manager  of  the  Edison  Electric  Illuminating 
Company,  of  Paterson,  made  a  report  on  the 
best  method  of  meeting  the  increasing  demand 
for  power  and  light,  which  was  taxing  the 
two  stations  to  their  utmost  capacity.  As  a 
result  of  this  report,  it  was  decided  on  account 
of  abundant  water  for  condensing,  and  be- 
cause the  site  was  nearer  the  center  of  distribu- 
tion of  the  Paterson  system,  to  locate  the 
plant  near  the  Passaic  River  and  on  one  of  the 
raceways  from  the  Passaic  Falls.  The  loca- 
tion secured  was  at  the  corner  of  Van  Houten 
and  Prospect  streets,  where  one  of  the  largest 
plants  of  its  kind  in  the  L'nited  States  is  now 
Itxrated. 

"The  new  station  building  of  selected 
Haverstraw  brick  with  blue  stone  trimmings, 
has  a  total  length  of  384  feet  and  a  width  of 
92  feet.  The  arrangement  of  this  edifice,  the 
station  and  raceways  around  the  building,  as 
well  as  location  of  the  engines,  dynamos,  and 
boilers,  was  laid  out  by  Mr.  William  Brock, 
and  the  building  details  were  developed  with 
the  assistance  of  Mr.  J.  \\'.  Ferguson,  of 
Paterson,  Xew  Jersey." 

The  officers  of  the  aforementioned  company 
were :  William  T.  Ryle,  president  and  the 
financier  of  the  company;  W'illiam  Strange, 
vice-president ;  Arthur  Ryle.  treasurer,  and 
William  M.  Brock,  secretary  and  general  man- 
ager, to  whom  great  credit  is  due  for  the  con- 
ception and  erection  of  this  plant,  assisted  by 
]\Ir.  J.  W.  Ferguson,  builder  and  general  con- 
tractor, and  I\Iessrs.  Herrick  and  Burke,  con- 
sulting and  designing  electrical  engineers.  As 
may  be  seen  from  the  foregoing,  under  the 
personal  supervision  and  management  of  Mr. 
Brock,  the  lighting  plant  of  Paterson  not  only 
has  been  placed  on  a  sound  and  profitable 
financial  basis,  but  is  said  by  electrical  experts 


to  be  one  of  the  most  satisfactory  and  com- 
plete systems  of  its  kind  in-the  country.  The 
great  measure  of  success  achieved  by  .Mr. 
Brock  has  been  wholly  the  result  of  his  own 
personal  efTort  and  energy.  It  is  worth  while 
to  remember  that  his  life  work  was  begun  as 
a  breaker  boy  in  a  coal  mine ;  that  later  he  be- 
came a  telegraph  messenger  boy,  then  a  prac- 
tical telegrapher,  and  still  later  an  experienced 
electrician,  capable  of  performing  any  work 
assigned  to  his  charge,  also  of  corporate  em- 
ployers ;  and  finally  to  assume  the  responsi- 
bilities of  a  managerial  position,  and  direct 
the  operations  of  large  corporate  enterprises 
in  profitable  channels.  All  of  these  things  Mr. 
Brock  has  done  and  has  done  them  well.  As 
a  boy,  when  he  should  have  been  in  school 
but  could  not  afl'ord  such  a  luxury,  he  was 
indu.strious,  patient  and  of  good  habits;  as  a 
young  man  he  applied  himself  diligently  to 
whatever  tasks  were  set  for  him  to  perform, 
and  when  not  at  work  employed  his  leisure 
hours  in  useful  reading  and  study;  and  as  a 
man  he  developed  capable  business  qualities 
and  a  straightforward,  rugged  honesty  which 
gained  for  him  the  confidence  of  those  by 
whom  he  was  employed,  and  also  gained  for 
him  an  enviable  place  among  those  who  are 
known  as  selfmade  and  successful  business 
men.  Mr.  Brock  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers.  He  takes 
little  active  part  in  public  aftairs.  yet  is  count- 
ed among  the  progressive  and  public  spirited 
citizens  of  the  city  of  Paterson. 

He  married.  May  7,  1885,  Florence  Vin- 
cent, daughter  of  Lyman  and  Anna  (Vincent) 
Wilson,  of  Milton,  Pennsylvania,  and  by 
whom  he  has  three  children  living:  Elizabeth 
\'.,  born  Mav  S-  1887;  Florence.  Mav  16, 
1892;  Mildred,  March  25,  1898. 


Nearly  three-fifths  of  the 
FROMMELT  population  of  Saxony, 
Germany,  which  includes 
the  circles  of  Dresden.  Leipsic,  Zwickan  and 
Flantzen,  are  engaged  in  manufacturing. 
Linen  leads  in  the  manufacturing  industrv  and 
sixteen  thousand  looms  were  employed  in 
1850.  Since  then  the  manufacture  of  goods 
for  cotton  has  been  the  most  important  branch 
of  Saxon  industry.  Wool  from  Saxon  sheep 
has  kept  close  pace  with  cotton  goods  and 
broadcloth,  merinos,  silk-mixed  mouslin  de 
laines  and  found  excellent  markets  in  England 
and  France. 

The  early  history  of  the  Saxons  and  their 
exploits  for  the  time  they  invaded  the  Roman 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


territory,  through  their  piratical  decents  on  the 
coasts  of  IJritaiii  and  (laul,  their  possession 
of  Normandy,  their  wars  with  the  Franks  and 
final  suhj ligation  hy  the  arms  of  Charlemagne, 
were  evidences  of  the  spirit  of  conquest  and 
attendant  prosperity  that  this  people  planted 
in  the  early  days  and  out  of  whicli  the  great 
Anglo-Saxon  race  has  evolved. 

(I)  Melchior  Herman  Fromnielt  was  born 
in  Saxony,  August  30,  1827,  and  was  brought 
up  as  a  weaver  in  the  mills  of  that  great  manu- 
facturing center  of  Europe.  He  emigrated  to 
the  United  States,  landing  in  New  York  City, 
January  6,  1868,  after  a  tedious  voyage  of 
sixty-four  days.  He  came  to  Paterson,  New 
Jersey,  the  same  year  and  worked  as  a  weaver 
in  the  Hamil  mill :  after  earning  and  saving 
monev  he  engaged  in  the  grocery  business, 
which  he  continued  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death  in  Paterson,  May  14,  1888.  He  mar- 
ried Henrietta  Ernst,  born  November  14, 
1825,  died  in  Paterson,  March  29,  1907.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Sa.xony :  i.  Clemens,  born  De- 
cember 8,  1848.  2.  Edward,  February  28, 
1852.  3.  Ehrgott,  August  6,  1854.  4.  Her- 
man Emil,  see  forward. 

(H)  Herman  Emil,  son  of  Melchior  Her- 
man and  Henrietta  (Ernst)  Frommelt,  was 
born  in  Saxony,  Germany,  November  26,  1858. 
When  nine  years  of  age  he  was  brought  to 
America  with  his  three  brothers  by  their  par- 
ents and  settled  in  a  home  in  Paterson,  New 
Jersey,  where  the  boys  attended  the  public 
school  and  soon  acquired  the  language  and 
ways  of  -American  bovs.  Plerman  Emil  was 
apprenticed  to  the  trade  of  cigar  making  and 
he  engaged  in  that  business  up  to  1888,  when 
he  established  himself  as  an  undertaker  on 
Market  street,  in  which  business  he  was  emi- 
nently successful,  largely  on  account  of  his 
sympathetic  nature  and  gentlemanly  deport- 
ment. He  became  associated  with  Beethoven 
Lodge,  No.  154,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  of  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  as  a  mem- 
ber and  he  was  rapidly  advanced  in  the  suc- 
cessive degrees  of  the  order.  He  also  affiliated 
with  Paterson  Lodge,  No.  188,  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  stood  high  in  the 
esteem  of  the  members  of  his  lodge. 

Lie  married,  April  ig,  1883,  Lucy  B.,  born 
August  25,  1839,  daughter  of  James  and  Sarah 
(McKeever)  Stott,  of  Paterson,  New  Jersey. 


Jean  Baptiste  Lober  and  his  son, 

LOBER     Victor     Hipolite     Lober,    were 

natives  of   France  and  came  to 

the  United  States  early  in  the  nineteenth  cen- 


tury, settling  Camden,  New  Jersey.  In  France 
there  is  a  family  that  may  have  been  ancestors 
of  these  two  immigrants ;  one  de  Lobel  or 
Lobel,  represented  in  history  by  Matthias 
Lobel  (1538-1616).  He  was  born  in  Lille, 
France,  educated  as  a  physician ;  travelled 
through  Europe  and  was  at  one  time  physician 
to  William,  of  Orange,  and  James  I.  made 
him  botanist  of  the  Kingdom,  owing  to  his 
knowledge  of  vegetable  physiology  through 
which,  by  means  of  evident  analogues  of 
growth,  he  was  enabled  to  make  new  classifica- 
tions. He  had  great  skill  in  botanical  research, 
especially  with  a  poisonous  plant  common  to 
all  sections  of  the  vegetable  world,  now  known 
as  Lobelia,  which  was  named  in  compliment 
to  him.  He  was  the  author  of  botanical  refer- 
ence books  still  held  in  high  esteem  and  pub- 
lished in  1570,  1575  and  1581. 

( I )  \'ictor  Hi])olite  Lobel,  or  Lober,  son  of 
Jean  Baptiste  Lober,  appears  in  Camden,  New 
Jersey,  about  1800,  having  emigrated  from 
France  in  company  with  his  father,  and  there 
married  Angeline,  daughter  of  Pamela  Cant, 
born  in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  about  1825. 
\'ictor  Hipolite  and  Angeline  (Gant)  Lober, 
had  three  children :  John  Baptiste,  see  for- 
ward;  William  Hawke,  retired,  living  in  Cali- 
fornia ;  Julia  Madeline,  married  Ashbrook 
Lincoln,  retired,  living  in  Ardmore,  Pennsyl- 
vania. 

{II)  John  Baptiste,  son  of  X'ictor  Hipolite 
and  .Angeline  (Gant)  Lober,  was  born  in 
Camden,  New  Jersey,  April  11,  1848.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Camden, 
New  Jersey,  and  in  more  advanced  schools  in 
Philadelphia.  He  was  baptized  in  the  faith 
of  the  Roman  Catholic  church  of  which  his 
parents  were  members,  but  when  he  arrived  at 
manhood  he  became  independent  of  church 
creeds  and  religious  forms.  He  affiliated  with 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and 
his  professional  affiliations  as  a  civil  engineer 
include :  The  American  Society  of  Civil  Engi- 
neers ;  the  Engineers  Club,  of  Philadelphia, 
and  the  Railroad  Club,  of  New  York  City. 
Llis  social  home  club  is  the  Union  League,  of 
Philadelphia,  and  his  business  responsibilities 
include  the  i)residcncy  of  the  Vulcanite  Port- 
land Cement  Company  with  offices  in  the  Land 
Title  lUiilding,  Broad  street,  Philadelphia.  He 
married.  May,  1873,  Clara,  daughter  of  W^ill- 
iam  V.  Diehi,  of  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  and 
their  only  child,  William  Diehl,  was  born  in 
Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania.  September  11, 
1877,  was  educated  in  the  Friends'  schools  of 
Philadelphia,  and  was  graduated  at  the  Lini- 


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versity  of  I'cmisylvania.M.  E., class  of  iSijg.atid 
lie  at  once  took  a  place  as  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Vulcanite  Portland  Cement  Com- 
pany, of  which  organization  his  father  was 
president.  He  married.  November  7.  lyoi. 
Margaret,  daughter  of  John  Price  and  Eliza- 
beth (Warder)  Crozer,  of  Cpland.  Delaware 
county,  Pennsylvania. 


I 


The  Buttler  family  has  been 
r.UTTLER  resident  in  the  state  of  New 
Jersey  for  three  generations. 
In  the  line  here  considered  this  family  de- 
scends from  George  Piuttler.  commander  in 
the  British  navy,  whose  son.  Jeremiah  Puttier 
(born  in  Portsmouth,  England),  came  to 
America  in  1820,  married  Elizabeth  Hull,  of 
Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey,  and  lived  at 
Prospect  Plains,  near  Dayton.  Middlesex 
county,  New  Jersey.  A  brother  of  Jeremiah 
Ikittler  was  George  Puttier,  of  the  British 
navy,  who  commanded  the  "Wasp"  in  the  first 
half  of  the  nineteenth  century. 

Jeremiah  Buttler  was  the  father  of  the  late 
well  known  George  Buttler.  of  New  Bruns- 
wick, New  Jersey  (elsewhere  referred  to), 
who  was  born  in  1828  and  died  in  New  Bruns- 
wich.  May  11.  1901.  having  married  Harriet 
Ann  Voorhees  (died  Alay  5.  1905).  daughter 
of  Barrant  A'oorhees  and  Eliza  Haviland 
(who  was  the  daughter  of  Caleb  Haviland.  of 
New  lirunswick).  The  Haviland  family  came 
from  Haviland.  England,  and  the  ancestors 
of  Eliza  Haviland  were  among  the  founders 
of  the  First  Reformed  Church  of  New  Bruns- 
w  ick.  Mrs.  Harriet  Ann  (Voorhees)  Buttler 
was  a  member  of  the  well  known  Voorhees 
family  of  New  Jersey,  whose  immigrant  an- 
cestor, Steven  Coerte  van  \'oorhees,  came  to 
America  from  the  province  of  Drenthe,  Hol- 
land, in  the  ship  "Bonte  Coti"  or  "Spotted 
Cow"  in  April.  1660.  George  and  Harriet 
Ann  (Voorhees)  Buttler  had  ten  children,  nf 
whom  eight  now  survive. 

Charles  Voorhees  Buttler.  youngest  son  of 
("icorge  and  Harriet  Ann  (Voorhees)  Buttler, 
was  born  in  the  city  of  New  Brunswick.  New 
Jersey.  January  18.  1869.  He  received  his 
early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  that 
community,  graduating  from  the  high  school 
in  18S5.  and  then  was  for  two  years  in  attend- 
ance at  the  United  States  Naval  Academy  at 
.\nnapolis.  Maryland.  Deciding  upon  the 
medical  profession,  he  entered  the  office  of 
iM-ank  M.  Donahue,  M.  D.,  of  New  Bruns- 
wick (1888),  took  a  special  course  in  chem- 
istry   at    Rutgers    College,    and    in    1893    was 


graduated  as  Doctor  of  Medicine  from  the 
New  York  University.  He  is  now  associated 
in  practice  with  Dr.  Donahue.  Dr.  Buttler  is 
visit;. ig  surgeon  of  Saint  Peter's  General  Hos- 
pital and  the  Wells  Memorial  Hospital,  visit- 
ing physician  of  the  Day  Nursery  and  St. 
Mary's  Orphan  Asylum,  second  examiner  of 
the  New  York  Life  and  Mutual  Life  Insur- 
ance Companies  ;  special  examiner  of  the  Trav- 
ellers' Life  Insurance  Company,  of  Hartford, 
Connecticut,  and  assistant  examiner  of  the 
Northwestern  Life  Insurance  Company.  He  is 
eligible  for  membership  in  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution. 

He  married,  June  20.  1894.  Louise  Johnson 
(iardiner.  of  Mystic.  Connecticut,  a  descend- 
ant of  the  original  Lion  Gardiner,  of  Gardi- 
ner's Island.  She  died  January  17,  1903.  Of 
this  marriage  there  is  one  surviving  child. 
Gardiner  Haviland  P)Uttler.  born  November 
5.  1896. 

The    late    WMlliam    Craig 
STODDARD      Stoddard,     a     conspicuous 

merchant  and  honored  citi- 
zen of  New  Brunswick.  New  Jersey,  was  the 
only  son  of  James  Stoddard,  who  was  born  in 
Connecticut,  came  to  Princeton,  New  Jersey, 
and  died  at  the  early  age  of  thirty-four.  James 
Stoddard  married  .-\nn  Craig,  of  an  original 
Scottish  family,  which  settled  at  Freehold. 
New  Jersey,  in  1685.  In  addition  to  their  only 
son.  James  and  Ann  (Craig)  Stoddard  had 
four  daughters,  of  whom  three  died  young, 
and  the  (ither.  Phebe  Stoddard,  married  John 
Hogart  and  had  two  children. 

( II )  William  Craig  Stoddard,  son  of  James 
and  .Ann  (Craig)  Stoddard,  was  born  in  Prince- 
ton. New  Jersey.  April  28.  1821.  When  about 
fourteen  or  fifteen  years  old  he  came  to  New 
P.runswick  and  engaged  in  business  employ- 
ment, subsequently  becoming  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Dayton,  Stoddard  &  Smith,  in  the  dry 
goods  business.  This  firm  was  dissolved  after 
the  destruction  of  its  store  by  fire,  and  Mr. 
Stoddard  then  organized  the  copartnership  of 
Stoddard.  Duncan  &  Van  Pelt.  His  active 
business  career  covered  a  period  of  forty 
years,  and  he  was  one  of  the  foremost  men  in 
the  mercantile  community  of  New  Pirunswick. 
Personally  he  was  a  man  of  the  highest  integ- 
rity, benevolent,  and  a  valued  friend  and  ad- 
viser, especially  in  times  of  financial  distrub- 
ance.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Bank  of  New 
Jersey  and  the  United  States  Rubber  Com- 
|)any.  A  prominent  member  of  the  First  Pres- 
l)yterian  C'hurch,  he  served  as  one  of  its  trus- 


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tees  for  many  years.     Mr.  Stoddard  died  July 
19,  1890. 

He  married  Sarah  Jewell,  daughter  of  Ken- 
neth and  Elizabeth  Jewell,  of  F'rinceton,  New 
Jersey.  Qiildren:  i.  Emily  Stoddard.  2. 
William  Stoddard  (deceased).  3.  Elizabeth 
Jewell  Stoddard.  4.  Sarah  Jewell  Stoddard. 
5.  Anna  Craig  Stoddard.  ]Mr.  Stoddard's 
daughters  reside  in  New  Brunswick. 


In  its  native  country,  the 
SCIH'RIQI-W  Netherlands,  the  name  of 
this  family  was  usually 
written  .Schuerman.  It  was  known  from  an  early 
period  for  staunch  Protestantism,  and  in  the 
old  coimtry,  as  afterward  in  America,  its  rep- 
resentatives were  conspicuous  for  scholarship 
and  literarv  ability.  A  famous  member  of  the 
Ilollanclish  family  w'as  Anna  Maria  Schuer- 
man  ( 1607-1678),  who  is  described  as  "a  mar- 
vel of  precocity,  and  for  the  depth,  bredth,  and 
variety  of  her  attainments,"  excelling  in  "the 
faculties  of  attention,  apprehension,  and  mem- 
ory, in  drawing,  paintine:,  sculpture,  modelling, 
embroidery,  poetry,  and  music." 
The  New  Jersey  line  descends  from 
(I)  Jacobus  Schureman,  who  was  born  in 
Holland,  coming  to  this  country  in  1719  with 
the  Rev.  Theodoras  Jacobus  Frelinghuysen  on 
the  ship  "King  George."  Accompanying 
Frelinghuysen  to  Somerset  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, he  was  associated  with  him  in  his  minis- 
terial labors,  serving  as  chorister  and  "voor- 
leezer"  (reader),  and  as  one  of  his  "helpers." 
.\ccording  to  a  chronicler  of  those  times,  he 
was  "respectable  for  his  literary  acquirements 
as  well  as  for  his  piety."  He  was  the  author 
of  verses  in  the  Dutch  language,  and  con- 
ducted a  school  in  the  same  tongue.  His  resi- 
dence was  at  Three  Mile  Run.  He  married 
Antje  Terhune,  daughter  of  Albert  Terhune, 
of  F'latbush,  Long  Island,  and  sister  of  Eva 
Terhune,  who  was  the  wife  of  Rev.  Mr. 
■  Frelinghuysen. 

(  II  )  John,  son  of  Jacobus  Schureman,  was 
born  about  1729.  Removing  to  New  Bruns- 
wick, .Middlesex  county.  New  Jersev,  he  en- 
gaged in  mercantile  pursuits  and  became  a 
very  prominent  member  of  that  community. 
He  was  frequently  elected  to  the  legislature, 
served  as  one  of  the  judges  of  the  county 
court,  and  was  a  member  of  the  committee  of 
safety,  appointed  by  the  provincial  congress  of 
New  Jersey  to  exercise  the  powers  of  the  con- 
gress during  the  recess  of  that  body  from  Au- 
gust 5  to  .September  20,  1775.  In  the  church 
he    was   a    deacon    and    elder,    also   acting   as 


chairman  of  the  building  committee,  and  he 
was  "conspicuous  for  unaffected  piety,  fervid 
zeal,  and  fruitful  benevolence."  He  died  July 
6.  1795.  He  married  Antje  de  Remere, 
widow  of  I'eter  Stryker ;  she  died  May  25. 
1800,  in  her  seventy-ninth  year. 

(Ill)  James,  son  of  John  Schureman,  was 
born  I*"ebruary  12,  1756.  In  1775  he  was  grad- 
uated frum  (Jueen's  College  (now  Rutgers), 
and  during  the  same  year  was  the  first  to 
enlist  when  volunteers  were  called  for.  On 
that  occasion  he  delivered  a  forcible  address, 
w'ith  the  result  that  a  company  was  immedi- 
ately formed.  Being  chosen  captain  of  this 
organization,  he  served  with  it  in  the  early 
military  movements,  and  participated  in  the 
battle  of  Long  Island.  Returning  to  New 
Jersey  he  was  captured,  with  a  cousin,  Mr. 
Thompson,  by  a  detachment  of  British  horse, 
and  the  two  were  sent  tc>  the  notorious  Sugar 
House  in  New  York  City.  Effecting  their 
escajie,  they  crossed  the  Hudson  river  in  a 
small  boat  with  one  nar.  and  made  their  way 
to  the  head((uarters  oi  the  patriot  army  at 
Morristown.  Continuing  in  the  service,  he 
had  the  distinction  of  making  prisoner  the 
noted  Lieutenant-Colonel  Simcoe  of  the 
(Jueen's  Rangers,  after  saving  his  life  from  a 
militiaman    who    was   about   to   bayonet    him. 

His  public  career  was  highly  distinguished. 
I-'rcni  1786  to  1788  he  was  a  member  of  the 
continental  congress  from  New  Jersey,  and  he 
also  served  in  the  New  Jersey  provincial  con- 
gress. He  was  elected  as  a  federalist  to  the 
first  congress  of  the  I'nited  States  under  the 
constitution,  sitting  in  that  body  from  March 
4,  1789.  to  March  4,  1791.  and  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  fifth  congress.  May  15,  1797,  to 
.March  3.  \/<)f).  Upon  the  retirement  of  John 
Rutherfurd  from  the  L'nited  .States  senate  .Mr. 
.Schureman  was  chosen  to  succeed  him.  repre- 
senting .\ew  Jersey  from  December  3,  1799, 
to  February  26,  1801,  when  he  resigned.  Sub- 
se(|uently  he  wa^  mayor  of  the  city  of  New 
Brunswick,  and  again  was  member  of  con- 
gress (  1813-1815).  He  was  president  of  a 
bank  in  New  Brunswick  and  a  successful  mer 
chant,  "his  ht)use  and  store  being  upon  Burnet 
street  convenient  to  the  wharf."  Like  his 
father  he  was  active  in  the  Dutch  church, 
holding  the  office  of  elder,  and  in  his  personal 
character  he  was  known  for  the  highest  in- 
tegrity and  wortli.  He  died  January  22. 
1824.  He  married.  January  28.  1776.  Eleanor 
Williamson,  who  died  July  15,  1823,  daughter 
of  David  and  Eleanor  (.Schuyler)  Williamson, 
granddaughter  of   William    \\'illiamst)n.   elder 


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of  the  church  at  Cranberry,  New  Jersey.  They 
were  the  parents  of  fourteen  children. 

(IV)  William  Williamson,  eleventh  child  of 
James  Schureman,  was  born  .\])ril  19,  1799, 
died  of  an  epidemic  disease  January  30.  1850. 
He  was  interested  in  the  freight  transportation 
business  across  the  state  of  New  Jersey  from 
Aniboy  to  Rordentown.  and  also  in  the 
schooner  traffic  from  New  Pirunswick  to  New 
York.  His  residence  was  on  a  farm  formerly 
belonging  to  his  father  at  One  Mile  Run.  He 
married  .\nn  I'.cnnet,  daughter  of  John  Ben- 
net  and  granddaughter  of  James  liennet.  who 
was  mayor  cjf  New  Brunswick.  She  was  born 
.\ugust  16.  I79(S.  died  November  15,  1880. 

(  \" )  James  (  2  ) ,  only  son  of  William  Will- 
iamson Schureman,  was  born  June  22,  1823, 
died  November,  1902,  at  Franklin  Park,  New 
Jersey.  He  lived  on  the  old  Schureman  home- 
stead at  ( Ine  .Mile  Run.  and  was  a  highly  re- 
spected and  influential  citizen.  He  married 
Hannah  Cox,  born  December  5,  1828,  died 
March,  1902,  daughter  of  Henry  ChristO])her 
and  .Mary  Matto.x  ( \'an  Nostrand  )  Cox,  and 
granddaughter  paternally  of  John  Christopher 
and  Mary  Williamson  Cox,  the  latter  of  whom 
was  the  daughter  of  William  Williamson. 

(  \'l  )  Howard  Bishop,  only  son  of  James 
(2)  .Schureman,  was  born  at  One  Mile  Run, 
July  17,  1849.  -^t  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
went  to  Philadelphia  and  entered  the  house  of 
Lorillard  &  Company,  in  the  transportation 
business.  Subsequently  he  was  for  nineteen 
years  in  business  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  as 
a  manufacturer  of  edge  tools.  Retiring  from 
this  occupation,  he  lived  successively  near 
Princetrn  and  at  Franklin  Park,  .Middlesex 
county,  finally  removing  to  .\ew  Brunswick, 
where  he  now  resides.  During  his  residence 
in  Newark,  .Mr.  Schureman  was  active  in  mili- 
tary affairs,  paymaster  fourteen  years,  being 
an  officer  in  the  First  Regiment  of  the  Na- 
tional Guard,  in  which  he  rose  to  the  rank  of 
cajitain.  He  married,  January  26,  1876, 
.Stella  .\.  I  lager,  born  .\ugust  31,  1855,  (laugh- 
ter of  .\ll)ert  II.  and  Caroline  ( (  kdick  )  Hager. 
Their  children  were :  Caroline  and  James 
Percy,  see  forward. 

(NIP)  Caroline,  born  January  2^,  1878. 
married  Walter  H.  Olden,  a  nephew  of  Gov- 
ernor Olden,  of  New  Jersey.  Children:  .\lice 
Olden,  Josejih  Brewer  Olden.  James  .Schure- 
man Olden. 

i\  H)  James  Percy,  born  in  Newark.  .New 
Jersey,  February  2J.  1880,  received  his  general 
education  in  the  Newark  .\cademy  and  Prince- 
ton Cniversitv,  graduating  from  the  latter  in- 


stitution in  1901.  Entering  the  medical  de- 
partment of  the  L'niversity  of  .Michigan,  he 
coin])leted  the  jsrcscribed  course  an<l  obtained 
his  .M.  D.  degree  in  1905.  .After  two  years 
in  the  .Newark  City  Hospital  he  came  to  New 
Brunswick,  and  was  associated  with  Dr.  D.  L. 
.Morrison  until  the  latter  discontinued  his  gen- 
eral practice.  Dr.  Schureman  has  since  been 
pursuing  his  professional  business  alone.  He 
is  a  staff  physician  of  the  \\'ells  Memorial 
Hos])ital  and  the  Parker  Memorial  Home,  and 
is  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Medical 
Society,  the  Middlesex  County  Medical  So- 
cietv,  and  other  organizations. 


Merman  Gross,  M.  D.,  of  Me- 
(11\().SS  tuchen.  Middlesex  county,  was 
born  in  the  em])ire  of  Austria. 
.Sei)tember  19,  1879,  youngest  son  of  Nathan 
and  Rebecca  Ciross.  In  1892  he  came  to  the 
Cnited  .States  with  his  mother,  having  been 
preceded  l)y  his  three  elder  brothers,  William, 
-Aaron,  and  David,  all  of  whom  arc  now  resi- 
deiUs   of   Middlese.x   county. 

He  received  his  general  education  in  his 
native  country  and  at  the  College  of  the  City 
of  .\ew  York,  his  professional  studies  being 
])ursued  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons, New  A'ork  City,  where  he  was  gradu- 
ated as  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1903.  .After 
receiving  his  degree  he  was  engaged  in  pro- 
fessional work  for  a  year  at  the  Craig  Colony 
for  Epileptics  at  Sonyea,  New  York.  He  then 
established  himself  in  practice  at  Metuchen, 
where  he  has  since  successfully  pursued  his 
profession. 

Dr.  Gross  has  been  a  member  of  the  board 
of  health  of  Metuchen  since  1905.  and  its  sec- 
retary and  treasurer  since  1908.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  .American  Medical  Association,  New 
Jersey  State  Medical  Society,  and  Middlesex 
Corntv  Medical  Societv. 


I  lenrv  (.'ha])man  Thom]5Son 
■ril().MI'S()X  Jr..  o'f  Philadelphia,  is  the 
grandson  of  John  Thomp- 
son, at  one  time  sheriff  of  Philadelphia,  and 
the  son  of  Henr)'  Clark  and  Jane  ( Chapman ) 
Thompson,  of  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey. 
He  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  October  19, 
1862,  and  is  now  living  at  Merion,  a  suburb  of 
Philadelphia,  with  offices  at  2015  Land  Title 
Building.  I'road  and  Chestnut  streets,  Phila- 
delphia. 

l"or  his  earh'  education  he  attended  the  ]iri- 
vate  schools  in  Philadel))hia,  and  afterwards 
was    prepared    for   college    in    the     Ejiiscopal 


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Academy  in  the  same  city,  ile  then  entered 
the  I'niversity  of  F'ennsylvania,  leaving  in  hi.'^ 
juniijr  year  to  enter  the  law  department  of  the 
L'niversity  of  Penn.sylvania,  where  he  gradu- 
ated in  1885  with  the  degree  of  LL.  R.  .\fter 
being  admitted  to  the  Philadelphia  bar,  he  en- 
tered on  the  general  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion, continuing  alone  until  i8g8.  at  wliich 
time  he  formed  a  partnership  with  \\  illiam  I". 
Harrity  and  others,  the  firm  name  being  Har- 
rity,  Lowrey  &  Thompson,  and  December  i. 
1908,  it  was  changed  again  to  the  present  form 
of  Harrity,  Thompson  &  Haig.  In  politics 
Mr.  rimmpson  is  a  Republican.  He  is  affili- 
ated with  many  prominent  organizations, 
among  which  are  the  Union  League  Club  of 
Philadel])hia,  the  l'niversity  Club  of  I'hila- 
delphia,  the  .Merion  Cricket  Club,  the  Over- 
brook  Coif  Club^  and  the  Lawyers  Club  of 
Philadelphia,  of  which  he  is  the  director  and 
the  secretar}'. 

.Xovember  7,  1895,  Henry  Chapman  Tlicmip- 
son,  jr.,  married  Julia  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Jacob  H.  and  Annie  R.  ( .\tterholt )  Castner,  of 
New  Lisbon,  Ohio,  where  her  grandfather  was 
a  judge.  They  have  one  child.  .Mice  (/hapman, 
born  August  31,  1896. 


The    branch    of    the    numerous 
HL.VCK       lilack     family   at   present    under 

consideration  belongs  to  the  emi- 
gration of  the  middle  of  the  nineteenth  centur} 
and  can  boast  of  but  two  generations  in  this 
country  as  the  third  generation  is  only  just 
growing  u])  and  has  its  life  and  career  all  be- 
fore it.  The  last  generation,  however,  has 
good  reason  to  be  proud  of  the  example  wliicii 
it  has  inherited   for  its  imitation. 

(  1  )  William  lilack.  sou  of  John  IJlack,  the 
founder  of  the  family,  was  born  in.  Ireland  and 
came  to  this  country  in  1832.  He  married  in 
Philadeljihia,  h'.liza  llollins,  b<jrn  in  1818  ni 
luigland.  Children  of  William  and  Eliza 
(Hollins)  Pilack  were:  1.  Jane,  burn  in  1838: 
married  Joseph  Thompson,  of  Phdadelphia. 
2.  .Mary  Etta.  1840:  married  Thomas  ^Iont- 
gomery,  of  Philadel]ihia,  one  of  the  tipstaves 
of  the  court,  and  has  four  children  :  Henry, 
William,  Mabel  and  Elizabeth.  3.  Margaret, 
married  (ieorge  Lees,  of  Philadeljihia,  and  ha- 
two  children:  llollins  and  (ieorge.  4.  Will- 
iam John,  referred  to  below.  5.  .\nnie,  mar- 
ried William  King,  a  wall  paper  dealer  of 
l'hiladel|)hia,  and  has  two  children:  IVrabel  and 
Florence.  (■>.  .\deline,  married  Robert  Watts, 
a  plumber  of  Philadelphia,  and  has  three  chil- 
dren :  .\lbert.  E(hia  and  Florence. 


(Hi  William  John,  fourth  child  and  only 
s(in  nf  William  and  Eliza  (  Hollins)  Black,  wa;, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  April  10,  1850,  and  is 
now  living  at  .Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Philadel]:>hia, 
and  then  learned  the  trade  of  stonecutting  at 
which  he  worked  in  that  city  until  1875.  In 
that  year  he  became  connected  with  the  fire 
department  of  the  city  as  a  hoseman,  and  after 
faithful  service  for  twelve  years  was  made  in 
1887  a  ca])tain,  in  which  capacity  he  served 
for  ten  years  longer,  until  1897,  when  he  was 
retireil  with  a  pension  from  the  city.  He  then 
came  to  .Atlantic  City,  where  he  soon  became 
a  member  of  the  Neptune  fire  company,  a 
volunteer  organization  of  that  city,  and  when 
the  town  organized  a  paid  fire  department  he 
was  induced  to  become  its  chief.  This  was 
.-Vljril  4,  1904,  and  since  that  time  Mr.  Black 
has  been  serving  the  city  in  that  capacity  to 
the  eminent  satisfaction  of  every  one,  having 
now  completed  a  period  of  over  forty  years 
as  a  fire  fighter.  During  his  service  he  has  had 
many  ])erilous  adventures  and  narrow  escapes 
from  death.  His  arm  has  been  broken,  he  has 
had  his  ribs  stoven  in  and  once  he  was  nearly 
blinded.  This  last  incident  occurred  while  he 
was  in  command  of  a  company  of  men  who 
had  been  sent  to  aid  in  overcoming  the  great 
fire  in  Baltimore,  Maryland.  Mr.  Black  is  a 
member  of  Lodge  No.  423.  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  of  Philadelphia;  Lodge  No.  276,  Be- 
nevolent and  Protective  C)rder  of  Elks,  of 
.\tlantic  City,  and  the  Tall  Cedars  of  Lebanon. 
He  is  a  Republican:  a  director  in  the  .Atlantic 
City  Fire  Insurance  Company,  and  a  member 
of  the  Prisbyterian  church,  llis  niuther  was 
a  Oiiak(.r. 

July  8,  1S71,  William  Joliii  Black  married 
Sarah,  born  1850,  died  March,  1902,  daughter 
iif  William  Bucannan.  ni  1 'hiladeli)hia.  They 
had  two  children:  1.  William  .Mliert.  born 
July  14,  1872,  died  in  188(1.  2.  Henry,  born 
"(   ctober,   1874,  died  in   1878. 


The  Diament  family  ot  .\ew 
1  )1.\.M  l'"..\"r     Jersey  have  been  among  the 

large  landed  proprietors  and 
gentlemen  yeomen  of  Cumberland  county  ever 
since  the  lieginning  of  middle  of  the  eighteenth 
century,  when  the  founder  of  the  family  came 
over  to  this  country  from  England,  where  a^ 
the  preamble  to  his  will  shows  he  was  one  of 
the  staunch  adherents  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land, his  theology  being  of  the  marked  type 
of  the  Caroline  divines  and  the  non-jurors, 
and  in  all  pnibaliility  his  emigration  was  to   i 


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great  extent  influenced  by  his  antipatliy  to  the 
I'resi^yterian  tenets  of  the  (Jrange  succession. 
(1)  Nathaniel  Diament,  of  Fairfield,  Cum- 
berland county.  New  Jersey,  died  in  April  or 
May,  17C7,  leaving  a  widow  and  ten  children 
surviving.  His  will  written  April  3,  1766,  was 
proven  May  14,  1767,  and  the  inventory  of 
his  estate,  made  April  28,  1767,  by  David 
Westcote  and  Ephraim  liarris,  amounted  to 
£256,  15  shillings,  6  pence.  November  •  7, 
1769,  his  widow  Lois  wrote  her  will  which  was 
proved  December  31,  1770,  and  her  estate  was 
inventoried  at  £96,  9  shillings,  4  pence.  Chil- 
dren of  Nathaniel  and  Lois  Diament  were: 
I.  Jonathan.  2.  James,  referred  to  below.  3. 
Nathaniel  Jr.  4.  Hedges.  5.  Lois,  married 
a  Mr.  llennit.  6.  Sarah,  married  a  Mr. 
Swing.  7.  Dorcas.  8.  Elizabeth.  9.  Ruth. 
married  a  Mr.  Powell.     10.  Rhoda. 

{II)  James,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Lois 
Diament,  was  left  by  his  father  "one  third  of 
my  land  and  marsh  on  Joneses  Island  except 
the  piece  of  marsh  before  excepted,"  and  b\' 
his  mother  five  shillings,  the  same  legacy  that 
she  left  to  all  her  sons,  the  remainder  of  her 
property  being  divided  among  her  daughters. 
The  piece  of  marsh  referred  to  had  been  given 
to  James's  brother  Hedges.  James  died  in 
.April,  1776,  leaving  a  widow,  mentioned  but 
not  named  in  his  will  and  eight  children:  I. 
James,  referred  to  below.  2.  Sarah,  married 
John  Westcott.  3.  Abigail,  married  Charles 
Howell.  4.  Nathaniel.  5.  Hannah,  married 
Parsons  Lumniis.  6.  Mary.  7.  Ruth,  8. 
Lois. 

(HI)  James  (2),  the  son  of  James  (i)  Dia- 
ment, of  Jones  Island,  was  born  on  Jones 
IslanJ,  Cumberland  county,  in  1755.  died  there 
in  1845.  In  his  will  he  mentions  his  wife  and 
ten  children,  one  of  whom  is  deceased.  The 
name  of  his  wife  was  P>athsheba,  and  his  chil- 
dren were:  i.  James.  2.  Elmer,  referred  to 
below.  3.  Nathaniel.  4.  Sarah,  married  a 
.Mr.  Alderman.  5.  Theodosia,  married  John 
Henderson.  6.  Ruth,  married  a  Mr.  Fithian. 
7.  Rosiana,  married  Preston  Foster.  8.  Jane 
Eliza,  married  a  Mr.  Batenian.  9.  Hannah, 
married  Isaac  Newcomb.  He  was  a  revolu- 
tionary soldier. 

( I\' )  Elmer,  second  child  and  son  of  James 
( 2 )  and  Bathsheba  Diament,  died  intestate  in 
1832  leaving  a  widow  and  several  children 
mentioned  but  with  the  exception  of  Theojihi- 
lus  Elmer,  referred  to  below,  not  named  in 
their  grandfather's  will. 

(  \  )  Theophilus  Elmer,  son  of  Elmer  Dia- 
ment,   named    in    his   grandfather's    will,    was 


hcirn  on  J<ine>  l>land,  Ciimberlaud  cinuity, 
August  4,  1810,  died  in  1891.  Besides  leaving 
him  a  tract  of  marsh  his  grandfather  left  him 
for  himself,  "  the  farm  on  which  I  now  reside, 
together  with  one  half  of  my  right  to  land  and 
marsh  between  the  I'lig  Gate  and  the  Eagle 
Island,  except  the  ])iece  given  to  Elmer's  heirs, 
and  in  addition  about  thirty-two  acres  of 
woodland."  To  the  "children  of  my  deceased 
si:)n  Elmer  Diament,"  their  grandfather  left 
"the  land  I  bought  of  Jeremiah  Harris  called 
the  Piney  Branch  Tract  also  the  land  on  Jones 
Island  I  bought  of  John  Elmer  junior  joining 
on  the  Island  dam  creek,  late  of  Closes  Husted 
and  others,  also  the  house  and  lot  near  Cedar- 
ville  purchased  of  Theophjlus  E.  liateinan. 
also  the  marsh  between  Cedar  Creek  and  the 
mill  gut,  also  the  store  house  and  wharf  at 
Cedarville  Landing  jjurchased  of  Norton  Law- 
rence, also  the  bond  made  to  me  by  Benjamin 
Thompson  February  1832  for  $1500.  ]\Iy  ex- 
ecutors are  to  be  the  trustees  of  the  children 
who  are  under  age,  and  the  widow  of  my  son 
Elmer  is  to  retain  in  her  possession  all  the 
household  goods  provitled  by  me." 

Theophilus  Elmer  Diament  married  Mary 
Lummis  Garrison,  born  at  Bridgeton.  Salem 
county.  New-  Jersey,  April  24,  1812,  died  in 
1889.  Their  children  were:  i.  Charles  Garri- 
son, referred  to  below.  2.  John  Elmer,  born 
October  24,  1846,  died  in  1904:  married  Cora 
Cleaver,  from  near  Delaware  City,  and  had 
two  children:  (ieorge  and  John  Cleaver.  He 
was  at  one  time  in  the  canning  business  with 
his  brother,  Charles  (iarrison.  3.  George, 
born  April  24,  1848,  died  in  1878  unmarried. 
He  was  a  graduate  from  the  West  Jersey 
-Academy. 

(\I)  Charles  ( iarrison,  son  of  Theophilus 
Elmer  and  Mary  Lummis  (Garrison)  Dia- 
ment, was  born  on  Jones  Island,  Cumberland 
county,  October  11,  1841,  and  is  now  living 
at  Cedarville,  Cumberland  county.  New  Jer- 
sey. After'  attending  the  public  schools  of 
Jones  Island  and  of  Cedarville,  Mr.  Diament 
went  on  his  father's  farm  where  he  learned 
to  be  a  successful  farmer.  For  a  time  he  was 
connected  with  his  brother,  John  Elmer  Dia- 
ment, in  the  canning  business.  He  was  hon- 
ored by  the  peo]ile  of  Cmnberland  county  by 
being  elected  high  sheril?  of  that  county  and 
keeper  of  the  county  jail  in  1902,  and  served 
three  years  with  his  residence  at  the  county 
house  in  Bridgeton.  He  was  for  many  years 
treasurer  of  Lawrence  township  and  also  of 
I'airfield  township,  and  was  also  on  the  school 
Imard  and  was  district  clerk  of   [ones  Island. 


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He  is  a  Republican,  a  member  of  the  Grange, 
and  is  interested  in  every  thing  that  goes  to 
make  successful  farming,  which  he  illustrated 
and  demonstrated  in  his  own  successful  farm- 
ing career.  He  now  owns  si.x  farms,  com- 
prising in  all  about  fourteen  hundred  acres, 
and  a  beautiful  home  in  the  town  of  Cedar- 
ville,  where  he  is  now  enjoying  a  well  earned 
leisure  and  retirement,  fie  attends  the  Pres- 
byterian church. 

Charles  Garrison  Diament  married  (first) 
Priscilla,  daughter  of  Charles  Wheaton,  of 
Jones  Island,  December  20,  1862,  on  Jones 
Island,  who  died  in  Bridgeton.  March  14, 
1881.  Their  children  were:  I.  Hettie  Gar- 
rison, born  July  3,  1866,  unmarried.  2.  Harry 
(irant,  July  31,  1869,  a  farmer  at  Jones 
Island  :  married  Mattie  Lore  but  has  no  chil- 
dren. 3.  Edward  Lummis,  November  25, 
1872,  married  Elinor  Maul  and  has  two  chil- 
dren :  Helen  and  Mary,  He  was  educated  at 
the  West  Jersey  Academy,  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  graduated  from  the  Balti- 
more Medical  College  with  the  degree  of  M. 
n.  He  is  now  practicing  medicine  in  Bridge- 
ton,  and  for  nine  years  has  been  countv  i)hvsi- 
cian  of  Cumberland  county. 

Charles  Garrison  Diament  married  ( sec- 
ond )  in  1883,  Rachel,  daughter  of  John  Dill 
Newcomb,  of  ISerlin,  New  Jersey.  They  have 
no  children. 


Richard  Ross  Miller,  of  Cam- 
.Mll.l.lCR  den.  New  Jersey,  is  the  grand- 
son of  Matthew  Miller  and  son 
nf  Colonel  Matthew  and  Rebecca  Boon  (Ross) 
-Miller.  Colonel  Miller  was  born  in  Salem, 
New  Jersey,  in  1821,  died  in  March,  1908.  He 
was  the  first  colonel  of  the  I<"ourth  Regiment 
of  New  Jersey. 

Richard  Ross  Miller  was  born  in  Salem, 
.New  Jersey,  .April  14,  1839,  and  is  at  pres- 
ent engaged  in  the  insurance  business  in  Cam- 
den. New  Jersey,  where  he  has  his  ofifices  at 
128  I'ederal  street.  He  has  always  been  an 
active  and  a  prominent  member  of  the  Repub- 
lican party.  For  three  years  he  was  president 
<>i  the  Camden  Re))ublican  Club  of  New  Jer- 
sey, and  for  ten  years  served  as  city  treasurer 
of  Camden.  In  18(17  he  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  I'nion  League  Club  of  i'hiladel])hia.  In 
religion  he  is  a  Presbyterian.  He  has  always 
been  an  enthusiastic  secret  society  man  and  he 
is  a  distinguished  Free  Mason,  having  taken 
all  of  tlie  Scottish  rite  up  to  an<l  including  the 
thirty-second  degree.  He  is  a  member  of 
Camden    Ixidge.   No.    15,   Free   and   Accepted 


Masons,  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  No.  19,  Com- 
mandery.  No.  7,  Knights  Templar,  also  Be- 
nevolent Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and  Cape 
May  Yacht  Club. 

Richard  Ross  Miller  married  (first)  Jennie 
Halsey,  of  New  York.  Children:  i.  Anna 
Halsey,  born  in  1859;  married  the  Hon. 
Charles  C.  Garrison,  a  New  Jersey  judge,  and 
has  three  children :  Carlyle,  an  attorney  of 
New  York,  Geraldine,  married  a  Mr.  Curr,  of 
Colorado  Springs,  Colorado,  and  Josephine. 
2.  William,  born  i8<^H,  died  in  1880.  3.  Albert 
Ross,  born  March  19,  1863,  at  Camden.  Mr. 
Miller  married  (second)  August  29,  1879, 
Mary  M.  WoltT.  of  New  York.  Children:  4. 
Mabel,  died  in  infancy.  3.  Richard  Ross  Jr., 
born  in  F"ebruary,  1892. 


Truman  Tertius  Pierson,  son 
I'lKK.SON     of     John     Noble     and     Lucy 

(  Kempson)  Pierson,  was  born 
in  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  October  12,  1884. 
He  is  the  grandson  of  Captain  William  Pier- 
son, who  was  born  in  Scotland,  was  a  mariner, 
and  came  in  early  life  to  this  country,  estab- 
lishing his  residence  in  Railway.  New  Jersey. 
In  the  Civil  \\'ar  he  entered  the  United  States 
naval  service,  was  captain  of  a  gunboat  under 
Farragut  in  the  battle  of  Mobile  Bay,  and 
was  killed  some  time  afterward  while  in  the 
performance  of  duty  in  command  of  a  gun- 
boat on  the  Mississippi  river.  William  Pier- 
son's  son,  John  Noble  Pierson.  removed  to 
Indianapolis.  Indiana,  was  identified  there  with 
terra  cotta  manufacturing  interests,  afterward 
lived  for  a  time  in  Chicago,  and  then  returned 
to  the  east,  making  his  home  in  Metuchen, 
where  he  still  resides.  He  is  an  architect  in 
Perth  .Amboy  and  Metuchen,  of  the  firm  of 
J.  N.  Pierson  &  Son  (in  which  Aylin  Pierson 
is  associated  with  him).  He  married  Lucy 
Kempson,  (now  deceased)  daughter  of  Dr. 
Peter  Kempson.  of  English  birth,  who  came  to 
Canaila  and  then  to  Metuchen,  where  he  died. 
W  hen  Truman  T.  Pierson  was  two  years  old 
his  parents  removed  to  Metuchen,  New  Jersey, 
which  has  since  been  his  place  of  residence. 
His  career  has  been  marked  by  great  energy, 
and  at  the  early  age  of  twenty-five  he  has  at- 
tained a  conspicuous  degree  of  success.  Dur- 
ing the  Spanish  war,  he  was  then  fourteen, 
he  conceived  the  idea  that  it  would  be  i^rofit- 
able  to  deliver  the  newspapers  to  the  citizens 
at  their  homes  in  the  early  morning,  and  this 
was  the  beginning  of  his  business  activities. 
He  was  afterward  employed  as  water-boy  by 
the   Pennsylvania  railroad,   carrying  water  to 


STATE   OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


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Italian  laborers,  and  as  a  messenger-boy. 
These  occupations  he  left  to  engage  as  local 
correspondent  for  New  York  newspapers, 
also  being  for  some  time  a  reporter  on  the 
Perth  Amboy  Daily  Chronicle.  lie  next  en- 
tered the  Middlesex  \Vater  Company  in  a 
clerical  capacity,  from  which  he  was  soon  ad- 
vanced to  the  position  of  assistant-superintend- 
ent, meantime  (and  indeed  until  recently)  con- 
tinuing to  serve  as  out-of-town  correspondent 
for  several  of  the  leading  New  York  dailies. 
Actively  interested  in  politics  from  early 
youth,  ^Ir.  Pierson  devoted  himself  with  en- 
thusiasm to  the  cause  of  the  Republican  party, 
and  was  known  for  effectiveness  as  a  campaign 
worker.  In  January,  1907,  he  was  appointed 
by  President  Roosevelt  postmaster  of  Me- 
tuchen,  practically  the  whole  town  signing  his 
petition  in  that  connection,  and  at  the  time 
was  the  youngest  postmaster  in  service  in  New 
Jersey.  His  conduct  of  the  position  (in  which 
he  still  continues )  has  been  characterized  by 
efficiency  and  especially  by  attention  to  the 
improvement  of  the  postal  facilities  and  serv- 
ice, lie  has  also  been  active  and  prominent 
in  jiromoting  and  developing  organizations  of 
the  jjostmasters.  .^s  a  delegate  to  the  national 
convention  of  postmasters  at  Washington,  D. 
C,  in  October,  1907,  he  called  a  meeting  of  the 
New  Jersey  postmasters  in  attendance  there, 
which  resulted  in  forming  the  New  Jersey 
State  Postmasters'  Association,  of  which  he 
was  chosen  vice-president.  He  is  now  vice- 
president  of  both  the  state  and  national  asso- 
ciations. His  business  enterprises  in  Me- 
tuchen  include  successful  real  estate  and  in- 
surance interests,  conducted  under  his  ])ersonal 
name ;  and  he  is  also  superintendent  of  the 
Metuchen  (ias  Light  Comi)any.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  principal  fraternal  societies  and  of 
various  local  organizations.  He  married,  Feb- 
ruary 2,  1905,  Edna  M.  Bennett,  daughter  of 
Smith  W.  Bennett,  of  Asbury  Park,  New  Jer- 
sey. They  have  one  child,  Muriel  X'irginia 
Pierson. 


.\lfred  Lauder  FUis,  .\1.  D.. 
l-njJS      physician  and  formerly  mayor  of 

that  municipality,  is  descended 
on  the  ])aternal  side  from  an  old  New  England 
family  and  on  the  maternal  side  from  Scotch 
ancestry.  In  the  Ellis  line  he  is  a  direct  de- 
scendant of  Governor  William  l>radford.  of 
the  "Mayflower."  He  is  the  grandson  of 
Benjamin  F.  Ellis,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
and  son  of  George  Ellis,  also  of  that  place 
(born     September    21.    1844,    died    June     21, 


1 898 J,  who  was  secretary  and  actuary  of  the 
Traveller's  Insurance  Company  of  Hartford. 
The  mother  of  Dr.  Ellis,  Janet  Mcliwen,  was 
born  in  Scotland,  came  to  .America  with  her 
f)arents,  John  and  Agnes  .McEwen  (who  re- 
sided in  .-Mbany,  New  York),  and  died  De- 
cember 6,  1896.  .Vn  elder  brother  of  Dr 
Ellis  is  George  W.  Ellis,  of  the  Travellers'  In- 
surance Company  in  Hartford,  and  a  younger 
brother  is  John  M.  Ellis,  identified  with  the 
Bethlehem  Steel  Company  in  New  York  City. 

Alfred  Lauder  Ellis  was  born  April  21, 
1877,  '"  Hartford,  Connecticut.  He  was 
graduated  as  bachelor  of  science  from  Trinity 
College  in  1898  (the  degree  of  master  of 
science  being  confirmed  u])on  him  by  that  in- 
stitution in  1900).  .\fter  pursuing  a  post- 
graduate course  in  medicine  for  two  years  at 
Yale  L'niversity,  he  entered  the  Long  Island 
College  Hospital  (Brooklyn,  New  York), 
where  he  received  his  doctor's  degree  in  1902. 
He  was  then,  successively,  a  member  of  the 
staff  of  the  Manhattan  State  Hospital  on 
Ward's  Island  and  medical  director  of  the 
Travellers'  Insurance  Company  in  New  York 
City. 

In  1904  Dr.  Ellis  removed  to  Metuchen, 
-New  Jersey,  and  embarked  in  the  practice  of 
his  profession,  which  he  has  since  continued 
\vith_  reputation  and  success.  '  .\ctive  in  the 
local  affairs  of  the  community,  he  has  occu- 
pied several  of  the  principal  offices :  he  was 
for  some  time  secretary  of  the  board  of  health, 
was  elected  to  the  council  in  1907,  and  was 
chosen  mayor  to  fill  an  unexpired  term  in 
January,  1908.  continuing  until  January,  1909. 
He  is  secretary  of  the  Middlesex  County  Medi- 
cal Society,  treasurer  of  the  Metuchen  Build- 
ing Comijany.  and  treasurer  of  the  Middlesex 
Automobile  Club. 

Dr.  Ellis  married,  June  28,  1905,  Gladys 
.\ntisr!el,  daughter  of  James  and  Jessie 
(Baker)  .Antisdel,  of  New  York  City.  They 
have  two  children,  William  M.  and  James  L. 
Ellis. 


It  is  written  in  the  "History 
CONR.\D     of  Berks  and   Lebanon  Coim- 

ties,"  by  Rupp,  1844,  that  "In 
March,  1756,  the  Indians  laid  the  house  and 
barn  of  Barnabas  Seitle  in  ashes,  and  the  mill 
of  Peter  Conrad,  and  killed  Mrs.  Neytong, 
the  wife  of  Baltser  Neytong,  and  took  his  son, 
a  lad  of  eight  years,  captive."  This  appears 
to  be  the  first  record  account  of  any  Conrad 
who  may  be  assumed  to  be  of  the  same  family 
as  that  of  which  it  is  our  ]nirpose  to  treat  in 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


these  annals.  It  is  taken  from  this  that  Peter 
Conrad  was  an  early  immigrant  settler  in  the 
German  colonies  in  Berks  county,  Pennsylva- 
nia, in  the  vicinity  of  Penn  township  and  the 
little  settlement  therein  which  is  called  Bern- 
ville.  Yet  history  furnished  us  with  only 
meagre  information  concerning  this  Peter,  and 
it  is  probable  that  he  was  a  man  of  mature 
years  when  he  was  proprietor  of  the  mill 
which  the  Indians  burned  in  1756.  during  the 
French  and  Indian  wars  (if  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury. 

The  Brights  and  Conrads  were  among  the 
early  settlers  in  Penn  township  and  lived 
neighbors.  John  Conrad  and  his  family  are 
particularly  mentioned  in  Berks  county  history 
as  among  the  pioneers  of  that  locality  and  it 
is  probable  that  John  may  have  been  a  son 
of  Peter.  John  Conrad's  house  and  farm 
were  on  the  road  between  Mt.  Pleasant  and 
Bernvillc.  He  was  a  devout  member  of  the 
Moravian  church  and  a  man  of  considerable 
prominence  in  the  early  history  of  the  town- 
ship. Many  years  ago  the  Conrads  carried  on 
milling  enterprises  in  Berks  county,  and  in 
1838  one  or  more  of  them  operated  a  powder 
mill  in  Penn  township  which  was  accidentally 
blown  up  with  disastrous  results. 

(  I )  Joseph  B.  Conrad,  with  whom  our  jires- 
ent  narrative  begins,  was  one  of  the  foremost 
men  of  Bernville  in  his  time,  but  whether  he 
was  a  grandson  of  Peter  Conrad,  the  miller, 
whose  buildings  were  destroyed  by  Indians  is 
not  known.  Josejjh  B.  Conrad  was  a  pros- 
perous farmer,  a  man  of  considerable  influ- 
ence, and  at  one  time  was  elected  to  the  leg- 
islature of  the  state.  Besides  his  farming  in- 
terests he  was  for  many  years  engaged  in  deal- 
ing in  lumber  and  grain.  He  retired  from  ac- 
tive pursuits  several  years  before  his  death. 
1905.  He  married  Marian  Whitman  and  of 
their  several  children  three  grew  to  maturity. 
viz:  I.  James  H.,  see  forward.  2.  Irving  \\'.. 
married  Mary  Wilson  and  had  three  children  : 
.Arthur  (now  dead),  Joseph  ami  Edward.  3, 
Howard  \\'..  married  Mary  Obnld,  livfs  in 
Reading,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  three  children. 
Bertha,  Stella  and  Ray. 

(  11 )  James  H.,  son  of  Joseph  B.  and  Mar- 
ian (  W'liitman)  Conrad,  was  born  at  Bern- 
ville, Pennsylvania,  February  13,  1849,  3"'' 
spent  many  years  of  his  active  business  life 
in  the  far  west,  where  he  was  a  pioneer. 
When  a  young  man  he  learned  the  trade  of 
cigar  making  and  followed  that  occupation  for 
a  number  of  years    then   spent  five  years  in 


Chicago,  where  he  kept  a  grocery  store.  In 
1882  he  left  Chicago,  went  to  South  Dakota 
and  took  up  a  tract  of  land  at  what  now  is 
Watertown.  He  was  one  of  the  earliest  set- 
tlers in  that  region,  and  continued  to  live  there 
until  1896,  when  he  returned  east  and  took  up 
his  residence  near  Hackensack,  New  Jersey, 
starting  a  fruit  farm  there.  Later  on  he  re- 
moved to  Hackensack  and  now  lives  in  that 
city,  a  carpenter  by  occupation. 

lie  married,  December  24,  1867,  Jennie  AI. 
Klopp,  born  North  Heidelberg,  lierks  county. 
Pennsylvania,  and  a  descendant  of  one  of  the 
oldest  German  families  of  that  region.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Dr.  Edgar  K.,  see  forward.  2.  Pler- 
bert  Walter,  born  at  Bernville,  Pennsylvania. 
April  3,  1872;  graduate  of  the  Baltimore  Col- 
lege of  Dental  Surgery,  and  now  a  practicing 
dentist  of  Hasbrouck  Heights,  New  Jersey ; 
married,  June  12.  1898.  Mabel  Yearance,  and 
has  one  child.  Mildretl  Dorothy,  born  Hacken- 
sack, September  24.  1901.  3.  Corrinne,  born 
I'ine  Grove,  Pennsylvania,  January  (>.  1874; 
married,  1891,  Fred  Wight  and  has  six  chil- 
dren: Reuben  Lester,  born  August  2,  1893: 
N'ioletta,  born  May  22.  1805  ■  Edgar,  born  July 
2.  1897;  Arthur,  born  April  14,  1900;  Alvin 
James,  born  June  10.  1903:  Fred  Henry,  born 
November  18,  1907.  4.  Willard  K.,  born 
South  Dakota,  February  20,  1883;  graduate  of 
Baltimore  College  of  Dental  Surgery ;  in  ac- 
tive practice  in  Hackensack :  married,  April 
15.  1008.  Grace  Soley,  daughter  of  Charles  R. 
and  Emilina  R.  (Odell)  Soley;  they  have  one 
child,  Willard  Soley.  born  December  13.  1908. 

(IH)  Edgar  K.,  son  of  James  H.  and  Jen- 
nie M.  (Klopp)  Conrad,  was  born  in  Bernville. 
Berks  county,  Pennsylvania,  February  21, 
1870,  and  was  a  boy  of  about  twelve  years 
when  he  went  with  his  parents  to  live  in  South 
Dakota.  He  acquired  his  early  education  in 
Watertown  high  school,  at  Watertown,  South 
[Dakota,  and  his  professional  education  in 
Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College,  New  York 
Citv,  where  he  graduated  M.  D.  in  1893. 
.After  leaving  college  he  spent  one  year  as  in- 
terne at  the  Hackensack  Hospital,  and  at  the 
end  of  that  time  began  his  active  professional 
career  in  the  same  city.  Dr.  Conrad  has  come 
to  be  recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  mem- 
bers of  his  profession  in  Bergen  county  and 
cnjovs  a  successful  practice.  He  holds  mem- 
bership in  various  professional  organizations 
and  also  in  Pioneer  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  Bergen  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons, 
Washington    Commandery,  Knights    Templar 


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(of  Passaic),  Independent  Order  oi  (_)M  I'\-l- 
lows,  Junior  Order  of  United  Workmen  anil 
the  L'nited  Order  of  Foresters. 

He  married,  October  31,  1900,  Grace  L., 
danghter_of  Albert  V.  Moore,  and  has  two 
children:  Edgar  K.  jr.,  born  September  19, 
1902,  and  Franklin  Campbell,  I^^cbruary  6, 
1906. 

It  is  said  that  the  first  Stagg  in 
STAGG  this  country  was  Thomas  Stagg, 
whose  wife's  baptismal  name 
was  Margaret.  He  is  mentioned  in  a  deed  as 
early  as  1682  and  again  in  1684.  In  1695  ad- 
ministration was  granted  on  his  estate,  he  hav- 
ing died  intestate.  He  left  two  sons  whose 
names  are  known.  John  and  William,  although 
there  may  have  been  other  children  besides 
them. 

(  I  )  Jacob  I.  Stagg,  the  earliest  known  an- 
cestor of  the  family  here  under  consideration, 
was  born  near  the  present  city  of  Paterson, 
April  5,  1789,  died  November  18..  1840.  He 
was  an  industrious  farmer  and  his  efforts  in 
life  were  rewarded  with  a  fair  degree  of  suc- 
cess. His  wife  was  Catherine  Van  Riper,  and 
their  children  were:  Mary  Catherine,  John, 
.\drian,  Francis,  Catharine,  Jane,  Garret,  Rich- 
ard, Henry  and  Tunis. 

(II)  John,  second  child  of  Jacob  I.  and 
Catherine  (Van  Riper)  Stagg,  was  born  near 
Paterson,  New  Jersey,  October  18,  1836,  died 
in  that  city  in  1872.  \\'hen  a  young  man  he 
was  apprenticed  to  a  blacksmith,  but  soon 
abandoned  that  trade  and  became  a  carpenter, 
following  the  latter  occupation  during  the 
greater  part  of  his  business  life.  He  was  a 
consistent  member  of  the  Cross  street  and 
Market  street  Methodist  Episcopal  churches, 
of  Paterson,  an  industrious  man  and  an  up- 
right citizen.  He  married  Maria,  daughter  of 
Peter  Tise,  and  of  the  seven  children  born  of 
this  marriage  only  two  are  now  living.  One 
son  Peter,  was  a  soldier  of  the  civil  war,  hav- 
ing enlisted  as  private  in  the  First  Michigan 
Cavalry ;  he  rose  from  the  ranks  to  the  rank 
and  commission  of  colonel  of  the  regiment, 
and  brevet  brigadier  general,  and  commanded 
Custer's  brigade  when  that  gallant  officer  was 
promoted  major  general.  The  children  of 
John  and  Maria  (Tise)  Stagg  who  are  now 
living  are :  Maria,  widow  of  Hugh  Fulton,  late 
of  Paterson,  and  John,  see  forward. 

(III)  Chief  John  Stagg,  of  the  Paterson 
fire  department,  was  born  in  that  city,  D?cem- 
ber  16,  1843.  He  received  a  good  education 
in  the  Paterson  public  school,  and  after  leav- 


ing school  learned  the  trade  of  a  printer.  In 
August,  1862,  the  second  year  of  the  civil  war, 
he  enlisted  as  private  in  Company  A,  Eleventh 
New  Jersey  Volimteer  Infantry;  was  pro- 
moted corporal,  March,  1863;  (|uartermaster 
sergeant,  September  i,  1864;  second  lieuten- 
ant First  Michigan  Cavalry,  I^ecember  4, 
1864;  and  first  lieutenant  March  i,  1865. 
After  the  close  of  the  war  he  continued  in 
service  and  was  on  duty  at  Salt  Lake  City, 
Utah,  and  was  finally  discharged  and  mustered 
out  at  Fort  Bridger,  Wyoming,  November  10, 
1866.  His  service  during  the  period  of  the 
war  was  chiefly  with  the  Army  of  the  Po- 
tomac and  in  the  Shenandoah  valley. 

After  returning  from  the  service  Chief 
Stagg  resumed  his  former  occupation  as  a 
practical  printer  and  compositor,  first  at  "the 
case"  in  the  office  of  the  Paterson  Guardian, 
of  which  j)aper  he  afterward  became  foreman 
of  the  composing  room  and  still  later  business 
manager  in  the  office.  Later  on  he  was  with 
the  Paterson  Morning  Call  in  the  capacity  of 
business  manager.  As  early  as  1868  he  be- 
came a  member  of  the  old  Paterson  volunteer 
fire  department  and  was  its  chief  engineer 
from  1887  until  1889,  being  the  last  chief  dur- 
ing the  life  of  the  department  as  a  volunteer 
organization.  In  1891  he  was  inade  chief  of 
the  re-organized  and  paid  department,  and  has 
filled  that  responsible  position  to  the  present 
time.  He  is  a  member  of  Farragut  Post,  No. 
28,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic ;  New  York 
Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion :  Encamp- 
ment No.  152,  Union  Veteran  Legion;  and 
Benevolent  Lodge,  No.  45,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  and 
organizers  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Associa- 
tion of  Fire  Chiefs,  and  has  served  as  presi- 
dent of  the  National  .Association  of  Fire 
Chiefs. 

He  married  Catherine,  daughter  of  John 
Fulton,  November  5,  1868;  she  died  suddenly 
while  attending  a  convention  of  the  Fire 
Chiefs  at  Dallas,  Texas,  October  11,  1906.  Of 
the  seven  children  born  of  this  marriage  six 
are  now  living:  Sarah,  Katherinc,  Robert, 
Emma  (wife  of  John  Sandford),  John  and  Ed- 
ward Stagg, 


It  is  not  always  the  de- 
GOOTENBERG     scendant  of  the  pioneer 

who  achieves  the  great- 
est success  in  business  life  in  a  new  country 
and  among  strangers,  nor  always  the  man  of 
means  and  superior  educatonal  attainments 
who  first  takes  rank  with  the  leadinir  men  of 


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any  municipality.  In  this  brief  narrative  we 
have  to  record  the  events  of  family  life  of  an 
ancestor  who  came  to  America  from  a  distant 
European  country,  and  less  than  two  score 
years  ago  established  himself  in  mercantile 
pursuits  in  the  greatest  .American  metropolis. 
Our  record  here  is  not  lengthy,  yet  it  is  one  of 
honest  endeavor  and  well-earned  success. 

( ]  )  Yona  Gootenberg,  immigrant  ancestor 
of  the  family  here  considered,  was  born  in  St. 
Petersburg,  Russia,  in  the  year  1827.  He 
came  to  the  United  States  in  1878,  locating  in 
the  city  of  New  York,  where  he  carrietl  on 
business  as  a  dealer  in  furnishing  goods.  He 
died  October  13,  igof).  The  given  name  of  his 
wife  was  Toyba,  who  bore  him  children  as 
follows;  I.  Cierson,  see  forward.  2.  Leah, 
married  Abraham  Rabinowitz,  and  has  seven 

children.     3.  Moe,  married  Sella  ,  and 

has  three  children.  4.  Simon,  married  Rosa 
Podlasky,  and  has  five  children.  5.  Annie, 
married  Harry  Zwisohn,  and  has  seven  chil- 
dren.    6.  Kate,  married  Abe  Starin,  and  has 

five  children.     7.  Charles,  married ,  and 

has  two  children. 

(II)  Gerson,  son  of  Yona  and  Toyba  Gooten- 
berg, was  born  in  St.  Petersburg.  Russia,  No- 
vember 22,  1858,  and  came  to  this  country  in 
1881.  He  lived  ten  years  in  New  York  City, 
and  became  an  accomplished  practical  jeweler, 
watchsmith  and  silversmith.  Not  only  a  com- 
petent workman,  but  having  acquired  an  ex- 
cellent understanding  of  business  methods,  he 
located  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  and  set  up 
in  business  on  his  own  account.  His  endeav- 
ors in  mercantile  life  have  been  rewarded  with 
gratifying  success,  and  he  now  ranks  among 
the  substantial  business  men  of  that  city.  He 
is  a  member  of  Shakespeare  Lodge,  No.  750, 
Free  and  Accepted  Alasons,  of  New  York,  and 
of  the  following  bodies  in  Paterson,  New  Jer- 
sey :  Aerie  No.  43,  Order  of  Eagles ;  Wirth 
Lodge,  No.  146,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows ;  and  Barnett  Memorial  Temple. 

Air.  Gootenberg  married.  May  10,  1883,  Eva 
L.,  born  September  16,  1864,  daughter  of 
Louis  and  Sarah  (Weissman)  Delerson,  both 
natives  of  the  city  of  Kovna,  Russia.  Chil- 
dren of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gootenberg:  i.  Samuel, 
died  at  tlie  age  of  ten  months.  2.  David,  born 
March  17,  1S85;  married,  April  14,  1909, 
Adeline  Al.  Muller.  of  Paterson,  New  Jersey, 
born  October  27,  1888,  daughter  of  John  P. 
and  Mary  (Powlev)  Muller.  3.  Mabel  M., 
March  18,  1887.  4.  Philip,  October  28,  1888. 
5.  Emma,  July  3,    1890.     6.  Abie,   March  23, 


1892,  died  July  30,    1901.     7.  Henry,  August 
30,  1896. 

The  various  families  of  Spier, 
SPEER     Spear  and  Speer,  which  are  found 

in  New  Jersey  have  a  common 
origin  in  one  of  the  earliest  of  the  old  Dutch 
pioneer  families,  which  first  of  all  settled  in 
New  Amsterdam  and  then  went  across  the 
Hudson  into  what  is  now  Bergen  county,  from 
whence  they  have  spread  through  different 
parts  of  the  state  although  tlieir  name  is  es- 
])ecially  associated  with  the  old  inhabitants  of 
Esse.x  and  Hudson  counties. 

( I )  Hendrick  Jansen  Spier  or  Spieringh 
emigrated  to  this  country  in  the  ship  "Faith" 
which  landed  her  passengers  from  Holland  in 
New  .Amstertlam  in  December,  1659.  He 
brought  with  him  his  wife  and  two  children. 
Although  he  ac(|uired  a  home  in  New  Amster- 
dam, he  seems  to  have  lived  there  but  a  little 
while  for  Alay  9,  1662,  his  wife  in  his  name 
sells  to  Christoffel  \  an  Laer  their  house  on 
the  Heere  Graft,  "next  the  house  of  Oloft' 
Stevens  Van  Cortlandt  and  Gerrit  Janse  Roos, 
extending  in  front  eastward  to  the  Burgliwal! 
and  in  the  rear  to  the  lot  of  Abraham  de  la 
Noye."  In  this  deed  Hendrick  is  styled  as 
"of  Gemoenepa,"  that  is  as  living  in  what  is 
now  Communipaw.  In  1679  he  is  one  of  the 
purchasers  of  a  large  tract  of  land  in  New 
Jersey  on  the  east  of  the  Hackensack,  and  he 
is  dead  before  December  16,  1681,  when  his 
widow  marries  (second)  as  the  third  wife  of 
Jan  Aertsen,  the  emigrant  ancestor  of  the 
X'anderbilt  family.  By  his  wife,  Alagdalena 
Hansen,  Hendrick  Jansen  Spier  had  at  leas: 
two  children;  i.  liarent,  who  married,  July  31. 
1698,  Kathalyntje  Hendrickx.  2.  Jan  Hen- 
drickx,  referred  to  below. 

(II)  Jan  Hendrickx,  son  of  Hendrick  Jan- 
sen and  Magdalena  (Hansen)  Spier,  was  born 
in  Holland  and  came  to  this  country  with  his 
jjarents.  He  was  one  of  the  earliest  of  the 
settlers  around  Second  River,  what  is  now 
Belleville,  and  his  name  is  found  on  a  deed 
referring  to  that  part  of  the  province  as  early 
as  Alarch  16,  1684.  The  family  tradition  of 
the  Spers  is  that  they  are  descended  from  this 
son  of  Hendrick  J.,  through  his  son  J  dim  or 
Hans  or  John,  referred  to  below. 

( III  )  Hans  or  John,  the  conjectured  son  of 
Jan  Hendrick.x  Spier,  appears  in  Second  River 
in  1720.  where  on  July  13,  he  conveys  to  Arent 
Schuyler,  John  Stoutenburgh  and  otliers  the 
church    lot    now    occupied   by   the    Dutch    Re- 


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formed  church  of  Belleville.  By  his  wife 
Catryna,  Hans  Spier  had  a  son  Abrani,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(IV)  Abram,  son  of  Hans  and  Catryna 
Spier,  married  in  the  Dutch  Reformed  church 
at  Hackensack,  June  17,  1724,  Geertje  Braos. 
hy  whom  he  had  a  son  John,  who  is  referred 
to  below. 

(\'J  John,  son  of  Abram  and  Geertje 
(  Hraos)  Spier,  was  a  farmer  with  a  farm  of 
twenty  acres  in  Second  River.  May  11,  1746, 
he  married  Magdalena  \'an  Dyck,  who  bore 
him  nine  children:  I.  Abram.  2.  James.  3. 
Harmon.  4.  John,  referred  to  below.  5. 
Thomas.  6.  I'eter.  7.  Nautia,  who  married 
Mr.  Vreeland,  of  I^oversham.  8.  Betsy,  who 
married  Abraham  King.  9.  Laney,  who  mar- 
ried another  King. 

l\'I)  John  (2)  son  of  John  (i)  and  Mag- 
dalena (Van  Dyck)  Speer,  was  born  and  lived 
in  Second  River,  although  he  also  spent  a  part 
of  his  life  at  Poversham  on  what  was  later 
known  as  the  cotton-mill  property,  and  then 
moved  back  again  to  Belleville,  occupying  a 
stone  house  still  in  the  hands  of  his  descend- 
ants, and  later  occupying  the  house,  built  by 
himself,  which  has  descended  to  his  grand- 
son, bearing  his  name.  John  Speer  married 
Margaret  Joralemon ;  children:  i.  John  Peter. 
2.  James  Tunis,  referred  to  below.  3.  Abra- 
ham \'aric,  at  one  time  a  member  of  the  New- 
Jersey  legislature.  4.  Maria,  who  married 
Abraham  \  an  Riper,  resided  on  a  farm  im- 
mediately south  of  the  Passaic  county  line,  and 
had  five  children :  Sarah,  John,  Abraham. 
Eliaz  and  Margaret.  Of  these  children  Mar- 
garet married  Theodore  Sand  ford.  5.  Mag- 
dalena, married  John  N.  Joralemon,  and  lived 
and  died  within  one  hundred  yards  of  her 
father's  residence.  6.  Margaret,  married 
.\braham  \'an  Houten,  of  lielleville  village, 
where  they  lived  and  had  four  children:  Will- 
iam, Cornelius,  Abraham  and  Anne  Maria. 
7.  Elizabeth,  married  Peter,  son  of  Michael 
and  Gitty  (Cadmus)  Sand  ford.  8.  Anna, 
who  died  young. 

(VH)  James  Tunis,  son  of  John  (2)  ano 
Margaret  (Joralemon)  Speer,  was  born  in 
Belleville,  October  i,  1795,  died  there  July  12 
1867.  He  married  Eliza  L.  Wade,  born  De- 
ceml>er  1798,  died  July  16,  1878;  children:  i. 
John,  born  September  20,  1823,  died  May  14, 
1900:  he  spelt  his  name  Spear,  was  one  of  the 
chosen  freeholders  of  Belleville,  one  of  the 
town  committeemen,  and  also  surveyor  of 
highways;  October  22,  1878,  he  married  Eliza 
Housman,   born    1836,   died   C)ctober   4,    i<>o7. 


2.  Abbie,  Iioni  .\pril  8,  1827,  died  December 
29.  1833.  3.  Alfred  W'.,  born  September  9, 
1828,  died  January  15,  1897;  married,  in  1858, 
Agnes  Storey;  children  Alfred,  Oscar,  Mary 
and  Florence.  4.  Mary  .^nna,  referred  to 
below. 

(XTH)  Alary  Anna,  youngest  child  of 
James  Tunis  and  Eliza  L.  (  Wade )  Speer,  was 
born  June  19,  1835,  anil  is  now  living  at  330 
Washington     avenue,      Belleville.     April      17, 

1856,  she  married  John  Jerome,  son  of  Curtis 
and  Letitia  (West)  Tucker,  of  Brooklyn, 
whose  children  were:  Johrp  Jerome,  James, 
Elizabeth,  William,  Charles,  Arthur,  Mary  and 
Julia  Tucker.  John  Jerome  Tucker  was  a 
mason  and  contractor  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  built  many  large  buildings,  among 
them    being   the    I  fall    of    Fame.     I'or   eight 

,  years  he  was  water  commissioner  of  New 
York.  He  was  also  president  of  the  appren- 
tices" library  of  New  York  City,  and  for  six- 
teen years  president  of  the  Masons'  and  Build- 
ers' Association.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  church  and  for  thirty-five 
years  chairman  of  the  church's  finance  com- 
mittee. At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  vice- 
president  of  the  Bank  of  Savings  of  .\'ew 
York  City. 

By  his  marriage  with  Mary  Anna  Speer,  he 
had  two  children:    i.   Edw'in,  born   March  4, 

1857,  who  has  been  twice  married  and  is  now 
living  at  Asbury  Park.  2.  Walter  Curtis,  born 
December  18,  1862,  married,  January  4,  1893. 
Gertrude  Creveling  and  has  two  children : 
Marjorie,  born  January  12,  1895,  and  John 
Jerome,  born  January  29,  1903. 


The  Germans  who  so  largely 
HEISLER  made  up  the  growth  and  aided 
in  the  development  of  Xew 
Jersey  and  Pennsylvania  were  generally  fol- 
lowers of  Luther,  but  being  broad  men,  many 
accepted  other  creeds  and  faiths  and  added  to 
the  congregations  of  the  Society  of  Friends 
and  to  the  Methodism,  but  the  greater  part 
remained  within  the  fold  of  the  Lutheran 
church.  Among  the  Germans  of  Pennsylva- 
nia the  name  of  Heisler  is  quite  common,  and 
both  the  pulpit  and  the  ]irofession  of  luedicine 
have  had  notable  men  bearing  that  name.  The 
Rev.  Washington  L.  Heisler  was  a  well  known 
minister  of  the  Lutheran  church  in  Jersey 
Shore,  Lycoming  county.  Pennsylvania,  and 
his  distinguished  son,  John  Clement  Heisler, 
was  a  graduate  of  the  medical  department  of 
the  L'niversity  of  Pennsylvania  in  1887.  and 
filled  the  chair  of  anatomv  in  that  institution. 


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i88c^-()7.  curator  of  the  llorner  Museum  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania  since  1897.  Among 
the  Quakers  of  LUirHngton  county,  New  Jer- 
sey, we  find  another  branch  of  the  family. 

(I)  Jacob  Heisler  was  born  in  1782.  He 
married  and  had  a  son  Jacob,  see  forward. 

(II)  Jacob  (2),  son  of  Jacob  (i)  Heisler, 
was  born  in  Pemberton  township,  Burlington 
county.  New  Jersey,  in  1812.  He  was  married 
in  1840  by  the  ceremony  observed  by  the  So- 
ciety of  Friends  to  Sarah,  daughter  of  Caleb 
Malmsbury,  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and 
they  had  childi*en  born  to  them  including 
William  Henry,  see  forward. 

(III)  William  Henry,  son  of  Jacob  (2) 
and  Sarah  (  Malmsbury)  Heisler,  was  born  in 
Pemberton  township,  Burlington  county,  New 
Jersey,  November  19,  1842.  He  was  brought 
up  and  educated  in  his  native  township,  and 
held  office  in  the  township  government  soon 
after  reaching  his  majority.  Mr.  Heisler  was 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church 
of  Pemberton,  and  of  its  board  of  trustees, 
also  serving  the  church  as  superintendent  of 
its  Sunday  school.  Early  in  life  he  affiliated 
with  the  Alasonic  fraternity,  being  initiated 
into  the  mysteries  of  Masonry  when  made  a 
member  of  Mount  Holly  Lodge,  No  14.  His 
interest  in  the  welfare  of  Methodism  in 
America  caused  him  to  become  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Ocean  Grove  Association  of  Jer- 
sey ;  vice-president  of  the  Board  of  Home 
Missions  and  Church  E.xtension  Society  of  the 
Methodist  Church  in  America  ;  and  treasurer 
of  the  Penn  Seaman's  Friend  Society  of  Phila- 
delphia. He  was  elected  to  membership  in 
the  Union  League  Club  of  Philadeli)hia,  and 
of  the  Penn  Historical  Society  of  Philadelphia. 
He  is  president  of  the  Manufacturers'  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Philadelphia,  located  at  No. 
27  Third  street,  and  treasurer  of  the  Schlich- 
ter  Jute  and  Cordage  Company  of  that  city. 

He  was  married  "out  of  meeting,"  about 
1874,  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  to  Eliza 
Jane,  born  September  25,  1849,  daughter  of 
Edmund  and  Emeline  F.  (Corrigan)  Yard, 
and  granddaughter  of  Jacob  Corrigan,  of 
Philadelphia.  Their  children  were  born  in 
Pemberton,  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  as 
follows:  I.  Grace  Ashton,  August  29,  1875, 
graduated  at  the  Woman's  College,  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  in  1893;  she  married,  1894,  Harold 
B.  \Vells,  an  attorney  and  counsellor  at  law  in 
Pemberton.  They  made  their  home  in  Bor- 
dentown.  New  Jersey,  where  their  children 
were  born  as  follows:  Harold  B.  Wells  (2), 
Jime   2,    1906;   Elizabeth   Heisler  W^ells,   No- 


vember 30,  1908.  2.  Charles  Mortimer,  1877, 
died  in  infancy.  3.  William  Henry  (2),  Janu- 
ary 6,  1883,  was  prepared  for  college  in  Burl- 
ington county,  matriculated  at  the  Princeton 
University,  and  was  graduated  A.  B.  1903. 
He  is  studving  law  with  his  brother-in-law, 
Han  lid  B.  Wells,  Esq. 


The  name  of  Elvins  so  far  as  is  now 
ELVINS  known  belongs  but  to  two  fami- 
lies in  this  country,  namely,  the 
family  of  Congressman  Elvins,  of  Missouri, 
who  is  said  to  be  the  youngest  member  of  the 
house  of  representatives,  and  the  descendants 
of  Andrew  Elvins,  of  F'hiladalphia,  and  Ham- 
monton.  New  Jersey,  which  are  set  forth 
below. 

(  I )  Andrew  Elvins  was  a  native  of  Corn- 
wall, England,  born  in  1803.  He  came  to 
America  in  1836,  arriving  at  and  staying  at 
first  for  a  short  time  in  New  York.  Having, 
however,  obtained  work  as  a  carpenter  in 
Philadel]ihia,  he  removed  thither  and  sent  for 
his  family  to  come  over  to  this  country  and 
join  him,  which  they  did  in  the  year  1848. 
The  mother  and  son  George  then  set  up  and 
kept  a  dry  goods  store,  which  they  ran  suc- 
cessfully, while  the  father  worked  at  his  trade 
until  1858,  when  the  entire  family  removed 
to  Hammonton,  Atlantic  county.  New  Jersey, 
being  one  of  the  first  families  to  settle  in  that 
region.  Here,  living  in  the  home  of  their 
son  George,  Andrew  Elvins  and  his  wife 
passed  the  remainder  of  their  days  in  well 
earned  rest  and  prosperity.  Andrew  Elvins 
married,  in  England,  Elizabeth  Williams,  born 
in  1810,  died  in  1884.  Their  children  were: 
I.  John,  married  Katharine  E.  W^alton  and  had 
two  children,  Mamie  and  Georgiana.  2.  Will- 
iam Andrew.  3.  Mary  Elizabeth,  married  W. 
D.  Walton,  of  Philadelphia,  but  had  no  chil- 
dren. 

(II)  George,  youngest  child  of  Andrew  and 
Elizabeth  (\\'illiams)  Elvins,  was  born  in 
Cornwall,  England,  June  29,  1838,  and  is  now 
living  in  Hammonton,  New  Jersey.  Coming 
to  this  country  with  his  mother  in  1848,  he 
heljicd  her  to  run  the  dry  goods  store  in  Phila- 
delphia, and  then  buying  a  three  acre  lot  in 
Hammonton  built  his  house  and  store.  He  at- 
tended the  public  schools  of  Philadelphia, 
while  helping  his  mother,  and  from  the  lessons 
which  he  learned  in  both  jilaces  he  attributes 
all  of  his  successful  subsequent  career  as  a 
merchant.  Mr.  Elvins  is  a  member  of  M.  B. 
Taylor  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of 
Hammonton,  and  a  director  in  the  Working- 


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mans'  liuilding  Association.  Jle  lias  been 
treasurer  of  the  town  of  Hammonton  for  a 
inunber  of  years ;  also  collector,  and  was  for 
five  years  one  of  the  freeholders  of  the  town. 
1  le  was  appointed  postmaster  of  the  town  by 
President  Abraham  Lincoln  and  he  held  that 
office  for  twelve  years.  While  he  was  serving 
in  this  capacity  he  was  also  chosen  to  be  one 
of  the  state  representatives  in  the  New  Jersey 
assenibl}'  in  1880-81.  For  three  years  he  was 
also  chosen  to  serve  on  the  town  council.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  of  Hammonton  and  is  one  of  the  stew- 
ards and  trustees.  For  the  last  forty  years 
he  has  been  one  of  the  district  stewards  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

In  1858,  just  before  his  removal  to  Ham- 
monton, (ieorge  Elvins  married  Annie,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  Clohosey,  of  Philadelphia,  who 
bore  him  seven  children:  i.  Mary  Elizabeth, 
married  Charles  H.  Wilson,  of  Williamstown, 
(jloucester  county,  New  Jersey,  and  has  three 
children :  Maude,  Charles  and  George.  She 
was  born  in  1859.  2.  Lillian,  born  in  1861  ; 
married  Godfrey  M.  Crowell,  i\L  D.,  an  Aus- 
tralian of  old  New  England  ancestry  who  re- 
sides in  Hammonton,  New  Jersey,  and  has 
three  children  :  Annie,  Edwin  and  Alarian.  3. 
.\nnie,  born  in  1863;  married  Harry  L.  Pee- 
ples,  of  Hammonton,  and  has  one  child,  Mar- 
jorie.  4.  Carrie,  born  1865;  married  John  E. 
Wood,  of  Maine,  now  living  in  Philadelphia, 
and  has  one  child,  Oliver.  5.  George  A.,  born 
1867;  unmarried;  now  living  and  conducting 
a  real  estate  business  in  Atlantic  City.  6. 
Thomas  Clohansey,  born  in  1869;  a  Republi- 
can :  member  of  the  New  Jersey  state  assembly 
for  five  years  up  to  1907,  and  now  in  business 
with  his  father,  besides  being  the  present  post- 
master of  Hammonton.  He  married  Lillia/i 
Ruby,  and  has  five  children  :  Miriam,  Hubbard, 
Thomas,  George  and  Robert.  7.  Mabel,  born 
in  1877;  married  George  W.  McDougal,  of 
Philadelphia,  but  has  no  children. 


This  name  is  supposed  to  have 
DE  BAUN  been  de  Baen  and  to  have  orig- 
inated in  Baen,  a  village  in  a 
province  of  France,  in  order  to  designate  a 
family  in  P.aen.  At  all  events  there  is  no  doubt 
of  the  nationality  to  which  the  name  belongs  as 
being  French.  This  leads  to  the  material  in- 
ference of  the  political  and  religious  leaning 
of  the  family  as  being  Huguenot  and  opposed 
to  the  oppression  of  the  Roman  church  in 
France.  Then  following  this  trend,  we  are  not 
surprised  to  find  the  name  in  the  Netherlands 


and  es])ecially  un  the  iu>rtli  of  the  River  Rhine, 
in  the  Lower  Palatinate,  and  thence  following 
the  flood  of  immigration  that  built  u])  New 
Netherlands  and  New  Amsterdam,  which  pass- 
ed into  the  possession  of  England  in  1664. 
This  change  of  proprietorship  did  not,  how- 
ever, stop  the  flow  of  immigration  from  France 
to  Holland,  Belgium  and  England,  of  those 
driven  out  of  Catholic  France  by  persecution 
and  threatened  martyrdom.  It  was  among 
these  later  refugees  that  the  de  Baens  came  to 
New  York  about  the  year  1683.  Living  for 
many  years  and  perhaps  for  two  generations 
in  the  land  of  the  Dutchmen,  they  had  acquired 
their  habits  and  language  and  the  de  Baen  of 
their  fatherland  had  became  De  Baun  in  Hol- 
land and  in  the  Dutch  city  of  New  Amsterdam, 
which  city  had  taken  the  English  name  New 
York  in  1(^64.  It  was  at  this  time  that  the 
Dutch  flag  was  lowered  and  the  English  flag 
hoisted  over  the  fort,  whose  frowning  walls 
and  threatening  cannons  protruding  from  in- 
numerable portholes  in  these  walls,  threatened 
annihilation  to  any  vessel  sailing  up  the  harbor 
except  under  the  royal  standard  of  Great  Brit- 
ain. It  is  in  the  little  town  of  Bushwick  across 
the  East  river  from  New  York  and  between 
the  Wallabout  and  Hell  Gate  on  the  Long 
Island  shore  front  that  we  find  Joost  De  Baune. 

(I)  Joost  (Yost)  De  Baune  was  the  clerk 
of  the  town  of  Bushwick,  Long  Island,  in  1684, 
and  in  1685  we  find  him  the  schoolmaster  and 
clerk  of  the  town  of  New  L'trecht,  south  of  the 
Wallabout,  on  Long  Island.  His  position  in 
the  community  is  jjlainly  denoted  by  his  occupa- 
tion as  clerk  of  the  towns  in  which  he  lived 
and  as  schoolmaster  in  New  L'trecht,  which 
vocation  was  second  only  to  that  of  the  min- 
istry. He  was  evidently  a  supporter  of  the 
policy  of  the  aristocratic  lieutenant-governor, 
Nicholson,  for  when  the  democratic  colonists 
under  the  lead  of  Captain  Jacob  Leisler  took 
possession  of  the  state  house  in  the  name  of 
William  of  C^range  and  was  appointed  lieu- 
tenant-governor by  the  committee  of  safety,  De 
Baun  was  deposed  from  his  offices  as  clerk  and 
schoolmaster.  He  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
to  the  aristocratic  rule  at  New  Utrecht  m 
1687  and  continued  to  reside  in  the  town,  was 
reinstated  as  clerk  and  schoolmaster,  and  his 
name  appears  on  the  assessment  rolls  of  New 
Utrecht  in  1693  and  on  the  census  in  1698. 
We  next  find  him  living  near  Hackensack,  in 
Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  as  early  as  1 709, 
which  locality  became  the  home  of  his  descend- 
ants. 

He  married  Elizabeth  Drabba,  in  Holland, 


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about  1670,  and  had  seven  children  born  in 
New  L'trecht,  Kings  county.  Long  Island,  New 
York,  as  follows:  i.  Mattie,  married  David 
Samulse  De  Alaree,  in  November,  1705.  2. 
Christian,  baptized  in  the  church  in  New 
ritrecht,  .May  15,  1687,  and  was  married  in 
January,  1701;,  to  Judith  Samuelse  De  Maree. 

3.  Alajhe,  bai)tized  Ala)-  4,  1O70,  at  Flatbush. 

4.  Karl  (Charles),  see  forward.  5.  Christyne. 
born  1695.  6.  Jacobus,  who  married  Antje 
Kennit  or  Kenning.  7.  Margrietje  or  Alaria, 
who  married  Theodore  Romam,  in  June,  1728. 
Joost  and  Elizabeth  (Drabba)  De  Baun  both 
died  at  their  home  near  Hackensack,  but  we 
find  no  record  by  which  we  can  ileterniine  the 
dates. 

(11)  Karl  (Charles),  second  son  and  fourth 
child  of  Joost  and  Elizabeth  (Drabba)  De 
Baun,  was  born  in  New  Ctrecht,  Long  Island, 
Xew  York,  and  removed  with  the  family  to 
Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  where  he  married 
Janetje  Pieterse  Harring  and  had  eleven  chil- 
dren born  in  Hackensack,  New  Jersey:  Yost, 
Peter,  Yan,  Jacob,  Isaac,  Abram,  see  forward; 
Christian,  Alargarietje,  Cornelia,  Maria,  Eliz- 
abeth. 

(Til)  Abram,  sixth  son  of  Karl  and  Janetje 
I'ieterse  (Harring)  De  Baun,  was  born  in 
Hackensack,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  De- 
cember 10,  1731.  and  died  September  14,  1806. 
He  was  married  (tirst)  to  Bridget  Ackerman. 
who  died  January  2"/,  1793.  and  by  her  he  had 
ten  children,  born  in  Hackensack,  New  Jersey, 
as  follows:  Karl,  November  21,  1757,  died 
.\pril  18,  1790:  Margaret,  November  28,  1767, 
married  Albert  Wortendyke,  and  died  April 
25,  i860:  Abram,  January  14,  1770,  married 
Sarah  Remsen,  died  December  9,  1859;  Jacob, 
March  22,  1765,  married  Ann  De  Baim,  and 
died  December  i,  1853:  ^'annetic,  November 
12.  17(12.  married  Peter  Smith,  and  died  Alay 
ir,  1845;  Andreas,  February  20,  1775,  mar- 
ried Maria  Tolman,  August  30,  1800,  and  died 
February  21,  1848;  Sara,  August  5,  1782,  died 
July  13,  1793;  David,  December  7,  1759,  mar- 
ried Antje  Forshe,  who  died  in  1836,  he  died 
December  13,  1820;  John,  December  25,  1772, 
married  Altje  Smith,  and  died  in  May.  1840; 
Isaac,  see  forward.  Abram  De  Baun  married 
(second)  Lea  Van  Orden,  August  25,  1793. 

(IV)  Isaac,  youngest  of  the  ten  children  of 
Abram  and  Bridget  (.Ackerman)  De  Baun, 
was  born  in  Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  Decem- 
ber 9,  1779.  He  married,  June  13.  1807,  Eliza- 
beth "N'eury,  who  was  the  daughter  of  John  and 
Eli/abeth  (  \'an  Orden)  Yeury,  and  was  liorn 
January   12.   1 791,  and  died   Angtist  24,   1875. 


Her  father,  John  Yeury,  was  born  Alay  8, 
1794,  and  died  March  8,  1840,  and  her  mother, 
Elizabeth  \  an  C^)rden,  died  September  13,  185O. 
Isaac  and  Elizabeth  (Yeury)  De  Baun  had 
eight  children,  born  in  Hackensack,  as  follows: 

1.  Abram,  F'ebruary  7,  1809:  married,  Alay  15, 
1830,  Alaria,  daughter  of  Johannes  and  Eliza- 
beth (  Palmer)  \  an  Houton.  Maria  \'an  Hou- 
ton  was  born  June  14.  1810.  and  died  January- 
19.  1895,  ''"d  'i'^''  distinguished  son,  John  A. 
De  Baun,  was  born  in  Clarkstown,  New  York. 
March  6,  1833.  He  was  prepared  for  college 
at  Rutgers  College  grammar  school  and  was 
graduated  at  Rutgers  College,  New  Brunswick. 
New  Jersey.  Bachelor  of  Arts,  1852;  Master 
of  Arts,  1855.  He  attended  the  Theological 
Seminary  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  at 
New  Ijrunswick,  New  Jersey,  1852-55,  was  or- 
dained pastor  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church 
at  Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island,  New  York,  1855, 
and  resigned  the  pastorate  in  1858  to  accept  a 
call  from  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  at 
Niskayuna,  New  York.  He  was  pastor  there 
for  a  (|uarter  of  a  century,  resigning  in  1883  to 
go  to  the  Reformed  Church  in  Fonda,  Xew 
York,  where  he  was  installed  as  pastor  in  1883. 
He  was  elected  president  of  the  General  Synod 
of  the  Reformed  Church  in  America  in  1880, 
and  in  1884  declined  the  presidency  of  Hope 
College,  Holland,  Michigan.  L'nion  Cniver- 
sity  conferred  on  him  the  honorary  degree  of 
Doct(3r  of  Divinity  in   1877. 

He  was  luarried,  in  1855,  to  Elizabeth  B. 
Coddington.  of  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey. 

2.  Elizabeth,  September  25,  1810;  married,  No- 
vember 24,  1832,  Nicholas  \  an  Houten,  who 
was  born  November  9,  1807.  3.  Jacob,  Janu- 
ary 20,  1812:  married  (first)  Rachel  Brown, 
who  died  in  November,  1851,  and  (second) 
luuma    Hays,   May  8,    1864.     4.   Maria.  June 

3.  1814:  married  Aaron  Johnson,  and  died 
May  12,  1861.  5.  Bridget,  August  13,  1816; 
married  John  I.  House,  who  was  born  April 
17,  1809.  6.  Rachel.  January  13,  1819;  mar- 
ried Albert  Blauvelt,  February  14,  1877.  7. 
Jane,  March  19,  1821  :  married  John  A.  Duryea. 
who  was  born  in  March,  1819.  8.  John  Y., 
see  forward. 

(  \' )  Jolin  Y.,  the  youngest  of  the  eight  chil- 
dren of  Isaac  and  Elizabeth  (Yeury)  De  Baun, 
was  born  in  Mousey,  Orange  county.  New 
York,  August  22,  1827,  and  died  at  Leonia, 
New  Jersey.  February,  1895.  ^^  was  a  pre- 
cocious child  and,  fortified  by  a  common  school 
training,  bad  enough  at  its  best  as  it  existed  in 
the  country  districts  in  tliat  day,  he,  by  his 
inherent  force  of  will  and  deteriuination.  fitted 


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himself  for  the  ministry  of  the  Dutch  Reform- 
ed Church,  which  was  no  mean  acliievement 
when  we  take  into  consideration  the  hit^h  stand- 
ard set  hy  the  Classis  for  its  ministers.  He 
does  not  a])pear  to  have  attended  any  college 
or  theological  school.  He  was  licensed  to 
jjreach  by  the  Cla.s.sis  of  Hackensack  of  the 
True  Reformed  Dutch  Church,  .\pril  17,  1855. 
He  had.  as  his  first  charge,  two  churches,  one 
at  Hempstead  (now  Monsey  ).  Rockland  coun- 
ty. New  York,  and  one  at  Ramseys.  Hergcn 
county.  .\'ew  Jersey,  and  in  these  churches  he 
l^reached  alternate  Sundays  up  to  i860.  He 
then  became  pastor  of  the  church  at  Hacken- 
sack and  of  the  one  at  English  Neighborhood 
(now  Leonia).  He  removed  to  Hackensack 
in  i860,  and  had  charge  of  the  two  churches 
for  twenty-six  years.  He  also  established  and 
edited  the  Banitcr  of  Truth,  a  monthly  chmx-h 
magazine,  which  continued  to  he  the  organ  of 
the  True  Reformed  Dutch  Church.  He  was 
an  eloc|uent  preacher  and  a  self-made  man  in 
ever_\-  way,  jirox-ing  himself  worthy  of  his  high 
calling. 

He  was  married  (first)  .-\pril  8,  1848,  to 
Margaret,  who  died  about  1893,  daughter  of 
Abram  and  Susanna  (\'an  \\'art)  Iserman. 
Her  father  was  born  March  11.  1799,  and  mar- 
ried, .\pril  I,  1 82 1,  to  his  wife,  Susanna  \'an 
\\'art.  who  was  born  May  6,  1802.  Rev.  John 
Y.  and  ^Margaret  1  Iserman  )  De  Baun  had  born 
to  them  nine  children  as  follows  :  i.  Susan  Eliz- 
abetli.  I'ebruary  26,  1850,  died  August  26, 
1852.  2.  Martha  Amelia.  January  24.  1852,  mar- 
ried Eugene  .\.  \  an  Horn,  September  10, 
1874.  3.  James  Demarest,  September  30,  1854, 
died  December  8,  1862.  4.  Abram,  see  forward. 
5.  Edwin.  September  14,  1859,  died  October  17, 
1862.  6.  Anna,  May  14,  1866,  married  October 
22,  iSqi.C.  a.  Benjamin.  J.John  Zabriskie, De- 
cember 27,  1867,  died  December  18.  1874.  8. 
James  Edwin,  September  7,  1872,  died  January 
26,  1884.  9.  Isaac  Calvin,  May  6.  1874.  John  Y. 
De  IJaun  married  (second)  Jane  X'au  Houton, 
who  survived  him. 

(  \T  )  .\bram,  second  son  and  fourth  child 
of  Rev.  John  Y.  and  ^Margaret  (  Iserman)  De 
P>aun,  was  born  at  Monsey,  Rockland  county. 
New-  York,  April  2,  1856.  He  removed  with 
his  parents  to  Hackensack,  New'  Jersey,  in 
i860,  and  was  graduated  at  the  Hackensack 
.\cademy  in  1873.  He  then  took  up  the  study 
of  law  in  the  office  of  .A.  D.  Campbell,  at  Hack- 
ensack, was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  Jer- 
sey as  an  attorney  at  the  June  term  of  the 
supreme  court.  1877,  ^"d  as  a  counsellor  in 
1880.  He  w-as  a  law'  partner  with  hispreceptor- 


at-law,  .A.  D.  Camiibell,  under  the  firm  name 
of  Campbell  &  De  Baun,  up  to  1893,  when 
he  associated  himself  with  Milton  Demarest, 
the  law  firm  of  De  Baun  &  Demarest  being 
still  in  active  practice  in  1909.  He  was  clerk 
of  the  board  of  chosen  freeholders  of  Bergen 
comity,  1878-95,  inclusive,  his  long  term  of 
service  in  so  important  an  office  being  an  evi- 
dence of  his  popularity  and  the  good  opinion 
entertained  by  the  citizens  of  the  county  as  to 
his  ability  and  faithfulness.  He  served  as 
treasurer  of  the  Hackensack  Improvement 
Commission  for  three  years,  and  has  been  coun- 
sel for  the  Hackensack  Alutual  Building  and 
Loan  Association  from  its  organization  in 
1887.  His  legal  practice  is  largely  confined 
to  real  estate  transactions  and  to  the  manage- 
ment of  the  estates  of  widows  and  minor  chil- 
dren. His  fraternal  affiliation  is  confined  to 
the  Royal  .\rcanuni  and  the  Legion  of  Honor. 
He  was  married  (first)  April  30,  1878,  to 
Mary  W.  Christie,  of  Leonia,  New  Jersey,  w'ho 
died  Se])tember  30,  1 88 1,  and  on  October  8, 
1884,  he  married  (second)  Lydia  B,  Christie, 
of  Hackensack,  New  Jersey.  He  had  no  chil- 
dren bv  cither  marriage. 


The  ancestry  of  Judge 
SINNICKSON  Clement  Hall  Sinnickson, 
of  Salem,  who  holds  dis- 
tinct precedence  as  a  lawyer,  and  as  a  judge 
has  won  the  commendation  of  the  legal  pro- 
fession and  the  discriminating  public,  can  be 
traced  back  through  many  generations. 

The  earliest  reference  to  the  family  in  the 
Danish  Book  of  Heraldry  is  of  the  date  1450, 
when  Duke  .Adolph,  of  Schleswig,  ennobled 
.\ndreas  Snnichson  for  a  service  rendered  in 
battle.  The  tradition  is  that  the  Dukc"s  horse  was 
shot  under  him  and  Andreas  hastily  dismount- 
ing gave  his  own  horse  to  his  chieftain.  The 
coat-of-arms  is  an  unsaddled  horse  and  the 
record  goes  on  to  say  that  the  Helm  and 
Blazon  was  granted  by  King  Christian  of  Den- 
mark two  years  later  in  1452. 

In  1550  Sonnich  Snnichson.  a  descendant 
of  .Andreas,  received  a  patent  of  nobility  from 
Frederick  2d,  King  of  Denmark,  and  occupied 
an  estate  in  Angln,  Denmark,  named  Hestrip, 
This  passed  to  his  son  Carlen  in  1600.  Andres 
Snnichson.  a  younger  son  of  Carlen,  came  to 
America  in  1(1^8.  then  no  longer  a  young  man, 
and  accompanied  by  his  sons  Anders  and  Broor. 
They  landed  at  what  is  now  Wilmington,  Dela- 
ware, on  Christine  creek.  He  did  not  live 
long,  and  in  1640  his  son,  Anders,  crossed  the 
river  Delaware  to  what  is  now  Lower  Penn's 


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Neck  township,  New  Jersey,  and  ])nrcliased 
of  the  Indians  a  large  tract  of  land  then  called 
Obisqtiahaset,  where  he  settled  and  established 
the  homestead  which  has  ever  since  remained 
in  the  family  and  has  been  the  home  of  many 
succeeding  generations.  Broor  Snnichson  re- 
mained in  Delaware  and  is  the  progenitor  of  a 
large  clan  in  that  state  and  in  I'ennsylvania. 
.Vfter  the  arrival  of  John  Fen  wick  in  1675  to 
take  possession  of  his  tenth  of  New  Jersey,  a 
large  portion  of  this  land  so  purchased  from 
the  Indians  was  quitclaimed  to  Anders  Son- 
nichson  and  much  of  it  now  remains  in  the 
family. 

Next  in  line  came  .Andrew  Siimickson,  3d. 
the  name  undergoing  an  anglicising  change. 

Ne.xt  was  Sinnick  .Sinnickson,  who  left  one 
son,  .Andrew,  4th. 

Andrew,  son  of  Sinnick  Sinnickson,  born  in 
1718;  died  in  1790;  leaving  a  large  property 
to  be  divided  among  his  numerous  children. 
His  life  was  active  and  influential;  he  was  ap- 
pointed judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas 
under  George  III.  and  held  the  office  many 
years.  He  was  a  member  of  both  provincial 
congresses  of  New  Jersey  1775-/6;  served  as  a 
member  of  the  higher  branch  of  the  first  state 
legislature  then  called  the  council,  and  was  one 
of  the  nine  men  who  pledged  themselves  for  a 
large  sum  of  money  to  jirovide  clothing  for  tlu 
New  Jersey  troops  in  the  field.  He  had  three 
sons  and  three  sons-in-law  who  participated 
in  the  struggle  for  independence  and  rendered 
efficient  aid  to  the  colonists.  His  son.  Thomas 
Sinnickson,  was  so  active  and  aggressive  that 
Lord  Howe  ofl^ered  a  hundred  pounds  for  him 
dead  or  alive,  and  when  the  representatives  of 
the  British  government  oiTered  to  sign  a  peace 
treaty  in  southern  New  Jersey  almost  every 
one  in  that  section  of  the  state  was  included  in 
the  amnesty  proclamation,  but  among  the  few 
excluded  were  the  Sinnicksons  who  were  pro- 
scribed by  name.  The  Thomas  Sinnickson 
above  referred  to  was  afterwards  a  member  of 
the  first  United  .States  congress. 

Colonel  Andrew  Sinnickson,  son  of  Andrew 
.Sinnickson,  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Judge  Robert  and  Margaret  (Morgan)  John- 
son, ludge  Robert  Johnson  traced  his  ances- 
try to  Richard  Johnson,  born  in  Guilford  Sur- 
rey, England,  in  1649;  he  became  a  resident  of 
.Salem  county.  New  Jersey,  in  1675.  Served 
as  a  member  of  the  house  of  burgesses  in  1707, 
and  was  jiulsre  from  1710  till  his  death  in  1719. 
His  son.  Robert  Johnson,  was  born  in  1694, 
aiul  married  Margaret  .Sayres.  Their  son, 
Robert    Johnson,    was   born    1727;   served   as 


judge  and  justice  of  the  peace  from  1761  to 
1780;  married  Margaret  Morgan,  of  Marcus 
Hook,  I'ennsylvania. 

John  Sinnickson,  son  of  Colonel  .\ndrew 
and  Margaret  (Johnson)  Sinnickson,  was  born 
1789,  died  18(12.  He  married  Rebecca  Kay 
Id  all.  whose  ancestry  traces  back  to  William 
Hall,  who  came  to  America  and  took  up  his 
residence  in  Elsinboro,  Salem  county,  in  1677. 
Ill  1709  he  was  made  judge  and  filled  that  posi- 
tion till  the  time  of  his  death  in  17J8;  he  was 
also  a  member  of  the  governor's  council.  He 
married  Sarah,  granddaughter  of  Gregory 
Clement,  one  of  the  regicide  judges  of  Charles 
I.,  and  the  daughter  of  James  Clement,  who 
came  to  America  after  the  vengeance  of  Charles 
II.  had  wreaked  itself  in  the  execution  of  his 
father's  judges.  C)f  the  marriage  of  William 
Hall  and  .Sarah  Clement,  was  born  William 
Hall  2d,  who  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
John  Smith,  of  Amblebury.  Their  son,  Clem- 
ent Hall,  was  born  1724,  and  married  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Morris,  in  1748.  Their 
son,  Clement  Hall  2d,  was  born  1753,  and  mar- 
ried Rebecca,  daughter  of  Joseph  Kay,  of 
( iloucester  county,  and  their  daughter,  Re- 
becca Kay  Hall,  was  born  in  1798,  and  mar- 
ried John  Sinnickson,  in  1826.  They  were  the 
])arents  of  Clement  Hall  Sinnickson. 

Clement  11  all  Sinnickson,  son  of  John  and 
Rebecca  Kay  (Hall)  Sinnickson,  was  born 
in  .Salem,  New  Jersey,  September  16,  1834. 
He  acquired  his  preliminary  education  in  the 
private  schools  of  Salem,  attended  the  Poly- 
technic Institute,  of  Troy,  New  York,  and  in 
1855  was  graduated  at  Union  College  with  the 
degrees  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  and  Civil  Engi- 
neer. On  the  com])letion  of  his  literary  course 
he  began  the  study  of  law  with  Andrew  Sin- 
nickson, of  Salem,  and  was  afterward  a  student 
in  the  office  of  \\  illiani  L.  Dayton,  of  Trenton. 
In  1858  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  as  an 
attorney,  and  in  1864  as  a  counsellor.  He 
located  in  practice  in  Salem,  and  soon  gamed 
a  large  distinctively  representative  clientage. 
His  arguments  were  logical,  forceful  and  con- 
vincing, his  preparations  of  cases  exact,  and 
his  knowledge  of  the  law  is  com])rehensive  and 
accurate.  In  1896  he  was  appointed  by  Gov- 
ernor Griggs  to  the  j)osition  of  judge  of  the 
common  pleas  court  of  Salem  county,  and  has 
since  acceptably  served  in  that  capacity.  He 
has  also  been  connected  with  business  interests 
outside  of  his  professional  duties,  and  is  now 
a  director  of  the  Farmers'  Mutual  Fire  Insur- 
ance Company  of  Salem  county. 

He  is  a  member  and  secretary  of  the  vestry 


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of  the  Episcopal  church  in  Salem,  and  belongs 
to  the  Theta  Delta  Chi,  a  college  fraternity. 
He  also  holds  membership  in  Johnson  Post, 
No.  69,  Grand  Army  of  the  Re])ublic,  at  Salem, 
being  entitled  to  a  place  therein  by  rea.son  of 
his  three  months'  service  in  the  civil  war.  He 
was  commissioned  first  lieutenant  and  pro- 
moted to  the  captaincy  of  Company  I,  Fourtli 
Regiment  of  New  Jersey  \'olunteers,  and  was 
sent  to  Fort  Runyon,  Washington,  D.  C.,  where 
he  was  on  picket  duty.  He  was  also  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  of  New 
Jersey  for  a  number  of  years.  In  politics  he 
has  always  been  a  staunch  Republican,  and  has 
taken  a  very  active  part  in  the  work  of  ad- 
vancing its  interest,  being  recognized  as  one 
of  the  party  leaders.  He  represented  his  dis- 
trict in  congress  for  two  terms,  irom  1875  until 
1879,  two  of  the  most  important  sessions  in 
its  history.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Repub- 
lican state  committee  in  1880.  He  is  the  owner 
of  a  part  of  the  original  tract  of  laml  pur- 
chased by  the  family. 

Judge  Sinnickson  married,  in  June,  1862. 
Sarah  M.,  daughter  of  Louis  1'.  and  1  leurietta 
(Hancock)  Smith.  They  had  two  children, 
biith  of  whom  died  in  infancy. 


The  Kendalls  are  an  English 
KF.\'IX\I,1.  family  of  much  prominence 
and  are  definitely  traced  to 
the  middle  of  the  fifteenth  century.  It  is  .said 
by  some  authorities  that  the  name  is  derived 
from  the  town  of  Kendall  in  Westmoreland 
county,  that  among  its  rejiresentatives  have 
been  many  persons  of  distinction  in  govern- 
mental aiifairs,  several  branches  having  coats- 
of-arms  and  other  insignia  of  high  estate.  In 
the  mother  country  the  Kendalls  for  many 
generations  have  been  a  muiierous  family  in 
I'edfordshire,  lisse.x,  Derbyshire,  C(5rnwall, 
Devonshire.  Hertfordshire  and  as  well  in  other 
towns  and  shires  in  different  ])arts  of  the  king- 
dom. 

(  I )  John  Kendall,  progenitor  of  the  .Amer- 
ican family  of  that  surname,  was  living  in  1646 
in  Cambridge.  F'ngland,  and  died  there  in  1660. 
.Among  his  children  were  two  sons,  Francis 
and  Thomas,  both  of  whom  come  to  New  Eng- 
land. In  1644  Deacon  Thomas  Kendall,  one 
of  the  brothers,  was  a  proprietor  of  the  town 
of  Reading,  Massachusetts,  and  was  made  free- 
man there  in  1648.  He  married  and  had  a 
large  family  of  ten  daughters,  but  no  sons, 
hence  the  New  England  Kendalls  are  descend- 
ants of  Francis. 

(IT)    Francis,  son  of  |ohu  Kendall.  <if  Cam- 


bridge. England,  came  to  New  England  before 
1640,  and  in  December  of  that  year  with  thirty- 
one  others  signed  the  town  orders  of  Woburn. 
He  had  been  living  in  Charlestown,  of  which 
Woburn  then  was  a  part.  It  was  not  an  un- 
usual thing  with  the  early  immigrants  tOxAmer- 
ica  to  take  assumed  names  in  order  to  avoid 
vexatious  laws  and  occasionally  to  avoid  the 
vigilance  of  parents  who  frequently  objected 
to  the  emig'ration  of  their  sons;  and  the  tradi- 
tion is  that  Francis  Kendall  left  home  and 
country  against  the  wishes  of  his  father  and 
in  order  to  get  away  more  easily  he  took  the 
name  of  Miles.  He  was  made  freeman  in 
|C)48.  and  Sewall  in  his  history  of  Woburn  says 
that  "he  was  a  gentleman  of  great  respectability 
and  influence  in  the  place  of  his  residence." 
He  served  as  selectman  eighteen  years,  member 
of  the  committee  for  granting  town  lands  and 
for  building  the  meeting  house,  tythingman  in 
1676;  but  he  appears  not  to  have  been  in  full 
accord  with  the  teachings  of  the  ruling  church 
in  the  town  and  on  one  occasion  was  fined 
for  disobedience  of  the  church  requirements 
regarding  infant  bajitism.  His  occupation  was 
that  of  miller,  and  the  corn  mill  which  he  own- 
ed he  left  to  his  sons,  Samuel  and  John.  Th's 
mill  and  the  land  on  which  it  stands  has  re- 
mained in  possession  of  the  Kendall  family  to 
the  present  time,  and  the  building  now  or  very 
recently  standing  on  the  site  was  erected  by 
.^amuel  Kendall  in  1700.  Francis  Kendall  died 
in  1708,  aged  eighty-eight  years.  He  married. 
December  24,  1644.  ^lary,  daughter  of  John 
Tidd,  and  by  her  had  nine  children,  born  in 
Charlestown  or  Woburn:  i.  John,  July  2, 
1646.  2.  Thomas.  January  10,  1648-49.  3. 
.Mary.  January  20,  1650-51.  4.  Elizabeth,  Jan- 
uary 15.  1652-53.  5.  Hannah,  January  26, 
1(154-55.  6.  Rebecca,  March  2,  1657.  7.  Sam- 
uel, March  8,  1659.  8.  Jacob,  January  25, 
1660-61.     9.  .\bigail,  .April  6,  1666. 

(HI)  Jacob,  son  of  I<"rancis  and  Mary 
(  Tidd  )  Kendall,,  was  bom  in  Woburn,  Janu- 
ary 25,  1660-61,  and  spent  his  life  in  that 
town.  Some  accounts  mention  that  he  had 
twenty  or  more  children,  but  this  doubtless  is 
an  error  and  the  result  of  confusion  of  his  chil- 
dren with  those  of  his  son,  Jacob.  The  elder 
Jacob  married  ( first )  January  2, 1683-84.  Persis 
Ha)-\vard,  of  Woburn,  and  married  (second) 
lanuary  10,  1695,  Alice  Temple.  He  had  in 
all  seventeen  children:  i.  Persis,  .August  24. 
1685.  2.  Jacob,  twin,  January  12,  1686-87; 
died  soon.  3.  Jacob,  twin,  January  12,  1686-87. 
4.  Josejih.  December  17,  1688.  5.  Jonathan 
.Vovcmljer    2.    i6i)o.      6.    Daniel,    October    23. 


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i6yi.  7.  Ebenezer,  Xoveniber  9,  1695.  8. 
John,  January  6.  1696-97.  9.  Sarah,  July  18, 
1698.  lo.  Esther,  November  20,  1699.  11. 
Hezekiah,  ]\Iay  26,  1701.  12.  Natlian,  Decem- 
ber 12,  1702.  13.  Susanna,  October  27,  1704. 
14.  Phebe,  December  19.  1706.  15.  David, 
September  28,  1708.  16.  Ebenezer,  April  5. 
1710.     17.  Abraham,  April  26,  1712. 

(I\  )  Joseph,  son  of  Jacob  and  Persis 
(  Hayward  )  Kendall,  was  born  in  Woburn,  De- 
cember 17,  1688,  and  lived  in  that  town.  He 
married  twice  and  had  nine  children,  all  born 
in  Woburn:  i.  Jonathan,  October  29,  1718. 
2.  Joshua.  Alarch  7,  1719-20.  3.  Mary,  Jaitu- 
ary  6.  1723.  4.  Susanna,  July  24.  1727.  5. 
Oliver,  July  29,  1730.  7.  Jacob,  October  9, 
1738.  8.  Esther,  November  25,  1740.  9.  Sarah. 
March  5,  1743. 

(  \' )  Joshua,  son  of  Jose])h  and  Susanna 
Kendall,  was  born  in  Woburn.  March  7,  1719- 
20,  anil  lived  in  that  town.  He  married  (  first  i 
1745,  Esther  Liuck,  and  (second)  .May  2,  1753. 
Susanna  Johnson,  and  had  nine  children:  i. 
Joshua,  February  9,  I747-  2.  Jonathan,  Jime 
4,  1749;  died  young.  3.  Jonathan,  .September 
I,  1 75 1.  4.  Susanna.  January  25,  1754.  5. 
lienjamin,  March  16,  1756.  7.  Joel,  Decembet 
[6,  1766.  8.  Daniel,  .\ugust  8.  1771.  9.  Will- 
iam. July  14,  1774. 

l\'I)  Daniel,  son  of  Joshua  and  Susanna 
(Johnson)  Kendall,  who  was  born  August  8. 
1 77 1,  is  supposed  to  be  the  Daniel  Kendall  wlm 
lived  in  Haverhill  and  was  proprietor  of  a  tav- 
ern in  that  town.  The  name  of  his  wife  does 
not  appear,  and  indeed  the  records  of  Haver- 
hill give  no  account  of  him  or  of  his  family. 
He  had  several  children,  and  among  them  were 
sons.  William,  ilcnjamin,  Daniel  an  1  James, 
and  a  daughter,  .Anna. 

(  \  II  )  Daniel  (2),  son  of  Daniel  (  1  )  Ken- 
dall, of  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in 
Haverhill,  November  10,  1808;  died  in  Wis- 
consin, where  the  later  years  of  his  life  were 
spent.  1  le  was  a  morocco  dresser  by  trade  and 
followed  that  occupation  for  perha]3s  twenty- 
five  or  thirty  years,  first  in  Haverhill  and  after- 
ward in  Salem,  Massachusetts.  He  then  fol- 
lowed the  sea  for  a  time  and  made  several 
voyages,  later  removed  to  i'ortland,  Maine 
then  returned  to  Salem  and  in  the  fall  of  1859 
went  to  Wisconsin,  where  he  afterward  en- 
gaged in  farming  until  the  time  of  his  death. 
He  married  Lucy  IJray,  a  descendant  of  one 
of  the  old  New  England  families  which  was 
noted  for  the  number  of  its  sons  w'ho  were 
seafaring  men.  Eight  children  born  of  this 
marriage,  and  only  one  of  them  is  now  living. 


I  \  HI)  William  Boden,  son  of  Daniel  (2) 
and  Lucy  (Bray)  Kendall,  was  born  in  Davens- 
port,  near  Salem,  ilassachusetts,  August  9. 
1846.  He  was  a  boy  of  eleven  years  when 
his  father  removed  with  his  family  to  Wiscon- 
sin. He  lived  at  home,  attended  school  and 
worked  on  his  fatlier's  farm  until  he  was  six- 
teen years  old ;  he  then  went  to  Iowa  and  lived 
there  about  five  years,  and  then  went  to  Brook- 
ings county.  South  Dakota,  where  he  was  en- 
gaged in  farming  for  ten  years ;  in  November, 
18S7,  he  removed  to  Oregon,  settling  in  Lane 
county,  where  he  remained  two  years,  during 
which  time  he  served  in  various  ofificial  capac- 
ities in  the  township,  namely  :  School  director, 
township  treasurer  and  justice  of  the  peace. 
In  iSS'j  Mr.  Kendall  came  east  and  took  up 
his  residence  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  where 
he  has  since  resided.  For  twelve  years  he  was 
engaged  as  packer  for  the  firm  of  McNab  & 
Harlin.  He  is  a  member  of  (general  Grant 
Lodge,  No.  119,  Knights  of  j\Ialta;  Junior 
(.)rder  of  .A.merican  Mechanics ;  Daughters  of 
Liberty ;  Knights  of  ]\Iaccabees ;  Shepherds  of 
Llethlehem  and  the  Patriotic  ( )rder  of  Sons  of 
.\merica. 

He  married,  November  26,  1874.  Gorden, 
born  yiay  17.  1858,  daughter  of  Charles  K. 
and  lietsy  (Robertson)  Shaw.  Children:  i. 
Ilessie  G..  born  Se])tember  17.  1875;  tiled  June 
2,  1891.  2.  Daniel  B.,  ?klarch  10,  1877;  died 
July  9.  1892.  3.  Lucy  Gage,  June  22,  1879; 
married.  June  14,  1904,  George  H.  Drew-,  of 
Paterson,  New  Jersey.  4.  William  Boden,  Jr., 
.April  30,  1881  :  married,  November  4,  1903, 
Christine  Dodd.  5.  Charles  K..  June  2t.  1890; 
died  .\])ril   1 1.  1891. 


This  well  known  iMiglish  sur- 
11  Rt  )\\  .\  name  has  been  found  in  all  jjarti. 
of  America  since  the  early  days 
of  the  colonial  ])eriod.  Several  of  the  immi- 
grant ancestors  who  came  over  during  thai 
jieriod  were  in  some  manner  of  kin,  but  gen  ■ 
erally  the  families  were  not  related,  although 
having  the  same  name;  and  it  will  be  remem- 
bered that  Brown  is  one  of  our  common  Eng- 
lish surnames  which  antic|uarians  tell  us  are 
derived  from  a  color.  However,  the  family 
here  under  consideration  appears  to  have  come 
into  this  country  independent  of  any  other 
family  of  the  same  name,  and  appears  to  have 
been  among  the  earliest  English  families  in  the 
region  which  afterward  became  a  part  of  the 
Penn  proprietary. 

(  I )    ( leorge  lirown  and  .Mercy  his  wife  came 
from   Lancashire.   England,  in    1679,  altlumgh 


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they  were  not  married  until  their  arrival  at 
Xew  Castle.  They  settled  in  what  afterward 
became  Falls  township,  Bucks  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, on  land  surveyed  and  set  off  to  them 
under  a  warrant  granted  by  Edmund  Andres, 
governor  general  under  the  Duke  of  York. 
This  land  lay  along  the  Delaware  river  above 
the  Manor  of  Pennsbury,  and  a  part  of  it  has  re- 
mained in  possession  of  descendants  of  George 
and  .Mercy  Rrow'n  even  to  the  present  time. 
There  is  a  tradition  in  the  family  that  previous 
to  emigrating  from  England  George  Brown 
had  paid  court  to  a  sister  of  Mercy,  but  that 
she  declined  coming  to  .America,  upon  which 
he  offered  marriage  to  Mercy  if  she  would 
accompany  him  on  the  voyage  to  the  new 
world.  She  did  so  and  they  married  when  the 
voyagers  landed  at  Xew  Castle.  They  were 
progenitors  of  a  very  worthy  family  and  among 
their  descendants  have  been  foiuid  many  men 
of  iironiinence  in  public  life.  It  is  said  that 
'  ieorge  and  Mercy  Pirown  had  fifteen  chil- 
dren, several  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  Fight 
sons  and  three  daughters  survived  and  grew 
to  maturity.  George  Brown  was  born  in  1644. 
in  England,  and  died  in  Falls  townshiji,  Bucks 
county,  Pennsylvania,  in  1726.  .Among  his 
descendants  and  of  near  kin  to  the  family  of 
wliicli  this  article  is  intended  to  treat  was  Gen- 
eral Jacob  Brown,  who  was  so  prominently 
identified  with  our  national  military  history 
during  the  second  w-ar  with  the  mother  country. 

( II )  John,  who  was  probably  a  son  of 
(Ieorge  and  Mercy  Brown,  resided  in  Bucks 
county,  not  far  from  Yardville.,  where  the 
family  has  continued  for  two  centuries.  It  is 
difficult  ti>  <liscover  further  particulars  con- 
cerning him. 

I  111)  John  12),  son  of  John  (i)  Brown, 
was  burn  .August  23,  1732,  in  Bucks  county, 
Pennsylvania,  died  May  20,  181 5.  His  wife, 
Elizabeth  (surname  unknown  ), born  1722.  died 
.September  23,  1787. 

(  I\" )  Jonathan,  son  of  Jnhn  (2)  and  Eliza- 
beth Pirown,  was  born  .\ugust  8,  I7('i4,  near 
\'ardville.  died  January  19,  1842.  He  was  a 
successful  farmer.  He  married  .Apama  Kier, 
a  native  of  Bucks  county,  born  Xovember  14, 
I7f9.  died  .April  29,  1831.  She  was  a  daughter 
of  John  and  Hannah  Kier,  probably  of  Scotch- 
Irish  ancestry.  Children :  Jesse,  born  De- 
cember 2,  1787,  died  May  23,  1 861  :  Naomi, 
July  7,  1780.  died  May  10,  1865:  Xathan,  June 
24,  1791,  died  January  27.  1851  ;  John,  July 
22.  1793,  died  June  23,  1834:  Elizabeth,  Feb- 
ruary 7,  1796,  died  January  24,  1861  :  Phoebe. 
December  4. 1797,  died  Xovember  15, 1871,  Han- 


nah, March  31,  1800,  died  July  21.  1834;  .Sarah, 
June  3,  1802,  died  October  7,  1863;  Jonathan. 
-August  2,  1804,  died  Xovember  17,  same  year; 
Joseph,  Xovember  4.  i8ofi;  George  W.,  men- 
tioned below:  William,  .April  10,  iSii.  died 
-August  15,  1813, 

(  \' )  ( ieorge  \\'ashington,  sixth  son  of  Jon- 
athan and  .Apama  (Kier)  Brown,  was  born 
January  7,  1809,  near  Tullytown,  in  Falls 
townshi[),  Bucks  county,  died  at  Bristol,  March 
28,  1883.  He  was  a  farmer,  a  man  of  good 
understanding,  and  served  in  various  public 
capacities,  such  as  township  collector  and  coun- 
ty commissioner.  He  lived  during  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  on  the  farm  where  he  was  born, 
but  wdien  advanced  in  years'  he  sold  the  old 
homestead  and  went  to  Bristol  to  live  with  his 
daughters.  His  parents  were  Friends  and 
Air.  Brown  himself  was  brought  up  in  that 
faith.  He  was  a  Alason,  member  of  Bristol 
Lodge,  Xo,  25,  Free  and  .Accepted  Masons. 
Mr.  Brown  married  .Ann  .A.  Lovett,  who  was 
born  Xovember  29,  181 1,  near  Bristol,  Penn- 
sylvania, died  in  March,  1885,  a  daughter  of 
Jonathan  and  Mary  Lovett,  of  that  town.  Chil- 
dren :  Jonathan,  died  young;  William  W., 
died  young:  Mary,  lives  in  Bristol;  Amanda, 
now  dead :  X'ictoria,  now  dead ;  George  W,. 
mentioned  below:  .Anna,  married  Joseph  \'an 
Zant :  Ciulaelma,  now  dead:  Frank,  now  dead; 
.Ada  L.,  of  I'lristol,  Pennsylvania, 

( \  I )  George  Washington  (2),  son  of 
(ieorge  \\'ashington  I  I  )  and  .Ann  .A.  (Lovett) 
Brown,  was  born  near  Tullytown,  Bucks  coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania.  July  8,  1843.  He  attended 
public  schools  in  his  native  place  and  for  two 
terms  was  a  student  at  the  state  normal  school 
at  -Millersville,  Pennsylvania.  He  had  learned 
telegraphy  in  a  railroad  office  at  Tullytown 
before  going  away  to  school,  and  in  1862  he 
took  a  position  as  night  telegraph  operator  at 
Tullvtown,  continuing  there  about  three  years, 
an  1  in  1863  was  given  charge  of  a  contruction 
tram  at  I'rankfort  Junction,  a  branch  of  the 
Philadelphia  and  Trenton  railroad,  also  run- 
ning a  freight  train  into  Jersey  City.  In  1869 
he  was  made  conductor  of  a  mail  train,  in  full 
charge,  and  ran  on  the  .Amboy  division  until 
1872,  when  he  was  appointed  extra  conductor 
on  that  division.  He  next  w^ent  with  the  Penn- 
sylvania railroad  and  was  in  Trenton  and  Cam- 
den, Xew  Jersey,  as  e.xtra  passenger  conductor 
for  two  years.  On  March  11,  1874,  'i^  '^^"^s 
apixMntetl  station  agent  at  Xew  Egvpt,  New 
Jersey,  and  served  there  until  .April,  1888. 
when  the  Pennsylvania  railroad  abandoned 
that  part  of  the  road.     lie  then  turned  his  at- 


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tention  to  tlie  organization  of  the  Union  Trans- 
portation Company,  and  the  first  train  ran  over 
that  road  on  August  7,  1888,  Mr.  Brown  being 
superintendent  and  auditor  of  the  new  com- 
pany. This  position  he  resigned  in  1889  and 
in  IVIarch  of  that  year  went  on  drill  engines 
from  Long  Branch  to  Point  Pleasant,  moving 
freight  and  passenger  cars.  In  1890  he  was 
made  station  master  at  .Asbury  Park,  New 
Jersey,  but  in  October,  1890,  returned  to  New- 
Egypt.  Upon  first  coming  to  New  Egypt,  in 
1876,  Mr.  Brown  had  started  a  coal  business 
in  company  with  his  brother-in-law,  Winfield 
Scott  Chafey,  under  the  firm  name  of  Chafey 
&  Brown,  and  had  continued  in  it  during  all 
the  time  of  his  railroad  service.  Since  retiring 
from  railroading  he  has  taken  up  the  coal  busi- 
ness, enlarging  his  trade  by  dealing  in  agricul- 
tural implements,  farm  wagons,  fertilizers,  etc., 
and  devotes  his  entire  attention  to  the  busi- 
ness. Mr.  Brown  is  a  Democrat  and  for  sev- 
eral years  served  as  township  clerk.  He  is  a 
member  of  Pyramid  Lodge,  No.  92,  Free  and 
.Accepted  Masons,  of  New  Egypt,  of  which 
lodge  he  is  a  past  master,  and  its  present  secre- 
tary. He  is  also  a  Red  Man,  past  sachem  and 
trustee  of  Oneto  Tribe,  No.  81,  of  New  Egypt, 
and  of  the  auxiliary.  Daughters  of  Pocahontas, 
Wenonah  Council,  No,  22.  Mr.  Brown  is  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  in 
New  Egypt,  treasurer  of  the  board  of  trustees, 
and  a  Bible  class  teacher  in  the  Sunday  school. 
Mr.  Brown  married,  November  19.  1873. 
Sarah  E.,  daughter  of  Charles  P.  and  Martha 
P.  Chafey,  and  of  this  marriage  four  children 
have  been  born:  i.  Frank,  born  New  Egypt, 
July  3.  1874,  died  in  infancy.  2.  Mctoria,  born 
1888:  married  Edgar  O.  Murphy,  of  New 
Egypt,  a  travelling  salesman.  One  child,  Edgar 
Lomer,  born  New  Egypt,  November  17,  1903. 
3.  Helen  C,  born  New  Egypt,  died  at  the  age 
of  four  years.    4.  George,  died  in  infancy. 


The  Coppuck  family  of  New 
COl'I'L'CK  Jersey  has  for  generations 
been  identified  with  Mount 
Holly,  and  lUirlington  county,  and  by  its  inter- 
marriages with  the  other  historic  families  of 
that  region  has  jilaced  itself  among  the  repre- 
sentative families  of  the  state  and  nation. 
There  were  two  T'.artliolemew  Coppucks  who 
were  on  the  same  shi])  which  landed  at  Phila- 
delphia with  one  of  Penn's  colonies.  One,  it  is 
said,  settled  at  Dunk's  Ferry  ( now  Beverly, 
New  Jersey),  and  the  other  settled  at  Chester, 
Pennsylvania.  The  former,  it  is  said,  was  the 
progenitor  of  the  New  Jersey  Coppucks. 


(I)  James  Coppuck.  of  Mount  Holly,  who 
witnessed  the  will  of  John  Reeves,  in  i8oo,  and 
who  was  born  between  1760  and  1770,  is  the 
first  member  of  the  family  of  whom  we  have 
authentic  records.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Knight,  the  descendant  of  one  of  New  Jersey's 
famous  families,  which  includes  the  celebrated 
]iainter,  Daniel  Riilgway  Knight,  of  Philadel- 
phia. They  had  a  large  family,  among  whom 
were:  i.  William,  whose  daughter,  Amelia, 
married  a  W'elby,  and  was  the  celebrated 
poetess,  .\melia  \Velby.  2.  Joseph  Cooper,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  Peter  \'an  Pelt.  4.  George 
Washington.  5.  Elizabeth,  married  Joseph  C. 
Clark.     6.  Sarah  J.,  married  Brainard  Clark. 

(  II  )  Joseph  Cooper,  son  of  James  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Knight)  Coppuck.  was  born  at  Mount 
Holly,  New  Jersey,  June  21,  1800.  He  mar- 
ried Mary,  daughter  of  Captain  John  and  .Ann 
Graves.  Her  father  was  a  sea  captain  and 
commanded  a  privateer  in  the  war  of  181 2. 
The  children  of  Joseph  Cooper  and  Mary 
(Graves)  Cojipuck  were:  i.  .Anna  Graves, 
married  Noah  Zelley.  2.  Elizabeth  Cooper, 
married  John  H.  Curtis.  Jr.  3.  Malcolm  ]\Iac- 
Neran,  referred  to  below.    4.  ALiry  Letitia. 

(HI)  Malcolm  MacNeran,  third  child  and 
only  son  of  Joseph  Cooper  and  Mary  (Graves  ) 
Coppuck,  was  born  in  Alount  Holly,  New  Jer- 
sey, June  7,  1833,  and  is  now  living  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania.  When  he  was  two  years 
old.  his  parents  moved  from  Mount  Holly  to 
Philadel])hia,  where  he  attended  the  public 
schools  and  gratluated  from  the  high  school. 
.After  leaving  school  IMr.  Coppuck  went  into 
the  silk  importing  business,  and  after  work- 
ing for  some  time  in  one  of  the  largest  houses 
in  the  city,  he  went  into  a  wholesale  dry  goods 
house,  in  which  he  remained  until  October  i, 
1872,  when  he  was  made  chief  clerk  in  the 
bureau  of  highways  in  the  city  of  Philadel])hia. 
This  position  he  has  held  up  to  the  present 
time,  a  remarkable  tribute  to  his  worth  and 
aliilitv.  During  the  civil  war  Mr,  Coppuck 
enlisted  from  Philadelphia  in  the  Seventh 
Pennsylvania  State  Troops  in  order  to  repel 
the  invasion  of  Pennsylvania.  He  was  also 
for  a  time  one  of  the  public  school  directors 
of  Philadel])hia.  In  politics  Mr.  Coppuck  is  a 
Republican,  and  he  is  a  communicant  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  church.  For  many  years 
he  was  the  rector's  warden,  in  .\dvent  Church, 
Philadelphia.  He  is  now  connected  with  St. 
Stephen's  Church.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Church  Club,  of  Philadelphia ;  Veteran  Corps, 
First  Regiment  of  the  National  Guard,  of 
Pennsylvania ;  liaker  Post.  No.  8,  (irand  .Army 


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of  the  Republic,  of  Philadelphia;  I'hilo  Lodge, 
No.  444,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Phil- 
adelphia. Mr.  Coppuck  during  his  earlier  life 
devoted  considerable  time  to  designing  and 
also  has  some  fine  specimens  in  water  color 
which  he  executed  both  in  landscape  and 
portraiture. 

October  15,  1857,  Malcolm  Mac.Xeran  Cop- 
puck  married  (first)  Elizal)cth  E.,  daughter  of 
Robert  Lindsay,  of  Philadelphia.  Their  chil- 
dren are:  i.  \'irginia  Lindsay,  born  August 
25,  1859;  died  August  17,  1874.  2.  Marian 
Graves,  June  8,  1865 :  married  Charles  Wells 
Walker,  of  Chester  county.  Pennsylvania, 
whose  family  settled  in  New  Jersey  in  1685. 
They  have  two  children,  Eleanor  \Vells,  born 
September  16,  1897,  and  Edith  Lindsay,  June, 
1899.  3.  Edith  Hoffman,  August  17,  1875: 
died  in  1876.  Mrs.  Coppuck  died  January  28, 
1893.  He  married  (second)  June  6,  1895, 
Sarah  Louise  (  Lodor  )  Crcsson  :  she  died  June 
4.  1903- 

The  Pilgrim  family  has  been 
PllJlRlM  connected  with  the  history  of 
Salem  and  Cumberland  coun- 
ties. New  Jersey,  since  the  middle  of  the  eight- 
eenth century.  The  first  record  of  any  of  the 
names,  being  the  letters  of  administration  on 
the  estate  of  Frederick  Pilgrim,  who  died  there 
intestate  in  1768.  From  that  time  to  the  ])res- 
ent  the  name  occurs  with  more  or  less  fre- 
quency m  the  records,  but  the  information 
afforded  by  these  references  is  not  sufficient  to 
enable  us  to  trace  out  the  pedigree  with  ac- 
curacy until  we  reach  the  name  of  Maurice  or 
Morris,  the  ancestor  of  the  branch  at  present 
under  consideration. 

(  r  )  Maurice  IMlgrini,  who  was  widely  known 
and  one  of  the  most  infiuential  men  in  the 
counties  of  Cajie  May  and  Cumberland,  had 
among  other  children  a  son,  Simon  Snider,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(  Tl )  Simon  Snider,  son  of  Alaurice  Pilgrim, 
and  possibly  grandson  of  Frederick  Pilgrim, 
was  born  in  !May,  1 818,  at  the  little  village  of 
Tuckehoe,  Cape  May  county,  died  in  Uridge- 
ton.  New  Jersey,  about  1898.  In  early  life 
he  was  a  waterman,  but  later  on.  about  1830 
(  r  I  S3 1,  he  removed  to  Friesburg,  .Salem  coun- 
ty, and  engaged  in  farming.  So  strong,  how- 
ever, was  his  love  for  his  old  home  and  old 
calling  that  even  when  well  settled  in  life  as  a 
jirosperous  farmer  he  would  often  declare  his 
purpose  to  return  sometime  to  his  ocean  bound 
home  in  Cape  May  county.  He  remained,  how- 
ever, at  Friesburg,  and  in  the  fall  and  winter 


of  1858,  when  the  great  revival  occurred  at 
the  Alloway  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  then 
under  the  charge  of  the  Rev.  John  McDougall, 
Mr.  Pilgrim,  though  living  at  the  time  some 
six  miles  distant,  became  interested  and  at- 
tended the  services  every  night,  driving  the 
twelve  miles  and  often  taking  his  wagon  loaded 
with  his  neighbors.  The  result  was  his  con- 
version, and  the  dating  of  a  new  life  of  chris- 
tian experience,  which  lasted  until  the  close 
of  his  days.  Immediately  following  this  re- 
vival steps  were  taken  for  the  organization  of 
a  society  of  Methodists  and  the  building  of  a 
new  church  in  the  neighborhood  of  Harmony, 
a  struggling  settlement  near  Cohansey,  Cum- 
berland county,  and  to  the  furtherance  of  this 
object  no  one  contributed  more  than  Mr.  Pil- 
grim. For  the  whole  time  that  he  was  con- 
nected with  the  church  there,  he  was  in  some 
official  relation  such  as  steward,  trustee,  class 
leader.  Sunday  school  superintendent  and 
teacher,  and  the  place  where  the  pastor  oftenest 
enjoyed  the  hospitality  of  his  flock  was  the 
home  of  Mr.  Pilgrim.'  Late  in  March,  1888, 
Mr.  Pilgrim  moved  to  llridgeton,  and  made  his 
home  in  the  third  ward,  114  Hampton  street, 
where  he  continued  to  reside  up  to  the  time 
of  his  death.  He  was  buried  in  the  Broad 
street  cemetery.  In  politics  Mr.  Pilgrim  was  a 
Republican,  but  he  was  sufficiently  independent 
to  vote  his  convictions,  irrespective  of  party 
lines,  as  the  changing  trend  of  public  affairs 
from  time  to  time  might  determine. 

Simon  Snider  I'ilgrim  married  ( first )  the 
(laughter  of  Henry  Johnson,  a  member  of  one 
of  the  old  families  of  Salem  and  Cumberland 
counties,  by  whom  he  had  three  children ; 
Henry,  Mary  (or  May),  Cutoso.  .After  his 
first  wife's  death  he  married  (second)  .\bigail 
Msher.  of  Tuckahoe,  Cape  May  county,  who 
bore  him  three  more  children  :  Maurice,  M. 
1).,  of  Portland,  Maine,  now  deceased  :  Heber, 
a  gratluate  of  Lafayette  College,  of  Pennsyl- 
vania: John,  a  pharmacist  of  Philadelphia, 
who  died  in  April.  1907;  Sara,  of  Philadelphia. 

( III )   Henry  Johnson,  eldest  child  of  Simon 

Snider  and  (Johnson)    Pilgrim,   was 

horn  in  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey,  about  1850. 
died  in  1899.  He  was  a  manufacturer  all  of 
his  life,  and  a  member  of  the  Central  Meth- 
odist Episco]5al  Church,  of  liridgeton.  He 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Hiram  and 
Mary  Clark,  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  old 
families  of  Salem  and  Gloucester  counties. 
Her  brothers  and  sisters  were:  Charles  M., 
.Anna  Harker,  Katharine  Heintz,  Ella  Irelan 
and  Harriet  Hogate.     The  children  of  Henry 


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Johnson  and  Elizabeth  (Clark)  Pilgrim,  the 
latter  of  whom  died  in  1883,  are:  i.  Charles 
Clark,  referred  to  below.  2.  George  Douglass, 
married  \'iola  Palmer,  of  Philadelphia,  and  has 
one  child.  I'almer.  3.  Fldwin  H.,  died  as  a  baby. 

(  1\' )  Charles  Clark,  son  of  Henry  Johnson 
and  Elizabeth  (Clark)  Pilgrim,  was  born  in 
liridgeton.  New  Jersey,  September  6.  1874, 
and  is  now  living  in  Newark,  New  Jersey.  For 
his  early  education  he  attended  the  public 
schools  at  Bridgeton,  after  leaving  which  he 
went  to  the  Pennington  Seminary.  In  April. 
1895,  he  started  to  read  law  in  the  office  of 
Joseph  Coult  and  James  E.  Howell,  in  Newark, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as 
attorney  in  November,  1898,  and  as  counsellor 
in  1901.  Since  this  time  Mr.  Pilgrim  has  been 
engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion in  Newark,  where  he  has  met  with  more 
than  ordinary  success  and  is  regarded  as  one 
of  the  most  prominent  of  the  rising  generation 
of  lawyers.  In  politics  Air.  Pilgrim  is  a  Re- 
publican and  has  been  extremely  active.  He 
is  a  member  of  Radiant  Star  Lodge,  No.  190, 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows ;  of  the 
Indian  League  of  New  Jersey,  and  also  of 
General  Henry  W.  Lawton  Council,  No.  284, 
Junior  Order  of  L'nited  .American  Mechanics. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Calvary  Presbyterian 
Church. 

June  zj.  lyoo,  Charles  Clark  Pilgrim  mar- 
ried in  Newark,  New  Jersey ,  Cora  Belle, 
daughter  of  William  Henry  and  Harriet  .Ade- 
laide (  Barringer)  Elston.  Children:  i.  Mar- 
guerite .Adelaide,  born  February  25,  1902.  2. 
William  Barringer,  November  12.  1907.  Will- 
iam -Nelson  Elston,  brother  of  Cora  Belle 
(Elston)   Pilgrim,  married  Florence  E,  Smith. 

Dr.  William  Nelson  P.arringer,  father  of 
Harriet  .\.  (Barringer)  Elston,  was  one  of 
the  best  known  educators  in  the  United  States. 
He  was  born  in  Brunswick,  Rensselaer  county, 
New  'S'ork,  in  1826.  His  father,  John  Fred- 
erick P>arringer,  was  a  farmer.  In  early  life 
the  young  man  showed  an  aptitude  for  study, 
his  early  education  being  received  at  the  Troy 
.Academy,  after  graduating  from  which  at  the 
age  of  seventeen  he  began  teaching.  He  soon 
showed  his  ability  and  was  sought  for  and  filled 
more  responsible  positions  in  the  .schools  of 
Troy.  In  18^)6  he  was  called  to  Newark  as  prin- 
cipal of  Chestnut  street  school,  which  jiost  he 
filled  until  1877,  when  he  became  su])erintendcnt 
of  the  .Newark  schools,  continuing  as  such  until 
1896,  when  he  retired.  Dr.  Barringer  was 
(leejdy  learned  in  the  science  of  education.  The 
first  summer  school  under  municipal  authority 


was  established  by  him  in  Newark  in  1885. 
His  lectures  on  education  were  delivered  in 
all  the  principal  cities  of  the  country  and  in 
Europe.  He  received  the  degree  of  A.  M. 
from  I'rinceton  L'niversity,  and  from  the  New 
A'ork  L'niversity  that  of  Ph.  D.  He  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  National  Educational 
Association,  and  for  many  years  was  an  attend- 
ant upon  and  participant  in  its  deliberations.  A 
monument  to  his  memory  is  the  Barringer  high 
school  of  Newark.  He  died  at  Newark,  New 
Jersey,   February  4,   1907. 


The  Ililliards  are  of  French 
IHLLLARD     extraction,     descendants     of 

French  Huguenot  ancestors 
who  fled  to  England  during  the  reign  of  Louis 
NHL,  and  gave  origin  to  the  Hillyard  family 
of  England.  It  is  one  of  the  oldest  and  proud- 
est of  our  American  families  and  its  arrival  in 
this  country  antedates  the  settlement  of  Penn- 
sylvania under  William  Penn..  or  the  settle- 
ment of  New  Jersey  under  the  proprietors: 
and  it  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  in- 
fluential families  in  the  county  of  Kent  previ- 
ous to  the  time  when  Penn  received  his  royal 
grant.  The  Hilliard  family  of  New  Jersey  is 
the  offspring  of  two  of  the  most  distinguished 
blue-blooded  families  of  early  colonial  days, 
and  they  who  bear  the  honored  surname  can 
speak  with  pride  of  their  first  ancestors ;  can 
point  with  distinction  to  the  houses  and  public 
services  of  John  Hilliard,  of  Delaware,  and  of 
Bernard  Devonish,  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey. 
John  Hilliard  was  the  owner  of  large  tracts 
of  land  in  the  county  of  Kent,  and  was  him- 
self a  man  of  ability  and  education,  active  in 
everything  pertaining  to  civilization,  develop- 
ment and  ]jrogress.  He  was  highly  esteemed 
as  a  leading  man  of  his  time,  and  was  honored 
with  election  to  represent  Kent  county  in  the 
first  provincial  council,  under  Penn,  which  con- 
vened in  Philadelphia  on  the  loth  day  of  the 
5th  month,  1683. 

liernard  Devonish  occu]iied  much  the  same 
])osition  in  liurlington  county  as  John  Hilliard 
did  in  Kent  couiity.  He  came  to  America  in 
company  with  a  colony  of  the  Society  of 
F"riends  in  the  ship  "Kent"  and  landed  on  the 
easterly  shore  of  the  Delaware,  where  the  city 
of  Burlington  now  stands,  on  June  20,  1677. 
He  was  one  of  the  early  proprietors,  and  his 
name  is  subscribed  to  the  great  code  of  laws 
known  as  the  "Concessions  and  .Agreements  of 
the  Proprietors,  Freeholders  and  Inhabitants  of 
the  Province  of  West  New  Jersey,  in  Amer- 
ica,"   which    were   the    incentive   to   the   early 


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iiiHiiigration  wliic-h  prDciirud  the  best  human 
seed  of  all  Europe  with  which  to  plant  the 
states.  Bernard  Devonish  was  active  in  all  of 
the  measures  relating  to  the  proprietors,  and 
was  himself  a  large  landowner.  Between  the 
years  1660  and  1680  he  located  four  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  of  land  fronting  on  the  north 
side  of  Northam[)ton  or  Rancocas  river,  in 
what  now  is  \\  esthani]:)ton  township  in  Bur- 
lington county;  and  it  was  there  that  he  built 
his  mansion  house  and  named  the  locality 
"Dewberry  Hill,"  after  the  home  he  had  left 
in  England,  and  which  was  destined  to  become 
the  homestead  of  the  Milliard  family  of  New 
Jersey.  He  left  one  son,  Joseph,  who  died 
without  issue,  and  one  daughter,  Martha,  the 
mother  of  the  Hilliard  family  of  New  Jersey, 
through  whose  veins  only  the  blood  of  that 
noble  and  distinguished  ancestor  continues  to 
lluw. 

(  11  )  John  (2),  only  son  of  John  (  I)  Hill- 
iard, married  Martha,  daughter  of  Bernard 
Devonish,  about  the  year  1690.  and  from  the 
(late  of  that  union  through  nine  succeeding 
generations  their  descendants  have  largely 
l)een  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  By 
inheritence  from  her  parents,  and  by  convey- 
ance. Martha  Hilliard  became  possessed  of 
large  tracts  of  land,  but  the  tradition  is  that 
she  and  her  husband  continued  to  live  on  the 
homestead  at  Dewberry  Hill.  The  records 
show  that  John  Hilliard  was  born  in  1659  and 
that  his  wife,  Martha,  was  born  in  1668.  He 
died  intestate,  but  Martha  made  a  will.  They 
had  seven  children:  John.  Hester,  Martha, 
Joseph,  Elizabeth,  Jane  and  Edward,  the  family 
name  of  each  of  whom  is  written  in  the  record 
as  Hylliar.  In  this  connection  it  may  be  men- 
tioned that  in  1683,  when  John  Hilliard,  the 
ancestor,  was  a  member  of  the  council  his 
name  in  the  records  ap]iears  written'Hillyard, 
but  in  1695,  when  he  was  re-elected  member 
cif  the  assembly  his  name  is  written  Hilliard. 

(HI)  Edward,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Mar- 
tha (Devonish)  Hilliard.  was  born  on  the 
family  homestead  in  1706,  and  spent  his  life 
there.  He  made  his  will  the  17th  day  of  the 
6th  month,  ijC)h,  and  divided  a  large  property 
among  his  children.  He  married  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  and  Mary  ( Carlile )  Haines. 
She  was  born  nth  niDnth.  1716.  and  died  iith 
month.  1796.  Children  :  .Abraham,  died  single; 
Isaac,  luarried  Sarah  Haines;  Jacob,  married 
Martha  Robinson ;  Samuel,  married  Hannah 
Atkinson ;  Joseph,  married  Kesiah  Mullen ; 
Martha,  married  Job  Ridgway  ;  Mary ;  Eliza- 


beth ;  John,  married  ( iir>t )  .Mary  Heustis, 
(  second  )  Frances  Haines. 

(IV')  Jacob,  son  of  Edward  and  Sarah 
(Haines)  Hilliard,  was  born  and  spent  his  life 
on  the  family  homestead  at  Dewberry  Hill. 
At  the  time  he  assumed  proprietorship  of  thai 
property  the  friendly  relations  of  the  Ameri- 
can colonies  with  the  mother  country  were 
fast  growing  cold,  and  during  the  contest  which 
followed  he  was  compelled  to  remain  at  home 
and  do  service  in  the  broad  fields  of  agricul- 
ture; but  no  tory  blood  coursed  through  the 
veins  of  any  of  the  Hilliards,  for  patriotism, 
loyalty  and  good  citizenship  has  distinguished 
the  family  from  the  time  of  the  revolution  to 
the  present  generation  of  their  representatives. 
He  married  Martha  Robinson,  and  they  had 
eight  children:  Edward,  Samuel,  Margaret, 
.\braham,  Eben,  Kesiah  (died  young),  Will- 
iam and  Kesiah. 

(\')  Edward  (2),  son  of  Jacob  and  Manila 
(Robinson)  Hilliard,  was  born  in  1769,  and 
is  presumed  to  have  been  the  progenitor  of 
the  family  of  the  particular  line  here  treated. 
He  was  engaged  in  extensive  farming  enter- 
prises and  owned  several  tracts  of  valuable 
farm  lands.  He  married  Nancy  Stockton. 
Children:  Mary.  .\nn,  Nancy  Stockton,  Frank- 
lin, Edward  and  Jonathan. 

( \T  I  Franklin,  son  of  Edward  (2)  and 
Xancy  (Stockton)  Hilliard,  was  born  at  \'in- 
centown,  Xew  Jersey,  March  14,  1817,  died 
there  P^ebruary  28,  1889.  The  earlier  years 
of  his  business  life  were  spent  on  his  father's 
farm,  and  as  a  boy  he  was  sent  to  the  township 
school.  In  1854  he  went  to  Salem,  Columbia 
county,  Ohio,  purchased  a  farm  and  remained 
there  about  eight  years.  After  his  return  home 
he  lived  in  \'incentown  and  kept  a  livery  stable 
and  business  until  his  retirement  from  active 
pursuits.  In  politics  he  was  originally  a  Whig 
and  afterward  became  a  Rejniblican.  and  at 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a  deacon  in  the 
Baptist  church,  where  a  memorial  window  in- 
dicates the  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  in  the 
community  in  which  he  lived.  He  married. 
December  31.  1840,  Lydia  Heuling,  daughter 
of  (ieneral  William  Irick.  She  was  born  Sep- 
tember 15.  1822.  died  in  September,  1900. 
Children:  William  Henry  Irick.  a  dentist,  of 
Bordentown,  Xew  Jersey;  Mary  Aim,  married 
Lyman  Sowers  and  died  in  Ohio;  Franklin 
Stockton ;  and  Winfield  Scott,  a  pharmacist, 
of  Mt.  Holly. 

(\TI)  Franklin  Stockton,  son  of  PVanklin 
and  Lvdia  Heuling  (Irick)  Hilliard.  was  born 


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STATE    OF    NEW    lERSEY. 


in  \  iiicentovvn,  New  Jersey,  December  28, 
1847.  'i"<^l  ^^'33  a  boy  of  seven  years  when  his 
father  removed  to  Ohio.  He  was  brought  up 
to  farm  work  and  during  his  boyhood  days  w'as 
sent  to  the  district  school  of  the  town.  On 
May  21,  1862,  during  the  second  year  of  the 
civil  war,  he  enlisted  for  three  months  as  pri- 
vate in  Company  G,  of  the  Eightj'-fourth  Ohio 
X'olunteer  Infantry,  and  during  the  term  of 
eidistment  liis  regiment  was  assigned  to  guard 
and  provost  duty  along  the  line  of  the  Balti- 
more and  Ohio  railroad  in  Maryland.  He  was 
mustered  out  of  service  at  Delaware,  Ohio. 
September  20,  1862,  and  on  October  i.  1863, 
re-enlisted  as  private  in  Com])any  B,  of  the 
Twelfth  Ohio  X'olunteer  Cavalry,  and  served 
under  Sherman  during  his  famous  "march  to 
the  sea."  In  his  regiment  Mr.  llilliard  w^as 
chief  bugler  and  during  a  part  of  his  service 
was  a  member  of  the  brigade  band.  He  took 
part  in  a  number  of  engagements  and  on  one 
occasion  was  taken  ])risoner,  but  was  recap- 
tured by  the  Union  troops  after  about  ten  days 
in  the  hands  of  tlie  enemy.  He  was  mustered 
out  with  the  regiment  November  14,  1865, 
then  returned  to  Salem,  Ohio,  and  from  thence 
came  to  Vincentown,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
found  employment  as  clerk  in  Jacob  Heisler's 
drug  store.  He  remained  there  about  two 
years,  gaining  a  good  understanding  of  the 
business  during  that  time.,  and  then  became  a 
student  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy. W  bile  living  in  that  city  he  was  em- 
ployed by  William  R.  \\'arren.  a  manufactur- 
ing chemist,  and  remained  with  him  for  a  year 
and  a  half,  then  returned  to  New  Jersey  and 
began  business  on  his  own  account,  becoming 
proprietor  of  the  first  drug  store  in  Tucker- 
town.  In  1871  Mr.  Pfilliard  removed  from 
Tuckertown  to  X'incentown  and  became  pro- 
prietor of  tlie  drug  business  formerly  carried 
on  by  .Alfred  Dobbins.  Since  that  time  he  has 
added  materially  to  the  original  stock,  and  had 
not  lieen  long  identified  with  business  interests 
in  \  incentown  before  he  became  recognized 
among  the  leading  men  of  the  town.  He  was 
largely  instrumental  in  organizing  the  local 
water  works  company  and  also  in  establishing 
and  operating  the  water  sujijily  system ;  and 
to-day  he  is  still  president  of  the  company. 
He  is  a  director  and  vice-president  of  the 
Farmers'  Line  Telephone  Company  between 
\'incentown  and  Taljernacle,  president  of  the 
Burlington  County  Retail  Druggists'  .Associa- 
tion, president  since  its  reorganization  of  the 
Vincentown  Fire  Comjiany  and  was  promi- 
nently   identified    with    the    reorganization    of 


that  company  and  the  work  of  placing  it  on  an 
efficient  l)asis.  He  also  was  one  of  the  lead- 
ing spirits  in  starting  a  shoe  factory  in  \  in- 
centt)wn  and  was  a  director  of  the  company 
which  operated  the  factory  and  business.  He 
is  past  master  of  Central  Lodge.  Xo.  44,  Free 
and  -Vccejited  Masons,  member  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  New  Jersey,  member  and  for  sev- 
eral years  has  been  commander  of  T.  W.  Eayre 
Post.  Xo.  49,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
and  member  and  senior  warden  of  Trinity 
Episcopal  Church,  of  A'incentown.  In  1869 
Mr.  Hilliard  married  Rebecca  Jose[)hine, daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  Pliarf),  of  Tuckertown.  Children  : 
.Marion  Pharo.  a  graduate  of  the  State  Xormai 
school  at  Trenton,  and  now  a  teacher  in  Engle- 
wood.  New  Jersey  :  Grace,  married  Frank  Ross 
and  has  one  child,  Donald  Hilliard  Ross ;  Flor- 
ence ;  Irving,  died  yotmg ;  Bayard,  a  graduate  of 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  and  now  in 
business  with  liis  father. 


(For  preceding  generations  see  Walter  Reeve.s  1  r. 

(Ill)  Thomas,  eldest  son  and 
REE\'ES  heir  of  John  and  Ann  (Brad- 
gate  )  Reeves,  was  born  in  lUir- 
lington  county.  New  Jersey,  about  1700,  died 
in  Deptford  township,  Gloucester  county,  De- 
cember 2,  1780.  His  gravestone  is  the  oldest 
in  the  ancient  Reeves  burying  ground.  He 
was  a  well  to  do  farmer  and  landed  proprietor. 
Cp  to  about  1734  he  lived  in  Wellingborough 
townshiji,  Burlington  comity,  and  then  re- 
iuii\'c(l  til  ( lli.iucester  county  where  he  spent 
the  remainder  of  his  life.  P)y  his  wife.  Sarah, 
who  probably  survived  him  and  has  been  con- 
jectiu'ed  from  the  name  of  his  elflest  son  to 
liave  been  one  of  the  Biddies,  he  had  children : 

1.  P>iddle,  referred  ta  below.  2.  .Arthur,  mar- 
ried  Mary  Cox.     3.   Thomas,  born   February 

2.  1728;  died  July  25,  1802;  married  Keziah 
Brown.  4.  Ann,  married  John  Wood,  of  Glou-- 
cester.  5.  Rachel,  married  probably  in  Old 
Swedes  church.  Philadelphia.  Benjamin  Rambo. 
().  Joseph,  born  Jinie  20.  1743;  died  January. 
1825;  married  (first)  Elizabeth  Morgan  and 
(second)   Sarah  Gill. 

(IV)  Biddle,  eldest  son  and  child  of  Thomas 
and  Sarah  Reeves,  was  born  in  P>urlington  or 
Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey,  died  in  Dept- 
ford township,  Gloucester  county,  in  1789.  He 
lived  in  De])tford,  was  a  farmer,  distiller  and 
landed  ])roprietor.  His  home  ])lantation  was 
about  one  and  a  half  miles  from  Woodbury,  on 
the  road  from  that  place  to  Mantua.  He  was 
married  twice,  but  the  name  of  his  first  wife 
is  unknown.    His  second  wife.  .Ann  (Clement) 


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717 


Reeves,   surviveil   him.      By   his  first    wife   he 
had  one  son,  Josiah,  born  Xovember  1 1,  1756. 

(iietl  April.  1808;  married  Esther  .    By 

liis  second  wife  he  had  eleven  more  children 
2.  Mary,  born  September  12,  1760;  married 
John  Groff.  3.  Thomas,  referred  to  below.  4. 
.\nn.  February  26.  17O4;  died  Jidy  25,  1849; 
married  Archibald  Moffett.  5.  liiddle,  jr.. 
(October  4,  1766:  died  June  2,  1828;  married 
(first)  Elizabeth  Haines,  and  (second)  Eliza- 
beth Ellis.  6.  Elizabeth.  June  10,  1768;  died 
in  infancy.  7.  Joseph,  March  16,  1771  ;  died 
1825;  married  Sarah  Grofif.  8.  Clement,  March 
19,  1772;  died  July  5,  1819:  married  .Sarah 
Wood.  9.  John,  March  22,  1775;  died  unmar- 
ried. 10.  Desire,  March  9,  1777.  11.  Sarah, 
.\ugiist  I,  1779;  died  March  23,  1875;  mar- 
ried John  Smith.  12.  Elizabeth,  May  12,  1783; 
died  January  18.  1837:  married  John  Mul- 
ford. •  -  • 

(  \' )  Thomas  (2),  second  child  and  eldesv 
son  of  Biildle  and  Ann  (Clement)  Reeves,  was 
born  in  Gloucester  county,  April  25,  1762,  died 
there  September  18,  i8ig.  He  was  a  farmer. 
Iiaving  a  plantation  in  Greenw-ich  township, 
(iloucester  county.  He  married  (first)  Mary 
VV'ood ;  (second)  Abigail  Thompson;  (third) 
Sarah  Haines.  His  children  were:  i.  Thomas, 
died  April  6,  1840,  aged  fifty-six  years;  mar- 
ried Hannah  Sitgreaves.  2.  Joseph,  born  Jan- 
uary 10.  1799;  died  October  18,  1824;  married 
Mary  Gill.  The  above  two  most  probably 
by  first  wife.  3.  Charles,  referred  to  below. 
4.  Mary  Ann.  born  April  I,  1802;  married 
Thomas  S.  Dyer.  5.  Desire,  December  18, 
1804;  died  February  14,  1822;  married  Joseph 
C.  Gill.  6.  Abigail,  who  died  unmarried.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife. 

(\'I)  Charles,  eldest  child  of  Thomas  (2) 
and  .Abigail  (Thompson)  Reeves,  was  born  in 
Gloucester  county,  November  27,  1800,  died  in 
Camden,  New  Jersey,  May  30,  1865.  He  was 
a  gentleman  farmer  and  for  ten  or  twelve  years 
was  a  lay  judge.  December  12,  1822,  he  mar- 
ried Beulah  Ann,  born  April  27,  1803,  died 
December  26,  1880,  daughter  of  Joseph  Van- 
ncmann  and  Elizabeth  (Tiers)  Clark.  Their 
children  were:  i.  Joseph  Clark,  born  August 
I,  1824;  died  November  29,  1824.  2.  Eliza- 
beth Clark,  November  27,  1827;  died  April  28, 
1885.  3.  Abbie  Augusta,  May  14,  1830;  died 
October  14,  1903.  4.  Charles  Carroll,  referrea 
to  below.  5.  Frances  Stratton,  September  6, 
1834;  married  John  R.  Stevenson.  j\I.  D.,  of 
Hadf'onfield,  New  Jersey,  and  is  now  living 
in  that  place.  6.  Samuel  Southard.  March  i> 
1836;  died  June  4,  1880;  married  Elizabeth  S. 


Yard.      7.    William    I 'cnningtcm.    January    14, 
1 84 1  ;  died  September  30,   1870. 

(\TI)  Charles  Carroll,  fourth  child  and  sec- 
ond son  of  Charles  and  Beulah  .Ann  (Clark) 
Reeves,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, .April  5,  1832;  died  June  8,  1903.  He 
graduated  from  the  Peimington  .Academy,  and 
as  a  young  man  went  into  a  wholesale  wool 
house  in  Philadel])hia  for  a  short  time,  and 
then  took  a  position  in  the  National  State  Bank 
in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  where  he  remained 
for  thirty-five  years,  thirty-one  of  which  he 
was  the  paying  teller.  He  then  accepted  the 
position  of  cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank 
of  Camden,  and  after  holding  this  post  for  five 
years  longer  he  went  into  the  flour,  grain  and 
feed  business  in  the  same  city  and  continued  in 
that  until  about  two  years  prior  to  his  death, 
when  on  account  of  disability  he  retired  from 
all  active  business.  He  was  a  Republican,  a 
member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Me- 
chanics, and  a  communicant  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  church.  June  9,  1864,  Charles  Carroll 
Reeves  married  Elizabeth  Sarah,  born  March  4, 
1 832,  in  Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania,  died 
in  1899,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  (Lentz) 
Re.x.  Her  father  was  born  in  Chestnut  Hill, 
Philadelphia,  September  15,  i8o3,  died  1852, 
son  of  Levi  and  Catharine  (Riter)  Rex.  He 
married,  March  i,  1826,  Sarah  Lentz,  born 
.September  29,  1807,  died  September  3,  1882, 
daughter  of  Jacob  and  .Ann  (Schultz)  Lentz. 
The  children  of  Charles  Carroll  and  Elizabeth 
Sarah  (Re.x)  Reeves  were:  i.  Charles  Carroll, 
Jr.,  referred  to  below.  2.  Frederick  Rex,  born 
in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  in  1869,  graduated 
from  the  public  schools  of  Camden  and  the 
Penn  charter  school  of  Pennsylvania ;  read 
law  in  the  ofiice  of  his  uncle,  Walter  E.  Rex, 
in  Philadelphia,  was  admitted  to  the  Philadel- 
])hia  bar  in  1890,  and  is  now  practicing  in  that 
city.  He  married  Emily  H.,  daughter  of 
Philip  J.  Scovel,  of  Bordentown,  New  Jersey, 
now  practicing  law  in  Camden. 

(VH)  Charles  Carroll,  Jr.,  eldest  son  of 
Charles  Carroll  (i)  and  Elizabeth  Sarah 
(Re.x)  Reeves,  was  born  in  Camden,  October 
15,  1865,  and  is  now  living  in  Florence,  New 
Jersey.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Camden  and  \\'illiam  Fewsmith's  school  in 
Philadelphia.  He  then  went  with  his  uncle, 
Frederick  A.  Rex,  in  the  wholesale  tea.  coffee 
and  spice  business  in  Philadelphia.  After  re- 
maining in  this  for  a  year,  he  went  in  1886  out 
west  to  Montana  and  Wyoming  and  spent 
three  years  there  on  a  ranch  as  a  cow  puncher. 
Tn  1888  he  returned  to  the  east  and  entered  the 


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employ  of  tlie  Philadelphia  and  Reading  rail- 
road, in  the  Philadelphia  office  of  the  freight 
department,  where  he  remained  for  about  a 
year  and  a  half.  He  then  for  a  short  time  went 
into  the  State  Hank  in  Camden,  and  left  this 
position  to  become  search  clerk  for  the  West 
Jersey  Title  Company,  with  whom  he  remained 
for  about  two  years.  In  1891  he  went  into 
the  office  of  the  Camden  Iron  Works  as  cost 
clerk  and  organized  the  cost  department,  which 
jKDsition  he  held  for  seven  years,  when  he  was 
made  general  foreman  of  the  works  and  filled 
this  latter  position  for  nine  years  longer.  In 
1907,  after  sixteen  years  service  with  the  Cam- 
rlen  Iron  Works,  he  was  transferred  to  the 
Florence  Iron  Works  at  Florence,  New  Jer- 
sev.  and  was  made  assistant  superintendent, 
and  im  the  death  of  the  superintendent,  W.  F. 
Thatcher,  in  the  summer  of  k)o8,  he  was  in 
the  ensuing  August  appointed  superintendent, 
a  position  he  now  holds,  having  under  him 
some  twelve  hundred  men.  Mr.  Reeves  is  a 
Republican,  and  was  a  member  of  the  board  of 
health  in  Haddonfield,  where  he  resided  for  a 
time  while  he  was  working  in  Camden.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  A.  U.  O.  M.,  of  Camden  ;  was 
an  elder  and  communicant  in  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Camden,  and  is  now  a  vestry- 
man of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church  in 
Florence.  In  1892  Charles  Carroll  Reeves 
married  Louise  Thompson,  daughter  of  Philip 
I.  Scovel,  of  Camden.  New  Jersey.  They  have 
no  children. 


The  Middleton   family  of 
.MIDDLFTON      New  Jersey  ranks  among 

the  oldest  and  staunchest 
of  the  old  patric>tic  colonial  families  that  have 
brought  during  the  course  of  the  centuries 
honor  and  glory  to  their  state,  their  country 
and  themselves.  Not  the  least  of  these  honors 
is  due  to  the  fact  that  the  family  numbers 
among  its  representatives  Arthur  Middleton, 
one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence. The  branch  of  the  family  at  pres- 
ent under  consideration  is  that  which  has  for 
centuries  been  identified  with  Camden  county 
and  city. 

I  1  )  .Amos  .Archer  Miildleton,  son  of  Timo- 
thy .Middleton,  is  the  foimder  of  the  branch  at 
present  under  consideration.  He  was  born  in 
Camden  county.  May  i_^,  1794,  where  he  jiassed 
his  life  as  a  farmer,  and  died  (Ictober  13,  1 840;. 
He  married  Priscilla  Smallwood,  born  near 
Haddonfield.  New  Jersey,  December  2,  1785, 
died  .April  12,  1832.  Children:  i.  Robert 
.Smallwood.  a  nhvsician,  who  was  the  first  to 


introduce  tiie  practice  of  homeopathic  medicine 
in  Burlington  county,  where  he  established  a 
large  practice,  but  being  ambitious  for  a  larger 
field  of  labor,  afterwards  removed  to  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  where  he  passed  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  2.  Amos,  of  Camden, 
New  Jersey ;  merchant.  3.  Timothy,  referred 
to  below.  4.  Margaret,  married  Alfred  Githens, 
a  farmer  of  Camden.  5.  Priscilla.  married 
Isaac  Flinchman,  of  Camden.  6.  Elizabeth, 
married  John  Wright,  of  Camden. 

(II)  Timothy,  son  of  Amos  Archer  and 
Priscilla  (Smallwood)  Middleton,  was  born 
in  Camden,  New  Jersev,  January  21,  1817: 
died  .Ajiril  15,  1867.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
merchant.  At  one  time  he  was  mayor  of  Cam- 
den, and  also  a  superintendent  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania railroad.  He  married  Hester  A.  R., 
daughter  of  Andrew  and  Lydia  (Wiltse)  Jen- 
kins, of  Camden,  November  19,  18.^0.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Alelbourne  Fletcher,  referred  to  be- 
low. 2.  Alelinda  E.  3.  .Amos  Archer.  4.  Eliz- 
abeth   Smallwood.      5.    Timothy  Jenkins. 

(III)  Alelbourne  Fletcher,  son  of  Timothy 
and  Hester  A.  R.  (Jenkins)  Middleton,  was 
born  in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  January  21, 
1842,  and  is  now  living  at  No.  227  Cooper 
street,  that  city.  P'or  his  early  education  he 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Camden  and  of 
Philadeljihia.  .After  leaving  school  he  return- 
ed to  his  father's  farm  near  Camden,  on  which 
he  worked  for  the  ensuing  four  years,  and  then 
for  a  short  time  held  a  position  as  a  clerk  in 
his  uncle's  store.  After  this  he  became  a  sales- 
man in  a  cloth  house  in  Philadelphia,  which 
he  gave  up  to  become  an  assistant  bookkeeper 
in  tlie  office  of  Dr.  D.  Jayne  &  Son,  of  Phil- 
adelphia, being  very  soon  appointed  the  general 
correspondent  for  that  firm,  which  position  he 
held  for  two  years,  when  his  health  failing  he 
became  one  of  its  traveling  men,  continuing  in 
that  position  for  over  two  years,  when  he  re- 
signed to  enter  upon  the  realization  of  his  hopes 
and  dreams  cherished  since  early  childhood, 
and  took  up  the  study  of  medicine.  This  he 
had  begun  while  he  was  still  in  Dr.  Jayne's 
office  by  attending  lectures  in  single  branches 
of  medicine  each  winter.  In  the  fall  of  1866 
he  entered  the  Hahnemann  Medical  College  of 
Philadelphia,  and  after  attending  the  full 
course  of  lectures  there  was  graduated  with 
the  degree  of  M.  D.,  March  4,  1868,  when  he 
immediately  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  Camden,  New  Jersey.  From  the 
very  beginning  Dr.  Middleton  met  with  suc- 
cess, and  his  high  c|ualifications  for  a  medical 
practitioner  coupled  with  his  other  gifts,  both 


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social  and  personal,  have  made  him  one  of  the 
mo.st  .successful  physicians  in  the  state.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  \\'est  Jersey  Homoeopathic 
Medical  Society,  a  member  of  the  American 
Institute  of  Homoeopathy.  He  is  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Camden  Homoeopathic  Hos- 
pital and  Dispensary  Association,  and  in  1880, 
through  his  influence,  the  practice  of  homoeo- 
pathy was  introduced  into  the  Camden  County 
.■\sylum  for  the  Insane.  He  is  also  an  ex-presi- 
dent of  the  New  Jersey  State  Homoeopathic 
Medical  Society.andof  the  West  Jersey  Homoe- 
o]jathic  Medical  Society.  For  eight  years  Dr. 
Middleton,  who  is  a  Republican,  was  a  member 
of  the  board  of  education  of  the  city  of  Camden. 
He  is  now  and  has  been  for  fifteen  years  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  health  of  the  city  of 
Camden.  He  is  a  member  of  Camden  Lodge. 
No.  15,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  he  is 
a  member  of  the  Centenary  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church,  of  Camden. 

March  16,  1871.  Melbourne  Fletcher  J^Iiddle- 
ton,  M.  D.,  married  Emily  M.,  youngest  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  Henry  and  Elizabeth  King. 
Her  father  was  one  of  the  oldest  and  most 
highly  respected  sea  captains  sailing  out  of 
the  port  of  Philadelphia ;  at  the  age  of  twenty 
he  was  master  of  his  own  ship,  and  after  fol- 
lowing the  sea  as  captain  for  fifty  years  retired 
and  spent  the  remaining  years  of  his  life  quietly 
at  his  home  in  Camden.  He  was  an  honored 
member  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  had 
formerly  lived  in  Philadel])hia,  but  about  the 
year  1846  removed  to  Camden,  where  he  died 
February  14,  1884,  at  the  age  of  ninety-four 
vears.  The  children  of  Dr.  Melbourne  Fletcher 
and  Emily  M.  (King)  Middleton  were:  i. 
Melbourne  Fletcher,  see  forward.  2.  Arthur 
Lincoln,  see  forward.  3.  Timothy  Grant,  see 
forward.    4.  Elizabeth  King. 

(I\')  Melbourne  Fletcher  (2).  son  of  Mel- 
bourne Fletcher  (i)  and  Emily  M.  (King) 
Middleton,  was  born  February  22,  1877.  and 
is  associated  with  the  firm  of  Charles  D.  Bar- 
ney &  Company,  bankers,  at  No.  124  South 
Fourth  street,  Philadelphia,  who  are  the  busi- 
ness successors  to  the  old  firm  of  Jay  Cook  & 
Company,  who  rendered  such  valuable  aid  to 
the  government  during  the  civil  war.  He  mar- 
ried Jessamine  Weatherby,  of  Camden.  Octo- 
ber 25.  igoo:  they  have  two  children,  l^orothy. 
and  Melbourne  Fletcher,  the  third. 

(I\")  Arthur  Lincoln,  son  of  Melbourne 
Fletcher  (  i)  and  Emily  "SI.  (King)  Middleton, 
was  born  .August  20,  1878.  He  married  Nancy, 
daughter  of  James  and  Elizabeth  Baird,  July 
29.  1907. 


(I\')  Timothy  ( irant,  twin  brother  of 
Arthur  Lincoln  Middleton,  son  of  .Melbourne 
Fletcher  (i)  and  Emily  M.  (King)  Middle- 
ton,  was  born  August  20,  1878.  He  married 
Jennie  E.  daughter  of  Charles  and  Elizabeth 
Rudoli)h,  and  they  have  five  children :  Joseph 
Everett,  Henry  King,  Newell  Melbourne.  Pan! 
Fletcher,  Donald  Maze  Middlet<in. 


The  name  is  inulouhtedly 
APPLEG.VTE  derived  from  the  Saxon 
word  Applegrath.  In  Eng- 
land there  were  ancient  families  named  Apple- 
grath, Appleyard  and  Appleworth,  each  signi- 
fying apple  orchard.  The  founder  of  the 
.\pplegate  family  in  America,  or  rather  the  first 
of  the  name  to  be  found  in  America,  was 
Thomas  A])i)legate.  wdio  went  from  England 
tt)  Holland  with  a  party  of  discontented  fellow- 
Englishmen  before  1635,  which  date  he  left 
his  temporary  haven  of  refuge  in  Holland  and 
came  to  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  where  he 
was  licensed  by  the  general  court  to  run  a  ferry 
between  Weymouth  and  Braintree.  His  name 
then  disappears  from  the  colonial  records  of 
Massachusetts  IJay  and  appears  in  Rhode 
Island,  1640. 

(I)  Thomas  Applegate  was  in  New  Amster- 
dam so  early  as  1641,  and  he  secured  a  patent 
of  land  on  Nassau  Island  at  Gravesend,  No- 
vember 12,  1646,  and  in  1647  ^^  's  named 
among  the  patentees  of  the  borough  of  Flush- 
ing in  the  North  Riding  of  Yorkshire  on  Long 
Island,   the   patent   bearing  date   October    19. 

1647.  and  signed  by  Governor  General  William 
Kieft.  In  iC)5i  the  authorities  of  New  Amster- 
dam sentenced  him  to  have  his  tongue  bored 
through  with  a  red-hot  iron,  the  sentence  being 
pronounced  on  his  having  charged  the  director- 
general  with  bribery.  After  the  sentence  he 
relented  of  his  wrongful  charge  and  the  sen- 
tence was  interru])ted  by  a  pardon  from  the 
director-general.      He    married.    February    9, 

1648.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Charles  Morgan, 
magistrate  of  Gravesend,  1657-63.  His  land 
in  Gravesend  was  purchased  from  John  Rick- 
man,  one  of  the  original  thirty-nine  lots  into 
which  Gravesend  was  divided  in  1646.  The 
children  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Morgan) 
Applegate  were:  i.  John,  w^ho  appears  on  the 
list  of  residents  of  Gravesend.  Long  Island. 
1650.  and  in  1655  as  of  Thompson's.  Long 
Island.  In  1661  John  .\pplegate  is  charged 
with  smuggling  in  New  Amsterdam.  In  1663 
he  is  a  freeholder  of  Oyster  Bay.  Long  Island, 
and  with  his  w'ife  Avis  or  Avies  he  is  in  Fair- 
field. Connecticut,  where  he  signs  his  name  John 


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Ai)|jclgatc  and  his  wife  signed  her  name  Aves 
Applegate.  2.  Arien  Appel,  took  the  oath  of 
allegiance  to  the  English  government  in  1664. 
3.  Bartholomew,  married,  October,  1650,  Han- 
nah Patricke,  and  was  among  the  purchasers  of 
land  in  Aliddletown,  Monmouth  county.  New 
Jersey,  in  1674.  He  signed  his  name  Barthol- 
inel  Apelgate,  but  it  is  not  evident  that  he  set- 
tled there.  4.  Thomas,  see  forward.  5.  Han- 
nah. Thomas,  the  immigrant,  died  at  Grave- 
send.  Long  Island,  between  1652  and  1660. 

(II)  Thomas  (2),  fourth  son  of  Thomas 
(  1  )  and  Elizabeth  (Morgan)  .Applegate,  born 
before  1653,  married  Johanna,  daughter  of 
Richard  Gibbons,  who  was  one  of  the  twelve 
.Mnnniouth  county  patentees.  On  October  19, 
ibjj.  Thomas  Applegate,  Sr.,  secured  by  a 
quit-claim  deed  two  hundred  and  forty  acres  of 
upland  and  meadow  in  Shrewsbury  tow-nship, 
Alimniouth  county,  New  Jersey,  and  Thomas 
.V[)plegate,  Jr.,  secured  one  hundred  and 
twenty  acres  of  similar  land  on  the  same  date. 
This  was  three  years  after  they  came  to  Mid- 
dletown  and  secured  the  same  land  by  Dutch 
warrant,  under  the  government  of  New  Nether- 
lands.    Thomas,  Sr.,  made  his  will  February 

1,  1698,  and  it  was  proved  February  29,  1699, 
and  ills  death  must  have  occurred  between 
these  dates.  His  wife,  Johanna,  and  her  father, 
Richard  Gibbons,  w-ere  executors  of  his  will. 
Thomas  and  Johanna  (Gibbons)  .\i)plegate 
had  children  as  follows:  i.  Thomas  (2),  who 
secured  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  land 
in  Shrewsbury  township  as  noted  in  his  father's 

sketch.     He  married  Ann ;  settled  in 

Perth  Amboy,  where  he  had  children :  Thomas 
John,  James  and  .Andrew.  2.  John,  married 
Sarah  Pettit,  October  6,  1736,  and  lived  in 
JNIiddletown.  3.  Daniel,  married  Elizabeth 
Hulett,  January  31,  1745.  4-  Joseph.  5.  Ben- 
jamin, married  Elizabeth  Parent,  of  Middle- 
sex county,  New  Jersey,  July  18,  1749.  6. 
Richard,  see  forward. 

(HI)  Richard,  yt)ungest  of  the  six  sons  of 
Thomas  and  Johanna  (Gibbons)  Applegate. 
was  born  in  Aliddletown,  Monmouth  county. 
New  Jersey,  about  1683.  He  was  a  large  owner 
of  real  estate  and  a  successful  farmer.  He  is 
on  record  as  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  in 
that  place,  March  i,  1701-02.  He  married, 
aliout  1705,  Rebecca  Winter.  Children,  born 
in  Middletown,   New  Jersey,  were:     i.  John. 

2.  .Abigail.  3.  Elizabeth.  4.  Joseph  Jacob,  see 
forward.  5.  Hannah.  6.  Rebecca,  married 
Samuel  Ray.  7.  Johanna.  8.  William.  Rich- 
ard .Applegate's  will  was  dated  November  7, 
1732,   in    which   he  gave   all   his   lands   to   his 


daughter  to  go  to  his  son,  William,  then  under 
age. 

( IV)  Joseph  Jacob,  second  son  and  fourth 
child  of  Richard  and  Rebecca  (Winter)  Apple- 
gate,  was  born  in  Middletown,  New  Jersey, 
about  171 3.  He  married  Esther  Lukens  or 
I.ewkcrs,  in  1743,  and  probably  removed  to 
.Mickilesex  county.  New  Jersey,  where  his  chil- 
dren were  brought  up.  He  named  his  eldest 
son  Joseph  Jacob,  see  forward;  he  was  the 
first  of  ten  children. 

(V)  Joseph  Jacob  (2),  eldest  son  of  Joseph 
Jacob  (i)  and  Esther  (Lukens)  .Applegate,  of 
Middlesex  county,  was  born  about  1745.  He 
married  and  had  several  children,  including 
Samuel,  see  forward. 

(VI)  Samuel,  son  of  Joseph  Jacob  (2) 
-Applegate,  was  born  about  1772.  He  prob- 
ably removed  to  Ocean  county,  where  he  mar- 
ried on  June  I,  1797,  Jane  Johnson,  and  had 
children,  including  one  Chamblers  (or  -An- 
thony), see  forward. 

(VII)  Chamblers,  son  of  Samuel  Apple- 
gate,  was  born  in  Toms  River,  Ocean  county, 
-\'ew  Jersey,  about  1805,  married  there  and  had 
children  one  of  whom  was  Joseph,  see  forward. 

(\'III)  Joseph,  son  of  Chamblers  Apple- 
gate,  was  born  in  Toms  River,  Ocean  county, 
New  Jersey,  about  1805.  Later  he  removed  to 
Hurffville,  from  whence  he  removed  to  Harri- 
sonville,  Gloucester  county,  where  he  remain- 
ed until  about  1883,  when  he  took  up  his  resi- 
dence in  Camden,  removing  from  thence  about 
1893  to  Pitman  Grove,  where  his  death  occurred 
in  June,  1903.  He  was  a  farmer  by  occupation. 
He  married  Drucilla  Batten,  born  in  Barnes- 
boro.  Gloucester  county,  New  Jersey.  C  hil- 
dren :  I.William  S.,  born  in  Hurffville,  New 
Jersey;  graduated  at  the  New  Jersey  State 
Normal  school ;  became  principal  of  the  Frank- 
lin School,  near  Newark,  New  Jersey ;  grad- 
uated at  Jefferson  Medical  College,  M.  D., 
1883;  married,  in  1887,  Mary  Vail,  sister  of 
Theodore  Vail,  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  and 
had  two  children,  \'ail  and  Dorothy  .Apple- 
gate,  who  with  their  parents  reside  in  Brook- 
lyn, New  York.  2.  Abigail,  born  in  Gloucester 
county.  New  Jersey ;  married  .Allen  Conover. 
3.  Keziah,  born  in  Gloucester  county,  New 
Jersey ;  married  Clement  G.  Madara  and  had 
four  children:  Viola,  Blanche,  Zona  and 
Harold  Madara.  4.  John  Chew,  see  forward. 
5.  George  H.,  born  in  Gloucester  county.  6. 
.Alexcna,  born  near  Harrisonville,  Gloucester 
county:  unmarried. 

(IN)  John  Chew,  second  son  and  fourth 
child  of  Joseph  and  Drucilla  (Batten)  Apple- 


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gate,  was  born  in  llurffville.  Ciloucester  county. 
Febriiar_v  19,  1861.  lie  attended  the  |)ublic 
school  and  Friends'  Academy  at  W'oodstown, 
under  Professor  Xorris.  After  graduating  he 
taught  school  for  four  years  in  Xew  Jersey, 
then  pursued  a  course  in  medicine  at  Jefferson 
-Medical  College,  of  Philadelphia,  and  he  was 
graduated  M.  D.  in  1887.  He  followed  this 
with  sjiecial  courses  in  Lying-in.  Charity  and 
Philadelphia  Hospital  for  diseases  of  the  skin, 
lie  iiracticed  medicine  at  Fairton,  New  Jersey, 
1887-00,  removed  to  Bridgeton,  where  he  con- 
ducted a  general  practice  of  medicine  and  sur- 
ger)-,  1890- 1903,  and  also  served  on  the  sur- 
gical staff'  of  the  Bridgeton  Hospital.  In  1903 
he  accepted  the  chair  of  obstetrics  at  Temple 
L'niversity,  Philadeljihia,  and  he  still  continues 
in  that  position.  The  Cniversity  is  a  co-edu- 
cational institution  and  had  over  four  thous- 
and general  students  from  all  sections  of  the 
United  States  and  even  from  beyond  the  seas. 
He  also  carried  on  a  general  private  practice 
from  his  office,  3540  North  Broad  street,  and 
holds  professional  positions  in  the  Garretson 
and  .'Samaritan  hosi)itals  in  Philadelphia,  being 
a  chief  of  both  institutions.  His  professional 
memberships  in  learned  societies  include  the : 
American  Medical  Association,  the  Philadel- 
phia County  Medical  Society,  the  Philadelphia 
Obstetric  Society,  the  Philadelphia  Aledical 
Club,  the  Samaritan  Hospital  Medical  Society, 
the  North  Western  Medical  Society,  of  Phila- 
del])hia  :  honorary  membership  in  the  Cumber- 
land County,  New  Jersey.  Medical  Society,  of 
which  he  was  an  active  officer  for  many  years, 
and  social  membership  in  the  New  Jersey 
Society  of  Pennsylvania.  The  first  society 
organized  in  the  medical  department  of  Temple 
University  of  Philadelphia  and  named  in  honor 
of  an  individual  was  "The  John  Chew  Apple- 
gate  Obstetrical  Society."  Dr.  .\p])legate's 
fraternal  affiliation  is  with  the  masonic  order 
and  his  masonic  work  began  in  Evening  Star 
Lodge.  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of 
Bridgeton,  New  Jersey,  and  was  carried  on 
through  Brearly  Chapter,  No.  2.  Royal  Arch 
Masons,  of  Bridgeton.  His  church  affiliation 
is  membership  in  the  Church  of  the  Resurrec- 
tion (Protestant  Episcopal),  of  Philadelphia. 
His  political  affiliations  are  with  the  Repub- 
lican party. 

Dr.  Applegate  married,  June  6.  1888,  Frank, 
daughter  of  Zamor  and  Rachel  (Pritchard) 
Briggs,  of  Cape  Vincent,  New  York,  and  their 
son,  Zamor,  was  born  in  Bridgeton,  Cumber- 
land county,  New  Jersey,  January  16,  1895. 


In  its  earlier  generations  the 
l')l'".\.\'FTT      branch  of  the  Bennett  which 
is  at  present  under  considera- 
tion did  not  belong  to  the  history  of  New  Jer- 
sey, as  it  is  only  in  the  last  two  generations  that 
their  lot  has  been  cast  in  that  state. 

(I)  Jacob  H.  Bennett,  born  in  New  York 
City  or  Brooklyn,  in  1830,  was  the  first  of  his 
line  to  come  to  New  Jersey,  which  he  did 
apparently  shortly  before  or  shortly  after  his 
marriage.  He  was  a  glass  worker  in  the  later 
years  of  his  life,  and  died  in  Millville,  New 
Jersey,  in  July,  1905.  His  children  were:  i. 
Jacob  Edward.  M.  D.,  died  at  Rock  Island, 
Rhode  Island.  2.  Samuel  Dey,  referred  to 
below.  3.  Amanda,  married  Crcorge  Cline, 
and  has  one  child,  George,  Jr.  4.  Sarah,  mar- 
ried Frank  .\tkinson.  and  had  Harry,  Samuel, 
.Agnes.  Cora  and  Sarah. 

(  H)  Samuel  Dey,  son  of  Jacob  H.  Bennett, 
was  born  at  Berlin,  or  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey, 
June  2,  1853.  Like  his  father  he  was  a  glass 
worker.  He  married  Mary  Jane,  daughter  of 
Cornelius  and  Ellen  (Johnson)  McKenzie,  the 
father  coming  from  Scotland,  and  the  mother 
from  England.  She  was  born  in  Winslow, 
Xew  Jersey,  in  July,  1853.  Among  their  chil- 
dren was  Samuel  Dey,  referred  to  below,  and 
vJscar  W.,  a  dentist  in  Millville,  born  there  De- 
cember 9,  1876. 

fHI)  Samuel  Dey  (2).  son  of  Samuel  Dey 
(  I )  and  Man*'  Jane  (McKenzie)  Bennett,  was 
born  at  Millville.  New  Jersey.  January  9.  1872, 
and  is  now  living  in  that  city.  For  his  early 
education  he  went  to  the  public  schools  at  Mill- 
ville, after  leaving  which  he  entered  the  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  the  fall  of  1890,  and  graduated  from 
that  institution  with  high  honors  in  1892,  re- 
ceiving the  degree  of  Ph.  G.  In  1894  he  enter- 
ed the  Jeff'erson  Medical  College  in  Philadel- 
phia, graduating  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in 
1896.  The  two  intervening  years,  1892-93  he 
spent  as  a  drug  clerk,  .-\fter  graduating  and 
receiving  his  doctor's  degree,  he  entered  at 
once  upon  the  general  practice  of  his  profession 
at  Millville,  where  he  has  remained  ever  since, 
winning  for  himself  an  enviable  reputation 
and  clientele  among  the  people  with  whom  his 
lot  is  cast.  Dr.  Bennett  has  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  the  subject  of  tuberculosis,  and  he  has 
done  most  excellent  work  in  the  campaign 
against  that  wide  spread  disease.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  National  Tuberculosis  Associa- 
tion and  also  of  the  International  Tuberculosis 
Association,  and  he  is  as  well  the  chairman  of 


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the  Alillville  Tuberculosis  Society.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Reiniblican,  and  in  religion  a  member  of 
the  I'resbvterian  church.  He  is  an  active  and 
prominent  member  of  many  secret  societies 
and  organizations.  Among  them  should  be 
mentioned  Shekinah  Lodge.  Xo.  58,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons, of  Millville  ;  Richmond  Chaj)- 
ter.  Xo.  22,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  and  Olive! 
Commandery,  Xo.  10,  Knights  Templar,  of 
which  in  March,  1909,  he  was  elected  captai: 
general.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Millvill  • 
Social  and  .\thletic  Club. 

September  28,  1898,  Samuel  Uey  ISennett. 
M.  D..  married  Rena  Dunham,  born  hT'bruary 
29,  1872.  at  Millville,  Xevv  Jersey,  daughter  of 
Mulford  and  Mary  (  Dunham  )  LuiUam.  of  Mill 
ville.  They  have  one  child.  Charlotte  Dunham 
Bennett,  born  .\ugust  3,  1899.  The  Fudlams 
and  the  Dunhams  belong  to  two  of  the  oldest 
and  most  prominent   families  of  Xew  Jersey. 


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Tlie  ancestry  of  Henry  I'hineas 
",.S  Jones,  a  prominent  business  man 
of  Newark,  Xew  Jersey,  is  evi- 
dentl}'  of  English  or  Scotch  origin  and  con- 
tains on  the  maternal  side  the  names  of  Wood- 
ward. Bancroft,  ■\Ietcalf.  Stone,  Whipple. 
Trowbridge,  Atherton,  Treadway,  Howe,  Cook, 
Flagg,  Hammond,  Phillips,  Lamb,  Bennett. 
Towne,  Richardson.  W  ilson,  Brown.  Humph- 
reys. Rice  and  \'iles. 

( I )  Josiah  Jones,  earliest  ancestor  of  whom 
there  is  mention,  was  born  in  1643,  died  Octo- 
ber 3,  1714.  He  married,  October  2,  1667, 
Lydia  Treadway,  born  1648.  died  September 
17.  1743.  daughter  of  Xathaniel  and  Suft'er- 
anna  (How)  Treadway.  Among  their  chil- 
dren was  Captain  Xathaniel,  see  forward. 

(H)  Captain  Nathaniel,  son  of  Josiah  and 
Lvdia  (Treadway)  Jones,  was  born  December 
31.  1674.  died  November.  1745.  He  married 
Mary  Cook,  born  December  2,  1681,  baptized 
.\l)ri'l  15.  1688.  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Re- 
becca ( i'lagg)  Cook,  the  former  of  whom  was 
born  1647.  died  1738.  and  the  latter  born  Sep- 
tember 3.  1661,  died  June  20,  1721.  Among 
the  chilflren  of  Captain  and  Mrs.  Jones  was 
Deacon  Xathaniel,  see   forward. 

(HI)  Deacon  Xathaniel  (2),  .son  of  Cap- 
tain Xathaniel  (il  and  Mary  (Cook)  Jones, 
was  born  .\pril  5,  1707,  died  Sejitember  7. 
1795.  at  Charleston.  He  married  Eleanor 
\Voodward.  born  June  20,  1720,  died  April 
<.).  1807.  daughter  of  Deacon  Ebenezer  and 
Mindwell  (Stone)  Woodward,  who  were  mar- 
ried [anuary  26,  1716;  Ebenezer  Woodvard 
was  born   March   12,   1691,  and  his  wife  was 


born  June  26,  1696,  died  1774.  Among  the 
children  of  Deacon  and  Mrs.  Jones  was  i'hin- 
eas. see  forward. 

( I\' )  Phineas,  son  of  Deacon  Xathaniel  ^^2) 
and  Eleanor  (Woodward)  Jones,  was  born 
I'ebruary  17,  1762,  died  April  27,  1850.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution.  He  removed 
to  Spencer,  Massachusetts,  from  Charlton,  set- 
tling about  1786  on  the  original  John  Graton 
farm  near  what  is  now  known  as  the  Stiles 
reservoir.  The  farm  was  lot  number  twenty- 
five  as  shown  on  the  proprietor's  map  of  Spen- 
cer and  joined  the  Leicester  line.  His  farm 
has  been  known  in  recent  years  as  the  Ebene- 
zer Proctor  place.  He  was  not  only  a  well-to- 
do  farmer,  but  also  conducted  a  hotel.  His 
house  was  on  the  old  South  County  road  from 
Worcester  to  Southbridge  and  Connecticut  by 
way  of  Leicester  center,  and  before  the  advent 
of  the  railroad,  the  stage  coach  and  the  two, 
four  and  six-horse  teams  laden  with  freight, 
daily  coming  and  ^oing,  made  life  along  the 
route  anything  but  monotonous,  and  in  wide 
contrast  with  the  quiet  and  stillness  of  the 
present  day.  It  is  interesting  to  note  that  when 
this  road  was  first  located,  according  to  the 
original  record  at  the  registry  of  deeds  in  Wor- 
cester, not  a  point  of  compass  was  given,  not  a 
record  of  distance,  simply  directions  from  tree 
to  tree  the  whole  route.  He  married  (first) 
Lucy  Baldwin,  who  bore  him  five  children. 
He  married  (.second)  Hannah  Phillips,  born 
July  I.  1773.  died  February  14.  1841.  daughter 
of  beacon  Jonathan  and  Rachel  (Humphreys) 
Phillips,  the  former  of  whom  was  born  .Vugust 
12.  1732.  died  June  25,  1798,  at  Sturbridge, 
Massachusetts,  homestead  in  family  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  years,  and  the  latter  a 
daughter  of  Deacon  Humphreys,  of  Oxford, 
Massachusetts.  Xine  children  were  born  of 
the  seciind  marriage. 

(\')  Phineas  (2),  son  of  Phineas  (i)  and 
Hannah  (Phillips)  Jones,  was  born  April  18, 
18 19,  in  Spencer,  Alassachusetts.  died  A])ril 
19.  1884.  At  a  suitable  age  he  was  sent  to  the 
academy  at  Leicester  to  supplement  such  teach- 
ing as  the  times  then  afforded  in  Spencer. 
After  graduating  with  great  credit,  he  return- 
ed home  to  take  charge  of  his  father's  farm, 
who  was  now  advanced  in  years,  and  this  filial 
(hit\-  he  continued  to  render  until  his  father's 
death,  .\pril  2~,  1850.  Thrown  upon  his  own 
resources,  he  took  up  school  teaching  in  his 
native  town,  an  occupation  for  which  he  was 
well  qualified,  and  in  connection  with  which  he 
emjiloyed  his  leisure  hours  in  surveying.  Find- 
ing, however,  these  occupations  insufficient  for 


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his  active  and  aspiring  nature,  he  determined 
to  fit  himself  for  a  business  Hfe,  and  to  that 
end  established  a  large  country  store  in  the 
town  of  Spencer,  in  a  building  just  then  erect- 
ed, known  as  L'nion  ISlock.  His  store  became 
not  only  a  political  center  for  the  discussion 
of  state  and  national  politics,  but  a  place  to 
talk  over  town  affairs,  and  he  was  not  the 
least  among  the  many  debaters  of  that  day  who 
here  found  a  free  forum.  His  services  were  in 
ready  demand  at  auctions,  and  his  ability  in 
that  line  has  never  been  ec|uallcd  in  Spencer. 
Desiring  a  wider  field  for  development.  Air. 
Jones  sold  his  store  in  Spencer,  in  1855,  and 
removed  to  Elizabethport,  New  Jersey,  w'here 
he  engaged  extensively  in  the  manufacture  of 
carriage  wheels.  Finding  a  more  desirable 
location,  he  removed  to  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
in  i8C>0,  and  in  partnership  with  William  li. 
Ualdwin.  established  a  factory  on  a  much  larger 
scale,  and  3'ear  after  year  continued  to  increase 
his  manufacturing  facilities  and  to  extend  his 
business  until  his  death.  His  partner,  Mr. 
Baldwin,  died  in  1901,  aged  one  hundred  and 
one  years.  While  engaged  in  this  business, 
Mr.  Jones  exhibited  a  great  deal  of  mechanical 
ingenuity,  and  several  of  his  inventions,  which 
were  patented,  proved  to  be  very  valuable. 
For  several  years  after  his  removal  to  Newark 
he  gave  strict  attention  to  his  factory,  in  which 
he  had  one  hundred  men  employed,  with  a 
constantly  increasing  demand  for  his  produc- 
tions. In  politics  Mr.  Jones  was  a  Republican, 
and  in  maintaining  the  principles  of  that  ])arty 
was  bold  and  energetic.  As  a  ready  and  forci- 
ble speaker,  he  always  commanded  attention, 
and  as  an  intelligent,  efficient  man  of  business. 
acc|uired  confidence  and  respect.  Within  three 
years  after  his  settlement  in  Elizabeth  he  w-as 
elected  a  member  of  the  common  council,  and 
served  for  two  years  in  that  body.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  board  of  trade  of  Newark, 
established  in  1868,  also  a  director,  and  the 
part  he  took  therein  was  active  and  prominent 
He  was  a  director  of  the  Peoples'  Insurance 
Company,  established  in  1866,  and  in  1874  ap- 
pears more  prominentlj'  as  a  member  of  the 
general  assembly,  in  which  body  he  served  so 
satisfactorily  to  his  constituents  that  in  the 
year  following  he  was  re-elected  to  the  same 
position.  In  1881  Mr.  Jones  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  forty-seventh  congress,  and 
served  to  the  end  of  his  term,  although  during 
the  last  months  of  the  second  session  he  suft'er- 
ed  so  much  frojn  sickness  contracted  at  Wash- 
ington that  he  declined  the  renomination  which 
was  tendered  to  him.    He  was  a  member  of  the 


New  Jersey  Agricultural  Society,  member  of 
its  board  of  directors,  and  devoted  much  of 
his  time  and  attention  to  its  interests,  it  is 
not  thought  Mr.  Jones  made  any  set  speech 
while  in  congress,  but  he  spoke  at  length  in 
the  forty-seventh  congress  on  the  river  and 
harbor  appropriation  bill,  vol.  14,  part  4,  pages 
3441-42-46,  also  on  screws,  vol.  13,  page  2514, 
and  ])robably  along  other  lines  in  the  forty- 
si.xth  and  forty-seventh  sessions  of  congress 
which  may  be  found  by  consulting  the  records. 
His  sudden  death,  in  the  midst  of  a  most  honor- 
able and  useful  career,  was  deeply  lamented  by 
the  community  of  which,  for  nearly  a  quarter 
of  a  century,  he  had  been  an  esteemed  and 
valuable  member. 

Mr.  Jones  married  three  times.  His  first 
wife  was  Emmeline  I'axter  Lamb,  born  Feb- 
ruary 12.  1824.  died  February  5,  1847,  daugh- 
ter of  Austin  and  Nancy  (  W'ilson)  Lamb,  the 
former  of  whom  was  born  March  31.  1790, 
died  December  2,  1870,  and  the  latter  born 
June  21,  1792,  died  September  13,  1828. 

(  \"I )  Henry  Phineas,  son  of  Phineas  (2) 
and  Emmeline  Baxter  (Lamb)  Jones,  was 
liorn  at  Spencer,  Massachusetts,  at  his  grand- 
father's house  near  Stiles  reservoir,  November 
29,  1846.  .\t  the  age  of  nine  he  became  a  resi- 
dent of  Elizabethport,  New  Jersey,  wdiither 
his  father  had  removed  in  1855.  He  attended 
the  old  red  schoolhouse  which  once  stood  on 
the  highest  swell  of  land  between  the  Aaron 
Watson  place  and  Moose  Hill  farm  liouse, 
S])encer.  the  public  schools  of  Elizabeth]X)rt. 
and  later  the  Newark  .\cademy,  his  father 
having  removed  to  that  city  in  1858.  In  1868 
he  engaged  in  the  shoe  business  under  the  firm 
name  of  Canfield,  Jones  &  Company,  and  this 
connection  continued  for  four  years.  He  then 
made  an  extended  tour  of  Europe,  extending 
over  a  period  of  almost  a  year.  L^pon  his  re- 
turn to  his  native  land,  in  1875.  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  partnership  in  the  firm  of  Phineas 
Jones  &-  Company,  manufacturers  of  carriage 
wheels,  and  since  that  time  has  devoted  him- 
self to  the  development  of  that  industry.  In 
1880  the  works  were  destroyed  by  fire,  and 
immediately  rebuilt.  They  now  give  employ- 
ment to  more  than  one  hundred  persons,  thus 
making  it  one  of  the  largest  establishments  of 
the  kind  in  the  state.  Mr.  Jones  is  a  man  of 
unusual  business  ability,  whicli  fact  accounts 
for  the  success  which  has  attended  his  efforts 
in  the  business  world.  He  is  a  member  of 
Christ  Reformed  Church,  member  of  the  Na- 
tional Carriage  Makers'  Association.  Lincoln 
Post,   No.    1 1  :  Essex  Club.   L^nion   Club  and 


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New  Jersey  Historical  Society.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  but  has  never  held  public 
office.  At  fifteen  years  of  age,  under  name  of 
Henry  Cook,  Mr.  Jones  enlisted  July  30,  1862, 
as  druminer  boy  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Thir- 
teenth Xew  York  Infantry,  which  was  after- 
wards the  Seventh  Xew  York  Heavy  Artillery, 
Irish  Brigade,  First  Division.  He  participated 
in  all  the  engagements  of  the  .\rmy  of  the 
F'otomac  from  his  enlistment  until  .\ugust  I, 
1865.  His  regiment  met  with  frightful  loss  of 
life,  as  out  of  two  thousand  six  hundred  and 
si.xtv-seven  men  only  nine  hundred  and  forty- 
one  returned,  a  very  small  percentage. 

Mr.  Jones  married,  June  24,  1875,  at  New- 
ark, Xew  Jersey,  Ada  Emily  .Anderson,  born 
December  16,  1850,  daughter  of  David  and 
Julia  (Jacobus)  Anderson,  who  were  tlie  par- 
ents of  seven  other  children,  namely:  William, 
James,  Frank,  Walter,  Elizabeth,  Harriet  and 
Julia.  Children  of  .Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jones:  I. 
Elizabeth  Anderson,  born  April  10,  1876:  mar- 
ried Henry  Hall  Skinner;  children:  Eliza- 
beth and  Ada  Skinner.  2.  Phineas,  born  Jan- 
uary 3,  1879.  3.  Henry  Percy,  born  Novem- 
ber 19,  1880.  4.  Elsie,  born  October  16,  1883; 
married  Richard  Krementz,  a  sketch  of  whom 
appears  in  this  work;  one  child,  Elsie  Louise 
Krementz.  5.  Spencer,  named  for  the  town 
in  which  his  father  was  born,  born  December 
13,  1891. 


The  Coe  family  of  X'ewark,  New  Jer- 
COE     sey,  are  a  branch  of  the  family  of  the 

same  name  which  for  so  long  has  had 
an  honored  existence  in  New  England,  Long 
Island,  and  elsewhere, 

(I)  Robert  Coe,  founder  of  the  family, 
was  born  in  county  Suffolk,  England,  about 
1596,  and  died  in  Jamaica,  Long  Island,  be- 
tween 1670  and  1680.  He  sailed  from  Ips- 
wich, Suffolkshire,  England,  on  the  ship 
"Francis,"  with  seventy-nine  others,  arriving 
in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  in  June,  1634.  He 
settled  first  at  Watertown,  near  Boston,  and 
was  made  freeman,  September  3,  1634.  He 
and  twenty-five  others  purchased  Rappawams 
(Stamford)  of  the  New  Haven  Colony  for 
It,^  and  started  a  settlement  there.  In  1643, 
through  the  general  court  of  New  Haven,  a 
court  was  established  there  the  same  as  at 
New  Haven,  and  Robert  Coe  was  appointed 
assistant  judge.  In  1644  Robert  Coe,  the  Rev. 
Richard  Denton  and  others  founded  the  first 
New  England  settlement  on  Long  Island  at 
Hempstead.     In  1652  he  removed  to  Maspeth 


and  aided  in  the  settlement  of  Middleburg, 
now  Newtown,  Long  Island,  and  during  his 
residence  there  served  in  thecapacity  of  magis- 
trate. The  following  year  he  was  commis- 
sioned to  go  to  Boston  to  invoke  the  protec- 
tion of  the  New  England  colonies  for  Long 
Island  against  the  Dutch  and  Indians,  and  in 
the  same  year  had  a  conference  with  the  bur- 
gomaster of  New  .\msterdam  on  the  subject 
of  common  safety.  In  1656  he  began  the  set- 
tlement of  Jamaica,  where  he  resided  until  his 
death.  He  was  appointed  to  the  office  of  mag- 
istrate in  1659,  and  was  elected  to  represent 
his  section  of  Long  Island  at  the  general  con- 
vention at  Hartford  in  Mav,  1664.  Robert 
Coe  married  (first)  about  1591,  .Anna  or  Han- 
nah, whose  surname  is  supposed  to  have  been 
Crabbe,  and  who  is  supposed  to  have  been  the 
widow  of  Edward  Rouse,  He  married  (sec- 
ond )  Jane  ,  who  with  their  three  sons 

accompanied  her  husband  to  America.  The 
sons  were  :  i.  John,  settled  finally  at  Newtown, 
Long  Island.  2.  Robert,  became  the  founder 
of  the  New-  England  branch  of  the  family.  3. 
Benjamin,  see  forward, 

(^il)  Benjamin,  son  of  Robert  and  Jane 
Coe,  was  born  about  1629,  and  was  living  in 
1686.  He  married  Abigail,  born  in  1635,  sec- 
ond child  and  eldest  daughter  of  John  and 
Florence  Carman,  the  emigrants.  Children : 
I.  John.  2.  Daniel.  3.  Benjamin,  see  forward. 
4.  Joseph. 

(HI)  Benjamin  (2),  son  of  Benjamin  (i) 
and  Abigail  (Carman)  Coe,  w^as  born  in  Ja- 
maica, Long  Island,  about  1670,  and  died 
some    time    after    1702.      He    married    Mary 

,  born  about  1679,  died  1763,  who  bore 

him  one  child,  Benjamin,  see  forward.  Mary 
Coe  married  (second)  Deacon  James  Wheeler, 
of  Newark,  New  Jersey, 

(I\')  Benjamin  (3),  son  of  Benjamin  (2) 
and  Mary  Coe,  w-as  born  in  Jamaica,  Long 
Island,  April  4,  1702,  died  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  December  21,  1788.  In  1723  he  took 
up  his  residence  in  Newark  and  there  held 
several  important  positions,  serving  from  1732 
to  1738  in  the  capacity  of  town  collector,  from 
1733  to  1735  as  surveyor  of  the  highways,  and 
appointed  overseer  of  the  poor  in  1747.     He 

married    (first)    Abigail    ,    born    1702, 

died  1761,  and  (second)   Rachel  ,  born 

1709,  died  1779.  Children  of  first  marriage: 
I.  Mary,  born  1726,  died  ivoi ;  married  Moses 
Roberts.  2.  Sarah,  1728,  died  1793;  married 
David  Little.  3.  Eunice,  1730,  died  1801 ; 
married    Joseph    Baldwin.      4.    Daniel,    1731, 


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killed  ill  the  revolution.  5.  Benjamin,  see  for- 
ward. 6.  Abigail.  1742,  died  1818;  married 
Daniel  Tichenor. 

(V)  Benjamin  (4),  second  son  and  fifth 
child  of  Benjamin  (3)  and  Abigail  Coe,  was 
born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  in  1736,  died 
there  in  1818.  His  entire  life  was  spent  in 
the  city  of  his  birth,  and  he  was  honored  bv 
his  townspeople  by  election  to  the  offices  of 
overseer  'of  the  highways  and  sheepmaster. 
receiving  his  appointment  in  1775.  He  mar- 
ried Bethia  Cjrummon,  born  about  1744,  died 
1816.  Children:  i.  Aaron,  born  1764,  died 
1776.  2.  Sears,  1766,  died  1768.  3.  Mary, 
1768,  died   1844:  married  Jedediah  J.  Crane. 

4.  Sayres,  see  forward.  3.  Abigail,  September 
9,  1776,  died  ]\Iarch  5,  1853:  married  Will- 
iam Whitehead.  6.  Hannah.  1777,  died  1824: 
married  Matthias  Bruen.  7.  Aaron,  1779,  died 
1857;  married  (first)  Catharine  H.  Elmer; 
(second  )  Rebecca  (  Parmelee  )  Manning,  widow 
of  John  Manning,     8.  Sarah,  1783,  died  1784. 

(VI)  Sayres,  third  son  and  fourth  child  of 
Benjamin  (4)  and  Bethia  (Grummonl  Coe, 
was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  .\pril  26, 
1772,  died  there  February  13,  1831.  He  mar- 
ried Sally,  (laughter  of  Deacon  Joseph  Davis, 
of  Bloomfield,  and  among  their  children  was 
Aaron,  see  forward. 

(Vni  Aaron,  son  of  Sa\Tes  and  Sall\ 
(Davis)  Coe,  was  born  in  Newark.  New  Jer- 
sey, September  27,  1810,  died  there  March  3, 
1890,  For  many  years  he  conducted  a  real 
estate  business  in  Newark,  and  throughout  his 
long  and  active  life  he  enjo}ed  the  respect  of 
his  fellow  citizens.  He  married  Julia,  daugh- 
ter of  Jedediah  J.  and  Abby  (Johnson)  Bald- 
win. Children:  i.  Horace  Sayres,  born  .\pril 
17,  1838,  died  unmarried  July  26,  1854.  2. 
Emma  Julia,  see  forward.  3.  James  Aaron, 
see  forward.     4,  Laura  Francis,  see  forward. 

5.  Cornelia  I'.aldwin,  see  forward. 

(VHI)  Emma  Julia,  eldest  daughter  n( 
Aaron  and  Julia  (  Baldwin)  Coe,  was  born  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  January  28,  1841.  She 
married,  September  25,  1862,  Henry  Franklin 
Osborne,  born  at  Oak  Ridge,  March  20,  1837, 
son  of  the  Rev.  Enos  A.  and  Abby  (Davis) 
Osborne,  who  were  the  parents  of  six  other 
children,  namely :  Charles,  Edward,  Joseph, 
Aima,  Louisa  and  Henrietta  Osborne.  Henry 
Franklin  Osborne  was  educated  in  the  board- 
ing and  day  schools  of  \\  est  Poultney,  \*er- 
nicint:  for  six  years  he  was  a  drug  clerk  in 
New  York  City,  and  then  became  a  maini- 
facturer  of  saddlerv,  hardware  and  harness 
makers'  tools ;  he  is  a  Republican,  a  member 


of  the  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  an 
elder  in  the  High  Street  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Newark.  Children  of  Henry  Franklin  and 
Emma  Julia  (Coe)  Osborne:  i.  Horace  Sher- 
man, born  July  10,  1863,  married  Nellie  Bond 
and  has  one  child,  Horace  Bond  Osborne.  2. 
Miriam,  February  13,  1865,  married  Edward 
11.  Rockwell,  of  Newark;  children:  Isabelle 
and  Miriam  Rockwell.  3.  Ella,  February  3, 
1867,  married  Herbert  S.  Palmer,  of  Newark; 
children :  Spencer,  John  and  Hope  Palmer.  4. 
Clara,  January  30,  1869,  married  Chester  R. 
Hoag;  children:  Philip  O.,  Walter,  Carolyn 
and  Robert  Lloag.  5.  Bessie  Parker,  February 
3,  1873.  6.  JuHa,  April  2,  1875,  married 
Harry  H.  Condit ;  children:  Barbara  and 
Prudence  Condit.  7.  Edna  Crowell,  October 
29.  1878.  8.  Dorothy.  May  5,  1881,  married 
\\'alter  R,  Boyd  ;  child,  Osborne  Thorpe  Boyd. 
9.  Ruth  McBvaine,  May  15,  1883. 

(\'HI)  James  Aaron,  second  .son  and  third 
child  of  Aaron  and  Julia  ( Baldwin)  Coe,  was 
born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  February  2, 
1847,  twin  of  sister,  Laura  Francis,  and  is  now- 
living  in  the  city  of  his  birth.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  Newark  Academy,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1863,  His  first  employment 
was  as  clerk  in  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Newark,  the  duties  thereof  being  discharged 
with  efficiency  and  fidelity.  In  1869  he  en- 
gaged in  the  wholesale  and  retail  iron  and 
steel  business  imder  the  firm  name  of  James 
A.  Coe  &  Company,  and  at  the  present  time 
(  1909)  is  serving  as  president  of  the  company, 
his  connection  therewith  covering  a  period  of 
forty  years,  during  which  time  he  has  become 
well  and  favorably  known  in  the  iron  and 
steel  trade,  his  business  transactions  being 
conducted  in  a  straightforward  and  honorable 
manner.  For  many  years  he  has  been  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  leading,  influential  citizens 
of  Newark,  taking  an  active  interest  in  many 
enterprises  that  tend  to  the  welfare  and  up- 
building of  the  community  in  which  he  resides. 
He  is  an  attendant  and  liberal  supporter  of 
the  High  Street  Presbyterian  Church  of  New- 
ark, a  director  in  the  Babies'  Hospital  of  New- 
ark, a  member  of  St.  John's  Lodge,  No.  I. 
I'ree  and  Accepted  Masons,  a  member  of  the 
New  Jersey  Ilistorical  Society,  and  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics.  He  married,  September  20, 
1871,  ]\iary  Louise,  daughter  of  George 
Belden  and  Mary  Jane  (Northrup)  Sears, 
who  were  the  parents  of  two  other  children, 
namely:  I.  Augusta  M.,  married  James  Jndd 
Dickerson ;  one  child.  James  Sears  Dickerson. 
2.  Anna  .\melia.  married  tiie  Rev.  Charles  T 


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Berry:  children:  i.  Rev.  (ieorge  Titus  Berry, 
married  a  Miss  Packer:  ii.  Rev.  Edward  Pay-, 
son  Berry,  married  a  Miss  Adams:  iii.  Louise 
Berry,  married  the  Rev.  John  E.  Adams. 
Children  of  James  Aaron  and  Mary  Louise 
(Sears)  Coe :  i.  Alice  Louise,  born  Novem- 
ber 7.  1872,  died  August  7,  1873.  2.  Laura 
Mabel,  May  29,  1874,  married  James  B.  Pin- 
neo.  He  died  ]\rarch  13,  1899.  3.  James  D., 
December  29,  1875.  4.  Anna  Florence,  twin 
of  James  D.,  December  29,  1875,  niarricd 
Robert  Norton  Brockway  ;  children  :  i.  Robert 
Norton  Jr.,  born  April  21,  1905:  ii.  Louise 
Brockway,  born  December  13,  1907.  5.  Fred- 
erick Sears,  .\ugust  6,  1877.  6.  Helen  Au- 
gusta, November  24.  1878.  7.  Roland  Bald- 
win, July  3,  1883. 

(\"ni)  Laura  Francis,  second  daughter  of 
Aaron  and  Julia  (  Baldwin)  Coe,  was  born  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  February  2,  1847,  twin 
of  James  .Aaron,  and  died  there  January  16, 
1882.  She  married,  about  1869  or  1870, 
Joseph  (irover  Crowell,  whose  ancestrv  will 
be  found  in  the  following  sketch. 

(Vni)  Cornelia  Baldwin,  yoimgest  child 
of  Aaron  and  Julia  (Baldwin)  Coe,  was  born 
in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  January  10,  1852. 
She  married,  April  3,  1873,  Franklin  Monroe 
I'arker.  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  June 
13,  1846,  son  of  William  Valleau  and  Sarah 
(Ross)  Parker,  who  were  the  parents  of  eight 
children,  four  of  whom  attained  years  of 
maturity.  Franklin  Monroe  Parker  graduated 
from  the  grammar  and  high  schools  of  New- 
ark, after  which  he  entered  the  employ  of 
James  Emile  Coll,  who  was  engaged  in  the  fire 
insurance  business  in  Newark.  Later  he  be- 
came connected  with  the  Citizens'  Fire  Insur- 
ance Company  and  advanced  to  the  position 
of  secretary,  and  subsequently  entered  the  firm 
of  E.  A.  \\'alton  &  Son,  insurance  agents, 
which  is  now  the  firm  of  Parker  &  Walton. 
He  is  a  Republican,  and  three  times  has  served 
as  a  member  c>f  the  city  council  and  as  alder- 
man. He  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason,  a 
member  of  the  Commandery,  and  a  Knights 
Templar.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Repub- 
lican Indian  League  and  of  the  Essex  Club. 
Children  of  Franklin  Monroe  and  Cijrnelia 
I'.alflwin  (Coe)  Parker:  i.  Edith  Ross,  born 
January  1,  1874.  married  Edward  Farraday 
Weston:  children:  Cornelia  and  Francis  E. 
Weston.  2.  (k'orgia  Marion,  May  22,  1879, 
married  I'enedict  Prieth ;  children :  Marcia 
Marion  and  Theodora  Cornelia  Prieth.  3. 
Jane  Cornelia,  January  30,  1882,  married 
Rowlatid  Mc Williams. 


The  families  of  Crow  and 
CROWELL      Crowell  were  originally,  as 

can  easily  be  seen  from  an 
inspection  of  the  old  records  where  the  names 
of  the  same  persons  are  spelt  indift'erently. 
Crow,  Crowe,  Crowl  and  Crowel,  one  and  the 
same,  and  their  founder  was  among  the  earli- 
est of  the  settlers  in  the  New  England  prov- 
inces, where  he  appears  to  have  died  shortly 
after  his  arrival  without  leaving  aqy  record 
behind  him  except  a  son,  whom  he  probably 
brciught  over  to  this  country  with  him,  and 
who  is  referred  to  below. 

( I )  Edward  Crow,  born  about  1644,  came 
to  Woodbridge  from  Massachusetts,  where 
he  (lied  leaving  a  widow  and  five  children. 
The  widow,  Mary  ( Lothrop)  Crow,  inarried 
(second)  before  1695,  her  first  husband  hav- 
ing died  in  1688,  Samuel  Dennes,  of  Wo<jd- 
liridge.  Her  children  by  her  first  husband 
were:  I.  Mary,  born  1674.  2.  A  daughter 
born  and  died  1676.  3.  Yelverton,  1678,  who 
removed  to  Cape  May  county,  New  Jersey.  4. 
Joseph.  1680,  removed  to  Cape  May  county. 
3.  Benjamin,  born  1682.  6.  Edward,  referred 
to  below. 

(II)  Edward  (2),  son  of  Edward  (i)  and 
Mary  ( Lothrop)  Crow,  was  born  in  1685, 
and  was  the  first  of  the  family  to  determine 
the  modern  spelling  of  the  name  as  Crowell. 
Among  his  children  were  Elizabeth,  born  in 
1708,  and  Samuel,  referred  to  below. 

(III)  .Samuel,  son  of  Edward  (2)  Crowell, 
was  born  in  Woodbridge,  in  171 1.  He  mar- 
ried a  Ward,  a  sister  to  Abel  and  Elihu 
\\'ard ;  all  of  his  four  sons  and  two  of  his 
grandsons  were  soldiers  in  the  revolution. 
About  1728  he  bought  and  settled  upon  land  in 
what  is  now  South  Orange,  New  Jersey,  and 
is  still  held  to-day  by  some  of  liis  descendants. 
His  children  were:  i.  Joseph,  referred  to 
below.  2.  Daniel.  3.  Samuel.  4.  .\aron,  born 
1750,  married  Abigail  Brown. 

(IV)  Joseph,   son   of    Samuel    and 

(Ward)  Crowell,  was  born  in  South  Orange. 
New  Jersey,  about  1740,  and  among  his  chil- 
dren was  John,  referred  to  below. 

(V)  John,  son  of  Joseph  Crowell,  was  born 
in  South  Orange,  November  16,  1762.  It  is 
said  that  the  name  of  his  wife  was  Mary 
Marsh,  but  it  is  possible  that  she  may  ha->-c 
been  one  of  the  b'reemans  as  among  his  chi:- 
dren  was  one  named  Joseph  Freeman,  referred 
to  below. 

(VI)  Joseph  Freeman,  son  of  John  Crow- 
ell. was  born  in  Caldwell,  Essex  county,  New 
Jersey,   in    1793,   died   in    1821.      He   married 


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Rosalinda,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Stephen 
Grover,  of  Tolland,  Connecticut,  and  Cald- 
well, New  Jersey,  who  was  born  in  1795  and 
died  in  1873.  Their  only  child  was  Stephen 
Grover.  born  in  Caldwell,  September  9,  1817, 
died  in  Newark,  May  20,  1854.  As  a  young 
man  he  removed  from  Caldwell  to  Newark, 
where  he  became  a  prominent  business  man, 
founding  the  firm  of  Heath  &  Crowell,  dry- 
goods  merchants,  and  being  at  the  time  of  his 
death  one  of  the  directors  of  the  American 
Insurance  Company.  Mr.  Crowell  was  a 
widely  read  and  deep  thinking  student,  with  a 
varietl  range  of  knowledge.  His  home  was  16 
Cedar  street.  Newark.  He  married  Sarah  W".. 
daughter  of  David  Smith,  who  had  removed 
from  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  to  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  about  1818.  and  founded  the 
dry-goods  firm  of  D.  Smith  &  Company. 
They  had  four  children:  i.  Joseph  Grover, 
referred  to  below.  2.  David  Smith,  born 
.April  10.  1847,  married  Sarah  E..  daughter  of 
David  Stewart,  of  W'alden.  New  York.  3. 
Stephen  Grover,  a  member  of  the  iron  and 
steel  firm  of  Crowell  &  Coe.  4.  Henry  Morris, 
of  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of 
New  York. 

(VII)  Joseph  (irover,  eldest  child  of  Joseph 
Freeman  and  Sarah  W.  (Smith)  Crowell,  was 
born  in  Newark,  March  31,  1844,  and  is  now 
living  in  that  city.  He  entered  into  partner- 
ship with  James  Aaron  Coe  and  founded  the 
iron  and  steel  manufacturing  firm  of  Crowell 
&  Coe.  He  is  a  Republican,  and  attends  the 
High  Street  Presbyterian  Church  in  Newark. 
He  enlisted  with  the  volunteers  of  the  civil 
war  and  when  he  was  mustered  out  had  risen 
to  the  rank  of  Quartermaster  of  the  nine 
months'  men.  He  married  shortly  after  the 
war,  Laura  Francis,  daughter  of  Aaron  and 
Julia  (Baldwin)  Coe,  the  sister  of  his  partner 
in  the  iron  and  steel  business.  Their  children 
are:  i.  Frederick  IMorris,  referred  to  below. 
2.  Joseph  Grover  Jr.,  born  November  4,  1873, 
died  July  I,  1893.  3.  Harry  Wolcolt,  Sep- 
leniber  6,  1877,  married  Illodwin  Savage. 

(\'III)  Frederick  Morris,  eldest  child  of 
Joseph  Grover  and  Laura  Francis  (Coe) 
Crowell,  was  born  in  Newark,  May  20,  187 1, 
and  is  now  living  in  that  city.  He  graduated 
from  the  Newark  Academy  in  1889,  and  for 
the  folUywing  two  years  became  a  salesman  for 
a  paint  and  oils  firm  in  New  York  City.  For 
the  succeeding  four  years  he  worked  in  the 
employ  of  a  Newark  chemical  and  oil  firm, 
and  then  finally  in  1895  came  to  the  firm  of 
James  A.  Coe,  becoming  vice-president  of  the 


ccmiiKuiy  in  March,  1905.  Mr.  Crowell  is  a  Re- 
publican, but  has  held  no  office.  I  le  is  one  of  the 
trustees  of  the  High  Street  Presbyterian  Church 
in  Newark.  Sei)tember  I,  1903,  Frederick  Mor- 
ris Crowell  was  married  in  Colorado  Springs, 
Colorado,  to  Ruth  P>rewer,  of  Denver,  whose 
father.  Benn  Brewer,  was  born  in  England, 
and  whose  mother,  Marie  (Paulson)  Brewer, 
was  born  in  Denmark.  Her  sisters  and  broth- 
ers are:  Minnie,  Maud,  who  married  Oscar 
David  Cass  and  has  two  children :  Dorothy 
Marie  and  Oscar  David  Jr. ;  Marie  Louise 
and  liayard  Paulson  Brewer.  The  only  child 
of  Frederick  Morris  and  Ruth  (Brewer) 
Crowell  is  Frederick  Morris  Jr.,  born  in 
March,   1907. 

The  Drake  family  are  a  Vir- 
DR.VKE     ginia     family,     coming    to    this 

country  at  the  time  of  the  Cava- 
lier movement  and  settling  in  Eairfa.x  county. 
The  ancestry  of  Edgar  Bless  Drake  is  unfor- 
tunately not  traceable  back  farther  than  the 
Rev.  Philip  Drake,  of  Kentucky,  in  the  middle 
of  the  eighteenth  century.  And  although  it  is 
almost  certain  that  this  ancestor  was  not  the 
original  emigrant  founder  of  the  family,  all 
attempts  hitherto  matle  have  failed  to  deter- 
mine whether  he  is  a  descendant  of  Robert 
Drake,  of  Hampton,  New  Hampshire,  Cap- 
tain Francis  Drake,  of  Piscataway.  New  Jer- 
sey, or  of  the  several  Drake  families  which 
were  among  the  original  settlers  of  the  \'ir- 
ginias  and  Carolinas. 

( I )  The  Rev.  Philip  Drake,  above  referred 
to.  was  born  January  i,  1743,  and  is  found  in 
the  latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  century  as 
the  Baptist  minister  at  Lee's  Creek,  Kentucky. 
By  his  wife  Anne  (Larue)  Drake,  of  whom 
nothing  more  is  known,  he  had  two  children : 
I.  John,  referred  to  below.     2.  Sophia. 

(II)  John,  only  son  and  eldest  child  of  the 
Rev.  Philip  and  Anne  (Larue)  Drake,  was 
born  in  Kentucky,  November  15,  1785,  died 
there  December  28,  1823.  He  married  Sophia 
Crosby,  and  had  five  children:  i.  Joseph 
Crosby,  born  July  30.  1811.  2.  James.  No- 
vember 4.  1813.  3.  Elizabeth.  March  16.  1816. 
4.  .Anna,  November  6,  18 18.  5.  Robert,  refer- 
red to  below. 

(HI)  Robert,  youngest  child  and  son  of 
John  and  Sophia  (Crosby)  Drake,  was  born 
in  Mason  county.  Kentucky,  March  8,  1821, 
died  in  Martinsville,  Indiana,  October  26, 
1892.  Until  1855  he  kept  a  general  store  in 
Maysville,  Kentucky ;  but  in  that  year  he  came 
to  Newark,  New  Jersey,  where  he  set  up  in 


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the  business  of  manufacturing  smoothing 
irons,  starting  the  business  now  known  as  the 
firm  of  Bless  &  Drake,  which  began  with  five 
employees.  By  his  marriage  with  Emma 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Eleazar  and  Harriet  Eliz- 
abetli  (Pant)  Bless,  born  June  30,  1828.  died 
February  8,  1894,  Robert  Drake  had  four 
children:  I.  Edgar  Bless,  who  is  referred  to 
below.  2.  Walter,  born  December  13,  1856, 
married  Ella  M.  Ward.  3.  Harriet.  February 
19,  1859,  married  John  F.  Ward.  4.  Robert 
Jr.,  August  28,  1864,  married  (Irace  G.  Drum. 

(IV)  Edgar  Bless,  eldest  child  and  son  of 
Robert  and  Emma  Sarah  (Bless)  Drake,  was 
born  in  Minerva,  Kentucky,  September  18, 
1854,  anil  is  now  living  at  17  South  street, 
Newark,  New  Jersey.  When  he  was  about 
one  year  old  his  father  removed  from  Ken- 
tucky, to  Newark,  and  Edgar  Bless  was  sent 
to  the  Newark  Academy,  from  which  institu- 
tion he  graduated  in  1870.  He  then  entered 
the  employ  of  the  firm  of  Bless  &  Drake, 
where  he  rose  step  by  step  until  he  has  now 
reached  the  position  of  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  company.  Mr.  Drake  is  a  Republican, 
but  has  held  no  office,  nor  has  he  seen  any 
military  service.  He  is  a  member  of  Kane 
Lodge,  No.  55,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
and  the  Masonic  Club  of  New  York  City.  He 
is  not  connected  with  any  financial  institu- 
tions; he  attends  St.  Paul's  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Cliurch.  November  20,  1877,  Edgar 
Bless  Drake  married,  in  Newark,  Annie  Jane 
Murphy,  born  in  Syracuse,  New  York,  Sep- 
tember 20,  1855,  who  has  borne  him  two  chil- 
dren: Arthur  and  Edgar  Bless,  referred  to 
below. 

( \' )  .Vrthur.  eldest  son  of  I^dgar  Bless  and 
-Annie  Jane  (Murphy)  Drake,  was  born  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  September  26,  1878,  and 
is  now  living  in  Newark.  He  was  educated  at 
the  Newark  Academy,  after  which  he  took  a 
position  under  his  father  in  the  firm  of  Bless 
&  Drake,  and  is  now  the  manager  of  their 
factory.  He  is  a  member  of  Kane  Lodge,  No. 
55.  Arthur  Drake  married  Florence  Lambert 
and  has  one  child,  .\rthur  Dudley  Drake,  born 
May  27,  1906. 

(V)  Edgar  Bless  Jr.,  youngest  child  of 
Edgar  Bless  and  Annie  Jane  (Murphy) 
Drake,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Oc- 
tober 29,  1 88 1,  and  is  now  living  with  his 
father  at  17  .South  street,  Newark,  lie  was 
educated  at  the  Newark  .Academy  and  Prince- 
ton University,  class  of  1904,  and  then  becaiue 
a  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  firm  of  Bles.s  & 
I  )rake. 


Jacob  Peter  Snyder,  immigrant 
SNYDER  ancestor,  arrived  in  this  coun- 
try from  Holland  some  time 
before  1734.  He  married  Elizabeth  Lott,  of 
Long  Island,  who  bore  him  six  children:  I. 
William,  born  in  1734.  2.  Catharine,  1735.  3. 
Annatje,  1737.  4.  Johannes,  see  forward.  5. 
Petrus,  1740.  6.  Elizabeth,  1741.  The  fore- 
going is  from  the  records  of  the  Reformed 
butch  Church  of  New  York  City  (the  Col- 
legiate Church). 

(II)  Johannes  or  John,  fourth  child  and 
second  son  of  Jacob  Peter  and  Elizabeth 
(Lott)  Snyder,  was  born  in  New  York  City 
in  1739.     He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolutionary 

war.      He  married   Rachel  ,  who  bore 

him  si.x  children :   Sarah,  Margaret,  Elizabeth, 
Jacob,  see  forward,  Mary,  Rachel. 

(III)  Jacob,  only  son  of  Johannes  and 
Rachel  Snyder,  was  born  November  19,  1766, 
died  in  1815.  He  married,  November  27, 
1788,  Margaret  Bray,  born  July  26,  1769,  died 
December  27,  1843.  Children:  i.  Sarah,  born 
August  23,  1789.  2.  John,  March  17,  1791.  3. 
Susanna,  January,  1793.  4.  Andrew,  April, 
>795-  5-  Delia,  October,  1797.  6.  Rachel, 
twin  of  Delia.  7.  Nancy,  March,  1800.  8. 
John  W'esley,  August,  1802.  9.  William  Van- 
deran.  July,  1805,  see  forward.  10.  Watson, 
October,   1807.     11.  Julia,   1809. 

(I\')  William  Vanderan,  ninth  child  and 
fourth  son  of  Jacob  and  Margaret  (Bray) 
Snyder,  was  born  in  July,  1805,  died  in  Alla- 
muchy.  New  Jersey,  December.  1838.  He 
married  Sarah  Ridgway,  born  .April  11,  1809, 
who  bore  him  five  children:  I.  Margaret, 
married  C.  A.  Conklin ;  children :  Louise, 
died  in  infancy,  and  Annie  Beaumont,  married 
Howell  Mettler  and  has  one  child,  W.  W.  Jr. 
2.  Watson,  born  November  17,  1832,  died 
January  19,  1892;  married  (first)  Malvina  L. 
lUair:  children:  William  Deforest,  and  Frank 
Ridgway,  who  married  .Alice  ESain  and  they 
have  one  child,  Marjorie;  AX'atson  married 
(second)  Anna  P)eaumont  Shier;  children: 
Watson  Jr.  and  Louise  Beaumont.  3.  Anna 
I'lray.  married  Jacob  L.  Lawrence ;  children  : 
h'rederick,  who  lives  in  Sussex,  New  Jersey ; 
George  Seymour,  of  Butler,  New  Jersey ; 
Henry,  of  Sussex,  New  Jersey ;  Anna  Bray 
Lawrence  died  December  16,  1897.  4.  Charles 
Ridgway.  born  in  1837,  died  September  8, 
1895;  married  Rebecca  Porter;  children: 
.Margaret  Sterling  and  Charles  Ridgway  Jr. 
5.  W  illiani  A'anderan,  see  forward. 

(Y  )  William  Vanderan  (2),  son  of  William 
Vanderan  (i)  and  Sarah   (Ridgway)  Snyder, 


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was  burn  in  I'aterson,  New  Jersey,  June  15. 
1839.  He  graduated  from  the  scientific  course 
of  Wesleyan  University,  Middletovvn,  Con- 
necticut, in  1856,  and  then  took  an  engineering 
course  in  the  University  of  Michigan,  receiv- 
ing the  degree  of  Civil  Engineer  from  that 
institution  in  1837.  He  then  engaged  in  com- 
])any  with  his  brother  Watson  in  the  ch\y 
goods  business,  the  firm  name  l)eing  W.  &  \\  . 
V.  Snyder,  remaining  so  until  1866,  when  it 
became  William  V.  Snyder  &  Company.  The 
business  was  enlarged  from  its  insignificant 
beginning  to  a  large  department  store  of  forty- 
four  departments,  thus  denionstrating  the  bus- 
iness ability  of  the  partners  and  especially  of 
William  \  .  Snyder,  whi>  conducted  it  so  many 
years  alone.  William  \'.  .Snyder  sold  the  bus- 
iness, December  15,  1908,  and  retired  from  an 
active  life,  now  enjoying  the  fruits  of  his 
industry,  perseverance  and  thrift.  He  mar- 
ried, February,  1861,  in  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, Laura  Blair,  born  in  .-\llamuchy,  Warren 
county.  New  Jersey,  June,  1839,  died  in 
Newark,  September  19,  1902,  daughter  of 
Peter  W'.  and  Caroline  S.  Blair,  natives  of 
Warren  county.  New  Jersey.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Blair  had  three  other  children,  as  follows : 
Elizabeth,  W.  Irving  and  Mallie  Louisa  Blair. 
Children  of  William  \'.  and  Laura  (  Blair  j 
Snyder:  i.  Watson  Beaumont,  born  in  No- 
vember, 1862.  2.  Frank  ISlair,  died  in  infancy. 
3.  Mallie  Blair,  married,  October  15,  1891. 
Chandler  White,  son  of  William  and  Sarah 
M.  (Hunter)  Riker.  4.  \\'illiam  \'anderan, 
see  forward. 

( VI )  W^illiam  Vanderan  ( 3  ) ,  youngest  child 
of  William  \'anderan  (2)  and  Laura  (Blair) 
Snyder,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
May  24,  1874.  He  was  educated  in  private 
schools  and  prepared  for  Princeton  LTniversity 
in  the  Bordentown  Military  .Vcademy.  He 
began  his  active  career  by  entering  his  father's 
business,  remaining  with  him  until  April  i, 
1908,  when  he  resigned  and  accepted  the  presi- 
dency of  the  Motor  Car  Company  of  New 
Jersey.  Mr.  Snyder  is  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics. He  is  a  member  of  St.  John's  Lodge, 
No.  I ,  I-"ree  and  .Accepted  Masons ;  Scottish 
Rite,  No.  2^ ;  Salaam  Temple ;  Union  Club  of 
Newark ;  Mecca  Club  of  Paterson,  and  .Auto- 
mobile and  Motor  Club  of  New  Jersey.  He 
married,  March  3,  1897,  in  East  Orange,  New 
Jersey,  Iva  Darling  Beach,  born  in  Nashville, 
Tennessee,  January  2J.  1873,  daughter  of  Alex- 
ander Hamilton  and  Frances  (.Alt)  lieach,  of 
Petosky,  Michigan.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Beach  are  the 
parents    of    four   other   children,    as    follows ; 


Henry,  Ralph,  Frank  and  Jessie  Beach.  Chil- 
dren of  William  V.  and  Iva  Darling  (Beach) 
Snyder:  i.  Laura  Blair,  born  January  31, 
1898.  2.  William  X'anderan  (4),  December' 
15,  1902.  3.  Francis  Beach,  August  15,  1905. 
4.  Ralph  Beach,  May  18,  1907. 


.Among  the  families  by  the  name 

lU. AC'K  iif  [Hack  which  have  risen  to  dis- 
tinction in  .\'ew  Jersey,  there  is 
none  that  holds  a  more  honorable  place  than 
do  the  descendants  of  James  Black,  of  London- 
derry, who  was  of  Scotch  descent,  the  founder 
of  the   family  at  jjresent  under  consideration. 

( I )  James  Black,  of  Londonderry,  Ireland, 
came  to  this  country  about  1795,  as  a  young 
man,  and  settled  in  Essex  county.  New  Jersey, 
where  he  married  Mary  Hardenbroeck,  a  de- 
scendant of  one  of  the  most  prominent  of  the 
old  Dutch  families  of  America.  Children:  i. 
William  Henry.  2.  Samuel  Hardenbroeck, 
served  as  president  of  Oakland  College, 
-Natchez,  Alississijipi.  3.  Josejih,  referred  to 
below. 

(  II )  Jose])h,  third  son  of  James  and  Mary 
(  Hardenbroeck  )  Black,  was  born  at  Elm  Cot- 
tage, Newark,  New  Jersey,  1804,  died  in  July, 
1887.  He  married  Hannah  R.,  daughter  of 
Edward  Sanderson,  who  was  at  one  time  mayor 
of  Elizabeth.  Children:  I.  Edward  Sander- 
son, referred  to  bek)w.  2.  William  Harden- 
broeck. 

(  III  )  Edward  Sanderson,  eldest  child  of 
Joseph  and  Hannah  R.  (Sanderson)  Black, 
was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  in  the  same 
house  as  his  father,  March  6,  1856,  and  is  still 
a  resident  of  that  city.  He  attended  the  New- 
ark public  schools  and  the  Peildie  Institute, 
after  which  he  entered  Columbia  Law  School, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1879.  He  then 
read  law  with  Governor  John  Franklin  Fort, 
and  was  admitted  by  the  supreme  court  to  the 
New  Jersey  bar  in  February,  1879,  and  in  1886 
was  admitted  as  counsellor.  .At  the  beginning 
he  engaged  in  a  general  practice  of  law,  but 
later  s]iecializcd  in  the  field  of  marriage  and 
divorce  and  is  now  recognized  as  one  of  the 
leading  authorities  upon  that  subject.  In  ])oli- 
tics  he  is  a  Republican,  and  while  an  able 
worker  for  his  party  has  only  been  prevailed 
upon  once  to  become  a  candidate  for  office,  in 
1886,  when  his  name  was  on  the  ticket  for  the 
New  Jersey  legislature,  but  the  Democrats 
being  in  the  majority  in  his  district  he  was  de- 
feated, although  rimning  over  two  hundred 
ahead  of  his  ticket.  Mr.  Black  is  a  member  of 
Laurel    Lodge.    International    Order   of   Good 


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Templars,  of  which  order  he  is  grand  electoral 
superintendent  for  the  state  of  New  Jersey; 
New  Jersey  Society  for  the  Prevention  of 
•Cruelty  to  Children;  New  Jersey  Historical 
Society ;  Seth  Boyden  Council,  Junior  Order 
United  American  Mechanics  ;  Memorial  Lodge, 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen :  the  New- 
ark Art  Club.  He  is  a  member  of  the  First 
Jube  Memorial  Congregational  Church. 

Mr.  Black  married.  December  14,  1881,  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  Evelyn  T.  Lambert,  of 
Charleston,  South  Carolina,  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Harriet  (  Kees )  Lambert.  Mrs. 
Black  died  at  Newark.  February  14,  1908.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Black  were  the  parents  of  two  chil- 
dren :  I.  Edward  J.,  born  April  7,  1883;  mar- 
ried Lilian  Tomson.  and  they  have  a  child. 
Dorothy,  born  August  15,  1908.  2.  Virginia, 
born  1887,  died  1888,  at  the  age  of  ten  months. 


The  Clevenger   family  of 
CLEX'ENCtER      New  Jersey  not  only  by  its 

own  worth  but  also  by  its 
numercjus  alliances  ,with  the  old  historic  fami- 
lies of  New  Jersey,  deservedly  ranks  among 
the  representative  forces  of  that  great  state 
of  the  LTnion.  and  not  the  least  among  its 
representatives  is  Samuel  J.  Clevenger.  of 
I'hiladelphia,  referred  to  below. 

Samuel  J.  Clevenger  is  the  grandson  of  John 
Clevenger,  of  Pemberton.  Burlington  county. 
New  Jersev,  where  his  father,  Daniel  Cleven- 
ger, was  born  in  1812.  His  mother  was  Mary 
Starkey.  daughter  of  Anthoriy  Logan,  of  Jobes- 
town.  New  Jersey,  and  Samuel  J.  Clevenger 
was  born  at  Vincentown,  Burlington  county, 
January  11,  1849.  For  his  early  education  he 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Beverly,  later 
the  Mount  Holly  Institute,  after  which  he  went 
to  the  Peddie  Institute  at  Ilightstown.  On 
leaving  school  he  became  for  a  short  time  clerk 
in  a  store,  and  then  came  to  Philadelphia, 
where  he  began  his  business  career  as  a  clerk 
in  a  dry  goods  house.  After  some  time  he 
became  connected  with  the  forwarding  business 
of  a  jjrivate  freight  line,  a  position  which  he 
gave  u])  in  order  to  become  a  clerk  in  the  l>el- 
mont  Station  of  the  Reading  railroad,  .\fter 
two  years  at  this  last  position,  Air.  Clevenger 
in  187 1  became  engaged  in  the  grain  and  feed 
business,  which  he  has  continued  successfully 
up  to  the  present  time,  having  his  offices  at 
No.  468,  the  I'ourse,  Philadelphia,  and  his 
residence  at  1008  South  I'orty-seventh  street, 
Pliilaclel]ihia.  I'or  some  years  after  he  began 
business  the  firm  name  was  Burk  &  Clevenger. 
Mr,    Clevenger    is   a    Rei)ublican,   and   he   and 


hi.->  family  are  members  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church,  of  Philadelphia.  At  one  time  he  was 
a  member  of  the  L^nion  League,  of  Philadel- 
phia, but  has  resigned  his  membership.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of  New 
Jersey,  and  of  the  Commercial  Exchange  of 
Philadelphia. 

November  11,  1875,  Samuel  J.  Clevenger 
married  Elizabeth  Matilda,  daughter  of  James 
and  Rebecca  (Harrison)  Walker.  Her  brother 
was  the  proprietor  of  the  Harrison  Iron  W'orks. 
He  was  a  locomotive  builder,  and  received  the 
large  contracts  for  locomotives  from  the  Rus- 
sian government,  built  the  railroad  from  Mos- 
cow to  St.  Petersburg  and  also  built  a  bridge 
across  the  river  at  the  latter  point.  He  was 
the  inventor  of  the  famous  Harrison  boiler. 
Children  of  Samuel  J.  and  Elizabeth  Matilda 
(Walker)  Clevenger:  i.  Charles  Henry,  born 
March  11,  1876,  died  January  16,  1899,  grad- 
uated from  the  Friends'  Select  School,  of  Phil- 
adelphia. 2.  Arthur  Harrison,  January  5, 
1880,  now  in  the  insurance  business  at  427 
Walnut  street.  3.  Herbert  Logan,  December 
25,  1884,  graduated  from  the  Friends'  Select 
School,  Philadelphia,  and  now  in  business  with 
his  father.  4.  Samuel  J..  Jr.,  November  i, 
1888,  now  in  the  Philadelphia  high  school 


A  number  of  men  of  the  name 
HOWELL     of  Howell   came  over  to  this 

country  among  the  earliest 
pioneers  and  settled  in  various  portions  of  the 
different  colonies,  and  in  the  .state  of  New 
Jersey  alone  there  are  at  least  five  different 
families  bearing  the  name  which  so  far  as  can  be 
ascertained  have  on  this  side  of  the  .\tlantic 
no  connection  whatever.  .Vmong  those  New 
Jersey  families  is  one  that  has  long  been  identi- 
fied with  the  early  history  of  Morris,  Sussex 
and  Warren  counties,  who  claim  their  descent 
from  Edward  Howell,  of  Southampton,  Long 
Island,  through  his  youngest  son,  Richard,  who 
was  twice  married,  first  to  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  Ilalsey,  and  second  to  a  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph,  son  of  Thruston  Raynor.  To 
which  of  these  two  wives  of  Richard  Howell 
any  particular  one  of  his  twelve  children  are 
to  be  assigned  has  never  been  determined. 
Two  of  them,  however,  Daniel  and  Christopher, 
removed  to  New  Jersey  and  founded  the 
famous  Ewing  and  Trenton  families  of  the 
name,  and  two  of  the  sons,  Abner  and  Elias,  of  a 
third  son  of  Richard,  namely  Josiah,  settled 
one  in  Flanders  and  New  Cermantown  and  the 
other  in  Roxbury  or  Chester.  In  the  second, 
edition  of  his  "History  of  Southampton"  Mr 


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George  Rogers  Howell  says,  page  320,  "that 
the  Sussex  county  family  may  belong  to  the 
descendants  of  David,  son  of  Daniel  Howell 
of  Ewing."  mentioned  above,  but  a  diligent 
search  of  the  records  of  Sussex  county  and  of 
the  archives  of  the  secretary  of  state  at  Tren- 
ton have  failed  to  reveal  any  evidence  which 
would  point  in  either  direction.  In  the  ab- 
sence of  opposing  testimony  and  in  view  of  the 
fact  that  the  constant  tradition  of  the  Sussex 
family  is  to  their  descent  as  given  above  a  con- 
jectural line  may  be  assumed  as  follows:  Ed- 
ward ( I )  :  Richard  (  11  )  ;  Daniel  (III)  ;  David 
( I\' )  ;  William  (  \  ),  oi  Sussex  county,  Xew 
Jersey. 

(\  )  William,  the  conjectured  son  of  David 
and  Alary  (  Baker)  Howell,  was  born  probably 
in  the  neighborhood  of  I'^landers.  m  Morris 
county,  Xew  Jersey,  early  in  1740.  He  re- 
moved to  Hardwick  township  in  Sussex  (now 
Warren )  county,  and  later  on  to  Wantage 
towMiship,  Sussex  county.  He  gave  his  ser- 
vices in  the  revolution.  He  was  twice  mar- 
ried, lly  his  first  wife  he  had  four  children. 
William :  John,  referred  to  below ;  Sarah : 
I'ollv  ;  by  his  second  wife  two  children  :  I'amelia 
Schooley  and  Cornelius.  Cornelius  Howell 
moved  to  Chemung  county,  New  York,  and  be- 
came the  progenitor  of  a  large  family  of 
Howells  in  and  about  Elmira  and  Horseheads. 

( \T  )  John,  second  son  of  William  Howell 
by  his  first  wife,  was  born  at  or  near  the  old 
log  jail  in  Hardwick  township,  then  Sussex 
county,  now  Warren  county.  New  Jersey,  Sep- 
tember 21,  1783.  In  1808  he  removed  from 
Hardwick  township  to  ESeemerville,  Wantage 
township,  Sussex  county,  and  resided  there 
until  1824,  when  he  removed  with  his  family 
to  southwestern  Ohio.  He  was  accidentally 
killed  on  December  8,  1825,  and  in  the  spring 
of  the  following  year  his  widow  and  children 
made  the  return  trip  from  Ohio  to  Xew  Jersey 
in  a  one  horse  wagon.  He  married,  .April  4, 
1805,  -Martha  Tharp :  children:  Xancy,  Mar- 
tha, Jane,  Ira.  William  Chauncey,  referred  to 
below  :  .Alpheus.  John,  X'incent,  Emeline  and 
Nelson. 

(\'II)  William  Chauncey,  second  son  and 
fifth  child  of  John  and  Martha  (Tharp) 
Howell,  was  born  at  Beemerville,  Wantage 
township.  New  Jersey,  October  9,  18 14,  died 
at  Port  Jervis,  Xew'  York,  October  14,  1892, 
He  owned  a  farm  of  fifty  acres  at  Beemerville, 
which  he  improved  and  cultivated  to  a  high 
state  of  perfection,  an(i  in  addition  to  this 
fciUowed  his  trade  of  harness  maker.     In  Xo- 


vember,  1874,  he  retired  from  active  business, 
and  then  took  up  his  residence  in  Port  Jervis, 
Xew  York,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of 
his  life,  enjoying  the  fruit  of  his  industry  and 
skill.  He  married  Julia  .A.,  daughter  of  Austin 
and  Anna  (Beemer)  Schofield ;  children: 
James  Edward,  referred  to  below;  William 
Frederick,  born  June  15,  1852,  married  Irene 
Xorthrup :  three  children  who  died  in 
infancy. 

(\'III)  James  Edward,  eldest  son  of  Will- 
iam Chauncey  and  Julia  A.  i  Schofield  )  Howell, 
was  born  in  Beemerville,  \\'antage  township, 
Xew  Jersey,  June  25,  1848.  He  acquired  his 
early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his  dis- 
trict, after  which  he  served  in  the  capacity  of 
school  teacher,  in  the  meanwhile  preparing 
himself  for  college  and  studying  law.  In  1868 
he  matriculated  at  the  Michigan  University 
Law  School,  entering  the  class  of  1870,  and 
after  his  graduation  therefrom  he  located  in 
Xewton,  where  he  continued  his  reading,  and 
in  1S72  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  Jersey. 
The  following  two  years  he  practiced  his  pro- 
fession in  Xewton,  and  at  the  expiration  of 
that  time  removed  to  Xewark,  where  he  has 
remained  up  to  the  present  time  (1909).  In 
January,  1876,  he  entered  into  partnership 
with  Joseph  Coult  in  the  practice  of  law  in 
Xewark.  this  connection  continuing  until  April 
9,  1907.  a  period  of  thirty-one  years,  an  un- 
common occurrence  in  the  law  practice.  In  the 
latter  named  year  Mr.  Howell  was  appointed 
one  of  the  vice-chancellors  of  the  state  of  Xew 
Jersey,  in  which  capacity  he  is  rendering  most 
efficient  service.  He  held  several  minor  offices 
in  the  gift  of  his  party,  the  Republican,  one  of 
them  being  membership  on  the  board  of  the 
county  sinking  fund  commission,  which  he 
resigned  in  December,  1908.  in  order  to  devote 
all  his  time  to  court  w^ork.  He  is  one  of  the 
commissioners  of  the  Newark  City  Hall,  one 
of  the  trustees  of  the  Xewark  Free  Public 
Library,  and  a  member  of  the  Essex  Club  and 
the  Republican  Club  of  Xew  York.  He  was 
formerly  vice-president  of  the  Second  Xational 
Bank  and  one  of  its  directors.  He  attends  the 
Presbyterian  church.  \'ice-Chancellor  Howell 
is  a  man  of  scholarly  attainments,  and  posseses 
a  weight  of  character,  a  native  sagacity,  a  far- 
seeing  judgment  and  a  fidelity  of  purpose  that 
commands  the  respect  of  all.  He  married, 
lune  13.  1877,  Mary  Lillian,  eldest  child  of 
James  H.  and  Mary  (Thomson)  Cummins,  of 
Newton,  New  Jersey.  One  child  Thomson, 
born  December  21,  if 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


The    family    of    Dobbins    has 

DOBBINS  been  known  in  this  state  since 
the  times  of  the  colony,  and  is 
said  to  have  been  planted  on  this  side  of  the 
Atlantic  ocean  by  three  immigrant  brothers 
who  came  over  from  Belfast,  Ireland.  Two  of 
these  brothers  were  Samuel  and  Micajah,  the 
baptismal  name  of  the  other  having  been  for- 
gotten. 

(  I  )  Samuel  Dobbins,  who  is  thought  tu  have 
been  a  grandson  of  one  of  the  three  immigrant 
brothers  above  mentioned,  is  the  earliest  ances- 
tor of  the  family  of  whom  there  appears  to  be 
any  definite  account.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
lived  in  the  vicinity  of  \'incentown,  New  Jer- 
sey. He  married  (first)  Elizabeth  Scroggy, 
who  bore  him  five  children  ;  married  (  second ) 
Sarah  Brock,  and  by  her  had  four  children. 
Children:  Samuel  A.,  born  1814  (was  sheriff 
of  Burlington  county  two  terms,  member  of 
the  assembly  four  terms,  and  member  of  con- 
gress two  terms),  Mary,  Sarah,  Anna  Maria, 
Isaac,  Ambrose  Ellis,  Joseph,  Margaret  and 
James. 

(  II  )  .Ambrose  Ellis,  son  of  Sanuiel  and 
Sarah  (Brock)  Dobbins,  was  born  in  South- 
am[)ton  township,  Burlington  county,  New 
Jersey,  January  28,  1822,  died  September  30. 
1888.  He  was  a  farmer,  a  man  of  consider- 
able prominence  in  township  affairs  and  served 
as  school  trustee.  He  was  a  Master  Mason, 
and  attended  services  at  the  Methodist  Epis- 
coj^al  church.  Mr.  Dobbins  married  (first) 
January  2t,.  1843,  Jerusha  ,\nn,  daughter  of 
Isaiah  P.  and  Mary  Estell  (joldy,  born  South- 
am])ton  township,  .*>e]Hember  13,  1827,  died 
.April  14.  i860,  leaving  one  child;  married 
(second)   March  3,  1861,  Sarah  M.  Joyce.. 

(Ill)  .Albert  N.,  son  of  Ambrose  Ellis  and 
Jerusha  .Ann  (Goldy)  Dobbins,  was  born  in 
Southampton  township,  Burlington  county,  Oc- 
tober 27,  1845.  He  received  his  education  in 
the  district  school  at  A'incentown,  and  later 
entered  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
graduating  in  1866,  and  for  the  ne.xt  five  years 
worked  as  clerk  in  j)harmacy.  In  1S71  he 
started  in  business  for  himself  at  X'incentown. 
remained  there  one  year,  then  located  at  Colum- 
bus and  carried  on  a  general  drug  business  in 
that  town  until  1895,  when  he  sold  out.  Since 
that  time  he  has  been  engaged  in  a  general  fire 
insurance  business.  Mr.  Dobbins  is  a  director 
of  tiie  Mt.  Holly  National  Bank  and  president 
of  the  Columbus  Water  Company.  He  is  a 
member  of  Masonic  Lodge,  No.  4,  of  Tucker- 
ton,  New  Jersey.  He  has  served  as  township 
collector  and  member   of  the  township  com 


mittee.  In  1871  he  married  Kate  L.,  daughter 
of  Peter  and  Rebecca  (\'an  Zant)  Lane,  of 
Port  Republic,  New  Jersey,  the  former  a  son 
of  James  B.  Lane,  of  Union  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, and  the  latter  a  daughter  of  Nicholas  and 
Mercy  (Moore)  \'an  Zant.  Nicholas  Van 
Zant  was  born  November  9,  1788,  died  March 
6,  1879.  Kate  L.  Dobbins  is  an  active  member 
of  the  Wesley  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  of 
Columlius,  New  Jersey,  ancl  an  earnest  worker 
in  the  temperance  cause,  having  served  at  dif- 
ferent periods  as  president  and  secretary  of 
the  local  association  of  Women's  Christian 
Temperance  Union,  and  is  now  the  district 
superintendent  of  the  department  of  soldiers 
and  sailors. 


The  surname  Graham  is  one  of 
GR.AH.AAI  far  more  than  ordinary  dis- 
tinction in  Scotland,  and  a 
name  of  great  antiquity  in  that  country  as  well 
as  in  England  and  Ireland.  In  ancient  times 
the  clan  (jraham  bore  a  chivalrous  and  highly 
important  part  in  Scottish  history.  Its  tradi- 
tional origin  too  is  of  the  highest  antiquity,  the 
ducal  familv  of  Montrose  tracing  descent  from 
the  fifth  century;  and  on  account  of  its  gal- 
lantry in  the  many  early  wars  the  clansmen  of 
(iraham  acquired  the  name  of  the  "gallant 
Graemes."  It  is  not  the  purpose  of  this  narra- 
tive, however,  to  enter  upon  a  detailed  history 
of  this  famous  clan  or  make  more  than  pass- 
ing allusion  to  any  of  its  distinguished  members. 
(  I  )  John  Graham,  immigrant,  immediate 
progenit(.r  of  the  particular  family  intended 
to  l)e  treated  in  these  annals,  was  a  native  of 
Edinburgh,  Scotland,  and  might  have  claimed 
descent  from  the  ancient  clan  to  which  passing 
allusion  is  made  in  the  preceding  paragraph. 
He  was  a  young  man  when  he  came  to  Amer- 
ica, but  at  that  time  had  a  wife  and  one  or 
more  children,  and  they  accompanied  him  (in 
the  voyage  to  this  country.  He  settled  in 
Paterson  and  was  a  mason  by  trade,  an  indus- 
trious, hard-working  and  honest  man.  The 
bajitismal  name  of  his  wife  was  Elizabeth,  but 
her  family  name  is  not  known.  She  bore  him 
three  children  :  Robert ;  John,  see  forward  ; 
Elizabeth,  married  Thomas  TIeathcote.  of 
Paterson. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Eliza- 
beth (iraham,  was  born  in  Edinburgh,  Scot- 
land, April  27,  1823.  He  came  to  this  country 
with  his  parents  when  he  was  a  small  child, 
and  as  a  boy  attended  the  public  schools  of 
the  citv,  but  was  c|uite  young  when  he  laid 
aside  his  books  and  started  out  to  make  his  own 


STATE   OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


72,2, 


way  in  life.  His  ])rincipal  occupation  was  tliat 
of  drover,  cattle  dealer  and  butcher,  and  he 
proved  a  successful  business  man.  although  he 
died  in  the  very  prime  of  his  life,  April  27, 
1863,  at  the  age  of  forty  years.  He  is  re- 
membered as  an  energetic  man,  possessed  of 
good  business  capacity  and  understanding,  both 
of  which  were  c]ualities  that  counted  for  much 
in  advancing  the  welfare  of  his  adopted  city 
in  many  respects.  For  several  years  he  was  a 
member  of  the  board  of  education,  and  while 
the  incumbent  of  that  office  was  chiefly  instru- 
mental in  securing  the  erection  of  what  then 
was  the  largest  school  building  in  the  city  and 
one  which  would  compare  favorable  with  many 
similar  structures  of  more  modern  construc- 
tion. He  married,  Sejjtemher  30.  1844,  Mary 
Jane,  born  June  23.  1824.  daughter  of  Rich- 
ard and  Harriet  Mead,  of  Bloomingdale,  New 
Jersey.  She  bore  him  four  children,  only  one 
of  whom.  Wallace  Graham,  grew  to  maturity. 
Mary  Jane  (Mead)  Graham  married  (second) 
Hiram  Gould ;  she  died  May  29.  1903. 

(HI)  \\'allace.  son  and  only  surviving  child 
of  John  (2)  and  Mary  Jane  (Mead)  Graham, 
was  born  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  March  2j, 
1848.  He  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  that  city,  and  after  leaving  school 
learned  the  trade  of  carpenter  and  joiner  and 
afterward  worked  as  a  journeyman  until  1874, 
then  became  a  ship  carpenter  in  the  service  of 
a  company  whose  boats  were  employed  in  pas- 
senger and  freight  transportation  between 
New  York  and  the  West  Indies.  He  contin- 
ued in  the  employ  of  that  company  until  1882, 
then  returned  to  Paterson  and  went  into  the 
undertaking  establishment  conducted  by  Hiram 
Gould,  his  stepfather.  Subsequently  Mr. 
Gould  and  Wallace  Graham  became  partners 
in  the  funeral  and  undertaking  business,  which 
relation  was  maintained  until  the  death  of  the 
senior  partner  in  1904.  Since  that  time  Mr. 
Graham  has  conducted  the  business  alone.  He 
is  a  member  of  Benevolent  Lodge,  No.  45, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons.  He  married 
Bertha  ]\Ielina  Harris,  born  August  15,  1853, 
adopted  daughter  of  Joseph  Hodgman.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Mary  Margaret,  born  March  22, 
1881  ;  married,  October  21,  1902,  Winfred 
Zabriskie  :  no  issue.  2.  and  3.  Wallace  Alvin  and 
Walter  Hiram,  twins,  born  December  30.  1885. 


I 


The  Larter  family  of  New  Jer- 
LARTER    sey  was  founded  by  Robert,  son 

of  Robert  and  Ann  Larter.  He 
was  born  August  30,  1803,  at  Witton,  near 
North  Walsham,  county  of  Norfolk,  England. 


In  1837  with  his  wife  and  several  small  chil- 
dren he  came  to  America,  settling  in  the  city 
of  Newark.  November  5.  1825.  Robert  Larter 
married  at  North  Walsham,  England,  Jane, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Racey.  She 
was  born  at  Keynshani,  Somersetshire,  Eng- 
land, February  14,  1804.  Children:  Eleanor, 
born  March  6,  1827;  Jane,  April  7,  1829; 
Robert,  November  2,  183 1  ;  Ann,  September  8, 
1834;  Thomas,  April  20,  1836;  W'illiam,  April 
14,  1838;  John  Alfred,  September  2,  1840; 
George  Ezra,  March  28,  1843;  Frederick 
Henry,  referred  to  below. 

Frederick  Henry,  youngest  child  of  Robert 
and  Jane  (Racey)  Larter,  was  born  in  New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  April  19,  1846,  and  is  now 
living  in  that  city.  For  his  early  education  he 
was  sent  to  the  Newark  public  schools,  and 
after  graduating  in  1862  he  took  a  position  in 
the  press  room  of  the  Ncz^'ark  Dail\  Adver- 
tiser, the  leading  newspaper  publication  of  the 
city  of  Newark  at  that  period,  remaining  in 
this  position  for  five  years.  In  1867  he  accepted 
a  position  as  salesman  with  Osborn,  Board- 
man  &  Townsend,  at  that  period  one  of  the 
most  prominent  retail  jewelry  concerns  of  New 
York  City.  Mr.  Larter  gained  here  the  exper- 
ience of  which  he  made  so  great  a  use  later  in 
his  successful  career  as  one  of  the  leading 
manufacturing  jewelers  of  Newark.  In  1870 
he  began  business  for  himself  by  buying  an 
interest  in  the  then  existing  firm  of  H.  Elcox 
&  Company,  eventually  becoming  the  head  of 
the  concern,  and  afterward  associating  with 
himself  his  two  sons,  Henry  C.  and  Halsey 
M.,  under  the  firm  name  of  Larter,  Elcox  & 
Company,  and  in  the  year  1905  a  change  of  the 
name  being  made  to  Larter  &  Sons,  the  title 
under  which  it  is  at  present  doing  business. 
Air.  Larter  is  a  Republican,  but  his  tastes, 
although  he  has  always  been  a  staunch  sup- 
porter of  his  party,  have  lain  more  in  the 
direction  of  his  social  and  business  life  than  in 
the  affairs  of  politics.  Mr.  Larter's  tastes  are 
domestic ;  he  prefers  his  home  and  the  com- 
panionship of  his  friends  to  club  life.  He  is 
however  an  active  and  prominent  member  in  a 
number  of  organizations  which  relate  to  his 
business  and  the  advancement  and  promotion 
of  the  interests  of  the  famous  industry  of 
Newark  with  which  he  has  been  so  long  con- 
nected. Among  these  associations  should  be 
mentioned  the  Jewelers'  Board  of  Trade,  the 
Drug  and  Chemical  Club  of  New  York,  the 
Newark  Board  of  Trade,  the  Jewelers'  Safety 
■Fund  Society,  the  Jewelers'  Protective  Union 
and  the  Wednesday  Club  of  Newark. 


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STATE    OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


May  19.  1869.  Frederick  Henry  Larter  mar- 
ried Martha,  daughter  of  Simon  Passmore,  of 
Newark.  Her  death  which  occurred  in  Janu- 
ary, 1909,  was  a  source  of  great  grief  to  her 
family  and  friends.  Children:  i.  Henry  Clif- 
ton, married  Sussanna  D.  Ekings,  of  Pater- 
son,  they  having  three  children,  Elizabeth  J., 
Martha  and  Henry  Clifton  Jr.  2.  Halsey 
Meeker,  married  Elizabeth  Monroe,  daughter 
of  Francis  Asbury  Wilkinson  ;  they  have  three 
children,  Charlotte,  Monroe  and  Elizabeth.  3. 
Mary  Lorinda,  married  William  Francis 
Price ;  they  have  one  child,  Virginia.  4.  Jes- 
sie Eloise.  5.  P'lorence  Fredericka.  6.  W^arren 
Rogers. 

The  ancestry  of  the  Schenck 
•  SCHENCK      family  has  been  traced  with 

definiteness  to  a  very  early 
mediaeval  period.  It  is  said  to  have  derived 
its  name  from  Edgar  De  Schenken,  who  was 
seneschal  to  the  Emperor  Charlemagne,  and 
who  about  778  A.  D.  received  from  that  sov- 
ereign a  title  of  nobility  and  coat-of-arms. 

The  genealogical  records  of  the  line  from 
which  the  New  Jersey  Schencks  are  descended 
begin  with  Colve  de  Witte,  founder  of  the 
house  of  Schenck,  barons  of  Tautenberg,  who 
was  killed  in  battle  with  the  Danes  in  878  or 
880.  About  1234  a  cadet  of  the  Tautenberg 
line,  Christianas  Schenck,  established  the 
family  of  Schenck  van  Nydeck  (or  van  Nydeg- 
gen).  This  Christianus  resided  in  the  famous 
castle  of  Nydeggen,  was  cupbearer  to  the  Count 
van  Jiilich  (1230-33).  and  had  other  distin- 
guished offices.  His  descendants,  the  Barons 
Schenck  van  Nydeck,  were  also  lords  of  Affer- 
den,  Blyenbeck  and  Walbeck,  and  later  of 
Arssen,  Velden,  etc. — their  estates  being  in  the 
Netherlands  near  the  German  border.  Armo- 
rial bearings  of  the  Schencks  of  Nydeck — 
Arms,  sable,  a  lion  rampant  or,  langued  et 
arme  gules  and  azure.  Crest,  out  of  a  coronet 
or,  a  demi-lion  rani]«nt  or,  langued  et  arme 
gules  and  azure. 

In  the  sixteenth  century  a  distinguished  head 
of  the  house  of  Schenck  van  Nydeck  was  Mar- 
tin .Schenck  van  Nydeck,  1543-89,  who  was 
field-marshal  to  the  Prince  of  Cologne,  was 
knighted  in  1586,  and  fell  in  battle,  August  11, 
1589.  Motley,  in  his  "History  of  the  United 
Netherlands,"  refers  to  him  as  Sir  Martin 
Schenck,  and  incidentally  does  him  injustice, 
intimating  that  he  held  the  estates  by  c|uestion- 
able  title.  It  was  fully  established,  after  a 
litigation  celebrated  in  those  times  (wherein 
the  Pope  and  the  Emperor  figured),  that  .Sir 


Martin  was  the  legitimate  and  rightful  heir  of 
his  ancestor,  Derick  Schenck  van  Nydeck,  lord 
of  Blyenbeck,  Afferden,  Walbeck,  etc.,  who 
married  Albeit  Custers  of  Arssen.  Of  near 
kin  to  Sir  Martin  and,  like  him,  a  descendant 
of  Derick,  was  the  founder  of  the  American 
branch    here   considered.      This    founder   was 

(  I  )  Johannes  Schenck  van  Nydeck,  born  in 
Holland.  September  ig,  1650.  He  emigrated 
from  Aliddleburg.  in  that  country,  about  lt)75, 
settled  in  Bushwick,  Long  Island  (now  a  por- 
tion of  Brooklyn  ),  and  died  there  on  the  5th  of 
I'ebruary,  1748.  He  was  doubtless  a  man  of 
substantial  means.  According  to  a  deed  on 
file  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  state  of 
New  Jersey,  he  purchased.  October  11,  1703, 
six  hundred  and  forty  arces  described  as  "lying 
between  two  tracts  of  John  Inians.  deceased." 
This  jjrojierty  is  said  to  have  been  within  the 
limits  of  the  present  city  of  New  Brunswick, 
and  to  have  been  occupied  by  some  of  the 
grandsons  of  Johannes.  He  married  Mag- 
dalena.  daughter  of  Hendrick  and  Maria  de 
Haes. 

(  II )  Johannes  Schenck.  son  of  Johannes 
Schenck  \'an  Nydeck,  was  born  April  30,  1691, 
lived  at  lUishwick,  Long  Island,  and  died  April 
I,  1721).  He  married  Maria  Lott.  of  I-'latbush. 
Long  Island. 

(HI)  Hendrick,  son  of  Johannes  Schenck, 
was  born  July  15,  1717,  died  January  i,  1767. 
Removing  to  New  Jersey,  he  built  the  mill  on 
the  west  side  of  Millstone  river,  Somerset 
county,  which  has  since  been  known  as  the 
Blackstone  Mill.  He  married  Magdalena  van 
Liew.  Children:  I.  John  H.,  died  in  Free- 
hold, New  Jersey,  March  12.  1846.  He  was 
colonel  of  a  regiment  personally  raised  and 
equipped  by  him,  wdiich  he  commanded 
throughout  the  revolutionary  war.  Married 
(first)  Sarah  Denton:  (second)  Mrs.  Jane 
Conover  (nee  Schenck).  2.  Henry  H.,  of 
Neshanic  :  physician  and  surgeon :  captain  of  a 
troop  of  light  horse  in  the  revolutionary  war. 
Married  Nelly  Hardenbergh.  daughter  of  Rev. 
Dr.  Jacob  H.  Hardenbergh,  and  had  two  sons. 

3.  Mary,  married  Dr.  Lawrence  Van  Derveer. 

4.  Catherine,  married  Elias  \'an  Derveer.  5. 
(jcrtrude,  married  (^^ieneral  Frederick  Freling- 
luiysen.  They  were  the  parents  of  the  distin- 
guished Theodore  Frelinghuysen,  LL.  D.,  and 
grandparents  of  the  latter's  nephew.  Frederick 
T.  Frelinghuysen,  secretary  of  state  of  the 
United  States.  6.  Letitia.  married  Judge  Lsrael 
Harris.  7.  Magdalena,  married  Dr.  Peter  J. 
-Strvker,  vice-president  of  the  legislative  coun- 
cil of  New  Jersev.    8.  .\bram,  of  whom  below. 


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(IV)  Abram,  youngest  child  of  Hendrick 
Schenck,  was  born  March  3,  1749.  He  resided 
in  Somerset  county  and  durins;  the  revolution 
served  in  the  troop  of  hght  horse  which  was 
commanded  by  his  brother,  Colonel  Henry  H. 
Schenck.  He  married  Eva  \'an  Beuren.  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  Abraham  \'an  Beuren,  of  Millstone. 

(V)  Henry  Harris,  son  of  Abram  Schenck, 
was  born  January  12,  1788,  died  March  22, 
1851.  He  removed  to  New  Brunswick,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  was  a  highly  respected  citi- 
zen. For  many  years  he  was  one  of  the  elders 
of  the  Mrst  Reformed  Church  of  that  com- 
munity. He  married,  November  19,  1808,  Eva 
V'oorhees,  daughter  of  ]\Iartinus  and  Maria 
(De  Camp)  \  oorhees,  and  a  descendant  of 
Steven  Coerte  van  \'oorhees,  who  came  to 
New  Netherland  in  the  ship  "Bonte  Cou"  in 
1660.  She  was  born  July  9,  1785,  died  March 
6,  1869.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth  Stothoff,  born 
November  21,  1809,  died  October,  1881.  ^lar- 
ried  Edward  IManning.  2.  Catherine  Ann, 
born  January  25,  1814,  died  November  22, 
1836.  3.  \\'illiam  \'an  Beuren,  born  Novem- 
ber 8,  1816,  married  Mercy  A.,  daughter  o: 
Rev.  Daniel  D.  Lewis.  4.  .\brahani  \oorhees. 
of  whom  below. 

(\T)  Abraham  \'oorhees,  youngest  child  of 
Henry  Harris  Schenck,  was  born  in  New 
Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  October  12,  1821. 
He  received  a  public  school  education  in  that 
city,  studied  law  with  Henry  V.  Speer,  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  as  attorney  in  November, 
1843,  and  was  licensed  as  counsellor  in  Janu- 
ary, 1847.  From  the  age  of  twenty-two  until 
his  death — a  period  of  nearlv  sixty  years — he 
was  engaged  in  the  active  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  New  Brunswick.  As  a  lawyer  he 
enjoyed  a  wide  reputation  for  learning  and 
ability,  and  he  was  identified  with  many  of  the 
most  important  litigations  both  in  the  state  and 
federal  courts,  some  of  the  cases  in  which  he 
appeared  being  of  historic  character  for  the 
principles  of  law  which  they  established.  In 
his  professional  capacity  he  was  counsel  for 
the  city  and  other  public  bodies,  as  well  as 
numerous  corporations.  Strongly  interested 
in  public  affairs,  Mr.  Schenck  was  for  many 
years  a  political  leader,  and  he  occupied  several 
of  the  principal  offices  for  his  municipality  and 
county.  He  was  mayor  of  New  Brunswick  in 
1855-56,  prosecutor  of  the  pleas  of  Middlesex 
county  in  1872-77,  and  member  of  the  state 
senate  of  New  Jersey  (elected  on  the  Repub- 
lican ticket  over  James  Neilson)  in  1883-85. 
During  his  service  in  the  senate  he  was  one  of 
a  special  committee  (1884)  which  reported  the 


present  important  law  relating  to  the  taxation 
of  railroad  and  canal  property,  and  in  the 
session  of  1885  he  was  jjresident  of  that  body. 
.-\t  the  end  of  his  term  he  declined  a  renomina- 
tion.  As  a  citizen  he  exercised  an  influence 
in  the  community,  and  was  regarded  with  a  de- 
gree of  confidence  and  esteem,  not  surjjassed 
by  any  other  of  his  times.  He  was  one  of  the 
vice-jjresidents  of  the  Holland  Society  and  a 
prominent  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Society 
of  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  He  died 
at  his  residence,  "Redclift'e,"  Highland  I 'ark, 
Raritan  township,  Middlesex  county,  April  28, 
1902. 

He  married  (  first )  February  12,  1863,  Emily 
Wines  liarker.  daughter  of  Abraham  and  Hen- 
rietta (Wines)  Barker.  She  was  born  May 
22.  1838,  died  June  20,  1870.  Children:  I. 
lunily  Barker,  born  March  8,  1867.  2.  War- 
ren Redclift'e,  born  June  7,  1870.  He  was 
educated  at  the  Rutgers  Preparatory  School 
and  Rutgers  College,  graduating  from  the 
latter  institution  with  high  honors  in  1890,  and 
three  years  later  receiving  the  degree  of  Master 
of  .\rts.  .After  pursuing  legal  studies  with  his 
father  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  (  1893  ),  and 
he  has  since  practiced  his  profession  in  New 
Brunswick.  Married,  June  9,  1897,  Sophie 
Kirkpatrick  Smith,  daughter  of  David  Lowber 
Smitli  (a  prominent  citizen  of  New  York), 
and  -Sophia  Kirkpatrick  (sister  of  the  late 
Judge  .Andrew  Kirkpatrick,  of  Newark).  Chil- 
dren :  i.  Henrietta  Barker  Schenck,  born  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1899:  ii.  Gertrude  Estelle  Schenck, 
died  in  infancy. 

Abraham  \'oorhees  Schenck  married  (sec- 
ond) October  17,  1872,  Sarah  Estelle  Barker 
(born  October  29,  1849).  daughter  of  Abra- 
ham and  Henrietta  (Wines)  Barker,  who  sur- 
vives him.  Children :  3.  Crace  Wines,  bom 
December  14.  1873,  married,  June  23,  1907, 
Rcibert  Kitching  Painter.  They  reside  at  Ben- 
son Mines,  New  York.  4.  Edith  Mercer,  born 
December  11,  1879.  5.  Arthur  \'an  \'oorhees. 
born  November  25,  1883.  He  is  a  graduate  of 
the  Rutgers  Preparatory  School  and  Rutgers 
College  (1905,  M.  A.,  1908),  and  also  of  the 
New  York  Law  School  (LL.  B.,  1908).  Ad- 
mitted to  the  New  Jersey  bar  in  June,  1908,  he 
iias  since  then  been  pursuing  professional  prac- 
tice in  New  Brunswick. 


Among  the  strong,  vigor- 
C.ARPENTER     ous  characters  who  figured 

conspicuously  in  the  set- 
tlement of  Philadelphia  and  surrounding  coun- 
trv  was  Samuel  Carpenter,  who  came  from  the 


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island  of  Barbadoes  shortly  after  the  arrival 
of  Penn  himself.  He  was  the  son  of  John 
Carpenter,  of  Horsham,  Sussex  county,  Eng- 
land, and  sprang  from  a  line  of  landholders 
long  established  in  that  country.  A  successful 
merchant  of  Harbadoes  and  the  Quaker  city, 
he  crowned  a  long  prominent  and  useful  pub- 
lic career  by  long  service  as  the  treasurer  of 
the  Province  of  Pennsylvania,  and  died  leav- 
ing a  long  line  of  distinguished  descendants  to 
represent  him  to  posterity. 

(I)  Joshua  Carpenter,  his  brotlier,  is  first 
heard  of  July  5,  1686,  when  the  minutes  of  the 
provincial  council  record  '"The  Petition  of 
Joshua  Carpenter  was  Read,  Re(|uesting  a 
Lycense  to  Keep  an  Ordinary  in  his  Prother 
Samll  Carpenter's  house  on  ye  Wharfe. 
Ordered  a  Lycense  for  three  months."  This 
was  the  first  public  house  in  Philadelphia  to  be 
known  as  a  "coffee  house."  It  was  on  the  east 
side  of  Front  street,  above  Walnut,  and  was 
probably  the  building  referred  to  by  Robert 
Turner  in  his  letter  of  August  3, 1685  :  "Samuel 
Carpenter  has  built  another  house  by  his."  It 
became  a  noted  resort  in  those  early  days, 
where  ship  captains,  merchants  and  other  citi- 
zens gathered  to  discuss  the  news  of  the  day. 
In  addition  to  his  cofTee  house,  Joshua  Car- 
penter established  a  brev\'ery  and  engaged  in 
mercantile  pursuits.  Like  his  famous  brother, 
he  acquired  considerable  wealth  and  was 
assessed  in  1693  ^'  ^  valuation  of  £1000.  May 
18,  1693,  he  was  commissioned  a  justice  for 
Philadelphia  county;  May  17,  1699,  he  was 
appointed  one  of  the  regulators  of  the  streets 
and  water  courses ;  and  when  Penn  promul- 
gated his  charter  to  the  city  of  Philadelphia, 
October  25,  1701,  Joshua  Carpenter  was  placed 
at  the  head  of  the  list  of  eight  aldermen.  He 
declined  the  api)ointment  at  that  time,  but 
three  years  later  was  chosen  to  the  same  posi- 
tion by  the  common  council.  October  3,  1704, 
the  date  of  this  election,  James  Logan,  in  a 
letter  to  William  Penn,  says:  "They  have 
also  chosen  Joshua  Carjienter  again  into  their 
corporation,  who  was  the  first  alderman  nomi- 
nated by  thee  in  the  charter;  but,  for  a  vow  or 
oath  he  had  made  never  to  serve  under  thee 
again,  declined  acting  yet  nor  has,  it  seems, 
been  prevailed  upon.  He  is  a  great  enemy  of 
the  militia,  and  to  paying  thy  tax ;  but  I  know 
not  whether  that  may  be  any  part  of  his  merit. 
lie  is  of  himself  really  a  good  man.  As  a  mat- 
ter of  fact  Joshua  Carpenter  had  not  been 
prevailed  upon,"  but  Octol)er  2,  1705,  he  was 
admitted    freeman,   and   again    elected   to   the 


common  council.  Six  days  later  he  appeared 
and  qualified.  In  1705  he  was  instructed  by 
the  council  to  procure  a  public  burial  ground 
for  the  interment  of  strangers  dying  in  the 
city,  and  January  13,  1706,  he  and  Alderman 
Criffith  Jones  reported  they  had  procured  the 
same.  This  "Strangers'  burying  ground"  was 
the  present  Washington  Square,  which  was 
used  for  burial  purposes  for  a  century,  hun- 
dreds of  interments  being  made  at  difTerent 
times,  particularly  during  the  various  yellow 
fever  and  smallpo.x  epidemics  of  the  eighteenth 
century,  and  also  during  the  revolutionary 
war.  Carpenter  enclosed  in  the  centre  of  the 
ground  a  small  plot  which  he  reserved  for  the 
use  of  his  own  family,  and  here,  July  24,  1722, 
he  was  buried,  his  wife  Elizabeth  being  inter- 
red in  the  same  plot  October  30,  1729. 

Unlike  his  brother  Samuel,  who  was  a 
Friend,  Joshua  Carpenter  was  one  of  the 
earliest  and  most  active  members  of  Christ 
Church,  purchasing  the  lot  on  which  the 
church  stands  in  his  own  name  and  then  exe- 
cuting a  declaration  that  he  held  it  in  trust  for 
the  sole  use  and  benefit  of  that  corporation, 
and  to  this  day  the  legal  title  remains  in  the 
representatives  of  Joshua  Carpenter,  trustee, 
etc.  His  house,  especially  in  later  years,  was 
fully  as  famous  a  place  as  the  "slate  roof 
house"  of  his  brother  Samuel,  and  was  situ- 
ated on  Chestnut  street,  between  Sixth  and 
Seventh,  being  in  its  day  considered  almost  a 
country  place  so  far  was  it  "out  of  town." 
The  grounds  were  beatiti fully  laid  out,  and 
fruit  trees  and  shrubbery  for  a  long  time 
attracted  visitors.  From  1738  to  1747  it  was 
the  residence  of  Governor  George  Thomas ; 
later  Dr.  Thomas  Graeme,  the  "Councillor," 
and  his  celebrated  daughter,  Elizabeth  Fergu- 
son, lived  there,  whence  the  building  is  often 
spoken  of  by  local  historians  as  Graeme  Hall. 
Another  dweller  in  the  residence  who  made  a 
number  of  material  additions  and  alterations 
in  its  structure  was  John  Dickinson.  Gerard, 
the  first  French  minister  to  this  country,  lived 
there  as  did  also  his  successor,  the  Chevalier 
tie  la  Luzerne.  From  1798  to  1826  it  was 
the  home  of  Chief  Justice  William  Tilghman, 
and  in  the  last  year  mentioned  it  was  razed  and 
the  Philadelphia  Arcade  built  in  its  place. 

Joshua  and  Elizabeth  Carpenter  had  several 
children,  but  the  names  of  all  of  them  have  not 
been  preserved.  They  were,  so  far  as  known : 
I.  Samuel,  a  vestryman  of  Christ  church,  1718- 
21,  died  February,  1736;  married,  1719,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Jasper  and  Catharine  (Andelands) 


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Veatcs,  born  DecenibL-r  4.  1701.  died  Xovem- 
ber  6,  1758.  They  had  eiglit  children.  2. 
Xame  unknown,  referred  to  below. 

(II)  The  statement  has  been  made  that 
there  are  now  living  no  descendant.s  in  the 
male  line  of  Joshua  Carpenter,  but  a  constant 
tradition  traceable  as  early  as  the  beginning 
of  the  nineteenth  century,  and  with  no  oppos- 
ing evidence  from  any  document  that  has  as 
yet  come  to  light,  says  that  one  of  the  sons  of 
Joshua  Carpenter  went  down  and  settled  in 
Delaware,  and  that  one  of  his  children,  Will- 
iam, wlio  is  referred  to  below,  moved  up  into 
Salem  county,  in  which  and  the  neighboring 
counties  his  descendants  are  to  be  found  to- 
day. -\  bit  of  confirmatory  circumstantial  evi- 
dence is  found  in  the  fact  that  Joshua  Car- 
penter bought  from  Fenwick's  executors  con- 
siderable land  in  the  region  where  his  reputed 
grandson  afterwards  settled,  only  a  part  of 
which  he  disposed  of  by  deed. 

(III)  \\'illiam,  reputed  grandson  of  Joshua 
and  Elizabetli  Carpenter,  was  born  in  Dela- 
ware, and  came  into  Salem  county  about  1745 
or  1746,  as  a  young  man.  He  was  a  farmer, 
a  Church  of  England  man,  and  is  said  to  have 
been  a  number  of  years  older  than  his  wife. 
She  was  Alary,  born  in  1738,  daughter  of  Jere- 
miah Jr.  and  Jane  (Blanchard)  Powell.  They 
had  four  children:  i.  Mary,  married,  1780, 
Jacob  Ware.  2.  William,  referred  to  below. 
3.  Powell.  4.  Abigail,  married,  March  7,  1786, 
Edward  Hancock.  Tradition  says  he,  William 
Carpenter,  was  buried  in  the  b'piscopal  burial 
ground  in  Salem. 

(IV)  William  (2),  son  of  William  (i)  and 
Mary  (Powell)  Carpenter,  was  born  in  Salem 
county,  in  1757,  and  died  there  September  26, 
1803,  and  was  buried  in  Lower  Alloways 
creek.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  became  a  pri- 
vate in  Captain  William  Smith's  company, 
.Second  Battalion,  Xew  Jersey  militia,  <luring 
the  revolutionary  war.  His  brother,  Powell 
Carpenter,  was  also  a  revolutionary  soldier, 
and  was  wounded  March  17,  1778,  in  the 
battle  of  Ouinton  Bridge,  in  which  battle  Cap- 
tain William  Smith  distinguished  himself,  as 
did  also  his  noble  band  of  followers. 

William  Carpenter  Jr.  married,  in  1784, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Fogg)  Ware,  who  was  born  March  3,  1763, 
and  died  April  6,  1803.  Their  seven  children 
were:  i.  Samuel,  who  married  Mary  Mason 
and  went  west.  2.  Mary,  who  married  (firstj 
Thomas  Hancock,  and  (second)  Samuel 
Cooper.  3.  Abigail,  who  married  John  Good- 
win.    4.  William,  who  is  referred  to  below. 


3.  Elizabeth,  who  married  William  Thompson. 
6.  Powell,  who  married  (first)  Eliza  Slaughter, 
and  (second)  Ann  Slaughter.  7.  Sarah,  who 
married  Joseph  Hancock. 

(\')  William  (3),  son  of  William  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Ware)  Carpenter,  was  born  in 
Elsinborough,  Salem  county.  New  Jersey, 
April  4,  1792,  and  died  in  Salem,  May  13, 
1866.  He  was  a  farmer,  bought  what  was 
known  as  the  Brick  farm  in  Elsinborough, 
where  he  lived  until  1847,  and  was  the  first 
man  to  stop  the  almost  universal  practice  of 
those  days  of  furnishing  his  hands  with  liquor 
while  working  in  the  field,  substituting  instead 
an  extra  "five  penny  bit"  a  day.  He  was  an 
attendant  of  the  Salem  Monthly  Meeting  of 
Friends,  and  in  politics  was  a  Whig  and  later 
a  Republican.  From  1828  to  1830  he  was 
collector  of  Elsinborough ;  1825  to  1827,  a 
member  of  of  the  township  committee;  1831 
to  1840,  one  of  the  chosen  freeholders;  and 
1833  to  1838  a  member  of  the  commission  of 
ap[)eals.  About  1847,  'i*^  removed  to  Salem, 
where  he  died. 

January  22,  1814,  William  Carpenter  mar- 
ried Mary,  daughter  of  Abner  and  Mary 
(Mason)  Beesley,  who  was  born  in  Alloways 
Creek  township,  Salem  county,  November  4, 
1795.  and  died  in  Salem,  January  18,  1868. 
Her  father,  Abner  Beesley,  was  born  in  Allo- 
ways Creek  township,  September  8,  1769,  died 
October  10,  1806,  and  was  a  merchant  in 
Salem;  in  1804,  collector  for  Salem  county, 
also  the  first  treasurer  of  the  Salem  Library 
Company.  His  brother,  W^alter  Beesley,  was 
a  member  of  Captain  Sheppard's  company. 
Second  Battalion,  and  was  killed  in  the  massa- 
cre at  Hancock's  Bridge,  March  25,  1778.  Her 
grandfather,  Morris  Beesley,  was  the  son  of 
John  Jr.,  and  the  grandson  of  John  Beesley 
Sr.  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Waddington  and  Johanna,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam Tyler,  who  died  1701.  Jonathan  Wad- 
dington was  the  son  of  William  Waddington 
the  emigrant.  Her  mother,  Mary  (Mason) 
Beesley  was  the  daughter  of  John  Mason  and 
Susanna,  daughter  of  \'\'illiam  Goodwin  and 
Mary,  daughter  of  Lewis  Morris  and  Sarah 
daughter  of  Erasmus  La  Fetra  (corrupted  to 
Fetters).  Lewis  Morris  was  the  son  of  Red- 
roe  or  Rothra  Morris  and  Jael  Baty.  William 
Goodwin  was  the  son  of  John  Jr.  and  the 
grandson  of  John  Goodwin  Sr.  John  Mason 
was  the  son  of  Thomas  and  grandson  of  John 
and  Sarah  (Smith)  Mason. 

The  children  of  William  and  Mary  (Bees- 
ley) Carpenter  were:   i.  Elizabeth  Ware,  born 


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November  13,  1814,  died  June  27.  1866;  mar- 
ried, October  3.  1839,  Joseph  B.  Thompson.  2. 
Powell,  who  is  referred  to  below.  3.  Anna 
Mason,  born  September  9,  1819,  died  March 
3,  1855,  unmarried.  4.  ^Villiam  Beesley,  re- 
ferred to  below.  5.  Morris  Hancock,  referred 
to  below.    6.  John  Mason,  referred  to  below. 

( VI )  Powell,  second  child  anil  eldest  son  of 
William  and  Mary  (Beesley)  Carpenter,  was 
born  in  Elsinborough  township,  Salem  county, 
April  9,  1817,  and  died  in  Salem  city,  October 
17,  1850.  He  was  a  mason  and  bricklayer,  and 
lived  in  Salem.  Carpenter  street  in  that  city  is 
named  for  him,  and  he  was  one  of  the  origi- 
nators of  the  Franklin  Loan  and  Building 
Association.  He  was  killed  by  a  fall  from  the 
Baptist  church,  now  torn  down,  on  which  he 
was  working.  March  28,  1848,  he  married 
Mary  L.  Lawson,  but  left  no  children. 

(VF)  William  Beesley,  fourth  child  and 
second  son  of  William  and  Mary  ( Beesley) 
Carpenter,  was  born  in  Elsinborough  town- 
ship, Salem  county,  August  17,  1822,  and  died 
December  22.  1899,  in  Salem  City,  New  Jer- 
sey. He  did  not  graduate  from  any  school  or 
college,  but  he  attended  the  Elsinborough  dis- 
trict schools,  the  Clairmont  seminary,  at  I""rank- 
ford,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  and  the 
Friends'  private  school  in  Salem,  and  for  five 
terms  he  taught  school  himself  in  Elsinbor- 
ough. He  was  a  farmer  in  Elsinborough 
township  until  1891,  when  he  removed  to 
Salem  City,  where  he  lived  until  his  death. 
His  farm  in  Elsinborough  he  bought  from  hi? 
father,  and  he  also  purchased  another  one  in 
Mannington.  From  1865  he  was  one  of  the 
directors  of  the  Farmers'  Mutual  Fire  Insur- 
ance Company,  of  which  he  became  president 
in  1888.  He  was  a  Republican;  assessor  in 
Elsinborough,  in  1863,  1805,  and  1870;  a  free- 
holder from  1853  to  1855;  and  a  member  of 
the  New  Jersey  assembly  for  two  terms  from 
1874  to  1875.  He  was  an  attendant  of  the 
Salem  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends. 

William  Beesley  Carpenter  married  (first) 
ill  I'hiladelphia,  December  8,  1848,  Martha, 
(laughter  of  Josiah  W'.  and  Eliza  (Wright) 
(iaskill,  born  March  23,  1828,  died  April  2/, 
1867.  Her  brothers  and  sisters  were  Josiah, 
.Aaron,  Joseph,  Charles  and  Lucy  Gaskill.  The 
children  of  William  Beesley  and  Martha  (Gas- 
kill)  Carpenter  were:  i.  Howard,  born  De- 
cember 14,  1847,  died  September  29,  1868.  2. 
Mary  E.,  born  October  4,  1849;  graduated 
from  a  boarding  school  in  Bristol,  Pennsyl- 
vania; married,  in  18S2,  Edward  Lawrence 
3.  William,  born  January  29,  1854,  died  Octo- 


ber 30.  1855.  4.  Lucy  (Iaskill,  born  January  5, 
1857-  5-  Anna  Mason,  born  February  11, 
i860;  married  .\ndrew  Weatherby.  6.  \[a.r- 
tha  Gaskill,  born  .\pril  16,  1863;  married  E'fi- 
mund  W.  Nieukirk.  7.  Rebecca  S.,  born  Feb- 
ruary 22,  died  April  14,  1866. 

William  Beesley  married  (second)  in  Somers, 
Connecticut,  June  4,  1868,  Nancy,  daughter  of 
Robert  and  Amersha  (Arnold)  Pease,  born  in 
•Somers,  May  4.  1840,  and  still  living.  Her 
brothers  and  sisters  were :  Robert  L.,  Loren 
H.,  Salome  A.,  Martha  S.,  Albert  A.,  Vashni 
H.,  Mary  C,  and  Robert;  the  three  latter  were 
children  of  second  marriage.  Robert  Pease 
was  the  son  of  Oliver  Pease  and  Nancy, 
daughter  of  Daniel,  son  of  Captain  Jonah 
Cone,  who  served  eighteen  days  at  the  time  of 
the  Lexington  alarm,  and  afterwards  volun- 
teered and  served  as  a  revolutionary  soldier  in 
1777;  lie  served  as  corporal.  The  wife 
of  Daniel  Cone,  grandfather  of  Captain  Jonah 
Cone,  was  Mary  Gates,  granddaughter  of  Cap- 
tain Nicholas  Olmstead,  1619-84,  who  served 
in  the  Pequot  war  of  1637.  Oliver  was  the 
son  of  Robert  and  Ann  ( Sexton )  Pease.  Robert 
Pease  was  a  revolutionary  soldier,  enlisting 
July  6,  1775,  in  Eighth  Regiment,  discharged 
December  16,  1777;  his  wife  was  the  daughter 
of  Daniel  and  Mary  (Douglas)  Sexton.  Mary 
Douglas  was  the  grandtlaughter  of  Robert 
Douglas  and  Mary  Hempstead,  who  was  the 
first  white  child  born  in  New  London.  From 
this  line  sprang  also  Hon.  Stephen  A.  Douglas, 
of  Illinois.  Robert  Pease  was  the  son  of 
Robert  and  Hannah  (Sexton)  Pease,  grandson 
of  Robert  and  Elizabeth  (Emery)  Pease, 
great-grandson  of  Robert  and  Abigail  ( Ran- 
dall) Pease,  and  great-great-grandson  of  John, 
son  of  Robert  and  Margaret  Pease,  of  Great 
liaddow,  county  b^ssex.  luigland.  who  emi- 
grated to  New  England  in  1634,  landing  in 
Boston,  .\mersha  Arnold  was  the  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  .\mittai  ( Pomeroy )  Arnold,  and 
granddaughter  of  Hon.  John  and  Esther 
(Kibbe)  Pomeroy.  Her  great-grandfather. 
Noale  Pomeroy,  was  a  descendant  of  Sir  Ral]>h 
de  la  Pomeroi,  of  the  time  of  William  the  Con- 
(|uert)r,  and  served  in  the  Suffield  company  in 
the  French  ami  Indian  war  of  1753  and  1756. 

The  children  of  William  Beesley  and  Nancy 
.A.  (Pease)  Carpenter  are:  W^illiam  H.,  Julia 
A.,  and  I'^anny  Pease,  all  of  whom  are  referred 
to  below. 

(\'II)  William  IL,  eldest  child  and  only  son 
oi  William  lieesley  and  Nancy  A.  ( Pease  1 
Carpenter,  was  born  in  Elsinborough  town- 
ship, Salem  county.  New  Jersey,  February  16. 


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1871.  He  graduated  from  the  Salem  high 
school  in  1888,  and  from  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 
1892.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Fenwick  Club, 
the  Garfield  Club,  and  the  Salem  County 
Country  Club.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Ex- 
celsior Lodge.  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, and  of  Forest  Lodge,  Knights  of  Py- 
thias. He  is  a  practising  physician  in  Salem, 
and  medical  director  of  the  Standard  Life  In- 
surance Company  of  Camden,  New  Jersey,  and 
a  director  of  the  Salem  National  Banking 
Company.  December  i6,  1895,  he  married 
Jane  E.,  the  daughter  of  Captain  Daniel  \\'hit- 
ney,  a  civil  war  veteran,  and  they  had  one 
child:  William  Pjeesley,  who  died  .-Xpril  12. 
1909.  aged  twelve  years  six  months. 

(VII  t  Julia  A.,  eldest  daughter  of  William 
Beesley  and  Nancy  A.  (Pease)  Carpenter,  was 
born  in  Elsinborough  township.  Salem  county. 
October  18.  1872,  and  is  now  living  at  88  West 
Broadway.  Salem  City,  New  Jersey.  She  grad- 
uated from  the  Salem  high  school  in  1890.  and 
from  the  Broad  Street  Conservatory  of  Music 
in  1898.     She  is  unmarried. 

(\"II)  Fanny  Pease,  youngest  child  and 
second  daughter  of  William  Beesley  and 
Nancy  A.  (Pease)  Carpenter,  was  born  in 
Elsinborough  township,  Salem  county,  August 
II,  1876.  She  attended  the  Friends'  school  in 
Salem,  and  graduated  from  the  Philadelphia 
training  school  for  kindergartners  in  1900.  She 
married.  October  19.  1909.  Waiter  Hall,  of 
Salem.  New  Jersey. 

(VI)  Morris  Hancock,  fifth  child  and  sec- 
ond son  of  William  and  Mary  (Beesley)  Car- 
penter, was  born  in  Elsinborough  township. 
Salem  county,  February  17,  1825,  and  died 
January  4,  1904.  He  went  to  Philadelphia, 
engaged  in  business,  and  was  very  successful. 
He  never  married,  and  for  several  years  before 
his  death  lived  a  retired  life  in  a  hotel.  He 
was  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Guarantee 
Trust  and  .Safe  Deposit  Company  of  Phila- 
delphia at  the  time  of  his  death. 

(VI)  John  Mason,  youngest  child  of  Will- 
iam and  Mary  (Beesley)  Carpenter,  was  born 
in  Elsinborough  township,  Salem  county,  Oc- 
tober 9,  1827,  and  died  in  Salem  City,  Decem- 
ber 9,  1902.  He  kept  a  grocery  and  feed  store 
on  East  Broadway  in  Salem  for  many  years, 
and  was  one  of  the  foremost  in  establishing  the 
Electric  Lighting  Comjiany.  of  which  he  was 
the  first  president,  in  Salem.  He  was  also  a 
director  in  the  Salem  National  Banking  Com- 
pany. March  19,  1855,  he  married  Annie  I.. 
daughter  of  Minor  Harvey,  and  left  one  son, 


who  is  a  member  of  the   firm  of   Carpenter 
Mitchell  &  Company. 


Major  Nathaniel  Kings 
KIXGSLAND  land  of  the  British  army 
was  stationed  on  the  island 
of  Barbadoes,  West  Indies,  about  1660,  and 
with  him  were  two  nephews,  Isaac  and  Gus- 
tavus  Kingsland,  jjrobably  sons  of  a  deceased 
brother,  of  whom  he  was  guardian.  Captain 
William  .Sandford.  a  resident  of  Barbadoes 
was  sent  by  Major  Kingsland  to  New  Nether- 
lands to  investigate  the  conditions  of  the  lands 
lately  held  by  the  Dutch  \Vest  India  Company 
under  the  authority  of  the  government  of  Hol- 
land, but  which  had  come  into  the  possession 
of  the  British  government  by  force  in  1664 
His  instructions  to  Captain  Sandford  were 
to  purchase  a  desirable  tract  adjacent  to  New 
York  City,  with  a  view  of  colonization  and 
|)robably  as  a  future  foothold  for  his  nephews 
in  the  rapidly  developing  settlement  about 
New  York. 

Captain  \\'illiam  Sandford  purchased  from 
the  llackensack  Indians  a  tract  of  land  of 
aliout  ten  thousand  acres  between  the  Hacken- 
sack  and  Passaic  rivers  extending  "northward 
about  seven  miles."  This  purchase  was  made 
July  4.  1668.  in  the  interest  of  Major  Nathaniel 
Kingsland.  and  June  i,  1671,  Captain  Sand- 
ford, having  extinguished  the  Indian  title,  took 
title  to  the  southern  half  of  the  tract  and  Major 
Kingsland  to  the  northern  half.  Major  Kings- 
land  died  after  1685  and  in  his  will  dated 
March  14.  16S5,  he  left  one-third  of  his  three 
thousand  and  four  hundred  acre  tract  to  hi.. 
ne])hew,  Isaac  Kingsland,  who  with  his  brother 
( lustavus  was  living  in  the  parish  of  Christ 
Church  on  the  island  of  Barbadoes,  West 
Indies.  The  two  brothers  evidently  took  ship 
soon  after  the  death  of  their  uncle  and  landed 
in  New  York ;  they  proceeded  to  occupy  the 
land  thus  bet|ueathed  to  Isaac,  which  they 
named  New  Barbadoes  Neck,  and  December 
30.  1697.  Isaac  conveyed  to  Gustavus  a  shan- 
of  the  property,  and  Isaac  selected  a  site  on 
the  east  bank  of  the  Passaic  river  on  which  he 
built  a  house  which  was  the  first  house  on  the 
present  site  of  the  village  of  Kingsland  Manor, 
near  Rutherford,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey. 
Isaac  was  a  man  of  wealth  and  consef|uently 
of  jirominence  in  the  community,  and  he  was 
made  a  member  of  the  council  of  the  provincial 
government  and  held  the  position  for  several 
years.  He  became  the  progenitor  of  one  branch 
of  the  Kingsland  family  who  settled  largely  in 
L'nion  countv.  of  which  Edward  W.  Kingsland. 


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STATE    OF    x\E\V   JERSEY. 


president  of  the  Prudential  Institution  for  Sav- 
ings of  Jersey  City,  born  December  15,  1839, 
son  of  Edmund  \V.  and  Sarah  A.  Kingsland, 
is  a  representative  in  the  seventh  generation, 
through  Burnet  R.,  his  grandfather ;  Edmund 
William,  his  great-grandfather:  William,  his 
great-great-grandfather;  Edmund,  his  great- 
great-great-grandfather,  who  was  a  son  of 
Isaac,  the  immigrant.  The  other  branch  of  the 
Kingsland  family,  descending  from  Gustavus, 
is  represented  in  the  sixth  generation  by  John 
Wesley  Kingsland,  born  in  Paterson,  New 
Jersey,  Xovember  15,  1873,  son  of  John  and 
Catherine  A.  (Jackson)  Kingsland,  through 
his  grandfather  Gerardus ;  great-grandfather 
Stejjhen :  great-great-grandfather  David,  son 
of  Gustavus  Kingsland,  the  immigrant,  brnther 
of  Isaac,  the  immigrant. 

(  I  )  Gustavus,  nephew  of  Major  Nathaniel 
and  brother  of  Isaac  Kingsland,  came  from 
Christ  Church  parish,  Barbadoes,  W'est  Indies, 
to  Bergen,  East  New  Jersey,  and  lived  at  New 
Barbadoes  Neck  on  a  portion  of  the  tract  of 
three  thousand  and  four  hundred  acres,  which 
came  as  a  gift  from  Major  Nathaniel  to  his 
nephew,  Isaac,  and  part  of  which  was  deeded 
by  Isaac  to  his  brother  Gustavus,  December 
30,  1697.  Gustavus  married  and  had  children 
including  David,  see  forward. 

(II)  David,  eldest  child  of  Gustavus  Kings- 
land,  immigrant,  was  born  probably  in  New 
York  City,  where  he  married  the  daughter  of 
an  English  ofificer  at  the  time  New  York  was 
in  the  possession  of  the  British  army.  By  this 
marriage  he  had  sons:  David,  Cornelius  and 
.Stephen  (see  forward),  besides  several  daugh- 
ters. 

(III)  Stephen,  third  son  of  David  Kings- 
land,  married  Eleanor  Stymus,  of  New  York 
City ;  children,  born  in  Union  township,  New 
Jersey ;  David,  Gerardus,  see  forward :  John, 
Stephen,  Mary,  married  James  Jeroleman : 
Catherine.  Betsey,  married  Harry,  son  of 
Jacob  E.  \'reeland.  Of  these  children,  John, 
Stephen  and  Gerardus  settled  in  I'nion  town- 
shi])  and  died  there. 

(IV)  Gerardus,  second  son  of  Stephen  and 
Eleanor  (Stymus)  Kingsland,  was  born  in 
Union  township,  New  Jersey,  about  1802.  lie 
married  Charity,  daughter  of  Jacob  B.  \  ree- 
land  :  children,  born  in  Belleville,  Union  town- 
ship, Esse.x  county.  New  Jersey:  Jflin,  died 
young;  John,  see  forward;  Jacob. 

(V)  John,  son  of  Gerardus  and  Charity 
(Vreeland)  Kingsland,  was  born  in  Belleville, 
Essex  county.  New  Jersey,  May  16,  1832.  He 
married,    December    25,    1862,    Catherine    A. 


Jackson,  proprietor  of  a  fancy  goods  business 
which  she  was  then  carrying  on  in  Paterson, 
New  Jersey,  on  Main  street,  and  after  their 
marriage  her  husband  became  associated  with 
her  in  business,  which  they  were  thus  enabled 
to  greatly  extend  and  it  grew  very  profitable 
so  that  after  many  years  of  successful  results 
they  were  enabled  to  retire  with  a  well  earned 
competency.  John  and  Catherine  A.  ( Jackson  ) 
Kingsland  had  three  children  born  in  Paterson, 
New  Jersey:  r.  Samuel  Jackson,  October  22, 
i8fi5:  married,  December  7,  1891,  Laura  A. 
Emerson:  they  had  no  children;  his  wife  died 
I'ebruary  25,  1908.  2.  Jennie  Baunner,  April 
18.  1868;  married,  April  30,  1895,  J.  Milton 
\  an  Houten ;  child,  Catherine  Julia  \'an  Hou- 
ten,  born  Eebruary  19,  1899.  3.  John  Wesley, 
see  forward. 

(  \  I  )  John  Wesley,  youngest  child  and  sec- 
ond son  of  John  and  Catherine  A.  (Jackson) 
Kingsland,  was  born  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey, 
November  15,  1873.  I^^  ^"^'^^  educated  in  the 
jniblic  schools  of  Paterson,  the  Hackettstown 
Collegiate  Institute  and  graduated  from  the 
College  of  Dentistry  of  New  York  City;  he 
is  now  practicing  his  profession  in  Paterson, 
New  Jersey.  He  married.  June  28,  1900,  Mar- 
guerite Mercelis,  daughter  of  Richard  and 
Jennie  (Mercelis)  Rossiter  ;  children,  born  in 
Paterson:  i.  Rossiter,  July  14,  1901,  died 
March  5,  1902.  2.  Magdalen,  January  8,  1903. 
3.  Jennie  Jackson,  April  26,  1905.  4.  Muriel, 
July  2-j.  1907. 

I  The   Jackson   Line). 

The  ancestry  of  Catherine  A.  (Jackson) 
Kingsland  was  English.  Her  paternal  grand- 
father, Peter  Jackson,  and  his  wife  Jane,  came 
in  company  with  her  maternal  grandfather  and 
grandmother,  Thomas  and  Julia  Gardoni,  with 
their  respective  children  to  America  on  the 
ship  "America,"  Captain  Irwin,  sailing  from 
Liverpool,  May  24,  1801,  and  landing  at  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  July  15,  1801.  The 
two  families  came  from  Derbyshire.  Englanil, 
and  of  their  families  Joseph  Jackson  was  five 
years  of  age  and  Catherine  Gardom  was  three 
years  of  age. 

(I)  Peter  Jackson,  born  in  England,  April 
19^  1/59'  ^"d  his  wife,  Jane,  born  September 
26.  1756,  settled  at  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  and 
Thomas  Gardom  and  his  wife  Julia  and  daugh- 
ter Catherine  settled  at  Camden,  New  Jersey. 
Peter  Jackson  died  December  18,  1831,  and  his 
wife.  Jane,  June  28,  1832. 

(II)  Joseph,  son  of  Peter  and  Jane  Jackson, 
was   born    in    Derbyshire,    England,    April    2, 


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1796,  and  was  brought  up  and  educated  in 
Trenton,  New  Jersey.  He  removed  to  Pater- 
son,  New  Jersey,  about  1820,  and  he  was  one 
of  the  first  chosen  freeholders  of  that  city, 
holding  office  at  the  time  of  the  erection  01 
the  court  house.  He  also  served  as  coroner 
of  Passaic  county,  and  engaged  successfully  in 
the  grocery  busines-s  in  Paterson.  He  married. 
.April  22,  1828,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Julia  Gardom,  born  in  Derbyshire.  Eng- 
land, February  18.  1798.  Children:  I.  Jane 
H.,  born  February  5,  1829;  married  Burroughs 
P.  Brunner;  she  died  October  20,  1862.  2. 
George,  died  young.  3.  William,  died  young. 
4.  Julia,  January  22.  1835;  married  Ezra 
Waterhouse  in  November,  1879.  and  they  had 
one  child.  Joseph  J.  Waterhouse.  5.  Samuel 
January  28,  1837:  a  soldier  in  the  civil  war, 
killed  in  battle  before  Richmond.  \'irginia,  in 
1862  ;  he  was  unmarried,  f).  Catherine  .\.,  see 
forward.     7.  Joseph  G.,  August   15.  1842. 

(HI)  Catherine  A.,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Catherine  (Gardom)  Jackson,  was  born  in 
Paterson,  New  Jersey,  November  29,  1838; 
married.  December  25,  1862,  John  Kingsland 
(  see  Kingsland,  \' ). 


(For  preceding  generations  see  RicliHrd  I-ipi^incotl  1  ) 

(HI)  Jacob,  seventh  child 
I.U'I'l.XCOTT  and  third  and  youngest 
son  of  Restore  and  Han- 
nah (.Shattock)  Lippincott,  was  born  shortly 
after  his  father's  removal  thither  from  Shrews- 
bury, in  Mount  Holly,  Burlington  county.  New 
Jersey,  in  August  1692.  After  reaching  man- 
hood he  removed  down  into  Gloucester  county, 
near  the  Salem  county  line,  and  at  a  later  date 
into  I'ittsgrove.  Salem  county,  where  most 
of  his  descendants  are  residing  at  the  present 
time  together  with  the  descendants  of  Samuel 
Li])pincott.  who  was  a  public  friend,  and  the 
son  of  Jacob's  uncle.  Freedom  Lippincott. 
These  two  branches  of  old  Richard  Lip])inciitt's 
descendants  have  sprearl  through  Burlington, 
Camden,  Gloucester,  and  Salem  counties.  New 
Jersev,  and  into  Philadelphia.  In  1710  Jacr>b 
Eippincott  was  married,  in  the  Mount  Holly 
meeting  of  Friends,  to  Mary,  daughter  of 
Henry  Burr  and  Elizabeth  Hudson,  the  latter 
of  whom  was  born  in  England.  By  this  mar- 
riage he  had  eight  children,  and  it  is  said  a 
ninth  also,  who  married  Reliecca  Coate.  The 
eight  children  of  Jacob  and  Mary  (  Burr  I 
Lijipincott  recorded  are:  I.  Caleb,  married 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth 
(Woolston)    Wills,   John   Wills    (H),    Daniel 


(  I ) ,  whose  ancestry  is  found  in  the  sketch  of 
the  Wills  family.  2.  Benjamin,  referred  to 
below.  3.  Sanuiel,  who  married,  and  had  one 
child  who  married  Isaac  Barber,  who  emigrated 
to  Ohio,  where  he  and  his  wife  were  both  living 
at  a  great  age  in  1848.  4.  Joshua,  who  married 
Rebecca  \Vood,  and  had  two  sons  and  one 
daughter.  5.  Jacob,  Jr.,  who  married  a  gir! 
from  Abington,  Pennsylvania.  6.  William, 
who  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Joshua  antl 
Ruth  ( .\tkinson )  Bispham,  of  Philadelphia. 
7.  Mary,  who  became  the  wife  of  Jacob  Spicer, 
Jr.  8.  Hannah,  who  married  into  the  Lords. 
(I\')  Benjamin,  second  son  of  Jacob  and 
Mary  (Burr)  Lippincott,  was  born  in  Glou- 
cester county.  New  Jersey,  where  he  spent  his 
life  and  left  a  goodly  inheritance  to  his  chil- 
dren. Both  he  and  his  brother  Caleb  owned 
nmch  projjerty  on  the  east  side  of  Old  Man's 
Creek,  in  Gloucester  county,  near  the  Salem 
line,  and  many  of  their  descendants  are  found 
in  that  region  to-day.  Benjamin  Li]ipincott 
married  Hope,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Eliza- 
beth ( Woolston )  Wills,  the  elder  sister  of 
Hannah,  who  married  his  brother  Caleb,  She 
was  l)orn  in  1721.  For  her  ancestry  see  the 
sketch  of  the  Wills  family.  The  children  of 
I'enjamin  and  Ho])e  (Wills)  Lippincott  were: 

1.  llenjamin,  who  married  Lydia  Pimm,  and 
had  two  sons,  and  then  married  (  second  )  Mary 
Wood.  2.  Jethro.  who  is  referred  to  below. 
3.  Aaron,  who  married  Sarah  Haines,  and  had 
two  sons.  4.  Mary,  who  became  the  wife  of 
Joshua  Paul.  5.  Hojie,  who  married  Zacheus 
Piallinger.     6.  Sarah. 

(  \' )  Jethro,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Hope 
( Wills )  Lippincott,  was  born  in  Gloucester 
county.  New  Jersey,  on  the  farm  which  his 
father  had  inherited  from  his  father,  and  mar- 
ried Phebe  Flkington,  who  bore  liim  seven 
children:     1.  Jacob,  who  is  referred  to  below-. 

2.  Job,  who  married  Rebecca  Jones,  and  had : 
Jethro  and  William,  twins,  the  first  dying  un- 
married, and  the  latter  marrying  Elizabeth 
Wills,  F'hebe  .Ami,  who  married  William  Will- 
iams ;  Elizabeth,  married  Richard  Horner : 
Clinton,  married  Elizabeth  Hampton  :  Job,  Jr., 
married  1  lannah  Munyon,  and  Rachel,  married 
Hiram  Groomes,  3.  Alary,  who  married  Enoch 
Shute.  4.  Levi.  5.  James.  6.  Joshua,  who 
married  Alary  Springer,  and  had  :  Lydia,  mar- 
ried Henry  Hughes:  Alartha,  married  George 
Mitchell :  Elizabeth :  Harriet,  married  Edgar 
Black:  Joshua,  Jr.,  married  Alary  Camm : 
Eliza,  married  Chalkley  Johnson ;  Preston, 
married  Alary  Hichner,  and  .Ann.  married  Al- 


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bert  \'an  Aleter.  7.  Esther,  wlio  married  Sam- 
uel Madara,  and  had  Joseph,  Chalkley,  Joshua 
and  Levi. 

(VI)  Jacob,  son  of  Jethro  and  I'hebe  (  El- 
kington )  Lippincott,  was  born  in  (ilouccster 
cc  unity,  Xew  Jersey,  and  removed  to  Woods- 
town.  Salem  county,  where  he  made  his  home 
and  died.  He  married  Mary  Maul,  by  whom 
he  had  one  son,  Jacob  Maul,  who  is  referred 
to  below. 

(\'II)  Jacnb  Maul,  only  son  of  Jacob  and 
-Mary  (  Maul )  Lippincott,  was  born  in  Woods- 
town,  Salem  county,  Xew  Jersey,  ALiy  5,  1824, 
and  died  in  Salem,  Xew  Jersey.  (Jctober  13. 
1897.  I^^  was  born  on  his  father's  farm,  and 
spent  his  early  life  there.  While  he  was  yet 
a  boy  he  met  with  an  accident  which  resulted 
in  a  slight  though  uncurable  lameness,  and  un- 
fitted him  for  the  work  of  the  farm,  which 
he  was  consequently  obliged  to  give  up  and  to 
turn  his  attention  and  efforts  in  other  direc- 
tions. Finally  he  determined  to  go  to  Salem, 
which  he  did  in  1839,  walking  the  whole  way. 
in  spite  of  his  lameness;  and  when  he  arrived 
there  he  apprenticed  himself  to  a  tailor  ami 
learned  that  trade,  at  wdiich  he  worked  for 
quite  a  while.  He  had  never  had  any  educa- 
tional advantages,  but  was  naturally  of  a  liter- 
ary turn  of  mind,  and  he  read  and  thought 
much  and  wrote  (|uite  a  good  deal  both  in  prose 
and  v-erse.  In  1869  he  was  elected  county  clerk 
of  Salem  county,  and  through  successive  re- 
elections  held  that  office  continuously  up  to 
1884.  In  the  community  in  which  he  lived  he 
was  held  in  the  highest  regard  and  esteem,  and 
after  his  death  his  son  published  a  volume  of 
his  poems  and  other  prose  writings,  which  was 
distributed  by  private  circulation,  and  is  greatly 
])rized  by  his  old  friends  and  by  all  who  are 
the  fortunate  possessors  of  the  exquisite  little 
volume. 

Jacob  Maul  Lipjiincott  married.  Se])tember 
25,  1849,  Ann  Swing,  daughter  of  David  Du- 
Bois,  of  Pittsgrove,  Salem  county,  Xew  Jer- 
sey; she  was  born  .\ugust  11,  1827.  By  this 
marriage  he  had  three  children:  i.  (leorge  C. 
who  is  referred  to  below.  2.  Ruth  .\nna,  born 
.August  17.  1852,  died  Sejiteniber  17,  1859.  3. 
Louella,  born  .April  3,  i860,  who  married  Clem- 
ent II.  Sweatman,  of  .\ldine.  Saleni  county,  to 
whom  she  has  borne  two  children:  (leorge 
Lippinciitt  .Sweatman.  born  October  zt,.  1883. 
and  l-'rank  .Sweatman.  February  8,  181%.  who 
died  in  C'olorado,  .April   I,    190(^1. 

(\'1II)  George  C.  Lippincott.  M.  D.,  eldest 
child  and  only  son  of  Jacob  Maul  and  .\un 
Swing    ( Du    Bois)    Lii)])incott.    was    born    in 


Salem.  .\"ew  Jersey,  September  18,  1850,  and 
is  now  living  in  that  city,  at  271  East  Broad- 
way. For  his  early  education  he  was  sent  to 
the  public  schools  and  to  the  Friends"  private 
school  at  .Salem,  after  leaving  which  he  went 
into  the  drug  business.  .After  a  short  time 
spent  in  this  way  he  entered  the  Philadeljjhia 
College  of  I'harniacy,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated in  1 87 1,  and  then  went  to  the  Jefferson 
.Medical  College  of  Philadelphia,  which  gave 
him  his  degree  of  M.  D.  in  the  spring  of  1875. 
In  the  following  Sei^tember,  Dr.  Lippincott 
was  appointed  by  President  LHysses  S.  Grant 
as  an  assistant  surgeon  in  the  United  States 
navy,  on  the  active  list  of  which  he  served 
until  January,  1887,  when  he  was  retired  owing 
to  an  aft"ectinn  of  the  heart.  Since  that  time 
he  has  lived  in  his  old  home  in  Salem,  Xew 
Jersey.  .About  six  of  his  ten  years  service  was 
spent  at  sea,  during  which  he  was  at  one  time 
for  three  months  on  shipboard  with  (ieneral 
<  Srant.  when  the  e.x-President  was  making  his 
tri])  around  the  world  with  his  son  Jesse.  He 
was  with  the  Genera!  when  he  went  through 
the  Suez  canal,  and  with  the  other  naval  officers 
I  )n  board  his  ship  was  entertained  at  the  palace 
wdiicli  had  been  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the 
ex-President  in  Egypt. 

Dr.  Lippincott  is  a  Rejuiblican.  and  inde- 
])en(lent  in  religion.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
L'nited  .States  Xaval  .Academy  .Athletic  Asso- 
ciation at  .Annapolis,  Maryland,  and  he  was  on 
duty  at  the  Xaval  .Academy  there  wdien  he  was 
retired.     Dr.  Lippincott  is  unmarried. 


This  branch  of  the  Thoni- 
THOMSON'  son  family  in  .America  de- 
scends from  Scotch  ancestry, 
through  Rev.  James  Thomson,  a  minister  of 
the  Church  of  England,  who  was  born  in  Scot- 
land. Through  intermarriage  the  Thomsons 
trace  their  line  of  descent  back  to  the  best  Vir- 
ginia families  of  Colonial  and  Revolutionary 
days.  Each  generation  of  the  faniil\'  has  pro- 
duced eminent  professional  men,  notably  in  the 
profession  of  medicine.  Thomson,  the  poet, 
author  of  "The  Seasons,"  is  a  member  of  this 
family,  and  Lord  Kelvin  of  Scotland  was 
William  Thomson.  They  have  been  loyal  citi- 
zens, serving  their  country  well  in  time  of 
stress  and  battle,  and  good  citizens  serving  her 
well  in  the  gentle  arts  of  peace. 

( I )  The  emigrant  ancestor  was  Rev.  James 
Thomson,  the  first  and  only  minister  in  Leeds 
parish,  l-'autiuier  county,  Virginia,  prior  to 
1815.  also  minister  to  several  other  churches  in 
N'irginia.      lie  was  born  near  Glasgow,  Scot- 


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land,  in  1731;,  and  died  in  Virginia,  in  1812. 
There  is  in  po.ssession  of  his  descendants  his 
commission  from  the  liishop  of  London 
authorizing  him  to  perform  the  functions  of  a 
minister  of  the  Church  of  England.  He  came 
to  Virginia  in  1767,  and  lived  in  the  family  of 
Col.  Thomas  Alarsliall.  and  was  the  tutor  of 
his  son  John  jVIarshall.  afterward  chief  justice 
of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court.  He  re- 
turned to  luigland  for  orders,  when  he  receiv- 
ed the  commission  previously  referred  to.  On 
his  returning  to  this  country  from  England  he 
married  Mary  Ann  Farrow,  of  Fauquier 
county,  \'irginia,  and  began  his  ministerial 
career,  liishop  Meade,  in  his  "History  of  Old 
Churches  and  Families  in  \'irginia."  writes  of 
him  with  the  greatest  respect,  and  of  his  being 
an  "unusually  learned  and  able  minister."  Rev. 
James  Thomson  and  his  wife  Mary  A.  Farrow 
were  the  parents  of  a  large  family. 

(H)  Ur.  John  Thomson,  M.  D.,  son  of  Rev. 
James  and  Mary  A.  (Farrow)  Thomson,  was 
born  at  the  "Glebe,"  F^auquier  county,  Virginia, 
in  the  year  1770,  and  died  at  Berryville,  \'ir- 
ginia,  in  1841.  He  was  a  noted  physician  and 
surgeon,  and  said  to  have  been  a  graduate  of 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  His  wife  was 
Mary  Rootes  Throckmorton,  of  "Dewberry," 
near  Berryville,  \'irginia,  daughter  of  William 
and  Mary  (Rootes)  Throckmorton.  They 
were  the  parents  of  a  large  family,  the  eldest  of 
whom  was  James  William  Thomson. 

(  in  I  James  William  Thomson,  M.  D..  eld- 
est son  of  Dr.  John  and  Mary  (Rootes) 
(Throckmorton)  Thomson,  was  born  at  Berry- 
ville. X'irginia,  and  died  in  l'hiladel])hia.  Penn- 
sylvania, (October  7,  i88d.  He  was  a  most 
gifted  and  highly  educated  man.  He  graduated 
from  Princeton  (College  of  Xew  Jersey)  in 
1822,  witli  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  .\rts.  and 
in  1825  received  the  degree  of  Master  of  .\rts. 
riiere  is  in  possession  of  the  family  a  gold 
medal  presented  to  him  by  the  Cliusophical 
Society  of  Princeton  for  graduatmg  number 
one  in  his  class,  dated  1822,  and  inscribed 
"James  W.  Thomson."  He  entered  the  Uni- 
versity of  [Pennsylvania  and  was  graduated  a 
Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1825.  He  was  admitted 
a  memlier  of  the  Philadelphia  Medical  Society, 
founded  in  1789,  on  .Aiiri!  10,  1824.  He  was 
admitted  to  practice  medicine  and  surgery  in 
the  state  of  Delaware  by  the  State  Board  of 
Examiners  in  1828.  He  established  his  practice 
in  the  city  of  Wilmington,  Delaware,  and  be- 
came a  most  skillful  practitioner.  He  was 
deeply    imbued    with   a    love    of   the    soil   and 


accjuired  large  farming  interests.  He  was 
noted  as  a  horticulturist  also.  He  was  elected 
a  life  member  of  the  I'nited  States  .Agricultural 
Society  of  Wasliington,  D.  C,  and  an  honorary 
member  of  the  Massachusetts  Horticultural 
Society,  elected  in  December,  1848.  He  was 
appointed  surgeon  of  the  Delaware  Militia 
"Dragoons."  With  his  professional  duties  and 
his  agricultural  and  horticultural  interests.  Dr. 
Thomson  yet  found  time  to  comply  with  his 
responsibilities  as  a  citizen.  He  belonged  to 
the  old  W  hig  party,  and  was  elected  to  the 
common  council  of  Wilmington.  He  was  an 
Episcopalian,  and  a  member  of  the  vestry.  Dr. 
James  W.  Thomson  married  Sarah  Peters 
Robinson,  July  27,  1826,  a  daughter  of  Colonel 
Thomas  Robinson,  of  the  Continental  army, 
lawyer,  judge  and  gentleman  farmer  of  Na- 
maans  Creek,  Xew  Castle  county,  Delaware. 
The  descendants  of  Dr.  James  W.  Thomson 
obtain  membership  in  patriotic  orders  through 
his  military  service  in  the  revolution.  Thomas 
Robinson  was  captain  of  the  Fourth  Battalion, 
Colonel  .\nthony  Wayne,  June  5,  1776:  was 
ma 'e  major  (jf  the  I<"ifth  Regiment  Octo- 
lier  2,  177ft;  lieutenant-colonel  First  Regiment, 
June  7,  1777.  anfl  of  the  Second  Regiment 
Pennsylvania  Line,  and  was  ajjpointed  brevet 
colonel  by  Act  of  Congress,  September  30, 
1783.  There  is  a  life  size  portrait  of  Colonel 
Thomas  Robinson  in  his  Continental  uniform, 
hanging  in  Intlependence  Hall  at  Philadelphia 
Pennsylvania.  His  grandson,  \\  illiam  S.  Rob- 
inson, has  a  brace  of  pistols  presenteil  to  Colo- 
nel Robinson  by  tieneral  Washington,  on  whose 
staff  he  served,  and  a  sword  presented  by  his 
cousin,  (ieneral  .Anthony  Wayne.  The  original 
of  the  portrait  referred  to  was  painted  by  the 
great  artist  Peale.  and  is  also  possessed  by 
William  .S.  Robinson.  The  original  "rattle- 
snake" Hag  which  belonged  to  Colonel  Robin- 
son's regiment  was  captured  from  him  by  the 
British  at  the  battle  of  Brandywine.  was  re- 
captured by  himself,  and  is  now  in  the  capitol 
at  Harrisl)urg,  Pennsylvania. 

Twelve  children  were  born  to  Dr.  James  W. 
and  Sarah  Peters  (Robinson)  Thomson:  i. 
Mary  Rosalie  (Mrs.  James  B.  Cunningham). 
2.  f.ucy  Edwyline.  died  in  childhood.  3.  John 
-Augustus,  a  medical  practitioner.  4.  Julia 
-Adalaide  (Mrs.  Edward  Higginbottom ).  5. 
Lucy  Edwyline,  married  F'rancis  C.  Dade,  chief 
engineer  L'nited  States  navy.  •  6.  Ellen  Eyre. 
7.  James  William  (see  forward).  8.  Sarah 
Robinson,  g.  Nalbro  Frazier.  died  at  age  of 
twenty-one.     10.  Ella  Frazier.     11.  Henry.    12. 


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Barton  Hoxall.  Of  tliis  faniil)-  Rear  Admiral 
James  W.  Thomson  and  Julia  Adelaide  I  liggin- 
Ijottom  are  the  sole  survivors. 

(IV)  Rear  Admiral  James  \\ .  Thomson, 
second  son  and  seventh  child  of  Dr.  James  W. 
and  Sarah  P.  (Robinson)  Thomson,  was  born 
in  Wilmington,  Delaware.  November  lo.  1836. 
He  was  educated  in  private  schools,  and  enter- 
ed the  then  famous  shops  of  Harlan  &  HoUings- 
worth,  machine  and  engine  building  companw 
where  he  remained  three  years  fitting  himself 
for  the  duties  of  a  mechanical  engineer.  He 
then  received  appointment  from  the  state  of 
Delaware  as  third  assistant  engineer  (midship- 
man )  in  the  engineer  corps  of  the  United  States 
navy.  June  26,  185(1.  He  was  ordered  to  the 
steam  frigate  'A\  abash,"  on  the  North  .Atlantic 
Station,  and  made  his  first  voyage  down  the 
(7iulf,  and  the  second  voyage  to  Europe  on 
that  vessel.  Admiral  Dewey  and  Rear  .\dmiral 
Howison  were  then  midshipmen  on  board. 
They,  with  Rear  .\dmiral  Thomson,  are  be- 
lieved to  be  the  only  surviving  officers  who 
were  on  the  "Wabash"  during  that  cruise.  He 
was  appointed  first  assistant  engineer  .\ugusl 
I,  1839,  with  rank  of  lieutenant,  and  assigned 
to  the  steam  sloop  "Dacotah."  He  was  pro- 
moted chief  engineer  with  the  rank  of  lieuten- 
ant-commander February  2,  1862.  When  the 
civil  war  broke  out  he  was  in  China  with  the 
fleet,  but  returned  at  once  to  the  L'niteil  States 
and  served  throughout  the  war  in  home  waters. 
He  was  attached  to  the  North  .\tlantic  Block- 
ading Squadron  and  saw  much  service  on  the 
James  river  as  chief  engineer  of  the  gunboat 
"(ialena."  It  was  from  this  vessel  that  Gen- 
eral McClellan  directed  the  movements  of  his 
army  for  two  days  during  the  Peninsular  cam- 
paign, at  the  battle  of  Malvern  Mill.  I'Ik 
"(ialena"  and  the  other  vessels  saw  much  hard 
service  on  the  James  river  at  Sewall's  Point. 
Fort  Darling  and  Drur\"s  lilufY,  and  innumer- 
able fights  with  Confederate  vessels  and  bat- 
teries. Chief  Engineer  Thomsun  became  knovh 
throughout  the  service  as  a  cool  headed, 
intrepid  man  and  a  thoroughly  competent 
officer.  This  is  attested  by  the  award  of  a 
medal  by  Congress  for  "honorable  and  meri- 
torious service."  After  the  war  closed.  Cap- 
tain Thomson  was  on  special  duty  at  the  Phil- 
adel])hia  .Vavy  Yard,  and  from  1866  to  i8f>9 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  examiners  of 
officers  for  j^romotion.  and  on  the  same  board 
again  in  1881-2.  In  1870  he  was  chief  engi- 
neer of  the  "Congress."  In  1871  and  1872  he 
was  inspector  of  machinery  at  Philadelphia 
Navy  Yard;  1873  to  1873  he  was  chief  engi- 


neer of  the  "Dniaha,"  with  the  .South  Pacific 
fleet  :  1876  and  1877  he  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  ins])ection  and  survey,  and  on  the 
same  board  in  1882,1883.  In  1879-81  he  was 
chief  engineer  of  the  ".\laska,"  on  the  Pacific 
station,  and  .\ugust  18,  1883.  was  promoted 
commander.  During  President's  Cleveland's 
first  administratiiin,  when  the  new  navy  with 
its  first  modern  war  vessels  became  a  fact,  he 
was  assigned  to  duty  at  Roach's  shipyard  as 
inspector  of  machinery  installed  in  the  "Dol- 
phin," "Chicago,"  ".Ktlantic"  and  "Boston," 
In  1889  he  was  chief  engineer  of  the  "Pensa- 
cola"  when  that  vessel  conveyed  a  party  of  the 
leading  astronomers  of  the  United  States  to 
the  west  coast  of  Africa  to  observe  the  total 
eclipse  of  the  sun.  On  the  return  of  the 
"Pensacola"  to  the  United  States,  Captain 
Thomas  was  assigned  to  duty  at  Cramps'  ship- 
)ard  at  Philadelphia  as  inspector  of  machinery. 
He  remained  on  duty  until  he  was  assigned  to 
duty  at  the  Newport  News  Shipbuilding  Com- 
pany yards  for  the  special  and  important  duty 
of  inspector  of  machinery  of  the  battle  ships 
"Kearsarge"  and  "Kentucky."  on  June  26. 
1896,  he  was  retired,  after  forty  years  active 
service,  on  his  own  application,  with  the  rank 
of  captain.  .\t  the  outbreak  of  the  Spanish 
war  Captain  Thomson  ofifered  his  services  to 
the  government  although  on  the  retired  hst  at 
the  time.  He  was  assigned  to  the  V.  S.  Ship 
"Lancaster."  .Admiral  Remey's  flagslii]i,  on  the 
-Xdmiral's  stafl^.  His  special  duty  w'as  as  "in- 
s|)ector  of  machinery  afloat,"  and  he  performed 
valuable  service  at  Key  West  in  handling  the 
great  number  of  vessels  in  the  government 
service  at  that  point.  He  is  in  possession  of  a 
medal  awarded  him  for  his  Spanish  war  ser- 
vice. un('er  .\ct  of  Congress  approved  May 
13,  1908.  C)n  June  29,  1906,  Congress  passed 
an  act  by  which,  on  account  of  his  meritorious 
civil  war  record,  Cajitain  Thomson  was  ad- 
vanced to  the  rank  of  rear  admiral  in  the 
L'nited  .States  navy.  Since  1903  he  has  resided 
in  Motirestown,  New  Jersey.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Loyal  Legion,  and  of  Washington 
Lodge.  N(.i.  59,  h'ree  and  .\ccepted  .Masons, 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  In  political  faith 
he  is  Republican. 

.\dmiral  James  W.  Thomson  married,  Octo- 
ber 7,  i8()2,  Laura  Nicholson  Troth,  daughter 
of  Joseph  Nicholson  and  Narcissa  Julia  (Old- 
ham )  Troth,  of  New  Castle  county,  Delaware. 
This  is  another  revolutionary  line,  leading  to 
Colonel  Edward  Oldham,  of  the  Eighth  Mary- 
land Regiment,  Continental  Line,  wounded  at 
the  battle  of  Camden,  South  Carolina.      Foui 


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children   were  born   to  James  \\'.   and   Laura 
X'icholson  (Troth)  Thomson: 

1.  Xalbro  Frazier,  born  in  Camden,  New 
Jersey,  August  28,  1863,  now  a  resident  of 
Haddonfield.  Xew  Jersey.  He  was  educated 
in  Camden  public  and  private  schools,  at  the 
Rpiscopa!  Academy,  Philadelphia,  and  at  Crit- 
tenden's lUisiness  College,  I'hiladelphia.  After 
finishing  his  studies  Mr.  Thomson  located  in 
.\tlanta,  Georgia,  where  he  was  secretary  of 
the  (ilobe  Planter  ^Manufacturing  Company 
of  that  city.  In  the  year  1893  he  was  appointed 
sub-inspector  of  ordnance  for  the  United  States 
navy,  and  since  that  date  has  been  on  duty  at 
"Cramp's"  i'hiladcl])hia,  at  the  yards  of  the 
Xew  York  Shii)building  Company,  Camden, 
.Xew  Jersey,  or  elsewhere  in  the  district  where 
L'nited  States  naval  vessels  were  being  fitted 
with  ordnance.  Mr.  Thomson  is  a  member  of 
the  Loyal  Legion,  second  class;  the  Sons  of 
the  Revolution ;  and  a  communicant  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  at  Fladdonfield,  New  Jersey, 
hisjiresent  home.  Me  married,  November  28, 
1883,  at  Haddonfield,  Catherine  ]\L  .Stouten - 
borough,  born  at  IJergen  Heights,  New  Jerse}  . 
daughter  of  Richard  H.  and  Eliza  P).  (Geib) 
Stoutenborough,  of  New  York  City.  Airs. 
Thomson  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 
Two  children  were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nal- 
bro  Thomson  :  Eliza  Rosina,  born  December 
14,  1895,  who  died  February  15,  1902;  and 
Loring  Batten,  born  September   10,   1899. 

2.  Laura  Adalaide,  born  April  17,  1865, 
died  in  infancy. 

3.  Earl,  lx)rn  in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  Au- 
gust 21,  1866.  He  was  educated  in  the  Cam- 
den schools,  at  the  Episcopal  Academy  of 
Philadel]5hia,  and  was  graduated  from  the  L'ni- 
versity  of  Pennsylvania,  class  of  1886,  with 
the  degree  of  liachelor  of  Science.  He  is  a 
civil  engineer  of  Camden,  New  Jersey,  residing 
in  Moorestown.  He  married  Cora  Schloss, 
and  has  a  daughter,  Dorothy  Caroline. 

4.  Mary  Josephine,  born  in  Camden,  New 
Jersey,  December  31,  1870,  died  July  31,  1896. 
.She  was  the  wife  of  William  H.  Duval,  a 
wholesale  merchant  of  New  York  City.  She 
left  a  daughter,  Mary  Josephine  Duval,  born 
A])ril   13.  1896,  died  aged  nine  months. 

Jose])h  X'icholson  Troth,  father  of  .Mrs. 
Thomson,  wife  of  Rear-Admiral  James  W. 
Thomson,  was  born  September  17,  181 1,  and 
died  June  29,  1883.  He  was  the  eldest  son  of 
Jacob  and  Rebecca  Troth,  members  of  the 
.Society  of  Friends.  Jacob  was  the  son  of  Paul 
Troth,  who  owned  a  plantation  near  Haddon- 
field, Xew  lersev.    The  family  orisrinallv  came 


from  Wales,  and  settled  in  Xew  Jersey,  Penn- 
s)  Ivania  and  Maryland.  They  were  a  patriotic 
family,  as  the  records  show.  I^aul  Troth  was 
a  very  tall,  fine  looking  old  gentleman,  over 
six  feet  in  height.  During  the  revolutionary 
war  his  fine  physical  ])resence  attracted  the 
attention  of  some  British  officers  who  tried 
to  induce  him  to  join  their  army.  He  told 
them  it  was  against  the  conscience  of  Friends 
to  fight,  but  on  telling  his  wife  of  the  conversa- 
tion, he  added,  "but  if  I  did  fight  I  would  fight 
against  the  King's  men."  Jacob  Troth  was  a 
Whig  member  of  the  Xew  Jersey  legislature, 
and  was  respected,  as  was  his  son,  Joseph  N., 
for  his  pure  character,  marked  intelligence  and 
soinid  judgment.  Jacob  Troth  was  a  member 
of  the  first  board  of  chosen  freehol<lers  after 
Camden  county  was  cut  off  from  Gloucester. 
Joseph  N.  Troth,  the  eldest  son  of  Jacob,  went 
to  Delaware  in  1836  and  was  extensively  en- 
gaged in  felling,  milling  and  marketing  large 
tracts  of  timber  at  the  head  of  the  Christiana. 
After  he  removed  to  Delaware  he  married 
Julia  Narcissa  Oldham,  daughter  of  PIdward 
Oldham,  an  educated  and  accomplished  gentle- 
man, the  son  of  Colonel  Edward  ( )lilham,  of 
an  old  Maryland  family,  and  a  distinguished 
officer  of  the  revolution.  Colonel  Edward 
Oldham's  wife  Mary  was  a  descendant  of  .\u- 
gustine  Herman.  Joseph  N.  Troth  resided 
during  his  early  married  life  in  Christiana, 
New  Castle  county,  Delaware,  where  all  of 
his  children  were  born,  from  there  he  moved 
to  New  Castle,  thence  to  Wilmington,  and 
from  there  to  Camden,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
died.  He  left  four  children:  Mrs.  Laura  N. 
Thomson,  Ernest  H.  Troth.  J.  Eugene  Troth 
and  .\ugustine  H.  Troth. 


The  first  Ladds  came  to  England 
LADD  with  William  the  Conqueror  and 
settled  at  Deal  county,  Kent,  where 
a  portion  of  land  was  granted  to  them  eight 
miles  from  Dover.  The  name  at  that  time 
was  spelled  Lad,  Lade  and  Ladd.  In  many 
generations  after  the  Norman  Conc|uerors  the 
name  DeLad  appears  among  the  owners  of  the 
land,  in  count)'  Kent  and  ever  since  that  day 
families  with  that  name  have  held  land  in  that 
and  adjoining  counties.  \\  illiam  Ladd  was  a 
jewelman  in  1294  in  the  reign  of  Edward  I. 
In  1325  King  Edward  II.  Ixiught  the  Manor 
of  Henle  of  which  he  claimed  the  cust^idy  to 
Walter  Bishop,  of  Exeter,  and  in  the  follow- 
ing year  revoked  this  grant  and  transferred 
the  manor  to  Walter  Ladd,  and  from  1713  to 
1722  John  Ladd  rejiresented  Snuthwark  county. 


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Surrey.  Jdhn  Ladd,  Senior,  of  Eleham,  county 
Kent,  died  in  1476;  he  left  a  son,  John  of  Ele- 
ham. who  died  in  1527,  having  had  by  Eliza- 
beth his  wife  among  other  issue  three  sons. 
Stejjhen.  father  of  Thomas  Ladd,  of  Otling, 
John,  the  father  of  Xicholas  Ladd,  of  Wooton. 
whose  eldest  son  Xicholas,  of  Swingfield, 
county  Kent,  died  in  iC/kj,  leaving  a  son  Nich- 
olas, referred  to  below,  and  Thomas  Ladd,  of 
ISarham,  whose  grandson  \'incent  was  the 
father  of  the  said  John  Ladd,  AL  P.,  granted 
a  baronet  in  1730. 

( I )  Nicholas  Ladd,  of  Swingfield,  son  of 
Nicholas.  Senior,  died  and  was  buried  in  the 
Quaker  burying  ground  uf  Hythe  in  1699. 
Among  his  children  was  John,  founder  of  the 
New  Jersev  family  of  the  name,  referred  to 
below. 

(II)  Jt)hn,  son  of  Nicholas  (2)  Ladd,  of 
.Swingfield.  county  Kent,  England,  arrived  in 
Burlington,  New  Jersey,  in  1678.  He  was 
one  of  the  jurors  of  the  first  court  held  under 
the  constitution  of  Auvaumus  in  1686,  and  in 
1688  he  had  the  addition  to  his  lands  on  the 
shore  of  Deptford  townshiix  five  hundred 
acres,  surveyed  to  him  at  Cork  Cove  above 
Red  Bank.  The  concessions  and  agreements 
were  published  in  London  in  1676  and  attracted 
much  attention  especially  among  the  members 
of  the  Society  of  Friends,  .\mong  these  was 
Jolm  Ladd  ;  his  interest  was  evidently  with  the 
London  rather  than  the  Yorkshire  homes.  He 
was  a  practicable  surveyor,  and  acted  as  deputy 
of  the  surveyor  general  of  the  western  division 
of  New  Jersey  for  several  years.  As  tradi- 
tion goes  through  he  was  employed  by  Will- 
iam Penn  in  laying  out  the  city  of  Philadelphia. 
When  he  ])roduced  his  bill  for  £30  for  services 
rendered  to  the  proprietor  he  ofifered  him  a 
square  of  land  in  lieu  of  money,  which  was 
denied,  for  the  young  surveyor  could  see  noth- 
ing like  a  city  as  sanguine  owner  where  he  had 
wrestled  only  with  briers  and  tangled  under- 
growth. The  family  tradition  goes  on  to  state 
that  when  Mr.  Ladd  denied  the  sc|uare  of  land 
in  the  city,  William  I'enn  remarked  "John  thou 
art  Ladd  by  name  and  Ladd  by  nature,  doesth 
thou  not  know  that  this  would  be  a  great  city." 
In  1688  Jonathan  Wood  and  Samuel  Toms 
located  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Deptford  town- 
shi])  extending  from  the  river  on  the  west  to 
Salem  road  and  beyond  on  the  east.  He  soon 
after  purchased  the  interest  of  Samuel  Toms 
and  Jonathan  Wood  and  on  the  tract  built  him- 
self a  dwelling  where  he  resided  until  his  death. 
In  1 72 1  he  located  an  adjoining  tract  along  the 


river  where  the  fishery  was  established,  but 
not  with  us  to  the  present  day.  For  many 
years  a  ]iortion  of  this  tract  has  been  known  as 
the  Howell  estate  coming  into  that  family  by 
the  deed  of  John  Ladd  to  John  Ladd  Howell, 
a  son  of  Catherine  Ladd,  who  married  John 
Howell.  John  Ladd,  the  founder,  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  monthly  meeting  of  Friends  at  the 
meeting  on  Woodbury  creek.  He  came  to 
New  Jersey  as  a  young  man,  and  about  thirty- 
two  years  of  his  life  was  spent  within  the  prov- 
ince, where  he  was  a  prominent  and  influential 
citizen.  He  was  a  man  not  only  of  consider- 
able estate  but  of  good  education  as  well,  as  is 
shown  by  his  land  ojierations  and  the  places  of 
responsibility  he  was  called  from  to  fill.  As 
we  learn  from  his  will  dated  in  1731  with  the 
codicil  in  1740,  John  Ladd  survives  his  wife 
and  all  his  children  except  John  and  Katharine. 
To  the  first  of  these  he  devised  his  homestead 
estate  of  five  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  giving 
other  parts  of  his  property  to  Katharine  and  his 
granddaughter,  Mary  Parker,  having  as  he  says 
in  his  will  provided  for  Samuel  and  Jonathan 
while  they  were  living.  At  his  death  he  was 
one  of  the  largest  holders  of  real  estate  in  the 
colonv,  and  his  selections  proved  him  to  have 
been  a  man  of  good  judgment  in  such  matters. 
The  fisherv  where  his  land  fronted  the  river 
was  for  centuries  known  as  the  Ladds  Cove. 
Its  oarticular  situation  on  the  shore  almost 
made  it  one  of  the  best  in  those  quarters.  He 
held  a  prominent  place  in  the  Society  of 
Friends,  and  although  he  adhered  to  the  plain 
dress  and  simplicity  of  habit  about  his  home 
there  could  nevertheless  be  seen  evidence  of 
things  generally  attendant  on  health  and  liberal- 
ity. The  slaves  were  i)lentiful  at  his  household 
and  this  would  convince  people  that  creature 
comforts  were  not  neglected. 

P.y  his  wife  Elizabeth,  who  died  1733,  John 
Ladd  had  five  children:  i.  Samuel,  married 
Mary  Medcalf.  2.  Jonathan,  referred  to  below. 
3.  Mary,  married  Joseoh  Parker,  of  Philadel- 
phia. 4.  Jolin  Jr.,  died  December  20,  1770: 
married  Hannah  Mickle  but  had  no  children. 
5.  Katharine,  married  John  Howell. 

(HI)  Jonathan,  second  son  of  Tohn  and 
h'lizabeth  Ladd,  lived  in  Woodbury,  Glou- 
cester county.  New  Jersey,  on  land  which  he 
had  received  from  his  father.  He  died  in 
1725,  leaving  two  twin  infants  whom  his  wife 
had  borne  to  him  the  preceding  year.  He  mar- 
ried, in  1723,  Ann,  born  i6g8,  daughter  of  John 
and  Ho()e  (  Delefaste)  Wills,  a  granddaughter 
of  Dr.  Daniel  Wills.     Bv  his  first  wife  Eliza- 


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beth,  their  children  were:  I.  Samuel,  referred 
to  below.  2.  Sarah,  twin  with  Samuel,  born 
SeDtembcr,  1724. 

(IV)  Samuel,  only  son  of  Jonathan  and 
Elizabeth  Ladd,  was  born  in  September.  1724, 
and  lived  in  Woodburv,  New  Jersey.  By  his 
wife  Sarah  he  had  seven  children:  i.  Jonathan, 
born  September  23,  ly^^S.  died  June  6,  1760.  2. 
Ann,  July  11,  1757,  died  June  28,  1782.  3. 
Ilannah,  November  2,  1759.  4.  Deborah,  Sep- 
tember 2^,  1760,  died  March  3,  1771.  5.  Ella, 
June  2,  1762.  6.  John,  November  2,  1764.  7. 
Samuel,  Jr.,  referred  to  below. 

V  V  I  Samuel  (2),  youngest  child  of  Samuel 
I  I  I  and  Sarah  Ladd,  was  born  November  10, 
1771.  died  July  IQ,  1833.  !"'>'  3-  1815,  he 
married  Ann,  daughter  of  William  and  Deb- 
orah Wood,  who  bore  him  four  children:  i. 
John,  born  May  26.  1816,  died  June  9,  1816. 
2.  James,  October  4,  1817,  died  .August  8.  1818. 
\  Sarah,  March  26,  1820,  died  May  15,  1832. 
4.  Samuel  Hopkins,  referred  to  below. 

(\'I)  Samuel  Hopkins,  fourth  and  youngest 
child,  the  only  child  to  attain  maturity,  of  Sam- 
uel (2)  and  Ann  (Wood)  Ladd,  was  born  in 
Woodbury,  New  Jersey,  March  6,  1826,  died 
in  that  town,  March  6,  1866.  He  was  for  some 
time  a  colonel  on  the  staff  of  Governor 
H olden.  September  22,  1846,  he  married 
Sarah  Duncombe  Johnson,  by  whom  he  had 
three  children:  I.  William  \\'addell,  born 
Julv  20,  1847,  died  unmarried,  December  12, 
1863  ;  he  inlisted  in  Camden  county  in  the  Sec- 
ond New  Jersey  \'olunteer  Regiment  of  Cav- 
alry in  1861  and  died  during  services.  2.  Sam- 
uel Iloj^kins.  Jr.,  referred  to  below.  3.  Sarah 
Cora,  August  19,  1853,  died  August  9,  1854. 

(\  II  )  Samuel  Hopkins  (2),  son  of  Samuel 
Hopkins  (i)  and  Sarah.  D.  (Johnson)  Ladd, 
was  born  in  Woodbury,  New  Jersey,  Decem- 
ber 15,  1849,  and  is  now  living  in  the  town  of 
his  birth.  For  his  early  education  he  was  sent 
to  the  private  school  at  Woodbury,  New  Jersey, 
after  leaving  which  he  entered  the  Polytechnic 
College  of  the  state  of  Pennsylvania,  from 
which  he  graduated  with  the  degree  of  C.  E., 
July  I,  1868.  He  then  entered  on  the  pro- 
fession of  civil  engineering  in  Woodbury  and 
continued  in  that  for  a  number  of  years,  win- 
nin"'  his  mark  in  the  world.  In  1881  lie  started 
in  the  mercantile  business  in  Philadelphia  with 
his  father-in-law  at  3'  South  Front  street,  the 
firm  name  being  Johnson  &  Ladd.  This  busi- 
ness, which  is  tobacco,  he  still  continues  under 
the  old  name.  In  1871  Mr.  Ladd  was  made  the 
city  surveyor  of  Woodbury,  thus  receiving  an 
appointment   to  a  position   held   in   the   same 


region  about  two  hundred  years  before  by  his 
ancestor,  John  Ladd,  the  founder  of  the  family. 
This  position  he  held  until  1873,  when  he  was 
elected  justice  of  the  peace,  and  with  the  ex- 
ception of  live  years  he  has  held  this  position 
ever  since,  a  remarkable  tribute  not  only  to  his 
character  but  also  to  the  confidence  with  which 
his  neighbors  regard  him.  In  1875  he  was 
elected  to  the  W'oodbury  city  council  and  in 

1877  was  made  the  president  of  that  body.     In 

1878  he  was  re-elected  and  again  became  the 
council's  president;  in  1880,  although  urged  to 
do  so  most  strongly,  he  declined  to  serve 
longer,  but  was  prevailed  upon  to  accept  an 
appointment  by  the  city  council  in  1889  to  fill 
a  vacancy  which  had  occurred  in  their  body, 
and  in  1890  he  was  again  elected  and  accepted 
a  place  from  the  council  in  which  he  served 
until  1893.  ^"  tli^'  '''"  '^*  ''^'^3  'i*-'  ^^'^*  again  ap- 
])oiiite(l  to  fill  a  vacancy  in  the  cinincil  caused  by 
the  removal  of  a  member  from  the  city,  and  in 
1894  he  was  not  only  re-elected  to  tlie  council 
but  once  luore  made  its  president.  .August  31, 
i8i;7.  Mr.  Ladd  was  appointed  by  the  council 
mayor  of  Woodbury  to  serve  for  the  unexpired 
term  of  his  predecessor  who  had  removed  to 
Chicago,  and  in  1898,  by  po])ular  election  Mr. 
Ladd  became  the  mayor  in  fact  and  has  ever 
since  that  date  been  re-elected  to  this  position 
as  soon  as  his  terms  expires.  This  continuous 
service  in  the  mayor's  office  for  more  than  thir- 
teen years  shows  conclusively  the  confidence  by 
the  people  in  his  ability  and  trustworthiness. 
Mr.  Ladd  is  a  Republican,  and  at  one  time  was 
the  commissioner  of  deeds.  He  is  an  active 
and  influential  member  of  several  secret  soci- 
eties and  associations,  the  most  important  of 
which  is  Florence  Lodge.  No.  87.  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  of  Woodbury,  of  which  he 
is  the  past  worshipful  master.  For  the  last 
thirty-two  years  Mr.  Ladd  has  been  a  meiTiber 
of  the  Friendship  Fire  Company  of  Woodbury, 
which  is  one  of  the  oldest  in  New  Jersey, 
having  been  organized  in  1799.  For  a  long 
time  he  held  the  office  of  president  and  at  the 
present  day  is  the  vice-president  and  one  of 
the  most  active  members  of  the  company.  It 
is  an  interesting  fact  that  Mr.  Ladd's  father 
and  grandfather  were  both  of  thein  for  many 
years  most  active  members  of  this  same  com- 
pany. Mr.  Ladd  is  a  communicant  of  the  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  church  in  Woodbury,  and  was 
vestryman  of  the  parish  of  that  church  in  the 
town. 

The  Hon.  Samuel  Hopkins  Ladd  married, 
January  15,  1879,  Kate  Branford,  daughter  of 
Thomas  L.  and  Cora  V.  (Tyree)  Johnson,  of 


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STATE    OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


\"irginia.  Children:  I.  Cora  V.,  born  No- 
vember 2.  iSjg;  married  Henry  Barton 
Reeves,  of  Woodbury,  New  Jersey.  2.  Sarah 
Duncombe,  January  i,  1881  ;  married  Matthew 
E.  Davis,  of  New  York  City.  3.  Mary  Con- 
ner, 1883 :  unmarried. 


The  Ackley  family  of  New 
ACKLI'"\'  Jersey  belongs  among  the  old 
established  families  of  Glou- 
cester county,  where  they  have  taken  their 
share  in  the  labor  and  have  reaped  their  por- 
tion in  the  rewards,  which  have  fallen  to  the 
lot  of  those  who  have  so  nobly  given  them- 
selves and  their  energy  to  the  building  of  that 
county's  glorious  history.  Where  the  family 
originally  came  from  is  uncertain.  It  is  prob- 
ably a  branch  of  the  family  of  the  same  name 
which  is  to  be  found  in  the  earliest  days  of  the 
New  England  colonies,  but  the  records  are  not 
in  existence  or  have  not  yet  come  to  light  which 
will  enable  us  to  say  with  certainty  exactly 
what  the  connection  if  any  is. 

( I )  The  founder  of  the  Gloucester  count}- 
branch  so  far  as  is  at  present  known  is  John 
-Ackley.  He  was  a  revolutionary  soldier,  serving 
in  the  .American  army  in  Gloucester  county.  He 
was  born  December  14,  1759.  By  his  wife, 
Hannah,  born  January  30,  1763,  he  had  twelve 
children:  i.  Uriah,  referred  to  below.  2. 
John,  Jr.,  born  February  4,  1782.  3.  Naomi, 
August  25,  1783.  4.  James,  November  2,  1785, 
5.  Royal,  .August  y,  1787.  6.  Absolom,  April 
24.,  1790.  7.  Joseph,  June  12,  1792.  8.  Benja- 
min, March  2,  1794.  9.  Hannah,  March  4, 
1796.  10.  Mercy,  March  4,  1798.  11.  TlnMuas. 
June  12,  1800.     12.  George  .A.,  ^^ay  14,  1803. 

(H)  Uriah,  eldest  child  of  John  and  Plan- 
nah  Ackley,  of  Gloucester  county,  was  Ijorn 
there  June  5,  1780,  died  August  5,  1854.  He 
was  an  itinerary  Methodist  minister  of  Salem 
county.  New  Jersey.  He  married  Sarah 
Coombs,  born  .April  25,  1 791,  died  .August  4, 
1879.  Cliildren :  I.  Samuel,  born  Fel)ruar\ 
5,  1810,  died  February  28.  1890.  2.  William, 
referred  to  below.  3.  Joseph,  July  23,  1813, 
died  October  18,  1892.  4.  Rachel,  March  17, 
1815,  died  October  22,  1880.  5.  Hannah,  No- 
vember II,  1816,  died  October  6.  1893.  6. 
Aim,  Alay  11,  1818.  deceased.  7.  Mary.  Sep- 
tember 23,  1 819.  8.  John.  March  24.  1822. 
deceased.  9.  Jesse  C,  October  20.  1823,  de- 
ceased. 10.  Sarah  Ann.  May  2.  1826,  died 
February  15,  1896.  1 1.  Coombs,  June  17,  1828, 
12,  Ruth.  September  5.  1829.  deceased.  13. 
Jane,  June  11.  1832.  died  March  14.  187^).  14. 
George,  July  15,  1835. 


(HI)  William,  second  child  and  son  of 
Uriah  and  Sarah  (Coombs)  Ackley,  of  Salem 
county.  New  Jersey,  was  born  at  Union  Pond, 
Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey,  November, 
181 1.  He  married  Mary  Rape,  born  at  Mays 
Landing,  Atlantic  county.  New  Jersey,  daugh- 
ter of  the  Rev.  Solomon  Smallwood.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Caroline  E.,  died  in  1894;  married 
James  N.  Bedloe,  of  Philadelphia,  a  descend- 
ant of  the  man  from  whom  Bedloe's  island  on 
which  was  placed  the  statue  of  liberty  given 
by  the  French  government  in  New  York  har- 
bor was  named.  Their  children  are:  Caro- 
line, William,  .Ackley  and  Thomas,  the  last 
two  being  twins.  2.  Rachel,  who  was  one  of 
twins,  the  other  twin  dying  in  infancy;  she 
married  Joseph  T.  Dailey,  of  Bridgeton,  and 
has  Sarah  Perrine,  Caroline  Bedloe  and  Jo- 
seph T.  Jr.  3.  William  Scattergood,  died 
.April  2,  1865,  unmarried  ;  he  was  captain  of 
Companv  K,  Fourth  New  Jersey  Volunteer 
Infantry  in  the  civil  war,  enlisting  from  Pole 
Tavern,  Salem  county,  New  Jersey,  in  1861, 
and  killed  before  Petersburg,  A'irginia,  while 
leading  a  charge  of  his  company,  under  Gen- 
eral Grant;  he  had  enlisted  for  three  years 
and  then  re-enlisted  and  was  killed  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  last  engagement  of  the  war  ;  en- 
listing as  private,  he  was  for  a  time  the  regi- 
mental color  sergeant  in  the  battle  of  the 
Wilderness,  and  while  he  carried  it  the  flag 
and  Stat?  received  thirty-seven  bullet  holes, 
and  three  pieces  of  shell.  4.  Charles  Franklin, 
married  Sarah  .AufTort,  of  Philadelphia,  and 
have  William  Scattergood,  Mary  R.  and 
Michael  Hall  Stanton,  the  last  now  deceased. 
5.  Elizabeth  Johnson,  married  Gilbert  G. 
Richmond,  of  Pleasantville,  Landis  township. 
New  Jersey,  and  had  three  children,  only  one, 
Kalph  D.,  being  now  alive.  Ti.  John  .Alfred, 
referred  to  below. 

(I\")  John  .Mfred,  youngest  child  of  Will- 
iam and  Mary  Rape  (  Smallwood  )  .Ackley,  was 
1)1  irn  at  .Absecon,  .Atlantic  county.  New  Jersey, 
July  14,  1854,  and  is  now  living  at  A'ineland, 
New  Jersey.  For  his  early  education  he  at- 
tended the  public  school  of  Bridgeton  and 
Landis  township,  Cumberland  county.  .After 
leaving  school  he  helped  his  father  on  the 
farm,  and  then  became  a  clerk  in  a  hotel  in 
Philadelphia,  and  later  at  .Atlantic  City,  after 
which  he  purchased  a  farm  for  himself  next 
to  that  of  his  father,  consisting  of  five  acres 
of  land,  which  he  turned  into  a  fruit  farm. 
His  next  venture  was  a  partnership  with 
Charles  H.  Birkinshaw,  the  firm  being  Ackley 
iS;    Birkinshaw.  general   merchants,  dealing  in 


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house  furnishings,  also  auctioneers  and  dealers 
in  real  estate ;  later  he  sold  his  interest  in  the 
same,  and  engaged  in  auctioneering  and  real 
estate  on  his  own  account.  Mr.  Ackley's  busi- 
ness can  be  called  interstate,  as  his  services 
are  as  much  in  demand  for  important  sales  in 
Pennsylvania  as  in  New  Jersey.  He  has  in 
charge  the  premium  lot  sales  of  Baker 
Brothers.  He  has  cried  all  the  contract  sales 
of  the  W'ildwood  and  \\'ildwood  Crest  lots 
that  have  been  sold,  having  sold  four  million 
dollars  worth  of  sea  shore  property  in  the  past 
fifteen  years.  He  has  also  had  charge  of  the 
public  sales  of  lots  for  Henry  H.  Ottens.  His 
sales  have  been  more  influential  in  the  up- 
building of  l-'ive  ]\Iile  Beach  and  the  estab- 
lishing of  value  than  the  efforts  of  all  other 
persons  outside  of  the  founders.  Since  his 
services  were  secured  the  lots  have  sold 
readily  each  year  at  higher  figures.  At  the 
sale  of  \\ildwood  Crest  lots  in  November, 
1906,  the  premium  amounted  to  sixty  thous- 
and dollars.  The  highest  premium  bid  on  a 
single  lot  was  one  thousand  four  hundred  and 
seventy-five  dollars.  He  inaugurated  the  pub- 
lic sales  in  Youngs'  Philadelphia  Horse  Ex- 
change in  West  Philadelphia  in  the  winter  of 
1903-04. 

In  1884  Mr.  Ackley  came  from  Bridgeton 
to  \"ineland  and  embarked  in  the  new  and  sec- 
ond hand  goods  business  at  Sixth  street  and 
Landis  avenue.  In  1895  he  removed  to  9  and 
II  North  Sixth  street,  where  he  has  two  floors, 
completely  stocked  with  furnishings  and  mer- 
chandise. He  utilizes  in  the  same  manner  the 
second  and  third  floors  of  the  adjoining  prem- 
ises and  he  conducts  the  storage  business  on 
the  second  floor  of  No.  604  Landis  avenue. 
Auction  sales  take  place  regularly  every  Sat- 
urday afternoon  at  Air.  Ackley's  place  of  busi- 
ness, and  he  conducts  public  sales  upon  the 
premises  where  goods  are  located.  He  pur- 
chases for  cash  the  entire  contents  of  dwellings 
and  entire  stocks  of  merchandise,  and  he  is 
prepared  to  furnish  houses  completely  from 
top  to  bottom.  Mr.  Ackley  negotiates  pur- 
chases, sales  and  exchanges  of  real  estate  of 
every  description,  and  holds  the  appointment 
of  commissioner  of  deeds.  For  his  real  estate 
business  he  maintained  an  office  in  the  Reeves 
Building  at  Wildwood,  which  is  his  summer 
home.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Wildwood 
board  of  trade,  and  was  a  justice  of  the  peace 
of  Vineland. 

Notwithstanding  the  fact  that  Mr.  Ackley 
is  an  exceedingly  busy  man,  he  devotes  a  por- 
tion of  his  valuable  time  to  the  social  side  of 


life  and  liiward  bettering  the  cnntlitions  of  the 
unfortunate.  He  is  a  past  master  of  Mneland 
Lodge,  No.  69,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons; 
a  member  of  Eureka  Chapter,  No.  18,  Royal 
Arch  Masons:  Olivet  Commandery,  No.  10, 
Knights  Templar,  of  Millville,  New  Jersey; 
Lulu  Tem|)le,  .Mystic  Shriners,  of  Philadel- 
phia: \'iiielan(l  Castle,  No.  46,  Knights  of  the 
Golden  Eagle;  Muskee  Tribe,  Imjjroved  Order 
of  Red  Men,  of  \'ineland.  He  is  one  of  the 
charter  members  of  the  \'ineland  Country 
Club,  one  of  the  board  of  managers  of  the 
Vineland  Public  Library,  a  charter  member  of 
the  Wildwood  Yacht  Club,  Holly  Beach  Yacht 
Club,  and  a  member  of  the  W'ildwood  Motor 
Club. 

In  politics  Mr.  .\ckley  is  a  Democrat,  and  a; 
such  was  a  member  of  the  city  council  of  N'ine- 
land,  vice-president  of  the  board  of  education 
at  \'ineland  until  1908,  when  he  was  made 
president ;  also  president  of  the  Vineland  park 
and  shade  tree  commission.  He  and  his  family 
attend  the  Baptist  church,  and  he  is  one  of 
the  trustees  of  the  West  Baptist  Church  of 
\'ineland. 

July  7,  1885.  John  Alfred  Ackley  luarried 
Antha  \ictoria,  daughter  of  William  J.  and 
Hannah  (Brown)  Smith,  of  \'ineland.  Their 
children  are:  i.  Mary  Louise,  born  Septem- 
ber 19,  1886.  2.  Charles  William.  July  5,  1888. 
3.  John  Alfred,  Jr.  4.  Charles  Rocus,  died  in 
infancy.  The  last  two  were  twins,  born  Au- 
gust 30,  1 89 1. 

Hon.  and  Rev.  William  Henry 
CARTER  Carter,  of  Fieldsboro,  New  Jer- 
sey, minister  of  the  Gospel  and 
ex-state  senator  of  New  Jersey,  is  a  unique  and 
commanding  figure  in  the  public  life  of  his 
state.  In  private  life,  his  community  is  the 
better  for  his  manly  example  of  honor  and 
fidelity,  his  sunny  smile,  pleasant  greeting  and 
comforting  words  in  time  of  trial,  trouble  and 
sorrow.  He  has  been  called  the  "r'ather  of  the 
town"  and  perhaps  better  eulog}'  could  not  be 
written.  Rev.  Mr.  Carter  springs  from  Bucks 
county.  Pennsylvania,  stock. 

(I)  William  Carter,  grandfather  of  Rev. 
William  H.  Carter,  resided  in  Bucks  county, 
Pennsylvania,  and  died  there.  He  married 
Huldah  Brown,  a  native  of  Connecticut,  who 
bore  him  one  son,  William. 

(II)  Wilham  Carter,  father  of  Rev.  Will- 
iam H.  Carter,  was  born  in  Attleboro,  Bucks 
county,  Pennsylvania,  (now  Langhorne)  1797, 
died  in  1861.  He  had  a  good  common  school 
education.     He  learned  the  trade  of  a  carriage 


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ami  liDuse  painter  and  carried  on  a  shop  in 
I'rankfort,  Pennsylvania,  until  ill  health  com- 
pelled him  to  seek  a  more  healthful  occupa- 
tion. He  obtained  work  in  the  boiler  works  of 
Thomas  Halloway.  In  his  shop  he  helped  con- 
struct the  boilers  used  in  the  "John  Bull,"  the 
first  steam  locomotive  to  run  in  this  country. 
He  also  helped  build  that  famous  piece  of 
mechanism.  Mr.  Carter  continued  at  this  line 
of  work  until  his  death.  In  1841  he  removed 
to  ISordentown,  New  Jersey,  where  he  was 
employed  in  the  Camden  and  Amboy  railroad 
shops.  He  was  a  Democrat  and  was  elected 
chief  burgess  of  Fieldsboro.  He  was  for  many 
years  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  but 
in  his  latter  years  he  became  a  Universalist. 
He  was  a  charter  member  of  Bordentown 
Lodge,  Xo.  16,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows.  He  married,  1818,  Esther  Pitt,  born 
in  Morrisville,  Bucks  county,  Peimsylvania. 
June  18,  1801,  died  October  i,  1888.  daughter 
of  Thomas  Pitt,  of  Bucks  county,  Pennsylva- 
nia. Children:  i.  Susan  Pitt,  lived  to  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  eighty-si.x  years;  married  (first) 
William  Lingle  and  (second)  Alexander  Ham- 
ilton. 2.  and  3.  Richard  and  Harriet,  twins. 
4.  Elizabeth,  died  in  childhood.  5.  Huldah,  de- 
ceased. 6.  Marion  Etta,  died  in  childhood.  7. 
Joseph  \'.,  a  retired  boiler  maker;  resides  at 
White  Hill,  New  Jersey.  8.  Mary,  deceased. 
9.  William  Henry,  see  forward.  10.  (leorge 
S.,  deceased.  11.  David  T.,  deceased.  12. 
.Amos  Pitt,  deceased. 

(HI)  William  Henry,  ninth  chilil  and  third 
son  of  William  and  Esther  (Pitt)  Carter,  was 
born  in  New  Castle,  Delaware,  March  6,  1835. 
The  family  moved  to  Bordentown,  New  Jer- 
sey, when  young  William  Henry  was  about 
six  years  of  age.  He  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic school,  and  while  serving  his  apprentice- 
ship attended  night  schools,  so  strong  was  his 
desire  to  obtain  an  education.  When  but 
twelve  years  of  age  he  began  work  with  Sam- 
uel Cliver,  a  merchant  of  White  Hill.  In  185 1 
he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Camden  & 
.Amboy  Railroad  Company  as  assistant  fire- 
man. In  the  early  days  of  railroading  on  that 
line  three  men  were  employed  on  each  engine, 
engineer,  fireman  and  assistant  fireman.  The 
assistant  was  obliged  to  serve  three  years 
before  he  was  considered  competent  to  assume 
the  full  duties  of  a  locomotive  fireman.  In  the 
winter  of  1852  he  was  transferred  to  the  car 
shops  as  apprentice  car  trimmer  and  uphol- 
sterer and  remained  in  that  department  until 
the  spring  of  1856,  when  he  obtained  a  position 
with  the  New  York  and  Erie  railway  at  Pier- 


mont.  New  York.  Here  he  remained  until 
March,  1857,  when  he  returned  to  White  Hill 
and  entered  the  general  store  of  C.  N.  and  E. 
B.  Johnson.  This  was  the  same  store  in  which 
he  had  worked  for  Mr.  Cliver  ten  years  pre- 
vious. Following  this  he  was  in  the  employ  of 
a  wholesale  house  until  1869,  when  the  Cam- 
den and  xAmboy  opened  a  station  at  White  Hill 
and  Mr.  Carter  was  appointed  station  agent. 
In  1 87 1  he  entered  the  employ  of  MacPherson, 
^^'il!iard  &  Company  as  shipping  clerk  in  con- 
nection with  his  duties  as  station  agent.  Janu- 
ary I,  1880,  he  tendered  his  resignation  to  the 
railroad  and  devoted  all  his  time  to  MacPher- 
son, Williard  &  Company  as  general  clerk, 
which  position  he  occupied  until  October  i, 
1893,  a  period  of  tvi'enty-lhree  years.  This 
was  the  end  of  Mr.  Carter's  active  business 
life,  although  later  in  Fieldsboro  he  had  a 
connection  with  the  Ecjuitable  Life  Insurance 
Company  of  New  York. 

His  religious  and  political  career  will  now 
receive  the  attention  its  importance  deserves. 
Mr.  Carter  united  with  the  Methodist  Episco- 
pal church  at  Bordentown,  New  Jersey,  De- 
cember 26,  1852.  He  was  then  in  his  seven- 
teenth year.  In  March,  1857,  he  transferred 
his  membership  to  the  Fieldsboro  Methodist 
Episcopal  church,  where  he  still  holds  mem- 
bership. In  May,  1857,  he  was  elected  super- 
intendent of  the  Sunday  school  and  continued 
to  serve  in  that  capacity  continuously  until 
1905  with  the  exception  of  one  year,  making 
forty-seven  years  of  service.  In  1859  Mr. 
Carter  was  licensed  as  an  exhorter  by  the 
quarterly  conference  of  the  Columbus  district 
and  in  1864  was  licensed  by  the  same  confer- 
ence as  a  local  preacher.  In  March,  187 1,  he 
was  ordained  a  local  deacon  by  Bishop  Janes 
in  Broadway  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
Salem,  New  Jersey,  and  was  ordained  a  local 
elder  in  March,  1879,  by  Bishop  Merrill  in  Cal- 
vary Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Keyport, 
New  Jersey.  The  appointment  was  extended 
him  as  pastor  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  at  Fieldsboro  in  June,  1885.  and  he 
faithfully  and  earnestly  served  the  people  as 
their  pastor  until  March  8,  1904,  a  record  of 
nineteen  years  and  nine  months  of  continuous 
service.  In  August.  1904,  he  was  appointed  by 
Rev.  J.  B.  Haines,  D.  D.,  the  presiding  elder 
of  the  New  ISrunswick  district,  under  the 
authority  of  Bishop  Cranston,  to  the  church  at 
Cranbury,  New  Jersey,  to  fill  the  vacancy 
caused  by  the  death  of  the  Rev.  Henry  M. 
Brown.  He  occupied  that  pulpit  until  March, 
1906,  since  which  time  he  has  lived  a  retired 


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life.  During  his  long  career  as  pastor,  Rev. 
Carter  has  united  in  marriage  one  hundred  and 
twelve  couples,  has  officiated  at  the  funeral 
services  of  one  hundred  and  sixty-five  persons 
and  administered  the  rite  of  baptism  to  one 
hundred  and  eighty  little  ones. 

The  political  career  of  Rev.  Carter  is  equally 
remarkable.  In  1865  '''^  ^"^'^^  assessor  of  Bor- 
dentown  township.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the 
public  school,  member  of  the  common  council, 
on  the  borough  board  of  health  and  served  as 
chief  burgess  of  the  borough  of  Fieldsboro. 
He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
house  of  representatives  in  November,  1879.  re- 
elected in  1880  and  again  in  1881.  He  received 
the  nomination  for  state  senator  in  1885  and 
was  elected  for  three  years.  In  1888  he  was 
re-elected.  For  honorable  and  valuable  service 
he  was  appointed  in  May,  1895.  by  Governor 
George  T.  W'erts,  member  of  the  board  of 
prison  inspection.  He  was  reappointed  by  Gov- 
ernor Foster  M.  Voorhees  in  1900  and  again 
for  a  third  term  by  Governor  Franklin  M. 
Murphy  in  1905.  He  was  appointed  in  1894 
by  Governor  W'erts  a  member  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Colored  Industrial  School.  This 
was  in  the  early  days  of  that  institution.  He 
continued  on  the  board  until  1898,  and  did 
much  to  bring  the  standard  of  that  growing 
institution  to  its  present  high  position.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  board  of  education,  custodian 
of  the  school  funds  and  collector  of  taxes. 
His  political  faith  is  Republican.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen,  his  only  fraternal  society.  This 
combined  political,  religious  and  business 
record  is  without  parallel  when  length  of  ser- 
vice and  achievement  in  each  line  is  considered. 
Rev.  Carter  is  still  active  and  progressive  in  his 
ideas,  just  in  all  his  dealings,  bright  and  cheer- 
ful in  disposition,  a  lover  of  children  and 
devoted  to  his  home  and  family  ties.  He 
enjoys  all  the  comforts  of  his  pretty  home, 
known  as  "Walnut  Shade,"  which  overlooks 
the  Delaware  river.  He  is  very  hospitable,  his 
doors  being  always  open  to  his  friends. 

William  H.  Carter  married  (first)  January 
8,  1857.  Elizabeth  A.  Shinn,  daughter  of  Jona- 
than Shinn,  of  Pemberton,  New  Jersey.  She 
bore  him  a  daughter.  Agnes,  who  died  at  the 
age  of  four  years.  ]Mrs.  Carter  died  Septem- 
ber I.  1861.  He  married  (second)  July  8, 
1863,  Annie  Terhune,  daughter  of  Garrett  Ter- 
hune,  of  Cranberry,  Middlesex  county.  New 
Jersey.  The  children  of  this  marriage  were 
Edward,  Sarah  and  Susan,  all  of  whom  died  in 
infancy. 


John    Garrison    Bowen,    son    of 
BOWEN    Obediah    Bowen,    was    born  in 

Salem,  New  Jersey.  October  15, 
1833.  He  received  a  good  common  school  edu- 
cation. He  was  engaged  in  farming,  and  being 
of  a  mechanical  turn  of  mind  worked  at  the 
trade  of  a  carpenter  and  wheelwright,  at  which 
he  became  very  proficient.  When  the  war 
broke  out  he  enlisted  in  the  Tenth  New  Jersey, 
Company  D,  and  served  three  years.  He  was 
wounded  at  the  battle  of  Cold  Harbor,  Vir- 
ginia, and  taken  prisoner.  For  nine  months  he 
was  held  prisoner  at  Danville,  Virginia,  and 
Andersonville,  South  Carolina,  enduring  all  the 
horrors  of  that  horrible  den  of  sutYering.  After 
the  war  Air.  Bowen  worked  at  his  trade  of 
wheelwright  in  South  Jersey,  and  retired  from 
business  in  1909.  He  is  a  Prohibitionist  in 
politics,  and  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
ct)pal  Church.  His  fraternal  membership  is 
with  the  Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle,  and  his 
patriotic  in  Joseph  R.  Ridgeway  Post,  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  at  Beverly,  New  Jer- 
sey. 

He  married  (first )  Elizabeth  Loper,  who 
bore  him  three  children  :  i.  Charles,  of  Fairton, 
New  Jersey.  2.  Joseph,  of  Darby,  Pennsylvania, 
3.  Harriet,  of  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  Amanda  Stanix.  Children  of 
second  marriage:  4.  Walter  L..  publisher  and 
editor  of  Tlic  A'i'ti'  Era.  Riverton.  New  Jersey  ; 
married  Lela  M.,  daughter  of  Charles  F. 
Slater,  of  Palmyra,  New  Jersey.  5.  William 
K.,  of  Pittsfield,  Massachusetts.  6.  Earle,  see 
forward.  7.  John  N.,  married  Ida  F.  Shields, 
of  Clayton,  New  Jersey.  8.  Elizabeth,  of 
Riverton,  New  Jersey,  printer  in  office  of  her 
brother  Walter  L. 

( II  )  Earle,  son  of  John  Garrison  and 
.\manda  (Stanix)  Bowen,  was  born  in  Bur- 
lington, New  Jersey,  September  18,  1880.  He 
was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Burlington  and 
Camden,  New  Jersey.  From  1896  until  1904 
he  was  employed  by  his  brother,  Walter  L., 
in  his  printing  office  at  Riverton,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  gained  an  expert  knowledge  of  the 
printing  business  in  all  its  branches,  as  well  as 
a  good  newspaper  experience.  In  1904  he 
purchased  the  newspaper  plant  of  the  Moores- 
tozi'ii  Republican,  at  Moorestown,  New  Jersey, 
and  for  five  years  edited  and  published  the 
Republican.  In  1909  he  formed  the  Moores- 
town Printing  Company,  an  incorporated  stock 
company  with  a  capital  of  $25,000,  of  which 
he  is  president.  The  com])any  took  over  the 
l)rinting  and  publishing  business,  but  Mr. 
Bowen  remained  editor.     He  edits  a  Repub- 


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lican  newspaper  in  fact  as  well  as  in  name, 
the  political  complexion  of  the  i)aper  being 
in  accord  with  his  own  personal  conviction.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church,  and  an  ardent  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association  worker  in  Moorestown.  He  holds 
fraternal  connection  with  the  Modern  Wood- 
men of  America,  and  Patriotic  Order  Sons 
of  America.  He  married^  in  1904,  Laura  B., 
daughter  of  .Andrew  L.  and  Isabelle  E.  Cham- 
berlain, of  IJrooklyn,  New  Yorl;. 


The  first  of  this  family  in 
ACKERSOX  America  bore  the  name 
Thomaszen,  and  it  is  said  by 
some  authorities  that  his  father  first  saw  the 
country  of  Holland  while  taking  part  as  a 
soldier  in  the  "Thirty  Years  War/'  and  was 
so  pleased  with  the  fertility  of  the  soil  and 
other  features  of  the  country  that  at  the  end 
of  his  enlistment  he  returned  and  there  took 
up  his  abode,  marrying  a  Holland  maid.  It  is 
further  stated  that  he  was  a  native  of  Sweden. 
The  records  of  the  C)ld  Dutch  Church  in  New 
York  show  the  name  Th'omaszen,  but  the 
founder  of  the  family  in  America  dropped  this 
name  and  assumed  the  name  of  Eckerson, 
wdiich  is  found  in  tlie  Dutch  records  as  Echons, 
Eckens,  Eckes,  Ekkes,  Eckeson,  Ekkisse,  and 
even  in  other  forms.  Members  of  this  family 
have  been  prominent  in  Bergen  county  almost 
from  the  first  settlement  when  land  was  boughi 
from  the  Tappan  Indians,  and  have  contributed 
largely  to  the  development  and  improvement 
of  the  community  which  has  been  their  home. 
(I)  Jan  Thomaszen,  given  in  New  York 
Dutch  records  as  j.  m.  Van  de  Manhattans, 
was  born  in  Holland,  about  1640,  and  emi- 
grated to  America  about  1665,  in  which  year 
he  married  and  settled  on  a  farm  near  the 
Bowery,  not  far  from  the  present  site  of  St. 
Alark's  Church.  About  1692  he  assumed  the 
name  of  Eckerson,  which  name  has  been  used 
by  the  family  ever  since,  although  some  of 
them  iiave  slightly  changed  the  ortliogra])hy 
and  made  it  .Eckerson.  Jan  Thomaszen  mar- 
ried, November  8,  1665,  ApoUonia  Cornelis, 
daughter  of  Cornelis  Claeszen  Swits  and 
Ariaentie  Cornelis,  baptized  October  25,  1648, 
and  the  births  of  their  children  were  recorded 
in  New  York  under  the  name  of  Thomaszen ; 
they  were  twelve  in  number^  as  follows : 
.Ariaentie,  baptized  February  16, 1667  ;  Thomas, 
January  27,  1669;  Cornelis;  Sara,  baptized 
October  4,  1673;  Jan,  February  9,  1676;  Lys- 
beth.  May  29,  1678;  Margrietje,  1680;  Cor- 
nelia,  November   15,   1682;  Rachel,  April   11, 


1(185;  Jannetje,  November  2,  1687;  and  Maria 
and  Anna,  twins,  September  6,  1690. 

(II)  Cornelis,  or  Cornelius,  second  son  of 
Jan  Thomaszen  or  Eckerson,  was  baptized  in 
New  Netherlands,  now  New  York,  April  9, 
1(171,  and  lived  on  the  homestead  of  his  father, 
near  the  Bowery,  until  1718,  when  he  removed 
with  his  wife  and  children  to  Bergen  county, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  bought  about  three  hun- 
dred acres  of  wooded  land  at  Tappan,  which 
he  afterward  added  to  by  further  purchases, 
and  on  this  land  he  spent  the  remainder  of 
his  life,  clearing  and  cultivating  as  he  found 
expedient.  He  was  married  in  the  Old  Dutch 
Church  in  New  York  City,  August  24.  1(1)93, 
to  Willemtje  Vlierboom,  daughter  of  Judge 
Matthew  Vlierboom,  of  Albany,  and  their  chil- 
dren were  :  Jan,  baptized  June  26,  1695  ;  Mat- 
tliys,  November  8,  iGgG;  Jan,  March  22,  1699; 
Cornelius;  Jacob,  baptized  February  28,  1703; 
and  Thomas,  March  3,  1706. 

(III)  Cornelius  (2),  fourth  son  of  Cor- 
nelius (I)  and  Willemtje  (Vlierboom)  Acker- 
son,  was  baptized  January  12,  1701,  at  New 
York  City,  removed  with  his  parents  to  Tap- 
pan,  and  there  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
He  married  (first)  in  1723,  Maria  Haring, 
who  died  in  1727,  and  (second)  in  1728,  Rachel 
Clauvelt ;  his  children  were ;  Garret  C,  Cor- 
nelius C,  Willempie,  Catherine,  Alaria,  John, 

Vbraham,  Elizabeth,  Rachel,  Jacob,  David  and 
Matthew. 

(R.)  (iarret  C,  eldest  son  of  Cornelius  (2) 
and  Maria  (Haring)  Ackerson,  was  born 
March  7,  1724,  died  May  2,  1798.  He  married 
]\laria  Haring,  born  January  7,  1724,  died  De- 
cember 22,  1798,  and  they  resided  at  Tappan, 
where  they  had  the  following  children ;  John, 
Maria,  Cornelius,  Rensye,  Cornelius,  Eliza- 
beth, Margaret,  Abrem  G.  and  Brechie.  Gar- 
ret C.  Ackerson  purchased  a  large  tract  of 
land  at  Pascack,  which  he  gave  to  his  eldest 
son,  John,  and  gave  the  homestead  to  his  two 
younger  sons,  Cornelius  and  Abram,  at  his 
death. 

(\')  John,  eldest  son  of  Garret  C.  and  Maria 
(Haring)  Ackerson,  was  born  in  1743,  at  Tap- 
pan,  New  Jersey,  and  died  in  1837-38;  he  mar- 
ried Garritje  Hogencamp,  and  they  had  two 
children.  Garret  and  Hannah.  The  latter  mar- 
ried Nicholas  Zabriskie. 

(\T)  Garret,  only  son  of  John  and  Garritje 
(Hogencamp)  Ackerson,  was  born  in  1779, 
died  in  1857.  On  his  large  farm  he  had  a 
cotten  mill,  a  distillery  and  a  store,  and  he  was 
a  man  of  considerable  prominence  in  the  com- 
munity.     He   served   two  terms   in   the   state 


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legislature,  and  in  the  war  of  1812  was  major 
of  the  state  militia,  being  stationed  at  Sandy 
Hook :  after  the  war  he  became  major-general 
of  the  northern  militia  of  New  Jersey,  repre- 
senting the  three  northern  counties  of  Bergen, 
Essex  and  Morris.  He  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  John  Hogencamp,  whose  ances- 
tors lived  in  Rockland  county,  and  they  had  the 
following  children  :  John,  Cornelius,  Garret  G. 
and  James. 

(VHj  Garret  G.,  third  son  of  Garret  and 
Hannah  (Hogencamp)  Ackerson,  was  born 
April  9,  i8i6,  at  Pascack,  New  Jersey,  died 
December  12,  i8gi.  After  receiving  his  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  he  helped  his 
father  in  the  management  of  his  various  enter- 
prises, and  when  he  had  mastered  the  details 
of  same  took  full  charge  of  his  interests  until 
a  few  years  after  his  marriage,  when  he  re- 
■  moved  to  another  farm  and  established  his  own 
woolen  mill.  In  1839,  at  the  time  Harrington 
township  was  separated  into  two  divisions,  one 
retaining  the  name  Harrington,  the  other  being 
called  Washington  township,  Mr.  Ackerson 
was  elected  assessor,  which  was  his  first  public 
office :  six  years  later  he  becatne  county  clerk, 
and  retained  this  office  six  years,  being  elected 
by  a  large  ^majority,  and  at  this  time  removed 
from  Pascack  to  Hackensack.  He  filled 
the  office  with  great  satisfaction  to  the  public, 
and  their  trust  was  shown  in  him  to  the 
fullest  extent  by  the  manner  in  which  they  made 
him  their  banker  and  asked  his  advice  upon 
their  business  ventures.  He  made  his  presence 
felt  socially  and  politically,  and  soon  after  his 
removal  to  Hackensack  was  made  chairman  of 
the  Democratic  executive  committee. 

When  but  fifteen  years  of  age,  Mr.  Acker- 
son became  captain  of  a  company  of  militia, 
and  kept  this  rank  for  ten  years,  so  that  his 
experience  in  military  affairs  and  tactics  began 
early ;  during  his  occupation  of  the  office  of 
county  clerk  he  organized  a  company  of  Con- 
tinentals, taking  his  rank  as  captain  of  same, 
and  later  when  an  independent  battalion  was 
made  up  after  a  special  act  of  the  legislature. 
Captain  Ackerson  was  elected  lieutenant-colo- 
nel of  same.  In  1861  most  of  this  battalion 
enlisted  for  war  duty,  and  they  made  up  the 
Twenty-second  New  Jersey  Volunteers ;  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Ackerson  being  at  the  head  of 
this  movement  filled  the  quota  of  soldiers 
allotted  to  Bergen  county  at  this  time. 

Colonel  Ackerson  was  interested  in  most  of 
the  enterprises  of  his  native  town  and  county 
that  tended  to  the  further  development  of 
local  industries,  and  became  one  of  the  organ- 

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izers  of  the  first  railroad  into  Hackensack, 
which  was  named  the  Hackensack  railroad ; 
he  was  president  of  this  road  at  its  completion, 
and  gave  much  time  and  money  towards  put- 
ting the  venture  on  a  paying  basis,  after  which 
he  relegated  its  management  to  others  and 
turned  his  attention  to  commercial  affairs. 
He  was  the  second  president  of  the  Bergen 
County  Bank,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
organizers,  and  was  connected  with  that  insti- 
tution until  its  close.  In  the  winter  of  1876- 
JJ,  Colonel  Ackerson  was  appointed  judge  of 
the  court  of  common  pleas  by  Governor  Bedle, 
and  filled  the  position  with  the  same  ability  as 
the  other  ones  he  had  filled.  He  was  greatly 
respected,  admired  and  loved  by  his  friends 
and  acquaintances,  and  was  considered  one  of 
the  most  enterprising  men  of  his  county,  as 
well  as  being  a  valuable  citizen.  He  married, 
in  1837,  Sophia,  daughter  of  James  I.  and 
Martha  (Wortendyke)  Blauvelt,  born  July  4, 
1820,  died  March  17,  1895.  and  they  had  two 
children.  Garret  and  Martha.  The  latter  be- 
came the  wife  of  B.  F.  Randall,  of  Fall  River, 
Massachusetts,  and  had  a  son  Garret  A.,  who 
died  without  issue. 

(VIII)  Garret,  only  son  of  Garret  G.  and 
Sophia  (Blauvelt)  Ackerson,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 15,  1840,  at  Pascack,  New  Jersey,  died 
December  23,  1886.  He  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  town  of  Hackensack,  and  in  1859 
began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Jacob 
R.  Wortendyke,  of  Jersey  City,  being  admit- 
ted to  the  bar  in  1863.  He  then  opened  up  a 
practice  and  settled  in  Hackensack,  which  he 
made  his  permanent  home.  He  soon  began  to 
make  his  influence  felt  in  business  and  polit- 
ical circles,  and  became  one  of  the  county  and 
state  leaders  of  the  Democratic  party.  He 
was  appointed  judge-advocate  of  the  Bergen 
county  battalion  of  militia,  in  1867,  and.  in 
1872  was  elected  captain  of  Company  C,  Sec- 
ond Battalion  of  National  Guards,  which  was 
organized  at  this  time,  holding  the  latter  rank 
three  years,  at  which  time  he  resigned.  In 
1879  he  was  appointed  judge  advocate  gen- 
eral of  the  state  of  New  Jersey  by  Governor 
George  B.  McClellan,  his  rank  being  that  of 
colonel,  and  he  held  this  office  for  several 
years.  Colonel  Ackerson  was  interested  in 
many  commercial  enterprises,  and  helped 
greatly  in  the  progress  and  development  of  his 
native  county  and  state.  He  was  for  many 
years  president  of  the  Hackensack  railroad, 
held  a  directorship  in  the  New  Jersey  and 
New  York  railroad,  also  of  the  Hackensack 
improvement  coinmission,  was  stockholder  and 


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STATE    OF    NEW     (ERSEY. 


trustee  of  the  Hackensack  Academy,  and  was 
a  director  as  well  as  secretary  and  treasurer  of 
the  Rergen  County  Mutual  Assurance  Asso- 
ciation for  some  time.  He  was  given  many 
pohtical  honors,  but  was  not  ambitious  of 
office,  and  declined  many  of  them,  including 
the  nomination  for  state  senator  and  at 
another  time  for  governor.  In  1876  he  was  a 
delegate  from  the  fourth  congressional  dis- 
trict to  the  National  Democratic  convention 
held  at  St.  Louis,  which  nominated  Samuel  J. 
Tilden  for  the  presidency.  He  served  many 
years  as  chairman  of  the  Bergen  county  Dem- 
ocratic executive  committee.  Colonel  Acker- 
son  was  a  man  of  engaging  manners  and  con- 
versation, and  though  a  man  of  striking 
dignitv  and  earnest  demeanor,  all  who  had 
dealings  with  him  were  attracted  to  him 
and  desirous  of  securing  his  friendship.  He 
was  very  active  in  the  pursuit  of  his  duties  and 
never  shirked  his  responsibilities. 

He  married.  July  9.  1863.  Ann  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  John  A.  and  Mary  (Anderson) 
Zabriskie,  who  died  July  27.  1900,  aged  sixty- 
three.  She  was  a  descendant  of  Albrecht 
Zabriskie.  or  .Sobieska,  who  emigrated  to  New 
Amsterdam  from  Prussia,  in  1662,  in  the  ship 
"Fo.x,"  and  became  the  progenitor  of  a  large 
number  of  descendants.  Carret  and  Ann  Eliz- 
abeth Ackerson  had  three  children :  John  Z., 
James  D.  and  Garret  G.,  Jr.  Further  mention 
is  made  of  all  three. 

(IX)  John  Zabriskie,  eldest  son  of  Garret 
and  Ann  Elizabeth  ( Zabriskie)  Ackerson,  was 
born  April  12.  1864.  died  unmarried.  Decem- 
ber 15,  1900.  He  graduated  from  Columbia 
College  in  the  class  of  1886,  and  entered  the 
law  office  of  Hon.  William  M.  Johnson,  of 
Hackensack,  and  spent  some  time  in  study, 
after  which  he  took  a  course  in  law  at  Colum- 
bia College,  and  returning  to  HackensacK 
entered  into  partnership  with  Mr.  Johnson, 
which  he  was  soon  obliged  to  abandon  on 
account  of  poor  health.  He  was  a  young  man 
of  unusual  promise,  but  was  compelled  to 
abandon  his  profession,  and  though  he  sought 
to  regain  his  health  was  unable  to  do  so  and 
died  of  consumption. 

(IX)  James  P..,  second  son  of  Garret  and 
,\nn  Elizabeth  (Zabriskie)  Ackerson,  was 
born  July  26,  1866,  at  Hackensack,  New  Jer- 
sey, where  he  received  his  early  education, 
after  which  he  t(H)k  a  chemical  course  in  Co- 
lumbia College.  In  1885  Mr.  Ackerson  be- 
came chemist  in  the  employ  of  Dundee  Chem- 
ical Works  at  Passaic,  and  after  filling  various 
positions     became     superintendent     of     their 


plant.  When  the  company  was  merged  with 
the  General  Chemical  Company,  in  1899,  Mr. 
Ackerson  retained  his  position  of  superintend- 
ent of  the  Dundee  plant,  which  he  still  fills. 
He  is  well  informed  in  the  line  of  his  profes- 
sion, and  a  recognized  authority  on  same.  He 
takes  an  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the  com- 
munity, and  is  interested  in  public  enterprises. 
He  is  governor  of  the  (jeneral  Flospital  of 
Passaic,  is  director  in  the  Passaic  National 
Bank,  and  in  his  political  views  is  Republican. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Holland  Society.  He 
married.  September  14,  1887.  at  F'assaic.  New 
Jersey.  Mary  B.,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(\'an  Naerden)  Ackerman,  granddaughter  of 
Judge  Peter  Ackerman,  of  Hackensack,  New 
Jersey,  and  they  have  one  child,  a  daughter. 
Bessie,  born  July  10,  1888,  at  Passaic. 

(IX)  Garret  G.  (2),  third  and  youngest 
son  of  Garret  and  Ann  Elizabeth  (Zabriskie) 
Ackerson,  was  born  January  10,  1876,  at 
Hackensack.  New  Jersey,  where  he  received 
his  primary  education,  followed  by  a  course 
at  Packard's  Business  College,  of  New  York 
City.  In  1896  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Dundee  Chemical  W'orks,  at  Passaic,  by  which 
company  his  brother  James  B.  was  employed, 
and  remained  three  years,  at  which  time  the 
company  was  merged  into  the  General  Chem- 
ical Company,  and  he  then  became  associated 
with  the  purchasing  department  of  the  latter, 
in  New  York  City,  which  position  is  still  held 
by  him.  He  is  an  active  and  enterprising  busi- 
ness man,  who  has  the  confidence  of  his  em- 
])loyers  and  the  good  will  of  all  who  know 
him.  Mr.  Ackerson  resides  in  Hackensack, 
where  he  is  director  of  the  Hackensack 
National  Bank  and  president  of  the  Golf 
Club.  He  is  secretary  of  the  Hackensack 
Hospital  Association,  and  a  member  of  the 
Holland  Society.  He  married,  October  24, 
1899,  at  Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  Anna  Val- 
bm-g.  daughter  of  Gustave  G.  and  Mary  Jane 
(Kemiedy)  Pieck.  born  August  5,  1875,  'i"'' 
they  have  two  children,  born  in  Hackensack, 
namely:  Edith  Zabriskie.  March  12,  I90i,anil 
Garret  G.,  May  13,  1904. 


The  heroic,  patriotic  and  daring 
STEELE  Scotch  Covenanters,  whose  move- 
ments in  behalf  of  freedom  for 
religious  opinion  led  to  the  disastrous  revolu- 
tion in  Scotland  that  banished  the  covenanters, 
illuminated  the  pages  of  its  history  by  their 
acts  of  unswerving  devotion,  even  at  the  cost 
of  martyrdom,  to  a  spirit  of  independence  that 
had  been  smouldering  for  generations. 


STATE   OF    NEW    lEKSEV. 


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This  movement  had  among  its  noble  advo- 
cates the  clan  of  Steel,  having  its  home  in 
Lesmahagow,  only  seventeen  miles  from  the 
seat  of  tlie  ancient  University  of  Glasgow, 
founded  in  145  i  by  Bishop  Turnbull,  that  had 
kept  alive  and  been  unobserved!}'  the  foster- 
mcnher  of  the  movement  for  many  years.  In 
1580  the  first  of  the  name  in  Lanarkshire  that 
attracted  attention  appears  to  have  been 
Robert  Steel  and  his  two  sons.  David  and 
John  Steel.  "Waterhead,"  a  beautiful  and 
fertile  farm  near  Lesmahagow.  was  owned  by 
John,  and  like  his  father  and  ■  his  brother 
David,  he  was  a  prosperous  landowner.  David 
living  at  Skellyhill  Farm,  which  estate  remain- 
ed in  the  possession  of  the  family  for  over 
three  hundred  consecutive  years. 

David  Steel  had  the  proud  distinction  of 
meeting  the  death  of  a  martyr  and  the  incident 
is  recorded  in  "Traditions  of  the  Covenant- 
ers" written  by  Rev.  Robert  Simpson,  as  fol- 
lows: "The  .Steels  of  Lesmahagow  were  men 
of  renown  and  faithful  witnesses  to  Jesus 
Christ.  The  death  of  David  Steel,  who  was 
shot  at  Skellyhill  in  1686  in  the  thirty-third 
year  of  his  age.  is  in  all  its  circumstances 
e(|ually  affecting  with  the  death  of  John 
h^rown  at  Priesthill.  He  was,  after  a  promise 
of  cjuarter.  murdered  before  his  own  door : 
and  Alary  \\eir.  his  youthful  and  truly  chris- 
tian wife,  who  it  is  said  cherished  an  uncom- 
mon attachiuent  for  her  husband,  having 
bound  up  his  shattered  head  with  a  napkin  and 
closed  down  his  eyelids  with  her  own  hand, 
looked  upon  the  manly  and  honest  counte- 
nance that  was  now  pale  in  death  and  said 
with  a  sweet  and  heavenly  composure :  "The 
archers  have  shot  at  the  husband,  but  they 
cannot  reach  the  soul ;  it  has  escaped  like  a 
dove,  far  away  and  is  at  rest."  "  David  Steel 
was  shot  by  one  Creichton,  an  officer  under 
the  command  of  Viscount  Dtmdee,  known  in 
history  as  the  "Bloody  Claverhouse,"  who 
devastated  Scotland  as  a  follower  and  sup- 
porter of  the  exiled  Stuarts.  David  Steel  was 
buried  at  Lesmahagow  in  the  same  "God's 
Acre''  in  which  repose  the  others  of  the  fam- 
ily name  and  at  Skellyhill  a  monument  com- 
memorating his  martyrdom  was  erected. 

Sir  Walter  Scott,  Scotland's  greatest  novel- 
ist, gives  an  account  of  the  event  in  "Chroni- 
cles of  the  Canongate,''  where  he  speaks  of  the 
victim.  David  Steel,  as  the  "famous  Cove- 
nanter" and  Jonathan  Swift  "Dean  Swift." 
the  celelirated  English  author  and  satirist, 
designates  him  as  "Steel  the  Covenanter." 

Captain   John    Steel    fought   in   the    famous 


battles  between  the  Covenanters  and  James, 
the  Duke  of  Monmouth,  at  Drumelog  and  at 
Bothwell  I'ridge.  June  14  and  June  22.  1679. 
and  with  the  other  defeated  Covenanters  re- 
ceived the  kind  treatment  accorded  his  foes 
by  the  "Protestant  Duke"  immediately  after 
the  defeat  at  I'othwell  Bridge  and  his  sword 
is  preserved  among  the  historic  relics  treasured 
by  his  descendants  at  Skellyhill. 

The  Covenanters  could  not.  however,  over- 
come the  mistake  made  by  the  .Stuarts  and  the 
Presbyterians  themselves  could  not  overcome 
disijutes  and  dissensions  in  their  own  ranks, 
and  finally  the  union  between  the  Scottish  and 
English  Puritans  was  dissolved  by  the  ascend- 
ency of  the  Independents  and  then  came  the 
opportunity  for  Cromwell  to  keep  Scotland 
under  subjection  to  the  English  army,  and 
when  Sharp,  Archbishop  of  St.  Andrews,  their 
great  dependence,  changed  from  Presbyterian- 
ism,  this  movement  being  followed  by  his 
assassination.  May  3.  1679.  by  a  band  of 
fanatical  Covenanters,  the  revolution  was  in 
full  force  and  was  followed  by  the  Covenant- 
ers seeking  more  peaceful  homes  in  the  north 
of  Ireland.  Here  by  intermarriage  with  the 
Irish,  they  built  up  that  industrious  and  useful 
citizenship,  commonly  known  as  the  Scotch- 
Irish  people. 

Among  these  refugees  was  a  son  of  Captain 
John  Steel,  who  became  the  pioneer  of  the 
family  of  Steels  in  Ireland,  and  his  son,  John 
Steel,  named  for  his  valiant  grandfather,  was 
the  first  of  the  name  to  claim  Ireland  as  his 
birthplace.  They  settled  in  Fanet,  county 
Donegal,  on  the  shores  of  Mulroy  bay.  This 
John  Steel  was  born  in  Fanet  in  1735  and 
after  his  marriage  removed  to  Crevaugh  in 
the  same  county,  where  he  died  in  1804.  Mem- 
bers of  the  family  thus  settled  in  Ireland 
found  newer  and  more  favorable  homes  in 
America  before  and  during  the  period  of  the 
American  revolution  and  immediately  after 
that  event.  .Among  them  was  the  famous 
fighting  I'resbyterian  patriot,  the  Rev.  Captain 
John  Steel,  who  reached  the  shores  of  .Amer- 
ica in  1732  and  settled  in  Cumberland  county, 
Peimsylvania.  John  Steel's  own  son  Ale.xan- 
der  established  an  iron  foundry  in  Huntingdon 
county,  Pennsylvania,  and  another  son  Will- 
iam, became  a  merchant  and  politician  in  the 
same  county  and  also  went  as  a  soldier  in  the 
American  revolution. 

After  leaving  Scotland  the  Steel  family  may 
be  classed  as  immigrants  anfl  the  immigrant  to 
Ireland  to  be  of  the  third  generation  from 
Robert  .Steel,  born  before  1580,  who  had  two 


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sons  David,  born  1654,  died  1686,  a  martyr, 
and  Captain  John  Steel,  whose  son,  name  un- 
known, settled  in  the  north  of  Ireland  and 
became  the  father  of  John  Steel,  who,  as 
being  born  outside  of  Scotland,  we  place  as 
the  immigrant  ancestor  of  the  Steels  of  Ire- 
land and  America,  but  in  the  fourth  genera- 
tion, placing  Robert  Steel  as  (1),  Captain  John 
Steel  as  ( II )  ;  and  unknown  name  as  (HI)- 

(IV)  John,  grandson  of  Captain  John  Steel 
for  whom  he  was  named  and  grandncphew  of 
David,  the  martyr,  and  Mary  (Weir)  Steel, 
was  born  in  Fanet,  county  Donegal,  Ireland, 
1735,  died  in  Creevaugh,  county  Donegal,  Ire- 
land, in  1804.  He  married  Sarah  Stewart  and 
they  had  five  children  born  in  Ireland,  as  fol- 
lows: John,  Alexander.  Samuel,  William, 
David,  see  forward. 

(V)  David,  youngest  son  of  John  anil  Sarah 
(Stewart)  Steel,  was  born  in  Creevaugh,  coun- 
ty Donegal,  Ireland,  1764,  died  in  1807.  He 
married  Sarah  Gailey  McKinley  (1675-1836), 
and  they  had  seven  children  all  born  in  Ireland 
as  follows:  i.  Andrew,  1794.  2.  Samuel, 
1706,  died  1836;  married  Alary  Boggs.  3. 
James,  died  in  infancy.  4.  James,  see  f orwai  d. 
5.  Stewart  (1800-1861)  ;  married  (first)  M. 
Murray  and  (second)  Myrtella  Irvine.  6. 
David  (1803-1887)  ;  removed  to  America  and 
settled  in  Adams  county,  Ohio,  where  he  was 
one  of  the  foremost  exponents  of  the  Cove- 
nanters faith  in  the  United  States.  7.  Sarah 
(1804-1895)  ;  married  a  Stevenson. 

(\  I)  James,  fourth  son  of  David  and  Sarah 
Gailey  (McKinley)  Steel,  was  born  in  the 
north  of  Ireland  in  1798,  died  in  1863.  He 
married  Eleanor  Fulton,  of  Gortanleare,  coun- 
ty Donegal,  and  they  lived  at  Altaghaderry, 
near  Londonderry,  Ireland,  where  their  only 
son  David  was  born.  He  married  as  his  sec- 
ond wife  Jane  Osborn.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
a  respected  elder  in  the  Covenanters  church  at 
Waterside,  Londonderry. 

(\'II)  David  (2),  only  child  of  Jaiues  and 
Eleanor  (F-ulton)  Steel,  was  born  in  Atlagha- 
derry,  near  Londonderry,  Ireland,  October  20, 
1826.  His  mother,  who  was  a  relative  of  Rob- 
ert l'"ulton,  the  inventor  and  builder  of  the 
steamboat  "Claremont,"  that  made  the  first 
voyage  of  any  vessel  propelled  by  steam  be- 
tween .\cw  York  and  Albany  on  the  Fludsou 
river  in  1807,  died  in  1828  and  his  father  mar- 
ried as  his  second  wife  Jane  Osborn.  David 
Steel  was  brought  up  by  his  step-mother  on  his 
father's  farm,  and  he  was  fortunate  in  having 
so  godly  a  woinan  to  care  for  him  and  a  bond 
of  aft'ection  bound  the  two  together  which  was 


of  great  benefit  to  the  lad.  His  early  education 
was  under  the  direction  of  his  step-mother  and 
from  her  he  passed  to  the  Classical  .\cademy 
at  Londonderry,  where  he  learned  rapidly  and 
where  the  history  of  his  place  of  nativity  was 
taught  on  the  playgrounds  of  the  school,  the 
walls  of  which  had  been  the  defence  of  the 
Covenanters  against  the  siege  of  1688.  The 
atnrosphere  of  his  boyhood  days  was  thor- 
oughly impreganated  with  the  spirit  of  piety, 
filial  affection,  devotion  to  church  and  home 
worship,  strict  obserance  of  the  holy  Sabbath 
and  of  the  days  of  thanksgiving  and  fasting. 
Of  his  peculiar  advantages  his  biographer 
writes  as  follows:  "These  favorable  provi- 
dential surroundings  were  owned  of  God  and 
used  by  I  lis  .Spirit  in  due  time  to  lead  him  to 
an  intelligent  decision  in  the  matter  of  personal 
religion  and  open  confession  of  Jesus  Christ, 
and  the  solemn  assumption  of  the  obligation  of 
his  covenant  relationship  to  Clod,  and  the  par- 
ticipation in  all  the  sacred  responsibilities  and 
blessed  privileges  of  communicant  membership 
in  the  church  of  his  father.  He  was  seven- 
teen years  old  when  he  made  a  public  pro- 
fession of  his  faith  in  Jesus  Christ  and  entered 
u])on  the  responsibilities  of  church  member- 
ship. .Among  the  Covenanters,  a  newly  made 
male  member  of  the  church  was  expected  to 
conduct  the  devotions  at  the  ne.xt  neighborhood 
prayer-meeting — 'to  take  the  books'  as  it  was 
termed,  .\bout  the  same  time  he  became  deeply 
interested  in  the  Sabbath  School  work,  serving 
for  a  time  as  a  teacher  and  subsequently  as 
superintendent.  He  also  manifested  a  deep 
interest  in  the  cause  of  Foreign  Missions — 
prophesy  of  his  interest  in  later  years  and 
which  became  one  of  the  con.spicuous  figures 
of  his  ministerial  life.  The  salvation  of  the 
heathen  world  was  a  matter,  which  bulked 
largely  in  his  progress,  and  to  which  he  devoted 
much  of  his  means  and  energies.  He  had  a 
clear  vision  and  watched  with  intelligent  inter- 
est the  signs  of  the  times  concerning  Zion.  .\s 
an  evidence  of  this,  at  the  very  beginning  of 
his  career  as  a  communicant  member  of  the 
church,  he  took  deep  interest  in  the  controversy, 
which  agitated  the  Reformed  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Ireland  respecting  civil  affairs. 
Hitherto  all  Convenanters  held  to  the  view- 
that  they  were  not  warranted  in  taking  an 
active  part  in  civil  alifairs,  because  Jesus  Christ 
was  not  recognized  as  He  should  be  as  the  King 
and  Head  of  the  nation.  In  this  controversy, 
Reverend  John  Paul  and  Reverend  Thomas 
Houston  were  the  representatives,  respectively, 
of  the  new  view  and  the  old  conservative  posi- 


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tiun.  Doctor  Paul,  by  liis  powerful  and  inci- 
sive argument,  made  a  deep  impression  upon 
Dr.  Steele's  mind,  and  he  ever  afterwards  took 
his  stand  on  the  side  of  liberty  of  conscience, 
holding  to  the  position  that  the  question  of 
civil  duty  should  be  no  longer  a  subject  for 
church  discijiline,  but  be  left  to  the  individual 
conscience.  This  decision  no  doubt  determined 
him  in  identifying  himself  in  his  final  jjrep- 
arations  for  the  ministry,  and  in  his  subse- 
quent ministerial  activities  with  the  General 
Synod  in  the  United  States,  as  holding  similar 
views  in  regard  to  civil  responsibility  and  activ- 
ity. This  decision  was  not  announced  until 
he  had  reached  mature  years,  although  the 
thought  was  in  his  heart  and  awaited  ("lod's 
])rovidence  to  confirm  it  and  to  clearly  open 
up  the  way  before  him.  At  fourteen  years  of 
age,  not  having  as  yet  definitely  decided  as  to 
his  calling  in  life,  he  revealed  considerable 
skill  in  agricultural  pursuits.  He  developed 
special  aptitude  in  the  use  of  the  plough,  ability 
in  this  flirection  being  the  ambitions  of  many 
of  the  farmers'  sons  of  the  neighborhood. 
Ploughing  matches  were  held  from  time  to 
time  and  as  a  witness  to  his  skill,  he  obtained 
as  prizes,  tw-o  beautiful  silver  cups,  which 
even  in  his  later  years,  he  exhibited  with  com- 
mendable pride.  During  these  days  on  the 
farm  his  studies  were  to  a  considerable  extent 
kept  up,  and  his  store  of  knowledge  increased 
and  his  ])ovver  developed  by  systematic  and  ex- 
tensive reading.  He  contiiuied  his  life  on  the 
farm  until  he  was  twenty-seven  years  of  age. 
when  he  finally  decided  to  give  himself  to  the 
ministry.  At  this  time  he  was  in  possession 
of  one  of  the  best  farms  in  the  neighborhood, 
the  gift  of  his  father,  and  with  every  promise 
of  worldly  prosperity." 

In  1853,  his  uncle,  the  Rev.  Dr.  David 
Steele,  who  lived  in  .\dams  county,  Ohio,  vis- 
ited Ireland  and  induced  him,  much  against 
the  wishes  of  his  father,  who  saw  a  brilliant 
agricultural  career  before  him  if  he  remained 
in  his  native  land,  to  take  up  the  work  of  the 
ministry  in  America.  He  overcame  paternal 
opposition  and  arrived  in  Philadelphia,  Octo- 
ber I,  1853,  spent  his  first  Sabbath  morning  in 
attendance  at  the  Second  Reformed  Presby- 
terian Church  (O.  S.)  of  which  the  Rev.  Dr. 
S.  O.  W'ylie  was  pastor.  He  continued  his 
journey  the  next  week  to  Ohio  and  was  wel- 
comed to  the  home  of  his  uncle,  who  had  no 
children,  where  he  took  up  the  study  for  the 
ministry.  Dr.  David  Steele  was  a  fine  classical 
scholar  and  under  his  tuition  David  (2)  was 
soon   readv    for  matriculation   at   Miami   Uni- 


versity, Oxford,  ( )hio.  He  passed  his  pre- 
paratory examination  with  brilliant  promise 
which  was  fulfilled  when  he  graduated  A.  B. 
in  1857  with  the  classical  honors  in  a  class  of 
thirty-six  graduates.  Among  his  classmates 
were  Henry  M.  McCracken,  who  became  pres- 
ident of  the  New  York  I'niversity,  and  Dr. 
John  S.  1  linings,  the  present  librarian  of  the 
New  York  Public  Library;  Benjamin  Harri- 
son, who  afterwards  became  jiresident  of  the 
United  States,  and  W'hitelaw  Reid,  United 
States  embassador  to  Great  Britain,  were  un- 
dergraduates at  the  time,  but  not  his  class- 
mates. 

lie  taught  in  Uynthiana  Acadeiny  in  Ken- 
tucky on  leaving  the  L'niversity,  1857-58,  and 
occu])ied  the  chair  of  Greek  in  Miami  Univer- 
sity as  a  substitute  for  Professor  Elliott,  who 
went  abroad,  and  at  the  same  time  had  charge 
of  an  elective  class  in  Hebrew  in  the  Univer- 
sity, 1858-59.  He  received  his  master  degree 
from  Miami  University  in  185Q  without  wait- 
ing the  usual  three  years.  He  took  his  course 
in  tlic()logy  at  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the 
Reformed  Presbyterian  Church  (general 
synod)  in  l'hiladeli)hia,  his  preceptors  being 
Doctors  McLeod  and  Wylie.  He  was  licensed 
to  preach  in  i860  and  graduated  B.  D.  in 
March,  1861.  He  received  his  first  call  to  a 
pastorate  from  the  F'ifteenth  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Philadelphia,  followed  by  one  from 
the  Refr>rmed  I'reshyterian  Church  at  Cedar- 
ville,  ( )hio,  and  one  from  the  Third  Reformed 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Belfast,  Ireland.  All 
of  these  calls  he  declined  to  accept  a  call  from 
a  new  organization  of  eighty-nine  members, 
most  of  whom  had  withdrawn  from  the  Fif- 
teenth Street  Church  in  Philadelphia  and  were 
worshiping  in  a  hall.  He  was  ordained  and 
installed  pastor  of  this  new  flock  organized  on 
June  ().  1861,  and  in  1862  the  church  consoli- 
dated with  the  Fourth  Reformed  Presbyterian 
Church,  which  latter  name  was  retained  by  the 
two  united  congregations.  Dr.  Steele  became 
pastor  of  the  re-enforced  Fourth  Reformed 
Presbyterian  Church,  and  in  October,  i8go,  the 
congregation  removed  to  their  commodious 
and  beautiful  church  edifice,  where  the  labors 
of  the  eminent  pastor  were  abundantly  suc- 
cessful, but  were  terminated  by  his  death,  June 
15,  1906,  after  a  continuous  charge  of  forty- 
five  years,  the  only  pastoral  charge  ever  held 
by  him.  During  his  pastorate  he  held  the 
chair  of  Hebrew,  Greek,  and  pastoral  theology 
in  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Theological 
Seminary,  1863-1875,  and  of  doctrinal  the 
ology.  1875-1906. 


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STATE    OF    \EW    lERSEY. 


Uuriiig  the  civil  war  he  served  in  the  United 
States  christian  commission  in  ministering  to 
the  wants  of  the  soldiers  in  camp  in  1862. 
I  le  was  moderator  of  the  general  synod  of  the 
Refiirmed  f'resbyterian  church,  1868-86,  and 
president  of  the  board  of  missions,  1883-1906. 
ide  attended  the  Presbyterian  Alliance  Coun- 
cil as  a  delegate  at  I'hiladelphia  in  1880  and  at 
tdasgow,  Scotland,  in  1896.  He  visited  the 
missions  of  the  church  in  nurthern  India  in 
1896,  having  previously  made  tours  of  the  old 
world.  1873-1884,  and  1892.  His  scholastic 
honors  were :  D.  D.  from  Rutgers  College  in 
1866  and  LE.  D.  from  Miami  University  in 
1900.  He  served  as  editor  of  the  Reformed 
Prcsbytrriaii  Advocate,  1867-77,  ^"d  is  the 
author  of  "Times  in  Which  We  Live  and  the 
Ministry  They  Require"  (  1871  )  :  "Endless 
Life  and  the  Inheritance  id'  the  Righteous" 
(1873);  "Elements  nf  .Ministerial  Success" 
(  1884  )  :  "The  Two  Witnesses"  I  1887  )  ;  "A  Na  ■ 
tion  in  Tears"  (  1881  )  ;  "The  House  of  God's 
(ilory"  (1893);  "The  Wants  of  the  Rulpit" 
(  1894)  :  "Christ's  Coronation"  (  1897)  ;  "His- 
tory of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church  in 
.Vorth  America"  (  1898)  ;  "Per.sonal  Religion" 
{  1898)  ;  "On  Reading  the  Scriptures"  (1901  )  ; 
"Our  Martyred  Chief"  (  1901  ).  He  served  as 
a  member  of  the  executive  council  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Historical  .Society ;  of  the  Archso- 
logical  Society  of  the  L'niversity  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  was  elected  a  life  member  (if  the 
Pennsylvania  Bible  Society  and  Sabbath  Asso- 
ciation of  Philadelphia. 

He  married.  January  19.  1864.  lilizabeth  J., 
second  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Alartha  (  Mc- 
Millan )  Dallas,  of  (ireene  county,  Ohio ; 
granddaughter  oi  Judge  James  Dallas,  of 
Champagne  county.  Ohio,  and  of  Daniel  and 
Janet  (  Chestnut )  McMillan,  and  great-grand- 
daughter of  Captain  James  Chestnut,  of  Ches- 
ter county.  South  Carolina,  who  fought  in  the 
American  revolution  under  General  Washing- 
ton. The  children  of  Rev.  Dr.  David  and 
Elizabeth  J.  (Dallas)  Steele  were  born  in 
Philadelphia,  i 'ennsylvania.  as  follows:  i. 
James  l)alla>.  see  forward.  2.  .Martha  Elea- 
nor, who  in  ii)0')  was  residing  with  her  wid- 
owid  mother  in   Philadelphia,  unmarried. 

(\  111)  James  Dallas,  eldest  child  and  only 
son  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  David  and  Elizabeth  J. 
(Dallas)  .Steele,  was  born  in  Philadelphia. 
Pennsylvania.  .Xovember  6,  1864.  He  was 
])re])ared  for  college  under  the  direction  of  his 
learned  father.  He  was  a  pupil  in  the  I'hila- 
delphia ])ublic  schools  and  at  the  Langton  .Se- 
lect  .Ncademy.  the  best  preparatory  school  of 


Philadelphia.  He  was  graduated  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  A.  B.,  1884;  A.  M., 
1887,  and  after  a  post-graduate  course  of 
three  years,  B.  D.,  1891.  His  college  honors 
were  the  prize  for  ( ireek  prose  composition  in 
his  freshman  year  and  the  Latin  essay  prize 
in  the  senior  year.  He  was  a  student-at-law 
in  the  otTice  of  J.  Sergent  Price,  Escj.,  in  Phila- 
delphia. 1884,  and  at  the  same  time  matricu- 
lated in  the  law  school  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  graduated  LL.  B., 
1886.  He  practiced  law  in  I'hiladelphia.  1886- 
90,  but  his  desire  to  enter*  the  christian  min- 
istry overcame  the  allurements  of  successful 
practice  at  the  legal  bar.  and  in  1887  he  began 
theological  studies  at  the  Theological  Semin- 
ary in  which  his  father  was  a  professor,  and  he 
was  graduated  in  1891,  but  continued  a  post- 
graduate course  in  the  L^niversity  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  he  obtained  his  degree  of  Bache- 
lor of  Divinity  in  1891,  having  received  the 
.Masters  degree  in  course  in  1887.  He  was  in- 
stalled ])astor  of  the  First  Reformed  Presby- 
terian Church,  located  on  West  Twelfth  street. 
New  York  City,  on  April  16,  1891,  being  the 
fifth  ])astor  of  the  church.  He  resigned  after 
a  successful  pastorate  of  fifteen  years,  March 
I.  1906,  having  accepted  a  call  to  become  pas- 
tor of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Pas- 
saic. New  Jersey,  and  he  was  installed  March 
4.  1906,  being  the  second  pastor  of  that  church, 
liesides  his  pastoral  work  he  contributes  regu- 
larly to  religious  magazines  and  church  peri- 
odicals. He  was  made  a  member  of  the 
.American  Oriental  Society  in  1892.  and  is  also 
a  member  of  the  .American  Historical  .Asso- 
ciation. 

He  married.  December  8,  1898,  Emma, 
ilaughter  of  Robert  and  F21iza  (N'ightingale ) 
.Abbott,  of  New  York  City:  they  have  no  chil- 
dren. Their  home  is  in  Passaic.  Mew  Jersey, 
at  .\'o.   IS  (irove  Terrace. 


The  Benjamin  family  of 
r.l';.\J.\.\l  l.\      .Maryland,  to  which  belongs 

the  line  we  are  now  consid- 
ering, is  so  far  as  .America  is  concerned 
entirely  distinct  from  the  families  of  Richard 
I'enjamin,  of  Southold,  Long  Island,  John 
Benjamin,  of  Cambridge  and  Watertown, 
.Massachusetts,  and  the  Hon.  Judah  Philip 
Benjamin,  of  Louisiana,  all  three  of  whom  are 
at  the  head  of  distinct  genealogical  lines  in 
this  country  that  have  sjiread  out  into  New 
Jersey  territ<irv.  Like  tlie  three  last  men- 
tioned families,  the  Benjamins  of  Maryland, 
however,    trace   their   origin    back    to    English 


STATK   OF    NEW    IKRSEY. 


759 


soil ;  and  it  is  not  at  all  improbable  tliat  the 
ancestries  converge  to  a  common  progenitor 
on  that  ground — a  constant  English  tradition 
— although  the  Maryland  family  in  regard  to 
emigration  holds  a  position  midway  between 
the  seventeenth  century  coming  of  Richard  and 
John,  and  the  nineteenth  century  advent  of 
Judah  I'hili])  ISenjamin's  father  and  family. 

(I)  Joseph  Benjamin,  born  in  1750.  pro- 
genitor of  the  ^Maryland  family,  was  the  son 
of  a  well-to-do  English  yeoman,  in  1774. 
lured  probably  by  the  "call  of  the  wild"  and 
the  brilliant  prospects  held  before  the  eyes  of 
those  courageous  spirits  who  should  venture 
forth  into  the  new  world,  he  emigrated  to 
.America  and  settled  in  Maryland.  In  the  fol- 
lowing year,  1775,  he  went  to  \"irginia  with 
the  intention  of  making  that  colony  his  perma- 
nent resilience:  but  before  he  had  finally  made 
up  his  mind  where  he  would  locate  himself, 
the  war  between  Great  IJritain  and  her  .Ameri- 
can colonies  broke  out:  and  while  he  was  in 
.Amelia  county  finding  that  -Major,  afterwards 
Lieutenant-colonel  Theodoric  Pdand  was  form- 
ing a  regiment  of  cavalry,  he  enlisted  in  it  and 
was  assigned  to  Captain  Henry,  po])ularly 
called  "Light  horse  Harry"  Lee's  troop,  from 
which  he  was  afterwards  transferred  to  Cap- 
tain Peyton's  troop  of  the  same  regiment,  in 
which  he  served  throughout  the  war ;  at  the 
close  of  which  he  was  ranked  as  trumpeter  for 
in  1820,  when  he  a|)plied  for  and  was  granted 
a  pension  for  his  services  by  congress,  (  See 
executive  papers  of  the  sixteenth  congress, 
fir.st  session,  volume  4,  January  20,  1820)  he 
is  recorded  as  being  the  "trumpeter  of  Lee's 
legion  of  Maryland  troo])S." 

.After  the  revolutionary  war  was  over, 
Joseph  llenjamin  married  and  settled  down 
finall)-  in  L'harlestown,  Cecil  county,  Maryland, 
where  he  became  not  only  an  influential  citizen 
but  also  one  of  the  founders  and  first  trustees 
of  the  Methodist  church  in  that  place.  He  is 
also  said  to  have  operated  a  ferry  across  the 
mouth  of  the  Susquehanna  river :  and  a  pleas- 
ing tradition  among  the  family  is  that  during 
one  of  his  campaigns  he  stopped  at  a  farm 
liouse  where  he  saw  a  comely  young  woman 
milking  and  asked  her  for  a  drink  of  water, 
lie  recci\eil.  however,  a  generous  draught  of 
milk  which  he  paid  for  with  the  jiromise, 
"When  the  war  is  over  I  am  coming  back  to 
marry  you."  By  Miss  Winchester,  the  maiden 
of  the  above  tradition,  Joseph  F^enjaniin  had 
three  sons,  (5eorge,  William.  Isaac,  treated 
below. 

(II)  Isaac,   youngest    son    of   Joseph    and 


(Winchester)    lienjamin,  was  born  in 

Cecil  county,  but  removed  later  on  in  life  to 
Talbot  county,  where  he  held  for  some  time  the 
position  of  sheriff.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the 
war  of  1812,  a  farmer,  and  he  must  have  been 
a  man  of  considerable  property  and  business 
ability  as  he  was  one  of  the  contractors  with 
the  federal  govermnent  for  carrying  the  mails 
between  Washington  and  Philadelphia,  an  ob- 
ligation which  in  those  days  of  stage  coaches 
and  post  horses  involved  a  heavy  outlay  and 
investment.  Isaac  Benjamin's  wife  was  Grace, 
daughter  of  .Abraham  Alexander.  I  ler  father 
was  born  in  North  Carolina,  and  in  early  life 
was  a  magistrate  of  Mechlenburg  county, 
which  he  represented  in  the  colonial  legisla- 
ture until  1775.  On  May  31  of  this  year  he 
served  as  the  chairman  of  the  county  conven- 
tion which  passed  a  series  of  resolutions  that 
later  on  became  distorted  into  the  famous 
"Alechlenburg  declaration  of  independence." 
The  facts  of  the  case  appear  to  be  as  follows: 
On  .April  30,  1819,  the  Rcgistrr  of  Raleigh. 
North  Carolina,  published  what  ])urported  to 
be  a  copy  made  from  memory  of  resolutions 
passed  by  the  Mechlenburg  convention  on  May 
20,  1775,  and  afterwards  destroyed  by  fire. 
Certain  phrases  in  this  published  copy  are 
similar  to  passages  in  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
])enilence  of  July  4,  1776,  and  caused  doubt  as 
to  tlie  authenticity  of  the  Mechlenburg  dec- 
laration to  arise.  In  1831,  the  North  Caro- 
lina legislature,  after  an  investigation  of  the 
subject,  declared  May  20th  a  legal  holiday. 
Since  then  there  has  been  a  detailed  and  pro- 
longed controversy  in  regard  to  the  two  sets 
of  resolutions,  the  weight  of  authority  at  pres- 
ent being  overwhelmingly  against  the  authen- 
ticity of  the  "Declaration"  and  in  favor  of  the 
opinion  that  only  one  meeting  was  held,  that 
of  May  31,  and  that  the  resolutions  there 
adopted,  bearing  no  resemblance  to  Jefferson's 
Declaration,  constitute  the  nearest  approach 
there  was  to  a  "Mechlenburg  Declaration  of 
lnde]}endence." 

Isaac  and  Grace  ( .Alexander  )  Benjamin  had 
seven  sons,  six  of  whom  held  commissions  in 
the  Cnited  States  army  and  were  killed  in  bat- 
tle, two  in  the  Mexican  war  and  four  others 
in  the  civil  war.  The  remaining  son,  Justus, 
is  treated  below. 

(HI)  Justus,  son  of  Isaac  and  (irace  (Alex- 
ander) Benjamin,  was  born  in  Maryland. 
\\  hen  a  young  man  he  was  in  his  father's  em- 
ploy, carrying  mails  until  the  railroads  ab- 
sorbed that  interest.  He  then  worked  on  a 
farm   which   was  also  operated  by  his   father. 


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Later  he  was  employed  by  the  V.  W .  &  B. 
railroad,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was 
otficially  eniployeii  by  that  company.  He  was 
accidentally  killed  between  Elkton  and  Perry- 
ville,  1894.  He  niarrieti  Anna  Elizabeth  Dob- 
son.  Children;  I.  William  T.,  killed  in  the 
battle  of  Five  Forks.  2.  Mary  A.,  married 
George  Wainwright,  who  died  from  injnries 
received  while  in  the  civil  war.  3.  Sarah  C, 
married  George  H.  Haines,  who  also  died 
from  injuries  received  in  the  federal  service 
during  the  civil  war.  4.  Dowling,  treated 
below. 

(R)  Dciwling,  si.m  of  Justus  and  Anna 
Elizabeth  (Dobson)  Benjamin,  was  born  Janu- 
ary 23,  1849,  in  Baltimore,  Maryland.  For 
his  early  education  he  atten(le<l  the  public 
schools  of  -Maryland,  Pennsylvania  and  Dela- 
ware. 1  le  then  took  up  the  stutly  of  classic 
and  oriental  literatures  with  private  tutors, 
when  he  (jualified  for  entrance  in  the  sopho- 
more class  in  Dickinson  College.  In  1867  he 
began  the  study  of  pharmacy  in  Chester,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  in  1872  entered  the  office  of  J.  H. 
Jamer,  M.  D.,  of  Port  Deposit,  Maryland,  hav- 
ing passed  a  successful  examination  before  the 
board  of  pharmacy  of  Maryland.  Here  he  re- 
mained until  the  spring  of  1874  when  he  be- 
came a  student  under  Dr.  J.  M.  Ridge,  of 
Camden,  New  Jersey,  with  whom  he  studied 
until  the  following  October  when  he  entered 
the  medical  department  of  the  University  of 
I  'ennsylvania  from  which  he  graduated  with 
the  highest  honors  in  1877.  In  1876  Dr.  Benja- 
min was  chosen  as  delegate  from  the  Camden 
I  'harmaceutical  Society  to  the  convention  of  the 
American  .Association  of  Pharmacists  ;  and  .Au- 
gust 27,  1879.  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
.'American  Academy  of  Natural  Science. 

In  1878,  as  medical  e.xpert  for  counsel  ni 
the  defense  in  the  lunma  i'ethcl  murder  case. 
Dr.  lienjamin  deuKinstrated  before  the  court 
for  the  first  tirne  in  legal  history,  by  chemical 
analysis  and  the  microscope,  although  Pro- 
fessor \\t)rmley,  the  great  microchcnust,  had 
made  and  ])ublished  the  fact  a  few  months  be- 
fore, in  flat  contradiction  to  all  the  statements 
of  the  text  books  and  of  medical  jurisprudence, 
tiiat  the  octohedral  crystal  was  not  conclusive 
evidence  of  the  jjresence  of  arsenic  but  might 
i)e  due  to  the  ]iresence  of  at  least  one  other 
metal,  namely  antimony. 

In  iSS'4  he  successfully  urged  before  the  Na- 
tional Medical  Association  in  Washington,  in 
the  face  of  strong  opposition,  that  the  as.socia- 
tion  should  proclaim  officially  tiie  necessity  for 
there  being  a  full  three  years  course  in  all  med- 


ical colleges.  After  a  two  years  fight  the 
New  Jersey  State  Medical  Society  adopteil  a 
similar  resolution  to  this  effect,  asking  for  the 
ajjpointment  of  a  state  board  of  e.xaminers, 
but  voted  down  a  resolution.  Dr.  Benjamin 
undefeated,  however,  gathered  the  friends  of 
such  a  board  and  acted  as  their  spokesman 
before  the  senate  committee  which  was  ap- 
pointed to  prepare  the  bill  subsequently  passed 
in  1900  which  provided  for  a  state  board  of 
medical  examiners.  Thus  ended  his  fifteen 
years  of  hard  fighting  for  the  protection  of  the 
jniblic  from  medical  incompetents.  Dr.  Ben- 
jamin was  offered  but  refused  a  position  on 
this  board  because  he  was  at  the  time  a  lec- 
turer in  the  Medica-chirugical  College  of 
Philadelphia,  and  he  had  opposed  durnig  the 
pre])aration  of  the  bill  the  appointment  on  the 
board  of  any  one  interested  in  a  medical  col- 
lege. It  is  worth}'  of  note  that  New  Jersey 
was  the  first  state  to  establish  a  board  of  medi- 
cal e.xaminers  and  to  Dr.  Benjamin,  with  the 
assistance  and  co-operation  of  Dr.  Perry  Wat- 
son and  others,  Ijelongs  the  honor  of  forcing 
its  establishment. 

In  1886  Dr.  Benjamin  published  in  the  Mcd- 
ical  Bulletin  his  paper  on  "Observations  on  the 
Relations  of  Temperature  to  Diseases  in 
Dwelling  Houses."  This  article  was  pub- 
lished by  the  Scientific  Aiiicricaii  and  many  of 
the  leading  medical  and  lay  journals ;  and  the 
state  board  of  health  of  Iowa  and  a  number 
of  other  states  had  it  reprinted  in  pamphlet 
form  at  the  expense  of  the  state  for  free  dis- 
tribution. In  1888  he  performed  the  first  suc- 
cessful operation  for  h_\sterectomy,  i.  e.,  the 
removal  of  the  entire  womb  and  ovaries,  made 
in  New  Jersey.  In  1889.  during  the  great 
typhoid  e])idemic  in  Philadelphia,  at  the  re- 
quest of  the  Philadelphia  Inquirer,  he  pub- 
lished a  long  article  in  that  jiaper  on  the  dis- 
ease and  its  prevention  and  cure.  On  CX'to- 
ber  17,  18)6,  Dr.  Penjamin  published  in  the 
J("iurnal  of  the  American  .Medical  .Association 
his  now  famous  paper  on  the  treatment  of 
di])htheria.  which  inaugurated  a  revolution  in 
the  treatment  of  that  disease,  and  in  which  he 
showed  that  he  had  had  no  death  from  it  dur- 
ing ten  years  of  treatment  with  his  antiseptic 
method.  Dr.  lienjamin  was  the  only  expert  in 
.America  whose  testimony  was  sent  in  the 
Maybrick  case  through  the  department  of 
state.  L'nited  States,  and  Mrs.  Alaybrick  per- 
sonally thanked  Dr.  Benjamin  for  the  decision 
he  rendered  in  her  behalf. 

( )n  October  2},.  1897.  he  was  chosen  chair- 
man  of   the  committee  on   celebration   of  the 


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battle  of  Red  Bank,  by  the  New  Jersey  Society 
of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  which 
was  holding  its  meeting  in  Camden.  ihis 
celebration  was  successfully  carried  out  and  a 
suitable  monument  erected  on  the  battle  field 
which  was  unveiled  with  apjiropriate  ceremo- 
nies. In  the  foUow'ing  year,  during  the  war 
with  Spain,  the  New  York  World  engaged  him 
to  make  a  special  investigation  from  a  scien- 
tific point  of  view  of  the  army  and  camp  at 
Montauk  Point  with  special  reference  to  the 
presence  and  prevention  of  typhoid  germs.  In 
1900  he  introduced  into  the  New  Jersey  legis- 
lature the  bill  for  daily  medical  inspection  of 
pupils  and  monthly  sanitary  in.spection  of 
school  houses.  In  December.  1908,  Dr.  Ben- 
jamin published  a  most  able  and  surgical  arti- 
cle advocating  the  establishment  of  a  national 
department,  having  control  over  the  physical 
and  moral  diseases  of  the  people.  This  was 
endorsed  by  President  Roosevelt,  who  in  his 
message  to  congress  urged  that  jurisdiction  in 
these  matters  be  given  to  one  of  the  existing 
boards  of  national  control. 

By  far  the  greatest  contribution  which  Dr. 
Benjamin  has  made  both  to  medical  science 
and  to  the  w-ellbeing  of  his  fellowman  is  due 
to  his  interest  in  bacteriological  pathology. 
For  his  graduation  thesis  in  1877  he  took  the 
topic  "Infection  and  antiseptic  practice,"  and 
boldly  stated  therein  his  theories  in  favor  of 
the  germ  theory  of  many  diseases.  The  fac- 
ulty of  the  university  endorsed  his  thesis  as 
'"the  first  clear,  logical  and  convincing  jjresen- 
tation  of  the  germ  theory  by  an  American 
medical  writer";  but  it  was  refused  publica- 
tion by  all  the  medical  journals  of  that  day  be- 
cause the  theories  advanced  were  so  radical 
and  novel.  The  "International  Cyclojiedia  of 
Surgery,"  however,  says,  volume  i,  page  599, 
that  the  thesis  changed  the  views  of  the  pro- 
fessor of  medical  practice  at  the  university 
who  had  until  then  been  strongly  opposed  to 
the  germ  theory,  but  that  from  that  date  as 
strongly  advocated  it. 

Dr.  Benjamin  has  been  for  many  years  sur- 
geon of  the  Pennsylvania  railroad,  of  the  W. 
J.  and  C.  A.  railroad,  of  the  Camden  Iron 
Works  and  of  the  Coojier  Hospital.  In  1897 
he  was  appointed  obstetrician  of  the  maternity 
department  and  gynaecologist  of  the  Cooper 
Hospital ;  for  two  years  he  was  assistant  sur- 
geon of  the  Sixth  Regiment,  and  later  surgeon 
and  major  of  the  veteran  corps  of  the  same 
regiment  of  the  New  Jersey  National  Guard  ; 
for  some  time  he  has  been  lecturer  on  obstet- 
rics in  the   New  Jersey   Training  School    for 


Nurses.  He  is  president  of  the  State  Sani- 
tary .Association  of  New  Jersey;  president  of 
the  Camden  District  Medical  Society,  member 
of  the  State  Medical  Society,  and  delegate  for 
his  state  in  the  national  and  international  con- 
ventions. On  .-\pril  24,  1893,  he  became  a 
member  of  the  New  Jersey  Sons  of  the  .Ameri- 
can Revolution,  and  he  has  been  a  delegate  to 
and  vice-president  of  the  New  Jersey  Repub- 
lican convention,  lie  has  also  been  a  volumi- 
nous writer  to  the  various  medical  journals, 
and  has  besides  published  a  novel  entitled 
"Fordwell  Graham,  or  Lost  and  Won  by  the 
Hand  of  the  Dead,"  put  on  the  market  by 
Allen,  Lane  &  Scott. 

Dr.  Benjamin's  services  to  the  city  of  Cam- 
den besides  those  to  the  state  and  nation  de- 
serve special  mention.  The  substitution  of 
pure  Artesian  water  for  the  foul  water  of  the 
Delaware  river  which  the  city  was  furnishing 
its  citizens  as  a  water  supply  was  directly  at- 
tributable to  the  efi'orts  of  the  medical  fra- 
ternity of  the  city,  and  in  the  fight  Dr.  Ben- 
jamin contributed  largely  of  time,  influence 
and  pen.  In  the  securing  of  the  Carnegie  gift 
of  ■'? 1 25,000  for  the  Camden  Public  Library 
Dr.  Benjamin  succeeded  after  all  others  had 
failed,  and  this  magnificent  institution  is  as 
much  a  personal  monument  to  him  as  it  is  to 
the  generosity  of  Mr.  Carnegie. 

In  1879  Dr.  Benjamin  married  Sarah 
Cooper  White,  a  lineal  descendant  of  Edwin 
Marshall,  of  Pennsylvania,  who  has  borne  him 
three  children:  I.  Helen  V'.,  married  Daniel 
Burdsall.  2.  Ada  E.  3.  Sarah,  married 
Frank  Fiibighaus. 


The  Woodruffs  of  West 
WOODRL'1'1'  New  Jensey  are  descend- 
ants of  that  family  some- 
what prominent  in  the  history  of  Worsetshire, 
England,  and  devout  members  of  the  estab- 
lished church.  The  progenitor  of  the  Ameri- 
can branch  was  John  \\'oodrufife,  of  Worces- 
tershire, who  had  a  son  Thomas,  the  .American 
immigrant. 

(  I  )  Thomas  WoodroofTe,  (as  he  spelled  the 
name),  son  of  John  Woodruffe,  of  Worces- 
tershire, England,  was  born  there  about  1630. 
He  was  a  tailor  by  trade  and  occu])ation,  and 
affiliated  with  the  Society  of  Friends  when  that 
sect  began  their  work  of  proseliting  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Established  Church  and  became  a 
follower  of  the  "new^  thought"  and  "the  new 
life."  He  married  Edith,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Wyatt,  who  located  a  large  tract  of  land  in  the 
township  of  Mannington  at  the  first  settlement 


statp:  ou  new  jersey. 


of  tlie  province  of  West  Jersey.  Tliomas  and 
P2dith  Woodruff e  removed  from  Worcester- 
shire, England,  to  London,  where  they  liad 
several  children  born  to  them,  including: 
Thomas.  Edith,  John  and  Joseph.  With  his 
wife  and  four  children  he  left  London  in  1678 
with  one  man  servant,  .Allen  Han  way,  and 
Hanway's  sister,  being  children  of  Leonard 
Hanway,  of  Weymouth,  England.  The  party 
set  sail  for  America  in  the  ship  "Surray,"  Cap- 
tain Stephen  Xichols,  master,  and  on  the  voy- 
age another  child  was  born  at  sea  and  named 
Mary.  They  arrived  at  the  mouth  of  the 
Delaware  river  and  proceeded  up  the  bay  to 
Salem,  the  first  settlement  already  formed  by 
Fenwick.  They  went  ashore  in  the  fourth 
month  of  1679.  Fenwick's  agents  gave  to 
Thomas  Woodrooffe  two  lots  next  to  William 
Williamson,  each  of  ten  acres,  he  receiving  title 
to  the  last  lot  January  18,  1685-86.  He  had 
already  served  as  sheriff  of  the  county  in 
1682,  and  was  a  man  of  influence.  He  con- 
sented to  the  "Consessions  and  Arguments  of 
West  Jersey"  on  March  3,  1676,  which  secured 
a  formal  constitution  for  the  safety  of  the 
province  and  the  proper  observation  of  the  few 
laws  that  were  framed  to  govern  the  peaceful 
people.  He  cultivated  his  land  as  well  as  car- 
rying on  his  trade  as  tailor,  as  was  described, 
June  y,  1694.  as  "a  yoeman  of  Salem,  late  of 
London"  in  a  transfer  of  land  in  Burlington 
county,  of  which  he  was  owner.  In  1697  he 
deeded  two  lots  of  ten  acres  each  in  Salem  to 
Ebenezer  Dorbey  (  Derby),  of  Boston,  New 
England,  mariner.  These  were  probably  the 
lots  allotted  to  him  in  1679  by  the  Fenwick 
agents.  His  will  dated  .Kugust  17,  ifx/), 
names  his  son  Joseph  as  his  heir,  and  daughters 
as  dead ;  and  names  his  legatees :  Son  John 
Woodrooffe;  William  Hull;  Benjamin  Knap- 
ton:  Daniel  Smith,  and  servant  Magdaline. 
liberated.  His  son  Jose])h  died  before  taking 
possession  of  the  estate  and  the  will  provided 
for  this  by  passing  it  to  Jonathan  Beere  and 
after  him  to  his  son  John  Beere  to  have  it.  .A. 
codicil  to  this  will  was  made  October  30, 
1699,  in  which  the  testator  reduces  the  legacy 
to  his  son  John  and  revokes  that  to  Daniel 
.Smith  it  having  been  paid  and  the  servant 
manumitted.  This  will  is  written  as  a  matni- 
scri])t  maj)  of  .\evv  Jersey  and  the  instrument 
was  probated  March  2,  1703-04,  which  ap- 
proximately fixes  tlie  date  of  death  of  Thomas 
WoodrolTe,  the  progenitor.  The  children  of 
Thomas  and  Edith  ( Wyatt)  Woodrooffe  were 
born  in  the  order  following:  i.  Thomas.  2. 
ICditli.     3.   John,   see    forward.     4.    Mary.     5. 


Joseph,  on  whose  estate  letters  of  administra- 
tion were  granted  June  10,  1709,  and  Thomas 
Hayward,  his  principal  creditor  was  made  ad- 
ministrator. Th()mas,  Edith.  Mary,  and 
Joseph  ajiparently  died  before  their  father  and 
mi.ither  and  with  them  were  probably  buried  in 
Salem,  their  only  home  in  America. 

(H)  John,  second  son  and  third  child  of 
Thomas  and  Edith  (Wyatt)  Woodrooft'e,  was 
born  in  London,  England,  or  possibly  Worset- 
shire,  before  1675.  He  married  and  probably 
located  in  Burlington  county,  where  there  was 
a  large  society  of  I'riends,  and  where  his 
father  owned  land  at  one  time  during  his  ac- 
tive life.  He  apjjears  on  the  records  of  West 
Jersey  as  having  joined  other  citizens  of  Burl- 
ington county.  Alay  12,  1701,  petitioning  the 
King  for  a  confirmation  of  the  appointment  of 
.Alexander  Hamilton  for  governor  at  which 
time  he  ( John  Woodroffe )  was  a  member  of 
the  house  of  representatives  from  Burlington 
county.  He  had  children,  the  eldest  being 
John,  see  forward. 

(HI)  John  (2)  eldest  son  of  John  (i) 
Woodrooffe,  the  member  of  the  provincial 
legislature  of  New  Jersey,  1701,  was  probably 
born  in  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  about 
1700.  He  married,  about  1725,  and  the  date 
of  his  death  was  May,  1755.  .Among  his  chil- 
dren was  John,  see  forward. 

(R')  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  Wood- 
rooffe, was  born  in  Burlington  county.  New 
Jersey.  He  probably  removed  to  Cohansey 
jirecinct.  Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey, 
where  he  married  and  had  a  family  whose  de- 
scendants still  have  homes  there.  John  Wood- 
ruft'e  died  in  Cunilierland  county,  New  Jersey, 
in  May,  1755. 

(V)  David,  son  of  John  (3)  Woodruffe, 
was  born  in  Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey, 
in  1748,  died  there  July  3,  1822.  He  had  a  son 
David,  who  was  a  private  soldier  in  the  .Ameri- 
can revolution  credited  from  Cumberland 
countv.  New  Jersey,  and  also  served  in  Cap- 
tain .Allen's  company  of  the  New  Jersey  Line 
recruited  in  Cumberland  county.  .After  the 
close  of  the  war  he  settled  in  Hopewell, 
liridgeton  townshij),  Cumberland  county.  New 
Jersey,  where  his  son  Daniel  M.  was  born  in 
1780  was  at  one  time  sheriff  of  Cumberland 
countv  ;  clerk  of  the  county  ;  judge  of  the  court 
of  common  pleas  and  for  many  years  auction- 
eer of  Bridgeton  and  who  lived  to  be  over 
ninety  years  of  age.  .Another  son  Israel,  see 
forward. 

(VI)  Israel,  son  of  David  Woodruff,  the 
soldier  in  the  .American  revolution,  was  born  in 


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lldpcwell.  liurlington  townshi]).  C'linihcrlanil 
county.  \e\v  Jersey,  Xoveniber  9,  1802.  lie 
married,  1822,  Rachel  S.,  daughter  of  WiUiam 
Reeves,  of  Salem  county,  New  Jersey.  Had 
four  children:  Adoniram,  Isaac  D..  Elizabeth 
T..  William  R. 

(  \  11)  Adoniram  .Smith,  son  of  IsraelW  ood- 
ruft'.  was  born  in  Dutch  Neck  or  Ilopewell 
townshi]).  Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey, 
May  14,  1823,  died  March  10.  1893.  lie  mar- 
ried Katharine  Ott,  daughter  of  George  W. 
and  .Susannah  (llitchner)  Ott,  born  June  5, 
1826,  died  March  9,  1903,  and  they  had  four 
children:  Elizabeth,  Hester.  Susan,  and  Albert 
S..  see  forward. 

(\'HI)  Albert  Smith,  son  of  .\donirani 
Smith  and  Katharine  (Ott)  Woodrufi'.  was 
born  at  l^utch  Neck.  Hopewell  townshi]).  New 
Jersey.  January  13.  1859,  died  March  2,  1886. 
He  married  Eliza  Josephine,  daughter  of 
Foster. 

(IX)  Albert  Smith  (2),  only  child  of 
.\lbert  Smith  (  i  )  and  Eliza  Josejjhine  (  I'"os- 
ter )  Woodruff,  was  born  at  Dutch  Neck. 
Ilojiewell  townshi]),  New  Jersey,  .Vjjril  15, 
i88().  He  was  educated  at  the  public  school 
at  Elmer  and  in  the  South  Jersey  Institute  at 
Hridgeton.  He  took  a  business  course  at  the 
Camden  Commercial  College  in  1905.  Mean- 
time he  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  the  Tem])le 
I'niversity  Law  School,  Philadel])hia,  Penn- 
sylvania, graduating  in  June,  1909,  March  11, 
1908.  had  been  examined  and  admitted  to  the 
New  Jersey  bar  as  an  attorney,  and  became  a 
partner  in  the  law  firm  of  lieacon  &  Woodrutf'. 
with  offices  at  206  Market  street.  Camden,  New 
Jersey,  the  senior  partner  of  the  firm  being 
Cieorge  M.  Beacon.  His  fraternal  affiliation 
is  with  Elmer  Council.  Jiniior  Order  of  United 
American  Mechanics,  founded  in  1853.  His 
])olitical  affiliation  is  with  the  Re]niblican 
jiarty  ;  his  church  membershi])  with  the  Pres- 
byterian denomination,  and  his  jjrofessional 
association  with,  the  Camden  l>ar  .Association. 


John  Brown,  first  of  this  family 
r.R(  )\\'N  to  come  to  .\merica,  was  born 
August  10,  1783,  at  Harddabon. 
Hertfordshire.  England.  He  landed  in  I'oston. 
Massachusetts,  November  14,  1806.  He  mar- 
ried. May  9.  1816.  in  Philadel])liia,  Pennsyl- 
vania. Ann  Jackson,  born  February  3,  1793,  at 
Macclesfield,  Cheshire.  England,  and  landed  in 
Philadelphia,  Penn.sylvania,  July  15,  1800, 
Among  their  children  was  John  Jackson,  see 
forward. 

(  II  )    lohn  [ackson  Brown,  late  of  Paterson, 


-New  Jersey,  business  man  and  banker,  son  of 
John  and  Ann  (Jackson  )  P)rown,  was  born  in 
.New  York  City,  February  13,  1817,  died  in 
Paterson,  July  2^,  1894,  after  a  long,  honorable 
and  successful  career,  a  record  of  achievement 
such  as  is  the  good  fortune  of  comparatively 
few  men.  When  five  years  old  he  came  to 
Paterson  with  his  parents,  leaving  New  York 
on  accoimt  of  an  epidemic  of  yellow  fever 
which  prevailed  for  a  considerable  time  in  that 
city.  His  father  was  engaged  in  a  general 
grocery  and  provision  business,  and  was  him- 
self a  man  of  sterling  qualities  and  high  char- 
acter. The  son  attended  the  common  schools 
of  the  then  village  until  he  was  about  thirteen 
years  old,  and  afterward  found  em])loyment 
as  clerk  in  a  dry  goods  store,  remaining  there 
for  the  next  four  years.  In  1834  he  went  to 
New  York  City  and  secured  a  position  as  clerk 
with  a  manufactm-er  of  caps  and  furs:  but 
unfortunately  his  employer  failed  in  business, 
and  this  event  prevented  .Mr.  Brown  from 
starting  in  business  on  his  own  account  as  he 
had  intended.  He  returned  to  Paterson.  and 
again  became  clerk  in  a  dry  goods  store,  and  a 
few  years  afterward  succeeded  to  the  grocery 
business  formerly  conducted  1)\'  his  father. 
This  he  continuetl  with  gratifying  success  until 
1 844.  when  he  decided  to  abandon  that  trade 
and  o])en  a  general  dry  goods  establishment  in 
the  city,  with  which  business  he  was  more 
familiar  and  which  was  more  in  accordance 
with  his  inclination,  and  for  the  next  twenty- 
three  years  he  was  reckoned  among  the  learl- 
ing  men  of  Paterson  in  mercantile  ])ursuits. 
In  1867  he  sold  out  his  interest  to  Mr.  G.  C. 
Coojier. 

About  this  time  the  h'irst  .National  P,ank.  of 
Paterson,  which  had  been  organized  in  1864, 
became  financially  involved  to  the  extent  that 
its  charter  was  in  danger  of  being  revoked,  but 
through  the  efforts  of  Mr.  Brown  a  radical 
reorganization  was  affected,  capital  was  invest- 
ed, and  he  was  elected  its  president,  an  office 
he  held  until  the  time  of  his  death.  To  show 
something  of  his  ca])acity  as  executive  officer 
of  the  reorganized  bank  it  may  be  mentioned 
that  when  he  entered  upon  his  official  duties, 
( 'ctober  I.  18(14.  the  resources  of  the  institution 
aggregated  the  sum  of  $149,133.80.  and  on 
July  18.  1894,  the  resources  amounted  to  .$2.- 
327.213.95.  But  it  was  not  alone  as  managing 
officer  of  the  First  National  Rank  that  Mr. 
P)rown"s  superior  business  qualities  displayed 
themselves  to  such  splendid  advantage  and 
gave  him  such  enviable  ]irominence  in  financial 
circles,   for  it   was  chiefly  through   his  efiforts 


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tliat  the  J'aturson  Savings  Institution  was  in- 
corporated and  organized,  and  opened  its  doors 
for  business  on  May  i,  1869.  On  May  ist  of 
the  following  year  the  savings  deposit  account 
amounted  to  $104,442.67,  and  at  the  time  of 
his  death  the  total  deposits  were  in  excess  of 
.'?4,ooo,ooo,  with  a  surjjlus  account  of  $445,000, 
while  at  the  same  time  the  bank  had  more  than 
sixteen  thousand  five  hundred  depositors.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  treasurer  of  the 
Passaic  Water  Company,  with  which  he  had 
been  identified  since  its  organization.  He  also 
was  one  of  the  guiding  spirits  in  the  incorpora- 
tion and  organization  of  Cedar  Lawn  Cemetery 
Association,  1866-67,  the  plotting  its  extensive 
lands  for  the  cemetery  tract,  and  during  his 
connection  with  the  association  he  served  in 
the  capacity  of  director,  vice-president  and 
president.  In  the  inception  of  the  Paterson 
Hoard  of  Trade  he  also  figured  as  one  of  its 
organizers,  and  afterward,  so  long  as  he  lived, 
took  an  active  part  in  promoting  its  usefulness 
as  a  factor  in  the  mercantile  and  industrial  life 
of  the  city.  He  was  largely  instrumental  in 
securing  for  Paterson  the  splendid  system  of 
parks  which  add  to  tlie  adornment  of  the  city 
and  contribute  to  the  comfort  of  its  people. 

".As  a  public  spirited  citizen,"  says  one  of 
Mr.  lirown's  biographers,  "ready  to  assume 
the  responsibilities  of  office,  his  life's  principle 
not  to  shirk  any  duty  was  his  guiding  star.  At 
almcjst  the  very  organization  of  I^aterson  as  a 
city  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  board  of  alder- 
men, and  while  absent  in  Europe  was  again 
elected  to  that  office  by  the  people.  In  1854  he 
was  elected  first  mayor  of  Paterson,  and  after 
serving  his  term  steadfastly  refused  a  renomi- 
nation.  During  his  incumbency  of  that  office 
lie  jjrojected  and  carried  into  effect  measures 
for  paving  the  sidewalks  of  the  city,  which 
before  then  had  been  almost  entirely  neglected  ; 
and  it  was  during  his  connection  with  the  city 
government  that  the  first  sewer  was  construct- 
ed. In  1856  he  was  induced  to  accept  a  nomi- 
nation for  a  seat  in  the  legislature  of  the  state, 
the  first  candidate  of  the  then  newly  organized 
l\e]jiiblican  i)arty.  He  served  throughout  the 
term  for  which  he  was  elected,  but  positively 
refused  reuomination.  During  the  civil  war 
lie  united  with  several  other  prominent  citizens 
lit  I'aterson  in  the  erection  of  the  building 
known  as  the  'Wigwam,'  which  soon  became 
the  rallying  place  for  the  loyal  people  of  the 
city.  It's  motto,  'I'Vee  Soil,  Free  Speech,  and 
Free  Men,'  became  a  famous  slogan  through- 
out the  region.  Mr.  I'rown  w^as  an  earnest 
menilier  of  tlu'  I'irst   Haptist  Church  of  Pater- 


son. He  contributed  liberally  to  the  fund  for  the 
erection  of  the  house  of  worship,  and  served 
both  as  chairman  and  treasurer  of  the  build- 
ing committees  in  charge  of  the  work.  In  his 
own  home  he  was  a  delightful  and  most  enter- 
taining host,  as  well  as  an  interesting  conver- 
sationalist. He  travelled  extensively,  was  a 
keen  observer  of  men  and  events,  and  in  his 
manner  frank,  generous,  genial,  with  the  same 
greeting  for  all  who  came  to  him ;  and  he  was 
no  respector  of  persons,  and  greeted  all  alike 
with  the  same  generous  warmth  of  feeling. 
Thus  he  lived  and  so  he  died.  Age  had  not 
withered  him  nor  made  him  crabbed  nor  petu- 
lant, for  although  nearly  eighty  years  old  at 
the  time  of  his  death,  he  remained  young  in 
his  feelings  and  manners  until  his  last  day, 
when  he  was  stricken  down  while  walking 
through  Broadway  to  his  office  in  the  bank, 
with  his  usual  rapid  steps,  in  order  to  be  there 
promjitly  at  nine  o'clock,  as  was  his  invariable 
custom  and  pride."  .After  his  death,  resolu- 
tions of  regret  and  sympathy  were  adopted 
bv  the  several  institutions  with  which  he  was 
connected  in  earlier  and  later  years,  among 
them  the  board  of  directors  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank,  the  trustees  of  the  Paterson  Sav- 
ings Institution,  the  board  of  directors  of  the 
Passaic  Water  Company,  the  Cedar  Lawn 
Cemetery  .Association,  the  Board  of  Aldermen, 
the  Paterson  Board  of  Trade,  the  Society  of 
the  P'irst  Baptist  Church,  and  Trinity  .African 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

Mr.  Brown  married  (first)  in  New  York 
City,  October  28,  1841,  Caroline  L.  Cogswell, 
born  in  New  York  City,  November  22,  1825; 
died  February  16,  1852.  Children:  i.  Cath- 
erine Cogswell,  born  May  3.  1844:  died  May 
26,  1844.  2.  Henry  De  Camp,  September  2, 
1845;  died  September  11,  1847.  3.  George 
Baldwin,  .April  27,  1847:  died  December  31, 
18(18.  These  children  were  all  born  and  died 
at  Paterson,  New  Jersey.  Mr.  Brown  married 
(second),  .A.pril  19,  1855,  at  Mattawan,  New 
Jersey,  Mary,  born  May  14,  1834,  daughter  of 
William  and  Melisse  (Doughty)  Swinburne, 
the  former  of  whom  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  company  which  in  later  years  became 
known  as  the  Rogers  Locomotive  Works.  Four 
children  were  born  of  this  marriage:  I.  A 
daughter,  June  2,  1856;  died  July,  1856.  2. 
Edwin  Swinburne,  November  19,  1857;  .see 
forward.  3.  Walter  F.,  May  21,  1859;  died 
January  29,  1871.  4.  Caroline  Cogswell,  March 
2T„  1864;  died  February  12,  1894;  married 
Llewellyn  T.  McKee,  of  Philadelphia,  graduate 
of  Naval  .Academy.  Annapolis.  Maryland  ;  chil- 


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drt'ii :  Mary,  born  September  8,  1889;  Jobn 
Brown,  July  ig,  1891 ;  Llewellyn  T.,  January 
2,  1894. 

(Ill)  Edwin  Swinburne,  eldest  son  of  John 
Jackson  and  Mary  (Swinburne)  Brown,  was 
born  November  19,  1857,  at  Paterson,  New- 
Jersey.  He  was  graduated  from  the  military 
school  of  Henry  Waters,  a  noted  educator  at 
Paterson.  Upon  laying  aside  his  text  books 
he  at  once  took  up  the  study  of  silk  weaving 
and  tlie  manufacture  of  silk  goods.  In  this 
line  of  enterprise  Mr.  Brown  soon  became 
thoroughly  familiar  with  all  its  details,  and  for 
a  number  of  years  was  successfully  engaged 
in  silk  manufacturing  at  Hornell.  New  'i'ork. 
He  was  a  man  possessed  of  splendid  qualities 
of  mind  and  heart,  his  ideals  in  iiis  business 
and  social  life  were  always  of  the  highest  type. 
His  home  life  was  ahvays  attended  with  felicity 
and  parental  aitection.  He  died  at  Paterson, 
New  Jersey,  September  6,  1907.  He  married, 
at  Hornell,  New  York,  November  3,  1890,  Ger- 
trude, born  November  14.  1865,  daughter  of 
Francis  G.  and  Elizabeth  (Clark)  Babcock,  of 
Hornell,  New  York.  Children,  born  in  that 
city:  Dorothea,  December  11,  1891  ;  Carolyne 
Brown.  March  30,  1903. 


This   surname    comes    from    the 
.\LLEN      Christian   name  .Allen,   which   is 

very  ancient.  In  the  roll  of 
Battle  Abbey,  Fitz-Aleyne  (son  of  Allen) 
occurs.  Alan,  constable  of  Scotland,  and  Lord 
of  Galloway  and  Cunningham,  died  in  1234. 
Surnames  in  England  came  into  general  use 
about  the  close  of  the  twelfth  century.  One 
of  the  first  using  .-Mien  as  a  surname  was 
Thomas  Allen,  sheriff  of  London,  in  1414. 
Sir  John  .Allen  was  mayor  of  London  in  1525, 
Sir  William  .\llen  in  1571,  and  Sir  Thomas 
.\lleyne  in  1659.  Edward  Allen  (1566-1626), 
a  distinguished  actor  and  friend  of  Shake- 
speare and  Ben  Johnson,  in  16 19,  founded 
Dulwich  College,  with  the  stipulation  that  the 
master  and  secretary  must  always  bear  the 
name  of  .Allen,  and  this  curious  condition  had 
been  easily  fulfilled  from  .Allen  scholars.  There 
are  no  less  than  twenty-five  coats-of-arms  of 
separate  and  distinct  families  of  Allen  in  the 
United  Kingdom,  besides  twenty  others  of  the 
different  spelling  of  this  same  surname.  There 
were  more  than  a  score  of  emigrants  of  this 
surname  from  almost  as  many  different  fami- 
lies leaving  England  before  1650  to  settle  in 
New  England. 

(I)   \\"alter  .Allen,  a  native  of  England,  born 
about  1601,  was  in  Newbury,  Massachusetts, 


as  early  as  1640  and  removeil  thence  to 
Watertown  about  1652.  In  1665  he  sold  his 
estate  in  the  latter  town  and  bought  of  [ohn 
Knapp  sixty  acres  in  W'atertown  farms  lying 
near  Concord.  Four  years  later  he  purchased 
two  hundred  acres  more  in  Watertown.  By 
deed  of  gift  dated  October  i,  1673,  he  conveyed 
lands  in  Watertown  to  his  sons  Daniel  and 
Joseph  and  soon  afterward  moved  to  Charles- 
town,  where  he  died  July  8,  1681.  At  the  time 
of  his  death  he  owned  lands  in  Watertown, 
Charlestown.  Sudbury  and  Haverhill.  The 
farm  in  the  last  named  town  was  acquired  in 
1673.  Old  records  give  him  various  occupa- 
tions such  as  farmer,  planter,  haberdasher, 
shopkeeper  and  "haberdasher  of  hats."  The 
inventory  of  his  estate  amounted  to  three  thous- 
and fifteen  pounds.  His  wife  Rebecca,  who 
accompanied  him  to  Watertown,  died  before 
November  29,  1678,  on  which  date  he  married 
.Abigail  Rogers.  Children  of  first  wife:  i. 
John,  settled  in  Sudbury.  2.  Daniel,  married 
Mary  Sherman.     3.  Joseph,  mentioned  below. 

4.  Abigail,  born  October  i,  1641.  5.  Benja- 
nain,  .\pril  15,  1647. 

(II)  Joseph,  third  son  of  Walter  and  Re- 
becca Allen,  born  in  England,  was  a  cooper  by 
trade,  and  settled  at  Watertown  Farms,  which 
was  incorporated  in  1712  as  the  town  of  Wes- 
ton, and  probably  lived  in  the  northwestern 
part,  near  the  Concord  and  .Sudbury  lines.  He 
died  there  September  9,  1721,  probably  eighty 
years  of  age  or  over.  He  married,  October 
II,  1667,  Anne  Brazier,  who  died  in  December, 
1720.  Children:  i.  Abigail,  born  and  died 
1668.  2.  Rebecca,  born  April  8,  1670.  3.  Ann, 
.August  22,  1674.    4.  Joseph,  mentioned  below. 

5.  Nathaniel,  December  8,  1687 ;  a  deacon,  of 
Weston.  6.  Sarah,  died  1699.  7.  Deborah, 
married  John  Moore,  of  Sudbury.  8.  Rachel, 
married  Joseph  Adams.    9.  Patience. 

(HI)  Joseph  (2),  eldest  son  of  Joseph  (i) 
and  Ann  (Brazier)  Allen,  was  born  June  16, 
1677,  in  what  is  now  W'eston,  and  died  there 
November  i,  1729.  His  tombstone  in  the  old 
burial  ground  at  W'eston  Center  gives  him  the 
title  of  "Ensign."  He  married  (first)  Decem- 
ber 19,  1700,  Elizabeth  Robbins,  died  in  No- 
vember, 1712;  (second)  Abigail .  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife,  all  born  in  Weston:  i.  Isaac, 
November  10,  1701.  2.  Prudence,  May  18, 
1703.  3.  Amy,  September  21,  1706.  4.  Re- 
becca, February  25,  1708.  5.  Joseph,  mention- 
ed below.  6.  Elizabeth  and  7.  Ann,  1711 
(twins).  8.  Silence,  November,  1712.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife:  9.  Daniel,  September 
26,  1714,  settled  at  Claverack,  New  York.    10. 


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Abigail,  ^May  14,  I'lft.  11.  Elijah,  September 
II,  1718,  lived  at  Sutton.  12.  Sarah,  August  10. 
1720.  13.  Tabitha,  October  26,  1722.  14. 
Daniel,  August  31,  1724,  lived  at  Sheffield. 
Massachusetts.    15.  Timothy,  died  young. 

(IV)  Joseph  (3),  eldest  son  of  Joseph  (2) 
and  Eliza  (  Robbins)  .Mien,  was  born  April  2. 
1709,  at  \\  atertown  I-'arms,  and  removed  to 
drafton,  Massachusetts,  about  1730,  and  six 
years  later  to  Hardwick,  same  colony,  where 
he  died  August  18,  1793.  He  was  a  house- 
wright,  captain  of  militia  as  early  as  1740, 
selectman,  assessor^  clerk  and  treasurer  of  the 
town,  and  for  nearly  fifty-seven  years  deacon 
of  the  church.  He  married  (first)  August  16, 
1733.  Mercy  Livermore,  of  Grafton,  who  died 
March  i.  1789,  aged  seventy-six;  married  (sec- 
ond) August  2,  1789,  Sarah  Knowlton,  widow. 
His  house  at  Hardwick  was  destroyed  by  fire 
and  he  erected  the  one  now  standing.  He  was 
not  only  one  of  the  earliest  but  one  of  the 
most  active  and  energetic  of  the  pioneers  of 
Hardwick.  After  his  death  a  pamphlet  was 
published  containing  several  articles  written 
by  him,  chiefly  on  religious  subjects.  In  one 
of  them  is  a  scrap  of  autobiograplu'  which 
fixes  the  date  of  his  birth : 

"My  native  place   where  born   was  I 
In  seventeen   Iiundfed  nine. 
Does   sixteen   miles   from   Boston    lie. 
In    Westown,    called    mine. 

"  Between   my   third  and    my   fourth 
My  mother  left  this  life. 
Which  was  to  me  affliction  sore. 
My   father  lost   his   wife. 


"In   all    my   fatlier's   family 
Once  sixteen  did  survive: 
Before  my  father  two  did  die. 
Then   fourteen  left  alive." 

Children:  I.  Sarah,  born  July  25,  1734 
married  P.enjamin  Winchester.  2.  David,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Lydia,  September  19,  1743 
married  October  10,  1765,  Lemuel  Cobb.  4 
Mercy.  April  19,  1746;  married,  February  4 
I77I.  John  .Xmidon.  q.  Joseph,  December  21 
1748. 

(\  )  David,  son  of  Joseph  (3)  and  Mercy 
(Livermore)  Allen,  was  born  .August  18,  1738 
in  Hardwick,  where  he  died  August  5,  1799 
He  was  selectman  and  assessor  and  a  very 
active  and  prominent  citizen.  He  married 
(first)  November  12,  1761,  Elizabeth  Fi.sk,  who 
died  October  22,  1791,  aged  forty-eight.  He 
married  (second)  January  22,  1794,  Lydia 
Woods,    of    New    I'.raintree,    Massachusetts. 


Children,  all  born  in  Hardwick:  I.  Rhoda, 
.September  2j,  1763:  married  David  Barnard. 
2.  Eunice,  August  22,  1765:  married  John 
Earl.  3.  Daniel,  September  20,  1767.  4.  Eliz- 
abeth, October  27,  1768;  married  Isaac  Wing. 
5.  David,  born  May  12,  1771.  6.  Mercy,  May 
II'  1773-  7-  Moses,  died  young.  8.  Moses. 
.March  11,  1779;  prominent  citizen  of  Hard- 
wick. 9.  Lydia,  October  18,  1784;  married 
Daniel  Alatthews,  of  New  Braintree. 

(  \'I  )  Daniel,  eldest  son  of  David  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Fisk)  .Allen,  was  born  September  20, 
17C17,  in  Hardwick,  and  became  a  skillful  mill- 
wright. He  settled  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
and  became  widely  known  as  a  mill  builder, 
and  while  engaged  in  Mexico  in  the  construc- 
tion of  a  water-wheel,  he  accidentally  fell  into 
the  wheel  pit  and  was  seriously  injured.  He 
immediately  returned  to  his  home,  where  gan- 
grene folUnved  his  injury,  and  he  died  soon 
afterward.  He  married  Jane  I'ersonette,  who 
survived  him.  and  w'as  the  mother  of  five  chil- 
dren. 

(\H)  Stephen,  son  of  Daniel  and  Jane 
(I'ersonette)  Allen,  was  born  probably  about 
[800,  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  and  died  in  his 
eighty-fifth  year,  at  Paterson,  same  state.  His 
education  was  ac(|uired  in  the  schools  of  his 
native  town,  and  when  a  young  man  he  re- 
moved to  I'aterson,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
tobacco  business;  in  1854  he  admitted  to  part- 
nership his  son  Alpheus  S.  Allen,  and  the  firm 
was  known  as  Stephen  Allen  &  Son.  John 
Reynolds  and  John  Allen  subsequently  became 
members  of  the  firm,  which  then  took  the  style 
of  Allen,  Reynolds  &  Company,  doing  business 
until  1872,  when  it  was  sold.  From  this  time 
until  his  death,  Mr.  Allen  lived  a  quiet  retired 
life.  He  was  for  some  time  captain  of  the 
(General  Godwin  Guard,  a  military  organiza- 
tion of  Paterson,  and  at  one  time  served  as 
member  of  the  board  of  chosen  freeholders  of 
Passaic  county.  He  married  Catherine,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Courter,  of  Paterson,  and  they 
became  the  parents  of  four  children,  only  two 
of  whom  are  living,  namely:  Alpheus  S.  and 
Louise.  The  latter  is  the  wife  of  Charles  H. 
May.  of  Paterson. 

(  IX)  Alpheus  Sylvester,  son  of  Stephen 
and  Catherine  (Courter)  Allen,  was  born  May 
~7-  i8,33-  i"  Paterson,  which  city  has  continued 
to  be  his  home  through  life,  and  which  he  has 
notably  served  in  various  public  capacities. 
He  received  his  earl}'  education  in  the  private 
schools  of  his  native  city,  he  then  attended  one 
term  in  a  private  school  at  Poughkeepsie,  New 
York,  and  attended  a  private  school  at  Bloom- 


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field,  New  Jersey.  As  a  boy  he  became  familiar 
with  the  tobacco  business  in  the  establishment 
of  his  father.  In  1851  he  took  a  trip  to  Cali- 
fornia by  way  of  the  Straits  of  Magellan  and 
spent  two  years  on  the  Pacific  coast,  chiefly  in 
Oregon,  returning  to  his  native  home  by  way 
of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama.  On  his  return  he 
was  admitted  to  partnership  with  his  father, 
and  remained  a  member  of  the  firm  until  its 
business  was  sold  out  in  1872.  He  subsequently 
retired  from  active  business.  In  1870  Mr.  Allen 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  board  of  alder- 
men and  served  two  years,  and  in  May,  1872, 
was  appointed  receiver  of  taxes  for  the  city 
of  Paterson  and  served  eighteen  years  as 
such.  He  has  been  a  director  of  the  Pater- 
son Savings  Institution  for  over  twenty- 
five  years,  and  for  a  like  period  has  been  a 
director  of  the  First  National  l!ank  of  Pater- 
son. Mr.  .Mien  has  been  an  astute  and  success- 
ful business  man,  and  gave  more  than  twenty 
years  to  the  public  service,  to  which  he  gave 
the  same  careful  attention  which  characterized 
the  conduct  of  his  own  affairs,  and  thereby 
won  the  esteem  and  regard  of  his  fellow  citi- 
zens. He  is  a  man  of  genial  and  friendly  dis- 
position and  takes  an  active  interest  in  the 
progress  of  public  events  and  the  public  wel- 
fare. He  is  a  member  of  Fabriola  Lodge,  No. 
^2.  Knights  of  fVthias,  whose  fraternal  prin- 
ciples have  been  guiding  motives  in  the  conduct 
of  his  life. 

He  was  married.  May  11,  1858,  by  Rev. 
William  H.  Ilornblower,  to  Maria  Osborn, 
born  .April  12,  1837,  daughter  of  Edward  and 
Ann  (Stagg)  (Jsborn,  of  Paterson.  Children: 
I.  .-\nnie  \'ernet,  born  April  21,  1859;  married, 
December  15,  1881,  Willard  P.  Whitlock,  and 
they  are  the  parents  of:  Harold  Allen  Whit- 
.lock,  born  August  15,  1882;  Louis  Ivey,  March 
21,  1884;  Willard  P..  March  16,  1886 ;  Herbert, 
July,  1897.  2.  Stephen  Lincoln,  born  March 
25.  18A5;  died  January  10,  1871.  3-4.  Jessie 
Elizabeth  and  Jennie  Rebecca  (twins),  born 
November  15,  1867;  the  first  was  married, 
April  8,  1891,  to  Robert  M.  Helfenstein,  and 
is  the  mother  of  Edith  Morris  Helfenstein, 
born  .August  27,  1892.  Jennie  R.  was  married 
November  25,  1890.  to  Jerome  C.  Read,  and 
has  a  son  and  a  daughter,  namely :  .-Mien 
Jerome,  born  July  30,  1893,  ^"*^'  Jane  C,  born 
July,  1903. 

The  Plume  arms :   Ermine,  a  blend 

I'LCM    vair    or    and    gules    cottised    vert. 

Crest   (English)  :     Out  of  a  ducal 

coronet  or,  a  plume  of  ostrich  feathers  argent. 


The  Plumbs  are  an  ancient  Norman  family 
and  are  traced  back  to  Normandy,  A.  D.,  1 180  ; 
and  in  England  to  A.  D.,  1240.  In  .America 
the  Plumes  and  Plums  are  among  the  oldest 
New  England  colonial  families.  Of  the  entail- 
ed Plume  and  Plum  ancestors  of  the  immi- 
grant some  brief  mention  may  be  made  in  this 
])lace. 

(I)  John  Plumbe.  yeoman,  (_>f  Tap|)esfiel(l, 
Fngland,  had  a  wife  Elizabeth^  sons,  John, 
Robert,  Thomas,  and  four  daughters. 

(II)  Robert  Plume,  yeoman,  son  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  Plumbe,  was  of  Great  Yeldham, 
Essex,  England.  He  married  (first)  Elizabeth 
Purchase;  (second)  Mrs.  Etheldred  Fuller. 
Xine  children  :  sons,  Robert,  Thomas,  Edmiuid, 
Joseph  and  one  other;  daughters.  Margaret 
Elizabeth,  Mary  and  .Anne. 

(III)  Robert  (2),  gentleman,  of  Spaynes 
Hall.  Great  Yeldham,  Essex,  England,  son  of 
Robert  (i)  and  Elizabeth  (Purchase)  Plume, 
lived  and  died  at  Great  Yeldham.  He  married 
Grace  Crackbone.  Eight  children ;  sons,  Rob- 
ert. John  and  Thomas ;  daughters,  Martha, 
Mary.   Etheldred,   Frances  and   Hannah. 

(  1\' )  John,  immigrant,  son  of  Robert  (2) 
and  (h-ace  (Crackbone)  Plume,  was  born  in 
.Spaynes  flail  at  tireat  Yeldham,  Essex,  Eng- 
land, was  baptized  there  July  28,  1594.  He 
came  from  England  to  Wethersfield,  Connecti- 
cut, 1635,  and  his  name  first  appears  there  in 
a  court  record  of  the  following  year.  He  was 
a  meiuher  of  the  court  there  from  1637  to 
1(142.  He  is  mentioned  in  the  records  as  "Mr. 
I'lum."  indicating  a  social  station  of  more  than 
ordinary  importance.  In  1636  it  is  recorded 
that  "\\'hereas,  there  was  tendered  to  us  an 
inventory  of  the  estate  of  Mr.  Jo.  Old'a  (Old- 
ham) which  seemed  to  be  somewhat  uncertainly 
valued,  wee,  therefore,  think  meete  to,  &  so  it 
is  ordered  that  Mr  Jo.  Plum  &  Rich.  Gilder- 
sleeve,  together  with  the  constable,  shall  survey 
the  saide  inventory  and  perfect  the  same  before 
the  next  corte  &  then  to  deliver  it  into  the  corte." 
At  a  court  held  at  Hartford  in  March,  1636, 
"Mr.  Plum,"  being  a  member  of  the  court,  the 
business  before  it  was  the  adopting  of  some 
measures  to  buy  corn  from  the  Indians,  as  the 
inhabitants  were  in  a  starving  condition.  They 
agreed  to  pay  from  four  to  six  shillings  a  bushel 
for  it,  and  "Mr.  Plum"  was  appointed  to  re- 
ceive the  corn  for  Wethersfield.  He  held  vari- 
ous town  offices  and  performed  many  public 
duties,  such  as  marking  town  boundaries,  lay- 
ing out  roads,  determining  lines  between  towns, 
looking  to  the  improvement  of  the  lands  of  the 
jilantations,  and  attending  the  court  as  a  deputy. 


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He  was  also  one  of  tlie  men  in  Captain  John 
Mason's  little  army  that  wiped  out  the  Pequot 
Indians  in  1637,  and  for  his  services  he  re- 
ceived a  grant  of  lands.  He  was  a  ship  owner 
and  it  is  thought  that  he  might  have  been 
owner  of  the  vessel  that  carried  seventy-seven 
of  Mason's  men  around  from  the  mouth  of  the 
Connecticut  river  to  the  Xarragansett.  In  1644- 
45  he  was  appointed  to  attend  the  clearance  of 
vessels  at  Wethersfield,  but  in  the  former  year, 
1(144.  he  sold  his  lands  in  Wethersfield  and 
removed  to  Branford,  where  in  1645  he  is 
mentioned  as  "Keeper  of  the  Town's  Book." 
He  died  there  in  1648  and  his  wife,  "Mrs. 
Plume,"  administrated  on  his  estate  August  i, 
1648.  Only  one  of  his  children  was  born  in 
this  country,  and  no  record  exists  of  any  of 
his  children  except  that  of  his  son  Samuel, 
who  lived  with  his  father  in  Branford  when 
the  former  died.  iBy  wife  Dorothy  John  Plume 
had  eight  childre'h :  i.  Robert,  baptized,  De- 
cember 30,  1617.  2.  John,  May  27,  1619.  3. 
William,  May  9,  1621.  4.  Ann,  October  16, 
1623.  5.  Samuel,  January  4,  1625,  see  for- 
ward. 6.  Dorothea,  January  16,  1626.  7.  Eliz- 
abeth, October  9,  1629.     8.  Deborah,  July  28, 

1633- 

(\  )  .Samuel  Plum,  son  of  John  and  Doro- 
thy Plume,  was  born  in  England,  January  4, 
1625-26,  died  January  22,  1703.  He  was  of 
Wethersfield  and  Branford,  Connecticut.  In 
1668  he  sold  all  the  remaining  part  of  his  lands 
in  Branford  and  removed  to  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  was  among  the  very  earliest  settlers 
in  that  region.  The  town  of  Newark  was 
bought  in  1666  by  certain  men  of  Milford, 
New  Haven,  Branford  and  Guilford,  Connecti- 
cut, and  lots  were  divided  among  the  purchasers 
as  early  as  1667.  The  name  of  the  wife  of 
Samuel  Plum  is  not  known,  but  he  had  eight 
children:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  January  18,  1650- 
51.  2.  Mary,  April  i,  1653.  3-  Samuel,  March 
22,  1654-55.  4.  John,  October  28,  1657 ;  see 
forward.  5.  Dorothea,  March  26,  1660.  6. 
Joshua,  August  3,  1662.  7.  Joanna,  March 
II,  1665.    8.  Sarah,  born  probably  in  1676. 

(VI)  John  (2),  son  of  Samuel  Plum,  was 
born  in  Branford,  Connecticut,  October  28, 
1657,  died  July  12,  1710.  He  came  with  his 
father's  family  to  Newark,  New  Jersey,  1668, 
and  afterward  lived  in  that  town.  In  1677  he 
married  Hannah  Crane,  who  bore  him  five 
children,  born  in  Newark,  who  are  only  known 
by  being  named  in  his  will  and  other  wills 
with  their  husbands  and  wives,  but  the  dates 
of  their  births  and  deaths  are  not  known. 
Children:      i.    Mary,    married    (first)    Elihu 


Crane  ;  (  second )  Rev.  Jonathan  Dickinson.  2. 
.Sarah,  married  John  Lindsley.  3.  Jane,  mar- 
ried Joseph  Riggs.  4.  Hannah.  5.  John,  see 
forward. 

(VII)  John  (3),  youngest  child  and  only 
son  of  John  (2)  and  Hannah  (Crane)  Plum, 
was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  about  1696, 
died  after  1785.  His  entire  life  was  spent  in 
Newark  and  he  anpears  to  have  been  one  of 
the  few  of  his  family  who  wrote  his  surname 
"Plume."  He  married  (first)  about  1724, 
Joanna  Crane,  who  died  about  1785;  married 

(  second  )   Mary  .     Children,  all  of  first 

marriage:  i.  Isaac,  born  October  i,  1734, 
died  November  19,  1799;  married  (first)  Sarah 
Crane  ;  ( second )  Ann  Van  Wagennen.  2. 
Stephen,  died  182S,  aged  seventy-three  years. 
3.  Mary,  married  Rufus  Crane.  4.  Jane,  died 
after  1780.  5.  Phebe,  married  Captain  Robert 
Provost.    6.  Joseph.    7.  John,  see  forward. 

(\TII)  John  (4),  youngest  son  and  child  of 
John  (3)  and  Joanna  (Crane)  Plume,  was 
born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  about  1743,  died 
there  about  January,  1771-  He  always  wrote 
his  name  without  the  final  "e,"  and  his  example 
has  been  followed  by  all  of  his  descendants. 
The  (late  of  his  marriage  with  Susan  Crane  is 
not  known,  but  it  was  about  the  year  1764. 
Children,  all  born  in  Newark:  i.  Joseph  R., 
born  July  30,  1766,  died  November  12,  1834: 
married  (first)  Mary  Banks;  (second)  .Vnna 
Price.  2.  Matthias,  1768,  see  forward.  3. 
David,  1769,  died  August  27,  1835;  married 
Matilda  Cook.    4.  Robert. 

(IX)  Matthias,  son  of  John  (4)  and  Susan 
(Crane)  Plum,  was  born  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  1768.  died  there  in  1852,  having  spent 
his  entire  life  in  that  city.  He  married,  about 
1703,  Phebe  Woodruff,  who  bore  him  five 
cliildren,  all  born  in  Newark:  i.  Lucetta,  born 
May  21,  1794,  died  July  3,  1881  ;  married  Jo- 
seph Plum.  2.  Sarah,  September  19,  1797, 
died  March  22,  1875:  married  Ambrose  \\'ill- 
iams.  3.  Stephen  Haines,  January  7,  1800, 
see  forward.  4.  Elias,  November  18,  1804, 
died  .April  12,  1883;  married  (first)  Susan 
Rankin;  (second)  RIary  Mann  ;  (third)  Mar- 
tha M.  Buell.  5.  David  B.,  May  2,  1813.  died 
July  15,  1851  :  married  (first)  Leonora  Whit- 
taker;  (second)  Anna  M.  Arnold. 

(X)  Stephen  Haines,  eldest  son  and  third 
child  of  Matthias  and  Phebe  (WoodruiT) 
Plum,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Janu- 
ary 7,  1800,  died  there  April  11,  1885.  He 
received  a  good  common  school  education,  and 
was  then  apprenticed  to  a  shoe  manufacturer, 
with   whom   he   remained   until    he    was    old 


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enough  to  establish  a  business  for  himself. 
From  the  outset  he  was  very  successful,  and 
establishing  a  place  of  business  in  New  York 
City  he  soon  extended  his  operations  through- 
out the  southern  and  western  states,  being 
among  the  first  of  the  Newark  manufacturers 
to  make  for  that  city  its  well-deserved  and 
earned  reputation.  .About  1850  he  began  to 
withdraw  gradually  from  business  of  a  mer- 
cantile and  manufacturing  nature  and  invested 
his  means  in  other  directions,  becoming  largely 
interested  in  the  Newark  Gas  Light  Company, 
of  which  he  was  for  a  number  of  years  a 
director.  He  was  also  a  stockholder  and 
director  in  the  New  Jersey  Fire  Insurance 
Company,  the  Mechanics  Fire  Insurance  Com- 
pany and  the  St.  Alark's  Fire  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  New  Y'ork.  He  was  a  man  of  high 
character  and  his  influence  was  always  felt  for 
good.  He  married  Margaret  Alonteith,  born 
in  Belvidere,  New  Jersey,  died  in  Newark, 
January  6,  1883,  daughter  of  Michael  and 
Martha  (  Ramsden  )  Todd,  the  former  of  whom 
emigrated  from  Glasgow,  Scotland,  to  Amer- 
ica in  the  latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  century. 
Children,  all  born  in  Newark:  i.  Charlotte, 
born  1835  ;  married  Theodore  B.  Coe,  2.  Mat- 
thias, November  24,  1839,  a  sketch  of  whom 
and  descendants  also  appears  in  this  work.  3. 
Stephen  Haines,  see  forward. 

(XI)  Stephen  Haines  (2),  son  of  Steplien 
Haines  (i)  and  Margaret  Monteith  (Todd) 
Plum,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  No- 
vember 12,  1842,  died  there  May  30,  1906.  He 
attended  Mr.  Hedges  private  school  and  later 
the  high  schools  of  Newark.  His  first  position 
was  as  a  drtig  clerk,  and  at  the  age  of  nineteen 
he  entered  the  employ  of  the  City  Bank,  of 
Newark,  where  he  remained  for  eighteen 
months,  after  which  he  became  connected  with 
the  National  Bank  of  the  Republic,  New  York 
City,  where  his  promotion  was  insured,  since 
he  proved  his  abilities  and  fidelity  to  the  respon- 
sible trusts  imposed.  He  continued  with  this 
institution  for  but  one  year  less  than  a  quarter 
of  a  century,  and  for  about  eighteen  years  of 
that  period  served  in  the  capacity  of  paying 
teller.  His  father  died  in  1885,  leaving  a  large 
estate  to  be  settled  up,  and  on  this  account  Mr. 
Plum  resigned  his  position  in  the  bank  in  order 
that  he  might  devote  his  entire  time  and  atten- 
tion to  his  individual  property  interests.  He 
spent  eighteen  months  abroad,  visiting  Eng- 
land. Scotland,  Ireland,  France,  Italy,  Ger- 
manv,  Algeria  and  other  foreign  countries.  In 
1858  Mr.  Phmi  became  a  member  of  the  First 
Baptist    Peddle    Memorial    Church,    of   which 

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he  was  for  nineteen  years  the  treasurer,  sev- 
eral years  president  of  the  board  of  trustees, 
and  active  in  the  furtherance  of  missionary 
work.  As  a  teacher  he  maintained  an  abiding 
interest  in  the  Sunday  school,  and  he  induced 
many  youths  to  join  his  class,  inspiring  them 
by  precept  and  example,  and  in  this  manner 
he  has  been  instrumental  in  developing  honor- 
able men  who  have  attained  success  in  life  and 
have  become  the  heads  of  prosperous,  christian 
families.  Mr.  Plum  was  a  philanthropist  in 
the  highest  sense  of  the  word,  contributing 
liberal!}'  of  his  means  to  various  charities  in  a 
(|uiet  and  unassuming  manner,  believing  in  the 
scriptural  injunction  to  "Let  not  your  right 
hand  know  what  your  left  hand  doeth."  He 
built  the  Eighth  .\ venue  Day  Nursery  in  New- 
ark in  honor  of  his  mother;  with  the  late  Mr. 
Horace  Ailing,  he  was  largelv  instrumental  in 
securing  the  subscrijjtions  for  the  erection  of 
the  building  for  the  Children's  Aid  and  Pre- 
vention of  Cruelty  to  Children  Society  in  New- 
ark, to  which  society  he  contributed  liberally 
and  in  which  he  took  a  keen  interest,  serving 
as  its  president  for  many  years  and  up  to  his 
decease.  He  was  a  Republican  in  national  and 
state  matters,  but  in  local  affairs  maintained 
an  independent  attitude,  preferring  to  lend  his 
su])port  to  the  man  whom  he  regarded  as  the 
most  fitting  for  municipal  offices. 

Mr.  Plum  married,  (ictober  25,  1865,  Mary, 
daughter  of  David  C.  and  Lydia  (Dodd)  Run- 
yon,  of  Newark,  who  survives  him  and  resides 
in  the  home  in  Newark.  Children:  i.  Mar- 
garet Monteith,  married  Henry  G.  Atha,  treas- 
urer of  the  Cast  Steel  Works  of  New  Jersey; 
children;  i.  Margaret  Monteith,  born  July  17, 
1898:  ii.  Sarah,  born  March  8,  1901.  2.  Mar- 
tha J.,  resides  at  home.  3.  Stephen  Haines, 
third,  born  January  18,  1877,  ''i  Newark;  edu- 
cated in  Newark  Academy  and  Princeton  Col- 
lege, graduating  from  the  latter  in  class  of 
1901  ;  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  in 
Newark;  a  Republican  in  politics:  member  of 
the  Peddie  Memorial  Church,  serving  as  one 
of  the  trustees  of  same,  and  is  continuing  the 
good  work  along  christian  lines  in  which  his 
father  v^^as  interested.  He  married  Blanche 
Devereux  ;  children  :  i.  Stephen  Haines,  fourth, 
born  October  30,  1906;  ii.  Lucretia  Mary,  born 
December  30,  1907. 


Aargau,  on  the  river  Aar,  next  to 
BAER     the  Rhine  and  Rhone  the   largest 

river  in  Switzerland,  is  a  canton 
of  about  five  hundred  and  thirty-eight  English 
square  miles,   and  a  population  of  over  two 


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STATE    OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


hundred  thousand  people.  It  was  in  the  well- 
wooded  hills  and  fertile  valleys  of  this  small 
canton,  amid  a  people  at  least  half  of  whom 
were  Protestants,  and  all  industriously  engaged 
in  agriculture  and  the  manufacture  of  cotton, 
linen,  silk  and  hosiery,  that  the  family  of  Baers 
had  lived  for  centuries.  Enjoying  the  advan- 
tages of  living  in  the  first  pure  repubHc  of  the 
modern  world,  they  thrived  and  were  happy, 
and  doubted  the  existence  of  a  better  climate, 
soil,  scenery  or  government  on  the  face  of  the 
globe.  The  family  were  silk  cultivators  antl 
manufacturers  for  generations.  They  had  the 
advantages  of  the  use  of  museums,  libraries 
and  schools,  and  became  well  versed  in  Swiss 
history. 

( I )  Frederick  Jacob  I'aer,  the  eldest  son  of 
his  father,  was  born  at  Arburg,  Switzerland, 
December  13.  1813,  died  at  I'aterson,  New 
Jersey,  July  20,  1877,  and  is  buried  at  Cedar 
Lawn  cemetery.  He  was  educated  in  his  native 
town  under  competent  masters,  and  through 
his  individual  efforts  gained  much  in  the  way 
of  learning,  lie  became  competent  to  teach 
and  had  classes  among  the  laboring  people  in 
his  locality.  It  was  the  desire  of  his  parents 
that  he  take  up  a  religious  life  and  missionary 
work,  but  to  this  he  was  much  averse.  At  the 
early  age  of  sixteen  years  he  decided  to  learn 
the  art  of  silk  ribbon  making,  and  accordingly 
went  to  Basle,  a  small  hamlet  in  the  canton  by 
the  same  name.  He  began  in  the  lowest  station 
and  mastered  every  branch  of  the  art,  better- 
ing himself  in  his  positions  so  that  he  became 
a  tliorough  master  of  his  trade.  Here  he  mar- 
ried and  lived  for  ten  years  thereafter,  and 
three  of  his  children  were  born  there.  He  sub- 
se(|uently  removed  to  Aarau,  where  he  took  a 
leading  position  in  the  then  largest  factory  of 
the  town,  then  o])erated  by  Feer  &  Company, 
where  he  remained  until  1865  and  in  July  that 
year  emigrated  to  America  from  Flavre, 
I'Vance,  with  his  wife,  three  sons  and  daughter, 
Maria  .\nna,  \\\\o  became  the  wife  of  Jacob 
W'alder,  of  Paterson.  After  landing  at  New 
York  City  he  immediately  came  to  I'aterson, 
settling  there,  and  taking  a  position  in  the  silk 
establishment  of  his  son,  Jacob  Frederick  Baer, 
and  had  the  management  of  different  depart- 
ments as  superintendent.  .About  1873  h^  '"'^' 
tired  from  this  position  of  responsibility  and 
from  active  work.  He  resided  on  Lafayette 
street,  where  his  death  occurred.  He  was  a 
man  of  remarkable  foresight  and  action,  deeply 
studious  and  fond  of  deep  reading,  taking  up 
scientific  studies.  He  kept  in  touch  with  his 
native  country  and  his  adopted  land  by  reading 


the  current  news.  He  was  a  thorough  believer 
in  American  ideas,  having  read  much  before 
he  came  to  America  of  the  new  country.  He 
was  a  Lutheran  in  religion  and  a  Republican 
in  politics. 

He  married,  at  Basle,  Switzerland,  1835, 
Anna  W'eibel,  born  at  Reckenback  (in  Canton 
Basle),  December  29,  1811,  died  in  Paterson, 
New  Jersey,  January  19,  1890,  daughter  of 
Jacob  and  Anna  (Gerster)  Weibel.  Jacob 
\\  eibel  was  a  mason  by  trade.  Children:  i. 
Jacob  P'rederick,  mentioned  below.  2.  John 
Rudolph,  born  August  5,  1840,  died  October 
20,  1872;  married  Alatilda  Ackerman.  3.  Au- 
gust, born  December  2^,  1843,  ^^^'^  unmarried. 
May  I,  1891.  4.  Maria  Anna,  born  March  13, 
1846;  married,  September  12,  1869,  Jacob 
W'alder,  born  March  18,  1839,  died  December 
30,  1897;  children:  i.  .Vnna  Alaria,  born  July 
8,  1870;  married,  June  15,  1893,  John  Bluut- 
schli,  born  November  10,  1865,  son  of  Jacob 
and   Elizabeth    (Balber)    Bluntschli ;  children: 

a.  Jacob  W'alder,  born  December  5,  1894,  died 
December  20,  1899;  b-  Hans  Arthur  Walder, 
born  Septemljer  14,  1890 ;  c.  Robert  William 
Walder,  born  March  19,  1900;  ii.  Maria  Louise, 
born  August  29,  1871  ;  married,  April  21,  1896. 
John  Crantley  Taylor,  born  July  4,  1868,  son 
of  Joseph  anil  Alary  (Sweatman)  Taylor; 
children :  a.  Grantley  \\'alder  Taylor,  born 
March  6,  1897;  b.  Marie  Hale  Taylor,  born 
June  24,  1899;  iii.  Minnie,  born  January  24. 
1874.  died  1876;  iv.  Jacob  William,  born  No- 
vember 29,  1880;  married,  .'\pril  18,  1906,  Clara 
Huntoiin:  children:  a.  Cynthia  Marie  Walder; 

b.  Clara  Huntoon  Walder :  v.  Bertha  Augusta, 
born  May  30,  1884:  married,  April  15,  1909. 
Edward  Beam.  5.  William  Freilerick,  born 
March  18,  1849;  niarried  Anna  Miesch.  6. 
Gustaf  Adolphus,  born  June  8,  18^2,  died  fuly 
20,  1868. 

(II)  Jacob  Frederick,  eldest  son  of  Fred- 
erick Jacob  and  Anna  (Weibel)  Baer,  was 
born  in  the  village  of  Beckten,  in  the  canton  of 
Basle,  Switzerland,  November  2"],  1836,  and 
died  at  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  November  29, 
1905.  He  attended  the  schools  of  his  native 
town,  and  immediately  after,  while  yet  a  boy, 
was  taught  the  trade  of  silk  making  by  his 
father,  who  moved  from  Arburg  to  Aargau,  a 
nearby  hamlet  and  a  part  of  .Vrburg.  After 
thoroughly  mastering  every  detail  of  the  trade 
under  liis  father's  careful  tutorage,  he  decided 
at  the  age  of  twenty  years  to  emigrate  to  .Amer- 
ica with  the  hope  of  finding  a  broader  and 
more  reinunerative  field  for  his  skill  and  labor. 
He  came  to  New  York,  where  for  a  time  he 


STATE   OF    NEW    lEKSEY. 


// 


worked  at  his  trade,  and  latter  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  E.  Walther  &  Company,  of 
New  York  City,  where  he  continued  u])  to 
1863,  when  the  firm  of  E.  Walther  &  Company 
were  looking  for  a  new  field  in  which  to  en- 
gage in  manufacturing  to  the  best  advantage. 
They  decided  to  come  to  Paterson,  New  Jer- 
sey, then  the  center  of  the  silk  industry  of  the 
country,  and  here  Mr.  Baer  finally  engaged  in 
the  manufacturing  business  for  himself  with 
the  little  money  he  had  saved  by  dint  of  simple 
and  frugal  tastes  taught  by  his  sturdy  and 
honest  ancestors,  starting  with  a  half  dozen 
small  looms.  He  began  to  prosper,  and  by 
his  careful  and  conscientious  management  the 
plant  increa.sed.  He  introduced  the  first  ribbon 
loom  in  Paterson,  and  was  the  first  in  Amer- 
ica to  make  satin  back  velvet  ribbons.  He  was 
in  a  fair  way  to  become  the  largest  silk  manu- 
facturer in  the  country  when  the  disastrous 
[janic  of  1873  ^wept  the  country,  and  with  a 
number  of  other  silk  makers  he  was  among  those 
who  suft'ered,  his  plant  being  entirely  wiped 
out  and  his  entire  savings  lost  in  the  failure. 
.At  the  time  he  was  located  in  the  Crescent 
mill,  on  what  is  now  Belmont  avenue,  and  was 
succeeded  by  the  firm  of  Sterett  Ryle  &  Mur- 
phy. Nothing  daunted  by  this  failure,  Mr. 
Baer  again  determined  to  try  his  resources  of 
encrgv,  brain  and  thought,  and  in  the  mean- 
time he  secured  positions  as  superintendent  of 
the  Pioneer  Silk  Company  and  later  with  Will- 
iam Strange  &  Company,  which  position  he 
held  several  years.  In  1887  he  resigned  his 
])osition  of  superintendent,  and  resumed  the 
manufacture  of  silk  ribbons  on  his  own  account, 
and  was  instrumental  in  founding  and  estab- 
lishing the  Helvetia  .Silk  Mill,  which  company 
was  incorporated  in  March,  1887,  and  soon 
grew  into  a  flourishing  concern.  He  became 
the  head  of  this  concern,  with  branches  on  \'an 
Houten  street,  and  Lehighton,  Pennsylvania, 
and  which  to-day  are  the  most  conspicuous  of 
the  industrial  establishments  of  Paterson.  The 
success  of  the  firm  was  due  to  the  untiring 
energy,  honest  and  executive  ability  of  its 
founder.  The  plant  has  been  enlarged  at  vari- 
ous times  in  order  to  meet  the  constantly  in- 
creasing demands  of  its  products.  .-Xbout  1904 
an  addition  was  made  to  the  plant  that  in- 
creased the  output  about  one-third.  There  are 
about  two  hundred  and  twenty  ribbon  looms 
in  the  mill,  and  the  concern  employs  about 
three  hiuidred  and  twenty-five  operatives.  The 
present  officers  are:  Frederick  .A.  Baer,  presi- 
dent, and  Ralph  Baer  secretary.  Jacob  Fred- 
erick   Baer   always   enjoyed   a   reputation    for 


liberality,  especially  in  his  dealings  witli  his 
employees,  and  seldom  if  ever  has  any  differ- 
ences occurred  with  them.  He  was  a  man  of 
high  ideals  and  probity  of  character,  and  noted 
for  his  kindness  and  generosity  to  all  with 
whom  he  came  in  contact.  With  his  friends 
he  was  generous  to  a  fault.  He  was  always  an 
energetic  and  enterprising  citizen,  actively  en- 
gaged until  his  deaths  being  the  oldest  silk 
manufacturer  in  Paterson. 

Jacob  b>ederick  Baer  married,  in  .\'ew  York 
City.  1858,  Louisa  Blattner,  born  Se])tember 
26. 1838,  at  Kiittingen,  Canton  Aargau,  Switzer- 
land, died  at  I'aterson,  New  Jersey,  July  4. 
i()04.  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Anna  Blattner. 
Children:  I.  Frederick  A.,  born  February  16, 
i8()0:  married  I^ouise  Wirz;  children:  Anna. 
Bertha,  Ralph  J.  2.  Ralph,  born  April  9,  i8r>3  : 
see  forward.  3.  .Anna,  born  .\ugust  23,  18C15  : 
married,  June  16,  1887,  Carlos  D.  De  Ponthier  ; 
chililren:  Louise,  born  March  13.  1888,  and 
I'lanca,  born  March  31,  1893.  4.  Eugene  \\'., 
born  September  9.  1867;  married  Cora  Tice; 
children  :  Elizabeth,  Genivieve,  Eugene.  Rose, 
Carlos  and  Margaret.  5.  William  August, 
born  March  27,  1870;  see  forward.  6.  Louise, 
born  May  31,  1872,  died  June  14.  1880.  7. 
Rose  Isabelle,  born  October  9,  1874:  married, 
November  23,  1898,  Adolph  Webber;  child, 
Jacob  Frederick,  born  January  31,  1901.  8. 
Louis  Chileon,  born  March  ii.  1882.  see  for- 
ward. 

(HI)  Raljih.  son  of  Jacob  F"rederick  and 
Louisa  (Blattner)  P>aer,  w^as  born  in  New 
York  City,  April  9,  1863.  At  an  early  age  he 
came  with  his  parents  to  Paterson,  New  Jer- 
sey, where  he  attended  the  public  schools.  At 
the  age  of  fourteen  years  he  began  to  learn 
the  art  of  manufacturing  ribbons,  also  direct- 
ing his  attention  to  designing  patterns  and  cut- 
ting designs  on  cards  to  be  used  in  the  Jacquard 
looms  in  various  of  the  local  silk  mills.  In 
1887,  wath  his  father  and  other  representative 
men.  he  became  one  of  the  incorporators  of 
the  Helvetia  Silk  Mill  in  Paterson.  and  since 
that  time,  with  the  exceptirm  of  the  years  1892- 
97.  has  been  actively  identified  with  that  manu- 
factory. He  is  at  present  secretary  of  the 
corporation  and  a  member  of  its  board  of 
directors.  He  is  also  prominently  identified 
with  city  affairs.  He  was  appointed  a  member 
of  the  Paterson  school  board  in  1894-95.  and 
May  21.  1906.  was  appointed  police  and  fire 
commissioner  for  a  short  term,  and  January  i, 
1907.  was  appointed  for  a  full  term,  ending 
January  I.  1908.  He  joined  the  Republican 
party  before  he  attained  his  majority,  and  cast 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


his  first  ]jresidential  vote  for  the  Rlaine-Logan 
ticket  in  1884.  He  was  a  member  of  the  I'helps 
Guard,  a  political  organization  of  Paterson. 
He  is  affiliated  with  Ivanhoe  Lodge,  No.  88. 
Free  and  Accepted  Alasons,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Hamilton  Club,  St.  Paul's  Church  Club. 
Passaic  County  P>owling  Association.  Germania 
.Singing  Society,  Deutsch  Amerikanischer  Cen- 
tral \erein,  and  is  an  associate  member  of  the 
E.xempt  Firemen's  .Association. 

Mr.  Baer's  family  have  a  uniijue  and  very 
valuable  collection  of  silk  samples  cut  from 
every  pattern  of  silk  goods  produced  by  mem- 
bers of  the  family  for  the  past  two  hundred 
years,  which  fact  alone  gives  the  collection 
great  historical  value.  The  Paterson  Press  in 
a  series  of  illustrated  articles  entitled  "Poinilar 
Patersonians  in  Cartoon"  devoted  the  front 
page  of  the  issue  of  August  29,  1908,  to  Ralph 
Baer.  and  it  contains  the  following  a]iprecia- 
tive  characterization  of  the  subject : 

"In   the  Halls  of  Fame  there  is  man.v  a   nam. 
Of  men,  who  are  no  more  deserving 
Than  this  man  wlio  we  present  to  you; 
Who  has  risen  with  purpose  unswerving. 
His  record  is  clean — there  is  no  "in  between" — 
Strict,  straigrhtforward.  honest  his  aim. 
Let  others  tread   in  this  path  by  him  led 
.\nd  they'll  find  that  It's  well  worth  the  game. 
There  is  great  satisfaction  in  hard  work  and  action 
For  Virtue's   its  own   reward! 

We  will  back  our  prediction — fame  without  restric- 
tion 
In  the  future  we'll  to  him  accord." 

Ralph  llaer  married,  April  22,  1885,  Carrie 
S.  Perry,  born  July  3,  1867,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam S.  and  .\manda  (Mathews)  Perry.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Bessie  B.,  born  April  9,  1886.  2. 
Ralph,  Jr.,  born  August  18,  1889,  died  August 
8,  1890.     3.  J.  Frank,  born  May  i,  1893. 

(HI)  William  .\ugust,  son  of  Jacob  Fred- 
erick and  Louisa  (Blattner)  Baer,  was  born  in 
the  family  homestead  on  Belmont  avenue. 
Paterson,  New  Jersey,  March  27,  1870.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  in  his  district,  grad- 
uating from  grammar  school,  No.  4,  at  the 
age  of  seventeen.  He  then  entered  the  employ 
of  Jacob  Walder,  who  was  engaged  in  the  mill 
su]jply  liusiness,  aiul  remained  with  him  for 
six  months.  Subsef|ucntly  he  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  the  I  lelvetia  Silk  Mill,  on  Van  Houten 
street,  to  learn  the  art  of  ribbon  making,  tak- 
ing charge  of  the  warping,  winding  and  filling 
departments  for  four  years,  and  later  was 
occupied  for  a  period  in  the  weaving  depart- 
ment. He  later  removed  to  Lehighton,  Penn- 
svlvania  ('1887L  where  for  nine  vears  he  was 


superintendent  of  the  comjiany's  annex  mill  at 
that  place,  subse(|uently  returning  to  the  River- 
side I'aterson  ]3lant,  where  for  a  time  he  was 
warping  overseer  and  inspector.  Since  that 
time  he  has  charge  as  superintendent  of  th( 
\'an  Houten  street  branch  of  the  business,  now 
employing  from  thirty-five  to  fifty  hands,  and 
where  every  branch  of  the  silk  business  is 
under  his  direct  supervision  except  the  finish- 
ing and  bliicking,  which  is  done  at  the  River- 
side mill.  .Mr.  Baer  is  a  Lutheran  in  religious 
faith,  a  Republican  in  politics,  having  served 
his  party  as  delegate  to  their  county  convention, 
and  was  formerly  a  member  of  Knights  of  the 
( jolden  Eagle.  He  married,  at  Paterson,  New 
Jersey,  June  14,  1890,  Marie  Deering,  born  at 
I'aterson,  February  5,  1874,  daughter  of  Jacob 
antl  Alalia  (\'an  Bruge)  Deering,  the  former 
of  whom  is  a  construction  contractor.  Chil- 
dren :  1.  Jacob  Frederick,  born  February  14, 
1891.  2.  William,  born  January  17.  1893,  died 
March  25,  1894.  3.  .A  son,  born  .\pril  2,  1901. 
died  in  infancy. 

(  HI )  Louis  Chileon,  son  of  Jacob  Frederick 
and  Louisa  (  Pdattner )  Baer,  was  born  in  the 
family  homestead  on  Benson  street,  Paterson, 
New  Jersey,  March  11,  1882.  His  education 
was  gained  in  the  public  schools,  and  after 
completing  a  two  years'  course  in  the  Pater- 
son high  school  he  attended  the  Paterson  Mili- 
tary .\cademy.  .\X  nineteen  years  of  age  he 
entered  the  employ  of  his  father  and  brother, 
who  were  then  operating  a  silk  mill  at  Lehigh- 
ton, Pennsylvania,  where  he  diligently  em- 
ployed himself  at  learning  the  business,  remain- 
ing nine  months.  He  then  came  to  their  Pater- 
son plant  of  the  Helvetia  Mill,  where  he  was 
assistant  shipper,  and  continued  to  learn  the 
making  of  silk  ribbons,  .-\fter  three  years, 
having  gained  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
business  in  all  its  details,  he  was  placed  in 
charge  of  the  quill  winding,  doubling  and  wind- 
ing departments.  Air.  Baer  has  the  superin- 
tendency  of  these  branches  at  the  present  time, 
having  between  si.xty  and  sixty-five  employees 
under  his  personal  supervision.  He  attends 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  of  Paterson,  is 
a  decided  Re]iublican  in  iiolitics,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Paterson  Lodge,  No.  60,  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks. 

He  married,  June  22,  1904,  at  Paterson, 
New  Jersey,  Jessie  Wilson  Boyle,  born  Octo- 
ber 26,  1884,  daughter  of  William  and  Jessie 
(Boyle)  Boyle,  the  former  of  whom  was  a 
boiler  maker  by  trade  and  machinist  with  the 
Erie  railroad  at  Paterson.     Mr.  and  Mrs.  Baer 


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are  the  (jarents  of  one  child,  Robert  Paul,  born 
September  8,  1905. 


-M.  \'alerius  Corvus,  one  of  the 
CORW  IX     most  illustrious  men  in  the  early 

history  of  the  Roman  republic, 
was  born  about  B.  C.  371  in  the  midst  of  the 
struggle  attending  the  I.icinian  laws.  Being  a 
member  of  the  great  X'alerian  house,  he  had 
an  early  opportunity  of  distinguishing  himself, 
and  we  accordingly  find  him  serving  in  B.  C. 
249  as  military  tribune  in  the  army  of  the 
consul,  L.  Eurius  Camillus,  in  his  campaign 
against  the  Gauls.  His  celebrated  exploit  in 
this  war,  from  which  he  obtained  the  surname 
of  Corvus.  or  "Raven."  is  like  many  other  of 
the  achievements  of  the  early  Roman  heroes, 
mingled  with  fable.  A  Cjallic  warrior  of  gigan- 
tic size  challenged  to  single  combat  any  one  of 
the  Romans.  After  obtaining  the  consent  of 
the  consul,  \alerius  accepted  the  challenge, 
and  as  he  w'as  commencing  the  combat,  a  raven 
settled  upon  his  helmet,  and,  as  often  as  he 
attacked  the  Gaul,  flew  in  the  face  of  his  foe, 
till  at  length  the  barbarian  fell  before  the  sword 
of  \'alerius.  .\  general  battle  then  ensued,  in 
which  the  (lauls  were  entirely  defeated.  The 
consul  presented  X'alerius  with  ten  oxen  and 
a  golden  crown,  anil  the  grateful  people  elected 
him  in  his  absence,  consul  for  the  next  year, 
though  he  was  only  twenty-three  years  of  age. 
.\  still  more  distinguished  descendant  of  M. 
\'alerius  Corvus  was  AI.  X'alerius  Messala  Cor- 
vinus,  the  celebrated  Messala,  of  Cicero,  whose 
wife  was  Terentia,  widow  first  of  Cicero,  then 
of  Salhist,  and  who  after  Messala's  death,  mar- 
ried a  fourth  time  another  Roman  senator. 
She  bore  her  husband  two  sons,  Marcus  and 
Lucius,  the  first  of  whom  was  the  famous 
Messalina  of  the  Pannonian  wars. 

In  the  middle  of  the  fifteenth  century,  after 
the  death  of  .Albert  of  Hungary,  the  states 
offered  the  crown  to  W'ladislaus  of  Poland ; 
but  shortly  afterwards,  the  w-idow  of  Albert 
had  a  son  called  Ladislaus  Postumus.  This 
was  the  cause  of  much  dissension  and  .-\murath 
of  Turkey  prepared  to  invade  the  country. 
W  ladislaus  con<|uered  in  the  struggle  and  at 
this  time  Johannes  Hunyadi  Corviinis  began 
his  celebrated  career  as  a  soldier.  His  origin  is 
shrouded  in  mystery,  but  he  was  probably  the 
son  of  George  Hunyadi  vaywod  of  Wallachia 
during  the  reign  of  Sigismund.  His  surname 
of  Corvinus  is  by  some  derived  from  his  estate 
of  Piatra  de  Corvo,  but  more  generally  from 
his  ancestors,  said  to  be  the  Corvini  of  ancient 
Rome.     Matthias  Corvinus.  Matthias  I..  King 


of  Hungary,  1458  to  1490,  was  the  secoiul  son 
of  John  "was  elected  and  crowned,"  says  Gib- 
bon, "by  the  grateful  Hungarians  in  reward 
for  his  father's  services.  His  reign  was  pros- 
[)erous  and  long.  He  aspired  to  the  glory  of 
a  conqueror  and  a  saint,  but  his  purest  merit 
is  his  encouragement  of  learning."  His  sons 
were  Eadislaus,  born  about  1465,  and  John, 
born  about  1470,  living  in  1540,  and  a  pupil 
of  Anthony  Bonfidius.  Two  Corvini,  descend- 
ants of  these  two,  were  the  Corvinus,  at  the 
Council  of  Trent,  1540,  as  a  papal  legate,  and 
the  Rev.  Anthony  Corvinus,  1501  to  1553, 
probably  son  of  John  and  named  after  his 
tutor,  who  became  a  Protestant  in  1526  and  a 
celebrated  reformer,  preacher  and  author  in 
(iermany.  In  the  next  generation  we  have 
the  Rev.  Johannes  Corvinus,  perhaps  the  same 
as  the  John  Corvinus  born  about  1560  wdiose 
son  .Arnold,  born  about  1590,  was  an  eminent 
lawyer,  and  published  Digests  of  the  law  in 
aphorisms  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  in  1649. 
The  evidence  points  to  his  being  the  brother 
or  cousin  of  the  founder  of  the  .American 
family  referred  to  below. 

(  I)  MatthiasCorwin.orCorvinus, the  first  set- 
tler of  the  name  in  America,  was  born  between 
1590  and  1600,  and  died  September,  1658.  His 
name  appears  written  sometimes  "Curwin," 
and  even  "Currin,"  these  last  two  sjiellings 
being  erroneous  orthographies  originating  from 
the  traditional  Hungarian  pronunciation.  In 
1O34  iiis  name  appears  on  the  commoner's  rec- 
ord, at  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  as  "Currin," 
when  he  receives  a  second  grant  of  land  in  that 
place.  The  Ipswich  record  notes  that  he  emi- 
grated from  that  place  to  Long  Island.  He 
received  a  lot  of  land  for  a  house,  directly 
o])posile  the  present  Congregational  church  in 
-Soutliold.  The  new  lecture  room  of  that 
church  now  stands  on  the  very  plot.  Here  he 
lived  for  eighteen  years  till  his  death,  which 
occurred  between  .\ugust  31,  and  September 
15.  December  11,  1656,  together  with  William 
\Vells,  Lieutenant  Budd,  l>arnabas  Morton 
and  W  illiam  Purrier,  he  was  appointed  on  a 
committee  to  order  the  town  aflfairs.  Decem- 
ber 5,  1655,  besides  his  house  lot  and  a  meadow 
lot  at  -Accoboack,  his  property  is  reckoned  at 
three  hundred  and  twenty-eight  acres.  His 
will  dated  August  31,  was  proved  September 
15.  1O58.  when  the  inventory  of  his  estate, 
£313,  8s.  was  also  filed.  By  his  wife  Mar- 
garet, probably  a  Morton,  he  had  three  chil- 
dren of  record:  i.  John,  referred  to  below. 
J.  Martha,  born  between  1630  and  1640.  living 
in  1(198 :  married  (first)  I  lenry  Case  and  fsec- 


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oikI  )  Thomas  J  lutchinson,  bearing  her  first 
husband  two,  an<l  her  second  husband  five 
children.  3.  Theophikis,  born  before  1634, 
died  before  i6(;2 :  he  had  by  his  wife  Mary 
seven  chiklren. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Matthias  and  Margaret 
( Morton )  Corwin,  was  born  probably  about 
1630,  died  September  25,  1702.  In  i66i  he 
bought  land  and  meadow  at  Oyster  Pond  and 
A(|uebogue,  Long  Island,  and  was  admitted 
as  a  freeman  of  Connecticut  for  Southold  in 
1662.  In  167^  he  is  rated  for  2  heads,  21  acres, 
16  cattle,  9  horses,  5  swine,  6  sheep,  £228,  lOs. 
In  1 686  he  had  four  males  and  one  female  in 
his  family.  His  name  occurs  in  a  number  of 
deeds  as  either  grantor  or  grantee  between  the 
years  if)78  and  1696,  and  also  in  the  census  list 
of  two  years  later,  1698,  together  with  the 
names  of  all  his  children  e-xce]it  Alary  and  Re- 
becca, who  were  already  married.  His  will  is 
dated  November  26,  17CX3,  proved  October  14, 
1702.  February  4,  1658,  he  married  Mary 
daughter  of  Charles  Glover,  who  died  prob- 
ably before  1690,  and  had  eight  children:  i. 
Mary,  born  December  15,  1659,  died  probabl\ 
before  ifxjo.  2.  Sarah,  born  about  1660,  mar- 
ried, before  1690,  Jacob  Osman  and  had  ten 
children.  3.  Rebecca,  born  between  1660  and 
1670.  married  Abram  Osman  and  had  six  chil- 
dren. 4.  John,  referred  to  below.  5.  Abigail, 
born  between  1660  and  1670,  not  married  in 
1698,  and  probably  died  unmarried.  6.  Han- 
nah, not  married  in  1698  and  probably  died 
unmarried.  7.  Matthias,  born  1675,  died  March 
9,  lyiy,  had  by  his  wife  Mary  ten  children. 
8.  Samuel,  born  about  1677,  died  December 
28,  1705;  had  by  his  wife  Anne  two  children. 

(III)  Captain  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i) 
and  Mary  (Glover)  Corwin,  was  born  in  1663. 
died  December  13.  1729.  In  i6()2  he  received 
from  bis  father  a  lot  of  woodland  lying  west 
of  the  town  of  Southold  and  (jn  the  north  side 
of  the  road  by  Nathaniel  Terry's  land.  His 
name  nccurrs  as  both  grantor  and  grantee  on 
many  deeds,  and  in  17 12  an  e.xhibit  of  his 
lands  is  found  in  the  Southold  town  records. 
By  his  wife  Sarah,  whom  he  married  before 
1698,  he  had  six  children:  i.  Uenjamin.  died 
in  1721,  and  jirobably  married.  2.  John,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  David,  born  between  1705 
and  1710.  died  before  1782;  married  Deborah 
Wells,  who  bore  him  six  children  and  perha])s 
other  daughters.  4.  Sarah,  possibly  married 
Peter  Simons.    5.  Elizabeth.    6.  Hester. 

(IV)  John  (3).  son  of  Captain  John  (2) 
and  .Sarah  Corwin,  was  Ijorn  July  10,  1705, 
died   December   22,    1755.      ''^^   lived  about   a 


mile  and  a  half  east  of  Mattituck,  in  the  town 
of  Southold,  and  he  is  buried  a  little  south  of 
the  centre  of  the  Mattituck  graveyard.  He 
was  twice  married  and  his  second  wife  sur- 
vived him  many  years.  His  will  is  dated  De- 
cember 18,  1754,  and  proved  January  7,  1755. 
According  to  a  book  in  the  possession  of  Au- 
gustus (jriffin,  of  Orient,  Long  Island,  his  first 
wife  was  Hester  Clark,  but  apparently  she 
liore  him' no  children,  unless  the  two  children 
who  died,  one  in  1735.  the  other  in  1738,  his 
"second  daughter"  who  died  in  1746,  and  El- 
nathan  who  died  in  January,  1738,  were  by 
her.  In  1732  he  married  Elizabeth  Goldsmith, 
who  was  still  living  in  1776,  and  who  after  his 
death  married,  in  1763,  Benjamin  Brown,  of 
( )yster  Ponds.  This  may  possibly  be  Elizabeth 
( Terrill )  Corwin,  the  widow  of  John,  son  of 
Theophikis.  John  and  Elizabeth  (  Goldsmith  ) 
Corwin  had  five  children,  unless  some  or  all 
of  those  mentioned  above  were  the  issue  of  the 
first  marriage:  i.  John,  born  1735,  died  De- 
cember 22.  1817:  maiTied  (first)  Sarah  Hub- 
bard, and  (second)  Deborah  Brown,  and  had 
five  children.  2.  Elizabeth,  born  between  1730 
and  1740.  3.  .Sarah,  born  about  1739,  possibly 
the  Sarah  who  married  John  Penney.  4. 
James,  born  August  22,  1741,  <lied  November 
9,  1 79 1  ;  married  Mehetable  Horton  and  had 
nine  children.  5.  William,  referred  to  below. 
(  \' )  William,  son  of  John  (3)  and  Elizabeth 
(Goldsmith)  Corwin,  was  born  February  21, 
1744.  died  December  I,  1 818.  He  moved  from 
Long  Island  to  Chester,  New  Jersey,  about 
1774.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  French  and 
Indian  wars,  a  lieutenant  in  the  revolution,  and 
a  representative  in  the  New  Jersey  legislature. 
His  original  homestead,  one  and  one  half  miles 
north  of  Chester,  is  now  in  the  possession  of 
the  Kelsey  family.  His  name  is  of  very  fre- 
(|uent  occurrence  on  the  records.  January  14, 
1768,  William  Corwin  married  Hannah  Reeves, 
of  .Mattituck.  Long  Island,  born  May  27,.  1747, 
died  about  1840.  They  had  eleven  children: 
I.  John  Calvin,  born  October  21,  1768,  died 
June  6,  1849;  married  (fir.st)  Deborah  Terry, 
and  (second)  Elizabeth  \'ance,  and  had  six 
children.  2.  Sarah,  born  January  13,  1 77 1, 
married  Jabez  Kelsey.  of  Chester,  New  Jersey. 
3.  1  lannah.  born  March  28.  1773.  uiarried  Jere- 
miah, son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Hedges) 
Woodhull.  of  k'asthani[)ton.  Long  Island.  4. 
William,  referred  to  below.  5.  James,  born 
-April  21,  1779,  died  October  10,  1844,  at  Pike- 
ton,  Ohio;  married  (first)  Margaret  Cameron, 
of  .Scotland,  and  (second)  Elizabeth  Smith, 
the  widow   of  James   Mallory,  of   New   A'ork 


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City,  and  had  seven  children.  6.  Joseph,  born 
July  6,  1781,  died  September  23,  1800,  in  Ches- 
ter, New  Jersey.  7,  Nathaniel,  born  Septem- 
ber 26,  1783,  died  February  24,  1849,  married 
(first)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Barnabas  and 
Elizabeth  Horton,  (second)  a  Monroe,  (third) 
Adaliiie  l^ickle.  and  (fourth)  Sarah  Bell,  and 
had  two  children.  8.  Elizabeth,  born  Decem- 
ber 6,  1785,  died  December  7,  i860,  married 
Henry  Halsey,  of  Morris  county,  and  had  six 
children.  9.  Daniel,  born  April  13,  1788,  in 
Morris  county,  living  in  1870:  married  (first) 
Mary  Hamill,  (second)  Elizabeth  Hamill, 
(third)  Elizabeth  .^pinning,  and  (  fourth)  Eliz- 
abeth Brace,  and  had  six  children.  10.  Eben- 
ezer.  born  October  13,  1790,  died  April  8,  1851  , 
married  (first)  Elizabeth  Skellinger,  and  (sec- 
ond) a  Hatch,  and  had  three  children.  11. 
Joshua  Goldsmith,  born  February  4,  1793,  died 
November  9,  1867;  married  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  the  Rev.  Lenas  Fordham.  and  had  four 
children. 

(\'I)  William  (2).  fourth  child  anil  second 
son  of  William  (O  and  Hannah  (Reeves) 
Corwin,  was  born  near  Chester,  New  Jersey, 
(October  9,  1776,  died  September  30,  1821.  In 
1817  he  was  in  New  York  City  in  partnership 
with  his  brother,  James  Corwin,  who  from 
1805  to  1820  kept  a  shoe  store  at  94  Broadway, 
New  York.  .After  this  went  to  live  at  Sparta, 
New  lersey.  He  was  apparently  twice  married 
but  the  name  of  his  second  wife  and  the  chil- 
dren of  the  latter  union  if  any  are  unknown. 
December  12,  1801,  he  married  (first)  Martha 
\'ance.  who  bore  him  three  children  :  I.  Joseph, 
referred  to  below.  2.  William  V.  3.  Eliza  A., 
born  November  28,  1804.  luarried  Henrv  C. 
Beach  and  had  four  children. 

(\"1I)  Joseph,  eldest  son  of  William  (2) 
and  Martha  l\ance)  Corwin,  was  born  in 
Sparta,  New  Jer.sey,  May  17.  1810.  He  signed 
his  name  Joseph  A.  Corwin.  and  obtained  his 
early  education  chiefly  in  .\lbany.  In  1835  he 
graduated  from  the  medical  department  of 
^'ale  L'niversity.  and  the  following  year  began 
practicing  in  lielleville,  Essex  county.  New 
Jersey,  where  he  remained  until  December, 
1849,  when  he  removed  to  Newark,  where  he 
lived  for  the  remainder  of  his  life,  tlying  in 
1893.  For  many  years  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Essex  District  Medical  Society,  in  1864  was 
elected  its  vice-president,  and  in  1865  its  presi- 
dent, and  in  1883  chosen  one  of  its  delegates 
to  the  State  Medical  Society.  In  1852  and 
1833  li^  ^^as  a  member  of  the  Newark  board 
of  education.  Joseph  .A.  Corwin  married  (first) 
Taniuinia    Kennev,   who   bore   him    four   chil- 


dren: I.  Francis  Nicholas  West,  born  July  4, 
1840,  married  Louisa  Westervelt.  2.  William 
.Albert,  born  March  12,  1843.  3.  Charles  Fred- 
erick, referred  to  below.  4.  Mary  (iarette, 
14,  1850,  died  September  9, 
A.  Corwin  married  (second) 
1856,  Emma  Whybrew  Bald- 
29,  1 83 1,  who  bore  him  two 
5.  Theodore  Wellington,  born 
Robert  Lowell,  born  between 


l)orn    February 
1 85 1.      Joseph 
.September    18, 
win,   born  July 
more  children : 
June  I,  1857.    6 


i860  and  1870. 

(\llli  Charles  Frederick,  third  child  and 
son  of  Joseph  A.  and  Tarc|uinia  (  Kenney) 
Corwin,  was  born  in  Belleville,  Essex  county. 
New  Jersey,  July  2^,  1845,  died  in  Newark, 
July  28,  1908.  In  1870  he  started  the  hay, 
grain,  and  feed  business  now  run  by  his  son 
and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  its  suc- 
cessful development.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  was  a  vestryman  of  Christ  Episcopal  Church 
in  Newark.  By  his  wife  ,Anna  Jackson,  born 
in  1854,  died  March  17,  1881,  he  had  two 
children:  I.  Frederick  Wellington,  referred 
to  below.  2.  (irace  Bartlett,  born  June  16, 
1878. 

(IN)  Frederick  Wellington,  only  son  of 
Charles  Frederick  and  Anna  (Jackson)  Cor- 
win, was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  June 
4,  1876,  and  is  now  living  in  Newark,  where 
he  is  developing  and  carrying  on  the  business 
left  to  him  by  his  father.  For  his  earlv  edu- 
cation he  attended  the  jKiblic  and  high  schools 
of  Newark,  and  then  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Philip  Cary  Manufacturing  Company, 
asbestos  and  roofing  manufacturers,  where  he 
started  as  clerk  in  i8')8,  gradually  rising  until, 
when  he  left  on  account  of  his  father's  death 
in  1908,  he  had  become  superintendent.  Mr. 
Corwin  is  a  Republican,  but  has  held  no  office. 
He  is  a  vestryman  of  Christ  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church  in  Newark,  of  which  his  grand- 
father was  one  of  the  founders  and  his  father 
for  many  years  a  vestryman.  He  married 
Laura  Edna  Freeman,  l)orn  in  Newark,  Fibriv- 
ary  2  7,.  1876. 

The  origin  of  several  of  the 
1)1 'MONT     Dumont     families     has     been 

traced  to  Flanders,  but  it  is 
hardly  possible  that  they  all  in  turn  were  of 
Norman  descent.  There  were  Dumonts  in 
Normandy  as  early  as  1422,  as  appears  from 
the  "Memoires  Inedits  de  Dumont  de  Bosta- 
quet :  Cientilhomme  Normand"  (Paris,  1864). 
The  religious  wars  in  France  between  the 
Roman  Catholics  and  Protestants,  which  had 
their  beginning  in  the  year  1652,  were  like  all 


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other  similar  contests  productive  of  much 
cruelty  and  persecution.  Little  credit  accrues 
to  either  side,  in  the  heginning  at  least,  but  the 
Protestants  finally  were  defeated  and  nltimatel\ 
were  subjected  to  such  gross  mistreatment  as 
finds  no  ])arallel  in  the  annals  of  either  ancient 
or  modern  times.  Many  of  the  Dumonts  early 
adopted  the  Protestant  religion,  and  on  Janu- 
ary 27,  1599,  we  find  the  marriage  record  of 
P)astienne  du  Mont,  in  London.  She  was  a 
native  of  X'alenciennes,  in  the  north  of  France. 
"The  Making  of  Xew  England,"  by  Drake 
mentions  De  Monts,  Pierre  du  Guast,  from 
.Saintonge,  France,  an  officer  of  the  King's 
household.  He  was  a  lluguenot  and  made  an 
attempt  to  plant  a  colony.  In  1604  Henry  IV. 
granted  him  a  charter  to  all  of  the  region  of 
countrv  now  known  as  New  England  and  also 
a  monopol}-  of  the  fur  trade.  He  took  one 
humlreil  followers,  among  them  Samuel  de 
Champlain,  and  landed  at  Passamaquoddy  I.ay. 
at  St.  Croix  (named  Mont  Desert),  on  hi- 
first  trip,  but  being  unable  to  withstand  the 
severities  of  winter,  broke  up  his  colony  in  the 
early  part  of  the  year  1605  and  went  to  Port 
Royal,  Nova  Scotia. 

W'alleran  Dumont.  immigrant,  came  from 
Amsterdam.  Holland,  to  New  .\msterdam 
(New  \'ork )  in  id^J-  He  was  not  married 
wlun  he  came  to  this  country,  and  according 
to  tlie  record  made  at  the  time  of  his  marriage 
he  gave  his  birthplace  as  Coomen,  [•'landers, 
(now  Conimines.  Department  .\ord.  France, 
eight  miles  from  Lille ).  He  was  called  a  catlet 
(  "adelborst" ) ,  a  rank  equal  to  that  of  our 
second  lieutenant,  in  a  company  of  sohHers 
sent  by  the  Dutch  West  India  Company  to 
Director  General  Stuyvesant.  Other  French 
Protestants  of  the  same  surname  came  from 
Caen,  .\ormandie.  Some  of  them  went  to 
England,  and  others  to  Perle.  Cape  of  Good 
Hope,  .Africa,  and  descendants  of  the  same 
name  are  now  living  in  both  ]ilaces.  A  traditit)n 
that  some  of  Walleran  Dinnont's  family  re- 
nounced Protestantism  in  order  to  retain  their 
projjerty  has  been  handed  down  to  descendants 
in  .America,  but  this  tradition  never  has  been 
verified. 

Walderan  Dumont  came  over  either  in  the 
ship  "Draetvat."  Captain  IJeslevoer,  which 
sailed  from  .\msterdam  .\]iril  2.  if>57,  or  in 
the  "Jan  llaptist,"  which  sailed  from  the  same 
port  December  23,  1657.  The  latter  ship  be- 
longed to  the  Dutch  West  India  Company  and 
brought  over  a  company  of  soldiers  for  Gov- 
ernor Stuyvesant.  Two  sisters  of  Dumont 
came   over   about    1^)63   in    the    ship   "Spotted 


Cow."  Dumont  settled  at  Esopus  (now  Kings- 
ton. -New  York)  about  1660,  and  appears  to 
have  been  one  of  the  most  influential  men  of 
the  town.  He  was  a  member  of  the  military 
cotmcil  during  the  second  Esopus  war  with 
the  Indians,  and  served  as  schepen  or  magis- 
trate of  Kingston  from  May,  1669,  to  Atay, 
1(171.  He  was  a  deacon  of  the  Dutch  church 
in  i'>73,  and  died  between  June  25,  1713,  and 
September  13,  1713.  He  married,  January 
13,  \(>64.  (jrietje  (.Margaret)  Hendricks, 
widow  of  Jan  Aertson,  who  was  killed  by  In- 
dians in  the  second  Esojnis  war.  She  had  one 
flanghter  by  her  first  husband,  who  afterward 
married  Hendrick  Kip.  Six  children  were  born 
of  this  marriage,  three  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters. The  sons  were  Walran,  Jan  P)aptist  and 
Peter  Dumont. 

There  is  very  little  doubt  of  the  fact  of  rela- 
tionship of  the  family  of  Wallaran  Dumont 
and  the  family  of  the  surname  which  is  chiefly 
considered  in  this  narrative,  although  the  latter 
is  supposed  to  have  first  appeared  in  this  coun- 
try soon  after  the  massacre  of  French  Hugue- 
ncits  in  Paris  of  St.  Bartholomew's  day,  as  is 
fully  mentioned  in  history.  .After  the  distress- 
ing scenes  of  that  event  the  ancestor  is  said 
to  have  come  to  .\merica  and  to  have  taken 
up  his  abode  in  North  Carolina,  where  the 
family  remained  seated  for  at  least  two  or  three 
generations. 

( I )  Peter  Dumont.  the  earliest  ancestor  of 
whom  we  have  accurate  knowledge,  was  born 
jirobably  in  North  Carolina,  married  there  and 
had  a  family.  .Among  his  children  was  a  son 
John,  see  forward. 

(Ill  John,  son  of  I'eter  Dumont,  was  born 
in  .North  Carolina  and  came  north  to  New 
Jersey  probably  soon  after  the  beginning  of 
the  last  century.  The  precise  period  of  his 
life  is  not  known,  nor  the  date  of  his  marriage, 
but  it  is  known  that  he  married  Mary  Finley. 
and  by  her  had  three  children,  Car(5line,  Mary, 
John  Finley  (see  forward),  all  of  wdiom  are 
now  dead  and  only  the  last  mentioned  of  whom 
married  and  had  a  family. 

(Ill)  John  Finley,  son  of  John  and  .Mary 
(  Finley )  Dumont,  was  born  in  Hunterdon 
countv,  New  Jersey,  .November  11,  1824,  died 
May  8,  1889.  He  was  a  lawyer  by  ])rofession, 
a  consistent  member  of  the  Lutheran  church, 
and  a  firm  Democrat  in  his  political  preference. 
From  1852  until  1855  he  was  prosecuting  attor- 
ney for  Hunterdon  county,  but  otherwise  was 
not  particularly  active  in  political  affairs.  He 
married  in  .Albany,  New  York,  October  26, 
1853.   Anne  I'.liza,  born  May  23,  1835,  dangh- 


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ter  of  Rev.  David  and  Jane  (Kirkpatrick) 
Kline  (see  Kline,  III).  Children:  i.  Ira. 
born  September  rj.  1855.  2.  William  L.,  .\pril 
6.  1857.  3.  Charles.  December  20.  1858,  died 
-April  3.  1859.  4.  Laura.  May  3,  i860.  5. 
Cirace,  July  8.  1862,  died  January  27.  1882.  6. 
Jenny.  September  5.  1864.  7.  .Anne  Eliza. 
.April  9,  1867.  8.  Frederick  T.  F.,  March  7, 
1869.  9.  Wayne,  see  forward.  10.  .\  child, 
born  and  died  1873.  11.  Madge  T.,  July  30, 
1875.  died  July  21,  1876.  12.  Voctor  .St.  Clair, 
September  12,  1877.  I3-  Ethel,  May  6,  1879. 
( IV)  Wayne,  son  of  John  Finley  and  Anne 
Eliza  (Kline)  Dumont,  was  born  in  Phillips- 
burg;,  Xew^  Jersey.  .April  4,  1871,  and  was 
fitted  for  college  at  Lerch's  Preparatory  Schonl. 
Easton,  Pennsylvania,  graduating  cum  laudc. 
in  June,  1888.  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year  he 
entered  Lafayette  College.  Easton.  and  was 
graduated  A.  B.,  cum  laude,  in  June,  1892: 
Ph.  B.  in  course,  1895;  M.  S.,  Latin  .scientific 
course.  .After  leaving  college  he  attended  upon 
the  lectures  of  the  New  York  Law  .Scht)ol.  and 
in  due  season  was  admitted  to  ]iractice  in  the 
courts  of  New  Jersey:  was  admitted  attorney 
of  the  supreme  court  in  February,  1896,  and 
attorney  and  counsellor  in  F"ebruary,  1899. 
Subsequently  he  received  appointment  as  spe- 
cial master  in  chancery  and  also  as  supreme 
court  commissioner.  In  November,  1907,  he 
was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  courts  of  the 
•itate  of  Xew  York,  and  became  a  meml)er  of 
the  supreme  court  of  the  L'nited  .States  in 
I'"ebruary.  1908.  Mr.  Dumont  is  engaged  in 
active  general  practice  of  the  law  in  Paterson. 
and  is  a  Reiniblican  in  politics,  but  without 
])olitical  ambition.  He  is  a  member  and  past 
mastir  of  Delaware  Lodge,  Xo.  52,  Free  and 
.Accepted  Masons,  of  Phillipsburg :  past  high 
priest  of  Eagle  Chapter,  Xo.  30,  Royal  .Arch 
Masons,  of  I'hillipsburg :  member  of  Paterson 
Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters:  Hugh  de 
Payens  Commandery,  No.  19,  Knights  Tem- 
plar :  Mecca  Temple,  Ancient  .Arabic  Order 
Xobles  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Xew  York  City; 
also  a  member  in  good  standing  of  all  the 
.Scottish  Rite  bodies  of  Masonry  in  i'aterson 
up  to  the  eighteenth  degree,  and  from  the 
eighteenth  degree  to  the  thirty-second  degree 
in  the  consistory  at  Jersey  City.  He  holds  life 
membership  in  all  of  the  Scottish  Rite  bodies 
of  Free-AIasonry.  He  also  is  a  member  of 
Paterson  Lodge.  Xo.  60,  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks;  the  Pomfret  Club,  of 
Easton ;  the  Alerchants"  Central  Club,  of  487 
Broadway,  Xew  A'ork  City,  and  of  the  Law- 
yers' Club,  of  Xew  A'ork.     He  is  a  member  of 


the  board  of  directors  of  the  (ierman  .Ameri- 
can Trust  Company,  of  Paterson. 

Mr.  Dumont  married,  October  26,  1898, 
Sallie  Insley,  born  in  Easton,  Penn.sylvania, 
July  20,  1873,  daughter  of  Edward  Insley  and 
Sallie  (Lesh)  Hunt.  Mr.  Hunt  is  a  retired 
merchant.  I  lis,  children  :  Alyra  Hunt,  wife 
of  Jacob  L.  Ludlow,  of  Winston,  Salem,  Xorth 
Carolina:  .Sue.  wife  of  William  E.  Howell,  of 
Easton,  I'ennsylvania ;  Sallie  I.,  Mrs.  Dumont: 
and  Xan,  wife  of  George  PI.  Meeker,  of  Media, 
Pennsylvania.  Two  children  have  been  born 
of  the  marriage  of  Wayne  and  Sallie  Insley 
(Hunt)  Dumont:  ^^'ayne  Hunt,  born  .April  6, 
1904.  died  P"ebruary  17,  1908:  John  Midey. 
1)1  ini  .\pril  2.  i(;t)9. 

iThe    KUne    Line). 

Johaim  Jacob  Klein  (Jacob  Kline),  of  Read- 
ington  township,  Hunterdon  county,  Xew  Jer- 
sey, was  born  in  Cermany,  March  6,  1714,  died 
January  6,  1789,  and  is  buried  in  the  cemetery 
at  Xew  Germantown.  Xew  Jersey.  He  is 
mentioned  as  one  of  the  signers  of  the  call  to 
the  Rev.  .Albert  Weygand  in  1749.  He  carried 
on  a  tannery  in  Readington  township,  and  the 
same  was  afterward  continued  by  his  descend- 
ants for  more  than  three-quarters  of  a  cen- 
tury. .About  1748  he  married  \'eronica  Ger- 
drutta.  daughter  of  Johannes  Moelich.  and  by 
her  had  seven  children:  I.  Johann  Wilhelm 
(John  William),  born  January  5,  1750.  died 
I'ebruarv  21.  1 818.  2.  Jacob,  see  forward.  3. 
-Mary,  married,  February  13,  1776,  John  Far- 
ley. 4.  Magdalene,  born  1754,  died  March  16, 
1774.  5.  Fanny,  married,  December  26,  1781, 
Jacob  Xeff,  Jr.  6.  .Aaron,  born  February  29, 
1760,  died  December  24,  1809.  7.  Peter,  born 
January  17,  1771. 

(II)  Jacob,  son  of  jnhann  Jacob  and  Ver- 
onica Cjerdrutta  (  Moelich  )  Kline,  was  born  in 
1 75 1,  died  October  22.  1823.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  tanner  by  occujjation  and  lived  at  New 
(iermantown.  Xew  Jersey.  I'or  nearly  forty 
years  he  was  a  ruling  elder  in  the  Zion  Luth- 
eran church,  county  freeholder  for  nearly 
twenty  years,  justice  of  the  peace  for  many 
years,  town  clerk  and  one  of  the  judges  of 
the  court  of  common  jileas  of  Hunterdon  coun- 
ty from  1806  to  1817.  He  married,  July  7. 
1782,  Phebe,  daughter  of  Peter  Xevius,  of  Am- 
well,  Xew  Jersey.  She  was  born  in  1766,  and 
died  February  18,  1845,  having  borne  her  hus- 
band twelve  children:  i.  Colonel  Jacob,  born 
.April  8,  1783.  died  Xovember  15.  1844.  2. 
Peter.  January  16.  1785.  died  October  18.  i860. 
3.   Faimy   (icrtrude.    February   28.    1787.   died 


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January  28,  1880.  4.  John  William,  December 
28.  1788,  died  September  17,  1847.  5-  Maria, 
April  17,  1791,  died  January  15,  1869.  6. 
Ann,  March  19,  1793,  died  February  20,  1795. 
7.  Phebe,  December  19,  179*'),  died  March  10, 
1874.  8.  Elizabeth,  August  i,  1799,  died 
March  25,  1880.  9.  Nellie  (Nelly)  Stooloff, 
July  4.  1801,  died  April  23,  1803.  10.  Cath- 
erine. July  20,  1804.  died  January  18.  1857. 
II.  Aletta,  February  17,  1808,  died  January  9, 
1879.     12.  David,  see  forward. 

(Ill)  Rev.  David,  youngest  son  and  child 
of  Jacob  and  Phebe  (Nevius)  Kline,  was  born 
November  14,  1812,  died  in  his  pulpit  while 
preaching,  as  pastor  of  the  Lutheran  church  ar 
Spruce  Run,  Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey, 
November  5,  1877.  He  married,  .\pril  18, 
1833,  Jane,  daughter  of  John  Kirkpatrick,  of 
Liberty  Corners,  New  Jersey.  She  was  born 
June  II).  1814,  and  bore  her  husband  twelve 
children:  i.  ^\nne  Eliza,  born  May  23,  1835; 
married,  October  26,  1853,  John  Finley  Du- 
mont,  born  November  11,  1824,  died  May  8, 
1889  (sec  Dumont,  HI).  2.  Phebe,  December 
3,  1836,  died  May  28,  1857.  3.  Peter,  Febru- 
ary 9,  1838.  4.  John  Cassiday,  November  25. 
1839.  5-  Jacob,  April  27,  1842.  6.  Frances 
Miller,  December  12,  1843.  7-  Ellen  Taylor, 
March  29,  1845.  8.  Mary,  December  5,  1846. 
9.  \^'illiam  Harrison,  February  26.  1849.  10. 
Alfred  Beaumont,  April  i,  1851.  11.  Jane 
Musier.  March  16.  1853.  12.  .Mice.  March  2j. 
1855- 


In  his  "Sui¥olk  Surnames" 
U  ['A" X(  )LI).S  so  good  an  authority  informs 
us  that  Runnels  is  "a  name 
taken  from  the  face  of  nature,"  and  from  the 
same  source  and  others  of  equal  reliability  we 
learn  that  the  surnames  Runnels  and  Reynolds 
are  regarded  as  synonymous,  merely  different 
forms  of  expressing  the  same  patronymic ; 
but  from  various  other  sources  it  is  discovered 
that  the  name  Reynolds  as  now  known  ajjpears 
written  in  not  less  than  forty-nine  different 
ways,  but  whether  Runnels  is  one  of  the  many 
variations  of  Reynolds,  or  vice  versa,  the 
standard  authorities  do  not  give  us  clear  light. 
It  is  said  too  that  Runnels  may  have  been  de- 
rived fruni  the  old  Norwegian  "Ronald,"  for 
we  find  the  name  of  I'.aron  Ronald  Urka,  who 
was  present  at  the  death  of  King  Haco,  the 
last  of  the  Norwegian  invaders  and  who  fell  at 
Orkney  in  the  thirteenth  century.  Hence  we 
have  the  North  and  South  "Ronald  sha"  among 
the  ])resent  names  of  the  islands  of  the  Ork- 
neys.   The  fact  that  Runnels  undoubtedly  is  a 


Scotch  patronymic  would  seem  to  favor  inde- 
pendent Scotch  derivation  for  the  name  itself, 
and  perhaps  "from  an  object  in  nature." 
Reynolds  often  sounds  like  Runnels  and  on 
that  account  the  latter  is  thought  to  be  a  very 
reasonable  corruption  of  the  former ;  yet  we 
must  go  farther  back  to  prove  the  identity  of 
these  nameSj  and  therefore  the  conclusion  is 
that  Runnels  is  for  the  most  part  Scotch,  while 
Reynolds  is  English  and  Irish.  The  particular 
Reynolds  family  here  considered  comes  to 
.'\merica  from  Ireland,  and  may  or  may  not 
have  been  of  ancient  English  origin ;  but  from 
whatever  source  it  originates  its  representa- 
tives stand  for  honest  endeavor  in  every  gen- 
eration from  the  time  when  its  immigrant  an- 
cestor crossed  the  Atlantic  ocean  and  set  foot 
on  the  free  soil  of  America. 

( I )  Thomas  Reynolds,  with  whom  the  pres- 
ent narrative  begins,  was  born  in  county 
.\rmagh,  Ireland,  and  came  to  this  country  in 
1827,  settling  in  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey, 
and  taking  up  his  home  on  land  where  now  is 
the  site  occupied  by  the  North  Jersey  Country 
Club.  He  was  a  weaver  by  trade,  a  skillful 
workman  in  his  line,  an  industrious  man  in  all 
respects,  thrifty,  frugal  and  honest.  He  died 
in  1873,  leaving  three  children.  The  family 
name  of  his  wife  was  Agnes  McCulloch.  At 
the  time  of  her  marriage  with  Thomas  Rey- 
nnlds  she  was  the  Widow  Cardwell,  and  by 
her  first  marriage  had  two  children:  Mary  A. 
and  Samuel  Cardwell.  the  former  of  whom 
married  a  McAllister.  Thomas  and  Agnes 
(Cardwell)  Reynolds  had  three  children.  John, 
Jane  and  Margaret. 

( II )  John,  son  of  Thomas  and  Agnes  (Card- 
well  )  Reynolds,  was  born  in  Portadown,  coun- 
ty .\rmagh.  Ireland,  March  11,  1826,  died  Jan- 
uary 6,  1909.  He  was  only  one  year  old  when 
his  parents  came  to  this  country  and  settled 
near  Paterson,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey. 
He  was  given  a  good  common  schcxal  educa- 
tion and  when  old  enough  to  leave  home  went 
to  Paterson  and  became  a  student  at  the  aca- 
demic school  of  which  Hugh  Dougherty  was 
then  the  master.  But  in  the  course  of  a  short 
time  afterward  he  set  out  to  make  his  own  way 
in  life,  .sjoing  to  New  York  City,  where  he  was 
apprenticed  to  learn  the  tailor's  trade.  This, 
however,  was  not  to  his  liking  and  he  soon 
al)andoned  it  for  the  trade  of  cigar  making  in 
the  Caldwell  cigar  factory  at  Caldwell,  New 
lersey,  where  he  remained  some  time,  then 
returned  to  Paterson  and  found  employment 
with  .Stephen  Allen,  a  manufacturer  of  cigars 
in  that   city.      He  proved   to  be  an   excellent 


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wdiknian  and  by  close  attention  to  his  trade 
and  the  interests  of  his  employer  he  soon  gained 
a  fair  knowledge  of  the  business  in  general ;  and 
as  a  result  he  was  taken  as  partner  by  John  Allen 
and  became  himself  proprietor  of  a  cigar 
factory  and  business.  In  the  course  of  a  few 
years  a  consolidation  of  interests  resulted  in 
the  organization  of  the  firm  of  Allen,  Reynolds 
&  Com])any,  which  firm  carried  on  an  exten- 
sive cigar  manufacturing  business  until  1872, 
and  then  was  dissolved.  Upon  the  dissolution 
of  the  copartnership  Mr.  Reynolds  retired  from 
the  cigar  business,  but  not  from  all  active  pur- 
suits, for  soon  afterward  he  became  president 
of  the  Ac(|uacknonk  Water  Company,  and  also 
of  the  Paterson  Gas  Com]3any  and  the  Pater- 
son  Savings  Institution,  both  of  which  latter 
positions  he  held  until  his  decease.  Thus  it 
will  be  seen  that  his  early  industrious  habits 
and  business  enterprise  eventually  gained  for 
him  an  enviable  prominence  in  connection  with 
the  ojieration  of  important  public  utilities  of 
the  city,  and  that  his  former  endeavors  received 
their  merited  reward.  lie  never  aspired  to 
j)oIitical  honors  although  from  1865  to  1870 
lie  served  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  alder- 
men. During  the  earlier  part  of  his  life  he 
was  actively  identified  with  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church,  but  afterward  transferred 
his  membership  to  the  Congregational  church. 
He  married  Elizabeth  Kempley  ;  children:  I. 
Wallace,  died  young.  2.  Alfred  C,  now  of 
Paterson.  3.  Edwin  L.,  now  living  on  Long 
Island.  4.  John  Henry.  5.  Lizzie,  married 
( J.  .S.  .Atterbury  and  lives  in  Chicago.  6.  Mary, 
married  Charles  Edwards,  of  Paterson. 

(Ill)  John  Henry,  son  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth (Kempley)  Reynolds,  was  born  in  Pater- 
son. New  Jersey,  February  11,  1855,  and  ac- 
(|uired  his  elementary  and  secondarv  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  that  city,  and  his  higher 
education  at  the  University  of  Michigan,  .\nn 
.Arbor,  Michigan,  where  he  was  graduated  A. 
B.  in  1876.  His  professional  education  was 
received  at  Columbia  Law  School,  the  law 
dejiartment  of  Columbia  University,  where  he 
completed  the  course  and  came  to  the  degree 
LL.  r>.  in  1878.  In  the  following  year  he  was 
admitted  to  practice  in  the  courts  of  this  state 
and  since  that  time  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Passaic  county  bar,  engaged  in  general  practice, 
with  an  especial  preference  for  ca.ses  which 
involve  questions  of  real  estate  law.  He  is 
not  in  any  sense  a  public  man,  having  little 
inclination  for  politics,  and  the  extent  of  his 
boilings  has  been  limited  to  several  years"  ser- 


vice as  member  of  the  city  board  of  park  com- 
missioners. 

He  married,  .\pril  7,  1881,  Cora  C,  born 
.April  10,  1856,  daughter  of  .\lbert  G.  and 
Sarah  C.  (Greene)  Stevens,  of  Buffalo,  New 
Y(jrk,  and  by  whom  he  has  four  children,  all 
born  in  Paterson :  Kate,  Beatrix,  John  .S., 
Doris. 


Thomas  B.  Peddie,  one  of  the 
I 'EDDIE  most  enterprising  and  successful 
of  the  citizens  of  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  began  his  business  career  in  that  place 
in  1833,  before  it  had  been  incorporated  as  a 
city.  Mr.  Peddie  was  a  native  of  Edinburgh, 
Scotland,  and  this  was  also  the  birth  place  of 
his  parents,  who  were  persons  of  more  than 
ordinary  intelligence,  of  great  industry,  and  of 
remarkably  piety,  his  father  being  somewhat 
noted  as  a  religious  exhorter.  To  the  example 
and  influence  of  such  estimable  parents  was 
young  Peddie  indebted  for  his  habits  of  in- 
dustry, as  well  as  for  his  self-reliance  and  his 
reverence  for  everything  that  is  essential  to 
an  honorable  and  pious  life.  Such  advantages 
for  an  education  as  were  within  the  means  of 
his  parents  were  accorded  to  him,  and  though 
not  great  they  were  (|uite  sufficient  for  the 
oridinary  purposes  of  life.  To  the  acquisitions 
made  by  him  as  a  schoolboy  he  subseeiuently 
ailded  largely  by  reading  and  by  contact  with 
his  fellowmcn  as  he  increaseil  in  years.  He 
was  fond  of  books  of  travel  and  of  the  accounts 
of  foreign  lands  given  in  the  newspapers  of 
the  day.  His  desire  to  visit  .America  was  thus 
aroused,  and  having  at  last  through  his  own 
industry  acquired  sufficient  means  to  gratify 
his  desire,  he  left  his  native  land  for  the  United 
States,  not  (|uite  decided,  however,  to  make  it 
his  [lermanent  home. 

In  1833,  as  already  stated,  he  found  himself 
HI  Newark,  New  Jersey,  a  place  wdiich  he  had 
been  induced  to  visit  on  account  of  the  rapid 
growth  of  its  manufacturing  interests.  Not 
intending  to  be  an  idle  looker-on,  but  deter- 
mined rather  to  obtain  a  thorough  knowledge 
of  the  new  people  among  whom  he  had  fallen, 
he  visited  the  various  factories  of  the  place, 
and  finally  ajiplied  for  em])loyment  in  the  great 
saddlery  establishment  of  Messrs.  Smith  & 
Wright,  the  latter  of  whom  became  sub.se- 
quently  a  senator  of  the  United  States.  He 
bore  about  him  no  other  commendation  than 
his  honest  face  and  manly  ways,  but  these 
sufficed  to  gain  him  a  desirable  position  in 
this  extensive  factory.     Here  he  remained  two 


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years,  when  having  become  familiar  with  tlit 
business  ways  of  the  land  in  which  he  had  now 
concluded  to  make  a  permanent  home  he  re- 
solved to  test  his  own  business  abilities  as  an 
operator  and  financier.  .Accordingly  he  under- 
took in  a  modest  way  the  manufacture  of 
leather  trunks  and  carpet  bags.  Success  at- 
tended him  beyond  his  expectations,  and  a 
large  and  lucrative  business  seemed  to  await 
him  in  no  distant  future.  For  ten  years  he 
continued  to  manufacture  alone  his  rapidly 
extending  operations.  In  1846  he  found  it 
necessary,  however,  to  take  a  business  partner 
to  assist  him  in  his  labors,  especially  in  keep- 
ing his  books  and  attending  to  his  growing 
correspondence.  For  this  important  service  he 
selected  Mr.  John  Morrison,  who  subsequently 
proved  himself  to  be  one  of  .\'ewark"s  most 
estimable  and  patriotic  citizens.  This  partner- 
shi])  continued  until  1861,  when  Mr.  Morrison 
died.  On  Mr.  l^eddie  alone  again  devolved  the 
care  of  his  immense  establishment,  and  to  it 
he  gave  his  undivided  attention  ;  but  the  burden 
being  more  than  he  could  long  carry  unassisted, 
he  sought  aid  eventually  from  one  of  his  most 
esteemed  and  accomplished  assistants.  Mr. 
George  B.  Jenkinson.  whose  familiarity  with 
every  department  of  the  complicated  works 
relieved  Air.  Peddie  of  much  of  his  labor  and 
finally  resulted  in  a  partnership  between  them, 
under  the  firm  name  of  T.  B.  Peddie  &  Com- 
pany. Under  this  name  the  business  was  con- 
ducted until  the  death  of  its  founder. 

For  many  years  prior  to  liis  decease  and 
indeed  until  within  a  short  time  before  that 
event,  Mr.  Peddie  was  active  in  discharge  of 
all  the  duties  of  a  good  and  ])atriotic  citizen. 
His  interests  led  him  to  take  a  prominent  part 
in  the  conduct  of  the  moneyed  institutions  of 
the  city,  in  many  of  which  he  was  an  influential 
director.  But  even  where  personal  interest 
did  not  call  him  he  was  e(|ually  earnest  and 
active.  In  almost  every  important  jjublic  move- 
ment he  was  among  the  leaders,  aiding  by  his 
advice  as  well  as  by  his  purse.  Of  the  board 
(f  trade  of  the  city  of  Newark  lie  was  a 
UK  st  efficient  member,  at  one  time  its  president 
;uid  at  all  times  an  earnest  participant  in  its 
jirocecdings.  It  was  undoubtedly  the  sterling 
honesty  of  Mr.  Peddie  which  pointed  him  out 
as  a  desirable  man  to  be  j^laced  in  public  posi- 
tions of  great  res])onsibility.  It  was  this  that 
sent  him  in  1863-64  to  the  state  legislature. 
where  as  a  member  of  the  general  assembly  he 
gave  valuable  support  to  the  general  govern- 
ment during  the  war  of  the  rebellion,  and  by 
his  influence  and  contributions  did  good  ser- 


vice in  behalf  of  the  Union.  During  the  period 
of  four  years.  1866-69.  he  was  mayor  of  New- 
ark, an  office  which  he  filled  with  credit  to  him- 
self and  advantage  to  the  city.  In  1876  he  repre- 
sented the  sixth  congressional  district  of  New 
Jersey  in  the  forty-fifth  congress.  (Inthe  expira- 
tion of  his  term  he  declined  further  nomination. 
Without  making  any  pretense  of  learning, 
Mr.  Peddie  appreciated  fully  the  value  of  a 
good  education,  and  this  is  shown  by  the  inter- 
est whicli  he  took  in  building  up  the  flourish- 
ing academy  in  Hightstown,  New  Jersey,  to 
which  was  given  in  honor  of  him  the  name  of 
Peddie  Institute.  He  was  one  of  the  early 
promotors  of  the  Newark  Technical  School, 
an  institution  for  which  the  city  of  Newark 
is  mainly  indebted  to  its  board  of  trade,  by 
which  body  the  first  steps  were  taken  for  its 
establishment,  with  Mr.  Peddie  as  chairman 
of  the  committee  having  charge  of  the  enter- 
])rise.  For  many  years  he  was  a  trustee  for 
the  Newark  City  Home,  a  school  to  which  he 
gave  much  attention.  Of  all  benevolent  enter- 
prises he  was  a  supporter,  ever  ready  to  ad- 
vance them  by  contributing  of  his  means  as 
well  as  by  his  personal  services.  On  New- 
ark's principal  thoroughfare,  nearly  facing  one 
of  its  beautiful  i)arks.  stands  a  house  of  wor- 
ship, built  of  gray  granite,  in  Byzantine  style 
lit  architecture,  and  capable  of  seating  three 
thousand  worshippers.  It  is  called  the  Peddie 
Memorial,  and  was  the  gift  of  this  beneficent 
man  to  the  congregation  with  which  he  con- 
nected himself  when  as  a  youth  he  came  to 
.Newark,  and  with  which  he  continued  to  wor- 
ship throughout  his  long  and  useful  career. 
The  erection  of  this  massive  pile  was  the  last 
work  of  Mr.  Peddie's  life.  It  is  one  of  New- 
ark's noblest  structures,  but  he  did  not  live  to 
see  it  completed.  The  name  given  to  it  was 
never  suggested  until  after  his  death,  which 
occurred  February  16,  1889.  .All  of  Mr.  Ped- 
die's designs  in  regard  to  the  construction  and 
ap])ointments  of  this  edifice  were  fully  carried 
out  by  his  estimal)le  widow,  who  followed  him 
into  eternal  rest  three  years  afterward.  She 
also  com|)lied  with  another  wish  on  his  part 
bv  giving  to  the  church  valuable  property  in 
New  >'ork  City  and  elsewhere,  which  yields  it 
a  handsome  revenue. 


The  ancestors  of  Edward  Charles 

EATON      Eaton,   of    Newark,   are   on    his 

father's  side  English  and  on  his 

motiier's  Swiss,  his  great-grandparents  having 

emigrated  to  this  country   from  England  and 

Switzerland. 


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(1)  Ignatius  Eaton,  father  of  Edward 
Charles  Eaton,  was  born  in  1833,  (hed  in  1868. 
He  received  a  common  school  education,  and 
learning  the  trade  of  a  machinist  entered  the 
employ  of  Hughes  &  Phillips,  w^ith  whom  he 
remained  for  the  greater  part  of  his  life.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Sentz.  Children:  I.Louisa, 
married  (ieorge  H.  Bath,  for  thirty-two  years 
in  the  employ  of  Isbell  Porter  &  Company  ;  two 
children :  Florence,  and  George  Edward,  de- 
ceased. 2.  Edward  Charles,  referred  to  below. 
3.  .Anna,  married  John  Roschwald,  of  833 
Broad  street,  Newark. 

(U)  Edward  Charles,  son  of  Ignatius  and 
Elizabeth  (Sentz)  Eaton,  was  born  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  December  14,  i860.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  and  the  Newark  high  school 
and  then  went  into  the  seed  business  which  his 
father  had  established  in  1859,  nine  years  be- 
fore his  death,  and  when  that  event  occurred 
he  continued  the  business  with  the  backing  of 
his  mother  until  1907  when  he  assumed  the 
sole  control  and  has  since  then  managed  it 
for  himself.  In  politics  Mr.  Eaton  is  a  Demo- 
crat and  he  has  long  been  one  of  the  prominent 
members  of  his  party.  From  1906  to  1908  he 
was  member  of  the  board  of  chosen  freeholders 
of  Essex  county.  New  Jersey,  was  a  member 
of  important  committees,  and  was  chairman 
and  speaker  of  the  house,  and  the  leading  mem- 
ber of  the  board.  He  was  chairman  of  the 
building  committee  when  the  new  court  house 
was  built,  and  took  great  pride  in  the  work. 
He  was  also  chairman  of  the  board  when  the 
county  insane  asylum  was  built  at  Overbrook, 
costing  tw-o  and  a-half  million  dollars,  and 
enabling  the  county  to  house  twenty-one  hun- 
dred people,  and  again  when  the  county  house 
of  detention  was  built.  He  is  also  one  of  the 
most  influential  men  in  the  Essex  County 
Democratic  Club,  and  is  the  treasurer  of  the 
Joel  Parker  Association.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Jeiifersonian  Club,  the  Gottfried 
Krueger  Association,  the  President  Lincoln 
Mutual  Aid  Association  and  of  the  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  No.  21.  In 
religious  convictions  he  is  a  Methodist. 

Mr.  Eaton  married  in  East  Orange,  New 
Jersey,  August  15,  1888,  Alida,  born  August 
7,  T864,  daughter  of  Theodore  and  Sarah  M. 
(Bedford)  Schenck,  who  were  the  parents  of 
five  other  children,  namely:  Theodore  Clif- 
ford, a  druggist  of  East  Orange :  married 
Elizabeth  Chandler  and  has  one  child  Ethel. 
Harry  E.,  president  of  the  American  Hame 
and  Bit  Company,  No.  39  New  Jersey  Rail- 
road avenue,  Newark ;  married  Mary  Besher 


and  has  two  children  :  Ellwood  and  Harvey. 
I'rederick.  married  Mary  Smith  and  has  one 
child  Edna.  .\nna,  married  George  Kelly  and 
has  one  child  George  Leroy.  Grace,  married 
George  Spaith  and  has  one  child  Ilortense. 


The  Bennett  family  of  New 
BENNETT  Jersey  which  has  for  two  gen- 
erations been  represented  in 
Newark  and  the  Oranges  by  Dr.  Frederick 
Norman  Bennett,  and  Dr.  Charles  Day  Ben- 
nett, owes  its  origin  to  the  New^  England  family 
of  that  name.  Dr.  Frederick  Norman  Bennett, 
being  a  descendant  of  the  Bennetts  of  Fair- 
field county,  Connecticut. 

(I)  Frederick  Norman,  son  of  Ezra  and 
Esther  ( Gordon  )  Bennett,  was  born  in  Weston, 
Fairfield  county,  Connecticut,  September  14, 
1820,  died  in  1885,  in  Newtown,  Connecticut. 
-After  receiving  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  he  entered  the  office  of  his  brother.  Dr. 
Ezra  P.  Bennett,  a  tlistinguished  surgeon  in 
Danbury,  Comiecticut,  with  whom  he  remained 
until  he  matriculated  from  the  Yale  Aledical 
School,  from  which  he  received  his  diploma  in 
1841.  In  1842  he  came  to  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
and  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession, 
soon  securing  the  confidence  of  the  people  in 
him  as  a  physician,  and  acquiring  the  very 
successful  practice.  After  his  second  marriage 
he  left  Orange  for  a  time  but  soon  returned 
and  remained  until  1 87 1  when  he  removed  to 
Newtown,  Connecticut,  where  he  remained 
until  his  death.  While  a  resident  of  Orange 
he  enjoyed  the  friendship  and  confidence  of  its 
best  citizens,  by  whom  his  virtues  and  the 
memories  of  his  exemplary  christian  life  are 
sincerely  cherished.  He  was  one  of  the  organ- 
izers in  1863  of  the  Orange  Memorial  Hos- 
I)ital  and  Training  School  for  Nurses,  and  one 
of  the  group  of  physicians  who  pledged  their 
services  to  the  institution. 

.August  29,  1843,  Dr.  Bennett  married  (first) 
.Abigail  Louisa,  daughter  of  William  Munn, 
cashier  of  the  Orange  Bank,  who  died  in  Sep- 
tember. 1849.  In  1852  he  married  Catharine, 
daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  Parkhurst,  and 
granddaughter  of  .Abram  J.  and  Mary  (White- 
head) Parkhurst,  who  was  born  in  1818.  Chil- 
dren, one  by  first  wife:  i.  William  Munn, 
now  living  in  New  York  City.  2.  Mary,  born 
July  31,  1855,  died  aged  fifteen  years.  3. 
Charles  Day,  referred  to  below. 

(II)  Charles  Day,  son  of  Frederick  Norman, 
M.  D.,  and  Catharine  (Parkhurst)  Bennett, 
was  born  in  Millburn.  New  Jersey,  January  25, 
1857.     After    attending   the   public   and   high 


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schools  of  Newark,  he  entered  Princeton  L'ni- 
versity,  from  which  he  graduated  with  the  de- 
gree of  Bachelor  of  Science,  in  1878,  being  a 
member  of  the  third  class  graduated  with  that 
degree  from  the  university.  In  1881  he  grad- 
uated from  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons in  New  York  City,  and  since  then  has 
been  engaged  in  the  private  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  giving  special 
attention  to  the  fields  of  medicine  and  surgery. 
For  eight  years,  from  1882  to  1890,  he  was 
physician  to  the  Newark  City  Almshouse;  was 
attending  ])hysician  and  surgeon  from  1890 
to  1905  of  St.  Michael's  Hospital;  from  1891 
to  1906  on  the  attending  staff  of  Newark  City 
Hospital :  from  1905  to  present  time  attending 
surgeon  of  St.  I'.arnabas  Hospital ;  in  1905 
was  appointed  on  the  medica.l  staff  of  the 
-Mutual  Benefit  Insurance  Company.  For 
eighteen  years  he  was  treasurer  of  the  Essex 
County  Merlical  Society  and  in  1909  its  presi- 
dent. He  is  a  member  of  the  Aledical  and  Sur- 
gical Society  of  Newark,  of  the  various  county, 
state,  and  national  medical  societies,  and  secre- 
tary of  the  Society  for  the  Relief  of  the  Widows 
and  Orphans  of  New  Jersey.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  University  Club,  of  Newark,  and  was 
elected  trustee  of  the  Newark  Museum  z\sso- 
ciation.  Dr.  Bennett  is  a  member  and  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Calvary  I'rcs- 
byterian  Church,  and  in  politics  is  a  Repub- 
lican. 

Dr.  Bennett  married,  .March  28,  1882,  Fannie 
E.,  daughter  of  James  H.  and  Maria  (Booth) 
Marley ;  she  died  February  22,  1890.  Married 
(second)  October  17,  1896,  Sara  Leeper,  born 
January  27,  1867,  daughter  of  Robert  and 
. 'ary  (Lowden)  Gordon,  of  One  Hundred 
and  Seventh  street  and  West  End  avenue. 
New  York  City.  Children,  three  by  first  wife; 
I.  Iris  B.,  born  January  5,  1883;  married  Will- 
iam F.  Law  :  one  child,  Virginia,  born  Decem- 
ber 15,  1907.  2.  Louise,  born  April  15,  1884. 
3.  Dorothy,  born  .April  26.  1886.  4.  Katharine 
Parkhurst,  born  .November  30,  1898.  5.  Elea- 
nnr  (iordon.  born  March  31,  1905. 


rhomas  Crocker,  first  mem- 
CROCKER  ber  of  the  family  of  whom 
we  have  definite  information, 
was  born  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  in  1824  or 
1825,  and  died  in  East  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
in  1904.  He  married  .'\delia  J.  Reed,  and 
among  his  children  was  Charles  Irwin,  referred 
to  below. 

(II)   Charles    Irwin,   son   of    Thomas    and 
Adelia  J.  (Reed)  Crocker,  lived  in  New  York 


City  and  at  Hudson,  W  isconsin.  He  married 
I'Zmma  Estelle,  daughter  of  Philip  Morehouse 
and  Elizabeth  (Bartlett)  Pierce,  the  former  a 
real  estate  broker  of  Beloit,  Wisconsin.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Roland  Douglas,  referred  to  below. 
2.  Charles  Philip,  died  as  a  baby.  3.  Anna 
Estelle,  married  Soren  P.  Rees,  of  Minne- 
apolis, Minnesota,  and  has  one  child,  Douglas. 
(Ill)  Roland  Douglas,  son  of  Charles 
Irwin  and  Elmma  Estelle  (Pierce)  Crocker, 
was  born  in  Massena  Springs,  New  York,  May 
2"],  1 87 1,  and  is  now  living  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey.  After  receiving  his  early  education 
at  the  public  schools,  he  took  his  degree  from 
the  L^niversity  of  Minnesota,  and  made  a  spe- 
cialty of  civil  engineering.  In  1896  he  entered 
the  office  of  the  Hon.  James  M.  Morrow,  with 
whom  he  read  law  until  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  as  attorney  in  1900.  Since  this  time 
he  has  been  engaged  in  the  general  practice 
of  his  profession  in  Newark.  He  is  a  Repub- 
lican. The  only  secret  societies  to  which  he 
belongs  are  the  college  fraternity  of  Psi 
L'psilon,  and  the  Junior  Order  of  United 
.American  Mechanics.  His  clubs  are  the  Law- 
yers Club  of  Newark,  and  the  Union  Club  of 
Newark,  and  he  is  one  of  the  directors  of  and 
the  counsel  for  the  Newark  Trust  Company. 
Mr.  Crocker  has  been  a  member  of  the  Na- 
tional Guard  of  New  Jersey  since  October. 
1901,  and  is  now  major  of  the  First  Regiment 
Infantry,  having  risen  to  that  rank  by  succes- 
sive promotion,  from  second  to  first  lieutenant 
and  cajitain. 

The  name  Miller,  belonging  as 
.\11[,L1''R  it  does  to  one  of  the  many 
numerous  so  called  trade  names, 
has  become  the  cognomen  of  a  number  of  en- 
tirely unrelated  families  in  this  country,  and 
apparently  the  ancestor  of  the  branch  at  pres- 
ent under  consideration,  seems  to  have  no  con- 
nection, with  the  exce]5tion  of  one  family  of 
the  same  name,  in  Philadel])hia,  with  the  vari- 
ous Millers  who  emigrated  to  and  remained 
in  New  England,  whither  the  foiuider  of  this 
branch  directed  his  first  steps. 

( 1 )  Joseph  Miller,  founder  of  the  family  at 
present  under  consideration,  came  from  the 
state  of  Connecticut,  in  1698,  and  settled  at 
Cohansey,  Salem  county,  New  Jersey.  Whether 
he  was  the  original  emigrant  himself  or  the 
son  of  the  emigrant,  there  seems  to  be  no  way 
of  determining,  in  as  much  as  the  Connecticut 
records  are  silent  in  regard  to  him.  It  is  most 
probable  that  he  emigrated  from  England  in 
order  to  find  religious  liberty,  and  like  so  many 


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others  wlio  came  to  Xew  England  for  the 
same  reason  found  that  unless  they  \vorship])ed 
(jod  according  to  the  Xew  lingland  method. 
there  was  no  freedom  there  for  them.  .\s 
Joseph  Aliller  was  a  Quaker,  the  only  place  in 
New  England  where  he  could  find  peace  and 
freedom  was  Rhode  Island,  under  the  more 
liberal  government  which  had  been  created 
there  by  Roger  Williams.  Thither,  such  men 
as  Richard  Lippincott  had  gone  for  refuge, 
when  driven  out  of  England  and  New  England, 
and  many  of  these  men  found  their  way  sooner 
or  later  down  to  the  Quaker  colonies  upon  the 
Delaware.  Joseph  Miller  was  a  land  surveyor, 
and  at  the  death  of  Richard  Tindall  he  was 
chosen  deputy  surveyor  for  the  lower  section 
of  Fenwick's  tenth.  The  last  mention  of  him 
in  the  records  as  a  surveyor  is  9th  month  13, 
1729,  when  he  re-surveyed  a  tract  of  land  for 
John  I'.rick,  lying  on  the  west  branch  of 
Gravelly  run  or  Stoe  creek.  He  probably  died 
about  1730,  and  his  son  was  appointed  his 
successor  as  deputy  surveyor  to  the  Salem 
tenth.  Joseph  ^liller  had  but  one  child,  Eben- 
ezer,  referred  to  below. 

(II)  Ebenezer,  only  child  of  Joseph  Miller, 
was  born  at  Cohansey,  1702,  died  at  Green- 
wich, New  Jersey,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two 
years  "with  a  comfortable  hope  that  all  would 
be  well  with  him  in  a  future  state."  He  was 
for  many  years  the  deputy  surveyor  for  the 
projirietors  of  West  Jersey,  and  no  name  is  of 
so  frec|uent  occurrence  in  their  records  as  is 
his.  In  1724  Ebenezer  Miller  married  Sarah, 
probably  daughter  of  John  Collier.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  i.  Ebenezer,  Jr.,  born  9th  month 
15,  1725:  married,  1751,  Ruth,  daughter  of 
Richard  Wood,  of  Stoe  creek.  2.  Hannah, 
born  1728;  married,  1740,  Charles,  son  of 
Daniel  Fogg,  of  Alloways  creek.  3.  Josiah, 
referred  to  below.  4.  Andrew,  born  1732; 
married  Rachael,  daughter  of  Elisha  and  Abi- 
gail liassett.  of  Piles  Grove.  His  son,  Daniel 
L.  Miller,  was  the  famous  merchant  of  Phila- 
delphia. 5.  William,  born  1735  ;  married  Mary 
Magere,  of  Wilmington,  Delaware.  6.  John 
Collier,  born  1737;  married,  1767,  Margaret, 
laughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Bacon,  of  Green- 


wich. 


Mark,  born  1740.    8.  Sarah.    9.  Re- 


becca, born  5th  month  17,  1747. 

(Ill)  Josiah,  third  child  and  second  son  of 
Ebenezer  and  Sarah  (Collier)  Miller,  was  born 
in  Cohansey,  in  1731.  About  1774  he  purchased 
a  large  tract  of  land  in  Lower  Mamiington, 
which  formerly  belonged  to  the  Sherron  family, 
it  being  the  southern  part  of  James  Sharron 
allotment  of  one  thousand  acres,  that  he  bought 


of  John  Fenwick  in  1676.  It  was  considered 
one  of  the  finest  tracts  of  table  land  within 
Fenwick's  tenth.  Soon  after  this  purchase 
Josiah  Miller  removed  with  his  family  to  this 
land,  on  which  he  built  the  brick  house  which 
descended  iii  his  family  to  his  great-grandson, 
Samuel  L.  J.  Miller.  He  divided  it  in  his  will 
between  his  two  sons,  Josiah  and  Richard.  In 
1760  Josiah  Miller  married  Letitia,  daughter 
of  Richard  Wood,  Sr.,  of  Stoe  Creek  township, 
Cumberland  county,  who  was  the  sister  of  his 
brother  Ebenezer's  wife.  Children:  i.  Josiah, 
Jr.,  born  12th  month  12,  1761 ;  he  never  mar- 
ried, and  after  the  death  of  his  mother,  who 
survived  his  father,  he  lived  with  his  brother 
Richard,  and  after  his  death  continued  living 
with  his  widow.  In  his  will  he  devised  his 
farm  to  her  during  her  natural  life,  and  after- 
ward to  her  son  Josiah.  To  his  nephew,  Josiah 
Miller  Reeve,  he  devised  .'?2, 500.00,  and  left 
other  legacy  to  several  relatives.  2.  Richard, 
referred  to  below.  3.  John,  born  in  1767,  died 
young.  4.  Letitia,  born  1769;  married  Will- 
iam Reeve  and  left  one  son,  Josiah  Miller 
Reeve.  5.  Mark,  born  1774:  (lied  young,  leav- 
ing a  widow,  Letitia,  who  survived  him  sev- 
eral years. 

(IV)  Richard,  second  child  and  son  of 
Josiah  and  Letitia  (Wood)  Miller,  was  born 
4th  month  15,  1764.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Wyatt,  daughter  of  Richard  Wistar,  of  Phila- 
delphia, by  whom  he  had  three  children  :  .Sarah, 
Letitia.  Josiah,  referred  to  below. 

(\')  Josiah  (2),  youngest  child  and  only 
son  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  Wyatt  (Wistar) 
.Miller,  was  born  in  .August,  1800,  died  August, 
1834.  He  was  a  farmer  at  Mannington,  New 
Jersey.  He  married  Hetty  Hall  James.  ChU/ 
dren :  i.  Richard,  of  Salem,  who  enlisted  in 
the  civil  war  from  that  county,  and  died  in 
the  Soldiers'  National  Home  in  Ohio;  during 
the  war  he  was  detailed  to  purchase  sujiplies 
for  the  army;  he  married  (first)  Elizabeth 
LUackwood  and  (second)  Susan  Wilde.  2. 
.Samuel  L.  J.,  a  farmer  of  Mannington,  New- 
Jersey  ;  married  Hannah  Ann  Rumsey.  3. 
Wyatt  \\  istar,  referred  to  below. 

(\T)  Wyatt  Wistar,  youngest  child  of  Jo- 
siah (2)  and  Hetty  Hall  (James)  Miller,  was 
born  at  Mannington,  Salem  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, November  i,  1828,  died  at  Salem,  Salem 
county,  1904.  He  was  a  farmer  and  an  iron 
master,  and  was  superintendent  of  the  iron 
works  at  Safe  Harbor,  Lancaster  county,  Penn- 
sylvania. He  was  the  discoverer  of  the  method 
which  made  what  was  later  know-n  as  Besse- 
mer steel.     He  married  Mary  Leggett,  daugh- 


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ter  of  John  and  Esther  ( Leggttt )  Griffen,  of 
Xew  York  City,  born  in  June,  1838.  Children  : 
I.  Josiah,  referred  to  below.  2.  Samuel  Law- 
rence, born  October  16,  1861  :  a  farmer,  now 
living  in  Salem,  New  Jersey.  3.  Robert  Grif- 
fen, born  .April  22,  1863;  married  Lily  Speak- 
man.  of  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania.  4. 
Mary  Griffen,  born  March  14,  1867;  married 
John  Forman  Sinnickson,  of  Salem  county, 
New  Jersey,  the  prosecutor  of  the  pleas  at 
Salem.  5.  Hetty  Hall,  deceased;  married  Col- 
lins Bassett  Allen,  a  farmer  and  ex-sheriff  of 
Salem  county,  New  Jersey,  and  now  living  on 
the  old  homestead  at  Mannington,  New  Jersey. 
6.  John  (jrift'en,  born  in  1869;  married  Caro- 
line Bowen.  7.  Wyatt  Wistar,  Jr.,  died  un- 
married at  Denver,  Colorado,  in  January,  1899. 
8.  George  Henry,  born  in  1871.  9.  Elizabeth 
Wvatt.  born  in  1874. 

(\'II)  Josiah  (3),  eldest  child  of  Wyatt 
Wistar  and  Mary  Leggett  (Griffen)  Miller, 
was  born  at  Safe  Harbor,  Lancaster  county, 
Pennsylvania,  August  8,  1859,  and  is  now  liv- 
ing in  Salem,  New  Jersey.  His  great-grand- 
father on  his  grandmother's  side  was  Samuel  L. 
James,  who  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Edward 
Hall,  of  ]\Iannington,  Salem  county.  New  Jer- 
sey. For  his  early  education  Josiah  Miller  was 
sent  to  the  public  schools  of  Safe.  Harbor,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  to  the  private  school  of  Miss 
Hawley,  at  Phoeni.xville,  then  to  the  public 
school  at  Salem,  New  Jersey,  and  then  pur- 
sued the  course  at  Rensselaer  Polytechnic  In- 
stitute at  Troy,  New  York,  intending  to  be- 
come a  civil  engineer,  entering  in  the  year 
1876.  He  did  not,  however,  graduate  but  re- 
turned to  his  father's  farm  on  which  he  work- 
ed for  a  time,  later  managing  another  farm 
for  himself.  After  this  he  engaged  in  the 
business  of  manufacturing  enameled  brick  at 
Oaks,  Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania,  the 
firm  name  being  Griffen  Brothers  &  Miller, 
Limited.  Subsequently  the  partners  incor- 
porated the  business  and  it  was  known  as  the 
Griffen  Enameled  Brick  Company.  In  this 
corporation  Mr.  Miller  held  the  position  of 
secretaryand  superintendent.  In  1894  he  was  for 
a  short  time  connected  with  the  Trenton  Terra 
Cotta  Company.  He  then  came  back  to  Salem, 
New  Jersey,  and  opened  a  general  store  on 
Broadway,  which  he  continued  to  conduct  for 
about  three  years,  when  he  sold  out  and  began 
the  practice  of  his  profession  as  a  civil  engi- 
neer and  surveyor  for  which  he  was  specially 
qualified.  To  this  profession  Mr.  Miller  added 
a  general  insurance  business.  In  politics  Mr. 
Miller  was  a  Republican,  active  and  influential 


in  the  affairs  of  his  party,  and  as  a  reward 
for  his  services  he  was  elected  to  the  office  of 
mayor  of  Salem  in  1905,  continuing  until  1907, 
being  the  first  Republican  to  serve  in  that 
capacity  for  twenty  years.  He  is  also  a  justice 
of  the  peace,  a  member  of  the  board  of  educa- 
tion of  Salem,  and  in  1887-88  was  the  township 
clerk  of  Mannington.  Mr.  Miller  is  a  member 
of  the  Hicksite  Quakers.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  of  the  Ancient 
(Jrder  of  L'nited  Workiuen. 

Mr.  Miller  married.  October  2%.  i885._ 
Mariana  Elkinton.  born  January  27,  1862, 
daughter  of  Clark  H.  and  Ann  L.  (Test) 
Thompson.  Her  father  is  a  native  of  Man- 
nington township,  Salem  county,  and  her 
mnther  of  Salem.  Children:  i  Alice  Thomj)- 
son,  born  April  21,  1887.  2.  Wyatt  Acton, 
June  17,  1892.  3.  Esther  Griffen,  January  19, 
"1894-  

The  Edgars,  of  Metuchen,  New 
VXy(  i  AR      Jersey,  with  the  various  branches 

of  the  same  family  resident  else- 
where in  the  state,  are  descended  from  a  Scot- 
tish family  of  great  antiquity  and  marked 
distinction,  whose  records  may  be  consulttd  in 
the  very  noteworthy  English  work,  "(Gene- 
alogical Collections  Concerning  the  Scottish 
House  of  Edgar,  with  a  Memoir  of  James 
Edgar,  Private  Secretary  of  the  Chevalier  St. 
George,  edited  by  a  committee  of  the  Grampian 
Club.   London  :  printed  for  the  Grampian  Club, 

i873-'" 

The  New  Jersey  line  springs  from  the 
Edgars,  of  Keifhock,  Forfarshire,  Scotland,  an 
estate  which  originally  belonged  to  the  noble 
house  of  Lindsay,  coming  into  the  possession 
of  the  Edgar  familj'  early  in  the  seventeenth 
century.  The  patronymic  is  found  in  that 
locality  from  an  ancient  period.  At  the  be- 
ginning of  the  thirteenth  century  the  names  of 
Robert  and  Thomas  Edgar  were  attached  to 
charters  granted  by  the  bishop  of  Brechin  in 
favor  of  the  abbey  of  Arbroath.  In  the  seven- 
teenth century  two  separate  branches  of  the 
family  of  Edgar  were  successively  lairds  of 
Keithock,  the  ultimate  proprietorship  being 
that  of  David  Edgar,  ancestor  of  the  present 
Edgars,  of  New  Jersey.  His  manor  house  is 
still  standing,  and  is  a  structure  of  elegant 
architectural  style  and  admirable  proportions. 
.\ffixed  to  the  mantel  is  a  representation,  carved 
in  stone  and  bearing  date  1680,  of  the  Edgar 
arms  (a  lion  rampant),  impaled  with  those  of 
the  allied  family  of  Forrester. 

David  Edgar,  laird  of  Keithock,  was  married 


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(according  to  his  family  IJible,  which  is  pre- 
served) to  Kathcrine  Forrester  at  Dundee. 
Scotland,  by  the  Rev.  William  Rait.  June  11, 
1674.  They  had  a  numerous  family,  the  fifth 
child  being  Thomas  Edgar,  the  American  emi- 
grant, of  whom  presently.  The  succession  to 
the  estate  of  Keithock  passed,  by  the  law  of 
primogeniture,  to  the  eldest  son,  Alexander 
Edgar  (born  May  21,  1676),  who  married  the 
eldest  daughter  of  Peter  Turnbull,  of  Smiddy- 
hill,  Forfarshire.  The  property  continued  in 
the  possession  of  the  Edgar  family  until  1790, 
when  it  was  sold.  .Vnother  son  of  David  Ed- 
gar, and  younger  brother  of  Thomas  Edgar, 
the  emigrant,  was  the  very  noted  James  Edgar, 
born  at  Keithock,  July  13,  1688.  With  another 
brother,  John  Edgar,  he  participated  actively 
in  the  Stuart  rising  of  171 5.  John  was  taken 
prisoner  and  died  in  captivity  in  Stirling 
Castle.  James  made  his  way  to  Keithock, 
borrowed  from  a  tenant  farmer  a  suit  of 
laborer's  clothes,  and,  thus  disguised,  escaped 
to  the  continent.  Becoming  secretary  to  the 
Chevalier  .St.  (leorge,  the  famous  pretender  to 
the  l!ritish  throne,  he  served  him  with  the 
greatest  fidelity  and  distinguished  ability. 
Secretary  Edgar  died  September  24,   1764. 

(I)  Thomas  Edgar,  fifth  child  of  David 
Edgar,  laird  of  Keithock,  by  his  wife,  Kath- 
erine  Forrester,  was  born,  as  exactly  related 
in  the  family  Bible,  on  "Wednesday,  19th  of 
October,  i()8i,  and  baptized  at  the  College 
Kirk  by  Mr.  Irving,  the  30th  of  said  month." 
He  came  to  .America  about  171 5,  purchased 
lands  in  New  Jersey,  lived  near  Rahway,  and 
died  there  in  1759.  He  married  Janet  Knox, 
who  was  born  in  \\'oodbridge,  March  16,  1689. 
Of  their  seven  children  were  David  (ancestor 
of  the  Short  Hill  brancli).  .Alexander  (an- 
cestor of  the  Woodbridge  branch).  William 
(ancestor  of  the  Rahway  branch). 

(II)  Alexander,  son  of  Thomas  and  Janet 
(Knox)  Edgar,  was  born  in  1722,  and  died  in 
1763. 

(III)  James,  son  of  Alexander  Edgar. 

(IV)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  James  Edgar, 
married  Mary  Freeman  and  had  twelve  chil- 
dren. 

(V)  Albert,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  Edgar,  was 
born  in  W'oodbridge,  New  Jersey,  November 
27,  1813.  He  was  a  farmer,  residing  near 
Metuchen,  Middlesex  county,  and  was  one  of 
the  founders,  and  until  his  death  an  elder  of 
the  Dutch  Reformed  church  of  that  community. 
He  died  in  Woodbridge,  New  Jersey,  October 
14,  1877.  "^f""-  Edgar  was  three  times  married. 
His  second  wife  was  Susan  Tappen  (born  Feb- 

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ruary  ly,  1813,  died  .September  12,  1855), 
daughter  of  William  Tappen.  Children:  i. 
William  Tappen,  resides  in  Raritan  township, 
Middlesex  county,  New  Jersey.  2.  Charles 
.Smith,  see  below.  3.  Milton  Albert,  resides  in 
Creorgia.  4.  Mary  Amelia,  dietl  at  the  age  of 
twelve. 

( \T  )  Charles  Smith,  son  of  .Mbert  Edgar, 
was  born  on  the  okl  Tappen  homestead  at  Bon- 
hamtown,  Raritan  township,  Middlesex  county, 
.Xew  Jersey,  September  22,  1848.  Reared  on 
his  father's  farm,  he  became  at  an  early  age 
attracted  by  the  superior  quality  of  the  clay 
on  that  property  and  vicinity,  and  as  the  result- 
ing tests  demonstrated  its  availability  for  terra 
cotta  and  other  jnirposes,  he  entered  into  co- 
partnership with  his  brothers  for  putting  it  on 
the  market.  This  association  continued  until 
1884,  since  which  time  Mr.  Edgar  has  con- 
tinued his  clay  interests  in  the  vicinity  of  Me- 
tuchen, under  his  personal  name.  From  early 
life,  during  his  travels  throughout  the  country, 
he  devoted  a  portion  of  his  time  to  prospect- 
ing. Hearing  on  one  occasion,  while  on  a  busi- 
ness visit  to  Boston,  a  somewhat  circumstantial 
account  of  the  existence  of  fine  clay  deposits 
in  Florida,  which  had  never  been  developed, 
and  of  which,  indeed,  all  exact  traces  had  been 
lost  by  negligence,  he  made  several  prospecting 
tours  through  that  state,  finally,  in  1890,  dis- 
covering the  beds  in  Putnam  county,  at  a  place 
now  called  Edgar  in  his  honor.  This  led  to 
the  production  on  a  large  scale  by  Mr.  Edgar, 
and  afterward  by  others,  of  the  remarkably 
fine  grade  of  potter's  clay  known  as  "Florida 
clay,"  which  in  the  past  fifteen  years  has  been 
universally  used,  entering  largely  into  the 
manufacture  of  vitrified  tiles  and  sanitary 
Rockwood-Deldare — fine  china,  and  other  deli- 
cate wares.  The  Edgar  Plastic  Kaolin  Com- 
])any,  organized  by  Mr.  Edgar  in  his  connection, 
of  which  he  is  the  head,  owns  some  two  thous- 
and acres  of  Florida  clay  lands,  and  has  an 
annual  producing  capacity  of  eighteen  thousand 
tons.  Recently  he  has  been  instrumental  in 
organizing  and  establishing  the  new  firm  of 
Edgar  Brothers,  now  engaged  in  mining  clay  at 
.Milltown,  New  Jersey,  and  in  putting  up 
kaolin  works  at  Mclntyre,  Georgia.  In  this 
firm  his  associates  are  M.  A.  Edgar,  I.  R. 
Edgar  and  David  R.  Edgar.  The  improved 
machinery  used  in  the  various  mines  and  works 
represents  to  a  large  extent  the  personal  inven- 
tions or  ideas  of  Mr.  Edgar.  He  resides  in 
Metuchen,  with  a  winter  home  in  Edgar, 
Florida. 

He   married,   December  20,    1882,   his   first 


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cousin,  Frances  Emily  Edgar,  granddaughter 
of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Freeman)  Edgar,  and 
daughter  of  Freeman  and  Sarah  Elizabeth 
(  Martin)  Edgar.  Children  of  Freeman  Edgar 
(born  May  24,  1820,  died  October.  4.  1895) 
and  Sarah  Elizabeth  ( ^^lartin  )  Edgar:  i.  I. 
Reynolds,  resides  in  Metuchen.  2.  Frances 
Emily,  wife  of  Charles  Smith  Edgar.  3.  Laura 
.\ntoinette,  married  Charles  Wesley  Price  (  de- 
ceased ),  of  New  Urunswick.  4.  Freeman  Mar- 
tin, resides  in  Newark.  New  Jersey.  Charles 
.Smith  and  Frances  Emily  (Edgar)  Edgar  have 
one   child,    .\lbert   Charles    Edgar,   born    .May 

2-/,   1898. 

This  surname  comes  from  Eng- 
MASl  ).\'  land  and  is  found  among  our  eld- 
est family  names,  but  it  cannot 
be  claimed  that  the  immigrant  heads  of  the 
several  families  were  in  any  manner  related  to 
each  other.  In  New  England  the  name  appears 
in  the  earliest  times  of  the  colony  and  those 
bearing  it  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  government  and  the  defense  of  the 
plantations  against  the  Indians.  In  New  York. 
Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey  the  Masons  were 
early  settlers,  and  the  family  proposed  to  be 
treated  in  this  place  dates  its  history  in  the 
latter  state  from  the  early  years  of  the  last 
century. 

(I)  John  Mason,  with  whom  our  present 
narrative  begins,  was  born  in  Nottingham, 
Derbyshire,  England,  in  1772,  and  his  wife, 
whose  name  before  marriage  was  Martha 
Wharton,  was  born  in  the  same  town  and  shire, 
and  also  in  the  same  year.  She  died  in  Nutley. 
New  Jersey,  in  1830,  and  her  husband  died 
there  two  years  later,  in  1832.  In  old  Notting- 
ham in  England  John  Mason  was  a  cotton 
spinner  and  carried  on  a  shop  of  his  own,  as  is 
shown  by  his  old  account  books,  several  of 
which  are  yet  in  possession  of  his  descendants. 
He  came  with  his  family  to  this  country  in 
1810  and  settled  in  New  Jersey,  at  the  jilace 
then  called  I'ranklin,  Essex  county.  There  he 
built  a  cotton  mill  and  established  himself  in 
business,  also  erected  a  stone  dwelling  house 
near  his  mill,  which  is  still  standing  and  is  yet 
a  very  substantial  structure.  Besides  the  mill 
and  his  residence  John  Mason  also  built  a  num- 
ber of  smaller  houses  for  the  use  of  his  em- 
])loyees,  and  the  tradition  is  that  he  was  a  very 
energetic  and  jirosperous  man  in  his  business 
affairs.  The  thriving  little  village  of  Nutley. 
near  Passaic,  is  built  up  around  the  site  where 
])ioneer  John  Mason  set  up  his  cotton  spinning 
establishment    something    like    a   century   ago. 


His  children  were:  John,  William,  Thomas, 
Charles,  Martha,  married  John  Parks,  and 
lietsey,  married   Abraham   \'reeland. 

(II)  Thomas,  son  of  John  and  Martha 
(  W  barton  )  Mason,  was  born  in  Nottingham, 
Derbyshire,  England,  in  1808,  and  died  in 
Paterson,  New  Jersey,  in  1878.  He  was  a 
child  of  two  years  when  his  parents  came  to 
America  and  settled  in  Essex  county,  New- 
Jersey,  and  there  he  attended  the  district  school 
and  later  learned  the  trade  of  cotton  spinning 
in  his  father's  mill.  He  worked  for  his  father 
a  number  of  years  and  then  went  to  Bristol, 
Rhode  Island,  where  he  had  charge  of  an 
oakum  factory,  and  lived  there  for  many  years. 
In  1855  he  came  back  to  New  Jersey  and  after- 
ward was  employed  as  manager  of  the  bobbin 
factory  in  Paterson  of  which  Peter  \'.  H.  \'an 
Riper  was  owner  and  proprietor.  He  remain- 
ed there  until  1870  and  then  set  up  in  business 
for  himself  as  a  manufacturer  of  belting,  con- 
tinued his  works  about  three  years  and  then 
retired  from  active  pursuits.  Thomas  Mason 
was  an  industrious  man  and  capable  manager 
and  his  endeavors  in  business  life  were  reward- 
ed with  success;  he  was  a  straightforward  and 
honest  man,  an  upright  citizen  and  one  who 
gained  the  respect  of  all  w'ho  knew  him.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Odell,  of  Parsippany,  New 
Jersey,  and  had  four  children,  two  of  whom 
are  still  living:  (jeorge  Clay  and  Martha  E.. 
the  latter  the  widow  of  Pierson  Van  Houten, 
formerly  of  Paterson,  and  veteran  of  the  civil 
war. 

(Ill  I  Ceorge  Clay,  son  of  Thomas  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Odell)  Mason,  was  born  in  Paterson, 
.August  10,  1845.  He  received  his  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  that  city  and  East- 
man's Business  College,  Poughkeepsie,  New 
\'iirk.  where  he  was  graduated  on  the  comjjle- 
tion  of  a  thorough  business  course.  In  1862, 
at  the  age  of  seventeen  years,  he  began  his 
business  career  as  clerk  in  a  grocery  store  in 
Paterson,  and  three  years  later  started  in  the 
same  business  on  his  own  account,  and  from 
that  time  until  1907  he  was  without  interrup- 
tion closely  identified  with  the  mercantile  life 
of  the  city.  CJn  February  7,  1902,  having  been 
in  successful  business  for  forty  years,  his  en- 
tire establishment  was  burned  to  the  ground, 
his  store,  residence,  barns,  and  several  dwell- 
ings closely  adjoining,  of  all  of  which  he  was 
the  owner.  On  the  morning  of  the  following 
day  he  was  established  in  a  new  location  in  a 
small  building  which  he  leased  for  his  imme- 
diate purposes,  and  from  which  his  customers 
were  sujiplied  as  before  and  without  any  ])ar- 


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ticular    inconvenience    to    themselves.      This 

disaster  occasioiietl  serious  loss  to  Mr.  Mason, 
hut  did  not  cause  financial  ruin  or  even  serious 
discouragement,  for  he  is  a  man  not  easily  dis- 
heartened and  is  possessed  of  the  fortunate 
qualities  of  determination  and  energy  in  an 
abundant  degree.  Had  it  been  otherwise  it  is 
doubtful  whether  his  business  life  would  have 
been  as  successful  as  it  has  been.  However, 
after  the  fire  he  soon  became  re-established  on 
a  basis  more  substantial  than  before  and  was 
proprietor  of  one  of  the  leading  retail  grocery 
and  provision  stores  in  the  city  until  1907. 
when  he  retired  and  was  succeeded  by  his  son. 
Francis  K.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  en- 
gaged in  a  general  real  estate  and  insurance 
business,  besides  devoting  personal  attention 
to  the  management  of  the  several  land  and  im- 
provement companies  of  which  he  is  a  member 
and  in  each  of  which  he  has  considerable 
financial  investments.  He  is  president  of  the 
Eighteenth  Street  Land  Company,  treasurer  of 
the  Laurel  Grove  Cemetery  Company,  director 
of  the  Cedar  Clilif  Land  Company  and  the  Citi- 
zens' Land  Company,  and  a  director  and  e.x- 
treasurer  of  the  liroadway  Land  and  Huild- 
ing  Company.  He  is  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Paterson  Oocers'  .\ssociation,  its  treasurer 
since  it  was  organized  and  still  holds  honorary 
membership  in  the  association.  h'or  man\ 
years  he  has  been  counted  among  the  jjromi- 
nent  and  successful  business  men  of  the  city, 
and  in  many  wavs  has  shown  himself  "a  good 
man  for  Paterson'"  and  the  interests  of  that 
constantly  growing  munici])ality. 

George  Clay  Mason  married.  .\o\  ember  15. 
1870,  Rocena.  born  May  25.  1844,  daughter  of 
William  and  Catherine  (Sigler)  AlcCully. 
Children:  i.  Francis  K.,  born  August  28, 
1872:  married  Anna  Mae  Smith,  born  April 
15,  1873:  children:  George  Clayton,  born  De- 
cember II,  1897,  died  June  24,  1899;  Carolyn, 
born  October  5,  1901.  2.  Elizabeth  Odell.  born 
January,  1874,  died  May,  1874.  3.  Florence 
Mae.  born  May.  1876,  died  March.  1877.  4. 
C'harles  \\'..  l)(>rn  June  26,  1881. 


This    family    is    probably    of 

Hl'GHES      Welch  origin,  but  is  first  found 

as  far  as  connection  with  this 

familv  is  known  in  northern  Ireland,  whither 

it  was  undoubtedly  transpt)rted  from  Scotland. 

(I)    Thomas  Hughes,  immigrant  progenitor. 

was  born  and  reared  in  llambridge.  a  suburh 

of  Pielfast,  Ireland.     Fie  came  to  America  in 

1844.  with  his   wife  and  children,  and  made 

his  home  at   Northeast,  Cecil  county,   Mary- 


land, where  he  died  in  1868,  at  the  age  of 
sixty-three  years.  He  was  a  linen  manu- 
facturer. He  married,  in  Ireland.  Mary  Craig, 
of  undoubted  .Scotch  ancestry.  Children:  I. 
John.  menti<ined  below.  2.  George,  married 
.\nnie  Franklin.  3.  Thomas,  marrietl  Mar- 
garet .Maiden.  4.  .Arthur,  died  yoimg.  5. 
Sarah,  wife  of  Moses  Thompson.  6.  Martha, 
died  young.  7.  Margaret,  died  unmarried.  8. 
Elizabeth,  died  unmarried. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (  Craig  I 
Hughes,  was  born  December  21,  1825,  at  ISam- 
bridge,  and  came  with  the  family  to  America 
in  1844.  He  settled  at  Northeast  and  secured 
a  position  with  the  wholesale  house  of  Lums- 
den  &  Company  in  lialtimore,  and  within  two 
years  was  taken  into  partnershi]).  .At  the  be- 
ginning of  the  civil  war,  when  ( ieneral  Butler 
took  ]Kissession  of  the  city,  he  was  one  of  its 
leading  merchants  controlling  the  sale  of  pro- 
vision markets  and  having  contracts  with  the 
liritish  government  for  supplying  its  army  and 
navy.  On  account  of  his  southern  sympathies, 
he  was  obliged  to  leave  Baltimore  and  went 
to  Xew  York,  where  he  became  a  prominent 
ship])er  and  one  of  the  leading  speculators  on 
the  ])ro(luce  exchange.  Having  been  trained 
to  the  linen  business  in  Belfast  in  comiection 
with  his  brother,  George,  he  established  the 
firm  of  George  Hughes  &  Company  in  1862, 
subsequently  located  at  198  and  200  Church 
street.  Xew  York,  dealers  in  linen  goods.  This 
firm  was  the  largest  in  the  business  up  to  the 
\'ear  1872.  The  conditions  imposed  by  the 
civil  war.  however,  broke  u])  the  business  of 
John  Hughes,  who  operated  his  own  vessels  in 
trade  with  England.  These  vessels  were 
destroyed  during  the  war  and  the  companies 
insuring  them  became  bankrupt.  By  this  and 
other  complications,  he  was  forced  to  discon- 
tinue business  and  assign  his  claims  against 
the  L'nited  States  government  in  the  Geneva 
-Award.  In  1868  Mr.  John  Hughes  relinquish- 
ed mercantile  business  and  removed  to  Plain- 
field.  Xew  Jersey,  where  he  dealt  largely  in  real 
estate.  He  was  induced  to  purchase  a  large  tract 
of  land  at  .Athenia,  two  miles  from  Passaic,  and 
this  he  improved  at  an  expense  of  $200,000. 
This,  coupled  with  a  loss  of  5125,000,  through 
cnildrsements  on  his  brother's  paper,  followed 
by  the  panic  of  1873,  cai'-'^ed  his  financial  ruin. 
In  conse(|uence  of  these  reverses,  in  1876,  the 
family  retired  to  the  farm  on  Chesapeake  Ray, 
formerly  used  as  their  summer  home.  Here 
they  resided  until  1883.  when  the  son  Frank 
brought  the  family  to  Passaic.  John  Hughes 
died  in  .August.   1889. 


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He  married,  March  8,  1853,  Mary  A.,  born 
December  19,  1832,  in  Cecil  county,  daughter 
of  Robert  and  Richarda  (Hopkins)  Dawson 
(see  Dawson,  \T).  The  last  named  was  a 
daughter  of  Dr.  Richard  Hopkins  and  a  niece 
of  Dr.  Johns  Hopkins,  for  whom  the  Univer- 
sity IS  named  (see  Hopkins,  IV)-  Children  of 
John  and  Mary  .\.  Hughes:  i.  Elizabeth,  born 
March  14,  1858,  in  Baltimore,  Maryland.  2. 
Frank,  mentioned  below.  3.  John,  C)ctober  5, 
1862.  4.  Mary,  August  10,  1864.  5.  Thomas, 
June  16,  1870:  married,  October  7,  1897,  Carrie 
Newman  and  has  son,  William  Bayard,  born 
.March  28,  1904.  6.  Arthur  S.,  June  15,  1873. 
The  first  three  were  born  in  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land, the  fourth  in  Brooklyn,  the  fifth  in 
I'lainfield,  New  Jersey,  and  the  si.xth  in  Clif- 
ton, same  state. 

(  HI )  Frank,  second  son  of  John  and  Mary 
A.  (Dawson)  Hughes,  was  born  November 
28,  i860,  in  Baltimore,  and  has  been  for  nearly 
a  (|uarter  of  a  century  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent citizens  of  I'assaic,  New  Jersey.  He  is  a 
self-made  man  whose  activities  and  broad 
smypathies  have  had  much  to  do  with  the 
steady  and  healthy  growth  of  the  community. 
His  career  furnishes  profitable  study  as  that 
of  a  notably  successful  business  man.  Al- 
though of  a  delicate  physical  organization  and 
having  been  deprived  of  many  school  advan- 
tages by  family  reverses  in  his  boyhood,  yet 
by  a  rare  combination  of  natural  mental  en- 
dowment, sheer  force  of  will  and  a  higher 
ambition  toward  the  best  ideals,  he  has  wrought 
his  own  advancement  against  what  would  have 
proven  in  many  lives  unsurmountable  obstacles. 
He  has  fought  his  way  to  a  position  of  acknowl- 
edged leadership  in  local  affairs.  His  prompt, 
almost  intuitive,  judgment  of  real  estate  values, 
and  his  peculiar  faculty  for  handling  invest- 
ments, have  made  him  an  expert  authority  in 
matters  pertaining  to  real  estate,  and  his  repu- 
tation is  extended  far  beyond  the  limits  of  his 
immediate  business.  His  counsel  is  frequently 
sought  in  important  municipal  problems,  and 
every  legitimate  enterprise  finds  in  him  a 
cordial  and  able  cIiam])ion.  Nearly  all  of  the 
imi)ortant  manufacturing  industries  located  in 
l-'assaic  during  his  residence  there  have  been 
the  direct  result  of  his  efforts.  .-Xt  the  age  of 
twenty  years,  having  wearied  of  the  quiet  of 
the  farm  whither  his  parents  had  retired,  he 
determined  to  strike  out  in  the  world  for  him- 
self. Fie  became  interested  in  the  Pdock 
system  of  telegraphy  then  in  use  on  the  Penn- 
sylvania railroad  running  through  the  farm, 
and  resolved  to  study  telegraphy.  He  left  home 


in  1882  and  after  a  brief  course  in  a  Philadel- 
])iiia  technical  school,  secured  a  position  as 
operator  at  the  Clifton  station  on  the  Delaware, 
Lackawanna  &  Western  railroad,  in  New  Jer- 
sey. Here,  amid  the  scenes  of  his  father's 
losses,  his  ambition  to  recuperate  them  by  real 
estate  operations  was  kindled,  and  his  first 
successful  deal  was  the  location  of  the  Clifton 
Rubber  Company  at  that  place.  He  decided 
to  enter  the  real  estate  business  and  went  to 
Passaic  early  in  1886  and  opened  a  small  ofiice 
on  Bloomfield  avenue.  This  field  was  already 
occupied  by  older  local  dealers  and  to  one  of 
less  resolute  nature  than  Mr.  Hughes,  the  out- 
look would  have  seemed  hopeless.  Without 
means  or  even  acquaintance,  and  in  the  face  of 
strong  prejudice,  Mr.  Hughes  has  made  his 
way  step  by  ste]),  until  he  occupies  a  position 
at  the  head  of  his  line  of  business  in  the  county, 
if  not  in  the  state.  Much  of  his  business  is 
transacted  in  New  York  where  he  ranks  among 
the  leading  brokers.  In  1889-90  he  was  em- 
])loyed  by  the  boards  of  trade  in  several  large 
towns  in  the  Indiana  natural  gas  field  and  spent 
some  time  in  aiding  the  development  of  that 
section.  Some  of  his  transactions  have  reach- 
ed as  far  west  as  California.  The  following 
list  of  industries  will  attest  his  activities  in  the 
upbuilding  of  Passaic,  as  he  organized  all  of 
them  and  is  either  secretary  or  president  and 
manager  of  all  save  one :  The  Passaic  Park 
Company,  Passaic  liridge  Land  Company,  Hill- 
side Land  Comjjany,  Main  .\venue  Improve- 
ment Company,  Minerva  Land  Company,  Pas- 
saic City  Land  Company,  Passaic  Homestead 
Company,  J.  L.  Hutchinson  Land  Company, 
Cooley  Land  Company,  Crescent  Real  Estate 
Company,  Henle  Land  Company,  Park  Heights 
Land  &  Water  Company,  Clifton  Development 
(.jimpany.  Saddle  River  Land  Company  and 
Lakeview  Heights  Association. 

Mr.  Hughes  was  one  of  the  organizers  of 
the  People's  Building  &  Loan  Association  and 
of  the  Hobart  Trust  Company,  of  which  he  is 
one  of  its  vice-presidents.  He  also  organized 
the  Newton  Cas  &  Electric  Company,  consoli- 
dating the  gas  and  electric  interests  of  that 
town,  of  which  company  he  is  now  managing 
director.  He  is  a  director  in  and  treasurer  of 
the  Montross  Bond  &  Realty  Company,  the 
44  West  Seventy-seventh  Street  Company, 
and  the  Allied  Underwriters  of  New  Y'ork 
City.  He  is  also  president  of  the  Dundee  Tex- 
tile Company  and  the  Passaic  Investment  Com- 
pany, and  is  largely  interested  in  several  other 
banks  and  trust  companies.  In  connection 
with  his  real  estate  business  Mr.  Hughes  con- 


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ducts  a  fire  insurance  agency,  re]iresenting 
some  of  the  largest  insurance  companies  in  the 
world.  On  January  i,  1900,  his  husiness  was 
incorporated  under  the  title  of  Frank  Hughes, 
(Incorporated),  with  himself  as  president  and 
treasurer,  his  brother,  Arthur  S.  Hughes,  vice- 
president,  and  George  F.  Allen,  secretary.  He 
has  devoted  himself  unsparingly  to  the  develop- 
ment and  building  up  of  Passaic  and  has  never 
hesitated  to  give  his  time,  energies  or  money 
to  any  project  looking  towards  its  advance- 
ment and  to  him  more  than  all  others  is  due 
the  remarkable  growth  of  the  city  of  Passaic 
during  the  last  quarter  of  a  century.  He  was 
at  one  time  president  of  the  local  P>oard  of 
Trade,  and  is  a  member  of  numerous  clubs,  in- 
cluding the  Maryland  Society  and  the  City 
Club  of  New  York. 

He  married,  Alay  23,  1889,  Inez  ,M.  Thurs- 
ton, of  Passaic,  born  February  10.  1864,  in 
New  York  City,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Hub- 
bard and  Alaria  Louisa  (  W'hitteniore  )  Thurs- 
ton (see  Thurston,  IX).  Children,  born  in 
Passaic:  i.  Gladys  M.,  August  1,  1890.  2. 
I'Vank  R.,  August  23,  1S91.  3.  Grace  P..  .Se])- 
tember  (>,  1892. 


Dawson  is  a  good  oUl  English 
D.WWSON     surname.      In    Maryland    and 

vicinity  it  is  a  well-known 
family  name  and  the  family  is  scattered 
throughout  the  southern  states.  Judging  from 
the  records  that  have  been  collected  the  ]5ro- 
genitors  of  the  Maryland  family  came  from 
England  among  the  pioneers.  \\"e  find  two  of 
the  family  in  Talbot  county  among  the  first 
settlers.  Francis  Dawson,  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  P'riends,  had  the  following  children 
recorded  in  the  Third  Haven  Monthly  Meet- 
ing: I.  Obadiah,  born  June  13,  1672,  died 
1694.  2.  Richard,  December  13,  1674;  mar- 
ried, 1698,  Susannah  I'oster.  3.  Elizabeth, 
January  11,  1677-78.  4.  John,  November  2, 
1678.  5.  Anthony,  June  13,  1683.  Many  of 
the  Talbot  county  families  may  be  traced  to 
this  ancestor. 

(I)  Ralph  Dawson,  the  other  immigrant,  of 
Talbot  county,  may  have  been  a  brother.  Of 
his  history  we  know  little.  He  died  July  31, 
1710,  and  is  mentioned  in  the  will  of  his  son 
John.  Children:  i.  John,  mentioned  below. 
2.  James,  executor  of  his  will.  3.  Richard. 
4.  Robert.    5.  Rachel. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Ralph  Dawson,  was  born 
about  1660-70.  When  he  died  in  1710.  he  left 
five  minor  children.  According  to  family  tra- 
dition he  came  to  this  country  in    168^.      He 


must  have  come  with  his  father,  and  as  the 
other  Dawson  family  was  here  earlier,  the 
date  1685  may  be  later  than  that  of  his  emi- 
gration from  England.  He  lived  on  the  west 
side  of  St.  Michael's  river.  He  had  lands  on 
the  east  side  of  the  Chesapeake  granted  under 
the  proprietary  government  of  Lord  Calvert. 
He  was  designated  as  a  gentleman,  indicating 
high  social  position  at  that  time.  His  will, 
dated  1710,  mentions  his  wife,  his  father,  his 
children,  brothers  Richard,  Robert,  and  sister 
Rachel  to  whom  he  bequeathed  land  on  St. 
Michael's  river.  Children:  i.  John  Jr.  2. 
William,  had  land  at  Bachelor's  Range,  Gall- 
away  and  Hilton's  Hope.  3.  Ralph,  mentioned 
below.    4.  Susanna.     5.  Elizabeth. 

( III )  Ralph  (2),  son  of  John  Dawson,  was 
born  about  1700.  He  was  a  minor  and  prob- 
ably (|uite  young  when  his  father  and  grand- 
father died.  .According  to  one  family  tradi- 
tion he  came  from  England,  but  the  evidence 
is  plain  that  he  w^as  born  in  'Palbot  county, 
Maryland,  after  his  father  and  grandfather 
came  there.     Children:    i.  Thomas.   2.  Jose])h. 

married  Pladaway;   had  si.x  children. 

3.  Impy  (peculiar  name  that  has  survived  for 
generations  in  the  family — one  of  this  name 
was  living  in  Maryland  in  the  same  county  in 
1790).  4.  James.  5.  Nicholas,  born  about 
1754,  died  1838;  married  Mary  Cook.  (The 
order  of  birth  of  these  children  is  unknown). 
h.  Elizabeth,  mentioned  below. 

(I\')  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Ralph  (2) 
Dawson,  was  born  in  Talbot  countv.  She 
married  I'.asil  Sewell,  father  of  General  James 
Sewell,  of  Cecil  county,  Maryland.  General 
Sewell  commanded  Fort  McHenry  in  the  War 
of  181 2  at  the  time  "The  Star  Spangled  Ban- 
ner" was  written  there.  Children :  James 
Sewell,  Clement,  Basil  Jr.,  Elizabeth  Sewell. 
Mary,  mentioned  below,  Thomas  .Sewell,  Basil 
.Sewell,  liyed  at  liayside,  Talbdl  county. 

(\')  Mary  Sewell,  daughter  of  Basil  and 
Elizabeth  (Dawson)  Sewell,  was  born  in 
Talbot  county.  She  married  Robert  Dawson 
(5)  as  his  second  wife.  Robert  Dawson  (5), 
son  of   Robert    Dawson    (4),   married    (first) 

Cooper.      Robert    Dawson    (4)    was 

doubtless  a  grandson  or  nephew  of  Robert 
Dawson  (2),  mentioned  above  among  the  sons 
of  Ralph  Dawson.  The  records  are  not  avail- 
able for  a  search.  Children  of  Robert  and 
Mary  (Sewell)  Dawson:     Maria  and  Robert. 

(VI)  Robert,  son  of  Robert  Dawson,  was 
born  in  Talbot  county,  died  July,  1894,  aged 
ninety-eight  years.  He  married  Richarda 
tiopkins.  daughter  of  Dr.  Richard  and   Han- 


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nah  (Hammond)  Hopkins  (see  Hopkins  IV). 
Child.  Mary  A.,  born  December  19,  1832,  mar- 
ried fohn  Huijhes.  (see  Hughes  II). 


Garret  Hopkins,  immigrant 
HOPKINS  ancestor,  came  to  America 
about  1661.  On  January  24. 
1661.  John  JSurrage  demanded  land  for  his 
own  transportation,  and  Margaret  Burragehis 
wife,  and  Margaret  and  Elizabeth,  his  daugh- 
ters; John  W'illson,  Garret  Hopkins,  and 
Mary  Thomas,  and  further  desired  that  his 
warrant  be  for  six  hundred  and  fifty  acres,  he 
having  already  three  hundred  entered  in  1658. 
The  land  was  in  Anne  Arundel  county,  Mary- 
land, where  Garret  Hopkins  lived  when  he 
arrived.  On  April  7,  1683,  Garret  was  a  wit- 
ness to  the  will  of  Francis  Holland  Sr.,  of  that 
county.  He  was  also  an  appraiser  of  that 
estate.  The  family  of  Hopkins  in  Coventry, 
county  Warwick.  England,  bore  the  same 
coat-of-arms  as  the  family  of  Garret  Hop- 
kins :  Sable,  a  chevron  argent  charged  with 
three  roses  gules  between  these  three  match- 
locks or.  Crest :  A  tower  per  bend  indented 
argent  and  gules  from  the  battlements  flames 
issuant  proper.  Motto:  Inter  Primos.  In  the 
town  hall  of  Coventry  there  is  a  [)ortrait  of 
Ezekiel  Hopkins  which  bears  a  strong  family 
resemblance  to  the  descendants  of  Garret 
Hopkins,  and  as  Ezekiel  is  a  common  name  in 
the  American  family,  it  seems  c|uite  possible 
that  Garret  Ho]5kins  came  originally  from 
Warwickshire,  although  it  is  not  known  defi- 
nitely. At  the  time  of  his  death  he  lived  at 
Peake  plantation,  not  far  from  West  river, 
about  a  mile  from  the  present  town  of  Owens- 
ville.  The  iilantation  was  inherited  by  his  son 
and  grandson,  and  is  now  or  was  lately  owned 
by  the  heirs  of  Dr.  Martin  Fenwick.  Garret 
Hojjkins  was  a  planter  and  shipped  crops  to 
England,  having  money  there  to  his  credit. 
He  was  evidently  comfortably  well  ofif.  His 
will  was  dated  October  12,  1691,  and  proved 
in  June  or  July,  1692.  The  inventory  of  his 
estate  was   filed  July  23,    1692.      He  married 

Thomson .  probably   Eard.     Children, 

order  of  birth  uncertain:  i.  Gerard,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  .\nn,  married  at  .St.  James 
parish,  December  10,  1699,  Henry  Roberts. 
3.  Thomson  or  Thomasin,  died  about  1715: 
married  at  All  Hallows  Parish,  March  13, 
1700.  John  Welsh.  4.  Mary,  died  1758;  mar- 
ried at  St.  James'  Parish,  .-\ugust  9,  1705. 
Thomas  Wells. 

(Ill    (ierard,    son    of    (iarrtt    llojjkins,    re- 
-.ided  on  his  fatherV  i)lantati(  m.     lie  liecame  a 


Quaker,  took  a  prominent  part  in  their  meet- 
ings, and  served  on  important  committees  in 
the  church.  In  1706  he  accounted  for  tobacco 
taken  as  ta.xes.  and  in  1732  was  appointed  one 
of  a  committee  to  welcome  Lord  Ijaltimore. 
His  name  appears  as  a  witness  on  many  mar- 
riage certificates.  He  served  often  on  com- 
mittees to  settle  differences  between  the  mem- 
bers of  the  church.  In  addition  to  the  Peake 
plantation,  he  owned  several  tracts  of  land  in 
Anne  Arundel  county.  His  will  was  dated 
January  i,  1741-42.  and  proved  February  2, 
1743-44.  administration  being  granted  to  his 
widow.  He  married,  intentions  dated  January 
II.  1700-01.  Margaret  Johnes.  Children:  i. 
Elizabeth,  born  March  13,  1703,  died  .April  27, 
1772:  married,  January  10,  1722-23,  Levin 
Hill.  2.  Joseph,  November  2,  1706;  married, 
August  17,  1727,  Ann  Chew.  3.  Gerard. 
March  7.  1709.  died  September  3.  1777;  mar- 
ried. r^Iay  7,  1730,  Mary  Hall.  4.  Philip. 
March  9,  171 1,  died  1757;  married,  1736,  Eliz- 
abeth Hall.  5.  Samuel,  January  16,  1713;  said 
to  have  married  Sarah  Giles.  6.  Richard,  De- 
cember 15,  1715;  said  to  have  married  Kathe- 
rine  Todd.  7.  William.  August  8,  1718;  mar- 
ried Rachel  Orrick.  8.  Johns,  mentioned 
below. 

(HI)  Johns,  son  of  Gerard  Hopkins,  was 
born  October  30.  1720.  died  November  4, 
1783.  He  was  also  a  prominent  Quaker,  serv- 
ing on  various  committees  and  as  "visitor." 
His  farm,  which  he  had  inherited  from  his 
father,  adjoined  that  of  his  brother  Gerard. 
His  will  was  dated  August  7,  1783.  and  proved 
July  30,  1784.  He  died  November  4,  1783. 
He  was  a  man  of  great  strength  of  body  and 
mind.  He  died  of  consumption,  of  many  years 
duration.  liefore  his  death  he  freed  his 
slaves.  He  married  (first)  Mary  Gilliss.  Mar- 
ried (second)  about  1747,  I\iary  Crockett, 
widow  of  John  Crockett  2nd,  and  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Rebecca  (Johns)  Richardson. 
Married  (third)  Elizabeth  Thomas,  who  died 
in  1804.  She  was  born  March  10,  1736-37, 
(laughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Snowden) 
'Ihomas.  She  was  "modest  and  retiring,  yet 
communicative  and  intelligent,  with  a  retentive 
memory,  well  stored  with  a  variety  of  pleasing 
and  ever  interesting  tales,  sketches  and  anec- 
dotes from  history,  poetry,  and  passing  events. 
Her  house  was  large  and  she  was  fond  of  soci- 
ety. It  was  a  place  of  resort  for  I-'riends.  and 
many  were  pleasantly  entertained  there.  All 
her  children  married,  with  the  exception  of 
her  youngest  son,  and  it  was  a  pleasant  sight, 
when  thev  met   at   her  house  with  their  cliil- 


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dren.  to  behold  the  happiness  expressed  in  her 
countenance,  which  seemed  to  be  communi- 
cated from  one  to  another.  She  was  the  doc- 
tress  of  the  neighborhood  poor.  She  was 
remarkably  healthv  for  one  of  her  age  and  her 
mind  was  unimpaired  when  she  died  after  a 
few  days  illness,  of  bilious  fever,  in  the  autumn 
of  1804."  Child  of  first  wife:  Ezekiel,  born 
May  II.  1747.  Child  of  second  wife:  Johns, 
born  July  8,  175 1  ;  married  (first)  May  30. 
1775,  Elizabeth  Harris;  (second)  April  13. 
1779,  Catherine  Howell.  Children  of  third 
wife:  I.  Samuel,  born  February  3.  1759.  died 
February  9,  1814:  married  Hannah  Janney : 
was  father  of  Johns  Hopkins,  for  whom  the 
university  is  named.  2.  Philip,  September  24, 
1760;  married,  March  21,  1787,  Mary  Boone. 

3.  Richard,  March  2.  1762,  mentioned  below. 

4.  Mary,  January  7,  I7'^)4:  married.  1787, 
Samuel  Peach.  5.  Alargaret,  February  20, 
1766;  married  Jesse  Tyson.  6.  (jerard,  Octo- 
ber 24,  1769:  married,  1796,  Dorothy  Brooke. 
7.  Elizabeth,  .April  26,  1771  :  married,  March 
26,  1795,  John  Janney.  8.  Evan,  Xovember 
30,  1772;  married,  January  25,  1810.  Elizabeth 
Hopkins.  9.  .Ann,  February  26,  1775  ;  mar- 
ried, November  5,  1801,  Thomas  Shrieves.  10. 
Rachel,  September  7,  1777:  married  March 
29,  1804,  Robert  Hough.  11.  William,  Janu- 
ary 28,  1781  ;  died  unmarried. 

(I\')  Dr.  Richard,  son  of  Johns  Hopkins, 
was  born  March  2,  1762.  He  married  Han- 
nah Hammond.  He  had  a  daughter  Richarda, 
will  I    married    Robert   Dawson    (see    Dawson, 

\n. 


Some  authorities  claim  the 
THL'RSTOX  name  Thurston  to  have 
originated  from  the  Danish 
troest,  meaning  trusty,  faithful,  while  others 
claim  it  is  from  the  god  Thor,  and  a  word 
meaning  stone,  signifying  "stone  of  Thor." 
The  name  was  early  known  in  several  coun- 
ties of  England,  and  Thurston  was  one  of  the 
archbishops  of  Fife,  Scotland,  in  tlie  twelfth 
century. 

(1)  John  Thurston,  a  car])enter  of  Wrent- 
ham,  Suffolk  county,  luigland,  was  baptized 
January  13,  1601,  died  at  Aledfield,  Massachu- 
setts, November  i,  1685.  He  embarked  in  the 
"Mary  Anne,"  from  Yarmouth,  England,  May 
TO,  1637,  at  the  age  of  thirty-six,  with  his  wife 
Margaret,  aged  thirty-two,  and  two  sons.  He 
was  received  into  the  church  at  Dedham, 
Massachusetts,  March  28,  1641,  and  his  wife 
June  28,  1640.  He  was  made  freeman  May 
10,  1643,  and  in  that  year  received  a  grant  of 


land  in  Dedham,  in  that  part  afterward  set  off 
as  Medfield.  His  wife  died  May  9,  1662. 
Their  children  were:  I.  Thomas,  baptized  at 
W'rentham.  England,  .\ugust  4,  i'')33.  2.  John, 
baptized  at  W'rentham,  Septenii)er  13,  1635. 
3.  Joseph,  born  at  Dedham,  baptized  July  15, 
if)40.  4.  Benjamin,  born  May  8,  l)a])tized  July 
15,  1640.  5.  Mary,  born  January  8,  baptized 
January  12,  1643.  ^-  Uaniel.  7.  Judith,  born 
March  17,  baptized  March  29,  1648.  8.  Han- 
nah, born  February  28,  1650. 

(H)  Daniel,  fifth  and  youngest  son  of  John 
and  Margaret  Thurston,  was  born  May  5, 
1646,  at  Medfield,  Massachusetts,  being  bap- 
tized May  12,  and  died  July  2^.  1683;  he  was 
received  into  the  church  at  Dedham,  May  20, 

1643.  He  married  (first)  Maria ,  who  died 

at  Medfield,  May  21,  1680.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) December  16,  1681,  Hannah  Miller;  at 
the  time  of  his  second  marriage  he  was  living 
at  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts.  His  children 
were:  I.  Daniel.  2.  ]5enjamin,  born  February 
[7,  1678,  died  March  26,  1680.  3.  Sarah, 
January    2,    1683, 

(HI)  Daniel  (2),  son  of  Daniel  (i)  and 
Maria  Thurston,  was  born  February  14,  1674, 
and  was  a  weaver  of  cloth,  living  at  Uxbridge, 
Massachusetts.  He  married  (first)  December 
28,  1(^)9,  Experience  Warren,  who  died  Sep- 
tember 6,  1704,  and  (second)  October  15, 
1705,  Martha  Allen,  of  Medway.  His  children 
were  :  I.  Joseph.  2.  and  3.  Daniel  and  Increase, 
twins,  born  February  19,  1702;  the  latter  died 
May  29,  1702.  4.  Diana,  born  May  12,  died 
May  19,  1707.  5.  Martha,  March  23,  1709.  6. 
Pienjamin.  December  25,  171 1.  7.  Mary, 
.\ugust  13,  1714.  8.  Daniel,  November  21, 
i7i(>.  9.  Ebenezer.  September  22,  17 18.  10. 
Elizabeth,  October  22.  1720.  n.  David.  12. 
Calvin.  13.  Moses,  September  17,  1733.  14. 
Lydia.  August  26,  1735.  15.  Sarah,  April  9, 
1742,  died  young. 

(IV)  Joseph,  oldest  son  of  Daniel  (2)  and 
E>perience  (Warren)  Thurston,  was  born 
Octoljer  14,  1700;  he  lived  at  Westboro,  Mass- 
achusetts, where  he  owned  a  farm,  and  where 
he  and  his  wife  were  admitted  to  the  church, 
bv  letter,  Xovember  8,  1741.  l>y  his  wife, 
Diinthy  Frizzell,  he  had  children  as  follows: 
I.  .\mariah,  born  January  17,  1734.  2.  Doro- 
thy, January  26.  1735.  3.  Experience,  died 
December  11,  1750.  4.  Zeruah,  born  1738.  5. 
Joseph.    6.  Samuel,  born  February  i,  1744. 

(V)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i)  and 
Dorothy  (Frizzell)  Thurston,  was  born  De- 
cember 29,  1739,  at  Westboro,  Massachusetts, 
died   August    13,    1822,  at   North    Brookfield, 


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STATE   OF    NEW    TERSEY. 


Massachusetts.  He  removed  to  Spencer  or 
Leicester,  thence  to  Brookfield,  and  married. 
.•Xujrust  30.  1763.  Thankful  Wood,  of  W'est- 
boro,  born  April  5.  1740,  died  April  20,  1824. 
Children,  born  at  Brookfield:  i.  Joseph.  2. 
Thankful,  born  October  11,  1766. 

(VI)  Joseph  (3),  only  son  of  Joseph  (2) 
and  Thankful  (Wood)  Thurston,  was  born 
September  11,  1764.  at  Brookfield,  Massachu- 
setts, died  February  2,  1814.  He  was  a  trader 
at  North  Brookfield,  and  manufactured  potash. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church.  He  married,  Januar}'  27,  1793,  Polly 
Hubbard,  born  March  12,  1766,  at  Leicester, 
Massachusetts,  died  March  3,  1804,  and  their 
children  were:  I.  Lyman,  born  January  16, 
1794.  2.  Joseph,  January  29,  died  August  8, 
1796.  3.  Joseph.  4.  Mary,  July  Ti,  1799,  died 
same  day.  5.  Daniel,  September  4,  i8oo.  6. 
Mary,  January  13.  died  March  3,  1803.  7. 
Mary  Hubbard,  .March,  1804. 

(\'n)  Joseph  (4),  third  son  of  Joseph  (3) 
and  Polly  (Hubbard)  Thurston,  was  born 
June  7,  1797,  at  Brookfield,  Massachusetts, 
and  was  a  farmer.  He  lived  some  time  at 
Leicester.  Massachusetts :  he  lived  with  and 
took  care  of  his  uncle,  J.  Hubbard,  of  Pa.xton, 
and  at  his  death  came  into  possession  of  the 
estate.  About  185 1  he  sold  his  farm  and  re- 
moved to  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
invested  in  real  estate,  and  lived  there  until  his 
death,  October  30,  1857.  He  married,  June 
25,  1823,  Lucy  Buckman,  <laughter  of  Deacon 
David  and  Patty  (Howe)  Davis,  of  Paxton ; 
after  the  death  of  her  husband  she  resided  at 
Worcester  with  her  daughter  .\bigail  Brown. 
Their  ciiildren  were:  i.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born 
May  12.  1824,  died  June  21,  1826.  2.  .Abigail 
Brown,  April  4,  1827.  3.  Jonathan  Hubbard. 
4.  Lyman  Davis,  September  8,  1832.  5.  Mar- 
tha Howe,  November  28,  1834.  6.  Sarah  Ideal. 
February  28,  1840.  died  January  24.  1845.  7. 
Joseph  Harrison.  March  21.  1842.  died  Janu- 
ary 2,  1843. 

(\'IH)  Jonathan  Hubbard,  oldest  son  of 
Joseph  (4)  and  Lucy  Buckman  (Davis) 
Thurston,  was  born  October  11.  1829,  at  Pax- 
ton,  Massachusetts,  died  in  1904.  While  living 
in  Leicester,  Massachusetts,  he  was  engaged  as 
salesman  and  merchant ;  subsequently  he  re- 
moved to  Passaic,  New  Jersey,  where  he  be- 
came a  city  councilman.  Later  he  removed  to 
Lincoln,  Delaware,  and  while  living  there 
joined  the  Presbyterian  church  of  Milford. 
He  married,  April  10,  1851,  Maria  Louisa, 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary  (Parker)  Whit- 
temore,  born  at   Charlestown,   Massachusetts. 


who  since  the  death  of  her  husband  resides 
with  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Mark  L.  Bennett. 
They  had  children  as  follows:  I.  Effie  (7ier- 
trude,  born  .September  6,  1855,  at  Leicester, 
Massachusetts;  married,  June  25,  1877,  Charles 
Barker,  of  Lincoln,  Delaware,  and  has  two 
children :  Madeline  .\manda,  born  November 
25.  1878,  and  Sadie  Waterhouse,  January  25, 
1 88 1.  2.  Inez  Alay.  3.  Alabel  Louise,  Sep- 
tember 30,  1869,  at  Passaic,  New  Jersey:  mar- 
ried Mark  L.  Bennett,  of  Maryland. 

(IX)  Inez  ^lay,  second  daughter  of  Jona- 
than Hubbard  and  Maria  Louisa  ( Whitte- 
more)  Thurston,  was  born  February  10,  1864, 
at  New  York  City.  She  married.  May  23, 
1889,  Frank  Hughes,  of  Passaic.  New  Jersey, 
(see  Hughes,  HI). 


Henry  Sewell,  immigrant  an- 
SEWELL      cestor,  came  from  England  to 

Virginia,  before  1632,  and 
from  him  Sewell's  Point  at  the  entrance  to 
Elizabeth  river,  opposite  Fortress  Monroe, 
takes  its  name.  At  the  court  holden  May  31, 
1640.  Henry  .'^ewell  and  Captain  Sibley  were 
authorized  to  build  a  church  at  Sewell's  Point, 
and  August  2,  1640,  they  and  others  were 
directed  to  pay  ]\Ir.  Thomas  Harrison,  the 
minister.  This  was  an  independent  church. 
He  was  elected  to  the  house  of  burgesses  from 
Elizabeth  City  in  1632  and  from  Lower  Nor- 
folk coun.ty  in  1639.  We  have  an  account  of 
Henry  Sewell  of  Sewell's  Point  from  his  factor 
in  London  of  tobacco  sent  over  in  the  ships 
".\merica  and  .Alexandria"  and  for  one-half 
of  a  cargo  in  a  shallojj  with  sassafras  roots, 
sold  in  England,  and  showed  cash  receipts  to 
have  been  six  hundred  and  fifty  pounds,  nine- 
teen shillings  and  six  pence.  He  married 
.Mice,  daughter  of  Thomas  Willoughby.  who 
came  to  \'irginia  in  1610,  was  justice  of  Eliz- 
abeth City  in  1O28.  burgess,  1629-32,  and 
councilor  from  i()44  to  1630.  Henry  Sewell 
died  in  1644,  and  at  a  court  held  that  year  in 
Lower  Norfolk  county  at  the  house  of  Ensign 
Laml)ert,  h"ebruar\-  20.  Mathew  Philii)s,  his 
administrator,  was  ordered  to  pay  Thomas 
Harrison,  clerk,  one  thousand  pounds  of 
tobacco  for  "l)nrial  and  preaching  of  ihe  funeral 
sermon  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sewell,  deceased, 
and  for  breaking  ground  in  the  chancel  of  the 
church  for  the  burial  of  .Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sew- 
ell." At  a  subse<|uent  session  of  the  court, 
February  25,  1649,  it  appeared  that  the  admin- 
istrator died  before  settling  the  estate  and  the 
son,  Henry  Sewell,  then  ten  years  old,  was 
ordered  sent  abroad  in  charcrc  of  his  kinsman. 


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793 


Mr.  Thomas  Lee.  Children:  i.  Anne,  born 
1634  or  earher  ;  married,  about  1649,  Lemuel 
Mason  (she  was  married  before  February  25, 
1740-50).  2.  Henry,  1639,  accorditig  to  a 
deposition  dated  1662,  and  died  without  issue, 
according  to  a  deposition  taken  in  1672.  f  Hut 
there  was  probably  another  son  Henry,  a  not 
uncommon  custom  in  flngland  being  to  name 
two  sons  with  the  same  baptismal  name,  to  the 
utter  confusion  of  the  genealogist). 

(II)  Henry  (2)  Sewell,  the  pioneer  in 
Maryland,  is  stated  on  good  authority  to  be 
son  of  Henry  (i)  Sewell.  He  certainly  was 
related,  possibly  a  nephew,  though  more  likely 
son.  Sewell  came  from  Sewell's  Point,  Vir- 
ginia, with  others  about  1660  and  was  prob- 
ably born  about  iTi^o.  Peter  Porter,  of  Sew- 
ell's Point,  settled  at  the  head  of  Severn  river, 
Alaryland.  in  1650.  Came  also  Edward  Lliiyd, 
Cornelius  Lloyd,  Mathew  Howard,  Thomas 
Todd,  \\  illiam  Crouch,  James  Horner,  Nich- 
olas Wyatt.  Thomas  Howell,  Thomas  Gott, 
William  Galloway,  James  Warner,  Richard 
.\cton  and  others.  One  of  these,  James 
Warner,  was  the  father  of  Johannah  Warner, 
whom  Henry  Sewell  married.  By  the  will  of 
James  Warner,  Johanna  Sewell  inherited 
"Warner's  Neck"  and  an  attempt  was  made  in 
the  will  to  prevent  the  estate  ever  being  alien- 
ated from  her  family^  But  her  son,  Henry 
Sewell,  sold  it  to  Samuel  Howard.  His 
brother,  Henry  Sewell  Jr.,  contested  this  sale 
on  the  plea  of  entail,  and  seems  to  have  won 
the  point  in  court.  Henry  Jr.  remained  upon 
the  homestead.  Children  :  James  and  Henry 
Jr.,  mentioned  below. 

(HI)  Henry  (3).  son  of  Henry  (2)  Sewell, 
was  born  in  Maryland  about  1660.  He  took 
up  "Sewell's  Fancy"  and  bought  a  part  of 
"Duvall's  Delight"  upon  the  Patuxent,  from 
Charles  Carroll.  His  will,  dated  1726,  men- 
tions children,  given  below,  and  be(|ueathe(l 
the  Howard  and  Porter's  Range  bought  of 
Richard  and  .Adam  Shipley,  and  Hereford,  the 
Marriott  tract,  perhaps  coming  to  him  through 
his  wife.  Mary,  who  was  a  Marriott.  John 
Sewell  bought  his  brothers'  shares  in  this  latter 
tract  and  became  sole  owner.  The  old  Sew- 
ell homestead,  as  this  is  called,  has  been  in  the 
possession  of  the  Marriott  and  Sewell  families 
since  1673;  it  is  near  Indian  landing  at  the 
head  of  Severn  river,  Anne  .\rundel  county, 
Maryland.  Children:  Samuel,  Mary,  Henry, 
Joseph,  Philip,  John,  mentioned  below. 

(IV)  John,  son  of  Henry  (3)  Sewell,  was 
born  before  1700  in  Anne  Arundel  county.  He 
married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Daniel  Carroll, 


at  St.  Anne's,  .\nna|)olis.  May  30,  1721.  She  was 
bajjtized  March  2,  1713,  at  St.  .\nne's  Church. 
Children:  I.  Henry,  born  1723,  baptized  with 
his  brother  at  .-\11  Hallows  Church,  July  4, 
1726.     2.  John,  born  1725. 

(\')  Henry  (4),  elder  son  of  John  and 
Hannah  (Carroll)  Sewell,  born  1723  and  bap- 
tized 1726,  as  above  noted,  was  probably  the 
father  of  the  ne.xt  mentioned. 

(\T)  liasil,  probably  a  son  of  Henry  (4) 
Sewell,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Ralph 
Dawson,  of  Annapolis  (see  Dawson,  IV). 
He  resided  in  Talbot  county,  Maryland,  and 
died  in  1802.  His  will,  probated  September 
28  of  that  year,  mentions  his  sons :  James, 
I?asil,  \\'illiam,  Clement  and  Nicholas,  and  his 
daughter  Mary,  wife  of  Robert  Dawson.  He 
also  mentions  a  son  'Iliomas.  He  must  have 
been  very  young,  for  his  son  James  was 
directed  to  care  for  him. 

(  \'ll  )  James, eldestchildoflSasiland  Elizabeth 

(  Dawson  )  Sewell,  married  Rudol])h and 

lived  in  Maryland.  He  was  the  General  James 
Sewell  who  figured  in  the  war  of  181 2  and  was 
in  command  of  Fort  McHenry,  at  the  time  the 
song,  "The  Star  Spangled  I'anner,"  was  writ- 
ten. He  was  at  one  time  a  candidate  for  the 
office  of  governor  of  Maryland;  his  country 
seat.  Holly  Hall,  is  still  in  a  good  state  of 
preservation  and  one  of  the  points  of  historical 
interest  in  Cecil  countv. 


The  Smalley  family  of  New 
S.M.M.LEY  Jersey  belongs  to  old  Devon- 
shire stock,  and  comes  from 
the  same  neighborhood  as  did  the  Drakes,  who 
have  made  such  a  name  for  themselves,  not 
only  in  New  Jersey,  but  also  in  New  England. 
Descendants  bearing  the  Smalley  name  soon 
found  a  congenial  home  with  the  Baptists  of 
Rhode  Island,  and  from  that  colony  of  liberty 
Idving  people  came  the  founder  of  the  New  Jer- 
se\  branch  of  the  family.  His  descendants  have 
always  hel  1  the  views  Ijelieved  and  practiced  by 
the  ISaptists.  and  the  family  gave  to  this  de- 
nomination one  of  the  most  useful  mmisters  of 
the  gospel  that  ever  labored  in  New  Jersey, 
the  Rev.  Henry  Smalley,  of  blessed  memory. 
(  I  )  John  Smalley,  the  first  person  of  that 
name  to  come  to  the  New  World,  was  in  Lon- 
don, in  1631,  and  in  the  following  year  came 
over  to  .America  in  the  vessel  "Francis  & 
James,"  in  company  with  many  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  Colony.  He  settled  on  Cape 
Cod,  where  he  married,  about  1640,  and  had 
four  children  who  lived  to  mature  years.  From 
Massachusetts  the  parents  with  the  two  sons. 


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statp:  of  new  ikrsey. 


huth  of  age,  moved  first  to  Rhode  Island,  and 
from  there  to  Fiscataway,  Middlesex  county. 
New  Jersey,  where  they  were  among  the  earli- 
est pioneer  freeholders  of  this  New  Jersey 
settlement.  His  two  daughters,  Hannah  and 
Mary,  were  at  this  time  married  and  settled 
in  New  England.  After  obtaining  his  first 
grant,  upon  his  arrival  in  Piscataway,  he  had 
a  survey  of  his  farm  made  in  1677,  and  in 
1685  took  up  another  warrant  of  land.  At  the 
time  the  jirovince  was  temporarily  recaptured 
by  the  Dutch  in  1673-74,  John  Smalley  was 
appointed  by  them  a  magistrate.  In  1675  he 
was  commissioned  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and 
at  the  same  time  appointed  associate  justice  of 
the  court  of  sessions,  which  jrasition  he  filled 
for  several  years.  He  died  in  1692  and  his 
wife  died  about  a  year  later.  His  two  sons 
were  John,  Jr.,  referred  to  below,  and  Isaac, 
born  December  11,  1647,  married  twice  after 
moving  to  New  Jersey.  He  was  for  several 
years  a  member  of  the  colonial  assembly,  town 
clerk  of  Fiscataway,  and  held  many  other 
offices  of  public  confidence  and  trust  until  his 
death  in  1725. 

(11)  John  (2),  st)n  of  John  (i)  Smalley, 
had  a  farm  surveyed  for  him  in  1675,  and 
about  ten  years  afterward  he  took  up  an  addi- 
tional one  hundred  acres.  In  1683  he  came 
into  possession  of  another  large  lot  of  one 
hundred  acres,  situated  on  Ambrose  brook, 
near  the  ])resent  New  Market,  which  he  gave 
to  his  son,  John,  who  in  turn  left  it  at  his  death 
to  his  son  Andrew.  John  Smalley,  Jr.,  served 
in  many  of  the  local  township  appointments, 
and  was  a  constituent  member  in  the  old  Fis- 
cataway I'aptist  Church,  publically  organized 
between  iHSft  and  1689.  His  will  was  made 
September  13.  1 731,  and  duly  recorded  in 
1733,  a  short  time  after  his  death.  John 
Smalley,  Jr.,  married  in  Piscataway,  October 
18,  1676,  Lydia,  daughter  of  John  Martin, 
another  of  the  early  founders  of  that  settle 
ment.  Among  his  children  were  Jonathan,  re- 
ferred to  below;  Elisha,  married  Mary  Dun- 
ham;   Fhebe,  married   E])hraiiii  Dunham. 

(Mil  Jonathan,  eldest  child  of  John  (2) 
and  Lydia  (.Martin)  Smalley,  was  born  in 
Piscataway,  April  10,  1683,  died  some  time 
after  1763,  his  will  being  dated  July  27  of  that 
year.  He  was  the  first  of  this  name  on  the 
roll  of  the  Seventh  Day  I'aptist  Church  of 
i'iscataway.  So  strict  and  conscientious  a  Sab- 
batharian  was  he  that  when  he  leased  part  of 
his  farm  in  1734  to  i^arties  who  were  to  quarry 
for  minerals,  he  stipulated  in  the  contract  that 
no  work  or  labor  should  be  performed   u]ion 


the  premises  on  the  seventh  day  of  the  week, 
during  the  term  of  the  twenty-one  year  lease. 
He  accumulated  a  large  ])ro])erty  for  colonial 
times,  both  real  and  ]3ersonal,  which  he  divided 
by  will  among  his  children.  About  1707  Jona- 
than Smalley  married  Sarah,  eldest  child  of 
John  and  Sarah  Fitz-Randolph.  This  was  the 
first  marriage  on  record  between  these  two 
families,  subsequent  generations  of  those  bear- 
ing these  surnames  seem  to  have  had  a  special 
affinity  for  one  another,  and  within  the  next 
three  years  more  than  a  dozen  marriages  oc- 
curred between  them.  The  I-'itz-Randolphs 
and  Smalleys  had  both  emigrated  from  their 
native  land  and  settled  in  their  Cape  Cod 
Colony  within  a  year  or  two  of  each  other,  and 
no  longer  a  period  had  intervened  between 
their  final  settlements  in  Fiscataway,  New  Jer 
s(  y.  The  homesteads  and  outlined  plantations 
of  the  sons  of  these  pioneers  were  in  close 
jiroximity,  and  around  them  dwelled  the  I'on- 
hams.  Duiuis,  Dunhams,  Martins  and  others, 
^lost  of  these  families  were  intimately  related 
liy  marriage,  but  became  greatly  estranged  by 
religion.  The  occasion  was  the  existence  in 
Fiscatawa}'  of  two  liaptist  churches,  one  wor- 
shiiiping  on  Sunday,  the  other  observing  Sat- 
urday. The  former  was  organized  between 
168(1  and  1689,  and  the  latter  between  1705  and 
1707.  It  is  a  noticeaUe  coincident  also  that 
in  the  union  of  these  families  such  a  large  num- 
ber became  actively  identified  with  the  newer 
of  the  religious  interests.  Not  only  was  Jona- 
than Smalley  the  first  of  the  name  on  the  roll 
of  the  Seventh  Day  I'aptist,  but  his  wife  was 
the  earliest  recorded  in  the  list  of  feinales, 
having  united  with  the  church  before  her  mar- 
riage. Most  of  Jonathan  Smalley's  ten  chil- 
dren became  identified  with  the  same  church 
on  reaching  adult  years,  and  especially  active 
in  these  relations  were  his  sons,  John  and  Jon- 
athan, Jr.  His  youngest  son,  Andrew,  referred 
to  below,  however,  departed  from  his  father's 
religious  preferences. 

(I\')  .Andrew,  youngest  son  of  Jonathan 
and  Sarah  (  Fitz-Randolph)  Smalley,  was  born 
in  Fiscataway,  December  20,  1726.  In  his 
will  his  father  left  him  all  his  "Lands  and  salt 
meadows."  .\fter  his  marriage  he  set  up 
housekeeping  at  Harris  Lane,  the  district  lying 
near  liound  Ilrook,  Somerset  county,  New 
Jersey.  February  26,  1746,  .\ndrew  Smalley 
was  married  by  the  Rev.  Jonathan  Dunham,  the 
Seventh  Day  liaptist  minister  at  that  time  in 
Fiscataway,  to  Agnes,  born  May  8,  1728, 
daughter  of  David  and  Elsie  Coriell.  Among 
the  nine  children  born  to  them  were  Abraham, 


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born  May  2,  1748,  remained  in  the  olil  home- 
stead in  Ambrose  Brook,  married  Catharine 
Emans  and  reared  a  large  family.  .John,  re- 
ferred to  below.  Henry.  David,  born  April 
5,  1766:  married  Margaret  Compton  and  had 
four  chiklren. 

I  \" )  John,  .son  of  .Vndrew  and  Agnes  ( Cori- 
ell )  Smalley,  was  born  in  Piscataway.  He 
married  Mary  LangstafT  and  among  their  chil- 
dren was  Henry,  referred  to  below. 

(  \  I  )  Henry,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (  Lang- 
staff  )  Smalley,  after  graduating  from  Prince- 
ton College  entered  the  liaptist  ministry,  and 
for  fifty  years  was  well  known  as  one  of  the 
most  efficient  and  faithful  servants  of  that  de- 
nomination, serving  as  pastor  at  Cohansey  I'ap- 
tist  church.  By  his  wife,  Hannah  (  Fox)  Smal- 
ley, of  Piscataway,  he  had  three  children  :  John, 
William  I-"itz-Rand(ili)li.  I  k-nry  Langstaff,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

( \I11  Henry  Langstaff,  youngest  child  of 
the  Rev.  Henry  and  Hannah  (  P'ox )  Smalley. 
was  born  in  Bowentown,  Xew  Jersey,  icSo7. 
His  life  was  spent  in  farming  and  also  in  con- 
ducting a  milling  business.  He  died  in  1852. 
He  married  Tabitha  liacon,  born  at  Roads- 
town.  Xew  Jersey,  1798,  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Phebe  (  F'acon )  ]\Iulford.  Children:  i. 
James  IL,  died  at  seventy-nine  years  of  age. 
2.  Isaac  Mulford,  referred  to  below.  3.  Will- 
iam F"ox,  still  living.  4.  Mary  Budd.  deceased. 
5.  John,  still  living. 

(VIII)  Isaac  Mulford,  second  child  and  son 
of  Henry  Langstaff  and  Tabitha  Bacon  ( Mul- 
ford) Smalley,  was  born  at  Bowentown,  New- 
Jersey,  May  8,  1830,  and  is  now  living  at 
Bridgeton,  Xew  Jersey.  Lie  attended  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  his  native  town,  and  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  after  leaving  school  was  engaged 
in  the  nursery  business.  He  then  for  a  time 
conducted  a  grist  mill,  in  which  occupation  he 
was  most  successful.  In  1883  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Xew  Jersey  state  assembly, 
and  was  again  chosen  to  the  same  position  in 
1888.  For  a  time  he  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  chosen  freeholders  of  Stoe  Creek 
townshi]),  Roadstown,  in  which  he  lived  for 
thirty-seven  years  as  farmer  and  nurseryman. 
In  politics  Mr.  Smalley  is  and  has  all  his  life 
been  a  Democrat.  For  five  years  he  was  one 
of  the  trustees  of  Rutgers  College.  He  has 
for  many  years  given  his  attention  to  financial 
rather  than  agricultural  and  industrial  pursuits, 
and  is  one  of  the  leading  and  most  influential 
men  in  that  field  in  Bridgeton.  He  has  for  a 
long  time  been  a  director  in  the  Bridgeton  Na- 
tional Bank,  and  for  many  years  was  a  director 


in  the  .Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of 
Bridgeton.  In  1901  he  was  chosen  by  his 
fellow  directors  to  be  the  president  of  this 
latter  institution,  and  this  office  he  still  holds. 
Isaac  Mulford  Smalley  married,  December 
21.  1864.  Cornelia,  daughter  of  Abram  Cannon. 
Children:  i.  James  Henry,  married  .-Mice 
\\  are,  born  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri ;  children  : 
Minerva,  Jennie  and  Herbert.  2.  Mary  Budd, 
married  George  Allen,  of  Chester,  Delaware ; 
children:  Charles,  Isaac  Smalley,  Maxwell  and 
Beatrice  Allen.  3.  Isaac  Cannon,  married 
Lydia  Davis;  children:  Heber  B.  and  Isaac 
.\I.  4.  Howard  Malcolm,  married  Elizabeth 
.\bbott ;  child,  Caroline.     5.  Fannie,  unmarried. 


The  Cumiinghams  area 
LT'X  X  I  -\i  ;i  i  A.M      Scotch  family,  although 

many  of  the  numerous 
immigrants  of  the  surname  who  came  to  .Amer- 
ica previous  to  the  beginning  of  the  eighteenth 
century  were  descended  from  ancestors  who 
had  lived  in  Ireland  perhaps  for  many  genera- 
tions ;  but  from  whatever  country  the  immi- 
grant Cunninghams  may  have  sailed  in  their 
quest  of  new  homes  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic 
ocean,  the  fact  remains  that  probably  very  nearly 
all  of  them  came  of  the  ancient  Cunnungham 
clan  which  was  seated  in  .Ayrshire,  Scotlanil. 
as  early  as  .A.  D.  1200.  However,  let  us  glance 
briefly  at  some  of  the  characters  and  traditions 
of  the  clan  and  observe  from  what  elements 
the  Cunninghams  have  grown.  First  it  may 
be  said  with  exact  truth  that  the  Cunninghams 
of  .Ayrshire  possess  the  earldom  of  Carrick 
and  (ilencairn  as  well  as  the  lordshi]i  of  Cun- 
ninghame,  and  that  from  the  .Ayrshire  clan 
have  descended  all  of  the  known  branches  of 
the  family  in  Scotland,  England  and  Ireland. 
According  to  tradition  the  first  Cunningham 
settlers  in  Ireland  were  two  of  six  brothers  who 
won  distinction  under  James  of  Scotland,  after- 
ward James  I.  of  England.  The  records  show 
that  among  the  first  grantees  of  this  monarch 
in  Ireland  were  several  of  the  name  of  Cun- 
ningliam.  In  the  precinct  of  Portlough,  coun- 
tv  Donegal,  John  Cunningham,  of  Crawfield. 
.Ayrshire,  Scotland,  received  a  grant  of  one 
thousand  acres  of  land  in  1610,  and  at  the 
same  time  James  Cunningham,  Laird  of  Glan- 
garnoche.  .Ayrshire,  had  two  grants  in  the  same 
precinct  aggregating  three  thousand  acres, 
while  Cuthbert  Cunningham,  of  Cdangarnoche, 
hail  a  thousand  acre  grant,  and  .Alexander 
Cunningham,  of  Powton,  gentleman,  of  Sorbic, 
\\  igtonshire,  Scotland,  had  a  thousand  acres 
granted  him  in  the  precinct  of  Boylagh   county 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


Donegal.  It  would  be  very  difficult  and  per- 
haps well  nigh  impossible  to  trace  a  direct  con- 
nection from  the  particular  Cunningham  family 
here  to  be  treated  back  to  any  one  of  the 
brothers  and  other  Cunninghams  mentioned ; 
nor  is  the  matter  one  of  great  importance. 

(I)  John  Cunningham,  the  immigrant,  came 
from  the  north  of  Ireland,  1818,  and  settled 
in  north  \ew  Jersey.  .Among  his  children  was 
John  H.,  see  forward. 

(II)  John  H.,  son  of  John  Cunningham. 
was  born  in  the  north  of  Ireland.  Feljruary 
28,  1815,  died  December  2,  1879.  He  came 
to  the  C'nited  States  with  his  parents  (who 
were  of  the  Presbyterian  faith)  when  three 
years  old.  He  married.  May  19,  1842,  Mar- 
garet .\ckerman,  of  Paramus,  New  Jersey, 
born  January  12,  1825.  died  .\pril  12.  1896. 
Among  his  children  was  Robert  Hudson,  see 
forward. 

(III)  Robert  Hudson,  son  of  John  H.  and 
Margaret  ( .Ackerman  )  C'unningham,  was  born 
in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  September  23.  1855, 
and  was  prominently  identified  with  the  busi- 
ness life  of  that  city  for  a  jieriod  of  more  than 
thirty-five  years.  His  life  was  spent  there  and 
he  received  his  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  the  city.  In  1873,  when  only  eighteen  years 
old,  he  was  employed  in  the  selling  department 
of  the  firm  of  Pelgram  &  Meyer,  silk  manu- 
facturers of  Paterson,  with  business  offices  in 
.\e\v  \'()rk.  For  the  ne.xt  twenty-five  years  he 
was  in  the  emj^loy  of  that  house  and  during 
that  time  came  to  be  recognized  as  one  of  the 
best  salesmen  in  the  silk  trade  in  the  country. 
At  the  end  of  that  period  he  severed  his  con- 
nection with  Pelgram  &  Meyer  to  become  sell- 
ing agent  for  Fleitnian  &  Company,  of  New 
\'iirk.  one  of  the  largest  commission  silk 
houses  in  .America.  He  retired  from  active 
business  about  two  years  before  his  death, 
March  9,  1908.  He  himself  was  looked  upon 
as  one  of  tlie  successful  business  men  of  Pater- 
son and  .\'ew  York  City,  with  a  large  acquaint- 
ance in  trade  circles  and  an  enviable  standing 
in  military  and  fraternal  circles.  For  many 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  famous  Pater- 
son Life  Guards,  and  he  also  held  member- 
ship in  the  North  Jersey  .Auto  Club  and  the 
I  lamilton  Club,  of  Paterson.  He  married, 
June  28,  1883,  Camilla  Jane,  born  .November 
18,  i8f)i,  daughter  of  .Augustus  and  Christi- 
anna  Miller,  of  New  A'ork  City.  Children: 
F<obcrt  Hudson,  see  forward.  Charles  Fred- 
erick, born  June  17,  1889. 

(IV)  Robert  Hudson  (2),  son  of  Robert 
Hudson   (i)  and  Camilla  Jane  (Miller)  Cun- 


ningham, was  born  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey, 
h'ebruary  2^,  1885,  and  acquired  his  earlier 
literary  education  in  the  public  schools  of  that 
city  and  also  in  the  Newark  .Academy,  grad- 
uated in  1904.  He  then  attended  the  New  York 
Law  School,  graduating  LL.  B.  with  the  class 
of  1906,  with  the  honors  of  presidency  of  his 
class.  Afterward  for  one  year  and  a  half  he 
continued  his  law  studies  in  the  office  of  James 
(i.  lilauvelt,  of  Paterson,  and  in  November, 
1907.  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  courts  of 
this  state.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Paterson  bar  and  has  engaged  in 
active  general  practice  in  that  city.  Mr.  Cun- 
ningham is  a  member  and  secretary  of  The 
Ta.xpayers  Association  of  Paterson,  an  organi- 
zation having  for  its  object  the  protection  and 
advancement  of  the  interests  of  the  people  of 
Passaic  county  in  general  and  the  city  of 
Paterson  in  particular.  He  also  is  a  member 
of  the  North  Jersey  Country  Club,  Paterson 
Lodge,  No.  60,  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks,  and  the  Eastside  Presbyterian 
church. 

He  married.  October  29,  1908,  May  Louise 
Cooke,  born  .Ajiril  20.  1885.  daughter  of  John 
K.  and  .Annie  Louise  ( Thorne )  Cooke.  Watts 
Cooke,  the  father  of  John  K.  Cooke,  was  the 
founder  of  the  Paterson  Rolling  Mills,  at  Pat- 
erson, New  Jersey. 


According  to  the  records  of 
M.ARSH.ALL    the  family  at  present  under 

consideration  their  original 
home  in  this  country  was  \'irginia,  to  which 
place  the  three  brothers,  Randall,  Nehemiah 
and  John,  emigrated  from  England,  and  whence 
Randall,  after  his  marriage  removed  with  his 
father-in-law  to  New  Jersey.  The  family  thus 
apparently  has  no  connection  with  the  Mar- 
shalls  and  Chews  who  emigrated  to  New  Jer- 
sey about  1680. 

(  I)  Randall  Marshall,  fountler  of  the  family 
at  ])resent  under  consideration,  settled  at  Good 
Intent,  New  Jersey,  and  located  on  the  Haz- 
zard  property  near  the  town  of  Blackwood : 
but  he  afterwards  removed  to  Lamb's  Mills, 
where  he  remained  until  his  death  in  1780. 
at  the  age  of  sixty-six  years.  He  married 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Thomas  Chew.  Chil- 
dren: Randall,  Thoiuas,  referred  to  below; 
John,  William,  Joseph,  Mary,  Elizabeth.  Sarah. 
Hannah,  Charity. 

(II)  Thomas,  son  of  Randall  and  Hannah 
I  Chfw)  Marshall,  married  Ann  Pease.  Chil- 
dren :  John,  Randall,  David,  William,  Thomas. 

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(Pease)  Marshall,  was  born  June  15.  1771, 
died  September  21,  1841.  lie  was  the  owner 
of  large  tracts  of  land,  but  he  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  a  business  career  in  which  he  was  very 
successful,  and  became  one  of  the  pioneers  of 
the  great  glass  work  industry  of  Cape  May 
county.  His  first  venture  was  the  building  of 
the  glass  works  at  Port  Elizabeth  and  later  of 
another  factory  at  Marshallville,  New  Jersey, 
for  the  manufacture  of  window  glass.  In  addi- 
tion to  this  he  also  operated  several  saw  and 
grist  mills.  July  30,  1847,  his  son  sold  the  glass 
works  and  saw  mill  at  Marshallville  to  Thomas 
\'an  (iilder,  for  $7,525.  He  also  operated  and 
owned  a  tannery  at  Port  Elizabeth. 

August  4,  1793,  Randall  Marshall  married 
-Mary,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Hannah  Dough- 
ty (Furness)  Reeves  (see  Reeves,  \').  Chil- 
dren: I.  Thomas  Chew,  born  October  3,  1794. 
died  May  6,  1868;  married,  May  18,  1818,  Ex- 
perience Steelman  ;  fourteen  children.  2.  Ann, 
June  20,  1795,  died  February  15,  1815;  mar- 
ried, July  22,  181 2,  Frederick  Stanger.  3. 
Henry,  March  11,  1800,  died  April  15,  1808. 
4.  Hannah  Reeves,  July  25,  1802,  died  unmar- 
ried. 5.  Mary,  September  27,  1804,  died  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1876;  married,  July  22,  1823,  Eben- 
ezer  Seely ;  eight  children.  6.  Randolph,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(HI)  Randolph,  son  of  Randall  (2)  and 
Mary  (Reeves)  Marshall,  was  born  in  Port 
Elizabeth,  Cumberland  county,  New  Jersey, 
January  9,  181  r,  died  in  ]\larshallville,  Cape 
May  county.  New  Jersey,  February  19,  1879. 
Receiving  his  education  in  the  public  schools, 
he  spent  four  years  in  Miller's  drug  store,  then 
at  the  corner  of  Fourth  and  Walnut  streets, 
Philadelphia;  after  this  he  entered  the  medi- 
cal department  of  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, from  which  he  graduated  in  1834  with 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  He  then  set  up  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  Marshallville, 
where  for  nearly  half  a  century  he  had  a  large 
and,  from  a  professional  point  of  view,  most 
successful  practice,  although  owing  to  his  lax- 
ity in  imposing  and  collecting  fees  it  was  not 
so  good  from  a  financial  point  of  view.  For 
years  he  was  the  only  physician  within  a  radius 
of  twenty  miles  from  his  home.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Cape  May  County  Medical  Society, 
of  Star  Lodge,  No.  65,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  of  New  Jersey,  and  of  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  at  Tuckahoe.  He 
was  a  birthright  Friend. 

May  21,  1835,  Randolph  Marshall,  M.  D. 
married  Sarah  Higgins,  daughter  of  Ellis  and 
Sarah  (Higgins)  Hughes,  of  Cape  May  county, 


(see  Hughes,  \'l).  Children:  1.  l'"llen  L., 
born  .\pril  6,  1836;  married,  I'\-bruary  11, 
18O2,  lielford  E.  Smith.  2.  Sarah  IL,  Septem- 
ber 7,  1838;  married,  December  21,  1862, 
Henry  F.  Steelman ;  three  children.  3.  Ben- 
jamin H.,  September  25,  1840;  married,  July 
4,  1861,  Eliza  Ogden ;  two  children.  4.  James 
L.,  January  20,  1844:  married.  May  28.  1873, 
Emma  Smith;  two  ciiildren.  5.  F.llis  Hughes, 
Sc[)tember  18,  1845;  married  (first)  Harriet 
Shoemaker;  (second)  Lydia  Gandy ;  one  child 
by  each  marriage.  6.  Joseph  Corson,  referred 
to  below.  7.  Mary  T.,  December  17,  1850, 
died  August  25,  1868;  unmarried.  8.  An  in- 
fant, died  .April  13,  1853.  9.  Randolph,  re- 
ferred to  below.  10.  Anna  B.,  .Aprd  4,  1858. 
married  Maurice  Godfrey. 

{IV)  Joseph  Corson,  son  of  Randolph  and 
Sarah  Higgins  (Hughes)  Marshall,  was  born 
in  Tuckahoe,  Cape  May  county.  New  Jersey, 
July  3,  1848,  and  is  now  living  in  that  town. 
For  his  early  education  he  went  to  the  public 
schools,  after  which  he  graduated  from  Pen- 
nington Seminary.  He  then,  until  1867,  stud- 
ied medicine  with  his  father  at  Tuckahoe,  and 
entering  the  metlical  department  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania  in  1868  he  became  one 
of  the  office  students  of  Professor  Lenox 
Hodge.  He  graduated  from  the  University 
with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1870,  and  having 
as  a  student  of  Professor  Hodge  had  special 
privileges  at  the  \\'ills  Eye  Hospital  and  in  the 
course  of  obstetrics,  he  received  at  his  grad- 
uation a  special  certificate  covering  these  two 
fields.  In  the  summer  of  1870  he  opened  an 
office  in  Fairton,  New  Jersey,  where  he  re- 
mained for  ten  years,  and  then  removed  to 
Tuckahoe,  where  he  became  the  partner  of  his 
brother  Randolph,  who  in  1870  had  started 
there  with  his  co-operation  a  drug  store.  Dr. 
Marshall  outside  of  his  profession  has  given  a 
great  deal  of  time  and  interest  to  the  cultiva- 
tion of  cranberries.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Cape  May  Medical  Society,  and  was  at  one 
time  president  of  that  organization.  He  is  a 
Republican,  but  he  has  always  steadily  refused 
to  hold  office. 

(IV')  Randolph  (2),  son  of  Randolph  (i) 
and  Sarah  Higgins  (Hughes)  Marshall,  was 
born  in  Tuckahoe,  Cape  May  county.  New 
Jersey,  January  11,  1854,  and  is  now  living  in 
that  place.  After  receiving  his  early  education 
in  the  public  school,  he  entered  the  Penning- 
ton Seminary  and  prepared  for  Jefferson  Medi- 
cal College  in  Philadelphia,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1877  with  the  degree  of  M.  D. 
During  his  Medical  course  he  studied  obstetrics 


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state:  of  new  iersey. 


under  Dr.  D.  Erdsley  Wallace,  and  operative 
surgery  under  Dr.  J.  Evving  Mears,  and  com- 
[jleted  these  courses  the  same  year  that  he  grad- 
uated. Immediately  after  his  graduation,  hav- 
ing decided  to  make  a  specialty  of  the  diseases 
of  children,  he  located  at  Tuckahoe,  in  part- 
nershi])  with  his  brother,  Joseph  Corson  Alar- 
shall,  and  in  the  beginning  of  1878  the  two 
brothers  erected  both  their  drug  store  and 
their  office.  This  arrangement  continued  until 
i8go,  when  their  drug  business  was  merged 
in  the  interests  of  the  firm  of  C.  H.  Butter- 
worth  &  Company,  and  the  main  office  of  the 
drug  business  was  transferred  to  125  ^larket 
street,  Philadelphia.  Dr.  Marshall  has  always 
been  a  close  student  of  his  profession,  and  for 
many  years  has  been  a  member  of  the  Cape 
May  ?iledical  Society,  of  wdiich  organization 
he  served  for  twelve  years  as  treasurer,  and 
for  a  long  time  as  its  permanent  delegate  to 
the  State  Metlical  Society.  Me  and  his  brother 
were  the  surgeons  of  the  South  Jersey  Rail- 
road Company  during  its  construction  in  that 
locality.  Dr.  Randolph  Marshall  owns  a  great 
deal  of  real  estate  in  Ocean  City,  and  he  is  a 
member  and  treasurer  of  the  Tuckahoe  Build- 
ing and  Loan  Association.  In  religion  he  is 
a  Methodist.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
State  Lodge,  F"ree  and  Accepted  Masons,  of 
Tuckahoe ;  Richmond  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons,  of  IMillville;  (Jlivet  Commandery, 
Knights  Temjjlar,  of  Millville ;  and  of  the 
.\ncient  Order  of  Cnited  Workmen,  of  which 
for  a  long  time  he  has  served  as  examining 
surgeon.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  and 
although  his  interest  has  always  been  active 
and  he  has  vi'orked  energetically  for  the  success 
of  his  party,  he  has  steadily  refused  to  hold 
office  or  to  serve  in  a  public  capacity. 

Dr.  Marshall  married,  December  18,  1879, 
Rae,  (laughter  of  Antony  Steelman,  her  father 
having  been  one  of  the  sheriffs  of  Cape  May 
county.  ;\Irs.  Marshall  died  September  ig. 
1 008. 

(The    Reeves    Line,    see    Walter    Reeve.s    1). 

(II)  William,  son  of  Walter  Reeves,  of 
Turlington  county,  New  Jersey,  was  possibly 
the  son  of  his  first  wife,  although  his  mother 
may  have  been  .Ann  tlowell,  his  father's  sec- 
ond wife.  .Ml  that  is  known  of  him  is  that  he 
married  and  left  four  children:  i.  Samuel, 
named  in  will  of  his  uncle,  Samuel  Reeve. 
December  2,  1737.  2.  Elizabeth,  married  in 
January,  1736,  Isaac  Atkinson.  3.  William. 
Jr..  died  July  24,  1763.  leaving  a  widow  Sarah. 
4.  Joseph,  referred  to  below. 


(Ill)  Josejjh,  son  of  William  Reeves,  was 
born  about  1720,  died  September  3,  1767.  He 
lived  at  Mount  Holly,  and  left  his  wiciow  and 
two  sons  to  survive  him,  his  daughter  having 
died  before  he  did.  Children  of  Joseph  and 
Jane  Reeve:  I.  John,  born  August  I,  1744, 
died  February  2(),  1800:  married  Sarah 
(Reeves)  Patterson,  2.  Henry,  referred  to 
below.     3.  Jane. 

(  I\' )  Henry,  son  of  Joseph  and  Jane  Reeves, 
was  born  at  ^lount  Holly.  Burlington  county. 
Xew  Jersey.  June  27,  1749,  died  in  Cumber- 
land county.  New  Jersey,  November  23,  1840. 
February  8,  1772,  he  married  Hannah  Dough- 
ty, daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Dorothy  Fur- 
ness,  born  May  15,  1753,  died  November  17, 
1824.  Children  of  Henry  and  Hannah  Dough- 
ty (  Furness)  Reeves:  I.  William,  born  March 
4,  1773.  2.  Benjamin  Furness,  August,  1774. 
died  young.  3.  A  child,  died  in  infancy.  4. 
Mary,  referred  to  below.  5.  Elizabeth,  Sep- 
t(_'niber  21.  1 779.  6.  Henry,  January  26.  1782, 
died  November  5,  1813.  7.  Jane.  September 
21.  1783.  8.  Hannah,  October  21,  1785.  9. 
Abraham,  February  2/.  1788.  10.  Dorothy, 
.May  2T,.  1790,  died'  .April  17,  1837.  11.  Ben- 
jamin ["urness,  July  7,  1792,  died  March  6. 
1862:  married  Rachel  (lodfrey.  12.  John. 
h^'bruary  27.   17(^4.  died  October  22.  1803, 

(  \' )  Alary,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Han- 
nah Doughty  ( Furness )  Reeves,  was  born 
near  Port  Elizabeth,  Cumberland  county.  New- 
Jersey,  ,September  22,  1777.  died  in  Cape  May 
county.  New  Jersey.  March  30,  1847.  August 
4,  1793,  she  married  Randall,  son  of  Thomas 
and  .\nn  (  Pease)  Marshall  (see  Marshall, 
111). 

(Ttie    Hughes    Line.    Mayflower    descent). 

( I  )  John  Howland,  one  of  the  "Mayflower" 
]jassengers,  died  February  23,  1623,  having 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Tilley. 
another  "Mayflower"  passenger. 

(II)  Desire,  daughter  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth ( Tilley )  Howland,  died  at  Barnstable, 
.Massachusetts,  October  13.  1683,  having  mar- 
ried Ca])tain  John  Gorham,  who  was  buried  at 
Swansea,  Massachusetts,  February  5,  1675. 

(III)  Hannah,  daughter  of  Captain  John 
and  Desire  (Howland)  Gorham,  was  born  at 
I'.arnstable.  Massachusetts.  November  28. 
i(i()3.  .About  1A83  she  married  Joseph  Whill- 
(lin.  of  Yarmouth.  Massachusetts.  They  re- 
moved to  Cape  Alay  county.  New  Jersey,  and 
acconling  to  Stevens'  "History  of  Cape  May" 
all  the  \Vhilldins  of  that  county  are  descended 
fnimthcm.     In  1693  and  1698  he  was  constable 


STATE   OF    NEW     lERSEY. 


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of  Cape  .May  county:  in  1705  he  was  cominis- 
sioiied  high  sheriff:  and  later  he  served  sev- 
eral years  as  one  of  the  justices  of  the 
])eace. 

(I\')  Joseijh  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i)  and 
Hannah  (  Gorliam  )  Whilldin,  was  born  about 
1690,  died  at  Cape  May,  March  18,  1748.  Mi- 
first  wife,  Mary,  said  to  have  been  Mary  W  il- 
man,  died  April  8.  1743.  The  name  of  hij 
second  wife  was  Abigail.  Children:  Matthew, 
David,  Jane,  Hannah.  Rachel,  Lois,  Mary. 

I  \"  I  Hannah,  daughter  of  Joseph  (2)  and 
Mary  (  Wilnian  )  Whilldin,  married  (first  1 
Ellis,  son  of  Humphrey  Hughes,  Jr.,  and  their 
descendants  in  virtue  of  the  above  ancestry 
can  all   claim   "Mayflower   Descent."' 

(The    Hughes    Line). 

( 1 )  The  Hughes  family  at  present  under  con- 
sideration are  of  Welsh  ancestry,  and  settled 
first  on  Long  Lsland.  whence  they  removed  to 
Cape  IMay  county,  Xew  Jersey. 

(1)  Humphry  Hughes,  according  to  How- 
ell's "History  of  Southampton,"  lived  in 
Hridgehampton  or  ."^agg,  and  had  a  wife  Mar- 
tha. He  is  foin.il  in  this  place  in  1669,  and  in 
the  tax  list  of  ifiyS  are  mentioned  his  children  : 
Humphrey,  referred  to  below,  Abner.  Uriah, 
Jedediah,  John. 

(H)  Hnm])hrey  (2),  son  of  Humphry  (i  ) 
and  Martha  Hughes,  was  born  in  Hridge- 
hampton, Long  Island,  October  2,  1669,  died 
in  Cape  May  county.  New  Jersey.  F>y  his 
first  wife  whose  name  is  unknown  he  had  a 
son,  Ellis,  referred  to  below.  Between  1720 
and  1723  he  married  (second)  Elizabeth, 
widow  of  David  Wells. 

(HIj  Ellis,  son  of  Humphrey  (2)  Hughes, 
was  born  about  1708,  died  February  8,  1762. 
Fie  married  Hannali,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  (Wilman)  Whilldin,  whose  "May- 
flower" ancestry  is  appended  to  this  sketch. 
She  married  ( second )  an  Eldredge.  Children 
of  Ellis  and  Hannah  (Whilldin)  Hughes: 
Ellis,  referred  to  below,  Memucan,  Jesse,  Con- 
stantine,  David. 

(I\')  Ellis  (2),  son  of  Ellis  (i)  and  Han- 
nah (Whilldin)  Hughes,  was  born  August  16, 
1745,  died  there  April  16,  1817.  He  married 
about  September,  1768,  Eleanor  (Hirst) 
\Miilldin.  widow  of  \\'ilman.  his  first  cousin. 
Chiklren :  Thomas  Hirst,  referred  to  below. 
Eleanor,  Joseph  (and  others). 

(V)  Thomas  Hirst,  son  of  Ellis  (2)  and 
Eleanor  ( Hirst-Whilldin)  Hughes,  was  born 
in  Cape  May  cf>untv.  Xew  Tersev.  January  10. 


i7(k),  died  there  November  10,  1839.  He  mar- 
ried, December  3,  1788,  Lydia  Page.  Chil- 
dren: Thomas  P.,  Ellis,  referred  to  below, 
Lydia,  Eleanor,  Sarah,  Louisa. 

(VI)  Ellis  (3),  son  of  Thomas  Hirst  and 
Lydia  (Page)  Hughes,  was  born  in  Cape  May 
county.  New  Jersey,  July  2,  1793.  died  there 
January  2,  1862.  He  married  Sarah  Higgins, 
and  among  other  children  had  a  daughter 
Sarah  Higgins  Hughes,  born  January  7,  1816, 
died  I'ebruary  14,  1895;  married,  May  21, 
1835,  Randolph,  son  of  Randall  and  Mary 
(Reeves)    Marshall,   (see  Marshall,   HI). 


Richard  Rossitcr,  son  of  Mar- 
ROSSITE.R    tin  and  liridget  (Kehoe)  Ros- 

siter,  was  born  in  the  county  ^ 
of  Wexford,  Ireland,  and  when  six  years  of 
age  came  with  his  parents  to  America  and  set- 
tled in  Paterson.  Richard  was  one  of  nine 
children,  all  born  in  Ireland,  and  in  1909  only 
four  of  them  were  living:  Paul,  lives  in  San 
Francisco,  California:  George,  lives  in  P.rook- 
lyn,  New  York ;  Mary,  did  not  marry  and  re- 
sides in  Paterson  ;  Richard,  who  received  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Paterson  and 
a  business  college  in  that  city.  In  1866  Rich- 
ard became  bookkeeper  for  the  Society  for  the 
Establishment  of  Useful  Manufacturers,  or- 
ganized by  General  Alexander  Hamilton,  and 
in  1868  was  made  secretary  and  agent  for  the 
society,  which  office  was  exclusive  as  well  as 
clerical  in  its  duties  and  scope  of  action.  He 
served  as  sheriff  of  Passaic  county,  1890-93, 
being  elected  by  the  Democratic  party  of 
which  he  is  a  member.  He  is  also  secretary  of 
the  Society  Land  Company  and  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Colt  Land  Company  and  of 
the  Warren  Estate  Company.  He  is  also  inter- 
ested in  several  other  kindred  enterprises  look- 
ing to  the  development  of  the  real  estate  in 
Paterson  and  its  suburbs  and  has  done  much 
to  advance  the  value  of  all  such  real  estate. 
He  was  elected  to  membershi])  in  the  Hamilton 
Club  of  Paterson.  ' 

He  married.  June  6,  1873,  Jennie,  daughter 
of  Jacob  and  Jane  (Van  Blaroom)  Merseles, 
born  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  August  5,  1854, 
died  September  12,  1907,  and  their  only  child. 
Marguerite  M..  was  born  in  Paterson:  mar- 
ried, June  28,  igoo,  John  Wesley,  son  of  John 
and  Catherine  A.  (Jackson)  Kingsland,  and 
they  have  four  children:  i.  Rossiter,  born  July 
14.  1901,  died  young.  2.  Magdalene,  born  July 
8,  1903.  3.  Jennie  Jackson,  April  26.  1905.  4. 
Muriel  M.,  August  2-/.  1907. 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


The  llilliard  family  of  South 
HILLIARD     Jersey  are  the  descendants  of 

John  Milliard,  the  friend  of 
William  Penn,  who  came  over  and  settled  near 
Dover,  Delaware,  prior  to  1680.  He  had  an 
only  son,  John,  see  forward. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (T)  Hilliard, 
removed  to  Northampton  township,  Burling- 
ton county.  New  Jersey,  where  he  married 
Martha,  only  child  of  Bernard  Devonish,  one 
of  the  New  Jersey  proprietors,  and  died  intes- 
tate in  i/K).  It  is  unfortunate  that  the  names 
of  all  his  children  have  not  been  preserved  to 
us  in  the  ]jublic  records,  as  it  is  now  impossible 
in  many  instances  to  trace  the  exact  descent  of 
his  numerous  descendants,  who  are  scattered 
throughout  the  southern  counties  of  New  Jer- 
sey and  elsewhere. 

(III)  Edward,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Mar- 
tha ( Devonish )  Hilliard,  married  Sarah 
Haines,  who  bore  him  nine  children,  among 
whom  was  Samuel,  see  forward. 

ll\')  Samuel,  son  of  Edward  and  Sarah 
(Haines)  Hilliard,  married  Hannaii  Atkinson 
and  settled  in  Salem  county.  Among  their  six 
children  was  Joseph,  see  forward. 

(\')  Joseph,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah 
(Atkinson)  Hilliard,  married  Ann  Thompson, 
who  bore  him  six  children,  among  whom  was 
Thomas  Townsend,  see  forward. 

(  \'I )  Thomas  Townsend,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Ann  (  Thompson  )  Hilliard,  was  born  in  Man- 
nington  townshij),  Salem  county.  New  Jersey, 
September  4,  18 16.  He  married  Hannah 
Townsend,  daughter  of  William  and  Hulda 
(Townsend)  Goodwin,  of  Cape  May  county, 
(see  Goodwin,  I\')  and  granddaughter  of 
Daniel  Townsend,  of  Cape  May.  Children  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hilliard:  i.  William  Thomas, 
referred  to  below.  2.  Joseph  Piernard,  born 
at  Elsinboro,  January  26,  1851  ;  married  Sarah 
Hall,  daughter  of  Clement  and  Sarah  (Jones) 
Acton. 

(VII)  William  Thomas,  elder  son  of  Thomas 
Townsend  and  Hannah  Townsend  (Goodwin) 
Hilliard,  was  born  at  Elsinboro,  Salem  county, 
New  Jersey,  May  28,  1849.  J^or  his  early  edu- 
cation he  was  sent  to  Bradin  Academy  of 
Salem  and  later  to  the  Friends"  school  in  the 
same  town,  and  in  1867  was  sent  to  the  Swithin 
C.  Shortledge  school  at  Kennett  Square,  Ches- 
ter county,  Pennsylvania,  which  he  left  in 
^Tarch,  1869.  He  then  entered  the  office  of 
Judge  Clement  H.  Sinnickson,  of  Salem,  where 
he  took  u]i  the  study  of  law,  and  with  whom 
he  continued  until  March.  1870,  when  he  enter- 
ed the  oiifice  of  the  Hon.  Thomas  P.  Carpenter, 


of  Camden,  New  Jersey,  where  he  remained 
until  June,  1873,  when  he  was  admitted  to  the 
New  Jersey  bar  as  an  attorney.  After  prac- 
ticing for  three  more  years,  he  was  admitted 
as  a  counsellor  at  the  June  term  of  the  supreme 
court.  1876,  and  since  that  time  has  been  en- 
gaged in  the  general  practice  of  his  profession 
at  Salem.  Like  all  of  his  ancestors,  Mr.  Hilli- 
ard is  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and 
all  of  his  children  are  birthright  members  of 
the  same  society.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New 
Jersey  State  Bar  Association,  one  of  the  char- 
ter members  of  that  organization.  He  is  presi- 
dent of  the  City  National  Bank  of  Salem. 

Mr.  Hilliard  married  (first)  September  22, 
1875,  Eliza,  daughter  of  (ieorge  L.  and  Eliza- 
beth (  Lippincott )  Gillingham.  She  died  July 
3,  1900.  Mr.  Hilliard  married  (second)  No- 
vember 6,  1901,  Anna  daughter  of  Elisha  and 
Hannah  Ann  (Thompson)  Bassett,  of  Salem 
(see  I'assett,  \'I).  Children  of  first  wife: 
Thomas  Gillingham,  George  Lippincott,  Will- 
iam Thomas,  Bernard  Aubrey,  Mary  Elizabeth, 
all  of  whom  are  referred  to  below. 

(\  HI)  Thomas  Gillingham,  eldest  child  of 
\\  illiam  Thomas  and  Eliza  (Gillingham)  Hilli- 
ard, was  born  in  Salem,  New  Jersey,  March  4, 
1877.  He  was  educated  at  the  Friends'  private 
school  at  Salem,  and  then  went  to  the  Friends" 
school  at  Fifteenth  and  Race  streets,  Phila- 
delphia, after  graduating  from  which  he  stud- 
ied law  in  the  ofifice  of  his  father  at  Salem  and 
was  atlmitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  attor- 
ney in  June,  1898,  and  in  June,  1901,  as  coun- 
sellor. 

(VIII)  George  Lippincott,  second  child  of 
William  Thomas  and  Eliza  (Gillingham)  Hilli- 
ard, was  born  in  Salem,  New  Jersey,  June  26, 
1879.  .Xfter  graduating  from  the  George 
school  at  Newtown,  Bucks  county.  Pennsyl- 
vania, he  took  up  the  course  in  the  department 
of  mechanic  arts  at  the  Drexel  Institute,  and 
then  served  his  apprenticeship  in  Benient,  Miles 
Company,  of  Philadelphia,  and  is  now  (1909) 
in  the  employ  of  Farr,  Bailey  &  Company,  of 
Camden,  New  Jersey. 

f\TII)  William  Thomas  (2),  third  child  of 
William  Thomas  and  Eliza  (Gillingham) 
llilliard,  was  born  in  Salem,  New  Jersey,  Sep- 
tember 7,  1881.  He  received  his  early  educa- 
tion at  the  Friends'  private  school  at  Salem. 
He  then  went  to  the  George  school  at  Newtown, 
where  he  graduated,  and  in  1899  matriculated 
at  the  Hahnemann  Medical  College  in  Phila- 
delphia, from  which  he  received  his  M.  D.  de- 
gree in  1903,  and  in  the  same  year  passed  the 
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became  juniur  resident  physician  at  the  Na- 
tional HonKT;o()athic  Hospital  at  Washington. 
District  of  Columbia.  One  year  later  he  be- 
came the  senior  resilient  physician,  and  in  1905 
opened  an  office  on  Market  street,  Salem,  where 
he  is  now  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  his 
profession.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New  Jer- 
sey State  Medical  Association  and  of  the 
Salem  County  .Medical  Society.  He  married, 
June  18.  1909,  Mary  Clayton,  of  Woodstown, 
New  Jersey. 

(\'III)  Bernard  Aubrey,  fourth  child  of 
William  Thomas  and  Eliza  (Gillingham)  Hilii- 
ard,  was  born  at  Salem,  New  Jersey,  August 

24,  1885.  He  attended  the  Salem  public 
schools,  and  in  June,  1903,  graduated  from  the 
Friends'  Central  School  of  Philadelphia,  after 
which  he  took  a  position  as  bookkeeper  in  the 
City  National  Bank  of  Salem,  of  which  his 
father  is  the  president,  and  is  now  serving  in 
that  capacity. 

(\HI)  Mary  Elizabeth,  fifth  child  of  Will- 
iam Thomas  and  Eliza  (Gillingham)  Hilliard, 
was  born  in  Salem,  New  Jersey,  December  6, 
1887.  She  attended  the  Friends'  school  at 
.Salem,  and  later  attended  the  George  school  at 
Newtown,  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Bradford 
Seminar}-  at  Bradford,  Massachusetts.  She 
married,  September  19,  1909,  Charles  W.  White 
Bailey,  of  Camden,  New  Jersey. 

(The  Goodwin  Line). 

The  Goodwin  family  of  Salem  county  are 
among  the  oldest  of  the  colonists  in  that  region 
of  the  country.  As  the  name  indicates  the 
family  is  of  English  origin,  and  the  founder 
of  the  family  came  to  America  from  London, 
where  his  parents,  John  and  Katharine  Good- 
win, were  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  St. 
Rotolph's,  Aldgate,  London. 

(I)  John  (2)  Goodwin,  founder  of  the 
family  in  South  Jersey,  was  born  December 

25,  1680,  and  emigrated  to  Pennsylvania  in 
1701.  In  the  following  year  he  removed  to 
Salem,  New  Jersey,  and  in  1705  married  Sus- 
sannah,  eldest  daughter  of  John  Smith,  of 
Smithfield.  Children:  I.John.  2.  Mary.  3. 
Thomas,  born  1721,  died  1803;  married  (first) 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Lewis  Morris,  and  (sec- 
ond )  Sarah  Smith.  4.  William,  referred  to 
below. 

(II)  William,  youngest  child  of  John  and 
Sussannah  (Smith)  Goodwin,  was  born  in 
1723,  and  lived  in  Elsinboro,  on  the  estate 
which  his  wife  inherited  from  her  father.  In 
1744  he  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Lewis 
Morris.    Children:     1.  John,  born  1745;  mar- 

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ried,  1772,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Clement  and 
Margaret  Hall,  the  marriage  being  almost  the 
first  that  took  place  in  the  present  Friends' 
Meeting  House  in  Salem.  2.  Lewis,  referred 
to  below.  3.  Sussanna,  1750;  married,  1773, 
John  Mason.  4.  Mary.  5.  William,  Jr..  1758; 
married  Elizabeth  Woodnutt,  of  ALmnington. 

(III)  Lewis,  second  son  of  William  and 
Mary  (Morris)  Goodwin,  married  (first)  Re- 
becca Zane,  of  Salem,  and  had  two  children: 
I.  John,  married  .-\bigail  Carpenter.  2.  Susan. 
He  married  (second)  Rachael,  daughter  of 
William  Nicholson,  of  Mannington,  and  had 
three  more  children.  3.  William,  referred  to 
below.  4.  Thomas,  married  Sarah  Jeffries. 
5.  Morris,  married  Sarah  Smith. 

(IV)  William  (2),  eldest  child  of  Lewis 
and  Rachael  (Nicholson)  Goodwin,  married 
Hulda,  daughter  of  Daniel  Townsend,  of  Cape 
May  coimty.  New  Jersey,  and  among  their 
children  was  Hannah  Townsend,  who  married 

Thomas  Townsend  Hilliard  (see  Hilliard,  \T). 

(The    Bassett    Line). 

The  family  of  Bassetts  came  from  England 
in  the  ship  "Fortune"  in  1 62 1  and  settled  near 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  and  many  of  their  de- 
scendants still  remain  about  Lynn,  Massachu- 
setts,  Rhode   Island  and  Connecticut. 

{1}  William  Bassett,  one  of  the  children  of 
the  emigrant  ancestors  of  New  England,  came 
from  Lynn  in  the  year  1691  and  settled  near 
Salem,  New  Jersey,  with  his  three  sons,  Zebe- 
dee,  Elisha,  referred  to  below,  and  William. 

( II )  Elisha,  second  son  of  William  Bassett, 
of  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  and  Salem  county, 
New  Jersey,  was  born  about  1682.  In  1705 
was  elected  constable  to  the  town  of  Salem, 
and  continued  in  that  office  for  eight  years. 
He  married  Abigail  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
John  and  Dorothea  Davis,  of  Pilesgrove.  Their 
children  were:  I.  Sarah,  born  1719;  married 
Thomas  Smith,  of  ]\Iannington,  and  (second) 
Charles  Fogg.  2.  Elizabeth,  May  23,  1720; 
married  Thomas  Davis.  3.  Josiah,  married 
Ruth  Bradway.  4.  Elisha,  Jr.,  referred  to  be- 
low. 5.  Rebecca,  married  John  Page.  6.  Will- 
iam, 1733:  married  Phebe  Cowperthwaite.  7. 
Rachael,  1736;  married  Andrew  Miller.  8. 
Isaac,  1738:  married  Deborah  Dunn.  Four 
others. 

(III)  Elisha  (2),  the  son  of  Elisha  (i)  and 
.\bigail  Elizabeth  (Davis)  Bassett,  was  born 
December  15,  1722.  He  married  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  Woodnutt,  of  Mannington.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Joseph,  died  young.  2.  Rachael,  died 
young.    3.  Sarah,  born  August  10,  1759;  mar- 


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rietl  Joseph  I'ettit.  4.  Hannah,  married  John 
Roberts.  5.  Joseph,  referred  to  below.  6. 
.Name  unknown. 

(IV)  Joseph,  son  of  Ehsha  (2)  and  Hilary 
(Woodnutt)  Bassett,  was  born  June  26,  1765. 
He  married  Alary,  daughter  of  David  and  Re- 
becca Allen,  of  Mannington.  Children:  i. 
Elisha,  referred  to  below.  2.  Joseph,  married 
(  first )  Lydia  Freedland  ;  (  second  )  Sarah  1  lill ; 
(third)  .\nn  (X'enicomb)  Lippincott.  3.  David, 
married  (first)  \'ashti  Davis;  (second)  Han- 
nah Pettit  I  (third)  .\nn  Packer.  4.  Hannah, 
married  Jonathan  Cawley.  5.  Rebecca,  mar- 
ried Caspar  W'istar.  <>.  .Samuel,  married  Mar}- 
.\nn  Craft.  7.  iienjamin,  married  Alary  .Kcton 
8.  William,  born  1803;  married  Abigail  Hazle- 
ton.     (;.   Alarv,    1806;  married   George  Craft, 

Jr. 

(\  )  Elisha  (3),  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and 
Alary  (Allen)  Bassett,  was  born  January  26, 
1778.  He  married  (first)  Alary,  daughter  of 
Darkin  and  Esther  Nicholson,  of  Elsinboro. 
Children:  i.  David,  married  Alary  Smith. 
2.  Josiali,  died  young.  3.  Elizabeth,  married 
Biddle  Haines.  4.  Elisha,  referred  to  below. 
5.  Edward  Hicks,  married  Hannah  Smith.  6. 
John  Thompson,  married  Susan  Humphreys. 
7.  .\lbert,  married  Sarah  Shoemaker.  8.  Alary. 
Elisha  married  (second)  Alary,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Clark,  and  widow  of  Samuel  Ei])pin- 
cott. 

(\'I)  Elisha  (4),  fourth  child  and  third  son 
of  Elisha  (3)  and  Alary  (Nicholson)  Bassett, 
married  Hannah  Ann,  daughter  of  Andrew 
and  Rebecca  (Abbott)  Thompson.  Among 
their  children  was  Anna,  who  becam.e  the  sec- 
ond wife  of  William  Thomas  Hilliard  (see 
HiUiard,  VH). 


The    Headley    family   is   un- 
rn^.ADLEY     doubtedly   of   English   origin 

although  one  tradition  says 
they  came  from  Scotland.  In  the  twelfth 
century  the  name  was  sjielt  De  Haddeleigh, 
and  de  Hadleins,  its  signification  being  "of  the 
woods."  In  later  days  the  name  has  passed 
through  various  forms  and  has  now  crystal- 
ized  into  Headley,  Hedley,  Hedly  and  Had- 
ley.  The  present  branch  of  the  family  is  be- 
lieved to  have  originated  with  one,  Leonard 
Headley.  who  prior  to  1664  came  from  Eng- 
land, landed  at  Boston,  went  from  there  to 
Connecticut,  afterwards  drifted  to  Long 
Island,  and  in  the  year  1664  became  one  of  the 
Elizabethtown  associates. 

(I)   The     Leonard      llea<lley     referred     to 
above,    soon    after    his    coming    to    Elizabeth- 


town,  went  about  five  miles  west  of  the  town, 
and  settled  what  for  many  years  was  known 
as  Headleytown,  which  was  that  part  of 
L'nion  county  now  known  as  Unionville. 
Leonard  Headley  was  a  weaver  and  also  the 
owner  of  a  sawmill.  His  wife  Sarah,  who  was 
the  administratrix  of  his  estate,  after  his 
death  married  Robert  Smith,  who  according 
to  Hatfield  was  the  first  of  his  name  in  Eliza- 
bethtown, being  there  in  1687  and  in  1699 
being  the  high  sheriff  of  the  county.  Leonard 
Headley  died  in  February,  1683,  and  it  is  sup- 
posed left  two  sons,  Thomas,  referred  to 
below,  and  Abner. 

(  II )  Thomas,  conjectured  son  of  Leonard 
Headley,  was  in  Elizabethtown  from  1700  to 
1702,  when  his  name  appears  on  various  pa- 
pers and  documents.  Of  his  family  nothing  is 
definitely  known,  but  it  is  conjectured  from 
liis  being  mentioned  in  the  will  of  John 
Parker  that  there  was  some  connection  be- 
tween the  families  of  Headley  and  Parker, 
|)Ossibly  Thomas's  wife  was  a  Parker.  Janu- 
ary 17,  1726,  letters  of  administration  were 
granted  on  the  estate  of  John  Clake  or  Clark 
to  his  "father-in-law"  Thomas  Headley. 
Thomas  is  also  supposed  to  have  been  the 
father  of  Samuel  Headley  Sr.,  of  Headley- 
town. referred  to  below. 

(Ill)  Samuel,  conjectured  son  of  Thomas 
lleatlley,  of  P31izabethtown,  was  born  about 
1690.  died  about  1755.  He  lived  at  Headley 
town,  and  was  the  founder  of  that  place.  He 
and  his  family  were  members  of  the  Presby- 
terian church  of  Connecticut  Farms,  and  they 
are  buried  there,  but  there  is  nothing  to  mark 
their  graves.  By  his  wife  Alary,  Samuel 
Headley  had  eight  children:  I.  Alary,  married 
John  Aluchmore.  2.  Josei)h,  referred  to 
jjelow.     3.  Robert,  born  in  1718  or  1720,  died 

— ,  and 


.April  28,  iSofi:  married  Susanna 
Phebe  (Baldwin)  Gardner.  4.  Samuel,  who 
is  referred  to  below.  5.  Sarah.  6.  Rachel. 
7.  Phebe.  8.  Isaac,  married  a  Aliss  Piatt,  of 
New  Jersey,  and  was  ])robabIy  the  eldest  son. 
(IV)  Joseph,  son  of  Samuel  and  Alary 
Headley,  was  born  about  17 18,  died  in  Oc- 
tober, 1785.  He  was  a  farmer  and  at  first 
lived  in  Headleytown  on  land  inherited  from 
his  father.  Later,  however,  he  removed  to 
the  Headleytown  property  known  as  Vaux 
Hall,  probably  erecting  the  house  on  the  prop- 
erty and  giving  it  the  name  it  now  bears.  It 
was  over  this  jirojierty  that  part  of  the  battles 
of  Connecticut  I'arms  and  Springfield  were 
fought.  The  name  of  Joseph  Headley's  wife 
is  unknown,  but  his  children  were:  I.   David. 


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born  about  1745,  died  1806;  married  and  hatl 
one  child,  Abner.  2.  Elizabeth,  born  about 
1749,  married  Benjamin  Crane.  3.  John 
Thompson,  born  175 1.  died  F"ebruary  4,  1828: 
married  Catharin  Smith;  was  a  revolutionary 
soldier  and  fought  at  Connecticut  Farms  and 
Springfield.  4.  Rachel,  married  Aaron  Mun- 
ter.  5.  Cary,  referred  to  below.  6.  Ann, 
married  Eliakim  Frazee,  but  has  no  issue.  7. 
.Mary,  who  married  but  had  no  issue. 

I  \  I  Cary,  son  of  Joseph  Headley,  of  Head- 
leytown,  was  born  February  14,  1756,  died 
I'ebruary  1,  1823.  He  was  born  in  L'nion 
township,  Cuion  county,  where  he  lived  and 
died,  and  s])ent  his  time  farming.  Me  was  a 
man  of  much  enterprise,  much  esteemed  by 
his  fellow-townsmen.  He  lived  on  what  is 
now  known  as  \'alle3'  street  about  half  a  mile 
south  of  Wyoming,  and  owned  at  least  one 
hundred  and  fifty  acres.  When  tliey  were 
married  .Mrs.  Headley  was  presented  with 
two  slaves,  a  man  and  a  woman.  Cary  Head- 
ley  was  a  revolutionary  soldier,  entertained 
General  Washington  and  members  of  his  com- 
mand in  \'aux  Hall,  and  in  his  woods,  which 
afterwards  belonged  to  his  grandson,  John 
Stiles,  referred  to  below,  the  great  general 
and  his  men  knelt  down  beside  a  log  and 
prayed  for  victory  for  the  patriot  army.  For 
three  days  Cary  Headley's  house  was  sur- 
rounded by  the  British.  His  wife  and  serv- 
ants took  the  cattle  and  horses  over  the  Orange 
mountain  and  remained  there  with  them  until 
the  enemy  had  left.  Before  going  she  threw 
her  silver  spoons,  pewter  plates  and  platters 
into  the  well  and  also  buried  a  case  of  silver 
in  the  big  wall.  .After  the  war  all  was  re- 
covered. After  the  war  Cary  Headley  furn- 
ished an  ox  which  was  roasted  on  the  Orange 
mountain  and  (ieneral  W'ashington  partook  of 
it.  .\  part  of  the  battle  of  Springfield  was 
fought  on  this  place. 

Cary  Headley  married,  April  i,  1781,  Phebe, 
born  March  13.  1762,  died  about  1830,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Stiles,  of  Elizabethtown,  who 
bore  him  seven  children:  I.  Phebe  Stiles,  born 
about  1783  or  1784,  married  Jonathan  Ball. 
2.  Mary,  married  Ezekiel  Ball.  3.  William 
Stiles,  referred  to  below.  4.  Susan,  born 
March  6,  1796,  died  April  18,  1863;  married 
Thomas  Campbell  Baker.  5.  Timothy,  March 
10,  1800.  died  December  24,  1851  ;  married 
.\deline  Shaffer.  6.  David  Cary,  February 
15,  1802,  died  Xovember  25,  1863;  married 
Charlotte  Halsey  Baker.  7.  Sarah,  born 
about   1807,  died  February  18,  1827;  married 


Daniel  S.  Townlev,  and  moved  to  Ohio  about 
■857- 

(\  I)  Wilham  Stiles,  third  child  and  eldest 
son  of  Cary  and  Phebe  (Stiles)  Headley,  was 
born  January  14,  1791,  died  December  22, 
1850.  He  lived  and  died  on  a  part  of  the 
old  Cary  Headley  farm.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  a  Presbyterian.  He  married  Hannah 
Lockwood,  daughter  of  Davis  Headley,  re- 
ferred to  below.  Their  children  were:  i.  Jo- 
anna Townley,  born  June  3,  1814,  died  April 
4,  1839;  married  William  Sanford  P)urnett,  of 
r.rooklyn.  2.  Phebe  Stiles,  September  12, 
181^1.  married  Silas  Condit  Burnett.  3.  Caro- 
hne.  July  21,  1819,  died  March  7,  1889;  mar- 
ried William  Courter.  4.  John  Stiles,  referred 
to  below.  5.  Jane  M.,  December  31.  1824, 
married  George  R.  Baker.  6.  Wickliff,  July 
4,  1828.  died  ]March,  1902:  married  Sarah 
-Ann  Brown  Dawes. 

(VH)  John  Stiles,  fourth  child  and  eldest 
son  of  William  Stiles  and  Hannah  Lockwood 
(  Headley )  Headley,  was  born  in  Union  town- 
ship. Union  county,  March  11,  1822,  died 
there  April  6,  1893.  His  boyhood  days  were 
spent  on  the  family  estate  in  Union  township. 
-After  acquiring  a  practical  education  he  went 
to  Brooklyn,  Long  Island,  and  was  ap])ren- 
ticed  to  David  M.  .Afflick,  who  taught  him  the 
trade  of  a  mason.  In  1846  he  began  business 
for  himself  as  a  builder,  and  continued  with 
success  until  1856,  when  he  returned  to  Union 
township.  locating  upon  a  portion  of  the  prop- 
erty of  his  ancestor.  Cary  Headley.  To  this 
he  succeeded  partly  by  inheritance,  partly  by 
purchase.  He  now  gave  his  whole  time  to 
farming.  He  did  not  care  for  political  life; 
his  manners  were  unassuming;  and  he  had 
many  traits  of  character  which  are  the  ex- 
l)onents  of  success  in  life  and  which  command 
the  respect  of  the  community.  He  was  a  wor- 
shipper at  and  a  supporter  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church  at  Springfield. 

John  Stiles  Headley  married,  February  13, 
1849,  Sarah  Ann,  born  December  29,  1824. 
died  in  1901,  daughter  of  John  E.  and  Eliza- 
beth (Cook)  Courter,  and  their  children  were. 
I.  Will  Courter.  referred  to  below.  2.  Han- 
nah Elizabeth,  born  July  31,  1857,  married 
William  S.  Wade,  of  South  Orange,  New 
Jersey.  3.  Jane  Lillian,  June  22,  1859,  married 
William  H.  Harrison,  of  Irvington. 

(MID  Will  Courter,  eldest  child  and  only 
son  of  John  Stiles  and  Sarah  Ann  ( Courter'i 
Headley,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  Long  Island, 
June  25,   1853,  and  is  now  living  in   Newark, 


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New  Jersey.  He  was  brought  up  on  a  pan 
of  the  old  Gary  Headley  Homestead  farm  in 
I'nion  county,  south  of  Wyoming  and  near  the 
Essex  county  Hne.  He  attended  the  pubhc 
schools  at  Headleytown,  Springfield,  and  St. 
Stephen's,  an  Episcopal  school  at  iMilburn, 
Essex  county.  He  then  entered  the  law  office 
of  Whitehead  &  Morrow  (John  Whitehead 
and  Samuel  Morrow  Jr.)  in  October,  1872. 
was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  at- 
torney at  the  November  term,  1876,  and  as 
counsellor  November,  1879.  Soon  after  his 
marriage  he  removed  to  Hilton,  Essex  county, 
holding  while  there  the  office  of  chairman  of 
the  trustees  of  the  public  school  of  that  place. 
In  1883  he  removed  again  to  Irvington.  New 
Jersey,  where  from  1884  to  1889  he  held  the 
office  of  president  of  the  village,  and  other 
offices.  In  i8g6  he  removed  to  East  Orange, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  continued  to  reside  until 
aljiiut  igo6  when  he  removed  to  Newark,  where 
he  now  resides.  He  has  his  law  offices  at  800 
IJroad  street,  Newark,  and  is  one  of  the  prom- 
inent lawyers  of  that  city.  In  politics  Mr. 
I  leadley  is  and  always  has  been  an  independent 
with  democratic  leanings.  Since  about  1873 
he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church, 
and  in  1902  became  a  member  of  the  official 
board  of  Calvary  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
of  East  Orange  and  is  now  a  member  of  the 
official  board  of  Somerfield  Methodist  Episco- 
])al  Church  of  Newark,  which  his  family  now 
attend. 

Will  Courter  Headley  married,  June  5,  1878, 
Rosetta,  born  at  tlreen  Bay,  Wisconsin,  Sep- 
tember, 1853,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  D.  Cooper 
and  Sarah  Francis  (Camp)  Ayres,  whose  two 
brothers  are :  James  Cooper,  married  Nellie 
Roflman ;  and  F'rancis  Camp,  married  Sally 
Chamberlain,  and  has  two  children:  Mar- 
guerite and  Frances.  Her  father  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  "Iron  Brigade"  during  the  civil  war. 
The  children  of  Will  Courter  and  Rosetta 
(Ayres)  Headley  are:  i.  Elroy.  2.  William 
Francis.  3.  Harold  Wade,  all  of  whom  art- 
re  f  erred  to  below^. 

(IX)  Elroy,  eldest  son  of  Will  Courter  and 
Rosetta  (Ayres)  Headley,  was  born  on  a  jiart 
of  the  Cary  Headley  homestead,  April  7,  1879. 
In  June,  1894,  he  graduated  from  the  Irving- 
ton  ]niblic  school ;  from  the  Newark  Academy, 
with  honors,  June,  1897,  and  from  Princeton 
University,  1901,  with  honors,  having  taken 
several  prizes  while  there.  In  1902  lie  gradu- 
ated from  the  New  York  Law  School  and  he 
is  now  in  his  father's  office.  He  married,  No- 
vember 26,  1903,  Ethel  B.,  daughter  of  Henry 


Whitman,  born  F'ebruary  19,  1884,  and  has 
one  child,  Elroy  Whitman,  born  November  6, 

(IX)  William  F'rancis,  second  child  and 
son  of  Will  Courter  and  Rosetta  (Ayres) 
Headley,  was  bijrn  March  12,  1881.  He 
graduated  from  the  Irvington  grammar  school 
in  1897.  from  the  East  Orange  high  school  in 
1901,  and  then  went  to  the  New  York  Law 
School.  He  married,  April  2"],  1906,  Etta  Mae 
Courter,  born  May  5,  1885,  and  has  two  chil- 
dren :  I.  F'rancis  Ayres,  born  August  26,  1907. 

2.  Helen  Margaret,  January  3,  1909. 

(  IX  )  Harold  Wade,  youngest  child  and  son 
of  Will  Courter  and  Rosetta  (Ayres)  Headley, 
was  born  April  11,  1885.  He  graduated  from 
the  Irvington  grammar  school,  from  t'ne 
F.astern  school.  East  C)range,  in  1898,  from 
the  East  Orange  high  school,  1902,  from  Yale 
L'niversity.  1906,  and  from  the  New  York 
Law  School,  1908. 

(  1\  )  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Samuel  (i)  and 
Mary  I  leadley,  was  born  about  1724,  died  No- 
vember 7.  1787.  He  was  twice  married,  first 
to  Rachel,  born  1728,  died  1750,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Sarah  (Davis)  Ball,  who  bore 
him  one  child:  Rachel,  married  J.  Tichenor, 
of  Camptown.  His  second  wife  was  Rebecca 
(  Bruen )  Headley,  who  died  December  26, 
1809,  aged  eighty-two.  She  bore  him  eight  more 
children:  i.  Rhoda,  born  1756,  died  October 
27.  1837;  married  Jonas  Wade.  2.  Stephen, 
January  28,  1 761,  died  March  26,  1843;  mar- 
ried Hannah  Lockwood.  3.  Davis,  referred 
to  below.  4.  Mary,  married  Moses  Wade.  5. 
Samuel,  Seiitember  3,  1768,  died  June  29, 
1841  ;  married  Elizabeth  Miller.  6.  Rebecca, 
July  24,  1771.  die<l  January  7,  1861  ;  married 
Daniel  Baker  Jr.  7.  I'hebe,  1774,  died  Feb- 
ruary 7,  i860:  married  Dr.  Flillyer.  8.  Es- 
ther, 1776,  died  November  11,  i860;  married 
Benjamin  Meeker. 

(V)  Davis,  second  child  and  son  of  Samuel 
(2)  and  Rebecca  (Bruen)  Headley,  was  born 
in  Union  tow-nship,  July  11,  1763,  died  Sep- 
tember 10,  1832.  He  married  three  times. 
His  first  wife  was  Joanna,  born  November 
2T^,  1774.  died  December  2,  181 2,  daughter  of 
Ceorge  and  Martha  (Baldwin)  Tovvnley. 
Their  children  were:  i.  Phebe,  born  1793, 
died  January  2,  1875  ;  married  Richard  Mer- 
rill.    2.  Hannah  Lockwood,  referred  to  below. 

3.  Samuel,  June  28,  1797,  died  September  i, 
1832,  unmarried.  4.  George,  died  November, 
1836,  unmarried.  5.  Martha  Baldwin,  1801, 
died  November  6,  1826;  married  Caleb  S. 
Miller.     6.  Davis  Jr.,  October   10,   1805,  died 


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May  7,  1881  ;  married  Susan  Rail.  7.  Mary, 
icSoS,  died  September  28,  1827:  married  Ewel 
F"reman.  8.  Moses,  who  died  unmarried.  His 
second  wife  was  Joanna,  born  October  29. 
1764,  died  October  14,  1816,  daughter  of  John 
Og^den  and  the  widow  of  James  Cole.  Their 
child  was  William  Ogden,  born  March  12, 
1S15,  died  February  23,  1875;  married  Maria 
.S.  Pierson.  His  third  wife  was  Fanny  Grif- 
fith, widow  of  Daniel  Rurger,  who  bore  him 
one  chilli,  Eleanor  Burger,  married  Lewis  W. 
Lyon. 

(VI)  Hannah  Lockwood,  second  child  and 
daughter  of  Davis  and  Joanna  (Townley) 
Headley,  was  born  June  9,  1795.  died  in 
March,  1874.  She  married  \\'illi;im  Stiles 
Headlev  (see  Headlev,  \  I). 


John  Alartin,  immigrant  ances- 
MARTIX     tor  of  this  branch  of  the  family, 

died  July  5,  1687.  He  was  of 
Dover,  Xew  Hampshire,  1648-1666:  Wood- 
bridge,  New  Jersey,  1668- 1676;  and  l^iscata- 
wav.  New  Jersey,  1676-1687.  He  married 
Esther,  born  in  1628,  died  Decemlier  12,  1687, 
(laughter  of  Thomas  Roberts,  who  settled  in 
Dover,  New  Hampshire,  in  1623, and  was  chosen 
president  of  the  colony  in  opposition  to  John 
Underbill.  Children:  i.  Mary,  born  in  1645; 
married  (first)  Hopewell  Hull,  who  died  in 
1693;  (second)  April  9,  1696,  Justman  ITull. 
2.  John,  1630,  died  at  Piscataway,  .\pril,  1704; 
married  (first)  June  26,  1677,  Dorothy,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  Smith,  of  Woodbridge,  Xew 
Jersey:  (second)  January  19,  1698-99,  .Anne 
P.rown,  who  survived  him.  3.  Joseph,  1652; 
married,  November  25,  1679,  Sarah,  daughter 
of  William  and  Catharine  Trotter,  of  Eliza- 
beth Town.  4.  Lydia,  1654:  married,  October 
18,  1676,  John  Smalley.  5.  Benjamin,  see  for- 
ward. 6.  Thomas,  1659 :  married.  April  28, 
1683,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Mary 
?Iiggins.  7.  James,  1669,  died  March  21,  1676- 
77.  With  the  exception  of  James,  all  these 
children  were  born  in  Dover,  New  Hampshire. 
(H)  Benjamin,  third  son  and  fifth  child  of 
John  and  Esther  (Roberts)  Martin,  was  born 
in  1656.  He  married  (first)  October  24,  1680, 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Renolds.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Benjamin,  born  October  2,  1681. 
died  October,  1682.  2.  Esther,  .\ugust 
4.  168^.  3.  Benjamin,  November  14,  1685, 
died  May,  1757:  married  Philorate  Slater.  4. 
Jonathan,  Januarv   12,   1687-88,  died  August, 

1768:   married   Elizabeth  .     The  elder 

Benjamin  married  (second)  November  10, 
1688,   Margaret,  daughter  of   Peter   Ellstone. 


of  Woodbridge,    New   Jersey.     Children :     5. 

Mary,  .April  21,  1691.    6.  Peter,  see  forward. 

(HI)    Peter,    only    son    of    Benjamin    and 

Margaret  (Ellstone)  Martin,  was  born  .August 

19,  1693,    died    Alarch,    1756.      He    married 

(first)    1712,    Marie    .      Children:      i. 

Mulford,  see  forward.  ,  2.  Serviah  Runyon. 
3.  Mary,  married  Isaac  Fan  ret.  4.  Pressilla. 
By  the  second  marriage  of  Peter  Martin  he 
had:  5.  Robert,  married  (first)  November  29, 
1738.  Mary  Bloomfield,  (second)  May  4,  1761, 
Alargaret  Pattan.     6.  Peter,   1743.     7.  Sarah, 

1745- 

(  I\  )   Mulford,   eldest   child    of    Peter   and 

Marie  Martin,  was  born  September  22,  1713. 
He  married  (first)  Serviah,  born  November 
II,  1716.  (laughter  of  Ephraim  and  Phebc 
Dunham.  Child,  Thomas,  born  1739,  died  in 
Octc^ber,  1767;  married,  February  15,  1762, 
Elizabeth  .\yers,  of  Woodbridge,  New  Jersey. 
Mulford  Martin  married  (second)  Rachel 
Ayers,  of  Woodbridge,  New  Jersey.  Children : 
I.  Rachel  Ayers.  2.  Mulford,  see  forward.  3. 
.Samuel,  born  in  1743. 

(  \' )  Mulford  (2].  eldest  son  of  Mulford 
(  I  )  and  Rachel  (Ayers)  Martin,  was  born  in 
1741.    (lied    January    28,    1788.      He    married 

(first)    .Anna ,   born   in    1728,   died   in 

1766.  Children:  i.  Anna,  born  in  1760,  died 
December  6,  1788,  buried  in  Rahway,  New 
Jersey.  2.  Merritt,  1762,  died  in  1819:  mar- 
ried. May  21.  1783,  Rebecca,  born  in  1766,  died 
.August  30,  1 801,  daughter  of  Colonel  Moses 
and  Zeporah  (  De  Camp )  Jaques :  they  had 
seven  children.     3.  Thomas,  1766,  died  Alarch 

20,  1833,  buried  at  Rahway:  married,  Septem- 
ber 21,  1788,  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  and 
Martha  Ludlum.  Mulford  Martin  married 
('sec(jnd)  Hannah,  daughter  of  Peter  and  Han- 
nah Trembley.  and  widow  of  John  Spinning. 
Children:  4.  Peter,  1771..  died  June  10,  1804, 
buried  in  Railway,  New  Jersey;  married,  De- 
cember 14,  1794,  Sarah  Conkling.  3.  William, 
see  forward.  6.  .Anna,  February  3,  1781,  died 
February  20,  1817;  married  Elias  Dunham, 
born  February  29,  1766,  died  July  29,  1815. 

(  \'l  )  William,  second  son  and  child  of  Mul- 
ford (2)  and  Hannah  (Trembley)  (Spinning) 
Martin,  was  born  near  Rahway,  New  Jersey, 
l-'ebruary  12.  1779,,  died  in  Railway.  March 
13,  1843.  He  married,  October  3,"  1801,  .Ann 
Loree,  born  at  Long  Hill,  near  Morristown, 
New  Jersey,  October  22,  1775,  died  at  Rah- 
way, April  29,  1867.  Children:  i.  Rebecca, 
born  July  17,  1802,  died  October  3,  1803.  2. 
Mulford,  January  5,  1809,  died  the  same  day. 
3.  William,  January   2,    181  1.  died   .August    12, 


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1812.  4.  William  Mulfurd,  see  forward.  5. 
Ann  L(iree,  January  i,  1816.  died  at  Newark, 
Xew  Jersey,  September  21,  1895;  married 
James  Audley  Calhoun.  6.  Albert  Gallatin, 
October  29,  1818,  died  at  Di.xon,  Illinois,  P'eb- 
ruary   14,    1894;  married   Frances  Thompson. 

(\'ll)  William  Mulford,  third  son  and 
fourth  child  of  William  and  Ann  (Loree) 
Martin,  was  born  in  Railway,  New  Jersey, 
June  29,  1813.  He  married  at  Brooklyn,  New 
\'cirk,  January  10,  1836,  Ann  Elizabeth  Par- 
menter,  born  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  Janu- 
ary II,  1819  died  in  Woodbridge,  New  Jersey, 
October  17,  1885.  Children:  i.  William  Wis- 
ncr,  born  in  Rahway,  December  18.  1837,  died 
in  Brooklyn,  Xew  York,  October  16,  1865 ; 
married,  June  2^,  1863,  Fannie  Ludlow  Had- 
den.  born  in  New  York  City,  February  5,  1838, 
ilied  in  Flainfield,  New  Jersey,  January  29, 
1890;  their  child,  Louise  Hunt  Martin,  Ijorn 
in  Columbia,  California,  .April  6.  1864,  mar- 
ried, August  3,  1893,  at  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
KneelaiKl  Moore,  and  had  a  daughter,  .\nna 
Louise,  born  .September  13,  1896.  2.  .\nna 
.Maria,  born  at  Rahway,  July  26,  1842,  died 
July  27,  1843.  3.  James  Parmenter,  see  for- 
ward. 4.  .\nn  Elizabeth,  born  in  Rahway, 
March  21,  1847,  ''i^d  in  the  same  town,  July 
29,  1849.  5-  Joseph  Hillyer  Thayer,  born  at 
Rahway,  January  23.  1850;  married  at  Wood- 
bridge.  New  Jersey,  June  2.  1874,  Lydia  Free- 
man, born  in  Woodbridge,  July  25,  185 1  ;  chil 
dren :  Joseph  Hillyer  Thayer,  born  March 
22.  1875;  Lillie  {•'reeman.  born  January  17. 
1878,  died  July  3,  1892;  Elsie  Barron,  born 
.April  10,  1880;  liilda,  born  June  11,  1884.  6. 
.Sovereign  Edgar,  born  in  Rahway,  December 
22.   185 1,  died  in  Woodbridge,  July  28,    1855. 

(\  111)  James  Parmenter,  second  son  and 
third  chilli  of  William  Mulford  and  .Ann  Eliza- 
beth (Parmenter)  Martin,  was  born  m  Brook- 
lyn, New  York,  October  8,  1844,  died  June  17. 
1908.  He  married  at  Lyons,  New  York,  June 
12,  1867,  Holdena  White  Bell,  born  at  Simp- 
s(jnville,  Kentucky,  ( )ctober  19,  1846,  and  a 
descendant  of  James  P.rown,  a  sketch  of  whose 
descendants  will  be  found  forward.  Children : 
I.  Wisner  Pell,  born  in  \'irg^nia  City,  Nevada, 
December  17,  1868:  married,  June  6,  1894,  at 
Hackensack.  .\'ew  Jersey,  (jrace  .Moore.  2. 
William   Parmenter,  see  forward. 

(  IX  )  \\  illiam  I'armenter,  second  and  young- 
est son  and  child  of  James  Parmenter  and 
Holdena  White  (I'ell)  Martin,  was  born  in 
X'irginia  City,  Xcvada,  October  8,  1871.  He 
is  an  attorney  and  counsellor  at  law.  with 
offices  in  the  I'.quitablc  building,  Xo.  120  Broad- 


way, Xew  York  City,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Lawyers'  Club.  He  and  his  wife  are  members 
of  the  Roseville  .Avenue  Presbyterian  Church. 
He  married  at  Ceneva,  Xew  York.  June  10, 
1896,  Margaret,  born  January  19,  1872,  only 
daughter  of  .Archibald  Postwick  and  .Alvira 
(  i 'eek )  Morrison,  and  sister  of  Harry  and 
.\rchibald  Bostwick,  Jr.,  the  latter  of  whom 
is  married  to  Sade  Rutherford. 

(The   Brown    I.iiifi. 

( I )  James  l-Jrown,  who  resided  in  Hattield, 
.Massachusetts,  in  1669,  removed  to  Deerfield, 
.Massachusetts,  in  1683,  and  went  thence  to 
L'olchester,  Connecticut.  He  married  in 
.Sjjringfield,  Massachusetts,  January  7,  1674, 
Remembrance  Brooks.  Children:  i.  Mary, 
born  May  26,  [677.  2.  .Abigail,  September  8, 
1678.  3.  Thankful,  June  i,  1682.  4.  Sarah 
if)83.  5.  James,  1685.  ').  Mindwell,  1686. 
7.  Hannah.  1688.  8.  Mercy,  1(390.  9.  Eliza- 
beth, i')93.     10.  John,  see  forward. 

(  II  )  John,  youngest  child  of  James  and 
Remembrance  (  Brooks )  Brown,  was  born  in 
Deerfield.  Massachusetts,  February  10,  1695. 
He  was  a  soldier  at  one  time  and  tradition 
says  that  he  was  captured  by  the  Indians  during 
the  French  and  Indians  war,  taken  to  Canada, 
where  he  was  exchanged  and  released  after 
having  been  ke|)t  a  prisoner  for  some  time. 
1  le  married  at  .Xorthfield,  Massachusetts,  Xo- 
vember  28,  1725,  Hannah  Janes,  born  at  Xorth- 
am])ton,  Massachusetts,  June  16,  1710.  Chil- 
dren: I.  John,  born  April  5,  1726.  2.  Benja- 
min, October  14,  1727.  3.  .Silas,  see  forward. 
4.  Eunice,  December  15,  1730.  3.  Hannah. 
Xovember  2,  1732.  6.  Lois,  .August  [4,  1734' 
married  Cyideon  Shattuck.  7.  Rufus,  July  5, 
17 ^(^'.  died  at  East  Hampton.  .Massachusetts, 
Xovember  8,  1801. 

(  111  )  .^ilas,  third  son  and  child  of  John  and 
Hannah  (Janes)  lirown,  was  horn  ui  .Xorth- 
field, Massachusetts.  June  21,  1729,  died  at 
East  Hampton,  .Massachusetts.  .August  4,  1804. 
He  was  a  lieutenant  in  Captain  Jonathan 
Waite's  ctimpany.  Colonel  Ezra  Meigs'  regi- 
ment, and  was  present  at  the  battle  of  Sara- 
toga and  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne,  took  part 
in  the  expedition  to  .Stillwater  and  Saratoga 
during  the  revolutionar_\-  war,  and  conducted  a 
part  of  the  jirisoners  then  captured  to  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut.  He  married  Catharine 
.^earle.    born   about    1735,    died    F'ebruary    11, 

1813.      Children:      I.    Sarah.,   married   

Storey.  2.  Silas,  Jr.,  see  forward.  3.  Eli,  born 
about  17(15,  died  March  15,  1793.  4.  .Arad. 
born   about    1768.   died   January   2.    1793.      3. 


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Zenas,    married.    January    2"],    1 79 1,    ; 

died  in  West  Hampton,  Massachusetts.  6. 
Jf)el.  born  in  Xorthampton.  Massachusetts, 
about  1773,  died  there  in  1862.  7.  Dorcas, 
married  Elam  Clark;  died  at  East  Hampton, 
Massachusetts,  aged  ninety. 

(  i\'  )  Silas  (2),  eldest  son  and  second  child 
uf  Silas  (i)  and  Catharine  (Searle)  Brown, 
was  born  in  Northampton,  Massachusetts, 
June,  1762,  died  at  East  Hampton,  Massachu- 
setts, .\pril  6,  1826.  He  married  at  North- 
anii)ton.  January  25,  1786,  Jemima  Clark,  born 
in  that  town.  July  25,  1763,  died  at  West 
riloumtield,  New  York.  April  22,  1840.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Theodore,  born  March  11.  1787.  2. 
.Sojihia.  see  forward.  3.  !K  child,  born  No- 
vember 28.  1789,  died  the  following  day.  4. 
.\roa.  April  23.  1792.  5.  .Aseaneth.  June6,  1795. 
6.  Silas  Clark,  September  2,  1797.  7.  Kaimy. 
April  15.  1800.  8.  Cecil.  March  2.  1804.  9. 
Minerva  E..  October  17.  1806. 

(\')  Sophia,  second  child  and  eldest  (laugh- 
ter of  Silas  (2)  and  Jemima  (Clark)  Brown, 
was  born  in  Northampton.  Massachusetts,  July 
26,  1788,  died  in  Louisville,  Kentucky.  Septem- 
ber 20.  1 83 1.  She  married  at  Northampton, 
January  10.  1814,  Silas  Walsworth,  born  in 
Rome,  New  York,  died  in  Wisconsin.  (See 
Walsworth.  \').  Children:  i.  Jared  Stock- 
ing, born  in  Keene.  New  Ham])shire.  Decem- 
ber 6.  18 14.  2.  Edward  I'.rown,  September 
29.  1 817.  3.  Frances  Minerva.  January  26, 
1820.  4.  Maria  Louisa,  May  20,  1822.  5. 
Sophia  Brown,  see  forward.  6.  Silas  South- 
worth.  September  23.  1826.  7.  Mary  Elizabeth. 
March  9.  1829.  .\11  the  children,  with  the  ex- 
ception I  if  the  eldest,  were  born  in  Cleveland. 
(  )hio. 

(VI)  So])hia  Brown,  third  daughter  and 
fifth  child  of  Silas  and  Sophia  (  Brown)  Wals- 
worth. was  born  in  Cleveland..  Ohio,  .-Xugust 
29.  1824.  and  resides  in  Kansas  City,  Alissouri. 
She  married  at  Montgomery.  New  York.  Sej)- 
tember  16.  1845.  Rev.  Samuel  B.  Bell.  D.  D.. 
wlin  was  born  in  Montgomery.  Children:  I. 
Holdena  White,  see  forward.  2.  Hal.  born  in 
.Sini|.)sonville.  Kentucky.  July  29.  1848.  3. 
Edward  Walsworth,  born  in  Maysville,  Ken- 
tucky. January  7.  1851.  4.  Sarah  Pearson, 
born  in  San  Francisco.  California,  .\pril  7. 
1853.  5.  Harmon,  born  in  Oakland,  Cali- 
fornia, ^larch  23.  1855.  6.  Durant.  born  in 
Oakland.  March  6.  1857.  7.  Benjamin  i'itmau. 
born  in  ( Jakland.  February  19.  1839. 

(MI)  Holdena  WHiite'Bell,  eldest  child  of 
Rev.    Samuel   B.,   D.    D.,   and   Sophia   Brown 


(Walsw(irtli)    Bell,  married 
.Martin   (  see  Martin.  \ill). 


aincs   1  'armenter 


(Tlie    Wal.sworlh   I>ine). 

The  Walsworth  trace  their  lineage  directly 
liack  to  Egbert,  last  king  of  the  West  Saxons, 
ami  the  first  king  of  England,  827-28.  The 
name  was  originally  spelled  \Varlworth, 
changed  to  Walworth,  then  assuming  its  pres- 
ent form  of  ^^'alsworth. 

(  1  )  William  Walworth,  immigrant  ancestor, 
came  from  near  London,  England.  1688-89. 
to  introduce  English  farming  into  Fisher's 
Island,  then  owned  by  Sir  I-"itz-John  Winthrop, 
governor  of  Connecticut.  He  and  his  wife 
and  eldest  daughter  were  baptized  January  24, 
1692.  at  New  London,  by  Rev.  Gurden  Salton- 
stall,  and  he  died  at  Groton,  Connecticut.  He 
married,  shortly  after  his  arrival  in  this  coun- 
\x\.  Mary  Seaton,  who  came  over  on  the  vessel 
with  him.  Children:  i.  William,  see  forward. 
2.  John,  who  was  a  captain  of  dragoons,  and 
died  at  Groton  about  1749;  he  married  Sarah 
Dunn,  of  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  and  had: 
Samuel,  married  Hannah  W^oodbridge ;  John, 
married  (first)  Mary  Viner,  of  Stonington, 
( second )  Patience  Denison.  of  Lynn,  was 
killed  at  Fort  Griswold :  Silvester,  married, 
.April  8,  1756,  Sarah  Holmes:  William,  of 
Delaware  county.  New  York ;  James,  died 
voung:  Ijenjamin.  born  at  Groton.  November 
4.  1746;  .Abigail,  died  young;  Sarah,  married 
Benjamin  Pirown ;  Philena,  married  Joseph 
.Mini it.  3.  Martha,  born  March  1690;  married 
[oiin  Stark,  of  .New  London,  and  had  children. 
4.  Mary.  F"ebruary,  1694;  married  .\bial  Stark, 
of  Lebanon,  Connecticut,  and  had  children.  5. 
Joamia.  October.  1698;  married  Christopher 
Stark,  of  Groton,  Connecticut,  and  had  four 
sons  and  four  daughters.  6.  Thomas,  May, 
1700;  married  a  daughter  of  William  Stark, 
(.f  (Jroton,  and  had  one  son.  7.  James,  twin 
of  Thomas,  died  during  his  minority. 

(  II  )  William  (2).  son  of  William  (i)  and 
.Mar\  (.Seaton)  Walworth,  was  born  in  i69"2, 
and  was  styled  "(.)f  .Noank."  He  married 
(first)  June  16.  1720.  Mary  .Avery,  of  Groton. 
Children  :  i.  Molly,  born  September  29,  1721  : 
married.  July  I.  174-2,  Sol.  Morgan.  2.  Martha, 
( )ctober  17,  1724.  3.  Susan,  October  22, .1726; 
married  C^badiah  Stark.  4.  .Amos.  January 
30.  1728;  married  Eliza  Harris.  3.  Lucy,  De- 
cember 3,  1732:  married  \'each  Williams.  6. 
James,  see  forward.  7.  Nathan,  married  Je- 
mima Gallup.  8.  .Abigail.  He  married  (sec- 
ond)  September  23,  1742.  Elizabeth  ITinkley. 


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Children:  9.  Eunice,  June  4,  1743;  married, 
January  i,  1762,  Deacon  Simeon  Smith.  10. 
Ciiarles.  1744;  married  Lucy  Harris. 

(Ill)  James,  second  son  and  sixtli  child  of 
William  (2)  and  Mary  (Avery)  Walworth, 
was  born  September,  1734.  He  was  (juarter- 
master  with  Ethan  Allen  at  Ticonderoga.  He 
married  Eunice  Packard  or  Parker.  Children: 
I.  James,  born  November,  1759.  2,  Jesse,  Feb- 
ruary 6,  i/C)i.  3.  Eunice,  December  29,  1762; 
married  and  had:  Gilbert,  William,  James,  a 
Methodist  minister;  Sarah  and  .Vbigail.  4. 
William,  December  2,  1764;  marrietl  Sarah 
(jrant,  of  Stonington,  and  had  three  sons  and 
two  daughters.  5.  Elisha,  October  11,  1766. 
6.  Daniel,  see  forward.  7.  Abigail,  August 
14,  1772.  8.  Susanna,  January  9,  1775.  9. 
Avery,  March  7,  1777.  10.  Asa,  March  22, 
1779.  II.  Lucy,  June  8,  1781.  12.  Elijah, 
November  21,  1783. 

(1\')  Daniel,  fifth  son  and  sixth  child  of 
James  anil  Eunice  (Packard  or  Parker)  Wal- 
worth, was  born  November  11,  1768,  and  was 
accidently  killed  while  still  young.  He  married 
Mary  or  Polly,  daughter  of  William  South- 
worth,  born  in  Leyden,  Holland,  about  1616. 
settled  at  Canajoharie,  New  York,  and  died  in 
Middlesex,  New  Jersey,  in  1690:  his  wife  was 
Susanna  Antice.  William  was  the  son  of 
Thomas  Soutlnvorth,  and  the  grandson  of  Sir 
Robert  Southworth,  who  was  knighted  by 
James  the  I'^irst,  married  Alice,  daughter  of 
.Alexander  Carpenter,  and  died  in  England 
about  1621.  He  was  the  financial  agent  of  the 
Pilgrims  in  Leyden.  Lady  Alice  brought  her 
two  sons  over  on  the  "Mayflower,"  some  say 
the  "Anne,"  and  became  the  second  wife  of 
(jovernor  William  Bradford.  August  i,  1623. 
Daniel  Walworth  was  the  father  of  Silas,  see 
forward,  and  Elizabeth,  married Foster. 

(  \  )  Silas  Walsworth,  son  of  Daniel  and 
Mary  or  Polly  (  Southworth  )  Walworth,  was 
born  in  Rome,  New  York,  and  died  at  Fort 
Winnebago,  Wisconsin,  September.  1S49.  He 
held  a  ca]jtain's  commission  during  the  war  of 
1812.  He  married  at  Northampton,  Massachu- 
setts, January  10.  1814.  So]ihia  Rrown  ("sec 
I'>rown,\' ). 

The  narrative  here  written  is 
M.\TL.\CI\     lo    record    something   of   the 

lives  and  achievements  of  the 
re]:)resentati\es  of  several  generations  of  one 
of  the  notable  old  colonial  families  of  New 
Jersey.  The  family  has  been  made  the  sub- 
ject of  narration  by  various  chroniclers,  for  its 
marriage  connections  have  been  as  notable  as 


is  the  history  of  the  family  itself,  and  in  the 
main  the  accounts  of  these  several  writers  are  in 
accord. 

(I )  William  Alatlack,  or  as  his  family  name 
appears  in  some  old  records,  Macklack,  was 
born  in  England  about  1648,  and  was  one  of 
the  colony  of  Friends  who  came  from  Crop- 
well  I'ishop.  a  small  village  in  Nottinghamshire, 
in  the  year  1077,  in  the  ship  "Kent,"  Captain 
Gregory  Marlowe,  and  was  sighted  off  Sandy 
Hook  August  14,  of  that  year.  The  vessel 
followed  along  the  coast  to  the  mouth  of  the 
Delaware  river,  up  which  it  sailed  to  Raccoon 
creek,  where  her  i)assengers  disembarked.  The 
cotnmissioners  appointed  by  William  Penn  and 
the  other  proprietors,  and  William  Matlack 
with  them,  took  a  small  boat  and  went  up  the 
Delaware  river  to  Chygoes  island  (whereon 
r.iudingtfin  now  stands)  almost  surrounded  by 
a  creek  named  for  an  Indian  sachem  who  lived 
there.  Matlack  was  the  first  to  leave  the  boat. 
just  as  in  later  years  he  was  foremost  in  the 
wiirk  of  development  of  the  region  in  various 
other  res]iects.  He  was  a  carpenter  and  built, 
or  hel])ed  to  build,  the  first  two  houses  in  Bur- 
lington and  also  helped  to  build  the  first  corn 
mill  in  West  Jersey.  It  is  related  that  as  the 
boat  neared  the  shore  Matlack  sprang  to  the 
l)ank  and  the  first  one  to  meet  him  was  an 
Indian  chief,  between  whom  and  Matlack  a 
friendship  was  formed  that  lasted  through 
life. 

lie  came  over  to  .\merica  as  an  artisan  in 
the  eni])loy  of  Thomas  Olive,  commissioner 
auil  proprietor,  and  after  serving  him  four  years 
bought  from  his  former  employer  one  hundred 
acres  of  good  land  between  the  north  and  south 
branches  of  Penisaukin  creek,  in  Chester  town- 
ship, I'.urlington  county,  as  afterwards  created. 
It  is  understood  that  the  purchase  price  of  the 
land  thus  accjuired  was  his  four  years'  service 
and  "current  county  pay."  The  greater  part 
of  this  tract  is  still  owned  and  in  the  possession 
of  William   Matlack's  descendants. 

.\t  the  time  of  his  immigration  to  America 
\\  illiam  Matlack  was  a  young  man  less  than 
thirty  years  old.  "He  saw  a  town  rise- up  in 
tlie  midst  of  the  forest,  surrounded  by  a  thriv- 
ing ])0])ulation,  busy  in  clearing  the  land  and 
enjoying  the  reward  of  their  labors.  His  leisure 
hours  were  spent  among  the  natives,  watching 
their  peculiarities  and  striving  to  win  their  good 
will.  Following  the  advice  and  example  of 
the  commissioners,  every  promise  made  by  him 
to  the  aboriginees  was  faithfully  kept,  and 
every  contract  strictly  adhered  to."  He  and 
Timothy  Hancock,  with  whom  he  worked  in 


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ciimmoii  ill  many  things,  "soon  found  their 
neighborhood  was  a  desirable  one :  for  new 
settlements  were  made  there  in  a  short  time, 
and  went  on  increasing  until  a  new  meeting  of 
Friends  was  established  at  the  house  of  Timo- 
thy Hancock  by  consent  of  the  Burlington 
Friends  in  1685."  In  1701  William  Matlack 
purchased  about  one  thousand  acres  of  land  in 
Waterford  and  Gloucester  townships,  in  Cam- 
den county  (then  (ilouccster)  lying  on  both 
sides  of  the  south  branch  of  Cooper's  creek. 
In  1714  he  gave  to  his  son  George  five  hundred 
acres  of  land  in  Waterford  township,  being 
part  of  the  one  thousand  acre  tract  purchased 
of  Richard  Heritage.  In  1717  he  bought  two 
hundred  acres  of  John  Estaugh.  attorney  for 
Jcjhn  Haddon,  and  there  his  son  Richard  settled 
in  1721.  In  1714  he  gave  his  son  Timothy  the 
remaining  part  of  the  Heritage  purchase,  and 
on  this  tract  Timothy  settled  and  built  his 
house.  The  tract  of  lands  owned  by  William 
Matlack  and  his  sons,  John,  Timothy  and 
Richard,  extended  from  the  White  Horse  tav- 
ern on  both  sides  of  the  highway  and  contain- 
ed about  fifteen  hundred  acres. 

W  illiam  Matlack,  immigrant  ancestor,  mar- 
ried Mary  Hancock,  and  of  this  event  Mr. 
Clement  writes  thus:  "In  1681  there  came 
from  Rrayles,  a  small  town  in  the  southern 
[)art  of  Warwickshire,  a  young  man  named 
Timothy  Hancock,  accompanied  by  his  sister, 
w^ho  was  about  fifteen  years  of  age.  Without 
friends  or  means,  they  lived  in  a  very  humble 
manner  among  the  settlers,  but  the  <leniand 
for  work  soon  found  Timothy  emjiloyment, 
and  the  demand  for  wives  did  not  leave  Mary 
long  without  a  suitor."  She  married  William 
Matlack  in  1682,  and  they  then  removed  to  a 
tract  of  land  which  he  had  located  between  the 
north  and  south  branches  of  Penisaukin  creek, 
in  Chester  township,  tier  brother  also  located 
an  adjoining  survey,  and  in  1684  married 
Rachel  Firman.  Thus  it  is  that  the  Matlatk 
family  of  Xew  Jersey — a  prolific  family  in- 
deed— began  with  William  and  Mary.  Just 
when  William  died  is  not  certain,  but  it  was 
after  1720..  and  he  lived  to  see  his  youngest 
daughter  the  mother  of  seven  children.  Tradi- 
tion says  that  he  died  in  his  ninetieth  or  ninety- 
first  year,  "and  would  have  lived  longer  if  his 
tools  had  not  been  hid  from  him,  for  he  took 
delight  in  having  his  accustomed  tools  to  work 
with,  and  when  he  could  not  have  them  he 
died."  His  children  were:  i.  John,  married 
(first)  Hannah  Horner;  (second)  Mary  Lee. 
2.  George,  married  (first)  1709,  Mary  Foster: 
(second)    Mary  Hancock.     3.   Mary,  married 


(first)  in  171 1,  at  Newton  meeting,  Jonathan 
Haines;  (second)  Daniel  Morgan.  4.  William, 
see  forward.  5.  Richard,  married  (first)  1721, 
Rebecca  Haines,  at  Evesham  meeting;  (sec- 
ond) in  1745,  Mary  Cole  at  Chester  meeting. 
6.  Joseph,  married  at  Chester  meeting  in  1722, 
Rebecca  Haines.  7.  Timothy,  married  in  1726 
at  Haddonfield  meeting,  Mary  Haines.  8.  Jane, 
married  Irvin  Haines.  <).  Sarah,  married,  in 
1721,  at  Evesham  meeting,  Carlyle  Haines. 

The  last  resting  place  of  the  first  IMatlack 
in  the  Xew  World  is  not  certainly  known.  It 
is  possible  that  his  ashes  mingled  with  the  dust 
of  the  graveyard  that  his  friend  Timothy  Han- 
cock dedicated  on  the  bank  of  the  north  branch 
of  I'ensaukin  creek  where  many  of  the  early 
settlers  were  buried.  But  this  spot  has  dis- 
appeared and  the  tombstones  that  marked  their 
graves  have  gone  to  helj)  form  the  foundations 
of  adjacent  buildings.  His  wife  Mary  died 
eleventh  month,  twentieth,  1728,  and  is  interred 
in  Friends'  Graveyard  at  Moorestown,  New 
Jersey.  From  these  .two  all  by  the  name  of 
Matlack  or  Matlock  in  .America  are  descended. 

(II)  William  (2),  son  of  William  (i)  and 
Mary  (Hancock)  Matlack,  was  born  at  Peni- 
saukhi  creek,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
December  2,  1690,  died  July  25,  1730.  He 
married,  September  17,  1713,  Ann,  daughter 
of  John  and  Frances  .Antrim',  of  Burlington, 
and  by  her  had  eight  children:  i.  Rebecca, 
born  .\ugust  16,  1714,  died  July  30,  1798; 
married  (first)  John  Bishop;  (second)  Caleb 
Carr.  2.  Jeremiah,  March  4,  1716,  died  Janu- 
ary 18,  1767.  3.  Rachel,  June  11,  1718,  died 
February  5,  1762;  married  (first)  Thomas 
Bishop;  (second)  Philip  Wikard.  4.  Leah, 
.August  29,  1720,  died  February  25,  1731.  5. 
.Ann,  December  11,  1722,  died  July  26,  1728. 
ft.  William,  June  20,  1725.  see  forward.  7. 
James,  June  13.  1728,  died  November  24,  1728. 
8.  Mary.  January  6,  1730,  died  .April  13,  1759. 

(  111  )  \\'illiam  (3),  son  of  William  (2)  and 
.\nn  (.\ntrim)  Matlack,  was  born  June  30, 
1725,  died  May  15,  1795.  He  married,  at 
Haddonfield  meeting,  October  i,  1748,  Mary, 
daughter  of  John  and  Jane  Turner,  and  by 
her  had  ten  children:  i.  .Atlantic,  born  No- 
vember 13,  1750,  died  February  21,  1775  ;  mar- 
ried Samuel  Stokes.  2.  William,  May  15, 
1752.  see  forward.  3.  John,  March  26,  1755. 
died  August,  1831  ;  married  Rebecca  Shute. .  4. 
Reuben,  November  "17,  1757,  died  August  2, 
1808;  married  Elizabeth  Coles.  5.  Jane,  Febru- 
ary II,  1760,  died  May  3,  1760.  6^_Sainuelj_ 
June  7,  1 76 1  ;  married  Sarah  Shute.  7.  Re- 
becca, I'ebruary  13.  17O5.  died  May  18.  1842: 


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married  Amos  Buzby.  8.  Joseph,  August  21, 
1767.  died  August  26,  1814;  married  Anna 
Shute.  9.  George,  March  6,  1770;  married 
Sarah  Roberts.  10.  Mary,  August  4,  1772. 
died  February  9,   1790. 

(I\')  William  (4),  son  of  William  (3)  and 
Mary  (Turner)  Matlack,  was  born  at  Maple 
Shade,  New  Jersey,  May  15,  1752,  died  Octo- 
ber 12,  1805,  aged  fifty-three  years,  and  is 
interred  at  Mullica  Hill,  New  Jersey.  Remar- 
ried (first)  Mary  Matson,  born  1767,  died 
March  5,  1786.  Married  (second)  Letitia 
Harris,  born  1767.  He  had  two  children  by 
his  first  and  four  by  his  second  marriage:  1. 
.\tlantic,  born  1782.  2.  Sarah,  1785.  3.  Ruth, 
1790:  married  Elton  Rogers,  of  Rancocas.  4. 
\\Mlliam,  1795,  died  1801.  aged  six  years.  5. 
Joshua.  1802.  see  forward.  6.  Rachel,  1803; 
married  Darlington  Evans.  The  mother, 
r,etitia  Harris,  afterward  married  Joseph 
Miller. 

The  Matlacks  were  Quakers.  For  which 
reason  the  most  of  them. remained  neutral  dur- 
ing the  great  revolution.  But  this  was  only  in 
obedience  to  the  discipline  for  the  acts  of  some, 
it  would  seem,  who  broke  the  restraint  and 
served  in  the  war  for  independence,  indicated 
that  the  family  nature  was  to  love  freedom  and 
hate  the  tyranny  of  kings  and  men.  The  most 
conspicuous  example  of  this  was  Timothy 
Matlack,  the  grandson  of  the  first  William  by 
his  son  Timothy.  This  grandson  Was  an  his- 
toric character  and  was  born  at  Haddonfield, 
.\ew  Jersey,  in  1730.  The  breaking  out  of  the 
revolution  fired  him  with  patriotic  ardor,  and 
throwing  away  the  broad  brim  and  turning 
(liiwn  the  "stand-up  collar"  he  entered  the 
army.  f(ir  which  act  he  was  turned  out  of 
meeting.  .As  colonel  of  irregular  cavalry  he 
did  valiant  service  in  the  good  cause.  He  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Society  of  Free 
(Juakers,  who  erected  the  building  at  the  south- 
west corner  of  Fifth  and  Arch  streets,  I'hila- 
delphia,  for  a  meeting  house.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Pennsylvania  convention,  secretary 
to  the  continental  congress,  and  a  member  of 
congress.  In  1817  he  was  prothonotary  of  the 
district  court  of  Philadelphia  county.  Living 
to  be  ninety-nine  years  old.  he  died  in  1829, 
and  was  interred  in  the  Free  Friends'  grave- 
yard on  South  Fifth  street,  Philadelphia.  His 
I)ortrait  hangs  in  Independence  Hall.  Of 
lesser  note  were  Josiah  Atatlack  in  the  Light 
Dragoons  of  Philadel])hia ;  Second-Lieutenant 
Titus  Alatlack.  Second  Company  of  L^nassign- 
ed  Militia  :  .Sergeant  William  Matlack,  Linton's 
Comjiany.   I'hiladel])hia  Militia:  Fifst-Lieuten- 


ant  Samuel  Matlack,  Captain  Horner's  Com- 
[jany  of  Gloucester ;  and  Joseph  Matlack,  a 
private  in  the  state  troops. 

(\')  Joshua,  son  of  NX'illiam  (4)  and  Letitia 
(Harris)  Matlack,  was  born  at  Alaple  Shade, 
in  1802.  Being  but  three  years  old  when  his 
father  died,  he  was  taken  and  brought  up  by 
his  uncle,  George  Matlack,  from  whom  he 
learned  the  trade  of  shoe  making,  but  from 
choice  followed  the  vocation  of  a  farmer.  About 
1826  he  married  .Ann  Burrough  (who  lived 
with  her  parents  at  Burrough's  Alills.  near 
Majile  Shade)  in  the  Friends"  meeting  house 
at  Moorestown.  By  her  he  had  nine  children: 
William,  Mary,  Reuben,  Samuel,  Joshua,  see 
forward :  .Albert.  James,  Anna  Letitia  and 
Ruth.  His  wife  died  in  Camden  in  1869  and 
was  buried  in  Riverview  cemetery,  Trenton. 
He  afterwards  made  his  home  in  the  capital 
city  with  some  of  his  sons,  assisting  them  in 
the  baking  business,  until  he  passed  away  ninth 
month,  twenty-first,  1885,  aged  eighty-three 
years,  and  was  also  interred  in  Riverview. 
Both  he  and  his  wife  were  members  of  the 
Society  of  Friends. 

(\'I)  Joshua  (2),  son  of  Joshua  (i)  and 
.\nn  (  lUirrough  )  Matlack,  was  born  in  West- 
field,  I'lurlington  county,  New  Jersey,  July  30, 
1835.  He  received  a  good  common  school 
education,  and  after  leaving  school  began  his 
business  career  as  a  merchant  at  Groveville, 
Mercer  county.  However,  in  March,  1863,  he 
jjut  aside  business  concerns  and  enlisted  for 
nine  months  as  private  in  Company  H,  of  the 
Twenty-third  .New  Jersey  \'olunteer  Infantry 
(  E.  Burd  Grubb,  colonel):  served  throughout 
the  term  of  his  enlistment  and  participated  in 
the  battles  of  Salem  Church  and  Fredericks- 
burg, Virginia.  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year  he 
returned  home  and  afterward  for  forty  years 
was  in  the  service  of  the  Camden  &  Amboy 
and  Pennsylvania  railroad  companies,  being 
passenger  conductor  during  thirty  years  of  that 
long  period  of  service.  He  married.  May  18. 
1857,  by  Friends'  ceremony,  Martha  George 
Ellis,  of  Yardville,  Mercer  county,  daughter  of 
Micajah  and  Merebah  (Middleton)  Ellis.  Mrs. 
Matlack  was  born  June  30,  1841.  and  is  now 
living,  having  borne  her  husband  seven  chil- 
dren :  I.  Laura  F..,  born  A'ardville,  September 
12.  1838:  married.  1880,  Francis  Harbaugh, 
now  of  Maple  Shade.  2.  Micajah  E.,  see  for- 
ward. 3.  Joshua,  see  forward.  4.  Martha  G., 
died  young.  5.  Bessie,  born  at  Camden,  De- 
cember 3.  1868:  married,  June  14.  1900,  at 
Mt.  1  lolly,  Elwood  H.  Stokes,  a  coal  merchant 
of   that   place.     6.    Wilson,   see    forward.     7. 


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Martha  G.  E..  born  at  Mt.  Holly,  December 
23,  1878;  Hving  at  home.  In  1874  Mr.  Mat- 
lack  moved  to  Mt.  Holly  and  continued  to  live 
there  until  his  death,  which  occurred  fifth 
month,  twenty-ninth,  1903,  and  was  interred 
in  St.  Andrew's  burying  ground  at  that  place. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends, 
and  in  political  preference  was  a  Republican. 
He  was  a  true  type  of  his  progenitors;  of  ster- 
ling worth  and  ability,  whose  sentiments  and 
living  were  those  of  an  ideal  American  citizen. 
A  man  (as  the  Friend  remarked  in  his  eulogy 
at  his  bier)  whose  passing  away  was  a  loss  to 
the  ctmimunity. 

I  \'ll  )  Micajah  Ellis,  son  of  Joshua  (  2  )  and 
.Martha  (1.  (Ellis)  Matlack,  was  born  at  \ard- 
ville,  Mercer  county,  Xew  Jersey,  December 
H).  i860.  He  received  his  education  in  the 
])ublic  schools  and  at  John  F.  Pfouts'  Academy. 
Mt.  Holly.  He  took  up  the  study  of  the  law 
with  John  C.  Ten  Eyck,  Esq.,  and  afterwards 
continued  the  same  with  Howard  C.  Levis, 
Esq.  He  was  admitted  to  practice  and  has 
since  been  a  member  of  the  Xew  Jersey  bar. 
In  connection  with  professional  pursuits  he  has 
taken  an  active  interest  in  military  and  political 
affairs  and  has  served  in  various  capacities 
from  ]:)rivate  to  captain  of  militia  and  was 
adjutant  of  the  old  Seventh  Regiment,  Na- 
tional ( kiard  of  New  Jersey.  He  is  an  expert 
in  military  tactics.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
lower  branch  of  the  New  Jersey  legislature  for 
three  sessions — 1893-95 — 'i""'  ^'^^  t'^"^  ^^^^  ^^^ 
years  has  held  the  position  of  bill  and  printing 
officer  of  the  national  house  of  representatives. 
Is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church,  and  be- 
longs to  the  Order  of  Elks.  He  married,  in 
June,  1894,  Elizabeth  B.  Johnson,  of  Brook- 
lyn, New  York,  and  has  one  ohild.  Micajah 
lulward,  born  in  1900. 

(  \'ll  )  Joshua  (3),  son  of  Joshua  (2)  and 
Martha  (!.  (  Ellis)  Matlack,  was  born  at  Yard- 
ville,  .April  24,  1863.  He  was  educated  in  the 
])ublic  schools  and  at  Pierce's  Business  College 
Philadelphia,  where  he  took  a  thorough  course, 
and  afterward  became  a  com])etent  telegrapher 
with  the  \\'estern  Union  Telegrajih  Ctimpany  ; 
and  subsequently  was  a  stenographer.  Later 
he  studied  law  with  George  Harding  and  Fran- 
cis T.  Chambers,  patent  lawyers  of  [Philadel- 
phia, and  in  1889  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
Philadelphia.  He  established  himself  in  prac- 
tice in  that  city  and  so  continued  until  1905, 
when  he  became  connected  with  the  Land  Title 
and  Trust  Company,  but  still  retaining  his  pri- 
vate jiractice.  In  1894-95  Mr.  Matlack  was 
assistant  journal  clerk  of  the  house  of  assemblv 


of  New  Jersey,  and  from  1892  to  i8;j6  was 
general  secretary  of  the  State  League  of  Re- 
])ublican  Clubs  of  that  state.  He  takes  an  active 
part  in  politics  and  is  a  public  speaker.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church,  belongs  to 
the  Junior  Order  of  American  Mechanics  and 
the  knights  of  Pythias.    He  is  unmarried. 

( Vllj  Wilson,  son  of  Joshua  (2)  and  Mar- 
tha G.  (Ellis)  Matlack.  was  born  at  Mights 
town,  Mercer  county,  November  26,  1873.  He 
received  his  education  at  the  public  schools  and 
at  the  Mt.  Holly  Academy.  He  is  now  engaged 
in  the  coal  business  with  his  brother-in-law, 
Air.  Stokes  Is  an  Odd  Fellow,  an  Elk,  and  a 
member  of  the  Episcopal  church.  Is  now  first- 
lieutenant  of  Company  E,  Third  Regiment, 
National  Guard  of  New  Jersey. 


This  name  with  its  various  ways 

SPEER  of  spelling  it,  as  adopted  by  local- 
ity or  possibly  by  errors  in  writing, 
transcribing  or  through  ignorance  or  careless- 
ness on  the  part  of  ])ersons  bearing  the  name, 
appears  to  be  distinctive  of  locality,  as  in 
Maine  we  find  the  direct  spelling  Spear  and  in 
other  parts  of  New  England  Speare  and 
Spears.  In  Peiuisylvania  and  the  southern 
states  it  is  universally  spelled  Speer,  in  the 
west  either  Speer  or  Speers.  In  New  Jersey 
Speir  seems  to  have  been  the  original  spelling, 
and  as  the  Speirs  and  Speers  of  New  Jersey 
claim  Hendrick  Jansen  Speer  as  their  first 
American  ancestor,  the  descendants  are  entitled 
to  the  orthography  as  it  has  been  handed  down, 
when  not  changed  by  families  or  genealogists 
through  the  habit  of  copying  from  town  and 
church  records  the  missjielling  of  clerks  and 
translators. 

For  the  purpose  of  this  sketch  when  we  use 
the  surname,  we  will  uniformily  spell  it  Speer. 
and  in  so  doing  intend  no  cjffense  to  bearers  of 
the  name,  who  may  have  adopted  other  spell- 
ings. I'lilike  many  surnames,  the  pronuncia- 
tion is  not  changed  by  the  change  in  the  letters 
making  up  the  name,  whether  spelled,  Speir, 
Spier.  Spear,  Speer.  Speare,  or  by  affixing  the 
s,  which  is  undoubtedly  caused  through  the 
use  of  the  possessive  case. 

Speer  and  Speir  are  the  only  spelling  used  by 
immigrant  ancestors,  so  far  as  our  research 
goes ;  Speer  by  Scotch  covenanters,  who  came 
to  .America  and  settled  in  IVnnsylvania  and 
drifted  south  and  west,  and  Speir  by  the  Dutch 
immigrants. 

(I)  Hendrick  Jansen  Speer  came  from 
Am.sterdam,  Holland,  to  New  Amsterdam  at 
the  mouth  of  the  Hudson  river  in  North  Amer- 


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ica,  December  23,  1650.  arriving;;  on  the  Dutch 
ship  "Faith."  He  had  with  him  his  wife, 
Madeline  I  lance,  and  two  children,  the  third 
child,  Jocobus,  embarked  with  them,  but  died 
on  the  voyage  and  was  buried  at  sea.  The 
family  lived  in  Xieu  Amsterdam  on  Manhattan 
Island,  until  the  settlement  of  New  Utrecht 
and  Flatlands  on  Long  Island  was  undertaken 
by  the  Crownenhovens  and  inducements  were 
made  to  the  Dutch  settlers  living  in  Nieu  Am- 
sterdam, who  were  looking  for  investments, 
and  the  families  of  .Mbertse  Cortelyou,  Ger- 
retson,  Speer  and  Van  Winkle  became  exten- 
sive landholders  in  the  Flatlands  neighborhood 
between  1657  and  1660.  Here  the  Speer 
family  lived  and  additions  to  their  family  came 
through  births,  one  son  and  two  daughters. 
being  additions  to  the  two  sons  who  survived 
the  long  voyage  in  the  "Faith"  from  the  father- 
land. On  January  15,  1674,  Hendrick  Speer 
joined  with  other  immigrant  settlers  in  a  peti- 
tion for  title  to  land  on  Staten  Island,  described 
as  being  at  the  mouth  of  the  Kill  von  KuU  and 
the  next  year  he  joined  with  the  Cortelyous. 
Gerretsons,  \'an  Winkles,  Albertses  and  other 
land  owners  and  men  of  wealth  in  Flatlands  in 
exploring  the  lamls  on  the  Passaic  river  in 
eastern  New  Jersey,  known  as  Acquockenock 
Patent  of  five  thousand  acres  of  land,  of  which 
tract  these  families  became  proprietors,  and 
the  Albertses.  \'an  Winkles  and  Speers  set- 
tlers. The  governor-general  and  council  of 
East  New  Jersey  confirmed  the  original  Indian 
deed  purchase  in  1685  «is  recorded  in  volume 
I.  of  the  journal  of  proceedings  of  the  govern- 
ment of  that  date.  Additions  to  the  patent 
were  made  for  several  thousands  of  acres  near 
the  Fiackensack  river  and  the  deed  given  about 
1 701  by  Tapyan  and  other  Indians  for  a  tract 
in  Essex  county  on  the  east  side  of  the  Passaic 
river  to  the  "hills." 

In  these  various  patents  John  Frederick 
Speer  was  a  grantee  as  he  was  in  several  pur- 
chases of  hundreds  of  acres,  where  Belville 
and  Franklin  were  subsequently  founded.  By 
these  various  documents  we  notice  that  his 
name  ajipears  as  Hendrick  Jansen  Speer,  while 
in  the  patents  as  granted  by  the  government 
it  appears  as  John  Hendrick  Speer.  It  is  quite 
evident  that  the  same  man  is  referred  to  and 
that  the  latter  arrangement  of  names  is  more 
correct.  .Among  the  allottments  made  to  him 
from  the  .\c(|uockenock  Patent  is  a  farm  of  a 
large  acreage  fronting  on  the  Passaic  river  and 
located  between  Passaic  and  Delewanna,  the 
land  running  back  from  the  river  to  the  moun- 


tains, and  this  tract  was  subsequently  divided 
between  Henry,  John  and  Garret  Speer. 

Children  of  John  Hendrick  and  Madeline 
(  Hance )  Speer  were:  i.  John  Hendrick.  2. 
ISarant.  3.  Jocobus,  who  died  at  sea,  born  in 
.Amsterdam  before  1660.  4.  Hans,  see  forward. 
5.  bVyntje,  ba])tized  March  25,  1667.  6.  Cath- 
yntje.  baptized  December  11.  1667.  We  find 
no  reciinl  oi  the  death  of  the  parents  of  these 
children. 

(II)  Hans,  fourth  ■-on  and  fourth  child  of 
John  Hendrick  and  Madeline  (Hance)  Speir, 
was  probably  born  in  New  Amsterdam,  Man- 
hattan Island,  and  baptized  in  the  Dutch  church 
within  the  fort  at  New  Amsterdam.  .April  2, 
1663.  He  married  Fryntje  Pientense,  and  be- 
came one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Belleville, 
Essex  coui]ty,  New  Jersey,  about  1685.  He 
had  children  by  his  marriage  with  Fryntje 
Pientense  including  Johannes  or  John,  see  for- 
ward. 

(  III  )  John,  son  of  Hans  and  h'ryntje  (Pien- 
tense )  Speer.  was  probably  born  in  New 
L'trecht  or  Flatlands,  Long  Island.  He  mar- 
ried Maritje  Franse,  August  12,  1679,  shortly 
after  his  arrival  on  the  .Ac(|uockenock  Patent 
(  Passaic),  New  Jersey,  with  his  father  and 
other  members  of  the  Speer  family.  He  set- 
tled in  the  wilderness  among  the  Indians  about 
i()<)2  and  carried  on  a  farm.  He  had  seven 
children  :  Henry.  Francis,  Guimada.  Madeline, 
h'emelia,  Montie. 

(I\')  Francis  second  son  of  John  and 
Maritje  (Franse)  Speer,  was  born  in  New 
Jersey.     Married  and  had  son  Jocobus. 

(V)  Jocobus  (James),  son  of  Francis  Speer, 
married  and  had  children:  Henry  J.,  Rynier. 
John.  ( larrit  J..  Frances.  Maria. 

(  \  1  )  Henry  ]..  son  of  Jocobus  Speer,  was 
b(irn  January  17,  1760.  died  June  29,  1846.  on 
his  farm  on  the  west  bank  of  the  Passaic  river, 
near  Passaic,  New  Jersey.  He  married  Martha 
\'reeland  and  their  nine  children  were  born  at 
the  homestead  as  follows:  i.  James  FL,  re- 
moved to  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  he  married  and  had 
a  number  of  children  and  grandchildren,  and 
his  descendants  settled  in  Ohio  and  Indiana. 
2.  Jacob,  see  forward.  3.  John,  settled  in 
Texas.  4.  Henry,  see  forward.  5.  Burnett, 
see  fcjrward.  6.  Nelson,  settled  in  Cincinnati. 
Ohio;  he  married  Mary  Ann  Pierson  and  then 
descendants  settled  in  Ohio.  Tennessee  and 
California.  7.  Nelly,  married  Benjamin  Kings- 
land.  8.  Gertrude,  married  John  Rollins ;  set- 
tled in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  their  descendants 
settled  in  Ohio.  Kentucky  and  Iowa.    9.  Maria 


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married  John  De  \'amisiiey  and  their  descend- 
ants reside  in  New  Jersey.  All  of  these  chil- 
dren except  Henry  and  Jacob  removed  to  the 
west. 

(\'I1)  Jacob,  second  son  of  Henry  J.  and 
Martha  (  X'reeland )  Speer,  was  born  opposite 
j-jelleville,  Essex  county.  New  Jersey,  Decem- 
ber I,  1788,  died  December  28,  1858.  He  set- 
tled in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  where  he  was  a 
shoemaker.  He  married,  JNIarch  14,  181 1, 
Blendana  Hedenburgh.  Children,  born  in 
Newark:  i.  Harriet.  March  20,  1813  (twin), 
died  January  3,  1876;  married,  September  15, 
1836,  William  S.  Palmer  and  had  two  children: 
i.  Henrietta  Palmer,  born  October  8,  1837 ; 
married  Augustus  S.  Crane,  May  i,  1862,  and 
had  four  children:  a.  Frederick  P.  Crane,  born 
1863;  married  Caroline  Masliey,  1888;  b. 
Helen  S.  Crane,  1865;  c.  Henrietta  L.  Crane, 
1868;  d.  Mabel  Crane,  1870;  ii.  Frederick  A. 
Palmer,  born  September  17,  1839,  died  May 
28,  1885;  married,  April  11,  1866,  Anna  Spen- 
cer Utter  and  had  three  children :  a.  Halsey 
V.  Palmer,  born  1867,  died  1870;  b.  Herbert 
S.  Palmer,  1869;  married,  1895,  Ella  Louise 
Osborne,  and  had  two  children :  Spencer  E. 
Palmer,  1896,  and  John  Osborne  Palmer,  1897; 
c.  Alfred  H.  Palmer,  1871,  died  1877.  2.  Jane 
H.,  born  March  20,  1813  (twin),  died  Decem- 
ber 10,  1894;  married,  July  i,  1833.  Seth  H. 
Woodruiif  and  had  six  children :  i.  Joseph 
Fitz  R.  \\'oodrufif,  born  1834;  married  Julia 
Brower  and  had  four  children :  a.  Charles  H. 
W'oodruff,  1859,  married  Charlotte  Keene ;  b. 
Frederick  W.  \\'oodrufif,  1861,  married;  c. 
Joseph  Fitz  R.  W^oodrufif,  Jr.,  1868;  d.  Anna 
Elizabeth  Woodruff,  1871  ;  Obadiah  Woodruff, 
born  1837,  died  1892;  married  Jane  E.  Camp- 
bell and  had  two  children :  Edward  W'.  and 
Clarence  C.  Woodruff;  iii.  Elizabeth  Ann 
Woodruff,  born  1839,  died  1875;  probably  un- 
married; iv.  Charles  H.  Woodruff',  born  1841, 
died  1842;  V.  Charles  S.  W'oodruff,  born  1843, 
died  1848.  3.  Eliza  B.,  born  August  14,  1815, 
died  unmarried.  4.  Charles  H.,  born  Septem- 
ber 30,   1817,  died  unmarried.  May  14,   1862. 

5.  Edwin,  born  September  20,  1822,  died  April 
26,  1861  ;  married,  September  17,  1845,  Sarah 
Young  and  they  had  four  children :  i.  Sarah 
Ada,  born  184C,  married  James  L.  Marsh;  ii. 
Clara  B.,  185 1,  married  Louis  Youngblood, 
1870;  iii.  W^illiam  C,  1854;  iv.  Louisa,  1859. 

6.  Louisa  B.,  born  October  4,  1824,  died  un- 
married. 

(VH)  Henry,  fourth  son  of  Henry  J.  and 
Martha  (Vreeland)  Speer,  was  born  in  Belle- 
ville, Essex  county.  New  Jersey,  July  9,  1801, 


died  ill  September,  1857.  1  le  learned  the  trade 
of  shoemaker  with  his  brother  Jacob  in  New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  at  that  time  a  small  village. 
He  continued  in  the  business  during  his  entire 
life  and  was  late  in  life  employed  as  foreman 
in  a  custom  shoe  store  in  New  York  City,  mak- 
ing a  specialty  of  making  ladies'  shoes.  He 
married  Rachel,  daughter  of  Abraham  \'an 
.Amburgh.  a  blacksmith  and  fisherman,  who 
lived  on  the  east  branch  of  the  Passaic  river 
below  the  Belleville  bridge.  Her  sister  (twin), 
Ann  \'an  Amburgh,  married  a  Mr.  Betts,  a 
.soldier  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  she  lived  to 
be  one  hundred  and  three  years  old,  and  Mrs. 
Henry  Sjieer  lived  to  be  eighty-seven  years  of 
age.  Children  of  Henry  and  Rachel  (\an 
Amburgh)  Speer  were:  i.  Alfred,  see  for- 
ward. 2.  Joseph  T.,  born  May  22,  1825,  died 
in  infancy.  3.  Joseph  Theodore,  February  19, 
1829:  married  (first)  Mary  Fairbanks,  Decem- 
ber 25.  1853,  ^'■"J  'i^fl  two  children:  i.  Theo- 
dore \  .,  born  November  2,  1854;  married, 
I'>bruary  11,  1880,  Sallie  B.  Rankin  and  their 
children  were  I^aura  (1882-1899)  and  Minnie 
Kate,  born  June  7,  1886;  ii.  Minnie  I'airbanks, 
born  June  13,  1861  ;  married  Warren  S.  Cole- 
grove,  November  7,  1883,  and  had  five  chil- 
dren: Josephine,  1885;  Theodore  J.,  1887; 
Hazel,  1889,  died  1891 ;  Maria  F.,  1891  ;  War- 
ren Baird,  1898.  Joseph  Theodore  married 
(second)  July  5.  1871,  Ellen  Fisher,  and  they 
had  one  child,  Jesse,  born  February  10,  1874; 
married,  October  10,  1900,  Charles  Angell,  and 
their  twins,  Irving  J.  and  Theodore  F.,  were 
born  July  13,  1901. 

It  does  not  appear  that  the  Speers  of  Ac- 
quockenock  (Passaic)  had  any  church  connec- 
tions and  in  this  respect  stood  apart  from  the 
other  patentees  of  the  tract,  who  were  in  com- 
munion with  the  Old  Dutch  Church  and  held 
Slime  prominent  church  office.  In  matters  of 
the  state,  however,  the  Speers  were  prominent 
patriots  and  soldiers,  and  Abraham  Speer  was 
a  private  in  the  company  of  Captain  Cornelius 
Speer  in  the  Second  Essex  County  Regiment 
in  the  American  revolution.  He  also  served  in 
Captain  Craig's  company  of  the  state  troops  in 
the  Essex  company  as  well  as  in  the  Conti- 
nental army.  Francis  Speer  was  also  a  private 
in  the  Essex  company.  Henry  Speer  was  a 
private  in  the  Second  Essex  Company  and  was 
promoted  to  captain  and  also  served  in  Craig's 
company.  William  Speer  served  in  the  same 
company  under  Captain  Craig.  In  the  civil 
war,  1861-65,  Joliii  R,  Edwin  A.  and  John  M. 
Speer  or  Spear,  all  of  Passaic,  served  and  made 
honorable  record  in  aiding  in  putting  down  the 


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southern  rebellion,  and  Irving  and  Morgan 
Speer,  sons  of  Alfred,  enlisted  in  the  First 
Colorado  Regiment  and  rendered  effective  ser- 
vice in  the  Philippine  Islands  in  1898-1J9. 

(X'lll)  Alfred,  eldest  child  of  Henry  and 
Rachel  (  \'an  .\niburgh )  Sjieer,  was  born  in 
Passaic,  Xew  Jersey,  November  2,  1823.  He 
attended  the  public  school,  and  wdien  fifteen 
years  of  age  was  apprenticed  to  a  cabinet  maker 
in  Newark,  the  terms  of  his  apprenticeship  being 
that  he  should  board  in  his  employer's  family 
and  receive  twenty-five  dollars  each  year  in 
cash  until  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age. 
(Jut  of  his  yearly  stipend  he  was  to  pay  for 
his  washing  and  purchase  his  own  clothing. 
The  boy's  tastes  ran  in  the  direction  of  me- 
chanics at  the  time,  and  his  ambition  was  to 
study  and  use  his  inventive  faculties,  dormant 
in  his  nature.  He  completed  his  apprentice- 
ship with  the  satisfaction  of  being  master  of 
his  trade,  but  with  no  money  in  his  pockets  to 
carry  out  his  ambition  to  get  out  of  tlie  cabinet 
making  business.  This  condition  necessitated 
his  earning  money  at  his  trade  to  support  him- 
self and  he  started  business  in  Passaic  in  a 
small  shop,  which  he  built  near  his  grand- 
father's farm-house,  hoiiing  to  employ  at  least 
half  his  time  in  the  study  of  literature  and  in 
working  out  problems  in  mechanics  that  prom- 
ised useful  inventions.  His  early  experience 
as  his  own  master  runs  as  follows :  He  would 
take  an  order  for  a  bureau  or  a  sofa  and  would 
make  the  journey  by  cars  to  New  York  to  buy 
the  material,  would  ship  it  to  Passaic  by  rail 
and  return  home,  a  distance  of  twelve  miles, 
on  foot,  his  purchases  having  exhausted  his 
cash  capital.  As  trade  increased  he  soon  had 
a  larger  shop  and  several  journeymen  to  assist 
him.  His  industry  gave  hiin  a  few  hours  each 
day  for  study  and  indulging  in  his  mechanical 
experiments.  His  literary  ambitions  he  was 
obliged  to  partially  abandon,  as  it  ])romised 
no  immediate  return,  and  he  took  up  horticul- 
ture and  arboriculture,  both  for  profit  and 
recreation.  His  vineyard,  as  it  became  fruited, 
led  him  to  manufacture  some  native  wine, 
which  ]irovcd  to  be  good  and  promised  a  means 
of  profit.  A  window  fastener,  which  he  patent- 
ed, was  favorably  received  and  he  started  out 
to  sell  C(junty  and  state  rights,  but  he  met  with 
indifferent  success.  While  in  New  Orleans  he 
sent  home  for  a  basket  of  his  bottled  wine  and 
from  these  samjiles  he  took  large  orders  both 
in  New  Orleans  and  Mobile.  This  changed  the 
current  of  his  efforts  and  demonstrated  that 
wines  were  more  marketable  than  window 
fasteners,  and  he  hastened  home  to  fill  orders 


already  taken  and  at  the  same  time  to  enlarge 
his  facilities  for  filling  future  orders  for  wine. 
This  led  to  his  extensive  vineyards  and  large 
wine  presses  and  the  management  of  the  sale 
of  Sjieer's  Native  Wines,  which  gained  world- 
wide celebrity. 

In  1870  he  in  a  degree  carried  out  his  literary 
ambition  by  establishing  The  Item,  the  first 
newspaper  published  in  Passaic,  a  weekly  de- 
voted to  the  news  and  promulgating  the  princi- 
ples of  the  Republican  party.  He  was  a  pioneer 
in  other  directions  as  indicated  by  the  history 
of  the  village  and  city  of  Passaic.  He  was  a 
school  trustee  under  the  old  regime ;  provided 
the  first  hall  for  lectures  and  public  meetings, 
by  converting  the  ball  room  of  the  old  tavern 
into  a  hall.  He  organized  the  first  temperance 
organization  in  the  town  and  named  the  society 
the  Rechabites :  placed  himself  out  of  touch 
with  his  townsmen  and  neighbors  by  insisting 
on  having  sidewalks  at  the  time  he  was  serving 
as  street  commissioner  and  was  prominent  in 
carrying  the  place  out  of  its  village  stagnation 
into  the  activity  and  push  of  a  growing  city. 
1  lis  own  fortune  kept  pace  with  the  progress  of 
his  native  city  and  he  kept  ahead  of  the  pro- 
cession and  led  his  fellow-citizens  with  quick 
steps  along  the  path  of  accom])lishment. 

^Ir.  S])eer  married  (first)  June  6,  1844, 
Catherine  Iiliza,  daughter  of  Abraham  Berry, 
of  Acquockenock.  Air.  Berry  owned  a  grist 
mill  and  home  on  the  shore  of  Yantacaw  pond 
am!  was  a  prosperous  and  deserving  citizen. 
Children:  i.  William  Henry,  born  Alarch  17, 
1845;  married  Emma  L.  Henion,  March  17, 
1869;  they  had  two  children:  Maud,  born 
May  10.  1872,  and  Grace,  June  3,  1873.  2. 
.Mfred  Wesley,  May  6,  1847;  niarried  Kate 
Brown,  January  19,  1871,  and  they  had  no 
children.  August  3,  1832,  Catherine  Eliza 
(Berry)  Speer  died,  and  September  22,  1856. 
Mr.  Speer  married  (second)  Polly  Ann  Mor- 
gan, of  Cape  Girardeau,  Missouri;  children: 
'!,.  Ella  Morgan,  May  29,  i860,  died  unmarried, 
April  2,  1891.  4.  Sidney  Silvester,  December 
19,  1863:  married  Jolianna  Schrittis  and  had 
three  children:  Sydney  C,  born  189.^,  died 
1899;  Alfred  W.,  born  1897;  Lillian  Alyrtle. 
1900.  5.  Nelson,  January  28,  1868,  died  Au- 
gust 2,  1869.  6.  Althea  L.,  March  7,  1873.  7- 
Irving,  September  22.  1874.  8.  Morgan,  No- 
vember 26.  1873. 

(\  H)  liurnett,  fifth  son  of  Henry  J.  and 
Martha  (V'reeland)  Speer,  was  born  in  Belle- 
ville. New  Jersey,  October  17,  1806.  He  mar- 
ried lietsey  Snyder  and  they  had  six  children : 
r.  John  .S.,  died  unmarried.    2.  David  H.,  born 


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May  2,  1840;  married,  March  4,  1866,  Mary 
E.  Hall  and  had  three  children:  i.  Willie  B., 
1867;  married  Anna  Hyath  antl  had  children; 
ii.  Helen  L.,  1872;  school  teacher;  iii.  Angle, 
1879.  3.  Edmund  E.,  February  13,  1844; 
married  Martha  Beney,  June  6,  1867,  and  had 
three  children:  i.  Carrie,  1867;  ii.  Nelson  A., 
1871  ;  iii.  Percy,  1876.  4.  Burnett,  November, 
1847,  <^1'S''  April  7,  1908;  married,  January  14, 
1847,  Jane  Ann  Carew  and  they  had  seven  chil- 
dren:  i.  Lester  William,  1877;  marrietl  May 
E.  Chatfield,  and  had  Grace  C,  born  1907;  ii. 
Delia,  1876:  iii.  Isabella,  1879;  married  Albert 
C.  Child  and  had  Stanley  Child,  1906,  Clayton 
Child.  1907;  iv.  Eugene  Garfield,  1880;  v. 
\'inne  \'andenburgh,  1884;  married  Cecil 
Farrell  and  had  Marion,  1906;  vi.  Roy  Burnett, 
1886;  married  Lillian  Paulin  ;  vii.  Clara  Louise, 
1887.  5.  Eliza,  November  9,  1850;  married 
Charles  Lovelace,  May  24,  1870.  and  had  six 
children:  i.  Cora  Lovelace,  May  24,  1871  ; 
married  Edmund  Hassell,  1891,  and  had  four 
children:  Helen  C,  1892,  died  young;  Jennie 
L.  1895:  Mildred,  1897;  Edwin  C,  1900;  ii. 
Charles  Lovelace,  1874,  died  unmarried;  iii. 
Mary  Elizabeth,  1876,  died  unmarried;  iv. 
John  (1878-1880);  V.  Clarence,  1881  ;  vi. 
Bessie,  1884.    6.  Clara,  June  12,  1854. 


The  Gummere  family  ot 
GUMMERE  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jer- 
sey is  of  German  origin.  The 
name  originally  was  Gomere  or  Gumerie,  and 
the  first  of  these  two  latter  forms  is  the  one 
which  is  used  by  the  emigrant  ancestor  of  the 
family  in  signing  his  will  which  is  on  file  in 
the  office  of  the  surrogate  in  Philadelphia.  The 
family  is  one  that  has  always  stood  exception- 
ally high  in  the  educational  and  professional 
world,  and  some  of  the  greatest  advantages 
which  we  now  enjoy  in  those  walks  of  life 
have  had  their  inception  and  beginnings  in  the 
fertile  brains  of  members  of  this  family.  The 
name  is  deeply  rooted  in  the  history  of  more 
than  one  .\merican  college,  and  at  least  one 
college  owes  its  foundation,  and  its  present  high 
standing  among  institutions  of  learning  to  two 
descendants  of  the  sturdy  Teutonic  emigrant. 

(l)  Johann  Gomere  came  to  Germantown, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1719,  from  Crefeldt,  Ger- 
many ;  and  there  is  a  tradition  in  the  family 
that  he  came  originally  from  French  Flanders. 
He  and  his  wife,  Anna,  both  died  within 
twenty-four  hours  of  each  other,  and  were 
buried  at  the  same  time.  May,  1738,  in  the 
"Upper  Burying  Ground,"  Germantown,  but 
as  their  graves  are  unmarked  it  is  impossible 


now  to  locate  them.  Among  their  children  was 
a  son  Johannes,  referred  to  below. 

(Hj  Johannes,  son  of  Johann  and  Anna 
Gomere,  lived  in  Moreland  townshij),  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  in  1740  he  receiveil  a  certificate  of 
removal  for  himself  and  his  wife,  Sarah,  who 
is  believed  to  have  been  a  member  of  the  Davis 
family  of  Bucks  county,  from  the  Abington 
Monthly  Meeting  to  the  Monthly  Meeting  at 
Concord,  Pennsylvania.  .Vmong  his  children 
was  a  son  Samuel,  referred  to  beU)w. 

(HI)  Samuel,  son  of  John  (Johannes)  and 
-Sarah  (DavisJ  (iummere,  was  born  in  More- 
land  township  in  1750,  and  was  probably  the 
youngest  son.  July  6,  1814,  he  and  his  wife. 
Rachel,  who  had  previously  removed  from 
Pennsylvania  to  Upper  Springfield,  New  Jer- 
sey, asked  for  a  certificate  of  removal  from 
the  latter  place  to  the  Burlington  Monthl) 
Meeting.  October  2^,  1783,  he  married  Rachel, 
daughter  of  John  and  Anna  James,  of  Willis- 
town,  Pennsylvania,  and  among  their  children 
were  John  and  Samuel  R.,  referred  to  below. 
Samuel  Gummere  was  a  minister  among 
I'Viends. 

(  1\'  )  John,  son  of  Samuel  ami  Rachel 
(James)  Gummere,  was  born  at  Rancocas. 
New  Jersey,  1784,  died  in  1845.  I""''  many 
years  he  lived  at  Willow  Grove,  Pennsylvania, 
and  for  more  than  forty  years  was  an  esteemed 
and  successful  teacher  of  youth  at  Horsham, 
Rancocas,  West  Town,  Burlington  and  Haver- 
ford,  Pennsylvania.  In  this  last  named  place 
he  has  left  an  enduring  monument  of  his  great- 
ness in  the  Friends'  College.  This  was  opened 
in  1833  with  Mr.  Gummere  for  its  head  master 
as  a  school  designed  to  afford  literary  instruc- 
tion and  religious  training  to  the  children  of 
Friends,  under  whose  control  the  present  col- 
lege continues.  Systematic  physical  training 
and  athletic  sport  were  made  prominent  in 
the  original  plan,  and  are  still  insisted  upon. 
In  1845  the  school  was  temporarily  suspended 
in  order  to  give  opportunity  for  collecting  an 
endowment,  and  was  reorganized  as  a  college 
in  1856.  L'])on  his  retirement  from  the  Friends' 
College  at  Haverford,  Mr.  Gummere  resumed 
his  boarding  school  at  Burlington,  which  he 
had  previously  conducted  at  first  alone  and 
afterwards  with  the  aid  of  his  son,  Samuel  J. 
Gummere.  from  1814  to  1833,  and  in  this  occu- 
jiation  silent  the  remainder  of  his  (juiet  and 
useful  life.  Lie  was  the  author  of  many  ex- 
cellent text-books,  and  his  work  elicited  the 
warmest  commendation  from  Dr.  Bowditch. 
Professor  Bache  and  other  competent  judges. 
.Among  these  publications  were  his  celebrated 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


"Treatise  on  Surveying,"  which  was  first  pub- 
Hshed  in  1814,  and  ran  tlirough  fourteen  edi- 
tions;  ami  his  "Elementary  Treatise  on  Theo- 
retical and  Practical  Astronomy,"  the  first  edi- 
tion of  which  was  published  in  1822,  and  the 
last,  the  sixth,  in  1854.  A  very  interesting 
biographical  sketch  of  Mr.  Gummere  was  pri- 
vately printed  by  William  J.  Allinson,  of  Bur- 
lington, and  it  is  a  well-merited  tribute  to  the 
learning  and  virtues  of  a  ripe  scholar  and  a 
most  excellent  man.  One  of  his  old  scholars 
has  said  of  him  "that  former  disciples  of  John 
(jummere  never  in  after  life  approached  their 
old  master  without  sentiments  of  afifection  and 
esteem."  In  1808  Mr.  Gummere  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  and  Susanna 
(Deacon)  Buzby,  a  member  of  two  of  the  old- 
est and  most  distinguished  families  of  Bur- 
lington county.  Children:  I.  Susan,  married 
William  Deimis.  2.  Samuel  J.,  referred  to  be- 
low. 3.  William,  referred  to  below.  4.  John 
G.  5.  Mary.  6.  Frances.  7.  Elizabeth.  8. 
Rachel.  9.  George.  10.  Martha.  11.  Henry 
Deacon. 

(IV)  Samuel  R.,  son  of  Samuel  and  Rachel 
(James)  Gummere,  was  born  at  Willow  Grove, 
Montgomery  county,  Peimsylvania,  in  1789, 
and  from  182 1  to  1837  was  the  head  of  a  popu- 
lar boarding  school  for  girls  at  Burlington, 
New  Jersey.  He  was  the  author  of  a  number 
of  celebrated  text-books,  among  them  being 
a  "Treatise  on  Geography,"  which  was  first 
published  in  1817,  and  which  passed  through 
six  or  eight  editions ;  and  also  a  "Compendium 
of  Elocution,"  published  in  1857.  In  183 1  he 
revised  the  "Progressive  Spelling-Book." 

(V)  Samuel  J.,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Buzby)  Gummere,  was  born  April  28,  181 1, 
died  October  23,  1874.  For  a  number  of  years 
after  his  father's  retirement  from  the  presi- 
dency of  Haverford  College,  he  was  associated 
with  him  in  conducting  the  boarding  school  at 
Burlington,  and  there  he  proved  himself  to  be 
his  father's  "worthy  successor  both  in  scientific 
attainments  and  in  the  happy  art  of  imparting 
instruction."       He    married     (first)     Abigail, 

daughter  of  John  and (Hoskins)  Gris- 

com ;  (second)  January  9,  1845,  Elizabeth  H. 
Ijarton.  Children,  two  by  first  wife :  I.Caro- 
line Elizabeth,  born  1836,  died  March  6,  1869. 
2.  John,  July  23,  1838.  3.  Francis  Barton,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(VI)  Francis  P)arton,  son  of  Samuel  J.  and 
Elizabeth  H.  (Barton)  Gummere,  was  born 
March  6,  1855,  in  P.urlington,  New  Jersey,  and 
is  now  professor  of  English  Language  and 
Literature  in  the  Friends'  College  at  Haver- 


ford, Pennsylvania.  In  1872  he  graduated 
from  Haverford  College,  and  in  1875  from 
Harvard  Liniversity.  He  then  studied  in  Ger- 
many at  the  universities  of  Leipzig,  Berlin, 
Strasburg  anfl  Freiburg,  from  the  last  named 
universit)'  receiving  his  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Philos(.)phy  for  his  thesis  on  "The  Anglo-Saxon 
Metaphor,"  published  at  Halle  in  1881.  Since 
then  he  has  been  elected  a  member  of  the 
Modern  Language  Association  of  America, 
and  in  addition  to  contributions  to  the  Notion. 
the  A}ncrican  Journal  of  Philology,  and  other 
periodicals,  he  has  published  a  valuable  and 
widely  used  "Hand-Book  of  Poetics,"  in  1885; 
"Germanic  Origins."  in  1892;  "Old  English 
Ballads,"  in  1894;  and  "The  Beginnings  of 
Poetry"  in  1901.  His  most  valuable  addition, 
however,  to  literary  criticism  is  perhaps  his 
complete  refutation  of  the  theories  of  Heinzel. 
His  wife,  Mrs.  Amelia  Mott  Gummere,  is  a 
local  historian  of  much  note,  whose  best  known 
work  is  [irobably  "Friends  in  Burlington,"  a 
history  of  the  Society  of  Friends  from  theii 
earliest  organization  in  Burlington  to  the  pres- 
ent day. 

( \' )  William,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(  liuzby )  Gummere,  was  born  in  West  Town, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1814,  died  in  Burlington,  New 
Jersey,  1897.  He  was  a  banker  by  occupation, 
and  one  of  the  leading  business  men  in  Phila- 
delphia, being  for  many  years  president  of  the 
Northern  Liberties  National  Bank  of  Philadel- 
phia. For  a  time  he  lived  in  the  city  of  Phila- 
(lel]5hia,  but  for  about  twenty-five  or  thirty 
years  before  his  death  he  made  his  home  in 
l-5urlington,  New  Jersey.  He  married  Martha 
Moore,  daughter  of  William  Henry  and  Mar- 
garet (Edwards)  Morris,  who  was  born  in 
Havre  de  Grace,  Maryland.  Her  father  be- 
longed to  the  distinguished  Philadelphia  family 
of  Morrises,  and  her  mother  was  a  member  of 
the  Edwards  family  of  Buck  county.  On  her 
father's  side  she  has  a  lineal  descent  from 
Mereeydd,  King  of  Powys,  W'ales.  Children: 
I.  Richard  Morris,  referred  to  below.  2.  Mar- 
garet Morris,  now  living  in  Burlington,  New 
Jersey.  3.  Frances  Marsh,  widow  of  James 
Craig  Perrine,  now  living  in  Burlington,  New 
Jersey.    4.  William  Flenry. 

(VI)  Richard  Morris,  son  of  William  and 
Martha  Moore  (Morris)  Gummere,  was  born 
in  Philadelphia,  Peimsylvania.  and  is  now  liv- 
ing at  South  Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania.  After 
graduating  with  honors  and  the  degree  of  civil 
engineer  from  the  Friends'  College  at  Haver- 
ford, Pennsylvania,  he  went  out  west  in  the 
interests  of  his  profession  and  remained  there 


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for  a  number  of  years.  Me  has  always  been 
deeply  interested  in  the  cause  of  higher  edu- 
cation and  for  many  years  has  been  the  treas- 
urer of  Lehigh  University.  In  politics  Air. 
Gummere  is  a  Republican,  and  in  religious 
faith  an  Episcopalian,  being  a  vestryman  of 
the  Pro-Cathedral  of  the  Nativity,  of  the  dio- 
cese of  Central  Pennsylvania,  at  .South  Beth- 
lehem. He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Caleb  and  Rebecca  (Abbott)  Hunt,  of  Phila- 
delphia. Children:  i.  Rebecca,  born  and  now- 
living  in  South  Bethlehem.  2.  William,  referred 
to  below. 

(\TIj  William,  son  of  Richard  Morris  and 
Elizabeth  (Hunt)  Gummere,  was  born  in 
.South  Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania,  August  7, 
1876,  and  is  now  living  at  Roebling,  New  Jer- 
sey. .-\fter  graduating  from  Lehigh  Univer- 
sity in  1899,  he  spent  two  years  as  one  of  the 
instructors  of  that  institution,  and  in  1901  was 
apfpointed  head  chemist  of  the  Roebling  office 
at  Trenton,  New  Jersey.  Here  he  remained 
until  1908,  when  he  was  made  head  chemist  and 
superintendent  of  the  company's  steel  mill  at 
Roebling,  New  Jersey.  He  is  an  active  and 
influential  member  of  the  Republican  party  of 
Burlington  county,  a  communicant  of  the  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  church,  and  unmarried. 


From  the  earliest  period  of  its 
REEVE  early  occupation,  West  New  Jer- 
sey had  had  living  side  by  side 
two  distinct  families  of  the  name  of  Reeve  or 
Reeves,  which  apparently  have  no  connection 
one  with  the  other.  One  of  these  families, 
considered  elsewhere,  is  the  posterity  of  Wal- 
ter Reeve,  of  Burlington  county,  the  other,  at 
present  under  consideration,  owes  its  origin  to 
Mark  Reeve,  one  of  the  early  colonists,  who 
came  out  to  Fenwick's  colony  in  Salem  county. 
(I)  Mark  Reeve  appears  first  in  1675,  when 
he  came  over  in  the  ship  "Grififin"  with  John 
Fenwick,  and  the  Salem  monthly  meeting  rec- 
ords tells  us  that  he  married  Ann  Hunt,  of 
Philadelphia,  in  1686.  The  following  year 
John  Fenwick's  executors  had  laid  ofT  for  hini 
sixteen  acres  of  land  in  the  town  of  Cohansey, 
and  a  few  years  later  Mark  Reeve  bought  a 
large  tract  on  the  south  side  of  the  Cohansey 
creek,  now  known  as  the  site  of  Greenwich. 
For  more  than  a  century  and  a  half  the  Reeve 
family  held  large  tracts  of  land  in  that  section, 
but  hardly  any  of  it  now  remains  in  the  hands 
of  Alark's  descendants.  Mark  Reeve  and  James 
Duncan  in  1696  with  the  assistance  of  Friends 
of  Salem,  built  a  meeting  house  on  the  banks 
of  the  Cohansey,  on  the  site  of  the  present 

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brick  one.  Mark  Reeve  died  about  1716  or 
1 717,  leaving  one  son  Joseph,  referred  to  below. 

(H)  Joseph,  only  son  of  Mark  and  .\nn 
(Himt)  Reeve, succeeded  to  his  father's  estates, 
In  1722  he  married  Elinor  Bagnall,  by  whom 
he  had  five  children:  i.  Mark,  referred  to 
below.  2.  Joseph,  born  7th  month  5,  1725, 
died  1763:  married  Milicent,  daughter  of  Jo- 
seph and  Hannah  Wade.  His  son,  .Samuel, 
married  Ruth,  daughter  of  Gideon  and  Julia 
Scull.  3.  John,  born  ist  month  5,  1730,  mar- 
ried (first)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and 
.Ann  N.  Brick,  and  (second)  Jane  West,  of 
Woodbury,  Gloucester  county.  He  was  one 
of  the  most  prominent  men  of  his  community 
in  his  day.  4.  Mary,  born  1734;  married 
Thomas  Brown.    5.  Benjamin,  born  1737. 

(HI)  ]\Iark  (2),  son  of  Joseph  and  Elinor 
(^P>agnall)  Reeve,  was  born  in  Cumberland 
county,  New  Jersey,  12th  month  28,  1723,  and 
in  early  life  became  a  highly  esteemed  minister 
among  Friends.  He  purchased  a  large  tract 
of  land  at  Greenwich  on  Cohansey  creek,  situ- 
ated on  the  south  side  of  the  creek,  where  he 
erected  a  substantial  brick  building.  .About 
1 761  Mark  Reeve  married,  and  when  he  died 
he  left  five  children:  i.  Ann.  2.  George.  3. 
Josiah.  4.  Mark,  Jr.  5.  William,  referred  to 
below. 

(IV)  William,  son  of  Mark  (2)  Reeve,  was 
born  at  Greenwich,  12th  month  11,  1766,  died 
1823.  After  his  marriage  he  and  his  wife  re- 
moved from  Cumberland  county  to  Burling- 
ton county,  and  made  his  permanent  home  near 
where  his  brother  Josiah  had  previously  settled. 
He  married  Letitia,  daughter  of  Josiah  and 
Letitia  Miller,  of  Mannington,  by  whom  he 
had  eight  children:  i.  Josiah  Miller,  married 
(first)  Susannah  H.  Garrigues,  (second) 
Mary  B.  Dallas.  He  several  times  represented 
his  county  in  the  state  legislature.  Was  a 
prominent  ship-builder,  and  one  of  the  largest 
landholders  in  the  county.  2.  Anna,  married 
William  Hilliard,  of  Rancocas.  3.  Elizabeth 
Miller,  married  Jesse  Stanley.  4.  Letitia 
Miller,  died  unmarried.  5.  William  Foster,  re- 
ferred to  below.  6.  Mark  Miller,  died  in  South 
.America;  was  a  prominent  physician  in  Phila- 
delphia. 7.  Priscilla,  married  Samuel  C.  Shep- 
ard.  8.  Richard,  never  married.  9.  Emmor, 
married  (first)  Prudence  Cooper:  (second) 
-Sarah  W^yatt  Acton. 

(V)  William  Foster,  fifth  child  and  second 
son  of  William  and  Letitia  (Miller)  Reeve, 
was  born  in  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
in  1802.  He  is  the  only  one  of  his  father's 
three  sons  to  remain  at  Alloways  Town,  a  place 


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they  did  so  much  to  improve.  \\  ith  his  t\v<.) 
hrothers.  Josiah  IVIiller  and  Emnior,  he  car- 
ried on  with  great  success  for  a  number  of 
years  the  ship  building  business  started  at 
Alloways  Town.  They  did  not,  however,  con- 
tine  their  attention  to  this  business,  but  bought 
large  tracts  of  land  in  the  neighborhood  which 
were  considered  not  worth  farming,  but  which 
through  their  energy  and  judicious  manage- 
ment have  been  made  to  produce  more  than 
fourfold.  They  also  enlarged  and  beautified 
the  town  of  their  adoption  with  large  and  sub- 
stantial buililings,  and  no  village  in  that  section 
of  Xew  Jersey  has  sujjerior  improvements. 
William  h'oster  Reeve  was  a  member  of  the 
Xew  Jersey  legislature  for  a  number  of  terms, 
and  it  is  an  especially  noteworthy  fact  indic- 
ative of  the  great  esteem  and  confidence  with 
which  he  and  his  father's  family  were  regard- 
ed by  the  community  in  whicii  they  lived,  that 
at  the  time  he  was  serving  in  the  lower  house 
of  the  Xew  Jersey  legislature,  his  elder  brother, 
Josiah  Miller  Reeve,  was  a  member  of  the  Xew 
Jersey  council. 

W  illiani  Foster  Reeve  married  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Cooper,  of  Cooper's  Point, 
Camden,  Xew  Jersey.  Her  grandfather  was 
a  descendant  of  old  \\'illiam  Cooper,  of  New- 
ton township,  and  established  the  first  ferry 
boat  to  ply  from  Camden  to  I^hiladelphia.  The 
four  children  of  William  l'"oster  and  iNlary 
(Cooper)  Reeve  are:  i.  William  Cooper,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  .Augustus,  referred  to  be- 
low. 3.  Richard  H.,  of  Camden,  New  Jersey, 
the  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Cooper  Hos- 
pital and  trustee  of  the  Cooper  estate.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah  Wyatt.  daughter  of  Samuel  P.  Car- 
j)enter,  and  tliey  have  four  children.  4.  Re- 
becca Cooper,  now  living  in  Philadelphia,  un- 
married. 

(VI)  William  Cooper,  eldest  child  of  Will- 
iam Foster  and  Ahiry  Wills  (Cooper)  Reeve, 
was  born  at  .-Mlow^y,  Salem  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, June  27,  1831.  and  is  now  living  in  Salem, 
Xew  Jersey.  For  his  early  education  he  attend- 
ed Clarkson  Shepperd's  School  at  Greenwich, 
New  Jersey,  and  then  the  Friends'  Select 
.School  of  Philadel]jhia,  after  graduating  from 
which  he  entered  IJaverford  College.  He  was, 
however,  unable  to  graduate  as  his  father 
needed  him  at  home  to  help  in  his  business, 
and  he  was  put  in  charge  of  his  father's  large 
plantation,  of  which  at  his  father's  death  he 
became  the  owner.  He  subsequently  purchased 
other  farms,  and  being  very  successful  in  his 
agricultural  endeavor  soon  became  one  of  the 
largest  of  the  gentlemen  farmers  of  that  region 


as  well  as  one  of  the  most  successful.  In  1883 
he  came  to  Salem,  New  Jersey,  where  he  has 
been  engaged  in  administering  his  own  and  his 
wife's  large  pro])erty  interests  in  Salem  county. 
Mr.  Reeve  is  in  politics  a  Republican  and  a 
member  of  the  Orthodox  Society  of  Friends. 

In  i860  William  Cooper  Reeve  married 
Mary  Mason,  daughter  of  Richard  M.  and 
Hannah  (Alason )  Acton.  Her  father  was  at 
one  time  state  senator  of  New  Jersey. 

(\1)  .\ugustus,  second  child  and  son  of 
William  Foster  and  Mary  Wills  (Cooper) 
Reeve,  was  born  in  .Mloway,  Salem  county, 
Xew  Jersex',  .\ugust  31,  1833.  .\fter  receiving 
his  early  education  from  private  tutors,  he 
sj)ent  two  years  at  Haverford  College,  after 
which  he  for  some  time  assisted  his  father  in 
the  care  of  the  latter's  large  plantations.  He 
then  established  himself  in  the  lumber  and 
hardware  business  at  Alloways  Town,  New 
Jersey,  and  in  1863  removed  to  Safe  Harbor, 
Pennsylvania,  where  with  a  Mr.  Miller  he  con- 
ducted a  general  store  for  the  iron  works  of 
that  place.  In  1866  he  came  to  Camden,  New 
Jersey,  and  began  the  manufacture  of  brick 
and  sewer  pijie,  in  which  he  has  been  eminently 
successful  and  at  present  has  one  of  the  most 
extensive  ])lants  of  his  time  under  his  control. 
His  offices  are  at  31  Market  street.  In  politics 
Mr.  Reeve  is  a  Republican  and  he  has  served 
his  party  faithfully  and  well.  He  served  for 
one  term  in  the  city  government  of  Camden. 
.Mr.  Reeve  is  a  member  of  the  Camden  Repub- 
lican Club,  the  Camden  Board  of  Trade,  and 
the  Tracks  League  of  Philadelphia.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Camden  Friends'  Meeting,  and 
is  a  charter  member  of  the  corporation  of  the 
Coo])er  Hos])ital  of  Camden,  founded  in  1875, 
and  181)3  was  elected  president  of  that  mstitu- 
tion's  board  of  managers,  a  position  of  respon- 
sibility and  honor  which  he  still  holds  to  the 
emiijent  satisfaction  of  the  city's  citizens.  It 
is  well  worth  mention  that  Mr.  Reeve's  daugh- 
ters arc  members  of  the  Society  of  Colonial 
Dames  and  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution,  the  eldest  also  being  the  regent  of 
the  Xassau  Chapter  of  the  Colonial  Dames  of 
Camden.  Mr.  Reeve  has  spent  much  titne  in 
the  study  of  the  local  history  of  his  state,  and 
is  the  author  of  several  excellent  and  accurate 
papers  and  articles  upon  that  subject,  whicli 
liave  ajipearcd  in  the  ]iublic  press. 

.\ugustus  Reeve  married  Rebecca  Cooper, 
daughter  of  Isaac  II.  Wood,  of  Haddonficld, 
Xew  Jersey.  Their  children  are:  I.Elizabeth 
Cooper,  unmarried.  2.  William  Foster,  general 
manager  of  his  father's  office ;  married  Marv 


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jay,  (laughter  of  Attorney-General  Samuel  11. 
( Jrey  ;  two  children  :  William  P'oster  and  Mary 
jay.  3.  Laura,  unmarried.  4.  Charles  (lad- 
skill,  married  Rebecca  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Joseph  B.  Cooper,  of  Camden,  New  jersey, 
and  has  two  children,  Joseph  Cooper  and  Donj- 
thv  Morris. 


The  Colonial  settlers  in  .America 

(iRlCCiS  by  the  name  of  Griggs  to  the 
number  of  about  ten  came  to 
New  England  prior  to  1700  from  England, 
and  some  of  them  have  been  traced  as  of  rec- 
ord in  England  at  Lavenham,  in  Rraekley. 
Hartest,  Boxted  and  Ipswich.  The  luiglish 
family  of  Griggs  is  very  old.  One  branch  of 
the  ancient  family  bore  this  coat-of-arms : 
Gules  three  ostrich  feathers  argent.  Crest : 
.\  sword  in  pale  enfiled  with  a  leopard's  face 
proper. 

The  Griggs  family  of  Massachusetts  was  es- 
tablished by  Thomas  Griggs,  of  Ro.xbury  (now 
.  lioston),  who  came  with  wife  .Mary  and  sons 
Joseph  and  John  and  daughter  Mary,  and  was 
of  record  as  a  land-owner  as  early  as  1639  in 
the  town  of  Ro.xbury,  in  the  Massachusetts 
Bay  Colony.  Most  of  the  persons  bearing 
surname  Griggs  in  America  trace  their  lineage 
to  this  Thomas  Griggs,  of  Roxbury.  John  W. 
.Saxe,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  has  kindly  submitted 
to  the  editor  his  manuscript  history  and  notes 
of  the  Griggs  Family  in  .\merica.  Through 
his  researches  the  genealogy  of  the  .\ew  Jersey 
family  herein  has  been  established.  The  wills, 
deeds  and  other  records  herein  (|uoted  were 
compiled  by  Mr.  Saxe,  in  co-operation  with 
lion,  John  \\'.  Griggs,  of  Paterson,  and  James 
L.  Griggs,  Esq..  of  Somerville.  New  Jersey. 

The  Colonial  records  of  New  Jersey  men- 
tion among  the  first  settlers  the  names  of  llen- 
jamin.  Daniel.  Samuel  and  Thomas  (jriggs. 
The  ])resent  ( iriggstown  was  founded  by  Ben- 
jamin (iriggs  and  his  brothers,  on  the  banks 
of  the  Millstone  river,  where  he  settled  and 
built  a  grist  mill  as  early  as  1733.  These  four 
brothers  established  the  Griggs  family  in  New 
Jersey,  and  their  descendants  are  numerous 
and  widely  scattered  through  the  west. 

( I)  John  Griggs,  father  of  Benjamin  Griggs 
and  three  brothers  who  migrated  to  New  Jer- 
sey, as  stated,  was  a  land-owner  of  Gravesend, 
Long  Island,  New  York,  as  early  as  1672. 
This  John  Griggs  was  probably  the  same  John 
Griggs  who  was  of  record  at  Easthampton. 
Long  Island,  in  1639.  .According  to  faniilv 
tradition  this  New  Jersey  branch  came  from 
New    England  progenitors   through   Connecti- 


cut. The  town  of  Gravesend  had  as  its  larg- 
est patentee  Lady  Deborah  .Moody,  who  set- 
tled there  with  Friends  (Quakers)  from 
Salem,  Massachusetts.  The  wife  of  William 
(iriggs,  of  Saletn,  Rachel  (Hubbard),  con- 
veyed. May  14.  1712,  to  her  son  Jacob,  all  her 
interest  in  the  estate  of  her  brother,  B>enja- 
min  Hubbard,  "late  of  Long  Island,"  deceased. 
Ann  Griggs,  daughter  of  (jcorge  Griggs,  who 
came  from  Lavenden,  England,  in  1633.  in  the 
ship  "Hopewell,"  and  settled  in  Boston,  mar- 
ried Matthew  Janes,  and  in  1644  went  to 
Southamjjton,  Long  Island.  Many  of  the  pas- 
sengers in  the  list  of  the  "Hopewell"  in  1633 
settled  on  Long  Island.  Accordingly,  it  is 
supposed  that  John  Griggs,  of  Gravesend,  was 
of  this  family,  although  his  descent  has  not 
been  fully  established  of  record,  and  he  may 
have  been  a  .son  of  John  Griggs,  who  in  1636 
was  allotted  land  at  Watertown,  Massachu- 
setts, many  settlers  from  which  removed  to 
Connecticut  and  founded  towns  of  Long 
Island. 

In  ififio  John  Griggs  and  Thoma^i  W'hittack. 
both  of  Gravesend,  Long  Island,  were  fined  for 
"buying  and  selling"  land  on  the  first  day  of 
the  week.  Griggs  declared  that  he  did  not  re- 
member such  covenant  implying  that  he  was 
bound  by  a  town  covenant.  The  court  ruled  the 
bargain  void  and  fined  each  fifteen  shillings 
and  costs  of  court.  He  must  have  been  of 
age  before  this  date.  He  signed  by  mark, 
though  he  may  have  been  able  to  write.  Fre- 
quent records  of  him  are  found  after  that  in 
(jravesend.  He  was  sued  June  7.  1669,  by 
Leonard  Jacob  for  debt :  he  shared  in  a  di- 
vision of  tillable  land  on  Coney  Island,  etc., 
in  1670,  and  of  the  twenty-four  heads  of  fam- 
ilies receiving  grants,  only  two  had  larger  lots. 
He  conveyed  to  his  son  John  eight  acres  of 
land  on  the  east  side  of  Gravesend,  on  a  neck 
known  as  .Ambrose  Island.  He  and  his  son 
John  Jr.  sold  to  William  Hensen,  of  New 
L'trecht,  May  10,  1690,  plantation  No.  t^j  with 
buildings  at  Gravesend ;  also  other  lands  and 
lot  No.  9  on  Gisbert's  Island.  He  was  living 
in  1698.  according  to  the  census  taken  that 
year.  He  had  wife  Elizabeth  at  (7iravesend. 
Children:  i.  John,  mentioned  below.  2.  Dan- 
iel. 3.  Thomas,  had  children:  Elizabeth.  John, 
Mary,  Hannah.  Thomas,  mentioned  in  will  of 
Henry  (lillam,  of  Worcester,  New  York.  4. 
Benjamin,  mentioned  below,  5,  Edward  (  ?), 
was  on  a  committee  to  lay  out  highways  in 
■Somerset  county.  New  Jersey.  Februarv  2'^. 
'7.^,V  ^^-  Samuel,  was  on  tax-roll  of  Franklin 
township.  New  Jersey,  which  includes  (iriggs- 


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town,   with  his  brothers   Daniel.   Thomas  and 
Benjamin. 

( II )  John  (  2  ),  son  of  John  ( i )  Griggs,  was 
certainly  born  about  1660,  for  he  was  of  age 
before  1685.  He  married  (first)  Anna  Wyck- 
off,  born  May  29,  1665,  daughter  of  W'illem 
Willemse;  (second)  in  1684,  Martha  Wilkins 
daughter  of  Obadiah  Wilkins.  He  appears  to 
have  been  considerably  older  than  his  brothers, 
and  the  only  one  of  the  sons  having  real  estate 
transactions  at  Gravesend.  He  alone  re- 
mained on  Long  Island.  His  father  deeded 
land  to  him  in  Gravesend.  and  he  owned  land 
jointly  with  his  father,  as  stated,  before  1695. 
He  sold  lots  No.  i  and  16  in  Gravesend.  March 
20,  1685-86,  to  John  Kendrick,  an  Indian  trader 
of  New  York.  His  father  probably  died  before 
1703  when  (without  the  "Jr.")  he  deeded  mil! 
property  at  (iravesend.  It  is  significant  that 
Benjamin  Griggs  was  also  a  mill  owner  in  New 
Jersey.  John  sold  land  .August  28.  1697, 
twenty  acres,  to  Joachim  GuUick  for  sixty 
pounds.  He  was  constable  in  1701.  He 
owned  slaves  in  Gravesend  in  1768,  and  he 
appeared  with  his  mother  or  step-mother  Eliz- 
abeth  in  the  census  of   1763. 

(ID  Benjamin,  son  of  John  (i)  Griggs, 
was  born  about  1680  at  Gravesend.  He  was 
living  in  Gravesend,  Long  Island,  in  1714-15. 
He  removed  with  his  brothers  to  the  ^lill- 
stone  river.  New  Jersey,  where  he  built  a 
grist  mill  as  early  as  1733,  and  for  him  the 
town  of  Griggstown  was  named.  His  will, 
dated  March  23,  1762,  was  proved  in  Somer- 
set county.  New  Jersey,  February  23,  1768. 
He  bequeathed  to  children  mentioned  below  : 
To  brother  Samuel ;  sons  Samuel  and  Daniel 
were  executors ;  witnesses  were  Nicholas 
Vaghte,  Francis  Feurt  and  Isaac  Wilkins. 
(Note  that  Wilkins  was  also  from  Gravesend 
and  related.)  Children:  i.  Daniel.  2.  Sam- 
uel. 3.  Barrent.  4.  Reuben.  5.  Benjamin. 
6.  John,  mentioned  below.  7.  Martha,  mar- 
ried Rene  Vanderbeek.  8.  Jane,  married 
Aaron  Bennett.  9.  Elinor,  married  John  Sut- 
phin. 

(III)  John  (3),  son  of  Benjamin  Griggs, 
was  born  about  1710-20.  He  died  before  his 
father  (1758),  leaving  a  son  Benjamin,  who 
was  mentioned  in  his  grandfather's  will.  Ad- 
ministration was  granted  Nicholas  \'aghte,  of 
Somerset  county,  principal  creditor,  January 
20,  1758.  John  Griggs  resided  at  Toms  River, 
Monmouth  county. 

(IV)  Benjamin  (2),  son  of  John  (3) 
Griggs,  was  born  March  22,  1754  (another 
record  gives  the  more  probable  date  of  1748), 


died  March  7,  1825.  He  married  Eleanor  Lane, 
born  April  21,  1744,  died  April  8,  1829.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  John  B.,  born  August  18,  1777;  mar- 
ried Maria  Johnson;  children:  i.  Benjamin;  ii. 
John  \'.  N.;  iii.  Daniel,  had  son  Levi  D. ;  iv. 
.Maria:  v.  Margaret;  vi.  Harriet;  vii.  Martha 
Jane  ;  viii.  Sarah  Ann.  2.  Sarah.  January  5, 
1779.  3.  .\aron,  October  20,  1780;  died  Alay 
18,  1817.  4.  Daniel.  September  6,  1782; 
started  by  wagon  to  California  in  1849-50, 
and  dietl  on  the  way.  5.  George,  July  25, 
1785.  6.  Jemima,  January  13,  1788.  7.  Mar- 
garet. February  22,  1790;  died  July  2,  1858: 
married,  June  14,  1 819,  John  Harris,  of  Wor- 
cester, England,  born  January  16,  1787,  died 
March  22.  1870;  their  son,  Benjamin  Griggs 
Harris,  born  at  Newton,  New  Jersey,  July  21, 
1 82 1,  married  Eleanor  Anne  Neale,  daughter 
of  Francis  Neale,  of  Baltimore,  and  had  a 
daughter  born  June  14,  1863,  married  H.  F. 
.Mackintosh,  of  Toronto.  Canada. 

(II)  Daniel,  son  of  John  (i)  Griggs,  was 
born  at  Gravesend,  New  York,  about  1680-85. 
He  was  in  Gravesend,  an  adult,  in  1714-15. 
He  appears  to  have  gone  with  several  brothers 
to  New  Jersey,  where  many  settlers  from 
Gravesend  located  earlier  and  later.  He 
owned  a  plantation  near  what  is  now  Fleming- 
ton.  Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey,  and  this 
pro])erty  has  descended  by  will  and  remained 
in  the  possession  of  the  family  until  recently. 
The  township  in  which  he  lived  was  originally 
known  as  .\mwell.  His  will  was  dated  .\ugusi 
22.  1757,  and  proved  November  14,  1759.  He 
must  have  died  late  in  the  year  1759.  He  be- 
queathed to  wife  Jackominad ;  to  eldest  son 
John  (doubtless  naniefl  for  his  grandfather); 
to  sons  Joachim.  Daniel  and  Samuel;  daugh- 
ters Mary,  Catherine.  The  executioners  were 
sons  John,  Joachim,  and  Daniel ;  witnesses. 
Samuel  O.  Hallock  and  Janel  Matteson.  Chil- 
dren of  Daniel  and  Jackominad  Griggs:  I.John, 
lived  at  .\mwell :  married  Catherine  Bower, 
daughter  of  I^hilip,  and  was  on  a  committee  to 
choose  delegates  to  the  constitutional  conven- 
tion. 2.  Joachim,  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolu- 
tion :  will  dated  at  ,'\mwell  township,  Hunter- 
don county,  .Xpril  2.  1805,  and  proved  October 
17,  1806,  at  Trenton  ;  bequeathed  to  wife  Anna, 
$1,334,  etc.:  to  brothers  John  and  Samuel 
Griggs  and  to  Mary  Hill,  wife  of  Isaac,  $80 
each ;  to  Anna  B.  Van  Fleet  .?8o,  and  Acha 
Hill,  son  of  Isaac,  $267 ;  to  sister  Catherine, 
wife  of  Peter  Williamson,  of  Sussex ;  to  Mary, 
widow  of  Thomas  Peterson,  now  deceased; 
and  to  Margaret,  widow  of  Harp  Peterson, 
and  her  children ;  appointed  as  executors  his 


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brotlier  John  Griggs  and  friends  Cornelius 
Wyckoft'  and  Isaac  Hill;  witnesses,  Alexander 
Bunnell.  \\  illiani  Geary  and  Nathaniel  Sax- 
ton;  inventory  dated  October  7,  1806,  by 
Alexander  Bonnell  and  Jonathan  Higgins  men- 
tioning a  note  of  $500  against  the  United 
States ;  his  widow  Anne  made  her  will  Decem- 
ber 2,  1807  and  it  was  proved  November  8. 
1808;  she  bec|ueaths  to  her  own  nephews  and 
nieces.  3.  Daniel,  also  of  AmwcU ;  left  no 
children;  his  will  dated  November  17,  1761. 
and  proved  September  27,  1762,  mentions 
brothers  John,  Jackson  (Joachim)  and  Sam- 
uel ;  sisters  Catherine,  Alary  and  Margaret ; 
executors  John.  Joachim  and  George,  wit- 
nesses :  Peter  Peterson,  Joliannis  Young.  Jacob 
Mattison.  4.  Samuel,  mentioned  below.  5. 
Mary,  married  Thomas  Peterson.  6.  Catline 
(Catherine),  married  Peter  Williamson.  7. 
.Margaret,  married  Harp  Peterson. 

(HI)  Samuel,  son  of  Daniel  Griggs,  was 
born  about  1740  in  New  Jersey.     He  married 

Catherine  .     He  lived  at  .Amwell.     His 

will  was  dated  at  Amwell,  January  26.  1803. 
and  |)roved  October.  181 2,  at  l-'lemington  of 
that  township.  He  bequeathed  a  fourth  part 
of  monies  arising  from  the  sale  of  his  real  es- 
tate to  each  of  his  surviving  children,  and  the 
other  fourth  to  the  four  children  of  his  son 
Daniel,  deceased.  The  executors  were  son 
Samuel  Griggs  and  his  friend  .Abraham  ( lu- 
lick.  doubtless  of  the  same  family  as  Joachini 
(iulick  who  sold  land  owned  in  common  with 
John  Griggs  and  Samuel  (ierritsen,  of  Graves- 
end.  It  is  likely  that  the  name  of  Joachim 
came  into  the  family  through  its  connection 
with  the  Gulick  family.  The  witnesses  of  the 
will  were  Daniel  Reading,  Joseph  Reading  and 
.Nathaniel  .Saxtun.  Samuel  ( iriggs  must  have 
died  about  Se|)teniber.  1812.  His  executors 
•<(il(l  the  farm  to  .\ndrew  \  an  Fleet,  by  deed 
dated  .A])ril  i.  1813.  This  farm  in  .-\niwell  ad- 
joined the  homestead  of  Daniel  Griggs,  father 
(if  Samuel,  and  was  bought  May  2.  1769,  of 
Micajah  (jowe.  The  widow  Catherine  released 
her  right  of  dower  to  her  son  Samuel.  .April  3. 
1813.  Giildren :  i.  Charity.  2.  Jemima.  3. 
Samuel,  mentioned  below.  4.  Daniel,  died  be- 
fore 1812:  children:  John.  Christopher.  Joa- 
kim  (Joachim).  Samuel. 

(1\")  Samuel  (2).  son  of  Samuel  (i) 
Griggs,  was  born  at  .Amwell,  Hunterdon 
county.  New  Jersey,  about  1775.  He  married 
Sarah  Ann  Griggs,  born  January  5.  1779. 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Griggs,  mentioned 
above,  of  Newton,  New  Jersey.  He  was  a 
farmer  at  Flemington.  part  of  the  old  townshij) 


of  .Amwell.  In  politics  he  was  first  a  Federal- 
ist then  a  Whig ;  in  religion  a  Presbyterian. 
His  will  was  dated  at  Raritan  township,  Hun- 
terdon county  April  12,  1840,  and  proved 
March  2.  1842.  He  bequeathed  to  his  wife 
Sarah  $150,  and  provided  that  she  receive 
yearly  the  interest  on  .^2,500,  etc.  The  re- 
mainder of  the  estate  to  be  divided  equally 
among  all  the  children  e-xcejit  John,  who  is  to 
receive  .Si, 200  less  because  of  advancement 
made  to  him ;  also  son  Samuel  to  have  $400 
deducted  from  his  share  because  of  bond  tes- 
tator held;  at  his  wife's  death  the  $2,500  to 
be  distributed  equally  among  the  children.  The 
executors  were  his  sons  Daniel  and  Aaron ; 
witnesses:  Nathaniel  G.  Mattison,  Joseph  H. 
Reading  and  ( ieorge  .A.  Allen.  Children:  i. 
Daniel,  mentioned  below.  2.  John.  3.  Sam- 
uel, went  west  about  1845.  4.  George,  settled 
in  Shelby  county,  Illinois.  5.  Benjamin,  went 
west  when  a  young  man.  6.  Aaron,  lived  in 
.\c\\  Jersey.  7.  Margaret,  lived  in  New  Jer- 
sey.    S.   Ellen,  married  James  L.  Hixon. 

(\  I  Daniel  (jriggs.  son  of  Samuel  (2) 
(iriggs,  was  born  in  Flemington.  New  Jersey. 
.March  7.  1798.  died  .August  24,  1868.  He  had 
a  common  school  education,  and  followed 
farming  in  his  native  town,  and  at  Newton. 
New  Jersey.  He  was  a  prominent  member  of 
the  Presbyterian  church,  was  superintendent 
of  the  first  Sunday  school  in  New  Jersey,  at 
Flemington,  in  the  early  thirties,  and  was  for 
thirty-five  years  elder  of  the  Presbyterian 
church  of  Newton.  He  married  (first)  Eliza- 
beth .Ann  Johnson,  born  June  16.  1800.  daugh- 
ter of  Henry  Johnson,  granddaughter  of  Cap- 
tain Henry  John.son,  who  was  a  captain  in  the 
New  Jersey  militia  in  the  revolutionary  war 
He  married  (second)  Emeline  J.  Johnson, 
born  June  22.  1813.  a  sister  of  his  first  wife. 
Children  by  his  first  wife:  I.  Theodore,  born 
I'ebruarv  26,  1826.  2.  Rachel  .Ann.  I*"ebruar\ 
').  1828.  3.  Henry  J..  May  12.  1834.  By  his 
second  wife:  4.  (ieorge  \'an  Tile,  October  31, 
1839.  5.  Charles  Edgar.  .Se|)tember  20.  1842. 
6.  John  William.  July  10.  1849.  7.  Ellen 
Hixon.  .August  19.  185 1. 

( \T )  George  \'an  Tile,  son  of  Daniel 
(iriggs.  was  born  October  31.  1839;  served  in 
the  civil  war  as  cajitain  in  the  Second  Regi- 
ment. New  "S'ork  Cavalry,  and  was  brevetted 
colonel  for  conspicuous  gallantry  in  action. 
He  was  killed  in  the  battle  of  Culpeper  Court 
House.  X'irginia.  October  11,  1863.  Griggs 
Post.  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  at  Newton. 
New  Jersey,  is  named  in  his  honor. 

(\"1)    John    William    (iriggs.    youngest    son 


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STATE    OF    XI-:\\     lERSEY. 


of  Uanicl  drig-gs,  was  born  in  Newton,  Sussex 
county.  New  Jersey,  July  lo,  1849.  He  was 
graduated  from  Lafayette  College  in  1868; 
( LL.  1!.,  Princeton,  i8g(^;  Yale,  1900),  and 
entereil  upon  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of 
Hon.  Robert  Hamilton.  Mr.  Griggs  in  May. 
1871,  became  a  student  with  Socrates  Tuttle, 
of  Paterson,  and  was  admitted  to  the  practice 
of  his  profession  at  the  November  term  of  the 
supreme  court,  1871,  and  counsellor  in  1S74. 
In  1876  and  1877  Mr.  Griggs  was  a  member  of 
the  general  assembly  from  Passaic  county,  and 
was  a  member  of  a  legislative  committee 
chosen  to  revise  and  harmonize  legislation  af- 
fected by  the  provisions  of  the  amended  state 
constitution.  In  1878  he  was  appointed  coun- 
sel of  the  board  of  chosen  freeholders  of  Pas- 
saic, and  in  1879  became  the  city  counsel  of 
Paterson,  serving  during  four  years.  For  two 
terms,  1882  to  1 886,  he  represented  Passaic 
county  in  the  New  Jersey  senate,  in  1886  act- 
ing as  president  of  that  body. 

It  was  in  November,  1895,  '^'i^'  ^l^.  (jriggs 
was  elected  governor  of  New  Jersey,  being  the 
first  Republican  chosen  for  that  office  since 
1865,  and  he  introduced  the  line  of  Republican 
chief  magistrates  who  have  occupied  that  office 
during  the  past  thirteen  years.  An  over- 
whelming majority  placed  him  in  power.  Dur- 
ing his  occupancy  of  the  office,  which  covered 
two  years,  ( iovernor  Griggs  made  his  ad- 
ministration memorable  by  the  dignity  with 
which  he  sustained  his  position,  and  the  clear 
reasoning  shown  in  his  state  powers.  The 
((ualities  of  his  mind  commending  him  to  the 
late  President  William  McKinley,  caused  the 
appointment  of  ex-(  iovernor  Griggs  to  the  po- 
sition of  federal  attorney-general.  To  accept 
this  dignified  place,  Mr.  Griggs  resigned  the 
governorship  in  January.  1898,  and  remained 
in  President  McKinley's  cabinet  until  April  i, 
i(;oi,  and  then  resumed  the  practice  of  his 
profession.  He  is  a  member  of  The  Hague 
Permanent  Court  of  .\rI)itration.  Since  return- 
mg  to  practice  Mr.  Griggs  has  been  identified 
with  large  financial  interests  in  New  York  and 
Paterson.  and  is  a  member  of  leading  clubs  in 
hiitli  cities.     His  residence  is  in  Paterson. 

John  William  ("iriggs  married  (first)  Oc- 
tober 7,  1874.  Carolin  Webster  Brandt,  of 
HelleviJle.  .New  Jersey,  daughter  of  William 
and  Eliza  I  Leavitt )  I'randt ;  she  was  born 
1852,  died  January  21.  1891.  Children:  1. 
John  Leavitt,  born  June  10.  1876;  married, 
November  19,  1902,  Ruth  Iloxsey,  born  .March 
17,  1882,  daughter  of  Thomas  Franklin  and 
Elizabeth     (Paddock)     Hoxsev  ;    children:    i 


John  W.,  born  November  7,  1904;  ii.  Eliza- 
beth Hoxsey,  June  18,  1906.  2.  Helen,  born 
-November  22,  1877.  3.  Leila,  born  November 
21,  1879;  married,  October  12,  1904,  Oscar 
Clark  Huntoon ;  child,  Carolyn  Grant,  born 
June  21,  1905.  4.  Daniel,  born  November  21, 
1880.  5.  Constance,  born  November  23,  1882. 
He  married  (second)  April  15,  1893,  Laura 
Elizabeth  Price,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  daughter 
of  Warwick  and  Beulah  R.  (Farmer)  Price, 
born  (Jctober  10,  1861.  Children:  6.  Eliza- 
beth, born  May  31,  1894.  7.  Janet,  born  June 
20,  1896. 

.•\mong  the  early  settlers  of 
J(  )1I.N.S(J.\  New  Amsterdam  the  name  of 
Jansen  or  as  .Anglicized  John- 
son is  of  freciuent  occurrence.  It  is  probably 
of  the  immigrants  from  Holland  who  came 
with  the  great  influ.x  between  the  years  1658 
and  ir/)3  that  this  subject  under  investigation 
will  finally  be  traced,  .\ndres  Jansen  was 
Ijorn  on  Long  Island,  A.  D.  1665,  and  is  the 
positively  known  first  .\merican  ancestor  of 
Hon.  William  Mindred  Johnson,  of  Hacken- 
sack.  New  Jersey,  in  whose  ancestry  we  are 
interested  in  this  sketch,  and  in  the  absence  of 
definite  authority  as  to  ])arentage,  the  Holland 
.Society  accepted  him  as  a  member;  the  proof 
of  the  nativity  of  the  father  of  .Andres  Jansen 
while  not  fixed  by  name,  became  aii])arent  anil 
indis])utable  as  to  fact. 

(  i  I  .\ndres  Jansen  was,  according  to  the 
records  made  of  births  in  the  family  Bible  in 
the  |)ossession  of  the  Johnson  family,  born  on 
Long  Island  in  1665,  where  he  married  and 
had  six  sons  as  follows :  Coart,,  born  in  1689, 
.\ndrew,  Peter,  Myndred  (Mindred),  Henry, 
John.  He  removed  with  his  children  from 
Long  Island  and  the  two  generations  became 
])rominent  citizens  of  Reading  Town,  Hunter- 
don county.  New  Jersey.  Here  Andres  Jan- 
sen, or  as  his  name  was  anglicized,  .Andrew 
Johnson,  died  while  walking  to  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed Churcli  in  Rcadington.  which  town- 
ship was  located  iti  Somerset  county  up  to  the 
time  the  new  county  of  Hunterdon  was 
formed.  His  walk  was  probably  from  hi-^ 
farm  near  White  Horse  to  the  church  in  Read- 
ington.  His  age  at  his  death  is  recorded  as 
eighty  years. 

(ii)  Coart.  eldest  son  of  .Andres  Jansen, 
was  born  on  Long  Island  in  the  year  of  Our 
Lord,  1689.  He  removed  with  his  father. 
|)robablv  by  way  of  Middletown,  Monmouth 
countv.  to  Reading  Town,  Somerset  countv. 
New  Jersey,  where  he  was  brought  up  on  his 


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823 


father's  farm,  and  where  he  married  Charity 
or  Gertje  Lane,  Laan  or  Lanen,  daughter  of 
Arie  or  Adriaen  Thyssen  Lanen.  of  Xew 
Utrecht,  Long  Island,  who  married  Martyntje 
Smack  or  Smock.  ,\driaen  Lane's  name  ap- 
pears on  the  assessment  rolls  of  the  townshiji 
of  Xew  Utrecht  of  1693  and  the  census  of 
1698.  He  is  also  recorded  as  of  (Iravesend. 
He  removed  to  Middletown.  Monmouth 
county,  Xew  Jersey,  about  1700.  at  which  date 
he  conveyed  land  in  Xew  Utrecht  to  Gysford 
Tysson  (  \"an  Pelt).  The  children  of  Adriaen 
Thyssen  and  Martyntje  (Smock)  Lane  were: 
Janetje.  Gertje  or  Charity  and  Hendrik.  The 
children  of  Coart  and  Charity  (  Lane  I  John- 
son included  Andrew,  who  married  Jane  Ber- 
ger.  May  10.  17;;:  Martha,  who  married  and 
had  children ;  Henry,  see  forward.  Coart 
Johnson  died  at  his  home  at  Johnsonburg.  New 
Jersey,  in  1772.  and  was  buried  at  (Jreen's 
burying  ground  at  Hardwick. 

(  III  )  Henry,  son  of  Coart  and  Lharity 
(Lane)  Johnson,  was  born  near  White  Horse, 
now  Readington  Church.  Somerset  county. 
Xew  Jersey.  October  5.  1737.  He  married 
( first )  .Susan  Hover  and  removed  to  Sussex 
county.  Xew  Jersey,  where  he  purchased  a 
farm  near  Xewton,  the  shire  town  of  the 
county.  He  was  a  founder  and  one  of  the  first 
elders  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Xewton. 
and  a  prominent  citizen  of  the  county,  with 
sufficient  wealth  to  give  his  children  superior 
schodl  training.  He  was  an  officer  in  the 
American  revolution  and  held  the  important 
]30sition  of  ciuartermaster  and  afterwards  cap- 
tain in  Washington's  army  while  in  Xew  Jer- 
sey. He  died  January  5.  1826.  at  the  age  of 
eighty-nine  years,  at  Frankfort,  near  Xewton. 
and  was  buried  in  the  old  cemetery  at  Xewton. 
The  children  of  Captain  Henry  and  Susan 
(Hover)  Johnson  were  born  in  Xewton.  Xew 
Jersey,  and  were:  Henry,  see  f()r\\ar<l ;  David 
and  Jonathan  (twins);  John,  see  forward; 
-Samuel ;  William :  Sarah,  married  \'an  Tile 
Coursen ;  Hannah,  married  John  \"an  Deren. 
His  second  wife  was  .Ann  \'an  Este.  whom 
be  married  in  1795.  Thev  had  a  daughter 
Si's-inna.  married  fcilin  Hover  and  went  to 
( )hio, 

(  1\  )  Henry,  son  of  Cajitain  Henry  and 
Susan  I  Hover)  Johnson,  became  an  early  set- 
tler of  Johnsonburg.  Sussex  county,  where  he 
was  the  chief  merchant  and  brought  up  a  large 
family.  His  son.  William  Henry,  married 
Anna  Couse  and  had  five  children ;  Henrv 
W.  and  John  C  (twins),  born  in  Johnson- 
burg. October  21.   1828.  brought  up  and  edu- 


cated in  Xewton:  Henry  W'..  as  a  merchant, 
afterwards  a  banker  at  Long  Branch,  and  John 
C.  as  a  ])hysician  and  surgeon  in  Blairstown 
where  he  married  .Anna  I,.,  daughter  of  John 
R.  and  .Sarah  (.Armstrong)  Howell.  The 
other  children  of  William  H.  and  Anna 
(Couse)  Johnson  were:  Catharine  II.,  Samuel, 
wdio  was  surrogate  of  .Sussex  county;  and 
Mary,  wife  of  William  W.  Woodward,  a  mer- 
chant in  .Xewton. 

(  1\  I  John,  son  of  C  ajjtain  1  lunry  and  Susan 
(  1  lover  )  Johnson,  was  born  in  Xewton.  Sussex 
county.  Xew  Jersey.  September  5.  1764.  died 
there  February  8.  1829.  He  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  tow'n  ;  engaged  in  manu- 
facturing and  mercantile  business;  was  mem- 
ber of  legislature,  comity  clerk  and  judge  of 
the  county  court.  He  was  made  a  trustee  of 
the  Xewton  Library  Company,  September  i, 
1800,  and  was  prominent  in  local  and  county 
affairs.  He  married  (first)  October  26,  1790, 
Hannah  Roy.  and  they  had  si.x  children,  as 
follows:  I.  Susan  .Maria.  2.  Eliza  Matilda, 
married  Dr.  George  Hopkins.  3.  .Mary.  4. 
Hannah  Alargaretta.  married  Rev.  Elias  W. 
Crane.  D.  D.  5.  Sarah  .Amanila.  6.  Harriet 
Roy.  married  Rev.  James  Cook  Edwards.  He 
married  (second)  .April  28,  1804.  Maria  Cath- 
erine, daughter  of  Colonel  .Abraham  and  Sarah 
(.Armstrong)  SchaelTer.  born  October  16.1782. 
died  Aj)ril  13.  1808.  By  this  second  marriage 
he  had  three  children  as  follows,  born  in  Xew- 
ton. Xew  Jersey:  7.  William  Jefferson,  March 
13.  1805;  was  a  practicing  physician  in  Xew 
■N'ork  C  ity.  and  died  there  September  22.  i860. 
8.  Whitfield  .Schaeffer.  see  forward.  9.  Sarah 
Catherine.  March  29.  1808.  died  unmarried 
September  28.  1868.  and  was  buried  at  \"ew- 
ton. 

I  \'  t  Wliittield  Schaeffer.  son  i>f  Judge  John 
and  .Maria  Catherine  (  Schaefifer)  Johnson, 
was  born  in  .Xewton.  .Sussex  county.  Xew  Jer- 
sey, Xovember  24.  1806.  He  received  his  ele- 
mentary education  in  the  schools  of  Xewton. 
his  training  in  law  under  instruction  of  Chief 
Justice  Hornblower  at  Xewark.  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  of  Sussex  county  as  an  at- 
torney in  1828  and  as  a  counsellor  in  the 
courts  of  Xew  Jersey  in  1 83 1.  He  was  prose- 
cutor of  the  pleas  for  Susse.x  county  for  nearly 
twenty  years.  He  served  as  secretary  of  state 
for  the  state  of  Xew  Jersey  1861-66  under  ap- 
pointment from  Governor  Olden,  and  on  re- 
ceiving the  appointment  he  removed  to  Tren- 
ton. Xew  Jersey,  where  he  resided  at  the  time 
of  his  death,  which  occurred  December  24, 
1874.     fie  served  the   Presbyterian  clnirch  in 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


Newton  as  an  elder  during  the  last  eight  years 
of  his  residence  there,  1855-63.  He  married. 
October  4,  1837,  Ellen,  daughter  of  Enoch  and 
Mary  (  Bidleman)  Green,  of  Phillipsburg,  New 
Jersey,  and  they  had  seven  children  born  in 
Newton,  New  Jersey,  as  follows:  i.  Mary 
.Margaretta.  2.  Emily  Eliza,  died  in  1901.  3. 
Laura  Catherine.  4.  Elizabeth  P.idleman.  5. 
William  Mindred,  see  forward.  6.  Margaret 
(ireen,  died  in  1897.     7.  Ellen  Green. 

(\'I)  William  Mindred.  only  son  and  fifth 
child  oi  Whitfield  Schaeffer  and  Ellen 
( Green )  Johnson,  was  born  in  Newton,  Sus- 
sex county,  .\'ew  Jersey,  December  2,  1847. 
He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Model 
School,  Trenton,  and  graduated  from  the  Col- 
lege of  New  Jersey  (  Princeton),  A.  B.,  1867, 
.A.  M.,  1870.  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1870  as  an  attorney,  and  in  1873  as  a  coun- 
sellor in  the  state  courts.  He  practiced  his 
profession  in  Trenton,  1870-74,  and  in  1875 
removed  to  Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  and  con- 
tinued the  practice  of  law  in  all  the  courts  of 
the  state  and  in  the  district  and  circuit  courts 
of  the  L'nited  States.  He  was  elected  state 
senator  from  Bergen  county  in  1895  and  re- 
elected in  1898,  serving  as  president  of  the 
senate  cluring  the  session  of  1900,  and  during 
the  absence  of  Governor  Voorhees  in  Europe 
in  Alay  and  June,  1900,  he  was  ex-officio  gov- 
ernor of  the  state  of  New  Jersey.  In  August, 
rooo.  he  was  appointed  by  President  McKin- 
:ey  first  assistant  postmaster  general  and  he 
hekl.  that  office  up  to  April,  1902,  when  he  re- 
signed. He  was  a  delegate  from  New  Jersey 
to  the  Republican  national  conventions  of 
1888  and  n)04,  and  served  as  chairman  of  the 
Republican  state  conventions  of  1900  and 
1904.  His  ]niblic  spirit  and  liberality  have 
abimdant  evidence  in  the  records  of  the  town 
of  Hackensack  during  the  time  of  his  resi- 
dence there,  and  in  the  Johnson  Public  Library 
erected  at  iiis  expense  and  costing  probably 
more  than  ."sfw.ooo  and  which  was  dedicated 
with  a|)pro])riate  ceremonies  on  its  completion 
in  1 901,  the  rejiresentative  educators  and  pub 
lie  men  of  northern  New^  Jersey  taking  part 
in  the  ceremonies.  On  removing  to  Hacken- 
sack in  1875  'if  was  arlmittefl  to  membership 
in  the  Second  Reformed  Church  by  letter  from 
Trenton,  and  in  1905  he  ])resented  to  the 
church  an  excellent  p'\\K'  organ,  and  when  tiie 
church  and  its  coiUents  were  dcstniyed  by  fire 
in  1908  he  added  a  considerable  sum  to  the 
insurance  money,  paid  for  the  loss  of  the 
organ,  and  thus  enabled  the  consistory  to  pro- 
cure one  of  the  finest  organs  in   u-^e  in    Ber- 


gen county.  He  invested  in  the  business  and 
financial  institutions,  having  a  home  in  Hack- 
ensack, and  was  made  a  director  of  many,  and 
president  of  the  Hackensack  Trust  Company, 
in  which  he  has  a  large  holding  of  its  capital 
stock.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Hol- 
land Society  of  New  York,  being  a  direct  de- 
scendant from  Holland  ancestry.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Lawyers'  and  Princeton  clubs 
of  New  York  City,  of  the  New  Jersey  His- 
torical Society  and  of  the  Washington  Asso- 
ciation and  other  societies. 

Mr.  Johnson  married,  October  22,  1872, 
Maria  E.,  daughter  of  William  and  Hannah 
(Haines)  W'hite,  of  Trenton,  New  Jersey, 
and  the  eldest  of  their  three  children  was  born 
in  Trenton,  the  other  two  in  Hackensack,  as 
follows:  I.  Walter  Whitfield,  April  13.  1875, 
died  unmarried  March  16,  1891.  2.  George 
White,  July  26,  1877.  3.  WiUiani  Kempton. 
February  2^.   1883. 


The    Woolston    family    of 
WOOLSTON     New  Jersey  belongs  to  that 

noble  band  of  Quakers, 
who  were  among  the  earliest  settlers  of  the 
plantation  on  the  Delaware,  where  the  founder 
of  the  family  is  found  in  Burlington  county, 
in  1783,  and  where  his  marriage  is  one  of  the 
earliest  recorded  in  the  court  minutes  of  that 
settlement. 

Towards  the  last  of  October,  1667,  some 
heads  of  families  came  in  a  ship  to  W'ickaco 
(near  the  old  Swedes  Church),  Philadelphia, 
and  settled  in  the  neighborhood  of  Burlington. 
There  were  eighteen.  Among  them  were 
William  I'enn  and  John  Woolston;  they  lived 
in  wigwams  until  they  could  get  their  log 
houses  built.  Indian  corn  and  venison,  traded 
with  the  Indians,  was  their  chief  food.  Will- 
iam Budd  about  the  same  time  located  land  on 
the  south  side  of  the  north  branch  of  Ranco- 
cas  which  he  conveyed  to  John  Woolston,  one 
of  the  first  settlers  in  Burlington  county. 
John  Woolston  married  Hanna  Cooper, 
daughter  of  William  Cooper,  of  Pine  Point, 
nt)w  Camden  City,  in  1681,  and  died  in  1712. 
without  making  any  will,  and  under  the  laws 
then  existing  in  the  colonies  his  oldest  son 
John  inherited  all  his  real  estate.  He  how- 
ever, left  two  other  sons,  Joshua  and  Michael. 
John  Woolston  conveyed  to  his  brother 
Michael  part  of  the  above  land  inherited  from 
his  father  which  embraces  most  of  the  land 
between  Pemberton  and  Birningham  Mill  on 
the  south  side  of  Rancocas  creek  containing 
seven  hundred  acres.      Toshua  was  never  mar- 


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rifil  and  sold  liis  land  to  his  brother  Michael, 
April   18.   1726. 

(II)  John  (  2  ) .  eldest  son  of  John  (  i  )  Wool- 
ston.  the  first  Woolston  settler  in  the  colonies, 
was  married  to  Hannah  (last  name  unknown) 
and  had  nine  children,  the  oldest  being  Jacob. 

(Till  Xewbold,  youngest  son  of  John  (2) 
Woolston,  married  Mary  Bowlby,  of  Mans- 
field. May  ID.  1775. 

( I\  )  Abraham,  onl}-  son  of  Newbold  Wool- 
ston. married.  December  14,  1800,  Anna  Bray, 
and  they  had  a  son,  John  Bray  Woolston,  born 
October  16,  1807,  died  in  1895. 

(\')  John  Bfay,  son  of  .\braham  Woolston, 
was  born  in  Port  Coldcn,  Warren  county.  New 
Jersey,  October  16,  1807.  died  January  9,  1895. 
He  was  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  a  large  land 
owner  in  the  section  of  the  country  where  he 
lived.  He  married  (first)  May  22,  1834,  Gert- 
rude Stillwell.  born  September  27,  1809,  died 
June  3,  1837.  leaving  two  children.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  October  2,  1841,  Margaret  H. 
Ogden.  born  March  27.  1808,  died  October  16. 
1858.  leaving  three  children.  He  married 
(third)  Lydia.  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Hetty 
(Higgins)  .'^Iuitll,  born  in  1825.  died  Febru- 
ary 14,  1895.  leaving  one  child.  Children  of 
John  Bray  and  Gertrude  (Stillwell)  Woolston: 
I.  Rebecca  .\nn.  born  February  9,  1835;  mar- 
ried (first)  George  Edgar  \^escelins.  Chil- 
dren :  John  Edwin  ^\'oolston,  born  September 
22,  1856:  Arthur  Isaac,  August  11.  1859.  She 
married  (second)  Benjamin  .\nnan,  one  child, 
Eleanor,  married  .\ugust  Chittenden,  and  has 
one  child  Miriam.  2.  George  Taylor,  May  25, 
1837.  died  March  7,  1882,  unmarried.  Chil- 
dren of  John  Bray  and  Margaret  H.  (Ogden) 
Woolston:  3.  Sarah  Shaw,  .\pril  15.  1843.  4. 
Jacob  Newbold,  October  22,.  1845,  'I'^d  Alay  i. 
1884;  married  Harriet  Britton.  Children: 
Catharine  R.  H..  married  Robert  Ray  Good- 
rich, and  ha.s  one  child.  Robert  Ray  Jr..  and 
John  Xewbold.  5.  Hulda  E..  January  31. 
1847:  married.  October  17,  1866.  Miller  R. 
Xunn  (see  Nunn.  \T).  Child  of  John  Bray 
and  Lydia  (Smith)  Woolston:  6.  John  Bray 
Jr..  referred  to  below. 

fl\")  John  Bray  (2).  only  child  of  John 
Bray  and  Lvdia  (Smith)  Woolston.  was  born 
in  Port  Colden.  New  Jersey.  June  11.  1864. 
Vox  his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Warren  county,  and  then  gradu- 
ated from  the  Hackettstown  Collegiate  Insti- 
tute. In  1882  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
[,ehigh  \'alley  Coal  Company,  with  whom  he 
remained  until  1883.  when  he  came  to  Newark, 
and   went  into  the   freight  department  of  the 


Delaware,  Lackawaiuia  and  Western  railroad. 
In  1890  he  started  a  coal  business  in  East 
Orange,  the  Park  .Vvenue  Coal  Company, 
which  he  gave  up  in  1898  in  order  to  accept  the 
position  of  freight  agent  of  the  Lackawanna 
railroad  at  Bloomfield,  New  Jersey.  This  po- 
sition he  retained  until  1901  when  he  was  ap- 
jjointed  chief  clerk  of  the  surrogate's  office,  a 
])osition  which  he  resigned  in  1907  when  he 
was  elected  county  clerk.  In  politics  Mr. 
Woolston  is  a  Republican  and  is  one  of  the 
strong  men  of  his  party.  He  has  been  for 
some  time  a  member  of  the  city  Republican 
committee,  and  for  the  last  four  years  its 
chairman.  He  is  prominent  in  the  secret  so- 
ciet\'  world,  being  a  member  of  Ophir  Chap- 
ter. No.  186.  of  the  Free  and  .Accepted  Masons 
of  East  Orange,  a  past  regent  of  the  Royal 
Xrcanum :  a  past  counsellor  of  the  Loyal  .-Xd- 
ditioual.  He  is  also  president  of  the  Holly- 
wood Republican  Club  a  position  which  he  has 
held  since  that  club's  formation,  and  a  member 
of  the  Indian  League.  He  is  also  president 
of  the  Hollywood  Building  and  Loan  Associa- 
tion of  East  Orange.  New  Jersey,  and  a  di- 
rector of  the  Hearthstone  Building  and  Loan 
.Association  of  Newark,  New  Jersey. 

June  20.  1885.  Mr.  Woolston  married  m 
I'ort  Colden.  W'arren  county.  New  Jersey, 
Lucy,  elder  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  J. 
('Carling)  Opdvke.  born  September  i.  1867. 
CSee  Opdyke.  VIIT.) 

(The  Opdyke  Line). 

I'y  far  the  largest  number  of  .American, 
OjKlyck-L'pdike,  are  descendants  from  the 
Dutch  family  who  settled  in  and  near  New 
York  about  1660.  It  is  impossible  at  ])resent 
to  trace  to  a  certainty  the  Holland  ancestry, 
but  the  family  in  the  Netherlands  was  numer- 
ous and  goes  back  at  least  as  early  as  1355, 
when  .Albert  op  den  Dyck  is  credited  with  hav- 
ing done  penance  before  the  Custodian  of  the 
Shrine  of  the  three  Kings  in  Cologne  Cathe- 
dral for  some  offence  committed  against  Lub- 
bert  Scherpinge.  The  name  has  undergone 
several  changes  in  the  course  of  the  century, 
and  is  now  found  under  forms  of  Opdyke, 
I'pdike  and  Dyck. 

(I)  Louris  Jansen  Ojjdyck,  born  in  Hol- 
land about  iCioo.  came  to  New  Netherlands' 
before  1653.  in  which  year  he  owned  a  resi- 
dence at  .Albany,  and  bought  a  lot  at  (jraves 
End,  Long  Island,  in  which  latter  place  he 
died  in  1659.  He  was  a  well  educated  man, 
and  possessed  of  some  means,  and  he  did  a 
prcsjierous  fur  trading  business  at  Beverwyck. 


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STATE    OF    XRW    lERSEY. 


He  removed  to  Graves  End  and  later  to  New 
Amsterdam  :  he  took  a  prominent  part  in  the 
civil  affairs  of  both  places,  and  left  his  mark 
upon    their    early    institutions.     He    married 

Christina .  who  came  to  the  New  World 

with  him.  Children:  i.  Peter,  born  1643,  of 
whom  nothing  more  is  known.  2.  Otto,  born 
about  1646:  married  the  Widow  Marretje 
lans.     3.  Johannes,  referred  to  below. 

(II)  Johannes,  son  of  Louris  Jansen  and 
Christina  Opdyck,  was  born  in  1651.  died  in 
1729.  lie  was  a  jalanter  at  Dutch  Kills.  Long 
Island,  and  in  Maidenhead  and  Hopewell.  New 
Jersey.  By  his  wife  Catharine  he  had:  i. 
Tryntje.  died  between  1722  and  1 741  ;  married 
Enoch  .\ndrus.  2.  Engletje,  living  1741  ;  mar- 
ried   Joshua    .\nderson.     3.    Lawrence,  born 

1675.  died   1748:  married   .A^gnes  .     4. 

.Albert,  referred  to  below.  5.  A  son,  died 
about   1730.     6.   Bartholomew,  living   1746. 

(III)  Albert,  son  of  Johannes  and  Cathar- 
ine ( Ipdyck.  was  born  1685,  died  in  1752.  He 
was  a  planter  in  Maidenhead,  and  Hopewell, 
near  Princeton,  New  Jersey.  He  and  his  de- 
scendants, out  of  the  special  interest,  have  re- 
tained the  original  spelling  of  the  surname, 
Opdyck,  which  by  all  the  others  was  changed 
to  Updick.  By  his  wife  Elizabeth  he  had 
children:  I.  John,  born  1710.  died  1777:  mar- 
ried Margaret  Green.  2.  Joshua.  171 3'  '1'^^ 
1789:  married  Ann  Green.  3.  William,  re- 
ferred   to    below.     4.   Benjamin.     1721,    died 

1807  :  married  Joanna .     5.  Sarah,  1724, 

died  1804;  unmarried.  6.  Catharine.  7. 
Frank.     8.  Hannah. 

(\')  William,  .son  of  .Albert  and  Elizabeth 
Opdycke  born  about  171 5,  died  after  1779; 
living  near  Maidenhead,  now  Lawrenceville. 
New  Jersey.  He  married,  before  1750.  Nancy 
Carpenter.  Children:  i.  Mary,  married  Will- 
iam Biles.  2.  John,  referred  to  below.  3. 
William,  born  1755.  died  1822;  married  Sarah 
Palmer.  4.  Elizabeth,  married  Jacob  Matti- 
.son  Jr.  5.  Robert,  died  1820;  married  (first) 
.-\bigail  Hunt,  and  (second)  Elizabeth  Smith 
Ford.  T).  Hope,  1762,  died  1843:  married 
Catharine  Wilson.  7.  .Samuel,  married  Sarah 
Burtlas.  8.  Diuiiel.  9.  .Sarah,  married  Will- 
iam Nef\is. 

(\)  John,  son  iif  \\illi;im  and  Xancy  (Car- 
penter) ( )i)d\cke,  1)1  irn  about  1740,  died  in 
1819.  and  was  a  miller  near  Washington,  War- 
ren county,  New  Jersey.  He  married  Re- 
becca Wharton,  a  descendant  of  the  cele- 
brated Quaker  family  of  that  name.  Chil- 
dren: I.  John,  born  between  1770  and  1780; 
married McGrodis.     2.     Isaac,    died 


1848;  married  Maria  Huffman.  3.  Daniel. 
4.  James,  died  aged  seventeen  years.  5. 
George  W..  died  aged  sixteen  years.  6.  Will- 
iam. 1782.  died  1843;  married  Elizabeth  Kin- 
ter.  7.  Beaulia.  married  John  \\'elsh.  8. 
Sarah,  married  John  Beers.  9.  Rebecca,  un- 
married. TO.  Phebe.  married  (first)  Samuel 
Mabury.  and  (second)  William  Strous.  11. 
Mary,  marriefl  John  Brinckerhoft'.  12.  Sam- 
uel, referred  to  below.  13.  Nancy,  married 
Garrett  Lacy. 

( VI )  Samuel,  son  of  John  and  Rebecca 
(Wharton)  Opdyke.  was  born  in  1792.  at 
Sherrerds  Mills,  one  and  one-half  miles  west 
of  Washington.  Warren  county.  New  Jersey, 
not  far  from  Brass  Castle,  where  he  spent  the 
latter  years  of  his  life.  He  died  in  1874.  He 
married  Ann  Snyder.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth, 
born  1812;  married  Joseph  Lanning.  2.  John, 
referred  to  below.  3.  Jane,  1820;  married 
Joseph  Warnsley.  4.  William,  1823:  married 
(first)  Sarah  Hornbaker.  and  (second)  Mar- 
gret  \\'ashburn.  5.  George,  1825.  died  1868; 
married  Mary  Cole.  6.  Rebecca,  1826.  7. 
Mar\-  .\nn.  1830;  married  William  Whittie. 
8.  .Samuel.  1832;  married  Elizabeth  Cole.  9. 
Sarah.    1836:   married  Cornelus  Helderant. 

(\'H)  John  (2)  son  of  Samuel  and  .\\m 
( Snvder )  Opdyke,  was  born  at  Sherrerds 
Mills,  Warren  county.  New  Jersey,  in  1813. 
He  married  Mary  Petty,  and  lived  in  Port 
Colden.  New  Jersey.  Children:  i.  Sarah  Ann. 
born  1837;  married  Wilfield  Mitchell.  2. 
Samuel,  referred  to  below.  3.  Margret,  1841. 
4.  William  S..  1843;  married  Cornelia  F"ul- 
worth.  5.  Susan  \Vidner.  6.  John  W..  i84f). 
died  1886:  married  Mary  Marlott.  7.  Joseph. 
1848.  8.  Luther  C,  1830:  married  Sarah 
(iardner. 

(\'II1)  Samuel  (2),  .son  of  John  (2)  and 
Mary  (  Pettey)  Opdyke,  was  born  in  1838,  and 
is  now  living  at  Port  Colden.  Warren  county. 
New  Jersey.  He  is  a  canal  boss.  He  married 
.Sara  J.  Carling.  Children:  i.  Lucy,  born  Sep- 
tember I.  1867,  in  Port  Colden;  married.  June 
20.  1885.  John  Bray  Woolston  (see  Woolston. 
\1).      2.  Nettie,  born  1873,  died  single. 


This  ancient  surname   is  of 

l'"ERGl'SON     Scottish  origin,  derived  from 

Fergus,  a  favorite  name  and 

one   proudK-   worn  Ijy  many   Scotch  chiefs  in 

ancient  times. 

(I)  Rev.  John  Ferguson,  imiuigrant,  was 
born  December  9.  1788,  in  Dunse,  a  market 
town  in  Berwickshire,  in  the  southern  part 
of  Scotlanil.      His  grandfather  came  from  the 


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north  of  Scotland  and  was  one  of  the  soldiers 
of  tiie  Dnke  of  Marlhorough,  serving  in  the 
Scots  (jreys,  a  regiment  of  heavy  cavalry  dur- 
ing the  period  of  Queen  Anne's  wars.  His 
father  and  uncle  came  to  America  and  settled 
in  Newport,  Rhode  Island.  About  the  time  of 
the  revolutionary  war  his  father  returned  to 
Scotland,  for  he  was  not  willing  to  take  up 
arms  against  the  mother  country ;  but  at  the 
age  of  about  seventy  years  he  returned  with 
his  wife  and  family  to  Newport.  Mis  wife 
was  Anne  Rriggs,  of  Little  Conipton,  Rhode 
Island. 

At  the  time  of  the  return  of  his  father  to 
this  country  John  Ferguson  was  a  young  man 
of  seventeen  years.  He  was  converted  at  an 
early  age  and  at  once  began  fitting  himself  for 
tin-  ministry.  For  two  year.>  he  studied  the- 
ol()g\  with  Dr.  Tenney.  pastor  of  the  hirst 
Congregational  Church  of  Newport.  Rhode 
Island,  intending  to  enter  Yale  College  two 
years  in  advance  of  the  regular  course.  While 
living  in  Providence.  Rhode  Island,  he  at  one 
time  was  a  student  of  theology  under  the  in- 
struction of  Rev.  (ialvin  Park,  D.  D..  professor 
of  ancient  languages  and  later  of  moral  jihi- 
losoph\-  at  Rrown  University.  I  lowever,  he 
was  compelled  to  abandon  his  plans  for  enter- 
ing Yale  and  had  to  again  enter  business  pur- 
suits and  assume  the  care  of  his  father  ad  the 
maintenance  of  his  family.  For  ten  years  he 
continued  this  course,  and  during  all  of  that 
time  he  never  relinc|uished  tlie  hope  of  enter- 
ing the  ministry.  He  seemed  to  have  a  |)re- 
sentiment  that  the  chief  desire  of  his  life  would 
be  fulfilled,  and  the  ten  years  proved  a  period 
of  preparation  for  that  kind  of  life,  although 
of  c|uite  different  nature  from  that  which  he 
would  have  chosen. 

His  first  sermon  as  a  candidate  was  preached 
at  .\ttleboro,  Massachusetts,  and  his  te.xt  was 
"The  Ford  is  a  Man  of  War."  The  text  and 
sermon  were  not  only  characteristic  of  the 
man  and  of  his  theology,  but  of  his  ministry, 
which  to  use  his  own  expression  was  "war- 
like." He  never  shrank  from  the  defense  of 
truth,  never  hesitated  to  sacrifice  comfort,  rep- 
utation, or  means  of  support  in  the  mainte- 
nance of  principle.  He  was  ordained  in  .\ttle- 
boro,  February  27,  1822.  and  dismissed  March 
-•<•  '^.S.S-  In  speaking  of  his  ministry  there 
one  writer  says:  "It  was  of  great  value  in  the 
administration  of  wise  and  judicious  measures 
and  marked  the  beginning  of  the  system  of 
support  to  the  various  benevolent  enterprises 
of  the  day.  and  of  aid  to  the  labors  of  parent 
and  ijastor  bv  a  judicious  and  careful  educa- 


tion of  children  in  Sabbath  schools,  and  ma- 
ternal associations."  .\fter  leaving  Attleboro 
Mr.  Ferguson  was  settled  in  Whately,  Massa- 
chusetts, from  March  16.  1836,  until  June  7, 
1840.  He  was  called  Father  Ferguson  and 
was  a  man  to  whom  churches  looked  for  coun- 
sel and  pastors  for  advice,  often  when  pastors 
and  churches  were  involved  in  difficulties. 
"He  was  very  often  solicited  to  appear  as  ad- 
vocate before  ecclesiastical  courts,  and  many 
a  time  as  he  has  done  this  have  the  coolness 
and  shrewdness,  the  wit  and  wisdom  with 
which  he  advocated  the  course  extorted  the 
exclamation  "what  a  lawyer  he  w-ould  have 
made.'  "  He  almost  always  defended  the 
weaker  party,  his  symjiathies  frec|uently  inclin- 
ing to  the  unpopular  side.  "He  was  always 
ready  to  grasp  the  shield  and  jioise  his  lance 
for  the  injured  and  defenceless.  In  all  such 
cases  he  sniffed  the  battle  like  the  war  horse 
and  fought  with  all  the  chivalry  and  the  cour- 
tesy of  a  christian  knight."  He  became  ex- 
tensively known  as  the  "champion  of  the  op- 
jiressed"  although  at  the  ^ame  time  he  was 
e(|ualh-  well  known  a^  "a  lo\er  and  maker  of 
peace." 

He  i)reaehed  for  abciul  two  years  at  Lanes- 
borough  and  Whately.  the  ])lace  of  his  former 
settlement,  and  in  1842  became  general  agent 
for  the  .\rnerican  Tract  Association  for  the 
states  of  \'ermont  and  New  Hampshire,  in 
which  office  and  its  duties  he  was  very  suc- 
cessful :  and  he  really  becaine  the  Congrega- 
tional bishop  for  those  two  states.  He  died  at 
Whately,  November  11,  1838.  He  was  a  man 
of  vigorous  mind  and  of  vigorous  body,  a 
large-hearted  man.  of  keen  wit.  "but  his  keen- 
est shafts  were  winged  with  kindness."  He 
was  social  and  genial  in  manner.  Realizing 
the  defects  of  his  own  education — never  hav- 
ing graduated  from  any  college — he  labored 
hard  and  made  many  sacrifices  to  give  each  of 
his  sons  a  college  education.  .Xmherst  College 
bestowed  on  him  the  honorary  degree  of  Mas- 
ter of  Arts,  a  proof  that  although  he  had  been 
denied  the  advantages  of  a  college  course  he 
had  by  his  own  exertions  thoroughly  educated 
himself  and  the  com|)liment  was  a  source  of 
great  gratification  to  him.  Mr.  F'erguson  pub- 
lished a  sermon  on  the  death  of  Ebenezer 
Oaggett  Jr..  which  was  delivered  December  16 
1831.  and  several  other  discourses.  He  also 
j)ubli>hed  for  the  use  of  Sunday  schools  a 
"Memoir  of  Dr.  Samuel  Hopkins,"  the  cele- 
brated theologian. 

Mr.  Ferguson  married  (first)  June  7.  1813. 
Marv  \'.  Hammett.  of  New^port,  Rhode  Island, 


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by  whum  he  had  two  children.  She  died  June 
30,  1818.  and  he  married  (second)  April  28, 
1819.  Margaret  S.  Eddy,  of  Providence,  who 
diefl  May  6.  1871,  by  whom  he  had  nine  chil- 
dren. Children:  i.  John,  born  January  I. 
1813;  married  Sarah  Moore.  2.  Margaret, 
Xovember  11.  i8ifi.  died  December  19.  1819. 
3.  Mary  H..  February  25.  1820-.  married 
Charles  D.  Stockbridge.  4.  Peter.  December 
13,  1 82 1,  (lied  October  14.  1822.  5.  Peter. 
July  20,  1823.  6.  William  E.,  April  i,  1825, 
died  June  6,  1854:  married  Elizabeth  Sawtelle. 
7.  Rev.  George  R.,  March  19,  1829;  married 
Susan  Pratt,  of  .Andover.  8.  Margaret  E., 
December  9.  1830;  married  H.  B.  .'Mien,  of 
New  Haven.  Connecticut.  9.  James  A.,  No- 
vember 17.  1832:  married  Claudia  Churchill, 
of  New  Orleans.  10.  .\nna  B..  May  3. 1835.  died 
.August  6.  1840.  1 1.  .\l)by  Park,  April  4,  1837. 
(11)  Peter,  fifth  son  of  Rev.  John  and 
Margaret  S.  (Eddy)  Ferguson,  was  born  in 
.•\ttleboro.  Massachusetts,  July  20.  1823.  He 
married  Maria  J.  Bi.xby,  of  Keene,  New 
Hampshire.  .\t  the  age  of  thirteen  years  his 
father  removed  from  Attleboro,  Alassachn- 
setts.  to  W'hatley.  Massachusetts,  and  here  he 
grew  up  and  completed  the  preparatory  studies 
which  fitted  him  for  entrance  to  Amherst  Col- 
lege, which  he  entered  but  did  not  complete 
the  course.  His  brother  \\'illiam  at  this  time 
was  chief  engineer  of  the  Cleveland.  Toledo 
and  Xorwalk  railroad  with  headquarters  in 
Cleveland,  and  Peter  left  Amherst  College 
and  went  to  Cleveland  where  he  held  a  sub- 
ordinate position  with  his  brother.  Having 
met  with  a  painful  injury  to  his  foot  and  being 
unable  to  travel  at  the  time  of  his  intended 
wedding.  William,  who  was  on  a  business  trip 
to  the  east  went  to  Keene.  New  Hampshire, 
and  escorted  Miss  Bixby  to  his  home  in  Cleve- 
land where  the  wedding  took  place.  He  re- 
moved to  Norwalk  Ohio,  still  connected  with 
the  Cleveland.  Toledo  and  Norwalk  railroad 
until  the  fall  of  1853.  when  he  accepted  the 
position  of  chief  engineer  of  the  Tiffin  and 
Fort  Wayne  railroad  and  removed  to  Tiffin, 
Ohio.  His  work  here  was  the  preliminary 
surve\'  and  road-bed  construction  of  an  air 
line  railroad  from  Tiffin  to  Fort  \\^ayne  and 
all  the  work  was  through  an  unbroken  wilder- 
ness, part  of  which  was  known  as  the  black 
swamp.  Financial  depression  caused  an  aban- 
donment of  this  ])roject  and  he  turned  his 
attention  to  l>ridge  construction  and  built  two 
bridges  in  Tiffin  :  one  over  the  Sandusky  river 
and  the  other  over  Rock  river.  Desiring  bet- 
ter facilities  for  the  education  of  his  children 


he  removed  in  i860  to  New  Haven.  Connecti- 
cut, where  he  continued  for  a  time  the  work  of 
bridge  construction  and  built  the  Chapel  street 
bridge  over  the  New  York,  New  Haven  and 
Hartford  railroad  and  the  swing  draw  bridge 
over  Mill  river  which  were  among  the  pioneer 
iron  bridges  of  the  country.  During  the  civil 
war  he  was  employed  by  the  government  as 
superintendent  in  charge  of  the  reconstruction 
of  Fort  Hale  which  guards  the  eastern  en- 
trance to  New  Haven  harbor.  His  next  work 
of  importance  was  the  construction  of  the  new 
station  of  the  New  York.  New  Haven  and 
Hartford  railroad  on  land  reclaimed  from  the 
niud-tlats  of  the  harbor,  and  the  constant  ex- 
posure to  which  he  was  subjected  was  the  be- 
ginning of  rheumatic  disease  from  which  he 
never  recovered.  He  also  had  charge  of  the 
laying  out  and  construction  of  the  junction 
passenger  station  at  Middletown.  Connecticut. 
He  then  became  connected  as  superintendent 
of  the  then  large  contracting  firm  of  Macln- 
tire  Brothers,  and  removed  to  Buffalo.  New 
York,  w-here  he  remained  until  failing  health 
compelled  the  abandonment  of  active  work  and 
he  and  his  wife  made  their  home  with  their 
only  daughter,  living  with  them  in  Bethel, 
Connecticut,  and  later  in  Zanesville.  Ohio,  until 
his  death.  June  30.  1891.  The  son  of  a  min- 
ister, he  inherited  a  deep  sense  of  morality, 
honesty  and  integrity,  which  in  the  varied  ex- 
])erience  of  his  life  work  formed  the  founda- 
tion of  a  character  which  developed  a  strong, 
self-reliant  manhood.  He  was  ever  interested 
in  the  spiritual  and  moral  welfare  of  those 
about  him  and  a  constant  and  faithful  at- 
tendant of  the  Episcopal  church.  He  gave 
freely  of  his  titne  and  knowledge  in  matters 
furthering  the  work  of  the  church,  and  in  the 
early  days  of  his  pioneer  work  in  the  west  and 
during  the  latter  years  of  his  life  was  fre- 
(|uently  called  upon  to  read  the  church  service. 

The  children  of  Peter  and  Maria  J.  (Bixby) 
I"\rguson  are:  i.  James  Joseph,  born  Novem- 
ber 27.  1853.  died  October  14.  1854.  2.  Mary. 
December  15.  1855.  3.  John  William.  De- 
cember 19.  1857.  4.  Ceorge  Robert.  June  13, 
1859.  5.  Charles  Edward.  December  22.  i8f3o. 
6.  Elizabeth.  June  18,  1862,  died  .August  18, 
1862.  7.  .Arthur  Bi.xby,  January  13,  1864.  8. 
Herbert  .\llen,  March  28,  i86^,  died  lanuarv 
26.  1870. 

(  HI  )  John  William,  .son  of  Peter  and  Maria 
J.  (Bixby)  Ferguson,  wa'^  born  in  Tiffin. 
Ohio.  December  19.  1857.  removed  with  his 
father's  family  to  New  Haven.  Connecticut, 
where  the  earlier  years  of  his  life  were  spent. 


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and  where  lie  received  his  education  in  the  pub- 
lic and  high  schools  of  that  city,  taking  a  course 
of  study  preparatory  to  entering  Yale  Scien- 
tific School.  He  did  not  enter  the  college, 
however,  and  turned  his  attention  to  the  study 
of  practical  engineering.  In  1877  'i^  secured 
a  position  as  rodman  in  the  engineering  service 
of  the  old  Boston  &  New  York  Air  Line  rail- 
road, remained  there  one  year  and  in  1878  was 
employed  in  the  same  capacity  in  the  engin- 
eering department  of  the  New  York,  Lake  Erie 
&  Western  railroad.  He  continued  with  the 
latter  company  until  the  early  part  of  the  year 
1 89 1,  and  during  that  period  was  advanced 
through  several  grades  of  promotion  to  the 
position  of  assistant  chief  engineer  of  the  en- 
tire system.  In  1892  Mr.  Ferguson  began 
business  as  civil  engineer  and  building  con- 
tractor in  Paterson,  in  a  comparatively  limited 
way  at  first,  and  gradually  increasing  the  scope 
of  his  operations  and  the  magnitude  of  his 
enterprises  until  he  came  to  be  recognized  as 
one  of  the  most  extensive  building  contractors 
in  the  east.  The  business  was  conducted 
under  his  sole  personal  management  until 
1905  and  then  passed  to  the  proprietorship  of 
the  John  W.  Ferguson  Company,  incorporated 
under  the  laws  of  the  state  of  New  Jersey ; 
but  during  this  later  period  Mr.  Ferguson  has 
continued  at  the  head  of  the  successor  corpora- 
tion as  its  executive  and  managing  officer. 
Among  the  more  important  of  the  many  struc- 
tures and  edifices  erected  by  the  company  there 
may  be  mentioned  the  New  Jersey  State  Arm- 
or}', Hamilton  Trust  Company,  L^nited  Bank 
Building,  the  Colt  Building,  the  Meyer  Broth- 
ers Department  Store  building,  all  in  Pater- 
son ;  the  Kings  County  Power  Building, 
Brooklyn,  New  York;  Hackensack  Trust  Com- 
pany building,  Hackensack,  New  Jersey :  the 
Babbit  Soap  Factory  Building,  Babbit,  New 
Jersey  ;  the  Babcock  &  Wilcox  Plant,  Bayonne, 
New  Jersey :  the  Newark  Warehouse,  Newark, 
New  Jersey ;  the  Gera  Mills,  and  the  recent 
large  addition  to  the  already  vast  buildings  of 
the  Botany  Mills,  both  of  Passaic. 

Aside  from  his  business  interests  and  per- 
sonal concerns  ATr.  Ferguson  during  his  resi- 
dence in  Paterson  has  been  closely  identified 
with  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  the  city  in 
many  directions,  and  has  been  and  still  is  con- 
nected with  several  of  the  best  institutions  of 
the  city ;  but  he  never  has  been  in  any  sense 
a  politician  or  a  seeker  after  political  honors. 
He  was  one  of  the  principal  organizers  of  the 
Taxpayers  Association  of  Paterson,  in  1903, 
a  guiding  spirit  of  the  policy  and  the  excellent 


good  works  acc(im|)lished  Ijy  thai  a.-sociation, 
and  now  is  chairman  of  its  executive  commit- 
tee. He  holds  membership  in  the  American 
.Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  the  American  So- 
ciety of  Mechanical  Engineers,  the  New  Jersey 
.State  Commission  of  Industrial  Education,  the 
.Stjciety  of  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution, 
life  member  General  Society  of  Mechanics  & 
Tradesmen,  New  Y'ork,  the  North  Jersey 
County  Club,  of  Paterson,  and  the  Hamilton 
Club,  of  i'aterson,  the  Engineers  Club  and 
Hardware  Club  of  New  York. 

Mr.  Ferguson  married.  May  26,  1893,  Jennie 
P>eam,  daughter  of  William  Cooke,  of  I'ater- 
son, and  by  whom  he  has  three  children,  John 
William  Jr.,  Arthur  Donald  and  Jean  Fergu- 
son. 


The  Johnson  family  of  Mor- 
JOHNSON  ris  county,  New  Jersey,  is 
another  example  of  that  stal- 
wart New  England  stock,  which  from  the 
middle  of  the  seventeenth  century  has  been 
coming  in  a  continual  stream  into  and  through 
the  state. 

(I)  John  Johnson,  descendant  of  a  long  line 
of  Connecticut  ancestors,  came  from  New 
Haven  county  before  1750  into  Morris  county, 
New  Jersey.  He  lived  at  Parsippany,  on  what 
was  known  as  the  "Dr.  Darby  place,"  and 
later  as  the  John  S.  Smith  farm.  He  died 
September  21,  1724.  By  his  wife  Mary  he 
had:  John,  referred  to  below  ;  Abigail,  Moses, 
Alexander. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Mary 
Johnson,  was  born  in  New  Haven  county, 
Connecticut,  about  1706,  died  in  Morris 
county,  New  Jersey,  Rlay  4,  1776.  He  mar- 
ried Abagail,  daughter  of  Caleb  Ball  Sr.  She 
was  born  about  1708,  died  June  4,  1793.  Chil- 
dren :  Anne,  Kezia,  Elisha,  Gershon,  Joseph, 
Abagail,  Jacob,  referred  to  below ;  Lydia. 

(III)  Jacob,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Abagail 
(Ball)  Johnson,  was  baptized  in  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Morristown,  April  21, 
1751  ;  died  there  April  25,  1780.  Accordingto 
Stryker,  he  enlisted  in  the  New  Jersey  militia 
as  a  private  during  the  revolutionary  war,  and 
rose  to  the  rank  of  lieutenant  in  the  Third 
Regiment.  December  13.  1772,  he  married 
Anne,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Davis) 
Vail,  who  was  born  in  1753  and  survived  her 
husband,  dying  June  11,  1784.  Children: 
Noah,  Mahlon,  referred  to  below;  Jacob  Jr. 
Noah  moved  to  Ohio,  and  Jacob's  descendants 
are  living  to-day  in  Indiana. 

(IV)  Mahlon,  son  of  Jacob  and  Anne  (Vail) 


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[ohnson,  was  born  at  Littleton.  Morris  county, 
New  Jersey,  November  5,  1775,  died  there 
December  20,  1857.  He  was  the  only  one  of 
his  father's  children  who  remained  in  New 
Jersey,  and  being  only  five  years  oUl  when  his 
father  died,  and  eight  when  his  mother  died, 
he  and  his  brother  were  brought  up  in  the 
family  of  their  uncle,  John  Vail.  He  married 
(first)  November  18.  1797,  Sally  or  Sarah 
Baker,  who  five  years  later  handed  in  her 
letter  from  Parsippany  to  the  First  Presbyte- 
rian Church  of  Alorristown.  She  died  April 
17.  1837.  aged  fifty-nine  years.  He  married 
(second)  Mary  (Robertson)  Ludlani,  burn 
January  8,  1792.  died  January  31,  1874,  aged 
eighty-two  years,  widow  of  Ezekiel  Ludlam. 
Children,  all  by  first  marriage:  i.  Jacob,  born 
Decemlier  3.  1798.  died  March  20.  1865;  mar- 
ried Hetty  (Baker)  Vail.  2.  Chilion.  July 
24.  1800.  died  Crawfordsville,  Indiana:  mar- 
ried Ann  WoodrulT.  3.  Noah,  February  17. 
1802;  drowned  at  Speedwell,  July  20,  1819.  4. 
Baker.  October  23,  1803,  died  October  18, 
i886;  graduated  from  Bloomfield  Academy, 
Union  College,  and  Princeton  Seminary ; 
ordained  by  the  Presbytery  of  New  York ; 
married  Electa,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Barna- 
bas King.  5.  Alfred,  referred  to  below.  6. 
Sussanna  Day.  August  2(1,  1806,  died  May  5, 
1877;  married  Jonathan  E.  Huntington,  as  his 
second  wife.  7.  Elizabeth  Ann,  F~ebruary  16, 
1808,  died  December  13,  1863;  married  John- 
athan  E.  Huntington  as  his  first  wife.  8. 
Thomas  Vail,  October  8,  1809,  died  March 
29,  1879;  married  Sarah  Frances  Cory.  9. 
Sarah  Vail,  March  10,  181 1,  died  April  22, 
1882 ;  married  Joel  Davis.  10.  Catharine 
Wheeler,  July  5,  1812,  died  September  28, 
1874:  married  Aaron  C.  Johnson,  of  Newark. 
II.  Mary,  August  2,  1814,  died  June,  1878: 
married  Silas  B.  Condict.  12.  James  Harvey, 
March  14.  1816,  died  September  21,  1852; 
married  Hannah  Jilson.  13.  Davis  Vail,  No- 
vember I,  1817,  died  January  22,  1871  ;  mar- 
ried Caroline  Mayo.  14.  John  Henry,  Octo- 
ber 28,  1820;  married  Maria  .\llen  DeCamp. 
15.  A  child  died  .September  17,  1823. 

(V)  Alfred,  fifth  child  and  son  of  Mahlon 
and  Sarah  (liaker)  Johnson,  was  born  at  Lit- 
tleton, Morris  county,  New  Jersey.  .April  5, 
1805,  died  October  7,  1847.  ''^  ^^'•'S  a  farmer. 
a  blacksmith,  carpenter  and  wheelwright,  and 
lived  at  Littleton  all  his  life.  January  14, 
1828.  he  married  .Sarah,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
liaker.  born  .Xovember  7,  1803,  died  June  2/. 
1882.  L'hildren :  i.  Margaret  iSaker,  born 
November  28,  1828.  died  May  29.  1857:  mar- 


ried Belknap  Gregory.  2.  Emma  Lucilla,  Sep- 
tember 13,  1830,  died  April  8,  1898;  unmar- 
ried. 3.  Henry  Martyn  or  (Norton),  May  30, 
1834,  died  at  Portage,  Wisconsin.  4.  Tiieo- 
dore  Frelinghuysen,  referred  to  below.  5. 
Phebe  Baker,  baptized  May  31,  1839,  now 
living  at  102  Court  street,  Newark.  6.  Mary 
Eliza,  January  26.  1843,  died  December  23, 
1899;  unmarried.  7.  johnathan  Baker,  died 
November  26,  1849,  aged  eight  years. 

(VI)  Theodore  Frelinghuysen,  fourtli  child 
and  second  son  of  .\lfred  and  Sarah  (Baker) 
Johnson,  w-as  born  in  I^ittleton,  Morris  county, 
New  Jersey,  July  11.  1835,  and  was  baptized 
in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Morris- 
town,  May  31,  1839.  He  is  now  living  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey.  For  his  early  educa- 
tion he  was  sent  to  Littleton,  New  Jersey,  and 
later  to  the  Newark  private  schools,  and  after- 
wards to  private  schools,  first  of  Dr.  Nathan 
Hedges  and  then  of  his  uncle,  John  Henry 
Johnson.  Coming  to  Newark  when  he  was 
only  eight  years  of  age,  he  lived  with  his 
uncle  Jacob,  and  after  finishing  his  school 
days  went  to  work  in  a  carriage  factory  in 
Newark.  After  this  he  took  a  position  in 
Columbus,  Georgia,  which  he  left  in  order  to 
accept  a  position  as  bookkeeper  in  New  York 
City.  Coming  back  to  his  Cncle  Jacob,  he 
finally  bought  the  business  in  which  he  is  at 
present  engaged,  that  of  wholesale  tea,  coffee 
and  spices.  This  was  in  1856,  and  Mr.  John- 
son's business  which  was  first  started  by 
Andrew  Johnson  in  1830,  has  now  grown  to 
be  one  of  the  largest  firms  of  its  kind  in  New- 
ark, shipping  merchandise  all  over  the  coun- 
try. The  firm  name  at  first  was  Jacob  John- 
son &  Company,  Theodore  Johnson  being  the 
latter.  It  then  became  Theo.  F.  Johnson  and 
finally  when  ^Ir.  Johnson  admitted  two  of 
his  sons  into  partnership,  Theo.  F.  Johnson 
&  Company,  yj  Mechanic  street.  Mr.  John- 
son is  a  Republican,  and  a  member  of  the  Park 
Presbyterian  Church.  He  is  president  of  the 
Mahlon  Johnson  Union,  a  director  in  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  .Association  of  New- 
ark, and  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Histor- 
ical Society. 

May  25,  1865,  Mr.  Johnson  married  Anna 
Elizabeth,  third  child  and  eldest  daughter  of 
William  Pann  and  Sarah  (Locke)  Vail,  born 
December  9,  1837,  died  .\pril  7,  1901.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Alfred  Baker,  born  March  3,  1866, 
now  living  in  South  Orange,  New  Jersey ; 
married  Ella  Wharton,  September  28,  1898; 
they  have  .Anna  Wharton  ami  Wharton  \'ail. 
2.  h'lizabeth  I'.lair,  June  20,  1869.     3.  William 


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\'ail,  June  28,  1871  ;  marritd,  October  14, 
1902,  katharyn  Dorrance,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam K.  and  Jlelen  (Piersonj  Laverty.  4. 
Helen  Aiore,  December  15,  1873.  5.  Charles 
Henry,  Mav  14,  1878,  uied  September  12. 
1879. 

George  Fox,  the  founder  of 
\\  (  )( )LAI.\\     the  Society  of  Friends,  born 

in  Drayton,  Lancastershire, 
Englanil,  in  1624,  was  the  founder  of  the  sect 
of  Christians  better  known  as  Quakers.  He 
was  a  shoemaker  by  trade  and  occupation  up 
to  the  time  he  devoted  himself  to  the  propaga- 
tion of  what  he  regarded  as  a  more  spiritual 
form  of  Christianity  than  prevailed  at  that  day. 
Among  the  eminent  followers  of  Fox  were 
IJarcIay,  Fenwick.  Penn,  Stakes,  Haines,  Lip- 
jjincott  and  W'oolman,  and  the  work  begun  in 
England  was  carried  on  in  America  by  these 
immigrants  who  appeared  in  New  Jersey  and 
Pennsylvania  during  the  last  half  of  the  eight- 
eenth century.  They  founded  Salem  and 
IrSurlington  in  West  New  Jersey,  and  Penn- 
sylvania was  the  projirietor  of  Philadelphia, 
the  City  of  Brotherly  Love.  For  purity  of 
life  they  stand  pre-eminent  in  the  religious 
sects,  and  in  that  virtue  they  exercised  a  salu- 
tary influence  on  the  whole  community  in 
which  their  example  could  be  observed  and 
l)atterned  after.  They  were  the  originators  of 
the  practice  of  universal  freedom  and  univer- 
sal peace,  and  to  them  the  world  owes  the  in- 
cejition  of  these  great  questions  that  brought 
about  the  abolition  of  Negro  slavery  in  the 
L'nited  States  and  the  formation  of  the  great 
|)eace  societies  lyade  up  from  all  sects,  creeds 
and  forms  of  christian  worship  and  through 
whose  grand  work  the  era  of  universal  peace 
was  made  apparent  at  the  opening  of  the 
twentieth  century.  Their  opposition  to  war 
was  at  first  like  all  great  reforms,  looked  upon 
as  chimerical,  but  the  civil  war  in  the  United 
States  was  accejited  by  the  society  as  an  out- 
come of  their  teaching,  and  they  broke  their 
cast-iron  rule  and  sent  their  young  men  to 
fight  for  the  abolition  of  slavery  and  the  per- 
petuation of  the  government  that  had  given 
their  teachings  the  utmost  freedom.  They 
acknowledged  not  till  then  that  good  could 
come  from  war,  and  the  witness  of  the  great- 
est naval  fleet  of  the  world  visiting  and  being 
welcomed  as  a  dove  of  peace  by  every  nation 
of  the  globe  was  accepted  as  the  consummation 
of  the  teachings  of  Fo.x  and  his  faithful  fol- 
lowers. 

(I)   John  Woolman,  an   English  gentleman 


and  member  of  the  Society  of  hViends,  hearing 
from  reports  sent  out  from  Fenwick's  Colony, 
in  West  New  Jersey,  of  the  goodly  land  and 
promises  of  comfort,  (|uiet  and  peacefulness, 
as  well  as  the  evidence  of  future  records  in 
the  direction  of  increase  in  value  of  lands  in 
the  new  colony  decided  to  join  his  fortunes 
with  his  brethren  in  America.  To  this  end 
he  took  shi])  in  i()Si,  and  on  arriving  at  Burl- 
ington selected  eigiit  thousand  acres  of  land 
extending  from  the  lUirlington  river  south- 
ward to  the  north  branch  of  the  Rancocas 
river,  a  distance  of  five  miles,  and  including 
the  present  site  of  Mount  Holly,  where  he  fixed 
his  home.  Having  thus  secured  a  foothold 
and  a  ])osition  of  prominence  in  the  Friends 
Meeting,  he  looked  across  the  Meeting  House 
and  among  the  comely  Quakeresses  he  found 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  .\nn  Rorton. 
a  family  of  Friends  who  had  come  from  Ayn- 
hoe  Parish  in  Northamptonshire,  England,  and 
tliey  were  soon  announcing  in  Meeting  their 
intention  of  marrying,  which  announcement, 
iince  repeated,  ended  in  their  marriage  on  the 
10th  month,  8th  da\-,  1684.  They  had  children 
including:  Samuel,  married  Elizabeth,  and 
they  had  daughter.  Patience,  born  loth  month, 
27th  da}'.  1 7 18.  and  she  in  turn  selected  as  a 
husband  Joseph  Moore,  of  another  prominent 
family  of  the  meeting,  .-\nother  child  was 
.\sher,  see  forward. 

(H)  Asher,  younger  son  of  John  and  Eliz- 
abeth (  Borton  )  Woolman,  was  born  at  Mount 
Holly,  New  Jersey,  6th  luonth,  27th  day,  1722. 
He  was  married  12th  month.  [3th  day,  1769, 
when  he  attained  his  forty-seventh  year,  to 
Rachel  Norcross,  fxirn  8tli  moiuh,  15th  day, 
1750.  We  thus  see  a  man  of  forty-seven 
years  announce  in  Meeting  two  successive 
times  his  intention.of  marrying  a  girl  eighteen. 
Asher  and  Rachel  had  at  least  three  children, 
possibly  more,  of  which  lilizabeth,  the  eldest 
daughter,  was  married  in  1798  to  John,  born 
4th  month.  I  ith  day.  1777,  son  of  Jarvis  and 
Elizabeth  (Rogers)  Stokes,  of  an  equally 
prominent  family  of  Friends,  in  Burlington 
township.  Their  children  were :  Herbert  N. 
Stokes :  Maria  Stokes ;  Asher  W.  Stokes : 
Martine  W.  Stokes :  John  W.  Stokes ;  Nathan 
H.  Stokes:  Woolman  Stokes  and  Edward 
Stokes.  Another  daughter.  Abigail,  married,  in 
1780.  Jarvis.  born  iith  month,  5th  day,  1740, 
son  of  Jarvis  and  Elizabeth  (  Rogers  )  Stokes. 
Piesides  these  two  daughters,  they  had  a  son 
Granville,  see  forward. 

(HI)  Granville,  son  of  Asher  and  Rachel 
(Xorcross)    Woolman.   was    born    in    Mount 


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STATE    ()F    NEW  JERSEY. 


Hull},  llurlingtun  county,  New  Jersey,  1st 
month,  1st  day,  1774.  He  was  married  1st 
month,  nth  day,  1795,  to  Hannah,  daughter 
of  Jarvis  and  Elizabeth  (Rogers)  Stokes,  and 
granddaughter  of  John  and  Hannah  (Stog- 
delle )  Stokes.  Hannah  (Stokes)  Woolman 
was  born  8th  month,  nth  day,  1775,  and  by 
her  marriage  to  (Iranville  Woolman  she  had 
five  children:  i.  Eliza,  born  in  1795;  married 
David  Lukens.     2.  Ann,  lotli  month,  3rd  day, 

1797,    married    Walton;    died     loth 

month,  7th  day,  1821.  3.  Rachel,  7th  month, 
joth  day,  1799;  married  Chambless  Middleton. 

4.  John,  8th  month,  20th  day,  1803  ;  married 
Maria  Stokes;  died  5th  month.  20th  day,  1868. 

5.  Granville.,  see  forward. 

(IV)  Granville  (2),  son  of  Granville  (i) 
and  Hannah  (Stokes)  Woolman,  was  born  in 
Rancocas,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
June  I,  1807,  died  March  13,  1870.  He  was 
educated  in  his  native  town,  and  was  a  noted 
physician.  He  married  Phebe  W.,  daughter  of 
Isaac  and  Margaret  Lippincott,  of  Burlington 
county.  Children:  i.  Margaret  W..  married, 
1853,  Jacob  Leeds,  who  kept  a  store  at  Ran- 
cocas ;  children :  i.  Granville,  married  Nancy 
M.  Haines  and  their  children  are :  a.  Gertrude, 
married  Hudson  Haines ;  b.  Mary,  married 
George  Holmes  and  their  children  are :  Mar- 
garet. Sarah  and  Nancy  Holmes;  ii.  Henry, 
married  Elizabeth  Bryan  and  their  children 
are:  Caroline  and  Eugenia;  Caroline  married 
George  Warwick  and  their  child  is  Elizabeth 
Warrick :  iii.  Mary,  married  Lewis  Brown  and 
their  children  are:  Jacob  L.  Brown,  married 
Isabella  Yates,  and  Ethel  Brown,  unmarried ; 
iv.  Elizabeth  Leeds,  married  Thomas  Buzby, 
and  their  children  are:  Elgar,  Helen  and  Har- 
vey Buzby :  v.  Phebe,  married  William  Jones 
and  their  children  are :  Margaret  W.,  Alice 
and  Grace  Jones.  2.  Plannah  Ann.  horn  1834; 
married  Michael  E.  LTaines  and  their  children 
are :  i.  Horace  E.,  married  Susan  Clement  and 
they  have  one  child,  Ethel,  married  Harvey 
Lippincott ;  ii.  Jcrvis  W.,  married  Minnie  Clog- 
ston ;  child.  Hazel;  iii.  Hannah  H.,  unmarried; 
iv.  Alice  W..  unmarried  ;  v.  Alfred  AL,  married 
Florence  Hilliard ;  vi.  Granville  Woolman, 
married  Abbie  Rogers;  children:  Sylvan, 
Ernest  and  Blanche ;  vii.  Remington,  married 
Fannie  McGowen  ;  children :  Clair  and  Lillian  : 
viii.  Clara,  married  E.  S.  Perkins;  child. 
Earl.  3.  Martha  L..  born  1836.  4.  Isaac  L., 
born  1838;  married  Mary  .Shotwell ;  children: 
Jane  and  Elgar.  5.  Jervis  S..  born  1840;  mar- 
ried Julia  Shotwell;  children:  i.  Henry  M., 
married  Ella  McCray  ;  children  :  Raymond  and 


Henry:  ii.  Rebecca,  married  George  Bullock, 
children :  Helen,  Emily  and  Alton ;  iii.  Mar- 
garet, married  Maurice  Stokes ;  child,  Mau- 
rice :  iv.  Helen,  married  William  Stafford.  6. 
Daniel  L.,  see  forward.  7.  Alice  W.,  born 
i84r);  married  Hudson  B.  Taylor.  8.  Phebe, 
born  1848;  married  Evan  Buzby. 

(Y)  Daniel  L.,  son  of  Dr.  Granville  (2) 
and  Phebe  W.  (Lippincott)  Woolman,  was 
born  in  Rancocas,  Burlington  county,  New 
Jersey,  November  7,  1843.  He  was  a  pupil  in 
the  public  schools  of  Rancocas  and  in  the  Mary 
Lippincott  school  at  Moorestown,  and  remained 
on  the  homestead  farm  as  a  farmer  for  some 
years,  and  later  in  life  engaged  in  merchan- 
dising at  \  incentown,  where  he  conducted  a 
general  country  store  for  thirty-five  years,  his 
business  career  being  terminated  by  his  death 
in  1907.  He  was  a  Republican  in  party  poli- 
tics, and  served  his  town  as  a  member  of  the 
township  committee  for  several  years.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends  by 
inheritance,  as  well  as  choice,  and  he  was  ac- 
tive in  the  business  and  religious  interests  of 
the  society.  He  married,  December  12,  1867, 
Martha  I>.,  daughter  of  Samuel  Wills,  of  Ran- 
cocas. She  died  November  30,  1889.  Chil- 
dren, born  on  the  old  homestead  at  Rancocas: 
I.  Samuel  Jarrett,  see  forward.  2.  Granville 
S.,  born  .September  28,  1870,  died  July  13. 
'905-  3-  Daniel  Howard,  born  April  12,  1872: 
he  conducts  a  carpet  factory  in  Philadelphia ; 
married  Harriet  Kreamer ;  one  child,  Marion. 
4.  Caroline  B.,  born  (October  2,  1873 ;  married 
\\'i!liam  Lippincott ;  children  :  Florence  and 
Samuel.  5.  ;\nna  L.,  born  December  8,  1874; 
married  Henry  Jones.  6.  Martha  W.,  born 
.■\pril  14.  1879,  unmarried;  lives  at  home.  7. 
Phebe  W..  born  January  5.  1883;  married 
Henry  Whitacre ;  one  child,  Evan  B. 

(\T)  Samuel  Jarret.  eldest  child  of  Daniel 
L.  and  Martha  B.  (Wills)  Woolman,  was  born 
on  the  old  homestead  farm  at  Rancocas,  Burl- 
ington county.  New  Jersey,  April  20,  1869.  He 
was  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town  and  at  the  academy  in  Mount  Holly,  and 
on  leaving  school  was  employed  by  the  Penn- 
sylvania railroad  as  baggage  master,  and  con- 
ductor on  the  Amboy  division,  and  held  this 
position  twelve  years.  He  had  worked  in  his 
father's  store  at  Vincentown  as  a  boy,  and  on 
leaving  the  railroad  service  engaged  in  the  coal 
business  in  Vincentown,  in  1899.  He  added 
to  the  coal  business  that  of  lumber  in  co-part- 
nershij)  with  Eugene  .Antrim,  the  business  be- 
ing conducted  under  the  firm  name  of  Wool- 
man,  Antrim  &  Company,  their  place  of  busi- 


STATE   OF    NEW    |I•:RSI•:^" 


833 


iR'ss  being  Red  Liun.  Mr.  W  uolman  is  a 
stockholder  in  the  Vincentovvn  Water  Com- 
pany, and  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors 
of  the  Telegraph  and  Telephone  Company.  He 
has  held  various  offices  in  the  town  govern- 
ment, and  is  by  inheritance  a  birthright  mem- 
ber of  the  Society  of  Friends.  He  married. 
June  18,  1893,  Sallie  J.,  daughter  of  James 
Colkitt,  of  X'incentown,  New  Jersey. 


Joseph  Thomas  Read,  a  native  of 
READ  Wales,  was  born  in  1689,  and  was 
among  the  early  settlers  of  West 
New  Jersey,  to  which  colony  he  came  early 
in  the  eighteenth  century.  He  obstinately  ad- 
hered to  the  orthography  of  his  name  Read  as 
it  obtained  in  his  native  country,  the  oldest  in 
literary  excellence  and  purity  of  speech  and 
writing  of  the  English-speaking  people  of  Brit- 
ain. He  secured,  by  grant  of  the  proprietors 
of  the  colony,  on  reaching  his  majority,  a  large 
tract  of  land  at  the  headwaters  of  the  Ranco- 
cas  creek  and  of  Great  Egg  Harbor  river, 
where  the  water  shed  between  the  Atlantic 
ocean  and  Delaware  river  had  its  apex.  Here 
he  built  a  home  for  the  protection  and  com- 
fort of  his  family.  He  had  married  shortly 
after  his  arrival  in  America  Rachel  Eldridge. 
The  distance  to  the  place  where  he  fixed  his 
home  from  neighbors  and  evidences  of  civiliza- 
tion gained  for  it  the  name  "Long-a-coming," 
the  infrec|uency  of  visitors  and  the  devious 
trail  by  which  it  was  reached  from  the  South 
river  settlement  suggesting  the  same.  His 
farm  proved  to  be  productive  and  he  prospered 
in  spite  of  the  disadvantages  of  location. 

Nine  children  were  born  to  the  pioneer  set- 
tler and  they  were  named  in  the  order  of  their 
birth :  W'illiam,  Obadiah,  Joseph  T.,  Samuel, 
John,  Asca,  Rachel,  Allen  and  Abby.  Of 
these  William  married  Sarah  Taylor  and  set- 
tled at  Lamberton,  where  six  children  were 
born  as  follows :  Charles  Thomas,  William 
Thomas,  Ruth.  Sarah  Ann,  Martha  and 
Rachel.  The  Welsh  custom  of  carrying  a 
christian  name  is  here  illustrated  in  the  familv 
of  his  eldest  son  in  recognition  of  the  grand- 
father. Joseph  Thomas  Read,  the  pioneer, 
died  in  1763. 

(H)  Joseph  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Joseph 
Thomas  f  i)  and  Rachel  (Eldridge)  Read,  was 
born  on  his  father's  farm  soon  after  the  settle- 
ment, and  died  on  the  homestead  established 
by  him  upon  his  marriage  to  Almira  Vezey, 
of  Philadelphia,  at  Greenwich,  Gloucester 
county,  at  no  great  distance  from  his  birth- 
place. Children  of  Joseph  Thomas  and  Al- 
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mira  (  \  ezey  )  Read  were  born  in  Greenwich 
in  the  following  order :  William  Thomas,  Al- 
mira, Elizabeth,  Clara,.  David,  see  forward. 
Joseph  Thomas  Read  died  in  Greenwich,  New 
Jersey,  November  12,  1755,  and  was  interred 
in  the  Presbyterian  burial  ground  in  that  place. 
II  is    father   outlived  him. 

(III)  David,  youngest  child  of  Joseph 
Thomas  (2)  and  Almira  (Vezey)' Read,  was 
born  in  Greenwich,  Gloucester  county,  New 
Jersey,  November  19,  1752.  His  father  died 
when  he  was  three  years  of  age  and  he  was 
brought  up  by  his  mother  on  the  farm.  When 
he  had  just  reached  his  majority  the  revolu- 
tionary war  was  calling  all  patriotic  young 
men  to  the  battle  field.  He  answered  the  call 
and  joined  the  revolutionary  army  as  a  private 
in  Captain  John  Barker's  company  and  was 
subsequently  transferred  to  Captain  Warren's 
company.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  mar- 
ried Rachel  Peck,  of  Greenwich,  and  their 
three  children  were  baptized  in  the  Presby- 
terian church  at  Greenwich.  They  were : 
David,  James,  Joel,  see  forward.  Near  the 
close  of  the  century  he  removed  to  the  small 
village  of  Camden,  opposite  Philadelphia, 
where  he  engaged  in  business  as  a  pork  and 
sausage  dealer,  preparing  his  products  for  the 
Philadelphia  market.  He  lived  to  be  over 
eighty-six  years  of  age,  and  was  the  last  rep- 
resentative in  Camden  county  of  the  soldiers 
in  the  American  revolution.  He  died  in  1838 
and  his  remains  were  interred  in  the  Newtown 
burying  ground,  near  where  the  old  meeting 
house  stood. 

(IV)  Joel,  third  son  of  David  and  Rachel 
(Peck)  Read,  was  born  in  Greenwich,  Glou- 
cester county.  New  Jersey,  in  1794.  He  was 
a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812,  serving  in  the 
"Jersey  Blues"  along  the  Delaware  river  front 
at  Billingsport,  opposite  Fort  Mifflin,  Chestei 
county.  Pennsylvania.  He  was  a  brush  maker 
in  Camden  and  Philadelphia,  but  late  in  life 
returned  to  Camden  where  he  died  at  the  home 
of  his  daughter  Charlotte.  He  was  married 
in  1812  to  Mary  Jones,  a  member  of  a  promi- 
nent family  belonging  to  the  Society  of 
Friends,  and  related  to  the  family  descended 
from  Thomas  Thackara,  who  came  from 
Eceds.  England,  by  way  of  Dublin.  Ireland, 
and  became  prominent  in  the  early  history  of 
West  Jersey  and  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 
Joel  and  Mary  (Jones)  Read  had  six  children  : 
I.  Charlotte,  married  and  had  two  children: 
Rachel  and  Mary.  2.  Joseph  J.,  born  March 
24.  1815 ; 'married  (first)  Cecelia,  daughter 
of  John  R.  Rue,  in  1840;  children  :  i.  John  Rue,, 


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STATE    Ol'     XEVV    tERSEY 


;i  lawyer  in  I'hiladelpliia  ;  ii.  Cecelia,  married 
Abraham  Tollman;  iii.  Alary,  married  Joseph 
11.  I'lUsh,  of  Newport.  Rhode  Island;  iv.  Annie, 
married  William  B.  Knowles,  of  Philadelphia  ; 
V.  Kate,  married  Edwin  B.  Powell,  of  Brook- 
lyn, Xew  ^'ork ;  vi.  Emily,  died  young ;  vii ; 
Josei)h  J.  Reed  married  (second)  in  1881, 
Elizabeth  M.  (I'-tris),  widow  of  Captain 
Henry  Scliillinger,  of  Camden.  3.  Rachel, 
married  and  had  four  children:  Alary,  Char- 
lotte, Rachel  and  .\melia.  4.  William  Tliack- 
ara,  died  1842.  5.  John  Smilie,  see  forward. 
6.  Edmund  Elliott,  married  Aima  Peak  and 
they  had  four  children:  i.  Harriet:  ii.  .Sarah 
Li])]iincott.  married  Henry  L.  Jones  and  had 
one  child.  Alary;  iii.  John;  iv.  Anna. 

(\')  John  Smilie,  second  son  of  Joel  and 
Mary  ( Jones  )"Read,  was  born  in  the  old  dis- 
trict of  Southwark.  Philadelphia,  Pennsylva- 
nia, .March  11,  1822.  He  was  projirietor  of  a 
large  commercial  house  dealing  in  wall  papers 
in  Philadel|)hia.  He  was  also  a  director  and 
treasurer  for  twenty-five  years  of  the  Camden 
Eire  Insurance  Company,  and  at  the  time  of 
his  death  was  a  commissioner  of  the  Morris 
Plains  Insane  .Asylum,  under  appointment  of 
the  Governor  of  Xew  Jersey.  He  was  also 
appointed  by  the  legislature  of  Xew  Jersey  a 
director  of  the  Camden  &  .Amboy  Railroad 
Company.  He  served  the  city  of  Camden  as  a 
member  of  the  board  of  education  and  presi- 
dent of  the  board,  and  as  a  member  and  presi- 
dent of  the  city  council.  He  was  a  builder 
and  owner  of  large  blocks  of  commercial  build- 
ings in  the  city,  and  one  of  the  projectors  of 
the  Camden  I'uilding  and  Loan  Association. 
His  fraternal  affiliation  with  the  Alasonic  fra- 
ternity came  through  initiation  in  Camden 
Lodge,  Xo.  13,  and  Royal  .Arch  Chapter,  No. 
gi,  of  Philadelphia.  He  married  (first)  Alar- 
garet  Mason;  married  (second)  Harriett, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Abigail  Peak,  of 
Camden.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Elizabeth 
.Mason,  married  John  Campbell,  of  Camden  : 
children :  John  and  Alary  C.  Campbell.  2. 
William  Thackara,  married  Lucretia  AlcCor 
niick  and  had  one  child,  William  T.  Read. 
Child  of  second  wife:  Edmund  Elliott,  see  for- 
ward. John  .Smilie  Read  died  while  residing 
for  the  benefit  of  his  health  at  Stroudsburg, 
Alonroe  cmnity.  Pennsylvania,  .August  6,  1882. 

(VI)  Edmund  FJIiott,  only  child  of  John 
Smilie  and  Harriett  (Peak)  Read,  was  born 
in  Camden.  Xew  Jersey.  .August  7.  1859.  He 
was  ])re])ared  for  college  at  the  school  of  Will- 
iam Et'wsmith.  of  No.  1008  Chestnut  street. 
Philadelphia,  and  was  graduated  at  the  I^niver- 


sit)-  of  Pennsylvania,  .V.  B.^  1879;  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Philomathean  Society  and  the 
winner  of  the  Henry  Read  prize  at  graduation. 
He  studied  law  in  the  ofifice  of  Peter  L.  \'oor- 
hees,  and  was  admitted  as  an  attorney  in  June, 
1882.  He  became  the  president  of  the  Cam- 
den Fire  Insurance  Association,  of  wdiich  he 
was  for  many  years  a  director.  He  was  also 
an  officer  of  the  Franklin  People's  and  City 
Building  associations,  and  served  as  a  member 
of  the  Camden  Educational  Board.  He  mar- 
ried, December  27,  1882,  Alargaret  W.,  daugh- 
ter of  John  W.  and  Kate  O.  (Hopkins)  AIul- 
ford,  of  Camden.  New  Jersey.  Their  son. 
John  Smilie.  was  born  in  Camden.  Xew  Jersey, 
Xoveniber   1  i.  1883. 


The  ancestor  of  the  Ely  family  of 
ELY  the  line  here  under  consideration  is 
doubtless  descended  from  an  English 
rector,  and  was  himself  undoubtedly  an  active 
member  of  the  christian  church  ;  and  so  also 
have  his  descendants  to  a  large  extent  maintain- 
ed the  christian  character  of  their  ancestor.  The 
.American  Elys  claim  the  distinction  of  a  coat- 
of-arms,  described  as  follows:  "Field  argent, 
a  fesse  engrailed  between  si.x  fleurs-de-lis 
sable."  Crest,  on  an  helmet  and  wreath  of  its 
colors,  an  arm  erect,  couped  below  the  elbow, 
cufif  argent,  holding  in  the  hand  projjer  a 
Heur-de-lis  salile.  The  motto:  "7?r  ct  nwrifo" 
(by  actions  and  merit). 

In  1 37 1  Rev.  George  Ely  became  vicar  of 
Tenterden,  in  the  county  of  Kent,  and  contin- 
ued to  sustain  that  living  until  his  death  in 
1615.  The  patrons  of  the  living  were  the 
Dean  and  Chapter  of  Canterbury,  and  the 
records  of  that  body  mention  his  institution  at 
the  date  named,  without  any  other  particulars 
about  him.  Fie  is  described,  however,  as 
George  Elye,  otherwise  Heely.  In  the  parish 
register  in  Tenterden  the  name  is  variously 
written  Ely,  Elie,  and  Elye,  although  he  him- 
self wrote  it  Ely  and  so  signed  his  will.  So 
near  as  can  be  determined  he  was  born  about 
the  year  1343,  probably  took  his  degree  about 
1366,  when  he  would  have  been  of  full  age, 
and  five  years  later  obtained  the  living  of 
Tenterden.  It  is  supposed  that  he  married  in 
1371.  The  baptismal  name  of  his  wife  was 
Florence,  and  all  of  their  children  e.xcept  one 
w'ere  baptized  at  Tenterden.  .After  forty- 
five  years  of  wedded  life  George  Ely  and  his 
wife  both  died  about  the  same  time,  as  may  be 
seen  from  the  burial  register  of  Tenterden: 
"161  q,  .August  18,  Florence,  wife  of  Air. 
(leorge  Ely.  vicar.     161 3  .August  21.  Alaster 


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(ieorge  Ely,  vicar  of  Tenterden."  The  chil- 
dren of  George  and  Florence  Ely  were : 
Nathaniel,  baptized  September  28,  1572;  An- 
drew, June  12.  1575:  Zachary,  October  14. 
1577;  Samuel,  December  13.  1579;  Obadiah, 
December  16,  i^8i;  Eydia,  June  14,  1584. 
died  young;  Daniel.  June  5.  1586:  Lydia.  Sep- 
tember 29.  1588;  Abigail,  March  21,  1590-91; 
Judith. 

(I)  Rev.  Nathaniel  Ely,  probably  the  eldest 
child  of  Rev.  George  and  Florence  Ely,  was 
baptized  at  Tenterden.  Kent,  England,  Sep- 
tember 28.  1372,  and  in  the  record  of  his  mar- 
riage he  is  described  as  "clerk,  master  of  arts  :" 
therefore  he  must  have  been  a  member  of  one 
of  the  universities,  and  while  it  is  known  that 
he  was  not  of  Oxford  he  must  have  been  of 
Cambridge.  There  is  a  hiatus  in  the  list  of 
graduates  between  1588  and  1602.  during 
which  period  he  must  have  taken  his  degrees, 
so  that  it  is  impossible  to  determine  with 
accuracy  his  particular  college,  there  being  no 
general  matriculation  register  at  Cambridge. 

(II)  Nathaniel  (2).  born  about  1605.  fourth 
son  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  ( i  j  Ely.  came  to  Amer- 
ica in  the  "Elizabeth"  in  1634.  from  Ipswich, 
England.  He  settled  first  in  Newtown  (Cam- 
bridge) on  the  lot  adjoining  that  of  Robert 
Day,  with  whom  he  became  intimately  associ- 
ated, and  with  whose  descendants  the  Elys 
frequently  intermarried.  ^Ir.  Ely  was  made 
freeman  at  Cambridge  in  May,  1635,  but  in 
1636  he  and  his  neighbor  Day  formed  part  of 
the  colony  that  accompanied  Rev.  Thomas 
Hooker  to  Hartford,  on  the  banks  of  the 
Connecticut  river,  near  where  was  the  earlier 
settlement  of  Hollanders  called  Dutch  Point. 
Here  too  Nathaniel  Ely  and  Robert  Day 
owned  and  occupied  adjoining  lands.  Roth 
were  planters.  In  1639  Ely  was  made  con- 
stable of  the  town  and  was  selectman  in  1643 
and  again  in  1646.  He  also  appears  to  have 
been  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the  plantation 
in  purchasing  the  lands  of  Governor  Ludlow, 
and  in  making  the  first  settlement  at  Norwalk. 
According  to  the  town  records  there  was  no 
permanent  settlement  at  Norwalk  until  Na- 
thaniel Ely  made  the  first  movement  in  that 
direction.  In  1649,  on  the  petition  of  Nathan- 
iel Ely  and  Richard  Olmstead,  the  general 
court  gave  permission  to  found  a  new  planta- 
tion at  Norwalk.  and  four  years  afterward  the 
iidiabitants  there  were  invested  with  town 
privileges.  In  1659  Nathaniel  Ely  .sold  his 
lands  in  Norwalk  and  removed  to  Springfield. 
Massachusetts,  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his 
life  among  Mr.  Pynchon's  planters.     He  sus- 


tained various  important  town  offices,  being 
selectman  of  the  town  in  1661  and  five  times 
afterward.  Whatever  may  have  been  his  pre- 
vious occujiatioii.  it  is  certain  that  in  1665 
Nathaniel  Ely  became  keeper  of  the  "ordi- 
nary," for  which  service  in  the  plantation  only 
the  most  respectaljle  men  were  chosen ;  the 
court  would  license  no  other.  The  records  of 
the  court  at  Springfield  sets  forth  his  license 
in  the.se  words:  "Nathaniel  Ely  of  Spring- 
field, being  desired  and  putt  upon  to  keep  an 
ordinary  there,  or  house  for  (3omon  luiter- 
taynment.  was  by  this  Corte  lycmsed  to  that 
worke.  as  also  for  selling  wines  or  strong 
li(|uors  for  ye  yeere  ensuing.  Provided  he  keep 
good  rule  and  order  in  his  house.  Also  ye 
said  Nathaniel  Ely  is  up  on  his  desire  by  this 
Corte  released  from  Trayning  in  ye  Town  soe 
long  as  he  continues  to  keep  ye  Ordinary."  He 
held  this  license  until  his  death  in  1675.  The 
house  he  lived  in  was  on  Main  street  but  was 
moved  to  the  corner  of  San  ford  and  Dwight 
streets,  probably  the  oldest  house  in  Spring- 
field. .Nathaniel  Ely  died  in  S])ringfield.  De- 
cember 25,  1675.  and  his  wife  Martha  died 
there  October  23,  1688.  He  left  no  will,  and 
his  property  was  inventoried  at  about  one 
hundred  and  sixty-four  pounds,  .\mong  other 
items  in  the  inventory  was  one  negro  man.  Z15. 
He  had  two  children,  Samuel,  of  whom  men- 
tion is  made  in  the  next  paragra[)h,  and  Ruth, 
born  probably  in  Hartford,  died  in  Spring- 
field. October  12,  1662;  married,  .August  3, 
1661.  Jeremy  (or  Jeremiah)  Horton,  son  of 
Thomas  and  Mary  Horton. 

(Ill)  Samuel,  son  of  Nathaniel  (2)  and 
Martha  Ely.  was  born  probably  in  Cambridge 
or  Hartford,  died  in  Springfield.  March  19, 
1692.  His  name  first  appears  as  witness  to  the 
Indian  deed  given  to  his  father  and  others, 
dated  February  15.  1651.  and  does  not  appear 
again  in  the  Norwalk  records.  He  removed 
with  his  father's  family  to  Springfield,  and 
appears  to  have  been  quite  successful  in 
acquiring  property,  for  he  left  a  considerable 
estate.  He  married,  October  28.  1659.  Marv, 
\oungest  daughter  of  Robert  and  Editha 
(  Stebbins)  Day.  She  was  born  in  Hartford  in 
1 641,  died  in  Hatfield.  Massachusetts.  October 
17,  1725.  .After  the  death  of  Samuel  Ely  she 
married  (second)  .April  12.  1694.  Thomas, 
son  of  Thomas  and  Hannah  (Wright)  Steb- 
■  bins.  He  was  born  in  1648  and  died  in  1695. 
She  married  (third)  December  11,  1696,  Dea- 
con John  Coleman,  of  Hatfield,  born  about 
1^)35.  died  January  21.  171 1.  son  of  Thomas 
and  Frances  (Welles)  Coleman.     Samuel  and 


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STATE    OF    XEW   JERSEY. 


.\Iar_\-  (Day)  Ely  had  sixteen  children:  I. 
Child,  born  lfi6o.  died  in  infancy,  z.  Samuel, 
March  I,  1662,  died  young.  3.  Joseph,  August 
20,  1663,  died  A]3ril  29,  1755.  4.  Samuel,  Xo- 
vember  4,  1664,  died  young.  5.  Mary,  March 
29,  1667.  died  April  19,  1667.  6.  Samuel,  May 
9,  1668,  see  forward.  7.  Nathaniel,  January 
18,  1670,  died  March  16,  1671.  8.  Jonathan, 
July  I,  1672,  died  young.  9.  Nathaniel,  Au- 
gust 25,  1674,  died  ]\Iay,  1689.  10.  Jonathan, 
lannary  24,  1676,  died  February  2"],  1676.  11. 
Martha,  October  28,  1677,  died  November  25, 
1677.  12.  John,  January  28,  1678,  died  Janu- 
ary 15,  1758.  13.  Mary,  June  20,  1681,  died 
December  21,  1681.  14.  Jonathan,  January  21. 
1683,  died  July  27,  1753.  15.  Mary,  February 
29,  1684,  died  Hatfield.  16.  Ruth,  born  1688, 
(lied  Belchertown  about  1747. 

(IV)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Samuel  (i)  and 
Mary  (Day)  Ely,  was  born  in  West  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts,  Alay  9,  1668,  died  there 
.\ugust  23,  1732.  He  took  a  prominent  part  in 
public  affairs  in  the  town,  was  selectman  in 
1702,  1716  and  again  in  1719,  clerk  of  the 
second  parish  of  Springfield  (West  Spring- 
field) from  1702  to  1721,  except  during  the 
years  1714  and  1715.  As  clerk  of  the  parish 
and  custodian  of  the  records  he  had  much  to 
do  with  the  division  and  distribution  of  town 
lands,  and  otherwise  was  active  in  town 
affairs  for  many  years.  He  married  (first) 
November  10,  1697,  Martha  Bliss,  born  June 
I,  1674,  died  July  6,  1702;  married  (second) 
December  7,  1704,  Sarah  Bodurtha,  born  Oc- 
tober 18,  1681,  died  May  8,  1766.  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Lydia  Bodurtha.  He  had  in  all 
nine  children,  three  by  his  first  and  si.x  by  his 
second  wife:  i.  Martha,  born  December  21. 
1698.  2.  Mary,  February  14,  1700,  died  May 
27,  1714.  3.  Samuel,  September  21,  1701,  see 
forward.  4.  Sarah,  August  30,  1705.  5.  Na- 
thaniel, September  22,  1706.  6.  Joseph,  Octo- 
ber 4,  1709,  died  April  4,  1741.  7.  Tryphena. 
April  7,  1712,  died  December  30,  1755.  8. 
Levi,  February  12,  1714.  9.  Mary,  April  3, 
1717,  died  January  30,  1761. 

(V)  Samuel  (3),  son  of  Samuel  (2)  and 
Martha  (Bliss)  Ely,  was  born  in  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  September  21,  1701,  died  in 
West  Springfield,  December  8,  1758.  He  mar- 
ried. May  3,  1722,  Abigail  Warriner,  born 
December  8,  1703,  died  September  27,  1762, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Abigail  (Day)  Warri- 
ner. They  had  seven  children:  I.  Samuel, 
born  September  14,  1723,  died  November  21, 
1794.  2.  Thomas,  December  i,  1725,  died 
May  10,  1790.    3.  Abigail,  July  15,  1727,  died 


August  9,  1805.  4,  Joel,  November  13,  1728. 
died  July,  1815.  5.  Levi,  November  26,  1732, 
see  forward.  6.  Simeon,  January  25,  1734, 
died  Jamiary  15,  1817.  7.  Nathan,  January  9, 
1739,  died  October  31,  1798. 

(VI)  Captain  Levi,  a  revolutionary  soldier, 
was  the  son  of  Samuel  (3)  and  Abigail  (War- 
riner) Ely,  and  was  born  in  West  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  November  26,  1732.  He  was 
killed  by  Indians  in  a  battle  on  the  Mohawk 
river,  in  the  province  of  New  York,  October 

19.  1780.  A  monument  was  erected  to  his 
memory  at  Springfield.  Massachusetts.  He 
left  home  in  command  of  a  company  on  a 
short  expedition  against  the  Indians  in  the 
Mohawk  valley  and  before  their  term  of 
enlistment  had  expired  nearly  all  the  men  of 
his  company  were  killed.  Captain  Ely  lived 
in  A\'est  Springfield  near  the  old  Congrega- 
tional church  edifice.  All  of  his  children  were 
born  there  and  all  lived  and  died  in  W'est 
S]5ringfield.  He  married,  October  12,  1758, 
.\bigail  Sergeant  (Sargent),  born  Northfield. 
Massachusetts,  January  26,  1729,  died  West 
Springfield,  October  3,  1812,  daughter  of  Lieu- 
tenant John  and  Abigail  (Jones)  Sergeant. 
Lieutenant  John  Sergeant  was  one  of  Captain 
Josiah  Willard's  company  at  Fort  Dummer, 
Vermont,  in  1748.  in  the  old  French  and 
Indian  war.  Captain  Levi  and  Abigail  (Ser- 
geant) Ely  had  eleven  children,  all  born  in 
West  Springfield:  i.  Lucretia.  May  12,  1759, 
died  January  19,  1819.  2.  Huldah,  July  11, 
1761,  died  April  30.  1808.  3.  Jerusha,  Febru- 
ary 8,  1763,  died  February  2,  1836.  4.  Levi, 
February  27,  1765,  died  September  17,  1819. 
5.  George.  December  30,   1766.  died  January 

20.  1819.  6.  Daniel.  August  10,  1768.  died 
February  15,  1822.  7.  Sabra,  January  22, 
1770,  died  March  8,  1839.  8.  Theodosia,  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1773,  died  October  14,  1865.  9.  Solo- 
mon, December  22,  1774,  died  April  25,  1828. 
10.  Elihu,  July  6,  1777,  see  forward.  11.  Abi- 
gail, May  7,  1780,  died  November  23,  1828. 

(VII)  Elihu,  son  of  Captain  Levi  and  .Abi- 
gail (Sergeant)  Ely,  was  born  in  West  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts,  July  6,  1777,  died  in 
Westfield,  Massachusetts,  February  23,  1829. 
In  1797  he  married  Grace  Rose,  born  in  Prov- 
idence, Rhode  Island,  in  November,  1777,  died 
in  Westfield,  September  28.  1840,  daughter  of 
Colonel  Samuel  Rose,  of  Providence.  They 
had  nine  children,  all  born  in  Westfield:  i. 
Elihu,  May  19,  1799,  died  May  21,  1866.  2. 
Samuel,  1801,  died  1803.  3.  Samuel  Rose, 
December  29,  1803,  died  Roslyn,  Long  Island, 
May  II,  1873.     4.  Abigail,  January  29,  1806, 


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died  Ann  Arbor,  Micliigan,  February  13, 1880. 
5.  Joseph  Minor.  November  26,  1807,  died 
June  14.  1885.  6.  Levi,  December  22,  1809, 
died  La  Porte,  Indiana,  May  18,  1869.  7. 
ThcMiias,  December  22,  181 1.  8.  Addison,  De- 
cember 16,  1814.    9.  William,  see  forward. 

(VIII)  William,  youngest  son  and  child  of 
Elihu  and  Grace  (Rose)  Ely,  was  born  in 
Westfield,  Massachusetts,  April  17,  1817,  died 
in  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  February  9,  1886. 
He  married  (first)  in  Westfield,  September  5, 
1836,  Emeline  Letitia  Harrison,  born  W'est- 
field,  December  13,  1S18,  died  there  February 
18,  1862,  daughter  of  Seth  and  Letitia  (\'eits) 
Harrison;  married  (second)  in  South  Orange, 
New  Jersey,  March  8,  1865,  Nancy  Judson 
Harrison,  a  sister  of  his  first  wife.  She  was 
born  in  Westfield,  April  6,  1827,  died  Febru- 
ary 28,  1895.  Seth  Harrison  belonged  to  the 
family  of  which  President  \\'illiam  li.  Harri- 
son was  a  member.  Emeline  Letitia  (Harri- 
son) Ely  was  a  granddaughter  of  Jabez  liald- 
wiii,  who  enlisted  in  the  revolutionary  war 
eight  times,  and  served  every  years  of  the  war. 
He  had  ten  children,  all  born  of  his  first  mar- 
riage and  with  the  exception  of  one  in  West- 
field :  I.  Thomas  Jefferson,  June  11,  1838, 
died  February  2.  1839.  2.  drace  Rose,  July 
4,  1840;  married,  April  10,  1861.  Jared  Sand- 
ford,  born  Lodi,  Seneca  count)'.  New  York, 
October  16,  1834,  son  of  Halsey  and  Fanny 
Maria  (Howell)  Santlford.  3.  Emma  Jose- 
phine, September  30,  1842,  died  June  9,  1849. 
4.  Abigail  Letia,  October  27,  1844;  married 
Marshall  Clement ;  died  Mt.  Vernon,  New 
York,  June,  1893.  5.  Nancy  Judson.  Novem- 
ber 30.  1846,  died  September  2^^.  1848.  6. 
I'.mma  Josephine,  New  lUifFalo.  Micliigan. 
December  23,  1848.  7.  William  Henry  Har- 
rison, May  10.  1831.  8.  Addison,  May  23, 
1853,  see  forward.  9.  Thomas  Jefferson,  June 
2,  1855,  died  xApril  10,  1858.  10.  Nancy  Jud- 
son. October  10,  1857;  married,  1881.  M. 
Eugene  Cady ;  died  February  13,  igni),  at 
Westfield,  Massachusetts. 

(IN)  Captain  Addison,  son  of  William  and 
Emeline  Letitia  (Harrison)  Ely.  was  born  in 
Westfield,  Massachusetts,  May  23,  1853.  His 
ancestors  on  both  sides  were  prominent  both 
as  soldiers  and  citizens  from  the  earliest  colo- 
nial times.  The  records  of  the  adjutant  gen- 
eral's office  in  the  state  of  Massachusetts 
show  that  the  Elys,  Roses,  Sargents,  Harri- 
sons and  Baldwins,  the  latter  two  being  his 
mother's  ancestors,  sustained  no  mean  part  in 
the  early  national  struggles.  The  civil  regis- 
ters  in   the   towns   of    Hartford.   Connecticut, 


and  ."Springfield  and  \\'e.->ltielil,  Massachusetts, 
from  the  year  1636  to  modern  times  bear  clear 
evidence  that  the  Elys  were  a  moral,  public- 
spirited,  educated  family  through  many  gener- 
ations, called  with  fre(iuency  to  serve  their 
countrymen  in  offices  of  trust  and  honor.  Addi- 
son was  a  boy  of  eight  years  when  his  father 
removed  to  liloomfield.  New  Jersey,  within  a 
few  miles  of  which  place  he  has  resided.  He 
was  given  a  good  elementary  education  at  the 
Davis  Latin  School  in  P.loomfield  and  at  the 
Newark  (New  Jersey)  Academy  and  prepared 
for  college  at  the  I'.rooklyn  Polytechnic  Insti- 
tute and  the  equally  famous  Phillips  Exeter 
Academy.  His  purpose  was  to  make  the  colle- 
giate course  at  Harvard,  but  at  the  age  of 
eighteen  he  turned  his  attention  to  educational 
work.  He  first  taught  the  public  school  at 
Union,  Union  county.  New  Jersey,  and  two 
years  later  became  the  first  principal  of  the 
Caldwell  high  school  in  Essex  county.  While 
there  he  took  up  the  study  of  law,  but  in  1879 
he  discontinued  law  for  a  time  and  became 
principal  of  the  Rutherford  high  school,  later 
resuming  law  reading,  having  never  abandoned 
the  idea  of  entering  the  legal  profession.  As 
a  teacher  he  was  very  successful.  A  life 
license  to  teach  anywhere  in  New  Jersey, 
gained  by  examination,  in  those  davs  a  rare 
acquisition  though  common  now.  was  granted 
him,  and  of  which  he  is  very  proud.  It  was 
signed  by  Ellis  .\.  Apgar  and  Washington 
I  lasbrouck.  examiners.  They  were  distin- 
guished New  Jersey  educators,  since  deceased. 
^Ir.  Ely's  old  pupils,  of  whom  many  are  suc- 
cessfully settled  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of 
Newark,  remember  his  thoroughness  both  as 
an  instructor  and  a  disciplinarian.  He  was 
always  the  active  friend  of  his  ])U])ils.  .\t  the 
February  term  of  the  supreme  court.  Captain 
Ely  was  admitted  as  an  attorney,  in  I'"ebruary, 
1892,  as  counsellor  at  hfw.  Since  that  time  he 
has  devoted  his  attention  to  general  law  prac- 
tice in  the  state  and  county  courts.  He  is  a 
forceful  lawyer,  careful,  studious  and  con- 
scientious. Occupied  with  the  responsibilities 
of  a  large  practice,  he  finds  time  to  devote  to 
public  concerns  which  tend  to  ])romote  the  gen- 
eral welfare  of  the  community,  commending 
merit  and  without  hesitancy  condemning  all 
schemes  for  the  advancement  of  selfish  ends  at 
public  expense.  He  organized  the  Dover, 
.New  Jersey.  Gas  Company,  and  built  works 
and  for  many  years  has  owned  its  securities 
and  controlled  its  management.  He  was  also 
one  of  four  most  active  organizers  of  the  Gas 
and   I'-lectric  Company  of   i'.eigen  County  and 


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STATE    OF    NEW    lERSEV. 


has  held  the  office  nf  director  of  the  company 
for  many  years. 

Captain  Ely  became  a  member  of  Comijany 
C,  Third  Regiment,  in  1872.  continuing  as 
such  for  seven  years.  In  1893  he  organized 
and  became  captain  of  Comi)any  L,  Second 
Regiment,  which  company  was  among  the  best 
military  organizations  in  the  state  in  general 
efficiency  and  discipline.  Captain  Ely  offered 
his  Company  L  to  the  governor  of  the  state  of 
Xew  Jersey  for  service  in  the  Spanish-Amer- 
ican war.  No  other  organization  at  the  time 
had  been  tendered.  Largely  through  his  tender 
and  efforts  the  Second  Regiment  was  chosen 
for  Spanish  war  service.  Seventy  of  seventy- 
three  enrolled  members  of  his  company,  ready 
for  service,  marched  out  of  their  Rutherford 
.Armory,  May  2,  1898,  amid  scenes  of  patri- 
otism that  will  long  make  the  day  memorable. 
During  this  war  Captain  Ely  was  attached  to 
(ieneral  I,ee's  Seventh  Corps,  and  by  his 
sjiecial  order  was  made  provost  marshal  of  the 
corps,  though  officially  attached  to  the  staff  of 
General  Arnold,  commanding  the  Second 
Division  of  the  Corps.  He  later  organized 
and  became  captain  of  Company  M,  Fifth 
Regiment,  which  office  he  resigned  in  1904.  As 
an  officer  he  was  never  absent  at  roll  call 
during  his  entire  service. 

He  is  a  pronounced  and  consistent  Demo- 
crat and  was  always  ready  to  respond  to 
his  party's  call.  In  i8g6  he  was  nominated 
for  congress  in  the  old  fifth  district,  con- 
sisting of  llergen  and  Passaic  counties.  In 
1900  he  was  elected  delegate  to  the  Demo- 
cratic National  Convention  held  at  Kansas 
City,  and  later  the  same  year  was  nominateil 
for  one  of  the  presidential  electors  on  the 
Democratic  ticket.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Presbyterian  church,  one  of  the  organizers  of 
I 'oiling  Spring  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  a  member  of  the  Union  Club,  the 
-Xew  Jersey  Ritle  Association,  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution  and  the  New  Jersey  Historical 
Society.  In  1902  Captain  Ely  purchased  a 
large  tract  known  as  the  "Poillon"  lands  in  the 
heart  of  Rutherford  and  laid  it  out  with  every 
jniblic  improvement.  This  section  of  Ruther- 
ford lies  adjacent  to  Park  avenue,  Addison 
avenue,  Lincoln  aveinie  and  Newell  avenue, 
and  also  extends  to  Sylvan  street.  Mountain 
Way,  Orient  Way,  I-'oronia  Way  and  Meadow 
Road.  The  houses  and  im|)rovements  on  all 
these  streets  are  creditable  alike  to  his  good 
judgment  and  iiublic  s|)irit,  and  have  fi.xed  a 
highly  select  residential  character  on  these  sec- 


tions.    He  is  now  developing  the  lands  known 
as  F^lycroft  Estate. 

Captain  Ely  married,  December  29,  1874. 
J'Zmily  J.  Johnson,  of  Connecticut  Farms,  born 
.March  i,  1856,  daughter  of  William  H.  and 
Marietta  (Lyon)  Johnson.  Children:  i.  Addi- 
son Jr.,  born  in  Caldwell,  New  Jersey,  Novem- 
ber 26,  1875  ;  graduate  of  Columbia  College 
and  of  the  law  department  of  the  University 
of  Michigan,  and  now  associated  in  law  prac- 
tice with  his  father;  he  married,  September  25, 
1900,  Clara  Agnes  Lord;  children:  i.  Henry 
Addison,  born  April  23,  1902,  died  Ajjril  28, 
1902;  ii.  Nathaniel,  born  April  10,  1903;  iii. 
.Addison  Charles,  born  May.  29,  1905 ;  iv. 
Katherine,  born  September  19,  1908.  2.  Abi- 
gail Mabel,  born  in  Rutherford,  April  15. 
1 88 1  ;  graduate  of  department  of  arts,  Michi- 
gan University;  married,  September  12,  1905, 
I'rederick  Howland  W(Xidward,  of  Fitchburg. 
.Massachusetts;  children:  i.  Emily  E.,  born 
•September  i,  1906;  ii.  and  iii.  Frederick  How- 
land  and  Addison  Ely,  twins,  June  30,  1909. 
3.  Jared  Sandford,  twin,  born  in  Rutherford, 
October  10,  1884,  died  July  9,  1885.  4.  Seth 
Harrison,  twin,  born  in  Rutherford,  October 
10.  1884;  graduate  of  engineering  department. 
.Michigan  University;  married,  February  14. 
1905,  Elsa  Flora  Tritscheller ;  children:  i. 
.Seth  Harrison  Jr.,  born  in  Ann  Arbor,  Michi- 
gan, 1905  ;  ii.  William  Henry  Harrison,  born 
in  Dover,  New  Jersey,  November  10,  1907.  5. 
Sandford  Dana,  born  in  Rutherford,  June  12, 
1886;  Michigan  L'niversity  and  Department  of 
.Architecture,  Columbia  LIniversity.  6.  Emily 
Emeline,  born  .September  2,  1888;  graduate  of 
Michigan  University.  7.  Clara  Harrison 
Stranahan,  born  in  Rutherford,  March  26. 
iS(jn:  now  a  junior.  Michigan  L'niversity.  8. 
William  Harvey  Johnson,  born  September  18, 
1891  :  sophomore  Michigan  L'niversity.  9. 
Leon  Abbett,  born  November  25,  1893.  10. 
Hiram  Baldwin,  born  March  i,  1896.  11. 
James  Samuel  Thomas  Stranahan,  born  Octo- 
ber 17,  1898.  Captain  Ely  lives  on  an  old- 
fashioned  farm  on  the  sunny  slope  of  Ruther- 
ford, which  he  calls  Elycroft.  where  he  com- 
bines much  that  is  best  in  rural  and  town  life. 


The  Russell  family  wliich  i-- 
R'  SSl'-LL  the  subject  of  the  present  arti- 
cle is  one  of  the  later  acquisi- 
tions to  the  country  there  being  only  two  gen- 
erations belonging  by  birth  to  this  side  of  the 
Atlantic  and  the  second  of  these  with  all  of  its 
life  before  it. 


I 


STATE    OF    X]-:\\     ll-.RSKV. 


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(I)  Benjamin,  son  of  John  Russell,  was 
born  in  England  and  emigrated  to  this  coun- 
try, where  he  set  up  for  himself  in  New  York 
as  a  designer  and  engraver  of  jewelry.  Sep- 
tember 2~.  1837.  he  was  married  in  St.  Luke's 
Chapel  of  Trinity  Parish,  New  York  City,  by 
the  Rev.  Isaac  IT.  Tuttle,  to  Phoebe  Ann 
Chenoweth.  Mr.  Russell  himself  was  a  na- 
tive of  county  Kent,  England,  while  his  wife 
was  the  descendant  of  a  line  which  had  long 
made  itself  famous  in  Wales  and  in  this  coun- 
try. The  Chenoweths  trace  their  origin  back 
to  the  ancient  ISritons  who  retired  into  Wales 
before  the  concjuering  arms  of  the  heathen 
.Sa.N'ons.  There  with  their  followers  they  kept 
uj)  a  successful  resistance  to  the  invader  and 
at  one  time  were  among  the  most  powerful  of 
the  Welsh  nobility.  The  changes  and  chances 
of  time,  however,  caused  the  loss  of  lands  and 
prestige,  and  with  the  ancient  castle  a  ruin, 
three  brothers  of  the  family,  Jdliu.  William 
and  Edward  Chenoweth,  determined  to  leave 
the  home  property  to  the  last  named  of  the 
three  while  William  came  over  to  the  new 
world  and  settled  in  Jamestown,  \^irginia,  and 
hi.s  brother  John  joined  Lord  Baltimore's  col- 
ony and  settled  in  Maryland.  The  descend- 
ants of  these  two  are  scattered  all  over  the 
.  United  States  to-day.  Edward  remained  in 
the  old  country,  and  became  the  ancestor  of 
Mrs.  Russell,  the  line  running  as  follows: 
Edward  :  John,  born  16,^5:  William.  1682;  Ed- 
ward. 1715;  John.  1741,  died  July  28,  1779. 
whose  children  were:  i.  .Alice,  born  December 
24,  1765.  died  December  21.  i8o8.  2.  Edward, 
referred  to  below.  3.  John,  .Vugust  20,  1768, 
died  September  2,  1769.  4.  and  3.  Martha  and 
Mary,  twins,  July  13.  1769.  6.  William.  .April 
23,  177 1,  lost  at  sea  about  1825.  7.  Elizabeth. 
August  I,  1773,  died  December  23,  1792.  8. 
John,  Februar)'  3,  177^.  died  in  1832.  9.  Pa- 
tience, July  30,   1779,  died  March  17.   1829. 

Edward,  son  of  John  Chenoweth,  was  born 
.September  4,  1767,  and  died  in  New  York 
City.  In  1789  he  married  Phoebe  Romage, 
of  Chatham,  county  Kent,  England,  and  they 
had  eleven  children:  i.  .Alice,  born  .April  15, 
1790,  died  December  19,  1872.  2.  P.enjamin. 
.May  12.  1792,  (lied  .April  22.  1797.  3.  I'lioebe. 
.Xoveniber  17,  1794.  died  in  1838.  4.  John. 
I'"ebruary  21,  1 797,  died  May  7,  1802.  3.  Pen- 
jamin.  January  29,  1799,  died  March  16,  1799. 
().  Mary  .Ann.  February  8,  1800,  died  October 
17,  1802.  7.  John.  September  22,  1802,  died 
in  1802.  8.  John,  referred  to  below.  9.  Eliza. 
Se]itembcr  19.  1806,  died  May  6,  1882.  10. 
Laurentia.  .\ugust  18,  1809,  died  July  11.  1877. 


I  r.  fulward  William.  January  28.  1S12.  died  in 
Australia,  .April  29,  1830. 

John  (2).  son  of  Edward  and  Phoebe  (Rom- 
age )  Chenoweth,  was  born  November  18, 
1803.  died  .Sc])tember  19,  1861.  May  2,  1824, 
he  married  in  the  parish  church  of  Chalk. 
county  Kent,  England,  the  clergyiuan  being 
the  Rev.  R.  .S.  Jaynes.  Caroline  .Mitchell,  who 
bore  him  thirteen  children,  three  of  whose 
names  have  not  been  preserved  died  in  in- 
fancy; the  other  ten  being:  I.  Caroline,  born 
.September.  1825.  died  .March  3,  1902;  mar- 
ried, .August  8,  1830,  James  .A.  Weston.  2. 
I'^dward.  1827,  died  1836.  3.  John,  .\pril  21, 
1821;,  married  (first)  September  18,  1830, 
Mary  Hall;  (second)  November  30.  1864, 
.Mar\  Jones.  4.  William,  I'Vlirnary  23, 
1831.  died  .A])ril  3,  1893:  married,  in 
1849,  Sarah  .\nn  Carr.  3.  Elizabeth, 
October  22.  1833,  died  September  4,  1857; 
married.  July  4,  1832,  Thomas  W.  Stott.  6. 
I'lidcbe  .Ann,  referred  to  above  and  below.  7. 
Alice,  1838.  8.  Edward,  Alay  21,  1841,  mar- 
ried, October  18.  i860,  Judith  H.  Robertson. 
9.  E|)hraim,  May  7,  1844,  was  married  three 
times.  10.  Laurentia.  Januar\-  r,  1848,  mar- 
ried (first)  May  16,  1876,  John  Ouin,  and 
(second!  November  26,  1890,  H.  F.  Huss. 
All  of  the  above  marriages  were  in  New  York 
City,  except  Laurentia's  second  marriage 
which  was  performed  in  Ottawa.  Kansas,  and 
Ephraim's  three  which  were  in  Newark.  New 
Jersey. 

The  children  of  lleiijamin  and  I'lmelie  Aim 
(Chenoweth)  Russell  were:  i.  Harriet  M., 
married  (leorge  Mullaney,  of  Jersey  City,  and 
has  three  children :  Frank,  Irene  and  Edna. 
2.  Phoebe  E..  married  Clarence  E.  Pease,  and 
<lied  at  twenty  years  of  age.  3.  George  Eld- 
ridge,  referred  to  below.  4.  Laura.  5 
Charles  Henrw  who  is  married  and  has  two 
children. 

(II)  George  Eldridge,  third  child  and  eld- 
est son  of  Penjamin  and  Phoebe  .Ann  (Cheno- 
weth )  Russell,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  Long 
Island,  SeiJtember  8,  1864.  and  when  one  year 
old  removed  with  jiareiits  to  Jersey  City,  where 
he  lived  and  attended  school  until  about  eleven 
\ears  of  age  when  his  parents  moved  to  New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  where  he  is  now  living. 
I'"iir  his  early  education  he  was  also  sent 
to  the  Newark  public  schools,  after  leaving 
which  he  learned  the  trade  of  engraving  and 
designing  jewelry  from  his  father.  He  gave 
this  up,  however,  in  order  to  engage  in  the  in- 
surance business,  and  this  he  left  in  turn  in 
order    to   take    up    the    wholesale   grain    busi- 


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STATr>:  OF  XE^\■  iersry. 


11CSS.  working  for  John  S.  Carpenter  &  Com- 
pany. I'"or  twenty  years  he  was  manager  of 
the  grain  department  of  Wilkinson  Caddis  & 
Company  of  Newark,  New  Jersey.  In  1904 
he  was  elected  to  the  office  of  surrogate  on  the 
Republican  ticket  by  the  large  majority  of 
23,035.  For  several  years  he  was  chairman  of 
the  ninth  ward  executive  committee,  and 
served  as  member  of  the  Essex  county  ex- 
ecutive committee  and  the  county  Republican 
committee.  Mr.  Russell  is  a  fluent  public 
speaker  and  has  taken  the  stump  in  many  po- 
litical campaigns,  his  popularity  testifying  to 
his  ability  and  skill  along  that  line.  lie  at- 
tends the  South  Park  Presbyterian  Church. 
He  is  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  liaving  at- 
tained the  thirty-second  degree :  membe'- 
of  St.  John's  Lodge.  No.  i.  Free  and 
.\cce|)ted  Masons:  Salaam  Temple,  An- 
cient .Arabic  Order  Nobles  of  the  Alystic 
Shrine ;  Newark  Cit)-  Camp.  No.  7062.  Mod- 
ern Woodmen  of  .America  :  .Anthony  Wayne 
Council,  No.  150.  Junior  Order  United  Ameri- 
can Mechanics:  one  of  the  organizers  and 
served  as  president  of  the  Garfield  Club  of 
Newark :  member  of  many  Republican  clubs, 
and  a  past  grand  sachem  of  the  Republican 
Indian  League  of  New  Jersey. 

George  Eldridge  Russell  married  (first) 
July  27,  t8cS7,  Mary  E.,  born  July  28,  1865. 
died  Alay  5,  1905,  daughter  of  William  P.  and 
Helen  (Zeek)  Bond,  who  were  the  parents  of 
three  other  children:  Leonora  V.,  George  and 
Riley  P.ond.  Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rus- 
sell:  T.  Marjorie  Bond,  born  in  Newark,  July 
2T,.  i88q.  2.  William  Benton,  born  in  Newark. 
July  26,  1891.  George  Eldridge  Russell  mar- 
ried ("second)  June  3,  H)o8.  Fannie  B.  Jones. 
born  in  1879:  one  child.  Dorothy  Chenowcth. 
horn  .March  27.  iqoq. 


.\mong  the  immigrants  to  tlii^ 
Xl'W  countr}-  in  about  the  middle  of 
the  eighteenth  century  there  is 
perhaps  no  family  better  deserving  of  a  rec- 
ord and  commemriration  among  the  represen- 
tative families  of  New  Jersey  than  of  Tiiomas 
Xntin  and  his  descendant'^. 

(  1  )  Thomas  Nunn,  the  founder  of  the  fam- 
il\-  died  about  1773.  hi^  will  being  dated  Oc- 
tober 30.  1771,  and  i)robated  December  2, 
1773.  lie  came  from  I'.ngland  about  1750  and 
settled  on  land  at  Schooley's  Mountain,  which 
at  his  death  was  by  arbitration  divided  be- 
twei-n  his  two  eldest  children  Tiiomas  and  I'en- 
janiin.  By  liis  wife  Elizabeth  lie  had:  I. 
Thoma-i.    went    to   Canada.     2.    Benj.lniin,   re- 


ferred to  below.  3.  Joshua.  4.  Bersheba.  5. 
.\im.  (1.  Elisabeth.  7.  Solomon.  8.  Ephraim. 
(11)  Benjamin,  son  of  Thomas  and  Eliza- 
beth Nunn,  died  about  1817,  his  will  being 
probated  June  17  of  that  year.  Coming  from 
England  with  his  father  he  settled  on  land 
near  Pleasant  (irove,  Morris  county,  and  en- 
tailed his  jiroperty,  leaving  his  wife  only  a 
light    iiiterest.     He    married    .Ann    Carpenter. 

Children:      1.      Elisabeth,      married     

Thomas.     2.  Bethsheba,  married  Jacob,  son  of 

lohn   Peter   Sharp.     3.   Ann,  married  

Wolf.     4.    .Sarah,    married   William    ]\IcCray. 

5.  Isaac,     •'i.  John,  referred  to  below. 

( III  )  John,  youngest  child  of  Benjamin  and 
.\nn  (Carpenter)  Nunn,  was  born  in  1764, 
died  in  1829.  He  succeeded  to  the  estate  of 
his  father  upon  which  he  resided  during  his 
life.  He  married  Katherine  Slyker,  who  died 
in  i84().  Children:  i.  Jacob,  referred  to 
l)elow.  2.  Isaac,  married  Catherine  Alellick. 
Child :  .\ndrew.  3.  William,  born  June  24. 
1812:  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  William 
Steltz.  Children :  Frances,  John,  Samuel, 
James,  Alfred,  Theodore.  4.  Alfred,  married 
Mary  Waters.    5.  John,  married Force. 

6.  Betsy,  married  twice ;  lives  in  Pennsylvania. 

7.  Sarah.  8.  Mary.  9.  Margaret,  married 
Tohn  Hoptler  Jr.  10.  Emeline,  married  Isaac. 
i)rother  of  John  Hoptler  Jr.      1 1.  .Ann. 

(  1\' )  Jacob,  eldest  child  of  John  and  Kath 
erine  (Slyker)  Nunn,  born  about  1793,  lied 
October  i8.  1842.  He  was  a  farmer  and  a 
|)art  of  hi,  life  he  ke])t  the  old  Miller  horne- 
stead,  and  for  some  time  also  the  property 
subsequently  owned  lj_\-  Chambers  Davi^ 
where  he  kept  an  inn  in  connection  with  his 
farm.  During  the  latter  jiart  of  his  life  he 
dis])osed  of  the  property  which  had  been  '■et- 
tled  liy  his  grandfather.  Penjamin  Nunn,  near 
I 'lea -ant  Grove.  In  1818  he  married  Mary. 
l>orn  1794,  died  April  2,  1858,  daughter  of 
Andrew  Miller,  one  of  the  settlers  of  Mans- 
field township  who  kept  an  iiui  and  owned  a 
large  tract  of  land  near  Pennwell.  She  was  a 
devoted  woman  and  gave  much  attention  to 
the  proper  training  of  her  children  in  all  that 
I)ertains  to  true  manhood  and  womanhood. 
Children:  1.  .Andrew  Miller,  referred  to 
below.  2.  Catherine,  married  Henry  B.  Davis. 
of  Steijhensburg.  New  Jersey.  3.  Elijah  W.  4. 
George  T.     5.  Jacob  S..  died  young. 

(  \' )  .\ndrew  Miller,  eldest  child  of  Jacob 
■ind  Mary  (Miller)  Nunn.  was  born  January 
18.  1819.  During  his  minority  he  resided  at 
home,  where  he  was  employed  on  the  farm 
and  there  le.-irned  that   inestimable  lesson  that 


STATF.   OF    NEW    (FRSFV. 


841 


industry,  economy  and  self-reliance  are  the 
principles  upon  which  a  successful  career  is 
based.  Upon  reaching  his  majority  with  a 
resolution  to  do  something,  he  started  out  to 
win  a  home  and  property  for  himself.  For 
several  years  he  was  a  clerk  in  a  general  store 
;it  Fort  Murray  near  where  Madison's  Mill 
was  in  \\'ashington  township,  then  for  a  short 
period  he  had  charge  of  a  store  for  William 
.M.  Warne  in  Monroe  county,  Pennsylvania, 
who  was  a  successor  of  Moore  Furman  near 
Madison's  Mill.  In  1845  'i^  ^^'^''^  bookkeeper 
for  G.  M.  &  S.  T.  Scranton  and  Company  at 
O.xford  Furnace,  and  the  following  year  he 
went  west  on  a  prospecting  tour  with  a  view 
of  settling  there.  He  returned,  however,  the 
same  year.  By  prudence  Mr.  Xunn  had  saved 
enough  to  start  business  for  himself  and  April 
I,  1847.  in  connection  with  Jacob  H.  Miller, 
he  opened  a  general  store  at  Pennwell.  .\fter 
si.K  months  ]\Ir.  Miller  sold  his  interest  in  the 
business  to  his  brother,  John  C.  Miller,  and 
the  new  firm  carried  on  the  business  for  some 
five  years  when  Mr.  Xunn  bought  his  partner's 
interest  and  continued  the  business  until  1854. 
For  the  next  seven  years  he  carried  on  a  mer- 
cantile business  at  New  Hampton  and  in 
March.  1862,  established  himself  in  charge  at 
Port  Colden  on  the  Morris  Canal  where  he 
did  a  most  successful  business  in  general  mer- 
chandise and  canal  supplies.  His  business  life 
was  one  of  considerable  activity  and  his  judic- 
ious management  was  such  as  to  secure  a  fair 
c(>m]5ensation.  Following  in  the  footsteps  of 
his  father  he  cast  his  first  vote  for  General 
llarrison  in  the  old  Whig  party  and  upon  the 
organization  of  the  Republican  party  be- 
came a  supporter  of  its  principles.  For  three 
years  he  served  as  collector  for  the  township 
lit  Washington.  .Although  he  had  limited  o]i- 
portunities  for  book  knowledge  while  a  boy,  his 
clerkship  secured  him  a  good  business  educa- 
tion, sufficient  to  be  luimbered  among  the  in- 
telligent and  solid  business  men  of  Warren 
county.  He  was  always  interested  in  local 
factors  tending  to  the  prosperity  of  the  plS.ce 
where  he  resided.  He  was  treasurer  from  its 
organization  in  1870  of  the  Port  Colden  P.uild- 
ing  and  Loan  Association,  and  for  many  years 
previous  to  his  death  was  a  member  of  the 
Presbyterian  church  at  Washington,  and  con- 
nected with  the  church  as  elder. 

In  December.  1846.  .\ndrew  Miller  Xunn 
married  Xancy.  daughter  of  Jacob  WyckofF. 
Her  grandfather.  Simon  Wyckoff.  was  the  first 
settler  of  the  family  in  Jackscm  \'alley  where 
he   located    in    1771.      She   wa^;   born    June   8. 


11^24.  died  May  24.  1875,  and  was  a  devoted 
christian  woman  and  a  member  of  the  Presby- 
terian church  at  Washington.  Children:  i. 
Miller  R.,  referred  to  below.  2.  David  P.  S., 
married  Frances  Deremer :  child :  Elizabeth, 
married  John  Mowder  and  had  X'^erna.  3. 
Simon  Wyckoflf.  married  .\nna  P.  Miller  ;  chil- 
dren :  Sadie,  married  .\rthur  Somers,  and 
Xina.  4.  Mary,  died  young.  5.  Andrew 
Miller  Jr..  married  Sarah  Perry;  children: 
Eari,  Guy  and  Floyd.  6.  Elizabeth  Miller, 
died  at  the  age  of  seventeen  years. 

(VI)  Miller  R.,  eldest  child  of  .Andrew 
-Miller  and  Xancy  (WyckofF)  Xunn,  was  born 
in  Washington  township,  Warren  county,  Xew 
■^'ork.  September  2,  1847,  died  .August  I,  1905. 
.After  receiving  his  early  education  in  the 
schools  of  Washington  township,  he  attended 
and  graduated  from  the  Eastman  Business 
College  at  Poughkeepsie,  Xew  York,  after 
which  for  two  years  he  was  in  business  with 
his  father,  and  then  went  into  the  lumber 
business  in  Hackettstown,  Xew  Jersey,  at  the 
same  time  conducting  an  undertaking  estab- 
lishment. Inheriting  from  his  father  a  great 
(leal  of  business  ability,  by  his  judicious  man- 
agement and  intelligent  ventures  he  won  for 
himself  success  and  a  competence,  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death  was  regarded  as  one  of  the 
solid  and  substantial  business  men  of  the  town. 
His  genial  disposition  and  his  high  scxrial  quali- 
ties won  for  him  many  friends,  and  the  recog- 
nition of  the  solid  worth  and  stability  of  his 
character  caused  him  to  be  placed  in  many 
positions  of  public  trust  and  confidence.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Republican,  and  for  nearly 
thirty  years  was  the  town  assessor.  He  cared 
very  little  for  the  so-called  social  clubs,  being 
much  more  interested  in  his  home  and  in  so- 
cial life  which  he  led  with  his  friends  and 
acquaintances.  He  was.  however,  a  firm  be- 
liever in  the  benefit  conferred  by  secret  and 
beneficial  societies,  and  he  took  an  active  and 
prominent  part  in  several  of  these  organiza- 
tions, lie  was  a  member  of  the  Independent 
(  )rder  of  Odd  I'ellows.  of  the  PYee  and  .Ac- 
cepted Masons,  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  and 
of  the  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men.  Joining 
the  Methodist  church  when  a  young  man,  he 
led  a  long  and  consistent  life  of  christian  prin- 
ci|)le  and  practice,  and  was  for  many  years  a 
trustee  of  his  church  and  the  superintendent 
of  its  Sunday  school. 

October  17,  1866.  he  married  Hulda  E.,  born 
January  31,  T847.  youngest  daughter  of  John 
llray  and  Margaret  H.  ( Ogden  )  Woolston 
(see     Woolston.     \').     Children:     i.     Bertha 


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STATE    OF    XKW    JERSEY. 


Ciertnule,  born  April  5,  1868;  married  George 
B.  V'liet,  and  has  Miller  Nunn  Vliet.  2.  Rob- 
ert Ogden.  May  20,  1872,  died  November  22. 
1890.  3.  Eva  Woolston,  January  28,  1875; 
married  Adelbert  Fernald,  and  has  Dorothy 
Ruth  Fernald.  4.  John  Harold,  March  24. 
1887:  married  .Ada  D.  Long. 


Henry  Darnall.  of  Birds 
I) ARX.VLL  Place,  in  the  parish  of  Essen- 
den,  England,  who  was  a 
counsellor  at  law  of  Gray's  Inn,  London,  mar- 
ried Marie,  daughter  of  William  Tooke,  au- 
ditor of  His  Majesty's  Court  of  Wards  and 
Liveries,  whose  unbroken  lineage  is  extant  to 
the  beginning  of  the  fifteenth  century.  Henry 
Darnall,  who  died  in  1607.  and  his  wife,  Marie 
(Tooke)  Darnall,  left  children:  John,  Henry. 
.Anne,  Thomas,  Susan,  Philip  and  Rafe.  John 
Darnall,  Esq.,  one  of  the  Secondaries  of  the 
Pipe,  married  (first)  Susan,  daughter  of  John 
Mynne,  (secofid)  Susan,  daughter  of  Roger 
and  Elizabeth  (Mynne)  Lawrence.  .As  Sir 
George  Calvert  married  for  his  first  wife  Anne 
Mynne,  of  the  same  family,  the  relationship 
between  the  Darnalls  and  the  Calverts  is  ap- 
parent. Sir  George  Calvert  was  created  Baron 
of  Avalon  and  Baltimore  by  James  H.  about 
1623,  and  became  the  favorite  counselor  of 
Charles  H.,  who  made  him  a  grant  of  that  part 
of  "the  Peninsula  or  Chersonest  lying  in  the 
parts  of  .America,  etc."  ;  which  now  form  the 
state  of  Maryland.  The  coat-of-arms  of  the 
Darnall  family  :  Arg.  on  a  bend  :  three  leopards 
heads,  cabossed  sable,  between  two  fleur-de-lis 
or;  Motto:  A'igeure,  L'.\mour,  De  Croix. 

(I)  Sir  Philip  Darnall,  of  England,  married 
a  sister  of  Lord  Talbot.  Chilclren :  I.  Henry, 
see  forward.  2.  John,  who  located  at  "Port- 
land Manor,"  in  .Anne  .Arundel  county,  an  es- 
tate consisting  of  about  ten  thousand  acres. 
The  last  owner  of  this  estate  died  about  i8ig, 
.A  third  branch  of  the  Darnall  family  lived  in 
either  ^^ontgomery  of  Frederick  county,  at  a 
l)lace  called  "Rocky  Fountain." 

(II)  Colonel    Henry,    son    of    Philip    and 

(Talbot)    Darnall..   came   to    .America 

about  i(')65  to  join  his  numerous  friends  in 
this  country.  His  high  f|ualities  and  kinship 
to  Lord  Baltimore  at  once  placed  him  in  posi- 
tions of  trust  and  importance,  and  he  was  pro- 
minently identified  with  the  public  afifairs  of 
the  colony  until  his  death,  June  17,  1711.  He 
obtained  the  grant  of  land  called  the  "Wood- 
yard."  and  immediately  built  a  splendid  man- 
sion in  which  he  lived,  and  his  tombstone  is 
still    to   i)e    seen    on    the   groimds.      About    the 


period  the  troubles  arose  called  the  "Protestant 
Revolution,"  Colonel  Darnell  was  at  once  rec- 
ognized as  leader  of  the  Catholics,  as  well  from 
his  position  as  representative  of  Lord  Balti- 
more, then  absent  in  London,  as  from  his  re- 
ligious preferences.  He  was  captured  after  a 
siege  of  the  government  house,  w^hich  he  had 
fortified,  and  made  his  escajje  in  a  vessel  leav- 
ing Philadelphia  for  England.  In  1712  a  com- 
mission appointed  Charles  Carroll  (possibly 
grandfather,  but  more  probably  father  of 
Charles  Carroll,  the  signer  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence )  to  the  position  made  vacant 
by  the  death  of  Colonel  Darnall,  and  after  that 
time  the  family  was  not  prominent  in  public 
life,  although  they  have  been  constantly  distin- 
guished for  great  wealth  and  social  position. 
.Among  other  requirements  in  the  old  "Wood- 
yard"  home  there  was  a  closet  concealed  by  a 
sliding  panel,  which  was  utilized  to  hide  the 
l)riest  and  the  sacred  vestments  in  use  in 
Catholic  worship  during  the  time  of  the  Catho- 
lic ]3ersecution,  and  wdien  it  was  considered  a 
mis<lemeanor  to  harbor  a  priest.  Among  the 
family  portraits  at  "Poplar  Hill"  inay  be  seen 
a  picture  of  Colonel  Henry  at  the  age  of  thir- 
teen years.  He  is  clad  in  a  rich  velvet  suit, 
with  lace  collar,  and  bears  in  his  hands  a  bow 
and  arrow ;  behind  him  is  his  negro  body  serv- 
ant of  about  the  same  age,  plainly  attired,  and 
having  around  his  neck  a  silver  collar,  the 
badge  of  indentured  servitude.    Colonel  Henry 

married  (first)  Alary ,  (second)  Elinot 

Hatton,  widow  of  Colonel  Thomas  Brooke,  of 
Brookfield,  who  was  famed  for  her  beauty. 
Children:  i.  Mary,  married  Charles  Carroll, 
of  Carrollton,  the  direct  ancestor  of  the  fa- 
mous signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence. She  was  grandmother  of  Governor 
John  Lee  Carroll,  of  Maryland.     2.   Eleanor, 

married Carroll,     and     became     the 

mother  of  .Archbishop  Carroll.  3.  Henry,  Jr.. 
see   forward.     4.    Philip.     Probably   others. 

(Ill)  Henry  (2) ,  son  of  Colonel  Henry  ( i ) 
and  Elinor  (Hatton)  (Brooke)  Darnall,  had 
chil'lren:  John,  see  forward;  Robert:  Waugh ; 
Morgan  ;  William  ;  David  ;  Jeremiah  ;  .Aaron  ; 
and  a  daughter  who  married  Major  Nicholas 
.Sewall,  of  Mattapony,  and  had  a  son,  Robert 
Darnall,  who  inherited  the  "Poplar  Hill"  es- 
tate from  his  uncle  for  whom  he  was  named. 

(  1\' )  John,  son  of  Henry  Darnall,  of  "Pop- 
lar Hill,"  removed  to  Culpeper.  A'irginia,  and 
his  descendants  reach  from  Kentucky  to  Ar- 
kansas. Children:  Jose])h,  see  forward,  John 
and  William. 

(  \  )   Jose]ih.   son  of  John   Darnall,  of  Cul- 


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pcixT,  \  irginia,  married  Winticlil  I'ary,  a  rela- 
tive of  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush,  one  of  tlie  signers 
of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  born 
March  i8,  1759.  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Eliz- 
abeth Pary.  Children  :  Joshua,  see  forward  ; 
loseph  Rush:  John;  William;  Susannah,  mar- 
ried Colonel  Thomas  Boyd. 

(\'] )  [osluia,  son  of  Joseph  and  W'inficld 
(I'ary)  Darnall,  who  died  in  1843,  married 
Jemima  Mauzy.  She  was  daughter  of  Henry 
and  Iilizabeth  (Taylor)  Mauzy,  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  Henri  Mauzy,  who  fled  from 
I'rance  in  1685  to  escape  religious  persecution, 
being  concealed  in  a  hogshead  and  labeled  as 
merchandise,  and  thus  shipped  to  England. 
Children  of  Joshua  and  Jeiuima  (  Mauzy  )  Dar- 
nall:    I.   Thomas  Mauzy,  born    1799,  married 

I  first  ) Dabney  ;  children  :  Thomas  .Vn- 

derson,  born  1839;  James,  1840:  William 
Henry.    1841  ;    Virginia,    1844;  Joshua    Pary, 

1847:  Jemima   Mauzy,    1849,  married  

fohnson  and  had  Laura  \'irginia,  who  married 


Thomas  Mauzy  Darnall 
•  Hayden,  and  had : 


M I'yingto 

married    (second) 

.Martha  Hayden,  born  1859:  Catherine  Eliza- 
beth, i860 :  a  daughter  who  died  in  infancy,  2 
Joseph,  born  1800,  died  1803.  3.  Henry 
Mauzy,  see  forward.     4.  Elizabeth,  born  1805, 

married    Weaver.     5.    Joshua,    born 

1806,    married McBride.     6.    Susan, 

born  1807,  married Deal.     7.  Margaret, 

born  1809,  married Jeffries,  and  had  a 

son,  Fayette.     8.  Richard,  born  1812,  married 

Akers,  and  had:  Jenny,  Docia  H.  M., 

Charles,  Thomas,  Lizzie  and  Lucy.  9.  John 
W'.,  born  1814,  married Dyer,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Kentucky  branch  of  the  Darnall 
tamil}'. 

(  \'H  )  Henry  Mauzy,  second  son  and  third 
child  of  Joshua  and  Jemima  (Mauzy)  Dar- 
nall, was  born  in  Waynesboro,  .\ugusta  county, 
\  irginia,  1801.  lie  became  a  merchant  and 
maintained  and  operated  a  general  store.  He 
married  Isabella  McClelland,  also  a  native  of 
X'irginia,  and  had  children:  Jennie  .Adeline, 
Martha,  \'irginia,  Henry  Thomas,  see  forward, 
[•■annie,  .\ndrew  M.,  and  Elizabeth. 

(\'III )  Rev.  Henry  Thomas,  eldest  son  and 
fourth  child  of  Henry  Mauzy  and  Isabella 
(  McClelland)  Darnall,  was  born  in  Mrginia, 
July  28,  1837,  and  died  at  .Atlantic  City,  New 
Jersey,  January,  1908.  He  studied  theolog}' 
and  became  a  regularly  ordained  mini.ster  of 
the  Presbyterian  church.  When  the  civil  war 
broke  out  he  enlisted  in  the  Rockbridge  .Ar- 
tillery, and  from  the  second  battle  of  Manassas 
until   the   surrender  at    Appomattox    followed 


the  fortunes  of  the  Confederate  army,  par- 
lici])ating  in  all  the  hard  campaigns  of  the 
.\rmy  of  \'irginia  under  Ceneral  Robert  E. 
Lee.  His  latter  years  were  spent  in  the  home 
of  his  son.  Dr.  Darnall,  at  Atlantic  City.  Rev. 
Darnall  married  Margaret  Poague,  daughter 
i>f  Samuel  Johnston,  of  Rockbridge  county, 
X'irginia;  she  was  born  .-Xjjril  7,  1842,  and  died 
in  Xorth  Carolina,  May,  1902.  Children:  i. 
1  larry  Johnston,  born  June  18,  1867;  now  pro- 
fessor of  languages  at  Cniversity  of  Tennes- 
see :  unmarried.  2.  William  Edgar,  see  for- 
ward. 3.  Thomas  Vernon,  born  May  4,  1873. 
Being  possessed  of  a  fine  baritone  voice,  he 
cultivated  this  talent  and  has  sung  with  great 
success  in  grand  opera  in  .America  and  all  the 
great  capitals  of  Europe ;  unmarried.  4.  Sam- 
uel Fayette,  born  October,  1873  ;  is  in  business 
in  Xew  York  City :  immarried.  5.  Francis 
Mauzy,  born  1877;  married  Alatilda  McGrann. 
of  Memiihis,  Tennessee,  and  has  a  son,  Frank 
.Mauzy,  Jr. 

(IX)  Dr.  William  Edgar,  second  son  and 
child  of  Rev.  Henry  Thomas  and  Margaret 
I'oague  (Johnston)  Darnall,  was  born  at  Pear- 
isburg,  Ciiles  county,  X'irginia,  .-\pril  Q,  1869. 
His  academic  education  was  obtained  in  the 
schools  of  Durham,  Xorth  Carolina,  which  was 
his  home  until  1888.  In  that  year  he  matricu- 
lated at  the  Washington  and  Lee  L'niversity, 
Lexington,  X'irginia,  and  was  graduated  in  th*" 
class  of  i8g2  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
.Arts.  During  the  two  years  prior  to  his  grad- 
uation he  served  as  private  secretary  to  Gen- 
eral Robert  E.  Lee,  then  president  of  the  Uni- 
versity. He  then  entered  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  the  University  of  Virginia  and  was 
graduated  in  1895  with  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Medicine.  He  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  his  native  state  at  Covington,  but 
at  the  end  of  one  year  removed  to  Xew  Jersey, 
locating  at  .Xtlantic  City.  Dr.  Darnall  has  an 
exceedingly  lucrative  practice  and  si)ecializes 
in  surgery  and  gynecology.  In  these  branches 
of  practice  he  is  regarded  as  an  authority,  par- 
ticularly exi)ert  as  well  as  successful.  He  has 
served  by  apijointment  on  the  staff  of  the  At- 
lantic City  Hospital  for  several  years,  St. 
Michael's  Baby  Hospital,  and  the  Mercer 
Home  for  Invalid  XX'omen.  He  is  a  fellow  of 
the  .American  .Xcademy  of  Medicine,  ex-presi- 
dent of  the  .Atlantic  City  .Academy  of  Aledi- 
cine,  member  of  the  .American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, the  .American  Climatological  Associa- 
tion, Xew  A'ork  Academy  of  Medicine,  Phila- 
delphia Medical  Club,  Philadelphia  Obstetrical 
Societv.  Xew   lersev  Medical  .Association,  and 


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STATE    UF     Xl'.W     |I■.RS1•:^■. 


Atlantic  County  Medical  Society,  of  which  he 
is  ex-president.  He  is  ex-president  of  the 
Fortniglitly  Club  of  Atlantic  City,  which  he 
organized;  member  of  the  I'i  Mu  medical  fra- 
ternity, and  ex-section  chief  of  the  Phi  Gamma 
Delta,  Greek  letter  fraternity.  His  clubs  are 
the  Southern  Club  of  Philadelphia,  and  the 
Country  Club  of  Atlantic  City.  He  has  gained 
membershi])  in  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution 
through  the  military  service  during  the  revo- 
lutionary war  of  his  maternal  ancestor.  Lieu- 
tenant John  McCorkle,  who  served  in  Captain 
fames  Gilmore's  company,  under  command  of 
General  Morgan.  The  only  official  connection 
Dr.  Darnall  has  outside  of  his  professional  as- 
sociations is  with  the  Atlantic  City  Public  Li- 
brary, of  which  he  is  a  trustee. 

He  married,  I<"ebruary  27,  1907,  Elizabeth 
Xesbitt,  a  descendant  of  Charles  Carroll,  of 
Carrollton. 


The  Scull  family  of  New  Jersey 
.SCCLL  are  among  the  earliest  of  the  Eng- 
lish settlers  in  that  colony  and  are 
descended  from  Sir  John  Scull,  of  Brecknock. 
Two  of  his  descendants  emigrated  to  this  coun- 
try and  are  found  on  Long  Island  as  early  as 
September  10,  1685.  from  whence  one  of  them. 
John,  emigrated  again  to  New  Jersey,  while 
his  brother  Nicholas  remained  behind.  In 
"■,"06  their  cousin,  Edward  Scull,  also  came 
over  to  this  country,  and  settling  to  the  west 
of  the  .Mleghanies  became  the  founder  of  a 
family  of  many  descendants  who  are  now  liv- 
ing in  western  Pennsylvania  and  Ohio. 

(  I)  John  Scidl.  founder  of  the  New  Jersey 
branch  of  the  family  came  over  to  America 
from  P>ristol,  England,  in  1685,  on  board  the 
ship  "Bristol  Merchant."  John  Stephens,  mas- 
ter. He  was  bajitizcd  in  England,  October  15. 
1666,  and  in  1694  came  to  New  Jersey  from 
Long  Island  with  his  wife  Mary,  and  a  number 
of  other  persons,  who  took  up  large  tracts  of 
land  on  the  coast.  He  is  said  to  have  been  a 
whaleman,  but  his  name  does  not  occur  in 
either  of  the  two  wdiale  fishing  charters  of  that 
day  which  cover  the  right  for  whale-fishing 
from  Staten  Island  down  to  Cape  May  Point. 
He  acquired  a  large  tract  of  land  on  the  Great 
Egg  Harbor  river,  and  in  1695  bought  of 
Thomas  I'udd,  "250  acres  of  land,  lying  on 
C,reat  I*"gg  Harbor  river  and  Patconk  creek, 
with  the  privilege  of  cutting  cedar  and  com- 
nionidge  f(ir  cattle  on  ye  reaches  and  swamps 
as  laid  out  by  Thomas  I>udd  for  commons." 
The  first  religious  meetings  of  the  Society  of 
Friends   in    his   section   of   W'est    Tersev   were 


held  at  his  home.  In  1722  John  F'othergill. 
an  eminent  minister  among  Friends  writes 
that  he  had  held  such  a  meeting  at  the  house 
i^f  John  and  Mary  Scull,  which  was  very  well 
attended.  Tht)mas  Chalkley,  another  eminent 
Quaker  minister,  also  mentions  holding  meet- 
ings at  John  Scull's  house  in  1725.  John  Scull 
died  in  1745. 

Chihlren  of  John  and  Mary  Scull  were:  I. 
John,  stolen  by  the  Indians  when  a  child  and 
never  recovered.  2.  Abel.  3.  Peter.  4.  Dan- 
iel, who  in  1753  was  the  collector  of  Egg  Har- 
bor township,  Gloucester  county.  5.  Benja- 
min. <'i.  Margaret,  married  Robert  Smith.  7. 
Caroline,    married    Amos    Ireland.     8.    Mary. 

9.  Rachel,  married  James  Edwards.  10.  John 
Recompense,  married  Phebe  Dennis.  11. 
Isaiah,  married  and  had  one  daughter  Abigail. 
12.  Gideon,  referred  to  below.  13.  David,  died 
January  10,  1741.  14.  An  infant  which  died 
unnamed. 

(  II )  (  ndeon,  twelfth  child  and  eighth  son  of 
John  and  Mary  Scull,  was  born  in  1722,  died 
in  1776.  He  married,  in  1750.  Judith,  daugh- 
ter of  James  and  Marjorie  (Smith)  Bellangee. 
and  granddaughter  of  Evi  or  Ives  Bellangee, 
the  Huguenot  refugee,  who  had  fled  from 
Poitou,  F^rance,  first  to  England,  and  then  be- 
tween 1682  and  i6c)0  to  .America,  and  in  1(^97 
had  married  in  the  Philadelphia  Monthly 
Meeting  of  I'riends,  Christiana  de  la  Plaine. 
daughter  of  another  French  refugee.  The 
name  of  this  family,  which  was  originally  de 
iSelangee  and  de  Bellinger,  in  the  old  French 
records,  has  become  corrupted  in  this  country 
to  l'>ellangee,  I'ellanger,  P.allinger  and  Bellin- 
ger. Both  Gideon  Scull  and  his  wife,  Judith 
liellangee,  died  the  same  year  from  smallpox 
contracted  at  the  Salem  Quarterly  Meeting. 
Their  children  were:  I.  Paul.  2.  ^lary,  mar- 
rieil  D.-uid  I'.assett.  3.  James,  referred  to 
below.  4.  Daniel.  5.  (jideon  Jr.,  born  1756, 
died  1825:  married  Sarah  James.  6.  Hannah, 
married  David  Davis.  7.  Judith,  married 
Daniel  (  )rney.  8.  Ruth,  married  Samuel 
Reeve.     (;.    Rachel,    married    Samuel    Bolton. 

10.  Mark,  married  Mary  lirowning.  11.  Mar- 
jorie, married  Daniel  Leeds. 

(Ill  )  James,  third  child  and  second  son  of 
Gideon  and  Judith  (  P.ellangee)  Scull,  was  born 
fVtober  2,  1 75 1,  and  died  August  23,  1812. 
In  Mav.  1774.  he  married  Susanna,  daughter 
of  Daniel  and  .Susanna  ( Steelman  )  Leeds, 
granddaughter  of  Japheth  and  Deborah 
I  Smith )  Leeds,  and  great-granddaughter  of 
D;uiiel  and  Dorothy  (Young)  Leeds,  for 
whose    ancestry    see    elsewhere.     Her    great- 


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grandlatliLT  was  the  first  surveyor -general  of 
West  Jersey,  the  compiler  of  the  celebrated 
"Leeds'  Almanach,"  the  first  work  printed  by 
the  famous  printer  William  Bradford,  and 
"the  first  author  south  of  New  York."  His 
grandson,  the  father  of  Susanna  (Leeds) 
Scull  was  also  a  famous  surveyor-general  of 
New  Jersey,  his  commission  from  King  George 
II  bearing  date  March  3,  1757,  being  now  in 
the  possession  of  Henry  Steelman  Scull,  of 
Atlantic  City,  referred  to  below.  Children  of 
James  and  Susanna  (Leeds)  Scull:  i.  Daniel, 
born  June  3,  1775;  married  Jemima  Steelman. 
2.  (jideon,  born  October  30,  1777;  married 
Alice  Higbee.  3.  Dorcas,  born  October  7, 
1780:  married  (first)  Samuel  Ireland,  (sec- 
ond) Jonas  Leeds.     4.  Paul,  referred  to  below. 

5.  James,  born  March  25,  1786;  married  (first) 
Lorinia    Steelman,    (second)    Smith. 

6.  Susamia,  born  January  25,  1789;  married 
John  Steelman.  7.  Hannah,  born  June  20, 
1792;  married  Edward  Leeds.  8.  Joab,  born 
March  2,   1796;  married  Ann  Stackhouse. 

(IV)  Paul,  fourth  child  and  third  son  of 
James  and  Susanna  (Leeds)  Scull,  was  born 
at  Leeds  Point,  Atlantic  county,  New  Jersey, 
April  2,  1783.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter 
of  Ze])haniah  and  Rebecca  ( Ireland)  Steel- 
man. Her  mother  was  daughter  of  Edmund 
Ireland,  and  her  father,  who  served  as  the  cap- 
tain of  a  company  of  the  Third  battalion 
Gloucester  county  militia  during  the  revolu- 
tion, was  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Adams) 
Steelman,  and  grandson  of  James  and  Sus- 
anna (Toy)  Steelman.  Children  of  Paul  and 
Sarah  (Steelman)  Scull  were:  i.  Anna  Maria, 
born  March  12,  1809,  died  February  16,  1894; 
married  Benjamin,  son  of  Peter  and  Mary 
(Leeds)  Turner.  2.  Zephaniah,  December  10, 
1810,  to  Augu.st  25,  1887;  married  Mary 
Leeds.  3.  James,  October  3,  1813,  to  January 
4,  1872;  married  Amelia  Smith.  4.  John,  No- 
vember 3,  1815,  to  January  17,  1894,  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Cornelius  and  Ann  (Dutch) 
Leeds.  5.  Lewis  Walker,  referred  to  below. 
6.  Lardner,  May  15,  1822,  to  February  i, 
1897;  married  Josephine  Leeds.  7.  Dorcas, 
December  10,  1824,  to  June  17,  1867 ;  married 
Thomas,  son  of  Josiah  and  Esther  (Leeds) 
Bowen. 

(V)  Lewis  Walker,  fifth  child  and  fourth 
son  of  Paul  and  Sarah  (Steelman)  .Scull,  was 
born  at  Leeds  Point,  Atlantic  county,  May  2, 
1819,  and  died  October  10,  1898.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  pay  schools  of  Galloway  township, 
and  when  twenty-one  years  old  enlisted  in  the 
United  States  navy,  sailing  in  the  brig  "Wash- 


ington," under  the  cuuimand  of  (.'ommodore 
Joshua  Sands,  who  was  at  that  time  engaged 
in  the  work  of  the  coast  and  geoiletic  survey. 
In  this  service  he  continued  for  five  years,  and 
the  year  following  his  discharge  married  his 
first  wife.  I'or  a  niunber  of  years  he  was  a 
teacher  in  the  district  schools  of  Galloway 
township,  and  under  President  Buchanan  he 
was  aiJpointed  postmaster  at  Leeds  Point,  an 
iiffice  which  he  held  for  four  years.  For 
twenty  years  or  more  he  held  also  such  elective 
offices  as  township  clerk,  township  committee- 
man, and  assessor  or  collector.  From  1858 
to  1865  he  lived  for  the  greater  portion  of 
each  year  at  Atlantic  City,  where  he  was  en- 
gaged in  the  business  of  house  painting,  besides 
being  the  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Scull 
&  Barstow,  one  of  the  original  grocery  firms 
of  Atlantic  City,  which  began  business  at  the 
corner  of  Atlantic  avenue  and  Mansion  House 
alley,  in  the  basement  of  the  Barstow  House, 
and  within  a  year  moved  into  a  new  building 
at  the  northwest  corner  of  Atlantic  and  Penn- 
sylvania avenues. 

Lewis  Walker  Scull  married  (first)  August 
22,  1846,  Esther,  daughter  of  Steelman  and 
.\nn  (Bowen)  Smith,  born  at  Leeds  Point, 
July  24,  1824.  Her  father  served  in  the  war 
of  1812.  Children:  i.  Ilemy  Steelman,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  Ella  M.,  born  January  7, 
1851,  died  March  i,  1879.  August  16,  1862, 
Lewis  Walker  Scull  married  (second)  Mary 
H.  Sooy,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Abigail 
Bowen  (Sooy)  Higbee.  There  was  no  issue 
to  this  marriage. 

(\T)  Henry  Steelman,  eldest  child  and  only 
.son  of  Lewis  Walker  and  Esther  (Smith) 
-Scull,  was  born  at  Leeds  Point,  Atlantic 
county,  June  4,  1847,  ^"'^  is  "ow  living  in  At- 
lantic City,  New  Jersey.  For  his  early  edu- 
cation he  v^'as  sent  to  the  public  schools  of 
Leeds  Point,  and  in  1865  entered  the  Quaker 
City  Business  College,  from  which  he  gradu- 
ated in  1867.  For  a  few  months  he  was  in  the 
grocery  business,  but  in  the  fall  of  the  same 
or  the  following  year  he  entered  the  employ 
of  Curwin,  Stoddart  &  Brother,  the  large  dry- 
goods  firm  of  Philadelphia,  where  he  remained 
until  1881,  wheia  he  accepted  a  position  with 
Hood  Bonbright  &  Company,  with  whom  he 
remained  until  1884.  He  then  retailed  dry- 
goods  on  his  own  account  in  Camden,  New 
Jersey,  until  1886,  when  he  came  to  Atlantic 
City  and  opened  a  dry-goods  store  under  the 
firm  name  of  H.  S.  Scull  &  Company.  In  1895 
he  embarked  on  the  real  estate  and  insurance 
business,    which    he   has    successfully   carried 


846 


STATE    Oi'-    .\J-:W    IKRSKV, 


(111  up  to  the  present  lime.  From  1890  to  i8yS 
lie  was  a  member  of  the  Atlantic  City  Board  of 
Health,  and  for  four  years  was  the  secretary 
of  that  body.  Since  1890  he  has  been  a  mem- 
ber vi  the  county  board  of  elections,  and  he  has 
been  the- secretary  of  that  body  since  the  first 
passage  of  the  ballot  reform  law.  He  is  a 
Democrat  and  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends.  From  1903  to  1906  he  was  president 
of  the  city  council  of  \'entnor  City.  He  is 
also  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  X'entnor 
Dredging  Conifjany.  which  lias  been  engaged 
for  several  years  in  reclaiming  the  low  lands 
of  Chelsea  and  .Atlantic  City.  He  is  also  sec- 
retary anil  treasurer  of  the  \  entnor  City  water 
and  light  companies.  He  has  always  taken  a 
deep  interest  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the 
well-being  of  the  community,  and  for  a  luim- 
ber  of  years  he  has  been  connected  with  the 
State  Sanitary  Association,  the  American  I'ublic 
Health  Association,  and  he  was  state  delegate 
to  the  National  Pure  Food  and  Drug  Congress, 
which  lastecj  four  days  and  had  for  its  object 
the  passage  of  the  bill  pnwiding  for  govern- 
mental control  of  food,  drugs,  etc.  He  is 
also  one  of  the  governors  of  the  .\tlantic  Citv 
hospital. 

October  2,  1868,  Henry  Steelman  Scull  mar- 
ried Mary,  daughter  of  John  A.  and  Elizabeth 
fjarman)  ISruner,  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania. Their  children  are:  I.  Elizabeth  Bru- 
ner,  born  1869,  died  in  infancy.  2.  Lillie 
Bruner,  born  1870,  died  in  infancy.  3.  Flor- 
ence Esther,  January  4,  1873,  died  November 
29,  i()02.  4.  Lewis  liruner,  born  July  15, 
1874:  married,  February  14,  1907,  Theodosia 
Reed ;  no  children.  5.  Alaie  Emma,  born  No- 
vember 27,  1876;  unmarried.  6.  John  Bruner, 
born  November  29,  1877,  *^l'c<"'  ■'^  infancy.  7 
Harry  DeMar,  September  12,  1880,  unmarried. 
8.  Nan  Bruner,  September  i,  1881  ;  married, 
October  25,  1903,  Robert  ()linmeiss,  Jr.  <). 
Frank  Rue,  .April  2^.  1882:  married,  March  3. 
1908.  Riche  F.,  daughter  of  Richard  F.  Smith, 
e.x-sherifif  of  Camden  county,  and  has  one  child. 
Florence,  born  December  7.  1908.  10.  bjuily 
Corneline,  born  February  21,  1884.  11. 
Charles  I.andel,  .April  2-5,  1887.  12.  Ilelene, 
Melissa.  October  18,  1889. 


This  name  is  derived  from 
(  1  A.SKII.I.     (  iascoigne,  or  (laskoync,  being 

ancitluT  form  of  this  word. 
.Mail}-  branches  of  tlii'  ( lascoigne  familv  be- 
came prominent  in  lM;incc  and  England,  ont- 
of  them   being    lord    iiKwor   of    London.      An- 


other, Sir  \\  illiam,  was  a  noted  London  judge. 
The  family  of  Gaskill  have  been  prominent  in 
.\'ew  Jersey  from  early  times,  serving  in  the 
legislative  bodies  and  conducting  themselves 
as  useful  citizens. 

( I )  Samuel  (laskill,  of  Mays  Landing,  New 
Jersey,  was  a  shipbuilder,  and  constructed  the 
last  vessel  btiilt  at  that  place.  He  had  six 
children,  namely :  Nicholas  B.,  of  Alays  Land- 
ing, deceased  was  a  ship  carpenter ;  Lottie  and 
Sara  A.,  deceased ;  Joseph  H.,  a  sea  captain, 
of  I'hiladelphia,  Pennsylvania;  Annie  S.,  mar- 
ried .Albert  Smallwood,  of  Mays  Landing;  and 
lulmnnd  C. 

(II)  Edmund  C,  s<jn  of  Samuel  Gaskill, 
was  born  at  l>argaintown.  New  Jersey,  after- 
wards removed  to  May's  Landing,  where  he 
became  a  contractor  and  builder;  he  has  now- 
retired  from  active  life.  He  married  Hester 
McCurdy  Ashton,  born  in  Emilville,  New  Jer- 
sey: children:  Samuel  M.,  deceased:  Edmund 
Champion  ;  and  Burton  Ashton,  the  latter  born 
(  )ctober  9.  1889.  now  a  student  in  the  law  de- 
|)artment  of  the  Cniversity  of  Tennessee,  at 
Kno.xville,  of  which  he  was  elected  president 
of  the  senior  law  class  for  the  year  1909-10. 

(  111  )  Edmund  Champion  (2),  elder  son  of 
l-"dmund  Champion  (i)  and  Hester  McCurdy 
(  .\--hton )  (iaskill,  was  born  July  22,  1880, 
at  Mavs  Landing,  New  Jersey.  lie  attended 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  in 
1895  graduated  from  the  county  course,  also 
from  a  jiost-graduate  course  November  20, 
1896.  He  then  attended  the  high  school  at 
Mays  Landing,  from  which  he  graduated  June 
10,  1897.  After  his  graduation  he  spent  an- 
other year  in  the  high  school,  taking  a  teacher's 
course.  September  30,  1897,  -^Ir.  Gaskill  took 
a  competitive  examination  for  a  scholarship 
in  Rutgers  College,  offered  by  the  State  of 
New  Jersey,  and  although  he  won  the  scholar- 
ship circumstances  did  not  allow  his  taking  ad- 
\antage  of  the  opportunity.  In  October,  1898, 
he  entered  the  .-"American  University  at  Harri- 
man.  Tennessee,  where  he  took  up  the  study 
of  law.  In  b'ebruary  of  the  follow-ing  year  the 
Cniversity  held  an  oratorical  contest  in  which 
.Mr.  Gaskill  took  second  prize.  During  the 
summer  and  fall  of  1899  ^Ir.  Gaskill  was  em- 
])loyed  b\-  the  West  Jersey  &  Sea  Shore  Rail- 
road Compau)-.  .\bout  this  time  the  firm  of 
I'ancroft  iS;  Whitney,  ])ublishers  of  law  books, 
offered  to  the  senior  student  in  the  I'niversity 
receiving  the  highest  grade  in  the  law  depart- 
mem  in  oral  and  written  examinations,  a  full 
set  of  books  on  "American  Decisions  and  Re- 


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ports,"  and  Mr.  Gaskill  w  on  the  prize,  his  per- 
centage being  94  1-6  out  of  a  possible  100.  He 
graduated  June  11,  1900,  with  the  degree  of 
LL.  B.  Removing  to  Atlantic  City,  New  Jer- 
sey, he  registered  as  student  at  law,  with  Harry 
Wootton.  City  Solicitor,  of  Atlantic  City, 
where  he  studied  New  Jersey  law.  and  Novem- 
ber 30,  1903.  he  was  admitted  as  an  attorney 
in  the  New  Jersey  bar.  Since  that  time  Mr. 
Gaskill  has  been  successfully  engaged  in  the 
general  practice  of  his  profession.  In  No- 
vember, 1904.  he  was  elected  to  the  office  of 
coroner  of  .\tlantic  county  and  in  that  capacity 
was  called  upon,  October  29,  1906.  to  take 
charge  of  the  inquest  held  over  the  victims  01 
the  terrible  railroad  accident  known  as  the 
"Thoroughfare  liridge  disaster."  His  term  of 
office  ex]3ired  in  1907.  In  political  views  hi' 
is  an  ardent  Republican,  holding  the  office  of 
secretary  of  the  First  Ward  Regular  Republi- 
can Club  of  his  city,  and  September  28,  1909, 
elected  a  member  of  the  Atlantic  County  Re- 
publican executive  committee  from  the  first 
ward.  He  is  a  member  of  Belcher  Lodge  No. 
180,  .Ancient  I'ree  and  .Accepted  IMasons :  Tall 
Cedars  of  Lebanon,  Forest  No.  11  :  Pe<iuod 
Tribe  of  Red  Men,  No.  47 ;  Fraternal  Mystic 
Circle,  No.  890,  and  is  an  active  member  of  the 
.Morris  Guard,  an  independent  military  com- 
pany of  Atlantic  City,  which  he  served  three 
years  as  treasurer.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church  of  Mays  Landing,  to  the 
Atlantic  County  Bar  .Association,  and  Sea  Side 
N'aclit  Club.  Mr.  Gaskill  is  popular  in  social 
circles,  and  is  a  rising  young  member  of  hi.- 
profession,  deserving  the  success  he  has  at- 
tained through  his  untiring  zeal  and  energy 
along  the  lines  of  his  chosen  profession. 

He  married,  June  29,  1904,  Helen  Macken- 
zie, daughter  of  Walter  B.  and  Mary  R.  Jenks, 
and  they  are  the  parents  of  one  dauglitcr, 
Dorothy  Ashton,  born  May  23,  1907. 


Writing  in  her  diary,  September 
S.MlTll  18,  1795.  ^Irs.  EHzabeth  Drinker, 
of  Philadelphia,  says:  "Sam! 
Smith  of  Bucks  C'y,  Saml  Smith  of  Philada, 
and  Sally  Smith  called  this  morning.  Those 
three  Smiths  are  in  no  ways  related — it  is  I  be- 
lieve the  most  common  name  in  Europe  and 
Xorth  .America."  One  reason  for  this  com- 
monness in  the  name  is  that  it  is  one  of  the 
Mi-called  trade  names,  being  derived  from  the 
trade  or  work  of  the  original  owners  and  at 
first  being  ]irefixed  by  the  article  "the."  It 
is  needless   to   state  that   of  the  manv   Smith 


families  connected  with  the  family  of  any  of 
the  colonies  many  of  them  even  in  a  given  lo- 
cality' were  unrelated.  This  is  the  case  with 
the  family  we  are  now  considering,  which  is 
one  of  the  later  residents  of  the  state  of  New 
Jersey  and  came  into  the  state  from  New 
\'ork.  where  it  had  already  made  a  name  for 
itself  in  the  person  oi  the  earliest  traced  an- 
cestor, Samuel  A.  .Smith,  of  New  \drk,  re- 
ferred to  below, 

(I)  Samuel  .Ashcr  Smith  was  born  l'"ebru- 
ary  22.  1782.  in  Salem,  Connecticut,  and  moved 
to  Guilford,  New  York,  in  .April,  1805.  He 
married.  December  25,  1806,  Wealthy  Phelps, 
of  Bolton,  Connecticut,  who  was  born  October 
18,  1785.  He  represented  Chenango  in  the 
-\'ew  York  legislature  in  1816-17-20,  and  was 
also  sheriff'  of  Chenango  county.  He  died 
.March  24,  1864.  He  had  a  number  of  chil- 
dren, among  whom  was  \\  illiam  .\..  referred 
to  below. 

(II)  William  .\ugustus,  son  of  Samuel  A. 
.Smith,  was  born  in  (juilford,  Chenango 
coimt}'.  New  A'ork,  March  30,  1820.  After 
receiving  his  earlv  education  in  that  place  he 
entered  Geneva  College,  New  York,  first  in  the 
classical  and  literary  course,  and  afterwards 
in  the  medical  course,  and  graduated  in  1847. 
For  the  next  five  years  he  practiced  at  Sidney 
Plains,  Delaware  count)'.  New  York,  and  then 
removed  to  Norwich,  New  York,  where  he 
established  an  excellent  practice.  \"olunteer- 
ing  when  the  civil  war  broke  out,  he  was  ap- 
j)ointed  assistant  surgeon  of  the  Eighty-ninth 
Regiment  of  New  York  \  ohmteers,  December 
4.  1861,  and  soon  afterwards  was  promoted 
as  .surgeon  of  the  one  hundred  and  third  regi- 
ment of  New  York  Volunteers,  and  served  in 
the  following  engagements:  Camden.  North 
Carolina,  .April  19,  1862;  South  Mountain, 
Maryland,  September  14,  1862:  .Antietam, 
.Marvland,  September  17,  1862;  and  while 
surgeon  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Third  New 
^'ork  A'olunteers  served  in  the  battle  of  Fred- 
ericksburg. \irginia.  December  13.  1862,  and 
at  the  siege  of  Suffolk.  Virginia,  from  April 
12,  to  May  4,  1863,  and  was  in  charge  of  the 
Third  Division,  Ninth  Army  Corps  Hospital, 
and  while  on  duty  was  .severely  and  very 
nearly  fatallv  wounded  by  a  ])istol  ball  which 
entered  his  abdomen  and  which  remained  in 
his  body  and  was  carried  by  him  until  his 
death.  He  was  discharged  by  reason  of  this 
wound  on  October  23.  1863.  On  recovering, 
however,  he  re-enli,sted,  and  was  appointed 
surgeon  of  the  F"orty-.seventh  New  York  \'o]- 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


iinK-i.-r  Infantry  un  Dcccniber  17,  1863,  and 
was  on  duty  with  his  regiment  at  Hihon  Head, 
North  Carolina.  A  short  time  after  that  he 
was  ordered  to  Jacksonville,  Florida,  and  took 
charge  of  the  hospital  there,  and  reorganized 
the  same  and  attended  to  the  reception  of  one 
thousand  five  hundred  wountled  from  the  bat- 
tle field  of  Olustee.  He  was  also  placed  in 
charge  of  the  steamer  "Monitor"  and  "Mary 
I'owell"  and  in  July,  1864,  he  was  detailed  up 
the  Savannah  river  in  charge  of  the  steamer 
"George  Leasey,"  and  superintended  the  ex- 
change of  prisoners,  and  exchanged  the  last 
prisoners  that  were  exchanged  during  the  war. 
and  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  general  prison 
hospital  at  Newport  News,  \'irginia,  in  the 
spring  of  1865,  and  was  appointed  health 
officer  of  Norfolk,  Virginia,  which  office  he 
held  until  August.  1865,  when  he  was  mustered 
out  with  his  regiment  on  the  30th  of  that 
month. 

Dr.  Smith  then  settled  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  with  the  intention  of  confining  himself 
strictly  to  office  practice,  but  unable  to  resist 
the  demands  upon  him,  he  was  soon  engaged 
in  active  professional  practice,  which  he  con- 
tinued to  perform  for  many  years.  Notwith- 
standing his  large  practice  he  found  the  time 
to  be  deeply  interested  in  and  to  be  an  active 
participant  in  everything  which  worked  for  the 
public  welfare,  and  he  held  several  offices  of 
important  public  trust,  being  at  one  time  the 
county  clerk  of  Essex  county,  and  at  another 
alderman  of  the  city  of  Newark.  He  died 
August  6,  1892.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
various  county  and  state  medical  societies,  and 
was  held  in  high  esteem  by  his  professional 
brethren  and  all  who  knew  him.  By  his  wife, 
13etsey  E.  (Wade)  Smith,  who  died  August 
20,  1902,  in  her  eighty-first  year,  he  had  two 
children:  I.  Samuel  Asher,  referred  to  below. 
2.  Wealthy  Phelps,  who  married  John  Townley 
and  has  had  two  daughters,  Maud  and  Bessie. 
The  latter  died  in  infancy.  Maud  married 
Richard  Hobart  and  has  two  children  :  Richard 
Jr.  and  John  Reginald. 

fni)  Samuel  Asher  (2),  only  son  of  Dr. 
William  A.  and  Betsey  E.  (Wade)  Smith,  was 
born  in  Sidney  Plains,  New  York,  August  21, 
1852.  He  is  engaged  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness in  New  York  City,  and  has  his  office  in  the 
new  Terminal  Building.     He  secured  his  early 


education  in  Norwich,  New  York,  and  on  the 
return  of  his  father  from  the  civil  war  in  1865 
moved  with  him  to  Newark  and  attended  the 
State  street  public  school,  and  finished  his 
education  at  the  Grace  Church  Protestant 
Episcopal  school.  In  1887  he  was  elected  and 
served  a  full  term  as  county  clerk  of  Essex 
county,  and  in  1892  was  appointed  a  member 
of  the  excise  board  of  the  city  of  Newark,  and 
was  elected  its  president.  In  1899  he  was 
api:>ointed  by  the  jiresident  to  take  the  census 
of  1900  and  also  took  the  manufacturers'  cen- 
sus of  Essex  county.  He  married,  November 
12,  1879,  -Ada  M.,  the  youngest  of  the  thirteen 
children  of  the  late  Rosches  Heinisch,  who 
emigrated  to  this  country  about  1828.  and  who 
attained  fame  as  the  originator  of  patent  tailor 
shears  and  as  the  inventor  of  the  original  pro- 
cess for  welding  steel  on  iron.  He  died  Au- 
gust f),  1874.  Samuel  A.  by  his  wife  Ada  M. 
has  had  three  children:  i.  Edmund  E.,  born 
September  3.  1880.  2.  William  Asher,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  Wayne  Parker,  born  Oc- 
tober 22,  1896. 

(I\')  William  Asher,  second  child  and  son 
of  Samuel  Asher  (2)  and  Ada  M.  (Heinisch) 
.Smith,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  De- 
cember I,  1883,  and  is  now  living  in  Newark. 
He  was  educated  at  the  Newark  Academy,  and 
on  February  20,  1899,  entered  the  law  office 
of  Coult  &  Howell,  with  whoin  he  read  and 
studied  law  until  December  i,  1904,  when  he 
was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  an  at- 
torney. He  continued  in  the  office  of  Coult 
&  Howell,  which  firm  was  subsequently 
changed  to  Coult,  Howell  &  Ten  Eyck,  and  on 
the  retirement  of  Jay  Ten  Eyck  from  that 
firm  on  his  appointment  as  jndge  of  the  Essex 
county  court  of  common  pleas,  he  was  admit- 
ted on  May  i,  1906,  into  partnership  with  Jo- 
se])h  Coult  and  James  E.  Howell,  and  the  firm 
was  continued  as  Coult,  Howell  &  Smith.  In 
November,  1907,  on  the  retirement  of  James 
E.  Howell  from  the  firm,  on  his  appointment 
as  vice  chancellor,  Mr.  Coult  and  Mr.  Smith 
continued  the  practice  of  law  under  the  name 
of  Coult  &  Smith.  Mr.  Smith  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  as  a  counsellor  in  November,  1907. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Essex  Club,  North  End 
Club,  Forest  Hill  Field  Club,  the  Automobile 
Club,  and  the  Lawyers'  Club  of  Essex  County. 
I  fe  is  unmarried. 


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