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GENEALOGICAL
MEMORIAL HISTORY
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
A RECORD OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF HER PEOPLE IN l-HE
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
1910
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Copyright 1910
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
This name in America is
COLT-COl'LT 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'' fi.xes the date of this occurrence as
August 31,01675, 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
(401)
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-
fonl 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 tliree 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. (HI) John.
(I\') John (2). (V) John (3). (VI) John
(4). (VII) John (s), 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 born
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. Alay
8-23, 1712, 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 ( )ctol)er lo, 1723, lie was com-
missioneil 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 Mr. Sterling, of Xiantia. 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, Xovember 7, 1734, Abigail 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,
Xew 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. Isaac, 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 county. The name Joseph
Coult appears in each generation, both in Con-
necticut and Xcw Jersey, with this difference,
that in Connecticut ]3ortions 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 London county, Connecticut.
(IV) Isaac Coult, probably son of Colonel
Benjatuin and Miriam (Harris) Colt, was
born in Lyme, Connecticut, in 1743, died in
Sussex county, Xew Jersey, in 1837. He
came from Connecticut to New Jersey when a
young man. He married, July 13, 1766, Sarah
Holbart, 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
Hetzel. 2. Isaac, 1772, married
Xancy Aiorris. 3. Anna, 1774, married
Xorris. 4. .\shel, 1776, died 1804, un-
married. 5. Sarah, 1778, died 1779. 6. John,
1781, married English. 7. Elizabeth,
1783, niarried 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 bom in Papakating, New Jersey, were
as follows: i. Robert, 1810, died unmarried in
1838. 2. Sarah, 1812. 3. Elizabeth, 1814,
married Charles Roe. 4. Abigail, 1815, mar-
ried John Couse. 5. Lucy, 1817, married
Charles Roe. 6. John, 1819, married Cather-
ine Titman. 7. Henrietta, 1 82 1. 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
Xew York City. Shortly afterward, how-
ever, he returned to his native state and was
admitted as an attorney-at-law there in Feb-
ruary, 1861. He became a law partner with
Thomas /Vnderson 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 I'lascoi^. In 1873
he withdrew from the firm and removed to
Xewark, 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,
under appointment of President Cleveland, the
firm of Leonard & Coult succeeded to his ex-
tensive law practice and they made a specialty
of municipal 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 affiliations
included membership in the Union 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 Mercer
family in New Jersey was John Mercer, who
was the minister of the kirk in Kinnellan, Aber-
deensliire, 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 who was christened Isabel. Seven
children were the result of one or both of these
marriages, but the records at present available
are insufficient 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 was 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 \\'illiam, the founder of the Mercer
family of New Jersey.
(I) William Mercer, the colonist, above
mentioned as the son of the Rev. William
fiercer, of Pittsligo, was born about 1715, 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 W'\\\-
iani 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 Nczu York Gazette and
ll'rckly Post Boy and the Mm.' York Gazette
and JVcekly 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 recognized by their proximity or
relation to "Dr. Mercer's Mills." which were
situated in the "blue hill country of Somerset
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CDunty, on the road thruugh Johnstone's Gap
to the \'alley between the first and second
mountains." Dr. Mercer's own home was in
New LirunswMck, where he held the title to
considerable properties, one of them being "a
house and large garden situated upon the bank
of the river," the house having "three good
fine rooms upon the first floor, and four rooms
on the second, with a good kitchen, cellar,
pantr)', &c., below," antl the outbuildings con-
sisted of "a large barn with very convenient
stabling in it. and other outhouses, also two
large convenient storehouses adjoining." This
pr()])erty Dr. Mercer had bought from William
Donaldson, who had afterward rented it from
him for a number of years, and then having
(letcrmincd to go back to England, had given
up his lease, whereupon Dr. Mercer advertised
it as for rent in the Xew York papers. From
another advertisement in the Ncic York Gazette
and Weekly Mereitry of January 15, 1776,
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
Reifl advertises forty shillings reward for a
runaway negro man, named Sam, who had
formerly belonged to and lived in the family
of Dr. Mercer. Dr. Mercer's will is recorded
in Fiber K, page 208, of the East Jersey wills,
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. William
Mercer had nine children: William, John,
Isaac, (iabriel, I'eter, Martha, .\chibald,
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
P.ermuda, and the other in Rarbadoes. 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 daugh-
ter, married Samuel Highway, who settled in
Cincinnati, Ohio, and after her husband's
death, somewhat later than 1814, returned to
New Jersey and made her home with her niece,
Mrs. Theodore Frelinghuysen, at Newark,
New Jersey, where she died in November,
1822. Robert, the youngest son of Dr. William
Mercer, the colonist, settled in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 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-
huysen, Charlotte Frelinghuysen and Maria
Moss: Letitia Mercer, who died ynung; Rob-
ert Mercer, who followed his uncle to New
Orleans ; and Mary Strycker Mercer, who mar-
ried and left one child, Isaac Sydney Jones.
(II) Archibald, sixth son of Dr. William
Mercer, of New Brunswick, was born in 1747,
either shortly before or just after the father
came to this country. He died in 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 Jersey, 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-
nnt, William Halsey, John and Stephen Van
Gourtlandt, Jesse Gilbert, Ashbel Upson. David
Lyman, .-\braham Wooley. Archi]jpus Priest
and William Hillhouse. The early years of
.\rchibald Mercer's life were spent in his
father's home in New Brunswick, and here,
under the scholarly 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
among the students of King's College, now
Columbia University, or whether he went to
the city 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 York, 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 of
Doctor Mercer at Xew lirunswick, or Archi-
bald Mercer at Walter and Samuel Franklin's
store in New ^'ork." The times in which
.\rchibald Mercer's youth, and early manhood
were passed were indeed stirring ones and
just what part he took in them we have never
been able to ascertain. The only military
record left by the New Jersey Mercer is that
(jf Ca])tain John, who at the beginning of the
war was an ensign in Captain Howell's com-
jjany, first battalion of the first establishment
of the Jersey line, who on November 14, 1775,
became first lieutenant of the same company.
On November 29, 1776, Lieutenant John Mer-
cer was transferred to Captain A [orris's com-
]jany, first battalion of the second establish-
ment oi the Jersey line, and on February 13,
1777, was promoted cai)tain of the same com-
pany. He was taken prisoner of war and ex-
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changed on November 6, 1780. and he was
finally retired September 26, 1780. Unless this
Captain John Alercer 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 ciimnmn 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, New Jersey, so that
between the years 1776 and 1794 that was
])robab!y his home. At some time between
then and the beginning of the new century he
removed to Newark, New Jersey, for in 1806
we find that he was chairman of the committee
that made tlie contract for the construction of
the Newark turnpike, his fellow committeemen
being John N. Gumming, Jesse Gilbert, Ashbel
Upson, David Lyman, Abraham Wooley,
Archippus Priest and \Villiam Hillhouse. Un
March 10, 181 1, he and George Scriba, Esijuire,
were sponsors in Trinity Church for Joseph
Augustus, 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 A., 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 .$10,000.00 each :
he a])])oints 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 New 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. And 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 N. 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; Archibald, 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
niarried and died before their father, Louisa,
who married John Frelinghuysen, son of the
Hon. Frederick Frelinghuysen, who is con-
si^'ered 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 New
London, Connecticut, after being twice mar-
ried : by his first wife he had four children,
Mary Schenck, Archibald, John Frelinghuysen,
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."
Rv 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 ctiild and third daughter,
died January 26, 1830. having married. July
22. 1808. Dr. James Lee, of New 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. Charlotte Mercer, the next child to
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Gertrude, married Theodore, another son of
the Hon. Frederick FrcHnghuysen, 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 I-Velinghuysen, afterwards
Mrs. James Morgan, and Sarah Isham, after-
wards the wife of George S. Hazard. By his
second marriage, June 18, 1817, to Harriet
Wheat, who died I'"cbruary 20. 1854. he had
eight more children : Louisa Frehnghuysen
and Helen Highway, who died in infancy;
Harriet, John Dislnjn 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 FL Grosvenor, whose
only son is the Rev. William Mercer Gros-
venor, D. D., the present rector of the Prot-
estant Episco])al Church of the Incarnation,
Xew York City. A little over four years after
his wife's death, Archibald Mercer, senior,
married (second) July 5, 1812, Catharina
Sophia Cuyler, widow of John Van Cortlandt,
who survived him about nine years, dying
March 25, 1823. Of this marriage there was
no issue. By her first husband. Airs. Mercer
had one son, James Van 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
Millstone. 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 ajjpear
as though he were to some extent the favorite
son, but whether this was due to the ])romise
of a brilliant career, or to innate and acquired
characteristics that en<k'ared 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, there is now no means of deter-
mining. William Mercer died intestate, but
from his father's will we learn that .\rchibald
Mercer kcjn 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
jjage 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 e.xcept 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, (iertrude and William, the
first of his four grown up children to die, and
also remembering 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, i8og, 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 William's only son was born,
just twenty-three days after his father's de-
cease, in the old house of his grandfather on
llroad street upon the present site of the Con-
tinental Hotel. Children: Margaret Willett,
Ixirn .May 3, 1810, died March 10, 181 1 ; Will-
iam Theodore, who will now be considered.
(IN) 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
nld. William Theodore was then adopted by
lii> A\nit Charlotte, the wife of the Hon. Theo-
dore Frehnghuysen, 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 the largest and most promi-
nent academic institutions of the country. Dur-
ing the time young Mercer spent there as an
undergraduate 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, W'illiamstown. Massachusetts, and grad-
uated there three years later, in 1830. He then
went to New London, Connecticut. W'here 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
William Theodore fiercer graduated from the
Jefferson 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 underniined his health, as it
demanded from him far greater physical labors
than his inherited delicacy of constitution could
bear. Consequently 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
Newark, about 1845, ^ 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 yi. D. and estab-
lished himself in the practice of his profession.
Dr. Mercer became a member of the Essex
County Medical Society, in the proceedings
and work of which he took a ver\' 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
held 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 Frelinghuy-
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.
From this marriage there were seven children,
all of whom reached maturity, although only
four of them had issue. The three unmarried
children and one of the others are dead, the
remaining children are still living. These chil-
dren were: i. Charlotte Frelinghuysen Mer-
cer, bom 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 Whitehead,
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
Januar\- 2^. 1850 : died single. January 19. 1882.
( \' ) Frederick Frelinghuysen, oldest son
and third child of William Theodore fiercer,
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
prepared for college and from which, in 1857,
he entered the fresliman 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 1864, 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 Anable, of New
York, and his wife, Mary Barnard (Steele)
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Anable. She bore him five children, all of whom
are still liviiijj and three of vvh(jm are married :
I. Frederick \\'iniam, born June 9, i869;super-
intendant of the loan department of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company, of Xew York; mar-
ried, April 28, 1S97, Mabel Russell, who has
borne him two children, Russell Barnard and
Gertrude. 2. Alice Louise, born December 15,
1871 : become the wife of Easton ^L Davitt. of
216 Belleville avenue, Newark; she had one
child, Mercer, who died in infancy. 3. Dumont
Frelingluiysen, born May 31, 1874; educated
in the imblic and high schools, and is now with
the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New
^'ork. 4. Jnhn Eccleston. born November 19,
1876; was a member of the Seventy-first New
^'ork Regiment during the Spanish \var. 5.
Gertrude, born March 7. 1881 ; married Cap-
tain Frank Wheaton Rowell, and has two chil-
dren : ( iertrude and Katharine ; one, \\'hcaton,
died in infancy.
I \' ) Theodore l""relinghuysen. fnurth child
and 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 which 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 department of the Newark post
office. 1 lere he remained for twelve years
longer, and then took up a position with the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Comjjany, which he retained for fifteen years
longer, and finally resignetl in 1903 in order
to undertake the work in the mathematical de-
])artmcnt of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
Company, whei-c he now is. Mr. Mercer is a
Republican and a communicant of Trinity
Protestant E])iscopal Church, Newark. On
January 24, 1870, Theodore FTelinghuysen
Mercer married, in Trinity Church, Newark,
Josephine, daughter of Elias N. Miller and his
wife, Susan ^faria (Coats) Miller, who has
borne him one daughter, Maria Coats Mercer,
born November 4, 1878. and now the wife of
George I'ache Emory, M. D., son of Thomas
Emory, of Confederate Navy, and Percy ( Mc-
Carthy) Emory, of Syracuse, New York, and
grandson of Brigadier-General William Hems-
ley Emory. L'nited States Army, and Matilda
Wilkins (liache) Emory, the sixth child of
Richard Bache, the younger, of Philadeliihia.
They have one child, Thomas Mercer Emory,
born .March 6, 1908.
( \' ) Archibald Mercer. M. D., fourth son
and sixth 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 wdiich
time he has been a practitioner in Newark.
On leaving the medical school in 1871, Dr.
Mercer was appointed physician in charge of
S. I'arnabas Hospital, in New'ark, wdiich posi-
tion he held for about nine years, until 1880,
and then he finally decided to make surgery
his sjiecialty. A year later, in 1881, he became
\isiling surgeon of the Newark City Hospital,
.•md four years later, in 1885, was appointed to
the same position in S. Eiarnabas' Hospital.
These ]3ositions, 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 188 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
1891 lie accepted the office of surgeon to the
Xew 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
Essex 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 Essex County Medi-
cal Societv. 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
Xewark. In 1889 he became secretary of the
Society for the Relief of the Widows and
Orphans of the Medical Men of Xew 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 medi-
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 c|ualifications 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 March 15, 1895, he performed the
same office for his unmarried sister Charlotte,
and again in 1899 for his sister Gertrude,
widow of William Whitehead. Dr. Alercer
has for years been a member of the Essex
Club ; he is a communicant of Trinity Prot-
estant Episcopal Church, in the early days and
welfare of which his 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-
grandfather, the two pews being originally one
square 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 years 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 Mercer married Katrina, daugh-
ter of .Alexander Campbell, of Newark, by his
wife, Emma (Field) Campbell: they have no
children.
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 country's roll of
honor. The Howe banner is in the cha])el of
Henry \TI., and in the struggle between h^rance
and England 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-
[lorted to be connected.
( I ) John How was born in lingland, 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
year, 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 RIarlborough. Massachusetts, about
1657. where he built his cabin, a little east of
the "Indian planting field," and 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
Ward 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 eff'orts 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 serv'ed 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. U'idow 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,
iCxj7.
(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, 1711,
Lydia Brigham ; children: i. Timothy, born
May 24, 1712; died October 15, 1740. 2. Pru-
dence, November 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, .\ugust 12. 1730. 9. Lydia, June 29,
1732-
( I\ ) Rezaleel, 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 Mofifat Howe, M. D., and
upon researches made in 1844 by another
grand.son. 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 Anna
Foster, and that of their at least seven chil-
dren, three sons and two (laughters 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, bom 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 Ba.xter and Titus, birth dates un-
known. Of Titus no record is left. The
others, especially Bezaleel ((|. v.), have bril-
liant military records. Darius was a lieuten-
ant in the revolution. Timothy served in the
French 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.
F>axter was a lieutenant in Colonel Jonathan
l!rcwer'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
York City.
(V) 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 name the form of Howe, with the final "e."
1 le was very young when his father died, leav-
ing the family in straitened circumstances, and
his 0])portunities for education were limited,
tlKJUgh he managed by stealth to secure one
(|narter's tuition at night school. He made
a brilliant record during the revolutionary
war. "About three weeks before the battle
of r.unker Hill," writes his son in his rem-
iniscences, "officers w^ere 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-
rounded by his wife and daughters, who hung
about his neck and wept 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
iiunker Hill, although not brought into action,
being lield with the reserves, and he continued
with the army throughout the war. linter-
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
to Philadelphia with dispatches, and he was
l^resent at tlie execution of Major .Vndre. He
was taken ]irisoner by the British shortly after
the battle of Long Island, and at the close of
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411
the war, as captain, commanded the escort
that brought General Washington's baggage
and papers to Mount Vernon. He subse-
t|uently served in the Indian wars under "Mad
Anthony Waj-ne," 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,"
published in Washington, D. C, by F. B.
Heitman, 1893: "Second lieutenant ist N. H.
Regt.. 8th Xovember, 1776; wounded at Still-
water ( I'reeman'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 No-
vember, 1791 : assigned to 2d sub-legion 4th
Septeniber, 1792; major, 20th October, 1794;
honorably discharged ist November, 1796."
.\fter resigning from the army. Major
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 prac-
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 23, 1805, John
Guion, and became the mother of eleven chil-
dren, two of whom, William H. and Stephen
\k Guion, 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) Higgins ; 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,
1815, died January 18, 1858; married, August
5, 1838, Jane Cordelia, daughter of Jacob
Frank and Mary Barnet ; one child, Jacob
P^rank 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 bodi.es 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 Moflfat ?Iowe, M. D.,
in Greenwood Cemetery, BrcKjklyn, 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.
(VI) Rev. John Moffat Howe, M. D.,
fourth child and second son of Major Beza-
leel Howe, by his second wife, was born at 12
Rose street. New York, January 23, 1806.
His school days 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 estal>
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 appeared in
medical and other journals, and his own per-
sistent practical effort. To this period of his
life belongs his service in the New York
militia, which was then compulsorj'. 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.
Howe was licensed an e.xhorter in the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, and March 9, 1836, in
the Greene Street Church, he was made a
licensed jireacher. From this time his labors
as a local minister were constant. He was
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STATE OF NEW [ERSEY.
ordained deacon May ly, 1839, by Bishop
Ivlijah 1 ledding, and elder by Bishop Thomas
A. Morris, in the Seventh Street Oiurch, New
^'ork 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 readil}' jirocurable, walking con-
siderable distances to meet his appointments.
In 1835 he supplied the pastorate at Astoria,
Long Island, and June 6, 1837, was appointed
chaplain of the New York Hospital. About
a year after assunting 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.
Ah(Jtit 1848 Dr. lluwe tiKjk u|) his residence
in Orange, New Jersey, making daily trips to
New York for business. In 1853 he made his
final change of residence to Acquackanonk
(now I'assaic), .\evv 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 ])rofound 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
died December 5, 1885, from a stroke of
paralysis, after a few days' suffering, and his
remains were laid to rest in Cedar I.,awn Cem-
etery, on the banks of Dundee Lake, between
Pas.saic and , Paterson, in a plot selected by
himself. He left behind him the record of a
man of exceptional ability in his chosen ])ro-
fession, as one of the most prominent local
preachers 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
.August 10, 1817, died' October 15,' 1841,
daughter of Rev. Thomas and Mary W.
(Morgan) Ma.son. Children: i. Frances
Ramadge, born .August 10. 1839, married, Sep-
tember 18, 1859, Rev. John Andrew Munroe,
of .Annapolis, Maryland, son of Rev. Jonathan
and Matilda (Keiser) Alunroe; 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. Mrs. Howe died Oc-
tober 19, 1844, in giving birth to a son, John
Morgan Howe, who married, October 17,
iSC/), 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,
November 18, 1875, Sarah Louise, daughter
of Henry and Sarah Simmons, of Passaic.
He was a prominent physician in Newark. 3.
Charles Alortimer, born May i, 1851, married,
October 12, 1876, Margaret Ida, daughter of
Caleb .Augustus and Sarah Hall (Withington)
Canfield ; child, Ella Louise, married Ansel
Pjartlet. 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 lilenora, born October 15 or
18, 1858, married, January 7, 1883, Byron
David, son of David and Mary (Mechem)
Halsted ; two children.
( \ H ) (ieorge Rowland, eldest son of Rev.
John Moffat and Emeline (Jenkins) Howe,
was born in New A^ork City, October 21, 1847,
and was baptized there by Rev. Dr. Nathan
Hangs. His preparatory education was mostly
by private tutors and in select schools. He
entered the University of the City of New
York, class of i8()8, but left in his sophomore
year and accepted a position with Carter, Hale
tS: Company, manufacturing jewelers, Newark,
.\ew 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.
1 lowe has been manager of the manufacturing
department. While his business qualities have
long been recognized by his associates and the
business public, Mr. Howe is well known by
his connection with the religious interests of
Newark and East Orange. He has been iden-
STATE OF NEW I ERSE Y
413
tified with the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation of Newark for more tlian 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 January I. 1901, he was elected president
of the Alunicipal 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
inihistrial education. He is one of the di-
rectors of the Howard Savings Institution.
Fie is deeply interested in historical subjects,
and is a member of the board of managers of
the Washington's Headquarters Association,
at Alorristown, 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. Flowe 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., wIk^ died in infancy. 2. Her-
l)ert Barber, born in Newark, October 25,
1882, attended jireparatory school, Williston
Seminary, Eastham])ton, Massachusetts, and
graduated from Williams College in 1905. 3.
Ruth Eno, born April 22, 1886, is a graduate
of the Dana School, Morristown, New Jersey.
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.
P>efore 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 apj^roach-
ing the ]jronunciation 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 subsec|uently 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.
( I ) John, the son of Clement and Grace
Sheene, and grandson of P'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 Fo.x 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.
He 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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STATE OF \E\V JERSEY.
Yearly Meeting from the Friends in Burling-
ton, West Jersey, was dated the seventh day
of the twelfth month 1680," and John Shinn
was a member of the Men'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 prob-
ably as early as 1678 and that he was a free-
holder and a member of the Society of Friends.
\\'e also find him 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 13, 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
antl 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, surveyed
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, 17 12, 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 ^Meeting and had
been prominent in the erection of the Octagon
Meeting House, which existed and was in use
1 683- 1 787, 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,
niarrieil (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. Mary, married
(first) John Crosby, ninth 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) Mary 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.
T-[is 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
aroiuid 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
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
415
not been observed. The committee reported
on April 5, 1697, to a meeting that crowded
the Octagon Aleeting 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, Jolin
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
j)artv returned to the ^Meeting House and the
intention of the marriage duly announced by
both James and Abigail, before the assembled
multitude, accompanied by applause from a
large number of young people in attendance.
One month later, on their second declaration,
they were given liberty to marry 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, 1712, 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 Lippincott 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 \\'illiam 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, and 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, g-21, 1716. 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
]\Iary 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 W'est, 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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STATE OF XKW IKRSEY.
J(jlin Aiilrini. He was a farmer in New Han-
over township for many years. He inherited
lands in that township as well as in New
Eg}-pt, 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, and 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
181 2. 2. Asa ((]. v.). 3. James, January 23,
1744: married Lavinia Haines, in 1768. 4.
Sarah, June 10, 1747 ; married Nathaniel Pope,
in 1769. 5. I'nity, February 9, 1749-50; mar-
ried Joseph Pancoast, in 1767. 6. Caleb, May
3, 1752; married Mary Lucas, in 177 1. 7.
Alary, November 14. 1754, who died young.
8. Mary, August 20, 1756. 9. Abigail, .April
9, 1759: married David Johnson, November
30. 1779.
( IV) Asa, second son and child of Solomon
and Mary (Antrim) Shinn, was born 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 1791 and an elder in 1792. No charge
of any kind was ever printed against him and
his 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 I'riend's Cere-
mony, after due publication of intention in
open meeting, in 1769, to Sarah, daughter of
Samuel and Sarah Black Cauntt, and grand-
daughter of Zebulon and Sophia (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 H. and Anna,
daughters of Israel ; two grandsons, Joseph
and Solomon, sons of Solomon ; granddaugh-
ter, Mary, daughter of Solomon ; four grand-
cIiildrcMi. .'^tacy, .\iin. Rebecca and iCliza, chil-
dren of son, Joshua ; daughter, Sarah ; sons,
William, 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, 181 3.
(V) William, second son and third child of
Asa and Sarah ( (jauntt) Shinn. was born P'eb-
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, 181 5. 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
William and .Ann (Forsyth) Shinn were six in
munber and born as follows: i. Shreve, No-
vember 23, 1815; married Emily, daughter of
Samuel and Lydia Woolman, December 17.
1S40. 2. Phoebe, February 15, 1817; died
Oct(jber 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.
5. Elwood, May 27, 1822 ; married Hannah,
daughter of fosejih and .A.schah Hartshorn,
.March 14, 1861. 6. Willit ((|. v.).
(\'I ) \Villit, fourth son and youngest child
cif William and Ann (I'-orsyth) Shinn, was
Ixirn 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
June 3, 1855, when he returned to Burlington
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417
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 inquiries 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 knowledge
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. Air.
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-
WASHINGTON 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 II of Great Britain,
Leonard Washington, the great-great-grand-
father of General George Washington, the first
]iresident of the United States, was obliged to
leave the home of his ancestors at Howgie
.Mountain in Westmorland and to settle with
his five sons at Bethnal Green, one of the
nietropolitan 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 continued 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, W'alter, Rondo,
.■\karis, Bardolf, and Torfin the Dane, who as
the old Scandinavian and Danish records show
was the direct descendant of Odin the con-
(jueror of the Noresland nearly an hundred
years before Christ.
( I ) One of the sons of Leonard Washing-
ton 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 si.x 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.
(Ill) W'alter .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 which 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 LInited 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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i
aiul Trinity Medical College, Toronto, from
which he was graduated 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 Roscom-
mon. Michigan, and also Roscommon county
physician. He was also one of the organizers
and the chairman of the board of supen-isors
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 JMichigan 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. I. D. IJromley, which continued for some
time. In 1894 he was appointed county
ph)sician 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
I'lxYLING 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 1 87 1 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
Presbj'terian minister at Easton Center, Mass-
achu.setts, who married Mabel Owen and has
one child, Owen Fryling. 2. John, died in
infancy. 3. Elizabeth G., died in infancy. 4.
John, wJio lives at 132 First street, Newark,
New Jersey; married Matilda Giescle 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.
(II) Henry H., seventh child and fifth son
of \\ illiam and Elizabeth G. (Habbema) Fry-
ling, was born in Newark, New Jersey, Feb-
ruary 14, 1876, about five years after his father
liad 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-
])oration law and he is now one of the recog-
nized authorities on that subject. Mr. Fry-
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 Accepted Masons,
a member of the Scottish Rite and one of the
officers of Salaam Temple, Mystic Shrine. He
is also a member of the Essex County Country
Club, a trustee of the Roseville Athletic Asso-
ciation, treasurer of the Lawyers Club of
Essex 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 of seldom oc-
HARGRO\'E currence in LTnited 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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419
ably born in Xorth Carolina about 1800, and
migrated upon arriving at his majority, about
182 1, 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 Harvard College Law School, LL.
B., 1859; was professor of equity 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-
ern 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 Builington county.
2. Richard (2), who went south and located
in North Carolina and his descendants in Ala-
bama.
(II) 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 W'rightstown 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, William 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 Van 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
\'oIunteers 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, March 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 wliich 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 fann. 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
Alills, 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 V^aughn &
Kinsley, having been appointed 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 IMasonic fraternity, being a
member of the New Egypt Lodge, Ancient
Free 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. Iliirlington county. New Jersey,
August 5. 1892. He married, in 1870,
Hannah 'r.rown Scattergood, daughter of
Thomas and Elizabeth Brown Scattergood,
and they had one daughter who died in infancy
and one son Miles Warner (q. v.).
( \' ) Miles Warner, only son of Martin Van
lUn-cn 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 Brown's ^lills. 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 has
filled various town offices, including township
clerk from the date of his majority. He was
one of the organizers of the Pemberton Na-
tional Bank 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 P'orcst Lake Poultry Company. His
church affiliation is with the Methodist Epis-
copal church, of which he is a steward. He is
a member of New Egypt Lodge. F. and A. M. ;
the lnde])endcnt Order of Odd Fellows, hold-
ing membershii) in the Pemberton Lodge :
Knights of Pvthias. and Improved Order of
Red Men.
lie married (first) August 25, 1895, Addie
IL, 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. Air. Har-
grove married (second) March 8, 1903, Mary
A., daughter of Benjamin and Sally (Beck)
Marker, of Wrightstown, New Jersey.
James Brown, of Cairns Kirn, North .Xn-
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, was 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 1715. 2. Alexander (q. v.).
(III) Alexander, son of John Brown, was
born in England in 1720, came to America and
settled in Ikirlington, New Jersey. He mar-
ried and had a son, Abraham (q. v.).
ll\') Abraham, second son of Alexander
Brown, was born in Burlington. New Jersey,
and purchased the mills at IJifldle's Mills, and
after the purchase the place took the name of
Brown's Alills, wdiich it retains to the present
day. He married Elizabeth and they
had a son, Joseph R. (q. v.).
( V ) Joseph R., son of Abraham and Eliza-
beth Brow-n, 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 Rntger
Jacobsen Van Schoenderwoerdt. The ship
was bound for Fort Orange in the service of
the first patroon. Rntger. as his last name in-
dicates, came from the pretty Dutch village of
Schoenderwoerdt, distant two miles north of
Leerdam and four miles from Viauen, where
\'an Rensselaer had a country seat. In the
primitive settlement of Fort Orange (now
.Albany. New York) Rntger became a man of
considerable repute and wealth. In 1649 he
went into partnership with Goosen Gerritse
Van Schaick and rented the patroon's brew'ery
for four hundred and fifty guilders, and in the
second year they used fifteen hundred schep-
els of malt. In 1654 Rutger bought Jan Jans
\'an Noorstrant's brew-house, which stoo<l
opposite the Middle Dutch church, as situated
in 1886. But he was not only a brewer, for
he dealt in beaver skins, and owned a sloop on
the river, which he sometimes commanded
liimself. but at other times he em]iloyed .Abra-
ham de Truwe as master. He also frequently
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421
bought and sold building lots in the village and
fanning 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 ofifice 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
frequently so written. In 1652, when the new
church w'as 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
Hreesteede, in New .Amsterdam (New 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 New York and the
particular branch thereof under consideration
liere 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 "New York Genealogical and
Biographical Record" ( 1899). "Harman mar-
ried a daughter of Anthony de Hooges, secre-
tary of the 'colonic' of Rensselaerswyck, after
whom 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 New 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 New York with his two sons,
Anthony and Harman Jr., both of whom were
brewers. His daughter Elsie remained in
.Alliany, having married David Schuyler, once
mayor of the city.
(II) Harman (2), younger son of Harman
(i) Rutgers, married Catharina Meyer and
had several children. On Christmas day,
1706, he wrote in his family Bible: "I,
Flarman Rutgers, was married to Catharine
Meyer, by Domonie De Booys. May the Lord
grant us a long and happy life together,
Amen." And again: "1711, 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 New York in 1699. In 1705 he bought a
dwelling house and lot in Smith (now Will-
iam) street and a lot beyond the land gate on
New 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
was 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 1717 he bought
land on Maiden lane and had a brew-house and
residence on the north side of that street be-
tween William and Nassau 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 1731, 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 "Negro plot" to burn the city and the fort.
He married (first) December 30, 1694, Hen-
drickje \'an de Water, of New York, and
after her death he married (second) August
25. 1 716, Widow Cornelia Benson, daughter
of Johannes Roos. Captain Anthony Rut-
gers died in 1746 and his widow surviveil 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, November 21, 1705, died young.
6. Anthony, February 9, 1707, died young. 7.
Catharina, October 27, 1708. 8. .A.nthony,
April 29, 171 1.
(HI) Captain .'\ntliony (2), son of An-
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thony (i) and Hendrickje (\'an de Water)
Rutgers, was baptized April 29, 171 1, in \ew
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.
(1\') .Anthony .\., 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 North 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 17B4, leaving four sons and two
daughters. He married, June 6, 1762, Gert-
rudye, daughter of Nicholas Gouverneur, of
Newark.
(\') Nicholas Gouverneur, son of Anthony
.A. and (jcrtrudye (Gouverneur) Rutgers, was
born in Newark, New Jersey. September 20,
1 77 1, started in business with his grandfather's
house, Gouverneur & Kemble, and afterward
was at the head of the firm of Rutgers, Sea-
man & Ogdcn, whose jilace of business was in
Pearl street, and who also acted as agent for
Anthony Rutgers, 4th. Nicholas G. Rutgers
for many years was president of the Mutual
Insurance Company and member of the Chanv
bcr of Commerce. He married, March 27,
1796. Cornelia, daughter of John Livingston
and granddaughter of Robert Livingston,
third owner of the manor (see Livingston).
.'Xftcr 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, T797.
2. Robert .Alfred, .August 27. 1798. 3. Clem-
entina. May 24, 1800. 4. llenry Livingston.
December 28. 1801. 5. Nicholas Seaman, No-
vember 26, 1803. 6. Catharine Elizabeth, .April
13, 1807. 7. (Julian .McEvers, March 23, 1809.
8. John Livingston, July 13, 1813. 9. Edward,
May II. 1816. 10. William, May 10, 1821.
(\'I) 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
Republican in politics, but not active in public
affairs, 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. 1811, .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
Gouverneur, November 12, 1850. 5. Henry
Livingston, August 27, 1852.
(ATI) 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. li*? w^s elected treasurer of the Norfolk
& .\'ew Brunswick 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,
Eiiiscopalian, 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 Neilson, born New A'ork City, February
18, 1850. daughter of John Butler (Zoles Neil-
son, who married Helena, daughter of Dr.
John Neilson, of New York. John Butler
.N'eilson's children vi'ere : Alice Noel, Helen
and Henry .Augustus Neilson. Mr. Rutgers's
only child is Nicholas Gouverneur Rutgers,
burn 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,
Ll\'IN(",STON Leving or Living, the
earliest known ancestor
of tlie 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 IMalcolm and many of her
followers remained in Scotland and had lands
granted them by her husband. But this tra-
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423
dition, 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 EkKjuent'" {"Lyfiiuj
sc u'ordsnotcra 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 Sa.xon 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 .\lexander I (1107-1124), where
the present village of Livingston, Linlithgow-
shire, now stands ; "that his son Thurstan, who
between 1 128 and 1159 was one of the wit-
nesses to a charter of Robert, Bishop of St.
Andrews, confirming King David's grant to
the monks of Holyrood, himself confirnis, in
tlie charter alluded to above, his father Liv-
ing's gift of the church of Livingston with
half a carucate of land, and a toft, in free and
perpetual alms to the same ab"bey." The name
of Living's lands was written either in the
Latin form of "Mlla Leving" or in the Saxon
equivalent 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 Manor,"
was a Scotch clergyman of remarkable ability,
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 ri^ht 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.
\Mlliam 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.
.Alexander 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 Alexanrlef Liv-
ingston, was "a son of the Lord Livingston,
which house thereafter was dignified to the
earls of Linlithgow," and was slain at "Pinkie
Field 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 bishops, 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
during 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
of Edinburgh. The young couple went to
Ireland, where the husband was immediately
deposed. Soon afterward he set sail for
.■\merica 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 1694 he was
sent by the Scotch parliament to treat with
Charles I at The Hague for liberty and secu-
rity of religion. Later Cromwell sent for him
to settle religious matters, and still later on
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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
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.
ill) Robert, first "lord of the manor." son
of Rev. John Livingston, was born in 1654,
and came to New York about 1675, two years
after the death of his father, and when he
hinaself 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 acc|uiring 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. Lo/d 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
I'ive Nations, and are the principal men in
managing them and kee()ing them firm to our
interests, arc 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 Livingston built flour mills and
storehouses 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 sjjcaker of the house for seven
years before his death. Mis mo.st important
oflfice 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 place a few years before
his de:itli. in 1728. He was secretary of In-
dian affairs from 1675 to 1721, and mayor of
Albany from 1710 to 1719. He married .\lyda
(. Alicia ), 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, 1686. 3.
Robert, July 29, 1688. 4. Gysbert, March 5,
1690. 5. William, March 20, 1692. 6. Johanna,
Dceember 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 Ouebec with a French officer as a bearer
of dispatches. In October, 1725, he was ap-
pointed member of the council, which ofifice
he retained so long as he lived. In 1737 he
was ap[)ointed 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 1719. He lived in Albany in his
father's house at the comer of State and Pearl
streets. He married, September 19, 1707,
Catharina, daughter of Pieter \'an Brugh, of
.Albany, and who was the mayor of that city
in 1699, just two hundred and ten years ago.
Pieter \'an Brugh was a son of Johannes \'an
Brugge (or Verbrugge), 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 \'an Rensselaer in
her admirable work "The Goede Vroew of
Ma-a-ha-ta." Colonel Livingston's children,
with date of baptism of each: i. Robert, De-
cember 25, 1708. 2. Pieter f\'an P>rugh)
November 3, 1710. 3. Pieter, .\|iril 20. 1712.
4. Johainies, April 11. 1714. 5. Philippus,
January, 1717. died June 12, 1778. 6. Hen-
drick, ,\pril 5, 1719. 7. Sara, May 17, 1721,
died young. 8. William. December 8, 1723.
9. .Sara. November 7. 1725, married (General
Lord Stirling. 10. .Alida, July 18, 1728. 11.
Catharina, .A|)ril 15, 1733.
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425
(IV) Robert (2), son of Colonel Philip 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, May
20, 1731, Mary Tong (sometimes written
Maria Thong).
(V) John, son of Robert (2) and Mary
(Tong) Livingston, married Mary LeRoy.
(\'I ) Robert LeRoy, son of John and Mary
(LeRoy) Livingston, married Anna Maria
Digges, of Washington.
(VII) Anna Maria, daughter of Robert
Leroy and Anna Maria (Digges) Livingston,
married John Livingston Rutgers (see Rut-
gers \T ).
The family name Prickitt is
PRICKITT fond at an early date in Burl-
ington county, and of course
has relation to the New Jersey family of the
generally accepted name of Prickitt, the latter
being the family purposed to be treated in this
place, and supposed to have descended from
John Prickitt, of Gloucestershire, England, a
"persecuted Friend," in 1660, who is men-
tioned in the narrative entitled Besse's "Suf-
ferings." There was a Josiah Prickitt, of
Burlington, 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 i>laces in this part of the state. It was
settled about the year 1697 by Josiah Prickett,
butcher, of Burlington. The following year
he sold out to John Harrison of Flushing,
Long Island."
(I) Zackariah (or Zachariah) Prickitt. tlie
earliest known ancestor of the family under
consideration here of whom we have definite
knowledge settled in Northamjiton, 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 Peacock. 5. Hannah, married Philip
Quigley.
(II) Jacob, son of Zackariah and Ellipha
Prickitt, had a wife Hannah, who bore him
eight children and who died 12 4mo. 1759,
aged fifty-three years. Their children: i.
Josiah, born 23 8mo. 1733, married Sarah
Cowperthwaite. 2. Jacob, born 18 gmo. 1735,
married Elizabeth Phillips. 3. Barzilla, born
22 Qmo. 1737, married Sarah Sharp. 4. Ann,
born 20 lomo. 1739, died 4 4mo. 1759. 5.
Rosajmah, 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 Hannah Prick-
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 iimo. 1770, married James Allen. 2. Sab-
illah, born 9 9mo. 1772, died unmarried. 3.
Josiah, bom 29 9mo. 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 imo. 1784, married Agnes Sharp.
9. Stacy, born 14 lomo. 1785, married Jane
Conover. 10. John, born 28 5mo. 1787, mar-
ried Jenetta Sharp. 11. Elizabeth, born 9
7mo. 1789 died unmarried.
(IV) Josiah, son of Job and Ann (Smith)
Prickitt, 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) Sharp. Josiah Prickitt 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.
He died in 1859. His children : i. Amos, born
I 3mo. 1805, died young. 2. Mary Ann, born
27 1 1 mo. 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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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
bom 17 4010 1818. 9. Ezra, born i 3mo.
1820. 10. Mark, born 7 7mo. 1822. 11. Eliz-
abeth, born 5 gmo. 1824. 12. Lemuel J., born
16 6mo. 1826. 13. Amos, bom 15 5mo. 1828.
14. Edwin, born 20 8mo. 1831.
(V) Thomas, son of Josiah and Hannah
(Sharp) 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 Rryn Mawr and Rosemont, Penn-
sylvania. 5. Mary, died young. 6. Elizabeth,
died young. 7. William, died young.
( \T ) Dr. Elmer 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
schotil 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 Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, from
which he graduated in 1884. In 1886, after
graduation, he went into the drug business in
company with Dr. Rarrington, under the firm
name of Prickitt & Barrington. This part-
nership relation was maintained until 1893,
when 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 jjropcrly Dr. Prickitt matriculated at
the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadel-
phia, made the course of the famous institu-
tion and graduated with the degree M. D. in
i8g8. Since that time he has practiced gen-
eral medicine in Mt. Holly in connection with
business ])ursuits as druggi.st and pharmacist.
He is a member of tlie .American Medical As-
sociation, New Jersey State Medical Society,
Burlington County Medical Society, member
of the medical stafif 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 Pytluas
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
inf|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 liad a son John (IV), who
had a son Nelson (V), whose daughter
Eleanor (\ I) married Elmer Delaney Prick-
itt. Again: George Deacon (I), immigrant,
!iad a son John (H), who had a son Barzilla
( HI), who had a son Barzilla (IV), w"ho had
a .son Samuel (V), whose daughter Ellen
(\T) 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 tlmt 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.
( I ) Robert Engle. immigrant, with whom
our [iresent narrative begins, came from Cam-
bridgeshire England, and settled in Evesham
townshi]!, liurlington county. He appears to
have been a man of considerable enterprise and
ac(|uired a goodly estate in lands and other
property. 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 9tli month, 1703, Henry Clifton, of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Robert and Jane
( Home) Engle had an only son John.
(II) John, only son and child of Robert
and Jane (Home) Engle. died in 1721. leaving
a good estate, an upright life record, and a
family of honorable children. He married
Mary, daughter of Samuel atid Jane Ogborn,
and by her had five children: i. Robert, see
]M)st. 2. John, married Hannah Middleton.
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427
3. Man', married Nathaniel Lippincott. 4.
Hannah, married Isaac Lippincott. 5. Jane,
married John Turner.
(III) Robert (2), eldest son and child of
John and Mar\' (Oglx>rn) Engle, was born in
Evesham township, Burlington county, New
Jersey, in 1708, died there in 1774. He mar-
ried, in 1728, Rachel "Tinicum, and by her
had five children: i. Robert, born 29 3mo.
1738. 2. Joseph, see post. 3. Abraham, born
1744. 4. Rachel, born 26 4mo. 1746. 5.
Sarah.
(IV) 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 Smo. 1761,
died 18 lomo. 1823. 2. Obadiah, see post. 3.
Aaron, born 6 iimo. 1764, died 1842. 4.
Susanna, born 22 2mo. 1766, died 3^ 6mo.
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.
(V) 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, 1771, 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 i2nio. 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 5mo. 1812, died
24 4mo. 1879. 10. Nathan, born i lOmo. 1817,
died at Washington in 1875.
(\^I) 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 (W'oolman) Engle. Their children were:
I. Ezra, married Sarah Prickitt. 2. Enieline,
married Josiah Prickitt. 3. Ann, born 1834,
died 1899 ; married Thomas Prickitt, born
1816, died 1870 (see Prickitt). 4. Mary, mar-
ried Joseph Roberts. 5. Robert, married Jane
Darnell.
(For preceding generations see Zacharian Prickitt 1).
(V) Lemuel J. 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
(loath, about 1875. In political preference he
was a Republican. He married Elizabeth
Haines, born in Salem county. New Jersey,
and died in 1897. Children : Cooper Hancock,
see post. Eva married Charles P. Darling, of
Detroit, Michigan.
(\I) 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 Bryant & Stratton's Business College in
Philadelphia, graduating from the 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
books 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 trea.surer, 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 capacity 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 Masonic and other fra-
ternal organizations, and is past master of
Burlington 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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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
gree, holding membership in Scottish Rite
boilies. and also in Lu Lu Temple, A.
A. (). X. M. S.. of Philadelphia. lie
has also servefl as district deputy grand
master of the M. W. Grand Lodge, F.
and A. M., of New Jersey. He has also
ser\'ed as member 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,
lie married, November 21. 1888, Sarah
Howells, daughter of Dr. Jacob and Hannah
(Toy) Phillips, and granddaughter of An-
thony Pliilli]:)s, of \'incentown. blacksmith,
will) married Clarissa Edmunds and had seven
children: John, Theodore, Anthony, Eliza,
Deborah, Clarissa and Jacob Phillips. Dr.
Phiflijis was born in \ incentown, educated
there, and for a time worked with his father
as a blacksmith. Later on he studied for and
became a practical dentist and settled for prac-
tice in Burlington, where for many years he
was a prominent figure in professional and
business circles. He was an Odd Fellow, a
Republican in politics and attended services at
the Methodist Episcopal 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
Cooper Hancock Prickitt ; Elizabeth, married
William Hall, of Bristol, Bucks county, Penn-
sylvania, who died in 1905, Mr. and Mrs.
Prickitt have one child, Joseph Mann Prickitt.
The rise of the people called
SllRFA'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 salof>n, given freely to all seekers, even
to the most despised ]3eople. "The Inner
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 equal rights. The triumvirate of
Quakerism, as far as it belongs to civil history.
was intellectual freedom, the .suin-emacy of the
mind, universal enfranchisement.
In I-'ngland the Quaker was persecuted by
the Established Church as well as by 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.
When 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 sinothered 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 1675 Fenwick with a large company in-
cluding several families set sail in the "Griffin"
for this "Asylum of Friends." The voyage
was made 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
dwelling place of peace. Desiring to preserve
sufficient territory when they could institute
a government, they effected an exchange with
Carteret, who ownec] 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 understand 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 i)eople."
In March, 1677, the charter or fundamental
laws of West New Jersey were perfected and
published 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 Hocked
to West New Jersey, carrying with them the
good wishes of Charles II, and commissioners
holding temporary jxnver accompanied them
to administer aflfairs until a popular govern-
ment could be instituted. The land was pur-
chased from the Indians claiming ownership
an<l the body of Quaker immigrants, aggre-
gating four hundred souls, began to build
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Imnies and plant their 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 path 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, Burlington was made the cap-
ital of the province, and in 1684 the assembly
divided the province into four counties :
llergen, Essex, Middlesex and Monmouth.
Amid these surroundings the Shreve family is
first found. Its religion and political creed
was that of the Quakers.
(I ) Thomas "Sheriff," 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, 1675, 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 John by her first husband, Thomas
Sheriff. 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
famdy. to try find the .American progenitor
elsewhere. To do this we have to depend on
the family tradition for the existence of one
Sir William Sheriff, who is said to have come
from Greece or Turkey w'here the name of
Sheriff is not uncommon and to have married
Elizabeth Fairfa.x in England, and they had
a son, William, who married a young lady in
Amsterdam, Holland, by the name of Ora
Ora. or Oara Oara, the daughter 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 Portsinouth in the Colony of Rhode
Island, to John .Slireve 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
l>arentage of John and Caleb Shreve. The chil-
dren of Thomas and Martha Sheriff or Shreve,
born in Portsmouth and little Compton, Rhode
Island, were as follows: i. Thomas, September
2, 1649. 2. Joltn, married Jane Havers, Au-
gust, 1686: died October 14, 1739. 3. Caleb
(q. v.). 4. Mary, married Joseph Sheffield,
February 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.
(II) 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
(or Deric) .A.reson, of Long Island, about
1680, in Piurlington 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. .Vs 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 w'hich tiine his widow was
living with her son Benjamin on the home-
stead. The names of the children of Caleb
and Sarah (.\reson) 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 Oiesterfield Meeting. 2. Thomas,
t68 — , married Elizabeth Allison, May "16,
171 1, at Burlington Meeting. He died in
Burlington 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 died before 1757. 4-
Joshua (q. v.)- 5- Caleb, 169 — , 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 Oiesterfield
Meeting. 7. Sarah, 169 — , married John Og-
borne, January 19, 1724, at Chesterfield Meet-
ing. 8. Jonathan, 169 — , married Hannah
Hunt, February 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 fociety of Friends and was accustomed to
make long journeys on horseback as far south
as \'irginia 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." lie married Jane , but
place, time or surname is not known. They
had eight children, born in Springfield town-
sliip, as follows: i. Mary, married a Curtis.
2. Sarah, married Thomas Shreve, March i,
1742. 3. Mercy, married Micajah Mathis,
March 7, 1747; she died 1804. 4. Faith, mar-
ried Israel Butler, January i, 1750. 5. James
((|. 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 Shinn
Burlington, Novemlx-r 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.).
(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
Elizaljeth ( 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 g, 1800, while her husband, Joshua Shreve,
died in 1 8 19 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 77 1, 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 Cox in 1805, and died at Mt. Holly, New
Jersey, December 11, 1815. 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.
(VI) Alexander, second son and third child
of Joshua (2) and Rebecca (Lamb) Shreve,
was born at the homestead in Wrightstovra,
New Jersey, March 3, 1769. He first engaged
in trade in his native village, but later removed
to Northampton tow'nship, Burlington county,
where he was a farmer for seven years. Fie
maiTied 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
their children cxcc])t 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, 1795, died November 8, 1796. 3.
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Sarah, July 20, 1797, died umnarried. 4.
Mary Ann, June 9, 1799, married Joseph K.
Hulme, April 15, 1814, and died in Upper
Spring'field, New Jersey, January 26, 1884.
5. Taunton E., February 23. 1802, married
Sarah T. Merritt. 6. Rebecca, September 5,
1805. married Thomas Newbold. 7. Alexan-
der, in Wrighlstown, New Jersey, October 2,
1812. married Mary A. Levelers in the spring
of 1873.
(All) Joshua (3), eldest child of Alexan-
der and Mary ( Earl ) Shreve, was born in
Springfield township, Burlington county. New
Jersey. March 25, 1793. He married Sus-
anna Ridgeway, of Springfield, November 16,
1814, and he died September 21, 1851. The ten
children of Joshua and Susanna (Ridgeway)
Shreve were born as follows : i. Charles Smith,
\\Vightstown, New Jersey, September 30,
1 81 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
\\'yckotif, of Monmouth, New Jersey, and died
at Werd 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,
A'irginia, September 12, 1864. 6. Joshua Earl,
Deceniber 17, 1827, never married and died in
San Francisco, California, October 9, 1871.
7. Henry, July 8, 1831, 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 W'ebb, of Philadelphia, in 1861, died on
the battlefield of Chancellorsville, Virginia,
May 6, 1864.
(VHI) 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 Murrell, who died unmarried in 1873.
6. Sarah Coat, who married Edwin Rex
Keisel, February 20, 1889, and lived in Phila-
delphia, Peiuisylvania. 7. Thomas Coat (q.
V. ) Barzillia Ridgeway Shreve died in Phila-
delphia. F'cnnsylvania, December 12, 1893.
(IX) Thomas Coat, third son and seventh
and youngest child of Barzillia Ridgeway and
Agnes Edith (Haines) 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, which was an evidence of his
actiuired 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 Jolui B.
and Elizabeth \\'aln (Ridgeway) Deacon, and
a descendant in the seventh generation from
( I ) George, the immigrant through (H) John,
(HI) George, (IV) John, (V) Thomas
Eagad, (VL) 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;
Amie 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 liis 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 natit)ns. 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. Francis 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 name Campbell is promi-
nently connected with the sale of the piano-
forte in New '^'ork 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 skilled in the manufacture of the piano-
forte, is no cause of wonderment and there is
no reason to c|uestion 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 well as shining examples of the pres-
ent. Of the past we 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), pioneer finan-
cier of Alabama; officer in the United States
army, 1813-17; territorial and state treasurer
of Alabama, 1818-22: sherifif of Mobile county
and an Alabama legislator. James Ross
(1762-1847), United States senator from
Pennsylvania, 1794-1803; attorney for George
W'ashington, in charge of his estate in Penn-
sylvania ; twice the defeated candidate for gov-
ernor of Pennsylvania. John Ross (T770-
1834). husband of Mary (Jenkins) Ross, who
made and presented the "Stars and Stripes,"
which became the national flag, to General
W'ashington in Philadeliihia in 1777, and who
was himself a lawyer in Easton, Pennsylvania :
representative in the United States congress,
1809-18 ; presiding judge of the seventh district
of Pennsylvania. 1818-30, and judge of the
supreme court of the state, 1830-34. Jonathan
Ross (1826-1905), teacher, lawyer, legislator,
educator, judge and chief justice of the state
supreme court of \'ermont. United States sen-
ator and chairman of the state railroad com-
mission of Vermont. Lawrence Sullivan Ross
( 1838-1898), Indian fighter; general in the
Confederate army; 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 W'inans 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 born 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. Campfield, 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 Ilurlington county. New Jersey, where he
became an ajiprentice 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 \'incentown, P.urlington county. New
Jersey, where he established a wheelwright's
shop 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
\'inccntown National P>ank for a number of
years. He married, 1845, Maria, daughter of
William and Mary (Woolston) Bishop, and
they had three children born in X'incentown. as
follows: I. Samuel Oregon, born 1846; died
n)o8. He was brought uj) and educated in his
native place, and on leaving school obtained a
place in the \'inccntown 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
0. Ross married Beulah W'., daughter of
Budd, of Buddtown, Xew Jersey, and they
had one child, William Bishop, born Novem-
ber, 1870, who succeeded his father as cashier
of the Vincentown National Bank. William
Bishop Ross married Mary Lippincott, daugh-
ter of Richard Xesbit. 2. Mary, born 1848;
married Rev. Harr}' Tratt, and they resided
in Riverside, California, where a daughter,
Ida Tratt, was born. 3. Thomas Woolston
(q. v.). John Ross, the father of these chil-
■ dren died in Mncentown, New Jersey, 1888.
(II) Thomas Woolston, second son and
youngest of the three children of John and
Maria (Woolston) Ross, was born in Vin-
centown, Burlington county, New Jersey, July
1, 1851. Me attended the public school and
academy at Xincentown and learned the trade
of wheelwright in his father's shop, beginning
his apprenticeship when he was fifteen years
old, in 1866, and he continued as an apprentice
and journejinan 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 Mncentown, having
been appointed to that office by President Mc-
Kinley, with every assurance in 1909 that the
]josition was a life tenure if he did not volun-
tarily resign. He was always active in town
afifairs 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 Mncentown. 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 was in
high esteem. He married, February, 1872,
Cornelia H., daughter of Charles and Martha
(Loveland) Haines, of \'incentown, and they
had two children, as follows: i. Frank B.,
born in \'incentown, December 22. 1873; a
pujiil in the public schools ; a graduate at the
College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1893, and he practiced his profession
in the drug store of Frank S. Hilliard in Vin-
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-
ii-3
pounding departnaent and subsequently in one
at Chester, Pennsylvania. In 1896 he estab-
lished the drug 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 Fifty-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 Vincentown, 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 grarduated in 1906. From the business
college he went to the wholesale store of L. D.
Burger, of Philadelphia, 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 fruitfulness, 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 wealth,
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 William the Conqueror
landed successfidly 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."
( [) 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 required
to take an oath of obedience untler the statutes
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, Joiin 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-
quently 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.
When 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 September 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
Jersey in 1678. with his eldest brother Thomas,
and his other brothers John and James, and
their families. He located and became pos-
sessed of large tracts of land in West Jersey,
largely in I'urlington county, where he always
lived. 1 Ic and his brother Thomas were the
original locators and proprietors of all the
land included in the township of Pemberton
anil 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,
William 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 liim for more
congenial pursuit of farming. Besides this he
differed 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 have renounced it in favor of that of the
Protestant Episcopal church. W'hile the name
of his brothers Thomas, John and James ap-
pear frequently 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 William Budd. In
his will he left a benefaction to the church, in
wliich 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 .Xnn, 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 Wilson. 3. Thomas, married
Deborah Langstaff'. 4. Susanna, married
Samuel Woolston. 5. .-Xnu, married James
Bingham. 6. James, married Sarah Tyndall.
7. Sarah.
(HI) 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 .\rney's mount.
He was perhajis 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
Mary.
(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 qualities
and upright 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, .August 3, 1744; died 1766. 5. Isaiah,
Alarch 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, May IQ, 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 Woolston, 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.
(VI) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (i) and Ann
(King) Budd, was born in Pemberton, New
Jersey, June 6, 1788, died in 1845. His father
gave him a good farm and his business life was
devoted to agricultural pursuits. He was a
member of the Methodist 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
Briggs, born 1791, died November i, 1859,
daughter of George Briggs, and by whom he
had three children. His children:, i. William
IL, 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 liis 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
has been chosen to serve in various official
capacities, such as freeholder, member of the
township committee and member of the house
of assembly, having held 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 Alt. Holly Safe Deposit & Trust Company.
In 1856 Theodore Budd married Achsah,
daughter of Thomas and Beulah Edmands, of
Buddtown. Children: i. Isaac Watson, see
post. 2. Clifford E., see post.
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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
(\'1II) Isaac Watson, eldest son of Theo-
dore liudd, was born in Southampton township,
JUirHngton county, Xew Jersey, January 8,
1858. lie received his education in tlie schools
of'Pemberton and the South Jersey Institute
at I'.ridgeton. In 1878 he went to Illinois,
locating at Crescent City, Iroquois county,
where he engaged in mercantile business until
January, 1902, when he returned to Pemberton,
New Jersey-, and engaged in cranl>erry grow-
ing, which line of work he has since followed.
He is a director of the Pemberton National
r.ank. He married (first) June 22, 1880, Ida
E. Barber, of Crescent City, Illionis ; 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 February 19, 1882: died in Pemberton,
luly 10, 1891. 2. Bernice, born November 17,
1S83; married Charles Brook Wallace, of
Moorestown, New Jersey ; one child, Charles
Brook Wallace, Jr. 3. Harriet, born June 14,
1885; married Horace Johnson: one child,
Robert. 4. Ada, born October 3, 1886; died
Julv 1, i88q. Child of second wife: Gladys,
i)()rn June 22, 1893.
( \l 1 1 I Cliff'ord E., second son of Theodore
Budd, was born in Southampton township,
Burlington county. 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 ])ursuits, making cranberry grow-
ing a s])ecialty, in which line he has been highly
successful. He resided on the farm until 1894,
when he removed to Pemberton and now (jccu-
])ies one of the finest houses there. He was
for a number of years a director of the
l'"armers' National Bank of Mt. Holly, and
since the organization of the Pemberton Na-
tional I'.ank has served as vice-president and
director, lie is a member of Central Lodge,
No. 44, .\. !•'. and .A. M., of Vincentown. He
is independent in politics. He married, Febru-
ary 2, 1887, Emma Hilton, born near Hartford,
New Jersey, January 6, i860, daughter of
Joseph and tlaimah (Lippencott) Hilton.
Children: i. Helen, born October 27, 1887,
died aged fifteen months. 2. Theodore H.,
born September 28, 1889: graduate of the
Pcnn Charter School, of Philadelphia, class
of 1909. 3. Ethel, born Feljruary 13, 1891.
4. J. Norman, liorn November 18, 1899; died
August 18, 1903.
The anti(|uary finds in the Isle
K.MGHN of Alan, in the Irish Sea, and
only si.xteen nriles from the
mainland of Scotland much of interest that
dates back to times when names, deed.s, 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, probably the
most perfect building of its date e.xtant, found-
ed by Gothard, son of King Orry in 947, and
near are the ruins of Rushen Abbey, pictur-
esquely 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
enchanted 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 liisturv as well as in its grandeur of scenery
and well preserved ruins. Here the Welsh
kings ruled from the si.xth century until the
end of the ninth century, when Harold llaar-
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 rejiuted 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
III. of Scotland in 1266. At the close of Alex-
ander's life the Manx placed them.selves imder
the protection 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 Man.x church, its own canons and an
inde]iendent convix^ation. It has (iroduced
learned men and industrious and worthy immi-
grants who have carried with them sound ideas
of religious and political freedom. The name
Cain. Cainc and Kaighn are truly Manx names,
and besides Hall Caine have others of the
name entitled to recognition.
( 1 ) John Kaighn. also written Kaighin and
Kaighan, came to .'\merica 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 Aliddle
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-
apjiropriatetl land to be taken out of Thomas
\Varne's property in Monmouth county, de-
scribing the patentee as "John Kaighen late
apprentice to Thomas Warne of Monmouth
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
Farmer a tract comprising two-sevenths of a
propriety granted by the trustees of Edward
Byllinge, situated in Gloucester county, and
surveyed by 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 Bybury. 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 (Albertson)
(F"orrest) Kaighn had one child .Ann, 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 Jolin 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 Vance near Salem, West Jersey, miller,
for three hundred acres near Salem, also a
grist mill on Great Mill Creek. In this deed
he is described as "John Kaighn of Byfield,
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 Vance of
Brothers Forest, Salem county, March 26,
1 70 1, 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
.Andrew Griscom, and sister of John Dale, who
lived in Newton township. Andrew Griscom
(lied 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 propertv stood in the name of John Kaighn.
Me built a house on his purchase in Newton
township, \\'est 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 family news.
On 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 mcml>er of tlie board of trustees of the meet-
ing, and in 17 10 he was sent to Trenton as a
representative in the state legislature. On
March 3, 1723-24, John Kaiglin, 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 found June 12, 1724, and
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STATE OF NEW TERSEY.
his personal property inventoried at £76-13,
the inventory being made at the house of de-
ceased. The date of his death, except the year
(1724) is not know. His 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 Xewton 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. Ann, 1744. Abigail (Hench-
man ) Kaighn married as her second husband
Samuel Harrison, of Gloucester, about 1750,
and she survived 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.
(11) Joseph, second son of John (2) and
Sarah (Dale) (Griscom) Kaiglrn, was born in
Newton tcwvnship in the house erected by his
father on Kaighn's Point, December 4, 1702.
llis mother died soon after his birth, and he
was, with his brother John, with a nurse until
they 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 mf)ther to the boys, and they were
brought up and given a good education. Joseph,
in the division of the property between the two
brothers, received from John the homestead,
arid he continued to live there on the home-
stead, his brother removing to Haddonfield.
lie married, in 1727, Mary, daughter of James
I'^taiigh. of rhiladelphia, and niece of John
F,staugh. of liaddonfield. Joseph Kaighn
ma Ic his will .May 7, 174<), by which his estate
descended to his children, 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
l^hzabeth the land north of the line. The
testator died the same vear 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 (q. 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 Hannah Mason. 5. Elizabeth, mar-
ried Arthur Donaldson. Mary, the widowed
mother of these children, married (second)
Robert Stevens, of Newton township.
(III) Joseph (2), eldest child of Joseph
( I ) and Mary (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.
(IV) 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 Whig 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
(if directors and held a directorship during his
entire life. He made up the gathering of inter-
ested citizens who went over the proposed
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 Comjiany 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
(Micklel Kaighn were bom 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 Alary Cooper, of Woodbury;
he was the sixth mayor of Camden, removed
to Philadelphia, and died there February 19,
1868. 3. William R., married Rachel Cole,
widow of Burroughs. 4. Mary, mar-
ried John Cooper, of Woodbury.
( III ) James, second son of Josepli ( i ) 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 Kaiglin 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. Mary, who died young.
3. John (<]. v.). 4. Elizabeth, married Jona-
than Knight, in 1797. 5. James. 6. Hannah,
married Benjamin Dugdale. 8. Sarah. 9.
Mary. 10. Ann, 1795; died in 1880. 11. and
12. Charity and Grace (twins), both deceased.
(I\') 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
Bartram, great-grandfather of John Bartram
(see Bartram family following this sketch).
John and Elizabeth (Bartram) Kaighn had
eight children born at Kaighn's Point, Camden
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,
1810. 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 bv 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 Susannah (Evans)
Kaighn: i. .\mos Evans (q. v.). 2. John,
born near Marlton ; died young. 3. Elizabeth,
born near Marlton ; died young. 4. Rebecca,
born 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.
(VI) Amos Evans, eldest child of Joseph
(4) and Susaiuiah (Evans) Kaighn. was born
at Kaighn's Point, Camden county. New Jersey,
July 15, 1838. .Vbout 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,
i8r>8-76. 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 nth mo. 12th
1803, and his wife Elizabeth was a daughter of
Samuel and Edith (Lippincott) Nott. The
children of Amos Evans and Lucy (Engle)
Kaighan were born at Chew's Landing, New
Jersey, as follows: I. Elizabeth Engle, born
March 7, 1870. married, October 10, 1901, Dr.
William Martin, of Bristol, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, and their daughter, Edith Kaighn
Martin, was born July 3, 1905. 2. Joseph,
September 30, 1872, attended the district school
anil Westtown Friends Boarding School, was
a student at law in the office of Thomas E.
French, of Camden, was admitted to the bar as
an attorney and as a councillor-at-law ; he is
( i<)09) living with his parents at Aloorestown,
and practicing law in Camden, unmarried.
(The Bartram Line).
John I'lartram, the "father of American
botany," was born in Marple, Delaware county,
Pennsylvania, March 23, 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 HI.
made him his .\merican botanist. The title of
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the great work illustrates his versatile labors
and journeyings. It was published in 1751
and entitled "Observations on Inhabitants,
Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals
and Other Matters Worthy of Notice, Made
by Mr. John Liartram 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 r.artram, was born in Kingsessing, Penn-
sylvania. February Q, 1729, and was bred in
tile botanical atmosphere in which the father
had accomplished so great work and left so
valuable and tangible records of his accomplish-
ments. William published 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. He 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, 1833, only six years from the
century mark. The catalogue of the University
of I'eiuisylvania gives two of the name among
its graduates: Moses Rartram, x\. B., 1782;
A. i\l., 1785; B. M., 1786; M. D. 1790, which
would give his birth about 1762. He is put
dowti as a physician and druggist. In the class
of 1783 we find George Bartram, born 1767,
died in" Philadcli)hia, May 8, 1840, A. B. 1783:
.•\. M., 1786: alderman of the city of Phila-
delphia, and jiresident 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 1737 or 1741.
Although the Mountain
MOUNTAIN 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 American 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 Holme, born 1884,
reached maturity. 2. Joseph William, born
1804, died 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
b'urmage, born in Wandsworth, Surrey, Eng-
land, November 14, 1806, daughter of "\\'illiam
and .Ann I'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
1850. Her grandfather, James Furmage, was
born about 1752, died in 1827; and her grand-
mother, Mary Ann ( Wadbrook) Furmage,
was born about 1751, 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,
.\l>ril 19, 1843, '^'^f' '" the civil war, in 1863.
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5. Mary Ann Slater, April 3, 1844, married.
June 3, 1867. Albert Farnam Tucker, and had
one child, Albert Alountain 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.
(III) Frederick, sixth child and fifth son
of John and Mary Ann ( Furmage) Mountain,
was born in London, England, January 27,
1846, died in East Orange, New Jersey, April
16, 1907. Emigrating to this country he lived
for awhile in Brooklyn, Long Island, and finally
settled in East Orange. He married Irene
Adelia Tallman, born November i, 1848, and
had two children: i. Worrall Frederick, re-
ferred to below. 2. Milton Tallman, born Jan-
uary 2-i,. 1893-
(IV) Judge Worrall Frederick, eldest child
of Frederick and Irene Adelia (Tallman)
Mountain, was born in Brooklyn, Long Island,
March 10, 1877, and is now living at 113 North
\\'alnut street. East Orange, New Jersey. His
father removing to East Orange shortly after
his 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,
Esquire, 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 Van
Blarcom 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, \\'orrall Frederick, Jr.,
born June 28, 1909.
The Boggs family of New Jersey
BCXiCiS belong to that group of Irish
[)atriots 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 Philadel]ihia.
(II ) James, son of Ezekiel Boggs, 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. Fie 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 jjersonal 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 faniily 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
lersey branch of the family. Among their
children were: i. Robert, referred to below.
2. James, who went into business in New 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. Mar)'
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. ]\Iary, married J. S. Blauvelt,
of New Brunswick. 3. Charles Stuart, re-
ferred to below. He married (third) Maria
Brenton, lx)rn in Halifa.x, 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,
d'ied in 1888. Entering the United States
navy as a midshipman in 1826, he became lieu-
tenant in 1837, served in Commodore Connor's
sc|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.
(IV) Edward Brenton, the only child of
Robert and Maria (Brenton) Boggs, was born
in New Brunswick, New Jersey, December 7,
1 82 1, 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 liis 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 Thompson, of Bloomsburg, Pennsyl-
vania, and has three children : Edward Thomp-
son, Frank Thonipson, who married, and is
now a captain of engineers in the United
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. .•\fter
his graduation he went into the oflice of
Parker & Keasby, where he read law, and was
admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney
in November, 1876, and as counsellor in Nc>-
vember, 1879.' He then started in for hhn-
self, specializing in municipal law, and becom-
ing the city attorney for Newark, during the
years 1890 to 1893 and 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 Van 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 tliat 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
[lermanent home in Essex county, thus revers-
ing the usual current of emigration which
])assed through New Jersey on its way to the
west. But little is known about the family
on the other side of the .'\tlantic. The earliest
record is in 1548 when a certain John Hinde
was ap])ointed J. C. P. of England, that is
practitioner of the common law (juris com-
nnniis) or in other words as we should say
today, was admitted to the English bar as at-
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torncy. Family tradition has it that the fam-
ily is of Scotch-Irish descent and emigrated
to this country during the Commonwealth, and
tlus is supported by the earhest records we
liave of the family in this country.
(I) Thomas Hine, founder of the family,
settled in Milford, 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 Milford, and on the tax list of 1688 he is
assessed £96. 5s, while his sons John and
Stephen were assessed respectively £38 and
fi8. 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.
(lY) Daniel, son of George and Jean Hine,
was born in Old Milford in 1750. While in
CMd 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
Warren, Litchfield county, Connecticut, where
he lived for eleven years. In the spring of
1805, hearing glowing accounts of the west-
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 tlie
same farm that is now owned and occupied by
his niece, Mrs. Betsy Comstock. His son
Hezekiah, having located in Shalersville, Port-
age county, Ohio, Daniel, being better pleased
with that situation, moved thither in February,
1 810, 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 Finne)^ 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,
ciied 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 March, 1865; married Dan-
iel Burroughs. All these children, save the
last who was born in Warren, were born in
Old Milford.
(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 jdhn .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
r""ebruary, immediately after his marriage, set-
ting out on a final trip to Johnstown, accom-
panied 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. As such he served for five years and
was in active service during the War of 1812,
his regiment forming a part of the land forces
at Cleveland, during Perry's naval engage-
nicnt and victory, September 6, 1812. After
the war he became conspicuous in civil afifairs,
being commissioned May 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, horn there January 21, 1786,
died in Canfield, Ohio, March 23, 1831. She
bore her husl)an(i 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 W illiams College, Massa-
chusetts, in 1850, 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 I\Iaho-
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 Washington, which
he held until his death. While at college he
boarded with .\. M. Bridges, a descendant of
Benjamin, son of Edward Bridges, of Toi)s-
field. Massachusetts, in 1664. Here he made
the ac(|aintance of Harriet Amelia, daughter
of Samuel Bridges, of Williamstown, born
April 20, 1828. died in Washington, October
-|. 1874. whom he married September 24, 1S50.
The cliildren of David and Harriet Amelia
Miridgcs) Hine were: I. Helen lilanche, born
December 2^, 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.
(VII) Edwin W'arren, 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-
tionery store in Washington and retaining it
until he accepted a position as entry clerk with
the firm of George 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. B. Tichenor & Com-
|)any 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
X'ew Jersey. In 1878 he was elected for a
term of three years to represent the first ward
of Orange in the common council, and being
the only I\e]niblican in that body at the time
was given tbe 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 sherifif, 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 11, 1886, he was commis-
sioned as first lieritenant and adjutant of the
third battalion of the Xational (iuard of the
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state of New Jersey, by Gnvernor Leon Ab-
bett. This i)Ositioii he held for five years,
until the reorganization of the first brigade,
which resulted in the consolidation of the
first, second, and third battalions, forming the
second regiment. June 25, i8q2. Lieutenant
Hine was commissioned as captain and judge-
advocate of the second regiment under Colonel ■
J. \ reeland Moore. At the election which
preceded 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 liis own application,
Lieutenant-colonel Samuel V. S. Muzzy was
promoted to his place, and Captain Hine was
chosen lieutenant-colonel to fill the vacancy.
November 8, 1897, Colonel Muzzy retired as
brevet brigadier-general, and there was but
one man it was felt who 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 date
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 up, the Spanish began capturing prizes
in the Carribean and Colonel Hine was among
the first in the country to offer his regiment
for active service. During the war 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,
General Fitzhugh Lee, the compliment,
"Thank Gofl. we have one regiment equipped
for service, but that is the way New Jersey
always sends out her soldiers." May 2, 1899,
came the order of Governor Voorhees disband-
ing the Second Regiment and Colonel Hines was
retired. In 1002, as a result of the great fire
in I'aterson, 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 with 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
ofiFicerships in the regiment, September ig,
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 Reijublican 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. He attends the
First Presbyterian Church of Orange. Colonel
Hine 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 Fifth avenue and Forty-second street, dur-
ing the military parade, September 30, 190.).
Colonel Edwin Warren Hine married,
March zt^. 1874, Nellie, daughter of David and
Margaret ( Rockafeller) Sturtevant, a de-
scendant of the early settlers of Plymouth,
Massachusetts, born in 1854. Their children
are: i. Helen Pilanche, born February 15, 1876.
died in infancy. 2. Walter Robbins, Decem-
ber I, 1S77, married Annabell Bagley, 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.
fl) Christian George, the founder of the
family in this country was born in France. June
25. 1847. died in Newark, New Jersey, Jnly
\(\ 1898. By his wife, Sophia (Vollmer)
George, who survives him and is now living
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at 394 Eighteenth avenue, he had three cliil-
dren : Edward C, see forward: Henry 1'.,
Louis F.
(ID Edward C, the eldest child of Chris-
tian and Sophia ( VoUmer) 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. F"eick, 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 M., Pauline B., Emil H.
and Amelia. Edward C. and Pauline B.
( Kleeman ) George have no chil<h-en.
"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 jjlantations 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
.•\ugiist 15th, 1774, by Thos Bond. V. D. M."
(I) Such was the testimonial brought to
this country by the founder of the McCartcr
family of New Jersey, when he left the home
of his father, Robert McCartcr, 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, with 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 Pliiladelphia.
For these services his widow was granted a
])ension dating from March 4, 1836, which she
received until her death. In 1784 he entered
into a mercantile connection with Messrs. Grier
and Brooks which 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, who 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. AlcCarter 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 frec|uent contributor to the newspapers on
[xjlitical topics, his articles over the signature
of "The old man of the Mountain" attracting
much notice and exerting much influence on
the public mind. John AlcCarter 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 addition 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
imper of that day contains a very full account
of his life, public services and business career.
November 21, 1786, John McCarter married
.•\gncs, daughter of George and Mary (Boyd)
Harris, and granddaughter of William anil
Elizaljeth (Blair) Harris, who came to this
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country from Ireland in 1742. She had one
aunt, her father's sister, Isabel, who married
her cousin, Robert Harris, AI. D., who lived
in 1791 in Spruce street, Philadelphia, was one
of the founders of the College of Physicians
and Surgeons and one of the physicians 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 May 2,
1845; married, late in life, Luther Y. Howell,
of Newton, New Jersey, but left no children.
3. Robert 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 LInited States district
court of South Carolina, and (second) his
first wife's younger sister, Mary Caroline. 8.
Daniel Stuart, born December 2, 1803, died
August, 1868: married Maria Haydcn, of
Georgia. 9. Eleanor Cordelia, bom March 2,
1807. died July 27, 1883; married Dr. Harvey
Hallock.
(II) Robert Harris, third cliild and eldest
son of John and Agnes (Harris) McCarter,
was born at Mendham, March 16, 1793, died
March 8, 185 1. 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
ihc end of Mr. Russell's term of five years
was himself although not .quite twenty-one
years old appointed to the office of clerk. In
1826 he removed with his wife and two boys
from Morristown 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-
pointed him a judge of the court of errors
and appeals. In politics he was a Democrat,
was thoroughly informed on the political 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. \Miile in Morristown, Robert
Harris ^ilcCarter married Eliza, daughter of
Thomas Nesbitt, who had emigrated to this
country from the north of Ireland 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 Jolui McCarter Jr., born in
1822, died October 3, 1886, leaving a widow,
the daughter of Colonel Joseph E. Edsall, of
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ilanilmrg. ami two daughters. 2. Thomas
.Wsbitt, who is referred to below. 3. Agnes,
born .May 8, 1828, died :\Iarch 22, 1881, un-
married. 4. Frances Meeker, born October 6,
1830, died May 11, 1897, married Samuel
JJenry Potter, of Deckertown and Newton,
New Jersey, and later of Janesville, Wiscon-
sin, and had Robert Harris McCarter Potter,
of Chicago. 5. Susan Thompson, 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'liiversity and graduated from that
institution in 1842. He then began studying
law in the office of Martin Ryerson, Esquire,
and was admitted to the New Jersey bar in
1845. From that time until 1853 he practised
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 ])ractise with Oscar Keen, Esquire, 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 Xew'ton he
was the director of and counsel to the Sussex
Railroad Company, and for several years he
wras also a director of and counsel to the
Morris Canal and Banking Company. He was
the counsel to the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Comjiany, 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-
porations. In addition to these professional
connections .Mr. .McCarter W'as prominently
identified with various corporate bodies as
a director, among which were the Peoples'
Mutual Insurance Company of Newark, and
the Easton and .'Xmboy 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
Covernor Ward. On both occasions, how-
ever, he declined the honor, preferring to re-
main at the bar. lie was nevertheless willing
to become a chancery reporter and accejited
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-
])ublican. 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 TF'rinceton P'niversity which con-
ferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.
D., in 1875, for a time was one of the trustees
of Evelyn College, was an organiser and the
only president of the old Citizen's Law and
Order League of Newark, was an honorary in-
corporator 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, 1896,
leaving six children: i. Fanny A., wife of
Charles .S. P.aylis. 2. Jane Haggerty, wife of
Edwin 11. Williamson. 3. Eliza Nesbitt. 4.
Robert Harris. 5. Uzal Haggerty. 6. Thomas
Nesbitt Jr., see forward.
(IV) 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
L'liiversity, 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 University, 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, wdien 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 Xew Jersey,
a most important body holding the ownership
and management of nearly all the electric
railways and lighting properties, both 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. Mr. 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 fam-
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-
ship, Essex county. New Jersey, where he es-
tablished a home, winning and retaining the
respect and confidence of his fellow citizens.
(H) Elias (2), son of Elias (i) and Laura
Heller, was born in Darmstadt, Germany, and
there received a practical education. At the
age of about twenty-five years he accompanied
his parents to the United States, settling with
them in Essex county. New Jersey, from
whence he removed to Paterson, same state.
subsequently 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 United States about the year
1832. Children: i. Elias George, 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. A 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 Fairmount cemetery.
She lived to the age of ninety-six years.
(HI) 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 sixteen went
to the 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 obliged 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 Association, and they pur-
chased a tract of land near his manufacturing
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I)laiit and the station on \ erona avenue, con-
sistinjj of tifteen acres devoted to farming
IHir{K)ses, and thereon built many residences,
some of which were sold and others rented.
The company purchased most of the land
bounded by Mt. Prospect avenue, Ballantine
j'arkway and the Greenwood Lake branch of
the ICrie Railroad, which included the Sidman
farm oi one hundred acres, the estate of Fred-
crick .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. Mr. Fleller
u|)cned 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. 1-^orest 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-equipped
club house, and the Forest Hill Field Club is
located on the property. In 1873 Mr. Heller
erected a fine house on Mt. Prosjject avenue,
where he made his home until 1891, when he
erected his present elegant residence facing
Elvvootl 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
])rinciples 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 affairs 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 Presbyterian Church,
serving as president of the board of trustees
for twenty-five years. Fie is president of the
Woodside P)uilding and Loan .'\ssociation, of
the Forest Hill .\ssociation and the Forest
Flill 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 L'nited States, in
which capacity he has served ever since. He
is a member of Bellevue Lodge, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, and has been its treasurer for
four years, member of the North End Club,
Northern Repujjlican Club and the Forest Hill
lueld Club.
Elias G. Heller marrietl, in Newark, New
Jersey, October 14, 1867, Sophie C, born in
.New York City, June 5, 1843, daughter of
Nicholas C. and Frances (Doclow) Geoff roy,
who were the parents of four other children,
among whom were : Hortense, married
Munroe Doremus; Lucy, married Jefferson
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 .Vrthur, an attomey-at-law in Newark,
New Jersey.
(IV) Paul E., eldest child of Elias George
and Sophie C. ( Geoff roy) 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
Presb\terian 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. (Geoffroy) Heller, was
born in Newark, New Jersey, August 2, 187 1.
He graduate<l 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
.•\utomobile Club and the Forest Flill Field
Club. He married, February 8, 1897, in New-
ark, Flarriet ]., 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 in 1894. After his graduation he entered
the office of Coult & Howell in Newark and
read law, and was admitted to the New Jersey
barasattorney 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. Mr. 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 Fore-st Hill Golf Club. He married,
March 21, 1899, ^t 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.
(IH) George Elias, fourth child and third
son of Elias and ]Mary (Laegle) Heller, was
bom in West 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
Man,' Greeney, a family of German descent,
who died ,\ugust 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) Pfeiffer.
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, February 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.
(HI) John ]., 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, ^^''th his
brothers Elias George and George Elias, he
formed a partnership, which has ever since been
known by the name of Heller Brothers. Mr.
Heller is a Republican. Hemarried, April4, 1874,
Lena, daughter of Louis and Mary (Becker)
Pfeiffer, and the sister of Emma C. Pfeiffer,
the wife of his brother, George Elias Heller.
They have eight children: i. Ida Mary, 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, March 13, 1881, died November 5,
ir)o(); 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 Mill-
wood. March 29, 1891. 8. Naomi. December
27, 1894.
( IV ) John Walter, third child and eldest
son of John J. and Lena (Pfeiffer) 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. M. His
clubs are the Cornell University Qub of New
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\urk 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. He mar-
ried, April 26, 1906, at Lynn, Massachusetts,
Bertha, born in East Wellington, Connecticut,
February 5, 1882, only child of Charles Ash-
ley Ryder, D. D. S., and Sarah Elizabeth
(Eldredge) Ryder. Her father practiced in
Bridgeport, 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 [jeriod of his life is not known.
It is known, however, that he married and had
three children, Anna, John and George.
^llj George (2), son of George (i) Har-
bert, was born in Southampton township, Bur-
lington county. New Jersey, in 1802, and died
in Northampton or Mt. Holly in 1881. 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
chiefly charcoal. The later years of Mr. Har-
bert's life were spent on a farm near Mt.
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,
.\'ew Jersey, and their children were: Sarah,
Thomas. ( ieorge I'rank, the latter the i.mly
survivor.
( HI ) Geoige Frank, son of George (2) and
Mary (Troth) Harbert, was born at Lumber-
ton, Xew Jersey, June 3, 1838. His young
life was spent on his father's farm, and after
attcnfling the township jniblic 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 cajiacity. From
1890 until about 1900 he conducted a farm in
Lumberton, which he still owns, and in 1899
was elected by popular vote steward of the
Burlington County .-Mmshouse, 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
Cajje 'Slay, under the administration of Presi-
dent Hayes ( William B. Tatum, collector). He
also served under the administration of Presi-
dents Garfield and Arthur. L'pon 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 Moffitt 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. 19, I. 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 .-\nn (Carlisle) Reeves, of Alt. Holly.
In December, i8<;)8, they removed to Crystal
Sjirings, Cojjiah county, Mississippi, where on
June 27, 1869 Blanche R. Harbert was born.
In January, 1870, they returned to Alt. Holly,
New Jersey. Blanche R. was graduated from
Mt. Holly high school, 1885, and from Borden-
town Female College, 1888. She married,
March 9, 1892, Edgar G. .\llen, and their
children were: Barclay H., born February i,
1894, and Alary E., Alay i, 1896. Air. .\IIen
died from the effects of a railroad accident,
January 3, 1909. The second child of George
b'rank and Alary T. Harbert was Eugene, born
in Alt. Holly, New Jersey, Alay 22, 1875; he
attended Professor Walradt's .Vcademy in that
town, afterwards spent two years at Peddie
Institute, Hightstown, New Jersey, graduat-
ing with the class of 1897. He entered the
medical department of the University of Penn-
sylvania, and received his degree of AI. D. in
June, 1899. He was associated with Dr. Enoch
Hollingshead, of Pemberton, Xew Jersey, and
in 1900 was ajipointed physician of Burlington
County Almshouse, and when the insane asylum
of the county of P>urlington was comiileted in
1901, he was the first j)hysician appointed to
that institution. He married Cora, daughter
of (iarrett Logan, of Beverly, New Jersey.
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October, 1902. In May, 1903. removed to
East Orange, New Jersey, and there practiced
liis profession very successfully, removing to
Beverly, Xew Jersey, in 1908. Children : Gar-
rett Eogan, born in Orange, Januar\- 5, 1905,
died July 2b, 1907. Eugenia, born in Orange,
September 8, 1908.
The German mechanic, notably
GROni.h^R the workers in wood and those
accustomed to the various pro-
cesses of vaneering. inlaying and the deft art
of coloring and shading 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
fatlierland, 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 William Grobler was born in
Germany, in 1835, where he attended school
according to law, and when fourteen years of
age, with his brother William came to America.
( His sister W'illimetta remained in Gennany),
They landed in Xew York City in 1849. Au-
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 his 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 him 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 .August 25, 1863, and was mustered into
service September 21, 1863, and commissioned
.second lieutenant of Company 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 & Middleton. In 1874 he returned to
Pemberton, where he bought out the business
of his form«- employer, then owned by Ed-
ward 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. in. Knights
of Pythias, Pemberton; a comrade of General
A. E. Shires Post, No. 26, Grand Army of the
Republic, and he was an officer in the several
organizations except 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 Samuel C. and Drusilla
( Johnson ) Rambo, and granddaughter of
Benjamin Rambo, born in Woodbury, Glou-
cester county. New Jersey, and his wife Mary
( Cooper ) 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 Oliver, who with her first born child
was drowned, and (second) Florence Oliver,
his deceased wife's sister, who had one child,
Rebecca; Lydia., who was the second wife of
Captain Augustus Grobler ; and Anna, who
married John J. Branda. Mary (Ramlx))
Grobler was born in Pemberton, New Jersey,
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in 1845, 'I'l'l "^I'd i" 1871, leaving one child,
Augustus liadger Groblcr (cj. v.). Captain
Grobler married (second) Lj'dia, sister of his
deceased wife, and by her had three children:
William, Mary and Efifie.
(II) Augustus Badger, only child of Cap-
tain Augustus William and ^lary (Rambo)
Grobler, was born in I'emberton, Burlington
county, Xew 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 reached
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 office of coroner for Burlington
county, serving in that office for three years.
He affiliated with Central Lodge, No. 44, F.
and A. M., of Vincentown ; with Pemberton
Lodge, No. 44, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows; with ^Amo Lodge, No. in. Knights
of Pythias, of Pemberton, 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. 1892, Laura J., daughter of Charles
P. and .Adlie (Johnson) Nutt, of Pemberton,
their first child, Daniel Earl, was born Sep-
tember 19. 1893, ^Ti their second child, Edith
Kingdom, Noveinber 5, 1899.
The civil war was a school of
KXlliilT instruction anl discipline that
turned out many notable grad-
uates, whn but fur the opportunity thus offered
might have lived and died in oblivion. Very
few of the veterans who escaped the deadly
effects of change of climate and mode of living
that renrlcred so many permanent invalids, or
who came back with whole bodies uninjured
1)y tile bullets of the enemy, failed to succeed
in civil life. They had experienced a process
of preparation that made them men of thought
and action and nut droues in the busy hive of
life. The country had taken a new grip on
])rosperity and needed just such men to help
along the wheels of progress and rchabitation.
It is helpful til the \-()uuir 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 1831. 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 Xew Jersey \'olunteer Regiment
under Colonel Henry 0. Ryerson for nine
months service. He was assigned to the com-
pany of which Lieutenant E. Burd Grubb, of
ISurlington, Xew Jersey, was in command and
from which rank Lieutenant Grubb was pro-
moted to major on Novefnber 23, 1862. The
regiment was assigned to the First Brigade,
Colonel A. T. A. Torbert ; First Division,
Brigadier-General William T. H. Brooks;
Sixth Army Corps, Major-General \^'illiam
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 Cjeneral Robert E. Lee, at Fredericks-
burg, X'irginia, December 13, 1862, and the
Federal army w'as 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 Cliancellorsville, the army having been re-
fonned and General Josejih Hooker placed in
command. The relative jiosition of the Twenty-
third Xew Jersey \'olunteers in the army was
the same as occupied on the first battle of De-
cember 13, the changes in command placing
Major E. I'urd (Irubb 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. Penrose, Colonel Sanuiel L. Buck and back
to Colonel William H. Petirose 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-
bin-g. but he was also defeated and comjielled
to retire to the northern bank of the river, not
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being able witb a single corps to sustain his
])osts 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 New Jersey had expired
and the regiment was ordered to camp at
Beverly, New 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 Jiarrisburg 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, Virginia, 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 J., daughter of Will-
iam Bareford, of Tabernacle, New Jersey, and
their only child was Harry Laban (q. v.j.
( n ) Harry Laban, only child of Gilbert W.
and Elizabeth J. ( Bareford) Knight, was born
at Taljemacle, Burlington county, New 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 Med ford, 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
Mcdford from 1891 to 1906, when he resigned
to accept the jjosition of postmaster at Aled-
ford, of which office he still had charge in 1909.
He was also interested in the cranberry cul-
ture as secretary and treasurer of the New
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 ta.ves, and member of the board of
education. His affiliations with benevolent and
fraternal associations included membership in
• the Medford Lodge, No. 178, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons, of Medford, of which
lodge he is past master; in the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 100, of
Medford; in the Knights of Pythias, Lodge
No. 108, of Medford ; in the Junior Order of
United .\mcrican Mechanics, sub-council No.
9, of Medford; in the Knights of the Golden
Eagle, sub-castle, of Medford; of the May-
flower Council, No. 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, New Jersey, and their
only child \"erna L. was born in Medford,
New Jersey, June 29, 1897.
The family of this name'
(GARWOOD have been residents of the
state of New 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 Upper
Evesham tuwnshi]), Burlington county. New
Jersey. 1720, married and among his children
was Israel (q. v.).
(II) Israel, son of Japhet Garwood, was
born near Medford, New Jersey, 1750, mar-
ried and was the father of five children :
Thomas, William, Samuel (q. v.), Elizabeth,
Mary.
( III ) Samuel, third son of Israel Garwood,
of Upper Evesham township, Burlington
county, New Jersey, was born in Southampton
township, Burlington county. New Jersey,
177Q. He was a farmer in his native township
and also carried on a distillery and was an all-
around mechanic, also to do both carpentering
and working in iron as a machinist. He mar-
ried Mary Newton, 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 35, 1865.
(I\') Joshua, second son and fourth child
of Samuel and Mary (Newton) Garwood, was
born in Southampton township, Burlington
county. New Jersey, 1803. He attended the dis-
trict school, was brought u]) 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
bv 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 farm. He was
a Democrat in party politics, and a member of
the Society of Friends, attending the Hicksite
-Meeting in Medford. 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,
Xew Jersey. 2. Sarah, married William Allen,
a farmer who carried on a farm near Vin-
centown, .\'e\v Jersey, where she died. 3.
Ellen, who lived to be seventeen years of age.
4. Job, died young. 5. Hannah, died unmar-
ried. 6. Frank, died unmarried. 7. Hope,
married Joseph Taylor, a farmer of Woodford,
where she died. 8. Samuel (c|. v.). 9. Charles,
lives in Medford. 10. J. Maurice, a merchant
in Medford. Joshua Garwood died at his
home in Southampton township in 1866.
(\) Samuel (2), fourth son and eighth
child of Joshua and Hannah (Braddock) Gar-
wood, was born in ^^ledford, Burlington county,
N'ew 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 employment was clerk and bookkeeper in
a large hoarding house at Atlantic City, where
he remained four years, when he returned to
Medford, where he established a business as
jiainter and house decorator, which business
he carried on for ten years. In 1889 he joined
John P). Mingin, Frank Reiley and others in
organizing the Star Glass Company, which is
carried on as a joint stock company, amjily
ca])talized, with a business office and sales-
rooms in Philadelphia and Mr. Mingin as presi-
dent and su])erintendent of the manufacture
of glass. .\ general store was started in con-
nection with the glas.s works in 1892, and Mr.
(Garwood was placed in charge of the store
in Medford. He was also made a director of
the Medford ( ias Company. His political faith
was that of the Democratic party, and his
religious faith that of the Hicksite branch of
tlie 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 Arch
Chapter and made a Knight Templar at lUir-
lington. Mr. Garwood was married in 1881 by
Friends' ceremony to Ella, daughter of Ed-
mond and Kebecca ( .Andrews ) Prickett, of
Medford. and they had two children born of
this marriage as follows: t. Carlton, born Sej)-
tcmber 19, 1883, ^t Atlantic City, Xew Jersey,
and after graduating at Union Business Col-
lege, Philadelphia, he became assistant man-
ager of the Star Glass Company at Medford.
He married Ray, daughter of Henry and Caro-
line (Brown) Wright, of Indian Mills, New
Jersey, and their first child, Samuel, born in
Aleclford, 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
George's F"riends' School, Newtown, I'ennsyl-
vania.
The Seaver family of New Eng-
.SEA\'ER land is descended from Robert
Seaver, who was born about
the year 1608. March 24, 1633-34, at the age
of alx)ut twenty-five years, he took the oath
of supremacy and allegiance to pass for New
England in the ship "Mary and John," of Lon-
don, Robert Say res, master (see "I-'ounders
of Newbury," Drake). On tlie 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 i|i33 and soone
afterward joined to the church— -slie 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
Roxbury, 1665. Elizabeth, his wife, died June
6, 1657. "1657 buryed. mo. 10 day 18, Sister
.Seaver ye wife of Robert Seaver." "Also
16(19 mo. 10 day 18, wife to Robert Seaver,
buried." He must have had a third wife, for
in his will made January 16, 1681, 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 j)robably dead at the date of the will.
Robert Seaver died (town records) May 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
IClizabelh (liallard) Seaver had : 1. Shubael,
liorn January 31, 1639. died June 18, 1729. 2.
Caleb, born August 30, 1641, died March 6,
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457
^7^3- 3- Joshua (twin with Caleb), died
beore 1730. 4. Ehzabeth, born 1643, niarried
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 ( P>allard ) Seaver, was baptized in Rox-
bury, January 8. 1645, and was slain by Indians
in the battle at Sudbury, Massachusetts, April
21, 1676, during King Philip's war. He was
one of ten Sutlbury men who were killed on
that day and served in Captain Wadsworth's
company. The site of the battlefield where
Captain W'adsworth 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. Captain Watlsworth and his company
came upon the scene and seeing a small party
oi Indians rushed forward with impetuous
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
April 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 Februarvi4, i6q6, married, December 15,
17 1 4, .KifAaH^i^N'inchester. 2. Nathaniel, De-
cember *2, 1697, see post. 3. John, October 6,
1699, died Brookline,October2i, 1767. 4. Anna,
1701, married, April 9. 1724, Thomas Stedman,
Jr. 5. Lucy, November 24, 1703, married, 1725,
John Goddard, of Brookline. 6. Andrew,
1705. 7. Mar\', 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, 171 5.
( I\" ) Nathaniel ( 2 ), son of John and Sarah
Seaver, was born in Roxbury, December 22,
1697, died in Brookline, Massachusetts, Octo-
ber 2, 1768. He married (first) Hannah
While, 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, 182 1 ;
married John Goddard, of Brookline. 6. Abi-
jah, August 31, 1737. see post. 7. Lucy, Feb-
ruary 17, 1739-40. 8. Mary. 9. Elizabeth.
10. Susanna. 11. Nathaniel.
( \" ) Abijah, son of Nathaniel (2) and Han-
nah I White I .Seaver, was born August 31,
1737, and married, March 29, 1764, Amie
\\'inchester, of Brookline. They had five chil-
dren: I. William, born May 6, 1765, married,
L^ecember I, 1796, Lucy Heath. 2. Benjamin,
Se])tember 28, 1766, 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 I'ratt.
(\I) Joseph, son of .\bijah and Anne
( \\ inchester ) Seaver, was baptized January
20, 1771, and married, November 17, 1799,
.\bigail, daughter 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, 1810, died single.
(\'II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) and
Abigail (Whitney) 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. 9. James R. S.
(\ HI) Joseph IL, 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 schools and
for many years has been actively identified
with the business life of that citv, member of
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the stock exchange and former member of the
brokerage firm of E. W. Clark & Company.
Mr. Seaver is a Republican in politics and a
consistent member of the Presbvterian church.
In 1871 he married Mary Gillespie, born 1838,
daughter of I-"ranklin Gillespie, who was born
in Xew Castle, Delaware, a descendant of Rev.
George Gillespie, who was a son of Rev.
George Gillispie, the latter of whom attained
fame through the authorshi]^ 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 Gillespie, born 1872, married William
Percy Simpson, of Overbrook, Pennsylvania,
president of Eddystone Manufacturing Com-
pany. One child, William Simpson. 2. .\rcher
Whiting, 1874, died 1902; married Marion
.Skinner, a native of North Carolina, and had
one, son, .\rcher 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
1 8(^8, 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 Bell Telephone Company
and remained there about four years ; with
Sloane Howe Company, Philadelphia, iron and
steel commission house; and in 1908 purchased
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 poultn,'
products fi'r the market.
The Kirkpalricks of
Kl RK I'ATR l( 'l\ .\'ew Jersey come of an
honorable and note-
woithy .Scottish lineage, having from their
first ai)]iearance in history showed the forcible
characteristics and (|ualities which by the end
of the eighteenth century had numbered them
among the families of jirincipal importance
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 (.'loseburn. 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 border. Sir
Thomas Kirkpatrick in the reign of James \T.
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 : Argent, 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 ^lalaga,
Spain, whose ancestor was Sir Roger Kirk-
patrick, eighth baron of Kylosbern or Close-
burn.
(I) .Alexander 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\lerian, but was
warmly devoted to the cause of the Stuarts,
and took part in the rising under the Earl of
Mar for the old pretender. 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,
.\ew Jersey, builditig 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 hitter's
two sons anel two daughters, and this branch
settled in Sussex county. New Jersey. By his
wife Elizabeth, whom he married in Scotland,
.Alexander Kirkpatrick had five children: i.
Andrew, who married Margaret, daughter of
Joseph Gaston, 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 was a
surveyor and also a merchant at Peapack,
Warren county; married Margaret Anderson,
nf Round Brook, and had Martha, who mar-
ried John Stevenson. 4. Jennet, who married
Duncan McEowen and removed to Maryland.
5. Mary, 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
lirook. Xew Jersey, Alarch ig, 1814. Com-
ing to .America with his father, he bought from
Iiis brother .\ndrew the paternal homestead at
Mine Ijrook, and lived there, "greatly esteemed
and loved." In his habits he was plain 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 P.rook, New Jersey, November 2, 1795.
Their seven children were: i. Elizabeth, born
September 27, 174.9, died 1829; married (first)
a Mr. 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 clergyman 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, 1842;
married Hugh Gaston, of Peapack, New Jersey,
the son of John or Roljert, 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 1831. 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. Plis 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 Vir-
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, when
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 extensive learning, great acumen,
and power of logical analysis, and his strictly
logical mind and great personal dignity coupled
with bus 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 foimder 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 was its candidate for
governor of New Jersey. Among his many
excellent ciualities he was especially esteemed
and admired for his keen sense of justice, his
considerateness and loyalty. November i,
1792, Judge Andrew Kirkpatrick married
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STATE OF XEW JERSEY.
Jane, born July 12. 1772, died February 16,
185 1, seventh child and eldest daughter of
Colonel John lUihenheim 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 First 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. I-'or
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
I'runswick, graduated from Rutgers College
in icS(if), and is active in business and in the
financial interests of his town ; he is commis-
sioner of i)ublic 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 Hon. Andrew (2I, eldest son of
John Bayard and Margaret (Weaver) Kirk-
patrick. was born in \Vashington, District of
Columbia, October 8, 1844; died in Newark,
New Jersey, May 3, 1904. Returning with his
parents to New Brunswick, 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 18O3. receiving his honorary de-
gree of M. A. from Princeton University in
1870, and in 1903 the degree of LL. D. from
Union 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 ottered 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-
quitted 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 ]iroblems. His
record as a federal judge was brilliant, and to
his courtesy and humanity there were hun-
dreds to testify. Quick-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 statement 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." .Vmong 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." Fie was essentially the lawyer
and the judge with administrative jjowers 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 company failed, and Jutlgc Kirkpatrick
was appointed receiver with authority to con-
tinue the business of making and selling Do-
mestic sewing machines. Notwithstanding the
imexampled 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 operation, 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
Compan}-, a director in the Fidelity Title and
Deposit Company, a director 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 1869 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 Wood-
ruff (King) Howell, of New York City, and
their three children are : 4. Littleton, who is
referred to below. 5. Isabella, 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 University 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, 1 89 1. For the next three years he worked
in partnership with Joseph D. Gallegher 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 prepared 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
& Yoting. 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
COBB 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
Winthrop 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 Mile river, near Taunton, the
supply of iron ore appeared to be inexhaust-
able and the proprietors of that town at once
set about to develop the mines. The pro-
prietors of the First Company organized in
1653-54 included twenty-three residents and
proprietors of the town, and the thirteenth
one on the list of subscribers w'as John Cobb,
or Cob, as then written. Additional capital
was furnished from Plymouth, Boston, Salem
and Braintree, in Alassachusetts, and by Provi-
dence and Newport, in Rliode 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-
bearal)le. 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 help 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 aiifected
March 5, 1738. He was made ruling elder of
this church and was thereafter known as
Elder Cobb. Besides holding the highest office
in the town and church, he was deputy to the
general court at Plymouth, 1645-47-52-59-60-
61. He married (first) in Plymouth, in April,
1631, 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 others 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, ]\Iay 9, 1681, and died January'
I/' 1736- 6. Patience, March 19, 1641 ; mar-
ried (first) Robert Parker, August, 1667;
(second) Deacon William Crocker, 1686. 7.
Greshom, January 10, 1645 ; married Hannah
David, June 4, 1675; ^^ ^^'^^ beheaded by the
Indians. 8. Eleazer, ]\Iarch 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 zj, 1727. 11. Sarah, 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 "Mayflower" descendant. 13. Sarah
(2), March 10, 1663; married Deacon Samuel
Chipman, December 2-j. 1689. 14. Henry,
September 5, 1665; married Lois, daughter of
Joseph Hallett, April 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 Alary, daughter of W'illiam and Ann
(Hynd) Hoskins, November 28, 1660. He
removed to Taunton in 1657, where he died in
1675, ^"d 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,
!\Iay 6, 1696; died in 1769. He marjied, Feb-
ruary 6, 1717, Mehitable, daughter of Increase
and Alehitable (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, June 21, 1718. 2. Sarah, December
6, 1719. 3. Ebenezer, December 13, 1721. 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 familiar 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
lO' 1753- 4- John (q. v.). 5. Rhoda, baptized
April 20, 1755. 6. Robert, baptized October
18, 1771. 7. (probably) Thomas, born Janu-
ary 16, 1760; a revolutionary soldier, who
died January 17, 1S45 • 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. He served in Captain Josiah
Hall's company, of Denville, New Jersey.
(VI) 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 sherifif
of Morris county, 1792; justice of the peace,
receiving his ap])ointment 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' Ann, 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, October 19, 17,80; died 1782. 5. John
Joline, M. D., August 23, 1784; married Jane
Jacobus, July 9, 181 1 ; died February 4, 1846.
C). Jane, August 7, 1786; married James S.
Ccjndit; died July 25, 1855. 7. Samuel Allen,
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:
(\ H) Henry, eldest son and third child of
John (2) and Ann (Parrott) Cobb, was born
in Parsippany, Morris county. New Jersey.
May 23. 1778. He married Maria Baldwin,
of Newark, born January 5. 1786. died March
I, 1864. Henry died June 25, 1857, and they
are both interred in the Parsipjjany burial-
ground. I le 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 Brown. 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 April 15, 1887. 8. Sarah, who married a
De Hart. John A. 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
S(ild by William Ripley Cobb, and the other
heirs to John 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.
(\'III) 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 married Clarissa, daughter of
"Phineas and Rebecca (Bryan) Chidester.
granddaughter of Ebenezer and Hannah
(Haywood) Bryan, and great-granddaughter
of Joseph and Sarah (Allen) 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 Allen, in 1742. He was a private in the
New Jersey militia and was called out several
times in the revolutionary war. The children
of .Mexander A. and Clarissa (Chidester)
Cobb, were born in Newark. New Jersey, as
follows: I. John Alexander (cj, v.). 2. George
B., 1846. 3. Annie M.. who married Harry
Waters.
I 1 .\ ) John .Mexander. eldest son of Alex-
ander .\. and Clarissa (Chidester) Cobb, was
horn 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. B.. 1866. became a law
student in the office of Theodore Runyon. sub-
se(|uently chancellor of the state, and he was
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admitted to the New 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
(\\'attles) 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 Washington's army, encamp-
ed around New York, Harlem and in New
Jersey. Her great-great-great-grandparents
were David (1697-1781) and Lydia (Correy)
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 William
(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 ciiildren of John Alex-
ander and Mary C. (Ripley) Cobb were born
in Newark, New Jersey, as follows: i. Will-
iam Ripley (q. v.). 2. Miriam, 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 i\Iary 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 Belmar, 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 arms-
CARPENDER 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-
itv churchyard. 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 Breeze. 7. Sarah, married Dr. Rich-
ard Ayscough, whose daughter Sarah married
Colonel William Malcolm. Sidney Breeze and
Dr. .\vscough are buried side by side in Trin-
ity cinirchyard. Their grandchildren were
made the heirs of Captain Bayard, who mar-
ried the other sister, Catharine Carpender.
( H ) John, fourth child of George and Eliz-
abeth Carpender, born 1721, lived in Brooklyn,
New York, and died 1793. He was buried in
St. Ann's, Brooklyn, whence his remains were
removed to Greenwood Cemetery. He married
(first) Marcy Weaver: (second) Catharine
Briant : (third) March 6, 1772, Sarah Stout
(died .\pril 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
Briant. 4. Ann. married (as his second wife)
Arthur Breese, of Utica, New York.
(HI) 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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Xew Jersey. He was a merchant. He mar-
married 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 Barnstaple, England, by his wife,
Elizabeth Weston (who was the daughter of
Stei^hen Weston, 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.).
(IV) Jacob Stout, son of William and Lucy
Weston (Grant) Carpender, w'asborn 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.xth 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
patriot, (jencral 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-
gra])li by his grandson, the late John Austin
.Stevens). He married (second) Alay 4, 1784,
Lucrctia Ledyard, daughter of Judge John
Ledvard, of Hartford, Connecticut, and widow
of Richardson Sands. One of their children
was Henry Hewgill Stevens, born in New
York, February 2S, 1797; merchant in that
city; died October 6, 1869. Alarried, 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.
r'rancis Kerby Stevens was born in New-
York City, August 18, 1839. For some years
he was engaged in business in Poughkeepsie,
New York, retiring from active life on account
of ill health. He was an ofiicer in the civil
war (Twenty-third Regiment of New Y^ork
\olunteer Infantry), and was wounded at
Chancellorsville. Died in Aiken, South Caro-
lina, February 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 Y'ork; married, June 2j, 1901,
Ethel Griffin, daughter of George W. Gritfin.
ii. William Carpender Stevens, born March 13,
1872, resides in New Brunswick, iii. Frances
Xoel Stevens, born January 13, 1874. resides
in New Brunswick.
2. Lucy Helena Carpender, born in New
Y'ork 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 Ward and Sarah (Bennett)
Hart. He is a descendant in the sixth genera-
tion of Deacon Stephen Flart, 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
hYeehoId, Monmouth county, New Jersey; he
was judge of the court of common pleas of
that county, and identified with manufacturing
interests. Sarah Bennett, mother of Dr. Hart,
was the daughter of William H. Bennett, of
Monmouth county, and descended from an old
New Jer.sey family. Charles Edward Hart
was graduated from Princeton College in 1858,
and from Princeton Theological Seminary in
1 861 : in the latter year was called to the Mur-
ray Hill Presbyterian Church, New York 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,
which he retained until 1897; from 1897 to
1906 was professor of Ethics and the Evi-
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467
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. WiUiam Carpender, born in New York
City. January 30. 1844. H^ ^^'s* long identi-
fied with financial interests in New York,
being until recently a member of the stock ex-
change ; resides in Massapecjua, 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 ]\Iay 6, 1882, member of the New York
stock exchange ; resides in Massapequa, 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-
jiresident and member of the executive com-
mittee of the National Association of Wool
Manufacturers of the Lhiited 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 N^ew 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 Ijoard 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 i8, 1855. daughter of
Alfred Francklin and Cecilia (Neilson) Kemp.
Her paternal grandparents were Henry Kemp,
of county Kent, England, and Susanne LTr-
sula Penelope de la Bruyere, of Huguenot
ancestry. Her father, Alfred Francklin Kemp,
was born September 12, 1817, in county Kent.
England, came to America in early life, and
(lied on Staten Island, September, 1873; mar-
ried, May 18, 1852, Cecilia Neilson, daughter
of William Neilson, of New York Citv, and
Hamiah 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, born
March 15, 1880. v. Henry de la Bruyere Car-
pender, Ijorn 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.
LTpon the retirement of Mr. Nicholson in 1872
Mr. Carpender established with Colonel Jacob
J. Janeway the new co-partnership of Jane-
way & Carpender, from which 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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IJrown Robinson, lx)rn November 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 fr<3m an old Virginia family, related to the
Beverly Robinsons of Staten island and also
to the Canadian Robinsons. (See Hayden's
Genealogies). He married, October 6, 1836,
I'Vances Brown, of Bedford county, \'irginia.
Issue of Charles Johnson and Alice Brown
(Robinson) Carpender : i. Alice Haxall Car-
pender. born September 5, 1876, married, Oc-
tober 30, 1901, Gustavus Abeel Hall, son of
John A., of Trenton, New Jersey, and Anna
(Abeel) Hall; they now reside in Cleveland,
(Jhio, where Mr. Hall is in charge of the inter-
ests of the Roebling Company; their children
are John Alexander Hall, born November 4,
iyo2, Charles Carpender Hall, born May 29,
iQOb, and Abeel Neilson Hall, born July 23,
1907, died .April 30, 1909. ii. Charles Johnson
Carpender, Jr., born June 6, 1878, resides in
New Brunswick; engaged in the chemical
industry at Little Falls, New Jersey, iii. Kath-
arine Neilson Carpender, born January 2,
1881, died June 29. 1881. iv. and v. twins,
born June 17, 1882, Moncure Conway Car-
pender, mechanical and electrical engineer at
Plattsburg, New York, and Edwin Robinson
Carpender, resides in New Brunswick, vi.
Sydney Bleecker Carpender, born November
24, 1884, refrigerating engineer in New Bruns-
wick.
The first Levis of whom we have
LIA'IS any definite knowledge is Philippe
L, 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, Philippe, Alexander and
Simon. The second of these, Gui de Levis L,
married (iuiburge, sister of Simon de Mont-
fort, Earl of Leicester. His great-granddaugh-
ter, Jeanne (daughter of Gui de Levis HL),
married Philippe de Mont fort H., a descendant
of a brother of Simon de ATontfort. There is
much evidence of the close relationship of the
two families.
The 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 Mont fort 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 Montfort. The earli-
est parish register in England began in 1538.
There are earlier dates entered in some of
them, Init 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 ." .\t
the bottom of the second page of the earliest
registry 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
up to the year 1599. Altogether there are one
hundred and two entries in the name of Levis,
the last being dated January 27, 1768. The
last one 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 — Mary Levise, of Alswortha — Will.
3. 1 61 3 — Richard Levis, of Beeston — Will.
4. 1616 — Christopher Levis, of Beeston —
Will.
5. 16 1 6 — Richard Levis, of Beeston — Will.
6. 1620 — Edwarde Levis, of Beeston — Will.
7. 1638 — Edward Levis, of Saxondale — \\ ill.
Of these numbers one and three are the
only ones connected with the direct line we are
considering, but all have been helpful in
establishing the facts. The most interesting
will is that of Christopher Levis, who died at
Harby, 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.
.\'ew Jersey, but now of London.
Tile exact relationship of Robert Levis men-
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tioned in the tabic 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 was
the son of the Edward who was buried in 1564.
This, however, is of no importance as unques-
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
known, 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 New Jersey traces its
ancestry back directly in this line :
( I ) Robert Levis was born in 1558.
(H) Edward Levis, buried May 10. 1654,
married Yssabell , buried June 3, 1593.
They had a son, Christopher, and other chil-
dren.
(HL) Christopher Levis, buried May 9,
1580. married Agnes , buried February
4, 1584. They had a son, Richard, and perhaps
other children.
(R) Richard Levis, buried March 2, 1612,
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
II, 1585. 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. He married, in March, 1648. Mary
Need, of Harby, England, and had children.
(\TI) Samuel, son of Christopher and Mary
(Need) Levis, was born at Harby, July 30,
1649, and 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. The
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 county, 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.
(\TII) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) and
Elizabeth (Clator) Levis, was born in Eng-
lantl, December 8, 1680, died in 1758. He
married, October 15, 1709, Hannah, daughter
of Joseph Stretch, of Philadelpliia, 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 Martha Thomson, and
they hail 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, Alarch 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 ; Pancoast, Robert J., Eliz-
abeth and Ann.
(XII) Samuel Franklin Levis, progenitor
of the Mt. Holly family of that surname, son
of William 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, Xew Jersey, to take charge of
their mill there, wdiich 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 Biddle Huhne,
born June 26, 1804, died April i, 1843, daugh-
ter of George and Sarah B. (Shrcve) Hulme
(see Hulme). He married (second) Novem-
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
ber 20. 1845, Maria B. Hulnie, born October
23, 1 8 14. and still living in Mt. Holly. She
also is a daughter of George and Sarah B.
( Shrevc ) 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,
Mary Holby. daughter of Charles JMagargee
and Ann ( Cooper ) Hicks, and had children :
i. Clara .M., born November 30. 1855. married,
[une 25, 1877. Brinckle Gunimey, and had
daughter, Mary, born December 6, 1877; ii.
.\nne 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
6. 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. Adelaide Shiras, born October 28,
1851 : died April 10, 1873.
( XHI ) Franklin Burr, son of Samuel Frank-
lin and Sarah Biddle (Hulme) Levis, was born
in Mt. 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 c|uality, was one of the organizers of
that party 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 a])pointed 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 appointed deputy collector of
internal revenue for the second district of the
state and held that office for several years.
-After 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 coimection
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 Med ford 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 Burlington 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.
M.. and a comnumicating member of St. .An-
drew's Church, Episcopal, and one of the dele-
gates to the I'an-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. .At 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.
(Sertrude \'an Pelt, born Mt. Holly, February
23. 1 87 1 ; died June 24, 1871. 5. Norman Van
Pelt, born Mt. Holly. April 11, 1872: see post.
(Xl\') Howard Coppuck. eldest son and
child of Franklin Burj- and Rebecca Browning
(Coppuck) Levis, was boni in Mt. Holly. New
Jersey. March 21, 1859, ac(|uired his earlier
education in ])rivate schools, then took a sjjccial
law course at Columbia College, New York, 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
a.
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association witli 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, Pennsylvania, and after-
ward in Chicago as western counsel of the
Thr>ms(in-I louston Electric Company, and
still later, when he became assistant coun-
sel for the (ieneral Electric Company, he
lived temporarily in St. Paul, Alinnesota.
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 Burling-
ton Fine Arts clubs, of London, and the Grolier
Club, of New York. He married, April 24,
1884, Jane Chester, daughter of the late Hon.
William A. and Jane (Chester) Coursen, of
Elizabeth. New Jersey, and by whom he has
two children: i. Chester Coursen, born Janu-
arv 18, 1885. 2. Edith Chetwood, born Octo-
be'r 31, 1886.
(XIN) Edward Hulme, third son and child
of Franklin Burr and Rebecca E>rowning
(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
l'hila(lel]ihia. He continued in that employ
(luring 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, t'l*-''' the same day. 2. Dorothea, born
March 2t,. 1901, died .■\ugust 15, 1901.
(XI\') Rev. Norman \'an Pelt, youngest
son and child of Franklin Burr and Rebecca
Browning (Coppuck) Levis, was born in Mt.
Holly, April II, 1872. He was educated in
public schools of his home town, Peekskill
Military ,\cademy, the University of Pennsyl-
vania and .Alexandria Theological Seminary,
Alexandria, \'irginia, in the latter of which he
studied for the E])iscopal 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, igoo.
2. Norman \'an Pelt Jr., born .August 29, 1906.
(The Hulme Linei.
In our narrative of the Levis family in these
annals it is written that Samuel Franklin Levis
married, first, Sarah Biddle Hulme, and after
her death married, for his second wife, Maria
B. 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.
(HI) 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-i/
ruary 18, 1752. 5. 'Thomas, January 28, 1755, ^_^
died young. 6. Margaret, August 25, 1767. 7.
Ruth! October 23, 1771. 8. Thomas, 1774.
9. Ijenjamin, 1778.
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(1\') John (2), son of John {i ) and Mar)-
(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. Nine 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.
Q. Rebecca, February 25, 1787.
(\') George (3), son of John (2) and
Reiiecca (Milner) Hulme, was born in Hulme-
ville, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1776, died
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 Biddle, 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 P>.. October 23. 1814, married Samuel
F. Levis (his second wife). 7. Charles, July
4, 1809.
The late Charles Dunham
DESHLER Deshler, of New Brunswick.
New Jersey, was of the sixth
generation of the Deshler family and of the
eighth generation of the Dunham family in
America, his ancestral lines being as follows :
Paternal Line. ( 1 ) Johann Deshler, born in
(lermany. came to America in 1730. (11) Adam
Deshler. lived near .Mlentown. Pennsylvania,
purchased, in 1742, from Frederick Newhard,
two hundred and three and one-half acres, on
which he built in I7C)0 the stone dwelling called
I*"ort Deshler (still standing); furnished the
provincial troops with sup])lies in the h'rench ;uul
Indian war ; married Apollonia . (Ill)
David Deshler. born at Egyjit. Pennsylvania.
1733, died at Bienj's Bridge, Pennsylvania. De-
cember, 1796 : built in Germantown, 1772-73, the
famous dwelling (afterward the residence of
the Morris family ) known as the Morris-
Deshler house, which at one time was the
head(|uarters of the British General Howe,
and in 1793. during the yellow fever scourge,
was occui)ied by President Washington as the
executive mansion; married Susanna .
(1\) John Adaiu Deshler, born 1766, died
1820: married Deborah Wagener, (\')
George Wagener Deshler, ixirn in .Mlentown,
Pennsylvania. Sejjtember 17, i7')3, died 1836;
lived in Easton, Pennsylvania ; prothonotary of
Northampton county, Pennsylvania ; editor for
some time of the Belvidere (New Jersey)
Apollo: married. May 4, 1818, Catharine Law-
son Dunham. (VI) 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. 1 661, died 1742). (IV) Rev. Jona-
than Dunham, of Piscataway, born August
16, ifxj4, died ]\Iarch 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
surve_\-or; active in the revolutionary war,
being a luember of the committee of corres-
pondence ; married Mary Ford, of Morris-
town, who was born September 22, 1734, in
the oltl Ford house at that place, afterward
Washington's hea(k|uarters. (VI) Dr. Jacob
Dunham, of New Brunswick, born September
30, 1767, died August 23, 1832; married Eliz-
abeth Lawson. (VII) Catharine Lawson
Dunham, born July 14, 1791, died March 2().
1875; married, Mav 4, 1818, George Wagener
Deshler. (VIII) Charles Dunham Deshler.
(\'I) Charles Duniiam 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 J'eace street, at the foot of
Church, in a house which is still stantling,
though remodeled. lie was educateil 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 ajiprenticed as
clerk to Richard S. McDonald in the drug
business in New Bnmswick. Succeeding Mr.
McDonald, he conducted the business under
the firm styles of Deshler & Carter, Deshler &
I'oggs. anil finally C. D. Deshler. During this
l)eriod he took an active and prominent part in
organizing the New Brunswick gas works,
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473
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 Adi'crtiscr, 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 literan,' work in New York City,
where he was at various times editor of the
Cliristiaji IntcUigcnccr, secretary of the United
States Dairy Company, secretary of the Har-
ney Peak Tin Alining. Milling and Manufac-
turing Company, and book reviewer for the
publishing house of Harper Brothers.
Re-establishing his residence in New Bruns-
wick, Mr. 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 ( appointed by President Cleve-
land), and agent for the Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company. For many years 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 Whig ( 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
sensed 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. A 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.
His 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"
( Hari^er, 187Q). 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 Brunswick high school was given by
him in memory of a son. Mr. Deshler died at
his residence in New Brunswick, Alay 10,
1909, in his ninety-first year.
He married, Alay 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 family, originally
of Lambertville, New Jersey. Children: i.
Edward Boggs. 2. George Wagener, graduate
of West Point Military Academy, and after-
ward first lieutenant of Company A, First
.\rtiUcry, L'nited 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
Dimham (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
office 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 United States Rub-
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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
ber Company. Mr. De.^hler is president f>f the
New Brunswick Trust Company. He mar-
ried Ellen Slater, their children being: i.
IVIary\ married George W. Wilmot, of New
Brunswick. 2. Anna H., married Frank K.
Runyon. of New Brunswick. 3. Katherine,
married Dr. Frank L. Ilindle. 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
DI^NILAM a surname derived from a
place and in part from per-
sonal qualities. Dim 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, Denliam 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 Duniiam, 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 i()33. .ScMjn afterward he became
identified with the Pilgrim church, in 1638
being elected deacon of the religious society.
.•\t 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 sticces-
sive council during the next twenty years he
was chosen to this rcs])onsil)le office in the
legislative assembly. He was born in England
in 1589, and after coming to J'lymouth con-
tinued to live there until he was eighty years
old. The jjublic records mention his upright
character as a lawmaker and his pious life as
•It Is claimed by the author of the recent Dun-
ham Genealogy (1007) that he was Identical with
John Goodman of the "Mayflower." having assumed
and for some time borne the name of Goodman In
order to conceal hi.s 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 't was written in the town
records that he was "an approved servant of
God, 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 three
daughters survived him, all of whom lived to
mature years and became founders of large
families. Of this large and influential familv,
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. Cliil-
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, 165 1, Giles Rich-
ard. 6. Jonathan, born 1634; married (first)
November 29, 1655, Mary Delano; (second)
October 15, 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
'5- 'f'S?- Benajah Piatt. 10. Daniel, born
1649; married, about 1671, .
(II) Benajah, son of Deacon John and .\bi-
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
previously 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
Plymouth. 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, i(S66; died Decem-
ber 25, 1667. 5. B)enjamin, born October 28,
i6(>7; died young. 6. Mary, born New Jersey,
in 1(169; married Thompson. 7. Eliza-
beth, born 1670; married, July 15, 1691, Jonas
Wood.
(HI) Rev. I'~(lmun<l. son of Benajah and
Elizabeth (Tilson) Dunham, was burn in
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
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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 Westerly, 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
T709. He married, July 15, 1681, Mary,
daughter of Nicholas Bonham, whose wife
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 prominent characters
of New England history. Rev. Edmund and
Mary ( lionham ) Dunham had eight children :
1. Benajah, born August 13. 1684: died
August 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
13. 1691 ; married (first) March 11, 1717,
Dinah Fitz Randolph; -(*€coid4 -Mary Hi41.
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. Hannah, born A|)ril 14, 1704;
married, March 29, 1724, Josiah Davis.
(IV) Rev. Jonathan, son of Rev. Edmund
and Mary ( Ijonham) 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. August 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,
born 1715: married, 1739, MicaJah Dunn. 2.
Azariah, born February 9, 1718; married
(first) Mary Truxton : (second) Mary (Ford)
Stone. 3. Jonathan, born May 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
Aprir2, 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 Hal-
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 Azariah 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.
(\'II) Jephtha. son of Azariah and Eliza-
beth ( Dunham ) Dunham, was bom June 22,
1793, and married. October 11, 1815, Ann
Runyon. They had five children: i. Jane,
born July 16, 1816, married Augustus T.
Stout. 2. Nelson, born September 18, 1818,
see post. 3. Lewis Runyon, born .\ugust 22,
1824. 4. Jeremiah Stelle. born November 19,
1 83 1, married, September 24, 1867, Frances
Augusta 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 own 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
lirunswick 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.
Dunham married, at New Brunswick. Febru-
ary I. 1844. Elizabeth Augusta Linant. born
March 7. 1818. daughter of .Andrew Linant,
born Rouen, France, December 8, 1785, son
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
of Andre \ iiicent A. Linant, who married
July ". 1817. Margaret, widow of John Marsh,
and whose family name was Manning. She
was a daughter of Joseph Manning, of Plain-
field, New Jersey, niece of Rev. Dr. James
Manning, first president of Brown Univer-
sity, and granddaughter 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 Andrews, daughter of Joseph Andrews,
of Hingham. Massachusetts. James Man-
ning, son of Hepzibah, married Christiana
Eaing, and had a son James, who married
Grace Fitz Randolph and had a son Joseph,
who married Providence Cooper and had a
daughter Margaret, who married (first) John
Marsh and (second) Andrew Linant. Nelson
and Elizabeth Augusta ( Linant ) Diuihani had
two children: i. Andrew Linant, born New
Brunswick. December 9, 1844. married Mary,
daughter of Dr. John Magee and had Albert
Newell, who married Jane De Camp Felch,
and Rev. Clarence Manning, not married. 2.
Charles Arndt, see post.
dX) Charles Arndt, second son and child
of Nelson and Elizabeth Augusta (Linant)
Dunham, was born in New Brunswick, New
Jersey, August 25. 1850, and acquired his
earlier education in public and private schools
in that city, and his higher literarv 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,
RCXVON M. D., of New Bruns-
wick, New Jersey, was born
in that city, February 5, 1877. Me was
graduated from Rutgers College in 1899, and
from the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
New York City, in 1903. After three years
in hospital work in New York he embarked
rn medical |)ractice in New Brunswick, which
he has since pursued with success and repu-
tation, lie is a member of the state and
county medical societies.
Dr. Runyon is the grandson of Clarkson
Run\-on. of New Brunswick, who for many
The first little band of German
CCJNARD emigrants set sail for Pennsyl-
vania in the ship "Concord,"
July 24. i'>83. 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
both 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
I'ennsylvania, 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 liveliliood in America. While 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 helfl in the house of Thones Kunders,
and it is probable that the meetings were con-
tiiuied to be held tiicre until the erection of
the first meeting hou.se, 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 and Philadelphia counties in
f'ennsylvania and also in the bordering states
of Delaware and New Jersey.
(II) Mathias Conard, son of Thones Kun-
ders, was born in Crefeld, (.jermany, Novem-
ber 25, 1679, died in Germantown, Pennsyl-
vania, 1726. His children were: Anthony,
Margaret, Cornelius, Magdalene, William,
John and ^latliew.
(III) Cornelius, son of Mathias Conard,
was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, mar-
ried Priscilla , and had a son Joseph.
(I\') 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. From there he removed to
New Jersey and settled on a farm below
Camden, near Mt. Ephraim or Haddonfield.
He inarried Maria Roberts, born July 23,
1789. Children: i. Paul, born September 15,
1809. 2. Martha, born May 15, 1811, died
January 5. 1813. 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,
1003. 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 & Coinpany. 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 Society of
Friends and a Republican in politics. He
married. January i, 1862, Julia A. Powell,
born January i, 1837, died April 28, 1909,
daughter of Joseph L. and Rebecca Ann
(Fireng) 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 Shrewsbury,
England, to America about 1751 ; he was a son
of wealthy parents and was a student at col-
lege wdien he was impressed in the British
navy and brought to America during the
French 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 Brunsw'ick, New
Jersey, July 3, 1791. Children of Thomas and
Hannah Powell: Peter, born May 2, 1792;
Hannah, January 4, 1794; Elizabeth H., No-
vember II, 1796; Joseph L., February 19,
1799, died June i, 1878; father of Julia A.
(Powell) Conard; Marv 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 accepted 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 Underwood, 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 Underwood, 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.
(VTI) 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 public schools and the
Trenton Business College, he has devoted
much attention to improving his education by
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self stud)-. When old enough to work he
found cmijloynient in various clerical capaci-
ties u]) to 1895. when he took up the work of
inspecting and testing iron pipes, which he had
learne<l jiartly 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
llurlinglon, 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. Xo. 3. Royal Arch Masons; Helena Com-
mandery, Xo. 3. Knights Templar ; Crescent
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, of Trenton ; Burlington Lodge,
No. 22. Independent Order of Odd Fellows ;
E^'ening Star Council, No. 38, Junior Order
L'nitcd American Workmen, of Burlington,
and past state councillor of that order ; mem-
ber and trustee of the Broad Street Methodist
Episcopal Church of Burlington.
Mr. Conard married Corabelle Topping,
born in Brooklyn, Xew York, June 23, 1863,
daughter of Clarence W. and Augusta (Xich-
ols) To'pping, the latter of whom was a daugh-
ter of Robert H. Nichols, who was a ship
master in the American Xavy during the war
of 1812. Children: i. Wilfred George, born
in I'nrlington, September 8, 1896. 2. Robert
Powell, Piurlington, November 2, 1898. 3.
Corabelle .Augusta. Burlington, January 27.
1902. 4. Esther Laurie, Burlington. March
10, 1905.
James Donohue. a native oi
[)( ).\'( )m'['' Ireland, came to .-\merica
when a young man and set-
tled in Xew Brunswick, living there until the
time of his death in 1880. He married Jane
Reynolds, born in Ireland and died in New
P>runswick in 1883.
(II) Dr. Frank M. Donohue, son of James
and Jane (Reynolds) Donohue, was born in
New Brunswick, August 17, 1859, and ac-
(|uired his early education in the i)ublic 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
Brunswick, one of the leading men of his pro-
fession in the state, and made the course of
the medical department of the Xew York
L'niversity, graduating M. D. in 1881, magna
cum laudc, 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 Xew Bruns-
wick, although his fame as a surgeon is known
throughout the region. He was the first sur-
geon in Xew Jersey to successfully perform
the Caesarian section operation, and this
achievement alone has given him wide celel>
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
close 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 Xew Jersey State Medical Society, ex-
president of the Middlese5c County Medical So-
ciety and an honorary member of the Somer-
set County Medical Society.
The hospital and other principal professional
a[ipointments 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-
ervillc ; railroad surgeon for the Pennsylva-
nia Railroad Com])any ; medical examiner for
the ru|uitable Life, Mutual Life, Metropolitan
Life. Mutual Benefit Life, Prudential Life.
Provident Life and Trust, Connecticut Mutual
Life, and Northwestern Life insurance com-
panies, and confidential examiner for the Trav-
ellers' Life Insurance Company. lie is a
trustee of the Xew 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-
pany, and trustee of the New Brunswick Sav-
ings Institution. He is the owner of a hand-
some coimtry property of one hundred acres,
"Cedarcrest." near liound Brook. New Jersey.
In 1884 Dr. IDonohue married Elizabeth,
daughter of George Buttler, for many years a
leading citizen and business man of New
Brunswick. lie 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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tificil 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. Me married Harriet Ann \'oorhees.
Dr. I'Vank }>.[. and Elizabeth (Buttler) Dono-
hue have three children, all born in New
Ilrunswick: Mary D., born August 7, 1885;
Elizabeth, March 27. 1897; Frank, March 12,
1899.
The Booraem, Boerum and
BOOR.AEM \'an Boerum families belong
to that noble and stalwart
group of colonists and settlers who came
originally from Holland to New Xetherland,
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 ) W'illem 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 .\lva and the Spanish Inquisition, to
leave his native land for the freedom and safety
of the western world. Consequently 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 W'illemse, who is referred to below. 2.
Jacob \\'illemse, emigrated with his father and
brother, died before 1698, and married, June
15, 1684, Geertruyd De Beavois, from Leyden.
3. Geertruy Willemse, probably the person of
tiiat name who married Francis du Puis. 4.
Hillegont W'illemse.
(II) Hendrick W'illemse van Boerum, the
eldest son of W'illem 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 plantatinn and on the
north that of the Widow liegeman, 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-
(!ren 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. '
(III) Hendrick,' the son of Hendrick Will-
emse and Maria Ariaense Boerum, was born
in Flatbush. He changed the name to its
jiresent spelling; he moved to Bound Brook.
Among his children was Nicholas, who is re-
ferred to below.
(IV) Nicholas, the son of Hendrick
Booraem, was born near Bound Brook, So-
merset county, New Jersey, in 1714, and set-
tled near New Brunswick. Among his chil-
dren w-as 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.
(\'I) 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 W hig, 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 (W'illet) Booraem, who came also of
revolutionary stock, he had twelve children :
1. Eliza, married the Rev. John \"an 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 (W'illet) Booraem, was born in New
Ijrunswick, New Jersey, in 1831, and died
there in 1885. He studied law with Senator
Schenck and Judge Van Dyke, and then began
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as a general ]M-actitioncr in New Brunswick.
lie went into the insurance business and gave
much of his time to the setthng up of estates,
lie was a Republican, and for some time was
the collector of Middlesex county. By his
wife. Mary ( Foster ) Booraem, he had three
children: i. Theodore B., who is referred to
below. 2. Margaret, married Rev. Henry J.
Scudder and is now with her husband a mis-
sionary of the Reformed Church in America
in India. 3. Harriet.
I \'1I1) Theodore B., son of Theodore and
.Mary (Foster) Booraem, was born in New
Brunswick, Xew Jersey, .April 30, 1861, and
is now living in that city. He graduated from
Rutgers College in 1881 with honors, and then
studied law with .\. \'. Schenck. He was ad-
mitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in
1884, and as counsellor in 1887. He then
began practising in New Brunswick, where
his success was brilliant and his advancement
ra]>id. In 1892 he formed a partnership with
John S. X'oorhees, which continued until the
death of the latter. He has devoted much
time to corporation law and its problems, is the
representative of many of the principal firms in
Xew Brunswick, and is officially connected
with many companies. In 1904 he was ap-
])()iiited assistant United States attorney for
the district of New Jersey, which office he
held until April i, 1906, when he resigned and
became judge of the Middlesex county court
of common pleas, in which position he re-
mained until .Ajjril, 1909, when he became
prosecutor of the pleas of Middlesex county,
which office he now holds. He has also been
cit)- 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 Cliristian Association, of which he is
an active member. He is a member of the
Second Reformed Church of New Brunswick.
.April If), 1895, Theodore B. Booraem mar-
ried Helen Constance Randall, of New P)runs-
wick, whose maternal grandfather, Abraham
Suydam, was one of the prominent early pio-
neers of New Brunswick, president oi the
Farmers" and Mechanics' National Bank, and
at one time owned half of the site of the pres-
ent city.
Charles Tiebout Cow-
C()\\I':NIK)\"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-
tor, W'olfert (jerritse \'an Cowenhoven, came
from Holland in 1630 and founded the colony
of New .Amersfoort on Long Island, a patent
foi the lands having been granted him by Gov-
ernor \'an Twiller. One of this family was
Jacob Wolpherson \'an Cowenhoven, delegate
to the states-general of Holland ; and a famous
descendant in the American line was Egbert
Ijenson, the eminent jurist. .Another early
ancestor of Charles Tiebout Cowenhoven was
Nicasius de Sille, one of the nine selectmen
in the council of Governor Stuyvesant,
Schepen, 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 occupation,
but lived a quiet and retired life, and was rec-
ognized and respected as a gentleman of the old
school. His family consisted of the follow-
ing children: i. Garreta T., married David
Bishop, of Bishop Place, College avenue. New
Brunswick. 2. Catherine, married (as his first
wife) Rev. Dr. W. J. R. Taylor, a distin-
guished divine of the Reformed church, and
father of Rev. Dr. Graham Taylor, of the
Chicago University, arid of Rev. Dr. William
R. Tavlor, pastor of the Brick Church of
Rochester, New York. 3. Maria Sefferts,
married (second wife), her brother-in-law.
Rev. Dr. \\'. J. R. Taylor. 4. Sarah Lefferts.
married Oscar Johnson Jr., of the old Johnson
family of Long Island, nephew of the late
Bi.shop Whitehcmse. of Illinois. 5. Cornelia
\'an A'eclitcn, died unmarried. 6. Marianna
.A., resides with her brother in New Bruns-
wick. 7. Nicholas Remsen. died young. 8.
Charles Tiebout.
Charles Tiebout Cowenhoven was born in
New Brunswick, New Jersey, December i,
1844. He was graduated from Rutgers Col-
lege in June, 1862, studied law in the office of
.Abraham \'. Schenck, of New Brunswick, and
was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attor-
ney in Noveml>cr, 1865, and as counsello; in
I'^ebruary, i8r)9. From 1869 to 1874 he served
as president judge of the court of common
pleas of Middlesex county, being the youngest
man apjiointed to that bench. He was prose-
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481
cutor of the pleas of Middlesex county from
1877 to 1882, and was again president-judge
of the court of common pleas from 1885 to
1890. Judge Cowenhoven has always prac-
ticed his profession in New Brunswick, lie 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 especially 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 Tiebout 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
Brunswick.
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 member of the city Democratic com-
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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the city to espouse their country's cause in the
S])anish-Anierican 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 short, 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, 1899,
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 him to
be against the public good. Politics never
dictated his duty to him. He rendered his
oiiinions 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
F"urman, surrogate of Middlesex county, from
1892 to 1902, and in the year last mentioned
was himself elected surrogate of the county.
He served one full term of five years,
and in up" was re-elected 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 .\ew 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 municipalities and also for the borough
of llelmetta. .-\t different times he has been
township attorney for J'iscataway, Raritan,
Monroe, East P>runswick and Sayreville town-
ships. He is noted for oratorical ability, both
at the bar and before po]nilar gatherings, and
enjoys extensive personal ])opularity.
Mr. Daly was founder and first grand knight
of New Brunswick Council, Knights of Co-
lumbus, and is a charter member and past ex-
alted ruler of the local lodge of Elks. He was
])resident of the Catholic Club when twenty
years old, president of Division No. 5 of the
.Vncient 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.
Mr. Daly married, in September, 1893, at
the church of the Sacred Heart, New Bruns-
wick, Alary Rose Mansfield, daughter of Will-
iam and Alargaret ( Eitzgerald ) Mansfield, her
father being a member of the firm of Harding
\' Mansfield, wholesale and retail shoe dealers.
They have one daughter, Alarsraret Rosina
Daly, born in Xew Brunswick, February, 1895,
now a .student at Rutgers Preparatory School.
It cannot be for a moment
lU >\\'.\E doubted that the Quakers were
in their principles of religious
freedom on a much more higher plane both
morall}- and in equity than the Puritans. They
were indeed a better-hearted, harder-thinking,
and therefore broader-minded class of men.
They were perfectly aware that their acts were
fre(|uently 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
anrl to pay the legal tithes in the parishes in
which they resided, the penalties 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 perse-
cution was at its height during the early days
of the settlement of the new world, and one
of the greatest sufferers from it and also one
of the most eminent examples of successful
resistance to it is the case of the founder of
the r.dwne family and his illustrious son.
I I ) In the year 1649 a certain Thomas
P.ijwne, born at Matlock, Derbyshire, England,
in the I'ifth month, 1595, and baptized the
following 25th day, arrived in Alassachusetts
Bay, and shortly afterwards settled in Flush-
ing, Long Island, then belonging to the Dutch
government. He died Sejjtember 18, 1677,
leaving behind him three children: i. John, re-
ferred to below. 2. Dorothy, born .August 14,
1631, removed to l'>oston, Massachusetts, in
1649. 3. Truth, who remained in England.
(H) John, only son of Thomas Bowne, the
emigrant, was born in Matlock, March 9, 1627.
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died ill Flushing, 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 witii 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 ofi^ence, 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 condemned 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
h'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
I'^ones, an apothecary of London, by his first
wife, daughter of Adam Winthrop, of Gro-
ton. Her pedigree begins with William Fones,
Esquire, who married the daughter of Sir
Robert Hyelston, knight, and was the father
oi George 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)
Bowne became a minister among Friends 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: i. 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 May 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
27, 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, 1690. She bore him six more children: 9.
Sarah, December 14, 1680. died May 18, 1681.
10. Sarah, February 17, 1G82. 11. 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. 16. Ruth.
January 30, 1696.
(Ill) Samuel, sixth child and second son
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STATE Ol' NEW JERSEY.
of John and Hannah (Feake) Bowne, was
born in Ekishing. Long Island, September 21,
1667, (Hed May 30, 1745. He was a minister
among Friends. October 4. 1691, he married
(first) at Philadelphia Meeting, Mary, daugh-
ter of Captain Becket, who died August 21,
1707. She bore him ten children: i. Samuel,
referred to below. 2. Thomas, born April 7,
1694, married, March 7. 171 5. Hannah, daugh-
ter of John L'nderhill. 3. Eleanor, April 20,
1695. married, October 9, 1 7 18, Isaac Homer,
of Mansfield, Burlington county, New Jersey.
4. Hannah. March 31, 1697, married, April
6, 1717, Richard Lawrence. 5. John, Sep-
tember II. 1698, died 1757; married, 1738,
Dinah L'nderhill. 6. Mary, October 21, 1699,
married, January 14, 1720. John Kee,se. 7.
Roabord, January 17, 1701, died before July
3, 1746, when his daughter Mary married
Henry, 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 .\pril 15, 1702. 9. Elizabeth, October
II, 1704. 10. Benjamin, March 13, died May
13. 1707. December 8, 1709, Samuel Bowne
married (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, (laughter of Jonathan Mor-
rell. 13. Anne, October 17, 1715. 14. Ben-
jamin. August I, 1717. 15. Elizabeth, Novem-
ber 26, 1720. November 14, 1735, Samuel
Bowne married (third) Mrs. Grace Cowpcr-
thwaite, who died November 22, 1760. .She
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. Se])tember 20, 1716, he married
Sarah Franklin, who bore him six children :
I. William, March 6, 1720, died October 18,
1747; married Elizabeth Willett, who died the
same year as her husband. 2. Samuel, re-
ferred to below. 3. Mary, March 3, 1724,
married Joscj)!! Farrington. 4. Amy, 1724,
married George Embree. 5. Sarah, 1726,
married William Titus. 6. James, 1728, mar-
ried, 1767. Caroline Rodman; his son Walter
married Eliza Southgate and was mayor of
New York City.
(V) Samuel (3), second child and son of
Samuel (2) and Sarah (F"ranklinj 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, .August
4. 1746, died August 21, 1746. 4. Elizabeth.
November 19. 1748, died November 22, 1752.
5. Samuel Jr., June 25, 1750, died July 23,
1752. 6. Matthew, July 19, 1752. 7. Abigail,
C)ctober 21, 1754. 8. Sarah. January 14, 1757,
died May 22, 1760. 9. Mary, August 8, died
August 24, 1761. 10. William, referred to
below. II. Samuel Jr., .\pril 5, 1767, married
Hannah .
(VI) W'illiam, tenth child and sixth son,
the fourth to reach maturity, of Samuel (3)
and .Abigail (Burling) Bowne, was born
March 9, 1763. May 11, 1791, he obtained
in New Jersey a marriage license to marry
.Sarah Newbold, born ]\Iarch 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 \\'illiam 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 Alichael 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. William, who died
uimiarried. 4. lulward, referred to below.
(\TI) Edward, youngest child and the only
son lo marry of William and Sarah (New-
bold) I'.owne, 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 township and one of
its most prominent business men.
February 6, 1834, Edward Bowne married
I^lizabcth. 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,
and has three children: Elizabeth, married
STATE OF NEW [ERSEY.
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Joseph Alatlack ; Annie, married Isaac Lippin-
cott : anti Emily. 2. John Woodward, Auglist
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 i'owne, 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 P>.,
March 18, 1845, married Edith Johnson. 8.
Emily Xewbold, August 25, 1847, unmarried.
9. Franklin Woodward, January 8, 1850, mar-
ried Laura Lip'^incott.
(VIII) Anna Matilda, sixth child and third
daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Wood-
ward ) Rowne, was born in Springfield town-
ship, Burlington county, Xew Jersey, May 12,
1843, <inf' 's "ow living at Mt. Holly, Burling-
ton county. .She married (first) Henry Irick.
born January i, 1833. died February, 1892, the
eldest child of Henry C. Deacon and Elizabeth,
daughter 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 W'ardell, 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. Jeffrey, 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, Xew 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 .\nn
Lippincott.
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. Xew Jersey, and lived with Dr.
William Budd, 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, .\mong
his possessions was a large estate between
Ijurlington and Mt. Holly, and there he spent
the greater part of his life, engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits. He married, 2 mo. 28, 1761,
Man,' Sailer, and (second) 2 mo. 26, 1781,
Mary Shinn. He died in 1826, aged about
eighty-si.x years. His children, W'illiam and
John, were by the first wife, Mary Sailer.
( II ) General William Irick, elder son of
John and Mar)' (Sailer) Irick, was born near
Burlington, New Jersey, in 1767, died Janu-
ary 26, 1832. Immediately after his marriage
he removed from his father's homestead on
the road from Alt. Holly to Burlington, to
\'incentown, Xew 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
convevancing in connection with his extensive
farming operations. 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 affairs, and filled many
positions of trust and honor ; was a member
of the house of assembly in 1804. and again
from 181 1 to 1814, inclusive, and meml>er of
the governor's council from 1815 to 1817.
During the second war with the mother coun-
trv he was in command of the state militia at
Rillingsport and thus acquired the military
title by which he was ever afterward known
and addressed. In politics General Irick was
a staunch W hig. His death was much la-
mented by a wide circle of devoted friends.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
chief among whom was Chief Justice Ewing,
with whom he always maintained an intimate
friendship. He married Margaret, daughter
of Job and Anne ( Munro ) 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. John Stock-
ton, see post.
(Ill) General William (2) Irick, .son of
( ieneral William (i) and IMargaret ( Stock-
t(in I Irick, was born on the Irick homestead,
near \incentovvn, Burlington county, New Jer-
sey, December 20, 1799, died August 17, 1864.
He followed in the footsteps of his father as
a surveyor and business man, and always lived
in X'incentown. He also was honored by his
fellow townsmen with many public offices, 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 unbounded, and he always
was ready to lend a helping 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 afifairs, and he and
liis 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 his military ofifice.
lie did the next 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
Philadeli)hia. 3-4. Eliza .Ann and Mary Ann,
twins; Eliza .Ann died in early womanhood;
Mary married llenjamin F. Champion, of
Camden county. 5. Cornelia, married John
W. lirown, Es(|., of Burlington county. 6,
William John, now president of the I'irst .\'a-
tional Bank of \'incentown, and whose home
is near the paternal home in Southampton
township.
(HI) Jolj, second son of General William
I 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 .\ugust 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
]jartnershi]) 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
bankrujit cities, built their gas and water
works and financed them, and soon paid off
the indebtedness and saved a handsome profit
while the others stood off without offering 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 appointed by Governor Olden to
organize and command it, with the rank of
major-general, i'pon the election of Gov-
ernor Parker, he was contimied and gave his
time and services throughout the war. He,
like his brother William, tendered through Jay
Cooke his fortune in defence of the L'nion, He
was a luember of the New Jersey house of
assembly, 1847-48-49, and never lost his in-
terest in ])ublic affairs, always taking an active
part in politics as an ardent W hig and Repub-
lican. His only other public office was that
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of freeholder, serving as director of the board
(hiring his three years' term. It was largely
through his efforts that the first railroads in
r.iirliiigton county were built and he was a
director in all of them. He also was instru-
mental in organizing the First National Bank
of \'incentown, being its president until his
death, when William John Irick succeeded
him. He died August 4, 1894, ui)on his
eighty-third birthday, leaving a large circle of
ac(|uaintances and friends. General Irick mar-
ried. May 17, 1832, Emeline S. Bishop, a
Quakeress, daughter of Japheth and Rachel
I'.isho]). She was born in Vincentown in 1814,
died April 2, 1895; children: i. Henry J.,
see ])ost. 2. Rachel B., September 9, 1835 ;
married Charles Sailer. 3. Samuel S., August
30, 1838; married Susan Butterworth. 4.
Margaret A., 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, 1851 ; died young.
(I\') Henry Japheth, son of Lieneral John
Stockton and Emeline S. (Bishop) Irick, was
born 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 Vincentown, 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 fanning 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. William 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 Governor Stokes to membership
on the state board of ecjualization 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 1909 he was
tendered by Governor Fort 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,
through 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 be fore 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,
Pennsylvania. He is a member of Mt. Holly
Lodge, No. 848, B. P. O. E., and although
brought up under the influences of the Society
of Friends he attends services of the Prot-
estant Episcopal church.
In 1862 Mr. Irick married Harriet R., daugh-
ter of Samuel E. and Hannah ( Roberts) Clem-
ent. Children: i. H. Clementine, born Feb-
ruary 24, .1863. 2. Anne H., June 21, 1865;
married William J. Irick, banker of Vin-
centown. 3. John Ellis, December 9, 1867;
graduate of Rutgers College.
( I\" ) John Bishop, son of General John
St'!ckt(in and Emeline S. (Bishop) Irick, was
burn at \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 twenty-eight years
was proprietor of a gristmill, and now is en-
gaged in a general lumber business. For four-
teen years he was tax collector of Burlington,
and in 1905 was elected member of the New
Jersey 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 X'incentown. He holds membership in Mt.
Holly Lodge of Elks, No. 848, has been a
vestryman of the Protestant Episcopal church
for thirty 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 frnni 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 Philadelphia Dental College.
Jonathan Hamilton Kelsey, at-
KICLSE^' torney at law, resident of Pem-
berton, New Jersey, descends
from an old New England family that early
settled in the state of Vermont. His great-
grandfather. Jonathan Kelsey, was born in
North Danville. \'ermont : married, and had
issue.
(1) 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 1'.. 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, \'ermont. 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 fuUv (luali-
fied himself to enter. Later he located in
Arkansas and invested largely in farm prop-
erty. He had a large plantation at Poco-
hontas, .Arkansas, on the Black river, operated
with slave labor vviiich he owned before the
war. He became interested in the study of
law and served as clerk of court in Randolph
county, -Arkansas. .At one time he was a
Mississip])i and Ohio river pilot, running be-
tween New Orleans and Cincinnati. He ac-
<|uired an interest in river steamboats and
piloted hi-^ own boats. ( )wing to the reverses
caused by the war .ind the unsettled condition,
Mr. Kelsey abandoned 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 office in
Philadelphia. In 1880 he settled in Pembcr-
ton. New Jersey, which was his home until
his death, excejiting 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. Air. 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, Air. Kelsey inaugurated methods that
proved acceptable and are now in use. He
affiliated with the Alasonic fraternity, and was
past master of Central Lodge, No. 44, Free
and Accepted Alasons, of Vincentown, New
Jersey. In the Scottish Rite he has attained
the th!rty-.second degree.
Jonathan B. Kelsey married (first) Helen
Hamilton, of Rising Sun, Ohio. She bore
him seven children, five of whom were carried
oti by an epidemic of yellow fever. The two who
survived were Minnie Blanche and X'irginia
Helen Kelsey. Air. Kelsey married (second)
Laura X'irginia 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. Ohio. He married, and had five chil-
dren : Alary, married Samuel F. Covington,
whose ancestors founded Covington, Kentucky ;
.\lbcrt; Helen, Airs. J. B. Kelsey (first'):
Laura \'irginia. Mrs. J. 11. Kelsey (second),
and luiinia Hamilton.
The children of Jonathan B. and Laura \ ir-
ginia (Hamilton) Kelsey are two who died in
infancy, Robert Lee, Judith. Jonathan H., see
forward ; 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 Philadel])hia, and Ellwood IL, who manages
the home farm for his mother.
(Mil Jniiathan llamilton, son of Jonathan
15. and l.aur;i \". i llamilton) Kelsey, was born
in Davenport. Iowa, May 19, 1873. ^^^ came
to New Jersey when a child with his parents.
He was educated in the Pemberton schools
and under the special instruction of Professor
(ieorge .Shepherd. He had determined on the
legal profession, and registered as a law student
in the office of Samuel K. Robbins, a noted
STATE OF NEW" TERSEY.
489
lawyer of Aloorestown and Camden. New-
Jersey. He remained with Lawyer Robbins
three years. He was then in the law office of
William A. Slaug-hter, of Alt. 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 firm 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 igof) with Theodore Budd. presi-
dent ; Clifford E. Budd, vice-president, and
Wilson D. Hunt, cashier. ]\Ir. 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 (jrange, and of
Company, No. 49, Patriotic Order Sons of
.America. He is an attendant of the Baptist
church.
Jonathan H. Kelsey married, .\ugiist 13,
1004, Rebecca Maud Antrim, 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 famil^-'s possession.
Mr. and Mrs. Kelsey have one child, Virginia
.Antrim, born at Pemberton, New Jersey, Sep-
tember 7. 1906.
The name is a very common
POWELL oue in the Colonial history of
New Jersey, and in fact there
are few that a're more so. It is probable that
many of these tiave 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 ) .Among the passengers on the ship
"Kent." that brought the first settlement of
the English colony to Burlington, 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 \\ ales.
.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 Burlington the 7th Sea-
venth month, 1677, latte of London, chandler,
witnesses then p'sent Ellen Harding, Alary
t>ips, .Anne Peachee." This is the first rec-
orded birth in the colony. In another record,
showing the deed from Thomas Clide to Rob-
ert Powell, the latter is styled clothier. His
naine is connected with several real estate
transactions. In 1681 one hundred acres were
surveyed for him along Mule Creek ( \\'illing-
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, 1694, 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
Alartin, Legrand, London." The elder son
married Alary Perkins in 1696 and died in
1706.
(II) John, younger son of Robert and Pru-
dence Powell, was born 1676 and his name ap-
pears in the census of Northampton township,
in 1709. He died in 17 1 5-1 6. He was mar-
ried at Burlington Alonthly 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 Rich-
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.
5. Isaac, December 21, 1706; married Eliza-
beth Perdue or Purdy, died about 1773. 6.
Prudence, married Roland Owen, in 1738. 7.
lacob. 8. Robert. 9. Samuel.
(III) 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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pecker Lane, near Mt. Holly, where his grand-
son. Joseph F'owell, lived in 1818. He was
married, in 1725, at Burlington Monthly Meet-
ing, to Virgin Crips, daughter of Nathaniel
and Grace ( W'hitten ) 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.
Christopher, married Sarah Gaskill. 3. Jolui,
married Deborah Harbour. 4. Joseph, men-
tioned below. 5. Elizabeth, married William
Jones. 6. Grace, married Joseph Gaskill. 7.
.Sarah, married Thomas Rogers.
( 1\ ) Joseph, fourth son of John (2) and
\ 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 9, 1765,
Anne Bishop, born July 12, 1744; died July
12, 1805. Children: i. \'irgin, September 27,
1766; married Joshua Wills. 2. Rebecca. 3.
Atlantic, .August 5, 1773: died September 30,
1825. 4. Japhet Bishop, September 18. 1780.
5. Josc]5h, mentioned below. 6. Hannah, Feb-
ruary 15, 1788; died July 24, 1814.
( \ ) Jose()h ( 2) , younger son of Joseph ( i )
and .\nne (Biishop) Powell, was born ^lay 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
P>atcher and they were the parents of a daugh-
ter and a son. Ami 1'.. and Benajah. The
former became the wife of James Gardiner
and resided on the homestead in Easthampton.
The 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.
(\"I) Pienajah, only son of Joseph (2)
and .Mary ( Hatcher) Powell, was born in .No-
vember, 1812, in East Hampton, died May 3,
1872. He resided in a part of the parental
mansion and engaged in general farming. He
was a Friend, 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 posi-
tion at the time of his death. He married
Martha Ann l-'ennimore, who was born in
Medford, .New Jersey, a daughter of Isaac and
Martha (Moore) Fennimore. Of their eight
children, si.x grew to maturity: i. IMary,
widow of Zebedee R. Wills., and resides in
Northampton township. 2. Joseph, mentioned
below. 3. Isaac, was a farmer in Lumberton
township; died in Philadelphia. 4. Allen F.,
a farmer, residing in East Flampton. 5. Mar-
tha, resides in Lumberton. 6. Annie, died
while the wife of D. Budd Coles, of Lumber-
ton.
(\'n) Joseph (3), eldest son of Benajah
and Martha .\nn (Fennimore) Powell, was
born .\pril 24, 1843, in Northampton, and
was educated at \\'illis Institute, Freehold,
New Jersey. .At the age of twenty years
he left school and engaged in agricul-
ture on the farm of his grandfather,
Lsaac F"ennimore, 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 oi much re-
sponsibility. After serving some time as col-
lector of his home town, he was elected county
collector in 1 88 1, and has continually 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
I-'riends' Society. He is a charter member of
Mt. Holly Lodge, No. 848. lienevolent and
Protective Order of Elks. He is a director of
the Mount Holly National Bank and president
of the Peoples' 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
\\'()RI\ELL records the Worrells are an
old and liighly respected
family of P.urlington county, but by reason of
the lamentable absence of information concern-
ing some of the earlier generations of the
family the names of tlie immediate and more
remote ancestors of James Worrell are un-
known.
( I I 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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491
known. His wife was Elizabeth (Taylor)
Worrell, and their children were James T.,
Isaiah S.. John H. and Lavinia.
( H) James T., son of James and Elizabeth
(')'aylor) Worrell, was born at Vincentown,
Burlington county, in 1815, and died at the
home of his son in j\It. Holly, in October.
1907. He was a farmer by occupation, and
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 \ incentown, who died
aged lifty-tw-o years. 2. Samuel AL, a farmer
living at Mncentown. 3. George W., car-
l)enter, of Vincentown. 4. James S., farmer,
of \'incentown. 5. Lydia, married and lives
in Philadelphia. 6. Lavinia, married Walter
Anderson and lives in Mt. Holly. 7. Henry
I., farmer, of Southampton township. 8. Job
I., farmer of \'incentown. 9. \\'illiam Walter,
see post. 10. Charles S., lives at Mncentown.
( III ) William Walter, son of James T. and
Mary (.A.llen) Worrell, was born in South-
ampton township, Burlington county, in 1862,
and received his education in public schools at
Butldtown and Mncentown and in a private
school in Vincentown of which John G. Her-
bert was then the master. When about nine-
teen years old he went to work as clerk in a
large general store at Marlton owned by H.
& J. M. lirink, 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. Holly and since that
time has been counted among the substantial
business men of that city. Besides being a
prominent business man for many years, Mr.
Worrell also has been something of a public
man, and is counted among the foremost Re-
l)uhlicans of Burlington county. From 1893
to 1898 he w-as 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 sherifT of the county. This office
he now holds. Mr. Worrell 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 member
and trustee of the Baptist church.
In 1880 Mr. Worrell married 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. Albert C, born Mt. Holly, February
22. 1896. 4. William 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 Melchoir. 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 died there in 1695.
However, the Alelchers of the particular
family here treated are believed to have come
to this country from Wales, 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 1666, and Edward
Melcher was among those "that subscribed in
the years 1658 and 1666 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 wdiile 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. At 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
thcv had gone away, and on entering the cabin
he found that his gun and other effects were
undisturbed, probably having been overlooked
by the intruders who sought only Mr. Melcher
himself. After the family had moved out to
the farm Mrs. Melcher was one dav alone in
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
the huuse and saw three ImHans approach the
door, whicli ha]ipened to be fastened. She
promj)tly greeted them with a bucket of boil-
ing water from an upper window and caused
their hasty retreat from the premises.
Samuel Melcher, doubtless a son of Edward
Melcher, married, May i6, 1700, Elizabeth,
daughter of Ijeiijamin 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 August 22, 1703 ;
Elizabeth, .\ugust lo, 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 died in 1797, aged eighty-seven
years. Their children w-ere Samuel, Jonathan,
John, Edward, Hannah, Elizabeth, lienjamin
and Esther.
Samuel 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 I'oston. 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 narrativ.e
must begin, for w^e only know that two
brothers, .Samuel and Joseph Melcher, settled
in IJrunswick. 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 wdnich
Deacon James .Smith was living a (|uarter of a
century ago. I le died .March 3. 1834. aged ninety
years, hence was born 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 Xovember 15, 1768, died November 29,
1804. 2. Mary, .-Vugust 5, 1771. 3. Aaron,
I'ebruary 23, 1773. 4. Samuel, May 8, 1775,
died March 3. 1862. 5. Elizabeth,' May 13,
1777. (x r,ois, July 2, 1780. 7. Rebecca,
^L^^ch 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 wbo is mentioned in the preceding
paragraph, settled at Bunganock, on the farm
where Jedidiah Mariner dwelt in 1878, He
was a "housewright,'" or carpenter by trade,
and died -April 21, 1 82 1, aged nearly eighty-six
years, hence was born about 1736. He mar-
ried, in 1757, Mary Cobb, of Gorhamtown,
who died May 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, .-Kbner, Josiah and Samuel.
( H ) .\bner, 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.
(HI) \Mlliam Henry, second son and child
of .\bner and Maria (Frost) Melcher, was
born at Brunswick, Maine, May 9, 1824, and
is still living (1909) at the advanced age of
eighty-five years. .-Vt the age of twelve years,
when a boy in school, he showed an aptitude
for mechanical w^ork 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 shipbuilding,
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 superintend-
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 : F.lla Price, William
Palmer, Ada Maria.
( I\' ) William i'almer, only son of William
Henry and Sarah Jane (.\lexander) Melcher,
was born in Brunswick, Maine, .A])ril 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 Seminar}' and
.Nichols Latin School, then entered Bowdoin
College and was graduated A. B. in 1871. .\fter
leaving college he turned his attention tem-
porarily to teaching, then matriculated at the
medical dejjartment of the University of Penn-
sylvania, I'hiladelphia, and graduated from
tiicre with the degree of M. D. in 1876. Dr.
.Melcher 1)egan his professional career in Cam-
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493
den and practiced in tliat city until 1879, when
he renKjved to I'emberton, New Jersey, lived
tlure 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 County Medical Society. He is a member
of -Mt. Holly Lodge, No. 848, 13. P. O. E.. ami
in politics is a Republican. For fifteen years
he was a member of tlie Mt. Holly board of
education.
March 13, 1884, Dr. Melcher married Mary,
daughter of Theodore and Martha (^Snyder J
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
SH.-\RP 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, Aliddlesex. This was the family
of Francis Sharp, of Oak Lane. William and
Thomas Sharp, sons of Francis Sharp, 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 tliis 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.
(T) 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,
although 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.
(H) John, presumably the eldest son of
\\ illiam Sharp, the immigrant, was born in
luigland and came to this country with his
father in i()82. He married, 4th month 17th,
1688, Elizabeth, daughter of John I'aine. 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 Adams. 6.
Samuel, 1702; married Elizabeth Haines. 7.
Sarah, 1705.
( III ) William (2), son of John and Eliza-
beth (I'aine) Sharp, was born 10th month 2d,
1689, and married (first) 1716, Mary, daugh-
ter of Francis and Alary (Borton) Austin.
Francis Austin was progenitor of the family
of his surname in New Jersey, and his wife,
Alary Borton, was daughter of John and Ann
Borton, progenitors of the Borton family of
New Jersey. William 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.
(I\') Hugh, son of William (2) and Alary
(Austin) Sharp, was born nth month, 15th,
1724. He married (first) Sabillah ,
who died having borne him three children ;
married (second) Ann, daughter of Alark 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.
Alaria, married Benjamin \\"ilkins. 7. Eliza-
beth, married Japheth Bowker. 8. Amanda,
married Morford. 9. Susan, married
Wesley Evans.
(\T) W'illiam (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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nieiit, 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 si.xty-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) IJraddock. Children: i. Fredinand
F., married Lydia Thomas. 2. Hugh, mar-
ried Jane Ann Sharp. 3. Benjamin, married
.\deline Garwood. 4. Jemima, married Edwin
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 .-^nnie 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
public schools in Aledford and Moorestown,
he entered the medical department of the Llni-
versity of Pennsylvania, 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 Comity District Aledical .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. Sharp married, Mrs. Re-
becca Stilwell Bailey Sharp, widow of Edward
Sharp, Dr. .Sharp's brother. By her former
marriage Mrs. Shar]) had one daughter, Flor-
ence ]>roomell Sharp, born July 25, 1885, died
January 17, 1900.
Tlie ancestor of the
W'AIXWRIGITT W'ainwright families in
this country was a
^'orkshire I'.ngli.shman, i)y birth and parentage,
and who as an officer of the British navy was
sent to B>crmuda, 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
T'hiladclphia. and one at llalifa.x. Nova Scotia.
B)ishi)]) 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 wdio located in 1 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 Philadelphia.
( I ) Jonathan Wainwright was born in Phil-
adelphia 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 ( Hollingshead ) Eyre,
granddaughter of Jehu E\-re and great-grand-
daughter of George Eyre, who came over to
.\merica with Penn's colony. Children: i.
Matilda, now dead; married Han.son Withers,
of Philadelphia. 2. Susan, now dead; married
Henry L. Tripler. 3. Isaac Harrison, now
dead. 4. Richard S.^ now dead. 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, I'ennsylvania. 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.
.•\ fter 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 lumber business and continued it after
the death of his ])arent. Mr. W'ainwright
was a Mason, member of Harmony Lodge,
1". and A. AL, of Philadelphia, an Episcopalian
in religious preference and a Republican in
p<ilitics. He married Elizabeth Lynn Tripler,
of Philadelphia, born January, 1829, and still
living. Children: i. Jacob T., of Chicago,
metallurgical engineer in iron and steel con-
struction. 2. Isaac Harrison, see post.
(Ill) Isaac Harrison, younger son of Jon-
athan lure and Elizabeth Lynn (Tripler)
Wainwright, was born in the city of Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1856, graduated
from the University of IVnnsylvania in 1875,
and immediately found emjiloyment as rod-
man in the engineering de])artment of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was
stationed first at .Altoona, 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
[Kjsition of rodman he has advanced through
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grades of promotion to that of supervisor in
charge of a part of the Arnboy division, with
offices in Mt. Holly. Mr. Wainwright has been
continuously in the service of the company for
more than thirty-five years. He holds member-
ship in Perry Lodge, No. 458, F. and A. M.,
of Marysville, 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. Wainwright 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.
(I) John Leedom, the earliest ancestor, was
born in lUicks county, Pennsylvania, where all
his life he followed agricultural pursuits. He
had sons: George, Samuel, Howard 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 was 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 ( )rder 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) \'an Cleve. Samuel \'an 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 V., a
master ship carpenter at the League Island
L'nited States navy yard, Philadelphia ; mar-
ried ^Margaret Pritchard ; children: J. Firth,
Clarence and Ethel. 3. Ira Clayton, see for-
ward.
( III ) Dr. Ira Clayton, youngest son of Sam-
uel and Catherine ( \'an Cleve) Leedom, was
born at Southampton, Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, January 21, 1 87 1. He was educated in
the public schools of his native town. He
entered Bucknell L'niversity 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 Aledical -College, Phila-
delphia, graduating therefrom in 1894. In the
same year he located in Bordentown, New
Jersey, and entered upon the ])ractice 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. Aloriah 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.\RL family of Earle is of very ancient
origin and can be traced back to a
Saxon 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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fainih-. but as the author of the work entitled
"Ralph Earle and Mis Descendants" says "in
all my intercourse, either personal or by writ-
ten correspondence, 1 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-
])lace 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
.\queedneck" 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 cominittee 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 .A.ugust, 1653,
and paid twenty ]jounds sterling for it. He
died in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1678.
He and his wife Joan had five children: i.
Ral])h, married Dorcas Sprague. 2. William,
sec 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
ortlered that William Earle and William Cory
have "one acker of land on the hill cauled
llriges 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 pearcells 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. 1667." 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 Oflicers 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 16(92 he was a member of the
"grand Inquest at Newport," was deputy from
Portsmouth 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, tie married (first)
Mary, daughter of John anil Kathcrine \\'alkcr,
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
Horden. 2. William, see post. 3. Ralph, born
1660. married Mary Hicks. 4. Thomas, mar-
ried Mary Tabcr. 5. Caleb, married Mary
. 6. John, married Mary Wait. 7.
Prudence, married P>enjamin Durfee.
(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.
Me 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, name unknown;
married John Webb. 4. William, married
Mrs. Mary Sharpe. 5. Thomas, see post.
(IV) Thomas, son of William (2) and Eliz-
abeth Earl, was born in Springfield, New
Jersey, and died there in 1778. After the
death of his 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, March 9, 1731, 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.
(VI) Joseph, son of Tanton and Mary
(Haines) Earl, was born in Springfield, New
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 Thcodosia 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.
Tanton, 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, 1 801, died December 21, 1868. 9.
Richard W., August 7, 1804; married Alary
D. Howell, to. Sarah B., November 14, 1807,
married Joseph J. Budd. 11. Franklin W.,
see post.
(VTI) Franklin W., son of Joseph and
Theodosia (Shreve) Earl, was born in Pem-
berton, New Jersey, December i, 181 1. He
was instantly killed Alay 17, 1883, by a train
of cars while crossing the railroad track in his
carriage at Alt. 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 offices 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
Alay 17, 1859. 2. Elizabeth S., October 22,
1840; died March 11, 1873; married Joshua
Forsyth. Jr. 3. Joshua, November 12. 1842;
married Alary 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.
(VIII) Frank, son of Franklin W. and Re-
becca W. (Smith) Earl, was born near Pem-
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bertoii, New Jersey, March 2, 1856, and re-
ceived his education in the public 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 time 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'iikins and Keziah (Shinn) Jones, of Wood-
ford, New Jersey. Five children were born of
this marriage : i. Minnie Rebecca, born .\ugust
2^. 1878; married Carl Tietz, Jr., of Ciiicago,
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, .\ugust II, 1907, Ila, daughter of Thomas
J. Hurley, of Ja,sper, Alabama. 4. Franklin
W., October 15, 1884; graduate phannacist,
now living at Overbrook, West Philadelphia.
5. John H. P., April 29, 1895.
The Haines family is said by
H.A.INES antiquarians to be of Saxon
origin, and first appears in
Devonshire, in the West Saxon kingdom, in
the early jjart of the sixth century, among the
following of Hengest and Ilorsa, when the
name was known as 1 layne. 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 w-as 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) Riciiard Haines, of Aynhoe, Northamp-
tonshire. England, hu.sbandman, with his wife
Margaret and tlieir children, Richard, William,
Thomas and Mary, sailed from Downs, Eng-
land, in 1682, in the ship ".\mity," 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
of Rancocas creek, in New Jersey. The family
settled in Burlington, New Jersey, and in 1685
the widow 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 .\merica. Their children: i. John,
married, 1684, Esther Burton. 2. Richard,
married, 1699, Mary Carlisle. 3. William, 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 Margaret Haines, was born in Eng-
land, in 1672, and located one hundred acres
of land "near Nancutting's Old Plantation" in
1689. In 1712 he acquired lands in Northamp-
ton and settled there. He appears to have ac-
(juired 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 six children :
1. Jacob, born 1699; 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.
(Ill) Samuel, fourth child of William and
Sarah (Paine) Haines, was born in 1705, and
married, in 1734, Lydia, daughter of Thomas
and Deliverance (Horner) Stokes; cliildren :
I. Jacob, married Bathsheba Burroughs. 2.
Sarah, married Caleb Newbold. 3. Samuel
(see post). 4. Thomas, married Elizabeth
Mullen.
(I\') Samuel (2), son and third child of
Samuel ( i ) and Lydia (Stokes) Haines, mar-
ried (first) lilizabeth, 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 second wife:
I. William, born April 17, 1768; married Mary
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Eayres. 2. Mary, born November 15, 1770;
married Jacob Hollingshead. 3. Aaron (see
post). 4. Abel, born September 30, 1775 ; mar-
ried Elizabeth Stokes. 5. Joseph, born April
I, 1778; died 1793. 6. 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, bom Alay 15, 1798; married Joseph
R. Bishop.
(\') Aaron, third child of Samuel and Eliz-
abeth (Buzby) Haines, was born March 25,
1773, and vvas 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.
(VI) 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-
makinpf 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, died 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 W.,
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 \^incentown.
(VH) John Woolston, ninth child of John
Staples and Mary Ann (Woolston) Haines,
was born at N'incentown, in Southampton
township, March 8, 1839, and was brought up
to farm work. His business career was begiui
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 Mncentown, 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
Xo. 44, F. and A. M., of Vincentown, and
member of \'incentown Lodge Xo. 2^.
I. O. O. F.
Mr. Haines married (first) in i860, Mary
Elizabeth Budd, born Buddtown, New Jersey,
in August, 1839, died 1880, daughter of Jolin
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, X'incentown. 5. Martha, lives at
home. 6. Mar}', lives at home.
(For first generation see preceding sketch).
(II) Richard, second son and
H.\IXES 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 wliich
was set off to his children before he died. He
married, in 1699, ^lary Carlile, who also died in
1746, and both she and her husband were bur-
ied in the family burv'ing ground on the old
Richard Haines farm, Fostertown, Ihirlington
county. Richard and Mary (Carlile) Haines
had ten children: i. Abraham (see post). 2.
Richard, married 1721, .Agnes Hollingshead,
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of whom mention is made in this narrative.
3. Alary, married. 1720. Timothy Matlack. 4.
Carhle, married, 1721, Sarah, daughter o^
Wihiam and Mary (Hancock) Matlack. 5.
Rebecca, married, 1 721, Richard, son of Will-
iam Matlack. 6. Rachel, married, 1725, Isaac
.Albertson. 7 . luioch. 8. Barthanah. 9.
Sarah, married Edward Hilliard. lO. Eliza-
beth, married Newberry.
I 111 I Abraham, eldest child of Richard and
Mary ( Carlile ) Haines, was owner of a large
estate in lands at Evesham, and also in Fred-
erick county, X'irginia, and was withal a man
of considerable prominence. He died in
1758. He married. May 14, 1719, Grace,
daughter of John and Agnes ( Hackirey ) Hol-
lingshead. She died in 1769, having borne
her husband eleven children: i. Abrahatn, set-
tled in P'rederick county, Virginia, and died
there in 1760; married, 1744, Sarah Ellis. 2.
lienjamin, born 1725 (see post). 3. Noah,
married, 1761, widow Hannah Thorne. 4.
Edmund, married Elizabeth Warrington. 5.
Isaac, married, 1758, Deborah Roberts. 6.
Josiah. 7. Isaac, married Sarah Wilkins. 8.
Simeon, married 1760, Alary Stratton. 9.
Mary, married 1752, William Sharp. 10.
Agnes, married Joseph Hackney. 11. Joshua.
(IV) Benjamin, second son and child of
Abram and Grace ( HollingsKead) Haines,
married (first) Elizabeth, daughter of John
and Mary (Elkinton) Roberts. She bore him
six children, and died, and he married (sec-
ond) Margery, daughter of James and Eliz-
abeth Helanger. She died, and he married
(third) Sarah, daughter of J(jhn 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 Lijipincott. 5. Job. born Janu-
ary 24, 1763, diet! 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, Ix>rn May 20, 1780 (.see post). 10. Re-
becca, born March 24, 1782, died 1803; mar-
ried Amos Wills.
(V) Clayton, son of Benjamin and Sarah
(Butcher) Haines, was born in Evesham town-
ship, Burlington county, May 20, 1780, and
died on the same farm on which he was born.
He married Rebecca, daughter of Zebedee and
Priscilla (Moore) Wills; children: i. Zebedee,
born November 20, 1807 (see post). 2. Sarah
B., October 30, 1814; married William E.
Haines. 3. Cla\ion, November 5, 1816, died
April 18, 1817. '
(\'I) Zebedee, eldest child of Clayton and
Rebecca (Wills) Haines, 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 (ium-
mere grammar school at Burlington and after-
ward became a farmer, wiiich 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 affairs, 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
Republican, although he died soon after the
organization of the Republican party.
Mr. Haines married Elizabeth, daughter of
Joseph and Elizabeth Hendrickson, of Cross-
wicks, and by her had twelve children: i. Re-
becca, born February 11, 1831. 2. Margaret,
burn March 10, 1832, dietl 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 Alarch 27, 1836;
married Joseph Nicholson. 6. Clayton, born
May 7, 1837; married Lydia McGrew. 7.
Joseph H., born Deceml>er 7, 1840 (see post).
8. Elizabeth F., born August 5, 1842; married
Howard Darnell. 9. Zebedee, born Aug^ist
20, 1843: married Anna P. Harvey. 10. John
G., born October 20, 1848: married Rebecca
Patterson. 1 1. 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, vi-as born in Med ford, liurl-
ington county. New Jersey, December 7, 1840,
and was educated in the jjublic 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. I'ut 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 tiie water company
of Medford and chairman of the board. In
politics he is a finn 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 \'irgin ( Powell)
Wills, great-granddaughter of Aaron and
Rachel ( Warrington ) Wills, great-great-
granddaughter of Daniel and Elizabeth ( Wool-
ston ) Wills, great -great-great-grandaughter of
John and Hope (Delefaste) \\"ills. 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 firm of Joseph 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 long
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
New 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
namesake, William (q. v.). Assuming him
to be the grandson of the immigrant, we place
him in the third generation.
(Ill) William, probable grandson of Will-
iam Compton, the immigrant, 1667, was born
in Monmouth count)-, New Jersey, about 1730.
He married a daughter of David Baird and
they resided in Clarksburg, in the southern
part of Monmouth county, near the border of
Ocean county. William and (Baird)
Compton iiad a large 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 ]\Ionmouth, 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:
Job Compton, who was promoted from the
ranks to lieutenant : John Compton, who also
served in the Continental army subsequent to
this battle : Joseph Compton ; Lewis Compton,
who served in Captain Elisha Waltrous' com-
pany ; George Compton, who also 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 troops and in the Continental army; and
John Compton. He also had sons, David and
"ichabod, who settled at Morristown, Cumber-
land county.
(I\') 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, New 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 township, Ocean county, where
he married Rachel Robbins and they had three
sons and two daughters born on the farm as
follows: John. David ( q. v.). Tames. Ellen.
Mary.
( \' ) 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 Elizabeth (^N'andervere ) Han-
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
kiiison, and granddaughter of William Ilan-
kinson. Captain Kenneth Hankinson was an
officer in the American army in the revolution-
ar}- war and was one of the patriots who
fought at the battle of Trenton. David Comp-
toii carried the United States mail in Trenton,
New Jersey, up to 1829. David and Sarah
I 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.
( \ I ) Jacob Mankinson, 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 Egypt,
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, grandson of Jonathan and
great-grandson of John Coward, the immi-
grant, who came from England in 1736 and
was a ])rcacher in Emilytown, New Jersey.
The children of Jacob Hankinson and .Sarah
.A.nn (Coward) Compton were born in New
Egyjn as follows: i. George F., i860, who be-
came cashier in the First National LUink of
New Egypt, he married Mary, daughter of
John and Elizabeth fDunphy) Applegate, and
had children : Laura, Eugene, Kenneth and
Elizabeth. 2. James Robbins (<\. v.). 3.
Sarah, who married Thomas Hartshorn, a
prosjierous farmer in New E,gypt, and has
children: Rebecca, Walter and Henry Hart-
shorn. 4. Josejih, who married Laura Church-
ill, who died soon after marriage and left no
children. Joseph Comjiton is connected with
the ( Irecn Copper Mining C<)m])anv and in
1909 was in Mexico in charge of the mines.
(\H) 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
Asbury 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-
ST.KCKHOL'SE house is somewhat un-
common and wherever it
ajipears 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 attentiori 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. Pennsylvania, in the eighth decade of
the seventeenth century were the pioneers of
tlie name in .\merica. Some years ago, how-
ever, while rummaging among the dusty annals
of the i)ast. Dr. .\sa Matlack Stackhouse was
sur|)riscd to learn that one Richard Stackhouse
was among the Puritan colonists of ^Massa-
chu setts almost fifty years before Thomas and
j.ihn .Stackhouse came to Pennsylvania. In
I'elt's ".\nnals 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 su])i)osed the male line died
out. It is i^robable 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 procure 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 tlie church" in 1648. His children.
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Jonathan, Abigail and Hannah, were baptized
in May, 1648; Ruth, July 8, 1649; Samuel,
I'"ebruary 13. 1653; Alary, June, 25, 1654.
So far as is known the first member of the
Stackhoiise 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 Philadelphia. 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
in(|uiries still further. His interest in the
work led him to look 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 liis 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 Stackhouse Sr.
materially enriched the collection of his father
Amos. 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 .Amos, 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 Stackliouse, 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 township 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.
1 1 ) 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
today out roads and in many other capacities
of trust. He was one of the active members
of Aliddletown Monthly Meeting of Friends
and built their meeting house in 1690. He
took up five hundred and seven acres of land
in Midilletown on the Neshaminy 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 .\lice Heaton,
who came to Philadelphia in the "Welcome"
with William Penn in 1682. Fie married
(second) ist mo. i, 171 1, at Falls 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, 1691. 3. Robert,
see post. 4. Henry, born loth mo. 7, 1694,
married Jane . 5. Grace, born nth nio.
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7, 1696, died 6th mo. 5. 1777: married David
Wilson. 6. Alice, born 2d mo. i, 1699, mar-
ried Enclydns 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, bom 5th
mo. 15, 1715, married Charles Plumley. 13.
Sarah, born 6th mo. 6, 1718, died 5th mo. 25,
1808: married Samuel Cary. 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-six
years. Robert and Margaret were the par-
ents of eight children : Thomas, Joseph, James,
Grace, Benjamin, .Alice, William and Robert.
(III) James, third son of Robert and Mar-
garet (Stone) Stackhou.se, was born in Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, 11 mo. (January) 11,
1725-26, and married, 10 mo. 13, 1750, Martha
Hastings, who was born 4 mo. 27, 1722,
flaughter of Samuel and Mary (Hill) Hast-
ings, and granddaughter of Joshua Hastings,
who rejjresented Chester county in the colonial
assembly, living then near Chester, but later
removed to Philadeljihia. His son John Hast-
ings married Grace .Stackhouse, sister of
James. The children of James and Martha
(Hastings) Stackhouse were: Margaret, Hast-
ings, Mary, Amos, Martha, James and another
.'\mos, who died in infancy. James, the father,
died in Philadeljjhia 8 mo. 16, 1759, and his
wife Martha died 6 mo. 23, 1806. He is
buried in the .\rch street Friends" burying
ground.
(IV) Amos, 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, bom
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 (F'arker) Powell, 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 mo. 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.
(V) Robert (2), son of Amos and Mary
(Powell) Stackhouse, was born in Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, December i, 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-
cupations, 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
Ricliard and Elizabeth Kimber, and by whom
he had three children. He married (second)
9th mo. 21, 1841, Ann Roberts Matlack,
daughter of Asa and Tamar (Roberts) Mat-
lack (see Matlack), and by whom he had one
child. Robert Stackhouse'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.
Asa ]\Iatlack, see post.
(VI) Asa Matlack, son of Robert (2) and
.■\nn Roberts (Matlack) Stackhouse, born 7th
mo. 21. 1845, ^^'3-S educated in the jjublic
schools of ^loorestown. New Jersey, and en-
tered the junior class of the University of
Pennsylvania, graduating from that institution
in the class of 1865. He subsequently stud-
ied medicine, graduating from Hahnemann
Medical College of Philadel])hia in 1868, and
practiced medicine in .Vttleborough (now
Langhornc), Bucks county, and elsewhere for
a number of years, but has now retired from
practice and lives at Moore.stown, New Jersey.
He has always taken an interest in local his-
tory and the genealogy of the old families oi
Buck's county and vicinity, and has contril)-
uted a number of articles on these subjects to
local i)apers.
Dr. Stackhouse married, at Allentown,
Penn,.sylvania, 12 mo. 8, 1868, Ella Jane
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Romig. (laughter of William J. and Mary Ann
Catharine (Royer) Romig, and they are the
parents of two children: i. William Romig, of
Aloorestown. New Jersey, who was born in
Chester township, Burlington county. New
Jersey, January 10, 1870, and married Re-
becca Gibson. 2. Ernest Robert, born at Al-
leiitown, Pennsylvania, December 3. 1884.
Another child, Ernest Raymond, born Janu-
ary 17, 1874, died young. William Romig
Stack-house, 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
MATEACK 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 IMatlack, or as his family name
appears in some old records, JMacklack, was
born in England about 1648 and was one of
the colony of Friends who came from Crop-
well Bishop, a small village in Nottingham-
shire, in the year 1677, in the ship "Kent,"'
which was sighted ofif Sandy Hook August 14
of that year. The vessel followed along the
coast to Raccoon creek, where her passengers
disembarked. The commissioners appointed
by William Penn and the other proprietors,
and ^\ illiam Matlack with them, took a sinall
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
pro])rietor, 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.
At 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 e.x-
ample of the commissioners, every promise
made by him to the aboriginies was faithfully
kept, and every contract strictly adhered to."
He and Timothy Hancock, 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
l^nd in Waterford 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 purcha.se, 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
White Horse tavern on both sides of the high-
way and contained about fifteen hundred acres.
William 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 W'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 ver\' 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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an tiiljoininj^ survey, and in 1684 married
Rachel Firman. Thus it is that the Matlack
family in New 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. 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 froin him. for
he took delight in having his accustomed tools
to work with, and when he coukl 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 i/ii, 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
Haines. 9. Sarah, married in 1721 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, born March 4. 1716, died January
18, 1767. 3. Rachel, born June 11, 1718, died
February 5, 1762: married (first) Thomas
P.ishop, (second) Philip Wikard. 4. Leah,
born .August 29, 1720, died February 25, 1 73 1.
5. .Ann, born Dccemlicr 11, 1722, died July 26,
1728. 6. William, born June 30, 1725, see
po.st. 7. James, born June 13, 1728. died No-
vember 24, 1728. 8. Mary, born January 6,
1730. died April 15. 1759.
(Ill) William (3), son of William (2) and
.Ann ( Antrim) Matlack, was born June 30,
1723. died ^L^y 15, 1795. He married, at
iladdonfield meeting, Octoljer I, 1748, Mary,
daughter of John and Jane Turner, and by
her had ten children : i. Atlantic, born Novem-
l^'^r L3- 1750. died February 21, 1775; married
Samuel Stokes. 2. \\'illiam, born May 15,
1752. 3. John, born March 26, 1755, died
.August, 1831 : married Rebecca Shute. 4.
Reuben, born November 17, 1757, see post.
5. Jane, born February 11, 1760, died Alay 3,
1760. 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.
(1\') Reuben, son of William (3) and
Mary (Turner) Matlack, was born nth mo.
17, 1757, died 8th mo. 2, 1808. He married
imo. 23, 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) Alatlack, was born loth mo. 21, 1783.
died I2th mo. 3, 1851. He married, 5th mo.
12, 1807. Tamar Roberts, born 6th mo. 13.
1783, tiled 9th mo. 2, 1850, daughter of John
and [.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; niarried Robert Stackhouse (see
Stackhouse).
George Albert Allinson, of
ALLTNSON Burlington, New Jersey, de-
scends from a very old
Burlington county family.
( L) Thomas Allinson, the earliest known
ancestor, was a resident of burlington county
all his life, following the occupation of a
farmer.
(II) 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.
( III ) .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 emi)loyment was in a
general store in Burlington. He learned the
trade of a shoemaker and carried on that busi-
ness in Purlington 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.
1 le belonged to the Methodist Episco])al
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church of Burlington, and to Burhngton
Lodge. Xo. 22. Independent t)rder of Odd
Fellows. He married Eliza A. English, of
Springfield township, Burlington county, New
Jersey. Children: Theodore C, deceased;
George A., see forward ; Samuel E. ; Annie B. ;
Sarah M. (Mrs. George E. Gilbert).
(IV) George Albert, son of Abraham R.
and Eliza A. ( English ) Allinson. was born in
Burlington, New Jersey. July g, 1850. He
was educateil 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 igo2 when he retired. During
his active business life as a builder, Mr. Allin-
son designed and erected many buildings of
both a public and private character, and was
highly regarded as a competent and thorcmghly
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
develo]3ment he has contributed largely.
Other ISurlington 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 Company, of which he is vice-president.
All these responsible positions Air. Allinson
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 effective, 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 memloer of Bou-
dinot Chapter. Xo. 3. Royal Arch Masons ;
Heleva Commandery. Xo. 3. Knight Tem-
plars : Lulu Temple, Ancient Arabic Order
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Philadelphia;
Hope Lodge. No. 13. Knights of Pythias;
Phoenix Lodge. No. 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. Plolly Lodge, No. 848,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr.
Allinson is unmarried.
The Wimer family of Palmyra,
WIMER Burlington county, New Jersey,
descended from an old Pennsyl-
vania family. Joseph Wimer, the great-
grandfather of George N., 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 parents of twelve children: i. Chris-
tian, daughter, born July 11, 1786, died No-
vember 7, 1786. 2. Isabella, 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,
1791, died June 22, 1816; married, August 14,
1814. W^alter 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 Paxson, 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. II. 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, 181 1, luarried
Edward Filley. a silversmith, and died in the
month of June. 1 83 1. 3. Joseph, see forward.
4. Rebecca, January 13, 1816.
(II) Joseph (2). son of Joseph (i) and
Elizabetli (Sheed) Wimer. was born in Phila-
delphia Pennsylvania. October 13. 181 3, died
in his native city October 29. 1881. He was
a plasterer by trade, was actively interested in
the i)olitical affairs of his city, and held office
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
in the city government. Joseph W'imer mar-
ried, Se])temher 4, 1835, Mary Engles, of
Pliiladelphia ; cliildren: i Albert, born Octo-
ber 22, 1839. a soldier of the civil war, died
from wounds received at the battle of Antie-
tam, September 6, 1863, unmarried. 2. Will-
iam E., see forward. 3. Mary E., resident of
Philadelphia, born September 14, 1845.
( III ) William E., second son of Joseph and
Mary (Engels) Wimer, was born in Philadel-
])hia, .\pril 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 Pennsylvania Railroad Company as
clerk, and has since been continuously in the
employ 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 meinber of the PalmyTa Lodge of Odd
Fellows, the Brotherhood of America, and the
Knights of the Golden Eagle. He is a com-
municant of the I'.aptist church. William E.
Wimer married, July 6, 1865, Emma C. Ru-
dolph, daughter of Alfred Rudolph, of Phila-
delphia. She died December 2, 1904. The
children of this marriage are: i. George Nell,
sec forward. 2. .Mbert 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.
(I\") George Xeli, eldest son and child of
William E. and Emma C. (Rudolph) Wimer,
was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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-
I)loy of the Pcncoyd Iron Works (now the
American P.ridgc Company), remaining with
them until 1897 in charge of the contracting and
billing departments. On September 30, 1897,
Mr. Wimer was appointed postma.ster at Pal-
myra, New Jersey. He resigned his position
with the American iiridge Com])any 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 in.surance 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 equalization, 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,
P)enevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of
Mt. Holly. New Jersey, Cnion 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, Pennsylvania. One child has
been born to Mr. and Mrs. George N. Wimer,
Mildred Helen, born in Palmyra, March 3,
1906.
The family names of Rigg and
RIGCt Riggs have been known in New
England since colonial times, and
now their representatives are well scattered
throughout the country. Whether written
Rigg or Riggs the name applies to the same
general family, and both trace back to the still
okler family which was seated in Old England
for many generations previous to the time
when the first immigrant Riggs came over to
America.
( I ) Christopher Rigg, immigrant ancestor
of the family here treated, came to this country
about the vear 1820. He was born in North-
Hampstead, England, of English ])arents, 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 timber lands,
dealt in lumber and wood, manufactured brick
and tiling, and also built and operated a grist
mill in l^>urlington 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-
ington, one of the principal organizers of the
Mt. Holly .Agricultural Society, and in many
ways show'ed his excellent business (lualities
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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ent Acton. 4. Sarah, died unmarried at Green-
wich. 5. Ann, married Mcses Sheppard. 6.
josiah, a merchant of Philadelphia and a
director of Pennsylvania railroad.
(I\') John, ekie.st child of Job (2) Bacon
by his first wife, lived in Greenwich, Cumber-
land county. New Jersey. He married Ann
Hall, of Bacon's Neck. She was a lineal de-
scendant of W'illiam Hall who emigrated to
this country in 1677 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. (leorge W'.. now living
in York, New Jersey.
( \' ) Job (3), son of John and .\nn (Hall )
Bacon, was born' at Greenwich, New Jersey,
lie 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 Closes, Sr., was the son of John
and IViscilla (Wood) Sheppard, and her
grandnidther 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, and engaged in the paint and oil
business: married a Miss I'ailey, of Philadel-
])hia, and has one son, (ieorge. 2. Anna
Thompson, born in 1856; unmarried. 3. Caro-
line Wood, died in 1893; married William
Bacon, no relation. 4. (ieorge Sheppard, re-
ferred to below.
( \T ) George Shep])ard, youngest child of
Job (3) antl Rachel (Sheppard) Bacon, was
born in Greenwich, Cumberland county. New
Jersey, August 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 Bacon's Neck, New Jersey,
and the boarding school at Westtown. 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 the'ir
large glass works, and has become a stock-
holder in the corporation. Mr. Bacon is a
memljer of the Societv of Friends, as have been
all of his family back of him, and in politics he is
a Republican. He is a director of the West
Jersey and Seashore Railroad Company.
In November, 1889. George Sheppard Bacon
married Rebecca, daughter of Lorenzo and
Hannah ]\Iulford. Her father is a contractor
of Millville. They have four children: i.
Margaret Mickle, born March 23, i8gi ; now
at Miss Lord's private school at Stamford,
Connecticut. 2. Job Lawrence, November 24.
1892 ; now at the Penn Charter School in Phila-
delphia. 3. Caroline Wood. August zj, 1894.
4. Elizabeth Mickle, August 3, 1900.
F"or many years the Sherk family
.SHERK has left its impress upon the his-
tory and institutions of Lebanon
county. Pennsylvania, and it is rather with that
state than with 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, I'^ranklin county, Pennsylvania. His
father was born August 12, 1809, in Lebanon
county.
Dr. Slierk was sent for his early education
to the public schools of Lebanon county, and
then entered the Lebanon \'al!ey College at
.■\nvil. 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 M. D. degree in 1886.
immediately after which he came to Camden.
New Jersey, where he became connected with
the dispensary of the Cooper Hospital. 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 hi-;
opinion carries the greatest weight. He is a
member of the New Jersey State Medical
.Association. Camden Count)- 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. He is a director in the East Side
Building Association, of Camden.
Harry Huber Sherk, M. D., married Emma
Katharine, daughter of Andrew Light, of Leb-
anon county, Pennsylvaniay where she was
born March 21, i860. Children: i. Kath-
arine Rebecca, born May 15, i888. 2. Helen
Emma, July 13, 1891. 3. Clara Louise, 1892,
died aged seventeen months. 4. Abraham Lin-
coln, .August 29, 1896. 3. Mary Alice, Decem-
ber 5, 1902.
The Roberts family of New
1<( )l')I''I'iTS Jersey is another instance of
the men who sought peace and
prosperity anil the free exercise of their newly
acc|uired religious convictions in the Quaker
colonies of West Jerse\-, 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 W'ar-
wick, England, and having been converted to
the tenets of (Jeorge Vox they embarked for
West Jersey in the ship "Kent" and landed at
.Xew Castle on the Delaware in August, 1677,
with the first shipload of settlers sent out by
the pro]irietors. He was a farmer, and settled
on two hundred and si-xty-seven acres which
he had surveyed to him on the north branch
of the I'enisaukin creek, living with his family
in a cave until his log house could be erected,
lie afterwards had other tracts of land sur-
\eye(l for him further up the stream and
reaching into l'".vesham township. In 1682 he
and William Matlack and Timothy Hancock
established the h'riends meeting called the
.Adams meeting. 11 is house was built near the
present turnjjike 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 \Cx)6 she signed the agree-
ment as one of the taxpayers when the town-
shi]) 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 died in 1695, intestate, the inventory of
his estate being made May 7, and letters of
administration being granted to his widow
October 12, of that year. John and Sarah
Roberts had four children: 1. 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. Alary, 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 Moorestown, where his wife
was afterwards laid beside him. He was a
prosjjerous farmer and business man. In 1736
he erected on the property which he inheiited
from his father the large brick house which
the family have owned for several generations
and which is still standing and known by his
name. His widow died February 11, 1759.
He married in the Chester Friends meeting in
1712, Mary, daughter of George Elkinton, 01
Burlington, the emigrant, and had eight chil-
dren: 1. John. 2. Joshua, referred to below.
3. Mary, married Thomas, son of Henry antl
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 Eienjamin, son of Abram and
(irace ( HoUingshead) Haines. 8. Deborah.
(Ill) Joshua, son of John (2) and Mary
(Elkinton) Roberts, was born Alay 27, 1715;
died January 28, 1795. In 1741 he married
Rebecca, daughter of Joseph and Judith ( Lip-
pincott ) Stokes, born March 28, 1720, diet!
November, 1815. Children: i. John, married
I'hebe .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
( irinslade. 5. Josejjh, referred to below. 6.
Josluia. died unmarried.
(1\') Joseph, son of Joshua and Rebecca
I .'^tokes ) Roberts, was born June 8, 1742, dietl
I'ebruary 2j. 1826. He was a farmer, one of
the leading men in his township, and lived in
the house built in 1736 by his grandfather,
lie married .Susaiuia. born Octobei 3, 1731,
died .Sejitember 29, 1828. daughter of Kendall
Cole and .Ann. daughter of William Budd and
Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Abigail
Stockton, the emigrants. William was the son
of William and .Aim (Clapgut) lUidd, the emi-
grants ; and Kendall was the son of .Samuel
C'ole and .Mary, daughter of Thomas Kendall,
tlie iniigrant. and Mary, daughter of Francis
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5oy
concerns. He married, in England, Sarah
I'laskett, who also was born in England. Their
children were : John, Edward, George and
,\nn, all born in Burlington.
( II) George, son of Christopher ami Sarah
I riaskett ) Rigg, was born in Burlington, New
Jersey, January 14, 1846, graduated from
I'rinceton College in 1867, and afterward ac-
<|uired considerable celebrity as a pedagogue,
while as a mathematician he became famous.
He taught school in Burlington county and also
at the I'eini Charter school in Philadelphia,
and while he excelled especially as a teacher
of matliematics he was equally proficient as a
teacher of languages, Latin, Greek and P>ench.
In politics he was a Republican and frequently
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.
Mr. Rigg died in March, 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
farmer of Burlington, now dead; one child,
Martha E. Antrim. 2. Sarah Jane, born Sep-
tember 10, 1870; married Edward Tyler, of
Burlington, an engraver ; two children : Paul
R. Tyler, born July 14, 1895; Blair W. Tyler,
born October, 1902. 3. G. Harry, born Aj^ril
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 Wiest, and has one child,
Milton W. 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, born September, 1887 ; drug-
gist in Burlington.
(IH) Budd 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 Van Rensselaer Seminary, Burlington,
from the latter of which he was graduated in
1902. He took up the study of law with Jo-
seph H. 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, L 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
Jersey.
This is a name seldom met
WHOMSLEY in the records of this coun-
try, but is an ancient 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 Whomsley 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 Whomsley, 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 born October 4,
1828, in Bolton, Lancashire, England, and died
at (iraniteville, South Carolina, September i,
1897. l"is ^^^^ 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 machinist, and espe-
cially as regards stationary engines. In 1870
he became employed by the firm of Sleeper,
Wells & Aldrich, of Burlington, New Jersey,
rtmning 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 the same capacity by the (iranite-
ville Alanufactiiring Company. He was an
Independent in politics, an Episcopalian, and
a member of Sampson Lodge, Knights of
Pythias, of I'hiladeliihia. He married Martha
Shaw, <laiighter of Jesse and ^lary Cox, born
May 12, \^2~. at Kensington, Pennsylvania,
died October 4, 1865, and they had nine
(laughters and one son, five of whom died in in-
fancy. Among their children were : Mary,
who tlied yoimg : Emma, deceased: Kate: Ida,
deceased : and Cjeorge Cox.
(Ill) (ieorge Cox, only son and seventh
child of John Potter and Martha Shaw (Cox)
Whomsley, was born Augtist 18, 1857, at Nor-
folk. \ irginia, and received his education in
tlie common schools. Mount \ernon school,
and in the schools of Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania, and lUirlington, New Jersey, lie learned
the business of plumbing, and has made same
his occupation ever since, going into business
on his own account I'ebruary 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
Accei)ted Masons, being affiliated with P)ur-
lington Lodge, No. t^2, Boudinot Royal Arch
Chapter, No, 3, and Helena Commandery, No.
^. Knights Templar : he is also a member of
I'.urlington Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, No. 22, and Hope Lodge, No. 13,
Knights of I'ythias.
Air. Whomsley married (first) Novemljer
I, 1880, Louisa Powell, daughter of John and
(jrace A. Allen, of Burlington, New Jersey,
who died October 26, 18H2, and he married
( secontl) September 30, 1884, Mary Ella,
ilaughter 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 ins])ector by W. R. Conard, of
Burlington : he married Josephine, daughter
of Harry and Margaret W'oolman. 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. George Allinson, October
21, 1901.
That the name of Barrows is
B.\RRO\VS 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
P>urgh. 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 \\'inthrop. In 1477 a
grant of arms was made to Thomas liarowe
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 cliief 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 13, 1635, "Jo: Barrowe aged
26 years, embarked in the "Plaine Joan" the
portico having brought attestation of their
confirniities 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 ISarrowes
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 brouglit
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 will 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 Gray 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 j Hannah
Bennett. 4. Ebenezer, married Elizabeth
Lynn. His two daughters were : 5. 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-
water, and had five children. John Barrow-
died March 12, 1692. and his will was proved
before William Bradford, Esq., deputy gov-
ernor of Plymouth Colony, and Ephraim Mor-
ton, assistant, April 6, 1692.
ill) 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 Puritanical atmos-
phere of Salem to agree with churchmanship.
He married (first) November 28, 1666, Ruth,
daughter of George and Sarah (Morton)
Bonum. of Plymouth. His homestead in Ply-
mouth contained tw^o 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 was
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-
lions 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 w-hich 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 j Sarah Briggs,
and (second) in 1714, Bethia 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, ^lassachusetts, 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, Adam 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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Tune 14, 1721, to Esther Mall, 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-
ber .^i, 1775. 2. Isaac (q. v.). 3. John. July 22.
1727. 4. Greshom, 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. Estlier. 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.
(I\') Isaac, second son of Thomas and
Esther (Hall) Barrows, was born in j\Ians-
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.
Leandcr, 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, reinoved to Willing-
ton, Connecticut, i)robably 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 (c].
V. ). 4. Lucinda, who married I'eckham.
5. Kate, w-ho married Phelps, and their
son, William Pitt Phelps, settled in Mcrchant-
ville, New Jersey.
(VI) Aimer, third son of John Barrows,
was bom 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 sumnier. 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 w^ere born in Willington, Connecticut,
as follows: i. Don Brigham. 2. Serepta. 3.
Henrietta. 4. Emily. 5. Walter Aimer (q. v.).
.\lmer 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 Barrow's, 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) \\'alter Aimer, second son and
youngest child of .-Mmcr and Serepta (Brig-
ham) Barrows, was born in Willington, Con-
necticut, December 2"/, 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, Ma-ssachusetts, to
belter fit himself as a teacher. He was teach-
ing at Cape May in 1861, when the civil war
called him from the sc1kk)1 room to the defence
of his country on the battle line, and he enlist-
ed .'\ugust 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,
W'illiamsburg 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. He was
commissioned by President Lincoln captain of
Company C, One Hundred and Fifteentli
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-la\v, and in 1879 was made a special
master and supreme court cominissioner 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 Masons, 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-
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 w'ith the
Presbyterian church, and he is president of the
board of trustees of the church in Mt. Holly.
He married (first) December g, 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 headquarters in
Cleveland, Ohio ; he married, September 28,
1888, Sarah Byers, of Cleveland, and they
have two children : W' alter Aimer (2) and
Donald. These children represent the ninth
generation from John Barrows, Salem, Massa-
chusetts Bay Colony, 1635. 2. Helen Work,
born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October,
i8()7, 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
W'ales, 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. Barrows Dunham, was
born October 10, 1905. The mother, Mary H.
Wales Barrows, died March 3, 1902, and was
buried at the Brick Church at Cape May, New
Jersey. Her husband married 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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burn about tbe j'ear 1760. On January 1,
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,
October i, 1802. He married Phoebe Breen,
daughter of William Breen, of Egg Harbor.
New Jersey. W'illiam 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.
(Hj John (2), son of John (i) and Phoebe
(Breen) Burley, was born 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 tlien 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
Weathcrley, of Tuckahoe, New Jersey). 7.
Julia M. (Mrs. Richard Townsend). 8. Mary
(Mrs. .Samuel Cham]Mon). 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 Ro.xana (Champion) Burley, was
born in Tuckahoe, New Jersey, 1828, died in
1903. He was educated in the common schools,
and learned tlie trade of a ship carpenter under
the instruction of his father with whom he and
his brother were joint owners of considerable
vessel ])roperty. In 1865 he went to Philatlel-
phia, Pennsylvania, where he was employed
at his trade in the navy yard and at Cramp's
shij) yard as well as at Coopers Point, Camden.
In his later years he removed to Ocean City,
New Jersey, which was his home until deatli.
He was a Re])ublican in political faith, and a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
where he served as both steward and trustee.
He married, in 1850, Sallie Wheaton, 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-
ceased ; she married Samuel Whittaker, of
Williamstown, New Jersey. 3. Charles Shoe-
maker, see forward. 4. ^lilton, married Ella
Wilson. 5. Enoch W. 6. Margaret, marrietl
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-
tlen, 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 oj)ened a grocer)' store on his own
account in the city of Bristol, Pennsylvania.
This store was a success and encouraged Mr.
Burley to expand and extend his business. In
1889, in company with his brother-in-law,
Samuel \\ hittaker, 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 1901 he removed to Camden and was there
engaged in the grocery business for two years.
On March 26, 1903, he opened his present
store in ]^)Urlington, 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 stewaril on the official board.
Mr. Burley married, January 11, 1S87,
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 I'urlington high school, Drexel
Institute, I'hiladelphia, Pennsylvania, and at
the Trenton Business College.
The family liere described were liv-
.SACK ing in that part of Russia which
borders Prussia, in the seventeenth
century. In .Xmerica they have made for
themselves a place in business and social circles,
and their integrity and steadfastness of pur-
[jose are recognized by all who have had cleal-
ings with them.
(I) .\ son of this family, h'erdinand George
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Sack, emigrated in the latter part of tlie
eighteenth century to Prussia, Germany, wan-
dered from there to Seesen, Duchy of Bruns-
wick, Germany, where he established 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 Mscher, born .August 13, 1789. at
Seesen, and their children were: i. Sophia
Dorethe Charlotte. 2. Sophia Louise Chris-
tiana. 3. Charles William Ferdinand. Mr.
Sack was a farmer, grain dealer, millwright
and flour-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, Germany, 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 Wulfes, was born March 27, 1769. at
Grossen Use, and married Elizabeth Braun,
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, 1855: married, in 1880, in New York City,
Jennie Meyer, and their children are: Hugo
H,. born ^lay 13, 1881, at New York, and
Alwine, born March 25, 1883. at Philadelphia.
3. Alwine Caroline Louisa, born August 23,
1857, <''sd in New York City. 4. Curt Emiel
Hugo, born June 4, 1864, died at New York
City.
(IV) 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 America, living in New York until
August, 1873, when he removed to Philadel-
phia, 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 French 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 tow^nship board of education
and park commission, and for five years he
served as a member of the board of freeholders
of Burlington county. New Jersey. Mr. Sack
is affiliated with the Independent Order of
Mechanics, Olive Branch Lodge, No. 26, Ger-
man lieneficial 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 Philadelphia. Her father, Rudolph Stecher.
was a cabinet-maker, carpenter, builder and
tavern-keeper, married Pauline Raup, and
their children were : Hannah, Rudolph, Marv.
Louise, 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,
respectively. Charles John Henry Herrman
and Hanaii (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,
1900, Sadie Johnston, and their children are :
Charles Joseph, Joseph, Adela, Mildred and
Arthur, all born at Riverside, New Jersey, and
Rudolph, born at Elgin, Illinois. 3. Emily,
born November 1 1 , 1879 : married Joseph O.
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, 1886, at Philadelphia, is a
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watch case maker, and resides at Elgin, Illi-
nois ; he married, December 25, 1908, Mamie
Bovven. 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 lias reason
to be proud of their position and standing.
William Herman Bisbing de-
BISBIXG scends from an old Pennsyl-
vania family. The earliest
known ancestor was George BLsbing, 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.
(H) (ieorge (2j, 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 Concohoken, Pennsyl-
vania, where he engaged in the grocery busi-
ness until his death. He was ta.x collector of
the town, and a man of influence in the com-
nuuiity. 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-
delphia. 5. (Jeorge, deceased. 6. Catherine.
(HI) William, first born of George (2) and
Sarah (Hansell) Bisbing, was born at Penn
Lynn, near Ambler, Peimsylvania, 1839. He
received a good common school education. He
was apprenticed to a whechvright and as all
wagon and carriage work at that time was
done by hand, he obtained a thorougli knowl-
edge of that trade, .\fter leaving his trade
Mr. Bi.sbing and his brother-in-law, Augustus
Hart, oi)ened a shop and store in Norristown,
Pennsylvania, where they built, repaired and
sold vehicles of all descriptions that were
common to the neighborhood. In iHfig 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. He is a member of the Baptist
church, although he was formerly a Lutheran.
He is a member of the Independent Order of
P'oresters. 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 Grofif, of Haddonfield, 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.
William Herman, mentioned below.
(1\') 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
public and parish schools of his native town.
He learned the trade of macliinist and worked
at that business for seven years m Florence.
He then entered the employ of the Camden
and Trenton Street Railway Company and re-
mained with them si.x years as machinist and
dispatcher, having headquarters at Riverside,
New Jersey. For two years he was with the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, running be-
tween Camden and Jersey City. On .August
2(), 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
formed 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 .Accepted Masons; Dakota
Tribe, No. iii, Improved Order of Red Men
of Camden; Court Delaware, No. 31;-'
Inilependent Order of Foresters, of Florcnct' :
Burlington Lodge, No. 996, Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, of Burlington.
The Steelier 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.
( 1 ) Rudolph .Steelier, the founder of the
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family, was born in Baden Baden, Germany,
about 1825, and came over to Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in 1847. He died in Riverside,
New Jersey, in 1888. He was a cabinet maker
by trade, and served his apprenticeship before
he emigrated. After coming to America he
followctl the same line of work, and, engaging
in the lumber business in Philadelphia, 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 he married Paulina Raupe, at Baden
Baclen. She is now living at the Riverside
Hotel. Their children were : i. Hannah. mar-
ried Charles Sack, of Riverside. 2. Child,
died young. 3. Rudolph F., proprietor of River-
side Hotel, Riverside. 4. Alary, married Henry
Frick, a farmer. 5. Louise, married George
\\'hitney, 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. William, who con-
ducts a cigar store at Riverside.
(II) 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 ]\IcKinley, 1896, and filled tiiat
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 .\ugust and Annie Lius-
ner, of Westfield, New Jersey. She is now
living at Riverside. Their children are: i.
Artliur Franklin, referred to below. 2. Sophia,
died aged eighteen years. 3. Bertha. 4. Charles,
died aged fifteen years. 5. Mary. 6. Henry.
7. August, Jr. 8. Naomi. 9. George. The
last five are all at school, in 1909.
(HI) Arthur Franklin, eldest child of .-Xu-
giist C. and Matilda (Liusner) Stecher, was
born at Riverside, New Jersey, June 27, 1885,
and is now living in Riverside. He w'as 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 I'urlington Enterprise, the
Philadelphia North American, the Philadelphia
Inquirer, the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the
Trenton Times, and Publicity Press, and still
corresponds for most of them. He has been
identified with the Trenton Times for eleven
years. When 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, No. 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-
municant of St. Peter's Roman Catholic
Church.
Wolfret ( ierretse, the cf)nimon
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: ( ierret Wol-
fertse, 1610: Jacob Wolfertse, and Peter Wol-
fertsc. Jacob, the eldest son of Wolfret, came
with his father to New 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 representing the New Netherlands,
1647-49-50; member of Dutch church of New-
York, 1666. Peter and Hester Jansen \'an
Couwerhoven had children: i. Xeeltje, bap-
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tized September 25. 1639, married, January 6,
1662, Conielius Pluvier. 2. Jolin or Johannes,
of New ^'ork. baptized March 29, 1641 ; mar-
ried, April II, 1664, Saartje Frans, of Haer-
lem. 3. Lysbeth, 1643. 4- Aeltje, 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, 1683. Of 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 Island" says that the Couwerhovens,
after the conquest of New York, went soine
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 appear in the New York records beyond
this mention. In the list of Jerseymen in the
revolutionary war we find .\ndrew Mart from
(lloucester 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.).
( I) Thomas Marter was an early citizen of
Willingborough township, where he was a large
landhokler. He was born probably about 1740,
and his name appears on the records of the
building of the Cooi^ertown 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 six trustees to whom the deed for the
meeting house ground was given in trust Au-
gust, 1802. He died a few years after this
deed was given. He had sons: Michael, .Abra-
ham. Thomas, Richard, whose names a]ipear
on the subscription list for smaller sums.
Michael. .Sio; Thomas, $5; Richard and Abra-
ham. .'=55; and the three an additional $1.50
each, when the sum raised appeared to be
inadequate. In 1806 the meeting house was
completed.
(l\) .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.
( III ) Charles, probably eldest son of Abra-
ham Marter, was born in Burlington township,
Burlington comity. 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 included 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 Aleet-
ing is shown by his subscription to the enlarg-
ing of the Coopertown Meeting House in 183^^,
when he and his brother .\braham 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. Hope, 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.
(IV) Ezra Budd, sixth son of Charles and
Hannah (Stevenson) Marter. was born in
lUirlington township, Burlington county. New
Jersey, 1829, died there January 27, 1902. He
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 extensively in pork packing, and he pur-
chased large quantities of hogs, either on the
hoof or dressed, and found ready market for
both salt pork and salted and dried bacon,
shoulders and hams, for the use of the army
in the field. He built a fine residence which
became tiie home of his son Ezra Budd (2).
He was an active member of the Rejiuhlican
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 five children born in
Burlington, Xew 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
(q. V. ). 5. \\"a!ter S., now secretary and treas-
urer of the Wilmington Steamboat Company,
and a resident of Burlington, New Jersey.
(\') 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 public high school 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 fann
under his own control and continued the
methods anrl 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 township governments. His fraternal
affiliations included membership in the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, through Bur-
lington Lodge, No. 22; and membership in
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
through sub-lodge. No. 996, of Burlington,
New Jersey.
He married, March, 1888, Anne, daughter
of Edward and FVances (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 Beideman, June 14, 1900. In 1909 these
children were all members of the homestead
household, where they were born.
\\ arren Carleton Pine, pharmacist
PINE of Riverside, New Jersey, descends
from an old Gloucester county,
Xew Jersey, family. His great-grandfather,
Daniel Pine, was born 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 Jersey, where he
grew up and followed the occupation of a
farmer. Later in life he removed to Mary-
land, where he died. He married Mary ,
and had issue: Allen, Elizabeth, Samuel, Clay-
ton, Benjamin, Elwood (see forward). Eliza-
beth married Charles Roberts, of Philadelphia,
who is now deceased.
(III) Elwood, son of Joshua and Mary
Pine, was born in Repaupo, Gloucester county.
New Jersey, during the year 1839, and died
in Maryland, in 1893. 'I^ removed to 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. Hannah Allen, born in 1840,
daughter of Richard and Ann Allen, of MuUica
Hill, Gloucester county, New Jersey. The
two children of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Pine
are: i. Mary Ann, married Lewis M. Shuck,
a merchant of Swedesboro, New Jersey, and
has Walter and Howard Shuck. 2. \Varren
Carleton.
(IV) Warren Carleton, only son of Elwood
and Hannah (Allen) Pine, was born in Alickle-
ton, (lloucester county. New Jersey, February
I, 1866. He was educated in the public
schools and at the Friends' Academy in Mickle-
ton. His early life was spent on the farm and
in a newspaper ofifice in \\'oodbury, 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 did later before the New Jersey board. He
is a registered pharmacist in both states. In
1894 he located in Riverside, Burlington county,
Xew Jersey, and established a drug store. Mr.
Pine has been very successful in his business
and has been compelled to make changes to
larger quarters until now he has a lucrative
business located in perhaps as handsome a
store as can be found in any town of the state.
Mr. Pine, while devoted to his business, takes
an active interest in the public afl^airs 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 Burlington 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 Xew Jersey and American
Pharmaceutical associations and the National
Association of Retail Druggists. Mr. Pine is
fraternally connected with the leading orders
of his town. He is a Master Mason of River-
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side Lodge, a Royal Arch Mason of Boudinot
Chapter, liurhngton, a Knight Templar of
Helena Commandery, a Shriner of Lulu Tem-
ple, Philadelphia, and a thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite .Mason of the New Jersey Con-
sistory. He further affiliates with the Elks
Lodge of ISurlington, the Odd F'ellows of
Bridgeboro, and the Patriotic Order Sons of
America, Delanco. He is also a life member
of the Riverside Turngemeinde and Maen-
nerchor societies. Lie is a member of the
Society of Friends.
Warren C. Pine married, September 2, 1893,
hla I'irch, daughter of George \V. and Cath-
erine Birch, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
They have a son, I^ynnwood Carkton Pine,
born June 19, 1895.
The name of Torrie or Torrey
T(^RREY has been associated with the
history of the inhabitants of
.\e\v England from early times. There have
been noted educators and other professional
men in this family, as well as persons in other
occu])ations. 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
I'rigadier 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 .Vbolitionist, and .Anna, who
became Mrs. Chajiman. He married (second)
Azuhah West, by whom he had two sons,
llirain Uwight and John.
(II) Hiram Dwight, son of Jesse and
Aznbah (West) Torrey, was born June 24,
1820, at New I^ebanon, New York, and died in
K)oi. lie received a good education, being a
graduate of Williams College, and his natural
ability and desire was along the lines of poetry
and ]iainting. .At the age of twenty-five Mr. Tor-
rey left home and spent some time on the
staff of a i)riiminent newspaper published at
Pottsvillc. Pennsylvania, and later took u\) the
study of engineering and architecture. Lie
had a natural talent for the making of portraits,
and some of his early efforts received such
favorable comment that he was fortunate enough
to become a pu])il of a famous portrait jiainter,
and there learned so much, both of technic|ue
and the language of his art, that he became a
lecturer on the subject: wliile 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 .Milwaukee, 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 mimber of landscapes. While in that city he
became leader in a musical society, which de-
veloped into the Ringold Band. In 1867 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. LJpon 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 Reinihlican, and in national
campaigns 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 Episcoj^alian in religious views, and be-
longed to the Knights of Malta, also to the
.Ancient Free and .Accepted Masons, of Potts-
villc, I'ennsylvania. He married (first) Mary
Woodward, cousin of Chief Justice George
Woodward, of Pennsylvania, and their chil-
dren were: i. Mary \\'oo(lward, married Will-
iam K. Moore, deceased, of Delanco, New
Yi rk. ;uid they had a son, William K., de-
ceased. 2. William, a gold miner, lived in New
Zealand. Mr Torrey man-ied (second) in
i8fi2, Clara \'. Moore, of Philadelphia, born in
1834. daughter of James Bullers and Mary
Clifford ( Knowles ) Moore, and they had two
children: I. Hiram Dwight. 2. James Moore,
born in 1871, in Glasgow, Scotland, is a printer,
and resides at Delanco. .\'ew Jersey, with his
brother ; he married Sarah Hillney. and has
one >nu James and one daughter Madelaine.
(HI) Hiram Dwight (2), son of Hiram
Dwight (O and Clara V. (Moore) Torrey,
was born in i86r). at Pottsvillc, Pennsylvania.
W hen one year old he was taken by his par-
ents to Scotland, and received his early educa-
tion in (ilasgow, which he supplemented on his
return to .America, after thirteen years, by
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attending the scliools at Delanco, New Jersey,
lie 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. Mr. Torrey is now editor and pro-
prietor of the Burlington Comity Press, pub-
lished weekly, at Riverside, New Jersey, having
brought out the first issue March 3, 1887; from
the first issue, of four pages, edited and print-
ed in a single room, by the unaided efforts of
its enterprising proprietor, under the name
of The N c'ii> 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 Mr. Torrey was in part-
nership witli John H. W'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 paper independent in politics, and through
its sheets is able to espouse the cause of every
niDvement on foot for the general good of the
communtiy. He is a member of the Fire
Company of Riverside, of the State Firemen's
.Association, of which he was for three years
vice-president, and a trustee of the Firemen's
Home, at Doontown, New Jersey. He also
belongs to the Grand Fraternity, to the Benev-
olent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 996,
of Burlington, and is a member of the Pen and
Pencil Club, of Philadelphia.
Mr. Torrey married, in 1888. Julia Walton
Wells, daughter of Lsaiah and Elmira (King)
Wells, of Bridgeboro, New Jersey, and they
have no children.
This name, in the various forms of
HOLT Holt, Moult, Holte, and many
others, has been for centuries com-
mon in England, where it has boasted many
distinguished members. Sir |ohn 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 part 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 : Mary, Sarah, John,
James, Samuel, wdio 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 Creelc, Pennsylvania, and then removed
to Philadelphia, where he worked in a paper
box 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, Mr. Holt enlisted in Com-
pany 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. x\t this time he resumed the
manufacture of paper bo.xes, 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
Mt. Holly, New Jersey, and entered the em-
ploy of Semple & Sons, manufacturers of
thread and made paper boxes for this firm
over seventeen years. Mr. Holt established a
factory for himself, at Mt. Holly, in the same
line of business, in 1884, and continued same
until i8.)Q, 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 Mr.
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 iiad no children. He
married (second) in 1864, Elizabeth, daughter
of Samuel and Atlantic Middleton, who be-
came the mother of his five children, and he
married (third) Ruth .A.nn Major, of Mt.
Holly. His children were: i. Harry, de-
ceased. 2. Samuel M., a printer, resides in
Washington, District of Columbia. 3. Atty
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A. I'.ooz, lives at Harrisburg, Pennsyivania.
4. William I lenry. 5. Clara May, died in in-
fancy.
(Ill) William Henry, third and youngest
son of ^\'illiam and Elizabeth (Middleton)
Holt, was born Jidy 9, 1872, at Alt. 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 ; he
purciiased 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
Ikverly 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
LcKlge 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 marrieil, August 31, 1892, Rena.
daughter of John Reeve, of Mt. Holly, New
Jersey, and their children are: i. Raymond
Ci., born July 16, 1893, at Mt. Holly. 2. Emma
D., October 10, rSgs, at Mt. Holly. 3. William
L., December 12, 1897, at Mt. Holly.
The Taubel family is another
TAUBEL of the grou[) forming the colony
of (lerman 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 fatiier of the founder of the family
lived and died in (iermany, where he left five
children : Lewis. William, Charles, referred
to below; Mary, Catharine. His wife died in
Philadelphia at the advanced aged of eighty-
four years.
(TI) Charles Taubel was born in (iermany,
in 1 82 1, died in Riverside, New Jersey, Sep-
tember C). 1005. He secured a common school
education in his native town, and then learned
the shoemaking trade, ff e came to this country
in 1848, stopping 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
Democrat, a member of the school board, and
a member of the Aloravian 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 Penn.sylvania. 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) Henry, 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 theniand
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 .'ierving 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, lie is also a mem-
ber of several (jerman beneficial and social
organizations.
In 1882 Henry Taubel married Louisa Koh-
ler. of Philadel])hia ; children: I. (Gertrude,
horn in Philadelphia. June, 1884; married
William" Wright, now in the newspaper busi-
ness in Wildwood, New Jersey ; they have one
child, (Gertrude. 2. Charles, born in Philadel-
phia in 1886, educated in the Riverside public
schools, spent two years in a textile school in
Philadel]ihia and is now with his father in the
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firm of Henry Taubel & Son. He i.s an expert
(Iyer and has entire charge of that branch of
the work. Me married Mary Bergnekes, of
Delanccj, and they have one daughter Gertrude.
This is an old Pennsylvania name
RUE founded 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, Jacques 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
(|uite numerous in Bucks county, whither they
migrated from New Jersey in the closing years
of the seventeenth century. The name was
spelled 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 that the
I'.ucks 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 Vansant
farm in Bensalem in 17 18, and died there in
December, 1739, "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 Ilulme-
viile), 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 Middletown township
and spent his whole life in that township,
where he died in 1785 and was buried 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 Huhneville. 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
purchased by these two in 1786.
(IV) Mathew (2), youngest child of Rich-
ard and Jane (\'an 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 ai)pear 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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had children: I. Adam, died in Bristol, 1849,
leaving two sons and three daughters. 2.
Richard, died unmarried. 3. Lewis, men-
tioned below. 4. Jjar.sheba, wife of Joshua
Wright. 5. Christiana. 6. Elijah. 7. Jacob.
(V) Lewis, third son of Matthew (2) and
Mary (Weaver) Rue, was born January 31,
1788, in Middletown township, died at New-
portville in Bristol township, August 9, 1863.
He was a harness maker and lived all his life
in J'.ri.stol. He married Ann, daughter of
Stephen Stackhouse, born January 30, 1797,
(lied December 2, 1868. Children: Edmund,
.Samuel S., Elizabeth (married Charles Wal-
ton) of Andalusa, Bucks county), Henry and
Mary Ann. The second son was for many
years an undertaker in Bristol, where he was
succeeded by his son, Harvey.
(\I) Edmund, eldest son of Lewis and
Ann (Stackhouse) Rue, was born October 27,,
1825. in Newportville and clied 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'nion street Meth-
odist Church in Burlington for a period of
thirty years. In politics he was a consistent
Republican. He married Roxanna S. Allen,
daughter of William and Eliza (Goforth)
Allen, born October 16, 1825, died January 6,
19CK}. William, son of Israel .XUen, was born
June 24, 1793. Eliza, daughter of William
and Isabella (ioforth, was born December 31.
1792, died October 28, 1829. Ciiildren of
Edmund and Roxanna S. (Allen) Rue: Will-
iam .\., died at the age of twenty-five years;
Eugene, died in childhood ; Caleb Taylor, men-
tioned below.
(\'II) Caleb Taylor, only surviving child
of Edmund and Roxanna S. (Allen) Rue, was
born June 20. 1859, in Newportville and grew
up in Burlington county, New Jersey, whither
tiic 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 Pennsylvania rail-
road, on Fourth street, I'hiladeljihia, in the
office of auditor of passenger receipts, and re-
mained there two years. He subsec|uently
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
Aluller, 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 \\ .
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 A. M. : of Boudinot Chapter, No. 3,
R. .\. M.: ami Helena Commandery, No. 3.
K. T. 1 le 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. P., of
F>urlington, and of Lodge No. 996, B. P. O. E.,
of the same place. The principles of fellow-
shi]) and charity towards mankind, as main-
tained by these orders, have been governing
l>rinciplcs in the conduct of Mr. Rue's life, and
he enjoys the esteem and regard of a large
number of people.
He married, in 1893. Mary Collom, daughter
of lilias D. andJ\ate (Love) Collom, of Phil-
adel]ihia. .She is a granddaughter of William
Collom, who 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 position under President Lincoln
(hiring tlie civil war.
l'"rom the records of the ])ro-
Sri\.()CD ceedings of the English house
of commons we learn that on
Wednesday, .April 16, 1621, Sir \\'illiam
Stroud moved that "Tobacco be banished
wholly out of the kingdom and that it may not
be brought in from any ])art nor used amongst
us." This was during the reign of King James
1. 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 his constituents is proven by
the fact that he kejit his seat through the stir-
ring days of the reign of Charles I.
liistory also states that Pyin, Hampden,
Ilazelrigg, Mollis, 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
i'ritain, especially in the town of Stroud,
county (iloucester, and it is said that it is
from among his grandchildren that the
Stroud s (if I'ennsylvania and New Jersey are
descended. The crest of the Stroud family
was : Demi lion couped. Motto : Malo mori
c|uam facdari. meaning, I would rather die
than be dishonored. A copy of the same can
be seen in the P'airburn ISook of Crests, plate
10-12.
(I) Thomas Strcnid, 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, February 6, 1822.
Thomas Stroud married. May 22, 1787, Sarah
Hoxworth, a native of Valley 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 Hoxworths 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 Ciibson. of Chester county, Pennsyl-
vania. 7. Elizabeth, August i, 1801. 8. Will-
iam, January 20, 1804, married Ann M.
Merves. 9. Joshua, January 22, 1806, married
Hannali W. Merves, and dietl November i,
1870. 10. Eleanor, July 6, 1808, died June 8,
1878; married Isaac Hinkson. 11. Charlotte,
October 8, 1810, died February 2", 1887; mar-
ried Samuel Hinkson.
(II) Peter, third child and eldest son of
Thomas and Sarah (Hoxworth) Stroud, was
born in Highland township, Chester county,
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 1 82 1. 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
children of Peter and Margaret (Shields)
Stroud were : i JeiTerson Mountford, born
November 4, 1819; died August 18, 1844;
married Ruth Ann Parke. 2. Benjamin Frank-
lin, August 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, 1 83 1 ; died September 27, 1831. 8.
Elizabeth Jane, September 13, 1833; died Feb-
ruary 5, 1907; married John R. McClellan. 9.
Peter Van 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 M.
Snare; he died very suddenly, November 13,
1905.
(III) 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
Moorestown. 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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daughter of J. S. Fletcher, of Philadelphia.
Sejjtember 9, 1852, she was injured by the
explosion of a coal oil lamp, and died from the
effects five days later ; without issue. January
15, 1862, he married (second) Annie AL, born in
l'hiladflj)hia, I'ebruary 19, 1840, daughter of
George and Eliza Dull, of Moorestown. Their
children were: I. F"ranklin Gilbert, referred
to below. 2. Lincoln Grant, born March 11,
1865; died January 29, 1897; unmarried. 3.
Joseph Haines, May 27, 1867; married (first)
October 29, 1892, Ida Green of Philadelphia,
born November 21, 1871, 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, 189^), and Mildred, F'ebruary 26,
1898.
(IV) Franklin Gilbert, eldest child of Dr.
Joseph Cassius and Annie M. (Dull) Stroud,
was born at Moorestown, New Jersey, Octo-
ber 30, 1862, and is now living and practicing
the profession of medicine in that town, lie
graduated from the ( iiffin 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
Ajjril 2, 1885. He began the practice of his
jjrofession. In 1886 he decided to take up a
sjiecialty 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 Jeft'erson Medical College
Hospital. In the summer of 1887 he decided
to continue his studies in Europe, and in con-
sequence he s])ent nine months in the general
hospitals of X'ienna, Austria, and three more
in the hospitals of London, Dublin, Paris,
P)russels 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 townshi]) at^'airs 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
insjicctor. Owing to his carefulness he holds
the ])osition 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 president more than once in most
of them. He is also a member of the F. and
A. M. His religious belief is with the Baptist
denomination.
October 30, 1890, Franklin Gilbert Stroud
married Martha Rudolph, born at Marlborough
-New Jersey, March 4, i8C)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
C^SMOND rjsmond family was trans-
planted from Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, where the family settled at an
early date. The first of the family of record
was Isaac, who was bom in Bristol, Bucks
county ; married .\nn Hughes and had issue.
( II ) John Thomas, son of Isaac and i\nn
( Hughes ) Osmond, was born in Bristol, Pemi-
sylvania, November 26, 1816; died x\ugust 28,
1896. His education was received in the com-
mon school. He learned the trade of carriage
painting and trimming, at which he was em-
])loyed 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 & Amboy railroad, rising with rapid strides
to the responsible position of train despatcher
at Bordentown, the headquarters of the Camden
& .\mboy railroad. During the war the Camden
(S: Ambov moved large bodies of troops over
their lines and the duty of handling the great
number of extra trains devolved upon Mr.
Osmond. .After the leasing of the Camden
& .Amboy by the Pennsylvania railroad, he was
retained by the latter company and appointed
ticket agent at Ijordentown. 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, Ohio, died May 17, 1900, the
daughter of Joseph and Rebecca Howell Mc-
(iill. [ose])h McGill was born in Scotland or
on the high seas, the son of John McGill. who
came from Scotland to America, settling in
( )hio with his wife Nancy (Howell) Mc(iill.
Six children were born to John Thomas and
Lydia (McGill) Osmond: i. Rebecca, married
James W. Rice, of Bordentown ; both deceased.
2. Edward, a locomotive engineer: now de-
ceased: married l'',lizabeth Keen, of Columbus
New Jersey, and left Charles. .Sarah. Edward,
Morgan and Blanche. 3. Thomas, a locomotive
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
527
engineer ; resident of Philadelphia ; married
Alary, daughter of Edgar and Annie Wright,
of IJordcntown. 4. George, a cigar manu-
facturer, of Ijordentown ; 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.
( III ) Josej)h Lott, fifth child of Jolin Thomas
and Lydia (McGill) Osmond, was born in
Bordentown, New Jersey, December 29, 185 1
He was educated in the schools of his native
town, lie early became interested in his father's
business, and 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 '^^ has been in I'hila-
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, Mr. 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 Company; 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 Bordentown
congregation of that faith. He is a Democrat
in politics, and for two terms represented his
ward in the common council.
IVIr. 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 Hoffman,
of Clarksboro, New Jersey, a lieutenant in the
regular L^nited States amiy. First Infantry, at
present stationed at Vancouver Barracks, state
of \\'ashington ; 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 Philadel-
phia; in 1905 he entered the service of the
International Mercantile Marine Comi)any as
passenger agent at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
a connection 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, Free 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, Aimee Evans, daugh-
ter of James and Elizabeth Robinson, of Bel-
fast, Ireland; now resident of Trenton, New
Jersey.
Like many others of the old
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
famih' 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 while 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 removed to Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, in 1719, and the following year
married there Mary, daughter of Stephen and
Sarah (Baker) Wilson. Her mother, who liad
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, Penn.sylvania. bringing
a certificate from the Hardshaw meeting in
1684. The two children of John and Mary
(Wilson) Comfort were: i. Stephen, referred
to below. 2. Robert.
(H) Stephen, 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
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Grace Pearson. Jeremiah Croasdale was the
son of Ezra and .Ann (Peacock) Croasdale.
The children of Stephen and Mercy (Croas-
dale) Comfort were; i. John, born October
5, 1745: married, 1771, Mary, daughter of
John Woolnian, and died in February, 1820.
2. Ezra, referred to below. 3. Jeremiah, born
.August 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
I'hilips. 7. Moses, born April 4, 1760; died
April. 1838; married, 1782, Elizabeth Mitchell.
8. Robert, born December 24, 1763; died June
12, 1851 ; lived in Knox county, C)hio, 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." Alice (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. Grace, 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 August 29, 1847. He was
a farmer, a speaker in Friends' meeting and
very active in everything pertaining to the
society. He married, at Quakcrtown, Peim-
sylvania, Margaret Shoeinaker, who died
March 31, 1873, at the age of ninety-one years.
I'heir children were: I. Sarah, died April i,
1884, aged eighty-three years; married Hughes
Hell, of Haddonfield, New Jersey. 2. Jane,
died March 17, 1873, aged sixty-eight years;
married Charles Lippincott. 3. Ann, married
Isaac Jones. 4. John S. 5. Alice, married
George I f averstick. 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. C^racc, married Charles
W'illiams.
( \') 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 Westtown boarding school
in Chester county, Pennsylvania, and for a
time engaged in farming in Norristown, later
coming to jMoorestown, New Jersey, where he
bought a farm and continued his occupation
until late in life. He was a Republican, and a
member of the Orthodox Friends, being one
of 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,
liurlington county; a director in the Union
P.ank and Trust Company, of Mt. Holly; he
married (first) Sarah A. Leech, who bore him
one child, Mary 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.
Maurice 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.
(\ I) Maurice 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 Aloorestown schools and West-
town boarding school, Chester county, Penn-
sylvania, 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
county conventions. In March, 1898, he was
a])pointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as
postmaster of Moorestown. 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 Edward Randolph Maule, of !\Ioorestown,
who died July 28, 1899, leaving him with one
child, Edward Maule, referred to below. May,
1908, he married (second) Catharine, daugh-
ter of Isaac and Catharine T. Shotwell, of
Philadelphia.
(VTI) Edward ATaule, only child of Maurice
Bacon and Caroline Hartman (Maule) Com-
fort, was born in Moorestown, July i, 1888.
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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 Philadelphia 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 Abington, Pennsylvania,
Sarah Myers, born Alay 17, 1785, died Octo-
ber 17, 1866. She was a daughter of Philip
and Mary (Kaheen) Myers, who were mar-
ried, November 19, 1778. Children 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
.^pril 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.
(II) 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 ]\Ioorestown, New
Jersey, October 24, 185 1, Sarah W., daughter
of Elwood and Mary (Wright) Borton, and
granddaughter of Abram Borton. Nine chil-
dren were born to James W. and Sarah W.
li-Q
(Borton) Megargee: i. George Elwood, see
forward. 2. Flora Virginia, born June 2, 1855;
died August i, 1855. 3. Anna Mary, January
10, 1858. 4. Margaretta S., November 22,
1859: died October 14, 1881. 5. Edward Royal,
March 10, 1865, married Mary 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, 1868;
married John M. Stow, and has Margaretta
and (jeorge Cliiiford Stow. 8. William Clif-
ford, January 14, 1875; died February 19,
1893. 9. Ella Borton, January 18, 1876; mar-
ried Leroy Pickcrsgill, D. D. S., of Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania.
(HI) 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
antl 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 efforts 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 Megargee 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 "oft' 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 eighteenth 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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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
the patent of the town of Newton, Long Island,
in ibSb. and the history of that town states
they came from England direct to this place,
although 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 i/io, 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
chiefly in the vicinity of Lambertville, New
Jersey. Mr. Reeder married (first) .\ima,
"born January 9, 1794, died May 25, 1838,
daughter of William and Sarah \\ ilson ; Will-
iam Wilson was born March 15. 1750, died
October 13, 1812; Thomas 11. and Anna
Reeder had seven children: 1. \\illiam W.,
born September 25, 181 5. 2. Charles, .August
2, 1817. 3. Thomas H., Jr., Augu.st 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 l!., February 16. 1852; resides in Phila-
del]5hia.
(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
\'ork, established himself in business in Flem-
ington, \'ew Jersey, and also engaged in busi-
ness ni tile same line on his own account in
,\It. Ili'lly. Xew Jersey. Later he removed to
Duck Island, where he began raising tobacco.
He was a ]iioneer in the sand business, at
White Hill engaged in procuring sand for
building pur])oses, 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
iieen for some tiiue superintendent for the
Knickerbocker Ice Comjjany. Mr. Reeder was
a Republican in his views, but took no very
active part in political afifairs, and in his relig-
ious o])inions was very liberal. He was a
member of the .American Mechanics. He mar-
ried Catherine, daughter of Truman and Lucy
Sweet, of Trenton, New Jersey, and they liad
nine chiklren, the first two of whom died in
infancy. Those who arrived to years of
maturity were: 1. Josephine, married James
Harris. 2. Lucy .\nn, married Samuel H.
Russell. 3. Horace (_ireeley, referred to below.
4. Clara E., married Harry Carter, of Newark,
New Jersey. 5. Alice, married Theodore Car-
ter. (). Lillie, married William H. West, of
Newark. 7. Thomas A., steamboat cajJtain :
resides at White Hill, New Jersey.
( III ) Horace Greeley, son of Joseph and
Catherine ( Sweet ) Reeder, was born October
31, 1853, ^t 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 White Hill, serving three years, and then
entered the employ of the Knickerbocker Ice
Company, locating machines and filling 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, sujjerintendent 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-
I)orted to Philadelphia for building pur])oses.
He often receives commissions from the United
States government for dredging, planting
buoys, etc. IVIr. 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. .\s a member of the
.Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, whose
ofiices are in the Crozer building, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and whose object is the develop-
ment of Interior Waterways along the Atlantic
Coast, yir. Reeder was one of a i)arty of seven
ai5i)ointed in May, 1909, to inspect the Dela-
ware and Raritan Canal ; the other members of
the ])arty were Messrs. Moore, .Atkin, Wanger.
Donnelly and Burk. The purpose of the trip
was to obtain information at first hand, and by
observation, of jiresent 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 shi])ments in the present day,
and second because its management for the
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY,
531
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 political
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 ;
.\tlantic 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 (\'ai!) Harned,
of Yardville, New Jersey. She is a Friend in
religion and belongs to the meeting at Cross-
wicks, New Jersey. Children: i. Horace
( ireeley, Jr., born October 24, 1876; died at
the age of ten years. 2. Walter 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-
jiloyed by the New York Shipbuilding Com-
pany, and now has charge of one of the dredges
on the river. 4. Joseph R., born October 7,
1880: is attending Drexel 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 I^ippincott
LIPPIXXOTT 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 thai
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 Henry Luppin-
cott, who lived at Barcelona, Spain, and died
in 1779. \ branch of this family removed
from Webworthy to Sidbury in East Devon
about the middle of the si.xteenth century, and
from them was descended Henry Lippmcott,
who became a distinguished merchant of Bris-
tol, was made a baronet in 1778 by King
George III, and through his son Sir Robert
Gaim 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 quite as early as 1420, in
which year John Lippingcott, of Wibbery, 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 sjielt
Luft'yngcotte, is thus described: "A 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 appears to have gone through the
trans fonnations of Leppingote, Leppingcotte,
Leppyncott, and Lippincott, 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,
althou<rh belonging to a branch of the familv
5.S^
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
of liis contem])(.)raries and fellow-believers of
too mild and ix-aceable a disposition to be
either ha])]))' or contented amidst the con-
ditions that prevailed in England during the
latter years of the reign of Charles I, in con-
sequence 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
of 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 Boston 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 Commonw-ealth 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 George
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
principles 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 be 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, 1655, 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 Pl_\inouth, and the birth of his
daughter Increase in 1657, and of his son
Jacob in 1660. 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
^largaret Fell and others whose efforts in be-
half of imprisoned 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 e.xperiences 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
juEJ3[0} Xj3.v XuojOD jsqdB'fi B aq oj punoj aq
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, .\higail. who
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 i)rayer, which needs only the addition of an-
other son, called Israel, to be complete, thus :
Remember John, Restore PVeedom, 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 Rliode Island colony each of the set-
tlements was at first regarded as an independ-
ent establishment : but in 1642 it was deter-
mined to seek a patent from England, and
Roger Williams having gone to the mother
country for that purpose, obtained in 1644,
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
533
tlirough the influence of the Earl of Warwick,
a charter from ParHament uniting the settle-
ments as the "Incorporation of Providence
plantations in the Narragansett 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 ilid 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. ^ri
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-three Newport subscribers who con-
tributed towards buying the Monmouth
county. New Jersey, lands from the Indians
and towards defraying the incidental expenses
in treating with the natives, Richard Lippin-
cott gave by far the largest subscription, ii6,
10 shillings, which was more than twice that
of any other contributor except Richard Bor-
den, whose amount was £11, 10 shillings. The
first deed from the Indians is dated March 25,
1665, and is for the lands at Xevesink, from
the sachem Popomora and his brother Mish-
acoing to James Hubbard, John Bowne. John
Tilton, junior. Richard Stout, \\'illiam 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 acknowledged 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 Alonmouth 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 prem-
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 public matters. In 1667 the inhabitants
of Middletown, 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
purpose 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 irregular they are never-
theless the first legislative bodies that ever met
in New Jersey. This "General Assembly of
the Patentees and Deputies" continued to meet
for 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 lake the
cath 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 rliscreetest of said inhabitants" who
joined with the original patentees formed the
assembly above mentioned, which according to
Nicoll's patent had full power "to make such
peculiar 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<
534
STATE (3F NEW IICRSEV.
and trespass arising amongst the inhabitants
to the value of £io." 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 £10; consequently Richard
Ei])pincott who was chosen to represent 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 visited by George Fox
who was entertained during his stay by Rich-
ard Lipi)incott. 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 Li]3pincott made another and final voyage
to England, where he was in 1675 when John
Fenwick was ])reparing to remove to West
Jersey: and on August 9, 1676. he obtained
from F"enwick 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. 1679, Richard Lippincott divided this
plantation into five ec|ual parts, giving to each
of his sons a two hundred acre tract. Having
at length found a fixed 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 i)ossession of a sufficient estate, and
happy in the enjoyment of religious and po-
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 Lijipin-
cott made his will and acknowledged it before
Joseph Harker, justice of the peace. 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 I'arker, John Hans ( Hance)
and Eliakim Wardell "or any two of them, to
examine .Abigail, the widow of Richard Lip-
pincott, as to her knowledge of any other last
will made bv her husband," An endorsement
on the will, dated May 21, 1684, states that the
"said .•\bigail 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
antl Joseph I'arker.
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 August
7 following, his widow, .Abigail Lippincott,
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
Greorge 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, Joseph, William. .Abigail again,
Sarah, Ruth, Alary and (Irace. His descend-
ants through his sons Richard and W'illiam are
numerous, and many descendants of Samuel,
son of William, now resides in Pittsburg and
other western cities.
John, "yeoman of Shrewsbury," second son
of Richartl and .\bigai! Li])pincott, married
(first! -Ann jiarbcr, and on her death in 1707
he married Jcannette .Austin, and died in 1720,
The eight cliildren borne by his first wife were
[ohn. Robert, Preserved, Mary, Ann, Mar-
garet, Robert and Deborah. Their descend-
ants are now found chiefly in Monmouth
county, .\'ew Jersey, Green county, Pennsyl-
vania, and New A'ork City.
.Abigail Lippincott, born January 17, 1646,
died March 9, 1646. Restore Lippincott is
treated below. Freedom, the fifth child ami
fourth son of Richard 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, i\Iary (Curtis) Lippincott he had
five children : Samuel, Thomas. Judith, Mary
and Freedom Junior. His descendants
through his sons Samuel, Thomas and Free-
dom, are luunerous in the western townships
of Camden and Burlington counties.
Increase, the only daughter of Richard and
Abigail Lippincott who reached maturity, mar-
ried Samuel Dennis and removed to Salem
county. New 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 Abigail 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
thiril son of Richard and Abigail Lippincott,
was born in I'lynmuth. Devonshire, England,
July 3, 1652, and died near Mt. Holly, Burl-
ington county. New Jersey, about July 20,
1 741, 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 22d, I was at Mount Holly, at
the burial of our ancient friend Restored Lip-
pincott : he was as I understood, nearly one
liundred years of age. and had upwards of
two hundred children, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren, many of whom were at
his funeral." Restore was brought to this
country when his parents returned from Ply-
mouth and acconipanied 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 "(jrants 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
.•\mboy. 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 g6 1-2
acres "at Passequenecqua, North Richard
Stoutt junior. South William Scott, Ea.st Pass-
equenecqua Creek, West George Keith" : this
patent also included three and a half acres of
meadow, "East Peter White, West John
Havens, North and South upland." ( 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 Wellingborough 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 ])Iantation of three hundred acres
from Isaac Horner, the deed bearing the date
of June 20, 1 701. 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
Pisgah, and adjoining William Budd." The
two hundred acres of his Cohansey property
in Fen wick'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 delivery. 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 .\ndrew Hamilton as the governor of
the colony. This was the last assembly to
meet under the old proprietarj' government of
West Jersey, since rn the following year the
proprietors surrendered their governmental
rights to the Crown and Lord Cornbury 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 Amboy: in 1704 he was re-elected to the
same ofiice and continued to serve in that
capacity until 1706. Restore Lippincott be-
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STATE OF NEW T1':RSEY.
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 upon the char-
acter of Restore himself. At the monthly
meeting of January 23. 1704, one of the mem-
bers, Thomas Atkinson, ]jresented the follow-
ing memorial in writing: "P'riends: whereas I
was charged in the face of the meeting by Re-
store Lippincott that I pulled off my hat when
John Langstaiif was buried 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 pulling off his hat att the time of
John Langstaffs funeral whilst the priest was
s])eaking, for which at our last meeting some
I'Viends 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 t(i 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 T3. 1741, he leaves legacies
to his son James, his daughters Rachel Dawson,
.Abigail Shiiui, Rebecca Gaskill and Elizabeth
Shinn, and his grandsons. Joseph and Restore
Lip])incott Juniiir. and David and Jonathan
Jess.
November 6. 1674, Restore Lippincott mar-
ried (first) Haiuiah. daughter of William
Shattock, who was born July 8, 1654. in P>os-
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 (^wen.
His second wife bore him no children: by his
first wife Ik- had eiLdit. 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 I'emberton. 2. Abigail, born February 16,
1677, married. May 3. 1697, James, the young-
est child and the longest lived son of John and
Jane Shinn, the emigrants, and their descend-
ants are vy'y numerous throughout South Jer-
sey. '^/E&Hftrth, born in October, 1681, mar-
ried William Gladding in 1701. 4. Rebecca,
born November 24, 1684, married, in 1704,
Josiah Gaskill. 5. James, treated below. 6.
Elizabeth, born March 15, 1690, married, June
12, 171 2, George, 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 1716, Hilary, daughter of Henry Burr,
and his descendants ace numerous, chiefly in
Gloucester and Salem counties ; among them,
however, was Joshua Lippincott, of Philadel-
phia, at one time a director of the Bank of
the L'nited States and president of the Schuyl-
kill Navigation Comjjany. 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 ij(X), at
his home, inherited from his father, near Mt.
Holly. September 12, 1709, he married Anna,
the eldest daughter of Thomas and his secon<l
wife Anna Eves, and granddaughter of
Thomas Eves, "barber in London," who came
to Burlington in 1677, in the ship "Kent."
They had si.x children who reached maturity
and married: i. Jonathan, married, March 13
1746, Ann, daughter of Samuel and Mary
(Thompson) Shinn- Eves, a first cousin of her
husband's mother, being the granddaughter of
Thomas and Anna l"-ves, and great-grand-
liaughter of Thomas Eves, of London and
I'lurlingtiiii. Iler mother 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 part in Xortham])ton. in Evesham, and
in riiiladelpliia, the must noteworthy among
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
537
tlicni being Joshua Balliiiger Lippincott, the
distinguished publisher ; Judge Benjamin H.
Eippincott, of BurHngton county, who is
treated below, and Aaron S. Lippincott, a
successful cotton manufacturer of Philadel-
phia.
( 1\' ) .\aron, second child and son of James
and .\nna (Eves) Lippincott, married Eliza-
beth, daughter of Ephraini and granddaughter
of Joseph and Elizabeth Tomlinson, the emi-
grants, and was the sister of Mary (Tom-
linson) Gardiner, the great-grandson of Dr.
Thomas Gardiner, 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. IJy 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 Nathan-
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.
( \' ) Moses, eldest son and child of Aaron
and Elizabeth (Tomlinson) Lippincott. mar-
ried (first) October 3, 1778, ]\Iary. -daughter
of Jose]5h Hewlings by his second wife. Eliza-
beth, daughter of Laban Langstaff, and widow
of William Hammitt : granddaughter of Laban
and Susanna (Warrington) Langstaff, also
granddaughter of Jacob Hewlings and Doro-
thy, daughter of Thomas and Anna Eves,
children of Thomas Eves, of London and
Burlington : and great-granddaughter of Will-
iam Hewlings and Dorothy, daughter of
Thomas Eves, of London and Burlington.
Moses and Mary (Hewlings) Lippincott had
five children who reached maturity and mar-
ried : I. Rebecca, married (first) Josiah, son
of Lsaac Haines and his first wife Marv,
daughter of Thomas Wilkins and Marv.
daughter of Enoch Core, the emigrant, and
Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah Roberts,
the emigrants ; granddaughter of Thomas and
Susannah Wilkins, the emigrants. Lsaac
Haines was also the grandson of Jonathan and
Hannah (Sharp) Ilaines 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) \\'illiam Au.stin and (second)
Josiah Costill. 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.
(\T) Benjamin H., youngest child and onlv
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 Char'es Jessup, of
Moorestown. Mr. Lippincott married (sec-
ond) Martha Collins, who was the mother of
Benjamin B. and Elizabeth Lippincott. The
latter is now the widow of George 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 Aloorestown, and
died in the latter place in 1879. He had a
farm of one hundred 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) Lippincott, and
granddaughter of Isaac and Hannah Lippin-
cott. The last named was a daughter of John
Engle 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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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
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 ^lary (Curtis) Lip-
pincott. Joshua 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."
William and Elizabeth (Roberts) Lippincott
had children: I. Richard R., enlisted at the be-
ginning of the civil war as a private in Com-
pany L Sixty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers,
and served three years, participating in all the
battles of the .\rmy of the Potomac, including
the Wilderness, both engagements at Fredricks-
burg. Fair Oaks, .\ntietam and Getty.sburg. 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 ^L and James H. The daugh-
ter is the wife of Ricliard Williams, of Plain-
field, New Jersey, and the son is a farmer at
Moorestown. 2. Sarah .A., resides with her
younger brother at Hartford. 3. Martha 1!..
died at l'hiladeli)hia while the wife of Thomp-
son .Shrouds. 4. William Penn, treated below.
( \TII ) William Penn, younger son of Will-
iam and Elizabeth (Roberts) LipjMncott, was
born March 22, 1850, at Mt. Laurel, New Jer-
sey, and was educated in a rate school, such
as ]jrevailed in liis time. When sixteen years
of age he left home and went to Philadeli:)hia
to learn the art of bricklaying, .\ftcr four
years of apprenticeship he contiiUK'd five years
in the occupation, as a journeyman and later as
a builder. In 1876 he returned to New Jersey
and ])urcliased a country store at ilartforcl,
where he has ever since made his home. He
conducted this store for thirty years and still
owns the building, having leased it in 1Q06 on
the occasion of his election to the office of sur-
rogate of Burlington county for a term of five
years, which he is now efficiently serving.
For four terms he served as collector of \\\^
townshi]) and was three terms a represeiUa-
tivc 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, Ko. 158, A. F. and h. M.,
and was the second master of the lodge which
he also served for a period of si.xteen years as
secretary. He is also a member of the Benev-
olent and I'rotcctive 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
lias characterized his private career. He mar-
ried, November 6, 1873, Abbie E. Hollings-
head, who was born in Moorestown, a daugh-
ter of Enoch and Rachel (Atkinson) HoUings-
head, the last named being a member of the
Society of Friends. Mr. and Mrs. Lip])incott
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 Kay Haines.
(For first generation .see preceding sketch).
(H) Freedom, fifth child
LI PPI.\"C(JTT and fourth son of Richard
and .\bigail Lippincott.
was born in Stonehouse. near Plymouth. Dev-
onshire, England, Se]:)tember i, 165 — , died in
I'.urlington 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 Bridgeborough 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 probably added
that of a smith, and could shoe a hor.se or
"upset" the axes of his neighbors with some
skill, but his proficiency cost him his life, for
in the simimer of if)()7, while shoeing a horse,
he was killed by lightning. His widow and
five children survived him, the oldest being but
thirteen years of age. Llis descendants of his
name are most numerous in the western town-
ships of Camden and lUirlington counties.
October 4, 1680, Freedom Lippincott mar-
ried Mary Curtis, and their five children were :
I. -Sanuiel, born December 24, 1684. died in
i7r»; married lloi)e, daughter of John and
Ho|)e (Delefaste) Wills. 2. Thomas, referred
to below. 3. Judith, .Vugust 22, 1689, died
.August 22, 1745; married Joseph, son of
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539
Thomas and Mary (Bernard) Stokes. 4.
iMary, 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, wah.
born in Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, De-
cember 28, 1686, died in Chester township,
P>urlington county, November 5, 1759. In
170S he {)urchased a tract of one thousand and
thirty- four acres, extending from Penisaukin
river to Swedes' run, joining the No-se-ne-
men-si-on tract reserved for the Indians, from
which the modern name of Cinnaminson is
derived. Chi the northern border of this tract
the village of Westfield no\T stands. The
name was originally given to the meeting house
which was erected in 1800, in Thomas Lippin-
cott's western field. Thomas Lippincott was
an active and useful man in the affairs 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
subsetjucnt 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,
fomier auditor of the last mentioned state,
being among them.
December 19, 171 1, Thomas Lippincott mar-
ried (first) Alary, daughter of John, son of
Richard and Margaret Haines, the emigrants,
and his first wife, Esther, daughter of John
and .Ann Borton. the emigrants. She was
born .April 20, 1693. '^"^1 fl'd 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.
( l\ ) Isaac, second child and son of Thomas
and Mary (Haines) Lippincott, was born in
Chester township, Burlington county, died in
Westfield, in the same county. All of his de-
scendants settled on part of their grandfather's
tract in Cinnaminson and Chester townships,
Burlington 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 Lippincott
married Hannah, daughter of John Engle and
Mary, daughter of Samuel and Jane r)gborn.
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) John Cahill. 6. Bathsheba, who died
unmarried. 7. Esther, who died unmarried.
( \' 1 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 N'athan or Nathaniel and Mary
(Hervey) Haines, granddaughter of William,
son of Richard and Margaret Haines, the emi-
grants, and Sarah, daughter of John Paine,
the emigrant, and Elizabeth Field. They had
three children: I. \\'illiam, referred to below.
2. Thomas, married Abigail Borton. 3. Mary,
married Thomas Rakestraw.
( \ I ) William, son of Thomas (2) and
Elizabeth (Haines) Lippincott, was born in
Chester, now Cinnaminson township, Burling-
ton county, in 1770 or 1 77 1, died there .April
7, 1813. 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 township, Burlington county, and
Martha "Esturgans," that being the name on
the marriage bond possibly since the name has
never been found elsewhere, Martha Esther
Cans or Gano. William Rogers was a revo-
lutionary 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 \ ir-
ginia. and Elizabeth, daughter of John Day. of
Philadeljihia. the emigrant, and Elizabeth, sis-
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ter to Peter llervey. William was the son of
Lieutenant William and Abigail Rogers, of
Burlington. The children of William and
.Ann (Rogers) Lippincott were: i. .-Xmasa,
born July 3, 1/94, died February 26, 1862;
married (first) Esther Collins, and (second)
Hannah Bishop. 2. William. 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) Atlantic Warrington. 4. Martha,
March 3. 1802, died May. 1884; married Tim-
othy Paxson, of Pennsylvania. 5. Thomas,
referred to below. 6. .'\nn., November 30,
1805, died January 10, 1879, unmarried. 7.
Benjamin, February 6, 1808, died March 24,
1832, at Tampico, Me.xico. 8. Clayton, Janu-
ary 19, 1810, died December 26, 1891 ; married
Rachel Collins. 9. Elizabeth, April 6, 1812,
Jied August 3, 1834; married Nathan Hunt
Con row.
( A'H ) Thomas (3), son of William and
.•\nn Lippincott, was born in Cinnaminson
(fiirnierly Chester township), P>urlington
County, New Jersey, February 8, 1804. He
spent his boyhood on the parental farm. His
father's death, in 1813, left the management of
affairs 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 .\bram 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 elli])tic s])rings
that carried a load of farm produce to Phila-
dclpliia. In 1856 he gave up his trade and
turned his attention to raising fruits and ber-
ries with fair success. He ])lanted an orchard
of the Ijcst varieties of fruits when past fifty
yi'ars old. and lived to reaj) the profit of it in
liis iild age. lie was a strong character, hon-
est in his dealings, firm in his convictions of
the truth, and plain of s])cech. 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 February 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
coi-nty of Burlington." He married, in 1831,
ll-.'niiah. daughter of William and Rachel
( I'orden ) Ruddcrow, of Chester, who was
born May 9. 1812. .She was a devoted wife
and mntlier, a member 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.
(\TII) 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. W'illiam inherited his
father's strong constitution antl retentive
memory, but his mother's early training did
much toward shaping his course through life.
He began to teach school at seventeen year'^
of age, and after attaining his majority took
an interest in public affairs. He held office
for a number of years in his townshij), and,
like his father, was fairly successful in farm-
ing and fruit growing. Fie became connected
with the New Jersey state board of agricul-
ture, was instrumental in shipping the agri-
cultural and horticultural products of the state
to several Expositions, 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
lUirlington County Safe Deposit and Trust
Company soon after its organization, and in
i()02 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, ehlest daughter of
the late Hon. Chalkley .\lbertson, of Camden
C()unt\', and, like many other men, owes much
of his success to the gocxl counsel and help of
his wife. Their home, "Gillingham Place,"
near Mt. Laurel, is one of the landmarks of
the neighborhood.
The name Austin is an old Eng-
ACSTIX lish contraction of the Latin
.'\ugustinns, the cognomen of
the family of .Augustus, and meaning origin-
allv, "venerable," "worthy of honor"; and the
familv that bears the name in New Jersey have
a record which fully bears out their right to
the title, from the time that the founder of the
family arrived among the earliest of the set-
tlers down to the pre.sent day.
(T) 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
Ant ram. This is as yet the first Austin record
that has come to Hght. Alay 3, 1689. Francis
bought another fifty acres adjoining his first
lot from Percival Towle, and November 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
carpenter. 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, 1695, 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 accjuisition of land
by buying from Thomas Wilkins, 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 will, 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 Wil-
kins, the preceding day.
In i6i/i Francis .Austin was married in the
Chester monthly meeting to Alary, daughter
of John and Ann Borton, the emigrants, who
bore him ten children, the last one being post-
humous. 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,
Nathan 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 Ann Borton, the emi-
grants, and sibter 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, 1771, John Mott. 6. Esther, married
either John Wright or Isaac Barber. 7. Amos,
(III) Seth, fourth child and second son of
.A.mos and Esther ( Haines) Austin, was boni
in Evesham township, and died in 1822, in
Wellingborough township, Burlington county.
His father, in his will, left him "Five shillings,
he haveing received his full part before the
date hereof." In his own will, written April 2,
181 3, when he was "weak of body," he disposes
merely of his moveable property, which was
inventoried after his death at $1,079,561/4,
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 Naylor, 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. 5. 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 Well-
ingborough township, Burlington county, De-
cember 2, 1766. He married Tabitha, daugh-
ter of Hezekiah and Gertrude (HammeD Gar-
wood : children: I. Samuel, born November
26. 1789; served in the war of 1812. and about
1820 went to Ohio. 2. Hannah, Mav i. 1792;
married W'illiam Fenimore Smith, of Burling-
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ton. 3. Hezekiah. 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, November 25, 1801.
7. Seth, ^lay 17, 1804. 8. David. September
24, 1806. 9. Charles, referred to below. 10.
Esther. July 26, 1814; married Josiah V'ennel.
(\') Charles, ninth child and sixth son of
Cain and Tabitha (Garwood) Austin, was born
at Bridgeborough. Burlington county, June 4,
1810. Me married Ann, born at Rising Sun
village, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. February
9, 1813, and still living (1909), daughter of
Peter and Susanna (Neglee) Dull. They had
ten children, only two of whom are now living:
I. Samuel C. 2. William. 3. Evelyn. 4. Ed-
win. 5. Miriam. 6. Ann Elizabeth. 7. Charles,
now a sergeant of police in Philadelphia, 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.
( \'I ) Eliza, youngest child and sixth daugh-
ter of Charles and .Ann (Dull) Austin, was
born in r'hiladel])hia, 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 Foreign Alissionary Society of the Pres-
byterian Church, at Philadelphia. This jiosi-
fion she is now holding.
(I'or preceding grenerations see preceding: sketcli).
( \' ) Seth Austin, seventh child
AL'STIX and fourth son of Cain and
Tabitha (Garwood ) Au.stin, was
horn .May 17, 1804. He married Martha
( Mathis) MatJiis, daughter of Barzillai and
F.lizabeth (Edwards) Mathis. and the widow
of Samuel, son of Hezekiah Mathis, to whom
she had borne two children: i. Elmira, mar-
ried a Mr. .Sendcrling. and had two daughters.
2. Robert. Her grand|3arents were James Ed-
wards, of Barnegat, and Micajali, son of John
Mathis (or Matthews), the emigrant, and his
wife, .Mice, daughter of Edward .Andrews, the
founder of Tuckerton, and widow of John
Higbee. Iler grandmother was Mercy, daugh-
ter of Joshua and Jane Shreve, of Upper
Springfield, Burlington county. Children of
Seth and .Martha (Mathis) (.Mathis) .Austin
were: i. .Sarah, married George W. William-
son, of Philadelphia, and had children : George
W.. William, Mary, Charles, .Anna, Clara and
Jiihn. 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.
( \'I ) Charles Seth, the only son of Seth
and .Martha (Mathis) ( ALithis) .Austin, lived
in Philadel])hia, and was for twenty-five years
the teller of the I'eople's Bank in that city. He
married Alargaret Roe, daughter of
■and Sarah (Van Home) Brower ; children:
I. Robert Seth, referred to below. 2. William
Putt. 3. Qiarles Seth, Jr. 4. Thomas Jefifer-
son, born July 4, 1855. 5. Martha, married
Frank P. Fisher, of Tacony, Philadelphia, and
has two children : Roy and Linden. 6. Alary
Ellen. 7. Ellen Marcv McClellan. 8. George
B. McClellan.
(\'1I) Robert Seth, eldest child of Charles
■Seth and Margaret Roe (Brower) Austin, was
born in Philadelphia. .August 16. 1849, ^"d 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 connected 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 P)ethlehem to Philadel-
])hia. Peimsylvania. His position here was
that of dispatching clerk. This road subse-
ciuently, 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 coimected
with the raih-oad where he still remains. Mr.
.Austin is a Republican, and is not a meml>er
of an\' church although he attends the Baptist
and Methodist chuiThes. Pie is a member of
the "Order of Spartans," a member of the
Reading railroad veteran employees associa-
tion, employment by the railroad for twenty-
five vears 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 Philadeljihia have
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
543
made it possible for him to secure a number of
prizes given at art exhibitions in the city of
i'liiladelphia and elsewhere, notwithstanding
his responsible position as chief clerk of the
autliting dejjartment of the Reading railroad,
which of course requires most of his time and
attention. Mr. Austin seems to have quite as
nuich ability as a marine artist as a landscape
painter, which is unusual.
Robert Seth Austin married Mary Lawson,
who is now dead. Their children were: i.
George Wise, deceased : married Jennie Carna-
han, and has two children : Mildred and Doro-
thy. 2. Charles Seth, married Mazie Weldon,
and has Charles Weldon, Frank Cody, Bertlia
and Russell. 3. Robert Matthew. 4. Henry
Washington Rihl, now living in Texas. 5.
Margaretta, died at the age of seven vears.
A 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 born 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 1 741. He was commissioned major general
in the expedition against Louisburg in 1745,
by Governor Shirley, of Massachusetts, and
held rank second only to I'epperell. On re-
turning from that expedition he was elected
governor of Connecticut, and served as such
I750"54- 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 medi-
cine ; was the first sheriff of Litchfield county,
1751-71 ; representative in the general assem-
bly, 1764-70: as.sistant 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, 1786-9O: 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 1 1, 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 L'uited States treasury,
1795-1800; 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 \\'olcott,
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 Wolcotts, has not been estab-
lished. The first known ancestor of the New-
Jersey \\'olcotts is Samuel Wolcott ( see for-
waril ).
( 1 ) Samuel Wolcott died at Tinton falls, in
the township of Shrewsbury, Monmouth coun-
ty. New Jersey, about 1693 or 1694. Fie ap-
parently married a Widow Williams who
brought him a stepson, Edward Williams. She
also gave birth by her marriage to Samuel
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.
( III ) Peter, probably son of Nathaniel, and
grandson of Samuel Wolcott, had a son, Henry,
see forward.
(IV) Henry, son of Peter Wolcott, was
born in Shrew.sbury 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.
(V) Benjamin, son of Henry Wolcott, was
born in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, July 18,
1724; died in 1790. He married (first) in
1749, Rachel Wainwright, who died without
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
issue. He married (second) February 27,
1753, Clementine Cook, and among their chil-
dren was Benjamin, see forward.
(\'l ) Benjamin ( 2 ), eldest son of Benjamin
( I I and Clementine (Cook) Wolcott, was
born 1758; married Ann Lewis, and their first
son was Benjamin, see forward.
(VII) Benjamin (3), eldest son of Ben-
jamin (2) and Ann (Lew^is) Wolcott, was
born in Shrew-sbur)% Monmouth count}', New
Jersey, 1789. He married Phebe, daughter of
Jeffrey, and they lived in Eatontown, Mon-
mouth county. New Jersey, where their son
Edmond, see forward, was born.
(\Tn) Edmond, son of Benjamin (3) and
Phebe (Jeffrey) Wolcott, was born in Eaton-
town, Monmouth county. New Jersey, May 14,
1816. He married Sarah Ann, daughter o£
John and Sarah Dangler, and they had a son
\\ illiam Henry, see forward.
(IX) \\'illiam 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
FCatontown, 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 \\'illiam Henry and Martha M. (Hig-
ginson) Wolcott, was born in Eatontowai,
Monmouth county. New Jersey, March 11,
18S0. 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 University 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 Republican Club. He
affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows through membership in Amity Lodge,
No. 166, 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
.\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 Methodist Episcopal church
of Merchantville, New Jersey.
He married, March 18, 1902, Mary Aline,
(laughter of J. Howard and Lydia Kirkbride,
of Camden, New Jersey. Children, born in
r^Ierchantville, New Jersey, as follows: i.
Mary, August 20, 1904. 2. Wilfred Bon-
sieur (2), May 17, 1906.
This family was founded in
C.\MPION 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
horn in Northamptonshire, 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
jirobably 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
Jiuie 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 h'riend, 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
Burlington, and in 1762 his wife presented a
certificate of removal from the Evesham meet-
ing to that of Burlington. In 1766 and 1767,
STATE OF NEW JERSEY,
545
by two purchases, John Campion acquired
from Jacob and WiUiam 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 V'incentown.
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,
Ivichard Campion, born 1733, came to New
Jersey, but the date of his arrival does not
appear. 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, 176S. John Campion's
wife died before him. Children: Joseph,
mentioned below ; Sarah, married, November
23, 1777, Joab, son of Benjamin 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, 1775, 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. V'enicomb 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 affairs, 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 aftliction 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 Holly. 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 March, 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
Alary (\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,
February 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.
After 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 suffering 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 Febaiary 2, 1840. 2. James, June 10,
i8of), 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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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
Caiitield ; died January 23, 1840. 5. Benja-
min Cooper, March 14, 181 5, died February
2, 1898. 6. Elizabeth, March 22, 1817; mar-
ried, Xovember 2, 1840, George Dugdale ;
died Xovember 9, 1844. 7. Rebecca, died aged
two years.
(1\') Joseph Flail, third son of John and
Sarah (liall) 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 apprenticetl 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 extent 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 employment
with John Alillington, civil engineer and ma-
chinist, formerly a professor of mathematics
in the Royal Institute of Great Britain 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 ])arting was his desire to travel and visit
the different jwrts of his native country, and
as I part with him with regret, I voluntarily
and witiiout his retiuest, offer him this testi-
monial of my regard for liim and my appro-
l)alion of his conduct, while he was with me,
tliinking it might jirovc of use to him in any
new connections he may fomi with strangers.
who would be unable to appreciate his merits
before they became ac(|uainted witii 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 Moore & Campion, their factory
and offices being located at 261 South Second
street. For thirty-five years this business was
successfully conducted, and when the pro-
prietors retired it was continued several years
by Mr. Campion's son, in partnership with an-
other untler the firm name of Smith & Cam-
pion. Joseph H. Campion was a Republican
in politics and an abolitionist, but took no
active part in the war of the rebellion. He
became a member of the Union League Club
of Philadelphia 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. Fie married, January 17, 1839, Martha
Reeve, born December 28, 18 16, 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 11, 1842, died February
2, 1881. 3. Harry Clifford, mentioned below.
(\') Harry Cliiiford, third son of Joseph
Hall and Martha (Reeve) Campion, was born
.August 13, 1846, in Philadelphia, died Novem-
ber 15, 1905, in that city. He was educated
at the Friends Central School at Philadelpliia,
and at the age of seventeen years entered the
employ of Joel Bailey & Company, where he
continued six years. As a result of a severe
strain, he was obliged to take a vacation in the
year i8fx) and traveled through the far west,
si)ending 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. Siie,
with an only son, survives him.
(\I) Harry Clififord (2), only son of
Harry Clifford (i) and .\nn Mary (Keen)
Campion, was born Fe]>ruary 13, 1878, in
l'hiladel]ihia, and resides in IVIedia, Delaware
county, Pennsylvania. He married, June 16,
1903, Mable Maria Campion, daughter of Will-
iam H. and Emma Jane (Shepard) Campion.
Children: Ann Louise, born June 5, 1904;
Richard Reeve, May 7, i()o6; John Wynne,
Scpteml)er 30, 1907, died before one year old ;
Emma Jane, March 1, 1909.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
547
(III) Stacy lUicUl, fifth son of Joseph and
Alary (Venicomb) Campion, was born August
17, 1791, in Southampton, died April 16, 1866,
in Camden, New Jersey. He was named for
his father's family physician, a famous prac-
tician residing in Mount Holly. Stacy B.
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 succeeded
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 Mncentown. In 1843 he 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 IMount Holly, Mr. Campion ])ur-
chased the Washington Hotel, sometimes
called the Upper Hotel, and continued there in
business for about 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
Mary ( lUitterworth) Dungan, of New Mills
(now Pemberton). She was a Baptist by
birth, joined the society of Friends after her
marriage and was a prominent member of the
Mount Holly Meeting, being custodian of the
records for many years. She survived her
husband almost twenty years. Children; 1.
Richard, died in infancy. 2. Mary Dungan,
died young. 3. Rebecca \'enicomb, died
young. 4. .-Knn Butterworth, born October 9,
1825; married, November 8, 1849, \\'illiani
Cooper: died February 16, 1883. 5. William,
died young. 6. 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.
(IV) Richard, youngest child of Stacy
Budd and Maria (Diingan) Campion, was
born August 13, 1842, on his father's farm
near Vincentown, 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 period 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
Protective 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
Union League Club; Rittenhouse 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) Grundy,
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.
llif Delaware river. Its descendants are still
numerous in Burlington county in the vicinity
of the first settlement and are settled through
other regions.
( 1 ) Thomas Eves came from London to
Burlington, New Jersey, among the first ar-
rivals of that Quaker settlement upon the
Delaware. That he came for religious free-
dom cannnt l)e doubtco, 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 wdiere ht had taken
up a town lot as part of his one thirty-second
of a proprietary share of (one one-hundredth
|)art ) West Jersey. On September 29, 1680,
lie located by survey a tract of thirty acre.s
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
proi)rigtary 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 town.ship 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. .\jnn, born 1689; married,
November 10, '1709, James Lippincott. 7.
Dorothy, married Jacob Ilewlings.
(II) 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)
December 2, 171 3, Jane Wills, born 1692. died
1716, daughter of John and LI ope (Delefast)
Wills. He married (second) in November,
1721, Mary Shinn, lx)rn 1694, daughter of
George and Mary (Thompson) Shinn, who
survived 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. 1 ).
Salem, Massachusetts
TH( )RXE-THORN Bay Colony, was es-
tablished August 2^,
1030, 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 betterment ; 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 Saugus was established July 5, 1631, 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 u.sual 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-e, and those who wont 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
ai^portioncd him in that town. W'e next find
him in Flushing, Long Island, in 1645, as one
of the eighteen original patentees of the town,
the jiatent having been granted by Governor-
General Keift, October 19, 1645. The list of
grantees w^ere : Thomas .\pplegate. Thomas
Beddord, Laurina Dutch, Robert Field,
Thomas Farrington, Robert Firman, Edward
Hart,' John Hicks, John Lawrence. William
Lawrence. John Marston, Michael Millord,
William I'idgeon. 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 W'illiam
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
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
549
Hubbard bad received a general patent Decem-
ber i(), 1645. In 1647 W'ilHani Tborne was
one of the proprietors of tbe 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
Lockerson (or Ockersonj, of Flushing. Will-
iam Thorne Senior and William Thorne
Junior ( probably at the time a boy in years,
as he only made his markj 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 where
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
])assed 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 Keift
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, i6g6, which reads: "John Thorne of
Flushing, in ye North Riding of Yorkshire"
to Anthony Floyd of ye aforesaid place, of
fifty acres, more or less.
John Thorne married Mary, daughter of
Nicholas and Sarah Parsell or Pearsall or
Purcell. The children of John and Mary
Thorne. named in the order of their birth,
were : I. William, who was sole executor of his
father's will. He subsequently removed to
Nottingham township, Burlington county.
West Jersey, where he had a farm, and when
his building burned in 1725 the Chesterfield
Friends Meeting 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 Friends record they
had eight children. He died near Crosswicks,
New Jersey, in 1742. 2. John (q. v.). 3.
Joseph, of P'lushing, 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
and had a daughter Mary and both mother and
daughter were baptized 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 ) Comwell, 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.
(Ill) 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 in 1698 and we find them in
Chesterfield, Burlington county,- Nevv* Jersey.
in 1700, where he bought one hundred and
eighty-one acres of land, August 26, 1717.
which he sold .Anthony 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
1 7 10 and held the office up to 1749. tie 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 will 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 inark 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,
omittintj those who had died between I7^S and
17^/).
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 Bordentown, 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 .\pril, 1777, at Crosswicks, New Jer-
sey, leaving si.x 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. II. Rebecca,
wlio 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,
Josejjh and Samuel, left descendants to per-
petuate the name of Thorne.
(I\') Jose])h, 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 ])arty being Sarah, daughter of
Thomas and Mary Foulke, natives of England,
who settled in Burlington county. New Jer-
sey. The children of Joseph and Sarah
(Foulke) 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. Hatmah, Sarah and Lucy. 2.
Joseph (2), born fourth month, nineteenth
day, 1727. 3. John (2). third month, fourth
day, 1730, die(l 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. Alary, married, in 1767, Cornelius Hendrick-
son of Monmouth county. New Jersey.
(A) Thomas, second son and third child of
Joseph and Sarah (F'oulke) 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 Falls 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, P.urlington county. New Jersey, as fol-
lows: 1. Benjamin. January 5, 1763. 2. .Ann,
July 4, 1764. 3. \\'illiam 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, 1766. He married Elizabeth, daughter of
Hugh and .Ann Hutchins, who was born De-
ceml)er 29, 1769, died April 15, 1832. The
children of William Biles and Elizabeth
( I hitchins I 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 (jeneral Cicorge Hector Tindale.
3. Thomas B. ( cj. v.). 4. William I'.., Decem-
ber 23, 1796.
(ATI) Thomas B., eldest son and third
child of William Biles and Elizabeth (Hutch-
ins ) Thorn, was born on the homestead farm
at llardwick. New Jersey. .August 15, 1794.
He was a school teacher and was an excellent
])cnman. 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. Alary, married
I'^ank I'eabody, of Elgin, Illinois, and made
her home in that place. 3. Elizabeth, married
.Mr. .Ailing, of Naugatuck, Connecticut. 4.
William H., (q. v.).'
( XllI) William II., third son and youngest
child of Thomas B. and Sarah Thorn, was
educated in the district school of his native
jilace and there learned the rudiments of
knowledge, including what was familiarly
kiiow n as the three R"s., Reading, 'Riting, and
'Rithmatic, but he continued to study at home.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
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while an aj)preiitice to a shoemaker at Had-
dontield, 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 ^ledford 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 F'ellows, 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
Hicksite 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, ]\Iary 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.
Allen'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 I'harmacy, PhilaJelphia,
Pennsylvania, in 1875, ^"'J 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 Compajiy of Moores-
town. New Jersey, and president of the Burl-
ington County Xational Bank of ^ledford.
New Jersey, since i8g8. 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 Minneapolis in June, 1892, when William
McKinley was nominated for president of the
United States, and was chairman of the Re-
publican county committee of Burlington
county. He is a member of the Burlington
County Historical Society of Moorestown.
He departed from the religious faith which lie
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 efifective-
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, Xo.
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
No. 100. of Medford, Xew Jersey, and in the
Order of Knights of Pythias through Medford
Lodge, No. 108. He is a member of Red
Cross Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle,
founded in 1873, and which distributed annu-
ally r.pwards of two hundred and fifty thou-
sand dollars in benefits, and of the Aledford
Lodge, No. 42. Ancient Order of United
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, New Jersey, of which
Mr. Thorn is a member.
Mr. Thorn married, June 22, 1880, Clara T.,
daughter of George and Caroline Wilson
Branin, of Aledford, New Jersey, and their
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
children were born in that place, as follows :
I. Henry Norman, July i8, 1881. attended Alt.
HoJly Military School, was graduated at
Haverford College in 1904; in the employ
of the firm of Harris, Jones and Cadbury
Company, plumbers supplies, Philadelphia,
I'ennsylvania. 2. Helen B., October 12, 1887.
graduated at .St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, New-
Jersey, in iyo6.
The first that is known of the
FOSTER name of Foster was about the
year 1065, A. D., when Sir
Richard Forrester went from Normandy over
to England, accompanied by his brother-in-
law, William the Conqueror, and participated
in the victorious battle of Hastings. The
name was first Forrester, then Forester, then
Foster. 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 partici-
pated in many a sturdy encounter with their
Scottish foes. The name is mentioned in
"Marmion" and the "Lay of the Last Min-
strel." From one of these families in the
seventeenth century appears the name of Reg-
inald Foster. Tiring of the tyrannic rule of
Charles 1, 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 progressive race, almost uni-
versally endowed with an intense nervous
energy : there have been many instances of
high attainments: a bearer of the name has
been, e.x-officio, vice-president of the Repub-
lic (Hon. Lafayette G. h'oster, president pro-
tem, of the senate during Andrew Johnson's
administration) ; another, Hon. John W. Fos-
ter, of Indiana, was ])remicr 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 affairs. The record of Major-C^eneral
John Ci. F"ostcr through the Mexican War and
the war of the Rebellion stamjjcd him as a
soldier without fear and without re|)roach.
Professor I'cll is the reputed and accredited
inventor of the telephone, but before that dis-
tinguished man had ever conceived the plan
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 alTorded 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 Massachusetts,
in 1638, and with his family was on board one
of 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 ciiuntry. The names of his five sons who
came with him from England were: Abraham,
Reginald, William. Isaac and Jacob. One of
the daughters who came with him from Eng-
land married ( first ) a Wood, 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-
rnshire, England, by the first of his three
wives, who became the mother of seven chil-
I'ren. who came with them 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
1635 and settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts,
and she became by this marriage the mother
of fourteen children. She died April 9, 1705.
.Sarah, born in 1620, married, about 1640.
\\ illiam Storey, of Ipswich, and by this mar-
riage had seven children and she died subse-
fiuent to 1668. His brothers in the order of
their birth were: i. Isaac, born in 1630, mar-
ried (first! Mary Jackson, 1658. (secondt
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553
Hannah 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 Boxford ; 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
July 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 Rurbank, 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. 1698. (See Essex deeds, liber
13, page 206.1 The ten children of Abraham
and Lydia ( f'urbank ) I'^oster were born in
Ipswich as follows: I. Ephraim, October 9,
1657, married (first) Hannah Eames 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, 1668, died un-
named, twin of Isaac 5., who died unmarried
February 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
^lary Sherwin. 10. Ruth, who married.
April 16. 1702. Jeremiah Perley, of Boxford.
Abraham Foster, the father of these children,
died in Ipswich. Massachusetts, Januars' 25,
1711.
(Ill) Abraham (2). second son of Abra-
ham ( I ) and Lydia (Burbank) Foster, was
born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, October 16.
1659. He was a soldier in the military serv-
ice of the Colony of Massachusetts "and was
woun^'ed in the public service and is to receive
eight pounds out of the public treasury for
smart money." He resided first in Ipswich
and then removed to Topsfield, where he died
May 2T,. 1741. The three children of Abra-
ham and Mar}- (Burbank) Foster were: I.
-Abraham ( r|. v.). 2. Nathan, May 17, T700,
married Hannah Standish. 3. Daniel. Ajjril
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 5, 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 Priscilla Todd. 2.
Sarah, May 4, 1721, married .A.braham Adams,
who died September 18, 1771. 3. Thomas
((|. 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.
(lied unmarried in 1806. 7. Abigail, baptized
April 3, 1737.
( \') 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, Alehitable, 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, April 19, 1753, published
intention to marry, March 13, 1773, Moses or
Thomas Palmer. 4. Ebenezer, March 24,
1755. 5. Mehitable, March 24, 1760. 6. Dan-
iel (cj. v.). 7. Thomas. March 27. 1766, mar-
ried. April 14, 1787. Lydia Batchelder.
( \ I ) Daniel, fourth son and sixth child o^
Captain Thomas and Mehitable ( Peabody)
Foster, was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts,
March 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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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
He was a prominent town officer in Xewbury-
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 quite 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 Xew-
buryport, June 4, 1762, died there May 15,
1834, the mother of seven children, born in
Rowley and N'ewburyport as follows : i. Na-
thaniel, February 28, 1797, married Fannie B.
Brockway. 2. Daniel, who married Chomy
Fuller. 3. Solomon, who removed to Potts-
ville, Pennsylvania. 4. Jesse (q. v.). 5.
Thomas. 6. Louisa, who died unmarried. 7.
^lillicent. who died unmarried.
(X'H) 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 .\nn 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 .\nn 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 ((|. v.). 3. Ann Eliza. Novem-
ber I, 1821, 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, April 6, 1849, mar-
ried John E. Waters, May 17. 1871, and had
two children, Oliver and Grace Waters, who
live in I'ridgeport, Ohio; Oliver Dobson
Junior, June 9. 1851, died February 22. 1877:
Hannah Dobson, October 7, 1853, died July
26, 1854. 4. Clement Storer, August 18, 1823.
married Rebecca .McCammet.
(X'lH) Thomas (2) second son of Jesse
and .\nn E. (To])i)an 1 Foster, was born in
Portsmouth, New llampshire, July 20, 1819,
died in I'ottsville. Pennsylvania, December 13,
1886. He married. March 15, 1842, .Amanda
M. Ruch, of Sunbury, Penn.sylvania, born Au-
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 follow-s : I.
Thomas Jefferson (q. v.). 2. Solomon, born
December 25, 1844, a resident of Scranton,
Pennsylvania. 3. Mary 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 27, 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 Jefferson, eldest chiUl of
Thomas (2) and Amanda ^L (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 proprietor 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. A trial
of his system proved 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 Te.xt 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' Xational
Bank. Mr. Foster was captain of a company
from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and served
through the entire civil war.
He married (first) Fannie Mellct : children:
I. .Amanda Rook^ who married Stanley P.
.\llen. secretary of the International Corre-
sponilence School at Scranton. 2. Mary
Eliza, who married H. C. Barker, of Scranton.
3. Joel McCammet (<|. v.). 4. Emma Louise,
who resides in Scranton, Pennsylvania. 5.
Jeremiah 1 lugh.who resides in Scranton. Fannie
( .Mellet ) Foster died in Scranton, Xovember
I. 1892, and Mr. Foster married (second)
I'llandina, daughter of David Harrington, and
their son. Thomas Jefferson, was born in .Scran-
ton.
( X ) Joel McCammet, eldest son and third
child of Thomas Jefferson and F"annie (Mellet)
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
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Foster, was born in rottsville, 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,
Penns\'lvania, 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 Brooklyn, New York. He returned to
Scranton in 1894 to take the position of organ-
izer and su])erintendent of the field force of
the International Correspondence School, of
Scranton, of which his father is proprietor,
and 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 Brown's Mills,
Burlington 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 ofhcer. and he was also president of
the Brown's Mills Protective Association. His
church affiliation is with the Presbyterian de-
nomination and his political faith that of the
Republican party. He married, June 14, 1898,
Grace Addie, daughter of James Gilbert and
Addie Mary (Finch) Bailey, of W'averly,
Pennsylvania, and their daughter, Frances
Adelaide, was born 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
acquired 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 capital 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 Vineland on the coast of New Eng-
land and 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
country which then went by the name of Nor-
mandy. They adopted the religion, language
and manners of the con(|uered Franks, and
inspired 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. But 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 Saxons soon reduced
that foe, and Scotland soon followed as a
trophy to the Conqueror. 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.
(T) 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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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
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, 1711.
He left a widow and several children, including
Xathaniel (q. v. ).
(II) Xathaniel. sun of John and Hannah
( I'urrin ) Roe. was born in Drowned Meadows,
Long Island, now Brookhaven, in 1670, and
died there in 1752. He was active in town
aft'airs and met death by drowning in Long
Island sound. He married Hannah Reeves,
born 1678, died 1759, and among their chil-
dren was Xathaniel ( q. v.).
(III) Xathaniel (2), son of Xathaniel (i 1
and Hannah (Reeves) Roe, was born at
Drowned Meadows, Long Island, about 1700.
He enlisted in Captain .-\lexander Smith's regi-
ment of Suffolk county militia for service in
the French and Indian war, April 18, 1758.
He married, about 1730, Elizabeth Philipse
and among their children was William (q. v. ).
(IV) William, son of Nathaniel (2) and
Elizabeth ( Philipse ) Roe, married Maria \'an
Dusen and among their children was Betsey
(q. v.).
(\ ) Betsey, tlaughter of \\ illiam and Maria
(Van Dusen) Roe, married S. Finch.
(\T) William Roe, son of S. and Betsey
(Roe) Finch, married Mary Kirkpatrick.
and among their children was Addie Mary
((|. v.).
I\lll Ad.lic Mary, daughter of William
Roe and Mary ( Kirk])atrick ) Finch, married
James (jilbert Bailey, a grocer in Scranton,
Pennsylvania, and at one time mayor of the
city. They were the parents of one child,
Grace .Addie (q. v.).
(VIII) (jrace .\ddie. only child of James
(Jilbert and .Vddie Mary (Finch) Bailey, was
born in W'averly, 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 patriotic society. Daughters of the
American Revolution, her revolutionary an-
cestor having been Cajitain William Roe. com-
manding a company in Colonel Clinton's regi-
ment. Second New York N'olunteers. She
married. June 14. 1898, Joel McCammet. eldest
son of Thomas Jefferson and Fannie (Mellct )
I'cster, of I'irown's Mills. New Jersey, of the
tenth generation of the Foster family. Their
child, Frances .Adelaide, was born in Cincin-
nati, Oiiio. May 20, 1899, and in 1909 is a
pupil in the I'Viends' Academv at Moorestown.
Xew Jersey.
In the most recent compilation of
BCRR Burr family genealogy the author
of that work, in commenting on the
-Xew Jersey branch of the family at large, says
that he had supposed that "the many families
of the name in Central Xew Jersey were off-
shoots from some one of the three Puritan
branches of Xew 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
Xew Jersey families of his surname, first ap-
pears in the records of the Friends' meeting
house at ^It. Holly, which is a record of the
birth of one John Burr, son of Henry and Eliz-
abeth Burr, under date of May 29, 1691.
Family 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
Xorthampton. 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 maf-
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 (sec ix")st). 2. Joseph, born 1694 (see
post). 3. Elizabeth, born 1696: married Sam-
uel Woolman and became mother of John
Wooliuan, the Ouaker preacher and annalist.
a very remarkable luan in his way, who was a
pioneer in the cause of slavery abolition and
one of the most conscientious of men. 4.
Mary, born 1698; married Jacob Lippincott;
she was a woman so highlv esteemed for her
christian virtues that the I-'riends prepared and
published a memorial of her after her death.
5. Sarah. l)orn 1701 : married Caleb Haines,
of one of the oldest families of Xew jersey.
6. Rebecca, born 1703; married Peter White.
7. Martha, born 1705: married (first) Josiah
Holmes: (second) Timothy Matlack. S." Will-
iaiu. born 1710. 9. Henry, born 1713.
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(II) John, eldest son and child uf Menry
and Elizabeth (Hudson) llurr, was born May
29, 1691, and was a man of consitlerable conse-
qnence 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. Henry,
born 8th mo., 26, 171 5 (see post). 3. John,
born 1st mo., 25, 1718. 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, 1736. 8. Hudson,
born 5th mo., 22, 1745.
(III) 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 Mncentown,
Xew Jersey. He married Sarah Eayre, and
by her had four children: i. Elizabeth, mar-
ried .\braham Hewlings. 2. Henry, born 1769.
3. Thomas. 4. John.
( II ) 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 1 2th month, 1726, Jane, daughter of
John and Anna Abbott, of Nottingham, New
Jersey. They had ten children: i. Henry,
born 5th mo., 12, 1 73 1 (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. Alary,, married Solomon
Ridg^vay. 5. Robert. 6. Jane, married, 1762,
David Ridgway. 7. Rebecca, married, 1771,
James Chapman. 8. Ann, married George
Deacon, g. William. 10. Hannah, married
Richard Eayre.
(Ill) Henry (3), first son and child of
Joseph and Jane (Abbott) Burr, was born at
Mt. Holly, New Jersey, the 12th 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 7th day of .\ugust,
i/jy- Josiah G. Foster, Es(j., 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 .\. 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)
Burr, was born the loth day of ist 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.
I \' ) Charles, son and eighth child of Henry
(4) and Phebe (Williams) 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
Elizabeth Tomlin. Job was the son of Kendal
Cole and Ann, daughter of William Budd and
Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and .\bigail
Stockton, the emigrants. William was the son
of William Budd and Ann Clapgut, the emi-
grants. Kendal was the son of Samuel Cole
and Marv, daughter of Thomas Kendal, the
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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
emigrants. Samuel was the son of Samuel
and Elizabeth Cole, the emigrants. Obadiah
Engle was the son of Joseph Engle and Mary
Borton, referred to above. After the death
of Charles Burr, Mary (Engle) Burr married
( second ) Isaac, son of Isaac and Elizabeth
( -Austin ) Haines, for whose ancestry see
sketch of the Austin family.
(\'I) Samuel Engle, third child and second
son of Charles and Alary (Engle) Burr, was
born in Burlington county, New Jersey, March
20. 1836, and is now living in Bordenti>wn,
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-
veloped a business of mammoth proportions,
constituting in its several branches the most
extensive and important enterprise in that sec-
tion of Burlington 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 Mr.
Burr started in 1868. For five years he was
the sj)ccial agent of the Franklin Fire Insur-
ance Com])any, with the power of appointing
all other agents in Xew Jersey, three years in
Trenton as secretary of the Standard Insur-
ance Company, of Trenton, New Jersey. This
comjiany was about to wind up its business
when he took charge ; he built up its business
and had it ])aying dividends inside of one year.
In 1879 he built the Burr block in Borden-
town. He is the president of the Bordentown
board of health and of the water board. He
has been a member of the common council,
and a number of years ago was the canilidate
of the assembly. in Xovembcr, 1908, with
several other prominent citizens, Mr. Burr
organized the First National Bank, of Borden-
town, which in six weeks had $50,000.00 on
deposit. In 1893 Mr. 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
Bordentown. After 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.
Burr is a Baptist and a member of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and of the
Ancient Order of United Workmen, 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, who is referred to below. January 3,
1895. Samuel Engle Burr married (second)
Elizabeth Coward, daughter of John Wesley,
(lied November, 1904. and Anna (Coward)
Thompson, and granddaughter of Allen Thomp-
son, a ]\Iethodist minister who died aged one
hundred years, 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.
.Anna Thompson, born March 12, 1900.
(\ ID Charles Engle, the only child of
.Samuel Engle and Sarah E. (Richardson)
Burr, was born in Bordentown, Burlington
county. New Jersey, September 4, 1868. For
his early education he was sent to the Borden-
town Alilitary Institute, after which he sjient
one year in the Alodel school at Trenton, and
then entered the Boston School of Technology-,
wdiich last institution he was, however, obliged
Xo leave after only a short stay, owing to ill
health. This was in i8S8, 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. I'lurr is a director in the First National
P.ank. of Bordentown ; secretary of the P.orden-
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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' Volunteer Relief Association.
He organized the Yapwes Boat Club and from
its inception has been its secretary and treas-
urer. ^Ir. 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 ^loriah Lodge.
Xo. 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 Iridepend-
ent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 16; of the
Knights of Pythias, No. 33 ; 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 I'urr married Helen A., daughter of
Captain Robert and Jane I 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 ist 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 Miriam Williams, of
Shrewsbury, New Jersey; children: i. Ed-
i mund W., born 2d mo., i, 1792. 2. Elizabeth,
5th mo., 18, 1793; married Joshua Satter-
thwaite, of Crosswicks, New Jersey. 3. Mir-
iam, nth mo., 21, 1794; married Elwood E.
Smith. 4. Henry, loth mo., 15, 1796. 5.
George W., 9th mo., 15, 1798. 6. William W.,
I 2d mo., 3, 1800. 7. Tyle W., 3d mo., 15, 1802.
I 8. Charles, 7th mo., 21, 1804 (see post). 9.
Hudson S., 7th mo., 2, 1806.
( \' ) Charles, son and eighth child of Henry
(3) and Phebe (Williams) Burr, was born in
i Mount 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 ap-
pear that he took an active part in public
aiTairs. 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 Engle, of Easton, New Jersey. He had
eight children, one by his first and seven by
his second wife : i. Alfred 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.
\\'illiam W'., November 24, 1838. 7. Charles
()., October 24, 1843. 8. Augustus Walter,
June 5, 1847.
(\H) 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 1862 throughout the
war period and afterward until 1869, when he
sold out his intrest and went into a proprietary
medicine business at Aloorestown, 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 Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. 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 party has frec|uently been elected to
service in public offices, such as constable,
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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
tiiwiiship 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 hnproved Order of Red Men, the
Knights of the Golden Eagle and in religious
])reference inclines strongly to the teachings
of the Society of Friends.
On December 31, 1862, .Mr. llurr married
Sarah S.. daughter of David and Mary (Eng-
lish) Heaton. of Burlington, and by whom he
has had seven children: i. William H., born
June 22, 1864; died Augu.st 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, 1876. 6. 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 sketciies).
(VI) Alfred Henry, only child of
BIRR Charles and Lucy Ann (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 remained for six years, in 1849 h*^ 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. liurr has large real estate
interests both in I'.urlington 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
]jrincipal 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 and 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
Fellows, of Philadelphia, in politics he is a
Republican, and in religion is a member of the
Society of Friends, December 26, 1850, .\lfred
Henry Burr married Elizabeth, born Decem-
lier 25, 1826, daughter of John and Julia Hart-
man, of Philaflelphia, who died August 14,
1904. Their children were: i. Lord Hartman,
referred to below. 2. .\lfred 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 \'assar College, having won two
scholarships.
(\ II) Lord Hartman, elder son of Alfred
Henry and Elizabeth (Hartman) Burr, was
born in Moorestown, July 25, 1852, anil 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. Burr is a Republican and in religion is a
communicant of the Protestant Episcopal
church. Lord Hartman Burr married (first)
Mary Hartman, who bore him one child, Lord
Hartman, Jr., who won the University of
Pennsylvania's scholarship to the W^est Indies,
Mr. Burr married (second) , and by
this marriage he has had three children : Alfred,
Elizabeth "and Jeannette, twins.
"I Joseph l^ancoast, son of
PANCO.\ST John and Elizabeth Pancoast
of -Ashen, fieve miles from
Northampton Town, in Northamijton Shire,
England, born 1672 the 27th of eighth month
called October; and in the year 1680, October
4th came into .America in the ship 'Paradise,'
W'illiani Evelyn, master; and I settled in West
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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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
5t>i
of Mesopotamia, Ohio, and tells us the origin
of the Pancoast family in this country.
(I) 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
accompanied 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 Agreements," and
owned [jroprietary 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, 16(34. The name of
his 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. Ann. 3.
William, referred to below. 4. Joseph, re-
ferred to above in the extract, who married
Thomasin Scattergood. 5. Elizabeth, married
Joseph Bacon. 6. Sarah, married Edward
Boulton. 7. Hannah. 8. Susanna, married
Ralph Cowgill.
(II) William, son of John and Elizabeth
Pancoast, was born in England, and accom-
panied his father to this country. He was
probably the eldest of all of his children and
was the sole executor of his father's will. He
settled near his father in Mansfield township,
Burlington 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
Edward 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.
( III ) Edward, son of William and Hannah
(Scattergood) Pancoast, was born in ^lans-
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,
anfl became one of the most influential mem-
bers of the Salem monthly meeting. 2. Will-
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, referretl to below.
(\') Henry, son of William {2) and Sarah
(Lishman) Pancoast, was born in Salem
county, New Jersey, February 2, 1792, died
there September 9, 1835. He married Han-
nah Ivins Hackney, born in 1796, died April
18, 1882. Their children were: i. Mary, born
October 10, 1818. 2. Caroline, January 27,
1821. 3. Rebecca Hackney, March 16, 1822.
4. William Hackney, September 10, 1824. 5.
Henry Jr., June 8, 1828. 6. Barzillai B., May
23, 183 1. 7. Edward Hackney, referred to
below.
(\T) 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, New 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 which 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
New Jersey \'olunteers, 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. Pan-
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 educatii)n 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 Masons, of Burlington, of which
he is past high priest ; Helena Commandery,
No. 3, Knights Templar, of Burlington, of
which 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^,, Pa-
triotic Order Sons of America, of I^almyra :
Cinnaminson Lodge, No. 201, Inde])endent
Order of Odd Fellows, of Palmyra ; Knights
of the Golden Eagle, No. 22, of Palmyra ; a
life member of the Fire Association of River-
ton ; a member of William P. Hatch Post, No.
37, 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
Ahab 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-
toti, referred to below. 4. .A.nnie Brown, born
•March 4, i86i, died September 13, 1898; mar-
ried Alfred J. Briggs, and had one child,
Alfred Stacy Briggs, who married and had a
son Alfred Briggs. 5. Edward, born June g.
1862, died .August 15, 1863.
(VH) Stacy Stratton, third child and only
son of I'.dward Hackney and Rebecca A.
(Bishop) Pancoast, was born in Chester t(nvn-
shi]). Burlington county, March 5, i860, and
is now living at Delanco, New Jersey. He
was educated in the school.s of Riverton, in the
Farnham ]ireparatory school at Beverly, New
Jer.scy, and at the Crittenden Commercial Col-
lege in Philadelphia, 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 W^est Virginia, 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 Re])ublican, and a member
of the Masonic order, of Merchantville Lodge,
No. 33, of the Boudinot Royal Arch 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. ;^^, Patriotic Order Sons of .AmeVica, of
Delanco, New Jersey.
In November, 1884, Stacy S. Pancoast mar-
ried Mabel D., daughter of Henry D. and Ala-
tilda AL Games, of Camden, New Jersey.
Child, Harry G., born August 10, 1885. died
October is. 1885.
(For ancestry see preceding sketch).
Caleb C. Pancoast is a great-
P.\N COAST 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
Calcl), whom tradition assigns to these parents.
(1\') Caleb C. Pancoast was born in Mul-
lica II ill, 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.
(\') Nathan Dunn, son of Caleb C. and
Deborah Pancoast, was born in Mullica Hill,
(rloucester county, December 10, 1804, died in
i8f)8. After being educated in the town
schools he taught school for two winters at
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Mullica Hill and for some time followed farm-
ing. In 1838 lie removed to Alapleshade,
liiirlington 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
Moft'att, born at Carpenter's Landing, Glou-
cester county, in 181 1 or 181 2, 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. (ieorge 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. IJorton, of
Moorestown.
(\ I) Josiah Dunn, eldest child of Nathan
Dunn and Sarah Ann (Mof?att) 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 \'ale, where he spent the remainder
of his life. He was a Republican, and was at
one time supervisor of roafls. 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 Ben-
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, Arthur, Norwood H.,
Russell Thorn and Norman Lester ; died in
infancy. 4. Laura G., born February 12,
1868, married ^^'alter Holmes, a farmer near
Moorestown. and has two children: Samuel
G. and William Bartram. 5. Anna T.. born
.\pril 3, 1870, married Clayton Lippincott An-
drews, of Aloorestown, and has three children :
Thomas Clayton, Norwood Henry and Ed-
ward Benajah.
(VH) Henry Norwood, eldest child of
Josiah Dunn and Sarah Middleton (Thorn)
Pancoast, was born in Alapleshade, 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 w'here 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
Aloorestown. which he carried on for three
years and then for four years took charge of
his father's farm. In 1897 l""^ 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
Brothers, who had been established there since
1892. L'ntil December, 1904, the firm con-
tinued 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 present 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 Pancoast 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 August, 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.
(VL) Thomas Mofifatt, second child and son
of Nathan Dunn and Sarah Ann (Alofiatt)
Pancoast, was born at Alullica Hill, Gloucester
county, September 5, 1834, and is now living
at Aloorestown, Burlington county. New Jer-
sey. He was educated in the town schools of
Alullica Hill and in Samuel Aaronson'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 u]) this work at
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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
Moorestown for his father until his marriage
antl 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 postmaster uiKk-r his successor for
three years longer. In n^oj he retired from
active life and moved into the village of
iMoorestown. where he now lives. Mr. Pan-
coast is a Republican and a member of the
Society of Friends.
in i860 Thomas Aloffatt Pancoast married
( first ) Sarah W., daughter of West Jessup, of
Mantua, Gloucester county, who died in 1873.
In i88f) he married (second) Harriet S.,
daughter of (ieorge S. Hulme, of Mt. Holly.
In igoj he married (third) Mary Griscom
Lippincott, widow of Albert Lippincott, and
daughter of David Griscom, who was president
of the Moorestown Bank at the time of his
death. Thomas Moffat Pancoast has no chil-
dren.
Of the founder of the
TOMLIXSOX Tomlinson family of West
Jersey it has been said,
"There are doubtless very many interesting
incidents, which, by patient research among
the musty records still extant could be brought
to light, and would show much of the history
of his tinie^ in connection with the progress
of 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 fir.st settlements, in the depths of the
wilderness, surrounded only by the aborig-
ines, wdiere nothing but industry and persever-
ance could procure him a farm. In connection
with these difficulties he became proficient in
legal knowledge. He, therefore, attracted tin"
attention of the community, and was called
to fill the responsible positions before named.
These things stam]) him as a man whose ca-
reer through life is worth}- of being traced and
recorded."
( 1 ) Joseph Tfjmlinson, the person above re-
ferred to. coming to West Jersey from the city
of London, was a member of the Horsley-
down Meeting of [•'riends, on the Surrey side
of the river Thames, which even at that day
had become a part of the great metropolis, by
means of the several bridges already erected.
He appears to have been under the patronage
of Anthony, an uncle of the celebrated West
Tcrsey 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 Xewton 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 play by the excellent tutelage under
which he found himself. In 1686 he agreed
with his master to build him a house for a
sjiecified sum and to furnish all the materials
e.vcept the nails. He was also pronably one
of those who built the Friends Aleeting house
in Xewton, the first building of its kind in
Cdoucester 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 of 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 Gravelly run on the north to Holly run
or Sharp's branch on the south. All of this
he retained and willed after his death to his
sons. His abode was surrounded by miles
of unbroken 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 s]xit he gave up to the reading
and studying of law, and in 1695 he was made
sherift", and the year following became the
King's attorney or as we should call him to-
da> the ])rovincial prosecutor. He has the
honor of being the first attorney of record ir
Gloucester county. In 1700 he was reaji-
pointed to the same jiosition, and apparently
he held it continuously until 1710. August 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 (laughters following the fortunes
of their husbands 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 name. His children named in his will
are: i. E])hraim, married (first) 1727, Sarah
Gmhit, and (second) Gatliariiu- Kidgway. 2.
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Joseph, married (first) 1734, Lydia Wade, and
(second) 1738, Catharine Fairlamb, of Ches-
ter, Pennsylvania. 3. ]\Iargaret, married, I73ti,
Edward Borton. 4. Elizabeth, married, 1736,
Bartholomew 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. William,
married, 1731, Rebecca Wills.
(II) John, son of Joseph and Elizabeth
Tomlinson, was born in Gloucester township,
(jloucester county, West Jersey, September 28,
i6gg: died there in 1755. In accordance with
his father's will settled on three hundred acres
higiier up on Gravelly run where he spent his
life. In his will, written January 2, 1755, and
proven March 21 following he leaves this
plantation to his wife for life or widowhood
anil 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 two daughters. His
executors were his wife his brother, Joseph,
and his son, Isaac. He married, in 1736, Mary
Fairlamb, of Chester county, Pennsylvania,
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.
(HI) Isaac, eldest child and only son of
John and Mary (Fairlamb) Tomlinson, was
born in Gloucester township, Gloucester county,
.\ugust 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. His 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 Sheverand
their children were: i. Joshua. 2. Elizabeth,
married William Clark. 3. .\nne, married
Jeremiah Haines. 4. Isaac, Jr. 5. Julin. who
is referred to below.
( IV) John (2), youngest child of Isaac and
Elizabeth (Shever) Tomlinson, was born in
Gloucester township, Gloucester county, April
15, 1781 ; died in Northampton township, Bur-
lington comity. February 25, 1857. John Tom-
linscjn and his wife. Elizabeth had six children :
1. Isaac horn July 4, 1812: mentioned below.
2. John H., February 3, 1815; died May 7,
1859. 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. 183 1 ; died
September 5, 1835.
(\') Isaac (2), eldest son of John (2) and
Elizabeth Tomlinson, was born in Northamp-
ton township, Burlington county. New Jerse}',
July 4, 1812 : died in Cdoucester 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 April 22, 1840;
married George H. Pancoast. 3. William H.,
died in infancy. 4. Thomas Chalkley, died in
infancy.
( \ I ) Samuel Lippincott. 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,
September 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. For
his early education he was sent to the select
schools of Mt. Holly and afterwards finished
his education at the private school of William
Collom 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, Penn-
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. where he went into partnership 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 capacity he is still serving. For fif-
teen vears ^Ir. Tomlinson has been treasurer
of the .Mt. Holly Shoe Com])any. 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 .\ccepted
Masons since 1863, first of Solomon Chapter,
No. 191, Royal .-Xrch 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 ]\lt. Holly Lodge, No. 19, Inde-
Ijendent Order of Odd Fellows, of Alt. Holly.
I-\l)ruary 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 diiiferent times. He is also a
charter member of Mt. Holly Lodge, No. 848,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He
was a member of Spring Garden 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 townshi]), Burlington county, New Jersey,
September 23, 1818; died April 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 l-'ranklin Haines. He
later formed a partnership with Chalkley Wills
and engaged in general contracting and build-
ing. He later formed a partnership with
George IJ. Hilliard: they conducted an exten-
sive business and were among the leading con-
tractors in the city, building the first 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 Alt.
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
II.. 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 Philadelijhia in
the hardware manufacturing, remaining for
three and a half years: the following eighteen
years he engaged in farming. On March 3.
1002, lie entered the L'nion National Bank at
Mt. Holly as clerk and is now (1909) serving
in the ca]iacity of receiving teller : he married,
June 24, 18S4, May 11. Garrison, of .Mt. Holly,
daughter of Hedge and .\deline (Haines)
(larrison : childreti : i. Marion G., born -Au-
gust 31. 1885, married Chester .Appleton. of
Alt. I lolly, and has one child. Elizabeth; ii.
I'dna. born December i, 1889, a graduate of
the Trenton Normal School; iii. Dorothea,
born July 19, 1902. 3. William B., mentioned
below.
(\ I) William Ij., youngest son and child
of Joshua and Sarah E. (Hutchins) Tomlin-
son, was born in New Aork City, December 8,
1858. He was educated in the select schools
of Alt. 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 Alay 20.
1880, a physician, of Philadelphia; married
Grace Alaxwell.. and has one child, \\ illiam B.
2. Jay ]!., born January 6. 1893; an attendant
of Alt. Holly high school.
The name Bard, Barde and Baird
B.AIRD appears 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 Genealogy" AlacForbes treats it as a
joke that the Bairds claim an Anglo-Saxon
origin, his contention being that their origin
is Celtic. In "Irish Pedigrees" of which work
Dr. O'Hart is the author, he says: Owen Alac
an I'haird, of Monycassen, was descended
irom Eocha, son of Sodhan. Alac an Bhaird
was anglicized Alacward and modernized
Ward. The descendants of Owen Alac an
Bhaird rendered the name O'Bairdam, and
that in turn has been anglicized Baird, Bard,
Barde, Harden, Bardin, P>arten, Bartin, Berdan,
Purdon, A'erdon and Warden. In 1066 Seigneur
de Barde was among the followers of William
the Con(|ucror. In 1178 Henry de Barde was
a witness to a charter of lands made by King
William, the Lion, of Scotland. In 1 191 Cgone
di I'ard. of the valley of d'Aosta, made alle-
giance to Francis I., of Savoy. He owned a
castle on Bard Rock, a natural defence, and
after bravely defending the place was finally
driven out. lie had two sons, Alarco and
Aymone. 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 William, the Lion, and it is said that a
gentleman by the name of Baird saved William
the Lion from a wild beast, and he received
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for this deed large tracts of land and coat-of-
arms, viz : A boar passant, with the motto
"Dominus 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 .\nthony Lacy on the English border.
Jordan Baird was a constant companion with
the brave William Wallace from 1297 to 1305.
General Sir David Baird was a contemporary
of Captain David Baird, and held command
under 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," Captain James Peacock, master, and
landed at Staten Island in New York harbour,
about December 19, 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,
Topenemus, and on Millstone brook in Elast
Jer.sey and other places. It is said that John
Baircl 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 Baird, son of Zebulon, and
grandson of John Baircl, 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
Friends, 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 I'riends meeting with
him. Tradition has the story of his courtship
antl marriage as follows : "One day he met
in the woods Alary 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 ef[uals that
of the courtship of John Alden and Priscilla
Mullins. The four children of John and Mary
(Hall) Baird were born as follows, and it is
quite 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 February 5, 1747, probated July 5, 1749,
he names his sons, .Andrew and Zebulon ; his
wife, .\vis, and Peter Bowne, executors 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. .A.t 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 Anna, daughter
of Mathew Locke, whose relative, Colonel
Francis Li:>cke. commanded three hundred
militia men from LSurke, Lincoln and Rowan
counties, North Carolina, and gained the vic-
tory at Ramsoor's .Mills. May 29, 1780, of
Lieutenant George Locke, killed in battle, Sep-
tember 26, 1780. The descendants of Andrew
and Anna (Locke) Baird are numerous
throughout the south. Zebulon also married
and among his descendants was Zebulon Baird
\'ance (1830-1894), governor of North Caro-
lina, and United 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 Topenemus, New Jersey.
John Baird, the immigrant, was buried at
Topenemus, New Jersey, and on his tombstone
is the following inscription:
• JOHN H.\IKU
who came from Scotland
ill isih year of his age. A. D. 1683
tiled April . 175.5
aged about flU .vtar."!, and
of an Iionest chai'acler."
Mary Baird was admitted to the Lord's table
at the White Hill meeting house in 1736.
(11) David, second son of John and Mary
( Hall ) ISaird, of Topenemus, was born Octo-
ber 19, 1 7 10, was married, October 27, 1744,
to Sarah Compton, born April 18, 1716; died
May I. 1810. David Baird died June 20, 1801.
By this marriage there were born four children
in Topenemus 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, September 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. I\lary (Baird) Dey died 1836. 3. John,
October 27, 1750; married (first) Phebe Ely,
who died June 17, 1817, and (second) Eliza-
beth Edwards. 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
private 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. He 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
the protection of Navesink Highlands. He
also served with General Dickerson's forces
during the British march 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 B., Joseph W., Harvey, John, Isaac,
George A., Mary, Sarah, Lucy, Phoebe, Eliza-
beth and William. Rebecca (Ely) Baird. the
grandmother of these children, died January
(i, 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,
1 88 1, 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 C>hio. 3. John, March 19, 1784. 4.
Jacob, December 19. 1785: died .A]3ril 8, 1822.
5. Lydia, February 8, 1788: married William
Johnson, and ha(i four children. 6. Phebe,
November 14, 1790: married David Ferine,
liad twelve children; she died December 17,
1855. Lydia (Tojjscott) (Gaston) Baird, the
mother of these six children, died I'ebruary 5.
1701. aged thirty-si.x years, and Captain David
Baird married (third) Mary, daughter of
Lieutenant Thomas and Elizabeth (X'aiighn)
Edwards. November 23, 1795. and by her he
had elevOn children born as follows: i. David.
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F"ebriiary 22. 1797: married .Viny Hendrickson,
and removed to Indiana. 2. Rei, May 16,
1798; held the title of general; married Sarah
Clayton, and had six children ; he died Sep-
tember 7, 1835. 3. Elizabeth. March 2. 1800;
married Peter W'yckoff. and had nine children ;
he died December 4, 1895. 4- Thomas (q. 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
Xovember 26, 1883. 7. Joseph, July 4, 1807;
died May 5, 1814. 8. James, June 3, 1810;
married Rebecca F., daughter of Richard and
Amy Ely, of Black's Mills; he lived on the
Baird homestead or Millstone brook, west of
Fine 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, September 7, 1812: mar-
ried Elias Riggs, and had four children. 10.
Eleanor, December 13, 1815; married George
W. Sutphen, and had six children, n. 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 Ca]3tain David Baird are eighteen
children, over ninety-four grandchildren, and
more than one hundred and forty-nine great-
grandchildren.
(I\') Thomas, hfth son and eleventh child
of Captain David ( 2 ) Baird, and third son and
fourth child of Cajjtain David and Marv ( 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 re])Uted 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)
Bilyeu. 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 died 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 F'. ( P>ilyeu ) Baird, was born in Mana-
lapan, Millstone township, Monmouth county,
.Vew Jersey, in 1829. He had the advantages
of excellent school privileges, and was a pupil
first in the primary district school, and then the
I'reehold .Academy, where he was graduated,
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 the 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
years, and 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
Reiniblican, 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 Freehold, 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 \'an Dorn.
6. David ( q. v.). 7. John H., was brought up
to the business of fruit-growing ; married Jean,
daughter of Judge William T. Hoflrman, of
Englishtown, New Jersey ; removed to Fort
\'alley, Georgia, as superintendent of Hale's
Fruit Plantation. Their only child is .\nn
Hoffman.
( \T ) David (4), sixth child and fourth son of
David (3) and Mary Elizabeth (Pullen) Baird,
was born in Manalapan, Monmouth coimty.
New Jersev, February 16, 1869. He attended
the public schools, Freehold Institute and Belle-
vue Hospital Medical College, connected with
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
the \'e\v York L'niversity, 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 medicine, and
in 1892 located at Florence, New Jersey, where
he liecanie 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 frequent 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 liordentown. New Jersey,
and worked his way to the Mount Aloriah
Royal Arch Chapter ; Ivanhoe Commandery,
Knights Templar, No. 11; Lu Lu Temple,
Mystic Shrine. He also affiliated with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows as a mem-
ber of Burlington Lodge, No. 22; with the
Improved Order of Red Men through the
Florence (New Jersey) Tribe; Knights of the
(jolden Eagle through Florence ( New Jersey )
Sub-Castle, and Independent 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, 1900.
Lydia, daughter of John and Mary Jane
( Smith ) Sjjotts, of Florence, New Jersey, and
their cliildren were twins, John Everett and
David Emerson, born in Florence, New Jersey,
T'"cbruary 10, 1907. Dr. Baird has a beautiful
home and enjoys an excellent practice in Flor-
ence, New Jersey, where ho is one of the lead-
ing citizens and the promoter or advocate of
all p(ilitical, social, civic and sanitary reforms.
Dr. Reiley, of Atlantic City, New
RI-.ILIA' Jersey, descends along paternal
and maternal lines from forbears
that MTvi'd in tiie revoluti'in and from men
who bore their full share in the early and sub-
sequent (levelo])mcnt of a state. William
Reiley. who was killed at the battle of the
Brandywine, was a brother of Dennis Reiley,
from whom Edward Anderson Reiley de-
scends. Ensign John .Anderson of the "King's
.Army," and subsequently a captain in W'asii-
ington's army, was his great-great-grandfather.
Tiirougji 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
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where John
Reiley. great-grandfather of Edward A.,
was high sheriif. 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 Phillipsburg, W'arren county, and
in a measure retrieved his fallen fortunes. He
was an uncompromising Whig and was the
only man in his voting district to record a vote
against (ieneral 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 .\rndt, daughter of John Bernhardt .\rndt,
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 different parts of the country, some
of them, however, are found in and around
l'hilli]isburg. New Jersey, where they are en-
gaged in business and professions of various
kinds.
Dr. James Reiley, son of John and Elizabeth
( .Arndt ) Reiley, was born at Durham, P.ucks
county, Pennsylvania, May 27, 1830, and died
during the month of March, 1872, at Succa-
sunna. New Jersey. He was a graduate of
Cnion College at Schenectady, New York, and
prepared for the practice of medicine at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons at New
\'iirk 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 LTnjon army, .August
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4, 1862. and was appointed surgeon of the
Twenty-fifth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers,
serving with that regiment until January 20,
18(13, when he was honorably discharged. He
re-enlisted July 15. 1863, and became surgeon
of the Thirty-third New Jersey Volunteer In-
fantry, Twentieth Army Corps, General
deary'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, 1865, 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, Itucks county, Pennsyl-
vania. November 13, 1832, died ^larch 12, 1897,
at .Atlantic City, New Jersey. She was a
daughter of John H. Anderson. To them were
born three children: I. Dr. Edward Ander-
son, see forward. 2. Mary Logan, born April
23, 1858. 3. James Mol-rison, April 2, i860;
married, December 14, 1880, Elizabeth Gove,
daughter of Frank \V. 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 Mrs.
Reiley have two sons, Frederick A. and Ed-
ward Morris Reiley. James AI. is by trade
an expert machinist. He resides in .\tlantic
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
public schools of his native town and prepared
himself for college. In 1873 ''^ 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 practitioner. Evidences of the high
standing hehas attained is found in the pres-
entation to him in June, 1908, 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 the 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, Alartha 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, wdio 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 —
Fleming. Esther Fleming, daughter of Sam-
uel and Esther, married Thomas Lowrey, lieu-
tenant-colonel and afterw^ard colonel of the
Third Hunterdon County Regiment, Conti-
nental army. William 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, Mary Martha Alexander,
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married John H. .\nderson, grandfather of
Dr. Edward A. Reiley. The Andersons are
foinid at a very early date in Connecticut,
from there they passed over to Long Island,
then settled at Alaidenhead, New Jersey, now
Lawrenceville, and from there going to Hunter-
don county, New Jersey. John Anderson held
an ensign's commission in the English army
prior to the revolution. This commission is
still ]5reserved 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. Cap-
tain John married Anna \'an Kirk. Joshua
Anderson, son of Captain John and Anna
( \ an Kirk) Anderson, married Elizabeth
lloiipnck. a daughter of Cornelius Hoppock,
a cajitain 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 memljership in
any of the |)atri()tic societies that base mem-
bership upnn colonial or revolutionary ances-
tors.
The science of prognostication as
S.MLl'.R existing in seventh sons of sev-
enth sons has been a])]5arent in
various sooth-sayers who use this accident of
birth for business purposes. These luckv in-
dividuals, having judgment and discernment
beyond their fellows, have generally carried
their extraordinary gifts into questionable busi-
ness methods. Others into gold, and made good
use of both the gift and the gold for those wise
enough to follow the financial paths pointed
out.
( I ) Samuel .Sailer was the seventh son of
his father and .Vim, his wife, and was bom in
(Gloucester county. New Jersey, about 1765-70.
Tliey had at least seven sons and a number of
daughters. Their seventh son was Joseph,
sec forward. The Sailers were of German
origin and came with the early settlers of West
New Jersey who settled in Salem and Glou-
cester comity, on the banks of the I^elaware
river. .Ann, widow of .Samuel .Sailer, lived
to be over one lumdred years of age.
(H) Joseph, seventh son of Samuel and
Aim 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 Woodbury Constitution; he
went to Fhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, where he
became interested in journalism and finance
and became editor and owner of the Philadel-
phia Tiiins and still later was associated with
(ieorge 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 Lt'rffycr was acknowl-
edged an oracle in the world of finance. He
married lYiscilla Sparks, daughter of Isaac D.
and Ann (Sparks) Doughten, who was born
at Timber Creek, New Jersey, in 1809. She
was of Scotch-Iri.sh descent. Joseph and Pris-
cilla Sparks (Doughten) Sailer had seven chil-
dren born in Woodbury, New Jersey, and in
r'hila(lel]ihia, P'ennsylvania, as follows: I.
Louise, married Daniel Malsecd and had five
children. 2. Randolph, bom in Woodbury,
New Jersey, May 24, 1833; graduated at the
University of Pennsylvania, A. R. 1857, A. M.
i860: studied at the I'nion Theological Semi-
nary, New York City. 1857-59: was an agent
of the .American Sunday School I'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
Wilson H. Pile, M. D., and they had one child.
Thomas Henry Powers. 3. Morris C, mar-
ried Alary Lee, and had two children. He died
srmn after the birth of his second child. 4.
.'>arah Ann, never married. 5. John, see for-
wanl. (1. Isaac Doughten. 7. Frank.
(Ill) John, third son and fifth child of
loseph and F'riscilla S])arks (Dougliten)
.Sailer, was born in Philadeli)hia, Pennsylvania,
.September 6, 1840. He was educated in the
public schools of Philadel])hia, became con-
nected with I'cnnsylvania National Guard as
a member of the Keystone P)attery, Captain
Hastings, and in 1862 the battery was muster-
ed into the Cnitcd States \'olunteer .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, ser\-ing as
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second lieutenant of the battery under General
Meade in several engagements in Virginia, and
he received promotion to staff duty as assistant
adjutant general on the staff of General 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 National Bank, the Franklin Fire
Insurance Company, the Academy of Music,
of Philadelphia. He has given his services as
president 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 committee 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 L^nion 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 Philadel-
phia, and the ]\Iarion 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 L'nited States. He has
served on the staff of Governor Stewart as
lieutenant colonel. His inherited religious
faith as represented by the Presbyterian 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 was 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 Strawbridge ; 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.,
1 891. He was resident physician Philadelphia
Hospital, 1891-92, and after 1892 a general
practitioner in Philadelpiiia. He was made a
member of the Philadelphia County Medical
Association. 2. Anna, born 1874 ; married
Albion G. Pennington, a banker of Philadel-
phia, and they have no children. 3. Emily
\Voodward, born 1877: unmarried. 4. John
Alorris, bom 1886; he is in the banking busi-
ness with his father ; unmarried.
COWPERTHWAIT
The 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.
( 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 1. 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 I., May 20,
1868: married, in 1888, William B. Pearson.
(III) Charles Chapman, third child and
second son of John Wardell and Matilda I.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
(Simons) Cowperthwait, was born in Alount
Holly, New Jersey, November i, 1864, and is
now living in Mount Holly. For his early
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 ])ostmaster 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 popular 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 he was
elected as a member of the town committee,
and in 1896 was re-elected to the same position,
while for si.x years he has also been the treas-
urer of the township. He is a stockholder in
the L'nion National Bank, 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
Lnited Workmen. Charles Chapman Cowper-
thwait married Lillian, daughter of John and
Margaret Goldy, of Mount Holly, New Jersey.
The various Quaker Atkin-
.^TKINSON sons of West Jersey have
s])rung from two emigrants,
both iif them men of prominence and im-
])i>rtancc in tlieir day and in the foundation
laying of the prosj)erous colonies with which
they became identified.
(I) John .Atkinson, founder of the line at
present under consideration, was a York.shire-
man who lived for many years at Newby, but
about 1659 removed to Thruscross in the same
county, lie was among the earliest of the
converts to the tenets of Cjeorge Fox in York-
shire, and he had at least two sons, both of
whom came to Pennsylvania: i. John, died
ATay 2, 1688. without issue. 2. Thomas, re-
ferred to below.
(H) Thomas, son of John .Xtkin.son. of
Thruscross. was born in Newby, Yorkshire.
before 1660, died in Bristol township, Bucks
county, 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, where he found
his wife, but no more is heard of him until
168 1 when 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, subse(juently joining the
Meeting at Falls. June i, 1685, he was a
member of the first grand jury of the col-
ony. .A.fter his death the Philadelphia Meet-
ing published a long "Testimonial" of him by
his wife, an action so rarely done by the
Ouakers 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 1 1 ,
1688, married (second) William Biles, of Falls
townshi]), Ikicks 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
Alargery (Clows) Hough. 2. William, born
1681, probably 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
Mary Baker. 3. Samuel, referred to below.
(HI ) Samuel, youngest son of Thomas and
Jane (Bond) Atkinson, was born in Bristol
township, Bucks county, I^ennsylvania, Jvdy
17, 1C185, died in Chester township, Burlington
county, or in Newton township, Gloucester
county. West Jersey. February 21, 1775- He
removed from Bucks county to West Jersey in
1 7 14. taking a certificate from Falls to Ches-
terfield Meeting. November 5, 1719, he car-
ried a certificate from Chesterfiekl 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 township. 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 Mahlon and Rebecca
(Ely) .Stacy and the widow of William
Beakes. both of Nottingham township, Burl-
ington county, West Jersey. The children of
Samuel and Ruth (Stacy) (Beakes) Atkinson
were: i. Thomas, married Susanna, daughter
of Thomas and Martha (Earl) Shinn, grand-
daughter of Thomas Shinn 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-
staft') Buddj 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 Hannah
(Hubberstie) Bispham, and grandson of John
and Mary (Bastwellj Bispham, of Bicker-
stafife. 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,
1 78 1. 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 Newbold, and his
friend, Jacob Hollingshead. By his wife,
Ann (Coate) Atkinson, he had eight children:
I. William. 2. Elizabeth, married Moses
Kempton. 3. Stacy. 4. Rebecca, married
Joshua Newbold. 5. Samuel, referred to
below. 6. Sarah. 7. Mahlon. 8. Beulah.
(V) Samuel (3), third son of Samuel (21
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
. His will, written January 4, 1802,
was affirmed at Mount Holly, March g, 1804.
Children of Samuel and Elizal>eth 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 .\tkinson. 8. Marv, mar-
ried John 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 aftirmed at Mount Holly, October 25,
1845, he names his wife, Sarah (Eldridge)
Atkinson, and the following six children : Will-
iam E., George Washington, referred to below,
Elizabeth, James E., Evans, Isaiah Jr.
(\II) George Washington, second son of
Isaiah and Sarah ( Eldridge ) .Atkinson, was
born in 1804, in Springfield township, Burling-
ton county, and died in 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 :
Wallace L. and Howard. 6. John, referred
to below.
(Vni) 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-
delphia and in Llanech, Delaware county,
Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools
of Springfield township and the well known
Charles Aaron school at Mount Holly, a Pres-
byterian denominational school. After leav-
ing school he learned the trade of bricklaying
and 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,
Builders' Exchange, South Seventh street,
Philadelphia. Mr. Atkinson is a member of
the Masons and Builders .Association of Phil-
adelphia, the Bricklayers Company of Phila-
delphia, which he served as president, the
Builders' E.xchange of Philadelphia, also a
charter member of the West Jersey Society of
Pennsylvania. He is also a member of Lodge
No. 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. i88r, John .Atkinson married
-Anna, daughter of \Vatson Welding, of Brook-
lyn, Long Island, and has borne him five chil-
dren, all born at Philadelphia: I. John Will-
iam. July 22, 1882. 2. Roger, May 12, 1884,
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
3. Edith, .March 11, i88y, married Robert R.
Hlaiik, of Philadelphia, has one child, Robert
R. Blank, Jr. 4. Dorothy, November u,
1893. 5. Richard, F"ebrnar\- 5, 1897.
There are at least two and pos-
PAYXE sibly three or more Payne fami-
lies in New Jersey who are ap-
parently 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 frorn 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-
press 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 ca])tain. 2. Sarah, mar-
ried George Wool ford. 3. Samuel, married a
Miss Shaw. 4. Alacey Jr.. who was drowned;
unmarrieil. 5. Charles (Harrison, referred to
below.
(II) 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,
1 89 1. He was left an orphan when about
seven years of age, and grew up under the care
of his brother. Captain Levi Payne, whom he
accomjianied 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 sjjent 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 \'an 1 look. She was born
at what was then called ".Schooner's Landing"
about four miles from Millville, and was of
old colonial German descent. She died in
April, 1893. Her father was for many years
a farmer, but later on he entered the employ
of Whital, Taluni & 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 Washington, referred to
below ; Katharine, married Henry \'ote, of
Piiilailelphia ; 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 ]\Iillville ;
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.
I'or 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 si.x months
under the tuition of Dr. Parker, and later on
under that of the Rev. Mr. Northrup, working
during the day and stutlying 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 jieople of the second district of
Cumberland countv to the state legislature.
In 1875 and again in 1876 he was re-elected
to the same office, 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 ".An 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 bo 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 igo8 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-
cepted 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 Methodist 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 W., 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. 5. Lavina, married Samuel Curlott and
has two children : William ( ieorge 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 Shoeinaker, 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, wdien 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
born about 1775 or 1780, in Deerfield town-
ship, Cumberland county, New Jersey. 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 Emrna, 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, Xew Jersey. Louisiana C. mar-
ried Jacob Harris, who lives near Riverton,
Burlington county, ii. Hiram J., 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 ^lanufacturing Company of
Bridgeton, New Jersey; married Mary Hew-
lings. 18. Joanna H., married Hon. George
O. 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 .Ann (Waters) Shoemaker, was born
on a farm in Elsinboro township, Salem
county, Xew Jersey, April 23, 1848, and is now
living at Briilgeton, Cumberland county.
During his early years he had but little edu-
cational advantages. For a time he attendeil
the iniblic 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 and gained his first knowl-
edge of business. While 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,
Xew lersey, where he remained for si.x
months preparing himself for future useful-
ness. He had, however, left his money in
other hands to be kept until he should retjuire
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 em])loyer, l\. H. Shoe-
maker, offered him a one-lhird 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 ])art-
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, tie continued this busi-
ness for two years, when he entered into part-
nership with Joseph A. Clark, Isaac L. Clark
and Samuel AI. Bassett, 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, antl 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, antl himself as treasurer. During the
first year of its existence it was located on the
wharf near Co.x & 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 W hitaker, 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 emjiloys 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 Philadelphia, 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 i^
useil for prizes in iienmanship. for the lir^-i
English com])osition and the best record i< iv
spelling in the ISridgeton iiublic schools, U t
contest in oratory between the Bridgeton, .Mil'
ville and \'ineland high schools. He is an e\-
])resident of the Law and Oriler Societ\ ■!
Uridgeton, which is and has been doing -^
mucli to purify the city from the gambling
dens and other evils which e.xist. He is a di-
rector in many financial institutions among
which should be mentioned the Cumberland
Xational llank, the Cumberland Trust Com-
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pany of Bridgeton. the H. K. Mulford Com-
pany of Philadelphia, the \'inelaiid Grape
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 Xew 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 Revolution. 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 Alen's Christian Association.
He has also been a member of the state ex-
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 L^niver-
sity, class of 1904; manager of the Boston
office of the Cumberland Glass Manufacturing
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 Cotn-
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. Wellesley.
Massachusetts, class of 1909.
According to Burke's Landed
STOKES Gentry, the Stokes family is of
Xorman 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, Rustaball and ^^'ilts.
Thomas, his eldest son, held the manor of
Sendee with other lands in Wiltshire, and
Roger, his second son. the manors of Wolshall,
Sanarnargritt and Hungerford 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 parliament in the reign
of Charles II, and in the reign of Elizabeth,
we find the Stockeys (the first change in tin-
spelling 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 contemporar}' of
George Fo.x, the reformer and founder of
the Society of Friends, and of \\ illiam Penn,
who was associated with the trustees of Ed-
ward Byllinge, one of the original proprietors
of Xew 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 and
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
disjjosed 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 northerly side of the Xorth-
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anipton river, and a portion of the tract still
remains in the ijossession of the family hav-
ing come down from father to son by will.
Thomas Stokes was 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 Water ford township, Gloucester county,
and resided there with his son Thomas, until
his death, 11 of Seventh month 1720. Janu-
ary 21, 1 7 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 Mary
Bernard, of Stepney, at the Westbury street
Friends iMeeting in London. They belonged
to the Devonshire House Meeting. With his
wife and young children he set sail for the
new world in the shi]) "Kent" and arriving at
New Castle, in the Sixth month, 1677, pro-
ceeded to Burlington and settled on a tract of
one hundred and sixty-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 Lincoln, England, said to have been
the largest landholder in New Jersey, and the
one after whom Moorestown is named. 2.
Alary, 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) Lippincott, 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 (B.ernard) Stokes, was
born, probably in London, in 1675, and was
brought to the new world by his father when
he was about two years old. In 1719 his
father made liini the sole executor of his will.
In his "First 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 death, 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 1712,
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, Keziah Burr, who married Richard
Howell, afterwards governor of New Jersey,
whose granddaughter married Jefferson Davis, ^
the president of the Confederate States of
America. 3. Elizabeth, married Richard
Blackham. 4. Sarah, married Isaac Rogers.
(HI) John (2) eldest child and only son
of John ( I ) and Elizabeth (Green) Stokes,
was born in Gloucester coimty. New Jersey,
July 16, 1713, died August 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, and if so the son of Fran-
cis Sharp, of Oak Lane, in the parish of St.
Ann, 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,
luarried 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
nf 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 Hackney.
(IV) David, third child and second son of
John (2) and Hannah (Stogdelle) Stokes, was
I)()rn in Burlington county, January 12, 1752,
died there September 27, 1830. He married,
April 15, 1784, Ann, daughter of John and
Elizabeth (Barlow) Lancaster, of Gwynedd
Meeting, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and the
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granddaughter of Thomas and Phebe (W'or-
dell) Lancaster. Her grandfather had emi-
grated from England to America about June,
171 1, and was married in the W'rightstown fleet-
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
P)Oston, 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
luisband. Thomas Lancaster, was a member
'>f the Richland Meeting and became a distin-
L,'uished minister in that society. The Meet-
ing granted him a certificate to travel and
preach in Barbadoes and the West Indies, and
having fulfilled his mission, he was returning
home when he was taken sick and died, being
l)uried 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.
( W'oolman ) 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, 1817, unmarried.
( \' ) Qiarles, third child and son of David
and .\nn (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 .\mboy 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 Movmt Holly Insurance
I'onipany. "This is Charles Stokes' peculiar-
ity," saitl a man who knew him well in 1903,
"He. like the patriarchs 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 fancy,
without which none are great, and with which
none are mean. \'iew him as you will, there
cannot be found in him anv one art : anv fac-
ulty : and ability to do a particular 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 Ann
(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, w'ho 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, 1817, died in infancy. 2. Hannah,
April 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) F'arry. 4. Jarrett, April
29. 1823, died September 18, 1870: married
Martha, daughter of \\'illiam and Hannah
(Rowland) Hilliard. 5. .Anna, .\pril 24. 1825,
married, 1850, Chalkley .\lbertson. 6. William,
who is referred to below.
(\ I) William, sixth and youngest child of
Charles and Tacy (Jarrett) Stokes, was born
in Wellingborough township, Burlington
county, Septeinber 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 .\le.xandria, \'irginia, 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
I'nion National- Bank of Mount Holly, and a
member of the Society of Friends. He mar-
ried, in 1863, .\nna, daughter of James and
Rebecca (Spirling) Mcllvaine, of Philadel-
phia. Their children are: i. James Mcllvaine,
born September 27, 1865, married Eveline
Bartlett, and was a farmer and supplied sand
to Philadelphia. 2. \\'illiam J., married Mar-
garet, I'aughter of Dr. Perkins, and is engaged
in the hardware business in New York citv.
(For first generation see preceding sketch).
(II) • Thomas (2) youngest
STOKES child of Thomas (i) and Mary
( Bernard ) Stokes, was born in
1682. died November 7, 1736. In 1709 hi
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inircliased froin Jiilin Kay, of Springwell.
llirce hundred acres of land in W'aterford.
now Delaware township, Camden county.
Kew Jersey, bounded on the south side by the
north branch of Cooper's creek, extending on
both sides of a tributary of the same, and in-
cluding what is now some of the best soil in
the neighborhood. On this tract he settled,
his house standing near wdiat was about thirty
years ago the home of Mark Ballingcr. This
settlement was in the midst of an Indian neigh-
borhood, and it was not until after the middle
o; 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-
fteld and Berlin road. In 1704 Thomas
Stokes married (first) Deliverance, daughter
of Isaac and Lydia Horner, of Northampton
townshij), Burlington county, whose sister
Hannah was the first wife of John, son of
William Matlack, the emigrant. -She died be-
tween 1 713 and 1 71 5. and bore her husband
six cliildren: I. Hannah, born July, 1705, 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 Eamb. 5. Thomas, Novem-
ber 5, 171 1, married, 1741. Abigail, daughter
of John, son of William Matlack, the emi-
grant, by his second wife Alary Lee. 6. De-
liverance, September 18. 17 13. married Darling
Conrow. September i, 171 3, Thomas Stokes
married ( second ) Rachel, daughter of Job and
Rachel Wriglit, of Oyster 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, 17 1 7, married, September 7, 1734. John
Cowpertiiwait. 9. Job, ( Jctober 13, 1717, twin
with Rachel. 10. I lannah, June 26, 17K;, mar-
ried F>enjamin I'ine. 11. Jaccb, March 21.
1 72 1, married, 1749. IViscilla t'lllis. 12.
Keziah, January 25, 1724, married, 1730, Jo-
seph I'row^ning. 13. John, November i, 1724,
married, 1 75 1, .•\nn Chamjiion, a widow, pos-
silily of Peter Chamjiion and the daughter of
William and Sarah (Collins) Ellis. 14.
Rosanna, May 2, 1728. married. May 19, 1748,
.Samuel, son of Samuel and .Abigail (Ward)
Collins.
(Ill) Joshua, eldest cjiild of Thomas and
Rachel ( Wright 1 .Stokes, was born in Water-
ford townshijj, Camden county. New Jersey.
Ai^ril 6, 17 16, died there in 1779. .After the
death of his father he occupied the homestead
for 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
"I'renchman" 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 w'ere : i. John, re-
ferred to below. 2. Rachel, married Nathaniel
Barton. 3. Elizabeth, married Jacob, son of
Charles and Ann French. 4. Hannah, married
(first) Haddon, son of Ebenezer and Sarah
(Lord) Hopkins, and (second) Abraham, son
of .\braham and Sarah Inskeep. 5. Thomas,
born 1742, died 1831 ; married Sarah, daugh-
ter of .\braliam and Sarah Inskeep. 6. Sam-
uel, married (first) 1774, .Atlantic, daughter
of William and Alary (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.
( I\') John, eldest child of Joshua and .Amy
(Hinchman) Stokes, was born in W'aterford
township, Camden county, but removed into
Burlington county, where he died. Pie mar-
ried iieulah, daughter of John and Mary
(.Slireve) 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
John Paine, of Burlington, in 1695, the emi-
grant. William was the son of Richard
and .Margaret Haines, the emigrants. The
children of John and lieulah (Haines)
Slnkis were: i. Caleb, born 1782, mar-
ried, 1803, Ruth, daughter of Levi and
llatuiah (Reeve) Shinn. and great-great-
granddaughter of Thomas and Mary (Stock-
tun ) .Shinn. 2. Samuel, 1784, married Mary
11. Mathison. 3. Isaac, 1787. married (first)
Lydia, daughter of Job and Elizabeth (Ball- {
inger) Mason-Collins, and (second) Alary,
daughter of Levi and Hannah Ballingcr and
widow of Job Collins. 4. ^Villiam, referred
to below. 5. Alary, 1792, married Job, son of
Amaziah and Hannah (Prickitt) Lippincott,
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and granddaughter of John and EHzabeth
( Elkinton ) Lippincott. 6. Atlantic, 1794.
married Daniel Hurley. 7. Rachel, who died
in childhood.
(V) William, fourth child and son of John
and Beulah (Haines) Stokes, was born in
1790. He was a master shoemaker in Med-
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 religion a Hicksite Friend.
He married (first) Ann, daughter of Isaac
Wilson and Phebe, daughter of Samuel and
Ann Middleton, and granddaughter of John
and Mary Wilson. Their nine children were :
I. Ilarclay Wilson, born August 18, 1815, mar-
ried Hannah Ann, daughter of Caleb and Hope
( Lippincott) Haines, who after his death mar-
ried ( second ) Andrew Criscom. 2. Phebe
Middleton, March 2, 1817, married (first)
Edward lirown, and (second) James Roberts, -
3. \\'ilson, 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. Beulah, September 17, 1830, mar-
ried Mark, son of Daniel and Dorothy (Strat-
ton) Zelley, grandson of Daniel and Bath-
sheba (Braddock) Zelley, and great-grand-
son of Rehoboam 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 ) Hannah
Livezey, who bore him no children.
(\'I ) 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, 1896. He received
his education in the Medford select school of
the Hicksite Friends, but he afterwards joined
the Methodist 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 position in the bank at Medford as teller and
bookkeeper, becoming later assistant cashier,
and eventually succeeding Jonathan Oliphant
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 Wilson 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
\\ ilson 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
Collinswood, 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.
( \'II ) William W'ilson, eldest child of Wil-
son and Eleanor (McKenney) Stokes, was
born in \'inccntown, 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
Pennington 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 Xloorestown,
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 place as secretary and
treasurer was given to William R. Lippincott,
who married Tacie, daughter of Chalkley and
Anna (Stokes) Albertson, and granddaughter
of Charles and Tacy (Jarrett) Stokes. Mr,
Stokes is also a director in the Moorestown
\\'ater Company. In 1909 he was foreman
of the reform grand jury of Burlington county.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
He is a Re])ublican. and attends the Methodist
Episcopal church, of which he is the president
of the 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 Wilson, referred to below.
(\'III) Charles Wilson, only child of Will-
iam Wilson and Mary 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. He
began his business career in the Moorestown
National Bank upon its organization, became
and now is its receiving teller and general
ledger bookkeeper. He is a member of the
F. and A. M., a charter member of the B. P.
O. E., No. 848, of Mt. Holly, and is a Repub-
lican in politics. He married Estella Dager,
daughter of Samuel S. and Keturah G. (Stock-
ton) Dager, who has borne him one child,
Keturah Gertrude, born March 31, 1893.
(For ancestry see Thomas Stokes 1).
(V) Israel, son of David and
STOKES Ann (Lancaster) Stokes, was
born the /th 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 L., married William S. Emley. 4.
Israel, married Caroline Green. 5. Elizalu-th.
married Henry C. Deacon.
(\T) Benjamin R., son of Israel and Sarah
(Borton) Stokes, married Sarah Zelley, and
had four children: i. Abraham Z. (see post).
2. lioward, married Sarah Hendrickson. 3.
Rebecca, married Amos Evans, 4. Sarah,
married Henry Kelley.
(VII) .\braham Zelley, son of licnjamin R.
and Sarah (Zelley) Stokes, was born in Jack-
sonville, New Jersey, July 16, 1842, and died
March i, 1900. lie was educated in the
schools of his native town and also in Pliila-
deli)hia, 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
proprietor of a mercantile business at Colum-
Dus, New Jersey. He was a man of good
business ca])acity, 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. Flaines, born in Jack-
sonville, Alay 17, 1848, and by her had two
children: i. Elwood H. (see post). 2. Cora
D., born February 23, 1878.
( VHI ) Elwood Haines, only son of Abra-
ham Zelley and Hannah P. (Haines) Stokes,
was born in Jacksonville, New Jersey, Novem-
ber 24, 1873, and received a good early edu-
cation in public 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 JMt. 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, I. O. O. F.
of Mt. Holly, and member of Mt. Holly Lodge,
Xo. 848. I). 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.
Bessie M., born February 8, 1901. 2. Elwood
H. Jr.. .\ugust 14, 1902.
This name, spelled in as many as
WEEKS sixty different ways, among them
Weices, Wikes, Wix, Wick, de
W yke and \'an Wyck, was first taken by one
William de Wrey, who about 1370 married
Katherine Burnell, in England, and from her
father inherited the Manor of North Wyke.
The name was by him spelled 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, George,
Thomas, Francis and Joseph Weeks, sailed
from England ; George settled at Dorchester.
Massachusetts, Thomas at Huntington, Long
Island, Francis at Oyster Bay, Long Island
and Joseph was drowned in the landing.
( I ) George Weeks was living in Devon-
shire, England, shortly before the time of his
sailing for .America, 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, 1639, he was admitted to the
church 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 Clap, sister of the famous Roger Clap;
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
585
they were descendants of Osgood Clapa, a
Danish nobleman of the court of King Canute,
who ruled England 1017 to 1036. 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 1G26;
William; Jane, married Benjamin Bates, of
Hingham, Massachusetts ; Ammiel ; Joseph.
( II ) 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 mfant; 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 1673 was con-
stable. Like his father, he often held 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, 1657, died in 1709-10, unmarried; Thank-
ful, born April 24, 1660; Ammiel, September
15, 1662; Ebenezer; Joseph, September 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 .-\ugust 3, 1683.
(HI) Ebenezer, third son of Ammiel and
Elizabeth ( Aspinwall ) Weeks, was born May
15, baptized May 28. 1665, at Dorchester,
Alassacluisetts, and removed to Boston, where
he was a tailor, and died prior to 171 1-12. 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 .\pril 5, 1695; Hannah, January 5,
i6c)3-o6: Ebenezer, September 17, 1699.
(IN) 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.
( \' ) Lemuel, second son of William and
Sarah (Tukey or Tukekee) Weeks, was born
in 1727-28, at Falmouth, Maine, 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,
I7g7. He married, November 25, 1784, Lois
Freeman, born February 18, 1760, dieil Janu-
ary 26, 1829, and their children were: Joseph,
born 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
Freeman.
(\'II) Joshua Freeman, third and youngest
son of Joseph and Lois (Freeman) 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 .-\ncient
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 Whig and later a Republican.
He was at one time treasurer, and later presi-
dent, of the Aged Brotherhood. He served
as member of the city council of Portland, and
was a prominent citizen of the town. He
married, November 21, 181 5, Elizabeth Inger-
soll Mitchell, born February 21, 1795, died
October 21. 1883, and their children were:
Joseph Lemuel, bom July 9, 1817; William,
"November 27, 1819; Mary and Elizabeth,
twins, April 11, 1822; Lois, March 6, 1824;
Joshua, November 26, 1826; Edward, June 12,
1829; George, June 16, 1832, died August 19
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STATE OF NEW fERSEY
1833; Robert Mitchell: Harriet, October 18,
1836; Maria Louisa, October 13, 1840.
(\ III ) Robert Alitchell, sixth and youngest
son of Joshua Freeman and Elizabeth 1.
(Michell) Weeks, was born July 9, 1834, at
Portland, Alaine, where after receiving his edu-
cation he began working in a jewelry store, but
later entered the employ of the Locomotive
Works and 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, iS'n.
in Company C, First 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 ])art 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 company. He took part in the battles
of .\ntictam 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. LTpon his
recovery he was made commissary sergeant.
Cpon leaving the service, Mr. Weeks removed
to fMiiladelphia and entered the employ of F>ald-
win Locomotive Works, wdiich position he held
for twenty-five years, although in 1867 he took
up his residence in Ivivcrside, New Jersey,
which is still his hcime. lie has for .some years
bcin retired from active business, and lives
in the house iiuilt by him more than forty years
since. In jiolitical 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 lierner, 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 ISaldwin
I,ocomotive Works, of Philadelphia. He mar-
ried lUrtha Sclu-11. of Riverside, New Jersey,
and they have a daughter, Maria. 2. Edward
Mitchell, born .August 20, 1866, at Philadel-
])hia : resides at Washington, District of Colum-
i)ia. where he is a ])atent lawyer, and is cm-
ployed in the bureau of engraving. He mar-
ried Mary Wolcott, and they have three chil-
dren : Robert, Dorothy and Ruth. 3. Emma
Pauline, 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
WOODWARD 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.
( I ) Richard Woodward, born about 1589,,
in England, took passage at Ipswich, in the
ship "Elizabeth," William .Andrews, master,
.April 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 which time he is described as of Boston,
and he sold same December 26, 1648, to Will-
iam .Aspinwall. He became freeman at Water-
town. September 2, 1635 ; in 1660 he resided at
Cambridge. Richard Woodward died Febru-
ary 16, 1665, aged seventy-six years. His
wife. Rose, died October 6, 1662, at the age of
eighty, and he afterward married .Ann, widow
of Stephen Gates, of Cambridge, born in 1603 ;
their marriage settlement was dated .April 13,
1663. He had but two children, George and
Ji>hn, children of his first wife.
( II ) (ieorge. the older of the two sons of
Richard and Rose Woodward, was born in
England, about 1619, coming in boyhood with
his parents to Watertown; he died May 31.
1676, and his inventory showed him owning
property to the amount of one hundred and
forty-three poimds, ten shillings. He w-as
selectman in ir/)4. By his first wife, Mary,
he had eight children, and he married (sec-
ond) .August 17, iCic^^). Elizabeth, daughter of
Thomas and Elizabeth Hammond, of New-
ton, Massachusetts; her father left to her, in
his will, proved in 1(175, one hundred acres of
land on Muddy River. .After the death of
George Woodward she married Samuel Trus-
dale. George Woodward's children were :
Mary, born .August 12, 1641 ; Sarah. February
6, 1642-43 ; Amos ; Rebecca, December 30,
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
587
1647: John; Susanna, September 30, 165 1;
Daniel, September 2, 1653; Alary, June 3,
1656; George, September 11, 1660; Thomas,
September 15, 1662, died in 1666; Elizabeth,
May 8, 1664; Nathaniel, died May 28, i668;
and Sarah, born October 3, 1675.
(III) John, second son of George and Mary
Woodward, was born March 28, 1649, and
lived at Xcwton ; his will is dated February
26, 1727-28. He married (first) 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) Joseph, sixth son of John and Sarah
(Bancroft) Woodward, 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, 1710,
and his removal from Newton, Massachusetts,
to Canterbury, probably took place about that
time, with his brothers, John and Richard. ■ He
married, June 24, 1714, 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 July 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 a period of twenty-six years ;
his first nine children were born at Windham,
the other two at .\shford. He married, May
19, 1748. Elizabeth, daughter of Captain John
and Elizabeth (Bushnel!) Perkins, of Nor-
wich, Connecticut, born May 19, 1733, and
their children were : Elizabeth, born May 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.
(VI) John (2), third son of Joseph (2)
and Elizabeth (Perkins) Woodward, was born
June 10, 1755: died February 20, 1844; he
served 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, 17S5: Lydia, June 16, 1787; Timothy,
March 31, 1790: William. January 5, 1792;
Benjamin, Alarch 14, 1796; John, May 29,
1798: Hannah, March 17, 1799; Betsey, Octo-
ber 23, 1800, died February 23, 1802; Lucius C.
( \'H ) 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.
Bingham ; Emeline, deceased ; William W.,
im])orter and jobber of hardware, lives at
.Vewton, Sussex county, New Jersey, he mar-
ried Mary Johnson, and their children are:
Henry )., William W., Jr., J. Bingham, Cath-
erine J. and .\nna ; Hannah, of Newton, New
Jersey.
( \TII ) James Bingham, eldest son of Lucius
C. and Abigail (I)ingham) 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 own 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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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
at Washington. District of Columbia, Anna E.,
(langlitcr 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 A])ril 16, 1873, at Bordentown, New
Jersey ; he received his finishing education at
the liordentown 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 affairs. In political
views he is a Democrat, and he is an Epis-
copalian in religion. He is affiliated 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. He
is a member of the Crescent Temple, Mystic
.Shrine, of Trenton., and has the following
honors : Past master, past high priest, eminent
commander, and is a member of all the grand
bodies, besides being assistant grand lecturer
of the Grand Chapter. At tlie meeting of the
Grand Lodge of Masons at Trenton he was
elected junior grand warden. He is unmar-
ried, and residt's with his father at Borden-
town.
Many of this name came from
^\ I'^LLS France to England at the time of
the coni|uest, one of the most
[irominent 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 towards the settletnent and develo])meni
of all parts of the country. The family here
descni'>ed 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.
( I) William Wells was born in Vincentown.
New Jersey, his wife's maiden name was Col-
cutt, and they had children as follows : Sarah.
Margaret, Mary Ann and Joseph.
(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 children were: i. William 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 bu.siness. 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.
Mr. Wells 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.
.\aronson, a dealer in real estate and insurance,
at Bordentown, New Jersey. 4. Dr. Edgar
residing at Elmore, Pennsylvania. 5. Cecil, r.
student in I^hiladelpliia. 6. Marguerite. 7.
Helen, who died in childhood.
(IV) 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
Ix'ing 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, .\fter
leaving college Mr. Wells spent two years in
the law office of McGee, Bedle & Bedle, and
later studied in the office of Eckard P. Budd.
of Mt. Holly. lie was admitted to the New-
Jersey bar in June, 1902, and immediately
entered into practice at Bordentown, where he
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
589
has met with gratifying success. He has justi-
fied the contidence 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 liordentown, and acts as counsel for several
municipalities. In |)olitics he is a Republican.
He is a member of the Methodist church, and
acted as trustee of the society in Pemberton.
He belongs to Alount Moriah Lodge, Xo. 28,
Ancient F"ree 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, 1906, and Eliza-
beth Hiesler, born November 30, 1908.
Jacob Adams, founder of this
ADAMS 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 \'an 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, 1851. He was a farmer. He married
Alargaretta 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).
(I\') Richard S., eldest son and second
child of Samuel and Margaretta (Smith)
Ad.Tins. 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 \'olunteers, 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 Vashti Austin,
born December 14, 1835, in Willingboro, Bur-
lington county, New Jersey, daughter of Caleb
anil 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 (Mrs. 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, Pennsylvania, where he
w'as graduated in 1886, and at Jefiferson Medi-
cal College, Philadelphia, from wdiich 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 Jeffer-
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 state 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. Hi?
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
citv. 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. Fie is a skillful
physician, a successful business man, and a
good citizen.
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STATE OI' NEW JERSEY.
I U" married. 1888, Cora A. Wilson, dan.^h-
tcr 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.
Heulah E., January 2},. 1895. 4. Richard Ells-
worth. -March 31. 1898.
The Wallace family at pres-
W.\LL.-\CE 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
indejjendence, William Wallace.
(I) 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.
(II) John West (2), son of John West (i)
and Ellen Nesbit (West) Wallace, was born
in riiiladelphia, 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 I'hiladeljihia printer, and by her
he had two children : i. Henry Speel, referred
to below. 2. Eleanor West, born in Philadel-
I)hia, 1870.
(III) Henry Speel, eldest child and only
son of John West (2) and Mary .\. (Speel)
Wallace, was bom in Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania, .August 7, 1866, and is now living in
.Vtlantic City, New Jersey. He attended the
public schools of Philadelphia and the private
school of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal
Church of the same city, and then went to the
Wyoming grammar school at Si.xth street and
h'airmount avenue, Philadelphia. .After this he
became a clerk in the wholesale harchvare house
of Shields & P.rother, of Philadelphia, and
subse(|uently one of the traveling salesmen for
Thomas, Thompson & Company, wholesale
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 Ailantic City Press. This was
in 1898 and for the next year he was interested
in this, the firm name being Edge & Wallace,
lie then became the manager of the Borland
.Advertising .Agency, and acted in this capacity
until November, 1906, when he purchased the
daily and weekly Atla>itic Reviczi'. This
periodical was first established in 1872 by A. L.
English ^nd was the first newspaper of Atlantic
City. It became the property of John G.
Shreve and .A. AI. Heston, Alarch 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
prominent in other cities, and while never
aspiring to rival the Philadelphia dailies which
are to be found in the city early every mornmg,
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
[laper has always championed any improve-
ments for the betterment of the resort, and it
has done much to help along the growth of
the small, little known watering place on the
Jersey coast of 1872 to the great pleasure re-
sort of 1909. Under Air. Wallace's manage-
ment the success of the jjaper has been even
more marked if anything than it was under his
predecessors. Since assuming control of the
Rcficxi.', Mr. Wallace has established the Wal-
lace .Advertising .Agency in coimection with his
publishing business, and it is now claimed that
his paper has the "best home circulation of any
paper in .Atlantic City."
The family of Wallis as the
W.ALLACE name was spelt for the first
two or three generations by
most of its member.s, and as it is still spelt by
some of its branches, is of Scotch descent and
came originally from Creat liritain to the New-
England colonics, from whence three of the
founder's sons emigrated to the Quaker
colonies on the Delaware and became the
founders of the New Jersey antl Philadeliihia
branches of the family.
(I) Of Philip Wallis, the founder of the
family, little is known, excejit 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 tho
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), sonofPhilip (i) and Sarah
W'allis, came to West Jersey about the same
time as his brothers and settled near Peni-
sauken creek, wdiere some of his descendants
have continued until the present day. His will
was proved March 25, 1755. He married
Sarah, daughter of John and Margaret (Smith)
Walker, the former of wdiom was a son of
John and Susanna Walker, and the latter a
daughter of John and Margaret (Cripps)
Smith; John Walker emigrated to .A.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 Walker .Atkinson, of Burlington. 7. Abi-
gail, married a Mr. Heulings. 8. Philip, who
died in 1752, leaving a widow and five chil-
dren.
( HI) John, the son of Philip (2) and Sarah
(Walker) Wallis, was born about 1120; died
in 1779. He married Martha Decovv, bom in
1735, died in 1813, who married (second)
after her first husbantl'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, .\ndrew Laurence, or Lawrence. 4.
Martha, married William Rush, 5. Samuel,
whose will was proved January 18, 1785. 6.
Mary, buried in Old Coles, January 6, 1772.
(IV) Thomas Wallace, son of John and
Martha (Decow) Wallis, was born on Penisau-
ken creek, in 1774; died there August 14, 1832.
He married .Ann Shivers, born November ii,
1773, died October 3, 1853, who after her first
husband's death married (second) Jacob Hul-
ings. The children of Thomas and .\nn
(Shivers) Wallace were: i. John Shivers,
born November n, 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.
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3. Alaria, November 20, 1799; died in 1836;
married Israel Lippincott. 4. Josiah, .Vugust
7, 1802; died unmarried, in 1891. 5. Samuel,
.August 26, 1804; died in 1840; married Eliza-
beth Fish. 6. Joseph, March 10, 1806; died in
1815. 7. William, who is referred to below.
8. Benjamin, March 11, 1812; died in 1855:
married Sibilla Marter.s, and had Edith H.,
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, born November
23, 181 1 ; died December 13, 1871.
( \' ) William, seventh child and sixth son
of Thomas and .-\nn (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.
( Vl) 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 F'ellows, and a member of the
Ancient Order of Lnited Workmen, of Cam-
den, New Jersey.
In 1876 Josiah Wallace married Lydia W.,
daughter of Michel and Abigail (Wilkins)
Korn, of Camden, New Jersey, and they have
had three children: I. Minnie, born in Pal-
myra, September 20, 1878; married James K.
Hires, of Palmyra, a bookkeeper for Slack
Brothers, of Philadelphia. They have two
children : Elizabeth and James. 2. Josiah.
Jr., born in 1880; married Mary, daughter of
Felix 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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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
(For early g^enerations see preceding sketch).
( \'lj John Shivers, the eldest
\\ALLACE child of Thomas and ^\nn
(Shivers) Wallace, was born
in what is now I'ahnyra, New Jersey, Novem-
ber II, 1795, and died there November 12,
1869. He married his first cousin, Rebecca,
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Chester)
Wallace. Children: i. Mary Ann, born De-
cember 12, 1812. 2. llezekiah, July 6, 1817.
3. .Shivers. February 22, 1819. 4. Thomas (or
William) Rush, Alay 2, 1821. 5. Elizabeth,
February 13, 1824. 6. John, Uctober 30, 1826.
7. Isaac, June 27, 1829. 8. Adeline, August
9, 1831. 9. Caroline, February 5, 1833. 10.
Israel, February 13, 1835. 11. Smith B., May
21, 1839.
(\lj John, son of John Shivers and Re-
becca (\Vallace) Wallace, w'as bom in what
was tiien Chester, now Palmyra, New Jersey,
October 30, 1826, and died there July 9, 1897.
He received a common school education, and
as a boy worked on a farm and learned the
trade of carpenter, which he followed nine
years. In 1856 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 appeals. He was a member of Poca-
hontas Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, of IMoorestown, New Jersey, a member
of encampment, and a member of the Pres-
byterian church at Riverton, New Jersey. He
married, December 12, 1850, Mary M., born in
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1832,
daughter of Jacob and Barbara (Meyers)
Yothers. She is now living in Palmyra, New
Jersey. Children: i. Emma R. 2. Caroline
II. 3. Levis H., see forward. 4. Jennie Cath-
arine Virginia. Three other children who died
in childhood.
(VII) Levis H., son of John and Mary M.
(Yothers) \\'allace, was born in Palmyra,
New Jersey, March 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 jjroprictor
of the Palmyra Hotel. Mr. Wallace 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, i'alm)ra l-"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, born in Palmyra: i.
Margaret Bright, 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. oi Newark, near
Leicester, county of Leicester, England, gentle-
man, grants to Thomas Wilkins, of West
Jersey, labourer, and to John Wilkins. of
Cussington, county Leicester, labourer, both the
sons of John Wilkins, 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-
ham, county Leicester, settled first on Mason's
Run, near the city of Burlington, where in
1690 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 evidence yet come to light to show
whether he married her in \\'est 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 _£=Ji-!E-C.~i 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.
(II) Amos, youngest son of Thomas Wil-
kins, was not yet twenty-one in 1729, when
his father wrote his will. He lived at Evesliam
in his father's homestead which he had inherit-
ed from his father, and died about March,
1 76 1. He was twice married, first at the Ches-
ter monthly meeting to Susan..!;' ''>'^' ', Tn 1738,
and second in 1756, by license dated June 17,
1756, to Sarah, daughter of Carlile Haines and
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Sarali, daugliter of William and Mary (Han-
cock) Alatlack. Carlile was the son of Rich-
ard and Mary (Carlile) Haines, and the grand-
son of Richard and Margaret Haines, the emi-
grants. The children of Amos Wilkins were ;
I. John, married, in 1761, Hannah Gwinnal.
of Evesham. 2. Benjamin. 3. Amos, Jr., who
is referred to below. 4. Caleb. 5. Joshua. 6.
Samuel, married Mary Eldridge, of Evesham.
I'Vom 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)
Wilkins. 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 six
(laughters all named in his will: i. Amos,
who is referred to below. 2. Benjamin. 3.
Clayton, who died unmarried. 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.
9. 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, 1857. 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 Hewlings 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 Margaret,
daughter of Joshua and JMartha (Shinn)
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.
Silas Crispin was the son of Captain William
Crispin, of the English navy, whose wife, .Anne
(Jasper) Crispin, 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 granddaughter of Laban
Langstaft', Sr., and Susanna Woolston. Laban
Langstafl:", Sr., was the son of John and Eliza
Langstaff, 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 lie 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
IQ, 1874. 4. Caleb, Jr., November 28, 1875. 5.
Mary H., luly 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 JERSEY.
eral cliiklrcn. among them sons John. Joshua.
Richard and Samuel.
(I) W'ilham 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 preceding paragraph, was
profjrietor 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, and
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 Joseph 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 M., 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 jiartnership was dis-
solved. .Vfter 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. Im-oui that time until the
death of the senior member of the firm, in
1898, tile 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 Marlton
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
I'^riends Lodge, K. of P., and of Modoc Tribe,
I. O. R. .M. He married, January 4, 1866,
-Agnes Buckman Haines, daughter of Cla\-ton
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 (lioUings-
head ) Haines, great-great-grandson of Richard
and Mary (Carlile) Haines, and great-great-
great-grandson of Richard (the immigrant)
and Margaret Haines.
(IV) 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 continued 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, 1890, Mary Elizabeth,
daughter of Dr. Elijah B. and Rachel (Ins-
keep) Woolston.
The family names Reid. Reed.
RIED Read and ' Ried have been well
known in .American liistory 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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595
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, Stienbach,
Baden, Germany, in July, 1827, and came over
to America 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
Bischoff, who was born in Diet Largen,
Pfortzheim, Baden, Germany, March 23. 1826,
daughter of Michael and Teresa Bischofif.
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, Virginia. 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
(Bischofif) Ried had five children: i. Edward
F., see post. 2. Henry \\'., born April 12,
1853. 3. Matthias, born in 1855. 4. W'ilhel-
mina, born October i, 1857, now Mrs. Oatman.
5. Charles \\'., born March 4, i860.
(III) Edward F., eldest son and child of
Charles and Wilhelmina (Bischoff) Ried, was
born in Lumberton, 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 appliances.
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 gratify-
ing success. A firm Democrat, he served in
various capacities, such as township clerk,
school trustee, postmaster under President
Cleveland's administration, and other ofifices.
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 A. Amish, of Lumberton, and
has one son, Kenneth F. Ried. 4. Anna AL,
born 1881, married William J. Oatman, 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 May, 1889. 8. Francis W., 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
public 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,
I)resident of the Lumberton Light & Water
Company, treasurer of the Firemen's Relief
Association of Lumberton, member 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. an 1 Virginia M. (Benny) Amish,
of Lumberton, and has one daughter, Majorie
Ross Ried, born September 7, 1904.
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STATF, OF Xl-.W IKRSKV.
riio fust roconl
SCll\\.\l!i:.\l..\Xl) foiiiKl of this fam-
ily they were living
•11 Hesscn. a town of Gcnnany, located on the
Rhine river, where they were resiK'etoii eiti-
zens. They have made an honorable jilace
for themselves in whatever place in America
they have Iticated, and have been usefnl and
successful citizens.
^ 1 ) C~hristian Schwabenland spent his en-
tire life in (.icrmany. and died there, lli^
children were: John J., residing in West Phila-
delphia; l.enhart Christian: Helena, deceased.
(\l) l.enhart Christian, second son of
(."hristian Schwabenland, was born in 1835. at
Hessen. Darmstadt, liermany, and ilied in
rhiladdphia. reinisylvania. jnnc 5. 190:1. 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 Philadelphia. 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
Havrisburg. Pennsylvania. In politics he was
a Reinibliean. He was affiliatcil with the an-
cient I-"ree and Accepted Masons, and was a
jirominent member of the Order of Redmen,
of Philadelphia, He was an active member
of the Lutheran church, of which he was trus-
tee. He married (^ first ^ Helena Saner, boni
in Cennany: she died at the birth of her only
child, Edward, in 1858. Mr. Schwabenland
married (_ second) Agnes Webber, of Phila-
delphia, and their children were: i. Louisa,
married Joseph W'erst, a tanner of Sewall,
Xew Jersey. 2. Henry, residing at Philadel-
phia. 3. Emma, married William tirube. 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.
."schwabenland still resides at Philadelphia.
(lin Edward, son of Lenhart Christian
and Helena (Saner "> Schwabenland, was born
March i, 1858, at Philadelphia, receiving his
edtication in the public schools and RingoK!
schivM of that city. He began work at the
age of sixteen, in a general butcher and cattle
business, being stationed at the Fanners' Mar-
ket, at Philadelphia, and at the end of four
years embarked in business for himself in that
city. His business is still located at Phila-
delpliia, where he carries on a wholesale com-
mission business, though since MarcJi 12.
1888, his residence has been at Riverside, Xew
Jersey. He has spent nnich time and money
in the building up of Riverside, and owns
many valuable pieces of land in that town.
.\s the result of his etforts the land aroimd
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 Riversitle. Since his
arrival in the town he has been active in its
atiairs. was elected to the school board before
the buikhng of the hanilsome new building,
raised the fire company, and at the present
time has charge of putting in the sewerage
system. He is connnissioner of appeals,
county chairman of the Democratic parly,
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 bis first residence in Riverside. Mr.
Schwabenland is a member of the Elks, also
of several Gennan benevolent orders, is a life
member of the Turners and ^Liennerchor, and
belongs to the Lutheran church.
He married, in 1884. Paviline M.. daughter
of Jacob Lund, and they have children as fol-
lows: I. Edward L., born December 22, 1S84.
in Philadelphia. 2. Sophia Marie, February
7. i8qi, 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
SHEDAKER 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
Burlington, Xew Jersey, died there November
19, 1780. By his wife Rachel he had a son
Jacob.
(H) Jacob (2). son of Jacob (i) and
Rachel Shedaker, was born in 1776, at Burl-
ington, Xew Jersey, died February 5, 1849.
By his wife ^iary, who died in June, 1819. lie
had a son John.
(HI) John, son of Jacob (2) and Mary
Shedaker, was bom January 12, 1801, died
January 18, 1854. He married, Febmary 8.
1824, Elizabeth, daughter of William and
Sarah Rodman, born February 12, iSoi. died
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597
March 19, 1866, and their children were: i.
William 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 I'lidd Marter. 4.
John II., .Ajjril 15, 1831, married Mary Hubbs.
5. Charles, December 10, 1835, died in infancy.
'1. Menry, [•"ebruary 6, 1838, died in infancy.
7. Elizabeth, July 6, 1859, died in infancy.
(IV) Jac<jb D., second son of John and
Elizabeth ( Rodman ) Shedaker, was born in
[826, in liurlington. .\ew Jersey, died August
2, 1907. lieing a large landholrler, 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 cjuantities and
>hip to market in the nearby cities. 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
Ihirlington 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. I fe 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 .\nn.
daughter of Benjamin and .Ann (Keelerj Du-
bell, born in 1829, died in 1889, and they had
>ix children, as follows: i. Charles H., de-
ceased ; he married Flora Perkins, and they
had a son Jacob. 2. I'enjamin Dubell, see
forward. 3. Elizabeth .\nn. 4. Janette. mar-
ried E. P.. Pleisler. 5. Aaron, see forward.
'1. Ezra Budd, see forward.
(\'). Benjamin Dubell, second son of Jacob
1). and Esther Ann (Dubell) Shedaker, was
1) rn October 25, 1851, at Burlington, New
Jersey, received his education in the Shedaker
school and Farnam Preparatory School, and
from 1871 to 1878 served as agent of the
.Shedaker station. Eater he established him-
self in the seed business, in the name of B.
I). Shedaker, now doing business as B. D.
Shedaker & Son, which does an enormous
business in this line, having customers in all
parts of the L'nited States, also in Canada,
lie also grows large (|uantities of roots and
owns about sixty acres of valuable land around
E'Igewater Park, New Jersey, where he re-
sides. He is a Republican in politics, served
five vears as town collector, and the same
length of time as member of the school board.
Mr. Shedaker was representative to the state
legislature from 1902 until 1906, 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
sujjjjort of the .Shedaker .Mission and St.
Stcjjhcn's Church, of Beverly. Mr. Shedaker
married. May 29, 1877, Jennie, daughter of
Gould and Mary ( North j Phinney, of Mon-
roetown, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and
they hafl two children, Harry Phinney, see
forward ; William North, sec forward.
( \T ) 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 William .\'orth, in Phil-
adcljjhia. He next engaged in real estate
business in Atlantic City, which he sold, and
then went to work for Cinnaminson Electric
Light & Power Company, working up to the
position of Superintendent. He was also as-
sistant superintendent anfl harl charge of build-
ing the road for the Cam''en & Trenton Street
railway : he remained with the company six
years, and when the road was sold he removed
to Staunton, Virginia, where he spent a year
managing a street railway and electric light
plant. In 1907 .Mr. Shedaker returned to his
native town anrl became a member of the firm
of P). D. Shedaker & Son. He married, April
29, 1903, Myrtle, daughter of Senator Mit-
chell B. and Theresa (Oliver) Perkins, of
Beverly, New Jersey, and they have a daugh-
ter. Theresa, born .\j)ril 15, 1904.
I \'I ) \\ illiam North, second and younger
son of Benjamin Dul)ell 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 Ixjught oui
his partner and the name became W'illiam 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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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
for a period of two years; in 1904 Mr. Shed-
aker bought out his partner and incorporated
the business under the name of Shedaker 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.
( \' ) .\aron, third son of Jacob D. and
Esther Ann (Dubell) Shedaker, was born .Au-
gust 18, 1858, at the family homestead, in
liurlington. Xew Jersey. He received his
education at the public school and Farnum
Preparatory School, at Beverly. He then
spent some time in the employ of the Penn-
sylvania 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 Republican in jioli-
tics, and has served as township clerk since
the separation of the city and township of
Burlington, in 1894. He is a member of L5url-
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.
(\^) Ezra Budd, fourth and youngest son of
Jacob D. and Esther .\nn ( Dubell ) Shedaker,
was born October 17, i860, at Burlington, .\'ew
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 his brother, .Aaron. He is also un-
married.
One of the self-made and suc-
Tl'lSXOW cessful business men of Xew
Jersey is the representative of
the (iernian 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 jjublic
schools of Germany, Mr. 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
i8f)0, 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,
Xew Jersey; three who died in infancy;
Emma, who married John A. Schneider, of
Delanco, and has two children. Walter and
Henry.
(II) Henry, son of John Henry C. and
Christina ]\Iaria (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 eigliteen
years entered the office of George W. Reed,
a real estate lawyer, w'here he spent three
years in work and .study, at the end of which
time he entered the University of Pennsylva-
nia. He graduated from the law course, in
1887, taking the degree of Bachelor of Law,
and later in the same _\ear entered L'rsinis Col-
lege, of CoUegeville, Pennsylvania, graduating
from the theological course in 189 1. Mr.
Tesnow spent twelve years in the ministry,
seven of which he lived in Denver, Coloratkj,
and in 1903 began to ojierate in real estate,
his office being located for a few months in
Delanco, Xew 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 reaKestate, Mr. Tesnow
deals largely in fire insurance, and has been
unusually successful in all his undertakings.
Besides his large dealings in Riverside, he
also does a large amount of business in the
STATE OF NKW JERSEY.
599
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 Alaennerchor and
Turngemeinde, of Riverside. He is a member
of the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, No. 996, 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 his
fellowmen.
The Shinn family is not only one
SHI XX 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 Eurojje to its
Aryan source in the Hymalayan highlands of
Asia. 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 parish of Soham with
three children: i. A daughter baptized in 1551.
2. Mary, baptized in 1564. 3. John, who is
referred to below.
(H) John, son of Francis Sheene, was ac-
cording to the record married four times,
having nine children by his first marriage and
one by each of his succeeding unions. These
children were: By his first wife, Anne, who
died in i(nj, 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. Francis. 1595, married Joan , who
died 1631, and had: Elizabeth, 1616; Francis,
1618: John, 1623 to 1631 ; and Thomas. 1627.
4. William, 1604, married and had, Anna.
1642; and Mary, 1645. 5. Anna, 1608. 6.
Margaret, i6io. 7. John, born and died 1614.
8. Nicholas. 1614 to 161 5. John Shene had
also by his second marriage, John, 1619. By
his third marriage, Anne, 1621. By his fourth
marriage Thomas, 1630 to 163 1.
(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. Francis, 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
^('SJ- 7- Grace, 1640, married, 1663, John
HoWlett.
(IV) John, son of Clement and Grace
Shinn, was born in Soham parish, county Suf-
folk, Fngland, died in Burlington county, New
Jersey. 1712. 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 1 592, "married Sarah, and had
Jolin who married Jane. In eitTier 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
"Burlington, but whether the latter is the
brother, uncle or father of the former is un-
certain. Nothing more is known about him.
September 18, 1680, 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, 1711-12. By his wife Jane,
whom he married in Soham, he had nine chil-
dren: I. John, married (first) 1686, Ellen
Stacy, and (_ second) 1707, Mary . 2.
George, married, 1691, Mary Thompson. 3.
Mary, married ( first ) i685, John Crosby, and
(second) 1 69 1, 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 16(39. niarried Thomas Atkin-
son. 7. Esther, died unmarried. 8. Francis,
died unmarried. 9. Martha, married, 1697,
Joshua Owen, tne emigrant, and (second)
1729, Restore Liopincott.
(V) James, son of John and Jane Shinn.
was born in England, died in New Hanover
townshi]), Burlington county. New Jersey,
1751. lie lived the longest and was probably
tlie youngest of the children of John Shinn.
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When his sister Martha and Joshua ( )\ven de-
clared their secuntl intentions of marriage, the
members of the meeting were informed tliat
James Shinn and Abigail Lippincott had pnl>
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 trouble 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 Lippincott, 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 declared and the
young people were married at the house of
Restore Lippincott, and John Shinn gave them
one hundred and twenty-one acres of land in
Nnttingham township for their new home.
John Shinn seems to have had little to do with
church or politics. 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 o'f 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, idgj. .Vbigail,
daughter of Restore and Hannah (Shattock)
Li])|)incott. Their children were: i. Hannah,
married John .\tkinson. 2. Hope, married
Michael .Xtkinson. 3. Francis, married Eliza-
In'tli Atkinson. 4. Joseph, who is referred to
1kI<i\v. 5. James Jr., married, 1730, Hannah,
daughter of ( ieorge and Elizabeth ( LipjMn-
cott ) Shinn, and granddaughter of John and
h'llen (.Stacy) Shinn. 6. Solomon, married
.Mary .\nlrim. 7. Clement, married Elizabeth
Webb. 8. .Abigail, married Henry Reeve. 9.
Susanna, married I'artliolomew West, lived in
Monmouth comity and had three .sons in the
revolutionary army. 10. Meri^y. who died un-
married.
f\'I) Joseph, sun of James and .Abigail
( Lil)I)incotl ) .Shitm, was born in Nottingham
township, Ihirlington coimty, in 1703, died in
Mount Holly, I'A'hruary 11, 1731), being buried
in St. .Andrew's churchyard there. Leaving
the Society of Friends, probably as the result
of (Ieorge Keiths'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 ct)unty,
and in Upper Freehold township, Monmouth
county. In 1726 he married Mary, daughter
of William and Elizabeth Budd, the latter a
daughter of Richard and Abigail Stockton, the
emigrants, and granddaughter of William and
Ann (Clapgiit) Budd, the emigrants. Their
children were: i. Patience. 2. Rebecca, mar-
ried George Clapp. 3. William, who is re-
ferred to below. 4. \"estai, 5. Joseph Jr. 6.
Benjamin. 7. John, married Mary Allen. 8,
Francis, married Martha, daughter of George
and Sarah ( Branson) Owen Shinn, and grand-
daughter of (jeorge and Elizabeth (Lippin-
cott ) .Shinn. 9. Abigail, married Joseph
I'.udd.
(\'II) 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 P'rench, of
lUirlington, and their children were: i. Mary,
born Alay 22, 1757. 2, Lydia, 1759, who be-
came the third wife of Caleb Arney Lippin-
cott. 3. Eli, 1 761, died November 9, 1776,
and liuried in St. .Andrew's churchyard, Mount
1 lolly. 4. .Aaron, who is referred to below.
5. J<ise])h. 17(15. niarried, 1783, Mary Lipjiin-
cott.
I \ 111 ) .\aron, fourth child and second son
of William and Sarah (French) Shinn, was
burn in Burlington, New Jersey. In his fa-
ther's will, written May 27, 1767, he with his
brothers and sisters are mentioned as minors.
Nothing more is known about liini except that
he married and had at least one ciiild Eli, who
is referred to below,
(IX) Eli, son of Aaron Shinn, was born in
.Mount Holly, November 13, 1788, died there
June 26, 1869. being buried in St. .Andrew's
churchyard. He married, .April 27, 1791,
Sarah Haines, by whom he had one son,
Giarles Corey, referred to below.
(X) Charles Corey, son of Eli anfl Sarah
I Haines) Shinn, was born February 13, 1814,
in.irriid Dorothy Southwick, who bore him
the childrtMi : 1. ("larrett W. 2. .Aima I., mar-
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ricil a Mr. Rutz. 3. Beiilah, married a Mr.
tiiidd. 4. Sarah, married a Mr. Gaskell. 5.
Charles Henry, who is referred to below.
(XI) Charles Henry, youngest child of
Charles Corey and Dorothy (South wick)
Shinn, was born in Burlington county, Sep-
tember 18, 1843. He was at one time sheriff
of Burlington count)' and prominent in poli-
tics. He married. March 17, 1868, Anna Eliz-
abeth, daughter of Carlton Ridgway and
Mary Harde (McClure) Moore. Her mother
was the daughter of David and Janet Mc-
Clure. of Philadelphia. Benjamin ^Ioore. the
founder of the family, came from Birming-
ham, Lincolnshire. England, to Burlington,
New Jersey, and married Sarah, daughter of
Thomas and Mary ^Bernard) Stokes. His
son. Benjamin, married, in 1730, Rebecca,
daughter of Joseph Fennimore, and their fifth
child and second son, Bethuel^ born March 14,
1741, married Martha, daughter of John Allen.
Tlieir 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 Xehemiah Haines and
Abigail, daughter of Xoah 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.
Xehemiah was the son of Jonathan Haines
and Hannah, daughter of William and Mary
(.\ustin) 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.
.\fter the civil war he went to Xorthampton
county, \"irginia. where he died. By his wife,
Mary Harde (McClure) Moore, he had:
Mary B., who married George Wolfe; Jacob
Ri 'gway. died unmarried; Carlton Ridgway
Jr.. married Elizabeth Van Xess ; Helen Clara,
married John B. Irick, 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.
(XH) 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. Fie
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 Xew Jersey bar in June,
1895, beginning 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 secretarj' 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 of the Elks of Mount Holly
and of the Modern Woodmen of America.
He married, February 15, 1904, Anna,
daughter 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 Hannah (Lamb) Austin.
The Loder family has for gen-
Lf )DER 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
]jrominent contractors and builders of Bridge-
ton. New Jersey. His children were: i. Ben-
jamin Pettitt. married Elizabeth Nicholson. 2.
William Pettitt, married .\ner Daniel. 3. Ella
M.. unmarried. 4. Martha, 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.
(H) Charles Henry, son of David Pettitt
Loder. of Bridgeton, 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 count\-, 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 Ward, referred to below. 2. Emily
Richer, born August 25, 1886. 3. Martha
.\nn. ;\larch 21. 1889. 4. May \ annaman,
October 10, i8i;5. 5. l-Vances 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, from which he graduated in 1902. He
then took up the study of law in the ofifice 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 2;^. 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 jiarty in his county. In 1906
he was the canclidate 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 lie
is a past grand, and secretary of Bridgeton
Commercial League.
Adam Reber Sloan, of Camden.
SI,( )A\ .\cw Jer.sey, is the son of James
Clement and Lucy (Reber)
Sloan. The father was born near Tuckertoii,
.\ew 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 H., died a spinster: Esther 1>..
died in 1908: the Rev. Harold Paul, a Metho-
dist Episcopal minister; Eva T. IL, married a
Mr. Earl. 2. .\dam Reber, referred to below.
Adam Reber .Sloan was born in Camden,
New Jersey, May 11, 1854, and is now living
in Atco, New Jersey. For 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 Mcicark
Ei'cning Nczcs, 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 ui) 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,
1898. Since this time he has been engaged in
the general practice of his profession in Cam-
den, New Jersey. Mr. 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 Commandery, No.
7, Knights Templar, of Camden; \'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 Grand Inspectors General, of
the Scottish Rite Masons, which thus makes
him a thirty-third degree Alason. 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
Pennsylvani;i. Tlair children are : i. Dorothy
\Vyle, now a student at the New Jersey State
.Xormal School. 2. Lucy Emily, now attend-
ing the public school in .Atco, Camden county.
Xew Jersey. Minnie L. (Wyle) Sloan died
.Siptember 2, 1893, and Mr. Sloan married
(second) December 18, 1900. Elizabeth M.
Kase. On her wedding day she was commis-
sioned by the governor of New Jersey as a
commissioner of deeds and a notary public.
I'.enjamin Githens.of Philadel-
( irn 1 1'. .\'S [)hia, is one of the most suc-
cessful merchants and finan-
ciers of that city, and his family has been
identified w ith New Jersey for many genera-
tiniis. It is unfortunate, however, that there
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are but few records except those of intermar-
riages with prominent and inHuential branches
of the old historic families of the colonies on
the Delaware, ancF 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 Githens, father of Benjamin
Githens, was born in the southern part of New
Jersey, where he married Sarah Wear Mun-
roe, whose father came to this country from
Scotland. He lived at Juliustown, Burlington
county, where their children were born.
(II) Benjamin, son of Clayton and Sarah
\V. (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 lie 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 efforts. Mr. Githens is
also intimately identified with very many of
P^hiladelphia's other mercantile and financial in-
stitutions. He is a director and vice-president
of the Philadelphia Warehouse and Cold Stor-
age Company, and for twenty-five years has
been a director in the Corn Exchange National
Bank, of Philadelphia, 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 Jersey. He is a member of
the Philadelphia .Art Club, 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.
IJenjamin ("lithens married Mary, daughter
of William Prettyman, of Philadelphia, and
their children are: 1. Augustus Decan, born in
Philadelphia, 1861, 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 .\lan Calvert, of Philadelphia, who is
in the tin plate and metal business. They have
two children, Benjamin Githens Calvert and
Jean Githens Calvert. Mr. Githens and fam-
ily are members of the First Baptist Church of
I'hiladelphia. He is now one of the trustees
and a deacon.
.\ccording to the opinions of anti-
GREY quarians who have studied the
origin of surnames in Great Britain
the names Grey and Gray 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 ) Philij) 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.
(11) 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 Hvmterdon 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, April 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,
K^of). 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 Union League
Club of Philadelphia and of the Princeton
Club.
Mr. Grey married Louise E^ooth Sinnickson,
daughter of .\ndrew Sinnickson, of Salem.
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Xow Jersey, and has had fuur children: i.
Louise Sinnicksun, burn Woodbury, New Jer-
sey, January 12, 1896. 2. Martin Philip Jr.,
born Woodbury, April 17, 1897, died February
19. 1902. 3. Lucy Brady, born August 20,
n/x). 4. .Xorma, born October 8, 1903.
The Evans family trace their line
JA A.WS of descent from Wales back to
Alervyn Yrych, King of the Isle
of Alan, who was killed in battle with the King
of iMercia, A. D. 843. Some branches of the
family spell their name with an "e" instead of
an "a," which has arisen from a clerical error
of early days, as the name originated from the
five sons of levan, known as Evan Robert
Lewis, who in 1601 was living in Wales, Eng-
laiKJ, the sons according to the Welsh custom
taking for tiiemselves 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 wdiile
it is ])robable it is not absolutely certain that he
emigrated to this country. The first mention in
tlie records is the will of his widow, Jane, dated
February 16, 1696, in which she styles herself
as of Evesham, llurlington county. This will
was proved .Xoveiuber 2, 1697, by her son and
e.xecutor 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 ,\gnes, sister to Thomas and
William.
(II) William F>ens, 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, I'urlington county, and mentions his
wife Elizabeth, his children, Thomas, Jane and
John, the last of whom is under age. Mis wife
Elizabeth was a minister among F'riends, his
daughter Jane married William Mudson, and
his son Thomas is referred to below.
(III) Thomas, son of William and Eliza-
beth Evens, married (first) in 1715, Esther,
daughter of John and Esther (Rorton) Haines,
who died in 1728, and bore him si.x children:
I. William, born September 6, 1716, married
Sarah Roberts. 2. FJizabeth, January cS, 1718,
married Joseph Lipjiincott. 3. Isaac, referred
to below. 4. Esther, December 0, 1722, mar-
ried .Samuel Atkinson. 5. Jacob, January 14,
1725, married (first) Rachel Eldridge, and
(second) Mary Cherrington. 6. Nathan,
1727, married Susanna Ga.skill. 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.
1 73 1, 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.
(IV) 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.
.\t this point there are conflicting traditions
and an unfortunate lack of extant 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
liathsheba, 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., wd:o is referred to below.
.\nother 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.
(\T) 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 between 1825 and
1830. By his wife Margaret (McN'inney)
Evans he had six children: James M.. referred
to below, William K., Nchemiah C, Sarah,
Elizabeth, Mary, who died young.
(VII) James M., son of Isaac (2) and
Margaret (McN'inney) Evans was born in
Medford, Burlington county, in 1821, died in
Moorestown, New Jersey, 1897. He received
a common school eclucation, 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 MouiU
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Laurel. After this he went into the carriage
bu.sine.ss in Aloorestown and continued in thi.s
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 Med ford. 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, daugliter 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 Moorestown,
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.
(VIII) 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 Aloorestown, 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 Moorestown, 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 member 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.
Fie 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) Wallace, of Palmyra, New Jersey. Their
children are: i. Laura Virginia, married D.
Walker Boneau, of Moorestown, 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 L^niversity. He married Geraldine
Albray, 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-
ADAMS 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
(lied December 16, 1859. He was a carpenter
and builder. Fie erected many buildings in
the vicinity, and was a successful contractor.
He married Nancy .
(III) Jacob C, son of John and Nancy
Adams, 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 by his
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(IcscciKlaiits. I le was a member of the Re-
]niblicaii party, and served as overseer of high-
ways and on the township committee. He was
an CJdd Fellow, belonging to Beverly Lodge
Xo. 22. His religious faith was Presbyterian,
of wliieli church he was an exemplarv mem-
ber. jaciihC'. Adams married Alary .\nn Wil-
son, who bore him three children: i. Henry
Clay (see forward). 2. Samuel. 3. Cornelia
(Mrs. Joseph Cabriel, of Philadelphia).
( I\') Henry Clay, first born child of Jacob
C. and Mary .\. (Wilson) 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 In own and conduct the property. He con-
tinues the manufacture of brick, and in ad-
dition o])erates a coal and wood yard in Edge-
water Park. His specialty in agriculture is
gardening for the Philadelphia market. Mr.
.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. .\dams 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 1S80; 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 .\llen Smith is a
SMI ril 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
througli all the hardshi|)s and privations inci-
dent to the 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.
■["he hardships they passed through in that
rugged climate bred in their descendants a
hardiness 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. Smith is a worthy
descendant of his ancestors. He 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, antl 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 ])roblems that confront the progressive,
daring business man, and he gained a com-
fortable competence, as well as becoming a
seasoned, practical man of aiYairs. Mr. Smith
is emphatically 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 Alachine Company, estab-
lished by H. P.. Smith in 1847, and since 1865
located at Smithville, New Jersey. This plant
manufactures wood working machinery of
every description, and employs from three
hundred to five hundred operatives, covers,
with its extensive factories and grounds in-
cluding the village owned by the company,
about 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 difi"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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607
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'crona, Elizabeth and Lois. His
sons are associated with their father in busi-
The family of King at present
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 part of the nineteenth centur\'.
bringing his wife Anna (Wilson) King, and
they had children: William, Joseph R., re-
ferred to below, Abigail, Eleanor.
(H) Joseph Ray, son of Ray and .\nna
(Wilson) King, was born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, about 1803. died in Burlington.
New Jersey, in 1845. He was highly edu-
cated, was quite a linguist and followed his
father's trade of silversmith. He was a mem-
ber of the Society of Friends. He married
Mary Gaskill, daughter of Caleb and Elizabeth
(\\'illiams) Gaskill, of Eurlington, 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 Joseph Ray and ^larj' (Gas-
kill) King were: .Anna Wilson. Elizabeth, re-
ferred to below, William Gaskill and George
Gaskill. tw-ins.
(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 Wilmington
and at the Westtown Frienrls' 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 Buzby, was a school teacher: he
lived in Philadelphia most of his life and his
children were : Susanna, deceased ; VMlliam
Paul, a contractor in Philadelphia : Nicholas,
mentioned above : 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 Sunday school and ac-
tively identified with everything pertaining to
the church and its interests. He was not in-
terested in politics. He was a Mason in Phila-
delphia and is a thirty-second degree Mason.
Nicholas and Elizabeth (King) Buzby had
only one daughter, who died in infancy.
The members of this fam-
DOXO\'.-\X 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 Springfield, ^lassachusetts, where he re-
mained until his death. He married Cather-
ine Hayes, born in Ireland, died in Chicopee
I'alls, Alassachusetts. Their children w'ere :
John, deceased : Mary : Julia ; Joanna : Patrick,
died in Ireland ; Timothy : Daniel.
(II) Daniel, fourth son of James and
Catherine (Hayes) Donovan, was bom in
1829, in county Cork, Ireland, and there
learned the trade of shoemaker. He emi-
grated to .America, landing in New York, July
3. 1849, ^n*^' later settled in Chicopee Falls,
Alassachusetts, 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 his 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 Philadelphia. 7. Kate, living
at Hartford, Connecticut. 8. Lizzie, living in
Philadelphia. 9. Annie, deceased. 10. Dan-
iel, living at West Philadelphia. 11. Frank,
living at Philadelphia. 12. Willie, lives with
Timothy T-. at Riverside, New Jersey.
(Ill ) Timothy Jeremiah, third son of Dan-
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
ifl 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. x-\t the age of twenty
he spent a year in the west, spending most of
the time in Minnesota 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
Henevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and
belongs to the Riverside Fire Company.
Mr. Donovan married (first) in 1880, Eliz-
abeth, daughter of Patrick McGrath, of Phila-
delphia, and they had one daughter, Mabel
Ella, wdio 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 August,
1903-
Lord John IMitldleton
AHDDLETON married at St. Andrews,
Helborn, December" 16,
1666, Martha Carew.
(U) John (2), son of Lord John (i) and
Martha (Carew) Middleton, was born in Eng-
land in 1686, died at Crosswicks, Chesterfield
townshiji, Burlington county, New Jersey, in
1 74 1. lie 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. Lie married, January 14, 1710,
Esther Gilberthro]jc, who was bom in the
Province of West Jersey, December, 1684,
and died at Crosswicks in 1759, daughter of
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
Aliddleton, of Crosswicks, the earliest ancestor
of the family under consideration here of
whom we have any reliable record or informa-
tion.
(I\') Jacob Middleton, grandson of John
of Crosswicks, and great-grandson of Lord
John of Helborn, England, was born at Cross-
wicks, New Jersey, in 1751, 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. lie was
a brick mason by trade and a farmer by prin-
cipal 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.,
died young.
(VL) Albert, son of Jacob (2) and Sibylia
(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 Ann S. Middleton, born 1822
died December, 1890, daughter of Allen Mid-
dleton. Children : Emma E., born October,
1845, married Robert Love, of Philadelphia;
Walter Jeanes, see post.
(Nil) Walter Jeanes, son of Albert and
Ann S. (Middleton) ^liddleton, 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 ne.xt thirty years was prominently iden-
tified with the business life and history of the
])lace, for he was a capable and prosperous
l)usiness 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 re(|uire
his attention ; he is also a director of the
1 hiinesijort 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 M., daughter of Benjamin Jr.
and Sarah (West) Thorn, of Crosswicks. Mr.
and Mrs. Middleton 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
Hainesport was captain of the steamer "Bar-
clay," plying 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.
He married, in 1832, Sarah West, born Sep-
tember 7. 1813, daughter of Thomas West.
Their children were George W., of Moores-
town, New Jersey : Sarah, married Josiah D.
I*ancoast ; Anna M., married Walter Jeanes
Middleton; Lucy R., married (first) George
Taylor, (second) James Thornton; Ellen H.
married William Bartram ; Albert M., a ma-
chinist at Frankfort ; Caroline R., married
Charles Ballinger, a farmer of Lumberton,
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, Pennsylvania, 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 Walker 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 Philadelphia 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
constantly obliged to increase his investment
and e.N-tend his lines until 1892 when he built
the present factory at Burlington. Here he
was the active, energetic, modern business man
until his death in 1901. Mr. Lewis was inter-
ested in other business enterprises and in the
financial institution of Burlington in an official
ca])acity 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
Masonic 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 F. Doolin, by whom there was no issue.
Annie Maria (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
crossed the ocean to America with her parents.
(Jne child was born in America. John Kimble,
father of Mrs. 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 another
son Job and a daughter Nancy, who married
a Mr. 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 Morris, born in 1832: Susan Mar-
tin, 1833: Daniel, 1835; Annie Maria, 1837;
Charles Wesley, 1839; 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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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Jersey, July i, 1862. He was educated in the
country schools near Jacksonville, Burlington
county, New Jersey, and at the Burlington
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, Air. Lewis spent several
years on the road, selling the goods made at
tile factory. Previous to his father's death
he was in charge of the business, and at that
time assumed 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 is actively
interested in the financial and other business
institutions of 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-president 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 si-x 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 infiuential 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 h;o9 session he was fioor 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-
diniit ('liai)ter. No. 3; a Knight Templar of
IhUiia Comniandery, No. 3; a Shriner of
Lulu Teniiilc, Philadel])hia, and a thirty-sec-
ond degree Mason of Camden Consistory of
tiie Scottish Rite. He is an Odd Fellow of
Phoenix Lodge, No. 92; a Knight of Pythias
of Ho]ic Lodge, No. 73. and past exalted ruler
of Mt. Ilnlly Lodge of Elks. No. 848. In re-
ligious preference Mr. Lewis is Presbyterian.
Air. Lewis married, June 2.J, 1893, i^lary
R. P"enton, of Jacksonville, Burlington county,
New Jersey, daughter of William Watson and
Rhoda ( F"alkinburg ) Fenton. Children: i.
Howard Fenton, born in Burlington, New
Jersey, April i, 1894, passed through the pub
lie schools 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-
FRENCH names the French family ap-
peared in England soon after
the Norman conquest. 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 chiefiy in the south-
eastern counties, but later they appeared 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 RoUo, Duke of Normandy.
In England, before the close of the thirteenth
century, the French family had become ex-
tensive, prosperous and influential. In York
the name was spelled Francais, in Berks
I-frensli, in Middlesex Frenssh, in Somerset
F"reiisce, 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 of the line at present under consid-
eration.
I I ) Thomas ffrench. father of the jjto-
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 Ncwbottle Grove,
county Northampton, seven miles south b_\'
west from the city of .Northampton, EnglaiKl.
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, when the
registers begin, down to 1680, when the emi-
grant left his English home, there are over
sixty references to the French family, all evi-
dently referring to the same line. Thomas
ffrench 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, 1651. By his second wife. Martha,
he had: 7. Robert, 1657. 8. Martha, 1660.
Thomas fifrench was buried May 5, 1673.
Sara, his first wife^ was buried February y,
1653-
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i) antl
Sara ffrench, the progenitor of the French
family in New Jersey, was born in 1639 and
baptized the same year in the parish church
of SS. Peter and Paul, Nether Heyford.
When 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. Upon 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 Bessc's re-
markable book, "Suff'erings 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 French 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
hardships and always resented everything
bearing the slightest resemblance to injustice
and oppression. He was consequently among
the first to take a practical interest in the colo-
nization of Friends in America. With \Vil-
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 an<l nine children,
four sons and five daughters, the eldest being
sixteen, the youngest not yet four years of age.
He settled upon a tract of six hundred acres,
along tlie banks of the Rancocas, about four
miles from Rurlineton. 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
imjjroved land and also his proprietory share
of the unsurveyed lands, approximately two
thousand acres. During nearly twenty years
residence as a leading citizen of Burlington
county, Thomas ffrench trained all of his chil-
dren in ways of sobriety, industry and religion,
they in turn founding families in whom traits
of 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. An 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 ])reservation 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 ffVench 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 ft'rench was married
(first) in the parish church of Whilton, 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) .Mathew .Allen, and (second) Hugh
.Sharp. 4. Richard, referred to below. 5.
Thomas, baptized October 31, 1667: married
(first) Mary 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, baptized
April 2, 167 1 : 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) W'ickward. 9.
Sarah, baptized February 23, 1674: married
Isaac Wo(xl. of Woodbury Creek. 10. Mary,
baptized August 8, 1675, died 1728; married
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Nicholas lUizby. of Burlington county, ii.
Jane, baptized November 19, 1676; married
Daniel Hall. 12. Lydia. born probably 1682;
married jjrobably. 1708, David Arnold. 13.
An infant, died 8th month 12, 1692. Jane
(Atkins) French died at Rancocas, 8th month
5, 1692, and Thomas French married (sec-
ond) 7th month 25. 1696, 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 Murfin.
(Ill) Richard T'rench, fourth child and
eldest son of Thomas (2) and Jane (.Vtkins)
French, was born in Nether Heyford, Eng-
land, the memorandum in the family Bible of
his father reading "December the first about
ten at tiight my son Richard was borne, 1665.
The Lord give him grace that bee may con-
tinually walk bcf(jre 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
jjlantation. That he was devoted to farm life
is shown in the fact that upon his marriage he
purchased an extensive tract of land, four
hundred 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.
lie was a faithful and zealous Friend, his
name appearing many times in the meeting
reccjrds of the period. In 1715 he was chosen
overseer of the Chesterfield fleeting and in
1723 an elder and a minister. He was also
fre(|uently chosen as a representative to
(|uarterly and yearly meeting. Although now
past middle age, he nevertheless continued for
a f|uarter of a century active in the work of
I)rcacliing 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
papers show, particularly his will anfl the ac
companying inventory, he was active and pros-
perous. In 1 701 he was the collector for
Mansfield townshij). He raised a large fam-
ily and all of his ten children reached a mar-
riageable age. The peculiar phraseology of his
recorded pajiers indicate a mind exceedingly
careful of details, with a just and kindly spirit,
and the monthly meeting fittingly leslifieil after
his death that 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 F'rench
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
PVench married (second) 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 1694; mar-
ried William Scholey. 2. Richard, Eighth
month, 20, 1696; married Rachel . 3.
Thomas. 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
William Marlin. 8. Abigail, born seventh
month 5, 1717; married (first) James Lewis,
of Philadeljihia. and (second) Jacob Taylor.
9. Benjamin, twelfth month 11, 1719, died
1747: married Martha Hall, of Bordentown.
10. Jonathan, eleventh month 27, 1722, died
1778: married Esther Matlack.
( 1\ I William, sixth child and third son of
Richard and Mary (King) French, was born
.\[)ril 7, 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. William
French married, September 20, 1748, Lydia
Taylor, of Bordentown, by whom he had three
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.
(V) William (2), eldest son of William
(i) and Lydia (Taylor) French, was born in
Burlington county, New Jersey, May 10, 1731,
died October 27, 1808. He was a millwright
and appears to have spent most of his life at
Lamberton, New Jersey, although he also
seems to have for a considerable time so-
journed both in Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
and in Iladdonficld, New Jersey. September
17, 1777. h*^ married at Falls meetinsr. Rachel,
daughter of Thomas and Hannah Rickey, of
Lower Makefield township,, Bucks coimty,
Pennsylvania, who died in Lamberton. New
Jersey, .'\ugust 27, 1827. Their children
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were: i. Lydia, 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 23, 1785. 5. Mah-
lon Kirkbride, referred to below. 6. Amos
Taylor, January 23, 1791 : married Ruth
Ewing. 7. Rachel Rickey, February 22, 1794.
(\I) :\Iahlon Kirkbride, fifth child and
third son of William (2) and Rachel (Rickey )
F"rench, was born June 12, 1788. He married.
May 15, 1807, Sarah Stackhouse. Among
their children was : William Washington, re-
ferred to below.
( \ II ) William W'ashington, son of Mahlon
Kirkbride and Sarah (Stackhouse) French,
was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Feb-
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 1851 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 .Airy, of Bor-
dentown, Burlington 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 \'olunteer 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
Taylor, referred to below. 9. George, a mill
worker, living in Philadelphia and married.
10. Elizabeth, deceased. 11. Ella, deceased.
(\'III) John Taylor, the eighth child of
William 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. After 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 1900 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.
]\Ir. French is a director in the Hammonton
Trust Company, and for nearly five years was
the postmaster at Hammonton. having been
appointed to that very responsible position by
President Grover 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 Ijuilding 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 Carder of Odd Fellows,
Artisans' Order of Mutual Protection. He is
an independent in religion.
In 1873 John Taylor French married Jennie
R., daughter of William Alexandria. Their
children are: I. John Taylor Jr., born Sep-
tember 15, 1874; unmarried; with his father
in the paint supply business. 2. Ida F.. July
2S, 1876; 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 ^label Maxwell he has two children, Vir-
ginia and Roberta. 4. Walter, December 16,
1880: married Elizabeth Ketes, but has no
chil'ren. 3. Wilbert .\.. October 21, 1882:
also with his father in the paint business ;
married ^lartha Murray and has one child.
John Tavlor French.
Nathan Armstrong, the
.ARMSTRONG New Jersey pioneer, was
born about 1 717. near
Londonderry in the province of Ulster, 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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STATE OF NEW [ERSEY.
and sL-tlled in \\ arrcn county, then a part of
Sussex, where he met antl loved and married
a maiden by the name of Euphemia Wright,
lie 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
iiome and the rewards of industry and thrift.
The defeat of the English army under
I'.radilock near Pittsburg in 1755 caused a
])anic : 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 ^larksboro and
took their wives ami 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 fatlier
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-
cajied they should remember where the money
was: then they all went to the fort where the
children remained until the danger was over.
Xathan .Armstrong was interested in local
affairs and held several offices in old Hard-
wick. He was a member of the board of jus-
tices and freeholders of Sussex county for
tiiree years, 1759-^1 ; and he was one of the
original incorporators of Christ Episcopal
Church at Xewton, being named as such in the
charter granted to that church by the pro-
vincial government of New Jersey on .\ugust
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
week of May, 1748. .At that time Warren
county was really a western frontier. Some
Indians still lingered in the valleys of the
I'aulinskill and the I'eciuest, living at ])oints
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 ground now occu])ied by Blairstown, New-
ton and Relvidere ; and there were only three
post! fifices in the entire state of New Jersey,
namely : Trenton. Burlington and Perth
Amboy. .\1I north Jersey was thickly covered
with heavy timber ; the streams were without
bridges, and the king's highways were mere
])aths through the woods.
P>ears, 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
tierce with hunger prowled about, seeking to
carry off any stray hogs, lambs and calves,
hunting in packs during the day and making
re])eated attacks at night on sheep-pen and
cattle-stall. There was a bounty of sixty shil-
lings for a full-grown wolf, ten shillings for
a wdielp 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 w'as 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, ornainented
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
nth, .Anno Domini 1777. aged about sixty
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 money
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 Memoirs,
speaks of her thus: "Aly grandmother Arm-
strong was a lady of superior mental endow-
ment. She excelled in conversational power.
I well recollect in my childhood and youth with
what a glowing interest and fixed 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 F.u-
phemia .Armstrong had seven children,
nanuly: Elizabeth, George and John, William,
Mary, Hannah and Sarah; each one of these
children grew to maturity, married and has
descendants living at the present time.
I. Elizabeth Armstrong, born Alarch 12,
1747, married .Archibald Stinson Jr., of
\'ienna. 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 determining latitude
and longitude and secured a patent for the
same, both in the United States and in Eng-
land.
2-^. George and John, twins ; according to
tlie 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 lielvidere. George died December 14, 1829.
in his eighty-first year ; and John died Alay 7,
1836, in his eighty-seventh year. All the fam-
ilies that now bear the name of Armstrong and
that trace their descent from Xathan the pio-
neer, have sprung from the one or the other
of these twins : and this article will give an
account of all the Armstrong 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 Armstrong served during the
revolutionary war as ensign in Captain Clif-
ford's company of Susse.x militia, marching
on several expeditions 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 during 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
Alexander Linn, son of Adjutant Joseph Linn ;
when a widow she removed in 1800 to Espy-
ville, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, with her
si.x children : John ; Mary, who married Robert
McArthur; 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-six.
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 ex-
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 Xathan 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 influ-
ence of the Yellow Frame church.
He was prominent in local affairs. He was
the clerk of Hardwick township for twenty-two
consecutive years, 1 779-1801, and the assessor
for thirty-one years beginning in 1782; he was
also tax 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-
pointed 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.
(jeorge'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 house, 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-bv
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stood the bark-house and the bark grinder with
its circular horse-path. In those days 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.
Cieorge 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. Most of these books
treated of moralitv and religion, such as the
evidences of Christianity, the works of Ed-
wards and of W itherspoon, 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 George .Arm-
strong.
He married Sarah Hunt, daughter of Lieu-
tenant Richard Hunt, and had Rachel, the
wife of John Locke: Richard; John, born
1788, died 1873; Elizabeth, the wife of John
O. Rice; Sarah, the wife of Japliet P.. ('liecl-
ister; and David Hunt.
(IH) Richard, son of (ieorge and Sarah
.Armstrong, married Phebe Hankinson and had
one child. .Saniuel Hunt Armstrong, who
married Margaret Wilson and had Xor-
eena, the wife of William Percy Bennett,
and Lozenia, the wife of Daniel Jose])h Mc-
Clurg, of Espyville, Pennsylvania.
( III) John, son of George anil .Sarah .Arm-
strong, married Lydia Kirkpatrick, daughter
of Captain John and Lydia (Lewis) Kirk-
patrick. ;md 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,
who married Ira C. Kerr. David Lewis .Arm-
strong married Elizabeth Roy and had two
children: Sarah .Matilda, the wife of MiltdU
Howard Soverel ; and George Byram Arm-
strong, who married Sarah Rubina L'Homa-
dieu and had .Aima Elizabeth, the wife of
.Alvah J. Walters; Cora Rubina; and Hattie
Valentine. William Armstrong, the sheriff,
married Elizabeth Mackey, of Belvidere, and
had John Mackey, Israel, and Eutokia.
(IV) Richard Turner, son of John and
Lydia Armstrong, was born January 15, 1823,
died November 26, 1902 ; he dwelt at Johnson-
burg, New 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 \'irginia Lenher,
daughter of George H. Lenher, and had a
daughter Marion Lenher, and four sons,
Richard Clinton, George Lenher, John Mac-
dougall and William Chnton Jr. John W.
Armstrong married Laura Ellen Willson,
daughter of Jesse Willson, and had Edna
Mabel, wife of Charles \\'atson Gibbs ; and
John W., Jr. George Lundy Armstrong mar-
ried Sarah Frances Reeder, daughter of Sedg-
wick R. Reeder, and had Carrie, the wife of
Bertram Drake : and Bessie.
\\ dliam Clinton Armstrong graduated from
Princeton College in the class of 1877. He stud-
ied law and was admitted to the bar. He became
princi]ial of the high school at New Brunswick,
New Jersey, in 1891, and in 1899 '^^'^^ elected
superintendent of schools in that city. In 1895
he published a "( Genealogical Record of the De-
scendants of Nathan Armstrong," in which are
given the names of all persons descending
from that worthy pioneer, traced through both
male and female lines. In 1902 he published
the "Lundy Family and Their Descendants
of Whatsoever Surname," with a biograjjliical
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 published in 1903 under the title of "Patri-
ntic I 'oenis of New Jersey."
(ill) David Hunt, son of George and
Sarah .Armstrong, dwelt on his father's farm.
He married Mary Ann Albertson and had
seven children : .Sarah Jane, the wife of Esaac
D. ^'oumans: Martha Elizabeth, the wife of
.Andrew Raub Toel : George A.: Isaac .A.;
William P.: Milton N. ; and Clinton Oren
ArnistrDUg.
Geortre .\. .XmistroUi? married .Marthia C'alla
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W'intermute, removed to Dorchester, Nebraska,
and had : Austin Craig ; David WiUiam ;
Flora Belle, the wife of Henry Nelson;
and Matilda Ann, the wife of Dennis Ross.
Austin Craig Armstrong, now of Glencoe,
lllinuis, married Minnie A, Weinecke and
has tjeorge Henry. Isaac A. Armstrong mar-
ried Maria T. McCallister and had Mary C,
Alice L., Edwin and Hugh Hunt. William
Preston Armstrong married Alice Wildrick
and had Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. Gallagher,
of E5rooklyn. Milton Nathan Armstrong, AI.
D., married Elizabeth Blair, and has Robert B.
and Mar)% the wife of Harold Hastings
Cooley. Clinton Oren Armstrong married
Elizabeth S. Mott, dwelt at Milford, Pennsyl-
vania, and has Harold Rodney, Maxwell and
Natalie Bartow.
(H) John, son of Nathan and Euphemia
.\rmstrong. born 1749, died 1836, was a man
of influence. His 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 until his own sons relieved him. In
1776 he was assessor of Hardwick township;
the ne.xt two years he was town clerk ; then he
was freeholder; and after that he was the ta.x
collector of Sussex county for eight years.
During the revolutionary war he was lieuten-
ant in Captain .Aaron Hankinson's company,
second regiment of Sussex 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 both 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 properties
in that section of the country, and which has
recent!}' 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 land on the Kit-
tatinny mountains ten miles away; and there
manufactured charcoal which he carted to
Paulina to use in the forge. After 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 Philadelphia. His enter-
prise and energy overcame all difficulties. But
the times changed and the smelter at Andover
had to shut ilown owing to economic conditions
that effected the whole country. As a conse-
cjuence no pig-iron could be obtained and the
refining forge at Paulina was compelled to
close.
John Armstrong was vice-president of the
Warren County Bible Society, president of
the Hardwick Temperance Society, and a
member of the first board of directors of the
Sussex Bank.
He married Sarah Stinson ; their children
were John, Jr.; Nathan; Jacob; Mary, the
wife of Samuel Snover King; Sarah, the wife
of John R. Howell; Euphemia, the wife of
\Vilson Hunt; and Eleanor, the wife of Isaac
Shiner.
( III ) John, Jr., son of John and Sarah Arm-
strong, who removed in 1819 to Euclid, near
Cleveland, (Jhio, was twice married. By his
first wife Elizabeth Shafer, he had a daughter
.Margaret Sarah, who married Joseph W. Mc-
Cord ; by his second wife Phebe Stewart, he
had Samuel Snover; Valeria Adaline, the wife
of Jason Abbott ; Wilson Hunt ; John Stinson,
who died in the United States navy during the
civil war; and Dewitt Clinton Armstrong.
Samuel Snover Armstrong, of Nottingham,
Ohio, was twice married ; his wives were
Sarah Lloyd and Mary Gunn ; he had three
children by each wife. His children were:
George Washington Armstrong, who married
Mary A. Rice, and had a son Frank, of Mead-
ville, Pennsylvania; Sarah Elizabeth, the wife
of .Adolphe R. Candy; Lucy Ann, the wife of
Ira Eddy; .Ann Lucretia, the wife of Almon
G. 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. W'ilson Hunt Armstrong, of Gallon,
Ohio, married .Almira Converse and had two
daughters: Eleanor, the wife of Frank D.
Bain ; and .\lmira, the wife of James G. White.
Dewitt Clinton Armstrong married Ann E.
Kline and had John S., Lucy C, \'ernon D.,
and Grace F.
(Ill) 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, dwelt
at Newton, New 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 lliuld, 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 H, 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
anil his face and hands and breast were soon
dri|)ping with blood. He started for the rear,
telling his comjianions 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 dropped dead as he entered.
A shaft of marble stands to his memory in the
cemeterv of the Yellow l-'rame church.
The .American home of the Edge
ED(;E family is Chester county, Peimsyl-
vania, although, as in the case of
the line at jjresent under consideration, some
br;uiches nf it have s]jread over in New Jer-
sey soil, where they have taken root and grown
to nourishing 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-
nii's DM the Delaware, from St. .Andrew's, Hol-
1)1 irn CDunty .Middlesex, England, about 1685,
and settled in Xether Providence. He bought
from William Penn one hundred and twenty-
five acres of land by deeds of lea.se and release,
dated March 21 and 22, 1681-82. He was an
earnest member of the Society of Friends, and
the mnnthly 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 "Sufferings of Quakers," under date
of 1680, we find that "in Trinity Term of this
Yeare Sir Hugh Windham, 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,
Chairmaker, Henry Wadd)', John Edge of St.
.Andrew's Holborne in the county of Middle-
sex and John Jones of St. Andrew's, Hol-
borne, Clover, 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 George Whitehead
for preaching at a meeting in the parish of St.
Afargaret's, Westminster. The constabulary
went to his house, broke into it, seized his
goods, and when two of his friends, John Edge
and Jose])h Peckover, who were among the
spectators to the jiroceedings, 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 £<j, 15 shillings for their refusal to bear
arms.
.After coming to this coimtry John Etlge
rose rapidly in the esteem of his neighbors,
and with his brother Joseph, who accomjjanied
him to this country, became not only an active
Friend but al.so 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. ])robably died unmarried, but their sister
.Sarah, who died second month 26, i6q2, mar-
ried eighth month, 1686, Thomas liowater.
J(5hn Edge himself died fifth month, 10, 171 1,
hut his widow Jean, wdio survived him and all
her children, was living in third month 27,
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1734, when the Monthly 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 o£
Friends.
The children of John and Jean Edge were:
I. Mary, died Second month, 17, 1698; mar-
ried James Sharpless. 2. Abigail, died Ninth
month 27, 1716; married Edward Woodward.
3. John, referred to below. 4. Jacob, bom
Third month 8, 1690, died probably Second
month 7. 1720; married, in 17 12, Sarah,
daughter of Rees and Hannah Jones, antl 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 from his son John Jr.
(11) 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. 1683, died in third month, 1734. .\ftcr
his marriage he settled on land which his
father had purchased in L'pper Providence,
ninth month 30, 1713, he was chosen as over-
seer of the Providence Meeting of Friends in
the room of James Sharpless, his brother-in-law,
and si.xth month 29, 1715, was succeeded by
Randall Malin. In 172 1, 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 Cieorge
Smedley, were appointed. His widow was ap-
pointed eleventh month 29, 1738-39, overseer
of the Middletown Meeting in the place of
Alary FVnnell, 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 ]\Iiddleton, who survived him and mar-
ried (second) ninth month, 7, 1739, at New-
town Meeting, John, son of Francis and Han-
nah ( Pjaker) Yarnall, of Willistown. The
first intentions of John Edge's marriage ^vere
published at Middletown Meeting, Sixth
month 29. 1709, the second intentions at
Sjjringfield Meeting, seventh month, 26. 1709.
and the orderly accomplishment at Springfield
Meeting, eighth month, 31, 1709. Their chil-
dren were: i. George, referred to below. 2.
Sarah, born about 17 13, 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. 5. Mary, born Seventh month 2,
1721. died December 13. 1795; married Rich-
ard Downing. 6. Rachel, born Si.xth month
29. 1725, died January 31. 1779: married Rob-
ert \'alentine.
(Ill) George, eldest child of John (2) and
Mary (Smedley) Edge, w^as born in Upper
Providence. Chester county. Pennsylvania, died
there in 175 1, intestate, letters of administration
being granted to .Ann 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 (Mercer) Pennell, of Middletown, born
eleventh month 26. 1 72 1. Robert Pennell, 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. P)Oth 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 Electing,
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 ; William, married Mary Bell ; Samuel,
married (first) Sarah Morris, and (second)
Rachael Cobourn. James Worrall, the second
husband of .Ann (Pennell) Edge, was the son
of Peter and Elizabeth Worrall, of Marple,
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wild had married (first) Hannah Calvert, who
had borne him seven children, among whom
was Lydia, the wife of Benjamin Hoopes.
The four children of George and Ann
(Pennell) Edge were: i. Mary, born eleventh
month, eighteen, 1742, died March thirteenth,
1815: 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.
(I\') John (3), son of (jeorge and Ann
(Pennell) Edge, was born at Upper Provi-
dence, twelfth month, twenty, 1744, and died
in East Cain township, September 14, 1816.
He 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. F-^ichard 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
hundred and forty-four acres, to her brother,
John; and November 12, 1786, William P)ald-
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 disposed of
to Thomas Bishoji ; the northwest lot of ninety-
one acres, forty-six perches to Joseph Bishop ;
and the soi'thw-est lot of one hundred and
seven acres, one hundred jjerches. to (jideon
Dunn. This was Ajjril 30, 1793; and May 10,
1797, he deeded the remainder to William
Eachus. February 17, 1780, John Edge bought
from his imclc. 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 Business of Storekceping
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. P)Ut finding ye bisness of Store-keeping
( Since the late Custom of Tavern Keepers
o[)cning store has taken place) is by no means
sufficient to raise and sup])ort his family ac-
cording to their usual Custom, Hope There-
fore you will be pleased to recommend him to
the E.xecutive 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
"Ship" property, 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 G. 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 wdio possessed riding chairs for which
they were taxed, £1, 10 shillings, were William
Trimble, John Edge. Richard Downing and
Hunt Downing.
August I, 1768, 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,
of East Cain. \\'illiam Pim, born at Lackali,
Oueens county, Ireland, came to .America in
1730, was justice of the peace, for many years
clerk of the Tiradford luonthly 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. 172 1, died
October 3, 1786; married, tenth month, 24,
1746. at b'ast Cain meeting, Frances, daughter
iif James Wilkinson, of Wilmington, who died
May 7, 1784, at sixty-three years of age. Of
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their eight children Ann, referred to above,
who married John Edge, was the second child
and eldest daughter.
The children of John and .Ann (Pirn) 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, 1831 ; married Edith Pusey. 4. Ann, July
8, 1776; died April 16, 1850; married Thomas
.'\. F'arke. 5. Fanny, January 29, 1779: died
October 10. 1S31 : unmarried. 6. George, June
30, 1782; died December 31, 1831 ; married
Sarah Hoopes. 7. John, referred to below. 8.
Mary, Octt)ber 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 (F'im) Edge, was born
March 3, 1785; died September 12, 1833. He
was buried in the Cain meeting ground. He
lived and died in the mansion house formerly
the old "Ship" tavern which 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, died 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 23, 1890. 2. Fanny, October 11,
1815; married John K. Eshleman, M. D. 3.
Ruthanna, October 25, 1817; died October 13,
1899; married Nathan J. Sharjdess. 4. Will-
iam, referred to below. 5. John P., June 22,
1822; unmarried.
(VI) William, 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 Philadelphia, being
for many years a member of the Philadelphia
stock exchange 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) McNeill, of
Plymouth, Pennsylvania. 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 ami living with her sister. 4. John
Howard, December 19, 1861 ; living unmar-
ried.
(\'H) William (2), eldest child of William
(i) and Elizabeth (McNeill) Edge, was born
in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, September 8,
1845, "i"*^! 's "ow living in Atlantic City, New
Jersey. He is retired. June 2, 1870, William
Edge married (first) in Philadelphia, Mary
Elizabeth, born Philadelphia, July 24, 1848,
died there December 24, 1875, buried North-
wood cemetery, Downingtown, daughter of
Andrew Wills and Elizabeth (Jeiifries) Evans,
of 1605 Franklin street, Philadelphia. Their
children are: i. Howard H., born Tyrone,
I'ennsylvania, 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. C^ctober 28, 1877, William Edge mar-
ried (second) Wilhelmina Scull, of Pleasant-
ville. New Jersey. The only child of this mar-
riage is Alfred James, born January 10, 1885;
died September 7, 1885.
(\ III) 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 whicli
place he is one of the most substantial and
influential citizens. With his father he came
to Pleasantville, New Jersey, in 1876, where
he was brought U|i by his stepmother. After
graduating from the public school of Pleasant-
ville, he entered the employ of the Atlantic
Citv Rcviezc, 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 ca|)acity he found a position in connection
with tlie Nczc 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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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
before the Spanish- American war. In 1895
he became connected with the Atlantic City
office of the Dorland Advertising Agency, now
one of the largest corporations of its kind in
this country. .After the death of Mr. Dorland,
the founder of the agency, Walter E. Edge
purchased the business and good-will of the
agency, extending 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
(.iiu-st. This paper, from a financial stand-
])(iint. 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 .Atlantic City. Consequently, 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 jnirchased the Atlantic City Daily
Union, whicii is the only evening newspaper
in the town. The first issue of this paper was
printed September 3, 1888, and it has been con-
tinuously issued ever since, although it was
always in the front rank in advocating meas-
ures for the best interests of the city, its influ-
ence and worth have been immeasurably en-
hanced since Mr. Edge took possession of it
and edited it as the evening edition of the
Daily I'rrss.
In the last |)residential election Mr. Edge
was elected one of the i)resi(lential electors for
.\'ew Jersey on the Republican ticket. He has
always been active and influential in the afifairs
of his ])arty, and has more than once done good
service. From 1901 to 1904 inclusive he was
the secretary of the \ew Jersey senate, lie is
a member of Relcher Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, of .Atlantic City: Ik-nevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, Improved Order of
Red Men, .Atlantic City Country Club, Repub-
lican Club of .\tlantic County, and the .Atlantic
City Yacht Club. He is interested in many
financial and other corporations, of which ho
is one of the most respected and intlnential
members. .Among these should be mentioned
the Cjuarantee 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 P.usiness Men's League, of
Atlantic City.
June 5, 1907, he married Lady Lee, daugh-
ter of Samuel Philips, of Memphis, Tennessee,
born October i, 18815.
The name Reeves is of old Eng-
REI'A'ES lish or Saxon 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 sheritif,
and its original meaning was that of stewanl
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 (lav is distinct in its origin from the fami-
lies which have played so prominent a part
in Ikirlington 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.
( I ) 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 w-ith 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
1698, 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.
(II) John, son of .Abraham and Damaris
Reeves, was born Januar\- 30, 1726: died May
4, i8(io. He married, September 12, 1750.
Mablc. daughter of Dr. James Johnson, born
July 3, 1732. died October 23, 1813. Children :
1. Johnson, referred to below. 2. Elijah, born
March 14, 1753. 3. Lemuel, March 19, 1755;
died .Xovember 2, 1777. 4. Joseph, June 25,
1757. 5. Mable Johnson, November 26, 1759:
died .Augu.st 30, 1814: married, July 30, 1783,
Levi Leake. 6. Sarah, January 13, 1762. 7.
.Abraham, July 30, 1763: died November 2,
1822. 8. Eunice. Afarch 6, 1767: died .April
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
623
25, 1825; married, May 31, 1785, Daniel
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 .Ajjril 2, 1810. Me married Zerviah,
born 1760. died 1800. daughter of John and
Sarah (Bateman) Berreman. Children: i.
John, referred to below. 2. Stephen, married
Deborah lirown. 3. Lemuel, married (first)
Sarah Sheppard. and ( second ) Ann .Steward.
4. Sarah Berreman, married the Rev. Thomas
1). 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 anl Deborah, daughter of Daniel
and Mary ( Walling ) Bowen. Daniel was the
son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Wheaton)
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 Febru-
ary 3, 1886. 8. Mary, August 13, 1814; died
Februarv 7. 1894.
(V) Johnson (2), eldest child of John (2)
and Martha (Reeves) Reeves, was born Octo-
ber 16, 1799; died July 19, i860. Married
(first) March 7, 1822, Elizabeth Riley, and
(second) October 24, 1854, .Anna Mariali
l-"(ister. 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-
daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth 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
(1, 1824: died December 19, 1897; married,
March 25, 1846. Charles Seeley Fithian. 3.
Ruth Riley, December 20, 1826 ; deceased ;
married, March 25, 1851, Robert Du Bois. 4.
Martha, August 20, 1829; died April 27, 1833.
5. John, March 9, 1832; died December 19
1895; married, March 27. 1856, Kate Mills
Rnbison. 6. Martha Pierson, born May 25.
1834; deceased; married (first) September 24.
1854, Alexander Lewden Robeson, and (sec-
ond) January 10. 1884. George W. Bush. 7.
P'rancis Brewster. October 10. 1836; married,
April 26, i860. Ellen Bernard Thompson. 8.
James Johnson. September 9, 1839: deceased,
married, 1865, Mary Caldwell Butler.
( \T ) 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 tv^'o years. Re-
turning to Princeton, 1846, he entered the
Theological Seminary, graduating in 1849. ^^i
1850 he was ordained to the ministry. From
May to October, 1849, h^ preachetl at Lenox
Chapel on the Hudson above New Hamburg.
Krom 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. Pennsylvania.
P'rom May, 1869, to August, 1881. at Glou-
cester City, New Jersey. From 1882 to 1885
at the Pearl Street Alission. at Bridgeton, New
Jersey. From 1891 to 1901 at Gloucester City,
New Jersey. Since 1884 he was stated clerk
of the Presbytery of ^Vest Jersey until the
time of his death. While serving at Fayette-
ville he was principal of the Young Ladies
Seminary, Chambersburg. Pennsylvania. From
1864 to 1868 he was principal of Woodland
Seminar)', of West Philadelphia, and from
1 88 1 to 1 89 1 of Ivy Hall, Bridgeton, New
Jersey. From 1869 to 1875 he was editor of
Youtig Folk's Ncivs, and from 1871 to 1875 of
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. 1851. 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
hithian. April 13. 1856; married, December 10.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
1884, Clara Elizabeth Hoffman, 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, i868. 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 living in
Gloucester City, New Jersey. He received
his early education in the public schools in
Gloucester City, New Jersey, and at Professor
Hasting's Academy 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. From then down to 1881 he was a sales-
man in the wholesale grocery house of Reeves,
Parvin & Company, of Philadelphia. After
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
the 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 1912,
and this time his majority was 7,332 votes,
again running 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 Re]niblican party, to which he
belongs, and for si.x 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. lie
is a member of Cloud Lodge, No. loi. Free
and Accepted ^Masons, of Gloucester City ; Ex-
celsior Consistory, No. 15, of Camden. He
has taken the thirty-second degree in the Scot-
tish Rite Masonry 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
\'. and Zeviah West; children: i. Sarali
Walker, born Alarch 21, 1887. 2. Bessie
Fithian, May 10, 1888; died September 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, May 25, 1896.
While the family name Reeve.s
REFA'E.S has been known in this country
since the early times of the col-
onv, the immigrant ancestor of the particular
family here treated appears to have first come
to America with that distinguished commander,
Mar(]uis de Lafayette, who rendered such effi-
cient service to the colonies in the struggle for
national independence.
( 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 liim and his family life is t|uite meagre.
The name of his wife was Jane Shemelia, and
by her he had sons Richard, William H., Isaac
and Levi, and daughters Elizabeth and Hope.
( 11) William 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 s])ent 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
P.rown's Mills; William, now dead; Theodore,
lix'ing at Columbus; Rachel, married Isaac N.
STATE OF XEW JERSEY.
625
Couch, of Brookville ; Martha, now dead ; anti
Hope Ann.
(III) Joel Sprague, son of Wilham H. and
Matilda Ann (Sprague) Reeves, was born at
Mary Ann Forge, X'ew Jersey, in 1840. Dur-
ing the earHer years of his business Hfe 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 Company
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
ami 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 \\"ashington until the close of the
war. He then returned north and again took
up carpenter work, having lived for the last
thirty years at Brown's Mills. Mr. Reeves is
a member 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, W'arrensville, Ocean county.
New Jersey. She died in IMarch, 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 Adelia, married
Henry Nickson, a farmer, of New Lisbon,
New Jersey, and has three children, Fenton,
Carrie and Elizabeth. 2. Walter M. 3. Will-
iam H., see forward. 4. Lucy, married George
Taylor. 5. Matilda, married Harry Haines, a
farmer, of New Lisbon. 6. Herbert.
(IV) William Henry, son of Joel Sprague
and Lucy xAnn (Cramer) Reeves, was born at
Barnegat, 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
other duties. Politically 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 put under
cultivation in 1900. He is a member of numer-
ous fraternal orders, as follows : Central
Lodge, No. 44, Free and Accepted Masons, of
\"incentown ; Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks. No. 848, of Alt. Holly; Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of Pemberton ; Knights
of Pythias, of Pemberton; Improved Order
of Red Men, Pemberton ; Patriotic Order Sons
of .America, 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.
Air. Reeves married (first) in 1891, Kezzie
Yeager, of Brown's Alills, 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. Alil-
ton \'orhees, February 2, 1895. His first wife
died June 18, 1897, and he married (second)
September 15, 1906, Alary Reeves, daughter of
Israel Reeves.
Our present narrative concerns
SPARKS 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
persecutors 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 lolm
Sparks and his descendants.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
(I) John Sparks was born in the north of
Ireland in 1717; died in 1802. lie 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 Ciloucester county. The baptismal name 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, Alary, he had a
son, John, and perhaps other children. 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
elder 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
F"ebruary 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 Annie
Sparks, continued to live on the old farm for
many years, and his children were born there.
In 181 5 he went to Woodbury and kept tavern
there, at the place once called Rachor's, at Court
House, but in 1817 he removed to the Buck
Tavern, at The Buck (now Westville). In
i8i(; he went to Philadelphia to secure em-
I^loynient 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(|uircd large tracts of land.
He owned twelve thousand acres in one tract
at the Dutch Mills, New Jersey, below Will-
iamstown, which was heavily wooded and for
whicii he jiaid twelve and one-half cents per
acre. This he deeded to Samuel Downs and
Benjamin Ward. He 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 Sparks was buried at Bethel. Although
known as Randall his correct name was .\le.\-
ander Randall Sparks. His will was written
by Joseph .Saunders. He married twice and
had si.\ children. His first wife died March
18 or 19, 181 1, aged twenty-five years. His
children, born of his first marriage: 1. Ruth,
1805. 2. William, 1805; died young. 3. John,
C, 1807. 4. Mary, 1808. 5. William C, 1809;
see forward. 6. .Annie, 1810.
(HI) 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 churchy and in politics a Republican. He
married Mary P. Steen and by her had four
children : William Francis, see forward ; John
Wesley, George 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, r^Iay
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 \'olun-
teer Infantry. In religious jjreference he was
a Methodist and in politics a Republican. He
married, November 23, 1865, Elizabeth Evans,
daughter of Richard Evans, a native of
Llanidloes, Wales, and who by wife, Elizabeth
(Humphries) Evans, had a son, Richard, and
daughters, Anna and Elizabeth Evans. Will-
iam P'rancis and Elizabeth ( Evans) Sparks had
only one child, John W. Sparks, see forward.
( \") John Wesley, son of William Francis
and Elizabeth (Evans) Sparks, was born at
Cross Keys, Gloucester county. New Jersey,
September 22, 1866. He received his earlier
education in public schools in his native town.
He afterwards was a student at and graduated
from the F'ierce 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, Philadeljjhia, where also he was graduated.
His business career was begun in the capacity
of clerk in the office of the West Jersey Rail-
road Company, at Wenonah, where he remain-
ed for two years, and then for the ne.xt six
months was telegraph operator for that com-
pany at .Atlantic City, New Jersey. After-
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627
ward for about ten years he was telegrapher
for S. Morris Pryor & Company, stockbrokers,
of Philadelphia, and during the following threi?
years for Harris, Fuller & Hurley, stock
brokers, also of Philadelphia. On January i,
1892, i\Ir. 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, 1899, when
the partnership was dissolved, and was suc-
ceeded on January i, 1900, by the new firm of
J. \V. Sparks & Company, as now known in
Iiusiness 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 Xew York Stock Ex-
change, Philadelphia Stock Exchange and a
governor of the latter, and is also a member of
the Chicago Board of Trade, the .American
ISankers Association, and the Pennsylvania
Bankers Association. He holds membership
in W'illiamstown Lodge, No. 166, Free and
-Accepted Alasons, of Williamstown, New
Jersey; Siloam Chapter, No. 19, Royal Arch
Masons, of Camden ; the Scottish Rite bodies
of the craft in F'hiladelphia, the Pennsylvania
Historical Society, the Art, Rac|uet and Down
Town clubs, of Philadelphia, and of the Meth-
odist Episcopal church. He married, at
Turnersville, New Jersey, June 7, 1894,
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 dieir surname is one
of the most ancient in all the
kingdom. The name was transplanted on this
side 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 references <rxtant,
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 Burlington 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
places 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. I'.ut,
however this may have l_ieen, Robert r>ishoi)
was living near Lumberton in Burlington
county previous to the revolution, and in 1778
at and about the time of the battle of Mon-
mouth General 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 Bishop, and it was
only with difficulty that the common soldiers
were restrained by their officers 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 comparatively little save that there were
several brothers who emigrated either from
Long Island or Connecticut. The bajitismal
name of his wife was Jane and among their
children was a son John."
(II) John, son of Robert and Jane Bishop,
was born near Lumberton. liurlington county,
Xew Jersey, the 17th day of 6th month, 1778.
a few days prior to the battle of ]\Ionmouth.
"( )n his mother's side," says Mr. Bishop'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
lier marriasje assumed the English name of
-Mary Carlisle and married Richard Haines,
who with several of his brothers emigrated
from X<irthamptonshire, England, and were
the original settlers of Burlington county, at
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
that time a part of the province of West Jersey.
John Bishop's mother, who married Robert
ilishop, and who was a granddaughter of the
Indian maiden, Mary Carhsle, was of course
a t|uarter blood Indian, and what is singular,
it is said by those who remember her that she
was of light complexion, a blonde, although
some of her children with their bright, pier-
cing, black eyes and swarthy complexions, gave
unmistakable evidence 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 si.x 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 ia
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, wdiich 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 w'anting 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
w^ere all "his chickens.' Then his father pro-
]30sed that he exchange some of his chickens
for shec]), which was agreed to and in the
course of a year or two, his sheep beginning to
multiply i)retty 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. .\I1 the education
the boy had was obtained in a log schoolhouse
in the pine woods. At the age of sixteen 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 Bhila(lel])hia.'
.A fter 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 Philadelphia, 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 w-as 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 acquaintance
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 Bishop find a man
who could outwalk him in traveling this dis-
tance."
.\fter 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 appren-
tices in the shop were Thomas and Richard
Sparks, 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 jilumbing business carried
on by P)ishop & Sparks. In this emergency
the firm turned to the manufacture of shot,
and for that [nirpose built a small cupola above
the old plumbing shop, put in a furnace for
melting lead and began a series of experiments
in shotmaking, each of wdiich resulted in fail-
ure ; but instead of being discouragetl 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 an:l
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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629
began to flow in rapidly and in less than a year
the shot tower in Southwark was planned and
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
Me>ican 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.
New Jersey, being the same property now
owned by .A.nna R. Bishop and on which his
grandson, John 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 he first met while
serving as clerk for Harry Moliere, and still
later becoming more intimately acquainted 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
("first) Mary, daughter of Joseph and Hannah
Ridgway. who lived near Mullica Hill, Salem
countv. New Jersey. He married (second)
.^nn Black.
(HI) John (2), son of John ( I ') and Ann
(Black) Bishop, was born at Ogston, near
Columbus, Burlington county. New Jersey,
I^Tarch 13, 1820. He married, February 5,
1845. Rebecca Field Biddle, born at the Biddle
homestead at Mount Hope, Kinkora, Burling-
ton county. New Jersey, January 16, 1826.
died .\i)ril 4. 1893, daughter of Israel and
Sarah T. (Field) Biddle (see Biddle, \').
(]\') John I., son of John (2) and Re-
becca Field (Biddle) Bishop, was born at
Ogston, near Columbus, Burlington county,
New Jersey, July 4, 1849. He receivetl his
early education in the public schools in his
native town^ attended the Friends' Academy
at W'esttown, 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-
burgh Coal Company, of which he is a director
and a member of the executive committee. For
twenty years he has been manager of the sev-
eral interests owned or controlled by Jacob
K. Ridgway. He is a member of the Union
League of Philadelphia, the Duquesne Club
of Pittsburgh, the American Jersey Cattle
Club of New York, and the New Jersey Soci-
ety of r^hiladelphia. He resides at Ogston
during the summer, and in F'hiladel])liia during
the winter months.
Mr. Bishop married, November 9, 1871,
Anna Ridgway, born in Philadelphia, .August
24, 1850, daughter of Jacob E. and Sarah
Shreve Ridgway. Children: i. John, bom
December 20, 1875; died March 28, 1884. 2.
Emily. C^ctober 24, 1878; married, October 8,
1901, John S. C. Harvey; children: i. .Anna
Bishop Harvey, born September 16, 1902; ii.
John S. C. Harvey, Jr., August 14, 1904; iii.
Thumas P.iddle Harvey, August it), 1908. 3.
John \'.. July 2, 1886; married, January 6,
1900, Helen Bailey.
(The Biddle Line).
The original immigrant of the Biddle family
came from London to America about the year
1681 and settled in \\'est Jersey. He was an
active man in public affairs from the time of
his arrival in New Jersey until his death, in
1712. 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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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
(lie. 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 Biddle'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, Philadelphia. Whether this
Thomas Biddle 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."
( 1 ) Thomas Biddle, 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.
I^achel Groesbeck. 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. Tliey lived
in the old family homestead at Mount Hope
(now Kinkora), New Jersey, which formerh
was owned by W'illiam Biddle, the first. Chil-
dren: I. Sarah, born August 8, 1729, died Se])-
tember, 1810. 2. Thomas, October 17, 1734,
see forward. 3. Rachel, married, December 3,
1772, Jonathan Izard.
(HI) 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
10. 1783, daughter of Nicholas Scull. Chil-
dren: I. Thomas, born September 13, 17')!,
sec forward. 2. Abigail, September 13, 1763;
married John Harvey. 3. Mary, March 20.
I /()()■. married Caleb Foster. 4. Sarah. June
7, 1769, died August 6, 1775.
(I\") Thomas (4), son of Tliomas (3) and.
.Abigail (Scull) Biddle, was born September
13. 1761, died in .Xjiril, 1807. He became
owner of a part of Biddle's island in the Dela-
w;ire river, opposite Kinkora, New Jersey.
I lis real property was divided among his chil-
dren in 1813. He married Charlotte Butler.
Cliildren: i. Thomas, born November 28.
1786; married Charlotte Harvey. 2. Israel,
Octolwr 6, 1788, see forward. 3. Abigail.
January 31, 1791, died single. 4. Mary,
March 17, 1793: married (first) James Bates,
(second) Isaac Field. 5. John, October 2.
1795, died single. G. Charlotte. July 27. 1798;
married, October, 1816, Samuel Black. 7.
Achsa, January 26, 1801 ; married Joseph
Haines. 8. William, May 23, 1804: marriei!
Elizabeth Rockhill.
(V ) 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. C^hildren : i.
Charles (by first wife), married Sarah Ann
Lee and had three children. 2. Alartha F.
(by second wife), married, 1845. Thomas
Newbold Black. 3. Israel, died young. 4.
Rebecca Field, born January 16, 1826; mar-
ried, February 5, 1845, John Bishop (see
Bisho]i, HI, above). 5. Sarah, died young. 6.
Israel, married Charlotte B. Har\^ey. 7. Alary
T., married Franklin Black. 8. Abigail, died
young. 9. Charlotte, married George B. Wills.
10. Joseph W., married Charlotte, daughter of
William J. and Charlotte Black. 11. Caroline
Elizabeth, died young.
There is a tradition which runs
BISHOP to the efifect 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
institutions of government, and enterprise and
])rogressiveness 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,
Burlington county, about the year 1760 and
afterward until he met death by lightning a
short time after his marriage. Little else a])-
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
1769 in P)Urlington 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
('icd in 1806. having borne him four children.
He afterward married a .second wife and by
her had one son. Children: I. Isaac, died
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
631
young. 2. William, born July 17, 1798, see
forward. 3. Mary, died unmarrie<l. 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 IVIay,
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 fonner
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
region 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 1837 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
Rank 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 tiie financial and business in-
terests of Burlington was more painstaking
or more scrupulously upright than Mr. Bishop.
I ike his ancestors, he was a member of the
Society of Friends and always led a Cjuiet and
unostentatious life. He married (first) Eliza,
daughter of W'illiam Ridgway. of Burlington.
.She died in 1843, leaving one son, William
Ridgway Bishop. He married (second) Mrs.
Marv M.. widow of Thomas Booth.
(I\') William Ridgway. son of W'illiam and
Eliza (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 Friends' School at Westtown, Pennsyl-
vania. After 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 Burlington countv. 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 efifort 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 Burlington city council. He also is a
member of the Society of Friends and clerk
of the Burlington 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, 1861, died 1883.
2. Eliza Ridgway, born in Burlington, lives at
home with her parents.
There is a tradition in the fam-
BISHOP ily that sometime about the mid-
dle of the eighteenth century
four Bishop brothers, of Quaker origin, came
fr(im England and settled in New Jersey, and
while the familv 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
tli^t surname here treated, was born of Eng-
lish narents. a member of the Society of
Frierds, and an early settler in Burlington
countv, where many of his descendants are
still living. The title deed to lands owned and
settled by him was ac(|uired by purchase 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-grandsons 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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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
(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 Haines,
and were the parents of Emelinc IHshop, who
became wife of General John S. Irick, father
of Senator Henry J. and Samuel S. Irick, of
whom mention is made elsewhere. 3. Will-
iam, married Mary W'oolston, and had
William, who married Maria Hargrave ;
Japheth, now ( 1909) inmate of Masonic Home
in Burlington, married Margaret Hargrave;
.Maria, marrieil John Ross; Esther, married
Thomas I'ope; and Samuel, who married
Elizabeth Patterson.
(III) Job. eldest son and child of William
and Rebecca (Leeds) liishup, was born in
\'incento\vn, 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. 6. Hannah,
married Peter Oliver. 7, William, died un-
married.
- (IV) Daniel J., eldest s..n and chill of Job
and Haimah (Joyce) Bislmp, was born in
Vincentown 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 Haincsport and Philadelphia. Cap-
tain lUshop married .Ann Frazier and by her
had siN children, Hannah, William Henry,
l)a\id. Job. Daniel and Jane.
( \' ) William Henry, son of L'a])tain Daniel
J. and Ann (Frazier) I'.ishop, was born in
Lumberton. lUirlington county. New Jersey,
March 27, 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 fur his uncle, William C. Bishop, of Lum-
berton, who was in active business full fifty
years j^revious to his tleath in 1901, remained
in his eni])loy for five years and then was clerk
for another five years in the store of M. S.
Butterworth, of W'rightstown, New Jersey.
In 1866 he became senior partner of the firm
of Bisho]) & Beck, general merchants of Peni-
bcrton, and at the end of eight years bought
out liis partner's interest and has since carried
on business alone. Air. 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 Union 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 Vincentown,
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,
drutjgist, of Pemberton.
The Trenchard family be-
TRFXCllARD 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 world. The
family traces its origin back to Pogames Tren-
chard, who held land in county Dorset during
the reign of Henry I, in 1090. In the six-
teenth and the preceding century they had
intermarried with the Damosels and the
Moleynes.
{ I ) Thomas Trenchard, Knight, of Wol-
vert(,n, was born 1582, died 1657; he was
knighted by King James I, December 14, 161 3,
and held the ofiice of high sheriff of Dorset ;
he was the founder of the branch of the family
at present under consideration. His son
Thomas is referred to below.
(II) Thomas (2), son of .Sir Thomas (I )
Trenchard, was born in Wolverton, county
Dorset, in 1615, died in 1671. Like his father
he was a baronet. In 1638 he married Han-
nah, born 1620, died 1691, daughter of Robert
Heidey, of Bramhill, Hampshire. Their son
Jnlni is referred to helnw. Two of his cous-
ins, (irace Treuchaid. who married Colonel
William Sydenham, and Jane, who married
John Sadler, of Wardwell, 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 1693. He matriculated from
New College, Oxford, in 1663. He was
elected a member of Parliament for Tauntnn,
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P\l)ruary 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 II 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 Whitehall and was
aii])ointed 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.
(IV) George, son of John and Philippa
(Speake) Trenchard, was born in county Som-
erset, New Yorli^nn 1686, died at Alloway
township, Salem county. New Jersey, in 171 2.
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 sheriffs for West Jersey and also one
of the assessors. By his marriage with Mary
Bender, 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 clerkof Salem coimty, later
surrogate. He married the daughter of .'\t-
torncy Burchan, of Salem. His son Edward
was in the United States navy, commanded
the "Constitution" at the siege of Tripoli and
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
frcm 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,
daughter of Judge .\ndrew Sinnickson, of
Salem. S- Thomas.
(VI) John (2), son of George (2) and
Mary (Bender) 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
Jeft'erson streets, which was afterwards owned
by James Boyd, at the commencement of the
revolution, where for several years afterwards
Mr. Boyd's widow resided and kept a store
there. In 1769 they sold this property 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.
(VII) 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 was situated on
the old road from Bridgeton and Fairfield to
Rocap's Run. He continued in that employ-
ment four or five years, and then went into
business at Fairton, keeping store with Daniel
P. Stratton. W'hen Mr. Stratton removed to
IVidgeton in 1814 John Trenchard continued
business, sometimes alone and sometimes with
a i)artner for twenty years, being engaged in
building vessels and in getting lumber and
ship])ing same to Philadelphia, this being at
that time a highly profitable business. He also
sent produce to Bermuda. In 1843 l""^ P"'"'
chased from David Clark the mill pro|)erty at
Fairton and in 1843 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 Quincy Adams
rather than Jackson and became a Whig. In
1827-28 he was elected 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
1 81 6. 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
Booth. 3. Theophilus, of Bridgeton, New
Jersey. 6. Emily, married the Hon. George
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S. W'liiticar, of Fairton. ". Rufus, married
Sarah Jane Bennett. 8. Xancy, married the
Rev. David Meeker, a Presb}'terian minister.
I). John, died unmarried. lo. Henry Clay ((|. v. ).
(\11I) James Howell, son of the Hon.
John (3) and Eleanor (Davis) Trenchard.
was born Alay 20, 181 1, in Fairton, New Jer-
sey, died February 27, 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 Barrett, which he con-
tinued for a time until he removed to Centre-
ville (now Centreton ) in the fall of 1839,
where he entered largely into the general store
and milling business and the lumlier trade.
In early life he was for a while under the
Rev. Dr. George 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
township whose policies were opposed to his
jjurely from personal considerations. He re-
fused to run a second time, the corruption of
the lobby and the (|uestionable character of a
large part of the public and private legislature
as then and since directed having no charms
for one of his honest, frank and independent
manner. At this time .Mr. Trenchard was
very frequently called u])on 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 Bridgeton in the spring of 1863. Here
his son was with the firm of J. H. and W. B.
Trenchard. surveyors, which was then one of
the most prominent ones in that section of the
state. Xo person in Xew Jersey had done
more practical surveying or tramped more
miles in all weathers and under all conditions
than had this James H. Trenchard. At vari-
ous times he had had many of the most valuable
liajjcrs 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 cojiies of maj)s of all surveys made
by him. and these are of very great use to
persons asking information in regard to landed
property. He possessed great natural kind-
ness of heart and was generous in his impulses,
which rallied around him earnest friends. Xoi
the least of his merits was his unflinching pa-
triotism. At the time of his death he was
city surveyor, a position which he had long
held. As 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 Works of
Bridgeton, Xew 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 I-'airton, Xew Jersey, who was born in
1815 and who bore him four sons and three
(laughters. Three sons and two of the daugh-
ters married. The other one died unmarried.
Children: i. 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.
W illiams. of Philadelphia ; she is deceased.
6. Jeanette, married Charles R. Elmer, now
deceased ; she lives in Riverton, Xew Jersey.
7. Araminta, died in infancy.
( IX ) William Barrett, second son of James
Howell and Mary ( Barrett ) Trenchard, was
born at Centreton, Salem county, Xew Jersey,
October i, 1840, and is now living in Bridge-
ton, Xew 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, Xew 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, Xew Jersey, and then for the fol-
lowing twenty years worked with his father as
a surveyor. In 1889 Mr. Trenchard was
elected county clerk of Cumberland county.
Xew 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 ])rivate life to spend the
remainder of his days in comfort at his beau-
tiful home in Bridgeton. Ik'sides this resi-
dence, which is one of the finest in the town,
Mr. Trenchard has also near Bridgeton a fine
farm, wliicli he cultivates with profit, both
to his [)()cket and his health and strength, and
from which he derives the keenest sort of en-
joyment. Mr. Trenchard is a Republican in
jKilitics, and besides his service as county clerk
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he has served three terms as justice of the
peace of Bridgeton, and for six years as one
of the chosen freeholders of Cumberland
county. lie is an Independent in religion, an
( )d(l Fellow, past grand chancellor of the
Knights of I'ythias, in New Jersey, and one of
the few honorary 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
Mariah 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,
.^alem county. New 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 \'olunteer 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 Suffolk 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 Bank 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
Pre.sbyterian 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 X'olunteers. Among the financial institu-
tions in which he is identified mention should
not be omitted of the AVest Jersey Marl &
Transportation Comoany.
James Whitaker Trenchard married (first)
(iertrude C, daughter of Levi Bond, of
Biridgeton, New Jersey, who died in 1882, leav-
ing one son, Frank Fisk, born May 5, 1870.
died June 11, 1894. He married (second)
.April 14, 1885, Amanda M. Powell, a widow,
of F"airton, New Jersey.
(For preceding generations see Tnomas Trench-
ard 1).
(VIII) Henry Clav, young-
TRENCIIARD est child of jJhn (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 taiming 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
lm])roved 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 ; niarried 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
RUSH distinguished history behind it in
the old country. It is distinctly
an English 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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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
in 1683 came to Pennsylvania with seven chil-
dren and several grandchildren, settling at
Byberry, thirteen miles from Philadelphia.
In i6gi he and his whole family became Keith-
ians, and in 1697 most of them became Bap-
tists, lie died at Byberry, May, 1699. His
sword is in the possession of Jacob
Rnsh, and his watch in the family of General
William Uarke, of X'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, 2nd month, 8, 1662. 7.
James. 7th month, 21, 1664, and buried ist
month, 24, 1671. 8. Joseph, 10 month, 20,
1666. (). Edward, 9 month, 27, 1670. 10.
Jane. 12 month, 27, 1673.
( II ) 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 unknnwn. ll}- his first wife he had three
children and by his second, two. Children :
I. Susanna, married (first) John Webster, and
(second) a Mr. Cilbert. 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 New York. 4.
Sarah, married David Meredith. 5. William,
married Elizabeth Hodges, and died Januar_\'
31, 1733, at I'oston.
(IH ) James, second child and eldest son of
William and .\melia Rush, died in 1727. He
lived on a farm on Poquessing creek. By his
wife Rachel, the youngest (laughter 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, William and
John. 3. Joseph. 4. James. 5. Thomas. 6.
Rachel. 7. Ann, married John Ashmead. 8.
Elizabeth, married Edward Cary. 9. .\ure!ia.
died young.
(TV) John (2), eldest child of James and
Rachel ( I'eart) Rush, married .Susan Harvev,
formerly Hall, daughter of Joseph Hall, of
Tacony. Children: I. Rebecca, married
Thomas Stamper. 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 Ste]jhenson. referred to below. 5. John,
died young.
( \' ) Stephen, or Stephenson, ft)urth child
and third son of John (2) and Susan (Flail)
(Flarvey) Rush, was born in what was called
the Skip-Back, CoUegeville, Montgomery
county, Pennsylvania. He kept the old hotel
in the town, and was also for many years the
liroprietor of the Old Swan Hotel on Third
street, Philadelphia, where he was living in
1774. By his wife Mary 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 county, Pennsylvania. 6. Samuel, living
in Media, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. 7.
Katharine, died at the age of one hundred anf'.
two years. 8. Margaret, now living at Norris-
town, Pennsylvania, in her one hundred and
fourth year. 9. Sarah. 10. Mary. n. Eliz-
abeth. 12. Lydia.
(VI) John (3), son of Stephen or Stephen-
son and Mary Rush, was born at Skip-Back,
CoUegeville, Montgomery county, Pennsylva-
nia. February 22, 1814. He was a carpentei'
and builder, and was engaged in business in
Philadel])hia 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 lulmv, Rosalie,
Henry P.
(\'H) Jerome Samuel, eighth child and
fifth son of John (3) and Katharine Mathilda
(Yarger) Rush, was born in Feglevsville,
Montgomery comity, Pennsvlvania, May 8,
1858. and is now living at Ocean City. New
lersev. For his early education he went to
the ])ubHc schools of l~'hiladelpliia, 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 United 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
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
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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
church. 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. 116, At-
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,
18S7, 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
infancy.
In 1681 William Penn ob-
TOWNSEND tained from the Crown a
grant of the immense ter-
ritory now embraced in the state of Pennsyl-
vania, in lieu of a monetary claim against the
Crown for sixteen thousand pounds left to him
by bis father. Admiral Sir William 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
Nrw World wh^re 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, 1682, 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-
delphia, where he built a saw and grist mill,
carried on his trade of millwright, preached
the Quaker doctrine, experienced the usual
vicissitudes experienced in j^ioneer life and
gained the respect of every one with whom he
came in contact. He died in 1714, leaving erne
child, a daughter.
His brother, Joseph, came to America later
with another brother, William, settled in Phila-
delphia in 1712 and is the ancestor of Joseph
1!., 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
AIississi])pi 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 W'ashington, District of
Columbia, and was a member of the Philadel-
phia .Academy of Natural Sciences. He is of
the same Quaker ancestry as is Hon. Lawrence
Townsend, 181 1 Walnut street, Philadelphia,
United States minister to Portugal, 1897-99,
and to Belgium, 1899-1905.
William 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
Friends in that place, taking up the work un-
finished by his brother, Richard. It was Rob-
ert Townsend, the companion of William Penn
and Richard Townsend on the ship "Wel-
cnnie," who was probably the ancestor of the
Townsends of Burlington county. New Jersey.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
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-
l)any with William Fenn and his own brother,
Richard, to assist in the founding of Pennsyl-
vania. He located at Germantown, 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 Ger-
man Palatinate and from Holland, hence the
name, Germantovvn. His grandson probably
lived in Springfield township, Burlington
county, Xew 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 1 ) P'irmon, fourth son and fourth child (jf
and Betsey Townsend, was born in
Springfield township, Burlington county, Xew
Jersey, about 1810, and was a wheelwright in
Columbus, as well as a farmer and lumber-
man. His position in the township as a mem-
ber of the Society of Friends, as a mechanic,
as a lumberman and as a useful and quiet citi-
zen appears to have been universally conceded.
He was an anti-slavery Whig and on the for-
mation of the Re])ublican party, which ab-
sorbed the I""ree 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 B., Barclay 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 party a member of that political
organization. His only public offices were
tliose of dei)iity-shcriff of liurlington county,
1893-96, under a])p(jintment from his son, who
was high sheriff of the county, and member of
the board of townshi]) committeemen, but he
did not allow his public duties to prevent his
close attention to his e.xtensive 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 Cnited
American Mechanics. He married ( first \
October 23, 1856, Abigail, daughter of Will-
iam E. and Mary .\nn .Atkinson, of Siiringfield
townshi]). She was born September 12, 1833,
died August 6, 1896. Children: i. William
A. 2. Clara, married John B. Colkitt, a
farmer of Mansfield township, and is now de-
ceased. 3. Charles Firmon, lived on the old
h.omestead and died there October 24. 1903.
4. Ella, married William 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,
.\'ew 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 Mansfield township and continued until
1893, when he was elected high sheriff of
ilurlingtun 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 Air. Ware. In January, 1908, upon the
death of Mr. Ware, Mr. Townsend removed
to Columbus and purchased the interest of the
widow of Mr. W'are. and is now extensively
engaged in that business. He is also serving
in the capacity of director in the Mt. Holly Na-
tional I'ank, 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 Lodge, No. loi, Inde-
])cndent Order of Odd I<"ellows : Mt. Holly
Lodge, No. 848, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. He is a Republican in politics.
Mr. Townsend married, January 19. 1880,
Rebecca, born in Burlington county. New Jer-
sey, Se])tember 4. 1861, daughter of Charles
.\. and Rebecca (.\ntram) Braddock, the
former a son of Jacob I'raddock, of Mcdford.
lUirlington comity, and the latter a daughter of
John .\ntram, a representative of an old fam-
ily of Burlington county. Children of Mr.
and Mrs. Townsend: i. Mabel, born Julv 31,
1881: married Clifford R. I'.owers. 'of' Mt.
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I lolly. New Jersey; one child, Rhea. 2.
Moyd, January 28, 1883; attended Mt. Holly
high school and Trenton Business College ;
now a rural mail carrier ; married Julia Poin-
sett, of Columbus, New 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, 1896. 7. Charles Stanley, Janu-
ary 16, 1900.
This name has been com-
TOWXSEND mon in New Jersey and
Long Island for several
generations. The first of the name who at-
tained prominence was Henry Townsend, wdio
for the sake of his religion underwent many
persecutions and indignities. They have
almost without exception been Friends or
Quakers, and held in high regard by their as-
sociates, marrying generally into their own
sect.
(I) \Villiam Townsend, the pioneer an-
cestor of the family, came to America in 1793,
landing in New 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 New York. He re-
moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where
he was a real estate dealer.
He married Anna, daughter of Thomas and
Margaret (Van Hook) \'aughan, and they
were the parents of eight children, namely;
George Nathaniel, Henry Burman, Thomas
V'aughan, see forward, Anna, William, Sam-
uel Jr., Mary Ella, Lizza.
(HI) 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, 1843. They are the
parents of eight children, all living: i. James
Vaughan, 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. Mary-
land, married Ulric Skirven, of Baltimore,
Maryland; no children. 3. Mary Ella, born at
Baltimore, Maryland, see forward. 4. Sam-
uel Delmar, born at Baltimore, Maryland, mar-
ried Claude Riddell, of Williamsport, Penn-
sylvania; one son, Delmar. 5. Laura Jane,
born at Baltimore, Maryland, married Von
Mark Kleman, of Philadelphia, Pennslyvania;
have one chikl, Jessamine. 6. Ida May, born
at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 7. Harry
Burman, born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
married Hannah Fenton, of Atlantic City,
New Jersey. 8. Walter Rogers, born av Lim-
erick Scjuare, Pennsylvania, married Elizabeth
Oakley, of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
(1\) Alary Ella, daughter of Thomas
\ aughan Townsend, was born at Baltimore,
Maryland, June 24, 1868. She received her
early education in the public schools and acad-
emy of Atlantic City, New Jersey, receiving
a diploma from the latter. In 1890 she en-
tered the Womans Medical College of Penn-
sylvania, and in 1895 graduated with degree
of Doctor of Medicine. She began the gen-
eral practice of her profession at Atlantic
City in 1895. ^^^ 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 persecu-
WHITE tions of non-conformists to the
Church of England during the
reign of Charles 11 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 .\cts" of that reign were Thomas
White, of Cumrew, county of Cumberland,
and Christopher White, his son, then of Lon-
don.
( I ) Christopher White was born at Cum-
rew, Cumberland county, England, in 1642,
removed to London 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 .\lloways creek. In 1690 he
built a large brick house on his property, and
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the kinj^'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 [jlans from which his house was built,
and also that the bricks used in its construction
were imported. Christopher White died about
I he year 1(193. 1 le apjjcars to have been an ener-
getic man of high moral character, and those
traits were transmitted to his descendants for
several generations after him. lie left a
wi<k>w Hester and live children: liesler,
Thomas, Sarah, Josiali and Joseph.
( 11 ) Josiah, son of Christopher White, was
born in ICngland, /mo 13, 1675, and lived on
the farm previously owned by his father at
Alloways creek, where he died May i, 17 13,
leaving his landed estate to his son Josiah. He
married, when about twenty-three, Hannah,
daughter of Joscjih Powell, and by her had five
children: i. Christopher, born 23 Gmo. 1699,
died before attaining his majority. 2. Josiah,
mentioned in succeeding paragraph. 3. Hes-
ter, born 1707. 4. Hannah, born at Alloways
creek. 1710. , 5. Abigail, born 1713.
(HI) Josiah (2), son of Josiah (i) and
llannali \\'hite, was born 6 mo., 21, 1705, and
died 5 mo., 12, 1780. He was a man of marked
enterpri.se, and it was he who built the dam
across Alloways creek and put a sufficient
sluiceway to drain all the lowlands above what
afterw'ard 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
tliat it was purposely cut on the night before
the year expired. However this may have
been, Josiah White was compelled to sell his
large ])atrimonial 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 woidd have been discouraged, but
not so with him who had inherited from his
father and grandfather those (|ualities 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-
chased 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, lie 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 Mt. 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 elfectual, and many of those relieved by
him sought in various w'ays 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 cannon 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
afilictions, 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 w-ith 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 dyestufi's 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 married, 10 mo., i, 1734, Re-
becca, daughter of Josiah and Amie Foster
(nee Borden), of one of Burlington county's
best old families, and a descendant 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 young. 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 1110., 22, 1750, died
young.
(TV) 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., 27, 1744, and died 3 mo., 22,
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1826, having borne her husband four children:
I. John, grew to manhood and died unmarried.
z. 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 enterecl 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 lirownsville, Pennsylvania, 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 Frientl wliom 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 French Can-
adian boatmen, started their keelboat froni
P,rownsville, 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.
hi Bowling Green, Kentucky, Mr. White
records: "I fell in with the proprietor of a
Cave (Manmioth Cave), who wanted me to
purchase it ; he asked Sio,ooo. 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-
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 Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, for New 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 bontl 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-si.x 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,
Xew 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 (luring 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 J., Daniel S., Elizabeth, Sarah S.,
.Anna, Howard, Barclay and Anna ]\Iaria
White.
(VI) Barclay, youngest son of Joseph and
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Rebecca (Smith) White, was born in Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, 4 mo., 4, 1 82 1, and died
November 23, 1906. He received his early
education in public schools 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. Pemisylvania. 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
l)v I 'resident Grant superintendent of Indian
affairs and went to Omaha, Nebraska, where
he had full charge of six Indian agencies. He
remained in the west six years in connection
with the duties of his official position, then
returned to Mt. Holly, N. J., 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 tile Republican 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 dejjarted from the teach-
ings of the .Society of Friends under which he
was brought up, and at one time he was assist-
ant clerk of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
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. Barclay Jr., M. D.,
now dead. He married (second) in 1852,
I'eulah S. Shreve, by whom he had three
children : 5. Daniel S., ])roprietor of the Tray-
more. .Vtlantic City, New Jersey. 6. Eliza-
beth, now dead. 7. James, now dead.
(\TI) Joseph Josiah. son of Barclay and
Rebecca Merritt (Lamb) White, was 1)(>rn in
Springfield, New Jersey, January 22, 1846,
and was educated at Jobstown, Aaron's school
at Mt. Holly, Jackson's school at Darby, Penn-
sylvania, the boarding school of William A.
Garrigues, near Moorestown, New Jersey, the
Friends' 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 editions, and is still the standard work on
that subject. Air. White was a charter mem-
ber of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, having joined the society at its
organization in 1880. He obtained letters
patent 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 Medal. On June 2},, 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 Mr.
White in company with his brother, George
Foster White, organized the Pennsylvania Ma-
chine Company of Philadelphia, and o])erated
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 L'nited 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 Mt. Holly. Mr. White was a Republican,
having filled various township 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 Mt. Holly
Monthly Meeting.
On November 11, 1869, he married Mary
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.\iiiK-. (laughter of James A. and Mary E.
(Cashell ) I'eiiwick, and by whom he had seven
children: I. Rebecca M., now dead. 2. Eliza-
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
I'arker Boiler Company, Philadel])hia.
(The Lamb Line).
Rebecca M. Lamb, who married Barcla}-
White. 12 mo., 22, 1842, mother of Howard,
Joseph J., George F. and Barclay White Jr.,
was descended from Alfred the Great through
the Alauleverer line, of England (see the
Alauleverer Chart in the library of the His-
torical Society of Pennsylvania). 1 ler de-
scent is as follows :
(I) Alfred the (ireat, born 849, died 901 ;
married Elswitha.
(H) Princess Alfrith, died in 929; married
Baldwin H of Flanders, died January 2, 918.
(HI) Arnould I, of Flanders, died 964;
married Alex of \'ermandois.
(IV) Baldwin HI, of Flanders, died 961;
married Matilda, daughter of Herman, duke
of Saxony.
(V) Arnould II, of Flanders, died 988;
married Roselle, daughter of Berengarius III,
King of Italy.
(\T) Baldwin l\'. of Flanders, died 1034,
married Conegonde, of Luxemburg.
(VII) Baldwin V, 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.
(\TII) William the Conqueror, born 1027,
died 1087; married, 1052, Matilda of Flan-
ders, born 1031, died 1083.
(IX) Henry I, born 1068, died 1 135; mar-
ried Matilda, born about 1077, died May i,
II 18, daughter of Malcolm and Margaret.
(X) Matilda, died gmo 10 1167: married,
8nio 26 1 127, Geofifrey Count of Anjon.
(XI) Henry II, born 1133, died 1189; mar-
ried Eleanor of Acquitaine.
(XII) John, born 1167, died 1216; married
Isabella of Acquitaine.
(XHI) Henry III, born 1207, died 1272;
married Eleanor, daughter of Count of Prov-
ence.
(XIV) Edward I, born 1239, died 1307;
married Eleanor, daughter of Alphonso X of
Castile.
(XV) Edward II. born 1284, died 1327;
married Isabella, daughter of Phillip II of
1 'Vance.
(XVI) Edward III, 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."
(XVII) John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster,
fourth son of Edward HI.
(XVIII) Lady Margaret, daughter of John
of (iaunt, married Richard Nevill, first Earl
of Westmoreland.
(XIX) 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, sixth Lord Darcy.
(XXIII) Elizabeth, daughter of Philip
sixth Lord Darcy, married James Strang-
wayes.
(XXI\') Eleanor Strangwayes, married
lulmuncl Mauleverer, of Wothersome and
.Vimecliffe. Yorkshire, will dated lomo 7
1488.
(XX\') Robert Mauleverer, died 31110 10
1495, ^\'" probated at York, 2 mo 25 1496;
married Joane Vasasour, daughter of Sir
Henry \'asasour of Haslewood, Knight.
(XX\ I) Sir W'illiam Mauleverer, knighted
at Flodden, 15 13, married .Anne Conyers,
daughter of Sir William Conyers, of Stock-
burne.
(XX\TI) Robert Mauleverer, second son
and heir, buried January 31, 1540; married,
1524, Alice Markinfield, daughter of Sir
Ninian Alarkinfield and Dorothy nee Gas-
coigne.
(XX\TII) Sir Edmund Mauleverer, buried
4mo 27 1571 ; married, 1541, Mary Danby,
daughter of Sir Christopher Danby.
(XXIX) William Mauleverer, buried 1618,
will executed 41110 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 164042.
(XXXI) Edmund Mauleverer, born 1630,
died iimo 28 1679; married, 3nio i i6(36.
Anne Pearson, of Mowthorpe.
(XXXII) Anne Mauleverer, born 2mo 28
1678. died 2nio 17 1754; married, 3mo 26,
1696, John .Abbott, born 1660, in Nottingham-
shire. England, died 8mo 10 1739.
(XXXIH) Jane Abbott, born 3mo 9th
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1701, (lied imo 3 1780: married, i2ino 16
1726, Joseph IJurr, born iimo 5, 1693. died
41110 13 1767.
(XXX1\ ) Mary I5urr, born 6mo 11 1729.
died inio 17 1802; married, iimo 20 1747.
Solomon Ridgwav, born 8mo 18 1723, died
1788.
(XXX\') Henjaniin E. Ritlgway. born 6nio
20 1770, died 41110 14 1856; married, 8mo 17
1794, Prudence Borton Ridgway, born i2mo
25 1762, died 3mo 2^ 1854.
(XXXVI) Mary Ridgway, born 6mo 12
1795. (lied 3 mo 25 1837; married. 4mo 18
1822, Restore S. Lamb, born i2nio 2j 1788.
died 8mo 16 1867.
(XXXVII) Rebecca Merritt Lamb, born
3mo 22 1824, died 2mo 22 1850; married,
i2mo 22 1842, Barclay White, born 41110 4
1821, died Iimo 23 1906.
(XXX\'III) Joseph J. White, born imo.
22, 1846. married, iimo. 11, 1869, Mary Anne
Fenwick, born 9mo, 21, 1847. Their surviv-
ing children are : Elizabeth Coleman, Mary
F'enwick, Beulah Sansoni and Anne Pearson,
the latter wife of Franklin S. Chambers, ]\L E.
The ship "Francis and Eliza-
BLXDER beth" arrived in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and September
21. 1742. her adult male passengers c|ualified
before the authorities of the province of Penn-
sylvania. Among those male passengers were
Joiin, George, Jacob, see forward, and Moses
Binder. The exact relationship that existed
between these men is not known.
(I) Jacob Binder, or Bender as the name
was sometimes written, was born in Ober-
isingen. Duchy of Wurtemberg, (iermany,
January 19. 1736, died in Kensington (an out-
lying district of Philadel])hia county, Pennsyl-
vania, before the consolidation of the city in
1854), March 18, 1804. He emigrated to
America and settled in I'hiladelphia, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1754. The following records are
taken from the archives of Pennsylvania, last
edition, second scries. Me 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-
l)any. Third Battalion, ( .As.sociators ) Colonel
ATorgan commanding; lieutenant of the Fifth
Company, Second Battalion of militia. Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Benjamin G. Eyre commanding,
T780. Jacob Binder married, July 28, 1767,
Maria Weisbacken, this record appearing in
the P>ible 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. JVIr. and Mrs. 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, .\pril 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
A. 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 liindcr 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.
(ill) William (2), son of William (i)
I)inder. was l)orn in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania.
December 14. I7(>3: died in i8(X), and was
buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery (Section O),
Philadelphia. He married, prior to 1819,
Louisa Elizabeth Stani, who bore him a num-
ber of children among whom was George Au-
gustus, see forward.
( ]\') George Augustus, 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. Philadelphia. He car-
ried on the lumber business in partnership with
his elder brother, Jacob, under the firm name
of J. & G. A. Binder. Their place of business
was at the southeast comer of Si.xth 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
.A. Binder retired from business in 1864, owing
to impaired health, after which he became an
active member of the Academy 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-elcctiiin and retired from politics. Mr.
Binder married Miriam, daughter of Jesse and
Maria or Alary (Kunckel) Trump, and grand-
<laughter of John Kunckel, a resident of Phila-
delphia, and a soldier in the .American revolu-
ti<'>n, serving in a Pennsylvania regiment and
wounded at the battle of Rrandywine. Septem-
ber II, 1777, at the time I.afavette was wound-
ed in the leg and carried to Bethlehem where
the Moravian sisters nursed him during his
confinement. Among the children of George
A. and Miriam fTrump) Binder was Clarence
Kunckel, see forward.
(\^) Clarence Kunckel Binder, son of George
.Augustus and Miriam (Trump) Binder, was
born in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, March 8.
184^0. He attended the public schools of his
native citv 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 year, 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 College, 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-
signed this position in i87r)and opened an office
in Philadelphia as a professional architect, con
ihicting the business up to .August, 1879, when
he returned to the Polytechnic College to take
the chair of [)ure 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 jjastor 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
Estimate of John Chryostom" (347-407), one
of the early fathers and most accomplished
orators of the ancient Greek church. These
two ]3apers were published in the Lutheran
Church Rci'ic-iC. He is also a contributor to
current church periodicals. He holds member-
ship in the Ministerium of Pennsylvania,
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
(ieorge and Mary .Ann (Becker) Shimer, of
Camden, New Jersey.
The Rossell family is of Dan-
R( )SSEI^L 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 okl vikings, beginning with Sveide, the
\'iking, 7^x3-780, to Halfdin, 800: Ival Jahl, of
Upland. 830, who married the daughter of
Eisten (ilumru. Count of Trondheim ; Eisten
(dumru, of \'orse, 870; Rogvald Jarl, of
Moere, father of Rollo. Duke of Normandy;
Hrolf or Robert Turstain. 920, who married
Gerlotte, daughter of Theobald, Count of Blois,
then from the descendants of the barons of
P.ri(|uebec to Hugh Bertrand, 102 1, the father
of Hugh De Rossell. whose son, Ralph De
Rossell, married Agnes Deboves and establish-
ed the familv on English soil. From him the
line runs in unbroken descent down from Will-
iam De Rosell, Knight of the Shire for Derbv.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
in 1325, li) JdIiii Rosell, an officer in Crom-
well's army 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 appearing on the char-
ter of ( Governor Thomas Dougan. Among his
children were: I. Francis, referred to below.
2. Nathaniel, settled in the district of Hope-
well. Xew Jersey. 3. One who settled at
Eayrestown, Xew Jersey.
(II) Francis, son of John Rosell. removed
to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he died
in ifxj4, his will being dated December i, 1690.
and apjiroved January i, 1694. He ordered
his body to be buried at Burlington, New-
Jersey. I, eft legacies to his sister, Jane, the
wife of Dr. Wells, surgeon of London. Ap-
parently his only son was Zachariah, referred
to below.
(HI) Zachariah, who is said to have been
the son of Francis Rosell, of Bucks county,
Fennsylvania, although he may have been the
nephew and the son of the Rossells who settled
at Eayrestown, Xew Jersey, married in June,
1709, in the Burlington and Mount Holly
monthly meeting, Mary Hilliard, and among
his children were Zachariah, referred to below.
(1\') Zachariah (2), son of Zachariah (1 )
and Mary (Hilliard) Rossell, was born at
Eayrestown, Xew Jersey, in 1723; died there
February 21, 181 5. He lived in Mount Holly
and was a justice of the peace under King
George HI. His early and active service in
the cause of the liberty of his country markeil
him out for the vengeance of the British and
when in 177^1 they overran the Jerseys, his
house and other buildings were given up to the
plunder of the soldiery, who dragged him to
prison on foot to Xew York, where he sufTered
in common with his fellow-prisoners hard-
ships peculiar to an English jail. He haj^pily
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 w'ho knew
him. In 1759 Zachariah Rossell married (first)
Margaret ( Curtis ) Clark, who bore him a son,
Williaiu. referred to below, and tw^o daughters :
Mary, January 25, 1770. married Isaac Wood,
of Mount I lolly, and Martha, born February
7, 1771. married Joseph Read, of Mount Holly.
Margaret (Curtis) (Clark) Rossell died Jan-
uary 20. i7<So, at the age of si.xty-six years.
Zachariah Rossell married (second) Elizabeth
(Ross) Beckett, bv whom he had no issue.
( \ I William, eldest child of Zachariah (2)
and -Margaret (Curtis) (Clark) Rossell, was
born October 25, 1 760, in Springfield town-
ship, Burlington county, Xew Jersey ; died in
Mount Holly, June 20, 1840. For twenty-two
years he was a judge of the supreme court of
Xew Jersey, and for a long time he also served
as one of the L'nited States district judges.
He married Ann Hatkinson, wdio died July 16,
1832, aged seventy-one years, who bore him
seven children: i. Zachariah, born Xovember
17, 1788; died July 21. 1842: married Lydia
Beakes. a great-granddaughter of the Hon
William Trent, the founder of Trenton, and
left two sons. Xathan Beakes and William
Henry. 2. William, referred to below-. 3.
Eliza. 4. Margaret. 5. Joseph. 6. Mary .\iui,
married William Chapman. 7. Catherine,
marrieil Samuel Allen.
( \'I) \\'illiam (2), son of the 1 hm. William
( I 1 Rossell, had among other children a son,
William, referred to below-.
(\'H) William (3), .son of William (2)
Rossell, of Mount Holly, a retired farmer,
lived in Springfield township, Burlington
county, Xew Jersey : married a Miss Brown.
Children : (ieorge Edward, referred to below ;
I'rank, Elwood, .\mbrose, Harvey : Joseph, de-
ceased : Charles, deceased ; Anna, deceased.
( \'11I ) (ieorge Edward, son of William (3)
Rossell. was born in Springfield tow-nshi]), Xew^
Jersey, in 1854, and married Caroline Johnson,
born in 1856. He is still living and is a farmer.
His mother belongs to one of the old families
of the same township as her husband. Chil-
dren : Edward Wood, referred to below ; Ella.
I IX ) Edward Wood, son of George Edward
and L'aroline (Johnson! Rossell, w^as born in
Springfield township, Burlington county, Xew
Jersey, Xovember 28, 1887. He was a pupil in
the public schools in his native tow-nship for his
early education, after which he entered the
College of Pharmacy in Philadeljihia, from
which he graduated in 1899. He then pur-
sued a post-graduate course in the Medico
Chirurgical College in Philadeljihia. from
which he was graduated with the degree of
M. D. in 1905. He immediately began the
general practice of his profession in Camden.
Xew Jersey, where he was made a member of
the medical staff of the Camden City Disjien-
sary. In addition to this he built up for him-
self a |)rivate practice which increased very
rapidly, and with it also grew his reputatior:
as a skillful and careful practitioner, so that
now he is regarded by every one as one of the
rising doctors of the younger generation. In
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STATE OF NEW lERSEY,
647
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 I'rotection, and the Loyal
Order of Moose.
In June, 1908, Edward Wood Rossell. M. D..
married Ursula M., daughter of Edward
Knauss.
The Bacon family of New Jersey
PiACON 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 afifairs 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 Baptist denomi-
nation, and in that church also they have made
their mark.
( I ) 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
grand 'aughter of William Smitli, 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 *ieven children: i. Thomas, re-
ferred to below. 2. John. 3. Elizabeth, mar-
ried John Denn. of .AUoways Creek. 4. David,
settled in Phila-lelphia : 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
Coliansey in 1721. He married and left two
sons. Charles, referred to below, and John,
married Hannah, daughter of Paul Denn, of
.Alloways Creek, and had five children:
Thomas, Eleanor, Martha, Hannah and John.
(III) Charles, elder son of Thomas Bacon,
married and settled on his father's property
in Bacon'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, unmarried; 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 known as Bacon's
School. 4. Charles, died unmarried at an ad-
vanced age. 5. Rachael, married a ^Ir. Shep-
pard. and became the mother of Moses Shep-
pard, of Greenwich.
( R' ) Benjamin, second son of Charles
ISacon. was twice married, his first wife being
an .Mien, who bore him two children, one of
them .\bel, 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
( .Mien) Bacon, was a farmer of Bacon's Neck,
New Jersey, living on the farm which he had
inherited from his father. Children : W'illiam,
referred to below: Smith, Abel. Aseral.
I \'I I William, son of Abel Bacon, was one
of 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 .\lloway Pittsgrove
and Woodstown, New Jersey. After receiving
his early education at Greenwich, New Jersey,
he entered the University of Pennsylvania
with the idea of becoming a minister. After
com])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
.Allowaystown, New Jersey, and while there
became convinced that it was his duty to
])reach the gospel. He was consequently or-
dained as an evangelist, and began journeying
throughout counties of South Jersey preach-
ing. In 1830 the Rev. William Bacon became
pastor of the Iiaptist church at Pittsgrove, and
in 1833 he went to Woodstown, finally, in 1841
assuming charge of the church at Dividing
Creek. 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
Bacon, 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-
huten, Cumberland county. New Jersey. He
died in February, 1868.
Rev. William Bacon. M. D.. married Marv
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STATE OF NEW [ERSEV.
Ray. of I'hiladelphia. who died in October.
1869. Their children were: I. Clementine.
married (first) Lewis Rementor. of I'hiladel
phia ; (second) Robert Alayhugh, 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
Virginia, a Union soldier. 2. William Ray. of
Trenton and Bridgeton. New Jersey. 3. Re-
becca, married .Samuel -Spence, of Port Eliza-
beth, Xew Jersey. She died in Missouri and
he in I'.ridgeton. 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 \'olunteer Regiment,
was taken prisoner and confined for eight
months in .Andersonville until finally exchang-
ed, lie married Keziah Husted.
iN'Il) Stetson Levi, fifth child and third
son of the Rev. William, AL D., and Alary
( Ray ) Bacon, was born at ^\'oodsto\vn, Salem
county. New Jersey, .A.pril 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 ai
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
Jefterson Aledical College in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and received his degree of Al.
D. from 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 liis father's
death, in 18O8, he removed from Alantua, Xew
Jersey, where for a short time he associated
with himself a Dr. Turner. He then came tn
Port .Norris at a time when that place was very
small, the railroad to it being only just built.
1 le was the first ])hysician in the town, and he
is today the oldest medical practitioner in
southern New Jersey. In his long and useful
career he has been most successful, has
thoroughly endeared himself to the community
in which be has chosen to cast bis lot, and no
citizen of Port .Xorris is more highly esteemed.
Like his father, Dr. Bacon is a member of the
liaptist church and a Republican. He is a
member also of the Cumberland County Aledi-
cal Society ; for three years was coroner for
Cumberland county, and for thirty years was
the overseer of the poor of Commercial town-
shi]). Cumberland county. He has always been
a great lover of books and lias gathered to-
getiier a most magnificent library : he has now
practically retired from business and has given
bimself up to the enjoyment of his books and
a comfortable old age.
December 23, 1859, Dr. Stetson Levi Bacon
married Alartha Washington, daughter of
John L. and granddaughter of Ezekiel Alay-
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
township committee, and chosen freeholder.
Children of Stetson Levi, AL D., and Elizabeth
( A lay hew) Bacon :
1. Elizabeth Mayhew. born June i, i8f)4;
married, June 21, 1890, the Rev. William
.\. Walling, a Baptist clergyman, of Wil-
mington, Delaware, who graduated in 1896
from the L^niversity of Rochester, New York.
Her husband renounced the ministry, took up
the study of law in Columbia L'niversity, 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 publishing one book entitled "Phebe."
2. William Ray, born Alarch 23, 1871, at
Newport, Xew Jersey: attended the Port
Xorris public schools at the South Jersey In-
stitute and then went to the L'niversity of
Rochester. After his graduation he entered the
Columbia Cniversity Law School, from wdiich
he received his degree, LL. B., and entered on
the ]:ractice of his profession, Xew York City,
where he became corporation counsel for the
Metrnpnlitan Street Railroad Company.
I l''iii- flrsl generation see preceding sketclil.
(11) Job, youngest son of John
i;.\C()X and Elizabeth (Smith) Bacon,
was born in Cohansey, 1735. He
m.irried Alary, daughter of John .Stewart, of
Alloways Creek, Salem county. They had
three children: i. Job, referred to below. 2.
l^lizabeth. 3. George. Job's widow married
(second) Richard Wood. Jr.. of Cumberland
county.
(HI) Job (2). son of Job (1) and Mary
( Stewart) Bacon, was twice married, having
two children by his first wife and four chil-
dren by his second. His second wife was
Ruth, (laughter of John Thompson, of Elsin-
borough. The name of his first wife is un-
known. I lis children were : i. John, referred
to below . J. Alartha. 3. Alary, tnarried Clem-
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
651
Collins, the immigrant, and his second wife,
Mary (Budd) Goslin, the widow of Dr. John
Goslin, of Burlington, and daughter of Thomas
Budd, the emigrant, and brother to William
Budd, the emigrant. Samuehvas the son of Sam-
uel and Elizabeth Cole, the emigrants. Children
of Joseph and Susanna (Cole) Roberts were:
I. Mary. 2. Joseph, married Rachel, daugh-
ter of Thomas and Mary (Eves) Evans. 3.
William, married Ann Brick. 4. Rebecca, mar-
ried Joseph, son of Thomas and Alary (Eves)
Evans. 5. George, married .Abigail Brown. 6.
Jnsiah, married Mary I-'rench. 7. Abel. 8.
.Ann, married John, son of Jabez and Sarah
(Evans) Buzby. 9. David, referred to below.
( \' ) David, son of Joseph and Susanna
(Cole) Roberts, was born P'ebruary 14, 1792
died December 9, 1880. He inherited the old
iiomestead. He married Rachel, daughter of
Joshua and Rachel Hunt, of Redstone, Fay-
ette county, Pennsylvania, by whom he had nine
children: 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. Anna B.,
October 7, 1829. 8. Susanna, January 4, 1832 ;
married Jonathan G. Williams. 9. Rachel
Hunt, January 30, 1834; unmarried.
( \T ) Elisha, second child and eldest son of
David and Rachel ( Hunt ) Roberts, was bom
June 30, 1818, in Chester township, Burling-
ton county. New Jersey. He married, Febru-
ary 24. 1842, Elizabeth W'. Hooten, born in
Evesham, now Mount Laurel township, Bur-
lington county. New Jersey, July 16, 1819.
She is a descendant of Thomas Hooten, son of
William Hooten, who came from England in
the year 1677 and settled in Evesham, now
Mount Laurel township, Burlington county,
-New Jersey, and married Mary Lippincott, of
Shrewsbury, New Jersey, in 1697. William
Hooten, son of Thomas and Mary Hooten,
was born September 2, 1698, and was married
in Friends" meeting house in Evesham to Ann
Sharp, widow of John Sharp, and daughter of
Thomas Haines, of North Hampton. 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-
(k)ck. born .August 3, 1738, died September 7,
1769, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth
( Bates ) Braddock, and granddaughter of Rob-
ert Braddock, the emigrant. Thomas Hooten
married (second) December i, 1774, Atlantic
Stokes, widow of Joseph Stokes, in Friends'
meeting house in iMoorestown, New Jersey.
.Atlantic was the daughter of Joshua and Mary
i'ispham, 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,
bom 1766, died June 11, 1806; married Ann
Wynn, who died August 6. 1857. Thomas and
-\tlantic ( Bispham-Stokes) Hooten had four
children: i. Benjamin, born April 2, 1776, died
.April 4, 1862; married Beulah Mullen, who
died 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 Elizabeth West,
of Trenton, New Jersey, who died July 18,
1864. Joseph, son of Thomas and .Atlantic
( P>ispham-Stokes ) Hooten, was born June 4,
1778, died November 11, 1839. He 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 Pippett. Their
children were : i. Isaac, born January 19,
181 5, died aged eighteen months; ii. Joseph,
born .August 30, 1817, died November 8, 1878;
married, May 25, 1843, in Westfield meeting
house, .Anna Warrington, daughter of Henry
and .\nna Warrington ; iii. Elizabeth West,
born July 16, 1819, married Elisha Roberts,
referred to above: she died March 15, 1889.
The children of Elisha and Elizabeth West
(Hooten) Roberts were: i. Sarah H., born
January 29, 1843; married Samuel L. Allen.
2. .Anna W., born March 15, 1845 ■ drowned at
.Atlantic City, July 10. 1874. 3. Joseph H.,
born December 15, 1846; died July 26, 1847.
4. Elizabeth II., born April 20, 1848; married
Edward F>. Richie. 5. David, referred to be-
low. (). 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 .April 16. 1859.
(\TI) David, son of Elisba and Elizabeth
West (Hooten) Roberts, was born near
.Moorestown, June 19, 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
Hooten Roberts, at Atlantic City. In 1893-
652
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
94 he built his [jresent 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 I'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, 1(309. Helen, daughter of
John Bushnell, of Plainfield. New Jersey, and
lives in a beautiful house which he has built
next to his father. 3. Elizabeth Allen. 4.
Herbert Allen, a member of the firm of George
D. Wetherill & Company, paint dealers, Phil-
adel])hia. The last two mentioned live with
their father.
(\'II) Joseph Hooten. son of Elisha and
Elizabeth West (Hooten) Roberts, was born
in Moorestown, April 29, 1854. and is now
living in that town. 1 le attended the jniblic
schools of Moorestown, and then went with
his brother to the Westtown boarding school
in Chester county, Pennsylvania. For the fol-
lowing twelve years after leaving school he
engaged in farming. He then engaged in the
hotel business at Atlantic City with his brother,
David Roberts, conducting the Chalfonte Hotel,
built l)v his father and conducted In' him from
1868 to 1885. In 1897 Joseph H. Roberts built
his present house in ^Ioo^estown, and the fol-
lowing year he and his brother gave up the
hotel business and came to Moorestown to
reside. Like liis brother, David, he conducts
a large truck and dairy farm near Moorestown.
lie is .-1 director in the .Moorestown P.ank and
in tlie I'.urliugton County Safe Deposit and
Trust Ciini])aiiy. He is a member of the Soci-
ety of Friends. He married, October, 1880.
Mary C, daughter of Isaac Collins and Mary
( Percival) Stokes, granddaughter of Isaac and
Lydia (Collins) .Stokes, and great-grand-
daughter (if John and Beulah (Haines) .Stokes.
Children: i, .Alfred Stokes, now a student in
Haverford College. 2. Mary Stokes, now a
student in Wellesley College.
(For proceiUnK K^nerations sec John Koh.ris 1 i.
(HI) Enoch, son of |ohn and
ROIIF.RTS Mary ( Elkinton ) Roberts, was
born in 17 17; died in 1784. In
17.14 lie married Rachel Coles, born 1716, died
1758. Children: i. Mary, born 1744; mar-
ried .-\nthony Allen. 2. Samuel, referred to
below. 3. Elizabeth, 1747: married Jonas Cat-
tel. 4. Rachel, 1749; married Joshua Dudley.
5. Esther, 175 1 ; married Joshua Hunt. 6.
Sarah. 1753; died 1758. 7. Enoch, Jr., 1756;
died 1758.
( l\' ) .Samuel, second child and eldest son
of Enoch and Rachel (Coles) Roberts, was
born in 1746. He married Hannah Stiles.
Children: i. Rachel, bom 1773; married Job
Dudley. 2. Sarah, 1776: married George ^lat-
lack. 3. Mary, 1779; married Joshua Lippin-
cott. 4. Hannah, 1781 : died 1782. 5. Lydia,
1785 ; died 1797. 6. Enoch, 1787 : married Ann
I\Iatlack. 7. Samuel, 1789; married .Sarah,
daughter of Thomas and Mary (Eves) Evans.
8. Hannah, 1792; married Levi Lippincott.
9. Asa, referred to below.
(V) 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)
Lippincott : married ( second ) Rachel Ballinger ;
(third) Hannah (Ballinger) Stiles. His chil-
dren, all from Anna Lippincott, 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.
iMiimor, 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' hitcUiqcnccr. of Philadel-
phia: she died in 1888. 7. Pri.scilla P., 1835:
died 1835. 8. Elizabeth, i83(^) : married Xathan
Haines, of Baltimore; she is still living.
( \'I ) Emmor, son of .\sa and .\nna (Lip-
])incott ) Roberts, was born in Evesham town-
ship, I'urlington county. New Jersey, F"ebru-
ary 16, 1831. He received a very good educa-
tion for a farmer's son of that day, having
been sent to the school of Benjamin llalloweli
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
w;is necessarily very thorough, esjiecially was
this sii with the mathematics. In 1857 he mar-
rieil 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
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
653.
remainder of his 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 freeholders of the county
and director of the board ; director of the
Mount Holly Insurance Company and of the
Moorestown and Camden Turniiikc Company.
P"or the last twenty-five years of his life he
was the president of the last named company.
For thirty-si.x 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. I'^or 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
quarterly 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.
ffis 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
Lydia W. 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 Ilildrcth family of New
illLDRETH 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 Union. 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. Alvin
Parker, referred to below. 2. Eliza E., mar-
ried Lafayette Miller. 3. Daniel. 4. .\nn Jane,
never married.
(II) Alvin Parker, eldest child of George
Hildreth, was born in Cold Spring, New
Jersey, June 11, 1831, died in Cape May City,
.August 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 Washington, District of Columbia. Subse-
c|uently 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 aff^airs he exer-
cised a marked influence, and his co-operation
was always given to movements and measures
that were calculated to advance the progress
and welfare of the community. His Alasonic
relations were with the Cape Island Lodge,
of which he was a valued and influential mem-
654
STATE OF NEW [ERSEY.
her, lie married, in December, 1854, Lydia
Hughes, born October 28, 1832, died January
4, 1862, daughter of Eli B. and Sarah
( Hughes) Wales. Children: Howard Wales,
I-'rank Harding, James Monroe Edmonds, see
below ; Alvin Parker, Jr.
Desire (Rowland) Gorham, who died at
Barnstable, Massachusetts, October 13, 1683,
was the daughter of John and Elizabeth
(Tilley) Rowland, and granddaughter of John
Rowland, 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 (Rowland) Gor-
ham, was born at Barnstable, Massachusetts,
November 28, 1663; married, about 1683, Jo"
seph Whilldin, of Yarmouth. Hannah Whill-
din, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Wildman)
Whilldin, granddaughter of Joseph, son of
Josei)h and Hannah (Gorham) \\ hilldin, was
born about 1690, died at Cape May, March
18, 1784: married Ellis Hughes. Ellis Hughes,
son of Ellis and Hannah (Whilldin) 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 Hughes, born
May 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 ,\lvin
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 Roily where he com-
pleted his education in the Mount Holly Acad-
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 lion. Joseph R. GaskcU, later president
judge of Burlington county. He diligently
a])plied himself to tlie task of mastering the
principles of jurisprudence, and after a care-
ful preparation he was admitted to practice
in the courts of New Jersey in June, 1881.
Re then returned to Ca])e May City and enter-
ed u])on the practice of his jirofession, and his
business has .steadily increased imtil now
( 1909) he has an extensive and distinctly
representative clientage. His devotion to his
clients is proverbial, yet it is said that he never
advised any one to enter litigation e.xcept to
right a wrong. Re is an indefatigable and
earnest worker, and the litigation with which
he has been connected has been of a very im-
l)ortant 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 strength 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 enterprisijig movements re-
ceive his encouragement and substantial aid
is given to matters and measures for the public
good. He is a Mason, a Reptasoph 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 aft'able and
courteous, and his whole career has been j)er-
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 office of city solicitor, a
position which he held for two terms, and in
which he won the highest commendation of all
by the manner 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. B>enjamin 1 larrison, ex-president
of the I'nited States, was the distinguished
guest and the principal speaker on that occa-
sion, and Mr. Hildreth introduced Mr. Harri-
son and ]iresided 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 (if his business aft'airs of Ca])e May, that
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
655
each taxpayer was saved fourteen per cent of
the usual net amount of his tax. In 1895 the
city council again elected Mr. llildreth to the
of^ce of city solicitor, and in 1897 he was again
elected mayor. To those who are acquainted
with him it it needless to say that his adminis-
tration was progressive and heneficial. 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
ballots. 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 May 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 accepted
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 Philadelphia and Cape May. He
is a member of the Presbyterian church in
Cape May City. He is a representative 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 Mount Holly, New Jersey,
and they have one child, Kathryn Hildreth
Johnson, born IMay 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 country 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
Wales, 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, enjoying the distinction of being the
youngest prosecutor of the pleas ever appointed
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 1913. 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
]\Iasons, 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) Cox, of Salem, New
lersey, who is a graduate of the South Jersey
Institute. They have one child, Laura Eliza-
beth, burn in Cape May City, .August 13, 1905.
John B. Slack, son of Wesley
SL.VCK Hunt and Annie (LangstaiT)
Slack, was born in Paducah,
Kentucky. November 4, 1873. His primary
and preparatory education was obtained in the
Mount Holly Academy, Mount Holly, New
Jersey. In the fall of 1891 he entered Lehigh
"I'niversitv for a four vears scientific course.
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STATE OF NEW TERSEY.
which he coiii])k-te(l in 1895, graduating with
the degree of E. E. Deciding upon the pro-
fession of law, he returned to ]VIount Holly
where he entered the law ofTice 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 coimsellor.
Immediately ui)on receiving his credentials Mr.
Slack located in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and
entered upon the active practice of his pro-
fession. In political faith he is Republican.
He is a vestryman of the Episcopal Church of
the Ascension of .Atlantic 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.
Joiin B. Slack married, C)ctober 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 Philadelphia 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 president 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 Pennsylvania bar to which he was ad-
mitted June 3, 1 868. 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 prominent
BISSELL among the early settlers of most
of the English Colonies, fam-
ilies, and has had many distinguished re])re-
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 develojiment of the Americaa 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 ) William 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 Virginia Volunteer Confederate Regi-
ment, of which he was made captain. He
served with great bravery until the battle of
tjettysburg, and in the famous fight 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 ])art of the famous l^ickett's division (Gar-
nett's brigade) so vividly described in every
history of the famous battle. Mr. Bissell mar-
ried Margaret, 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
I-'reeland, 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
Sjjalding, a farmer, living in Harford county,
Alaryland. 7. Mary Jarrett, widow of John
N. \\'ilkerson, of Norfolk, V'irginia. 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 dietl 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 cour,se, I have kept the faith."
(II) William Thomas, eldest son of Will-
iaiu Rombough and Margaret (W'ebstcr) Bis-
sell, was born October 31, 1848, in Harford
county, Maryland, where his father carried on
a farm. He received his education at the pub-
lic schools of Belair and the I larford Acad-
emy, after which he learned the art of print-
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
657
ing in the office of the Aegis & Intelligencer.
of Belair, and then spent eight years in the
employ of Allen, Lane & Scott, a firm of
printers, located at Philadelphia. He subse-
quently removed to Camden, Xew 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 next
enterprise was developing a tract of land in
Xew Jersey, which now comprises the town
of .Al])ha, 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 Paxtonia,
near Harrisburg, and a tract on the Columbia
Turnpike near Lancaster, all in Pennsylvania,
also a tract near Dover, New Jersey. At 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, New Jersey, where he has
a large circle of friends and acc|uaintances,
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 : lienevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, Knights of the Golden Eagle,
Fraternal Order of Eagles ; Camden Com-
niandery. No. 34, Patriotic Order Sons of-
.\merica ; 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
\V. Wilson, a lumber merchant of Baltimore ;
five children: i. Lillie Alay, married Nicholas
Everly, of Bloomsbury, New Jersey; they
have one child, Ida May. 2. Margaret Web-
ster, married John M. Hunt ; they had seven
children: Pearl Webster, \Mlliam Ridgely,
( ieorgia 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.
Duft'ner, 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 elo<|uence 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 Virginia 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 nametl as
one of the viewers of tobacco crops for Acco-
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, Vir-
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 Michael and Isaac. His
wife was probably a sister of Isaac Butter-
worth, who in his will of May, 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.
(IV) Isaac, son of John (3) and Hannah
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.
(V) Samuel, youngest son of Isaac and
Margaret (Lee) Webster, was born in 1746,
died December 13, 1817. He married, in
March, 1769. Margaret Adams, of Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, and of their twelve chil-
dren John Adams was the tenth.
658
STATE OF NEW [ERSEY.
(\'I I 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 \\'ebster 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 h'orts Mclienry 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
F)altimi)re, and one from the state of Mary-
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
hor.se shot under him ; congress paid him for
the loss of the horse and gave him a jiension
of twenty dollars a month.
Captain Webster married, February 8, 1816,
Rachel, daughter of Colonel Joseph Biays, who
was a soldier in the revolution, and they had
fifteen children, among them: i. Margaret. 2.
Dr. James l'.iays. 3. Susan A. 4. Laura .'\.,
wife of John C. Patterson. 5. William S.
These five are living, and those deceased are:
Josejihine. who became the wife of Dr. Will-
iam Dallom : Captain John, who entered the
revenue marine service ; Mary A., who married
.\. S. Dnrsey' Benjamin M.: Rachel C, who
married (ieneral I". A. Bond ; and Isaac P.
Cajjtain John Adams Webster was a man of
large build, being six feet high and weighing
two hundred ]iounds. 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 Har-
ford county. Mrs. Webster died in 1869.
(\IIj ^largaret, daughter of John Adams
and Rachel ( Biays ) Webster, was born De-
cember 13, 1817, died February, 1908, in Har-
ford county, ^Nlaryland ; she married, Septem-
ber II, 1834, William Rombough Ijissell.
( See ISissell, 1.)
This name came into England
M( )()RE with William the Con(|ueror, in
1066. Thomas de More was
among the survivors of the battle of Hastings,
(Jctober 11, of that year, and was a recipi-
ent (if many favors at the hands of the tri-
unij)haiu 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 .\dam More, Row-
allan, and became the mother of Elizabeth
More, who, in 1347, married King Robert II.
of Scotland, from whom sprang the long line
of Stuart mbnarchs. 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 disting^iished positions in the
L'nited Kingdom, and several of them occupied
seats as -members of parliament. They have
also been eminent in military attairs. 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 political 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
lar<rest land holder in the colony 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 Iiurlington, and resided in that vicinity.
He married Patience Woolman, 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 ) Woolman, the progenitors
of the Woolman family of New Jersey. The
last named was the daughter of John and Ann
ESorton, progenitors of a numerous family of
that name. They came from the parish of
Aynhoe in Northamptonshire, England.
Joseph Moore's children : Mary, born Septem-
ber 3, 1740; Elizabeth, July 13, 1744, Patience,
Xovemljer 8. 1750; Uriah, November 8, 1753;
Jona, April 6, 1758; Cyrus, mentioned below;
and John.
(HI) 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: r. Joseph, born Februar}- 5, 1790.
went to Ohio. 2. Abel, 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. iTiah, October 2, 1800.
9. Alary, June 24, 1802. 10. Martha, July
5, 1804. II. John, July 21, 1808.
(IV) Abel, second son of Cyrus and Mary
(Austin) Moore, was born April 20, 1791, in
Burlington, and died in Lumberton township.
March 2^. 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 Engle, of
Evesham (see Engle, V). The last named
was a daughter of John and Elizabeth Coles.
Elizabeth C. Engle was born February 5,
1803, and died June 13, 1880. Children: i.
Granville W., born May 18, 1823, died March
I, 1874. 2. Cyrus, March 12, 1825, married
(first) Mope Lippincott ; (second) Esther
Prickett. 3. Aaron E. November 13, 1827,
died June 25, 1840. 4. Anna, December 6,
1830, married Lemuel Prickett. and died Au-
gust 21, 1881. 5. Patience, June 30, 1833, died
December 6, 1834. 6. John, P'ebruary 27,
1835, died November 17, 1903. 7. Elizabeth,
June I, 1838, died February 21, 1878. 8.
George W., mentioned below. 9. Barbara H.,
May 31, 1843, 'lisd 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 in the public schools of Easton and the
Medford Friends' school. He remained upon
the homestead farm with his i)arents, 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
hundred and eighty acres. Fie 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.
Fie also carried on successfully general agri-
culture. In 1889 he bought a farm of fifty
acres in .\It. Holly, to which he removed and
has since made his home thereon. Though
born a Friend, Mr. Moore is an attendant of
the Baptist 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,
leaving an infant son, George Engie Moore.
He was married (second) in 1882, to Cather-
ine Owen, of Philadelphia, whose maiden
name was Fox, daughter of William and
Catherine, of Philadeljihia. They have one
child, Howard Evans, born September, 1883,
in Lumberton, who was educated at the pub-
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, 1881, in Lumberton and was edu-
cated in the Friends' School at Easton and the
Jamison private school at Mt. Holly. He ob-
tained a situation as salesman with Straw-
bridge iv Clothier's jewelry department, of
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
j'hila(lel])hia, 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 business in Phila-
<lelphia. as salesman, and this arrangement
has continued to the present time. Air. Moore
makes his home on his father's farm at Alt.
Holly, and travels to and from Philadelphia
each day. He is a member of the Friends'
.\ssociation, and attends the Baptist church in
Mt. Holly. In political principles he is a
staunch Republican.
(I\') Cyrus (2) fourth son of Cyrus (il
and Mary ( .Austin ) Moore, was born Novem-
ber 30. 1798, in Burlington and died Decem-
ber 5, ]iX8o. He married, Alav 17, 1838, Eliz-
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 JMoore'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, married
Amos Harvey, May, 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
Afary Stokes (Haines) Troth. She was born
June 3. 1855.
(Tlie Piic-kitt Line).
The family name of Prickitt is found al
an early date in liurlington 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 w'as a Josiali
Prickitt, of Burlington, 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 Harrison,
of Flushing, Long Island."
(I) Zachariah (or Zackariah ) Prickitt, the
earliest known ancestor of the family under
consideration here of whom w'e 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 Alarch 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 Ouigley.
(H) Jacob, son of Zackariah and Ellipha
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 gmo. 1735;
married Elizabeth Phillips. 3. Barzilla, born
22 omo. 1737: married Sarah Sharp. 4. Ann.
l)orn 20 lomo. 1739, died 4:110. 1759. 5. Ro-
sannah. born 11 2mo. 1742. 6. job, see for-
ward. 7. Hannah, born 26 6mo. 1746: mar-
ried .\maziah Lippincott. 8. Sabyllah, born
24 ymo. 1748.
(Ill) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (i) and
Hannah Prickitt, was born November 18,
1735, and married Elizabeth Phillips.
(I\') Job, son of Jacob (2) and Ilannaii
Prickitt, was born the 24th of 4th mo. 1744.
and married .\nn, 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 llulf.
5. Josiah, see forward. 6. Barzilla, born 20
2mo. 1781 ; married Martha Haines.
(V) Ann 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 w-e 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
Thomas 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 are likely to be
men of mark.
( I) Henry Moore, son of Thomas and Jean
Moore, was born in Londonderry, Ireland,
January i, 1736. He emigrated to America
about 1755 and probably landed at Philadel-
phia, where he married Catherine Fleming,
who was born in Philadelphia in 1730. He
was a school teacher at New Egypt, New Jer-
sey, and was known as "Master Henry."
They removed to Stony Brook, Middlesex
county. New Jersey, where their only child
John was born July 15. 1774. Catherine
( Fleming) Moore died after the birth of his
child, and Mr. Moore married as his second
wife Sarah Jackaway, who was born at Apan-
])ick, Middlesex county. New Jersey, March
-3- •737- -^'i^ ^^'''■'" ^'t-' daughter of Reuben
and ^largaret Jackaway. Henry and .Sarah
(Jackaway) Moore namccl their first born
son Henry, see forward.
(H) Henry (2), eldest son of Henry (i)
and Sarah ( Jackaway ) Moore, was born in
Jacobstown, Burlington county. New Jersey,
in 1787. died in 1871. He married .\nn Hor-
ner, who was born November Q. 1798, died
.\ugust 2, 1880. The children of Henry and
.\nn (Horner) Moore were born in the order
as follows: I. ^Margaret. July 2, 1815. 2. Abi-
gail, November 4. 1817. 3. Henry, June 18,
1818. 4. Francis. May 29, 1822. 5. Barzelia,
September 21. 1824. 6. Ezekiel. October 25.
1827. 7. Ann, November 8, 1829. 8. Hen-
rietta, January 30, 1832. 9. Rachel, Novem-
ber 20, 1833. 10. Hugh, see forward.
(IH ) Hugh, tenth child and fifth son of
Henry ( 2 ) and .Ann ( Horner ) Moore, was
born in New Egypt. Ocean county. New 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
froni New Jersey to Smyrna, Delaware, where
he carried on the business of basket-making
f(,r several years, returning to New Egypt.
New Jersey, in 1885. He was married in Oc-
tober, 1856, to Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel
and Isabel ( \'an Sciver ) Smalley, who lived
near .\llentown, Monmouth county. New 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 Collinswood, New [ersev. 2.
Rachel, married Joseph Evans and lives at
New Egvpt, New Jersey. 3. Harry, a sta-
tionary engineer in Philadelphia. 4. Elvira,
married D. L. Lowery, of Philadelphia. 5.
William, has a meat inarket at Bradley Beach,
New Jersey. 6. Harvey, a hardware mer-
chant in New Egypt. New Jersey. 7. Thomas,
a contractor and builder in Washington, D. C.
8. Joseph, a physician and surgeon in I'hila-
delphia, Pennsylvania. 9. Addison Urie, see
forward. 10, Walter Clement, see forward.
(I\') .-\ddison 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 New
Egypt, Ocean county, New Jersey. Here he
attended school and became an apprentice to
the village printer. In 1897 h^ established a
printing office in New Egypt in company with
liis brother. Walter Clement, under the name
of Moore Brothers, and the same year they
began the publication of the Advertiser a small
weekly newspaper. In 1899 they rechrist-
ened the paper the Ncz\.' Egypt Press and
issued it in a new dress and enlarged form.
The 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
First National Bank of New Egypt, and they
were also instrumental in establishing and
maintaining the yearly Lake Carnival. .Ad-
dison W. Moore was made secretary of the
\ illage Improvement Society, and his public
spirit manifested itself in the activity infused
by his example and suggestion in the work of
the society. His political creed was Demo-
cratic, and his fraternal and patriotic affilia-
t .ns 'icluded membership in the Order of
L'nited .Vmerican 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 Grange and a regu-
lar attendant of the Methodist Episcopal
church.
( I\' ) Walter Clement, youngest 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,
New Jersey, when only an infant and was
brought up and educated in that village. He
was sent to the West Philadelphia .\ca(lemy
and Teachers' College, where he was gradu-
ated in 1898. He paid his way through col-
lege by teaching at Brindle Park. New Jersey,
for almost a vear. He did the commercial art
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work and carlumiing fur the Burlington Daily
llntcrprisc. liurlington, Xew Jersey, and re-
mained in charge of the art department of
that paper for about two years when he again
took up teaching school, 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 1906 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 Room
Exercises" and "Practical Methods in Edu-
cation" both of which works are highly valued
by pedagogists. He was also associated with
his brother, .\ddison U. Aloore, in the print-
ing and ])ublishing business and did much edi-
torial work for the Nczv Egypt Press from
the time of its first issue in 1897. He was
made vice-president of the New Egypt \'illage
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 New
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
.\'ew Egypt. His political affiliation was with
the Democratic party.
He married, .Xovember 10. igoo, .Ma_\-
Marker, daughter of .\twood and .Susie
( Hyers ) Harker, of Xew Egypt, and their
first child was W'ardell 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 tliird,
Elinor Harker, horn in Xew ligypt. New Jer-
sey, December 15, 1907.
This name is a prominent one
M( )RR1':LL in the early Dutch settlers of
Long Island, and among the
early members of New .Amsterdam.
( I ) Peter Alorrell is the progenitor of the
family in .America, bearing tlie name of
.Albertis of Burtis. In 1643 he married Judith
Jans Meynie, of .Amsterclam, Holland. He
lived on the lleeren (jrocht, now l>road street,
.Manhattan, and owned a tobacco plantation
in the W'allabout, Brueeklyn, which estate lie
patented Jiuie 17, 1643. The children of Peter
and Judith Jans (Meynie) Morrell who ar-
rived at maturity were: i. John .\., born 1643.
2. .Arthur (.Aert), 1647. 3. Mary, 1649. mar-
ried John P. I'.aub. 4. William, 1652. 5.
I'Vancina. i'''54. married Juliii Allen. The
three sons: John. .Arthur and William, re-
moved to Alespath Kills (Newtown, Long
Island) and William and Arthur subsequently
located at Hempstead and the brothers were
connected with St. George's Church, Prot-
estant Episcopal, at Hempstead.
( H) John Albertus, eldest son of Peter and
Judith Jans (Meynie) Alorrell, was born in
New -Amsterdam (New York), 1643, tiled 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 Hemi)stead.
and they had children as follows: 1. AN'illiam.
2. John, see forward. 3. Samuel, who in-
herited a large share of his father's estate at
Me.spath Kills and married and had children.
4. Elizabeth, who married John Stewart. 5.
Mehitable, who married James, son of William
Lawrence, of Aliddletown, Monmouth county,
New Jersey. John .\. Alorrell died in .April,
1691, and his widow- married, in i'393, Will-
iam Lawrence Sr., of Middletown, New Jer-
sey.
(HI) John, second son of John -A. and
Elizabeth (Scudder) Alorrell, was born in
Mespath Kills, Long Island, about 1680. He
married Phebe .\lbertis and they had one
child only, John, see forward.
I 1\ ) John (2 1, only son of John ( 1 ) and
1 'hebe 1 .\Ibertis ) Alorrell, was born in Mid-
dletown, -Xew Jersey, October 31, 1733. He
was the first importer of china and earthen-
ware in the L'nited 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 Alorrell
iS: Com])an\'. He was a zealous member of the
Protestant Episco]ial church in .America and in
l'hiladel])hia became a member of Christ
Church and subse(juently of St. James Church.
He had a son Richard, see forward.
( \' ) Richard, son of John (2) Morrell, was
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, about
1775- 11^ 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 sup])orter of St. James
Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadel])hia.
lie married Sarah Grover, of Philadelphia,
and she died in that city Jidy 30, 18 ig, when
her sons Richard H. and Wallace (twins)
were two and one-half years of age. Richard
.Morrell died in I'ittsburg. Pennsylvania, at the
home of his son Wallace, w-ith whom he lived
(lurinif his last vears.
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(\'I) Richard H.. son of Richard and
Sarah ( Grover ) Morrell, was born in Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania. January 30, 1818. He
was educated in the public schools of his native
city. His mother died when he was quite
young and he went to live with his Grand-
mother Alorrell : when he was thirteen years
oi age he became a clerk in the importing
house of Destouet Brothers of Philadelphia,
im]Kirters and dealers in silk goods. He was
a precocious 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. Meantime, 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. XWirrell &
Com].)any, in purchasing the business of that
firm, and the firm of Morrell & Stokes, import-
ers, commission merchants and general dealers
and manufacturers of fine silks and trimmmgs
came into e.xistencc with store and warehouse
at 211 Church street. Philadelphia. In 1856
\It. Morrell became a resident of P.everlv.
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 bv specu-
lators. He became one of the largest real
estate owners in I'everly, XfW Jersey, and
purchased and remodeled a beautiful residence
and made a charming home on Cooper street.
His political affiliation was with the Whig
I'arty. his first jiresidential 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 simplv as the
successor to the Whig party and gave it his
immediate and unec|ualed 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 party candi-
dates, state, county, city and local. He served
the city of Pieverly as a member of the council
for twelve vears. He was a member of St.
Stephen's Protestant Episcopal 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 19,
1846. John Thomson was born August 14,
1799, and became a very prominent member
of the Masonic fraternity passing from Lodge
.\o. 51 of Philadelphia which he joincrl 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,
1844-45; 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
the Grand Lodge of F'ennsylvania. Thomson
Lodge, Duffyron Mawr, Chester county, Penn-
sylvania, 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,
1850, died April 6, 1896. 3. Mary Thomson.
Richard H. Morrell died in Beverly, New
Jersey, May 8, 1906.
(\"II) John Thomsun, 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 Ijeck'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
Tkn'erly, New Jersey, lie did not matriculate at
the high school but entered journalism and be-
came interested as a contributor to the Bc7'crly
li'rt kly J'isitor. the first newspaper established
in f-ieverly and which journal subsequently
passed to the management of John K. Haffey
and became known as the Beverly Banner.
He remainerl with the newspaper up to 1894.
and besides his contributions he became the
Beverly correspondent for the Philadelphia
Press in 1883, and also gave local news items
in that section of New Jersey to other news-
papers. He likewise engaged in the insurance
business as agent for West New Jersey for the
Fire .Association of Philadelphia, the Insur-
ance Company of North .America, the I'nion
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 sup]3orter. He also affiliates with
the Alasonic 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 lUirlington, New Jersey, and Keepawa
Tribf, Xo. 237, Improved Order Red Men.
The ancient Dutch fam-
LOXGSTREET 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 \^an Siddock. He came to
.■\merica in 1657, and at an early date pur-
chased lands at Shrew.sbury, 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 ) .\drian Langestraat or Longstreet, son
of Dirck Stoffelse and Catherine ( \'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, mentinncd
below. Derick, StoiTelse. Five daughters.
( 111 ) John Longstreet, son of Adrian and
Styntje (Janse) Longstreet, married, Decem-
ber 17, 1736. .\tin Covenhoven, daughter of
Peter and Patience (Dawes) Covenhoven.
Children: .\aron, died young, Pietras, Jan,
Elias, .\aron, mentioned below, .Vntje.
(IV) Aarfin, son of Joiin and .\nn (Coven-
hoven) Longstreet, resided in Holmdel, Xew
Jersey. He married, March 9, 1778, Will-
iami)e Hen''rickson. Children : Hendrick,
mentioned below, John, Lydia. .Annie, Nellie.
( V ) 1 lendrick, son of .Aaron and Williamiie
( Hendrickson ) Longstreet. was born Ma\' 14,
1785, and lived in llolmdel township. 1 le
married, October 11, 1805, Mary, daughter of
Joseph and Xellie Holmes. Children : .Aaron,
Eleanor, Lydia H., Ann H., Emeline, Joseph,
Hendrick H., mentioned below, Mary Ann,
born 1821, John H., Jonathan.
( \'l ) Hendrick H., son of Hendrick and
-Mary (Holmes) Longstreet, was born on the
old homestead near Holmdel, Monmouth
county, Xew Jersey, January 11. 1819, died in
1891. 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 Medical Juris-
prudence" and other standard works. At that
institution Dr. Longstreet attended several
courses of lectures, and in 1842 the degree of
Doctor of Medicine was conferred unon him
by the same. He immediately located in the
pursuit of his profession at Bordentown,
where he continued in uninterrupted and suc-
cessful ]iractice of his profession. As a physi-
cian he stood in the front rank of his profes-
sion and ]jrobablv 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 acijuaint-
anccs. W'ith 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 iiniiroved
methods of medical and surgical practice and
in the enjoyment of a large and remunerative
]iractice. llis 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 .\merican Medical
.Association, of the .State Medical Society, of
which he was often a delegate, and of the
District .Medical .Society of Burlington county,
III 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, piibhc-spirited and vahiable citizens.
He was a director and president of the Bor-
dentown Gas Company, of the Water Company
and of the \'incentown Marl Company. He
was also president of that nsefnl 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
his acquaintances many warm friends to whom
he was thoroughly devoted and who learned
to aj^preciate 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 Taylor, of New Jersey, who died
in 1857. He married (second) in 1869, Eliz-
abeth, daughter of Joseph Xewbold, a prom-
inent merchant of Wrightstown, 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.
(All) Jacob Holmes, son of Hendrick IL,
M. D., and Hannah Ann (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
1879 he went into business for himself in New
York, manufacturing electrical instruments
and remained there until 1888 when he came
of Bordentown and establishetl 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
i')Ordentown 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 t(_)wn and the public service corjioration,
and he has been president and director of the
Bordentown Gas Company, the Bordentown
Water Company and the Bordentown B)ank-
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, New Jersey.
The Riddle family in America 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.
( I ) 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 of rare business ability and keen fore-
sight. After being left a widow she was
obliged to conduct her own affairs, and in
looking for business opportunities she fore-
saw the possibilities of a tract of land situated
just beyond the southern limits of Atlantic
City. She secured ojitions 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 liquor saloons or other objectionalilc 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 Mrs. Marv
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 Mr. Stroud, then employees,
and now members of the company. He took
up the study of shorthand and telegraphy, and
was for a tiine private secretary to Henry
I'entley, of the Philadelphia Local Telephone
Company. From that position he went to New
York, where he remained until 1881. He next
went t(j 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 Fiftv-second
street and Fifth avenue. In 1888 Mr. Riddle
located in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he
has since resided. In iQOi he was elected on
the Democratic ticket as assessor of taxes. In
tliis cniuiection 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 igoi Mr. Riddle has been
a member of the council of Atlantic City, where
he has served his constituents most accei)tably.
He has been at difterent 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
Max Weinmann. he was the founder. He is
vice-president of the .\tlantic 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 (luaint 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-place and placed it upon a pedestal which
would well excite the admiration and emula-
tion of every one. In addition to this, this
family bv marriage has allied itself with some
of the best and strongest of the old colonial
blood and stock and worthily deserves an envi-
able place and mention among the representa-
tive families of New Jersey.
(1) Georre Lemuel Smith, born at "The
Buttonwoods"' near Cold Springs at head of
Mullica river, .Atlantic county. New Jersey,
Tanuarv 31. 1845, is now living in .Atlantic
Citv. retired. For the greater part of his life
he followed the sea as did and do most of his
contemporaries and neiehbors. 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
Ceorge W. Wells, of Olean. New York. 3.
Leonora, wife of Georsre Bender, of Colorado
Springs. 4. Walton Randolph, ileceascd.
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( II ) Harry Ellsworth, son of George Lem-
uel and Elizabeth ( Conover ) Smith, was born
at Tuckahoe, New Jersey, JVIay 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
Elwood, New Jersey, where Harry Ellsworth
attended the public schools. Owing to the
necessities of the family, while lie 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
Atlantic City in 1891 and became a clerk in
the Currie hardware store on Atlantic avenue,
where he remained for the ensuing three years.
Becoming ambitious to get into the newspaper
business, he asked Colonel Walter 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 Atlantic Citv Dail\
Press. His abilities were soon recognized by
^ the manager of the newspaper, and he was
given the position 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 Advertising Agency, which was under
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.
1908 Mr. Smith purchased the Situday
Gazette 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 sixteen years Mr. Smith has been a
member of the famous Morris Guards of At-
lantic City. 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 Voorhees, 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 April 6, 1899. The
company was in the Fourth New Jersey \'ol-
unteer Infantry, under Captain Bryant. Mr.
Smith at that time was a corporal, but was
j)romoted 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
comjiany 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
played 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 \'entnor Yacht Club, a member of the
Paint and Powder Club, a dramatic organiza-
tion composed of the members of the Morris
Guards, in which he always takes a leading
part.
In the line of Peter J. Young,
Y( )L'NG 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 :
( I ) Peter Young, owner of farms in Hunter-
don and Somerset counties ; married Lizzie
Hinnmer. Children : Three sons and three
daughters.
(II) Jacob, son of Peter and Lizzie ( Hum-
mer ) "N'oung, was a farmer in Hunterdon
count}'. Married Rebecca Trout, and had
four sons and three daughters.
(HI) Peter J., son of Jacob and Rebecca
( Trout ) Young, was a farmer, residing near
Ringoes, Hunterdon county: married Betsey
Gutter. Children: i. Amos, unmarried. 2.
lohn. married Miss Blackwell, their children
being Elizabeth, unmarried, and Frank, mar-
ried Miss Barnet and has children, Charlena
and Earle. 3. Jacob, referred to below.
( \\ I Tacob (2), son of I^eter T- and Betsey
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STATE OF XE\\' JERSEY.
(Gutter) Young, was born on the paternal
farm near Ringoes, Hunterdon county, May
20, 1832, (lied there February 6, 1869. Mar-
ried Elizabeth Xevius. daughter of George \V.
Xevius, of Clover Hill, New Jersey. Chil-
dren: I. Peter J., referred to below. 2. Han-
nah N., born July 8, 1867; married Jacob
Schenck Higgins, stock dealer and farmer;
they reside in Flemington, New Jersey, and
have one child, Catherine N. Higgins.
(\') 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,
October 28, 1865. In early boyhood, owing to
the death of his parents, he went to live with
his (irandniother Nevius at Flemington, 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 important 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
(|uarters he removed, February i, igo8, to the
large new building at the corner of (jeorge and
Paterson streets, the most conspicuous busi-
ness location in the city. His store, conducted
under his i)ersonal name, is the largest and
most complete of its kind in New Brunswick,
and employs at the present time thirty-five
clerks. Mr. Young is a member of the Masonic
fraternity — I'nion Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, .Scott Chapter, and Temple Com
mandery. He married, (October 17, 1894, Anne
1 Io])ewell, daughter of John P.. and Anne M. F.
Hopewell, of Memington, New Jersey.
(Tlie Nevius Line).
This family is of Netherlands origin, and
so far as is known the name sustains no gene-
alogical relation whatever to the strictly luig-
lish one of .Xevins. The jiatronymic Nevius is
the Latinization of the original Hollandish
forms Neef. Xeeff, .Neve, de Neve, etc. For a
scholarly and highly interestinsr 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,
.\. D. 1627-1900," by .\. \'an Doren Honey-
man.
(I) Joannes Nevius, son of Rev. Johannes
Neef (or Nevius) and Maria Bec.x, baptized
at Zoelen, Holland. March 14, 1627, came to
.Amsterdam (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, 1653,
.Ariaentje Bleijck ; their si.xth child was
(II) Peter .Xevius, baptized in New .Am-
sterdam, February 4, 1663; removed to Flat-
lands, Long Island: died April 29, 1740; mar-
ried, June 22, 1684, Janetje Roelofse Schenck:
their second child was
( III ) Roeloff Nevyus, born about 1687; re-
moved to Three Mile Run, Somerset county.
New Jersey, where he was an active supporter
of the ministry of Rev. Theodoras Jacobus
Frelinghuysen : died after 1736: married Cata-
lyntje Lucasse \'an \'oorhees. daughter of
Lucasse Stevense \'an \'oorhees. of Flatlands :
their fourth child was
( I\' ) Peter Xevyus, baptized .April 2^. 1727 ;
lived at various times near Three Mile Run.
Xew 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
(A) Jacob Xevius, born near Clover Hill.
May 20, 1769, died there about 1835; married
(second) .August 10, 1806, Hannah Panning:
their fourth child was
(\'I) George W'ashington .Xevius, born
near C'lover Hill, .September 16. 1812; mer-
chant of that place : died March 17, 1858; mar-
ried, June I, 1841, Hannah Gray, daughter of
.Austin Gray, of Xechanic : their first child was
(All) 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
(\'lll) Peter J. A'oung, above.
Dr. fames Richardson.
RICHARD.SON of "701 North Sixth
street, Camden, Xew
Jersey, is a descendant of old colonial stock,
which has done yeoman service in the preserva-
tion and upbuilding of the nation, in more
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
669
than one state and 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
Ivichardson, 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 of 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 Will-
iam A. Reynolds. After leaving the academy
he t-ntercd 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 Camden,
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 Philadelphia.
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 Episcopal Church of Camden, New
Jersey.
James Richardson, M. D., married, in 1873,
Annie, daughter of Conklin Raynor, a de-
scendant of one of the oldest families in this
country, and one of the founders, first of
\\ 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.
Coffin, 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
B.\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.
(I) 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 1682 and purchased land in Bucks
county, Pennsylvania. By occupation he was
a bodice maker. Among his c^lildren was
Thomas, referred to below. '
(H) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i)
Bailey, immigrant, married Mercy Lucas and
among his children was Edward, referred to
below.
(HI) 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 AnnfezE^i-
(Satterthwaite) Bailey, was born in Glouces-^
ter county. New Jersey. He was a farmer. '
PTe married Keziah Skinner, whose father was i
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 Glou-
cester county. New Jersey, April i, 1808. He
was a farmer ; in religion a Methodist, and in
politics a Whig and afterwards a Republican.
He married Lydia, daughter of I^even Densten,
of Virginia, who was born in Gloucester
county. New Jersey, in September, 1812.
Among their children was George Washing-
ton, referred to below.
(VI) George Washington, son of William
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STATE OF NEW fFRSEV.
(2) and Lydia (Denstfen) Bailey, was born
near Clarksboro. Gloucester county, New Jer-
sey, December 5. 1840, and is now living in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was born 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 (if the I'niversity of Pennsylvania, from
which he graduated with the degree of M. D.
in 1 868. and then engaged in the genera! prac-
tice of his profession in Philadel])hia. In 1872
his health began to fail under the strenuous-
labor 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 F>ank ; 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.
Among the other important organizations with
which Dr. Bailey has been prominently con-
nected should be mentioned Whitney (jlass
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 Sunday
School .Association, and the chairman of its
executive committee. lie is imw chairman
emeritus of the executive committee of that
association. For man\- 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 Sundav
.School Association. In religion he is a I'res-
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])hanage for Destitute Colored Chil-
dren. In jKililics Dr. Bailey is a Republican.
and although he says that he has never held
any ofiice 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 Xew 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 \'olunteers. with
distinguished service at Fredericksburg and
Chancellorsville. His social club is the Union
League of Philadelphia. He is also a demitted
member of Trimble Lodge, No. 117, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Camden, New Jersey,
and he is one of the ex-presidents of the Pres-
byterian Social LTnion.
(jeorge Washington Bailey. M. D., married
(first) December 8, 1872. in Hurffville. New-
Jersey, Rebecca Hyder Hurff, born September
10. 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,
1891, at W'enonah, New Jersey, Annie, born
in Philadelphia, July 26, 1864, daughter of
George 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-
(iill. born June 28, 1893. Ijoth children were
born in Wenonah.
The Roesch family of Philadel-
ROESCH phia, Pennsylvania, and .Atlantic
City, New Jersey, are among
the newer comers to .America, there being but
two full grown generations, both of whom are
still living to re])resent 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 .Atlantic City, where they are now
doing the largest business in the city, supply-
ing all the leading hotels of the resort. He
married Mariah E., born in Germany, daugh-
ter of Jacob Klcefeld, and bv her he had four
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children : P21izabeth, who died in infancy ;
William, Charles, George Jacob. The last
three are referred to below.
(11) \\'illiam, second child and eldest son
of Charles (i) and Mariah E. (Kleefekl)
Roesch. was born in Philadelphia in 1858. He
married (first) Annie A. Mathus, who died
leaving him with two children : Marie and
William, Jr. He married (second) Anna Loos,
who has also died leaving him with two more
children : Elsie and Helen.
(H) Charles (2), third child and second
son of Charles (1 ) and Mariah E. (Kleefeld)
Roesch, was born in Philadelphia, October 19,
1861, and is now living at Atlantic City, New
Jerse)'. 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
with 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
Excelsior Lodge, No. 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-
>econd. He is a member of the Lu Lu Temple,
nf Philadelphia; of \'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
Hoard of Trade, and German Reformed Luth-
feran 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. Mr. Roesch is a Republican.
He was the first president of the Business
t !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 W'illiam Trefz, of Philadelphia,
who died after bearing him two children: i.
f Carl Trefz. born in 1888: unmarried; in the
Atlantic City branch store. 2. Eva, died in
infancy. In 1897 Charles Roesch married
(second) Frederica. daughter of W'illiam
Trefz, of Philadelphia, sister of his first wife.
(II) (ieorge Jacob, fourth and youngest
childof 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, ami having
a beautiful summer residence at Atlantic Cit\'.
He married Matilda H. Potli, of Philadelphia,
and has two children : Clara Matilda antl
Helen.
The Woodruff family of
WOODRUFF New Jer.sey, not only in 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 infiuential 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 si.x children, two of whom were by
one of his wives, and the other four by the
other of his wives. These sons were: Thomas
(jithens, 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
(Iiowen) Woodruff" he had three children: i.
Alalcolm 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 )
Woodruff, was born at Woodruff", Cumberland
county. New Jersey, November 9, 1866, and is
now living at Atlantic City, New Jersey. For
his early education he was sent to the public
schools of Cumberland county and of Atlantic
City, where as a boy in the latter place he look-
ed after the ponies on the Beach also on the
celebrated Broadwalk. Coming to Atlantic
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
(_'it\ in 1S79, lie for some time drove a hack
in the town, after which he became connected
with the Adams Express Company and sub-
sequently with the Atlantic City police depart-
ment, at first as one of tlie summer policemen.
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-
pied every position in the department from
the lowest 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 pay.
This record speaks 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.\SI'ELL 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. Theopbilus, 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
Rudderow.
(II) John N.. sixth child and fifth son of
Thomas Dennis and Christiana Clinton ( P'ith-
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 (Greenwich, 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 principal 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 principal of the second ward school at
Bridgeton, and in 1895 was appointed by the
New Jersey state board of education county
superintendent 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
superintendent 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 seventj'-five schools
and two hundred and sixty-five teachers. Mr.
Glaspell 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 district 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 .Association, of Camden, and March 7,
1895, ^i£ ^^'^^ 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. 73, Free and Accepted Masons; Royal
.'\rch Masons 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. Fie 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 Presbyterian church.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEV.
673
(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 Cimiberland 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. Martha, died in 1678. 2.
[lieutenant Enoch, died February 20, 1726;
married, Jiuie 25, i''>75, Miriam liurnett.
3. Sarah. 4. Hannah. 5. Samuel, referred to
iielow.
(H) Samuel, son of W'illiam 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, i68i. 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. W^illiam, March 25, 1698.
(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 family in
New Jersey. September 3, 1771, he married
(first) Rachael. daughter of Jonathan Jr. and
Anna (Dominick) Holmes, 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,
Alay 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, 1817, died
June, 1896; married Thomas Dennis Glaspell
(see Glaspell, I). 8. Mary Clark, September
6, 182 — , died February 6, 1907. 9. Emily
Seeley, September 13, 1823; married Samuel
S. Lawrence.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Tlie Carmany family of
CARMANV 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 witli the new nation in the
Western World.
(I) Philip Carmany, founder of the branch
of the family at ])resent luider 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, P'ennsylvania. 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 27.
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. 9. Alaria, April 14, 1820. 10.
Jacob. II. ^\'illiam, 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. \\'illiam,
October 8, 1841. 5. Mary, September 18,
1844. 6. George, January 25, 1847. 7. Sarah,
April 10, 1850. 8. Joanna, December 21,
1853. II. Abraham Lincoln, March 27, 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 I'hiladelphia. He married Adeline,
daughter of John Stober, of SchafTerstown,
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 children are P.ertha, John and Harry. 2.
Edward, February 8, 1862; married I'.olla
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., July 14, 1868; un-
married. 6. Alema Aldine, December 31.
1872 ; married Harry Binns, ])hysician, and has
one child, Adeline. 7. Sallic, 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 Walter, third child and son
of Cyrus and Adeline (Stober) Carmany, was
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February
27, 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 Strawbridge
& 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
popular 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 office he is the president of the city
council, and' in the absence or sickness of the
mayor he is ex-ofificio, 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: Cha])ter No. 250. Royal Arch
Masons, of Philadelphia, of which he was one
of the committeemen ; the Kadosh Command-
ery. No. 29, Knights Templar, of Phila-
delphia; the Lu Lu Temple, Mystic Shriners,
of Philadelphia ; the Order of Sparta, Phila-
del])hia ; the \\'ashington L. S. of Honor,
Philadelphia; Lodge No. 11, Tall Cedars of
Lebanon, of Atlantic City. Mr. Carmany is
also a prominent social clubman, being a mem-
ber of the Philadelphia Athletic Club, Phila-
delphia Ouartet Club, and of the Harmony
Singing Society of Philadel])hia. 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-
STATE OF NEW [ERSEY.
675
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
Businessmen's League, and a member of the
Atlantic City Board of Trade.
George 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 Pottsville 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 Atkins 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. Halbcrstadt. 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 Pennsyl-
vania. He was a member of Girard Lodge,
No. 53. In 1842 he was elected chief burgess
of Pottsville. He left thirteen children,
among whom are Charles S., John J., George
W., Lewis, A\'ilson, i\Irs. Jolin Nagle, Mrs.
John W. Pawling, also twenty grandchildren,
and eight great-grandchildren, all of whom
are still living. In religion Mr. Crosland was
a L'niversalist.
Children of George \\'alter and Catiiarine
(Crosland) Carmany, are: i. Charles Cyrus,
born August 8, 1889; attended the ])ublic
schools of Atlantic City, the W'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 .\tlantic City, and is now
attending the public school of that place.
Joseph Rusling Bartlett is a
B.ARTLETT is a member of one of the
old Atlantic county. New
Jersey, families. His grandfather, William
Bartlett, was appointed 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 Bartlett 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 Gloucester, New
Jersey. He died at Mays Landing, New Jer-
sey, during the year 1876. Joseph R. Bartlett
married Alary 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 Philadelphia
in 1873. After leaving school he entered the
employ of the Camden and Atlantic railroad,
and from 1876 to 1895 was a conductor on
that road, now the West 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 1890 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 insjjector, 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
past 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-
676
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
pul)lican organization, both of Atlantic City.
Mr. iJartlett's activity as is shown tiiuchcs all
lines of public interest, political, religious and
fraternal.
Joseph Rusling l:!artlett married, June 26,
1878, Ida May Williams, born March 14.
1857, daughter of Robert L. Williams, of
I'Venchtown, New Jersey. Their children are:
I. Theresa Williams, born September i6,
1879; graduate of the New Jersey State Nor-
mal school; married Frank Hollingsworth, 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 Germantown,
Pennsylvania, l-'ebruarv 5, 1886, daughter of
J. T. Bew.
Horace Franklin Sutton. Es-
SUTTON quire, ranks as one of the fore-
most of the legal profession in
Camden, New Jersey, where he was born Oc-
tober 2(1. 1876. 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
ofifices of his native city. In June, 1901, he
was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an
attorney, and in February, 1908, as a coim-
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 Episcopal
church.
The Beyer family of Egg Har-
REYER bor. New Jersey, and of Atlantic
City, are another illustration of
the fact that this coimtry 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 popularity.
(I) Gottfried Beyer, born in Germany, died
in Egg Harbor, New Jersey, was the first of
the famil)' 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,
1S94. 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.
(III) Albert (2), the eldest child of .Albert
(I I 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 lie 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
work on many of the Roman Catholic churches
of New York City. In 1882 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
incmnbent. This imexpired term came to an
end two years later, in 1908, and Mr. 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 Masons, of Atlantic City; Belcher
Lodge, No. 182, P'ree and Accepted IMasons,
of .Atlantic City ; .Atlantic Commandery, No.
10, Knights Templar, of .Atlantic City; Cres-
cent Temple, Mystic .Shrine, of Trenton, New
Jersey; Tall Cedars of Lebanon Forest, No. 11,
of .Atlantic City; .American Star Lodge. Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of .Atlantic
C'ity. and also of the Encam|)nu'ut ; 1'ci|U(k1
Tribe, Improved C3rder of Red .Men, of Atlan-
tic City: Benevolent and Protective Order of
I'.lks. Mr. lieyer is a Republican and a member
111' tlie 1 .iitlieran clnirch.
STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
677
March 8. 1888, Albert Beyer married Char-
lotte, born in Atlantic City, March 13, 1859,
daughter of Christian P)Om, of Atlantic City.
Their children are: i. Magdalena Bom, born
December 24, 1888, immarried. 2. Rose Bom,
April 27, 1890, immarried. 3. Albert Victor;
January 12, 1892. 4. William Lewis, Decem-
ber 14, 1894. 5. Eugene Edward, November
13, 1896. 6. Lotta Main Bom, I-'ebruary 14,
1898. 7. Walter Edmund, ]\larch 23. 1900.
The Goldenberg family
GOLDEN BERG of Atlantic City is of
German origin, and has
been located in this coimtry but little more
than a half century, but the two generations
which have made the LInited 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.
( L) Charles D. (ioldenberg, 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. '^^ the
outbreak of the civil war in 1861, he enlisted
at Philadelphia, and was assigned to the One
Hundred and Tenth Regiment of Pennsylva-
nia Volunteers, an infantry regiment. \Vhile
serving with this regiment he was wounded at
the battle of \\'inchester. and on account of
his wounds he received his discharge, January
24, 1863. Later, on the same account, he re-
ceived a pension until 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, Janu-
ary 23, 1864, and became the first lieutenant
of Company D, of the Thirty-fourth Regi-
ment of New Jersey \'olunteers, and served
with this infantry regiment during the re-
mainder of the war.
.\fter the war was over Charles D. Golden-
berg married Mary Woodruff, born in 1840,
daughter of Samuel W. and Elizabeth (Duf-
field ) Kemble. Her father was a farmer near
Woodbury, (lloiicester county. New Jersey,
where he lived and died, but about the time
his daughter Mary Woodruff was born he
was serving as a constable of Gloucester
county. Her mother, Elizabeth ( Dufifield )
Kemble, was of Scotch extraction and lived
to be ninety-three years old, dying in Ambler,
Pennsylvania, in 1893. The children of Sam-
uel W. and Elizabeth (Duffield) Kemble
were: William H., Thomas, Samuel, Eph-
raim, Ross, Margaret, Mary \\\x>druff, Eliz-
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 bVederick
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-
phia, 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 contimied there until 1903 when he came
to .Atlantic City and was admitted to the New
Jersev bar as an attorney in June, 1903, and
as a counsellor in June, igofi. 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 ]5rosecutor of the pleas for .Atlantic
county for a term of five years, and he is now
serving in that office. In Se])tember, 1893. he
was made a Free 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 lienevolent 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 B.ar .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
1909. 3. William Kemble, born Alay 10. 1893.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Reuben 1 'otter was bom in
['OTTER Middlesex county, New Jersey,
about 1772, died about 1863.
He was a farmer and resided in Middlesex
county, Xew Jersey, all his life. He married
and had- children: Ellis, James Rowland, men-
tioned below ; Joanna.
(II) James Rowland, son of Reuben Potter,
was burn in Raritan township, Middlesex
county, Xew Jersey, 181 1, died November,
1887. He was educated in the common schools
of his native town. He owned a lar<je 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-
rieil Sarah A., born 1818, near Plainfield, New
Jersey, died May. 1881, daughter of William
Haii(l. Children: i. Sarah H.^ born 1837,
died in 1878: married Henry F. Slout, of Jer-
sey City. 2. Reuben C, 1839; resides in New
Haven, Connecticut; married Clara I'rown,
who died 1900 ; had Nellie. Catherine and
Harry. 3. William H., 1841 ; resides on the
homestead. 4. Apollos, resides in Railway,
Xew Jersey. 5. Josephine De F"oreest. resides
on the homestead. 6. Frederick James, men-
tioned below. 7. Ellis, Sejjtember, 1855; a
dentist by profession.
( 111 ) Frederick James, son of James Row-
land Potter, was born in Raritan township,
Xew Jersey, March 31, 1853. He received his
education in the private scIiocjIs and I'ennington
Seminary, with a su])plementary course at Rut-
j^ers College, New ISnmswick, Xew Jersey,
from which he graduated in 1872. He entered
the em])loy of the Pennsylvania railroad in
the maintainence-of-way department as a civil
engineer, Xovember, 1872, and won ])romotion
from time to time utitil he attainetl the position
of supervisor of the maintainence-of-way de-
partment, which position he now holds. He
has been with the com])any for thirty-seven
years. I'or tiie jiast twenty-seven years he
has made his home in Uordentown. New Jer-
sey, where he is a ])rominent citizen. He was
one of the organizers of the First Xational
Rank, of Bordentown, in Xovember, 1908, and
was chosen its first president, still holding that
office. In |x)litics he is an active Repul)lican
and has served as president of the city council.
He has also served as city collector and town-
ship collector. He is at |)resent a member of
the board of water commissioners, is ])resi<Knt
of the board of excise commissioners, and has
always been a faithful ]Miblic servant, lie is a
member of 'j'rentou Ecxlge, Xo. 5, I'ree and
iVccepted Masons ; Mount Moriah Chapter, Xo.
20, Royal Arch Masons, of Bordentown ; 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 George T. Price, of Xew
Brunswick, Xew Jersey. He married (sec-
ond) Xovember, 1881, Sarah B., born i860,
daughter of Edwin and Harriet Wright, of
Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Children of first
wife: I. James R., born in Xew Brunswick,
Xew Jersey ; now a contractor in Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania. 2. Frederick A., born Xew
Brunswick, Xew 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, 1S82,
died aged nine years. 5. Robert, born Borden-
town, June, 1884. 6. Edward W., born Bord-
entown, died aged four years. 7. Ellis, born
Bordentown, died aged two years.
In the year 17 12 a Swiss colony
HESS came to America and among them
w^as Samuel Hess, who settled at
Pequa and had a large family. He was the
fii;st of his name in this country.
(II) Jacob, son of Samuel Hess, took up a
tract of two hundred acres of land one mile
east of Lititz, now Warwick township, Lan-
caster county, Pennsylvania, in 1734.
( HI ) John, son of Jacob Hess, lived on the
I lid home place with his father. He died in
1778, being interred in the old graveyard sit-
uateti on the jjlantation. 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
Huber.
( 1\' ) Christian, eldest son of Ji^hn Hess, of
Pequa, 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: johu. Christian,
referred to below ; Jacob.
(V) Christian (2), second son of Christian
(I) Hess, was born December 29. 1787, died
September 26, 1857. He was one of the county
commissioners of I^ancaster county and lived
at Pe(|ua with his wife, Elizabeth (Wenger)
Hess, burn ^L•ly 16, \J()C). dicl May 2~. 1870.
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AniDiig their chililrcn was John, referred to
below.
(\T) John (2), the son of Christian (2)
and Elizabeth (Wenger) Hess, removed from
Pennsylvania to Xew Jersey at the time the
iron foundry and stone works were opened
at the head of the Tuckahoe 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 Tuckahoe river,
Atlantic county, Xew Jersey, July 20, 1836.
For many years he was in the lumber business
at I'elle Plaine, Cape .May county, Xew Jer-
sey. He married Rachael A., born October 9,
1843. daughter of Samuel Mason, of Cape
May county. Their children were; i. Eliza-
beth, married John .A.. Chandler, of Easton,
Pennsx'lvania. an iron worker. 2. Charles P.,
married Reba S. Turner, of Millville, New
Jersey, and has four children, Mabel, Ira, Rob-
ert and .Anna. 3. Eleanor, married George
Warren, of Millville, New Jersey, and has four
children. Howard, Cora, Charles and Mary.
4. Emma, married Samuel Mason, has P>ertha
and I'eatrice. 5. Lilbern Murphy, referred
to below. 6. Rutherford P)., referred to below.
There is a tradition in the family of Rachael
A. (Mason) Hess that her grandfather, Sam-
uel Mason, having heard of the British troops
coming into the Delaware bay and stealing pigs
and cattle, armed himself, although he was only
a young boy at the time, with 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
Steelmantown, Cape May county. New Jersey,
June 6, 1874, and is now living at Tuckahoe,
Cape May county. New Jersey. For his early
education he was sent to the public school of
Cape May county, after leaving which hj took
a technical course in electricity, under private
teachers in Philadeliihia. Pennsylvania. He
was the first man in the eastern states to oppose
the Pell Teleiihnne monojioly. and he was the
first man also to interest capital by hard work.
and then to organize that capital into a work-
ing op]5usition to the Bell 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 New 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. Hess was connect-
ed in their department 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 825,000.00
and it is today in a most prosperous and
flourishing condition, in the two years of its
existence having already accumulated a sur-
plus of over $7,000.00. In 1908 Mr. Hess
with other gentlemen, organized the Millville
Trust Company, 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 85,000.00. In addition to
this Mr. Hess has just completed, in the spring
of 1909, the formation of the Tuckahoe Light
& 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, No. 58, Free and Ac-
cepted ^^asons, of Millville, Xew Jersey. He
is also a member of Richmond Cliapter, No.
22, Royal .Arch Alasons, of Millville, New 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 Alurphy Hess married
-Mary L.. daughter of W'illis Young, of Peters-
burg, Cape Alay County, Xew Jersey. They
have two children : .Arthur Young, born June
5, 1896, and Paul de Wolf, .April 14. 1899.
(\TII) Rutherford B., youngest child of
John Denny and Rachel .A. (Mason) Hess.
born March 4, 1877, is agent for the Pennsyl-
vanfa railroad at Belle Plaine, Xew Jersey.
He married Maude C. Layton, and has one
child. Liilita. born March. 1904.
The family here described is
REI'FCTTO of Italian origin, and the rejj-
resentatives of same who have
made the United States their home have been
of the higher class of emigrants, eager to learn
the thtnights and opinions of the country of
ado])tion 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
morals among the people.
(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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STATE OF NEW lERSEY
(II) Antonio, son of Aug^istine Repetto,
was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1845, ^"^ 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 Alarie Stormmo, 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 1906.
(III) Louis .Augustine, son of .\ntonio and
.Marie (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 pul)lic
school at Atlantic City. In 1880 his parents
removed to the latter city, and he graduated
from Sacred Heart College of \"ineland. Xew
Jersey, in 1890. with degree B. A. He then
began the study of law in the office of James
B. Ni.xon, 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,
has 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 i^>ar
Association. He belongs to the Catholic
church, of which he is an active supporter,
and in political views is a Democrat. He is a
nKinl)cr of the Atlantic county board of elec-
tions, and for ten years has been secretary of
the .Atlantic County Democratic committee.
.Mr. Repetto married, March 7, 1901, Elcora,
daughter of Louis and Catherine Delapiana,
and they have one child. Josephine iMargaretta
born Jaiuiary 21, 1902, at .Atlantic City. Xew
Jersey.
The m;iin .-ind (-(ijlateral branches
I''1S1I of this family lead back to early
days in I'emisylvania, when the
Kerns. Palmers and Mulhallon's were promi-
lunt in war. politics ;ind bu^incs-;. Through
maternal line Dr. Clyde .M. 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-
ampton county, Pennsylvania, December 21,
1774. serving on that committee until October
2, 1775. He then enlisted in the First F.at-
talion, Northampton County Associators, and
was commissioned captain of the town com-
pany. May 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. Thev
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 Afary, flaughter
of Surveyor-General Palmer, born Fcbruarv
I/- '797- 'I'fd Alarch 3, 1851.
(HI) I'^lizabeth. daughter of Jacob and
.Mary f Palmer ) Kern, married Dr. John
Clyde .Mulhallon. son of .Anthony and - — ■
( L'lyde ) .Mulhallon. of the Northampton
county. Pennsylvania, Scotch-Irish family of
that name.
( 1\' ) Mary, daughter of Dr. John Clyde
and Elizabeth (Kern) Mulhallon, 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. \\'illiam 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 P)arr
Fish was born December 2, 1845, '" Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania. He is a civil engineer.
Afary Mulhallon 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
(laughter. Bertha Alary, born .April 27,. 1S73
and a son Clyde AL, see forward.
(\ ) Clyde Alulhallon, only son of Hiram
Barr and Alary (Mulhallon) Fish, was born
at IJath, Pennsylvania, May 21, 1875. He at-
tended the ])nl)lic schools of Bath and finished
his academic education at the Aloravian School
at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 1 le chose medi-
cine as his profession and Rush Medical Col-
lege for his alma mater, entering in 1893 ■""'
graduating in i89r). He next entered Jetfer-
son Medical College in i89f). remaining one
year, graduating in 1897, Doctor of Medicine.
In the same year he located in .Atlantic City
tnterirj.'' tlu' 1 f¥ice of Dr. 11. ( '. I 'enuinsfton. of
STATE OF NEW TERSEY.
68i
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 ^ledical and Xew York
State Medical associations, Atlantic County
Medical Society, of which he was elected
president 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-
CORXWELL 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 Xew England, and
belongs with the early colonists of the New
World. I'nfortunately iiovvever, 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.
(T) Lot Cornwell, of Cape May county.
New 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
<in 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 partici])ants 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 ship
which compelled him to pilot a tea boat up the
Cohansey river. Among the children of Lot
Cornwell was John Tomlin, referred to below.
(H) 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
(Jarrison, a contractor, he had a son, \Villiam
Leslie, referred to below, and a daughter.
Maud W., died aged twenty.
(HI) William Leslie, son of John Tomlin
and Mary Elizabeth (Garrison) Cornwell. was
born in Bridgeton. Xew Jersey, March 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 I'hila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated
with the degree of ^L D. in 1906. Upon leaving
the Jefferson Medical College he went to the
City Hospital at Xewark, Xew Jersey, where
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. Dr.
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. Kean Surgical Society of the Jef-
ferson Medical College and tlie W. M. L.
Coplin Pathological Society of the same insti-
tution. He is an active and influential secret
society man, being a member of .Miwahneeta
Tribe, No. 97, Improved C)rder of Red
Men, of Bridgeton. 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 .\lpha Kappa
Ka])pa of Jefferson Medical College.
November 15, 1908, William Leslie Corn-
well. M. D., married Lily May, daughter of
Samuel \\'hitaker. of Paterson, .\ew Jersey.
One child. William Leslie Tr.
For over a century and 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 his son now operates. By
his wife, Amanda (Davis) Loper, he had
children: Alfred French, referred to below,
Carrie and Ida. He is still living.
(III) Alfred French, son of Eli and
.■\manda (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.
(IV) John Carmelia, son of Alfred Frencli
and Caroline (Carmelia) Loper, was born at
Bridgeton, New Jersey, October 9, 1881, and
is now a practicing physician in that city. For
his early education he was sent to the public
schools of Bridgeton, New Jersey, and gradu-
ated from the Bridgeton high school in 1899.
He then entered the Jefferson Medical College
in rhila'!el]ihia, 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 profession, and is re-
garded now 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
[?ridgeton 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 ill February. 1909, was appointed as the
health nfficer of the city. He is a member of
Brearly Lodge, No. 2, Free and Accepted
Masons, at Bridgeton. This lodge is the old-
est one in New Jersey. He is also a member
of the ( )rdi-r of Woodmen of America, Royal
Arcanum, and indei)endent Order of Odd
Fellows, lie 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,
whose mother was a native of Daretown.
Their child is Le (ir;md Dickinson. Imrn in
Fcl)ruar\'. Kjoq.
Edward Morrell Wall
W .\Ll.lXCiTON ington, late president of
the Vineland Grape
Juice Comi)any, son of George Edward Wall-
ington, of Trenton, was born in that city, June
30, 1868. The comi)any of which he was the
president started its factory at \'ineland eleven
years ago, and is now the second largest manu-
factury of grape juice in the world, having a
capacity of two hundred thousand gallons, and
have an enormous business transporting their
product to every state in the Union, including
California, and to many foreign countries.
Their product is prepared in accordance with
the most rigid of the pure food laws, while its
vineyards are conducted on the most scientific
method. On 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 jjlant is the finest and most
complete in the country. It has immense
storage vaults, porcelain lined vessels which
prevent salts and other impurities from being
preserved 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-
ship consists of one-hundred and thirty acres,
and their factory is used by the United States
government department of agriculture for its
experiment.
Mr. W'allington, late president of this com-
I)any, did more than almost anyone else to
bring about the unrivaled reputation enjoyed
by the V^ineland (irape Juice Company and its
j)roducts. He was a Re]5ublican and staiuich
to the ])rincipals 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 Coinmandery, No.
4, Knights Tem|)lar, of Trenton, New Tersey.
and Lulu Temple, Mystic .Shrine, of Philadel-
phia. His social club was the Vineland Coun-
try Club, and besides serving as president of
the \'ineland Grape Juice Companv, he was a
director of the \'ineland National Bank and of
the \ ineland Trust Company. He was a com-
municant and a vestryman of the l"'rotestant
Fpisco]ial church in X'ineland.
Edward Morrell W^allington married .\nna
Eliza Goodfellow. born in Germantown, Penn-
^vlvania. Children: I. Edward Casewell. 2.
Mertou Good follow. 3. .Anna Wallington.
.Mr. Wallington died October I, 1909.
In the year 1707 a small band
\'( )UGHT of Lutherans under the leader-
ship of the Rev. John Kocker-
thal left the lower Palatinate countrv in Ger-
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683
mail)- ami went to England to lay before
yneen Anne an acconnt 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 immigrants
came over in the ship "Lyon" and landed at
New York ; but the voyage was tempestuous
and attended with many ini fortunate incidents,
such as lack of attention and poor food fur-
nished on board the vessel, with the result that
a considerable number of the passengers died
on the voyage. When the ship arrived at New
York the passengers were denied the privilege
(if going ashore because of the fear of infec-
tion among the people, and they were ordered
to (iovernor's Island, where doctors were sent
to attend such of them as needed attention, of
which number there were many.
Among the voyagers in the "Lyon" in this
immigration were Simon \'ought 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,
1710. 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
Vought 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 went 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
1710 Christina , who was born in 1684.
They had four children, all born in this coun-
try : Johannes. Christtiftle, Margaretta and
Abraham.
Such in brief is an outline of the circum-
stances attending the coming over of the first
representatives of the Vought family on this
side of the Atlantic ocean, but within the next
half century after the arrival of Simon and
Christina \'ought there came, about 1750, an-
otlier famil\- 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 (Ireat
Britain.
( 1 ) Joseph Vought, immigrant, a native of
Holland, came from Omispac 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 whom there were nine in all. The
Westchester records give us no reliable account
of the family of Joseph V^ought, although he
is known to have been a sturdy Dutchman of
progressive (_|ualities, 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: Ontuatue, Hester,
Margaret and Katie.
(II) Henry, eldest son and child of Joseph
antl Christina \()Ught. was born in Holland
and came to America with his parents. He
lived in Westchester county, and during the
war of the revolution was a private with his
brothers Peter and Godfrey in the Third Regi-
ment of Westchester county militia, com-
manded by Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt and
Colonel Samuel Drake. He married Rebecca
.Velson and by her had twelve children: I.
Joseph. 2. Henry, see forward. 3. Nicholas.
see forward. 4. David, married Phebe Brown.
5. James, died in Mobile, Alabama. f>. John,
soldier of the war of 1812; married Phebe
Rockwell and had son Jackson and daughters
Mary and Hannah. 7. Thomas, a sailor ; mar-
ried Susan Conklin and had sons Joseph and
Albert. 8. Isaac, see forward. 9. Margaret,
married Isaac Barton and had Jennie. Kather-
ine. Susan. Julia, Abbie and Jenny Barton.
10. Jane, married McCoy and had
Henry McCoy. 11. Christina, married Thomas
McCoy and had Beckie, Delia, John, George,
Isaac. Daniel. Rufus, Augusta, Frank, Eliza-
beth. Katherine McCoy. 12. Eleanor, married
Smith, and had Rebecca, Katherine,
Mary Ann, Phebe Ellen. Martha. Jacob,
Thomas, Nicholas and Abraham Smith.
(II) Joseph (2), fourth son and child of
foseph ( I ) and Christina X'ought. lived in
Westchester county, New York. He married
Millie Conklin. They had twelve children.
I. Maria, married a Barr. 2. Katie, married
a Clark. 3. .-Xbbie Jane, married a Green. 4.
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Eliza, married a Clark. 5. Hester, married a
Ward. 6. Nicholas. 7. Jacob. 8. Elijah, y.
William. 10. Henry, see forward. 11. Louis.
12. Sallie, married a Saunders.
(HI) Henry (2), son of Henry (i) and
Rebecca ( Nelson ) X'ought, was born near
Peekskill on the Hudson, and spent the greater
part of his life on a farm at C\)rnwall. His
farm lay over beyond Storm King mountain,
in the valley back of Deerhill, and besides this
he owned a large tract of woodland. He was
an energetic farmer and gained a fair comjje-
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 si.x children: i.
Edward, married Amanda \'ought. and hai'.
James ]{.. Sarah. Edward. Ezra. Lester,
.■\nnie and Jennie. 2. Nathan C. see for-
ward. 3. Sarah, married ( first ) Wil-
son and had Hattie Wilson; married (second)
Henry Piarton and had Minnie. Mattie, Addit
and Henry Barton. 4. Julia. 5. Mary, mar-
ried Ezra Drew and had Townsend. Albert.
Nicholas and J. H. Drew. 6. Eleanor, mar-
ried Frank Quinn and had Juliette. Nellie and
Elbert Ouinn.
(Ill) 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 P)arney Ouinc\-
and had 1 larriet. David. Mary. Emma. Mar-
tha and Ellen (Juincy. 2. Joseph. 3. Katie,
married Wright ISunce and had Maria. Frank.
\\ ill ancl Lottie liunce. 4. Jackson, married
and had son Charles. 5. Isaac, married Jane
DeWitt and had DeWitt and Joseph. 6. Lent.
7. Jane, married Cuyler Carter and had Delia.
Stephen and deorge Carter. 8. Christina,
married Charles Higelow and had Anna and
Nicholas I'igelow. 9. Eliza, married Manoali
Delling and had .Mary. Jackson. Luther. Nich-
olas. .Sarah and (George Delling. 10. Sylves-
ter. II. Nicholas, married Maliala Palmer
and had Dora and lulward. 12. David, mar-
ried Maria l"])ham and had Nicholas, .Mvra
and Luna.
(Ill) Isaac, son of Henry 11) and Re-
becca (.Nelson) X'ought, was born near Pecks-
kill on the Hudson, and was a farmer. He
married Martha McCarty and by her had
children: I. Elizabeth, married Oscar Delling
and had ICllery and Mytte Delling. 2. Theo-
dore, married Sarah Snyder and had Oscar
and Floyd. 3. Edward, married and had
F'llizabetli. Ceorge. Charles. Herbert. Edward,
Ida and Nina. 4. C)resta. married Josephina
-Sax and had William and Clayton. 5. Ellen,
married Henry Roberts and had Theodore
Roberts. 6. Nelson. 7. Eva.
( I\' ) 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 partner of the firm of \ ought
& Williams, of New York. 2. Henry H. 3.
Edward Thomas, see forward. 4. Nathan
Franklin. S- Katherine.
( \' ) Edw-ard Thomas, son of Nathan C.
and Elizabeth (Lent) \'ought, was born at
Cornwall-on-Hudson, .April g. 1855. and dur-
ing the earlier part of his life worked for his
father, who was keeper of a livery at that
])lace. Later on he went to New York 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.
(\'I) Samuel Pope, son and only surviving
child of Edward Thomas and Ida (Pope)
\'ought, 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 University, where he was a student
for some time but did not graduate. He lives in
Paterson and is engaged in the real estate and
brokerage business, and is treasurer of the
Pojje Realtv Investment Com])any of Pater-
son. He is a member of the Hamilton Club
of Paterson and the Ridgewood Driving Club.
Mr. N'ought married. June 28. 1906. Ida
May, born July 2, 1885, daughter of Ogden H.
Planck, of Paterson, and by whom he has one
child, Lorene \'ought, born March, 1907.
( )n .\ugust 7. 17(^4. a
STl-:\'E.\SOI\' tract of\wenty-five thou-
sand acres of land situ-
ated at what is now Salem, Washington
county. .New York, was grante<l .Me.xander
Turner and twenty- four others residing in Pel-
ham. Massachusetts P>ay Colony, and these
jjroprietors conveyed an undivided half to
Oliver Delancy and Peter Dubois, of New
^"o^k Citv. The whole tract of twentv-five
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685
thousand acres was marked off 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 Presbyterian churches in Scotland
and Ireland caused an Irish Presbyterian com-
munity in and about Monaghan and Ballibay
to petition the Associate Burgher Presbytery
of Glasgow, Scotland to furnish them with
orthodox preaching. Rev. Thomas Clark, M.
D., an ordained minister of this Glasgow Pres-
bytery, was thereupon sent "as a missionary
to Ireland," and shortly after was regularly
ordained and installed by a committee of the
Glasgow Presbytery 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 I'resbyterian church in Balli-
bay induced Dr. Clark and a large portion of
his flock to seek a new home in the wilds of
.\merica. Dr. Clark and his parishioners
sailed for Xew 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 colony who divided among them-
selves the farms which represented the half of
the tract which Dr. Clark did not purchase.
I^r. Clark and his ]5eo])le were under obliga-
tion after five years to pay a rent of one shil-
ling ])er 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 ^larch 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 passengers 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 Uie bank
of the Bonnie Doon in .\yrshire, Scotland,
about the year 1747. When a young man he
removed to F'aisley, 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 Witherspoon. While a citizen of
Paisley he married Margaret, daughter of
David Brown, of Stewartson, 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 bis life.
In 1896 this farm was owned by two 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 fames Stevenson voted at that election.
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STATE OF XEW JERSEY.
Soon after the American revolution liad as-
sumed a definite purpose, he voUmteered for
military service in the Xevv Perth Company,
commanded by Captain Alexander McXitt.
Upon his arrival James Stevenson became a
member of the church of Dr. Thomas Clark
and ,was afterward one of it.s 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, Xew 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 excellent books, and a c|uantity 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 I
Stevenson: i. James, see forward. 2. Jane,
born in Scotland; married George Telford
and settled in Argyle, New York. 3. John,
born in Scotland ; married Katherine McLeod
and settled in Howard, Steuben county, New
York, \fhere 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) Alary, datighter of Joshua Steele;
his children were: Thomas S., Robert M. and
James 1?.; Thomas Stevenson lived on the
homestead; was an elder in the cluirch at
Salem for nearly half a century; died in
Salem, 1854, aged seventy-five years. James
Stevenson, father of these children, died in
Salem, New York, April 19, 1799. and his
widow died the following year.
(II) James (3). eldest child of James (21
and Margaret (Brown) Stevenson, was born
in Paisley, Scotland, January 8, 1762. lie
came with his parents, sister Jane and brother
John to .Vmcrica in 1774. lie was preparc'l
for college by his father, and then entered the
Hackensack Classical .Academy, conducted by
Dr. Peter Wilson, afterwards of Columbia
College, and was graduated at Queen's now
Rutgers College, .\. P>., 1789. lie was prin-
cipal of the academy at Morristown, Xew Jer-
sey, the Rutgers grammar school, and in 181 I
was appointed princi])al 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
extraordinary skill and capacity 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. George
W. Bethune. That eminent scholar, Dr. Tay-
lor Lewis, 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 rny mind
when I read Dr. Arnold, the best sample of
a teacher that England ever produced."
James Stevenson was a trustee of \Vashington
Academy, incorporated February 18, 1791, the
fourth academy incorporated in the state of
Xew York and the first free academy estab-
lished in the state outside of New York City.
He contributed to the newspapers and maga-
zines of the time devoted to educational and
religious subjects.
James Stevenson married Hainiah, daugh-
ter of Richard Johnson, of Morris county,
Xew Jersey. Children : James, Sarah, Mar-
tha, Richard, Paid Eugene, Anna Louisa.
James Stevenson, father of these children, died
( )ctober 9, 1843, '■'' t''^ eighty-second year of
his age.
(Ill) I'aul Eugene, son of James (3) and
Hannah (Johnson) Stevenson, was born in
.\ew Brunswick, Xew Jersey, October 14,
1809. He jilanned to engage in scientific
work, and when he was qualified to enter col-
lege matriculated at the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, New York, where he was
graduated I'. A. (R. S.) in 1830. On leav-
ing the institute he changed the ])ur]K)se of his
life and decided to enter the ministry, and to
that end he tocjk a course in arts at Union Col-
lege, .Schenectady, New Y'ork, where he was
graduated A. B. in 1833. He then entered
Princeton Theological Seminary and was
graduated I>. 1^., 1837. He was ordained by
the Presbyterian ministry, and was pastor of
the I'rcsbyterian church in Staunton, \'irginia.
1837-43. He then accepted a call from the
South Third .'street Presbyterian Church.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
687
Williamsburg. New York, and served that
church until 1850. His ne.xt church was at
\\'yoming, Pennsylvania, 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(|uii)ped for the work 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-establish 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 W'est
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, ]\larch 17, 1870.
Rev. Paul Eugene Stevenson married, May
18, 1841, Cornelia, daughter of the Rev. Na-
thaniel Scudder and Julia Ann (Jermain)
Prime, granddaughter of Dr. Benjamin
Youngs (1733- 1 79 1) 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), and of the celebrated
lawyer and editor, \\'illiam Cowper Prime
(1825-1905). Rev. Paul Eugene and Cornelia
(Prime) Stevenson had seven children of
whom the following lived to maturity: i.
.\rchibald Alexander, born October 2, 1845,
died unmarried Februarv 10, 1870. 2. Pres-
ton, October 29, 1847; ^ 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.
( IV) Eugene, son of the Rev. Paul Eugene
and Cornelia (Prime) Stevenson, was born in
\\ illiamsburg, 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 University of
the City of New York, now the New York
University, 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-
chancellor 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 (Kingsland)
Hornblower. Josiah Hornblower came to Amer-
ica in 1753, at the suggestion and rec)uest of
Colonel John Schuyler, bringing with him the
first steam engine ever used in the United
States, which- was employed in pumping water
in the copper mines near Belleville, New Jer-
sey, of which mines he was made superintend-
ent. 1 le served in the F"rench and Indian war
with tiie 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, 1785-86, judge of
the Essex common pleas from 1790 up to near
the time of his death, which occurred in New-
ark, New Jersey, January 21, 1809. His wiie,
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 Caroline, 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 familv 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 world
of the country of its adoption, and its repre-
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
sentatives 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 this
family, came in 185 1 from Wiesbaden, Ger-
many, where he w-as born in 1838. At the
time of his coming he was a young man, and
going to New Albany, Indiana, he for some
time worked on a farm. About 1855 he re-
turned east to New'ark, 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. Keer and has
one child. 3. Clara, married Charles Irving
Taylor, member of the firm of Beardsley &
Hemmens, 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 (Hendrichs) 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 Y'ale Cniversity, and after completing
the course in the Sheffield Scientific School
there received his degree of Ph. V>. 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 Yale Club of
New York City, and of several college fratern-
ities. May 17, 1906, Richard Krementz married
Elsie, daughter of Henry P. and Ada Emily
(.Vnderson) Jones. Child, Elsa Louise, born
Spring Lake, New Jersey, August 16, 1907.
'(II) Walter Martin, youngest child of
George and Louise (Hendrichs) Krementz,
was born in Newark, New Jersey, March 21,
188 1. I'^or 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,
who.se specialty is brooches, scarf pins and
necklaces, and a general line of jewelry. They
are also the manufacturers of tiie famous
"Krementz One Piece" collar buttons. Mr.
Krementz is an Independent in politics, a mem
ber of Yale Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon,
.\utomobile Club of New Jersey, Esse.x County
Country Club, and Yale Club of New York.
.■\pril 25, 1906, Walter Martin Krementz
married in East Orange, Edith Lillie Cordelia,
born 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.
James F>ancis, third son of
F.RIODY Philip and .\nnie (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. He
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
antl he accepted the trust and he was holding
the otfice in 1909 by reappointment. His pro-
fessional standing was recognized by his fellow
practitioners in tiie city, county and state by
electing him to membershij) in the Passaic
County Medical Society.
His fellowship outside of his ])rofession was
recognized by the members of Paterson Lodge,
No. 60, Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, who urged his acceptance of mcmber-
,ship in their exclusive order and he became
one of the most popular members of the lodge.
Dr. James Rotrock, or Rod-
RODROCK rock, w-as a native of Scot-
land, born in 1787; he was
the first of this familv to settle in the L'nited
STATE OF NFW JERSEY.
689
States ; he took up his residence in North-
ampton 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 Freemansburg, Pennsylvania, but soon
afterward removed to Macungie, Pennsylva-
nia, where 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 DeWitt Clinton Rodrock.
( H ) Rev. DeW'itt Clinton, son of Dr. James
and (Dreisbaugh) Rodrock, was born
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, Peimsylvania, where h:
completed 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 the beginning of the late civil war.
He then became chaplain of the Forty-Seventh
Pennsylvania \'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
ministry in 1879. Soon afterward he re-
moved to Paterson and lived quietly in that
city until the time of his death, .\ugust 24. 1903.
In the work of his church Air. 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
publications of the church. He was a Mason,
member of the lodge at Easton, Pennsylvania.
Rev. Dr. Rodrock married Julia Marga-
retta W'eldy ; children: i. \\'arren Weldy, died
at Charleston, South Carolina, 1861, aged six
months. 2. Ida, died aged nineteen years. 3.
Mary Shaff, married Hiram M. Quick and
resides at Paterson, New Jersey. 4. Sarah
Blanch, married Charles A. Fitch. 5. Edward
M., see forward. 6. Alice Gray, married A. C.
Nightingale. Julia JMargaretta (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 Blaine, Perry county, Pennsylvania,
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 enjoys an ex-
tended and favorable acquaintance throughout
the city of Paterson and in Passaic county.
Mr. Rodrock is a member of Lafayette Lodge,
No. 27, Free and x'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 Sen^ice 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
I'rooklyn, 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 11^63. when she went to Pennsyl-
vania. There William M. at the age of eleven
years began to aid his mother in caring for
the family, a task which he performed with
self-sacrificing devotion until she and her chil-
dren were comfortably established in life. He
first found employment 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 Alining 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
operator, 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 which 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 con.struction Mr. Brock was—
after a personal examination by Mr. Edison —
engaged as manager, which petition, 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 Company, of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
He continued in the management of this com-
pany until early in 1889, when he resigned his
position to accept that of secretary and general
manager of the Edison Electric Illuminating
Company, of Paterson, New Jersey, his pres-
ent home. At that time there were two elec-
tric lighting companies, the Edison Electric
Illuminating Company, which 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 execution of the work is best described by
the following extracts from the Electrical
Eiujiiiccr. of New York, 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 proximity to the metroptjlis 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, who 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
power 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 Illumi-
nating Company, using the old I'atcrson Elec-
tric Light Company's Station only as an arc
light plant, and the Edison Company's as a
combined lighting and power plant.
"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. William Brock, 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 ta.xing 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 United States is now
located.
"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. W. Ferguson, of
I'aterson, New Jersey,"
The officers of the aforementioned company
were : William T. Ryle, president and the
financier of the company ; William 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
Mr. J. W. Ferguson, builder and general con-
tractor, and Messrs. 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 afford such a lu.xury, he was
industrious, 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. Me takes
little active part in public afi^airs, yet is count-
ed among the progressive and public spirited
citizens of the city of Paterson.
He married. May 7, 1885, Florence \'in-
cent, daughter of Lyman and Anna (X'incent)
Wilson, of ?iIilton, Pennsylvania, and bv
whom he has three children living: Elizabetli
v., born Mav 5, 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
Bantzen, are engaged in manufacturing.
Linen leads in the manufacturing industry 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
()<.)2
STATK OF NEW JERSEY.
territiiry, tlirougli tlieir piratical decents on the
coasts of liritain and (iaul. tlieir possession
of Xormandy. their wars with the Franks and
final subjugation by 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 which the great
Anglo-Saxon race has evolved.
(I) Melchior Herman Frommelt 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
money 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 Eniil, see forward.
ill) Herman Emil, son of ]\Ielchior 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 boys. Herman Emil was
ajiprenticed 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 accoimt of his
symijathetic nature and gentlemanly deport-
ment. He became associated with lieethoven
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 Podge, No. 188, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and stood high in the
esteem of the members of his lodge.
He married, April 19, 1883, Lucy B., born
.August 25, 1859, (laughter 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 earlv 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 L made
him botanist of the Kingdom, owing to his
knowledge of vegetable physiologs- through
which, by means of evident analogues of
growth, he was enabled to make new classifica-
tions. 1 le 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.
( 1 ) N'ictor Hipolite 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 .\ngeline, daughter of Pamela Cant,
born in Camden, New Jersey, about 1825.
\'ictor Hipolite and .Angeline (Gant) Lober,
had three children: John liaptiste, 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 Victor 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
[larents were members, but when he arrived at
manhood he became independent of church
creeds and religious forms. He afiiliated with
the Independent Order of Odd F'ellows, and
his professional affiliations as a civil engineer
include ; Tiie American Society of Civil Engi-
neers ; the Engineers Club, of Philadelphia,
and the Railroad Club, of New York City.
His social home club is the Union League, of
Philadelijhia, and his business responsibilities
include the presidency of the Vulcanite Port-
land Cement Company with offices in the Land
Title Building, Broad street, Philadelphia. He
married. May, 1875, Clara, daughter of Will-
iam y. Diehl, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and
their only child, William Diehl, was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, .September 1 1 ,
1877, was educated in the I'riends' schools of
Philadelphia, and was graduated at the L'ni-
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693
versity of Pennsylvania, M.E., class of 1899, and
he at once took a place as secretary and treas-
urer of the Vulcanite Portland Cement Com-
pany, of which organization his father was
president, lie married, November 7, igoi.
Margaret, daughter of John Price and Eliza-
beth (W'arder) Crozer, of Cijland. Delaware
county. Pennsylvania.
The Buttler familv has been
BUTTLER resident in the state of New
Jersey for three generations.
In the line here considered this family de-
scends from George Buttler, commander in
the British navy, whose son, Jeremiah Buttler
(born in Portsmouth, England), came to
America in 1820, married Elizabeth Hull, of
Monmouth county. New Jersey, and lived at
Prospect Plains, near Dayton. ^liddlesex
county. New Jersey. A brother of Jeremiah
Buttler was George Buttler, 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 r>uttler. 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 May 5, 1905). daughter
of Barrant Voorhees and Eliza Haviland
(who was the daughter of Caleb Haviland. of
New Brunswick). 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-
wick. 4Irs. 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 Drentlie. Hol-
land, in the ship "Bonte Cou" or "Spotted
Cow" in April, 1660. George and Harriet
Ann (\'oorhees) Buttler Jiad ten children, of
whom eight now survive.
Charles \^oorhees Buttler, youngest son of
George 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
Annapolis. Maryland. Deciding upon the
medical profession, he entered the office of
P'rank IVI. 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
visitl.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 .\sylum. 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
Gardiner, 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 I^)Uttler. born November
5, 1896.
The late William Craig
STODD.KRD .Stoddard, a conspicuous
mercJiant 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 Ann 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 other. Phebe Stoddard, married John
Bogart 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
Brunswick 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 Brunswick.
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-
pany. A prominent member of the First IVes-
in'terian Church, he served as one of its trus-
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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
tees for many years. Mr. Studdard died Jul\'
ly, i8yo.
He married Sarah Jewell, daughter of Ken-
neth and Elizabeth Jewell, of P'rinceton, New
Jersey. Children: i. Emily Stoddard. 2.
William Stoddard (deceased). 3. Elizabeth
Jewel! Stoddard. 4. Sarah Jewell Stoddard.
5. Anna Craig Stoddard. Mr. Stoddard's
daughters reside in New Bnmswick.
In its native country, the
SCIICRK.M.X.V Xetherlanils. the name of
this family was usually
written .Schuerman. It was known from an early
Iieriod for staunch Protestantism, and in the
old country, as afterward in .'\merica, its rep-
resentatives were conspicuous for scholarship
and literarv ability. A famous member of the
Hollandish family was Anna Maria Schuer-
man ( 1607-1678), who is described as "a mar-
vel of precocity, and for the dejjth, bredth, and
variety of her attainments." excelling in "the
■ faculties of attention, apprehension, and mem-
ory, in drawing, painting, 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 17 19 with
the Rev. Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen on
the ship "King George." .\ccompanying
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."
.According to a chronicler of those times, he
was "respectable for his literary acquirements
as well as for his (liety." 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 'i\'rhune, daughter of -Mbert Terhime,
of I'latbush, Long Island, and sister of Eva
Terhune, who was the wife of Rev. .Mr.
Frelinghuysen.
(Ill John, son of Jacobus .Schureman, was
born about 1 729. Removing to New Bruns-
wick, .Middlese.x county. New Jersev, he en-
gaged in mercantile pursuits and became a
very prominent member of that community.
He was frecjuently elected to the legislature,
served as one of the judges of the county
court, and was a member of the committee of
safety, a|)iM)inted by the [provincial congress of
New Jersey to exercise the ])owers of the con-
gress during tlie recess of that body from .'\u-
gust 5 to Sejitember 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 Jiil>'
6, 1795. He married Antje de Remere.
widow of Peter Stryker ; she died May 2^.
1800. in her seventy-ninth year.
(HI) James, son of John Schureman, wa-
born February 12, 1756. In 1775 he was grail
uated from (Queen'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,
with the result that a company was immedi-
ately formed. P)eing 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 to the notorious Sugar
House in New York City. Effecting their
escape, they crossed the Hudson river in a
small 1)1 lat with one oar, and made their way
to the headquarters of 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,
h^rom 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, 1799. L'pon the retirement of John
Rutherfurd from the I'nited States senate Mr.
.Schureman was chosen to succeed him, repre-
senting .\ew Jersey from December 3, 1799.
to Fel)ruary 26, 1801, when he resigned. Sub-
se(|uently he was mayor of the city of New
Brunswick, and again was member of con-
gress (1813-1815). He was president of a
bank in Xew lirunswick and a successful mer
chant, "his house and store being u]u)n I'.urnet
street convenient to the wharf." Like his
father he was active in tlie Dutch church,
holding the office of elder, and in his personal
character he was known for the highest in-
tegrity and worth. He died January 22.
1824. He married, January 28. 1776, Eleanor
Williamson, who died July 15, 1823, daughter
of David and i^leanor (Schuyler) Williamson,
irranddauuhter of William Williamson, elfler
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of the clmrcli at Cranberry, Xew Jersey. They
were the parents of fourteen children.
(IV) William Williamson, eleventh child of
James Schureman. was born Ajjril 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
Amboy to Rordentown, and also in the
schooner traffic from New Brunswick to New
York. His residence was on a farm formerly
belonging to his father at One Mile Run. He
married Ann Rennet, daughter of John Ren-
net and granddaughter of James Rennet, who
was mayor of New Rrunswick. She was born
August 16, 1798, 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 One Mile Run, and was a highly re-
spected and influential citizen. He married
llannah Cox, born December 5, 1828, died
March, 1902. daughter of Henry Christopher
and Mary Mattox (Van Nostrand) Cox, and
granddaughter paternally of John Christopher
and Mary Williamson Cox, the latter of whom
was the daughter of William Williamson.
( \'I ) Howard Rishop, only son of James
( 2 ) Schureman. was born at One Mile Run,
July 17, 1849. At 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
[Vinceton and at Franklin Park, Middlesex
county, finally removing to New 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 Cuard, in which he rose to the rank of
captain. He married, January 26. 1876,
Stella A. Hager, born August 31, 1855, daugh-
ter of .\lhert H. and Caroline (Gulick) Hager.
Their children were: Caroline and James
Percy, see forward.
(\II) Caroline, born January 23, 1878.
married Walter H. Olden, a nephew of Gov-
ernor Olden, of New Jersey. Children: Alice
Olden. Joseph [^>rewer Olden, James Schure-
man Olden.
( Nil ) James Percy, born in Newark, New
Jersey, February 27, 1880, received his general
education in the Newark Academy and Prince-
ton I'niversitv. g;raduatin<r from the latter in-
stitution in 1901. Entering tiie medical de-
liartment of the Cniversity of Michigan, he
completed the prescribed course and 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 stafif physician of the Wells Memorial
Hospital and the Parker Memorial Home, and
is a member of the New Jersey State Medical
Society, the Middlesex County Medical So-
cietv. and <ither organizations.
Herman Gross, M. D., of Me-
GR( ).SS tuchen. Middlesex county, was
born in the empire of Austria,
September 19, 1879, youngest son of Nathan
and Rebecca Gross. In 1892 he came to the
L'nited States with his mother, having been
preceded l)y his three elder t)rothers. William,
Aaron, and David, all of whom are now resi-
dents of Middlesex county.
He received his general education in his
native country and at the College of the City
of .New York, his professional studies being
pursued in the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons, New York City, where he was gradu-
ated as Doctor of Medicine in 1903. .\fter
receiving his degree he was engaged in pro-
fessional work for a year at the Craig Colony
for Epilef)tics at Sonyea, New York. He then
established himself in practice at Metuchen,
where he has since successfully pursued his
profession.
Dr. (iross has been a memljer 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 .Society.
Henry Chapman Thompson
TIIOMPSO.V Jr.. of Philadelphia, is the
grandson of John Thomp-
son, at one time sheriff of Philadelphia, and
the son of Henry Clark and Jane ( Chapman )
Thompson, of Burlington county. New Jersey.
He was born in Pliiladelphia. October 19.
1862, and is now living at Merion, a suburb of
Philadeljihia, with offices at 2015 Land Title
Building, Rrt)afl and Chestnut streets, i'hila-
delphia.
For his early education he attended the pri-
vate schools in Philadelphia, and afterwards
was prepared for college in the Episcopal
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Academy in the same cit\-. He then entered
the L'niversity of Pennsylvania, leaving in his
junior year to enter the law department <jf the
L'niversity of Pennsylvania, where he gradu-
ated in 1885 with the degree of LL. B. After
being admitted to the Philadelphia bar, he en-
tered on the general practice of his profes-
sion, continuing alone until 1898, at which
time he formed a partnership with William 1-".
Harrity and others, the firm name being 1 tar-
rity, L,owrey & Thompson, and December i,
1908, it was changed again to the present form
of Harrit}-. Thompson & Haig. In politics
Mr. Thompson is a Republican. He is affili-
ated with many prominent organizations,
among which are th.e Union League Club of
Philadel])hia, the L'niversity Club of Phila-
del])hia, the !\[erion Cricket Club, tlie Over-
brook Cnjlf Club, and the Lawyers Club i>f
Philadelphia, of which he is the director and
the secretary.
November 7, 1X115. Henry Chapman Thoni])-
son, Jr., married Julia Margaret, daughter of
Jaciii) H. and .\nnie R. ( Atterholt ) Castner, of
New Lisbon, Ohio, where her grandfather was
a judge. They have one child, Alice Chapman,
burn .\ugust 31. 1 896.
The branch of the numer(iu>
l'.L.\CI\ Pilack 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 tlie third generation is only just
growing up and has its life and career all be-
fore it. The last generation, however, has
good reason to be proud of the cxam])le which
it has inherited for its imitation.
( 1 ) William lUack, .son of John I Hack, the
founder of the family, was born in Ireland and
came to this country in 1832. He married in
Philadel])hia. h'.liza llollins, born in 181S ni
luigland. Children of William and i^liza
(Hollins) I'lack were: 1. Jane, born in 1838;
married Joseph Thompson, of Phdadeljihia.
2. .Mary |{tta, 1840: married Thomas .\iont-
gomery, of Philadelphia, (jne of tlie tipstaves
of the court, and has four children: Henr\-,
William, Mabel and Elizabeth. 3. Margaret,
married George Lees, of Philadelphia, and lia-
two children: llollins and George. 4. Will-
iam John, referred to below-. 5. .Annie, mar-
ried William King, a wall paper dealer of
Philadel])hia. and lias two children: .\L-ibel and
I'dorence. i>. .\deline, married Robert Watts
a ]ilunil)cr of Philadelphia, and has three chil-
dren : .\lbirt, {•".dna and h'lorence.
(11) William John, fourth child and c)nly
son (jf William and Eliza ( Hollins) Black, wa;,
born in Philailel])hia. April 10, 1850, and is
now living at Atlantic City, New Jersey. He
attended the public schools of Philadelphia,
and then learned the trade of stonecutting at
which he worked in that city until 1875. I"
that year he became connected with the fire
department of the city as a hoseinan, 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, wdien he was
retired 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
.April 4. 1904. and since that time Mr. Black
has been serving the city in that capacity to
tile eminent satisfaction of every one, having
now com])leted a period of over forty years
as a fire fighter. During his service he has had
many jierilous 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. Air. Black is a
member of Lodge No. 423, PTee and Accepted
Alasons, of Philadelphia ; Lodge No. 276, Be-
nevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of
.Atlantic City, and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon.
He is a Republican: a director in the Atlantic
City F"ire Insurance Company, and a member
of the Presbyterian church. His mother was
a Ouaktr.
July 8. 1871, William Jc.liii P.lack married
.Sarah, born 1850, died March. 1902. daughter
of William Bucaiinan, of Philadel])hia. Thev
had two children: i. William .Albert, born
Jul\ 14, 1872. dieil in 1886. 2. Henry, born
( ctiiher. 1874. died in 1878.
The Diament family ot New
1 )l A .M !•'. .\ r Jersey have been among the
large landed pn)iirietors and
gentlemen yecjiiien of Ctimberland county ever
since the beginning of middle of the eighteenth
century, when the founder of the family came
over to this country from England, wdiere as
the ])reamble to his will shows he was one of
the staunch adherents of the Church of Eng-
land, his theology being of the marked ty])e
of the Caroline divines and the non-jurors,
and in all jirobaliility his emigration was to i
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great extent influenced by his antipathy to the
Presbyterian tenets of the Orange succession.
(I) Nathaniel Diament, of Fairfield, Cum-
berland county. New Jersey, died in April or
May, 1767, leaving a widow and ten children
surviving. His will written April 3, 17()(), was
proven Alay 14, 1767, and the inventory of
his estate, made April 28, 1767, by David
Westcote and Ephraim Harris, 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 £q6. g 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. I'.ennit. 6. Sarah, married a Mr.
.Swing. 7. Dorcas. 8. Elizabeth, y. Ruth,
married a Mr. Powell. 10. Rhoda.
(II) James, son of Nathaniel ami Lois
Diament, was left by his father "one third of
my land and marsh on Joneses Lsland except
the piece of marsh before excepted," and by
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 \\'estcott. 3. Abigail, married Charles
Howeli. 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
Islatii', Cumberland county, in 1755, died there
in 1845. ^" 'i'* ^^'11 li^ mentions his wife and
ten children, one of whom is deceased. The
name of his wife was liathsheba, 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. Bateman. 9. Hannah,
married Isaac Newcomb. He was a revolu-
tionary soldier.
( I\') Elmer, second child and son of Jame.s
( 2 ) and Hathsheba Diament, died intestate in
1832 leaving a widow and several children
mentioned but with the exception of Theophi-
lus Elmer, referred to below, not named in
their grandfather's will.
(V) Theophilus Elmer, son of Elmer Dia-
ment, named in his grandfather's will, was
born on Jones l.sland. Cumberland cnunty,
August 4, 1810, died in i8<-;i. I Jesides 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 Ilig Gate and the Eagle
Island, except the piece given to Elmer's heirs,
and in addition about thirty-two acres of
woodland." To the "children of my deceased
son Elmer Diament," their grandfather left
"the land I bought of Jeremiah Harris called
the Piney liranch Tract also the land on Jones
Island I bought of Jt)hn Elmer junior joining
on the Island dam creek, late of Moses Husted
and others, also the house and lot near Cedar-
ville purchased of Theophilus E. Bateman.
also the marsh between Cedar Creek and the
mill gut. also the store house and wharf at
Cedarville Landing purchased of Norton Law-
rence, also the bond made to me by Benjamin
Thompson February 1832 for $1500. My ex-
ecutors are to be the trustees of the children
who are under age, and the widow of my son
P'Imer is to retain in her possession all the
household goods provided by me."
Theophilus Elmer Diament married .Mary
Lummis (iarrison, born at P)ridgeton. 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 Garrison. 3. George,
born .A]iril 24. 1848. died in 1878 unmarried.
He was a graduate from the West Jersey
.\cademy.
( \ I ) Charles (iarrison. son of Theophilus
Elmer and Mary Lummis (Garrison) Dia-
ment. was born on Jones Island. Cumberland
county. OctobtT 11. 1841. and is now living
at Cedarville. Cumberland county. New Jer-
sey. .\fter 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 people of Cumberland county by
being elected high sheriff 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
Fairfield township, and was also on the school
board 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 six 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. He attends the Pres-
byterian church.
Charles (jarrison Diament married (first)
Pri.scilla, 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
Grant, 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 W'est Jersey Academy, the University of
Pennsylvania, and graduated from the Balti-
more Medical College with the degree of M.
D. He is now practicing medicine in Bridge-
ton, and for nine years has been county physi-
cian of Cumberland county.
Charles (Harrison Diament married (sec-
ond) in 1883, Rachel, daughter of John Dill
Newcomb, of Berlin, New Jersey. They have
no children.
Richard Ross Miller, of Cam-
.MILLER den. New Jersey, is the grand-
son of Matthew Miller and son
of 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 Fourth 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 offices at
128 Federal street. He has always been an
active and a prominent member of the Repub-
lican ])arty. For three years he was jjresident
of the Camden Republican C!lul) of New Jer-
sey, and for ten years served as city treasurer
of Camden. In 1867 he was elected a member
of the Cnion League Club of I'hiladeliihia. In
religion he is a Presbyterian. He lias always
been an enthusiastic secret society man and he
is a distinguished Free Mason, having taken
all of the Scottish rite up to and including the
thirty-second degree. He is a member of
Camden Ixulge, No. i s. Free and .Accepted
Masons, Royal .Arch Chapter, \'o. 19, Com-
mandery, No. 7, Knights Templar, also Be-
nevolent Protective Order of Elks, and Cape
May Yacht Club.
Richard Ross Aliller 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 A'ork, Geraldine, married a Mr. Curr, of
Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Josephine.
2. William, born 1861, died in 1880. 3. Albert
Ross, born March 19, 1863, at Camden. Mr.
Miller married (second) .August 29, 1879,
Mary M. Wolff, of New York^ Children: 4.
.Mabel, died in infancy. 5. Richard Ross Jr.,
born in h'ebruary, 1892.
Truman Tertius Pierson, son
I'lERSON .if 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 Rahway, New Jersey.
In the Civil War 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 .Ambov and Metuchen, of the firm of
J. N. Pierson & Son (in which .Aylin Pierson
is associated with him). He married Lucy
Kem])son. (now deceased) daughter of Dr.
Peter Kemjjson, of P2nglish birth, who came to
Canada and then to Metuchen, where he died.
\\ hen Truman T. Pierson was two years old
his parents removed to Metuchen, New Jersey,
which has since been his place of residence.
11 is 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 profit-
able to deliver the newspajiers to the citizens
at their homes in the early morning, and this
was the beginning of his business activities.
He was afterward em])loyed as water-boy by
the IVnnsvlvania railroad, carrving water to
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Italian laborers, antl as a messenger-hoy.
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. He next en-
tered the Aliddlesex Water 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 ]5olitics from early
youth, Mr. 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 F'resiflent 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
efficienc)' and especially by attention to the
improvement of the postal facilities and serv-
ice. He has also been active and prominent
in promoting and developing organizations of
the postmasters. .\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 personal
name: and he -is also superintendent of the
Metuchen (ias Light Company. 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 .\sbury I^ark. New Jer-
sey. They have one child, Muriel \irginia
Pierson.
Alfred Lauder EUis, .\1. I)..
ELLIS physician and formerly mayor oi
that municipality, is descended
on the paternal 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 Bradford, 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,
i8y8), who was secretary and actuary of the
Traveller's Insurance Company of Hartford.
The mother of Dr. Ellis, Janet McEwen, was
born in Scotland, came to America with her
parents, John and Agnes McEwen (who re-
sided in .Albany, New York), and died De-
cember 6, 1896. .An 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. in Hartford, Connecticut. He was
graduated as bachelor of science from Trinity
College in 1898 (the degree of master of
science being confirmed upon him by that in-
stitution in 1900). .After pursuing a post-
graduate course in medicine for two years at
A'ale I'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
staflP 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
with reputation and success. .Active in the
hx-al 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. contimiing until January, 1909.
He is secretary of the Middlese.x County Medi-
cal Societv, treasurer of the Metuchen Build-
ing Com)iany. and treasurer of the Aliddlesex
Automobile Club.
Dr. Ellis married, June 28. 1905. Gladys
.Antisdel, daughter of James and Jessie
(Baker) .Antisdel, of New York City. They
liave two children. William M. and lames L.
Ellis.
It is written in the "History
CONR.AD of Berks and Lebanon Coun-
ties," by Rupp, 1844, that "In
March, 175'). the Indians laid the house and
barn of I'.arnabas Scitle 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 purpose to treat in
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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 ])robable 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 of the eighteenth cen-
tury.
Ihe 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
Bernville. 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 pres-
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
n<it known. Joseph B. Conrad was a ])ros-
perous farmer, a man of considerable influ-
ence, and at luie 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 ])ursuits several years before his death.
1905. lie married Marian Whitman and of
their several children three grew to luaturity,
viz: I. jaiiu'^ II., see forward, z. Irving W..
married Mary Wilson and had thi'ec childieu :
.Arthur (now dead), Josejih and Edward. 3.
Howard W.. married Mary Obold,. lives in
Reading, Pennsylvania, and lias three children.
Bertha, Stella and Ray.
( li ) James H., son of Joseph 1'.. and .Mar-
ian ( \\ hitman ) Conrad, was born at Bern-
ville. Pennsylvania, February 13, 1849, and
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
W atertown. 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, Xew Jersey,
starting a fruit farm there. Later on he re-
moved to Hackensack and now lives in that
city, a carpenter by occupation.
He married, December 24, 1867, Jennie M.
Klopp, born North Heidelberg, Berks county,
Pennsylvania, and a descendant of one of the
oldest German families of that region. Chil-
dren: I. Dr. Edgar K., see forward. 2. Her-
bert \\ alter, born at ISernville, Pennsylvania.
.\pril 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, Mildred Dorothy, born Hacken-
sack, September 24, 1901. 3. Corrinne, born
Pine Cirove, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1874;
married. 1891, Fred Wight and has si.x chil-
dren: Reuben Lester, born .\ugust 2, 1893:
X'ioletta, born May 22. 1895 • Edgar, born July
2, 1897; Arthur, born .\pril 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
I'.altimore College of Dental Surgery : in ac-
tive practice in Hackensack : married, April
15. 1008. Grace Soley, daughter of Charles R.
and Fmilina R. (Odell) Soley: they have one
chiltl, Willard Soley. born December 13, 1908.
(HI) 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
W'atertown high school, at Watertown, South
Dakota, and his i)rofessional education in
Bellevue Hos]Mtal Medical College, New York
City, where he graduated M. D. in 1893.
.A Iter leaving college he spent one year as in-
terne at the Hackensack Hospital, and at the
end of tliat time began his active professional
career in the same city. Dr. Conrad has come
to be recognized as one of the leading mem-
Ijcrs of his profession in Bergen county and
cnjovs a successful practice. He holds mem-
bership in various j)rofessional organizations
and also in Pioneer Lodge, Free and .Accejited
Masons, I'ergen Chajiter, Roval .Arch Masons,
Washington Commandery. Knights Templar
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(of Passaic), Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, Junior Order of United Workmen and
the L'nited Order of Foresters.
He married, October 31, 1900, Grace L.,
daughter of Albert \'. Moore, and lias two
children: Edgar K. Jr., born September 19,
1902. and Franklin Campbell, February 6,
190ft.
It is said that the first Stagg in
.ST.\(i(i this countr}' 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 1. Stagg, the earliest known an-
cestor ut the family here under consideration,
was born near the present city of Paterson,
.\]jril 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 \'an 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, 1806, died
in that city in 1872. When 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 F'eter. 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, Decem-
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 Volunteer Infantry; was pro-
moted corporal, March, 1863: quartermaster
sergeant, September i, 1864; second lieuten-
ant First Michigan Cavalry, December 4,
1864; and first lieutenant March i, 1865.
.A.fter the close of the war he continued in
service and was on duty at Salt Lake City,
Ctah, 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.
.•\fter 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 Patcrsnn Guardian,
of which paper 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 1S87 until 1889, being the last chief dur-
ing the life of the department as a volunteer
organization. In 1891 he was made 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, LTnion 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 Chief.s, and has served as presi-
dent of the National Association of Fire
Chiefs.
He married Catherine, daughter of John
F'ulton, 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, Katherine, 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
wIiD first takes rank with the leading men of
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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
any municipality. In tiiis 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.
( I ) 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 carried on
business as a dealer in furnishing goods. He
died October 13, 1906. The given name of his
w'ife was Toyba, who bore him children as
follows: I. Gerson, see forwartl. 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. (). Kate, married Abe Starin. and has
five children. 7. Gharles, 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
188 1. He lived ten years in New York City,
and became an accomplished practical jeweler,
watclismith 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 .Accejjted 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 1 iarnett Memorial Temple.
Mr. (iootenberg married. May 10, 1883, ICva
L., born Se])tember 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 the age of ten months. 2. David, born
March 17, 18S5; married. April 14, 1909,
.'\deline M. Muller, of Palerscjn, New lerscv,
born October 27, 1888, daughter of John P.
and Mary (l\nvley) Muller. 3. Mabel M.,
March 18, 1887. 4. Pliilip, October 28, 1888.
5. Emma, July 3, 1890. 6. .\bie. March 23.
|8;2, died July 30, Hpl.
30. 1896.
Henry, August
The various families of Spier,
SPI'^1""R 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
])arts of the state although their name is es-
])ecially associated with the old inhabitants of
Essex 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 Amsterdam in December, 1659. He
brought with him his wife and two children.
.Mthough he ac(|uired a home in New Amster-
dam, he seems to have lived there but a little
while for May 9, 1662, his wife in his name
sells to Christoffel Van Laer their house on
the lleere Graft, "next the house of Oloff
.Stevens \ an Cortlandt and Gerrit Janse Roos,
extending in front eastward to the Burghwai!
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, i68r, when his
widow marries (second) as the third wife of
Jan Aertsen, the emigrant ancestor of the
X'anderbilt family. By his wife, Magdalena
Hansen, Hendrick Jansen Spier had at least
two children: i. Barent, who married, July 31.
if)(>S, 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
])arents. He was one of the earliest of the
settlers around Second River, what is now
r.elleville, and his name is found on a deed
referring to that jiart of the province as early
as March 16, 1684. The family tradition of
the Spers is that they are descended from this
son of Hendrick J., through his son John 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 .Vrent
Schuyler, John Stoutenburgh and others the
church lot now occupied by the EKitch Re-
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703
formed church of Belleville. By his wife
Catryna, Hans Spier had a son Abram, re-
ferred to below.
( I\ ) Abram, son of Hans and Catryna
Spier, married in the Dutch Reformed church
at Hackensack, June 17, 1724, Geertje Braos,
by wiiom he had a son John, who is referred
to below.
(V) John, son of Abram and Geertje
(Braos) 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. Peter. 7. Nautia, who married
Mr. \ reeland, of Poversham. 8. Betsy, who
married Abraham King. 9. Laney, who mar-
ried another King.
( \T ) John (2) son of John {1} and Mag-
dalena (\'an 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 V'aric, at one time a member of the New-
Jersey legislature. 4. Maria, who married
Abraham Van Riper, resided on a farm im-
mediately south of the Passaic county line, and
had five children : Sarah, John, .A.braham.
Eliaz and Margaret. Of these children Mar-
garet married Theodore Sandford. 5. Mag-
dalena, married John N. Joralemon, and lived
and died within one hundred yards of her
father's residence. 6. Margaret, married
Abraham \'an Houten, of Belleville village,
where they lived and had four children : Will-
iam, Cornelius. Abraham and Anne Maria.
7. Elizabeth, married Peter, son of Michael
and Ciitty (Cadmus) Sandford. 8. .\nna,
who died young.
( \TI ) James Tunis, son of John (2) ano,
Margaret (Joralemon) Sjieer, was born in
Belleville, October i, 1795. died there July 12
1867. He married Eliza L. Wade, born De-
cember 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, tlied October 4, 1907.
2. Abbie, born April 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 Morence. 4. Mary Anna, referred to
below.
(VIH) Mary Anna, youngest child of
James Tunis and Eliza L. (Wade) Speer, was
born June 19, 1835, and is now living at 330
Washington avenue, Belleville. April 17,
1856, she married John Jerome, son of Curtis
and Letitia (Westj Tucker, of Brooklyn,
whose children were : John 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 Hall of Fame. For 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-
]iresident of the Bank of Savings of New
^'ork City.
l')V his marriage with Mary Anna S])eer, he
had two children: I. Edwin, born Alarch 4,
1857, '^^'lio has been twice married and is now
living at Asbury Park. 2. Walter Curtis, born
December 18, 1862, married, January 4, 1893,
( lertrude Creveling and has two children :
Marjorie, born January 12, 1895, and John
Jerome, born January 29, 1903.
The Germans who so largely
HELSLER made up the growth and aided
in the development of New
Jersey and Peimsylvania 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 ^lethodism, but the greater part
remained within the fold of the I^utheran
church. Among the Germans of Pennsylva-
nia the name of Heisler is quite common, and
both the pulpit and the profession of medicine
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'ni versify of Pennsylvania in 1887, and
filled the chair of anatomy in that institution,
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STATE OF NEW fERSEV
i88(;-(;7. curatDr uf tlic ilorner Museum Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania since iSyj. Among
the Ouakers of Burlington 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 I'eniberton 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 children 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
witli the Masonic 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 .'Vssociation of Jer-
sey ; vice-president of the Board of Home
Missions and Church Extension Society of the
Methodist Church in .America; and treasurer
of the Penn Seaman's F'riend Society of I'hila-
delphia. He was elected to member.ship in
the Union League Club of Philadelphia, 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.
lie was married "out of meeting," about
1874, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Eliza
Jane, born September 25, 1849, daughter of
Edmund and Fmeline 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
15. Wells, 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),
June 2. 1906: Elizabeth Heisler Wells. Xo-
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
L'niversity, and was graduated A. B. 1903.
He is studying law with his brother-in-law,
Harold 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 Philadalphia, and Ham-
monton. New Jersey, which are set forth
below.
(I) Andrew Elvins w-as 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[)liia, 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 w^ell
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. Walton 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 (Williams) 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
hel]ied her to run the dry goods store in Phila-
delphia, and then buying a three acre lot in
I lammonton built his house and store. He at-
tended the ]niblic schools of Philadelphia,
while helping his mother, and from the lessons
which he learned in both places he attributes
all of his successful subsecjuent 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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705
mans' Building Association, iie has been
treasurer of the town of Hamnionton for a
number of years ; also collector, and was for
five years one of the freeholders of the town.
He 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 Jer.sey
assembly in 1880-81. For three years he was
also chosen to serve on the town council. lie
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, George Elvins married Annie, daugh-
ter of Tliomas Clohosey, of Philadelphia, who
bore him seven children: I. Alary 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, M. D., an Aus-
tralian of old New England ancestry who re-
sides in Hammonton, New Jersey, and has
three children : Annie, Edwin and Marian. 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 Ciohansey, born in 1869; a Republi-
can ; member of the New Jersey state assembly
for five years up to 1907, and now in busmess
with his father, besides being the i)resent post-
master of Hammonton. He married Lillian
Rub}', 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 Baen. 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
surjirised to find the name in the Netherlands
and especially on the north of the River Rhine,
in the Lower Palatinate, and thence following
the flood of immigration that built up 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 perhajis 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 1664. 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.
(T) 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 plainly denoted by his occupa-
tion as clerk of the towns in which he lived
and as schoolmaster in New Utrecht, 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 Orange 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 i6g8.
We next find him living near Hackensack, in
Bergen county. New Jersey, as early as 1709,
which locality became the home of his descend-
ants.
He married Elizabeth Drabba, in Holland,
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about i(>jo, and had seven children born in
.\'evv L'trecht, Kings county, Long Island, New
York, as follows: i. Mattie, married David
Sannilse De ^laree, in November, 1705. 2.
Christian, baptized in the church in New
L'ltrecht. May 15, 1687, and was married in
January, 1709, to Judith Samuelse De -Maree.
3. Alajlie, baptized ]\Iay 4, 1670, at Flatbush.
4. Karl (Charles), see forward. 5. Christyne,
born 1695. 6. Jacobus, who married Antje
Kennit or Kenning. 7. Margrietje or Maria,
who married Theodore Romain, in June, 1728.
Joost and Elizabeth (Drabba) De Baun both
died at their home near Hackensack, but wc
find no record by which we can determine the
dates.
( II ) Karl (Charles), second son and fourth
child of Joost and Elizabeth (Drabba) De
Baun, was born in New Utrecht, Long Island,
N'ew 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,
Feter, Yan, Jacob, Isaac, Abram, see forward;
Christian. Margarietje, Cornelia, Maria, Eliz-
abeth.
{,lil) Abram. si.xth son of Karl and Janetje
Pieterse (^ Harring) De iJaun, was born in
liackensack, Bergen county, New Jersey, De-
cember 10, 1731, and died September 14, 1806.
He was married (first) to Bridget Ackerman,
who died January 27, 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 W'ortendyke, and died April
25. i860; Abram, January 14, 1770, married
Sarah Remsen, died December 9, 1859; Jacob,
March 22, 1765, married Ann De Baun, and
died December i, 1853; Yannetie, November
12, 1762, married Peter Smith, and died May
n, 1845: .\ndreas, 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 .'\ntje 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 liaun married
(second) Lea Van Orden, August 25, 1793.
(IV) Isaac, youngest of the ten children of
Abram and Bridget (.\ckerman) De Baun.
was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Decem-
ber 9. 1779. He married, June 13, 1807, Eliza-
beth Yeury. who was the daughter of John and
I'llizabeth (\'an Orden) ^'eury. and was born
January 12, 1791. and died August 24, 1873.
Her father, John Yeury, was born May 8.
1704, and died March 8, 1840, and her mother,
Elizabeth \ an Orden, died September 13, 1856.
Isaac and Elizabeth (Yeury) De Baun had
eight children, born in Hackensack, as follows:
J. Abram, February 7, 1809; married. May 15,
1830, Maria, daughter of Johannes and Eliza-
beth ( Palmer) \an Houton. Maria \'an Hou-
ton was born June 14, 1810, and died January
19, 1895, and her 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 Brunswick, 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 vv'as pastor there
for a f|uarter of a century, resigning in 1883 to
go to the Reformed Church in Fonda, New
\ iirk, where he was installed as pastor in 1883.
He was elected president ui the General Synod
of the Reformed Church in America in 1880.
and in 1884 declined the presidency of Hope
College, Holland, Michigan. Union Univer-
sity conferred on him the honorary degree of
Doctor of Divinity in 1877.
He was married, in 1855, to Elizabeth B'.
Coddington. of New Brunswick, New Jersey.
2. Elizabeth, September 25, 1810; married, No-
vember 24, 1832, Nicholas Van Houten, win-
was born November 9, 1807. 3. Jacob, Janu-
ary 20, 1812; married (first) Rachel Brown,
who died in November, 1851. and (second)
Emma Hays, May 8, 1864. 4. Maria, June
5. 1814; married Aaron Johnson, and died
Ma\- 12, 1861. 5. Bridget, .-\ugust 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 .V. Duryea.
who was born in Maich, (819. 8. John Y.,
see forward.
( \" ) John Y., the youngest of the eight chil-
dren of Isaac and Elizabeth (Yeury) De Baun,
was born in Monsey, 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
tlie country districts in that day, he, by his
inherent force of will and determination, fitted
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himself for the ministry of the Dutch Reform-
ed Church, which was no mean achievement
when we take into consideration the high stand-
ard set by the Classis for its ministers. He
does not appear to have attended any college
or theological school. He was licensed to
preach by the Classis of Hackensack of the
True Reformed Dutch Church, April 17, 1855.
He had, as his first charge, two churches, one
at Hempstead (now Monsey), Rockland coun-
ty, New York, and one at Ramseys, liergen
county, Xevv Jersey, and in these churches he
preaclied alternate Sundays up to i860. He
then became pastor of the church at Hacken-
sack and of the one at English Neighborhood
(now Leonia). Fie removed to Hackensack
in i860, and had charge of the two churches
for twenty-six years. He also established and
edited the Banner of Truth, a monthly church
magazine, which continued to be the organ of
the True Reformed Dutch Church. He was
an eloc|uent preacher and a self-made man in
every way, proving himself worthy of his high
calling.
He was married (first) April 8, 1848, to
Margaret, who died about 1893, daughter of
Abram and Susanna (Van Wart) Iserman.
Her father was born March 11, 1799, and mar-
ried, .April I, 1821, to his wife, Susanna Van
Wart, who was born ]\Iay 6, 1802. Rev. John
Y. and Margaret ( Iserman) De Baun had born
to them nine children as follows : I. Susan Eliz-
abeth, l-'eliruary 26, 1850, died August 26,
1852. 2. Martha Amelia, January 24, 1852, mar-
ried Eugene A. Van 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, 1891,0. A. Benjamin. 7. John Zabriskie, De-
cember 27, 1867, died December 18, 1874. 8.
James Edwin, Se])tember 7, 1872, died January
26, 1884. 9. Isaac Calvin, May 6, 1874. John Y.
De Baun married (second) Jane \'an Houton,
who survived him.
(\T) Abram, second son and fourth child
of Rev. John Y. and Margaret (Iserman) De
Baun, was born at Monsey, Rockland county,
Xew York, .April 2, 1856. He removed with
his parents to Hackensack, Xew Jersey, in
I i860, and was graduated at the Hackensack
; Academy 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 was a law partner with his preceptor-
at-law, A. D. Campbell, 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
county, 1878-95, inclusive, his long term of
service in so iin]5ortant 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 Mutual Building and
Loan -\ssociation 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. I lis fraternal affiliation is confined to
the Royal .-Vrcanum and the Legion of Honor
He was married (first) April 30, 1878, to
Mary B. Ciiristie, of Leonia, New Jersey, who
died September 30, 1881, and on October 8,
1884, he married (second) Lydia B. Christie,
of Hackensack, New Jersey. He had no chil-
dren by either marriage.
The ancestrv of fudge
SIXXICKSON Clement Hall Sinnick.son,
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,
wiien Duke .\dolph. of Schleswig, ennobled
Andreas Snnichson for a service rendered in
battle. The tradition is that the Duke'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 .\ngln, Denmark, named Hestrip.
This passed to his son Carlen in 1600. Andres
Snnichson, a younger son of Carlen, came to
.America in 16^8, then no longer a young man.
and accompanied by his sons .Anders and Broor.
Thev 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 Lovv^er Benn's
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Neck townshi]), New jersey, and purchased
of the Indians a large tract of land then called
(Jbis(|nahaset, 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 jirogenitor of a
large clan in that state and in Pennsylvania.
After the arrival of John Fenwick in 1675 to
take possession of his tenth of New Jersey, a
large portion of this land so purchased from
the Indians was (juitclaimed to Anders Son-
nichson and much of it now remains in the
family.
Next in line came Andrew Sinnickson, 3d.
the name undergoing an anglicising change.
Next was Sinnick Sinnickson. wlm left one
son. Andrew, 4th.
Andrew, son of Sinnick Sinnickson, born in
1 71 8; died in 1790; leaving a large property
to be divided among his numerous children.
His life w^as active and intluential ; he was ap-
pointed judge of the court of commgn pleas
under George III. and held the office many
years. He was a member of both provincial
congresses of New Jersey 1775-76; 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 provide clothing for tin
New Jersey troops in the field. He had tliree
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 offered a hundred pounds for him
dead or alive, and when the representatives of
the British government oiifered to sign a jieace
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 i)ro-
.scribed by name. The Thomas Sinnickson
above referred to was afterwards a member of
the first L'nited States congress.
Colonel Andrew Sinnickson, son of .Andrew
Sinnickson, married Margaret, daughter of
Judge Robert and Margaret (Morgan) John-
son, [udgc 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 judge from 1710 till his death in 1719.
His son, Robert Johnson, was born in 1694,
and 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'emisylvania.
John .Sinnickson, son of Colonel .\ndrew
and Margaret (Johnson) Sinnickson, was born
1789, died 1862. He married Rebecca Kay
II all, whose ancestry traces back to William
Hall, who came to America and took up his
residence in Elsinboro, Salem county, in 1677.
In 1709 he was made judge and filled that posi-
tion till the time of his death in 1718; 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. Of the marriage of William
Hall and Sarah Clement, was born William
Hall 2d, wdio married Elizabeth, daughter of
John Smith, of .\mblebury. Their son, Clem-
ent Hall, was born 1724, and married Alargaret,
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
parents of Clement Hall .Sinnickson.
t lenient Hall Sinnickson, son of John and
Rebecca Kay (Hall) Sinnickson, was born
in .Salem, New Jersey, Sei)tember 16, 1834.
He act|uired his preliminary education in the
private schools of Salem, attended the Poly-
technic Institute, of Troy, New York, and in
1855 was graduated at L'nion College w'ith the
degrees of liachelor of Arts and Civil Engi-
neer. ( )n the completion 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 William L. Dayton, of Trenton.
in 1858 he was admitted to the bar as an
attorney, and in 1864 as a counsellor. He
located in ])ractice in Salem, and soon gamed
a large distinctively representative clientage.
I lis 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 position of judge of the
common pleas court of Salem county, and has
since acceptably served in that cajiacity. He
lias also been connected with business interests
outside of his professional duties, and is now
a director of the l-'armers' 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 membershi]) in Johnson Post,
No. 69. Grand Army of the Republic, at Salem,
being entitled to a place therein by reason of
his three months" service in the civil war. He
was commissioned first lieutenant and pro-
moted to the captaincy of Company I, Fourth
Regiment of New Jersey X'olunteers, and wa^
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, from 1875 imtil
1879, two of the most important sessions in
its history. He was a member of the Repiib-
lican state committee in 1880. He is the owner
of a part of the original tract of land pur-
chased by the family.
Judge Sinnickson married, in June, 1862,
Sarah I\I.. daughter of Louis V. and Henrietta
(Hancock) Smith. They had two children,
both of whi.im died in infancy.
The Kendalls are an English
Kl'^XDAlJ. 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 representatives have
been many persons of distinction in govern-
mental affairs, several branches having coats-
of-arms and other insignia of high estate. In
the mother countrv the Kendalls for many
generations have been a numerous family in
Piedfonlshire. Esse.x. Derbyshire. Cornwall.
Devonshire. Hertfordshire and as well in other
towns and shires in ditferent parts of the king-
dom.
( I ) John Kendall, progenitor of the .Amer-
ican family of that surname, was living in 1646
in Cambridge. England, and died there in 1660.
.\mong his children were two .sons, Francis
and Thomas, both of whom come to New Eng-
land. In if')44 Deacon Thomas Kendall, one
of the brothers, was a proprietor of the town
of Reading. Massachusetts, and wasmatje free-
man thtre 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.
( II) Francis, son of John Kendall, lA Cam-
bridge, England, came to New England before
1640. and in December of that year with thirty-
one others signed the town orders of \\'oburn.
He had been living in Charlestown, of which
Woburn then was a part. It was not an un-
usual thing with the early immigrants to Amer-
ica to take assumed names in order to avoid
vexatious laws and occasionally to avoid the
vigilance of parents who frequently objected
to the emigration 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
1648. and Sewall in his history of Woburn says
that "he was a gentleman of great respectability
and influence in the place of his residence."
I le served as selectman eighteen years, member
of the committee for granting town lands and
for building the meeting house, tythingman in
1676: but he a])pears not to have been in full
accord with the teachings of the ruling churcli
in the town and on one occasion was fined
for disobedience of the church requirements
regarding infant baptism. His occupation was
that of miller, and the corn mill which he own-
ed he left to his sons. Samuel and John. Th'.;
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
Samuel Kendall in 1700. Francis Kendall died
in 1708. aged eighty-eight years. He married.
December 24. 1644. Mary, daughter of John
Tidd. and by her had nine children, born in
Charlestown or Wobnrn : 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.
1654-55. 6. Rebecca. March 2, 1657. 7. Sam-
uel. March 8. 1659. 8. Jacob, January 25.
1660-61. 9. Abigail. .April 6. 1666.
(Ill) Jacob, son of Francis 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
Hayward, of Woburn, and married ( second )
January 10, 1695, .Alice Temple. He had in
all seventeen children: 1. Persis, August 24.
1685. 2. Jacob, twin, January 12, 1686-87;
dierl soon. 3, Jacob, twin. January 12. 1686-87.
4. Joseph. December 17. 1688. 5. Jonathan
Xovember 2. i6qo. 6. Daniel, October 23.
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i6yi. 7. Ebenezer. Xuvcmber 9, 1695. 8.
John. January 6, ifK/j-yj. 9. Sarah, July 18.
1698. 10. Esther, November 20, 1699. 11.
Hezekiah, AJay 26, 1701. 12. Nathan, Decem-
ber 12, 1702. 13. Susanna, October 27, 1704.
14. Phebe, December 19, 1706. 15. David,
September 28, 1708. 16. Ebenezer. April 5.
1 710. 17. Abraham, April 26, 1712.
(I\"j Joseph, son of Jacob and Persis
( llayward ) Kendall, was born in W'oburn, De-
cember 17, 1688, and lived in that town. He
married twice and had nine children, all born
in W'oburn: i. Jonathan, October 29, 1718.
2. Joshua, March 7, 1719-20. 3. Mary. Janu-
ary 6, 1723. 4. Susanna, July 24, 1727. 5.
Oliver. July 29. 1730. 7. Jacob, October 9,
1738. 8. Esther. November 2~,. 1740. 9. Sarah.
March 5. 1743.
(\ ) Joshua, son of Joseph and Susanna
Kendall, was born in W'oburn. March 7, 1719-
20, and lived in that town. He married (first )
1745. Esther liuck, and ( second) May 2. 1753.
Susanna J(jhnson, and had nine children: i.
Joshua, February 9, 1747. 2. Jonathan. June
4. 1749; died young. 3. Jonathan, .September
I. 1751. 4. Susanna. January 25, 1754. 5.
lienjamin, March 16. 1756. 7. Joel, Decembc.
16, 1766. 8. Daniel, Au.i^^ust 8, "1771. c). Will-
iam. July 14, 1774.
(\'I) Daniel, son of J(jshua and Susanna
(Johnson) Kendall, who was born August 8.
1 77 1, is supposed to be the Daniel Kendall who
lived in Haverhill and was projirietor of a tav-
ern in that town. The name of his wife does
not api)ear. and indeed the records of Haver-
hill give no account of him or of his family.
I If had several children, and among them were
^~i)ns. William, lienjamin, Daniel an I James,
and a (l;iughter. ,\nna.
{ \ll ) Daniel (2). son of Daniel ( 1 ) Ken-
dall, of Haverhill. Massachusetts, was born in
I l;iverliill. November 10, 1808; died in Wis-
consin, where the later years of his life were
spent. I le was a morocco dresser by trade and
followed that occupation for perhaps 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 Portland, 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 Bray, a descendant of one
of the old New England families which was
noted for the number of its sons who were
seafaring men. Eight children born of this
marriage, and only one of them is now living.
(\'lll) William lloden, son of Daniel (2)
and Lucy (Bray) Kendall, was born in Davens-
]5ort, near Salem, Massachusetts, .-\ugust 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 father'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,
1887, 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 1889 ^Ir. Kendall came east and took up
his residence in Paterson, New Jersey, where
he has since resicod. For twelve years he was
engaged as packer for the firm of McNab &
Harlin. He is a member of General Grant
I^odge, No. 119, Knights of Malta; Junior
C)rder of American Mechanics; Daughters of
I^iberty ; Knights of Maccabees ; Shepherds of
j-lethlehem and the Patriotic Order of Sons of
.Vmcrica.
He married, November 26, 1874, Gorden,
born May 17, 1858, daughter of Charles K.
and Betsy (Robertson) Shaw. Children: i.
Bessie G., born September 17, 1875; died June
2. 1891. 2. Daniel B., March 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 21. 1890:
died .\pril 11, 1891.
This well known luiglish sur-
1; 1\( )\\ X name has been founfl in all ])artL,
of .America since the early days
cif the colonial period. Several of the inimi
grant ancestors who came over during thai
period 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 anti(|uarians tell us are
derived from a color. However, the family
here under consideration apjiears to have come
into this country independent of any other
family of the same name, and a]i]iears to have
been among the earliest English families in the
region which afterward became a ]5art of the
Penn jjrojirietary.
( I I (ieorge Pirown and Mercy his wife came
frdui Lancashire. luigland, in i')79. although
STATE OF NEW lERSEY
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 Andros,
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 iMercy Brown even to the present time.
There is a tradition in the family that previous
to emigrating from England (leorge Brown
had ])aid 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 descentlants have been found many men
nf prominence in public life. It is said that
' ieorge and Mercy Brown had fifteen chil-
dren, several of whom died in infancy. Eight
sons and three daughters survived and grew
to maturity. George Brown was born in 1644.
in England, and died in Falls township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, in 1726. Among his
descendants and of near kin to the familv of
which this article is intended to treat was Gen-
eral Jacob Brown, who was so prominently
iilcntified with our national military history
during the second war with the mother country.
(II) John, who was probabl}- 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 to discover further ]iarticulars con-
cerning him.
(III) John (2). son of John (i) Brown,
was born .August 23, 1732, in Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, died ]\Iay 20, 181 5. His wife,
Elizabeth (surname unknown ), born 1722, died
September 23, 1787.
( I\' ) Jonathan, son of John (2) and Eliza-
beth Brown, was born August 8. 1764, near
Yardville. died January 19, 1842. He was a
successful farmer. He married Apama Kier,
a native of Bucks county, born November 14.
Tyfg. 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, 1861 : Naomi,
July 7, 1789. died May 10, 1865 : Nathan, June
24, 1791, died January 27. 1851 ; John, Tuly
22. 1793, died June 23. 1854: Elizabeth, Feb-
ruary 7, 1796, died January 24, 1861 : Phoebe,
December 4. 1 797, died November 15, 1871, Han-
nah, March 31, 1800, died July 22, 1834 : Sarah,
June 3, 1802, died October 7, 1863; Jonathan.
August 2, 1804, died November 17, same year;
Joseph, November 4, 1806; George W., inen-
tioned below; \\'illiam, .April 10, iSii, died
August 15, 1813.
(V) George Washington, sixth son of Jon-
athan and -Apama (Kier) Brown, was born
January 7, 1809. near Tullytown, in Falls
township, 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 comi-
ty commissioner. He lived during the greater
part of his life on the farm where he was born,
but when advanced in years he sold the old
homestead and went to 13risto! to live with his
daughters. His parents were Friends and
Mr. Brown himself w^as brought up in that
faith. He was a Mason, member of Bristol
Lodge, No. 25, Free and .Accepted Masons.
Mr. Brown married Ann A. Lovett, who was
born November 29, i8ii^ near Bristol, Penn-
sylvania, died in Alarch, 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 ; A'ictoria, now dead ; George \\',.
mentioned below ; .Anna, married Joseph Van
Zant : Gulaelma, now dead ; Frank, now dead ;
.Ada L., of Bristol. Pennsylvania.
(VI) George Washington (2), son of
George Washington ( i ) and .Ann .A. (Lovett I
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,
and in i8fi5 was given charge of a contruction
train at bVankfort 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 e.xtra conductor
on that division. He next went with the Peim-
sylvania railroad and was in Trenton antl Cam-
den. New Jersey, as extra passenger conductor
for two years. On March 11, 1874, he was
appointed station agent at New Egypt, New
Jersey, and served there until -April, 1888,
when the Pennsylvania railroad abandoned
that part of the road. He then turned his at-
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tent ion to tlie organization of the Union Trans-
jiortation Company, and the first train ran over
that road on August 7. 1888, Mr. Brown being
superintendent and auditor of the new com-
pany. Tiiis position he resigned in 1889 and
in .March of that year went on drill engines
from L(jng Branch to Point Pleasant, moving
freight and passenger cars. In 1890 he was
made station master at Asbury Park, Kew
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 Cliafey, under the firm name of Chafey
& I>rown, 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
.\ccepted 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 au.xiliary. Daughters of Pocahontas,
\\ enonah 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. F"rank, born New Egypt.
July 3, 1874, died in infancy. 2. Mctoria. born
1888; married Edgar O. Alurphy. of New
Egypt, a travelling salesman. One child, Edgar
r,omcr, born New Egypt. November 17. 1903.
3. Helen C, born New Egyjit, died at the age
of four years. 4. George, died in infancy.
The Coppuck family of New
C()1'IU'('K Jersey has for generations
been identified with Moimt
Holly, and liurlington county, and by its inter-
marriages with the other historic families of
that region has ])laced itself among the repre-
sentative families of the state and nation.
There were two Bartholemevv Cop])ucks 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 I-'erry (now Pieveriy,
New Jersey), and the other settled at Chester,
Pennsylvania. The former, it is said, was the
progenitor of the New Jersey Co])pucks.
(J) James Coppuck, of Mount Holly, whu
witnessed the will of John Reeves, in 1800. 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
])ainter, Daniel Ridgway Knight, of I'hiladel-
phia. They had a large family, among whom
were: I. William, whose daughter, Amelia,
married a Welby, and was the celebrated
poetess, Amelia Welby. 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.
I H ) 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 .A.nn
Graves. Her father was a sea captain and
commanded a privateer in the war of 1812.
The children of Joseph Cooper and Mary
(Graves) Coppuck were: i. Anna Cjraves,
married .Xoah Zelley. 2. Elizabeth Cooper,
married John H. Curtis, Jr. 3. Malcolm Alac-
.\eran. referred to below. 4. Mary Letitia.
(HI I Malcolm MacNeran, third child and
only son of Joseph Cooper and ]\Iary ( Graves )
Coppuck, was born in Alount Holly, New Jer-
sey. June 7, 1833. and is now living in Phila-
deli)hia, Pennsylvania. W hen he was two years
old, his parents moved from Alount Holly to
Philadelphia, where he attended the public
schools and graduated from the high school.
.\fter leaving school Mr. 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 1.
1872. when he was made chief clerk in the
bureau of highways in the city of Philadelphia.
This position he has held up to the present
time, a remarkable tribute to his worth and
ability. During the civil war Mr. Coppuck
enlisted from Philadelphia in the Seventh
Pennsylvania State Troo])s in order to repel
the invasion of Pennsylvania. He was also
for a time one of the public school directors
of i^hiladelphia. In politics Mr. Co]j])uck is a
Rejniblican, and he is a communicant of the
Protestant Episcopal church. For many years
he was the rector's warden, in .\dvent Church,
I'hiladeliihia. He is now connected with St.
Stephen's Church. He is a member of the
Church Club, of Philadeljjhia ; X'eteran Corps,
h'irst Regiment of the National Guard, of
Pennsylvania ; Baker Post. No. 8, Grand Arnn-
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713
of the Republic, of Philadelphia; Philo 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 MacNeran Cop-
puck married (first) Elizabeth 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 Wells, born
.'-September 16, 1897, and Edith Lindsay, June.
i8(ji). 3. Edith Hoffman, August 17, 1875;
died in 1876. Mrs. Coppuck died January 28,
1893. He married (second) June 6, 1895,
Sarah Louise (Lodor) Cresson ; she died June
4. 1903-
The Pilgrim family has been
f^ILtjRlM connected with the history of
Salem and Cumberland coun-
ties. New Jersey, since the middle of the eight-
eenth century. The first recordjpf any of the
names, being the letters of administration on
the estate of I'rederick Pilgrim, who died there
intestate in 1768. From that time to the pres-
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.
( 1 ) Maurice Pilgrim, who was widely known
and one of the most influential men in the
counties of Cape May and Cumberland, had
among other children a son, Simon Snider, re-
ferred to below.
(H ) Simon Snider, son of Maurice Pilgrim,
and possibly grandson of Frederick Pilgrim,
was born in May, 1818, at the little village of
Tuckehoe, Cape May county, died in Bridge-
ton, New Jersey, about 1898. In early life
he was a waterman, but later on, al)out 1830
cr 1831, 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
prosperous 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
si.x 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
enjn3ed the hospitality of his flock was the
home of Mr. Pilgrim. Late in March, 1888,
Mr. I'ilgrim moved to Uridgeton, 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 aft'airs
from time to time might determine.
Simon Snider Pilgrim married (first) the
daughter 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) Abigail
Fisher, of Tuckahoe, Cape May county, who
bore him three more children: Maurice, M.
D., of Portland. ^Maine, now deceased: Heber,
a graduate of Lafayette College, of Pennsyl-
vania; John, a pharmacist of Philadelphia,
who died in .April, 1907; Sara, of Philadelphia.
(HI) Henry Johnson, eldest child of Simon
.Snider and (Johnson ) Pilgrim, was
born in IJridgeton, New Jersey, about 1850.
died in 1899. He was a manufacturer all of
his life, and a member of the Central Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, of Hridgeton. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of Hiram and
Marv Clark, a descendant of one of the old
families of Salem and Gloucester counties.
Her brothers and sisters were : Charles M.,
.\nna Harker, Katharine Fleintz, Ella Irelan
and Harriet Hogate. The children of Henry
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Jolinst)ii anil Elizabeth (Clark) Pilgrim, the
latter of whom died in 1883. are: 1. Charles
Clark, referred to below. 2. George Douglass,
married X'iola Palmer, of Philadelphia, and has
one child. Palmer. 3. Edwin H., died as a baby.
( 1\' ) Charles Clark, son of Henry Johnson
and Elizabeth (Clark) Pilgrim, was born in
ISridgeton, 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 ^Ir. 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 Mr. Pilgrim is a Re-
publican and has been extremely active. He
is a member of Radiant Star Lodge, No. 190,
Independent Urder of Odd Fellows : of the
Indian League of New Jersey, and also of
General Henry W. Lawton Council. No. 284,
Junior Order of Cnited .American Mechanics.
He is a member of the Calvary Presbyterian
Church.
June 2~ . 1900, Charles Clark Pilgrim mar-
ried in Newark, New Jersey, Cora Belle,
daughter oi \\'illiam Henry and Harriet .Ade-
laide (Barringer) Elston. Children: i. Mar-
guerite .Adelaide, born Pebruary 25, 1902. 2.
William Barringer, November 12, 1907. Will-
iam Nelson Elston, brother of Cora Belle
I Fiston ) Pilgrim, married Florence E. Smith.
Dr. W illiam Nelson Barringer, father of
ilarriet .\. (Barringer) Elston, was one of
the best known eilucators in the L'nited States.
He was born in I'.runswick, Rensselaer county.
New ^'ork. in 182(1. llis father, John I-'red-
crick llarringer. 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 i8f)6 he was called to Newark as prin-
cipal of Chestnut street school, which |)osl he
filled until 1877, when he became superinten<lent
of the .Newark schools, continuing as such until
1896, when he retired. Dr. Barringer was
deeply learned in the science of education. The
first summer school under municiiial authoritv
was established by him in .Xewark 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 Princeton University, and from the New
York University 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. .V
monument to his memory is the Barringer high
school of Newark. He died at Newark. New
Jersey. I'ebruary 4. 1907.
The Hilliards are of French
IIILLIAKD e.xtraction, descendants of
French Huguenot ancestors
who fled to England during the reign of Louis
XIII., and gave origin to the Hillyard famil\
of England. It is one of the oldest and proucl
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 t>f 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
Uernard Devonish. of Burlington, New Jersey.
John Hilliard was the owner of large tracts
of land in the comity of Kent, and w'as him-
self a man of ability and education, active in
everything ])ertaining to civilization, develop-
ment and progress. He was highly esteemed
as a leading man of his time, and was honored
with election to re])resent Kent county in the
first jirovincial council, under Penn. which con-
\ene<l in Pliiladel])hia on the Kith day of the
3th month, [(^183.
liernard Devonish occu]iied nuich the same
position in Burlington county as John Hilliard
did in Kent county. He came to .America in
coni])any with a colony of the Society of
Friends in the shiji "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 pro])rietors, 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
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
715
immigration which procured 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 si.xt}' acres of land fronting on the north
side of Xorthampton or Rancocas river, in
what now is W'esthampton 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 Ililliard 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
flow.
(H) John 12), only son of John ( 1 ) Hill-
iard, married Martha, daughter of Bernard
Devonish, about the year 1690, and from the
date of that union through nine succeeding
generations their descendants have largely
been members of the Society of Friends. By
inheritance 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 appears written Hillyard,
but in 1695, when he was re-elected member
of 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, 1766, and divided a large property
among his children. He married Sarah, daugh-
ter of Richard and Mary ( Carlile ) Haines.
She was born nth month, 1716, and died iitli
month. 1796. Children: .Abraham, died single:
Isaac, married Sarah Haines ; Jacob, married
Martha Robinson ; Samuel, married Hannah
Atkinson ; Joseph, married Kesiah Alullen ;
Martha, married Job Ridgway ; Mary ; Eliza-
beth : John, married (first) .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
jjrojierty 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, Kesiali (died young), Will-
iam and Kesiah.
( \' ) Edward ( 2 I, son of Jacob and ^lartha
(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, Ann, Nancy Stockton, Frank-
lin. Fdward and Jonathan.
( \'l 1 Franklin, son of Edward (2) and
.Xancv (.Stockton) Hilliard, was born at \'in-
centown. New Jersey, March 14, 1817, died
there February 28, 1889. The earher 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 X'incentown and kept a livery stable
and business until his retirement from active
pursuits. In ])olitics he was originally a Whig
and afterward became a Republican, and at
the time of his death he was a deacon in the
liaptist 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 (leneral William Irick. She was born Sep-
tember 15. 1822, died in September, 1900.
Child.ren : William Henry Irick, a dentist, of
I'.nrdentnwn. .\"ew Jersey; Mary Ann. married
Lyman Sowers and died in Ohio; Franklin
.■^tockton; and Winfield .Scott, a pharmacist,
of Mt. Holly.
(\Tr) Franklin Stockton, .son of Franklin
an<l Lvdia Heuling (Irick) Hilliard. was born
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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
in \ incentdwn. Xt-w Jersey. December 28.
1847. and was a buy of seven years when his
father removed to Ohio. He was brought up
to farm work and during his boyhood days was
sent to the district school of the town. On
May 21, 1862, (hiring the second year of the
civil war, he enlisted for three months as ])ri-
vate in Com])any G, of the Eighty-fourth f )hio
\'okinteer Infantry, and during the term of
enlistment his 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 Company B. of the
Twelfth Ohio V'olunteer Cavalry, and served
under Sherman during his famous "march to
the sea." In his regiment Mr. Hilliard was
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
occa.sion was taken prisoner, but was recap-
tured by the Union troops after about ten days
in the hands of the enemy. He was mustered
out with the regiment November 14. 1865.
then returned to Salem, Ohio, and from thence
came to X'incentown, 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 Pliiladel|)hia College of Phar-
macy. While living in that city he was em-
ployed by \\ illiam R. Warren, a manufactur-
ing chemist, and remained with him for a year
and a half., then returned to New Jersey and
b'gan business on his ciwn account, becoming
]>ro].irietiir of the first drug store in Tucker-
town. In 1871 .Mr. Milliard removed from
Tuckertovvn to \ incentown and became pro-
prietor of the drug l)usiness formerly carried
on by .-Xlfred Dobbins. .Since that time he ha:,
added materially to the original stock, and had
not been long identified with business interests
in \'incetitown before he became recognized
among the leading men of the town. He was
largely instrumental in organizing the local
water works eomi)any and also in establishing
and o])erating the water sujiply system ; and
to-day he is still president of the company.
He is a director and vice-president of the
F'~armers' Line Tele])hone Comjiany between
X'incentown and Tabernacle, j)resident of the
Burlington County Retail Druggists' .Associa-
tion, jiresident since its reorganization of the
\'incentown Fire Comjiany and was promi-
nently identified with tlie reorganization of
that company and the work of placing it on an
efficient basis. He also was one of the lead-
ing spirits in starting a shoe factory in \'in-
centown and was a director of the company
which operated the factory and business. He
is past master of Central Lodge, No. 44, Free
and Accepted Masons, member of the Grand
Lodge of New Jersey, member and for sev-
eral years has been commander of T. W. Eayre
Post. No. 49, Grand .Army of the Republic,
and member and senior warden of Trinity
Ejiiscoijal Church, of \'incentovvn. In 1869
Mr. Hilliard married Rebecca Josephine, daugh-
ter of Joseph IMiaro, of Tuckertown. Children :
Marion Pharo, a graduate of the State Normai
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 young ; Bayard, a graduate of
Philadel]jhia College of F^harmacy, and now in
business with his father.
(For preceding generations see Walter Reeves 1;.
(Ill) Thomas, eldest son and
REE\"1^S heir of John and .Ann (Brad-
gate I Reeves, was born in Bur-
lington county. New Jersey, about I7<x), died
in De])tford 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.
I'p to about 1734 he lived in Wellingborough
township, liurlington county, and then re-
moved to Gloucester county where he si}ent
the remainder of his life. By his wife, Sarah,
who probably survived him and has been con-
jectured from the name of his eldest son to
have been one of the Biddies, he had children :
1. Biddle, referred to below. 2. .Arthur, mar-
ried Alary 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, I'enjamin Rambo.
6. Joseph, born June 20, 1743; died January,
1825; married (first) Elizabeth Morgan and
(second) Sarah Gill.
( l\' ) I'iddle, eldest son and child of Thomas
and .Sarah Reeves, was born in Burlington 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 iiroprietor. His home plantation 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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Reeves, survived him, lly his first wife he
had one son, Josiah, horn November 11, 1756,
died Aj)ril, 1808; married Esther . By
his second wife he had eleven more children
2. Alary, born September 12, 1760; married
John (irofif. 3. Thomas, referred to below. 4.
Ann, February 26, 17O4; died July 25, 1849;
married Archibald Moffett. 5. Biddle, Jr.,
October 4, 1766: died June 2, 1828; married
(first) Elizabeth Haines, and (second) Eliza-
beth Elhs. 6. Elizabeth. June 10, 1768; died
in infancy. 7. Joseph. March 16, 1771 ; died
1825 ; married Sarah (irot?. 8. Clement, March
19, 1772; died July 5, 1819; married Sarali
\Vood. 9. John, March 22, 1775; died unmar-
ried. 10. Desire, March 9, 1777. n. Sarah,
.August I, 1779; died Alarch 23. 1875: mar-
ried John Smith. 12. Elizabeth, May 12, 1783;
died Januarv 18. 18^7: married fohn Ahd-
ford. '
(V) Thomas (2), second child and eldesi
son of Biddle and Ann (Clement) Reeves, was
born in Gloucester county, April 25, 1762, died
there September 18, i8ig. He was a farmer,
having a jilantation in Greenwich township,
(iloucester county. He married (first) Mary
Wood; (second) .Vbigail 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 (.iill. 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.
(VI) 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-
nemann 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, Alay 14, 1830; died
October 14, 1903. 4. Charles Carroll, referred
to below. 5. Frances Stratton, September 6,
18^4 : married John R. Stevenson, M. D., of
Had-'onfield, New Jersey, and is now living
in that place. 6. Samuel Southard. March 15,
1836; died June 4, 1880; married Elizabeth S.
\ard. 7. William Pennington, January 14,
1841 ; died September 30, 1870.
{ \'H ) Charles Carroll, fourth child and sec-
ond son of Charles and Beulah Ann (Clark)
Reeves, was born in I'hiladelphia, Pennsyl-
vania, April 5, 1832; died June 8, 1903. He
graduated from the Pennington .\cademy, and
as a young man went into a wholesale wool
house in Philadelphia 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 Jjaying 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 alxjut 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, daiigbter of John and Sarah (Lentz)
Rex. 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 (Rex) Reeves were: i. Charles Carroll,
Jr., referred to below. 2. Frederick Rex, born
in Camden, New Jersey, in 18(59, graduated
from the public schools of Camden and the
Penn charter school of Pennsylvania; read
law in the office of his uncle, Walter E. Rex,
in Philadelphia, was admitted to the Philadel-
phia 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.
(\TI) Charles Carroll, Jr., eldest son of
Charles Carroll (i) and Elizabeth Sarah
fRex) 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 William Fewsmith's school in
Philadelphia. He then went wnth his uncle.
Frederick A. Re.x, 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 vears there on a ranch as a cow puncher.
In 18S8 he returned to the east and entered the
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employ of the I'liiladelphia 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 I'ank in Camden, and left this
jKisition to become search clerk for the \\ est
Jersey Title Com]5any, 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
position 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-
den Iron Works, he was transferred to the
I'^lorence Iron Works at Florence. Xew Jer-
sey, and was made assistant superintendent,
and on the death of the superintendent, W. F.
Thatcher, in the summer of 1908, he was in
the ensuing August appointed sui)erintendent,
a position he now holds, having under him
some twelve hundred men. Mr, Reeves is a
Rejniblican, and was a member of the board of
health in Iladdonfield, 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 vestr}'-
man of the Protestant lipiscopal church in
Florence. In 1892 Charles Carroll Reeves
married Louise Thomp.son, daughter of Philip
I. Scovel, of Camden. New Jersey. They have
no children.
The Middleton famil)' of
.\1 1 1)1 )L1""T( ).\ Xew Jersey ranks among
the oldest and staunchest
of the old patriotic colonial families that have
brought dm'ing 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-
])endence. The branch of the family at jires-
ent under consideration is that which has for
centuries been identified with Camden comity
and city.
(I) .Amos .\rclier Middleton. son of Timo-
thy .Middleton, is the founder of the branch ar
])resent under consideration. He was born in
Camden county. May 13. 1794. where he iiassed
his life as a farmer, and died ( )ctolier 13. 1849.
lie married I'riscilla Smallwood, born near
Iladdonfield, Xew Jersey, December 2, 1785.
died .April 12, 1852. Children: i. Rolierl
.Sniallwood, a physician, who was the first tfi
introduce the ])ractice of homeopathic medicine
in Burlington county, where he established a
large jiractice, but being ambitious for a larger
field of labor, afterwards removed to Phila-
deljihia, Pennsylvania, where he passed the
remainder of his life. 2. Amos, of Camden.
Xew Jersey; merchant. 3. Timothy, referred
to below. 4. Alargaret, married Alfred Githens,
a farmer of Camden. 5. I'riscilla, married
Isaac Hinchman, of Camden. 6. Elizabeth,
married John Wright, of Camden.
(Ill Timothy, son of Amos Archer and
I'riscilla (Sniallwood) Middleton, was born
in Camden, New J,ersey, January 21, 1817;
died \j)ril 15, 1867. He was a fanner 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, 1840. Chil-
dren: I. Alelbourne Fletcher, referred to be-
low. 2. Melinda E. 3. Amos .Archer. 4. Eliz-
abeth Smallwood. 5. Timothy Jenkins.
(HI I Melbourne Fletcher, son of Timothy
and Hester .\. R, (Jenkins) Middleton, was
born in Camden, Xew Jersey, January 21,
1842, and is now living at No. 227 Cooper
street, that city. For his early education he
attended the jiublic schools of Camden and of
I'liiladeljihia. .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 Philailelphia, which
be gave up to become an assistant bookkeeper
in the office of Dr. D. Jayne & Son, of Phil-
adelphia, being very soon api)ointed 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 be re-
signed to enter upon the realization of his liojies
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 u])on the practice of bis
|)rofession in Camden. New Jersey. From the
very beginning Dr. Middleton met with suc-
cess, and his high qualifications for a medical
pr;ictitioner coupled with his other gifts, both
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social and personal, have made him one of the
most successful physicians in the state. He is
a member of the West Jersey Homoeopatliic
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-
))athy was introduced into the Camden County
Asylum for the Insane. He is also an ex-presi-
dent of the New Jersey State Homoeopathic
Medical Society, and of theWest Jersey Homoe-
opathic 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. Fie is a member of Camden Lodge,
Xo. 15, Free and Accepted Masons, and he is
a member of the Centenary Methodist R\ns-
copal Church, of Camden.
March 16, 1871. Melbourne Fletcher Middle-
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 s]5ent the remaining years of his life quietly
at his home in Camden. He was an honoretl
member of the Presbyterian church. He had
formerly lived in Philadelphia, but about the
year 1846 removed to Camden, where he died
February 14, 1884, at the age of ninety-four
years. The children of Dr. Melbourne Fletcher
and Emily M. (King) Aliddleton were: i.
Melbourne Fletcher, see forward. 2. .Arthur
Lincoln, see forward. 3. Timothy (irant, see
forward. 4. Elizabeth King.
(IV) 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, Philadel])hia, 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. ifjoo; they have two children, Dorothy,
and Alelbourne Fletcher, the third.
( I\' ) Arthur Lincoln, son of Melbourne
Fletcher (i) and Emily M. (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
IHetcher (1) and Emily M. (King) Middle-
ton, was born August 20, 1878. He married
Jennie E. daughter of Charles and Elizabeth
Rudolph, and they have five children : Joseph
Everett, Henry King, Newell Melbourne, Paul
Metcher, Donald Maze Middleton.
The name is undoubtedly
APPLEGATE 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
Applegate family in America, or rather the first
of the name to be found in America, was
Thomas Applegate, who went from England
to 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 liay and appears in Rhode
Island, 1640.
(I) Thomas Applegate was in Xew 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 he is 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 165 1 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 interrupted 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 (iiravesend 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 (Alorgan)
Applegate were: i. John, who appears on the
list of residents of Gravesend, Long Island,
1650, and in 1655 as of Thompson's, Long
Island. In 1661 John Applegate is charged
with smuggling in New Amsterdam. In 1663
he is a freeholder of Oyster Bay, Long Island,
and with his wife Avis or Avies he is in Fair-
field, Connecticut, where he signs his name John
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STATE Ol- NEW JERSEY.
Appclgate and his wife signed her name Aves
Applegate. 2. Arien Appel, took the oatli of
allegiance to the English government in 1664.
3. liartholomew, married, October, 1650, Han-
nah Patricke, and was among the purchasers of
land in Middletown, Alonmoiith 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
( I ) and Elizabeth (Morgan) Applegate, born
before 1653. married Johanna, daughter of
Richard (iihbons, who was one of the twelve
.Monmouth county patentees. On October 19.
1677. Thomas Applegate, Sr., secured by a
quit-claim deed two hundred and forty acres of
upland and meadow in Shrewsbury township,
-Monmouth county, New Jersey, and Thomas
Applegate, 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 his death must have occurred between
these dates. His wife, Johanna, and her father,
Richard Gibbons, were executors of his will.
Thomas and Johanna (Gibbons) Applegate
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
I'crth Amboy, where he had children : Thomas
John. James and .Andrew. 2. John, married
Sarah Pettit, October 6, 1736, and lived in
Middletown. 3. Daniel, married Elizabeth
Ifulett, January 31, 1745. 4. Joseph. 5. Ben-
jamin, married Elizabeth Parent, of Middle-
sex county. New Jersey, July 18, 1749. 6.
Richard, see forward.
(III) Richard, youngest of the si.x sons of
Thomas and Johanna (Gibbons) Ap])legate.
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 P.aptist church in
that place, March i, 1701-02. He married,
about 1705, Rebecca ^\'inter. Children, born
in Middletown, New Jersey, were: i. John.
2. .\bigail. 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 J Joseph Jacob, second son and fourth
child of Richard and Rebecca (Winter) Apple-
gate, was born in .Middletown, New Jersey,
about 1713. lie married Esther Lukens or
Lewkers, in 1743, and probably removed to
Middlesex 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.
(\') 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.
(\T) 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.
(\1I) Chamblers, son of Samuel Apple-
gate, was born in Toms River, Ocean county.
New Jersey, about 1805, married there and had
children one of whom was Joseph, see forward.
(\TII) Joseph, .son of Chamblers Apple-
gate, was born in Toms River, Ocean county,
New Jersey, about 1805. Later he removed to
Hurft'ville, 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. Chil-
dren: i.\\'illiam 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 Jefl'erson Medical College, M. D..
1883; married, in 1887, Mary Vail, sister of
Theodore Vail, of Boston, Massachusetts, and
had two children, V'ail and Dorothy .Apple-
gate, who with their j^arents 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: \'ioIa, Blanche, lona and
Harold Madara. 4. John Chew, see forward.
5. George H., born in Gloucester county. 6.
.Ale.xena, born near Harrisonville, Gloucester
county : unmarried.
(IX) John Chew, second son and fourth'
child of Josc])h and Drucilla (Batten) Apple-
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gate, was born in Hurffville, Gloucester county,
February 19, 1861. He attended the public
school and Friends" Academy at W'oodstown,
under Professor Xorris. After graduating he
taught school for four years in New 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 special courses in Lying-in, Charity and
Philadelphia Hospital for diseases of the skin.
He practiced medicine at Fairton, New Jersey,
1887-00, removed to Bridgeton, where he con-
ducted a general practice of medicine and sur-
gery, 1890-1903, and also served on the sur-
gical staff of the Bridgeton Hospital. In 1903
he accepted the chair of obstetrics at Temple
I'niversity, Philadelphia, and he still continues
in that position. The I'niversity is a co-edu-
cational institution and had over four thous-
and general students from all sections of the
I'nited States and even from Deyond 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 hospitals 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 Medical
Club, the Samaritan Hospital Medical Society,
the North Western ^ledical Society, of Phila-
delphia ; honorary membership in the Cumber-
land County, New Jersey, jMedical 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. Applegate'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
BENNETT 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 PIdward, M. D., died at Rock Island,
Rhode Island. 2. Samuel Dey, referred to
below. 3. Amanda, married George Cline,
and has one child, George, Jr. 4. Sarah, mar-
ried Frank Atkinson, and had Harry, Samuel,
Agnes, Cora and Sarah.
(II) 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,
New Jersey, in July, 1853. Among their chil-
dren was Samuel Dey. referred to below, and
Oscar W.. a dentist in Millville. born there De-
cember 9, 1876.
fill) Samuel Dey (2). son of Samuel Dey
( I I and Mary 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 Jefferson 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. After 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 Millville Tuberculosis Society. In politics
he is a Republican, and in religion a member of
the Presbyterian church. He is an active and
prominent member of many secret societies
and organizations. Among them should be
mentioned Shekinah Lodge, No. 58, Free and
-Accepted Masons, of Millville ; Richmond Chap-
ter. Xo. 22, Royal Arch Masons, and Olive;
Commandery, Xo. 10, Knights Templar, of
which in March, 1909, he was elected captai:
general, ffe is also a member of the Millvill •
Social and Athletic Club.
September 28, 1898, Samuel Dey Bennett,
M. D.. married Rena Dunham, born February
29. 1872, at Millville, New Jersey, daughter ot
.\Iulford and Alary (Dunham ) Ludlam, of Mill
ville. They have one child, Charlotte Dunham
IJennett, born August 3, 1899. The Ludlanis
and the Dunhams belong to two of the oldest
and mo.st prominent families of Xew Jersey.
The ancestry of Henry I'hineas
J().\'P'S Jones, a prominent business man
iif Newark, Xew Jersey, is evi-
dently (if English or Scotch origin and con-
t.iins on the maternal side the names of Wood-
ward, Ilancroft, Aletcalf, Stone, Whipple.
Trowbridge. Atherton. Treadway. Howe, Cook,
Flagg. Hammond, Phillips. Lamb, Bennett,
Towne. Richardson, \\ ilson, Rrown, Hum])h-
reys. Rice and Viles.
( 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 Nathaniel and Suffer-
anna (I low) Treadway. Among their chil-
dren was Captain Nathaniel, see forward.
(11) Ca])tain .Vathaniel, son of Josiah and
Lydia (Treadway) Jones, was born December
31, 1674-, died November, 1745. He married
Alary Cook, born December 2, 1681, baptized
.A])ril 15, 1688, daughter of Stephen and Re-
becca (I'^lagg) Cook, the former of whom was
born i()47. died 1738, and the latter born Sep-
tember 5. 1661, died June 20, 1721. Among
the children of Captain and Airs. Jones was
Deacon Nathaniel, see forward.
(IH) Deacon Nathaniel (2), .son of Cap-
tain Xathaniel ( 1 ) and Mary (Cook) Jones,
was born April 5, 1707, died September 7,
i7<)5, at Charleston. He married Eleanor
\Voodward, born June 20, 1720, died April
(). 1807, daughter of Deacon Ebenezer and
M indwell (Stone) Woodward, who were mar-
ried Tanuarv 26. 1716: Ebenezer Woodvird
was born March 12. 1691, and his wife was
born June 26, 1696, died 1774. Among the
children of Deacon anil Mrs. Jones was I'hin-
eas, see forward.
( I\' ) Phineas, son of Deacon Xathaniel (2 )
and Eleanor ( W'oodward) Jones, was born
l-'ebruary 17, 1762, died April 2j, 1850. He
was a soldier in the revolution. He removed
to Spencer. Alassachusetts. 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 FVoctor place. He was not only a well-to-
do farmer, but also conducted a hotel. Hi>
house was on the old .South County road from
Worcester to Southbridge and Connecticut b\-
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 going, made life along the
route anything but monotonous, and in wide
contrast with the (juiet and stillness of the
present day. It is interesting to note that when
this road was first located, according tn the
original record at the registry of deeds in \\'or-
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 1
Lucy Baldwin, who bore him five children.
He married (second) Hannah Phillips, born
July I, 1773, died February 14, 1841, daughter
of Deacon Jonathan and Rachel (Humphreys)
Phillips, the former of whom was born August
12. 1732. died June 23. 1798. at Sturbridge.
Alassachusetts, homestead in family one hun-
dred and twenty-five years, and the latter a
daughter of Deacon Humphreys, of O.xford.
Alassachusetts. Xine children were born of
the second marriage.
(A) Phineas (2). son of Phineas (i) and
Hannah (Philli]is) Jones, was born April 18,
1819. in -Sjiencer, Alassachusetts, died April
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
dut}' he continued to render until his father's
death, April 27, 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
eiui)lovcd his leisure hours in surveying. Find-
ing, however, these occupations insufficient for
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his active and aspiring nature, lie determined
to fit himself for a business life, and to that
end established a large countr\- store in the
town of Spencer, in a building just then erect-
ed, known a L'nion Block. 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 abilfty in
that line has never been equalled in Spencer.
Desiring a wider field for development. Mr.
Jones sold his store in Spencer, in 1855. and
removed to Elizabethport, New Jersey, where
he engaged extensively in the manufacture of
carriage wheels. Finding a more desirable
location, he removed to Newark, New Jersey,
in i860, and in partnership with William H.
Baldwin, established a factory on a much larger
scale, and year 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 party
was bold and energetic. As a ready and forci-
ble speaker, he always commanded attention,
and as an intelligent, efficient man of business,
accjuired confidence and respect. W'ithin three
years after his settlement in Elizabeth he was
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 prominent!}- 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 suffer-
ed so much from 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 probably along other lines in the forty-
sixth 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 centur}', he had been an esteemed and
valuable member.
Mr. Jones married three times. His first
wife was Emmeline Baxter Lamb, born Feb-
ruary 12. 1824. died February 5. 1847, daugh-
ter of Austin and Nancy (Wilson) 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
lx)rn at Spencer. Massachusetts, at his grand-
father's house near Stiles reservoir. November
29. [846. At the age of nine he became a resi-
dent of Elizabethport. New Jersey, whither
his father had removed in 1855. He attended
the old red schoolhouse which once stood on
the highest swell of land between the .^aron
Watson place and Moose Hill farm house.
Spencer, the public schools of Elizabethport.
and later the Newark Academy, 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. Upon 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, which 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 an 1
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\ew Jersey Historical Society. He is a Re-
publican in politics, but has never held public
office. .\t fifteen years of age, under name of
}4enry Cook. Mr. Jones enlisted July 30, 1862,
as drummer boy in the One Hundred and Thir-
teenth Xew York Infantry, which was after-
wards the Seventh .\'ew York Heavy Artillery,
Irish Brigade. First Division. He participated
in all the engagements of the Army of the
l*otomac from his enlistment until August i,
1865. His regiment met with frightful loss of
life, as out of two thousand six hundred and
si.vty-seven men only nine hundred and forty-
one returned, a very small percentage.
Mr. Jones married, June 24, 1875, at .\ew-
ark, Xew Jersey, Ada Emily Anderson, born
December 16, 1850, daughter of David and
Julia (Jacobus) Anderson, who were the par-
ents of seven other children, namely : William,
James, F"rank, Walter, Elizabeth, Harriet and
Julia. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Jones: i.
Elizabeth .\nderson, born April 10, 1876; mar-
ried Henry Hall Skinner ; children : Eliza-
beth and Ada Skinner. 2. Phineas, born Jan-
uary 3, 1879. 3. Henry I'ercy, born Novem-
ber 19, 1880. 4. Elsie, born October 16, 1883;
married Richard Krementz, a sketch of whom
a])pears in this work; one child, Elsie Louise
Krementz. 5. Spencer, named for the town
in which his father was born, burn December
13, 1891.
The Coe family of Newark, 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 SuiYolk, England, about
1596. and died in Jamaica, Long Island, be-
tween 1670 and 1680. He sailed from Ips-
wich, Sufifolkshire, 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
^33 and started a settlement there. In 1643,
through the general court of New Flaven, 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 Amsterdam 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.
llenjamin, see forward.
(jI) 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, was 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.
(IV) Benjamin (3), son of Benjamin (2)
and Mary Coe, was 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 jjositions, 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 1 761, 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 i8oi ;
married Joseph Baldwin. 4. Daniel, 1731,
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killed in the revolution. 5. Benjamin, see for-
ward. 6. Abigail, 1742, died 181S; 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 by
his townspeople by election to the offices of
overseer of the highways and sheepmaster,
receiving his appointment in 1775. He mar-
ried Bethia Grummon, born about 1744, died
1816. Children: i. .\aron. born 1764, died
1776. 2. Sears, 1766, died 1768. 3. Mary.
1768, died 1844; married Jedediah J. Crane.
4. Sayres, see forward. 5. Abigail, September
9, 1776, died March 5, 1853: married \\'ill-
iam Whitehead. 6. Hannah, 1777, died 1824;
married Mattliias 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 ( Grummon) Coe,
was born in Newark, New Jersey, April 26,
1772, died there February 13, 1851. He mar-
ried Sally, daughter of Deacon Joseph Davis,
of Bloomfield, and among their children was
Aaron, see forward.
(VH) Aaron, son of Sayres and Sally
(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 enjoyed 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, (lied unmarried July 26, 1854. 2.
Emma Julia, see forward. 3. James Aaron,
see forward. 4. Laura Francis, see forward.
5. Cornelia Baldwin, see forward.
(VHI) Emma Julia, eldest daughter of
Aaron and Julia ( Baldwin ) Coe, was born in
Newark, New Jersey, January 28, 1841. She
married, September 25, 1862, Henry Franklin
Osborne, bom 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,
Anna, Louisa and Henrietta Osborne. Henry
Franklin Osborne was educated in the board-
ing and day schools of West Poultney, Ver-
mont ; for six years he was a drug clerk in
New York City, and then became a manu-
facturer of saddlerv, hardware and harness
makers" tools ; he is a Republican, a member
of the Free and Accepted Jilasons, 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. F^ebruary 13. 1865, married Edward
H. 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 Hoag. 5. Bessie Parker, February
3, 1873. '^- Jtilia, April 2, 1875, married
Harry H. Condit : children: Barbara and
Prudence Condit. 7. Edna Crowell, October
29, 1878. 8. Dorothy. May 5, 1881, married
\Valter R. Boyd : child. Osborne Thorpe Boyd.
9. Ruth Mcllvaine. May 15. 1883.
(\'HI) James Aaron, second son and third
child (if .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 .\cademy. from which he
was graduated in 1863. His first employment
was as clerk in the F'irst 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 under the firm name of James
.•\. 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
eiUerprises 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.
Free and Accepted Masons, a member of the
New Jersey Historical Society, and a Repub-
lican in politics. He married, September 20,
1871, Mary Louise, daughter of George
Belden anci ^Vlary Jane (Northrup) Sears,
who were the parents of two other children,
namely: I. Augusta M.. married James Judd
Dickerson : one child, James Sears Dickerson.
2. .Anna Amelia, married the Rev. Charles T,
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l!err\ : cliildren : i. I'Jev. (leorge Titus Berry,
married a .Mi>s Packer; ii. Rev. Edward Pay-,
son Berry, married a Miss .Adams; iii. Louise
Rerry, married the Rev. John E. .\dams.
Children of James .Aaron and .Mary Louise
(Sears) Coe : i. .AHce Louise, born Novem-
ber 7. 1872, (bed .August 7, 1873. 2. Laura
Mabel. May 29, 1874, married James B. Pin-
neo. He died March 13, 1899. 3. James D.,
December 29. 1875. 4. .Anna Florence, twin
of James I)., December 29, 1873, married
Robert Norton Brockway ; children : i. Robert
Norton Jr., born April 21, 1905; ii. Louise
Brockway, born December 13, 1907. 5. Fred-
erick Sears, .August 6, 1877. 6. Helen .Au-
gusta, November 24, 1878. 7. Roland Bald-
win, July 3, 1883.
(\'1]I) Laura I-'rancis, 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 ancestry will
be found in the following sketch.
(VHI) Cornelia Baldwin, youngest child
of Aaron and Julia (Baldwin) Coe, was born
in Newark, New Jersey, January 10, 1852.
.She married, April 3, 1873, Franklin Monroe
Parker, 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 Eniile (loll, who was engaged in the fire
insiu-ance business in Newark. Later he be-
came connected with the Citizens" h'ire Insur-
ance Company and advanced to the jjosition
of secretary, and subsequently entered the firm
of I'~. .\. Walton & Son, insurance agents,
which is now the firm of Parker & Walton.
He is a Republican, and three times has served
as a member of the city council and as alder-
man. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a
member of the Comniandery, and a Knights
Templar, lie is also a member of the Repub-
lican Indian ix-ague and of the F.sse.x Club.
Children of Franklin Monroe and Cornelia
P>aldwin (Coe) Parker; i. Edith Ross, born
January i. 1874, married Edward Farraday
Weston : children : (."ornelia and Francis Iv
Weston. 2. (jeorgia Marion, May 22, 1879,
marrie<l I'enedict Prieth ; children : Marcia
Marion and Theodora Cornelia Prieth. 3.
Jane Cornelia. Jaimary 30, 1882, married
Rowland McWilliams.
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 indifferently.
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 any record
behind him except a son, whom he probably
brought over to this country with him, and
who is referred to below.
( L) Edward Crow, born about 1644, came
to W'oodbridge from Massachusetts, where
he died leaving a widow and five children.
The widow, Mary (Lothrop) Crow, married
(second) before 1695, her first husband hav-
ing died in 1688, Samuel Dennes, of W'ood-
tiri(lgv\ 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. if)8o, removed to Cape May county.
5. Benjamin, born i(>82. 6. Edward, referred
to below.
(H) 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.
(IH) Samuel, son of Edward (2) Crowell.
was born in Woodbridge, in 171 1. He mar-
ried a Ward, a sister to .Abel and I-"lihu
Ward: all of his four sons and two of his
grandsons were soldiers in the revolution.
.\bout 1728 he bought and settled upon land in
what is now South Orange. New Jersey, and
is still held to-day by some of his descendants.
His children were: 1. Joseph, referred to
below. 2. Daniel. 3. Samuel. 4. .\aron, born
1750, married .Abigail Brown.
(IV) Joseph, son of Samuel and
(Ward) C'rowell, was born in South Orange.
.New Jersey, about 1740, and among his chil-
dren was John, referred to below.
(\') John, son of Joseph Crowell, was born
in Soutii Orange, November 16, 1762. It is
said that the name of his wife was Mary
Marsh, but it is jMxssible that she may ha'-e
been one of the b'rcemans as among his chil-
dren was one named Joseph Freeman, referred
to below.
(VI) Jose])h Freeman, son of John Crow-
ell, was born in Caldwell, F.sse.x county. New
Jersey, in 1793, died in 1821. He married
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Rosalinda, daughter of the Rev. Steplien
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 g, 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
varied range of knowledge. His home was 16
Cedar street, Newark. He married Sarah \\'.,
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
.\pril 10, 1847, married Sarah E., daughter of
David Stewart, of Walden, 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.
(\'II) Joseph Grover, eldest child of Joseph
Freeman and Sarah W. (Smith) Crowell, was
born in Newark. March 31, 1844, ^"d 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 ( lialdwin) Coe, the sister of his partner
in the iron and steel business. Their children
are: i. Frederick Morris, referred to below.
2. Joseph Grover Jr., born November 4, 1873,
died July 1, 1893. 3. Harry Wolcott, Sep-
tember 6, 1877. married Blodwin Savage.
(VIIIj Frederick Morris, eldest child of
Joseph Grover and Laura Francis (Coe)
Crowell. was born in Newark, May 20, 1871,
and is now living in that city. He graduated
from the Newark .\cademy in 1889, and for
the following 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 .\. Coe, becoming vice-president of the
company in March, 1905. Mr. Crowell is a Re-
publican, but has held no office, lie is one of the
trustees of the High Street Presbyterian Church
in Newark. September i, 1903, Frederick Mor-
ris Crowell was married in (Tolorado Springs,
Colorado, to Ruth Brewer, of Denver, whose
father, lienn 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 Bayard Paulson Brewer. The only child
of Frederick Morris and Ruth ( Brewer)
Crowell is Frederick Morris Jr.. born in
March, T907.
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 Fairfax county.
The ancestry of Edgar I'less 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 made 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. Philij) 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 .\nne (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 2%. 1823. He married Sophia
Crosby, and had five children: i. Joseph
Crosby, born July 30. 181 1. 2. James, No-
vember 4. 1 81 3. 3. Elizabeth. March 16, 1816.
4. .Anna, November 6, i8i<S. 5. Robert, refer-
red to below.
(III) 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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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
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-
abeth (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 Grace G. Drum.
(I\') Edgar Bless, eldest child and son of
Robert and Emma Sarah ( Bless) Drake, was
born in Minerva, Kentucky, September 18,
1854, and 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 Church. 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 antl Edgar Bless, referred to
below.
( \' I Artiiur, eldest son of Edgar Bless and
.Annie Jane (Alurphy) 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 b'lorence Lambert
and has one child. .Arthur Dudley Drake, born
May 27, 1906.
(V) Edgar liless Jr., youngest child of
Edgar Bless and .Annie Jane (Murphy)
Drake, was l)orn in Newark, New Jersey, Oc-
tober 29, 1881, and is now living with his
father at 17 South street, Newark. He was
educated at the Newark Academy and Prince-
ton University, class of 1904. and then became
a clerk in the office of the firm of Bless i\;
Drake.
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
Dutch Church of New York City (the Col-
legiate Church).
(H) 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 six children: Sarah, Margaret, Elizabeth,
Jacob, see forward. Mary, Rachel.
(HI) 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 2Ti. 1789. 2. John. March 17, 1791. 3.
Susanna. January, 1793. 4. Andrew, .April,
1795. 5. Delia, October, 1797. 6. Rachel,
twin of Delia. 7. Nancy, March, 1800. 8.
John Wesley, August, 1802. 9. William Van-
deran, July, 1805, see forward. 10. Watson,
October, 1807. 11. Julia, 1809.
(1\') William A'anderan, ninth child and
fourth son of Jacob and Margaret (I'rayl
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 P.eaumont, married
Howell Mettler and has one child, W. W. Jr.
2. Watson, born November 17, 1S32, died
January 19. 1892: married (first) Malvina L.
lilair; children: William Deforest, and Frank
Ridgway. who married .Alice Bain and they
have one child, Marjorie; Watson married
( second) Anna Beaumont Shier ; children :
Watson Jr. and Louise Beaumont. 3. .Anna
Bray, married Jacob L. Lawrence; children;
Frederick, 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. William X'anderan, see forward.
( \' ) William Yanderan (2). son of Williaiu
\'aiiclcran (11 and .S;uah (Ridgway) .Snyder,
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was born in Paterson, New Jersey, June 15,
1839. He graduated from the scientific course
of Wesleyan University, Middletown, 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 1857. He then engaged in com-
pany with his brother Watson in the dry
goods business, the firm name being 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 tlepartment store of forty-
four departments, thus demonstrating the bus-
iness ability of the partners and especially of
\\'illiam \'. Snyder, who conducted it so many
years alone. \Villiam W Snyder sold the bus-
iness, December 13, igo8. 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 Allamuchy. Warren
county. New Jersey, June, 1839, died in
Newark. September 19. 1902, daughter of
I'eter \\'. 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)
Snyder : i . Watson Beaumont, born in No-
vember. 1862. 2. Frank Blair, died in infancy.
3. Mallie Blair, married, October 15, 1891.
Chandler White, son of William and Sarah
M. (Hunter) Riker. 4. William \'anderan.
see forward.
(VI) William X'anderan (3 ). youngest child
of William \'anderan (2) and Laura (Blair)
.'^nyder. was born in Newark. New Jersey.
May 24. 1874. He was educated in private
schools and prepared for Princeton University
in the Bordentown Military Academy. 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. Free and Accepted Masons; Scottish
Rite, No. 2T, ; Salaam Temple ; L^nion Club of
Newark ; Alecca 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 2y. 1873, daughter of Alex-
ander Hamilton and Frances (Alt) Beach, of
Petosky. Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Beach are the
parents of four other children, as follows :
Henry. Ralph. F"rank and Jessie Beach. Chil-
dren of \\'illiam V. and Iva Darling (Beach)
Snyder: i. Laura lilair. born January 31,
1898. 2. \\'illiam \'anderan (4), December
15. 1902. 3. Francis Beach, August 15, 1905.
4. Ralph Beach. May 18, 1907.
Among the families by the name
IU.AL'K of Black which have risen to dis-
tinction in New 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 present 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. Mississippi. 3. Joseph, referred to
below.
(II) Joseph, 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 below. 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 Peddie 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 specialized 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 ofiice, 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 running over two hundred
ahead of his ticket. Mr. Black is a member of
Laurel Lodge. International Order of Good
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
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.
]\Ir. 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. \'irginia,
born 1887, died 1888, at the age of ten months.
The Clevenger familv of
CLE\'ENGER New Jersey not only by its
own worth but also by its
numerous alliances with the old historic fami-
lies of New Jersey, deservedly ranks among
the representative forces of that great state
of the U^nion, and not the least among its
representatives is Samuel J. Clevenger. of
Philadelphia, referred to below.
Samuel J. Clevenger is the grandson of John
Clevenger, of Pemberton, Burlington countv.
New Jersev, where his father, Daniel Cleven-
ger, was born in 1812. His mother was Mary
Starkey, daughter of Anthony Logan, of Jobes-
town, New Jersey, and Samuel J. Clevenger
was born at Vincentown, Burlington county,
January 11, 1S49. For li's early education he
attended the public schools of Beverly, later
the Mount Holly Institute, after which he went
to the Peddie Institute at Hightstown. 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 private freight line, a position which he
gave up in order to become a clerk in the Bel-
mont -Station of the Reading railroad. After
two years at this last position, Mr. Clevenger
in 1 87 1 became engaged in the grain and feed
business, which he has continued successfully
up to the jjresent time, having his offices at
No. 468, the Bourse, Philadelphia, and his
residence at 1008 South Forty-seventh street,
l']iiladcli)hia. I'or some years after he began
business the firm name was lUirk & Clevenger.
Mr. Clevenger is a Republican, and he and
his family are members of the First Baptist
Church, of Philadelphia. At one time he was
a member of the Union League, of Philadel-
])hia. but has resigned his membership. He is
a member of the Pennsylvania Society of New
Jersey, and of the Commercial Exchange oi
Philadelphia.
November 11, 1875, Samuel J. Clevenger
married Elizabeth Matilda, daughter of James
and Rebecca (Harrison) Walker. Her brothe'-
was the proprietor of the Harrison Iron Works.
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 wa--
the inventor of the famous Harrison boiler.
Ihildren 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
.\ number of men of the name
MO WELL of Howell came over to this
country among the earliest
])ioneers and settled in various portions of the
(lifl:'erent 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 ha\e on this side of the Atlantic
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 IJowell, of Southampton, Long
Island, through his youngest son. Richard, who
was twice married, first to Elizabeih, daugh-
ter of l"homas Halsey, and second to a daugh-
ter of Joseph, son of Thruston Raynor. To
which of these two wives of Richard llowell
any particular one of his twelve children are
to be assigned has never been determined.
Two of them, however, Daniel and Christo])her,
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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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
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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 ( 1 1 ; Richard (H) ; Daniel ( HI ) ; David
( I\' ) ; \\ illiam (\'). of Sussex county. New
Jersey.
( \ ) William, the conjectured son of David
and Alary ( liaker) liciwell, was born probably
in the neighborhood of Flanders, in Morris
county. New Jersey, early in 1740. He re-
moved to Hardwick township in Sussex (now
Warren ) county, and later on to W'antage
township. Sussex county. He gave his ser-
vices in the revolution. He was twice mar-
ried. Hy his first wife he had four children.
William ; John, referred to below ; Sarah :
Polly : by his second wife two children : Pamelia
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 ami llorseheads.
(\'I) John, second son of William Howeli
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 Beemerville. 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 New Jersey
in a one horse wagon. He married, .\pril 4,
1805. Martha Tharp ; children: Nancy, Mar-
tha, Jane, Ira, William Chauncey, referred to
below ; .\lpheus, John, \incent, luneline and
Nelson.
(\'II) William Chauncey, second ^on 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, New York, October 14. 1892.
He owned a farm of fifty acres at Beemerville,
which he improved and cultivated to a high
state of perfection, and in addition to this
followed his trade of harness maker. In No-
vember, 1874, he retired from active business,
and then took up his residence in Port Jervis,
New York, where he spent the remainder of
his life, enjoying the fruit of his industry and
skill. He married Julia .\., daughter of .Austin
and .-\nna ( Beemer ) Schofield : children:
James Edward, referred to below ; William
Frederick, born June 15, 1852, married Irene
Northrup; three children who died in
infancy.
(\"HI) James hLdward, eldest son of Will-
iam Chauncey and Julia .\. ( Schofield ) I lowell.
was born in Beemerville, \\'antage township.
New 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 Cniversity
Law .School, entering the class of 1870, and
after his graduation therefrom he located in
Newton, where he continued his reading, and
in 1872 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 Newark, 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 .\pril
9. 1907, a ])eriod 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 New
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 work. 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 Re]niblican Club of New York. He was
formerly vice-jiresident of the Second National
Bank and one of its directors. He attends the
Presbyterian church. \'ice-Chancellor Howell
is a man of scholarly attainiuents, 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,
June 13, 1877, Mary Lillian, eldest child of
James H. and Mary (Thomson) Cummins, of
Newton. New Jersey. One child Thomson,
born December 21, 1888.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
TliL- fanii!\- of Dobbins has
DUBIJIXS 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
ba])tismal name of the other having been for-
gotten.
( 1 ) Samuel Dobbins, who is thought to 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 X'incentown, Xew 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 Samuel and
Sarah (Brock) Dobbins, was born in South-
ampton township, Burlington county, Xew
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-
copal church. Mr. Dobbins married (first)
January 23. 1845, Jerusha .\nn, daughter of
Isaiah I', and Mary Estell ("loldy. born .South-
ani])ton township, September 13. 1S27, died
.\pril 14, i860, leaving one child: married
(seconil) March 3, 1861. Sarah M. Joyce..
(Ill) Albert X., son of Ambrose Ellis and
Jerusha Ann (Cioldy) Dobbins, was born in
Soiuhampton townshi]), Burlington county, Oc-
tober 27. 1845. He received his education in
the district school at \'inccntown, and later
entered the l'hiladel])hia College of F'harmacy.
graduating in iSf/i, and for the next five years
worked as clerk in ])harmac_\-. in 1871 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 ti n\u mitil 1895, when he sold out. Since
that time he lias been engaged in a general fire
insurance business. Mr. Dobbins is a director
of tlie Mt. Holly Xational 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 1 87 1 he married Kate L., daughter
of Peter and Rebecca (Van Zant) Lane, of
Port Republic, New Jersey, the former a son
of James B. Lane, of L'nion county. New Jer-
sey, and the latter a daughter of Nicholas and
Mercy (Moore) Van Zant. Nicholas \'an
Zant was born November 9, 1788, died March
6, 1879. Kate L. Dobbins is an active member
of the \Vesley Methodist Episcopal Church, of
Columbus, New Jersey, and an earnest worker
in the temperance cause, having served at dif-
ferent periods as president and secretary of
the local association of \\'omen's Christian
Temperance L'nion, and is now the district
superintendent of the dejxirtment of soldiers
and sailors.
The surname Graham is one of
GR.\HAM 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 (iraham bore a chivalrous and highly
important i)art 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
(jraham 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 I ) John Graham, immigrant, immediate
]jrogenitcr of the particular family intended
to be treated in these annals, was a native of
lulinburgh. 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 on
the voyage to this country. He settled in
Paterson and was a mason by trade, an indus-
trious, hard-working and honest man. The
ba|)tismal 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 Heathcote, of
Paterson.
fll) John (2). son of John (i) and Eliza-
beth Graham, was born in Edinburgh, Scot-
land, April 2~. 1823. He came to this countr\'
with his parents when he was a small child,
and as a boy attended the public schools of
the city, but was quite young when he laid
aside his books and starteil out to make his own
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7ii
way in life. Mis principal occupation was that
of drover, cattle dealer and butcher, and he
proved a successful business man, although he
died in the very prime of his hfe, 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 (jualities 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, September 30, 1844, Mary
Jane, born June 25, 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) Wallace, son and only surviving child
of John (2) and Mary Jane (Mead) Graham,
was born in Paterson, New Jersey, March 27,
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 Melina 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. \\'allace Alvin and
WalterHiram, twins, born December 30, 1885.
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 \\'alsham, England, Jane,
daughter of Thomas and Mary Racey. She
was born at Keynsham, Somersetshire, Eng-
land, February 14, 1804. Children; Eleanor,
born March 6, 1827; Jane, April 7, 1829;
Robert, November 2, 1831 ; Ann, September 8,
1834; Thomas, April 20, 1836; William, 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 Xcii'ark Daily Adi'cr-
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.
Mr. 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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May 19. 1869, Frederick Henry Larter mar-
ried Martha, daughter of Simon Passmore, of
Newark. Her death which occurred in Janu-
ary, 1939, was a source of great grief to her
family and friends. Chiklren: 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, \''irginia. 4. Jes-
sie Eloise. 5. Florence Fredericka. 6. \\'arreii
Rogers.
The ancestry of the Schenck
-SCHEXCK 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 Xew Jersey Schencks are descended
begin with Colve de W'itte, founder of the
house of Schenck, barons of Tautenberg, wlm
was killed in battle with the Danes in 878 or
880. About 1234 a cadet of the Tautenberg
line, Christianus Schenck, established the
family of Schenck van Xydeck (or van Xydeg-
gen). This Christianus resided in the famous
castle of Nydeggen, was cupbearer to the Count
van Jiilich (1230-33), and had other distin-
guished ofifices. His descendants, the Barons
Schenck van Nydeck, were also lords of Afifer-
deii, Blyenbeck and Walbeck, and later of
.\rssen, X'elden, etc. — their estates being in the
.Vetherlands near the (ierman border. Armo-
rial bearings of the Schencks of Xydeck —
.Arms, sable, a lion rampant or, langued et
arme gules and azure. Crest, out of a coronet
or, a demi-lion rampant nr. langued ct arnie
gules and azure.
In the sixteenth centurv a distinguished liead
of the house of Schenck van Xydeck was Mar-
tin Schenck van Xydeck, 1543-89, who wa>
field-marshal to the Prince of Cologne, was
knighted in 1586, and fell in battle, .'\ugust 11,
1589. Motley, in his "History of the I'nited
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 lUyenbeck, Afferden, Walbeck, etc., who
married Albeit Ciisters 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 Xydeck, born in
Holland, September 19, 1650. He emigrated
from Middleburg, in that country, about 1675,
settled in Iiushwick, Long Island (now a por-
tion of Brooklyn), and died there on the 5th of
February, 1748. He was doubtless a man of
substantial means. According to a deed on
hie in the office of the secretary of state of
Xew Jersey, he purchased, October 11, 1703,
six hundred and forty arces described as "lying
between two tracts of John Inians, deceaseil."
This property is said to have been within the
limits of the present city of Xew 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 Xydeck. was born April 30, 1691,
lived at Ijushwick, Long Island, and died April
I. I72(). He married Maria Lott, of Flatbush.
Long Island.
(III) Hendrick, son of Johannes Schenck,
was born July 15, 1717, died January i, lyC^J.
Removing to Xew 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, which he commanded
throughout the revolutionary war. Married
(first) Sarah Denton: (second) Mrs. Jane
Conover (nee Schenck). 2. Henry H., of
Xeshanic : physician and surgeon : captain of a
troop of light horse in the revolutionary war.
Married Xelly Hardenbergh, daughter of Rev.
Dr. Jacob H. Hardenbergli, and had two sons.
3. Mary, married Dr. Lawrence Van Derveer.
4. Catherine, married Elias Van Derveer. 5.
(rertrude, married General Frederick Freling-
huysen. 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
I'nited States. 6. Letitia, married Judge Israel
Harris. 7. Magdalena, married Dr. Peter J.
Stryker, vice-president of the legislative coun-
cil i>f .\'ew Jersey. 8. Abram, of whom below.
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(l\j Abrani. youngest child of Hendrick
Schenck, was born March 3. 1749. He resided
in Somerset county and (hirinsj tlie revolution
served in the troo]) of light horse which was
commanded by his brother. Colonel Henry H.
Schenck. He married Eva \'an Beuren. daugh-
ter of Dr. Abraham \'an Beuren, of Alillstone.
(\') Henry Harris, son of Abram Schenck,
was born January 12, 1788, died March 22,
1851. He removed to \ew Brunswick, New
Jersey, where he was a highly respected citi-
zen. For many years he was one of the elders
of the First Reformed Church of that com-
munity. He married, November 19, 1808, Eva
\ oorhees, daughter of Martinus and Maria
( De Camp ) X'oorhees, and a descendant of
-Steven Coerte van \'oorhees, who came to
Xe\\ Xetherland in the slii]5 "Bonte Cou" in
if)f»o. She was born July 9, 1785, died March
'1, 1869. Children: i. Elizabeth Stothoff, born
Xovember 21. 1809. died October. 1881. Mar-
ried Edward Manning. 2. Catherine Ann,
born January 25, 1814, died Xovember 22,
1836. 3. William \ an Beuren. born Xovem-
ber 8. 1816. married Mercy A., daughter of
Rev. Daniel D. Lewis. 4. Abraham \"oorhees,
of whom below.
( \T ) Abraham N'oorhees, youngest child of
Henry Harris Schenck. was born in New
Brunswick. Xew Jersey, October 12. 1821.
He received a public school education in that
city, studied law with Henry \'. Speer, was
admitted to the bar as attorney in November,
1843, and was licensed as counsellor in Janu-
ary, 1847. Frcnn 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 president of that body.
At 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 surpassed
by any other of his times. He was one of the
vice-presidents of the Holland Society and a
prominent member of the Xew Jersey Society
of Sons of the American Revolution. He died
at iiis residence, "Redcliffe," Highland Park,
Raritan township, Middlesex county, April 28,
1902.
He married (first) P^ebruary 12. 1863, Emily
W ines Barker, daughter of Abraham and Hen-
rietta ( W'ines ) Barker. She was born May
22, 1838, died June 20, 1870. Children: I.
Emily Barker, born March 8, 1867. 2. War-
ren Redcliffe, 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 Arts. 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 Xew 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. (iertrude 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. Cirace W'ines, born
December 14, 1873, married, June 23, 1907,
Robert Kitching Painter. They reside at Ben-
son Mines, New York. 4. Edith Mercer, born
December 11, 1879. 5. Arthur Van Voorhees,
born Xovember 25, 1883. He is a graduate of
the Rutgers Preparatory School and Rutgers
College (1905. M. A.. 1908), and also of the
Xew York Law School (LL. B., 1908). Ad-
mitted to the Xew Jersey bar in June, IQ08, he
has since then been pursuing professional prac-
tice in New Brunswick.
Among the strong, vigor-
CARPEXTER ous characters who figured
conspicuously in the set-
tlement of Philadelphia and surrounding coun-
try 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 Barbadoes 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 brother, is first
heard of July 5, 1686, when the minutes of the
provincial council record "The Petition of
Joshua Carpenter was Read, Requesting a
Lycense to Keep an Ordinary in his Brother
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 cofifee house, Joshua Car-
penter established a brewery and engaged in
mercantile pursuits. Like his famous brother,
he acquired considerable wealth and was
assessed in 1693 at a valuation of f 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 appointment at that time, but
three years later was chosen to the same posi-
tion by the common council. October 3, 1 704,
the date of this election, James Logan, in a
letter to William Penn, says: "They have
also chosen Joshua Carpenter 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.
He is of himself really a good man. As a mat-
ter of fact Joshua Carpenter had not been
prevailed upon," but October 2, 1705, he was
admitted freeman, and again elected to the
common council. .Six da_\s 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
Griffith 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 diflerent
times, particularly during the various yellow
fever and smallpox 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 beautifully 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
de la Luzerne. From 1798 to 1826 it was
the home of Chief Justice \\'illiam 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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Yeates, born December 4, 1701, died Novem-
ber 6, 1758. They had eight children. 2.
Name unknown, referred to below.
(II) The statement has been made that
there are now living no descendants 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, who is referred to below, moved up into
Salem county, in which and the neighboring
counties his descendants are to be found to-
day. A 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) William, reputed grandson of Joshua
and Elizabeth 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 Episcopal 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, New Jersey militia, during
the revolutionary war. His brother, Powell
Carpenter, was also a revolutionary soldier,
and was wounded Alarch 17, 1778, in the
battle of Quinton Bridge, in which battle Cap-
tain William Smith distinguished himself, as
did also his noble band of followers.
^\'illiam 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 (first)
Thomas Hancock, and (second) Samuel
Cooper. 3. Abigail, who married John Good-
win. 4. William, who is referred to below.
5. Elizabeth, who married William Thompson.
6. Powell, who married (first) Eliza Slaughter,
and (second) Ann Slaughter. 7. Sarah, who
married Joseph Hancock.
(V) \\'illiam (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 e.xtra "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
appeals. About 1847, he 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, A\^alter Beesley, was
a member of Captain Sheppard's company,
.Second I'attalion, and was killed in the massa-
cre at Hancock's Bridge, March 25, 1778. Her
grandfather, Morris Beesley, w^as the son of
John Jr.. and the grandson of John Beesley
Sr. He married Mary, daughter of Jonathan
Waddington and Johanna, daughter of Will-
iaiu Tyler, who died 1701. Jonathan \\"ad-
dington was the son of William Waddington
the emigrant. Her mother, Mary (Mason)
Beesley was the daughter of John Mason and
Susanna, daughter of William 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 Alary (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 L;. Thompson. 2.
Powell, who is referred to below. 3. Anna
.Mason, born September g. 1S19, died March
3, 1855, unmarried. 4. William Beesley, re-
ferred to below. 5. Morris Hancock, referred
to below. 6. John Mason, referred to below.
( \'I ) Powell, second child anil eldest son of
William and Mary t 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.
(\'I) William Beesley, fourth child and
second son of William and Mary ( Beesley)
Carpenter, was born in Elsinborough town-
ship, Salem coimty, August 17, 1822, and died
December 22. 1899, '" Salem City, New Jer-
sev. 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 his
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 r-iepublican ; assessor in
Elsinborough, in 1863, 1865, and 1870; a free-
holder from 1853 to 1855; and a member of
the New Jersey assembly for two terms from
1874 to 1875. ^'^ was an attendant of the
Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends.
William licesley Carpenter married (first)
in Philadelphia, December 8, 1848, Martha,
(laughter of Josiah W. and Eliza (Wright)
Caskill, born "March 23, 1828, died April 27.
1867. Her brothers and sisters were Josiah,
Aaron, Jose])h, Charles and Lucy Gaskill. The
children of \\'illiam lieeslcy 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 1882. Edward Lawrence
3. William, born Jainiary 29, 1854. died Octo-
ber 30. 1855. 4. Lucy Caskill, born January 5,
1857. 5. Anna Mason, born February 11,
i860: married Andrew Weatherby. 6. Mar-
tha Gaskill, born April 16, 1863; married Ed-
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, Alay 4, 1840, and still living. Her
brothers and sisters were: Robert L., Loren
H., Salome A., Martha S., Albert A., Vashni
II., 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 volim-
teered and served as a revolutionary soldier in
1777: he 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, dischargee!
December 16, 1777; his wife was the daughter
of Daniel and Mary (Douglas) Sexton. Mary
Douglas was the granddaughter 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
iSaddow, county ICsscx, England, who emi-
grated to New England in 1634, landing in
Boston. Amersha .\rnold was the daughter of
Samuel and .\mittai (Pomeroy) Arnold, and
granddaughter of Hon. John and Esther
(Kibbe) Pomert>\-. Her great-grandfather,
Noale Pomeroy, was a descendant of Sir Ralph
de la Pomeroi. of the time of William the Con-
queror, and served in the Suffield company in
the French and Indian war of 1755 and 1756.
The ciiildren of William Beesley and Nancy
A. (Pease) Carpenter are : William H., Julia
A., and Fanny Pease, all of wlmm are referred
to below.
(\'II) William 11., eldest child and only son
of William Beesley and Nancy A. (Peasei
Car])enter, was born in Elsinborough town-
ship, Salem county. Xew Jersey. February 16.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
739
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
Coimtry Club. He is also a member of Ex-
celsior Lodge, Indejjendent 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 16, 1895, he married
Jane E.. the daughter of Captain Daniel Whit-
ney, a civil war veteran, and they had one
child: William Beesley, who died April 12,
1909, aged twelve years six months.
(VH) 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, Walter Hall, of
Salem, New Jersey.
(\'I) 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.
(\'I) John Mason, youngest child of Will-
iam and Mary ( Beesley) Carpenter, was born
in Elsinborough township, Salem coimty, 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 Company, 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 L,
daughter of Minor Harvev. and left one son.
who is a member of the firm of Carjienter
Mitchell & Company.
Major Nathaniel Kings
KIXGSLAND land of the British army
was stationed on the island
of r.arbadoes, West Indies, about 1660, and
with him were two nephews, Isaac and Gus-
tavus Kingsland, probably sons of a deceased
brother, of whom he was guardian. Captain
\Mlliam Sandford, a resident of Barbadoes
was sent by Major Kingsland to New Nether-
lands to investigate the conditions of the land?
lately held by the Dutch West 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
probably as a future foothold for his nephews
in the rapidly developing settlement about
New York.
Captain William Sandford purchased from
the Hackensack Indians a tract of land of
about 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, 1685, he left one-third of his three
thousand and four hundred acre tract to hi.,
nephew, Isaac Kingsland, who with his brother
Gustavus 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 bequeathed to Isaac, which they
named New Barbadoes Neck, and December
30, 1697, Isaac conveyed to Gustavus a sliarr
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 consequently
of prominence 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
Union county, of which Edward \\'. Kingsland,
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
president of the Prudential Institution for Sav-
ings of Jersey City, born December 15, 1839.
son of Edmund W. and Sarah A. Kingsland,
is a representative in the seventh generation,
through r.urnet R., his grandfather; Edmund
W'ilHam, 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, November 15, 1873, son of John and
Catherine .\. (Jackson) Kingsland, through
his grandfather Gerardus; great-grandfather
Stephen; great-great-grandfather David, son
of Gustavus Kingsland, the immigrant, brother
of Isaac, the immigrant.
( I ) Gustavus. nephew of Major Nathaniel
and brother of Isaac Kingsland, came from
Christ Church parish, Barbadoes, West 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 Ciustavus, December
30, 1697. (justavus married and had children
including David, see forward.
(II) David, eldest child of Gustavus Kings-
land, immigrant, was born ]:)robably in New
York City, where he married the daughter of
an English officer 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. Vreeland. Of these children, John,
Stephen and Gerardus settled in l^nion town-
ship and died there.
( i\) Gerardus, second son of Stephen and
Eleanor (Stymus) Kingsland, was born in
Union township. New Jersey, about 1802. He
married Charity, daughter of Jacob B. Vree-
land ; children, born in Belleville, Union town-
shi[), Essex county. New Jersey : Jrhn. 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. i8(')2, 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: i. Samuel Jackson, October 22,
1865; married, December 7, 1891, Laura .\.
Emerson; they had no children; his wife died
February 25, 1908. 2. Jennie Baunner, April
18, 1868; married, April 30, 1895, J. Milton
\'an Houten ; child, Catherine Julia \'an Hou-
ten, born February 19, 1899. 3. John Wesley,
see forward.
(VI) John \\"esley, youngest child and sec-
ond son of John and Catherine A. (Jackson)
Kingsland, was born in Paterson, New Jersey,
November 15, 1873. He was educated in the
public 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 27, 1907.
(The Jackson Line).
The ancestry of Catherine A. (Jackson)
Kingsland was English. Her paternal grand-
father, Peter Jackson, and his wife Jane, came
in comjiany with her maternal grandfather and
grandmother, Thomas and Julia Gardom, 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. England,
and of their families Josejih Jackson was five
years of age and Catlierine (jardom was three
years of age.
(I) Peter Jackson, born in England, April
19, 1759, and 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,
STATE OF NEW TERSEY.
741
1796, and was brought up and educated in
Trenton, New Jersey. He removed to Pater-
son. Xew Jersey, about 1820, and lie 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 business in Paterson. He married,
.April 22. 1828. Catherine, daughter of Thomas
and Julia (iardom. 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, Virginia, in
1862 : he was unmarried. 6. Catherine A., 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 Ricliard l.ipplnioti 1 )
(HI) Jacob, seventh child
LIPPINCOTT 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 Pittsgrove. Salem county, where most
of his descendants are residing at the present
time together with the descendants of Samuel
Lippincott, who was a public friend, and the
son of Jacob's uncle. Freedom Lippincott.
These two branches of old Richard Lippincott's
descendants have spread through Burlington.
Camden, Gloucester, and Salem counties. New
Jersey, and into Philadelphia. In 1716 Jacob
Lippincott was married, in the Mount Holly
meeting of Friends, to Mar\-, 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 Rebecca Coate. The
eight children of Jacob and Mary (Burr)
Lippincott recorded are: I. Caleb, married
Haimah, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth
(Woolston) Wills, John Wills (H), Daniel
( 1 ), whose ancestry is found in the sketch of
the -Wills family. 2. Benjamin, referred to
below. 3. Samuel, 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 Wood, and had two sons and one
daughter. 5. Jacob, Jr., who married a girl
from .'\bington, Pennsylvania. 6. William,
who married Sarah, daughter of Joshua and
Ruth (Atkinson) Bispham, of I'hiladel])!iia.
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
much pro])erty 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])pincott
married Hope, daughter of Daniel and Eliza-
beth ( Woolston ) Wills, the elder sister of
Hannah, who married his brother Caleb. She
was born in 1721. For her ancestry see the
sketch of the Wills family. The children of
Benjamin and Hope (Wills) Lippincott were:
1. Benjamin, who married Lydia Pimm, and
had two sons, and then married (second ) Mary
Wood. 2. Jethro, who is referred to below.
3. .\aron. who married Sarah Haines, and had
two sons. 4. Mary, who became the wife of
Joshua Paul. 5. Hope, who married Zacheus
ISallinger. 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 Elkington. who bore him 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. Phebe Ann, who married William Will-
iams : Elizabeth, married Richard Horner ;
Clinton, married Elizabeth Hampton : Job. Jr..
married Hannah MVmyon, and Rachel, married
Hiram Groomes. ^. Alary, who married Enoch
Shute. 4. Levi. 5. James. 6. Joshua, who
married Mary Springer, and had : Lydia, mar-
ried Henrv Hughes : Martha, married George
Mitchell : Elizabeth : Harriet, married Edgar
Black ; Joshua. Jr., married Mary Camm :
Eliza, married Chalkley Johnson ; Preston,
married Mary Hichner. and .\nn, married .Al-
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
I)ert \ an Meter. 7. Estht-r, who married Sam-
uel Aladara. and had jose])h, Chalkley. Joshua
and Levi.
( \'I ) Jacob, son of Jethro and I'hebe (El-
kington ) Lippincott, was born in Gloucester
county, New Jersey, and removed to Woods-
town, Salem county, where he made his home
and (lied. }ie married Mary Maul, by whom
he had one son. Jacob Maul, who is referred
to below.
(\'I1) Jacol.) .Maul, only son of Jacob and
.Mary ( Maul 1 Lippincott, was born in Woods-
town, Salem county. New Jersey, May 5, 1824,
and died in Salem, New Jersey, October 13.
iSg". He 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 wa.s consequently obliged to give up and to
turn his attention and elTorts in other direc-
tions. Finally he determined to go to Salem,
which he <lid in 1839, walking the whole w-ay,
in spite of his lameness; and when he arrived
there he apprenticed himself to a tailor and
learned that trade, at which he worked for
([uite 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 c|uite a good deal both in prose
and verse. In 1869 he was elected county clerk
of .Salem county, and through successive re-
elections held that office continuously up to
1884. In the C(.immunity in which he lived he
was held in the highest regard and esteem, and
after his death his son published a volume of
his ])oems and other prose writings, which was
distributed by private circulation, and is greatly
prized by his old friends and by all who are
the fortunate [possessors of the exquisite little
volume.
Jacob .Maul l,ipi)incott married, September
25. 1X41). .\nn Swing, daughter of David Du-
bois, of I'ittsgrove, Salem coimty. New Jer-
sey: she was born .\ugust 11, 1827. By this
marriage he had three children: i. George C,
who is referred to below. 2. Ruth .Anna, born
.August 17, 1852, died .Seiitember 17, 1859. 3.
Louella. born .Ajiril 3, 1860. wdio married Clem-
ent 11. Sweatman. of .Aldine, Salem county, to
whom she has borne two children: George
l,i|)pincott .Sweatman. born October 23, 1883.
and I'Vauk .Sweatman, I-'ebruary 8, 1886. who
died in Ccjlorado. .April i, 1906.
(\'II1) George C. Lippincott, M. D.. eldest
child and only son of Jacob Maul and .\nn
Swing ( I)u I'ois ) Lippincott, 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 F"riends' private
school at Salem, after leaving which he went
into the drug business. After a short time
spent in this way he entered the Philadelphia
College of Pharmac}', from which he grad-
uated in 1871. and then went to the Jefferson
Aledical College of Philadelphia, which gave
him his degree of M. D. in the spring of 1875.
In the following September, Dr. Lippincott
was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant
as an assistant surgeon in the L'nited States
navy, on the active list of which he served
until January, 1887, when he was retired ownng
to an aft'ection of the heart. Since that time
he has lived in his old home in Salem. New
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 General
Cjrant, when the e.x-President was making his
trip around the world with his son Jesse. He
was with the General when he went through
the Suez canal, and with the other naval officers
on board his ship was entertained at the palace
which had been placed at the disposal of the
e.x-President in Egypt.
Dr. Lippincott is a Republican, and inde-
pendent in religion. He is a member of the
l'nited States Naval .\cademy Athletic Asso-
ciation at .Annapolis, Maryland, and he was on
duty at the Naval -Academy there when he was
retired. Dr. Lippincott is unmarried.
This branch of the Thom-
THOM.SON son family in .America de-
scends from Scotch ancestry,
through Rev. James Thomson, a minister of
the Cluirch of England, who was born in Scot-
land. Through intermarriage the Thomsons
trace their line of descent back to the best \'ir-
ginia families of Colonial and Revolutionary
days. Each generation of the family 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.
( 1 ) 'l"hc emigrant ancestor was Rev. James
Thomson, the first and only minister in Leeds
parish, Fauquier county, Virginia, prior to
1815. also minister to several other churches in
X'irginia. lie was born near Glasgow, Scot-
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STATE OF NEW
KRSEY.
743
land, in 1739, and died in Virginia, in 1812.
There is in possession of his descendants his
commission from the Bishop of London
authorizing him to perform the functions of a
iiiinister of the Churcli of England. He came
to V^irginia in 1767, and lived in the family of
Col. Thomas Alarshall, and was the tutor of
his son John Marshall, afterward chief justice
of the United States Supreme Court. He re-
turned to England 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. I'ishop Meade, in his "History of Old
Churches and Families in Virginia," writes of
him with the greatest respect, and of his being
an "unusually learned and able minister." Rev.
James Thomson and his wife Alary .\. Farrow
were the parents of a large family.
(1\) Dr. John Thomson, M. D.. son of Rev.
James and Mary A. (Farrow) Thomson, was
Ijorn at the "Glebe," Fauquier county, Virginia,
in the year 1770, and died at I-Serryville, Vir-
ginia, in 1 841. He was a notetl physician and
surgeon, and said to have been a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania. His wife was
Mary Rootes Throckmorton, of "Dewberry."
near Ijerryville, Virginia, daughter of William
and Mary ( Rootes ) Throckmorton. They
were the parents of a large family, the eldest of
whom was James William Thomson.
(HI) James William Thomson, M. D.. eld-
est son of Dr. John and Mary ( Rootes )
( Throckmorton ) Thomson, was born at Berry-
ville, Mrginia, and died in Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania. ( "ctober 7, 1880. He was a most
gifted and highly educated man. He graduated
from Princeton (College of Xew Jersey) in
1S22, with the degree of Bachelor of .Arts, and
in 1823 received the degree of Master of .Arts.
There is in possession of the family a gold
medal ])resented to him by the Cliosophical
Society of Princeton for graduating 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. Me was admitted
a member of the Philadelphia Medical Society,
founded in 1789. on .\pril 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 \\'ilminglon, Delaware, and be-
came a most skillful practitioner. He was
deeply imbueil with a love of the soil and
acquired large farming interests. He was
noted as a horticulturist also. He was elected
a life member of the United States Agricultural
Society of Washington. D. C, and an honorary
member of the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society, elected in December, 1848. lie 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
responsil)ilities as a citizen. He belonged to
the old \\ big ])arty, and was elected to the
ciimmon council of Wilmington. He wa^ an
h4)isco])alian. and a member of the vestry. Dr.
James W. Thomson married Sarah Peters
l^lll)in^^n]l. July 27. 1826. a daughter of Colonel
Thomas Robinson, of the Continental army,
lawyer, judge and gentleman farmer of Xa-
inaaiis 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 I'ourth Battalion,
Ccilonel .Anthony Wayne, June 3. 1776: was
niai'e major of the h'ifth Regiment Octo-
ber 2. I77r); lieutenant-colonel I'lrst Regiment.
June 7, 1777. and of the Second Regiment
I 'ennsvlvania Line, and was appointed brevet
colonel by .Act oi Congress. September 30,
1783. There is a life size portrait of Colonel
Thomas Robinson in his Continental uniform,
hanging in Independence Hall at Philadelphia
I'ennsvlvania. His grandson. William S. Rob-
inson, has a brace of pistols presented to Colo-
nel Robinson by General W'ashington, on whose
staff he served, and a sword presented by his
cousin, (jeneral .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" flag which belonged to Colonel Robin-
son's regiment was captured from him by the
P.ritish at the battle of IVandyvvinc. was re-
ca])tureil by himself, and is now in the capitol
at llarrisburg. Pennsylvania.
Twelve children were born to Dr. James W.
and Sarah Peters (Robinson) Thomson: 1.
Mary Rosalie (Mrs. James B. Cunningham).
2. Lucy Edwyline. died in childhood. 3. John
.Augustus, a medical practitioner. 4. Julia
-Adalaide (Airs. Edward Higginbottom ). 5.
Lucy Edwyline, married Francis C. Dade, chief
engineer United States navy. 6. Ellen Eyre.
7. lames ^\■illiam (see forward). 8. Sarah
Robinson. 9. Xalbro Frazier. died at age of
twenty-one. 10. Ella Frazier. 11. Henry. 12.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
liarton Hoxall. Of this family Rear Admiral
James W. Thomson and Julia Adelaide Higgin-
bottom are the sole survivors.
(I\") Rear .\dmiral James W. Thomson,
second son and seventh child of Dr. James \\ .
and Sarah P. (Robinson) Thomson, was born
in Wilmington, Delaware, Xovember lo, 1836.
He was educated in private schools, and enter-
ed the then famous shops of Harlan li- I lollings-
worth. machine and engine building com])any,
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 tlie engineer corps of the United States
navy, June 26, 1856. He was ordered to the
.steam frigate "Wabash." on the North .\tlantic
Station, and made his first voyage down the
(julf, and the second voyage to Europe on
that vessel. Admiral Dewey and Rear Admiral
Howison .were then midshipmen on board.
They, with Rear Admiral Thomson, are be-
lieved to be the only surviving officers who
were on the "Wabash" during that cruise. He'
was appointed first assistant engineer August
I, 1859, with rank of lieutenant, and assigned
to the steam sloop "Dacotah." He was pro-
moted chief engineer with the rank of lieuten-
ant-commander I~ebruary 2, 1862. When the
civil war broke out he was in China with the
fleet, but returned at once to the L'nited States
and served throughout the war in home waters.
He was attached to the North Atlantic Block-
ading Squadron and saw much service on the
James river as chief engineer of the gunboat
"Galena." It was from this vessel that ( len-
eral McClellan directed the movements of his
army for two days during the Peninsular cam-
jiaign. at the battle of IMalvern Hill. TIk
"( ialena" and the other vessels saw much iiard
service on the James river at SewalTs Poiin.
(■"ort Darling and Drury's I'.luff. and iinnnner-
;ible fights with Confederate vessels and bat-
teries. Chief Engineer Thomson became known
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-
lain Thomson was on special duty at the Phil-
adelphia Navy Yard, and from i8f)6 to iH(xj
was a member of the board of examiners of
officers for |)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 ins]K'ctor of machinery at Philadelphia
N'avy 'N'ard : 1873 to 1875 he was chief engi-
neer of the "Omaha," with the .South Pacific
fleet; 1876 and 1877 he was a member of the
board of inspection and survey, and on the
same board in 1882,1883. In 1879-81 he wa^
chief engineer of the "Alaska," on the Pacific
station, and .\ugust 18, 1883, was promoted
commander. During President's Cleveland's
first administration, when the new navy with
its first modern war vessels became a fact, he
was assigned to duty at Roach's shipyard as
insi)ector of machinery installed in the "Dol-
phin," "Chicago," "Atlantic" and "Boston."
In 1889 he was chief engineer of the "Pensa-
cola" when that vessel conveyed a party of the
leading astronomers of the L'nited States to
the west coast of Africa to observe the total
eclipse of the sun. On the return of the
"Pensacola" to the Cnited States, Captain
Thomas was assigned to duty at Cramps' ship-
yard 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. At the outbreak of the Spanish
war Captain Thomson oft'ered his services to
the government although on the retired list at
the time. He was assigned to the U. S. Ship
"Lancaster," .Admiral Remey's flagship, on the
.Admiral's staff. His special duty was as "in-
spector of machinery afloat." and he performed
valuable service at Key West in handling the
great number of vessels in the goverinnent
service at that point. He is in possession of a
medal awarded him for his Spanish war ser-
vice, under .\ct of Congress approved May
13, 1908. On June 29, 1906, Congress ])assed
an act by which, on account of his meritorious
civil war record. Captain Thomson was ad-
vanced to the rank of rear admiral in the
L'nited States navy. .Since 1903 he has resided
in .Mnorestown. New Jer>ey. He is a member
of the Loyal Legion, and of Washington
Loilge. .\o. 59, Free and Accepted Masons.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In p(jlitical faith
he is Republican.
.Admiral James W. Thomson married, Octo-
ber 7, i8h2, 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 lulward Oldham, of the Eighth .Mary-
land Regiment. Continental Line, wounded at
the battle of Camden. .Soutli C'arolina. h'our
STATE OF KLW lERSEY.
745
children were born to James W. and [,ain-a
Nicholson (Troth) Thomson:
1. Nalbro 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
Episcopal .Academy, Philadelphia, and at Crit-
tenden's ]^)Usiness College, Philadelphia, .\fter
finishing his studies Air. Thomson located in
.Atlanta, Georgia, where he was secretary of
the Globe 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 ai
"Cramp's" J'hiladelphia, at the yards of the
New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden,
New Jersey, or elsewhere in the district where
United 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
Episco])al Church at Haddonfield, New Jersey,
his present home. He married, November 28.
1883, at Haddonfield, Catherine AL Stouten -
borough, born at Bergen Heights, New Jersey,
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 Air. and Airs. Nal-
bro Thomson : Eliza Rosina, born December
14, 1895, who died February 15, 1902; and
Loring P>atten, born September 10, 1899.
2. Laura Adalaide. born .Ajiril 17. 1865.
died in infancy.
3. Earl, born in Camden^ New Jersey, .Au-
gust 21, 1866. He was educated in the Cam-
den schools, at the Episcopal .Academy of
Philadelphia, and was graduated from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, class of 1886, with
the degree of P)achelor of Science. He is a
civil engineer of Camden, New Jersey, residing
in Aloorestown. He married Cora Schloss,
and has a daughter, Dorothy Caroline.
4. Alary 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 A'ork City. She
left a daughter. Alary Josephine Duval, born
.April 13, 1896, died aged nine months.
Joseph Nicholson Troth, father of Airs.
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, New Tersev. The familv originally came
from Wales, and settled in New Jersey. Penn-
sylvania and Alaryland. They were a patriotic
family, as the records show. Paul Troth was
a very tall, fine looking old gentleman, over
si.x feet in height. During the revolutionary
war his fine physical presence attracted the
attention of some P)ritish 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 New Jersey legislature,
and was respected, as was his son, Joseph N.,
for his ])ure character, marked intelligence and
sound judgment. Jacob Troth was a member
of the first board of chosen freeholders 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 Edward
Oldham, an educated and accomplished gentle-
man, the son of Colonel Edward Oldham, of
an old Alaryland family, and a distinguished
officer of the revolution. Colonel Edward
( )ldham's wife Alary was a descendant of Au-
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 : Airs. Laura N.
Thomson, Ernest H. Troth. J. Eugene Troth
and -Augustine H. Troth.
The first Ladds came to England
L.ADD 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 Conquerors the
name DeLad appears among the owners of the
land, in county Kent and ever since that day
families with that name have held land in thai
and adjoining counties. William Ladd was a
jewelman in 1294 in the reign of Edward I.
In 1325 King Edward II. bought the Alanor
of ilenle of which he claimed the custody to
Walter Bishop, of E.xeter, and in the follow-
ing year revoked this grant and transferred
the manor to Walter Ladd, and from 17 13 to
1722 John Ladd re[)resented Southwark county.
746
STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
Surrt-y. Jdlm Lacki, Senior, of Ek-hani. ccjiinty
Kent, (lied 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.
Stephen, father of Thomas Ladd, of Otling,
John, the father of Nicholas Ladd, of Wooton,
whose eldest son Nicholas, of Swingfield,
county Kent, died in ihCtcj, leaving a son Nich-
olas, referred to below, and Thomas Ladd. of
r.arham, whose grandson \ incent was the
father of the said John Ladd, 'SI. 1'., granted
a baronet in 1730.
(I) Nicholas Ladd, of Swingfield, son of
Nicholas, Senior, died and was buried in the
Quaker burying ground of Hythe in 1699.
Amon.g his children was John, founder of the
.New Jersey family of the name, referred to
below.
(II) John, son of Nicholas (2) Ladd. of
.Swingfield, county Kent, England, arrived in
liurlingtoii. New Jersey, in 1678. Me 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 township, 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
John 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 tlie western division
of New Jersey for several years. As tradi-
tion goes through he was employed by Will-
iam I'enn in laying out the city of Philadelphia.
When he jjroduced his bill for £30 for services
rendered to the projirietor he offered 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 lie had
wrestled only with briers and tangled under-
growth. The family tradition goes on to state
that when Mr. Ladd denied the scjuare of land
in the city. William Penn remarked "John thou
art Ladd b_\- 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-
ship extending from the river on the west to
Salem road and beyond on the east. He soon
after jiurchased 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 portion 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 operations and the places of
res]K)nsibility 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 projjerty 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 provetl him to have
been a man of good judgment in such matters.
The fishery where his land fronted the river
was for centuries known as the Ladds Cove.
Its narticular situation on the shore almost
made it one of the best in those c|uarters. He
held a jirominent place in the .Society of
Friends, and although he adhered to the plain
dress and simplicity of habit about his home
there coukl nevertheless be seen evidence of
things generally attendant on health and liberal-
ity. The slaves were plentiful at his household
and this would convince people that creature
comforts were not neglected.
By his wife Elizabeth, who died 1733. John
Ladd had five children: i. Samuel, married
Mary Medcalf. 2. Jonathan, referred to below.
3. Mary, married Joscoh Parker, of Philadel-
])hia. 4. John Jr.. died December 20, 1770:
married Hannah Mickle but had no children.
5. Katharine, married John Howell.
(HI) Jonathan, second son of lohn and
Elizabeth Ladd. lived in W'oodbury. (ilou-
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 \ear. lie mar-
ried, in 1723. -Ann, born iN_)8. daughter of John
and Hope (Delefaste) Wills, a granddaughter
of Dr. Daniel Wills. Ry his first wife Eliza-
STATE OF NEW [ERSEY.
747
beth, their children were: I. Samuel, referred
to below. 2. Sarah, twin with Samuel, born
Seotember, 1724.
(IV) Samuel, only son of Jonathan and
Elizabeth Ladd. was born in September. 1724,
and lived in W'oodburv, New Jersey. My 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.
Hannah, November 2, 1759. 4. Deborah, Sep-
tember 23, 1760, died March 3. 1771. 5. Ella,
June 2, 1762. 6. John. November 2, 1764. 7.
Samuel, Jr., referred to below.
I \ ) Samuel (2), youngest child of Samuel
( I ) and Sarah Ladd, was born November 10,
1771, died July IQ, 1833. July 3, 1815, he
married Ann, daughter of ^\'illiam and Deb-
orah Wood, who bore him four children: I.
John, born May 26, 1816, died June y, 1816.
2. James. October 4. 181 7. died August 8. 18 18.
" Sarah. March 26, 1820, died May 15. 1832.
4. Samuel Hopkins, referred to below.
( \'I 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 stafif of Governor
Holden. 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 Volunteer Regiment of Cav-
alry in 1861 and died during services. 2. Sam-
uel Hopkins, Jr., referred to below. 3. Sarah
Cora. August 19. 1853. died August 9. 1834.
(\'n) 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 1 88 1 he started
in the mercantile business in Philadelphia with
his father-in-law at 37 South Front street, the
firm name being Johnson & Ladd. Tiiis 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 positiorrlTe held until 1873, when he was
elected justice of the peace, and with the ex-
ception of five 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 Woodbury 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
luitil 1893. In the fall of 1893 '''^" ^'^'''•'' again ap-
pointed to fill a vacancy in the council caused by
the removal of a member from the city, and in
1894 h^ was not only re-elected to the council
but once more made its president. August 31,
1897, ^'''- 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 popular 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 vears 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 member
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 them for many
vears 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 [)arish of that church in the
town.
The Hon. Samuel Hopkins Ladd married.
January 15. 1879, Kate liranford. daughter of
Thomas L. and Cora \'. (Tyree) Johnson, of
748
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
\'irgiiiia. Cliildrcn: I. Cora V., born No-
vember 2, 1879; married Henry Barton
Reeves, of Woodbury, New Jersey. 2. Sarali
Duncombe, January i, 1881 ; married Mattliew
E. Davis, of New York City. 3. Mary Con-
ner, 1883 : unmarried.
The Ackley family of New
ACKEEY Jersey belongs among the old
established families of (jlou-
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
w'hat the connection if any is.
(I) The founder of the Gloucester county
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, 1783.
5. Royal, .August 9, 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, I7<;R. 1 1. Thomas,
June 12, 1800. 12. George A., May 14, 1803.
(H) Uriah, eldest child of John and Han-
nah .Ackley, of Gloucester county, was born
there June 5, 1780, died August 5, 1854. He
was an itinerary Methodist minister of Salem
coimty. New Jersey. He married Sarah
Coombs, l)orn April 23, 1791, died .August 4,
1879. Children: i. .'-^amuel, born February
3. 1810, died February 28. 1890. 2. William,
referred to below. 3. Josepli, July 27,. 1813.
died October 18, 1892. 4. Rachel. March 17.
1813, died October 22. 18S0. 5. Hannah, No-
vember II, 1816, died October 6, 1893. 6.
Ann. May 11, 1818, deceased. 7. Mary, Sep-
tember 23, 1 81 9. 8. John, March 24. 1822.
deceased. 9. Jesse C, October 20, 1823, de-
ceased. 10. Sarah .Ann. May 2. 1826, died
February 15, 1896. 11. Coombs. June 17. 1828.
12. Ruth, SeiJtember 3, 1829, (leceased. 13.
Jane, June 11, 1832. died March 14, 1876. 14.
George. July 13. 1833.
(HI) \\'illiam. 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
Company K, Fourth New Jersey A'olunteer
Infantry in the civil war, enlisting from Pole
Tavern, Salem county. New Jersey, in t86i,
and killed before Petersburg, \'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 staff received thirty-seven bullet holes,
and three pieces of shell. 4. Charles Franklin,
married Sarah Auffort, of F'hiladelphia, and
have William Scattergood. Mary R. and
Michael Hall Stanton, the last now deceased.
3. Elizabeth Johnson, married Gilbert G.
Richmond, of Pleasantville, Landis township.
New Jersey, and had three children, only one.
Kalph D.. being now alive. 6. John .Alfred,
referred to below.
|I\') John .Mfred. youngest child of Will-
iam and Mary Rape ( Siuallwood ) .Ackley, was
born at .Absecon, .Atlantic county. New Jersey,
July 14, 1834, and is now living at \'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 iiecame a clerk in a hotel in
Philade!i)hia, 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 II. I'.irkinshaw, the firm being .\ckley
iK- I'.irkinshaw. 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 Xew Jersey. He has in
charge the premium lot sales of Baker
Brothers. He has cried all the contract sales
of the Wildwood and \\'ild\vood 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 sa'fs of lots for Henry H. Ottens. His
sales have been more influential in the up-
building of Five Mile 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 Wildwood 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 Vineland 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. ]\Ir. 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 toward bettering the conditions of the
unfortunate. He is a past master of Vineland
Lodge, No. 69, Free and Accepted Masons;
a member of Eureka Chapter, No. 18, Royal
.\rch Masons ; Olivet Commandery, No. 10,
Knights Templar, of Millville, New Jersey ;
Lulu Temple, Mystic Shriners, of Philadel-
j)hia : Mneland Castle, No. 46, Knights of the
(iolden Eagle; Muskee Tribe, Improved Order
of Red Alen, of Mneland. He is one of the
charter members of the Vineland Country
Club, one of the board of managers of the
\'ineland Public Library, a charter member of
the Wildwood Yacht Club, Holly Beach Yacht
Club, and a member of the \\'ildwood Motor
Club.
In politics Mr. .\ckley is a Democrat, and a;
such was a member of the city council of Mne-
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 .\Ifred .\ckley married
Antha \'ictoria, daughter of William J. and
Hannah (Brown) Smith, of Mneland. 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. W'illiam Henry
C.-VRTER Carter, of Fieldsboro, New Jer-
sey, minister of the Gospel and
e.x-state senator of New Jersey, is a unique and
conmianding 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 "Father of the
town" and perhaps better eulogy 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) W'illiam 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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and house 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 Bordent<nvn, 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, Pennsylvania.
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-six 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. George
S., deceased. 11. David I., deceased. 12.
Amos Pitt, deceased.
(HI) William Henry, ninth child and third
son of William and Esther (Pitt) Carter, was
born in New Castle, Delaware, March 6, 1835.
The family moved to Bonlentown, 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. \\'hcn but
twelve years of age he began work with Sam-
uel Cliver, a merchant of White Hill. In 1851
he entered the employ of the Camden &
Amboy Railroad Companv 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 (k'i>artmcnt until
the spring of 1856, when he obtained a position
with the New \'ork and Eric railwav at Picr-
mont. New York. Here he remained until
March. 1857, when he returned to White Hill
and entered the general store of C. X. 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 Amboy opened a station at White Hill
and Mr. Carter was appointed station agent.
In 1 87 1 he entered the employ of MacPherson.
Williard & 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 twenty-three years. This
was the end of Mr. Carter's active business
life, although later in Fieldsboro he had a
connection with the Equitable 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 2ft. 1852. He was then in his seven-
teenth year. In ^larch. 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, 1871. he
was ordained a local deacon by Bishop Janes
in liroadway 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 ]\Iethodist Episcopal
church at Fieldsboro in June. 18S5. 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 Aug^ist. 1904, he was appointed by
Rev. J. 1). Haines, D. D., the presiding elder
of the New Brunswick 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 pul])it until March.
I90f). 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 he was 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. ^^Y Governor
George T. \\'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 ta.xes.
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 jjrogressive 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. Aggies, 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
infancv.
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 Jer.sey,
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 suffering, .\fter
the war Mr. 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-
copal 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 The .Vt'tc 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 (Stani.x) 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
(irinting business in all its branches, as well as
a good newspaper experience. In 1904 he
purchased the newspaper plant of the Moorcs-
tow)t Republican, at Moorestown, New Jersey,
and for five years edited and published the
Republieaii. In 1909 he formed the Moores-
town Printing Company, an incorporated stock
comjiany with a capital of $25,000, of which
he is president. The company took over the
printing and publishing business, but Mr.
Bxiwen remained editor. He edits a Repub-
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lican new ^paiier in fact as well as in name,
the pcjlitical conijilexion of the paper 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 F'atriotic Order Sons
of America. He married, in 1904, Laura B.,
daughter of Andrew L. and Isabelle E. Cham-
berlain, of Brooklyn, New Yorl;.
The first of this family in
AC KER.SON 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 Old Dutch Church in New
York show the name Thomaszen, but the
founder of the family in America dropped this
name and assumed the name of Eckerson,
which is found in the 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 bough',
from the Tappan Indians, and have contributed
largely to the develojsment and improvement
of the community which lias 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 wliich year
he married and settled on a farm near the
Bowery, not far from the present site of St.
Mark's Church. About 1692 he assumed the
name of Eckerson, which name has been used
by the family ever since, although some of
them have slightly changed tlie orthography
and made it Ackerson. Jan Thomaszen mar-
ried, November 8, iC)65, ApoUonia Cornells,
daughter of Cornelis Claeszen Swits and
Ariaentic 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 :
.'\riaentic, 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,
1685: Jannetje, November 2, 1687; and r\Iaria
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 67 1, 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 s])ent 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, 1693,
to Willemtje Vlierboom. daughter of Judge
Matthew Vlierboom, of Albany, and their chil-
dren were : Jan, baptized June 26, 1695 ; Mat-
thys, November 8, 1696; 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
Blauvelt : his children were : Garret C, Cor-
nelius C, \\illempie, Catherine, Maria, John,
Abraham, Elizabeth, Rachel, Jacob, David and
Matthew.
( I\') Ciarret C, eldest son of Cornelius (2)
and Maria (Haring) .Ackerson, was born
March 7, 1724, died May 2, 1798. He married
Maria 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-
Ijcth, 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.
(V) John, eldest son of Garret C. and Maria
(Haring) Ackerson, was born in 1743, at Tap-
])an, 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 (iarritje
(Hogencamp) Ackerson, was born in 1779,
died in 1857. On his large farm he had a
Gotten mill, a distillery and a store, and he was
a man of considerable prominence in the com-
niuuitv. He served two terms in the state
^ arret
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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.
(VII) Garret G., third son of Garret and
Hannah (Hogencamp) Ackerson, was born
April 9, 1816, at Pascack, New Jersey, died
December 12, 1891. 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 became 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-
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 liedle,
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 (\\'ortendyke) 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 2},, 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 commission, was stockholder and
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trustee of the Hackensack Academy, and was
a director as well as secretary and treasurer of
tile Bergen County Mutual Assurance Asso-
ciation for some time. He was given many
political 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
dignity 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, wire emigrated to New
Amsterdam from Prussia, in 1662, in the ship
"Fox," and became the progenitor of a large
number of descendants, (jarret and Ann Eliz-
abeth -Ackerson had three children: John Z.,
James B. and (Jarret G., Jr. Further mention
is made of all three.
(IX) John Zabriskie, eldest son of Garret
and Ann Elizabeth (Zabriskie) Ackerson, was
horn April 12, 1864, died unmarried, Decem-
ber 15, 1900. Fie 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 yonng 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 consumjnion.
(IX) James B., second son of Garret and
.Ann Elizabeth (Zabriskie) Ackerson, was
born July 26, 1866, at Hackensack, New Jer-
sey, where he received his early education,
after which he took 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 su[)erintendent of their
plant. When the company was merged with
the General Chemical Company, in 1899, Mr.
.\ckerson 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 General Hospital 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 Passaic, New
Jersey, Mary B., daughter of John and Mary
(Van Naerden) Ackerman, granddaughter of
Judge Peter Ackerman. of Hackensack, New
Jersey, and they have one child, a daughter.
P)essie, 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 Works, 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 purcliasing 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-
plo3-ers and the good will of all who know
him. Mr. Ackerson resides in Plackensack,
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
Flolland Society. He married, October 24,
1899, at Hackensack, New Jersey, Anna Yal-
burg, daughter of Gustave G. and Mary Jane
(Kemiedy) Beck, born August 5, 1875, and
they have two children, born in Hackensack.
namely: Edith Zabriskie, March 12, igoi.and
Garret G., May 13, 1904.
The heroic, patriotic and daring
STEICLE .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 ]jages of its history by their
acts of miswerving devotion, even at tlie cost
of martyrdom, to a spirit of independence that
had been smouldering for generations.
STATE OF NEW |I:RSEV
This movement had among its noble advo-
cates the clan of Steel, having its home in
Lcsmahagow, only seventeen miles from the
seat of the ancient University of Glasgow,
founded in 145 1 by Bishop Turnbull, that had
kept alive and been unobservedly the foster-
mother 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
equally affecting with the death of John
Brown at Priesthill. He was, after a promise
of (|uarter, murdered before his own door;
and Mary Weir, his youthful and truly chris-
tian wife, who it is said cherished an uncom-
mon attachment 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 ci)Unte-
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 Dundee, 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 celebrated 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 liridge. 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 Bothwell 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
disputes and dissensions in their own ranks,
and finally the union between the Scottish and
English Piu-itans 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 Cajitain
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. Alem-
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 Presbyterian patriot, the Rev. Cajitain
John Steel, who reached the shores of Amer-
ica in 1752 and settled in Cumberland county,
Pennsylvania. John Steel's own son Alexan-
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
Aiuerican revolution.
After leaving Scotland the Steel family may
be classed as immigrants and 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 (I), Captain John
Steel as (II ) ; and unknown name as (III ).
(IV) John, grandson of Captain John Steel
for wlioin he was named and grandnephew of
David, the martyr, and Mary (Weir) Steel,
was iMirii in l"anet, 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 and 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 Mary Boggs. 3.
James, died in infancy. 4. James, see forwaid.
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.
(\1) James, fourth son of David and Sarah
(lailey (.McKinley) Steel, was born in the
north of Ireland in 1798, died in 1863. He
married Eleanor ['"niton, -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 O.sborn. He was a fariuer and
a respected elder in the Covenanters church at
Waterside, I Londonderry.
(\'II) David (2), only child of James and
Eleanor (Fulton) Steel, was born in Atlagha-
derry, near Londonderry, Ireland, October 20,
1826. I lis mother, who was a relative of Rob-
ert F'nlton, the inventor and builder of the
steamboat "Claremont," that made the first
voyage of any vessel propelled by steam be-
tween New York and Albany on the Hudson
river in 1807, died in 1828 and hi.s 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 wfjman to care for him and a bond
of attection 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
atmosphere of his boyhood days was thor-
oughly impreganated with the spirit of piety,
filial alTection, 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 His 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 God, and the par-
ticipation in all the sacred responsibilities and
blessed jirivileges of communicant membership
in the church of his father. He was seven-
teen years olcl when he made .a public pro-
fession of his faith in Jesus Christ and entered
upon the responsibilities of church member-
ship. .\mong the Covenanters, a newly made
male member of the church was expected to
conduct the devotions at the next neighborhood
prayer-meeting — 'to take the books' as it was
termed. About 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 —
])rophesy of his interest in later years and
which became one of the conspicuous 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. As
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 ])art in civil affairs, 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,
(if the new view and the old conservative posi-
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tion. Doctor Paul, by his 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 discipline, but be left to the individual
conscience. This decision no doubt determined
him in identifying himself in his final prep-
arations for the ministry, and in his subse-
quent ministerial activities with the General
S\iiod 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
providence 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 direction 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, two 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 power developed by systematic and ex-
tensive reading. He continued his life on the
farm until he was twenty-seven years of age,
when he finally decided to give himself to the
ministry. .\t 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 Adams 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, 1833. spent his first Sabbath morning in
attendance at the Second Reformed Presby-
terian Church (O. S. ) of which the Rev. Dr.
S. O. Wylie 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 ready for matriculation at Miami Uni-
versity, Oxford, Ohio. He passed his pre-
paratory examination with brilliant ])romise
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 L'niversity, and Dr.
John S. Billings, the present librarian of the
New York Public Library; Benjamin Harri-
son, who afterwards became ])resident of the
United States, and Whitelaw Reid, United
States embassador to Great I'ritain, were un-
dergraduates at the time, but not his class-
mates.
He taught in Cynthiana Academy in Ken-
tucky on leaving the l^niversity, 1857-58, and
occupied 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 Lhiiversity in 1859 without wait-
ing the usual three years. He took his course
in theology at the Theological Seminary of the
Reformed Presbyterian Church (general
synod) in Philadelphia, his preceptors being
Doctors McLeod and W'yiie. He was licensed
to preach in i860 and graduated B. D. in
March, 1861. He received his first call to a
pastorate froni the Fifteenth Presbyterian
Church in Philadelphia, followed by one from
the Reformed Presbyterian Church at Cedar-
ville, Ohio, 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 6, 1861, and in 1862 the church consoh-
dated with the hViurth Reformed FVcsbyterian
Church, which latter name was retained by the
two united congregations. Dr. Steele became
])astor of the re-enforced Fourth Reformed
Presbyterian Church, and in October, i8yo. the
congregation removed to their commodious
and beautiful church edifice, where the lal)or;<
of the eminent pastor were abuiKlantly 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 nf doctrinal tiie
"logy, 1875-1006.
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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
During the civil war he served in the United
States christian commission in ministering to
the wants of the soldiers in camp in 1862.
He was moderator of the general synod of the
Refttrmed Presbyterian church, i8fi8-86, and
president of the board of missions, 1 883- 1906.
He attended the Presbyterian Alliance Coun-
cil as a delegate at Philadelphia in 1880 and at
Glasgow. Scotland, in 1896. He visited the
missions of the church in northern 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 LL. D. from Miami University in
1900. He served as editor of the Reformed
Presbyterian Advocate, 1867-77, ^"d is the
author of "Times in Which We Live and the
Ministry They Require" (1871): "Endless
Life and the Inheritance of the Righteous"
(1873): "Elements of Ministerial Success"
( 1884) ; "The Two Witnesses" ( 1887 ) ; "A Na ■
tion in Tears"' ( 1881 ) : "The House of God's
Glory" (1893): "The Wants of the Pulpit"
( 1894) : "Christ's Coronation" (1897) ; "His-
tory of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in
Xorth America" (1898); "Personal Religion"
I 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 Archxo-
logical Society of the I'niversity of Pennsyl-
vania, and was elected a life member of the
Pennsylvania llible Society and Sabbath Asso-
ciation of Philadel])hia.
He married, January 19, 1864, Elizabeth J.,
second daughter of Samuel and Martha ( Mc-
Millan! Dallas, of (ireene county, Ohio;
granddaughter of Judge James Dallas, of
Cham])agne county. Ohio, and of Daniel and
Janet ( C'hestnut ) McMillan, and great-grand-
daughter of Captain James Chestnut, of Clies-
ter county, .South Carolina, who fought in the
American revolution under General Washing-
ton. The children of Rev. Dr. David ami
Elizabeth J. (Dallas) Steele were l)orn in
Piiiladelphia, Pennsylvania, as follows: 1.
James Dallas, see forward. 2. Martha Elea-
nor, who in icio-; was residing with her wid-
owed motluT in Piiiladelphia. unmarried.
(X'lll) James Dallas, eldest child and only
son of the' Rev. Dr. David and {•".lizabetii j.
(Dallas) Steele, was born in Philadel]ihia.
Pennsylvania. November 6, 1864. He was
prejiared for college under the direction of his
learned father. He was a ]jupil in the Phila-
delphia public schools and at the Langton Se-
lect Academy, the best preparatory scliool 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 Greek prose composition in
his freshman year and the Latin essay prize
in the senior year. He was a student-at-law
in the office of J. Sergent Price, Esq., in Phila-
delphia, 1884, and at the same time matricu-
lated in the law school of the L'niversity of
Pennsylvania, where he was graduated LL. B.,
1 886. He practiced law in Philadelphia, 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 University 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 pastor of the First Reformed Presby-
terian Church, located on West Twelfth street.
Xew York City, on April 16. 1891, being the
fifth pastor 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 P'resbyterian Church of Pas-
saic, New Jersey, and he was installed March
4, 1906, being the second pastor of that church,
llesides 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,
daughter of Robert and Eliza (Nightingale)
.\bbott, of New York City: they have no chil-
dren. Their home is in Passaic. New Jersey,
ai \(i. 15 (Trove Terrace.
The Benjamin family of
i;i';.\JA.MIX Maryland, to which belongs
the line we are now consid-
ering, is so far as .Xmerica is concerned
entirely distinct from the families of Richard
I'enjamin, of Sonthold, Long Island, John
P>enjamin. of Cambridge and Watertown,
Massachusetts, and the Hon. Judah Philip
Uenjaniin, cif Louisiana, all three of whom arc
at tile head of distinct genealogical lines in
this country that have spread out into New
Jersey territory. Like the three last men-
tioned families, the I'enjamins of Maryland,
however, trace their origin back to English
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soil ; and it is not at all improbable that 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 Philip Benjamin'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 Mrginia with
the intention of making that colony his perma-
nent residence ; but before he had finally made
up his mind where he would locate himself,
the war between Great Britain and her Ameri-
can colonies broke out ; and while he was in
-Amelia county finding that Major, afterwards
Lieutenant-colonel Theodoric Bland was form-
ing a regiment of cavalry, he enlisted in it and
was assigned to Captain Henry, popularly
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 applied for and was granted
a pension for his services by congress, (See
executive papers of the sixteenth congress,
first session, volume 4, January 20, 1820) he
is recorded as being the "trumpeter of Lee's
legion of Maryland troops."
.\fter the revolutionary war was over,
Joseph Benjamin married and .settled down
finally in Charlestown, Cecil county, Maryland,
where he became not only an influential citizen
but also one of the fnunders 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 canijiaigns he stopped at a farm
house where he saw a comely young woman
milking and asked her for a drink of water.
He received, however, a generous draught of
milk which he paid for with the promi.se.
"When the war is over I am coming back to
marry you." By Miss Winchester, the maiden
of the above tradition, Joseph Benjamin had
tliree sons, Ceorge. William, Isaac, treated
below.
(II) Isaac, yoimgest son of Joseph and
(Winchester) Benjamin, 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 government for carrying the mails
between Washington and Philadelphia, an ob-
ligation which in those days of stage coaches
and jjost horses involved a heavy outlay and
investment. Isaac Benjamin's wife was Grace,
daughter of Abraham Alexander. Her father
was born in North Carolina, and in early life
was a magistrate of IMechlenburg 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
"Mechlenburg declaration of independence."
The facts of the case appear to be as follows:
( )n .\pril 30, 1 819, the Register of Raleigh..
.Vurtli Carolina, published what purported 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-
pendence of July 4, 1776, and caused doubt as
to the authenticity of the Mechlenburg dec-
laration to arise. In 183 1, 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 Mav 31, and that the resolutions there
ad(n ted, bearing no resemblance to Jefferson's
Declaration, constitute the nearest ap])roach
there was to a "Mechlenburg Declaration of
Independence."
Isaac and Grace (.Alexander) Benjamin had
>even 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 Grace ( .Alex-
ander) Benjamin, was born in Maryland.
When 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.
/Ck)
statp: (jf xNevv jersey.
Later he was eni])loye(l by the P. \\ . & B.
railroad, and at the time of his death was
officially employed by that comiiany. He was
accidentally killed between Elkton and Perry-
ville. 1894. He married Anna Elizabeth Dob-
son. Ciiildren : I. William T., killed in the
battle of Five b'orks. 2. Mary .A... married
(ieorge W'ainwright, who died from injuries
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.
(l\'j Dowling, son of Justus and Anna
Elizabeth ( Dobson ) Benjamin, was born Janu-
ary 23, 1849, in Baltimore, Maryland. For
his early education he attended the public
schools of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Dela-
ware, lie then took up the study of classic
and oriental literatures with private tutors,
when he qualified 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. Xew Jersey, with whom he studied
until the following October when he entered
tlie medical department oi the L'niversitv of
Penn.sylvania from which he graduated w^ith
the highest honors in 1877. In 1876 Dr. i'enja-
min was chosen as delegate from the Camden
Pharmaceutical Society to the convention of the
.American .Association of i'harmacists ; and .Au-
gust 27, 1879, he was elected a member of the
American Academy of Natural Science.
In 1878, as medical exjiert for counsel of
the defense in the luiima Pethel murder case.
Dr. P.enjamin demonstrated before the court
for the first time in legal history, by chemical
analysis and the microscope, although Pro-
fessor W'ormley. the great microchcmist. had
made and jjuljlisjied the fact a few months be-
fore, in fiat contradiction to all the statements
of the text books and of medical jurisjirudence.
that the octohedra! crystal was not conclusive
evidence of the presence of arsenic but might
be due to the presence of at least one other
metal, namely antimony.
hi 1884 he successfully urged before the .\"a-
tional Medical .Association in Washington, in
the face of strong opposition, that the associa-
tion should |)roclaim officially the necessity for
there being a full three years course in all me(l-
ical colleges. After a two years fight the
Xew Jersey State Aledical Society adojjted a
similar resolution to this ettect, asking for the
appointment of a state board of examiners,
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
public 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 during the
prejjaration of the bill the appointment on the
l)oarcl of any one interested in a medical col-
lege. It is worth}' of note that New Jer.sey
was the first state to establish a board of medi-
cal examiners and to Dr. Benjamin, with the
assistance and co-operation of Dr. Perry \\ at-
son and others, belongs the honor of forcing
its establishment.
In 1886 Dr. Benjamin published in the .!/<(/-
ical Biillcliu his paper on "Observations on the
Relations of Temperature to Diseases in
Dwelling Houses." This article w-as pub-
lished by the Scientific American 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 ])amphlet
form at the expense of the state ior free dis-
tribution. In 1888 he performed the first suc-
cessful operation for hysterectomy, i. e., the
remo\al of the entire womb and ovaries, made
in Xew Jersey. In 1889. during the great
typhoid epiilemic in Philadelphia, at the re-
quest of the Philadelphia Inquirer, he pub-
lished a long article in that ])a]ier on the dis-
ease and its prevention and cure. On ( Octo-
ber 17, i8)(>. Dr. Benjamin ]niblished in the
Journal of the .American Medical .Association
his now famous paper on the treatmeni of
diphtheria, 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. I'.enjamin was the only expert in
America whose testimony was sent in the
Alaybrick case through tiic department of
state. Cnited States, and Mrs. Maybrick i)er-
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 celeljration of the
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761
battle of Red Bank, by the New Jersey Society
of the Sons of the American Revolution, which
was holding its meeting in Camden. This
celebration was successfully carried out and a
suitable monument erected on the battle field
which was unveiled with a]i])ropriate ceremo-
nies. In the following 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 nu)ntlily sanitary inspection of
school liiiuses. In December. 190S. Dr. Ben-
jamin ]niblishcd a most able and surgical arti-
cle advocating the establishment of a national
department, having control over the physical
and moral diseases of the jieople. 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.
\'>y far the greatest contribution which Dr.
Benjamin has made both to medical science
and to the wellbeing 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 presen-
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 Cyclopedia of
Surgery,"' however, says, volume 1, 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 horn that date as
strongly advocated it.
Dr. L5enjamin 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 Cooper 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 .April 24, 1S93, 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. He has also been a volumi-
nous writer to the various medical journals,
and has besides published a novel entitled
"Fordwell (jraham, 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
jnire 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 efforts of the medical fra-
ternity of the city, and in the fight Dr. Ben-
jamin contributed largely of time, influence
and ])en. 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
I'rank Bibighaus.
The Woodruffs of West
W ( JODRCl'd-" .New Jer.sey are descend-
ants of that family some-
wiiat ])rominent in the history of Worsetshire,
England, and devout members of the estab-
lished church. The progenitor of the .Ameri-
can l)ranch was John Woodruffe, of Worces-
tershire, who had a son Thomas, the .American
immigrant.
(I) Thomas Wootlrooft'e, (as he six'lled the
name), son of John Woodrutife, of Worces-
tershire, England, was born there about 1630.
He was a tailor by trade and occupation, 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 Josej)h
Wyatt, who located a large tract of land in the
township of Mannington at the first settlement
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of the province of West Jersey. Thomas and
Edith Woodrufife removed from \\'orcester-
shire, England, to Eondon, where they had
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 Hanway, and
Hanway's sister, being children of Leonard
Hanway, of Weymouth, England. The i)arty
set sail for America in the ship "Surray," Cap-
tain Stephen Nichols, 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. Fen wick's agents gave to
Thomas \Voodroofife two lots ne.xt 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, flc cultivated iiis land as well as car-
rying on his trade as tailor, as was described,
June 9, 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 August 17, 1699,
names his son Josejih as his heir, and daughters
as dead ; and names his legatees : Son John
Woodrooffe : William Hull: Benjamin Knap-
ton: Daniel .'^niith, and servant Magdaline.
liherated. Ili^ son Joseph died before taking
IJossession of the estate and the will provided
for this by passing it to Jonathan Becre and
after him to his son John Beere to have it. .\
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 manu-
script ma]) of Xew Jersey and the instrument
was [)rol)ated March 2, 1703-04, which ap-
proximately fi.ves the date of death of Thomas
Woodroffe, the progenitor. The children of
Thomas and F^dith (Wyatt) Woodrooffe were
born in the order following: i. Thomas. 2.
Edith. 3. John, sec 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. Thomas, Edith, Mary, and
Joseph apparently died before their father and
mother 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) Woodrooffe, was
born in London, England, or possibly Worset-
shire, before 1675. He married ancl probably
located in Burlington county, where there was
a large society of Friends, and where his
father owned land at one time during his ac-
tive life. He appears on the records of West
Jersey as having joined other citizens of Burl-
ington county, Alay 12, 1701, petitioning the
King for a confirmatioii of the appointment of
.Alexander f-familton 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, 1761, 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.
(IV) John (3), son of John (2) Wood-
rooffe, was born in Biurlington county. New
Jersey. He probably removed to Cohansey
precinct. Cumberland county, New Jersey,
where he married and had a family whose de-
scendants still have homes there. John Wood-
ruffe died in Cumberland county, New Jersey,
in Alay, 1755.
(A'j 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
conntv. New Jersey, and also served in Cap-
tain .Mien's company of the New Jersey Line
recruited in Cumberland county, .\fter the
close of the v^'ar he .settled in Hopewell,
I'ridgeton township. Cumberland county. New
Jersey, where his son Daniel M. was born in
1780 was at one time sheriff' of Ciunberhunl
county : clerk of the county ; judge of the court
of common pleas and for many years auction-
eer of F)ridgeton and who lived to be over
ninety years of age. .-Another son Israel, see
forward.
(VT) Israel, son of David Woodruff', the
'^l)ldier in the .\merican revolution, was born in
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Hopewell, Burlington township, Cumberland
county, Xew Jersey, November 9, 1802. lie
married, 1822, Rachel S., daughter of William
Reeves, of Salem county, New Jersey. Mad
four children : Adoniram, Isaac D., Elizabeth
T., William R.
(\TI) Adoniram Smith, son of IsraelW ood-
ruff, was born in Dutch Neck or Hopewell
township, Cumberland county. New Jersey.
May 14, 1823, died .March 10, 1893. He mar-
ried Katharine ( )tt, daughter of George W.
and Susannah (Hitchner) Ott, born June 5,
1826, died March 9, 1903, and they had four
children: Elizabeth, Hester, Susan, and Albert
S., see forward. •
(ATH) Albert Smith, son of .\donirani
.Smith and Katharine ( C'tt ) U'oodrutT, was
born at Dutch Neck, Hopewell townshi]). New
Jersey, January 13. 1859, died March 2, 1886.
He married Eliza Josephine, daughter oi
Foster.
(IX) Albert Smith (2), only child of
.\lbert Smith ( I I and Eliza Josephine (Fos-
ter) Woodruff, was born at Dutch Neck,
Hopewell township, New Jersey, April 15,
1886. He was educated at the public school
at Elmer and in the South Jersey Institute at
Bridgeton. He took a business course at the
Camden Commercial College in 1905. Mean-
time he took up the study of law in the Temple
L'niversity Law School, Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania, graduating in June, 1909, March 11,
igo8, had been examined and admitted to the
New Jersey bar as an attorney, and became a
partner in the law firm of I'.eacon iS; Woodruff,
with offices at 206 Market street. Camden, New
Jersey, the senior partner of the firm being
(ieorge M. Beacon. His fraternal affiliation
is with Elmer Council, Junior Order of United
American Mechanics, founded in 1853. ^^'^
political affiliation is with the Re]niblican
party; his church membership with the Pres-
byterian denomination, and his professional
association with the Camden Bar Association.
John Brown, first of this family
1'>R()\\'X to come to America, was born
August 10, 1783, at Harddabon,
Hertfordshire, England. He landed in Boston,
Massachusetts, November 14, 1806. He mar-
ried. May 9, 1816, in F'hiladelphia, Pennsyl-
vania, .\nn Jackson, born February 3, 1793, at
Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, and landed in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1800.
Among their children was Jolm Jackson, see
forward.
(II) John Jackson Brown, late of Paterson,
New Jersey, business man and banker, son of
John and Ann (Jackson) Brown, was born in
New York City, February 13, 1817, died in
Paterson, July 23, 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 account 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 cominon schools
of the then village until he was about thirteen
years old, and afterward found employment
as clerk in a dry goods store, remaining there
for the next four years. In 1834 he went to
.\'ew York City and secured a position as clerk
with a maiuifacturer of caps and furs; but
tuifortunately 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 by his father.
This he continued with gratifying success until
1844. when he decided to abandon that trade
and open 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 lead-
ing men of I^aterson in mercantile pursuits.
In 1867 he sold out his interest to Mr. G. C.
Cin)])er.
.\bout this time the First .Vational Bank, 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
rci rganization was aft'ected. capital was invest-
ed, and he was elected its ])resident, an office
he held until the time of his death. To show
something of his capacity as executive officer
of the reorganized bank it may be mentioned
that when he entered upon his official duties,
October i, 1864, the resources of the institution
aggregated the sum of $149,135.80, and on
July 18, 1894, the resources amounted to $2,-
327.215.95. But it was "not alone as managing
officer of the First National Bank that Mr.
Brown"s superior business qualities displayed
themselves to such splendid advantage and
gave him such enviable ])rominence in financial
circles, for it w-as chiefly through his efforts
764
STATE OV NEW JERSEY.
that the I'aterson 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
$4,000,000, with a surplus account of $445,000,
while at the same time the bank had more than
sixteen thousand five hundred de])ositors. At
the time of his death he was treasurer of the
Passaic \\^ater 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
Board 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 the adornment of the city
and contribute to the comfort of its people.
"As a i)ublic spirited citizen," says one of
Mr. P.rown's biographers, "ready to assume
the responsibilities of office, his life's principle
not to shirk any duty was his guiding star. At
almost the very organization of Paterson as a
city he was chosen one of the board of alder-
men, and while absent in Klurope was again
elected to that otifice 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
he (projected and carried into effect measures
for jiaving the sidewalks of the citv, which
before then had been almost entirely neglected ;
and it was during his comiection with the city
governmeiit that the first sewer was construct-
ed, in 1856 he was induced to acce])t a nomi-
nation for a seat in the legislature of the state,
the first candidate of the then newly organized
Republican party. He served throughout the
term for which he was elected, but positively
refused renomination. During the civil war
he united with several other prominent citizens
of Paterson in the c;-ection of the building
known as the 'Wigwam,' which soon became
the rallying ])Iace for the loyal people of the
cit\'. It's motto, 'Free Soil, Free Speech, and
IVee .Men.' became a famous slogan through-
out the region. Mr. Brown was an earnest
luembi'r of the I'irst Baiiti-^t Church of I'ater-
son. He contributed liberally to the fund for the
erection of the house of worship, and served
both as chairman and trea.surer 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, lie 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 respecter 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 althi^ugh nearly eighty years old at
the time of his death., he remained young in
his feelings and manners imtil 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
jiromptly at nine o'clock, as was his invariable
custom and pride." .\.fter his death, resolu-
tions of regret and sympathy were adopted
by 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 .-Mdermen.
the Paterson Board of Trade, the Society of
the First Baptist Church, and Trinity African
Methodist E]iiscopa! Church.
Mr. Brown married (first) in .New York
Cit)', October 28, 1 841, 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 Camj), September 2,
1845; died September 11. 1847. 3- Ceorge
Baldwin, .April 27. 1847: died December 31.
1868. These children were all born and died
at Paterson, New Jersey. Mr. Brown married
(second), .\pril 19, 1835, 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. .\
daughter. June 2, 1836: died July, 1836. 2.
I'"d\\in Swinburne. November 19, 1837: see
forward. 3. Walter 1'"., May 21, 1839: died
January 29. 1871. 4. Caroline Cogswell, March
23, 1864; died February 12, 1894; married
Llewellyn T. McKee, of Philadelphia, graduate
of Xaval .\cademv, .\nnapolis, Maryland ; chil-
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dren : Mary, born September 8, 1889; John
Brown, July 19, i8gi ; 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
l^aterson. L'pon laying aside his text books
he at once took up the study of silk weaving
and the manufacture of silk goods. In this
line of enterprise Mr. Brown soon became
thoroughly familiar with all its details, and for
a number of _\cars was successfully engaged
in silk manufacturing at Hornell, New York.
He was a man possessed of splendid qualities
i:)f mind and heart, his ideals in his business
and social life were always of the highest type.
His home life was always attended with felicity
and parental affection. 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
cit)': Dorothea, December 11, i8gi ; Carolyne
I^)rown, March 30, 1903.
This surname comes from the
ALLEN Christian name Allen, which is
very ancient. In the roll of
Battle Abbey, Fitz-Aleyne (son of Allen)
occurs. Alan, constable of Scotlantl, 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 Allen as a surname was
Thomas Allen, sheriff of London, in 1414.
Sir John Allen was mayor of London in 1525,
Sir William Allen in 1571, and Sir Thomas
Alleyne in 1659. Edward Allen (1566-1626),
a distinguished actor and friend of Shake-
speare and Ben Johnson, in 1619, 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
L'nited Kingdom, besides twenty others of the
dift'erent 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) Walter Allen, a native of England, born
about 1601, was in Newbury, jNIassachusetts,
as early as 1640 and removed thence to
Watertown about 1652. In i(/j5 he sold his
estate in the latter town and bought of John
Knapp sixty acres in Watertown 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 ac(|uircd 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
.Kbigail Rogers. Children of first wife: 1.
John, settled in .'-^udbury. 2. Daniel, married
Mary Sherman. 3. Jose])h, mentioned below.
4. Abigail, b(jrn October i, 1641. 5. Benja-
min, Ajiril 15, 1647.
(H) Joseph, third jon of Walter and Re-
becca Allen, born in England, w-as a cooper by
trade, and settled at Watertown Farms, which
was incorporated in I" 12 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
1 1, 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
\\'eston. 6. Sarah, died 1699. 7. Deborah,
married John Moore, of Sudbury. 8. Rachel,
married Joseph Adams. 9. Patience.
(Ill) Joseph (2), eldest son of Joseph (i)
and Ann (Brazier) Allen, was born June 16,
1677, in what is now Weston, and died there
November I, 1729. His tombstone in the old
burial ground at Weston 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 W'eston: i. Isaac,
November 10, 1701. 2. Prudence, May 18,
1703. 3. Amy, September 21, i~o(}. 4. Re-
becca, February 25, 1708. 5. Joseph, mention-
ed below. 6. Elizabeth and 7. Ann, 171 1
(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. .Ma_v 14, 1716. 11. Elijah, September
II, 1718, lived at Sutton. 12. Sarah, August 10,
i/JO. 13. Tabitha, (k'tober 26, 1722. 14.
Daniel. .August y. 1724. lived at Sheffield.
Massachusetts. 15. Timothy, died young.
( IV) Joseph (3), eldest son of Joseph (2)
and Eliza ( Robbins) Allen, was born April 2.
1709, at Watertown Farms, and removed to
(irafton, Massachusetts, about 1730, and six
years later to Hardwick, same colony, where
he died .August iS. 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 liim, chiefly on religious subjects. In one
of them is a scrap of autobiography which
fixes the date of his. birth :
" My native place where born was 1
In seventeen hundred nine,
Does sixteen miles from Boston Hi-.
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 fatlicr's family
Once sixteen tlid survive;
Before my f.-itlitr two did die.
Then fnurleen left alive."
Children: i. Sarah, born July 25, 1734:
married Benjamin Winchester. 2. David, men-
tioned below. 3. Eydia, Sejitember 19, 1743:
married October 10, 1765, Lcnuiel Cobb. 4.
Mercy, .April u). 1746; married. February 4,
1771. lohn .Aniidon. z,. Joseph, December 21,
1748. ■
(\ ) David, son of Joseph (3) and Mercy
(I.ivermore) .Allen, was born August 18, 1738,
in Hardwick. where he died Augu.st 5, 1799.
He was seleclman and assessor and a very
active antl ])rominent citizen. He married
(first) November 12, 1761, Elizabeth Fisk. who
died October 22, 1791, aged forty-eight. lie
married (second) January 22, 1794. Lydia
Woods, of New Rraintree, Massachusetts.
Children, all born in Hardwick: i. Rhoda,
September 27, 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 Alay 12, 1771. 6. Mercy, May
'■• 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 ( h'isk) .Allen, was born September 20,
1767, 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 Me.xico 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 followed his injury, and he died soon
afterward. He married Jane Personette, who
survived him^ and was the mother of five chil-
dren.
(\ 11) .Ste])hen, son of Daniel and Jane
I Personette) .Allen, was born probably about
1800, at .N'ewark, New Jersey, and died in his
eighty-fifth year, at Paterson, same state. His
education was acquired in the schools of his
native town, and when a young man he re-
moved to Paterson, 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 subseciuently 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 Courtcr, of Paterson, and they
became the parents of four children, only two
of whom are living, namely: .\l])heus S. and
Louise. The latter is the wife of Charles H.
May, of Paterson.
(IX) .Ali)heus .Sylvester, son of Stephen
and Catherine (Courter) Allen, was born May
27, 1833, in Paterson, which city has continued
to be his home through life, and which he has
notably served in various jniblic cai)acities.
He received his early education in the private
schools of his native city, he then attended one
term in a private school at Poughkeepsie. New
^'ork, 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 185 1 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 jMr. 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
'if 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 Bank of Pater-
son. Mr. Allen 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.
57, Knights of Pythias, whose fraternal prin-
ciples have been guiding motives in the conduct
of his life.
He was married, May 11, 1858, by Rev.
William H. Hornblower, to Maria Osborn,
born .April 12, 1837, daughter of Edward and
Ann (Stagg) Osborn, of Paterson. Children:
I. Annie \'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 R, March 16, 1886; Herbert.
July, 1897. 2. Stephen Lincoln, born March
25. 1865: died January 10, 1871. 3-4. Jessie
Elizabeth and Jennie Rebecca (twins), born
November 15, 1867; the first was married,
Ajjril 8, 1891, to Robert M. Helfenstein, and
is the mother of PIdith Morris Helfenstein,
born .August 2-/, 1892. Jennie R. was married
November 25, 1890, to Jerome C. Read, and
has a .son and a daughter, namely : Allen
Jerome, born July 30, 1893, and Jane C, born
July, 1903.
The Plume arms : Ermine, a blend
PLL'M 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, -\. 1).. 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 I'lume and Plum ancestors of the immi-
grant some brief mention may be made in this
place.
(I) Joiui Plumbe, yeoman, of Tap])csfield,
luigland, 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,
Esse.x, England. He married (first) Elizabeth
Purchase; (second) Mrs. Etheldred h'uller.
Nine children ; sons, Robert, Thomas, Edmund,
Joseph and one other; daughters, Margaret
Elizabeth, Mary and Anne.
(III) Robert (2), gentleman, of Spaynes
Hall, (ireat 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.
( I\' ) John, immigrant, son of Robert (2)
and (irace (Crackbone) Plume, was born in
.Spaynes Hall at (ireat Yeldham, Essex, Eng-
land, was bajitized 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 member of the court there from 1637 to
1642. He is mentioned in the records as "Mr.
Plum," indicating a social station of more than
ordinary importance. In~ 1636 it is recorded
that "Whereas, 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 ofifices 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
plantations, and attending the court as a deputy.
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lie was alst) one of the men in Captain John
Mason's little army that wiped out the Pe(|uot
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 Alason's men around from the mouth of the
Connecticut river to the Xarragansett. In 1644-
45 he was a]ipointed to attend the clearance of
vessels at W'ethersfield, but in the former year,
1644, 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 wheii
the former died. By wife Dorothy John Plume
had eight children: i. Robert, baptized, De-
cember 30, 161 7. 2. John, May 27, 1619. 3.
William. Alay 9, 162 1. 4. .\nn, October 16,
1623. 5. .Samuel, January 4, 1625, see for-
ward. 6. Dorothea, January 16, 1626. 7. Eliz-
abeth, October >), 1629. 8. Deborah, July 28,
1633-
(\ ) Samuel Plum, son of Jolin and Doro-
tliy 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, .Xjjril i, 1653. 3. Samuel, ]\Iarch
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.
(\T) 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 w^ill and other wills
with their husbands and wives, but the dates
of their births and deaths are not known.
Children: i. Mary, married (first) Eliliu
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
.Vewark 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,
ilied November 19, 1799; married (first) Sarah
Crane; (second) Ann Van Wagennen. 2.
.Stephen, died 1828, aged seventy-three years.
3. Alary, married Rufus Crane. 4. Jane, died
after 1780. 5. Phebe, married Captain Robert
Provost. 6. Joseph. 7. John, see forward.
(VIII) 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 date 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) Anna
Price. 2. Matthias, 1768, see forw-ard. 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
1793, Phebe Woodrufi', who bore him five
children, 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 .\mbrose \\'ill-
iams. 3. Stephen Haines, January 7, 1800,
see forward. 4. Elias, November 18, 1804,
died April 12, 1883; married (first) Susan
Rankin; (second) Mary Mann; (third) Mar-
tha M. Buell. 5. David B., May 2, 1813. died
July 15, 185 1 ; married (first) Leonora Whit-
taker; (second) Anna M. /Xrnold.
(X) Stephen Haines, eldest son and third
child of Matthias and Phebe (Woodruff)
Plum, was born in Newark, New Jersey, Janu-
ary 7. 1800, died there April 11, 1885. He
received a good common scliool education, and
was then apprenticed to a shoe manufacturer,
with whom he remained until he was old
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
769
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. Mark's Fire Insurance Com-
pany of New York. He was a man of high
character and his influence was always felt for
good. He married Margaret Monteith, 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 Stephen
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 drug 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 becaine 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.
I'lum 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-
many, .\lgeria and other foreign countries. In
1858 Mr. Plum became a member of the First
Baptist Peddie Memorial Church, of which
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
liberally of his means to various charities in a
quiet and unassuming manner, believing in the
scriptural injunction to "Let not your right
hand know what your left hand doeth." He
built the Eighth Avenue Day Nursery in New-
ark in honor of his mother; with the late Mr.
Horace .\lling, he was largely instrumental in'
securing the subscriptions 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
support to the man whom he regarded as the
most fitting for municipal offices.
Mr. Plum married, (October 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 ]\Ionteith, 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, in 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 was interested. He married Blanche
Devereux ; children: i. Stephen Haines, fourth,
born October 30, igo6; ii. Lucretia ^lary.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
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
hundred thousand people. It was in the well-
wooded hills and fertUe 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 Liaers
had lived for centuries. Enjoying the advan-
tages of living in the first pure republic of the
modern world, they thrived and were happy,
and doubted the existence of a bettef climate,
soil, scenery or government on the face of the
glohe. The family were silk cultivators and
manufacturers for generations. They had the
advantages of the use of museums, librarie.-
and schools, and became well versed in Swiss
history.
(I) Frederick Jacob Baer, the eldest son of
his father, was born at Arburg. Switzerland.
.December 13, 1813, died at Falerson, Xew
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. He 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 ])ositions so that he became
a thorough master of his trade. Here he mar-
ried and lived for ten years thereafter, and
three of his children were born there. He sub-
scfjucntly removed to Aarau, where he took a
leading position in the then largest factory of
the town, then o]jerated by Feer & Company,
where he remained until 1865 and in July that
year emigrated to .\merica from Havre,
I "ranee, with his wife, three sons and daughter,
Maria .\nna, who became the wife of Jacob
W'alder, of i^aterson. .\fter landing at New
York City he immediately came to Faterson,
settling there, and taking a ])osition in the silk
establishment of his son, Jacob Frederick Baer,
and had the management of different de])art-
ntents as su])erintendent. About 1873 1^^ ''<^"
tired from this position of responsibility and
from active work. He resided on Fafayette
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 ne\v 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, 181 1, died in Paterson,
Xew Jersey, January 19, 1890, daughter of
Jacob and Anna (Gerster) Weibel. Jacob
\\ eibel was a mason by trade. Children: i.
Jacob I-'rederick, mentioned below. 2. John
Rudolph, born August 5, 1840, died October
20, 1872; married Alatilda Ackerman. 3. Au-
gust, born December 23, 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. .\nna Maria, born July
8, 1870; married, June 15, 1893, John Blunt-
schli, born November 10, 1865, son of Jacob
and Elizabeth (Balber) Bluntschli ; children:
a. Jacob Walder, born December 5, 1894, died
December 20, 1899; b. Hans .\rtliur \\'al(ler.
born September 14, 1896; c. Robert William
W'alder, born ;\Iarch 19, 1900: ii. Alaria Louise,
born August 29, 1871 ; married, April 21, 1896,
John Grantley Taylor, born July 4, 1868, son
of Joseph and ^lary (^Sweatman) Taylor;
children : a. Grantley W'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, April 18, 1906, Clara
Huntoon : children: a. Cynthia ]\Iarie W'alder;
b. Clara Huntoon W'alder ; v. Bertha Augusta.
born May 30, 1884; married, April 15, 1909.
Edward Beam. 5. William Frederick, born
March 18, 1849; married Anna Miesch. 6.
Gustaf .-\dolphus. born |une 8, i8s2, died lulv
20, 1868.
(11) Jacob Frederick, eldest son of Fred-
erick Jacob and Anna (Weibel) Baer, was
born in the village of Becktcn, in the canton of
Basle. Switzerland, November 27. \8t,C), 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 .\rburg to .Aargau, a
nearby hamlet and a part of .\rburg. .\fter
thoroughly mastering every detail of the trade
under his 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 remunerative field for his skill and labor.
He came to New "S'ork, where for a time he
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worked at his trade, and latter became a mem-
ber of the firm of E. Walther & Company, of
New York City, where he continued up 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 Air. Raer 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
ills careful and conscientious management the
plant increased. 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
panic of 1873 swept the country, and with a
number of other silk makers he was among those
who suffered, 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.
Raer again determined to try his resources of
energy, 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 hi>
])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 Van
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 enlargetl at vari-
ous times in order to meet the constantly in-
creasing demands of its products. About 1904
an addition was made to the plant that in-
creased the output about one-third. There are
about two hundred and twenty ribbon loom<
in the mill, and the concern employs about
three hundred and twenty-five operatives. The
present officers are : Frederick .\. Baer. presi-
dent, and Ralph Baer secretary. Jacob Fred-
erick Raer 'always enjoyed a reputation for
liberality, especially in his dealings with his
employees, and seldom if ever has any dift'er-
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 death, being the oldest silk
manufacturer in Paterson.
Jacob Frederick Baer married, in New York
City. 1858. Louisa P.lattner. born September
2(). 1838, at Kiittingen, Canton .Aargau. Switzer-
land, died at Paterson. New Jersey. Julv 4.
1904, daughter of Jacob and .Ynna P.lattner.
Children: i. Frederick .A., born February 16.
i860: married Louise Wirz ; children: .\nna.
Bertha. Ralph J. 2. Ralph, born .April 9. 1863 :
see forward. 3. .Anna, born August 23. 1865 ;
married. June 16. 1887. Carlos D. De Ponthier :
children: Louise, born March 13. 1888. and
P>lanca. born March 31, 1893. 4- Eugene W..
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: chikl,
Jacob Frederick, born January 31, 1901. 8.
T,ouis Chileon. bi)rn March 11. 1882. see for-
ward.
(Ill) Ralph, son uf Jacob Frederick and
Louisa ( lilattner ) Raer, was born in New
^'ork City. .April y. 1863. .At an early age he
came with his parents to F'aterson, New Jer-
sey, where he attended the public schools. .At
the age of fourteen years lie 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, with 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 exception of the years 1892-
97, has been actively identified with that manu-
factory. He is at present secretary of tlie
corporation and a member of its board of
directors. He is also prominently identified
with city afTairs. He was appointed a member
of the Paterson school board in 1894-95. ^"d
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
partv before he attained his majority, and cast
STATE Ol' NEW JERSEY.
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h\> first presidential vote for the lilaine-Eogan
ticket in 1884. He was a member of the Phelps
Guard, a political organization of Paterson.
He is affiliated with Ivanhoe Lodge, No. 88.
Free and .\ccepted Masons, and is a member
of the Hamilton Clnb, St. P'auTs Church Club,
Pa.ssaic County Bowling Association, Germania
Singing Society, Deutsch Amerikanischer Cen-
tral \'erein, and is an associate member of the
PL.xenipt Firemen's .Association.
Mr. Baer's family have a unii|ue 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
vears. which fact alone gives the collection
great historical value. The Paterson Press in
a series of illustrated articles entitled "Popular
Patersonians in Cartoon" devoted the front
page of the issue of August 29, 1908, to Ralph
l'>aer, and it contains the following apjirecia-
tive characterization of the subject:
"In the HaUs of Fame there is many a nani<
Of men, who are no more deserving
Than this man who we present to you;
Who has risen with purpose unswerving.
His record is clean — there is no "in between" —
Strict, straightforward, honest his aim.
Let others tread in this path by him led
And 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 I'.aer married, .April 22, 1885, Carrie
S. Perry, born July 3, 1867, daughter of Will-
iam S. and Amanda (Mathews) Perry. Chil-
dren: I. I'essie ]'>., born .April 9, 1886. 2.
Ralph, Jr., born August 18, 1889. died .August
8, 1890. 3. J. Frank, born May i. 1893.
(HI) William August, son of Jacob Fred-
erick and Louisa (Rlattner) Baer, was born in
the family homestead on Belmont avenue.
I'aterson, New Jersey, March 27, 1870. He
attended the ])ublic schools in his district, grad-
uating from grammar school, No. 4, at the
age of seventeen. He then entered the employ
of Jacob Waldcr, who was engaged in the mill
supply business, and remained with him for
six months. Subsc(|ucntly he entered the em-
I)loy of the Helvetia Silk Mill, on \'an Iloutcn
street, to learn the art of ribbon making, tak-
ing charge of the warping, winding and filling
dcj)artments for four yeans, and later was
occupied for a period in the weaving depart-
ment, lie later removed to Lehighton, Penn-
sylvania (1887), where for nine years he was
superintendent of the company's anne.x mill at
that place, subsequently returning to the River-
side Paterson plant, 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 blocking, 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
Golden Eagle. He married, at Paterson, New
Jersey, June 14, 1890, Marie Deering, born at
Paterson, February 5, 1874, daughter of Jacob
and Maria ( \'an Bruge) Deering, the former
of whom is a construction contractor. Chil-
dren : I. Jacob Frederick, born February 14,
1891. 2. William, born January 17, 1893, "^'^^
March 25, 1894. 3. .A son, born April 2, 1901,
died in infancy.
( HI ) Louis Chileon, son of Jacob Frederick
and Louisa ( Blattner) Baer, was bom 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 .Academy. .At nineteen years of age he
entered the emjiloy of his father and brother,
who wore then operating a silk mill at Lehigh-
ton, Pennsylvania, where he diligently em-
ployed himself at learning the business, remain-
ing nine months. Me then came to their Pater-
son plant of the Helvetia Mill, where he was
assistant shijiper, and continued to leani the
making of silk ribbons. .After three years,
having gained a thorough knowledge of the
business in all its details, he was placed in
charge of the c|uill winding, doubling and wind-
ing departments. Mr. Baer has the superin-
tendency of these branches at the present time,
having between sixty and sixty-five employees
under his personal supervision. He attends
the F'irst Presbyterian Church, of Paterson, is
a decided Reiniblican in politics, and is a mem-
ber of Paterson Lodge, No. 60, Benevolent and
Protective (^rder of Elks.
He married, June 22, 1904, at Paterson,
New Jersey, Jessie Wilson Boyle, born Octo-
ber 26, 1884, daughter of \\'iliiam 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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773
are the parents of one child, Robert Paul, born
September 8, 1905.
M. Valerius 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 Licinian laws. Being a
member of the great \'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. Furius 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 Gallic 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 was 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. A general battle then ensued, in
which the (.^auls were entirely defeated. The
consul presented \''alerius with ten oxen and
a golden crown, and 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.
Valerius Corvus was M. \'alerius Alessala Cor-
vinus, the celebrated Messala, of Cicero, whose
wife was Terentia, widow first of Cicero, then
of Sallust, and who after Messala's death, mar-
ried a fourth time another Roman senator.
She bore iier 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 Wladislaus of Polantl ;
but shortly afterwards, the widow of .Mbert
had a son called I^adislaus Postumus. This
was the cause of much dissension and Amurath
of Turkey prepared to invade the country.
Wladislaus conquered in the struggle and at
this time Johannes Hunyadi Corvinus began
his celebrated career as a soldier. His origin is
shrouded in mystery, but he was probably the
son of (}eorge Hunyadi vaywod of W'allachia
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
t)f Hungary, 1458 to 1490, was the .second son
of John "was elected and crowned," says Gib-
bon, "by the grateful Phuigarians in reward
for his father's services. His reign was pros-
perous and long. He as])ired to the glory of
a concjueror and a saint, but his jnirest merit
is his encouragement of learning." His sons
were Ladislaus, born about 1465, and John,
born about 1470, living in 1540, and a pupil
of .\nthony 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
Germany. In the next generation we have
the Rev. Johannes Corvinus, perhaps the same
as the John Corvinus born about 1560 whose
scjii Arnold, born about 1590, was an eminent
lawyer, and [niblished Digests of the law in
aphori.sms 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) MatthiasCorvvin.orCorvinus, the first set-
tler of the name in .\merica, was born between
1590 and t6oo, and died September, 1658. His
name ap])ears written sometimes "Curwin,"
and even "Currin," these last two spellings
being erroneous orthographies originating from
the traditional Hungarian pronunciation. In
1634 his 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
opposite the present Congregational church in
Southold. The new lecture room of that
church nciw stands on the very plot. Here he
lived for eighteen years till his death, which
occurred between .\ugust 31, and September
15. December 1 1, 1656, together with William
\Vells. Lieutenant Budd, Barnabas Horton,
and William Furrier, he was appointed on a
committee to order the town affairs. 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, 1638, 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.
2. Martha, born between 1630 and 1640, living
in 1698: married (first) Henry Case and (sec-
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(ind) 'l"llllma^ 1 lutchiiisdii. bearing her first
Inishaml two, and her second husband five
children. 3. Theoijhihis, born before 1634,
died before i(v)2: he had by liis wife Mary
seven children.
(II) John, son of Matthias and Margaret
(Morton) Corwin, was born probably about
1630, died September 25, 1702. In 1661 he
bought land and meadow at Oyster Pond and
.\quebogue, Long Island, and was admitted
as a freeman of Connecticut for Southold in
1662. In 167s he is rated for 2 heads, 21 acres,
16 cattle, 9 horses, 5 swine, 6 sheep, £228, los.
In 1C1S6 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 1678 and i6g6, and also in the census list
of two years later, lixjS. together with the
names of all his cjiildren except Alary and Re-
becca, who were already married. His will is
dated N'ovember 26, 1700, proved October 14,
1702. February 4, 1658, he married Mary
daughter of Charles Glover, who died prol>-
abl}' before 1690, and had eight children: i.
Mary, born December 15, 1659, died probabh
before 1690. 2. Sarah, born about 1660, mar-
ried, before 1690, Jacob Osman and had ten
children. 3. Rebecca, born between 1660 and
i')7o. married /Vbram ()sman and had six chil-
dren. 4. John, referred to below. 5. Abigail,
born between 1660 and 1670, not married in
[fK)8, and probably died unmarried. 6. Han-
nah, not married in 1698 and probably died
unmarried. 7. Matthias, bom 1675, died March
9, I7(^K): had by his wife Mary ten children.
8. Samuel, born about 1677, died December
28, 1705; had by his wife .\nne two children.
(III) Captain John (2), son of John (i)
and Mary ((Tloveri Corwin, was born in i'i'>3.
died December 13. i/2<). In 1692116 received
from his father a lot of woodland lying west
of the town of .Southold and on the north side
of the road by .Vathanicl Terry's land. His
name occurrs as both grantor and grantee on
many deeds, and in 1712 an exhibit of his
lands is found in the .Southold town rec(.)rils.
Hy his wife .Sarah, whom he married before
1698, he had six children; i. llenjamin, died
in 1 72 1, and prol^ably married. 2. John, re-
ferred to below. 3. David, born between 1705
and 1710, died before 1782; married Deborah
Wells, who bore him si.x children and perhaps
other daughters. 4. Sarah, ])ossibly married
I'cter .Simons. 5. Elizabeth. G. Hester.
(1\') John (3). son oi Ca])tain John ij)
and .Sarah Corwin. was born July 10, 17(15.
died December 22. 1755. lie 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.
.\ccording to a book in the possession of Au-
gustus Grififin, of Orient, Long Island, his first
wife was Hester Clark, but apparently she
bore 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
Oyster Ponds. This may possibly be Elizabeth
(Terrill) Corwin, the widow of John, son of
Theophilus. 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: married (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 .\ugust 22, 1741, died Xovember
9, 1791 ; married Mehetable Horton and ha(i
nine children. 5. William, referred to below.
( \ ) William, son of John (3 ) and Elizabeth
((ioldsmith) Corwin, was born February 21,
1744, died December i, 1818. 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-
quent occurrence on the records. January 14,
1768, William Corwin married Hannah Reeves,
of Mattituck, Long Island, born May 27,. 1747,
(lied about 1840. They had eleven children:
I. Jiilin ( alvin, born October 21. 1768, died
June (j, 1N49: married (first) Deborah Terry,
and (second) Elizabeth \ance, and had six
children. 2. Sarah, born January 13, 1771,
married Jabez Kelsey, of Chester, New Jersey.
3. I lannah, born March 28, 1773. married Jere-
miah, son of William and Elizabeth ( Hedges)
Woodhull, of Easthampton, Long Island. 4.
William, referred to below. 3. James, born
.\pril 21. 1779, died October 10, 1844, at Pike-
ton. Ohio: married (first) Margaret Canieron,
of .Scotland, and (second) Elizabeth .Smith,
the widow of James Mallory, of New ^'ork
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775
City, and had seven cliildren. 6. Joseph, born
^uly 6, 1781, died September 23, 1800, in Ches-
ter, New Jersey. ". Nathaniel, born Septem-
ber 26, 1783, died February 24, 1849, married
(first) Elizabeth, daughter of Barnabas and
Elizabeth Horton, (second) a Monroe, (third)
Adaline Pickle, and (fourth) Sarah Bell, and
had two children. 8. Elizabeth, born Decem-
ber 6, 1783, 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 Hainill, (second) Elizabeth Haniill,
(third) Elizabeth Spinning, and ( fourth) Eliz-
abeth Brace, and had six children. 10. Eben-
ezer, born October 13, 1790, died .'\pril 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 Fiirdham, and had four
children.
(\'I) William (2). fourth child and second
son of William (i) 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 Tersey. 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
X'ance, who bore him three children : I. Josejih,
referred to below. 2. \\'illiam \'. 3. Eliza A.,
born November 28, 1804, married Henry C.
i'.e;ich and had four children.
(VII) loseph," eldest son of William (2)
and Martha (\"ance) Corwin, was born in
Sparta, New Jersey, May I7, 1810. He signed
liis name Josejih A. Corwin. and obtained his
early education chiefly in Albany. In T835 he
graduated from the medical department of
^'ale University, and the following year began
practicing in Belleville, Essex county. New
jersey, where he remained until December,
1 8-10. when he removed to Newark, where he
li\-ed for the remainder of his life, dying in
1893. For many years he was a member of
the Essex District Medical Society, in 1864 was
elected its vice-president, and in 1863 its presi-
dent, and in 1883 chosen one of its delegates
to the State Medical Society. In 1852 and
1833 'i*-' '^''i* ^ member of the Newark board
of education. Joseph .\. Corwin married (first)
Tariiuinia Kennev, who bore him four chil-
dren: I. Francis Nicholas West, born July 4.
1840, married Louisa Westervelt. 2. W'illiam
.\lbert, born March 12, 1843. 3. Charles Fred-
erick, referred to below. 4. Mary Garette,
born February 14, 1830, died Sej^tember 9,
1 83 1. Joseph x-\. Corwin married (second)
September 18, 1836, Emma Whybrew Bald-
win, horn July 29, 1831, who bore him two
more children : 5. Theodore Wellington, born
June I, 1857. 6. Robert Lowell, born between
i860 and 1870.
(\T1I> Charles Frederick, third child and
son of Joseph A. and Tarquinia (Kenney)
Corwin, was born in Belleville, Essex county.
New Jersey, July 23, 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 .\nna Jackson, born
in 1S34, died March 17, 1881, he had two
children: I. Frederick Wellington, referred
to below. 2. Grace P.artlett, born [une 16,
1878.
(IX) 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 early edu-
cation he attended the public and high schools
of -Vewark, and then entered the etnploy of
the Philip Gary Manufacturing Company,
asbestos and roofing manufacturers, where he
started as clerk in 1898, 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 gran<l-
father was one of the founders and his father
for manv years a vestryman. He married
Laura Edna Freeman, born in Newark. Febru-
ary 23. 1876.
The origin of several of the
l)L'M().\T Dumi>nt 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: Gentilhomme Normand" (Paris, 1864).
The religious wars in France between the
Roman Catholics and Protestants, which had
their beginning in the year 1632, were like all
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other similar contests productive of much
cruelty and persecution. Little credit accrues
to either side, in the beginning at least, but the
Protestants finally were defeated and ultimately
were subjected to such gross mistreatment as
finds no parallel in the annals of either ancient
or modern times. Many of the Dumonts early
adopted the Protestant religion, and on Janu-
ary 2"/. 1599. we find the marriage record of
Bastienne du ]\Iont, in London. She was a
native of \alenciennes, in the north of France.
"The Making of Xew England," by Drake
mentions De Monts, P'ierre du Guast, from
Saintonge, France, an officer of the King's
household. He was a Huguenot and made an
attempt to ])Iant a colony. In i()04 Henry W .
granted him a charter to all of the region of
countrv now known as Xew England and also
a monopoly of the fur trade. He took one
hundred followers, among them Samuel de
Champlain. and landed at Passamaquoddy Bay.
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 1(105 and went to Port
Royal, Nova Scotia.
Walleran Dumont, immigrant, came from
Amsterdam, Holland, to Xew .\msterdam
( Xew York ) in 1657. He was not married
when he came to this country, and according
to the record made at the time of his marriage
he gave his birthplace as Coiimen, Flanders,
(now Commines, Department Xord, France,
eight miles from' Lille ). He was called a cadet
( "aflelborst" ), a rank equal to that of our
second lieutenant, in a company of soldiers
sent by the Dutch West India Company to
Director (General Stuyvesant. Other French
Protestants of the same surname came from
Caen, Xormandie. Some of them went to
England, and others to Perle, Cape of (iood
Hope, .Africa, and descendants of the same
name are now living in both places. .A tradition
that some of Walleran Dumont's family re-
nounced Protestantism in order to retain their
|)roperty has been handed down to descendants
in .America, but this tradition never has been
verified.
Walderan Dumont came over either in the
shij) "Draetvat." Captain I'eslevoer, which
sailed from .\msterdam .April 2, 1657, or in
the "Ian liaptist." 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 Dumnnt
came ovi'r abimt 1663 in the shiji ".Spotted
Cow." Dumont settled at Esopus (now Kings-
ton, Xew York) about 1660, and appears to
have been one of the most influential men of
the town. He was a member of the military
council during the second Esopus war with
the Indians, and served as schepen or magis-
trate of Kingston from May, 1669, to May,
1671. He was a deacon of the Dutch church
in I (173, and died between June 25, 171 3. and
Se])tember 13, 1713, He married, January
13, 1664, 'Grietje (Margaret) Hendricks,
widow of Jan .Aertson, who was killed by In-
dians in the second Esopus war. She had one
daughter 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 Baptist 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-
nots 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 America and to have taken
up his abode in Xorth 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
probably in Xorth Carolina, married there and
had a family. Among his children was a son
John, .see forward.
( 11 ) John, son of Peter Dumont, was born
in Xorth Carolina and came north to Xew
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, Caroline, Mary,
John Finley (see forward), all of whom are
now (lead 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
county, Xew Jersey, Xovember 11. 1824, died
May 8. 1889. He was a lawyer by jirofession.
a consistent member of the Lutheran church,
and a firm Deniocrat in his political |)reference.
From 1832 until 1855 he was prosecuting attor
ney for 1 funterdon county, but otherwise was
not particularly active in political afl'airs. He
marrietl in Albany, Xew ^'^rk, October 26,
1853. Anne Fliza. b(irn May 23. 1835. daugh-
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ter of Rev. David and Jane (Kirkpatrick;
Kline (see Kline, III). Children: i. Ira,
born September 27, 18^5. 2. William L., April
6, 1857. 3. Charles, December 20, 1858, died
April 3, 1859. 4- Laura. May 3, i860. 5.
Grace, 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. \N'ayne, see forward. 10. .A. child,
born and died 1873. u. Madge T., July 30,
1875, died July 21, 1876. 12. Vector St. Clair,
September 12, 1877. 13- 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 School.
Easton, Pennsvlvania, graduating cnm laudc.
in June, 1888. ' In the fall of the same year he
entered Lafayette College, Easton, and was
graduated A. B., cum laudc, in June, 1892:
Ph. B. in course, 1895: M. S., Latin scientific
course. .A.fter leaving college he attended upon
the lectures of the New York Law School, and
in due season was admitted to practice in the
courts of New Jersey; was admitted attorney
of the supreme court in February, 1896, and
attorney and counsellor in February. 1899.
Subsequently he received appointment as spe-
cial master in chancery and also as supreme
court commissioner, in November, 1907, he
w^as admitted to practice in the courts of the
state of New York, and became a member of
the supreme court' of the United States in
Februarv, 1908. Mr. Dumont is engaged in
active general practice of the law in Paterson,
and is a Republican in politics, but without
political ambition. He is a member and past
ma.ster of Delaware Lodge, No. 52, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Phillipsburg ; past high
priest of Eagle Chapter, Xo. 30, Royal Arch
Masons, of Phillipsburg; member of Paterson
Council. Royal and Select Masters: Hugh de
Payens Con'imandery. No. 19, Knights I em-
plar; Mecca Temple. .Kiicient Arabic Order
Nobles Mvstic Shrine, of New York City:
also a member in good standing of all the
Scottish Rite bodies of Masonry in Paterson
up to the eighteenth degree, and from the
eighteenth degree to the thirty-second degree
iiAhe consistory at Jersey City. He holds life
membership in all of the Scottish Rite bodies
of Free-Masonry. He also is a member of
Paterson Lodge.' No. 60. Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks; the Pomfret Club, of
Easton; the ^Merchants' Central Club, of 487
Broadway, New York City, and of the Law-
yers' Club, of New York. He is a member of
the board of directors of the C.erman .\mcri-
can Trust Company, of Paterson.
Mr. Dumont married, October 26, 1898.
Sallie Insley. born in Easton, Pennsylvania,
July 20, 1873. daughter of Edward Insley and
SalHe (Lesh) Hunt. Mr. Hunt is a retired
merchant. His children: Myra Hunt, wife
of lacob L. Ludlow, of Winston. Salem, North
Carolina; Sue. wife of William E. Howell, of
Easton, Pennsylvania; Sallie I., Mrs. Dumont:
and Nan. wife of George H. Meeker, of Media.
Pennsvlvania. Two children have been born
of the' marriage of Wayne and Sallie Insley
( Hunt ) Dumont : Wayne Hunt, born .Ajiril 6,
ig04. died February 17. 1908; John Finley.
born .\pril 2, 1909.
(The Kline l>ine). -
lohann Jacob Klein (Jacob Kline), of Read-
ington township, Hunterdon county, New Jer-
sey, was born in ( iermany. March 6. 1714, died
Ja'nuary 6, 1789, and is buried in the cemetery
at New Germantown. New 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 17J.8 he married Veronica Ger-
dru'tta. daughter of Johannes Moelich, and by
her had seven children: I. Johann Wilhelm
(lohn William), born January 5. 1750. died
February 21, 181 8. 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,
Tacob Neff. Jr.' 6. .Aaron, born February 29.
"1760. died December 24. 1809. 7- Peter, born
[anuary 17. 1771.
(II) Jacob, son of Johann Jacob and \ er-
onica Gerdrutta (Moelich) Kline, was born in
1 75 1, died October 22. 1823. He was a farmer
and tanner by occupation and lived at New
( kTmantown, New Jersey. For 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 pleas of Hunterdon coun-
ty from 1806 to 1817. He married. July 7.
i'782 Phebe. daughter of Peter Nevius. of Am-
wellNew Jersey. She was born in 1760. and
died' February 18, 1845, having borne her hus-
band twelve children: i. Colonel Jacob, born
April 8 1783. died November 15. 1844. 2.
Peter. January 16. 1785. died October 18. i8oo_
V Fanny Gertrude. February 28. 1787. died
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January 28, 1880. 4. John William, December
28, 1788, died September 17, 1847. 5- ^laria,
April 17, 1791, died January 15, 1869. 6.
Ann, March 19, 1793, (lied February 20. 1795.
7. f'hebe. December 19, 1796, died March 10,
1874. 8. Elizabeth, August i, 1799, died
March 25, 1880. 9. Nellie (Nelly) Stooloff,
July 4. 1801, died April 2^. 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 at
.Spruce Run, Hunterdon county. New Jersey.
November 5, 1877. He married, April 18,
1833. Jane, daughter of John Kirkpatrick, of
Liberty Corners, New Jersey. She was born
June ly, 1814, and bore her husband twelve
children: I. ^\nne Eliza, born May 2^. 1835;
married, October 26, 1853, John Finley Du-
inont, born November 11, 1824, died May 8.
1889 (see Dumont, HI). 2. Phebe, December
3, 1836, died May 28, 1857. 3. Peter. Febru-
ary 9, 1S38. 4. John Cassiday, November 25.
1839. 5. Jacob. April 27, 1842. 6. Frances
Miller, December 12, 1843. /• Ellen Taylor.
March 29, 1845. 8. Mary, December 5, 1846.
9. William Harrison, February 26. 1849. lO-
Alfred lieainnont, .April I, 1851. II. Jane
Musier, March 16, 1853. 12. Alice, March 27,
1855-
In his "Suffolk Surnames"
Rl'A'.XOLD.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 ec|ual reliability we
learn that the surnames Runnels and Reynolds
are regarded as synonymous, merely different
forms of e.\])ressing the same patronymic;
but from various other sources it is discovered
that the name Reynolds as now known appears
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 from tlie old Xorwegian "Ronald." for
we find the name of liaron 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 wc
have the .X'orth and South "Ronald sha" among
the present names of the islands of the Ork-
ne\>. The fact thai Runnels undouhtedlv is a
.Scotch patronymic would seem to favor inde-
])endent Scotch derivation for the name itself,
and perhaps "from an object in nature." '
Reynolds often sounds like Runnels and on I
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 names, and therefore the conclusion is
that Runnels is for the most part Scotch, while
Re\nolds is English and Irish. The particular
Reynolds family here considered comes to
.America 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 crfissed 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
Armagh, 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
resjjects, 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-
nolds she was the Widow Cardwell, and by
her first marriage had two children : Mary .\.
rind Samuel Cardwell. the former of whom
married a Mc.Mlister. Thomas and .Agnes
( Cardwell ) Reynolds had three children. John,
lane and Margaret.
( II ) John, son of Thomas and Agnes (Card-
well ) Reynolds, was born in Portadown, coun-
ty .Armagh, Ireland. Alarch 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 schcx)l 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, .going to .New A'ork City, where he was
apprenticed to learn the tailor's trade. This,
liowever, was not to his liking and he soon
abandoned it for the trade of cigar making in
the Caldwell cigar factory at Caldwell. New
Jersey, where he remained some time, then
returned to Paterson and found employment
with .Stephen .Allen, a manufacturer of cigars
in that city. He jiroved to be an e.xccllent
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workman 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
& Company, 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 Acquacknonk Water Company, and also
of the Paterson Gas Company and the Pater-
son Savings Institution, both of wliich latter
positions he held until his decease. Thus it
will be seen that his early industrious habits
and business enter]irise 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. He never aspired to
political honors although from 1865 to 1870
lie served as a memlier 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.
Fie married Elizabetli Kenipley ; 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
G, 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, l<"ebruary 11. 1853, and ac-
quired his elementary and secondary education
in the jniblic schools of that city, and his higher
education at the L'niversity of Michigan. .\nn
Arbor, Michigan, where he was graduated A.
B. in 1876. His professional education was
received at Columbia Law School, the law
department of Columbia L'niversity, where he
completed the course and came to the degree
LL. B. 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 cases which
involve (piestions of real estate law. He is
not in any sense a public man,- having little
inclination for politics, and the extent of his
hoMings has been limited to several years' ser-
vice as member of the city board of park com-
missioners.
He married, April 7, 1881, Cora C, born
.\pril 10, 1856, daughter of Albert G. and
Sarah C, (Greene) Stevens, of Buflfalo, New
York, and by whom he has four children, all
born in Paterson: Kate. Beatrix. Tohn S.,
l)(iri^.
Thomas B. Peddie, one of the
IMCDDIE most enterprising and successful
of the citizens of Newark, New
Jersey, began his business career in that place
in 1833, before it had been incor])orated 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 ])arents 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 subsequently
added largely by reading and by contact with
his fellowmen as he increased in years. He
was fond of books of travel and of the accounts
nf 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 (juite decided, however, to make it
his permanent home.
In 1833. as already stated, he found himself
m Newark, New Jersey, a place which 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 applied for employment in the great
saddlery establishment of Messrs. .Smith &
Wright, the latter of whom became subse-
quently a senator of the United Slates. 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 factor v. Here he remained two
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_\i'ar,s, when liaving become familiar with the
business ways of the land in which he had now
concluded to make a permanent home lie re-
solved to test his own business abilities as an
o|)erator and financier. Accordingly he under-
tiKik 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
t(5 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 Newark's most
estimable and patriotic citizens. This partner-
ship continued until 1 86 1, when Air. Morrison
died. On Air. I'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. !'>. Peddie & Com-
pany. L'nder this name the business was con-
ducted until the death of its founder.
For many years prior to his decease and
indeed until within a short time before that
event. Air. Peddie was active in discharge of
all the duties of a good and patriotic 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. Hut even where jjersonal interest
did not call him he was e(|ually earnest and
active. In almost every im|)ortant public move-
ment he was among the leaders, aiding by his
advice as well as by his purse. Of the board
of trade of the city of Newark he was a
m( st efficient member, at one time its president
.•uid at all times an earnest participant in its
proceedings. It was undoubtedly the sterling
honesty of Air. Peddie which ])oiiited him out
as a desirable man to be placed in public posi-
lif)ns of great responsibility. It was this that
sent him in 1863-64 to the state legislature,
where as a member of the general assemblv he
gave valuable suppt)rt to the general govern-
ment during the war of the rebellion, and by
iiis intluence and cnutributions did good ser-
vice in behalf of the I'nion. 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. On the expira-
tion of his term he declined further nomination.
Without making any pretense of learning,
Air. Peddie apjjreciated fully the value of a
good education, and this is shown by the inter-
est which he took in building up the flourish-
ing academy in liightstown. 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 connnittee having charge of the enter-
l^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 ])arks, stands a house of wor-
ship, built of gray granite, in P>yzantine style
of 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 him.self 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 Air. 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, i88q. .\11 of Air. Ped-
die's designs in regard to the construction and
a])pointments of this edifice were fully carried
out by his estimable widow, who followed him
into eternal rest three years afterward. She
also com|)lied with another wish on his ]iart
by giving to the church valuable projierty in
.\ew "N'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
mother's .Swiss, his great-grandparents having
emigrated to this country from England and
Switzerland.
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( 1 ) Ignatius I'",atun. father of Edward
Charles Eaton, was born in 1833, died in 1868.
He received a common school education, and
learning the trade of a machinist entered the
employ of Hughes & Phillips, with whom he
remained for the greater part of his life. He
married Elizabeth Scntz. Children: i. Louisa,
married Ceorge 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.
(H) 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 two 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 JefTersonian 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, 1864, 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 Hamc
and Bit Company, No. 59 New Jersey Rail-
road avenue, Newark; married Mary Besher
and has twt) children: Ellwood and Harvey.
Frederick, married Mary Smith and has one
child Edna. /\nna, married (jeorge Kelly and
has one child George Leroy. Grace, married
George Spaith and has one child Hortense.
The Bennett family of .\'ew
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 distinguished surgeon in
Danbury, Connecticut, with whom he remained
until he matriculated from the Yale Medical
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-
pital 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 (W''hite-
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 IMillbum. New Jersey, January 25,
1857. After attending the public anfl high
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schools of Newark, he entered Princeton Lni-
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 physician 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 medical .staiif of the
Mutual Benefit Insurance Company. For
eighteen years he was trea.surer of the Essex
County Medical Society and in 1909 its presi-
dent. He is a member of the Medical 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 .\sso-
ciation. Dr. Bennett is a member and presi-
dent of the board of trustees of Calvary Pres-
byterian L'liurch, .-md in politics is a Repub-
lican.
Dr. Bennett married, March 28, 1882, Fannie
E., daughter of James H. and Maria ( P)Ooth )
Marley ; she died b'ebruary 22, 1890. Married
(.second) October 17, 1896, Sara Leeper, born
January 27, 1867, daughter of Robert and
Alary (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. Eaw : one child, Y irginia, born Decciu-
ber 15, 1907. 2. Loui.se, born April 15, 1884.
3. l^orothy, born .April 26, 1886. 4. Katharine
Parkhurst, born November 30, 1898. 5. Elea-
nor Cordon, born March 31, 1905.
Thomas Crocker, first mem-
(T^()CKER her of the family of whom
we have definite information,
was burn 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.
(IT) Charles Irwin, s(jn of Thomas and
.Adelia I. (Reed) Crocker, lived in New York
Lity and at Hudson, \N isconsin. He married
Emma Estelle, daughter of Philip Morehouse
and Elizabeth (Bartlett) Pierce, the former a
real estate broker of Beloit, Wisconsin. Chil-
dren : 1. Roland Douglas, referred to below.
2. Charles I'hilip, died as a baby. 3. .Anna
Estelle, married .Soren I'. Rees, of Alinne-
apolis, Alinne-sota, and has one child, Douglas.
(Ill) Roland Douglas, son of Charles
Irwin and Emma Estelle (Pierce) Crocker,
was born in Alassena Springs, New York, May
z-j. 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 University of Alinnesota, and made a spe-
cialty of civil engineering. In 1896 he entered
the ofifice of the Hon. James M. Alorrow, 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 Alechanics. 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 Cuard of New Jersey since October,
1 90 1, 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.
Ihe name Miller, belonging as
.\III.LIM\ 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
ap])arently the ancestor of the branch at pres-
eiu under consideration, seems to have no con-
nection, with the exception of one family of
the same name, in Philadelphia, with the vari-
ous Millers who emigrated to and remained
in New England, whither the founder of this
branch directed his first steps.
(I) 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
lie 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
])robable that he emigrated from England in
order to find reliirious liberty, and like so nianv
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783
others who came to New England for the
same reason found that unless they worshi]iped
God according to the New England method,
there was no freedom there for them. .\s
Joseph Miller was a Quaker, the only place in
Xew England where he could find ])eace 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 Eenwick's tenth. The last mention of him
in the records as a surveyor is c;th month 13,
1729, when he re-surveyed a tract of land for
John lirick, lying on the west branch of
Gravelly run or Stoe creek. He probably died
about 1730, and his son was appointed his
successor as de])uty 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
proprietors of West Jersey, and no name is of
so frequent 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 W'ood, of Stoe creek. 2. flannah,
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 Bassett, 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,
daughter of Joseph and Alary Bacon, of Green-
wich. 7. Mark, born 1740. 8. Sarah. 9. Re-
becca, born 5th month 17, 1747.
(III) Josiah, third child and second son of
Ebenezer and Sarah (Collier) Miller, was born
in Cohansey, in 1 73 1. About 1774 he purchased
a large tract of land in Lower Mannington,
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
p-enwick's tenth. Soon after this purchase
Josiah Miller removed with his family to this
land, on which he built the brick house which
descended in 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., b(5rn 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; died young, leav-
ing a widow, Letitia, who survived him sev-
eral years.
(IV) Richard, second ciiild ami son of
Josiah and Letitia ( \\'ood ) 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
^'on 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 Hail James. Chil-
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 jnirchase sui)plies
for the army; he married (first) Elizabeth
lilackwood and (second) Susan Wilde. 2.
.Samuel L. J., a farmer of Mannington, New
Jersey; married Hannah Ann Rumsey. 3.
Wyatt Wistar, referred to below.
(\T) \\'yatt \\"istar, youngest child of Jo-
siah (2) and Hetty Hall (James I 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-
svlvania. He was the discoverer of the method
which made what was later known as Besse-
mer steel. He married Mary Leggett, daugh-
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
tcr of Jolm and listher ( Leggett ) Gritten, of
Xc-w 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 Grififen, 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 Griffen, born in 1869; married Caro-
line Bowen. 7. W'yatt Wistar, Jr., died un-
married at Denver, Colorado, in January, 1899.
8. George Henry, born in 1871. 9. Elizabeth
W'yatt, born in 1874.
(VII) Josiah (3), eldest child of Wyatt
Wistar and Mary Leggett (Grififen) 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 Mannington, Salem county. New Jer-
sey. For his early education Josiah Miller was
sent to the public schools of Safe. Harbor, Penn-
sylvania, and to tlie private school of Miss
Hawley, at Phoenixville, 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 Grififen Brothers & Miller,
Limited. Subsequently the partners incor-
porated the business and it was known as the
Grififen 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 jjractice 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 atTairs 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
( )rder of United Workmen.
Mr. Miller married, October 28, 1885.
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
mother of Salem. Children: i, Alice Thomp-
son, born April 21, 1887. 2. Wyatt Acton,
June 17, 1892. 3. Esther Grififen, January 19,
"1894- .
The Edgars, of Metuchen, New
ED(;.\R 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 Gramjiian Club.
1 he New Jersey line springs from the
Edgars, of Keithock, Forfarshire, Scotland, an
estate which originally belonged to the noble
house of Lindsay, coming into the possession
of the Edgar family 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 .\rbroath. 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
E<lgars, of New Jersey. His manor house is
still standing, and is a structure of elegant
architectural style and admirable proportions.
•Affixed to the mantel is a representation, carved
in stone and hearing date ifi8o, of the Edgar
arms (a lion rampant), impaled with those of
the allied family of Forrester.
David lulgar, laird of Keithock, was married
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(according to his family Bible, which is pre-
served) to Katherine Forrester at Dundee.
Scotland, by the Rev. William Rait, June u,
1674. They had a numerous family, the tifth
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. Another 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. George, the famous pretender to
the 1 British 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
(3ctoher, 1681, and baptized at the College
Kirk by Mr. Irving, the 30th of said month."
He came to America about 1715, purchased
lands in New Jersey, lived near Rahway, and
died there in 1759. He married Janet Knox,
who was born in \\'oodbriilge, March 16, i68g.
Of their seven children were David (ancestor
of the Short Hill branch). 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-
(IH) James, son of Alexander Edgar.
(I\') Thomas (2), son of James Edgar,
married Mary Freeman and had twelve chil-
dren.
(V) Albert, son of Thomas (2) Edgar, was
born in Woodbridge, 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. Mr. Edgar was three times married.
His second wife was Siisan Tappen (born Feb-
«-'5 ^ _^^~—^^^ Q^^_ /^^
ruary 19, 1813, died September 12, 1855),
daughter of William Tappen. Children: 1.
William Tappen, resides in Raritan township,
Middlesex county. New Jersey. 2. Charles
Smith, see below. 3. Milton .Albert, resides in
Georgia. 4. Mary Amelia, died at the age of
twelve.
(\T) Charles Smith, son of Albert Edgar,
was born on the old Tappen homestead at Bon-
hamtown. Raritan township, Middlesex county.
New 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 purposes, 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
unix'ersally 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-
pany, 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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STATE OK NEW JERSEY.
cousin, F"rances Emily Edgar, granddaughter
of Thomas and Alary (Freeman) Edgar, and
(laughter of Freeman and Sarah Elizaheth
( Martin) Edgar. Children of Freeman Edgar
(born May 24, 1820, died October 4, 1895)
and Sarah EHzabeth (Martin) Edgar: i. I.
Reynolds, resides in Metuchen. 2. Frances
Emily, wife of Charles Smith Edgar. 3. Laura
.Antoinette, married Charles Wesley Price (de-
ceased), of New ISrunswick. 4. Freeman Mar-
tin, resides in Newark, New Jersey. Charles
Smith and F"rances Emily (Edgar) Edgar have
one child, .Albert Charles Edgar, born Mav
2-], 1898.
This surname comes from Eng-
.MA.SOX land and is found anmng 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 i)resent
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 carrie<l on a shop of his own, as is
sliown by his old account books, several of
wliich are yet in possession of his descendants.
He came with his family to this country in
1810 and settled in New Jer,scy, at the place
then called Franklin, Esse.x 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. P)esides the mill
and his residence John Mason also built a num-
ber of smaller houses for the use of his em-
ployees, and the tradition is that he was a very
energetic and prosjierous man in his business
afifairs. The thriving little village of Nutley.
near Passaic, is built u]) around the site where
pioneer 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
Uetsey, married Abraham Vreeland.
(II) Thomas, son of John and Martha
(Wharton) 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 who knew him. He
married Elizabeth Odell, of Parsippany, New
Jersey, and had four children, two of whom
are still living: Ceorge Clay and Martha E..
the latter the widow of Pierson \'an Houten.
formerly of Paterson, and veteran of the civil
war.
( 111 ) (ieorge Clay, son of Thomas and Eliz-
al)eth ( Odell ) Alason, 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
York, where he was graduated on the comple-
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. On February 7, 1902, having been
in successful business for forty years, his en-
tire establishment was burned to the grotmd,
his store, resilience, 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 ])nr]ioses, and from which his customers
were supplied as before and without any par-
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ticular inconvenience to themselves. This
disaster occasioned serious loss to Mr. Mason,
but did not cause financial ruin or even serious
discouragement, for he is a man not easily dis-
heartened and is possessed of the fortunate
([ualities 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,
I^'rancis 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 lanrl 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 ("lift Land Company and the Citi-
zens" Land Company, and a director and ex-
treasurer of the Broadway Land and Build-
ing Comjiany. He is one of the founders of
the Paterson Grocers' .Association, its treasurer
since it was organized and still holds honorary
membership in the association. For many
years he has been counted among the promi-
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 municipality.
George Clay Mason married, November 15,
1870, Rocena, born May 25. 1844, daughter of
William and Catherine (Sigler) McCully.
Children: I. Francis K., born .\ugust 28.
1872: married .\nna Mae Smith, born .\pril
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 Alay. 1876, died March. 1877. 4.
Charles \\'.. born Tune 26, 1881.
This family is probably of
HL'GHES Welch origin, but is first found
as far as connection with this
family is known in northern Ireland, whither
it was undoubtedly transported from Scotland.
( I ) Thomas Hughes, immigrant progenitor.
was born and reared in Bambridge. a suburb
of Belfast, Ireland. He 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, mentioned below. 2. George, married
.Annie Franklin. 3. Thomas, married Mar-
garet Maiden. 4. Arthur, died young. 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 )
Hughes, was born December 21. 1825, at Bam-
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 Baltimore, and within two
years was taken into partnership. At the be-
ginning of the civil war, when General Butler
took possession of the city, he was one of its
leading merchants controlling the sale of pro-
vision markets and having contracts with the
British government for supplying its army and
navy. On account of his southern sympathies,
he was obliged to leave Baltimore and went
to New York, where he became a prominent
shipper and one of the le&ding speculators on
tlie produce exchange. Having been trained
to the linen business in Belfast in connection
with his brother, George, he established the
firm iif George Hughes & Company in 1862.
subsequently located at 198 and 200 Church
street. New York, dealers in linen goods. This
firm was the largest in the business up to the
year 1872. The conditions imposed by the
civil war. however, broke up 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, New 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 $125,000, through
endorsements on his brother's paper, followed
by the panic of 1873, caused his financial ruin,
[n consequence of these reverses, in 1876, the
family retired to the farm on Chesapeake Bay,
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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STATK ol- \E\V II-LRSEY.
He married. March 8, 1853. Mar_v A., born
December 19, 1832, in Cecil county, daughter
of Robert and Richarda (Hopkins) Dawson
(see Dawson, \'I). The last named was a
daughter of Dr. Richard Hopkins and a niece
of Dr. Johns Hopkins, for whom the Univer-
sity IS named (sec Hopkins, I\" ). Children of
lohn and -Mary A. Hughes: 1. Elizabeth, born
.March 14, 1858, in Baltimore, Maryland. 2.
Erank, mentioned below. 3. John, October 5,
1862. 4. ;\lary, August 10, 1864. 5. Thomas,
June 16, 1870: married, October 7, 1897, Carrie
Newman and has son, William Bayard, born
.March jS. 1904. 6. Arthur S., June 15. 1873.
The first three were born in Baltimore, Mary-
land, the fourth in Brooklyn, the fifth in
Plainfield, New Jersey, and the sixth in Clif-
ton, same state.
(HI) Frank, second son of Jt)hn 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 Passaic, 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 comljination of natural mental en-
(U)\vment, sheer force of will an<l a higher
ambition toward the best ideals, he lias wrought
his own advancement against what would have
proven in many lives unsurmoimtable 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 exjjcrt 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 cham]iion. Nearly all of the
important manufacturing industries located in
Passaic during his residence there have been
the direct result of his efforts. .\t the age of
twenty years, having wearied of the (|uiet of
the farm whither his parents had retired, he
determined to strike out in the world for him-
self. He became interested in the I'lock
system of telegraphy then in use on the Penn-
sylvania railroad running through the farm,
and resolved to study telegraphy. He left jiome
in 1882 and after a brief course in a Philadel-
phia technical school, secured a position as
operator at the Clifton station on the Delaware,
Lackawaima & 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 office
(jn 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 accjuaintance, and in the face of
strong prejudice, Mr. Hughes has made his
way ste]3 by step, 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-
ployed 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
Coni]iany. Passaic Bridge Land Company, Hill-
side Land Company, Main Avenue Improve-
ment Company, Minerva Land Company. I'as-
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
Company, 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 Gas & 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 L'nderwriters of New York
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, representing
some of the largest insurance companies in the
world. On January i, 1900. his business 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 Board of
Trade, and is a member of numerous clubs, in-
cluding the Maryland Society and the Citv
Club of Xew York.
He married, Alay 2^, 1889, Inez .M. Tlmrs-
ton, of Passaic, born February 10, 1864. in
New York City, daughter of Jonathan Hulj-
bard and Maria Louisa ( W'hittemore ) Thurs-
ton (see Thurston, IX). Children, born in
Passaic: i. Gladys M., August 1, 1890. 2.
Frank R., .August 23, i8:;i. 3. Grace L., Seji-
tember 6, 1892.
Dawson is a good old English
D.\\\'SON 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 pro-
genitors of the Maryland family came from
England among the pioneers. We find two of
the family in Talbot county among the first
settlers. Francis Dawson, a member of the
Society of Friends, had the following children
recorded in the Third Haven Monthly Meet-
ing: I. Obadiah, born June 13, 1672. died
1694. 2. Richard, December 13, 1^74; mar-
ried, 1698. Susannah Foster. 3. Elizabeth,
January 11, 1677-78. 4. John, November 2.
1678. 5. .\nthony, 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
ills 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. W'hen he died in 1710, he left
five minor children. According to family tra-
dition he came to this country in 1685. He
must have come with his father, and as the
other Daw.son 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 ])r(il)-
ably quite young when his father and grand-
fatlier died. According to one family tradi-
tion he came from England, but the evidence
is plain that he was born in Talbot county,
Maryland, after his father and grandfather
came there. Children: i. Thomas. 2. Joseph,
married Hadaway; 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
1700). 4. James. 5. Nicholas, born about
1754. died 1838: married Mary Cook. (The
order of birth of these children is unknown).
0. Elizabeth, mentioned below.
(I\') Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph (2)
Dawson, was born in Talbot count v. She
married Basil Sewell, father of General James
Sewell, of Cecil county, Maryland. General
Sewell commanded Fort McHenry in the War
of 1812 at the time "The Star Spangled Ban-
ner" was written there. Children : James
Sewell, Clement, Basil Jr., Elizabeth Sewell,
Mary, mentioned below, Thomas Sewell, liasil
Sewell, lived at Bayside, Talbot 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
Hopkins, 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 John Hughes, (see Hughes H).
Garret Hopkins, immigrant
HOI'KIXS ancestor, came to America
about 1 661. On January 24,
1 66 1. John Burrage demanded land for his
own transportation, and Margaret Burrage his
wife, and Margaret and EUzabeth, 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, (larrct 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 Priuios. In the
town hall of Coventry there is a portrait 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 quite possible
that (Jarret Hopkins came originally from
Warwickshire, although it is not known defi-
nitely. At the time of his death he lived at
Peake plantatimi, not far from West river,
about a mile from the present town of Owens-
villc. The ()lantation was inherited by his son
and grandson, and is now or was lately owned
by the heirs of Dr. Martin Fenwick. Garret
I foiikins was a planter and shipped crops to
F.ngland, having money there to liis credit,
lie was evidently comfortably well off. 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
Thomstjn . probably Eard. Children.
order of birth uncertain: i. Gerard, men-
tioned below. 2. Ann. married at St. James
parish. December 10, 1699, Henry Roberts.
3. Thomson or Thomasin, died about 1715;
married at .-Ml Hallows Parish, March 13,
1700. John Wel.sh. 4. Mary, died 1758: mar-
ried at St. James' I'arish, .August 9, 1703,
Thomas Wells.
(II) Gerard, son of Garret Hopkins, re-
sided on his father's plantation, lie became a
Quaker, took a prominent [lart in their meet-
ings, and served on important committees in
the church. In 1706 he accounted for tobacco
taken as taxes, and in 1732 was appointed one
of a committee to welcome Lord Baltimore.
His name appears as a witness on many mar-
riage certificates. He served often on com-
mittees to settle difYerences 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.
Pllizabeth, born March 13. 1703, died April 27.
1772; married, January 10, 1722-23, Levin
Ilill. 2. Joseph, November 2, 1706; married,
August 17, 1727, Ann Chew. 3. Gerard,
March 7, 1709, died September 3, 1777; mar-
ried. May 7, 1730, Mary Hall. 4. Philip.
March 9, 1711. 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.
(Ill) 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. Before his death he freed his
slaves. He married (first) Mary Gilliss. Mar-
ried (secoml) about 1747. .\Iary Crockett,
willow of John Crockett 2nd. and daughter of
Josejih and Rebecca (Johns) Richardson.
Married (third) Elizabeth Thoinas, who died
in 1804. She was born March 10. 1736-37,
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Snowden)
Thomas. She was "modest and retiring, yet
cnnimunicative 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 Friends, and
many were j^lcasantly entertained there. All
her children married, with the exception of
her \()ungest son, and it was a pleasant sight,
when thev met at her liou^e with their chil-
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791
dren, to behold the ha|)piness expressed in her
countenance, which seemed to be communi-
cated from one to another. She was the doc-
tress of the neighborhood poor. She was
remarkably healthy for one of her age and her
mind was unimpaired when she died after a
few days illness, of bilious fever, in the autumn
of 1804." Child of first wife: Ezekiel. born
May II, 1747. Child of second wife: Johns,
born July 8, 1751 : married (first) May 30,
1775, Elizabeth Harris: (second) April 13,
1779, Catherine Howell. Children of third
wife: I. Samuel, born February 3, 1739, died
February '9, 1814; married Hannah Janney :
was father of Johns Hopkins, for whom the
imiyersity is named. 2. Philip, September 24,
1760: married, March 21, 1787, Mary F)Oone.
3. Richard, March 2, 1762, mentioned below.
4. Mary, January 7, 1764; married, 1787,
Samuel Peach. 5. Margaret, February 20,
1766: married Jesse Tyson. 6. (jerard, Octo-
ber 24, 1769; married, 1796, Dorothy Brooke.
7. Elizabeth, .Vpril 26, 1771 : married, March
26, 1795, John Janney. 8. Eyan, Xoyember
30, 1772; married, January 25, 1810, Elizabeth
Hopkins. 9. .\nn, February 26, 1775 : mar-
ried, November 5, 1801, Thomas Shrieves. 10.
Rachel. September 7, 1777: married March
29. 1804, Robert Hough. 11. William, Janu-
ary 28, 1781 ; died unmarried.
(IV) Dr. Richard, son of Johns Hopkins,
was born March 2, 1762. He married Han-
nah Hammond. He had a daughter Richarda,
who married Robert Dawson (see Dawson,
y\).
Some authorities claim the
THURSTON 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 the twelfth
century.
(I) John Thurston, a carpenter of W'rent-
ham, Suffolk county, England, was baptized
January 13, 1601, died at Medfield, Massachu-
setts, November i, 1685. He embarked in the
"Mary Anne," from Yarmouth, England. May
10, 1637, at the age of thirty-si.x, 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 jiart afterward set off
as Medfield. His wife died Alay 9, 1662.
Their children were: i. Thomas, baptized at
W'rentham, England, August 4, 1633. 2. John,
baptized at Wrentham, Sei)tcmber 13, 1635.
3. Joseph, born at Dedham, ba[)tized July 15,
1640- 4- Benjamin, born May 8. baptized July
15. 1640. 5. Mary, born January 8, baptized
January 12. 1643. 6. Daniel. 7. Judith, born
March 17, baptized March 29, 1648. 8. Han-
nah, born T'ebruary 28, 1650.
(IF) 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,
1645. 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. Benjamin, born February
17. 1678, died March 26. 1680. 3. Sarah.
January 2. 1^)83.
(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, 1699, Experience Warren, who died Sep-
tember 6. 1704, and (second) October 15.
1705, Martha .-Mien, of Medway. His children
were: i.Josepli, 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.
Henjamin, December 25, 171 1. 7. Mary.
.\ugust 13, 1714. 8. Daniel, November 21.
1 7 16. 9. Ebenezer, September 22, 1718. 10.
Elizabeth, October 22, 1720. 11. David. 12.
Calvin. 13. Moses, September 17, 1733. 14.
Lydia, August 26, 1735. 15. Sarah, April 9,
1742, died young.
(I\') Joseph, oldest son of Daniel (2) and
E.xperience (Warren) Thurston, was born
( )ctober 14, 1700; he lived at Westboro, Mass-
achusetts, where he owned a farm, and where
he and his wife were admitted to the church,
by letter. November 8, 1741. l'>y his wife.
Dorothy 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 JERSEY.
Massachusetts. He removed to Spencer or
Leicester, thence to Brookfield, and married,
Augrust 30, 1763, Thankful ^^'ood, of West-
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, January 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.
'796- 3- Joseph. 4. Mary, July 6. 1799, died
same day. 5. Daniel, September 4. iSoo. 6.
Mary, January 13, died March 3. 1803. 7.
Mary Hubbard, March, 1804.
{Vll) Joseph (4), third son of Joseph (3)
and Polly (Hubbard) Thurston, was born
June 7, 1797. at I'rookfield, Massachusetts,
and was a farmer. He lived some time at
Leicester, Massachusetts ; he lived with and
took care of his uncle, J. Hubbard, of Paxton,
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, 1837. He married, June
25, 1823, Lucy Buckman, daughter of Deacon
David and Patty (Howe) Davis, of Paxton:
after the death of her husband she resided at
Worcester with her daughter .Abigail l!rown.
Their children were: i. Alary Elizabeth, born
May 12, 1824, died June 21. 1826. 2. .Abigail
Pirown, 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, 1845.
(\'III) Jonathan Hubbard, oldest son of
Josepii (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 ; subse(|uently 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,
(laughter of Cliarlcs 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. Efifie Ger-
trude, born September 6, 1855, at Leicester,
Massachusetts: married, June 25, 1877, Charles
Barker, of Lincoln, Delaware, and has two
children : ^Madeline Amanda, born November
25, 1878, and Sadie Waterhouse, January 25,
1 88 1. 2. Inez May. 3. Mabel Louise, Sep-
tember 30, 1869, at Passaic, New Jersey; mar-
ried Mark L. Bennett, of Maryland.
(IX) Inez May, second daughter of Jona-
than Hubbard and Maria Louisa (Whitte-
more) Thurston, was born February 10, 1864,
at New A\irk City. She married, May 23.
1889, Frank Hughes, of Passaic. New [ersev.
(see Hughes. III).
Henry Sewell, immigrant an-
.^EWh-LL cestor, came from England to
Virginia, before 1632, and
from iiini Sewell's Point at the entrance to
Elizabeth river, opposite Fortress Monroe,
takes its name. At the court holden May 31.
1640. Henry Sewell and Captain Sibley were
authorized to build a church at Sewell's Point,
and .August 2, 1640, they and others were
directed to pay Mr. Thomas Harrison, the
minister. This was an inde|)endent church.
He was elected to the house of burgesses from
Elizabeth City in 1632 and from Lower Nor-
folk county 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
"America and .Alexandria" and for one-half
cif a cargn in a shallop with sassafras roots,
sold in I'.ngland. and showed cash receipts to
have been six hundred and fifty ])oimds, nine-
teen shillings and six pence. He married
.Alice. datit,diter of Thomas Willoughby, who
came to \'irginia in 1610. was justice of Eliz-
abeth City in 1628, burgess, 1629-32, and
councilor from 1644 to 1630. Henry Sewell
died in 1644. and at a court held that year in
Lower Norfolk county at the house of Ensign
Lambert, b'ebruary 20. Mathew Philips, his
administrator, was ordered to pay Th(inias
Harrison, clerk, one thousand pounds of
tobacco for "burial and jireaching of Ihe funeral
sermon of Mr. and Airs. .Sewell. deceased.
and for breaking ground in the chancel of the
church for the burial of .Mr. and Airs. 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 al)r(>ad in charge of his kinsman.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
793
Mr. Thomas Lee. Children: i. Anne, horn
1634 or earher ; married, about 1649, Lemuel
Ma.son (she was married before February 25.
1740-50). 2. Henry, 1639, according to a
deposition dated 1662, and died without issue,
according to a deposition taken in 1672. (But
there was probably another son Henry, a not
uncommon custom in England being to name
two sons with the same baptismal name, to the
utter confusion of the genealogist).
(H) 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 1630. Peter Porter, of Sew-
ell's Point, settled at the head of Severn river,
Maryland, in 1650. Came also Edward Lloyd,
Cornelius Lloyd. Mathew Howard, Thomas
Todd, William Crouch, James Horner, Nich-
olas W'yatt, Thomas Howell, Thomas Gott,
William Galloway, James \^'arner, Richard
.\cton and others. One of these, James
Warner, was the father of Johannah Warner,
whom Henry Sewell married, l^.y 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 l*"ancy" and bought a part of
"Duvall's Delight" upon the Patuxent, from
Charles Carroll. His will, dated 1726, men-
tions children, given below, and bequeathed
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, .-\nne Arundel county,
Maryland. Children : Samuel, Mary, Henry.
Joseph. Philip, John, mentioned below.
(I\') 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, .\nnapolis, May 30, 1721. She was
baptized March 2, 1713, at St. Anne's Church.
Children: i. Henry, born 1723, baptized with
his brother at All Hallows Church, July 4,
1726. 2. John, born 1725.
(V) 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 next mentioned.
(VI) Basil, 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
2S of that year, mentions his sons: James,
liasil, William, Clement and Nicholas, and his
daughter Mary, wife of Robert Dawson. He
also mentions a son Thomas. He must have
been very young, for his son James was
directed to care for him.
( \ II ) James, eldest child of llasiland Elizabeth
( Dawson ) Sewell. married Rudolph and
lived in Maryland. He was the General James
Sewell who figured in the war of 1812 and was
in command of Fort McHenry. at the time the
song. "The Star Spangled Banner." 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 count\'.
The Smalley family of New
SMALLl'A" Jersey belongs to old Devon-
shire stock, and comes from
the same neighborhood as did the Drakes, wTio
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 I'aptists of
Rhode Island, and from that colony of liberty
loving jieople came the founder of the New Jer-
se\- branch of the family. His descendants have
ah\ ays hel 1 the views believed and jiracticed by
the P.aptists, and the family gave to this de-
nomination one of the most useful mmisters of
the gos])el that ever labored in New Jersey,
the Rev. Henry Smalley, of blessed memory.
( 1 ) John Smalley. the first person of that
name to come to the New World, was in Lon-
don, in I ("13 1, and in the following year came
over to .America in the vessel "Francis &
James," in company with many of the Massa-
chusetts P>ay 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,
794
STATE OF NEW fERSEY.
both of age, moved first to Rhode Island, and
from there to Piscataway, Middlesex county,
New Jersey, where they were among the earh-
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 province 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 position 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 Piscataway, and held many other
offices of public confidence and trust until his
death in 1725.
(II) John (2), son 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 present 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 Pis-
cataway I'ajjtist Church, publically organizeil
between 1686 and 1689. His will was made
September 13, 1731, and duly recorded in
1733, a short time after his death. John
Smalley, Jr., married in Piscataway, October
18, 1676, I.ydia, daughter of John Martin,
another of the early founders of that settle-
ment. .Among his chil(h-en were Jonathan, re-
ferred to below: I'llisha, married Marv Dun-
iiam ; i'hebe, married Ephraim Dunham.
(HI) Jonathan, eldest child of John (j)
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. 1 le was the first of this name on the
roll of the Seventh Day P>aptist Church of
Piscataway. So strict and conscientious a Sab-
batharian was he that when he leased part of
his farm in 1734 to parties who were to quarry
for minerals, he stipulated in the contract that
no work or labor should be performed upon
the premises on the seventh day of the week,
during the term of the twenty-one year lease.
He accumulated a large property for colonial
times, both real and personal, which he divided
by will among his children, .\bout 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 l>etween them. The Fitz-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 Piscataway, New Jer
sey. The homesteads and outlined jjlantations
of the sons of these pioneers were in close
proximity, and around them dwelled the Bon-
hams, Dunns, Dunhams, Alartins and others.
Most of these families were intimately related
by marriage, but became greatly estranged by
religion. The occasion was the existence in
Piscataway of two Baptist churches, one wor-
shipping on Sunday, the other observing Sat-
urday. The former was organized between
1686 and 1689, and the latter between 1705 and
1707. It is a noticeable 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 P>aptist, but his wife was
the earliest recorded in the list of females,
having united with the church before her mar-
riage. Most of Jonathan Smalley's ten chil-
dren became identified with the same church
t)n 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.
(l\'l .Andrew, youngest son of Jonathan
and Sarah ( i-'itz-Randolpli) Smalley. was born
in Piscataway. December 20, 1726. In his
will his father left him all his "Lands and salt
meadows." .After his marriage he set up
housekeeping at Harris Lane, the district lying
near I'.ound lirook, Somerset county. New
Jersey. February 26, 1746. .Andrew Smalley
was married b\' the Rev. Jonathan Dunham, the
Seventh Day I baptist mini.ster at that time in
Piscataway, to Agnes, born May 8, 1728,
daughter of David and Elsie Coriell. Among
the nine children born to them were Abraham,
STATE OF NEW (KRSEY.
795
bom May 2, 1748, remained in the old liome-
stead in Ambrose Drook, 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 children.
( \' ) John, son of Andrew and Agnes ( Cori-
ell) Smalley, was born in Piscataway. He
married Mary Langstafl: and among their chil-
dren was Henry, referred to below.
(\ 1) Elenry, son of John and Mary ( Lang-
staff) Smalley, after graduating from Prince-
ton College entered the IJaptist ministry, and
for fifty years was well known as one of the
must efficient and faithful servants of that de-
nomination, serving as pastor at Cohansey Bap-
tist church. By his wife, Hannah ( Fo.x) Smal-
ley, of Piscataway, he had three children : John,
William iMtz-Randolph, Henry Langstatt, re-
ferred to below.
(\T1) Henry Langstatf, youngest child of
the Rev. Henry and Hannah (P'ox) Smalley.
was born in Bowentown, New Jersey, 1807.
His life was spent in farming and also in con-
ducting a milling business. He died in 1852.
He married Tabitha Bacon, born at Roads-
town, New Jersey, 17Q8, daughter of Isaac
and Pliebe I Bacon) ilulford. ChUdren ; i.
James H., died at seventy-nine years of age.
2. Isaac Mulford, referred to below. 3. Will-
iam Fox, still living. 4. Mary lUidd, deceased.
5. John, still living.
(\"III) Isaac Mulford, second child and son
of Henry Langstati and Tabitha Bacon ( Mul-
ford) Smalley. was born at Bowentown, New-
Jersey, Alay 8, 1830, and is now living at
Bridgeton, New Jersey. He 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 inost successful. In 1883 he was elected
a member of the New 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
township. Roadstown, in which he lived for
thirty-seven years as farmer and nurseryman.
In politics ^Ir. Smalley is and has all his life
been a Democrat. For live years he was one
of the trustees of Rutgers College. He has
for luany years given his attention to financial
rather than agricultural and industrial ]iursuits.
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 manv vears was a director
in the Mutual Life Insurance Companv of
liridgeton. 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
Ji, 1864, Cornelia, daughter of .-Xbram Cannon.
Children: I. James Henry, married .A.lice
Ware, 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
M. 4. Howard Malcolm, married Elizabeth
.Vbbott ; child, Caroline. 5. Fannie, unmarried.
The Cunninghams are a
Cl".\XL\<;.IL\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, Scotland,
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 .Ayrsliire possess the earldom of Carrick
and Glencairn as well as the lordship 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-
ningham. In the precinct of Portlough, coun-
ty 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 Clan-
garnoche, .Ayrshire, had two grants in the same
jjrccinct aggregating three thousand acres,
while Cuthbert Cunningham, of Cilangarnoche,
had a thousand acre grant, and .Alexander
Cunningham, of Powton, gentleman, of Sorbie,
Wigtonshire, 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 j)er-
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 New Jersey. .Among his children was
John 1 1., see forward.
(II) John H., son of Jcjhn Cuiniingham.
was born in the north of Ireland, February
28, 1815, died December 2, 1879. He came
to the tjnited States with his parents ( who
were of the Pre.sbyterian faith) when three
years old. He married, May 19, 1842, Mar-
garet Ackerman, of P'aramus, New Jersey,
born January 12, 1823, died .April 12, 1896.
.Among his children was Robert Hudson, see
forward.
(III) Robert Hudson, son of John H. and
Margaret ( .Ackerman ) (.Ainningham, was born
in Paterson, New Jersey, September 23, 1855,
and was prominently identified with the busi-
ness life of that city for a ])eriod 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 I'elgram & Meyer, silk manu-
facturers of Paterson, with business offices in
.\'ew York. For the ne.xt twenty-five years he
was in the emjjloy of that house and during
that tiiue came to be recognized as one of the
best salesmen in the silk trade in the country.
\t the end nf that period he severed his con-
nectii)n with I'elgram & Meyer to become sell-
ing agent for I'leitman & Company, of New
\"ork, one of the largest commission silk
houses in .America. He retired from active
business about two years before his death,
March g, igo8. He himself was looked upon
as one of the successful business men of Pater-
son and .Vew York City, with a large ac(|uaint-
ancc in trade circles and an enviable standing
in military and fraternal circles. For nianv
years he was a member of the famous Pater-
son Life Cuards, and he also held member-
ship in the North Jersey Auto Club and the
Hamilton Club, of Paterson. He married,
June 28. 1883, Camilla Jane, born .November
18, i8fii, (laughter of .Augustus and Christi-
anna Miller, of New York City. Children .
Robert Hudson, see forward. Ciiarles l*'red-
erick, born June 17, 1889.
(I\') Robert Hud.son (2), son of Robert
Hudson (I) and C;uuilla |;ine (Miller) Cun-
ningham, was born in Paterson, New Jersey,
F^ebruary 23, 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, gratluating LL. B. with the class
of 190?), 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
( ;. lUauvelt, 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.xjiayers .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
f^aterson 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 April 20, 1885, daughter of John
K. and .Annie Louise ( Thorne ) Cooke. \Vatts
Cooke, the father of John K. Cooke, was the
founder of the Paterson Rolling Mills, at Pat-
erson. New jersev.
.According to the records of
.MARSHALL the family at ])resent under
consideration their original
home in this country was X'irginia, to which
])lace 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, founder of the family
at present under consideration, settled at (iood
Intent, New Jersey, and located on the Haz-
zard ])roperty near the town of Blackwood:
but he afterwards removed to Lamb's Mills,
where he remained until his death in 1 780,
at the age of sixty-si.\ years. He married
1 lannah, daugiiter of Thomas Chew. Chil-
dren: Randall, Thomas, referred to below;
Jiihn. William, Joseph, Mary, FJizabeth. .'^arah
1 lannah. Charity.
(II) Thomas, son of Randal! and Hannah
(Chew) Alarshall, married .Ann I^ease. Chil-
dren : John, Randall, David, William, Thomas.
( 111 ) Randall (2), son of Thomas and .Ann
STATE OF NEW [EKSEV
797
(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. Xew 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 Marshaliville to Thomas
\'an Gilder, for $7,525. He also operatctl and
owned a tannery at Port Elizabeth.
August 4. 1793, Randall Alarshall married
Mary, daughter of Henry and Hannah Dough-
ty ( Furness ) Reeves (see Reeves, V). 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, 1812, 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 1, died in Marshaliville, 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 AI. D. He then set up in the
practice of his profession in ]\Iarshallville,
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, \1). Children: i. ICIlcn L..
born .April 6, 1836; married, I'"ebruary 11,
1862. P.elfurd E. Sniith. 2. Sarah H., Septem-
ber 7, 1838; married, December 21, 1862,
Henry F. Steelman ; three children. 3. Ben-
jamin H., September 25, 1840; married, July
4, 1861, F.liza Ogden : two children. 4. James
L.. January 20, 1844; married. May 28. 1873,
Emma Smitii ; two children. 5. I'lllis Hughes,
September 18, 1845; married (fir.st) Harriet
.Shoemaker; (second) Lydia Gandy ; one child
by each marriage. 6. Joseph Corson, referred
to below. 7. Mary T., December 17, 1850,
died -Viigust 25, 1868; unmarried. 8. An in-
fant, died April 13, 1853. 9. Randolph, re-
ferred to below. 10. -Anna H.. .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 medical department of the Univer-
sity of Peimsylvania in 18(^)8 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 Wills 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.
(I\') 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.
Durins his Medical course he studied obstetrics
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under Dr. 1). Iirdsley Wallace, and i)j)erative
surgery under Dr. J. Ewing Mears, and com-
pleted 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-
nership with his brother, Joseph Corson ^lar-
shall, and in the beginning of 1878 the two
brothers erected both their drug store and
their office. This arrangement continued until
1890. 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 Market
street, Philadelphia. Dr. Alarshall has always
been a close student of his profession, and for
many years has been a member of the Cape
May Medical Society, of which organization
he served for twelve years as treasurer, and
for a long time as its permanent delegate to
the State Medical Society. He 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, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Tuckahoe ; Richmond Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, of Millville; Olivet Commandery,
Knights Templar, of Millville; and of the
Ancient Order of United 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 worked 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, daughter of Antony Stcclman, her father
having been one of the sherififs of Cai)e May
county. Mrs. Marshall died September IQ.
1908.
iThe ncevf.'; Line, si-e W.ilter Reeves ]).
(II) William, son of Walter Reeves, of
Burlington county, New Jersey, was possibly
the son of his first wife, although his mother
may have been .Xnn Howell, his father's sec-
ond wife. All 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. Jose])h, referred to below.
(Ill) Jusej^h, son of William Reeves, was
born about 1720, died September 3, 1767. He
lived at Mount Holly, and left his widow 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 26, 1800: married Sarah
(Reeves) Patterson. 2. Henry, referred to
below. 3. Jane.
( I\' ) Henry, son of Joseph and Jane Reeves,
was born at Alount 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 I b^irness) 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-
tember 21, 1779. 6. Henry, January 26, 1782,
died November 5. 18 13. 7. Jane, September
21, 1783. 8. Hannah, October 21, 1785. 9.
Abraham, February 27, 1788. 10. Dorothy,
May 23, 1790, died .-Xpril 17, 1837. 11. Ben-
jamin l~urness, July 7, 1792, died March 6,
1862; married Rachel Godfrey. 12. John,
February 27, 1794, died October 22, 1805.
(\') Mary, 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,
III).
(The Hughe.s Line. Mayflower descent).
( 1 ) John Howland. one of the "Mayflower"
passengers, 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 (iorham, who was buried ai
Swansea, Massachusetts, February 5, 1675.
(III) Hannah, daughter of Captain John
and Desire (Howland) Gorham, was born at
Barnstable, Massachusetts, November 28,
1663. .About 1683 she married Joseph Whill-
din, of Yarmouth, Massachusetts. They re-
moved to Cai)c May county. New Jersey, and
according to Stevens' "History of Cape May"
all the \Vhilldins of that county are descended
from them. In i(»)3 and ifH)8 he was constable
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of Cape May county; in 1705 he was commis-
sioned high sheriff; and later he served sev-
eral years as one of the justices of the
peace.
(IVj Joseph (2), son of Joseph {i) and
Hannah (Gorham) Whilldin, was born about
1690, died at Cape May, March 18. 1748. His
first wife, Mary, said to have been Mary Wil-
man, died April 8, 1743. The name of hi.-
second wife was .Abigail. Children: Matthew,
David, Jane, Hannah, Rachel, Lois, Mary.
(\') Hannah, daughter of Joseph (2) and
Mary (W'ilman) 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 Hug-hes Line).
t
( 1 ) The Hughes family at present under con-
sideration are of Welsh ancestry, and settled
first on Long Island, whence they removed to
Cape May county. New Jersey.
(I) Humphry Hughes, according to 1 low-
ell's "History of Southampton," lived in
Bridgehampton or Sagg, and had a wife Mar-
tha. He is found in this place in 1669, and in
the tax list of 1698 are mentioned his children :
Humphrey, referred to below, Abner, Uriah,
Jedediah, John.
(II) Humphrey (j), son of Humphry (i)
and Martha Hughes, was born in Bridge-
hampton, Long Island, October 2, 1669, died
in Cape May county, New Jersey. By his
first wife whose nanie is unknown he had a
son, Ellis, referred to below. Between 1720
and 1723 he married (second) Elizabeth,
widow of David Wells.
(III) Ellis, son of Humphrey (2) Hughes,
was born about 1708, died February 8, 1762.
He married Hannah, 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.
(IV) 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)
Whilldin, widow of Wilman, his first cousin.
Children: 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 county. New Tersev, January 10,
lyOg. 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 February 14, 1895; married. May 21,
1835. Randolph, son of Randall and Mary
(Reeves) Marshall, (see Marshall, 11 li.
Richard Rossiter, son of Mar-
kOSSITER tin and Bridget (Kehoe) Ros-
siter, was born in the county
of We.xford, 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 I'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 sherifif 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. Fie 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 membership 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, 1900. John Wesley, son of John
and Catherine .\. (Jackson) Kingsland. and
they have four children: i. Rossiter, born July
14, 1 90 1, died young. 2. Magdalene, born July
8, 1903. 3. Jennie Jackson, April 26, 1905. 4.
Muriel M., .August 27, 1907.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
'I'Ik- llilliard taniil) of South
IIILI.IARI) Jersey are the descendants of
John HiUiard, the friend of
W'llHam i'enn, 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 (1) llilliard,
removed to Northampton township, IJurling-
ton county, New Jersey, where he married
^ilartha, only child of Bernard Devonish, one
of the Xew Jersey proprietors, and died intes-
tate in 17 19. It is unfortunate that the names
of all his children have not been preserved to
us in the public 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 Xew 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.
(1\") Samuel, son of Edward antl Sarah
(Haines) Hilliard, married Hannah .\tkinson
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 si.x children, among whom was
Thomas Townsend, see forward.
(\T ) Thomas Townsend, son of Joseph and
Ann (Thompson) Hilliard, was born in Man-
nington township, Salem county, New Jersey,
September 4, 1816. 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 Bernard, born
at Elsinboro, January 26, 185 1 ; married Sarah
Hall, daughter of Clement and Sarah (Jones)
Acton.
(VH) William Thomas, elder son of Thomas
Townsend and Hannah Townsend (Goodwin)
Hilliard, w'as born at Elsinboro, Salem county.
New Jersey, May 28, 1849. For his early edu-
cation he was sent to Bradin Academy of
Salem and later to the I-'riends' school in the
same town, and in 1867 was sent to the .S within
C. Shortledgc school at Kennett S(|uare, Ches-
ter county, Pennsylvania, which he left in
March. 1869. He then entered the office of
Judge Clement IT. -Sinnickson, of Salem, where
hc-took up the study of law. and with whom
he continued until .March. 1870, when he enter-
ed the office of the I Ion. Thomas P. Carpenter,
of Camden, .\ew Jersey, where he remained
until June, 1873, when he was admitted to the
New Jersey bar as an attorney, .\fter 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 Xew
Jersey State Bar Association, one of the char-
ter members of that organization. Pie 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 ) (HUingham. She died July
3, 1900. Mr. flilliard married (second) No-
vember 6, 1901, Anna daughter of Elisha and
Hannah Ann ( Thompson ) Bassett, of Salem
(see Bassett, VI). Children of first wife:
Thomas (iillingham, George Lippincott, Will-
iam Thomas, Bernard .\ubrey. Mary Elizabeth,
all of whom are referred to below.
(\TII) Thomas Gillingham, eldest child of
William Thomas and Eliza ((jillingham) 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'
scItooI at Fifteenth and Race streets, Phila-
delphia, after graduating from which he stud-
ied law in the office of his father at Salem and
was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attor-
ney in June, 1898, and injune, 1901, as coun-
sellor.
(\'1II) George Lippincott, second child of
William Thomas and Eliza (Gillingham) Hilli-
ard. was born in Salem, New Jersey. June 26,
1879. .After graduating from the George
school at Newtown, Bucks county, Petmsyl-
vania, he took up the course in the department
of mechanic arts at the Drexel Institute, and
then served his ai:)]:)renticeship in Bement. Miles
Company, of Philadelphia, and is now (1909)
in the employ of Farr, Bailey & Company, of
Camden, New Jersey.
(\'III) William Thomas (2), third child of
William Thomas and Eliza (Gillingham)
Hilliard, was born in Salem, New Jersey, Sep-
tember 7, 1 88 1. He received his early educa-
tion at the I'riends' private school at Salem.
He then went to the George school at Xewtown.
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 T903, and in the same year passed the
New Jersey state medical examination and
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8oi
became junior resident physician at the Na-
tional Homoeopathic Hospital at Washington,
District of Columbia. One year later he be-
came the senior resident physician, and in 1905
opened an office ou 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 Count}' Medical Society. He married,
June 18, 1909, Mary Clayton, of Woodstown,
New Jersey.
(VTH) Bernard Aubrey, fourth child of
William Thomas and Eliza ( Gillingham ) Hilli-
ard, was born at Salem, New Jersey, .\ugust
24, 1885. He attended the Salem public
schools, and in June, 1903, graduated from the
Friends' Central School of Philadelphia, after
vvliich 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.
(\ III) 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
Seminary at Bradford, Massachusetts. She
married, September 19, 1909, Charles W. White
F'ailey, of Camden, New Jersey.
(The Goodwin Line).
The (joodwin 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.
Kotolph's, Aldgate, London.
(I) John (2) Goodwin, founder of the
family in South Jersey, was born December
25. 1680, and emigrated to Pennsylvania in
1 701. 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) \\'illiam. 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: i. John, born 1745; mar-
ii— 26
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 Mannington.
(III) Lewis, second son of William and
Mai-y (Morris) Goodwin, married (first) Re-
becca Zane, of Salem, and had two children :
I. John, married Abigail Carpenter. 2. Susan.
He married (second) Rachael, daughter of
William Nicholson, of Maimington, and had
three more children. 3. William, referred to
below. 4. Thomas, married Sarah Jeffries.
5. Alorris, married Sarah Smith.
(IV) William (2), eldest child of Lewis
and Rachael (Nicholson) Goodwin, married
Hulda, daughter of Daniel Townsend, of Cape
May county. New Jersey, and among their
cliildren was Han'^iah Townsend, who married
Thomas Townsend Hilliard (see Hilliard, \T).
(Tlie Bassett Line).
The family of Bassetts came from England
in the ship "Fortune" in 1621 and settled near
Boston, Massachusetts, and many of their de-
scendants still remain about Lynn, Massachu-
setts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
(I) William Bassett, one of the children of
the emigrant ancestors of New England, came
from Lynu 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 w'ere : i. Sarah, born 1719; married
Thomas Smith, of Mannington, 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
.Abigail Elizabeth (Davis) Bassett, was born
December 15, 1722. He married Mary, daugh-
ter of Joseph ^\'oodnutt, of Mannington. Chil-
dren : I. Joseph, died young. 2. Rachael, died
young. 3. Sarah, born August 10, 1759; mar-
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STATE OF NEW lEKSEY.
ried Joseph ['ettit. 4. llannah, married John
Roberts. 5. Joseph, referred t(.i below. ().
Name unknown.
|1\') Joseph, st.in of Elislia (^2) and Mary
I W'oochuitt ) Bassett, was born June 26, 1765.
He married Mary, daughter of David and Re-
becca Allen, of Alannington. Children: i.
Elisha, referred to below. 2. Joseph, married
(first) Lydia Freedland ; (second) Sarah Hill;
(third) Ann (X'enicomb) Lippincott. 3. David,
married (first) X'ashti Davis; (second) Han-
naii Pettit ; ( third 1 Ann Packer. 4. Hannah,
married Jonathan Cawley. 5. Rebecca, mar-
ried Caspar W'istar. 6. Samuel, married Mary
Ann Craft. 7. Benjamin, married Mary Acton
8. William, born 1803: married .\bigail llazle-
tiiii. <). Mary. iSof); married ( ieorge Craft,
Jr.
( \' ) Elisha (3), eldest son of Joseph and
Mary (.Mien) Bassett, was born January 26,
177S. He married (first) Mary, daughter of
Darkin and Esther Nicholson, of Elsinboro.
Children: i. David, married Mary Smith.
2. Josiah, 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. Albert, married Sarah Shoemaker. 8. Mary.
Elisha married (second) Mary, daughter of
Thomas Clark, and widow "f Samuel Lijipin-
cott.
(\T) PLlisha (4), fourth child and third son
of Elisha (3) and Mary (Nicholson) Bassett.
married Hannah Ann, daughter of Andrew
and Rebecca (Abbott) Thompson. Among
their children was Anna, who became the sec-
ond wife of William Thomas Milliard (see
Milliard. \'Ih.
The Headley family is un-
1 lIvXDl.l'A' <loubtedly of Engli.sh origin
although one tradition says
tlK-\- came from Scotland. In the twelfth
cintury the name was spelt De Haddeleigh,
and de lladleins, its signification being "of the
woods." In later days the name has passed
through various f(jrms and has now crystal-
ized into Headley, Hedley, Hedly and Had-
ley. The ])rescnt 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
b'lizabethtown associates.
(I) The Leonard Headley referred to
above, soon after his coming to Elizabetii-
toun. went about five miles west of the town,
and settled what for many years was known
as Headley town, which was that part o!
L'nion county now known as Unionville.
Leonard Headlev was a weaver and also the
owner of a sawmill. His wife Sarah, wdio 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 ibqg
being the high sherift" of the county. Leonard
Headley died in February, 1683, and it is sup-
posed left two sons. Thomas, referred to
Ijelow, and Abner.
(II) Thomas, conjectured son of Leonard
Headley, was in Elizabethtown from 1700 to
1702, when his name appears on various pa-
[jers and documents. Of his family nothing is
definitely known, but it is conjectured from
his being mentioned in the will of John
Parker that there was some connection be-
tween the families of Headley and Parker,
possibly 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.
(HI) Samuel, conjectured son of Thomas
Headley, of Elizabethtown, 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 Mary, Samuel
Headley had eight children: i. Mary, married
Jnhn Muchmore. 2. Joseph, referred to
below. 3. Robert, born in 17 18 or 1720, died
.\l)ri! 28, 1806; married Susanna , and
Phebe (Baldwin) (Gardner. 4. Samuel, who
is referred to below. 5. Sarah. 6. Rachel.
7. Phebe. 8. Isaac, married a Miss Piatt, of
Xew Jersey, and was ]jrobal)ly the eldest son.
(IX) Joseph, son of Samuel and Mary
Headley, was born about 1718, died in Oc-
tober, 1785. He was a farmer and at first
lived in Headley town on land inherited from
liis 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 jircjperty that part of the battles
iif Connecticut I'arms and Springfield were
fought. The name of Joscjih 1 leadley's wife
is unknown, but his children were: I. David.
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803
born about 1745, died 1806; married and had
one child, Abner. 2. Ehzabeth, born about
1749, married IJenjamin Crane. 3. John
Thompson, born 1751, died February 4, 1828:
married Catliarin Smith ; was a revohitionary
sohher and fought at Comiecticut F'arms and
Springfield. 4. Rachel, married Aaron Hun-
ter. 5. Cary, referred to below. 6. Ann,
married Eliakim Frazee, but has no issue. 7.
.Mary, who married but had no issue.
( V ) Cary, son of Joseph Headley, of I lead-
leytown. was born February 14, 1756, died
February 1, 1823. He was born in Union
township. Union county, where he lived and
died, and spent his time farming. He was a
man of much enterprise, much esteemed by
his fellow-townsmen. He lived on what is
now known as \'alley street about half a mile
south of Wyoming, and owned at least one
hundred and fifty acres. When they were
married Airs. Headley was presented with
two slaves, a man and a woman. Cary Head-
ley was a revolutionary .soldier, entertained
(jeneral 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
]irayed for victory for the patriot army. For
three days Cary Headley's house was sur-
rounded by the I'ritish. His wife and serv-
ants took the cattle and horses over the Orange
mountain and remained there with them until
the enemy had feft. 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 fTeadley furn-
ished an ox which was roasted on the Orange
mountain and General Washington partook of
it. A part of the battle of Springfield was
fought on this place.
Cary Headley married, April i. 1781. Phebe,
li(irn .\Iarch 13, i'/fi2. died about 1830, daugh-
ter of \\'illiam 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 Campliell Baker. 5. Timothy, March
ID, 1800, died December 24, 1851 : married
Adeline Shaflfer. 6. David Cary. February
15, 1802, died November 25. 1863; married
Charlotte Halsey Baker. 7. Sarah, born
about 1807. died February 18. 1827: married
Daniel S. Towidev, and moved to Ohio aboul
(\ I) Wdliam Stiles, third child and eldest
.son of Cary and Phebe (Stiles) Headley, was
born Jaiuiary 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: V Jo-
anna Townley, born June 3, 1814, died ApvW
4, 1839; married \\'illiam Sanford Pnirnett, of
Brooklyn. 2. Phebe Stiles, September [2.
1816. married Silas Condit Burnett. 3. Caro-
line. July 21, 1819, died March 7, 1889; mar-
ried William Courier. 4. John Stiles, referred
to below. 5. Jane M., December 31, 1824.
married lieorge R. Baker. 6. Wickliff, July
4, 1828. died March, 1902; married Sarah
Ami Brown Dawes.
(MI) 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 L'nion township.
After acquiring a practical education he went
to Brooklyn. Long Island, and was appren-
ticed to David M. Afllick, who taught him the
trade of a mason. In 1846 he began business
for himself as a builder, and continued with
>uccess until 1856. when he returned to Union
townshi]). locating upon a portion of the prop-
erty of his ancestor. Cary Headley. To this
he succeeded partly by inheritance, partly by
])urchase. 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-
ponents 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 .\nn, 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 Elizai)eth. born July 31, 1857. married
William S. Wade, of South Orange. Xew
Jersey. 3. Jane Lillian. June 22. 1859, married
William 11. Harrison, of Irvington.
(\111) Will Courter, eldest child and only
son of John Stiles and Sarah .Ann (Courter'i
Headley. was born in Brooklvn, Long Island.
June 25. 1853. ami is now living in Xewark,
8o4
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
New Jersey. He was brt)ught up on a pan
of the old Cary Headley Homestead farm in
L'nion county, south of Wyoming and near the
Essex county Hne. He attended the public
schools at Headleytown, Springfield, and St.
Stephen's, an Episcopal .school at Alilburn,
Essex county. He then entered the law office
of Whitehead & Morrow ( John Whitehead
and Samuel Morrow Jr.) in October, 1872.
was admitted to the .\'ew 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 oiifiice 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 1896 he removed to East Orange,
New Jersey, where he continued to reside until
about 1906 when he removed to Newark, where
he now resides. He has his law offices at 800
Broad street, Newark, and is one of the prom-
inent lawyers of that city. In politics Mr.
Headley 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-
pal Church of Newark, which his family now
attend.
Will Courter Headley married, June 5, 1878,
Rosetta, born at Green Bay, Wisconsin, Sep-
tember, 1853, daughter of the Hon. D. Cooper
and Sarah Francis (Camp) Ayres, whose two
brothers arc: James Cooper, married Nellie
Rodman ; and F'rancis Camp, marrietl Sally
Chamberlain, and has two children: Mar-
guerite and I'Vances. 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-
referred to below.
(IX) Elroy, eldest son of Will Coiu'ter and
Rosetta (Ayres) Headley, was born on a part
of the Cary Headley homestead, April 7, 1879.
In June, 1894, he graduated from the Irving-
ton public school ; from the Newark Academy,
with honors, June, 1897, and from Princeton
L'niversity, 1901, with honors, having taken
several jjrizes while there. In 1902 he gradu-
ated from the New York Law School and he
is now in his father's office. He married, No-
vember 26, 1903, Ethel 1')., daughter of Henry
Whitman, born l'"ebruary 19, 1884, and has
one child, Elroy Whitman, born November 6,
1904-
( IN ) William Francis, second child and
son of Will Courter and Rosetta (Ayres)
Headley, was born Alarch 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 27, 1906, Etta Mac
Courter, born May 5, 1885, and has two chil-
dren : I. Francis 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 the
I'lastern school. East Orange, in 1898, from
the East Orange high school, 1902, from Yale
Cniversity, 1906, and from the New York
Law School, 1908.
I 1\ ) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) and
.Mary Headley, was born about 1724, died No-
vember 7, 1787. He was twice married, first
to Rachel, l)orn 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,
1 809, aged eighty-two. She bore him eight more
children: 1. Rhoda, born 1756, died October
2j, 1837; married Jonas Wade. 2. Stephen,
January 28, 1761. died March 26, 1843; mar-
ried Hannah Lockwood. 3. -Davis, referred
to below. 4. Mary, married Moses Wade. 5.
Samuel, September 3. 1768, died June 29,
1 841 ; married Elizabeth Miller. 6. Rebecca,
July 24, i/Ji. died January 7, 1861 ; married
Daniel I'.aker Jr. 7. Phebe, 1774, died Feb-
ruary 7, i860; married Dr. Hillyer. 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 L'nion township, July 11, 1763, died Sep-
tember 10, 1832. He married three times.
His first wife was Joanna, born November
23, 1774, died December 2, 1812, daughter of
(leorge and Martha (Baldwin) Townley.
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,
1S36, unmarried. 5. Martha Baldwin, 1801,
died November 6, 1826; married Caleb S.
Miller. 6. Davis Jr., October 10, 1805, died
STATE OF NEW ll-.RSEY.
8ot
May 7, 1881 ; married Susan Ball. 7. Mary,
1808, died September 28, 1827; married Ewel
Freman. 8. Moses, who died unmarried. liis
second wife was Joanna, born October 29.
1764. died October 14, 1816. daughter of John
Ogden and the widow of James Cole. Their
child was William Ogden, born March 12,
1813. died February 23, 1875; married Maria
S. Pierson. His third wife was Fanny Grif-
fith, widow of Daniel Burger, who bore him
one child, Eleanor Burger, married Lewis W.
Lyon.
(\'I) Hannah Lockvvood, second child and
daughter of Davis and Joanna (Townley)
Headley, was born June 9, 1795, died in
March, 1874. She married William Stiles
Headlev (see fieadlev, \'l).
John Martin, immigrant ances-
]\L\RTIN tor of this branch of the family,
died July 5. 1687. He was of
Dover, Xevv Hampshire, 1648-1666: Wood-
bridge, New Jersey, 1668-1676; and Piscata-
way, New Jersej', 1676-1687. He married
Esther, born in 1628, died December 12, 1687.
daughter 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 Hull.
2. John, 1650, died at Piscataway, April, 1704:
married (first) June 26, 1677. Dorothy, daugh-
ter of Richard Smith, of Woodbridge, New
Jersey; (second) January 19, 1698-99, .Anne
Brown, who survived him. 3. Joseph. 1652 ;
married, November 25, 1679, Sarah, daughter
of W^illiam 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
Higgins. 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, .\ugvist
4, 1683. 3. Benjamin, November 14, 1685,
died May, 1757; married Philorate Slater. 4.
Jonathan, January 12. 1687-88, died August,
1768: married Elizabeth . The elder
Benjamin married (second) November 10.
i688. Margaret, daughter of Peter Ellstone,
of W'oodliridge, New Jersey. Children: S-
Mary. .April 21, 1691, 6. Peter, see forward.
(Ill) Peter, only son of Benjamin and
Alargaret (Ellstone) Martin, was born .August
19, 1693, died March, 1756. He married
(first) 1712, Marie . Children: i.
Mulford, see forward. 2. Serviah Runyon.
3. Mary, married Isaac Fauret, 4. Pressilla.
By the second marriage of Peter ALirtin he
had: 5. Robert, married (first) November 29,
1758. Mary P.loomfield, (second) May 4. 1761,
Margaret PattaiT 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
11. \~i(). daughter of Ephraim and Phebc
Dunham. Child, Thomas, born 1739, died in
October, 1767: married, February 15, 1762,
Elizabeth .\yers, of Woodbridge, New Jersey.
Mulford ^lartin married (second) Rachel
.Ayers. of W'oodbridge, New Jersey. Children :
T. Rachel .\yers. 2. Mulford, see forward. 3.
.'^amuel. born in 1743.
( \' I Mulford (2), eldest son of Mulford
( I I and Rachel (.Ayers) Martin, was born in
1741, (lied January 28, 1788. He married
(first) .Anna , born in 1728, died in
i7()6. Children: i. .Anna, born in 1760. died
December 6. 1788. buried in Railway, New
Jersey. 2. Merritt, 1762, died in 1819: mar-
ried. May 21", 1783, Rebecca, born in 1766, died
.August 30, 1801, daughter of Colonel Moses
and Zeporah (De Camp) Jaques : they had
seven children. 3. Thomas, 1766. died ^Tarch
20, 1835, buried at Railway: married, Septem-
ber 21, 1788, Sarah, daughter of John and
Martha Ludlum. Mulford Martin married
( second) Hannah, daughter of Peter and Han-
nah Trembley, and widow of John Spinning.
Children: 4. Peter, 1771., died June 10, 1804,
buried in Rahway, New Jersey ; married, De-
cember 14, 1794, .Sarah Conkling. 5. William,
see forward. 6. Anna, February 5, 1781, died
February 20, 1817: married Elias Dunham,
born February 29. 1766, died July 29, 1815.
(\"I I \\'illiain, second son and child of Mul-
ford (2) and Hannah (Trembley) (Spinning)
Martin, was born near Rahway, New Jersey,
r-'ebniary 12, 1779, died in Rahway, 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,
b(irn 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,
8or,
STATi-: OI" NEW lERSEY.
1812. 4. William Mulford, see forward. 5.
Ann Loree, January I. 1816, died at Newark,
New Jersey, September 21, 1895; married
James Audley Calhoun. 6. Albert Gallatin,
October 29, 1818, died at Dixon, Illinois, Feb-
ruary 14, 1894; married Frances Thomjjson.
(\'I1) William Mulford, third son and
fourth child of William and Ann (Loree)
Martin, was luirn in Railway, New Jersey,
June 29, 1813. He married at Brooklyn, New-
York, January 10, 183C), .\nn Elizabeth I'ar-
menter. born in Boston, Massachusetts, Janu-
ary II. 1819 died in Woodbridge. New Jersey.
October 17, 1885. Children: i. William Wis-
ner. born in Rahway. December 18, 1837, died
in Brooklyn, New York, October 16, 1865;
married, June 2^, 1863, Fannie Ludlow Had-
den, born in New York City, February 5, 1838,
died in i'lainficld, Xew Jersey, January 29,
1890; their child, Louise Hunt Martin, born
in Columbia, California, April 6, 1864, mar-
ried, August 3. 1893. at Brooklyn. New York,
Kneeland Moore, and had a daughter, .Amia
Louise, born September 13, 1896. 2. .\nna
Maria, born at Rahway, July 26. 1842. died
July 2j. 1S43. 3, James Parmenter, see for-
ward. 4. .-\nn Elizabeth, born in Rahway,
March 21, 1847, died in the same town. |ul\
29, 1849. 5- Joseph Hillyer Thayer, bom at.
Rahway. January 2^. 1850: married at Wood-
bridge. New Jersey. June 2. 1874. L\(lia I'ree-
man. born in Woodbridge. July 25. 1851 : chil
dren : Joseph Hillyer Thayer, born .March
22. 1875; Lillie Freeman, born January 17.
1878. died July 3. 1892; Elsie Barron, born
.\pril 10. 1880; Hilda, born June 11, 1884. 6.
Sovereign Edgar, born in Rahway, December
22, 1851. died in Woodbridge, July 28, 1855.
(\TII) James Parmenter, second son and
third child of William Mulford and Ann Eliza-
beth ( Parmenter) Martin, was born m Brook-
lyn, Xew ^'ork. October 8. 1844. died June 17.
1908. He married at Lyons. New 'S'ork. June
12, 1867. lloldena White Bel!, born at Sini])-
sonville. Kentucky. October 19, 184(1. and a
descendant of James Brown, a sketch of whose
descendants will be found forward. Children :
I. \\'isner liell, born in N'irginia City. Nevada.
December 17. 1868: married, June (), 1894, at
Hackensack, Xew Jersey, Grace Moore. 2.
William Parmenter, see forward.
( JX ) William Parmenter, second and young-
est son and child of James l^armenter and
Holdena W hile ( I!ell) Martin, was born in
\'irgini;i City. Nevada, October 8. 1871. Me
is an attorni'v and counsellor at law, with
offices in the l'"(iuitable building, Xo. 120 l!road-
way, .Xew \'ork City, and is a member of the
Lawyers' Club. He and his wife are members
of the Roseville Avenue Presbyterian Church.
He married at (ieneva. New York, June 10,
189^), Margaret, born January 19, 1872, only
■ laughter of Archibald Bostvvick ancl Alvira
(Peek) Morrison, and sister of Harry and
.Archibald Piostwick, Jr., the latter of whom
is married to Sade Rutherford.
( I I James Brown, who resided in Hatfield.
.Massachusetts, in i(Tr)9, removed to'Deerfield.
Massachusetts, in 1683, and went thence to
Colchester, Connecticut. He married in
Springfield, Massachusetts, January 7, 1674,
Remembrance Brooks. Children: i. Mary,
born May 26, 1677. 2. .\bigail. September 8.
1678. 3. Thankful. June 1. 1(^)82. 4. Sarah
1683. 5. James. 1685. 6. Mindweil, 1686.
7. Hannah. 1688. 8. Mercy, 1(390. 9. Eliza-
beth. i()<J3. 10. John, see forward.
ill) John, youngest child of James and
Remembrance ( Brooks ) Brown, was born in
Deerfield. Massachusetts. P'ebruary 10. i()95.
He was a soldier at one time and tradition
says that he was capturetl by the Indians during
the I'rench and Indians war, taken to Canada.
where he was exchanged and released after
having been kept a prisoner for some time.
He married at Northfield. Massachusetts. No-
\-ember 28. 1725. Hannah Janes, born at North-
am])ton. Massachusetts. June 16, 1710. Chil-
ilren: i. John, born April 5, 1726. 2. Benja-
min. October 14. 1727. 3. Silas, see forward.
4. Eunice. December 15. 1730. 5. Hannah.
-Xovember 2. 1732. 6. Lois. August 14, 1734'
married (iideon Shattuck. 7. Rufus, July 5,
1736; died at East Hampton, Massachusetts,
Xovember 8, 1801.
( HI ) Silas, third ^cm and child nf John and
Hannah (Janes) Brown, wa^ born ui Xorth-
Ik'ld, Massachusetts, June 21, 1729, died at
East Ham])ton, Massachusetts, .\ugust 4, 1804.
He was a lieutenant in Captain Jonathan
Waite's coiujiany. 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 revolutionary war. and conducted a
part of the prisoners then captured to Hart-
ford, (."onnecticut. He married Catharine
.Searle. born about 1735. died February 11,
1S13. Children: i. Sarah, married
St(ire\-. 2. .Silas, Jr., see forward. 3. Eli, born
.abnut I7(>5. died March 15. 1795. 4. .\rad.
b( rn aboin 17('8, died January 2. 1795. 5.
STATE OF NEW IKRSEY.
807
Zenas, married. January 2~ . 1791. ;
died in \\ ust llampton, Massachusetts. 6.
Joel, born in Xorthampton, Massachusetts,
about 1773. *'i^'l there in 1862. 7. Dorcas,
married Elam Clark : died at East Hampton.
Massachusetts, aged ninety.
( I\") Silas (2), eldest son and second child
of Silas (i) and Catharine ( Searle ) Brown,
was born in Xorthampton, Massachusetts,
June. 1762, died at East Hampton, Massachu-
setts. April 6, 1826. He married at Xorth-
ampton. January 25, 1786. Jemima Clark, born
in that town, July 25, 1763, died at West
Bloomfield, New York, April 22. 1840. Chil-
dren: I. Theodore, born March 11, 1787. 2.
.Sophia, see forward. 3. A child, born Xo-
vember 28, 1789, died the following day. 4.
Aroa, April 23, 1792. 5. Aseaneth. June6. 1795.
6. Silas Clark, September 2. 1797. 7. Fanny,
April 15, 1800. 8. Cecil, Alarch 2, 1804. 9.
Minerva E., October 17, 1806.
I \ ) Sophia, second child and eldest daugh-
ter of Silas (2) and Jemima (Clark) Brown,
was born in Xorthampton, Massachusetts, July
26. 1788, died in Eouisville. Kentucky, Septem-
ber 20, 1831. She married at Xorthampton.
January 10, 1814, Silas Walsworth, born in
Rome, Xew York, died in Wisconsin. (See
Walsworth. \). Children: i. Jared Stock-
ing, born in Keene, New Hampshire, Decem-
ber 6. 181 4. 2. Edward Brown, September
29. 181 7. 3. h>ances Minerva. January 26,
1820. 4. Alaria Louisa, May 20. 1822. 5.
Sophia Brown, see forward. 6. Silas South-
worth. September 23. 1826. 7. Mary Elizabeth,
March 9. 1829. All the children, with the ex-
ception of the eldest, were born in Cleveland,
Ohio.
( \T ) So])hia firown. tiiirl daughter and
fifth child of Silas and Sophia | ISrown) Wals-
worth. was born in Cleveland. Ohio, August
2(). 1824, and resides in Kansas City. Missouri.
She married at Montgomery, Xew York, Sep-
tember 16, 1845, Rev. Samuel B. Bell, D. D..
who was born in Montgomery. Children: I.
Holdena White, see forward. 2. Hal, born in
Simpsonville, Kentucky, July 29, 1848. 3.
Edward Walsworth, born in Maysville. Ken-
tucky. January 7, 1851. 4. Sarah Pearson,
born in San Francisco. California. April 7.
1853- 5- Harmon, born in Oakland, Cali-
fornia, March 23, 1855. 6.. Durant, born in
Oakland, March 6, 1857. 7. Benjamin I'itman.
bcrn in Oakland, Februarv 19, 1859.
(MI) Holdena White 'Bell, eldest child of
Rev. Samuel B., D. D., and Sophia Brown
I Walswdrtli I Bell, married James rarnicnter
Martin ( see Martin. \'1I1 ). "
(Tlie \^•al.■^■^v•ortll Uiu-).
Ihe Walsworth trace their lineage directly
back to Egbert, last king of the West Saxons,
and the first king of England, 827-28. The
name was originally spelled Warhvorth.
changed to Walworth, then assuming its ])res-
ent form of Walsworth.
( I ) William Walworth, immigrant ancestor,
came from near London. England. i(>88-89,
t(i introduce English farming into Fisher's
Island, then owned by Sir Fitz-John Winthrop,
governor of Connecticut. He and his wife
and eldest daughter were baptized January 24,
1692. at Xew Lonflon, by Rev. Gurden Salton-
stail. and he died at Groton, Connecticut. He
married, shortly after his arrival in this coun-
try. Mary Seaton. who came over on the vessel
with him. Children: I. William, see forward.
2. John, who was a ca])tain of dragoons, and
died at Groton about 1749; he married Sarah
Dunn, of Xewport, Rhode Island, and had:
Samuel, married Hannah Woodbridge ; John,
married (first) Mary \'iner, of Stonington,
( second ) Patience Denison. of Lynn, was
killed at Fort Griswold : Silvester, married,
.\l)ril 8, 1756, Sarah Holmes: William, of
Delaware county, Xew York ; James, died
young: Benjamin, born at Groton, November
4, 1746; Abigail, died young: Sarah, married
I'enjamin Brown : Philena, married Joseph
.Minot. 3. Martha, born March 1(190: married
John Stark, of Xew London, and had children.
4. Mary, February, 1694: married Abial Stark.
o{ Lebanon, Connecticut, and had children. 3.
Joanna, October, i(')98: married Christopher
Stark, of (iroton, Connecticut, and had four
sons and four daughters. 6. Thomas. May.
1700; married a daughter of William Stark,
of Groton, and had one son. 7. James, twin
of Thomas, died during his minority.
(11) William (2), son of W'illiam (i) and
.Mary (vSeaton) Walworth, was born in 1692,
and was styled "(jf Xoank." He married
(first) June id. 1720. Mary Avery, of Groton.
Children: i. Molly, born September 29, 1721 :
married, July i, 1742, Sol. Morgan. 2. Martha,
October 17. 1724. 3. Susan, October 22, 1726:
married O'badiah Stark. 4. .Amos, Januar)'
30, 1728: married Eliza Harris. 5. Lucy, De-
cember 3, 1732: married \each Williams. 6.
James, see forward. 7. Xathan, married Je-
mima Gallup. 8. .Abigail. He married (sec-
ond) September 23, 1742, Elizabeth Hinkley.
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L'liildreii : 9. Eunice, June 4, 1743: married,
January I, 1762, Deacon Simeon Smith. 10.
Charles. 1744; married Lucy Harris.
(Ill) James, second son and sixth child of
William (2) and Mary (Avery) Walworth,
was born September, 1734. He was quarter-
master with Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga. He
married Eunice P^ackard or Parker. Children :
I. James, born November, 1759. 2. Jesse, Feb-
ruary T), 1761. 3. Eunice, December 29, 1762;
married and had : Gilbert, William, James, a
Methodist minister; Sarah and Abigail. 4.
William, December 2, 1764: married Sarah
(irant, of Stonington. and had three sons and
two daughters. 5. Elisha, October 11, 1766.
(). Daniel, see forward. 7. Abigail, August
14, 1772. 8. Susaima, January 9, 1775. 9.
-Avery, March 7, 1777. 10. .Asa, March 22.
1779. II. Lucy, June 8, 1781. 12. Elijah,
November 21, 1783.
{IV) Daniel, fifth son and sixth child of
James and Eunice (Packard or Parker) Wal-
worth, was born November 11, 1768, and w'as
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 Southworth, and the grandson of Sir
Robert Southworth, who was knighted by
James the First, 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 sa}'
the ".Anne," and became the second wife of
Cdvtrnnr William liradford, August I, 1623.
1 )anii'l Walworth was the father of Silas, see
forward, and Elizabeth, married Foster.
(V) Silas Walsworth, son of Daniel and
Mary or Polly (.Southworth) Walworth, was
born in Rome, New York, and died at Fort
Winnebago, \\'isconsin, September. 1849. H*^
held a captain's commission during tlie war of
1812. He married at Northampton, Massachu-
setts, fanuarv 10. 1814, So])hia Brown (see
i;r(.wn.\').
The narrative here written is
.M ATL.XCK to record something of the
lives and achievements of the
repiesentali\ 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 eonneelions 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 F"riends who came from Crop-
well I'ishop, a small village in Nottinghamshire,
in the year 1677, in the ship "Kent," Captain
(jregory Marlowe, and was sighted ofT 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 passengers disembarked. The
commissioners 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
lUirlington 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 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
bank 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 America as an artisan in
the employ of Thomas Olive, commissioner
an 1 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'lUrlington county, as afterwards created.
It is understood that the purchase price of the
land thus acquired was his four years' service
and "current county jiay." 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
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 ])opulation. 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. I'ollowing the advice and example of
the commissioners, every promise made by him
to the ahoriginees was faithfully kept, and
every contract strictly adhered to." lie and
Timnthv Hancock, with whom he worked in
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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 new meeting of
I'riends was established at the house of Timo-
thy Hancock by consent of the Burlington
I'riends in 1683." In 1701 William Matlack
|)urchased about one thousand acres of land in
Water ford and Gloucester townships, in Cam-
den county (then Ciloucester) 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 Ricliard Heritage. In 1717 he bought two
hundred acres of John Estaugh, attorney for
John Haddon, and there his son Richard settled
in 1 72 1. 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.
William Matlack, immigrant ancestor, mar-
ried Mary Hancock, and of this event Mr.
Clement writes thus; "In 1681 there came
from Brayles, a small town in the southern
jiart of W'arwickshire, a young man named
Timothy Hancock, accompanied by his sister,
who was about fifteen years of age. W'ithout
friends or means, they lived in a very humble
maimer 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
Matlack in 1682, and they then removed to a
tract of land which he had located between the
iicrtli and south branches of Penisaukin creek,
in Chester township. Her brother also located
an adjoining survey, and in 1684 married
Rachel Firman. Thus it is that the Matlack
family of Xew Jersey — a prolific family in-
I'eed — began with \\'illiam 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) Flannah Horner; (second) Mary Lee.
2. George, married (first) 1709, Mary Foster:
(second) Mary Hancock. 3. Mary, married
(first) in 171 1, at Xewton 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. Alary Haines. 8. Jane,
married Irvin Haines. 9. Sarah, married, in
1 72 1, at Evesham meeting, Carlyle Haines. •
The last resting place of the first Matlack
in the New 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 Pensaukin 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 help form the foundations
of adjacent buildings. His wife Mary died
eleventh month, twentieth, 1728, and is interred
in Friends' Graveyard at Moorestown, Xew
Jersey. From these two all by the name of
Matlack or Matlock in America are descended.
(II) William (2), son of William (i) and
Mar}- (Hancock) Alatlack, was born at Peni-
saukin creek. Burlington county, Xew Jersey,
December 2, loyo, died July 25, 1730. He
married, September 17, 171 3, 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.
f>. William, June 20, 1725, see forward. 7.
James, June 13, 1728, died November 24, 1728.
is. Mary, January 6, 1730, died April 15, 1759.
( III ) \\'illiam (3), son of William (2) and
.Ann ( .Antrim ) 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: t. .Atlantic, born No-
vember 13, 1750, died February 21, 1775; mar-
ried Samuel Stokes. 2. \\'illiam, Alay 15,
1752, see forward. 3. John, March 26, 1755,
died .August, 1831 ; married Rebecca Shute. 4.
Reuben, Xovember 17, 1757, died August 2,
1808: married Elizabeth Coles. 5. Jane, Febru-
ary II, 1760, died May 3, 1760. 6. Samuel,
June 7, 1 761; married Sarah Shute. 7. Re-
t)ccca, I'ebruary 13. I7C)3, died May 18, 1842:
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married Amos Buzby. 8. Joseph, August 21,
1767. (lied August 26, 1814; married Anna
Sluite. g. George, March 6, 1770; married
Sarah Roberts. 10. Mary, .\ugust 4, 1772.
died February 9, 1790.
(I\') W'ilHam (4), son of William (3) and
Mary (Turner) Matlack, was born at Maple
Shade, New Jersey, r^Iay 15, 1752, died Octo-
ber 12, 1805, aged fifty-three years, and is
interred at Mullica Hill, New Jersey. He mar-
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: i.
.Atlantic, born 1782. 2. Sarah, 1785. 3. Ruth,
1790: married Elton Rogers, of Rancocas. 4.
\\'illiam, 1795, died 1801, aged six years. 3.
Joshua, 1802. see forward. 6. Rachel, 1805 ;
married Darlington Evans. The mother,
Letitia Harris, afterward married Joseph
.Miller.
The .Matlacks were Quakers. For which
reason the most of them remained neutral dur-
ing the great revolution. I'ut this was onlv 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 exam]ile of this was Timothy
Matlack, the grandson of the first William by
his son 'J"im()thy. This grandson was an his-
toric character and was born at Haddonfield,
New Jersey, in 1730. The breaking out of the
revolution fired him with jjatriotic ardor, and
throwing away the broad brim and turning
down till- "stand-u|) collar" he entered the
nrni\-. for which act he was turned out of
meeting. .\s colonel of irregular cavalry he
did valiant service in the good cause. He was
one of the founders of the Society of Free
Quakers, who erected the buikhng at the south-
west corner of Fifth and Arch streets, Phila-
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 181 7 he was prothonotary of the
district court of Philadelphia county. Living
to be ninety-nine years old, he died in 1829,
anfl was interred in the Free Friends' grave-
yard on South Fifth street, Pliiladeliihia. His
portrait hangs in Independence Hall. ()f
lesser note were Josiah Matlack in the Light
Dragoons of Philadeljihia : Second-Lieutenant
Titus Matlack, Second Company of L'nassign-
ed Militia : Sergeant William Matlack, Linton's
Com])any. Philade!])hia Militia: First-Lieuten-
ant Samuel Matlack, Captain Horner's Com-
pany of Gloucester; and Joseph Matlack, a
private in the state troops.
( \" ) Joshua, son of William (4) and Letitia
( 1 larris ) Matlack, was born at Maple 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 Mills, near
]\Iaple Shade) in the Friends' meeting house
al 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
.\mi ( Burrough ) Matlack, was born in West-
field, Burlington 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 Ciroveville,
Mercer county. However, in March, 1863, he
put aside business concerns and enlisted for
nine months as private in Company H, of the
Twenty-third New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
( E. Burd (jrubb, colonel) ; served throughout
the term of his enlistment and participated in
the battles of Salem Church and Fredericks-
burg, \'irginia. In the fall of the same year he
returned home and afterward for forty years
was in the service of the Camden & .\mboy
and Pennsylvania railroad companies, being
passenger conductor during thirty years of that
long ])eriod of service. He married. May 18,
1857, '^y I'riends' ceremony, Martha tjeorge
Ellis, of Yardville, Mercer county, daughter of
Micajah and Merebah ( Middleto'n ) ElHs. Mrs.
Matlack was born June 30, 1841. and is now
living. ha\ing borne her husband seven chil-
dren: I. Laura E.. born Yardville, September
12. 1838; married, 1880, Francis Harbaugh,
nnw (if .Maple Shade. 2. Micajah K., 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. Holly, F.lwood 11. Stokes, a coal merchant
of that place. (). Wilson, see forward, 7.
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Alartha G. E., burn ai Mt. Holly, December
2^. 1878; living at home. In 1874 ]\Ir. 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 wa.s 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 community.
( \T1 ) Micajah Ellis, son of Joshua ( 2 ) and
.Martha G. (Ellis) Matlack. was born at Yard-
ville, Mercer county, Xew Jersey, December
ly. 1800. He received his education in the
public 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,
Es(|. He was admitted to jjractice 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 private to captain of militia and was
adjutant of the old Seventh Regiment, Na-
tional ( luard 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 — ^"^ ^^r the last ten
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 I!. Johnson, of Brook-
lyn, New York, and has one child, Micajah
Edward, born in 1900.
(\TI) Joshua (3), son of Joshua (2) and
Martha G. ( Ellis) Matlack. was born at Yard-
ville. April 24, 1863. He was educated in the
public schools and at Pierce's Business College
Philadelphia, where he took a thorough course,
and afterward became a competent telegrapher
with the Western Union Telegraph Company ;
and subseciuently was a stenographer. Later
he studied law with George Harding and P'ran-
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 Comj^any, but still retaining his pri-
vate ])ractice. In 1894-95 Mr. Matlack was
assistant journal clerk of the house of assemblv
of New Jersey, and from 1892 to iS'jb was
general secretary of the State League of Re-
publican Clubs of that state. He takes an active
part in politics and is a public s])eaker. He is
a member of the Ejjiscopal church, belongs to
the Junior Order of .'Kmerican Mechanics and
the Knights of Pythias. He is unmarried.
(\'I1) Wilson, son of Joshua (2) and Mar-
tha G. (Ellis) Matlack, was born at Hights
town, IMercer county, November 26, 1873. ^^^
received his education at the public schools and
at the .Mt. Holly .\cademy. He is now engaged
in the coal business with his brother-in-law,
Mr. Stokes Is an Odd Fellow, an Elk, and a
luember of the Episcopal church. Is now first-
lieutenant of Company E. Third Regiment.
.National (iuard of New Jersev.
This name with its various ways
SPEER of spelling it, as adopted by local-
ity or possibly by errors in writing,
traiifcribing or thrcnigh ignorance or careless-
ness on the ])art of i)ersons bearing the name,
appears to be distinctive of locality, as in
Alaine we find the direct spelling Spear and in
other |)arts of New England Speare and
Spears. In Pennsylvania 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 misspelling 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 offense to bearers of
the name, who may have ado])ted other spell-
ings. L'nlike 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 ancestor.s, so far as our research
goes : Speer by Scotch covenanters, who came
to .America and settled in Pennsylvania and
drifted south and west, and Speir by the Dutch
immigrants.
( I ) Hendrick Jansen Speer came from
.\msterdam, Holland, to New .Amsterdam at
the mouth of the Hudson river in North .\mer-
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ica, December 23, 1O50, arriving on the Dutch
shi]) "Faith." He had with him his wife,
Madehne Hance, and two children, the third
child, Jocobu.s, 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 L'trecht
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 .Albertse Cortelyou, Ger-
retson, Speer and Van Winkle became exten-
sive landholders in the Flatlands neighborhood
between 1^)57 and 1660. Mere the S]ieer
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 tlie 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 Kull and
the next year he joined with the Cortelyous,
Gerretsons, Van Winkles, .-\lbertses and other
land owners and men of wealth in Flatlands in
exploring the lands on the Passaic river in
eastern New Jersey, known as .\cquockenock
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
deerl purchase in 1685 as recorded in volinne
I. (if the journal of ])roceedings of the govern-
uient cif that date, .\dditions to the patent
were made for several thousands of acres near
the llackensack river and the deed given about
1 70 1 by Tap\an and other Indians fur a tract
in F'ssex county on tiie east side of the Passaic
river to tlie "hills."
In these various patents John iM-ederick
S|)ecr was a grantee as he was in several ]nn-
cliases of hundreds of acres, where Relville
and I'Vanklin were subseciuently founded. By
these various documents wc notice that his
name ajjpears as Flendrick Jansen Speer, while
in the ])atents as granted by the government
it apjiears 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. .Xmong 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
laud numing 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.
Parant. 3. Jocobus, who died at sea, born in
•Amsterdam before 1660. 4. Hans, see forward.
5. Fryntje, baptized March 25, 1667. 6. Cath-
yntje. baptized December 11, 1667. We find
no record of the death of the parents of these
children.
(H) Hans, fourth '^on and fourth child of
John Flendrick 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 F>yntje Pientense, and be-
came one of the original settlers of Belleville,
Essex county. New Jersey, about 1685. He
had children by his marriage with Fryntje
Pietitense including Johannes or John, see for-
ward.
(Ill ) John, son of Hans and hryntje (Pien-
tense I Speer, was probably born in New
I'trecht or Flatlands, Long Island. He mar-
ried Maritje F'ranse, August 12, 1679, shortly
after his arrival on the Acc]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
1692 and carried on a farm. He had seven
children: Henry, Francis, Guimada, Madeline.
Femelia, Alontie.
(I\') Francis second son of John and
Maritje (Franse) Speer, was born in New
jersey. Married and had son Jocobus.
( \' ) Jocobus (James), son of Francis Speer.
married and had children: Henry J., Rynier.
John, Garrit J., I<~rances, Maria.
( \'l ) Henry }.. son of Jocobus Speer, wa-.
born January 17, 1760, died June 29, 1846. on
his farm on the west bank of the Passaic river,
near Passaic, New Jersey. He married ]\Iartha
N'reeland and their nine children were born at
the homestead as follows: i. James H., re-
moved to Cincinnati, Ohio; he married and had
a number of children and grandchildren, and
his descendants settled in (_)hio and Indiana.
2. Jacob, see forward. 3. John, settled in
Texas. 4. Henry, see forward. 5. Burnett,
see forward. 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, (^hio, and their descendants
settled in Ohio. Kentucky and Iowa. 9. Maria
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8i-
married John De Vaimsney and their descend-
ants reside in New Jersey. All of these chil-
dren except Henry and Jacob removed to the
west.
(\TI) Jacob, second son of Henry J. and
Martha (X'reeland) Speer, was born opposite
Belleville, 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, March 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 Mashey, 1888; b.
Helen S. Crane, 1865 ; c. Henrietta L. Crane,
1868; tl. Alabel Crane, 1870; ii. Frederick .V.
Palmer, born September 17, 1839, died May
28, 1885; married, April 11, 1866, Anna Spen-
cer Utter and had three children : a. Halsey
U. 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.
Woodruff and had six children : i. Joseph
Fitz R. Woodruff, born 1834; married Julia
Brower and had four children : a. Charles H.
Woodruff, 1859, married Charlotte Keene ; b.
Frederick W. Woodruff, 1861, married; c.
Joseph Fitz R. Woodruff", 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. W'oodruft"; iii. Elizabeth Ann
Woodruff, born 1839, died 1875 ; probably un-
married; iv. Charles H. Woodruff, born 1841,
died 1842; V. Charles S. Woodruff, 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 1846, married James L. Alarsh ; ii.
Clara B., 1851, married I_,ouis Youngblood,
1870; iii. William 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 in September, 1857. He learned the trade
of shoemaker with his brother Jacob in New-
ark, New Jersey, at that time a .small village.
Me 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
lielow the Pielleville bridge. Her sister (twin),
Ann \'an .\mburgh, 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 Speer lived to be eighty-seven years of
age. Children of Henry and Rachel (Van
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, 'i"'^! I''!':' two children: i. Theo-
dore \'., born November 2, 1S54; married.
I-'ebruary 11, 1880, Sallie B. Rankin and their
children were Laura (1882-1899) and Minnie
Kate, born June 7, i886; ii. Minnie Fairbanks,
born June 13, 1861 ; married Warren S. Cole-
grove, November 7, 1883, and had five chil-
dren: rosejjhine, 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 Angel 1, and
their twins, Irving J. and Theodore F., were
born July 13, 1901.
It does not appear that the Speers of Ac-
(|uockenock (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
some 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. W^illiam Speer served in the same
company under Captain Craig. In the civil
war, 1861-65, John 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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sduthcrn rcl.)cllii)n. ami Jrvitig and Morgan
Sjjecr, scMis of Alfred, enlisted in the First
Colorado Regiment and rendered eft'ective ser-
vice in the Philippine Islands in 1898-99.
(\T1I) Alfred, eldest child of Henry and
Rachel ( \ an Amburgh ) Speer, was born in
Passaic, New Jersey, November 2, 1823. He
attended the public school, and when 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 the 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 sho]), which he built near his grand-
father's farm-house, hoping 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 ca])ital. As trade increased he soon had
a larger shop and several journeymen to assist
him. His industry gave him a few hours each
day for study and indulging in his mechanical
experiments. Mis literary ambitions he was
obliged to partially abandon, as it promised
no immediate return, and he took up horticul-
ture and arboriculture, both for ])rofit and
recreation. Flis vineyard, as it became fruited,
led him to manufacture some native wine,
which proved to be good and ])romise(i a means
of profit. .A window fastener, which he patent-
ed, was favorably received and he started out
to sell county 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 Speer'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-
])les of the Republican party. He was a pioneer
in (jther directions as indicated by the history
(if 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. Fie 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.
His 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 ak)ng the i^ath of accomplishment.
^Ir. Speer married (first) June 6. 1844.
Catherine FTiza. daughter of .\braham FSerr)-,
of Acquockenock. Mr. Berry owned a grist
mill and home on the shore of Yantacaw pond
and was a prosperous and deserving citizen.
Children: i. William Henry, born I\Iarch 17.
1845 • uiarried Emma L. Henion, March 17.
1869; they had two children: Maud, born
May 10, 1872, and Grace, June 5. 1875. 2.
.Alfred Wesley, May 6, 1847; married Kate
Brown, January 19, 1871, and they had no
children. .August 5. 1852. Catherine Eliza
(Berry) Speer died, and .September 22, 1856.
Mr. .S])eer married (second) Polly Ann Mor-
gan, of Cape Girardeau. Missouri; children:
T,. lilla Morgan. May 29, i860, died unmarried.
April 2, 1891. 4. Sidney Silvester, December
II). 1865: married Johanna Schrittis and had
three children: Sydney C. born 1893. died
1899: .Mfred W., born 1897; Lillian Myrtle.
190Q. 5. Nelson, January 28, 1868, died Au-
gust 2, 1869. 6. Aithea L., March 7. 1873. 7.
Irving. Septemljer 22. 1874. 8. Morgan. No-
vember 26. 1875.
(\'li) Burnett, fifth son of Henry J. and
.Martha (Vrceland) .S])eer, was born in Belle-
ville. .\'ew Jersey. October 17. 1806. He mar-
ried Betsev .Snyder and they had six children:
I. fohii .S,. died unmarried. 2. David H.. born
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May 2, 1840; married, March 4, i8t/>. Mary
E. Hall and had three children; i. Willie LI.,
1867; married Anna Hyath and 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, died April 7, 1908; married, January 14,
1847, lane Ann Carew and they had seven chil-
dren:" i. Lester William, 1877; married 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 X'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
I., 1895: Mildred, 1897; Edwin C, 1900; 11.
Charles Lovelace, 1874; died unmarried; iii.
Mary Elizabeth, 1876, died unmarried; iv.
fohn (1878-1880); v. Clarence, 1881 : vi.
Bessie, 1884. C). Clara, June 12, 1854.
The Gummere family ot
GCMMERE 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 American 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) [ohann Gomere came to Germantown,
Pennsvlvania, in 17 19, from Crefeldt, Ger-
many ;' and there is a tradition in the family
that he came originallv from French Flanders.
He and his wtfe, Anna, both died within
twenty-four hours of each other, and were
buried at the same time. May, 1738, in the
"I'pper Burying Ground," Germantown, but
as their graves are unmarked it is impossible
lunv to locate them. Among their children was
a son Johannes, referred to below.
(Hj Johannes, son of Johann and .\nna
Gomere, lived in Moreland township, Pennsyl-
vania, and in 1740 he received a certificate of
removal for himself and his wife, Sarah, who
is believed to have been a member of the Davis
familv of Bucks county, from the Abington
Monthly Meeting to the Monthly Meeting at
Concord, Pennsylvania. Among his children
was a son Samuel, referred to below.
(HI) Samuel, .son of John (Johannes) and
Sarah (Davis) Gummere, was born in More-
land townshij) in 1750, and was jirobably 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 Monthly
Meeting. October 23, 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
Friends.
(I\') John, son of Samuel ami Rachel
( lames) Gummere, was born at Rancocas.
New Jersey, 1784, died in 1845. I^^"'" '"^'.^y
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 susi)ended
in order to give opportunity for collecting an
endowment, and was reorganized as a college
in 1856. Upon his retirement from the Friends
College at Haverford, Mr. Gummere resumed
his boarding school at Burlington, which he
had previouslv conducted at first alone and
afterwards with the aid of his son, Samuel J.
Gummere. from 1 814 to 1833, and in this occu-
pation spent the remainder of his (|uiet and
useful life. He 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.
\mong these publications were his celebrated
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"Treatise on Surve_\iiig. which was first pub-
lished in 1814. and ran tlirougli fourteen edi-
tions; and his "Elenientary Treatise on Theo-
retical and Practical Astronomy," the first edi-
tion ()f which was published in 1822, and the
last, the sixth, in 1854. A very interesting
biographical sketch of ]\Ir. 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
Gummere never in after life approached their
old master without sentiments of affection 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 Dennis. 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 iJrove,
Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1789,
and from 1821 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
(I)Uzby) Cjummere, 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 Ilaverford College, he was associated
with him in conducting the boarding school at
jiurlington. and there he proved himself to be
his father's "worthy successor both in scientific
attainments and in the hap])y art of imparting
instruction." He married (first) Abigail.
daughter of John and (Hoskins) Gris-
com ; (second) January 9, 1845, Elizabeth H.
Barton. 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.
(\T) Francis Barton, son of Samuel J. and
I'^-lizabeth II. (Barton) Gummere, was born
March 6, 1855, in Burlington, New Jersey, and
is now professor of English Language and
Literature in the Friends' College at Haver-
ford. Pennsylvania. In 1872 he graduated
from Haver ford College, and in 1875 from
Harvard University. He then studied in Ger-
many at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin,
Strasburg and Freiburg, from the last named
university receiving his degree of Doctor of
Philosophy 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 Nation.
the American 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 know-n
work is ]:irobabIy "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
(Buzby) 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-
delphia, but for about twenty-five or thirty
years before his death he made his home in
Piurlington, 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 familv
of Morrises, and her mother was a member of
the Edwards family of Buck comity. On her
father's side she has a lineal descent from
Merecydd, King of Powys, Wales. 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. AV illiam Henry.
(VI) Richard Morris, son of William and
Martha Moore (Morris) Gummere, was born
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is now liv-
ing at South P>ethlehem, 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 nuinbei" of years. He has always been
deeply interested in the cause of higher etlu-
cation and for many years has been tlie treas-
urer of Lehigh University. In politics Mr.
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, lie married Elizabeth, daughter of
Caleb and Rebecca ( AbbottJ Hunt, of Phila-
delphia. Children: i. Rebecca, born and now
living in South Bethlehem. 2. William, referred
to below.
(VHj William, son of Richard Morris and
Elizabeth (Hunt) (jummere, was born in
South Bethlehem, I'ennsylvania, August 7,
1876, and is now living at Roebling, New Jer-
sey. After graduating from Lehigh Univer-
sity in 1899, he spent two years as one of the
instructors of that institution, and in 1901 was
appointed 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 Episcojial 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.
(L) 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 off for him
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 Mark'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
brick one. Mark Reeve died about 1716 or
1717, leaving one son Joseph, referred to below.
(H) Joseph, only son of .Mark and Ann
(Hunt) Reeve, succeeded to his lather'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 1st 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) Mark (2), son of Joseph and Elinor
(Bagnall) 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 76 1 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.
(I\') 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. W'illiam Fo.stcr, 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 Wyatt Acton.
(\') William Foster, fifth child and second
son of W'illiam 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 dill ^u nuicli to inipruve. \\ ith his two
brothers. Josiah Miller and Emmor, 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-
fine their attention to this business, but bought
large tracts of land in the neighborhood which
were considered not worth fanning, 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 buildings, and no village in that section
of New Jersey has superior improvements.
William Foster Reeve was a member of the
.\'e\\ 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 which they lived, that
at the time he was serving in the lower house
of the New Jersey legislature, his elder brother,
Josiali Miller Reeve, was a menil)er of the New
Jersey council.
William Foster Reeve married Mary, daugh-
ter of William Cooper, of Cooper's I'oint,
Camden, New Jersey. Tier grandfather was
a descendant of old U'illiam Cooper, of New-
ton township, and established the first ferry
boat to ply from Camden to Philadelphia. The
four children of William Foster and Mary
(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-
])enter, and they have four children. 4. Re-
becca Coo[)er, now living in Philadelphia, im-
married.
(VJ) William Cooper, eldest child of Will-
iam Foster and Mary Wills (Cooper) Reeve,
was born at .Mloway, Salem county, New Jer-
sey, June 27, 1831, and is now living in Salem,
New Jersey. I'^or his early education he attend-
ed Clarkson Shcjiperd's School at Creenwich.
New Jersey, and then the Friends" Select
.School of Philadelphia, after graduating from
which he entered Haverford College. He was,
however, unable to graduate as his father
needed him at home to helj) in his business,
and lie was put in charge of his father's large
plantation, of which at his fatlier's death he
iiecame the owner. He subsequently j)urchased
other farms, and being very successful in his
agricultural endeavor soon became one of tlie
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 property 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 (Mason) Acton. Her father was at
one time state senator of New Jersey.
(\'I) Augustus, second child and son of
William Foster and Mary Wills (Cooper)
Reeve, was born in Alloway, Salem county.
New Jersey, August 31, 1833. .\fter receiving
his early education from private tutors, he
spent two years at Haverford College, after
wliich he for some time assisted his father in
the care of the latter's large plantations. He
tlien 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
Jerse)-, and began the manufacture of brick
and sewer pipe, in which he has been eminently
successful and at present has one of the most
extensive jjlants 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 Trades League of Philadelphia. Fle is a
member of the Camden Friends' Meeting, and
is a charter member of the corporation of the
Cooper Hospital of Camden, founded in 1875,
and 1803 was elected ])resident of that institu-
tion's board of managers, a position of respon-
sibility and honor which he still holds to the
eminent satisfaction of the city's citizens. It
is well worth mention that Mr. Reeve's daugh-
ters are members of the Society of Colonial
Dames and the Daughters of the American
Revolution, the eldest also being the regent of
the .Nassau Chapter of the Colonial Dames of
Camden. Mr. Reeve has spent much time in
the study of the local history of his state, and
is the author of several excellent and accurate
l)apers and articles upon that subject, which
have a])peared in tiie public ])ress.
.\ugustus Reeve marrieil Rebecca Cooper,
daughter of Isaac If. Wood, of Haddonfield,
New Jersey. Their children are : i. Elizabeth
Cooper, imniarried. 2. William Foster, general
manager of his father's office; married Mary
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Jay, daughter of Attorney-General Samuel H.
Grey ; two children : William Foster and Mary
Jay. 3. Laura, unmarried. 4. Charles Gad-
skill, married Rebecca Hannah, daughter of
Joseph B. Cooper, of Camden, New Jersey,
and has two children, Joseph Cooper and Doro-
thy Morris.
The Colonial settlers in America
GRIGGS by the name of Griggs to the
number of about ten came to
Xew Englaiul prior to 1700 from England,
and some of them have been traced as of rec-
ord in England at Lavenham, in Braekley,
liartest, Bo.xted and Ipswich. The English
family of Griggs is very old. One branch of
the ancient family bore this coat-of-arms :
Gules three ostrich feathers argent. Crest :
A sword in pale enfiled with a leopard's face
]5roper.
The Griggs family of Massachusetts was es-
tablished by Thomas Griggs, of Roxbury (now
Boston), 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 Roxbury, 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 America. Through
his researches the genealogy of the Xew Jersey
family herein has been established. The wills,
deeds and other records herein quoted were
compiled by Mr. Saxe, in co-operation with
Hon. John \V. Griggs, of Paterson, and James
L. (iriggs, Esq., of Somerville, New Jersey.
The Colonial records of New Jersey men-
tion among the first settlers the names of Ben-
jamin. Daniel. Samuel and Thomas Griggs.
The present Griggstown was founded by Ben-
jamin Griggs 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 1659. .According to family
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, Ma,ssachusetts. The wife of William
Griggs, of Salem, Rachel (Hubbard), con-
veyed, May 14, 1712, to her son Jacob, all her
interest in the estate of her brother, Benja-
min Hubbard, "late of Long Island," decea.sed.
.Ann Griggs, daughter of George 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
Southampton, 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 ha.s 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 1660 John Griggs and Thomas W'hittack.
both of Gravesend, Long Island, were fined for
"buying and selling" land on the first day of
the week. Ciriggs 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
Gravesend. 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. 37 with
buildings at Gravesend ; also other lands and
lot Xo. 9 on Gisbert"s Island. He was living
in 1698, according to the census taken that
year. He had wife Elizabeth at (jravesend.
Children: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Dan-
iel. 3. Thomas, had children : Elizabeth, John.
Mary, Hannah, Thomas, mentioned in will of
Henry Gillam, of Worcester, New York. 4.
Benjamin, mentioned below. 5. Edward (?).
w^as on a committee to lay out highways in
Somerset county. Xew Jersey. February 25.
1733. 6. Samuel, was on tax-roll of Franklin
township. Xew Jersey, which includes Griggs-
820
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town, with his brothers Uaniel. Tliomas and
F>enjaniin.
( 11 ) John (2 1, 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
W'illemse; (second) in 1684, Martlia W'ilkins
daughter of Obadiah W'ilkins. 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 (iravesend. and he owned land
jointly with his father, as stated, before 1695.
He sold lots Xo. i and 16 in Gravesend. March
20. 1685-86, to John Kendrick, an Indian trader
of New York. His father probably died before
1703 wdien (without the "Jr.") he deeded mill
property at Gravesend. It is significant that
Benjamin Griggs was also a mill owner in Xew
Jersey. John sold land August 28. 1697,
twenty acres, to Joachim Gullick 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.
(II) Benjamin, son of John (i) Griggs,
was born about 1680 at Gravesend. He was
living in Gravesend, Long Island, in 17 14- 15.
He removed with his brothers to the IMill-
stone river. New Jersey, where he built a
gri.st mill as early as 1733, and for him the
town of GriggstowYi was named. His will,
dated March 23. 1762, was proved in Somer-
set county, New Jersey, February 23, 1768.
He be<|ucathed to children mentioned below :
To brother Samuel : sons Samuel and Danie!
were executors ; w'itnesses were Nicholas
Vaghte, Francis Feurt and Isaac Wilkins.
(Note that Wilkins was also from Gravesenri
and related.) Children: i. Daniel. 2. Sam-
uel. 3. Barrent. 4. Reuben. 5. Benjamin.
6. Join), mentioned below. 7. Martha, mar-
ried Rene X'anderbeek. 8. Jane, married
-A.aron Bennett. 9. i'dinor. 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 grantefl Nicholas \'aghte, of
Somerset county, principal creditor, January
20, 1758. John Griggs resided at Toms River,
Monmouth comity.
(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 \'. X.; iii. Daniel, had son Levi D. ; iv.
Maria; v. Margaret; vi. Harriet; vii. Martha
Jane; viii. Sarah .\mi. 2. Sarah, January 5,
"^ll^)- 3- Aaron, October 20. 1780; died May
18, 1817. 4. Daniel, September 0. 1782;
started by wagon to California in 1849-50,
and died on the way. 5. (jeorge. July 25,
1785. 6. Jemima, January 13. 1788. 7. ^lar-
garet. F'ebruary 22, 1790; died July 2, 1858:
married. June 14. 1819. John Harris, of Wor-
cester, luigland. born January 16. 1787, died
March 22. 1870; their son, Benjamin Griggs
Harris, born at Xewton. Xew Jersey, July 21,
1821. married Eleanor Anne Neale, daughter
(.)f F'rancis Neale. of Baltimore, and had a
daughter born June 14, 1863, married H. F.
Mackintosh, of Toronto. Canada.
(Hi 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
projjerty 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 August
22. 1757. and proved Xovember 14, 1759. He
must have died late in the year 1759. He be-
queathed to wife Jackominad ; to eldest son
John (doubtless named 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 .Amwell : married Catherine Bower,
daughter of l"'liili]j, 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 .Xmwcll township. Hunter-
don county, April 2, 1805, and proved October
17, 1806. at Trenton ; Ijequeathcd to wife .Vnna,
.''^1,334, etc.: to brothers John and Samuel
Griggs and to Mary Hill, wife of Isaac. S80
each ; to .Anna B. \'an Fleet S80. and .Acha
Hill, son of Isaac. $267; to sister Catherine,
wife of Peter W^illiamson, of Sussex ; to Mary,
widow of Tliomas Peterson, now deceased;
and to Margaret, widow of Harp Peterson,
and her children ; appointed as executors his
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brother John Griggs ami friends Cornehus
Wyckoft' and Isaac Hill; witnesses. Alexander
Bonnell, William 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 bequeaths to her own nephews an<l
nieces. 3. Daniel, also of Amwell ; loft no
children: his will dated November 17, 1761.
and proved September 21, 1762. mentions
brothers John. Jackson ( Joachim 1 and Sam-
uel ; sisters Catherine. ^lary and Margaret ;
executors John. Joachim and George, wit-
nesses : Peter Peterson. Johannis Young, Jacob
Mattisdn. 4. Samuel, mentioned below. 5.
-Mary, married Thomas Peterson. 6. Catline
(Catherine), married Peter Williamson. 7.
Margaret, married Harp i'eterson.
(HI) Samuel, son of Daniel Griggs, wa^
born about 1740 in New Jersey. He married
(_"atherine . He lived at Amwell. His
will was dated at Amwell, January 26, 1803.
and proved October, 1812. at Flemington of
that township. He bequeathed a fourth jiart
(if monies arising from tiie sale of his real es-
tate to each of his surviving chiklren. and the
other fourth to the four children of his son
Daniel, deceased. The executors were son
Samuel Griggs and his friend .Abraham ( \\\-
lick. doubtless of the same family as Joachim
(kdick who sold land owned in common with
John Griggs and Samuel Gerritsen, 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 Rea(iing. Jose])h Reading and
Nathaniel Saxton. Samuel ( iriggs must have
(lied about September. 1812. (lis executors
sold the farm to .\ndrew \'an Fleet, by deed
dated .-Xpril 1, 18 13. This farm in Amwell ad-
joined the homestead of Daniel Griggs, father
of Samuel, and was bought May 2, 1769. of
Micajah (iowe. The widow Catherine released
her right of dower to her son Samuel, .\pril 3,
1813. Children: i. Charity. 2. Jemima. 3.
Samuel, mentioned below. 4. Daniel, died be-
fore 1812: children: John, Christopher, Joa-
kim (Joachim), Samuel.
(I\') Samuel (2). sou of Sanuiel (ii
(iriggs, 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 township
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 Si 50, 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 chiklren except John, who is to
receive $1,200 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 ec|ually 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
.\ew Jersey. 7. Margaret, lived in New Jer-
sey. 8. I^llen, married James L. Hixon.
( \' ) Daniel Griggs, son of Samuel (2)
(iriggs. was born in Flemington, New Jersey.
March 7, 1798, died .August 24, 1868. He had
a ciinimon 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
thirtv-five years elder of the Presbyterian
church of Newton. He married (first) Eliza-
beth .Ann John.son, born June 16, 1800, daugh-
ter of Henry Johnson, granddaughter of Cap-
tain Henry Johnson, who was a captain in the
.New Jersey luilitia in the revolutionary war.
He married (second) Fmeline J. Johnson,
born Jtme 22. 1813, a sister of his first wife.
Childnn by his first wife: I. Theodore, born
February 26. 1826. 2. Rachel .Ann. February
<■). 1828. 3. Henry J.. May 12. 1834. By his
second wife: 4. (ieorge \'an Tile. October 31.
1839. 5. Charles Edgar. September 20. 1842.
(). John William. July 10. 1849. 7. Ellen
Hixon. .August 19. 1 851.
(\'I) George \'an Tile, son of Daniel
I iriggs, was born October 31, 1839: served in
the civil war as cajjtain in the Second Regi-
luent. New A'ork Cavalry, and w-as brevetted
colonel for consjjicuous gallantry in action.
He was killed in the battle of Culpeper Court
House, \"irginia, October 11, 1863. Griggs
Post. Grand .Army of the Republic, at Newton
New [ersey. is named in his honor.
( \\ ) John William (iriggs. youngest son
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of Daniel Griggs, was born in Newton, Sussex
county. New Jersey, July lo, 1849. He wa.-;
graduated from Lafayette College in 1868;
(LL. B., Princeton, 1896; Yale, 1900), and
entered 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 1874.
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 1886. he represented Passaic
county in the New Jersey senate, in 1886 act-
ing as president of that body.
It was in November, 1895. that Mr. (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, (jovernor (iriggs 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 I'resident \\'illiam McKinley, caused the
appointment of ex-Governor Griggs to the po-
sition of federal attorney-general. To accej^t
this dignified place, .Mr. Griggs resigned the
governorslii]) in Jaiuiary, 1898. and remained
in President McKinley's cabinet until .\])ril i.
1901. and then resumed the practice of his
profession. He is a menilxT of The Hague
I'ermanent Court of .Arbitration. .Since return-
mg to jiractice Mr. Griggs has been identified
with large financial interests in New York and
Paterson. and is a member of leading clubs in
botli cities. His residence is in Paterson.
John William (^iriggs married (first) Oc-
tober 7, 1874. Carolin Webster Praudt, of
I'clleville, New Jersey, daughter of William
and Eliza (Leavitt) i'randt ; she was born
1852. died January 21, 1891. Children: i.
John Leavitt, born June 10. 1876; married,
November 19, 1902. Ruth Iloxsey. born March
\~. 1882. daughter of Thomas Franklin and
{•".lizabeth (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 Warw'ick and Beulah R. (Farmer) Price,
born October 10, 1861. Children: 6. Eliza-
beth, born May 31, 1894. 7. Janet, born June
20, 1896.
Among the early settlers of
JCJHNSON New Amsterdam the name of
Jansen or as Anglicized John-
son is of frequent occurrence. It is probably
of the immigrants from Holland who came
with the great intlu.x between the years 1658
and i('/')3 that this subject under investigation
will finally be traced, .\ndres Jansen was
Ixirn on Long Island, .\. 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 parentage, 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 apparent and
indisputable as to fact.
( 1 ) .\ndres Jansen was, according to the
records made of births in the family Bible in
the possession of the Johnson family, born on
Long Island in 1665, where he married and
had six sons as follows : Coart,, born in 1689,
.Vndrew, Peter, Myndred (Mindred). Henry,
John, lie removed with his children from
Long Island and the two generations became
prominent citizens of Reading Town, Hunter-
don comity. New Jersey. Here .\ndres Jan-
sen, or as his name was anglicized, .Andrew
Johnson, died while walking to the Dutch Re-
formed Church in Readingtou, which town-
shi]) was located in Somerset county up to the
time the new county of Hunterdon was
formed. His walk was probably from his
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 .\ndres Jansen,
was born on I-ong Island in the year of Our
i^ord. 1689. He removed with his father.
])rol)ahly by way of Middletown, Monmouth
county, to Rea<ling Town, Somerset countv,
New Jersey, where he was brought up on his
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father's farm, and where he married Charity
or Gertje Lane, Laan or Lanen, daughter of
Arie or Adriaen Thyssen Lanen, of New
Utrecht, Long Island, who married Martyntje
Smack or Smock. Adriaen Lane's name ap-
pears on the assessment rolls of the township
of New L^trecht of 1693 and the census of
1698. lie is also recorded as of Gravesend.
He removed to Middletown, Monmouth
county. New Jersey, about 1700, at which date
he conveyed land in New L'trecht to Gysford
Tysson ( \'an Pelt). The children of .Adriaen
Thyssen and Martyntje (Smock) Lane were:
Janetje, Cjertje or Charity and Hendrik. The
children of Coart and Charity (Lane) John-
son included .Andrew, who married Jane Ber-
ger. May 10, i/'^^: 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 Green's
burying ground at Hardwick.
(HI) Henry, son of Coart and Charity
( Lane ) Johnson, was born near White Horse.
now Readington Church. Somerset county.
New Jersey, October 5, 1737. He married
(first) Susan Hover and removed to Sussex
county. New Jersey, where he purchased a
farm near Newton, the shire town of the
county. He was a founder and one of the first
elders of the Presbyterian church in Newton,
and a ijromincnt citizen of the county, with
sufficient wealth to give his children superior
school training. He was an officer in the
.American revolution and held the important
position of (luartermaster and afterwards cap-
tain in Washington's army while in New Jer-
sey. He died January 5. 1826. at the age of
eighty-nine years, at Frankfort, near Newton,
and was buried in the old cemetery at Newton.
The children of Captain Henry and Susan
(Hover) Johnson were born in Newton. New
Jersey, and were : Henry, see forward ; David
and Jonathan (twins); John, see forward;
Samuel ; \\'illiam ; Sarah, married \'an Tile
Coursen ; Hannah, married John \'an Deren.
His second wife was Ann Van Este. whom
he married in 1793. They had a daughter
Susanna, married John Hover and went to
Ohio.
( I\' ) Henry, son of Captain Henry and
Susan (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 : Henry
W. and John C. (twins), born in Johnson-
burg. October 21, 1828, brought up and edu-
cated in Newton; Henry W., as a merchant,
afterwards a banker at Long Branch, and John
C. as a physician and surgeon in [jlairstown
where he married .Anna L., daughter of John
R. and Sarah (Armstrong) Howell. The
other children of William II. and Anna
(Couse) Johnson were: Catharine 1 1., Samuel,
who was surrogate of Sussex county; and
Mary, wife of \\'illiam W. Woodward, a mer-
chant in Newton.
( 1\' ) John, son of Ca])tain I lenry and Susan
( Hover) Johnson, was born in Newton, Sussex
county, Xew Jersey, Sej^tember 5, 1764. died
there February 8, 1829. He was educated in the
schools of his native town ; 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 Newton Library Company, September i,
1800, and was prominent in local and county
affairs. He married (first) October 26, 1790,
llaimali Ruy. and they had six children, as
fdllnws: I. .Susan Maria. 2. Eliza Matilda,
married Dr. George Ho]3kins. 3. Mary. 4.
Hannah Margaretta. married Rev. Elias \W.
Crane, D. D. 5. Sarah .\manda. 6. Harriet
Roy, married Rev. James Cook Edwards. He
married (second) .April 28. 1804, Maria Cath-
erine, daughter of Colonel Abraham and Sarah
( .Xrmstroug) Schaeffer, born October 16,1782.
died .\pril 13, 1808. By this second marriage
he had three children as follows, born in New-
tnn. New Jersey: 7. William Jefferson, March
13, 1805; was a practicing physician in New
^'ork City, and died there Septemljer 22, i860.
8. Whitfield .Schaeffer. see forward. 9. Sarah
Catherine. March 29. 1808, died unmarried
Se])tenil)er 28, 1868. and was buried at New-
ton.
( \ ) Whitfield Schaeffer. son of Judge John
and .Maria Catherine (Schaeffer) Johnson,
was born in Newton. Sussex county. New Jer-
sey, .November 24, 1806. He received his ele-
mentary education in the schools of Newton,
his training in law luuler instruction of Chief
Justice Hornblower at Newark, and was ad-
mitted to the bar of Sussex county as an at-
torney in 1828 and as a counsellor in the
coiu'ts of New Jersey in 183 1. He was prose-
cutor of the ])leas for Sussex comity for nearly
twenty years. He .served as secretary of .state
for the state of New Jersey 1861-66 under ap-
pointment from Governor Olden, and on re-
ceiving the appointment he removed to Tren-
ton. New Jersey, where he resided at the time
of his death, which occurred December 24,
1874. He served the Presbyterian church in
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STATR OF XKW I ERSE Y
Xewton 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 (Ridleman) Green, of Phillipsburg, New-
Jersey, and they had seven children born in
Xewton, New Jersey, as follows: i. Mary
Margaretta. 2. Emily Eliza, died in 1901. 3.
Laura Catherine. 4. Elizabeth Bidleman. 5.
William Mindred, see forward. 6. Margaret
(Ireen. died in 1897. 7. Ellen Green.
(\'l) William Alindred, only son and fifth
child of Whitfield Schaeiifer and Ellen
I Green ) Johnson, was born in Newton, Sus-
sex county. New Jersey, December 2, 1847.
I fe was prepared for college at the Model
School. Trenton, and graduated from the Col-
lege of Xew Jersey 1 Princeton). .\. B.. 1867.
.\. M.. 1870. and was admitted to the bar in
1870 as an attorney, and in 1873 '^^ ^ coun-
sellor in the state courts. He practiced his
profession in Trenton. 1870-74, and in 1875
removed to Hackensack, Xew 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 during the session of 1900. and during
the absence of Governor \'oorliees in Europe
in May and June. 1900. he was ex-officio gov-
ernor of the state of New Jersey. In .\ugust.
1900. he was appointed by President McKin-
ley first assistant postmaster general and he
held that office up to .April. 1902. when he re-
signed. He was a delegate from New Jersev
to the l\ei)ul)Iican naticmal conventicms of
188S and i<)04. and served as chairman of the
Rei)ublican -t;ite ci.invention> of I(k)0 and
i(K)4- 11'^ public s])irit and liberality have
abundant evidence in the records of the town
of Hackensack during the time of his resi-
dence there, and in the Johnson Public Librar\
erected at his expense and costing ])rol)abl\-
more than .S6o.c>oo and which was iledicated
with .ippropriate ceremonies on its completion
in ii;oi. the rejircsentative educators and pub
lie men of northern Xew Jersey taking ])art
in tlie ceremonies. On reiuoving to llacken
sack in 1875 '1^' "•'•'^ admitted to membcrshi[)
in the Second Reformed Church by letter from
Trenton, and in 1905 he presented to the
church an excellent pipe organ, and when the
church and its contents were destroyed by fire
in 1908 lie added a considerable sum to the
insurance money, jiaid for the loss of the
organ, and thus enabled the cousistorv to pro-
cure one of the finest organs in use in f'.er-
gen comity. 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
(Maines) White, 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. William Kempton.
February 25. 1883.
The Woolston family of
W( )( )LSTOX New Jersey belongs to that
noble band of Quakers,
who were among the earliest settlers of the
I)lantation 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 Wickaco
(near the old Swedes Church), Philadelphia,
and settled in the neighborhofxl of P)Urlington.
riiere were eighteen. .Among them were
William I'enu and John Woolston; they lived
in wigwam^ iintil they could get their log
houses built. Indian corn and venison, traded
with the Indians, was their chief food. Will-
iam Hudd about the same time located land on
the south side of the north branch of Ranco-
cas w hich he conveyed to John Woolston, one
of the first settlers in Burlington county.
JdIiu \\ nolston married Hanna CiK>per,
ilani;litir <if William Cooper, of Pine I^oint,
now 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-
e\er. left two Other sons. Joshua and Michael.
John Woolston conveyed to his brother
Michael ])art of the above land inherited from
his father which embraces most of the land
between Pembcrtou and P)irningliam Mill on
the south side of Rancocas creek containing
scNcn lunidred acres. losliua was never mar-
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ried and sold his land to his brother Michael,
April 1 8, 1726.
( II ) John (2 ), eldest son of John ( 1 ) Wool-
ston, the first Woolston settler in the colonies,
was married to Hannah (last name unknown)
and had nine children, the oldest being Jacob.
(III) Xewbold. youngest son of John (2)
Woolston, married Mary Bowlby. of Mans-
field. May 10. 1775-
( I\') Abraham, only son of Newbold Wool-
ston. married, December 14, 1800. Anna Bray,
and they had a son. John Bray Woolston. born
(")ctober 16. 1807. died in 1895.
( V) John Bray, son of Abraham W'oolston.
was born in Port Colden, 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. lie 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) Smith, born in 1823, 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 X'escelins. Chil-
dren : John Edwin Woolston, born September
22. 1856: .\rthur Isaac, August 11, 1859. She
married (second) P>enjamin Annan, one child,
Eleanor, married .August 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, .\pri! 13. 1843. 4.
Jacob Xewbold. (October 23. 1843. ilied May i.
1884: married Harriet Britton. Children:
Catharine R. II.. married Robert Ray Good-
rich, and has one child. Robert Ray Jr.. and
John Xewbold. 5. Hulda E.. Jaiuiary 31.
"1847: married. October 17. 1866. Miller R.
Xunn (see Xunn. \T). Child of John Bray
and Lvdia (Smith) W'oolston: 6. John Bray
Jr.. referred to below.
(IV) John Bray (2), only child of John
Bray and Lvdia (Smith) Woolston. was born
in Port Colden, Xew Jersey, June 11, 1864.
For 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 cm])loy of the
Lehigh \'alley Coal Company, with whom he
remained imtil 1883. when he came to Xewark.
;nid went into the freight department of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad.
In 1890 he started a coal business in East
Orange, the Park Avenue Coal Company,
which he gave up in 1898 in order to accept the
position of freight agent of the Lackawanna
railroad at Bloomfield, Xew Jersey. This po-
sition he retained until 1901 when he was ap-
pointed chief clerk of the surrogate's office, a
])osition which he resigned in 1907 when he
was elected county clerk. In politics Mr.
W'oolston is a Republican and is one of the
strong men of his party. He has been for
some time a member of the city Re])ublican
committee, and for the last four years its
chairman. He is prominent in the secret so-
ciety world, being a member of Ophir Chap-
ter, No. 186. of the'Eree and .Xccepted Masons
of East Orange, a past regent of the Royal
Arcanum: a past counsellor of the Loyal .Xd-
ditional. 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, 1883, Mr. W'oolston married in
Port Colden. Warren county. New Jersey.
Lucy, elder daughter of Samuel and Sarah J.
(Carling) Opdvke. born .September i. 1867.
(See (Opdvke. VIH.)
(The Opdyke Line).
liy far the largest number of .American,
< )pdyck-l'p(like. are descendants from the
Dutch family who settled in and near Xew
York about ifYio. It is impossible at present
til trace to a certainty the Holland ancestry,
bill 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 Slime ofTence committed against Lub-
bert Scherpinge. The name has undergone
several changes in the course of the century,
and is now foimd under forms nf Opdyke.
L'pdike and Dyck.
(I) Louris Jansen Opdyck. born in Hol-
land about 1600, came to Xew Xetherlands
before 1633. in which year he owned a resi-
dence at .Albany, and bought a lot at Graves
End, I-ong Island, in which latter place he
died in 1659. He was a well educated man.
and (jossessed of some means, and he did a
prosperous fur trading business at Bevcrwyck
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STATE OF XEW [ERSEY.
He removed to Graves End and later to New
Amsterdam ; he took a prominent part in the
civil afifairs 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
Jans. 3. Johannes, referred to below.
(H) Johannes, son of Louris Jansen and
Christina Opdyck, was born in 1651, died in
1729. He was a planter at Dutch Kills, Long
Island, and in Maidenhead and Hopewell, New
Jersey. By his wife Catharine he had: i.
Tryntje, died between 1722 and 1741 ; married
Enoch .Andrus. 2. Engletje, living 1741 ; mar-
ried Joshua .\nderson. 3. Lawrence, born
1675. died 1748: married Agnes . 4.
.Albert, referred to below. 5. A son, died
about 1730. 6. Bartholomew, living 1746.
(HI) Albert, son of Johannes and Cathar-
ine Opdyck, 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 LTpdick. By his wife Elizabeth he had
children: i. John, born 1710, died 1777; mar-
ried Margaret Green. 2. Joshua, 1713. died
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.
fV) William, son of Albert and Elizabeth
Opdycke born about 1715, died after 1779;
living near Maidenhead, now Lawrenceville,
New Jerse\-. He married, before 1750, Nancy
Carpenter. Children: i. Mary, married Will-
iam Biles. 2. John, referred to below. 3.
W'illiam, born 1755, died 1822: married Sarah
Palmer. 4. Elizabeth, married Jacob Matti-
son Jr. 5. Robert, died 1820: married (first)
.\bigail Htuit. and (second) Elizabeth Smith
Ford. (). I lope. 1762, difd 1843; married
Catharine Wilson. 7. .Samuel, married Sarali
Burtlas. 8. Daniel. (>. Sarah, married Will-
iam Nefus.
(V) John, son of William and Nancy (Car-
penter) 0])dycke, born 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.
( ieorge W., died aged sixteen years. 6. Will-
iam, 1782, died 1843; married Elizabeth Kin-
ter. 7. Beaulia, married John Welsh. 8.
Sarah, married John Beers. 9. Rebecca, un-
married. 10. Phebe, married (first) Samuel
Mabury, and (second) William Strous. 11.
Mary, married John Brinckerhoff. 12. Sam-
uel, referred to below. 13. Nancy, married
Garrett Lacy.
(\'I) 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
Jt^se])h Warnsley. 4. William. 1823 : married
(first! Sarah Hornbaker, and (second) Mar-
gret Washburn. 5. George. 1825. died 1868;
married Mary Cole. 6. Rebecca. 1826. 7.
Mary Ann. 1830: married \\'illiam Whittle.
8. Samuel. 1832; married Elizabeth Cole. 9.
.^arah. 1836: married Cornelus Helderant.
(XTI) John (2) son of Samuel and Ann
(Snyder) 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. IMargret, 1841.
4. William S.. 1843; married Cornelia Ful-
worth. 5. Susan Widner. 6. John W., 1846.
died t886: married Mary Marlott. 7. Joseph.
1848. 8. Luther C, 1850: married Sarali
Gardner.
(\'III) Samuel (2). son of John (2) and
Mary (Pettcy) Opdyke. was born in 1838. antl
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.
\'I). 2. Nettie, born 1873. died single.
This ancient surname is of
l'"I'".l\( Il'SOX .Scottish origin, derived from
Fergus, a favorite name and
one proudlv worn bv many Scotch chiefs in
ancient limes.
(I) Rev. John herguson. inunigrant. was
born December 9, 1788, in Dmise, a market
town in Berwickshire, in the southern part
of Scotland. His grandfather came from the
STATE OF NEW TERSEV.
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north of Scotland and was one of the sokhers
of the Duke of Marlborough, serving in the
Scots Greys, 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 mothep country ; but at the
age of about seventy years he returned with
his wife and family to New])ort. His wife
was Anne I'riggs, of Eittle Com]5ton, 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
the ministry. For two year.-> he studicfl the-
ology with Dr. Tenney, pastor of the First
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. Galvin Park, D. D., professor
of ancient languages and later of moral phi-
losophy at P)rown University. However, 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 relinquished the hope of enter-
ing the ministry. He seemed to have a pre-
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 t|uitc dififerent nature from that which he
would have chosen.
His first sermon as a candidate was ]jreached
at .\ttleboro, Massachusetts, and his te.xt was
"The Lord 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 .Yttle-
boro, February 2~, 1822, and dismissed March
■25- 1835. 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 pastor by a judicious and careful educa-
tion of children in Sabbath schools, and ma-
ternal associations." .\ftcr leaving Attleboro
Mr. Ferguson was settled in Whately, Massa-
chusetts, from March 16, 1836, until June 7,
1840. He was called Father I-'erguson and
was a man to whom churches looked for coun-
sel and ])astors for advice, often when pastors
and churches were involved in difficulties.
"lie was very often solicited to ajipear 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 would have
made.' " He almost always defended the
weaker ])arty. his sympathies frecjuently inclin-
ing to the unpopular side. "He was always
ready to grasp the shield and poise 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-
pressed" although at the same time he was
ec|ually well known as "a lover and maker of
peace."
He preached for about two years at Lanes-
borough and Whately. the place of his former
settlement, and in 1842 became general agent
for the .\merican Tract .Association for the
states t)f X'ermont and New Hampshire, in
which office and its duties he was very suc-
cessful : and he really became the Congrega-
tional bishop for those two states. He died at
Whately, November 11, 1858. 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. Amherst 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 bv his own exertions thoroughly educated
himself and the comiiliment was a source of
great gratification to him. Mr. Ferguson pub-
lished a sermon on the death of Ebenezer
Daggett Jr.. which was delivered December 16,
1831. and several other discourses. He also
published for the use of .Sunday schools a
"Memoir of Dr. Samuel Hopkins." the cele-
brated theologian.
Mr. Ferguson married (fir.st) June 7. 1813.
Mary \'. Hammett, of Newport, Rhode Island,
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STATE OF XI-:W IKRSEV
Ijv whom Ik- liad iwu children. She died June
30. 1818. and lie married ( second I April 28.
i8ig. Margaret S. Eddy, of Providence, who
died May 6. 1871. hy whom he had nine chil-
dren. Children: i. John, born January i.
1815; married Sarah Moore. 2. Margaret,
.N'ovember 11. iSiT). died December 19, 1819.
3. Mary H., February 25. 1820 ■. married
riiarles D. Stockbridge. 4. Peter, December
13, 1821. died 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
Su.san Pratt, of Andover. 8. Margaret E.,
December 9, 1830; married H. B. Allen, of
Xew Haven, Connecticut. 9. James A., No-
vember 17, 1832: married Claudia Churchill.
i)f .\'t\v Orleans. 10. .Anna I'.., May 3, 1835. died
.Xu.uust (>. 1840. II. .\1)1)\- Park, .\]iril 4. 1837.
ill) Peter, h fth son of Rev. John and
Margaret S. (Eddy) Ferguson, was born in
.\ttleboro. Massachusetts. July 20, 1823. He
married Maria J. liixby. of Keene, Xew
Hampshire. At the age of thirteen years hi.-,
father removed from Attleboro, Alassachu-
setts. to \\liatley. Massachusetts, and here he
grew up and completed the preparatory studies
which fitted him for entrance to .\mherst Col-
lege, which he entered but did not complete
the course. His brother William 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 ])osition WMth his brother. Having
nut with a ])ainful injury to his foot and being
unable to travel at the time of his intended
wedding, William, who was on a business triji
to the east went to Keene, New Ham])shire.
and escorted Miss Piixljy to his home in Cleve-
land where the wedding took place. He re-
moved to Xorwalk Ohio, still connected with
the Cleveland, Toledo and Xorwalk railroad
until the fall of 1853, when he accej^ted the
l)osition of chief engineer of the Tiffin and
Fort Wayne railroad and removed to Tiffin.
( )hio. His work here was the preliminary
surve\- and road-bed construction of an air
line railroad from Tiffin to Fort Wayne and
all the work was through an unbroken wilder-
ness, part of which was known as the black
swamj). Financial depression caused an aban-
donment of this j)roject and he turned his
attention to bridge construction and built two
bridges in Tiffin ; one over the Sanduskv river
and the other over Rock river. Desiring bet-
ter facilities for the education of In's children
he removed in i860 to Xew Haven, Connecti-
cut, where he continued for a time the work of
bridge construction and built the Chapel street
bridge over the New York, Xew 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 Xew 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
niufl-flats 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 su])erintendent
of the then large contracting firm of Macln-
tire Brothers, and removed to Piuffalo, New
York, where 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 tlie varied ex-
perience of his life work formed the founda-
tion of a character which developed a strong,
self-reliant manhood. He was ever interested
in the s])iritual and moral welfare of tho.se
about him and a constant and faithful at-
tendant of the Episcopal church. He gave
freely of his time 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)
l-~erguson are: i. James Joseph, born Xoveni-
ber 2y. 1853, died October 14, 1854. 2. Mary.
December 15, 1853. 3. John William, De-
cember 19, 1857. 4. Ceorge Robert, June 13,
''^59- 5- Charles lulward, December 22, i860.
6. iilizabeth, June 18, 1862, died .August 18,
1862. 7. .Arthur Bi.xby. January 13. 1864. 8.
Herbert .Allen, March 28. 1863, died fanuarv
26, 1870.
( III ) John William, son of ' 'eter and Maria
J. ( Piixby ) F"erguson, wa^ horn in Tiffin.
( )hio. Deceiuber 19, 1857, removed with his
father's family to Xew Haven, Connecticut,
where the earlier years of his life were spent.
STATE OF NEW IRRSEV.
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and wht-re lie received liis education in tlie pub-
lic and high schocds of that city, taking a course
of study preparatory to entering Yale Scien-
tific School. lie did not enter the college,
however, and turned his attention to the study
of practical engineering. In 1877 he secured
a jiosition as rodman in the engineering service
of the old Boston & Xevv York .\ir Line rail-
road, remained there one year and in 1878 was
employed in the same capacity in the engin-
eering department of the Xew York, Lake Erie
it Western railroad. He continued with the
latter comj^any until the early part of the year
1891. 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 ]\Ir. Ferguson began
business as civil engineer and building con-
tractor in Paterson, in a comparatively limited
way at first, and gradually increasing the scope
oi 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 Xew Jersey State Arm-
ory, Hamilton Trust Company, United Bank
Building, the Colt Building, the :\Ieyer Broth-
ers Department Store building, all in Pater-
son : the Kings County Power Building,
Brooklyn, \^ew York : Hackensack Trust Com-
pany building. Hackensack. Xew Jersey ; the
Babbit Soap Factory Building. Babbit. Xew
Jersey ; the Babcock & U'ilcox Plant, Bayonne,
New Jersey ; the Newark Warehouse, Newark.
New Jersey : the Cera 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 Mr. Ferguson during his resi-
flence 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
gcjod works acconi|)lished by that association,
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 Xew Jersey
State Commission of Industrial Education, the
Society of Sons of the .Vmerican Revolution,
life member General Society of Mechanics &
Tradesmen. Xew York, the Xorth Jersey
County Club, of Paterson, and the Hamilton
Club, of Paterson, the Engineers Club and
Hardware Club of Xew York.
Mr. p-erguson married, May 26, 1893, Jennie
Ik'am, daughter of William Cooke, of Pater-
son, and by whom he has three chiklren, John
William Jr., .Arthur Donald and Jean Fergu-
son.
The Jolmson family of Mor-
JC)HXSOX ris county, New Jersey, is
another example of that stal-
wart Xew 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 Xew
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.
(H) John (2), son of John (i) and Mary
Johnson, was born in New Haven county,
Connecticut, about 1706, died in Morris
county, Xew Jersey, May 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.
(HI) Jacob, son of John (2) and Abagail
(Ball) Johnson, was baptized in the First
Presbyterian Church of ^lorristown, April 21,
1751 ; died there April 25, 1780. xAccordingto
Stryker. he enlisted in the Xew 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:
Xoah, Mahlon, referred to below ; Jacob Jr.
Xoah moved to Ohio, and Jacob's descendants
are living to-day in Indiana.
(IV) ]\Iahlon, son of Jacob and .Anne (Vail)
^3^.
STATE OF X]<;W JERSEY
lolinson, was born at Littleton, Morris county,
Xew 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 old 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
I laker, who five years later handed in her
letter from Parsippany to the First Presbyte-
rian Church of Morristown. She died April
17, 1837, aged fifty-nine years, lie married
I second) Mary (Robertson) Ludlam, born
January 8, 1792. died January 31, 1874, aged
eighty-two years, widow of Ezekiel Ludlam.
Children, all by first marriage: i. Jacob, born
December 3, 1798, died March 20, 1865; mar-
ried Hetty (Baker) Vail. 2. Chilion, July
24, 1800, died Crawfordsville, Indiana; mar-
ried .\nn Woodruff. 3. Noah, February 17.
1802; drowned at Speedwell, July 20, 1819. 4.
r.aker, October 23, 1803, died October 18,
1886; graduated from Bloomfield Academy,
Union College, and Princeton Seminary ;
ordained by the Presbytery of New York ;
married Electa, daughter of the Rev. I'.arna-
bas King. 5. Alfred, referred to below. 6.
Sussanna Day, August 26, 1806, died Alay 5,
1877; married Jonathan E. Huntington, as his
second wife. 7. Elizabeth Ann, February 16,
1808, died December 15. 1863; married John-
athan E. Huntington as his first wife. 8.
Thomas \'ail, 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, .Xugust 2, 1814, died June, 1878:
married .Silas V>. 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 .Allen DeCamp.
15. .\ child died September 17, 1823.
(V) Alfred, fifth child and son of Mahlon
and .'^arah (P.aker) Johnson, was born at Lit-
tleton. Morris county. New Jersey, April 5.
1805, died October 7, 1847. He was a farmer,
a blacksmith, carpenter and wheelwright, and
lived at Littleton all his life. January 14.
182S, he married Sarah, daughter of Jonathan
I'.aker. born November 7, 1803, died June 2/.
1882. Children: i. Alargaret I'akcr, born
November 28. 1.^28. died Mav 21). 1857: mar
ried Pelknap 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. Theo-
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 2'i,.
1899; unmarried. 7. Johnathan Baker, died
November 26, 1849, aged eight years.
(VI) Theodore Frelinghuysen, fourth child
and second son of Alfred and Sarah (Baker)
Jiihnson, was born in Littleton, Morris county,
Xew Jersey, July 11, 1835, 'I'ld 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 lie left in order to
accept a position as bookkeeper in New York
City. Coming back to his Uncle 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
.Vndrew Johnson in 1830, has now grown to
be one of the largest firms of its kind in New-
ark, shipping merchandise all over the coim-
try. The firm name at first was Jacob John-
,son & Company, Theodore Johnson being the
latter. It then became Tlieo. F. Johnson and
finally when Mr. Johnson admitted two of
his sons into partnership, Theo. F. Johnson
& Company, yy Mechanic street. Mr. John-
son is a Republican, and a member of the Park
Presbyterian Church. He is president of the
-Uahlon Johnst)!! Union, a director in the
\"oung Men's Christian Association of New-
ark, and a member of the New Jersey Histor-
ical Society.
May 25, 1865. Mr. Johnson married Anna
l-'.lizabeth, third child and eldest daughter of
William Pann and Sarah (Locke) Vail, born
December 9, 1837. dieil .\])ril 7, 1901. Chil-
dren: I. Alfred P.aker, born March 3, 1866.
now living in South (3range, New Jersey;
married Ella Wharton, September 28, 1898;
they have Anna Wharton and Wharton Vail.
J. Elizabeth I'.lair. June 20, i8f)g. 3. William
Jyiu). (/, (ptiUA.&ty\y^
STATE OF NEW 11':rS1;V.
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Vail, June 28, 1871; married, October 14,
1902, Katharyn Dorrance, daughter of W'ill-
iam K. and Helen (Pierson) Laverty. 4.
Helen More, December 15, 1873. 5- Charles
Henry, Alav 14, 1878, aied September 12.
1870.
George Fox, the founder of
\\'( )( )LMAX the Society of Friends, born
in Drayton, Lancastershire,
England, 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 Fo.x were
Harcla}', Fenwick, I'enn, Stakes, Haines, Lip-
pincott 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
Ikirlington in West New Jersey, and Penn-
sylvania was the proprietor 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
patterned after. Tliey were the originators of
the practice of universal freedom and univer-
sal peace, and to them the world owes the in-
ception of these great questions that brought
about the abolition of Negro slavery in the
United States and the formation of the great
peace societies made 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 L'nited
States was accepted 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 Fox and his faithful fol-
lowers.
(I) John Woolman, an English gentleman
and member of the Society of Friends, hearing
from reports sent out from Fenwick's Colony,
in West New Jersey, of the goodly land and
l)romises of comfort, c|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
lie took ship in 1681, and on arriving at Burl-
ington selected eight thousand acres of land
extending from the Burlington river south-
ward to the north branch of the Rancocas
river, a distance of five miles, and including
ihc jiresent site of Mount Holly, where he fixed
his home. Having thus secured a foothold
and a position of prominence in the Friends
Meeting, he looked across the Meeting House
and among the comely Quakeresses he found
[Elizabeth, daughter of John and Ann Borton,
a family of Friends who had come from Ajii-
hoe Parish in Northamptonshire, England, and
they were soon announcing in Meeting their
intention of marrying, which announcement,
once repeated, ended in their marriage on the
loth month. 8th day, 1684. They had children
including : Samuel, married Elizabeth, and
they had daughter, Patience, born loth month,
27th day. 1 7 18, and she in turn selected as a
husband Joseph Moore, of another [troniinent
family of the meeting. .Another child was
.Asher, see forward.
(II) Asher, younger son of John and Eliz-
abeth ( Borton ) Woolman, was born at Mount
Holly, New Jersey, 6th month, 27th day, 1722.
He was married 12th month, 13th day, 1769,
when he attained his forty-seventh year, to
Rachel Norcross, lx)rn 8th month, 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,
j)0ssibly more, of which Elizabeth, the eldest
daughter, was married in 1798 to John, born
4th month, nth 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 ; Alaria 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 nth month, 5th day, 1740,
>on of farvis and Elizabeth (Rogers) Stokes.
l->esides these two daughters, they had a son
Granville, see forward.
(III) Granville, son of Asher and Rachel
( Norcross ) W'oolman. was born in Mount
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STATE OF XP:\V [ERSEV,
Moll\-, I'lUrlington count}, Xew Jersey, 1st
montli, 1st (lay, 1774. lie was married ist
inontli, nth clay, 1795, to Hannah, daughter
of Jarvis and Elizabeth (Rogers) Stokes, and
granddaughter of John and Elannah ( Stog-
delle) Stokes. Hannah (Stokes) Woolnian
was born 8th month, nth day, 1775, and by
her marriage to Granville W'oolman she had
five children: i. Eliza, born in 1795; married
David Lukens. 2. Ann, loth month, 3rd day,
1797, married Walton; died 10th
month, 7th day, 1821. 3. Rachel, 7th month,
20th day, 1799: married Chambless Aliddleton.
4. Jolm, 8th month, 20th day, 1803 ; married
Alaria Stokes; died 5th month, 20th day, 1868.
3. Granville, see forward.
{Vsl ) Granville (2), son of Granville (i)
and Hannah (Stokes) W'oolman, 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 Alargaret Lippincott, of Burlington
county. Children: i. Margaret W., married,
1853, Jacob Leeds, who ke])t a store at Ran-
cocas ; children : i. Granville, married Nancy
M. Haines and their children are : a. ( iertrude,
married Hudson Haines ; b. Mary, married
( "leorge 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
' ieorge 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 arc: Margaret W., Alice
and Grace Jones. 2. Hannah Ann, horn 1834;
married Michael E. Haines and their children
are: i. Horace E., married Susan (dement and
they have one child, Ethel, married Harvey
Lippincott ; ii. Jervis W., married Minnie Clog-
ston ; child. Hazel ; iii. Hannah H., unmarried ;
iv. Alice W., unmarried ; v. Alfred M., married
Florence Hilliard; vi. Granville Woolman,
married Abbie Rogers ; children : Sylvan,
I'irnest and Blanche ; vii. Remington, married
I'"annic McGowen ; children : Clair and Lillian ;
viii. Clara, married E. S. Perkins; child,
h'.arl. 3. Martha L.. born 1836. 4. Isaac L.,
horn 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 Alaurice Stokes ; child, Mau-
rice ; iv. Helen, married William Stafford. 6.
Daniel L., see forward. 7. Alice W., born
1846: luarried Hudson B. Taylor. 8. Phebe,
born 1848; married Evan Buzby.
(\') 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 Alary
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
townshi]) 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 B., daughter of Samuel Wills, of Ran-
cocas. She died November 30, 1889. Chil-
ilren, born on the old homestead at Rancocas:
1. Samuel Jarrett, see forward. 2. Granville
.S., born September 28, 1870, died July 13,
1905. 3. Daniel Howard, born April 12, 1872;
he conducts a carpet factory in I'hiladelphia ;
married Harriet Kreamer ; one child, Marion.
4. Caroline B., born October 2, 1873 • married
William Li])pincott ; children: Florence and
-Samuel. 3. Anna L., born December 8, 1874 ;
married Henry Jones. 6. Martha W'., born
.\pril 14, 1879, unmarried; lives at hoine. 7.
Phebe W.. born January 5. 1883; married
llenry Whitacre; one child, Evan P>.
(\'l) 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 \t\\\)\\ 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 Vinccntovvn as a boy, and on
leaving the railroad service engaged in the coal
business in Vincentown, in 1899. He added
to the coal liusiness that of lumber in co-part-
nership with Eugene Antrim, the business be-
ing conducted imder the firm name of Wool-
man. Antrim & Coni])any, their place of busi-
STATE OF XEW
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iiess being Rctl Eimi. Mr. W oolnian is a
stockholder in the N'incentown 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 \'incento\vn, New Jersey.
Joseph Thomas Read, a native of
RM\D Wales, was born in if)8g, and wa.-
among the early settlers of West
Xew 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 liad 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 infre(|ucncy 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 : William, 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 (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-
mira 1 \ 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
m the Presbyterian burial ground in that place.
His father outlived him.
(HI) David, youngest child of [oseph
Thomas (2) and Almira (W-zcy) Read, was
horn 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 tlie call
and joined the revolutionary army as a private
in Captain John P>arker's comi)any and was
subsequently transferred to Captain Warren's
company. .\t 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. Ts'ear 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, i)reparing his products for the
Philadel])hia 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 18 12 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
Feeds. 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 Alary. 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 OP' XEW JERSEY.
a lawyer in I'hiladulphia ; ii. Cecelia, married
Abraliani Tollman: iii. Mary, married Joseph
B. Bush, of Newport, Rhode Island ; iv. Annie,
married William B. Knowles, of Philadelphia ;
V. Kate, married Edwin B. Powell, of Brook-
lyn, New- York: vi. Emily, died young: vii :
Joseph J. Reed married (second) in 1881,
Elizabeth M. (EtrisI, widow of Captain
Henry Schillinger, of Camden. 3. Rachel,
married and had four children : Mary, Char-
lotte, Rachel and .Amelia. 4. \\'illiam Thack-
ara, died 1842. 5. John Smilie, see forward.
6. Edmund Elliott, married Anna Peak and
they had four children : i. Harriet : ii. Sarah
Lippincott. married Henry L. Jones and had
one cliild, Mary; iii. John: iv. Anna.
( \' ) John Smilie, second son of Joel ami
Mary (Jones) Read, was born in the old dis-
trict of Southwark, Philadelphia, Pennsylva-
nia, Alarch 11, 1822. He was proprietor of a
large commercial house dealing in wall papers
in Philadelphia. He wa.s also a director and
treasurer for twenty-five years of the Camden
Fire Insurance Company, and at the time of
his death was a commissioner of the Morris
Plains Insane Asylum, under appointment of
the Governor of New Jersey. He was also
appointed by the legislature of New Jersey a
director of the Camden & Amboy Railroad
Company. He served the cit '"amden 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 Building and Loan Association.
His fraternal affiliation with the Masonic fra-
ternity came through initiation in Camden
Lodge, No. 15, and Royal Arch Chapter, No.
91, of Phila(lel])hia. He married (first) Mar-
garet Mason: married (second) Harriett,
daughter of Tiiomas and Abigail Peak, of
Camden. Children of first w'ife: i. Elizabeth
Mason, married John Campbell, of Camden :
children : John and Mary C. Campbell. 2.
William Tliackara, married Lucretia McCor
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.
Monroe countv, Pennsvlvania, August 6, 1882.
(VI) Edmund Elliott, only child of John
Smilie and Harriett (Peak) Read, was born
in Camden, New Jersey, .August 7, 1859. He
was prepared for college at the scliool of Will-
iam Fewsmith, of No. 1008 Chestnut street.
Philadelphia, and was graduated at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. .\. B., 1879: he was a
member of the I'hilomathean Society and the
winner of the Henry Read prize at graduation.
He studied law in the office of Peter L. Voor-
hees. and was admitted as an attorney in June.
1882. He became the president of the Cam-
den Fire Insurance Association, of which 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 2~ . 18S2. Margaret W'.. daugh-
ter of John W. and Kate O. (Hopkins) Mul-
ford, of Camden, New Jersey. Their son,
John .Smilie, w^as born in Camden. New Jersey.
Xovember 1 1, T883.
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 six 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 proper a
fleur-de-lis sable. The motto: "Re ct tiicrito"
(by actions and merit).
In 1 571 Rev. George Ely became vicar of
Tenterden, in the county of Kent, and contin-
ued to sustain that living until his death in
1613. 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 1545, probably took his degree about
1566, when he would have been of full age,
and five years later obtained the living of
Tenterden. It is supposed that he married in
1571. The baptismal name of his wife was
Morence, and all of their children except one
were 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;, August 18. Florence, wife of Mr.
George Ely. vicar. 1615 .August 21. .Master
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George 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. m8i ; Lydia, 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, 1572, 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 O.xford he must have been of
Cambridge. There is a hiatus in the list of
graduates between 1388 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) 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. Mr. 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. Both
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 Fudlow,
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
inhabitants 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 variuus important town ofiices, being
selectman of the town in i66i and five times
afterward. Whatever may have been his pre-
vious occui)ation. it is certain that in i(;)65
Nathaniel Ely became keeper of the "ordi-
nary," for which service in the plantation only
the most respectable men were chosen ; the
court would license no other. The records of
the court at Springfield sets forth his license
in these words : "Nathaniel Fly of Spring-
field, being desired and putt upon to keep an
ordinary there, or house for Comon Enter-
taynment, was by this Corte lyctHsed to that
worke. as also for selling wines or strong
liquors 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 Sanford and Dwight
streets, probably the oldest house in Spring-
field. Nathaniel Ely died in Springfield, 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. Among other
items in the inventory was one negro man, £15.
He had two -' "iren, Samuel, of whom men-
tion is made u.,tne ne.xt paragraph, 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. 1 lis 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 propertv, for he left a considerable
estate. He married, October 28, 1659, Mary,
}oungest daughter of Robert and Editha
( Stebbins) Day. She was born in Hartford in
1641, died in Hatfield. Massachusetts, October
17. 1725. .'\fter 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
1635. died January 21. 171 1. son of Thomas
and Frances (Welles) Coleman. Samuel and
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Mary ( Day I Ely had sixteen children: I.
Child, born 1660, died in infancy. 2. Samuel,
March i, 1662, died young. 3. Joseph, August
20, 1663, died April 29, 1755. 4. Samuel, No-
vember 4, 1664, died young. 5. Alary, 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 May, 1689. 10. Jonathan.
January 24, 1676, died February 2-j, 1676. 11.
Martha. October 28, 1677, died November 25,
1677. \2. 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, d'ied' Hatfield. 16. Kulh, born 1688,
died Belchertown about 1747.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) and
Mary (Day) Ely, was born in West Spring-
held, Ma.ssachusetts, May 9. 1668, died there
August ZT^, 1732. He took a prominent part in
]niblic 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 1 72 1, 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
afifairs 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 six by his
second wife: i. Martha, born December 21.
1698. 2. Mary, February 14, 1700, died May
27, 1714. 3. Samuel, September 21, 1701, sec
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 5,
1717, died January 30, 1761.
(\'^) .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, ditd November 21,
1794. 2. Thomas, December i, 1725, died
May 10, 1790. 3. .Vbigail, July 15, 1727, died
-\ugust 9, 1805. 4. Joel, November 13, 1728.
died July, 1815. 5. Levi, November 26, 1732,
see forward. 6. Simeon, January 25, 1734,
died January 15, 1817. 7. Nathan. January 9.
1739, died October 31, 1798.
(V'l) 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 Sjjringfield, ^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 West Springfield near the old Congrega-
tional church edifice. All of his children were
born there and all lived and died in W'est
Springfield. He married, October 12, 1758,
.Vbigail 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 tlie 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.
1 761, 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 W'estfield : 1.
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 Arl)or, Alicliigan, February 13, 1X80.
5. Joseph Alinor, November 26, 1807, died
June 14, 1885. 6. Levi, December 22. 1809.
died La Porte, Indiana, May 18, 1869. 7.
Thomas, December 22. 181 1. 8. AdcHson, 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 Fllizabeth, New Jersey, February 9, 1886.
lie married (first) in Westfield, September 5,
1836, Emeline Letitia Harrison, born West-
field, December 13, 1818, died there February
18, 1862, daughter of Seth and Letitia (Veits)
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 I~ebru-
ary 28, 1895. Seth Harrison belonged to the
family of which President William H. Harri-
son was a member. Emeline Letitia (Harri-
son) Ely was a granddaughter of Jabez liald-
win, who enlisted in the revolutionar}- war
eight times, and served every years nf 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. Grace Rose, July
4, 1840; married, Ajiril 10, 1861, Jared Sand-
ford, born Lodi, Seneca county. New York,
October 16. 1834, son of Halsey and Fann\-
Maria (Howell) Sandford. 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.
Emma Josephine. New Piuffalo. Micliigan.
December 23. 1848. 7. WiHiam Henry Har-
rison. May 10. 185 1. 8. Addison, May 23.
1853. see forward. 9. Thomas Jefferson, June
2, 1855, died April 10, 1858. 10. Nancy Jud-
son, October 10, 1857: married, 1S81. M .
Eugene Cady : died 1-^ebruary 15. hjoij. at
Westfield. Massachusetts.
(IX) Captain Addison, son of William and
Emeline Letitia (Harrison) Ely. was burn 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 llaldwins, 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 .'^pringfield and Westfield. .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(|uency to serve their
countrymen in offices of trust and honor. Addi-
son was a boy of eight years when his father
removed to P.loomfield, New Jersey, within a
few miles of which jilace he has resided. He
was given a good elementary education at the
Davis Latin School in Bl(X)mficld 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, hut at the age of
eighteen he turned his attention to educational
work. He first taught the ])ublic school at
L'nion. Union county. New Jersey, and two
years later became the first principal of the
Caldwell high school in Essex county. While
there he took u]) the study of law, but in 1879
he discontinued law for a time and became
princi])al of the Rutherford liigh school, later
resuming law reading, having never aliandoned
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 days a rare
acquisition though common now. was granted
him, and of which he is very proud. It was
signed by Ellis .\. Apgar and Washington
Hasbronck, examiners. They were distin-
guished New Jersey educators, since deceased.
Mr. 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 pui)ils. .\t the
Februarv term of the supreme court. Cajitain
I-^ly was admitted as an attorney, in I'ebrnary.
1892. as counsellor at law. 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 resi)()nsibilities
of a large ])ractice, he finds time to devote to
public concerns which tend to promote the gen-
eral welfare of the commmiity. commending
merit and without hesitancy condemning all
schemes for the advancement of selfish ends at
public expense. He organized the Dover,
New Jersey. ( ias 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 Electric Coniiwnv of I'.ergen County and
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STATE OF XEW lERSEY
has held the office of director of the company
for many years.
Captain Ely became a member of Company
C, Third Regiment, in 1872, continuing as
such for seven years. In 1893 he organized
and became captain of Company L, Second
Regiment, which company was among the best
mihtary organizations in the state in general
efficiency and discipline. Captain Ely otTered
his Company L to the governor of the state of
.\'ew 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-
lliree 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
General Lee's Seventh Corps, and by his
special order was made provost marshal of the
corps, though officially attached to the stafif of
(jeneral Arnold, commanding the Second
Division of the Corps. He later organized
and became captain of Company M, Eifth
Regiment, which office he resigned in 1904. As
an officer he was never absent at roll call
during his entire service.
lie is a pronounced and consistent Demo-
crat and was always ready to respond to
his party's call. In 1896 he was nominated
for congress in the old fifth district, con-
sisting of P.ergen and Passaic counties. In
1900 he was elected delegate to the Demo-
cratic National Convention held at Kansas
City, and later tlie same year was nominated
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, Eree and Accepted
Masons, a member of the Union Club, the
New 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
public improvement. This section of Ruther-
ford lies adjacent to Park avenue, .\ddison
avenue, Lincoln avenue and Newell avenue.
and also extends to Sylvan street, Mountain
Way, ( )rient Way, Eoronia Way and Meadow
Road. The houses and improvements on all
these streets are creditable alike to his good
judgment and public sjiirit, and have fi.xed a
highly select residential character on these sec-
tions. He is now develo])ing the lands known
as Elycroft Estate.
Captain Ely married, December 29, 1874.
Emily J. Johnson, of Connecticut Farms, born
March I, 1856, daughter of \\'illiam 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 April 28,
1902; ii. Nathaniel, born April 10, 1903; iii.
.\ddison Charles, born May. 29, 1905; iv.
Katherine, born September 19, 1908. 2. Abi-
gail Mabel, born in Rutherford, April 15,
1881 : graduate of department of arts, Michi-
gan University; married, September 12, 1905.
Frederick Howland \\'oo(hvard, of Eitchburg,
Massachusetts ; children : i. Emily E., born
-September I, 1906; ii. and iii. Frederick How-
land and Addison Ely. twins, June 30, 1909.
3. Jared Sand ford, 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 University and Department of
.Architecture, Columbia University. 6. Emily
Emeline, born Septeinber 2, 1888; graduate of
Michigan University. 7. Clara Harri.son
Stranahan, born in Rutherford, March 26.
1890; now a junior. Michigan University. 8.
William Harvey Johnson, born Septetnber 18,
1891 ; so])homore .Michigati University. 9.
Leon .Abbett, born November 25. 1893. 10.
Hiram Baldwin, born March I, 1896. 11.
James Samuel Thomas .^tranahan, born Octo-
ber 17, 1898. Captain Ely lives on an old-
fashioned farm on the sunny slope of Ruther-
ford, wjiich he calls Elycroft. where he com-
bines nnich that is best in rural and town life.
The Russell family which is
l\rSSl'"l.l. the subject of the jjresent arti-
cle is one of the later acquisi-
tions to the country there being only two gen-
er:'.tit)ns belonging by birth to this side of the
.\tlantic and the second of these with all of its
life before it.
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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 27, 1857, he was married in St. Luke's
Chapel of Trinity Parish, New York City, by
the Rev. Isaac IL 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 Britons who retired into Wales
liefore the con(|ucring arms of the heathen
.Saxons. There \\ith their followers they kept
up 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
])restige. and with the ancient castle a ruin,
three brothers of the family, John, William
and Edward Chenoweth, determined to leave
the hrime property to the last named of the
three while William came over to the new
world and settled in Jamestown, Virginia, and
his brother John joined Lord Baltimore's col-
ony and settled in Maryland. The descend-
ants of these two are scattered all over the
U'nited States to-day. Edward remained in
the old country, and became the ancestor of
Mrs. Russell, the line running as follows:
Edward : John, born 1635 : William, 1682 ; Ed-
ward, 1715: John, 1741, died July 28, 1779.
whose children were: I. .-Mice, born December
24, 1765, died December 21, 1808. 2. Edward,
referred to below. 3. John, August 20, 1768,
died Sei)tember 2, 1769. 4. and 5. Martha and
Mary, twins, July 13, 1769. Ci. William, April
23. 1771- lost at sea about 1825. 7. Elizabeth,
.■\ugust I. 1773, died December 2^. 1792. 8.
John, February 3. 177(1, died in 1852. 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, comity Kent. England, and they
had eleven children: i. .\lice, born .\pri! 15,
1790, died December 19, 1872. 2. Benjamin,
May 12, 1792, died April 22. 1797. 3. Phoebe,
.Vovember 17, 1794, dietl in 1858. 4. John.
February 21, 1797, died May 7, 1802. 5. I'.en-
jamin, January 29. 1799, died r\Iarch 16, 1799.
ft. Mary .\nn, February 8.. 1800. died October
17, 1802. 7. John, September 22, 1802, died
in 1802. 8. John, referred to below. 9. Eliza,
September 19, 1806. died May 6, 1882. 10.
I.aurentia. .\ugust 18. 1801), died Julv 11. 1877.
II. Edward William. January 28. 1812, died in
.Australia. .Xiiril 29, 1850.
John (2), son of Edward and Phoebe (Rom-
age) Chenoweth, was born November 18,
1803, died September 19, 1861. May 2, 1824,
he married in the parish church of Chalk,
county Kent, England, the clergyman being
the Rev. R. S. Jaynes, Caroline Mitchell, who
bore him thirteen children, three of whose
names have not been i)reserved died in in-
fancy; the other ten being: i. Caroline, born
September, 1825, died JMarcli 5, 1902; mar-
ried, .\ugust 8, 1850, James .A. Weston. 2.
Edward, 1827, died 1836. 3. John, .\pril 21,
1829, married (first) September 18, 1850,
Mary Hall: (second) November 30, 1864,
Mary Jones. 4. William, February 23,
1831. died .\pnl 5, 1895: married, in
1849, Sarah Ann Carr. 5. FJizabeth,
October 22. 1833, died September 4, 1857;
married, July 4, 1852. Thomas W. Stott. 6.
I'hoebe .\nn. referred to above and below. 7.
Alice, 1838. 8. Edward, May 21, 1841, mar-
ried, October 18, i860, Judith U. Robertson.
I). Ephraim, May 7. 1844, was married three
times. 10. I^aurentia, January i, 1848, mar-
ried (first) May 16, 1876, John Quin, and
(second) November 26, 1890. H. F. Muss.
.-Ml 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 Benjamin and Phoebe Ann
(Chenoweth) Russell were: i. Harriet M.,
married Ceorge Mullaney, of Jersey City, and
has three children : Frank, Irene and Edna.
2. Phoebe E., married Clarence E. Pease, and
died at twenty years of age. 3. George Eld-
ridge, referred to below. 4. Laura. 5-
Charles Henry, who is married and has two
children.
(II) (ieorge Eldridge, third child and eld-
est son of Benjamin and Phoebe .-Xnn (Cheno-
weth) Russell, was born in i!rooklyn. Long
Island, Se])tember 8. i8C)4, and when one year
old removed with parents to Jersey City, where
he lived and attended school until about eleven
vears of age when his ])arents moved to New-
ark, New Jersey, where he is now living.
iMir 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 v]^ the wholesale grain busi-
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ness. wiirkiiig iuv Juhn S. Car]jentt'r & Com-
pany. I"nr twenty years he was manager of
the grain (lc])artment of Wilkinson Gaddis &
Company of Newark. New Jersey. In 1904
he was elected to the ofiice 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 ciimmittee 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, having at-
tained the thirty-second degree : membc"
<if St. John's Lodge. Xo. i. Free and
Accepted Masons: Salaam Temple. An-
cient .Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine ; Newark City Camp. No. 7062. Mod-
ern Woodmen of America; Anthony Wayne
Council. No. 150, Junior Order United Aineri-
can Mechanics : one of the organizers and
served as |)resident of the Garfield Club of
Newark: member of many Republican clubs,
and a past grand sachem of the Rejniblican
Indian League of N'ew Jersey.
George Eldridge Russell married ( first )
July 27, 1887. Mary E.. born July 28. 1865.
died May 3, 1905. daughter of W'illiam P>. and
Helen fZeek) Rond. who were the parents of
three other children: Leonora V.. George and
Riley P>ond. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Rus-
sell: I. Marjorie P>ond. born in Newark. July
23. 1889. 2. William Benton, born in Newark,
July 26, 1891. George Eldridge Russell mar-
ried (second) June ^. 1908, Fannie R. Jones,
born in T879: one child, Dorothy Chenoweth.
1)1 nil March 2~. \<)0<).
Amnng the immigrant^ to tin-
Xl'W country in about the middle of
the eighteenth century there i--
perhap-. no family better deserving of a rec-
ord and commemoration among the represcn
tative families of Xew Jersey than of Thomas
Xnnn and his descendants.
( I ) Thomas Xunn. the founder of the fam-
ily died about 1773. hi^ will being dated Oc-
tober 30. 1771, and probated December 2.
1773. lie came from England about 1750 and
settled on land at Scliooley's Mountain, wliich
at his death was by arbitration divided be-
tween his two eldest children Thomas and P.en-
jamin. By his wife Elizabeth lie had: i.
Thoma>. wint to Canada. 2. Renjamin. re-
ferred to below. 3. Joshua. 4. Bersheba. 5.
.\ini. 6. Elisabeth. 7. Solomon. 8. Ephraim.
(11) I'enjaniin. son of Thomas and Eliza-
beth Xunn. died about 1817, his will being
probated June 17 of that year. Coming from
England with his father he settled on land
near Pleasant Grove. Morris county, and en-
tailed his ])roperty, leaving his wife only a
light interest. He married Ann Carpenter.
Children: I. Elisabeth, married
Thomas. 2. Bethsheba, married Jacob, son of
fohn Peter Sharp. 3. Ann. married
Wolf. 4. Sarah, married William McCray.
5. Isaac. '). John, referred to Ijelow.
( 1 1 1 I John, youngest chiUl of Benjamin and
.\nn (Carpenter) Xunn, 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 1846. Children: i. Jacob, referred to
below. 2. Isaac, married Catherine Mellick.
(/hild: .Xndrew. 3. William, born June 24.
1812: married Margaret, daughter of William
Steltz. Children : I'Vances, John, Samuel,
lames, .\lfred. Theodore. 4. Alfred, married
Mary Waters. 5. John, married Force.
(1. Betsy, married twice : lives in Pemisylvania.
7. Sarah, 8. Mary. 9. Margaret, married
John Ho]itler Jr. 10. Emeline, married Isaac,
iirother of John Hoptler Jr. 1 1. .\nn.
( 1\' I Jacob, eldest child of John and Kath
erine (Slyker) Xunn. born about 1703. lied
I )ctober 18. 1842. He was a farmer and a
|)art of hi; life he kept the old Miller home-
stead, and for some time also the property
subsequently owned by Chambers Davis
where he ke])t an inn in connection with his
farm. During the latter part of his life he
disposed of the property which had been set-
tleil bv his grandfather, Benjamin .Xunn, near
Pleasant (]rove. In t8i8 he married Mary.
l)orn 179-I, died April 2. 1838, daughter of
.Ani'rew .Miller. (Mie of the settlers of Mans-
field township who kept an inn and owned a
large tract of land near Pennwell. She was a
devoted woman and gave much attention to
the proi)er training of her children in all that
pertains to true manhood and womanhood.
Children: i. .Andrew Miller, referred to
below. 2. Catherine, married Henry B. Davis.
of Ste|)hensburg, Xew Jersey. 3. Fdijah W. 4.
George T. 3. Jacob S.. died young.
(\') .\ndrew" Miller, eldest child of Jacob
and Mary ( Miller ) Xunn, was born January
18. 1819. During his minority he resided at
home, where he was em[)!oyed on the farm
and there learned that inestimable lesson that
statp: of xew ll•:RSl••.^■
841
industry, economy and self-reliance are the
jirinciples 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
at Fort Murray near where Madison's Mill
was in Washington 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 he was bookkeeper
for G. M. & S. T. Scranton and Company at
Oxford Furnace, and the following year he
went west on a ])rospecting tour with a view
of settling there. He returned, however, the
same year. I'y 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. After
si.x months Mr. 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. Nunn 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 Golden on tlie Morris Ganal 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
compensation. I'ollowing in the footsteps of
his father he cast his first vote for General
Harrison in the old Whig party and upon the
organization of the Re])ublican party be-
came a supporter of its principles. For three
years he served as collector for the township
of Washington, .\lthough he had limited o])-
portunities for book knowledge while a boy, his
clerkship secured him a good business educa-
tion, sufficient to be numbered among the in-
telligent and solid business men of Warren
county. He was always interested in local
factors tending to the prosperity of the place
where he resided. He was treasurer from its
organization in 1870 of the Port Golden Build-
ing and Loan .\ssociation, and for many years
previous to his death was a member of the
TVesbyterian church at Washington, and con-
nected with the church as elder.
In December. 1846, .Vndrew Miller Xunn
married Xancy. daughter of Jacob WyckofT,
Her grandfather, Simon Wyckoff, was the first
settler of the family in Jackson Valley where
he located in 1 77 1. She was horii June S.
1824. died .Ma\- J4. 1875. and was a devoted
christian woman and a member of the Presby-
terian church at Washington. Children: i.
Miller K.. referred to below. 2. David P. S.,
married I'Vances Deremer : child : Elizabeth,
married John Mowder and had Verna. 3.
.Simon Wyckoflf, married Anna P. Miller ; chil-
dren : .Sadie, married Arthur Somers, and
Xina. 4. Mary, died young. 5. Andrew
Miller Jr.. married Sarah Perry; children;
F,ari. ( luy and I'"loyd. 6. Elizal>etli Miller,
died at the age of seventeen years.
(\'l) Miller R., eldest child of Andrew
.Miller and Xancy (Wyckoflf) Xunn. was born
in Washington townshi]). Warren coimty. New
■S'ork. SejJtember 2, 1847, died .\ugust I, 1905.
.\fter receiving his early education in the
schools of Washington township, he attended
and graduated from the Ea.stman Business
College at Poughkeepsie, Xew York, after
which for two years he was in business with
his t'ather, and then went into the lumber
business in Ilackettstown, Xew Jersey, at the
same time conducting an undertaking estab-
lishment. Inheriting from his father a great
deal of business ability, by his judicious man-
agement and intelligent ventures he won for
himself success and a com]ietence, and at the
time of his death was regarded as one of the
solid and substantial business men of the town.
Mis 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 ])laced in many
positions of public trust and confidence. In
I)olitics he was a Rei)ublican, and for nearly
thirty years was the town as.sessor. 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
ac(|uaintances. He was, however, a firm be-
liever in the benefit conferred by secret and
beneficial societies, and he took an active and
]>ronTinent part in several of these organiza-
tions, lie was a member of the inde])endent
( )rder of Odd Fellows, of the l"Vee and .\c-
ccpted 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-
cijjle and practice, and was for many years a
trustee of his church and the su])erinien(lent
of its Sunday school.
October 17, 1866. he married Hulda V... born
January 31, 1847, youngest daughter of John
llray and Margaret H. (Ogden) Woolston
( -ee Woolston, Y). Children: i. P.ertha
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Gertrude, born April 5, 1868; married George
1!. \'liet, and has Miller Nunn Vliet. 2. Rob-
t-rt Ogden. May 20, 1872, died November 22,
1890. 3. Eva W'oolston, January 28, 1875;
married Adelbert Eernald, and has Dorothy
Ruth Fernald. 4. John Harold, March 24,
1887: married Ada D. Long.
Henry Darnall, of Birds
I )ARX.\LL 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
F.iveries, whose unbroken lineage is extant to
the beginning of the fifteenth century. Henry
Darnall, who died in 1607, and his wife, Marie
(Tookc) Darnall, left children: John, Henry.
Anne. Thomas, Susan, Philip and Rafe. John
Darnall, Esq., one of the Secondaries of the
I'ipe. married (first) Susan, daughter of John
Mynne, (second) .Susan, daughter of Roger
and Elizabeth (Mynne) Lawrence. As Sir
George Calvert married for his first wife .'\nne
Mynne. of the same family, the relationship
between the Darnalls and the Calverts is ap-
|)arent. Sir George Calvert was created Baron
(if .\valon and Baltimore by James H. about
1623. and became the favorite counselor of
Charles IL, who made him a grant of that part
of "the Peninsula or Chersonest lying in the
|)arts of .-\merica, etc." ; which now form the
state of Maryland. The coat-of-anns of the
Darnall family : Arg. on a bend : three leopards
heads, cabossed sable, between two fleur-de-lis
(ir: Motto: Vigeure. L'.Amour. De Croix.
(I) Sir Philip Darnall, of England, married
a sister of Lord Talbot. Children: i. Henry,
see forward. 2. John, who located at "Port-
land Afanor,'" in Anne Arundel county, an es-
tate consisting of about ten thousand acres.
The last owner of this estate died about 1819,
\ third branch of the Darnall family lived in
eitlu-r Montgomery of Frederick countv. at a
place called "Rocky Fountain."
(H) Colonel Henry, son of Philip anfl
(Tallx)t) Darnall, came to .America
about i'')65 to join his ninnerous friends in
this country. His high qualities and kinship
to Lord Baltimore at once placed bim in posi-
tions of trust and importance, and he was pro-
minently identified with the public affairs of
the colony until his death, June 17, 171 1. He
obtained the grant of land called the "Wood-
yard." ;md immediately built a sjtlcndid man-
sion in which he lived, and his tombstone is
still to be seen on the grounds. .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 ]M-eferences. He was captured after a
siege of the government house, which he had
fortified, and made his escape in a vessel leav-
ing Philadelphia for England. In 1712 a com-
mission ap])ointed 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
])riest and the sacred vestments in use in
Catholic worship during the time of the Catho-
lic persecution, and when it was considered a
misdemeanor to harbor a priest. Among the
family ])ortraits at "Poplar Hill" may be seen
a ])icture 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) Mary , (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
children: John, see forward: Robert; Waugh ;
Morgan: William; David: Jeremiah; Aaron;
and a daughter who married Major Nicholas
.Sewall, of Mattajiony, and had a son, Robert
Darnall, who inherited the "Pojilar Hill" es-
tate from his uncle for whom he was named.
( l\' I John, son of 1 ienry Darnall, of "Pop-
lar I nil." removed to Culpejjer, \"irginia, and
his descendants reach from Kentucky to Ar-
kansas. Children : Jo.seph, see forward, John
and William.
( \" I Toseph, son of John Darnall. of Cul-
STATE OF NEW H'.RSICV.
843
peper. \ iryinia. married Winfield Pary, a rela-
tive of Dr. IJenjamin Rush, one of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence, born
March 18, 1759. daughter of Joshua and Eliz-
abeth Pary. Children : Joshua, see forward ;
Joseph Rush ; John ; William ; Susannah, mar-
ried Colonel Thomas P)Oyd.
(VP) Joshua, son of Joseph and Winfield
(Pary) Darnall, who died in 1843, married
Jemima Mauzy. She was daughter of Henry
and Elizabeth (Taylor) Mauzy, and great-
granddaughter of Henri Mauzy, who fled from
France in 1685 to escape religious persecution,
being concealed in a hogshead and labeled as
merchandise, and thus shipped to England.
Children of Joshua and Jemima (Mauzy) Dar-
nall: I. Thomas Mauzy, born 1799. married
(first) Dabney ; children: Thomas An-
derson, born 1839; James, 1840: William
Henry, 1841 ; Virginia, 1844; Joshua Pary,
1847: Jemima Mauzy, 1849, married
Johnson and had Laura Virginia, who married
M Byington. Thomas ]\Iauzy Darnall
married (second) Hayden, and had:
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 Jefl^ries, 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
family.
(\TI) Henry Mauzy, second son and third
child of Joshua and Jemima (Mauzy) Dar-
nall, was born in W^aynesboro, .\ugusta county,
Virginia, 1801. He became a merchant and
maintained and operated a general store. He
married Isabella McClelland, also a native of
\'irginia, and had children : Jennie Adeline,
Martha, Virginia, Henry Thomas, see forward,
T'annie. .Andrew M,, and Elizabeth.
(V III ) Rev. Henry Thomas, eldest son and
fourth child of Henry Mauzy and Isabella
(McClelland) Darnall, was born in Virginia,
July 28, 1837, and died at .Atlantic City, New
Jersey, January, 1908. He studied theolog}'
and became a regularly ordained minister of
the Presbyterian church. When the civil war
broke out he enlisted in the Rockbridge Ar-
tillery, and from the second battle of Manassas
luitil the surrender at .\ppomattox followed
the fortunes of the Confederate army, par-
ticijiating in all the hard campaigns of the
Army of Virginia under General 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
of Samuel Johnston, of Rockbridge county,
X'irginia ; she was born .April 7, 1842, and died
in North Carolina, May, 1902. Children: i.
Harry Johnston, born June 18, 1867; now pro-
fessor of languages at L'niversity 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, 1875; is in business
in New A'ork City: unmarried. 5. Francis
Mauzy, born 1877; married Matilda Mcdrann.
iif Memphis, Tennessee, and has a son, Frank
Mauzy, Jr.
(IX) Dr. William Edgar, second son and
chilli of Rev. Henry Thomas and Margaret
Poague (Johnston) Darnall, was born at Pear-
isburg, Giles county, Virginia, April 9, i86g.
His academic education was obtained in the
schools of Durham, North Carolina, which was
his home until 1888. In that year he matricu-
lated at the Washington and Lee University,
Lexington, \'irginia, and was graduated in the
class of i8()2 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 LTniversity of \'irginia 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 New Jersey,
locating at .Atlantic City. Dr. Darnall has an
exceedingly lucrative practice and specializes
in surgery and gynrecology. In these branches
of practice he is regarded as an authority, par-
ticularly expert as well as successful. He has
served by appointment on the staflt of the At-
lantic City Hospital for several years, St.
Michael's Baby Hos])ital. and the Mercer
Home for Invalid W'omcn. He is a fellow of
the .American Academy of Medicine, ex-presi-
dent of the .Atlantic City .Academy of Medi-
cine, member of the American Medical Asso-
ciation, the American Climatological Associa-
tion, New A'ork Academy of Medicine, Phila-
delphia Aledical Club, I^hiladelphia Obstetrical
.Societv, New Terscv Medical .Association, and
XA4
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Atlantic Cuuiity .\[cdical Society, of whicii he
IS ex-president, lie is ex-president of the
Fortnightly Club of Atlantic City, which he
organized : member of the f'i Mu medical fra-
ternity, and ex-section chief of the Phi Gamma
IJelta, Creek letter fraternity. His clubs are
the Southern Club of Philadelphia, and the
Coimtry Club of i\tlantic City. He has gained
membership in the Sons of the Revolution
through the military service during the revo-
lutionary war of his maternal ancestor. Lieu-
tenant John jMcCorkle, who served in Captain
lames Gilinore's company, under command of
Cieneral 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. P'ebruary 27. 1907, Elizabeth
Xesbitt, a descendant of Charles Carroll, of
('arrollton.
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
1706 their cousin, Edward Scull, also came
over to this country, and settling to the west
of the .Mleghanies became the founder of a
l;nni!y of many descendants who are now liv-
ing in western Pennsylvania and Ohio.
( I I John Scull, founder of the New Jersey
branch of the faiuily came over to .\merica
from Bristol, England, in 1683, on board the
ship "Bristol Merchant," John Stephens, mas-
ter. He was baptized in I''ngland, 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 u|) large tracts of
land on the coast. He is said to liave been a
whaleman, but his name does not occur in
either of the two whale fishing charters of that
day which cover the right for whale-fishing
from Staten Island down to Cajje May Point.
He ac(|uired a large tract of land on the Great
Rgg Harbor river, and in 1695 bought of
Thomas Budd, "250 acres of land, lying on
< Ireat Egg Harbor river and Patconk creek,
with the privilege of cutting cedar an<l com-
nionidge for cattle on ye reaches and swamps
as laid out by Thomas liudd for commons."
The first religious meetings of the Society of
l'"rien(N in his section of West jersev were
hekl at ins home. In 1722 John Fothergill,
an eminent minister among Friends writes
that he had held such a meeting at the house
of John and Mary Scull, which was very u-ell
attended. Thomas Chalkley, another eminent
Quaker minister, also mentions holding meet-
ings at John Scull's house in 1725. John Scull
died in 1745.
Children of John and Mary Scull were: 1.
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. 6. Margaret, married Robert Smith. 7.
Caroline, married Amos Ireland. 8. Mary.
9. Rachel, married James Edwards. 10. John
Recompense, married Phebe Dennis. II.
Isaiah, married and had one daughter Abigail.
12, Gideon, referred to below, 13. David, died
January 10. 1741. 14. .An infant whicli died
unnamed.
( II ) Gideon, 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 Pluguenot refugee, who had fled from
Poitou, France, first to England, and then be-
tween 1682 and i6(p to .\merica, and in 1697
had married in the Philadel])hia Monthly
Meeting of I'riends, Christiana de la Plaine,
daughter of another French refugee. The
name of this family, which was originally de
lielangee and de Bellinger, in the old French
records, has become corrujited in this country
to P>ellangee, I'ellanger, Pallinger and Bellin-
ger. P)Oth (iideon Scull and his wife, Judith
iiellangee, died the same year from smallpox
contracted at the Salem Quarterlv Meeting.
Their children were: I. Paul. 2. Mary, mar-
ried David Bassett. 3. James, referred to
below. 4. Daniel. 5. Gideon Jr., born 1756,
died 1825; niarriefl .Sarah James. 6. Hannah.
married David Davis. 7. Judith, married.
Daniel Offley. 8. Ruth, married Sanuiel
Reeve. 9. Rachel, married Samuel Bolton.
10. Mark, married Mary Prowning. 11. Mar-
jorie. married Daniel Leeds.
( III ) James, third child and second son of
( Iideon and Judith ( liellangee ) .Scull, was born
( )ctober 2, 1751, and dietl August 25, 1812.
In May, 1774. he married Susanna, daughter
of Daniel and Susanna ( Steelman ) Leeds,
gratiddaughter of Japheth and Deborah
( Smith ) Leeds, and great-granddaughter of
Daniel and Dorothy ( Young ) Leeds, for
whose ancestry see elsewhere. Her great-
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grandfather was the first surveyor -general of
\\'est 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
Xew Jersey, his commission from King George
11 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. Gideon, 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. Susanna, 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.
(1\') J'aul, 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 Zephaniah and Rebecca (Ireland) Steel-
man. Her mother was daughter of Edmund
Ireland, and her father, w'ho 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 August 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, i8g8. He was edu-
cated in the pay schools of Galloway township,
and when twenty-one years old enlisted in the
Lfnited States navy, sailing in tlie brig "Wash-
ington," under the command of Commodore
Joshua Sands, who was at that time engaged
in the work of the coast and geodetic survey.
In this service he continued for five years, and
the year following his discharge married his
first wife. ]-"or a number of years he was a
teacher in the district schools of Galloway
township, and under President Buchanan he
was ajjpointed ])ostmaster at Leeds Point, an
office 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. I->om 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-
s\'lvania avenues.
Lewis Walker Scull married (first) August
22, 1846, Esther, daughter of Steelman and
.Ann (Bowen) Smith, born at Leeds Point,
July 24, 1824. Her father served in the war
of 1812. Children: i. Henry 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.
( \ I) Henry Steelman, eldest child and only
son of Lewis Walker and Esther (Smith)
Scull, was born at Leeds Point, Atlantic
county, June 4, 1847, ^"<i '^ now living in At-
lantic City, New Jersey. For his early edu-
cation he was 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, when he accepted a position wMth
Hood I'lonbright & 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
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STATE OF NEW lERSEY.
■ in u]) to the iircscnt tiiuc. I'Vom 1890 to 1898
he was a member of the Atlantic City Board of
liealth. and for four years was the secretary
of that body. Since 1890 he has been a mem-
l)er of 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 Ventnor
Dredging Company, which has been engaged
for several years in reclaiming the low lands
of Chelsea and .Atlantic City. He is also sec-
retary and treasurer of the Ventnor City water
and light comj^anies. He has always taken a
deep interest in all matters pertaining to the
well-being of the community, and for a num-
ber of years he has been connected with the
State Sanitary Association, the American Public
Health .Association, and he was state delegate
to the National Pure Food and Drug Congress,
which lasted four days and had for its object
the passage of the bill providing for govern-
mental control of food, drugs, etc. He is
also one of the governors of the Atlantic City
hospital.
October 2. 1868, Henry Steelman Scull mar-
ried Mary, daughter of John A. and Elizabeth
(Jarman) Bruner. of Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania. Their children are: i. Elizabeth Bru-
ner, born 1869, died in infancy. 2. Lillie
jiruner, born 1870, died in infancy. 3. Flor-
ence Esther, January 4, 1873, died November
29, i()02. 4. Lewis Bruner, born July 15,
1874: married, February 14, 1907, Theodosia
Reed : no children. 5. Maie Emma, born No-
vember 27, 1876; unmarried. 6. John Bruner,
born November 29, 1877, died in infancy. 7.
Harry DeMar, September 12, 1880, unmarried.
8. Nan Bruner, September i, 1881 ; married.
Octoljer 25, 1903. Robert ( )hnmeiss, Jr. 9.
IVank Rue. April 23. 1882: married, March 3,
igo8. Riche F., daughter of Richard F. .Smith,
ex-sheriff of Camden county, and has one child,
{•"lorence, born December 7, 1908. 10. Emily
Corneline, born February 21, 1884. 11.
diaries Landel. .'\pril 23, 1887. 12. Helene,
Melissa. October 18, 1889.
This name is derived from
1 1 \SI\11.1, (lascoigne. or (laskoyne, being
another form of this wt)rd.
.Many l)ranches of the Cascoigne familv be-
came prominent in France and England, one
of them being lord mayor of I^onclon. .\n-
other. Sir William, was a noted London judge.
The family of Gaskill have been prominent in
New Jersey from early times, serving in the
legislative bodies and conducting themselves
as useful citizens.
(I) Samuel Gaskill, of Mays Landing, New-
Jersey, was a shi])builder, and constructed the
last vessel built at that place. He had si.x
children, namely: Nicholas B., of ]\Iays Land-
ing, deceased was a ship carpenter ; Lottie and
Sara A., deceased ; Joseph H., a sea captain,
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Annie S., mar-
ried .\lbert Smallwood, of Mays Landing; and
Edmund C.
(H) Edmund C, son of Samuel Gaskill,
was born at Bargaintown, 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 AL, deceased; Edmund
Champion ; and Ikirton Ashton, the latter born
October 9. 1889, now a student in the law de-
partment of the L'niversity of Tennessee, at
Knoxville, of wdiich he was elected president
of the senior law class for the year 1909-10,
(111) Edmund Champion (2), elder son of
Fdmund Chami)ion ( i ) and Hester McCurdy
( .Ashton ) Gaskill, was born July 22, 1880,
at Mays Landing, New Jersey. He attended
the public schools of his native town, and in
1895 graduated from the county course, also
from a post-graduate course .November 20,
1896. He then attended the high school at
Mays Landing, frr>m 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. Mr. Gaskill took
a competitive examination for a scholarship
in Rutgers College, ofl'ered by the State of
New Jersey, and although he won the scholar-
ship circumstances did not allow his taking ad-
vantage of the opportunity. In October, 1898,
he entered the .American L'niversity at Harri-
man. Tennessee, where he took u]j the study
of law. In p-ebruary of the following year the
University held an oratorical contest in which
Mr. Gaskill took second ])rize. During the
summer and fall of 1899 Mr. Gaskill was em-
ployed by the West Jersey & Sea Shore Rail-
road Company. .About this time the firm of
r.ancroft & Whitney, publishers of law books,
offered to the senior student in the l'niversity
receiving the highest grade in the law de|)art-
inent in oral and written examinations, a full
set of books on ".American Decisions and Re-
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847
ports," and Mr. Gaskill won 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
VN'ootton, 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 otifice of
coroner of Atlantic county and in that capacity
was called upon, October 29, 1906. to take
charge of the inquest held over the victims of
the terrible railroad accident known as the
"Thoroughfare Bridge disaster." His term of
office e.xpired in 1907. In political views he
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 .\tlaiitic Couniv Re-
publican executive committee from the first
ward. He is a member of Belcher Lodge No.
180. Ancient Free and .\ccepted Masons; Tall
Cedars of Lebanon. Forest No. 11; Pequod
Tribe of Red Men. No. 47 ; Fraternal jMystir
Circle, No. 890. and is an active member of the
Morris Guard, an independent militarv coin-
])any of .Atlantic City, which he served three
years as treasurer. He also belongs to the Meth-
ixlist Episcopal Church of Mays Landing, to the
.Atlantic County Bar Association, and Sea Side
Yacht 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 daughter,
Dorothy Ashton, born May 23, 1907.
\\'riting in her diarv, September
SMITH 18, 1795, Mrs. EHzabeth Drinker,
of Philadelphia, says : "Sam!
.'^mitli of Bucks C"v, Saml Smith of Philada.
and Sally Smith called this morning. Those
tliree Smiths are in no ways related — it is I be-
lieve the most common name in Europe and
North .America." One reason for this com-
monness in the name is that it is one of the
so-called trade names, being derived from the
trade or work of the original owners and at
first being prefixed 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
Vork, where it had already made a name for
itself in the person of the earliest traced an-
cestor, Samuel .\. Smith, of New York, re-
ferred to below.
(I) Samuel Asher Smith was born Febru-
ary 22. 1 782. 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 C)ctober
18, 1785. He represented Chenango in the
.\ew ^'ork legislature in 1816-17-20, and was
also sheriff of Chenango county. He died
Alarcli 24, 18(14. He had a number of chil-
dren, among whom was William .\.. referred
to below.
(II) William .Augustus, son of Samuel A.
.Smith, was born in Guilford, Chenango
county. New York, Alarch 30, 1820. After
receiving his early education in that ])lace he
entered Geneva College, New Ycjrk, first in the
classical and literary course, and afterwards
in the medical course, and graduated in 1847.
I'or the ne.xt five years he practiced at .Sidney
Plains, Delaware county. New "S'ork. and then
removed to Norwich, New A'ork, where he
established an excellent practice. Volunteer-
ing when the civil war broke out, he was ap-
pointed assistant surgeon of the Eighty-ninth
Regiment of New York \'olunteers, December
4, 1861, and soon afterwards was promoted
as surgeon of the one hundred and third regi-
ment of New York \ olunteers, and served in
the following engagements : Camden, North
Carolina, April 19, 1862; South Mountain,
Maryland, .September 14, 1862: Antietam,
.Maryland, September 17, 1862; and while
surgeon of the One Hundred and Third New
York Volunteers served in the battle of Fred-
ericksburg, X'irginia, December 13, 1862, and
at the siege of Suffolk, V^irginia, 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 fatally wounded by a pistol 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
woimd on October 23, T863. On recovering,
however, he re-enlisted, and was appointed
sursreon of the Fortv-seventh New York \'oI-
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umt'i.-r liifaiUrv on Dccenibt-r i", 1863, and
was on (kit}- with his regiment at Hilton Head,
North CaroHna. 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 wounded from the bat-
tle field of Olustee. He was also placed in
charge of the steamer "Monitor" and "Mary
Powell" ami in Jul.w 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, wdien 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. I3y his wife,
Betsey E. (Wade) Smith, who died .\ugust
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 TTobart and has two children : Richard
Jr. and John Reginald.
(Ill) 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 \'ork, 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 drace Church Protestant
Episcopal school. In 1887 he was elected and
served a full term as county clerk of Essex
county, and in 1892 w^as appointed a member
of the excise board of the city of Newark, and
was elected its president. In 1899 he was
appointed by the president 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 w-elding steel on iron. He died Au-
gust 6, 1874. Samuel .\. by his wife Ada M.
has had three children: i. Edmund E., born
September 3, 1880. 2. W'illiam Asher, re-
ferred to below. 3. Wayne Parker, born Oc-
tober 22, 1896.
(1\') 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 whom 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 judge of the Essex
county court of common pleas, he was admit-
ted on May i, 1906, into partnership with Jo-
seph 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
Clul), and the Eawyers' Club of Essex County,
lie is unmarried.
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