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GENEALOGICAL 


AND 


MEMORIAL  HISTORY 


OF  THE 


STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY 


A    RECORD    OF   THE    ACHIEVEMENTS    OF    HER    PEOPLE  IN  THE 

MAKING  OF  A  COMMONWEALTH  AND  THE 

FOUNDING  OF  A  NA'FION 


COMPILED' UNDER  THE  EDITORIAL  SUPERVISION  OF 

FRANCIS  BAZLEY  LEE 


VOLUME  I 


ILLUSTRATED 


NEW  YORK 

LEWIS  HISTORICAL  PUBLISHING  COMPANY 

1910 


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PUBLISHER'S  ANNOUNCEMENT. 


Tlie  ])rcsent  work.  "Genealogical  and  Memorial  History  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey," 
will,  it  is  believed,  commend  itself  to  the  people  of  this  commonwealth,  and  not  only  to 
them,  hnt  to  the  varions  Libraries  and  Historical  Scx-ities,  and  also  to  man}-  individnal  inves- 
tii^ators   throui;hout   the   Xation  at  large,  and  more  particularly  in  the  State  of  New  Jersey. 

The  pages  of  these  genealogical  and  personal  memoirs  have  been  prejuired  with  all  due 
care  from  such  data  as  were  procurable  from  the  hands  of  family  representatives  and  from 
various  records,  many  of  which  have  not  been  heretofore  given  to  the  public.  In  every  case 
the  narrative  has  been  submitted  to  the  immediate  subject  or  to  his  proper  representative,  for 
correction  and  revision.  H'  in  any  case  the  matter  is  incomplete  or  faulty,  the  shortcoming 
is  ascribable  to  the  paucity  of  data,  many  families  being  unable  to  supply  exact  information 
at  some  point  in  their  ancestral  line.  In  many  instances  such  faults  are  due  to  the  disappear- 
ance of  church  and  other  records,  through  fire  or  other  disaster.  In  some  cases,  particularly 
,^uch  as  concern  families  of  Holland  descent,  there  are  variances  of  orthography  in  family 
lomenclatnie.  and  it  has  been  deemed  proper  to  respect,  in  the  various  lines,  the  form  of 
!iame  which  has  been  preserveil  therein. 

It  is  believed  that  the  present  work  will  prove  a  substantial  addition  to  the  mass  of 
genealogical  and  personal  material  relating  to  the  people  of  the  historic  region  under  con- 
sideration, and  that  without  it.  much  valuable  information  contained  herein  would  be  irre- 
trievablv  lost,  owing  to  the  passing  away  of  many  custodians  of  family  records,  and  the 
disa]ipearance  of  material  which  has  been  utilized  in  the  preparation  of  this  work. 

The  publishers  desire  to  express  their  great  obligation  to  those  who  have  rendered 
special  assistance  in  the  preparation  of  this  work,  with  their  labor  as  writers,  as  sources  of 
information,  and  as  advisers — Mr.  l-~rancis  llazley  Lee.  of  Trenton,  an  author  of  ability,  in 
the  capacitv  of  su]iervising  editor;  and  Hon.  Isaac  T.  Xichols.  of  Bridgeton ;  Mr.  .\lfred 
M.  Ileston.  of  .\tlantic  City:  Mr.  William  11.  Keller,  of  Camden;  Mr.  John  D.  Canfield.  of 
Morristown;  Hon.  John  S.  .\pplegate,  of  Red  Hank;  Mrs.  Althea  H.  ^\"eatherby.  of  Tren- 
ton; Mr.  Robert  Gwynne,  of  Salem;  and  Rev.  F.lias  lloudinot  Stockton,  of  Newark,  the 
]irincii'al  writer.  All  are  well  informed  with  reference  to  the  annals  of  their  respective 
regions,  all  have  been  diligent  students  of  local  history  for  many  years  past,  and  all  have 
given  their  effort  with  a  warm  enthusiasm  based  upon  reverence  for  the  pioneers  who  planted 
here  the  institutions  of  civilization,  and  a  laudable  pride  in  such  an  ancestry. 

THE  PUBLISHERS. 


NEW   JERSEY 

THE  PEOPLING  OF  THE  STATE 


T  IS  NOT  within  tlie  province  of  the  present  work  to  give  a  poHtical  history  of  the 
State  of  New  Jersey.    The  purpose  is  to  place  in  preservable   form  a  series  of 
genealogical  narratives  tracing  to  their   forbears   a  great  number   of   the   active 
men  of  the  present  day — men  who  have  honored  their  ancestry  and  themselves 
by  lives  of  usefulness  in  private  life  and  honorable  service  in  public  station. 

Those  who  brought  civilization  to  the  territory  now  known  as  New  Jersey,  were  of 
diverse  tongues  and  habits — Swedes,  English  and  Dutch.  Pleasuring  them  by  the  stand- 
ards of  their  day,  they  were  a  simple,  honest.  God-fearing  people.  They  builded  to  them- 
selves two  enduring  monuments  which  testify  to  that  fact:  Their  behavior  toward  the 
Indians,  whose  lands  they  sought  and  acquired;  and 
their  strong  assertion  of  their  rights  as  settlers  against 
the  arrogant  claims  of  non-resident  proprietors,  who 
bartered  away  their  unseen  possessions  over  the  gaming 
table,  as  they  did  their  own  coin.  These  are  indis- 
putable facts  established  by  authentic  records. 

In  the  matter  of  clearing  land  titles  from  all  cloud 
of  Indian  rights,  the  governmental  history  of  New 
Jersey  is  creditable.     If  the  considerations  paid  by  the 

Dutch  and  Swedes  and  English  seem  trivial  in  value 
to-day,  they  did  not  so  seem  then.  Indeed,  within  the 
memory  of  men  now  living,  swamp  lands  in  southern 
States  and  timber  lands  in  northern  States,  passed  from 
one  white  owner  to  another  at  figures  which  now 
appear  incomprehensibly  trifling. 

Following   the   precedents   of    the    Dutch    and   the 

Swedes — the  first  dealers  with  the  Indians — the  Pro- 
prietors of  New  Jersey  made  every  efifort  to  extinguish 

Indian  titles.     In  the  "Directions"  of   Berkeley  and 

Carteret,    under   date   of    December   7,    1672,    it    was 

ordered  that  the  Governor  and  Council  purchase  all 

Indian  lands  in  the  name  of  the  Proprietors,  and  those 

to  whom  the  Proprietors  sold  were  to  reimburse  them. 

After  East  Jersey  became  a  government,  it  was  enacted, 

in    1682,   that   no  one   should   purchase    Indian    land 

without  a  warrant  from  the  Governor  or  his  Deputy. 

In   West  Jersey,   in    1676,   in   the   "Concessions   and 

Agreements,"  a  most  fair  and  commendable  document, 

it  was  provided  that  the  commissioners  were  to  meet 

the  natives  and  agree  upon  the  price  of  land  before  it  Monmouth  Battlefield  Monument. 


vi  INTRODUCTORY. 

was  surveyed  for  distribution ;  public  record  of  these  transactions  was  made ;  and  it  was  later 
enacted  that  all  titles  founded  upon  purchases  not  made  under  these  provisions  should  stand 
null  and  void,  while  the  offenders  were  to  be  fined  and  declared  enemies  to  the  Province. 
Under  such  regulations,  practically  all  the  Indian  titles  to  New  Jersey  were  extinguished 
prior  to  the  Revolution. 

The  incidental  story  of  the  extinguishment  of  the  Indian  himself  is  pathetic.  Their 
tribal  relations  were  recognized  by  law,  yet  the  Indian  was  practically  reduced  to  bondage. 
Repressive  legislation  in  East  Jersey  forbade  trading  with  them;  in  West  Jersey,  while 
there  were  no  such  enactments,  there  was  no  effort  to  turn  the  natives  to  industrial  pur- 
suits. They  soon  suffered  decimation  through  the  vices  and  diseases  brought  to  them  by 
the  white  man.  Missionaries  and  philanthropists  urged  remedies,  but  without  avail.  At 
length,  in  1758,  through  the  mixed  motives  of  self -protection  and  charity,  was  established 
for  the  first  time  within  the  territory  now  the  United  States,  an  Indian  Reservation,  in  the 
Burlington  county  "Pines,"  where  is  now  the  town  of  Indian  i\lills.  There  were  seated  the 
remnant  of  the  famous  Lenni-Lanape  tribe,  some  two  hundred  in  number,  upon  a  three 
thousand  acre  tract  of  land,  and  where  their  decreasing  descendants  sojourned  until  1802, 
thence  removing,  by  repeated  migrations,  to  the  state  of  New  York,  to  Wisconsin,  and 
finally  to  the  Indian  Territory.  At  length,  in  1832,  the  New  Jersey  Legislature,  listening 
to  the  final  plea  of  the  Indians,  appropriated  $2,000  for  the  extinguishment  of  all  their  right, 
title  and  interest.  In  this  closing  transaction,  the  Indians  had  for  their  representative  one  of 
their  own  race — Bartholomew  S.  Calvin,  whose  native  name  was  Shawuskukung,  meaning 
"Wilted  Grass."  lie  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier;  he  was  educated  by  the  Scotch,  became  a 
teacher,  and  taught  in  white  schools,  as  well  as  among  his  own  people.  Before  the  legislature 
which  purchased  the  last  of  his  tribal  rights,  he  said:  "Not  a  drop  of  our  blood  have  you 
spilled  in  battle;  not  an  acre  of  our  land  have  you  taken  but  by  our  consent."  And  upon 
the  same  occasion,  the  Hon.  Samuel  L.  Southard  said :  "It  is  a  proud  fact  in  the  history 
of  New  Jersey  that  every  foot  of  her  soil  has  been  obtained  from  the  Indians  by  fair  and 
voluntary  purchase  and  transfer — a  fact  that  no  other  State  in  the  Union,  not  even  the 
land  which  bears  the  name  of  Penn,  can  boast  of." 

And  so  disappeared  the  Indian,  leaving  no  perceptible  trace  of  blood  admixture  upon 
the  people  by  whom  he  was  supplanted — nothing,  save  a  few  local  names  of  places  he  once 
occupied,  and  rapidly  disappearing  burial  mounds. 

An  interesting  but  abortive  incident  of  attempted  civilization  in  the  New  \\'orld  is 
written  in  the  history  of  New  Albion.  In  1632,  an  Irish  nobleman.  Sir  Edmund  Plowden, 
with  eight  associates,  asked  of  King  Charles  I.  a  grant  of  land  to  be  known  as  "Manitie,  or 
Long  Isle"  (Long  Island),  and  of  thirty  miles  square  of  the  coast  next  adjoining,  to  be 
erected  into  a  County  Palatine  called  "Syon."  The  petition  being  disregarded,  it  was  repeated, 
with  the  use  of  new  designations — "Isle  Plowden"  for  Long  Island,  and  "New  .Albion"  for 
"Syon."  Plowden  and  his  associates  obligated  themselves  to  settle  five  hundred  inhabitants 
"for  the  planting  and  civilizing  thereof,"  and  a  patent  was  granted  them  for  a  tract  of  land 
embracing  New  Jersey,  Delaware,  Maryland  and  Pennsylvania,  as  well  as  Long  Island,  with 
Sir  Edmund  Plowden  as  first  governor.  In  this  connection  it  is  curious  to  note  that  two 
years  previously  a  similar  charter  had  been  issued  to  Lord  Baltimore,  of  the  Maryland 
colony. 

In  1634,  deaths  and  abandonments  had  put  the  Plowden  grant  largely  into  possession 
of  the  sons  of  Sir  Edmund,  under  whom  about  ten  thousand  acres  near  Salem  City,  New 
Jersey,  were  vested  in  Sir  Thomas  Danby,  with  manorial  privileges.  Meantime,  and  in  the 
same  year   (1634)   came   from  England,  Captain  Thomas  Young,  with  Robert  Evelin,  his 


INTRODUCTORY. 


nephew,  under  commission  "to  discover  parts  of  America  not  actually  in  possession  of  any 
Christian  Prince."  They  explored  the  Delaware  river  (which  they  named  the  Charles)  as 
far  as  Trenton  Falls,  which  they  could  not  pass,  therefore  descended  the  stream,  and  later 
coasted  from  Cape  May  to  Manhattan  Island. 

In  1642,  Plowden  himself,  "Earl  Palatine,"  came  to  the  country  and  sailed  up  the  Dela- 
ware, afterward  going  to  Virginia.  In  1648  he  returned  to  England.  In  December  of  that 
year  was  printed  there,  Beauchamp  Plantagenet's  "Description  of  New  Albion,"  dedicated 
to  "The  Right  Honorable  and  Mighty  Lord  Edmund,  by  Divine  Providence,  Lord  Propri- 
etor, Earl  Palatine,  Governour  and  Captain  Generall  of  the  Province  of  New  Albion."  It 
also  contained  a  description  of  the  "Order  Medall  and  Riban  of  the  Albion  Knights,"  with 
various  heraldic  devices.  Under  this  pretentious  manifesto,  preparation  was  undertaken  in 
1650  to  send  to  the  Delaware  a  colony  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  souls,  but  there  is  no  evi- 
dence that  it  was  ever  accomplished.  The  Plowden  claims  were  practically  forgotten  until 
1784,  when  Charles  \^arlo  came  from  England,  claiming  title  as  purchaser  of  one-third  of 
the  Plowden  charter.  His  claims  failing  of  substantiation  in  a  chancery  court,  he  returned 
whence  he  came.     To-day  no  trace  appears  of  the  early  occupation  thus  recorded. 

The  Swedish  occupation  dates  from  1638,  when  Peter  Minuit.  of  a  Swedish-Dutch  com- 
pany, came  up  Zuydt  Riviere  (the  Delaware)  with  two  vessels.  \\'ith  his  explorations  into 
Virginia  and  the  territory  now  Delaware,  and  his  creation  of  New  Sweden,  we  are  not 
now  concerned,  for  his  project  was  but  short-lived,  giving  way  before  the  Dutch  occu- 
pancy. Among  the  few  remaining  traces  of  Swedish  occupancy,  the  town  of  Swedesboro  is 
the  most  conspicuous,  and  a  few  Swedish  names  are  discernible  at  various  points  in  the 
Delaware  Valley.  The  latter,  however,  are  place,  not  family,  names.  The  Swedes  were 
readily  absorbed  by  both  Dutch  and  English,  and  particularly  by  the  latter,  in  this  regard 
forming  a  marked  contrast  with  the  Dutch,  who,  through  intermarriages  among  themselves, 
preserved  their  racial  traits,  customs  and  language  beyond  the  Revolutionary  period.  In 
the  case  of  the  Swedes,  as  far  as  shown  by  church  records  now  extant,  the  intermarriages 
among  themselves  are  rare  after  1725.  After  the  middle  of  the  century  their  language  had 
practically  disappeared. 

The  Dutch  impression  yet  remains  deep  and  readily  identifiable,  and  their  family  nomen- 
clature is  ineradicable.  First  of  the  settlements  made  in  Jersey  territory  was  that  at  what 
was  known  as  Hobocanhackingh,  now  Hoboken.  In  1630  arose  the  patroonship  of  Pavonia, 
and  here  appear  the  names  of  Van  Evertsen  Bout  and  Corneliu  \'an  \'orst,  about  1636,  and 
Aert  Teunissen  Van  Patten  in  1643.  From 
these  settlements,  and  others  growing  out  from 
them,  and  from  the  Hollandish  settlement  on 
Manhattan  island,  descended  vigorous  stock 
which  to  the  present  time  has  been  a  potent 
factor  in  all  the  wonderful  development  of 
American  life.  As  has  been  remarked  by  the 
present  writer  at  another  time  (and  for  which 
there  is  still  full  warrant),  "It  must  not  be 
forgotten  that  to  the  Hollander  is  due  the 
credit  for  establishing  the  principle  of  pur- 
chasing Indian  title  to  land ;  that  he  planted, 
wherever  he  went,  his  church  and  his  school ; 
that  in  spite  of  a  certain  intensity  of  obstinate 
pride,  he  respected  civil  authority,  and  lent  his 


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viii  INTRODUCTORY. 

aid  to  the  upbuilding  of  a  moral  state.  In  politics,  the  Hollander  took  the  side  of  justice  to 
the  oppressed ;  in  religion,  he  fought  to  the  end.  for  the  sake  of  principle.  While  New 
.\msterdam  was  struggling  for  existence,  Old  Amsterdam  was  the  centre  of  a  life  of  culture 
and  refinement,  where  science,  art  and  music,  as  well  as  the  learned  professions,  were  joined 
in  a  community  of  interests.  \\'hile  such  progress  at  home  found  but  faint  reflection  in 
America,  the  hardships  which  the  colonists  encountered  for  the  commercial  glory  of  the 
Mother  Country  must  ever  be  to  Holland  as  great  a  compensation  as  their  presence  to  distant 
generations  of  America  was  a  gain."  An^  what  is  here  said  of  the  Hollander  in  New 
Amsterdam,  is  to  be  said  with  equal  force  of  the  Hollander  in  the  Jerseys. 

A  valuable  colonizing  force  came  into  the  Jerseys  about  the  close  of  the  Seventeenth 
Century — the  French  Huguenots,  who  were  of  those  driven  out  of  their  native  land  by  the 
revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,  in  1685.  Nearly  all  were  of  eminent  respectability  and 
strength  of  character ;  many  were  of  the  ancient  nobility.  They  brought  names  which  still 
exist — Pintard,  Bard,  Conte,  Ray,  Boudinot,  Ballinger,  La  Rue,  \'alle,  Demarest  and 
others.  Tliey  did  not  long  retain  their  identity,  but  assimilated  with  the  Dutch  and  English. 
To  them,  in  the  largest  degree,  is  ascribable  the  introduction  upon  American  soil  of  those 
refinements  of  life,  that  love  for  the  beautiful,  for  which  their  ancestral  land  has  ever  been 
proverbial. 

For  obvious  measures,  the  chronological  sequence  of  the  various  iinmigrations  to  Amer- 
ica has  not  been  followed.  While  Swede  and  Hollander  and  Huguenot  brought  to  the  New 
World  personal  qualities  of  great  worth,  and  which  were  all-important  in  the  making  of  the 
present-day  American,  the  English,  and,  somewhat  later,  the  Scotch-Irish,  his  nearest  kins- 
men, brought  equally  valuable  elements  of  moral  and  mental  strength,  and,  besides,  those 
political  ideas  and  institutions  which  were  destined  to  overshadow  and  finally  supplant  those 
of  all  other  peoples.  Out  of  these  have  grown  our  present-day  legislative  and  governmental 
methods,  and  our  jurisprudence. 

Following  shortly  after  the  promulgation  of  "The  Conditions  for  New  Planters  in  the 
Territories  of  his  Royal  Highness,  the  Duke  of  York,  by  his  Deputy  Governor,  Colonel  Rich- 
ard NicoUs,"  a  settlement  was  made  at  Elizabethtown  under  a  grant  of  date  December  i, 
1664.  The  precise  date  of  occupation  is  not  known,  but  it  is  presumable  that  a  few  families 
were  already  upon  the  ground.    The  petitioners  are  to  be  briefly  noted : 

John  Strickland,  an  Englishman,  had  coirie  to  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  with  Win- 
throp.  He  was  a  patentee  of  Huntington,  Long  Island,  and  was  afterward  a  resident  of 
Hempstead.  He  appeared  at  Elizabethtown  as  agent  for  "A  company  of  the  inglish  nasion." 
John  Balies  (Baylie,  Baily),  probably  him  of  the  same  name  who  resided  at  Guilford, 
Connecticut,  in  1642,  does  not  appear  to  have  been  a  resident:  he  sold  his  interest  to  Gov- 
ernor Carteret. 

Others  were  Thomas  Benedict  (Benydickl,  who  had  represented  Jamaica.  Long  Island, 
in  the  Hempstead  Convention  of  1665 ;  John  Baker,  who  had  been  the  principal  military 
officer  at  .\lbany,  and  who  became  foremost  in  resisting  proprietary  aggression  in  Jersey ; 
John  Ogden,  who  came  from  Connecticut  to  Long  Island,  and  thence  to  Jersey,  and  became 
one  of  the  most  influential  in  the  new  settlement  there :  also  David  and  Nathaniel  Denton, 
sons  of  the  Reverend  Richard  Denton,  who  came  from  England  to  Massachusetts  and  thence, 
in  turn,  to  Connecticut,  and  to  Hempstead,  Long  Island.  Daniel  Denton  was  a  man  of  strong 
character  and  great  usefulness,  and  was  a  school  teacher  and  physician.  He  soon  sold  his 
interest  in  the  Elizabethtown  grant  to  John  P.aker  and  John  Ogden,  and  is  believed  to  have 
returned  to  England.  In  1670  he  published  in  London  a  volume  which  is  notable  as  being 
the  first  description  of  tlie  region  now  known  as  Xcw  'S'ork  and  New  Jersey,  ever  printed  in 


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X  INTRODUCTORY. 

the  English  language.  The  title  of  thi.s  rarely  interesting  work  was  "A  Brief  Description 
of  New  York,  formerly  called  New  Netherlands,  with  the  places  thereunto  Adjoining;  Like- 
wise a  Brief  Relation  of  the  Customs  of  the  Indians  there."  This  volume  was  largely  instru- 
mental in  promoting  immigration. 

Luke  Watson,  the  last  of  the  patentees  to  be  mentioned,  was  the  only  one  who  retained 
his  interest  in  the  enterprise,  and  came  to  be  numbered  among  the  founders  of  the  town.  The 
patentees  gathered  about  them  associates  to  the  number  of  eighty,  most  of  them  vigorous 
men  between  the  ages  of  twenty-five  and  forty  years,  and  a  majority  of  them  married.  The 
town  which  they  founded,  Elizabethtown,  is  ever  to  be  remembered  in  American  history  as 
the  seat  of  the  first  English  government  in  what  is  now  New  Jersey.  The  land  owned  by 
the  Elizabethtown  grant  extended  from  the  mouth  of  the  Raritan  river  on  the  south  to  the 
mouth  of  the  Passaic  river  on  the  north,  a  distance  of  not  less  than  seventeen  miles  in  a 
direct  line,  and  extending  inwardly  into  the  country  about  thirty-four  miles.  It  embraced 
the  present  towns  of  Woodbridge  and  Piscataway,  the  whole  of  the  present  Union  county, 
parts  of  the  towns  of  Newark  and  Clinton,  a  small  part  of  Morris  county,  and  a  consider- 
able portion  of  Somerset  county,  aggregating  about  five  thousand  acres. 

Governor  Nicolls,  on  April  8,  1665,  issued  to  twelve  patentees  the  famous  "Monmouth 
Patent,"  covering  a  part  of  Middlesex  county,  the  ])resent  county  of  Monmouth,  except  Free- 
hold townships  and  the  western  portion  of  Millstone,  and  a  part  of  Ocean  county.  The 
coast  line  extended  from  Sandy  Hook  to  Little  Egg  Harbor,  being  more  than  half  of  the 
New  Jersey  seacoast. 

The  .Moiinioiith  jiatentees  were  men  of  strong  character  and  great  enterprise,  and  the 
most  of  them  were  deeply  religious.  Mention  of  their  antecedents  and  traits  is  necessary  to 
a  proper  appreciation  of  their  worth  as  founders  of  communities  and  of  their  influence  in 
their  own  day  and  upon  their  descendants. 

William  (joulding  was  one  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Baptists  who  were  banished  from  that 
colony  on  account  of  their  religion.  He  became  a  permanent  settler,  and  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  old  ISaptist  Church  at  Middletown. 

Samuel  Spicer  had  ]jreviously  resided  at  Gravcsend,  Long  Island.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Society  of  I'riends,  and  had  been  severely  dealt  with  by  Governor  Stuyvesant  for 
non-conformity  to  the  established  religion. 

Richard  Gibbons,  who  is  also  mentioned  as  "Sergeant  Gybbings,"  does  not  appear  as 
prominently  as  his  fellows,  but  was  among  the  early  settlers. 

Richard  Stout  was  head  of  one  of  the  first  five  families  who  settled  on  the  Indian  ]nir- 
chase  in  1664.     He  had  previously  lived  a  number  of  years  on  Long  Island. 

James  Grover  became  a  permanent  settler,  and  built  the  first  iron  works  in  New  Jersey. 

Captain  jnlin  r.owne,  a  leader  in  the  project  of  purchasing  from  the  Indian  sachems 
the  three  Necks-of  Newasink,  Navarumsink  and  Pootapeck.  was  one  of  the  com]iany  who 
sailed  from  Gravesend,  Long  Island,  in  December,  1663.  He  was  one  of  the  patentees 
under  tin-  .McmnKinih  grant,  and  his  was  one  of  the  first  five  families  who  made  a  permanent 
settlement  on  the  tract.  The  place  where  he  located  is  in  the  present  township  of  Ilolmdel, 
though  in  the  old  records  he  is  mentioned  as  one  of  the  settlers  of  Middletown — a  name  which 
was  applied  to  a  large  and  somewhat  vaguely  defined  region.  Until  Captain  Bowne's  death, 
in  the  early  part  of  1684,  he  seems  to  have  been  the  most  prominent  citizen  of  the  county, 
esteemed  for  his  integrity  and  ability.  He  was  a  deputy  to  the  first  .Vssembly  in  Governor 
Carteret's  time,  which  met  May  26,  1668,  the  members  of  the  lower  house  being  then  called 
"burgessi-s."  He  was  de|nity  again  in  1675;  in  the  first  legislature  under  the  twenty-four, 
proprietors,  in   i('>83,  he  was  a  member,  and  the  Speaker,  and  he  acted  until  the  December 


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following.  He  held  other  positions  of  trust.  March  12,  1677,  a  commission  was  issued  to 
him  as  president  of  the  court  to  hold  a  term  at  Middletown.  In  December,  1683,  shortly 
after  his  last  illness,  he  was  appointed  major  of  the  militia  of  Monmouth  county.  He  died 
in  January,  1683-4,  leaving  two  sons,  Obadiah  and  John,  the  latter  of  whom  was  also  a 
prominent  man  in  the  province,  and  a  candidate  for  the  office  of  Speaker  of  Assembly 
under  Lord  Cornbury's  administration. 

John  Tilton,  when  he  first  came  from  England,  located  at  Lynn,  Massachusetts.  His 
wife  was  a  Baptist,  and  in  December,  1642,  she  was  indicted  for  "holdinge  that  the  baptism 
of  infants  is  no  ordinance  of  God."  They  left  Massachusetts  with  Lady  Deborah  Moody 
and  other  Baptists,  and  settled  at  Gravesend,  Long  Island,  where  again  they  were  made  to 
suffer.  In  1658,  Tilton  was  fined  by  the  Dutch  authorities  for  allowing  a  Quaker  woman  to 
stop  at  his  house.  In  September,  1662,  he  was  fined  for  "permitting  Quakers  to  quake  at 
his  house."  In  October  of  the  same  year  himself  and  wife  were  summoned  before  Gov- 
ernor Stuyvesant  and  Council,  charged  with  having  entertained  Quakers  and  frequently 
attending  their  conventions,  and  they  were  ordered  to  leave  the  province  under  pain  of 
corporal  punishment.    They  came  to  Monmouth  among  the  settlers  of  1665. 

William  Reape  was  a  Long  Island  settler  and  a  Quaker,  who  had  been  arrested  and 
imprisoned  by  the  Dutch  Governor,  Peter  Stuyvesant,  who  was  a  mild  persecutor  of  Quakers 
for  the  reason  that  his  instructions  from  the  States-General  required  him  to  discountenance 
all  form  of  religion  but  that  prescribed  by  the  Synod  of  Dordrecht.  Soon  after  his  libera- 
tion Reape  went  to  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  where  he  engaged  in  mercantile  business,  and  he 
was  living  there  when  he  became  interested  in  the  Monmouth  patent.  He  was  one  of  the 
settlers  who  came  to  the  Navesink  Indian  purchase  in  1665. 

Nicholas  Davies  (or  Davis)  was  living  in  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  when  the  Quakers 
began  preaching  there,  and  he  became  a  member  of  their  society,  for  which  offense  he  was 
indicted  in  April,  1659,  and  in  July  of  the  same  year  he  was  sentenced  to  death.  Mary  Dyer, 
whose  son  Henry  was  an  early  Monmouth  county  settler,  William  Robinson  and  Marma- 
duke  Stevenson,  were  sentenced  at  the  same  time,  and  were  hung  in  Boston.  Davies's  sen- 
tence was  commuted  to  banishment,  and  he  removed  to  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  where  he 
was  living  when  he  became  interested  in  the  Monmouth  Patent.  He  was  drowned  about  1672. 

The  Rev.  Obadiah  Holmes  was  living  in  1639  at  Salem,  Massachusetts,  where  he  was 
engaged  with  Lawrence  Southwick  and  Ananias  Conklin,  descendants  of  both  of  whom 
became  settlers  on  the  Monmouth  purchase.  Although  he  never  settled  on  his  Monmouth 
lands,  he  made  occasional  visits  there,  one  of  which  was  upon  the  organization  of  the  Bap- 
tist Church  at  Middletown,  which  was  the  first  of  that  denomination  in  New  Jersey  and 
the  third  or  fourth  in  America.  Two  of  his  sons,  Obadiah  and  Jonathan,  became  settlers  in 
Monmouth. 

Acting  under  the  authority  conferred  upon  them,  the  patentees  and  their  associates 
began  the  establishment  of  settlements  at  Middletown  and  Shrewsbury.  Later  the  same 
year  (1665)  many  settlers  came  from  Long  Island  and  Rhode  Island,  and  during  the  fol- 
lowing years  the  number  of  families  in  the  present  territory  of  the  county  of  Monmouth 
had  increased  to  more  than  one  hundred,  reaching  the  limit  which  had  been  set  by  the  set- 
tlers at  their  general  assembly  in  1668.  The  landowners  comprised  in  the  settlements,  who 
were  for  the  greater  number  actual  residents  and  heads  of  families,  were  named  as  follows : 

From  Massachusetts  Bay. — George  Allen,  William  Gilford,  John  Jenkines,  Richard  Sad- 
ler, Edward  Wharton. 

From  Rhode  Island. — John  Allen,  Christopher  Allmy,  Job  Allmy,  Stephen  Arnold, 
James   Ashton,    Benjamin    Borden,   Richard    Borden,    Francis    Brindley,    Nicholas    Brown, 


xu 


IXTRODUCTORV 


Abraham  Brown,  Henry  Bull,  Robert  Carr,  George  Cliutte,  Walter  Clarke,  Thomas  Clif- 
ton. William  Coddington,  Joshua  Coggeshall,  Edward  Cole,  Jacob  Cole,  Joseph  Coleman, 
John  Cook,  Nicholas  Davis,  Richard  Davis,  William  Deuell,  Benjamin  Deuell,  Thomas 
Dungan,  Roger  V.Uis.  and  son.  Peter  Easton,  Gideon  Ereeborn.  Annias  Gauntt,  Zachary 
Gauntt,  Daniel.  Gould,  John  Havens,  Robert  Hazard,  Samuel  Holliman,  Obadiah  Holmes, 
Jonathan  Holmes,  George  Hulett,  Richard  James,  William  James.  William  Layton,  James 
Leonard,  Henry  Lippett,  Mark  Lucar  (or  Luker).  Lewis  Mattux,  Edward  Pattison,  Thomas 
Potter,  William  Reape,  Richard  Richardson,  William  Shaberly,  Samuel  Shaddock,  Thomas 
Shaddock,  William  Shaddock,  William  Shearman,  John  Slocum,  Edward  Smith,  John  Smith, 
Edward  Tartt.  Robert  Taylor,  John  Throckmorton,  Job  Throckmorton,  Edward  Thurston, 
Eliakim  Wardell.  George  Webb.  Bartholomew  West.  Robert  West,  Robert  West,  Jr.,  Thomas 
Winterton,  Emanuel  Woolley. 

Erom  Long  Island. — John  Bowne,  Gerrard  Bownc,  James  Bowne.  A\'illiam  Bowne. 
\\'illiaiii  Compton.  John  Conkling  (earlier  from  Salem,  Massachusetts),  Thomas  Cox,  John 
Cox,  Richard  Gibbons,  William  Goulding,  James  Grover,  James  Grover,  Jr.,  \\'illiam  Law- 
rence, Bartholomew  Lippincott,  Richard  Lippincott,  Richard  Moor,  Thomas  Moor,  John 
Ruckman,  Nathaniel  Silvester,  Benjamin  Spicer,  Samuel  Spicer,  John  Stout,  Richard  Stout, 
John  Tilton,  Nathaniel  Tompkins,  John  Townsend,  John  ^^'all,  Walter  \\'all.  Thomas 
Wansick,  Thomas  Whitlock. 

Previous  residence  unknown  except  where  mentioned : — John  Bird,  Joseph  Boyer. 
William  Cheeseman,  Edward  Crome,  Daniel  Estell,  Ralph  Gouldsmith,  John  Hall,  John 
Hance  (Westchester,  New  York),  John  Ilaundell,  Thomas  Hart.  John  Hawes.  James  Heard, 
Richard  Hartshorn  (England),  Tobias  Haudson,  John  Horabin,  Joseph  Hutt,  Randall  Huet, 
Jr.,  John  Jobs,  Robert  Jones  (New  York),  Gabriel  Kirk,  Edmund  Lafetra,  Francis  ^Listers, 
George  Mount,  William  Newman,  Anthony  Page.  Joseph  Parker,  Peter  Parker,  Henry 
Percy,  Piartholomew  Shamgungoe,  Richard  Sissell,  Robert  Story,  John  Tomson,  Marmaduke 
Ward.  John  Wilson,  John  Wood,  Thomas  Wright. 

July  8,  1670,  at  an  assembly  held  at  Portland  Point,  the  restriction  as  to  the  number  of 
landowners  was  so  set  aside  as  to  admit  William  Bowne,  Thomas  Whitlock,  John  Wilson. 
John  Ruckman,  Walter  Wall,  John  Smith.  Richard  Richardson,  John  Horabin,  James 
Bowne,  Jonathan  Holmes,  Christopher  Allmy,  Eliakim  Wardwell,  liartholomew  \\'est,  John 
Hauncc,  James  Ashton,  Edward  Pattison,  William  Shaddock,  Thomas  Winterton,  Edward 
Tartt.  P.cnjamin  Burden  (Borden),  and  two  years  later  (in  May.  1672).  Richard  Lippin- 
cott and  Nicholas  Browne  were  also  admitted. 

Of  those  mentioned  in  the  foregoing  list,  the  following  named,  owners  of  shares  in  the 
Indian  purchase   (some  being  also  original  grantees  under  the  Monmouth  patent),  did  not 
become  settlers,  viz.:    Henry  Bull,  Robert  Carr,  Walter  Clarke    (patenteei.   William   Cod- 
dington, Joshua  Coggeshall,  John  Coggeshall,  Nicholas 
Davis    (patentee),    Zachard    Gauntt,    Daniel    Gould, 
Edward  Thurston  and  Obadiah  Holmes  (jiatentee),  all 
of   Rhode  Island;  Nathaniel  Sylvester   (])atentee),  of 
Long  Island;  and  John  Jenkins  and  ICdward  \\  liarton, 
of  Massachusetts  Bay.     Robert  Carr  sold  his  share  to 
Giles  Slocum,  of  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  and  to  his 
son,  John  Slocum,  who  became  a  settler.     Zachariah 
Gauntt  sold  his  share  to  his  brother  Annias,  who  also 
became  a  permanent  settler. 

Mention  is  to  be  made  of  some  of  the  early  piu"- 
chasers  under  the  Monmouth  Patent  who  were  inti- 
mately associated  with  the  patentees  in  the  formative 
days  of  the  settlements. 

Edward  Smith,  whose  name  apjiears  as  a  purchaser    .Monmoutii  (•c>uiit>  cuun  Hou.se.    Fn-.iioid. 


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of  lands  within  the  Alonniouth  patent,  was  one  of  those  who  were  indicted  at  Pl3iiiouth  with 
Rev.  Obadiah  Hohnes  and  Jolin  Hazell,  in  October,  1650,  as  before  mentioned. 

John  Haunce,  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Shrewsbury,  was  a  deputy  and  overseer  at 
a  court  held  at  Portland  Point,  December  28,  1669.  He  held  various  positions  in  the  county, 
among  which  was  Justice.  He  was  a  deputy  to  the  Assembly  in  1668,  but  refused  to  take  the 
oath  of  allegiance  and  would  not  yield  the  claims  of  his  people  under  the  Monmouth  Patent, 
and  submit  to  the  laws  Snd  government  of  the  proprietors  when  directed  against  those 
claims,  in  consequence  of  which  he  was  rejected  as  a  member,  as  were  also  Jonathan 
Holmes,  Edward  Tartt,  and  Thomas  Winterton,  at  the  same  session,  for  the  same  reasons. 
Haunce  was  re-elected  a  deputy  in  1680  and  at  other  times. 

William  Shattuck,  a  native  of  Boston,  about  1656,  joined  the  Quakers  in  the  Massachu- 
setts Bay  Colony,  and  for  this  ofifense  was  whipped  and  banished.  He  removed  to  Rhode 
Island  and  thence  to  New  Jersey  in  or  about  1665,  settling  on  lands  of  the  Monmouth 
patent.  A  few  years  afterward  he  moved  to  Burlington.  His  daughter  Hannah  married 
Restore  Lippincott,  son  of  Richard  Lippincott. 

Samuel  Shattock  (or  Shaddock),  a  settler  on  the  Navesink  purchase,  was  a  Massachu- 
setts Quaker,  who  removed  thence  to  Rhode  Island  before  his  settlement  in  New  Jersey. 

John  and  Job  Throckmorton,  ancestors  of  the  numerous  Throckmortons  of  the  present 
time  in  Monmouth  county,  were  settlers  between  1665  and  1667.  They  were  sons  of  John 
Throckmorton,  who,  with  Thomas  James,  William  Arnold,  Edward  Cole  and  Ezekiel  Hol- 
liman  (or  more  properly,  Holman),  came  from  England  in  the  same  ship  with  Roger 
Williams,  and  all  of  whom  are  mentioned  by  Williams  as  his  friends  and  associates  in  an 
account  written  by  him  in  1638.  John  Throckmorton  was  among  the  first  settlers  at  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island,  and  was  afterward  in  Westchester,  New  York,  with  Ann  Hutchin- 
son. After  she  was  killed  by  the  Indians  he  still  held  his  lands  in  Westchester  and  on 
Long  Island,  but  returned  to  Providence,  where  he  spent  most  of  his  time  and  held  his  citi- 
zenship. 

John  Smith  came  to  the  Monmouth  great  tract  with  the  early  settlers,  and  was  the 
first  "schoolmaster"  of  Middletown.  He  was  the  same  person,  who,  with  three  others, 
accompanied  Roger  \\'illiams  on  his  first  exploration  journey  to  Rhode  Island.  Edward 
Smith,  who  was  also  a  settler  in  Monmouth,  left  Massachusetts  Bay  with  John  Smith,  the 
teacher,  because  of  the  persecution  against  them  as  Baptists. 

Richard  Hartshorne  came  to  New  Jersey  in  September,  1669,  and  located  in  Middle- 
town.  Sandy  Hook  was  first  held  under  a  grant  to  him  in  1667.  He  was  a  Quaker,  and  an 
account  of  this  country  written  by  him  and  circulated  in  England  induced  considerable  emi- 
gration. A  letter  from  him,  dated  November  12,  1675,  is  one  of  a  collection  printed  in 
1676.  a  fac-simile  of  which  is  in  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society  Library.  In  1684  he 
was  appointed  one  of  Deputy-Governor  Lawry's  Council.  In  the  succeeding  year  he  was 
elected  to  the  General  Assembly  from  Middletown;  was  chosen  Speaker  in  1686,  and 
held  that  position  at  other  times.  March,  1698,  he  became  one  of  Governor  Basse's  Coun- 
cil. He  still  continued  to  hold  his  seat  as  a  member  of  the  Assembly,  and  filled  both  posi- 
tions until  the  surrender  of  the  government  to  the  crown. 

Eliakim  Wardell.  one  of  the  associate  patentees  of  Monmouth,  had  lived  near  Hamp- 
ton, New  Hampshire,  where  he  and  his  wife  were  imprisoned,  whipped  and  banished 
because  of  their  Quaker  principles.  They  removed  to  Rhode  Island,  and  thence  to  New 
Jersey,  where  he  became  one  of  the  early  settlers  on  the  Monmouth  Patent,  and  was  the 
first  Sheriflf  of  the  county  in  1683. 

Christopher  .Allmy,  who  was  at  one  time  Deputy  Governor  of  Rhode  Island,  came  from 


xiv  INTRODUCTORY. 

that  colony  to  settle  on  the  Monmouth  lands,  in  1665  or  1666.  He  became  one  of  the  asso- 
ciate patentees,  and  remained  an  inhabitant  of  Monmouth  County  for  several  years,  during 
which  time  he  ran  a  sloop  between  Wakake  Landing  and  the  Rhode  Island  ports.  He 
finally  left  New  Jersey  and  returned  to  Rhode  Island. 

The  Quaker  influence  was  remarkably  strong  in  the  formative  days  of  the  Jerseys — 
an  influence  which  has  remained  to  the  present  day.  Major  John  Fenwick,  who  had  served 
as  major  in  the  Parliamentarian  army  in  England,  and  afterwards  became  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends,  in  March,  i()73-74,  purchased  a  half  interest  in  the  New  Jersey  colony 
from  Lord  Berkeley.  He  associated  with  himself  Edward  Byllynge,  also  a  Friend,  with 
the  purpose  of  establishing  in  America  a  home  for  their  sect,  thus  hoping  to  consummate 
a  wish  and  belief  of  George  Fox.  In  time,  disputes  as  to  title  arose  between  h'enwick  and 
Byllynge.  William  Penn  was  agreed  upon  to  arbitrate  between  them,  and  he  awarded  to 
Fenwick  one-tenth,  with  a  certain  sum  of  money,  and  to  Byllynge  nine-tenths.  Byllynge 
subsequently,  under  stress  of  financial  embarrassment,  sold  his  entire  and  undivided  interest 
to  William  Penn,  Gawen  Lawry  and  Nicholas  Lucas,  all  Friends,  in  trust,  for  the  benefit  of 
his  creditors,  and  they  afterward  became  possessed  of  Fcnwick"s  interest  also.  Thereafter, 
certain  grants  covering  some  portions  of  the  same  territory  were  made  by  the  Duke  of  York 
to  Sir  George  Carteret,  and  Fenwick  was  forbidden  recognition  as  owner  of  lands  situated 
upon  the  Delaware  river.  Fenwick,  however,  persisted  in  his  colonization  endeavors,  and  in 
1676  laid  out  "The  liberties  of  Cohansen  and  Alloways,  and  undertook  the  settlement  of 
Salem."    Finally,  Fenwick  sold  his  interest,  and  practically  disappears. 

On  July  I,  1676,  the  colonies  of  East  Jersey  and  West  Jersey  were  separated  under  a 
deed  which  established  what  was  known  as  "the  Province  Line,"  extending  from  Little  Egg 
Harbor  to  the  Delaware  river  at  41  40  north  latitude.  The  portion  known  as  East  Jersey 
was  awarded  to  Sir  George  Carteret ;  that  known  as  West  Jersey  to  Penn  and  his  associ- 
ates— Gawen  Lawry,  Nicholas  Lucas  and  Edward  Byllynge. 

Penn  at  once  gave  himself  industriously  to  the  work  of  colonization.  He  procured  the 
formation  in  England  of  two  colonizing  associations  of  Friends,  one  in  Yorkshire,  the  other 
in  London,  and  at  the  same  time  the  Byllynge  trustees  held  out  inducements  to  immigrants. 

To  Penn,  however,  attaches  the  greatest  fame  for  the  peopling  of  West  Jersey.  To  him 
is  attributed  the  framing  of  the  "Concessions  and  Agreements  of  the  Proprietors,  Free- 
holders and  inhabitants  of  West  New  Jersey  in  America" — a  document  which  "unquestion- 
ably gave  to  the  spirit  of  democracy  a  wider  range  than  had  any  like  expression  of  Anglo- 
Saxon  law,"  and  "in  which  may  be  found  the  dominating  principles  underlying  the  'Bill  of 
Rights'  which  formed  so  prominent  a  part  of  the  later  I-"ederal  and  State  constitutions."  Its 
provisions  are  remarkably  liberal.  To  the  people  was  committed  all  purely  local  regulations ; 
the  Proprietors  held  for  themselves  a  mere  semblance  of  authority.  Ten  "honest  and  able 
men"  were  to  be  elected  as  commissioners.  A  General  Assembly  was  to  be  also  elected,  and 
in  which  was  guaranteed  full  liberty  of  speech.  Courts  were  established,  the  local  justices 
and  constables  to  be  elected  directly  by  the  people.  Ef]ual  assessment  and  taxation  were 
guaranteed.  Above  all,  it  was  decreed  that  "No  man  nor  number  of  men  upon  earth  hath 
power  or  authority  to  rule  over  men's  conscience  in  religious  matters." 

The  response  from  the  Mother  Country  was  prompt.  In  i'')77,  the  year  following  the 
promulgation  of  the  "Concessions,"  the  ship  "Kent,"  with  the  proprietory  commissioners  and 
two  hundred  and  thirty  emigrants,  entered  the  Delaware  and  settled  at  the  present  site  of 
Burlington.  Later  the  same  year  and  in  1678  new  arrivals  occupied  the  First  and  Second 
"Tenths,"  between  the  Rancacos  river  and  Assanpink  creek,  in  greater  part  the  river  front 
of  old  lUirlington  county. 


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xvi  INTRODUCTORY. 

In  1680,  under  a  second  grant  made  by  the  Duke  of  York,  West  Jersey  was  conveyed  to 
William  Penn,  Edward  Byllinge,  Gawen  Lawry,  Nicholas  Lucas,  John  Eldridge  and  Edward 
\\'arner,  the  two  last  named  having  become  possessed  of  the  Fenwick  interest.  This  grant 
covered  the  free  use  of  all  bays,  rivers  and  waters,  for  navigation,  fishing,  trade,  etc. 

The  administration  of  the  Province  of  East  Jersey  was  devolved  upon  Lady  Elizabeth 
Carteret  by  the  death  of  her  husband,  and  in  the  settlement,  in  1681-2,  Lady  Carteret  and 
eight  trustees  acting  with  her,  sold  East  Jersey  for  the  sum  of  i3,400  to  William  Penn  and 
eleven  other  grantees  named  in  the  deed,  a  majority  of  whom  were  Quaker  yeomen,  and 
all  Englishmen :  W'illiam  Penn,  Robert  West,  Thomas  Rudyard,  Samuel  Groome,  Thomas 
Hart,  Richard  Mew,  Thomas  Wilcox,  Ambrose  Rigg,  John  Heywood,  Hugh  Hartshorn, 
Clement  Plumstead  and  Thomas  Cooper.  In  1682  Penn  purchased  all  the  right  to  the  title 
of  John  Fenwick  in  West  Jersey,  and  the  twelve  proprietors  associated  with  themselves 
twelve  others,  viz. :  James,  Earl  of  Perth,  John  Drummond,  Robert  Barclay,  David  Bar- 
clay, Jr.,  Robert  Gordon  and  Arent  Spnmans,  all  Scotchmen ;  and  Gawen  Lawry,  Edward 
Ijvllinge.  James  Braine,  William  Gibson,  Thomas  Booker,  Robert  Turner  and  Thomas 
Warne,  Englishmen.  The  sale  to  these  twenty-four  proprietors  was  confirmed  by  the  Duke 
of  York,  March  14,  1682-83,  and  their  rights  were  further  confirmed  by  King  Charles  II 
on  November  23,  1683. 

These  proprietors  now  included  not  only  Friends,  but  Dissenters,  Roman  Catholics,  and 
a  small  but  sturdy  representation  of  Scots.  Their  influence  in  the  Mother  Country  extended 
practically  to  all  i)arts  of  the  Lnited  Kingdom,  and  brought  a  large  immigration  from 
all  classes. 

In  1687  Edward  Ryllynge  died,  and  his  interest  in  West  Jersey  was  by  his  heirs  vested 
in  Dr.  Samuel  Cox,  who,  on  March  4,  1691,  sold  to  a  land  association,  the  West  Jersey 
Society,  all  his  lands,  including  a  large  acreage  in  East  Jersey  and  West  Jersey,  also  land 
in  New  Hampshire  and  Pennsylvania ;  the  deed  mentions  a  pottery  in  Burlington,  three  lots 
in  Perth  Amboy,  Gloucester  and  Egg  Harbor,  and  also  lands  in  Cape  May  and  on  the 
Maurice  river.  The  Council  of  Proprietors  of  West  Jersey  was  organized  on  a  basis  similar 
to  that  of  East  Jersey.  In  1702  the  interests  of  both  were  surrendered  to  the  Crown,  and 
from  that  time  begins  the  real  political  history  of  New  Jersey,  in  geographical  and  govern- 
mental forms  practically  unaltered  to  the  present  time.  excei)t  in  its  separation  from  the 
Mother  Country  at  the  time  of  the  Revolution. 

With  the  topics  last  mentioned  above  we  have  at  this  time  no  concern.  The  People, 
and  what  they  wrought,  is  briefly  our  theme,  and  religion  and  education  claim  our  principal 
attention,  as  attesting  the  lofty  character  of  many  of  the  early  settlers,  and  also  as  commem- 
orating the  splendid  results  of  their  effort. 

If  there  is  aught  in  the  history  of  New  Jersey  that  is  so  completely  established  as  to  be 
wholly  outside  the  pale  of  controversy,  it  is  a  fact  that  the  early  colonists  were  a  deeply 
religious  people.  Indeed,  had  they  been  less  conscientious  and  less  unyielding  as  religion- 
ists, the  political  structure  which  they  reared  would  doubtless  have  been  of  other  and  less 
impressive  design. 

The  early  Dutch  colonists  may  be  said  to  have  brought  their  church  with  them  when 
they  settled  in  New  Netherland.  To  them,  a  place  of  worship  was  as  necessary  as  a  dwelling, 
and  we  never  find  any  settlement  without  discovering  some  arrangement  for  divine  services. 
As  they  increased  in  numbers,  and  more  industries  were  needed,  they  turned  to  their  own 
youth  for  their  spiritual  leaders,  and  founded  their  own  literary  and  theological  schools.  At 
Bergen,  in  iC)Ck>,  was  established  the  Dutch  Church,  the  oldest  in  what  is  now  New  Jersey, 
and  there  too,  in  1664,  was  opened  a  school — the  first  of  whicli  aullieiitic  record  exists,  in 


INTRODUCTORY.  xvii 

all  that  territory.  In  1765,  according  to  Samuel  Smith's  "History  of  the  Colony  of  Nova 
Caesarea,  or  New  Jersey,"  there  were  two  Dutch  meeting  houses  in  Bergen  county,  five  in 
Sussex,  two  in  Essex,  one  in  Hunterdon,  and  one  in  Middlesex ;  while  the  Dutch  and 
German  Lutheran  had  six  in  Somerset,  Bergen,  Hunterdon,  Sussex  and  Salem  counties. 

In  1775  (possibly  a  few  years  earlier)  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  opened,  at  New 
Brunswick,  Queen's  College,  which  since  the  Revolution  has  been  known  as  Rutgers  Col- 
lege. In  1784  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Reformed  Church  in  America  was  founded 
at  New  Brunswick,  for  the  education  of  young  men  for  the  ministry,  obviating  the  former 
necessity  of  bringing  clergymen  from  Holland. 

The  first  of  the  Scotch  Presbyterians  who  came  were  driven  out  of  their  native  land  by 
cruel  persecutions.  Refusing  to  engage  in  prelatic  worship,  and  persisting  in  attending 
conventicles,  these  poor  people  were  despoiled  of  their  property,  thrown  into  prison,  and 
banished.  About  one  hundred  men  and  women  were  imprisoned  in  Dunattor  Castle,  where 
they  were  treated  with  great  severity,  stinted  for  food  and  water,  and  cramped  for  want  of 
room.  Many  were  tortured  for  attempting  to  escape.  Late  in  the  summer  of  1685  the 
prisoners  were  driven  to  the  seacoast,  a  distance  of  about  sixty  miles,  many  with  their 
hands  tied  behind  their  backs.  A  number  of  them  were  placed  under  the  charge  of  George 
Scott,  laird  of  Pitlochie,  who  had  chartered  a  vessel  to  convey  him  to  New  Jersey,  to  escape 
the  persecution  which  his  religion  had  brought  upon  him.  The  voyagers  suffered  severely 
from  a  virulent  fever,  and  three-score  of  their  number,  among  them  the  Laird  and  his  wife, 
died  during  the  voyage.    The  survivors  reached  Perth  Amboy,  in  December. 

These  expatiated  Scotch  were  among  the  founders  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
America.  A  number  of  these  people  settled  (about  1685)  near  the  site  of  the  present  village 
of  Mattawan.  in  Monmouth  county,  and  named  the  place  New  Aberdeen,  while  others  of 
their  company  went  farther  and  located  at  what  they  called  Free  Hill,  about  five  miles 
northwest  of  the  present  town  of  Freehold,  and  there  founded  the  "Old  Scots  Church." 
For  this,  the  claim  has  been  made  that  it  was  "the  first  one  settled  with  the  gospel  ministry 
in  East  Jersey,  west  (south)  of  the  Raritan  river.  It  is  doubtful  if  this  is  entirely  accurate, 
but  it  is  scarcely  to  be  questioned  that  it  was  the  first  recognized  Presbyterian  Church  in 
that  region,  and  the  "Small  beginning  of  a  great  stream  of  organized  American  Presby- 
terianism." 

On  December  27,  1710,  this  spot,  destined  to  remain  historic  for  all  time,  was  the 
scene  of  a  memorable  event — a  meeting  of  a  Presbytery,  and  the  ordination  of  a  minister — 
the  first,  in  either  case,  in  America — John  Boyd,  who  came  from  Scotland  for  the  purpose, 
was  the  ordained  clergy-man.  He  died  two  years  later,  and  more  than  one  hundred  and 
seventy-five  years  later,  his  burial  stone  was  placed  in  the  Presbyterian  Building  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  and  replaced  with  a  beautiful  and  enduring  monument,  and  which 
was  unveiled  June  14,  1900,  by  Walter  Kerr,  of  New  York  City,  a  lineal  descendant  of 
\\'alter  Ker,  the  founder  and  first  elder  of  "Old  Scots  Church." 

Intimately  connected  with  the  history  of  "Old  Scots  Church"  is  that  of  "CJld  Tennent 
Church,"  near  the  village  of  Freehold  and  the  Monmouth  battlefield,  and  which  enjoyed  the 
ministrations  of  Rev.  John  Tennent  and  his  brother  William — sons  of  Rev.  William 
Tennent,  Sr.,  the  founder  of  the  "Log  College,"  ever  famous  in  the  educational  annals  of 
Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey. 

The  Quakers,  or  Friends,  built  a  meeting  house  in  Shrewsbury,  Monmouth  county,  in 
1672,  according  to  the  journal  of  George  Fox.  George  Leith  was  the  leader.  Other  denomi- 
nations, or  sects,  established  themselves  later. 

In  this  brief  resume,  omission  cannot  be  made  of  the  great  religious  movement  led  by 


xviii  INTRODUCTORY. 

( ieorgc  Whitotifld,  a  religious  enthusiast,  and  an  associate  of  tlie  two  Wesleys — John  and 
Charles.  W'hitefield  came  to  America  in  i/.V^.  and  after  some  missionary  work  in  Georgia 
and  Pennsylvania,  came  to  New  Jersey  late  in  1739.  He  preached  in  Burlington,  New 
r.runswick  and  elsewhere.  Again  in  New  lirunswick,  in  April,  1740,  he  addressed  seven 
thousand  people.  Proceeding  to  other  jjoints.  he  was  assisted  by  Rev.  Gilbert  Tennent, 
eldest  son  of  Rev.  William  Tennent,  Sr.,  founder  of  "The  Log  College,"  and  who  deliv- 
ered a  discourse  on  "The  Danger  of  the  Uncoveted  Ministry."  and  which  was  the  occa- 
sion for  the  division  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  into  the  "old"  and  "new"  side  factions. 
.\merica  never  witnessed  such  demonstrations  as  attended  these  meetings.  "In  the  wake  of 
the  revivals  went  up  the  shouts  of  the  converted,  the  cries  of  those  who  had  not  availed 
themselves  of  present  opportunities.  Men  dreamed  and  saw-  visions,  after  they  had  fallen 
u|)on  the  ground,  so  powerfully  had  they  been  moved  by  the  preaching."' 

Education  well  kept  pace  with  religion.  In  the  village  of  Bergen,  in  1664,  was  estab- 
lished, so  far  as  can  be  known  from  authentic  records,  the  first  school  in  New  Jersey,  which, 
under  the  provisions  of  Governor  Carteret's  charter,  was  to  be  supported  by  a  tract  of  land 
exempt  from  taxes  or  other  charges.  In  1669  Woodbridge  was  empowered  to  sustain  a 
school  from  the  proceeds  of  certain  lands  "set  apart  for  education."  In  1676  a  well-qualified 
schoolmaster  was  teaching  in  Newark.  In  1693  the  East  Jersey  legislature,  in  a  statute  set- 
ting forth  that  "the  cultivation  of_  learning  and  good  manners  tends  greatly  to  the  good  and 
heiKtit  of  mankind,"  provided  fof  schoolmasters  and  their  support  by  bodies  similar  to  our 
present  boards  of  education,  b'inally,  on  October  22,  1746,  was  chartered  the  College  of  New 
Jersey,  which  in  our  own  day  has  developed  into  the  magnificent  Princeton  University,  It 
is  curious,  in  looking  back,  to  note  that  the  beginnings  of  this  institution  were  due  to  the 
great  religious  feeling  which  grew  out  of  the  W'hitefield  revivals,  as  well  as  the  more  calm 
and  better  considered  thought  of  the  Presbyterian  element. 

I'Yom  such  forbears  as  are  hereinbefore  written  of,  came  nearly  all  the  present-day 
families  of  New  Jersey  who  are  the  subjects  of  the  pages  which  follow,  and  are  the  inheritors 
of  a  s])lendid  legacy  of  beneficence. 

"l'"or  Good  is  not  a  shapely  mass  of  stone, 
Worked  by  man's  hands,  and  carved  by  him  alone. 
It  is  a  seed  God  suffers  some  to  sow : 
Others  will  reap,  and  when  the  harvests  grow 
He  giveth  increase  through  all  coming  years, 
.And  lets  men  reap  in  joy,  seed  that  was  sown  in  tears." 


STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY. 


In  the  century  and 
FRELINGHUYSEN  three-quarters  dur- 
ing which  the  Fre- 
linghuysens  have  been  identified  with  the  his- 
tory of  this  country,  they  have  given  to  New 
Jersey  and  the  L'nited  States  more  great  and 
distinguished  men  in  proportion  to  tlieir  nu- 
merical strength  as  a  body  of  individuals  than 
almost  any  other  family.  According  to  a  con- 
tinual stream  of  testimony  from  contempora- 
ries down  to  the  present  day,  it  is  the  founder 
of  the  family  who  placed  the  Dutch  Reformed 
religion  on  a  permanent  footing  in  New  Jer- 
sey, and  made  the  Raritan  district  its  garden 
spot.  According  to  the  same  witness,  every 
one  of  its  five  sons  was  equally  gifted,  and 
though  three  of  them  were  cut  off  in  their 
prime,  to  the  eldest  is  due  the  independence 
of  the  Dutch  church  in  America,  and  the  sec- 
ond son's  labors  have  Queen's,  now  Rutgers 
College,  as  their  monument.  In  the  third  gen- 
eration, the  single  male  representative  of  the 
family  belongs,  not  to  county  or  colony,  but 
to  country  as  a  continental  congressman  and 
revolutionary  colonel,  afterwards  becoming 
brigadier-general,  United  States  army;  while 
in  the  next  two  generations,  all  of  the 
general's  sons  became  distinguished  at  the 
bar  and  in  the  federal  service,  and  a  grand- 
son became  one  of  the  foremost  senators  of 
the  reconstruction  period,  and  a  United  States 
secretary  of  state.  And  lastly,  the  sixth  gen- 
eration, out  of  seven  living  representatives  of 
the  family  and  name,  contains  a  state  senator 
and  three  more  than  prominent  business  men. 
(I)  The  founder  of  the  family,  the  Rev. 
Theodorus  Jacobus  Frelinghuysen,  was  born 
at  Lingen,  in  East  Friesland,  now  the  north- 
west part  of  the  province  of  Hanover,  about 
1691.  His  father  was  the  Rev.  Johannes 
Henricus  Frelinghuysen,  pastor  of  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church  in  his  son's  birthplace,  and 
his  brother  was  Matthias  David  Frelinghuysen, 
who  settled  at  Hartigen,  Holland.  His  early 
education  and  his  preparation  for  the  sacred 
ministery  were  given  to  him  by  his  father  and 
the  Rev.  Otto  Verbrugge,  afterwards  professor 
of  theology  and  oriental  languages  at  Gronin- 
gen.     In  1717  he  was  ordained  by  the  Classis 

(I 


of  Embden,  his  examiner  being  the  Rev. 
Johannes  Brunius,  and  in  the  following  year 
we  find  this  minute,  under  date  of  June  5, 
1718,  in  the  Acts  of  the  Classis  of  Amsterdam: 
"Rev.  Matthias  W'interwyck,  minister  at  Al- 
phen,  together  with  Messrs.  Banker  and  van 
der  Meulen,  appeared  before  the  Classis  and 
exhibited  an  instrument  from  the  congregation 
at  Raritan,  in  the  province  of  New  Jersey,  by 
which  they  are  authorized  to  call  a  minister  for 
those  churches.  They  declared  that  they  had 
chosen  for  this  purpose,  the  Rev.  Theodorus 
Jacobus  Frelinghuysen,  formerly  minister  at 
Lochimer  \'oorwerk,  in  East  Friesland,  now 
Co-Rector  at  Enckhuysen,  with  the  request 
that  the  Classis  would  please  to  approve  his 
call,  and  ordain  him  to  the  Sacred  Ministry. 
Where-upon  the  Rev.  Frelinghuysen,  having 
come  within,  declared  that  he  accepted  said 
call  in  the  fear  of  the  Lord.  He  handed  in  at 
the  same  time  an  excellent  testimonial  from 
the  Coetus  of  Embden.  The  Classis  having 
taken  all  things  into  consideration,  approved 
the  call,  and  ordained  him  to  the  Sacred  Min- 
istry. He  also  signed  the  Formulae  of  Con- 
cord, and  promised  to  correspond  with  the 
Classis."  (vol.  X,  page  99).  About  a  year 
after  this,  the  Synod  of  North  Holland,  in 
Article  35  of  its  session  of  July-August,  1719, 
notes  in  its  classical  changes :  "Sent  to  Rari- 
tan in  the  province  of  New  Jersey:  Rev.  Ja- 
cobus Theodorus  van  Frelinghuysen ;"  and  six 
months  later,  in  the  beginning  of  January, 
1720,  he  landed  in  New  York  from  the  ship 
"King  George,"  Captain  Jacob  Goelet,  master; 
and  January  17,  1720,  held  his  first  public 
service  and  received  his  recognition  by  the 
.American  Dutch  church,  preaching  for  the 
Rev.  Henry  Boel  in  one  of  the  collegiate 
churches  of  the  city.  Such  was  the  entrance 
upon  his  ministry  of  the  man  who  has  ex- 
erted the  most  permanent  influence  upon  the 
history  of  the  Dutch  church  in  this  country, 
and  whose  principles  have  shaped  its  character 
and  destinv  in  America.  George  Whitefield, 
Jonathan  Edwards  and  the  Rev.  Gilbert  Ten- 
nant,  all  speak  of  him  as  "one  of  the  greatest 
divines  of  the  .American  church,"  and  as  being 
a  devout  soul,  filled  with  religious  zeal,  keen^ 

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spiritual  insight  and  remarkable  intellectual 
abilities  and  attainments.  To  him  more  than 
any  one  else  is  due  the  revival  of  religion  in 
New  Jersey  at  the  time  of  the  "Great  Awak- 
ening" ;  he  was  the  first  pastor  of  the  Re- 
formed church  to  train  up  young  men  for  the 
ministry,  the  first  to  favor  and  work  for  the 
independence  of  the  church  in  this  country. 
Although  he  did  not  live  to  take  part  in  its  as- 
semblies, he  was  one  of  the  initiators  of  the 
movement  for  a  Coetus  in  America,  and  it 
was  largely  owing  to  his  zeal,  his  foresight  and 
his  j)rosecutions  that  the  reorganization  of  the 
l^utch  church  was  accomplished.  He  was 
proliably  also  the  first  to  suggest  a  college  for 
the  denomination  in  which  to  train  young  men 
for  the  ministry.  When  Dominie  r'reling- 
huysen  entered  upon  his  work  there  was  almost 
everything  to  dishearten  and  almost  nothing 
to  encourage.  Aside  from  sparse  population, 
settlements  far  apart,  bridle-path  roads  and 
unbridgcd  rivers  and  streams,  the  religious 
condition  of  the  Dutch  church  in  the  new 
world  was  most  unsatisfactory,  l-'or  nearly 
forty  years  they  had  been  living  in  a  new  and 
uncultivated  country,  and  hearing  the  Gospel 
only  a  few  times  in  the  year ;  a  whole  genera- 
tion had  been  born  and  educated  without  pub- 
lic worship ;  while  the  schools  were  no  better 
than  the  churches.  The  outward  ffrms  had 
been  retained  but  the  spirit  of  religion  was 
largely  wanting.  The  wear  and  tear  on  mind 
and  body  in  the  struggle  for  existence  in,  and 
the  battle  to  overcome  the  wilderness,  the  un- 
settled state  of  political  affairs,  the  ecclesiasti- 
cal subjection  to  a  governing  body  whose  de- 
cisions must  necessarily  be  theoretical  and 
based  on  hearsay  evidence  as  well  as  delivered 
a  long  time  after  the  need  for  them  had  risen, 
all  this  had  resulted  in  a  condition  of  chronic 
bickering  and  almost  cantankerous  faultfinding 
among  the  religiously  zealous  and  in  the  fall- 
ing away  into  carelessness  of  life  and  indif- 
ference to  i)rincii)le  of  the  great  majority.  A 
generation  had  grown  up  jealous  of  their 
l'r(.)testant  forms  and  ceremonies,  but  really 
caring  very  little  about  the  inner  life  and 
spirit  of  religion. 

Previous  to  1720,  Dominie  Bertholf,  when 
pastor  of  all  northern  New  Jersey  and  a  con- 
siderable portion  of  New  York,  visited  the 
Raritan  region  about  twice  a  year ;  and  when 
Dominie  I'relinghuysen  arrived  there  were 
three  churches  more  or  less  coiui)letely  organ- 
ized, Raritan,  now  the  First  Church  of  Somer- 
ville,  since  1699;  Three  Mile  Run.  now  the 
First  of  New  Urunswick,  or  Franklin  Tark,  in 


1703:  and  North  Ikanch,  now  Readington,  in 
1719.  What  was  then  a  missionary  station 
at  .Six  Mile  Run  became  later  the  "Millstone 
church"  and  is  now  the  church  at  Harlingen. 
January  31,  1720,  the  new  pastor  preached 
his  first  sermon  at  Raritan  from  2  Corinthians, 
5  :20 ;  and  with  the  zeal  and  earnestness  which 
has  won  him  the  title  of  "New  Jersey's  father 
of  evangelical  religion,"  he  began  laboring  to 
instil  int(j  the  hearts  of  his  flock  genuine  piety 
and  real  practical  religion.  With  all  his  great- 
ness, however,  the  good  Dominie  was  not  fault- 
less :  and  though  strong  in  act,  the  records 
show'  that  sometimes  he  was  anything  but  per- 
suasive in  manner;  and  in  consetjuence  he 
more  than  once  gave  his  opponents  handles  on 
which  they  afterwards  based  some  of  their 
charges  against  him.  This  was  also  one  of 
the  main  reasons  the  Classis  finally  decided 
against  him,  resenting  his  vigorous  language 
and  certain  (|uite  true  but  very  emphatic  scrip- 
tural ei)ithels  he  employed :  although  they 
based  their  adverse  judgment  on  what  we  must 
admit  were  mistakes  on  his  j)art.  He  was  in- 
accurate in  the  form  of  the  Citations,  and  his 
exercise  of  the  Ban,  or  excommunication,  was 
not  exactly  regular ;  but  these  were  side  issues. 
The  principles  he  fought  for  were  of  vital  im- 
Ijortance  to  the  life  and  wellbeing  of  the  Re- 
formed religion  in  this  country;  the  parties 
so  bitterly  complained  oi  and  warred  against, 
I'relinghuysen,  Schureman  and  Hendrick 
Fisher,  have  always  been  held  in  the  highest 
esteem,  both  in  church  and  state^  and  the  ulti- 
mate moral  result  of  Frelinghnysen's  course, 
however  criticized  at  the  time,  have  been  only 
beneficial.  The  locality  where  he  ofliciated 
has  been  known  ever  since  as  the  "Garden  of 
the  Dutch  C"hurch,"  and  "the  whole  Raritan 
region  has  felt  the  benefit  of  his  ministry  down 
to  the  ])resent  day." 

Shortly  after  assuming  charge,  l-"relinghuy- 
sen  preached  three  sermons;  i.  on  Isaiah, 
66:2.  "The  poor  and  contrite,  God"s  temple"; 
2.  on  I  Corinthians,  11:29,  "The  acceptable 
communicant":  and  3.  on  S.  Mat.,  16:19,  "The 
Church's  duty  to  her  members."  In  these  he 
laid  great  stress  on  the  propositions  that  true 
piety  will  manifest  itself  in  a  godly  life,  that 
the  real  Christian  will  detach  himself  as  much 
as  may  be  from  the  things  of  this  world  and 
cultivate  the  spirit  as  well  as  the  forms  of 
prayer ;  that  only  such  as  are  striving  to  do 
this  are  worthy  ])artakers  of  the  Lord's  Table; 
and  that  it  is  the  duty  of  the  church  to  exclude 
from  the  .Sacrament  all  that  are  unworthy. 
This    teaching    was    perfectly    orthodox,  and 


STATE   OF    NEW     IKRSEY. 


3 


agreed  with  that  of  the  most  eminent  divines 
in  Holland,  and  also  with  the  great  body  of 
Presbyterian  divinity  in  Europe  and  America 
both  before  anil  after  his  time  :  but,  enforced 
as  it  was  in  his  parochial  ministrations  and 
practice  it  gave  great  offense,  a  number  with- 
drew from  his  ministry  and  defended  their  step 
by  saying  his  teaching  was  heretical.  As  usual, 
all  sorts  of  gossipy  slanders  arose,  and  while 
refusing  to  vindicate  himself  from  these,  Fre- 
linghuysen,  at  the  urging  of  some  of  his  friends, 
had  his  sermons  "  Printed  at  New  York  by 
W'm.  I'radford,  1721."  The  preface  is  dated 
June  15,  and  the  sermons  are  strongh  endorsed 
l)y  the  Rev.  William  P>artholf ,  l*"rclinghuysen's 
predecessor,  and  the  Rev.  Pernard  Freeman, 
of  Long  Island.  Meanwhile  the  aggrieved 
persons  had  sought  an  alliance  with  the  Rev. 
Henry  Boel,  who  had  taken  umbrage  at  a  let- 
ter which  Frelinghuysen  had  written  him,  and 
P)0ers  colleague,  the  Rev.  Walter  Du  liois ; 
and  the  same  ship  that  bore  the  sermons  to 
the  mother  country  carried  also  to  the  Classis 
of  Amsterdam  those  Dominies'  testimony  to  a 
gossipy  charge  that  in  Holland,  Frelinghuysen 
had  insulted  Air.  W.  Bancker  by  disparaging 
his  nephew;  and  that  "while  at  sea.  Rev.  Fre- 
linghuysen had  condemned  most  of  the  preach- 
ers in  Holland ;  and  he  also  declared  that  he 
thought  but  little  of  those  at  .\msterdam." 
These  charges,  apparently,  were  at  first  dis- 
missed ;  the  sermons  were  approved  by  the 
university  of  Griningen,  and  later  on,  when 
the  controversy  assumed  a  more  serious  phase, 
one  of  its  professors,  the  Rev.  Johannes  \'er- 
schuir,  published  his  "Truth  Triumphant"  in 
Frelinghuysen's  behalf. 

For  about  two  years,  the  disaffection  stead- 
ily grew,  intensified  probably  by  the  fact  that 
Frelinghuysen's  evangelical  zeal  and  labors 
were  being  crowned  with  marked  success,  and 
gathering  around  him  a  strong  body  of  ad- 
herents in  whose  conversion  he  had  been  in- 
strumental, and  whose  practical  self-denying 
lives  were  a  standing  rebuke  to  the  formal  re- 
ligion and  easy-going  lives  of  their  neighbors. 
Finally,  March  12,  1723,  Peter  Du  Mont, 
Symon  W'yckoff  and  Hendrick  Vroom  tried 
to  enlist  on  their  side  the  Rev.  Bernard  Free- 
man, who  would  have  nothing  to  do  with  them, 
telling  them  very  plainly,  "Now  do  I  perceive 
that  you  are  all  affected  by  the  spirit  of  hatred 
and  revenge.  Because  he  sharply  exposes  sin. 
you  try  to  hel])  the  devil,  therefore  I  will  have 
nothing  to  do  with  you  except  for  the  establish- 
ment of  peace :  and  that  you  follow  the  advice 
to  appear   with  your  complaints  before  your 


Consistory ;  and  that  you  receive  a  written 
answer  by  which  it  shall  be  shown  whether 
your  pastor  teaches  true  or  false  doctrine." 

B_\-  this  time,  matters  had  reached  such  a 
I)oint  that  Frelinghuysen  and  his  consistories, 
after  obtaining  a  sworn  statement  from  Do- 
minie I<"reeman  in  regard  to  the  above  men- 
tioned visit,  took  the  matter  formally  up,  and 
issued  March  28,  May  q,  and  May  22,  1723, 
three  "Citations  *  *  *  (-q  ^\■^Q  Heads  and 
Leaders  of  the  Separate  and  Seceded  Congre- 
gation," "specifying  Du  Mont,  Wyckoff  and 
Woiim"  as  the  persons  they  mean,  and  calling 
upon  them  to  appear  before  the  Consistory  and 
prove  their  charges.  On  their  ignoring  these 
citations  and  continuing  as  before,  Freling- 
huysen and  his  consistory  disciplined  four  of 
them  by  excommunication  "so  that  his  sacred 
ministrations  might  not  be  hindered ;  and  that 
his  name  and  office  might  be  freed  from  slan- 
der before  the  (iovernor."  The  opposition  now 
determined  to  systematize  their  efforts,  and  to 
this  end  they  appointed  the  four  ex-communi- 
cates, Du  IVIont,  Wyckoff,  Vroom  and  Daniel 
Sebring  a  committee  "to  correspond  with  Revs. 
Du  Bois,  Antonides,  Boel,  and  others,  who 
might  be  pleased  to  help  us  according  to  the 
Rules  of  the  Church  *  *  *  to  defend  our- 
selves publicly  in  print,  and  choose  our  own  time 
to  do  this."  For  two  years,  until  Februarv  or 
March,  1725,  nothing  more  seems  to  be  heard 
from  them,  when  they  published  their  famous 
"Complaint,"  or  "Reply,"  in  which  they  scored 
not  only  Frelinghuysen  and  his  Consistory  but 
also  those  who  were  friendly  to  him,  especially 
Dominies  Freeman  and  Cornelius  Van  Sant- 
voordt.  This  document,  "printed  in  New 
York  by  William  Bradford  and  J.  Peter 
Zenger,"  is  a  volume  of  146  pages ;  an  Eng- 
lish translation  of  it  in  the  archives  of  the 
General  Synod  covers  323  pages  of  manu- 
script. A  few  advance  copies  of  the  "Cita- 
tions" and  the  "Reply"  proper  were  first 
printed.  One  of  these  fell  into  Freeman's 
hands  and  he  immediately  answered  it  with 
his  "Defense,"  a  pamphlet  of  125  pages,  and 
des])atched  both  together  with  a  letter  to  the 
Classis  of  .Amsterdam.  The  complainants 
met  this  by  adding  a  sixteen  page  preface ; 
and  then  finding  that  their  book  was  not  hav- 
ing the  effect  they  intended — Freeman  .says 
"It  is  scorned  by  all  honest  people.  Alean- 
while  (Jod  blesses  the  ministry  of  Rev.  Freling- 
liu\'sen  with  n^^nv  exhibitions  of  genuine 
piety" — they  procured  from  certain  ministers 
a  declaration  "justifying  the  complaints  in 
publishing  their  volume."     This  is  signed  bv 


STATE    OF    NEW    lERSEY. 


Dominies  Walter  Du  Bois  of  New  York,  Von- 
ceiit  Aiitonides  of  Long  Island,  Petrus  Vas 
of  Kingston  and  Henry  P.oel ;  while  Dominie 
Petriis  \'an  Driessen  of  Albany  "'prays^  that 
a  blessing  may  rest  on  the  finished  work,"  and 
Dominie  Thomas  Pronwer  of  Schenectady 
"gives  assurance  of  his  high  regard,"  for  the 
work.  To  all  this,  the  complaints  added  a  set 
of  poems  more  or  less  ironical,  ridiculing  Fre- 
linghuysen's  position  for  demanding  his  style 
of  ])iety,  commending  those  who  are  supposed 
to  hold'  fast  to  the  "established  forms  of  doc- 
trine and  discipline  of  the  Dutch  church,  and 
bidding  the  "Cnni])laint"  forth  on  its  mission. 
Then  they  despatched  the  completed  work  to 
the  Classis  at  .\mslerdam  in  such  haste  that 
they  were  obliged  to  follow  it  on  the  next 
ship  with  a  letter  of  apolog}'  and  explanation ; 
while  Dominie  \'an  Santvoordt  publishes  a 
second  answer  under  the  title  of  a  "Dialogue 
between  Considerans  and  Candidus,"  the  first 
representing  the  I^'relinghuysen  side  and  the 
latter  his  ojiponents',  and  presenting  another 
inside  view  of  the  whole  controversy. 

This  "Complaint,"  which  is  evidently  the 
work  of  a  shrewd  lawyer,  and  is  almost  cer- 
tainly the  composition  of  Lawyer  Boel,  the 
Dominie's  brother,  who.se  handiwork  is  also 
clearly  marked  in  the  complainants"  letters  to 
Holland,  puts  an  entirely  new  phase  upon  the 
dispute.  .At  this  date  there  were  in  New  York 
and  New  Jersey  but  .seven  Dutch  ministers: 
besides  Frelinghuysen,  Bertholf,  now  enfee- 
bled and  soon  to  be  superseded  at  Acquack- 
ononck.  Du  Bois  and  Boel  in  New  York,  Free- 
man and  .Xntonides  on  Long  Island,  and  Van 
Santvoordt  on  Stat  en  Lsland.  These  few  men 
could  not  i)ossibly  meet  the  needs  of  the  con- 
stantly increasing  population  of  the  territory 
under  their  charge;  and  Frelinghuysen,  Free- 
man and  Van  Santvoordt  clearly  foresaw  that 
radical  changes  must  be  brought  about  to  make 
the  church's  work  effective.  More  ministers 
than  could  be  obtained  from  Europe  were  a 
necessity ;  and  a  more  complete  organization 
with  large  powers  of  self-government  to  con- 
trol the  unruly  and  meet  the  exigencies  of  the 
times  was  imperative.  These  changes  could 
not  be  wrought  at  once,  and  meanwhile  some- 
thing must  be  done  even  if  the  letter  of  the 
canons  was  infringed  or  broken.  On  the 
other  hand,  the  remaining  ministers  repre- 
sented the  ultra-conservative  element,  which 
was  afraid  of  innovation  and  believed  that 
exact  order,  forms  and  rules'  must  be  main- 
tained at  any  expense  of  convenience  or  pro- 
gress.    The   "Complaint,"    while   it   professes 


to  be  simply  an  appeal  for  justice  against  the 
highhanded  and  unprincipled  acts  of  a  teacher 
of  false  doctrines,  skillfully  insinuates 
throughout  that  Frelinghuysen  and  his  adher- 
ents are  dangerous  innovators  and  destroyers 
of  established  forms  and  as  holding  the 
Classis  and  the  Reformed  religion  in  great 
contemin ;  and  in  their  letter  of  explanation 
to  the  Classis  the  complainants  urge  this  even 
more  explicitly.  It  is  a  masterly  retreat  from 
an  absolutely  indefensible  position  to  a  battle- 
ground of  politics  and  society  as  well  as  re- 
ligion which  has  in  all  ages  been  fougiit  over 
with  varying  success ;  it  is  no  longer  a  con- 
tlict  between  a  parish  and  certain  of  her  dis- 
ci])lined  members ;  it  has  become  the  old  strug- 
gle between  conservatism  and  radicalism  in  the 
church ;  from  now  on  it  is  really  a  question 
of  home  rule  versus  imperial  control. 

The  Classis  reduced  the  "Complaint"  to  sev- 
enteen specific  accusations  and,  having  asked 
for  and  received  Frelinghuysen's  answer 
thereto,  twentv  folio  pages,  they  decided  that 
"the  difficulty  seems  chiefly  to  have  been  op- 
position to  Rev.  Frelinghuysen,  and  his  man- 
ner of  saying  and  doing  things'' ;  that  he  had 
no  right  to  excommunicate  "without  the  pre- 
vious knowledge  of  the  Classis" ;  that  the  ac- 
cusation of  heterodoxy  was  "flippant" ;  and 
that  the  complainants  had  been  guilty  of  "mis- 
representations of  even  the  most  important 
words  and  deeds."  They,  however,  reserved 
any  final  decision  in  the  interests  of  peace  and 
justice,  and  "because  both  sides  seem  to  desire 
to  debate  concerning  our  Tribunal  and  our 
ecclesiastical  jurisdiction:  and  under  a  foreign 
power  our  ecclesiastical  decision  could  not  be 
carried  out  by  any  effectual  instnunentality." 
They  then  wrote  to  both  parties  to  come  to 
terms  of  peace,  adding  at  the  end  of  each  letter 
this  postscript:  "P.  S.  If  any  amicable  recon- 
ciliation caimot  be  effected,  Classis  retains  the 
liberty  either  to  pronounce  judgment  thereon 
herself;  or  if  it  seems  necessary,  to  refer  the 
whole  subject  to  the  decision  of  the  Christian 
Synod  of  North  Holland." 

( )wing  to  the  unavoidable  delays  accom-- 
panying  transatlantic  correspondence,  this  de- 
cision of  the  Classis  was  not  reached  until  May 
3,  1728,  and  the  letters  to  Frelinghuysen  and 
the  complainants  were  not  finished  until  June 
27  and  28,  1728.  These  last  reached  Raritan 
about  the  end  of  January.  1729;  and  on  Ajiril 
i<),  1729,  after  several  interviews  with  his  op- 
ponents, Frelinghuysen  offered  to  remove  the 
i^an  and  receive  the  complaints  as  mem- 
bers   of    the    church    provided    that    they   are 


STATE   OF    XI'W    TF.RSEY. 


willing  over  their  o\v!i  signatures  "to  make 
confession  of  guilt  (  for  their  improper  con- 
duct regarding  his  teaching),  and  to  recognize 
me  as  an  orthodox  minister.''  The  com- 
plaints rejected  these  overtures  and  wrote  to 
the  Classis.  Xovember  20,  1729,  for  a  new 
minister  at  Three  Mile  Run — they  had  for 
some  time  previously,  contrary  to  the  canons, 
and  using  their  barns  for  churches,  been  em- 
ploying the  services  of  Dominie  Henry  Coens 
of  Acquackononck  ( i.  e.,  Passaic) — and  April 
6.  1730,  assuring  the  Classis  that  they  had 
done  all  they  could  to  seek  peace  but  that  they 
could  not  join  themselves  with  Frelinghuysen 
and  his  Consistory  "because  they  disregarded 
the  Discipline,  Lithurgy  and  pure  Administra- 
tion of  the  Sacraments  of  the  Dutch  Church ; 
and  have  allowed  an  English  dissenter  to  ofiflci- 
ate  in  the  services."  This  dissenter  was  the 
Rev.  Gilbert  Tennant.  who  was  regularly  min- 
istering to  the  English  population  there,  and 
whom  Frelinghuysen  had  occasionally  per- 
mitted to  use  one  of  his  churches  for  that 
purpose. 

Meanwhile,  Frelinghuysen,  who  in  1729  had 
published  his  two  sermons  on  I  Peter  4:18, 
"The  righteous  scarcely  saved,"  and  "The  mis- 
erable end  of  the  ungodly,"  was  taken  seriously 
ill,  at  one  time  his  life  being  despaired  of,  and 
for  nearly  a  year  was  unable  to  attend  to  any 
duties  whatever.  The  sickness  seems  to  have 
been  a  form  of  neurasthenia  resulting  from 
the  persecution  to  which  he  had  been  sub- 
jected: but  his  enemies  gleefully  hailed  it  as 
"insanity."  and  made  the  most  of  their  op- 
portunity to  stir  up  the  Classis  against  him 
So  great  was  their  success,  that  the  Classis, 
September  i,  1732,  records  the  following  min- 
ute :  "On  accordance  with  a  resolution  of  the 
Classis  (  July  21,  1732"),  a  minister  was  granted 
to  the  people  of  Millstone  (now  Harlingen). 
and  they  were  notified  to  that  effect  (July  25, 
1732).  In  regard  to  the  people  of  Raritan, 
it  was  resolved  to  write  to  Rev.  Frelinghuysen 
that  he  must  make  his  peace  with  the  dis- 
affected ones,  and  that  within  the  space  of 
three  months ;  otherwise  the  disaffected  ones 
shall  have  liberty  to  join  the  people  of  Mill- 
stone, and  together  they  may  choose  a  minis 
ter ;  also  that  Rev.  Frelinghuysen  must  keep 
himself  to  the  Church  Order  and  Formula  of 
the  Netherlands"  (Acts  xi.  821.  The  Classis 
had  previously,  .April  2,  1731.  arbitrarily  re- 
moved the  ban.  October  25,  1732,  they  com- 
municated this  decision  to  Frelinghuysen  and 
November  18,  1733.  after  much  written  dis- 
cussion between  the  parties  concerned,  "Peace 


.\rticles"  were  accepted  and  read  by  P'reling- 
huysen  from  the  pulpit,  at  New  lirunswick. 
January  I.  at  Raritan.  January  8.  and  so  on 
successively  in  all  the  churches.  (Acts  xxii. 
333-334).  Xine  of  the  eleven  articles  refer 
to  matters  of  detail  such  as  the  release  from 
the  ban  and  the  privileges  to  be  accorded  to 
the  disaffected  ones,  etc.,  and  here  Freling- 
huysen shows  his  greatness  by  giving  his  op- 
ponents the  victory,  and  as  reward  gains  the 
points  for  which  he  had  contended  ever  since 
the  ])ublishing  of  the  "Complaint" :  that  the 
church  order,  etc.,  were  to  be  adhered  to  only 
at  least  in  so  far  as  this  is  practicable  and  pos- 
sible in  these  regions";  (Article  3)  ;  and  that 
all  differences  were  to  be  decided  by  "the  im- 
]iartial  judgment  of  the  two  nearest  churches 
or  ministers,  but  only  in  the  neighborhood" 
(.Article  11). 

This  was  the  practical  ending  of  the  quarrel, 
although  the  results  were  not  so  satisfactory 
as  might  be  expected.  Only  a  few  of  the  dis- 
contented ones  returned  to  their  allegiance; 
the  remainder  drifted  off  to  other  consistories 
or  remained  to  cause  more  trouble.  Through- 
out the  remaining  years  of  his  life,  he  died  in 
1747  or  1748,  Dominie  Frelinghuysen  contin- 
ued to  suft'er  annoyance  and  vexation  and  his 
son.  John,  who  succeeded  him.  waged  the  same 
battle  until  the  September  session  of  the  Coe- 
tus  in  Xew  York,  1751.  which  decided  that  a 
pastor's  decision  must  stand,  or  be  submitted 
to  a  court  of  arbitration  chosen  by  both  sides, 
whose  decision  should  be  final. 

One  result  of  the  Raritan  dispute  was  to 
awaken  the  Classis  to  the  need  of  a  better  or- 
ganization of  the  church  in  this  country ;  and 
accordingly,  January  11,  1735,  they  wrote  to 
the  ministers  at  Xew  York,  detailing  their 
"embarassment  in  expressing  a  final  decision 
upon  the  case  of  Rev.  Frelinghuysen."  and 
adding  "we  should  be  especially  pleased  if 
we  could  receive  from  you  some  Plan,  which 
might  tend  to  promote  the  union  of  the  Dutch 
churches  in  your  portion  of  the  world 
*  *  *  either  by  holding  a  yearly  Conven- 
tion, or  in  such  other  way  as  you  think  best." 
Consequently  April  27.  1738,  a  committee  rep- 
resenting nearly  all  the  consistories  in  New 
"S'ork  and  Xew  Jersey,  the  first  three  members 
of  which  were  Freeman,  \'an  Santvoordt  and 
Frelinghuysen,  sent  to  Holland  for  approval 
the  "Draft-Constitution  for  a  Coetus."  Nine 
years  later  this  was  granted  by  the  Classis,  and 
the  Coetus  organized  and  proceeded  to  busi- 
ness September  8  and  9,  1747.  Dominie  Fre- 
linghuysen was  not  present,  but  sent  a  letter 


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excusing  liis  absence,  which  was  probably 
caused  by  ill  iiealth  as  the  following  April. 
Hendrick  Fisher  notified  the  Coetiis  that  their 
congregation  needed  a  pastor. 

In  1730  the  five  sermons  of  Dominie  Fre- 
linghiiysen  already  referred  to  were  translated 
into  English.  In  1733  he  published  in  New 
York  ten  more  sermons,  written  after  his  ill- 
ness of  1732,  and  containing  as  the  concluding 
words  of  the  i^refacc,  his  now  famous  motto: 
"Laudem  non  quaere,  culpam  non  timeo"  ;  "I 
seek  not  praise,  of  blame  I  am  not  afraid."  .A 
second  edition  of  these  sermons  appeared  in 
Holland  under  approval  and  with  the  commen- 
dation of  the  university  of  Groningen  who 
called  them  "The  noble  fruit  brought  from  the 
new  world  to  our  doors."  Two  sermons,  on 
the  eartlK|uake  of  December  7,  1737.  were  pub- 
lished in  L'trecht,  in  1738;  antl  about  1749. 
four  of  his  last  sermons  were  printed  by  XX'ill- 
iam  Bradford  in  Philadelphia,  with  a  preface 
written  by  himself,  and  two  commendary  notes 
following  it,  one  signed  by  his  son  John,  the 
other  by  his  pupil,  David  Marinus.  In  1856 
all  of  these  were  translated  into  English  by  the 
Rev.  William  Demarest  and  published  by  the 
board  of  publication  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
churcii,  with  an  introduction  by  Dr.  Thomas 
De  Witt  and  a  biographical  sketch  by  the 
translator. 

Dominie  I'relinghuysen  received  the  degree 
oi  A.  M.  (honorary)  from  Princeton  Univer- 
sity in  1749,  and  was  buried  in  the  old  church- 
yard at  Three  Mile  Run.  "under  an  old  apple 
tree  on  the  north  side."  L'util  a  few  years 
ago  the  spot  was  practically  unmarked  and 
almost  imknown :  but  in  1884  some  of  his  de- 
scendants erected  a  plain  but  stately  granite 
stone  at  the  head  of  the  narrow  mound,  bear- 
ing this  inscri])tion :  "Rev.  Theodorus  Jacobus 
Frelinghuysen.  IJorn  at  Lingen.  East  Fries 
land,  in  ifnji.  In  1719,  he  was  .sent  to  take 
charge  of  the  Reformed  Churches  here  by  the 
Classis  of  .\msterdam.  He  was  a  learned 
man.  and  a  successful  preacher.  The  field  of 
his  labors  still  bears  fruit.  He  contended  for 
a  spiritual  religion.  His  motto  was  "Laudem 
non  (|uaero.  Culjjam  non  timeo."  He  died  in 
1747,  and  his  descendents  hvnnbly  sharing  in 
his  faith,  have  erected  to  hi>  meinnry  this 
mcnumeiit. " 

I'y  his  wife.  Eva.  daughter  of  .Albert  Ter- 
hune  of  Flatbu.sh,  Long  Lsland.  Dominie  I're- 
linghuysen had  five  sons  and  two  daughters. 
The  sons  were  all  ordainerl,  and  the  daughters 
both  married  ministers. 

Theodore,  the  eldest  son,  was  born  at  Three 


.Mile  Run  in  1722  or  1723,  studied  Latin  under 
Dominie  \  an  Santvoordt  and  Theology  under 
Dorius  of  Pennsylvania,  his  father's  intimate 
friend,  became  a  candidate  of  the  Classis  of 
Ctrecht.  was  transferred  to  and  ordained  Oc- 
tober 4,  1745,  by  the  Classis  of  Amsterdam, 
upon  a  call  to  .\lbany  to  succeed  Dominie  Cor- 
nelius \'an  Shie.  He  was  an  earnest  advocate 
of  the  Coetus  against  the  strong  opposition  of 
his  consistory,  was  the  originator  and  most 
active  worker  for  a  Dutch  college  in  New 
York,  and  the  first  to  propose  an  .\merican 
Classis  independent  of  the  mother  country. 
October  10,  1759,  he  sailed  for  Europe  in  the 
interests  of  these  last  two  projects,  and  was 
lost  at  .sea  on  his  return  voyage,  and  some 
time  after  May  14,  1760,  when  he  wrote  to 
the  Classis  of  .Amsterdam  from  Rotterdam. 
His  wife  Elizabeth,  bore  him  no  children  but 
married  again. 

I'erdinand  and  Jacobus  Frelinghuysen.  the 
latter  graduating  from  Princeton  L'niversity  in 
1730.  and  the  other  studying  under  Doraius 
and  (joetchius,  were  called  the  one  to  Kinder- 
hook  and  the  other  to  Marbletown.  Rochester 
I  Lister  county)  and  W  awarsing,  were  ordain- 
ed together  b\-  the  Classis  of  .Amsterdam,  Jul\- 
17.  1752,  and  sailed  for  home.  "They  died" 
on  the  voyage  says  their  brother,  Jojin,  in  a 
letter  to  the  Classis,  "the  one  seven  days  after 
the  other,  each  stricken  down  with  the  small- 
po.x,"  Ferdinand.   June   11.  and    lacobus.   |une 

'^'  '753-. 

i  lendrick,  the  youngest  son  of  Dominie  Fre- 
linghuysen, was  educated  in  theology  by  Pro- 
fessors Irehovev  and  Risuerus  and  was  to  have 
gone  to  1  loUand  to  complete  his  studies  and  be 
ordained  when  the  news  w'as  received  of  the 
deaths  of  Ferdinand  and  Jacobus.  Marble- 
town  and  the  other  churches  which  had  previ- 
ously called  Ferdinand,  immediately  asked  that 
they  might  have  I  lendrick  in  his  place,  and  his 
brother.  John,  at  once  wrote  to  the  Classis  and 
re(|uested  permission  for  Hendrick  to  be  or- 
dained Ijy  the  Coetus.  Three  months  later. 
X'ovember  3.  1753,  Marbletown,  Rtx:hester  and 
W'awarsing  sent  a  formal  request  to  the  same 
elTect ;  and  on  December  3,  1733,  gave  Hend- 
rick a  call  in  regular  form.  The  Cdetus.  .May 
30.  1755.  added  its  i)lea.  and  (  )ctober  22.  1755. 
Theodore  I'Velinghuysen  his.  The  Coetus  and 
the  calling  churches  repeated  their  requests 
again  and  again  but  the  Classis  steadily  refused 
to  grant  their  desires  :  and  this  fact  formed  one 
of  the  strongest  arguments  which  resulted  in 
the  assertion  of  the  independence  of  the  Coetus. 
Meanwiiile    Hendrick   started   to   work  among 


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the  churches  that  had  called  him  and  labored 
from  1754  to  1757,  when  he  died  at  the  home 
of  Mrs.  Bevier,  at  \\'a\varsing,  a  fortnight 
after  his  ordination  by  the  Coetus  at  Marble- 
town,  and  before  October  4,  when  the  Coetus 
notified  the  Classis  that  they  had  taken  the 
matter  of  the  ordination  into  their  hands.  Hend- 
rick  was  unmarried. 

.-Vnna.  the  youngest  daughter  of  Dominie 
\  Frelinghuysen,  married  the  Rev.  William  Jack- 
son, pastor  from  1757  to  July  25,  1813.  of 
Bergen  and  Staten  Island.  She  was  the  only 
child  to  reach  old  age,  and  died  May  3,  1810. 
aged  seventy-two  years. 

Margaret,  the  older  of  Dominie  Frelinghuy- 
sen's  daughters,  was  born  November  12.  1737; 
died  at  Jamaica.  Long  Island,  December  23, 
1757  :  married.  June  29,  1756.  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Romeyn,  pastor  at  Jamaica  and  Oyster  Bay. 
Their  only  child  was  Theodorus  Frelinghuysen 
Romeyti.  who  studied  theology  under  Dr.  Liv- 
ingston, was  licensed  in  1783.  and  succeeded 
his  grandfather,  uncle  and  Dr.  Hardenbergh 
as  pa.stor  at  Raritan  in  1784.  He  died  unmar- 
ried of  fever,  August,  1785. 

( II )  John,  the  second  son  of  the  Rev.  Theo- 
dorus Jacobus  Frelinghuysen,  was  born  at 
Three  Mile  Run.  New  Jersey,  in  1727:  died 
suddenly  at  the  home  of  his  mother's  parents, 
Flatbush,  Long  Island,  September  15,  1754. 
while  on  his  way  to  attend  what  proved  to  be 
the  last  meeting  of  the  united  Coetus  of  New 
\'ork  :  as  .\pril  15,  1755,  his  brother,  Theodore, 
issued  his  famous  call  for  a  special  meeting  of 
the  Coetus  for  May  30,  which  organized  the 
American  Classis,  split  the  church  into  Coetus 
and  Conferentie  parties,  and  practically  de- 
clared the  independence  of  the  Reformed 
church  in  this  country.  John  was  a  man  of 
greater  suavity  than  his  father,  but  was  ei|ually 
firm  in  upholding  the  claims  of  spiritual  versus 
formal  Christianity,  and  was  distinguished  for 
his  gifts  in  the  pulpit,  for  his  assiduity  in  train- 
ing the  young,  for  his  zealous  endeavors  to 
raise  up  worthy  candidates  for  the  sacred 
office,  and  for  his  labors  as  peacemaker  in  the 
.Arondeus  and  other  controversies  of  his  day 
From  the  Na-scent  Theological  Seminary  in  his 
own  home,  on  the  two  hundred  acre  farm,  pur- 
chased by  his  father,  at  Three  Mile  Run.  July 
17.  1744.  and  built  of  bricks  brought  bv  John 
himself  from  Holland,  where  he  trained  Hard- 
enbergh, Jackson,  Leydt  and  others,  was  the 
beginning  of  Queen's,  now  Rutgers  College,  of 
which  his  pupil,  Hardenbergh,  was  the  first 
Ijresident. 

.About   1/39,  wlien  the  Dorsius  controversy 


was  at  its  height,  his  father  sent  him  to  Dorsius 
for  instruction,  and  in  a  certificate  of  the 
latter's  character,  written  .April  14,  1740,  says, 
"Dominie  Dorsius  is  a  learned,  gifted,  gra- 
ciously-endowed and  faithful  minister,  whose 
services  moreover  have  not  remained  without 
a  blessing.  I  have  therefore  gladly  committed 
and  entrusted  one  of  my  sons,  Johannes  by 
name,  to  the  instruction  and  tuition  of  his 
Reverence.  He  also  has  his  lodgings  and  his 
board  with  him.  It  is  also  possible  that  our 
oldest  son,  Theodore,  wdio  has  already  studied 
r^atin  under  Dominie  Van  Sandvoordt,  for. 
some  years,  will  soon  be  sent  to  his  Reverence 
for  instruction.  Such  then  is  my  opinion  of 
his  Reverence."  .After  his  father's  death,  the 
churches  at  New  Brunswick  and  Six  Mile 
Run  cojointly  called  the  Rev.  John  Leydt,  who 
was  one  of  the  first  three  students  prepared 
and  examined  by  the  Coetus  in  this  country. 
The  other  three  churches,  Raritan,  Harlingen 
and  Readington,  united  and  called  John  Fre- 
linghuysen, at  that  time  studying  under  the 
Classis  of  -Amsterdam,  the  minute  of  his 
ordination  by  that  body,  July  21,  1749,  reads: 
■■Rev.  John  F"relinghuysen,  S.  S.  Min.  Cand. 
was  admitted  after  exhibiting  his  laudable 
certificates  to  preach  before  the  Rev.  Classis, 
in  proof  of  his  qualifications  as  a  preacher. 
This  he  did  on  Heb.  13:14,  'For  here  we  have 
no  continuing  city,  but  we  seek  one  to  come,' 
and  was  listened  to  with  pleasure.  The  exam- 
iner J.  \'.  D.  Broel  then  proceeded  to  the  exam- 
ination in  the  languages  viz..  on  Psalm  I,  and  I 
Cor.  I ;  and  in  Sacred  Theology.  He  gave  so 
much  satisfaction  in  both,  that,  by  the  unani- 
mous consent  of  all  the  members  present,  he 
was  considered  worthy  of  performing  the 
duties  of  the  Sacred  Ministry.  They  all  ex- 
pressed the  wish  for  the  Lord's  blessing  upon 
him.  The  condemned  opinion  of  Roel  and 
Bakker  were  repudiated.  He  declared  him- 
self orthodox  on  the  subject  of  the  Post  .Acts 
of  the  Synod  of  Dort,  and  promised  to  read 
the  three  questions  without  modification,  in 
the  form  for  baptizing  children.  He  then  sign- 
ed the  Formulae  of  Concord,  and  he  was  sub- 
secjuently  ordained  to  the  Sacred  Ministry  in 
the  usual  manner  by  the  Rev.  Examiner,  with 
prayer  and   supplication   to  CkxI."    (.Acts  xii., 

'79)- 

.After  a  long  and  tedious  passage  home,  he 
arrived  at  Raritan  in  midsummer,  1750,  and 
preached  his  introductory  sermons,  at  Raritan, 
.August  3,  from  Psalm,  45:16,  "Instead  of  thy 
fathers  thou  shalt  have  children  whom  thou 
mayest  make  princes  in  all  lands ;"  at  Reading- 


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ton,  on  August  lo,  from  Zecliariah,  4:6,  and  in 
the  afternoon  from  Zechariali,  6:12:  and  on 
August  17,  at  Harlingen,  from  Psalm,  133:1. 
"Behold,  how  good  and  joyful  a  thing  it  is. 
brethren,  to  dwell  together  in  unity."  He  had 
begun  his  work  hardly  a  month  before  trouble 
began  to  arise,  and  Rynier  \'an  Xest,  or  \'echte. 
one  of  the  Harlingen  elders  wrote  a  complain- 
ing letter  to  the  Coetus  and  presented  it  at  the 
afternoon  session  of  that  body,  September  12, 
1750.  "The  Coetus  concluded  that  Dominie 
Du  Buis  should  prepare  a  reply,  suggesting 
peaceful  considerations."  At  the  next  session 
of  the  Coetus.  September  9  to  17,  1751,  the 
Rev.  John  Frelinghuysen  and  his  elder,  S.  \'an 
.•\rsdalen.  were  received  as  members,  and  the 
Harlingen  difficulties  were  considered.  The 
trouble  was  one  of  the  old  aftermaths  of  the 
old  Raritan  dispute.  Dominie  Coens  had  begun 
the  trouble  with  the  malcontents  as  early 
as  1728,  perhaps  earlier,  by  holding  services  in 
their  barns  and  organizing  a  consistory  for 
them.  Dominie  Arondeus,  a  formal,  unevan- 
gelical  man,  who  with  Dominies  Antonides  and 
De  Ronde,  seem  to  have  spent  most  of  their 
time  fomenting  discord  in  various  places,  had 
continued  the  evil  work,  as  late  as  1749,  and  in 
one  of  his  last  sermons,  old  Dominie  Theodoras 
Jacobus  says,  "We  are  yearly  still  \isited  by 
one  in  the  service  of  the  malcontents,  who  like 
Dictrejjhes,  prates  against  us  woth  malicious 
words  and  in  his  zeal  without  knowledge,  rails 
at  us  as  accursed  heretics:  but  may  it  not  be 
laid  to  his  charge.'"  Since  then  there  had  been 
in  the  congregation  two  consistories,  one  of  the 
so-called  disaiTected,  and  the  other  of  Dominie 
P'relinghuysen.  These  two  parties  were  melined 
to  unite  but  they  could  not  agree  u])on  the 
terms.  Conse(|uently  the  disaffected  had  brought 
the  matter  before  the  Coetus  for  decision. 
"After  mature  deliberation,  it  was  concluded 
that  two  elders  and  two  deacons  of  Dominie 
Frelinghuysen,  with  one  elder  and  one  deacon 
of  the  dissatisfied,  should,  together  with  Domi- 
nie I'Velinghuysen,  choose  an  elder  and  a  dea- 
con from  the  number  of  the  dissatisfied,  who 
being  ordained,  one  elder  and  deacon  of  Domi- 
nie I'Velinghuxscn,  and  the  rest  of  the  dissatis- 
fied should  resign ;  and  thus  the  two  newly 
chosen  with  the  four  remaining  ones  of  Domi- 
nie Frelinghuysen,  should  be  considered  the 
Consistory."  The  ne.xt  day  a  similar  arrange- 
ment settled  the  same  trouble  in  Readington  : 
and  the  flames  lit  thirty  years  earlier  against 
the  father  were  at  last  quenched  liy  the  ministry 
of  the  son. 

The  "Kerk  op  dcr  .Millstone,"  as  the   Har- 


lingen church  was  then  called,  now  began  a 
new  season  of  prosperity,  and  a  year  later,  in 
1752,  built  a  new  church  near  the  present  site. 
Dominie  John  dedicating  it  and  preaching  from 
the  texts :  I  Kings,  8 129,  and  Psalm,  27  :4,  and 
about  a  year  after  that,  June  7,  1753.  the  five 
churches  served  by  Dominies  Leydt  and  Fre- 
linghuysen, contained  all  of  the  flocks,  so  long 
and  faithfully  served  by  the  latter's  father, 
were  united  into  one  corporation  in  a  common 
charter  granted  them  by  Governor  Jonathan 
Belcher. 

In  1 75 1  and  1752  John  Frelinghuysen  was  a 
member  of  the  committee  which  had  the  carry- 
ing out  of  the  classical  sentence  on  the  wretch- 
ed Arondeus,  and  he  took  an  active  part  for 
peace  in  the  troubles  with  Pieter  De  Windt  in 
Bergen  and  Staten  Island.  In  the  following 
year.  1753,  with  his  brother,  Theodore,  he  was 
instrumental  in  settling  the  latter  case  by  hav- 
ing \\'illiam  Jackson,  one  of  his  own  pupils, 
called  to  Bergen,  and  in  straightening  out  the 
troubles  over  the  call  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Romeyn  to  Jamaica  and  Oyster  Bay.  His 
labors  on  earth,  however,  were  not  to  be  con- 
tinued, and  after  the  short  ministry  of  four 
years  and  one  month,  he  died  in  his  twenty- 
eighth  year.  In  1826  his  remains,  with  those  of 
his  nephew.  Theodore  Frelinghuysen  Romeyn. 
were  removed  from  their  original  resting  place 
and  put  with  those  of  another  pastor,  and  the 
congregation  of  Raritan  erectetl  to  the  three  a 
monument,  known  as  "the  minister's  tomb," 
(jn  which  their  tribute  to  Dominie  John  Fre- 
linghuysen is  "Amiable  in  tlisposition,  pious  in 
character,  zealous  in  the  work  of  his  Master, 
successful  in  gaining  friends  and  winning 
siiuls.  much  beloved,  much  lamented." 

The  Rev.  John  Frelinghuysen  married,  about 
174M.  just  before  he  returned  to  .America, 
Dinah,  the  only  daughter  surviving  childhood 
of  Louis  \'an  Bergh,  a  merchant  of  Amster- 
dam. .She  was  born  February  10,  1725;  died 
in  .Ww  Brunswick,  March  26.  1807.  She  ac- 
coni])anied  her  husband  to  this  country,  and 
about  one  or  two  years  after  his  death  mar- 
ried (  second)  his  jiupil,  Jacob  Rutzen  Harden- 
bergh.  whom  she  survived.  She  I)ore  her  first 
husband  two  children :  Eva,  who  married  Cas- 
l>ar  \'an  Xostrand,  and  removed  to  Ulster 
county.  Xew  York,  where  her  descendants  are 
now  numerous:  and  Frederick,  from  whom 
all  bearing  the  name  of  I-Velinghuysen  have 
descended. 

(  HI  )  Brigadier-!  leneral  Frederick,  only  son 
of  the  Rev.  John  Frelinghuysen,  was  born 
.\pril  13.  1753.  in  the  parsonage  at  Three  Mile 


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Run,  and  died  on  his  birthday,  1804.  It  \\a>ti.<' 
constant  and  earnest  desire  of  his  mother,  who 
was  "a  very  remarkable  and  highly  gifted 
Christian  woman,"  that  like  his  father  and 
grandfather,  he  should  become  a  minister  of 
the  Ciosijel.  In  this  she  was  cordially  second- 
ed bv  Dr.  1  lardenbergh,  her  second  husband, 
and  his  early  education  was  given  him  with  this 
aim  in  view  ;  but  in  vain.  Young  Frederick 
felt  that  he  was  not  called  to  the  sacred  office. 
and  although  he  complied  with  his  mother's 
wishes  so  far  as  to  spend  six  months  studying 
theology,  his  disinclination  grew,  ana  he 
turned  his  face  toward  another  field  in  which 
he  and  his  descendants  have  made  a  noble  rec- 
ord as  his  ancestfirs  had  done  in  the  church. 
In  i/i/)  he  entered  the  College  of  New  Jersey 
and  graduated  in  1770,  having  among  his  class- 
mates John  Taylor  and  the  Rev.  Caleb  Wallace, 
chief  judge  of  the  Kentucky  supreme  court. 
Among  his  fellow  students  were  Nathaniel 
Ramsey,  Samuel  \\  itham  Stockton,  Ejihraim 
Hevard,  I'ierpont  lulwards,  William  Churchill 
Houston,  John  lieatty.  William  Channing, 
Samuel  Stanhope  Smith,  ( Sunning  Uedford, 
James  Madison,  William  Bradford,  Aaron 
Rurr,  David  Hard,  Henry  Lee  and  Aaron 
Ogden.  After  his  graduation  he  studied  law 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1774.  The 
following  year,  1775,  when  he  was  twenty- 
two  years  old,  he  was  elected  to  the  ])rovincial 
congress  of  New  Jersey,  and  at  the  outbreak 
of  hostilities  became  a  member  of  the  import- 
ant committee  of  safety.  For  more  than  a  year 
previous  to  1775,  the  whole  country  had  been 
not  only  in  o])en  rebellion  against  the  King, 
but  its  inhabitants  had  actually  made  war  upon 
their  fellow  subjects,  who  unconscious  of  op- 
pression had  ])reserved  their  loyalty.  The  more 
daring  and  ambitious  spirits  had  not  only  fore- 
seen that  the  continuance  of  political  connec- 
tion was  not  much  longer  possible,  but  had 
successfully  sought  to  inspire  the  people  with 
the  desire  for  independence ;  though  many 
from  various  causes  such  as  timidity,  selfish 
policy  and  influence  of  family  relations  were  • 
disposed  to  postpone  the  event.  The  cliniax 
which  demonstrated  the  real  change  in  public 
opinion  was  the  reception  given  to  Thomas 
r^aine's  pam])hlet,  "Common  Sense,"  which  in 
a  clear,  per.spicuous  and  popular  style  pro- 
nounced continued  connection  with  England 
unsafe,  impractical  and  illogical.  Congress 
took  its  com])lexion  from  the  peoples'  temper, 
became  more  vigorously  active  against  the  dis- 
affected, granted  letters  of  marque  and  reprisal, 
o|)ened  its  jiorts  to  all  nations,  and  finally.  May 


15,  1776,  declared  it  necessary  that  the  exer- 
cise of  all  authority  under  the  crown  be  sup- 
pressed and  the  government  exercised  by  the 
peojjle  of  the  colony  for  themselves,  recom- 
mending each  colony  "to  adopt  such  govern- 
ment as  shall,  in  the  opinion  of  the  representa- 
tives of  the  people,  best  conduce  to  the  happi- 
ness and  safety  of  their  constituents  in  partic- 
ular, and  America  in  general." 

I'"rederick  Frelinghuyscn  was  re-elected  a 
member  of  the  provincial  congress  of  New 
Jersey,  on  the  fourth  Monday  in  May,  1776, 
wjiich  met  in  consequence  of  the  above  order, 
June  10,  1776,  at  Burlington,  and  organized, 
with  Samuel  Tucker,  president,  and  William 
Patterson,  secretary.  On  May  21,  by  a  vote  of 
54  to  3,  the  convention  resolved  to  form  the 
government  recommended,  on  the  24th  a])point- 
ed  a  committee  which  reported  two  days  later 
a  draft  constitution  which  was  confirmed  July 
2,  177C).  The  last  clause  in  this  constitution 
was  a  ]3rovisiona!  one,  annulling  the  charter 
should  reconciliation  with  Cjreat  Britain  be 
hereafter  effected.  The  constitution  also  re- 
tained the  use  of  the  word  colony  throughout. 
On  July  18,  the  congress  assumed  the  title  of 
the  "Convention  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey," 
and  substituted  the  word  "state  for  colony 
throughout."  The  provisional  clause,  however, 
remained  and  in  the  contest  which  ensued  over 
it  Frclinghuysen  took  an  active  part.  He  moved 
to  defer  the  printing  of  the  constitution  for  a 
few  days  that  the  clause  might  receive  full 
consideration,  and  his  arguments  were  so 
strong  that  had  the  house  been  full  when  the 
vote  was  taken  he  would  have  been  successful, 
the  adoption  of  the  constitution  would  have 
been  delayed,  and  the  character  of  an  independ- 
ent state  at  once  fearlessly  assumed.  Out  of 
sixt_\'-five  members,  however,  only  twenty-five 
were  present  and  the  vote  negatived  his  pro- 
posal 16  to  9. 

In  1778  he  was  elected  on  a  joint  ballot  of 
the  legislature  to  represent  New  Jersey  in  the 
continental  congress,  but  resigned  his  seat  the 
ne.xt  year  in  the  following  letter  to  the  speaker 
of  the  New  Jersey  assembly,  in  which  he  states 
his  reasons : 

Sir:  Agreeable  to  the  appointment  of  tlie  legis- 
lature, I  repaired  to  Philadelphia  in  the  month  of 
January  last,  and  have  since  that  time  attended 
Congress  until  the  public  business  intrusted  to  my 
care  in  the  county  of  Somerset  rendered  my  absence 
unavoidable.  It  is  needless  for  me  to  remind  the 
honorable  legislature,  that  I  did  with  great  reluct- 
ance accept  of  the  appointment  of  a  delegate  for 
this  state  Congress.  I  was  then  sufficiently  sensible 
that   the  trust  was  too   important  for  my  years  and 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


abilities.  I  am  now  fully  convinced  that  I  should 
do  Injustice  to  my  country  did  I  not  decline  that 
service. 

In  doing  this  I  am  conscious  to  myself  that  I  am 
merely  actuated  by  motives  for  the  public  good, 
well  knowing  that  whatever  may  be  my  abilities, 
they  will  be  useless  to  the  state  in  the  supreme 
council  of  the  nation,  and  that  the  other  appoint- 
ment with  which  the  legislature  of  New  Jersey  has 
been  pleased  to  honor  me  in  the  county  of  Somerset. 
Is  more  than  sufficient  to  employ  my  whole  atten- 
tion. 

I  might  add  some  other  circumstances  which 
render  my  situation  here  peculiarly  disagreeable, 
but  I  fear  the  evils  which  might  arise  from  opening 
myself  on  this  subject,  would  more  than  counter- 
balance any  good  it  might  probably  answer.  I 
trust,  however,  the  representatives  from  New  Jer- 
sey will  not  think  it  impertinent  in  one  who  has 
faithfully  endeavored  to  serve  his  country  to  declare 
to  them  that  the  interests  of  America  call  on  them 
for  extraordinary   vigilance. 

I  shall  say  nothing  respecting  the  amazing  ex- 
pense of  attending  at  Congress,  and  my  inability  to 
support  it;  I  am  determined  not  to  complain  until 
the  last  farthing  of  my  little  fortune  is  spent  in  the 
service  of  my  country,  and  then  perhaps  I  shall 
have  the  consolation  to  see  poverty  esteemed  as  the 
characteristic  of  an   honest   man. 

I  conclude  with  observing,  I  am  particularly  moved 
to  wish  for  a  release  from  the  appointment,  as  it 
has  been  hinted  to  me  that  my  colleague.  Mr.  Fell, 
is  exceedingly  uneasy  that  he  is  so  often  left  alone 
to  manage  the  weighty  affairs  of  state,  and  that  he 
had  even  expressed  himself  with  warmth  and 
temper  on  the  subject  in  his  letters  to  the  legisla- 
ture. I  shall  not  say  that  I  am  ready  at  all  times 
to  give  an  account  of  tny  conduct  to  those  who 
appointed   me. 

I  trust  the  legislature  will  take  into  consideration 
and  gratify  my  request,  of  being  excused  from 
further  attendance  at  Congress. 

I  am.  Sir.  your  most  obedient  and  most  humble 
servant,  FI{KD.    FREI.INGHUYSEN." 

The  Hon.  Caleb  Camp,  Ksq. 

This  rcsii(iiatii)ii  was  accepted,  but  at  a  later 
periud  his  name  again  appears  on  the  rolls  as 
delegate  from  Xew  Jersey,  from  1782  to  1783, 
and  ten  years  later,  in  1795,  after  repeatedly 
receiving  testimonials  of  public  confidence  by 
ap])ointmcnt  to  various  state  and  county  offices 
he  was  chosen  to  a  seat  in  the  United  States 
senate,  which  domestic  bereavement  and  family 
claims  forced  him  to  resign  in  1796. 

February  15.  1776,  Frelinghuysen  was  ap- 
pointed major  in  Colonel  Stewart's  battalion 
of  minute-men ;  but  he  resigned  this  com- 
mission two  weeks  later  on  being  ap])ointed 
captain  of  the  eastern  comjiany  of  state  troops, 
one  of  the  detachments  of  artillery  authorized 
bv  the  colonial  legislature  and  recruited  by 
himself,  .\fter  finishing  his  work  in  the  con- 
stitutional convention,  with  his  command  he 
joined  Washington  in  his  retreat  across  New 
Jersey  and   took   ])art    in   the   crossing  of  the 


Delaware  and  the  battle  of  Trenton.  A  British 
sword,  surrendered  to  him  in  that  engagement. 
is  now  in  the  possession  of  his  great-grandson, 
Mr.  Frederick  Frelinghuysen,  of  Newark.  It 
is  also  a  tratlition  in  the  family  that  it  was  a 
shot  from  the  Captain's  pistol  which  mortally 
wounded  Colonel  Rahl.,  the  commander  of  the 
Hessian  forces.  In  the  following  year,  Febru- 
ary 28,  1777,  Captain  Frelinghuysen  was  pro- 
moted to  colonel  of  the  J^irst  Battalion,  Somer- 
set militia,  and  placed  with  the  command  under 
Major-(ieneral  Dickinson,  .\fter  the  winter 
at  \alley  F"orge  and  the  evacuation  of  F'hila- 
delphia.  Colonel  Frelinghuysen's  regiment  took 
part  in  the  chasing  of  Clinton's  forces  across 
the  Jerseys  and  was  present  at  the  battle  of 
Monmouth  Court  House,  June  28,  1776.  In  a 
letter  from  a  gentleman  accompanying  the 
patriots,  and  dated  "English-Town,  June  29, 
1778."  is  related  the  following  incident  of  the 
regiment :  "At  the  drawbridge  near  Borden- 
town.  when  General  Dickinson  with  great  pro- 
priety had  ordered  some  lines  to  be  thrown  up, 
they  (the  patriots)  appeared  anxiously  to  de- 
sire the  arrival  of  the  enemy.  The  continental 
troops  and  great  part  of  the  militia  had,  how- 
ever, been  withdrawn,  except  those  of  Colonels 
Phillips  and  Shreve,  who  were  previously  de- 
tached to  guard  a  ford  one  mile  further  up  the 
creek,  and  only  the  three  regiments  of  Colonels 
Frelinghuysen,  Van  Dike  and  Webster  remain- 
ed, when  a  party  of  the  enemy  appeared,  and 
with  great  zeal  began  to  rejiair  the  bridge, 
which  had  been  cut  down.  L'])on  the  very  news 
of  their  api)roach,  the  troops  rushed  down  with 
the  greatest  impetuosity,  and  a  small  party 
from  one  of  the  regiments  which  hapi)ened  to 
be  considerably  advanced,  caused  them  to  re- 
tire, after  having  killed  four  and  wounded 
several  others.  In  the  morning  the  lines  were 
again  manned,  but  the  enemy  thought  proper 
to  change  their  route.  This  conduct  of  the 
militia  saved,  in  my  o])inion.  Trenton  and  the 
country  adjacent  from  rapine  and  desolation." 
Colonel  Frelinghuysen  now  resigned  his  com- 
mission in  order  to  accept  his  election  to  the 
continental  congress,  but  in  1780.  after  his 
resignation,  he  rejoined  the  army  and  took 
part  in  the  skirmishes  at  Springfield  and  Eliza- 
beth. 

In  1794.  during  his  term  as  Ignited  States 
senator,  the  "Whiskey  insurrection"  arose  in 
western  Pennsylvania  and  President  Washing- 
ton summoned  troops  from  X'irginia,  Mary- 
land, Pennsylvania  and  Xew  Jersey,  to  quell 
the  rebellion,  and  Senator  Frelinghuysen,  who 
had  been  in   1 700  appointed  brigadier-general. 


statp:  of  new   irrsey. 


II 


U.  S.  A.,  and  served  in  the  campaign  against 
the  western  Indians,  served  also  as  second  in 
command  imder  Governor  Howell.  February 
22,  1800.  he  delivered  the  oration  in  New 
Brunswick  on  the  death  of  Washington,  and 
the  copies  of  this  speech  which  are  still  extant 
"reveal  an  eloquence  glowing  with  the  ardor 
to  be  expected  from  the  man  and  the  times  he 
had  been  through."  For  the  remainder  of  his 
life  he  gave  his  time  to  professional  and  family 
duties  and  died  "beloved  by  his  country  and 
his  friends,  and  left  for  his  children  the  rich 
legacy  of  a  life  unsullied  by  a  stain,  and  that 
had  abounded  in  benevolence  and  usefulness." 

(ieneral  Frelinghuysen  married  (first)  Ger- 
trude Schcnck,  who  died  March,  1794.  leaving 
five  children.  He  then  married  Ann  Yard, 
who  bore  him  two  girls  and  survived  him  many 
years. 

(jeneral  John  Frelinghuysen,  the  olilest  son. 
born  March  21,  1776;  died  .\pril  10,  1883: 
graduated  from  Rutgers  College  in  1792  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1797.  He  prac- 
ticed law  in  Somerville  and  Millstone,  was 
representative  from  Somerset  county  1809  to 
1816.  and  surrogate  from  1818  to  1832.  He 
married  (first)  Louise,  daughter  of  the  Hon. 
Archibald  Mercer,  who  bore  him  besides  a  son 
that  died  young.  Mary  Ann.  wife  of  Henry 
X'anderveer.  M.  D. ;  Frederick,  and  Gertrude 
who  married  David  }ilagee.  November  13. 
181 1.  General  John  Frelinghuysen  marrieil 
Elizabeth  Mercereau,  daughter  Michael  \'an 
X'echten.  born  December  11,  1790;  died  June 
4.  1867.  Children:  Theodore,  who  died  un- 
married; Elizabeth  La  Grange,  wife  of  Henry 
15.  Kennedy  :  Frederick  John,  whose  son  is  now 
state  senator  for  New  Jersey ;  Louisa  Mercer, 
who  married  Talbot  W.  Chambers ;  Sarah, 
Catherine,  Sophia. 

The  Hon.  Theodore  Frelinghuysen.  the  sec- 
ond son,  born  Millstone,  March  28,  1787:  died 
Xew  lirunswick,  .April  12,  i8fii.  He  graduated 
at  Princeton  in  1804,  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1808,  raised  and  commanded  a  company  of 
volunteers  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  from  1817 
to  1829  was  attorney-general  of  New  Jersey. 
In  1828  he  was  elected  to  the  L'nited  States 
senate,  where  he  was  prominent  as  a  debater 
on  the  Whig  side,  taking  an  especially  active 
part  in  the  discussions  over  the  rechartering 
of  the  L'nited  States  bank  and  the  withdraw- 
ing of  the  government  deposits  there  form,  and 
over  the  tariff,  but  failing  of  re-election  in 
1835  he  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  Newark,  of  which  city  he  was  mayor  in 
1837  and   1838.     From   1839  to   1850  he  was 


chancellor  of  the  University  of  New  York ; 
was  the  W  hig  candidate  for  vice-president  on 
tht  ticket  with  Henry  Clay,  in  1844;  and  was 
president  of  Rutgers  College  from  1850  till  his 
death.  He  married  Charlotte,  daughter  of 
.Archibald  Mercer,  M.  D.  ( <;|.  v.),  but  had  no 
children. 

Maria,  oldest  daughter  of  General  Frederick 
Frelinghuysen,  was  born  March,  1778;  died 
March  13,  1832;  married  the  Rev.  John  Cor- 
nell, of  F"latbush,  Long  Island;  and  her  sister, 
Catherine,  became  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Gideon 
F.  Judd,  D.  D.,  of  Catskill.  New  York.  Eliza- 
hetli,  the  eldest  daughter  by  the  second  mar- 
riage, wedded  James  Hruyn  Elmendorf.  M.  D. ; 
while  her  younger  sister  died  young. 

(IV )  Frederick, youngest  son  of  General  Fred- 
erick Frelinghuysen,  was  born  at  Millstone,  No- 
vember 8,  1788.  died  there  November  10,  1820. 
With  his  brother  Theodore  he  was  sent  to  school 
in  New  Brunswick,  and  later  to  the  academy  at 
Basking  Ridge,  where  he  was  j^repared  to  enter 
Princeton  L'niversity,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  1806.  He  then  entered  the  office  of  the  Hon. 
Richard  Stockton  in  Trenton,  where  he  studied 
law  until  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1810. 
Making  his  home  at  Millstone  he  now  began 
practicing  in  Somerset  county,  where  he 
"rapidly  ac(|uired  a  lucrative  practice  and  a 
brilliant  reputation,"  which  for  a  few  years 
later  became  much  enlarged  by  his  appointment 
as  prosecutor  of  the  pleas  for  Somerset,  Mid- 
dlesex and  Hunterdon  counties.  Frederick 
Frelinghuysen  is  spoken  of  by  those  who  knew 
him  as  a  natural  orator,  perhaps  much  more 
so  than  either  of  his  brothers,  while  his  fervid 
imagination,  buoyant  temperament  and  lively 
seusii)ilities  gave  him  a  remarkable  power  over 
juries,  and  on  two  occasions  when  he  delivered 
public  orations  he  not  only  excited  great  inter- 
est but  also  high  expectations  which  his  early 
death  brought  to  nought.  The  first  of  these 
speeches  was  before  the  Washington  Benev- 
olent .Association  at  New  Brunswick,  in  1812. 
and  the  other  was  at  Somerville,  before  the 
Somerset  County  P>ible  Society,  in  1820.  about 
six  or  seven  weeks  before  he  was  attacked  by 
his  last  sickness.  Four  days  after  his  death  a 
special  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  New 
Jersey  bar  was  held  at  the  state  house  in  Tren- 
ton to  draft  resolutions  on  his  decease,  which 
was  formally  announced  to  them  by  the  Hon. 
Lucius  Horatio  Stockton.  In  the  minute  there- 
upon adopted  they  say  that  the  bar  has  been 
deprived  of  "the  society  of  an  honest  and 
honorable  man,  peculiarly  endeared  to  his  coun- 
trv  bv  the  characteristic  traits  that  distinguish- 


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ed  him,  not  only  as  an  able  and  eloquent  advo- 
cate but  as  a  Christian,  a  scholar  and  a  gentle- 
man." 

Frederick  I-Velinghiiysen  married,  .\iigiist  4, 
181 2,  Jane,  daughter  of  Peter  B.  Dumont,  who 
bore  iiim  five  chiklreii.  Susan,  the  eldest,  mar- 
ried William  D.  Waterman,  but  had  no  chil- 
dren; Gertrude  Ann,  born  September  20,  1814, 
died  October  11,  1886,  became  the  wife  of 
William  Theodore  Mercer  (q.  v.)  ;  and  Louise, 
married  John  C.  Elmendorf,  and  had  one  son. 
Dumont  Frelinghuysen,  the  oldest  son,  born 
l-'ebruary  16.  1816  ;  died  at  Somerville,  in  1905  ; 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  as  attorney  in  1838. 
and  counsellor  in  1843;  1840  to  1845  was  clerk 
of  Somerset  count)',  and  was  prominent  in 
Sunday  school  and  Bible  society  work.  He 
married  Martina  \'anderveer,  but  had  no  issue. 

(  \" )  I'Vederick  Theodore,  the  younger  son 
and  next  to  the  youngest  child  of  Frederick 
I'^relinglHiysen,  was  born  in  Millstone,  .\ugust 
4,  1817  ;  died  at  Newark.  May  20.  1885.  When 
his  father  died,  he  was  only  three  years  old, 
and  immediately  thereafter  he  was  adopted  by 
his  Uncle  Theodore,  who  took  him  to  his  home 
in  Newark.  Inheriting  his  father's  natural 
gifts,  his  eloc|uent  speech  and  his  fervid  emo- 
tions, he  also  shared  in  the  peculiar  refinement 
and  comliness  of  his  mother,  and  the  transfer 
to  the  care  and  custody  of  his  distinguished 
uncle  gave  him  the  best  of  opportunities  for 
training  and  cultivating  his  gifts  aright.  While 
his  uncle  was  absent  from  home  in  the  senate 
at  Washington,  he  attended  the  academy  at 
Somerville.  under  .Mr.  Walsh,  but  otherwise 
was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Newark  .\cad- 
emy.  Entering  Rutgers  as  a  soi^homore  he 
graduated  in  1836,  having  among  his  class- 
mates Jose])h  I'radley,  .Alexander  Brown. 
George  W.  Coakley. John  Frelinghuysen  liage- 
man.  William  .-\.  Newell  and  Cortlandt  Parker. 
Mr.  Hageman  records  thus  the  imjiression  In- 
made  upon  his  classmates:  "We  were  accus- 
tomed to  look  u])on  him  as  a  minature  .Senator 
and  statesman  in  embryo  *  *  *  j-n;  i^a,] 
no  s])ecialties  in  his  studies,  no  genius  for  the 
higher  mathmatics.  no  special  fondness  for  the 
physical  sciences.  While  his  standing  was 
good  in  the  classics  and  in  the  general  studies 
prescribed  *  *  *  he  enjoyed  most  *  *  * 
mental  and  moral  philosophy,  logic  and  rhei- 
oric." 

After  graduation,  .Mr.  I'Velinghuysen  began 
to  study  law  in  the  office  of  his  uncle.  Theodore 
Frelinghuysen.  in  Newark,  being  admitted  to 
the  bar  as  attorney  in  1839  and  as  counsellor 
in  1842.     lie  now  'iucceeded  to  the  practice  of 


his  uncle  who  had  become  chancellor  of  the 
L'niversity  of  New  York,  and  from  the  very 
first  he  stood  on  high  vantage  ground  in  his 
l)rofcssional  career,  influential  friends  gathered 
around  him,  the  church  of  his  ancestors  revered 
his  name,  and  the  whole  community  gave  him 
their  good  will  and  helping  hand.  He  did  not 
have  to  struggle  and  wait  long  for  success  as 
most  young  lawyers  are  compelled  to  do.  In 
1849  he  was  chosen  city  attorney ;  and  the  ne.xt 
year,  the  only  time  he  submitted  his  name  to 
the  popular  vote,  he  was  elected  member  of 
the  city  council.  Soon  afterwards,  Mr.  Fre- 
linghuysen was  retained  as  counsel  for  the 
-New  Jersey  Central  Railroad  Company,  and 
for  the  Morris  Canal  and  Banking  Company, 
which  required  his  apjjearing  before  courts  and 
juries  in  different  counties, meeting  as  his  antag- 
onists the  strongest  counsels  in  the  state  and 
from  abroad,  and  even  calling  him  into  the 
highest  courts  of  the  state.  In  a  few  years  he 
stood  foremost  among  the  New  Jersey  bar, 
noted  for  his  eloquent  speeches  before  juries, 
and  his  strong  personal  influence,  both  in  and 
out  of  court.  In  addition  to  this,  he  stu'lied 
and  toiled  with  unwearied  diligence,  making 
himself  not  only  an  elo(|uent  advocate,  but  ^n 
able  lawyer,  a  strategic  counsel,  a  formidable 
antagonist  in  any  suit,  and  his  practice  becami- 
lucrative  and  enviable. 

-Mr.  h'relinghuysen's  patriotism  was  innate 
and  inherited,  and  though  not  an  office  seeker, 
he  kept  well  read  in  the  politics  of  both  state 
and  country,  and  was  frec|uently  called  upon 
to  address  large  gatherings,  notably  the  \\  hig 
state  convention  in  1840.  in  the  memorable 
Tyler-\'an  Buren  camjiaign  of  that  year.  Very 
naturally,  however,  he  wislie<l  to  follow  in  the 
l)ath  of  honor  and  office  trodden  by  his  father, 
uncle  and  grandfather:  subsequently  in  1857 
his  name  is  mentioned  for  the  office  of  attor- 
ney-general of  New  Jer.sey.  then  vacant.  It  is 
said  that  tiiis  is  the  only  time  he  did  not  obtain 
a{)pi)intment  to  an  official  position  he  desired. 
.Although  ( iovernor  Newell  knew  Mr.  I'Veling- 
luiysen's  (|nalifications,  there  were  several  other 
fully  (jualified  classmates  of  theirs  who  e(|ually 
desired  the  nomination,  and  so  the  governor 
relieved  the  embarrassment  of  the  situation  by 
ajipointing  ex-Senator  William  L.  Dayton, 
who  had  failed  of  reappointment  to  the  senate 
and  also  of  election  to  the  vice-presidency  on 
the  Fremont  ticket.  In  i860  Charles  S.  Olden 
succeeded  Newell  as  governor,  and  the  follow- 
ing year  (iovernor  Olden  and  Mr.  F'relinghuy- 
sen  met  as  members  of  the  Peace  congress  in 
Washington,  which  tried  to  avert  the  threat- 


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ened  secession.  A  warm  personal  and  political 
friendship  sprang  up  between  them,  and  when 
later  in  the  year  Lincoln  appointed  Attorne)'- 
Geiieral  Dayton  minister  to  France,  the  gov- 
ernor tilled  the  vacancy  by  nominating  Mr. 
Frelinghuysen  ;  and  in  1866,  when  his  term  of 
office  expired,  Marcus  L.  Ward,  then  gov- 
ernor, reappointed  him  for  another  term  to  the 
same  post. 

The  duties  of  this  office  and  the  legislation 
of  the  war  period  required  much  special  labor 
and  attention  and  Mr.  Frelinghuysen  now 
spent  most  of  his  time  in  Trenton.  Besides 
being  the  law  advisor  of  the  state,  he  had  also 
to  assist  the  prosecutors  of  the  pleas  in  the 
dilTerent  counties  in  trials  for  high  felonies 
and  in  several  important  and  difficult  murder 
cases  his  services  were  characterized  by  great 
Skill  and  powerful  oratory.  He  was  also  the 
most  popular  political  speaker  in  the  state. 
Consecjuently  when  the  death  of  William 
Wright,  of  Newark,  in  1866,  left  a  vacancy 
in  the  United  States  senate,  and  the  condition 
of  the  country  made  it  imperative  to  fill  the 
vacancy  before  the  next  meeting  of  the  legis- 
lature, no  one  appeared  to  Governor  Ward  so 
well  f|ualified  as  Attorney-General  Freling- 
huysen. Accepting  the  appointment,  Mr.  Fre- 
linghuysen took  his  seat  in  December,  1866, 
was  elected  by  the  legislature  in  the  winter  of 
1867  to  till  the  unexpired  term  of  ]\Ir.  Wright, 
and  resigning  his  state  office  accepted  the  sen- 
atorship  with  great  pleasure,  having  now 
reached  the  goal  of  his  youthful  ambition. 
When  his  term  expired  in  1869,  the  legislature 
being  Democratic,  he  was  not  re-elected,  but 
his  services  had  been  such  that  in  1870  Grant 
nominated  him  and  the  senate  without  refer- 
ence to  committee  confirmed  him  as  minister 
to  England.  Why  he  declined  so  honorable  a 
position  was  for  many  years  variously  answer- 
ed by  friends  and  foes,  and  it  was  not  known 
until  after  his  death  that  his  refusal  was  be- 
cause Mrs.  Frelinghuysen  was  opposed  to  ex- 
posing her  children  to  the  influence  of  court 
life,  which  that  mission  would  involve,  and  he 
yielded  to  her  wish.  His  reward  soon  came, 
for  the  next  year  a  full  term  vacancy  occurring 
in  the  senate,  and  the  legislature  being  Repub- 
lican, he  was  elected  to  fill  it. 

In  1867  Mr.  Frelinghuysen  had  voted  for 
the  conviction  of  President  Johnson  on  his 
im[)eachment ;  and  in  his  later  term  he 
became  one  of  the  most  prominent  of 
the  reconstruction  senators.  As  member 
of  the  judiciary  and  finance  committees, 
and  those  on  naval  affairs,  claims,  and  rail- 


roads, and  as  chairman  of  the  committee  on 
agriculture,  his  responsibility  was  varied  and 
])erple.xing.  He  took  a  prominent  part  in  the 
debates  on  the  Washington  treaty,  the  French 
arms  controversy,  the  t|uestion  of  polygamy  in 
Utah,  and  in  a  clear  manly  speech  explained 
and  cleared  up  New  Jersey's  policy  of  grad- 
uating taxes  upon  railroads.  After  much  labor 
he  secured  the  return  to  Japan  of  the  balance 
of  the  indemnity  fund  that  was  not  used  or 
required  for  the  payment  of  American  claims 
against  that  government ;  he  introduced  the 
bill  to  restore  a  gold  currency,  and  taking 
charge  of  Mr.  Sumner's  reconstruction  bill 
after  that  senator  became  unable  to  look  after 
it,  he  procured  its  passage.  The  soundness  of 
his  arguments  in  the  southern  loyaltists  bill 
debate  were  at  first  doubted,  but  the  bill  was 
defeated,  and  his  contention,  now  generally 
accepted,  that  the  north  cannot  adjust  the 
damage  caused  to  southern  unionists  by  the 
war,  had  undoubtedly  saved  the  national  treas- 
ury from  being  swamped  by  inntunerable 
claims  of  that  character.  In  the  summer  of 
1876,  anticipating  the  trouble  that  actually  ac- 
curred  later,  over  the  counting  of  the  electoral 
votes,  he  introduced  a  bill  referring  decision 
in  such  cases  to  the  president  of  the  senate, 
the  speaker  of  the  house  and  the  chief  justice. 
The  senate,  however,  adjourned  before  the 
bill  could  be  acted  upon  ;  and  in  the  following 
year,  when  the  problem  of  the  Hayes-Tilden 
vote  had  to  be  settled,  Mr.  Frelinghuysen  was 
a  member  of  the  commission  reporting  the  bill 
that  created  the  electoral  court  and  was  also 
a  member  of  that  board.  His  term  expired 
March  4,  1877,  and  the  Democratic  party  being 
again  in  power  in  the  state,  elected  Mr.  Mc- 
Pherson  as  his  successor. 

h"or  the  next  four  years  Mr.  Frelinghuysen 
retired  into  private  life,  but  after  the  assassina- 
tion of  James  A.  Garfield,  President  Arthur 
called  him  to  his  cabinet  as  secretary  of  state, 
December  12,  1881.  In  this  position  Mr.  Fre- 
linghuysen's  belief  was  that  there  is  a  proper 
luedium  between  too  much  and  too  little 
strategy ;  and  acting  on  this  conviction,  "the 
foreign  policy  of  the  administration  was  pacific 
and  honorable  under  his  guidance."  In  the 
arduous  labor  and  responsibility  of  negotiat- 
ing international  treaties,  however,  he  sustain- 
ed the  heaviest  burdens  of  his  life.  The  so- 
called  Spanish  treaty,  presented  to  the  senate 
by  President  Arthur  near  the  close  of  his  term, 
but  stolen  by  the  press  and  killed  by  ignorant 
clamor  before  that  body  had  an  opportunity 
to  consider  it,  cost  the  secretary  most  exhaus- 


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live  labor  both  in  its  general  provisions  and  its 
specific  details,  all  of  which  he  had  matured 
himself.  So  to(5  the  great  treaty  involving  the 
building  of  the  Nicaragua  canal,  likewise  sub- 
mitted to  the  senate  about  the  same  time, 
caused  Mr.  I-"relinghuysen  intense  study  and 
painful  an.xiety.  For  many  years  an  inter- 
oceanic  canal  had  been  desired  by  the  com- 
mercial world  and  had  long  been  the  subject 
of  jealous  treaty  tnanipidations  between  Eng- 
land and  the  United  States.  Mr.  I'relinghuy- 
sen  surprised  the  whole  world  by  submitting 
through  the  president  his  elaborate  treaty, 
which  only  needed  the  assent  of  the  senate  to 
assure  the  consummation  of  the  work,  by  re- 
quiring the  government  to  construct  the  canal 
along  a  new  and  better  route  through  ])ur- 
chased  land,  to  become  its  owner,  and  to  open 
it  to  international  commerce  u])on  equitable 
tolls.  It  was  defeated  at  the  time  by  a  Demo- 
cratic senate,  but  it  will  ever  remain  a  monu- 
ment to  Secretary  F'relinghuysen's  industry, 
skill  and  statesmanship,  alike  creditable  to 
himself  and  to  the  department  of  state. 

In  1864  Princeton  Academy  gave  Mr.  Fre- 
linghuysen  the  LL.  D.  degree ;  and  at  the  tiine 
of  his  death  he  was  president  of  the  .American 
I'.ible  Society.  Notwithstanding  his  absorbing 
public  occupations,  he  was  very  much  interest- 
ed in  educational  problems,  both  elementary 
and  higher,  and  for  thirty-five  years,  from 
1851,  served  as  a  trustee  of  Rutgers  College. 
.•\t  the  inauguration  of  (irover  Cleveland,  Mr. 
Frclinghuysen  surrendered  his  seat  in  the  cabi- 
net to  Mr.  I'.ayard,  and  returning  to  his  New- 
ark home,  lay  down  on  his  death  bed,  "too  ill 
to  receive  the  congratulations  and  welcome  of 
liis  fellow  citizens  who  had  thronged  there  to 
greet  his  return.'"  For  several  weeks  he  lay. 
conscious,  but  absolutely  exhausted  and  gradu- 
ally dying,  and  at  last  ])assing  away,  May  20, 
1885.  He  was  buried  from  the  North  Re- 
formed Church  in  Newark,  and  his  body  lies 
in  Mount  I'leasant  cemetery.  On  .August  8, 
1894,  the  city  of  Newark  imveiled  a  statue  to 
his  memory,  wrought  in  bronze  by  Karl  Cer- 
liardt,  and  mounted  on  a  base  designed  by 
Wallace  Ilrown. 

Frederick  Theodore  brelinghuysen  married, 
January  25,  1842,  Matilda  F..,  daughter  of 
deorge  (Iriswold,  of  New  ^'ork  City,  who 
bore  him  three  sons  and  three  daughters:  i. 
-Matilda  (iriswold.  married  Henrv  Winthro]) 
Cray,  of  New  York  City,  a  i)rominent  mer- 
chant and  financier,  and  at  different  times  the 
holder  of  various  city  offices,  who  died  Octo- 
ber  19,   1906.     2.  Charlotte  I.ouisc,  lives  mi- 


married  in  New  York  City.  3.  Frederick,  re- 
ferred to  below.  4.  George  Griswold,  referred 
to  below.  5.  Sarah  Ffelen,  married  (first)  in 
1883,  John  Davis,  secretary  of  the  Alabama 
claims  commission  at  Geneva,  United  States 
assistant  secretary  of  state,  1882  to  1885,  and 
judge  of  the  court  of  claims.  Children:  Ma- 
tilda E.  Davis,  wife  of  John  Cabot  Lodge,  Jr.. 
and  John  C.  Bancroft  Davis.  Mrs.  John  Davis 
married  (second)  .August,  1906,  Major  Charles 
W.  McCawley,  U.  S.  A.  6.  Theodore,  born 
in  Newark,  .April  17,  i860;  married  (first) 
August  25,  1885,  Alice  Dudley  Coats,  whodied 
March  4,  1889,  leaving  two  children:  I""red- 
erick  Theodore  and  James  Coats ;  he  married 
(second)  June  2,  1898,  Elizabeth  Mary 
(Thom{)son)  Cannon,  widow  of  Henry  Le 
(jrand  Cannon. 

(  \'I  )  I'rederick. third  child  of  Hon.  I'Vederick 
Theodore  Frelinghuysen,  was  born  in  New- 
ark, September  30,  1848,  and  is  now  living  at 
18  Park  Place  in  that  city.  He  was  educated 
at  the  Newark  Academy,  and  graduated  from 
Rutgers  College  with  high  honors  in  1868. 
Taking  up  the  study  of  law,  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  as  attorney  in  1871  and  as  counsellor 
in  1874.  Beginning  his  practice  in  Newark  he 
specialized  on  chancery  cases,  in  conducting 
which  he  proved  able  and  successful,  and  on 
the  failure  of  the  National  Mechanics'  P>ank 
of  Newark,  was  appointed  by  Chancellor  Run- 
yon  as  its  receiver.  In  1887  he  became  presi- 
dent of  the  Howard  Savings  Institution,  which 
jjosition  he  held  until  Jamiary,  1902,  when  he 
resigned  to  become  ]jresident  of  the  Mutual 
Peiiefit  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Newark, 
which  ])ost  he  now  holds.  He  has  been  the 
trustee  for  a  number  of  estates  and  has  for 
many  years  been  identified  with  large  financial 
interests  of  various  character.  For  about 
twenty  years  he  has  been  actively  associated 
with  the  National  (niard  of  New  Jersey,  and 
is  a  ca]>tain  in  the  [•".ssex  Troo]).  He  is  much 
interested  in  Sunday  school  and  church  work, 
in  both  of  which  he  is  an  earnest  and  influ- 
ential worker.  He  is  a  member  of  the  I'lsse.x 
Club  and  of  the  Essex  County  Country  Club. 
July  23,  1902,  he  married  Estelle  P..,  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  Thomas  T.  Kinney,  of  Newark, 
and  had  four  children  :  Frederick,  born  Au- 
gust 12,  1903;  Thomas  Kinney,  born  I'ebru- 
ary  8,  1905  :  Theodore,  born  I'"ebruary  7,  1907; 
George  (Iriswold,  born  December  20,  1908. 

(VT)  (jeorge  (iriswold,  fourth  child  of  the 
Hon.  Frederick  Theodore  Frelinghuysen,  was 
born  in  Newark,  May  9,  185 1,  and  now  lives 
at  Morristown.  New  lersev.     He  was  educated 


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in  the  public  schools,  prepared  for  college  in 
the  Newark  Academy,  graduating  in  1866, 
entered  Rutgers  College,  in  the  class  of  1870, 
and  received  his  degree  from  the  Columbian 
University  Law  School  in  1872.  For  some 
time  he  read  law  in  the  office  of  Keller  & 
Blake,  and  from  1873  to  1876  was  one  of  the 
United  States  patent  office  examiners  at  Wash- 
ington. In  1873  he  was  admitted  to  the  New 
Jersey  bar,  and  in  1876  to  that  of  New  York, 
at  which  latter  date  he  began  practicing  inde- 
pentlently  in  New  York  City,  specializing  on 
patent  cases.  F"rom  1898  to  1905  he  was  vice- 
president  of  P.  Ballantine  &  Sons,  since  when 
lie  has  been  president  of  the  company.  He 
is  also  a  director  in  the  Rail  Joint  Company, 
the  Alliance  Investment  Company,  and  the 
Saranac  Realty  Company.  Like  all  the  other 
members  of  his  family  he  is  a  Republican,  but 
has  never  held  office,  nor  seen  military  service. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Esse.x  Club,  Morris 
County  Golf  Club,  the  Metropolitan  Club  of 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  the  Union  Club  of 
New  York.  .\t  the  present  time  he  is  also  a 
director  in  the  Howard  Savings  Institution  and 
the  Alorristown  Trust  Company.  April  26, 
1881,  iMr.  Frelinghuysen  married  Sara  L., 
daughter  of  Peter  H.  Ballantine  and  Isabelle 
Linen,  of  Newark.  They  have  two  children : 
Peter  H.  Ballantine,  born  September  15,  1882, 
and  Matilda  E.,  November  25,  1887. 


From  the  time  when  the  "Rotuli 
CR.\NE  hundredorum,"  in  1272,  records 
among  the  tenants  of  Sir  William 
le  Moyne  of  Saltney-Moyne,  in  Huntingdon- 
shire, the  names  of  Andreas,  John,  C)liver  and 
William  de  Crane,  to  the  present  day,  the 
members  of  that  family  have  been  increasing 
the  reputation  and  prestige  of  their  name,  until 
now  both  in  the  old  as  well  as  in  the  new 
world  it  has  become  synonymous  with  worth 
and  character. 

About  the  middle  of  the  thirteenth  century 
Sir  Thomas  Crane,  of  Norfolk,  married  .\da, 
sister  to  Giles  and  [jrobably  daughter  of  Fulco 
de  Kerdiston  of  Cardiston,  whose  manor  was 
situated  in  the  hundred  of  Eynesford,  about 
two  miles  northwest  by  north  from  Rujiham, 
county  Norfolk.  Sir  Thomas  Crane,  their 
son,  married  Petronella  Bettesley,  and  had 
three  sons,  one  of  whom,  Richard,  was  the 
father  of  John  Crane,  of  Wood-Norton,  who 
married  .Alice,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir 
Edmund  Berry.  Of  this  marriage  there  were 
three  children :  .Vdam.  Symond  and  .Mice, 
and    from   this   time   on   the    family   becomes 


more  and  more  prominent  in  the  county,  reach- 
ing the  zenith  of  its  prosperity  between  1560 
and  1640,  its  greatest  representatives  perhaps 
being  .Anthony  Crane,  master  of  the  household 
of  Oueen  Elizabeth ;  John  Crane,  clerk  of  the 
kitchen  to  James  I ;  Sir  Robert  Crane,  of  Chil- 
ton ;  Robert  Crane,  Esquire,  of  Coggeshall, 
and  Sir  Francis  and  his  brother  Sir  Richard 
Crane,  of  Woodrising,  the  last  two  being  pos- 
sibly the  most  prominent  of  them  all. 

Sir  Francis  Crane  was  secretary  to  Charles, 
Prince  of  Wales,  and  was  knighted  at  Coven- 
try, September  4,  1617,  by  the  prince's  father. 
James  I,  being  also  made  chancellor  of  the 
Order  of  the  Garter,  a  rare  mark  of  special 
distinction,  the  Garter  being  the  highest  order 
of  chivalry  in  Great  Britain.  In  1619  Sir 
Francis  introduced  into  England  the  manu- 
facture of  a  curious  tapestry,  and  with  the 
assistance  of  King  James,  who  contributed 
£2000  to  the  enterprise,  built  a  mill  at  Mort- 
lake,  then  a  village  on  the  river  Thames,  in  the 
county  of  Surrey  about  nine  miles  west  of 
London.  Engaging  the  most  skillful  tapestry 
workers  from  Paris  and  Flanders,  on  March 
20,  162 1,  he  secured  from  the  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury  a  license  for  them  to  worship 
either  in  the  parish  church,  or  in  his  own 
house,  or  some  other  suitable  place,  and 
arranged  that  a  minister  should  be  sent  out  to 
them  from  the  Dutch  Reformed  church  at 
-Austin  Friars,  London.  July  8,  1623,  King 
James  I  requested  the  King  of  Denmark  to 
send  to  England,  Francis  Cleyne,  a  painter 
and  native  of  Rostok,  a  town  in  the  duchy  of 
Mechlinburg.  whom  he  wished  to  have  as 
designer  in  the  Mortlake  works.  The  year 
after  his  father's  death,  Charles  I  paid  Sir 
Francis  £6000  for  "three  suits  of  gold  tapes- 
try." From  these  works  came  also  the  five 
cartoons  of  Rafaelle,  now  hanging  in  Hamp- 
ton Court,  and  the  design  of  the  five  senses 
for  the  palace  of  Oatlands.  The  hangings  of 
lloughton,  the  seat  of  Lord  Orford.  contain- 
ing full  length  portraits  of  King  James.  King 
Charles,  their  Queens  and  the  King  of  Den- 
mark, with  heads  of  the  royal  children  in  the 
borders  were  also  manufactured  here.  For 
copies  of  the  four  seasons,  John  W'illiams, 
.Archbishop  of  York,  paid  Sir  Francis  £2500; 
and  at  Knowl,  the  Duke  of  Dorset's  place  in 
Kent,  there  was  in  1814  a  piece  of  silken 
tapestrv  portraying  Vandyck  and  Sir  Francis 
himself.  In  1634  Sir  Francis  was  chosen  one 
of  a  commission  to  purchase  a  tract  of  land  to 
be  used  by  Charles  I  as  a  game  park.  For 
seventeen    years    he    was   given    by    the    king 


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exclusive  privilege  of  making  copper  farthings, 
at  the  yearly  rental  of  one  hundred  marks 
payable  into  the  exchequer;  and  his  contribu- 
tion to  the  building  fund  of  St.  Paul's  Church, 
London,  was  £500.  He  married  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  David  and  sister  to  Sir  Peter  de  la 
Maire,  and  having  no  children,  in  his  will, 
dated  August  27,  1635,  he  gives  to  "wife 
Dame  Mary,"  lands  in  Northampton  and 
other  places,  and  a  trust  fund  to  his  "brother- 
in-law  Sir  Peter  de  la  Maire"  to  found  five 
dwellings  for  five  poor  knights  at  Windsor, 
and  names  his  brother  Richard  sole  e.xecutor 
and  heir.    He  died  Jime  26,  1636. 

Sir  Richard  Crane,  brother  of  Sir  Francis, 
who  came  into  possession  of  the  tapestry 
works  at  Mortlake,  assigned  them  to  the 
crown,  and  retired  to  the  manor  of  Woodris- 
ing,  also  bequeathed  to  him  by  his  brother. 
He  was  created  a  baronet  by  King  Charles  I, 
March  20,  1642,  and  on  the  following  Sep- 
tember 26  was  knighted  at  Chester.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Mary,  daughter  of  W'illiam,  Lord 
Widdrington,  and  after  her  death  married  a 
second  time,  but  left  no  children  by  either 
marriage.  By  his  will,  September  20,  1645, 
the  manor  passed  to  his  adopted  heiress  and 
niece,  Frances,  youngest  daughter  of  his  sister, 
Joan  Crane,  who  had  married  William  Bond, 
of  Earth,  county  Cornwall.  This  niece, 
Frances,  married  William  Crane,  of  Lough- 
ton,  son  of  John  Crane,  clerk  of  the  kitchen  to 
Kings  James  and  Charles. 

William,  son  of  Symond,  and  grandson  of 
John  Crane,  of  Wood-Norton,  married  Mar- 
gery, daughter  of  Sir  Andrew  Butler,  and 
removed  to  SuiTolk  county,  where  several 
members  of  the  family  had  already  established 
themselves.  William  Crane's  first  wife  had 
been  Anne,  daughter  of  William  Forrecy,  and 
by  his  second  wife  he  had  two  children,  John 
and  Robert,  of  Stoneham  and  Chilton.  Like 
his  father,  Robert  Crane  married  twice,  (first) 
Agnes,  daughter  of  Thomas  Greene,  of  Greet- 
ing, and  (second)  the  daughter  of  Thomas 
Singleton,  who  bore  him  a  daughter  Agnes, 
who  married  an  Appleton  and  had  two  sons, 
John  and  Robert,  the  latter  of  whom  married 
(first)  Katharine,  daughter  of  Robert  Darcy, 
and  (.second)  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  .\ndrew 
Ogard,  of  Buckingham,  county  Norfolk,  who 
bore  him  three  children:  George,  died  1491, 
without  issue;  Elizabeth,  became  Abbess  of 
Brusyerd;  Marjery,  married  Thomas  Apple- 
ton,  of  Little  Waldingfield,  Suffolk,  and 
became  the  ancestress  of  the  .\ppletons  of 
Ipswich,  Massachusetts.     After  the  death  of 


his  only  son,  George,  Robert  Crane,  of  Chil- 
ton, made  his  nephew,  Robert,  son  of  his 
brother  John  of  Stoneham,  by  Agnes,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Calthorpe,  of  Norfolk,  his  heir. 
This  Robert  Crane  married  (first)  Elizabeth, 
(laughter  of  Richard  Southwell,  of  Woodris- 
ing,  who  died,  leaving  three  children :  Robert. 
.\nthony  and  Dorothy.  Anthony  married 
(first)  Elizabeth  Aylmer,  and  (second)  Eliza- 
beth Hussey.  He  was  cofferer  to  Queen  Eliz- 
abeth, and  dying  in  London  was  buried  in  St. 
Martin's-in-the-Fields.  His  will  was  dated 
August  16,  and  proved  September  9,  1583;  he 
left  three  daughters,  Elizabeth,  by  his  first 
marriage,  married  Anthony  Death,  of  Lin- 
colnshire: Dorothy,  married  (first)  Thomas 
Mantinge,  of  Dereham,  and  (second)  Thomas 
Baxster ;  Mary,  married  Gerald  Gore,  son  of 
the  alderman  of  London.  By  his  second  wife, 
Jane  White,  of  Essex  county,  Robert  Crane, 
of  Chilton,  had  five  more  children :  John ; 
Anne,  married  Edward  Markaunt ;  Anne, 
married  John  Sanden  and  Ambrose  Coole ; 
Gryssel,  married  Robert  Bogas ;  Agnes,  died 
unmarried.  This  Robert  Crane  died  before 
.Vugust  5,  1551,  and  his  eldest  son  and  heir, 
Robert,  married  Bridget,  sister  to  Sir  Ambrose 
and  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Jermyn. 

From  the  will  of  the  last-mentioned  Robert 
Crane,  executed  October  7.  1590,  we  learn  that 
he  was  born  about  1508,  that  the  death  of  his 
wife  Bridget  had  but  lately  occurred  as  well  as 
that  of  his  only  son  and  heir  apparent,  Henry, 
who  however  left  a  son  Robert,  then  about 
three  years  old,  to  whom  his  grandfather  left 
the  bulk  of  his  estate  which  consisted  of  some 
fourteen  manors  and  farms  situated  within  the 
confines  of  twenty-one  or  more  different  par- 
ishes in  the  central  and  southern  portions  of 
county  SuiTolk.  In  order  that  the  j)roperty 
might  be  kept  intact,  and  at  the  same  time  that 
his  other  children  might  have  the  benefits 
therefrom  until  his  grandson  came  of  age, 
Robert  Crane  devised  an  elaborate  scheme  of 
trusts  whereby  his  six  daughters  each  had 
some  one  or  more  of  the  different  manors  in 
trust  during  the  heir's  minority,  they  enjoying 
the  income  of  the  estates  for  that  period  and 
turning  the  property  over  intact  to  him  when 
he  reached  the  age  of  twenty-one.  Sir  Robert 
Jermyn,  of  Rushbrook,  was  also  one  of  these 
trustees  and  the  residuary  legatee,  and  "espec- 
ially appointed  guardian"  of  the  young  heir 
that  the  proceeds  of  his  trusteeship  might  be 
used  "for  the  purpose  of  givingthc  said  Robert 
a  virtuous  education  and  a  (iodly  bringing 
up." 


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IJefore  he  was  out  of  his  teens,  young 
Robert  Crane  became  the  favorite  of  King 
James  I,  who  knighted  him  at  Newmarket, 
February  ij,  1604.  January  19,  1606,  he 
married  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Sir  Henry 
Hobart,  lord  chief  justice  of  the  common 
pleas,  and  soon  afterwards  entered  into  pos- 
session of  the  estates  left  to  him  by  his  grand- 
father, taking  up  his  residence  in  the  old 
family  mansion,  "Chilton  Hall."  Among  his 
intimate  friends  were  the  Appletons  of  Little 
Waldingrteld  and  the  \\'inthrops  of  Groton ; 
and  James  1,  by  letters  patent,  November  22, 
1615,  granted  his  "free  warren,"  in  his  exten- 
sive estates,  which  was  the  exclusive  privilege 
to  keep  and  hunt  certain  beasts  and  fowls 
within  those  bounds.  In  1620  Sir  Robert 
Crane  came  before  the  freeholders  and  inhabi- 
tants of  county  Suffolk  as  one  of  the  two  can- 
didates for  "Knights  of  the  Shire."  He  was 
successful;  and  joining  the  parliament,  Janu- 
ary 30,  i62i,at  once  made  himself  conspicuous 
by  his  zeal  for  his  country  and  constituents. 
The  next  election  gave  him  a  seat  in  parlia- 
ment as  a  representative  from  Sudbury.  April 
II,  1624,  his  wife  Dorothy  died,  and  Septem- 
ber 21  following  he  married  (second)  Susan, 
daughter  of  Sir  Giles  .\llington,  of  Cam- 
bridgeshire. May  II,  1627,  Charles  I  created 
him  a  baronet ;  and  in  1632  he  was  high  sheriff' 
of  the  county  of  Suffolk.  In  1640  the  election 
was  so  close  that  Sir  Robert's  seat  was  claimed 
by  his  opponent,  Mr.  Brampton  Giirdon,  son 
of  John  Gurdon,  of  Assington,  a  connection 
by  marriage  of  the  Saltonstalls  and  the  friend 
or  relative  of  "Mr.  Rogers  in  New  England." 
December  8,  1640,  the  parliamentary  commit- 
tee to  W'hom  the  contested  election  had  been 
referred  reported  "that  Sir  Robert  Crane  is 
duly  elected ;"  and  consequently  he  took  his 
scat  in  the  famous  long  parliament,  where  he 
joined  the  opponents  of  King  Charles.  May 
3,  1641,  he  affixed  his  name  to  the  "Protesta- 
tion," which  declared  for  the  protestant  reli- 
gion and  the  privileges  of  parliament ;  and  he 
was  appointed  one  of  the  commissioners  for 
the  county  of  Suffolk  whose  duty  it  was  to  see 
to  the  enforcement  of  the  act  against  scan- 
dalous clergymen  and  others.  In  August,  1642, 
a  mob  surrounded  Long  Melford,  the  home  of 
Lady  Rivers,  a  recusant,  and  a  retainer  of  the 
Earl  of  Warwick,  Mr.  Arthur  Wilson,  was 
sent  with  a  few  men  and  a  coach  and  six  to 
fetch  Lady  Rivers  to  Lees  Priory.  Reaching 
Sudbury  Mr.  Wilson  was  stopped;  and 
though  set  free  as  soon  as  recognized,  was 
unable  to  go  on  to  the  succor  of  Lady  Rivers 


owing  to  the  great  confusion  at  Melford.  By 
traversing  a  byway  they  reached  Sir  Robert 
Crane's,  which  was  betw-een  Sudbury  and  Mel- 
ford, and  there  learned  that  Lady  Rivers  had 
escaped  to  Bury  on  her  way  to  London,  and 
that  Sir  Robert,  despite  his  well-known  repu- 
tation as  a  parliament  man  had  been  obliged 
to  retain  a  train-band  in  his  house  to  protect 
himself  and  his  property.  In  1641  and  1642 
Sir  Robert  furnished  besides  a  considerable 
sum  of  money  "two  grey  geldings  for  Chris- 
topher Reps  Troope"  valued  at  £30.  He  died 
at  London.  February,  1643,  and  on  the  17th  of 
that  month  the  house  of  commons  ordered 
"that  the  Lady  Crane  shall  have  Mr.  Speaker's 
warrant  to  carry  down  into  the  country  the 
body  of  Sir  Robert  Crane,  lately  a  member  of 
this  House."  He  was  buried  at  Chilton,  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1643.  By  his  second  wife  Sir  Robert 
Crane  had  ten  children,  two  of  them  sons  who 
died  very  young,  and  eight  daughters,  three  of 
whom  pre-deceased  their  father,  and  one  died 
very  soon  after  him.  The  remaining  four, 
Mary,  Susan,  Anne  and  Elizabeth,  became  his 
coheiresses,  i.  Mary,  born  March  19,  1629; 
married,  1648,  Sir  Ralph  Hane,  of  Stow-Bar- 
dolph,  Norfolk,  Baronet,  became  the  mother 
of  seven  children  and  one  of  the  ancestresses 
of  the  famous  Hare  and  Hare-Powel  families 
of  Philadelphia.  2.  Susan,  born  May  26, 
iri3o;  married,  1649.  ^'r  Edward  Walpole,  of 
Houghton,  Norfolk,  Knight  of  the  Bath,  and 
was  ancestress  of  the  present  Earl  of  Orford 
and  of  all  the  famous  members  of  the  Walpole 
family ;  she  died  July  7,  1667,  and  was  buried 
at  Houghton.  3.  Anne,  born  October  17,  1631  ; 
married,  August  28,  1649,  William  Airmyne, 
Esquire,  afterwards  Sir  William  Airmyne, 
of  Osgodby,  Lincolnshire,  and  left  only 
daughters ;  after  his  death  she  married 
John,  Baron  Belayse  of  Worlaby,  county 
Lincoln,  by  whom  she  had  no  children; 
and  dying  August  11,  1662,  was  buried  at 
St.  Giles-in-the-East,  London.  Baron  Belayse 
was  the  noted  military  commander  under 
the  two  Charleses.  He  raised  six  regiments 
of  horse  and  foot  for  the  civil  wars  of  that 
lieriod,  took  part  in  the  battles  of  Edgehill, 
Newbury  and  Naseby,  and  the  sieges  of  Red- 
ding and  Bristol ;  afterwards  was  Governor  of 
York  and  commander-in-chief  of  the  forces  in 
Yorkshire.  With  Lord  Fairfax  he  fought  the 
battle  of  Selby,  and  at  the  same  time  was  lieu- 
tenant-general of  the  counties  of  Lincoln, 
Northampton,  Derby  and  Rutland,  and  besides 
being  governor  of  Newark,  was  general  of  the 
King's   Horse   Guards.     Three  times  he  was 


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imprisoned  in  the  Tower  of  London  ;  but  at 
the  restoration  was  made  lord  lieutenant  of 
East  Riding,  county  York,  governor  of  Hull 
and  general  of  his  Majesty's  forces  in  Africa, 
governtjr  of  Tangiers  and  captain  of  the 
( luard  of  Gentlemen  Pensioners.  4.  Elizabeth, 
born  August  18,  1634 ;  married  Edmund, 
afterwards  Sir  Edmund  Bacon,  of  Redgrave, 
.Suffolk,  Premier  Baronet  of  England,  and 
died  December  6,  1690,  leaving  only  daughters. 

Susan,  Lady  Crane,  widow  of  Sir  Robert, 
became  the  wife  of  Isaac  Appleton,  Esquire, 
of  Little  W'aldingfield,  a  descendant  in  the 
fifth  generation  of  the  Thomas  Appleton  who 
about  1490  married  Margery,  daughter  of 
Robert  Crane,  of  Chilton.  Isaac  Appleton  died 
about  1 661  ;  and  his  widow  was  buried  at 
Chilton,  September  14,  1681. 

Sir  Robert  Crane  dying  without  surviving 
male  issue,  the  family  prerogative  passed  into 
the  hands  of  his  cousins,  the  descendants  of 
his  great-uncle,  John,  of  Norfolk,  but  to  which 
one  it  is  impossible  with  the  data  at  hand  to 
say  positively.  Among  these  cousins  were 
Joseph  Crane,  of  Earl  Stoneham,  Suffolk,  who 
bore  the  same  coat  armor  as  Sir  Robert,  and 
Robert  Crane,  Esquire,  of  Suffolk,  whom 
Charles  II.,  in  1660,  made  a  Knight  of  the 
Royal  Oak.  Another,  a  contemporary  of  Sir 
Robert  of  Chilton,  was  Robert  Crane,  of  Cog- 
geshall,  a  parish  on  the  Blackwater  and  near 
P.raintrce,  county  Essex,  a  man  of  consider- 
able ])r()mincnce  in  his  day,  who  had  a  very 
large  estate  and  was  a  generous  supporter  of 
the  parliamentary  cause.  He  was  also  active 
as  a  member  of  the  original  company  to  settle 
Massachusetts  and  owned  lands  in  Dorchester, 
Ro.xbury  and  Ipswich.  The  Rev.  Nathaniel 
Ri)gers,  son  of  the  famous  preacher  of  Ded- 
ham,  comity  Essex,  England,  and  father  of 
John  Rogers,  fifth  president  of  Harvard  Col- 
lege, married,  in  1626,  Margaret,  daughter  of 
this  Robert  Crane,  and  before  emigrating  to 
Massachusetts  in  1636  resided  in  Coggeshall 
where  three  of  his  children  were  born :  John, 
Jmie  17,  1627;  buried  June  21,  1627;  Mary, 
b'ebruary  8,  1628;  John,  January  23,  1630. 
In  1643  Robert  Crane,  of  Coggeshall,  was 
api)ointed  a  member  of  the  committee  for  the 
execution  of  several  ordinances  of  parliament, 
and  again  February  15,  1644,  on  the  committee 
for  raising  and  maintaining  forces  for  the  de- 
fence of  the  kingdom  under  the  command  of 
Sir  Thomas  Fairfax  in  county  Essex.  Five 
days  later  he  was  placed  on  another  committee 
for  raising  and  levying  a  monthly  sum  of  £21,- 
000  among  the  several  counties  for  the  main- 


tenance of  the  Scottish  army,  commanded  by 
the  Earl  of  Leven ;  and  again  in  .\ugust  fol- 
lowing to  raise  the  weekly  sum  of  £1,125  from 
his  own  county  of  Essex  to  maintain  the  army 
of  parliament.  After  the  death  of  Mary  his 
first  wife,  Robert  Crane  married  (second) 
Mary,  daughter  of  Samuel  Sparhawke,  of 
Dedham,  Essex.  His  will  was  proved  in  1658, 
and  he  left  six  children :  Samuel,  Thomas, 
Robert,  Margaret,  "wife  of  the  Reverend  Na- 
thaniel Rogers,  now  in  New  England;"  Mary, 
wife  of  Henry  Whiting,  of  Ipswich,  and  Eliz- 
abeth, wife  of  William  Chaplyn.  He  had  also 
a  brother,  Thomas,  who  predeceased  him,  and 
left  another,  John  Crane,  of  Horrani,  county 
Suft'olk,  as  well  as  a  cousin,  Robert,  "son  of 
my  cousin  Robert  Crane  of  Braintree." 

In  view  of  the  fact  that  Robert  Crane,  of 
Coggeshall,  was  personally  connected  with  the 
settleinent  of  Massachusetts ;  that  he  owned 
lands  in  various  towns  within  that  common- 
wealth ;  that  his  daughter,  Margaret,  wife  of 
the  Rev.  Nathaniel  Rogers,  came  with  her  hus- 
band and  settled  in  New  England ;  that  the 
Cranes,  Jasper  excepted,  who  emigrated  to  the 
new  world  bore  christian  names  correspond- 
ing to  those  borne  by  members  of  the  family 
of  Robert  Crane,  of  Coggeshall, — there  is 
much  probability  to  the  hypothesis,  now  gen- 
erally adopted,  that  the  American  Cranes  are 
closely  related  to  this  branch  of  the  family. 
Jasjier,  however,  may  possibly  have  come  from 
Hampshire,  and  be  a  descendant  of  Hugo  de 
Crane,  fifth  sheriff'  of  that  county,  1377  to 
1399,  in  the  reign  of  Richard  II ;  as  he  was  a 
nephew  of  the  Margaret  Crane,  of  Hampshire, 
who  married  Samuel  Huntington,  and  whose 
daughters  married,  Margaret,  May  2,  1592, 
John  (Jgden,  of  ISradley  Plain,  Hampshire, 
and  lilizabeth,  on  the  same  day,  Richard  Og- 
den.  of  Wiltshire,  and  thus  became  the  niotiier 
of  John,  the  founder  of  the  Elizabethtown 
Ogdens,  and  of  Richard,  the  founder  of  the 
Fairfield,  Connecticut,  and  South  Jersey  Og- 
dens. 

The  earliest  record  of  the  Cranes  in  the  new 
w-orld  is  January  8,  1637,  when  John  Crane  is 
registered  in  Boston.  Two  years  later  Jasper 
Crane  attended  a  general  meeting  of  all  the 
free  planters  of  New  Haven,  held  in  Mr.  New- 
man's barn,  June  4,  1639.  Samuel  Crane,  in 
1640,  was  elected  to  the  town  committee  of 
Dorchester ;  and  Henry  Crane,  probably  a  sc'n_ 
of  Samuel,  is  recorded  there  in  1654.  Ben- 
jamin Crane  was  in  \\'ethcrsfield,  Connecti 
cut,  as  early  as  1655  with  his  brother,  Henry, 
who  went  to  Guilford  in  1660.    Stephen  Crane 


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was  in  New  Jersey  in  1665 ;  and  John  ^"rane 
again,  appeared  at  Coventry  or  Bolton,  Con 
necticut,  about  1712. 

John  Crane,  of  Boston,  and  Samuel  Crane, 
of  Dorchester,  appear  to  have  either  died  or 
returned  to  England,  the  latter  leaving  Ir's 
son,  Henry,  born  probably  in  England  about 
162 1  ;  married  Tabitha,  daughter  of  Steplien 
Kinsley ;  settled  in  Braintree,  Massachusetts, 
and  left  a  large  line  of  descendants.  There  is 
also  quite  a  little  evidence  to  believe  that  ]  .en- 
jamin  and  Henry  Crane,  of  W'ethersfiek)  we:  e 
sons  of  John,  of  Boston,  and  that  John  Lrane. 
of  Coventry,  Connecticut,  was  a  grandson  of 
Benjamin,  of  Wetherstield,  and  possibly  a  son 
of  John  Crane,  who  married  Abigail  Butler, 
October  27,  1692. 

Jasper  Crane  removed  from  New  Haven  to 
r.ranford  in  1652.  He  was  a  very  prominent 
member  of  the  colony  but  became  dissatisfied 
when  the  colony  united  •  with  Connecticut  as 
he  wished  it  to  remain  independent.  Conse- 
quently he  threw  in  his  lot  with  the  Liranford 
contingent  of  the  original  settlers  of  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  and  became  one  of  that  townV 
most  prominent  citizens  and  the  founder  of 
the  most  numerous  of  the  New  Jersey  lines  of 
descent. 

According  to  the  famil}  traditions  of  his  de- 
scendants, Stephen  Crane,  of  Elizabeth,  New 
Jersey,  came  from  England  or  Wales  between 
1640  and  i6f)0,  and  there  is  no  claim  to  a  con- 
nection with  the  other  families.  Mr.  Ellery 
Bicknell  Crane,  however,  says  that  "there 
seem  several  reasons  for  placing  the  honor  (of 
being  Stephen's  father)  upon  Jasper.  The 
latter  had  children  born  before  arriving  at 
New  Haven  and  as  they  went  to  New  Jersey 
about  the  same  time,  and  Stephen  occupied 
lands  adjoining  lots  owned  and  occupied  by 
children  of  Jasjier,  witli  suitable  age,  and  fam- 
ily names  that  were  more  or  less  adopted  in 
common,  and  to  say  the  least,  strong  indica- 
tions that  there  existed  close  family  ties  be- 
tween them."  It  should  be  noted,  however, 
that  there  is  a  Cornwall  family  of  Cranes,  dat- 
ing from  the  latter  part  of  the  fifteenth  cen- 
tury in  which  all  of  these  same  names  occur; 
and  so  far  as  the  present  writer  knows  it  is 
the  only  one  which  does  include  the  name  of 
Ste]3lien. 

(I)  Stephen  Crane,  "of  Elizabethtown." 
was  born  about  1630  or  1635.  Some  have 
claimed  that  he  w-as  born  as  early  as  1619 : 
and  there  is  a  tradition,  coming  from  his 
great-great-grandson,  the  Rev.  Elias  W. 
Crane,    that    "about    1625.     *     *     *     during 


the  ]5ersecution  of  the  Puritans  in  England 
under  Queen  Elizabeth,  the  ancestor  of  the 
Crane  family  came  to  America.  His  name 
was  Stephen.  The  ship  in  which  he  came  is 
supposed  to  have  sailed  from  the  west  of 
England,  favored  at  embarkation  by  a  fog 
*  *  *  to  have  sunk  at  Amboy,  New  Jersey, 
but  all  on  board  were  saved.  Stephen  Crane 
settletl  at  I'llizabeth  Town,  named  for  Oueen 
Elizabeth,  who  confirmed  the  purchase  of 
lands  from  the  Indians."  It  is  a  pity  that 
such  a  tradition  must  be  stamped  as  almost 
wholly  if  not  altogether  fiction,  but  history  is 
against  it.  Queen  Elizabeth  died  in  1603  and 
was  succeeded  by  James  I,  who  in  turn  was 
succeeded  in  1625  by  Charles  J.;  and  it  is  a 
matter  of  record  that  the  name  "Elizabeth- 
town  was  bestowed  by  Sir  Philip  Carteret,  the 
first  Covernor  of  East  Jersey,  in  honor  of  the 
Lady  Elizabeth  Carteret,  the  wife  of  his 
brother  Sir  George  Carteret,  the  proprietor." 
^Moreover,  if  Stephen  Crane  came  to  America 
as  indicated  in  1625,  he  must  have  been  at 
least  one  hundred  and  five  years  old  when  he 
died,  a  thing  in  itself  very  improbable,  and  his 
children,  assuming  the  dates  of  their  births 
to  be  ajjproximately  correct,  all  born  after 
their  fatber  was  sixty-five  or  seventy  years 
old.  Stephen  Crane's  name  is  recorded  as 
one  of  the  original  Elizabethtown  associates  of 
1665,  and  he  with  them  took  the  oath  of  alle- 
giance to  Charles  II,  P^ebruary  19,  of  that 
year.  This  is  the  first  record  we  have  of  him. 
His  house  lot  of  six  acres  was  bounded  south- 
east by  Samuel  Trotter,  northwest  by  Crane's 
brook,  east  by  the  mill  creek,  and  west  by  the 
highway.  He  also  had  sixty  acres  between 
two  swamps  and  adjoining  William  Cramer's : 
also  seventy-two  acres  on  Crane's  brook, 
bounded  by  the  brook,  William  Cramer,  Rich- 
ard P>each,'  Nathaniel  Tuttle  and  William  Par- 
don ;  and  also  eighteen  acres  of  meadow  "to- 
wards Rawack  Point" ;  in  all  about  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty-six  acres.  In  1675  he  obtained 
from  the  proprietors  of  East  Jersey  a  patent  to 
confirm  his  title  to  these  lands :  and  in  1710  he 
executed  a  deed  to  his  son  Nathaniel  giving 
him  his  house  lot  in  Elizabethtown  and  other 
parcels  of  land  in  which  he  describes  them  as 
bounded  by  the  lands  of  John.  Daniel.  Tere- 
miah  and  Azariah  Crane.  By  his  will,  dated 
1709.  he  be(|ueathed  to  his  son  John,  another 
piece  of  land  within  the  town  limits.  He  was 
one  of  the  most  active  opponents  of  the  un- 
warrantable acts  of  Governor  Carteret,  and 
with  Robert  Morse  was  the  one  who  demol- 
ished   Richard    Alichel's   house    "and   plucked 


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up  tlie  ])allisadcs  of  his  garden."  .According 
to  the  fundaniciital  agreement  of  iW>5,  made 
in  town  meeting  and  consented  to  by  the  gov- 
ernor on  his  arrival,  none  but  the  people  in 
town  meeting  assembled  could  determine  who 
should  be  admitted  as  associates  and  free- 
holders. Carteret,  who  had  brought  over  with 
him  as  servcnts  a  number  of  I'Venchmen  and 
other  foreigners,  in  direct  violation  of  this 
consent,  February  lo,  if>6g.  made  Claude  \'al- 
lot  a  freeman  by  proclamation  and  gave  him 
a  grant  of  land.  October  31,  1670,  he  re- 
voked the  commissions  of  the  officers  of  the 
train  band  and  forbad  the  drill.  May  16. 
1671,  in  violation  of  the  provisions  of  the 
Concessions,  he  constituted  a  special  court  and 
a  few  weeks  later  repeated  his  first  offence  by 
making  Richard  Michel,  another  Frenchman,  a 
freeman  and  giving  him  a  grant  of  land. 
Michel  fenced  in  the  land,  built  himself  a  house 
>'  on  one  part  and  sublet  the  remainder  to  Will- 
iam Eetts.  the  weaver.  If  such  acts  of  ag- 
gression on  the  part  of  the  governor  were  tol- 
erated they  might  be  followed  by  others  and 
the  town  soon  became  overrun  with  foreign- 
ers, claiming  equal  shares  in  the  ])lantation  : 
and  if  the  acts  were  not  resisted,  the  town's 
privilege  of  self-government  was  gone.  Con- 
se(|uently  the  town  meeting  assembled,  warned 
Michel's  tenants  not  to  use  the  lands  they 
rented  and  ajjpointed  a  committee  to  tear  down 
the  fence.  Robert  Morse  and  Stephen  Crane, 
who  were  ne.xt  door  neighbors,  living  on  the 
west  side  of  the  creek,  took  upon  themselves 
to  demolish  the  house  and  garden  plot,  and 
although  it  must  have  been  warm  work  for  a 
midsummer  day,  June  20,  1671,  their  deed 
proved  to  be  the  climax  of  the  fight  against 
the  governor,  who  was  forced  to  let  the  matter 
drop,  and  in  the  following  October  a|)point  as 
constable  of  the  town  William  Meeker,  one  of 
his  bitterest  op]ionents.  December  11,  1673, 
Stephen  Crane  with  the  other  Elizabethtown 
men  swore  allegiance  to  the  Dutch  who  had 
reconquered  the  province,  which  they  were  to 
hold  for  a  short  time  longer;  and  in  1694  he 
subscribed  fifteen  shillings  to  the  sui:)])ort  of 
the  minister  of  the  town,  the  Rev.  John  Ilar- 
riman. 

About  1663  Stephen  Crane  married.  It  is 
said  that  his  wife  was  "a  Danish  woman  with 
red  hair,  and  that  nearly  all  the  Cranes  in  and 
about  Elizabethtown  and  Westfield"  are  de- 
scendants from  them.  There  are  four  sons  of 
record  to  Stephen  Crane  and  his  wife:  i.  John, 
in  17 1 3  one  of  the  overseers  of  the  highways, 
and-  in    1720  a  town-committecman.     Decem- 


ber, 1 7 14,  he  purchased  one  hundred  acres  on 
the  east  side  of  the  Rahway  river,  on  which 
he  located  a  saw  and  grist  mill,  and  which  he 
bequeathed  to  his  sons  John  and  Joseph.  He 
also  owned  land  on  the  southwest  side  of  the 
river  where  the  town  of  Cranford  is  now  sit- 
uated. He  married  Esther,  daughter  of  Sam- 
uel and  Esther  (Wheeler)  Williams,  and  left 
ten  children:  John,  Matthias,  I'enjamin,  mar- 
ried Esther  \Voodruft',  Samuel,  .\bigail,  mar- 
ried Jacob  DeHart,  Joseph,  Esther,  Sarah,  Re- 
becca and  Deborah.  2.  Jeremiah,  whose  wife 
was  named  Susanna,  was  admitted  among  the 
second  generation  of  associates  in  1699  and  the 
same  year  signed  a  petition  to  the  king.  He 
(lied  in  1742,  leaving  a  widow  and  one  son 
James.  3.  Daniel,  referred  to  below.  4. 
Xathaniel,  whose  wife  Damaris  was  born  in 
1684,  died  October  9,  1745,  leaving  seven 
chilflren :  Xathaniel,  married  Mary,  daughter 
of  John  Price;  Caleb,  Jonathan,  Christopher, 
Moses,  married  Joanna  Miller;  Fhebe,  mar- 
ried the  father  of  John  Chandler  ;  Mary,  whose 
first  husband  was  a  Chandler,  and  who  by  her 
second  husband  became  the  mother  of  Cieneral 
I'-lias  Dayton. 

(11)  Daniel,  son  of  .Stephen  Crane,  of 
I-;iizabethtown.  was  born  about  1670  or  1675, 
died  F'ebruary  24,  1724.  In  1699  he  signed 
the  same  petition  to  the  king  that  his  brother 
Jeremiah  did,  and  he  married  Hannah  or  .Su- 
sannah, (laughter  of  William  Miller,  and  sister 
to  .Mderman  \\'illiam  Miller.  In  his  will  he 
mentions  five  sons:  I.  Daniel,  born  in  1703, 
died  [""ebruary  25,  1723.  2.  Jonathan,  born 
.\pril  19,  1705,  died  January,  1766,  in  West- 
field  ;  married  Mary ,  who  died  in  1766, 

aged  si.vty-two  years,  who  bore  him  four  chil- 
dren :  Hamiah,  born  July  24,  1728;  ATary,  No- 
vcmher  i,  1730:  Saraii,  Alay  24,  1733,  died 
March  i,  173S:  Rebecca,  July  12,  1740,  mar- 
ried Deacon  Joseph  .Achur,  and  was  the 
grandmother  of  John  D.  Norris,  of  Elizabeth- 
town.  3.  W'illiam,  left  no  further  record.  4. 
Stei)hen,  referred  to  below.  5.  David,  born 
about  1712,  left  his  brothers  Stephen  and 
William  at  Elizabethtown  and  removed  to 
Maryland,  settling  in  Chestertown,  Kent 
county,  where  he  established  himself  in  the 
business  of  tanning  and  currying  leather.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Rickets,  of  Chestertown, 
and  died  quite  young  leaving  two  children  r 
David,  born  September  19,  1743,  married 
Mary,  sister  to  Colonel  Philip  Reed,  the  com- 
mander at  the  battle  of  Caulk's  Field  where 
Sir  Peter  Parker  fell  in  1S14.  David  himself 
was  a  captain  in  the  revolution  and  did  good 


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service  at  Clow's  I'ort  on  the  Delaware  boun- 
dary. He  left  thirteen  children.  Sarah,  the 
other  child  of  David,  son  of  Daniel  Crane, 
died  without  issue. 

(Ill)  Stejjhen  (2),  son  of  Daniel  and  Han- 
I'ah  or  Susannah  (Miller)  Crane,  was  born  in 
1709,  died  June  23.  1780.  He  was  one  of  the 
leading  patriots  of  Xew  Jersey  during  the 
revolution,  and  under  the  colonial  government 
was  a  man  of  considerable  note  in  his  day. 
His  portrait  is  in  the  engraving,  "The  First 
prayer  in  Congress."  Irlis  homestead  was 
about  one  and  one-half  miles  from  Elizabeth, 
near  the  point  where  the  road  to  Galloping  Hill 
leaves  the  road  to  Mul fords.  The  spot  is  in 
sight  of  and  on  the  north  side  of  the  Central 
railroad  of  Xew  Jersey.  The  old  well  was  on 
the  opposite  side  of  the  road  from  the  house 
which  was  recently  still  standing  in  good  [ircs- 
ervation  and  under  a  large  oak  tree. 

The  controversy  between  the  townspeople 
and  the  proprietors,  which  had  been  going  on 
!  almost  ever  since  the  founding  of  the  town 
1  and  which  was  to  result  in  the  famous  Eliza- 
i  bethtown  bill  in  chancery,  had  in  the  time  of 
Stephen  Crane  become  quite  acute  and  had 
led  to  many  actions  for  trespass  and  ejectment 
and  the  county  lines  had  become  so  changed 
in  the  interests  and  for  the  benefit  of  the  pro- 
prietors that  it  was  determined  to  carry  the 
matter  directly  to  the  king.  November  16. 
1743,  Solomon  Boyle,  of  Morris  county,  wrote 
to  Tames  .Alexander,  both  of  them  belonging 
to  the  interests  of  the  proprietors,  that  he  "had 
been  to  Elizabethtown  the  week  before  and 
had  been  informed  that  the  people  of  that 
place  and  the  people  of  Newark  had  come  to 
a  written  agreement  relative  to  their  boundary 
— the  Newarkers  to  join  in  sending  home 
against  the  proprietors,  but  that  Colonel  (Rob- 
ert) Ogden  said  that  it  was  not  finished  and 
that  none  of  the  Ogdens  would  agree  to  it." 
December  12,  following,  David  Ogden  wrote 
to  James  Alexander,  his  fellow-councillor  of 
the  proprietors,  confirming  what  Boyle  had 
written  and  stating  further  that  "Mr.  Fitch 
from  Newark  had  met  the  Elizabeth  Town 
Committee  and  left  with  them  a  petition  to 
the  Kin?  for  relief  against  the  proprietors 
with  which  they  were  much  pleased ;  that 
M^atthias  Hetfield  and  Stephen  Crane  had  been 
chosen  by  them  to  go  to  England  during  the 
winter  and  lay  it  before  the  King."  The  ap- 
peal referred  to  in  the  above  quoted  extracts 
was  drawn  up  by  a  lawyer  of  Norwalk,  Con- 
necticut, who  was  afterwards  governor  of  that 
state.     It  recites  clearlv  and  fullv  the  matters 


m  controversy,  narrates  succinctly  the  history 
(jf  the  Indian  purchase  and  of  the  o])i)osing 
claims,  refers  to  the  litigation  already  determ- 
med,  and  to  the  other  suits  still  pending,  shows 
the  difificulty  of  obtaining  an  impartial  hearing 
of  the  case  as  the  courts  and  the  country  are 
constituted,  and  appeals  to  his  Majesty  for  re- 
lief. The  address  is  signed  by  three  hundred 
and  four  persons,  purporting  to  be  "The  Pro- 
prietors. Freeholders  and  Inhabitants  of  a 
Tract  of  Land  now  called  Elizabeth  Tow'n," 
etc.  It  was  taken  to  England  and  presented 
to  King  George  II  by  Matthias  Hetfield  and 
.Steven  Crane,  read  in  council,  July  19,  1744, 
referred  to  the  lords  of  the  committee  of  the 
council  for  plantation  afTairs,  and  .\ugust  21, 
1744.  referred  to  the  lords  commissioners  for 
trade  and  the  plantations,  and  then  it  is  lost 
sight  of,  and  no  record  has  been  found  of  what 
action  if  any  was  taken  u])on  it.  .'\])parently 
it  had  very  little  effect  in  bringing  about  an 
adjustment  as  matters  went  from  bad  to 
worse;  land  riots  arose,  and  finally  in  1745  the 
famous  bill  in  chancery  suit  was  begun,  which 
was  never  to  come  to  a  legal  termination,  but 
was  to  produce  suits  and  counter  suits,  eject- 
ments, legal  and  illegal,  until  the  revolution 
brought  to  a  close  forever  the  numerous  contro- 
versies between  the  settlers  and  the  proprietors, 
the  crown  and  the  British  parliament.  In  1750 
William  Livingston,  a  pupil  of  James  Alexan- 
der, one  of  the  proprietors,  and  William  Smith 
Ir.,  drew  up  the  complaint  against  Elizabeth- 
town  and  a  town  committee  was  chosen  to 
conduct  the  defense  of  the  tow-n,  consisting  of 
lohn  Crane,  John  (2),  Stephen  (i),  Andrew 
Craige,  William  Miller,  John  Halsted,  Stephen 
Crane,  Thomas  Clarke  and  John  Chandler, 
most  of  whom  were  members  of  the  corpora- 
tion of  the  town.  November  i,  1751,  Gov- 
ernor I'.elcher,  who  had  been  obliged  on  ac- 
ctjunt  of  his  health  to  remove  the  seat  of  gov- 
ernment from  l)Urlington  to  Elizabethtown, 
arrived  at  that  place,  and  the  corporation  pre- 
sented him  with  a  written  address  of  welcome 
signed  by  John  Stites,  John  Radley,  Stephen 
Crane,  John  Chandler,  Samuel  \\'oodrufF,  Rob- 
ert Ogden,  Thomas  Clarke  and  John  Halsted. 
.\ugust  22,  1753,  Governor  Belcher  incorpo- 
rated the  First  Presbyterian  Congregation  of 
Elizabethtown  and  appointed  as  the  trustees 
Stephen  Crane,  Cornelius  Hatfield,  Jonathan 
Dayton,  Isaac  Woodrufif,  Matthias  Baldwin, 
Moses  Ogden  and  Benjamin  Winans.  Shortly 
after  this  Stephen  Crane  became  high  sheriff 
of  Essex  county  as  successor  to  Matthias  Hat- 
field and  as  predecessor  of  Matthias  William- 


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son;  and  this  office  together  with  that  of  a 
judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  he  held 
during  the  agitation  caused  by  the  stamp  act. 
In  1768  he  was  returned  as  one  of  the  mem- 
bers of  the  New  Jersey  assembly  to  represent 
Essex  county,  and  to  take  the  place  of  the 
speaker,  Robert  Ogden,  who  had  resigned.  In 
1770  he  became  speaker  of  the  house;  and 
during  the  years  1772-73  he  was  mayor  of 
iClizabethtovvn.  On  Saturday,  June  11,  1773, 
shortly  after  the  "Boston  Tea  Party,"  a  meet- 
ing was  held  in  Newark,  and  a  paper  offered 
by  William  Livingston  was  unanimously  and 
heartily  adopted  urging  the  country  to  stand 
firm  and  united  in  opposition  to  parliament 
and  inviting  the  provincial  convention  to  as- 
semble s])eedily  to  appoint  delegates  to  a  gen- 
eral congress,  and  at  the  same  time  appointed 
as  its  rejjresentatives  Stephen  Crane,  Henry 
tiarritse,  Joseph  Riggs,  \\'illiam  Livingst<jn,  , 
William  Peartree  Smith,  John  DeHart,  John  > 
Chetwood,  Isaac  Ogden  and  Elias  Boudinot. 
July  21,  1774,  in  accordance  with  these  sug- 
gestions and  pursuant  of  a  circular  letter  issued 
by  the  Newark  committee,  the  several  com- 
mittees met  at  New  Brunswick  and  appointed 
Stephen  Crane  "to  preside  over  their  delib- 
erations." They  then  chose  James  Kinsey, 
William  Livingston,  John  DeHart,  Stephen 
Crane  and  Richard  Smith  as  delegates  to  a 
general  congress.  This  general  congress  met 
from  September  to  October.  1774,  at  Phila- 
delphia ;  and  the  Essex  committee  of  corre- 
s])ondence  issued  a  call  for  town  meetings  to 
"organize  the  towns  for  more  vigorous  resist- 
ance, and  the  prosecution  of  the  measures  rec- 
ommended by  the  congress."  In  accordance 
with  this  call  the  freeholders  of  Elizabethtown 
met  at  the  court-house  on  Tuesday.  December 
6.  1774,  with  Stephen  Crane  in  the  chair;  a 
committee  on  organization  was  chosen  and 
.Stephen  Crane,  John  DeHart,  William  Living- 
ston, William  I'eartree  Smith,  Elias  Boudinot 
and  John  Chetwood  were  unanimously  re- 
elected on  the  Essex  county  committee  of 
correspondence.  In  January,  1775,  Stephen 
Crane  was  re-elected  to  the  colonial  congress. 
In  I77'^>  fears  were  entertained  that  the  Brit- 
ish troops  then  at  Boston  were  aliout  to  be 
transferred  to  New  York,  (jeneral  Washing- 
ton therefore  wrote  to  Lord  Stirling  to  take 
])ro])er  lueasures  for  the  defence  of  that  city. 
.'Vccordingly  Lord  Stirling.  March  13.  1776 
called  upon  each  of  the  several  adjacent 
counties  in  New  Jersey  to  send  forward  at 
once  three  or  four  hundred  men  to  aid  in  the 
fortifying   of    the   city    and    harbor.     To   this 


call  Newark  responded  immediately ;  but 
.Stephen  Crane  who  had  succeeded  Robert 
Ogden  as  chairman  of  the  Elizabethtown 
committee  wrote  to  Lord  Stirling,  March  14. 
to  the  effect  that  the  committee  had  no  right 
to  send  a  detachment  out  of  the  province, 
urged  the  desperate  state  of  the  colony  and 
said,  "The  .Arming  the  two  battalions  in  the 
Continental  Service  hath  drained  us  of  our 
best  .Arms,  and  in  Case  a  Descent  should  be 
made  at  New  York,  we  should  be  liable  to 
C(5ntinual  excursions  of  the  enemy."  On  the 
following  day,  William  Burnet,  chairman  of 
the  Essex  county  committee,  wrote  to  Lord 
Stirling  that  he  also  had  received  a  copy  of 
.Stephen  Crane's  letter  "from  which  we  are 
afraid  no  men  will  come  from  Elizabeth 
Town  *  *  *  however  we  shall  Endeavour 
to  prevail  with  them  to  furnish  their  quota, 
ancl  hope  w_e  shall  succeed" ;  and  the  day  sub- 
sec|uent  to  this  he  wrote  again  that  "the  con- 
fusion is  owing  to  your  writing  to  the  Town- 
ship and  not  to  the  County  Committee."  Two 
days  later  Lord  Stirling  acknowledged  the 
services  of  liurnet  and  of  the  peo])le  of  New- 
ark and  arranged  with  the  Elizabethtown  com- 
mittee to  undertake  preparations  necessary 
nearer  home,  wisely  judging  that  their  refusal 
had  been  due  not  to  di.sloyalty  or  cowardice, 
but  to  the  mistaken  idea  of  self-preservation 
so  ])revalent  during  the  early  years  of  the 
war.  Shortly  after  this  Stephen  Crane  lost 
his  wife  Phebe,  born  1714,  died  August  28, 
177^),  and  he  himself  followed  her  less  than 
three  years  later,  dving  June  23,  1780,  after 
thirtv  years  of  public  life,  maintaining  always 
a  good  reputation  for  integrity,  sagacity  and 
courage. 

The  children  of  the  Hon.  .Stephen  Crane 
were : 

1.  Daniel,  born  January  3,  1735. 

2.  Ste]jhen,  Jr..  October  14.  I737:  according 
to  one  account  killed  by  the  I'ritish  during  the 
revolution,  and  according  to  another  dying 
February  11,  1796.  He  married  f first)  Phebe 
Morse,  who  bore  him  eleven  children :  Eliza- 
beth, Susan,  Daniel,  Phebe,  Nancy,  Margaret, 
Hannah,  Mary,  Jenet  Sinclair.  Esther  and 
Jonathan;  married  (second)  Jane  Haines  or 
Harris,  who  bore  him  three  more  children: 
Marv,  Sarah,  married  Nehemiah,  son  of  Jacob 
and  Phebe  (Woodruff)  Crane,  grandson  of 
Caleb  and  Mary,  daughter  of  Edward  .Searls, 
great-grandson  of  Nathaniel  and  Damaris 
Crane,  and  great-great-grandson  of  Stephen 
Crane   (O,  and  Solomon. 

3.  h'-lizabeth,  March  10.  1740;  married  Sam- 


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uel  Ilonnel,  and  bore  him  two  children  :  Jane 
and  Lewis. 

4.  David.  November  27.  174J.  tiied  August 
20,  1822.  He  was  at  one  time  alderman  of  Eliz- 
abethtown  :  married  (first)  November  21.  1762, 
Anne  Savre.and  (  seconfl )  in  1806.  Agnes  Neaty 
Cooper,  and  had  two  children  by  his  first  wife. 
David  and  Sarah,  who  died  young,  and  with 
their  father,  mother  and  stepmother  are  buried 
in  L'nion  cemetery,  Connecticut  Farms. 

5.  (ieneral  William,  born  in  1747.  died  July 
30.  1814.  from  the  results  of  a  wound  received 
at  the  storming  of  Quebec.  December  31.  1775. 
In  this  campaign  he  was  a  lieutenant  of  artil- 
lery under  General  Montgomery,  and  after  the 
close  of  the  war  he  became  a  major-general  of 
the  militia,  serving  as  such  in  the  war  of  181 2. 
being  for  a  time  posted  at  Sandy  Hook  for  the 
defence  of  New  York  City.  In  1807  he  was  ap- 
pointed deputy-mayor  of  Elizabethtown.  and 
from  the  same  year  until  his  death  he  was  a 
trustee  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  the 
cit\^  He  was  twice  married,  his  second  wife 
being  Abigail,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Miller, 
who  bore  him  six  children  :  Captain  William 
Montgomery  Crane.  I'nited  States  navy ; 
Colonel  Ichabod  B.  Crane,  United  States  army, 
marrierl  Charlotte  A.  Rainger.  of  Barre.  Massa- 
chusetts, and  had  Charles  Henry  Crane,  sur- 
geon-general United  States  army :  the  Hon. 
Joseph  H.  Crane,  United  States  congressman 
and  Judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  Ohio : 
Maria  Crane,  who  lived  with  her  brother. 
Joseph  H.  Crane,  and  died  unmarried :  Joanna 
Crane,  married  John  Magie  and  left  one  child 
Julia :  Phebe  Crane,  died  unmarried  aged 
twenty-five  years. 

6.  Phebe.  June  2.  1750:  married  Captain 
Jacob  Crane,  who  served  in  the  French  and 
Indian  wars  and  was  a  non-commissioned 
officer  under  the  British  government  in  tht 
war  with  Canada,  and  died  July  25,  181 1, 
leaving  four  children,  Stephen,  Jacob,  Phebe 
and  Matthias.  Ca])tain  Jacob  w-as  the  son 
of  the  Hon.  .Matthias  Crane,  mayor  of  Eliz- 
abethtown :  grandson  of  John  and  Esther 
(Williams)  Crane;  and  great-grandson  of 
Stephen  Crane  (I). 

7.  Joseph,  referred  to  below. 

8.  Jonathan,  May  15.  1754.  died  June.  1780. 
being  killed  by  Hessian  soldiers. 

9.  Catharine.  October  8,  1756. 

(IV)  Joseph,  seventh  child  and  fifth  son 
of  the  Hon.  Stephen  (2)  and  Phebe  Crane. 
was  born  May  20.  1752.  at  Elizabethtown. 
He  was  at  one  time  sheriff  of  Essex  county 
and  also  a  judge.     May  28.   1777.  he  was  a 


second  lieutenant  in  Captain  Dodd's  company 
of  the  second  regiment  of  the  Essex  county 
troops;  and  after  the  war  was  the  captain  of 
a  company  of  militia  grenadiers,  which  to- 
gether with  Captain  Meeker's  light  horse.  Cap- 
tain Williamson's  infantry  and  CajHain  Will- 
iam's artillery  took  part  in  Elizabethtown's 
famous  Fourth  of  July  celebration  in  1787. 

Captain  Joseph  Crane  married  (first)  Sus- 
anna Ross,  born  in  1749,  died  October  22, 
1781.  Children;  i.  Ann,  born  Januarv  20. 
1773.  2.  .Susanna,  December  12  or  23.  1774. 
died  January  22.  185 1  ;  married.  Alay  I,  1 790, 
Henry  Weaver,  born  April  13.  1761,  served  on 
a  privateer  during  the  revolution,  was  cap- 
tured, confined  in  old  Mill  prison,  England,  and 
released  January,  1784.  .\bout  1787  he  mar- 
ried (first)  Hannah  Meeker,  who,  however, 
soon  left  him  and  returned  to  her  own  family: 
and  he  then  eloped  with  .Susanna  Crane,  and 
removed  to  Columbia  county.  Ohio,  near  P'ort 
Washington  (now  Cincinnati),  afterwards  re- 
moving again  to  a  tract  of  land  near  Middle- 
town.  Butler  county,  and  finally  settling  about 
1801  on  Elk  creek  in  Madison  township,  where 
he  died  .August  17.  1829.  leaving  a  widow  and 
eigb.t  out  of  fourteen  children  surviving  him. 
3.  William,  referred  to  below.  4.  Nancy,  mar- 
ried .Abraham  Van  Sickle  and  went  with  him 
to  Trenton.  Butler  county.  Ohio,  where  thev 
had  five  children;  Susan,  Henrv.  Maria. 
Catharine  and  Joseph  \'an  Sickle. 

Captain  Joseph  Crane  married  (second) 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Dirck  and  Sarah  (Mid- 
(lagh )  Van  A^echten  or  \'eghten  (the  name  is 
spelt  both  ways").  Her  father,  born  July  15. 
1699.  died  November  29.  1781  ;  married  three 
times,  (first)  Judith  Brockholst ;  (second) 
Deborah,  daughter  of  Dominie  .Antonides ; 
and  (third)  in  1759.  Sarah  Middagh.  who  died 
November  17.  1785.  aged  forty-six.  His  farm 
was  the  camping  ground  of  the  revolutionary 
armies  and  his  house  the  center  of  a  bounteous 
hosijitality  to  officers  and  men.  General 
Greene  gave  him  a  handsome  mahogany  table 
as  a  token  of  apijreciation  of  the  kindness 
shown  him  there.  Her  grandfather,  Michael 
Dirckse  \"an  \'eghten.  born  November  28. 
1663.  died  in  1782:  married  (first)  Marytje 
Perker,  and  (second)  Janitje  Dumon,  and  with 
his  brother  Abraham  removed  from  the  Cats- 
kills  to  New-  Jersey  before  1699,  where  his  son 
Dirck  was  baj^tized  September  16,  on  the  Rari- 
tan.  His  faniilv  Bible  is  in  the  Bible  House 
in  New  A'ork  City,  and  his  will,  dated  April 
17-  1777.  was  probated  February  4.  1782 
(Trenton,  Liber  M,  folio  122).     He  was  one 


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of  the  company  of  eight  persons  who  May  3. 
1712,  bought  the  Royce  plantation  of  one  thou- 
sand four  hundred  and  seventy  acres ;  and 
February,  171 1,  he  was  one  of  the  assistant 
judges  of  Somerset  county.  In  1721  he  gave 
the  land  upon  which  the  first  church  of  Rari- 
tan  was  originally  built,  shortly  after  the  call- 
ing and  coming  of  the  Rev.  Theodorus  Jacobus 
Frelinghuysen.  This  church  was  destroyed  ac 
the  time  of  the  revolution  and  the  second 
building  was  erected  at  what  is  now  the  town 
of  Somerville.  The  land  given  by  Michael 
Van  Veghten  was  near  the  bank  of  the  Rari- 
tan  river,  about  a  quarter  of  a  mile  east  of  the 
present  bridge  near  Finderne  station.  Michael 
was  the  son  of  Dirck  Teunise  \  an  \  eghten, 
born  1634,  at  \'eghten,  Holland,  emigrated  to 
New  Netherland  with  his  father,  married 
Jannetje  Michaelse  \'reelandt.  and  settled  in 
the  Catskills  before  1681.  residing  where  the 
old  \"an  X'echten  house,  the  third  built  upon 
the  site,  now  stands.  His  father  was  Teunis 
Dirckse  \'an  \'eghten,  who  came  to  New  Am- 
sterdam with  his  family  in  the  ship  "Arms  of 
Norway"  in  1638,  and  settled  at  Greenbush, 
opposite  Albany,  where  he  had  a  farm  as 
early  as  1648. 

By  his  second  marriage  with  Margaret  \  an 
\'ecliten,  whose  niece,  Elizabeth  Mercereau 
\'an  \'echten.  was  the  second  wife  of  General 
John  Frelinghuysen  (I\'),  son  of  General 
I'rcderick  (HI),  Captain  Joseph  Crane  had 
six  more  children:  I.  Richard  \'an  X'echten. 
born  December  20,  1785:  married;  settled  in 
Ohio;  had  one  child,  a  daughter,  married  John 
Trotter,  of  Macoupin  county,  Illinois,  and  has 
three  children :  Clark,  Oscar  and  George  Trot- 
ter. 2.  David,  April  t8,  1788.  died  about  1850. 
in  Cass  county,  Michigan;  married  Elizabeth 
Huff,  settle'  as  a  farmer  in  Butler  county.  Ob'o. 
His  wife  died  in  I'iasa,  Macoupin  county,  Illi- 
nois, October  (),  1880;  they  had  eight  children  : 
Leonard  W  .,  Nancy.  Elizabeth,  Joanna.  Isaac. 
David,  John  and  Catharine.  3.  Catharine.  No- 
vember 7,  1791.  died  September  6,  ISO'S.  4. 
Sally,  lived  and  died  unmarried.  5.  John, 
April  17,  1796,  died  March  13.  1864;  married 
Sarah  Conover.  and  had  ten  children  ;  William, 
Joel,  Margaret.  Tryphcna,  George  Washing- 
ton, Mariah,  Mary,  John  Conover,  Jane  Con- 
over  and  Josejih.  6.  Michael  \'an  N'echten 
June  17.  1800,  died  about  1848.  unmarried. 

(V)  William,  eldest  son  and  third  child  of 
Captain  Joseph  and  Susanna  (Ross)  Crane, 
was  born  October  23,  1778.  died  at  Elizabeth, 
June  4,  1830.  He  was  a  farmer,  a  surveyor 
and  a  justice  of  the  peace;  he  resided  at  Con- 


necticut Farms  (now  L'nion),  Esse.x  county, 
in  1802  he  married  Sarah  Townley,  of  Eliza- 
beth, born  October  26,  1776,  died  August  18. 
1832.  Children:  i.  Anne,  born  November  20. 
1803.  died  August  6,  1805.  2.  David  Ross, 
jaiuiary  8,  1806,  died  January  12,  1848,  at 
Elizabeth;  married,  ^larch,  1828,  Phebe  Ann. 
daughter  of  Lewis  Hallam,  of  New  York 
City,  born  May  17,  181 1,  and  had  nine  chil- 
dren :  William  Lewis,  Sarah  Anna,  Sarah 
Townley,  Robert  Burrell,  David  Ross  Jr., 
Eliza  Langdon,  David  Ross  Jr.,  Jonathan  M. 
M.,  Susannah  Ross.  3.  Agnes  Cooper,  Au- 
gust 6,  1809,  died  January  15,  1857,  at  Morris- 
town;  married,  November  17,  1836,  the  Rev. 
Curtis  Talley.  a  Methodist  minister,  and  left 
one  child.  Helen  Williams  Talley.  4.  Richard 
Townley,  referred  to  below.  5.  Joseph  Will- 
iam. December  14,  1815,  died  January  i,  1865, 
in  Wilmington,  Ohio;  married  (first)  Octo- 
ber 18,  1837,  Harriet  J.,  daughter  of  Ezekiel 
Wilcox :  she  died  leaving  one  daughter,  Har- 
riet Jemima  Crane,  bom  July  15.  1838;  mar- 
ried (second)  September  25,  1839,  Emma  S., 
daughter  of  Lewis  P.  Brookfield.  of  Spring 
\  allev,  who  bore  him  two  children:  Lewis 
William,  born  September  25,  1840,  and  Charles 
Augustus.  July  20,  1842.  6.  Jonathan  Town- 
ley.  June  18,  1819,  at  Connecticut  Farms; 
graduated  at  Princeton  L'niversity,  1843,  be- 
came a  Methodist  minister,  and  in  1856  re- 
ceived his  D.  D.  degree  from  Dickinson 
L'oUcge.  His  pastorate  was  long  and  success- 
ful, and  he  was  the  author  of  a  number  of 
moral  and  religious  books.  He  died  at  Port 
Jervis,  New  York,  February  16,  1880.  Janu- 
ar\-  18.  1 8.^8,  he  married  in  New  York  City, 
.Mary  Helen,  daughter  of"  the  Rev.  George 
Peck,  of  Wilkes  Barre,  Pcnn.sylvania,  born 
.\pril  10.  1827,  who  bore  him  fourteen  chil- 
dren: Mary  Helen,  George  Peck.  Jonathan 
Townley,  William  Howe,  see  forward,  .Agnes 
l-'lizabith.  E 'nnuid  Bryan,  Wilber  I'iske. 
Elizabeth  Townley,  Luther  Peck,  Myra 
Blanche,  Pilanche,  Jesse  T..  Jesse  T.,  Stephen, 
see  forward. 

Williaiu  Howe,  fourth  child  of  Jonathan 
Townley  Crane,  was  born  at  Pennington.  New 
Jersey,  February  6.  1854.  His  education  be- 
gan in  the  Newark.  New  Jersey,  high  sc1kx)1. 
where  he  iire[)ared  for  college.  He  entered 
Wesleyan  University  in  1873  2"''  passed  his 
freshman  year,  but  his  health  was  not  rugged 
enough  to  allow  the  completion  of  his  college 
course.  To  recuperate  he  took  a  position  as 
teacher  of  the  district  school  at  Lyons  Farms. 
New  Jersey,  where  he  served   from  Jaiuiary, 


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1875.  to  July.  1876.  He  then  taught  mathe- 
matics for  two  years  in  the  Mississippi  State 
.\ormal  School  at  Holly  S])rings.  After  a 
special  course  in  the  New  York  University  he 
entered  the  Albany  Law  School  and  graduated 
in  1880.  Began  the  practice  of  law  the  same 
year  at  Port  Jervis.  Xew  York.  He  was  for 
nine  years  a  member  of  the  Port  Jervis  board 
of  education  and  part  of  the  time  served  as 
president  of  the  board.  In  1892  he  was 
elected  judge  of  the  county  court  of  Orange 
county.  Xew  York,  holding  this  office  for 
three  years.  In  1901  he  removed  his  law 
office  to  Xew  York  City.  He  married,  in 
r88o.  Cornelia  Zearfoss,  of  Musconetcong, 
Xew  Jersey,  who  bore  him  four  daughters : 
Marv.  Helen.  Agnes  Cornelia,  Edna  Josephine 
and  I-'lorence. 

Stephen,  youngest  son  of  Jonathan  Town- 
lev  Crane,  was  born  in  Newark,  November  i, 
1870.  died  at  Baden weiler,  Germany,  June  5, 
igoo.  He  was  educated  at  Lafayette  College 
and  Syracuse  L'niversity,  was  a  reporter  and 
newspaper  writer,  and  was  correspondent  for 
the  Xcz^'  York  Journal  in  the  Greco-Turkish 
war.  1897,  and  in  Cuba,  and  then  removed  to 
England.  Since  his  first  essay  in  fiction,  in 
1891.  "Maggie,  a  Girl  of  the  Streets,"  he  has 
published  many  stories  of  various  lengths,  and 
since  his  death  his  widow  has  collected  and 
published  many  of  his  posthumous  writings. 
His  greatest  story,  however,  was  the  "Red 
Badge  of  Courage,"  published  in  1896,  a  very 
realistic  though  wholly  imaginary  description 
of  the  horrors  of  a  battle  of  the  civil  war. 

(VI)  Richard  Townley,  fourth  child  and 
second  son  of  William  and  .Sarah  (Townley) 
Crane,  was  born  at  Connecticut  Farms,  Sep- 
tember 14,  1812,  died  at  Camden,  New  Jersey. 
December  18.  1886.  He  was  a  sash,  door  and 
blind  manufacturer,  and  a  farmer.  He 
learned  the  sash  and  blind  making  trade  from 
the  firm  of  Baker  &  Ward  of  Newark,  and 
afterwards  removed  to  Brooklyn,  where  he 
set  tm  in  business  and  remained  for  nine  years. 
In  1847  he  returned  to  Newark  and  carried  on 
his  business  at  589  West  Broad  street  (now 
Clinton  avenue)  for  nearly  twenty  years,  when 
he  removed  to  a  farm  near  Millstone,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  Mr.  Crane  was  a  musical  amateur  and 
connected  with  several  musical  societies.  For 
eleven  years  he  was  chorister  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Qiurch  of  Clinton  street,  New- 
ark. He  was  a  man  "of  exceptionally  regular 
and  temperate  habits,  irreproachable  in  all  his 
business  relations,  and  of  a  sensitive  retiring 


nature.  He  was  best  appreciated  and  loved 
by  his  most  intimate  friends ;  and  possessing 
a  keen  sense  of  humor,  he  was  a  most  genial 
companion."  September  24.  1885,  he  and  his 
wife  celebrated  their  golden  wedding  at  the 
home  of  their  youngest  son  at  Lyons  Farms, 
Xew  Jersey,  where  a  large  gathering  of  rela- 
tives and  friends  greeted  the  venerable 
couple. 

September  24,  1835,  Richard  Townley 
Crane  married  in  Newark,  Jane  Thompson 
Dolbear,  born  at  Connecticut  Farms,  Febru- 
ary 26,  1818.  Children:  i,  Theodore  Talley, 
born  in  Newark,  October  12,  1837;  became  a 
local  preacher  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  He  made  music  his  life  work  and 
profession,  and  was  proficient  on  both  organ 
and  piano.  He  composed  considerably  for 
both  instruments  and  published  a  text  book  for 
students  in  music  which  showed  a  practical 
advance  on  any  previously  put  out.  He  was 
one  of  the  leading  organists  in  Newark,  New 
Jersev,  until  iSS).  He  also  served  in  this 
capacity  in  the  cities  of  New  Brunswick,  Tren- 
ton, Philadelphia  and  Camden,  respectively,  as 
his  residence  changed  in  later  years,  .\ugust 
31,  1861,  he  married  (first)  in  Flemington, 
Xew  Jersey,  Ruth  E.  Thatcher,  of  Everitts- 
town,  where  she  was  born  Xovember  22, 
1840.  She  died  at  Clarksboro,  Xew  Jersey. 
.August  24,  1891,  leaving  two  children  :  Helen 
Pllizabeth,  born  June  27.  1863;  and  Charles 
Thatcher,  I'ebruary  23,  1866.  married,  Sep- 
tember 2,  1896,  Marie  Cheeseman  and  has 
one  child  Theodore.  He  married  (second) 
Henrietta  Dod  Miller,  June  24,  1896,  daughter 
of  Sylvester  B.  Miller,  of  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  is  now  living  at  Pasadena,  Califor- 
nia. 2.  Frederic  \\'illard  Curtis,  referred  to 
below. 

(\TI)  Frederic  Willard  Curtis,  second  and 
voungest  child  of  Richard  Townley  and  Jane 
Thompson  (Dolbear)  Crane,  was  born  in 
Brooklyn,  Xovember  1.  1842.  His  father 
came  to  Xewark  when  Frederic  W.  C.  was 
four  years  old  and  he  was  sent  for  his  early 
education  to  the  public  and  high  schools  of 
that  city.  Until  the  civil  war  broke  out.  he 
was  with  his  father  learning  the  sash,  door 
and  blind  manufacturing  trade,  but  in  1864 
went  to  Xew  York  City  and  took  a  position  as 
clerk  in  an  importing  house.  He  remained  in 
Xew  York  for  thirty-five  years  in  various  po- 
sitions of  trust,  and  in  1902  retired  from  ac- 
tive business.  Mr.  Crane  is  a  Republican,  but 
never  sought  political  office.  In  1863  he  was 
one   of   those   who   answered    the    emergency 


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call  for  seventy-five  thousand  volunteers,  and 
was  orderly  sergeant  of  Company  C,  Newark 
Battalion.  His  home  since  1870  (except  two 
and  one-half  years  in  Cincinnati,  1883-85)  has 
been  at  Lyons  Farms,  New  Jersey,  and  he  and 
his  family  are  members  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian church  of  that  place,  on  Elizabeth  ave- 
nue, where  he  has  been  a  trustee  for  thirty- 
three  yeats,  an  elder  for  twenty -four  years,  and 
organist  for  twenty-six  years.  Besides  music, 
Mr.  Crane's  taste  led  him  to  take  up  the  game  of 
chess.  He  was  an  enthusiastic  amateur,  and 
served  two  dififerent  terms  as  president  of  the 
New  Jersey  State  Chess  .Association.  In  1874 
he  began  making  a  pocket  chess  board,  a  sort 
of  pastime.  These  became  known  widely,  and 
found  sale  through  this  and  foreign  countries 
for  more  than  thirty-five  years,  it  being  known 
as  Crane's  Pocket  Chess  Board.  He  was  also 
a  lifelong  student  of  astronomy;  and  several 
times  gave  lectures  on  the  science,  especiallv 
to  arouse  the  interest  of  young  people  in  the 
heavenly  bodies  and   their  movements. 

June  28.  i8C)6,  he  married  (first)  Harriet, 
daughter  of  Stephen  and  Harriet  Helen 
(  Kniffin)  Riker,  born  Ajjril  30,  1846,  died 
November  10,  1868,  who  bore  him  one  child, 
Emma,  died  in  infancy.  October  18,  1870,  he 
married  (second)  at  Lyons  Farms,  Phebe 
Townley,  daughter  of  Jacob  Smith  and  Rhoda 
C.  (Brown)  Dod,  born  October  10,  1841.  Her 
ninther  was  the  daughter  of  Colonel  William 
llrown,  of  Lyons  Farms,  and  her  father,  a 
currier  of  Newark,  was  the  son  of  Abner 
Dod,  of  Newark,  who  was  a  mathematical  in- 
.strument  maker  and  Hved  for  the  early  part  of 
his  life  in  Mendham,  New  Jersey.  A|)ril  24. 
1802,  he  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Gould,  of  Caldwell,  and  second  cousin  to  his 
brother  Ste]5hen"s  wife,  who  bore  him  five 
children,  Susan  Henrietta.  Horace  Lucius, 
Charles.  Jacob  Smith  and  Sarah  Catharine. 
.'\fter  the  death  of  his  first  wife,  .Abner  Dod 
married  (second)  Phebe  (Bates)  Squire, 
widow  of  b'zra  Sciuire,  M.  D.,  of  Caldwell, 
and  after  her  death,  .Abigail  (Wade)  S(|uier, 
widow  of  Samuel  S(|uier,  of  Livingston,  but 
he  had  no  issue  by  his  second  and  third  mar- 
riages. He  was  the  .son  of  Lebbeus  Dod,  of 
Mendham,  and  Mary,  daughter  of  Caleb  Bald- 
win, and  the  grandson  of  Stephen  Dod,  of 
.Mendham,  son  of  Daniel  (TH),  of  Cuilford, 
and  Deborah  P>rown.  By  his  second  marriage 
with  Phebe  Townley  Dod,  Frederic  Willard 
Curtis  Crane  had  six  children:  i.  Laura  Dod. 
born  December  4. 1871.  died  December  24,  1873, 
2.  Jessie  Florence,  May  3.  1873,  died  .August 


23,  1876.  3.  Raymond  Townley,  May  31, 
1875;  married  Ada  Delphine  Van  Name,  and 
has  two  children,  Robert  Townley,  born  April 
12,   1903;  and   Phyllis  Wyckoff,  January    10, 

1907.  4.  Arthur  Dod,  September  7,  1877 ; 
married  Nellie  Hathaway,  of  Cincinnati,  and 
has  two  children :  Frances  Hathaway,  born 
.April   19,   1905  :  and  Christine  Dod,   ^Iay  26, 

1908.  5.  and  6.  Clarence  Brown  and  Willard 
Ward,  twins,  April  9,  1879;  Willard  Ward 
died  August  11,  1879.  and  Clarence  Brown 
married  Minnie  A.  Fuhrmann. 


(For   first   generation    see  preceding  sketch). 

(Hi  John  Crane,  son  of  Stephen 
CR.\Nfi  Crane,  of  Elizabethtown,  was 
born  probably  in  Elizabethtown, 
died  in  that  place  in  February,  1723.  He 
was  a  carpenter  by  trade  and  lived  in  Eliz- 
abethtown. In  1 713  he  was  chosen  one  of 
the  overseers  of  the  highways:  .August  2. 
1720.  he  was  appointed  as  one  of  seven  com- 
mitteemen for  some  work  to  be  done  for  the 
town.  In  his  will,  dated  Februar\'  7.  and 
proved  February  16,  1723,  he  mentions  his 
wife  Esther,  his  sons  John,  Joseph,  Mathias, 
Benjamin,  Samuel,  all  except  John  being  un- 
der twenty-one,  and  his  daughters,  .Abigail,  Es- 
ther, Sarah,  Rebekah  and  Deborah.  His  saw 
mill  and  his  grist  mill  on  the  Railway  river, 
inherited  from  his  father,  Stephen  Crane,  he 
gives  to  his  sons,  John  and  Joseph,  in  whose 
families  the  property  remained  for  many 
years.  In  addition  of  this  he  disposes  of  one 
hundred  acres  of  meadow  in  Elizabethtown, 
bought  April  13,  1716,  of  Benjamin  Wade,  of 
four  acres  of  meadow  in  the  same  (ilace 
bought  of  Jeremiah  C).sborne,  of  his  house  and 
fourteen  acre  lot  in  Elizabethtown,  and  of 
much  |)ersonal  estate.  His  executors  are  his 
wife,  the  Rev.  Jonathan  Dickinson,  and  his 
brother,  leremiah  Crane. 

By  his  marriage  with  Esther,  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Esther  (Wheeler)  Williams,  of 
Elizabethtown,  he  had  ten  children:  i.  John, 
born  about  1700:  married;  died  .September  11, 
1763.  2.  Matthias,  referred  to  in  the  sketch 
of  the  r.enjamin  family.  3.  Benjamin,  re- 
ferred to  below.  4.  Samuel,  born  about  1712. 
5.  .Abigail,  born  January  25,  1713;  married 
Jacob  Dellart ;  died  before  1777.  6.  Joseph. 
7.  Esther,  married  probably  John  Davis.  8. 
Sarah.     9.  Rebecca.      10.  Deborah. 

(  111  )  Benjamin,  third  child  and  son  of  John 
and  I'",sther  (Williams)  Crane,  was  born  in 
Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey,  about  1710.  He 
lived  near  Elizabethtown.     He  married  Esther 


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Woodruff,  born  171 1,  died  February  22,  1809. 
who  bore  him  two  children  of  record:  i.  Ben- 
jamin, referred  to  below.  2.  Eleazar,  who 
served  with  the  New  Jersey  troops  in  the  rev- 
olution, was  taken  prisoner  in  the  battle  of 
Long  Island,  August  2"],  1776,  and  died  shortly 
after  from  the  effects  of  the  treatment  he  re- 
ceived. He  married  .Susan,  daughter  of  David 
and  granddaughter  of  George  Day,  of  New- 
ark, who  bore  him  three  children,  and  after 
his  death  married  (second)  Matthias  Allen,  to 
whom  she  bore  two  daughters. 

(  I\" )  lienjamin  (2),  eldest  child  and  son 
of  Benjamin  (i)  and  Esther  (Woodruff) 
Crane,  was  born  near  Elizabethtown  about 
1732.  He  lived  in  Westfield,  New  Jersey. 
I  le  married  Phebe.  daughter  of  Joseph  Halsey, 
who  lived  between  Elizabethtown  and  Rah- 
way.  They  had  seven  children:  i.  Benjamin, 
referred  to  below.  2.  Abigail,  bom  November 
22,  1762,  died  young.  3.  Norris,  born  Febru- 
ary 9,  1764,  died  February  21,  1846;  married 
Jane  Dunham.  4.  John,  born  April  18,  1765. 
5.  Phebe,  born  December  19,  1766;  married 
John  Johnson  but  had  no  children.  6.  Sarah, 
born  .April  12,  1771,  died  August  8,  1826:  mar- 
ried John  Ogden,  of  Green  Village,  Morris 
county.  New  Jersey.  7.  Abigail,  born  Sep- 
tember 14,  1774,  died  young. 

(V)  Benjamin  (3),  eldest  child  and  son  of 
Benjamin  (2)  and  Phebe  (Halsey)  Crane, 
was  born  in  Westfield,  New  Jersey,  November 
29,  1761,  and  lived  in  Granville,  now  Cranford. 
He  was  an  auctioneer,  a  farmer  and  a  revo- 
lutionary soldier,  being  a  private  and  musician 
in  the  Essex  county  troops  of  the  New  Jersey 
militia.  By  his  wife  Sarah  Thompson  or  as 
some  accounts  state,  Sarah  Tufts,  he  had 
eleven  children:  I.  John,  married  Mary  Clark. 
2.  .Abigail,  married  David  Heyt.  3.  Esther, 
died  aged  eighteen  or  twenty.  4.  Hezekiah 
Thompson,  married  .Amanda  Osborne.  5. 
Phebe.  married  (first)  Francis  Randolph,  and 
(second)  George  R.  King.  6.  Charlotte  King, 
married  H.  Baker.  7.  Norris.  went  to  Ohio 
and  married  there.  8.  Jacob  Thompson,  went 
to  Ohio  and  died  there  unmarried.  9.  Benja- 
min, married  Electa  Baker.  10.  David  John- 
son, referred  to  below.  11  Moses  Thompson. 
married  Eliza  Scudder. 

(VI)  David  Johnson,  tenth  child  and  sixth 
son  of  Benjamin  (3)  and  .Sarah  (Thompson) 
or  (Tufts)  Crane,  was  born  in  Granville,  New 
Jersey.  He  went  to  New  York  where  he 
spent  ■  five  years  trucking  and  teaming,  and 
then  returned  to  Cranford  (formerly  Gran- 
ville)    and     went     to     farming.     He     was     a 


Democrat  in  politics.  By  his  marriage  with 
Hannah  Eliza,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Rebecca 
(Higgins)  Roll,  whose  other  children  were 
James,  Elmer,  Mary,  Jane  and  John  Roll,  he 
had  eight  children:  i.  James,  married  Sarah 
Clark,  and  had  Samuel,  Leonora,  Aaron  D., 
James  and  Joseph  Crane.  2.  Jacob  Thompson, 
(lied  aged  two  and  a  half  or  three  years  old. 
3.  David  Newton,  referred  to  below.  4. 
George  King,  married  a  Winans  and  had  Min- 
nie, Jessie,  and  Ethel  Crane.  5.  Isaac  Roll, 
married  Frederica  Springer,  who  with  her  hus- 
band is  now  dead.  6.  John.  7.  Hezekiah, 
married  (first)  Annabel  Brokaw,  and  (sec- 
ond )  .Althea  Woodruff.  8.  Benjamin  Frank- 
lin, died  aged  three  weeks  old. 

(\'lh  David  Xewton,  third  chilil  and  son 
of  David  Johnson  and  Hannah  Eliza  (Roll) 
Crane,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  October 
:i,  1835,  and  is  now  living  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey.  For  his  early  education  he  was  sent 
"to  the  private  school  of  Union  county  and  pub- 
lic schools  of  Plainfield,  New  Jersey,  and  in 
1 85 1  came  to  Newark  in  order  to  learn  the 
jewelry  trade,  in  the  same  shoji  that  he  now  oc- 
cupies at  13  Franklin  street.  Until  1861  he 
was  a  journeyman  there ;  in  that  year  he  re- 
turned to  New  York,  having  accepted  a  po- 
sition as  foreman  for  the  firm  of  .Arthur  Rum- 
rill  &  Company  with  whom  he  continued  to 
act  as  such  for  the  succeeding  nine  years.  For 
two  vears,  beginning  with  1874,  he  lived  in 
Siiringfield,  Massachusetts,  as  the  representa- 
tive of  the  firm  of  .Arthur  Rumrill  &  Com- 
pany; and  in  1876  he  returned  to  Newark  to 
act  as  foreman  for  the  firm  of  Mclntire,  Be- 
dell &  Company,  with  whom  he  remained  until 
1883,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with  O. 
J.  Valentine,  under  the  name  of  O.  J.  Valen- 
tine &  Company,  which  in  1895  became  the 
present  firm  of  Crane  &  Theurer,  which 
makes  a  specialty  of  the  manufacture  of  solid 
fourteen  karat  jewelry  of  all  kinds.  Mr. 
Crane  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  Since 
1857  he  has  been  a  member  of  St.  Paul's 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  since  1874 
a  trustee  and  officer. 

December  10.  1855,  David  Newton  Crane 
married  ( first )  Emily  .Augusta,  eldest  child 
and  only  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Anna  Eliza 
(Taylor)  Alilledge,  whose  only  other  child 
is  (ieorge  W.  Milledge.  Children:  i.  and  2., 
both  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  3.  Anna  .Au- 
gusta, referred  to  below.  4.  Frank  Newton, 
married  Sophia  Taylor  and  has  two  children: 
Ethel  Corinne  and  Elizabeth  Winifred.     David 


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Newton  Crane  married  (second)  Anna  Maria 
Trilley. 

{\'III)  Anna  Augusta,  only  daughter  to 
reach  maturity  of  David  Newton  and  Emily 
Augusta  (Milledge)  Crane,  married,  Decem- 
ber 24,  1879,  Robert  Whitfield  Sole,  born  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  April  26,  1856,  and  now 
living  in  that  city.  Educated  at  the  Newark 
public  schools,  when  fourteen  years  old  he  en- 
tered the  employ  of  Matthias  Plum  as  feeder 
to  one  of  his  paper  ruling  machines.  Seven 
years  later  he  started  in  for  himself  in  the 
business  of  ruling  paper  in  which  he  is  at  pres- 
ent engaged.  He  is  a  Republican,  and  for- 
merly was  a  member  of  St.  Paul's  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  but  now  attends  the  Eliza- 
beth Avenue  Presbyterian  Church. 

Mr.  Sole's  great-grandfather  was  Benjamin 
Sole,  who  died  May  31.  1804:  he  married,  in 
1800,  Jane,  born  July  i.  1780.  died  September 
8,  1791-  and  Catharine,  born  October  21.  1753, 
died  August  24,  1830,  daughter  of  Hubartus 
Dubois,  born  September  iq,  1725,  died  Octo- 
ber 13,  1807,  son  of  Benjamin  Dubois,  bom 
April  16.  1697,  died  November  7,  1766,  who 
married,  March  30,  1721.  Catharine  Lay  tain, 
born  April  3.  1696.  died  November  8.  1777. 
Robert  Sole,  born  October  12.  1801.  died  June 
6,  1870:  married  Sophia  Wardrell.  .September 
I.  1824:  she  died  June  15,  1879.  Their  son, 
Benjamin  Lewis  Sole,  born  September  5. 
1829,  died  January  17.  1894:  married.  June 
10.  1851,  Margaret  Z.  Kitchell.  and  had"  five 
children:  i.  Sonhia  Jane,  born  April  13,  1852, 
died  July  28.  1889.  2.  Charles  .Addison,  born 
March  ^o.  1854.  died  March  7.  1861.  3.  Rob- 
ert Whitfield,  referred  to  above.  4."  Lewis 
Hermance,  born  Februarv  25,  1859.  died  Feb- 
ruary 14.  1861.  5.  Ella  Margaret,  born  May 
I,  1867,  died  November  5,  i9oi5. 

The  children  of  Robert  Whitfield  and  /\nna 
Augusta  (Crane)  Sole  are:  i.  Walter  Crane, 
born  November  5,  1880;  married,  Mav  14, 
1903,  Ah'ce  T.  Stephenson,  of  New  York,  and 
has  two  children :  William  Stephenson  Sole. 
born  November  2,  1903.  anfi  Robert  Crane 
Sole,  .^pril  8.  190=;.  2."  Edna  Gertrude,  born 
February  20.  1883.  3.  Herbert  Whitfield. 
born  May  2.  1889. 


(For  IDngnsh  ancestry  see  Sir  Thomas  Crane  1). 

Jasper  Crane,  the  first  of 
CR.ANE      his  name  so  far  as  we  know  to 

set  foot  in  the  new  world,  w-as 
born  -ijfobRblv  about  Jfiof,.  somewhere  near 
Bradley  Plain.  Hampshire.  England,  died  in 
Newark.  New  Jersey,  in  1681.     His  a>int  was 


Margaret  Crane  who  married  Samuel  Hunt- 
ington, whose  child,  Jasper's  cousin,  Marga- 
ret Huntington,  married.  May  2,  1592,  John, 
son  of  Edward  and  Margaret  (Wilson)  Og- 
den,  and  whose  daughter,  Elizabeth  Hunting- 
ton, Margaret's  sister,  married  Richard 
Ogden.  the  brother  of  John  Ogden,  who  mar- 
ried Margaret,  and  the  father  of  John  Ogden, 
the  emigrant  to  Southampton  and  Elizabeth- 
town.  Jasper  Crane's  own  daughter,  Hannah, 
married  Thomas,  son  of  Margaret  and  Simon 
Huntington,  a  brother  of  Samuel  and  Mar- 
garet (Crane)  Huntington. 

June  4,  1639,  Jasper  Crane,  who  was  one 
of  the  original  settlers  of  the  New  Haven  col 
ony,  was  present  at  the  meeting  held  in  Mr. 
Newman's  barn,  and  signed  the  first  agree- 
ment of  all  the  free  planters.  He  took  the 
oath  of  fidelity  at  the  organization  of  the  gov- 
ernment, together  with  Campfield.  Pennington. 
Governor  Eaton,  and  others;  and  in  1644  he 
was  "freed  from  w-atching  and  trayning  in  his 
own  person  because  of  his  weakness,  but  to 
find  some  one  for  his  turn."  With  Robert 
Treat  he  was  a  member  of  the  general  court, 
and  for  many  years  he  was  a  magistrate.  In 
1651  he  was  interested  in  a  bog  ore  furnace  at 
East  Haven  ;  and  in  1652  he  removed  to  Bran- 
ford,  where  he  was  elected  a  magistrate  in 
1658,  having  held  the  office  of  deputy  for 
some  years  previous  to  that  date.  Thomas 
Lechford,  E.squire.  a  lawyer  in  Boston.  Massa- 
chusetts Bay,  who  kept  a  diary  from  June  27, 
1638.  to  July  29,  ir)4i,  which  has  been  pre- 
served, makes  this  following  note  in  connection 
with  Jasper  Crane: 

"Samuel  Searle  of  Quinapeage  Planter  in 
behalfe  of  Jasper  Crane  of  the  same  Agent  or 
.Attorney  for  Mr  Roe  Citizen  of  London  De- 
miseth  unto  Henry  Dawson  and  John  Search 
of  the  Same  one  house  and  house  lott  and  three 
acres  of  land  lying  in  P.oston  wherein  William 
Herricke  now  dwelleth  from  20  Sept.  next  for 
five  years  four  pounds  ten  shillings  rent  half 
yearly,  to  fence  to  the  value  four  pounds  ten 
shillings,  to  repaire  21 — 6-^1640." 

This  transaction,  showing  Jasper  Crane's 
coiuiection  with  a  gentleman  of  London,  has 
led  some  persons  to  think  not  only  that  Jasper 
was  known  in  London,  but  also  to  conjecture 
that  he  had  lived  there.  It  is  also  probable 
that  this  entry  furnished  the  tradition  that  Jas- 
per came  to  .America  from  London,  which  has 
always  been  cherished  bv  some  of  his  descend- 
ants, although  an  extensive  research  among  the 
record  offices  in  London  has  failed  to  find 
anv  trace  of  him  there,  and  it  has  remained  for 


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the  investigators  into  the  EngHsh  ancestry  of 
the  Ogdens  of  Elizahetlitown  to  bring  to  light 
Jasper  Crane's  connection  with  Bradley  Plain 
and  Hampshire. 

Another  tradition  with  regard  to  Jasper  is 
that  he  came  over  to  Massachusetts  Bay  in  the 
ship  ".Vrbella,"  with  Cjovernor  Winthrop. 
\\  hether  he  came  from  jiarents  occupying  high 
or  middle  stations  in  life  can  as  yet  hardly 
be  determined  by  the  records  that  have  come 
down  to  us.  He  was  assuredly  one  of  the 
staunch  and  active  men  among  the  first  settlers 
of  the  New  Haven  colony  as  well  as  one  of 
the  fathers  of  the  new  settlement  in  New  Jer- 
sey. With  Captain  Robert  Treat,  he  seems 
to  have  had  a  large  share  of  the  weight  of  re- 
sponsibility of  that  young  colony  upon  his 
shoulders,  and  its  success  greatly  at  heart.  It 
is  said  that  he  did  not  go  with  the  first  com- 
pany to  "Milford,"  as  the  new  "town  upon 
Passaick  river/'  was  at  first  called ;  but  he  did 
sign  the  first  articles  of  "fundamental  agree- 
ment" in  1665,  his  name  being  the  first  among 
the  list  of  the  signers,  not  only  to  the  articles 
agreed  ujjon  October  30,  1666,  between  the 
liranford  and  Milford  companies  of  settlers, 
Init  also  January  20,  1667,  on  the  list  of  signers 
and  church  members  of  the  first  church  at  New- 
ark, where  he  became  one  of  the  most  influ- 
ential and  prominent  men,  second  only  to 
Robert  Treat  and  Sergeant  John  W^ard.  Jas- 
I)er  Crane  and  Robert  Treat  were  the  first  two 
magistrates  of  the  town. 

It  is  said,  and  is  most  probably  true,  that 
the  cause  of  Jasper  Crane's  coming  to  Newark 
was  his  dissatisfaction  at  the  New  Haven  col- 
ony's becoming  united  w'ith  the  Connecticut 
colony,  but  his  governing  incentive  most  likely 
was  that  which  animated  the  majority  of  the 
settlers,  namely,  the  desire  to  hold  and  prac- 
tice their  own  religious  opinions  in  peace  and 
the  wish  to  escape  swearing  allegiance  to  the 
English  crown,  now  that  Charles  II  had  been 
restored.  Jasper  Crane  was  a  surveyor  and  a 
merchant,  as  well  as  a  magistrate,  and  with 
Mr.  Myles  he  laid  out  most  of  the  New  Haven 
town  plot,  located  grants,  established  division 
lines,  and  settled  disputed  titles.  He  is  also 
said  to  have  been  the  steward  of  the  Rev. 
John  Davenport's  property  in  1639.  In  March, 
1641,  he  received  for  himself  a  grant  of  one 
hundred  acres  of  land  in  the  East  Meadows. 
He  was  one  of  the  New  Haven  company  con- 
cerned in  the  settlement  of  the  Delaware  river 
in  1642,  who  were  so  roughly  handled  by  the 
Dutch.  In  1643  his  estate  was  voted  at  £480, 
with  three  persons  in  his  family,  himself,  his 


wife,  and  his  son  John.  In  1644-45  he  re- 
ceived a  grant  of  sixteen  acres  of  upland  sit- 
uated in  East  Haven,  upon  which  he  built  a 
house  and  in  which  his  son  Joseph  was  born. 
It  was  also  while  residing  at  this  place  that  he 
engaged  in  trade  as  a  merchant ;  but  not  being 
satisfied  with  the  lc>cation,  he  sold  it,  Septem- 
ber 7,  1652,  and  became  one  of  the  first  plant- 
ers of  Branford,  Connecticut,  which  was  just 
then  being  instituted  as  a  new  settlement  by 
families  from  Wethersfield  under  the  leader- 
ship of  Mr.  Swaine,  and  a  number  of  other 
families  from  Southampton,  Long  Island,  the 
flock  of  the  Rev.  Abraham  Pierson. 

Jasper  Crane,  E.squire,  and  William  Swaine, 
Es!|uire.  were  the  first  deputies  to  the  gen- 
eral court  of  electors  from  Branford,  in  ^Iay. 
1653,  Jasper  being  returnetl  for  the  four  suc- 
ceeding years.  In  May,  1658,  he  was  chosen 
one  of  the  four  magistrates  for  the  New 
Haven  colony,  and  he  continued  to  hold  this 
office  by  appointment  until  1663.  He  was  also 
one  of  the  magistrates  called  together  by  the 
governor  at  Hartford,  1665  to  1667.  In  the 
union  of  the  colonies  he  was  chosen  one  of  the 
assistants,  and  he  was  also  trustee  of  the 
county  court  at  New  Haven  during  1644.  In 
New  Haven  his  house  lot  was  located  on  what 
is  now  Elm  street,  at  the  corner  of  Orange 
street,  the  site  now  being  occupied  by  the 
church  of  St.  Thomas. 

In  1667  the  first  church  of  New-ark  was 
founded  and  a  building  erected.  The  second 
meeting  house  was  built  about  1714  or  1716; 
while  the  third  was  erected  betw^een  1787  and 
1791.  The  people  of  Bloomfield,  Orange  and 
Montclair  communed  with  the  Newark  church 
until  about  1716.  In  fact  for  considerably 
more  than  a  hundred  years  after  the  founding 
of  Newark,  the  crest  of  the  First  Mountain 
was  the  western  boundary  of  the  town,  and 
until  the  year  1806  the  town  of  Newark  was 
diviiled  into  three  wards :  New'ark  ward, 
Orange  ward,  and  Bloomfield  ward.  In  1806 
Orange  became  a  separate  town,  and  six  years 
later  Bloomfield  ward  became  the  town  of 
Bloomfield.  This  part  of  Newark  took  in  the 
territory  from  the  Passaic  on  the  east  to  the 
crest  of  the  First  Mountain  on  the  west,  and 
as  this  section  was  so  thoroughly  occupied  by 
the  descendants  of  Jasper  Crane  it  was  at  a 
very  early  date  called  Cranetown.  Jasper 
Crane  was  also  one  of  the  purchasers  of  the 
"Kingsland  Farms,"  an  immense  estate  near 
Newark,  now  known  as  Belleville.  The  exact 
date  when  Jasper  Crane  took  leave  of  Bran- 
ford has  not  yet  l>een  definitely  fixed.     In  the 


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spring  of  i6(/)  the  jjcople  of  Branford,  becom- 
ing dissatisfied  with  respect  to  the  union  of 
the  New  Haven  and  the  Connecticut  colonies, 
more  particularly  because  the  right  of  suffrage 
was  to  be  granted  to  the  inhabitants  who  were 
not  members  of  the  church,  resolved  at  once 
to  remove  to  New  Jersey,  as  their  agents,  who 
had  been  sent  thither,  had  come  back,  bringing 
most  favorable  rejiorts  of  the  new  country. 
In  October,  after  adopting  a  code  of  laws  for 
their  own  government,  the  Rev.  Abraham  Pier- 
son,  with  a  portion  of  his  congregation,  left 
Branford  for  their  future  home,  Newark,  New 
Jersey.  .-Apparently  Jasper  Crane  was  not  one 
of  their  contingent :  because  although  he  was 
one  of  the  twenty-three  original  signers  of  the 
first  contract  in  ifih^.-  li^  '^^'^s  still  active  in  the 
public  affairs  of  Branford,  and  held  the  office 
of  assistant  magistrate  during  the  years  1666- 
67.  January  30,  1667,  however,  he  headed  the 
list  of  signers  to  a  new  covenant,  and  dispos- 
ing of  his  pro])erty  at  Branford  he  that  year 
took  up  his  permanent  home  at  Newark  and 
became  very  prominent  in  all  the  transactions 
of  the  town,  especially  during  the  first  four- 
teen years  of  its  growth  and  development.  He 
was  the  first  president  of  the  town  court,  and 
for  several  years  the  first  on  the  list  of  the 
deputies  to  the  general  assembly  of  New  Jer- 
sey. At  the  drawing  of  the  home  lots,  P'ebru- 
ary  6,  i()C^j.  Jasper  Crane's  lot  was  number 
49,  while  number  40  fell  to  Deliverance  Crane, 
and  number  62  to  John  Crane,  these  two  being 
Jasper's  eldest  sons. 

At  the  town  meeting  of  Newark,  held  Janu- 
ary, 1668,  Jasper  Crane  and  Robert  Treat  were 
chosen  magistrates  for  the  year  ensuing,  and 
also  deputies  or  burgesses  for  the  same  year  to 
the  general  assembly.  From  January,  1668, 
until  his  death  Jasper  Crane  was  now  with 
Sergeant  John  Ward,  the  first  citizen  of  the 
town,  as  Robert  Treat,  who  was  among  other 
things  the  first  recorder  or  town  clerk  for 
Newark,  returned  in  167 1  to  Connecticut, 
where  later  on  he  became  for  several  years  the 
governor  of  that  colony.  May  20,  1668,  Jasper 
Crane  was  one  of  the  coiumittcc  who  signed 
the  agreement  fi.ving  the  dividing  line  between 
the  town  of  Newark  and  Flizabethtown.  Julv 
28,  i66q,  together  with  Robert  Treat,  he  was 
chosen  by  the  town  to  take  the  first  opportun- 
ity "to  go  to  'York'  to  advise  with  Colonel 
Lovelace  concerning  our  standing.  \\'hether 
wc  are  designed  to  be  a  part  of  the  Duke's 
Colony  or  not.  and  about  the  Neck,  and  liberty 
of  purchasing  lands  up  the  river,  that  the  town 
would  petition  for."     In  January,  1669,  he  was 


re-elected  magistrate  for  the  town  and  deputy 
for  the  general  assembly  "if  there  shall  be  any." 
He  and  Robert  Treat  were  chosen  the  same 
year  as  the  moderators  of  the  town  meetings 
for  the  year  ensuing;  and  January  2.  1670, 
they  were  once  more  chosen  as  magistrates  and 
de]nities,  Jasper  Crane  serving  annuall\-  in  that 
capacity  until  1674.  .At  the  town  meeting  of 
l'\-bruary  20,  1670,  it  was  voted  that  the  gov- 
ernor be  requested  to  confirm  Jasper  Crane 
and  Robert  Treat  as  magistrates  or  justices  of 
the  peace.  The  same  honors  were  conferred  in 
1671,  and  in  addition  it  was  voted,  January  22 
of  that  same  year,  that  "every  man  should  bring 
his  half  bushel  to  Henry  Lyon  &  Josejih  Waters 
and  have  it  tried  and  sealed  when  made  fit 
with  Mr.  Crane's  which  for  the  present  is  the 
standard."  During  1672  Jasper  Crane  was 
one  of  the  committee  to  see  to  the  burning  of 
the  woods;  and  May  13,  1672,  he  and  Lieu- 
tenant Swaine  were  chosen  representatives  of 
the  town  to  consult  with  other  "representatives 
of  the  country  to  order  Matters  for  the  safely 
of  the  Country."  June  17,  1672,  he  was  once 
again  chosen  magistrate  and  also  elected 
"President  of  the  Quarterly  Court  to  be  held 
in  Newark  to  begin  September  next ;''  while 
the  following  February  28,  it  was  granted  that 
"Mr.  Crane  having  Liquors  for  Six  Shillings  a 
(rallou  and  One  Shilling  and  Six  Pence  a 
Quart,  they  paying  \\'heat  for  it  hath  Liberty 
to  sell  Lit|uors  in  the  Town  till  the  Country 
Order  alter  it."  In  the  one  hundred  acre  grant 
of  lands  drawn  for  by  lot.  May  26.  1773,  Jas- 
per Crane  drew  number  10,  he  being  the  first 
to  draw,  while  Delieverance  Crane  drew  num- 
ber 32,  and  John  Crane  number  61. 

July  I,  1673,  "It  was  Voted  and  agreed  by 
the  General  and  universal  Consent  and  \'ote 
of  all  our  People  that  there  should  be  an  .Ad- 
dress by  way  of  Petition  sent  to  the  Lords  Pro- 
prietors of  this  Province  for  the  removing  of 
the  Grievances  incumbent  and  obtaining  of 
what  may  be  necessary  for  the  Good  of  the 
Province  and  of  this  Plantation — in  testimony 
of  our  Consent  hereto  and  of  our  agreement; 
what  necessary  Charge  shall  arise  hereupon  we 
will  defray  by  way  of  rate  proportionably  to 
the  number  of  those  who  join  in  the  sd  Petition. 
.Mr  Crane  Mr  Bond  Mr  Swain  Mr  Kitchell 
and  Henry  Lyon  are  Chosen  a  Committee  to 
consider  with  the  messengers  from  the  other 
Towns  about  sending  a  Petition  to  England." 
h'ive  days  later,  the  same  committee,  with  the 
exception  that  John  Ward,  the  Turner,  takes 
the  place  of  Mr.  Swain,  "are  chosen  to  agree 
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Messenger  to  England ;  and  as  they  did  agree 
with  him  it  should  be  paid  by  the  Town." 

August  4,  1673,  .lasper  Crane,  Robert  Bond, 
Lieutenant  Samuel  Swaine  and  Sergeant  John 
Ward  were  chosen  deputies  "to  agree  with  the 
Generals  at  N.  Orange  to  have  a  priviledged 
County  between  the  Two  Rivers  Passaic  and 
.\raritine  or  with  as  many  as  will  join  with  us 
and  if  none  wil  join  with  us  upon  that  account 
then  to  desire  what  may  be  necessary  lor  us  in 
our  Town."  The  following  week,  August  12, 
Jasper  Crane  was  again  chosen  magistrate,  and 
three  weeks  later,  September  6,  1673,  he  and 
Thomas  Johnson  form  the  committee  to  carry 
the  town's  petition  in  regard  to  the  purchasing 
of  the  "Neck"  to  the  generals  at  Orange,  and 
to  treat  with  them  in  regard  to  terms.  Sep- 
tember i().  Thomas  Johnson's  place  on  the 
committee  was  taken  by  Robert  Bond  and  Ser- 
geant John  Ward.  October  13,  1673,  John 
Ward  the  turner  and  John  Catlin  are  chosen 
to  go  to  Nsw  Orange  to  buy  Kingsland's  part 
of  the  "Neck"  as  cheap  as  they  can  and  about 
two  weeks  later,  October  25,  "Mr  Crane  Mr 
.Mol\iis  and  Mr  Hopkins  are  chosen  to  see 
after  Confirmation  of  the  Neck  and  to  sue  for 
further  Easment  in  Respect  to  Pay;"  while 
".Mr  John  Ogden  Mr  Jasper  Crane  Mr  Jacob 
Molynes  Mr  Samuel  Hopkins  Mr  John  Ward 
Mr  .\braham  Pierson,  Senior  and  Stephen 
F'reeman  are  chosen  to  take  the  Pattent  in  their 
Names  in  the  Towne's  Behald  and  to  give  Se- 
curity for  the  Payment  of  the  Purchase." 
Finally.  November  17.  1673,  "Captain  Swain 
is  chosen  to  be  joined  with  Mr  Crane  to  sue 
fir  Easment  in  Respect  of  Payment  for  the 
Neck  and  what  is  else  needful  concerning  that 
Matter." 

In  the  following  year,  June  29,  1674,  the 
town  resolved  that  "there  shall  be  a  Petition 
sent  to  the  Governor  and  Council  for  the  ob- 
taining a  Confirmation  of  our  bought  and  paid 
for  Lands  according  to  the  Generals  promise ;" 
and  Jasper  Crane  and  "Mr  Pierson  junr  were 
chosen  to  cary  the  petition  and  obtain  its  con- 
firmation at  New  Orange." 

August  10.  1674.  Jasper  Crane  was  once 
more  chosen  magistrate ;  but  he  was  now  be- 
coming quite  advanced  in  years  and  the  im- 
portant and  exacting  services  required  of  him 
by  the  town  must  have  proved  a  heavy  tax 
upon  his  strength,  for  he  now  drops  out  of 
•political  office,  while  his  sons,  John.  .Azariah. 
and  Jasper,  Jr.,  begin  to  fall  in  and  take  his 
place.  February  19,  1678,  the  town  having 
discovered  that  many  of  the  settlers  had  taken 
up  lands  contrary  to  a  town  agreement,  Jasper 


Crane  stated  at  the  town  meeting  that  he 
would  lay  down  all  lands  so  taken  if  others 
would  do  the  same,  and  March  10,  following  he 
with  Robert  Dalglish  and  his  son  Jasper  Crane, 
Jr.,  was  .chosen  to  lay  out  Samuel  Potter's  lot 
again.  So  far  as  the  public  records  of  New- 
ark show  this  was  Jasper  Crane's  last  official 
act. 

"Judging  from  the  entries  in  the  Newark 
town  records,  we  should  say  that,  next  to  Rob- 
ert Treat,  Jasper  Crane  was  the  most  promi- 
nent figure  in  the  early  settlement  of  that 
town."  After  Treat  returned  to  Connecticut, 
Jasper's  name  comes  first  in  the  filling  by  pop- 
ular vote  of  the  highest  and  most  responsible 
])ositions  of  public  trust  in  the  community. 
The  strength  of  his  hold  on  the  confidence  of 
the  people  is  clearly  manifested  by  their  re- 
turning him  annually  for  so  many  years  to  the 
various  positions  which  he  held,  and  the  con- 
tinuing him  therein  until  the  infirmities  of  age 
unfitted  him  for  further  public  service.  The 
family  name  and  traits  of  character  were, 
however,  appreciated,  for  no  sooner  does  the 
name  of  Jasper  Crane,  Jr.,  disappear  from  the 
records  of  the  town's  proceedings  than  the 
names  of  three  of  his  sons  are  brought  into 
prominence.  John,  Azariah,  and  Jasper,  Jr., 
falling  heir  not  only  to  their  father's  public 
responsibilities  but  also  to  the  trust  and  confi- 
dence which  placed  those  duties  on  their 
shoulders. 

August  25,  1675,  there  w.as  patented  to  Jas- 
per Crane  in  Newark  one  hundred  and  sixty- 
eight  acres  of  land  as  follows:  "a  House  lot 
14  acres  17  acres,  being  his  first  division  on 
Great  Neck ;  1 1  acres  being  in  part  for  his  sec- 
ond division  on  said  Neck;  6  acres  on  said 
Neck ;  4  acres  at  the  bottom  of  the  Neck ;  20 
acres  for  his  second  division  by  Two  Mile 
Brook ;  20  acres  for  his  third  division  by  the 
head  of  Mile  Brook;  20  acres  for  his  third 
division  at  the  head  of  the  branch  of  Second 
river;  14  acres  of  meadow  for  his  first  divi- 
sion at  Great  Island;  12  acres  for  his  second 
division  by  the  Great  Pond;  14  acres  for  his 
proportion  of  bogs ;  5  acres  of  meadow  near 
the  Great  Island ;  i  acre  of  meadow  at  Beef 
Point ;  4  acres  of  meadow  near  Wheeler's 
Point,  ycalding  one  half  penny  lawful  money 
of  England,  or  in  such  pay  as  the  country 
doth  produce  at  merchant's  price  for  every 
one  of  the  said  acres,  the  first  payment  to 
begin  the  25th  of  March,  which  was  in  the 
year  1670."  These  lands  were  taken  up  and 
occupied  some  time  prior  to  the  date  of  the 
patents.     May  i,   1675,  Jasper  seems  to  have 


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been  granted  another  warrant  fur  cnie  hundred 
and  three  acres  in  Newark. 

August  24,  1670.  the  town  made  and  agree- 
ment with  Robert  Treat  and  Sergeant  Richard 
Harrison,  to  "build  and  maintain  a  -sufficient 
corn-mill  upon  the  brook  called  Mill  Brook." 
They  were  given  the  sole  privilege  of  this 
brook,  with  all  the  town  grists  and  all  the 
stone  within  the  town  limits  suitable  for  mill- 
stones, all  the  timber  that  was  prepared  by 
Josei)h  Horton  for  the  mill,  and  two  days, 
work  of  every  man  and  woman  "that  holds  an 
allotment  in  the  town,"  and  all  the  lands  for- 
merly granted  to  Joseph  Horton.  They  were 
to  hold  this  land  as  their  own  so  long  as  they 
held  and  maintained  the  mill :  but  they  were 
not  to  dispose  of  the  mill  without  the  consent 
of  the  town.  The  town  was  also  to  gfive  thirty 
pounds  in  good  wheat,  pork,  beef,  or  one- 
fourth  in  good  Indian  corn,  at  such  prices  as 
would  enable  them  to  exchange  it  for  or  pro- 
cure iron,  millstones,  or  the  workman's  wages, 
etc.  "Winter  wheat  5  shillings  per  bushel ; 
summer  wheat  4s.  5d;  pork  3d  per  lb;  beef 
2d ;  Indian  corn  2s.  6d  per  bushel."  When 
Robert  Treat  was  about  to  return  to  Connecti- 
cut, Jasper  Crane  assumed  his  portion  of  the 
contract. 

Jasper  Crane's  descendants  have  been  very 
numerous.  One  branch  of  them  located  west- 
ward of  Newark,  and  about  five  or  six  miles 
distant  from  the  town,  and  called  the  place  of 
their  abode  Cranetown.  Some  of  them  took 
up  their  residence  four  miles  to  the  southward 
of  Newark  at  and  near  Elizabcthtown.  And 
from  these  three  points,  Newark,  Cranetown 
and  Elizalx'lhtovvn,  the  family  pressed  their 
way  further  westward,  crossing  the  Passaic 
river  and  settling  in  Morris  county.  ''They 
were  all  remarkable  for  frugality,  honesty  and 
piety,  and  were  mostly  Presbyterians.  It  has 
been  said  by  one,  not  a  member  of  the  family, 
'no  more  respectable  j^eople,  no  better  citizens, 
are  found  in  our  communities  than  those  who 
bear  the  Crane  blood  in  them.'  " 

October  30,  1666,  at  a  meeting  in  liran- 
ford,  the  preliminary  agreement  outlining  the 
conduct  of  the  proposed  new  settlement  uj)on 
the  "Passaick  River  in  the  Province  of  New 
Jersey"  was  signed  by  Jasper  Crane,  and  his 
sons  John  and  "Delievered."  These  three 
names  apjiear  among  the  first  proprietors  of 
the  town  of  Newark,  and  at  the  town  meeting 
held  February  6,  1667,  Jasper  Crane,  John 
and  "Deliverance,"  all  appear  to  have  been 
present.  Thenceforth  for  more  than  a  century 
the   name   of   Crane   occupied   a   conspicuous 


])lace  in  the  annals  of  the  town,  and  scarcely 
a  town  meeting  was  held  for  a  period  of  one 
Inuuired  years  that  there  was  not  a  Crane 
chosen  to  till  some  office  for  the  town,  and  it 
was  not  unusual  to  elect  to  public  position  sev- 
eral of  the  name  at  one  meeting.  March  13. 
1759,  the  family  seems  to  have  reached  the 
zenith  of  its  popularity ;  for  at  that  meeting, 
by  vote  of  the  town,  eight  dififerent  offices  were 
filled  by  Cranes.  Elijah  Crane  was  elected 
town  clerk  and  also  clerk  for  the  strays.  John 
Crane  became  a  freeholder ;  John  Treat  Crane 
one  of  the  surveyors  of  the  highways,  as  did 
also  Jedediah  Crane.  Elijah  Crane  was  made 
collector  for  the  town,  and  John  Crane  one 
of  the  collectors  for  the  parsonage  and  bury- 
ing ground.  John  Crane,  again,  was  one  of 
the  committee  to  settle  a  difficulty  as  to  the 
line  of  the  parsonage  land  ;  and  Solomon  Crane 
became  one  of  the  overseers  of  the  highways. 
As,  however,  the  two  John  Cranes  mentioned 
above  may  be  one  and  the  same,  i<  may  have 
required  only  seven  Cranes  to  fill  the  eight 
positions,  so  that  this  election  may  have  ex- 
ceeded by  but  one  instead  of  two,  the  meeting 
of  March  12,  1754,  when  six  Cranes  were 
elected  to  fill  seven  public  positions ;  John 
Crane  being  chosen  collector;  Timothy  and 
Ezekiel,  surveyors  of  the  highways;  Elijah 
and  William,  overseers  of  the  poor;  John, 
clerk  for  the  strays ;  and  Noah  Crane,  one  of 
the  overseers  of  the  highways. 

Only  the  first  name,  Alice,  of  the  wife  of 
Jasper  Crane  has  come  down  to  us.  In  his 
will  he  names  his  children.  John,  Azariah,  Jas- 
per, and  Hannah  Huntington,  and  his  grand- 
daughter. Hannah  Huntington.  Consequently 
it  is  highly  probable  that  he  survived  her.  A 
special  legacy  in  the  will  provides  that  John  is 
to  have  his  "silver  bole."  The  children  of 
JasjuT  and  Alice  Crane  were: 

1.  John,  born  about  1635,  died  in  1694; 
came  to  Newark  from  Branford  with  his 
father,  and  married  twice,  (first)  Elizabeth. 
sister  of  Nathaniel  h'oote,  of  Wethersfield. 
who  bore  him  foiu"  children  :  John.  1671.  died 
February  22,  1739,  married  and  had  children; 
Jas])cr,  3(1,   1679.  died   1749  or  \y(,<.),  married 

Ann and  had  children:  Daniel,  1684, 

died  September  8,  1747,  married  Phebe,  daugh- 
ter of  Nathaniel,  ancl  granddaughter  of  Ser- 
geant John  Ward  ;  and  Sarah.  ISy  his  second 
wife,  Hannah,  John  Crane  may  have  had  other 
children  not  of  record. 

2.  Hannah,  born  about  1639  ;  married  (  first) 
Thomas,  son  of  Simon  and  Margaret  Hunt- 
ington, who  emigrated  to  Massachusetts  Ray 


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ill  1633,  Simon  dying  on  the  voyage  over, 
and  his  widow  afterwards  marrying  Tliomas 
Stoughton,  of  Dorchester,  and  removing  with 
him  to  Windsor,  Connecticut.  Thomas  Hunt- 
ington died  before  1678  and  his  widow,  Han- 
nah (Crane)  Huntington,  married  (second) 
as  the  second  wife,  Sergeant  John  W'artl,  of 
Xcwark. 

3.  DeHvered  or  Dehverance,  born  July  12. 
1642;  settled  at  Newark,  and  on  the  map  pub- 
lished in  1806  his  house  lot  appears  on  High 
street  near  the  northerly  end.  lie  left  no  chil- 
dren. 

4.  Mercy  or  i\Iary,  baptized  March  i,  1645, 
died  October  26,  1671  ;  married.  August  22, 
1662,  Jonathan  Bell,  of  Stamford,  Connecticut, 
anil  had  eleven  children. 

5.  Alicah,  baptized  November  3,  1647,  prob- 
ably died  in  childhood. 

6.  Azariah,  referred  to  below. 

7.  Jasper,  Jr.,  born  at  East  Haven,  Connecti- 
cut, .\pril  2,  1651,  died  in  Newark,  l\Iarch  6. 
1712.  was  buried  in  the  Presbyterian  churchvard 
on  Broad  street :  lived  in  Cranetown  ;  married 
Joanna,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Joanna,  and 
granddaughter  of  William  Swaine.  Joanna's 
sister.  Elizabeth,  as  the  fiance  of  Josiah,  son 
of  John  Ward  the  turner,  was  given  the  privi- 
lege of  being  the  first  to  step  on  shore  from  the 
ship  which  brought  the  settlers  from  Branford 
to  Newark,  while  another  sister,  Christiana, 
married  Nathaniel,  son  of  Sergeant  John 
Ward.  The  children  of  Jasper  and  Joanna 
(Swaine)  Crane  were:  i.  Joseph,  born  1676, 
died  1726;  married  Abigail,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Lyon,  and  had  eight  children,  ii.  Jonathan, 
1678,  died  June  25,  1744;  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Major  John,  and  granddaughter 
of  Captain  Robert  Treat,  and  had  seven  chil- 
dren, iii.  Sarah,  1683 ;  married  Joseph 
Wheeler,  iv.  Elihu,  i68g,  died  April  27,  1732; 
married  Mary  Plum,  who  after  liis  death  be- 
came the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Jonathan  Dicken- 
son, the  first  president  of  the  College  of  New 
Jersey,  now  Princeton  University.  She  bore 
her  first  husband  seven  children,  v.  Hannah, 
1690;  married  as  the  first  wife  of  Robert,  son 
of  Jonathan  and  Rebecca  (Wood)  Ogden.  and 
grandson  of  John  and  Jane  (Bond)  Ogden, 
the  emigrants,  vi.  David,  1603,  died  May  16, 
1750:  by  his  wife  Mary  had  eight  children. 

(TI)  Deacon  Azariah,  sixth  child  and  third 
son  of  Jasper  and  Alice  Crane,  was  born  in 
1649,  in  New  Haven,  died  in  Newark,  No- 
vember 5,  1730.  In  the  overturn  of  the  gov- 
ernment by  the  Dutch  in  1673,  Deacon  Azariah 
was  entrusted  with  the  concerns  of  his  father- 


in-law.  Captain  Robert  Treat,  who  was  gov- 
ernor of  the  Connecticut  colony  during  the 
Charter  oak  episode.  He  appears  to  have  out- 
lived all  the  original  settlers,  and  he  left  his 
silver  bowl  to  be  "used  forever"  in  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Newark,  where  he 
was  deacon  from  1690  until  his  death.  The 
church  is  still  using  the  bowl  to-day  for  bap- 
tisms. Although  not  yet  twenty-one  years  old 
when  he  came  to  Newark,  .Azariah  Crane  took 
his  place  with  the  men  and  shouldered  his 
burdens  manfully  from  the  very  first.  June 
24,  1667,  he  subscribed  his  name  to  the  funda- 
mental agreements  and  in  the  allotments  to  the 
young  men  May  26,  1673,  he  drew  lot  number 
21.  June  12,  1676,  he  began  his  career  in 
])ublic  office  by  being  chosen  one  of  the  town's 
men  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  to  this  position 
he  was  five  times  re-elected,  namely,  January 
I,  1677;  January  i,  1673;  January  i,  1684; 
January  i  1685,  and  January  17,  1694.  Janu- 
ary II,  1 68 1,  he  started  his  preparation  for 
his  diaconal  duties  of  later  life  by  receiving 
an  appointment  to  "look  to  the  Young  People, 
that  they  carry  themselves  civilly  in  the  Meet- 
ing House  in  time  of  Divine  Worship,  for  half 
this  Year  ensuing."  In  1684-86-S8  he  was 
chosen  one  of  the  surveyors  and  layers  out  of 
highways.  March  22,  1683,  with  Joseph  Riggs, 
Edward  Ball,  and  Samuel  Harrison,  Azariah 
Crane  was  chosen  "to  lay  out  the  Bounds  be- 
tween us  and  Hockquecanung,  (i.  e.  Passaic), 
and  to  make  no  other  agreement  with  them  of 
any  other  Bounds  than  what  was  formerly." 
besides  these  he  was  appointed  to  and  held  the 
offices  of  pounder  and  poundkeeper  in  1678 
and  1683;  grand  juryman  in  1679;  constable 
in  1682;  overseer  of  the  poor  in  1692;  and 
deputy  to  the  provincial  assembly  in  1694-95. 
April  5,  1686,  "Azariah  Crane,  Joseph  Wal- 
ters, Samuel  Harrison  and  Edward  Ball  are 
chosen  to  go  to  each  Person  that  is  possessed 
of  Land,  and  take  an  account  of  them  how 
much  each  Man  hath,  and  bring  an  Account  to 
the  Town  the  next  Meeting."  February  7, 
1686,  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  committee 
of  thirteen  who  were  to  "take  Notice  of  all 
Lands  that  Persons  have  appropriated  to  them- 
selves and  regidate  the  same"  and  to  "Order 
how  a  fourth  Division  of  Land  shall  be  laid 
out."  April  30,  1688,  his  name  appears  as 
the  fifth  on  a  list  of  the  committee  "chosen  to 
endeavour  a  legall  Settlement  with  the  Pro- 
]>rietors,  offering  to  give  a  legall  Acknowledg- 
ment for  our  Lands  within  our  Town  Bounds 
as  exprest  in  our  Bill  of  Sale,  and  Privilcdges 
suitable  for  us —  the  said  Committee  in  their 


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STATl-:    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


Offer,  not  exceeding  the  advice  of  such  of 
their  Neighbours  as  are  most  capable  to  give 
Advice  in  that  Matter."  March  25,  1689, 
Azariah  Crane  was  one  of  the  six  men  chosen 
to  form  with  the  mihtary  authorities  of  the 
town  a  committee  to  "order  all  affairs  in  as 
prudent  a  way  as  they  can  for  the  Safety  and 
Preservation  of  ourselves,  Wives,  Children 
and  Estates,  according  to  the  Capacity  we  are 
in."  February  5,  i6gi,  with  Samuel  Harrison. 
William  Camp  and  Edward  Ball,  he  was 
chosen  "to  take  care  of  the  Poor  and  of  Rich- 
ard Hore  and  to  appoint  what  each  Man  shall 
pay  for  what  is  behind ;  and  also  to  appoint 
what  each  one  shall  pay  for  a  quarter — they 
are  also  to  see  to  remove  him  to  Samuel  Rose, 
or  to  some  other  Place,  and  agree  as  reason- 
ably as  they  can."  August  23,  1692,  he  was 
one  of  the  committee  chosen  to  treat  with  the 
Rev.  John  Prudden  with  regard  to  his  succeed- 
ing the  Rev.  Abraham  Pierson  as  the  minister 
of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Newark; 
and  later  on  in  the  same  year  he  was  one  of 
the  committee  "to  treat  with  the  Governor  and 
Proprietors  about  our  Settlements."  April  19. 
1C19S.  "it  is  voted  that  Thomas  Ilayse,  Joseph 
llarrison,  Jasper  Crane,  and  Matthew  Can- 
field,  shall  view  whether  Azariah  Crane  may 
have  Land  for  a  Tan  Yard,  at  the  Front  of 
John  Plum's  home  Lott,  out  of  the  Common ; 
and  in  case  the  Men  above  mentioned  agree 
that  Azariah  Crane  shall  have  the  Land,  he  the 
said  Azariah  Crane  shall  enjoy  it,  so  long  as 
he  doth  follow  the  Trade  of  tanning."  Octo- 
ber I,  1705,  the  town  decided  to  ask  the  Rev. 
Samuel  Sherman  "to  preach  the  \\ord  amongst 
for  Probation ;"  and  the  following  February 
19,  Deacon  Azariah  Crane  was  one  of  the 
committee  appointed  to  bear  to  the  worthy 
dominie  the  unwelcome  news  that  he  would 
not  suit.  From  this  time  until  1709,  when  Mr. 
Nathaniel  Piowers  took  charge,  there  was  a 
succession  of  unsuccessful  candidates  for  the 
post  of  minister,  but  after  a  year's  trial  of 
Mr.  Bowers,  a  committee,  one  of  whom  was 
Deacon  Azariah,  was  appointed  to  take  meas- 
ures for  the  ordination  of  the  candidate  and  a 
permanent  call  was  given  to  him,  and  he  served 
the  town  until  his  death  in  1716,  when  Deacon 
Azariah  w-as  a]Ji)ointcd  on  another  committee 
"to  se  out  some  Way  to  procure  a  Minister 
for  the  Town,  to  supply  the  Place  of  Mr  Na- 
thaniel 1  lowers,  dec'd."  As  stated  above  in 
1683,  when  he  was  thirty-four  years  old.  Dea- 
con Azariah  Crane  was  one  of  the  committee 
settling  the  line  between  the  town  of  Newark 


and  Passaic,  and  so  very  fittingly  he  closed  his 
long  career  of  public  civil  usefulness  at  the 
advanced  age  of  seventy  years  by  being  the 
first  and  chief  witness  present  at  the  formal 
renewal  of  the  line.  April  6,  1719,  exactly 
thirty-six  years  and  fifteen  days  from  the  time 
he  was  appointed  to  make  the  first  survey,  he 
being  the  only  one  of  the  original  surveyors  of 
the  line  not  gone  to  his  reward. 

As  early  as  1715  Deacon  .Azariah  Crane  was 
living  on  his  home  place  at  the  Mountain,  and 
it  is  almost  certain  that  he  located  there  manv 
years  prior  to  that  date,  since  by  warrant, 
April  24,  1694,  there  was  laid  out  by  John 
Gardner  "a  tract  at  the  foot  of  the  mountain, 
having  Azariah  Crane  on  the  northeast  and 
Jasper  Crane  on  the  southwest.  August  26, 
1675,  the  day  after  he  had  received  the  patent 
for  it,  Jasper  Crane,  Sr.,  and  his  "wife  Alice," 
deeded  to  their  sons  Azariah  and  Jasper  all  the 
lands  described  in  the  previous  sketch.  About 
seven  years  later,  Azariah,  June  11,  and  Sep- 
tember 15,  1682,  deeds  to  his  "brother  Jasper," 
a  good  part  of  his  share,  the  second  of  them 
including  the  "lower  part  of  their  father's, 
Jasper  Crane's,  homestead,  orchard,  and  other 
small  parcels."  While  about  a  month  later. 
October  3,  1682,  "Robert  Treat  senior  of  Mill- 
foord.  Count,"  deeds  to  his  "son-in-law  Aza- 
riah Crane  and  daughter  Mary  Crane,  of  New- 
ark" his  home  lot  of  eight  acres  in  that  place. 
And  finally  January  2j,  1695,  there  is  patented 
to  Azariah  Crane,  of  Newark,  the  following 
tracts,  namely,  "i,  a  lot  at  the  mountain,  south- 
west John  Gardner,  northwest  the  mountain, 
northeast  Edward  JJaall  and  a  road,  southeast 
unsurveyed ;  2.  a  lot  called  the  Burnt  Swamp ; 
3.  a  piece  of  meadow,  east  the  Bay,  south  John 
Gardner,  west  Samuel  Waard,  north  Jasper 
Craine ;  in  all  one  hundred  acres."  June  9. 
1679,  there  was  issued  to  him  also  one  hun- 
dred and  thirty-six  acres  in  nine  parcels,  the 
sixth  of  which  was  "fifty  acres  on  branches  of 
the  T'lizabeth  River."  While  as  we  have  seen, 
in  1698  the  town  voted  him  a  site  for  a  tannery 
in  the  town  of  Newark  itself. 

There  seems,  however,  to  have  been  .some 
hitch  in  the  arrangements  for  this  tannery 
which  would  have  been  situated  at  what  is 
now  the  juncture  of  Market  street  and  Sjjring- 
field  avenue,  in  front  of  where  the  present 
court  house  now  stands,  and  it  is  somewhat 
curious  that  the  low  grounds  on  the  east, 
through  which  Market  street  is  laid  became 
and  are  now  to  some  extent  the  centre  of 
Newark's  leather  manufactures.    Conse<iuentIv 


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35 


although  not  permanently  identified  with  the 
industry  Deacon  Azariah  has  the  honor  of 
being  the  first  in  the  fielil. 

Shortly  after  his  unsuccessful  tannery  ven- 
ture. Azariah  Crane  moved  to  his  place  on  the 
mountain,  and  formed  the  settlement  long 
known  as  Cranetown  and  now  as  Montclair. 
The  four  years  succeeding  the  death  of  the 
Rev.  Nathaniel  Bovvers  were  distinguished 
by  differences  of  opinion  on  church  order. 
The  people  of  Newark  were  substantially  a 
unit  in  favor  of  Presbytery,  while  the  dwellers 
on  the  mountain  were  equally  united  in  favor 
of  the  old  Congregational  basis.  During  the 
last  months  of  1716  and  the  early  months  of 
1717  the  Rev.  Jedediah  Uuckingham  had 
served  both  communities,  having  as  his  suc- 
ces.sor  in  Newark  says,  "zealous  friends  and 
more  zealous  opponents,"  among  the  foremost 
of  the  latter  being  Deacon  Azariah.  Conse- 
quently yir.  Buckingham  withdrew  and  the 
people  on  the  mountain  formed  a  new  society 
and  took  organic  form  in  1718.  January  13, 
1719,  the  society,  henceforth  known  to  history 
as  the  Mountain  Society,  purchased  from 
Thomas  Gardner  twenty  acres  of  land  for  a 
glebe ;  and  according  to  tradition,  in  the  same 
year  another  plot  of  ground  was  given  to  it 
for  a  burial  place.  In  the  next  year,  1720,  a 
lot  for  a  meeting  house  was  selected  and  the 
building  erected,  and  by  the  close  of  the  year 
the  first  pastor  had  been  installed.  In  all  this 
Azariah  Crane  had  taken  a  prominent  part, 
and  four  ten  years  was  himself  a  deacon  of  the 
society,  while  his  sons,  and  grandsons,  Na- 
thaniel and  .Azariah,  and  Noah  and  William, 
also  in  their  turn  taking  leading  positions  in 
the  church  and  aiding  materially  with  funds 
in  the  building  of  the  church  and  parsonage 
edifices. 

Deacon  Azariah  Crane  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Captain  Robert  Treat,  the  Mil- 
ford-Branford  settler  of  Newark,  and  after- 
wards the  governor  of  Connecticut.  She  was 
born  in  1649,  died  November  12.  1704.  Their 
children  were:  i.  Hannah,  married  John 
Plum,  of  Milford,  Connecticut.  2.  Nathaniel, 
referred  to  below.  3.  .Azariah.  born  1682  ;  set- 
tled at  West  Bloomfield,  near  his  brother  Na- 
thaniel, was  a  subscriber  to  the  fund  for  erect- 
ing the  parsonage  and  meeting  house  at  Mont- 
clair, was  chosen  one  of  the  pounders,  Novem- 
ber 2,  1703,  and  by  his  wife  Rebecca  had 
eight  children.  4.  Robert,  born  1684,  died 
July  14.  1755  ;  he  is  said  to  have  lived  in  a 
stone  house  in  Newark.  In  1718  he  was 
pounder,    in    1736-37    surveyor   of    highways, 


and  in  1740  one  of  the  fence  viewers.  By  his 
wife  Phebe  he  had  seven  children.  5.  Jane, 
born  1686,  died  September  12,  1755;  became 
the  first  wife  of  John  Richards,  of  Newark, 
to  whom  she  bore  three  children.  6.  Mary, 
born  1693;  married  a  Baldwin.  7.  John,  born 
169V  died  September  5,  1776;  lived  on  the  east 
siae  of  Broad  street,  Newark,  on  a  part  of  the 
home  lot  inherited  by  his  mother  from  her 
father,  Robert  Treat,  was  a  very  active  and 
influential  man  in  the  town;  by  his  first  wife, 
.Abigail,  had  eight  children,  and  by  his  second, 
Rebecca,  two  more.  8.  and  9.  Kichard  and 
Jasper,  died  in  infancy. 

(Ill)  Major  Nathaniel,  second  child  and 
eldest  son  of  Deacon  Azariah  and  Mary 
(Treat)  Crane,  was  born  about  1680,  probably 
in  Newark,  and  died  in  1760,  leaving  a  will  in 
which  he  names  his  children.  He  settled  near 
a  spring  at  ^\'est  Bloomfield,  now  Montclair, 
on  the  place  which  as  late  as  1851  was  occu- 
pied by  Cyrus  Pierson,  the  spring  itself  being 
located  near  the  railroad  depot  in  Montclair. 
Both  he  and  his  brother  .\zariah  were  large 
land  owners ;  their  lands  being  bounded  on  the 
south  by  the  Swinefield  road,  on  the  east  by 
the  Cranetown  road,  now  Park  street,  on  the 
west  by  Wigwam  brook,  which  was  the  divi- 
sion line  between  the  Crane  lands  and  those  of 
the  Harrisons  and  Williams,  and  on  the  north 
by  .Antony's  brook  at  Montclair,  which  is  the 
northern  tributary  of  the  Second  river.  They 
also  held  land  on  the  south  side  of  the  North- 
field  road  to  the  summit  of  the  mountain.  This 
last  afterwards  came  into  the  possession  of 
.Simeon  Harrison,  being  conveyed  to  him  by 
the  executors  of  Caleb,  son  of  Noah  and 
grandson  of  Major  Nathaniel  Crane.  There 
is  a  tradition  that  when  the  lords  proprietors 
claimed  the  payments  of  the  (|uitrents  for  the 
lands  taken  by  .Azariah  and  Nathaniel  Crane 
these  brothers  brought  in  a  bill  of  equal  amount 
for  their  services  as  surveyors  in  the  employ 
of  the  proprietors  as  an  ofTset.  The  bill,  how- 
ever, was  not  accepted,  and  the  controversy 
was  finally  settled  by  the  supreme  court  in  the 
favor  of  the  surveyors.  It  is  also  a  matter  of 
record  that  Nathaniel  Crane  paid  Samuel  Har- 
rison for  his  services  in  defending  his  right  to 
the  lands  on  which  he  had  settled  against  the 
claims  of  the  proprietors  the  sum  of  one  pound 
ten  shillings.  This  entry  which  is  taken  from 
an  old  account  book  of  Mr.  Harrison  was  made 
in  1744.  Nathaniel  Crane  was  also  a  strong 
sup]iorter  of  the  Mountain  Society  which  after- 
wards became  the  "Second  Church  of  New- 
ark," and  is  now  known  as  the  "First  Presby- 


3^^ 


STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY 


teriaii  Cluirch  of  Orange."  In  1749  he  was  one 
of  the  subscribers  to  the  fund  for  the  building 
of  the  ])arsonage  for  the  minister,  giving  four- 
teen shilhngs ;  and  in  1753  he  gave  an  addi- 
tional subscription  of  eleven  pounds  towards 
the  building  fund  of  the  second  meeting  house, 
three  of  his  sons  also  subscribing.  Nathaniel 
Jr.  three  shillings  six  pence,  William  eleven 
pounds,  and  Noah  eight  pounds.  Other  sub- 
scribing Cranes  were  Caleb,  Job,  Gamaliel, 
Stc])hen,  Jedediah,  Lewis,  Elihu  and  Ezekiel, 
and  the  sum  total  of  their  subscri]itions 
amounted  to  fifty-six  pounds,  sixteen  shillings, 
six  pence.  In  1744  Major  Nathaniel  Crane  was 
chosen  recorder  of  strays. 

The  name  of  Major  Nathaniel  Crane's  wife 
rs  unknown,  but  by  her  he  had  six  children  :  i. 
William ;  see  sketch  elsewhere.  2.  Noah,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  Nathaniel,  died  unmarried. 
4.  Elizabeth,  married  a  Young.  5.  Jane,  mar- 
ried a  Smith.  6.  jNIehitable.  married  Thomas 
Richards,  who  died  leaving  a  will  dated  1758, 
and  three  children,  one  of  whom,  Nathaniel, 
was  a  loyalist  during  the  revolution  and  his 
estate,  valued  at  four  hundred  and  eighty-two 
pounds  two  shillings,  was  confiscated. 

(IV)  Noah,  second  child  and  son  of  Major 
Nathaniel  Crane,  was  born  in  17 19  at  West 
Bloomfield,  died  at  Cranetown.  where  he  spent 
his  life,  June  8,  1800.  At  the  town  meeting  of 
Newark.  March  12,  1754.  he  was  chosen  one 
of  the  overseers  of  the  highways,  and  again 
re-appointed  to  the  same  position  by  the  town 
meeting  March  12,  1765.  In  1776  he  was  one 
of  the  officers  of  the  church  at  Bloomfield.  He 
subscribed  ten  jjounds  six  shillings  for  the  par- 
sonage, and  eight  pounds  for  the  second  meet- 
ing house. 

Noah  Crane  married  Mary,  youngest  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Baldwin,  granddaughter  of  John 
Baldwin  Sr.  and  Hannah,  daughter  of  Obadiah 
Bruen.  his  first  wife,  and  great-granddaughter 
of  John  Baldwin,  of  Milford.  Children:  i. 
Samuel,  born  October  29,  1747,  died  February 
28.  1811;  was  a  farmer:  born  in  Cranetown 
and  lived  in  Caldwell,  where  he  died.  Decem- 
ber 3,  17S4,  his  name  is  on  the  first  list  of  com- 
municants of  the  church  organized  that  year 
in  Caldwell  and  the  same  year  also  he  was 
chosen  one  of  the  deacons.  He  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Baldwin,  and 
had  eight  children :  Caleb.  Zcnas.  Cyrus.  Dor- 
cas, Cyrus.  Elizabeth,  Mary  and  Nathaniel.  2. 
Esther,  married  Joseph  Baldwin.  3.  Joseph, 
referred  to  below.  4.  Elizabeth,  born  April 
II,  1753,  died  in  1831:  married  John  R.,  son 
of  Ezekiel  and  Elizabeth   (Halloway)   Crane, 


granddaughter  of  Azariah  and  Rebecca  Crane, 
great-granddaughter  of  Deacon  Azariah  and 
Mary  (Treat)  Crane.  They  had  six  children: 
Mary,  Nehemiah,  Henry,  Sarah,  Hetty  and 
Nathaniel.  5.  Caleb,  died  unmarried.  6.  Na- 
thaniel, born  in  1758,  died  in  1833;  married 
Hannah,  daughter  of  William  and  grand- 
daughter of  Major  Nathaniel  Crane.  They 
had  no  children.  Nathaniel  served  in  the  war 
of  1812,  gave  the  bulk  of  his  property  for  the 
support  of  the  Presbyterian  ministry,  was  in 
the  battle  of  Long  Island,  September  15,  1776, 
was  overseer  of  highways  in  1795-96.  and  on 
the  town  committee  in  1799  and  1800.  7. 
Nehemiah.  died  in  infancy.  8.  Mehitabel.  born 
1764,  died  December  4,  1843;  married  General 
\Villiam  Gould,  and  had  eleven  children:  Mary, 
Johnson  N.,  Phebe,  Betsy,  Stephen.  Emily, 
Charlotte,  Nathaniel,  Harriet,  Willia  and 
Stephen.  9.  Alary.  10.  Nehemiah.  11.  Stephen, 
of  whom  nothing  more  is  known. 

(  \  )  Deacon  Joseph,  third  child  and  second 
son  of  Noah  and  Mary  (Baldwin)  Crane,  was 
born  in  Cranetown,  1751.  died  in  West  Bloom- 
field, where  he  resided,  October  11,  1832.  He 
held  office  in  the  church  from  1794  to  1798, 
and  subscribed  sixty  pounds  in  the  first  men- 
tioned year  towards  tlie  building  of  the  meet- 
ing house.  He  also  served  as  overseer  of  the 
highways  in   1806  and  in  the  war  of  1812. 

Deacon  Josejjh  Crane  married,  February  15, 
1774,  Hannah  Lampson,  a  descendant  of 
Eleazer  Lampson,  who  married  Abgail,  daugh- 
ter of  Lieutenant  Samuel  Swaine,  of  Newark, 
Eleazer  being  the  son  of  John  Lampson,  of 
New  Haven,  who  came  to  Newark  with  his 
mother.  Elizabeth  Morris,  and  Abigail  Swaine, 
being  the  sister  of  the  Joanna  Swaine  who 
married  Jas]5cr  Crane  Jr.  Children  :  i.  Eleazer, 
Ixirn  August  20,  1775,  baptized  December  21, 
1783:  died  at  Montclair,  May  23,  1865;  un- 
married :  having  been  overseer  of  the  highways 
in  1807-09.  2.  Daniel,  born  April  13.  1778; 
became  a  minister.  3.  Noah,  considered  below. 
4.  Sarah,  born  February  22,  1 781,  died  .April 
20,  1835.  5.  Nathaniel,  born  September  14, 
1783,  died  January  3,  1785.  6.  Jane,  born 
February  5,  1785,  died  February  9,  1864;  mar- 
ried, October  24,  1806,  Amzi  L.,  son  of  Dea- 
con Samuel  Ball;  lived  many  years  in  Orange 
county.  New  York,  where  he  was  sheriff,  and 
subsenucntly  returnefl  to  New  Jersev,  where 
he  died  September  26.  t86o.  7.  Marv,  born 
.September  30.  T788,  died  Mav  3.  1869:  mar- 
ried Samuel  Williams.  8.  Rhoda.  born  De- 
cember 17.  1790.  died  February  28,  181T  :  mar- 
ried, in   1810.  Peter  Dorcmus.     9.  Nathaniel, 


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I  born  March  20.  1794,  died  January  19.  1861  ; 
married  Rebecca  Marrison  and  had  three  chil- 
dren :    Morington,  Phebe  and  Irving. 

(\T)  Noah  (2),  third  child  and  son  of  Dea- 
con Joseph  and  Hannah  (Lampson)  Crane, 
was  born  in  West  Bloomfield,  August  2,  1779, 
died  September  16,  185 1.  He  was  a  Presby- 
terian minister.  He  was  twice  married,  his 
first  wife  being  a  Grover,  and  his  second 
IJethia  T.  Conkling,  born  January  11,  1790. 
died  July  28.  1869.  By  his  first  wife  he  had 
one  ciiild,  and  by  his  second  seven.  They  were  : 
I.  Mary  .Ann,  born  September  26,  1805,  died 
February  6,  1846;  married  James  P.  Crane, 
born  in  1804.  died  in  1886;  no  children.  2. 
Lucinda.  born  July  24,  181 1,  died  January  18, 
1883;  married,  December  7.  1832,  Pierson 
Hurd,  and  had  six  children :  Imogene,  Emma 
Louise.  Stockton.  Isabel,  \\'alter  and  Orlando. 
3.  Joseph,  born  May  24,  1813,  died  December 

1  14,  1884:  married,  November  5,  1839  Eliza- 
beth Conkling,  who  died  December  11,  1884, 
and  had  three  children :  Theron,  born  Novem- 
ber 29,  1840,  died  June  17,  1841  ;  Charles  Spen- 
cer, January  21,  1844;  married  Jenny  Cornelia 
Miller:  Frances  Bethiah,  September  11,  1851, 
died  December  9,  1855.  4.  Henry  Conkling, 
born  May  24,  1816;  see  sketch  elsewhere.  5. 
Samuel  Crane,  referred  to  below.  6.  .\melia, 
born  December  26,  1821,  deceased.  7.  .Amelia, 
born  June  6.  1824,  died  July  15,  1824.  8.  Sarah 
Conkling,  born  .-\pril  3,  1828:  married,  Octo- 
ber II.  1849,  John  Robert  .\iken.  and  had  two 
children.  Laura  -\.,  and  Henry  Conkling,  both 
of  whom  died  in  infancy. 

(\'II)  Samuel,  fourth  child  and  thirl  son 
of  Noah  (2)  and  Bethia  T.  (Conkling)  Crane, 
was  born  in  Sparta,  September  17,  1819,  died 
in  Newark,  December  22,  1907.  For  many 
years  he  kept  a  country  store  in  Sparta,  and 
then  came  to  Newark,  where  he  learned  sad- 
dlery. .\fter  this  he  removed  to  New  York, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  manufacturing  and 
selling  of  trunks.  For  nineteen  years  he  was 
one  of  the  overseers  of  the  poor  for  Newark, 
was  an  independent  Republican,  and  at  one 
time  school  commissioner.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Free  and  .Accepted  Masons,  of  the  New- 
ark Praying  Band,  for  many  years  also  of  the 
Central  Presbyterian  Church,  and  towards  the 
end  of  his  life  of  the  Third  Presbv-terian 
Church. 

.August  I.  1843,  Samuel  Crane  married 
Naomi,  eldest  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Catha- 
rine (Drake)  Williamson,  born  January  25, 
1825,  died  January  25,  1904,  Children:  i. 
Gertrude,  born  November  16,   1844:  married, 


December  31,  1859,  Charles  .A.  Rogers,  and 
has  two  children,  Eva,  born  July  3,  1861,  wife 
of  George  E.  Chandler,  and  \\'alter,  born  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1864.  2.  Linden  C,  referred  to 
below.  3.  Elvin,  born  January  10,  1850,  died 
June  19,  1853.  4.  Elvin  Williamson,  referred 
to  below.  5.  Frances  C,  born  November  9, 
1856;  married,  May  17,  1876,  Samuel  H.  John- 
son and  has  one  child,  Edna  F.,  born  October 
10.  1881.  6.  Laura  .A.,  born  February  20,  i860. 
7.  Samuel,  born  in  1863,  died  in  infancy.  8. 
Lillian  P..,  born  November  7,  1865:  married, 
December  i8,  1890,  .Alfred  L.  Peer,  born  Sep- 
tember 30,  1859  ;  no  children. 

(\TII)  Linden  C,  second  child  and  eldest 
son  of  Samuel  and  Naomi  (Williamson) 
Crane,  was  born  in  Newark,  November  13. 
1847,  ^"fl  '*  *'^'l'  living  in  that  city.  He  re- 
ceived a  public  school  education  and  then  went 
into  business,  where  he  has  continued  ever 
since.  He  is  a  Democrat  and  has  been  for  a 
long  time  a  member  of  the  fire  department. 
January  10,  1869,  Linden  C.  Crane  married 
Elizabeth  I^ydecker,  born  April  12,  1848,  died 
October  13.  1895.  They  have  had  three  chil- 
dren: I.  Estella,  born  1869.  died  .August  12, 
18S1.  2.  Flora  P>..  born  December  22,  1873; 
married.  February  4,  1 891.  S.  Walton  Free- 
man, no  children.  3.  .Ada  M.,  born  July  14, 
1877:  married,  in  1900,  Henry  Jacobus:  one 
child,  Louise,  born  March  22,   1901. 

(\'II1)  Elvin  Williamson,  fourth  child  and 
third  son  of  Samuel  and  Naomi  (Williamson) 
Crane,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  October  20. 
1833.  died  in  Newark,  January  9,  1909.  Both 
on  his  father's  and  his  mother's  side  he  traces 
his  ancestry  back  to  the  early  colonial  times, 
for  his  mother  was  a  granddaughter  of  General 
James  Williamson,  of  the  war  of  1812,  also  of 
"General  Imla  Drake,  same  war.  His  father 
moved  to  Newark  while  Elvin  W.  was  quite 
voung,  and  he  received  his  early  education  av 
the  Newark  public  schools  and  later  at  St. 
Paul's  school,  at  that  time  in  the  charge  of  the 
Rev.  Joseph  Smith.  Soon  after  leaving  school 
he  entered  the  law  office  of  the  Hon.  Joseph 
P.  Bradley  and  G.  N.  .Abeel,  and  at  once 
evinced  a  fondness  for  everything  pertaining 
to  the  legal  profession,  even  as  a  boy  displaying 
executive  ability,  systematizing  the  routine 
business  of  the  office  and  soon  becoming  most 
useful  to  his  employers,  with  whom  he  remain- 
ed until  the  firm  was  dissolved.  When  Mr. 
Bradley  was  appointed  to  a  seat  upon  the  bench 
of  the  supreme  court  of  the  L'nited  States,  Mr. 
Crane  remained  with  Mr.  Abeel,  and  when  the 
latter  received  the  appointment  of  prosecutor 


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(jf  the  pleas  for  Essex  county,  Mr.  Crane  con- 
tinued with  him  and  subsequently  became  his 
assistant,  a  position  which  he  occupied  for 
eight  years,  doing  most  of  the  pleading  and 
trying  the  causes  before  the  court  of  special 
ses.-iions.  Colonel  Abeel  having  been  succeeded 
in  office  by  the  Hon.  Oscar  Keen,  Mr.  Crane 
continued  to  fill  the  place  of  assistant  prose- 
cutor during  the  last  named  gentleman's  incum- 
bency. 

Upon  the  expiration  of  Mr.  Keen's  term  of 
office  in  1888.  Governor  (ireene  appointed  Mr. 
Crane  his  successor  as  prosecutor,  a  position  he 
was  probably  better  e(|uip]5eil  for  than  any 
other  member  of  the  bar  in  the  state.  The  abil- 
ity which  he  disjjlayed  in  the  management  of 
his  cases,  the  painstaking  way  in  which  he  con- 
ducted his  trials,  and  his  integrity,  combined 
with  his  fairness  and  undoubted  honesty  of 
purpose  in  all  things,  brought  him  the  esteem 
and  confidence  of  the  community,  and  earned 
for  him  the  popular  approval  of  a  large  num- 
ber of  the  citizens  of  the  state.  When  his  term 
expired,  there  was  ])ractically  no  opposition  to 
his  reap])ointment  which  was  given  to  him  by 
Governor  Werts  for  a  second  term  of  five 
years.  During  his  terms  of  office  Mr.  Crane 
successfully  prosecuted  many  of  the  most 
important  criminal  cases  that  have  ever  been 
Ijrought  to  trial  in  the  state  of  New  Jersey, 
among  them  being  the  Emma  Wood,  the  "Fid- 
dler" Smith,  anfl  the  Henry  Kohl  cases. 

In  October.  t88i,  .Mr.  Crane  became  a  trus 
tee  of  the  Newark  City  Home,  and  served  for 
several  years.  For  more  than  thirty  years  he 
was  very  active  in  the  councils  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party  of  the  state,  and  gave  much  of  his 
time  and  ability  to  the  advancement  of  the 
cause  of  that  great  political  party.  r-"or  a 
time  he  was  chairman  of  the  Democratic  city 
central  committee,  and  in  1887  wa>  elected  a 
member  of  the  New-  Jersey  legislature.  In 
1898  his  party  selected  him  as  the  candidate 
for  governor  of  the  state,  but  after  a  vigorous 
campaign  he  was  defeated  by  less  than  six 
thousand  votes.  In  every  office  he  has  .served 
with  crcflit.  fidelity  and  distinction.  In  De- 
cember. \<)of).  he  was  chosen  for  the  position 
of  county  counsel.  lie  was  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity  and  also  of  the  I'enevolent 
I'rotective  Order  of  Elks. 

July  9,  1879.  Elvin  Williamson  Crane  mar- 
ried Emma  J.,  youngest  daughter  of  Jacob  and 
Mary  ( Masterson )  Esch,  born  September  24, 
1856.  who  survives  both  her  husband  and  chil- 
dren. Mrs.  Crane's  father,  Jacob  Esch,  was  a 
native   of    Alsace,    who   came    to    Xew    York. 


where  he  married  and  had  ten  children,  besides 
Mrs.  Crane,.  Sarah  Louisa,  wife  of  Paul  J. 
White:  Mary  A.,  wife  of  Charles  E.  Sage; 
.\delaide  F.,  wife  of  William  S.  Vliet ;  Fred- 
erick W..  married  Charlotte  Randolph;  Joseph 
L. ;  William  \'..  married  Dora  Taylor:  Kate 
M. :  Lucie  W. ;  (ieorge  F.  The  children  of 
Elvin  Williamson  and  Emma  J.  (Esch)  Crane 
were:  i.  Elvin  Williamson  Jr.,  born  Novem- 
ber 28,  1884,  died  January  4,  1885.  2.  Harold 
\\'illiamson,  born  April  2,  1886,  died  October 
18.  i8(;2.  3.  Elvin  Masterson.  born  .\ugust 
I' I.  1890,  died  May  4,  1897. 


(For  early  generations  see  preceding  .sketch). 

( 1\' )  \\'illiam  Crane,  son  of 
CR.ANE      Major  Nathaniel  Crane,  has  left 

no  record  of  the  dates  of  his 
birth  and  death,  but  he  resided  for  many 
years  at  Cranetown,  or  West  Bloomfield.  now 
Montclair,  and  in  many  ways  was  quite  a 
(irominent  man.  In  1748  he  subscribed  eight 
shillings  towards  the  building  fund  of  the 
parsonage  at  Orange,  and  eleven  pounds 
tr>wards  the  building  fund  of  the  second  meet- 
ing house  in  1753:  and  with  Samuel  Harrison, 
Samuel  Freeman,  Joseph  Harrison,  Stephen 
Dod,  David  Williams.  Samuel  Condit,  and 
Joseph  Riggs,  he  was  one  of  "those  of  the 
parish  regularly  chosen  to  manage  the  affair  of 
the  building,"  of  the  latter  edifice.  He  was 
also  one  of  the  "Members  in  communion  of 
the  ..lountain  Society  prior  to  1756."  noted  in 
the  journal  of  the  Rev.  Caleb  Smith.  Froni 
1753  to  1756,  inclusive,  he  was  overseer  of  the 
[)oor :  from  1760  to  1764  he  was  overseer  of 
the  highways:  in  1767  he  was  one  of  the 
chosen  freeholders  of  the  town.  It  is  probable 
that  he  may  have  inherited  property  in  Crane- 
town  from  his  father,  and  also  possible  that 
he  succeeded  to  the  home  estate,  but  of  this 
there  is  insufficient  evidence  for  certainty.  The 
notable  Crane  mansion,  however,  which  was 
undoubtedly  occuf)ied  either  by  him  or  his 
family  during  the  war  of  the  revolution,  and 
which  is  still  standing  at  the  junction  of  the 
\'alley  Road  with  Clairtnont  avenue.  Orange, 
was  his  home,  and  was  occupied  for  about 
three  weeks  by  General  Washington  as  his 
headquarters.  General  Lafayette  being  with 
him  at  the  time.  After  the  battle  of  Spring- 
field in  June,  1780,  when  the  troops  returned 
from  the  Hudson,  Washington,  who  had  ex- 
])ressed  himself  as  greatly  ])leased  with  the 
conduct  of  the  trfK)ps  from  the  P.loomfield 
region,  placed  his  luain  encamjmicnt  at  Totowa, 
near   I'aterson.     Colonel   Maryland's  regiment 


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was  stationed  near  Little  Falls  and  Major 
Paul's  rifle  corps  in  a  ravine  near  the  Great 
Notch,  where  he  was  ordered  to  watch  the 
roacls  through  the  Notch  into  this  region  and 
into  Ac(|uackononck  and  to  guard  against  sur- 
prises. Lafayette's  headquarters  were  at  Gaf- 
fel,  near  Centreville.  In  October  the  light 
infantry  was  ordered  to  a  new  position  the 
better  to  watch  the  Notch  and  the  Cranetown 
Gap.  Washington,  with  a  detachment,  was 
scouring  the  country  on  his  blooded  Virginia 
horses,  looking  after  the  stragglers,  and  cor- 
recting the  mutinous  tendencies  of  his  wretched 
soldiers.  His  favorite  lookout  point  was.  it  is 
said,  the  bold  hill  on  the  east  side  of  the 
Notch  ;  and  from  here  he  once  detected  a  raid- 
ing party  of  British  sallying  from  Elizabeth- 
town  to  the  mountains.  The  army  here  was 
in  that  deplorable  condition  which  led,  in  1781, 
to  the  mutiny  of  the  Pennsylvania  troops  at 
Pomjiton.  From  October  7  to  November  27. 
1780.  Washington's  detachment  extended 
along  the  road  and  mountain  southward  from 
the  Crane  homestead,  and  the  story,  as  related 
by  the  Rev.  Oliver  Crane.  D.  D..  LL.  D..  is 
that  one  day  General  Washington  arrived  at 
the  house  and  found  Mrs.  Crane  quite  dis- 
turbed because  there  was  no  tea  in  the  caddy. 
Starting  to  offer  an  apology  to  the  commander- 
in-chief  for  the  lack  of  what  might  seem  to  him 
an  imnortant  feature  of  his  repast,  she  met 
with  the  response,  "Never  mind  so  small  a 
thing  as  that,  my  dear  madam,  please  have  a 
crust  of  bread  toasted,  and  use  that  to  make 
the  tea.  It  will  be  C|uite  good  enough  for  me." 
Later  on  in  the  evening,  when  bedtime  came, 
the  lower  back  room,  which  had  been  used  as 
a  dining  room,  was  selected  by  the  two  gen- 
erals for  their  own  use,  and  it  was  then  dis- 
covered that  there  was  a  deficiency  of  beds: 
whereupon  General  Washington  is  reported  to 
have  remarked,  ".\  soldier's  bed  is  often  times 
only  a  blanket  and  a  board,  but  there  is  plenty 
of  straw  in  the  barn,  is  there  not?"  William 
Crane,  who  at  the  time  the  above  related  inci- 
dents were  taking  place,  was  with  four  if  not 
five  of  his  sons  serving  in  the  Continental 
army.  He  was  twice  married,  (first)  to  a  Miss 
Wheeler,  of  Newark,  and  (second)  to  a  lady 
named  Mercy  or  Mary.  It  is  this  second  wife 
who  was  the  hostess  of  Generals  Washington 
and  Lafayette.  Which  of  William's  wives 
was  the  mother  of  his  children  is  still  a  matter 
of  imcertainty.  but  by  one  or  both  of  them  he 
had  eleven  children. 

I.  Rachel,  married  .Simeon  P.aldwin.  son  of 


David,  son  of  I'enjamin  I'aldwin  and  Eunice, 
daughter  of  Daniel  Dodd. 

2.  Hannah,  married  her  cousin,  Major  Na- 
thaniel Crane,  sixth  child  of  Noah  and  Mary 
( Baldwin )  Crane.  Hannah  Crane's  father- 
in-law  was  also  her  uncle. 

3.  Matthias,  born  September  12,  1743,  died 
September  14,  1786:  married  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Job  and  .Abigail  (  Dodd )  Crane.  Abi- 
gail (  Dodd  )  Crane  was  the  daughter  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  (Lampson)  Dodd,  granddaugh- 
ter of  Daniel  and  Phebe  (Brown)  Dod,  and 
great-granddaughter  of  Daniel  and  ^lary  Dod, 
the  emigrants.  Job  Crane  was  the  son  of 
.Xzariah  and  Rebecca  Crane,  grandson  of 
Deacon  .\zariah  and  Mary  (Treat)  Crane,  and 
great-grandson  of  Jasper  and  Alice  Crane,  the 
emigrants.  Matthias  and  Elizabeth  (Crane) 
Crane  had  two  chiUlren  :  Israel,  married  Fanny 
Pierson  :  and  .\bigail,  married  Hugh  Holmes. 

4.  Jonathan,  tiled  according  to  one  record, 
August  I,  1 801,  and  according  to  another,  in 
Caldwell,  New  Jersey,  in  1805.  He  married 
Mary  Ward,  who  died  November  4,  1820, 
leaving  three  children:  .Abijah,  Uzeal  and 
Timothy. 

5.  Jonas,  referred  to  below. 

6.  Sarah,  born  in  1755,  died  in  1825  :  married 
Stephen  Fordham. 

7.  James,  died  unmarried. 

8.  Zai'oc.  born  in  1738,  died  in  1841.  He 
married  but  had  no  children.  "General  Wash- 
ington had  an  old  gray  horse,  almost  as  well 
known  as  its  rider.  Zadoc  took  care  of  it 
while  the  (General  was  at  Cranetown,  enter- 
tained by  his  mother.  The  oats  fed  to  the 
horse  were  kept  concealed  under  a  stack  of 
hay,  and  every  time  Zadoc  got  a  mess  from 
under  it  he  replaced  the  hay  nicely  and  care- 
fully picked  up  every  scattered  straw  for  fear 
the  British  might  discover  them.  One  day  the 
alarm  came  that  the  British  were  about  to 
make  an  attack  on  the  .American  lines :  and 
Washington  called  for  volunteers  to  act  as 
couriers  to  warn  the  minute-men  living  beyond 
the  first  and  second  mountains.  Zadoc.  who 
had  remained  at  htnne  because  he  had  been 
lame  from  a  boy,  offered  to  go,  as  his  short 
leg  did  not  prevent  his  riding.  Mounted  on 
his  own  horse  with  a  heavy  cutlass  for  his  only 
weapon,  just  as  the  sun  was  disappearing  be- 
hind the  mountains,  under  special  orders  from 
General  ^^'ashington  he  set  out,  riding  through 
the  night,  calling  at  every  house  and  routing 
out  the  inmates  from  their  slumbers.  .As  the 
gray  of  the  morning  began  to  show  itself,  he 


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was  marching  his  men  toward  the  Crane  man- 
sion, and  just  at  daybreak  drew  up  his  squad 
in  front  of  the  doorstep,  where  stood  the  Gen- 
eral. "Well  done,  my  man,"  was  the  latter's 
greeting.  "Now  come  in  and  take  a  horn  of 
whiskey,  for  you  must  need  it." 

9.  William  Jr..  born  1759.  died  November 
16,  1832:  was  a  lieutenant  and  captain  in  the 
revolution  and  in  the  war  of  1S12:  married 
I-ydia.  daughter  of  Joshua  Baldwin.  Their 
eleven  children  were :  Henry,  Elisha,  and  an- 
other, name  unknown,  all  three  of  whom  died 
young ;  Hannah  ;  Sarah  ;  Josiah  W. ;  William  : 
Mary,  became  the  second  wife  of  Joseph,  son 
of  Joseph  and  Phebe  (Durand)  Harrison, 
whose  half-sister  Abigail,  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Rhoda  (Freeman)  Harrison,  married 
Pjethuel  Crane,  first  cousin  of  Alary  (Crane) 
Harrison  (see  Bethuel  below)  ;  Lucy,  wife  of 
Lewis  Pierson :  Joshua;  Prudence,  wife  of 
Z.  I'aldwin.  10.  Oliver,  born  1759,  died  Au- 
gust 31.  1817 :  was  in  the  war  of  1812  ;  married 
Susanna,  daughter  of  David  Baldwin,  of 
lildomficld.  and  had  eight  children:  Sarah. 
Lydia.  Stephen  Fcirdham.  Rachel.  .Amos, 
Ziiphar  Baldwin.  Nathaniel  ALarcus  and  Isaac 
Wheeler. 

II.  .\mos.  baptized  by  the  Rev.  Jedediah 
Cha])man,  March  6,  1768. 

(V)  Jonas,  fifth  child  and  third  son  of  Will- 
iam Crane,  was  born  in  1750,  died  in  Caldwell. 
New  Jersey.  October  17.  1806.  The  name  of 
his  wife  is  unknown,  but  she  bore  him  eight 
children,  four  boys  and  four  girls,  namely: 
I.  .\mos,  married  and  had  a  child  George.  2. 
William.  3.  Calvin  Smith,  born  January  20. 
1795.  died  .March  4,  1837;  married  (first)  May 
10.  1818,  Nancy,  daughter  of  Samuel  Day,  of 
New  York,  bom  February  15.  1793.  died  Jan- 
uary 9.  1827.  having  borne  her  husband  three 
cliildren :  .Ste])lu'n  Munson.  Phebe  .\nn  and 
\'an  Zant.  Calvin  .Smith  Crane  married  (sec- 
ond) Julia  .\ngelina.  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
Douglas,  on  April  2.  1829:  she  was  born  at 
Pompton.  New  Jersey,  1800,  died  in  Caldwell. 
January  22.  1835.  leaving  two  children.  Delia 
and  Walworth  l)ouglass :  Calvin  .Smith  Crane 
married  (third)  October  17,  1836,  Mary, 
daughter  of  John  Ilicr.  who  died  March  4. 
18S7.  having  borne  her  husband  one  child. 
Catharine  .Augusta.  4.  Bethuel.  referred  to 
below.  The  four  daughters  of  Jonas  Crane 
were :  Lydia.  Rachel,  Phebe  and  .Abigail. 

(VI)  Bethuel,  fourth  son  of  Jonas  Crane, 
was  born  in  1780,  died  in  West  Orange.  .\u- 
gii.st  26,  1854.  He  married  .Abigail,  sixth 
child  and  •fecund  daughter  of  Josc])h  Harrison 


of  Livingston.  New  Jersey,  by  his  first  wife 
Rhoda,  daughter,  of  Abel  Freeman,  grand- 
daughter of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Lindsley) 
Freeman,  great-granddaughter  of  Samuel  and 
Elizabeth  (  Brown)  Freeman,  and  great-great- 
granddaughter  of  Stephen  Freeman,  the  emi- 
grant, and  Hannah,  daughter  of  Captain  .Ast- 
wood.  Jr>seph.  the  father  of  .Abigail  Harri- 
son, was  married  three  times,  his  second  wife 
being  Phebe  Durand,  and  his  third  Polly  or 
Mary  (Kirk)  \'an  Emburg,  the  last  of  whom 
bore  him  no  children.  By  his  first  wife 
Joseph  Harrison  had  eight  children :  Demas. 
Tamer.  Rufus.  Jared.  Samuel,  .Abigail.  Joanna 
and  Jared  Freeman  ;  by  his  second  wife  four 
mr.re  children :  Joseph,  married  Charlotte 
Gould,  Mary,  daughter  of  William  Crane  Jr., 
and  Betsey  Blinn  :  Rhoda.  Harvey  and  Phebe. 
Joseph  Harrison  himself  was  the  son  of  Joseph 
Harrison  and  either  Martha,  daughter  of 
Jonathan  Sergeant,  or  Mary,  daughter  of 
Micah  Tompkins  Jr.,  grandson  of  Joseph  Har- 
rison and  Dorcas,  daughter  of  Sergeant  John 
Ward,  of  Newark,  great-grandson  of  Sergeant 
Richard  TTarrison.  and  great-great-grandson  of 
Richard  Harrison,  the  emigrant  from  West 
Kirby,  Cheshire,  England,  to  New  Haven  and 
Branford.  The  children  of  Bethuel  and  Abi- 
gail (Harrison)  Crane  were:  .Aaron  Dodd.  re- 
ferred to  below  ;  Jonas  Smith  ;  Rachel :  Louisa  : 
Phebe  Harrison:  Abigail  .Ann  and  Harriet. 
Rachel  married  Stephen  C.  Moore,  a  merchant 
of  Caldwell.  New  Jersey:  Harriet,  married  and 
had  children:  .Abigail  .Ann.  born  about  1821). 
died  in  1852. 

(ATI)  .Aaron  Dodd.  eldest  son  of  Bethuel 
and  .Abigail  (Harrison)  Crane,  lived  at  Dodd- 
town,  in  the  Oranges.  He  married  Sarah  .A. 
Campl)''ll.  and  had  five  children:  i.  Maria, 
married  .Milton  llulmc.  2.  Moses  ( Iriffiu.  3. 
Augustus  .'^mith.  referred  to  below.  4.  .Mat- 
thew ilenderson.  5.  Louisa,  married  (first) 
John  Kendrick  and  (second)   .Alpheus  Aleade. 

(\'HI)  .Augustus  Smith,  third  child  and 
Mcoud  sou  of  .Aaron  Dodd  and  Sarah  .\. 
(Campbell)  Crane,  was  born  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey.  December  31.  1834.  and  is  now  living 
in  that  city,  [•"or  his  early  education  he  at- 
tended the  common  schools  of  the  town  and 
later  <in  was  sent  to  the  famous  school  kept 
by  Dr.  .\atlian  Hedges,  .\fter  leaving  school, 
he  was  a])prenticed  to  Durand  &  Company,  the 
jewelers,  and  after  completing  his  term  of  a])- 
prenticeship  started  in  for  himself  as  a  manu- 
f.'icturing  jeweler,  making  a  specialty  of 
braided  wire  bracelets.  Mr.  Crane  is  a  Re- 
publican,  but    has   held    no   office.      For   years 


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lie  sang  in  the  choirs  of  different  churches  in 
Newark  and  elsewhere. 

Alay  I.  1862,  Augustus  Smith  Crane  mar- 
ried Henrietta,  eldest  child  of  William  S.  and 
Harriet  Speer  Palmer,  her  only  brother  being 
Frederick  Augustus  I'almer,  gran(klaughter  of 
Jacob  and  P)landina  (Hedenlnirg)  Speer,  and 
of  Ajah  and  Sarah  (Flewelling)  Palmer,  and 
great-granddaughter  of  Samuel  and  Sarah 
(Pierce)  Palmer.  Children  of  Augustus 
Smith  and  Henrietta  (Palmer)  Crane  are  :i. 
r>ederick  Palmer,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Helen  S])eer.  3.  Henrietta  Louise.  4.  Mabel 
Maria,  died  at  the  age  of  three  years.  5. 
Elizabeth  King.  (1.  Paliner  Griffin,  referred 
to  below.  7.  Anna  .Augusta,  born  October  17, 
1876;  married,  January  11,  190S.  Clarence 
Edgar  Beers,  D.  D.  S. 

( IX )  Frederick  Palmer,  eldest  child  and 
son  of  Augustus  Smith  and  Henrietta  (Pal- 
mer) Crane,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
October  II,  1863,  and  is  now  living  with  his 
family  in  that  city.  For  his  early  education 
he  was  sent  to  the  public  schools  of  the  town 
and  then  to  a  private  school,  after  leaving 
which  he  entered  the  Newark  high  school, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1878.  He  then 
entered  the  wholesale  jewelry  trade,  becoming 
a  clerk  in  New  York  City,  where  he  remained 
for  the  next  fourteen  years,  rising  to  the  po- 
sition of  salesman.  In  1892  he  gave  up  his 
position  with  the  jewelry  firm  and  took  up  the 
insurance  business,  in  which  he  continued  for 
two  years,  when  he  accepted  the  position  of 
credit  manager  for  the  firm  of  Whitehead  & 
Hoag,  of  which  he  is  now  assistant  treasurer. 
Mr.  Crane  is  a  Re]niblican.  His  secret  socie- 
ties are  the  K.  O.  T.  M.  and  the  Modern 
Woodmen.     In  religion  he  is  a  Methodist. 

.August  4,  1888,  Frederick  Palmer  Crane 
was  married  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  to  Phebe 
Caroline,  eighth  child  and  fourth  daughter  of 
John  Henry  and  Matilda  .\nn  ( De  \'ausney) 
Mackey. 

(  IX  )  Palmer  Ciriffin,  seventh  and  youngest 
child  of  Augustus  Smith  and  Henrietta  (Pal- 
mer) Crane,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
December  19,  1874,  and  is  now  living  in  thai 
city  with  his  family.  After  receiving  his  early 
education  from  the  public  and  high  schools  of 
Newark,  he  took  a  commercial  course  in  one 
of  the  business  colleges,  and  then  entered  the 
emjiloy  of  the  hardware  dealers,  Ilainski  & 
Tucker,  with  whom  he  remained  for  eight 
years.  Then  he  accepted  a  similar  position 
with  Roe  &  Conover,  with  whom  he  remained 
for  nine  years  more,   when   he   resigned  and 


went  into  business  with  Sidney  J.  Milligan. 
under  the  name  of  Crane  &  Milligan,  dealing 
in  hardware  and  mill  supplies,  pipes  and  fit- 
tings, etc.,  where  he  has  been  since  1906.  Mr. 
Crane  is  a  Re])ublican.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Royal  Arcanum  of  Newark,  and  attends 
the  Methoilist  church.  His  present  address  is 
133  Milford  avenue,  near  Bigelow  street. 

February  24,  1906,  F'almer  Griffin  Crane 
was  was  married  in  Newark  to  Anna  Carbury, 
eighth  child  and  fifth  daughter  of  Robert 
liowen  and  Jane,  daughter  of  Adam  and  Mary 
Clarke. 


(For  preceding  generations  see  Jasper  Crane  1). 

I  \TI )  Henry  Conkling  Crane, 
CR.W'F  third  child  and  second  son  of 
the  Rev.  .\oah  and  Bethia  T. 
(Conkling)  Crane,  was  born  May  24,  18 16. 
died  March  20,  1858.  He  married  Janu- 
ary 16,  1838,  Cornelia  Hnrd,  born  July  5. 
1819:  children:  i.  Fmma  S.,  born  March  9, 
1840;  married,  July  5,  1859,  William  A. 
Gregory  and  had  two  children:  William  H. 
and  Frederick  A.  Gregory,  the  last  of  whom 
died  in  infancy.  2.  Amelia  J.,  born  June  5, 
1842,  died  January  30,  1907;  married,  March 
13,  1866,  Robert  Law  and  had  one  child. 
Daisy.  3.  Cornelia  E.,  born  September  3, 
1844:  married,  February  27,  1862,  S.  Herndon 
Yates  and  had  one  child,  Frederick  G.,  who 
died  in  infancy.  4.  Charles  Henry,  referred 
to  below. 

f\TII)  Charles  Henry,  youngest  child  and 
son  of  Henry  Conkling  and  Cornelia  (Hurd) 
Crane,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  No- 
vember 6,  1856,  and  is  now  living  at  399  Mount 
Pros])ect  avenue,  Newark.  New  Jersey.  For 
his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  public 
schools  of  Newark,  and  after  leaving  them  he 
entered  the  employ  of  \\'i!liam  B.  Guild  in 
whose  office  he  remained  for  three  months,  and 
then  took  a  position  in  the  office  of  the  Nezs.>- 
ark  Daily  Advertiser,  which  he  retained  for 
one  year,  giving  it  up  in  August,  1873,  in  order 
to  enter  the  jewelry  trade.  After  learning  the 
business  with  the  firm  of  Field  &  Company,  up 
to  1877,  he  worked  in  various  shops  for  seven 
years,  and  May  14,  1884,  left  them  and  started 
in  for  himself  in  partnership  with  Air.  Stro- 
bell  as  jewelry  specialist  in  rings,  lockets, 
bracelets,  fobs  and  bangles.  Mr.  Crane  is  a 
Repiiblican.  He  is  a  member  of  several  clubs 
among  them  being  the  Jewelers'  Club  of  New 
York.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  New  A'ork 
Board  of  Trade,  and  of  the  Board  of  Trade  in 
Newark,,  in  which  latter  body  he  has  served 


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on  several  committees,  in  particular,  the  com- 
mittee on  municipal  affairs.  For  many  years 
he  has  been  an  attendant  at  the  Park  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Newark  and  was  appointed 
on  the  board  of  trustees  as  the  successor  of  the 
Hon.  I'.  J.  Swazey. 

October  6,  1879,  Charles  Henry  Crane  mar- 
ried in  East  Orange,  Anna  Voorhies.  the  eldest 
daughter  of  John  B.  and  Caroline  (\'an 
Duyne)  Wilson,  who  has  borne  him  two  chil- 
dren, Edward  Sidney,  born  September  20, 
1880;  and  Albert  Ernest,  January  20,  1885. 
Mrs.  Crane  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
June  21,  1856. 

James  McCosh,  D.  D.,  LL.  D., 
McCOSH  EITT.  D.,  the  eleventh  presi- 
dent of  the  College  of  New  Jer- 
sey, now  Princeton  University,  belonged  to 
an  old  and  highly  respected  family  in  Ayrshire. 
Scotland,  whose  earliest  recorded  ancestor, 
Jasper  McCosh.  died  at  Straiton  in  Ayrshire, 
in  1727,  and  is  buried  there.  A  descendant  in 
the  third  generation  from  Jasper  IMcCosh  was 
.Andrew,  who  married  Jean,  daughter  of  James 
Carson,  a  large  farmer  on  Loch  Doon,  and  died 
on  his  estate  at  Carskeoch,  July  9,  1820.  This 
|)roj)erty  is  situated  on  the  Doon  in  Ayrshire, 
about  twelve  miles  from  Ayr.  .Andrew  and 
Jean  (Carson)  AlcCosh  had  six  daughters  and 
one  son,  James,  born  .\])ril  i.  181 1. 

James  McCosh  studied  at  the  I'niversity  of 
(ilasgow.  continued  his  theological  education 
at  Edinburgh,  was  licensed  to  preach  in  1834. 
and  in  the  following  year  accejited  his  first 
charge  at  Arbroath,  removing  to  Pirechin  in 
18:^8.  where  until  184,^  he  was  minister  of  the 
established  church.  On  the  Disruiition,  he  re- 
signed his  charge,  formed  a  Free  Church  con- 
gregation and  labored  thus  until  1851,  when 
he  was  appointed  professor  of  Logic  and  Meta- 
physics at  Queen's  College.  I'elfast.  It  was 
from  this  chair  that  he  was  called  to  the  presi- 
dency of  T^rinceton  in  i8f)8.  For  twenty  years 
he  occupied  the  latter  [)osition.  galvanizing  and 
remodeling  the  entire  institution  until  in  1888. 
when  he  resigned,  he  bad  placed  the  college  on 
a  I'niversity  basis.  He  died  at  Princeton,  No- 
vember ifi,  1894. 

-At  the  age  of  thirteen  he  had  been  sent  to 
Glasgow,  where  after  a  year  in  a  preparatory 
class  he  entered  the  L^niversity  in  1825.  Four 
years  later,  attracted  bv  the  reputation  of 
Thomas  Chalmers  and  David  Welsh  in  the- 
ology and  of  .Sir  William  Hamilton  in  Philos- 
onhy,  he  left  Glasgow  and  entered  Edinlnirgh 
L^niversity,  joining  the  crowd  of  eager  students 


under  these  professors.  He  completed  his  ac- 
ademic education  at  Edinburgh,  and  in  1834 
presented  a  dissertation  on  "Stoic  Philosophy" 
for  which  he  was  granted  the  Master  of  -Arts 
degree.  Lincensed  that  spring,  he  preached 
wherever  op]5ortnnity  offered.  Then  for  a 
while  he  acted  as  tutor  in  the  family  of  a  Mr. 
Graham,  of  Meiklewood,  near  Stirling.  At 
the  end  of  1835  he  was  called  to  his  first  regu- 
lar pastorate  at  the  Abbey  Chapel  of  Arbroath 
in  Forfarshire.  Two  years  later  he  declined 
a  call  to  the  pulpit  of  the  historic  Old  Grey- 
friars  at  Edinburgh,  and  had  the  pleasure  of 
urging  for  the  place  a  close  friend,  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Guthrie,  who  accepted  the  call  and 
won  for  himself  a  fine  reputation  in  that 
church.  Tn  1838  young  McCosh  accepted  an 
appointment  to  Brechin,  an  old  cathedral  town 
near  Arbroath,  and  here  he  labored  until  the 
Disruption  took  place.  In  this  movement  Mc- 
Cosh and  Guthrie  had  leading  parts,  forming 
as  it  were  a  neucleus  of  ministers  who  dis- 
cussed the  dangers  that  threatened  the  Scot- 
tish church  through  ap])ointment  of  ministers 
by  the  Crown,  regarclless  of  the  preferences 
of  congregations,  an  unavoidable  development 
of  the  patronage  system.  .A  little  pamphlet 
iniblished  bv  Dr.  McCosh  at  Brechin  late  in 
184^  or  earlv  in  1844.  entitled  "Recollections 
of  the  Disruption  in  lirechin."  and  jirinted  for 
private  circidation,  shows  the  successive  steps 
of  the  movement  and  clearly  outlines  his  atti- 
tude. In  1843.  when  Disruption  from  the  Es- 
tablished Church  became  inevitable,  he  sur- 
rendered his  living  at  Brechin :  but  his  work 
had  won  for  him  so  large  a  following  that  be 
was  able  to  form  a  Free  congregation  without 
delav  and  here  he  continued  therefore  in  pas- 
toral work.  His  labors,  however,  were  not 
confined  to  his  own  parish,  for  he  spent  much 
time  organizing  Free  churches  elsewhere,  rais- 
ing funds  for  their  support,  and  securing  pas- 
tors for  their  pulpits.  For  five  years  longer 
he  remained  at  Brechin,  liy  which  time  the 
Free  Cinirch  seemed  to  be  on  a  firm  basis  and 
he  was  able  to  turn  his  attention  to  authorship. 
Tn  i8?o  he  |)ublished  his  first  important 
work  "The  Method  of  Divine  Government, 
Physical  and  Moral."  It  met  with  the  instant 
annroval  of  .'^ir  William  Hatnilton  and  Hugh 
Miller,  at  tli.it  time  two  leading  thinkers  of 
.Scotland,  and  it  was  everywhere  favorably  re- 
ceived. The  German  "Zcitschrift  fiir  Philos- 
opliic."  for  instance,  was  outspoken  in  its 
praise,  remarking  that  it  was  distinguished 
from  other  works  of  similar  nature  by  being 
based  on  a  thorough  study  of  Physical  Science 


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and  an  accurate  knowledge  of  its  present  con- 
dition, together  with  a  deeper  and  more  un- 
fettered discussion  of  the  psychological,  ethical 
and  theological  questions  involved,  than  any 
work  Mp  to  that  time  published.  The  first 
edition  was  exhausted  in  six  months,  and  dur- 
ing the  next  forty  years  the  book  passed 
through  twenty  editions,  and  is  still  sought 
after. 

To  this  book  it  is  .said  Dr.  McCosh  in  a 
measure  owed  his  call  to  the  chair  of  Logic 
and  Metaphysics  in  Queen's  College,  Belfast, 
a  branch  of  the  newly  founded  Queen's  Uni- 
versity of  Ireland,  the  Earl  of  Clarendon,  Lord 
Lieutenant  of  Ireland  and  Regent  of  the  Uni- 
versity, becoming  so  absorbed  in  its  perusal 
one  Sunday  morning  that  he  forgot  to  go  to 
church.  The  call  to  Belfast  followed  shortly 
after,  and  there  in  January.  1852.  Dr.  Mc- 
Cosh began  his  lectures. 

He  instantly  won  popularity  with  his  stu- 
dents as  a  stimulating  lecturer  and  a  keen 
judge  of  human  nature.  His  introductory  lec- 
ture "On  the  Method  in  which  Metaphysics 
should  be  prosecutefl"  showed  that  he  was 
neither  content  with  Scottish  philosophical 
nietliods  nor  intended  to  lead  his  classes  along 
quite  the  traditional  lines.  In  the  main  he  fol- 
lowed experimental  methods  in  his  lectures  on 
Psychology  and  Metaphysics,  while  in  Logic  he 
recast  the  elements.  He  laid  special  emphasis 
on  the  written  work  of  his  students,  and  took 
great  delight  in  examining  their  aptitudes  and 
characters.  Several  of  his  pupils  fulfilled  his 
prophecy  of  eminence. 

Side  by  side  with  his  professional  duties  he 
was  active  in  evangelical  work.  He  not  only 
organized  a  school  in  the  slum  district  of  Bel- 
fast, which  grew  to  have  six  hundred  pupils, 
but  in  another  neglected  portion  of  the  city  he 
formed  a  congregation  from  the  people  whom 
he  found  to  be  without  a  pastor,  and  when  the 
time  was  ripe  he  secured  a  minister  and  con- 
trived the  erection  of  a  church.  He  organized 
a  club  house  for  temperate  working  men  to 
offset  the  social  attractiveness  of  the  saloon. 
Tie  aided  to  found  the  Ministerial  Support 
I'und  of  the  Irish  Pre.sbvterian  Church.  His 
arguments  against  establishment  and  state  en- 
dowment largely  influenced  Mr.  Gladstone  in 
disestablishing  the  Irish  Church.  He  advo- 
cated the  abolition  of  the  Regum  Donum.  or 
government  addition  to  clerical  stipends,  and 
in  his  essay  on  the  "Duty  of  Irish  Presbyteri- 
ans to  their  church  at  the  present  crisis  in  the 
sustentation  of  the  Gospel  Ministry"  f  Belfast, 
1868)     afTorded    much    needed    guidance    to 


troubled  Irish  Presbyterians.  Meanwhile  he 
was  reading  widely  and  observing  keenly,  as 
is  shown  in  his  address  "The  present  Tendency 
of  Religious  Thought  throughout  the  three 
Kingdoms"  read  before  the  British  Organiza- 
tion of  the  Evangelical  Alliance  in  July,  1864. 
He  served  also  as  examiner  for  Queen's  LTni- 
versity,  Ireland,  for  the  Indian  Civil  service, 
and  for  the  Fergusson  scholarships.  He 
strongly  advocated  a  system  of  intermediate 
schools  for  Ireland,  and  supported  the  cause 
of  national  elementary  schools  as  one  method 
to  break  down  the  narrow  class  exclusiveness 
so  prevalent  in  Ireland.  In  1854  he  published 
a  series  of  letters  to  the  Lord  Lieutenant  on 
"The  Necessity  for  an  Intermediate  System  of 
Education  between  the  National  Schools  and 
the  Colleges  of  Ireland."  In  1867  he  brought 
the  question  up  again  when,  at  the  Belfast 
meeting  of  the  National  Association  for  the 
promotion  of  Social  Science,  he  read  a  paper 
on  "The  Present  State  of  the  Intermediate 
Education  Question  in  Ireland."  It  is  clear 
that  he  touched  on  many  of  the  great  causes 
of  the  day,  and  it  has  been  remarked,  not 
without  truth,  that  he  earned  distinction  in 
winning  the  friendshi])  and  ])raise,  in  calling 
on  himself  the  antagonistic  criticism,  of  men 
like  Chalmers,  Guthrie.  Hugh  Miller,  Sir  Will- 
iam Hamilton,  Gladstone,  Huxley,  Thackeray, 
Ruskin,  and  John  Stuart  Mill. 

While  at  Belfast  he  continued  his  literary 
work  by  publishing,  in  1855,  his  "Typical 
I'^orms  and  Special  Ends  in  Creation"  (with 
Professor  George  Dickie)  which  went  into  sev- 
eral editions;  in  i860  his  "Intuitions  of  the 
Mind,"  also  several  times  republished  ;  in  1862 
his  ".Supernatural  in  Relation  to  the  Natural," 
published  simultaneously  in  Cambridge,  Bel- 
fast and  New  York;  and  in  1866  his  "Exam- 
ination of  J.  S.  Mill's  Philo.sophy."  The  first 
of  this  group  of  works  is  directly  traceable  to 
his  genius  for  observation,  which  led  to  the 
discovery  that  the  venation  in  the  leaves  of 
a  tree  corresponds  in  general  with  the 
branches,  a  theory  which  is  practically  en- 
dorsed bv  all  botanists  to-day.  In  "Typical 
I'onns  and  Special  Ends  in  Creation,"  the  au- 
thors e\-poun<l  the  general  order  and  design 
running  through  creation  and  illustrate  the 
great  |)rinciples  of  analogy  in  divine  plans  and 
w(irks.  This  work,  while  ably  presenting  the 
results  of  profound  scientific  research  in  their 
higher  relations,  was  overshadowed  by  the  ap- 
pearance of  Darwin's  "Origin  of  Species." 
Dr.  McCosh.  however,  was  great  enough  to  be 
able  later  to  accept  evolution  provisionally,  as 


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will  be  shown  when  his  philosophy  is  exam- 
inefl.  On  the  appearance  of  his  "Intuitions 
of  the  Mind"  the  Jabrbiichcr  fur  Deutsche)! 
Thcologic  gave  an  approving  notice,  and  later 
e.s]5ecial!y  recommended  its  moderation  and 
clearness.  The  London  Quarterly  Rcviczi' 
praised  the  same  qualities,  while  the  Friiicc- 
ton  Re'ric'a'.  representing  orthodox  Amer- 
ican Presl)yterianism,  pointed  out  that  on  all 
the  great  issues  between  Mill  and  Hamilton 
and  their  respective  schools,  as  on  nearlv  every 
issue  between  philosophical  scepticism  and 
Christian  philosophy.  Dr.  McCosh  had  taken 
the  right  attitude. 

In  May,  1858,  having  already  learned  the 
German  language,  he  sailed  for  Germany  to 
spend  five  months  examining  Prussian  schools 
and  universities,  and  familiarizing  himself  with 
their  methods  and  organization.  He  also  at- 
tended the  philosophical  lectures  of  Trendel- 
enburg and  ]\[ichelet  and  met  other  leaders  in 
German  thought.  He  returned  to  his  Belfast 
lecture  room  in  September,  1858.  In  iSTiG, 
to  rest  from  his  ardous  duties  and  his  literar\' 
labors  (he  had  just  published  his  important 
"E^-amination  of  T.  S.  Mill's  rhik)SOTihv"),  he 
sailed  for  America.  During  the  Civil  War  he 
had  staunchly  upheld  the  Union  in  the  face  of 
strong  Opposition.  In  America  he  visited  the 
principal  cities  and  leading  institutions  and 
was  received  with  distinctinn.  His  habit  of 
keen  observation  stood  him  in  such  good  stead 
that,  when  in  1868  the  trustees  of  Princeton 
extended  to  him  a  call  to  the  presidency,  he 
was  well  informed  as  to  the  condition  of  the 
country  and  the  outlook  for  higher  education. 

He  came  to  Princeton  at  an  opportune  time. 
The  Civil  war  liad  just  ended  and  the  coun- 
try at  large  was  beginning  to  turn  its  attention 
to  the  development  not  only  of  its  natural,  but 
also  of  its  educational  resfuirces.  Harvard. 
Yale  and  Columbia  had  just  entered  on  new 
eras  of  growth  and  Johns  Honkins  ['niversity 
was  soon  to  be  founded.  Dr.  ATcCosh  was 
soon  called  to  Princeton  to  bring  it  abreast  of 
the  times  and  to  lay  the  university  foundations 
it  now  enjoys  and  on  which  it  is  still  l)nilding. 
The  foretaste  of  future  material  growth 
hinted  at  in  his  Inaugural  .Address  was  not 
merely  rhetorical.  It  was  evident  from  the 
beginning  that  he  had  grasped  the  situation 
and  would  live  up  to  the  promise  of  his  ad- 
dress. During  the  twentv  years  of  his  presi- 
dency the  camnus  was  enlarged  and  beautified  : 
to  the  six-  buildings  on  that  campus  in  iSfxS 
fourteen  were  added  by  1888;  the  facultv  was 
increased  from  sixteen  to  fortv-three,  and  the 


number  of  students  from  two  hundred  and 
sixty- four  to  si.x  hundred  and  four;  the 
Princeton  restricted  elective  system  was  intro- 
duced and  courses  leading  to  the  degrees  of 
?j.  S.  and  C.  E.,  were  added,  together  with 
graduate  courses  leading  to  the  higher  degrees  ; 
the  librarx'  was  increased  from  30.000  to  70.- 
000  and  a  library  building,  in  its  day  one  of  the 
handsomest  in  tlie  country,  was  erected  :  fellow- 
shi])s  were  endowed  and  several  special  annual 
prizes  were  founded :  alumni  associations  were  || 
organized  to  keep  the  graduates  in  touch  with  * 
the  institutions  and  with  each  other.  Nearly 
83,000.000  came  into  the  college  treasury  dur- 
ing the  two  decades ;  faculty  espionage,  Greek 
letter  fraternities,  class-room  disorder,  and 
most  of  the  vicious  hazing  of  earlier  days, 
were  done  away  with  or  suppressed. 

Dr.  McCosh  advocated  the  restricted  elec- 
tive system  in  the  college  curriculum  as  op- 
posed to  the  free  elective  method  introduced 
by  President  Eliot  at  Harvard.  The  latter  ad- 
vocated his  views  before  the  Nineteenth  Cen- 
tury Club  of  New  York  in  February,  T885.  and 
Dr.  McCosh  was  invited  to  criticize  them.  His 
comments  were  published  in  pamphlet  form 
under  the  title  "The  New  Departure  in  Col- 
lege Education."  He  favored  freedom  of 
elective  studies  under  limitations,  holding  that 
certain  fundamental  studies  should  be  compul- 
sory in  any  curriculum  leading  to  the  historic 
academic  degrees  of  P>achelor  and  Master  of 
Arts.  Moreover  he  believed  firmlv  that  all 
education  should  have  Christian  foundation 
and  he  never  let  this  point  of  view  be  lost. 
He  constantly  endeavored  to  develop  the 
Christian  element  in  college  life,  but  as  earn- 
estlv  avoided  anything  like  denominationalism 
in  the  college  chapel.  As  a  teacher  he  stands 
pre-eminent  in  .American  academic  historv 
with  Woolsey.  Mark  flopkins.  and  Wayland. 
as  one  who  contrived  by  his  earnestness,  his 
enthusiasm  and  his  knowledge,  to  spur  the  in- 
terest of  his  classes.  He  was  prominent  in  all 
educational  gatherings  and  his  last  public  ap- 
pearnnce  was  as  presiding  officer  at  the  Inter- 
nal Coneress  of  Education  held  at  Chicago,  in 
Julv.  t8o^.  when  his  eminence  as  a  teacher  and 
philosopher  made  him  the  recipient  of  every 
mark  of  honor  and  distinction. 

He  believed  in  tlie  parental  theorv  of  college 
government  and  did  not  confine  his  theory  to 
his  un''ergraduates.  He  ruled  and  moulded 
his  facultv.  He  won  the  affection  of  his  stu- 
dents bv  his  strong  personality,  his  dry  humor, 
his  shrewdness,  his  perfect  understanding  of 
them,   and   his    favor  of  gymnastics   and   ath 


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k'tics.  And  in  his  personal  relations  with 
them  he  was  wonderfully  aided  by  his  wife 
whose  gentle  solicitude  for,  and  motherly  in- 
terest in,  any  that  were  sick  or  in  need  of  care 
made  her  the  sharer  in  the  affection  that  he 
enjoyed.  It  was  to  perpetuate  the  memory 
of  her  goodness  especially  to  undergraduates 
that  the  Isabella  AlcCosh  Infirmary  was 
erected  on  the  Princeton  campus. 

Dr.  AlcCosh  was  as  prolific  a  writer  after 
his  advent  to  America  as  he  had  been  in  Bel- 
fast. L'.eginning  with  his  striking  Inaugural 
Atldress  on  "Academic  Teaching  in  Europe," 
published  in  New  York  in  1869,  he  continued 
publication  until  the  very  year  of  his  death. 
In  1870  he  brought  out  a  text  book  of  formal 
logic.  "The  Laws  of  Discursive  Thought," 
which  was  reissued  in  revised  and  enlarged 
editions  at  least  three  times  during  the  next 
twenty  years.  In  1871  he  delivered  a  series 
of  lectures  at  Union  Theological  Seminary, 
\'ew  ^'ork,  on  natural  theology  and  apologet- 
ics, which  was  published  in  New  York  and 
London  in  1871,  and  again  in  1875,  under  the 
title  of  "Christianity  and  Positivism."  In 
1874  he  issued  his  well  known  "Scottish  Phi- 
losopliy,  biographical,  expository,  critical; 
from  Hutcheson  to  Hamilton"  being  a  history 
and  critique  of  the  school  of  thought  of  which 
he  was  the  most  brilliant  living  pupil.  Of 
more  ephemeral  character  were  his  essays : 
"Ideas  in  Nature  overlooked  by  Dr.  Tyndall," 
being  a  searching  examination  of  Tyndall's 
Belfast  address  (New  York,  1875)  ;  his  "De- 
velopment Hypothesis:  is  it  Sufficient?"  (New 
York.  1876),  and  his  "Conflicts  of  the  Age" 
(New  York,  1881 ).  In  1882  he  began  to  issue 
a  valuable  "Philosophical  Series"  of  eight 
small  volumes  discussing  the  leading  philo- 
sophical questions  of  the  day  and  setting  forth 
his  contention  that  while  the  old  truths  may 
have  to  be  put  in  new  form  and  their  defense 
taken  up  on  new  lines  yet  they  are  as  deeply 
founded  as  ever.  This  series  was  republished 
in  two  volumes  in  1887.  In  1886  he  published 
liis  "Psychology:  the  Cognitive  Powers,"  and 
in  the  following  years  its  second  part,  "Psy- 
chology: the  Motive  Powers."  In  1887  he  de- 
livered the  Bedell  Lectures,  publishing  them 
in  1888  under  the  title  "The  Religious  Aspect 
of  Evolution,"  enlarging  them  in  a  new  edition 
which  was  called  for  in  1800.  In  i88g  he 
issued  his  treatise  on  metaphysics  "First  and 
.Fundamental  Truths"  and  in  the  same  year  he 
delivered  a  series  of  lectures  before  the  Ohio 
Wesleyan  ITniversitv  on  "The  Tests  of  various 
Kinds  of  Truth,"  being  a  treatise  on  applied 


logic,  published  in  New  York  and  Cincinnati 
in  1889.  The  following  year  he  issued  a  small 
work  "The  Prevailing  Types  of  Thought :  can 
they  reach  Reality  logically?"  and  in  1892  his 
brief  volume  on  ethics  "Our  Aloral  Nature." 
In  1894  he  published  his  last  work,  "Philoso- 
phy of  Reality  :  should  it  be  favored  by  Ameri- 
cans?" His  belief  contributions  to  purely 
American  educational  discussions  were,  not  in- 
cluding his  reply  to  President  Eliot  on  the 
Elective  System  and  several  addresses  at  edu- 
cational conventions,  his  papers  "Discipline  in 
American  Colleges"  (North  American  Review, 
vol.  12(5,  pp.  428-441),  "Course  of  Study  in 
the  Academical  Department  of  Princeton  Col- 
lege" (Princeton  Book  1879),  "WTiat  an 
American  University  should  be"  (1885),  "Re- 
ligion in  College"   (1886). 

As  a  philosophical  writer  Dr.  McCosh  be- 
longs to  the  great  school  of  traditional  Scot- 
tish thought  whose  history  he  wrote.  Here 
he  stands  next  to  his  great  teacher.  Sir  Will- 
iam Hamilton.  During  his  lifetime  his  po- 
sition, as  has  been  pointed  out,  suft'ered  be- 
cause of  the  reaction  against  that  school  led  by 
John  Stuart  Mill,  and  because  of  the  evolu- 
tion movement  begun  by  Darwin  and  led  philo- 
sophically by  Herbert  Spencer.  His  emphatic 
and  positive  tone  moreover,  says  Professor  A. 
T.  Ormond,  his  foremost  pu]iil  and  his  suc- 
cessor in  the  Princeton  school  of  philosophy, 
had  something  to  do  with  the  mistaken  tend- 
ency to  undervalue  his  work.  A'luch  of  this 
work  was  necessarily  transitional,  as  for  in- 
stance his  attitude  toward  evolution  itself.  He 
may  be  said  to  have  accepted  evolution  pro- 
visionally, that  is,  rejecting  its  atheistic  and 
irreligious  forms  while  adopting  its  scientific 
truth.  His  attitude  is  thus  summed  up:  He 
maintained  the  possibility  of  conceiving  evo- 
lution from  the  theistic  basis  as  a  feature  of 
Divine  government  and  this  led  him  to  take  a 
hospitable  view  attitude  toward  the  evolution 
idea  at  the  same  time  that  it  enabled  him  to 
become  its  most  formidable  critic.  It  is  be- 
lieved, however,  that  he  has  contributed  ele- 
ments of  value  to  the  thought  of  the  time  as  for 
instance  his  treatment  of  intuition  by  a  more 
discriminating,  keen  and  careful  analysis  than 
had  hitherto  been  given  to  it.  He  was  an 
ardent  realist  and  had  an  almost  virulent  an- 
tipathy for  idealism  and  the  phenomenal  the- 
ory. The  progress  of  thought  since  his  time 
would  prevent  an  unf|ualified  acceptance  of  his 
views  at  this  day.  but  his  basic  realistic  prin- 
ciple is  one  "which  a  very  wide  view  school  of 
thinkers  have  at  heart."     He  had  a  genius  for 


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observation  and  an  intense  interest  in  human 
character  which  he  cultivated  incessantly  and 
turned  to  good  account  in  his  psychological 
work  becoming  in  reality  a  pioneer  in  the  sci- 
ence of  physiological  psychology.  In  the 
sphere  of  religious  thought  his  work  will  be 
valued  for  its  union  of  philosophy  and  religion. 
E.xcepting  his  annual  baccalaureates  and  a  vol- 
ume of  "(lospel  Sermons"  (New  York,  1888), 
few  of  his  sermons  were  given  to  the  press. 

Dr.  McCosh  left  an  autobiograjjhy  which 
has  been  expanded  and  edited  by  Professor 
William  M.  Sloane  ("Eife  of  James  McCosh : 
.A  Record  Chiefly  .Autobiographical,"  New 
York,  1S96)  and  which  contains  a  very  exten- 
sive list  of  Dr.  McCosh's  writings  extending 
from  1833  to  1894  and  numbering  one  hundred 
and  seventy-four  titles. 

He  received  the  honorary  degree  of  A.  M. 
from  .Aberdeen  in  1850,  D.  D.  from  Edin- 
burgh in  185 1  and  from  Brown  and  Wash- 
ington and  Jefferson  in  1868,  LL.  D.  from 
Dublin  in  1863  and  from  Harvard  in  1868,  and 
Eitt.  D.  from  Queen's  University  in  1882.  He 
was  a  [-"ellow  of  the  American  .Academy  of 
.Arts  and  Sciences  and  of  the  .American  Philo- 
sophical Society. 

Dr.  .McCosh  married,  September  2Q,  1845. 
Isabella,  born  .\])ril  30.  1817,  daughter  of 
.Alexander  and  Mary  (Stirling)  Guthrie.  .Al- 
exander Ciuthrie  was  the  well  known  physician, 
and  brother  of  Thomas  Guthrie.  Dr.  Mc- 
Cosh's intimate  friend.  Five  children  were 
born  of  this  marriage  beside  a  son  who  died  in 
infancy:  Mary  Jane,  born  July  7,  1846,  mar- 
ried, June,  1881,  .Alexander  Maitland,  of  New 
\  ork  City.  .Alexander  ( luthrie,  born  January 
!(■),  1830,  died  October  30,  1881,  at  Princeton 
Margaret,  born  June  21,  1852,  married  Dr. 
David  Magie.  .Andrew  James,  born  March 
15,  1858,  at  Belfast,  a  graduate  of  Prince- 
ton of  the  class  of  1877,  and  now  the  bril- 
liant surgeon  in  New  York.  Mrs.  McCosli 
is  still  residing  in  Princeton  and  continues 
active  in  her  charity  and  ]3hilanthropy. 


fohn  Maclean,  D.  D.,  LL.  D., 
MACLI'I.AN  tenth  president  of  the  Col- 
lege of  New  Jersey,  now 
Princeton  ITniversity,  was  the  oldest  son  of 
Professor  John  Maclean,  M.  D.,  and  Phoebe 
I'.ainbridge,  of  i'rinccton.  He  was  born 
March  3,  1800,  and  was  ])repared  for  college 
by  his  father  and  at  the  IVinceton  .Academy. 
Entering  college  in  1813  he  was  graduated  in 
1816.  one  of  its  youngest  students.  I'or  a  few 
months  he  taught  at  Lawrcnceville.     In    1818 


entering  I'rinceton  Theological  Seminary  he 
remained  there  two  years.  At  the  same  time 
he  had  been  a])pointed  a  tutor  in  Greek  in  the 
college,  and  had  thus  commenced  his  long 
career  in  connection  with  that  institution.  In 
1822  he  was  elected  to  till  the  chair  of  Mathe- 
matics and  Natural  Philosophy;  in  1823  he 
was  made  professor  of  Alathematics  alone ; 
six  years  later  he  w-as  transferred  to  the  chair 
of  Languages  and  in  1830  to  that  of  Ancient 
Languages,  and  in  1847  'i^  '^^'^s  made  jirofessor 
of  the  Greek  Language  and  Literature.  He 
had  been  elected  vice-president  of  the  college 
in  1829,  and  in  1854,  on  the  resignation  of 
President  Carnahan,  he  was  made  president, 
resigning  in  turn  in  1868  to  be  succeeded  by 
Dr.  James  McCosh.  From  1868  he  was  a 
regent  of  the  .Smithsonian  Institution.  He  was 
also  president  of  the  .American  Colonization 
Society.  He  received  the  honorary  degree  of 
D.  D.  from  \\'ashington  and  Jefferson  in  1841. 
and  the  similar  degree  of  LL.  D.  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  the  State  of  New  York  in  1854.  He 
was  a  director  of  the  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary  from  1861,  and  a  member  of  the 
New  Jersey  State  Board  of  Education. 
He  died  of  old  age  on  .August  10.  1886, 
at  Princeton,  and  is  buried  in  the  Princeton 
cemetery.     He  was  unmarried. 

Dr.  Alaclean  was  ordained  a  ininister  by  the 
Presbytery  of  New  Brunswick  in  February, 
1828,  and  from  that  time,  although  he  never 
held  a  formal  pastoral  charge,  he  was  promi- 
nent in  the  affairs  of  the  church.  He  was  re- 
peatedly a  member  of  the  general  assembly, 
taking  active  part  in  all  matters  pertaining  to 
the  constitution  of  the  church,  to  education,  to 
tem])erance  and  to  the  doctrinal  discussions 
that  led  to  the  division  of  the  church  in  1837- 
1838.  In  order  to  promote  a  better  under- 
standing between  the  parties  at  odds,  and  to 
defend  the  more  important  proceedings  of  the 
general  assembly  on  the  issues  between  the 
old  and  new  school  branches  of  the  church, 
he  wrote  in  1837  for  the  rrcshytcriaii  a  ser- 
ies of  six  exceptionally  able  letters,  republished 
the  following  year  in  pamphlet  form  under  the 
title  ".A  Review  of  the  Proceedings  of  the 
General  .Assembly  at  the  .Session  of  1837." 
In  1838,  as  a  rejiresentative  of  the  Presbytery 
of  New  Brunswick,  he  was  present  at  the  as- 
sembly when  the  division  in  the  church  oc- 
curred, and  was  appointed  to  draw  up  a  "Cir- 
cular Letter  to  the  b'oreign  Evangelical  , 
Churches."  on  the  issues  involved.  .Again  in 
1 84;?  and  1844  he  was  a  member  of  the  as- 
semblv    when    the   important    question   of   the 


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office  of  ruling  elder  was  settled,  and  his  abil- 
ity in  defence  of  the  majority's  view  again 
led  to  his  ai)])ointment  as  the  official  public 
spokesman  in  drawing  up  a  reply  to  the  mi- 
nority's dissent  and  protest.  In  1844  he  pub- 
lished under  the  title  "Letters  on  the  Elder 
Question"  the  thirteen  communications  which 
he  had  written  on  the  (|uestion  for  the  Frcs- 
hytriian  and  which  contain  a  clear  summing 
up  of  the  majority's  position. 

His  most  pretentious  literary  work  was  a 
"History  of  the  College  of  New  Jersey"  in  two 
volumes,  written  after  he  had  resigned  from 
the  presidency,  and  published  in  1877,  con- 
taining the  history  of  the  institution  from  the 
founding  in  1746  to  his  inauguration  in  1854. 
He  left  materials  for  the  history  of  his  own 
administration  partly  in  the  form  of  an  auto- 
biography which  has  not  yet  been  made  public. 
Furthermore  in  1876  he  issued  for  private  dis- 
tribution a  memoir  of  his  father.  Professor 
]\Iaclean.  which  was  republished  in  a  second 
edition  in  1883.  In  addition  to  these  publica- 
tions he  was  the  author  of  several  essays  and 
sermons  which  not  only  testify  to  his  piety  anci 
orthoclo.xy  and  to  his  beautiful  Christian  char- 
acter, but  reveal  powers  which  lead  to  the  be- 
lief that,  had  he  not  been  so  continuously 
overwhelmed  with  the  petty  duties  of  college 
administration  during  times  more  troublous 
than  pleasant,  and  with  other  cares  which  a 
too  generous  disposition  induced  him  to  shoul- 
der, he  might  have  produced  writings  of  per- 
manent and  prime  importance. 

Beside  his  essays  on  the  general  assembly  of 
1837  and  on  the  elder  question  of  1844  one  of 
his  most  remarkable  productions  was  his  reply 
in  1841  to  two  prize  essays  published  in  Eng- 
land and  sanctioned  by  the  National  Temper- 
ance Society  maintaining  the  duty  of  total 
abstinence  on  the  grounds  that  the  Scripture 
condemned  all  use  of  intoxicating  drinks,  and 
asserting  that  the  wine  used  in  instituting  the 
Sacrament  of  the  Lord's  Supper  was  the  un- 
fermented  juice  of  the  grape.  Dr.  Maclean's 
exhaustive  and  conclusive  argument  entitled 
"An  examination  of  the  Essays  Bacchus  and 
Anti  Bacchus"  originally  published  in  the 
Princeton  Review,  and  reprinted  in  pamphlet 
form  (140  pages)  in  1841,  in  opposition  to 
this  doctrine  attracted  much  attention  and  se- 
cured for  him  a  reputation  for  classical,  bib- 
lical anrl  jjatriotic  scholarship.  While  not  a 
total  abstainer  he  approved  cordially  of  tem- 
perance, but  his  mental  and  moral  integrity 
could  not  allow  him  to  confuse  temperance 
with  total  abstinence  nor  to  admit  a  position 


in  favor  of  the  latter,  when  alleged  to  be  based 
entirely  on  Scripture  and  on  the  testimony  of 
anti(|uity.  He  proves  such  a  position  to  be 
utterly  untenable.  An  interesting  and  valu- 
able piece  of  work  was  an  article  published  in 
the  Presbyterian  of  October,  1873.  entitled 
"The  Harmony  of  the  Gospel  Accounts  of 
Christ's  Resurrection,"  defending  the  cred- 
ibility of  the  various  accounts  of  the  Resur- 
rection on  the  basis  of  the  mathematical  The- 
ory of  fVobabilities.  Two  of  his  exegetical 
essays  are  "On  the  Words  This  Day  haz'c  I 
begotten  Thee"  {Presbyterian  for  1853)  and 
"Some  thoughts  on  I  Corinthians  xv,  35" 
{Presbyterian,  1886).  .Specimens  of  his  ser- 
mon style  may  be  found  in  his  baccalaureates 
<if  1837,  1S38.  1839.  in  a  "Sermon  preached  in 
the  Chapel  of  the  College  of  New  Jersey''  in 
1846,  and  a  sermon  on  "Filial  Piety"  published 
in  1832  in  Dr.  John  T.  Duffield's  "Princeton 
Pulpit." 

Beside  his  college  work  Dr.  Maclean  was 
engaged  in  manifold  public  enterprises,  and 
no  scheme  of  benevolence,  educational  advance, 
or  public  welfare  failed  to  secure  his  earnest 
and  active  co-operation.  Indeed,  he  had  been 
called  the  "pastor  at  large"  to  the  people  of 
Princeton  and  its  vicinity.  He  was  largely  in- 
strumental in  securing  for  New  Jersey  its  com- 
mon school  system,  having  been  one  of  its  earl- 
iest and  strongest  advocates.  As  early  as  Jan- 
uary. 1828.  he  had  delivered  before  the  Liter- 
ary and  Philosophical  Society  of  New  Jersey 
a  "Lecture  on  a  School  System  for  New  Jer- 
sey" which,  published  in  1829,  aided  consider- 
ably in  promoting  public  interest  in  the  ques- 
tion and  had  large  influence  in  the  establish- 
ment of  the  present  system.  He  was  secre- 
tary of  the  state  board  of  education,  and  a 
life  director  and  for  a  time  president  of  the 
.\merican  Colonization  Society,  an  address  of 
his  on  the  objects  of  the  Society  being  pub- 
lished in  the  fifty- fourth  annual  report  of  the 
Society. 

Elected  a  regent  of  the  Smithsonian  Insti- 
tution in  1868,  he  was  one  of  its  most  faith- 
ful officers.  When  attending  the  meetings  of 
the  regent,  which  he  did  with  scrupulous  regu- 
larity, he  was  accustomed  to  make  his  home 
with  Professor  Joseph  Henry,  the  secretary 
of  the  institution,  whose  intimacy  he  had  en- 
joyed ever  since  the  beginning  of  Henry's 
professorship  at  Princeton. 

Excepting  the  devastating  period  of  the 
Revolution,  the  most  critical  era  in  the  history 
of  Princeton  University  occurred  during  the 
half  century  that  Dr.  Maclean  was  connected 


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with  the  institution  and  it  was  his  energy,  his 
confidence  and  persistence  that  alone  kept  the 
institution  intact.  There  was  a  time  when  its 
conthtion  was  so  low  that  it  was  seriously 
thought  wiser  to  close  the  college  and  wait  for 
better  days.  Happily  Dr.  Maclean  was  able 
to  combat  successfully  this  feeling  of  utter 
discouragement  on  the  part  of  his  colleagues. 
Owing  to  unfortunate  mistakes  in  faculty  dis- 
cipline, voted  against  the  judgment  pf  Presi- 
dent Carnahan  and  Dr.  Maclean,  the  number 
of  students  liad  dwindled  until  in  1829  only  sev- 
enty were  on  the  rolls.  Inasnuich  as  the  college 
was  almost  entirely  dependent  on  tuition  re- 
ceipts to  meet  its  current  expenses  this  situa- 
tion was  wellnigh  paralyzing.  Perceiving  that 
strength  in  the  faculty  meant  for  the  college 
increase  of  reputation,  students  and  funds,  Dr. 
Maclean  set  about  securing  the  funds  that  en- 
abled Princeton  to  call  men  like  Henry  Veth- 
ake.  Joseph  Henry,  John  Torrey,  Albert  B. 
Dod  and  the  Alexanders.  The  effect  on  the 
college  was  immediate.  In  1832  there  were 
one  hundred  and  thirty-nine  students;  in  1839 
there  were  two  hundred  and  seventy.  Partly, 
in  recognition  of  his  work  and  partly  to  give 
a  wide  authority  to  the  executive  ability  which 
lie  had  revealed  as  a  subordinate,  the  trustees 
in  1829  had  made  him  vice-president  of  the 
College. 

Dr.  Maclean  had  been  vice-president  so  long 
before  he  succeeded  to  the  presidency  that 
there  was  little  change  of  administration  when 
he  assumed  the  latter  office.  It  was  expected 
that  his  term  would  be  marked  by  striking  de- 
velopment, but  circumstances  were  to  militate 
against  him.  Together  with  Professor  Mat- 
thew P).  Hope  he  had  devised  a  "Plan  for  the 
Partial  Endowment  of  the  College  of  New 
Jersey"  (published  in  1853),  and  arrangements 
had  been  made  to  put  this  ]5lan  into  operation. 
r)Ut  he  had  been  in  ofifice  scarcely  a  year  when 
Nas.sau  Hall,  the  chief  building  on  the  cam- 
pus, was  destroyed  by  fire  (1855).  .-\t  great 
expense  it  was  rebuilt  and  rearranged  to  lie  of 
greater  usefulness.  Two  years  later  the  finan- 
cial panic  which  seized  the  country  necessitated 
the  temporary  abandonment  of  the  plans  for 
the  increase  of  the  endowment.  Money  was 
scarce  during  the  following  four  years  of  busi- 
ness dci)ression,  and  then  in  tS6i  the  Civil 
war  broke  out.  The  enrollment  at  this  time 
was  larger  than  it  had  been  dming  Dr.  Car- 
nahan's  lime,  three  hundred  and  fourteen  stu- 
dents being  in  residence,  but  as  one  third  of 
them  came  from  the  South  and  immediately  left 
for  home  on  the  opening  of  hostilities,  the  en- 


rollment in  1862  fell  to  two  hundred  and 
twenty-one.  During  the  next  five  years  the 
number  remained  almost  stationary,  and  when 
Dr.  Maclean  resigned  the  presidency  in  1868 
the  college  numbered  only  two  hundred  and 
si.xty-four  students.  Remarkable  jirogress 
had,  however,  been  made  during  the  fourteen 
years  of  his  office.  The  endowment  had 
grown  from  $15,000  to  $250,000,  while  gifts 
amounting  to  another  $200,000  had  been  made 
and  the  college  library  had  gained  5,000  vol- 
umes. In  view  of  the  fact  that  at  three  dif- 
ferent previous  periods  efforts  had  been  made 
to  increase  the  endowment  and  had  met  with 
total  failure.  Dr.  Maclean's  success  was  aston- 
ishing, especially  if  the  general  financial  con- 
dition of  the  country  during  his  administration 
be  borne  in  mind.  At  the  end  of  the  war  a 
great  change  was  coming  over  the  country  in 
regard  to  the  re(|uirements  of  higher  educa- 
tion, and  the  day  of  great  gifts  for  such  pur- 
poses was  dawning.  Dr.  Maclean  had  spent 
his  life  holding  the  institution  together,  teach- 
ing in  practically  all  the  departments  at  dif- 
ferent times,  and  sacrificing  to  the  general 
good  whatever  ambitions  he  may  have  had  to 
eminence  in  any  one  department ;  he  had  seen 
the  college  successfully  weather  the  storm  of 
the  Civil  war  and  emerge  on  a  new  career  of 
increased  endowment  and  wider  aim.  His 
strength,  however,  was  exhausted,  and  he  felt 
that  a  new  hand  should  hold  the  reins  of  gov- 
ernment. In  1868  therefore  he  resigned.  A 
jKMision  was  granted  him  by  the  trustees  and  he 
lived  in  Princeton  until  his  death  in  1S86.  His 
last  public  appearance,  at  the  annual  .\lumni 
Luncheon  in  June,  1886,  the  seventieth  anni- 
versary of  his  graduation,  was  the  occasion  of 
a  magnificent  ovation.  He  was  too  feeble  to 
respond  for  himself,  and  his  words  of  greet- 
ing and  farewell  were  read  to  the  assembly 
by  a  friend  and  then  he  slowly  withdrew. 
Two  months  later  he  died. 

Dr.  Alaclean's  leading  trait  of  character  was 
his  kindness.  This  was  shown  not  alone  in 
his  deeds  of  philanthropy  but  also  in  his  rela- 
tions with  undergraduates  as  the  officer  of  col- 
lege discipline.  Some  of  his  methods  might 
seem  now  to  belong  to  a  bygone  age ;  but  such 
modern  developments  as  undergraduate  self- 
government  and  the  honor  system  were  un- 
lieard  of  in  his  day.  and  during  the  earlier 
years,  especially  of  his  connection  with  the 
college,  its  atmosphere  was  anything  but  aca- 
demic. He  had  the  faculty  of  administering 
discipline  without  alienating  the  culprit.  He 
was   the   soul   of  sincerity  and  a   remarkably 


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keen  judge  of  men.  His  individuality  was 
strongly  marked  and  his  personal  appearance 
striking — tall,  muscular,  with  flowing  hair,  and 
clean  shaven  face  and  he  usually  wore  a  long 
cloak.  It  was  not  without  reason  that  he  was 
commonly  said  to  be  "the  best  loved  man  in 
.\merica." 


George  Macintosh  Alaclean, 
MACLE.-VN     M.  D.,  Ph.  D.,  deceased,  who 

had  achieved  an  enviable  rep- 
utation in  professional  cjrcles,  is  a  descendant 
of  an  old  Scotch  family.  The  ancestry  of  this 
family  can  be  traced  back  to  Gillean,  the 
founder  of  the  clan  in  the  thirteenth  century. 

(I)  Rev.  .Archibald  Maclean,  great-grand- 
father of  George  Macintosh  ^Maclean,  was  a 
minister  of  the  parish  of  Kilflnichen,  in  Scot- 
land, which  included  the  island  of  lona.  He 
died  March  lo.  1755. 

(II)  John  Maclean,  son  of  Rev.  Archibald 
Maclean  (i),  was  a  surgeon  by  profession, 
both  in  civil  and  military  service.  He  was 
present  at  the  capture  of  the  city  of  Quebec 
from  the  French,  and  was  the  third  man  who 
succeeded  in  scaling  the  famous  Heights  of 
.\brahani,  which  were  considered  an  invinci- 
l)le  barrier  to  the  conquest  of  the  city.  Upon 
his  retircmet  from  the  army  he  devoted  him- 
self to  the  practice  of  surgery  in  the  city  of 
Glasgow,  Scotland,  and  resided  there  until  his 
death.  .\  short  time  before  going  with  the 
liritish  army  to  Canada  he  married  .Agnes 
Lang,  of  Glasgow,  April  28,  1756. 

fill)  John  Maclean,  M.  D.,  son  of  Dr. 
John  (2)  and  .Agnes  (Lang)  Maclean,  was 
born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  March  i,  1771.  He 
was  very  young  when  he  lost  both  of  his  par- 
ents, but  was  fortunate  in  having  for  his  guar- 
dian George  Macintosh,  Esq.,  a  gentleman  who 
took  the  greatest  interest  in  his  welfare.  He 
was  sent  to  the  Glasgow  Grammar  School, 
then  to  the  L^niversity,  which  he  entered  be- 
fore the  age  of  thirteen  years.  Young  Mac- 
lean was  awarded  a  number  of  prizes  and  pre- 
miums in  both  of  these  institutions.  He  re- 
moved to  Edinburgh  to  attend  special  lectures, 
and  later  prosecuted  his  studies  in  chemistry 
and  surgery  in  Paris  and  London.  He  re- 
turned to  his  native  city  about  1790,  and  was 
regarded  as  having  no  superior  in  the  depart- 
ment of  chemistry  in  Scotland,  and  scarcely 
an  equal  in  the  New  or  French  chemistry.  He 
became  a  member  of  the  Faculty  of  Physicians 
and  Surceons  when  he  was  in  his  twenty-first 
year  and  his  diploma  authorizing  him  to  practice 
surgery  and  pharmacy  is  dated  .August  i,  1791. 


-Shortl)-  after  his  arrival  in  this  country,  in 
the  .siH-ing  of  1795,  Dr.  Maclean  settled  in 
Princeton,  New  Jersey,  and  entered  upon  the 
l^ractice  of  physic  and  surgery  in  connection 
with  the  leading  physician  of  the  place,  Dr. 
Ebenezer  Stockton. 

October  ist,  1795,  Dr.  Maclean  was  chosen 
professor  of  chemistry  and  natural  history. 
In  .April,  1797,  he  was  appointed  to  the  pro- 
fessorship of  mathematics  and  natural  philoso- 
phy in  the  college,  and  was  thus  obliged  to  re- 
sign his  private  practice.  Dr.  Maclean  was 
the  first  professor  of  chemistry  in  a  literary  in- 
stitution in  the  United  States.  He  tendered 
ills  resignation  to  the  college  facult}-  in  1812, 
and  shortly  after  accepted  an  invitation  to  the 
chair  of  natural  philosophy  and  chemistry  in 
the  College  of  William  and  Mary,  Williams- 
burg, \'irginia.  His  death  occurred  Febru- 
ary 17,  1814.  His  grave  is  in  Princeton  ceme- 
tery contiguous  to  those  of  the  college  presi- 
dents and  professors.  .As  a  gentleman,  scholar 
and  teacher.  Dr.  Maclean  held  an  eminent  po- 
sition among  his  contemporaries.  In  teach- 
ing, his  aim  was  to  make  his  pupils  perfectly 
familiar  with  what  they  professed  to  study, 
rather  than  to  impart  to  them  a  smattering  of  a 
great  variety  of  knowledge. 

Dr.  Alaclean  married,  November  7,  1798, 
Phoebe  Bainbridge,  eldest  daughter  of  .Absa- 
lom and  ;\Iary  (Taylor)  P.ainbridge,  and  sis- 
ter of  Commodore  William  Painbridge,  United 
States  navy.  Absalom  P.ainbridge  was  the 
fourth  son  of  Edmund  and  .Abigail  Bainbridge, 
of  Maidenhead,  now  Lawrenceville,  Mercer 
county.  New  Jersey,  and  a  grandson  of  John 
Bainbridge,  an  original  settler  of  the  same 
town.  John  liainbridge  was  one  of  the  mag- 
istrates present  when  the  Court  of  Common 
Pleas  and  Quarter  .Sessions  met  at  Maidenhead 
on  the  second  Tuesday  of  June,  1714.  He  was 
buried  at  Lamberton,  in  1732.  Absalom 
P.ainbridge  graduated  from  the  College  of 
New  Jersey  in  1762  and  from  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New  York.  Dr. 
Bainbridge  was  elected  secretary  of  the  New 
Jersey  Medical  Society  in  1771,  and  president 
of  the  society  in  1773.  In  1778  he  was  sur- 
geon in  the  New  Jersey  \'olunteers  (British 
service).  He  became  a  medical  practitioner 
in  the  city  of  New  York,  was  one  of  the  earl- 
iest members  of  the  New  A'ork  Medical  Soci- 
ety, and  he  held  a  high  rank  in  his  profession. 
Mary  (Taylor)  Bainbridge  was  the  only 
daughter  of  John  Taylor  and  Phoebe  Heard 
Taylor,  a  sister  of  General  Nathaniel  Heard, 
of  Middletown,  New  Jersey.     He  was  grand- 


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son  of  Edward  Taylor,  of  London,  who  pur- 
chased about  one  thousand  acres  of  land  in 
Middletown.  New  Jersey,  and  in  1692  came 
over  and  settled  there.  John  Taylor  was  born 
in  1715.  was  one  of  the  judges  of  liis  Maj- 
esty's court  at  Monmouth,  and  received  a  com- 
mission from  the  King  of  England.  Lord  Howe 
being  the  bearer,  appointing  him  lord  high 
commissioner  of  ^lonmouth  county.  He  was 
a  descendant  of  a  family  which  settled  in  Eng- 
land at  the  time  of  the  Norman  invasion. 
John  Taylor  died  November  23.   1798. 

Children  of  Dr  John  and  Phoebe  (Bain- 
bridge)  Maclean  were:  John,  who  was  the 
tenth  president  of  the  college,  born  March  i. 
1800.  died  August  10.  1886.  unmarried.  Mary 
Bainbridge.  born  October  23.  1801.  died  Sep- 
tember 9.  1849,  unmarried.  William  Bain- 
bridge,  born  November  6,  1803.  died  August  2. 
1829.  unmarried.  George  Macintosh,  born 
I'ebruary  19,  1806,  died  March  8,  1886. 
Agnes,  born  February  5.  1808,  died  .April  7. 
1843.  lumiarried.  Archibald,  born  February 
18,  18 10.  died  November  19.  1894,  unmarried. 

(IV)  George  Macinto.sh  ^laclean,  ^L  D.,  Ph. 
D.,  third  son  of  Dr.  John  (3  )  and  Phoebe  (Bain- 
bridge  )  Maclean,  was  born  in  Princeton,  New 
Jersey,  February  19,  1806.  He  early  evinced 
a  strong  inclination  for  scientific  studies,  and 
became  a  student  at  Princeton  Lniversity, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  with  honors  in 
1824.  After  graduating  from  the  College  of  F'hy- 
sicians  and  Surgeons  in  New  York  City,  1829, 
he  established  himself  in  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine and  .'urgery  in  Princeton,  New  Jersey, 
and  in  New  York  City,  1843-46.  Subsequently 
he  went  west  and  was  professor  of  chemistrv 
and  natural  history  in  Hanover  College,  In- 
diana :  ])rofessor  of  chemistry  in  Cincinnati 
College  of  Medicine  and  Surgery ;  and  taught 
chemistry  in  New  Albany.  Indiana,  and  Pitts- 
burgli,  i'ennsylvania.  Returning  to  Princeton 
he  retired  from  active  professional  work.  Dr. 
Maclean  was  the  president  of  the  Medical 
Society  of  Middlesex  county.  New  Jersey. 
1837;  third  vice-president  and  censor  of  the 
Medical  Society  of  the  State  of  New  Jersev ; 
and  vice-i)resident  of  the  Alumni  Association 
of  Nassau  Hall  from  June,  1880,  until  his 
death.  He  contributed  many  papers  on  scien- 
tific subjects  which  were  regarded  with  interest 
by  the  professional  world. 

Dr.  Maclean  was  an  elder  in  Duane  Street 
(now  ['"ifth  .Avenue)  Church.  New  "S'ork.  and 
in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  l^rinceton. 
Rev.  H.  (i.  Hin.<;ciale  wrote:  ".\s  a  christian 
man  he  always  seemed  to  me  unselfish  and  un- 


assuming, the  soul  of  courtesy  and  honor, 
orthodox  in  his  beliefs,  frank  and  courageous 
in  the  avowal  of  his  opinions,  and  earnest  in 
the  endeavor  to  live  in  accordance  with  the 
Word  of  God  and  to  fulfill  the  obligations  of 
his  high  calling.  .As  a  church  officer  he  was 
diligent  and  exact,  intensely  loyal  to  his  church, 
an  intelligent  and  competent  member  of  her 
judicatories,  and  deeply  interested  in  her  prog- 
ress at  home  and  abroad.  In  short  our  de- 
ceased brother  belonged  to  a  class  of  men- 
would  that  it  were  a  larger  class — who  are 
more  anxious  to  be  than  to  seem,  and  who  so 
cordially  busy  themselves  with  well-doing  in 
the  service  and  for  the  honor  of  the  Lord 
Christ  as  to  be  little  disturbed  by  the  ambition 
of  pre-eminence  among  men."  '  Dr.  ^Maclean 
died  ]\Iarch  8.  1886,  and  his  remains  were  in- 
terred in  Princeton. 

Dr.  Maclean  married  (first)  Catharine  ( ). 
Smith.  July  2.  1836.  They  had  one  child,  fohn. 
born  August  i,  1837.  mVs.  Dr.  Maclean  died 
June  15.  1840.  John  graduated  from  College 
of  New  Jersey,  1858.  and  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary,  1870.  He  married  Marv  Louise 
Sisty.  who  died  July  6,  1867;  he  died'  July  27, 
1870.  Their  only  child.  Phoebe,  was  brought 
up  by  her  guardian.  Mrs.  P.  .A.  Olden,  and 
married  Fritz  Schultz.  Dr.  :Maclean  married 
(second),  November  10.  1847.  Jane  \'.  D.  H. 
\'an  Winkle,  who  died  June  24.  1849.  Dr. 
Maclean  married  (third),  .April  3,  1856,  Caro- 
line M.  Williams  (nee  Fitch),  they  had  four 
daughters — Mary  .Agnes.  Louisa  B'.  Caroline 
Fitch  and  Susan  Bainbridge.  Susan  Bain- 
bridge  died  in  infancy.  December  19.  1865. 
Caroline  M.  Williams  was  the  widow  of  Rev. 
Mason  D.  Williams,  of  Louisville.  Kentucky, 
and  daughter  of  Mason  Cogswell  and  .Aniia 
M.  (  Paxton)  Fitch.  Mr.  Fitch  was  a  lawver 
and  president  of  the  First  Bank  of  New  Al- 
bany. Indiana.  Rev.  Ebenezer  Fitch,  grand- 
father of  Mrs.  Maclean,  was  the  first  president 
of  Williams  College.  \\'illiamstown.  ATassachu- 
setts.  to  which  he  went  from  Yale  College 
where  he  had  been  a  tutor.  Mrs.  Maclean  had 
two  chiMrcn  by  her  first  husband:  I.  .Anna 
^L  Williams,  married  Henry  E.  Hale,  a  grad- 
uate of  Princeton  University,  now  a  horticul- 
turist, having  a  large  estate  on  Mercer  street. 
Mrs.  Hale  died  in  i8')8.  Their  living  children 
are:  Henry  E..  Jr..  M.  D.,  demonstrator  in 
anatomy  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons in  New  York  City :  married  Frances  M. 
U'ard.  of  Chicago.  Anna  W..  married  Rev. 
George  H.  Bncher.  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian 
church    at     Pennington.      Titus,    .A.    B..    now 


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II  (lyoj)  engaged  in  business  (irrigation)  in  tlie 

state  of  \\  ashington,  and  ^lary  Otis.    2.  Rev. 

Mason  Fitch  Williams,  M.  D.,  now  residing  in 
,  Muskogee,  Indian  Territory,  married  Mrs. 
ii  Mary  (.Worcester)  Mason,  and  has  one  living 
ii  son,  Leonard  W.,  Ph.  D.,  instructor  in  liar- 
'  vard  Medical  College,  who  married  Martha  R.. 

daughter    of    Professor    Benjamin    Franklin 

Clark,  of  I'.rown  University. 


Charles   Hodge,   D.   D.,   LL.    D. 

H0D(;E     The  Hodge  family  of  Princeton 

trace  their  descent  from   North 

i  Irish  ancestry,  the  earliest  progenitor  of  whom 
record  is  known  being  \\'illiam  Hodge,  died 

i  January  14,  1723,  and  Margaret,  his  wife,  died 
November    15,    1730.      Their    children    were: 

:  William,  born  November  24,  1704:  Hugh, 
born  July  28,  1706,  died  171 1  ;  Elizabeth,  born 
March   28,    1709,    died    171 1  ;    Andrew,   born 

;  March  28,  171 1,  died  1789;  Hugh,  2d,  born 
January  11,  J713,  died  1783,  and  Jane,  born 
February  15,  1714,  died  ante  1730.  Soon  after 
the  death  of  their  mother,  William,  Andrew 
and  Hugh  emigrated  to  America,  settling  in 
Philadelpiiia  and  becoming  successful  mer- 
chants.    William  married  Mary  -^ died 

November  13,  1737;  had  a  daughter,  Mary, 
born  November  6.  1737,  who  married  William 
West,  August  18,  1757,  and  became  ancestor 
of  the  Wests,  Conynghams  and  Fraziers  of 
Philadelphia,  Wilkes-F>arre  and  New  Orleans, 
and  the  Stewarts  of  Baltimore.  Hugh,  the 
youngest  of  the  three  emigrant  brothers,  be- 
came a  trustee  of  the  second  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Philadelphia,  and  in  1745  married 
Hannah  Harkum,  born  Philadelphia,  January, 
1721.  died  December  17,  1805,  daughter  of 
John  Harkum,  of  English  descent.  Her  mother 
was  a  Miss  Doe,  or  Doz,  of  Huguenot  ances- 
try, and  connected  with  the  French  fugitives 
wlio  were  founders  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  l^hiladelphia.  Hugh  and  Hannah 
(Harkum)  Hodge  had  a  son  Hugh,  born  1757, 
died  1783,  who  was  graduated  from  Princeton 
in  1774,  and  is  believed  to  have  been  lost  at 
sea  on  a  mercantile  enterprise. 

.Andrew  Hodge,  the  second  of  the  three 
original  emigrant  brothers  became  a  wealthy 
merchant  at  Philadelphia,  owning  his  wharf, 
store,  and  city  residence  on  Water  street,  and 
a  country  residence  in  the  suburbs.  He  was 
long  conspicuous  as  possessing  one  of  the  six 
carriages  in  Philadelphia.  In  1739  he  married 
Jane  McCulloch.  Her  brother,  Hugh  was  a 
father  of  Colonel  Hugh  ]\IcCulloch,  of  the 
revolutionarv  war,  and  the  war  of  1812.     An- 


drew Hodge  and  Jane  (McCulloch)  Hodge 
had  fifteen  children.  Their  eldest  child  and 
daughter  Margaret,  born  1740,  married  Johii 
Rubenheim  Bayard,  of  Maryland,  and  later  of 
Philadelphia,  who  became  a  colonel  in  the 
revolution,  .\fter  her  death  Colonel  Bayard 
married  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  John 
Rodgers.  of  New  York  City,  and  thirdly  a 
Mrs.  \\  bite,  of  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey, 
who  survived  him. 

One  of  Colonel  John  and  Margaret  (  Hodge  ) 
I'.ayard's  sons  was  Andrew,  merchant  of  Phila- 
delphia and  first  president  of  the  Commercial 
l]ank  and  the  Philadelphia  Savings  Institution. 
He  married  Sara  Pettit,  daughter  of  Colonel 
Pettit,  of  the  Revolutionary  army,  .\nother  of 
Colonel  ISayard's  sons  by  his  first  marriage  was 
Samuel  Bayard,  of  Princeton,  afterwards  judge 
of  common  pleas,  and  trustee  and  treasurer  of 
the  University,  who  married  a  Miss  I'intard. 
Judge  Samuel  Bayard's  second  daughter  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  Washington,  of  Virginia,  and  had  a 
daughter  Augusta  who  married  the  son  of  At- 
torney (ieneral  William  Wirt,  of  Alaryland. 
Judge  Samuel  Bayard's  third  daughter  Caro- 
line, married  Albert  B.  Dod  (Princeton,  class 
of  1822),  professor  of  Mathematics  at  Prince- 
ton. One  of  Professor  and  Airs.  Dod's  daugh- 
ters married  Edward  Stevens,  of  Hoboken, 
while  still  another  married  Richard  Stockton, 
of  Princeton,  for  many  years  United  States 
senator  from  New  Jersey.  Professor  and  Mrs. 
Dod's  oldest  son  Albert  Baldwin  was  graduated 
from  Princeton  in  1854.  and  became  a  captain 
of  the  United  States  Fifteenth  Infantry  in  the 
civil  war.  He  died  in  1880.  Their  second 
son,  Samuel  Bayard,  a  graduate  of  Princeton 
of  the  class  of  1857,  and  a  trustee  of  the  uni- 
versity, married  Isabella  ^^'illiamson  Green, 
daughter  of  Jacob  Green,  and  granddaughter 
of  President  .Ashbel  Green,  of  Princeton,  and 
became  himself  {^resident  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees of  Stevens  Institute  at  Hoboken.  Pro- 
fessor and  Mrs.  Dod's  third  son  Charles  Hodge. 
(Princeton,  1862),  was  a  Captain  on  the  staff 
of  Major  General  Hancock  during  the  civil 
war,  and  died  in  service,  August  27,  1864, 

Returning  to  the  children  of  Andrew  and 
Jane  (  McCulloch)  Hodge,  their  second  daugh- 
ter was  .Agnes,  born  1742,  who  married  Dr. 
James  Ashton  Bayard,  of  Delaware,  the  twin 
Iirother  of  Colonel  John  R.  Bayard,  above  men- 
tioned. Their  daughter  Mary  died  single.  A 
son  John  was  a  physician  and  died  in  Cumber- 
land. Maryland.  .Another  son  was  James  .Ash- 
ton. Jr..  a  lawyer  who  was  congressman  from 
Delaware  and  died  at  Wilmington,  Delaware, 


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August.  1815.  leaving  a  son,  James  Ashton, 
who  married  a  Miss  Erancis,  of  Philadelphia, 
became  a  United  States  senator,  and  the  father 
of  the  distinguished  ambassador,  Thomas  F. 
Bayard. 

The  third  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Jane 
(McCulloch)  Hodge  was  Jane,  born  1757, 
married  a  Mr.  T'liillips,  of  the  \\'est  Indies  and 
England. 

I'lie  fourth  daughter  of  .\ndrew  and  Jane 
(McCulloch)  Hodge  was  Mary,  born  1761, 
who  married  .Major  Hodgdon,  commissary  in 
the  revolutionary  arm)',  and  had  a  numerous 
family. 

.Andrew  and  Jane  (.McCullnch  1  Hodge's  son!; 
were:  John,  born  1747,  died  1770,  a  physician. 
William,  born  1750,  died  1780.  secret  agent  for 
the  United  States  during  the  revolution.  An- 
drew, Jr.,  born  1753,  died  1834,  who  was  grad- 
uated from  Princeton  in  1772,  was  educated 
for  the  law,  but  entering  the  army  was  captain 
in  the  Pennsylvania  line  during  the  revolution, 
and  afterwards  became  a  merchant  in  Philadel- 
phia. He  married  Anne  Ledyard,  and  their 
eldest  son,  John  Ledyard,  becoming  a  merchant 
settled  at  Alarseilles,  FYance,  and  made  a  for- 
tune. President  Fillmore  appointed  him  Amer- 
ican consul  at  Marseilles.  .\  daughter  Jane, 
born  1786,  died  1866,  married  Dr.  Robert  H. 
Rose.  Another  son,  William  Ledyard,  born 
January,  1790,  died  January  22,  1868,  became 
a  merchant  and  eventually  assistant  secretary 
of  the  United  States  treasury. 

The  fourth  son  of  Andrew  and  Jane  (Mc- 
Culloch) Hodge  was  Hugh,  born  Philadelphia, 
August  20,  1755,  died  Philadelphia,  July  14, 
1798.  He  was  graduated  from  Princeton  in 
1773,  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Cadwalader, 
was  appointed  surgeon  in  the  Third  Pennsyl- 
vania liattalion  in  February,  1776,  was  taken 
jjrisoner  at  Fort  Washington  in  November, 
1776,  and  was  released  on  parole.  Ho  follow- 
ed the  family  calling  and  went  into  mercantile 
life,  but  after  the  war  returned  to  the  practice 
of  medicine  and  was  prominent  in  Philadeli)hia 
during  the  yellow  fever  epidemics  of  1793  and 
1795,  succumbing  in  1798  to  the  results  of  his 
over-exertions  at  that  tiTuc. 

The  fifth  son  of  Andrew  and  Jane  (McCul- 
loch) Hodge  was  James,  who  went  into  mer- 
cantile service  and  is  believed  to  have  been  lost 
in  shijnvreck  in  the  East  Indies  in  1793. 

Hugii  Hodge,  above  named,  the  fourth  son 
of  Andrew  and  Jane  Hodge,  married,  in  1790. 
Mary  P)lanchard.  of  Iloston.  born  1765,  died 
April  14,  1832,  the  sister  of  Samuel  Blanchard, 


who  married  the  niece  of  Colonel  Timothy 
I'ickering,  of  the  revolutionary  army  and  sec- 
retary of  war  under  Washington.  Mary 
Blanchard  was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  ( Hunt )  Blanciiard.  Her  father  was 
j^robably  of  Huguenot  extraction. 

Hugh  and  Mary  (Blanchard)  Hodge  had 
children:  Elizabeth,  born  December  19,  1791, 
died  August,  1793.  Mary,  born  September 
I,  1792,  died  1795.  Hugh,  born  .August  24, 
1794,  died  1795.  Hugh  Lenox,  born  June  27, 
1796,  died  I''ebruary  23,  1873,  wdio  was  grad- 
uated from  Princeton  in  1814,  received  the 
degree  of  AI.  D.  from  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania in  1818.  was  appointed  professor  of 
(Jbstttrics  at  that  university  in  1871.  and  mar- 
ried, in  1828,  Margaret  E.  Aspinwall.  died 
1866,  daughter  of  John  .AsiMnwall.  merchant  of 
Xew  A'ork.  Charles,  born  at  Philadelphia, 
December  28,  1797.  who  was  graduated  from 
Princeton  in  181 5,  and  became  the  celebrated 
Presbyterian  theologian. 

Dr.  Charles  Hodge's  early  education  was  re- 
ceived in  Philadelphia,  and  in  1810  with  his 
elder  brother,  Hugh  Leno.x,  he  was  sent  to 
Somerville  .Academy,  New  Jersey.  In  the 
spring  of  1812  Hugh  entered  Princeton  and 
Charles  entered  the  Princeton  .Academy.  He 
entered  college  in  the  autumn  of  1812  as  a 
sophomore,  and  w-as  graduated  valedictorian 
of  his  class  in  1815.  In  November  of  the 
following  year  he  entered  the  Princeton  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  being  graduated  in  1 8 19. 
During  the  winter  of  1819-20  he  jireached  at 
the  Falls  of  Schuylkill,  at  the  Philadeliihia 
-Arsenal  and  at  Woodbury,  New  Jersey.  In 
May,  1820,  he  was  appointed  assi.stant  in- 
structor in  Oriental  Languages  at  Princeton 
Seminary,  a  ])osition  he  retained  for  two  years. 
He  was  ordained  November  28.  1821.  In 
May,  1822,  the  general  assembly  elected  him 
to  the  chair  of  Biblical  Literature  in  the  Semi- 
nary, and  in  May,  1840,  transferred  him  to  the 
chair  of  Exegetical  and  Didactic  Theology, 
which  he  occupied  until  his  death  in  1878.  In 
1846  he  was  moderator  of  the  general  assem- 
bly. In  addition  to  his  professorial  work  he 
founded,  and  until  1868  edited,  the  Riblical 
Repertory  or  Princeton  Review,  which  under 
varying  names  has  been  issued  to  the  ])rescnt 
time,  ])rinciiiallly  as  the  organ  of  the  Princeton 
Theological  Seminary.  Dr.  Hodge's  most  bril- 
liant writing  was  done  for  the /ifcT'iVTC  where  he 
was  compelled  to  defend  the  old  school  divinity 
of  the  seminary  against  the  advanced  move- 
ments of  the  day.     He  is  said  to  have  written 


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nearly  one-tliird  of  the  contents  of  the  forty- 
three  vokmies  of  the  Rcz'ic^v  which  a])peared 
during  his  editorial  connection  with  it. 

In  order  to  complete  his  preparation  for  the 
great  life  work  which  lay  before  him  on  his 
I  election  to  the  chair  of  Oriental  and  Biblical 
[  Literature,  in  1822,  he  was  sent  abroad  by 
friends  in  1825  to  pursue  a  course  of  study  in 
the  universities  of  Halle,  Berlin  and  Paris,  re- 
turning to  America  in  1828.  In  Europe  he 
made  the  ac(|uaintance  of  many  of  the  leading 
theologians  of  the  day,  and  laid  the  founda- 
tions for  the  wide  personal  friendships  with 
foreign  scholars  which  he  was  to  enjoy  during 
the  remainder  of  his  lifetime.  On  April  24, 
1872,  half  a  century  after  he  was  inade  a  pro- 
fessor in  the  seminary,  his  friends  and  pupils 
commemorated  the  event  by  a  jubilee  gather- 
ing which  in  some  respects  has  had  no  equal 
in  American  academic  history.  Honor  was 
paid  him  from  all  parts  of  the  world.  He  lived 
in  Princeton  for  seventy  years,  and  died  June 
IQ,  1878,  in  the  eighty-first  year  of  his  age. 
He  is  buried  in  Princeton  cemetery. 

Dr.  [lodge  was  a  close  student  and  a 
superbly  C(|uipped  scholar.  The  lameness  from 
which  he  suffered  jiroved  perhaps  a  veiled 
blessing  in  that  it  compelled  him  to  find  his 
recreation  amid  his  books.  .As  a  theological 
author  he  enjoyed  a  foremost  reputation,  won 
partly  by  his  work  in  the  Biblical  Rc/^crtory 
or  Princeton  Rcz'icw.  Assisted  by  a  brilliant 
corps  of  fellow  writers  he  placed  the  Rcc'ic-ic 
in  prominence  among  the  leading  ('uarterlies 
of  the  age  :  it  became  a  great  formative  power 
in  the  theology  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and 
its  career  is  part  of  the  literary  history  of  the 
country.  Dr.  Hodge  edited  the  Rci'icw  from 
1823  to  1868,  and  his  massive  learning,  coupled 
with  the  logic  clearness  and  force  of  his  style, 
won  for  him  his  position  as  a  leader  in  Orthodox 
Presbyterian  thought.  But  his  rejjutation  does 
not  rest  on  his  editorial  work  alone.  His  "Com- 
mentary on  the  Epistle  to  the  Romans"  issued 
first  in  1835  and  again  in  i86f)  enlarged  and 
revised,  has  been  accounted  one  of  the  most 
masterly  commentaries  in  existence,  while  his 
"Constitutional  History  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  .America"  (1840),  his  "Way  of  Life" 
(1841),  his  "Commentary  on  the  Epistle  to 
the  Ephesians"  (1856),  his  "Commentary  on 
First  Corinthians"  (1857),  and  on  "Second 
Corithians"  (  1859),  and  his  great  "Systematic 
Theology"  (  1871-1873)  are  monuments  to  his 
scholarship,  his  simple  piety  and  his  literary 
vigor.  His  "Systematic  Theology"  is  the  great 
work  of   his  life.     It  has  been   republished  in 


Scotland  and  was  translated  in  Germany  and 
is  universally  held  in  highest  esteem  as  the 
best  exposition  of  the  system  of  Calvinistic 
doctrine  known  as  Princeton  Theology.  His 
last  b;)ok  "What  is  Darwinism?"  appeared  in 
1874.  His  articles  in  the  Rcviczv  have  been 
gathered  into  volumes  as  "Princeton  Essays" 
(1857),  and  "Hodge's  Discussions  on  Church 
Polity"  (1878),  and  have  taken  permanent 
place  in  theological  literature. 

.\s  a  preacher  Dr.  Hodge  was  hardly  popu- 
lar save  with  a  specialized  academic  audience, 
his  manner  being  unemotional  in  the  extreme 
and  his  sermons  being  always  closely  read. 
But  as  a  teacher  and  a  man  he  was  as  endeared 
to  his  pupils  and  friends  by  his  simplicity  and 
modest  personality  as  he  was  revered  for  his 
learning.  .At  his  jubilee  in  1872,  when  an  en- 
tire afternoon  was  taken  up  with  laudatory 
addresses  from  representative  men  and  institu- 
tions from  the  world  over,  his  only  comment 
was  "I  heard  it  all  as  of  some  other  man." 

In  his  home  he  was  an  affectionate  father, 
sympathetic  guide  and  charming  host.  A  fine 
conversationalist,  he  abounded  in  humor  and 
anecdote  and  was  a  master  in  the  art  of  listen- 
ing. .Although  his  academic  relations  largely 
compelled  him  to  appear  a  controversialist  in 
])ublic,  yet  his  personal  sympathies  went  be- 
yond the  narrow  confines  of  sect.  It  has  been 
well  said  that  he  gave  his  sympathy  to  all  good 
agencies.  Historically  in  the  Presbyterian 
church  he  is  ranked  rather  as  a  defender  of 
the  traditional  Calvinistic  theology  than  as  a 
constructive  or  progressive  force.  He  received 
the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Rutgers  College  in 
1834  and  that  of  LL.  D.  from  Washington  and 
Jefferson  College  in  1864.  He  was  a  trustee 
of  Princeton  University  from  1850  until  his 
death. 

He  married  (first),  June  17,  1822,  Sarah 
Bache,  daughter  of  William  and  Catherine 
(  Wistar  )  Bache.  Catherine  P>ache  was  sister 
(if  Dr.  Caspar  Wistar,  Professor  of  Anatomy 
in  the  L'niversity  of  Pennsylvania.  William 
Bache  was  a  grandson  of  Benjamin  Franklin. 
Mrs.  Sarah  (  Bache)  Hodge  died  December 
2^^.  1849,  aged  fifty-one.  On  July  8,  1852,  Dr. 
Hodge  married  (second),  Mary  Hunter  Stock- 
ton, died  February  28,  1880,  widow  of  Lieu- 
tenant .Samuel  Witham  Stockton,  I'nited  States 
navv.  She  was  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  .Andrew 
Hunter  (  Princeton,  1772),  professor  at  Prince- 
ton and  chaplain  of  the  navy  yard  at  Washing- 
ton. D.  C. 

Dr.  Ho 'ge's  children  by  his  first  wife  were. 
I,   .Archibald   .Alexander,  born   July    18,    1823, 


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see  forward.  2.  Mary,  born  .August  31,  1825, 
married.  1848.  Dr.  William  M.  Scott,  professor 
at  Centre  College.  Kentucky,  who  died  1861. 
3.  Casper  Wistar,  born  February  21,  1830,  see 
forward.  4.  Charles,  born  March  22,  1832, 
died  1876,  graduate  of  Princeton,  1852,  a 
physician.  M.  D.,  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
'855.  5-  John,  born  1834,  of  South  .Amboy, 
.Vew  Jersey,  ft.  Catherine  Bache,  born  Au- 
gust 31.  1836,  married  Dr.  McGill.  7.  Francis 
nianchard.  born  October  24,  1838,  died  May 
13,  1905,  a  graduate  of  Princeton,  1859,  minis- 
ter at  W'ilkes-Barre  and  trustee  of  Prmceton 
University,  married  Mary  Alexander,  daugh- 
ter of  Professor  Stephen  Alexander,  of  Prince- 
ton. 8.  Sarah,  born  1840.  married  Colonel 
.Samuel   W'itham  Stockton,  of  Princeton. 

Archibald  Alexander  Hodge,  D.  D.,  LL.  D., 
son  of  Dr.  Charles  and  Sarah  (Bache)  Hodge, 
was  born  in  Princeton,  July  18,  1823.  He  was 
graduated  from  Princeton  University  in  1841. 
He  then  spent  a  year  studying  with  Professor 
Joseph  Henry  and  a  year  teaching  at  Lawrence- 
ville.  .\'ew  Jersey.  In  1843  h*^  entered  Prince- 
ton Seminary,  spending  four  years  there,  dur- 
ing two  of  which  he  was  tutor  in  the  university. 
He  was  lictnsed  in  1S46  and  ordained  as  a 
foreign  missionary  in  1847;  "i  August  of  that 
year  he  sailed  for  India,  and  at  Allahabad  re- 
mained until  the  spring  of  1850,  when  im- 
paired health  obliged  his  return.  He  was  pas- 
tor of  a  church  at  West  Xottingham,  Mary- 
land, 1851-55,  I'Vedericksburg,  Mrginia,  1855- 
61,  and  of  Wilkes-I^arre,  Pennsylvania,  1861- 
64.  He  was  tlien  elected  jjrofessor  of  Didactic 
and  Polemic  Theology  in  Western  Theological 
.Seminary,  .Mlegheny,  Pennsylvania,  where  he 
remained  until  1877.  when  he  was  called  to 
I'riticeton  Seminary  to  be  associated  with  his 
father,  On  the  death  of  his  father,  the  next 
year,  he  was  elected  ])rofessor  of  Didactic  and 
Polemic  Theology  and  occupied  the  chair  until 
his  sudden  death  on  .Xovember  11.  1886.  He 
received  the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Princeton 
University  in  1862  and  that  of  LL.  D.  from 
Wooster  in  1876.  He  was  a  trustee  of  Prince- 
ton University  from  1881  until  his  death.  He 
married  (first)  at  Winchester.  \'irginia,  lune 
17,  1847.  Elizabeth  Bent  Holliday,  who  "died 
at  .Alletdieny,  Pennsylvania.  .September  28. 
1868.  I  le  married  (second  ),  at  Detroit.  Michi- 
gan. Mrs.  Margaret  (McLaren)  Woods,  who 
survives  him.  Children  by  his  first  wife  are 
Sarah  Bache.  now  living  in  Princeton,  and 
r^'lizabrtli  llalliday.  who  died  in  l8()3.  Dr. 
Hodge  was  considered  one  of  the  greatest 
pulpit  orators  of  the  country.     He  resembled 


Dr.  .Archibald  .Alexander  in  his  genius  for 
oral  expression.  He  had  a  remarkable  faculty 
for  definition,  analysis  and  original  illustration, 
and  his  brilliant  imagination  clothed  his  lan- 
guage with  charm.  While  overshadowed  by 
his  father  as  a  writer  of  review  articles,  he 
nevertheless  published  works  which  have  given 
him  high  rank  as  a  theological  writer.  His 
"Outlines  of  Theology,"  published  first  in  i860, 
has  been  translated  into  several  languages.  His 
".Atonement,"  published  in  1868,  was  republish- 
ed in  London  in  1886.  His  "Exposition  of  the 
Confession  of  Faith"  appeared  in  1869  and  in 
1880  he  published  his  "Life  of  Charles  Hodge,' 
a  volume  entitled  Popular  Lectures  on  Theo- 
logical Themes  was  posthumouslv  published  in 
1887. 

Casper  Wistar  Hodge.  D.  D..  LL.  D..  son  of 
Dr.  Charles  Hodge,  was  born  in  Princeton, 
I'ebruary  21,  1830.  and  was  named  after  Pro- 
fessor Casper  Wistar,  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania.  He  E^rew  up  and  was  educated 
in  Princeton,  and  with  the  exception  of  two 
short  jiastorates  spent  his  entire  life  in  Prince- 
ton. He  w-as  fitted  for  college  by  his  lifelong 
friend  and  preceptor,  the  brilliant  Dr.  Joseph 
.\ddison  .Alexander.  He  was  graduated  at  the 
head  of  his  class  in  Princeton  University  in 
1848.  and  while  acting  as  secretary  to  Pro- 
fessor Joseph  TTenry  taught  for  a  year  at  Edge- 
hill  .School,  Princeton,  entering  Princeton 
Seminary  in  1849.  While  in  the  seminary  he 
was  tutor  in  Greek  in  the  university  from  1850 
to  1852.  In  1853  he  was  licensed  and  in  1854 
ordained.  His  first  charge  was  at  Brooklyn, 
one  year  as  stated  supply  and  two  years  as 
l)astdr.  In  1856  he  became  pastor  at  Oxford, 
Pennsylvania,  remaining  until  i860,  when  he 
was  called  to  Princeton  Seminary  to  succeed 
Dr.  J.  .Addison  .Alexander,  who  had  just  died 
leaving  vacant  the  chair  of  Hellenistic  and 
Xew  Testament  Literature.  On  Dr.  Casper 
Hodge's  assumption  of  the  chair  it  was  called 
the  Professorship  of  Xew  Testament  Hi.story 
and  r.iblical  Greek.  In  1879  the  title  was 
chanecd  again  to  Xew  Testament  Literature 
and  Evegesis,  he  having  assumed  the  -work  in 
Xew  Testament  I'.xegesis  done  by  his  father, 
Charles  Hodge.  I'or  thirty-one  years  he  per- 
formed the  duties  of  this  chair.  Of  a  retiring 
dis])ositi('n  and  averse  to  publicity,  he  was  pre- 
vented from  taking  a  prominence  in  the  church  ~ 
at  large  commensurate  with  his  attainments. 
I  le  iniblished  only  a  few  sermons  and  reviews. 
llis  s])ecial  power  was  in  the  classroom,  and 
his  jjreaching  was  particularly  enjoyed  by  the 
intellectual    and    theological   audiences   of   the 


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Seminary  Chapel.  He  received  the  degree  of 
D.  D.,  from  Princeton  University  in  1865  and 
that  of  LL.  D.,  from  the  same  institution  in 
1 80 1-     He  died  September  27,  1891. 

He  married  (first).  May  17,  1855,  at  Prince- 
ton, Alary  Hunter  Stockton,  daughter  of  Lieu- 
tenant Stoci\ton,  of  Princeton.  Slie  died  Sep- 
tember 29,  1857.  He  married  (second),  June 
4,  1863,  at  Huntington,  Long  Island,  Harriet 
Terry  Post,  granddaughter  of  Professor  Post, 
surgeon  in  New  York  City.  She  died  April 
7,  1864.  He  married  (third),  October  20, 
1869,  in  Xew  York.  Angelina  Post,  who  with 
four  children  survives  him.  i.  Casper  W'istar, 
Jr..  a  graduate  of  Princeton  (class  of  1892) 
an  1  instructor  in  Princeton  Semmary.  He 
married  -Sarah,  daughter  of  Evan  J.  and  Lucy 
.M.  Henry,  of  Princeton,  at  Princeton,  in  No- 
vember. 1897.  and  has  a  daughter,  Lucy  Max- 
well, born  March  5.  1902.  2.  Angelina  P'ost. 
born  November  15,  187 1,  married  Malcolm 
Maclaren :  (graduated  Princeton.  1890).  3. 
Mary  I'llanchard,  burn  February  2,  1874.  mar- 
ried i^rofessor  William  Francis  Magie,  of 
Princeton  I'nivcrsity  (graduated  Princeton. 
1879).  4.  Sarah  Aladeline.  born  December 
29.  1876. 

Some  of  the  noblest  families  of 
DEPUE      France   have   been   those   whose 

names  have  been  in  the  Hugue- 
not history.  For  centuries  prior  to  the  refor- 
mation their  names  had  become  famed  for  dis- 
tinguished services.  One  of  these  old  famous 
French  names  is  DuPuy.  It  is  mentioned  in 
the  history  of  the  country  in  the  eleventh  cen- 
tury, and  was  found  in  the  southeastern  sec- 
tion where  Le  Puy.  two  hundred  and  seventy 
miles  a  little  southeast  of  Paris  is  the  capital 
town  of  the  department  of  Haute-Loire  prov- 
ince of  Languetloc.  In  the  tenth  century  its 
name  was  Podium  Sanctae  Mariae  and  it  sent 
the  flower  of  its  chivalry  to  the  crusades  in 
1096.  Joining  Haute-Loire  on  the  northwest 
is  the  department  of  Puy  de  Dome.  prr)vince 
of  .Anvergne. 

Louis  Moreri  ( if;)43-i68o).  a  French  his- 
torian, says  "Du  Puv  is.  an  old  house,  prolific 
of  illustrious  men."  It  is  almost  certain  it  had 
its  origin  in  France.  In  1033,  when  Com-ad  II 
united  to  tlie  German  empire  two  burgundies, 
he  appointed  Raphael  DuPuy.  who  held  the 
offices  of  commander  of  the  Roman  cavalry 
and  grand  chamberlain  of  the  Roman  republic. 
as  governor  of  the  conc|uered  ])rovince  of 
Languedoc  and  Dauphiny.  whose  descendants 
became  possessors  of  many  fine  estates.     His 


son.  Hugo,  joined  the  crusaders  in  1096  under 
(Godfrey  de  Bouillon  and  was  accompanied 
therebv  by  three  or  his  four  sons,  Alleman, 
Rodolphe.  Romaine  and  Raymond.  Rodolphe 
died  in  Palestine  in  battle.  Romaine  died  in 
the  Palestinian  principalities  given  him  by 
(iodfrey.  A  Raymond  succeeded  Cerard  De 
Martigues  as  rector  of  the  hospital  of  .St.  John 
of  Jerusalem  and  was  the  first  to  assume  the 
title  of  grand  master  of  the  Knights  Hospital- 
lers. 

From  one  or  another  of  the  four  sons  of 
Hugo  the  Crusader  have  descended  all  of  that 
name  in  this  country,  whose  ancestors  were 
identified  with  the  reformed  religion  of 
I'rance.  No  less  than  five  Huguenot  Du  Puys 
immigrated  to  this  country  and  there  was 
probably  more.  One  of  these  was  Dr.  John 
Du  Puy.  who  settled  in  New  York  City,  hav- 
ing-come  from  England  by  way  of  Port  Royal, 
Jamaica,  British  West  Indies.  Another  Fran- 
cois appears  among  the  early  settlers  of  the 
jjarish  of  King  William  at  Manakintown,  Vir- 
ginia. .\  third.  Bartholomew,  born  in  Langue- 
doc, immigrated  to  Virginia.  The  brothers 
Nicholas  and  Francis  are  referred  to  below. 

(I)  Nicholas  Depuy,  founder  of  the  branch 
of  the  family  at  present  under  consideration, 
fled  from  France  to  Holland  during  the  perse- 
cution which  succeeded  the  revocation  of  the 
Edict  of  Nantes,  and  came  from  there  to 
.America  with  his  brother  Francois.  He 
arrived  in  New  York  in  October.  1662.  on  the 
"Pumberland  Church."  In  March.  1663.  he 
applied  to  the  city  authorities  for  land,  seed 
and  provisions  for  six  months.  In  June,  1663, 
he  was  sworn  in  as  beer  and  weigh-house 
|)iister.  and  in  1674  was  named  in  the  list  of  the 
wealthiest  citizens  and  was  taxed  on  six  hun- 
dred florins.  He  lived  in  what  was  known  as 
De  Markedelt.  in  the  rear  of  the  present  Pro- 
duce Exchange.  Sometime  before  his  death 
he  was  granted  a  large  tract  of  land  west  of 
the  Hudson  river,  in  Ulster  county,  New  York, 
and  on  this  land  his  son  IVIoses  settled,  most 
probablv  before  his  father's  death.  All  of  the 
authorities  speak  of  his  having  three  children 
on  his  arrival  in  New  Amsterdam,  and  if  so 
one  must  have  died  before  he  did.  His  will 
was  proved  in  July.  i6gi.  and  he  left  his 
property  to  his  wife  and  his  surviving  chil- 
dren "share  and  share  alike." 

Nicholas  Depuy  married  Caterina  Renard. 
of  New  .Amsterdam,  whose  relatives  it  is  said 
changed  their  name  to  DeVos.  or  DeVosch. 
and  became  the  ancestors  of  one  branch  of  the 
De  \'eau.x  family.     Children:     i.  John,  born 


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1656.  2.  Moses,  referred  to  below.  3.  Joseph, 
1663.  4.  Aaron,  1664.  5.  Magdalen.  6.  Susan- 
nah, 1667.     7.  Nicholas  Jr.,  1670.     8.  Paulas. 

1675- 

(II)  Moses,  second  son  of  Nicholas  and 
Caterina  ( Renard )  Depuy,  was  born  in  1657 
and  settled  on  the  land  granted  to  his  father 
in  Ulster  county.  September  i.  1689,  he  took 
the  oath  of  allegiance  in  that  county,  and 
among  "a  list  of  Commanding  Officers,  Mille- 
tery,  and  Sidel ;  Old  exofesers  and  old  men,"  is 
mentioned  Mr.  Moses  Depuy.  In  1703  he  was 
one  of  the  charter  members  under  the  grant 
from  Queen  Anne,  of  the  town  of  Rochester, 
New  York.  He  became  the  most  prominent 
man  in  Ulster  county.  He  married  (first) 
Maria,  born  Albany,  1660,  daughter  of  Cor- 
nelis  and  Maria  Janse  (Langendyck)  Wyn- 
koop,  of  Kingston,  whose  parents  were  in 
Albany  as  early  as  1665,  and  came  to  Kings- 
ton before  1671  and  (second)  October  16, 
1724,  Peter  Neltje  DePree,  widow  of  Marti- 
nus  \'an  Aken,  of  Rochester.  Children,  all  by 
first  wife:  i.  Mareieje,  baptized  April  24, 
1681.  2.  Nicolaes,  baptized  December  3,  1682  ; 
married,  March  22,  1707,  Weyntjen  Roosa.  3. 
Calherina.  ba])tizc(l  April  6,  1684.  4.  Magda- 
lena.  baptized  March  14,  1686.  5.  Cornelis. 
ba])tizcd  January  8.  1688:  married.  May  6, 
1713,  Catrina  \'an  Aken.  6.  Catrina,  baptized 
May  25,  1690.  7.  Moses,  baptized  September 
27,  i6gi  ;  married,  February  14,  1716,  Mar- 
grietje  Schoonmacher.  8.  iienjamin,  referred 
to  below.  9.  Susanna.  Iiaptized  Jainiary  9, 
1698.  10.  Catharina,  baptized  Xovemljcr  30. 
1701  ;  married.  May  10,  1722.  Iienjamin 
.Schoonmacher.  11.  Jacobus,  baptized  Sep- 
tember 19,  1703;  married,  .\ugust  26,  1725, 
Sara  Schoonmacher.  The  above  mentioned 
Schoonmachers  were  all  of  them  children  of 
Jochcn  Schooinnachcr,  referrerl  to  below. 

(III)  Iienjamin.  eighth  child  and  fourth 
son  of  Moses  and  Maria  (  W'ynkixip)  DePuy. 
was  baptized  October  13,  1695.  died  in  i7f^>3. 
I  le  moved  to  the  Minnesink,  where  his  brother 
Xicolaes  already  lived.  In  an  old  manuscri]jt 
written  by  Dr.  Cornilius  Depuy,  he  is  said  to 
have  been  "\  farmer  of  very  strong  mind, 
pius  and  of  a  mild  disposition.  His  house  was 
burned  by  the  Indians.  lie  died  at  the  age  of 
seventy  year."  September  3.  1719,  he  mar- 
ried (first)  Elizabeth,  bajitized  I'ebruary  18, 
1700,  daughter  of  Jochen  and  Antje  (llussey) 
Sch(K)nmaclier.  Her  father  was  supervisor  of 
Rochester,  1709  to  1712,  and  captain  of  a  com- 
pany for  defense  against  the  Indians.  He  was 
the  eldest  son  of   llendrick    jocliemso  Schoon- 


macher and  Eliza  Janse,  daughter  of  Jan 
Janse  Brestede,  and  widow  of  Adriaen  Peter- 
sen Van  Alcmaer.  .A  native  of  Hamburg, 
Germany,  who  came  over  in  the  military  ser- 
vice of  the  Dutch  West  India  Company,  and 
an  innholder  at  Fort  Orange.  Jochem  Schoon- 
macher had  married  (first)  Petronella  Sleght, 
who  died  about  1687.  Children  of  Benjamin 
and  Elizabeth  (Schoonmacher)  DePuy:  i. 
Benjamin  Jr.,  baptized  July  3,  1720,  died  in 
infancy.  2.  Maria,  baptized  January  28,  1722: 
married  James  Hyndshaw.  3.  Johannis,  bap- 
tized January  19,  1724,  died  in  infancy.  4 
Johannis,  baptized  Alarch  26,  1727.  5.  Benja- 
min, referred  to  below.  Benjamin  DuPuy 
married  (second)  December  13,  1735,  Eiche 
DeWitt.  Child:  6.  Sara,  baptized  December 
23.  1737:  married  Benjamin  \'an  Cami)en. 

(I\")  Benjamin  (2),  fifth  child  and  fourth 
son  of  Benjamin  (i)  and  Elizabeth  ( Schoon- 
macher 1  DePuy,  was  baptized  in  Esopus,  now 
Kingston,  New  York,  June  29,  1729,  died  in 
Power  Mount  Bethel  township,  Northampton 
county,  Pennsylvania,  September  25,  1811.  He 
removed  at  first  to  W'allpack,  New  Jersey, 
where  in  1745  he  was  surveyor  of  highways 
and  reappointed  to  the  same  position  in  1751. 
In  1758  he  became  assessor,  and  in  1767  is 
recorded  as  freeholder.  Two  years  before  this 
last  date,  in  1765,  he  removed  to  Lower  Mount 
Bethel  township,  where  he  became  one  of  the 
most  prominent  men  in  that  region.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  First  Batallion  of  Associaters, 
of  Northampton  county,  Pennsylvania,  and 
was  a  member  of  Captain  John  Arndt's  com- 
pany, which  was  engaged  in  the  battle  of  Long 
Island,  .\ugust  2J.  I77(),  and  at  I'ort  Wash- 
ington, November  16,  1776.  He  was  also  one 
of  the  thirty-three  members  of  that  company 
who  rallied  the  next  day  at  Elizabethtown. 
.After  this  he  served  in  the  revolutionary  war 
as  commissary.  Me  was  elected  a  delegate 
from  .\'orth;imi)ton  county  to  attend  the  con- 
vention at  I 'hiladelijhia  to  apportion  the  dele- 
gates lo  be  elected  throughout  the  province  of 
I'ennsylvania,  who  were  to  meet  at  Pliila<lel- 
phia  to  frame  a  constitution  for  that  state.  I  le 
was  also  elected  from  Mount  I>ethel  township 
on  the  \ortham])ton  county  committee  of 
safety,  and  attended  Iwo  meetings  at  Easton. 
I'ennsylvania.  .\ugust  7,  1784,  he  was  com- 
missioned by  the  sujireme  executive  council 
of  the  commonwealth  of  Peinis}Ivania  justice 
of  the  |)eace  for  Mount  Bethel  townshi]),  and 
.September  4  following  one  of  the  justices  of 
the  court  of  common  pleas  for  Northampton 
conntv   for  a  term  of  seven  \'ears. 


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He  married  Catharine,  daugliter  of  Abra- 
ham and  Susanna  (DuPu))  Van  Campen,  his 
first  cousin  on  her  mother's  side,  Susanna 
being  tiie  daughter  of  Moses  and  Maria  ( Wyn- 
koop)  DuPuy.  referred  to  above.  Her  father, 
Abraham,  was  the  son  of  Jan  Van  Campen 
and  Tientje,  daughter  of  Jan  Becker.  He  was 
born  in  Esopus,  New  York,  baptized  there 
October  g,  ifigS,  moved  to  Sussex  county.  New 
Jerse}',  became  the  most  prominent  man  in 
Wallpack,  and  (bed  in  .April  or  May,  1767. 
He  was  the  first  and  from  1753  to  1766  the 
presiding  judge  of  tlie  Sussex  county  court. 
He  was  colonel  of  the  First  New  Jersey  regi- 
ment in  the  French  and  Indian  war  of  1755. 
He  was  survived  by  a  widow  Rachael,  his 
second  wife,  four  sons,  .Abraliam,  John,  llen- 
jamin  and  Moses,  and  three  daughters.  Maria, 
wife  of  John,  son  of  licnjamin  DuPuy  Senior  ; 
Catharine,  referred  to  above,  and  Susanna, 
wife  of  Thomas  Romine.  Children  of  Benja- 
min  and   Catharine    (\'an   Campen)    DePuy: 

1.  James,  died  October,  1791.  2.  Benjamin. 
3.  Abraham,  referred  to  below.    4.  Moses.     5. 

John.     6.  Maria,  married Forman.     6. 

Sara,  married  James   Boyd. 

(V)  Abraham,  son  of  P.enjamin  (2)  and 
Catharine  (\"an  Campen)  Depue,  was  born 
September  28.  1765,  died  October  21,  1851. 
January  5,  1792,  he  married  Susanna  Hoff- 
man, born  June  28,  1771,  died  May  3,  1854. 
Children:    i.    Mercy,  born  January  27,   1793. 

2.  James,  October  18,  1794,  died  May  14, 
1843.  3-  ISenjamin,  referred  to  below.  4. 
Catliarine,  June  8,  1798,  died  June  18,  1884. 
5.  Philip,  June  18,  1800.  6.  Moses,  July  2, 
1802.  7.  Abraham.  October  8,  1805.  died  Sep- 
tember 20,  1819.  8.  John,  February  7,  1808, 
died  September  25.  1809.  9.  Jacob.  June  24, 
1810,  died  November  4,  1839.  10.  Susannah, 
October  22,  1812.     11.  Sara,  January  31,  1815. 

(\'l)  Benjamin  (3),  son  of  Abraham  and 
.Susanna  (Iloffman)  Depue,  was  born  in 
Lower  Mount  Pethel  township.  Northampton 
count)',  Pennsylvania,  September  i,  1796,  died 
June  19,  1884.  He  married  Elizabeth  Ayres 
and  among  his  children  was  David  Ayres,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(\'1I)  David  Ayres,  son  of  Benjamin  (3) 
and  Elizabeth  (Ayres)  Depue,  was  born  at  .\It. 
Bethel,  Northampton  township,  Pennsylvania, 
October  ij.  1826.  After  a  thoroughly  pre- 
pared course  at  the  .school  of  the  Rev.  John 
X'ander  Veer  at  Easton,  Pennsylvania,  he 
entered  Princeton  College  in  1843,  and  gradu- 
ated therefrom  in  1846.  Immediately  after- 
wards he  became  a  student  of  law  in  the  office 


of  John  M.  .Sherrerd,  Estjuire,  at  Belvidere, 
Warren  county.  New  Jersey,  was  admitted  to 
the  New  Jersey  bar  as  attorney  in  1849,  ''"fl 
began  the  |)ractice  of  law  at  Belvidere.  Here, 
by  his  familiarity  witii  his  subjects,  his  perse- 
verance and  his  ability  he  soon  won  a  place  in 
the  front  rank  of  his  profession.  By  legislative 
appointment  he  was  associated  with  Ciiief 
Justice  Beasley  and  Cortland  Parker,  Esquires, 
in  the  revision  of  the  .New  Jersey  laws.  In  1866 
he  was  ai^jiointed  a  justice  of  the  supreme  court 
of  New  Jersey  by  Governor  Marcus  L.  Ward, 
and  when  his  term  expired  in  1873  '^^  was  re- 
appointed for  a  second  term  by  Governor  Joel 
Parker,  and  again  for  a  third  term  in  1880  by 
Governor  George  1>.  McClellan.  .\t  first 
his  circuit  embraced  the  counties  of  Essex 
and  Union,  but  the  great  increase  of  popula- 
tion and  of  judicial  labor  in  the  circuit  occa- 
sioned a  division,  and  Judge  Depue  removed 
from  Belvidere  to  Newark  in  1866,  where  he 
resided  for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  was 
reappointed  in  1887-94.  He  continued  to  serve 
as  associate  judge  of  the  supreme  court  until 
May  I,  1900,  when  he  succeeded  Mr.  Magee  as 
chief  justice,  and  served  until  November  16, 
1901,  when  having  completed  his  thirty-fifth 
year  of  judicial  service  he  retired  to  private 
life.  In  1874  Rutgers  College,  New  Jersey, 
gave  him  the  title  of  LL.  D.,  and  in  1880 
I'rinceton  Cniversitv  gave  him  the  degrf-e  of 
l.L.  D. 

Judge  Depue  was  not  only  a  student  of 
practice,  but  also  of  the  science  of  law,  and 
was  distinguished  as  a  judge  in  a  state  prolific 
of  able  jurists,  jiossessing  in  an  eminent  degree 
a  judicial  mincl,  with  distinctness  of  opinion, 
rare  knowleclge  and  understanding,  united  with 
the  greatest  care  and  clearness  of  statement. 
.As  a  dispenser  of  justice  he  stands  equally 
high  and  is  accounted  "the  soul  of  justice, 
honor  and  purity.  "  The  fact  that  his  second 
and  third  appointments  to  his  judicial  post 
were  made  b\-  his  political  opponents,  he  being 
Republican  and  they  Democratic,  tests  the  ex- 
cellence of  his  record  as  judge.  In  private  life 
Judge  Depue  was  distinguished  for  the  same 
modesty  and  uprightness  which  characterized 
him  in  the  performance  of  his  official  duties. 
P.lended  in  his  character  was  a  keen  apprecia- 
tion of  humor  and  over  it  he  vVore  a  graceful 
and  fitting  garment  of  a  courteous  affability. 

He  married  (first)  1859.  Mary  Van  .Mien, 
daughter  of  John  Stuart,  a  native  of  Scotland, 
who  came  to  America  and  settled  in  Warren 
county  in  181 1,  and  was  the  first  cashier  of  the 
Belvidere  Bank,  which  post  he  retained  from 


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tlie  organization  of  the  hank  until  1854  when 
he  resigned.  Child:  Elizaheth  Stuart.  He 
married  (second)  1862,  Delia  Ann,  daughter 
of  Oliver  E.  Slocum,  Esquire,  of  West  Gran- 
ville, Massachusetts.  Children:  i.  Sherrerd. 
referred  to  below.  2.  Mary  Stuart,  married, 
October  26,  1887,  Sydney  Norris,  second  son 
of  Morgan  Lewis  and  Eliza  Glendy  (Mc- 
Laughlin) Ogden  ;  five  children:  Lucy  Depue, 
August  19,  1888;  Miriam  W'olcott.  January 
28,  1890;  Mary  Norris.  January  3,  1892;  Syd- 
ney Norris,  Junior,  July  7,  1893,  died  Septem- 
ber II,  1894;  and  David  Ayres  Depue,  Octo- 
ber 16,  1897.    3.  Frances  Adelia. 

(VIII)  Sherrerd,  eldest  child  of  David 
Ayres  and  Delia  .Ann  (Slocum)  Depue,  was 
born  in  P.elvidere,  \\'arren  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, August  I,  1S64.  For  his  early  education 
he  was  sent  to  private  schools  and  afterwards 
was  prepared  for  college  in  the  Newark  .Acad- 
emy, from  which  he  graduated  in  1881.  En- 
tering Princeton  University  he  received  his 
acaf'emic  degree  in  1885,  and  then  going  to  the 
Columbia  Law  School  he  graduated  in  1887. 
.After  this  he  read  law  in  the  office  of  Vice- 
Chancellor  Frederick  William  Stevens,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  in  June, 
1888,  as  attorney  and  as  counsellor  in  1891. 
and  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in 
Newark,  New  Jersej',  where  he  has  been 
engaged  ever  since.  Lentil  1898  he  was  in 
partnership  with  Chauncey  G.  Parker  under 
the  firm  name  of  Depue  &  Parker.  When  the 
firm  was  dissolved  in  the  last  mentioned  year, 
the  present  firm  of  Lindabury,  Depue  & 
Faulks  was  formed.  In  1895-0)6  Air.  Depue  was 
the  city  attorney  for  Newark,  and  he  has  also 
held  the  office  of  assistant  L^nited  .States  dis- 
trict attorney.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican, 
and  he  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  shining  lights 
of  his  profession  in  the  state.  His  pleasing 
personality,  together  with  his  genial  manner, 
his  unfailing  courtesv  and  his  disposition  to  go 
out  of  his  way  to  assist  others,  coupled  with 
ability  of  the  very  highest  order  and  brilliancy, 
have  placed  him  at  the  head  of  his  profession 
in  a  city  and  state,  both  of  which  are  remark- 
able for  the  great  acuteness  and  learning  of 
their  legal  representatives.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  North  Reformed  Church. 

October  10,  1892,  he  married  in  Newark, 
Mabel  Terry,  born  there  January  2.  i865,  only 
daughter  of  Thomas  B.  and  Mary  May  (Rux- 
ton)  Norris.  whose  son,  Robert  \'an  Arsdale 
Norris,  married  Esther  Schumacher,  and  has 
three  children.  Robert,  Jane  and  E.sther.  Chil- 
dren of  Sherrerd  and  Mabel  Terry   (Norris) 


Depue:  i.  David  Ayres.  born  .April  25.  1895. 
2.  Sherrerd  Junior,  April  13.  1899.  3.  Robert 
Norris,  June  13,  1902.  4.  Mabel  Rose,  March 
25.  1904- 

The  Strycker  family  is  of 
STRYCKER  most  remote  antiquity.  Proof 
has  been  brought  from  Hol- 
land of  the  family  having  remained  on  the 
same  estates  near  the  Hague  and  near  Rotter- 
dam for  full  eight  hundred  years  prior  to  the 
coming  of  the  first  member  to  this  country  in 
1652.  The  following  facts,  viz. :  the  ducal 
coronet  on  the  crest  and  the  family  being 
traced  far  back  to  the  latter  part  of  the  eighth 
century,  prove  that  the  progenitors  were  among 
the  great  military  chieftains  of  the  Nether- 
lands who  were  created  dukes,  counts  and 
barons  by  Charles  the  Bald,  in  order  to  bring 
some  form  of  government  out  of  the  chaos  of 
those  times  long  before  the  advent  of  the 
Dutch  Republic.  Many  legends  are  told  of 
this  powerful  family  in  those  warlike  days- 
one  particularly  accounting  for  tlie  three  boars' 
heads  upon  the  shield. 

In  1643  tli^  States  General  of  the  Nether- 
lands oftered  a  grant  of  land  in  New  .Amster- 
dam to  Jan  and  Jacobus  Strycker  provided 
that  they  brought  out,  at  their  own  expense, 
twelve  other  families  from  Holland.  This 
grant,  it  does  not  appear,  they  accepted  until 
eight  years  afterward,  when  they  established 
the  .American  branch  of  the  family  in  and  near 
New  .Amsterdam.  The  old  .Strycker  mansion 
at  I-'ifty-second  street  and  the  Hudson  river  is 
the  last  of  the  old  manor  houses  of  New  York 
City..  There  were  few  offices  which  these 
able  men  did  not  fill  at  diflferent  times.  Jacobus 
was  a  great  burgher  of  New  .Amsterdam  in 
'^'53-'^5-57-58-6o,  also  one  of  Peter  Stuy- 
vesant's  council. 

Jan  Strycker,  born  in  Holland,  if)i4,  reached 
New  -Amsterdam  from  Rouen  with  his  wife, 
two  sons  and  four  daughters,  1652,  leaving 
behind  him  all  the  privileges  and  rights  which 
might  be  his  by  descent  in  the  old  world.  He 
was  a  man  of  ability  and  education,  for  his 
subse(|uent  history  proves  him  to  be  ])rominent 
in  the  civil  and  religious  community  in  which 
he  cast  his  lot.  His  first  wife  was  Lambertje 
.Seubering.  .After  her  death  he  married  .Swantje 
Jans,  widow  of  Cornelis  Potter,  of  Brooklyn. 
The  second  wife  died  in  1686.  In  March,  1687, 
he  married  a  third  time,  Teimtjc  Tennis,  of 
IHathush. 

Jan  Strycker  remained  in  New  .Amsterdam  a 
little  over  a  year,  and  in  the  year  1654  he  took 


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the  lead  in  founding  a  Dutch  colony  on  Long 
Island  at  what  was  called  Midwout ;  it  was 
also  called  Middlewoods.  The  modern  name 
is  Flatbush.  On  the  nth  of  December,  1653, 
while  still  in  Xew  Amsterdam,  Jan  Strycker 
joined  with  others  in  a  petition  of  the  Com- 
monality of  the  New  Netherlands  and  a 
remonstrance  against  the  conduct  of  Director 
Stuyvesant.  The  petition  recited  that  "they 
apprehended  the  establishment  of  an  arbitrary 
government  over  them ;  that  it  was  contrary  to 
the  genuine  principles  of  well  regulated  gov- 
ernments that  one  or  more  men  should  arro- 
gate to  themselves  the  exclusive  power  to  dis- 
pose at  will  of  the  life  and  property  of  any 
individual :  that  it  w-as  odious  to  every  free- 
born  man,  principally  to  those  whom  God  has 
placed  in  a  free  state  of  newly  settled  lands." 
We  humbly  submit  that  "  'tis  one  of  our  privi- 
leges that  our  consent,  or  that  of  our  repre- 
sentatives, is  necessarily  required  in  the  enact- 
ment of  laws  and  orders."  It  is  remarkable 
that  at  this  early  day  this  indictment  was 
drawn  up,  this  "bill  of  rights"  was  published. 
I  kit  these  men  came  from  the  blood  of  the 
hardy  Northmen  and  imbibed  with  the  free  air 
of  .\merica  the  determination  to  be  truly  free 
themselves. 

In  the  year  1654  Jan  Strycker  was  selected 
as  the  chief  magistrate  of  Midwout,  and  this 
office  he  held  most  of  the  time  for  twenty 
\'ears.  The  last  time  we  find  the  notice  of  his 
election  was  at  the  .council  of  war  holden  in 
Fort  William  Hendrick,  August  18,  Anno 
1673,  where  the  delegates  from  the  respective 
towns  of  Midwout,  Rruckelen,  Amers-fort, 
Utrecht.  Boswyck  and  Gravesend  selected  him 
as  "Schepen."  He  was  also  one  of  the  em- 
bassy from  New  Amsterdam  and  the  principal 
Dutch  towns  to  be  sent  to  the  Lord  Mayors  in 
Holland  on  account  of  their  annoyance  from 
the  English  and  the  Indians  ;  they  complain  that 
they  "will  be  driven  off  their  lands  unless  re- 
enforced  from  Fatherland."  On  April  10, 
1664,  he  took  his  seat  as  a  representative  from 
.\lidwout  in  that  great  Landtdag,  a  general 
assembly  called  by  the  burgomasters,  which 
was  held  at  the  City  Hall  in  New  Amsterdam, 
to  take  into  consideration  the  precarious  con- 
dition of  the  country.  He  was  one  of  the 
representatives  in  the  Hempstead  convention 
in  1665,  and  he  appears  as  a  patentee  on  the 
celebrated  Nichols  patent,  October  11,  1667, 
and  again  on  the  Dongan  patent,  November 
12.  1685.  He  was  elected  captain  of  the  mili- 
tarv  company  at  Midwout,  October  25,  1673, 
and  his  brother  Jacobus  was  given  the  author- 


ity to  "adminster  the  oaths  and  to  install  him 
into  office."  Captain  Jan  Strycker  was  named 
March  26,  1674,  as  a  deputy  to  represent  the 
town  in  a  conference  to  be  held  at  New 
Orange  to  confer  with  Governor  Colve  on  the 
present  state  of  the  country. 

During  the  first  year  of  his  residence  at 
Midwout  he  was  one  of  the  two  commissioners 
to  build  the  Dutch  church  there,  the  first 
erected  on  Long  Island,  and  he  was  for  many 
vears  an  active  supporter  of  the  Dominie 
Johannes  Theodoras  Polhemus,  of  the  Re- 
formed Church  of  Holland,  in  that  edifice. 
After  raising  a  family  of  eight  children,  every 
one  of  whom  lived  to  adult  life  and  married, 
seeing  his  sons  settled  on  valuable  plantations 
and  occupying  positions  of  influence  in  the 
community,  and  his  daughters  marrying  into 
the  families  of  the  Brinckerhoffs,  the  Berriens 
and  the  Bergcns,  living  to  be  over  eighty  years 
of  age,  he  died  about  the  year  1697,  full  of  the 
honors  which  these  new  towns  could  bestow, 
and  with  his  duties  as  a  civil  officer  and  a  free 
citizen  of  his  adopted  country  well  performed. 

Jacobus  Gerritsen  Strycker,  or  Jacob 
Strycker,  as  he  seems  to  have  generally  written 
his  name,  was  a  younger  brother  of  Jan  and 
came  from  the  village  of  Ruinen,  in  the  L^nited 
Provinces,  to  New  .Amsterdam,  in  the  year 
1651.  On  February  11,  1653,  he  bought  a  lot 
of  land  "on  west  side  of  the  Great  Highway, 
on  the  cross  street  running  from  the  said  high- 
way to  the  shore  of  the  North  River,  Manhat- 
tan Island."  A  part  of  this  "lot"  is  still  in 
possession  of  the  family.  He  was  a  great 
burgher  of  New  Amsterdam  in  1653-55-57- 
58-f)0.  In  the  month  of  March.  1653,  he 
appears  as  subscribing  two  hundred  guilders 
to  the  fund  for  erecting  a  wall  of  earth  mound 
and  wooden  palisades  to  surround  the  city  of 
New  Amsterdam  to  keep  oflf  the  Puritan  colo- 
nists of  New  England  and  unfriendly  Indians. 
On  May  27  of  the  same  year  the  worshipful 
schepen,  Jacob  Strycker,  is  the  purchaser  of  a 
lot  of  land  ten  rods  square  on  what  is  now 
E.vchange  Place,  east  of  Broad  street. 

-About  the  close  of  the  year  1660  he  removed 
to  New  .Amersfort,  Long  Island,  now  called 
Flatlands.  He  must  have  returned  for  a  time 
to  New  .Amsterdam,  for  in  1663  he  appears 
again  as  an  alderman  of  the  young  colony 
there.  In  the  year  1660  he  and  his  wife  Ytie 
(Ida)  (  Huybrcchts )  Strycker,  whom  he  mar- 
ried in  Holland,  and  who  bore  him  two  chil- 
dren, a  son  and  a  daughter,  appear  on  the 
records  as  members  of  the  old  Dutch  Church 
of    New    York,   and    it    is   noted   that   he   had 


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removed  to  New  Amersfort.  The  records  of 
the  church  in  the  latter  place  shows  both  of 
them  as  members  there  in  the  year  1667.  On 
August  18,  1673,  he  became  schout  or  high 
sheriff  of  all  the  Dutch  towns  on  Long  Island, 
a  position  of  influence  and  responsibility  at 
that  time.  He  was  also  a  delegate  to  the  con- 
vention. March  26.  1(^74.  to  confer  with  (jov- 
ernor  Colve  on  the  state  of  the  colony. 

He  seems  to  have  been  a  gentleman  of  con- 
siderable means,  of  much  official  influence  and 
of  decided  culture.  He  died,  as  we  find  from 
the  church  records  kept  by  Dominie  Casparus 
\'an  Zuuren,  in  October.  1687.  From  this 
date  until  the  present  time  (1906)  the  family 
genealogj'  has  accurately  been  traced  down  by 
General  William  S.  Strycker.  whose  biography 
we  here  append,  drafted  and  adopted  by  the 
Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
United  States  Commandery  of  the  State  of 
Pennsylvania  shortly  after  his  death. 

William  Scudder  Strycker,  son  of  Thomas 
Johnson  and  Hannah  (Scudder)  .Strycker.  of 
Trenton.  New  Jersey,  was  born  in  that  city. 
June  6.  1838.  died  at  his  home  in  that  city. 
October  29.  1900.  He  prepared  for  college 
at  the  Trenton  .Academy  and  was  graduated 
from  Princeton  College  in  the  class  of  1858. 
He  read  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
(Ohio),  but  never  engaged  in  active  practice. 
He  responded  to  President  Lincoln's  first  call 
for  troops  and  enlisted  as  a  private  .\pril  16, 
1861.  He  was  appointed  major  and  disbursing 
officer  and  c|uartermaster  at  Camp  \"reden- 
burg.  Freehold.  New  Jersey,  July  22,  1862.  by 
the  governor  of  New  Jersey,  and  assisted  much 
in  organizing  the  Fourteenth  New  Jersey  there. 
He  was  appointed  paymaster  of  United  States 
N'olunteers,  February  19.  18^3,  and  ordered  to 
Hilton  Head.  South  Carolina,  where.  July  8. 
1863.  he  volunteered  as  acting  aide-de-camp  to 
General  (iillmore  and  partici])ated  in  the  cap- 
ture of  Morris  Island,  in  the  night  attack  on 
I'ort  Wagner,  and  in  the  siege  of  Charleston 
generallv.  Subsec|uently  he  was  transferred  to 
the  north  on  account  of  illness  and  assigned  to 
duty  as  senior  ])aymaster  at  Columbus.  Ohio. 
at  Parole  Camp,  and  continued  in  charge  of 
that  pa\ing  district   (including   Detroit)   until 

1866.  when  he  resigned  and  returned  to  Tren- 
ton. 

On  January  10,  1867,  he  was  placed  on  the 
stafT  of  the  governor  of  New  Jersey  as  aide- 
de-camp  and  lieutenant-colonel,  and  .\pril  12. 

1867,  was  appointed  adjutant-general  of  New 
Jersey,  with  the  rank  of  brigadier-general, 
which  office  he  held  continuously  tt)  his  decease 


(over  thirty-three  years)  and  the  duties  of 
which  he  discharged  with  signal  ability.  He 
was  nominated  brevet  major-general  by  Gov- 
ernor Parker  for  long  and  meritorious  service, 
February  9,  1874.  and  confirmed  by  the  senate 
unanimously. 

General  Strycker  was  a  wide  reader  and 
close  student,  especially  of  American  history, 
and  collected  a  large  and  valuable  library, 
especially  rich  in  .\mericana.  He  was  noted 
as  an  author  and  wrote  some  of  the  best  and 
most  accurate  historical  monographs  yet 
issued  in  America,  relating  particularly  to  New 
Jersey  and  the  battles  of  Trenton,  Princeton 
and  ^lonmouth.  He  became  so  interested  in 
the  conduct  of  the  Hessians  at  Trenton  that 
he  made  a  trip  to  Hesse-Cassel,  Germany,  and 
e.xhumed  from  the  archives  there  new  facts  of 
rare  value  concerning  them.  His  "Trenton 
One  Hundred  Years  Ago,"  "The  Old  Bar- 
racks at  Trenton,  N.  J.."  "The  New  Jersey 
\'olunteer-Loyalists,"  "The  Hattles  of  Trenton 
and  Princeton."  "The  New  Jersey  Con- 
tinental Line  in  the  X'irginia  Campaign  1781,'' 
"Washington's  Reception  by  the  People  of 
New  Jersey  in  1789,"  and  other  like  mono- 
graphs are  authorities  on  these  subjects,  and 
will  continue  so.  He  also  compiled,  or  had 
conii)iled  in  his  office  as  adjutant-general,  a 
"Register  of  the  Officers  and  Men  of  New 
Jersey  in  the  Revolutionary  War"  and  a 
"Record  of  the  Officers  and  Men  of  New 
Jersey  in  the  Civil  War  1861-1865,"  that 
abounds  with  painstaking  accuracy  and  care 
and  that  will  forever  remain  as  monuments 
both  to  himself  and  the  state.  In  recognition 
of  his  scholarly  work  and  worth,  his  alma 
mater  justly  conferred  the  degree  of  LL.  1). 
ujinn  him  in  1899. 

lie  was  president  of  the  Trenton  IJattle 
Monument  .Association  and  the  life  and  soul  of 
it  for  years,  and  to  his  wise  and  (latriotic  con- 
duct is  due  in  large  part  its  erection  at  last. 
He  was  president  of  the  Trenton  Savings 
Fund  Society  and  greatly  interested  in  its  new 
banking  house,  an  ornament  to  his  native  city. 
He  was  a  director  of  the  'J'renton  Banking 
Comijany  and  of  the  Widows'  Home  .Associa- 
tion;  also  trustee  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  Trenton,  and  of  the  Theological  Semi- 
nary at  Princeton.  He  was  president  of  the 
New  Jersey  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  and  of 
the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  Jersey  Society  of  the  .Sons  of 
the  .American  Revolution,  of  the  Grand  .Army 
of  the  Republic,  and  of  the  Military  Order  of 
the  Loyal  Legion  ;  also  a  fellow  of  the  Amer- 


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ican  Geographical  and  Historical  Societies  and 
of  the  Royal  Historical  Society  of  London. 

General  Strycker  traveled  extensively,  both 
at  home  and  abroad,  and  dispensed  a  gracious 
hospitality  to  Count  de  Paris  and  others,  and 
was  everywhere  recognized  as  an  American 
scholar  and  gentleman.  He  was  modest  and 
unassuming  beyond  most  men,  but  was  an 
accomplished  officer  and  Christian  gentleman. 
In  both  his  military  and  civil  relations  he  was 
alike  honorable  and  honored.  "None  knew 
him  but  to  love  him.  none  named  him  but  to 
praise.''  His  abilities  were  of  a  high  order, 
and  he  had  a  charm  of  manner  and  grace  of 
bearing  peculiarly  his  own.  his  high  qualities, 
both  of  head  and  heart,  his  intellectual  attain- 
ments and  social  elegance,  marked  him  as  one 
of  Nature's  noblemen,  and  when  he  passed 
away  one  of  the  highest  types  of  i\merican 
soldier,  citizen  and  gentleman  was  lost.  He 
was  the  very  soul  of  probity  and  honor,  tli:^ 
work  is  done,  and  it  was  well  done,  and  his 
example  remains  as  an  inspiration  and  a  hope. 

General  Strycker  married,  September  14, 
1870,  Helen  Boudinot  Atterbury,  of  New 
York,  and  their  children  are  :  Helen  Boudinot, 
wife  of  John  A.  Montgomery,  Esq.;  Kathlyn 
Berrien  and  William  Bradford.  His  wife  and 
three  children  survived  him. 

Dr.  S.  S.  Strycker,  now  a  prominent  physi- 
cian in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  is  the  son 
of  Samuel  Stanhope  Strycker,  the  brother  of 
Thomas  Johnson  Strycker,  who.  like  his  son. 
Dr.  Strycker,  w-as  graduated  at  Princeton  Uni- 
versity, and  died  in  Trenton,  New  Jersey.  Dr. 
Strycker  belongs  to  all  the  great  patriotic  soci- 
eties :  Colonial  \\'ars.  Sons  of  Revolution, 
Holland  Society,  and  the  Netherland  Society 
of  Philadelphia,  the  two  latter  by  virtue  of  his 
Dutch  descent.  He  married  Grace  Bartlett, 
daughter  of  .\bner  Bartlett,  of  New  York,  one 
of  the  trustees  of  the  Astor  estate.  Dr. 
Strycker  has  one  son,  Abner  Bartlett  Strycker. 


Grover  Cleveland,  former 
CLE\ELAND      President    of   the    United 

States,  is  a  native  of  New 
Jersey,  born  in  Caldwell,  Essex  county,  March 
18,  1837,  and  comes  of  a  notable  ancestry.  In 
their  various  generations  several  of  his  an- 
cestors were  distinguished  in  military  and  pro- 
fessional life,  and  four  Clevelands  were  gov- 
ernors of  states — Chauncey  Fitch  Cleveland, 
of  Connecticut :  Jesse  F.  Cleveland,  of  North 
Carolina :  Alvin  P.  Hovey,  of  Indiana,  and 
Grover  Cleveland,  the  subject  of  this  narrative, 
of  New  York. 


The  Cleveland  family  traces  its  descent  from 
one  Thorkil,  in  all  probability  a  Saxon  land- 
lord, who  about  the  time  of  ihe  Norman  con- 
quest assumed  the  surname  De  Cliveland,  call- 
ing himself  Thorkil  De  Cliveland,  maintaining 
his  faniilv  seat  in  the  county  of  York.  England. 
From  iiim  was  descended  the  progenitor  of  the 
American  branch  of  the  family,  Moses  (or 
Moyses)  Cleveland  (or  Cleaveland),  who  was 
born  probably  in  Ipswich,  Suffolk  county,  Eng- 
land, whence  he  came  to  America  about  1635, 
when  a  lad  about  twelve  years  of  age.  He 
landed  at  either  Plymouth  or  Boston,  about 
fifteen  years  after  the  coming  of  the  Pilgrims. 
He  died  in  Woburn,  January  9,  1701-2.  He 
married,  at  that  place,  7  mo.,  26,  1648,  .Ann 
\\  inn.  born  about  1626,  died  prior  to  May  6. 
1682.  One  family  tradition  makes  her  a  native 
of  England,  another  of  W'ales.  Moses  and 
Ann  Cleveland  were  the  parents  of  twelve  chil- 
dren. 

( II )  Aaron,  son  of  Moses  and  Ann  (  Winn  ) 
Cleveland,  was  born  in  Woburn,  Massachu- 
setts, January  10,  1654-5,  and  died  there  Sep- 
tember 14,  1 7 16.  He  married  there,  7  mo.,  26, 
1675.  Dorcas  \\'ilson,  born  January  29,  1657, 
died  in  Cambridge,  November  29,  1714,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Hannah  (James)  \\'ilson.   He 

married   (second),  1714-15,  Prudence  . 

.\aron  Cleveland  served  in  King  Philip's  war, 
as  did  his  brothers  ?^Ioses  and  Samuel.  He 
was  made  a  freeman  in  1680.  and  became  a 
man  of  wealth  and  distinction,  prominent  in  all 
public  affairs.  He  gave  to  his  children  the  best 
educational  advantages  of  that  day. 

( III )  Captain  .\aron  Cleveland,  son  of  Aaron 
Cleveland,  was  born  in  Woburn,  July  9,  1680, 
and  died  in  that  part  of  Cambridge  called  Mys- 
tic (now  Med  ford),  or  at  Norwich,  Connecti- 
cut, about  December  i,  1755.  He  lived  in  Wo- 
burn to  1704,  in  Medford  to  1710,  in  Charles- 
town  to  1713.  in  Cambridge  to  1716,  in  Med- 
ford again,  in  Charlestown  again  in  1738,  and 
afterward  in  East  Haddam,  Connecticut.  He 
was  admitted  by  profession  and  baptism  to  the 
church  at  Cambridge,  October  7.  171 1,  and 
transferred  to  ]Medford  church,  and  to  East 
Haddam  church  August  10,  1755.  He  was 
made  constable  March  i,  1707-8.  He  was  an 
innkeeper  at  Cambridge,  and  was  a  builder  and 
contractor,  and  a  man  of  business  ability.  He 
held  one  slave,  to  whom  he  willed  freedom 
"after  the  decease  of  my  beloved  wife."  He 
was  a  man  of  great  stature  and  strength,  and 
was  prominent  in  military  affairs,  and  was 
cornet,  lieutenant  and  captain.  ?Ie  married,  at 
Woburn,  January  i,   1701-2,  Abigail  Waters, 


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born  there  Xovember  29,  1683,  dietl  January 
6,  1761,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Hud- 
son )  Waters.     They  had  eight  children. 

(I\')  Rev.  Aaron  Cleveland,  son  of  Captain 
.Aaron  and  Abigail  (Waters)  Cleveland,  was 
one  of  the  most  distinguished  clergymen  of  his 
day.  He  was  born  October  19-29.  1715,  and 
died  in  Philadelphia,  .August  11.  1757,  in  the 
prime  of  his  life.  While  Aledford  is  generally 
given  as  his  birthplace,  both  Charleston  and 
L'ambridge  contend  for  the  honor.  He  entered 
Harvard  College  at  the  age  of  si-xteen,  and 
graduated  at  the  age  of  twenty.  Where  he 
studied  theology  is  not  known.  He  settled  in 
1739  at  Haddam,  and  ])robably  delivered  his 
first  sermon  there,  being  the  third  regular  pas- 
tor. In  1750  he  became  a  resident  of  Halifax, 
Xova  Scotia,  where  he  established  "Alather's 
Church,"  as  it  was  known  after  the  church 
division  in  New  England,  and  this  is  notable 
as  the  first  Presbyterian  church  in  the  British 
lower  province.  In  the  third  year  of  his  min- 
istry his  brother.  Captain  Samuel  Cleveland, 
was  killed  by  Indians.  In  1754  he  terminated 
his  ministry,  having  became  an  adherent  of  the 
Church  of  England,  and  went  to  Xorwich, 
Connecticut,  where  his  widowed  mother  died. 
He  was  invited  to  preach  to  Church  of  Eng- 
land congregations  in  Norwich  and  Groton 
alternately,  and  consented  to  do  f~o  in  the  event 
of  his  procuring  ordination.  There  being  no 
bishop  in  .\merica.  he  sailed  for  England  in 
1754  to  take  holy  orders,  and  was  ordauied 
priest  by  Piishop  .Sherlock,  of  London,  July 
28,  1755.  In  August  following  he  sailed  on 
his  return  voyage,  and  his  vessel  narrowly 
escaped  loss  by  shipwreck  on  Nantucket  Shoals. 
He  landed  at  Halifax,  whence  he  went  to  Bos- 
ton and  Norwich,  and  finally  to  Delaware. 
I'^incling  a  jiromising  field  at  Newcastle,  in  the 
latter  colony,  he  was  assigned  to  that  parish. 
He  ]ireache(l  there  once,  and  left  to  bring 
thither  his  family,  passing  through  Philadel- 
l)hia,  where  he  was  entertained  at  the  home  of 
P.enjamin  I'Vanklin,  whose  esteem  and  friend- 
ship he  enjoyed.  His  death  occurred  in  that 
home  a  few  days  later,  August  11,  1737,  due 
to  a  fever  and  an  imdermined  constitution 
ascribable  to  injuries  received  in  a  fall  on  board 
ship  at  the  time  that  shii)wreck  was  imminent, 
as  before  narrated.  He  was  buried  in  Christ 
Church  graveyard,  Philadelphia.  He  was  an 
able  and  zealous  preacher,  and  ( to  quote  from 
I'Vanklin's  Pennsylvania  Gazette)  "a  gentle- 
man of  humane  and  pious  disposition,  inde- 
fatigal)le  in  his  ministry,  easy  and  afifalile  in 
liis  conversation,  open  and  sincere  in  his  friend- 


ships, and  above  every  species  of  meanness 
and  dissimulation."  He  married,  at  Medford, 
.August  4.  1739,  .Susannah  Porter,  born  there 
-April  26,  1716,  died  at  Salem.  Massachusetts. 
March  28,  1788,  daughter  of  Rev.  .Aaron  and 
Susanna  (Sewall)  Porter.  When  her  husband 
died  she  was  left  with  ten  children. 

(\')  Rev.  .Aaron  Cleveland,  son  of  Rev. 
.Aaron  and  .Susannah  (Porter)  Cleveland,  was 
a  man  of  remarkable  gifts,  and  his  career  was 
of  phenomenal  usefulness.  He  was  born  in 
Med  ford,  Alassachusetts,  1738,  and  died  in 
New  Haven,  Connecticut,  September  21,  181 5. 
In  early  boyhood  he  gave  evidence  of  more 
than  ordinary  mental  endowments,  and  was 
intended  for  college.  His  father  dying  and 
leaving  but  little  means  to  his  family,  the  lad 
was  ap])renticed  to  a  hatter  at  Haddam.  Dur- 
ing his  apprenticeship  he  devoted  himself 
closely  to  study  during  his  leisure  hours,  and 
at  the  age  of  nineteen  wrote  a  poem,  "The 
Philosopher  and  the  Boy,"  which  was  publish- 
i.d  in  tlie  Everest's  "Poets  of  Connecticut," 
1S43.  In  .\ugust.  I7<'H.  he  was  drafted  for 
militar\-  service  in  the  British  army,  and  served 
for  six  months.  .After  coming  oi  age  he  work- 
ed as  a  journeyman  hatter  at  Norwich,  in 
1768  went  into  the  business  on  his  own  ac- 
count, at  P.ean  Hill,  Norwich,  and  was  subse- 
quently in  business  at  Guilford,  Connecticut, 
for  twenty-five  years.  He  was  a  ready  writer 
anfl  strong  controversialist,  and  early  antag- 
onized human  slavery.  In  1773  he  delivered  a 
strong  discourse  upon  the  subject,  based  upon 
the  scri]itural  passage,  "Touch  not  mine  an- 
nointed,"  being  the  first  in  Connecticut  to  pub- 
licly espouse  the  cause,  and  contributed  copi- 
ously to  the  newspapers  in  advocacy  of  his 
views,  and  in  1780  wrote  his  "Poem  .Against 
Slavery,"  of  which  his  descendants  may  be 
justly  ]iroud.  In  1779  he  was  elected  to  the 
legislature,  and  introduced  a  bill  for  the  aboli- 
tion of  slavery.  He  declined  a  re-election.  .An 
attendant  of  the  Congregational  church,  he 
became  a  leader  among  the  Universalists,  but 
in  1792  changed  his  views  as  to  religion,  con- 
nected himself  with  the  Orthodo.x  Congrega- 
tional (  hurch,  studied  theolog}-  with  W'alter 
King,  of  Xorwich.  He  was  chosen  deacon  in 
1794,  was  licensed  to  preach  in  171)7,  and  went 
as  a  missionary  to  the  new  settlemnt  in  \'er- 
nii  int.  I  I  e  preached  at  Canaan,  New  Ham])shirc. 
1799;  in  1800  settled  at  Braintree,  A'ermont: 
was  minister  at  Royalton,  \ermont,  for  a  year 
or  two:  and  was  pastor  at  Wethersfield.  Con- 
necticut. Xovember,  1803,  to  October,  1804. 
In  .March  of  the  vear  of  his  death,  he  delivered 


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two  sermons  which  attracted  marked  attention, 
and  were  ]]ublished  both  in  the  United  States 
and  England.  His  chief  characteristics  were 
ardent  piety,  great  earnestness,  sincere. love  of 
the  truth,  exuberant  animal  spirits,  and  a  most 
ready  wit.  lie  married,  at  Norwich,  Connecti- 
cut. .\pril  12,  1768,  Abiah  Hyde,  born  in  Nor- 
wich, December  27,  1749,  or  January  9,  1750, 
died  at  Norwich,  August  23,  1788,  only  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  James  and  Sarah  ^Marshall.  He 
married  (second),  in  Norwich,  October  23, 
1788,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Clement  Breed,  widow- 
of  David  ISreed,  and  daughter  of  Jeremiah 
and  Mary  (Mosely)  Clement. 

(  \  I  )  William  Cleveland,  son  of  Rev.  Aaron 
and  Abiah  (Hyde)  Cleveland,  was  born  in 
Norwich,  Connecticut,  December  20,  1770.  and 
died  at  P.lack  Rock,  near  ButTalo,  New  York, 
August  18,  1837.  He.  was  a  master  silversmith, 
watch  anfl  clock  maker.  He  manufactured 
silver  spoons  of  much  beauty,  each  bearing 
upon  the  back  the  name  "Cleveland,"  in  bold 
handsome  letters.  Specimens  still  exist,  and 
one  was  presented  to  his  great-granddaughter 
Ruth,  a  (laughter  of  former  President  Grover 
Cleveland.  Soon  after  his  marriage,  Mr. 
Cleveland  set  up  in  business  in  Worthington, 
Massachusetts,  whence  he  removed  to  Salem, 
and  then  to  New  York  state.  He  was  deacon 
in  the  Norwich  church  for  twenty-five  years. 
He  married,  in  Westfield,  Massachusetts,  De- 
cember 19,  1793,  Margaret  Falley,  born  in 
Westfield,  November  15,  1766,  died  at  Black 
Rock,  New^  York,  August  10,  1850,  daughter 
of  Richard  and  Margaret  (Hitchcock)  Falley. 
They  had  six  children. 

(VH)  Rev.  Richard  Falley  Cleveland,  son 
of  William  and  Margaret  (Falley)  Cleveland, 
was  born  in  .Norwich,  Connecticut,  June  19, 
1804,  and  died  at  Holland  Patent,  New  York, 
October  i,  1853.  He  graduated  from  Yale 
College  in  1824,  and  studied  theology  at  Balti- 
more, -Maryland,  with  Rev.  William  Nivin, 
D.  D.,  and  afterward  at  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary.  In  1827  he  was  chosen  as  supply 
at  Pomfret,  Connecticut.  He  was  ordained 
in  1828  minister  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  at  Windham,  Connecticut,  and  remain- 
ed there  until  1833;  minister  at  Portsmouth, 
\'irginia.  1833-35;  pastor  First  Presbyterian 
Church.  Caldwell.  New  Jersey,  1835-41  ;  pastor 
First  Presbyterian  Cliurch,  Fayetteville,  New 
York,  1841-47.  In  the  latter  year  he  was  chosen 
district  secretary  and  agent  for  the  Presby- 
terian Board  of  Home  Alissions  in  New*  York 
State,  residing  in  Clinton,  Oneida  county,  and 
also  preaching  in   that  vicinity.     After  three 


years  he  was  called  to  a  church  at  Holland 
Patent,  New  York,  where,  after  preaching 
one  month,  he  died  without  an  hour's  warning, 
leaving  his  family  in  reduced  circumstances, 
having  throughout  his  life  devoted  his  means 
to  the  education  of  his  children.  He  was  a 
man  of  more  than  ordinary  ability,  fine  voice, 
bright  mind  and  liberal  ideas.  He  married, 
September  10,  1829,  Ann  Neal,  in  all  respects  a 
superior  woman,  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland. 
February  4,  1806,  died  at  Holland  Patent,  New- 
York,  July  19,  1882,  daughter  of  .-\bner  and 
Barbara  (Reel)  Neal.  Her  father  was  born 
in  Ireland,  a,nd  was  a  law  book  publisher;  her 
mother  was  a  German  Quakeress.  To  Rev. 
and  Airs.  Cleveland  were  born  nine  children. 
One  of  the  daughters.  Rose  Elizabeth,  is  a  well 
known  author  and  educator.  She  was  educated 
at  Houghton  Seminary,  Clinton,  New  York, 
and  became  a  teacher  in  that  institution  ;  and 
later  had  charge  of  a  collegiate  institution  in 
Lafayette,  Indianna.  For  a  short  time  she  was 
editor  of  Literary  Life,  a  Chicago  journal,  and 
is  author  of  "George  Eliot's  Poetry,  and  other 
Studies,"  and  a  novel,  "The  Long  Run." 

(\TII)  Grover  Cleveland,  son  of  Rev.  Rich- 
ard Falley  and  Ann  (Neal)  Cleveland,  was 
b(irn  .March  18,  1837,  in  Caldwell,  New  Jersey, 
in  a  small  two-story  building  which  was  the 
parsonage  of  the  Presbyterian  church  of  wdiich 
his  father  was  then  pastor,  and  which  is  yet 
standing.  He  was  named  Stephen  Grover,  for 
his  father's  predecessor  in  the  pastorate,  but 
in  childhood  the  first  name  was  dropped.  In 
1841.  when  he  was  three  years  old,  his  parents 
removed  to  Fayetteville,  Onondaga  county. 
New  York,  where  he  lived  until  he  was  four- 
teen, attending  the  district  school  and  academy. 
I  le  was  of  studious  habits,  and  his  frank  open 
disposition  made  him  a  favorite  with  both  his 
teachers  and  fellows.  He  left  the  academy 
before  he  could  complete  the  course,  and  took 
em])loyment  in  a  village  store,  his  wages  being 
fifty  dollars  for  the  first  and  one  hundred 
dollars  for  the  second  year,  but  soon  after  the 
beginning  of  the  latter  period  he  removed  to 
Clinton,  New  York,  whither  his  parents  had 
preceded  him,  and  resumed  studies  at  the 
academy  in  that  village,  with  the  intention  of 
jireparing  himself  for  admission  to  Hamilton 
College.  The  death  of  his  father,  however, 
disappointed  this  expectation,  and  made  it 
necessary  to  enter  upon  self-support.  He  ac- 
cordingly accepted  a  position  as  bookkeeper 
and  assistant  teacher  in  the  New-  York  Insti- 
tution for  the  Blind,  which  he  filled  acceptably 
for  a  year.     Starting  west  in  search  of  more 


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lucrative  employment,  with  twenty-five  dollars 
to  defray  his  expenses,  he  stopped  on  the  v^'ay 
at  Buffalo,  New  York,  to  make  a  farewell  visit 
to  his  uncle,  Lewis  F.  Allen,  a  stock  farmer, 
who  induced  him  to  remain  and  aid  him  in  the 
ccMn])ilation  of  "Allen's  American  Shorthorn 
Herd  llouk."  In  return  he  received  the  sum 
of  fifty  dollars,  and  with  this  aid  he  entered  the 
law  offices  of  Rogers,  Bowen  &  Rogers,  at 
Buli'alo,  as  a  clerk  and  law  student.  His  stud- 
ent life  was  one  of  arduous  labor  and  rigorous 
economy  and  self-denial.  For  a  few  months 
he  served  without  compensation,  as  a  copyist, 
and  then  received  a  wage  of  four  dollars  a 
week.  1  le  lived  at  a  modest  hotel,  took  break- 
fast by  candlelight,  worked  in  the  office  the 
entire  day.  and  did  most  of  his  law  reading  at 
night,  lie  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1859. 
Meantime  his  employers,  recognizing  his  ability 
and  fidelity,  advanced  him  to  a  position  of  con- 
fidential and  managing  clerk,  and  in  three 
years  he  had  saved  frcmi  his  salary  a  thousand 
dollars. 

Mr.  Cleveland's  public  life  began  in  1863, 
when  he  was  appointed  assistant  district  at- 
torney for  Erie  county.  A  staunch  Democrat 
from  his  first  studies  of  American  history  and 
politics,  he  had  been  a  sturdy  supporter  of  his 
])artv  and  an  industrious  party  worker  from 
the  day  in  1838  when  he  cast  his  first  vote.  In 
his  first  term  in  the  office  to  which  he  was 
chosen,  the  Democrats  were  extremely  desir- 
ous of  carrying  the  board  of  supervisors,  and 
looked  to  him  as  their  promising  candidate  in 
the  second  ward  of  the  city  of  Buffalo,  which 
was  Republican  by  a  plurality  of  two  hundred 
and  fifty.  He  consented  to  accept  the  candi- 
dacy, made  a  vigorous  canvass,  and  came 
within  thirteen  votes  of  election.  He  acquitted 
himself  so  well  in  his  office,  that  at  the  expira- 
tion of  his  term  he  received  the  unanimous 
nomiation  for  di.strict  attorney.  He  had  for 
his  Republican  apponent  a  warm  personal 
friend.  Lyman  K.  Bass,  who  was  elected  by  a 
plurality  of  five  hundred  ;  Mr.  Cleveland,  how- 
ever, polled  more  than  his  jiarty  vote  in  all  the 
city  wards.  Retiring  from  office  in  January, 
1866,  he  formed  a  law  partnership  with  Isaac 
\'.  \'anderpoel,  former  state  treasurer,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Vanderpoel  &  Cleveland.  In 
1869  he  became  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of 
Laning,  Cleveland  &  Folsom,  his  partners 
being  .Albert  P.  Laning,  former  state  senator, 
and  for  years  attorney  for  the  Canada  South- 
ern and  the  Lake  Shore  railways,  and  Oscar 
Folsom.  former  L^nitcd  States  district  attorney. 
During  these,  as  in  previous  years,  he  sent  the 


large  portion  of  his  earnings  to  his  mother,  to 
aid  her  in  support  of  her  family.  In  1870  at 
the  earnest  solicitation  of  his  party  friends, 
and  against  his  ow-n  earnestly  expressed  desire, 
he  consented  to  become  candidate  for  sheriff, 
and  was  elected  after  a  stubbornly  contested 
canvass.  His  official  conduct  was  warmly  ap- 
proved by  the  people.  .At  the  expiration  of  his 
term  of  office  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law. 
in  association  with  Lyman  K.  Bass  and  Wilson 
.S.  Piis.sell.  Mr.  Bass  retired  in  1879  on  account 
of  ill  health,  the  firm  becoming  Cleveland  & 
Bissell.  In  1881  George  J.  Sicard  was  ad- 
mitted to  partnership.  During  all  these  changes 
Mr.  Cleveland  shared  in  a  large  and  lucrative 
business,  while  he  had  attracted  the  admiration 
of  bench  and  bar  for  the  care  with  which  he 
prepared  his  cases  and  the  ability  and  industry 
with  which  he  contested  them. 

In  1881  Mr.  Cleveland  was  nominated  for 
mayor  of  Buftalo  on  a  platform  advocating 
administrative  reform  and  economy  in  munic- 
ipal expenditures,  and  was  elected  by  a  plural- 
ity of  more  than  thirty-five  hundred,  the  larg- 
est majority  ever  given  a  candidate  for  that 
office,  and  at  an  election  where,  although  the 
Democrats  carried  their  local  ticket  to  success, 
the  Republicans  carried  the  city  for  their  state 
ticket  by  more  than  one  thousand  plurality. 
His  administration  commanded  unstinted  aj)- 
proval,  for  his  courageous  devotion  to  the 
interests  of  the  people  and  his  success  in  check- 
ing unwise,  illegal  and  extravagant  expendi- 
tures, saving  to  the  city  a  million  dollars  in  the 
first  six  months  of  his  term,  and  he  was  a 
])opular  favorite  as  "The  \"eto  Mayor."  He 
was  now  a  state  celebrity,  and  the  convention 
of  his  party,  held  Sejitember  22,  1882,  at  Syra- 
cuse, nominated  him  for  governor.  He  was 
elected  over  the  Republican  nominee,  Charles 
J.  Folger,  by  the  tremendous  plurality  of  192,- 
854 — the  largest  plurality  ever  given  a  guber- 
natorial candidate  in  any  state  in  the  L^nion. 
.\mong  the  chief  acts  of  his  administration 
were  his  ajiproval  of  a  bill  to  submit  to  the 
people  a  proposition  to  abolish  contract  prison 
labor:  his  veto  of  a  bill  permitting  wide  latitude 
to  savings  bank  directors  in  investment  of  de- 
posits ;  his  veto  of  a  similar  bill  respecting  in- 
surance companies;  and  his  veto  of  a  bill  to 
establish  a  monopoly  by  limiting  the  right  to 
construct  certain  street  railways  to  companies 
heretofore  organized,  to  the  exclusion  of  such 
as  should  hereafter  obtain  the  consent  of  prop- 
erty owners  and  local  aiilliorities. 

Air.  Cleveland  was  nominated  for  President 
by  the  Democratic  national  convention  in  Chi- 


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cage),  ill  July,  1884,  receiving  683  votes  out  of 
a  total  of  820.  His  Republican  opponent  was 
Hon.  James  G.  Blaine.  The  campaign  was 
remarkable  for  the  discussion  of  the  personal 
characters  and  qualifications  of  the  candidates, 
rather  than  i)olitical  principles.  At  the  election 
Mr.  Cleveland  received  a  majority  of  thirty- 
seven  in  the  electoral  college,  and  a  majority  in 
the  popular  vote  of  23,005,  out  of  a  total  of 
10,067,610.  At  his  inauguration,  March  4. 
1885.  he  delivered  an  admirable  inaugural  ad- 
dress, with  flowing  ease,  and  his  modesty  and 
sincerity  impressed  all  hearers.  He  took  his 
ofiicial  oath  upon  a  small  morocco  bound  gilt- 
edged  Bible,  a  gift  from  his  mother  when  as  a 
lad  he  first  left  home.  Among  the  most  im- 
portant acts  of  his  administration  was  his  pro- 
clamation of  March  13,  1885,  for  the  removal 
of  white  intruders  from  (Jklahoma,  Indian 
Territory ;  and,  after  the  burning  of  Aspin- 
wall,  Panama,  by  the  revolutionists,  March  31, 
1885,  his  ordering  a  naval  expedition  to  pro- 
tect American  persons  and  property. 

Mr.  Cleveland  was  unanimously  re-nomi- 
nated for  ]\esident  in  1888,  but  was  defeated 
by  Benjamin  Harrison,  Republican,  although 
his  plurality  in  the  popular  vote  was  more  than 
loo.ooo.  He  then  located  in  the  city  of  New 
York  and  again  took  up  his  profession.  In 
June.  1892,  he  was  nominated  a  third  time,  by 
the  Democratic  national  convention  in  Chicago, 
receiving  on  the  first  ballot  617  1-3  votes  out  of 
910,  the  nomination  then  being  made  unani- 
mous. At  the  election  he  defeated  Benjamin 
Harrison  by  a  plurality  of  1 10  in  the  electoral 
college,  and  a  plurality  of  379,150  in  the  popu- 
lar vote.  He  was  inaugurated  March  4,  1893, 
in  the  presence  of  a  vast  multitude,  in  midst  of 
a  blinding  snowstorm.  The  military  and  civic 
parade  was  more  imposing  than  on  any  other 
similar  occasion.  His  administration  was 
marked  by  some  most  unusual  features.  His 
first  important  act  was  to  call  a  special  session 
of  congress,  August  7,  1893,  and  in  pursuance 
of  his  recommendation  was  repealed  the  act  of 
1890  calling  for  the  monthly  purchase  of  $4,- 
500,000  of  silver  bullion.  In  this  he  was  op- 
posed by  the  silver  wing  of  his  party.  Elected 
as  he  was  on  a  tarifT-reform  platform,  both 
houses  of  congress  were  in  accord  with  him  on 
that  issue,  and  in  1894  was  passed  the  Wilson 
bill,  a  tarifF-f or- revenue-only  measure.  The 
industrial  and  financial  stagnation  of  that 
period  was  ascribed  by  the  Republicans  as  to 
this  measure,  while  the  free-silver  Democrats 
attributed  it  in  large  degree  to  the  repeal  of  the 
silver-purchase  measure,  and  in  November  of 


the  same  year  the  Republicans  won  a  protec- 
tive tariff  victory,  with  the  result  that  during 
the  latter  half  of  President  Cleveland's  admin- 
istration he  had  to  deal  with  a  Republican  con- 
gress. He  performed  an  invaluable  service  to 
law  and  order  and  protection  to  property  by  his 
firm  stand  with  reference  to  the  railroad  riots 
in  Jul}',  1894,  ordering  United  States  troops  to 
Chicago  and  other  railroad  centers  to  enforce 
the  orders  and  processes  of  the  federal  courts, 
and  to  prevent  interference  with  inter-state 
commerce  and  the  transmission  of  the  United 
States  mails.  On  January  i,  1895,  he  appoint- 
ed, with  the  consent  of  the  senate,  the  com- 
mission to  inquire  into  the  Venezuelan  bound- 
ary. During  the  insurrection  in  Cuba  he  took 
strong  measures  against  the  violation  of  the 
neutrality  laws.  In  February,  in  order  to  pre- 
serve the  national  credit,  he  ordered  an  issue 
of  four  per  cent,  thirty  year  bonds  to  the 
amount  of  $62,000,000.  May  29th  he  vetoed 
the  river  and  harbor  bill  calling  for  an  immedi- 
ate expenditure  of  $17,000,000,  and  authoriz- 
ing contracts  for  the  further  sum  of  $62,000,- 
000,  but  the  bill  was  passed  over  his  veto.  In 
summer  of  the  same  year  he  received  the  sig- 
nal compliment  of  being  chosen  as  arbitrator 
in  the  dispute  between  Italy  and  Colombia, 
in  which  the  former  claimed  large  pecuniary 
damages  for  injuries  sustained  by  Italians  dur- 
ing the  revolution  of  1885.  Late  in  1895,  in 
his  annual  message  he  recommended  a  general 
reform  of  banking  and  currency  laws,  and  ac- 
complished the  settlement  of  the  Venezuelan 
boundary,  the  treaty  being  signed  February  2, 
1896.  In  the  latter  year  he  issued  an  order 
under  which  thirty  thousand  additional  posts 
in  the  civil  service  were  placed  under  restric- 
tions formulated  by  the  board  of  civil  service 
commissioners.  In  the  same  year  he  sent  Gen- 
eral Fitzhugh  Lee  to  Havana  as  consul-general 
— an  appointment  which  was  approved  by  the 
great  mass  of  Union  veterans  almost  as  heart- 
ily as  it  was  by  the  ex-Confederates.  On  June 
16,  1896,  he  issued  an  open  letter  condemn- 
ing the  free-silver  movement,  and  approving 
the  principles  of  the  Gold  Wing  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  a  document  which  had  a  salutary 
and  far-reaching  effect.  Before  the  expiration 
of  his  official  term  he  had  the  great  pleasure 
of  witnessing  the  execution  of  a  treaty  between 
the  United  States  and  Great  Britian  providing 
for  the  establishment  of  an  international  tri- 
bunal of  general  arbitration. 

One  of  President  Cleveland's  last  public  ap- 
pearances before  retiring  from  his  high  office, 
was  the  delivery  of  an  address  at  the  sesquicen- 


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tcnnial  celebration  of  Princeton  College,  which 
then  took  on  iti  more  appropriate  title  of  Uni- 
versity. Shortly  afterward  he  purchased  a 
home  in  the  town  oi  Princeton,  and  where  his 
first  son  was  born.  Known  as  a  polished  and 
forceful  writer,  Mr.  Cleveland's  most  import- 
ant papers  have  been  widely  published.  His 
Annual  Message  of  1887  was  issued  in  a  sump- 
tuous edition  dc  luxe,  illustrated  by  the  famous 
artist,  Thomas  Nast.  An  important  compila- 
tion of  his  utterances  was  made  by  Francis 
Gottsberger,  of  New  York,  under  the  title, 
"Principles  and  Purposes  of  Our  Form  of 
Government,  as  Set  Forth  in  Public  Papers  of 
Grover  Cleveland,"  and  George  F.  Parker 
selected  and  edited  a  volume.  "Writings  and 
Speeches  of  Grover  Cleveland."  In  1904  ap- 
peared "Presidential  Problems,"  a  volume  of 
essays  by  Mr.  Cleveland,  two  of  which  were 
originally  delivered  at  Princeton  University, 
the  others  being  articles  which  had  their  origi- 
nal ajjpearance  in  leading  magazines. 

Mr.  Cleveland  was  of  striking  personality, 
commanding  respect  and  confidence  under  all 
circumstances  and  before  all  manner  of  assem- 
blages, i'hysically  of  large  and  powerful 
frame,  in  motion  he  was  deliberate  and  firm, 
yet  without  slowness.  In  manner  and  voice  he 
was  genial  and  agreeable.  Broad  minded  and 
liberal  in  thought, he  was  tolerant  and  charitable. 
In  religion  he  was  a  man  of  conscience  rather 
than  of  set  creed.  All  his  personal  habits  were 
marked  by  Democratic  simplicity,  and  totally 
devoid  of  ostentation.  After  his  retirement 
from  the  loftiest  place  open  to  an  American, 
he  steadily  grew  in  the  regard  and  affection  of 
the  ])eople,  while  |)ublicists  and  ])olitic<il  stu- 
dents are  only  beginning  to  adequately  measure 
the  wisdom  and  beneficence  which  were  the 
characteristics  of  his  public  career.  He  died 
June  24,  1908. 

In  the  second  year  of  his  first  presidential 
term,  June  2,  1886,  President  Cleveland  was 
married  to  Miss  Frances  Folsom,  the  ceremony 
being  performed  by  Rev.  P.yron  Sunderland. 
D.  D.,  in  the  IMue  Room  in  the  White  House. 
Of  this  marriage  were  born:  Ruth,  in  the 
city  of  New  York,  October  3,  1891 ;  Esther 
C,  in  Washington  City  (the  first  child  ever 
born  in  the  White  House),  September  9,  1893  ; 
Maria  C,  at  "(iray  Gables,"  I'uzzards'  Bay, 
Barnstable  county,  Massachusetts,  July  7, 
1895  ;  Richard  Folsom.  at  Westland,  Prince- 
ton. New  Jersey,  October  28,  1S97. 

Mrs.  Cleveland  was  born  in  lUiffalo,  New 
York,  July  21,  1864,  only  daughter  of  Oscar 
and   Emma  Cornelia   (Harmon)    Folsom,  her 


father  being  a  distinguished  lawyer.  Her 
family,  F'olsom,  is  descended  from  the  same 
family  with  John  Foulsham,  D.  D.,  of  Fols- 
ham,  England,  died  1348.  The  family  seat 
name  appears  in  Domesday  Book,  and  in  the 
various  forms  of  Foulshame,  or  Foulsham 
(signifying  fowl's  home,  or  mart),  twenty 
miles  north  of  Hingham,  Norfolk  county, 
where  Dr.  John  Foulsham  was  prior  of  the 
Carmelite  Monastery.  The  family  line  runs 
as  follows:  i.  Roger  Foulsham,  of  Necton, 
Norfolk  county,  England,  will  dated  1534.  2. 
William  (2),  married  Agnes  Smith,  alias 
F'oulsliam,     of     Besthorpe.       3.     Adam,     of 

Besthori)e,  married  Emma .    4.  Adam, 

baptized  1560,  died  1630;  had  home  in  Hing- 
ham, and  lands  in  Besthorpe ;  married  Grace 

.     5.   Adam,  of   Hingham,   died   1627 ; 

married  Agnes  .     6.  John,  born   1614; 

baptized  at  Hingham,  1615  ;  came  to  America 
in  ship  "Diligence,"  of  Ipswich,  John  Martin, 
master,  sailing  from  mouth  of  the  Thames  1  >n 
April  26,  1638,  with  wife  and  two  servants : 
landed  in  Boston.  7.  John,  born  1638 ;  fre- 
quently member  of  general  assembly;  married 
Abigail  Perkins,  daughter  of  Abraham  Per- 
kins, of  Hampton,  New  Hampshire.  8.  Abra- 
ham, died  about  1740.  9.  Daniel,  of  Exeter, 
New  Hampshire.  10.  Abraham.  11.  Asa.  u. 
Colonel  John  Folsom,  of  Folsomdale.  Wyom- 
ing county,  New  York;  died  1886.  13.  Oscar 
Folsom,  of  BufTalo,  died  1875 ;  married  Cor- 
nelia Harmon,  daughter  of  Deacon  Elisha 
Harmon,  descended  in  the  seventh  generation 
from  John  Harmon,  of  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts, 1644.  Florence,  daughter  of  Oscar  and 
Emma  Cornelia  (Harmon)  Folsom,  became 
the  wife  of  Grover  Cleveland. 


This     family,    through    llie 
SCUDDER       Throckmortons,     descended 
from  four  barons,  who  sign- 
ed the  Magna   Cliarta,  and   from   Edward   I. 

(I)  Thomas  Scudder  emigrated  to  America 
from  London,  England.  In  1635  '*  "^^  Salem, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  lived  until  his  death 
in  \(i~,9>.  His  will,  dated  1657,  names  wife 
F'lizabeth,  John  (2),  Thomas,  Henry,  Eliza- 
beth, and  his  grandson  Thomas,  son  of  his  son 
William.     His  wife  died  in  1666. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Thomas  Scudder,  removed 
in  iCisi  from  .Salem  to  Southold,  Long  Island, 
thence  to  Huntington  in  1657,  and  before  1660 
is  ftiund  at  Newtown,  Long  Island,  promi- 
nently engaged  in  affairs.  He  married,  in  1642, 
Mary,  born  in  1623,  in  England,  eldest  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Dorothy  King.    Their  chil- 


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clren  were:  Samuel.  John,  born  1645:  Mary, 
baptized  June  11,  1648;  Elizabeth,  baptized 
March.  1649  ;  married  John  Albartns  ;  Hannah. 

(III)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Sciidder, 
born  1645.  lived  in  Xewtown.  Long  Island. 
His  wife  Joanna,  whom  he  married  in  1669. 
was  the  third  daughter  of  Captain  Richard 
Betts  of  the  same  place.  Children :  Richard 
Belts.  John,  and  probably  others. 

(IV)  Lieutenant  Richard  Betts,  son  of  John 
(2)  Scudder.  was  born  at  Newtown,  Long 
Island.  In  1709  he  came  to  Ewing  township. 
He  is  the  ancestor  of  the  families  of  this  name 
in  Trenton  and  Ewing.  His  property  on  the 
Delaware  river,  known  as  "Scudder  Falls,"  is 
still  in  the  possession  of  his  lineal  descendants. 
His  deeds  for  this  land  were,  one  from  John 
Hutchinson,  the  other  from  John  Brierly,  both 
originally  to  Thomas  Hough,  of  Springfield, 

i  Burlington  county,  bearing  date  16-6  and  con- 
veyed in  1709  to  Richard  B.  Scudder.  He  died 
March  14,  1754,  aged  eighty-three  years, 
twenty  years  after  his  wife  Hannah,  daughter 
of  Joseph  Stillwell.  Their  children  were : 
Hannah,  Mary,  Richard,  John,  Abigail,  Joseph, 
Samuel,  Rebecca,  Joanna  and  Deborah,  mar- 
ried John  Hart,  the  signer  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence.  Lieutenant  Richard  Betts 
Scudder  commanded  a  section  of  New  Jersey 
militia  in  an  expedition  to  Canada  in  171 1. 
The  commission  is  in  the  possession  of  the 
family.  His  name  is  mentioned  frequently  in 
charters,  etc.,  and  heads  the  list  of  grantees  to 
the  land  on  which  the  Presbyterian  church  at 
Ewing  was  built. 

(V)  John  (3),  son  of  Richard  Betts  Scud- 
der, died  May  10,  174S,  aged  forty-seven.  His 
wife  Phebe,  daughter  of  Daniel  Howell,  died 
January  31,  1787,  aged  eighty-nine.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  Daniel,  born  August  6,  1736;  Pru- 
dence, April  30,  1738;  Amos,  February  14, 
1739,  died  August  11,  1824;  Jedediah,  1742; 
Jemima,  1744;  Ephraim,  1747,  died  aged 
twenty-eight ;  Keturah. 

(VI)  Daniel,  son  of  John  (3)  Scudder, 
trustee  of  the  Ewing  Presbyterian  church,  died 
in  181 1,  aged  seventy-five.  Mary  Snowden, 
his  wife,  of  Burlington  county,  died  1798,  aged 
sixty,  leaving  children  as  follows :  Rachel. 
Kesiah,  Abner  and  Elias. 

(VII)  Elias,  son  of  Daniel  Scudder,  died 
June  20,  181 1.  His  wife  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Jasper  Smith,  died  in  1858.  aged  eighty- four. 
Children:  Daniel,  a  lawyer;  Jasper  Smith. 
John  and  .Abner,  who  died  in  1878. 

(VHI)  Jasper  Smith,  son  of  Elias  Scud- 
der. died  October  20,  1877.  aged  eighty.     His 


wife,  Alary  Stillwell,  daughter  of  .\mos 
Reeder  and  Mary  Stillwell,  bore  him  children: 
Daniel,  died  young;  Edward  W.,  Christiana, 
wife  of  Judge  William  R.  Mcllvaine.  He  was 
the  first  president  of  the  Trenton  Mechanics 
and  Manufacturers  Bank. 

(  IX)  Justicelulward  Wallace  Scudder,  was  of 
Jasper  Smith  Scudder,  was  born  at  Scudder's 
Falls,  August  II,  1822,  died  in  Trenton,  New 
Jersey,  1893.  He  prepared  at  Lawrenceville 
Academy,  Princeton.  1841.  Studied  law  with 
William  L.  Dayton.  Trenton.  Attorney,  1844. 
President  of  New  Jersey  Senate  in  1865  ;  1869 
was  appointed  justice  of  the  supreme  court  of 
this  state,  which  office  he  held  until  his  death. 
Princeton,  LL.  D.  in  1880.  For  twenty  years 
he  was  trustee  of  Princeton  Theological  Semi- 
nary. He  was  a  Presbyterian  and  a  Democrat. 
He  married,  in  1848.  Mary  Louisa,  daughter 
of  George  King  Drake,  Morristown,  New  Jer- 
sey, justice  of  New  Jersey  supreme  court,  and 
Mary  Ailing  (Halsey)  Drake,  of  New  York. 
George  King  Drake  was  son  of  Colonel  Jacob 
Drake.      (See  below). 

(X)  Wallace  Mcllvaine,  son  of  Justice 
Edward  Wallace  Scudder,  of  the  supreme 
court  of  New  Jersey,  and  Mary  Louise  Drake, 
his  wife,  was  born  December  26,  1853,  in 
Trenton,  New  Jersey.  He  was  surrounded 
from  infancy  with  culture  and  refinement.  His 
father  held  the  high  respect  of  the  people 
among  whom  he  lived,  not  only  for  his  loyal 
legal  attainments  and  statesmanlike  qualities, 
but  also  for  his  high  character  and  personal 
worth.  His  mother  possessed  much  dignity 
and  presided  over  a  home  which  dispensed  a 
gracious  hospitality.  The  education  of  the 
family  was  a  matter  of  careful  consideration, 
and  he  went  to  the  State  Model  School,  pre- 
paratory to  entering  Lehigh  University,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1873  with  the  degree 
of  mechanical  engineer,  afterwards  commenc- 
ing the  study  of  law  with  Garett  D.  W.  Vroom. 
He  attended  Harvard  Law  School,  after  which 
he  entered  the  office  of  John  R.  Emery.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1877.  practiced  in 
Newark  until  1883.  at  which  date  he  started 
in  Newark  the  Evening  News  as  editor  and 
]niblisher.  which  paper  rapidly  attained  large 
circulation  and  usefulness.  He  served  a  term 
in  the  Newark  board  of  education,  but  since 
beginning  his  newspaper  work  has  had  no 
political  connection  and  refused  all  political 
jiosition  or  preferment.  The  Essex  Club.  .Auto- 
mobile Club.  Essex  County  Country  Club,  Mor- 
ris County  Golf  Club,  and  the  New  Jersey 
Historical  Society  claim  him  as  a  member.    Of 


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the  latter  useful  and  flourishing  organization 
he  is  vice-president.  His  family  attend  Trin- 
ity Episcopal  Church  of  Newark,  of  which  he- 
is  a  vestryman.- 

Mr.  Scudder  and  Ida.  daughter  of  James  M. 
and  Phcbc  (Swazy)  yuinby,  were  married 
October  21,  1880,  in  Newark.  Their  children 
are:  Edward  Wallace  Scudder,  married  Kath- 
erine  C.  Hollifield,  and  Antoinette  Ouinby 
Scudder.  He  married  (second)  April  17, 
igo6,  in  New  York,  Gertrude  Witherspoon. 

(.Ancestral    I.ine.'i). 

Colonel  Jacob  Drake,  born  .April  21,  1732, 
in  Piscataway,  New  Jersey,  died  Septem- 
ber, 1823,  at'  Morristown.  He  commanded 
Western  Battalion  New  Jersey  Militia  during 
revolution.  Member  of  committee  of  cor- 
respondence and  safety,  and  of  first  New 
Jersey  assembly.  He  was  also  a  member  of 
the  convention  to  approve  the  state  constitu- 
tion in  1776.  (Morrison  Records,  Officers  and 
Men  of  New  Jersey  in  the  Revolution).  His 
mother  was  Esther  Dickerson.  daughter  of 
Captain  Peter  Dickerson,  who  fought  with 
New  Jersey  troops  at  Trenton,  Princeton, 
Monmouth  and  Long  Island,  and  his  wife, 
Ruth  (Coe)  Dickerson.  Through  his  mother, 
Wallace  Mcllvaine  Scudder  is  descended  from 
the  Halseys,  Elys,  Reeves,  Coes,  Dodges,  Per- 
kins, Chatfields,  Rev.  Francis  Higginson,  of 
Salem,  etc. 

Peter  Dickerson,  born  1724,  at  Hempstead 
or  Southold,  Long  Island,  died  May  10,  1780, 
at  Morristown,  New  Jersey.  Member  of  first 
provincial  congress  May.  1775.  Captain  Fifth 
Com])any,  Third  Battalion,  First  Establish- 
ment, F'ebrnary  7,  1776.  ( Stryker's  Officers 
and  Men  of  New  Jersey  in  the  Revolution). 

Mary  Ailing  Halsey,  wife  of  George  King 
Drake,  was  the  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Jemima 
Cook,  son  of  Elihu  and  Elizabeth  Ely,  son  of 
Recompense  and  Hannah  Jaggcrs.  son  of 
Nathaniel  and  .Anna  Stansborough. 

William  l-'ly,  born  at  Plymouth,  England, 
1646,  lived  in  Massachusetts  1647,  <''^'l  ^7^7 
at  Lyme,  Connecticut.  He  was  deputy  1697- 
98-1700-06;  commissioned  captain  Alay,  1697. 

Richard  Ely,  born  1685,  at  Lyme,  Connecti- 
cut, died  1 76 1.  Lie  was  captain  in  French 
war  at  the  siege  of  Louisburg.  1745. 

William  Elv.  Iiorn  at  Lyme,  Connecticut, 
1715,  died  1802  at  Livingston.  New  York.  He 
served  as  captain  in  tlie  Third  C'onnccticut 
Militia. 

.Anna  Stansborough  was  the  daughter  of 
Josiah     Stansborough     and     .Anna     Chatficld, 


daughter  of  Thomas  Chatfield  and  .Anna  Hig- 
ginson, daughter  of  Rev.  Francis  Higginson, 
who  was  born  in  England,  1580.  In  Massa- 
chusetts Colony,  1620.  He  died  1630  at  Salem. 
He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  ^Massachusetts 
Bay  Colony.  Preacher  of  election  sermons. 
(See  Log  Book  of  Mayflower). 

(Memoranda   of   AUiaiices). 

(Betts).  Joanna,  wife  of  John  Scudder  (HIi 
was  the  daughter  of  Captain  Richard  Betts, 
born  1613  in  Hemel  Hempstead,  Herts,  Eng- 
land, and  resided  in  the  Province  of  New 
^'ork  from  1648  to  17 13.  He  died  November 
18,  1713,  at  Newtown,  Long  Island.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  provincial  assembly,  1665. 
high  sherifif  of  Kings  county,  New  York,  mem- 
ber of  the  high  court  of  assize,  then  the 
supreme  power  of  the  land,  and  in  1665  dep- 
uty to  form  the  duke's  laws.  (.Annals  of  New- 
town). 

(Stillwell).  Hannah  Reedcr,  wife  of  Rich- 
ard Betts  Scudder,  was  the  grancklaughter  of 
Joseph  Stillwell  and  Mary  Ogborne.  Josejih, 
son  of  John  and  Mercy  Burras,  son  of  Thomas 
and  Alice  Throckmorton,  son  of  Richard  and 
Mary  Holmes,  son  of  Nicholas  and  .Abigail 
ilop'ton.  (Osborne)  Mary,  daughter  of  Ji>hn 
and  I\Iary  Stillwell,  daughter  of  Gershom  and 
Elizabeth  Grover.  (.jershom,  son  of  Nicholas 
and  .Mary  Moore,  son  of  Nicholas  and  Cata- 
Ivntje,  Iluyberts,  married  November  6,  1671. 

Nicholas  Stillwell^  born  in  1636  at  Holland, 
lived  in  the  colony  of  New  York  from  1638  to 
1 71 5.  He  died  1715  at  Gravesend,  New  York, 
lie  was  justice  of  the  West  Riding  of  York- 
shire, justice  of  the  (luonnn.  high  sheriff'  of 
Kings  county  in  iTigi  and  a  member  of  the 
first  colonial  assembly. 

Nicholas  (2),  born  in  England,  lived  in  New 
York  colony  from  1638  to  1671.  He  died  at 
Dover,  Staten  Island,  December  28.  1671.  He 
was  lieutenant  of  forces  in  the  Indian  wars  of 
1644  and  1663. 

Richard,  born  1634  in  Holland.  In  the 
i'rovince  of  New  York  from  1638  to  1(189, 
the  date  of  his  death  at  Dover,  Staten  Island. 
He  was  captain  in  1673  of  the  Kings  county 
militia  and  justice  of  West  Riding. 

Thomas,  captain  of  militia,  horn  December 
4.  166(1,  at  Gravesend,  Long  Island.  Lived  in 
the  colony  of  New  'S'ork  from  1666  to  1758, 
the  date  of  his  death  at  Middletowii.  New 
Jersey. 

Joseiili.  born  September  28,  1739,  Middle- 
town,  Monmouth  comity.  New  Jersey,  is  found 
in  the  jirovincc  of   New  York    from   1739  to 


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1805,  (lying  on  the  8th  of  March  of  that  year 
at  Middletown.  He  filled  the  position  of  judge 
in  Monmouth  county,  representative  for 
eighteen  years,  and  a  captain  in  the  revolu- 
tionary war,  1776.  He  was  ordered  to  con- 
tinue to  guard  the  coast  of  New  Jersey  as  cap- 
lain  of  a  company.  (See  Stillwell  Family  and 
Archives  of  Xew  Jersey). 

(Howell)  Phebe,  wife  of  John  Scudder  (V), 
was  the  daughter  of  Daniel  Howell,  son  of 
Richard  and  Elizabeth  Halsey,  son  of  Edward 
and  Frances. 

Edward  Howell,  born  at  Marsh  Gibbon, 
England,  resided  in  colony  of  Massachusetts 
and  Connecticut,  1639  to  1653,  and  died  that 
year  in  Southampton.  He  was  assistant  1647- 
51,  re]ircsentative  at  Hartford  1650-51-52. 
(See  Howell's  History  of  Southampton). 

(Throckmorton)  John,  born  1631  in  England, 
was  in  Massachusetts  and  Rhode  Island  from 
1638  to  1687,  the  date  of  his  death.  He  signed 
agreement  for  form  of  government,  1640, 
moderator,  1652,  original  proprietor  of  Provi- 
dence   plantation,    general    assembly    1664    to 

1^75- 

John   (2),  born  in  Massachusetts  or  Rhode 

Island,  resided  also  in  Middletown,  New  Jer- 
sey, from  1669  to  1690,  the  date  of  his  death. 
He  was  justice,  1675,  of  Monmouth  county, 
deputy  1671-73-75-77.  (See  Town  Records  of 
Middletown  and  .Austin's  Gen.  Die.  of  Rhode 
Island  ). 

(Grover)  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Gershom  Still- 
well,  was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Hannah 
Lawrence,  daughter  of  William,  son  of  James, 
born  in  England,  died  1686  at  Middletown. 
New  Jersey ;  lieutenant.  1676,  judge  of  Mon- 
mouth county,  deputy  to  treat  with  the  admi- 
rals and  commanders-in-chief  of  the  fleet 
belonging  to  the  states  general  of  Orange. 
.\ugust  3,  1676.  (See  Saltar's  History  of 
Monmouth ). 


The  name  Linn  is  of  Celtic  origin 
LI XX      and  is  older  than  the  Christian  era. 

We  may  trace  it  to  the  Greek  word 
signifying  a  depression  containing  water,  and 
having  a  counterpart  in  the  \\'elsh  glyn,  the 
Gaelic  gleaun  and  the  Anglo-Saxon  and  Eng 
lisli  glen.  In  the  gradual  evolution  of  language 
the  G  in  the  word  was  dropped  and  we  have 
the  Welsh  Llyn  and  the  Gaelic  Linne.  The 
Gaelic  language  includes  the  Erse  or  Highland 
Scotch  and  the  Irish  languages.  Historians 
and  philologists  tell  us  that  the  city  of  London 
derived  its  name  early  in  the  Christian  era 
from  the  word  Lin,  a  body  of  quiet  water,  and 


Dun,  a  fortified  wall  on  its  banks,  and  hence 
is  defined  "the  fort  by  the  lake."  Sir  Walter 
Scott,  in  "Old  Alortality,"  in  chapter  xlii, 
near  the  end,  puts  these  words  in  the  answer 
of  the  woman:  "An  awsome  place  as  ever 
living  creatures  took  refuge  in.  They  ca'  it  the 
Black  Linn  of  Lenklater."  In  the  next  chapter 
we  find  "If  he  wad  please  gang  to  the  Linn," 
and  "When  grannie  sends  me  milk  and  meal 
to  the  Linn."  Campbell,  the  Scotch  bard,  en- 
titles one  of  his  poems  "Cora  Linn,  or  the  Falls 
of  the  Clyde."  Hence  we  have  a  right  to 
claim  for  Scotland  the  early  use  of  the  name 
as  a  family  cognomen,  to  people  who  dwelt 
near  turbulent  waters,  foaming  cataracts,  pre- 
cipitous, craggy  mountains  or  gloomy  caverns. 
In  the  current  of  migration  that  followed  the 
bitter  struggle  between  the  factions  of  Prot- 
estantism and  Catholicism,  that  procured  for 
the  pages  of  history  the  memorable  siege  of 
Londonderry,  the  battle  of  Boyne,  and  the 
flight  of  King  James  to  the  south  of  Ireland, 
and  thence  to  France,  flowed  the  bone  and 
sinew  of  Scotland. 

The  followers  of  the  Prince  of  Orange  were 
in  possession  of  the  Xorth  of  Ireland.  The 
lands  that  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  conquerors 
were  parceled  among  his  followers  and  a  de- 
mand for  sturdy  tillers  of  the  soil,  artisans  and 
tradesmen  became  known  in  Scotland  and  the 
demand  was  speedily  filled.  Scotch  blood  and 
brawn  carrying  with  them  the  Protestant  relig- 
ion, changed  the  North  of  Ireland  into  a  Prot- 
estant stronghold  and  a  new  race,  the  Scotch- 
Irish  came  from  the  intermingling.  Among 
these  migrants  were  the  Linns.  They  took  up 
farms  and  made  themselves  homes  on  the 
northeast  side  of  the  province  of  Lister  in 
county  Down,  near  Newr)\  During  the  Amer- 
ican revolution  thousands  of  Scotch-Irish  came 
to  America  and  settled  in  New  York,  New 
Jersey  and  Pennsylvania,  and  among  these 
immigrants  we  first  find  the  clan  Linn.  They 
were  mostly  learned  men,  and  took  place  among 
the  educators  of  the  period  and  preachers  of 
the  gospel,  after  the  form  that  had  cost  them 
persecution  and  voluntary  .abandonment  of 
their  homes.  Foes  of  the  English  Church  and 
of  Catholicism,  they  welcomed  the  outcome  of 
the  revolution  as  an  era  of  Protestant  rule  on 
the  Northern  Continent  of  America,  and 
hastened  to  take  part  in  the  greater  reforma- 
tion. They  were  followers  of  the  Covenanters, 
the  Puritans  and  the  Huguenots  into  a  new 
and,  as  it  appeared,  to  the  God-given  heritage. 

Pennsylvania  became  the  home  of  the  larger 
numbers  bcarinjj  the  name  of  Linn.   The  Linns 


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of  Pennsylvania  are  largely  represented  in  the 
matriculates  and  graduates  of  Union  College, 
(now  L'nion  University),  Schenectady,  New 
York,  and  in  the  College  of  New  Jersey, 
Princeton,  now  Princeton  University,  and 
Columbia,  formerly  King's  College,  New  York 
City,  notable  examples  being:  William  (3), 
grandson  of  William  (i),  the  immigrant  in 
1732,  and  son  of  William  (  2  )  Liim,  who  was  a 
native  of  the  North  of  Ireland,  the  father  and 
son  settling  in  the  township  of  Luzerne,  Cum- 
berland county,  Pennsylvania,  in  1732. 

William  (3)  was  born  in  Shippensburg, 
Pennsylvania.  February  27,  1752,  graduated 
at  the  College  of  New  Jersey,  A.  B.,  1772; 
A.  M..  1775;  chaplain  in  the  American  army 
in  the  revolution;  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  at  Big  Spring,  Pennsylvania ;  Eliza- 
beth, New  Jersey ;  the  Collegiate  Dutch  Re- 
formed Church,  New  York  City ;  president, 
pro  tempore,  Rutgers  College,  1791-94;  regent 
of  the  L'niversity  of  the  State  of  New  York, 
1787-180^^ :  chaplain  of  the  I'nited  States  House 
of  Representatives.  1789-91,  and  elected  presi- 
dent of  Union  College  but  not  inaugurated.  He 
married  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Blair, 
vice-president  of  the  College  of  New  Jersey, 
and  his  son,  John  Blair  Linn  (1777-1804)  was 
graduated  at  Columbia  A.  B.,  1795;  A.  M., 
1797;  honorary  A.  W.  L'nion  College,  1797; 
law  student  under  (jeneral  .Alexander  Hamil- 
ton :  pastor  of  Dutch  Reformed  Church  in 
Schenectady,  1797-99:  of  the  h'irst  Presl)\te- 
rian  Church.  Philaclelphia.  1799-1804. 

His  second  son,  \\  illiam  (  1790-1876).  ma- 
triculated at  Union  College  in  class  of  1808, 
lawyer  in  Ithaca,  New  York,  and  author  of 
"Life  of  Thomas  JefTerson"  (  1834),  and  of 
law  books. 

John  Blair  and  Esther  (  Bailey)  Linn's  eld- 
est son,  John  Blair  (2)  graduated  at  Union 
College,  class  of  1820,  lived  in  Plattsburg, 
New  York,  and  his  son,  John  F.,  married  Mar- 
garet Irvine  Wilson,  and  their  son,  John  Blair 
Linn  (3)  was  graduated  at  Marshall  College, 
Pennsylvania,  A.  B.,  1848;  A.  M.  and  LL.  B., 
185 1  ;  was  a  lawyer  in  Lewisburg.  Pennsyl- 
vania: a  lieutenant  in  the  civil  war;  secretary 
of  the  commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania,  1873- 
79;  joint  author  of  the  "Penn.sylvania 
Archives,"  and  died  in  Bellefontaine.  Pennsyl- 
vania, January   i,  1899. 

His  cousin.  John  Blair  Linn  (4),  of  Schenec- 
tady, was  a  non-graduate  of  Union  College  of 
the  class  of  1852,  and  was  a  clergyman  resid- 
ing in  Key  West.  Florida,  in  1895.  -Another 
cousin,  William,  was  a  tnember  of  the  class  of 


1847.  Union  College,  and  died  in  Schenectady 
in  1844,  during  his  sophomore  year. 

There  is  no  doubt  that  the  immigrant  Will- 
iam and  his  son  W'illiam,  in  1732,  were  of 
the  same  family  that  sent  forth  Joseph  and 
Alexander  Linn,  who  were  the  progenitors  of 
the  Linns  of  New  Jersey.  Alexander  was  a 
resident  of  Somerset  county,  and  was  there 
known  as  Judge  Alexander  Linn,  who  had  a 
son  John,  (  1750-1821  ),  A.  B.,  College  of  New 
Jersey,  1769;  A.  M.,  1772;  major  in  Colonel 
Sterling's  regiment  Somerset  militia,  1776; 
deputy  to  the  New  Jersey  legislature,  1776, 
and  resigned  his  command  as  lieutenant-colonei 
in  the  New  Jersey  militia,  June  28,  1781.  He 
was  the  Democratic  representative  from  New 
Jersey  in  the  sixth  United  States  congress, 
1799-1801.  atid  had  the  opportunity  of  giving 
the  casting  votes  of  New  Jersey  delegates  to 
Thomas  Jefferson  for  president  of  the  United 
States  in  1801.  He  served  as  supervisor  of 
internal  revenue  by  appointment  of  President 
Jefferson,  1801-05,  and  was  secretary  of  state 
of  New  Jersey,  1805-20. 

(I)  Joseph,  brother  of  Judge  Alexander 
Linn,  of  Somerset  county,  New  Jersey,  was 
born  in  1725,  in  the  North  of  Ireland,  and 
about  1750  married  Martha,  daughter  of  An- 
drew Kirkpatrick,  the  immigrant,  who  migrated 
from  his  home  at  Fratties  Beach,  Dumfries, 
-Scotland,  with  his  sons.  John  and  David,  and 
his  daughters,  Martha  and  Elizabeth,  with  his 
brother  .Alexander  and  family,  and  located  in 
Belfast.  Ireland,  in  1725,  and  in  1736 embarked 
for  .America,  landing  at  New  Castle,  Delaware, 
an<l  thence  making  the  journey  mostly  on  foot 
to  Mine  Run  or  Mine  Brook.  Basking  Ridge. 
Xew  Jersey,  which  place  they  made  their  (ler- 
manent  home.  The  name  is  prominent  in  the 
history  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Basking 
Ridge  and  in  the  affairs  of  the  government  of 
the  state  of  Xew  Jersey  and  of  the  Lnited 
States,  both  judicial  and  legislative. 

.Andrew,  grandson  of  .Alexander  and  grand- 
ne])hew  of  .\ndrew  Kirkpatrick,  the  immigrant, 
was  born  in  Mine  Brook.  February  17,   175O, 
son    of   David   and    Mary    (McEwen)    Kirk- 
patrick and  grandson  of  .Alexander.     He  was 
graduated  in  the  College  of  New  Jersey,  A.  B., 
1775;  A.  M.,  1778;  studied  theology  and  then 
law   and   practiced   law   in   Morristown,    Xew 
Jersey,  and  subsequently  in  New   Brunswick, 
Xew  Jersey.     He  was  a  member  of  the  Xew 
Jersey  assembly,   1798;  judge  of  the  supreme' 
court  of  the  state,   1798-1803,  and  was  chief  i 
justice.  1803-24;  was  curator  of  the  College  of! 
Xew  Jersey,  1807-30.  and  died  in  .Xew  Bruns-  1 


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wick,  January  7,  183 1.  He  married,  in  1792, 
Jane,  daughter  of  Colonel  John  and  Margaret 
(Modge)  Uaj'ard,  and  their  son,  John  Bayard 
Kirkpatrick,  married  Margaret  Weaver,  lived 
in  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  and  their 
son,  Andrew,  was  graduated  at  Union  College 
A.  B.,  1863;  honorary  A.  M.,  College  of  New 
Jersey,  1872,  and  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New 
Jersey  in  1886:  was  presiding  judge  of  Essex 
county  court  of  common  pleas,  1885-96,  and 
Cnited  States  judge  for  the  district  of  Xew 
Jersey  from  1896. 

Littleton  Kirkpatrick  (1797-1859),  son  of 
Judge  Andrew  and  Jane  (Bayard)  Kirkpatrick, 
College  of  New  Jersey,  A.  B.,  1815,  was  a 
lawyer  in  Xew  Brunswick,  New  Jersey;  a 
Democratic  representative  from  the  Fourth 
District  of  New  Jersey  in  the  Twenty-eighth 
Congress,  1843-45;  and  surrogate  of  Middle- 
sex county  for  five  years. 

Joseph  Linn,  after  his  marriage  to  Martha 
Kirkpatrick,  lived  first  in  Hunterdon  county. 
New  Jersey,  thence  to  Johnsonbury,  in  Hard- 
wick,  Warren  county,  and  finally  settled  in  Har- 
mony Vale,  Sussex  county,  where  he  died  April 
8,  1800,  and  where  his  wife,  Martha,  died  March 
7,  1791.  The  children  of  Joseph  and  Martha 
(Kirkpatrick)  Linn.,  were  born  in  Hunterdon, 
Warren  and  Sussex  counties.  New  Jersey,  and 
the  personal  history  of  each  is  briefly  narrated 
as  follows : 

1.  .Alexander,  December  6,  1753.  He  mar- 
ried Hannah  .Armstrong  and  tliey  had  seven 
children.  The  father  died  in  1796  and  the 
mother  August  26,  1818.  Their  seven  chil- 
dren were:  Sarah,  born  March  10,  died  1787; 
John,  July  18,  1781  ;  Mary.  July  I.  1783;  An- 
drew. September  29,  1785;  Euphaney.  March 
26,  1788;  George,  December  26,  1792,  married 
Elizabeth  Cibson ;  Jose])h,  .August  16.  1795. 
.Alexander  Linn  was  at  one  time  a  successful 
farmer  in  Hardwick,  near  Xewton,  Warren 
county.  .Xew  Jersey.  He  was  also  a  merchant 
having  an  interest  in  a  general  country  store. 
Later  in  life  he  removed  to  Trenton,  where  he 
died  in  1796,  and  his  wife  and  children  removed 
to  Crawford   county.   Pennsylvania. 

2.  David,  lived  in  Hardwick  township,  five 
miles  from  Xewton,  where  he  had  a  farm. 
He  was  quartermaster  of  a  regiment  sent  out 
to  quell  the  "Whiskey  Boys."  He  married 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Colonel  .Aaron  Hankin- 
son,  and  they  had  children :  .Ale.xander.  Mat- 
tie.  Poll}',  Margaret,  .Aaron,  Nancy,  Sarah  and 
Eliza.  David  Linn,  the  father  of  these  chil- 
dren, died,  and  his  widow  married  John 
Smalley. 


3.  .Andrew,  born  in  1755,  studied  medicine 
with  Dr.  Samuel  Kenned)-,  and  in  the  war  of 
the  revolution  was  adjutant  of  the  Second 
Susse.x  Regiment.  He  married,  January  29, 
1785,  Anne,  daughter  of  Richard  Carnes,  of 
Bladensburg,  Maryland.  She  w-as  born  Janu- 
ary 29,  1765,  and  had  seven  children.  Andrew 
Linn  died  in  Newton,  New  Jersey,  April,  1799^ 
and  his  widow,  June  3,  1845.  Children  of  An- 
drew and  .Anne  (  Carnes  )  Linn  :  i.  Robert  An- 
drew, born  January  29,  1787,  went  south  on 
reaching  his  majority  and  while  in  Texas  joined 
an  expedition  conducted  by  General  Jose  Pedros 
Guitane  in  aid  of  the  Mexican  independence  in 
1812.  He  was  in  New  Orleans  in  January, 
181 5,  and  witnessed  the  battle  of  New  Orleans, 
January  8,  181 5,  when  General  Jackson  de- 
feated the  British  army.  He  came  north  in 
1818  and  settled  in  Hamburg,  Sussex  county, 
where  he  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Mar- 
tin and  Rhoda  (^HuU)  Ryerson,  who  was  born 
December  10,  1791,  and  died  January  2,  1868. 
The  Ryerson  family  descended  from  Martin 
Ryerson,  the  Flatbush,  Long  Island  immigrant, 
who  came  from  Amsterdam,  Holland.  The 
thirteen  children  of  Robert  .Andrew  and  Eliza- 
beth ( Ryerson )  Linn  were  born  as  follows : 
Robert.  November  2,  1817,  died  November, 
1838:  .Anna  Mary.  January  23,  1819,  died  July. 
1876;  David  Ryerson.  December  29,  1820,  died 
September,  1875;  Thomas  Ryerson,  Septem- 
ber 5,  1822.  died  November,  1867;  William  A., 
.August  28,  1824,  died  November,  182b;  James 
M.,  July  17,  1826,  died  .August,  1827;  Henry, 
.Xo\ember  17,  1827,  died  January,  1828; 
Louisa.  November  25.  1828.  died  August,  1829  ; 
Theodore  .Andrew,  October  20,  1830,  died  Sep- 
tember. 1852;  Martha  E..  February  2,  1833; 
Helen.  July  10.  1834.  died  September,  1834; 
Margaret  .Anderson,  July  15,  1837.  died  Sep- 
tember. 1837.  ii.  Joseph,  second  child  of  An- 
drew and  .Anne  (Carnes)  Linn,  died  in  infancy, 
iii.  Margaret  Gaston,  third  child  of  Andrew 
and  .Anne  (Carnes  )  Linn. born  January  19.1790, 
married  William  T.  .Anderson,  born  in  Newton. 
Xew  Jersey,  1777,  was  graduated  at  the  Col- 
lege of  Xew  Jersey  in  1796,  admitted  to  the 
Sussex  bar  in  1800  and  practiced  his  profession 
in  Xewton.  where  he  distinguished  as  a  lawyer 
and  in  various  offices  of  trust  in  the  county  of 
Susse.x,  Xew  Jersey.  William  T.  and  Mar- 
garet Gaston  (Linn)  .Anderson  had  thirteen 
children,  iv.  David  Ryerson,  fourth  child  of 
.Andrew  and  Anne  (Carnes)  Linn.borjiin  1791. 
He  was  a  surveyor  and.  on  discovering  that 
much  of  the  wild  land  of  Sussex  county  had 
no  owners,  he  purchased  large  tracts  from  the 


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state  at  low  rates  and  this  property  in  his 
hands  became  very  valuable.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  Jersey  coimcil,  1830-35;  presi- 
dent of  the  Sussex  County  Bank.  1831-35,  and 
was  classed  as  one  of  the  most  influential  citi- 
zens of  Susse.x  county,  v.  Thomas  Carnes.  fifth 
child  of  Andrew  and  .Anne  (Carnes)  Linn, 
died  yoimg.  vi.  Alexander,  si.xth  child  of 
Andrew  and  Anne  (Carnes)  Linn,  born  .Au- 
gust  21,    1797,   married    Rachel .     vii. 

Martha,  seventh  child  of  Andrew  and  .Anne 
(Carnes)  Linn,  born  August  12,  1799.  mar- 
ried (first)  Hugh  Taylor,  of  Georgia,  (second) 
Richard  R.  Morris,  of  New  Jersey,  and  died 
May  30,  1880. 

4.  Margaret,  married  Joseph  Gaston,  who 
was  of  Irish  descent  and  came  to  New  Jersey 
from  Pennsylvania  and  served  during  the 
American  Revolution  as  paymaster  of  the 
Sussex  militia.  He  died  in  Sussex  county, 
New  Jersev.  in  1804.  aged  sixty-five  years. 

5.  Mary: 

6.  .Anne,   married    Jacob    Hull    and   died    in 

1837- 

7.  Martha,  married  (first)  Isaac  Shaffer, 
(second)  a  Mr.  de  Munn. 

8.  John,  see  forward. 

(H)  John,  fourth  son  and  youngest  of  the 
eight  children  of  Joseph  and  Martha  (Kirk- 
patrick )  Linn,  was  born  in  Hardwick  town- 
ship, Warren  county.  New  Jersey,  December 
3,  1763,  and  died  January  5.  1821.  He  was  a 
mere  lad  when  his  father  removed  to  Sussex 
county  and  purchased  a  large  farm  in  the 
township  of  Hardyston  and  he  grew  u])  on  this 
farm  and  became -strong  and  finely  developed. 
I  [e  was  only  thirteen  years  old  when  the  War  of 
Independence  began  and  it  was  hard  to  keep 
him  on  the  farm,  arou.sed  as  he  w'as  with  the 
desire  to  join  in  the  conflict  and  drive  the 
Hritish  army  back  to  the  ships  that  carried 
them  to  the  colonies,  to  put  down  the  rebellious 
subjects  of  the  King.  He  had  inherited  the 
spirit  of  the  Scotch  Covenanters  and  history 
had  taught  him  of  the  persecution  and  martyr- 
dom that  had  forced  them  to  seek  liberty  in  the 
New  World.  I!efore  the  war  closed  he  was 
accepted  as  a  private  in  Captain  Manning's 
Sussex  county  troop  and  he  became  sergeant 
of  the  company.  On  returning  from  the  army 
he  began  the  study  of  law  and  soon  was  in  the 
active  practice  of  his  profession.  In  1803  he 
was  elected  to  the  state  assembly  as  a  rejire- 
sentative  frotu  Sussex  county  and  the  next 
year  a  member  of  the  council  of  the  state, 
which  office  corresponded  to  that  of  senator, 
the  first  constitution  of  the  state  not  following 


the  custom  of  the  other  states  or  of  the  United 
.States  in  this  respect.  In  1805  he  was  made  a 
judge  of  the  common  pleas  and  notary  public 
by  appointment  of  the  assembly  and  council  of 
the  state  and  he  held  the  position  on  the  bench 
of  the  court  of  common  pleas  up  to  1817.  a 
period  of  twelve  years,  when  he  resigned  to 
take  his  seat  in  the  United  States  congress  as 
representative  from  the  Susse.x  congressional 
district  in  the  fifteenth  congress.  He  is 
credited  with  being  sheriff  of  Sussex  county  in 
1812,  but  this  would  have  interferred  with  his 
duties  as  judge  of  the  common  pleas,  so  we 
do  not  undertake  to  affirm  or  deny  the  state- 
ment. He  was  re-elected  in  1818  to  the  six- 
teenth congress  and.  while  serving  in  the  sec- 
ond session  of  that  congress,  he  died  from  the 
effects  of  malarial  fever,  so  prevalent  at  that 
period  in  the  national  capital. 

He  married.  May  19,  1791,  Martha,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  Hunt,  of  Hardwick,  New  Jer- 
sey. She  was  born  in  1773.  became  by  this 
marriage  the  mother  of  fourteen  children  and 
died  July  15,  1827,  having  been  a  widow  for 
six  years.  On  account  of  the  honorable  posi- 
tion of  the  father  and  the  unusual  honors  that 
fell  to  his  descendants,  we  inake  place  for  an 
extended  notice  of  his  children  and  grand- 
children. The  children  were  born  in  Sussex 
comity,  .\'ew  Jersey,  as  follows: 

1.  Elizabeth.  .September  2,  1792,  married 
Rev.  Edward  .Allen  and  they  had  six  children 
as  follows :  i.  John  Linn  .Allen,  who  married 
Charlotte  Hell.  ii.  Elizabeth,  who  married 
.Milton  Dimock.  iii.  Martha,  who  married  T. 
Itaskins  Du  Puy.  iv.  Mary.  v.  Emma,  who 
married  Dr.  George  Boyd.  vi.  Edward,  who  , 
married  .Amelia  Clapp.  vii.  Henrietta  L..  stil! 
living. 

2.  Joseph,  .September  25.  1795. 

3.  Sarah,  March  7,  1796,  who  married  Na- 
than Shafer  and  had  six  children  as  follow-s: 
i.  Mary,  wdio  married  Joseph  Courson.  ii. 
William  D.  .Shafer.  iii.  Joseph  Shafer.  who 
married  I'^lizabeth  Ward.  iv.  .Abraham  Shafer, 
who  married  Ilamiah  Casterline.  v.  Lucilla, 
who  married  David  Morris,  vi.  Louisa,  who 
died  unmarried. 

4.  Alfred  Richard,  died  in  infancy. 

3.  .Andrew,  May  7.  1799,  who  married  .Sy-  1 
billa  Beardslee,  born  .Ajiril  21,  1802.  .She  be-  [ 
came  the  mother  of  his  ten  children  and  died 
.April  4.  1884,  having  outlived  her  husband 
thirty-four  years.  These  children  were:  i. 
John,  who  married  Hannah  Smith,  ii.  lulward 
X"..  who  married  Naomi  Decker,  iii.  Martha 
!•",..  who  married  Rev.  R.  .\.  .Sawver.    iv.  Susan 


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C.  who  married  Rev.  William  Travis,  v. 
Joseph  A.  vi.  Lucilla,  who  married  Charles 
W.  Bimn.  vii.  Hubert  Seldon.  viii.  Julia,  who 
married  George  Xeldon.  ix.  Sarah,  x.  Amelia, 
who  died  in  infancy. 

6.  Margaret,  died  in  infancy. 

7.  John,  May  6.  1803,  died  1819. 

8.  Mary  Anne.  March  4,  1805,  who  married 
Rev.  P.enjamin  Lowe  and  had  seven  children : 
Martha,  William,  Joseph,  .Alexander,  Mary, 
Henrietta  and  Caroline  Lowe.  Of  these  chil- 
dren Martha  married  Munson  Hillyer,  Mary 
married  a  Robinson,  and  Caroline  a  Hast- 
ings. 

9.  Caroline.  December  18,  1806;  married 
Roderick  Byington,  ^L  D.,  and  had  five  chil- 
dren :  i.  Theodore  Linn  Byington,  who  mar- 
ried Margaret  Hallock.  ii.  Edwin  Byington, 
who  became  a  physician,  iii.  Frances,  iv 
Lillian,    v.  Roderick  Byington. 

10.  Henrietta. 

11.  David  Hunt,  who  died  in  infancy. 

12.  Alexander,  see  forward. 

(  HI  )  Alexander,  sixth  son  of  Hon.  John 
and  Martha  (Hunt)  Linn,  was  born  in  Har- 
mony \'ale,  Hardyston  township,  Sussex  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  February  17,  1811,  and  died  at 
Deckertown,  New  Jersey,  May  12,  1868.  He 
was  educated  as  a  physician  and  practiced  his 
profession  in  Sussex  county,  New  Jersey,  dur- 
ing his  entire  life.  He  was  graduated  at  Union 
College.  Schenectady,  New  York,  A.  B.,  in 
1831,  studied  medicine,  received  his  M.  D.  de- 
gree in  1834,  and  established  his  office  at 
Deckertown,  now  Sussex.  He  married  Julia 
\'ii)bert.  Children,  born  at  Deckertown:  i. 
William  Alexander,  see  forward.  2.  Charles 
IL,  born  March  16,  1848,  married  Elizabeth 
K.  Skinner,  born  September  17.  1858,  died 
.\pril  23,  1894;  children:  Mary  R.,  born  Au- 
gust 15,  1880;  Alexander,  December  12,  1881  : 
Julia  V".,  September  2,  1883:  Elizabeth  K., 
January  14,  1894.  3.  John,  born  January  14, 
1854.  married  Janet  W.  Lawrence,  born  April 
26,  1849:  children:  William  A.,  born  May  28, 
1880:  Margaret  L..  August  2,  1882:  John  L., 
July  30,  1884,  died  September  23,  1885;  Janet 
L.,  March  20.  1889.  4.  Robert  A.,  born  July 
30,  1867,  died  July  21,  1897;  married  Sallie 
(jould,  born  September  12,  1867;  children: 
Margaret  A.,  born  December  31,  1891  ;  Alice, 
October  17,  1895.  5.  A  daughter  Lucilla,  died 
in  infancy. 

( I\' )  William  Alexander,  eldest  child  of 
Dr.  Alexander  and  Julia  (\'ibbert)  Linn,  was 
born  at  Deckertown,  Sussex  county.  New  Jer- 


sey, September  4,  1846.  He  was  the  eldest  of 
four  sons  and  his  father  desired  that  he  should 
have  the  advantages  of  a  college  education. 
To  that  end  he  sent  him  to  Phillips  .Vcademy, 
.Andover,  Massachusetts,  the  celebrated  pre- 
paratory school,  and  he  was  graduated  in  the 
clas.s  of  1864.  He  at  once  matriculated  at 
Vale  College  and  was  a  brilliant  under-grad- 
uate,  winning  the  editorship  of  the  Yale  Liter- 
ary Magazine  and  securing  the  honor  of  being 
class  poet.  He  was  graduated  A.  B.  in  1868. 
His  amateur  newspaper  work  at  Yale  deter- 
mined the  line  of  his  endeavor  in  the  literary 
field  and  he  obtained  a  position  on  the  Ncii.' 
York  Tribune  as  reporter  in  1868;  he  left  the 
position  of  night  editor  in  1871  to  accept  that 
of  city  editor  of  the  New  York  Evening  Post. 
He  was  connected  with  that  high-class  news 
and  literary  evening  paper  (for  the  last  nine 
years  as  managing  editor )  until  1900,  when 
he  resigned  to  engage  in  general  literary  work. 
He  has  had  the  benefit  of  such  able  school 
masters  and  associates  in  journalism  as  Horace 
Greeley,  John  Russell  Young,  William  Cullen 
liryant,  E.  L.  Godkin  and  Wendell  Phillips 
Garrison.  His  books  bear  the  stamp  of  his 
thorough  journalistic  training  as  can  readily  be 
seen  in  his  "The  Story  of  the  Mormons,"  1902  ; 
"Rob  and  his  Gun,"  1902;  "Horace  Greeley," 
1903,  bearing  the  imprint  of  and  issued  from 
the  notable  ])ublishing  houses:  The  Macmillan 
Company,  Charles  Scribner's  Sons  and  D. 
.\ppleton  &  Company,  respectively.  He  was 
appointed  in  1899  W'  Governor  Voorhees  a 
member  of  a  commission  to  report  upon  the 
condition  and  desirability  of  preservation  of 
the  Palisades,  and  this  commission  framed  and 
secured  the  passage  of  the  law  under  which  th-:^ 
Inter-State  Palisade  Park  commission  was  ap- 
pointed and  the  Palisades  rescued  from  im- 
pending destruction  through  the  quarrying  of 
the  stone  forming  the  great  natural  wonder. 
Mr.  Linn  was  made  a  member  of  the  Inter- 
State  Commission  and  is  still  serving  in  that 
capacity.  He  was  elected  a  trustee  of  the 
Johnson  public  library  of  Hackensack  at  its 
opening  and  is  still  serving.  He  has  been, 
since  its  organization  in  1887,  president  of  the 
Hackensack  Mutual  Building  &  Loan  Associa- 
tion, and  is  serving  in  the  same  capacity  for 
the  Peoples'  National  Bank  of  Hackensack, 
which  he  organized  in  1903.  He  makes  his 
summer  home  on  his  fruit  and  dairy  farm  at 
McAfee  \'alley,  Sussex  county.  New  Jersey. 
He  married,  in  1871,  Margaret  A.  Martin,  of 
New  York  City,  who  died  in  1897. 


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The  X'oorhees,  X'oorhis. 
\'OORHEES     Voorhies,     and     the     same 

name  with  the  prefix  "van" 
is  another  specimen  of  the  local  or  place  sur- 
name which  is  so  common  in  the  old  Dutch 
records,  where  the  personal  cognomens 
changed  with  each  generation,  being  confined 
mostly  to  the  baptismal  name  with  the  addition 
of  the  father's  name  coupled  with  a  suffix  sig- 
nifying "son."  In  the  present  case,  the  earl- 
iest ancestor  of  the  Voorhees  family  of  whom 
we  have  any  trace  was 

(I)  Albert  van  \'oorhees,  or  Albert  of  the 
town  of  Hees,  Holland,  who  died  about  1684, 
leaving  six  out  of  his  nine  children  to  survive 
him.  namely:  I.  Coert  .\lbertse.  referred  to  be- 
low. 2.  Steven  Albertse.  3.  Hendrick.  who  had 
five  children  living  in  1684.  4.  Suytgen  van 
Haecxwolt,  who  with  one  child  was  living  in 
1684.  5.  Jan  van  Ileflfelying,  died  before 
1684.  but  left  one  daughter  surviving  him  and 
then  living.  6.  Hilbert  Albertse  van  X'oor- 
hees, dying  before  1684,  left  living  at  that  date 
two  sons  and  one  daughter.  7.  W'esvel  Al- 
bertse van  Voorhees,  himself  deceased,  but 
having  one  son  and  daughter  living  in   1684. 

8.  (ieertjen  .-Xlbertse  van  Oshaer  en  \'eghtcn. 

9.  Merghin  van  X'oorhees,  married  Jan   Mer- 
vas  van  der  Hught. 

(II)  Coerte  .\lbertse  van  X'oorhees  resided 
near  Hees.  Holland,  and  left  behind  him  seven 
children:  i.  Steven  Coerte,  referred  to  below. 
2.  Hilbert  Coerte.  born  in  1634,  was  twice  mar- 
ried, and  had  by  his  fir.st  wife  two  sons  and  one 
daughter,  and  by  his  second  wife  five  sons.  3. 
Jan  Coerte,  in  1684  was  living  in  the  old  fam- 
ily homestead  in  Voorhees.  4.  Albert  Coerte 
van  Rethuyn.  whose  wife's  name  was  .Xeltyn, 
and  who  was  dead  before  1699.  5.  XX'esvel 
Coerte  van  Veeninge,  died  before  1699.  6. 
and  7.  Two  daughters  whose  names  have  not 
been  preserved. 

(HI)  S.teven  Coerte  van  X'oorhees  was 
born  about  1600,  in  or  near  Hees,  Holland. 
and  died  at  Flatlands,  Long  Island,  Februarv 
16,  1684.  In  April,  1660,  he  emigrated  from 
Hees,  which  was  in  the  province  of  Drenthe, 
Holland,  m  the  ship  "Bonte  Cou"  or  ".Spotted 
Cow,"  Captain  Pieter  Lucassen,  master,  with 
his  wife  and  all  of  his  children  except  his 
daughters  Hendrickjen  and  Merghin.  No- 
vember 29,  1660,  he  purchased  of  Cornelius 
Dircksen  Hoogland  nine  morgcns  of  cnrnland, 
seven  morgcns  of  woodland,  ten  morgcns  of 
plainland,  and  five  morgens  of  salt  meadows, 
in  Flatlands,  for  3000  guilders,  and  also  a 
house  and  house  plot  in  "Amesfoort  en   lier- 


gen  ( i.  e.,  Flatlands)  with  the  brewery  and  all 
the  brewing  apparatus,  kettle  house  and  casks 
with  the  appurtenances  thereof  as  per  page 
T,J,  Liber  P.  of  the  Flatlands  Records."  In 
1677  he  and  his  second  wife  were  members  of 
the  Dutch  Reformed  church  in  Flatlands,  in 
1675  ''"d  in  1683  his  name  is  on  the  assess- 
ment rolls  of  the  town,  in  1667  on  a  patent, 
and  in  1664  he  was  one  of  the  magistrates. 
His  will  is  dated  August  25.  1677. 

By  his  first  wife,  whose  name  is  unfortu- 
nately lost,  he  had  ten  children,  all  born  in 
Holland:  i.  Hendrickjen  Stevense,  married 
Jan  Kiers  and  emigrated  to  .America  several 
years  later  than  her  father.  2.  Merghin  Ste- 
vense. died  October  28.  1702;  married  (first) 
a  Roelofsen  and  (second)  Remmelt  XX'illemse 
and  also  came  after  her  father  to  America. 
3.  Coert  Stevense,  born  1637,  died  after  1702: 
married  before  1664  Marytje  Gerritse  van 
Couweiihoven,  the  (laughter  of  Gerrit  XX^ol- 
fertse  van  Couwenhoven.  4.  Lucas  Stevense, 
referred  to  below.  5.  Jan  Stevense.  born  1652, 
whose  will  was  probated  November  20.  1735; 
married  (first)  ^larch  17,  1678.  Cornelia  Rei- 
niers  XX'izzel-penning :  married  (second)  Oc- 
tober 8,  1680,  Femmentje  Auke  van  Nuyse, 
who  was  baptized  March  12.  1662.  6.  .Albert 
Stevense.  of  Flatlands  and  Hackensack.  New 
Jersey,  who  married  (first)  Rarentje  XX'ill- 
emse, and  ( second )  Tilletje  Reiniers  XX'izzel- 
penning.  7.  .Xltje  Stevense,  born  1656,  mar- 
ried, 1673,  Barent  Jurianz  Ryder.  8.  Jan- 
netjc  Stevense.  married  (first)  Jan  Martense 
Schenck,  who  died  1689.  and  married  (sec- 
ond) February  29,  1690.  Alexander  Sympson. 
9.  Hendrickje  Stevense,  married  (first)  Jan 
Kiersted,  and  (second)  .Albert  Albertse  Ter- 
hune,  of  Flatlands  and  Hackensack.  New  Jer- 
se)',  who  was  baptized  .August  13,  1651,  and 
whose  will  was  proved  February  3.  1704.  10. 
.Abraham  Stevense  of  Flatbush  and  Princeton. 
New   Jersey,   who  married  Janette   Kershaw. 

( IX')  Lucas  Stevense,  son  of  Steven  Coerte 
van  X'oorhees  by  his  first  wife,  was  born  in 
llollaud  about  1650.  and  died  in  Flatlands. 
Long  Island,  in  1713.  In  1677  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church  there,  and 
in  171 1  was  one  of  the  elders.  In  1675  his 
name  appears  on  the  assessment  rolls  of  the 
town:  in  1680  he  was  one  of  the  magistrates; 
in  1685  he  iiad  one  of  his  children  bajitized  in 
Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  but  in  1687  he  was 
one  of  those  who  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
to  the  English  government  in  Flatlands.  He 
was  three  times  married  and  bad  children  cer- 
tainly by  the  first  two.  and  most  probably  by 


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all  three  of  his  wives.  His  first  marriage  was 
in  Holland,  to  Catharine  Hansen  van  Noor- 
strand,  daughter  of  Hanse  van  Noorstrand  and 
Jannecken  ( lerritse  van  Loon :  his  second  mar- 
riage, January  26,  i689,was  to  Jannctje  Minnes, 
daughter  of  Alinne  Johannis  and  Rensie  Fad- 
dans ;  and  his  third  marriage,  in  1703,  was  to 
Catharine  van  Dyck.  His  children  were:  i. 
Eldart  Lucasse,  of  Flatlands,  Flatbush  and 
Jamaica,  Long  Island,  whose  will  was  proved 
April  17,  1722,  and  who  married  Styntje  Hen- 
drickse,  daughter  of  Hendrick  ILirmanse.  2. 
Jan  Lucasse,  referred  to  below.  3.  Steven 
Lucasse,  baptized  SejJtcmber  16,  1677.  4. 
Hans  Lucasse,  baptized  September  7,  1(179, 
married  May  17,  1715,  Neeltje  Nevius,  daugh- 
ter of  Pieter  Xevius  and  Jannetje  Roelofse 
Schenck.  5.  Jannetje  Lucasse,  baptized  De- 
cember 25,  1681,  died  April  17,  1758:  married, 
June  24,  1704,  ]\Iartin  Roelofse  Sxhanck.  6. 
Willemtje  Lucasse,  baptized  Xovember  19. 
1683,  died  in  infancy.  7.  Anna  Lucasse,  bom 
April  25,  1686,  died  September  30,  1774,  mar- 
ried, June  3,  170^),  Willem  Couwenhoven,  of 
Flatlands.  8.  Catryntje  Lucasse,  married. 
May  3,  1712,  Roelof  Nevius,  of  the  Raritan 
river.  9.  Elsje  Lucasse.  10.  Reinecke  Lu- 
casse. married.  May  22,  171 5,  Johannes  Nos- 
trand,  of  Flatlands.  11.  Willentje  Lucasse, 
baptized  November  15,  1^194,  married,  .August 
27,  171 5,  Martin  Kevins,  of  Flatlands,  who  re- 
moved about  1719  to  Marlborough,  Monmouth 
county.  New  Jersey.  12.  Albert  Lucasse,  of 
Flatlands  and  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey. 
l)orn  May  10,  1698,  died  October  28,  1734; 
married  (first)  May  10,  1720,  Arreantje  Dit- 
mars,  daughter  of  Laurens  Ditmars.  of  Flat- 
bush,  and  Elizabeth  Hegcman,  and  married 
(second)  1722,  Catryntje  Cornell.  13.  Roelof 
Lucasse,  of  Flatlands  and  Three  Mile  Run, 
New  Jersey,  died  in  1751  :  married  (first) 
April  26,  1714,  Helena,  daughter  of  Gerret 
Elbertse  Stoothof?  and  Johanna  Nevius,  and 
married  (second)  Margreta  Cortelyou.  14. 
Minne  Lucasse,  of  whom  see  elsewhere.  15. 
Abraham  Lucasse.  16.  Teuntje  Lucasse,  bap- 
tized January  26,  1707,  in  New  York  city. 

(V)  Jan  Lucasse,  the  son  of  Lucas  Ste- 
vense  van  Voorhees  and  his  first  wife  Cath- 
arine Hansen  van  Noorstrand,  was  baptized 
February  19,  1675,  spent  the  first  part  of  his 
life  at  Flatlands,  Long  Island,  and  in  1717  re- 
moved to  Six  Mile  Run,  Somerset  county, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  died.  He  was  three 
times  married  and  had  one  child  by  his  first 
wife,  thirteen  children  by  his  second  wife,  and 
none  by  his  third.     October  10,  1699,  he  mar- 


ried (first)  Ann,  daughter  of  Jan  Teunissen 
van  Duyckhuysen  and  .\chia  or  Agatha  Stoot- 
hoff,  baptized  April  7,  1677,  died  January  5, 
1702.  Their  child  was:  Johannis  van  Voor- 
hees, born  July  19,  1700,  died  January  21, 
1733;  married.  May  16,  1721,  Sara,  daughter 
of  Jan  Roelofse  Schenck  and  Sara  Kouwen- 
hoven,  who  after  the  death  of  Johannis  mar- 
ried (second)  Hendrick  \'oorhees,  of  Free- 
hold, Monmouth  county,  New  Jersey.  March 
5,  1704,  Jan  Lucasse  van  Voorhees  married 
(second)  Mayke  Roelofse,  daughter  of  Roelof 
Martcnse  Schenck  and  .Annatje  Pieterse,  born 
January  14,  1684,  died  November  25,  1736. 
Their  children  were:  I.  Lucas  van  Voorhees. 
born  September  15,  1705,  whose  will  was 
proved  January  16,  1784;  married  (first)  May 
17,  1728,  Altje,  daughter  of  John  and  Altje 
Ryder,  born  May  30,  1708,  died  December  5, 
1775,  and  married  (second)  Catrina  Staats,  of 
Flatlands  and  New  Brunswick.  2.  Roelof  van 
\'oorhees,  born  .\ugust  19.  1707,  died  in  April, 
1782:  married  Deborah  Cortelyou,  of  Flat- 
lands.  3.  .Stephen  van  Voorhees,  born  March 
24,  1709,  married,  October  23,  1753,  Maria, 
daughter  of  Daniel  Lake  and  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Dirck  Dirckse  van  Sutphen.  Stephen 
and  Maria  (Lake)  van  Voorhees  lived  at  Flat- 
lands.  4.  .Antje,  born  November  28,  1710, 
died  in  infancy.  5.  Petrus  van  \''oorhees,  born 
January  6,  1712,  at  Flatlands,  whose  widow 
was  given  letters  of  administration  on  his  es- 
tate .April  3,  1 75 1,  lived  with  his  wife  Mary 
at  New  Brunswick.  6.  Martin  van  Voorhees, 
born     March    26,     17 14,    married     Elizabeth 

.     7.    Isaac  van  Voorhees,  referred  to 

below.  8.  Catlyntje  van  \'oorhees,  born  June 
8,  1 71 8,  married  Simon  van  Arsdalen.  9. 
Garret  van  Voorhees.  born  September  6,  1720. 
married  Johanna  van  Harlingen  and  lived  at 
New  Brunswick.  10.  .Anna  van  Voorhees, 
born  July  15,  1723.  11.  .Abraham  van  Voor- 
hees. born  June  8,  1725,  died  November  15, 
1807;  married,  May  9,  1747,  .Adrianna,  daugh- 
ter of  Pieter  Lefiferts  and  Ida  Suydam  and 
lived  at  Flatlands.  12.  Sarah  van  Voorhees, 
born  October  18,  1727,  died  November  29, 
1736.  13.  Maria  van  Voorhees,  born  .April 
5-  17,^1-  January  25,  1737,  Jan  Lucasse  van 
\'oor"hees  married  (third)  Jannetje,  daughter 
of  Jacob  Remsen  and  Gertrude  Vanderbilt, 
baptized  July  27,  1701,  died  August  24,  1747. 
(\T)  Isaac,  son  of  Jan  Lucasse  and  Mayke 
Roelofse  (Schenck)  van  \'oorhees,  was  born 
March  16,  1716,  lived  near  New  Brunswick, 
and  was  twice  married,  the  name  of  his  first 
wife  being  Sarah,  and  that  of  his  second  wife 


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Helena.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Dirck  Bar- 
keloo,  and  was  born  October  22,  1723.  Which 
of  his  children  were  borne  him  by  each  wife 
is  not  ascertainable  from  the  data  at  present 
available.  These  children  were:  i.  John,  mar- 
ried Ruth,  youngest  daughter  of  Samuel,  son 
of  Richard  Stockton,  of  Piscataway  and 
Princeton,  and  Susanna  (  \\'itham  )  Robinson, 
his  wife,  and  the  widow  of  Thomas  Robinson, 
of  Crosswicks.  Burlington  county.  Xew  Jer- 
sey. Richard  Stockton  was  the  son  of  Rich- 
ard and  Abigail  Stockton,  the  emigrants. 
John  and  Ruth  (Stockton)  van  \'oorhees  re- 
moved to  Chestertown.  Maryland.  2.  Stephen 
\'oorhees.  born  1740.  died  Xovember  23.  1796: 
became  a  minister  in  the  Dutch  Reformed 
church ;  and  married  Elizabeth  Clausen,  born 
1749.  died  February  23.  1805.  3.  Derrick, 
baptized  June  22.  1755.  whose  will  was  pro- 
bated August  22.  1834:  lived  in  Hillsborough 
township.  Somerset  county,  Xew  Jersey ;  mar- 
ried Jannetje  .     4.   David,  referred  to 

below.  5.  Jane,  married  a  DuBois.  6.  Maria, 
baptized  June  22,  1766,  married  Tennis  Huff, 
of  Xeshanic.  Somerset  county. 

(\Tr)  David,  son  of  Isaac  \'oorhees,  was 
born  near  Xew  Brunswick.  Xew  Jersev.  Sep- 
tember 6.  1758.  and  died  in  the  town  of  X"ew 
Brunswick.  October  9.  1841.  He  lived  in  Xew 
Brunswick  and  married.  May  22.  1788,  Eve 
Oakey,  born  September  14,  1770,  who  died 
Xovember  4,  1842.  Their  seven  children 
were:  i.  I.saac.  born  .-Xpril  19.  1789.  died  .Au- 
gust 3.  1824;  married  Sarah  Xevius  but  had 
no  children.  2.  .Abraham  Oakey.  born  .Au- 
gust 2^.  1791.  died  June  2-.  1866:  married. 
March  24,  1814.  Margaret  P.  Harris,  and  mar- 
ried (second)  .April  11.  1843,  Abigail  \'ander- 
veer.  and  had  nine  children.  3.  .Ann.  born 
July  29,  1794,  died  March  6.  1837:  married. 
February  24.  1814,  Israel  Freeman.  4.  David, 
born  .Aueust  IQ.  1797.  died  June  17.  1799.  5. 
Ira  Condict,  referred  to  below.  6.  Mary,  born 
September  27.  1801.  died  unmarried.  October 
15.  1820.  7.  David,  born  May  t6.  1805.  died 
June  1.1.  1866;  married  Ann  Eliza  Clarkson. 
bom  February  •?.  1802. 

(VHI)  Ira  Condict.  son  of  David  and  Eve 
(Oakev)  \'oorhecs.  was  born  in  Xew  Bruns- 
wick. Xew  Jersey,  February  22.  1799,  anrl  died 
there  September  12.  1878.  He  lived  in  Xew 
BriTswirk,  and  married.  May  22.  1823,  .Ann 
Rolf  HolbTt.  born  Febniarv  3,  1802.  who  died 
in  1900.  The  names  of  their  three  children 
were:  i.  Charles  Holbert,  referred  to  below. 
2.  Ira  Tlieodore.  born  June  27,  1829,  died  .Au- 
gust II,  1830.     3.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  .April 


21,     1833.    died,    unmarried.     September     13. 
1852. 

(IX)  Charles  Holbert.  the  only  son  to 
reach  maturity  and  the  only  son  to  marry,  of 
Ira  Condict  and  .Ann  Rolf  (Holbert)  \'oor- 
hees.  was  born  in  Xew  Brunswick,  Xew  Jer- 
sey, .August  3,  1824,  and  was  for  many  years 
one  of  the  most  prominent  of  the  medical  prac- 
titioners in  Xew  Brunswick.  His  father  had 
been  one  of  the  members  of  the  junior  class 
of  1 81 7.  of  Rutgers  College,  when  that  insti- 
tution had  suspended  in  1816.  and  he  sent  his 
son  to  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  for  his 
B.  .A.  and  afterward  to  the  Philadelphia  Medi- 
cal School  for  his  M.  D.  degree.  June  7,  1849, 
Dr.  Charles  Holbert  \oorhees  married,  in 
Philadelphia,  Charlotte  Bournonville,  of  Phil- 
adelphia, born  December  23,  1830.  Their 
four  children  are:  i.  Ira  Condict.  referred  to 
below.  2.  \anderbilt  Spader,  born  Septem- 
ber 7,  1858,  married  Ida  Smith;  resides  at 
Belmar.  3.  .Anthony  Bournonville,  born  Sep- 
tember 24,  1859,  married.  May  23,  1883,  .Annie 
Farmer :  resides  at  Belmar.  4.  Louis  .Augus- 
tus, referred  to  below. 

(X)  Ira  Conflict  (2).  the  eldest  child  and 
son  of  Charles  Holbert  and  Charlotte  (Bour- 
nonville) \'oorhees,  was  born  in  Philadelphia. 
Pennsvlvania,  March  2^.  1853,  and  is  now  liv- 
ing in  Xew  Brunswick,  Xew  Jersey.  When 
he  was  about  two  and  one  half  years  old  his 
father  returned  from  Philadelphia  to  Xew 
Brunswick,  and  Ira  Condict  was  sent  to  the 
Xew  Brunswick  public  schools  for  his  educa- 
tion, also  attending  private  schools,  and  tak- 
ing tlie  course  of  Miller  and  Stockton's  Busi- 
ness College  in  Xewark.  .After  completing 
his  studies  he  was  engaged  until  about  1881 
in  the  furniture  and  rubber  business  in  Xew 
Brunswick.  subsec|uently  devoting  his  atten- 
tion largely  to  the  property  interests  of  his 
grandparents.  For  four  years  he  occupied  the 
position  of  chosen  freeholder  of  Aliddlesex 
county.  Mr.  \'oorhees  is  the  owner  of  a  valu- 
able farm  near  Xew  Brunswick.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Junior  Order  American  Mechanics. 
Since  1869  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  vol- 
unteer fire  department  of  Xew  Brunswick, 
and  since  1873  a  member  of  the  Liberty  hose 
comi)any.  He  and  his  family  attend  the  First 
Dutch  Reformed  Onirch  of  Xew  I'runswick. 
Mav  23,  1878,  Ira  Condict  \'oorliees  was  mar- 
ried in  Xew  Brunswick  to  Emily  Miller,  of 
the  same  place,  and  has  one  surviving  child, 
Marv  Fmilv,  who  married  Oliver  Rielev.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Rieley  reside  in  Cleveland.  Ohio,  and 
have  one  child.  Charlotte  Bournonville  Rielev. 


STATE   OF    XEW     JERSEY. 


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(  X  )  Louis  Augustus,  the  fourth  and  young- 
est child  of  Charles  Holbert  and  Charlotte 
(Bournonville)  \'oorhees,  was  born  in  Xew 
Brunswick,  Xew  Jersey,  March  6,  1865,  and 
is  now  living  in  that  city.  For  his  early  edu- 
cation he  was  sent  to  the  preparatory  school 
of  Rutgers  College,  and  entering  Rutgers  in 
the  class  of  1885,  received  from  that  institu- 
tion both  his  bachelor's  and  his  master's  de- 
gree. He  then  took  up  chemistry  as  his 
special  study,  went  into  the  state  experimental 
station  at  the  IxDttom  of  the  ladder  and  has 
steadily  climbed  up  until  in  1895  he  was  made 
chief  chemist.  In  1905  he  resigned  this  po- 
sition, and  he  is  now  engaged  in  consulting  and 
analytical  work  in  his  own  laboratory.  Me  is 
a  thirty-second  degree  Mason,  a  member  of 
the  Conimandery.  and  a  past  master  of  Lodge 
Xo.  19.  He  is  also  past  high  priest  of  Scott 
Chapter,  No.  4,  a  past  master  of  Scott  Coun- 
cil. No.  I,  and  member  of  the  Benevolent  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks.  In  addition  to  these 
he  is  a  member  of  the  Delta  L'psilon  college 
Greek  letter  fraternity,  and  also  a  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  man.  He  is  a  member  of  a  number  of 
scientific  societies,  among  which  may  be  men- 
tioned the  American  Chemical  Society,  the 
Society  of  Chemical  Industry  of  London,  Eng- 
land, the  American  Association  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Science,  and  the  American  Elec- 
tro-Chemical Society.  In  1901  he  married 
Anna  May  \\'ilcox.  daughter  of  Theodore  F. 
Wilcox,  of  New  Brunswick. 


(For  early  generations  see  Albert  Van  Voorhees  1). 

(V)  ]\Iinne  Lucasse  van 
X'OORHEES  Voorhees,  fourteenth  child 
and  seventh  son  of  Lucas 
Stevense  and  Jannetje  Minnes  (Faddans)  van 
Voorhees.  died  in  1733,  his  will  being  written 
September  20,  and  proven  November  15,  of 
that  year.  He  was  born  in  Flatlands,  but  re- 
moved from  that  place  to  the  vicinity  of  New 
Brunswick,  Xew  Jersey,  where  in  1720  he 
owned  a  large  tract  of  land  on  the  south  side 
of  the  Raritan  river,  which  included  the  mills 
on  Lawrence  brook.  Three  years  previous  to 
this  his  name  had  been  enrolled  on  the  books 
of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church  at  Xew  Bruns- 
wick as  a  member.  April  23.  1717.  Minne 
Lucasse  married  (first)  Antje.  daughter  of 
Garret  Pieterse  Wyckoff,  of  Flatlands,  Long 
Island,  and  Catharine  Nevius,  who  was  born 
September  i,  1693.  After  her  death  he  mar- 
ried (second)  Lammetje.  daughter  of  Gerrit 
Tanse  Stryker,  of  Flatbush,  Long  Island,  and 
Styntje  Gerritse  Dorland,  who  was  the  widow 


of  Johanes  W'yckoflF,  of  Si.x  Mile  Run,  Somer- 
set county.  New  Jersey.  She  was  baptized 
November  23,  1684,  and  her  will  was  proved 
May  I,  1764. 

The  children  of  Minne  Lucasse  van  \'oor- 
hees  were:  I.  Lucas,  baptized  March  29,  1718, 
whose  will  was  proved  April  9.  1791  :  he  mar- 
ried Catrina  Vandervoort,  lived  near  Xew 
lirunswick.  where  all  his  children  were  bap- 
tized and  had  seven  children,  the  youngest  of 
whom,  Peter,  was  the  noted  revolutionary  cap- 
tain, who  was  killed  near  Xew  Brunswick  by 
Colonel  Simcoe's  men  and  is  sometimes  con- 
fused with  Captain  John  Voorhees,  brother- 
in-law  of  Colonel  John  Xeilson.  2.  Garret 
.Minnes.  referred  to  below.  3.  Minne  Minnes, 
baptized  Xovember  25,  1722.  whose  will  is 
dated  June  7,  1779,  and  proved  April  20.  1780. 
and  who  had  nine  children.  4.  Johannes  Min- 
nes, baptized  March  28,  1725,  married  Fem- 
metje  \'anderveer,  and  lived  near  New  Bruns- 
wick, where  all  of  his  children  were  baptized. 
5.  Elizabeth,  married  Martin  Roelofse 
Schenck.  6.  Abraham  Minnes,  born  Septem- 
ber 16,  1730,  married  Maria,  daughter  of 
Jacob  \'an  Doren,  born  October  29,  1735,  lived 
in  1752  at  Neshanic,  in  1766  at  ^lillstone, 
Xew  Jersey,  and  in  1792  at  Reading,  Ohio,  and 
had  nine  children.  7.  Catharine,  married  Jo- 
hannes \'an  Harlingen.     8.  Roelof. 

(\I)  Garret  Minnes,  second  child  and  son 
of  Minne  Lucasse  van  \'oorhees,  was  born 
near  Xew  Brunswick,  Xew  Jersey,  May  13, 
1720,  died  about  1785.  He  lived  at  Middlebush, 
Somerset  county.  He  married  ("first)  Xeeltje, 
daughter  of  Petrus  Xevius,  of  South  Branch, 
Somerset  county,  who  died  December  9,  1780, 
and  was  the  mother  of  all  of  his  children ; 
married  (second)  in  1783,  Sarah  Stoothoff. 
Their  children  were:  i.  Minne,  born  Septem- 
ber 30,  1745,  lived  at  Neshanic,  Somerset 
county,  and  by  his  wife  Catrina  had  :  Abraham, 
Cornelius,  Maria  and  Minnie.  2.  Roelof,  born 
February  11,  1748,  died  July  23,  i8ri ;  mar- 
ried Maria  Suydam,  lived  at  Six  Mile  Run, 
and  had  no  children.  3.  Garret  Garretson,  re- 
ferred to  below.  4.  Ann,  born  July  10.  1752, 
died  Mav  25,  1817:  married.  May  3,  1776, 
Abraham  Beekman,  of  Griggstown,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  had  Geraldus.  Eleanor,  John,  Abra- 
ham Abrahamson.  Ralph  \'oorhees,  Jacob, 
Isaac  and  Catharine.  5.  Catryntje,  born  De- 
cember 27,  1754.  died  November  26,  1814; 
married  John  \'an  Doren,  of  Millstone.  6. 
Peter,  born  May  7,  1758,  died  April  7.  1833: 
married  Mary  Boice,  lived  at  ^liddlebush.  and 
had :    Ellen,    Syche   or   Cynthia.    Sarah,   John 


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STATE    UI-    NEW   JERSEY. 


I'etcrson,  Maria,  Caroline,  Garret  Peterson, 
Ann  ISeekman  and  Minna.  7.  Neeltje,  bap- 
tized November  23,  1760,  married  Brogun  Van 
Doren,  of  Pluckamin,  and  had:  William, 
.Xeeltjc,  tlarret,  Peter  and  Catharine.  8.  Cat- 
alina.  born  May  21,  1764,  married  John  \'an 
Dorcn,  of  Mill.-^tone. 

(\'U)  Garret  Garretson.  third  child  and 
son  of  Garret  Minnes  and  Neeltje  (Nevius) 
van  Voorhees,  was  born  at  Middlebiish,  Som- 
erset county,  March  4,  1750,  died  at  Six  Mile 
Run  in  the  same  county,  October  18,  1823. 
The  first  part  of  his  life  was  spent  at  Middle- 
bush,  but  about  1820  he  removed  to  Six  Mile 
Run.  February  8,  1776,  he  married  Matilda, 
daughter  of  Rem  Ditmars,  of  Millstone,  who 
died  March  21,  1837,  and  who  bore  him  ten 
children:  i.  Garret,  born  November  22,  1776, 
died  Alarch  23,  1777.  2.  Lena,  born  March 
1 1.  1778,  died  January  28,  1827;  married  Peter 
P.  X'oorhees,  born  November  26,  1775,  lived 
at  New  Brunswick  and  had :  Matilda,  Eliza- 
beth, Susan  and  Eleanor.  3.  Nelly,  born  May 
27,  1780.  died  February  18,  1810,  unmarrietl. 
4.  Jane,  born  .September  13,  1782,  died  Septem- 
ber, 1845;  married,  October  27,  1803,  Ricliard 
Manley,  lived  in  New  Brunswick  and  had ; 
Mary  Ann,  Matilda,  Ellen  Vooriiees,  Garret 
\'oorhees,  Sarah  Elizabeth,  Jane  Helen,  Rich- 
ard, Dinah  Voorhees  and  Frances  Rebecca 
ITardcnburgh.     5.   Garret,  referred  to  below. 

6.  Dinah,  horn  May  11,  1787,  died  unmarried. 

7.  .Ann,  born  September  24.  1789,  married, 
September  19,  1816,  Samuel  W.  Scott,  and 
lived  in  'S'atasco,  New  York.  8.  John  Gar- 
retson, born  January  17,  1793,  died  March  31, 
1859:  married  Rebecca  \'an  Derveer,  born  De- 
cember 8,  1/9''),  died  April  i,  1873;  left  New 
Jersey  and  settled  in  Fail  view,  Illinois,  and 
had:  Henry,  Garret.  Ellen  Sutjihcn,  John  Cal- 
vin and  Matthew.  9.  Ral])h,  born  Jimc  20. 
1796,  died  July  25,  1878;  married,  November 
20,  1819,  Sarah,  (laughter  of  John  Van  Cleef, 
lived  at  Middlebush,  at  one  time  judge  of  the 
Somerset  county  court,  and  in  1837  a  member 
of  the  New  Jersey  legislature ;  children  :  \'an 
Cleef  and  Raljih.  10.  Maria,  born  October  20, 
1798,  married  Daniel  Polhemus,  and  lived  at 
Middkbnsh  and  Fairvicw,  Illinois. 

(\]11)  Garret,  second  son  and  the  eldest 
son  to  reach  maturity  of  Garret  Garretson  and 
Matilda  (Ditmars)  van  Voorhees,  was  born  in 
Middlebush.  Somerset  county,  and  died  at 
Mine  Brook,  in  the  same  countv.  Febru- 
ary 24.  1870.  lie  lived  at  Mine  Brook. 
September  10,  1816.  he  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Hannah   (Drake) 


Whitaker,  born  September  8,  1792,  died 
-Vugust  8,  1863.  Their  children  were:  i. 
John,  referred  to  below.  2.  Alatilda,  born  Oc- 
tober 19,  1818,  died  September  28,  1851  ;  mar- 
ried. January  8,  1851,  Charles  Barber.  3. 
.Ann.  born  August  12,  1820,  died  February  20, 
1885:  married,  November  15,  1849,  \\  ilham 
Heath,  born  June  i,  1817,  and  had  John,  born 
.September  25,  1856,  married,  February  8, 
1879,  Emma  J.  Fritts.  4.  Hannah,  born  January 
4.  1823,  married,  October  28,  1847,  John  Gar- 
retson Kline,  and  had  Dorothy,  married  John 
J.  Powelson ;  Garret  N'oorhees,  December  10, 
1852,  died  November  3,  1880.  5.  Ellen,  born 
January  21,  1825,  married  (first)  August  14, 
1854,  John  S.  Felmley,  and  had:  David  and 
John  S.  Jr.;  married  (second)  Benjamin  S. 
Shoemaker,  March  4,  1863,  and  had:  Lillian, 
Ella  \  oorhees,  Garretta  and  Raphael.  6.  Gar- 
ret Garretson,  born  March  20,  1827,  married 
(first)    Margaretta    \'.    Baird,   born    May    5. 

1836,  died  March  2,  1861,  and  had,  William 
Baird,  born  .August  10,  i860;  married  (sec- 
ond) December  27,  1865,  Jane  Quick,  born 
February  7,  1836.  died  March  19,  1874,  and 
had:  .Abraham  Ouick,  December  5,  1869,  died 
February  2/.  1870;  married  (third)  December 
30,   1876,   Harriet   Everett,  born  January  26, 

1837.  7.  Nathaniel  Whitaker,  born  June  29, 
1829,  graduate  of  Rutgers,  1847,  cashier  of 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Clinton,  New  Jer- 
sey;  married,  November  i,  1854,  Xaomi  Leigh, 
and  had:  Foster  AlacGowan,  .Samuel  Leigh, 
Caroline  \'irginia  .Aller,  Nathaniel  Whitaker, 
Edwin  Stanton,  Mary  Taylor  and  Elizabeth 
Kreamer.  8.  Samuel  Scott,  born  June  19. 
1831,  lives  at  Mine  Brook:  married,  Novem- 
ber 13,  1861,  Elizabeth  McMurtry,  and  has: 
.Sarah  Whitaker,  Oscar  M.,  Ralph  Spencer, 
(iarret  Scott,  Mary  Nutt,  Charles  Pool  and 
Ruth  Castner.  9.  Mary,  born  August  20, 
1833,  married,  November  19,  1857,  \\'illiam 
Irving,  and  has:  Eugene  Castner,  Ella  Sarah. 
William  Edgar  and  Charles  Whitaker.  10. 
Ruth  lilizabeth,  born  September  19,  1835,  died 
January  10,  1879;  married  Parmenas  Castner 
and  had  :  Mabel  V'oorhees,  Frank  Mason  and 
Martha  .Annin  \'oorhees.  11.  Ralph,  born 
March  20,  1838. 

(IX)  John,  eldest  child  of  Garret  and  Sarali 
(Whitaker)  Voorhees, was  born  at  Mine  Brook, 
Somerset  county,  June  4,  1817.  He  was  a 
farmer  like  his  ancestors.  November  26,  1853, 
he  married  Sarah  .A.  Dilley,  born  December 
II,  1824,  who  bore  him  nine  children,  all  born 
at  .Mine  Brook,  Somerset  county,  New  Jersey, 
They  are:  i.  Helen,  now  dead,  born  February 


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lo,  1855,  married,  June  21,  1883,  Rev.  George 
W.  Scarlett.  2.  Edward  Burnett,  referred  to 
below.  3.  Garret,  born  April  25,  1858,  died 
September  10,  1858.  4.  Elizabeth,  born  March 
24,  1859,  married,  October  25,  1882,  Rev.  John 
ScarlcU.  5.  .Matilda,  born  June  24,  1861.  6. 
Mary,  born  May  10,  1863,  married  Edwin 
Stanton  Williamson.  7.  Sarah  C.,  born  Sep- 
tembers, 1864,  married  Dr.  ^latthew  Beattie. 
8.  John,  born  November  3,  1867,  died  April 
14,  1881.  9.  Garretta,  born  December  26, 
1870. 

(X)  Edward  Burnett,  second  child  and  eld- 
est son  of  John  and  Sarah  A.  (Dilley)  Voor- 
hees,  was  born  in  Mine  Brook,  Somerset 
county,  June  22,  1856,  and  is  now  living  at  the 
Rutgers  College  Farm,  near  Xew  Brunswick. 
For  his  early  education  he  went  to  the  com- 
mon schools  of  Mine  Brook,  also  attending 
private  school,  and  prepared  for  college  en- 
trance examinations  with  private  tutors,  after 
which  he  entered  Rutgers  College  and  grad- 
uated B.  A.  June  22,  1881,  and  M.  A.  in  1884. 
In  1900  he  received  from  the  University  of 
\"erniont  the  degree  of  D.  Sc.  During  1881 
and  1882  he  was  the  assistant  chemist  at  Wes- 
ley an  University,  and  from  1882  to  the  present 
time  he  has  been  chemist  of  the  Experiment 
Station  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey,  since  1890 
professor  of  agriculture  in  Rutgers  College, 
and  since  1895  director  of  the  New  Jersey 
Agricultural  Experiment  Stations.  In  1903  he 
was  the  first  recipient  of  the  W.  H.  Nichols 
gold  medal  offered  by  the  .A.merican  Chemical 
Society  for  the  best  original  chemical  research. 
He  is  author  of  "First  Principles  of  Agricul- 
ture" {1896),  "Fertilizers"  (1898),  and  "For- 
age Crops"  (1907).  Dr.  Voorhees  is  president 
of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture,  member  of 
the  State  Forestry  Commission,  and  trustee 
of  the  Carnegie  Library  of  New  Brunswick. 
Society,  the  .\merican  Association  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Science^  the  New  Jersey  State 
Sanitary  .Association,  and  other  national  and 
state  scientific  societies,  and  of  the  Chemists" 
Club  of  New  York  City. 

October  18,  1883.  Edward  Burnett  \'oor- 
hees  married  .\nna  Eliza,  youngest  daughter  of 
Theodore  and  Jane  ( \'an  Camp)  .\merman, 
born  in  South  Branch,  Somerset  county,  June 
2.  1861.  Children:  i.  Jennie  Amennan,  born 
August  23,  1884,  graduated  from  Vassar, 
1904;  married,  June  12,  1907,  Harold  M. 
Beattie,  of  .\rizpe,  state  of  Sonora,  Mexico, 
and  has  one  child,  John  \'oorhees  Beattie,  born 
March  2,  igo8.  2.  Edward  Burnett,  born  Sep- 
tember  I,   1886.  now  dead.     3.  John  Haring. 


born  January  zj,  1889,  now  a  student  at  Rut- 
gers. 4.  Marion  W.,  born  June  19,  1891.  5. 
Theodore,  May  19,  1893.  6.  Robert  Leland, 
January  20,  1895.  7.  Ralph  Rodman,  May 
12,  1898.     8.  Justin  Alorrill,  June  29,  1900. 


(For  early  generations  see  preceiling  sketches). 

(V)   Abraham  Lucasse,  fif- 

\'OORHEES  teenth  child  and  youngest 
son  of  Lucas  Stevense  van 
X'oorhees  (by  his  second  wife,  Jannetje  Min- 
nes  Faddansj,  was  born  in  Flatlands,  Long 
Island.  Soon  after  his  marriage  he  removed 
to  South  Middlebush,  Somerset  county.  New 
Jersey,  where,  IMarch  4.  1726,  he  purchased 
from  Jact|ues  Cortelyou  for  four  hundred  and 
seventy-five  pounds  sterling  a  farm  of  three 
hundred  acres,  on  which  the  remainder  of  his 
life  was  spent.  He  married  Neeltje  Cortel- 
you, born  July  18,  1703,  daughter  of 
Jacques  Cortelyou  of  New  Utrecht,  Long 
Island  ;  three  sons  and  four  daughters. 

( \T )  Abraham  \'oorhees,  second  child  of 
Abraham  Lucasse  and  Neeltje  (Cortelyou) 
Van  Voorhees,  resided  near  Six  Mile  Run, 
Somerset  county,  New  Jersey,  where  all  his 
children  were  born,  and  where  he  died.  It  is 
known  that  he  was  twice  married,  his  first 
wife  being  Geertie  and  his  second  Maria;  and 
he  had  nine  children,  six  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters. 

(\TI)  Lucas,  eldest  child  of  .Abraham  and 
Geertie  \'oorhees,  was  born  near  Six  Alile 
Run,  Somerset  county.  New  Jersey,  May  2, 
1753,  lived  at  Rocky  Hill,  in  the  same  county, 
and  died  there  .August  24,  1812.  He  married, 
November  16,  1775,  Johanna  Dumont,  born 
June  2,  1758,  died  February  25,  1840;  four 
sons  and  three  daughters. 

(\TII)  Isaac  Lucas,  fifth  child  and  fourth 
son  of  Lucas  and  Johanna  (  Dumont)  Voor- 
hees, was  born  in  Rocky  Llill,  Somerset  county. 
New  Jersey,  March  22,  1793,  died  near  Six 
Mile  Run  (same  county),  October  26,  1867. 
For  the  larger  part  of  his  life  he  resided  near 
Si.x  Mile  Run.  He  married,  June  5,  1813. 
Abigail,  daughter  of  Isaac  Isaacse  Voorhees, 
and  had  si.x  sons  and  seven  daughters. 

( IX )  Abraham,  third  child  and  son  of 
Isaac  Lucas  and  .Abigail  (Voorhees)  Voor- 
hees, was  born  near  Six  Mile  Run,  Som- 
erset county.  New  Jersey,  September  18, 
1817.  In  early  life  he  removed  to  New 
r.runswick.  Middlesex  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, engaging  in  the  jewelry  trade,  but  sub- 
sequently devoted  his  attention  largely  to  bank- 
ing and   financial   interests,  and  occupied   the 


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STATE    OF    NEW    [ERSEY. 


position  of  president  of  the  Old  State  Bank 
of  New  Brunswick.  He  was  a  public- 
spirited  and  highly  esteemed  citizen  of  New 
Brunswick.  A  member  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church,  he  was  one  of  its  life  elders, 
and  for  twenty-nine  years  superintendent  of  its 
Sunday  school.  He  died  in  New  Brunswick, 
June  9,  1892. 

He  married  (first)  September  19,  1842, 
Jane,  died  April  8,  1875,  daughter  of  Jesse  and 
Margaret  P.  (Russell)  Jarvis.  Children:  i. 
Willard  Penfield,  of  whom  below.  2.  Laura 
\'irginia,  died  in  infancy.  Abraham  \'oor- 
hets  married  (second)  Martha  J.,  died  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1909,  daughter  of  John  and  Martha 
(Bell)  \"an  Nostrand.  Children:  3.  Howard 
Crosby,  of  whom  below.  4.  Florence  Eliot, 
married  John  J.  Voorhees,  Jr.,  who  is  en- 
gaged with  his  father  in  the  manufacture  of 
rubber  goods,  under  the  firm  style  of  the  Voor- 
hees Rubber  Manufacturing  Company.  They 
reside  at  91  Duncan  avenue,  Jersey  City,  New 
Jersey,  and  have  one  child,  Florence  Eliot 
Voorhees,  born  October  17,  1908.  5.  Marion 
R.,  resides  in  New  Brunswick.  6.  Clifford 
Irving,  of  whom  below. 

(X)  \\'illard  Penfield,  only  surviving  child 
of  Abraham  and  Jane  (Jarvis)  Voorhees,  was 
born  in  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  July  28, 
1 85 1.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the 
grammar  school  of  that  community,  also  pur 
suing  preparatory  studies  under  Gustavus 
Fischer,  and  was  graduated  from  Rutgers  Col- 
lege in  the  class  of  1871.  After  qualifying  for 
the  legal  profession  in  the  office  of  Judge 
Woodhridge  Strong,  of  New  Brunswick,  he 
was  admitted  to  practice  as  attorney  at  the 
November  term  of  the  supreme  court  in  1874, 
and  at  the  February  term  in  1878  he  became 
counsellor.  Embarking  in  the  practice  of  the 
law  in  his  native  city  in  1874,  he  soon  acquired 
a  reputation  for  ability,  and  until  his  elevation 
to  the  supreme  bench  thirty-four  years  later 
he  was  engaged  successfully  and  with  dis- 
tinction in  his  professional  work.  The  active 
career  of  Justice  Voorhees  has  been  devoted 
exclusively  to  the  law.  On  one  occasion 
(1884)  he  was  the  Republican  candidate  for 
county  clerk  of  Middlesex  county,  but  was  de- 
featerl ;  and  with  this  exception  he  has  never 
run  for  elective  office.  As  a  lawyer  his  in- 
clinations and  sjjccial  capabilities  were  for  the 
more  exact  branches  of  his  i)rofession,  and 
thus  from  an  early  period  his  employments 
were  princii)ally  in  connection  with  responsible 
private  trusts  and  in  the  conduct  of  important 
litigations.     His  services  were  continually  en- 


gaged in  the  care  and  settlement  of  estates,  as 
receiver  for  various  enterprises,  and  in  equity 
proceedings  and  corporate  cases.  His  ap- 
pointment as  associate  justice  of  the  supreme 
court  of  New  Jersey  (January,  1908)  is  one 
of  the  very  few  instances  on  record  of  the 
elevation  of  a  practicing  lawyer,  without  pre- 
vious experience  on  the  bench  and  entirely  un- 
associated  with  political  life,  from  the"  ranks 
of  the  profession  to  the  highest  judicial  sta- 
tion. Justice  \'oorhees  is  one  of  the  trustees 
of  Rutgers  College  (elected  in  1909).  He  is 
a  member,  among  other  organizations,  of  the 
Holland  Society,  the  New  York  .\thletic  Club, 
and  the  Union  Club  of  New  Brunswick. 

He    married,     ^larch     15.     1877,    ^^    New 
Brunswick,  Sarah  Rutgers,  daughter  of  Theo-  1 
dore  Grant  and  Catharine  Bayard   (Rutgers) 
Neilson.      Child :      Catharine    Rutgers,    born  j 
August  15,  1878,  died  March  18,  1882. 

(X)  Howard  Crosby,  son  of  Abraham  ami 
Martha  J.  (\'an  Nostrand)  \'oorhees.  was 
born  in  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  Janu- 
ary 4,  1879.  After  completing  the  studies  of 
the  New  Brunswick  public  schools  and  the 
Rutgers  Preparatory  -School,  he  entered 
Princeton  University,  where  he  was  gradu- 
ated in  1902.  He  then  jjursued  the  course  of 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  New 
York  City,  receiving  his  M.  D.  degree  in  1906, 
and  during  the  year  ft.llowing  was  an  interne 
of  the  ISellevue  Hospital,  also  serving  three 
months  in  the  New  York  Lying-in-Hospital. 
Dr.  \'oorhees  has  since  been  practicing  his 
profession  in  New  Brunswick.  He  is  on  the 
staffs  of  Saint  Peter's  General  Hospital,  the 
Wells  Memorial  Hospital,  and  the  Parker  Me- 
morial Home,  and  is  a  member  of  the  New 
Jersey  State  and  Middlesex  County  medical 
societies. 

He  married,  June  30,  1906,  Marguerite 
.Soper.  (laughter  of  Jeremiah  D.  and  Cleone 
(  Day )  Slocum,  of  Staten  Island. 

(X)  Clifford  Irving,  son  of  Abraham  and 
Martha  J.  (\'an  Nostrand)  \'oorhces.  was  born 
in  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  August  4, 
1884.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the 
Lawrenceville  (New  Jersey)  school,  and  was 
graduated  from  Princeton  University  (A.  B.) 
in  1906.  Pursuing  the  course  of  the  New 
York  Law  School,  he  was  graduated  there 
(LL.  B. )  in  1909.  and  was  then  admitted  to 
the  New  Jersey  bar  as  attorney.  He  is  now 
practicing  his  profession  in  New  Brunswick. 
Mr.  \"oorhees  is  a  member  of  the  Ivy  Club  of 
Princeton  and  the  Princeton  Club  of  New 
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STATE   OF    .NEW     IllRSEY. 


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(For  Voorhees  Line  see  Albert  Van  Voorhees   1). 

(I\')  Coert  Stevense  \'an 
\'Ot)RHEES  \'oorhees,  son  of  Steven 
Coert  \'an  \oorhees,  was 
)orn  in  Holland  in  1637,  died  after  1702.  His 
lanie  appears  on  the  tax  rolls  of  Flatlands  in 
1675  and  1683,  and  he  was  a  deacon  of  the 
Diitcli  chnrch  there  in  1677.  magistrate  in 
1664  and  1673,  captain  of  militia  in  1689, 
representative  of  Flatlands  in  the  colonial  as- 
'^enibly  at  Xew  Amsterdam  (New  York), 
\])ril  10,  1664,  delegate  to  the  convention, 
March  26,  1674,  and  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
at  Flatlands  in  September,  1687.  In  1689  he 
bought  lands  at  Gravesend,  Long  Island,  and 
at  various  times  became  well  possessed  of 
lands,  some  of  which  has  continued  in  pos- 
session of  his  descendants  to  the  present  day. 
He  evidently  was  a  person  of  consequence  in 
the  colony  and  a  man  of  influence  in  public 
matters  of  government.  He  married,  before 
i()04,  -Merretje  Gerritse  \'an  Couwenlmven. 
baptized  April  10,  1644,  died  before  1709, 
daughter  of  Gerrit  Wolfertse  and  Aeltie  Lam- 
bertse  (Cool)  Van  Couwenhoven,  and  by  her 
had  nine  children:  I.  Steven  Coerte,  died 
February  16,  1723-24,  2.  Marretje  Coerte, 
married  Jacob  Remsen.  3.  .\lbert  Coerte,  died 
1748.  4.  (ierrit  Coerte,  see  forward.  5.  Altje 
Coerte,  died  1746.  6.  Neeltje  Coerte,  born 
June  30,  1676,  died  August  4,  1750.  7.  Cor- 
nelius Coerte,  born  1678,  married  Antie  Rem- 
sen. 8.  .Annatie  Coerte,  born  1680;  married 
Jan  Rapalje,  9.  Johhannes  Coerte,  born  April 
20,  1^)83,  died  October  10,  1757;  settled  in 
Xew  Jersey. 

( \' )  Gerrit  Coerte,  son  of  Coert  Stevens 
and  Marretje  Gerritse  (Van  Couwenhoven) 
\'an  \'oorhees,  was  born  about  1670-72,  died 
before  September  23,  1704,  the  date  his  will 
was  proved.  In  1677  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Dutch  church  at  Flatlands,  and  he  took  the 
oath  of  allegiance  there  in  1687.  In  1693  he 
bought  lands  at  Xew  I'trecht,  Long  Island, 
paxing  therefore  38,750  guilders,  and  in  1699 
he  sold  the  same  land  to  his  brother,  Albert 
Coerte  \'an  \'oorhees.  He  was  a  man  of  large 
landed  estate,  possessed  much  influence  among 
the  people,  but  does  not  appear  to  have  taken 
much  part  in  public  affairs.  He  married  (first) 
Mensie  Janse  and  after  her  death  he  married 
(second)  .\pril  26,  1685,  Willentje  Pieters, 
who  (lied  in  1744.  He  had  seven  children:  i. 
Coert  Garritse,  who  lived  on  Long  Island  and 
whose  will  bears  date  of  January  3,  1746.  2. 
Altje  Garritse.  baptized  Flatlands,  October  5, 
1683  '•  married  Johannes  Willemse.    3.  Marytie 

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Gerritse,  baptized  October  2^.  1687,  died  Jan- 
uary 18,  1750;  married  Jan  Remsen.  4.  Peter 
Gerritse,  see  forward.  5.  Hendrick  Gerritse, 
lived  at  Flatlands  and  afterward  near  Free- 
hold, Monmouth  county,  Xew  Jersey;  married 
(first)  Jannetje  Andrease,  (second)  Jannetje 
Van  Arsdalen,  (third)  Sarah  Schenck.  6.  Ste- 
phen Gerritse,  lived  at  Flatlands.  7.  Gertie 
(jerritse,  married  Gerrit  Van  Arsdalen. 

(\'I)  Peter  Gerritse,  son  of  Gerrit  Coerte 
and  Willemtje  (Pieters)  Van  \'oorhees,  was 
baptized  in  Brooklyn,  Long  Island,  Xew  York, 
December  10,  1694,  died  before  July  14,  1749, 
when  his  will  was  admitted  to  probate.  He 
refused  to  pay  tithes  to  the  English  church  at 
Flatlands  and  rather  than  submit  to  what  he 
considered  a  wrong  in  this  respect  sold  ofl^  his 
possessions  on  Long  Island  and  removed  to 
.Somerset  county  in  Xew  Jersey,  where  he  pur- 
chased two  hundred  and  thirty-one  acres  of 
the  so-called  \'an  Home  lands  near  Blawen- 
burgh  in  that  county.  He  spent  the  remainder 
of  his  life  in  Xew  Jersey  and  engaged  in 
farming.  He  married,  March  6,  1720,  Arientje 
Xevius.  and  by  her  had  ten  children:  i. 
.•\riantie,  born  1721.  2.  Jannetje,  August  29, 
1722.  3.  W'illentie,  September  5,  1724.  4. 
Maria,  January  6,  1726.  5.  Garret,  March  12, 
1728;  lived  near  Xew  Brunswick,  Xew  Jersey, 
where  all  his  children  were  baptized.  6.  Xelltie, 
December  17,  1729.  7.  Sarah,  February  4. 
1 73 1.  8.  Petrus,  October  5,  1732,  died  young. 
9.  Aeltie,  died  young.     10.  Petrus,  see  forward. 

(VII)  Petrus  Voorhees,  son  of  Peter  Ger- 
ritse and  .Arientje  (Xevius)  Van  Voorhees, 
was  born  on  Long  Island,  January  24,  1736, 
died  at  Blawenburgh,  Xew  Jersey,  in  May, 
1803.  He  was  a  farmer  and  lived  and  died  on 
his  father's  homestead  farm  at  Blawenburgh. 
He  married  (first)  December  i,  1757,  Sarah 
Xevius,  who  died  April  10,  1760,  and  married 
(second)  October  24,  1761,  Leah  Xevius.  His 
children:  r.  Petrus,  born  September  16,  1758; 
lived  on  his  father's  farm  at  Blawenburgh ; 
married  Catherine  Skillman.  2.  Martinus,  see 
forward.  3.  Leah  Xevius,  born  February  3, 
1765,  died  1803;  married,  May  5,  1792,  Abra- 
ham \'oorhees, 

(VIII)  Martinus,  son  of  Petrus  and  Leah 
(Xevius)  Voorhees,  was  born  on  his  father's 
farm  at  Blawenburgh,  X^ew  Jersey,  died  at 
Bridgepoint,  Somerset  county.  X'cw  Jersey, 
July  31,  1825.  He  was  a  farmer  at  Bridge- 
point.  He  married.  May  2,  1786,  Altje  (or 
Elsie)  \'an  Dyck.  born  June  10,  1761,  died 
December  27,  1818,  having  borne  her  husband 
seven    children:      i.    Peter,    see    forward.     2. 


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Charity,  born  May  29,  1790,  died  June  29, 
1794.  3.  John.  May  18,  1792.  4.  John  \'an 
Dyck,  September  15.  1794,  died  April  28,  1822  ; 
was  surgeon  in  the  I'nited  States  army  and 
served  under  General  Jackson.  5.  Leah,  Octo- 
ber 3,  1796,  died  June  22,  1857;  married,  De- 
cember 8,  1816,  Dr.  Ferdinand  S.  Schenck. 
h.  Frederick  Van  Dyck,  December  18,  1798, 
died  July  5,  1854:  married,  November  21, 
1821,  Amelia,  daughter  of  Rev.  Henry  Pol- 
hemus.  7.  Sarah,  .September  28,  1802,  died 
December  25,  1828;  inarried.  P'ehruary  15. 
1 82 1.  Abraham  Cruser. 

(IX)  Peter,  son  of  Martinus  and  Elsie 
( \'an  Dyck)  \'oorhees,  was  born  May  17, 
1787,  died  July  4,  1853.  He  lived  on  the  farm 
he  inherited  and  which  formerly  was  owned 
by  his  grandfather.  Petrus  \'oorhees,  and  was 
a  man  of  much  influence  and  strong  character. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  house  of 
assembly  from  1843  to  1845,  and  judge  of 
the  court  of  common  pleas  of  Somerset  county 
from  1833  to  1845.  He  married.  March  2, 
1809,  Jane,  born  December  28,  1787,  died  July 
22,  1843.  daughter  of  Captain  John  Schenck, 
and  by  her  had  eight  children:  i.  .\lice,  born 
February  11,  1810,  died  August  18,  1878: 
married,  January  12,  1848,  Dr.  J.  \'.  D.  Joline, 
of  Camden.  2.  John  Schenck,  March  18,  1812, 
died  June  19,  1877;  married,  December  16, 
1846,  Sarah  Ann  \'an  Doren,  3.  Charity,  Sep- 
tember 22,  1814:  married,  November  25,  1835, 
Samuel  Disbrow  P>ergen,  born  August  25, 
1809.  4.  Mary,  I'ebruary  2,  1818,  died  Decem- 
ber 17,  1867:  married,  December  6,  1843.  Reu- 
ben Armitage  Drake  (see  Drake.  \'II).  5. 
.\da  H..  A])ril  14.  1820,  died  May  9.  1823.  6. 
Jane,  March  i,  1823,  died  June  16,  1873:  mar- 
ried, Scptciuber  11,  1849,  Rev.  Jesse  B,  Davis. 
7.  Peter  P.,  July  12,  1825;  married,  October 
16,  1855,  Anna  F.  Dayton,  died  February  19, 
1889.  8.  Frederick,  .Xpril  9.  1832;  married 
Lizzie  M.  P.arnett. 


A  contemporary  of  John  Drake. 
DK.VKE      of    Windsor,    and    of    Thomas 

Drake,  of  Weymouth,  w-as  Rob- 
ert Drake,  who  was  born  in  England  in  1580, 
and  came  to  America  from  Colchester,  Essex- 
shire,  accomjianied  by  at  least  two  sons  and  a 
daughter.  He  ajijiears  in  Exter.  New  Hamp- 
shire, in  i<'>43,  and  finally  settled  in  Hampton, 
Xew  Ham])shire,  where  lie  died  January  14, 
1668.  His  children  of  whom  there  is  accurate 
account  were  Nathaniel,  Susannah  and  Abra- 
ham. In  "Early  Germans  of  New  Jersey," 
Chambers  mentions  a  "supposed  to  be"  son  of 


Riiliert,  who  bore  tlie  name  Francis,  "although 
not  mentioned  in  his  will." 

(  1  )  I'rancis  Drake,  supposed  to  lie  a  son 
of  Robert  Drake,  the  immigrant,  was  in  Ports- 
moutii.  New  Hampshire,  in  1661,  and  in  1663 
served  on  a  grand  jury  with  Nathaniel  Drake, 
elder  son  of  Robert.  No  further  record  of 
him  is  found  in  that  region,  and  he  is  believed 
to  have  been  the  Francis  who  emigrated  from 
New  Hampshire  to  Piscataway.  New  Jersey, 
which  township  was  settled  largely  by  emi- 
grants from  the  town  of  the  same  name  in 
New  Hampshire,  for  according  to  the  Piscata-' 
way  records  a  Francis  Drake  appeared  there 
in  1667-68,  and  died  there  about  1687.  The 
baptismal  name  of  his  wife  was  Mary,  and  by 
her  he  had  three  children:  i.  Francis,  died  be- 
for£-April  2y.  1733.  2.  George,  died  in  Pis- 
cataway before  .November  8.  1701;.  ^M^  Rev. 
John,  see  forward.  ^ 

(  II  )  Rev.  John  Drake,  son  of  F'rancis  and 
Mary  Drake,  was  born  in  1655,  died  in  1739- 
40.  He  was  a  lay  preacher  in  the  early  days 
of  Piscataway  and  upon  the  organization  of 
the  old  Piscataway  Baptist  Church  he  became 
its  pastor  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  more 
than  fifty  years.  He  married  (first)  Rebecca 
Trotter,  and  was  married  twice  afterward,  but 
the  names  of  his  second  and  third  wives  are 
unknown.  He  had  in  all  thirteen  children:  i. 
John,  born  June  2,  1678;  married  Sarah 
Comi)ton  and  had  six  children.  2.  Francis. 
December  23,  1679:  married  Patience  Walker 
and  had  eleven  children.  3.  Samuel,  i()8o: 
married  Elizabeth  Hidl  and  had  two  daughters. 
4.  Joseph,  ( )ctober  21.  1(181.  5.  Benjamin. 
if^>83.  6.  .-Xbraham,  iCxSs,  see  forward.  7. 
.Sarah,  1686.  8.  Isaac,  Jainiary  12,  1687-88. 
died  1756;  had  five  children;  Samuel.  Isaac. 
Daniel.  Nathaniel  and  Hannah.  9.  Jacob. 
1690.  10.  Ebenezer.  July  IQ,  1693;  married  1 
.Anna  Dunn  and  had  nine  children.  11.  Fph- 
riam.  1694.  12.  Rebecca,  November  21,  1697; 
married  Toseph  Fitz  Randoli)h  and  had  thir- 
teen children.      13.  .\bigail.  May  10,   1699. 

(Ill)  .Abraham,  son  of  Rev.  John  Drake, 
was  born  in  1685,  died  before  May  6,  1763. 
He  is  believed  to  have  been  of  Newton,  New 
Jersey.  In  a  deed,  1761,  Abraham  and  De- 
liverance Drake  sell  three  hundred  and  sixty- 
eight  acres  to  Moses  Tompkins,  all  of  Rox- 
bury.  April  25,  1751,  he  Ixiught  of  the  pro- 
|)rietors  of  the  townslii|)  fiftv-fmir  acres,  "what 
is  now  the  mill  pmperty  at  Drakeville.  '  The 
name  of  his  wife  was  Deliverance  and  they 
had  four  children:  i.  .Abraham,  died  before 
the  date  of  his  father's  will   (1759)  :  had  two 


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■liildren  who  arc  mentioned  in  their  grandfath- 
■r's  will.  2.  Nathaniel,  see  forward.  3.  Jacob, 
vho  in  ij()S  signed  a  call  to  a  minister  for 
iuccasiinna  church,  and  had  one  son.  Jacob. 
[.  Elisha,  married  and  had  probably  sons 
iacob,  John,  Daniel  and  Elisha. 

(IVj  Nathaniel,  son  of  Abraham  and  De- 
iverance  Drake,  is  mentioned  as  a  freeholder 
)f  Roxbury  township,  174 1 ;  licensed  as  tavern 
cee])er  in  1743;  will  admitted  to  probate  May 
J,  1778,  in  Sussex  county,  names  wife  Ann  and 
:our  children:  1.  Nathaniel,  see  forward.  2. 
foseph,  born  1761,  died  1813;  married  (first) 
'Miss  Desire."  (second),  Mrs.  Susannah 
\yres,  and  had  Nathaniel,  John,  Sarah,  Mar- 
ha.  Alexander  F.,  Margaret,  Mark  L.  and 
jeorge  H.     3.  Samuel.     4.  John. 

(\')  Nathaniel  Drake,  of  Middlesex  county, 
\'ew  Jersey,  is  presumed  to  be  the  Nathaniel 
Drake,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Ann  Drake,  men- 
ioned  in  the  preceding  paragraph,  tie  mar- 
ked a  j\Iiss  Bryant.  Children:  Elnathan,  see 
'orward.  2.  Charles,  born  in  Hunterdon 
:ounty,  New  Jersey;  a  farmer. 

(VI)  Elnathan,  son  of  Nathaniel  Drake, 
vas  born  and  reared  in  Hunterdon  county, 
\'ew  Jersey.  He  was  a  farmer  on  a  large 
cale,  owning  two  farms.  He  was  a  resident 
)f  Mercer  county.  New  Jersey.  He  died  in 
839,  well  advanced  in  years.  He  married 
sarah  Van  Kirk,  daughter  of  Dr.  Benjamin 
md  ( .\rmitage )    \  an    Kirk.     Chil- 

Iren :  ]\Iary,  Sally  .Ann,  Deborah  \  .,  Hannah 
itta.  Bayard  S.,  Reuben  .Armitage.  see 
'orward. 

(\'n  )  Reuben  .Armitage.  son  of  Elnathan 
3rake.  was  born  in  Seiitember,  1820.  He 
pent  his  life  in  Hopewell  township.  Mercer 
:ounty.  New  Jersey,  as  a  farmer,  fruit  grower 
ind  stock  man.  He  was  first  a  Whig,  later  a 
Republican,  and  an  active  and  public-s]iirited 
itizen.  He  served  as  a  member  of  Colonel 
funimings  Princeton  Troop  during  the  civil 
var.  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Peter 
k'oorhees,  of  Somerset  county.  New  Jersey 
see  \'oorhees,  \'IH).  Children:  Herbert 
Krmitage.  see  forward,  Batard  Ridgely,  Jane 
khenck,  Sara  Emily,  Mary  Louisa,  Peter 
k'oorhees.  Reuben  A.  Drake  died  1883:  his 
vife  died  in  1867. 

(\'III)  Herljert  Armitage,  son  of  Reuben 
\rmitage  and  Mary  ( \'oorhees )  Drake,  was 
)orn  in  Hopewell  township.  Mercer  county, 
\'ew  Jersey,  July  2.  1845.  He  acquired  his 
■arly  literary  education  in  public  schools  and 
^awrenceville  high  school,  graduating  from 
he  latter  in   1864.     He  then  entered  Rutgers 


Coilege  and  graduated  .\.  B.  in  1868;  A.  M.  in 
course,  1871.  He  read  law-  under  the  direction 
I  if  his  uncle,  Peter  L.  \'oorhees,  and  was  ad- 
mitted as  attorney  in  1871  and  as  counsellor  in 
June,  1874.  Mr.  Drake  is  a  member  of  the 
Cnited  States  circuit  and  district  courts  of 
New  Jersey  and  also  of  the  eastern  district  of 
Pennsylvania.  His  practice  is  general  in  the 
civil  courts,  although  he  inclines  in  preference 
to  cases  in  the  equity  courts.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  New  Jersey  State  Bar  .Association, 
Camden  County  Bar  .\ssociation.  Philatlelphia 
luhical  Culture  Society,  and  in  politics  is  an 
independent.  He  is  an  occasional  and  interest- 
ing contributor  to  current  literature  and  iiis 
articles  on  economic  subjects  generally  have 
appeared  in  various  magazine  publications.  Mr. 
Drake  married,  November  2-,,  1888,  .Sacia 
Hersey,  daughter  of  Rev.  Holden  R.  Nye,  D. 
D.,  of  .Norwood,  Massachusetts,  a  clergyman 
of  the  Universalist  church.  Children:  i. 
Ouaesita  Cromw-ell  Frazier.  born  .August  29, 
1889:  student  at  \'assar.  2.  Beata  \oorhees 
Armitage,  born  .April  21,  1891,  now  a  student 
at  the  P>iends'  School,  Jenkintown,  Pennsyl- 
vania. 


John  Ogden,  founder  of  the 
OGDEN  Ogdens  of  Elizabethtown,  be- 
longs to  that  small  group  of 
families  that  can  trace  back  step  by  step  their 
l^edigree  for  generation  after  generation  in  the 
mother  country  with  more  certainty  than  con- 
jecture, and  can  say  with  assurance  "We  go 
back  to  \\'illiam  the  Conqueror."  .At  first 
written  de  Hoghton,  and  then  passing  through 
a  variety  of  spellings  imtil  it  finally  crystal- 
lized in  its  present  form,  the  family  surname 
belongs  to  that  class  of  Saxon  cognomens 
which  have  a  local  or  territorial  signification, 
for  the  word  Ogden  means  the  vale  of  oaks. 
and  the  Ogdens  were  the  dwellers  in  the  oak- 
dale.  Consequently  on  their  arms  have  always 
been  found  the  oak  branch  or  the  leaf  or  the 
acorn  and  sometimes  two  or  more  of  these 
combined. 

While  there  are  Ogden  records  as  early  as 
1 150,  when  Peter  de  Hoghton  founded  the 
priory  of  Erden  or  Arden,  near  I'lack  Hamel- 
don,  in  the  deanery  of  Cleveland,  the  earliest 
discoverable  ancestor  of  John  Ogden,  of  Eliz- 
abethtown, appears  to  be  Robert  Ogden,  of 
Hampshire,  from  whom  likewise  are  descend- 
ed the  Ogilens  of  Rye,  Westchester  county. 
New  York,  the  Ogdens  of  Fairfield,  Connecti- 
cut, and  the  Quaker  CJgdens  of  Philadelphia. 
(I)    Robert    Ogden   is   on    record    in    1453, 


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STATI-:    OF    NEW    lERSEY. 


when  he  appears  as  a  witness  to  a  grant  of 
land  in  Xutlev.  Hampshire,  and  again  in  1457. 
in  connection  with  a  post-mortem  search  con- 
cerning lands  belonging  to  Joan  Ogden,  of 
Ellingham,  county  Southants.  This  Joan  was 
probably  his  wife  and  the  mother  of  his  two 
recorded  children,  Richard  and  William.  Will- 
iam Ogden,  of  Ellingham,  whose  will  is  dated 
September  8.  15 17.  and  proved  the  same  year, 
married  Agnes,  daughter  of  John  Hamlyn, 
and  had  five  children  :  Richard" :  Jane  ;  Eliza- 
beth, married  John  Xicholls,  of  Roundway, 
county  Wilts;  Alice,  wife  of  Robert  West- 
bury,  of  Hants;  and  John.  John  Ogden,  of 
Ellingham,  who  died  in  1560,  married  Jane, 
daughter  of  Hugh  Alollineu.x,  and  had  W'ill- 
iam,  married  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Sir  William 
Meu.x  and  Eleanor  Strangeways,  of  Kingston, 
Isle  of  Wight ;  Agnes,  married  a  Mr.  Morgan, 
of  Peldon,  and  Philip.  Philip  Ogden  was 
twice  married  ;  first  to  Alice,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam Sharye,  of  Sarum,  who  bore  him  two  chil- 
dren: Jane,  and  Anne,  wife  of  Edward,  son 
of  Thomas  Wilmot  and  Anne  Twedy,  and 
grandson  of  Edw'ard  Wilmot,  of  Newent, 
county  Gloucester.  Philip's  second  wife  was 
I'.ridgct.  daughter  of  William  Kelloway.  who 
bore  him  two  more  children  :  John  and  Will- 
iam. William  Ogden  died  in  1664;  married, 
1598,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  George  Uvedale 
and  Margery  Mille,  of  Purbeck,  and  had  one 
child,  Edward,  the  father  of  John  Ogden, 
who  was  granted  arms  by  Charles  II  for  ser- 
vices rendered  b'-  John  Ogden  to  his  royal 
father.  This  John  w^as  the  father  of  David, 
the  founder  of  the  Quaker  Ogden  family. 

(II)  Richard,  son  of  Robert  and  Joan 
Ogden,  married  before  March  8,  1503,  Mabel, 
daughter  of  Johannes  de  Hoogan,  of  the 
parish  of  Lyndhurst,  Hants,  as  appears  from 
an  indenture  of  .September  19,  15 13,  in  which 
Mabel,  wife  of  Richard  Ogden,  releases  to 
Thomas  Delavale,  of  Lyndhurst,  land  which 
she  had  from  her  father,  deceased,  and  als(5 
other  land  which  she  and  her  husband  had  of 
Walter  de  1  loogan.  her  husband's  brother,  by 
deed  dated  March  8.  1503.  Richard  and  Mabel 
(de  Hoogan)  Ogden  had  three  children:  i. 
John,  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Robert 
Wharton,  an<l  had  two  children:  Elizabeth 
and  Margaret.  2.  Robert,  whose  line  became 
extinct  in  1613.    3.  AN'illiam,  see  forward. 

(III)  William,  son  of  Richard  and  Mabel 
(de  Hoogan)  Ogden.  married,  May  9,  1539, 
Abigail,  daughter  of  Henry  Goodsall,  of  Brad- 
ley Plain,  Southants,  and  left  three  children : 
I.  Edward,  see  forward.    2.  .Abigail,  born  July 


14.  1541  ;  married,  October  3,  1562,  Philip 
llennet.  and  had  issue.  3.  Charles,  born  1543; 
married  a  Miss  Williams. 

(I\')  Edward,  son  of  William  and  Abigail 
((icodsall)  Ogden,  was  born  September  6, 
1540,  at  Bradley  Plain,  and  married  there.  De- 
cember 16,  1563,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Rich- 
ard and  Margaret  Wilson.  December  18, 
1563,  Richard  and  Margaret  Wilson  confirm 
to  their  son-in-law  and  daughter  and  their 
lawful  issue  land  in  Bradley  Plain,  and  four 
acres  in  Minstead.  Edward  and  Margaret 
(  Wilson  )  Ogden  had  five  children  :  I.  Thomas, 
see  forward.  2.  Margaret,  born  February  21, 
1566;  married,  February  6,  1593.  Isaac  Sam- 
ford.  3.  Richard,  see  forw-ard.  4.  Edward, 
died  in  infancy,  April  17,  1570.  5.  John,  see 
forward. 

(\')  Thomas,  eldest  son  of  Edward  and 
Margaret  (Wilson)  Ogden.  born  in  Bradley 
Plain,  May  4.  i5t)5:  married.  February  16, 
1597.  F'lizabeth.  daughter  of  John  Samford. 
and  had  three  children:  i.  Mary,  born  Janu- 
ary 12,  1598,  died  unmarried.  2.  John,  Sep- 
tember 3,  1600;  married  (first)  May  4,  1627, 
.\nne,  daughter  of  Joseph  Richardson,  and 
(second)  probably  in  Stamford.  Connecticut, 
Judith,  daughter  of  Lieutenant  John  Budd. 
the  original  ])urchaser  of  Budd's  Xeck,' now  a 
part  of  the  town  of  Rye,  Westchester  county. 
New  York.  This  John  Ogden  was  one  of  the 
petitioners  to  Charles  II  for  the  charter  of 
Connecticut,  and  in  1674  and  1675  was  deputy 
governor  of  the  state.  I  ie  was  instrumental  in 
settling  the  boundary  line  between  New  York 
and  Connecticut,  and  must  not  be  confounded 
with  his  cousin  John  of  Southampton  and 
l'",lizabethtown,  hereafter  referred  to.  John 
Ogden,  of  Rye.  died  before  August  7,  1682. 
when  his  widow  Judith  presented  to  the  pro- 
bate court  of  F'airfield  the  inventory  of  his 
estate ;  his  descendants  are  numerous.  3.  Mar- 
garet, July  I.  1601  ;  married  Samuel  Hope. 

(  \' )  Richard,  second  son  of  Edward  and 
Margaret  (Wilson)  Ogden,  was  born  at  IJrad- 
ley  Plain,  May  15,  1568;  married.  May  2, 
1592,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mar- 
garet (Crane)  Huntington.  Children:  i. 
Richard,  born  Mav  3,  1596,  died  in  infancy.  2. 
Richard,  September  18,  1597.  died  May  3, 
1599.  3.  Edward,  July  21.  1598;  married,  De- 
cember 2,  1630,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Ed- 
ward and  -Alice  (Dimery)  Knight,  of  Wood- 
bury Hill,  Worcester.  4.  Elizabeth,  Decem- 
ber 17,  1603.  died  in  infancy.  5.  Elizabeth, 
May  13,  1607,  married  Mr.  Martin.  6.  John, 
referred  to  below.     7.  Richard,   [ulv  i,   \(no, 


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^S 


(lieil  Fairfield.  Connecticut,  early  in  1687: 
married.  I'radley  Plain.  August  31,  1O39. 
Mary,  daughter  of  David  Hall,  of  Gloucester, 
EngL'uid.  His  sons,  Richard  and  David,  lived 
and  died  in  I'airfield,  and  their  descendants 
are  there  now.  John,  his  youngest  son.  removed 
to  Cohansey.  New  Jersey,  and  his  descendants 
are  numerous.  Of  his  daughters.  Hannah, 
married  Sergeant  Samuel  \Vard.  Thankful, 
Daniel  .Silliman,  Elizabeth,  Daniel  Meeker, 
and  Elizabeth,  who  died  before  her  father. 
John  Pine.  8.  David.  June  11.  161 1.  died  with- 
out issue. 

(\')  John,  son  of  Edward  and  Margaret 
(Wilson)  Ogden.  born  September  19.  1571. 
married.  May  2,  1592.  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Margaret  (Crane)  Huntington. 
The  record  continues:  "Margaret  Crane's 
nephew,  Jasper  Crane,  emigrated  to  Newark. 
New  Jersey,  and  his  daughter  Hannah  mar- 
ried Thomas  Huntington,  son  of  .Simon,  who 
emigrated  to  Massachusetts,  but  died  on  the 
passage  from  England  to  ISoston.  in   if'^.v" 

(  \'l  I  John  (2).  fourth  son  of  Richard  and 
Elizabeth  (Huntington  I  Ogden,  was  born  in 
I'.radley  Plain,  September  19,  1609,  died  in 
Elizabetlitown.  New  Jersey,  in  May.  1682. 
His  youth  and  early  married  life  were  s])ent 
in  the  place  of  his  birth  and  he  seems  to  have 
prospered  there,  as  October  18,  1639,  he  con- 
veys to  Ezekiel  Howard,  of  I'radley  Plain,  a 
garden,  an  orchard,  four  acres  of  pasture,  and 
two  acres  of  woodland,  with  appurtenances. 
This  was  shortly  before  he  took  ship  with  his 
wife  and  three  infant  children  for  the  new 
world,  where  we  find  him  in  the  following 
year.  .April  17,  1640,  being  granted  the  tract  on 
Long  Island  known  as  the  Shinnecock  Hill  to 
the  west  of  Southampton,  in  the  founding  of 
which  town  he  took  one  of  the  leading  parts. 
.-\t  this  time  the  Dutch  in  New  Amsterdam 
were  very  desirous  of  building  a  new  church 
for  tliemselves,  for  their  old  one  was  in  a  very 
dilapidated  condition,  and  as  Captain  David 
De  \'ries  told  the  director  general,  "It  is  a 
shame  that  the  I^^nglish  should  see,  when  the\' 
])assed,  nothing  but  a  mean  barn  in  which 
public  worship  was  ])erformed.  The  first 
thing  tlie\  do  in  New  England,  when  they 
raise  some  dwellings,  is.  on  the  contrary,  to 
build  a  fine  church,  we  ought  to  do  the  same." 
Director  Kieft  had  promised  to  advance  some 
thousand  guilders  from  the  ]3ublic  chest  and 
the  remainder  was  to  be  raised  by  private  sub- 
scri|)tion.  Then  came  the  marriage  of  the 
daughter  of  Dominie  Pogardns.  which  was 
hai)pil\-  conceived  of  as  a  good  time  to  raise 


the  fund  required.  So  when  the  wedding 
party  was  in  the  height  of  good  humor,  and 
mellow  with  the  host's  good  cheer,  the  director 
general  called  on  the  guests  to  subscribe.  The 
dis]iosition  to  be  generous  at  such  a  time  was 
not  wanting,  and  each  guest  emulating  his 
neighbor,  a  handsome  list  was  made  out.  When 
the  morning  came,  a  few  more  were  found 
desirous  of  reconsidering  the  transactions  of 
the  wedding  feast,  but  Director  Kieft  would 
allow  no  such  second  thought.  They  must  pay 
all  without  exception.  Consequently  the  direc- 
tor entered  into  the  following  contract  with  the 
brothers,  John  and  Richard  Ogden  ; 

".\])pearcd  before  me  Cornells  van  Tien- 
hovcn,  secretary  in  behalf  of  the  General  Priv- 
ileged \\'est  India  Company,  in  New  Nether- 
land,  the  Honorable  William  Kieft,  Church- 
master,  at  the  request  of  his  brethren,  the 
Church  master  of  the  Church  in  New  Nether- 
land,  to  transact  and  in  their  name  to  conclude 
the  following  business ;  So  did  he  as  Church- 
master  agree  with  John  Ogden  about  a  church 
in  the  following  manner:  John  (^gden  of 
Stamford  and  Richard  Ogden  engaged  to  build 
in  behalf  of  said  Churchmasters  a  church  of 
rock-stone,  seventy-two  feet  long,  fifty  feet 
broad  and  sixteen  feet  high  above  the  soil  all 
in  good  order  and  in  workman  like  manner. 
Thev  shall  be  obliged  to  procure  the  stone  and 
bring  it  on  shore  near  the  fort  at  their  own 
expense  from  whence  the  Church  masters  shall 
further  convey  the  stone  to  the  place  where  it 
is  intended  to  build  the  church  at  their  own 
expense.  The  Churchmasters  aforesaid  will 
procure  as  much  lime  as  shall  be  required  for 
the  building  of  the  aforesaid  church.  John 
and  Richard  ()gden  shall  at  their  own  charge 
pay  for  the  masonry,  etc..  provided  that  when 
the  work  shall  be  finished  the  Churchmasters 
shall  pay  to  them  the  sum  of  two  thousand 
five  hundred  guilders,  which  payment  shall  be 
made  in  beaver,  cash,  or  merchandise,  to  wit : 
1  f  the  Churchmasters  are  satisfied  with  the 
work  so  that  in  their  judgment  the  two  thou- 
--and  five  hundred  guilders  shall  have  been 
earned  then  the  said  Churchmasters  shall 
reward  them  with  one  hundred  guilders  more : 
and  the  further  promise  to  John  and  Richard 
Ogden  to  assist  them  whenever  it  is  in  their 
l)Ower.  They  further  agree  to  facilitate  the 
carrying  the  stone  thither,  and  that  John  and 
Richard  Ogden  may  use  during  a  month  or 
six  weeks  the  company's  boat :  engaging  them- 
selves and  the  aforesaid  John  and  Richard 
Ogden  to  finish  the  undertaken  work  in  the 
manner  thev  contracted.     Done  in  I-'ort  .\m- 


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sterdam  in  New  XctluTlaiul.  (Signed)  W'il- 
lem  Kieft.  John  Ogden,  Richard  Ogden.  (jys- 
bert  op  Dyck.  'I'himas  Willett."  (Albany  rec- 
ords 3  131 ). 

Director  Kieft.  who  probably  even  tlien  had 
in  contemplation  his  plan  of  exterminating  the 
Indians  and  was  therefore  desirous  of  provid- 
ing against  future  contingencies,  had  this  new 
church  built  within  the  fort  itself,  although 
according  to  contemporary  writers  the  people 
generally  were  opposed  to  such  a  site  arguing 
that  "the  fort  was  already  very  small,  that  it 
stood  on  the  point  or  extremity  of  the  island 
whereas  a  more  central  position  ought  to  be 
selected  for  the  accommodation  of  the  faithful 
generally,  and  in  particular  that  the  erection  of 
a  church  within  the  fort  would  prevent  the 
southeast  wind  reaching  the  grist-mill  which 
stood  thereabout  and  thus  cause  the  people  to 
suffer  especialh-  in  summer  through  want  of 
bread."'  Consequently  the  new  church  pro- 
ceeded rather  slowly  in  building  and  it  was 
two  or  three  years  before  it  was  even  advanced 
enough  for  services  to  be  held  in  it  in  its  unfin- 
ished condition.  At  length,  however,  the  shin- 
gle roof  was  put  on,  and  to  commemorate  the 
xeal  both  of  the  director-general  and  the  com- 
monalty on  this  occasion  a  marble  slab  was 
placed  conspicuously  in  front  of  the  build- 
ing with  the  following  inscription  engraved 
thereon : 

("Anno  1642,  Willem  Kieft,  Directeur- 
Generael,  heeft  de  gemeente  desen  Tempel 
doen  bouwen,"  that  is  "In  the  year  1642  Will- 
iam Kieft  Director-general,  hath  the  Common- 
alty this  Temjjle  caused  to  be  built."  Writing 
in  181 7,  Judge  llenson  .says  that  when  the  fort 
was  taken  down  "a  few  years  since,"  the  mar- 
ble slab  above  alluded  to  was  found  with  the 
Dutch  in.scription  on  it.  buried  in  the  earth, 
and  then  removed  to  the  belfry  of  the  church 
in  (Sarden  street.  New  \'ork,  belonging  to  the 
Dutch  Reformed  congregation.  On  the  de- 
struction of  the  latter  building  by  the  great 
fire  of  1S35,  the  slab  totally  disai)])'eared. 

Eroni  the  contract  for  this  church  it  would 
appear  that  John  Ogden  had  removed  from 
Southampton  to  Stamford,  but  he  did  not  long 
remain  there,  for  after  three  years  residence, 
during  [f)44,  he  and  several  other  settlers,  who 
had  grown  restive  imder  the  limited  franchise 
granted  them  by  the  New  Haven  Colony,  de- 
cided to  try  their  fortimes  imder  the  Dutch 
government  on  Long  Island  and  accordingly 
located  themselves  at  Hem])stead;  and  on 
making  ai)plication  to  Director  Kieft,  received 
from  him  a  jialent  to  "the  Crcat  Plains."     His 


associates  in  this  venture  were  the  Rev.  Robert 
Fordham.John  Strickland,  John  Karman.John 
Lawrence  and  Jonas  \\  ood.  Here  too  he  was 
unable  to  find  a  home  which  satisfied  him.  audi 
we  learn  of  him  in  1647  obtaining  permission ; 
from  the  authorities  of  Southampton  to  plant 
a  colony  of  six  families  at  "Xorth  Sea"  (C^ireat 
Peconic  P>ay)  about  three  miles  from  South- 
ampton. Later  this  place  became  known  as 
Northampton.  About  this  time- too.  if  not  at 
an  earlier  ])eriod,  John  Ogden  became  inter- 
ested in  the  whaling  industry  which  engaged 
his  attention  up  to  as  late  as  1668.  January 
30,  1650,  the  general  court  of  Southaiupton 
gave  him  "free  liberty  without  interruption 
from  the  Inhabitants  of  Southampton  to  kill 
whales  vpon  the  South  Sea  (i.  e.  the  ocean)  at 
or  within  any  part  of  the  bounds  of  the  saide 
towne  for  the  space  of  seaven  yeares  ne.xt 
ensuing  the  date  hereof  and  in  that  space  noe 
lilierty  shall  be  granted  to  any  by  the  saide 
inhabitants  to  any  other  person  or  persons 
to  kill  or  strike  any  within  the  bounds  of  the 
saide  towne."  Three  years  later.  August  21, 
1654,  this  liberty  was  renewed  to  "Mr.  Odell 
and  Mr.  Ogden  and  their  company  vpon  the 
same  termes  with  the  exceptions  following,  ist 
yf  any  whale  come  within  Shinecock  bay  gut 
they  the  said  comjiany  are  not  to  medle  with 
them,  nor  any  other  whale  or  wdiales  wherein 
there  is  no  sign  of  their  killing  them  at  sea,  but 
they  shall  belong  to  the  town  as  formerly.  By 
the  said  signes  of  said  company  their  killing 
any  whale  is  to  be  understood  by  harping  irons 
v|)on  them  or"  (the  remainder  of  the  record 
gone). 

March  31.  1(150.  John  (  )gden  began  his 
|)rominent  public  career  in  Southampton  by 
being  made  a  freeman  by  the  general  court 
along  with  Thomas  To])])ing.  .\fter  this,  not 
only  is  he  one  of  the  most  fre(|uently  chosen 
jiu^ors,  but  from  October  7,  i()5o.  to  Octoin^r 
6.  1652,  and  from  October  7,  1653,  to  October 
(\  if)f)3.  he  served  as  one  of  the  three  town 
magistrates.  P.eginning  with  the  year  1636  he 
also  has  a  record  of  continuous  service  as  one 
of  the  two  representatives  of  the  tow-n  at  the 
assembly  in  Hartford.  March  6.  1657.  he  \\a> 
one  of  the  six  men  chosen  at  the  town  meeting 
to  arbitrate  concerning  the  land  at  South- 
ampton which  was  claimed  by  the  men  of 
b'asthampton.  ( )n  .\pril  30,  following  he  was 
selected  as  one  of  the  forty  men  who  were 
to  "have  half  a  pound  of  powder  apeece  deliv- 
pred  *  *  *  out  of  ye  magazen."  For  some 
reason  or  other  the  town  had  divided  its  ox 
pasture  into  two  divisions  separated  from  each 


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other  by  a  five  rail  fence,  and  June  2.  1657, 
the  town  voted  that  "Edward  Howell  and 
John  Ogden  should  adjudge  unlawful  cattle 
and  horses  in  the  ox  pasture  (i.  e.  those  be- 
longing in  one  division  and  found  in  the  other), 
and  turn  them  out.  They  shall  also  judge  if 
fence  of  ox  pasture  is  sufficient  and  whosoever 
is  found  defective  in  their  fence  shall  make  it 
sutficient  by  seven  nights  they  having  notice 
bv  the  next'  3d  day  at  night  upon  forfeiture  of 
5s  a  pole  for  every  neglect  and  if  found  within 
the  ox  pasture  after  being  turned  out  by  the 
aforesaid  men  they  shall  forfeit  2s  a  beast  to 
be  levied  by  way  of  execution."'  May  5,  1658, 
by  a  majority  vote  of  the  town  meeting  "John 
C3gden  is  tlirccted  to  send  over  all  money  in 
constable's  hands  to  discharge  the  town's  debts 
and  to  act  in  the  town's  behalf  in  anything  he 
conceived  may  redown  to  the  good  of  the 
town."  .\nd  again  November  25,  1659,  he  was 
one  of  the  twelve  men  chosen  by  the  town  to 
"regulate  the  town  papers  and  writings  to 
cashiere  those  that  are  in  their  ludgenient 
vnnecessary  and  put  select  documents  in  con- 
venient form  for  the  towns  vse.  Also  to  select 
all  laws  from  the  law  book  at  Hartford  that 
apply  to  the  town."  Each  man  was  to  forfeit 
to  the  town  2s,  6d  per  day  if  he  did  not  have 
"reasonable  cause  for  his  absence"  while  the 
board  was  sitting. 

March  7,  1(151.  Richard  Mills,  the  school- 
master and  .town  clerk,  sold  his  homestead  to 
John  Cooper,  Jr.,  but  in  doing  so  infringed 
apparently  ii])on  the  rights  of  John  Ogden, 
who  March  10,  1651,  entered  an  action  of  tres- 
pass against  Mills  with  regard  to  the  property, 
^lills  retaliating  the  same  day  with  a  counter 
action  against  John  Ogden.  The  follow'ing  day 
the  court  found  a  verdict  for  John  Ogden  in 
both  suits  and  sentenced  Mills  to  pay  40s. 
damages  and  costs.  John  Ogden  then  began 
suit  against  John  Cooper  and  the  court  again 
found  for  (^)gden,  assessing  the  defendant  2d 
and  costs,  and  upon  Cooper's  appealing  to  the 
general  court  that  body,  November  3,  165 1, 
again  decided  in  John  Ogden's  favor.  About 
a  year  later,  I-'ebruary  25,  1652,  John  Ogden 
is  again  brought  into  court,  this  time  as  defend- 
ant in  a  suit  brought  against  him  by  Mr.  John 
Stanborough  "in  an  action  of  debt  in  the  behalf 
of  Mr.  Robert  Scott  of  Boston  merchant,"  and 
on  the  ensuing  March  i,  the  case  is  settled  by 
arbitration. 

John  Ogden  was  also  called  upon  to  settle 
the  private  as  well  as  the  public  affairs  of 
others.  .\])ril  4,  1654,  the  general  court  order- 
ed that  "Mr.  John  Ogden  Sen  &  Jonas  Wood 


shall  bee  prizers  of  the  goods  and  chattells  be- 
longing to  W'm.  Paine  of  late  deceased;"  and 
at  the  (|uarter  court,  Alarch  i,  1658,  John 
Ogden  and  Samuel  Clark  are  appointed  ad- 
ministrators for  the  estate  of  Mark  Meiggs, 
who  with  his  father  \incent,  brother  John, 
and  wife  Avis  had  been  residents  of  North 
Sea  since  1651.  Meiggs  had  left  a  will,  leav- 
ing his  proi)erty  to  his  wife  for  her  life  and 
after  her  death  to  Samuel,  son  of  John  Lum ; 
but  apparently  had  made  no  provision  for  the 
payment  of  his  debts,  for  when  the  adminis- 
trators reported  that  they  had  "sold  at  an  out- 
cry" six  items  belonging  to  the  estate,  the 
court  ordered  that  the  proceetls  be  handed  to 
John  Ogden  and  Samuel  Clark  in  payment  of 
Meiggs  debts.  Three  of  these  items  had  been 
bidden  in  by  John  Ogden  for  £13,  los,  namely, 
four  shotes,  for  £2.  4s ;  two  yearling  bulls  and 
a  calf  for  £5,  los;  and  two  ewes,  two  lambs, 
and  "half  of  a  calf"  for  £5,  16s.  Two  of  the 
remaining  three  items,  the  "half  of  a  three 
year  old  and  half  of  a  two  year  old,"  and 
Meiggs  house  and  lot  had  been  bought  by 
John  Scot  who,  however,  did  not  pay  for  the 
second  item,  and  was  conse(|uently  ordered  by 
the  court  to  pay  the  marshall  £2  "for  contempt 
of  court  order  and  court  charge." 

Tohn  Ogden's  real  estate  transactions,  while 
he  sojourned  on  Long  Island  were  quite  exten- 
sive, lieginning  with  his  grant  of  the  Shinne- 
cock  Hill,  .\pril  17,  1640,  his  share  in  the 
patent  of  the  Great  I^lains  from  Governor 
Kieft  in  1644,  we  find  him  steadily  increasing 
his  holdings  up  to  1659,  when  he  begins  to 
dispose  of  them  again,  piece  by  piece  until  by 
the  end  of  1667  he  has  sold  out  all  of  his 
interests.  February  21,  1649,  "It  is  granted 
by  the  major  parte  of  this  towne  (i.  e.  South- 
ampton )  that  Mr.  Ogden  and  his  company  shall 
have  Ciiw  Xeck  and  Jeflery  Neck  for  their  ownc 
j)roper  Right ;  also  that  they  shall  have  for  their 
planting  Land  in  either  or  both  of  saiil  necks 
three  hundred  24  .\cres  of  said  Land  provided 
they  settl<?  vpon  it  and  vpon  the  same  grant 
the\-  are  to  have  all  the  meadow  betwixt  the 
brooke  liy  the  Sachems  house  and  Hogneck 
spring  for  their  proper  Right  provided  it  bee 
not  above  a  mile  from  the  sea  side  the  North 
Sea ;  \'pon  these  conditions  following  first  that 
thev  must  jiay  to  all  Common  Rates  with  the 
Towne  after  the  rate  of  nine  hundred  pounds 
according  to  the  takeings  vp  of  those  men  that 
dwell  in  the  Towne:  2iy  that  Hee  shall  plant 
there  si.x  familyes  or  more  that  shall  there  Live 
and  have  there  abode:  3iy  tliat  In  Case  that 
the  whole  bounds  of  the  Towne  come  to  bee 


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stinted  for  Cattell  then  they  must  bee  stinted 
for  suinmer  feed  as  they  are  that  live  at  the 
towne :  by  the  same  Rule  in  Common  Rates  as 
aforesaid  is  alsoe  included  the  misters  meenes." 
A])ril  15,  1656,  we  find  the  entry,  "Mr  Ogden 
acknowledgment  yt  Mr.  Odell  his  lotment  in 
Sagaponack  devision  belongeth  to  him,"  June 
5.  1657,  he  bought  Samuel  Dayton"s  house  and 
home  lot  "and  five  acres  in  the  ten  acre  Lotts 
and  four  in  coopers  neck  and  two  acres  more 
in  another  place  also  he  bouylit  the  meddow 
belonging  to  it."  January  10,  1658,  the  town 
meeting  granted  him  "that  part  of  swamp  that 
lies  against  his  lot  in  Coopers  lott ;"  and  May 
12,  1659,  he  purchased  from  Wyandanch, 
sachem  of  paumanicke  and  his  .son  W'eeaya- 
comboune.  another  large  tract  of  land,  .\bout 
two  weeks  after  this  last  purchase,  John  Ogden 
began  to  get  rid  of  some  of  his  accumulated 
real  estate  holdings,  and  May  23.  1659.  he  re- 
ct)rds  the  following  acknowledgments  :  that  "hee 
hath  soiild  vnto  Ellis  Cooke  and  Isaac  Will- 
man  the  division  of  Sagaponack  at  mecox  that 
was  formerly  Goodman  White's  which  lieth 
for  twe  acres;"  and  that  he  "hath  sould  vnto 
Ellis  Cooke  and  Isaack  Willman  one  allotment 
of  .Sagaponack  division  numb  ^2  that  was  for- 
merly Isaack  Willman  allso  hee  acknowledgth 
he  hath  sould  vnto  Ellis  and  the  said  Isaac 
anothr  lott  that  was  fermely  in  the  hands  of 
Mr  loancs  at  mee  cooks  in  numb  33  also  an- 
othr lot  lately  in  the  hands  of  lohn  Iseevp  & 
Jonas  Bour  Xumb  35  also  an  acre  and  half 
lately  in  the  hands  of  lohn  White  and  lonas 
I'.our  lying  between  Edward  loancs  and  Isaack 
Willman."  Between  this  date  and  February 
2,  1663,  John  Ogden  also  sold  to  John  Scot  a 
part  of  the  land  he  had  received  from  the  In- 
dian sachem  Wyandanch :  and  the  ensuing 
March  1,  1663,  he  sold  to  Ellis  Cooke  "the 
land  he  bought  of  William  Ludlam,  at  Me- 
cocks,  one  parcel  being  all  that  field  that  vpon 
the  laying  out  of  that  division  lay  betwcene  the 
highway  next  the  millers  and  the  next  creek 
on  tlie  east  or  .southeast  the  other  parcel  lying 
on  little  neck  on  the  west  side  of  the  creek 
which  is  on  the  west  side  of  Arthur  Howells 
land  and  was  sometime  in  jMisscssion  of  Rich- 
ard Woodhull."  From  the  above  sales  it  would 
seem  that  John  Ogden  was  determined  not  to 
remain  a  subject  of  England  under  a  monarch- 
ical rule,  for  he  begins  to  get  rid  of  his  land 
and  to  lay  his  ])lans  for  removing  to  a  country 
then  under  the  more  democratic  government 
of  the  Dutch  at  the  same  time  that  Charles 
II  was  coming  back  to  his  throne.  On  .April 
12,    1664,   just  before  he  set  out    for  his  last 


pilgrimage  to  Xew  Jersey,  he  sold  "and  deliv- 
ered to  his  uncle  ( i.  e.  his  cousin )  Mr.  lohn 
Ogden  ( of  Rye )  his  houseing  and  home  lot 
with  all  ye  land  lying  at  the  reare  thereof  and 
allsoe  his  fifteen  accres  lying  at  the  Long 
Springs  aid  alsoe  the  priviledges  to  a  fifty 
pound  lot."  This  property  was  sold  by  John 
Ogden,  of  Rye,  September  7,  1665,  to  his  own 
son-in-law,  John  \\'oodruiif :  and  he  in  turn  on 
the  same  date  sold  it  to  Robert  Wooley.  Sep- 
tember 6,  1665,  John  Ogden  of  Southampton 
sold  "all  his  land  lying  neere  the  north  sea 
bowses  in  that  place  comonly  called  the  field 
by  the  Clay  pits  (except  ye  quantity  of  two 
poles  all  along  by  the  ditch  side  therein  to  digg 
or  delve  it  to  the  ditch  )  vnto  lohn  Rose  of  ye 
said  north  sea  him  his  heyres  and  assings  for 
ever.  .As  alsoe  hee  ye  said  Mr.  lohn  Ogden 
hath  sould  and  delivered  one  peece  of  meadow 
of  his  lying  in  Cow  Xeck  vnto  him  the  said 
lohn  Rose  the  said  meadow  being  bounded  by 
Tlio  Shaw  his  meadow  on  the  west  side  and 
\e  said  lohn  Rose  his  meadow  on  the  north- 
ward side."  September  8.  1666,  he  sells  to 
John  Langton  a  "50  of  commonage:"  and  No- 
vember 2,  1667.  he  completes  the  severing  of 
his  connection  with  the  town  of  Southamjiton 
by  the  following  document:  "Know  all  men 
by  these  presents  that  whereas  I  lohn  Ogden 
of  Elizabeth  Towne  in  Xew  Jersey  take  myself 
to  have  true  right  and  title  to  one  hundred 
acres  of  meadow  ground  or  salt. marsh  lying 
on  ye  side  of  a  bay  commonly  Paeconnet  or 
Pehickoneck  next  or  towards  Southampton 
lands  aid  alsoe  whereas  formerly  I  have  given 
and  granted  all  my  right  in  and  title  to  ye  said 
meadows  vnto  the  said  town  of  Southam])ton 
on  Long  Island  ( my  said  right  being  derived 
from  Wyandanca  Sachem  of  Meantauket  1  I 
doe  hereby  assume  and  confirme  vnto  the  said 
towne  my  whole  Interest  in  the  premises  they 
and  their  assigns  or  successors  to  have  &  hold 
ye  same  forever  from  mee  and  my  heirs  or 
assigns  or  from  what  1  have  done  or  may  doe 
or  any  in  my  name  may  cause  to  bee  done. 
Witness  my  hand  this  2  of  Xovember  .An  Dom 
1667.  lohn  Ogden.  In  presence  of  lohn  Rich- 
bell  Tonas  Houldsworth."  .-Mthough  he  thus 
several  all  legal  connection  with  his  late  resi- 
dence, John  Ogden  still  left  his  name  to  be 
assfKiated  with  various  bits  of  the  locality,  and 
from  then  on  to  1708  we  find  in  the  old  deeds 
references  to  "Ogden"s  I'ond,"  and  "Ogden's 
Xeck."  There  were  also  most  probably  othei' 
traces  of  his  work  that  a  more  careful  inspec- 
tion of  the  records  would  afford  especially  as 
I'ebruary    17.    ifYn.    (Iiri^tnpher    Foster    and 


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Henrv  I'ierson  were  ordered  to  assist  John 
( )gden  and  Samuel  Clark  ■"to  lay  out  the  land 
which  (according  to  a  vote  passed  January  22, 
i6ho)  was  granted  vnto  the  North  Sea  Inhabi- 
tants whoe  are  to  satisfy  sd  men  for  their 
labour  in  laying  out  ye  sd  land  and  what  ever 
the  sd  layers  out  act  and  doe  in  laying  out  any 
l)t  or  ])arcell  of  land  as  aforesaid  it  being 
according  to  tlicire  discretion  it  shall  stand 
authentick  forever  to  them  to  whom  it  Shall  in 
]iarticular  belong" 

November  29,  1659,  John  Ogden  contracted 
with  the  town  to  put  a  floor  and  seating  in  the 
meeting  house  at  an  estimated  cost  of  £60,  the 
cost  to  be  taken  from  nioneis  due  from  the 
Indians  by  virtue  of  covenants  and  court 
orders  held  at  Hartford.  It  would  seem  as  if 
£40  in  excess  of  the  above  amount  would  be 
due  from  the  Indians  within  five  years  and 
John  Ogden  was  to  pass  this  sum  to  the  town 
authorities.  He  agreed  that  there  should  be  no 
disturbance  with  the  Indians  in  collections  and 
that  tliey  should  not  be  held  for  debt  or  be  dis- 
l)ossessed  of  their  ])roperty  should  they  leave 
it  in  the  mean  time.  .\t  this  time  the  Shinne- 
cock  Indians  owed  John  Ogden  £400  for  which 
their  chief.  W'yandandanch.  stood  sponsor. 
February  11.  id*^)^.  the  Shinnecock  Indians 
made  a  treaty  with  the  English,  according  to 
which  the  Indians  were  to  obey  the  English 
laws,  be  privileged  to  take  up  grievances  with 
other  Indian  tribes,  and  to  "pay  the  £40  due 
the  English  of  .Southampton  and  relieve  John 
(  )g('en  of  said  debt."  As  they  did  not  pa\'. 
however.  John  ()gden,  November  7.  1667,  eni- 
|)loyed  John  Howell  and  Henry  P^ierson  as  his 
attorneys  to  collect  it.  It  is  possible  that  the 
only  recorded  mortgage  obtained  by  John  Ogden 
im  his  house  and  home  lot  for  £42.  13s.  dated 
August  17.  16(13,  about  si.x  months  before  the 
treaty  mentioned  above,  was  connected  with 
tin's  debt. 

September  25.  i()()4.  John  liailey.  Daniel 
Denton.  Thiimas  Piennyclick.  Nathaniel  Den- 
ton. John  Foster  and  Luke  Watson,  applied 
to  (lOvernor  Nichols  for  permission  to  pur- 
chase laml  in  New  Jersey  from  the  Indians. 
The  permission  was  granted  September  30, 
and  on  ( )ctober  28,  following.  John  Railey. 
Daniel  Denton,  and  Luke  Watson  obtained 
from  the  Indians  a  deed  for  all  the  land 
"bounded  on  the  South  by  a  River  commonly 
called  the  Raritan  River,  and  on  the  East,  by 
the  River  which  parts  Staten  Island  and  the 
Maine,  and  to  run  Northward  up  After  Cull 
Raye  till  we  come  to  the  first  River  which 
setts  Westward  out  of  the  Bav  aforesaid  and 


to  runn  Westward  into  the  County  twice  the 
Length  as  it  is  IJroad  from  the  north  to  the 
South  of  the  aforementioned  bounds."  The 
consideration  received  by  the  Indians  for  this 
tract  was  "twenty  fathom  of  trayden  Cloth  two 
made  Cotes  two  gunnes  two  kettles  ten  barres 
of  Lead  twenty  handfulls  of  Powder  foure 
hundred  fathom  of  white  wampum  or  two  hun- 
dred fathom  of  black  wampom,"  the  whole 
\alued  at  £t,(^.  14s.  The  grantors  were 
.Mattano,  Manamowaone,  and  Cowessomeu 
of  Staten  Island,  but  the  deed  was  only  signed 
by  Mattano.  December  2,  1664.  Governor 
Nichols  confirmed  the  deed  to' John  Bailey  and 
Luke  Watson,  of  Jamaica,  Captain  John 
Baker,  of  New  York,  John  Ogden,  of  North- 
ampton, "and  their  associates."  It  is  doubt- 
ful, however,  if  any  others  than  the  four  men- 
tioned were  at  that  time  interested.  Baker 
had  been  allowed  to  particijjate  in  the  benefits 
of  the  purchase  without  contributing  to  its  ex- 
]iense.  probably  in  return  for  his  services  as 
interpreter:  and  November  24.  1665.  when  the 
final  payment  was  mafle  to  the  Indians.  Gov- 
ernor Carteret  bought  up  Bailey's  interest  and 
John  Ogden.  Denton's;  and  consequently  in 
the  transfer  to  be  noticed  ])resently  to  Daniel 
Pierce  and  his  associates,  the  only  signers  of 
the  deed  are  Carteret.  Ogden  and  Watson, 
they  being  the  only  persons  interested  in  the 
title.  The  payments  to  the  Indians  were  made 
by  John  Ogden,  and  appended  to  the  Indian 
deed  is  the  following  receipt  on  account:  "Re- 
ceived of  John  r)gdcn  in  part  of  the  above 
specified  foure  hundred  feet  of  wampum  I 
say  Received  one  hundred  fathom  of  wam- 
pum by  mee  the  18  of  .\ugust  1665,  Mattano, 
.Sewak  Herones,  Warinanco  of  Staten  Island.  ' 
It  is  important  to  note  that  the  documents 
which  have  come  to  light  since  Hatfield  pub- 
lished his  "History  of  Elizabeth"  entirely  dis- 
(irove  his  contention  that  the  Elizabethtown 
associates  held  their  land  under  the  Nichols' 
grant  and  not  under  jiatent  from  the  proprie- 
tors. When  Carteret  arrived  he  found  four 
families,  the  pioneers  of  the  Jamaica  colonv 
at  Elizabethtown.  and  from  the  first  these  and 
manv  others  of  those  who  afterwards  became 
parties  to  the  suit  in  chancery  acknowledged 
the  authority  of  the  governor  and  complied 
with  the  regulations  of  the  proprietors.  The 
denial  of  the  rights  of  the  proprietors  was  an 
afterthought,  due  to  the  subsequent  litigation 
which  ensued  when  the  magnitude  of  the  in- 
terests at  stake  were  better  discerned.  Im- 
luediateh-  on  his  arrival.  Governor  Carteret 
dispatched    special   agents   to   "New    England 


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STATE    OF    XKW    JERSEY. 


and  other  places"  to  publish  the  terms  of  the 
"Concessions"  and  to  invite  emigration  to  New 
Jersey.  The  original  Indian  deed  was  to 
Bailey.  Denton  and  Watson,  and  before  1666 
the  vested  right  under  this  deed  belonged 
solely  to  Carteret,  Ogden  and  Watson.  In 
consequence  of  Carteret's  invitation,  Daniel 
Pierce,  John  Pike,  and  Andrew  Tappan,  of 
Xewbury,  Massachusetts,  came  to  New  Jer- 
sey, fixed  on  the  southern  part  of  the  Eliza- 
bethtown  tract  as  a  desirable  location,  and 
agreed  with  Philip  Carteret  as  "Governor  of 
the  Province"  and  "in  behalf  of  the  Lords 
Proprietors,"  May  21,  1666.  John  Ogden  being 
the  governor's  witness  to  the  agreement,  that 
"they  shall  have  liberty  *  *  *  to  lay  out 
every  man's  proportion  of  land  according  to 
their  judgment  and  discretion,  not  exceeding 
the  proportion  limited  in  the  Lords  Proprie- 
tors' Concessions  *  *  *  for  the  half- 
])enny  per  acre  per  annum  due  the  Lords  Pro- 
prietors, the  payment  to  begin  the  25th  of 
March  1670.  and  that  every  man  shall  pay 
yearly  in  the  Country-pay  for  no  more  Land 
than  what  is  appropriated  to  him  by  patent. 
])rovided  that  every  person  shall  patent  so 
much  land  in  proportion  as  is  specified  in  the 
concessions  or  according  to  their  estates,  and 
that  all  lands  so  jiatented  shall  be  surveyed 
and  hounded  by  the  .Surveyor-general  or  his 
deputy"  ;  and  in  return  the  "said  Daniel  Pierce 
and  his  associates  shall  and  may  enjoy  forever 
all  and  singular  the  before  demised  premises 
in  as  full  and  ample  a  manner  as  the  said 
Ca])t.  Carteret.  John  Ogden  and  Luke  Watson 
do' hold  and  enjoy  the  same."  The  foregoing 
fully  shows  the  fallacy  of  Hatfield's  statement 
that  Carteret.  Ogden  and  Watson  were  the 
■■rej)resentatives  of  the  .\ssociates  of  the 
Town"  instead  of  the  deputies  of  the  Lords 
I)roprietors.  and  for  a  comjilete  and  very  lucid 
discussion  of  the  whole  subject  the  reader  is 
referred  to  Whitehead's  "East  Jersey  under 
the  l'roi)rietors  (iovermnents."  pages  267  to 
285.  ( )ne  thing,  however,  must  be  mentioned 
lure.  John  Ogden.  who  joined  Carteret  in 
signing  the  grant  of  the  Southern  moiety  of 
the  Elizabetlitown  tract,  and  also  the  allot- 
ment of  the  same  tract  to  the  proprietors  was 
one  uf  those  to  whom  the  tract  had  been  con- 
firmed by  Nichols,  was  also  one  of  those  pres- 
ent when  Carteret  arrived,  was  one  of  those 
who  ])ai(l  the  Indians  the  consideration  for  the 
tract,  was  perfectly  conversant  with  all  the 
circumstances  of  the  settlement,  capable,  hon- 
est, intelligent,  fully  able  to  appreciate  the  re- 
lations  evisting  between    the   parties,   and    he 


could  scarcely  have  been  invited,  as  he  was, 
to  become  one  of  the  governor's  council,  and 
assuredly  would  not  have  accepted  the  po- 
sition and  acted  in  concert  with  the  governor, 
had  he  not  been  satisfied  of  the  paramount 
title  of  the  proprietors.  And  although  even- 
tually found  arrayed  in  opposition  to  the  gov- 
ernor, it  was  subsequent  to  the  period  under 
review,  and  wdien  reasons  of  a  personal  char- 
acter existed  to  account   for  the  change. 

.\mong  the  questions  brought  up  at  a  later 
date  in  the  controversy  between  the  proprie- 
tors and  the  Elizabetlitown  claimants  was  that 
of  the  settlement  of  Newark,  whether  it  was 
made  under  the  Elizabeth  Indian  purchase  or 
under  the  authority  of  the  proprietors.  In 
the  answer  to  the  bill  in  chancery  the  affida- 
vit of  Joseph  ^^'oodrufif,  an  old  man.  made 
July  26.  1743,  is  given  in  relation  to  the  mat- 
ter, in  which  he  states  "he  had  heard  Governor 
Treat  ( of  Connecticut,  and  one  of  the  original 
settlers  of  Newark)  tell  after  what  manner 
the  line  was  settled  between  the  two  towns: 
and  that  it  was  done  in  so  loving  and  solemn 
a  manner  that  he  thought  it  ought  never  to  be 
removed  :  for  he  (the  governor)  himself  being 
among  them  at  that  time  ]irayed  with  them 
on  Dividend  Mill  (so-called)  that  there  might 
be  a  good  agreement  between  them  :  and  that 
it  was  agreed  upon  by  the  settlers  of  each  town 
that  the  line  between  them  should  stand  and 
remain  from  Dividend  Hill  to  run  a  north- 
west course ;  and  the  governor  said  that  after 
the  agreement,  Mr.  John  Ogden.  being  one  of 
the  first  purchasers,  prayed  among  the  people, 
and  returned  thanks  for  their  loving  agree- 
meiU."  This  event  took  place  May  20,  1668. 
and  the  commissioners  for  the  two  towns  were, 
for  Newark,  Jasper  Crane,  Robert  Treat,  Mat- 
thew Camfeild,  Samuel  Swain.  Richard  Har- 
rison and  Thomas  Johnson,  and  for  Elizabeth- 
town.  John  Ogden,  Luke  Watson.  Robert 
I'lond  and  JefTery  Joanes. 

I'ebruary  19,  1663,  John  Ogden  was  the 
first  of  the  sixty-five  men  who  took  the  oath 
of  allegience  to  King  Charles  II.  and  he  wa> 
followed  1)\'  his  sons  John.  David,  and  Jona- 
than. His  younger  sons  took  the  oath  later 
on  reaching  their  majority.  October  26,  1665, 
( iovernor  Carteret  appointed  him  justice  of  the 
jieace :  and  the  following  November  I.  a  mem- 
ber of  his  council  and  deputy-governor.  May 
26  to  30,  1668.  Joiin  Ogden  was  one  of  the 
two  "able  men  who  were  freeholders  and 
dwellers  within  the  limits"  of  Eiizabethtown 
who  were  chosen  in  accordance  with  the  gov- 
ernor's proclamation  to  be  burgesses  or  rep- 


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resentatives  of  the  town,  in  the  first  legislative 
assembly  in  the  history  of  Xew  Jersey ;  and  at 
a  town  meeting  of  Newark  January  22,  1671, 
"Mr  Treat  and   Lieut  Swain  are  deputed  to 
Take  the  first  opportunity  to  Advise  with  Mr 
Ogden  or  any  other  they  see  Cause  what  may 
be  the  Safest  and  I'.est  Course  to  be  taken  for 
the  Town   about  our   Lands  and   Settlements 
here."     This  last   suggested  conference  made 
by    Newark     had     far     reaching    results.     In 
March.   1670.  and   March,    167 1.  the  Newark 
peajjle  had  tendered  the  C|uitrents  to  the  gov- 
ernor, although  they  had  refused  to  take  out 
their  patents,  but  there  is  no  record  of  their 
,    having    even    paid    the    quitrents     in     March, 
1672.     March  25.  1670,  the  day  when  the  first 
c|uitrent  payments  were  to  be  made,  was  also 
the  day  when  the  suppressed  passions  of  those 
inimical    to    the    existing    government    broke 
fi)rth  in  decided  and  violent  opposition.     Gov- 
ernor Carteret  manfully  struggled  against  the 
spirit  of  anarchy  that  was  prevalent ;  but  his 
efforts   were   unavailing  and    influence   of   his 
, opponents    prevented    all    pro])er   enforcement 
of  his  authority.     March  26,   1672,  a  meeting 
of  deputies    from   the   different   towns,   desig- 
nated an  assembly,  was  held :  but  some  of  the 
deputies  having  neglected  to  conform  to  the 
re(|uisitions   of   the  concessions    as    to     their 
i|ualificatious.    the    governor   and    his    council 
did    not   recognize    its    validity,    and    probably 
in  accordance  with  the  wishes  of  the  governor 
and  council,  William  Pardon,  the  assistant  sec- 
retary of  the  council,  wlio  had  the  custody  of 
the   documents    of    the    meeting,    suppressed 
them.     This  brought  affair.s  to  a  crisis.      .\n- 
other  meeting  was  held  in  Elizabethtown.  com- 
posed   i)f    representatives    of    Elizabethtown. 
Newark.    W'oodbridge,    Piscataway   and    Ber- 
gen ;  but  as  they  met  "without  the  knowledge. 
ap])robation  or  consent"  of  the  governor  and 
cotmcil.  they  of  corrse  did  not  co-o|ierate  and 
the    assemblage    failed    in    one    of   the    essen- 
tials of  a  general  assembly,  even  if  all  of  those 
))resent  had  been  dulv  qualified  as  members 
The  spirit  of  revolt,  however,  made  this  ab- 
sence of  the  governor  and  council  the  excuse 
for  the  highhanded  |3roceeding  of  appointing 
James,  son  of  Sir  ( ieorge  Carteret,  as  "Presi- 
ilent  of  the  Country"  with   full  gubernatorial 
])owers,    a    proceeding    which    manifestly    ex- 
ceeded the  largest  interpretation  of  the  clause 
of  the  concessions  under  which  they  professed 
to  act.     Counter   proclamations   now    ensued, 
hut  the  power  to  enforce  obedience  seems  to 
have  been   with   the   usurper,   and   officers  of 
the   government    were   imprisoned    and    their 


estates  confiscated.  May  25,  1672,  James  Car- 
teret issued  a  warrant  for  the  apprehension 
of  William  Pardon,  the  deputy  secretary,  di- 
recting the  constable  to  keep  him  in  custody 
luitil  he  delivered  up  the  acts  of  the  "Gen- 
eral .\ssembly"  of  March  25.  This  Pardon 
refused  to  do  and  e.scaped  from  the  constable. 
June  25,  John  Ogden  issued  an  attachment 
ujion  Pardon's  moveables,  and  July  9,  James 
Carteret  issued  another  against  his  houses  and 
land,  stating  that  Pardon  had  escaped  and 
gone  to  England.  Pardon  subsequently  re- 
turned and  as  a  remuneration  for  his  losses 
was  appointed  receiver-general  of  quitrents, 
and  received  a  grant  of  five  hundred  acres  of 
land,  July  16,  1674. 

When  the  Dutch  repossessed  themselves  of 
New  Netherland.  the  inhabitants  of  Eliza- 
bethtown, Newark,  Woodbridge  and  Piscata- 
way jiromptly  tendered  a  surrender  of  their 
towns  to  the  supreme  military  tribunal  at  New 
.Amsterdam.  .August  18,  1673,  at  a  conference 
there  tlie  conditions  of  their  occupancy  under 
the  Dutch  goverimient  was  laid  down,  and 
each  town  was  directed  to  nominate  by  a  plu- 
ralitv  of  votes  si.x  persons  for  schepens  or 
magistrates  and  also  two  deputies  towards  the 
constitution  of  a  joint  board  for  the  purpose 
of  nominating  three  ])ersons  for  schouts  and 
three  for  secretaries.  From  the  nominations 
thus  made,  the  council,  on  August  24,  selected 
three  magistrates  for  each  town  and  a  schout 
and  secretar\-  for  the  six  towns  collectively. 
John  ( )gden  being  appointed  schout  and  Sam- 
uel Ifoijkins  secretary.  September  I,  and  the 
first  duty  of  these  officials  being  to  take  an 
inventory  of  the  estate  of  Governor  Carteret, 
l^epttmber  7.  the  schout  and  secretary  coin- 
])laiued  that  Robert  Lapriere  had  removed  div- 
ers goods  from  the  house  of  Governor  Philip 
Carteret,  which  he  refused  to  restore,  and  his 
arrest  was  ordered.  .As  schout,  also,  John 
( 'gdcn  summoned  James  Bollen,  "late  Secre- 
tarv  of  the  Province  of  New  Jersey,"  to  give 
rp  his  papers  within  ten  days  under  forfeiture 
of  his  i^roperty ;  and  arrested  and  sent  to  New 
Amsterdam  for  trial  Lapriere  and  John  Sing- 
letar\-.  Sejitember  11,  1673,  John  Ogden's 
n;une  is  the  first  on  the  list  of  those  who  swore 
allegiance  to  the  Dutch  authorities,  and  Sep- 
tember 2Q,  some  of  the  Indians  having  com- 
mitted depredations  in  the  neighborhood,  he 
wrote  to  Governor  .Anthony  Colve  for  in- 
structions and  received  the  re|)ly.  dated  "flfort 
Willem  Hendrik,  14th  October  1673,"  re- 
quiring him  to  summon  the  Indian  sachem  be- 
fore the  governor,  and  also  to  "send   hether 


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bij  }e  first  o]3pnrtiinity  the  amies  &  other 
goods  according  to  Inventorij  fornierHj  be- 
long to  ye  Late  Goiivernrs  Carterett."  Octo- 
ber I,  1673,  the  council  of  war  sent  instructions 
to  Sellout  Ogden  and  the  magistrates  to  pre- 
serve public  peace  and  the  administration  of 
justice.  "Tliey  rec|uired  that  the  (  Dutch)  Re- 
formed Christian  Religion  be  maintained, 
i'ower  was  given  them  for  laying  out  high- 
ways, setting  off  lands  and  gardens,  and  in  like 
manner  what  a])])ertains  to  agriculture,  ob- 
servance of  the  Sabbath,  erecting  churches, 
school  houses  or  similar  public  works."  No- 
vember 18,  1673,  an  assembly,  composed  of 
the  "Sellout  and  Magistrates  of  Achter  Kol 
( tlie  Dutch  name  for  tlie  part  of  New  Jersey 
opposite  Staten  Island)  to  make  laws  and  or- 
ders," was  held  at  Elizabethtown.  The  ordi- 
nances were  few  and  sini]3le,  pertaining  mostly 
to  morality  and  religion.  John  Ogden  was 
now  virtually  the  deputy-governor  of  the 
Englisii  towns  in  New  Jersey  under  the  Dutch 
rule,  and  he  so  continued  until  the  treaty  of 
Westminster,  February  9,  1647,  restored  the 
territory  to  the  English,  who  resumed  control 
in  the  following  .Xovember.  January  30, 
1674,  the  records  uf  the  government  which  as 
mentioned  above  had  been  taken  out  of  the 
hands  of  James  liollen  and  deposited  at  Fort 
William  Ilendrick  were  at  the  retjuest  of 
.Sellout  John  Ogden  returned  under  inventory 
to  the  charge  of  Samuel  iIo])kins,  "Secretary 
of  Achter  Kol."  (  For  other  items  of  similar 
interest  see  New  ^'ork  Colonial  Documents, 
volume  2,  ])ages  (>4J.  714.  720,  722,  723,  728, 
and  729.) 

Jolin  Ogden  was  settled  u])un  his  Elizabeth- 
town  tract  as  early  as  .\ugust,  i()65,  when  (lov- 
ernor  I'hili])  Carteret  arrived  ancl  determined 
to  take  uj)  his  residence  with  the  "Ogden  com- 
pany." His  house  was  ])robably  located  on 
I'l  inl  road,  now  I'-lizaheth  avenue,  and  near 
where  Robert  Ogden,  his  great-grandson,  and 
Colonel  ISarber  afterward  lived.  For  some 
reason  or  other  John  Ogden  borrowed,  Octo- 
ber 9.  1668,  of  Cornelis  Steenwyck,  merchant 
and  mayor  of  New  ^'ork,  £191,  5s,  mortgag- 
ing therefor  "a  Certain  Water  MiU  now  in  my 
Temn-e  or  Occupation  near  unto  the  Mansion 
or  Dwelling  House  of  ( iov.  Carterett  in  hlliza- 
beth  Towne."  This  mill  was  located  on 
iSroad  street  immediately  west  of  the  stone 
bridge  and  south  of  the  Presbyterian  church. 
I'ebruary  15,  if/jS,  a  commission  was  gianted 
to  "John  Ogden  senior,  Caleb  Carwithy,  Jacob 
Mole\n.  \\'ni  Johrson  and  Jeffry  Jones,  all  oi 
l-.lizabeth  Town,  and  21  partners  from  ISarne- 


gate  to  Sandy  Hook,"  for  a  whale  fishery  un- 
der certain  "I'rivileges,  Conditions,  and  Limi- 
tations" (see  East  Jersey  Deeds.  Liber  3,  folios 
22  and  23).  One  condition  being  the  giving 
one-twentieth  part  of  the  oil  in  casks  to  the 
Lords  proprietors.  March  31,  1676,  a  special 
court  of  oyer  and  terminer  was  commissioned 
at  Woodbridge  to  settle  finally  the  old  contro- 
versy, referred  to  above,  between  John  C)gden 
and  John  Cooper,  of  Southam])ton,  John  Berry 
being  president,  and  William  Pardon,  Lau- 
rence Andriaessen  and  James  Bollen  the  as- 
sistant judges.  December  4,  1676,  Governor 
Carteret  issued  a  commission  to  William  Par- 
don, justice  of  the  peace,  John  Ogden  senior, 
Henry  Lyon,  and  (ieorge  Ross,  selectmen,  to 
sit  as  a  monthly  court,  for  "the  trial  of  cases 
under  40s,  at  Elizabethtown,  under  act  of  As- 
sembly December  4,  1675."  It  would  thus 
seem  that  the  personal  differences  which  had 
at  one  time  estranged  John  Ogden  from  the 
government  who  in  the  infancy  of  the  settle- 
ment had  been  his  intimate  and  trusted  friends, 
and  which  had  led  him  to  become  the  most 
])owerful  leader  of  the  "malcontents,"  were  at 
length  happily  adjusted,  and  the  breach  finally 
and  completely  healed.  October  29,  1678,  by 
the  formal  resurvey  of  his  lands  according  to 
the  concessions.  This  interpretation  of  John 
Ogden's  conduct  finds  further  confirmation 
from  his  attitude  with  respect  to  the  high 
handed  and  unwarrantable  actions  of  Governor 
.Andros  of  New  York,  who  cmmting  upon  the 
existence  of  a  disaffected  party  in  New  Jer- 
sey attempted  to  seize  the  government  of  East 
Jersey  for  his  master  the  Duke  of  ^'ork. 
.\pril  7,  1680,  he  visited  Elizabethtown.  de- 
manded of  Governor  Carteret  that  he  surren- 
der the  jirovincc,  and  also  issued  several  or- 
ders, "one  ])articularly  to  Mr.  Ogden  then 
scherif  for  the  siurender  of  .\.  Jersey."  There 
can  be  no  doubt  that  he  counted  on  the  inthi- 
ence  of  John  ( "gden  as  the  leader  of  the  anti- 
governmental  party:  but  he  counted  without 
his  host  liecause  not  only  did  six  towns  refuse 
to  negotiate  with  .\ndros.  but  the  assembly,  of 
which  John  Ogden  was  one  of  the  leaders,  de- 
clared as  "the  re|)resentatives  of  the  freehold- 
ers of  this  |)ro\ince."  "what  we  have  fnnnerl\ 
dune  we  did  in  obedience  to  the  authority 
then  established  in  this  province.  The.se 
things  which  have  been  done  according  to  law 
re(|uire  no  confirmation."  This  in  answer  to 
the  demand  of  .\ndros  that  they  enact  legisla- 
tion which  would  confirm  all  past  judicial  ])ro- 
ceedings  according  to  the  laws  of  \ew  \'ork. 
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"privileges  conferred  by  the  Concessions 
would  be  confirmed,"  and  declined  to  recog- 
nize the  authority  of  Andros,  until  so  ordered 
to  do  by  the  King. 

Thus  closes  the  career  of  "good  old  John 
Ogden."  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary  mark, 
"a  man  of  sterling  worth,  of  whom  the  town 
as  well  as  his  numerous  posterity  should  be 
gratefully  mindful.  He  was  called  a  mal- 
content, and  regarded  as  the  leading  malcon- 
tent in  Elizabethtown,"  but  he  was  held  in 
high  esteem  by  the  accomplished,  sagacious 
and  pious  W'inthrop,  he  was  the  intimate  and 
trusted  friend  and  associate  of  Governor  Car- 
teret, both  before  and  after  their  estrange- 
ment, both  at  Southampton  and  Elizabethtown 
he  was  an  honored  magistrate,  loved  and 
trusted  b\-  the  people,  and  during  the  Dutch 
rule  virtually  the  governor  of  the  English 
speaking  ])ortion  of  the  province,  and  being 
such  he  is  not  to  be  classed  with  restless  agi- 
tators and  constitutional  oppositionists,  be- 
cause he  happened  to  believe  certain  of  their 
contentions  right  for  a  time  and  had  the  cour- 
age of  his  convictions  to  side  with  them  in 
that  respect.  "A  true  patriot,  and  a  genine 
Christian,  he  devoted  himself  while  living  to 
the  best  interests  of  the  town  and  dying  be- 
queathed to  his  sons  the  work  of  completing 
what  he  had  so  fairly  and  effectually  inaugu- 
rated." 

December  21,  168 1,  John  Ogden  wrote  hi? 
will  and  apparently  he  was  dead  before  the 
end  of  May,  1682,  on  the  30th  of  which  month 
the  inventory  of  his  estate  was  filed.  Septem- 
ber 19.  1682,  Governor  Carteret  issued  letters 
of  administration  on  his  estate  to  "Jane  the 
widdo  or  Rellict  of  the  said  John  Ogden  her 
Late  husband."  Of  Jane  Bond  the  wife  and 
widow  of  John  Ogden  little  is  known.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  Jonathan  Bond,  of  Eng- 
land, and  according  to  tradition  the  sister  of 
Robert  Bond,  the  intimate  friend  of  John 
Ogden  both  at  Southampton  and  Elizabeth- 
town,  ^lay  14,  1683.  about  a  year  after  her 
husband's  death  she  petitioned  the  council  to 
secure  her  right  of  three  hundred  acres  in  the 
Elizabethtown  tract,  and  on  the  following  May 
26,  the  council  referred  the  petition  to  the 
deputy  governor  and  the  surveyor  general 
"that  according  to  the  Concessions  she  may 
have  her  just  rights."  The  date  of  her  death 
is  unknown,  and  the  burial  place  of  both  her 
and  her  husband,  the  latter  is  probably  beneath 
the  rear  of  the  present  building  of  the  First 
Presbyterian   Church   in   Elizabeth. 

Bv  his  marriage  with  Jane   Bond,   May  8, 


1637.  John  Ogden  had  si.x  children,  three  born 
in  England,  and  three  in  the  new  world,  i. 
John  Jr.,  born  March  3,  1638.  died  November 
24.  1702:  married  Elizabeth  Plum  and  had  one 
child  of  record,  Jemima,  born  in  1692,  be- 
came the  wife  of  Henry  Pierson.  2.  David, 
born  January  11,  1639;  see  sketch  elsewhere. 
3.  Jonathan,  referred  to  below.  4.  Joseph,  the 
first  of  John  Ogden's  children  to  be  born  in 
.Vmerica.  was  born  November  9,  1642.  died 
before  January  15,  1690:  he  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Isaac  Whitehead,  and  had  two 
children:  Joseph  and  Isaac.  5.  Benjamin, 
born  1654;  see  sketch  elsewhere.  6.  Mary, 
married  John,  son  of  John  Woodruff,  of 
.Southampton  and  Elizabethtown.  and  left 
eight  children  :  John,  Jonathan,  Sarah,  Han- 
nah, David,  Joseph.   Benjamin  and  Elizabeth. 

(\'I1  I  Jonathan,  the  third  child  and  son  of 
John  (2)  and  Jane  (Bond)  Ogden,  was  born 
in  England.  January  11,  1639,  being  a  twin 
with  his  brother  David.  He  clied  January  3, 
1732,  and  is  buried  in  Elizabeth,  where  the 
headstone  of  his  grave  still  stands  in  the  bury- 
ing ground  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church. 
The  only  mention  of  his  name  in  the  South- 
ampton records  is  under  date  of  October  21, 
1664,  when  he  witnesses  a  deed  of  John  Davis 
to  John  Oldfield  of  a  fifty  pound  common- 
age. In  1665  he  went  with  his  father  to 
Elizabethtown  and  was  one  of  the  original  as- 
sociates, and  taking  the  oath  of  allegiance  to 
King  Charles  II,  February  9,  1665,  when  he 
was  styled  one  of  the  "5  full  grown  boys"  of 
John  ( )gden.  September  11,  1673,  with  his 
father  and  brothers  he  took  the  oath  of  alle- 
giance to  the  Dutch:  and  in  1692  he  was  the 
receiver  of  ta.xes  for  Essex  county,  this  being 
apparently  the  only  public  office  which  he  held. 

In  1697  the  Lords  proprietors  in  England, 
acting  under  a  desire  to  please  the  King,  su- 
perseded Governor  Hamilton  by  Jeremiah 
Basse.  The  new  governor  was  a  man  neither 
liked  nor  respected  by  the  greater  part  of  the 
colonists  of  West  as  well  as  East  Jersey,  and 
there  would  seem  to  be  good  grounds  for  their 
oijinion.  Basse's  appointment,  moreover,  was 
defective  in  several  ways  among  them  the 
facts  that  he  had  not  given  the  security  re- 
quired by  law  for  his  good  behavior,  and  his 
commission  having  been  signed  by  an  insuffi- 
cient number  of  the  proprietors,  only  ten,  in- 
stead of  the  necessary  sixteen  names  having 
been  obtained.  Detested  by  a  goodly  portion 
of  the  people  he  governed  and  disowned  by  a 
large  number  of  the  proprietors,  and  having 
also   private   interests  at  stake,   Basse   joined 


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himself  to  the  opponents  of  the  proprietors 
and  sought  to  strengthen  himself  from  their 
ranks,  once  dependent  upon  them  he  soon  be- 
came their  prey  and  they  wrung  from  him 
concessions  vital  to  the  continuance  of  the  pro- 
prietors' government.  He  was  afraid  to  call 
the  assembly  together  lest  tlie  majority  should 
prove  hostile  to  him.,  and  did  not  do  so  for 
nearly  two  years  after  he  had  become  gov- 
ernor, although  he  had  instructions  to  do  so 
"with  all  convenient  speed  after  two  months." 
The  people  claimed  that  Basse's  appointment, 
being  irregular,  the  authority  devolved  on  the 
council,  and  when  Basse  held  his  first  court  in 
May.  1698.  we  learn  from  the  court  record 
that  "Lewis  Morris  Esq.  came  in  open  Court 
and  demanded  by  what  authoritie  they  kept 
Court.  The  Court  declared  b^-  ye  Kings  Au- 
thoritie. He  denied  it  &  being  asked.  Who 
was  dissatisfied  besides  himself,  he  said  One 
and  all.  The  Court  commanding  ye  said  Mor- 
ris to  be  taken  in  custody.  Col.  Richard  Town- 
ley.  Andrew  Hampton,  both  of  Elizabethtown. 
&  three  or  four  more  cried  one  and  all  and  ye 
said  Lewis  Morris  said  he  would  fain  see  who 
durst  lay  hold  on  him — and  when  a  Constable 
b)-  order  of  ye  Court  laid  hold  on  him,  he. 
in  ye  face  of  ye  Court  resisted."  Morris,  who 
represented  a  large  and  influential  portion  of 
the  people,  refu.sed  to  pay  his  fine,  and  was 
imprisoned  in  a  log  house.  His  friends,  how- 
ever, raised  the  logs  sufficiently  for  him  to 
escape  and  for  this  May  i.^.  1699.  they  were 
indicted  by  the  governor.  Among  them  was 
Jonathan  Ogden.  Matters  now  went  from 
bad  to  worse.  Basse's  policy  had  strength- 
ened and  embodied  the  anti-proprietors'  part\- 
to  such  an  e.xtent  that  they  carried  matters 
with  a  high  hand,  and  when  the  proprietors, 
seeing  the  futility  of  their  efforts,  reappointed 
Hamilton,  governor,  the  spirit  of  misrule  was 
too  rampant  to  be  put  at  once  in  check.  Riots 
were  almost  continuous  throughout  the  years 
1700  and  1 70 1,  and  September  12,  1700.  a 
party  of  men  from  Elizabethtown,  among  them 
Jonathan  Ogden.  came  "with  clubs  in  their 
hands  to  the  house  of  Mr.  Theophilu;;  Pear- 
son (in  Newark)  and  demanded  of  him  ye 
prisoner  (one  Parmator »  asking  where  the 
Pittifull  raskalls  were  that  put  this  man  in 
prison  and  demanded  him  out  of  prison,  they 
were  asked  by  what  power  they  demanded 
him  out  of  prison  and  they  held  upp  their 
chibbs  and  said  that  was  their  power."  Then 
they  went  after  the  sheriff,  who  complained 
in  the  indictment  against  the  rioters  later  on. 
"That  he  was   salt  upon  by  severall  men  of 


Elizabeth  Towne  &  Eorceablely  Robbed  of  yc 
Keys  of  the  Prisson  &  the  prissoner  there- 
upon Imediately  Taken  out  of  his  Custody." 
( >n  the  following  December  19,  a  writ  of  error 
was  brought  into  the  court  at  Burlington  to 
remove  Jonathan  Ogden 's  name  from  the  in- 
dictment, but  it  was  refused.  Factions  had 
now  become  so  numerous  and  anarchy  so 
prominent  that  the  only  solution  of  the  diffi- 
culty and  hope  for  settled  government  lay  in 
turning  the  provinces  over  to  the  king  and 
among  the  many  memorials  sent  to  the  lords 
of  trade  and  plantations,  and  to  the  King, 
which  resulted  in  the  surrender  of  their  rights 
by  the  proprietors,  was  the  one  of  July  17. 
1701.  from  the  heads  of  families  at  Elizabeth- 
town  of  which  Jonathan  Ogden  was  one  of  the 
signers. 

In  1678  and  later  Jonathan  Ogden's  name 
is  found  among  the  subscribers  to  the  salary 
of  the  Rev.  John  Harriman,  and  in  1691  he  is 
one  of  the  largest  contributors  and  is  styled 
deacon.  In  December.  1667.  he  was  one  of 
those  who  petitioned  the  governor  and  council 
111  have  their  lands  laid  out  to  them  according 
to  agreement  made  with  the  inhabitants  with 
the  consent  of  the  governor  saying  that  unless 
it  be  done  "we  do  not  see  how  we  can  possibly 
subsist  in  the  Town  but  shall  be  forced  to  look 
out  somewhere  else  for  a  livelihood."  At  this 
time  or  soon  afterwards  he  obtained  some  of 
his  land,  for  October  12.  167 1.  "Jonathan 
Ogden.  tanner,  and  his  wife  Rebecca."  deeded 
to  Benjamin  Price  of  Elizabethtown  si.x  acres. 
"Xortli  the  road  to  the  Point :  East.  Nathan- 
iel Bunnell :  South  the  meadow ;  and  West  the 
grantee  (  East  Jersey  Deeds.  D  410  )."  June  14. 
1676.  he  applied  to  the  surveyor-general,  ask- 
ing that  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  be  laid 
out  for  him:  and  March  10.  1678.  there  was 
"Layed  out  for  Jonathan  Ogden  at  Eliz. 
Towne  a  house  Lott  Wth  an  Adition  conty  6 
acres  in  Length  15  &  in  bredth  4  Chane 
Bounded  on  the  §.  E.  by  Joseph  Ogden  N. 
E.  N.  \\".  E.  and  S.  W.  by  highways."  He 
also  had  twenty-two  acres  of  upland  in  the 
form  of  a  triangle,  bounded  by  the  governor's 
and  I'enjamin  Parkis'  land :  eighty- four  acres 
"Lying  in  the  plaine"  bounded  by  Benjamin 
Parkis.  Leonard  Headley's  and  Isaac  \\'hite- 
head's  land,  and  the  Mill  brook :  and  fourteen 
acres  of  meadow  in  two  plots,  on  the  Creek 
and  on  Great  Island.  In  September.  1693.  he 
was  one  of  the  associates  who  petitioned  the 
King  that  the  lands  they  had  been  granted  and 
had  enjoyed  for  nearly  thirty  years,  they 
"ought  according  to  Law  Reason  and  Justice 


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Still  to  enjoy  the  same."  December  26,  1699, 
he  was  one  of  assistants  of  the  Rev.  John 
1  larriman,  who  was  chosen  surveyor  to  "Lay 
out  Divide  and  Equally  assise  all  lands  and 
meadows  within  the  whole  Bounds  and  pur- 
chase of  Elizabeth  Town  to  every  one  In- 
terested therein  by  Right  of  purchase  under 
the  honorable  General  Richard  Xicholls  their 
Several  and  Respective  parts  and  shares  of 
the  whole." 

December  21.  1681,  his  father  names  him  as 
one  of  the  executors  of  his  will;  and  March 
19.  1702.  he  swears  before  Thomas  Gordon  in 
regard  to  the  will  "yt  this  Instrument  was  de- 
livered to  lijm  very  shortly  after  ye  sd  old 
John  Ogden's  death  &  yt  he  hath  safely  keept 
it  ever  since  yt  time  till  now."  December  9, 
1690,  he  witnesses  the  will  of  William  Meeker, 
of  Elizabethtown  ;  about  six  week's  later,  Jan- 
uary 17.  1690.  with  the  Rev.  John  Harriman, 
he  is  api)ointed  the  executor  of  the  will  of 
Elsie,  widow  of  Simon  Reus,  "living  upon 
Raway" :  the  following  April  27,  1691,  he  is 
ap])ointed  one  of  the  overseers  of  the  will  of 
Jolin  Woodruff  Sr.,  of  Elizabethtown ;  and 
November  6.  1694,  with  John  Curtis,  he  is  ap- 
pointed executor  of  the  will  of  his  cousin, 
Stei)hen  Bond.  Between  this  last  mentioned 
(late  and  November  18,  1729,  when  his  name 
appears  as  one  of  those  who  ratified  the  new 
town  book,  there  is  a  blank  and  we  know  noth- 
ing of  his  life.  His  will  was  written  July  2, 
1 73 1,  and  proved  January  9,  1732. 

Of  his  wife  Rebecca  nothing  more  is  known 
than  is  shown  on  her  gravestone  and  the  fac. 
gleaned  from  the  deed  to  Benjamin  Price  that 
they  were  married  before  October  12,  1671. 
She  was  born  in  November.  1648,  and  died 
September  11,  1723.  Their  children  were:  i. 
Jonathan,  born  before  1676,  died  before  June 
10,  1 73 1  ;  by  liis  wife  Elizabeth  had  two  chil 
dren :  Jonathan  and  John.  2.  Samuel,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  Robert,  born  1687,  died 
November  20,  1733:  married  (first)  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Jasper  Crane  Jr.  and  Joanna 
Swaine,  and  (second)  Phebe  (Roberts)  Bald- 
win, daughter  of Roberts  and  Hannah 

Bruen  and  widow  of  Jonathan  Baldwin.  By 
his  first  marriage  he  had  six  children :  Han- 
nah, Robert.  Phebe,  Moses,  Elihu  and  David ; 
and  by  his  second  marriage  three  more  chil- 
dren :  Rebecca  and  Mary,  twins,  and  Sarah. 
4.  Hannah,  became  the  wife  of  John  Meeker 
and  had  five  children :  John,  Robert,  James, 
David  and  Eunice.  ^.  Rebecca,  married  James 
Ralph. 

(\'III)    Samuel,    second    child    and    son    of 


Jonathan  and  Rebecca  Ogden  (his  mother's 
maiden  name  is  supposed  to  have  been  \\ood ) 
was  born  in  1678,  died  in  1715.  He  was  a 
resident  of  Elizabethtown  where  he  was  born, 
but  as  he  married  his  second  wife  at  East- 
hampton  he  may  have  lived  there  for  a  short 
while.  In  171 1  he  is  one  of  the  overseers  of 
the  highways  for  Elizabethtown,  and  in  1712 
was  made  constable.  His  will  was  written 
November  26,  1714,  proved  February  10,  1715. 
Samuel  C)gden"s  first  wife  was  Rachel,  possi- 
bly a  daughter  of  John  and  Abigail  (Ward) 
(iardiner,  of  Newark,  who  bore  him  one  child; 
his  second  wife  was  Johanna  Schellincx  or 
Schellinger,  daughter  of  Abraham  Schellincx, 
supervisor  of  Easthampton,  Long  Island, 
1699  to  1700,  who  bore  him  three  children. 
Child  of  first  wife:  i.  Rachel,  who  w-as  not 
eighteen  years  old  when  her  father  wrote  his 
will  in  1714.  Children  of  second  wife:  2. 
Joanna.  3.  Rebecca.  4.  Samuel,  referred  to 
below. 

(IX)  Samuel  (2).  only  son  of  Samuel  (i) 
and  Johanna  (Schellincx)  Ogden.  was  born  in 
1714.  died  February  20,  1775.  Both  he  and 
his  wife  Hannah,  daughter  of  Matthias  and 
Hannah  (  Miller)  Hatfield,  are  interred  in  the 
First  Presbyterian  churchyard  at  Elizabeth- 
town,  the  inscriptions  reading  as  follows  :"Here 
lies  the  Body  of  Samuel  Ogden,  who  departed 
this  Life  Febry  the  20th  Anno  Domini  1775, 
aged  LXI  Years";  and  "Here  lied  ye  Body  of 
Mrs  Hannah  Relict  of  Mr.  Samuel  Ogden  who 
died  January  ye  26th  Ano  Domini  1782.  In 
the  39th  Year  of  her  Age."  Their  children 
were:  I.  Matthias,  referred  to  below.  2.  Jo- 
anna, born  March  31,  1744.  3.  Elizabeth, 
born  January  9,  1747,  died  April  5,  1808:  mar- 
ried (first)  Uzal  Woodruflf,  and  had  two  chil- 
dren: Eunice  and  Elias ;  married  (second) 
Professor  Joseph  Periam  of  the  College  of 
New  Jersey,  and  had  a  third  child :  Joseph  Jr. 
4.  .\nn.  born  September  20,  1749.  5.  Elihu, 
born  June  I,  1 751,  died  March  28,  1814:  mar- 
ried Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Eliza- 
beth (  Miller  )  Price,  and  had  nine  children  : 
Amos.  Elizabeth,  Phebe,  Susan,  Elihu,  Han- 
nah, Oliver.  L'zal  and  Elias.  6.  Charity,  born 
August  19,  1753,  died  September  5,  1828;  mar- 
ried Enos.  son  of  Timothy  and  Elizabeth 
Woodruflf,  and  had  twelve  children :  Timothy. 
Hannah,  Ogden.  Timothy,  Enos,  Abigail. 
Hannah,  Ezra.  Ichabod.  Phebe.  Charity  and 
John.  7.  Phebe.  born  March  25.  1736:  mar- 
ried Job  Hedden.  8.  Samuel,  born  February 
26.  1738.  9.  Hannah,  born  .April  2.  1760.  10. 
Rachel,   born    November    18,    1761  ;    married 


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David  Price  and  had  tliirteen  children:  Enos, 
Daniel.  Daniel,  Aaron,  Joseph,  Periam,  Jona- 
than, Rev.  and  AI.  D.,  Rachel,  Elizabeth, 
i'hebe,  Oliver,  Joanna  and  Lewis.  Ii.  Jo- 
>ei)h.  born  July  I.  I7<)3,  died  May  6,  1817; 
married  (first)  Comfort,  daughter  of  Moses 
and  Comfort  (Bond  I  Price,  who  bore  him  six 
children :  Moses,  Aaron.  Rachel.  Phebe.  Sam- 
uel and  Betsey;  married  (^ second)  Mehitable 
Smith,  who  bore  him  seven  more  children : 
Helen,  John,  \\'illiam.  Charles,  Emeline,  David 
and  Anne.  12.  Icliabod,  born  June  27,  1764. 
died  the  same  year.  13.  Ichabod,  born  Sep- 
tember 17.  1765,  died  February  i,  1789;  by  his 
wife  Mary  had  one  child:  Elizabeth. 

(X)  Matthias,  eldest  child  and  son  of  Sam- 
uel (2)  and  Hannah  (Hatfield)  Ogden.  was 
born  April  25.  1742.  died  IMarch  7,  1818.  He 
and  his  wife  Margaret,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Margaret  (Williams)  Magie,  born  November 
6.  1745.  died  March  18,  1820.  are  buried  in  the 
First  Presbyterian  churchyard.  Elizabeth. 
Their  children  were:  I.  .Abigail.  bqj;n  October 
3.  1765.  died  May  14.  1820;  married  Ezekiel, 
son  of  Ezekiel.  grandson  of  John  and  Mary 
(Osborn)  Ogden,  great-grandson  of  Jonathan 
and  Elizabeth  Ogden.  and  great-great-grand- 
son of  Jonathan  and  Rebecca  Ogden,  the 
great-great-grandparents  of  his  wife.  They 
had  thirteen  children:  Abraham.  Ichabod.  Eze- 
kiel. James,  .\bigail.  Phebe,  Hatfield,  I'hebe, 
John,  Samuel.  Jose])h  Meeker.  Theodore  Ham- 
ilton and  Jonathan.  2.  Lewis,  born  October 
30.  1767,  (lied  young.  3.  Phebe,  born  Decem- 
ber 13,  1769,  died  February  26.  1830;  married 
Benjamin  J.  Jarvis.  of  Elizabethtown.  and  had 
four  children:  Hannah,  Sarah  B.,  John  O.  and 
Margaret  M.  4.  Charity,  born  June  30.  1772. 
died  July  8,  1832:  married  Benjamin,  son  of 
Jacob  and  I'.lizabcth  (  Morehouse)  Ogden, 
grandson  of  William  and  Mary  Ogden,  great- 
grandson  of  Benjamin  and  Catharine  Ogden, 
great-great-grandson  of  Captain  Benjamin  and 
Hannah  (Woodruff)  Ogden,  and  grcat-great- 
great-grandson  of  John  and  Jane  (Bond) 
Ogden,  the  emigrants.  Their  children  were: 
Peggy.  Elizabeth.  Charity.  Betsy  .Ann.  Charity 
and  Benjamin,  twins,  Hannah  and  Isaac.  5. 
Lewis,  born  .August  8.  1775.  died  May  15. 
1818:  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Elihu 
and  Phebe  (Price)  Bond,  and  had  one  child: 
Charity.  6.  Samuel,  born  February  13.  1777, 
died  November  17,  1827:  married  Esther, 
daughter  of  William  and  Phebe  Brown,  and 
had  Phebe  Brown.  William.  Charity  .Ann,  Job, 
Mary,  Margaret  .Magie.  Susan.  Matthias  "and 
Charity  -Ann.     7.  Hannah,  born  .April  30.  1779, 


died  January  10,  1863;  married  Stephen 
Meeker,  no  children.     8.  Hatfield.,  born  April 

3,  1781,  died  September  26,  1793.  9.  Matthias, 
born  September  20,  1784,  died  April  18,  1821  : 
married  Rachel  Thompson  and  had  one  child : 
Margaret  Magie.  10.  Joseph,  referred  to 
below.  II.  John  Magie.  born  November  5, 
1789,  died  A])ril  2.  1834:  married  Ann  Ross, 
and  had  Charles  Ross,  Sarah  .Ann,  Elizabeth 
Magie,  Ezra.  Thomas  Dickerson  and  Joanna 
Thompson. 

(XI)  Joseph,  ninth  ciiild  anil  si.xth  son  of 
Matthias  and  Margaret  (  .Magie  )  Ogden.  was 
born  at  Elizabethtown,  January  3.  1787.  died 
there  .\ugust  2^,.  1827.  March  ao,  1808.  he 
marrietl  Hannah,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Han- 
nah (  DeHart )  Insley,  born  February  16,  1788. 
died  September  13,  1822.  Their  children 
were:  i.  Catharine,  born  Deceinber  18.  1809; 
married  the  Rev.  James  M.  Huntting,  son  of 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Dayton)  Huntting,  and 
had  John  Brown.  Mary  Elizabeth,  Catharine 
Winsknv.  Hannah  (Jgden.  Phebe  Stratton  and. 
James  Murdock.  2.  Matthias  Henry,  born 
.April  22.  181 1,  died  March  23,  1895:  married 
Harriet  Hudson  and  had  Elias  Hudson  and 
Mary  Brower.  3.  James  Lawrence,  referred 
to  below.  4.  Isaac  Crane,  born  February  10, 
1816,  died  May  4.  1894:  inarried  .Amanda 
Maria,  daughter  of  Richard  Montgomery  and 
Maria  (Keeler)  Meigs,  and  had  one  child: 
Isaac  Crane  Jr.     3.  Elizabeth,  born  February 

4.  1818,  died  August  3,  1879;  became  the 
second  wife  of  John  L.  Brower,  whose  first 
wife  Mary  Insley  was  her  own  aunt,  being 
the  sister  of  her  mother.  John  L.  and  Eliza- 
beth (Ogden)  Brower  had  one  child,  John -L. 
Jr.  6.  .Albert,  born  .August  14.  1819,  died  (Oc- 
tober 3,  1820.  7.  .Albert,  born  January  2. 
182 1,  died  November  i,  1822.  8.  Hannah, 
born  .\ugust  24,  1822,  died  September  12, 
1822. 

(XII)  James  Lawrence,  third  child  and 
second  son  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  ( Insley  i 
(^)gdcn.  was  born  in  Elizabethtown.  November 
28.  1 81 3,  died  in  Jersey  City,  December  7. 
1890.  Learning  the  pottery  trade,  he  went 
to  New  A'ork  (Jity  and  entered  the  employ  of 
his  uncle,  John  Lefoy  Brower,  an  importer 
<if  and  dealer  in  mahogany  and  hard 
woods.  In  1837  -Mr.  lirower  retired, 
leaving  the  business  in  the  hands  of 
his  nephews,  Isaac  \'.  Brower,  Jaines  Law- 
rence Ogden  and  Isaac  Crane  Ogden.  Isaac 
V'.  lirower  retired  a  few  years  later  and  the 
two  Ogden  brothers  added  other  foreign  woods 
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lames  Lawrence  Ugdeii  retired  from  the  firm 
n  1865  and  his  brother  admitted  into  partner- 
ship his  nephews,  John  B.  Huntting  and  Elias 
H.  Ogden,  and  his  brother-in-law,  Charles  A. 
Meigs.  In  1868  Isaac  Crane  Ogden  withdrew, 
ind  the  firm  was  continued  by  his  nephews  and 
arother-in-law  until  1900,  when  the  firm  was 
Jissolved.  For  two  terms  James  Lawrence 
Ogden  was  a  judge  of  the  court  of  errors  and 
appeals  and  the  court  of  pardons  of  the  state 
of  New  Jersey,  and  he  also  served  on  the 
board  of  finance  and  as  alderman  of  Jersey 
City.  For  some  time  he  was  vice-president  of 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Jersey  City. 

September  2.  1847.  Janies  Lawrence  Ogden 
was  married  in  Philadelphia  by  the  Rev. 
George  W.  Bethune  to  Emily  Matilda  W'an- 
dell,  of  that  city,  born  January  22,  1825.  died 
April  6,  1896,  at  her  residence,  493  Jersey 
avenue,  Jersey  City.  Their  children  were:  i. 
Emily,  born  New  York  City,  July  13,  1848, 
died  February  9,  1849.  2.  Emily  Wandell, 
born  New  York  City,  July  13,  1849;  married 
Alexander  C.  Brooks,  of  Ridgewood,  New 
Jersey.  3.  Laura  \'irginia,  born  New  York 
City,  November  26.  185 1  ;  married  Edward 
Luther  White,  of  Waterbury.  Connecticut, 
deceased ;  had  four  children,  all  born  in 
Bridgeport.  Connecticut :  Ogden  Watson,  Sep- 
tember 10,  1877,  Howard  Sage,  April  10,  1880, 
Lucien  \\'hite,  July  8,  1884,  died  in  Bridge- 
port, young,  and  Edward  Luther  Jr.,  Septem- 
ber 9.  1886.  4.  Estelle  Clements,  born  in  Jer- 
sey City,  July  25,  1855.  5.  James  Lawrence 
Jr.,  referred  to  below. 

(XIII)  James  Lawrence  (2),  youngest 
child  and  son  of  James  Lawrence  (i)  and 
Emily  Matilda  (Wandell)  Ogden,  was  born 
in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  June  12,  1862,  and 
is  now  living  at  9  Lincoln  Park,  Newark.  He 
was  associated  with  the  A.  A.  Griffing  Iron 
Company  as  secretary  and  director  until  1892, 
when  he  retired.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Essex  County  Country  Club  and  of  the  Down- 
town Club  of  New  York,  and  an  attendant  of 
Trinity  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  New- 
ark. June  16,  1900,  James  Lawrence  Ogden 
married  Mary  (Jenkinson)  Ball,  widow  of 
James  T.  Ball.     They  have  no  children. 


(For  preceding  generations  see  Robert  Ogden  1). 

(VII)   David,   second  child  and 
OGDEN      son  of  John  and  Jane    (Bond) 
Ogden,  and  twin  of  his  brother 
Jonathan,  was  born  in  Bradley  Plain,  Hamp- 
shire,   England,   January    11.    1639.    died   be- 
tween December  26,   1691,  and  February  27, 


i(X)2,  the  dates  uf  the  writing  and  the  provin;; 
of  his  will.  He  was  one  of  the  original  asso- 
ciates of  Elizabethtown  and  is  spoken  of  in 
the  records  as  the  "stone  church  builder."  Sep- 
tember II,  1673,  he  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
to  the  Dutch,  and  April  27,  1676,  he  applied 
for  a  warrant  for  the  survey  of  one  hundred 
and  twenty  acres,  but  shortly  afterwards 
moved  to  Newark.  In  1679  and  again  in  1680 
he  was  one  of  the  townsmen  of  Newark,  and 
in  1684  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  collectors 
of  the  town's  debts.  About  1676  David  Ogden 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Captain  Sam- 
uel and  Joanna  Swaine,  and  the  widow  of  Jo- 
siah,  the  brother  of  John  Ward,  the  Dish 
Turner  of  Newark.  She  was  born  in  1649 
and  as  the  aftianced  bride  of  Josiah  Ward  was 
given  the  honor  of  being  the  first  person  to 
disembark  on  the  banks  of  the  Passaic  when 
the  colonists  arrived.  Children  of  David  and 
Elizabeth  (Swaine)  (Ward)  Ogden  were:  i. 
David,  referred  to  below.  2.  Josiah,  born 
about  1679.  died  May  17,  1763;  married  (first) 
Catharine  Hardenbroeck,  and  (second)  Mary 
Bankes.  3.  John,  born  about  1681,  died  De- 
cember 3,  1732;  married  Elizabeth  Wheeler. 
4.  Thomas,  born  in  1684,  died  November  25, 
1760;  married  (first)  a  girl  named  Dinah, 
and  (second)  Jean  (Halsted)  Clawson.  5. 
Swaine,  born  about  1687,  died  April  20,  1755; 
married  Mary  Ackerman. 

(VHI)  Ca'ptain  David  (2),  eldest  child  of 
David  (i)  and  Elizabeth  (Swaine)  (Ward) 
Ogden,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
about  1678,  died  there  July  11,  1734.  He  lived 
in  Newark,  and  September  3,  1701,  signed  the 
agreement  for  the  purchase  of  the  western 
part  of  the  township  between  the  mountains 
and  the  Passaic  river.  His  name  occurs  fre- 
quently in  the  town  records  as  for  example, 
Alay  25,  1713,  when  he  is  appointed  collector 
of  the  town;  November  2,  1713,  w'hen  he  is 
appointed  assessor  and  rate  maker,  re-elected 
to  this  same  position  in  1741 ;  in  1716  and  1717 
chosen  assessor  for  the  provincial  tax  and  re- 
elected to  this  office  in  17 18- 19-20-29-30. 
March  14,  1721,  he  was  chosen  as  one  of  the 
freeholders  of  the  town  and  was  re-elected  to 
this  for  each  of  the  four  years  from  1728  to 
1732.  He  was  buried  in  the  churchyard  of 
Trinity  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  New- 
ark, and  his  gravestone  is  now  imbedded  in  the 
porch  floor  of  that  church. 

About  1700  Captain  David  Ogden  married 
Abigail  Hammond,  born  in  1676,  died  Febru- 
ary II,  1760.  Their  children  were:  i.  Sarah, 
born  November  2,   1699,  died  April  2,   1777; 


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married  Xathaniel  Jolinson.  2.  Abigail,  Feb- 
,  ruary  11,  1702.  died  March  4,  1739:  married 
Colonel  Joseph  Tuttle.  3.  L'zal,  about  1705, 
died  about  1780;  married  Elizabeth  Charlotte 
Thebault.  4.  John,  referred  to  below.  5. 
David,  about  1711,  died  January  28,  1750; 
married  Catharine,  daughter  of  Colonel  Jo- 
siah  and  Catharine  ( Hardenbroeck )  Ogden, 
lier  first  cousin,  born  1709,  died  1797,  in  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  having  married  (second) 
Isaac  Longworth.  ().  Elizabeth,  married  Cap- 
tain John  Johnson.  7.  Martha,  1716,  died 
February  7,  1802;  married  (first)  Caleb,  son 
of  Caleb  and  Mary  Sayre,  of  Southampton, 
Long  Island,  and  Elizabethtown :  married 
(second)  Thomas  Eagles. 

(IX)  Judge  John,  fourth  child  and  second 
son  of  Captain  David  (  2  )  and  Abigail  (  Ham- 
mond )  Ogden,  was  burn  in  Newark,  about 
1709,  died  there  February  14,  1795.  He  was 
commonly  called  "John  Ogden  of  Newark," 
where  he  was  a  prominent  lawyer  and  judge, 
and  his  name  is  of  frequent  mention  in  the 
Essex  county  court  records  from  1742  to  1776. 
April  15,  1740,  he  joined  with  his  uncle,  Jo- 
siah,  and  his  brother  Uzal  in  the  purchase  of 
the  Kingwood  property  and  the  forming  of 
the  Ringwood  Mining  Company,  his  interest 
in  which  he  sold  in  1765  to  Samuel  Gouver- 
neur.  He  was  greatly  hated  by  the  Tories 
during  the  revolution  and  in  consequence  suf- 
fered much  at  their  hands  during  the  revolu- 
tion. He  is  buried  in  the  old  churchyard  on 
Broad  street,  Newark. 

Judge  John  Ogden  married  Hannah,  daugh- 
ter of  Jonathan  Sayre.  of  Newark,  born  1709, 
died  October  20,  1757.  Children:  i.  Jemima, 
married  (first)  Stephen  Johnson,  and  (sec- 
ond) Stei^hen  Day  Jr.  2.  Comfort,  born  June 
6,  1730,  died  November  25,  1736.  3.  Hannah 
Sci)tember  7,  1737,  died  June  25,  1780;  mar- 
ried the  Rev.  James  Caldwell,  of  Elizabeth- 
town,  the  famous  revolutionary  ])arson.  4.  .Abi- 
gail, married  David,  son  of  Lieutenant  David 
and  Mary  Crane,  grandson  of  Jasper  Jr.  and 
Joanna  Swaine.  He  was  born  about  1721,  died 
March  6.  1794.  She  was  his  second  wife,  his 
first  wife  being  Sarah  A.  Dodd.  5.  John,  re- 
ferred to  below.  C\  .\aron,  November  20, 
1744.  <''^'l  March  5,  iSoi  :  married  (first) 
Hannah  Crane,  (second)  Mary  Olden,  (third) 
.Mary  (Nance)  (Sayre)  Hamilton,  the  widow 
of  .\nanias  Sayre  and  Thomas  Hamilton.  7. 
Martha.  June  19,  1746,  died  June  26,  1746. 
8.  Joseph,  July  14,  1748,  died  about  1826: 
married  (first)  Rhoda  Baker  and  (second) 
Mary  (  Reading)  Ciray. 


(X)  Captain  John  (2),  fifth  child  and  eld- 
est son  of  Judge  John  (i)  and  Hannah 
(Sayre)  Ogden,  was  born  in  Newark,  1743, 
died  there  October  18,  1815.  He  is  buried  in 
the  I'irst  Presbyterian  churchyard  in  Newark, 
and  his  gravestone  record  gives  him  the  title 
of  captain.  The  Mudge  genealog}'  states  that 
he  was  in  many  battles  of  the  revolution.  He 
married  Rhoda,  probably  the  daughter  of  Dea- 
con Hethuel  and  Elizabeth  (Riggs)  Pierson, 
who  died  December  17.  1810,  aged  sixty  years. 
Deacon  Bethuel  was  the  son  of  Joseph  and 
Hepzibah  (Camp)  Pierson,  and  the  grandson 
of  Samuel,  son  of  Thomas  Pierson  who  mar- 
ried Maria,  daughter  of  Richard  Harrison.  b\ 
his  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Sergeant  Rich- 
ard Harrison,  of  Newark.  Children  of  Cap- 
tain John  and  Rhoda  (Pierson)  Ogden:  i. 
Joseph,  born  September  28.  1773.  2.  Betsey. 
September  8,  1775,  died  July  3,  1784.  3.  Han- 
nah Caldwell,  December  27,  1777,  died  Sep- 
tember 26,  1831  :  married  (first)  Lewis  ^\'a^d. 
and  (second)  Silas  Mudge.  4.  David  Sayre, 
-April  23,  1780;  married  (first)  Ann  Cheetham, 
(second)  the  sister  of  his  first  wife,  (third) 
Roxana  Murphy.  3.  James  Caldwell  re- 
ferred to  below.  6.  Betsey,  May  21,  1784, 
died  January  2,  1S51  ;  married  Aaron  Nich- 
olls,  7.  Sarah,  May  10,  1786,  died  Septem- 
ber 21,  1821  ;  married  Horace  S.  Hinsdale.  8. 
Peggy  Canfield,  November  22,  1788;  married. 
January  26,  1807,  Cornelius  Francisco.  9. 
Rachel  Pierson,  April  9,  i-qi  :  married.  No- 
vember 7,  1820,  Lieutenant  Benjamin  Olds,  of 
Newark.     10,    Hetty    Caldwell,    October    31, 

I795- 

(XI)  James  Caldwell,  fifth  child  and  third 
son  of  Captain  John  (2)  and  Rhoda  (  Pierson  ) 
Ogden,  was  born  in  Newark,  May  10,  1782. 
died  there  December  6,  1838,  Both  he  and  his 
wife  are  buried  in  Rosedale  cemetery.  Orange. 
New  Jersey.  He  married  Charlotte  Roberts, 
born  June  12.  1787,  died  February  15.  1852, 
and  their  children  were:  i.  .\aron  Sidney, 
born  December  17,  1810.  died  .April  5,  1868: 
married  Elizabeth  Stewart,  but  had  no  children 
of  record.  2.  Lucinda  Roberts,  married  Frank- 
lin \'.  Pitney ;  moved  to  Chicago,  Illinois ;  had 
two  children:  Lucy  and  Frederick  Pitney.  3. 
Horace  Pierson,  January  27,  1814,  died  un- 
married in  Newark,  May  13.  1837,  and  is 
buried  in  Rosedale.  4.  James  Camp,  referred 
to  below.  5.  Sarah  Jane.  May  5,  1821,  died 
unmarried  September  5,  1866.  6.  Moses  Rob- 
erts, August  6.  1824,  died  unmarried  June  28, 
1847. 

(  XII )   James  Camp,  fourth  child  anil  third 


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on  of  James  Caldwell'  and  Charlotte  (Rob- 
rts )  CJgden,  was  born  in  Newark,  August  19, 
818,  died  in  that  city,  May  i,  1855.  Both  he 
nd  his  wife  were  of  Newark,  and  they  are 
;uried  in  the  Rosedale  cemetery,  Orange,  New 
ersey.  September  30,  1841,  he  married  Phebe 
vitchell.  born  September  i,  1821,  died  October 
,  1855.  Their  children  were:  I.  P2melinc 
"amp,  born  September  12,  1842;  married, 
.larch  20,  1866,  Henry  R.  Clift,  and  has  nine 
hildren :  j\Iyron  L.,  Charles,  S.  Estella,  mar- 
ied  William  Gray :  Jessie,  Edith,  Arthur  D., 
Valter,  Frank  D.  and  Antha.  2.  Charlotte, 
orn  I'Vbruary  10,  1845:  married  William 
^.lexander  Reeve.  3.  Horace  Pierson,  born 
s'ovember  0,  1846;  married.  December  25, 
871,  ^^ary  Frances  Dickson,  born  November 
I,  1846,  died  without  issue,  November  28, 
873,  leaving  a  widower  who  lives  in  Spring- 
leld,  Massachusetts.  4.  James  Eugene,  re- 
erred  to  below.  5.  Helen,  born  March  14. 
852.  James  Camp  Ogden  was  a  travelling 
alesman  for  leather  goods,  a  member  of  the 
""ree  and  Accepted  Alasons,  and  a  captain  in 
he  New  Jersey  state  militia. 

(NHI )  James  Eugene,  fourth  child  and  sec- 
ind  son  of  James  Camp  and  Phebe  ( Kitchell ) 
Dgden,  was  born  in  Newark,  April  26,  1854, 
nd  is  now  living  in  that  city  at  46  Breintnall 
>lace,  having  his  office  at  687  Ferry  street, 
"or  his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the 
)ublic  schools  and  to  the  Newark  Academy, 
.nd  for  the  three  years  which  followed  his 
;raduation  he  worked  on  a  farm  in  \'ermont. 
ie  then  came  back  to  Newark  and  took  up 
he  trade  of  a  decorator  and  painter,  and  in 
872  was  in  the  employ  of  Walter  M.  Conger, 
vith  whom  he  remained  until  1888,  when  he 
ook  a  position  with  the  Public  Service  Cor- 
loratioii,  with  whom  he  now  is  acting  as  the 
uperiiitendent  of  their  paint  department.  Mr. 
)g(lcn  is  an  independent  in  politics. 

]n  October.  189 1,  James  Eugene  Ogden 
Harried  Sarah,  born  in  New  York,  in  May, 
8()5,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Louisa  Hinley. 
fhev  have  no  children. 


(For  preceding  generations  see  Robert  Ogden  1). 

(VH)  Captain  Benjamin,  son  of 
(XiDl'.X     John   and   Jane    (Bond)    Ogden, 

was  born  in  Southampton,  Long 
sland.  i()54.  died  in  Elizabethtown,  New  Jer- 
ey,  November  20,  1722.  When  his  father 
ame  to  Elizabethtown  he  was  about  thirteen 
'ears  old.  and  the  first  record  of  his  name  is 
■September  11,  1673,  when  he  took  the  oath 
if   allegiance   to   the    Dutch.      November   27, 


1684,  he  ]5etitioned  for  fifty  acres  with  its  pro- 
portion of  meadow  in  Elizabethtown  and  the 
w'arrant  for  this  was  granted  May  7,  1686.  In 
partnership  with  the  Rev.  John  Harriman  he 
ran  for  many  years  the  grist  mill  known  as 
"John  Ogden's  Mill"  built  by  his  father,  and 
then  sold  to  Captain  Ebenezer  Peck  who  leased 
it  to  Benjamin  and  John  Harriman  for  £24  a 
year.  In  1693  he  signs  the  petition  to  the 
King  that  Elizabethtown  may  be  put  imiler  the 
civil  jurisdiction  of  New  York;  October  10, 
1694  he  is  made  sheriff  of  Elizabethtown,  and 
subscribes  to  the  minister's  support ;  and  De- 
cember 3,  1698,  he  is  one  of  the  committee  to 
lay  out  the  King's  road.  Captain  Benjamin 
( )gden  married,  probably  about  1685,  Hannah, 
daughter  of  John  and (Gosmerj  Wood- 
ruff, and  had  three  children:  i.  Benjamin,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  John,  born  1689,  died  De- 
cember 8,  1729;  married  Mary  Mitchell.  3. 
William,  mentioned  in  his  father's  will,  which 
be(|ueathes  to  him  a  large  share  of  the  estate. 
He  probably  died  unmarried. 

(VIII)  Benjamin  (2),  son  of  Captain  Ben- 
jamin (I)  and  Hannah  (Woodruff)  Ogden, 
was  born  in  Elizabethtown,  1680,  died  No- 
vember 4,  1729,  in  the  same  place.  He  lived 
in  Elizabethtown  and  in  171 1  was  one  of  the 
overseers  of  the  highways.  September  10 
he  was  one  of  the  rioters  who  protested  against 
the  claims  of  the  proprietors.  By  his  wife 
Catharine  he  had  two  children:  I.  William, 
referred  to  below.  2.  James,  born  1705,  died 
1737;  married  Elizabeth  Crowell. 

(IX)  William,  son  of  Benjamin  (2)  and 
Catharine  Ogden,  was  born  in  Elizabethtown. 
June  I.  1704,  died  there  Alarch  20,  1791.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  lived  in  Elizabethtown.  By 
his  wife  Mary,  born  1706,  died  December  28. 
1783,  he  had  three  children  :  i.  Jacob,  referred 
to  below.  2.  Susannah,  born  1746,  died  Febru- 
ary 3,  1819;  married  John  Morehouse.  3. 
Hannah,  married  into  the  Burns  family. 

(X)  Jacob,  only  son  of  record  of  William 
and  Mary  Ogden,  was  born  in  Elizabethtown. 
May  18,  1743,  died  there  October  10,  1818. 
He  was  also  a  farmer  and  lived  at  Elizabeth- 
town.  He  married  Elizabeth  Morehouse,  born 
December  18.  1749,  died  May  8,  1812,  and 
their  children  were:  i.  Isaac,  born  December 
13.  1767.  died  August  13.  1835  :  married  Rachel 
Kester.  2.  Benjamin,  referred  to  below.  3. 
Mary  .Ann.  October  22,  1773,  died  December 
II,  1832;  married  (first)  John  Jackson  Ed- 
wards, and  (second)  Benjamin  Brown.  4 
Fnoch.  1776.  died  April  19.  1814;  married 
Louisa  .      5.   Abigail,    1779,  died   Sep- 


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tember  5,  1855;  married  William  Melvin.  6. 
George,  1780,  died  1859,  married  Elizabeth 
.    7.  Elizabeth,  1781,  died  May  17, 1812. 

(XI)  Benjamin  (3),  second  child  and  son 
of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth  (Morehouse)  Ogden, 
was  born  in  Eiizabethtown,  August  31,  1769, 
died  there  May  19,  1844.  His  wife  was  Charity, 
fourth  child  and  third  daughter  of  Matthias  and 
Margaret  (  Magie)  Ogden,  whose  line  was  :  John. 
Jonathan.  Samuel,  Samuel,  Matthias.  Benja- 
min and  Charity  (Ogden)  Ogden  were  mar- 
ried, [anuary  24,  1795,  and  their  children  were  : 
1.  Peggy,  born  November  22.  1795,  died  Au- 
gust 26,  1828;  married  Daniel  Wade.  2.  Eliz- 
abeth. October  14,  1797,  ilied  young.  3.  Char- 
ity, January  3.  1800,  died  young.  4.  Betsy 
.■\nn.  December  13,  1803,  died  unmarried  in 
1872.  5.  Rachel,  February  lo,  1806,  died  un- 
married September  29,  1891.  6  and  7.  Char- 
ity and  Benjamin,  twins.  March  25,  1812: 
Charity  died  unmarried  in  1867 :  Benjamin 
died  June  4.  1884;  marrietl  (first)  Emily  Lane 
and  (second)  ^iary  Jane  Bird.  8.  Hannah. 
September  5,  1814,  died  unmarried.  9.  Isaac, 
referred  to  below.- 

(XII)  Isaac,  youngest  child  of  Benjamin 
(3)  and  Charity  (Ogden)  Ogden,  was  born  in 
Eiizabethtown,  April  18.  1818,  died  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  July  9,  1889,  He  was  a  manu- 
facturer ot  vitrified  glazed  drain  tiles  and  the 
founder  of  the  firm  of  Isaac  Ogden  &  Son. 
which  up  lo  1895  was  carried  on  by  his  chil- 
dren. Both  he  and  his  wife  are  buried  in 
Evergreen  cemetery,  Elizabeth.  April  8,  1842, 
he  married  Martha  Wayne,  born  December  20. 
1821,  died  May  29,  18S7.  daughter  of  Robert 
and  Jane  (Parsell)  .\tchison,  and  they  had 
four  children:  i.  Isaac  Langworthj-,  born 
May  8,  1843,  died  .September  29,  1843.  2. 
Henry  Ellis,  referred  to  below.  3.  William 
Lillie,  October  26,  1848;  married  (first)  Mary 
Florence  Soper  and  (second)  Harriet  A.  Budd. 
4.  Jane  Atchison.  July  20,  1854.  died  unmar- 
ried March  8,  1870. 

(XIII)  Henry  Ellis,  second  child  and  son 
of  Isaac  and  Martha  Wayne  (Atchison) 
Ogden,  was  born  in  Chelsea,  Massachusetts, 
Augu.st  23,  1845,  ^"fl  is  now  living  at  13  Hill- 
side avenue,  Newark,  New  Jersey.  His  in- 
fancy was  spent  in  Elizabeth,  and  for  his  early 
education  he  was  sent  to  the  public  schools 
and  to  the  Newark  high  school.  In  i86i  he 
found  clerical  work  in  a  dry  goods  store  where 
he  remained  for  eight  years,  and  then  went 
into  the  real  estate  business  in  Elizabeth  which 
he  continued  until  1873,  when  he  entered  his 
father's  establishment  in  Newark.    He  remain- 


ed u])  to  1895,  antl  has  since  conducted  a, 
masons"  material  business  in  Newark.  Mr. 
Ogden  is  a  Republican.  He  attends  the  First) 
Reformed  Church  of  Newark  and  has  been 
for  eighteen  years  the  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  Presbyterian  L'nion  of  the  Presbytery 
of  Newark. 

May  28.  1867,  Henry  Ellis  Ogden  married 
Ella  Elizabeth  Carter,  of  Newark,  born  in 
^Vlorristown,  New  Jersey,  August  28,  1847, 
daughter  of  George  L.  and  Eliza  (Bird)  Car- 
ter. Children :  i.  Grace  Martha,  born  July 
9.  1868.  died  May  5,  1877.  2.  Nellie  Eliza, 
born  June  17,  1871,  married  Irving  W'.  \\  ill-i 
iams  (see  Williams).  3.  Isaac  Henry,  March 
29.  1878  :  he  has  been  employed  for  many  years 
and  is  assistant  manager  in  the  mailing  depart- 
ment of  the  Prudential  Insurance  Company; 
married  Marie  Sneider,  and  has  one  child, 
Roberta,  born  .\pril  13,  1904.  4.  George  Car- 
ter. November  2(1,  1880;  married  Charlotte 
X'esey.  born  May  28,  1882.  and  has  two  chil- 
dren: Carter,  born  July  19,  1907,  and  Jack 
Kenneth,  born  June  27,  1909. 


(For  English  ancestry  see  Robert  Ogden  1). 

David     Ogden,     son     of     John 
(  XiDEN     Ogden,    was    born    in    England, 

April  I,  1655,  died  in  Middle- 
tnwn.  Chester  cmmty,  Pennsylvania,  October 
22.  1705.  He  was  one  of  the  passengers  in  the 
"Welcome,"  took  up  his  residence  in  Philadel- 
jihia,  and  presented  his  certificate  from  Lon- 
don to  the  Shackamaxon  Monthly  Meeting 
when  he  applied  to  proceed  in  marriage.  He 
next  took  up  a  two  hundred  acre  tract  in 
Middletown.  then  in  Chester  county,  now  in 
Delaware  county,  where  he  built  his  homestead 
on  or  near  the  Edgemont  ( jreat  road,  laid  out 
in  1O87.  David  ()gden  had  two  sisters,  both 
of  whom  came  to  Pennsylvania.  Hannah,  who 
probably  lived  with  or  near  her  brother  and 
married  Robert,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(  Songhurst)  Barber,  and  died  a  widow  with- 
out issue,  and  Sarah,  married  Isaac  Williams., 
lived  apparently  in  Philadelphia,  and  had  a  son 
Isaac  who  married  and  had  two  daughters, 
Rachel  and  Hannah. 

March  12,  1686,  David  Ogden  married  Mar- 
tha, daughter  of  John  and  Ann  Houlston,  of 
Chester  county,  who  married  (second)  at  Mid- 
dletown Meeting  in  17 10,  James  Thomas,  and 
resided  in  Whiteland,  Pennsylvania.  Her  father 
had  located  the  next  farm  but  one  to  David 
Ogden,  and  her  three  sisters  passed  meeting 
on  the  same  day  and  were  married,  Sarah,  to 
Peter,  a  direct  ancestor  of  President  Zachary 


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"ayl'ir  ;  Elizabeth  to  James  SwafFord  ;  and  Re- 
lecca  to  William  Gregory.  She  also  had  a 
irother  John.  Her  father  was  probably  the 
ohn  Hoiilston  mentioned  by  Besse  as  having 
leen  February  5.  1660.  sentenced  in  Wales  to 
if  teen  years  imprisonment  for  refusing  to 
ake  the  oath  of  allegiance.  Children  of  David 
.nd  Martha  (  Houlston  )  Ogden  :  i.  Jonathan. 
)orn  April  ig,  1687,  died  June,  1727:  mar- 
ied  Ann  Robinson.  2.  .Martha,  July  23.  1689. 
iving  in  1720.  3.  Sarah,  Xovember  3,  1691, 
narried  ( tirst)  Evan  Howell,  and  (second) 
A'illiam  Surman.  4.  N'ehemiah,  December  15. 
693,  died  June  14,  1781.  5.  Samuel,  Decem- 
ber 30,  1695.  died  January  14,  1748:  married 
Esther  Lownes.  -  6.  John.  July  4,  1698.  died 
A.pril  6,  1742;  married  (first)  Hannah  Davis, 
ind  (second)  Hannah  Owen.  7.  Aaron,  May 
31,  1700.  8.  Hannah,  August  22.  1702,  living 
in  1720.     9.  Stephen,  referred  to  below. 

(H)  Stephen,  youngest  child  of  David  and 
Martha  (  Houlston)  Ogden.  was  born  in  Mid- 
dletown.  Chester  county.  Pennsylvania,  Janu- 
ary 12,  1705,  died  in  Springfield,  Pennsylvania, 
September  16,  1760.  He  married  Hannah, 
born  April  5.  1722,  died  October  10,  1783, 
daughter  of  \\'illiani  Surman,  of  Worcester, 
England,  and  Mary  P.arnes,  of  the  parish  of 
\\  hittington.  county  Worcester,  who  were 
married  December  16.  1720.  Children  of  Ste- 
phen and  Hannah  (Surman)  Ogden:  i.  Xehe- 
miah.  born  .\pril  12,  1744,  died  October  28, 
1752.  2.  John.  December  31.  1746.  died  May 
2T^.  1825:  married  Sarah  Crozer.  3.  Stephen, 
September  8.  1748,  died  October  13.  1776.  4. 
Mary,  October  11.  1750,  died  September  5, 
1809:  married  Edward  Home.  5.  Hannah. 
August  21.  1752.  died  April  17.  1822:  married 
Phili]!  P)Onsall.  6.  Aaron,  referred  to  below. 
7.  Martha.  October  20,  1736.  died  without 
issue;  married  (first)  James  .Arnold,  of  (jlou- 
cester  county.  New  Jersey,  (second)  Thoma^ 
Laycock.  of  Delaware  county.  Pennsylvania, 
a  widower,  and  (third)  another  widower.  John 
Humphrey.  8.  Jonathan.  9.  Abigail.  Octo- 
ber 2"],  1760.  died  June  15.  1842;  married 
(first)  Seth  Pancoast.  and  (second)  Israel 
Roberts. 

(HI  I  Aaron,  si.xth  child  and  fourth  son  of 
Stephen  and  Hannah  (Surman)  C)gden.  was 
born  July  g.  1754.  He  married  Esther  Pres- 
ton: children:  i.  Rebecca. "born  January  19. 
1775.  fl'<-''l  September  9.  1829;  married  George 
Malin.  2.  Stephen,  .-\pril  18.  1777.  died  1846: 
married  Hannah  Rartram.  3.  Amar,  Febru- 
ary 22.  1779.  died  October  4.  1780.  4.  Joseph, 
referred  to  below.     5.  Rachel,  March  8.  1782, 


died  June  15.  iSCkj;  married  Abner  Malin.  6. 
I'reston.  September  22.  1783.  died  October, 
1784.  7.  Martha.  April  11,  1785:  married  in 
Christ  Church,  Philadelphia,  John  Archer,  8. 
Hannah,  Xovember  22,  1787,  died  January, 
1788. 

(  \\  I  Joseph,  fourth  child  and  third  son  of 
.\aron  and  Esther  ( Preston  )  Ogden,  was  born 
September  9,  1780,  died  January  20,  1826.  He 
was  a  cabinet  maker  in  Newark,  Delaware,  an 
agriculturist  and  a  strict  Methodist  class-leader, 
and  other  members  of  his  family  were  strict 
members  of  the  Methodist  church,  their  de- 
scendants being  of  the  same  religious  persua- 
sion. Joseph  was  one  of  the  contractors  in 
the  building  of  the  Delaware  and  Chesapeake 
canal  and  was  employed  upon  it  when  he  died. 
He  married  Lucretia  Gorman,  who  died  Janu- 
arv  21,.  i82():  children:  i.  Esther,  born  April 
5,  1805,  died  August  19,  1863;  married  (first) 
Richard  Hodges,  (second)  Lewis  H.  Ford, 
( third )  John  Long.  2.  Martha,  twin  with 
Esther,  died  January  3.  1875;  married  Abra- 
ham Martine.  3,  .\aron,  December  26,  1806, 
died  Jidy  17,  1859;  married  (first)  Elizabeth 
Morris,  (second)  Eliza,  daughter  of  Abner 
and  Rachel  (Ogden)  Malin,  (third)  someone 
in  the  west.  4.  Sidney  .Ann.  January  26.  1809  ■ 
married  (first)  a  Mr.  Gordon,  (second)  John 
Perkins.  3.  .\nier.  April  2,  181 1,  died  June 
28,  188(^1:  married  Rebecca  Wood.  6.  Hannah 
P.entley,  ]\Iarch  20.  1813:  married  George 
\\'ashington  To])pin.  7.  Rebecca,  April  23. 
1815.  died  October  20.  1890:  married  Isaac 
Tavlor,  of  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  and  died 
without  issue.  8.  Anning  Asbury.  April  24, 
1817.  died  ^lay  4.  1894:  married  Sarah  Xitzel 
Lincoln.  9.  Torbert.  April  16.  1819,  died  1833 
or  i83().  ID.  Sarah  Smith,  April  23,  1821,  died 
Xovember  22.  1891  :  married  Joseph  Lock- 
wood.     11.  Josejih  Richard,  referred  to  below. 

(  \' )  Joseph  Richard,  youngest  chdd  of  Jo- 
seph and  Lucretia  ( (iorman  I  Ogden,  was  born 
.\pril  I,  1823,  died  July  31,  i8(So.  He  was  a 
nail-cutter  and  lived  in  Fairfield,  opposite 
Harrisburg.  Pennsylvania.  January  21,  1847, 
he  married  Eliza  Ann,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Keller.  b\-  whom  he  had  one  child  Norman 
Preston,  referred  to  below.  Eliza  Ann  (Keller) 
Ogden's  mother  was  F,Iiza  Reckett,  of  Phila- 
delphia. 

(  \'l  )  X<irman  Preston,  only  child  of  Joseph 
Richard  and  F'liza  Ann  (Keller)  Ogden,  was 
born  in  Fairview,  Pennsylvania.  Xovember  26, 
1848.  and  lives  in  Atlanta,  Delaware.  He  is  a 
carpenter.  In  1867  he  tnarried  Margaret 
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(Twigg)  Brown,  of  Scotland.  Their  children 
arc:  i.  John  Brown,  born  June  lo,  1868,  died 
May  16,  1869.  2.  Eliza  Ann,  April  2,  1870; 
married  Charles,  son  of  Matthias  and  Caroline 
C.  (Mayer)  Kappenstein,  of  Wnertembnrg. 
(lennany  :  resides  in  Philadel])hia.  and  has  two 
children :  Margaret  Brown,  born  August  7. 
i8gi.  and  Charles  (Albert,  February  11,  1894 
3.  Jose])h  Richard,  referred  to  below.  4.  Alex- 
ander Twigg,  born  June  26,  1875.  5-  Norman 
Preston.  February  27,  1878.  6.  Jasper  Dewie, 
December  3,  1880.  7.  James  Frederic,  Janu- 
ary 27,  1884.  8.  John  .Mexander,  February 
26,  1887.  died  March  3,  1887.  9.  Charles  Kap- 
penstein, March  15,  1888,  died  July  14,  1888. 
10.  George  Henry,  May  22,  1889.  11.  Mar- 
garet Brown,  May  15,  1891,  died  July  22, 
189 1.     12.  Martin  Samuel,  December  2,  1893. 

(VII)  Joseph  Richard  (2),  third  child  and 
second  son,  the  eldest  son  to  reach  maturity  of 
Norman  Preston  and  Margaret  Twigg 
(Brown  I  Ogden,  was  born  in  Philadelphia. 
Pennsylvania.  October  4.  1872.  and  is  now 
living  at  .Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey.  He  was 
educated  in  the  private  schools  of  Philadelphia, 
and  under  ])rivate  tutors,  studied  architecture 
and  then  became  a  practical  builder.  In  1900 
he  opened  an  office  in  Atlantic  City  as  an  archi- 
tect, and  since  that  time  he  has  built  quite  a 
number  of  private  and  public  buildings.  He  is 
now  engaged  on  (ilans  for  a  large  grammar 
school  in  .Atlantic  City.  He  is  a  Republican 
anrl  attends  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  is  a 
member  of  Belcher  Lodge,  No.  180,  Free  and 
-Accepted  Masons,  Atlantic  City.  He  has  also 
taken  the  consistory  degrees  in  masonry. 

.November  14.  1899.  Joseph  Richard  Ogden 
married  May.  born  October  22,  1872,  daughter 
of  the  Rev.  John  P>.  McCorkell.  a  I'resliyterian 
minister  of  I'hiladeli)hia.  They  have  had  three 
children:  I.  .\  child  that  died  in  infancy.  2. 
Bertha  May,  bora  May  25,  1902.  3.  Joseph 
Richard,  Jr.,  May  27,  1905.  Mrs.  Ogden  is  a 
hel])meet  to  her  husband  in  every  sense  of  the 
word,  being  actively  engaged  with  him  in  his 
office,  in  formulating  and  (planning  archi- 
tectural designs. 


The  birthplace  of  Yale  Col- 
W  R  l( . I  I'i'      lege  and  the  first  sixteen  years 

of  its  infant  life  was  in  the 
neighborliood  of  .Saybrook  and  \\'cstbrook  and 
immediately  in  that  part  of  Killingworth  now 
known  as  Clinton.  Its  birth  year  was  1700,  its 
first  charter  1701.  and  its  sponsors  the  ten 
[)rincipal  ministers  of  the  Colony  of  Connecti- 
cut, who  each  contributed  a  gift  of  bcxjks.     In 


1716  it  was  removed  to  New  Haven  and  in  its 
second  charter,  granted  in  1745.  it  was  named 
Yale  in  consideration  of  a  gift  of  five  hundred 
poimds  in  money  and  as  many  books.  The 
catalogue  of  the  early  graduates  of  Yale  gives 
us  the  names  of  Ebenezer  Wright,  a  minister 
of  the  gospel,  graduated  in  1724,  and  Job 
Wright,  also  a  minister  of  the  gospel,  in  1757. 
The  third  and  fourth  of  the  name  are  William 
W^right.  graduated  in  1774,  and  David,  in 
1777,  sons  of  David  and  Elizabeth  (Hand) 
Wright.  From  1781  to  1901  fifty-nine  of  the 
name  have  taken  one  or  more  degrees  from 
Yale,  and  out  of  the  whole  number  of  gradu- 
ates of  the  name  seven  became  clergj-men. 
eight  doctors  of  medicine,  ten  bachelors  or 
doctors  of  philosoph)',  and  the  large  majority; 
were  lawyers.  On  the  index  of  officers  of  the! 
University  we  find  one  in  the  chair  of  physics' 
and  chemistry,  one  in  the  chair  of  Latin  and] 
one  a  tutor  as  early  as  1825.  Williams,  White. 
Strong.  .Smith.  Porter,  Lewis,  Jones,  Johnson, 
Huntington,  Hubbard,  Hall,  Clark,  Brown. 
Baldwin,  .Allen  and  .Adams  are  the  only  other 
family  names  with  as  many  graduates. 

(I)  Thomas,  son  of  John  and  Grace  (Glas-! 
cock)  W'right,  of  Breck  Hall  or  "The  Moat 
House."  South  W^'ald,  county  Essex,  Eng- 
land, was  born  in  England,  where  he  was  bap- 
tized November  19,  1610.  He  emigrated  to 
America  and  is  found  at  Wcthersfield,  Con- 
necticut Cfilony,  in  1640,  where  he  was  deputy 
to  the  general  court,  1643,  and  where  some 
time  after  May  i,  1647,  he  married  as  his 
second  wife,  Margaret,  widow  of  John  Elsom, 
who  died  without  issue  in  1670.  Thomas 
Wright  by  his  first  wife  had  five  children  as 
follows:  i.  Thomas,  married  Elizabeth  Chit- 
tenden. June  if).  1657:  he  died  in  April,  171 1. 

2.  James,  married    (first)    Mary  .  and 

(second)  Dorcas  Weed,  November  20,  1660; 
he  died  in  1705.  3.  Samuel,  born  in  1634,  in 
England,  as  were  all  these  children ;  he  mar- 
ried .Marv  Butler,  September  29,  i6;9,  and 
died  I'ebruary  13,  1690.  4.  Joseph,  see  for- 
ward. 

(Hi  Jose])h.  fourth  son  of  Thomas  Wright, 
the  immigrant,  by  his  first  wife,  was  born  in 
F^ngland  in  if>39-  a"''  w<i'^  brought  to  .America 
as  an  infant.  He  lived  in  Wethersfield,  Con- 
necticut, and  married  (first)  Mary,  daughter 
of  John  and  Marj- (  Foster)  .Stoddard.  Decem- 
ber 10,  i('>()^.  By  this  marriage  he  had  seven 
children:  I.  Mary,  April  13,  1665.  2.  Eliza- 
beth. November  18.  1^)67.  3.  Joseph,  February 
14,  if)70.  4.  Sarah.  May  16,  1674.  3.  Thomas. 
Jamiary    18,    1677,   married    (first)    Prudence 


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Dcming,  October  4.  1705.  and  (second)  Abi- 
gail Churchill,  November  3,  1715.  6.  John, 
May  19,  1679,  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Lieutenant  Jonathan  Boardman,  July  4,  1706. 
7.  Jonathan,  June  18,  1681,  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Rand,  March  24,  1706. 
Mary  (Stoddard)  Wright  died  August  23, 
1683,  and  her  husband  married  (second) 
Mercy,  sister  of  his  deceased  wife,  March  10, 
i()85,  and  by  her  he  had  two  children,  twins, 
Benjamin,  see  forward,  and  Nathaniel,  born 
October  16,  1688.  Nathaniel  married.  March 
12.  1 71 2.  Ann.  daughter  of  Jonathan  Deming. 
Deacon  Joseph  Wright  died  in  Wethersfield. 
Connecticut.  December  17,  1714. 

(Ill)  Benjamin,  twin  son  with  Nathaniel 
of  Deacon  Joseph  Wright  by  his  second  wife. 
Mercy  (Stoddard)  Wright,  was  born  in  Weth- 
ersfield. Connecticut,  October  16,  1688.  He 
married  (first)  Hannah  Holmes,  June  18. 
1719,  and  probably  (second)  Elizabeth  Hand, 
aljiiut  1725,  and  by  this  second  marriage  David 
(see  forward)  was  horn. 

(T\')  David,  son  of  lienjaniin  and  Eliza- 
beth (Hand)  Wright,  was  born  in  Wethers- 
field. Connecticut,  then  a  part  of  Saybrook. 
al)out  1727.  tie  married  Hester,  second 
daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  (Williams) 
Whittelsey,  of  Saybrook,  and  their  children 
were:  i.  William  (q.  v.).  2.  David,  born  Oc- 
tober 30.  1736.  He  was  a  lawyer  in  New 
London  and  in  the  course  of  his  professional 
duties  was  called  to  draw  up  the  will  of  a  client 
who  was  dying  with  yellow  fever  and  in  con- 
se(|uence  he  contracted  the  disease  and  died 
September  4.  1798.  He  married,  March  6. 
1786.  Martha,  third  daughter  of  Captain  Rus- 
sell and  Mary  (Cray)  f-Iubbard.  of  New  Lon- 
don, and  thev  had  five  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters born  of  this  marriage,  four  sons  and  two 
(laughters  living  to  adult  age.  The  oldest  son 
became  a  minister  (if  tlie  gospel  and  William 
was  the  second  son. 

(V)  William,  son  of  David  and  Hester 
(\\'hittelsey)  Wright,  was  born  in  Westbrook 
on  the  borders  of  Clinton.  Connecticut,  about 
1754.  He  was  graduated  at  Vale,  A.  B.,  1774, 
A.  M..  1777.  and  became  a  physician  and  sur- 
geon, joining  the  New  ILiven  Medical  Soci- 
ety in  1784.  Shortly  after  he  removed  to 
Rockland  county.  New  York,  and  lived  near 
Nyack.  his  residence  being  in  that  part  of  the 
county  which  became  the  township  of  Clarks- 
town.  He  married  and  had  twin  sons,  born 
November  13.  1789.  one  of  whom  he  named 
William,  see   forward.      Dr.  W^illiam   Wright 


died  away  from  home  while  on  a  visit  to  the 
south  in  1808. 

(VL)  William  (2),  twin  son  of  Dr.  William 
(i)  Wright,  was  born  in  Clarksville,  Rock- 
land county,  New  York,  November  13,  1789. 
He  was  a  volunteer  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812 
and  on  returning  home  became  a  saddler  in 
Bridgeport.  Connecticut,  in  1815.  In  1821 
he  removed  his  business  to  Newark.  New  Jer- 
sey, where  he  became  a  prominent  member  of 
the  Henry  Clay  W'hig  party  and  active  in  the 
established  organization  of  the  party  in  the 
city  of  Newark.  He  was  elected  mayor  of  the 
city  in  1839.  serving  1840-43,  and  was  a  rep- 
resentative of  that  party  in  the  L^nited  States 
house  of  representatives,  serving  throughout 
the  twenty-eighth  and  twenty-ninth  con- 
gresses. 1843-47.  In  1847  he  was  defeated  in 
the  election  for  governor  of  New  Jersey  by 
Daniel  Haines,  who  had  already  served  as 
governor,  1843-44.  He  was  elected  United 
States  senator  from  New  Jersey  in  1853  by  the 
Democratic  members  of  the  legislature,  to 
complete  the  term  of  Senator  Robert  Field 
Stockton,  who  had  resigned  his  seat  January 
10.  1853.  his  term  to  expire  March  3,  1857.  On 
com])leting  this  term,  .Senator  Wright  was  out 
of  ofiice  until  1863  when  the  legislature  again 
elected  him  to  the  United  States  senate  for  a 
full  term  to  expire  March  3,  1869,  and  he  took 
his  seat  December  7.  1863.  He  was  chairman 
of  the  committee  on  manufactures  and  of  that 
on  contingent  expenses.  He  died  in  Newark. 
New  Jersey,  November  i.  1866.  without  com- 
pleting his  term. 

He  married.  September  2.  1819.  Minerva, 
daughter  of  William  and  Jemima  (Tomlinson) 
Darrow.  born  in  Bridgeport.  Connecticut.  Sep- 
tember 2.  1795.  Her  father  and  mother  were 
married  in  1785.  The  children  of  Hon.  Will- 
iam and  Minerva  (Darrow)  Wright  were  born 
as  follows:  i.  Frederick  William,  May  21. 
1820.  in  Bridgeport.  Connecticut.  2.  Catherine 
Maria.  March  23.  1822.  in  Bridgeport.  3.  Ed- 
ward Henry,  see  forward.  . 

(\'ID  Edward  Henry,  second  son  and  third 
child  of  Hon.  William  (2)  and  Minerva  (Dar- 
row) Wright,  was  born  in  Newark.  New  Jer- 
sey. April  5.  1824.  He  was  prepared  for  col- 
lege at  St.  Paul's  School.  College  Point.  Long 
Island.  New  York,  and  was  graduated  at  the 
College  of  New  Jersey.  Princeton.  New  Jer- 
sey, A.  B.,  1844,  A.  M.,  1847.  He  then  studied 
law  with  .\lexander  Hamilton  in  New  York ; 
with  Archer  Gififord  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
and  at   Harvard  Law  School.  Harvard  Uni- 


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versity.  and  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New 
Jersey  in  1847.  He  traveled  in  Europe  for 
study  and  observation.  1848-49.  and  on  return- 
ing to  the  United  States  was  appointed  by 
President  Tyler  in  May,  1849.  secretary  of 
the  United  States  legislature  at  St.  Petersburg, 
where  he  remained  through  the  administration 
of  President  Tyler.  He  was  a  staunch  and 
zealous  Democrat  for  fifty  years,  and  on  the 
outbreak  of  the  civil  war,  1861,  he  volunteered 
for  service  in  the  Federal  army,  and  was  ap- 
jwinted  in  May,  1861,  major  of  the  Si.xth 
United  States  Cavalry  and  aide-de-camp  on 
the  staff  of  Lieutenant  General  W'infield  Scott, 
with  the  rank  of  colonel.  On  the  retirement  of 
General  Scott,  Major  Wright  was  assigned 
to  the  staf¥  of  General  George  B.  McClellan. 
with  the  same  rank.  This  brought  him  active 
field  duty  on  the  Peninsula  of  \'irginia.  and  in 
the  Maryland  campaign,  and  his  commanding 
general  recommended  him  for  two  brevets  for 
gallant  and  meritorious  service  in  the  line  of 
duty.  He  was  ordered  to  report  with  his  com- 
mander at  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  after  the 
Maryland  campaign,  and  he  resumed  civil  life 
as  did  ( ieneral  McClellan,  and  he  became  a 
director  of  the  Mutual  Benefit  Life  Insurance 
Company,  and  of  the  Newark  Gas  Company. 
He  was  made  a  companion  in  the  military 
order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United 
States,  and  a  commander  of  the  Marcus  L. 
Ward  Post,  No.  88,  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public, which  organization  he  served  as  com- 
mander and  past  commander.  He  was  made 
a  member  of  the  Esse.x  Club  of  Newark,  and 
also  a  member  of  the  L^nion  Club  of  New 
York .  City,  and  served  for  several  years  as 
vice-president  of  the  former.  He  was  also 
made  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
Episcopal  Fund  of  the  Division  of  Newark ; 
president  of  the  board  of  managers  of  the 
New  Jersey  Home  for  Disabled  Soldiers,  with 
which  board  he  was  the  active  executive  officer 
for  twenty-five  years. 

Majof  Wright  married.  October  9.  i860,  in 
.New  York  City,  Dorothea  Eliza,  daughter  of 
Stevens  Thom.son  and  Dora  E.  (Phelps). 
Mason,  who  was  born  at  the  home  of  Tliad- 
deus  Phelps.  No.  23  Park  Place,  in  New  "S'ork 
City.  1  ler  father  was  the  first  governor  of  the 
state  of  .Michigan,  and  founder  of  the  L'niver- 
sity  of  Michigan.  Tiie  children  of  Stevens 
Thomson  anfl  Dora  E.  (Phelps)  Mason  were 
all  born  in  New  York  City  as  follows :  1 . 
Stevens  Thomson  Mason,  who  died  when  three 
years  old.  2.  Dorothea  E.  Masi^i.  3.  Thad- 
deiis  l^heljis  Mason,  who  died  when  si.x  years 


of  age.  The  children  of  Edward  Henry  and 
Dorothea  Eliza  (  Mason  )  Wright  were  born  at 
No.  24  Park  Place.  Newark.  New  Jersey,  as 
follows:  I.  Minerva,  August  6,  1861,  mar- 
ried Rowland  Parry  Keasby  and  had  child 
Dorothea.     2.  \\'illiam  Mason,  September  24, 

1863.  married  Marjorie  Jerauld  and  had  chil- 
dren :  ANilliam  ^lason,  born  at  Fort  Omaha, 
Nebraska:  Jerauld,  born  at  Amherst,  Massa- 
chusetts: Marjorie,  born  at  Niagara  Falls, 
New  York ;  the  father  is  now  stationed  as 
major  of  the  Eighth  Infantry  at  Monterey, 
California.     3.    Emily   \Mrginia,   October   29, 

1864.  4.  Julia  Dora,  October  29,  1865.  5. 
Katherine  Maria.  May  20,  1866,  died  in 
infancy.  6.  Dora  Katherine,  June  18,  1868, 
married  Chauncey  G.  Parker  and  they  have 
five  children:  Chauncey  G.  Jr.,  Edith  Wright. 
Edward  Courtlandt  and  Dora  Mason  (twins'!, 
Elizabeth  Steitz.  7.  Edith  Howard,  March  5, 
1871,  died  young.  8.  Amabel  Phelps,  died 
young,  g.  Edward  Henry  Jr.,  February  13,. 
1875  •  niarried  Caroline  Lesher  Firth,  and 
their  son  is  Edward  Henry,  who  was  of  the 
ninth  generation  from  Thomas  Wright,  the 
immigrant  settler  of  Wethersfield. 


General  James  Fowler  Rusling, 
RUSLING    LL.D.,  was  born  April  14,1834, 

at  Washington,  New  Jersey, 
but  has  lived  chiefly  at  Trenton,  New  Jersey. 
The  name  has  been  "Rusling"  during  the  past 
century.  But  in  previous  centuries  (sixteenth, 
seventeenth,  and  eighteenth)  it  was  al.so  writ- 
ten "Rustling."  "Ruslyng."  "Ruslinge."  "Rus- 
lin."  "Russlin."  and  "Russelin."  according  to 
the  old  ])arish  registers  of  Winterton.  Eng- 
land. Possibly  descended  from  the  Rosslyns 
of  Scotland,  or  the  Rosselyns.  Rosselynes, 
Rocelines,  or  Rosselines  of  England.  Perhaps 
of  old  Saxon  origin.  The  Saxon  kings  had  a 
bcHlyguard.  called  "Ruslingas."  and  hence  the 
name  |)robal)ly. 

The  first  of  the  family  in  .America  was 
James  Rusling — he  always  wrote  his  name 
thus.  ■  He  was  the  son  of  Robert  and  Chris- 
tiana Rusling.  and  was  born  at  Hull,  York- 
shire, England.  July  26.  1762.  but  christened  at 
Winteringham.  Lincolnshire.  England,  about 
ton  miles  south  of  Hull.  .Xugust  2^.  1762.  am 
appears  by  the  [)arish  register  there.  He  dier 
at  Newburgh.  near  Hackettstown.  New  Jersey, 
.\ugust  II.  1826,  and  was  buried  at  Washing- 
ton, New  Jersey,  but  reinterred  at  .Asbury, 
New  Jersey,  1892,  in  "The  Rusling  Plot"  in 
the  graveyard  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
clnircb  tlure.     He  was  descended  from  Will- 


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iam  "Ruslyng."  Brian  Rusling,  or  Robert 
Riisling  probably,  of  W'interton,  Lincolnshire, 
England,  about  three  miles  from  Wintering- 
ham,  who  lived  there  or  near  there  1563- 1638, 
or  from  Edward  Rusling,  who  lived  there  1724. 
He  was  married  to  Mary  Fowler  in  the  Parish 
Church  at  Winterton  (Old  "All  Saints"),  May 
15'  ^7^7-  ^s  appears  by  the  parish  register 
there.  The  same  year  he  settled  in  business  at 
Scunthorpe,  about  five  miles  from  W'interton, 
and  continued  there  until  1791  or  thereabouts, 
when  with  two  children  he  removed  to  Hull. 
But  in  1795,  with  his  wife  and  four  children 
(three  sons  and  one  daughter),  he  removed  to 
America,  settling  first  in  New  York,  but  in 
1797  or  thereabouts  removed  to  New  Jersey, 
settling  at  Newburgh,  Morris  county,  about 
two  and  one-half  miles  southwest  of  Hacketts- 
town.  Here  he  had  previously  purchased  a 
considerable  tract  of  land,  in  the  "English  Set- 
tlement," on  the  "Beswick  Tract;"  but  soon 
lost  it  all  (his  title  being  attacked),  except 
about  one  hundred  acres  of  mountain  land,  and 
was  reduced  from  comparative  affluence 
(acquired  by  himself)  to  poverty  again.  He 
began  again  as  a  sclniol-teacher.  but  soon  had  a 
store  at  Newburgh,  another  at  Anderson,  and 
then  another  at  Washington,  and  managed  all 
three  successfully.  His  education  was  limited, 
but  he  became  a  skilled  bookkeeper,  account- 
ant, and  general  man  of  business,  and  died 
1826  with  the  respect  and  esteem  of  his  com- 
munity. In  religion  he  was  a  Methodist,  and 
one  of  the  early  disciples  of  John  Wesley  in 
luigland.  He  was  there  known  as  "James 
Rusling  the  Radical,"  and  left  England  be- 
cause craving  greater  freedom  and  larger 
opportunity  for  himself  and  children.  In  the 
Methodist  church  here  he  became  a  trustee, 
class  leader  and  recording  Stewart.  He  was 
leader  of  the  first  Methodist  class  in  Hacketts- 
town.  active  in  building  the  first  Methodist 
church  there,  and  also  another  at  \\'ashington 
and  .\sbury.  and  for  many  years  was  record- 
ing steward  of  Asbury  Circuit,  when  it  com- 
prised half  of  northern  Jersey  nearly.  From 
him  are  descended  all  the  Ruslings  now  in 
New  Jersey,  New  York,  Pennsylvania,  and 
Canada,  it  is  believed,  if  not  in  America. 

His  wife,  Mary  (Fowler)  Rusling,  was  born 
in  W'interton,  England,  November  23,  1766. 
christened  November  28.  1766,  died  New- 
burgh, New  Jersey,  July  25.  1809.  and  buried 
Hackettstown.  New  Jersey.  She  belonged  to 
the  Fowlers  of  \\  interton  (Co.  Lincoln) — an 
old  and  well  known  English  family  there.  Her 
grandnephew.    Rev.   Joseph   Thomas    Fowler, 


D.  C.  L.  (Hon.  Canon  of  Durham  Cathedral 
and  lecturer  in  the  University  there),  and  his 
sister  Elizabeth  still  occupy  the  old  "Fowler 
Homestead"  at  Winterton,  and  they  and  their 
ancestors  have  owned  and  occupied  it  for 
nearly  two  centuries  now.  The  Fowlers  are 
numerous  in  England,  and  have  held  high  posi- 
tions (member  of  parliament,  Lord  Mayor  of 
London,  secretary  for  India,  etc.).  But  the 
Winterton  Fowlers,  while  perhaps  distantly 
related,  do  not  claim  to  be  more.  Several  have 
been  clerg\-men  of  the  Church  of  England — 
three  in  one  generation  and  four  in  the  next. 
Her  oldest  brother  William  became  an  anti- 
quary and  engraver  of  note  in  England  1796- 
1829.  and  his  engravings  in  three  large  vol- 
umes are  now  in  the  British  Museum  and  Bod- 
leian and  other  great  libraries  at  Oxford,  Dur- 
ham, and  elsewhere  in  England  and  Scotland. 
He  reckoned  among  his  patrons  George  III, 
the  Duke  of  W'ellington.  Sir  Joseph  Banks, 
Sir  Walter  Scott  and  others. 

James  and  Mary  (Fowler)  Rusling  had  chil- 
dren, as  follows:  Joseph,  born  Alay  12,  1788, 
died  July  4,  1839.  James,  born  August  8, 
1789.  died  December  7,  1848.  William,  born 
July  18,  1791,  died  February  23.  1872.  Han- 
nah Fowler,  born  August  21. 1793,  died  August 
14,  1881.  Married  Edward  Johnston.  Ger- 
shom,  born  September  i,  1796,  died  February 
5,  1 88 1.  Sedgwick,  born  April  24,  1799,  died 
iVIarch  7.  1876.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  Novem- 
ber 4.  1804.  died  October  3,  1876.  Married 
John  P.  Sharp. 

James  Rusling  married  (second)  Hannah 
Rose  (nee  Frazer),  of  Fox  Hill,  Morris 
county.  New  Jersey.  April  2.  1810.  She  was 
born  November  17,  1775,  died  April  14,  1848, 
and  buried  Asbury,  New  Jersey.  Their  chil- 
dren were  as  follows:  Robert,  born  January  i, 
1812,  died  August  5.  1879.  John,  born  March 
f).  1813.  died  January  16.  1896.  Mercy,  born 
October  11.  1814.  died  June  15.  1892.  Mar- 
ried Samuel  G.  Encke ;  he  died  February  4. 
1906.  Of  the  above  Joseph  and  .^edgwick 
became  Methodist  ministers — Joseph  noted  also 
as  a  writer  of  hymns  and  poems.  Robert  be- 
came a  member  of  assembly,  judge  of  court  of 
common  pleas.  New  Jersey,  and  United  States 
internal  revenue  officer  and  postmaster.  John. 
United  States  internal  revenue  officer  and 
])ostmaster. 

Gershom  Rusling.  father  of  James  Fowler 
Rusling.  was  born  in  New  York.  September  i, 
1796,  as  above  stated.  He  married  Eliza  Budd 
Mankinson.  March  i.  1825  ;  she  was  born  April 
13.   1803.  died  December  3.  1838.  and  buried 


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Asbury,  New  Jersey.  Their  children  are  as 
follows :  William  lilcCullough  Henry  Hank- 
inson.  born  February  28,  1826,  never  married; 
died  September  14,  1907;  buried  Trenton.  New 
Jersey.  Called  "Henry."  Usually  written 
"William  H.."  and  "W.  Henry."  Ann  Maria, 
born  January  I,  1828,  died  December  13.  1872. 
Married  Rev.  Edmund  Hance,  M.  D.  Buried 
Asbury,  New  Jersey.  No  issue.  Emma,  born 
April  5,  1830,  died  March  30,  1873.  Married 
Hon.  Stacy  Barcroft  Bray.  Buried  Lambert- 
ville.  New  Jersey.  Had  one  daughter,  Eliza 
K.,  born  August  16,  1863.  Gersliom,  born  May 
5.  1832,  married  Isabell  Ross,  February  5. 
1S37;  she  died  July  22,  1893.  leaving  three 
daughters,  Lizzie  B.,  Miriam  H.,  and  Lillie  A. 
Buried  Morristown,  New  Jersey.  James 
Fowler,  born  April  14,  1834.  John  P.  B. 
Sloan,  born  September  19,  1836,  died  January 
9,  1838.  buried  Asbury,  New  Jersey.  Eliza 
Keturah.  born  September  13,  1838.  died  Au- 
gfust  4,  1858,  buried  Asbury,  New  Jersey. 

Gershom  Rusling  married  (second)  Hannah 
Matthews,  July  7,  1841.  She  was  born  Octo- 
ber 22.  1796,  died  May  19,  1858,  and  buried 
Asbury,  New  Jersey.    No  issue. 

Gershom  Rusling  married  (third)  Sarah  Hill. 
December  13.  i860.  She  was  born  September 
18,  1816,  died  April  28,  1887,  and  buried  Flem- 
ington.  New  Jersey.     No  issue. 

In  early  life  he  worked  on  his  father's  farm 
at  Newburg,  New  Jersey,  and  then  became 
clerk  and  partner  in  his  stores ;  then  merchant 
himself  at  Washington,  New  Jersey,  and 
acquired  a  competency.  Here  also  he  became 
United  States  postmaster,  school  trustee,  and 
director  in  Morris  Canal  and  Banking  Com- 
pany. He  founded  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  there,  and  was  its  first  class  leader  and 
Sunday  school  superintendent.  In  1844  he 
removed  to  Cherryville,  Hunterdon  county. 
New  Jersey,  and  became  a  merchant  again. 
In  1845  he  removed  to  Trenton,  New  Jersey, 
and  became  merchant  and  farmer.  Here  also 
he  became  insjjector  of  New  Jersey  State 
Prison,  director  of  Crosswicks  and  Trenton 
Turnjiikc  Comjjany.  and  class  leader  and  ex- 
horter  Methodist  E])iscopal  church.  His  farm 
near  Trenton  was  made  valuable  by  the  growth 
of  the  city,  and  his  wealth  much  enhanced.  His 
opportunities  for  education  were  few,  but  he 
made  the  most  of  them,  and  being  endowed 
with  fine  natural  abilities,  he  became  a  good 
business  man  and  useful  citizen.  In  religion 
he  was  always  a  Methodist,  but  friendly  to  all 
other  churches.  In  politics  he  was  originally  a 
Democrat,  but  in   1X60  he  became  a  Republi- 


can, and  continued  in  that  political  faith  until 
his  decease. 

Eliza  Budd  (Hankinson)  Rusling,  his  first 
wife,  and  mother  of  all  his  children,  was  the 
daughter  of  Henry  and  Mary  (McCullough) 
Hankinson.  Henry  Hankinson  was  the  son  of 
General  Aaron  and  Alary  (Snyder)  Hankin- 
son, of  Stillwater,  Sussex  county.  New  Jersey. 
Aaron  Hankinson  was  colonel  of  Second  Regi- 
ment, Sussex  Militia,  February  28,  1777.  and 
promoted  brigadier-general,  June  5,  1793.  He 
was  on  frontier  service  on  the  upper  Dela- 
ware, against  Indians  and  Tories,  during  much 
of  the  war.  and  at  the  battles  of  the  Brandy- 
wine  and  Germantown  under  General  \\'ash- 
ington,  September  11,  1777,  and  October  11, 
1777.  He  was  member  of  assembly  of  New 
Jersey,  1782  to  1786,  1788  to  1792,  and  elder 
of  Presbyterian  church.  His  son  Henry  was 
born  .August  27,  1767,  died  May  5,  1848,  and 
buried  .Asbury,  New  Jersey.  He  was  major 
and  inspector  of  Sussex  Brigade,  New  Jersey 
Militia.  October  26,  1809,  and  also  elder  of 
Presbyterian  church.  He  was  admitted  to 
New  Jersey  bar,  November  term,  1794.  and 
settled  in  practice  at  Washington.  New  Jersey. 
Was  member  of  assembly  of  New  Jersey, 
1 806- 1 807- 1 808  and  1835.  The  Hankinsons 
are  of  English  origin,  and  settled  in  Mon- 
mouth county  about  1680.  But  a  branch  re- 
moved to  Hunterdon  county.  (Joseph  and 
Rachel  Mattison.  his  wife. — born  171 2  and 
1707)  and  Aaron  was  their  son,  born  I-'ebruary 
7,  1735.  at  Rowland's  Mills,  near  Flemington. 
New  Jersey,  removed  to  Sussex  county,  about 
1764,  and  died  Stillwater,  Sussex  county.  New 
Jersey,  October  g,   1806. 

Mary  .McCullough  Hankinson  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  William  McCullough.  who  was  born 
December  18,  1759,  died  P'ebruary  9.  1840.  and 
buried  Asbury,  New  Jersey.  He  was  private 
of  First  Regiment,  Sussex  Militia,  and  captain 
and  conductor  of  Team  Brigade  1776  to  1781, 
during  the  Revolution,  and  was  pensioned 
1832  at  $320  per  annum, — afterwards  increas- 
ed to  $480.  He  was  lieutenant-colonel  of 
Lower  Regiment,  .Sussex  .Militia,  June  5,  1793, 
transferred  to  Third  Regiment,  and  resigned 
November  23,  1801.  He  was  member  of 
assembly  of  New  Jersey,  1793-94-95-96-99. 
and  of  council  1800-01-02-03,  ^nd  judge  of 
court  of  common  pleas  1803-1838 — thirty-five 
years  in  succession.  He  was  the  son  of  Ben- 
jamin and  llaimah  Cook  (Henry)  McCul- 
lough. who  married  about  1737  and  lived  at  or 
near  iiloomsbury.  Warren  county.  New  Jer- 
sey,     lienjamin    McCullough   was  of   Scotch- 


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Irish  ancestry,  and  came  from  county  Tyrone 
or  Antrim  to  Xew  Jersey,  about  1750.  Born 
1736.  died  1789,  and  buried  in  Presbyterian 
graveyard.  Greenwich,  near  Stewartsville, 
\\'arren  county.  Xew  Jersey.  He  also  was 
elder  of  Presbyterian  church.  He  was  cap- 
tain in  Heard's  brigade.  Xew  Jersey  Con- 
tinentals. June  14.  1776.  and  in  First  Regi- 
ment. Sussex  Militia.  May  24.  1777.  Was 
member  of  committee  of  safety  of  his  town- 
ship and  county.  1775.  member  of  assembly  of 
New  Jersey,  1778-79,  and  freeholder,  1781-84. 
Both  he  and  son  \\'illiam  at  battles  of  Tren- 
ton, Princeton.  Monmouth,  and  Springfield 
probably.  Both  always  ardent  friends  of  edu- 
cation and  public  improvements.  William 
became  a  Methodist.  1786.  and  settling  at 
Hall's  Mills  (now  Asbury,  New  Jersey)  had 
the  name  of  the  place  changed  to  Asbury,  in 
honor  of  Bishop  Asbury  of  that  church.  He 
was  instrumental  in  building  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church  there,  and  Bishop  .\sbury 
laid  its  corner-stone.  August  9,  1796.  stopping 
at  "Brother  McCullough's"  (Asbury's  Journal, 
vol.  2.  p.  259.  Elsewhere  he  spells  it  "Colonel 
McCollock's").  He  gave  the  lot  for  the  public 
school  at  Washington.  New  Jersey,  and  also 
contributed  liberally  to  the  Methodist  Episco- 
pal church  there.  In  politics  James  Rusling. 
Henry  and  Aaron  Hankinson.  W'illiam  and 
Benjamin  McCullough  were  all  Democrats. 

Gershom  Rusling's  second  wife,  Hannah 
(Matthews)  Rusling,  was  daughter  of  Jere- 
miah and  Kesiah  (Allen)  Matthews,  of  Mount 
Pleasant.  Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey,  son 
of  William  Matthews,  and  also  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolution.  The  father  of  Jeremiah  Matthews 
emigrated  here  from  Wales  about   1740. 

(iershom  Rusling's  third  wife,  Sarah  (Hill) 
Rusling.  was  the  daughter  of  Joachim  Hill, 
Flemington,  New  Jersey,  of  French  descent 
probably. 

James  Prowler  Rusling  (so  named  after  his 
grandfather  and  grandmother — James  and 
Mary  Fowler  Rusling).  third  son  of  Gershom 
and  Eliza  Budd  (Hankinsin)  Rusling,  was 
born  April  14,  1834.  at  Washington,  Warren 
county.  New  Jersey,  but  removed  March,  1845, 
to  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  with  his  father  and 
family.  He  was  educated  at  Trenton  Acad- 
emy. I'eunington  Seminary,  and  Dickinson  Col- 
lege (Carlisle,  Pennsylvania) — taking  first 
honors  at  Pennington  1852,  and  second  honors 
at  Dickinson  1854,  with  degree  of  A.  P>..  hav- 
ing entered  junior  there.  He  delivered  the 
master's  oration  and  received  his  degree  of  A. 
M..  at  Dickinson  College.  1857.     He  was  pro- 


fessor of  natural  science  and  belles  lettres  at 
Dickinson  Seminary,  Williamsport,  Pennsyl- 
vania, 1854  to  1858,  and  at  same  time  read  law 
and  was  admitted  to  Pennsylvania  bar  1857, 
and  New  Jersey  bar,  1859.  He  settled  in 
Trenton,  in  the  practice  of  law,  1859,  and  was 
elected  county  solicitor  of  Mercer  county, 
1861,  and  continued  there  until  August,  1861, 
when  he  became  first  lieutenant  and  quarter- 
master Fifth  Regiment,  New  Jersey  Infantry 
Volunteers.  He  served  all  through  the  Civil 
war,  in  .\rmy  of  the  Potomac  to  fall  of  1863, 
in  Department  of  Cumberland  to  summer  of 
1865,  and  in  United  States  War  Department  to 
September,  1867,  at  regimental,  brigade,  divi- 
sion, corps,  army  and  department  headquarters 
and  retired  as  brigadier-general  United  States 
\'olunteers  (brevet)  "for  meritorious  and  dis- 
tinguished services.  War  of  1861.  "  He  was 
thus  five  times  promoted,  on  the  recommenda- 
tion of  such  officers  as  Generals  Patterson. 
Mott,  Sickles.  Hooker.  McClellan.  Thomas. 
Sherman,  and  Grant,  and  served  in  succes- 
sion at  regimental,  brigade,  division,  corps, 
army,  department  and  general  United  States 
army  headquarters — a  record  unef|ualed  in 
kind  by  any  New  Jersey  or  other  officer,  it  is 
believed. 

Returning  to  law  practice,  in  1868  he  re- 
ceived the  Republican  niimination  for  congress 
(  Second  New  Jersey  district )  over  Ex-Gover- 
nor Newell,  but  was  defeated  by  a  small  major- 
ity, this  district  being  heavily  Democratic  as 
then  constituted.  In  1869  he  was  appointed 
United  States  pension  agent  for  New  Jersey  by 
President  Grant,  and  re-appointed  until  1877, 
when  the  New  Jersey  agency  I  with  others) 
was  abolished  by  consolidation.  He  resumed 
general  law  practice  and  real  estate  business, 
and  became  counselor-at-law  in  all  New  Jer- 
sey and  United  States  courts ;  also  master  in 
chancery  and  notary  public.  In  1895  he  was 
appointed  by  Governor  Werts  on  a  commis- 
sion to  consider  certain  lands  at  Englishtown. 
New  Jersey,  for  a  Blind  Asylum,  etc.  In  1896 
he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Griggs  on  a 
commission  to  investigate  the  whole  subject  of 
taxation  in  New  Jersey,  and  in  1897  a  com- 
missioner from  New  Jersey  io  Tennessee 
Centennial  Exposition,  and  became  president 
of  the  New  Jersey  commission  there.  He 
organized  four  land  associations  at  Trenton. 
New  Jersey  (1869-1889),  and  became  secre- 
tary, treasurer  and  solicitor  of  each  (Linden 
Park.  Hamilton  avenue.  Greenwood  avenue, 
and  Broad  street),  and  conducted  all  success- 
fully and  profitably.   In  1871  he  also  organized 


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STATE    C)I-     XKW    IICRSKY. 


the  Linden  Park  Loan  &  Building  Associa- 
tion, as  solicitor,  etc.,  and  it  was  conducted 
satisfactorily.  He  has  made  many  investments, 
real  estate  and  otherwise,  and  managed  large 
affairs  for  himself  and  others,  prudently  and 
well. 

As  author  he  lias  written  considerably  for 
various  pericxiicals,  magazines  and  otherwise. 
In  1875  he  published  a  volume  entitled  "Across 
America,  or  the  Great  West  and  the  Pacific 
Coast,''  being  an  account  of  his  observations 
and  adventures  there  1866-7,  when  inspector 
United  States  army,  which  passed  through  two 
editions.  In  1886,  he  wrote  a  "History  of 
State  Street  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
Trenton,  New  Jersey,"  witli  a  summary  of 
early  Methodism  in  Trenton  and  New  Jersey. 
In  1876  he  delivered  the  annual  address  at 
both  Dickinson  Seminary  and  Dickinson  Col- 
lege, and  in  1888  and  1895  the  annual  address 
at  Pennington  Seminary.  In  1890  he  wrote  a 
"History  of  Pennington  Seminary."  In  1869. 
as  their  first  counsel,  he  wrote  the  charter  and 
by-laws  for  the  Ocean  Grove  Camp  Meeting 
Association.  In  1889  he  delivered  the  Fourth 
of  July  oration  there.  In  1890  he  received  the 
degree  of  LL.  D.  from  Dickin.son  College.  In 
1895-1900  he  delivered  an  address  on  the 
"^Iarch  of  Methodism,"  in  Philadelphia,  Cam- 
den, Bridgeton.  Atlantic  City,  Long  ISranch, 
New  lirunswick,  Ocean  Grove,  Trenton. 
Bridgeport,  Connecticut:  Cleveland,  Ohio; 
Lynn,  ^lassacluisetts  ;  W'aterville,  Maine  ;  New 
York,  Harrisburg,  Pialtimore,  Washington,  D. 
C,  and  elsewhere,  and  has  been  a  frequent 
speaker  at  literary,  political  and  religious  gath- 
erings in  New  Jersey  and  other  states  since 
1859.  In  1888,  at  dedication  of  New  Jersey 
monuments,  (iettysburg,  Pennsylvania,  he  de- 
livered the  oration  for  Fifth  Regiment  New 
Jersey  Volunteers.  In  1 891  he  organized  the 
Mercer  County  .Soldiers'  t^-  Sailors'  Monument 
.Association,  and  became  its  first  president.  He 
has  spoken  on  "Memorial  Day"  I. May  30thj 
every  year  since  1868  nearly,  in  New  Jersey 
and  elsewhere.  In  1892  he  delivered  an  ad- 
dress on  "Christopher  Columbus,"  at  Penning- 
ton Seminary  and  elsewhere.  In  1896,  at 
.\sbury  Park,  New  Jersey,  he  read  a  paper  on 
the  "Battle  of  Monmouth"  before  the  New- 
Jersey  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  .\merican 
Revolution,  which  was  a  full  and  critical 
account  of  that  battle,  and  of  much  historic 
value.  In  1898  he  delivered  the  semi-centen- 
nial address  at  Dickinson  .Seminary.  In  1899 
he  published  "Men  and  Things  I  Saw  in  Civil 
W  ar  Days."  and  in  1902  "Iuiro])ean  Days  and 


Ways"  (an  account  of  his  tour  of  Europe, 
1899),  both  of  which  were  handsomely  noticed 
by  the  press  and  had  large  sales. 

He  joined  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church 
in  1848,  and  has  been  a  member  of  State  Street 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Trenton,  New 
Jersey,  since  its  organization,  1859,  and  a  trus- 
tee and  local  preacher  there  many  years.  He 
was  one  of  the  chief  founders  of  both  Broad 
Street  and  Broad  Street  Park  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Churches,  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  and 
contributed  largely  both  to  these  and  other 
churches.  He  was  president  of  Mercer  County 
Sunday  School  Association,  1875-76,  and  trus- 
tee of  Dickinson  College  1862  to  1880,  and 
again  1904.  Also  was  trustee  of  Pennington 
Seminary  1868  to  1904,  and  president  board  of 
trustees,  1889  to  1899,  and  now  trustee  emeri- 
tus there.  In  1852  he  founded  (or  helped  to 
foimd)  the  Alpha  Omega  Societv  there.  In 
1888  he  founded  the  "Rusling  'Medal"  for 
good  conduct  and  high  scholarship  there.  In 
1904  he  founded  the  "Rusling  Scholarship"  at 
Dickinson  College,  for  the  best  senior  there 
(male  or  female).  In  1891  he  was  elected  mem- 
ber board  of  managers  of  General  Alissionary 
Society  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  soon 
afterwards  vice-president  of  the  board.  In 
1896  he  was  elected  lay  delegate  to  the  General 
Conference  Methodist  b'piscopal  Church, 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  for  New  Jersey  Conference, 
and  delivered  the  la\-men's  response  to  that 
city's  address  of  welcome.  1  le  has  been  elected 
member  of  General  Missionary  Committee 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  repeatedly,  and 
met  with  them  at  Philadelphia.  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  Albany,  Washington,  Pittsburg.  Omaha, 
etc.  In  1903  he  delivered  the  trustees'  address 
at  Pennington  Seminary,  at  the  inauguration 
of  President  Marshall.  .Mso,  same  year,  an 
address  on  John  Wesley,  at  Trenton,  New 
Jersey.  In  1904  he  made  the  address  of  wel- 
come to  the  New  Jersey  Conference  from  the 
Trenton  Churches.  In  1904-5  he  raised  $2,000 
for  the  chajiel  organ  at  Pennington  Seminary. 
In  1903  he  delivered  an  oration  on  ('leorge 
Washington,  before  the  high  scIkxiI,  Trenton, 
New  Jersey  ;  also,  same  year,  on  .Abraham  Lin- 
coln, before  the  Kejiublican  Club,  Trenton, 
New  Jersey;  also  in  1907  a  memorial  address 
on  Bishop  AlcCabe,  Trenton,  New  Jersey  ;  al.so 
same  year  an  address  at  .Semi-annual  Reunion 
of  the  Newark  and  New  Jersey  Conferences. 
.Miirristown,  New  Jersey. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Military  Order  of 
the  Loyal  Legion  (Pennsylvania  Command- 
ery),  Wilkes  Post,  No.  23,  Grand  Army  of  the 


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Republic  ;  Third  Corps  Union,  Society  of  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac,  Society  of  the  Army  of 
the  Cumberland,  Historical  Society  of  New 
Jersey,  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  of 
New  Jersey,  Revolution  Memorial  Society  of 
New  Jersey,  the  Republican  Club,  Ashlar 
Lodge.  Xo.  76.  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
Union  Philosophical  Society  ( Dickinson  Col- 
lege), etc.  In  politics  he  was  bred  a  Democrat 
(his  father,  grandfather,  great-grandfather, 
and  great-great-grandfather  before  him)  ;  but 
in  1856  he  cast  his  first  vote  for  Fremont,  and 
has  continued  a  Republican — voting  for  every 
Re]niblican  president. 

He  married,  January  I.  1858,  Mary  Free- 
man, daughter  of  Rev.  Isaac  Winner,  D.  D., 
Pennington,  New  Jersey,  who  died  same  year, 
without  issue,  and  buried  at  Pennington.  He 
married  (second)  June  30,  1870,  Emily  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Isaac  Wood  and  Emily 
Wells,  Trenton,  New  Jersey  (formerly  Wilkes- 
Barre,  Pennsylvania),  by  whom  he  has  had  the 
following  children  :  James  Wood  Rusling,  and 
Emily  Wells  Rusling,  both  still  living,  unmar- 
ried. James  Wood  was  educated  Trenton, 
New  Jersey,  and  Princeton  University,  class  of 
1897,  and  afterwards  traveled  extensively  in 
Europe,  member  of  Philadelphia  stock  ex- 
change, 1897-1904,  real  estate  and  investment 
broker,  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  1904,  notary 
public  and  commissioner  of  deeds  of  New  Jer- 
sey, member  of  the  Military  Order  of  the 
Loyal  Legion,  Pennsylvania  Commandery,  and 
of  the  Princeton  Club,  Trenton,  New  Jersey. 
In  politics  a  Republican.  Emily  Wells  was 
educated  at  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  and  also 
traveled  extensively  in  Europe.  Both  are  mem- 
bers of  State  Street  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  Trenton,  New  Jersey. 

The  Ruslings  make  no  claim  to  armorial 
bearings,  unless  descended  from  the  Rosslyns 
of  Scotland  (See  p.  117  Co.  Lincoln  not  far 
from  the  Border),  in  which  case  the  following 
may  be  cited:  "Rosslyn,  Earl  of.  Co.  Mid 
Lothian:  Arms:  Quarterly,  ist.  Arg.  a  cross 
engrailled ;  2d.  arg.  a  pale  sa :  3d.  arg.  az.  a 
bend,  betw.  six  cross-crosslets,  fitchee  or:  4th 
arg.  on  a  chev.  gu.  betw.  three  roses  of  the 
last,  barbed  vert,  a  fleur-de-lis.  Crests:  ist.  a 
phcenix  in  flames  ppr.  and  over  it  the  device 
'Rinasco  piu  glorioso,'  2d.  an  eagle's  head 
erased  ppr.  with  the  words  Tllaeso  lumine 
solem."  Supporters:  Dexter  an  eagle,  wings 
inverted,  ppr.  gorged  with  a  collar  arg.  thereon 
a  fleur-de-lis,  sinister,  a  griffin,  ppr.  Mntto: 
Fight."     Burke's  Peerage,  1250. 

Or  they  may  be  descended  from  the  Roce- 


lines,  Russelyns,  Rosselines,  or  Rosselynes,  of 
England,  in  which  case  the  following  may  be 
cited:  "Roceline  or  Rosselyn.  (temp  Edward 
I )  the  early  arms  were  gules,  three  round 
buckles,  argent."  Woodward's  British  &  For- 
eign Heraldry,  \'ol.  i,  p.  393. 

"Rosseline  or  Rosselyne  (Co.  Norfolk- 
adjoining  Co.  Lincoln  on  the  east)  arms  gu. 
three  round  buckles  ar.  tongues  in  chief.  Crest. 
A  spurrowel  az.  betw.  two  wings  or."  Burke's 
Gen.  Armory,  873. 

"Rosselyne  (Co.  Norfolk)  Az.  three  fer- 
mails  or."  Burke's  Gen.  Armory,  873.  "Ros- 
selyne. Az.  a  cross  sarcelly  or :  another  Gu. 
three  crosses  sarcelly  ar."  ibid. 

"Rosselyne.  Gu.  three  square  buckles  betw. 
nine  crosses  crosslet  ar;  another.  Gu.  three 
buckles  lozengeways  betw.  nine  crosses  cross- 
let  fitchee  or."     Burke's  Gen.  Armory,  873. 

But  Thomas  \'alentine  Fowler  the  youngest 
brother  of  said  Mary  Fowler  Rusling  (who 
followed  her  to  America  about  1810,  crossing 
the  Atlantic  several  times,  and  settling  in  New 
York,  but  d^ing  at  Salem,  New  Jersey,  185 1, 
while  on  a  visit  to  T.  V.  Fowler  Rusling  there 
— named  after  him)  used  to  claim  that  his 
oldest  brother,  said  William  Fowler  (the  anti- 
quary, etc.),  was  once  shown  a  coat-of-arms, 
in  a  stained-glass  window,  in  an  English 
Manor  House,  which  the  owner  told  him  was 
formerly  the  "Fowler  coat-of-arms,"  and  that 
said  Manor  of  right  belonged  to  the  Fowler 
Family,  but  had  been  confiscated  in  Crom- 
well's time  (the  Fowlers  being  royalists)  and 
never  restored.  Said  Thomas  V.  Fowler  had 
a  written  description  thereof,  which  he  said 
he  had  received  from  his  said  brother  William, 
as  follows : 

"Fowler  Arms, 

(Heraldick) 

in  the  staircase  window. 

Healy  Hall,  Fordingham,  Lincolnshire; 

Crest 

Ostrich  Head — or — between  two  wings  argent, 

holding  in  his  beak  a  Horse  Shoe  azure, 

Ouarterh' 

Azure  and  or.  In  the  first  quarter  a  Hawk's 
Lure  and  Line,  or." 

As  bearing  on  the  above,  the  following  is 
cited : 

"Fowler,  St.  Thomas.  Co.  Stafford,  descend- 
ed from  Sir  Richard  Fowler  of  Foxley,  Co. 
Buckingham.  A  Crusader,  temp  Richard  I. 
who  by  his  extraordinary  vigilance,  having 
saved  the  Christian  camp  from  a  nocturnal 
surprise,  received  the  honor  of  knighthood  on 


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the  field,  from  his  .sovereign,  who,  says  tradi- 
tion, caused  the  crest  which  Sir.  Richard  then 
bore,  a  hand  and  a  hire,  to  be  changed  to  the 
vigilant  owl.  Arms.  Az  on  a  chev  (another 
angr)  betw.  three  lions  pass,  guard,  or.  as 
many  crosses  formee  (another  moline)  sa. 
Crest.  An  owl.  ar.  ducally  gorged  or.  Another 
Crest.  A  cubit  arm  habited  az.  holding  in  the 
hand  ppr.  a  lure  vert,  feathered  ar.  lined  or. 
twisted  round  the  arm."  Burke's  (Jen.  .\rmory, 
372.  Also  the  following: 

"Fowler,  (Stonehouse.  Co.  (Jloucester: 
granted  March  13,  1606).  Quarterly,  az.  and 
or.  in  the  1st  quarter  a  hawk's  lure  and  line  of 
the  second.  Crest.  An  ostrich's  head  or.  betw. 
two  wings  ar.  holding  in  the  beak  a  horseshoe 
az."     Burke's  Gen.  Armory,  yjz. 

Fowler,  (Clifton.  Co.  Gloucester)  "Quar- 
terly, per  pale  indented  az  and  or.  in  the  1st 
and  4th.  quarters  a  hawk's  line,  and  in  the 
2d  and  3d  a  lion  pass.  Counterchanged.  Crest. 
An  ostrich's  head  couped  or.  in  the  beak  a 
horseshoe  sa.  betw.  two  wings  ar.  each  charged 
with  two  cinquefoils  in  pale  az."  Burke's  Gen. 
Armory,  p.  t,-J2. 

Fowler,  (Gunton  Hall.  Co.  Sufifolk)  "Crest. 
A  cubit  arm  vested  az.  grasping  in  the  hand 
ppr.  a  hawk's  lure  vert,  string  twisted  around 
the  arm."    Burke's  Gen.  Armory,  p.  372. 

The  above  are  not  unlike  the  "Fowler  Arms" 
on  ]).  13 — indeed,  are  much  the  same — and  the 
facts  are  given  for  what  they  are  worth,  as 
they  may  interest  somebody. 

The  Hankinsons  (see  p.  119)  likely  came 
from  Co.  Middlesex,  England,  and,  jf  so,  may 
be  entitled  to  the  following  "Arms"  probably : 

"Ar  a  fesse  gu.  fretty  or.  betw.  three  ducks 
Sa.  Crest  a  demi  phoenix,  wings  elevated  or. 
issuant  from  flames.  .Motto:  / '/  et  aiiiiiio:" 
Burke's  Gen.  Armory,  452.  See  also  Fair- 
bank's  Crests,  vol.  i.,  p.  597. 

The  McCulloughs  (see  p.  119)  are  of  Scotch 
Irish  ancestry,  and  came  from  Scotland  into 
Ireland  in  the  time  of  Robert  Bruce,  probably 
— about  1315.  As  bearing  upon  them  and  their 
".Arms,"  the  following  it  cited: 

"McCulloch,  Sir  John,  of  Myretoun.  His 
dau.  Grizel  wedded  John  \'ans  or  \'aux.  Esq. 
claims  to  Ix-long  to  House  of  V'au.x  celebrated 
in  every  country  of  Europe,  of  Barnbarroch, 
son  of  Patrick,  son  of  Sir  John  of  Barnbar- 
roch. His  dau.  Agnes  married  Sir  Wm.  Max- 
well, of  Monteith.  Burke's  llist.  of  Com- 
nii  liters,  vol.  i.,  \).  439.  .Sir  John  \'ans,  of 
Barnbarroch  married  Janet,  dau.  and  heiress 
of  Sir  Simon  McCullough,  of  Myretoun.  He 
was  slain  in  battle  of  Pinkie,  1547.    Ibid.,  j).  438. 


.Inns.  Quarterly:  ist  &  4th  arg.  a  bend 
gu :  2d  &  3d  arg.  a  chev.  between  in  chief  two 
cincjue foils  gu.  with  a  cross  crosslet  fitchee  sa. 
in  centre  and  a  base  a  saltire  couped. 

Crests.  First.  A  Lion  rampant,  holding 
scales  in  the  dexter  paw.  Second.  An  eagle 
issuant  and  regardant  ppr. 

Supporters.  Two  Savages,  with  clubs  in 
their  hands,  and  wreathed  about  the  middle 
with  laurel. 

Motto.     "Be  Faithful."     Ibid.,  439." 

Also  the  following: 

"McCulloch,  David,  Esq.  of  Ardwell,  Kirk- 
cudbright. A  naked  arm  and  hand  throwing  a 
dart,  ppr ;  motto,  vi  ct  animo."  Fairbank's 
Crests,  vol.  i.,  p.  306;  vol.  2,  plate  42,  Crest 
13;  Burke's  \'isitation  of  Arms,  vol.  2,  p.  70. 
Also : 

"McCulloch  (Barholm  Co.  Kirkcudbright) 
Erm.  a  fret  engr.  gu.  on  an  escutcheon  az.  three 
wolves  heads  erased  or.  Crest.  A  hand  throw- 
ing a  dart  ppr.  Supporters.  Two  men  in 
armour,  each  holding  a  spear  ppr.  Motto,  vi  et 
aiiiino."  Family  Crests,  \'ol.  i,  302.  Burke's 
*  len.  .\rmory,  637;  Rietstap  .Armorial  General. 
\'iil.  2,  p.  121.    Also: 

"McCulloch,  Sco.  a  hand  throwing  a  dart 
|)pr.  J^i  et  animo.''  Family  Crests.  PL,  61.  no 
19.    Also: 

"McCulloch,  Myrtoun,  (this  seems  to  be  the 
same  as  "Myretoun"  p.  122)  co.  W'igton,  bart 
Erm,  fretty  gu.  Crest.  A  hand  thrtnving  a 
dart.  ppr.  Motto  ri  et  miiiiio."  I'amily  Crests, 
\ol.  I.,  p.  302. 

The  name  was  originally  "McCullo,"  and 
afterwards  was  written  "McCulloch,"  "Mc- 
Cullock."  and  "McCullough."  The  latter  is 
the  modern  spelling ;  but  they  are  all  the  same 
probably — idem  sonaiis.  .And  the  above  all 
given  accordingly,  for  what  they  are  worth,  as 
they  may  interest  somebody. 


Hugh    Mercer,    phvsician    and 

.MERCI'.R     soldier,  for  whom  the  county  of 

Mercer  is  named,  was  a  member 

of  a  distinguished  Scottish    family  which  had 

furnished,  particularly  to  the  kirk,  men  famous 

in  ])nblic  life. 

The  great-grandfather  of  Hugh  Mercer  was 
John,  a  minister  of  the  church  in  Kinnellan, 
.\berdeenshire,  from  1650  to  1676,  from  which 
pastorate  John  Mercer  resigned  a  year  before 
liis  death.  The  wife  of  tJiis  eminent  divine  was 
Lilias  Row,  a  great-granddaughter  of  John 
Row.  the  reformer.  ( )f  this  imion  there  were 
three  children.  The  grandfather  of  Hugh,  was 
ihomas    .Mercer,   hajjtized   January   20,    1658. 


GENERAL  HUGH  MERCER 
From  portrait  presented  to  New  Jersey  Society  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  by  James  Burke.  Esq.,  of  Princeton,  1901. 


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Ill 


ind  polled  1696.     Thomas  was  twice  married, 
3ne  wife  being  Anna  Raite,  the  other  Isabel 

.     Of    the    seven    children    of    whom 

Ihomas  Mercer  was  the  father,  one  was  Will- 
am,  baptized  March  25,  1696.  William  was 
educated  for  the  ministry,  was  in  charge  of 
•he  Manse  at  Pittsligo,  Aberdeenshire,  from 
1720  to  174S.  He  married  Anne,  daughter  of 
Sir  Rcibert  Munro.  of  Foulis.  Sir  Robert  was 
<illed  while  commanding  the  British  troops  at 
Falkirk  in  1746.  To  \\illiam  and  Anne  there 
were  born  three  children,  one  of  whom  was 
Hugh,  the  subject  of  this  memoir.  The  date 
jf  Hugh's  birth  was  probably  1725,  as  he  was 
Da])tized  in  January,  1726.  His  wife  was  Isa- 
jella  Ciordon,  of  Mrginia.  The  children  of 
Hugh  Alercer  and  Isabella  (Gordon)  Mercer 
ivere :  i.  Amia  Gordon,  a  celebrated  beauty, 
narried  Robert  Patton,  of  Fredericksburg.  2. 
John,  born  1772,  died  181 7.  3.  William,  died 
.mmarried.  4.  George  Weedon,  died  unmar- 
ried. 5.  Hugh  Tennant  Weedon,  born  August 
\.  1776,  educated  under  an  act  of  congress, 
1793,  married  Louisa  Griffin,  daughter  of  Judge 
[,"yrus  ( iriffin,  by  Lady  Christiana  Stuart. 
[Colonel  Hugh  Tennant  Weedon  Mercer  died* 
December,  1853,  at  the  "Sentry  Box,"  Fred- 
jricksburg,  Mrginia,  while  Mrs.  Mercer  died 
December  28,  1859,  aged  eighty  years. 

Of  the  boyhood  life  of  General  Hugh  Mer- 
:er  little  is  known.  As  was  the  case  with 
manv  Scottish  lads,  he  entered  college,  when 
ibout  fifteen  years  of  age,  matriculating  in  the 
Schoiil  of  Medicine,  Mar.shall  College,  in  1740, 
Sjraduating  in  1744.  Moved  by  the  loyal  spirit 
Df  his  ancestors,  Hugh  Mercer  joined  the  army 
Df  Prince  Charlie,  the  "Young  Pretender,"  and 
during  the  i6th  of  April,  1746,  he  appears  as 
assistant  surgeon  upon  the  ill-starred  field  of 
Culloden. 

Driven  by  the  butcheries  of  the  Duke  of 
Cumberland.  Hugh  Mercer,  in  the  autumn  of 
1746,  set  sail  from  Leith,  remained  a  short 
time  in  Philadelphia,  and  settled  at  Greencastle, 
Pennsylvania,  now  Mercersburg,  then  upon  the 
frontier  of  new  world  civilization.  Practicing 
his  i)rofession  in  the  wilds  of  the  "Indian  Coun- 
tr\-,"  Hugh  Mercer  does  not  appear  promi- 
nently until  the  year  1755,  when  in  the  "Brad- 
dock  Expedition"  he  appears  as  a  captain  of 
militia.  Following  Braddock's  humiliating  de- 
feat. Hugh  Mercer,  although  wounded,  walked 
many  miles  through  the  wilderness  to  his  home. 
Early  in  the  spring  oi  1756  Hugh  Mercer  was 
selected  as  Captain  of  the  local  militia,  having 
a  supervision  over  a  wide  district  with  Mc- 
Dowell's Ferry  (Bridgeport)  as  headquarters. 


and  acting  as  physician  and  surgeon  to  the 
garrison.  Again  was  Hugh  Mercer  wounded, 
and  in  retreat  from  an  Indian  fight,  walking 
over  one  hundred  miles  through  the  forests, 
hiding  in  the  trunks  of  trees,  and  living  upon 
roots,  berries  and  the  carcass  of  a  rattle  snake, 
until  he  could  rejoin  his  command  at  Fort 
C'umberland.  I*"or  these  and  other  patriotic 
services  the  corporation  of  Philadel])hia  pre- 
sented him  with  a  vote  of  thanks  and  a  medal. 

In  1757,  Mercer  was  in  command  of  the 
militia  stationed  at  Shippensburg,  Pennsyl- 
vania, being  appointed  major  in  December, 
1757,  with  command  of  all  Provincial  forces 
stationed  west  of  the  Susquehaima.  In  1758 
.Major  Mercer  was  in  command  of  a  portion 
of  the  Forbes  Expedition  against  Fort  Du- 
Ouesne.  It  was  during  this  period  that  Mer- 
cer met  George  Washington  whose  military 
fame  had  spread  beyond  the  confines  of  the 
(^reat  Northern  Neck  of  Virginia.  Between 
the  two  men  a  friendship  was  established  that 
led  IVIercer  to  remove  from  Pennsylvania  to 
\'irginia,  taking  up  his  residence  in  Fredericks- 
burg, famed  not  only  as  the  home  of  Washing- 
ton's mother,  but  as  the  then  residence  of  John 
Paul,  who,  assuming  the  name  of  Jones,  later 
became  the  world-renowned  naval  commander  ; 
of  James  Monroe,  afterward  President  of  the 
Cnited  States ;  of  John  Marshall,  subsequently 
chief  justice  of  the  L'nited  States ;  of  General 
George  Weedon,  owner  of  the  "Rising  Sun," 
and  brother-in-law  of  Mercer ;  and  of  George 
Mason,  of  Gunson  Hall.  In  Fredericksburg, 
General  Mercer  attended  the  meeting  of  Lodge 
No.  4,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  which 
George  W'ashington  was  a  member. 

Throughout  the  period  of  constitutional 
agitation  preceding  the  revolution,  Dr.  Mercer 
devoted  himself  to  his  practice  and  to  the 
delights  of  those  social  relationships  for  which 
I-'redericksburg  was  and  is  noted.  In  1775, 
the  Roval  Governor,  Dunmore.  at  Williams- 
burg, transferred  a  portion  of  the  Colonial 
store  of  powder  from  the  magazine  to  the  ship 
"Magdalen."  It  was  this  crowning  act  of  exec- 
utive incompetency  to  deal  with  local  phases 
of  the  general  revolutionary  problem,  that  led 
to  the  organization  of  the  Whig  regiments. 
Upon  September  12,  1775,  Mercer  was  appoint- 
ed as  colonel  of  minute-men  for  the  counties 
of  Caroline.  Stafford,  King  George  and 
Spottsylvania.  Stimulating  the  spirit  of  the 
committees  of  safety  and  sustaining  the  en- 
thusiastic but  untrained  provincials,  Mercer 
wrote  to  the  Virginia  Convention : — 

"Hugh  Mercer  will  serve  his  adopted  coun- 


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try  in  the  cause  uf  liberty  in  any  rank  or  sta- 
tion to  which  he  may  be  assigned." 

At  this  critical  juncture  three  regiments  of 
Virginia  provincials  were  organized,  and  for 
the  command  of  the  first  of  these,  Hugh  Mer- 
cer was  defeated  by  Patrick  Henry  by  one 
vote.  Subsequently,  fiercer  was  elected  colonel 
of  the  third  and  at  Williamsburg  drilled  the 
volunteers  and  levies. 

A  wider  field  of  duty  demanded  Mercer's 
services.  In  recognition  of  his  popularity  and 
military  skill,  upon  the  5th  of  June,  1776,  the 
title  of  brigadier-general  in  the  Continental 
army  was  conferred  upon  the  gallant  Virginian. 
Within  a  few  weeks.  General  Washington,  re- 
turning from  Massachusetts  to  New  York, 
selected  General  Mercer  to  take  command  of 
the  troops  engaged  in  the  fortification  of  Paulus 
Hook,  now  known  as  the  old  downtown  resi- 
dence section  of  Jersey  City.  But  one  year 
remained  of  the  short  half  century  allotted  to 
Mercer.  That  year  he  was  destined  to  spend 
largely  w-ithin  the  confines  of  the  state  of  New 
Jersey.  Besides  discharging  his  duties  at 
Paulus  Hook,  General  Mercer  was  placed  in 
command  of  the  "Flying  Camp"  of  ten  thous- 
and men  stationed  at  and  near  Perth  Amboy. 

Events  between  the  rout  of  the  patriot  army 
at  Brooklyn  and  the  retreat  through  the  Jer- 
seys moved  rapidly,  nor  can  the  military  de- 
tails of  the  crossing  of  the  Delaware  and  the 
attack  upon  Trenton,  be  repeated  here.  His- 
torians have  credited  General  Mercer  with  sug- 
gesting the  change  of  Washington's  Fabian 
policy,  and  of  his  working  out  the  details  of 
the  movement  that  altered  the  fate  of  an  empire. 
This  much  is  sure,  that  upon  the  Christmas 
night  of  1776  no  one  of  Washington's  galaxy 
of  leaders  was  more  trusted  than  was  Mercer, 
and  no  one  shared  greater  fruits  of  victory. 
Upon  the  recrossing  of  the  Delaware,  it  was 
at  General  Mercer's  head()uarters  on  the  night 
of  January  2,  1777,  that  the  plan  to  break 
camp  and  leave  the  camp  fires  burning  u])on 
the  south  bank  of  the  Assunpink  creek,  was 
formulated.  Thence  it  was  that  General  Mer- 
cer went  to  his  doom. 

The  story  of  the  surprise  at  Princeton,  on 
the  morning  of  the  3rd,  of  the  clash  upon  the 
frost  covered  ground  between  Mercer's  men 
and  Mawhood's  British  regiments  and  troops 
of  dragoons,  of  the  fight  aljout  the  Clark  house, 
of  the  peril  of  Washington,  and  of  Mercer's 
leaping  from  his  horse  and  rallying  his  men. 
has  often  been  told.  But  to  the  gallant  Scotch- 
Virginian.  Death,  if  it  must  come,  came  not 
quickly.     Enfuriated  by  the  turn  of  the  for- 


tunes of  war.  General  fiercer,  while  in  the 
very  act  of  leading  his  men  to  victory,  was 
attacked  by  several  British  soldiers.  Repeat- 
edly stabbed  he  was  beaten  upon  the  head  with 
the  butt  ends  of  muskets,  and,  refusing  to  sur- 
render, was  left  for  dead.  The  retreating  Brit- 
ish soon  gave  place  to  the  Continental  soldiers, 
who  tenderly  carried  their  general  into  the 
Clark  house,  where  he  was  nursed  by  the  de- 
voted Quaker  women  of  that  family.  By  his 
side,  in  attendance,  w"ere  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush, 
of  I^hiladelphia,  Dr.  Archibald  Alexander,  of 
\  irginia,  and  Major  George  Lewis,  nephew  of 
General  Washington.  Lingering  in  agony  for 
nine  days.  General  Flugh  Mercer  died  in  the 
arms  of  Major  Lewis. 

The  death  of  Mercer  created  a  profound 
impression  throughout  the  nation.  His  body 
was  removed  to  Philadelphia  under  military 
escort,  was  exposed  in  state,  and  it  is  said  thirty 
thousand  people  attended  the  funeral.  It  was 
upon  the  south  side  of  Christ  church,  Philadel- 
phia, that  his  body,  interred  with  military  and 
civic  honors,  was  placed  beneath  a  slab  upon 
which  was  cut  "In  memory  of  Gen'l  Hugh 
'Mercer   who   fell   at   Princeton,  January   3rd, 

Moved  by  a  sense  of  patriotic  duty,  congress, 
upon  April  g,  1777,  directed  that  monuments 
be  erected  to  the  honor  of  General  Mercer  at 
Fredericksburg,  and  of  General  Warren  at 
Boston.  Upon  the  28th  of  June,  1902,  one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  years  thereafter,  the 
F'redericksburg  monument  was  erected  l^earing 
upon  its  face  the  following  inscription,  order- 
ed to  be  placed  by  the  resolution  of  1777: 

"Sacred  to  the  memory  of 

Hugh  Mercer 

I'rigadier  General  in  the  .Army  of 

the  L^nited  States 

He  died  on  the  12th  of  January,  1777 

of  the  wounds  he  received  on  the 

3rd  of  the  same  month 

near  Princeton,  in  New  Jersey 

Bravely  Defending  the 

Li'oerties  of  .America 

The  Congress  of  the  United  States 

In  testimony  of  his  virtues  and  their  gratitude 

Have  caused  this  monument  to  be  erected." 

With  that  singular  perversity  that  seems  to 
afflict  mankind,  a  succeeding  generation  re- 
fused to  permit  General  Mercer's  bones  to  re- 
main undisturbed.  The  St.  Andrews  Society 
removed  Mercer's  body  to  Laurel  Hill  Ceme- 
tery, then  upon  the  edge  of  the  city  of  Phila- 


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lelphia,  and  upon  the  2bth  of  November,  1840, 
ledicated  a  monument  to  his  memory.  Of 
his  society  General  Mercer  was  a  member,  the 
nonument  being  properly  inscribed. 

Besides  the  name  of  one  of  New  Jersey's 
wenty-one  counties,  there  are  in  the  state  of 
Mew  Jersey  two  memorials  to  Mercer.  One 
s  the  old  fort  at  Red  Bank,  Gloucester  county, 
ivhere  at  Fort  Mercer,  in  1778,  a  gallant  de- 
fense of  Philadelphia  was  made  by  General 
Greene  and  the  navy  upon  the  Delaware.  The 
Dther  memorial  is  in  Princeton  and  consists  of 
1  bronze  tablet  unveiled  October  i,  1897,  the 
gift  of  Mercer  Engine  Company,  No.  3. 

An  interesting  and  accurate  "Life  of  General 
Hugh  Mercer,"  from  which  much  of  the  in- 
formation for  this  sketch  has  been  secured, 
was  written  and  published  in  1906,  by  the  Hon. 
John  T.  Goolrick,  of  Fredericksburg,  Virginia. 


The  name  Baldwin  has  been 
BALDWIN  a  familiar  one  in  the  annals 
of  England  and  of  Europe 
even  since  Baldwin  I,  Count  of  Flanders,  car- 
ried off  and  married  Judith,  daughter  of 
Charles  the  Bald  of  France,  and  wife  of 
Aethelwulf.  king  of  the  West-Saxons  of  Eng- 
land: and  their  son.  Baldwin  II,  the  Bald, 
married  Aelfthrjth,  daughter  of  Alfred  the 
Great.  Their  great-grandson,  Baldwin  V,  sur- 
named  van  Ryssel,  married  Adela,  daughter 
of  Robert  of  France,  and  sister  to  Matilda, 
wife  of  William  of  Normandy,  the  Conqueror. 
Hence  we  find  the  Baldwin  name  on  the  roll 
of  Battle  abbey,  and  Baldwin,  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  a  century  later,  riding  at  the  side 
of  Richard  Coeur  de  Lion  to  the  Crusades,  in 
which,  as  the  Latin  Kings  of  Jerusalem,  his 
cousins  of  Flanders,  descendants  of  the  young- 
est brother  of  Godfrey  de  Bouillon,  had  already 
made  the  name  famous  throughout  Europe, 
and  later  were  to  make  it  still  more  famous 
as  the  name  of  two  of  the  Emperors  of  Con- 
stantinople. 

Coming  back  to  England,  we  find  the  Bald- 
wins playing  their  part  in  the  history  and  life 
of  their  country  until  January  6,  Edward  VI, 
i.  e.  1552,  when  Richard  Baldwin,  of  Dun- 
dridge,  in  the  parish  of  Ashton  Clinton,  county 
Bucks,  makes  his  will  and  leaves  his  property 
to  his  three  sons  Henry,  John  and  Richard, 
making  the  first-named  his  executor.  Five 
years  later  Henry  becomes  owner  in  fee  simple 
of  Dundridge,  Ashton  Clinton,  where  he  and 
his  wife  Alice  spent  their  lives  and  he  writes 
his  will,  January  2,  1599,  which  is  proved  July 
2,  1602,  in  the  prerogative  court  of  Canter- 


bury, by  his  eldest  son  Richard,  his  e.xecutor, 
and  in  which  he  divides  his  property  among 
his  children,  Richard,  Sylvester,  John,  Robert, 
Jane,  wife  of  James  Bonus;  Mary,  wife  of 
Richard  Salter;  and  Agatha,  wife  of  Henry 
Stonehill.  Sylvester  emigrated  with  his  wife 
and  children  to  New  England,  but  died  on  the 
voyage,  June  21,  1638.  His  widow  and  chil- 
dren settled  in  Milford,  Connecticut,  and  two 
of  his  sons,  Richard,  of  Milford,  and  John,  of 
Stonington,  have  left  a  numerous  offspring  in 
that  part  of  the  country.  Richard  his  elder 
brother  seems  to  have  remained  in  England, 
but  at  least  three  of  his  sons,  Timothy,  Nathan- 
iel and  Joseph,  came  over  to  America  and  have 
perpetuated  his  name  and  blood  here.  All 
three  apparently  came  over  to  Milford  where 
their  cousins  were  already  settled,  and  where 
Timothy  and  Nathaniel  elected  to  remain, 
while  Joseph,  whose  line  we  are  to  follow, 
went  to  Hadley,  Massachusetts. 

(I)  Joseph  Baldwin,  son  of  Richard  Bald- 
win, of  Cholesbury,  near  Ashton  Clinton,  coun- 
ty Bucks,  England,  must  have  come  to  Milford, 
either  with  the  original  settlers  from  New 
Haven  or  Wethersfield,  in  1639,  or  else  almost 
immediately  after  them,  as  he  is  of  record  there 
in  that  year.  Five  years  later,  January  23, 
1644,  his  wife  Hannah  joined  the  church  there, 
and  had  their  first  four  children  baptized ;  the 
next  year  two  more  were  baptized,  and  four 
years  later  a  seventh.  Of  the  last  two  chil- 
dren no  record  of  baptism  had  been  found. 
About  1663  Joseph  Baldwin  and  his  family 
removed  to  Hadley,  where  he  and  his  son 
Joseph  were  admitted  as  freemen  in  1666. 
Meanwhile  his  wife  Hannah  had  died  and 
Joseph,  Senior,  married  Isabel  Ward,  sister 
to  Deacon  Lawrence  Ward,  of  Newark,  and 
George  Ward,  of  Branford,  the  father  of  John 
Ward,  the  turner  of  Newark.  As  the  Widow 
Catlin,  Isabel  and  her  son  John  had  been 
among  the  original  settlers  of  Newark  from 
Branford  in  i666;  but  while  John  had  remain- 
ed in  the  new  settlement  to  become  one  of  its 
foremost  men  and  its  first  schoolmaster,  his 
mother  had  removed  to  Hadley,  married  again, 
this  time,  James  Northam,  and  before  Septem- 
ber, 1671,  on  the  2d  of  which  month  she  was 
granted  as  the  wife  of  Joseph  Baldwin  and 
"sister,"  i.  e.  sister-in-law  of  Elizabeth  the 
widow,  letters  of  administration  on  the  estate 
of  her  brother.  Deacon  Lawrence  Ward,  she 
had  became  widow  a  second  time  and  married 
her  third  husband.  The  administration,  as  the 
East  Jersey  Deeds  tell  us,  she  turned  over  to 
"her  son  John  Catline  and  her  kinsman  John 


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\\  arde.  turner,  both  of  Xewark ;"  she  does  not 
appear  to  have  borne  her  second  and  third 
husbands  any  children ;  she  died  in  Hadley. 
December  8.  1676.  Shortly  after  this  Joseph 
Baldwin  himself  married  a  third  time,  Eliza- 
beth Hitchcock,  widow  of  William  W'arriner, 
of  Springfield,  by  whom  likewise  Joseph  seems 
to  have  had  no  children,  although  she  survived 
him  over  twelve  years,  dying  April  25.  1696. 
Joseph,  Senior,  himself  died  November  2, 
1684;  but  long  before  his  death  he  conveyed  a 
half  interest  in  his  homestead  in  Hadley  to 
his  son  Joseph,  Junior,  who  died  about  three 
years  before  his  father.  The  will  of  Joseph 
Senior,  is  recorded  in  Northampton,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  is  dated  December  20,  1680,  and 
in  it  he  gives  his  Mil  ford  property  to  his  three 
sons,  Joseph,  Benjamin  and  Jonathan,  and  the 
remainder  of  his  estate  to  his  wife  and  other 
children. 

Children:  I.  Joseph,  Jr.,  born  about  1640, 
died  November  21,  1681  ;  married  Sarah 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Coley,  of  Milford,  bap- 
tized 1648,  died  1689  ;  children  :  Joseph,  James, 
Mehitabie,  Hannah,  Mary,  Mercy  or  Mary 
again,  Hannah  again,  Samuel,  and  Hannah. 
a  third  time.  2.  Benjamin,  born  about  1642, 
will  proven  June  19,  1729,  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Jonathan  Sergeant,  of  Branford, 
who  died  before  1721  ;  children:  Joseph,  Jon- 
athan, Benjamin  and  Sarah,  married  Robert 
Young.  3.  Hannah,  born  about  1643,  married. 
May  6,  1658,  Jeremiah,  son  of  Richard  Hull, 
of  New  Haven,  and  had  a  daughter  Mary, 
possibly  also  other  children.  4.  Mary,  born 
about  1644.  married  John  Catlin,  son  of  her 
stepmother,  who  removed  from  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  to  Deerfield,  Massachusetts,  before 
1684;  children:  Joseph,  John,  Jonathan,  Eliz- 
abeth, married  James  Corse,  and  with  brothers 
Joseph  and  Jonathan  were  killed  by  the  French 
and  Indians  in  the  Deerfield  massacre.  Febru- 
ary 29,  1704;  Hannah,  married  Thomas  Bas- 
com  :  Sarah,  married  Michael  Mitchell ;  Esther, 
married  Ebenezer  Smcad ;  and  Ruth.  5.  Eliz- 
abeth, baptized  March.  1645.  died  .April  24. 
1687;  married.  March  31.  1664,  at  Hadley, 
James  W^arriner,  of  Springfield,  eldest  son  of 
her  stepmother  and  William  Warriner;  chil- 
dren :  Samuel.  James.  Elizabeth.  William. 
Hannah.  Samuel  again.  Iibenezer  and  Mary. 
After  Elizabeth's  death.  James  Warriner  mar- 
ried (second)  July  10.  1689.  .Sarah,  daughter 
of  .Mexamkr  .Vlvord ;  children:  Sarah,  Jona- 
than.John,  John  again,  P.cnjamin  and  David. 
Sarah  (.-Mvord)  Warriner  died  May  16,  1704, 
and   widower  married    (third)    December    19. 


170().  as  her  third  husband,  Mary,  widow  oi 
Benjamin  Stebbins.  James  Warriner  himself 
died  Mav  14,  1727.  6.  Martha,  baptized  March, 
1645,  married,  at  Hadley,  December  26,  1(167, 
John,  son  of  John  Hawkes,  and  died  January 
7.  1(1/(1 :  children:  John,  John  again,  Hannah, 
married  Jonathan  Scott,  of  W'aterbury,  Con- 
necticut:  John  Hawkes  married  (second)  No- 
vember 20,  1696,  Alice,  widow  of  Samuel  AUis, 
of  Hadley,  and  removed  to  Deerfield,  having 
by  his  second  wife  one  child,  Elizabeth.  7. 
Jonathan,  treated  below.  8.  David,  born  Oc- 
tober 19,  1651,  died  September,  1(589;  mar- 
ried. November  11,  1674.  Mary,  daughter  of 
Ensign  John  Stream,  of  Milford,  who  died 
May  28.  1712;  children:  Samuel,  David  and 
Nathan.  9.  Sarah,  born  November  6,  1653,, 
married  as  second  wife,  Samuel  Bartlett,  of 
Northampton,  Massachusetts.  Both  died  he- 
fore  February  12.  1717;  children:  Samuel. 
Sarah  and  Mindwell. 

(H)  Jonathan,  of  Milford,  son  of  Joseph 
Baldwin,  was  born  according  to  the  New 
Haven  records,  February  15,  1649,  and  was 
baptized  at  Milford  two  days  later.  He  died  , 
December  13,  1739.  He  lived  and  died  at 
Milford.  November  2,  1677,  ^^^  married 
(first)  Hannah,  daughter  of  Sergeant  John 
\\'ard,  of  Branford,  who  in  1666  became  one 
of  the  Branford-Newark  settlers  and  one  of 
the  most  prominent  figures  in  the  founding  of 
the  latter  town.  Children:  i.  Jonathan,  born 
January  31,  1679-80,  baptized  February  i, 
following;  settled  at  Waterbury  in  1733,  died 
January  5,  1761  ;  married,  September  28,  1710, 
Mary  Tibbals,  of  Milford;  children:  Mary, 
Martha,  Abigail,  Rachel,  Esther,  Jonathan  and 
Eunice.  Mary  married  Timothy  Porter.  2. 
John,  born  ^Iay  22.  1683,  died  January  20, 
1773,  aged  ninety,  and  is  buried  at  Connecticut 
Farms,  New  Jersey.  Sergeant  John  Ward,  their 
grandfather,  had  left  lands  in  Newark  to  Jona- 
than,Daniel,  Joshua. Josejih  and  John.  By  agree- 
ment, the  last  two  took  possession  of  them  in 
171'');  and  John's  will,  1764,  mentions  his  wife 
and  names  children  Ezekiel,  Enos,  Nathan. 
I'hebe  Ogden,  Mary  Wade,  of  Union,  and  . 
Jemima,  wife  of  Colonel  Samuel  Potter.  3. 
Joscjjh.  treated  below.  4.  Hannah,  born  1687, 
died  in  childhood.  5.  Daniel,  baptized  at  Mil- 
fnrd.  March  3.  1688-89.  was  with  his  wife 
Patience,  who  survived  liim.  of  Wallingford. 
Connecticut,  in  1728,  and  of  the  parish  of 
Meridcn.  at  the  formation  of  the  churcli  there. 
His  will.  1767.  mentions  wife  and  children,  all 
baptized  at  Milford:  Daniel,  Jehiah,  Patience, 
wife  of  Daniel  llrdl,  of  Wallingford.  and  I.ois, 


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vife  of  Jolm  Yeomans,  of  the  same  place.  6. 
oslnia,  baptized  January  24,  1691,  at  Rlilford. 
ettled  there;  joined  the  church  with  wife  Ehz- 
ibeth,  September  3,  1727;  died  April  20,  1758, 
iged  sixty-seven,  his  wife  predeceasing  him 
November  20,  1753,  in  her  fifty-second  year, 
iccording  to  the  record  of  the  family  Bible 
)f  her  son  Joshua,  of  Mil  ford  ;  children  :  Han- 
lah.  Joshua.  Elizabeth  and  Sybil.  The  first 
vife  of  Jonathan  Baldwin  died  June,  1693,  and 
Tonathan  married  (second)  Thankful,  daugh- 
er  of  Elder  John  and  .'\bigail  (Ford)  Strong, 
)f  Windsor.  Connecticut,  born  1663.  Elder 
bhn  was  the  son  of  Richard  Strong,  of  Taun- 
:on,  England.  Children  :  7.  .\bigail,  baptized 
[695,  married  Joseph  Tibbals  and  settled  in 
Durham  ;  children  :  Joseph,  James,  Thomas, 
\bigail,  John,  Ebenezer,  Mary  and  Sarah.  8. 
Hannah,  born  1696,  married.  January,  1723. 
fosiah  P'owler  (.Abraham  (III),  John  (II), 
William  (I)),  removed  to  Durham,  where  he 
lied  September  7,  1757;  children:  Josiah, 
Hannah,  Caleb,  Elizabeth  and  Jonathan.  9. 
[Martha,  baptized  January  8,  1698,  died  Feb- 
Iruary  of  the  same  year.  10.  Ebenezer,  born 
11699,  (li^d  before  1728.  11.  Noah,  baptized 
November  30,  1701,  joined  the  church  at  Mil- 
iford.  May  26,  1728:  married,  March  27,  1733. 
Thankful  Johnson,  of  Stratford:  one  child, 
Eunice,  died  immarried.  12.  Phebe.  born  No- 
vember 6,  1704,  died  unmarried  in  1728.  13. 
Ezra,  born  September,  1706,  baptized  Decem- 
ber 3,  the  same  year,  became  deacon  in  Dur- 
ham and  died  there  March  26,  1782,  aged  over 
seventy-five  years.  By  his  wife  Ruth  he  had 
five  children  born  in  Milford  and  four  born  in 
Durham  :  Phebe,  Ebenezer,  Ezra,  Noah,  Ruth, 
Amos.  Elnathan,  Reuben  and  Ruth. 

(Ill)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  and 
Hannah  (Ward)  Baldwin,  was  born  Novem- 
ber 29,  1685.  died  September  20,  1777.  In 
.\ugust,  1715,  when  he  received  with  his 
brother  John  the  deed  of  the  Newark  lands 
of  their  grandfather.  Sergeant  John  Ward,  he 
conveyed  to  those  of  his  brothers  who  remain- 
ed in  Milford  his  lands  there  and  styles  him- 
self as  of  Newark,  East  Jersey.  According  to 
tradition,  his  wife  was  a  Bruen,  and  they  were 
buried  in  Newark.  Their  children  were:  i. 
Elcazar,  whose  will  in  1799  gives  his  propertv 
to  his  brothers  and  sisters.  2.  Amos,  born  in 
Newark,  see  sketch  elsewhere.  3.  Moses, 
treated  below.  4.  Joshua,  born  1710,  died  May 
7,  1767:  lived  in  Orange  with  his  wife  Pru- 
dence (Lyon)  and  children:  Zenas,  Josiah, 
Rebecca  Roberts,  Mary  Ball  and  Jemima.  5. 
Caleb,  born  and  died  in  New  Jersey,  although 


his  will  was  made  when  he  was  in  "Derby, 
Connecticut,  sick."  By  his  wife  Jemima  he 
had  children :  Jonathan,  Noah  and  Eleazer. 
6.  Phinehas,  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
died  there  March  6,  1803,  in  his  seventy- 
seventh  year,  having  by  his  wife  Hannah  chil- 
dren :  John,  Joshua,  Enos,  Eleazer  and  Rachel 
Jones.  7.  Rebecca,  married  (first)  Daniel 
Matthews  and  had  children  :  Daniel  and  Will- 
iam ;  she  then  married  (second)  John  Camp- 
bell and  had  children :  Caleb,  Phinehas,  Lucy, 
Rebecca,  Pierson,  Esther,  wife  of  Moses  Smith. 
8.  Sarah,  married  a  Wolcot.  9.  Hannah,  mar- 
ried a  Johnson.  In  1712  Joseph  (2)  Baldwin 
was  overseer  of  the  poor  in  Newark,  and  he 
and  .Abraham  Kitchell  were  the  sheep  masters 
for  the  same  town  for  1717. 

(I\')  Moses,  son  of  Joseph  (2)  Baldwin, 
was  a  master  carpenter.  He  lived  in  the  stirring 
times  of  the  revolution,  but  whether  he  was  the 
Moses  Baklwin  who  was  a  private  in  the  Essex 
county  troops  is  uncertain.  His  home  was 
in  Orange,  and  in  1753  he  was  one  of  the  heads 
of  the  eleven  Baldwin  families  who  subscribed 
for  the  erection  of  a  new  meeting  house  for 
the  .Mountain  .Society,  his  subscription  being 
£3.  This  house  of  worship,  completed  and 
dedicated  to  its  sacred  uses  in  the  last  days 
of  the  year  1754,  was  a  stone  structure,  of  ham- 
mer-dressed sandstone  laid  in  regular  courses. 
The  committee  "regularly  chosen  to  manage 
the  affair  of  the  building,"  were  Samuel  Harri- 
son, Samuel  Freeman,  Joseph  Harrison,  Ste- 
phen Dod,  David  Williams,  Samuel  Condit, 
William  Crane  and  Joseph  Riggs.  Matthew 
Williams,  who  was  a  mason^  had  the  superin- 
tendence of  the  mason  work.  Moses  Baldwin 
had  the  charge  of  the  carpenter  work.  A  writ- 
ten contract  between  the  latter  and  the  com- 
mittee is  preserved  among  the  manuscripts  of 
the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society.  The  "agree- 
ment" provides  that  he  shall  perfectly  finish 
the  house,  excepting  the  masonry,  after  the 
model  of  the  meeting  house  in  Newark,  finding 
all  the  materials,  "such  as  timbers,  boards, 
sleepers,  glass,  oils  and  j)aint,  nails,  hinges, 
locks,  latches,  bolts,  with  all  other  kinds  of 
materials  necessary  for  finishing"  the  same. 
The  details  of  this  contract,  supplemented  by 
the  recollections  of  many  who  have  worshipped 
within  its  walls,  furnish  a  good  idea  of  the 
building  and  its  appointments.  Standing  as  it 
did  lengthwise  with  the  street,  its  south  broad- 
side was  its  front,  with  the  broad  entrance 
door  in  the  centre.  Opposite  to  this  door  was 
the  pulpit,  approached  by  a  broad  alley  with  a 
double  row  of  pews  on  each  side,  and  narrow 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


alleys  on  the  ends  of  the  room.  (Jne  pew  on 
each  side  of  the  pulpit,  two  on  the  right,  and 
two  on  the  left  fronting  the  pulpit,  all  with 
doors  and  hinges,  and  somewhat  elevated  above 
the  seats,  but  upon  the  floor,  were  provided  for 
the  officials  in  the  congregation.  In  the  pulpit 
was  the  desk  taken  from  the  old  building,  re- 
modeled and  adapted  for  its  new  relations.  A 
seat,  made  of  wood,  was  built  against  the  w'ell 
back  of  the  pulpit  for  the  minister  and  his  asso- 
ciates. Four  wooden  pegs  on  the  wall  gave 
their  support  to  the  clerical  hats.  After  the 
revolution  this  space  back  of  the  pulpit  was 
occupied  by  a  large  gilt  eagle.  The  arched 
wall  of  the  room,  antl  the  ends  of  the  building 
above  the  plate  and  under  the  galleries  were 
ceiled  with  white  wood  boards,  and  "painted 
a  light  sky  color."  Such  was  the  inanimate 
memorial  that  Moses  Baldwin  left  behind  him. 
To  posterity  he  left  five  children:  i.  Joseph, 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Samuel  Jones, 
lived  at  the  southwest  corner  of  what  is  now 
Grove  and  Williams  streets.  East  Orange,  until 
about  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth  century, 
when  he  emigrated  to  Galloway,  New  York, 
near  Schenectady,  in  company  with  his  father- 
in-law  and  most  of  his  family.  His  children 
were  Charlotte,  wife  of  Timothy  Williams; 
Matthias  ;  Lydia,  wife  of  John  Wilson ;  James ; 
Rufus;  Elizabeth;  Isaac;  Israel,  and  Samuel. 
2.  Caleb,  treated  below.  3.  Moses,  died  1802 ; 
had  his  home  near  the  Jonathan  Williams' 
farm,  and  trailition  says  that  the  Susanna 
P)aldwin  he  married  was  the  daughter  of  Sus- 
anna, the  si-xth  child  of  Samuel  Dod,  of  New- 
ark, who  died  in  1713  or  1714.  4.  Hannah, 
born  near  Newark,  married  Jared,  son  of  Jo- 
seph Harrison  by  his  wife  Dorcas,  daughter  of 
Sergeant  John  Ward,  and  grandson  of  Sergeant 
Richard,  son  of  Richard  Harrison,  of  West 
Kirby,  Cheshire,  England,  and  New  Haven 
and  Branford,  Connecticut.  Jared  Harrison, 
born  1745,  died  1827;  lived  in  Orange,  and  his 
one  child,  Deacon  Abraham  Harrison,  lived 
for  man}'  years  on  High  street  in  that  village. 
5.  Catharine,  born  February  4,  1737,  married 
Elihu  Pierson,  a  schoolteacher  and  carpet 
weaver,  and  their  daughter  Phebe  married  the 
Rev.  Stephen  Dodd,  of  East  Haven,  Connecti- 
cut. 

fV)  Caleb,  third  child  of  Moses  Baldwin, 
was  like  his  father  a  carpenter,  and  probably 
helped  him  in  the  building  of  the  second  meet- 
ing house  of  the  Mountain  Society,  now  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Orange ;  at  any 
rate  he  supplied  the  shingles  for  the  ]5arsonage 
since  the  building  fund  account  of  that  edifice 


contains  the  entry  "Paid  out  to  Caleb  Baldwin 
for  shingles  £3  19  s.  6  d."  His  house  was 
situated  on  a  lane,  twenty  or  thirty  feet  wide, 
which  led  from  the  highway  between  Newark 
and  the  Mountain,  to  his  house  on  the  west 
side  of  the  path  and  that  of  Matthias  Dodd 
on  the  east  side.  From  the  time  of  the  revolu- 
tion up  to  about  1840  it  is  spoken  of  in  deeds 
and  conveyances  as  "Whiskey  lane."  About 
ten  years  after  that  date,  by  a  vote  of  the 
neighborhood,  it  was  widened  to  fifty  feet, 
carried  through  to  Forest  street,  and  named 
( jrove  street,  from  the  fact  of  its  passing 
through  a  pleasant  grove.  During  the  revolu- 
tion Jonathan  Sayer,  a  merchant  of  Newark, 
had  ]ilaced  in  his  storehouse  on  the  Stone  dock 
a  considerable  (|uantity  of  cider  whiskey.  Fear- 
ing that  it  might  be  plundered,  he  removed  it 
for  safe  keeping  to  an  empty  barn  belonging 
to  Caleb  Baldwin,  on  the  west  side  of  the  lane. 
The  barrels  were  deposited  in  a  bay  of  the 
barn  and  covered  with  salt  hay,  but  as  it  hap- 
|)ened,  with  not  enough  to  conceal  them  en- 
tirely. Soon  afterwards  a  small  company  of 
British  light  horse,  with  a  band  of  Hessian 
soldiers,  encamjied  for  the  night  on  the  prop- 
erty of  Matthias  Dodd  which  was  opposite  the 
barn.  In  the  morning  it  was  found  that  the 
whole  company  of  Hessian  footmen  were 
drunk.  On  investigation  the  cause  revealed 
was  the  whiskey  stored  in  Caleb  Baldwin's 
barn.  The  soldiers  were  jiunished  for  their 
misconduct,  and  though  many  of  the  barrels 
were  staved  in  and  the  li(]uor  lost  much  still 
remained.  The  owner,  however,  abantloned 
all  care  for  it;  and  it  came  to  be  regarded  in 
the  neighborhood  as  common  property  and 
o])en  to  all  w'ho  might  wish  to  replenish  their 
jugs  and  canteens.  In  1814  the  barn  was  torn 
down;  but  the  name  of  W'hiskey  lane  thus 
earned  and  bestowed  upon  the  path  still  clung 
to  it.  In  1845  the  jiresent  owner  of  the  Dodd 
property,  a  grandson  of  Matthias  Dodd,  in 
removing  a  stone  wall  on  the  front  line  of  his 
l)roperty,  opposite  to  where  the  barn  had  stood,  ; 
found  an  old  sword  much  corroded  by  long 
exposure,  which  on  being  cleaned  was  found  ; 
to  be  marked  with  the  name  of  a  Hessian 
colonel.  This  relic  is  now  in  the  museum  of 
the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society  ;  and  isprob-  J 
ably  a  relic  of  the  above  described  night  of  1 
debauch.  Whether  Caleb  Baldwin  hitnself  was 
at  home  at  the  time  of  this  incident  is  uncer-  , 
tain.  He  may  have  been  away  on  duty  as  one 
of  the  two  Caleb  Baldwins  who  were  privates 
in  the  second  regiinent  of  Essex  county  militia, 
one  of  whom  was  in  Captain  Lyons'  company. 


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111(1  the  otlier  in  that  of  Captain  Squires.  Caleb 
uildwiii  married   Rebecca  Coleman,  and  had 
;ix   children,   all   born   in   Orange:      I.   Sarah, 
)iirn  1770,  baptized  February  2j ,  iy'J-\,  by  the 
l\(  \'.    Jedediah    Chapman,    married    Whitfield 
nlberson.     2.  Martha,  1772,  married  Patrick 
arroll.     3.   CjTenus.     4.   Ezra,  married   Ma- 
tilda Ramadge.     5.  Margaret.  1782,  died  1797. 
f).  Caleb  W.,  treated  below. 

(VI)  Caleb  W.,  .son  of  Caleb  and  Rebecca 
(Coleman)  Baldwin,  was  born  in  Orange,  in 
1786,  died  there  in  1812.  He  was  a  contractor 
and  builder.  His  father-in-law.  Major  Aaron 
Harrison,  was  one  of  the  leading  men  of  his 
day  in  Orange.  He  was  a  great-grandson  of 
Sergeant  Richard  Harrison,  one  of  the  Bran- 
ford  associates,  who  remained  on  his  home  lot 
in  Newark,  while  his  son  Samuel  first  settled 
about  1720  on  land  west  of  Wigwam  brook, 
his  house  being  at  the  turn  of  the  Swinefield 
road  where  it  intersects  the  Valley  road,  and 
about  1769  building  a  house  at  what  is  now  the 
corner  of  \'alley  street  and  Lakeside  avenue, 
which  was  his  home  till  death  in  1776,  when  it 
was  inherited  by  his  son  Samuel,  who  never 
married  and  when  he  died  at  the  age  of  ninety- 
one  left  it  to  the  son  of  his  brother  Matthew, 
Major  Aaron  Harrison.  The  Major's  first 
wife,  Jemima  Condict,  who  died  November  14, 
1779,  in  the  twenty-fourth  year  of  her  age, 
after  one  year  of  married  life,  was  like  her 
husband  a  grandchild  of  Samuel,  son  of  Ser- 
geant Richard  Harrison,  but  on  the  maternal 
side.  The  Major's  second  wife  was  Phebe 
Crane,  daughter  of  Lewis,  and  great-great- 
granddaughter  of  Jasper  Crane,  of  Newark, 
in  1666.  Her  mother  was  Mary,  daughter  of 
Daniel  P.urr,  and  sister  to  the  Rev.  .\aron 
Piurr,  whose  son  Aaron  played  so  conspicuous 
a  part  in  American  history.  Jemima,  the  oldest 
daughter  and  second  child  of  Major  Aaron 
and  Phebe  (Crane)  Harrison,  was  born  in 
1784,  died  in  1877,  and  married,  in  1809,  Caleb 
\\'.  Baldwin,  to  whom  she  bore  two  children: 
I.  I'hebe  Fv.,  died  December  31,  1883,  after 
marrying  Edward  Pierson.  2,  Caleb  W .. 
treated  below. 

(VII)  Caleb  W.  (21.  son  of  Caleb  W.  and 
Jemima  (Harrison)  Baldwin,  was  born  in 
Orange  181 2,  two  months  after  his  father's 
death.  He  died  in  1852.  He  was  a  cabinet 
maker  and  lived  at  Orange.  He  married,  June 
7,  1848,  Theresa  Oliver,  born  August  12,  1831, 
at  Watkins,  New  York,  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Phebe  (Carpenter)  Oliver.  Children:  i. 
Phebe,  born  .April  6,  1849,  married  W.  Wal- 
lace Snvder.     2.  Samuel  Ward,  treated  below. 


(\TH)  Samuel  \\'ard,  only  son  of  Caleb 
W.  (2)  and  Theresa  (Oliver)  Baldwin,  was 
born  February  15,  1851,  in  Orange,  is  the  last 
of  his  line,  and  is  unmarried.  He  obtained  his 
education  at  the  private  school  of  the  Rev. 
Frederick  A.  Adams,  where  he  graduated  in 
1865,  and  at  once  entered  on  a  business  life  as 
a  clerk  for  the  Mutual  Benefit  Life  Insurance 
Company,  in  which  capacity  he  served  for 
twenty-five  years.  In  1890  Mr.  Baldwin  was 
elected  to  the  office  of  assistant  treasurer  of 
the  company,  and  after  fifteen  years  service  in 
that  position  was  in  1905  chosen  to  the  office 
of  treasurer.  In  politics  Mr.  Baldwin  is  a  Re- 
publican. He  is  a  director  of  the  National 
^tate  Bank  and  the  Firemen's  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  Newark,  New  Jersey.  His  clubs  are 
the  Esse.x  and  the  Essex  County  Country. 


(For  preceding  generations  see  Joseph   Baldwin   1). 

(IV)   Amos,   second    son   of 

P.ALDAVIK    Joseph  and (Bruen) 

Baldwin,  was  born  in  New- 
ark. New  Jersey,  in  1720,  lived  in  Newark  and 
afterwards  in  Orange,  where  he  was  a  deacon 
of  the  church  and  was  buried.  He  married 
Mary  Taylor,  who  died  September  30,  1795, 
aged  seventy-five  years;  children:    i.   Lewis, 

referred  to  below.     2.  Sarah,  married  

Ward.    3.  Phebe,  married  Joseph,  son  of  Ebe- 
nezer  and  Deborah  Canfield. 

(V)  Lewis,  only  son  of  Amos  and  Mary 
(Taylor)  Baldwin,  was  born,  lived  and  died  in 
Orange,  New  Jersey,  his  death  occurring  Oc- 
tober 22,  1782.  His  widow  Martha,  who  sur- 
vived him  many  years,  died  January  26,  1826, 
aged  eighty  years,  nine  months  and  twelve 
days.  Children:  i.  Amos,  married  (first) 
Sarah  Crane  and  (second)  Maria  Harrison.  2. 
Cyrus,  died  unmarried.  3.  Henry,  referred  to 
below.    4.  Eunice,  died  unmarried.    5.  Dorcas, 

married    McDonald.      6.    Sarah,    born 

November  27,   1778;  married  Joshua,  son  of 
Phineas  and  Hannah  Baldwin. 

(VI)  Henry,  son  of  Lewis  and  Martha 
Baldwin,  was  born  in  Orange.  New  Jersey, 
May  24,  1773.  He  lived  in  C)range.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah,  daughter  of  Caleb  Baldwin  and 
Lydia,  daughter  of  Dr.  Johnson,  of  Newark. 
Caleb  was  the  son  of  Ezekiel  Baldwin  and 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Benjamin,  son  of  Benja- 
min and  grandson  of  Joseph  Baldwin,  of  New- 
ark. Ezekiel  was  the  .son  of  John,  grandson 
of  Jonathan,  and  great-grandson  of  Joseph 
Badhvin,  of  Newark.  Children  of  Henry  and 
.^arah  (  P>aldwin )  Baldwin  were:  i.  Cyrus, 
referred  to  below.     2.  Catharine,  married  Ed- 


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STATE    OF    XHW    IKRSEY. 


ward  Harrison,  of  Orange.  3.  jMartha  Ann, 
died  at  the  age  of  two  years.  4.  Albert,  born 
in  Orange,  New  Jersey,  1817,  and  baptized;  a 
clergA'nian  also  a  farmer ;  removed  to  Elton, 
Walworth  county,  Wisconsin  ;  married,  May 
2,  1849,  Sarah  H.  Rhodes,  of  Brookline,  .Mass- 
achusetts, and  has  two  children. 

(VII)  Cyrus,  son  of  Henry  and  Sarah 
(Baldwin)  Baldwin,  was  born  in  Orange,  New- 
Jersey,  near  what  is  now  known  as  Brick 
Church,  in  1808,  died  August  30,  1854.  He 
had  only  the  advantages  of  the  little  neighbor- 
hood district  school,  and  yet  he  accomplished 
more  than  many  college  graduates  of  the  pres- 
ent day.  He  grew  upon  the  farm  and  employ- 
ed his  leisure  hours  during  the  winter  months 
as  did  most  of  his  neighbors  in  the  manufac- 
ture of  shoes.  Taking  up  surveying  without 
any  previous  instruction,  he  was  for  many 
years  before  his  death  the  only  surveyor  in  the 
Oranges,  outside  of  Newark  itself.  He  was 
conscientious  and  painstaking  and  his  work 
could  always  be  relied  upon.  He  was  employed 
by  Mr.  Haskell,  to  make  all  the  surveys  for 
Llewellyn  Park,  and  during  his  life  time  he 
laid  out  hundreds  of  acres  in  city  lots.  He 
made  the  original  survey  of  the  Rosedale  cem- 
etery, Orange,  and  his  work  extended  for 
many  miles  beyond  the  Oranges.  For  many 
years  he  was  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  was 
the  only  recognized  legal  counsellor  in  his 
neighborhood.  He  drew  up  most  of  the  wills, 
deeds  and  other  legal  documents,  and  not  one 
of  them  has  ever  been  contested  on  the  ground 
of  legal  imperfection.  He  was  a  man  of  great 
natural  ability  and  sound  common  sense,  and 
was  often  called  upon  to  arbitrate  disputes  be- 
tween neighbors,  and  seldom  failed  to  arrange 
matters  to  the  satisfaction  of  both  parties.  He 
enjoyed  the  confidence  and  respect  of  the  peo- 
ple during  his  whole  life,  and  not  a  single  act 
of  his  ever  brought  dishonor  or  rejiroach  upon 
the  name.  By  his  wise  and  eijuitable  decision 
in  the  settlement  of  disputes,  he  saved  thou- 
sands of  dollars  in  litigation  that  might  have 
ensued,  had  the  jjarties  employed  the  usual 
methods.  While  not  esjjecially  active  in  Chris- 
tian work,  he  lived  very  near  to  the  standard  of 
the  "Golden  Rule,"  and  set  a  worthy  example 
for  others  to  follow.  Attjiough  he  was  a  man 
of  decided  convictions,  he  never  gave  offence 
by  intruding  his  views  upon  others,  and  it  was 
only  when  called  upon  to  do  so  that  he  ven- 
tured an  opinion,  lie  was  a  devoted  husband, 
a  kind  neighbor  and  a  steadfast  friend. 

Cyrus  Baldwin  married  Elizabeth  Cooper, 
born  July  8,  181  o,  third  child  and  eldest  daugh- 


ter of  Giles  and  Sally  (Wicks)  Mandeville. 
Her  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  Wicks, 
of  Morristown.  Her  father  was  the  eldest 
living  child  of  Abraham  and  Antje  (Van 
Wagoner)  Mandeville,  grandson  of  Giles  and 
Leah  (Brown  or  Iiruen)  Alandeville,  great- 
grandson  of  Hendrick,  the  eldest  child  of  Gillis 
Jansei:  de  Mandeville  and  Elsje  Hendricks, 
who  emigrated  from  Rouen,  France,  to  Hol- 
land, and  then  in  1647  to  New  Amsterdam. 
Children  of  Mr.  and  Airs.  Baldwin:  i.  Henry 
Wicks,  born  1831,  died  July  31,  1868:  married 
Jemimah  Storros  and  had  four  children.  2. 
Giles  Mandeville,  1833,  died  August  3,  1888: 
married  Emily  Pierson  and  left  two  children. 
3.  Albert,  referred  to  below.  4.  Abram  Alande- 
ville, July  5,  1835  ;  inarried  Elizabeth  Graves 
and  had  two  daughters. 

(\'III)  Albert,  third  child  and  son  of  Cyrus 
and  Elizabeth  Cooper  (Alandeville)  Baldwin, 
was  born  at  the  old  homestead  at  I^ast  Orange. 
July  5,  1835,  being  a  twin  with  .Abram  Alande- 
ville Baldwin.  He  died  October  21,  1897. 
Like  his  father,  he  had  none  of  the  advantages 
of  the  higher  education  enjoyed  by  those  of  the 
present  generation.  He  mastered  the  rudi- 
mentary branches,  however,  in  the  village 
school,  and  fitted  himself  for  the  honorable 
position  which  for  so  many  years  he  so  well 
filled.  Entering  the  Oratige  Bank  as  a  boy, 
when  Stephen  D.  Day  was  the  president  and 
W.  A.  \'ermilye  was  its  cashier,  he  acquired  in 
three  or  four  years  a  sufiicient  knowledge  of 
the  business  to  enable  him  in  1856  to  obtain  a 
position  as  receiving  and  ])aying  teller  in  the 
City  I'ank  of  Newark.  At  this  time  the  only 
other  em])!oyees  of  that  institution  were  a 
bookkeeper,  a  clerk  and  a  rumier.  The  capital 
stock  of  the  bank  was  three  hundred  thousand 
dollars,  and  the  deposits  amoimted  to  the  same 
sum.  I'^ven  with  this  amount  of  business,  the 
teller's  position  was  a  very  res])onsible  one  for 
a  young  man  to  fill.  From  his  father,  however, 
he  inherited  those  strong  traits  and  sterling 
qualities  tliat  would  enable  a  man  to  succeed 
in  any  undertaking,  and  he  not  only  proved 
himself  eijual  to  the  duties  he  assumed  but  for 
forty  years  conducted  the  affairs  of  the  bank 
with  a  rare  fidelitv  and  devotion  that  won  for 
him  the  warmest  afTection  and  the  confidence 
of  his  associates.  In  1858  he  became  the 
cashitr  of  the  Ijank,  and  when  he  died  he 
held  the  double  ])osition  vi  cashier  and 
vice-president.  During  his  administration 
the  dei)osits  increased  from  an  annual  three 
hundred  tliousand  to  nearly  two  million  dol- 
lars,   the   capital    stock    increased   to  one-half 


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million,  and  the  working  force  to  three  times 
le  original  number.  There  are  probably  few 
any  bank  employees  in  the  city  of  Newark 
'ho  can  show  so  extended  a  record  for  faith- 
ul  service.  The  foundation  of  Mr.  Baldwin's 
uccess  was  laid  in  his  native  town,  but  he  had 
lot  resided  there  since  early  manhood,  his 
/inters  having  been  spent  in  Newark  and  his 
ummers  at  Convent  Station,  on  the  Delaware, 
.ackawanna  and  Western  railroad.     He  had 

0  time  to  attend  to  affairs  outside  of  the  bank, 
;s  duties  requiring  his  undivided  attention, 
'"or  many  years  he  was  a  vestryman  of  Grace 
'rotestant  Episcopal  church  in  Newark. 

In  May,  iS6i,  Albert  Baldwin  married  Jen- 
et  I'lielj^s.  daughter  of  Charles  Hooker,  M. 
).,  of  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  a  descendant 
f  the  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker,  who  came  to  New 
Lngland  in  1633,  settled  in  Hartford  in  1636, 
ml  founded  the  First  Church  in  Connecticut, 
ilie  was  liurn  in  1837,  died  February  16,  1883. 
Children  of  Albert  and  Jennet  Phelps 
Hooker)  Baldwin  were:  i.  Charles  Hooker, 
orn  November  26,  1865:  married  Bertha  W'il- 
011  Smith  and  has  one  child.  Beryl  Raymond. 
.  Albert  Henry,  referred  to  below.  3.  Jennet 
Lliza.  June  28,  1874. 

(  IX )  .-\lbert  Henry,  second  child  and 
ounger  son  of  x\lbert  and  Jennet  Phelps 
Hooker )  Baldwin,  was  born  in  Newark,  New 
ersey.  October  24,    1868,  and  is  now  living 

1  Maplewood.  New  Jersey.  His  early  edu- 
ation  was  received  in  the  Newark  .-Kcademy. 
le  began  his  business  career  as  a  clerk  in  the 
Newark  National  Bank.  This  was  in  1884. 
lerc  his  own  native  ability  and  the  traits 
'hich  he  inherited  from  his  father  were  by 
im  so  well  developed  that  he  rapidly  gained 
le  confidence  and  appreciation  of  his  em- 
loyers,  and  he  was  advanced  steadily  from 
ost  to  post  of  higher  responsibility  and  trust 
ntil  in  it)02  he  attained  his  iiresent  position  of 
ice-president.  Like  his  father  he  has  at- 
MKled  strictl)-  and  solely  to  the  one  business 
1  which  he  has  been  engaged,  and  outside  of 
is  position  as  vice-president  and  director  of 
le  National  Newark  Banking  Company,  he 
as  not  had  either  the  time  or  inclination  to 
iigage  or  interest  himself  in  other  busmesses. 
le  is  a  warden  and  the  treasurer  of  St. 
ieurge's  I'rotestant  Episcopal  Church  in  Ma- 
lewoorl :  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  His- 
:)rical  Society,  and  a  .Son  of  the  .American 
[evolution. 

June  30.  1897.  .Albert  Henry  Baldwin  mar- 
led Marv  Ellen,  born  in  Wisconsin,  daughter 


of  the  Rev.  Peter  and  Anna  M.  ( Chamberlin) 
Pearson.     Her  parents  are  now   dead. 


The  family  of  Taylor  is  an  old 
TAYLOR     one  in   New  England  and  has 

been  transplanted  in  compara- 
tively recent  times  from  Connecticut  to  New 
Jerse\'.  It  has  been  somewhat  conspicuous  in 
tlie  last  named  state  and  is  still  identified  with 
leading  official  and  other  institutions  of  the 
commonwealth. 

( I )  John  Taylor  probably  sailed  from  Eng- 
land with  Rev.  Ephraim  Hewett,  .\ugust  17, 
163c;.  He  is  found  the  next  year  in  Windsor, 
Connecticut,  and  was  juror  of  that  town  in 
1641  and  1644.  He  remained  but  a  short 
time  in  this  country  antl  prepared  for  a  jour- 
ney to  England  by  making  his  will  November 
24,  1645.  He  sailed  in  the  famous  "Phantom 
.Ship."  of  New  Haven,  which  was  built  in 
Rhode  Island,  was  of  one  hundred  and  fifty 
tons  burden,  commanded  by  Captain  Lamber- 
ton.  The  ice  in  the  harbor  of  New  Haven  had 
to  be  cut  in  order  to  allow  tlie  vessel  to  sail 
in  January.  1646.  In  the  following  June  a 
ship  was  ai)]iarently  seen  coming  to  anchor  in 
the  harbor  when  it  mysteriously  vanished  be- 
fore the  eyes  of  a  crowd  of  spectators.  The 
story  is  told  in  Cotton  Mather's  "Magnalia." 
John  Taylor  was  lost  on  the  ill-fated  ship  and 
his  widow  married  a  Mr.  Hoyt.  of  Norwalk, 
Connecticut.  The  will  of  the  missing  man 
was  presented  for  probate  by  his  son  in  1694. 
.As  far  as  known  he  left  but  two  children: 
John  and  Thomas,  the  former  of  whom  was 
killed  by  Indians  at  Northampton,  Massachu- 
setts, May  13,  1704. 

(II )  Thomas,  youngest  son  of  John  Taylor, 
born  1643,  became  a  resident  of  Norwalk  and 
removed  in  1686  to  Danbury,  Connecticut, 
where  his  death  occurred  in  1735,  at  the  age  of 
about  ninety-two  years.  He  married  Rebecca 
Ketchnm  and  they  had  ten  children  :  i  Deb- 
orah, married  Daniel  Betts,  of  Norwalk.  2. 
James,  born  1668.  married  Abigail  Benedict, 
died  in  1758.  3.  John.  1673,  married  a  Miss 
Hetts,  died  1742.  4.  Joseph,  1673,  died  1762: 
had  wife  Sarah.  (John  and  Joseph  were 
twins.)  5.  Daniel,  1676,  died  1770;  married 
(first)  a  Miss  Benedict  (second)  a  Miss  .Storr. 
(•>.  Timothy,   1678,  died   1744:  married  a  Miss 


Davis 


Nathan,  mentioned  below.     8.  Re- 


becca, married  Daniel  Benedict.  9.  Theophi- 
lus,  1687-1777,  married  (first)  a  Miss  Bush- 
nell,  (second)  Sarah  A.  Gregory.  10.  Eunice, 
wife  of  Benjamin  Stair. 


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STATE    OF    XKW    [RRSEY. 


(Ill )  Nathan,  sixth  son  of  Thomas  and  Re- 
becca (Ketchum)  Taylor,  was  born  1682  at 
Norwalk.  and  accompanied  his  parents  to  Dan- 
bury,  at  the  age  of  four  years.  He  grew  to 
manhood  in  Danbury  and  after  marriage  set- 
tled in  what  is  now  known  as  Bethel.  Connecti- 
cut, where  he  built  a  stockade  as  a  defence 
against  the  Indians,  and  the  site  is  now  marked 
by  a  well.  Like  all  his  brothers.  Nathan  Tay- 
lor lived  to  an  advanced  age  and  died  in  1782. 
lie  married,  in  Danbury,  Hannah  Benedict, 
a  member  of  a  pioneer  family  in  that  locality. 
Children :  Nathan.  Matthew,  James,  Daniel, 
Mercy,  M  indwell.  Deborah,  Rhoda,  Hannah 
and  Oliver. 

(I\')  Matthew,  second  son  of  Nathan  and 
Hannah  (  Benedict )  Taylor,  was  born  in  Bethel 
and  settled  in  the  center  of  the  village  bearing 
that  name.  His  wife  was  Esther  Waller  and 
they  were  the  parents  of  ten  children :  Mat- 
thew. Abigail,  Preserved,  Daniel,  Joshua. 
John,  Noah,  Hannah,  Levi  and  Eleazor. 

(V)  Joshua,  fourth  son  of  Matthew  and 
Esther  (Waller)  Taylor,  was  a  native  of 
Bethel  district,  where  he  engaged  in  agricul- 
ture during  his  active  life.  Soon  after  the  be- 
ginning of  the  revolutionary  war  he  enlisted 
as  a  soldier  and  participated  in  the  battle  of  Ti- 
conderoga.  Later  he  re-enlisted  and  served 
until  the  close  of  the  struggle.  In  religious 
faith  he  was  a  Presbyterian,  as  was  also  his 
wife.  Eunice  (Seeley)  Taylor,  a  daughter  of 
Deacon  James  Seeley.  and  a  native  of  Bethel. 
Of  their  nine  children  all  save  one  married  and 
left  families.  I.  .\sael.  had  ten  children.  2. 
Sally,  died  early  in  life.  3.  Eunice,  left  no 
issue.  4.  Levi,  had  seven  cliildren.  5.  Abel, 
had  one  child.  6.  Joel,  mentioned  below.  7. 
Clarissa,  had  seven  children.  8.  Clorinda.  had 
six  children.     9.  Esther,  had  five  children. 

(\T)  Levi,  second  son  of  Joshua  and 
Eunice  (Seeley)  Taylor,  was  born  January  ig. 
1762.  and  was  baptized  at  I'ethel  five  days 
later,  lie  ])assed  his  life  in  that  locality  and 
was  married  January  6.  1805.  to  Lucy  An- 
drews. They  had  a  daughter  and  a  son  :  Lucy, 
born  December  7.  1803.  and  Levi,  mentioned 
below. 

(\'II)  Levi  (2).  son  of  Levi  (i  )  and  Lucy 
( .\ndrews )  Taylor,  was  born  July  20.  1808. 
and  engaged  in  farming  in  Danbury.  Connecti- 
cut, where  he  died  January  1 1.  1870.  He  mar- 
ried, November  26.  1829.  Julia  Vail,  daughter 
of  Oliver  and  Polly  (Beebe)  \'ail,  born  Sep- 
tember ft.  1807,  died  .August  17.  1883.  Chil- 
dren :  Stephen  Decatur,  born  .November  23. 
1831.  died  July    12.   1832.      Jerome,  mentioned 


below.  Elliott.  November  10,  1840,  died  Janu- 
ary 5,  1862.  Emma  Jane,  October  2,  1844, 
married  George  Burr  Hoyt,  born  May  20, 
1844,  at  Norwalk.  Connecticut,  died  May  12, 
1908. 

(\  III)  Jerome,  second  son  of  Levi  (2)  and 
Julia  (Nail)  Taylor,  was  born  April  30,  1834, 
in  Danbury.  Connecticut,  and  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  place. 
He  early  became  identified  with  the  hat  busi- 
ness, and  in  i8(>2  with  N.  Eugene  Seeley  he 
organized  the  firm  of  Seeley  &  Taylor,  and 
commenced  business  at  No.  63  Broadway,  New 
"S'ork.  This  firm  was  continued  for  six  years, 
and  in  1870  with  Daniel  Hoffman  he  organized 
the  firm  of  Hoffman  &  Taylor,  doing  hat  busi- 
ness at  No.  27  Mercer  street,  New  York.  This 
firm  was  continued  for  three  years,  and  in 
1873,  ^\''th  Edward  S.  Seeley  he  organized  the 
firm  of  Taylor  &  Seeley,  and  did  business  at 
No.  112  Greene  street,  New  York,  manufac- 
turing goods  at  Danbury,  Connecticut.  This 
firm  was  continued  for  thirty  years  and  dis- 
solved in  1903.  In  1888,  when  the  Fidelity 
Title  &  Deposit  Company,  (now  Fidelity 
irust  Company  I.  was  organized,  he  became  a 
stockholder,  and  in  1890  was  elected  a  director. 
In  1894  he  was  elected  second  vice-president, 
anti  in  1899  was  elected  trust  officer,  which 
ofifice  he  still  holds.  In  1894  he  was  elected 
a  director  of  the  Prudential  Insurance  Com- 
]iany  of  America.  While  doing  business  in 
New  ^'ork  he  resided  in  Newark.  New  Jer- 
sey, and  connected  himself  with  the  South 
I'aptist  Church,  and  has  held  the  office  of 
deacon  there  since  1873.  f^'""  many  years  he 
has  been  a  director  of  the  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian .\ssociation.  In  politics  he  is  an  active 
<ui)porter  of  Republican  principles  and  poli- 
cies, lie  married.  May  13.  1835.  in  Danbury, 
(.'onnecticul.  Henrietta  Selleck,  born  October, 
3'-  ''^3.S.  daughter  of  William  L.  and  Corne- 
lia (Panks)  Selleck.  Children:  Fanny,  born 
March  21.  i8^)i.  married  C.  Edwin  Young: 
l-".tta  May.  July  2i^.  1865,  uinnarried. 


This    family    of    Taylors    is   of 
r\M,OI\     comparatively     recent     English 

origin  and  is  not  connected  with 
the  early  families  of  the  name  in  New  Jersey. 
It  has.  however,  taken  an  active  and  worthy 
part  in  the  (levelo])ment  of  the  best  interests 
of  the  state. 

(  I  I  William  Tayk)r  was  born  June  11,  1773, 
in  I'jigland.  He  came  to  .America  in  1793  and 
located  at  I 'liiladel])hia.  Pennsylvania,  where 
lie  wa-  an   im|)ortaut  nu-rchant  under  the  firm 


STATE   OF    NEW     [ERSEY. 


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name  of  Taylor,  Gazzam  &  Jones.  He  mar- 
ried, February  20,  1794,  at  "St.  JMary's  the 
Great,"  Cambridgeshire,  England,  Mary  Alice 
Gazzam,  born  June  28,  1775,  at  Cambridge- 
shire. Children :  I.  William  G.,  born  1795.  2. 
Thomas  D.,  August  9,  1797.  3.  Thomas  W., 
1798.  4.  Benjamin  Cook,  February  24,  1801. 
5.  Othniel  Hart,  see  forward.  6.  Alary  Ann, 
November  26,  1804.  7.  Sarah,  July  15,  1806. 
8.  Martha  E.,  October  25,  1809.  9.  William 
R.,  October  27,  1810.  10.  Isaac  E.,  April  25, 
1815.  William  Taylor  died  Ai)ril  4,  1849,  ^"d 
his  wife  August  31,  1831. 

(H)  Othniel  Hart,  son  of  William  and 
Mary  A.  (Gazzam)  Taylor,  was  born  May  4, 
1803,  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  In  his 
early  years  he  attended  elementary  schools  in 
Philadelphia  and  Holmesburg,  Pennsylvania, 
and  at  P.asking  Ridge,  New  Jersey.  In  1818 
he  entered  the  literary  department  of  the  Uni- 
!  versity  of  Pennsylvania,  and  there  pursued  the 
i  more  advanced  studies  of  a  general  education. 
In  1820  he  became  a  student  in  the  office  of 
Thomas  T.  Hewson,  M.  D.,  and  at  the  same 
time  received  a  course  of  instruction  in  the 
medical  department  of  the  l^niversity  of  Penn- 
sylvania. He  completed  his  university  studies 
in  1823,  and  graduated  with  the  class  of  that 
year.  He  at  once  entered  upon  the  practice 
of  his  profession  in  Philadelphia.  Shortly  af- 
terward he  was  appointed  one  of  the  physicians 
of  the  City  Dispensary,  in  which  capacity  he 
served  many  years.  About  the  same  time  he 
was  elected  out-door  physician  to  the  Penn- 
sylvania Hospital,  a  position  which  he  held  for 
a  term  of  eight  years.  In  the  year  1832  the 
.Asiatic  cholera  made  its  first  appearance  on 
this  continent,  and  it  afforded  him  a  signal 
iip]K)rtiniity  to  show  his  qualities,  not  only  as  a 
medical  practitioner,  but  as  a  man.  He  distin- 
guished himself  by  volunteering  to  serve  in  the 
city  hospitals  which  the  municipal  authorities 
established  to  meet  the  emergencv,  and  at  the 
same  time  he  acted  as  one  of  the  consulting  phy- 
sicians to  their  sanitary  board.  The  hospital 
especially  in  his  charge  was  the  St.  Augustine 
Hosijital,  on  Crown  street,  and  the  number  of 
cholera  patients  reported  by  him  as  under 
treatment  in  that  hospital  was  five  hundred 
and  twelve.  He  had  also  been  elected  as  one 
of  a  commission  of  medical  men  who  were 
sent  to  Montreal  to  study  the  character  and 
treatment  of  cholera  on  its  outbreak  in  that 
city,  and  before  its  appearance  in  our  own 
cities,  but  being  unable  to  accompany  the  com- 
mission, he  declined  in  favor  of  Dr.  Charles 
n.    Meigs.      When   the  hospitals   were   closed. 


after  the  disappearance  of  the  cholera,  he  with 
seven  ether  physicians  received  by  vote  of  the 
city  councils  a  testimonial  for  the  services  ren- 
dered the  city,  each  being  presented  with  a 
service  of  silver,  the  inscription  testifying  that 
the  gift  was  bestowed  "as  a  token  of  regard 
for  intrepid  and  disinterested  services."'  His 
arduous  and  unceasing  labors  told  upon  his 
health,  and  in  1838  he  temporarily  relinciuished 
the  ])ractice  of  his  profession,  and  removed 
from  Philadelphia  to  Fountaintown,  Pennsyl- 
vania. He  remained  there  until  1841,  when 
he  removed  to  Caldwell,  Essex  county.  New 
Jersey,  and  in  1844  took  up  his  residence  in 
Camden,  where  he  resumed  his  practice  of 
medicine,  continuing  until  about  a  year  before 
his  death,  which  occurred  September  5,  1869. 
1  le  was  for  many  years  a  meml>er  of  the  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  church  of  Camden.  He 
was  an  active  member  of  the  Camden  County 
Medical  Society  from  the  time  of  its  organiza- 
tion :  acted  as  vice-president  of  the  body 
through  many  successive  terms,  and  prepared 
and  delivered  numerous  addresses  before  the 
society.  In  1852  he  was  made  president  of 
the  State  ^Medical  Society,  and  consequently 
a  fellow  of  the  same  until  his  death.  He  was 
the  author  of  many  exhaustive  treatises  on 
medical  subjects,  published  in  various  leading 
medical  periodicals. 

He  married  Evelina  C.  Burrough,  whose  an- 
cestors came  from  England  to  Long  Island  and 
thence  to  West  Jersey  as  early  as  1693.  She 
was  born  October  24,  1800,  in  Camden  county, 
daughter  of  Jehu  and  .\nne  ( Hollingshead) 
Piurrough.  Anne  Hollingshead,  born  March 
23,  1772,  was  a  daughter  of  Jacob  Hollings- 
head, born  October  13,  1732!  a  son  of  William 
and  Hannah  Hollingshead.  Children  of  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Taylor:  i.  William  R.,  born  Janu- 
ary 3,  1833,  died  in  infancy.  2.  Othniel  G., 
January  24,  1834.  3.  Marmaduke  B.,  August 
'7-  ^^35-     4-  Henry  Genet,  see  forward. 

(  III  )  Henry  Genet,  son  of  Othniel  H.  and 
I'A-clina  C.  (  Ihirroughs)  Taylor,  was  born  July 
Ck  1837,  at  "Charmantot."  Rensselaer  county, 
near  Greenbush,  New  York,  at  the  residence  of 
his  uncle,  (leneral  Henry  James  Genet,  eldest 
son  of  "Citizen  Genet,"  the  first  ambassador  of 
I-"rance  to  the  Cnited  .'States,  and  who  married 
the  daughter  oi  ( ieorge  Clinton,  of  New  York. 
He  obtained  his  preliminary  education  in  the 
Camden  city  schools  and  in  the  Protestant 
E])iscopal  .Academy  of  Philadelphia.  He 
graduated  from  the  medical  department  of  the 
I'niversity  of  Pennsylvania  in  i860  and  imme- 
diately opened  an  office  in  Camden.     Shortly 


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STATE   OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


after  this  the  civil  war  broke  out  and  imnieiH- 
atcly  after  the  first  battle  of  I'.ull  Run,  Dr. 
Taylor  comphed  with  the  re(|uest  of  his  sur- 
gical preceptor.  Professor  Henry  H.  Smith, 
then  surgeon-general  of  Pennsylvania,  and 
went  to  Washington  to  assist  in  taking  care 
of  the  wounded.  In  September.  1861,  he  was 
commissioned  as  assistant  surgeon  of  the 
Eighth  New  Jersey  Regiment  and  during  the 
campaign  of  the  following  year  was  the  only 
medical  staff  officer  of  his  regiment  on  field 
duty,  .\ftcr  the  second  battle  of  Bull  Run  he 
spent  ten  days  within  the  rebel  lines  and  ac- 
companied the  wounded  under  his  charge  to 
Washington.  He  was  made  brigade  surgeon 
of  the  artillery  of  the  Third  Army  Corps  soon 
after  the  engagement  at  .Antietam,  and  served 
on  the  staff  of  Major-(ienerals  French, 
Hooker  and  Sickles.  After  a  long  term  of 
service  he  resigned  in  March,  1864,  and  re- 
sumed practice  at  Camden.  Soon  after  this 
he  was  made  assistant  surgeon  of  the  board  of 
enrollment  with  the  first  congressional  district 
for  Xew  Jersey  and  had  charge  of  the  medi- 
cal examination  of  candidates  for  the  service 
until  the  close  of  the  war.  Dr.  Taylor  was 
sergeant  of  the  Si.xth  Regiment  of  the  National 
("luard  of  New  Jersey  from  1869-1882,  and 
during  the  strike  of  1887  was  brigade  surgeon 
of  the  provisional  brigade  on  the  staff  of 
Major-(]eneral  William  J.  Sewell.  Except 
during  his  absence  at  the  front.  Dr.  Taylor 
was  secretary  of  the  Camden  County  Medical 
Society  from  1861  to  1888  and  was  its  presi- 
dent in  1865.  On  his  resignation  the  society 
presented  him  a  set  of  engrossed  resolutions 
and  a  beautiful  silver  service.  One  of  the 
founders  of  the  Camden  Dispensary,  Dr.  Tay- 
lor has  been  one  of  its  consulting  physicians 
since  1878.  and  has  been  for  many  years  its 
secretary.  In  1889  Rutgers  College  conferred 
upon  him  the  degree  of  A.  M.,  and  in  the 
same  year  he  was  elected  jjresident  of  the  New 
Jersey  State  Medical  Society. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  .Xmerican  Medical 
.\ssociation,  the  New  Jersey  Sanitary  Society, 
the  New  Jersey  Academy  of  Medicine  and  the 
Pennsylvania  Historical  Society.  Since  the 
establishment  of  the  Cooi)er  Hospital  at  Cam- 
iliii.  Dr.  Taylor  has  been  chairman  and  secre- 
tary of  its  board  of  [)hysicians  and  surgeons, 
medical  director,  and  a  member  of  the  board  of 
managers,  and  is  physician-in-chief  of  the 
Camden  Home  for  Friendless  Children.  He 
is  also  (jresident  of  the  New  Jersey  Training 
.School  for  Nurses  and  delivers  lectures  on 
nursing  and  holds  clinics  at  the  ho.spital.     He 


has  read  many  papers  before  the  various  so- 
cieties of  which  he  is  a  member  which  have 
proven  valuable  contributions  to  medical  lit- 
erature and  have  attracted  much  attention.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Repub- 
lic, the  ]\Iilitary  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion, 
the  Military  Order  of  Surgeons  of  New  Jer- 
sey, the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  is  a  char- 
ter member  of  Trimble  Lodge,  No.  117,  An- 
cient Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Camden. 
He  is  a  prominent  member  of  St.  Paul's  Epis- 
copal Church  of  Camden,  of  which  he  is  senior 
warden. 

Dr.  Taylor  married,  October  23,  1897, 
Helen,  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Hannah  C. 
Cooper,  of  Haddonfield,  New  Jersey,  and 
granddaughter  of  Captain  James  B.  Cooper, 
L'nited  States  navy,  who  was  a  soldier  of  the 
revolution  and  entered  the  navy  during  the 
war  of  1 81 2.  In  that  struggle  he  had  charge 
of  the  gunboats  of  the  l'nited  States  navy 
along  the  New  Jersey  coast  and  some  years 
before  his  death  was  appointed  superintendent 
of  the  Naval  Asylum  at  Gray's  Ferry,  Phila- 
delphia. The  living  children  of  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Taylor  are:  Henry  Genet  and  Richard  Cooper. 


The  name  of  Joy  has  been  borne  with 
)()\     honorable  distinction  by   families  in 

England  and  Ireland  for  at  least  five 
centuries.  It  is  believed  that  the  name  is  de- 
rived from  the  locality  Jouy,  in  Normaudv. 
and  niay  have  reached  England  in  the  form 
"de  Jouy."  It  has  undergone  many  modifica- 
tions, in  some  of  which  its  identity  disappears, 
as  it  i)asses  from  Joy  to  Jay  through  such 
forms  as  Joye,  Joie,  Jaie,  Jaye  and  even  Gee. 
Norfolk  county  in  England  has  been  for  five 
hundred  years  the  seat  of  a  family  of  Joy 
(now  Jay),  and  John  Jaye  (1563-1619)  of  this 
line,  lord  of  the  manor  of  Ilolverston.  lying 
between  ilillington  and  Yelvcrton,  received  a 
grant  of  arms  in  1601,  as  follows:  "Gu.  on  a 
bend  eng.  ar.  three  roses  of  the  field,  seeded. 
Crest:  an  otter  pass,  ppr." 

( I )  Thomas  Joy.  the  emigrant  ancestor  of 
the  Toy  family  in  .-\merica,  was  probably  born 
in  Norfolk  county,  in  1610.  and  came  to  the 
new  world  in  the  "Constance,"  which  sailed 
from  Gravcsend  in  1633.  He  settled  in  Bos- 
ton, and  was  early  the  possessor  of  several 
tracts  of  land,  comprising  that  on  which  the 
mansions  of  Governor  Ilntchinson  and  Sir 
Charles  Henry  Frankland  were  built ;  and 
land  in  I'endall's  Cove,  perhaps  including  the 
sites  of  Faneuil  Hall,  and  the  "Old  Feather 
.Store."     Thomas    lov    was    an    architect    and 


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juililer,  constructing  the  early  dwellings, 
wharves,  bridges  and  warehouses  of  Boston 
and  Charlestown,  and  was  the  owner  of  corn 
and  saw  mills  at  Hingham.  In  1657,  with  his 
partner,  he  built  the  first  town  house  of  Bos- 
ton, which  was  the  first  seat  of  government 
of  Massachusetts,  and  the  most  important  edi- 
fice of  a  ^ecular  character  which  had  up  to 
that  lime  been  constructed  in  New  England. 
L'pon  its  destruction  by  fire  in  171 1,  there  was 
built  nn  its  site,  of  brick,  the  "Old  State 
ffnuse,"  which  still  stands,  one  of  the  most 
venerated  monuments  of  colonial  Boston.  In 
1646,  with  Robert  Child,  Samuel  Maverick  and 
others,  he  participated  in  the  "Child  Memorial" 
eiMsode.  which  was  an  effort  to  effect  certain 
reforms  in  the  government,  and  particularly 
to  extend  the  right  of  suffrage  among  the  colo- 
nists, and  circulated  among  the  non-freemen 
a  ])etitiiin  which  was  to  be  sent  to  England. 
In  1(138  he  became  a  member  of  the  Ancient 
and  Honorable  Artillery  Company,  and  in 
665  a  freeman  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay 
Colony.  He  married,  in  1637,  Joan,  only 
daughter  of  Captain  John  Gallop,  owner  of 
Gallop's  Island,  in  Boston  Harbor,  the  skill- 
ful pilot  and  trader,  whose  engagement  with 
Indians  at  sea  off  Block  Island  was  the  fore- 
ruimer  of  the  Pequod  war,  in  which  he  con- 
spicuously served.  They  had  ten  children 
whose  descendants  are  now  scattered  through- 
out the  United  States,  many  of  them  having 
won  distinction  in  business  and  the  ]irofes- 
sions. 

(II )  Josepli  Joy.  son  of  Thomas  and  Joan, 
born  April  i,  1645,  baptized  at  First  Church, 
Boston.  "13  d.  2  m.  1645,"  died  May  31,  1697, 
was  ensign  of  the  Hingham  militia  company, 
constable  and  carpenter,  and  lived  on  Bacheler 
(Main)  street,  nearly  opposite  the  meeting 
house  at  Hingham,  toward  the  building  of 
which  in  1680,  he  contributed.  He  married, 
.\ugust  29.  1667.  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and 
Margaret  Prince. 

(HI  I  Joseph  Joy,  junior,  born  July  30, 
1668.  died  April  29,  1716.  He  was  a  con- 
stable in  1697  and  171 1.  In  February,  1708-9, 
he  signed  with  others  a  testimonial  to  the 
worthy  character  of  Mehitable  Warren,  ac- 
cused of  witchcraft.  His  gravestone,  with  the 
inscription  still  legible,  is  in  the  Hingham 
churchyard,  and  is  the  most  ancient  Joy  grave 
mark  in  America.  He  married.  May  22,  1690, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Captain  Thomas  and 
Ruth  .Andrews. 

(I\')  Jedediah  Joy,  son  of  Joseph  Joy,  ju- 
ni(ir.  was  born  Feliruary  27,  1703-4.  and  died 


October  19,  1798.  He  was  taxed  at  Hingham, 
and  joined  the  First  Church  there  in  1751.  He 
married,  February  7,  1733-34,  Mary,  daughter 
of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Eels)   Stowell. 

( \' )  Nathaniel  Joy,  son  of  Jedediah,  was 
horn  November  19,  1734,  and  died  in  1760. 
He  lived  in  Abington,  Massachusetts,  and  was 
one  of  those  who  enlisted  in  the  French  and 
Indian  war  for  service  in  Canada,  where  he 
was  killed  in  1 760.  He  married,  November 
26,  1751,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and 
Rachel  (Ward)  Whitmarsh. 

(\'I)  Nathaniel  Joy,  junior,  was  born  in 
1759,  and  died  July  9,  1833.  He  was  a 
farmer,  and  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  the  revolu- 
tion. He  married,  September  23,  1786,  Sarah, 
<laughter  of  Reuben  and  Sarah  (Kendall) 
Ward. 

(  \'II )  Luther  Joy,  son  of  Nathaniel,  junior, 
was  born  September  21,  1805,  and  died  May 
5.  1867.  For  many  years  he  was  a  merchant 
in  Benson,  X'ermont,  and  came  to  Newark  in 
i860,  where  he  engaged  extensively  and  suc- 
cessfully in  the  manufacture  of  rubber  goods. 
The  business  was  continued  as  L.  Joy  &  Co., 
the  members  of  the  firm  being  John  E.  Dix  and 
two  sons,  E.  Luther  Joy  and  Horatio  B.  Joy. 
Mr.  Dix  married,  September  22,  1858,  I\Iary 
Fisher,  daughter  of  George  W.  Joy.  Their 
two  sons,  Edwin  .A.  Dix  and  William  F.  Dix, 
graduates  of  Princeton  University,  have  won 
distinction  in  literary  work.  The  former 
married.  .Vugust  15,  1895,  Marion  Olcott.  and 
the  latter,  on  June  2,  1900,  Mary  .Alice  Ten- 
nille,  by  whom  he  has  a  son,  Tennille  Dix,  and 
a  daughter  .Alice  Joy  Dix.  .As  a  family  they 
have  traveled  e.xtensively,  having  made  in 
1890-92  a  tour  of  the  world,  and  Mrs.  Dix  has 
been  state  regent  of  the  Daughters  of  the  Rev- 
olution. Edmond  Luther  Joy,  of  the  firm 
above  mentioned,  has  been  vice-jiresident  of 
the  Newark  Gas  Company,  and  director  of  the 
Newark  National  State  Bank,  the  Firemen's 
Insurance  Company,  and  other  financial  in- 
stitutions ;  a  director  and  vice-president  of 
the  Newark  Board  of  Trade,  and  a  member 
of  the  Essex  Club,  and  the  Essex  County 
Country  Club.  He  married,  December  14, 
1859,  Harriet  E.  Hood,  and  adopted  Florence, 
a  daughter  of  his  brother,  Horace  H.  Joy,  who 
married  May  8.  1897,  George  Randall  Swain, 
a  graduate  of  Princeton  I'niversity,  and  had 
two  children,  Edmond  Luther  Joy  Swain  and 
(jeorge  Randall  Swain,  junior.  Horatio  B. 
Joy  has  been  director  of  several  corporations, 
and  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical 
Society.     He  never  married,  making  his  home 


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witli  his  sister,  Florence  P.,  who  married, 
April  30.  1873,  William  Henderson  Trippe,  a 
vestryman  in  Trinity  Church,  Newark,  and  a 
member  of  the  Essex  County  Country  Club. 
They  had  two  children,  William  Horatio 
Trippe  and  Elsie  Eaura  Trippe.  The  latter 
married.  C)ctober  17,  1906,  Harold  Armour 
Dodge.  Another  of  this  family,  Eaura  Em- 
magene,  married,  June  2,  1863,  Rev.  John  R. 
I'isher.  who  filled  successfully  pastorates  of 
Presbyterian  churches  in  Jersey  City,  South 
Orange,  and  Newark.  They  had  four  chil- 
dren :  ^^'illiam  Joy  Fisher ;  Florence  Joy 
Fisher:  Maude  Elizabeth  Fisher,  who  married 
November  10,  1897,  William  D.  Downs,  and  has 
a  son,  William  Horatio  Joy  Downs ;  and  John 
Edmund  Fisher,  who  married,  February  19, 
1908.  Gertrude  Everitt,  and  has  a  daughter, 
Eois  Eunice  Fisher.  I\Irs.  Fisher  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Dames,  the 
Daughters  of  the  Revolution,  the  Meridian 
Club  of  New  York,  and  several  prominent 
charitable  organizations.  Euther  Joy  married, 
October  5.  1826,  I'hylinda,  daughter  of  Shu- 
ball  and  Phylinda  (Turner)  Mason.  They 
were  members  of  the  High  Street  Presby- 
terian Church. 

(VH)  Charles  Joy,  son  of  Nathaniel,  jun- 
ior, was  born  February  9,  1808,  and  died  Au- 
gust 3,  1873.  ^I^  entered  the  provision  busi- 
ness at  .Albany.  New  York,  about  1830,  which 
he  successfully  conducted,  and  in  1838  he 
served  as  city  marshal.  He  was  also  a  lieuten- 
ant of  the  .\lbany  P.urgesscs  Corps.  After  a 
trip  to  California  he  established  himself  in 
1855  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  as  a  packer  and 
smoker  of  provisions,  and  continued  in  this 
business  until  his  death.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  common  coimcil,  1866-67,  and  was  one  of 
the  committee  which  in  co-operation  with  the 
Xcw  Jersey  Historical  .Society  had  charge  of 
the  cek'l)ration  of  the  two  hundredth  anniver- 
sary of  the  settlement  of  Newark.  Having 
joined  the  denomination  in  Albany  where  with 
others  he  helped  organize  a  new  church,  he 
served  as  a  deacon  of  the  First  P>aptist  Church 
in  Newark,  where  a  window  has  been  erected 
to  his  memory,  and  he  was  a  life  manager  of 
the  .American  Baptist  Publication  .Society. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  New  York  Com- 
mercial .Association  and  the  New  York  Pro- 
duce Exchange,  and  in  1871  was  an  incorpo- 
rator of  the  Merchants  and  Manufacturers 
I'ank  of  Newark.  "In  all  his  business  rela- 
ti<ins  he  was  a  man  without  guile,  and  sur- 
rounded himself  with  a  host  of  earnest  friends. 
wIk)  valued  his  counsel  as  a  sagacious  business 


man  and  placed  implicit  confidence  in  his 
honor."  He  married  twice,  and  by  the  second 
marriage  had  a  son,  also  named  Charles,  who 
was  born  in  Newark,  and  was  a  teller  in  the 
Manufacturers'  National  Bank;  sergeant  and 
an  original  member  of  the  Essex  Troop  ;  presi- 
dent of  the  Newark  Academy  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation, and  a  member  of  the  Essex  Club. 
Charles  Joy,  senior,  married  (first),  June  18, 
1833,  llarriet,  daughter  of  Guy  and  Harriet 
(Rogers)  Shaw,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons, 
one  of  whom  was  Edmund  L.  Joy.  He  mar- 
ried (second),  September  6,  1859.  Julia, 
daughter  of  Robert  and  Edith  Swaffield. 

(\TH)  Edmund  Eewis  Joy,  son  of  Charles 
Joy,  was  born  October  i,  1835,  and  died  Feb- 
ruary 14.  1892.  He  was  prei)ared  for  college 
at  Anthony's  Classical  Institute,  and  the  Al- 
bany Academy.  .After  graduation  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Rochester  he  studied  law  in  New 
York  City,  and  in  1857  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  of  New  A'ork  as  an  attorney  and  coun- 
sellor. Soon  thereafter  he  commenced  active 
practice  in  Ottumwa.  Iowa,  where  in  i860  he 
was  appointed  city  attorney,  holding  that  office 
for  two  years.  .At  the  breaking  out  of  the 
civil  war  he  became  active  in  raising  troops, 
and  in  1862  entered  the  United  States  service 
as  captain  in  the  Thirty-sixth  Regiment  of 
Iowa  Infantry,  and  in  this  capacity  served  in  ' 
the  southwest,  participating  in  important 
movements  on  both  sides  of  the  Mississippi 
river,  which  culminated  in  the  capture  of 
X'icksburg.  In  1864  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Eincoln,  major  and  judge  advocate. 
United  States  X'olunteers,  and  assigned  to  the 
.Seventh  .Army  Corps,  commanded  by  Alajor 
General  Frederick  Steele.  He  was  also  made 
judge  advocate  of  the  Department  of  the  Ar- 
kansas, with  heaiUiuarters  at  Eittle  Rock,  in 
which  position  he  had  much  to  do  with  the 
administration  of  justice  in  .Arkan.sas  and  the 
Indian  Territory,  and  took  part  in  the  re- 
establishment  of  the  government  of  .Arkansas 
imder  a  new  constitution. 

.\fter  retiring  from  the  service  he  located 
in  .Xewark.  New  Jersey,  where  his  father, 
Charles  Joy,  had  settled  in  1855,  became  as- 
sociated with  him  as  partner  in  the  manage- 
nieul  of  extensive  business  interests,  ami  upon 
the  latter's  death  in  1 873  succeeded  him.  being 
a  member  of  the  New  York  Produce  Ex- 
change, and  conducting  the  business  on  his 
own  account  during  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
Since  his  death  the  business  has  been  con- 
tinued at  the  old  established  j)lace  as  the  Ed- 
miuid  L.  Joy  Company. 


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It  was  only  natural  on  account  of  his  intel- 
lectual gifts,  his  superior  attainments  and  va- 
ried experiences,  that  he  should  have  been 
called  upon  to  make  himself  useful  by  his 
fellow  citizens  in  New  Jersey ;  and  so  it  hap- 
pened that  in  1871  he  was  chosen  to  be  a  mem- 
ber of  the  state  legislature.  Re-elected  the 
following  year,  he  filled  the  important  position 
of  chairman  of  the  judiciary  committee,  where 
his  legal  knowledge  and  effectiveness  as 
a  speaker  enabled  him  to  render  valuable  serv- 
ice to  the  state.  In  1877  he  became  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Education,  holding  this  posi- 
tion until  1888  and  serving  for  three  years  as 
president  of  the  board.  He  was  president  of 
the  iJoard  of  Trade  in  1875  ^"^  1876,  and  its 
treasurer  from  1879  to  the  time  of  his  death. 
In  1880  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Republican 
National  Convention,  and  in  1884  and  1885  he 
served,  by  appointment  of  President  Arthur, 
as  a  government  director  of  the  Union  Pacific 
Railroad  Company.  He  was  an  organizer  of 
the  Manufacturers'  National  Bank,  and  his 
large  business  operations  made  him  prominent 
in  matters  affecting  the  financial  interests  of 
the  community,  placing  him  often  in  positions 
of  much  responsibility. 

Edmund  L.  Joy  was  a  man  of  marked  en- 
ergy and  intellectual  capacity,  quick  apprehen- 
sion, and  correct  judgment.  He  was  happy  in 
the  faculty  of  expressing  his  thoughts  in  lan- 
guage at  once  strong  and  elegant,  was  noted 
for  ills  excellent  impromptu  addresses,  and  in 
the  exercise  of  his  abilities  as  a  public  speaker 
won  enviable  distinction.  He  was  a  genial 
and  entertaining  companion,  a  warm  and  reli- 
able friend,  and  withal  a  Christian  gentleman, 
conscientious  in  the  discharge  of  every  duty, 
mindful  of  the  rights  of  his  fellow  men,  and 
faithful  in  the  service  of  his  Maker. 

He  married,  November  24,  1862,  Theresa 
R.,  daughter  of  Homer  L.  Thrall,  M.  D.,  of 
Columbus,  Ohio,  who  was  for  a  number  of 
years  a  professor  of  chemistry  and  mineralogy 
in  Kenyon  College,  a  lecturer  at  Bexley  Hall, 
the  Theological  Seminary  at  Gambier,  and 
later  a  professor  of  materia  medica  and  general 
therapeutics  in  Starling  Medical  College. 
They  had  four  children :  Edmund  Steele  Joy, 
a  lawyer,  a  graduate  of  Williams  College  and 
Columbia  University ;  Harriet  Shaw  Joy,  who 
married,  January  25,  1891,  Robert  D.  Martin, 
a  lawyer,  a  graduate  of  Yale  College  and  Co- 
lumbia University,  and  has  two  children,  Joy 
Delos  Martin  and  Helen  Theresa  Martin ; 
Homer  Thrall  Joy,  a  physician,  a  graduate  of 
Yale  College  and  Columbia   University,  who 


married,  November  9,  1905,  Elizabeth  J.  van 
Beuren,  and  has  a  son.  Homer  van  Beuren 
Joy ;  and  Helen  Adele  Joy. 

A  full  account  of  the  Joy  family  is  con- 
tained in  "Thomas  Joy  and  his  Descendants," 
a  genealogical  record  compiled  in  1900,  by 
James  R.  Joy,  of  New  York  City. 


The  Badgleys  belong  to  that 
BADGLEY  numerous  class  of  pioneers 
who  began  their  life  in  the 
new  world  in  the  seventeenth  century.  The 
exact  date  of  the  arrival  of  the  founder  is  un- 
known, as  is  also  the  place  in  old  England 
from  which  he  came,  but  from  his  petition  in 
1694  down  the  records  of  the  family  are  com- 
paratively complete. 

(T)  Anthony  Badgeley,  founder  of  the  fam- 
ily, under  date  of  March  3,  1694,  petitioned 
for  a  warrant  of  survey  for  his  lot  in  Flush- 
ing called  the  "Hemp  lot,"  in  order  to  put  a 
stop  to  the  encroachments  of  Thomas  Hedger 
and  others.  This  petition  was  granted  Au- 
gust 19,  1697.  In  the  Flushing  census  of 
i6g8,  the  fifth  entry  is  "Anthony  Badgley, 
Elizabeth  his  wife,  Anthony,  Georg,  phebe, 
and  I  negro."  In  1707  he  was  one  of  a  large 
company  who  purchased  from  Peter  Sonmans, 
one  of  the  largest  of  the  proprietors  of  East 
Jersey,  a  tract  of  land  called  "New  Britain," 
or  "Markseta  Colinnge,"  of  one  hundred  and 
seventy  thousand  miles  lying  about  thirty-three 
miles  to  the  northwest  of  Elizabethtown. 
Owing  to  the  legal  difiiculties  about  the  divid- 
ing of  old  Arent  Sonman's  estate  this  property 
was  laid  out  and  divided  among  its  owners  as 
late  as  1751.  In  the  Flushing  tax-list  of  171 1, 
Badgley  was  rated  for  twenty-three  pounds 
of  bacon,  six  bushels  of  wheat  and  one  bushel 
of  Indian  corn.  In  171 5  he  was  a  sergeant  in 
Captain  Jonathan  Wright's  company  of  militia, 
and  as  no  mention  of  his  name  has  been  found 
since  then  it  is  probable  that  he  died  within 
a  few  years  later. 

By  his  wife  Elizabeth,  Anthony  Badgley  had 
seven  children:  i.  Anthony,  born  between 
1690  and  1695;  married  Phebe  Haight;  died 
April  3,  1732,  in  Flushing.  2.  George,  born 
between  1693  and  1696;  married  Mary  Hat- 
field ;  died  about  September,  1759.  3.  Phebe, 
born  between  1696  and  1698 ;  married  at  Ja- 
maica, Long  Island,  Peter  Wilcocks,  and 
moved  with  her  husband  to  New  Jersey.  4. 
Sarah,  born  between  1698  and  1700;  married, 
about  1721,  Joseph  Doty,  of  Essex  county. 
New  Jersey,  and  left  six  children.  5.  James, 
referred  to  below.     6.  John,  born  after  1700; 


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married    luiphcniia ;  died  in   1759.     7. 

Elizabeth,  born  after  1700;  married  L'riah 
i  ledges,  of  Essex  county,  New  Jersey. 

(II)  James,  fifth  chikl  and  third  son  of  An- 
thony and  Elizabeth  liadgley,  was  born  in 
Ehishing,  Long  Island,  between  1700  and  1705, 
died  in  Essex  county.  Xew  Jersey,  1777.  Mov- 
ing as  a  young  man  from  Long  Island  to 
I'^lizabcthtown,  Xew  Jersey,  he  married  in  the 
latter  place,  and  ac(|uired  considerable  land  in 
Turkey,  now  New  Providence,  his  home  plan- 
tation being  on  the  road  from  Rahway  to 
We.stfield.  In  his  will,  dated  July  7,  1777, 
and  proved  November  16,  1777,  he  describes 
himself  as  ''of  the  borough  of  Elizabeth,  yeo- 
man," and  names  his  wife  and  five  children. 
Two  of  his  sons  having  already  received  their 
portions,  he  divided  his  real  estate  between  his 
sons  Anthony  and  Robert,  whom  he  appointed 
his  executors.  He  is  buried  either  at  New  Prov- 
idence or  W'estfield.  James  Badgley  married 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Joseph  Kelsey,  of  Rah- 
way;  children:    I.    James,   born   about    1720; 

married   Sarah   .     2.   A   daughter   who 

married  .\braham  \'reeland.  3.  Elizabeth, 
married  William  Robinson.  4.  Joseph,  born 
probably  about  1730.  married  Elizabeth 
.Scudder;  died  1785.  5.  Anthony,  referred  to 
below.  6.  Marcy,  married  a  Mr.  Carle.  7. 
Robert,  married  Rachel  Vreeland. 

(III)  .\nthony  (2),  fifth  child  and  third 
.son  of  James  and  Hannah  (Kelsey)  P>adgley, 
was  born  about  1733.  died  June  30,  1803. 
His  wife  is  said  to  have  died  about  twenty 
years  later.  He  lived  on  what  is  now  Moun- 
tain avenue,  in  Westfield  township,  and  dur- 
ing the  religious  revival  of  1786,  of  the  thirty- 
four  joining  the  church  eleven,  including  An- 
thony, his  wife  and  several  of  their  children 
were  P>adgleys.  P>etween  1750  and  1755,  An- 
thony P>a(lgley  married  .Xnne,  daughter  of 
Jonathan  \Voodrutif,  and  the  sister  of  Aaron 
Woodruff,  one  of  the  jurors  at  the  trial  of 
James  Morgan,  the  murderer  of  the  famous 
"fighting  jjarson,"  the  Rev.  James  Caldwell,  of 
Elizabethtown.  Children:  i.  Aaron,  born 
about  1756,  died  January  11,  1761.  2.  Jona- 
than, referred  to  below.  3.  .Anthony,  born 
1762;  married  Abigail  Hedges;  died  October 

4,  1842.  4.  Noah,  l)a])tizcd  February  13, 
1765;  joined  the  W'estfield  church,  1786;  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Cincinnati  in  1788 ; 
is  said  to  have  been  a  surveyor,  to  have  moved 
west,  and  to  have  been  drowned ;  unmarried. 

5.  Samuel,  baptized  April  5.  1767;  married 
Mary  Frazec.  6.  Mary,  baptized  January  2S, 
1770;   married.    February    28.    1792.    \\'iiliam 


Maxwell,  and  removed  with  her  husband  to 
Ohio.  7.  Jane,  baptized  February  2,  1772; 
married,  January  28,  1790,  Barnabas  Hole,  and 
removed  with  her  husband  to  the  vicinity  of 
Hamilton,  Ohio,  where  he  died  in  1820.  8. 
.\nna.  baptized  September  11,  1775;  married, 
June  19,  1796,  ]\Ia.xwell  Frazee. 

(IV)  Jonathan,  second  child  and  son  of 
.\nthony  (2)  and  Anne  (Woodruff)  Badg- 
ley. was  born  in  Essex  county.  New  Jersey, 
near  Westfield,  July  11,  1759.  died  there  May 

2,  1834.  For  twenty-six  months  he  served  as 
a  private  in  the  revolution,  under  thirteen  dif- 
ferent captains,  fighting  in  the  battle  of  Con- 
necticut Farms  and  probably  also  m  others. 
He  lived  in  what  is  now  New  Providence  town- 
ship between  Baltusrol  mountain  and  Summit, 
on  the  farm  now  or  formerly  owned  by  Wes- 
ley Faitoute.  June  9,  1782,  Jonathan  Badg- 
ley married  (first)  Lydia  Scudder;  children: 
I.  Stephen,  referred  to  below.  2.  Abijah,  bap- 
tized .August,  1787;  married  Elizabeth  Wilcox. 

3,  Noah,  died  unmarried  about  December  17, 
1814.  J  John  Scjuier,  married  Hannah 
Sturges.  5.  Mary,  married  David  C.  Hand. 
6.  Nancy,  married  Thomas  Seward  and  died 
(|uite  young.     7.  Sarah,  married  (first)  March 

4,  1823,  Samuel  Ball,  and  (second)  a  Mr. 
iVavers.  Jonathan  Badgley  married  (sec- 
ond) Hannah  Searing,  who  after  his  death 
married  as  her  second  husband,  July  11,  1837, 
Ebenczer  Littell,  who  died  May  2,  1852. 
Children  of  Jonathan  and  Hannah  (Searing) 
I'.adgley  were:  .Aaron;  Nancy;  Jacob,  died 
uinnarried  ;  Jonathan  ;  Noah  ;  Sarah,  died  un- 
married. 

(\')  Stephen,  eldest  child  and  son  of 
Jonathan  and  Lydia  (Scudder)  Badgley,  was 
l)orn  in  what  is  now  New  Providence  town- 
sliij).  New  Jersey,  January  13,  1785,  died  in 
(Ireen  \'illage.  Morris  county.  New  Jersey,  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1872.  In  the  latter  place  he  spent 
most  of  his  life.  He  married,  October  26,  1S06. 
Catharine  Denman,  a  lineal  descendant  of  Sir 
Richard  Townley;  she  was  born  April  i,  1789, 
died  .A])ril  9,  1872.  Children:  i.  Oliver,  born 
about  1807.  died  October  i,  1865;  married 
Jane  Johnston,  born  January  i,  1814,  died 
I'^ebruary  17,  1900.  2.  Harriet,  May  14,  1808: 
married  Phineas  Kinsey,  born  1800,  died  1891  ; 
she  died  December  24.  1891.  3.  .Alfred,  re- 
ferred to  below.  4.  Catharine,  who  became 
late  in  life  the  second  wife  of  George  Cramer 
or  Cranmer.  5.  Sarah  .Ann,  who  was  living 
uniuarried  in  Morristown  in  1902.  6.  Mary 
II.,  [•"ebruary  2,  1824,  died  March  31.  1853: 
she   bec;ime   the   first    wife   of   the    Rev.   John 


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Dean.  7.  Charlotte,  June  30,  1825,  died  Oc- 
tober 3,  1901 ;  she  became  the  second  wife  of 
the  Rev.  John  Dean.  8.  Theodore,  January 
,9,  1834;  married  Mary  Lindsey,  born  Janu- 
ary 9,  1834. 

I  (\'I)  Alfred,  third  child  and  second  son  of 
[Stephen  and  Catharine  (Denman)  Badgley, 
was  born  near  (ireen  \'illage,  Morris  county, 
Xew  Jersey,  died  on  his  farm  in  Somerset 
county,  Xew  Jersey.  May  7.  1843,  he  married 
(first)  Sarah  (Moore)  Coddington,  daughter 
of  Joseph  Moore;  married  (second)  Mary 
King.  The  children  of  .-Vlfred  and  Mary 
(Moore)  (Coddington)  Badgley  were:  i. 
Catharine  Amelia,  died  in  infancy.  2.  .\lfred 
Stephen,  referred  to  below. 

(\  II)  Alfred  Stephen,  only  son  and  child 
surviving  infancy  of  Alfred  and  Sarah 
(Moore)  (Coddington)  Badgley.  was  Ixjrn  on 
his  father's  farm  in  Somerset  county.  New 
Jersey,  March  12,  1849,  and  is  now  living  in 
Montclair,  Xew  Jersey,  with  his  residence  at 
196  Walnut  street,  and  his  office  in  the  Dore- 
mus  building.  After  attending  the  public 
schools  of  Somerset  and  Morris  counties,  he 
went  to  Pennington  Seminary,  graduating 
from  that  institution  in  1869.  Going  to  Ten- 
nessee, he  read  law  and  was  admitted  to  the 
Tennessee  bar  in  1873.  After  practicing  for 
a  few  years  he  entered  the  Xational  Univer- 
sity at  \\'ashington,  and  received  his  Bachelor 
of  Laws  degree  in  1884,  after  which  he  re- 
turned to  Tennessee  where  he  received  an  ap- 
pointment as  one  of  the  special  examiners  of 
the  United  .'states  pension  bureau,  with  his 
headquarters  at  Bakersville,  North  Carolina. 
Two  years  later  he  retired  from  this  position 
and  continued  with  only  his  law  practice  in 
Tennessee  until  1887,  when  he  removed  to 
Xew  Jersey  and  was  admitted  as  an  attorney 
of  the  Xew  Jersey  bar,  and  in  1890  as  coun- 
sellor. He  then  located  in  Montclair  and  con- 
tinued in  practice  there,  serving  for  a  innnber 
of  years  as  town  attorney  and  counsellor.  Mr. 
Badgley  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  past  master 
of  Montclair  Lodge,  No.  144,  Ancient  Free 
and  .\ccepted  Masons,  and  for  a  number  of 
years  a  member  of  the  supreme  committee  of 
laws  anil  appeals  of  the  Improved  Order  of 
Heptaso])hs.  He  is  also  one  of  the  trustees 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  Mont- 
clair. 

In  i860  .Alfred  Stephen  Badgley  married 
Mary  Jane  Elizabeth,  eldest  daughter  of  Elijah 
Simerley,  of  Hampton,  Carter  county,  Tennes- 
see ;  children:  i.  .A.lfred  Elijah.  2.  Theodore 
Johnson,   referred  to  below.     3.   Mary  Cath- 


arine, died  in  April,  1898,  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
two.     4.  Oliver  Kinsey. 

(\'III)  Theodore  Johnson,  second  child  and 
son  of  .\lfred  Stephen  and  Mary  Jane  Eliza- 
beth (Simerley)  Badgley,  was  born  at  Hamp- 
ton Carter  county,  Tennessee,  September  16, 
1 87 1,  and  is  now  living  in  Montclair,  New  Jer- 
sey. For  his  early  education  he  was  sent  to 
the  public  schools  of  Laurel,  Maryland,  of 
P>akersville,  North  Carolina,  and  of  Hampton, 
Tennessee.  He  then  entered  the  LTniversity 
of  Tennessee  at  Knoxville.  For  a  short  time 
after  this  he  was  engaged  in  the  lumber  busi- 
ness ;  he  then  entered  his  father's  office  and 
studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jer- 
sey bar  as  an  attorney  in  1899  and  as  a  coun- 
sellor in  1902.  In  January,  1908,  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  of  the  supreme  court  of  the 
L'nited  States.  In  politics  Mr.  Badgley  is  a 
Republican.  He  is  a  past  master  of  Mont- 
clair lodge.  No.  144,  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons ;  a  member  of  the  Jersey  City  Consistory 
of  the  Scottish  Rite;  of  Salaam  Temple  of 
the  Mystic  Shrine,  at  Xewark,  Xew  Jersey ;  a 
past  regent  of  the  Montclair  Council,  No.  44, 
Royal  Arcanum;  a  member  of  Montclair 
Lodge,  Xo.  891,  Benevolent  Protective  Order 
of  Elks ;  Montclair  Club ;  Second  Ward  Re- 
publican Club  of  Montclair;  a  member  and 
assistant  secretary  of  the  Montclair  Republi- 
can General  Committee;  a  trustee  and  director 
of  the  Montclair  Gun  Club.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  First  Methodist  Episcojial  Church  of 
Montclair. 

On  January  22,  1908,  Theodore  Johnson 
Badgley  married  Emma  Edith,  only  daughter 
and  second  child  of  James  Bisco  and  Melissa 
(Kramer)  Dutton,  of  Holmesburg,  Pennsylva- 
nia. She  was  born  at  Toledo,  Ohio,  Novem- 
ber I,  1870.  Her  elder  brother,  Frederick 
Larsch  Dutton,  married  .'\melia  Schroeder  and 
has  one  child,  Elva ;  her  younger  brother,  John 
F.  Dutton,  married  Lauretta  Smedley  and  has 
three  children  :  Dorothv,  Tohn  and  Chester. 


.\mong  the  various  families 
SCHEXCK     of  early  immigrants  to  New 

Amsterdam,  Xew  Nether- 
lands, who  were  of  pure  Holland  blood,  few 
have  escaped  the  cruel  butchery  to  which  the 
Holland  surnames  were  submitted  when  the 
efforts  of  the  English  "robbers"  took  from 
them  their  rights  as  to  property  and  appar- 
ently tried  to  extinguish  even  their  birthright 
— the  use  of  their  father's  name.  The  geneal- 
ogist has  been  put  to  his  wits  end  to  reconcile 
Bruvn  with  Brown ;  Couvenhoven  with  Cono- 


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STATE    OF    NEW    I  ERSE  V. 


ver  and  iiiininicrable  similar  examples  of  both 
Christian  and  surnames.  In  doing  away  with 
Holland  usages  as  to  naming  children  they 
have  raised  another  difficulty.  The  original 
spelling  of  this  branch  of  the  Schenck  family 
was  Skinker,  which,  translated,  means  "cup 
bearer." 

(I  )  Martin  Schenck  von  Nydeck  was  born 
in  Doesburgh,  province  of  Utrecht,  Holland, 
August  7,  1584.  He  married  Maria  Marga- 
retta  de  Bockhurst  and  they  came  to  the  New 
Netherlands  with  their  three  children,  proba- 
bly in  the  ship  "de  Valckener,"  Willhelm 
Thomassin,  Captain,  which  sailed  from  Hol- 
land in  March  and  arrived  in  New  Amster- 
dam, January  28,  1650,  at  which  time  he  was 
sixty-five  years  of  age  and  appears  to  have 
taken  no  active  part  in  the  affairs  of  the  fam- 
ily after  their  arrival.  Children:  i.  Roelef 
Martinse,  see  forward.  2.  Jan  or  Johannis, 
born  probably  in  Amersfoort,  province  of 
Utrecht,  Holland,  September  19,  1650,  was 
bailiff'  of  Kessel  and  a  man  of  considerable 
prominence.  He  married  Magdalina,  born 
October  7,  1660,  died  April  12,  1688,  daugh- 
ter of  Hendrick  and  Maria  de  Hoes,  and  they 
had  a  son  Jan,  born  in  New  Amsterdam,  Sep- 
tember 19,  1650,  three  months  after  the  ar- 
rival of  the  families  of  Schenck  at  that  place. 
3.  Anctjc,  born  probably  at  Amersfoort,  Hol- 
land, and  married  July  29,  1659,  to  Adrian 
Reyeroz.  There  appears  to  be  no  record  of 
the  death  in  New  Amsterdam  or  elsewhere  in 
the  New  Netherlands  of  Martense  Schenck 
von  Nydeck,  or  of  his  wife,  ATaria  Margaretta 
(de  Bockhurst),  but  Colonel  Van  der  Dussen, 
of  the  Netherlands  Army,  says  that  Martense 
came  to  America  with  his  children. 

(II)  Roelef  Martense,  eldest  son  of  Martin 
Schenck  von  Nydeck  and  Maria  Margaretta 
de  I'.ockhurst,  his  wife,  was  born  in  Amers- 
foort, province  of  Utrecht,  Holland,  in  1619, 
and  died  in  Flatlands,  Long  Island,  in  1704. 
He  married  in  his  native  land  but  we  have  no 
record  of  children  by  this  first  marriage.  He 
came  with  his  father  and  brother  Jan  and 
sister  Anetje  to  New  Amsterdam.  The  fam- 
ily soon  after  received  from  the  Dutch  govern- 
ment a  grant  of  land  in  Flatlands,  on  Nassau 
Island,  called  by  the  English,  Long  Island. 
There  he  married  in  1660,  Neeltje  Geretsen, 
daughter  of  Gerrct  W'olphertse  Van  Couven- 
hoven,  a  son  of  Wolfret  Gerrettsen  Van  Cou- 
vcnhovcn,  probably  a  neighbor  in  .Amersfoort, 
Holland,  who  came  to  New  Netherlands  with 
the  Holland  colr)ny  which  gathered  under  the 
Dutch  East  India  Company  and  was  destined 


for  a  settlement  at  the  head  of  navigation  on 
Hudson's  river,  at  Rensselaerwick,  above  am 
oi)posite  the  Dutch  Fort  which  became  undei 
English  rule,  Albany.  Roelef  Martens* 
Schenck  made  his  will  September  4,  1704,  anc 
it  was  proved  .August  3,  1705  (see  "Ancestrj 
and  Descendants  of  Rev.  William  Schenck"  bj 
Captain  .\.  D.  Schenck,  U.  S.  A.,  1883).  In 
his  will  he  devised  all  his  real  estate  to  hii 
eldest  son,  Alartin,  giving  to  his  two  younger 
sons.  Garret  and  Jan,  and  to  his  six  livin| 
daughters,  Jonica,  Maryke,  Margretta,  Neetje 
Mayke  and  Sara,  and  to  his  two  grandchildren 
children  of  his  deceased  daughter  .\nnetje 
sixty  i)ounds,  ten  shillings  each,  making  thes< 
legacies  chargeable  to  the  income  from  the  rea 
estate  devised  to  his  eldest  son.  Neeltje  Ger- 
etsen \'an  Couvenhoven  was  born  in  Flatlands, 
and  baptized  in  the  Reformed  church  in 
Bruecklyn,  September  20,  1641 ;  she  died  in 
Flatlands  in  1704.  Children  of  Roelef  Mar- 
tense and  Neeltje  Geretsen  (Van  Couvenho- 
ven) Schenck,  all  born  in  Flatlands,  Long 
Island,  New  York:  I.  Martin,  January  23, 
1661,  married  (first),  June  20,  1686,  Sus- 
aiuia  .\brahanse  Brinckerhoff ;  (second),  April 
II,  1693,  Elizabeth  Minnen  van  Voorhees.  2. 
Annetje,  about  1663,  married,  June  10,  1681, 
Albertse  Terhunen.  3.  lonica,  1665,  married, 
June  7,  1684,  Peter  Neefus  or  Nevius.  4. 
Marika,  February  14,  1667,  married,  February 
15,  1687.  Isaac  Hegeman.  5.  Jan,  March  i, 
1670,  married,  October  i,  1692,  Sarah  Will- 
emse  van  Couvenhoven,  born  in  Flatlands. 
Long  Island,  December  27,  1674,  died  in  Pleas- 
ant Valley,  New  Jersey,  January  31,  1761. 
Jan  died  in  Pleasant  Valley,  New  Jersey,  Janu- 
ary 30,  1753.  6.  Garret,  see  forward.  7. 
Margaretta.  January  16, 1678,  married  Septem- 
ber 8,  1700,  Cornelius  Willemse  van  Couwen- 
hoven.  born  in  Flatlands,  Long  Island.  Novem- 
ber 29,  1672,  died  in  Middletown.  New  Jer- 
sey, May  j6,  1736;  his  widow  died  in  Middle- 
town,  New  Jersey,  December  16.  1751.  8. 
Neeltje.  January  3,  1681,  married  about  1701, 
.Mbcrt  \Villemse  van  Couwenhoven,  born  at 
Flatlands,  Long  Island,  December  7,  1676  (  ?), 
died  in  West  Pleasant  \'allcy,  Ng^  Jersey, 
September  13,  1748,  and  his  widow  died  July 
7,  1751.  10.  Mayke,  January  27,  1684,  mar- 
ried, March  5.  1704,  Jan  Lucase  van  Voorhees, 
born  in  Flatlands,  New  Jersey,  and  baptized 
February  19,  1675,  lived  as  late  as  1737,  his 
wife  having  died  in  Flatlands.  Long  Island, 
N(^vembcr  25,  I73fi.  11.  Sarah,  baptized  De- 
cember 18,  1685,  married,  November  12,  1705, 
Jacob  Willamse  van  Couwenhoven,  born  Janu- 


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ary  29.  1679,  died  in  Middletown,  New  Jer- 
sey, December  i.  1744.  Garret  Roelefse  and 
Jan  Roelefse  Schenck,  with  their  families,  in- 
cluding their  brothers-in-law  Cornelius  van 
Cowenhoven  and  Stephen  Coert  van  Voorhees 
and  Peter  Wyckofif,  removed  to  Monmouth 
county,  New  Jersey,  about  1695,  where  they 
purchased  of  John  Bowne,  merchant  of  Mid- 

lletown,  Monmouth  county.  New-  Jersey,  five 
hundred  acres  of  land  back  of  the  Navesink 
Hills,  located  in  a  valley  which  gave  the  place 
the  name  of  Pleasant  \''alley.  near  Holmdel  in 
the  bounds  of  Middletown  township.  There 
they  became  prominent  citizens,  and  the  Van 
Cowenhovens  became  known  in  the  evolution 
of  Dutch  names  as  Conover,  but  the  name 
Schenck  was  never  changed.  The  families 
intermarried  and  the  records  of  the  time  and 
churches  are  much  confused  by  reason  of  this 
commingling  of  names. 

(Ill)  Garret  Roelefse,  third  son  and  si.xth 
child  of  Roelef  Martcnse  and  Neeltje  Geretsen 
(van  Couvenhoven)  Schenck,  was  born  in  Flat- 
lands,  Long  Island,  New  York,  October  27, 1671. 
and  before  removing  to  Monmouth  county. 
New  Jersey,  he  married  Neeltje  Coerten  \'an 
Voorhees  of  Flatlands.  The  five  hundred  acres 
purchased  in  Pleasant  Valley  of  John  Bow-ne 
by  Garret  and  Jan  Schenck  and  Cornelius  \^an 
Cowenhoven  (Conover),  was  divided  and  Gar- 
ret received  a  farm  of  two  hundred  acres,  the 
other  three  hundred  acres  being  shared  equally 
by  John  Schenck  and  Cornelius  Cowenhoven. 
Children  of  Garret  Roelefse  and  Neeltje 
Coerten  (van  Voorhees)  Schenck  born,  with 
the  exception  of  the  first  child,  in  Pleasant 
Valley,  New  Jersey:  i.  Antje,  in  Flatlands, 
Long  Island,  November  15,  1694,  married 
Matthias  Lane,  had  six  sons  and  one  daughter, 
and  died  before  her  father  made  his  will.  2. 
Roelef,  April  27,  1697,  married  about  1718, 
Eugentje  van  Doren,  born  1697,  died  August 
22,  1768.  He  was  the  great-grandfather  of 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Noah  Hunt  Schenck,  of  Brook- 
lyn. New  York.  They  had  Garret,  William 
and  Roelef,  who  settled  in  Amwell,  Hunter- 
don county.  New  Jersey,  and  John  and  Jacob, 
who  settled  at  Pennsneck,  and  several  daugh- 
ters. 3.  Mary,  November  i,  1699,  married  in 
Marlboro.  New  Jersey,  1721,  Hendrick  Smock; 
they  had  six  sons  and  two  daughters  and  she 
died  in  1747.  4.  Koert.  1702,  married  in  Free- 
hold, New  Jersey,  Mary  Peterse  van  Couwen- 
hoven,  born  1700,  died  in  Marlboro,  May  17, 
1787:  Koert  died  near  Marlboro,  January  2, 
1771.  5.  Altje,  baptized  May  i,  1705,  married 
Tennis  van  Dervier  and  had  six  sons  and  three 

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daughters.  6.  Neltje,  1708,  married  (first)  in 
1725,  Hendrick  Hendrickson,  (second)  Elias 
Golden,  born  in  1700;  died  in  1753;  they  had 
four  sons  and  five  daughters.  7.  Rachel,  bap- 
tized April  2,  1710,  married  (first)  Guysbert 
Longstreet,bornin  1707. died  in  1758;  (second) 
October  23,  1760,  Jacob  Van  Dorn ;  (third) 
December  3,  1729,  Teunis  Denise.  He  had 
two  sons  and  four  daughters.  8.  Garret,  No- 
vember 2,  1712,  married  Janetje  Williamse  van 
Couvenhoven,  born  in  Flatlands,  Long  Island, 
October  6,  1714,  died  in  Holmdale,  New  Jer- 
sey, February  14,  1792.  Garret  died  August 
20,  1757.  He  had  four  sons,  six  daughters. 
9.  Margaret,  baptized  April  17,  1715,  married 
(first)  about  1735,  William  van  (Couwenhoven. 
of  Pennsneck,  New  Jersey,  (second)  Derick 
Longstreet,  of  Princeton.  He  had  three  sons 
and  three  daughters.  10.  Jan,  see  forward.  11. 
.Albert,  April  19,  1721,  died  May  21,  1786; 
married  (first)  Catie  Conover,  (second)  Agnes 
\'an  Brunt.  He  had  eight  sons  and  five  daugh- 
ters. 

(IV)  Jan,  fourth  son  and  tenth  child  of 
Garret  Roelefse  and  Neeltje  Coerten  (van 
\'oorhees)  Schenck,  was  born  in  Monmouth 
county.  New  Jersey,  December  7,  17 17,  and 
died  in  Monmouth  county,  February  13,  1775. 
He  married  (first)  November  22,  1737,  Ann 
Conover,  who  was  born  March  23.  1720,  and 
died  August  18,  1739;  (second)  February  5, 
1741,  Mary  Johnson,  who  was  born  August 
25,  1721,  and  died  November  7,  1767;  (third) 
Catuna  Holmes.  By  these  three  marriages  he 
became  the  father  of  three  sons  and  six  daugh- 
ters. 

(V)  Joseph,  son  of  Jan  and  Mary  (Johnson) 
Schenck,  was  born  in  Middletown,  New  Jersey, 
in  1759.  Pie  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
John  Conover,  and  their  eldest  son,  John  Con- 
over Schenck,  born  about  1785,  married  Annie, 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Annie  (Brooks)  Hutch- 
inson, and  their  son,  William  Edward  Schenck, 
was  born  in  Princeton,  New  Jersey,  in  1819, 
and  died  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  in 
1903.  having  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life 
in  the  latter  cit}'.  He  was  graduated  from  the 
College  of  New  Jersey,  A.  B.,  1838;  A.  M., 
1841  ;  B.  D.,  Princeton  Theological  Seminary, 
1841  ;  D.  D.,  Jefferson  College.  1861  ;  was  a 
clergyman,  and  oiificer  of  Presbyterian  boards, 
1852-1903;  author  of  various  historical  and 
religious  w^orks.     Courtland,  see  forward. 

(VI)  Courtland.  son  of  Joseph  and  Mar- 
garet (Conover)  Schenck,  was  born  in  New 
Jersey,  about  1787.  He  married  Caroline  Con- 
over and  one  of  their  children  was  Joseph  H. 


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[\U)  Joseph  H.,  son  of  Courtland  and 
Caroline  (Conover)  Schenck,  was  born  in 
Evesham  township,  near  Moorestown,  Burling- 
ton county.  New  Jersey.  May  6,  1811.  His 
princii)al  life  work  is  told  in  the  following 
from  an  article  by  Dr.  Clement  B.  Lowe,  in  the 
Pharmaceutical  Era: 

"Established  1836.  Dr.  J.  H.  Schenck  &  Son. 
Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  proprietors  of 
.Schenck's  Mandrake  Pills,  Schenck's  Pul- 
monic Syrup,  Schenck's  Tonic. 

"Remarkable,  indeed,  has  been  the  growth 
of  the  firm  of  Dr.  J.  H.  Schenck  &  Son,  which 
might  be  said  to  have  grown  from  a  home- 
made remedy  to  its  present  large  proportions. 
The  founder  of  .the  house,  the  father  of  the 
present  proprietor,  was  born  in  New  Jersey. 
Before  he  reached  his  majority  he  was  stricken 
with  pulmonary  trouble. 

"A  change  of  climate  apparently  gave  no  re- 
lief and  the  young  man  was  given  up  by  his 
physicians  as  incurable. 

"Upon  the  suggestion  of  an  old  friend  of  the 
family,  he  tried  an  old-fashioned  remedy,  which 
he  experimented  with  and  improved  on. 

"It  was  the  turning  point  of  his  health  and 
fortune.  He  grew  better,  and  in  less  than  a 
year  was  apparently  as  well  as  ever. 

"The  medicine  which  he  had  made  for  him- 
self was,  as  the  news  of  his  cure  spread,  ap- 
plied for  by  friends  and  neighbors. 

"The  demand  spread  beyond  the  possibilities 
of  charity  and  friendship  and  Dr.  Schenck  (he 
had  since  studied  medicine)  commenced  the 
manufacture  of  Schenck's  Pulmonic  Syrup. 

"( )rders  came  thick  and  fast  from  all  parts 
of  the  country,  and  as  the  transportation  facili- 
ties were  limited  in  his  home  section  he  moved 
to  Philadelphia. 

"From  a  few  simple  appliances  and  one  room 
in  his  home,  his  plant  grew  amazingly.  Larger 
quarters  were  needed,  and  after  several  such 
moves  (always  to  larger  quarters)  he  built  the 
building  at  N.  E.  Cor.  6th  &  .Arch  Sts..  where 
the  business  is  now  carried  on.  The  manu- 
facture of  Schenck's  Tonic  and  ALindrake  Pills 
was  taken  up  subsequently  and  to-day  consti- 
tutes the  business  of  the  house. 

"The  founder  died  forty  years  after  his  phy- 
sician had  given  him  up,  but  the  results  of  his 
experiments  of  nearly  threc-(|uarters  of  a  cen- 
turv  ago,  judging  from  the  immense  business 
of  the  house,  still  seem  entirely  competent  to 
supply  the  needs  of  the  present  day." 

Joseph  H.. Schenck  married. about  1837. Cath- 
erine, daughter  of  Peter  and  Sarah  {\'vi.n  Nest) 
1  laward.of  Flemington.  New  Jersey.  Her  father 


came  to  Flemington  from  England,  and  married 
Sarah  \'an  Nest,  of  Millstone.  New  Jersey.  The 
children  of  Joseph  H.  and  Catherine  ( Haward) 
Schenck  were  born  in  Philadelphia.  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  are  as  follows:  i.  Sarah  Jane,  1838, 
married  Colonel  Charles  C.  Knight,  of  Phila- 
delphia and  had  three  children :  Joseph  S., 
Harriet  West  and  Frank  C.  2.  Maria  \'.,  mar- 
ried William  AL  Rowland,  and  had  one  child, 
Catherine  S.  3.  Peter  H..  who  died  January, 
1871.  4.  Joseph  Hammitt.  see  forward.  Jo- 
sei)h  H.  Schenck  was  a  resident  of  Philadel- 
phia, where  he  died.  February  11,  1874. 

(\']H)  Joseph  Hammitt.  only  living  son 
and  fourth  child  of  Joseph  H.  and  Catherine 
(Haward)  Schenck,  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  December  25,  1847.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  and  was  graduated  at  Jeffer- 
son Medical  College,  as  Doctor  of  Medicine,  in 
1869.  He  affiliated  with  the  Alasonic  fraternity, 
being  initiated  into  the  order  in  Franklin  Lodge, 
Xo.  134,  of  Philadelphia,  was  advanced  to  Signet 
Chapter,  No.  51,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  and  is  a 
member  of  Lulu  Temple,  Ancient  Arabic  Order 
.Nobles  Mystic  Shrine.  His  church  affiliation  by 
inheritance  and  choice  was  the  Presbyterian 
faith,  and  he  is  one  of  the  original  members 
of  the  Presbyterian  Social  L^nion.  His  social 
club  life  was  centered  in  the  L'nion  League 
Club  of  Philadelphia.  He  succeeded  to  the 
business  his  father  established.  Dr.  Schenck 
was  married,  December  22,  1870,  to  Matilda 
G.,  daughter  of  William  H.  Kisterbock,  of 
Philadelphia,  and  they  had  only  one  son.  Joseph 
1 1  award. 

(IN)  Joseph  Haward.  only  living  son 
of  Joseph  H.  and  Matilda  G.  (Kisterbock) 
Schenck.  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania. June  4,  1872.  He  was  prepared  for 
business  life  in  private  schools  in  Philadelphia 
and  at  the  Pierce  Business  College.  .After 
being  graduated  he  entered  the  establishment 
of  Dr.  Josejih  H.  .Schenck  &  Son.  and  has  been 
employed  by  this  well  known  firm  to  the 
present  time  (1909)  as  general  manager.  He  is  a 
member  of  Franklin  Lodge,  No.  134.  Ancient 
I'ree  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Philadelphia ; 
Signet  Chapter,  No.  51,  Royal  Arch  Masons; 
St.  John's  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  of 
Philadelphia,  and  Lulu  Temple,  .\ncient  Arabic 
Order  Nobles  Mystic  .Shrine.  His  club  affilia- 
tions are  with  the  L^nion  League,  of  Philaciel- 
|)hia.  and  Rose  Tree  Hunt.  He  was  married,  in 
1898.  and  his  children  all  born  in  Philadelphia: 
Joseph,  January  21.  1898:  Courtlandt  Kister- 
bock. November  2J.  1900;  Robert  E..  February 
27.  1902;  Mary,  March  10,  1904. 


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The  Barrett  family,  while  not 
BARRETT  of  so  many  generations  in  New 
Jersey  as  some  other  families, 
IS  raised  itself  to  a  foremost  place  among  the 
presentative  families  of  the  Newark  of  to- 
ly  and  it  also  has  a  long  and  honored  history 
New  York  state,  where  for  many  generations 
has  made  its  home. 

(I )  About  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  cen- 
ry  Abram  Barrett  made  his  home  in  West- 
lester  county.  New  York.  He  married  Betsy 
etclium,  and  he  and  his  wife  are  both  buried 

the  r)Uckson  cemetery  in  that  county.  Chil- 
■en :  1.  Absalom.  2.  Lewis,  referred  to 
:low.     3.  Stephen.    4.  Warren.    5.  Abraham. 

John,  died  1850;  married  (tirst)  Lavina 
avis  ;  (  second  )  Rachel  Reynolds.    7.  Phoebe. 

Hettie.     9.  Sarah.     10.  De  Losse. 

(II)  Lewis,  son  of  Abram  and  Betsy 
Ketchum )  Barrett,  was  born  in  Bedford, 
'^estchester  county,  New  Y'ork,  1790,  died  at 
Drnwall.  Xew  York,  1870.  He  was  a  farmer. 
e  married  Abigail,  daughter  of  James  and 
!ary  ( Halsey )  (Hedden)  Marsh,  born  1799, 
ed  1849  (see  Marsh,  \'I).  Children:  Mar- 
iret,  James  Marsh,  referred  to  below  ;  Charles 
riggs,  Britton  Alarsh,  William  Halsey. 

(III)  James  Marsh,  son  of  Lewis  and  Abi- 
lil  (Marsh)  Barrett,  was  born  in  Cornwall, 
range  county.  New  York,  June  3,  1820,  died 

Bloomfield.  New  Jersey,  March  21,  1887. 
ntil  after  the  civil  war  he  was  a  merchant  in 
Drnwall,  New  York,  and  after  that  he  con- 
icted  a  wholesale  crockery  business  in  New 
ork  City.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter  of 
ugh  and  Sarah  (Armstrong)  Fitz  Randolph, 
)rn  in  Bloomfield,  February  3,  1825,  died  in 
ew  Rochelle.  New  York,  April  10,  1904. 
Iiildren :  i.  Louis  R.,  born  September  26, 
550.  died  August  12,  1900.  2.  Halsey  Marsh, 
■ferred  to  below.  3.  Hugh  Fitz  Randolph, 
ily  14,  1852,  died  October  31.  1856.  4.  .Anna 
.,  October  12.  1854:  marrietl  Walter  M. 
lliott.  3.  Sarah  Fitz  Randolph,  August  16, 
556 :  married  Charles  R.  Bourne.  6.  Alice 
ownsend,  October  13,  1859,  died  December, 
^73-  7-  James  Marsh,  October  i,  1862;  mar- 
ed  Ciertrude  Coit :  two  children.  8.  Francis 
icoll,  October  3,  1864,  died  October  10,  1906. 

(I\')  Halsey  Marsh,  son  of  James  Marsh 
id  Sarah  ( Fitz  Randolph )  Barrett,  was  born 
1  Cornwall,  Orange  county.  Xew  York.  July 
(..  1852,  and  is  now  living  in  Bloomfield,  New 
jrsey.  .After  receiving  his  early  education  in 
le  district  schools  of  Orange  county.  New 
ork,  he  came  to  Bloomfield  in  1865,  with  his 
irents.  and  entered  the  Bloomfield  Academy, 


and  then  after  taking  the  course  in  the  New- 
ark Academy,  he  entered  Phillips  Academy. 
.Andover,  Massachusetts,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated in  1870.  He  then  matriculated  at  Yale 
University,  but  owing  to  ill  health  abandoned 
the  idea  of  a  college  course  and  found  a  posi- 
tion as  assistant  in  the  actuary's  department  of 
the  ]\Iutual  Benefit  Life  Insurance  Company. 
This  position  he  retained  until  January  i. 
1877,  when  he  entered  the  law  office  of  the 
Hon.  Amzi  Dodd,  at  that  time  vice-chancellor 
of  New  Jersey,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New- 
Jersey  bar  as  attorney,  June  5,  1878,  and  as 
counsellor  in  June,  1881.  He  then  began  the 
general  i)ractice  of  his  profession  in  Newark, 
where  he  soon  secured  a  large  and  influential 
clientele,  and  has  been  most  successful.  For 
five  years  or  more  he  was  the  attorney  of  the 
North  Jersey  Street  Railway  Company,  and 
from  1878  to  1887  was  counsel  for  the  town- 
ship of  Bloomfield.  He  has  also  been  a  director 
in  the  Bloomfield  National  Bank,  in  the  Esse.x 
and  Hudson  Gas  Company,  and  is  counsel  for 
the  liloomfield  Savings  Institution.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Essex  Club  of  Newark  and  of 
the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society.  By  relig- 
ious conviction  he  is  a  Presbyterian. 

November  27,  1878,  Mr.  Barrett  married 
Mary  L..  daughter  of  the  Rev.  David  B.  and 
Rebecca  (  Phoeni.x)  Coe,  whose  father  was  for 
many  years  secretary  of  the  American  Home 
Missionary  Society  in  New  York  City,  and 
whose  only  brother  is  the  Rev.  Edward  B. 
Coe,  D.  D.  senior  pastor  of  the  Collegiate 
Church  of  New  York  City.  Children  of  Hal- 
sey Marsh  and  Mary  L.  (Coe)  Barrett:  i. 
Mary  Franklin,  born  August  25,  1879.  2. 
Randoljih  Coe,  February  19,  1881.  3.  Eliza- 
beth Ta[)])an.  September  6,  1884.  4.  Dorothy 
Marsh,  September  8,  1889. 

(The   Mar.sh    Line). 

Samuel  Marsh,  founder  of  the  family  of 
this  name,  is  claimed  by  some  of  his  descend- 
ants to  have  appeared  in  Boston  about  1641, 
and  by  others  to  have  been  born  in  county 
Essex,  England,  about  1626,  and  to  have  emi- 
grated direct  to  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  in 
the  summer  of  1645 ;  while  a  sister  of  his 
named  lianlian,  who  came  to  .America  a  few 
years  after  the  last  mentioned  date,  married 
Lancelot  Fuller,  of  New  Haven.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  New  Haven  militia  and  .April 
7,  1646,  the  court  minutes  record  that  "Sam- 
uel Marsh  being  seeking  cowes  during  his  ab- 
sence from  traynings,  it  was  accepted  of  the 
court  as  a  sufficient  excuse."     A  repetition  of 


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the  offence  was  overlooked,  but  a  third  one 
caused  him  to  be  fined  two  shiUings  six  pence. 
He  took  the  oath  of  fidehty  to  the  Colony 
May  2,  1648,  and  lived  at  New  Haven  until 
1665,  when  he  became  one  of  the  eighty  Eliza- 
bethtown  associates.  In  167 1  he  took  a  promi- 
nent part  in  the  controversy  with  Governor 
Carteret,  and  was  indicted  as  the  ring-leader 
in  the  pulling  down  of  Richard  Mitchell'-- 
fence.  He  was  apparently  a  man  of  consider- 
able property.  His  will  is  dated  June  10,  1683, 
and  the  inventory  of  his  personal  estate  was 
made  February  6,  1684.  By  his  wife  Comfort 
he  had  seven  children:  i.  Mary,  born  1648, 
probably  died  unmarried.  2.  Samuel,  Febru- 
ary 12,  1650,  died  1684  or  1685  ;  married  Mary 
Trimmins.  3.  Comfort,  August  22,  1652;  mar- 
ried Joseph  Meeker.  4.  Hannah,  July  22,  1655, 
died  probably  unmarried.  5.  Elizabeth,  De- 
cember 27,  1657.     6.  John,  referred  to  below. 

7.  Joseph,  April  i,  1663,  died  1723;  married 
Sarah  Hinds. 

(H)  John,  son  of  Samuel  and  Comfort 
Marsh,  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut. 
May  2,  1661,  and  an  old  Marsh  record  states 
that  he  died  at  Trembley's  Point,  November, 
1744.  Being  brought  to  Elizabeth  by  his  father, 
he  settled  in  1681  at  what  is  now  Rahway, 
and  at  a  town  meeting  there  June  28,  1681, 
he  asked  for  and  received  the  consent  of  the 
town  to  "get  the  timber  to  saw  at  his  mill."  In 
1683  he  was  granted  eight  hundred  acres  of 
land  on  the  Rahway  river  and  the  same  year 
obtained  permission  from  Smith  Rouse  and 
loscph  I'Yazee  to  build  a  darn  and  erect  a  mill. 
Tliis  mill  is  believed  to  have  been  one  of  the 
first  saw  mills  in  that  section  of  New  Jersey, 
and  it  was  located  on  the  Rahway  river  just 
west  of  the  present  Pennsylvania  railroad 
bridge.  It  is  claimed  that  some  of  the  logs 
from  the  original  mil!  were  used  in  the  con- 
struction of  the  saw  tnill  now  standing  on  the 
same  site.  In  1684  he  built  a  grist  mill  along- 
side of  his  saw  mill,  and  then  ajiparently  re- 
moved to  New  York  City  where  he  was  living 
in  1692.  He  married  Elizabeth  Clark  or  Clerk. 
Children:  i.  Benjamin,  referred  to  below.  2. 
John,  died  before  1740.  3.  Joseph,  married, 
and  died  1746.  4.  Joshua,  born  about  1691, 
married,  died  .September  21,  1744.  5.  F^liza- 
hcth.  married  Job  Pack,  of  Rahway.  and  both 
she  and  her  husband  died  on  the  same  day, 
.'\pril  13,  1750.  6.  Jonathan,  died  July  27, 
177Q.      7.    Hannah,    married    William    Miller. 

8.  Ephraim,  married,  and  died  April  23,  1750. 

9.  Daniel,   died    1756;   married    Mary   Rolph. 

10.  Mephiboshcth.    married,    died    1764.      Ti. 


in< 


.Sarah,   died   ( Jctoljer    i,    1777;   married   Isag 
Xoe. 

(Ill)  Benjamin,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Clark)  Marsh,  was  born  in  Rahway  about 
1685,  died  in  1723.  He  lived  at  Elizabeth- 
town,  and  married  Margaret  Ewer.  Children: 
Benjamin,  referred  to  below;  Enoch,  David, 
.Sarah.  Margaret,  Mary. 

(I\')  Benjamin  (2),  son  of  Benjamin  (i) 
anil  Margaret  (Ewer)  Marsh,  was  born 
Rahway,  172^5.  died  1772.  He  married  Sarah 
Clark.  Children :  Jabez,  Sarah,  Margaret, 
I'lenjamin,  James,  referred  to  below;  Mary. 
Phebe,  Margaret. 

(V  )  James,  son  of  Benjamin  (2)  and  Sarah 
(  Clark )  Marsh,  was  born  in  Rahway  about 
1764.  died  in  1807.  He  married  Mary  Halsey, 
<if  Linden,  who  is  said  to  have  been  the  widow 
of  a  Air.  Hedden.  Children:  Abigail,  referred 
to  below;  Sarah.  Hannah,  Phebe  Halsey, 
James,  Sophia. 

(VI)  Abigail,  daughter  of  James  and  Mary 
(Halsey)  (Hedden)  Marsh,  was  born  at  Blaz- 
ing Star,  New  Jersey,  1799,  died  in  1849.  She 
married  Lewis,  son  of  Abram  and  Betsy 
(Ketchum)   Barrett  (see  Barrett,  II). 


The  Gilmour  family  at  pres-! 
GILMOl'R      ent    under   consideration,    al-l 

though      among      the      later 
comers  to  this  country,  has  already  established 
itself  in  the  front  ranks  of  two  of  the  learned  1 
professions  and  has  made  a  name  for  itself  in 
two  states. 

(I)  Henry  Lake  Gilmour,  founder  of  the 
family  in  this  coimtry.  was  born  in  London- 1 
derry.  Ireland,  and  came  to  this  country  when' 
nineteen  years  old  with  Captain  Lake.  At  first  I 
he  had  no  intention  of  remaining,  but  he  began 
to  work  at  the  trade  of  carriage  painter  and 
locating  in  Cape  May.  he  established  a  success- 
ful business.  .A.t  the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war 
he  enlisted  in  the  First  Regiment  of  New  Jer- 
sey Cavalry  and  has  a  distinguished  record  of 
four  and  one-half  years.  At  one  time  he  was 
captured  by  the  enemy  and  sent  to  Libby  prison 
where  he  remained  for  three  months.  Being 
exchanged  he  became  a  hospital  steward,  and 
received  a  commission  in  the  medical  cor]is 
At  the  time  tiiat  General  Lee  surrendered  he 
had  risen  to  the  rank  of  major.  After  being 
mustered  out  of  service,  Mr.  Gilmour  entered 
the  Philadelphia  Dental  College,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  1867,  and  then  opened  an  office 
in  I'hiladelphia  and  another  one  in  Cape  May 
Since  then  he  has  devoted  his  whole  time  and 
attention   to  his   profession   and   his   office   in 


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'hiladelphia,  room  500,  Perry  building,  at  the 
jrner  of  Sixteenth  and  Chestnut  streets,  is 
o\v  run  by  himself  and  his  younger  son.  Dr. 
lilmour  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  a  Meth- 
dist  in  religion.  He  is  especially  interested 
1  musical  services  at  camp  meetings,  and  is 
le  composer  of  much  sacred  music.  In  the 
lethodist  church  of  his  home  at  Wenonah. 
Gloucester  county,  New  Jersey,  he  has  for 
lany  years  been  one  of  the  most  active  mem- 
ers.  He  is  a  trustee  and  steward  of  the 
hurch.  a  class  leader,  and  superintendent  of 
lie  Sunday  school.     Dr.  Gilmour  is  a  Mason. 

Dr.  Henry  Lake  Gilmour  married  Letitia 
'auline,  daughter  of  Levi  Downing  and  Anna 
Miller)  Howard.  Her  grandfather.  Captain 
toward,  was  the  sea  captain  who  broke  the 
hain  by  which  the  French  tried  to  blockade 
he  port  of  Londonderry  during  the  English- 
•"reiich  war  of  1740;  while  Dr.  Gilmour's 
;reat-grand father  was  the  man  who  fired  the 
irst  gun  at  the  French  in  the  same  war.  Chil- 
Iren  of  Henry  Lake  and  Letitia  Pauline 
Howard)  Gilmour:  i.  Levi  Downing  How- 
ird,  referred  to  below.  2.  Henry  Lake,  Jr.. 
)orn  October,  1865:  graduated  from  the  South 
fersey  Institute,  1884,  and  the  Philadelphia 
")ental  College,  1889,  and  now  in  partncrshi]i 
vith  his  father:  married.  May  4.  1890,  Lena 
\L.  daughter  of  Thomas  Cunningham,  a  prom- 
nent  citizen  of  Delaware  ajid  member  of  the 
itate  legislature  :  has  had  three  children,  two 
lied  in  infancy,  and  Pauline.  3.  Mary  Pauline, 
narried  Morgan  Hatch ;  lives  at  Belair,  Cam- 
len  county.  New  Jersey,  and  has  one  child, 
^auline. 

(II)  Levi  Downing  Howard,  elder  son  of 
Dr.  Henry  Lake  and  Letitia  Pauline  (  Howard  ) 
jilmour,  was  horn  in  Cape  May  City,  New 
fersey,  October  2/,  i860,  and  is  now  living 
n  Newark,  New  Jersey.  For  his  early  edu- 
ration  he  attended  first  of  all  the  public  school 
it  Cape  May,  from  which  he  went  to  the  Dept- 
'ord  school  at  Woodbury,  New  Jersey.  Leav- 
ng  this  institution,  he  entered  the  South  Jer- 
ley  Institute  at  IJridgeton.  from  which  he  grad- 
latcd  as  an  honor  man  in  June,  1879,  and  being 
he  Latin  salutatorian  of  liis  class.  He  then 
itudied  law  with  Howard  Cooper,  Esc].,  of 
Camden,  New  Jersey,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
Vew  Jersey  bar  as  attorney  in  February.  1885. 
md  as  counsellor  in  February,  1888.  April  3. 
[893.  he  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  United 
States  supreme  court  at  Washington.  For 
;iglit  years  he  was  connected  with  the  law  de- 
partment of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Com- 
pany in  Philadelphia,  and  rciunv  ing  in   1889  to 


Newark  he  has  since  then  been  practicing 
in  that  city  with  uninterrupted  success.  His 
office  is  at  763  Broad  street,  and  he  has  spe- 
cialized in  real  estate  and  corporation  law,  in 
which  fields  he  has  made  himself  the  leading 
lawyer  of  Newark.  He  is  now  assistant  gen- 
eral counsel  of  the  Public  Service  Corporation 
of  New  Jersey,  and  during  their  reconstruction 
and  consolidation  was  one  of  the  counsel  of 
the  Electric  Light  Companies  of  Newark  and 
the  Street  Railway  Company.  From  1892  he 
was  a  trustee  of  the  South  Jersey  Institute  at 
r.ridgeton  until  the  institute  was  discontinued, 
lie  is  a  member  of  the  Esse.x  County  Country 
Club,  L'niversity  Club  of  Newark,  and  New 
York  Athletic  Club.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
South  Baptist  Church  of  Newark. 

April  2,  1885.  I\Ir.  Gilmour  married,  in  Phil- 
adelphia, Jennie  Dare,  born  November  25, 
1862.  only  child  of  Norton  L.  and  Maria  (Dare) 
Paullin.  Children:  i.  Howard  Coombs,  born 
December  27,  1886;  graduated  from  Prince- 
ton L'niversity,  1908,  now  studying  law.  2. 
Marie    Paullin,   September  23.   1895. 


This  name  appears  in  the  early 
C'R.\MI'T\     history   of   Long   Island,    New 

Jersey,  P'ennsylvania.  Dela- 
ware, and  in  the  Hudson  River  \'alley.  and  is 
variously  spelled  Cramer,  Cranmer.  Cram- 
mer. The  Cramers  of  the  Hudson  River 
valley,  as  well  as  some  of  the  family  in  Hun- 
terdon county.  New  Jersey,  were  of  Dutch  or 
German  descent,  with  family  names  as  Noah, 
Peter.  Isaac.  William.  Ste]ihen.  The  Cranmers 
and  Crammers  apparently  belong  to  an  English 
family,  and  many  of  them  have  traditions 
which  link  their  line  of  descent  with  Cran- 
mer the  martyr,  burned  at  the  stake,  and  the 
chief  author  of  the  liturgy  as  contained  in  the 
English  Book  of  Common  Prayer  used  in  the 
.\nglican  churches.  .\s  he  was  born  in  .\slac- 
ton.  Nottinghamshire,  and  his  wife  in  Nurem- 
burg,  a  niece  of  the  reformer  Osiander,  their 
descendants  could  claim  both  English  and  Ger- 
man blood.  It  is  very  difficult  to  trace  de- 
scendants from  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
married  in  1532.  the  very  same  year  in  which 
he  was  made  archbishop,  for  he  was  obliged 
to  put  away  his  wife  on  the  passage  of  the 
Six  .\rticles,  or  Bloody  Statutes,  in  1538.  as 
one  of  the  statutes  forbade  marriage  to  the 
clergy.  In  1548  he  induced  i)arliament  to 
legalize  the  marriage  of  the  clergy,  and  his 
wife  returned  to  him  from  her  home  in  Ger- 
many. The  name  thus  legalized  had  both 
( iermau  and   English  claimants,  and  notwith- 


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standing  its  various  spellings  they  may  all  have 
had  a  common  origin.  The  father  of  the 
Archbishop  was  also  named  Thomas,  and  he 
also  had  another  son  named  Edmund,  who  was 
Archdeacon  of  Canterbury,  while  his  brother 
was  Archbishop,  and  it  is  possible  that  the 
family  in  Xew  Jersey  may  be  descended  from 
Edmund,  who  had  five  sons  and  eight  daugh- 
ters, and  died  in  1604,  aged  sixty-nine  years. 
For  practical  American  citizens,  however,  it 
is  .sufficient  to  fix  upon  a  progenitor  who  emi- 
grated from  the  old  world  and  immigrated  to 
.\merica.  The  American  English  immigrant 
progenitor  of  a  large  family  of  the  name  in 
Xew  York,  Xew  Jersey,  Pennsylvania  and 
Delaware,  in  the  early  days  of  the  settlements 
of  these  states,  appears  to  have  been  William 
Oamer,  a  name  claimed  both  by  the  English 
and  German  nationalities. 

(  1  )  William  Cranmer  (  or  Cramer,  as  vari- 
ously written)  appeared  in  the  eastern  yjart 
of  Long  Island  after  1640.  In  1620  the  island 
had  been  granted  by  James  I.  to  the  Plymouth 
Company,  from  whom  it  passed  to  Lord  Stir- 
ling in  1636,  and  by  his  grandson  was  sur- 
rendered to  the  Duke  of  York.  In  the  "His- 
tory of  Southold,  Long  Island,"  \\'illiam  Cra- 
mer is  named  by  Rev.  Epher  Whitaker  among 
the  original  settlers  of  .Southold,  1640-72,  and 
he  speaks  of  his  subsequent  removal  to  Eliza- 
bethtown,  Xew  Jersey.  In  the  Southold  Town 
Records  appears  a  deposition  made  by  Will- 
iam Cramer,  .\pril  19,  1659,  concerning  a  con- 
versation which  occurred  in  his  house.  Hat- 
field, in  his  "History  of  Elizabeth,  New  Jer- 
sey, '  says  that  William  Cramer  was  a  car- 
penter from  .Southold.  Long  Island,  where  he 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  David  Car- 
withy,  and  sister  of  Caleb  Carwitiiy.  David 
Carvvithy  formerly  lived  at  Salem,  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  is  named  as  freeman  in  1644. 
He  moved  to  Southold,  where  he  died,  No- 
vember, 1665.  His  son  Caleb  was  a  mariner, 
and  (|uitc  a  rover :  he  went  to  Elizabethtown 
in  1665,  but  remained  there  only  a  few  years. 
William  Cramer  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
and  fidelity  at  h'lizabetiitown,  Februarv  19, 
1665.  He  attached  himself  to  the  governor's 
party,  and  seems  not  to  have  been  numbered 
with  the  Town  .Associates.  He  was  appointed 
town  constable  .Xpril  27,  1670,  and  served  till 
October  13,  1671.  He  became  possessed  of 
various  tracts  of  land  amounting  t(5  201)  acres, 
besides  the  town  lot  of  six  acres  on  which  he 
lived.  His  name  is  on  record  as  frequently 
buying  and  selling  land.  William  Cramer  died 
at  I'Hizabethtown.  Xew  lersev,  and  administra- 


tion on  his  estate  was  granted  to  his  .son 
Thomas,  December  4,  1689.  It  would  seem, 
therefore,  that  Thomas  was  the  eldest  son. 
It  is  shown  by  deeds  on  file  in  the  secretary  of' 
state's  office,  Trenton,  Xew  Jersey,  that  there 
were  at  least  two  other  sons,  William,  and 
John  ((],  v.). 

(II)  Thomas,  eldest  son  of  William  Cramer 
and  Elizabeth,  his  wife,  seems  either  to  have 
died,  or  to  have  removed  to  another  state  soon 
after  his  father's  death,  for  his  name  does  not 
ap])ear  in  the  Xew  Jersey  records  after  1691, 
at  which  date  he  sold  all  or  nearly  all  of  the 
land  which  he  derived  from  his  father. 

( II  )  William,  second  son  of  William  and 
I'^lizabeth  (Carwithy)  Cramer,  lived  in  Eliza- 
bethtown until  about  1710.  His  name  appears 
frequently  in  deeds  both  as  grantor  and 
grantee.  In  1702,  with  his  brother  John,  he 
bought  land  at  Barnegat,  then  in  Monmouth 
county,  Xew  Jersey,  where  he  and  his  family 
were  living  in  1712.  Leah  Pilackman  states' 
tliat  there  was  recently  in  existence  an  old 
book,  once  the  property  of  Edward  -Andrews, 
who  was  a  minister  of  Friends,  on  a  fly  leaf  of 
which  was  written,  "William  Cranmer,  who 
settled  at  Barnegat,  used  to  walk  from  that 
place  to  Little  Egg  Harbor  Meeting.  He  was 
line  of  the  witnesses  of  Edward  .Andrews's 
will  in  1712."  His  name  also  appears  as  wit- 
ness to  several  wills  between  1712  and  1719. 
.Among  the  records  of  the  Woodbridge 
Monthly  Meeting  appears  the  birth  of  \\illiam 
Cramer,  son  of  William  and  Rachel  Cramer, 
June  12,  1691.  Leah  Blackmail  mentions  the 
names  of  two  other  children,  Levi  and  Sarah. 
Levi  lived  at  P>arnegat,  and  married  Esthei 
I  lorne  in  1743. 

(II)  John,  youngest  son  of  William  and 
|{lizal)etli  (Carwithy)  Cramer,  was  jirobably 
born  in  Elizabethtown,  about  1666,  where  he 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Sarah 
( Stanbrough )  Osborne,  of  Elizabethtown, 
granddaughter  of  Josiah  .'^tanbrough.  a 
founder  of  Sotitlianipton,  Lung  Island,  who 
died  in  1659,  and  great-granddaugliter  of  Jo- 
siah .'-^tanbrnugh,  the  immigrant  settler  of 
Lynn.  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  in  1637. 
John  Cramer  and  Sarah  Osborne  were  mar-] 
ried  previous  to  1694,  as  Stephen  Osborne's 
will  of  that  date  mentions  his  daughter  Sarah 
as  wife  of  Jolin  Cramer.  The  latter,  as 
well  as  his  brother  William,  was  a  member  of 
the  .Society  of  I'riends.  .About  1710.  John 
and  .Sarah  (Osborne)  Cramer  settled  at  Whip- 
panough,  now  Hanover  townshi]).  Morris 
county.    .\'ew   Jersey,   where   he   owned   land. 


STATE   OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


13s 


The  first  iron  forge  in  the  country  was  erected 
at  Whippanoiigh,  and  the  place  soon  became 
noted  for  its  iron  industry.  His  will,  dated 
Whippanough.  April  22,  1716,  was  admitted 
to  probate  June  22,  1716.  In  it  he  leaves  five 
pounds  to  each  of  his  two  sons,  John  and 
Thomas  Cranmer,  and  the  residue  of  his  estate 
to  his  wife  Sarah,  "  to  bring  up  my  children." 
His  wife  is  his  sole  executrix,  and  his  two 
sons,  John  and  Thomas,  her  assistants.  He 
signed  his  name  John  Cranmer.  His  brother- 
in-law  Jeremiah  Osborne  is  a  witness.  Be- 
sides the  two  sons  named  in  the  will,  there 
were  Jeremiah  (q.  v.)  and  probably  Stephen, 
Josiah,  and  David.  Leah  Blackman  says  that 
Stephen  and  Sarah  Cranmer,  his  wife,  brought 
their  certificate  to  Little  Egg  Harbor  Meeting 
in  1729.  She  also  says  that  William,  Josiah. 
an'l  probablv  Thomas  Cranmer,  are  the  fore- 
fathers of  the  Cranmers  in  Ocean  cinmty,  and 
[dim  and  Stephen  in  Burlington  county,  who 
"located  in  Bass  River  townshij).  .Adminis- 
tration was  granted  March  11.  1760,  on  the 
estate  of  a  David  Cramer,  late  a  soldier  in  the 
New  Jersey  regiment,  and  he  may  have  been 
a  son  of  John  Cranmer. 

(IH)  Jeremiah,  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
(Osborne)  Cranmer,  was  born  in  Elizabeth- 
town,  the  fourth  day  of  twelfth  month,  1707 
(vide  Records  of  Rahway  and  Plainfield 
Alonthlv  Meeting).  Present  at  his  birth  were 
Sarah  Looker, midwife, Margaret  Fraisee.Mary 
FVaisee,  (the  last  two,  sisters  of  Sarah  (Os- 
borne)  Cranmer),  and  Elizabeth  Pack, probably 
a  sister  of  John  Cranmer).  Jeremiah  lived  first 
at  W'hippanough.  and  probably  learned  to  be 
an  iron  moulder  there,  then  removed  to  Barne- 
gat.  where  there  was  also  an  iion  forge,  and 
while  there,  on  September  19,  1738,  he  mar- 
ried .\biah  Tuttle,  "daughter  of  Sarah  Tut- 
tle,  now  Mann"  (vide  bis  marriage  license  on 
file  in  the  secretary  of  state's  office,  Trenton, 
New  Jersey).  In  later  years  he  returned  to 
Morris  county.  New  Jersey,  for  in  1768  he  pe- 
titioned to  be  released  from  the  debtor's  prison 
in  Morristown.  Among  his  children  were 
David  ( q.  v.),  and  Jeremiah,  and  probably 
Epliraim  and  Isaac.  In  David  Cramer's  fam- 
ily Bible  is  the  record  of  the  death  of  Jeremiah 
Cramer,  son  of  Jeremiah  Cramer,  September 
27.  1775-  III  the  list  of  soldiers  who  served 
in  the  revolution,  from  Burlington  county,  we 
find  David,  Isaac,  Seymour,  .Andrew,  Josiah, 
John  and  Israel  Cramer. 

(I\')  David,  son  of  Jeremiah  and  .\biah 
( Tuttle )  Cramer,  was  born  probably  in  or 
near    Barnegat,    New   Jersey,    April    3,    1748. 


He  was  a  soldier  in  the  American  revolution, 
serving  with  the  Burlington  county  troops. 
He  was  a  moulder  by  trade,  and  removed  to 
Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey,  in  1790, 
where  he  carried  on  his  trade  at  the  Cumber- 
land furnace  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  which 
occurred  March  25,  1813.  He  married  Mary 
Pratt  Tompkins,  September  5,  1778.  She  was 
born  .\pril  5,  1758,  and  died  September  10, 
1837,  and  was  a  descendant  of  Micah  Tomp- 
kins, one  of  the  founders  of  Newark,  New 
Jersey.  David  and  Mary  Pratt  (Tompkins), 
Cramer  are  both  buried  in  the  cemetery  be- 
longing to  the  Old  Cumberland  M.  E.  Church. 
The  names  of  their  children  are  copied  from 
David  Cramer's  family  Bible,  now  in  the  pos- 
session of  his  great-grandson,  David  Cramer. 
of  Bradford,  Pennsylvania:  i.  Elizabeth,  born 
March  17,  1780,  died  July  27,  1781.  2.  Will- 
iam, born  April  24,  1781,  died  1781.  3.  Jo- 
seph ( q.  v.).  4.  David,  born  January  26, 
1784.  died  .August  30,  1795.  5.  Isaac,  born 
January  10,  1785;  married  Mary  \'aneman, 
September  7,  1807;  issue.  6.  Mary,  born  Jan- 
uary 14,  1787;  married  John  Hess,  April  7, 
1807:  issue.  7.  .\biah,  born  January  18,  1789; 
married  John  Gray,  August  11,  1812;  issue. 
8.  Ephraim,  born  ^lay  14,  1790,  died  .\ugust 
24,  1791.  9.  Sarah,  born  March  3,  1792:  mar- 
ried Elias  \'ancman,  October  19,  1810:  issue. 
10.  Elizabeth,  born  December  28,  1793,  died 
March,  1837;  unmarried.  11.  Amy,  born 
January  26,  1796;  married  James  Jordan; 
issue.  12.  David,  born  January  7,  1798;  mar- 
ried (first)  Nancy  Yourson,  June  8,  1820; 
(second)  Rachel  Dubell,  November  6,  1834; 
issue.  13.  Jeremiah,  born  March  19,  1800: 
moved  to  Canada,  where  he  has  issue.  14. 
John  Pratt,  born  September  4,  1802;  issue. 

(  \'  I  Joseph,  third  child  of  David  and  Mary 
Pratt  (Tompkins)  Cramer,  was  born  in  Burl- 
ington county.  New  Jersey,  October  9,  1782. 
He  was  eight  years  old  in  1790,  when  his 
father  removed  with  his  family  to  Cumberland 
county.  New  Jersey.  Notwithstanding  his 
lack  of  educational  advantages  he  became  pro- 
ficient in  the  English  branches,  and  showed 
ability  in  mathematics  and  astronomy.  He 
taught  school  in  New  Jersey  until  1825,  when 
he  started  a  private  school  in  Philadelphia,  at 
121  Coates  .\lley.  While  here  he  published 
many  astronomical  calculations,  and  took  a 
prominent  part  in  the  controversy  which  re- 
sulted in  the  formation  of  the  Metiiodist  Prot- 
estant Church,  being  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  church  of  that  denomination  at  Broad  and 
Cherry  streets,  Philadelphia.     In  1833  he  gave 


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up  his  school  in  order  to  become  a  minister  of 
the  Methodist  Protestant  Church  in  Xew  Jer- 
sey. He  died  suddenly.  March  7,  1846,  while 
on  a  visit  to  his  son  David  in  Philadelphia,  and 
is  buried  there  in  the  Honover  street  burying 
ground.  April  23,  1805.  he  married  Deborah, 
daughter  of  David  and  Thankful  \  anhook,  at 
Port  Elizabeth.  Cumberland  county.  New  Jer- 
sey. David  \'anhook  owned  the  mill  at 
Schooner  Landing,  in  the  same  county.  Jo- 
seph and  Deborah  (\^anhook)  Cramer  had 
children:  i.  Mary,  born  1806;  married  Emley 
Corson :  issue.  2.  Rachel  Donnelly,  born  Jan- 
uary I.  1807:  married  Cornelius  Davis;  issue. 
3.  John  Lee.  born  181 2,  died  1876;  married 
Mary  Main.  4.  Joseph  Pratt,  married  twice ; 
issue.  5.  David,  born  181 5.  died  March  12, 
1888;  issue.  6.  Celinda.  married  twice;  issue. 
7.  Isaac  (q.  v.). 

(VI)  Isaac,  youngest  child  of  Joseph  and 
Deborah  (\'anhook)  Cramer,  was  born  in  old 
Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey.  April  22.  1820. 
In  1836  he  was  ajiprenticed  to  \\'illiam  Has- 
kiiis,  a  wheelwright  on  Maiden  street,  between 
Front  and  Frankfort  streets.  Philadelphia, 
and  u])on  completing  his  term  of  apprentice- 
ship he  returned  to  Gloucester  county  and 
worked  for  Joseph  Moore,  who  had  a  carriage 
factory  at  Kinzeytown.  February  17,  1841,  he 
married  Mary,  widow  of  Daniel  Watson,  and 
daughter  of  Ei)liraim  and  .\nna  Bee,  of  F.ee's 
corner,  now  Salina,  (jloucester  county,  where 
he  ]wrchased  a  form  and  followed  the  occupa- 
tion of  a  farmer  until  the  last  few  years  of  his 
life.  He  subsequently  moved  to  P)lackwood. 
New  Jersey,  where  he  died  June  15.  1894.  His 
wife.  Mary  ( P.ee )  Cramer,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 17.  1810.  and  died  January  26.  1875.  and 
botJi  are  interred  in  the  Baptist  cemetery. 
Blackwood.  New  Jersey.  In  1876  Isaac  Cra- 
mer married  (second)  Mary  (Smith)  Buzby. 
widow,  by  whom  he  had  one  child.  F,mma. 
born  October  8,  1877.  The  children  of  Lsaac 
and  Mary  (Bee)  Cramer,  born  in  (Gloucester 
county,  were:  i.  Hiram,  born  September  15. 
1842;  enlisted  in  Twelfth  New  Jersey  Volun- 
teer Infautry.  and  was  killed  at  battle  of  Chan- 
ccllorsvillc.  X'irginia.  May  15.  1863.  2.  .Mfred. 
(c|.  v.).  3.  Jose[)h.  born  March  31.  1847; 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
Merrill,  of  W'ondbury,  New  Jersey;  engagefi 
in  real  estate  business  at  Cramer  Hill.  Cam- 
den, New  Jersey:  children:  Elizabeth,  Way- 
land  P..  and  Joseph  M.  4.  Mary,  born  Febru- 
ary 14.  1851.  died  March  3.  1863. 

(\'n  )  .Alfred,  second  son  of  Isaac  and 
Marv    (Bee)    Oamer.  was  bum   at   Williams- 


iiAvii.  (iloucester  county.  New  Jersey,  Decem- 
ber 12,  1844.  He  was  brought  up  on  his 
father's  farm,  and  remained  with  him  until  he 
attained  his  majority,  when  he  became  a  book 
canvasser,  and  gained  much  experience  as  a 
salesman.  He  subsequently  engaged  in  the 
coal  business  in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  with  his 
father-in-law.  He  married.  P'ebruary  27. 
1870.  Priscilla  Middleton.  daughter  of  John 
Wright,  of  Camden,  and  granddaughter  of 
.\mos  Archer  Middleton,  councilman  of  Cam- 
den for  ten  years,  and  a  soldier  in  the  war  of 
181 2.  Since  1875,  Alfred  Cramer  has  been 
engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  at  Cramer 
Hill,  Camden,  New  Jersey.  Children,  born  in 
Camden:  i.  .Alfred  (q.  v).  2.  Lydia  P..  born 
October  26.  1872,  died  1873.  3.  Ida  M..  born 
March  8.  1874;  married  Daniel  Parvin  West- 
cott.  of  Camden;  children:  Alfred  C,  born  in 
England.  1899.  died  1901  ;  Muriel,  born  in 
England,  .April  15.  1903.  4.  Estelle  I.,  born 
December  14.  1878;  married  Henry  Clay 
Clarke  Shute,  of  Glassboro,  New  Jersey; 
child,  Henry  Clay  Clarke  Shute,  Jr.,  born 
September  28,  1909.  5.  Lois  \'..  born  July  25. 
1886;  unmarried  in  1909. 

(VIII)  Alfred  (2),  eldest  child  of  Alfred 
and  Priscilla  Middleton  (Wright)  Cramer, 
was  born  in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  February 
13.  1871.  He  was  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools 
of  Camden,  and  for  one  year  in  the  P'riends' 
Central  School  of  Philadelphia;  pre])ared  for 
college  at  Peddie  Institute.  Ilightstown,  New 
Jersey;  graduated  from  Princeton  College  in 
the  class  of  1895,  with  the  degree  of  .A.  B. ; 
graduated  from  the  medical  department  of 
the  I'nivcrsity  of  I'ennsylvania.  class  of  1898. 
with  the  degree  of  M.  D. ;  studied  for  a  short 
time  at  the  University  of  X'ienna.  .Austria; 
was  resident  physician  at  the  Lackawanna 
Hos])ital.  Scranton.  Pennsylvania,  and  at  the 
Cooper  Hospital,  Camden.  New  Jersey.  Since 
January  i.  1901.  he  has  been  practicing  in 
Camden.  In  the  winter  of  H)0i-02  he  was 
superintendent  of  the  Municipal  Hospital, 
Camden,  during  a  small-]w.x  epidemic.  FVom 
1903-08  he  was  clinical  assistant  at  the  Wills 
Eye  Hospital.  Philadelphia,  and  is  now  oph- 
thalmologist to  the  Cooper  Hospital,  Camden. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  local  medical  societies, 
and  of  the  .American  Medical  .\ssociation.  In 
1907  he  became  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Historical  Society.  .Alfred  Cramer  Jr.  mar- 
ried. June  9,  1906,  .Anna  Browning,  daughter 
lit  Isaac  and  Josephine  (Browning)  Doughten, 
iif  Camden.  New  Jersey,  and  granddaughter  of 
M.-mrice  and  Anna  (Smith)   drowning.      Isaac 


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3oiighten  serves  as  deputy  comptroller  of  the 
tate  of  New  Jersey. 

(IX)  Alfred  (3),  son  of  Alfred  Jr.  and 
\nna  Browning  (Doughten)  Cramer,  was 
)orn  at  218  North  Fifth  street,  Camden,  New 
fersey,  December  2J,  1907,  being  in  the  ninth 
generation  from  \\'illiam  Cramer  the  immi- 
grant. 


The  surname  Iloadley  was 
liUADLFV  originally  a  place  name. 
There  are  two  parishes  of 
;he  name  in  county  Sussex,  England,  and  as 
early  as  1280  Margaret  de  Hothlegh  and  her 
father  Solomon  are  mentioned  in  Sussex.  In 
I2(j()  William  de  Hodlegh,  in  1318  Maurice  de 
Hodleye.  are  mentioned  in  Sussex  records. 

(I)  William  Hoadley  (or  Hoadle,  as  he 
wrote  itj  was  born  in  England,  about  1630, 
antl  was  the  immigrant  ancestor  of  this  family. 
He  settled  in  Saybrook,  Connecticut,  as  early 
as  1663.  and  in  1666  bought  the  home  lot  of 
Rev.  .Abraham  Fierson,  of  Branford,  Con- 
necticut, when  the  latter  removed  to  New  Jer- 
se\',  transplantetl  his  Branford  church  and 
founded  the  city  of  Newark  and  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  that  city.  This  lot 
was  on  the  west  side  of  the  public  green, 
where  the  Totoket  House  now  stands.  Mr. 
Hoadley  was  a  merchant,  and  his  shop  was 
next  his  dwelling  house.  He  signed  the  Plan- 
tation Covenant  of  Branford,  January  20, 
1607-8,  and  was  admitted  a  freeman  in  Octo- 
ber, 1669.  He  was  a  representative  from 
Branford  in  the  general  assembly  between 
1678  and  if>85,  and  one  of  the  patentees  of  the 
town  on  February  16,  1685-6;  selectman  sev- 
eral years  between  1673  ^"^1  1690.  At  a  town 
meeting  held  June  26,  1683,  he  was  appointed 
to  keep  the  ordinary  in  Branford.  The  death 
of  his  wife,  perhaps,  caused  him  to  give  u]5  the 
tavern,  and  his  successor  was  appointed  March 
28,  i()87.  He  was  one  of  the  grand  jurors  at 
a  court  of  quarter  sessions  at  New  Haven  in 
June.  1688:  one  of  a  committee  appointed  Oc- 
tober II.  1686  to  make  application  to  the  gen- 
eral assembly  at  Hartford  for  liberty  for  the 
town  to  embody  into  a  church  estate.  In  1699 
he  was  on  a  committee  to  build  the  meeting 
house,  and  often  served  on  committees  to  pro- 
cure a  minister  for  the  town.  The  town  gave 
him  permission  in  December,  1701,  to  build 
a  ])ew  for  himself  and  family  in  the  meeting 
house,  and  for  two  of  his  sons  and  their  wives, 
he  building  at  his  own  charge,  and  after  his 
decease  and  his  wife's  the  pew  to  revert  to  the 


town,  provided  the  town  ])ay  reasonable  price 
for  it. 

He  filed  his  ear-mark,  a  capital  T  and  a  half- 
penny, January  28,  1670,  and  December  19, 
1674.  He  was  elected  constable  December  21, 
1677;  served  on  a  school  committee  in  1678; 
was  on  a  committee  to  run  the  line  between 
Branford  and  W'allingford,  March  14,  1678-9; 
was  elected  a  lister  or  assessor  of  the  town, 
September  11,  1679;  from  time  to  time  served 
on  committees  to  lay  out  lots  granted  to  pro- 
prietors of  the  town  and  inhabitants.  He  was 
elected  March  25,  1679,  on  a  turnpike  com- 
mittee, and  June  17,  1680,  was  elected  on  a 
committee  to  consider  some  claims  of  New 
Haven  to  land  in  Branford.  He  and  Edward 
Barker  were  appointed  a  committee  April  26, 
1681,  to  take  an  account  of  "what  corn  there 
is  in  town."  He  was  a  town  auditor,  elected 
December  6,  1681.  He  owned  much  land  and 
left  a  considerable  estate,  as  shOwn  by  the  in- 
ventory dated  December  zj,  1709.  four  pages 
in  length,  as  copied  in  the  New  Haven  probate 
records.  Among  the  items  were;  House,  barn 
and  homelot ;  ten  acres  of  land  and  meadow 
in  the  Mill  Quarter,  meadow  land  in  the  same 
section,  meadow  in  Little  Mill  Quarter  on 
near  side  of  an  island  ;  various  other  meadows ; 
a  parcel  at  Stony  Creek ;  another  at  the  mouth 
of  Pine  Creek ;  plowing  land  at  Great  Island, 
Little  Plain,  Indian  Neck  and  Beaver  Swamp; 
upland  and  swamp  at  Cole  pit  plain ;  piece  of 
swamp  on  the  back  side  of  the  town ;  pasture : 
parcel  called  the  ho-ground  :  159  acres  of  Fourth 
Division :  right  in  undivided  land :  sixteen 
acres  at  Stratford;  twenty  acres  at  Hop  Yard 
Plain  and  twenty  acres  near  the  school  land, 
etc.  Mr.  Hoadley  was  called  captain  and 
doubtless  commanded  a  company  of  militia  at 
some  time. 

The  name  and  date  of  death  of  the  first  wife 
of  William  Hoadley  are  unknown.  He  had 
eight  children,  according  to  the  list  taken 
lanuary  17.  1676.  but  the  names  of  but  seven 
are  known  and  but  six  survived  him.  He  died 
in  November  or  December,  1709,  aged  about 
seventy-nine  years.  His  will  was  presented 
but  not  allowed  by  the  court,  and  the  settle- 
ment of  his  estate  was  the  occasion  of  a  long 
and  unhajjpy  litigation.  The  will  is  not  to  be 
found  and  its  |irovisions  are  now  unknown. 
Ife  married  (second)  about  1686,  Mary  (  lUd- 
lard  )  Farrington.  widow  of  John  Farrington. 
of  Dedliam,  Massachusetts,  and  daughter  of 
William  Bullard  of  Charlestown,  Massachu- 
setts, and  Dedham,  who  died   May   12.   1703. 


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in  Branford.  Mr.  Hoadley  married  (tliird) 
in  Branford,  about  1704,  Ruth  (Bowers)  Fris- 
bie,  widow  of  John  Frisbie,  and  daughter  of 
Rev.  John  and  Bridget  (Thompson)  Bowers. 
She  was  baptized  December  20,  1657.  in  New 
Haven,  and  died  April  26.  1736,  in  Branford. 
Children  of  first  wife:  i.  William,  married 
(first)  -Abigail  Frisbie;  (second)  Elizabeth 
Frost.  2.  Samuel,  mentioned  below.  3.  John, 
married  Alercy  Crane.  4.  Mary,  married, 
about  1698.  Nathaniel  Finch,  of  Branford.  5. 
Elizabeth,  baptized  February  15,  1668,  died  be- 
fore her  father.  6.  Hannah,  baptized  Novem- 
ber 8.  1670;  married  Nathaniel  Johnson,  of 
Branford.  7.  .\braham.  married  Elizabeth 
Maltby. 

(H)  Samuel,  son  of  William  Hoadley,  was 
born  about  1666,  in  Branford,  Connecticut, 
and  died  February  8,  1714,  in  his  native  town. 
He  was  killed  under  a  haymow.  On  April  24, 
1683,  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  haywards.  He 
lived  at  Hopyard  Plain,  also  called  Hoppit  and 
Hoppin  Plain,  I'.ranford,  where  he  was  granted 
with  others  a  parcel  of  land  a  mile  square  in 
the  western  part  of  the  town.  The  inventory 
of  his  estate  was  filed  Decemlier  16,  1714,  and 
amounted  to  one  thousand  eighty-seven 
pounds.  He  married,  March  6,  1689,  in  Bran- 
ford. .Abigail,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(Bullard)  I'arrington,  born  April  30,  i6<:)8  in 
j^edhani.  Massachusetts,  died  February  26, 
1745.  in  I'.ranford.  Children,  born  in  Bran- 
ford: I.  Abigail.  January  5,  i6go:  married 
December  5,  171 1,  Joseph  Frisbie.  2.  William, 
December  10.  1692;  married  Mary  Harrison. 
3.  Hannah,  December  16,  1694;  married,  June 
30,  1720,  Darnel  Harrison.  4.  Samuel,  Febru- 
ary 20,  1696:  mentioned  below.  5.  Gideon, 
-April  17.  1699,  died  young.  6.  Lydia,  Decem- 
ber 23,  1701  ;  married,  June  12,  1723,  Josiah 
Harrison.  7.  Benjamin.  July  24,  1704.  mar- 
ried Lucy  Harrison.  8.  Daniel.  December  9. 
170*'):  married  Elizabeth  Howd.  9.  Timothy, 
July  14.  1709;  married  Mary  Harrison. 

(HI)  Samuel  (2),  .son  of  Samuel  (i) 
Hoadley,  was  born  in  Branford,  February  20, 
1696,  and  died  there  l-'ebruary  22,  1756.  He 
lived  in  I'.ranford,  on  what  is  now  known  as 
Pave  street.  He  was  a  very  cor[nilent  man. 
He  married,  in  October,  1720,  Lydia  Fri.sbie, 
born  June  i,  1698,  died  February  6.  1759, 
daughter  of  Caleb  and  Hannah  Fri.sbie.  of 
iiranford.  Children:  i.  Abigail,  born  .August 
24.  1722;  married.  December  22.  1750.  Paul 
Dudley.    2.  (iideon.  born  November  24.  1724; 

married     Martha    .     3.    Samuel,    born 

June   24.    1727;   married    (first)    .Sybil  Jones; 


(second)  Ruth  Leete ;  (third)  Hannah 
(Howe)  Palmer.  4.  Ebenezer,  born  Novem- 
ber 9,  1729;  married  Martha  Hoadley.  5. 
Jacob,  born  March  8,  1731,  mentioned  below. 
6.  Lydia,  born  January  i,  1734;  married,  June 
25,  1753,  Thomas  Gould.  7.  Jerusha,  born 
February  20,  1736;  married,  October  16,  1760, 
.Stephen  Rogers.  8.  James,  born  February  25, 
1738:  married  Lydia  (Buell)  Hoadley. 

( 1\')  Jacob,  son  of  Samuel  (2)  Hoadley, 
was  born  in  Branford,  March  8th,  1731,  and 
died  in  West  Turin  (Collinsville),  New  A'ork, 
in  November,  181 6.  He  is  buried  in  the  old 
Collinsville  cemetery.  .About  1771  he  re- 
moved from  Branford  to  Westfield,  Massachu- 
setts, and  finally  settled  in  Turin,  in  the  part 
of  New  York  state  known  then  as  the  Black 
River  country.  He  was  a  farmer.  He  mar- 
ried. July  I,  1752,  in  Branford,  Jemima  Buell, 
born  in  KillingAvorth,  Connecticut,  October  26, 
1735.  died  in  Westfield,  January  25,  1791. 
daughter  of  Captain  Samuel  and  Lydia  (  \\'il- 
cox )  Buell,  and  sister  of  Lydia  Buell,  who 
married  James  Hoadley.  Children,  all  except 
the  last  two  born  in  Branford:  i.  Jared,  ALirch 
18,  1753-4;  married  -Ann  Kellogg.  2.  PliUe- 
mon,   June    II,    1755;    mentioned    below.     3. 

Lucy,  May  21,  1757 :  married Baker,  of 

Westfield.  4.  Jacob,  August  19,  1759,  died 
young.  5.  Jemima,  January  30,  1762;  married 
Gunn.  of  Westfield.  6.  Lydia,  .No- 
vember 20,  1764;  married,  1783,  .Aaron  Dcm- 
ing,  of  Bennington,  \'ermont.  7.  Hannah, 
July  I.  1767;  married.  May  31,  1787,  Hanes 
Deming.  8.  Mary,  P'ebruary  1,  1770;  married 
Nathan  Wood,  of  Morristown,  New  A^ork.  9. 
Abigail.  September  12,  1772;  married  Edmund 
Millard,  of  Turin.  10.  Jacob,  October  7, 
1779:  married  Elizabeth  Crandall. 

(  \' )  I'hilenion,  son  of  Jacob  Hoadley,  was 
horn  in  I'.ranford,  June  11.  1755,  and  died 
January  18.  181 1,  at  West  Turin,  New  A'ork. 
He  removed  from  Branford  to  Westfield, 
-Massachusetts,  and  his  eldest  child  was  bap- 
tized there  September  14,  1777.  She  may 
have  been  born  there,  although  recorded  in 
I'.ranford.  The  next  six  children  were  born  in 
Westfield.  the  seventh  is  said  to  have  been 
born  in  Montgomery,  and  the  youngest  in 
Southampton,  Massachusetts.  lie  finally  re- 
moved to  Turin,  .\'cw  \'ork.  and  lived  near  his 
father,  dying  before  him.  He  and  his  wife 
are  buried  in  Collinsville,  New  A'ork.  He  was 
a  soldier  in  the  revolution,  in  Captain  Nathan 
Rowley's  company,  Hampshire  county  regi- 
ment, under  Lieutenant  Colonel  Timothy  Rob- 
insiin,   and   was   at    Ticundcroga   in   February, 


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1777,  credited  with  a  service  of  two  months 
and  twenty-three  days.  He  married,  May  i, 
1776,  in  Bran  ford,  Mary  Rogers,  born  there 
February  22,  1753.  died  in  West  Turin  Decem- 
ber II,  1843.  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Mary 
(Foote)  Rogers.  Qiildren :  i.  Sophia,  born 
September  18,  1776:  married  John  Moore,  of 
Martinsburgh,  New  York.  2.  Irene,  born 
May  12.  1779;  married,  1797,  Nathaniel 
Moore,  of  Leyden.     3.  Lyman,  born  October 

28,  1781  ;  mentioned  below.  4.  Mary,  born 
September  5,  1784;  married,  1824,  Nathaniel 
Moore,  husband  of  her  deceased  sister  Irene. 
5.  Roxanna,  born  February  5,  1787;  married 
Josiah  P.  Raymond,  of  Turin.  6.  Chester, 
born  November  7,  1790;  married  Abigail 
Hooker.  7.  Lester,  born  March  4,  1794;  mar- 
ried Sarah  Chipman.  8.  Philemon,  born 
March  31,  1797:  married  (first)  Rosetta 
Goodrich:   (second)    Betsey   (Bradley)    Plant. 

(\'I)  Lyman,  son  of  Philemon  Hoadley, 
was  born  in  W'estfield,  Massachusetts, 
October  28,  1781,  and  died  in  Collins- 
ville.  New  York,  February  4,  1861.  He  re- 
moved when  young  to  Turin,  with  his  father, 
and  lived  there  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  was 
baptized  June  12,  1814,  and  joined  the  Close 
Communion  Baptist  church  in  Turin,  When 
this  church  united  with  the  Free  Will  Baptist, 
he  followed  with  it  and  continued  a  faithful 
member  until  his  death.  He  was  generous  to 
a  fault,  and  his  loss  was  deeply  felt  by  the 
whole  community.  He  owned  a  fine  farm 
near  Collinsville,  town  of  Turin,  which  he  sold 
in  1856  and  removed  to  the  village,  where  he 
died.  He  was  buried  in  the  family  lot  in  the 
old  burying-ground  in  Collinsville,  Mr.  Hoad- 
ley served  as  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812  from 
July  30  to  .August  22,  1814,  in  Captain  Heze- 
kiah  .Scoville"s  comjiany.  New  York  state 
militia,  and  marched  from  West  Turin  to 
Sackett"s  Harbor.  He  received  from  the 
L'nited  States  government,  in  1855,  a  warrant 
for  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land  in 
what  is  now  the  state  of  Alinnesota,  as  a  re- 
ward for  his  military  service.  He  married 
( first  I  about  1803,  in  Turin,  Lydia  Scoville, 
born  1787,  in  Turin,  died  there  January  9, 
1827.  daugjiter  of  Hezekiah  and  Lydia  (Bald- 
win I  ."^coville.  He  married  (second)  July  13, 
1843,  '"  Rome,  New  York,  Charlotte  Eliza 
Cowles,  born  in  Durham,  New  York,  .April  28, 
1812.  died  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  September 

29,  1893,  daughter  of  Orrin  and  Sophronia 
(Hitchcock)  Cowles.  Children  of  first  wife, 
born  in  Turin:  i.  Sophia,  June  26,  1805:  mar- 
ried  (first)   George  Sheldon,  of  Russia.  New 


York:  (second!  March  15,  1848,  Medad  B, 
Hoyt,  of  Collinsville.  2.  Statira,  November 
4,  1807:  married  Riley  Stillman,  of  Houns- 
field.  New  York.  3.  Lyman,  1808,  died  young. 
4.  .Adelia  Frances,  January  7,  1810,  died  April 
19,  1858:  unmarried.  5.  Louisa,  March  19, 
1812:  married,  June  29,  1843,  .Albert  Fowler, 
of  Hammond,  New  York,  6.  Mary  Ann,  Sep- 
tember 7,  1815;  married,  February  2,  1836, 
John  J.  Smith,  of  Sheboygan  Falls,  Wiscon- 
sin. 7.  Julia.  March  20,  1817;  married  Albert 
Dean,  of  Sheboj-gan  Falls,  Wisconsin.  8. 
Lyman  George,  October  20,  1822,  died  Sep- 
tember 22,  1842.  Children  of  second  wife, 
born  in  Collinsville,  New  York :  9.  Philemon 
Lyman,  December  6,  1845  >'  mentioned  below. 
ID.  James  Hart.  February  28,  1847;  married 
Sarah  E.  (  Scott )  Snyder.  Is  now  Rev.  James 
H.  Hoadley,  D.  D.,  a  Presbyterian  pastor  in 
.New  York  City.  Children :  i.  Harwood,  Ph. 
D.,  born  February  26,  1877:  ii.  Ruth,  born 
December  26,  1883. 

(\'II)  Philemon  Lyman,  son  of  Lyman 
Hoadley,  was  born  at  Collinsville,  Lewis 
county,  -Xew  York,  December  6,  1845.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  in  his  native 
town,  and  at  Whitestown  Seminary  and  Rome 
-Academy,  residing  in  Rome,  New  York,  from 
1862  to  1865.  His  first  initiation  into  business 
life  was  made  in  Camden,  Oneida  county.  New 
York,  in  1865.  where,  in  additicMi  to  filling  the 
position  of  clerk  and  teller  in  a  bank,  he  also 
acted  as  local  agent  for  several  insurance  com- 
panies. That  he  was  successful  as  an  insur- 
ance agent  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  before 
the  end  of  three  years  (in  1869)  the  Hanover 
Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York,  recog- 
nizing the  material  of  which  the  young  agent 
was  made,  appointed  him  special  agent  for  the 
state  of  New  Jersey  and  the  eastern  half  of 
New  York.  Mr.  Hoadley  remained  with  the 
Hanover  until  the  latter  part  of  1874,  when  he 
was  induced  to  accept  an  official  position  with 
the  American  Fire  Insurance  Campany  of 
Newark.  The  place  and  the  man  to  fill  it  had 
met,  and  there  he  has  ever  since  remained.  One 
promotion  succeeded  another  until  he  was 
made  a  director  in  April,  1899:  vice-president 
in  December,  1900.  and  president  in  June,  1907, 
the  office  which  he  holds  at  present. 

Mr.  Hoadley  is  distinctively  an  underwriter 
of  ideas  which  make  for  business  success.  Hf 
is  coolly  calculating,  placidly  undemonstrative 
but  withal  a  man  of  kindly  disposition  and 
cordial  manner.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican 
but  has  avoided  political  honors,  devoting  his 
undivided  service  to  the  .American  Fire  Insur- 


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ance  Company,  which  company's  pronounced 
success  is  a  monument  to  his  tidehty,  energy 
and  abihty.  He  occupies  a  prominent  position 
in  the  financial  world,  being  a  director  of  the 
National  Newark  Banking  Company,  of  the 
New  Jersey  Fire  Alarm  Company,  and  of  the 
Provident  Loan  Association  of  Newark,  of 
which  latter  association  he  was  the  organizer 
and  first  president.  He  is  a  life  member  of 
the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society,  a  member 
of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  of 
the  Essex  Club  and  the  Forest  Hill  Field  Club, 
but  not  of  any  secret  orders.  He  is  also  a 
member  and  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Newark. 

He  married,  August  5,  1869,  Mary  Aureha 
Olmstead,  of  Camden,  New  York,  born  Octo- 
ber 14,  1846,  in  Camden,  daughter  of  Anson 
Gates  and  Almira  (Plumley)  Olmstead.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Frederick,  born  March  13,  1870,  in 
Princeton.  New  Jersey  ;  married,  June  22,  1898, 
Sarah  Y.  Areson,  of  JMontclair,  New  Jersey. 
2.  George  O.,  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
July  27,  1872  :  married,  .April  9,  1902.  Gertrude 
Schleicher,  of  Indiana])olis,  Indiana.  3.  AUiene, 
born  in  Newark.  New  Jersey,  C)ctober  25, 
1878.  4.  Helen  Maronette,  born  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  March  17,  1883. 

(VHF)  Frederick,  eldest  son  of  Philemon 
Lyman  Hoadley,  was  born  in  Princeton,  New 
Jersey,  ALirch  13,  1870,  His  early  education 
was  obtained  in  the  public  schools  of  Newark, 
and  in  1888  he  graduated  from  the  high  school 
nf  that  city,  and  began  the  study  of  architecture 
with  Charles  P.  lialdwin,  of  Newark.  After 
cnm])letiiig  this  course  of  study  Mr.  Hoadley 
became  for  a  short  while  a  draughtsman  in  the 
office  of  Cady.  Berg  &  See.  architects,  in  New 
York  City.  This  position,  however,  was  soon 
resigned  to  accejat  a  better  and  more  lucrative 
one  with  Rossiter  &  Wright,  a  well  known 
firm  of  New  York  architects,  with  whom  he 
continued  a  number  of  years,  ac(|uiring  a  varied 
and  valuable  experience.  In  1898,  owing  to 
the  de])ression  in  general  business,  which  espe- 
cially affected  building  o])crations,  Mr.  Hoad- 
ley accepted  a  i^osition  with  the  American  Fire 
Insurance  Company  of  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
iif  which  his  father  (now  its  president)  was 
agency  secretary.  In  this  new  field  Frederick 
Hdadley's  ability  soon  won  appreciative  recog- 
nition and  two  years  after  entering  on  iiis  new 
work,  he  was  in  1900  apjiointed  a  special  agent 
of  the  company,  and  for  a  number  of  years 
was  a  member  of  the  L'nderwriters  .Association 
of  the  Middle  De])artment,  and  an  active  mem- 


ber of  several  of  the  Association's  important 
New  Jersey  committees. 

January  ist,  1909.  he  was  elected  assistant 
secretary  of  the  American  Insurance  Com 
I^any,  which  office  he  now  holds.  Notwith- 
standing the  engrossing  character  of  his  work, 
.Mr.  Hoadley  has  not  (either  by  his  familv 
and  friends  or  by  his  employers )  been  allowed 
to  wraj!  up  his  architectural  talent  in  a  napkin, 
but  at  dift'erent  times  has  been  called  upon  t(i 
exercise  it  for  their  benefit.  In  1904  he  de- 
signed the  American  Insurance  Company's 
\\'estern  Department  Office  Building  at  Rock- 
ford,  Illinois,  and  subsequently  designed  the 
residences  of  his  brother-in-law.  Dr.  William 
H.  Areson.  at  Ui)per  ]\Iontclair,  New  Jersey  ; 
of  James  H.  Worden,  at  Montclair,  and  of  his 
father,  Philemon  L.  Hoadley.  in  Mt.  Prospect 
avetuie.  Newark. 

In  politics  Mr.  Hoadley  is  a  Republican,  but 
he  has  never  sought  or  held  office.  Although 
himself  a  Presbyterian,  he  has  always,  since 
his  marriage,  attended  the  services  of  the  Epis- 
copal church,  in  which  his  children  have  been 
baptized  and  in  which  his  wife  is  a  communi- 
cant. June  22nd,  1898,  Mr,  Hoadley  married, 
at  Montclair,  New  Jersey,  Sarah  Young  Are- 
son, born  in  New  York  City,  May  5,  1871, 
daugliter  of  William  Henry  and  Annie 
( Scoales )  Areson.  Children:  i.  Philemon, 
born  January  17,  1902.  2.  h'rederick  .\reson, 
March  10,  1904. 

(\'III)  George  Olmstead,  second  son  of 
Philemon  Lyman  Hoadley,  was  born  in  .New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  July  27,  1872,  and  obtaineil 
his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  that  city. 
.\fter  filling  the  ])osition  of  clerk  in  a  New 
York  office  for  a  brief  period,  and  a  similar 
position  for  a  short  time  with  the  Clark  1  bread 
Comi)any  of  Newark,  he  engaged  in  the  fire 
insurance  business:  then  tried  the  hardware 
business  at  Somerville,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
was  ])ro]jrietor  of  a  retail  store  for  a  few  years, 
but  was  unsuccessful,  and  resumed  the  fire 
insurance  business,  representing  the  American 
Insurance  Company  of  Newark  with  marked 
success  for  about  six  years,  as  State  Agent  for 
Indiana.  In  July.  1905.  the  company  trans- 
ferred him  to  the  Pacific  coast,  with  head- 
([uarters  at  San  Francisco,  where  he  ]iassed 
through  the  tlirilling  exjieriences  connected 
with  the  great  eartlu|uake  and  contlagration 
which  practically  destroyed  that  city  in  .\pril. 
1906.  Mr.  Hoadley  is  now  associate  manager 
of  the  .American  Insurance  Company's  Pacific 
Department    and    resides    in    .'-Ian    Francisco. 


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While  a  resident  of  Newark  he  took  great 
interest  in  military  affairs,  and  was  elected 
captain  of  Company  H,  First  Regiment,  N.  G. 
N.  J.  He  married,  April  9,  1902.  in  Indian- 
apolis. Indiana.  Gertrude,  daughter  of  Adolf 
and  Elizabeth  (  Brown)  Schleicher,  born  Sep- 
tember /th.  1881.  Child:  George,  born  in  San 
Francisco,  September  24,  1909. 


Not  every  family  whose  name 
CARTER  stands  highest  on  the  roll  of 
honor  in  this  country  can  trace 
its  lineage  back  to  the  English  or  other  home 
from  which  it  sprang ;  and  fewer  still  can  carry 
that  line  back  step  by  step  for  many  generations. 
It  is  therefore  a  special  source  of  gratification 
that  the  Carters  of  .\merica  can  not  only  go  back 
generation  after  generation  for  nine  degrees 
in  the  mother  country,  but  also  can  trace  the 
interrelationship  of  all  the  families  in  the  new 
world. 

(I)  The  first  Carter  of  whom  there  seems 
to  be  ofificial  record  is  Johannes  le  Carter,  of 
Wodemanse  Manor,  in  Beverly,  a  town  of  the 
East  Riding,  county  York.  England,  where  he 
owned  land  which  brought  him  in  a  rental  of 
two  shillings,  six  pence.  He  is  mentioned  first 
in  a  placita  coram  rege  roll,  in  the  Trinity 
term  of  the  King's  court  of  county  Kent,  in 
the  25th  year  of  Edward  I.  (1297).  He  died 
leaving  issue :  Johannis.  referred  to  below  ; 
William,  married  Elizabeth ;  Ingram,  and  his 
wife  Alicia:  Richard,  died  unmarried;  Henri- 
cus  and  his  wife  Margaretta. 

(II)  Johannes  le  Carter,  son  of  Johannes 
of  Beverly,  moved  to  Cussworth  parish  with 
his  wife  Agnes,  and  in  1349  he  is  mentioned  in 
the  will  of  William  de  Shriburn,  rector  of  Bol- 
ton Percy.  He  left  children  :  Nicholas  ;  Ra- 
delphus,  and  his  wife  Alicia;  W^illiam,  referred 
to  below  ;  Sabina  ;  .^vicia  and  Thomas.  Thomas 
removed  to  St.  Alban's,  county  Hertford,  be- 
fore 1392,  and  had  two  sons,  Edmond — who 
was  custos  capellae  SS.  Angelorum,  that  is, 
vicar  of  the  Chapel  of  the  Holy  Angels,  in 
the  town  of  York,  and  whose  son  William  was 
the  ancestor  of  the  London  Carters ;  and  Rich- 
ard, from  whom  is  descended  Rev.  Thomas 
Carter,  who  emigrated  to  New  England  in  the 
"Planter"  and  became  the  first  pastor  of  the 
church  at  Woburn,  Massachusetts;  and  also 
Colonel  John  Carter,  of  Upper  Norfolk  coun- 
ty, Virginia,  who  was  the  father  of  Robert  or 
"King"  Carter,  of  the  James  river. 

(III)  William  Carter,  son  of  Johannes  of 
Cussworth.  married  Mathilda  Marshall;  chil- 


dren:     John,    referred    to    below;    William. 
Thomas  and  Richard. 

( I\' )  John,  son  of  William  Carter,  became 
a  freeman  of  York  in  1476,  and  by  his  wife 
Margaret  had  children;  i.  Nicholas,  who  was 
knighted  and  received  as  his  arms :  Argent,  a 
chevron  between  three  cartwheels,  vert ;  crest : 
on  a  mount  vert  a  greyhound  sejant  argent 
sustaining  a  shield  of  the  last  charged  with  a 
cartwheel  vert.  2.  John,  referred  to  below. 
3.  James.    4.  Brian.     5.  Thomas. 

(V)  John,  son  of  John  Carter,  of  York, 
was  a  merchant  in  that  town,  and  on  the  jury 
list  in  1500.  Children:  Richard,  and  William, 
referred  to  below. 

(VI)  W'illiani,  son  of  John  Carter  of  York, 
merchant,  was  an  inn-holder,  in  1548  a  free- 
man, and  married  May,  daughter  of  Christian 
Bedell;  children;  Martin;  Christian,  referred 
to  below ;  Nicholas. 

(VII)  Christian,  son  of  William  Carter,  of 
York,  was  living  at  Horingham  in  1605  with 
his  wife  Isabella;  children:  i.  Francis,  mar- 
ried Frances  Webster,  of  Hunsingon.  2.  George, 
whose  wife  was  Mary  Watkinson  of  Heming- 
borow.  3.  Michael,  married  the  widow  Janet 
Lacke,  of  Halifax.  4.  John,  whose  wife  was 
Mary  Buck,  of  Sowerby.  5.  Thomas,  referred 
to  below.    6.  William.    7.  Matthias. 

(VIII)  Thomas,  son  of  Christian  Carter, 
of  Horingham,  married,  in  1594,  Ellen  Wade, 
of  Alne  ;  children  :  i.  Roger,  referred  to  below. 
2.  Nicolas,  married  Dorothy  Strangeways.  3. 
•Susan,  wife  of  Samuel  Firth.  4.  Mary,  wife 
of  William  Robinson.  5.  John,  whose  wife 
was  Jane  Piers.  6.  Jesset,  wife  of  Robert 
Holmes.  7.  Almond,  married  Anna  William- 
son. 

(IX)  Roger,  son  of  Thomas  Carter,  was 
born  in  Helperby,  county  York,  May  8,  1595, 
and  married,  in  St.  Michael's  le  Belfry,  York, 
November  25,  1627,  Emma,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam Ravles  and  Abigail  Haxupp.  Children : 
T.  Nicholas,  referred  to  below.  2.  John,  mar- 
ried Phebe  Foster,  December  12,  1647.  3. 
Roger,  who  when  he  married  Marie  Haxupp, 
June  8,  1652,  stated  that  he  was  the  "son  of 
Roger  Carter  of  Helperby  and  Ellen  Carter, 
and  brother  of  Nicholas  Carter,  now  in  New 
England.  4.  Benjamin,  married  Obedrina 
Northruop. 

(I)  Nicholas  Carter,  eldest  son  of  Roger, 
of  Helperby,  was  born  in  that  place,  June  4, 
1629.  and  died  at  Elizabethtown.  New  Jersey, 
in  October  or  November,  1681.  He  emigrated 
to  New  England  and  settled  in  Stamford,  Con- 


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necticut,  sometime  prior  to  1652,  in  which 
year  he  is  recorded  as  having  come  to  New- 
town, Long  Island,  from  Stamford.  April  12. 
1656,  he  was  one  of  the  purchasers  of  the 
Stamford  lands  from  the  Indians  and  was 
given  twenty  acres  as  his  allotment.  From  this 
time  until  1665  he  is  repeatedly  spoken  of  in 
the  Xewtown  records  as  being  one  of  the  lead- 
ing men  of  the  place.  In  this  latter  year  he 
became  one  of  the  Elizabethtown  Associates, 
having  February  10,  1664,  received  for  him- 
self, his  wife,  son  and  maidservant,  360  acres 
as  his  right  of  land  according  to  the  con- 
cessions, and  being  given  a  third  lot  right  in 
the  town.  His  house  lot  contained  five  acres, 
ten  by  five  chains,  bounded  on  the  east  by 
liiglnvays,  on  the  north  by  the  creek,  and  on  the 
south  and  west  l)y  William  Hill.  He  had  also 
twenty  acres  of  upland  on  Luke  Watson's 
Point  adjoining  Edward  Case  and  Jacob 
Melyn,  as  well  as  forty  acres  of  upland  "in  a 
swamp  lying  at  the  east  side  of  the  blind  ridge," 
and  bounded  partly  by  Aaron  Thomjison  and 
Jacob  Alelyn.  This  property  Nicholas  Carter 
sold,  March  16,  1676,  to  Benjamin  Wade,  for 
£30,  payable  in  pipe  staves,  having  the  week 
before,  March  9,  1676,  bought  of  Jacob  Melyn, 
then  of  New  York,  loi  acres  of  land  in  the 
South  Neck.  Besides  this  land  Nicholas  Car- 
ter owned  seventy  acres  of  upland  bounded 
by  Roger  Lambert,  George  Pack  and  the 
swam]) :  also  193  acres  on  the  mill  creek,  bound- 
ed by  I'.arnabas  Wines,  the  plain,  a  small 
brook,  and  the  creek,  and  another  twenty-two 
acres  in  the  Great  Meadow  and  eighteen  acres 
on  Thompson's  creek.  The  lands  he  bought 
of  Jacob  Melyn,  he  sold  again,  shortly  before 
his  death,  on  May  i8,  1681,  to  Samuel  Wilson. 
February  19,  1665,  Nicholas  Carter  signed 
the  oath  of  allegiance  as  one  of  the  eighty 
Elizabethtown  associates;  and  six  years  later, 
February  28,  1671,  formed  a  jiart  of  the  s])ccial 
court  of  oyer  and  terminer,  impanneled  ami 
organized  by  Governor  Carteret  to  try  Joseph 
Meeker  and  Hurr  Tomson  for  the  pulling 
down  of  Richard  Michel's  fence,  and  on  May 
16  following  was  a  member  of  the  first  jury 
that  ever  sat  in  Elizabethtown  and  which  aftei 
being  sent  out  three  times  "declared  to  the 
Court  tjiat  the  matter  Committed  to  them 
(Captain  Ilackctt's  guilt  in  not  paying  customs 
dues  in  Flizabcthtown  instead  of  New  York) 
is  of  too  great  vvaight  for  them  and  desires  the 
Court  to  make  Choice  of  other  Jurymen."  Sep- 
tember II,  1673,  he  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
to  the  Dutch  during  their  brief  reconquest  of 
New    Netherland ;  and   October   22,    1765,   he 


received  the  warrant  of  the  survey  of  his  360 
acres:  and  November  8,  1681,  Robert  Moss 
and  William  Brodwell  filed  the  inventory  of  j 
his  estate,  valuing  it  at  £64,  19  shillings,  8 
pence.  On  the  following  November  14  letters 
of  administration  were  granted  to  Nicholas's 
son  John. 

It  is  not  known  whom  Nicholas  Carter  mar- 
ried, I)ut  authorities  are  almost  unanimous  in 
saying  that  she  was  a  relative  of  Robert  Wat- 
son, of  Windsor,  Connecticut.  By  her  Nicho- 
las had  four  children  of  record,  there  may  have 
been  more.  These  children  were  :  I.Nicholas, 
referred  to  below.  2.  John,  undoubtedly  his 
eldest  son,  and  as  he  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
to  the  Dutch  with  his  father  in  1673,  must  have 
then  been  over  twenty-one.  March  28,  1676, 
he  received  warrant  for  survey  of  his  sixty 
acres;  November  14,  1681,  he  was  appointed 
administrator  of  his  father's  estate;  August 
18,  1682,  he  gave  his  fellow-bondsmen,  Samuel 
March  and  James  Hinde,  a  mortgage  on  his 
house  and  190  acres  of  upland  "to  hold  them 
harmless  for  being  his  bondsmen."  In  this  last 
record  he  is  st3'led  "carpenter  of  Elizabeth- 
town."  3.  Samuel  Carter,  remaining  son  of 
Nicholas,  was  quite  a  celebrated  character  in 
the  disputes  which  arose  between  the  pro- 
prietors and  the  associates,  especially  in  1699- 
1700,  in  the  first  of  which  years  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  second  generation  of  Associates, 
with  first  lot  rights  and  chosen  one  of  the 
assistant  surveyors  under  John  Ilarriman, 
junior.  4.  Elizabeth,  only  recorded  daughter 
of  Nicholas  Carter,  married  John  Radley,  or 
Ratcliflfe,  August  6,  1681,  shortly  before  her 
father's  death. 

(II)  Nicholas  (2),  son  of  Nicholas  (li 
Carter,  the  emigrant,  is  said  to  have  been  born 
in  Newtown,  Long  Island,  in  1 658,  the  date  being 
calculated  from  March  25,  1669,  when  his 
father  apprenticed  him  to  Richard  Paynter,  a 
tailiir  who  had  come  to  Elizabethtown  from 
.New  York.  As  Paynter  removed  again  to 
.New  York  in  1670  and  later  to  Southampton, 
where  he  was  as  late  as  1679,  Nicholas,  Jr., 
either  had  a  very  short  apprenticeship  or  did 
more  travelling  than  usually  fell  to  the  lot  of 
boys  in  those  days.  One  clause  of  his  in- 
dentures is  well  worth  quoting  as  showing  the 
careful  bringing  up  of  children  and  young  men 
in  a  dift'erent  age:  "L'nlawfuU  Sports  and 
Games  he  shall  not  use.  Taverns  or  Tipling 
houses  hee  shall  not  haunt  or  frequent,  his 
Master's  Goods  he  shall  not  Imbezle  purloin  or 
by  any  unlawfull  means  diminish  or  Impair, 
his  Masters  Secrets  he  shall  not  disclose."   De- 


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M3 


:mber  lo.  ib&j,  Nicholas  and  his  brother 
amuel,  both  styled  of  Elizabethtown,  mort- 
age to  Thomas  Osborn,  a  tanner  of  the  same 
lace,  seven  acres  of  meadow ;  January  28, 
688,  David  Smith,  another  tanner,  of  Eliza- 
ethtown,  deeds  back  to  Samuel  Carter  the 
lirty-two  acres  he  had  previously  bought  of 
oth  Samuel  and  Nicholas,  in  which  deed  it  is 
:ated  that  both  of  the  Carter  brothers  were 
t  that  time  in  England.  When  Nicholas  re- 
rned,  if  he  ever  did  so,  is  unknown,  as  is 
Iso  the  location  of  his  final  settling  place,  for 
le  deed  above  referred  to  is  the  last  record 
Dund  of  him  up  to  now.     He  apparently  left 

0  will,  and  the  names  of  his  wife  and  chil- 
ren  are  also  unknown,  except  for  the  fact 
lat  family  tradition  is  responsible  for  the 
tatement  that  liarnabas,  who  is  referred  to 
elow   is  his  son.     Henry  \\'hittemore"s  con- 

cture  is  that  "either  Nicholas  or  Samuel  are 
apposed  to  have  removed  to  jMorris  county, 
s  the  Carters  are  mentioned  among  the  early 
sttlers  of  the  township  of  Whippanong,  con- 
tituted  in  1700"  *  *  *  and  that  Barna- 
as  was  probably  a  son  of  Benjamin,  the  first 
f    the    name    mentioned    in    connection    with 

orris  county.  Charles  Carroll  Gardner's 
apposition  is  that  Barnabas  "may  have  been 

son  of  Samuel."  The  family  tradition  that 
iarnabas  was  son  of  Nicholas  appears  to  fit 

1  best  with  the  evidence  from  later  genera- 
ons  given  below,  and  is  therefore  adopted 
ere. 

(Ill)  ['arnabas.  traditional  son  of  Nicholas 
2)  Carter,  of  Elizabethtown,  was  born  about 
680,  and  died  in  Hanover,  Morris  county,  in 
)ctober,  1748.  An  old  road  record  of  1728  shows 
hat  at  that  time  he  owned  and  lived  on  a  farm 
ear  Salem.  Union  township,  which  w^as  then  in 
le  borough  of  Elizabethtown.  Shortly  after  this 
e  moved  to  Morris  county  and  built  himself  a 
rist  mill  on  the  Passaic  river,  near  the  present 
own  of  Chatham.  He  is  also  said  to  have 
leen  the  "first  settler  in  those  parts,  and  to 
lave  owned  the  first  land  there  and  also  the 
irst  grist  mill."  In  his  will,  dated  October  i, 
:ist  George  II.  (  1748),  proved  October  ig, 
748,  he  leaves  to  "Barnabas  Carter,  my  loving 
on.  one  fourth  of  my  natural  meadow  on  the 
-*assaic  river,"  and  also  appoints  hmi  one  of 
lis  executors.  "To  my  loving  son  Benjamin 
Tarter,"  the  other  executor,  he  leaves  "a  sar- 
ain  Peace  or  parcell  of  Land  and  swampy 
'round  at  the  South  West  corner  of  my  land 
)y  Passaic  river  nmning  easterly  along  my 
and  so  far  as  it  is  swampy  thence  bearing 
lorthwesterlv  so  as  to  contain  all  that  is  now 


within  fl:'ence  as  the  ffence  Now  Runs,  also  all 
my  land  that  lyeth  on  the  West  side  of  the 
Road,  also  my  grist  mill  with  the  privileges  of 
the  stream  and  pond  so  long  as  the  said  mill 
shall  stand  without  rebuilding  and  also  one 
fourth  of  my  meadow.  To  my  loving  son 
Luke  Carter  I  bequeath  one  fourth  of  my 
meadow  and  also  all  remainder  of  my  land 
by  Passaic  except  one  fourth  part  of  the  said 
river  meadow.  To  my  loving  son  Nathaniel 
Carter  I  betiueath  one  fourth  part  of  my 
Natural  River  Meadow  with  all  the  Remainder 
of  my  Lands  and  my  House.  To  my  grandson 
Simon  Hall,  I  give  one  yoke  of  oxen  and  three 
cows  and  hoops  and  boxes  for  a  cart  one 
graught  chain  and  my  horse  j^ears  plows  and 
harrow  and  one  narrow  ax  also  one  feather 
bed  rug  and  furniture.  To  my  loving  children 
and  grandchildren  I  bequeath  all  the  remainder 
of  mv  personal  estate,  one  sixth  to  Barnabas, 
one  sixth  to  Benjamin,  to  Luke  one  sixth,  to 
Nathaniel  .one  sixth,  to  my  daughter  i\Iary 
Wines  one  sixth  and  to  my  loving  grand- 
children Susanna  and  Sarah  Hall  one  sixth 
at  eighteen  years  of  age."  The  will  is  wit- 
nessed by  Jeremiah  Genung  and  Stephen  Ward. 
Besides  these  si.x  children  mentioned  above 
(Barnabas,  Benjamin,  Luke,  Nathaniel  and 
two  daughters)  the  family  tradition  is  that  he 
had  another  son  Nehemiah,  and  that  all  of  the 
sons  except  Nathaniel  (referred  to  below) 
migrated  to  New  Orleans.  It  is  much  more 
probable  however  that  the  Nehemiah  Carter 
who  went  south  was  a  cousin,  and  not  a 
brother  to  Barnabas"s  children,  as  the  records 
give  the  date  of  his  migration  as  between  1770 
and  1775.  He  is  probably  the  son  of  Nicholas 
Carter,  who  died  in  October  or  November, 
1770,  leaving  children:  Abraham,  Nehemiah, 
Moses,  Nicholas,  David,  Reuben,  Comfort  and 
Kezia,  and  a  widow  Susanna.  Barnabas,  son 
of  luirnabas  Carter,  died  in  1822,  leaving  a 
daughter  I'.etsey,  and  two  grandsons.  Barnabas 
Robert  Carter  and  Azel  Clisbey  Carter,  sons  of 
a  deceased  son  W'illiam.  The  Mr.  Wines  who 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Barnabas  Carter, 
was  a  great-grandson  of  Barnabas  Wines,  the 
Elizabethtown  .\ssociate,  and  a  descendant 
of  Goodman  Barnabas  Wines,  of  Watertown, 
Massachusetts,  who  married  the  sister  of  John 
Pienjamin  of  Watertown  (see  Benjamin 
family). 

(IV)  Nathaniel,  fourth  son  of  Barnabas 
Carter,  was  born  about  1715,  and  spent  most 
of  his  life  at  Hanover.  He  married  Hannah 
Price,  of  Elizabethtown:  children:  i.  Phebe, 
married,  July  13.  1758.  Michael  \'anwinkle.   2. 


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Anna,  married  (first )  Peter  Beach,  (second) 
in  1778,  Daniel  Ball,  of  Hanover.  3.  Aaron 
Carter,  referred  to  below.  4.  Eunice,  born 
about  1745  ;  married  (first)  July  31,  1774,  David 
Lee,  who  died  in  1780;  married  (second)  Job 
Coleman.  5.  Rhoda,  baptized  in  Presbyterian 
church  at  Hanover,  November  19,  1749 ;  mar- 
ried Joseph  King.  6.  Lois,  baptized  January 
12,  1752;  married,  May  19,  1782,  Nathaniel 
Willis,  a  widower  with  several  children,  and 
had  by  him  herself  two  children:  Hannah, 
baptized  April  27,  1783;  and  Harvey,  baptized 
June  5,  1785.  7.  Sarah  Carter,  born  April  18, 
1756;  married  Thomas  Brown,  of  Newark. 
8.  Hannah,  died  unmarried. 

(V)  Aaron,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Hannah 
(Price)  Carter,  was  born  .\pril  30,  1744,  and 
died  between  July  27  and  September  27,  1804, 
the  dates  of  the  execution  and  proving  of  his 
will.  He  lived  at  Union  Hill,  Morris  county, 
and  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Caleb 
Davis,  and  Ruth,  daughter  of  Joseph  Bruen. 
Caleb  was  the  son  of  Caleb,  grandson  of  Jona- 
than, great-grandson  of  Thomas,  and  great- 
great-grandson  of  Thomas  Davis,  of  Hartford, 
1646,  Connecticut  colony,  1648,  Newark,  1666, 
who  died  about  i6gi  and  had  for  his  second 
wife  the  widow  of  John  Ward  the  Dish-turner 
(see  W^ard  family).  Aaron  and  Elizabeth 
(Davis)  Carter  had  children:  i.  Hannah.  2. 
Lewis,  born  1778;  sergeant  in  Captain  Brit- 
tin's  company,  of  the  regiment  stationed  at 
Sandy  Hook,  under  Colonel  John  Frelinghuy- 
sen,  during  the  war  of  1812.  3.  Mary,  or  Polly, 
married  Samuel  Condit,  innkeeper  at  Chatham. 
4.  Caleb,  referred  to  below.  5.  Aaron.  6. 
Sarah. 

(VI)  Caleb,  son  of  Aaron  and  Elizabeth 
(Davis)  Carter,  was  born  at  Union  Hill, 
Morris  county,  February  28,  1782,  and  died 
at  Newark,  August  i,  1847.  About  1800  he 
went  to  Newark  and  learned  the  business  of 
carriage  painting,  and  was  one  of  the  pioneers 
in  the  carriage  manufacturing  business,  doing 
an  extensive  trade  with  the  south.  His  name 
appears  on  the  muster  roll  of  Captain  Bald- 
win's company  in  1802,  and  he  was  also  active 
in  politics,  being  identified  with  the  Whig 
party,  and  being  appointed  by  Governor  Will- 
iam S.  Pennington  a  magistrate  of  Newark. 
January  12,  1805,  Caleb  Carter  married  Phebe. 
daughter  of  Jotham,  son  of  David  Johnson 
and  Eunice,  daughter  of  Robert,  granddaugh- 
ter of  Deacon  Azariah,  and  great-granddaugh- 
ter of  Jasper  Crane  of  Newark  (see  Crane 
family).  David  Johnson  was  son  of  Nathaniel 
Johnson  and  Sarah  Ogden,  grandson  of  Eli- 


phalet,  and  great-grandson  of  Thomas  John' 
son,  who  was  one  of  the  committee  of  eleven 
who  represented  the  towns  of  Milford,  Guil- 
ford and  Branford  in  arranging  for  the  settle- 
ment of  Newark.     Thomas  Johnson  was  >Mn 
of  Robert,   who   came   to   New   Haven    from 
Hull,  England.     Caleb  and  Phebe   (Johnson) 
Carter  had  children:     i.  Elizabeth,  born  Aprill 
12,    1806,    died    unmarried,   January   8,    1887.' 
2.  Harriet,  March  2,  1808,  died  unmarried.  De- 
cember 12,  1891.    3.  Mary,  born  May  4,  1810; 
married  Horace  H.  Nichols:  left  no  children. 
4.  James  Johnson,  August  9,   1812,  died  No- 
vember,  1875.     5.   Horace,  October   17,   1814, 
died  December  10,   1894.     6.  Aaron,  referred 
to  below.     7.  Catharine  Parkhurst,  born  Sep- J 
tember  7,  1819;  married  Jeremiah  D.  Poinicr.l 
8.  Almira,  November  13,  1822,  died  December 
14,   1888.     9.   Anne   Beach,  October   3,    1825, 
died   June   8,    1906,   being  the   last   surviving 
child.     10.  Phebe,  born  February  20,  1828,  died 
in  June,  1901. 

(VH)  Aaron,  sixth  child  and  third  son  of 
Caleb  and  Phebe  (Johnson)  Carter,  was  born 
in  Newark,  January  17,  1817,  and  died  at  hi? 
home  on  Tremont  avenue.  Orange,  January  31. 
1902,  after  an  illness  of  a  week,  from  pneu- 
monia. He  is  said  to  have  been  "a  remark-i 
ably  fine  man,  of  delightful  personality,  warm- 
hearted, kind,  strict  and  careful  in  his  busi-| 
ness,  of  exact  and  careful  methods,  and  judg- 
ment keen  and  accurate.  His  thorough  prac-( 
ticality  ditl  not  make  him  hard  and  cold,  and 
in  him  were  happily  blended  the  keen  and 
practical  man  of  business,  the  genial  gentle- 
man, and  the  warm  hearted  Christian."  After 
receiving  his  education  at  Fairchild's  boarding! 
school  at  Mendham,  then  one  of  the  best 
schools  in  the  state,  he  returned  home  and  wa:^ 
regularly  indentured  to  the  firm  of  Taylor  & 
Baldwin,  manufacturing  jewelers,  who  it  is' 
said  are  "entitled  to  the  credit  of  first  winning 
extended  fame  for  Newark  handiwork  in  the 
jewelry  business."  November  18,  1841,  with 
two  young  associates,  Aaron  Carter  founded 
the  business  with  which  he  has  been  so  promi- 
nently identified  ever  since,  and  which  foi 
more  than  a  generation  has  been  in  the  fore- 
front of  the  jewelry  manufacturing  trade  ir 
this  countr}-.  This  first  firm  was  known  a.' 
Pennington,  Carter  &  Doremus,  the  senioi 
member  being  a  nephew  of  Governor  Williaa 
S.  Pennington.  Later  Mr.  Pennington  with- 
drew, and  for  some  time  the  firm  ran  as  Cartel 
&  Doremus,  and  after  the  withdrawal  of  Mr[ 
Doremus  as  the  firm  of  Aaron  Carter,  Jr 
( )ther  changes  in  the  personnel  of  the  firm  wen: 


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lailc  from  time  to  time,  but  Mr.  Carter  was 
\\a\s  the  leading  spirit  and  senior  member, 
hether  it  was  Carter,  Beamans  &  Pierson : 
arter  &  Pierson ;  Carter,  Pierson  &  Hale ; 
arter.  Hale  &  Company ;  Carter,  Howkins  & 
)odd ;  Carter,  Howkins  &  Sloan ;  Carter, 
oan  i\;  Company ;  Carter,  Hastings  &  Howe 
r  as  it  became  January  i,  1902,  about  a  month 
efore  Air.  Carter's  death.  Carter,  Howe  & 
bmpany.  When  he  died  Mr.  Carter  was  the 
Idest  representative  of  the  jewelry  industry 
1  Newark,  which  was  then  a  century  old,  his 
wn  employer,  Taylor  being  second  in  the  line 
f  succession  from  Epaphras  Hinsdale,  who 
oundetl  the  business  in  1801.  Through  the 
arious  financial  reverses  of  half  a  century, 
Jr.  Carter  maintained  the  credit  of  his  firm 
|nd  never  failed  to  meet  on  time  any  of  his 
'Usiness  obligations.  No  one  of  all  the  old- 
ime  manufacturers  preserved  a  "cleaner  rec- 
ord for  honor,  uprightness  and  business  prob- 
ty,"  and  he  has  left  a  "name  unsullied  by  a 
ingle  act  which  could  ever  reflect  adversely 
in  him  or  his  associates,"  and  he  has  educated 
■tlu-rs  up  to  the  same  high  standards  that  regu- 
ated  his  own  life. 

Mr.  Carter  was  also  a  director  in  the  New- 
irk  City  Bank  from  its  organization  in  185 1, 
;  manager  of  the  Howard  Savings  Institution 
ince  1866,  a  member  of  the  original  board  of 
lirectors  of  the  Prudential  Life  Insurance 
romijany,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  a  mem- 
ler  of  the  loss  committee  and  chairman  of  the 
uditing  committee,  and  also  a  director  in  the 
dutual  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York. 
ic  was  a  large  stockholder  in  the  Bombay 
India)  Tramway  Company,  of  which  for 
nany  years  he  was  chairman  of  the  board  of 
rustees.  Besides  these  interests  Mr.  Carter 
i'as  connected  with  the  Ji'-;veli'rs'  Circular,  a 
)eriodical  devoted  to  the  interests  of  the 
ewelry  trade,  and  was  a  trustee  and  much 
nterested  in  the  New  Jersey  Industrial  School 
or  (iirls  at  Trenton.  Mr.  Carter  was  origin- 
lly  a  Whig,  but  after  the  disruption  of  that 
)arty  and  the  organization  of  the  Republican 
larty  he  joined  the  latter,  took  great  interest 
n  iis  success,  and  was  for  many  years  one  of 
ts  most  zealous  supporters.  .A.t  one  time  he 
eceived  the  Republican  nomination  for  the 
issembly  but  the  district  at  that  time  being 
iverwhelmingly  Democratic,  he  was  defeated. 
\t  first  Mr.  Carter  was  a  member  of  the  old 
"irst  Presbyterian  Church  of  Newark,  and 
lelped  to  organize  the  South  Park  Church,  of 
vhich  he  was  one  of  the  first  elders,  remaining 
uch   until    1856,   when   he   removed   to   New 

i-IO 


York,  after  his  second  marriage,  when  he 
united  with  the  Madison  Square  Presbyterian 
Church,  of  which  under  Dr.  Adams  he  was  an 
elder  until  1864.  In  that  year  he  removed  to 
Orange  and  purchased  the  eight  acres  and 
homestead  which  formed  his  home  for  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  Subsequently  he  en- 
larged and  remodeled  the  house  and  made 
many  improvements,  especially  enclosing  the 
whole  pro])erty  with  an  evergreen  hedge.  Mr. 
Carter  now  united  with  the  Valley  Congrega- 
tional Church,  owing  to  its  convenient  near- 
ness to  his  residence,  and  here  he  became  trus- 
tee and  deacon,  and  labored  for  the  advance- 
ment of  the  church  until  1887,  when  he  with- 
drew to  assist  in  the  organization  of  the  Hill- 
side Presbyterian  Church,  of  which  he  became 
and  remained  until  his  death  an  elder, 

.\aron  Carter  married  (first)  August  30, 
1843,  Elizabeth  Camp  Tuttle,  daughter  of 
William  Tuttle  and  Hannah  Camp,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Nathaniel  Camp.  By  this  mar- 
riage he  had  two  children :  William  Tuttle 
Carter,  referred  to  below;  and  Elizabeth  Jo- 
sephine Carter,  born  December,  185 1,  died 
April,  1852.  Mr.  Carter  married  (second)  Oc- 
tober I.  1856,  Sarah  Swift  Trow,  daughter  of 
John  Franklin  Trow,  founder  of  the  Trow's 
Directory  of  New  York,  and  of  Catharine 
Swift,  his  wife.  By  this  marriage  Aaron  Car- 
ter had  three  more  children :  John  Franklin 
Carter,  born  October  21,  1864;  married,  June 
7,  1893,  Alice  Schermerhorn  Henry;  children: 
i.  Henry,  born  May  8,  1894;  ii.  Sarah  Swift, 
August  20,  1895 ;  iii.  John  Franklin,  April  27, 
1897;  iv.  Percival,  March  8,  1900;  v.  Paul 
Schermerhorn,  September  14,  1903.  John 
Franklin  Carter,  graduated  from  Yale  in  1888, 
and  from  the  Cambridge  Divinity  School 
(  Episcopal)  in  1891  :  in  1892  was  made  deacon 
by  Bishoi)  Worthington,  and  in  1893  priest  by 
Bishop  Potter,  of  New  York;  1891  to  1893  he 
was  assistant  at  St.  George's  Church,  New 
York  City;  1893  to  Kjoo  rector  of  St.  Mark's, 
Fall  River,  Alassachusetts,  and  since  1900 
rector  of  St.  John's,  Williamstown,  Massachu- 
setts. Henry  Ernest  Trow  Carter  was  the 
second  son  of  Aaron  Carter  and  his  second 
wife,  and  Herbert  Swift  Carter,  the  remaining 
son.  is  referred  to  below^ 

fVIII)  William  Tuttle,  eldest  son  of  Aaron 
and  Elizabeth  Camp  (Tuttle)  Carter,  was  born 
in  Newark,  September  28,  1849,  ^"d  is  now 
living  in  that  city.  From  1862  to  1864  he 
attended  the  Newark  Academy,  and  then  went 
to  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  graduated  in  1867,  and  the  following 


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STATE    OF    NEW     I1':RSEY. 


fall  entered  I'rinceton  L'niversity,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  1871.  He  then  went  into  his 
father's  firm,  at  that  time  known  as  Carter, 
Howkins  &  Uodd,  and  in  1876  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm,  when  the  name  was  changed 
to  Carter,  Howkins  &  Sloan.  Here  he  remain- 
ed until  1880,  when  he  set  up  in  business  for 
himself.  In  1886  he  returned  to  his  father's 
firm,  then  Carter,  Sloan  &  Company,  and  has 
remained  there  ever  since,  through  its  changes 
in  1896  to  Carter,  Hastings  &  Howe,  and  in 
1902,  to  Carter,  Howe  &  Company,  its  present 
name.  He  is  a  member  of  Union  Lodge,  No. 
II,  F.  and  A.  M.,  Orange;  of  the  New  Jersey 
Historical  Society,  the  Washington  Head- 
cjuarters  Association,  the  Essex  Club ;  and  the 
Lawyers'  and  Railroad  clubs  of  New  York. 
He  is  also  serving  as  trustee  of  the  Newark 
Academy ;  manager  of  the  Howard  Savings 
Institution ;  director  of  the  Prudential  Insur- 
ance Company;  director  of  the  American  In- 
surance Company,  of  Newark ;  and  an  elder  in 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Newark. 

June  2,  1875,  William  Tuttle  Carter  married 
Sophia  .Abigail,  third  child  and  eldest  daughter 
of  Stephen  Hayes  and  Sophia  LaRue  (King) 
Condict.  Children:  i.  William  Tuttle  Carter, 
Jr.,  born  in  Newark,  July  10,  1876;  graduated 
from  Newark  .Academy,  1894,  and  from 
I'rinceton  University,  1898;  read  law  with 
Hon.  John  R.  Hardin,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  of  New  Jersey  in  1901.  2.  Elizabeth  Con- 
dict Carter,  born  December  22,  1880.  3.  Jo- 
seph Nelson  Carter,  born  September  25,  1882; 
graduated  from  Newark  .Academy  1900,  and 
from  Princeton  L'niversity,  1904;  now  in  busi- 
ness in  firm  of  Carter,  Howe  &  Company.  4. 
Kenneth  King  Carter,  born  October  15,  1895. 

(X'lII)  Herbert  Swift,  youngest  child  of 
•Aaron  and  Sarah  Swift  (Trow)  Carter,  was 
born  in  Orange,  September  19,  1869,  and  is 
now  a  practicing  physician  in  New  York  City. 
His  mother's  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Dr. 
Nathaniel  Swift,  a  practicing  physician  of 
.Andover,  Massachusetts.  Herbert  Swift  Car- 
ter attended  private  schools  and  was  then  put 
under  private  tutors  until  he  was  ready  for  St. 
Paul's  School,  Garden  City,  New  York;  after 
leaving  which  he  went  to  the  Lawrenceville 
.Academy,  to  the  Dearborn  Morgan  School, 
and  graduated  from  Princeton  University  in 
1892.  He  then  entered  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons,  New  York  City,  and  re- 
ceived his  M.  D.  degree  from  there  in  1895. 
For  the  next  two  years  he  was  one  of  the 
internes  at  the  Presbyterian  Hospital,  New 
York,  and  after  that  for  three  months  at  the 


.Sloane  Hos])ital.  Immediately  after  his  mar- 
riage, in  1898,  he  went  to  Europe  and  attended 
the  lectures  at  the  University  of  Berlin.  Com- 
ing back  to  New  York  City,  he  set  up  in  gen- 
eral practice  and  has  specialized  on  general 
internal  medicine.  He  is  attending  physician 
to  the  Lincoln  Hospital,  and  chief  of  the 
medical  clinic,  Presbyterian  Hospital,  New 
\'ork  City ;  a  member  of  the  New  York  .Acad- 
emy of  Aledicine,  the  Society  of  Internal  Medi- 
cine, the  Society  of  the  Alumni  of  the  Presby- 
terian Hospital,  the  Quiz  Medical  Society.  He 
is  a  coninuHiicaiit  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal! 
Church.  f 

January  12,  1898.  Herbert  Swift  Carter 
married,  in  South  Orange,  Mabel  Stewart 
Pettit,  second  child  and  eldest  daughter  of 
John  and  Alida  R.  (Stewart)  Pettit,  who  was 
born  January  25,  1875.  They  have  three  chil- 1 
dren :  .Alida  Stewart  Carter,  born  October  26, 
1898;  Herbert  Swift  Carter,  Jr.,  September 
30.  1900:  and  .Alan  Carter,  born  July  29,  1904.  ,, 


The  des  Marets,  des  Marest 
Dl'LMAREST*  or  Demarest  family  have 
their  origin  in  Beauchcanip, 
a  little  village  of  Picardy  in  France,  about 
twenty-two  miles  west  of  the  city  of  Amiens, 
where  for  centuries  the  family  has  been  very 
numerous  and  highly  respectable.  David  des 
Marest,  Sieur  le  Feret,  of  Oisemont,  held  many 
high  offices  in  the  state  and  was  an  intluenlial 
elder  in  the  French  Protestant  church.  His 
son  Samuel,  theolo'gically  known  as  Maresius, 
was  professor  of  theologj'  at  Groningen  and  a 
voluminous  controversial  writer.  His  siws 
Daniel  and  Henri  were  ])reachers,  and  with 
the  aid  of  their  father  ])rcpared  the  finest  edi- 
tion of  the  French  Pible  that  has  ever  been 
published.  The  e.xact  relationship  of  these 
des  Marests  to  the  emigrant  to  the  new  world 
has  not  been  ascertained,  but  there  can  be 
little  doubt  that  they  all  belong  to  the  same 
family.  Jean  des  Marets  was  a  Huguenot,  who 
with  his  family  had  sought  a  refuge  in  Hol- 
land, settling  at  Micldleburg,  on  tiie  island  of 
Walciieren,  Zeeland.  His  son  David  is  referred 
to  below. 

(I)  David,  son  of  Jean  des  Marets,  was 
married  in  Middleburg,  where  he  resided  for 
"-(line  time  afterwards,  having  two  children 
born  to  him  there.  In  1651  he  removed  with 
his  family  to  Mainilu-im-on-the-Rhine,  the 
chief  city  of  the  Lower  Palatinate,  whither  the 
Huguenots  were  at  this  time  going  from  vari- 


*\Ve  preserve  in  each  Demare.sl  narrative  it.^^  nwn 
form  of  famUy  names. 


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147 


IS  parts   in  great   mmibers   invited  and   en- 

luraged  by  the   Elector  Charles  Lewis,  who 

Tered  great  inducements  for  them  to  settle  in 

s  dominions.     In  Mannheim  at  least  two  and 

■obably   three    more   children    were   born   to 

avid  des  Marets.     His  hopes  of  a  permanent 

laceful  home  here,  however,  was  doomed  to 

sappointment  owing  to  the  threatening  con- 

tions  of  the   religious  wars  and   David  des 

[arest   determined   to   emigrate   to  America. 

e  was  now  in  the  prime  of  life,  about  forty 

■ars  old,   and  with   his   family  at   that  time 

insisting  of  his   wife   and   four  children   of 

ghteen,  eleven,  six  and  one  years  old,  he  em- 

irked  for  New  Netherlands  on  board  of  the 

Bontecou"  or  "Spotted  Cow,"  which  reached 

ew  Amsterdam,  April  16,  1663.   Immediately 

a  his  arrival,  he  joined  the  Huguenot  colony 

n  Staten  Island,  a  little  south  of  the  Narrows, 

iid  in  the  following  year,   1664,  was  chosen 

s  one  of  two  delegates  from  Staten  Island  to 

le    New    Netherlands    provincial    assembly, 

•hich  met  to  consider  the  state  of  the  province 

ist  before  its  surrender  to  the  British.    After 

residence   of   two   years   on    Staten   Island, 

)avid  Demarest  bought  property  in  New  Har- 

;m   and    removed   thither   in   the   autumn   of 

665.     He   afterwards   added   several   lots  of 

md  to  his  original  purchase  and  for  the  next 

A'elve  and  a  half  years  made  his  home  there. 

lis  life  there,  however,  does  not  seem  to  have 

eeii  a  happy  one,  and  finally,  after  an  nnsuc- 

'essful  resistance  to  the  tax  for  the  slavery  of 

he  Dutch  voorleser,  he  removed  to  a  tract  of 

ind  which  he  had  bought  on  the  Hackensack 

iver   in    I'ergen   county.   New  Jersey,   which 

.'as  known  as  the  French  patent  and  where 

e  hoped  to  establish  a  colony  of  the  French 

efugees   to  the  new   world.     This   land   was 

iurchased  from  the  Indians  in  1677.  but  owing 

0  the  fact  that  it  lay  j)artly  in  the  province  of 

<Iew  York  and  partly  in  the  colony  of  New 

ersey,  and  to  other  circumstances.  Demarest 

lad  considerable  trouble  establishing  his  claim 

0  the  land  and  procuring  a  valid  title  from  the 

irovincial  government  and  it  is  said  that  before 

le  finally  came  into  peaceable  and  undisputed 

lossession   he   had   to  pay   for   it    four   times 

ivcr.     Hither.  David  Demarest  and  a  number 

if  other  Huguenot  families  removed  in  1686, 

,nd  here  he  found  a  final  resting  place,  where 

le  (lied  in  1693. 

July  24.  1^43,  David  Demarest  married  in 
diddleburg.  ^Iarie,  daughter  of  Francois 
>oliier.  of  Nieppe,  a  town  of  Hainault,  thirteen 
iiiles  east  from  Hazebrook.  Their  children 
^•ere :     i.  Jean,  baptized  April  14.  1645;  died 


in  1719;  see  sketch.  2.  Francois,  born  in  1647; 
died  young.  3.  David,  baptized  June  22,  1649 . 
died  in  infancy.  4.  David,  referred  to  below. 
5.  Samuel,  born  1656;  died  1728:  married 
Maria  Dreuns  or  De  Ruine.  6.  A  child,  born 
1602,  in  Mannheim;  died  in  America,  in  1664. 
7.  Daniel,  born  at  Harlem,  baptized  in  New 
Amsterdam,  July  7,  1666,  and  died  in  Harlem, 
January  8,  1672. 

(II)  David  (2),  son  of  David  (i)  and 
Marie  (Sohier)  Demarest,  was  born  in  Mann- 
heim-on-the- Rhine,  in  the  Lower  Palatinate,  in 
1652,  and  died  on  the  Hackensack  French 
patent  in  1691,  about  two  years  before  his 
father.  He  was  a  farmer  and  the  location  of 
his  land  was  on  the  east  of  the  Hackensack, 
near  where  Schraalenburgh  afterwards  grew 
up.  April  4,  1675,  David  Demarest,  Jr.,  mar- 
ried Rachel,  daughter  of  Pierre  Cresson,  an- 
other French  refugee,  who  after  his  death 
married  (second)  Jean  Durie  or  Du  Rij.  Their 
children  were:  i.  David,  baptized  February 
19.  1676;  died  1768:  married  Sara,  daughter 
of  the  Rev.  (iuillaume  llertholf,  the  first  Dutch 
Reformed  pastor  of  the  province  of  New  Jer- 
sey. 2.  Peter,  baptized  April  21,  1677;  ^ied 
probably  in  infancy.  3.  Susanna,  baptized 
A])ril  7.  1679:  married  (first)  Pieter  Lub- 
bertse  W'estervelt.  and  (second  I  William 
Teller.  4.  Rachel,  baptized  June  4,  1680;  died 
before  1710;  married  Andries  Janse  Van  Nor- 
den.  5.  Jacobus,  baptized  October  30,  1681  : 
see  sketch.  6.  Samuel,  married  Sitsche  Sibase 
Ranta.  7.  Mary,  married  Wiert  Banta.  8. 
Daniel,  referred  to  below.  9.  Benjamin,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  dc  Groot.  10.  Jacomina,  mar- 
ried Andries  Louwrens  van  Boskirk.  11.  Lea, 
married  Rynier  \'an  Houten.  12.  Lydia,  mar- 
ried Stephen  Albertse  Terheun. 

(  HI)  Daniel,  the  eighth  child  and  fifth  son 
of  David  (2)  and  Rachel  (Cresson)  Demarest, 
was  born  in  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  in 
1685.  and  was  living  in  1753.  In  1731  he  was 
cue  of  the  deacons  of  the  newly  formed 
Schrealenburgh  church,  and  signed  the  call  to 
that  congregation's  first  pastor,  the  Rev. 
(Jeorgius  W'ilhelmus  Mancius.  The  last  refer- 
ence to  him  found  in  the  records  is  August  5, 
1763.  when  he  witnessed  the  baptism  of  his 
granddaughter  Rebecca,  daughter  of  his  son 
Daniel,  Jr.,  referred  to  below.  August  2,  1707, 
Daniel  Demarest  married  Rebecca,  daughter 
of  Pieter  DeGroot,  and  sister  to  the  first  wife 
of  his  brother  Jacobus,  and  to  the  wife  of  his 
brother  Benjamin.  Their  children  were:  i. 
David,  baptized  July  4.  1708;  married  Antie 
Christie.     2.    Belitje,   baptized    November   21, 


I 


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STATE   OF    Xl'.W    HORSEY. 


I/Oy:  married  I  Meter  CJutwater.  3.  Lea,  bap- 
tized Se])tember  23,  1711.  4.  Rachel,  baptized 
September  23.  171 1  ;  married  Abraham  Abra- 
hamse  Ulauvelt.  5.  Pieter,  referred  to  below. 
6.  Samuel,  baptized  February  7,  1719;  married 
Maria  I:!anta.  7.  Jacobus,  baptized  February 
15,  1721;  died  November  21,  1794:  married 
Feytje  \'ander  Linde.  8.  Lea,  baptized  Xo- 
vember  3.  1723;  married  Samuel  Samuelse 
Demarest.  9.  Jacob,  baptized  July  20.  1728. 
10.  Daniel,  Jr.  11.  Susanna,  born  1716:  mar- 
ried Johannes  Peek.     12.   Martjc,  born   1718. 

( IV)  I'ieter.  fifth  child  and  second  son  of 
Daniel  and  Rebecca  ( DeGroot )  Demarest,  was 
born  in  llackensack.  September  21,  1714,  and 
was  bajitized  there  the  following  October  2. 
Jle  died  in  July,  1770.  October  21,  1735.  he 
married  (first)  Osseltjin  \  ander  Linde,  born 
February,  1719:  died  September  13,  1748,  hav- 
ing borne  her  hu.sband  six  children  :  i.  Daniel, 
born  November  30,  1736;  died  February  4, 
1760.  2.  Pieter,  referred  to  below.  3.  Re- 
becca, I'ebruary  21,  1741  :  married  Samuel 
Pienjaminse  Demarest.  4.  (ieesje,  September 
13,  1744:  died  March  31,  1824;  married 
Jacubus  Durie.  5.  David.  November  22,  1746: 
married  Joanna  Kip,  and  died  March  17,  1809. 
6.  P)enjamin,  September  13,  1748;  died  Febru- 
ary 22,  1760.  January  23,  1760,  Pieter  Dem- 
arest married  (second)  .\nnatje  \'an  Dense, 
who  bore  him  four  more  children;  7.  Daniel, 
horn  December  15,  1761  ;  married  Santje  Peek. 
8.  Lena,  November  24,  1763:  died  1769.  9. 
Osseltje,  June  17,  1765;  married  Pctrus  Durie. 
10.  Jacob,  September  4,  1767:  married  Lea 
Peek. 

(V)  Pieter  (2),  second  child  and  son  of 
Pieter  (i)  and  Osseltjin  ( \'ander  Linde) 
Demarest.  was  born  July  3,  1739 ;  died  Novem- 
ber 1 1,  1804.  May  27,  1762,  he  married  Lydia. 
born  .August  5,  1744;  hajitized  at  Hackensack 
the  following  September  2;  died  August  15, 
1823,  daughter  of  Garrit  Hoppc  and  Hend- 
rickje  Ter  Mune.  Their  children  were:  i. 
I'ieter,  horn  November  ig,  1764,  see  forward. 
2.  Garret,  born  June  i,  1768;  died  December  4, 
1769.  3.  Garret.  November  26,  1770:  died 
August  24.  1792,  luimarried.  4.  Daniel,  May 
15.  1774:  died  March  13,  1785.  5.  1  Icndrike. 
February  15,  1785:  died  t'\'bruary  10.  1792. 

(VI)  Pieter  (3),  the  eldest  child  and  son 
of  Pieter  (2)  and  I,ydia  (Hoppe)  Demarest, 
was  born  November  19,  1764;  baptized  at 
Schraalenburgh,  November  25,  following,  and 
died  January  15,  1847.  May  30,  1796.  he  mar- 
ried Lea.  born  January  23,  1771  ;  <licd  October 
2,  1832,  daughter  of  Gerrit  Jacobse  and  Jaco- 


mina   (Helms)    Demarest,  and  granddaughter* 
of   Jacobus    Davidse    and    Alargrietje    Cosyns 
I  Herring )   Demarest.     Her  grandmother,  the 
second    wife    of   Jacobus    Davidse    Demarest. 
was  the  daughter  of  Tennis  Helms  and  Mar-i 
grietje  I'.lauvelt.    The  only  child  of  Pieter  and  I 
Lea    (Demarest)    Demarest    was    Daniel,    re-t 
ferred  to  below.  ! 

(\T1)    Daniel,  the  only  child  of  Pieter  an<l 
Lea  (Demarest)  Demarest,  was  born  May  16. 
171M  ;  baptized  at  Schraalenburgh,  June  3,  fol- 
Iciwing.  and  died  November,  1822.     November 
2<;,    i8to,    Ik-   married    Lea,   born   Januar\    o. 
1796:    baptized   at   Schraalenburgh,    February) 
13.  following:  died  May  10.  1872.  daughter  of} 
Isaac  Albertse  and  Margaret  Davidse  (Durie') 
liogert,  and  granddaugliter  oi  Albert   Isaacse 
and  Lea  Jacobse   (Demarest)    Bogert,  and  of 
David   Janse    Durie   and    Margaret    Cornelise . 
\'an  Hoorn,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Laac  j 
and  Lea  (Demarest)  Piogert,  of  David  Davidse  ' 
Demarest  and   Margrietje   Abramse   Heeriug. 
uf  Jan  Durie  and  Angenietje  Janse  Bogert  and 
<if  Cnrnelis  \"an  Hoorn  and  Maria  Demarest. 
'{"he  children  of  Daniel  and  Lea  (  Bogert)  Dem- 
arest were:     1.  Lea,  born  Se])tember  16,  181 1  ; 
died  .August   11,   1819.     2.   Isaac,  January  20. 
1814:  died  October  7,  1893:  married  Margaret 
\  an  W'agener.     3.  Peter,  July  14,  1816:  died 
.\'()\enil)er  14,  1894;  unmarried.    4.  David,  re- 
ferred to  below.     5.  Garret,  .\ugust  21,.  1821 ; 
died  .\])ril  23.  1877;  married  Maria  Demarest. 

(\'1II)  David,  fourth  child  and  third  son 
of  Daniel  and  Lea  (Bogert)  Demarest.  was 
born  July  30,  1819;  baptized  September  5. 
i8r9:  died  June  21,  1898.  He  was  a  clergy- 
man of  the  Reformed  church,  and  pastor  suc- 
cessively at  i'latbush.  Lister  county,  New 
York :  New  Brunswick.  New  Jersey,  and  at 
Hudson.  New  Xurk.  from  1841  to  1865.  From 
1863  until  the  date  of  his  death,  1898,  he  wa< 
the  professor  of  practical  theology  in  the  New 
Brunswick  Theological  Seminary.  He  was  the  ' 
author  of  many  articles  and  pamphlets,  and . 
some  books,  among  which  should  be  mentioned, 
"The  History  and  Characteristics  of  the  Re- 
formed Church,"  published  in  1856.  and  reach- 
ing its  fourth  edition  in  1898;  the  "Huguenots  1 
on  the  Hackensack."  a  pajter  read  before  the 
i  fnguenot  .Society  of  America  in  1886,  and 
later  republished :  the  "Lectures  on  Pastoral . 
Theology,"  published  in  1895;  and  the  follow- 
ing works  published  between  1890  and  1898: 
"Notes  on  the  Constitution  of  the  Reformed 
Ciiurch,"  and  "Lectures  on  Liturgies."  .Au- 
gust 19,  i84('),  David  Demarest  married  Cath- 
arine  Louisa,  daughter  of  James   Schuremait 


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149 


id  Catharine  ( I'oUiemus  1  Nevius,  and  grand- 
lugliter  of  the  Rev.  Henry  Polhenius.  Her 
ither  was  a  jnstice  of  the  supreme  court  of 
ew  Jersey.  The  children  of  David  and  Cath- 
rine  Louisa  (Nevius)  Demarest  were;  i. 
eah,  now  Mrs.  Graham  Taylor.  2.  James 
chureman  Nevius.  3.  Catharine  Louisa,  now 
[rs.  Oliver  Davidson.  4.  Mary  Arthur,  un- 
larried  and  living  with  her  brother  in  New 
runswick.  5.  Alfred  Howard,  who  died  No- 
ember  3,  1904.  5.  William  Henry  Steele,  re- 
;rred  to  below.  7.  Stephen  DuIJois,  who  died 
lecember  11,  1894. 

( IX)  William  Henry  Steele,  the  sixth  child 
nd  third  son  of  David  and  Catharine  Louisa 
Nevius  )  Demarest,  was  born  at  Hudson,  New 
.'ork,  May  12,  1863,  and  is  now  living  in  New 
5runswick.  New  Jersey.  He  graduated  from 
iutgers  College  Preparatory  School  in  1879: 
rom  Rutgers  College  in  1883,  with  the  degree 
if  .\.  \'j.,  and  from  the  New  Llrunswick  Theo- 
Dgical  Seminary  in  i§88.  In  1886  he  received 
I'rom  Rutgers  College  the  degree  of  AI.  A.. 
ind  in   1901  the  degree  of  D.  D.     From  1883 

0  1886  he  was  a  teacher  in  the  Rutgers  College 
Preparatory  School,  and  since   1888  has  been 

1  clergyman  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church, 
[•"rom  1888  to  1897  he  was  pastor  at  Walden, 
Slew  York:  from  1897  to  1901  pastor  at  Cats- 
iill.  New  York.  From  1901  to  1906  he  occu- 
pied the  chair  of  church  history  and  govern- 
nent  at  the  New  Brunswick  Theological  Semi- 
lary.  from  1905  to  i()oC>  being  also  the  acting 
president  of  Rutgers  College.  In  1906  he  was 
rhosen  as  the  president  of  Rutgers  College,  and 
itill  occupies  that  position.  His  clubs  are  the 
L'niversity  Club,  of  New  York  City ;  the  Rut- 
jers  Club,  of  New  r)runswick :  the  Delta  Phi, 
jreek  letter  college  fraternity :  the  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  Society:  the  Huguenot  Society  of 
\merica :  the  Holland  Society,  of  New  York. 
Dr.  Demarest  i>  unmarried. 


.For  first   g:eneration  .see  preceding  sketch). 

( II  )  Jean,  eldest  child  of 
DEM  ARh'.ST  David"  and  Maria  (  Sohier  ) 
des  Marest,  was  born  in 
Middleburg,  Zeeland,  Netherlands,  and  bap- 
tized there  in  the  Reformed  church  of  that 
:ity.  .April  14,  1645.  He  immigrated  to  New 
Netherlands,  North  .America,  with  liis  parents 
in  1663,  and  lived  with  them  on  Staten  Island. 
Harlem  and  Hackcnsack.  New  Jersey.  He 
married  (first)  in  .New  Jersey,  September  9, 
1668,  Jacomina  Dreuns  (de  Ruine),  and  she 
became  the  mother  of  his  children:  i.  David, 
baptized  in  New  York,  .August  18,  1669 ;  mar- 


ried -Antje,  daughter  of  Jan  Slot,  who  died 
tie  fore  1706,  and  his  widow  married  Jonathan 
Hart,  of  Southhold,  Long  Island,  September 
7,  1706.    2.  John,  baptized  in  New  York,  June 

18,   1671:  married  Deborah  ;  removed 

to  Ajjoughquinsing,  Chester  county,  P'ennsyl- 
vania.  3.  Alary,  married  (first)  a  Mr.  Ely; 
( second )  Jocobus,  eldest  son  of  Peter  Slot. 
4.  Sarah,  baptized  in  New  York,  October  12, 
1675 :  married  .Abram  Canon.  5.  Simon,  bap- 
tized in  -New  York,  November  22,  1677;  he 
probably  died  in  infancy.  6.  Rachel,  married 
Thomas  Hyer,  of  .Apoughquinsing,  Pennsyl- 
vania, Alay  9.  1702.  7.  Jacomina,  baptized  in 
New  York,  .April  21,  1680;  married  John 
Stewart,  of  Sterling,  Scotland,  Alarch  29,  1700, 
and  lived  in  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania.  8. 
Lea,  baptized  at  Ilergen,  New  Jersey,  .April 
18,  1682;  married  .\bram  Brower,  Alarch  29, 
1700.  9.  Alagdalina,  married  James  Christie, 
of  Iverdeen,  Scotland,  September  8,  1703.  10. 
Samuel,  baptized  in  New  York,  November  13, 
1687:  i)rol)ably  died  in  infancy.  II.  Peter,  see 
forward.  He  married  (second)  Alarritje 
(Jacobse)  \'an  Winkle,  widow  of  Peter  Slot, 
.March  23,  1692,  in  New  A'ork.  He  married 
I  third )  Alagdalen  Laurens,  widow  of  Jean 
Tullier,  of  Hackensack,  December  20,  1702. 
He  had  no  children  by  his  last  two  marriages. 
He  died  in  Bergen,  New  Jersey,  1719. 

(  HI  )  Peter,  youngest  child  and  fifth  son  of 
Jean  and  Jacomina  (Dreuns)  Demarest,  was 
born  in  Harlem,  New  York,  about  1685.  He 
married  (  first  )  at  Hackensack,  Alarritje  Meet 
(  Alead ).  May  14,  1702,  and  (second  )  at  Hack- 
ensack, New  Jersey,  Alaria  Batton,  October 
13,  1721.  By  these  two  marriages  he  became 
the  father  of  eighteen  children,  seven  by  his 
first  wife  and  eleven  by  his  second  wife.  His 
fourteenth  child  David  Peter,  see  forward. 

(  1\  )  David  Peter,  son  of  Peter  and  Alaria 
(  Batton  )  Demarest,  was  baptized  at  Schraalen- 
burg.  New  Jersey,  Alay  21.  1738.  He  married 
Hester  lirower  and  had  ten  children  baptized 
in  llackensack:  1.  Peterus,  November  23, 
1761  :  died  in  infancy.  2.  Elizabeth,  baptized 
July  3,  17^3:  married  Jacobus  Westervelt,  Sep- 
tember 4,  1789.  3.  Peterus,  June  8,  baptized 
June  23,  1765:  married  Catalina  Benson.  4. 
Alaria,  liaptized  .August  2,  1767;  married,  No- 
vember 24,  1786,  Alatthew  I'ogart.  5.  Abram. 
baptized  October  22.  1769:  died  in  infancy.  6. 
Margrietje,  baptized  July  24,  1771  :  married, 
.April  13,  1791.  Christain  Stuart,  and  died 
.April,  1808.  7.  .Abraham,  born  December  14, 
1773:  baptized  January  i,  1774.  8.  John,  born 
October   24,   baptized   December  24,    1775.  at 


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Schraalenburg,  New  Jersey;  died  young.  9. 
David  D.,  see  forward.  10.  James  D.,  born 
March  9,  1780;  was  a  clergyman  of  tlie  Dutch 
Reformed  church;  married,  May  15,  1803, 
EHzabeth  Marring,  of  Tappan,  New  York,  and 
died  November  7,  1869. 

(V)  David  D.,  sixth  son  and  ninth  cliild  of 
David  Peter  and  Hester  (Brower)  Demarest, 
was  born  in  Schraalenburg,  New  Jersey,  1778; 
died  there  February  20,  1856.  He  married, 
April  16,  1797,  Hannah  Van  Saun,  and  they 
had  a  large  family  of  children,  born  in 
Schraalenburg.  of  whom  we  have  the  names 
of  si.x:  I.  Leah,  July  22.  1800.  2.  David,  see 
forward.  3.  Hester,  September  28,  1804;  died 
in  infancy.  4.  Hester,  January  27,  1808.  5. 
Maria,  August  11,  181 1.  6.  Samuel,  April  26, 
1814. 

( \T )  David,  eldest  son  of  David  D.  and 
Hannah  (  \'an  Saun)  Demarest,  was  born  in 
Schraalenburg.  New  Jersey.  August  7,  1802. 
He  married  Maria,  daughter  of  Peter  and 
Jane  (Van  Houten )  Paulson;  children:  1. 
Jane  Maria,  married  John  A.  Van  Wagoner. 
2.  Abram,  married  Maria  Courter.  3.  Peter, 
see  forward.     4.  Sophia  .Ann,  did  not  marry. 

5.  Catherine,  married  Garrabrant.     T). 

Ella  Levina.  born  December  20.  1852;  married 
(first)  Jojin  W.  Doremus.  and  had  Suda,  died 
aged  nine  months,  and  Susan,  died  aged  two 
months.  Ella  Levina  (Demarest)  Doremus 
married  (second),  June  25,  1895,  Dr.  Louis  L. 
Rupi)ert.  a  practicing  dental  surgeon  of  Brook- 
lyn. New  York. 

(VII)  Peter,  third  child  and  second  son  of 
David  and  Maria  (Paulson)  Demarest,  was 
born  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey.  He  wa.s  a  life- 
long resident  of  Paterson,  and  was  an  auc- 
tioneer and  also  conducted  a  grocery  store.  He 
sold  all  kinds  of  saleable  merchandise,  as  well 
as  houses  and  other  real  estate,  and  as  he 
.spoke  the  Dutch  language  fluently,  was  very 
jiopular  among  the  I  lollanders  who  lived  in  Pat- 
erson. He  married  Charity  Elizabeth  "S'eonian. 
Children,  burn  in  Paterson:  i.  Catherine,  mar- 
ried lieiijamin  Smolly  ;  one  child.  Clarence.  2. 
David,  born  September  6,  1864;  married  Eva 
.Steele ;  children :  Elizabeth  and  David.  3. 
Samuel,  see  forward.  4.  Mary  Adeline,  mar- 
ried Oscar  .Sutton  :  chilclren  :  Catherine.  Will- 
iam L.  and  Edward. 

(VHl)  .Samuel  Yeoman,  second  son  and 
third  child  of  Peter  and  Charity  Elizabeth 
(Yeoman)  Demarest,  was  Iwrn  in  l^aterson, 
.\ew  Jersey,  May  25.  1866.  He  married,  May 
24.  1903,  Emma,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Maria 
(Fritcher)    Harder.      He  became  a   dealer  in 


butter  and  eggs  and  country  produce,  in  part- 
nership with  his  brother  David.  At  the  time 
of  forming  the  partnership,  in  1880.  he  was 
only  fourteen  years  of  age,  and  his  brother 
David  sixteen  years  old.  The  business  wa.s 
established  in  their  native  village,  on  Main 
street,  and  continued  with  marked  success  up 
to  1900,  when  the  firm  was  dissolved,  and  he, 
the  younger  brother,  withdrew  and  started  in 
the  same  business  on  his  own  account,  two 
doors  from  the  old  stand.  His  reputation  fof 
fair  dealing,  strict  attention  to  business,  and 
personal  popularity,  among  his  townspeople 
won  him  success  and  a  place  as  a  foremost 
merchant  of  the  city  of  Paterson.  He  became 
a  prominent  member  of  the  American  Me- 
chanics -Association,  and  was  active  in  the 
various  movements  that  have  been  made  fur 
the  wellbeing  of  his  native  city. 


(  F"or  flist  generation  see  David  des  Marets  1). 

(H)  Samuel,  fifth  son  of 
DILMAKEST  David  and  Maria  (Sohicr) 
des  Marest.  was  Ijorii  in 
Mannheim  in  the  Palatinate  on  the  Rhine  m 
1656,  and  died  in  Hackensack,  New  Jer-iv. 
1728.  He  came  to  .America  with  his  parents 
and  was  married  to  ALiria  de  Ruine  (Dreuns) 
and  by  this  marriage  he  had  eleven  children 
born  in  IJergen  county,  .\'ew  Jersey,  and  in 
Hackcnsack,  New  Jersey:  r.  Alaydalina,  bap- 
tized in  New  York,  April  21,  1680,  married 
Cornelius  Epha  Banta,  November  i,  1799;  she 
(lied  before  1719.  2.  David,  baptized  at  P>er- 
gen.  New  Jersey,  October  3,  1681.  married 
Mattie,  daughter  of  Joost  de  P>aune,  November 
10.  1705.  3.  Samuel,  married  .\nnetje  \  an 
iloorn.  August  I,  1713.  4.  Peter,  married 
Margrietje  Cornelse  Herring,  September  14. 
^T^?-  5-  Jocomina,  married  (first)  Samuel 
Helling  (Helm),  November  10.  1705;  (.sec- 
ond) Cornelius  \'an  Hoorn  (2),  July  19,  1710. 
f).  Judith,  married  (first)  Christian  de  Baume, 
January  2<.).  1701):  (second)  Peter  Du  Rej 
(Durie).  July  21.  171 1.  7.  .Sarah.  ba])tizcd 
at  Hackensack.  March  7,  \(^)J :  married  John 
Westervelt  in  1718.  8.  Simon,  see  forward. 
9.  Rachel,  bajitized  at  Hackensack,  Jamiary 
12.  1 70 1,  married  Jocobus  Peck,  October  14, 
I72r>.  10.  .Susanna,  baptized  in  Hackensack, 
April  18.  1703,  married  P>enjamin  Van  Bus- 
kirk,  .March  21,  1725.  11.  Daniel,  baptized  at 
Hackensack.   March  25.   1706. 

(Ill)  .Simon,  fourth  son  and  eighth  child 
of  Samuel  and  Maria  (  Dreuns)  Demarest,  was 
baptized  in  Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  May  21, 
1691).     He  married,  \'rouwtje  Cornelise  Her- 


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151 


ig,    December    i,    1721,   and   they   lived    in 

ockland  count)',  New  York.     They  had  chil- 

■en :    Samuel,    Caroline,    Cornelius,    Daniel, 

arta.  Juliii,  David,  see  forward  ;  Peter.  Jacob, 

Icol). 
(I\  )    David,  fifth  son  and  seventh  child  of 

imon    and    Wouwtje    Cornelise     (Herring) 

emarest.  was  born  March  i,   1736,  probably 
Schraalenburg.   New   Jersey.     He   married 

'aria  Jannetie   Davids   Campbell,   on    March 
1758,  and    they    had    children:   William. 

imon  Davids,  see  forward ;  Elizabeth.  Fanny 
bd  Mary. 

(\' )  Simon  Davids,  son  of  David  and  Maria 
annetie  Davids  (Campbell)  Demarest,  was 
orn  in  Schraalenburg,  New  Jersey,  May  12, 

65.  and  died  there  July  i",  1828.  He  was 
larried  December  8.  178".  to  Hannah  Banta, 
■ho  was  born  November  16.  1768,  and  died 
eptcmber  10.  1826.  Children,  born  in 
ncliraalenburg :  Samuel,  Hannah,  David  S..  see 
nrward,  Jane. 

(\'l)  David  S..  second  son  and  third  child 
f  Simon  Davids  and  Hannah  ( Ranta )  Dema- 
est.  was  born  in  Schraalenburg.  New  Jersey, 
vugust  23,  1795.  and  died  there  July  4,  1877. 
le  married  ]\Iargaretta  Durie,  born  January 
o.  1802.  died  January  17,  1867,  and  they  had 
hildren.  all  born  in  Schraalenburg:  i.  Simon 
)..  whii  married  Margaret  P.lauvelt  in  1840. 
.  Jane,  who  married  John  C.  Zabriskie  in 
857.  V  Ravid  Durie,  who  married  Salina 
\'ard,  January  10.  1861.  in  California.  4. 
iamuel  D..  married  Catherine  \'an  Antwerp  in 
852.  5.  John  D..  who  did  not  marry.  6. 
lannah,  born  March,  1831,  married,  Novem- 
er,  i860,  Thomas  V.  ?>.  Zabriskie.  7.  Abra- 
am  S.  D.  (died  young).  8.  Abraham  S.  D. 
2d),  see  forward,  g.  Cornelius  ISlauvelt.  born 
lay  II.  i83r):  married  Aimie  "N'oung,  1863. 
O.  Margaretta.  married  John  (I.  lianta.  Mav. 
836.  II.  Isaac  D..  born  January  30.  1840. 
larricd  Pizzie  Zabriskie. 

(\I1)  .Abraham  S.  D..  eighth  child  and 
ixth  son  of  David  S.  and  Margaretta  (Durie) 
)emarest.  was  born  in  Schraalenburg,  New 
ersey,  May  18.  1834.  He  lived  on  the  old 
omestead  up  to  1867,  except  during  the 
ericKl  1856-60.  when  he  was  in  California 
,'ith  his  brother  David.  He  removed  to  New- 
urgh.  New  York,  in  i86g,  where  he  was  en- 
aged  in  the  music  business  up  to  1876,  when 
e  took  up  his  residence  at  Hackensack,  New 
ersey,  and  there  established  a  stationerv  busi- 
ess.  subsequently  connecting  with  it  the  sale 
f  [lianos  and  organs.  In  1886  he  added  to  the 
usiness  that  of  undertaking.      In  1892  he  sold 


out  his  stationery  business,  removed  to  larger 
({uarters  on  Main  street  and  devoted  himself 
entirely  to  the  undertaking  business  and  the 
sale  of  pianos  and  organs.  He  was  made 
treasurer  of  the  Hackensack  Mutual  Building 
and  Loan  Association  in  1890  and  still  held 
that  responsible  office  (1909).  His  church 
affiliation  has  always  been  with  the  Reformed 
Church,  and  on  removing  to  Hackensack  he 
became  a  member  and  deacon  in  the  First  Re- 
formed Church  of  that  place.  He  maintained 
an  independent  position  in  the  political  world. 
\T)ting  for  measures  rather  than  party  candi- 
dates. He  married.  January  17,  1861,  Lavina 
Pilauvelt.  an<l  they  have  two  children :  Mar- 
garetta, born  ill  Schraalenburg,  New  Jersey. 
June.  1863.  married  Cornelius  T.  Banta; 
.Sarah  Pouisa.  born  in  Newburgh,  New  York, 
in  July.  1869,  married  Frank  P)anta.  a  nephew 
of  her  sister's  husband,  and  has  a  child,  Helen 
Frances,  born  August  8,  1894. 


(For  aiice.stry  see  David  des  Maret.s  1). 

(R)     Jocobus,     third     son 

DKMAREST  and  fifth  child  of  David 
(2)  and  Rachel  (Cresson) 
Demarest.  was  baptized  in  P^latlands,  Long 
Island.  October  30,  1681.  He  married  (first), 
March  8.  1707,  Lea,  daughter  of  Peter  De 
( iroot :  (second)  Margritje  Cozine  Herring. 
September  26,  1719. 

( \  )  Johannis,  son  of  Jocobus  and  Mar- 
greitje  Cozine  (Herring)  Demarest,  was  born 
in  Rockland  county.  New  York,  August  20. 
1720.  and  died  on  February  I.  1783.  He  mar- 
ried Rachel  Zabriskie. 

(\'I)  James  J.,  son  of  Johannis  and  Rachel 
(Zabriskie)  Demarest.  was  born  in  Rockland 
county,  New  York,  .\ugust  20,  1749.  He 
married  Rachel  Smitt.  December  i,  1774.  She 
was  born  May  19.  1756,  and  died  April  28, 
1825.  They  lived  in  Middletown,  Rockland 
county.  New  York. 

(\TI)  Cornelius  J.,  son  of  James  J.  and 
Pachel  (Smitt)  Demarest.  was  born  in  Mid- 
dletown. New  York,  May  24,  1785,  and  died 
September  27,  1863.  He  married  Catherine 
Holdrum.  born  January  30,  1788,  died  August 
31.  1852. 

f\'II)  John  C,  son  of  Cornelius  J.  and 
Catherine  (Holdrum)  Demarest.  was  born  in 
Middletown.  Rockland  county.  New  York,  De- 
cember 31.  181 1,  and  died  in  New  York  City. 
September  i.  1880.  He  married  Isabella 
Taulman.  He  engaged  in  railroading,  and 
was  the  first  conductor  to  run  a  train  on  the 
Erie  railway  from  New  York  to  Suffern,  New 


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STATE    OF    XI-A\'    IF.RSEY. 


York,  wlien  that  part  of  the  part  of  the  line 
was  first  completed,  and  later  became  baggage 
agent  in  New  York,  and  still  later  was  em- 
ployed on  the  r.ong  Island  railroad,  where  he 
was  emjjloyed  at  the  time  of  his  death.  John 
C.  and  Isabella  (  Taulman  )  Demarest  had  five 
children,  born  on  the  <ilil  homestead  at  Middle- 
town,  New  York. 

(TX)  Milton,  son  of  John  C.  and  Isabella 
(Tanlman)  Demarest,  was  born  at  the  old 
homestead  at  Middletown,  Rockland  county, 
Xew  York,  Jnne  8,  1855.  His  parents  re- 
moved to  Xew  York  City  in  1856,  and  removed 
to  Xyack,  Xew  York,  where  he  attended  the 
public  schools,  comjjleting  his  preparatory  stud- 
ies at  the  school  of  Professor  William  Williams, 
known  as  Hackensack  .\cademy,  ilackensack, 
Xew  Jer.sey.  He  then  learned  the  upholster- 
er's trade,  and  devoted  his  evenings  to  the 
study  of  law,  having  determined  to  make  the 
]jractice  of  that  ])rofession  his  life's  work.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  as  an  attorney  in  the 
June  term  of  the  state  su]jreme  court,  1877, 
and  after  the  usual  three  years'  practice  under 
the  Xew  Jersey  law  was  admitted  as  a  coun- 
sellor-at-law.  He  began  practice  with  his 
brother-in-law,  \Valter  Christie,  for  one  year, 
and  thereafter  was  alone  up  to  18Q4,  when  he 
joined  a  ])artncrship  with  Abram  De  I'aun. 
under  the  firm  name  of  Demarest  &  De  Baun, 
and  that  law  firm  is  still  doing  a  large  and 
growing  business  in  1009.  In  the  spring  of 
IQ08  he  was  appointed  judge  of  the  court  of 
common  pleas  and  of  quarter  sessions,  and 
also  of  the  orphans'  court  of  Rergen  county, 
taking  his  scat  upon  the  bench  .Xjiril  i.  1908. 
His  political  affiliation  has  always  been  with 
the  Republican  i)arty.  and  his  religious  faith 
that  held  by  the  Reformed  Church,  the 
church  home  of  his  ancestors  for  ten  genera- 
tions or  more.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Reformed  Church  of  Hackensack  from  early 
youth,  and  became  superintendent  of  the  Sun- 
day school  as  well  as  an  officer  of  the  church 
organization.  His  fraternal  affiliations  include 
I'ioneer  Lodge  Xo.  70,  .Ancient  Free  and  .-Xc- 
cepted  .Masons,  in  which  he  is  a  fellow-crafts- 
man, and  he  also  holds  membership  in  I'crgen 
County  I-odge,  Xo.  y^i'  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Holland 
Society  of  New  York  City  by  right  of  descent, 
and  in  TCJ03-06  was  one  of  the  vice-presidents 
of  the  society  for  I'ergen  county.  He  organ- 
ized the  P.ergen  county  branch  of  the  Holland 
Society  of  Xew  "N'ork  and  was  its  first  presi- 
dent. He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Education    of    Hackensack.     1894-1908,    and 


])resident  of  the  board  1901-08.  On  going  on 
the  bench  he  resigned  his  duties  on  the  Board 
of  Education,  as  he  did  not  wish  to  serve  with- 
out giving  the  amount  of  time  he  had  been 
accustomed  to  devote  to  the  interests  of  that 
organization  for  fourteen  years.  He  also 
served  as  town  counsellor  for  seven  years, 
1897-1904.  and  in  1906  the  law  firm  of  Dema- 
rest &  De  r.aun  took  up  the  duties  of  tliat 
office. 

Judge  Demarest  married,  December  15, 
1880,  Carrie  W.,  daughter  of  Jonathan  S.  and 
Charlotte  (Beemer)  Christie,  of  Hackensack; 
children,  born  in  Hackensack,  Xew  Jersey: 
Charlotte,  May  3,  1888:  Carrie  1.,  June  10, 
1890:  Edith,  Xovember  14,  1891.  The  mother 
of  these  children  died,  and  Juflge  Demarest 
married  (second)  .\deline,  widow  of  Walter 
Christie  Bogart.  No  children  were  born  of 
this  marriage. 


I  For  Mnoe.stry   see  David  des  Marets   1). 

(lY)  Daniel  (2),  tenth 
1)I':.\1AREST  child  and  fifth  son  of 
Darnel  ( i  )  and  Rebecca 
(De(iroot)  Demarest,  was  born  in  Hacken- 
sack. Xew  Jersey,  and  baptized  July  20,  1728.  i 
Mis  will  is  dated  1802.  .August  26,  1753,  hel 
was  admitted  with  his  wife  to  membership 
in  the  church  at  Schraalenburgh,  but  ten  years 
later  he  seems  to  have  removed  back  to  Hack- 
ensack, where  June  17,  1764,  he  forms  one  of! 
the  consistory  of  the  Hackensack  church.  He, 
however,  removed  once  more  to  .Schraalen- 
burgh where  he  was  a  deacon  in  1784,  an 
elder  in  1785,  and  overseer  of  the  poor  in  1788. 
June  9,  1752,  Daniel  Demarest  married  (first) 
lOrnelia,  daughter  of  Reyk  and  Marytje 
I  llensoii  )  L\(lecker.  baptized  May  10,  1724. 
Their  children  were:  I.  Rebecca,  born  .August 
I,  1753,  died  March  10,  1802;  married  Douws 
R.  \\'estervelt.  2.  Gerret,  referred  to  below. 
3.  \\eyntje,  baptized  May  6,  1759.  4.  Daniel, 
baptized  h\bruary  22,  1 761.  Jacobus,  bap- 
tized .Ajiril  3,  1763.  6.  Slargrietje,  bajitized 
.March  31,  1765.  7.  Wyntje.  8.  Roelof,  bap- 
tized June  4.  I7'')<).  married  C"atharine  \'an 
\  oorhees.  9.  Ilelitje,  born  May  28,  1772.  mar- 
ried John  D.  Durie.  .Ai)ril  20,  1791,  Daniel 
Demarest  married  (second)  W'ilma  \'an  \'oor- 
isen,  the  widow  of  John  Hoppe, 

{  \  )  ( ierret  or  ( larret,  second  child  and  eldesfc 
son  of  Daniel  and  Cornelia  (  Lydecker)  Dema-j 
rest,  was  born  in  .Schraalenburgh  and  baptize( 
there  I'ebruary  13,  1757.  He  lived  in  Schraal-I 
enlnirgh,  where  in  1790  he  is  recorded  as  being 
with    his    wife    among   the    members    of    thi 


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153 


Scliraalenbiirgh  church  since  178O.  In  1792- 
93-98-99  he  was  one  of  the  deacons  of  the 
church  there,  and  in  the  last  named  year  was 
alMi  one  of  the  consistory.  July  2.  1800,  he 
was  succeeded  as  deacon  at  Hackensack  by 
I'ictcr  Isaacse  Demarest.  (jerret  Demaresr 
married  Angenietje,  daughter  of  David  and 
Margrietje  (  \'an  Hoorn)  Durie.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  i.  Daniel,  referred  to  below.  2. 
David,  born  October  14,  1787.  3.  David,  June 
22,  1 79 1.  4.  Cornelia,  November  21,  1793. 
5.  Margrietje.  March  24,  1797. 

(  \'I  )  Daniel  ( 3  I,  eldest  child  of  Gerret  and 
Angenietje  (Durie)  Demarest,  was  born  at 
Schraalenburgh.  in  1780.  and  baptized  there 
April  21,  1782.  He  married  Elizabeth  Ben- 
son, and  among  their  children  was  John,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(XTI)  John,  son  of  Daniel  (3)  and  Eliza- 
beth (Benson)  Demarest,  was  born  near  Pat- 
erson.  Passaic  county.  New  Jersey,  in  1810. 
He  married  Anne  \  an  Buskirk  and  among 
their  children  was  Daniel,  referred  to  below. 

(\'HI|  Daniel  (4),  son  of  John  and  Anne 
(\^an  Buskirk)  Demarest,  was  born  near  Pat- 
erson,  February  22,  1833,  and  is  now  living  in 
Montclair,  New  Jersey.  He  married  Mary  C. 
Garrison,  born  April  29,  1838,  and  their  chil- 
dren are:  i.  Cornelius,  born  June  11.  1854, 
died  September.  1891):  married  Belle  Christie, 
and  left  three  children:  Daniel,  Hilda,  who 
married  Sherman  Demarest,  and  Frederick 
\'an  liuskirk.  2.  Laura  Meta,  February  25, 
i860,  married  George  H.  Ackerman  and  has 
one  child,  Irma  Mae,  who  married  G.  Freder- 
ick Johnson,  of  Glen  Ridge.  3.  Benjamin 
Garrison,  referred  to  below.  4.  George  Mc- 
Lean. December  4.  1874.  who  married  \'ivian 
Compton  and  is  now  living  in  Newark. 

(  IX  )  Ilenjamin  Clarrison.  third  child  and 
second  son  of  Daniel  (4)  and  Mary  C.  (Gar- 
rison) Demarest,  was  born  in  Passaic,  New 
Jersey.  June  26,  1867,  and  is  now  living  in 
Montclair.  He  was  educated  in  the  Passaic 
high  school,  and  New  York  University,  re- 
ceiving his  degree  of  I^L.  M.  in  1891,  B.  S. 
in  T905.  M.  .\.  in  1907  and  of  Ph.  D.  in  1908. 
He  had  previously  received  from  Columbia 
L^niversity  his  degree  of  LL.  B.  in  1888.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  in  1888 
and  to  the  New  York  bar  in  1890,  and  is  now 
practicing  his  profession  in  Newark.  Mr. 
Demarest  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Graduates'  Club  of  New  York,  of  the 
Holland  Society  of  New  York,  of  the  Wed- 
nesdav  Club.  New  Jersey  Historical  Society, 
and  the  I,awvers'  Club  of  Newark.     He  is  a 


member  of  Trinit\-  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Montclair,  and  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  Extension  Committee  of  the  Presby- 
tery of  Newark  on  June  26,  1908;  Benjamin 
Ciarrison  Deiuarest  married  in  ^lontclair,  Cor- 
nelia \  an  Tilburg.  daughter  of  \\  illiam  Wal- 
lace and  Mary  (Young)  Hullfish.  whose  chil- 
dren were:  I.  Lillian,  who  married  I-Vank  Earl, 
of  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  and  has  one 
child,  Harry  Geib.  2.  Cornelia,  referred  to 
above.  3.  Alice,  who  married  Harry  De  An- 
geles Hutt,  of  Berkeley,  California,  and  has 
one  child,  Norman. 


(For   ancestry   see  preceding  .sketches). 

(\  I)  Samuel,  eldest  son  of 
DEMAREST  Simon  Davids  (q.  v.)  and 
Hannah  (  Banta  )  Demarest: 
was  born  in  Schraalenburgh,  Bergen  county, 
New  Jersey,  in  1791.  He  was  brought  up  on 
his  father's  farm  and  followed  that  vocation 
during  his  earlier  life,  but  as  his  years  in- 
creased he  engaged  in  the  coal  business  and  be- 
came a  well  known  and  successful  dealer  in 
wood  and  coal  in  Demarest,  New  Jersey.  He 
marrieil  Elizabeth  Zabriskie ;  children,  born  in 
Demarest,  New  Jersey:  Ralph  S.,  John,  Maria, 
Margaret,  Samuel  S.,  Ann  Eliza,  Garret  Za- 
briskie, Catherine. 

(  \  II  )  Garret  Zabriskie,  fourth  son  and  sev- 
enth child  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Zabris- 
kie )  Demarest,  was  born  in  Demarest,  Bergen 
county.  New  Jersey,  June  6,  1829.  He  was 
brought  up  on  his  father's  farm,  and  after  his 
marriage  continued  that  vocation  at  Demarest, 
New  Jersey,  adding  to  it  the  business  of  dis- 
tilling. He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Judge  John  H.  and  .\nn  (Winner)  Zabriskie, 
of  Hackensack.  New  Jersey:  children,  born  in 
Hackensack,  New  Jersey:  John  H.  Z.,  Will- 
iam E.  Garret  Zabriskie  Demarest  died  in 
Demarest.  New  Jersey,  October  3,  1907. 

(VHI)  John  H.  Z.,  eldest  child  of  Garret 
Zabriskie  and  Margaret  (Zabriskie)  Demarest, 
was  born  in  Hackensack.  New  Jersey,  August, 
1850.  He  attended  the  public  school  of  Piack- 
cnsack,  and  was  graduated  at  the  Union  Busi- 
ness College  in  New  York  City.  On  leaving 
the  business  school  he  became  a  clerk  in  the 
Hudson  County  National  Bank,  Jersey  City, 
and  in  1884,  when  the  firm  of  Unz  &  Com- 
pany was  established  at  24  Broadway,  New 
York,  he  became  one  of  the  active  partners 
of  that  concern,  and  the  firm  built  up  a  large 
and  lucrative  business  as  printers  and  sta- 
tioners for  commercial  houses.  He  lived  in 
Demarest.  New  Jersey,  during  his  early  mar- 


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ried  life,  and  was  an  active  participant  in  the 
civic  affairs  of  the  town  without  being  allied 
to  either  of  the  great  national  parties  in  a  way 
to  interfere  with  the  independent  action  he 
held  as  expedient  in  the  conduct  of  town  af- 
fairs. He  served  as  mayor  of  Demarest, 
1903-09,  and  in  1908  removed  his  family  to 
Summit.  Xew  Jersey,  which  place  was  there- 
after his  home.  He  married,  October  i,  1873, 
Elizabeth  V.,  daughter  of  Peter  V.  and  Eliz- 
abeth (X'oorhis")  Moore,  of  New  York  City; 
children,  born  in  Demarest,  Xew  Jersey:  i. 
J.  Westerfield,  1877,  died  unmarried,  Novem- 
ber 20.  1902.     2.  Gretta,  April  i,  1881. 

(Vni)  William  E.,  second  son  and  young- 
est child  of  Garret  Zabriskie  and  Margaret 
(Zabriskie)  Demarest,  was  born  in  Demarest, 
Xew  Jersey,  1861.  He  was  a  pupil  in  the  pub- 
lic .schools  of  Demarest  and  the  high  school  of 
Jersey  City,  and  while  at  school  took  up  the 
business  of  telegraphy.  On  leaving  school  he 
became  connected  with  the  \\'estern  Union 
Telegraph  Company  as  an  operator,  in  which 
capacity  he  continued  for  several  years.  He 
then  established  the  Clostrr  Chronicle,  a 
weekly  newspaper  published  in  Closter,  Xew 
Jersey,  which  he  edited  and  published  for  three 
years,  when  he  retired  from  journalism  and 
from  active  business.  He  married  ("first) 
February  2,  1880,  .Sarah  F.,  daughter  of  John 
D.  and  Clara  (Gecoxl  Ferdon.  of  .-Mpine.  New 
Jersey :  children,  born  in  Demarest.  Xew  Jer- 
sey: I.  Margretta  Zabriskie,  September  23, 
1882.  2.  Garret  Zabriskie,  September  26, 
1884,  see  forward.  3.  Elizabeth  M.,  October 
t6.  1893.  Sarah  F.  (Ferdon)  Demarest.  the 
mother  of  these  children,  died  at  her  home  in 
Demarest.  Xew  Jersey.  December  5.  1899, 
aged  thirty-seven  years.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) .August.  1904.  .Annie  L.  Davies,  a  native 
of  Kingston.  Ontario,  Canada. 

(IX)  Garret  Zabriskie.  only  son  and  second 
child  of  William  E.  and  Sarah  F.  (Ferdon) 
Demarest.  was  born  in  Demarest,  Bergen 
county.  X'^ew  Jersey.  September  26.  1884.  He 
received  his  early  school  training  at  the  public 
scho<il  and  Closter  high  school,  where  he  was 
prepared  for  matriculation  at  New  York  Uni- 
versity, where  he  was  graduated  A.  B..  1906. 
He  then  entered  the  law  office  of  Wakelee. 
Thornall  &•  Wright.  50  Church  street.  New 
York  City,  as  a  law  student  under  the  especial 
patronage  of  .Senator  \\'akelee.  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  New  Jersey  bar,  March  11.  1908, 
and  continucfl  his  association  with  this  firm  in 
his  newer  capacity  of  an  attorney  and  coun- 
sellor at  law.     fie  continued  his  home  in  Dem- 


arest. New  Jersey,  where  his  fraternal  affilia- 
tion was  made  with  the  Masonic  order  through 
membership  in  Alpine  Lodge,  No.  ^J,  .Ancient 
Order  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Clos- 
ter. Xew  Jersey. 


(For  preceding  generations  see  David  des  Marets  1). 

(HI)  David  (3).  eldest  son 

i )EMOREST*  and  child  of  David  (2  )  and 
Rachel  (Cresson)  Demar- 
est, was  baptized  in  Xew  York,  February  19. 
1676.  He  had  come  from  Holland  at  the  in- 
stance of  the  Classis  of  .Amsterdam  in  the  ca- 
pacity of  catechizer  voorlesser  and  school- 
master for  the  Dutch  settlers.  His  work  was 
appreciated,  and  the  community  of  Hacken- 
sack.  having  no  church  organization,  desired 
to  make  him  their  dominie,  as  well  as  to  fill 
other  useful  offices,  and  they  at  once  set  about 
to  raise  a  sufficient  sum  to  send  him  back  to 
Holland  to  complete  his  studies  in  theolog}-  and 
receive  ordination  for  the  ministry.  He  spent 
one  year  in  Holland  for  this  purpose  and  re- 
turned in  1694,  fully  authorized  by  the  Classis 
of  Holland  to  form  and  take  charge  of  a 
church  and  perform  all  the  functions  of  his 
offices.  This  process  made  him  the  first  regu- 
larly ordained  minister  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church  in  Xew  Jersey,  and  he  was  licensed 
by  the  Classis  of  Aliddlebury  to  preach  for  the 
churches  at  Hackensack  and  .Acquockanok. 
September  16.  1693.  just  before  he  left  Hol- 
land. He  died,  after  a  ministry  of  seventy- 
three  years,  in  Hackensack.  X'ew  Jersey.  1768. 
He  married.  .April  24,  1697,  Sara,  daughter  of 
Rev.  Guillaume  (\\'illiam)  Bertholf,  and 
among  their  children  was  David,  see  forwanl. 

(I\')  David.  (4),  son  of  David  (3)  and 
.'■^ara  (Bertholf)  Demorest.  was  born  in  Hack- 
ensack. r.ergen  county,  X"ew  Jersey,  1702,  died 
in  17(18.  He  married,  in  1729.  Katrina  \'an 
Houton. 

(\')  David  (5),  son  of  David  (4)  and  Ka- 
trina (  \'an  Houton)  Demorest,  was  born  in 
Hackensack,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  1731, 
died  there  in  1800.  He  married,  in  1760,  Lena 
\'an  \'oorhees. 

(\T)  Cornelius,  son  of  David  (5)  and  Lena 
f  \'an  \'oorhtes)  Demorest.  was  born  in  Hack- 
ensack. Bergen  county,  Xew  Jersey,  September 
6.  1761.  died  in  Brighton,  Monroe  county, 
Xew  A'ork,  June  7,  1845.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  .American  revolution,  enlisting  as  a  pri- 
vate in  the  Bergen  county  militia  before  he 
was  eighteen  years  of  age.  and  after  the  war 

•This  branch  of  the  family  pre.^erves  the  Demo- 
rest form  of  the  family  name. 


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removed  to  Xew  York  City,  where  he  was  a 
citizen  for  more  than  twenty-five  years  before 
removing  to  Brighton,  New  York.  As  early 
as  May  i,  1801,  he  was  Hcensed  by  the  mayor 
of  Xew  York  City  to  keep  a  cart,  which  indi- 
cates his  business  to  have  been  a  cartman  for 
^t'  ires  along  the  wharf  and  emplbyed  by  any 
iiurchant  in  need  of  such  service.  The  last 
date  on  which  a  license  was  granted  is  May  4, 
iS_'6,  and  all  these  licenses  are  in  the  pos- 
•-(.ssion  of  his  great-grandson,  William  C. 
1  )imorest.  His  name  sometimes  appears  as 
C'  irnelius  N.  Demorest.  He  married  Ann, 
whose  surname  does  not  appear  on  record. 

(\llj  Peter,  son  of  Cornelius  and  Ann 
i'emorest,  was  born  in  Schraalenbiirg,  New 
Jersey,  1790,  and  lost  his  life  by  being  burned 
in  a  fire  at  Brighton,  Monroe  county,  New- 
York,  April  27,  1833.  to  which  place  he  had 
removed  with  his  father  about  1816.  He  mar- 
ried, in  1812,  Jane  Brouwer,  who  bore  him 
several  children. 

(\'III)  William  Jennings,  son  of  Peter  and 
Jane  (  Brouwer)  Demorest,  was  born  in 
Brighton.  ]\Ionroe  county,  New  York,  June 
10,  1822,  died  .-\pril  9,  1859,  buried  in  Ken- 
sico  cemetery,  Westchester  county.  New  York. 
He  received  an  excellent  education,  and  be- 
came a  journalist  and  ])ublisher  of  illustrated 
news  and  fashion  papers.  He  was  the  pioneer 
in  the  business  of  furnishing  cut-paper  fash- 
ions by  mail,  and  his  name  became  a  house- 
hold word  in  the  American  homes  where  his 
magazine  and  its  attendant  fashionable  pat- 
terns became  welcome  visitors  and  dictators  of 
just  what  the  Paris  and  New  York  leaders  in 
style  were  to  wear  the  coming  season.  He 
became  extensively  interested  in  the  develop- 
ment of  values  in  New  York  real  estate,  and 
also  became  a  business  partner  with  J.  J.  Little, 
a  foremost  printer  and  binder  in  New  York 
City,  and  the  firm  of  J.  J.  Little  &  Company, 
by  this  partnership,  greatly  enlarged  and  im- 
proved the  art  of  printing  in  large  editions  by 
modern  machinery.  He  became  possessed  of 
a  very  large  fortune  gained  through  his  ex- 
traordinary business  ability,  and  while  in  the 
prime  of  life  surrendered  his  various  business 
cares  to  his  sons  and  devoted  himself  to  philan- 
thropic work.  He  was  an  early  advocate  of 
temperance  and  of  the  abolition  of  slavery,  and 
his  great  aim  and  purpose  in  life  became  the 
creation  of  a  political  party  pledged  to  the 
abolition  of  the  use  of  intoxicating  liquor  by 
law.  In  this  purpose  he  accepted  the  nomin- 
ation of  lieutenant-governor  of  New  York, 
and  his  large  personal  following,  independent 


of  party  pledge,  made  his  vote  far  larger  than 
that  of  the  temperance  ticket  on  which  he  was 
named.  He  later  was  nominated  for  mayor 
of  New  York  City.  Mr.  Demorest  married 
(first)  in  1846,  Margaret  Willimina  Pool, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Jeanette  (Drennen) 
Pool,  the  former  of  whom  died  in  February, 
1849,  ^"d  the  latter  in  January,  1878.  Chil- 
dren of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Demorest:  i.  Willi- 
mina \  ienna  J.,  born  August  31,  1847;  mar- 
ried James  AL  Gano;  one  child,  Walter  Demo- 
rest Gano.  2.  Henry  Clay,  born  July  22, 
1850;  married  Annie  Lawrie ;  children:  i. 
Marie  Marguerite,  married  Cephas  B.  Rogers 
and  has  one  child,  Nathaniel  Demorest  Rogers ; 
ii.  William  Jennings  Demorest.  Mr.  Demo- 
rest married  (second)  1857,  Ellen  Louise  Cur- 
tis, daughter  of  Henry  D.  and  Electa  (Abel) 
Curtis,  of  Saratoga,  New  York,  a  leading  fam- 
ily of  that  part  of  the  state.  Children,  born 
in  Xew  York  City :  3.  William  Curtis,  see  for- 
ward. 4.  Evelyn  Louise,  married  Alexander 
G.  Rea,  of  Philadelphia. 

(IX)  William  Curtis,  son  of  William  Jen- 
nings and  Ellen  Louise  (Curtis)  Demorest, 
was  born  in  Xew  York  City,  August  2,  1859. 
He  was  prepared  for  college  in  his  native  city, 
and  was  graduated  at  Columbia  Universitv,  A. 
B.  1881,  LL.  B.  1883.  lie  then  became  a  law 
student  in  the  office  of  Xorwood  &  Coggeshall, 
in  order  to  gain  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
law  pertaining  to  titles  and  mortgages.  He 
practiced  real  estate  law  for  a  time,  but  the 
management  of  his  father's  large  real  estate 
investments  and  his  own  operations  along  the 
same  line  soon  crowded  out  a  possibility  of 
outside  business  in  every  line  except  real  es- 
tate, and  he  became  an  acknowledged  special- 
ist and  organizer  of  large  real  estate  trusts. 
In  1896  he  became  the  president  of  the  Realty 
Trust,  on  its  organization,  and  his  expert 
knowledge  of  values  both  real  and  prospect- 
ive in  and  outside  the  city  limits  gave  imme- 
diate success  to  the  enterprise.  In  addition 
to  serving  as  president  and  director  of  the 
Realty  Trust,  he  is  a  director  and  treasurer  of 
the  State  Realty  and  Mortgage  Company ;  sec- 
retary, treasurer  and  general  manager  of  the 
Demorest  &  Little  Company,  incorporated, 
(real  estate)  ;  director  and  member  of  the  ex- 
ecutive committee  of  the  Fidelity  Trust  Com- 
pany ;  trustee  and  member  of  finance  com- 
mittee of  the  Irving  Savings  Institution ;  di- 
rector of  the  Market  &  Fulton  National  Bank ; 
director  of  the  Royal  Baking  Powder  Com- 
pany ;  president  and  director  of  the  Cleveland 
Baking    Powder   Company ;    director    of    the 


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I'rice  Baking  Powder  Company;  and  director 
of  the  Tartar  Chemical  Company.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  New  York  State  Bar  Associa- 
tion, Bar  Association  of  New  York,  New 
York  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  Allied 
Real  Estate  Interests,  also  honorary  secretary 
of  the  Realty  League.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Holland  Society  of  New  York,  the  Empire 
State  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  St. 
Nicholas  Society.  Society  of  Colonial  Wars, 
Pilgrims  of  the  United  States  (and  its  treas- 
urer). Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society, 
Peace  Society  of  New  York,  American  Mu- 
seum of  Natural  History,  New  York  .\cademy 
of  Science.  Natural  .\cademy  of  Sciences,  New 
York  Zoological  .Society.  National  (leographic 
.Society.  Aletro])oIitan  Museum  of  Art.  Munic- 
ipal -Art  Society,  .American  Free  Art  League, 
Economic  Club,  New  Y'ork  Tax  Reform  As- 
sociation. National  Child  Labor  Committee, 
Immigration  Restriction  League.  American 
Civic  Association,  Civic  Forum,  Civil  Service 
Reform  Association,  and  the  American  Acad- 
emy of  Political  and  ScKial  Science.  He  has 
taken  great  interest  in  Columbia  Cniversity. 
and  while  an'  undergraduate  joined  the 
Lambda  Chapter  of  Psi  Cpsilon  fraternity, 
and  is  now  president  of  the  Lambda  Associa- 
tion, its  gracluate  organization.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Columbia  I'niversity  Club,  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Columbia  College  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation, also  a  member  of  the  Columbia  Law 
.School  .\ssociation,  the  Peithojogican  Society. 
a  Columbia  association,  and  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  "Eighty-Eighties.'"  Among 
his  social  and  charitable  interests  are  member- 
ship in  the  American  National  Red  Cross  So- 
ciety. Men's  League  of  .St.  Thomas'  Church, 
I  'eople's  Institute.  1  Ios|)ital  ( iuild  and  St.  John's 
(iuild.  and  the  Public  Schools  .\thletic  .\ssocia- 
tion.  He  is  a  governor  of  the  Lawyers'  Clul). 
and  a  member  of  tiie  Union  League  Club.  Met 
ro|)olitan  Club.  I'ulton  Club.  Knollwood  Club. 
.\uto  Club  of  .\merica,Long  Island  .Automobile 
Club,  St.  Bernard  Fish  and  Came  Club,  Camj) 
Fire  Club  of  Quebec.  Montagnais  Fish  and 
( iame  Club,  Camp  Fire  Club  of  .America  and 
^everal  others.  His  active  association  with  the 
foregoing  societies  and  clubs  is  evidence  of  the 
interest  he  displays  in  all  that  pertains  to  busi- 
ness, patriotism,  genealogical  research,  science, 
art,  civic  and  economic  reform,  college  asso- 
ciations and   in   recreation  and  amusement. 

Mr.  Demorest  was  married,  at  the  Church  of 
the  Divine  Paternity,  in  New  "^'ork  City,  Feb- 
ruary 6.  1884,  to  .Alice  Estelle.  daughter  of 
Charles  Leslie  and  .Alice  Emory  (Ogier)  Gil- 


bert. She  was  born  in  Camden,  Maine,  May 
22,  1863:  educated  in  the  public  schools  and 
Normal  College  of  the  City  of  New  York. 
She  is  a  trustee  of  the  New  York  Medical 
College  and  Hospital  for  Women,  the  Diet 
Kitchen,  and  of  St.  Luke's  Home  :  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Stnriety  of  Colonial  Dames,  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution,  and  chairman 
of  the  executive  committee  of  Sorosis.  Their 
children,  born  in  .New  A'ork  City,  are  as  fol- 
lows: I.  .Alice  Louise,  born  February  11,  1885. 
2.  (jilbert  Curtis,  September  15,  1895.  3. 
Charlotte  Katharine,  July  1,  1902.  These 
children  are  in  the  tenth  generation  from  the 
Huguenot  immigrant.  David  des  Morest,  born 
1620.  and  Marie  Sohier,  his  wife,  through  their 
fourth  son,  David,  of  Hackeiisack,  New  Jer-  | 
sey.  The  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Demo- 
rest in  New  York  City  is  at  No.  68  East  Sixty- 
sixth  street,  and  their  summer  home  is  Huk- 
weem  Lodge.  Loon  Lake,  .Adirondack  Moun- 
tains. 


The  name  of  (iifford  is  of 
(ilI<'F()RD  l-'rench  or  Huguenot  extrac- 
tion. According  to  family  tra- 
dition. (  Baron  )  Walter,  son  of  Osborne  Bolle, 
was  given  the  sobriquet  of  Gifford,  Giffard  or 
Gyffard,  signifying  liberality  or  generosity, 
which  was  accorded  to  him.  .According  to 
the  best  information  concerning  the  early  an- 
cestors of  this  family.  .Archer  Cjifford,  Giffard, 
or  Gyffard,  of  Normandy,  married  Katherinc 
de  I'llois,  or  Le  Bonn,  a  descendant  of  a  noted 
family  of  .Normandy,  and  who  were  of  the 
nobility  of  that  countr\-.  Archer  Gifford, 
above  mentioned,  came  from  Wales  to  Can- 
ada with  his  wife  Katherine  about  the  year 
175'!.  lie  took  up  arms  with  the  luiglish  and 
fought  against  the  bVench.  lie  died  in  Can- 
ada. 

The  (lift'ords  of  Essex  county  are  a  Welsh 
family,  and  although  they  are  among  the  later 
comers  to  this  country  and  "our  Town  upon 
Passaick  River,"  John  Gifford  and  his  brother 
having  einigrated  shortly  before  the  revolu- 
tionarv  war,  they  have  so  proved  their  worth, 
and  have  so  linked  themselves  not  only  by  in- 
termarriage with  Newark's  best  blood  but  also 
bv  their  achievements  in  the  interest  and  be- 
half of  both  city  and  state  that  to-day  they 
stand  among  the  front  ranks  of  those  who 
represent  that  section  of  the  state. 

(I)  John  Gifford,  born  in  Wales,  appears 
for  the  first  time  on  the  records  of  New  Jer- 
sey as  a  jirivate  in  Captain  Craig's  company  of 
state  troojjs  during  the  revolutionary  war.  Just 


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^o\v  lie  fared  in  that  momentous  struggle  we 
ire  not  told,  for  the  next  record  we  have  of 
him  is  a  marriage  license  in  the  office  of  the 
secretary  of  state  at  Trenton  stating  that 
April  7,  1779,  he  obtained  permission  to  marry 
Hannah  Crane,  which  he  seems  to  have  done 
a  little  later  in  the  same  month.  After  this  he 
appears  to  have  made  his  permanent  abode  in 
Newark,  where  he  built  for  himself  a  house, 
on  what  is  now  the  southwest  corner  of  Broad 
and  Academy  streets,  having  on  his  right  hand 
William  Rodger's  house  and  saddlery  and  on 
his  left  hand  the  old  Newark  Academy,  while 
facing  him  on  the  opposite  side  of  Broad 
street  was  the  mansion  of  Dr.  Uzal  Johnson. 
This  house  later  on  passed  into  the  possession 
of  William  Tuttle,  but  this  was  after  the  Cap- 
tain, as  John  Gifford  was  called  from  his  rev- 
olutionary service,  had  passed  away.  Between 
Dr.  J(jhnson  and  the  Captain,  on  the  roadside, 
was  one  of  the  town  pumps,  which  as  late  as 
1812  was  used  for  one  of  the  official  public 
bulletin  boards  as  the  Newark  town  meeting 
of  .\pril  12,  in  that  year,  passed  a  resolution 
that  all  hogs  running  at  large  were  to  be  sub- 
ject to  a  poundage  of  fifty  cents  which  if  not 
paid  in  four  days  was  to  be  collected  by  selling 
the  hogs  and  that  notices  of  such  sales  were 
to  be  posted  "at  three  different  places,  viz.  at 
Moses  Rofif's,  at  the  pump  opposite  Capt.  Gif- 
ford's  in  Broad  Way  and  at  Jacob  Plum's 
store  in  the  north  part  of  the  town."  Here 
with  one  exception  our  records  cease,  as  Cap- 
tain John  Gifford  died  intestate  in  1821.  leav- 
ing his  widow  and  seven  children:  i.  Kather- 
ine.  married  Dr.  Enion  Sketton,  of  \'irginia. 
2.  Mary,  died  single.  3.  Patience,  married 
Robert  Johnson.  4.  Sarah,  married  (first) 
Benjamin  Whittaker :  (second)  Robert  John- 
son, who  was  the  husband  of  her  deceased  sis- 
ter, Patience.  5.  Anna,  married  William  Mil- 
ler, of  Morristown,  New  Jersey.  6.  Susan, 
married  Thomas  Chapman,  an  attorney  of 
Camden,  New  Jersey.  7.  Archer,  see  for- 
ward. 

Hannah  Crane,  wife  of  Captain  John  Gif- 
ford, was  the  second  daughter  of  Joseph, 
great-grandson  of  Jasper  Crane,  one  of  the 
original  settlers  in  Newark  from  Branford. 
Her  own  great-grandfather,  Jasper  (2),  be- 
sides holding  half  a  dozen  offices  in  the  town 
and  being  deputy  to  the  provincial  council 
from  1697  to  1702,  married  Joanna,  youngest 
sister  of  Elizabeth  Swaine,  who  it  is  said  had 
the  honor  of  being  chosen  to  be  the  first  to 
land  on  the  banks  of  the  Passaic  when  the 
settlers  arrived.     Her  grandfather,  Lieutenant 


David  Crane,  was  the  town's  tax  collector  in 
1742,  and  for  a  number  of  years  after  1746 
one  of  the  committee  having  charge  of  the  par- 
sonage lands :  while  her  father,  Joseph,  was 
town  constable  in  1778,  the  year  before  her 
marriage. 

(  H)  .\rcher,  only  son  of  Captain  John  and 
Hannah  (Crane)  Gifford,  was  born  in  New- 
ark in  1796.  After  attending  the  Newark 
Academy,  he  graduated  from  the  College  of 
New  Jersey,  now  Princeton  University,  in 
1814.  and  later  received  from  that  institution 
his  Master's  degree.  Soon  after  this  he  began 
studying  law  in  the  office  of  Elias  Van  Ars- 
dale,  Es(|uire,  where  he  remained  until  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1818.  For  the  next 
twelve  or  thirteen  years  he  practised  in  New- 
ark steadily,  winning  for  himself  a  reputation 
as  one  of  the  rising  constitutional  lawyers,  and 
among  other  things  laying  the  foundations  for 
his  valuable  contribution  to  the  legal  literature 
of  New  Jersey,  which  he  published  afterwards 
under  the  title  of  "Digest  of  the  Statutory  and 
Constitutional  Constructions,  etc.,  with  an  In- 
dex to  the  Statutes  at  Large."  He  was  not 
an  office  seeker,  but  in  1832,  when  the  town 
had  become  so  populous  that  the  lecture  room 
of  the  Third  Presbyterian  Church,  the  largest 
hall  in  Newark  and  in  use  since  1830  as  a 
town  hall,  would  no  longer  accommodate  the 
meeting,  together  with  Isaac  Andruss,  Joseph 
C.  Hornblower,  Stephen  Dod,  and  \Villiam 
H.  Earle,  .\rcher  Gifford  was  appointed  as  a 
committee  "to  digest  a  plan  for  the  division  of 
the  township  into  two  or  more  wards,  with  a 
system  for  the  transaction  of  the  township 
business  upon  equitable  principles,"  and  when 
the  report  of  the  committee  had  been  discussed 
and  a  revised  plan  finally  adopted,  James  \'an- 
derpool  and  .\rcher  Gifford  were  appointed  to 
represent  the  north  ward  of  the  town  on  the 
committee  that  prepared  the  bill  for  presenta- 
tion to  the  legislature.  This  bill  became  a  law, 
and  the  ward  system  so  organized  was  carried 
into  effect,  April.  1833,  and  operated  success- 
fully for  three  years  when  the  town  received 
its  charter  as  a  city,  April,  1836.  In  this  year 
Arthur  Gifford  was  appointed  by  President 
.\ndrew  Jackson  collector  of  customs  for  the 
port  of  Newark,  an  office  he  continued  to  hold 
for  twelve  years,  in  1843  adding  to  it  a  mem- 
bership in  the  coinmon  council  of  the  city  to 
which  he  had  been  elected  in  1843.  He  was 
also  for  many  years  an  active  and  enthusiastic 
member  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society 
and  many  valuable  contributions  to  its  col- 
lections were  the  results  of  his  efforts.     As  a 


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cluircliniaii  and  a  communicant  of  Trinity 
Cluirch.  Newark,  Mr.  Gittord  labored  long  and 
earnestly.  I""or  twfenty-four  years  he  was  sen- 
ior warden  of  the  parish,  and  in  addition  to  his 
labors  in  this  office  he  took  an  active  part  in 
the  rising  Tractarian  discussions  of  his  day  by 
writing  and  publishing  a  strong  controversial 
panij)hlet  entitled  the  "Unison  of  the  Liturg}'." 
During  the  greater  part  of  his  life  he  was  a 
man  of  robust  health,  and  it  is  said  that  he  en- 
joyed nothing  better  than  a  walk  from  Tren- 
ton to  Newark,  a  distance  of  fifty  miles,  which 
he  often  accomplished  in  going  to  and  from  the 
sessions  of  the  supreme  court.  He  died  May 
12,  1859.  By  his  wife,  Louisa  C.  Cammaim, 
of  New  York,  Mr.  Giftord  had  six  children : 
I.  Charles  Louis  Cammann,  treated  below.  2. 
Ellen  M.,  now  living  at  50  Park  place,  Newark. 
3.  John  Archer,  treated  below.  4.  Louisa 
Cammann.  5.  George  Ernst  Cammann,  treated 
below.     6.  I'hilip  A. 

(Ill)  Charles  Louis  Cammann,  eldest  son 
of  Archer  and  Louisa  C.  (Cammann)  Gifford, 
was  born  in  Newark,  November,  1825,  died  in 
that  city,  March  29,  1877.  In  1845  'le  gradu- 
ated as  a  member  of  the  third  class  of  the  Law 
School  of  Vale  University,  and  returning  home 
.studied  law  in  the  office  of  his  father  until  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  as  attorney  in  January, 
1847.  ^'"''  the  next  four  years,  while  still  con- 
tinuing his  legal  studies,  Mr.  Gifford  acted  as 
deputy  collector  for  the  port  of  Newark  under 
his  father's  successor,  James  Hewson,  and  in 
Jamiary,  1850,  was  atlmitted  to  the  bar  as 
counsellor.  In  1857  he  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  house  of  assembly,  and  for  the  three 
follow^ing  years,  1858  to  i860,  was  returned 
as  state  senator,  during  the  last  mentioned  year 
serving  as  jjresident  of  that  body.  For  years 
Mr.  Gifford  had  been  identified  with  the  Dem- 
ocratic ])arty.  and  with  the  cxcc])tion  of  the 
following  instance  he  continued  to  be  so 
throughout  his  life.  In  1861  he  was  the  anti- 
Democratic  candidate  for  the  mayoralty 
against  Moses  Bigelow,  but  was  defeated. 
June  29,  1872,  Mr.  GifTord  was  sworn  in  as  the 
presiding  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas 
for  Essex  coimty  to  fill  the  unexpired  tcriu  of 
Judge  Frederick  M.  Teese,  who  had  removed 
to  aiiotiier  county  and  resigned.  In  this  po- 
sition lie  was  succeeded  about  two  years  later 
by  Judge  Caleb  .S.  Titsworth.  ow-ing  to  Judge 
Gifforcl's  failing  health.  In  the  following 
year,  1875,  Judge  Gifford  and  his  wife  went 
to  Europe  in  the  hope  that  the  voyage  and  the 
rest  woidd  give  him  back  his  former  vigor : 
for  a  short  time  the  trip  seemed  to  have  a  salu- 


tary effect ;  he  gradually,  however,  grew  worse, 
and  after  many  months  of  suffering,  died  in  his 
own  house,  55  Fulton  street,  at  two  o'clock  in 
the  morning.  All  his  life  he  had  been  a  com- 
municant of  Trinity  Church,  Newark,  and  on 
the  Sunday  after  his  death  he  was  buried  from 
there  by  the  Rev.  John  H.  Eccleston,  D.  D. 
By  his  wife,  Helen  Matoaka,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam and  Rebecca  Murray,  of  \  irginia,  Juilge 
GilTord  had  six  children:  i.  William  Murray, 
born  1852.  2.  Charles,  died  in  infancy.  3. 
Oswald  Cammann,  1856,  died  1892;  married 
I'Vances  Kingsland  and  left  three  children:  Ed- 
mund, \'irginia  and  Helen  Murray.  4.  Susan 
\  .,  unmarried.  5.  Frank  W.,  uninarried.  6. 
Archer,  born  July  8,  1859;  married,  .April  24, 
1889,  Evelyn  .\.,  daughter  of  Henry  \\'.  and 
.Mary  G.  (.Abeelj  Duryee;  has  two  children: 
Gertrude  M.  and  Helen  J.,  and  is  now  engaged 
in  the  woolen  commission  business. 

(  III)  John  Archer,  second  son  of  .\rcher 
and  Louisa  C.  (Cammann)  Gifford,  was  born 
in  .\ewark,  October  21,  1831,  and  is  now  liv- 
ing with  his  family  at  60  Park  place,  in  that 
city,  .\fter  receiving  his  early  education 
under  the  tuition  of  Burr  Baldwin,  a  noted 
educator  in  his  day,  he  graduated  from  the 
-Vewark  .Academy,  and  at  once  started  on  a 
business  career.  From  1848  to  1854  he 
worked  in  the  employ  of  Sheldon  Smith,  man- 
ufacturer and  dealer  in  carriage  hardware. 
In  1863  this  firm  was  dissolved  and  Mr.  Gif- 
ford and  Cornelius  \'an  Horn  founded  the 
firm  of  C.  \'an  Horn  &  Company,  carriage 
hardware.  In  1871  the  corporate  name  of  the 
business  was  changed  to  Gifford,  Beach  & 
Company,  with  Mr.  Gifford  for  the  senioi 
partner,  and  ten  years  later,  when  Mr.  Beach 
retired,  Mr.  (iift'ord  continued  the  business 
alone  until  1903,  when  he  also  retired  from  ac- 
tive business,  and  left  the  business  to  his  son, 
Harry  H.  Gifford.  who  now  conducts  the  same 
under  the  firm  name  of  John  A.  Gift'ord  & 
Son. 

Mr.  Gifford  is  a  Democrat,  and  although 
drafted  for  the  war  in  1861,  he  sent  a  substi- 
tute in  his  place.  His  only  club  is  the  Esse.x. 
He  is  a  communicant  of  Trinity  Church,  New- 
ark, and  for  a  long  while  has  been  that  parisli's 
senior  warden  and  treasurer.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  finance  committee  of  the  dio- 
cese of  Newark,  and  one  of  the  trustees  of  the 
Episcopal  fund  of  the  diocese.  Among  the 
financial  interests,  outside  of  his  own  business, 
with  which  Mr.  Gifford  has  been  or  is  still 
identified  are  the  Security  .Savings  Bank,  of 
which  he  is  the  vice-president,  and  the  Manu- 


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facturers'  National  Bank,  in  the  latter  of 
.vliich  he  is  senior  director. 

February  11,  1858,  Mr.  Gittord  married 
.Vlary  jane  Ailing,  ninth  in  descent  from  old 
[ames  Allen,  the  blacksmith  of  Kempton, 
:ounty  Uedford,  England,  from  whose  sons, 
Roger  and  John,  have  sprung  the  descendants 
jf  the  AlHngs  and  Aliens  of  New  Haven. 
Roger  Ailing  came  to  America  about  1638,  and 
four  years  later  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Thiimas  Nash,  the  emigrant  of  the  Rev. 
John  lOavenport's  colony.  His  eldest  son, 
Samuel,  liorn  November  4,  1645,  died  August 
28,  i/oy,  was  twice  married,  first  to  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  John  Winston,  October  24,  ibbj, 
and  second  to  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Clied- 
sev.  October  26,  1683.  His  eldest  son.  Sam- 
uel, born  in  New  Haven,  October  16,  1668, 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Thomas  Curry, 
an<l  removed  to  Newark,  about  1701.  Here 
he  soon  became  one  of  the  town's  principal 
men.  holding  various  offices  of  trust  and  re- 
sponsibility between  the  years  1709  and  1732 
when  he  died,  and  for  the  last  five  years  of  his 
life  being  an  elder  in  the  church.  .  His  second 
son,  Samuel,  generally  known  as  Deacon  Sam- 
uel Ailing,  born  i6g8,  died  February  6,  1793; 
married  Abigail,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  John 
Prudden,  one  of  the  most  famous  of  Newark's 
early  dominies  and  schoolmasters.  John,  son 
of  Deacon  Samuel  Ailing,  1723  to  1753,  mar- 
ried Martha,  daughter  of  David  and  Mary 
Crane,  and  the  aunt  of  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Patience  Crane,  who  was  the  wife 
of  John  Gifford  (I).  The  eldest  son  of  John 
and  Martha  (Crane)  Ailing  was  John,  who 
married  Abigail,  granddaughter  of  Robert 
Young,  one  of  the  Scotchmen  welcomed  to 
Newark  with  Clizbie  and  Nesbit.  He  was  a 
lieutenant  in  a  minute  company  during  the  rev- 
olution and  was  the  John  Ailing  who  figured  so 
conspicuously  as  a  sharpshooter  when  the 
P>ritisli  pillaged  that  town.  John  Ailing,  his 
eldest  son.  born  December  27,  1772,  died  June 
14,  1852;  married.  January  18,  1798,  Sarah 
Hamilton,  anrl  their  second  son,  Charles  Ai- 
ling, born  April  14.  1803.  died  March  15,  1852, 
was  the  fatlier  of  Mary  Jane  (Ailing)  Gifford, 
by  his  wife  Clarissa  R.,  daughter  of  Jephtha 
end  Catharine  (P.ishop)  P.aldwin,  and  great- 
great-granddaughter  of  Benjamin,  son  of  Jo- 
se])li  Baldwin,  of  Milford.  by  his  wife  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Jonathan  Sergeant,  through 
dieir  son  and  grandson  Benjamin  (IH)  and 
Benjamin  (R'). 

John  .\rcher  and  Mary  Jane  (Ailing)  Gif- 
forrl   have   had   six   children,   three   of   whom. 


Clarissa  Baldwin,  John  Archer,  Jr.,  and  Char- 
lotte L.,  died  in  infancy.  Charles  Ailing 
Gifford,  born  July  17.  i860,  received  his 
elementary  educational  training  in  the  schools 
of  Newark,  which  he  supplemented  by  a 
course  in  the  Stevens  Institute,  graduating 
from  that  institution.  He  entered  the  office  of 
McKim,  Mead  &  White,  architects  of  New 
York  City,  and  after  spending  some  time  under 
the  tuition  of  this  noted  firm  Mr.  Gifford  en- 
gaged upon  an  independent  career  and  has  met 
with  a  marked  degree  of  success  in  his  pro- 
fession; married,  December  10,  1890,  Helen 
M.,  daughter  of  Colonel  Charles  M.  Conyng- 
ham  and  Helen  Hunter  Turner,  whose  grand- 
father, Jabez  Turner,  married  Rebecca  W'ol- 
cott,  daughter  of  William  Wolcott  and  Phebe 
Ailing,  the  daughter  of  Daniel,  youngest  son 
of  Samuel  by  his  first  marriage,  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  Roger  Ailing,  of  New 
Haven,  the  emigrant.  The  children  of  Charles 
Ailing  and  Helen  M.  (Conyngham)  Gifford 
are :  Alice  Conyngham,  Charles  Conyngham, 
John  Archer,  Herbert  Canimann,  who  died 
young,  and  Donald  Stanton.  Agnes  Gifford, 
the  only  surviving  daughter  of  John  Archer 
and  Mary  Jane  (Ailing)  Gifford,  is  unmarried 
and  lives  with  her  parents.  Harry  Harrison 
( iifford,  the  youngest  child,  is  treated  below. 

(  l\')  Harry  Harrison,  son  of  John  Archer 
and  Mary  Jane  (Ailing)  Gifford,  was  born  in 
Newark,  August  20,  1867,  and  is  now  living 
in  Summit,  New  Jersey,  carrying  on  the  car- 
riage'hardware  business  in  Park  Place,  New 
York  City,  which  his  father  turned  over  to  his 
management  in  1903.  After  graduating  from 
the  Newark  Academy  Mr.  Gifford  entered  the 
preparatory  school  of  Stevens  Institute,  Ho- 
boken,  and  later  Stevens  Institute,  in  the  class 
of  1889.  He  relinquished  his  studies  and 
entered  his  father's  employ  and  gradually 
worked  himself  up  until  on  his  father's  retire- 
ment he  became  general  manager,  and  in  1907 
full  partner  in  the  firm.  Mr.  Gifford  is  a 
staunch  Democrat  and  has  several  times  been 
oft'ered  different  offices  which  he  has  refused 
to  accept.  He  has  had  no  military  service  and 
belongs  to  no  clubs,  and  his  single  society  is  the 
college  fraternity  of  Chi  Phi.  He  has  no  bank 
connections  and  is  a  communicant  of  Calvary 
Church.  Summit,  New  Jersey. 

November  8.  1892,  Mr.  Gifford  married 
Elizabeth  Baldwin,  born  February  23,  1868, 
daughter  of  Henry  Clay  and  Anna  (Bolles) 
Howell,  who  has  borne  him  four  children: 
Anna  Howell.  November  16,  1893:  Elizabeth 
P.aldwin,    December    7,    1895:    Mary    Ailing. 


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April   11,   1898:  Marry   Harrison.  Jr.,  .Vugiist 
24,  1902. 

(IJl)  George  Ernst  Cammann,  tifth  chiUl 
of  Archer  and  Louisa  C.  (Cammann)  Gifford, 
was  for  many  years  manager  of  the  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company,  of  Xew  York,  al- 
though his  residence  was  in  Newark,  and  he 
was  the  Democratic  appointee  as  tax  receiver 
and  clerk  of  the  water  board.  He  married 
Jane  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Eliphalet  C.  and 
Jane  (Kingslandj  Smith.  Mrs.  Gifford's 
father  was  state  surveyor,  city  engineer,  and 
the  installer  of  Newark's  water  plant.  They 
have  two  children :  George  Ernst  and  .\rcher 
Plume  Giti'ord,  both  of  whom  have  married 
and  have  issue. 


The  name  of  Benjamin  be- 
BENJAAHN  longs  to  the  patronymic 
class  of  surnames,  which, 
while  a  general  characteristic  of  all  national- 
ities, was  almost  the  only  system  of  nomencla- 
ture in  vogue  among  the  Welsh,  who  when  the 
period  arrived  for  the  ado])tion  of  surnames 
merely  assumed  as  sucii  the  Christian  name  of 
the  father.  As  may  be  inferred  from  this,  the 
name  of  Benjamin  is  distinctively  Welsh, 
though  it  should  be  added  it  is  in  some  cases 
iMiglish  as  well.  Whether  the  family  at  pres- 
ent under  consideration  should  trace  its  lineage 
back  to  a  German  count  of  Jewish  lineage,  as 
some  members  of  the  American  and  English 
branches  do,  is  ])roblematical ;  it  seems  more 
likely  that  the  ]jedigree  connecting  the  Benja- 
mins of  Lower  Hereford  with  the  De  Laceys 
who  came  over  with  William  the  Con(|ueror,  is 
the  correct  one;  and  that  the  De  Laceys,  Bery- 
tons,  Berringtons  and  Benjamins,  descendants 
of  W'alter  de  Lacey,  of  1074,  who  lived  in 
Hereford  county  and  on  the  Welsh  border, 
are  the  ancestors  of  the  founders  of  the  New 
England  and  Long  Island  families  of  Benja- 
min. 

These  two  families  are  in  reality  one ;  for 
their  emigrant  ancestors  were  brothers  who 
came  from  Lower  Hereford  to  I'oston.  where 
one  became  the  founder  of  the  Benjamins  of 
Massachusetts,  and  his  brother  Richard,  re- 
moving to  Southold,  Long  Island,  in  1663, 
with  his  wife  .Xnn  and  his  daughter  Ann,  born 
September  i,  1643,  api)lied  in  May,  1664, 
with  Jeffrey  Jones  and  others,  to  the  general 
court  of  Connecticut  to  be  admitted  as  Con- 
necticut freemen,  and  later  had  the  oath  of 
fidelity  administered  to  them  by  Captain  John 
Young,  of  Southold.  Since  that  time  Rich- 
ard Benjamin's  descendants  have  made  their 


name  antl  mark  in  the  ]»ilitics  of  Oueens  ami 
Kings  counties. 

(  1 )  John  Benjamin,  brother  of  Richard  Ben- 
jamin referred  to  above,  was  born  in  lower 
Hereford,  in  1598,  and  died  in  Watertown, 
Massachusetts.  June  14,  i(>45.  He  was  a  man  of 
much  conse(|uence  not  only  intellectually  and 
spiritually,  but  also  socially,  as  Governor  \\  in- 
throp's  designation  of  him  as  gentleman  fully 
bears  out  the  family  tradition  that  he  bore 
arms  and  belonged  to  the  landed  gentry  of  his 
native  land.  These  arms,  were :  Or.  on  a 
saltire  (|uarterly-pierced  sable  five  annulets 
counter  charged.  Crest :  on  a  chapeau.  a 
Illume  of  fire  all  proper.  Motto:  "I'oussez  en 
avant"  ("Press  forward'").  .As  the  annulets 
show,  John  Benjamin  was  a  younger  son,  the 
number  telling  us  that  he  was  the  fifth ;  in 
consetjuence,  having  little  to  hope  for  from 
the  paternal  inheritance,  he  set  out  for  the  new 
world,  true  to  his  own  personal  motto,  that 
"a  race  by  vigor,  not  by  vaunts,  is  won,"  in 
order  to  make  a  home  and  fortune  for  him- 
self. Setting  sail  in  the  same  slii])  which 
brought  over  Governor  W  inthrop,  the  "Lion.  " 
Captain  Mason,  master,  he  arrived  after  a 
voyage  of  twelve  weeks,  eight  from  Lands 
End,  in  Boston  harbor,  on  the  evening  of  ."^un- 
day,  Sejitember  16,  1632,  being  one  of  the 
"one-hundred  and  twenty  ])assengers  whereof 
fifty  were  children,  all  in  good  health,"  of 
which  the  Governor  makes  mention.  With 
John  I'enjamin  came  his  wife,  four  children, 
and  his  brother  Richard. 

November  6,  same  year  (1632)  he  was 
made  a  freeman  of  the  colony,  and  for  a  short 
time  he  seems  to  have  taken  uj)  his  abode  in 
Cambridge,  where  he  became  one  of  the  pro- 
prietors, and  May  20,  i(^>33,  was  chosen  by  the 
general  court  constable  of  New  Town,  as 
Cambridge  was  then  named.  The  next  year, 
November  7,  1634,  the  court  records  tell  us 
that  he  was  "exempted  from  training  on  ac- 
count of  his  age  and  infirmity,  but  was  re- 
<|uired  to  have  at  all  times  arms  for  himself 
and  his  servants.''  On  emigrating  to  New 
England.  John  Benjamin  brought  over  with 
him  a  large  and  fine  library,  which  unfortu- 
nately, on  April  7,  1637,  with  his  house  and 
other  goods  to  the  amount  of  fioo,  was  de- 
stroyed by  fire.  He  then  removed  from  Cam- 
bridge, and  finally  settled  himself  and  his 
family  in  Watertown,  where  he  spent  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life,  as  one  of  the  foremost  and 
prominent  of  the  older  generation  of  colonists. 
Visiting  him  about  this  time.  Governor  Win- 
throp  writes    to    a    friend:  "Mr.   Benjamin's 


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mansion  was  unsurpassed  in  elegance  and  com- 
fort by  any  in  the  vicinity.  It  was  the 
mansion  of  intelligence  and  hospitality,  visited 
by  the  clergy  of  all  denominations  and  by  the 
literati  at  home  and  abroad."  Two  days  be- 
fore his  death,  John  Benjamin  wrote  his  will 
in  which  he  says,  "I  being  in  pfect  memory 
as  touching  my  outward  estate  do  bequeath 
to  my  Sonne  John  a  double  portion  and  to  my 
beloved  wife  2  Cowes  fourty  bushels  of  Corne 
out  of  all  my  lands,  to  be  allowed  her  towards 
the  bringing  vp  of  my  small  Children  yearly, 
such  as  growes  vppon  the  ground,  one  part 
af  fower  of  all  my  household  suff  fe,  all  the  rest 
of  my  lands  goods  and  chattels  shall  be  equally 
divided  between  seven  other  of  my  children. 
Provided  that  out  of  all  my  former  estate  my 
wife  during  her  life  shall  enjoye  the  dwelling 
[louse  &  3  Acres  of  the  broken  vp  ground  next 
the  house  &  two  Acres  of  the  Meddowes  near 
hand  belonging  to  the  house.  That  this  will 
be  truly  pformed  I  do  appoint  my  brother 
Joiin  Eddie  of  W'atertown  &  Thomas  Marret 
of  Cambridge  that  they  doe  theire  best  In- 
devor  to  see  this  pformed."  The  inventory  of 
his  estate  was  made  by  Simon  Stone,  John 
Eddy  and  Thomas  Marret,  and  amounted  to 
£297  3  shillings  2  pence,  and  among  the  more 
important  items  may  be  mentioned  his  house 
and  meadow  next  the  mill  bought  of  John 
Bernard,  £50;  his  homestall  house  and  sixty 
acres,  £75 ;  ten  acres  of  meadow  near  Oyster 
Bank,  £10;  another  ten  acres  in  Rocky 
meadow,  £13;  eight  acres  in  the  Great  Div- 
idends, £12;  and  sixteen  acres  in  W'atertown, 
bought  of  Captain  Robert  Sedgwick  of 
Charlestown,  April  20,  1645,  £10. 

About  1819,  John  Benjamin  married  Abi- 
gail, daughter  of  Rev.  William  Eddy  and  his 
wife  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Ellen 
(Munn)  Fosten.  Her  father,  born  about 
1560  or  1565,  graduated  and  received  his  Mas- 
ter of  Arts  degree  from  Trinity  College.  Cam- 
bridge, in  1586,  and  the  following  year,  imme- 
diately after  his  marriage,  November  20,  1587, 
became  the  non-conformist  vicar  of  St.  Dun- 
stan's  parish,  Cranbrook,  county  Kent,  where 
he  remained  until  his  death  in  1616.  Two  of 
his  sons,  John  and  Samuel  Eddy  emigrated 
to  New  England  in  the  "Handmaid"  in  1630, 
and  settled  at  Plymouth,  where  Samuel  re- 
mained while  John  removed  after  a  short  so- 
journ to  Watertown. 

Children  of  John  and  Abigail  (Eddy)  Ben- 
jamin : 

I.  John  Benjamin,  born  about  1620,  died 
December   22,    1706,   at   Watertown ;  married 


Lydia  Allen,  diecl  ijcx):  children  :  John,  Lydia, 
Abigail,  Mary,  Daniel,  .-\nn,  Sarah  and  Abel. 

2.  Abigail  Benjamin,  born  about  1624:  mar- 
ried (first)  1640  or  1641,  Joshua  Stubbs,  of 
Watertown  and  Charlestown ;  children :  Sam- 
uel, Mary,  married  John  Traine,  and  Eliza- 
beth, married  Jonathan  Stimson.  Their  father 
dying  about  1654.  his  widow  married  |  second) 
John  Woodward.  November  8,  1654,  Joshua 
Stubbs  and  his  wife  Abigail,  with  consent  of 
their  mother,  Abigail  Benjamin,  sold  several 
parcels  of  land  in  Watertown,  and  Mrs.  Ben- 
jamin took  up  her  home  with  her  daughter  in 
Charlestown,  where  she  died  May  20,  1687, 
aged  eighty-seven  years. 

3.  Mary  Benjamin,  born  about  1626,  died 
unmarried.  April  10,  1646,  leaving  a  will  dated 
January  4,  1646,  in  which  she  mentions  Pas- 
tor Knolls,  her  aunt  Wines  (probably  her 
father's  sister)  her  sister  Abigail  Stubbs  and 
her  cousin  Anne  Wyes.  November  4,  1646; 
the  validity  of  this  will  was  set  aside  on  the 
ground  that  the  testator  was  under  age,  and  the 
general  court  appointed  Mary's  mother  Abi- 
gail Pjenjamin  as  administratrix  of  the  es- 
tate. 

4.  Samuel  Benjamin,  born  about  1628; 
moved  to  Hoccanum,  in  Hartford,  Connecticut ; 
by  wife  Mary  had  children:  Samuel,  John, 
Mary  and  Abigail. 

5.  Joseph  Benjamin  is  referred  to  below. 

6.  Joshua  Benjamin,  born  about  1642,  died 
May  6,  1684,  leaving  a  widow  Thankful  and 
no  issue. 

7.  Caleb  Benjamin,  died  May  8,  1684,  in 
\\  ethersfield,  Connecticut,  where  he  had  been 
living  since  1669,  leaving  a  widow  Mary 
(Hale)  and  children:  Caleb,  Mary,  .\bigail. 
Sarah,  John,  Samuel,  and  Martha. 

8.  Abel  Benjamin,  married,  November  6, 
1671,  Amithy  Myrick.  and  wrote  his  will  July 
3,  1710,  in  which  he  mentions  wife,  son,  grand- 
son John,  his  daughter  Abigail,  born  August 
26.  1680,  and  his  brother  Joshua  Benjamin. 

(H)  Joseph,  fifth  child  and  third  son  of 
John  and  .Abigail  (Eddy)  Benjamin,  was  born 
at  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  September  16, 
1633,  and  died  in  Preston,  or  New  London, 
Connecticut,  in  1704.  Some  time  prior  to  his 
first  marriage  he  settled  in  Barnstable,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  remained  a  number  of 
years,  probably  until  the  death  of  his  first 
wife.  He  then  seems  to  have  removed  to 
Yarmouth,  where  he  bought  and  settled  on  a 
farm,  near  the  meadows  to  the  north  of  the 
old  Miller  farm.  December  7,  1668,  William 
Clark,  of  Yarmouth,  died,  and  in  his  nuncu- 


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pative  will,  proved  February  28,  1668,  he  gives 
pro])erty,  aniouiiting  to  £8  3  shillings,  to  his 
brother.  Joseph  Benjamin.  In  1680  Joseph 
exchanged  his  Yarmouth  farm  for  that  of 
Joseph  tiorhain,  in  Barnstable,  and  removed 
thither,  but  shortly  afterwards  settled  in  Pres- 
ton, Connecticut,  where  he  spent  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  October  30,  1686,  he  sold  the  land 
in  Cambridge  "bounded  on  the  land  of  Abel 
Benjamin  my  brother,  which  was  devised  to 
me  bv  the  will  of  my  honored  father  Mr.  Ben- 
jamin, sometime  of  W'atertown,  deceased." 

June  10,  1661,  Joseph  Benjamin  married 
(first)  Jemima,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Joice 
Lambert,  of  Barnstable,  who  died  some  time 
prior  to  the  date  of  William  Clark's  will,  De- 
cember 7.  if)68;  children:  .-Vbigail ;  Joseph, 
died  young:  and  Jemima.  Joseph  Benjamin, 
married  (second)  Sarah,  sister  to  William 
Clark,  by  whom  he  had  eight  more  children  ■ 
Hannah,  born  February,  \668>.  dead  before 
1704;  Alary,  born  .-\pril,  1670,  married,  No- 
vember 16,  1697,  John  Clark,  the  school- 
master ;  Joseph,  born  1673,  married  August 
25,  1698,  Elizabeth  Cook,  and  had  nine  chil- 
dren: Obed,  Elizabeth,  Joseph,  Sarah,  Grace. 
Jedecliah,  Daniel.  John  and  .-Xbiel.  Mercy, 
seventh  child  of  Joseph  Benjamin,  and  fourth 
by  his  second  marriage,  was  born  March  12, 
1674.  Elizabeth,  born  January  14,  1680,  died 
before  1704.  John  is  referred  to  below. 
Sarah  and  Kezia  were  the  remaining  two 
children. 

(III)  John,  si.xth  child  and  second  son  of 
Joseph  and  Sarah  (Clark)  Benjamin,  was 
born  in  Barnstable,  Massachusetts,  in  1682, 
and  died  in  Preston,  Connecticut,  August  2, 
1716.  lie  married  Phoebe  I'arrabee,  of 
Preston  and  had  one  son  John,  referred  to 
below,  and  four  daughters. 

(IV)  John,  only  son  of  John  and  Phoebe 
(Barrabee)  Benjamin,  married  (first)  Mar- 
garet Denison,  of  St<inington,  Connecticut, 
(second)  Louisa  Palmer,  of  the  same  place. 
The  dates  of  his  liirth  and  death  are  unknown. 
He  had  several  children  by  each  of  his  wives. 

(V)  David,  .second  son  of  Benjamin  and 
either  Margaret  Denison  or  Louisa  Palmer, 
married  (first)  Esther  Wilson,  who  died 
within  five  months  of  her  wedding  day,  with- 
out issue,  and  (second),  February  19,  1769. 
Lucy  Park,  who  bore  her  husband  six  chil- 
dren:  Park:  Elijah;  Moses,  born  July  3,  1774; 
Stephen,  September  15,  1776;  Lucy,  March 
15,  1779;  and  Esther,  March  15,  1781. 

(\'I)  Park,  eldest  son  of  David  Benjamin, 
horn  October  5,  1769,  in  Preston,  became  with 


his  brother  h^lijah  an  importing  merchant  in 
the  trade  with  the  West  Indies.  He  maiie 
fre(|uent  trips  to  and  fro  between  New-  Lon- 
don and  British  Guiana,  and  was  head  of  the 
West  India  branch  of  the  business.  In  1824 
he  was  lost  at  sea,  with  his  son,  Christopher, 
in  the  foundering  of  the  brig  "Falcon."  He 
married,  during  one  of  his  stops  at  Barbadoes, 
Mary  Judith  Gall,  a  cousin  of  Governor 
Boerckels,  of  that  island,  and  also,  so  it  is  said. 
a  cousin  of  the  celebrated  Lord  North,  of  revo- 
lutionary fame.  On  his  death  his  widow  and 
surviving  son  Park,  born  August  14,  1809.  at 
Uemerara,  British  Guiana,  where  his  father 
owned  a  plantation,  came  to  Connecticut  and 
took  up  their  abode  in  the  home  of  her  brother 
in-law,  Elijah,  where  Park  Jr.,  who  was  lame. 
and  of  a  dreamy,  idealistic  disposition  was 
brought  with  his  cousins,  making  a  particular 
friend  of  his  cousin  David,  referred  to  below. 
Tliis  I'ark  was  the  poet  and  editor  so  well 
known  to  and  beloved  by  the  literary  world  of 
a  generation  ago,  and  whose  "Old  Sexton" 
still  holds  its  honored  place  in  American  an- 
thologies. 

(\"I)  Elijah,  second  child  and  son  of 
David  and  Lucy  (Park)  Benjamin,  was  burn 
in  Preston,  Coiniecticut,  Xoveniber  12,  1771. 
He  was  an  importing  merchant  in  New  Lon- 
don, and  was  twice  married,  his  two  wives 
being  cousins  of  each  other.  Children  by 
first  wife:  Sebra.  Nathan  and  Roswell ;  by 
second  wife:  Rufus,  David  (referred  to 
below ) ,  and  Lucv  .\nn  Maria,  married  Xel- 
.son  deer  Packer. 

(  VH )  David,  son  of  Elijah  Benjamin  by 
his  second  marriage,  was  born  June  18,  1809, 
and  died  at  his  home  at  Lincoln  Park,  New  j 
Jersey,  August  20,  1887.  The  closeness  of  ■ 
age  as  well  as  similarity  of  disposition  made 
David  and  his  cousin.  "I^^me  Park,"  the  poet, 
close  friends  and  companions,  and  the  inti- 
macy was  continued  tliroughout  the  lattcr's 
whole  life.  .At  first  David  tried  his  fcirtunes 
in  Scotland.  \\'indham  county,  Connecticut, 
but  not  succeeding  as  well  as  he  expected  he 
went  to  Pennsylvania,  where  he  spent  five 
years,  and  then  concluding  that  the  old  place 
was  the  best,  he  returnetl  there,  and  married. 
In  September,  1845,  he  jnirchased  the  farm 
at  Lincoln  Park,  where  he  made  his  liome 
and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  March 
23,  1834,  David  lienjamin  married  Cornelia, 
daughter  of  Eleazar  Smith  and  Mehitable 
Robinson,  who  was  a  direct  descendant  of 
Pastor  John,  Robinson,  of  the  Pilgrim  church 
in  Lcvdcn,  who  followed  his  flock  over  to  the 


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new  workl  suon  after  the  arrival  of  the  "May- 
riower."  David  and  CorneHa  (Smith)  Ben- 
jamin had  children:  1-2.  Edward  and  Al- 
fred, referred  to  below.  3.  Martha  Mehit- 
able.  born  September  29,  1845 ;  married, 
September  2,  1868,  Abraham  Ryerson :  chil- 
dren: Alice,  born  September  11,  1870,  mar- 
ried, October,  i8g6,  Ira  .Mitchell:  Cora,  born 
June  13,  1873;  Clara,  born  November  15, 
1874,  married  June,  1898.  Warren  Parker; 
Alfred  Bird,  born  October  25,  1879:  Nellie, 
January  20,  1884:  Christine,  5larch  22,  1886, 
married  October,  1905,  William  Winkleman ; 
and  Helen,  born  October  6,  1887.  4.  Thomas 
\\  illiams  Benjamin,  born  February  28,  1848. 
at  Lincoln  I'ark :  inherited  the  homestead  farm 
there:  married,  November  25,  1872.  Leah 
Jacobus:  children:  Herbert,  born  March  23, 
1880,  married,  1902.  Katharine  Doremus : 
David,  born  July  29,  1884:  Sydney  Newton, 
August  13,  1890.  5.  Cornelia  Elizabeth  Ben- 
jamin, born  May  16.  1851  ;  married.  May  30. 
1876.  Tilghamm  B.  Koons,  of  Plainfield,  New 
Jersey;  children:  Olive,  born  July  21,  1878; 
Chauncey  Benjamin.  March  20,  1881  ;  Lucius 
T.,  January  13,  1883,  married  February,  1907, 
Olive  Bogardus ;  and  Cornelia  A.,  born  March 
31.  1889.  6.  Newton  Benjamin,  born  August 
3,  1854,  at  Lincoln  Park,  New  Jersey;  lives  at 
Flmira,  New  York ;  married,  December  20, 
1883,  Sarah  \\'.  Williams. 

(VHI)  Edward,  eldest  son  of  David  and 
Cornelia  (Smith)  Benjamin,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 19,  1839,  in  Scotland,  Windham  county, 
Connecticut,  and  is  now  living  in  Newark. 
New  Jersey.  In  September,  1845,  when  he 
was  nearly  six  years  old.  his  father  moved 
from  Scotland  to  Lincoln  Park,  New  Jersey, 
where  Edward  was  brought  up,  receiving  his 
education  in  the  district  school,  .\bout  1865 
he  went  into  the  business  of  manufacturing 
the  hone  wire  used  in  the  making  of  the  hoop 
skirts  that  were  at  that  time  so  fashionable, 
and  a  few  years  later  he  removed  from  Lin- 
coln Park  and  made  his  home  in  Newark, 
where  his  business  was.  Here  he  has  re- 
mained ever  since,  retiring  from  the  active 
contrf)l  and  management  of  the  business  in 
1903.  and  leaving  it  to  the  control  of  his 
brother  and  partner.  Mr.  Benjamin  is  a  Re- 
publican but  has  held  no  office.  He  belongs 
to  no  clubs,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Presby- 
terian church.  .April  27,  1865,  Edward  Ben- 
jamin married  Hannah,  youngest  daughter  of 
George  and  Hannah  (Russia)  Wade;  chil- 
dren :  Edward  Wade,  George  Newton,  and 
Frank :    the    first    and    last    are    referred    to 


below;  (ieorge  Xewtoii  was  born  Mav  10, 
1868. 

(  IX )  Edward  Wade,  eldest  child  of  Ed- 
ward and  Hannah  (Wade)  Benjamin,  was 
born  January  13,  1867,  in  Brooklyn,  New 
\'ork.  and  died  December  19,  1903,  in  Rose- 
ville,  .\ew  Jersey.  He  began  by  clerking  in 
the  Chemical  National  Bank,  and  two  years 
later  entered  the  Columbia  Law  School,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1888.  Several  years  be- 
fore that  date  his  parents  had  settled  in  Newark, 
and  Edward  Wade  Benjatnin  became  a  law 
clerk  for  the  firm  of  McCarter,  Williamson  & 
McCarter,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1891. 
In  1895  'i^  was  elected  as  member  of  the  board 
of  aldermen  of  Newark  for  the  eleventh  dis- 
trict, and  found  himself  the  youngest  man 
ever  on  the  board.  He  was  a  Republican,  and 
the  vice-president  of  the  State  Republican 
league.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a 
member  of  the  law  firm  of  Benjamin  &  Ben- 
jamin. He  died  from  pneumonia,  after  a 
week's  illness,  and  was  buried  in  Rosedalc 
cemetery.  Orange.  October  10,  1894,  he  mar- 
ried X'irginia  Gregory;  children:  Virginia  H.. 
born  I'ebruary  16,  1896;  John  Wade,  October 
12,  1897;  Edward  G.,  January  14,  1899;  Har- 
olil,  July  27,  1900;  Dorothy,  October  26,  1903. 

(IX)  Frank,  youngest  son  of  Edward  and 
Hannah  ( Wade )  Benjamin,  was  born  March 
19,  1870,  in  Brooklyn,  and  is  now  living  in 
East  Orange,  New  Jersey.  He  received  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  and  from  pri- 
vate tutors,  and  graduated  from  the  law  de- 
partment of  the  L'niversity  of  New  York  in 
1896.  He  took  up  general  legal  practice  in 
Newark,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New 
York  in  1897,  ^'^^l  to  that  of  New  Jersey  in 
June,  1898.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Wednes- 
day Club  and  of  the  Board  of  Trade.  He  is 
a  member  and  an  elder  of  the  Roseville  Pres- 
byterian church.  He  married,  April  5. 
1904.  Matilda  Heaton  Jube  (see  sketch  of 
^Vi^iam  Uzal  Jube). 

(VHI)  Alfred,  second  child  and  son  of 
David  and  Cornelia  (Smith)  Benjamin,  was 
born  in  Scotland.  Connecticut,  .'\pril  25,  1843. 
His  father  brought  him  to  Lincoln  Park,  when 
he  was  about  two  years  old,  and  he  was  edu- 
cated in  the  old  Bloomfield  .Academy.  He 
then  became  a  clerk  in  New  York,  and  after- 
wards went  to  Meriden,  Connecticut,  where 
he  became  interested  in  the  manufacture  of 
steel  crinoline  wire.  In  1867  he  came  to  New- 
ark, where  he  continued  the  same  business 
until  1873,  when  he  sold  out,  and  for  the  next 
two  years  was  superintendent    for    Benjamin 


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Brothers.  In  1879  he  started  in  manufactur- 
ing braided  and  corded  wire,  in  which  busi- 
ness he  remained  until  1903.  when  he  entered 
into  partnershi])  with  Charles  B.  Johnes  and 
his  brother,  Alfred  Benjamin,  in  the  manu- 
facture of  corsets  and  ladies"  supplies.  Mr. 
Benjamin  was  a  Republican,  and  had  a  dis- 
tinguished record  in  the  United  States  navy 
during  the  civil  war.  .\ugust  18,  1862,  he 
enlisted  on  the  "Xortli  Carolina"  receiving 
ship,  in  the  Brooklyn  navy  yard,  and  was 
l)laced  on  the  United  States  steamer  "Het- 
zel,"  which  had  been  detached  from  the  coast 
.survey  and  refitted  at  Baltimore  in  September 
and  ()ctober,  1861.  The  "Hetzel"  carried  two 
guns,  and  registered  three  hundred  and  one 
tons.  She  served  with  the  North  Atlantic 
blockading  squadron,  the  flag  officer  being 
L.  M.  Goldsborough,  the  acting  rear  admiral, 
S.  P.  Lee.,  and  the  commanding  rear  admiral 
being  David  D.  Porter,  and  participated  in  all 
the  operations  about  Xew  Berne,  and  on  the 
Roanoke  river.  Mr.  Benjamin  was  dis- 
charged in  1863,  and  entered  the  c|uartermas- 
ter's  department.  Army  of  the  Cumberland 
He  participated  in  the  battle  of  Nashville, 
under  (ieneral  George  H.  Thomas,  and  one  of 
Mr.  Benjamin's  most  prized  possessions  was 
a  Confederate  officer's  sword  which  he  took  as 
a  trophy  on  that  battlefield. 

Mr.  Benjamin  was  a  member  of  Nortliern 
Podge,  No.  25,  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  Newark,  and 
of  the  Royal  Arch  Chapter.  He  was  also  a 
vestryman  of  St.  James  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  Newark. 

May  29,  1867,  Alfred  Benjamin  married 
I'lleanor  Savery.  eldest  daughter  of  Rev.  John 
Holliway  and  Caroline  .\nnie  (Rich)  Hanson, 
and  granddaughter  of  John  Savery  Hanson  and 
Catharine,  daughter  of  Charles  Goldsmith, 
brother  to  Oliver  Goldsmith,  and  Sarah  Gabau- 
don.  By  this  marriage  .Alfred  Benjamin  had 
children  :  i.  .\lfred  Hanson  i^.enjamin.boru  .Au- 
gust 27,  1870;  married  October  26,  1897,  Ina 
Pouisc  Handy;  children:  Louise  and  Pouis 
Handy.  2.  Annie  Rich  Benjamin,  born  July 
ig,  1872;  married  April  8,  1896,  Edward 
Nicholls,  of  Newark :  one  child,  Mary  J.  B. 
3.  Elinor  Savery  Benjamin,  born  June  15, 
1874;  married  October  4,  1906.  Daniel  Dodd 
Crane,  eighth  in  descent  from  Stephen  Crane 
of  Elizabethtown,  as  follows:  Stephen  (I); 
John  (II  )  :  Matthias  (HI)  :Jacob  (TV)  ;Jacob 
(V)  ;DavidWarner(\'I)  by  his  first  marriage; 
and  Jacob  Warner  (VH).  4.  Katharine  Cor- 
nelia Benjamin,  born  February  16,  1876,  died 
August  2,  1877.     5.  Robinson  Goldsmith  P.en- 


jamin,  born  March  18.  1882.  died  June  10. 
1892.  6-7.  Webster  and  Cornelia,  twins,  born 
I'ebruary   12,  1885. 

Eleanor  Savery  (Hanson)  Benjamin  died 
March  11,  1885,  and  .Alfred  Benjamin  married 
("second)  January  29,  T891,  Alary  Anne, 
daughter  of  Frederick  W.  Ricord,  judge  an<l 
Mayor  of  Newark,  By  this  marriage  there 
has  been  no  issue.  Air.  Benjamin  died  July 
<),  1909. 


Three  Tuttle  families  came 
TUTTPE  over  to  this  country  in  1635,  all 
of  them  being  passengers  in  the 
>hip  "Planter,"  Nicholas  Travice,  master, 
bound  for  New  England.  They  all  brought 
with  them  certificates  from  the  minister  of 
St.  .Albans.  Hertford,  and  everything  points 
to  the  fact  that  they  are  descendants  of  the 
Toyls  or  Tothills,  of  Devon,  who  for  many 
generations  in  England,  possessed  such  an  es- 
tablished character  that  an  attem])t  has  even 
been  made  to  trace  the  name  back  through  the 
old  Egyptians  to  Thoth  and  Thothmes.  Of 
the  three  families  coming  over  in  the  "Planter," 
one  became  the  ancestor  of  the  Ipswich  fam- 
ily of  Alassachusetts,  another  of  the  Boston 
family,  and  the  third,  William,  founded  the 
family  at  present  under  consideration.  In  ad- 
dition to  these  three,  a  fourth  Tuttle  brought 
his  family  over  in  the  same  year,  1635,  in  the 
ship  ".\ngel  Gabriel,"  and  settled  in  Dover, 
New  Hampshire, 

(1)  William  Tuttle,  founder  of  the  family 
at  present  under  consideration,  arrived  in 
America  with  his  family  about  the  first  of 
June,  1633,  and  about  a  year  later  his  wife 
united  with  the  Church  of  Boston.  In  the 
])assenger  list  of  the  "Planter"  he  is  called 
"husbandman,"  and  in  other  documents  "mer- 
chant." On  June  4.  1639,  his  name  appears 
on  the  list  of  those  who  signed  the  church 
covenant  in  Mr.  Newman's  barn  at  the  time 
of  the  founding  of  Quinnijiiac,  now  New 
Haven,  In  1641  he  became  the  owner  of  tht 
home  lot  of  Edward  Hopkins,  on  the  square 
now  bounded  by  (irove.  State.  Elm  and 
Church  streets,  the  lot  fronting  on  State  street. 
For  nearly  thirty  years  this  Tuttle  homestead 
was  the  only  land  owned  by  Yale  College,  and 
was  the  first  of  a  long  succession  of  purchases 
extending  through  a  part  of  more  than  a  cen- 
tury which  finally  brought  the  old  College 
.Si|uare  into  its  possession.  In  these  transfers 
descendants  of  \\'illiam  Tuttle,  who  at  one 
time  or  another,  owned  the  most  considerable 
jiart  of  the  square,  were  known  as  grantors. 


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either  directly  tu  the  College  or  to  its  immediate 
holders.  On  the  sea-shore  where  W'illiam  Tut- 
tle  lived  and  died,  his  great-grandson,  Jona- 
than Edwards,  studied,  taught  and  achieved 
his  "(ireat  and  excellent  tutorial  renown." 
William  Tuttle  and  Mr.  Gregson  were  the 
first  owners  of  the  land  in  East  Haven,  and 
Mr.  Tuttle  surveyed  the  land  out  into  lots 
from  the  I'hiladelphia  ferry  at  Red  Rock  to 
Stony  River.  In  1659  he  appears  as  the  pro- 
prietor of  the  land  in  North  Haven  that  had 
belonged  to  the  estate  of  Clovernor  Eaton,  and 
he  acquired  lands  in  I.ethany  and  elsewhere. 
In  1646,  as  commissioner,  he  decides  on  the 
etjuivalent  due  to  those  who  had  received  no 
meadow  lands  in  the  first  allottment,  and  in 
the  same  year,  with  Jeremy  Watts,  he  was 
complained  of  and  fined  "for  sleeping  at  watch 
houre."  In  1646  and  1647,  W'illiam  Tuttle, 
Mr.  I'ell  and  "Brother  Fowler"  were  voted 
into  the  first  cross  pew  at  the  end  of  the  meet- 
inghouse. This  was  near  the  pulpit  and  among 
the  highest  in  dignity. 

With  Jas])er  Crane  and  others  he  was  one 
(if  the  New  Haven  and  Totoket  petitioners  to 
the  Dutch,  September  14,  1651,  regarding  the 
making  of  a  settlement  in  the  Dutch  territory 
of  New  Jersey.  In  1644  he  and  Jasper  Crane 
were  fence  viewer  for  Mr.  Davenport's  quarter. 
In  1646  he  was  road  commissioner.  In  16C4 
he  spoke  before  the  court  in  behalf  of  a  young 
girl  who  had  been  fountl  guilty  of  theft,  saying 
that  though  her  sin  was  great,  "yet  he  did 
much  pity  her.  and  hoped  the  court  would 
deal  leniently  with  her  and  put  her  in  some 
pious  family  where  she  could  enjoy  the  means 
of  grace  for  her  soul's  good."  In  1672  he  was 
one  of  the  committee  to  settle  boundary  dispute 
between  liranford  and  New  Haven.  In  March. 
1666.  he  took  the  constable's  oath.  The  exact 
date  of  his  death  is  unknown,  but  it  was 
earl\  in  June,  1673.  He  lies  buried  under  the 
"r)ld  Green,"  but  exactly  where  is  unknown. 
The  last  remainder  of  his  estate  was  distrib- 
uted in  1709  to  his  children  or  to  their  heirs. 
He  was,  as  may  be  inferred  from  foregoing, 
the  eijual  socially  of  any  of  the  colonists,  and 
brought  UJ1  his  children  in  a  manner  befitting 
their  condition,  carefully  providing  for  them  a 
means  of  starting  in  life.  He  was  a  man  of 
courage,  enter])rise,  intelligence,  probity  and 
piety;  a  just  man  whose  counsels  and  judg- 
ments were  sought  to  calm  the  contentions 
and  adjust  the  differences  of  jarring  neigh- 
bors, and  withal  he  possessed  a  tenderness  of 
heart  unusual  in  men  whose  lives  were  passed 
in   strife    and    conflict    with   desperation,   bar- 


barism, and  the  savage  forces  of  nature.  To 
the  last  he  possessed  the  respect  and  confidence 
of  men  whose  souls  were  tried  like  his  own. 

His  wife,  Elizabeth  Tuttle,  died  December 
30,  1684,  aged  seventy-two  years,  having  been 
living  since  her  husband's  death  with  her 
youngest  son  Nathaniel.  That  she  was  a  faith- 
ful and  good  wife  and  mother  we  have  every 
reason  to  believe.  All  of  her  twelve  children 
were  reared  to  maturity  among  dangers,  priva- 
tions and  trials  of  which  the  mother  of  the 
present  day  can  hardly  form  a  conception,  and 
which  very  few  indeed  would  have  had  courage 
to  face  or  the  strength  to  endure.  In  her  widow- 
hood, heavy  afflictions  were  added  to  the  weight 
of  her  years,  but  the  religious  faith  and  hope 
which  she  iniblicly  professed  in  her  youth  no 
doubt  su])ported  her  as  nothing  else  could  do 
through  all  the  dark  and  troubled  way  unto 
the  end.  In  1 821  her  gravestone  was  removed 
fmni  the  "Old  Green"  to  the  Grove  street 
cemetery,  and  now  stands  in  the  row  along 
the  north  wall  of  that  enclosure.  Children  of 
W'illiam  aiul  Elizabeth  Tuttle:  i.  John,  born 
in  I'jigland,  163 1  :  died  November  12,  1683: 
married  Kattareen  Lane.  2.  Hannah,  born  in 
England,  1632;  died  .\ugust  9,  1683;  married 
(first).  1649.  John  Pantry,  (second)  Thomas 
Wells.  |r.  3.  Thomas,  born  1634:  died  Octo- 
ber 1;.  1710;  married.  1661.  Hannah  Powell. 
4.  Jonathan,  ba])tized  Charlestown,  Massachu- 
setts. July  8,  1^37  ;  died  1705  ;  married  Rebecca 
Bell.  5.  David,  April  7,  1639,  to  1693:  unmar- 
ried. 6.  Joseph,  referred  to  below.-  7.  Sarah, 
baptized  New  Haven,  1642:  died  November 
17,  1676;  married  John  Slauson.  8.  Elizabeth, 
baptized  New  Haven.  1643:  married.  Novem- 
ber 19.  1667.  Richard,  son  of  Rev.  Richard 
Edwards,  and  grandfather  through  his  son 
Timothy    of    the    famous   Jonathan    Edwards. 

9.  .Simon.  I''i47.  to  .\\)r\\  16,  1718:  married 
.\bigail.  possiblv  daughter  of  Richard   Beach 

10.  henjamin.  baptized  October  29.  1(148:  died. 
unmarried.  June  13.  1677.  11.  Mercy,  bcjrn 
.\pril  27.  1630;  living  1693:  married  Samuel 
Brown  same  day  her  brother  Joseph  married 
Hannah  Munson.  12.  Nathaniel,  1652.  to  Au- 
gust 20.  1721  :  married  Sarah  Howe. 

ill)  Joseph,  sixth  child  and  fifth  son  of 
W'illiam  and  I-llizabeth  Tuttle.  was  baptized  in 
New  Haven.  November  22.  1640.  and  died 
.\ugust  7.  1690.  In  i6(36  a  complaint  was  made 
against  him  and  John  Hold  "for  tumultuous 
carriage  and  speaking  against  the  inflictions  of 
punishment  against  two  dclinciuents."  and  they 
were  fined  twenty  shillings.  In  1683  he  was 
excused    from    watching,    "being  an    impotent 


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man  having  lost  the  use  of  one  of  his  feet  and 
now  having  two  sons  in  the  piibHc  service." 
The  same  year  he  was  appointed  constable 
but  declined  on  account  of  lameness.  May  2. 
1667.  he  married  Hannah,  born  June  11,  1648; 
died  November  30,  1695,  daughter  of  Captain 
Thomas  Munson,  who  came  in  the  "Elizabeth" 
to  Boston,  in  1634;  removed  to  Hartford,  and 
was  one  of  Hartford's  contingent  under  Cap- 
tain Munson  at  the  destruction  of  the  Pequot 
fort.  He  removed  1642  to  New  Haven  where 
he  became  one  of  the  town's  greatest  military 
men.  In  1675  he  commanded  the  New  Haven 
troops  who  at  Norrituck  defended  that  planta- 
tion against  the  Indians.  From  1666  to  1683 
he  was  New  Haven's  representative  in  the  gen- 
eral assembly.  Hannah  (Munson)  Tuttle  mar- 
ried (second),  August  21,  1694,  Nathan  Brad- 
ley, of  Guilford.  Children  of  Jose])h  and  Han- 
nah (Munson)  Tuttle:  i  :  Joseph,  born  March 
18,  1668:  married  Elizabeth  Sanford.  2.  Sam- 
uel, born  July  13,  1670;  died  1709  ;  married  De- 
cember II.  1693,  Sarah  Hart.  3.  Stephen, 
referred  to  below.  4.  Johannah.  born  Decem- 
ber 30,  1673;  married  Stephen  Pangborn ;  re- 
moved to  \\'oodbridge.  New  Jersey.  5.  Timo- 
ihy.  born  "February  30,"  1678:  died  November 
21,  1678:  named  in  Stiles'  "History  of  the 
Judges"  with  Samuel  Miles  as  the  only  deaths 
in  New  I  laven  that  year.  6.  Susanna,  Febru- 
ary 20,  1679,  to  October  10,  1737:  married 
Samuel  Todd.  7.  Elizabeth,  born  June  12, 
1683.  8.  Hannah,  born  May  14,  1685:  died 
-<oon  after\vards.  9.  Hannah,  baptized  Febru- 
ary 26,  1689. 

(Ill)  Stephen,  third  child  and  .son  of  Jo- 
seph and  Hannah  (Munson)  Tuttle.  was  born 
in  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  May  20,  1673, 
and  died  in  Woodbridge,  New  Jersey,  late  in 
1709.  He  removed  to  Woodbridge,  where  his 
name  (irst  appears  April  11,  1693,  as  the 
grantee  of  six  acres  of  high  land  laid  out  to 
him;  same  year  he  bought  six  acres  adjoining 
from  John  Robinson;  November  13,  1701,  at 
town  meeting,  he  was  chosen  constable  for 
year  ensuing.  His  name  stands  fourth  in  the 
h'st  of  church  members.  His  will,  dated  Octo- 
ber 20,  1709,  is  recorded  at  Trenton  later  same 
year.  He  married,  in  Wtwdbridge,  New  Jer- 
sey, by  Justice  Samuel  Hale,  September  12, 
i6t;3,  to  Ruth  Fitz  Randolph,  of  Woodbridge. 
I  if  the  same  family  from  which  (iovernor  Fitz 
Randolph  is  descended.  Children :  1  :  Timothv, 
born  October  16,  i6(>6  ;  died  1733;  settled  with 
brother  Joseph  in  Newark;  married  Cecilia 
Moore,  whose  burial  July  3,  1768,  is  first  rec- 
ord in   the   Morristown  bill  of  mortality.     2. 


Joseph,    referred    to   below,      3.    Stephen,   re- 
turned to  Connecticut ;  married  Sarah  Stanley;] 
was   killed    by   lightning,   June   23,    1735.     4. 1 
Samuel,  probably  died  young. 

(I\')  Joseph,  son  of  Stephen  and  Ruth 
(  Fitz  Randolph  )  Tuttle,  was  born  at  Newark. 
-New  Jersey,  Sei)tember  2,  1698,  and  died  No- 
vember 3,  1789.  His  monument,  an  altar  stone 
in  the  Whippany  graveyard,  has  an  inscription 
composed  by  Rev.  Dr.  Green  : 

"The  tender  names  of  father,  hustiand,  friend, 
.-Vtid  neiglibor  kind  did  througrli  liis  life  extend. 
In  church  &  state  lie  virtuou.s  honour  gain'd. 
And  all  his  ofilees  with  truth  sustained, 
.\s  deacon,  elder,  colonel,  judge,  he  shone, 
While  heaven  was  his  hope,  his  rest  his  home, 
l.aden'd  with  honour.*?.  u.sefulness  &  years, 
He  drop'd  this  clay  &  with  ye  saints  appears." 

March  8,  1725,  he  was  appointed  supervisor 
of  highways  ;  March  9,  1730,  clerk  for  entering 
strays;  1724-25  was  one  of  overseers  of  poor, 
and  fence  viewer ;  same  year  bought  land  in 
Hanover  township  and  removed  there  some 
years  later.  In  1734  he  bought  1230  acres  at 
Hanover  Neck,  on  Whippany  and  Passaic 
rivers.  He  was  a  ju.stice  of  the  peace,  a  colonel 
of  militia,  and  a  deacon  of  the  church.  For 
some  years  before  his  death  he  was  a  widower. 
He  married  (first)  Abigail,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain David  Ogden,  who  was  born  February 
II,  1701,  and  died  March  4,  1739;  (second), 
June  18,  173<),  Abigail,  sister  of  Rev.  John 
.Vtttmaii,  second  minister  of  Whippany  church, 
who  died  .Kpril  26,  1781  ;  (third),  June  18, 
1736,  Mary  Wilkinson,  who  died  April  9,  1760: 
(fourth),  .August,  1760,  Alary  Merry,  who 
died  January  18,  1776,  in  her  fifty-eighth  year; 
(fifth)  Isabella  Drake,  who  died  March  13, 
1777,  in  her  si.xty-ninth  year.  Children,  eight 
by  first,  and  four  by  second  marriage:  1. 
Rttth,  born  .April  8,  1722;  died  .Ai)ril  4,  1780; 
married  (first)  Silas  Haines;  (second)  Deacon 
David  Kitchel.  2.  Samuel,  .April  2,  1724,  to 
January  3,  1762;  married  Rachel,  daughter  of 
Colonel  Jacob  Ford,  Sr.  3.  John,  born  .March 
19,  I72(>;  married  Joanna  (Johnson)  Camp- 
field.  4.  Joseph,  referred  to  below.  3.  David, 
!)orn  ( )ctober  4,  1730;  married  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  Benjamin  Coe.  of  New  A'ork :  possibly 
(second)  Sarah  Ogden.  6,  Moses.  November 
19.  1732.  to  July  II.  1819;  married.  December 
'S-  IZS*^'  J^'it'-  daughter  of  Colonel  Jacob 
Ford.  7.  Abigail,  October  13,  1734,  to  Febru- 
ary 7,  1731.  8,  Comfort,  Alarch  10,  1736,  to 
November  6,  1738.  9.  T^lizabeth,  February  27, 
1739.  to  March  10.  1769;  unmarried.  10. 
Phebe,  March  19,  1740,  to  November  i,  1743. 


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11.  James,  May  7,  1742,  to  December  25,  1776; 
pastor  of  Rockaway  and  Parsippany  churches  ; 
married  Anna,  daughter  of  Rev.  Jacob  (ireen. 

12.  Phebe,  born  October  23,  1743. 
(\')   Joseph    (2),  third  son  of  Joseph    (i) 

and  .\bigail  (Ogden)  Tuttle,  was  born  in 
Newark.  March  10,  1728,  and  died  September 

16.  1800.     lie  married  (first)  Joanna  . 

who  died  without  issue,  March  2^,  1753,  in 
her  thirtieth  year;  (second),  July  21,  1754, 
Jemima,  daughter  of  Silas  Haines,  who  was 
born  February  26,  1729,  and  died  September 
2fi,  181 1.  Children:  i.  Joanna,  born  April 
21;.  1758:  died  April.  1800:  married  Elijah 
Eeonard.  2.  Silas,  September  16,  1760.  to  Au- 
gust 25,  1764.     3.  Samuel,  referred  to  below. 

(\'r)  Samuel,  son  of  Joseph  and  Jemima 
(  Haines  1  Tuttle,  was  born  in  Whippany,  Feb- 
ruary 2/.  1766,  and  died  October.  t8oo.  of 
fever  contracted  in  New  York  City.  He  mar- 
ried. May  15.  1 791.  -Abigail,  daughter  of  Uzal 
and  Anna  ( Tuttle)  Kitchel,  who  was  born 
October  27.  1772.  Children:  i.  Silas,  born 
.■\pril  3,  1792;  married  Lorania  Baker.  2. 
Julia  Ann,  ^Iarch  13,  1794,  to  November  4. 
1868:  married,  as  his  second  wife.  William 
Tuttle,  of  Newark.  3.  David  Kitchel.  June  26, 
1796,  to  February  3,  1833:  unmarried.  4.  Ste- 
])hen.  ( )ctober  10.  1798,  to  January  21,  1835; 
graduated  at  head  of  class  in  1820,  from  West 
Point  Military  Academy,  and  had  a  most  dis- 
tinguished military  record:  married  Emily  W. 
Malone.    5.  Samuel,  referred  to  below. 

(VH)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Samuel  (i)  and 
.\bigail  f  Kitchel)  Tuttle,  was  born  in  Whip- 
pany, Morris  county.  New  Jersey,  January  31, 
1801,  and  died  February  2.  1879.  He  lived 
in  Littleton,  Morris  county;  married.  Novem- 
ber 6,  1822.  Dorcas  Stiles,  born  1800;  died 
.September  26,  1853.  Children:  Cieorge  Fran- 
cis, referred  to  below:  Mary  Anna,  born  De- 
cember 22,  1834;  Stephen,  October  22.  1837. 
to  1869; 

('\'ni)  Ceorge  Francis,  eldest  child  of  Sam- 
uel (2)  and  Dorcas  (Stiles)  Tuttle,  was  born 
in  what  was  then  called  West  P)loomfield.  De- 
cember II,  T823,  and  is  now  living  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey.  For  his  early  education  he  at- 
tended the  public  schools  of  Newark,  and 
afterwards  went  to  the  Newark  Academy, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1840.  He  then 
entered  the  office  of  Hon.  John  Peter  Jackson, 
Esq.,  with  whom  he  read  law,  and  w-as  ad- 
mitted to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  attorney  in 
.April.  1849.  3't:1  as  counsellor  in  November, 
1852.  Since  this  time  he  has  been  engaged  in 
the  general  practice  of  his  profession  in  New- 


ark, where  he  has  been  most  successful,  and 
easily  foremost  among  the  many  shining  legal 
lights  of  that  city.  In  politics  Mr.  Tuttle  is  a 
Reiniblican,  and  while  not  seeking  office  he 
has  always  done  his  utmost  for  the  best  inter- 
ests of  his  party,  both  in  state  and  nation.  When 
the  district  courts  were  established  Mr.  Tuttle 
was  appointed  to  the  position  of  judge,  and 
served  upon  the  bench  of  said  court  for  the 
term  for  which  he  was  appointed.  Vice-Qian- 
cellor  Stevens  was  appointed  at  the  same  time. 
Judge  Tuttle  is  a  member  of  the  Lawyers' 
Club,  of  Newark,  and  president  of  the  board 
of  trustees  of  the  First  Congregational  Church 
in  that  city.  He  married.  May  29.  1855,  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  (.leorge  S.  and  Elizabeth 
(  Ryerson  )  Alills,  who  was  born  in  New  York 
City.  November  29,  1826,  and  died  October 
16.  i<)07.  Children:  I.  Rosa  E.,  born  May 
14.  1858.  2.  Joseph  N.,  born  May  10,  1862; 
graduated  from  Newark  Academy,  1882;  read 
law  in  his  father's  office ;  admitted  to  New 
Jersey  bar  as  attorney  in  1886,  and  as  coun- 
sellor in  1889;  now  practicing  in  Newark.  3. 
George  S..  born  November  18,  1864 :  graduated 
from  Newark  Academy ;  now  residing  in  the 
citv  of  Newark. 


The  noble  family  of  Car- 
CARPENTER  penter  from  which  the 
Irish  Earls  of  Tyrconnel 
have  tlescended.  is  of  great  antiquity  in  county 
Hereford  and  other  parts  of  England.  John 
Carpenter,  the  earliest  known  member  of  the 
family,  appears  there  as  early  as  1303.  In 
1323  he  was  a  member  of  parliament  for  the 
borough  of  Leskard,  in  Cornwall,  as  two  years 
afterwards  was  Stephen  Carpenter  for  Credi- 
ton,  county  Devon.  John  Carpenter's  son 
Richard,  born  about  1335,  had  a  son  John  who 
became  town  clerk  of  London,  and  in  turn  had 
a  son  John,  born  about  1410,  whose  son  Will- 
iam is  the  founder  of  the  branch  of  the  family 
at  present  under  consideration. 

This  \\'illiam  Carpenter,  son  of  John,  Jr.. 
commonly  known  as  William  Carpenter,  of 
Homme,  lived  in  the  parish  of  Dilwyne,  county 
Hereford.  England,  was  born  about  1440,  and 
died  in  1520.  Among  his  children  was  a  son 
James,  who  died  in  1537,  leaving  a  son  John, 
who  died  three  years  later,  in  1540.  whose  son 
William,  named  for  his  great-grandfather,  was 
the  most  prominent  ancestor  of  the  Tyrconnel 
Carpenters,  and  the  foimder  of  the  Rehoboth 
branch  of  the  Carpenter  fainily  at  present 
under  consideration. 

(I)   William    Carpenter,     founder    of    the 


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STATE    UF    .\"L;\\     IKRSEV. 


American  branch  of  the  Tyrconnel  Carpen- 
ters, was  born  about  1540,  and  had  several 
children:  i.  James,  who  inherited  the  estate 
of  his  father.  2.  Alexander,  born  about  1560, 
a  dissenter,  who  removed  to  Leyden.  Holland, 
and  whose  youngest  son,  William  Carpenter, 
of  Codham.  was  the  one  to  whom  was  granted 
the  "Greyhound"  arms.  3.  William,  referred 
to  below.  4.  Richard,  removed  to  Amesburg ; 
his  son  William  came  to  America  in  1736,  set- 
tled in  Providence  with  Roger  Williams,  and 
became  the  progenitor  of  the  Providence 
branch  of  the  Carpenter  family. 

(II)  \\'illiam  (2),  son  of  William  (  i)  Car- 
jienter,  born  in  1376,  was  a  carpenter  by  trade, 
and  lived  in  the  city  of  London.  He  rented  a 
tenement  in  Houndsditch  in  1625  on  a  lease 
for  forty-one  years.  In  1638,  however,  with 
his  sou  William  and  his  daughter-in-law  he 
came  to  .America  in  the  ship  "Revis."  He  wa? 
registered  in  Southamiiton.  Long  Island,  but 
returned  home  in  the  same  vessel  in  which  he 
came  over  leaving  a  sou  William  iu  this  coun- 
try to  liecouie  the  founder  of  tin's  branch  of 
the  family. 

(III)  William  (3).  son  of  William  (2) 
Cariienter,  was  born  in  England,  1605,  and 
rlied  February  7,  1659.  in  Rehoboth,  Massa- 
chusetts. He  was  admitted  freeman  of  Wey- 
mouth, May  13,  1640,  ancl  was  representative 
of  that  town  in  i'')4i  and  1643.  In  1641  he 
was  constable,  and  was  admitted  an  inhabitant 
of  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts,  March  18.  1645. 
and  was  representative  for  Rehoboth  in  the 
same  year.  Governor  P.radford,  who  married 
his  cousin  .Mice,  manifested  for  him  great 
friendship,  favoring  him  in  all  his  measures 
in  the  criminal  court,  in  fact,  from  all  their 
dealings  and  transactions,  public  and  private, 
which  have  been  recorded  and  come  down  to 
us.  it  is  evident  that  these  two  men  were  the 
closest  of  frietids.  The  legal  business  of  the 
town  or  colony  seems  to  have  been  principally 
in  the  hands  of  William  Carpenter.  He  w'as 
one  of  the  committee  who  laid  out  the  first  lot 
from  Rehoboth,  Dedhani,  and  with  others  was 
chosen  to  look  after  the  interest  of  the  town, 
to  jiear  and  decide  on  the  grievances  with  re- 
gard to  the  division  of  land  by  lots,  and  to 
represent  the  town  in  the  criminal  court  at 
Cambridge.  In  1647  and  again  in  1655  lu' 
was  one  of  the  selectmen  of  the  town.  His  will 
was  dated  .\pril  21,  1650,  and  jiroved  February 
7,  i66().  P>y  his  wife  .\bigail,  who  died  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1687,  he  had  seven  children:  i. 
John,  is  referred  to  below.  2.  William,  born 
about    i()3i.   died   January   26.    1703:  married 


(first)  I'riscilla  liennett,  (second)  Miriam 
Searles.  3.  Joseph,  born  probably  about  1O33; 
in  May,  1675.  married  Margaret  Sutton,  died 
May  1675.  4.  Hannah,  born  .April  3,  1640 ; 
married  her  cousin  Joseph  Carpenter  of  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island.  5.  .\hiah,  born  April  9. 
1643.  6.  .Abigail,  twin  with  .\biah,  married 
John  Titus,  Jr.  7.  Samuel,  born  probably 
1644;  died  1682;  married  Sarah  Readaway. 

(IV)  John,  son  of  William  (3)  and  .Abigail 
Carpenter,  was  born  about  1628,  and  died  May 
23.  1695.  He  came  from  England  with  his 
father,  and  when  young  went  to  Connecticut, 
and  was  there  previous  to  1746,  when  he  must 
have  been  about  seventeen  years  old.  For 
several  years  he  travelled  about  in  Connecticut 
working  at  the  carpenter  trade.  In  1660  he 
bought  land  at  Hempstead.  Long  Island.  He 
is  mentioned  in  his  father's  will  as  is  also  his 
son.  In  May.  1664.  he  was  made  freeman  of 
Connecticut,  and  in  1663  was  chosen  towns- 
man of  Hempstead.  He  w'as  generally  known 
as  Ca]itain  John  Carjienter,  iu  virtue  of  his 
office  as  commander  of  the  Jamaica  fusileers, 
which  in  1673  was  ordered  to  defend  Fort 
James.  Xew^  A'ork.  against  the  fleet  of  the 
Prince  of  Orange.  John  Carpenter  was  one 
of  the  ])atentees  of  the  town  of  Jamaica,  Long 
Island,  under  the  Dongan  patent  of  1680,  with 
Xehemiah  Smith.  He  was  one  of  the  com- 
mittee to  settle  the  Rev.  John  Pruden  over  the 
church  of  Jamaica  in  1676.  His  will,  Novem- 
ber 10.  i()()4  begins  "1,  John  Carpenter  now 
ancient  crazy  in  body  and  sound  of  mind.''  He 
leaves  his  carpenter's  tools  to  his  sons.  He 
was  a  man  of  su|5erior  judgment,  who  did 
much  to  assist  in  the  building  up  of  the  com- 
munity, lly  his  wife  who  was  probably  Han- 
nah llo|)e.  he  had  seven  children:  I.  John, 
who  is  referred  to  below.  2.  IIo])e.  whose  will 
was  proved  .March  23.  1712.  whose  wife's 
name  was  Mary,  and  who  was  commissioned 
ensign  January  10.  1690,  and  with  his  brother 
.Sanniel  was  captain  of  militia  in  1700.  3 
\\  illiam.  born  about  iOiCi2.  died  hebruary  2.  or 
21.    1748   or    1749:    married    (first)    jirobably 

Sarah ;  (second)  F'lizabeth  .     4. 

Samuel,  born  about   1666.     5.   Solomon,  born 
about    1670.     ft.   Ruth,  married  a  Ludlam.     7. 
\  daughter,   name   unknown,   who  married   a 
Rhodes. 

I  \' )  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Han- 
nah I  lope  Carjienter,  was  born  in  Connecticut, 
about  1658.  His  will  was  proved  July  30, 
1732.  His  residence  was  Jamaica.  Long  Island. 
.After  November  22.  1703,  he  took  the  oath 
as   cajitain    of   troo])s    at    Jamaica.      He    was 


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assessed  in  1683  at  £78.  His  wife's  name  was 
Mary.  Children:  i.  Xehemiah.  born  about 
1685,  died  A]3ril  25,   1821  :  married  Elizabeth 

.      2.    Jolin.    is    referred   to   below.      3. 

Solomon,  born  about  1686,  died  1772.  4.  Jo- 
seph, born  about  1687;  married  probably 
Phebe,  daughter  of  Wait  Smith.  5.  Increase, 
born  about  1688,  died  about  1776:  married  a 
Bergin.  6.  Mary.  7.  Hannah.  8.  Susanna. 
9.  Phebe. 

(\'I)  John  13).  son  of  John  (2)  and  Mary 
Car])enter.  was  born  about  1685.  He  was 
called  "John  the  Sheritf,"  to  distinguish  him 
from  other  Carjienters  bearing  his  own  name. 
The  title  was  given  him  because  he  served  as 
sherifT  of  Orange  county,  Xew  York.  At 
one  time  he  declined.  His  wife  married  for 
I  her  second  husband,  Mr.  Thurston.  .Shortly 
after  his  marriage  he  removed  from  Long 
Island  to  (loshen,  Xew  York,  where  he  died. 
By  his  wife  Ruth  Coe  he  had  nine  children: 
I.  Rutli,  born  about  1720;  married  (first) 
Ephraim  ^larston:  (second)  Peter  Stagg.  2. 
Daniel,  born  about  1720^  died  March  10,  1790: 
married  Susan  Thompson.  3.  Increase.  4. 
Isaac,  married  (first)  Susanna  (Horton) 
Little  ;  (  second  )  Susanna  ( McKinney )  Thomp- 
son. 3.  Temperance,  married  Jeremiah  Curtis. 
6.  John,  referred  to  below.  7.  lienjamiu.  born 
about  1750,  died  181 1;  married  Eunice,  sister 
to  J.  Stewart.  8.  Moses.  9.  Susanna,  died 
March  17,  1790;  married  a  Howell. 

(  \'I1  )  John  (4).  .son  of  John  (3)  and  Ruth 
(Coe)  Carpenter,  born  June  3,  1730  (or  Feb- 
ruary, 1745,  according  to  another  account), 
died  b^bruary,  1800.  He  is  said  to  have  repre- 
sented Orange  county  in  the  colonial  assembly 
in  1778,  also  at  one  time  to  have  been  a  judge 
of  the  same  county.  He  is  sometimes  called 
"John  the  Distiller."  He  moved  to  Washing- 
ton town,  north  of  .Albany,  Xew  York,  and 
went  into  the  distillery  business,  which  in  those 
days  was  considered  highly  honorable,  and 
accumulated  much  property.  He  was  a  man 
of  knowledge,  held  many  important  offices,  and 
was  at  one  time  a  member  of  the  assembly  of 
Xew  ^'l)rk.  He  was  a  successful  and  prominent 
business  man.  Jaiuiary  31,  177Q,  he  married 
.Abigail,  born  .August  29.  1758,  died  April  21, 
1841,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Louise  (Cory) 
Moore,  who  survived  her  husband  and  after 
his  death  married  Hezekiah  X.  W'oodrufl-".  This 
was  his  second  marriage.  His  first  wife,  name 
supposed  to  have  been  Frances,  bore  him  three 
children.  The  remaining  nine  were  the  issue 
of  the  second  marriage.  These  children  were  : 
T.  Margaret,  born  .April  30.   1773.     2.   Elinor. 


born    October 


'775-     3-   James,   baptized 


September  21,  1777.  4.  Cynthia,  born  May  23, 
1782:  married  Philip  C.  Schuyler.  5.  John 
Coe,  referred  to  below.  6.  Abigail,  born  Au- 
gust 21,  1787:  married  John  Sherwood.  7. 
Susan,  born  1793,  married  Truman  Hart.  8. 
Benjamin,  born  .April  4.  1783,  married  Char- 
lotte P).  .Alden.  9.  Mary,  born  July  28,  1789, 
married  John  C.  \\  ynans.  10.  Temperance, 
born  June  25,  1791  :  died  .\ugust  2,  1831  ;  mar- 
ried Sands  Higinbothan.  11.  Isaac,  born  Sej)- 
tember  k;,  1793:  married  (first)  Cynthia  Sa- 
mantha  ( ioodwin  ;  (  second  )  luneline  Wood- 
ward. 12.  Elizabeth,  born  July  19.  1798;  mar- 
ried a  Leonard. 

(\  III)  John  Coe,  son  of  Jolm  and  .Abigail 
( Moore)  (Carpenter,  was  born  May  4,  1784. 
He  lived  at  first  at  Windham,  Green  county. 
Xew  A'ork,  and  later  in  I'ayettesville  or  Man- 
lius,   Onondaga   county,   Xew   York.      By  his 

first  wife Mead,  he  had  three  children. 

In  1807  he  married  (second)  Hannah  Bab- 
cock,  of  Coventry,  Connecticut,  who  bore  him 
one  more  child.  Children:  1.  John,  referred 
.  to  below.  2.  Eliza,  born  January  i,  1801,  mar- 
ried .Asahel  Peck.  3.  Cynthia,  born  September 
21,  1803,  married  a  Kenney.  4.  Sands  Coe, 
born  about  1813,  married  Alary  Clark. 

( IX  )  John,  eldest  child  of  John  Coe  Car- 
penter by  his  first  wife,  was  born  at  \\'indham, 
Green  county,  Xew  York,  December  13,  1805, 
died  in  Woodbury,  New  Jersey,  July  21,  i8gi. 
He  took  to  the  printing  trade  while  yet  a  boy, 
.securing  an  apprenticeship  in  the  office  of  the 
Herkimer  Herald.  He  became  its  acting  editor 
during  his  aj^prenticeship.  and  at  the  age  of 
nineteen,  differing  with  the  opinion  of  the 
editor  as  to  the  presidential  candidates,  he 
bought  the  balance  of  his  apprenticeship  and 
the  paper  with  it,  and  transferred  his  support 
from  .Adams  to  Jackson.  The  people  of  Herki- 
mer county  in  the  election  of  1824  sustained 
the  cause  of  the  new  editor.  In  1826  Mr. 
Car])enter  was  induced  to  remove  to  Oswego, 
Xew  A'ork.  where  he  helped  to  establish  the 
Oswego  Pallndiitiii.  which  is  yet  prosjjcrous 
and  influential  and  one  of  the  oldest  Demo- 
cratic papers  in  Xew  A'ork  state.  The  greater 
])art  of  John  Carpenter's  younger  life  was 
spent  in  Oswego,  which  he  saw  grow  from  a 
little  village  and  become  a  city  of  considerable 
commercial  importance  to  the  coimtry.  It  is 
interesting  to  note  that  Mr.  Carpenter  took 
the  first  iron  printing  press  used  in  Oswego 
from  .Albany,  Xew  A'ork,  on  a  sleigh.  After 
about  twenty  years  labor  on  the  Palladium  (dur- 
ing which  time  it  diil  good  service  for  his  party. 


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STATE   OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


being  the  ])aper  which  in  the  1840  campaign 
got  from  General  Harrison  and  published  a 
famous  letter  in  which  he  confessed  that  he 
had  a  political  committee  of  three  to  keep  his 
political  conscience  and  tell  what  his  opinions 
were  on  public  issue),  Mr.  Carpenter  sold  the 
printing  office  in  order  to  accept  the  clerkship 
of  the  county,  to  which  he  had  been  elected. 
but  he  afterwards  for  many  years  contributed 
to  the  political  columns  of  the  paper. 

Throughout  his  life  he  was  a  strict  adherent 
to  the  old  party  of  JetYerson.  His  first  vote 
for  president  was  for  Andrew  Jackson,  and  his 
last  for  Grover  Cleveland,  and  in  his  old  age 
he  expressed  himself  glad  to  know  that  for 
more  than  half  a  century  he  had  never  failed 
to  discharge  his  duty  as  a  citizen  in  voting  at 
every  election.  He  removed  to  New  Jersey 
a  few  years  before  his  death,  as  he  was  warned 
by  a  second  attack  of  pneumonia  that  he  could 
no  longer  stand  the  Lake  Ontario  winters,  but 
he  so  timed  his  removal  as  to  cast  his  vote  in 
New  York  state  and  become  a  resident  of  New 
Jersey  the  same  day.  In  1876,  when  he  had 
voted  for  the  one-hundredth  time,  he  was 
elected  by  acclamation  to  rejjresent  the  Oswego 
district  in  the  Democratic  state  convention  of 
New  York,  with  a  very  complimentary  resolu- 
tion by  the  county  convention.  He  was  as 
unselfish  as  he  was  devoted  to  the  party  of  his 
preference.  When  he  did  not  like  its  candi- 
dates he  supported  them  for  their  cause.  When 
his  own  views  failed  to  jirevail  he  promptly 
acce])ted  those  of  the  majority  as  distinct  from 
the  regular  council  of  the  party.  In  no  other  way 
he  believed  could  a  party  and  its  ])rincij)lcs  be 
sustained  and  its  policy  carried  to  triumph 
for  the  good  and  glory  of  the  country.  From 
1852  to  1836  he  was  a' member  of  the  New 
York  Democratic  committee.  He  was  a  staunch 
friend  and  adherent  of  President  Van  Burcn. 
When  in  1848  Mr.  \'an  Buren  started  his  own 
personal  party,  Mr.  Carpenter  stcjod  almost 
alone  in  his  section  in  support  of  the  regular 
ticket  of  the  New  York  convention.  In  fact, 
Mr.  Nathan  Robbin.s,  then  collector  of  the 
port  of  Oswego,  was  the  only  other  person  at 
the  time  in  the  Democratic  county  who  with 
Mr.  Cari)enter  suppf)rted  the  regular  electoral 
ticket.  Oswego  after  this  used  to  be  a  Demo- 
cratic county,  and  Mr.  Carpenter  was  several 
times  elected  a  member  of  its  board  of  super 
vi.sors  and  took  a  prominent  and  noble  part  in 
the  county  management. 

He  was  as  devoted  to  domestic  duties  and 
to  his  private  affairs  as  he  was  to  his  duties 
as  a    citizen.      He   won    warm    and   universal 


esteem  as  a  neighbor.  He  was  unselfishly  and  ; 
untiringly  active  as  long  as  his  eye  and  hand  ) 
had  strength  to  labor.  Only  a  few  weeks  be- 
fore his  death  he  had  helped  effectively  in  the 
office  of  the  Gloucestor  County  Democrat,  the 
paper  of  his  son  James.  The  last  eight  years 
of  his  life  were  spent  in  cornfort  at  his  son's 
home  in  Woodbury,  New  Jersey. 

John  Car]5enter  married   (first)   August  20. 

1828,  Sarah  L.,  daughter  of  Andrew  Ferrill. 
M.  D..  of  Herkimer.  New  York,  who  died 
-September  14,  1844,  having  borne  him  eight 
children.  January  3,  1848,  he  married  (sec- 
ond) Mary,  daughter  of  Judge  Edmund 
Hawkes,  of  Oswego,  New  York,  born  Decem- 
ber 16.  1821,  who  bore  him  seven  children. 
Children  of  John  and  Sarah  L.  (Ferrill)  Car- 
penter:    I.  Elizabeth  Inez,  born  November  8. 

1829,  died  July  22,  1830.  2.  Harriet  Louisa, 
born  February  22,  1832,  died  April  i,  1839. 
3.  Ann  Eliza,  July  12,  1834,  died  March  20. 
1878;  married  (first)  David  W.  Andrews, 
(second)  Edward  Hatch.  4.  Catherine  Lord. 
March  2.  1836,  died  .\pril  18,  1880.  5.  Sarah 
Lucretia.  .\ugust  30,  1838;  married  David 
Davis.  6.  John,  born  August  6,  or  27,  1840; 
lives  Clinton,  New  Jersey.  From  1872  to  1874 
he  was  member  of  the  New  Jersey  assembly, 
1883  to  1885  of  the  New  Jersey  senate,  1889- 
1890- 1 892  secretary  of  the  senate.  Since  1868 
he  has  been  pro]5rietor  and  editor  of  the  Clinton 
I^cinocrat.  He  married  Sarah  Stewart,  of  New 
^'ork  City.  7.  Andrew  Israel,  July  31,  1842, 
died  .September  12,  1859,  unmarried.  8.  Will- 
iam Henry,  born  August  i,  1844;  ])0stmaster 
of  Clinton,  and  partner  of  his  brother  John; 
married  Jennie  Perry.  Children  of  John  and 
Mary  (Hawkes)  Carpenter:  9.  Infant  son, 
born  March  3,  1849,  died  same  year.  10.  Ed- 
ward Hawk,  born  March  11,  T830,  lives  in 
Jackson,  .Michigan;  married  Kitty  Wilder.  11. 
Mary  Louisa,  July  14.  1852,  died  November 
3,  1878:  married  Frank  .\.  Pease,  of  Oswego; 
two  children.  12.  James  Dunton.  referred  to 
below.  13.  Laura,  .August  3,  1856,  died  Octo- 
ber 17,  1892;  married  Lieutenant  Samuel  P. 
Conily.  now  .Admiral,  U.  S.  N.,  of  Woodbury. 
14.  Harriet  Hawkes,  born  August  2,  1858; 
married  ilenry  N.  Gallagher.  13.  Daisy,  Sep- 
tember 13.  1839,  died  May  21,  1864. 

(  .\  I  James  Dunton,  fourth  child  and  third 
son  of  John  and  Mary  (Hawkes)  Carpenter, 
was  born  in  Oswego,  New  York,  September 
Ti,  1854,  and  is  now  living  in  Woodbury,  New 
jersey.  I'or  his  early  education  he  was  sent 
to  the  iiublic  schools  of  Oswego,  after  leaving 
which  he  went  into  the  printing  office  of  the 


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liiilun  Dciiiucrcit,  and  learned  the  trade  of 
rinter.  Here  he  worked  until  March  13,  1879, 
Aku  he  came  to  Woodbury,  New  Jersey,  and 
i'ought  one-half  interest  in  the  Gloucester 
'omity  Democrat.  Two  years  later,  in  1881, 
ic  became  the  sole  owner  of  that  paper,  which 
las  been  in  his  possession  and  under  his  man- 
gement  ever  since.  His  conduct  of  the  paper 
las  been  most  successful  to  himself  and  satis- 
actory  to  his  subscribers  and  constituents,  so 
nuch  so,  in  fact,  that  the  paj^er  now  has  the 
argest  circulation  of  any  newspaper  in  the 
ounty,  and  its  offices  are  among  the  finest 
'([uipped  in  the  printing  business  throughout 
he  state  of  Xew  Jersey.  Mr.  Carpenter,  like 
lis  father,  has  always  been  very  much  interest- 
■d  in  politics^  and  the  Democratic  party,  not 
mly  of  Gloucester  county,  but  also  in  the  state 
md  nation,  owes  much  to  his  energetic  and 
tatesmanlike  efforts  in  its  behalf.  That  they 
lave  recognized  this  is  shown  by  the  offices  of 
ontideuce,  trust  and  responsibility  which  they 
lave  called  u])on  him  to  fill.  He  has  been  for 
learly  a  (|uarter  of  a  century  the  chairman  of 
he  Democratic  county  committee.     From  1890 

0  1893  he  was  one  of  the  chosen  freeholders 
)f  the  county  from  W^oodbury,  New  Jersey, 
md  he  has  several  times  been  a  candidate  on 
he  Democratic  ticket  for  the  New  Jersey 
issembly.  Mr.  Carpenter  is  one  of  the  trustees 
)f  the  Central  Baptist  Church  of  Woodbury, 
ind  he  is  also  a  member  of  Woodbury  Lodge, 
\'o.  54,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
)f  New  Jersey. 

James    Dunton    Car]ienter   married,    March 
[3,  1884,  Harriet,  born  May  15,  1855,  daugh- 

:er  of  —   Fish,   of   Salem   county.   New 

fersey.  Children:  i.  James  Dunton,  junior, 
)orn  P\-bruary  10,  1885  ;  graduated  from  the 
aw  school  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
[909.  and  is  now  an  attorney  in  Jersey  City, 
Slew  Jersey.  2.  Catherine  Grey,  born  .\ugust 
5,  1888:  now  a  student  at  Bucknell  University. 
5.  Edmund  Hawkes,  born  May  28,  1890:  now 

1  junior  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 
[.  Harriet  Martin,  born  November  11,  1894, 
It  present  a  student  in  the  high  school  at  Wood- 
5urv. 


The  first  syllable  of  this 
\'.\.\    W'lXKLE     name,  found  so  often  in 

early  Dutch  names  of 
New  York,  is  equivalent  in  English  to  "of"  or 
'from,"  and  its  use  arose  from  the  fact  that 
:he  present  usage  of  surnames  had  not  been 
adopted  in  Holland  at  the  time  the  Dutch 
mmigrants    settled    New    Amsterdam     (New 


York).  \n  individual  was  distinguished  by 
adding  "from"  or  "of"  to  the  place  of  his  birth 
or  recent  residence.  There  was  also  used  by 
the  Dutch  people  the  termination  "sen"  on  a 
name,  which  signified  "son  of,"  and  this  seems 
t<i  have  been  the  form  employed  by  the  immi- 
grant of  this  family.  In  the  feminine  this 
termination  was  made  "se,"  and  so  we  find 
the  termination  indicating  parentage.  It  is 
spread  over  a  large  portion  of  New  Jersey 
and  New  York  and  is  now  found  in  many 
remote  localities,  in  many  cases  borne  by  men 
of  distinguished  ability,  and  the  family  has 
everywhere  manifested  the  Dutch  traits  of  in- 
dustry and  thrift,  which  have  done  so  much 
for  the  development  of  this  region. 

I  I )  The  first  of  whom  we  have  record  of 
a  Christian  name  was  Jacob  Waling  (often 
written  Waligen),  a  contraction  of  Walingsen, 
meaning  son  of  Waling,  who  resided  in  the 
village  of  Winkel,  in  North  Holland. ^  The 
time  of  his  arrival  is  uncertain.  He  married, 
at  Xew  -Amsterdam,  about  if>45.  Tryntje 
Jacobs.  He  is  supposed  to  have  arrived  at 
-Manhattan,  New  Netherland  (now  New  York 
City )  in  1635,  sailing  from  the  port  of  Hoorn 
on  the  ship  "Koning  (King)  David,"  the 
skijiper  being  David  Pietersen  de  Vries.  The 
syllable  "de"  preceding  the  last  name  is  the 
Dutcli  definite  article  corresponding  to  the 
English  "the."  and  the  whole  surname  de  Vries 
means  in  English  "the  Free,"  and  corresponds 
to  the  English  surname  "Freeman." 

Jacob  Walingen  was  from  Winkel,  which  is 
about  fifteen  miles  northwest  of  Hoorn.  -After 
a  temporary  stop  at  New  Amsterdam  he  prob- 
ably continued  his  voyage  on  board  the  same 
vessel  up  the  Hudson  river  one  hundred  and 
fifty  miles  to  the  Dutch  settlement  of  Rens- 
selaer wyck,  subse(|ucntl3'  called  Greenbush, 
opjiosite  --Mbany.  It  seems  that  Jacob,  who 
was  known  in  that  settlement  by  the  name  of 
"\\'aelingen,"  returned  to  New  -Amsterdam  in 
January,  1639.  The  name  is  found  with  many 
varied  spellings  in  the  old  Dutch  records,  but 
the  heading  of  this  article  is  now  universally 
used.  It  is  plain  that  his  father's  Christian 
name  was  Waling.  He  is  sometimes  referred 
to  in  Xew  .Amsterdam  records  as  "Jacob  Wal- 
ing van  Hoorn."  that  is,  from  Hoorn.  On 
January   12,  1639,  he  gave  testimony  in  New 


1.  We  are  indebted  to  -\lbert  Waling  Van  Winkle, 
F;.sn..  of  New  York  City,  for  most  of  the  genealogical 
information  and  data  contained  in  this  sketch  of 
the  first  generation  of  the  Van  Winkle  family. 

There  is  great  variety  in  spelling  of  Christian 
names  in  early  generations  of  this  family.  In  each 
narrative  we  adopt  the  form  preserved  by  that  par- 
ticular branch. 


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STATE    OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


Amsterilain  against  David  dc  X'ries  respecting 
one  Cicero  t'iere,  which  shows  that  Jacob  \\  al- 
ing  was  then  a  resident  of  that  place.  He  was 
chosen  one  of  the  board  of  "twelve  men," 
representatives  of  the  "commonalty  of  Man- 
hattan, Breuckelen  and  Pavonia"  (the  latter 
now  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey),  August  29, 
1641,  to  suggest  means  to  j)unish  the  Indians 
for  a  murder  they  had  committed.  This  board 
was  abolished  the  next  year.  In  1649  '^^  peti- 
tioned the  Dutch  West  India  Company  in  be- 
half of  himself  and  associates  for  permission 
to  lead  an  expedition  to  take  up  lands  and 
form  a  Dutch  settlement  on  the  "Fresh"'  (now 
Connecticut)  river.  This  petition  was  refused. 
This  was  the  occasion  on  July  28,  1649.  of  a 
subse(|uent  remonstrance  from  the  inhabitants 
ai  New  Xetherland.  May  12.  1650,  "Jacob 
W'aeliugen"  was  at  Rensselaerwyck  with  his 
wife  and  children,  and  was  about  to  leave  the 
colony.  Efforts  were  made  to  retain  him  bv 
offering  him  the  choice  of  several  farms,  but 
he  declined  the  offer.  On  October  i  that  year 
he  received  ])ermission  to  remove  to  Man- 
hattan, where  his  son  Jacob  was  baptized  in 
the  Dutch  Church  "in  the  Fort"  on  October  16 
same  year;  and  before  the  end  of  that  year  he 
and  his  wife  were  enrolled  as  members  of  the 
Dutch  church  of  Xew  Amsterdam,  the  first  of 
the  kind  that  was  organized  in  America.  It 
has  continued  down  to  the  present  time,  and  is 
now  known  as  the  Collegiate  Reformed  Church, 
having  eight  jjlaces  of  worshi])  in  Xew  'S'ork 
City.  I'etrus  .Stuyvesant,  director  general,  and 
his  coimcil.  issued,  (October  23.  1654,  a  patent 
for  twenty-five  morgans  (about  fifty-three 
acres)  of  land  to  "Jacob  W'alingen  van  Hoorn." 
This  was  situated  behind  the  "Kill  van  Kol," 
and  is  now  known  as  P.ergen  Point,  New  Jer- 
sey. Jacob  settled  on  this  land  soon  after,  and 
was  driven  from  his  home  with  the  other  set- 
tlers, by  the  Indians,  in  September,  1655.  At 
this  time  one  hundred  Dutch  were  killed,  one 
lumdred  and  fifty  were  carried  into  cajitivitw 
and  over  three  hundred  dejirived  of  their 
homes,  and  their  grain  and  cattle  destroyed  or 
stolen.  On  .April  17.  1657,  "Jacob  U'alingh" 
was  admitted  to  the  rights  of  a  small  burgher, 
which  entitled  him  to  the  freedom  of  trade,  and 
the  privilege  of  being  received  into  the  guilds 
of  Manhattan,  lie  died  between  that  date  and 
.August  17  same  year.  On  the  latter  date  his 
widow  married  Jacob  Stoffelscn,  of  Middle- 
burgh,  the  capital  of  Zeeland.  Stoffelsen  had 
lost  his  first  wife.  Ides  van  Voorst,  in  the 
spring  of  1641.  At  the  time  of  this  marriage, 
there  were  living  the  fnllnwing  six  minor  chil- 


dren of  Jacob  Waling,  who  were  placed  underl 
guardians:     1.  Grietje,  born  about  1646;  mar-f 
ried,  August  30,  1665,  Elias  Michielse  (\'rce- 
land).    2.  Waling,  referred  to  below.    3.  Jacob, i, 
born  about    1650;  married    (first),   Decemberlj 
15,  1675,  Aeltje  Daniels;  (second),  March  26," 
1695,  Grietje  Hendricks  Hollings.  4.  Jacomyn- 
tje,  born  about   1652;  married.  Xovember  24. 
i(-i~2.  Roelof  Stetting.     5.  Symon,  see  sketch. 
6.   .Annetje,    born   Jatniary    2,    1656;   married, 
Xovember  30.   1676,  Johaiuiis  Steynmets. 

March  31,  ifi<)8.  (iovernor  Carteret  granted 
a  confirmatory  patent  to  the  former  widow  of 
"Jacob  Wallingen  van   Hoorn,"  and  June   17! 
same  year  she  married  Michael  Tates  (  Tades),  1 
widower,  of  llarlaem  :  on  March  15.  i()7i,  she 
married  Lieutenant  Cas])er  Stynmets.  of  Ilarsi- 
mus.  a  member  of  the  Pergen  militia.   She  died  I 
May   II,   1677,  at  Bergen,  and  November   10,1 
1677.  the  title  of  Tryntje  to  the  six  acres  of 
land  at  Harsimus,  used  by  her  for  a  garden  . 
and  orchard,  was  confirmed  to  Casper  Styn- 
mets.    Harsimus  is  now  a  i)art  of  the  Fourth 
Ward  of  Jersey  City,  Xew  Jersey.     She  was 
his  third  wife.     The  children  of  Jacob  Waling 
adopted  the  patronymic  "Jacobse."  that  is,  chil- 
dren of  Jacob.     The  son  Jacob  settled  in  Hud- 
son county,  Xew  Jersey,  and  became  founder 
there  of  the   \'an   Winkel   family.     The  sons 
Waling  and  Symon  were  two  of  the  fourteen 
patentees    of    .Xcquackanonk,    now-    known    as 
I'assaic,    Xew    Jersey.      \'arious   names   were 
•  ipplied  to  them  and  their  descendaiUs.  such  as 
"\\'aliiig  Jacobse  van  Winkel."  "Waling  Jacob- 
sen  van   Winckel,"  "Jacob  Walings,"  "Simon 
\an  Winkel,"  and  "Johannes  Wallings." 

(II)  Waling  Jacobsen,  a])parently  second 
son  nf  Jacob  \Valing  \'an  Hoorn  (or  van 
Winkel).  was  burn  about  1648,  and  resided  in 
I'lergen.  which  then  described  the  region  about 
Jersey  City.  lie  married,  March  15.  1^71, 
(athariua  Michielse  (\reeland),  evidently  a 
<l;inghter  of  Michael  \  reeland.  He  was  nomi- 
11,'ited  by  the  people  of  i'.ergen,  .August  15. 
1(174,  under  the  name  of  "W'alinck  Jacobse." 
for  schepen-  of  the  "Court  of  Justice  at  Ber- 
gen," and  on  the  31st  of  same  month  he  re- 
ceived his  commission.  It  was  a  court  with 
county  jurisdiction,  and  "only  honest,  intelli- 
gent persons,  owners  of  real  estate,  who  were 


2.  A  .standard  Oulcli  ami  Knprlij^h  r>ictionary  defines 
Sohepen  as  ".ludpe."  "Justice."  See  C.  H.  Wiiifield's 
"Hi.story  of  Hudson  County."  "WaUnck  .laoohse:" 
papre  84.  Appointment  as  Soliepen.  Page  74.  Name 
of  Court  (see  "Ordinance")  "A  Court  of  Justice  at 
Hergen."  Page  75.  "Necessary  to  choose  as  .luiiges. 
honest.  Inteiligrent  persons."  etc.  Page  84.  442.  Eiias 
Michioise  was  a  Sehepen  of  this  same  Court,  and 
WInfleid  refers  to  him  as  "Associate  Judge  of  the 
<^t)urt  of  Bergen." 


STATE   OF    NEW    )ERSK^' 


^7i 


)vt'rs  t)f  peace  *  '■'  *  ami  professors  of 
le  Reformed  Religion"  could  be  "chosen  as 
udges"  of  this  court.  The  yearly  salary  of 
his  position  was  about  $ioo  of  present  cur- 
ency.  He  was  one  of  those  who  received  an 
ndian  deed  from  Sachem  Captahem  for  the 
erritory  of  Acciuackanonk,  .\Iarch  28,  1679. 
une  30,  1682,  he  lived  at  ISarbadoes  Neck  and 
wned  land  there.  The  Indian  title  to  Acquack- 
nonk  was  confirmed  to  the  Indian  grantees  by 
latent  from  the  Lord  Pro]jrietors  of  New 
ersey,  March  16,  1684.  This  tract  of  about 
leven  thousand  acres  of  land  extended  from 
he  northerly  line  of  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
ilong  the  westerly  bank  of  the  Passaic  river, 
o  the  base  of  the  mountain  beyond  the  Passaic 
^alls  at  Paterson,  New  Jersey.  "Waling 
Facobse"  was  a  member  of  the  general  assem- 
)ly  of  the  province  of  New  Jersey,  represent- 
ng  .\c(|uackanonk  in  1692,  and  the  following 
^■ear  was  a  representative  from  Barbaboes 
\'eck.  June  30,  1695,  the  lands  of  "Wallen 
[aciibs"  at  New  Rarbadoes,  Essex  county,  ad- 
oincd  those  of  Isaac  Kingsland.  Waling  was 
5ne  of  the  fotmders  of  the  Acquackanonk 
:hurch,  now  known  as  the  First  Reformed 
IJhurch  of  Passaic,  was  elected  an  elder  in 
May,  1696,  and  re-elected  May  20,  1701.  The 
ivill  of  "Waling  Jacobsen  van  Winckel,  of 
Vcquackanung,  in  the  county  of  Essex, 
farmer,"  is  dated  November  I,  1707,  "in  the 
Sixth  year  of  the  Glorious  Reign  of  our  Sov- 
ereign Lady  Anne."  His  wife,  "Catharina  van 
^Vinckele,  is  sole  executrix."  He  leaves  her 
'All  my  whole  estate  during  her  natural  life." 
Her  surname  is  also  spelt  in  the  will  "van 
VVinckle"  and  "van  Winckel."  "After  the 
lecease  of  my  wife,  my  eldest  son  Jacob  van 
^\'inckle  shall  have  paid  to  him  out  of  my  said 
estate,  before  any  division  shall  be  made, 
Pwenty  Shillings."  He  gives  to  each  of  his 
:hree  sons — "Jacob  van  Winckel,"  and  "my 
second  son  Machiel  (spelt  Michael  in  another 
place )  van  \\'inckel,"  and  "my  third  son  Jo- 
riannes  van  Winckel" — a  "house  lot  containing 
six  acres  of  land."  Jacob  receives  the  lot 
'where  he  at  present  lives  upon,"  the  lot  to 
Machiel  "being  the  midle  side  of  the  three 
lots :"  the  lot  to  Johannes  "being  the  northeast 
;ide  whereupon  the  house  barn  and  orchard 
stands."  He  also  gives  to  "each  of  his  three 
sons"  "one  equal  third  of  his  said  land,  being 
the  southwest  side  of  my  land,"  which  "shall 
t»e  understood  only  for  the  five  hundred  acres 
of  land  lying  on  Passaick  river,  between  the 
land  of  Tadiis  Machielsen  and  Mr.  Kingsland." 


"My  said  three  sons  shall  jiay  due  and  e(|ual 
shares  and  portions  out  of  the  mentioned  ap- 
])raisement  of  said  land  to  his  and  their  sisters, 
without  exception  or  fraud."  ".\11  my  children 
shall  divide  my  said  estate  e(|ually."  The  son 
-\braliam  is  not  named  in  the  will,  which  was 
executed  "at  .\chquackenung,  at  my  common 
dwelling  house  in  the  south  chamber  of  said 
house,  about  four  of  the  clock  in  the  after- 
noon." Witnesses  :  Simon  Jacobs  van  Winckel 
(a  brother  of  the  testator  who  was  living  at 
tlie  date  of  probate  of  this  will,  and  upon  his 
testimony  same  was  probated),  Miggil  Tades, 
John  Conrad  Codweis.  Will  jirobated  Sep- 
tember 12,  1729,  recorded  in  office  of  secretary 
of  state  at  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  in  liber  B  of 
Wills,  p.  133.  The  following  is  a  photographic 
copy  of  the  autograph  of  Judge  Waling  Jacob- 
sen  van  Winckel  as  signed  to  his  will : 

Children:  Annetje,  Jacob,  Michael,  Tryntje, 
Johannis  (referred  to  below),  Sarah  and 
Abraham. 

(Ill)  Johannis,  third  son  of  W'aling  Jacob- 
sen  and  Catharina  (\>eeland)  \'an  Winckel, 
was  born  October  2,  1682.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Acquackanonk  church,  and  held  the 
following  offices  therein:  May,  1723,  elected 
deacon;  May,  1754,  elected  elder  and  trustee; 
April  23,  1756,  was  an  elder  of  the  Totowa 
Church,  from  Acquackanonk;  June,  1756,  re- 
tired as  trustee;  1759,  retired  as  elder.  Many 
records  aj^pear  where  he  and  his  wife  were 
sponsers  at  the  baptism  of  children.  He  was 
evidently  a  farmer  in  the  vicinity  of  Passaic. 
He  married,  September  30,  1710,  Hillegond 
Sip,  baptized  August  28,  1687,  daughter  of 
Jan  Adrianse  and  Johanna  (van  Vorst)  Sip. 
Her  father  w^as  born  May  24,  1662,  and  her 
mother  baptized  April  16,  1666.  Jan  A.  Sip 
was  lieutenant  of  the  Bergen  militia  1703-11, 
and  afterwards  became  captain.  In  the  mar- 
riage record  Johannis  is  called  "Johannis  Wal- 
ings  van  Winckel  from  Acquackanonk,"  and 
his  bride,  "Hillegond  Sippe  from  Bergen."  In 
his  will,  dated  January  6,  1758,  he  is  described 
as  "Johannis  walingse  vanwinkel,  of  New  bar- 
badoes  Neck,  in  the  county  of  Bergen  and 
easterly  division  of  New  Jersey."  To  his 
"wife  Hillegond  vanwinkel"  he  leaves  the  use 
of  one-third  of  his  real  and  personal  estate 
during  the  time  she  remains  his  widow  and 
also  "full  possession  and  enjoyment  of  the 
rooms  sellar  upper  room  kitchen  barn  as  now 


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by  us  enjoyed,  with  full  power  to  sell  and 
dispose  of  the  moveable  goods  and  household 
furniture."  If  his  wife  "chuse  to  give  up  the 
inanagLUient  of  the  plantation  unto  my  son 
Waling,  then  he  shall  find  my  wife  a  suitable 
decent  and  comfortable  support  of  life,  or 
such  an  annual  sum  of  money  during  her 
vviddowhood  as  she  shall  be  willing  to  con- 
sent unto."  He  gives  all  his  land  in  the  count) 
of  Bergen,  Essex,  or  elsewhere,  to  his  "son 
waling  vanwinkel  forever."  He  also  gives  to 
each  of  his  two  daughters.  "Catrina,  the  wife 
of  TMeter  II.  Pieterse,"  (Merselis)  and 
■'annatje,  the  wife  of  Johannis  Sip,  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  pounds  currant  lawful  money 
of  New  York."  A  true  inventory  of  the  move- 
able estate  must  be  taken,  and  after  the  death 
or  remarriage  of  his  wife  same  is  to  be  equally 
divided  between  his  said  three  children.  He 
appoints  "my  son  waling  vanwinkel  and  Pieter 
II.  Pieterse  my  son-in-law  executors."  Wit- 
nesses: "David  Marinus"  (the  pastor  of  the 
Acquackanonk  Church),  "Johannis  J.  Van- 
winkel" and  Corneles  Vanvorst."  On  probate 
of  will,  October  19,  1769,  the  testator  is  de- 
scribed as  "Johannis  Walings  Van  Winkcl." 
The  executors  were  then  alive  and  qualified 
the  same  day.  Will  recorded  in  office  of  secre- 
tary of  state,  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  in  Book 
K  of  Wills,  p.  155.  Children:  Catrina,  Anna- 
tje, and  Waling,  referred  to  below. 

(IV)  Waling,  only  son  of  Johannis  and 
Hillegond  (Sip)  Van  Winkel,  was  born  at 
"Aghqueecknonk."  He  was  ai)pointed  a  justice 
of  the  peace  in  the  county  of  Bergen,  Wednes- 
dav.  November  22,  1769,  at  a  council  held  at 
Burlington.  New  Jersey,  by  His  Excellency 
William  hVanklin,  Es(|uire,  son  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  llis  will  is  dated  May  29,  1774,  in 
which  he  describes  himself  as  of  New  Barba- 
does,  in  the  county  of  Bergen,  in  the  eastern 
division  of  the  province  of  New  Jersey.  At 
the  date  of  his  decease  he  owned  lands,  houses. 
barns,  stables,  horses,  cattle  and  farm  pro- 
ducts "in  the  county  of  Bergen,"  and  also  had 
land  "Laying  near  the  Great  Falls  (Pas.saic 
Falls)  within  the  limits  of  Ach(|ucghcnonck 
Patten  in  the  county  of  Essex."  He  refers 
to  his  wife  in  his  will  as  follows:  "My  will 
is  that  my  beloved  wife  Yannity  shall  possess 
and  enjoy  all  my  estate  both  real  and  personal 
during  the  time  she  doth  continue  to  be  my 
widow."  He  also  names  in  his  will  his  sisters 
".\nnatje"  and  "Catriena."  The  will  is  wit- 
nessed by  Morris  Van  W^agenen.  Jacob  Van 
Wagonen  and  Ilcssel  IVterse.     The  following 


is  a   photographic   copy   of   the   autograph   oM 
Waling  \'an  Winkel  as  signed  to  his  will : 

It  was  proved  March  23,  1784,  before  Abra-! 
ham  Westervelt,  surrogate,  and  is  recorded  inl 
Liber  M  of  W'ills,  p.  259,  &c.  It  was  orderedl 
by  the  provincial  congress  of  New  Jersey,  at^ 
New  Brunswick,  Wednesday,  F'ebruary  ->8, 
1776,  that  "W'alling  Van  W'inkle"  hold  the 
office  of  ensign  of  the  Pollitly  militia  company 
in  the  jirecincts  of  New  Barbadoes,  county  of 
Bergen.  He  ])robably  died  about  the  first  ^if 
the  year  1784.  He  married,  June  8.  1743. 
being  then  described  as  a  "young  man  born 
and  living  at  Aghqueecknonk,"  and  she  as 
Tannetje  \'an  Llouten,  "maiden,  born  and  living 
at  Totua."  She  was  born  February  24,  17 19, 
and  died  April  12,  17(39,  daughter  of  Jacob 
\an  Houton,  of  Totowa,  and  Marietje  Sickels, 
his  wife.  The  children  named  in  his  will  for 
whom  he  liberally  provided  are:  John  (re- 
ferred to  below).  Jacob,  Cornelius,  Hillegont, 
Waling,  Maritje,  Helmich  (or  Halmagh). 

(\')  John,  eldest  child  of  W'aling  and  Jan- 
netje  (Van  Houton)  "van  W'inkel,"  was  born 
about  1744.  He  purchased  on  July  i,  1766,  of 
Abraham  Rittan.  a  farm  of  one  hundred  acres 
at  "Toawetomack,"  lying  in  Saddle  river 
(township)  in  the  county  of  Bergen,  on  the 
Passaic  river,  and  here  settled  and  spent  his 
life;  he  is  described  to  this  deed  as  "Johannis 
\'an  Wrinkle."  In  the  fall  of  1780  a  part  of 
the  American  army  (New  Jersey  and  Pennsyl- 
vania troops)  removing  from  Newburgh.  was 
encamijcd  on  his  farm,  and  some  of  the  officers 
took  their  meals  at  his  hou.se.  He  was  evi- 
dently an  extensive  landholder.  A  deed 
executed  June  23,  1798,  to  "John  Van  Winkle." 
shows  that  he  purchased  of  Jacob  Smith,  foi' 
.$8,000,  a  farm  and  buildings  at  Little  Falls, 
on  the  east  side  of  the  Pas.saic  river.  He  pur- 
chased this  as  a  home  for  his  son  Waling,  who 
had  recently  married.  About  1799-  while^  re- 
turning from  a  visit  to  his  son  at  Little  falls 
to  his  home  at  Totowa,  he  was  rowed  in  a  boat 
on  the  Passaic  river  by  a  negro  slave.  During 
the  voyage  he  passed  away  from  an  attack  of 
heart  failure,  and  his  body  was  carried  home 
hv  the  slave.  At  this  time  he  was  the  owner 
of  two  hundred  and  fifty-two  acres  of  land  at 
Totowa.  with  live  stock,  houses,  barns,  stables 
•md  other  buildings,  as  well  as  real  estate  and 


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iiildings  at  Little  Falls.  He  also  owned  the 
Qwermost  island  lying  in  the  Passaic  river 
Selow  the  Little  Falls,  between  the  counties  of 
jergen  and  Essex  containing  seven  and  thirty- 
ive  hundredths  of  an  acre.  He  married,  about 
765,  Gerretje,  of  Acquackanonk,  daughter  of 
ielmich  and  Jannetje  (\'an  Houtenj  Sip. 
lerretje  died  licfore  her  husband.  Children; 
fannetje,  Walling  (Isaac)  (referred  to  below  ). 
:ielmich   (William). 

(\'I)  Walling  Isaac,  eldest  son  of  John  and 
jerretje  (Sip)  "\"an  Winkle,"  was  born  June 
3,  1772,  an(l  baptized  on  the  28th  of  same 
nonth,  his  sponsors  being  Hendrick  \  an 
A'agenen  and  Hillegont  Van  Winkel,  uncle  and 
lunt  of  the  infant.  He  was  a  small  boy  during 
he  war  of  the  revolution,  and  remembered 
iceing  some  soldiers  of  the  Continental  army  in 
amp  at  his  father's  farm.  He  recalled  that 
lis  father  had  complained  that  they  cut  down 
I  griive  of  fine  trees  which  they  used  for  fuel 
n  their  camp  fires.  C)ne  day  while  he  was 
:arrying  a  pail  of-  milk  to  the  house  of  a  sick 
leighbor,  he  was  met  by  several  soldiers  who 
Irank  the  milk  and  returned  to  him  the  empty 
)ail.  Soon  after  his  marriage  he  settled  at 
kittle  P'alls,  on  the  farm  purchased  for  him 
)y  his  father,  which  on  the  death  of  the  latter, 
ntestate,  together  with  the  lowermost  island 
ying  in  the  Passaic  river  below  the  Little 
"alls,  was  released  to  him  by  his  brother  and 
ister.  The  father  is  described  in  these  re- 
eases  as  "John  \'an  Winkle,  late  of  Totowa. 
ieceased."  On  March  27,  1801,  Walling  Isaac 
(urchased  thirty-eight  and  three  quarters  of 
m  acre  of  land  in  the  township  of  Acquacka- 
lonk,  beginning  at  the  north  corner  of  the  road 
eading  from  Paterson  to  Peckman's  river. 
A'alling  Isaac  died  July  8,  1857.  He  married. 
"October  29,  1797,  Sally  (Sarah),  daughter  of 
Abraham  and  Maragrieta  (Kingsland)  Garra- 
irant.  of  Stone  House  Plains,  New  Jersey.  Feb- 
uary  6,  1802,  .Abraham  Garrabrant  conveyed  to 
he  trustees  of  the  DutchChurch  of  Stone  House 
Mains,  for  a  meetinghouse,  "a  lot  in  the  north- 
vest  corner  of  his  farm,  a  few  rods  southwest 
)f  the  Great-Rock,  known  by  the  name  of 
•Itone-House,"  consideration  "one  cent."  The 
'ollowing  is  a  copy  of  the  autograph  of  W'all- 
ng  Isaac  \'an  W'inkle  in  the  year  1805 : 

Sally  survived  her  husband  nearly  eleven 
'ears,  dying  June  19.  1868.  Her  will  is  dated 
October  iq.  1866.  and  was  probated  February 


y,  i8CX);  her  personal  estate  exceeded  ten  thous- 
and dollars.  Children:  Margaret  (.Peggy), 
Jane  (Jennie),  .Vbraham  (iarrabrant  Waling. 
Mary  Garrabrant  (^died  young),  Mary  .Ann, 
John  Waling  (referred  to  below). 

(\'H)  John  Waling,  second  son  of  Walling 
Isaac  and  Sarah  (Garrabrant)  Van  W^inkle, 
was  born  September  12,  181 1,  at  Stone  House 
Plains,  and  was  baptized  December  i,  of  the 
same -year.  He  was  educated  at  the  .\cquack- 
ammk  School  (now  Passaic),  New  Jersey,  and 
subse(iuently  settled  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  he  engaged  in  the  dry  goods,  silk 
and  notion  business,  which  he  conducted  for  a 
number  of  years.  He  died  February  26,  1902. 
His  will  is  dated  December  11,  1885.  He  mar- 
ried, in  1841,  Margaret,  born  about  1815, 
daughter  of  Daniel  and  Priscilla  (Warren) 
MacCurdy.  Daniel  MacCurdy,  born  1776; 
died  November  7,  1854,  was  a  descendant  of 
Rtibert  Mackurdey,  or  Garachty,  Scotland,  and 
Janet  Eraser,  his  wife.  Daniel's  wife,  Priscilla 
Warren,  was  born  about  1782  and  died  about 
1862.  Their  daughter  Margaret,  wife  of  John 
Waling  Van  Winkle,  died  September  18,  1850. 
Children  of  John  Waling  and  Margaret  ( Afac- 
Curdy)  \'an  Winkle:  Albert  Waling  (^re- 
ferred to  below).  Theodore  MacCurtly  (re- 
fered  to  beknv),  Emma,  John.  The  last  two 
died  in  infancy. 

(VIII)  .Albert  Waling,  eldest  child  of  John 
Waling  and  Margaret  (MacCurdy)  Van 
Winkle,  was  born  April  17,  1842,  in  Philadel- 
])liia,  Pennsylvania,  and  died  December  30, 
1909.  He  attended  the  grammar  school  of 
Columbia  College,  New  York  City,  and  subse- 
([ent'.y  the  academy  at  Bloomfiekl,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  graduated.  He  entered  the  law 
scl'ool  of  Harvard  University,  September  15, 
1866,  and  graduated  June  29,  1869,  with  the 
degree  of  LL.  B.  He  was  admitted  by  the  New 
York  supreme  court  at  the  city  of  New  York, 
May  7,  1870,  as  an  attorney  and  counsellor  at 
law,  and  immediately  entered  upon  the  general 
practice  of  the  law  in  said  city.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Collegiate  Church  of  St.  Nich- 
olas, corner  of  Forty-eighth  street  and  Fifth 
avenue.  New  York  City,  one  of  the  branches 
of  the  Old  Dutch  Church  "in  the  Fort"  of  New 
.Amsterdam,  in  which  his  first  American  an- 
cestor was  married,  and  his  children  baptized, 
and  of  which  he  was  a  leading  member.  He 
was  also  a  member  of  the  Holland  Society  of 
.\'ew  York.  From  April,  1903,  he  was  presi- 
dent, diiector,  counsel  and  a  stockholder  of  the 
business  corporation  of  R.  S.  Luqueer  &  Com- 
pany, of  New  York  City,  established  in  1814, 


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liaving  |)reviously  l)cen  vice-president  of  the 
same  organization.  He  was  also  a  director 
and  counsel  of  the  Gas  Stove  L'tensil  Corpora- 
tion of  New  York  City.  Mr.  Van  Winkle 
spent  much  time  in  pursuing  the  record  of  his 
ancestors  in  New  Netherlantl,  New  Jersey, 
and  New'  York,  and  to  his  care  and  pains  in 
this  direction,  is  due  much  of  the  matter  con- 
tainc'l  in  this  narrative. 

(IX)  Theodore  AlacCurd)-,  second  son  of 
John  Waling  and  .Margaret  (MacCurdy)  Van 
Winkle,  was  born  September  15,  1844,  and 
died  May  21,  1868.  Me  attended  and  graduated 
from  the  Bloomfield  Academy  at  Bloomfield, 
New  Jersey,  under  the  principalship  of  James 
W.  Rundell.  a  noted  educator  of  his  day.  He 
was  pre])ared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Massachusetts,  and  was  within  a 
few  days  of  graduating  from  this  institution 
when  he  died.  His  sterling  worth  and  great 
liromise  are  abundantly  te.stified  to  by  the 
following : 

Ftesolutions  pas.^cd  by  the  Class  of  '68,  May  22, 
18CS,  on  the  ileatli  of  Theodore  MacCurdy  'Van 
Wrinkle: 

Whereas.  It  hath  seemed  good  to  our  Heavenly 
Father,  "who  doth  aU  things  weU."  to  remove  from 
our  number  Theodore  MacCurdy  'Van  Winkle,  whose 
premature  death  has  defeated  the  most  cherished 
anticipations  of  his  friends,  and  his  own  proudest 
hopes  on  earth; 

Resolved.  That  while  we  deeply  mourn  that  one 
to  whom  we  were  bound  by  many  ties  of  affection 
and  respect,  is  thus  early  In  life  taken  from  us.  yet 
we  have  reason  to  believe  that  he  has  entered  upon 
a  nobler  and  purer  lite. 

Resolved.  That  we  extend  our  sympathy  to  the 
bereaved  family  and  friends,  weeping  with  them  in 
their  sorrow. 

Resolved,  That  in  token  of  our  respect  and  affec- 
tion for  our  deceased  friend  we  wear  the  customary 
badge  of  mourning  for  thirty  days. 

Resolved.  That  copies  of  these  resolutions  be 
forwarded  to  the  relatives  of  the  deceased,  and  also 
be  published  in  the  "Andover  Advertiser"  and  "New- 
ark  Pally." 

F.  S.    DKNNIS, 
A.   R.   MERRIAM, 

G.  E.   CHURCH, 

Committee. 
I'liilllps  Academy,  Andover,  Mass..  May  22nd,  1S6S." 


(For  first  generation  see  preceding  sketch). 

(H)  .Svmon.  third  son 
VAN  WINKLE  and  fifth  child  of  Jacol)se 
Walenj.se  (Jacob  Wal- 
iugj  and  Tryntje  (Jacobs)  Van  Winkle,  was 
born  in  Tavonia,  Hergen  township.  East  New 
Jersey,  and  baptized  in  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church  at  P.ergen,  .August  24,  1653.  In  1684 
he  received  grants  from  the  governor-general 
and  the  council  of   East   New    [erscv  of  tlu 


.\cc|uockanonk  Patent,  and  was  one  of  the 
first  settlers  on  the  land  thus  granted.  In  the 
original  patent  his  name  is  given  as  Symon 
Jacobse,  thus  designating  him  as  a  son  of 
Jacobse  \'an  Winkle.  The  farm  obtained 
through  this  grant  is  now  covered  by  Aycrigg 
avenue  and  the  Poulevard  extension;  his  house 
stood  on  the  River  Drive,  a  little  to  the  north 
of  Aycrigg  avenue,  and  the  land  was  purchased 
from  his  descendants  in  1812  by  Adrian  M. 
Post.  Symon  \'an  Winkle  had  another  farm 
at  Weasle  (now  Clifton),  New  Jersey,  and  his 
property  was  largely  increased  at  the  time  of 
his  marriage,  as  his  wife  was  richly  dowered 
with  valuable  lands  and  other  possessions.  He 
was  married,  December  15,  1675,  to  Aiuietje 
Adrianse  Sip,  in  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church 
at  Pergen  (Jersey  City),  where  they  both  lived 
at  the  time,  later  settling  on  the  farm  at  Ac- 
(|uockanonk,  where  all  their  children  were  born. 
Children:  i.  Margretje,  born  about  1676; 
married  Martin  Winne.    2.  Jacob,  see  forward. 

3.  Johannes,  born  August  18,  1682;  married 
Magdeline  Speer;  children:  Simeon,  Alex- 
ander, Jacob,  .Abraham,  Marinus,  John,  Cath- 
erine, Hannah,  Mary,  Leah,  Rachel  and  Sarah. 

4.  .Simeon,  baptized  August  6,  1686 ;  married 
(first)  Printje  Van  Gieson,  and  had:  Jan- 
nette  and  Helena;  married  (second)  Antje 
JVitrina,  widow,  March  3,  1734,  and  had  a 
son,  Johannas.  5.  Trintje,  born  April  2,  1688; 
married,  March  23,  1706,  Isaac  C.  \'reeland. 
<\  Rachel,  baj-jtized  October,  1690;  married, 
March  13,  1708,  Johannes  Kosinman.  7.  Arie, 
married,  October  2,   1705,  Annetje  Michaels. 

8.  .\eltje,  married,  June  12,  1714,  Jurian  T.. 
Van  Riper.  9.  Gideon,  married  Jannetje 
Kosinman.  10.  Abraham,  married,  January, 
1753,  Martjc  Van  Dyke,  and  had  son  .Simeon, 
II.  Leah,  married  Isaac  Thasce.  12.  Marinus. 
married,  SeiJtembcr  2,  1721,  Geesje  \'an  \\  ag- 
<iner,  and  died  about  1767. 

(  111  )  Jacob,  eldest  son  and  secoiul  child  of 
Symon  and  .\nnctje  .\drianse  (Sip)  Xnu 
Winkle,   was  horn   in   .\c(|uockanonk,   .\ugust 

9,  1678.  lie  married.  April  21,  1701, 
jacomentje  Mattheuse  \an  Nieuwkerck  (Van 
Newkirk).  and  had:  Simeon  (see  forward) 
.'uid  Jacob,  both  mentioned  in  his  will. 

(IV)  Simeon,  eldest  son  of  Jacob  and 
Jacomentje  Mattheuse  (Van  Nieuwkerck) 
\'an  Winkle,  was  born  about  1725,  and  was  a 
soldier  during  the  revolutionary  war,  serving 
with  the  New  Jersey  militia.  He  married, 
about   1750.  Margaretta  (leretson. 

(\')  Siine(in,  son  of  .Simeon  and  IVLirgaretta 
(Geretson)    \j^   Winkle,   was  born   .April  4, 


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1752.  He  married  Aniietje  Marselis,  who  was 
born  Marcli  28,  1733,  and  died  April  19,  1809. 
Children  :  i .  Jacob  S..  born  December  6.  1776 ; 
married,  March  2,  1806,  Elizabeth  Vanderhoff  ; 
children:  Catherine  and  Cornelius.  2.  Edo, 
born  October  14,  1779,  died  February  14,  1852  ; 
see  sketch.  3.  Peter,  see  forward.  4.  Cor- 
nelius S.,  born  January  13,  1785;  died  Febru- 
ary 2,  1843;  '^'^^s  printer,  corner  Wall  street, 
and  IJroadway,  author  and  publisher  of  "The 
l'rinter"s  Guide :"  married  Eucinda  Eveline 
Sherman;  children:  Angeline,  Eucinda,  Au- 
gusta, Cordelia,  Albert,  Cornelius  S.,  John  S., 
born  April  26,  1787,  and  Yanike,  died  young. 
|\I)  Peter,  third  son  and  child  of  Simeon 
and  Annetje  (Marselis)  Van  Winkle,  was 
born  June  27,  1782,  in  Bergen,  New  Jersey, 
and  died  in  New  York  City,  January  14,  1822. 
For  many  years  he  was  a  successful  merchant 
in  the  city  of  New  York,  where  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Van  Winkle  &  Van  Ant- 
werp. He  served  for  some  time  in  the  militia, 
in  which  he  was  a  commissioned  officer.  His 
circle  of  acquaintances  was  wide,  and  he  was 
well  and  favorably  known  in  business  and 
social  life.  He  married,  October  20,  1805, 
Phoebe,  born  in  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  No- 
vember 26,  1782:  died  March  16,  1871,  daugh- 
ter of  General  Abraham  Godwin,  a  soldier  of 
the  revolution,  who  joined  the  army  of  Wash- 
ington at  Morristown  as  a  volunteer,  and  came 
out  of  the  struggle  a  colonel  of  the  Continental 
army.  Children:  i.  Henry  Edwin,  born  De- 
cember 4,  1806:  was  author  of  a  novel  which 
met  with  no  marked  success,  yet  bore  traces  of 
considerable  originality  and  force ;  he  married, 
June  20,  1827,  Maria  Jackson,  who  died  in 
September,  1881 ;  children:  John  Peter,  Mary 
Elizabeth,  daughter  who  died  young,  Henri- 
etta, Julia,  Isabel  and  Eugene  R.  2.  Peter 
Godwin,  born  1808;  died  April  15,  1872;  was 
a  distinguished  lawyer,  and  a  devoted  son  of 
the  muses,  writing  incessantly  in  the  style  of 
Cowper  and  Goldsmith ;  his  devotion  had  not 
abated  when  he  was  crowned  in  mature  life  with 
senatorial  honors  as  the  representative  at 
Washington  of  the  new  state  of  West  Virginia. 
He  married  Juliette  Rathbone,  and  had  chil- 
dren :  Rathbone,  Godwin  and  Mary.  3.  Ed- 
gar Simeon,  see  forward.  4.  Adolphus  Wall- 
ing, born  August  16,  1812:  died  July  10,  1876; 
married,  October  27,  1836.  Petrina,  daughter 
of  \\'alling  W.  and  Catharine  (Van  Voorhis) 
Van  Winkle;  she  was  born  November  6,  1818, 
and  died  July  5,  1877.  Children :  Catharine, 
Peter  Godwin,  Adolphus  Walling,  Edgar 
Simeon,  Walling  Walingen,  Emeline  and  Clara. 


3.  .\nna  M.,  born  April  14,  1814:  died  June  3, 
1873.  6.  Emeline,  born  March  17,  1816;  died 
-May  17,  1843;  married,  September,  1838,  An- 
thony Yoeman ;  one  son,  Anthony.  7.  Child, 
died  in  infancy.  8.  Margaret  Elizabeth,  born 
May  6,  1820;  died  November  2,  1897.  9. 
.\bram  John,  born  Alay  30,  1822 ;  died  July 
27,  1898;  married,  December  24.  1847,  Eliza 
Oldis,  born  May  14,  1825;  died  April  16,  1891 ; 
children:  Son,  died  in  infancy;  Francis  Oldis 
and  jVnna. 

(\']I)  Edgar  Simeon,  third  son  and  child 
iif  Peter  and  Plioebe  (Godwin)  \'an  Winkle, 
was  born  .August  3.  1810,  and  died  December 
9,  1882.  On  his  father's  death  in  1822,  the 
family  removed  to  New  Jersey,  where  he  con- 
tinued his  earlier  education.  The  same  in- 
dustry, rectitude,  and  steadiness  of  character 
which  marked  his  after  life,  marked  also  the 
days  of  his  boyhood.  He  pursued  classical 
studies  until  he  was  fourteen  at  Nassau  Hall 
.Academy,  the  principal  of  which.  Dr.  Sythotif, 
in  a  letter  written  to  him  soon  after  he  left  it, 
said  :  '"I  feel  gratified  to  receive  from  you  the 
pleasing  expression  of  your  attachment  to  Nas- 
sau Hall  Academy,  your  .\lma  Mater,  and  I 
can  in  return  say  that  she  will  ever  be  proud 
to  recognize  Edgar  Van  Winkle  as  one  of  her 
choicest  sons."  This  was  high  praise  from 
such  a  source  for  a  boy  of  fourteen.  .After 
leaving  Nassau  Hall  he  commenced  the  study 
of  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  John  P.  Jackson, 
an  eminent  lawyer  of  Newark,  in  which  he  re- 
mained for  some  time,  until  he  entered  the 
office  of  William  Slosson,  Esq.,  of  New  York, 
a  lawyer  of  highest  repute,  with  whom  he  con- 
tinued until  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  1831. 
From  that  tiiue  until  his  last  illness,  a  period  of 
more  than  fifty  years,  he  was  steadily  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  his  profession  with  the  exception 
of  a  part  of  1873,  i"  which  he  visited  Europe 
and  saw  much  of  public  men  and  the  courts, 
both  in  England  and  on  the  Continent. 

Among  his  fellow  students  in  Mr.  Slosson's 
office  were  Mr.  John  Slosson,  afterwards  a 
judge  of  the  superior  court;  Jonathan  Law- 
rence, a  brilliant  and  promising  young  man,  who 
died  early;  and  the  late  Cornelius  Du  Bois, 
who  became  and  until  his  embarkation  in  com- 
mercial pursuits  continued  to  be  Mr.  Van 
Winkle's  professional  partner.  It  is  not  extrava- 
gent  to  say  of  Mr.  Van  Winkle  that  he  was  a 
model  lawyer.  His  close  attention  to  his 
studies  and  duties  was  soon  rewarded  by  a 
large  clientage  and  full  practice.  Early  and 
always  a  diligent  and  imtiring  student,  he  be- 
came master  of  the  general  principles  of  juris- 


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prudence,  and  especially  familiar  with  that  re- 
lating to  trusts,  wills,  real  estate  and  com- 
mercial law.  Among  liis  leading  clients  were 
banks,  trust  com])anies.  executors,  guardians, 
and  other  trustees,  and  large  commercial 
houses,  lie  drew  the  charters  and  conducted 
the  organizatit)n  of  several  nf  the  large  nionied 
corporations  of  the  city  and  was  their  stand- 
ing counsel.  Of  one  of  the  banks  he  was  coun- 
•sel  for  fifty  years. 

Endowed  by  nature  with  rare  power  of  con- 
centrated and  continuous  thought,  and  with  a 
sedate  but  active  mind  and  strong  good  sense, 
he  gave  to  every  case  in  which  he  was  engaged 
patient  and  thorough  investigation  and  thought  : 
and  his  cool,  clear  conclusions  and  judgment 
had  as  nearly  the  certainty  of  mathematics  as 
pertains  to  the  solution  of  questions  of  law. 
Such  was  the  character  of  his  mind  that  in 
every  case  submitted  to  him  he  sought  for  the 
intrinsic  right  rather  than  to  discover  whether, 
because  of  some  jiarticular  decision,  his  client's 
case  could  possibly,  right  or  wrong,  be  sustain- 
ed. If  it  were  not  clearly  tenable  he  advised 
and  in  most  cases  secured,  reasonable  and 
proper  adju.stments  and  settlements.  Had  it 
not  been,  as  it  was  absolutely  with  him,  a  matter 
of  ])rinciple  to  take  this  course,  it  would  have 
been  wise  as  a  matter  of  ])olicy  for,  where  he 
did  i^roceed  with  litigation,  there  was  almost 
a  jircsiunption  that  the  right  was  on  the  side 
he  advocated,  and  courts  and  juries  woidd 
feel  that  it  had  the  sanction  of  his  judgment 
and  convictions.  In  cases  thus  considered  he 
was  very  generally  successful.  As  an  illustra- 
tion of  this  we  may  mention  that  he  prevailed 
in  nine  of  the  last  eleven  cases  which  he  argued 
in  the  court  of  appeals.  One  of  his  most 
marked  traits  was  his  imjierturbable  coolness 
and  self-possession.  Though  (|uick  and  sen- 
sitive he  was  never  flurried,  and  his  even  bal- 
ance and  judgment  were  never  more  conspicu- 
ous, as  well  as  prompt,  than  in  emergencies. 
So,  too,  in  the  affairs  outside  of  his  profession. 
Instead  of  giving  the  reins  to  his  imaginatif)n 
the  action  of  his  mind  was  always  to  discover 
how  much  he  could  prune  and  brush  away 
that  was  unreal  or  extrinsic,  to  reduce  the 
adverse  matter  to  its  least  diinensions.  and 
then  to  bring  all  his  strength  to  its  avoidance 
or  removal.  Hence  his  serene  and  cheerful 
life  and  calm  judgment  in  the  important  mat- 
ters confided  to  his  care.  No  man  had  more 
fully  the  respect,  confidence  and  warm  per- 
sonal regard  of  the  courts,  his  brethren  of  the 
bar,  and  of  those  whose  interests  were  in- 
trusted to  him.     Invariably  dignified,  he  was 


courteous  toward  all,  and  nobody  could  be 
otherwise  toward  him.  Such  was  his  personal 
and  professional  standing  that  when  Daniel 
Webster  determined  to  remove  to  and  practice 
law  in  New  York,  Mr.  \'an  Winkle  was  se- 
lected as  his  associate,  and  continued  in  part- 
nerslii])  with  him  during  his  residence  here 
and  until  public  alTairs  called  him  to  a  different 
s])here.  The  high  re])ute  of  Mr.  \'an  Winkle's 
office  attracted  to  it  as  students  many  young 
men  preparing  for  the  profession,  and  among 
its  graduates  are  numbers  since  distinguished 
at  the  Har,  in  public  life  and  as  men  of  letters. 
.Mr.  \'an  X'inkle  was  one  of  the  foiuiders 
and  the  first  vice-president  of  the  Bar  Asso- 
ciation, and  one  of  its  most  valuable  members 
until  his  health  became  impaired.  He  was  for 
some  thirty  years  one  of  the  managers  of  the 
Mouse  of  Refuge  for  Juvenile  Delinquents, 
and  rendered  great  service  in  the  direction  of 
that  ini])ortant  establishment.  In  1846  he  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Century  Club,  of 
which  he  was  a  cherished  member,  largely  con- 
tributing to  and  sharing  in  the  social  and  in- 
tellectual entertainments  for  which  it  has  so 
long  been  distinguished.  He  was  also  one  of 
the  first  members  of  the  Union  League  Club. 
an<l  took  the  deej)est  interest  in  its  patriotic 
l)ur|)oses  and  action.  What  contributed  greatly 
to  his  success  in  his  career  was  the  associations 
he  had  formed  in  a  literary  club  which  he  fre- 
quented while  still  a  student.  The  earliest 
meetings  of  this  club  were  held  in  the  basement 
of  Christ's  Church,  in  .-\nthony,  now  Worth 
street,  at  the  instance  of  Thomas  Lyell,  a  son 
of  Rev.  Dr.  Lyell,  the  pastor.  .As  the  most 
consiiicuous  object  in  the  meeting  room  was  a 
colunui  wdiich  uj)he!d  the  ceiling,  to  attend  a 
meeting  was  e(|uivalent  to  going  to  the  Column, 
and  the  club  soon  adopted  the  Colunui  as  its 
name.  Mr.  \'an  \\'inkle  became  so  prominent 
in  this  little  association  that  he  was  chosen 
archon,  or  presiding  officer,  and  continued  to 
hold  this  dignity  until  the  day  of  his  death. 
.Soon  after  he  became  a  member  of  the  Column 
he  began,  in  concert  with  Daniel  .Seymour, 
the  issue  of  a  newspa])er  called  Tlic  Aspirant. 
which  was  continued  for  some  years.  It  over- 
llowed  with  racy  humor,  caustic  criticisms  and 
rollicking  fun.  These  ])apers  were  afterwards 
gathered  into  two  vohnnes,  which  were  con- 
sumed in  the  conflagration  of  the  Mirror  office. 
The  book  which  Air.  \an  Winkle  prepared 
for  his  family  was  confined  to  his  prietical 
efforts,  and  did  not  comprise  any  of  his  prose 
writings.  This  book,  which  his  warm  affec- 
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family  in  ii<j(>  but  which  his  sterner  self- 
judgment  withheld  from  a  larger  public,  dem- 
onstrates liow  irresistible  the  poetic  impulse 
in  him  was  and  at  the  same  time  how  his  im- 
perative will  controlled  any  manifestations 
likely  to  interfere  with  his  professional  suc- 
cess. .Although  he  enriched  the  newspapers 
with  them  occasionally,  it  was  always  done 
under  the  rigid  shield  of  the  anonymous.  In 
the  leisure  tiine  vouchsafed  him  just  after  his 
admission  to  the  bar  he  published  more  or 
less  in  the  old  Nczi'  York  Mirror.  One  cannot 
say  that  he  was  a  wit  in  the  strictest  sense  of 
the  term,  despite  many  occasional  sparks ;  but 
his  humor  was  very  lively  and  keen  and,  if 
graver  causes  had  not  absorbed  the  facultie.s 
of  his  mind,  it  might  have  e.xjjanded  into  ex- 
uberance. These  graver  causes  arose  from 
the  growing  responsibilities  of  his  profession  ; 
he  had  apjireliended  that  he  might  not  be  able 
to  make  his  salt  in  it,  but  he  soon  found  that 
instead  of  wanting  it  he  was  more  likely  to  be 
overwhelmed  with  business.  He  was  a  fluent 
and  pleasing  speaker,  whose  eloquence  was 
rather  that  of  forceable  statement  than  of 
rhetorical  grace.  He  won  juries  by  the  obvi- 
ous sincerity  of  his  convictions,  judges  by  his 
real  learning  and  sobriety  of  judgment,  and  his 
clients  by  a  singular  imiformity  of  success. 

Mr.  \'an  Winkle  was  a  power  not  only  in 
the  Column,  but  in  other  organizations.  He 
was  a  leading  member  of  the  Historical  As- 
sociation and  a  patron  of  those  noble  organi- 
zations for  charity  which  reflect  honor  upon 
human  nature.  His  religious  feelings  were 
profound  and  earnest,  and  they  were  expressed 
in  an  haliitual  attendance  on  the  church  to 
which  he  belonged.  His  learning  was  not 
alone  that  of  the  law.  He  was  a  belles-lettres 
scholar  of  large  attainments,  versed  in  the 
Latin,  I'rench  and  English  classics,  an  enthusi- 
ast in  Shakespearean  lore,  and  familiar  with 
modern  literature  generally.  He  dearly  loved 
nature,  and  was  never  happier  than  amid  the 
rural  scenes  that  surrounded  his  pleasant  and 
hospitable  country  home  at  Litchfield,  where 
he  passed  his  siunmer  vacations,  surrounded 
by  his  loving  aufl  beloved  family  and  a  few 
chnsen  friends,  under  the  elms  that  shaded  his 
house,  or  among  the  hills  and  dales,  or  in  his 
boat  on  the  beautiful  lake. 

In  December,  1878,  his  health  gave  way  and 
was  never  fully  restored,  although  he  was  able 
tnitil  the  year  preceding  his  death  to  partici- 
pate in  the  business  of  his  office.  His  mind 
continued  clear  and  to  the  end  he  warmly 
prized    and    delighted    in    the    society    of    his 


friends.  The  long  period  of  his  indisposition 
was  one  of  rest  and  of  the  ((uiet  "contempla- 
tion" which  he  always  desired  might  precede 
his  death,  and  res]:)ecting  wdiich,  while  writing 
to  a  friend  a  few  years  before  he  died,  he 
said  : 

"Before  tlie  fatal  day,  God  grant  it  late, 
When  thou  and  I  must  bow  our  heads  to  fate. 
Before  our  last  long  sleep,  oh,  yield  it.  Heaven. 
Some  time  for  contemplation  may  be  given." 

Mis  prayer  was  granted.  During  the  last 
\ear  he  became  gradually  weaker  and  at  length, 
without  ])ain  or  agitation,  surrounded  by  his 
family  and  friends,  passed  gently  to  his  rest. 
Such  had  l)een  his  pure  and  useful  and  upright 
life  that  he  approached  the  grave  without  fear. 
He  left  behind  him  the  record  of  well-spent 
years,  his  good  example,  an  honored  name,  and 
an  ever-abiding  ]ilace  in  the  hearts  of  those 
who  love  and  mourn  him.  Rev.  Edward  B. 
Coe,  D.  D.,  delivered  an  address  at  his  funeral 
and  said  in  part :  "It  was  a  singularly  refined 
and  gentle  nature  which  was  blended  in  him 
with  an  incisive  force  of  thought  and  an  en 
ergy  of  will,  combined  with  rare  legal  learning, 
that  made  his  career  as  a  lawyer  one  of  such 
marked  and  eminent  success.  Not  often  is  so 
much  of  mental  vigor  combined  with  a  grace 
so  charming  and  such  unfailing  courtesy. 
There  was  in  him  a  high-mindedness,  a  thor- 
ough intellectual  and  mi)ral  honesty,  which 
made  itself  felt  by  all  witli  whom  he  came  in 
contact.  '  It  was  no  skillfully  assumed  air  of 
conviction  which  imposed  upon  the  minds  of 
courts  and  juries.  But  it  was  known  that  he 
believed  what  he  said,  and  that  he  said  what 
he  believed;  and  the  force  of  his  words  was 
nuilti])lied  by  the  force  of  the  character  which 
was  behind  them.  *  *  *  Few  men  have 
ever  blended  talents  so  great  as  his  and  influ- 
ence so  wide,  with  a  more  beautiful  mod- 
esty." 

.At  a  meeting  of  the  Bar  .Association  of  the 
City  of  New  York,  Hon.  William  M.  Evarts 
announced  the  death  of  Edgar  S.  Van  Winkle, 
and  it  was  "Resolved:  By  the  .Association,  that 
(under  its  rides)  it  be  referred  to  its  execu- 
tive committee  to  prepare  and  present  to  the 
.Association  a  suitable  memorial  of  the  late 
Mr.  \'an  Winkle,  which  (after  adoption  by  the 
.Association),  should  be  transcribed  into  its 
'Memorial  Book.'  to  be  kept  among  its  arch- 
ives." .At  an  adjourned  meeting  of  the  Asso- 
ciation held  February  13,  T883  (in  conformity 
with  the  foregoing  resolution),  a  memorial  of 
Mr.  \'an  Winkle,  prepared  by  his  friend,  the 
Hon.  Benjamin  D.  .Sillimaii,  was  presented  bv 


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the  executive  committee  to  the  Association, 
and  adopted  thai  day.  A  memorial  paper, 
prepared  bv  I'arkc  Goodwin,  was  read  before 
the  Column,  in  January.  1883. 

Mr.  \'an  Winkle  married,  November  11, 
1835,  Hannah  Starr  Beach,  of  Litchfield,  born 
January  7,  1816,  and  died  March  29,  1888. 
Children :  Mary  Du  Bois,  born  November  3, 
1836;  Hannah  Louisa,  November  24,  1837, 
died  October  15.  i860:  Elizabeth  Starr.  June 
5.  1840.  died  May  2(),  1904:  Edgar  Beach,  see 
forward. 

(\"HIj  Edgar  Ikach,  only  son  and  young- 
est child  of  Edgar  Simon  and  Hannah  Starr 
(Beach)  \'an  Winkle,  was  born  March  4. 
1842.  in  New  York  City,  where  he  received  his 
education  in  the  Cniversity  Grammar  School 
of  New  York  and  the  private  school  of  George 
S.  Parker,  a  noted  educator  of  his  day.  He 
then  matriculated  at  Union  College,  Schenect- 
ady, New  York,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  in  i860 ; 
pursued  an  engineering  course,  and  received 
the  degree  of  Civil  Engineer  in  1861.  Since 
that  time  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  civil  engineering  in  New  York  City  and 
elsewhere.  He  enlisted,  June  3,  1862,  in  the 
Seventh  Regiment,  National  Guard,  State  of 
New  York,  was  later  promoted  to  first  lieu- 
tenant in  tile  One  Hundred  and  Third  Infan- 
try, New  York  \'olunteers.  December  27, 
1862,  and  February  2,  1865,  was  commissioned 
captain  in  same  regiment,  from  which  he  re- 
signed and  was  honorably  discharged  July  11, 
1865.  May  18.  1876.  he  became  engineer  of 
the  First  Division.  National  Guard,  State  of 
New  York,  with  the  rank  of  colonel,  and  con- 
tinued in  this  position  until  1884,  when  he  re- 
signed. Mr.  Van  Winkle  is  a  member  and  ex- 
director  of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  En- 
gineers, a  member  of  the  Century  Club  and  the 
.\rmy  and  Navy  Club  of  New  York  City. 
Himself  and  family  attend  the  Collegiate 
Dutch  Reformed  Church  of  New  York  City. 

Mr.  \'an  Winkle  married  (first),  June  7, 
1876.  Elizabeth,  born  October  18,  1847,  died 
.Vugust  8,  1894,  daughter  of  Judge  William 
and  Mary  P.  (Berrian)  Afitchell.  He  mar- 
ried (second).  June  3.  1899.  Mary  Flower, 
born  September  11,  1867,  daughter  of  William 
and  Marion  (McKcevcr)  Spciden.  Children; 
all  by  the  first  marriage :  Mary  .Starr,  born 
May  16.  1877:  Elizabeth  Mitchell,  October  23, 
1878;  Edgar  Beach,  June  6,  1880:  Grace 
Louisa,  December  21,  188 1  ;  William  Mitchell, 
December  5,  1885. 


(For  ancestry  see  preceding  sketches  I. 

(VI)  Edo,    second    son 
\  AX  \\'IXKLE     and  child  of  Simeon  and 

.\nnetje  (Marselis)  \'an 
Winkle,  was  born  October  14,  1779,  and  died 
February  14,  1852.  The  old  family  homestead 
of  the  \'an  Winkles  was  situated  on  the  pres- 
ent Broadway,  near  Carroll  street.  This  site 
is  still  held  and  occupied  by  his  descendants. 
Here  he  was  reared  after  the  customs  of  his 
forefathers.  He  became  a  prosperous  well- 
to-do  farmer,  owning  some  forty  acres  from 
Summer  street  to  the  foot  of  Broadway  Hill. 
He  was  a  soldier  during  the  war  of  18 12,  and 
held  the  rank  of  lieutenant  in  the  United  States 
army.  For  a  time  he  was  justice  of  the  peace 
in  his  native  town,  and  served  thirty  consecu- 
tive vears  as  collector  of  taxes  for  the  town- 
ship of  Ac(|uackanonk,  in  which  the  city  of 
Paterson  is  now  located.  He  was  one  of  the 
original  committee  of  the  new  township  upon 
its  organization.  He  was  an  old  line  Whig 
in  ijolitics.  He  was  religious,  and  both  he 
and  his  wife  were  members  of  the  old  First 
Presbyterian  Church,  to  the  building  of  which 
he  contributed,  and  was  interred  in  the  burial 
groiuid  of  that  church  on  Market  street,  but 
in  later  vears  removed  to  the  new  Cedar  Lawn 
Cenieterv.  His  wife,  maternal  grandmother 
of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  a  most  ca- 
])able  and  brilliant  woman,  reared  her  family 
in  the  christian  virtues,  and  e.xerted  a  great 
influence  over  her  husband.  Edo  Van  Winkle 
was  known  as  a  noble,  kind-hearted  man  of 
a  most  liberal  nature.  He  possessed  many 
lifelong  friends,  and  from  his  jolly  good  na- 
ture was  a  friend  to  all.  He  was  of  medium 
height  and  rather  portly  in  appearance.  He 
married  (first)  May  26,  1805,  Jannetje  Van- 
derhofT.  Children:  i.  .\ntje  (.Ann),  married 
John  Thomjison.  2.  Elizabeth,  married  Judge 
David  Burnett.  He  married  (second)  De- 
'cember  i.  181 1,  Mrs.  Jane  (Van  Houten) 
Post.  Children:  3.  Mary,  married  Frederick 
Treadwell  Ketchum.  4.  John  Edo,  born  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1814,  mentioned  below.  5.  Cather- 
ine, died  Se]jtember  6,  1877;  married  Henry 
Clark.  6.  Jacob,  who  lost  his  life  when  three 
years  old,  by  accident. 

(VII)  John  Edo,  son  of  Edo  and  Jane 
(\"an  Houten)  (Post)  X'an  Winkle,  was  born 
in  Paterson.  New  Jersey,  February  25,  1814, 
and  died  in  that  city  December  13.  1889.  He 
was  educated  in  the  schools  of  his  native  town, 
learned  the  machinist's  trade,  and  made  this 
his  vocation.     He  establishefl  himself  in  busi- 


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ness  in  Paterson,  was  a  thorough  master  of 
every  detail  connected  with  it,  and  as  he  found 
it  not  alone  enjoyable  but  also  profitable,  he 
was  obliged  to  add  greatly  to  his  producing  fa- 
cilities, as  his  business  steadily  increased.  In 
his  business  he  constantly  made  use  of  the  in- 
ventive genius  with  which  he  was  largely 
endowed,  in  devising  and  a]iplyiiig  various  im- 
pn)\ements  which  increased  the  oul]5ut  of  his 
shops,  without  adding  to  the  cost  in  time  and 
labor.  He  was  an  extensive  land  owned  in 
the  city,  and  after  his  death  these  were  divided 
and  sold  to  excellent  advantage.  He  served 
his  native  town  as  tax  collector  from  1840  to 
1X44.  and  as  school  commissioner  in  i860;  was 
appointed  by  President  (irant  a  I'nited  States 
commissioner  to  the  International  I\xposition 
at  \ienna.  Austria,  in  1873.  but  failing  health 
obliged  him  to  decline  this  honorable  service. 
He  was  a  trusted  member  of  the  Republican 
party,  and  repeatedly  declined  nomination  to 
liigh  political  offices.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  I  'resbyterian  church,  and  as  a  layman  in 
the  councils  of  that  denomination  held  a  high 
place  and  enjoyed  an  enviable  re]nitation.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  his  pastor.  Rev.  Charles 
D.  Shaw,  paid  to  his  memory  the  following 
tribute:  "In  business  and  social  life  his  con- 
duct was  beyond  reproach.  Great  dignity  of 
character,  indomitable  courage,  a  resolute  will. 
large  mechanical  and  inventive  abilitv.  pro- 
found and  vigorous  thought  engaged  upon  the 
highest  themes,  were  united  with  mucli  sim- 
plicity of  manner  and  kindness  of  heart."  Mr. 
\'an  Winkle  married,  June  19.  1838.  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  John  (i.  and  Lettie  (\'oorhees) 
Oldis.  died  September  27.  1890.  Children:  I. 
Catherine,  bom  .-\])ril  22,  1839;  married.  No- 
vember II.  1864.  Eugene  P>eggs :  children: 
Ella,  born  Xovember  9.  1866,  \\'illiam  Frank- 
lin. December.  1868.  John  E..  Frederick  and 
James.  2.  Edward,  of  .Atlanta.  Georgia,  born 
September.  1841  :  married  .\melia  King;  chil- 
<lren :  Anna.  Nellie  and  Edward.  3.  John 
Albert,  born  December  10,  1843.  nientioned 
below.  4.  Henry,  married  Emma  Cunning- 
ham ;  children :  Caroline,  Franklin  and  Edgar. 
5.  .\nne  Merselis.  6.  Mary,  died  in  infancy. 
7.  Franklin,  married  Anna  .Shaw  ;  child.  John 
Shaw. 

f\'III)  John  .\lbert,  second  son  and  chilil 
of  John  Edo  and  Rebecca  (Oldis)  \'an  \\'inkle. 
was  born  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  December 
10.  1843.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town,  being  graduated 
from  the  Paterson  high  school  in  1857.  He 
then  found  employment  in  the  hardware  store 


of  James  M.  Smiley,  at  the  corner  of  Broad- 
way and  Main  street,  Paterson,  and  during 
his  four  years  of  service  here,  became  sales- 
man and  manager  of  the  business.  In  1861 
he  removed  to  New  York  City,  where  he  was 
em]iloyed  in  a  position  of  trust  and  responsi- 
bility in  the  hardware  establishment  of  Sliven 
&•  Mead,  at  that  time  the  largest  dealers  in 
hardware  in  that  city.  He  was  but  eighteen 
years  of  age  when  he  accepted  this  position, 
and  upon  attaining  his  majority  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  partnership  in  the  firm.  He  with- 
drew from  this  partnership  in  1867  in  order 
to  engage  in  the  business  of  importing  hard- 
ware and  had  an  office  in  New  York.  .After  two 
years'ex])erience  he  discontinued  importing  and 
opened  a  general  hardware  store  in  Paterson. 
at  No.  174  .Main  street.  The  growth  of  this 
business  necessitated  its  removal  to  No.  168 
Main  street  in  1871  ;  the  new  quarters  occupy 
an  extensive  "L"  at  Nos.  72-4-6  Van  Houten 
street,  and  in  addition  IVIr.  \'an  Winkle  occu- 
pies a  storage  warehouse  and  factory  at  Nos. 
43-5-7  Tyler  street,  all  of  which  property  he 
owns  His  business  also  includes  steam  fit- 
tings and  mill  supplies.  His  reputation  as  a 
public  spirited  citizen  is  shown  by  the  re- 
sponsible positions  he  holds  and  has  held  in 
the  city  of  Paterson.  These  include :  Presi- 
dent of  the  Iiusiness  Mens'  .Association ;  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  directors  of  Second  Na- 
tional ISank;  jjresident  of  Merselis  Land  Com- 
pany; member  of  board  of  managers,  vice- 
president  and  chairiuan  of  the  finance  com- 
mittee of  the  l^aterson  (General  Hospital;  mem- 
ber of  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society.  He 
served  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education 
of  Paterson  in  1873-4,  and  in  1893  was  the  un- 
successful candidate  of  the  Re]niblican  party 
for  the  office  of  mayor  of  Paterson.  He  is  a 
memljer  of  the  Hardware  Club  of  Paterson, 
and  of  the  Holland  Society  of  the  City  of  New 
\'ork.  the  latter  membership  coming  through 
his  descent  from  Jacobse  \'an  Winkle,  the 
immigrant  to  New  .\msterdam  from  Holland 
in  1634.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
fraternity,  and  Order  of  Cnited  .American 
Mechanics,  and  was  a  member  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer  of 
Paterson.  and  through  this  organization  active 
in  religious  work.  Mr.  \'an  \\'inkle  married. 
September  13.  1865,  Miriam,  born  .November 
2.  1845.  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Eliza  Ann 
( ( loetchicus)  White,  of  Paterson,  the  former 
a  native  of  New  Haven,  Connecticut.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Bertha,  born  May  21,  1866;  married 
Frank  J.  Ball,  of  Brooklyn;  children;  Infant, 


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died  young:  George  Milton,  born  October  26, 
1896;  Lillian  Van  Winkle,  April  26,  1901.  2. 
Edo,  born  June  i,  1868;  received  his  early 
education  in  the  schools  of  Paterson,  and  for 
i-ome  time  attended  the  Stevens  Institute  at 
Hoboken.  Xew  Jersey;  he  then  entered  the 
employ  of  his  father  in  the  latter's  hardware 
establishment,  and  in  1902  became  a  member 
of  the  corporation  known  as  The  J.  A.  Van 
Winkle  Company,  and  is  now  its  president, 
lie  married.  February  21,  1905,  Cora,  born 
May  14.  1885.  daughter  of  Douglas  A.  and 
Dena  (  \  on  P.runhan )  LeX'ien ;  children: 
Camille,  born  October  21,  1905;  John  Albert, 
June  19,  1907;  Edo  Jr.,  March  19,  1909.  3. 
Mary,  born  May  25,  1870;  married  (first) 
I'rank  R.  W  alker,  a  successful  practicing  at- 
torney of  Atlanta.  Georgia,  who  died  Septem- 
ber 13.  ig04;  children:  Miriain,  born  Febru- 
ary 21.  1891.  died  May  8.  1905  ;  Rebecca,  born 
April  17.  1902.  Mary  married  (second)  Will- 
iam H.  Smith,  auditor  of  the  Atlanta  & 
West  Point  Railroad  Company,  and  of  other 
leading  coqjorations  of  Atlanta,  Georgia.  4. 
Henry  I!.,  born  August  14,  1872;  married 
Cora,  daughter  of  .\mzi  and  Fanny  P.  Miller, 
of  Newark.  Xew  Jersey;  he  is  also  an  officer 
t)f  the  J.  .A.  \an  \Vinkle  Co.  Children:  Kath- 
ryn,  born  December  22,  1899:  Marjorie.  May 
1,  1901.  5.  .Albert  I*>ank,  born  December  5. 
1874,  died  August  9,  1900,  at  the  beginning  of 
a  successful  career;  he  was  a  graduate  of  the 
I'niversity  of  Xew  York,  and  later  i)racticed 
dentistry  at  IWiltimore,  Maryland.  6.  Ralph 
( )..  born  June  3.  1878,  died  May  17,  1909.  7. 
Lillian  W.,  born  July  4.  1880:  married  .Arthur 
Warren  Canney,  of  Croton.  Xew  York,  who 
met  his  death  by  an  accident,  October  3,  1908; 
child :  W  arren,  born  December  23,  1902.  8. 
Louis,  born  January  3,  1883,  died  .August  8, 
same  year.  >).  Miriam  Ifazel.  born  .August  19, 
1887.  died  June  2,  1892. 

.\t  the  time  of  the  great  fire  in  l-"ebruary, 
1902,  the  buildings  and  stock  of  the  J.  .A.  Van 
Winkle  C(im])any  were  totally  destroyed,  and 
the  company  met  with  heavy  loss.  Air.  Van 
Winkle  immediately  ])roceeded  to  erect  build- 
ings on  the  same  site,  buildings  particularly 
adapted  to  the  re(|uirements  of  the  business. 
These  buildings  were  comj^leted  in  December 
of  that  year  and  occu|)ied  by  the  company, 
.^ince  then  seventy-five  feet  imiucdiate  west  of 
the  \'an  Houten  street  building  has  been  ac- 
quired, and  it  is  the  intention  of  the  company 
to  erect  buildings  thereon  to  meet  the  increased 
business.  Mr.  \'an  \\'inkle,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,    rctirc'l    froiu    the   active    management 


of  the  bu^iness  some  five  years  ago,  turning 
over  the  same  to  his  sons,  Edo  and  Henry  B. 
He  is  still  an  officer  of  the  company  and  di- 
vides his  time  with  travel,  his  personal  affairs 
and   the   company's   office. 


(For   prefeding   generations   see   Jacob   \^'aling   van 
Hoorn    (or  Van   Winkel)    1). 

(HI)     Jacob    W'alingse. 

\  A.\  WIXKLE  eldest  son  and  second 
child  of  Waling  Jacobse 
and  Catherine  .Michielse  (\'reeland)  \  an 
W  inkle,  was  born  in  .Acquackanonk,  Xew  Jer- 
se}-.  and  baptized  in  the  church  in  that  town- 
ship, June  13,  1674.  He  was  brought  up  on 
his  father's  farm,  and  on  the  death  of  his 
father  in  1725  succeeded  to  the  estate.  He 
became  an  extensive  operator  in  real  estate 
and  in  making  loans  on  farms  and  town  prop- 
erty. In  partnershi|)  with  his  only  son,  John 
Jacob  \  an  Winkle,  he  purchased  large  tracts 
of  land  in  Bergen  county,  and  sold  consider- 
able portions  of  the  original  Acquackanonk 
tract  for  improvement.  He  married,  October 
30.  1797,  Geesbragt  Brichers,  and  they  had 
only  one  son  baptized  Johannis  Jacobse  and 
known  legally  and  neighborly  as  John  Jacob, 
the  luiglish  having  sujierceded  the  Dutch  lan- 
guage both  in  preaching  and  teaching  and  the 
christian  names  becoming  gradually  spelled 
and  pronounced  in  English. 

(  1\")  John  Jacob,  only  son  of  Jacob  \\'al- 
ingsie  and  (iee.'^bragt  (Brichers)  \'an  Winkle, 
was  born  in  .Ac(|uackanonk,  P)ergen  count)', 
Xew  Jersey,  early  in  the  nineteenth  century. 
He  married  October  24,  1747,  Eva  Kip,  and 
lived  in  the  jilace  now  familiarly  known  on  the 
Santiago  Place  in  Rutherford,  Bergen  county, 
Xew  Jer.sey.  where  he  owned  considerable  real 
estate,  having  purchased  it  in  conjunction  with 
his  father  and  which  all  came  to  him  by  in- 
heritance and  piu-chase.  Children,  born  to 
theiu  in  Rutherford:  i.  Isaac,  died  young.  2. 
(.'atarine.  E.  .\ntje.  died  young.  4.  .Antje. 
5.  Isaac,  see  forward.  6.  Waling,  married 
.'>ally  Garrabrant  and  had  three  children :  i. 
John  ;  ii.  Peggy,  married  John  Joralemon  :  iii. 
Jennie,  married  ( iarret  Janianse. 

(  \  )  Isaac,  second  son  of  John  Jacob  and 
Eva  (  Kij))  \'an  Winkle,  was  born  in  Ruther- 
ford. I'ergen  comity,  Xew  Jersey,  December  7, 
1767.  He  owned  by  jnircliase  large  tracts  of 
land  in  his  native  county.  He  married  (first) 
.Salome  Schoonmaker  and  they  had  one  son 
John  W.,  see  forward;  married  (second)  Hes- 
ter, daughter  of  George  Van  Gieson,  and 
granddaughter  of  John  Van  Gieson,  who  was 


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a  titled  ufficcr  of  the  English  army.  Children  : 
I.  Helena,  born  May  12,  1800.  2.  Elizabeth, 
December  10,  1801.  3.  Eva,  October  28,  1803. 
4.  Jane,  December  7,  1805.  5.  Catherine,  Oc- 
tober 1,  1807.  6.  (ieorge,  December  12,  1809. 
7.  Salome,  September  4,  1813.  8.  Isaac,  see 
•  forward.  9.  Daniel,  see  forward.  Isaac  \'an 
\\'inkle.  the  father  of  these  children  and  of 
)ohn  \\  .  1)\  his  tirst  wife,  died  September  4, 
1842. 

( \  I )   John    \\ .,    only    son    of     Isaac    and 

ISalome     ( Schoonmaker )     \'an    Winkle,    was 

iborn    in    Rntherford.    New   Jersey.     Xo   date 

for  his  birth  a]>pears  in  the  records  available. 

He  married  Matilda and  they  had  one 

sun  named  Isaac  Schoonmaker  \'an  Winkle. 

(\'I)  Isaac,  son  of  Isaac  and  Hester  (\'an 
liieson)  Van  Winkle,  w^as  born  in  Rutherford, 
Iiergen  county,  Xew  Jersey,  in  1814.  He  in- 
herited a  considerable  ])ortion  of  his  father's 
real  estate  and  secured  more  by  purchase. 
With  his  brother  Daniel,  he  owned  the  two 
farms  which  became  by  purcliase  the  property 
of  Mr.  Stetson,  ])r(_)prietur  of  the  .\stor  House 
in  Xew  York  City,  and  which  farm  became 
one  of  the  show  places  of  the  neighborhood  of 
North  .-Arlington  and  from  which  he  supplied 
his  celebrated  hostelry  with  much  of  the  farm 
produce   consumed    in   the   hotel. 

(\'l)  Daniel,  son  of  Isaac  and  Hester  (Van 
(iiest)n)  \'an  Winkle,  was  born  in  Rutherford, 
Ilergcn  county.  Xew  Jersey,  March  g,  1816. 
He  married  .Sarah  Maria,  daughter  of  Ebe- 
nezer  Condit,  of  Morristown,  New  Jersey. 
Children,   born    in    Rutherford,    New   Jersey : 

1.  Charlotte  Condit,  born  June  28,  1849;  mar- 
ried Peter  II.  Westgoard  ;  died  April  26,  1905. 

2.  .Arthur  W.,  see  forward.  3.  Sarah  Eliza- 
beth. September  25,  1853:  married  Dr.  John 
W.  IVinim.  September  28,  1897.  4.  Isaac. 
July  20,  1835:  married  Mary  Sievers  and  they 
liad  four  children,  Sara,  Louise,  Dorothy  and 
Fulward.  5.  Stephen  Condit.  June  11,  1857, 
died  unmarried.  6.  De  Witt  Talmage,  Decem- 
l)er  2^.  1858;  married  Emma  Zhetner  and  they 
had  two  children,  Ruth  and  Helen.  7.  Charles, 
March  31.  1863;  married  Susan  ]\tarie  Gill 
and  tliey  had  five  children  :  Charlotte.  Eliza- 
beth. Wilemincha,  John  and  Charles. 

Daniel  \'an  Winkle,  father  of  these  children, 
passed  his  boyhood  days  on  his  father's  farm 
in  Bergen  county,  and  he  began  business  life 
as  a  contractor  with  a  cash  capital  of  two  hun- 
dred dollars.  With  this  he  handled  an  exten- 
sive contract  so  successfully  that  he  fulfilled 
its  conditions  in  all  respects  and  gained  the  ap- 
proval of  the  principles  in  the  transaction  and 


the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the  men  he  em- 
ployed to  accomplish  his  undertaking.  He  dis- 
played executive  ability  of  a  high  order  and 
application  not  usual  in  untried  managers  of 
men.  He,  like  his  father  and  grandfather, 
was  largely  interested  in  real  estate  transac- 
tions. The  death  of  his  father  largely  in- 
creased his  real  estate  holdings,  and  both  as  a 
farmer  and  dealer  he  turned  his  property  to 
l)rofit.  Taking  advantage  of  the  great  mi- 
gration to  the  Pacific  coast,  during  the  discov- 
ery of  gold  in  California,  he  act|uainted  him- 
self with  the  real  condition  and  prospects  of 
the  new  pckssessions  of  the  L'nited  States  on 
the  coast  by  visiting  the  great  Eldorado  in 
1850.  He  made  the  tour  by  way  of  the  cape 
and  was  wrecked  ofi:  .\capulco,  Mexico.  Be- 
ing more  fortunate  than  many  of  his  fellow 
passengers,  he  was  enabled  to  continue  his 
journey  to  San  I-Vancisco  by  the  next  ship 
and  he  returned  overland  in  order  to  inform 
himself  of  the  then  almost  unknown  territory 
that  was  to  become  the  invaluable  heritage  of 
the  generations  to  follow.  On  returning  home 
he  took  u])  his  dealings  in  real  estate  and  pur- 
chased the  Kip  property  at  Boiling  Spring 
(  Rutherford)  and  extended  his  purchase  to 
over  three  hundred  acres  in  a  section  that 
promised  increased  value  as  suburban  homes. 
He  gave  the  land  for  Rutherford  station  on  the 
proposed  Xew  York  and  Erie  railway.  He 
organized  a  stock  company  to  develop  the 
pro])erty,  selling  stock  to  the  amount  of  three 
hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  the  enterprise 
resulted  in  the  suburban  village  of  Ruther- 
ford. Looking  to  the  spiritual  as  well  as  to 
the  financial  and  domestic  welfare  of  the  com- 
munity so  rapidly  gathering  together,  he  gave 
land  on  w  hich  to  erect  a  .Sunday  school  build- 
ing and  interested  the  people  in  the  formation 
of  a  Sunday  school  to  become  the  nucleus  of 
future  churches,  and  these  gatherings  of  the 
children  made  the  way  for  the  several  denom- 
inational churches  now  ministering  to  the 
spiritual  as  well  as  social  antl  educational 
wants  of  such  communities.  Later  in  life 
Daniel  \'an  Winkle  settled  in  East  Passaic, 
where  he  owned  two  hundred  and  seventy- 
five  acres  of  land  antl  he  promoted  the  growth 
nf  that  place  as  he  had  that  of  Rutherford, 
and  after  his  death  the  place  became  known 
as  Belmont  and  later  Garfield.  He  was  an 
okl  time  \\'hig,  and  on  the  dissolution  of  that 
party  helped  in  founding  the  Republican  party 
in  Xew^  Jersey  in  1856.  His  religious  affili- 
ation was  the  church  of  his  forefathers,  the 
Dutch  Reformed,  and  he  was  prominent  in  the 


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doings  of  the  church.  I  le  (hcd  in  Garfield, 
June  I,  1886,  having  reached  the  allotted  term 
of  three  score  years  and  ten. 

(VII)  .Arthur  W.,  eldest  son  and  second 
child  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  Maria  (Condit) 
\'an  Winkle,  was  born  in  Rutherford,  New- 
Jersey,  December  30,  1850.  He  was  brought 
uj)  on  the  farm  of  his  father,  and  lived  in 
ivuthorford  all  his  life  except  for  four  and  a 
half  years,  which  time  he  passed  in  north- 
west Iowa  where  he  had  a  stock  farm.  He 
was  so  pleased  with  his  life  in  the  west  that  he 
flctermined  to  return  to  New  Jersey,  sell  out 
his  property  and  return  and  continue  ranch 
life  in  Iowa.  Not  finding  such  a  plan  favor- 
able at  the  time,  he  remained  in  Rutherford 
and  took  uj)  the  business  so  successfully  car- 
ried on  by  his  father,  building  houses,  selling 
lots  and  improving  the  property  and  prospects 
of  the  suburban  village  of  Garfield.  He 
added  to  the  real  estate  business  that  of  fire 
insurance  and  became  president  of  the  A.  \V. 
\'an  Winkle  Company,  dealers  in  real  estate  : 
president  of  the  Belmont  Land  Association  of 
Garfield:  member  of  the  board  of  directors 
of  the  North  Jersey  Title  Insurance  Company 
of  Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  and  a  member  of 
the  board  of  directors  of  the  Rutherford  Na- 
tional Hank,  Rutherford,  New  Jersey.  He 
affiliated  with  the  Masonic  fraternity,  with  the 
Presbyterian  church,  and  with  the  IloUand  .So- 
ciety, of  which  he  was  made  a  member  by  vir- 
tue of  his  descent  in  the  seventh  generation 
from  Jacobse  W'alingse  \  an  W  inkle,  who  im- 
migrated to  Xew  Amsterdam  frdui  llnlland  in 

He  married  (first)  October  24.  1877,  Cor- 
nelia W'inant.  who  died  leaving  two  children: 
1.  Wiii.iut,  horn  .March  17.  1879:  married, 
May  24.  ii;o5,  Jessie  W'.  Mucklow.  2.  Charles 
.Arthur.  December  26.  1880:  married,  Septem- 
ber 30,  ii>o8.  Helen  lilanvelt  Decker.  Mr.  \'an 
Winkle  married  (second)  l'"ebruary  21,  1884. 
Catherine  E.  Macgregor.  Children:  i.  Stirl- 
ing, born  February  5,  1886.  2.  Theodore, 
June  5,  1890. 

(Vor  ancestry  see  preceding  .sketches). 

(]]l)  Simeon,  third  son 
VAX  WI.VKI.l':  and  fourth  child  of  Sy- 
mon  and  .\nnetje  .\dri- 
anse  (.Sip)  \  an  Winkle,  was  baptized  .August 
6,  1686.  lie  married  (first)  Printje  Van  (jie- 
son,  and  had  children :  Jannetta  and  Helena ; 
married  (second),  March  3,  1734,  .Antje 
I'eitrina.  a  widow,  and  b\-  this  marriage  had  a 
son,  fohannas. 


(1\  )   Johannis,   son  of   Simeon  and  Antje 

I'eitrina  \  an   Winkle,  was  married  to 

and  had  a  son,  Simeon. 

(  \')   Simeon,  son  of  Johannis  and  ( ) 

\'an  Winkle,  was  born  on  the  paternal  estate 
near  I'aterson,  New  Jersey,  November  12. 
1749.  and  there  reared  to  manhood.  He  was 
educated  in  the  neighborhood  school,  and  died 
November  4,  1828.  .As  his  ancestors  had 
done,  he  engaged  in  farming,  and  was  a  man 
of  much  force  of  character.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  and  attended  services  at  the  Dutch  Re-* 
formed  Church  at  Totowa,  which  had  been 
founded  by  earlier  members  of  the  Van  W'in- 
kle  family.  .After  his  marriage  he  took  up 
his  residence  near  the  "bucht,"  or  bend,  on  the 
I)aternal  estate.  He  married  Clarisse,  daugh- 
ter of  Cornelius  (ieretsen.  Children:  i.  John 
S.,  see  forward.  2.  Elizabeth,  married  John 
Post  and  died  in  the  prime  of  life  without 
issue. 

( \  1 )  John  S.,  only  son  of  Simeon  and 
(clarisse  (Geretsen  )  \'an  Winkle,  was  born  on 
the  ])aternal  homestead,  November  13,  1784. 
He  was  c-xtensively  engaged  in  farming  and  in 
addition  operated  a  grist  and  saw  mill,  which 
was  widely  ])atronized.  His  integrity  and  high 
ideals  in  all  matters  were  recognized  by  all, 
and  he  took  an  active  interest  in  public  affairs, 
serving  for  some  time  as  one  of  the  lay  judges 
of  the  county.  1  le  was  a  fine  type  of  the 
country  gentleman,  kind  and  symiiathetic  to 
those  around  him  and  beloved  and  esteemed 
by  all.  He  was  a  faithful  attendant  at  the 
Dutch  Reformed  Church  at  Totowa,  in  which 
he  was  an  elder.  Both  he  and  his  wife  came 
t(i  an  untimely  end  at  their  home,  The  Goffel, 
Januai'y  <),  1850,  at  the  hands  of  an  assassin, 
who  was  prom])tIy  a])prehen<led  and  in  due 
coiuse  of  time  tried  in  the  courts  of  Paterson, 
convicted  of  murder  in  the  first  degree,  and 
executed.  John  S,  \'an  Winkle  was  married. 
March  24,  1805,  to  Jane,  born  January  14, 
1788,  daughter  of  Peter  and  W'illiamina  (Van 
\\'inkle)  Kip|j.  Children:  Cornelius,  see  for- 
ward; Peter,  born  June  23,  1810,  lost  his  life 
.\pril  2Q,  1828.  1)\'  being  thrown  from  his 
horse. 

(\ll)  Cornelius,  eldest  child  of  John  S. 
and  Jane  (Ki])p)  \  an  Winkle,  was  born  on 
the  family  homestead,  .September  (),  180(1,  and 
died  .May  26,  1873.  He  was  educated  in  the 
neighboring  schools  and,  like  his  ancestors,  be- 
came identified  with  antl  took  an  active  in- 
terest in  the  progress  and  development  of 
the  community  in  which  he  resided.  He  was 
a  moving   spirit    in   church   affairs,  a  consist- 


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ent  member  of  the  Totowa  Dutch  Reformed 
Jhurch  and  for  a  number  of  years  served  as 
;l(ler.  In  his  home  Hfe  he  exemplified  the 
lighcst  ideals  of  kindness  and  charity,  and  left 
lis  family  the  priceless  heritage  of  an  honor- 
ible  name.  Mr.  \'an  Winkle  married,  May 
31,  1826.  Catherine  Leah,  who  was  born 
\Iarch  4,  i8oy,  died  August  5,  1879,  daugh- 
:er  of  Garret  and  Ann  (TerhuneJ  Van  Dien. 
Children:  i.  John  Henry,  born  February  11, 
[827,  died  July  2"],  1828.  2.  Simeon  Peter, 
xirn  July  6,  1831,  died  in  i8(ji  ;  married,  Uc- 
:ober  10,  1852,  Maria  Ackernian,  born  in  1831, 
iied  in  1865;  children:  Catherine  Jane,  mar- 
"ied  Aaron  \  an  Houten  and  had  one  son, 
^abriskie,  who  married  Addie  Grace  Greer ; 
•Xnna  Marie,  married  Andrew  B.  Inglis,  and 
lad :  Bertha  and  Harold,  the  latter  dying 
>oung.  3.  Anna  Elizabeth,  born  December 
25,  1839;  married,  December  24,  1859,  Hel- 
Tias,  born  Sejitember  8,  1840,  died  November 
20,  189^),  son  of  Richard  and  Charity  (Sip) 
Romaine,  members  of  an  old  and  prominent 
family.  They  reside  at  Paterson,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  had  an  only  child,  Kate,  who  was 
3orn  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  April  29,  1863, 
ind  married,  June  29,  1889,  Joseph  D.,  born  at 
ButYalo,  New  York,  .\ugust  4,  1858,  son  of 
foseph  D.  and  Frances  ( Timmis )  Roberts,  the 
former  of  Wales,  and  the  latter  of  England. 
\.  John  Henry,  born  Septeiuber  29.  1846,  died 
\pril  6.  1851.' 

(For  ancestry  see  preceding  sketches). 

(V)  Halmagh,  fifth  son 
\  A.\  WINKLE  of  Walling  \'an  Winkle, 
was  born  on  the  Van 
Winkle  homestead  at  .\c(|uackanonk,  Passaic 
:ounty.  New  Jersey,  Jime  22,  1761,  and  he  de- 
i-oted  his  entire  life  to  the  cultivation  and  im 
jrovement  of  the  homestead  estate.  He  mar- 
ked Maria,  daughter  of  Adrian  Post,  and  their 
rhildren,  born  on  the  homestead  estate,  were : 
[.  Walling,  see  forward.  2.  Adrian.  3.  John. 
\.  Michael.  5.  Jane,  married  a  Berry.  6. 
"lertnide,  married  a  Sip.  7.  Elizabeth,  died 
mniarricd.  Halmagh  \'an  \\'inkle,  the  father 
jf  these  children  died  on  the  \'an  Winkle 
Kiniestead  in  1822,  and  his  wife,  Maria  (  Post  "I 
^'an  Winkle,  died  in  1821. 

(\I)  Walling  (2).  eldest  child  of  Halmagh 
ind  Maria  (Post)  \'an  Winkle,  was  born  on 
the  hoiuestead  estate,  which  he  inherited  and 
ivhere  he  died.  He  had  a  son,  Halmagh, 
named  for  his  grandfather,  who  likewise  in- 
herited the  estate. 

(\in    Halmagh   (2).  eldest  child  of  Wall- 


ing (2)  \  an  Winkle,  was  born  at  his  father's 
home  in  Acquackanonk,  New  Jersey,  February 
0,  1806.  He  married,  January  28,  1829,  Cath- 
erine Campbell,  born  January  28,  1810,  and 
their  children,  born  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey, 
were:  I.  Stephen  Walling,  see  forward.  2. 
John  Mclntyre,  .\ugust  17,  1832;  married 
Emcline  H.  Davey,  and  they  had  two  chil- 
dren :  Catherine,  who  died  unmarried,  and 
Mar}-,  married  .Allison  Dodd  and  had  four 
children :  E.  Davey  Dodd ;  John  Dodd ;  Cath- 
erine Dodd  and  Alary  Dodd.  These  children 
were  descended  on  their  mother's  side  from 
Jacobse  \  an  Winkle  the  immigrant,  in  the 
tenth  generation.  3.  Mary,  August  27,  1836, 
died  unmarried.  4.  Richard,  January  27, 
1840;  remained  single.  Halmagh  \'an  \Vinkle 
for  many  years  was  a  grocer  in  Paterson  and 
later  in  life  was  an  official  in  the  tax  collect- 
or's office  in  I'assaic  county,  where  he  re- 
inained  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred at  his  home  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey. 
(Mil)  Stephen  Walling,  eldest  cliild  of 
Halmagh  (2)  and  Catherine  (Campbell)  Van 
Winkle,  was  born  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  in 
1830,  where  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
silk.  He  married,  November  7,  1853,  Eliza- 
beth Stratton,  born  in  Paterson  about  1832, 
and  their  children,  born  in  Paterson,  were:  i. 
Margaret,  .\ugust  13,  1854;  remained  un- 
married. 2.  William  H.,  June  7,  1857,  died  un- 
married January  25.  1871.  3.  Frank,  Septem- 
ber 21,  i860,  died  October  14,  i860.  4.  Ed- 
ward, twin  of   Frank,   died   March   18,   1861. 

5.  Annie  Clark.  March  7,  1862 ;  married,  April 
18,  1883.  William  L,  son  of  Abram  and 
Susan  I  h'rance )  \'an  Dolson,  grandson  of 
(iarret  and  great-grandson  of  Jacob  Van  Dol- 
son. They  lived  in  New  York  City,  where 
Mr.  \'an  Dolson  was  engaged  in  business,  and 
they  had  four  children :  i.  Henry ;  ii.  William 
Walling,  see  forward ;  iii.  Gertrude ;  iv.  Cecil. 

6.  Mary,  October  11,  1865,  died  February  23. 
1871.  7.  Catherine,  December  16.  1871  ;  mar- 
ried. November  10,  1898,  George  .\.  Beckwith 
and  their  first  two  children  were :  Elizabeth, 
born  October  17,  1900,  and  Catherine,  born 
November  12,  1907. 

(  IN  )  William  Walling  \"an  Dolson,  son  of 
William  1.  and  .Annie  Clark  (Van  Winkle) 
\'an  Dolson,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  De- 
cember 28.  1886.  Tie  attended  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  city,  and  in  1908  was  a 
student  in  medicine  at  the  Maryland  L^niver- 
'iity.  He  is  descended  from  Jacob  \'an  Dol- 
son. who  was  his  great-great-grandfather, 
through     Garret     \'an     Dolson ;    Abram    and 


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Susan  (France)  Van  Dolson ;  William  I.  and 
Annie  Clark  (Van  Winkle)  Van  Dolson.  His 
father,  William  I.  Van  Dolson,  was  a  promi- 
nent man  in  New  York  Cit}'  and  a  member 
(if  the  St.  Nicholas  Society.  William  Walling 
\an  Dolson's  home  is  with  his  widowed 
mother,  at  Xo.  208  Carroll  street,  Paterson, 
Xew  Jersey.  His  mother  married  (second) 
Augustus  F.  Robert.s,  January  10,  1901. 

(VH)  Henry  Van  Stee, 
\'.\\  \\  l.XKLE  youngest  child  of  Jacob 
and  Annetje  (Van  Nos- 
trand  )  \'an  Winkle,  was  born  July  12,  1796. 
probabl}'  at  Hackensack,  where  it  is  presum- 
able that  his  life  was  spent.  Xo  record  of  his 
death  appears.  He  married  Margaret  Ter- 
hune,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  one  son. 
He  died  when  this  son  was  a  little  child. 

(VH)  John  Van  Stee,  son  of  Henry  Van 
Stee  and  Margaret  (Terhune  )  \'an  \\'inkle,was 
born  .Vjjril  21,  1818,  and  went  to  live  with 
Isaac  \'an  Winkle,  by  whom  he  was  brought 
uj)  and  whose  farm  he  inherited.  This  was  in 
i'ergen  county,  opposite  Passaic,  and  between 
the  county  and  the  railroad  bridges  over  the 
I'assaic  river.  Here  he  died  January  10,  1889. 
He  married,  March  i,  1848,  Catherine  Oldis. 
burn  March  18,  1824,  died  January  i,  1907, 
(laughter  of  John  C..  and  Lettie  Voorhees. 
lolui  (I.  ( )ldis  had  a  sister  Catherine,  who  be- 
came the  wife  of  Isaac  \'an  Winkle  and  was 
the  foster  mother  of  John  V.  S.  Van  Winkle. 
The  latter  had  six  children  who  grew  to  ma- 
turity: I.  Margaretta,  wife  of  Iddo  M.  Ter- 
hune (see  Terhune).  2.  Eettie  Anne,  born 
.March  11.  1852:  now  residing  in  Passaic,  un- 
married. },.  Isaac  J.,  June  20.  1854;  married 
Emma  Cmw:  died  January  28.  1899,  leaving 
children:  Jessie  and  Ernest.  4.  Sarah,  Sep- 
tember 3,  1856;  wife  of  William  Colton  Snow, 
and  had  a  daughter  Eda.  The  last-named  is 
the  wife  of  William  Lown,  and  the  mother  of 
.Margaret  Eda  l.nwti  and  I'arbara  .\.  I.own. 
5.  Henry  V.  S.,  born  January  t,  1858,  died 
.August  25,  1859.  6.  Catherine,  June  10,  1861  ; 
married  Peter  \'an  Winkle,  and  is  the  mother 
of  a  son,  Louis.  7.  John  V.  S.,  October  26, 
1863;  married.  October  24,  1894,  Annie  B. 
Oglee,  and  has  three  sons:  Harold  Van  Stee, 
born  February  26.  1896;  Francis  O.,  born  Sep- 
temlx'r  4.  i8()7.  died  July  29.  1898;  and  John 
Raynicmd.  b(irn  I'ebruary  11,  1(^)04. 


Xone  of  the  old  colimial  fani- 

STFA'EXS     ilics  of  New  Jersey  has  a  more 

distinguished   record   than   the 

.'^tevenses  of  Iloboken.  and  the  (ither  descend- 


ants of  Hon.  John  Stevens,  of  Xew  York  Cit\. 
Perth  Amboy  and  Hunterdon  county.  New 
Jersey.  And  in  the  history  of  no  other  family, 
identified  with  the  life  of  the  colony  and  state 
fur  the  last  two  centuries,  has  there  appeareil  a 
larger  nimiber  of  strong,  vigorous  and  intlu- 
ential  personalities.  .Although  not  so  verygr(.-at 
in  numbers,  the  pedigrees  of  the  family  are  in 
the  main  made  up  of  long-lived  resourceful 
men,  who  have  been  active  aggressive  facte  us 
and  actors  in  the  civil,  social,  business  and 
religious  life  of  their  country  and  times,  and 
have  sedulously  cultivated  the  habit  of  saying 
and  doing  the  things  that  were  worth  while. 

So  far  as  now  known,  no  systematic  search 
has  ever  been  made  among  the  records  and 
archives  of  England  for  the  purpose  of  tracing 
the  history  of  the  family  before  John  Stevm-- 
came  over  to  this  country;  as  the  American 
members  themselves  have  been  so  busy  making 
history  that  they  have  had  no  time  for  writing- 
it  :  and  it  is  due  to  the  researches  and  labors  of 
Mr.  Richard  Fowler  Stevens,  of  Xewark,  who 
has  s])ent  many  years  and  much  labor  on  the 
subject,  that  the  data  for  the  ensuing  history 
has  l)ecome  accessible.  The  earliest  record  of 
the  family  which  has  come  to  light,  the  original 
I  if  which  is  in  the  possession  of  ^Ir.  Stevens 
is  the  following  : 

"Iiulputiue  made  and  Concluded  on  this  Six  and 
iweiitietli  day  of  February  Anno  Dm  1699.  and  in 
tlie  Twelftli  Year  of  the  reign  of  William  the  third 
King-  of  England  &c.  between  .lohn  Stevens  son  of 
Richard  Stevens,  gentleman,  late  of  the  parish  of 
St.  Clement's  London  in  the  County  of  Middx  of  the 
one  part  and  .lohn  Cosans  of  the  parish  aforesaid 
Gunmaker  acting  for  and  in  behalf  of  his  son 
Barna  Cosans  of  the  C^ity  and  Province  of  New 
York  in  America  Gentleman  of  the  other  part  .  .  . 
.liihn  Stevens  by  and  with  the  consent  of  liis 
parents  witnesses  to  the  presents  Doth  promise 
with  the  first  Opportunity  of  Shipping  to  Trans- 
port himself  for  New  York  aforesaid  where  being 
arrived  Sliall  during  the  space  of  Seven  Years 
to  be  accounted  from  the  date  hereof  the  said  Barna 
Cosans  will  faithfully  and  truly  serve  his  secrets, 
his  lawful  commands  every  where  gladly  doo.  hee 
sliall  doo  noo  damage  to  his  said  master  nor  see  it 
to  be  done  of  Others  but  to  his  power  Shall  lett  or 
forthwith  give  notice  to  his  said  Master  of  the 
Same  the  Goods  of  his  Said  Master  he  shall  not 
wast  nor  lend  them  Unlawfully  to  Any.  Hurt  to  his 
Said  Master  hec  shall  not  doo  cause  or  procure  to 
be  done,  hee  shall  neither  buy  nor  sell  without  his 
masters  license,  tavernds  Innds  or  Alehouses  he 
shall  not  haunt.  All  Cards  Dice  Tables  or  any  other 
onlawfull  C;ame  he  shall  not  play  Nor  from  the  ser- 
vice of  his  Said  Master  day  nor  Night  Shall  absent 
hiniselfe  but  in  all  tilings  as  an  honest  dilligent  and 
faitlituli  ,\pprcriticeSliall  and  will  demean  and  behave 
himselfe  towards  his  said  Master  and  ail  his  during 
Ihe  Said  Term.  And  tlie  Said  .lohn  Cosans  on  bchalfe 
of  tlie  said  Barna  Cosans  Doth  Covenant  and  promise 


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that  he  the  Said  Barna  Cosans  his  said  Apprentice  in 
his  Art  or  practice  of  a  Lawyer  or  Attorney  whicli  lie 
no'w  usetli  Sliall  teacli  and  Instruct  or  Cause  to  be 
taught  and  Instructed  the  best  Way  and  Manner 
that  he  can  finding  and  providing  for  his  said 
Apprentice  Meat  Drink  Lodging  Washing  and  all 
manner  of  Apparrell  hoose  Shoes  during  the  Said 
term  of  Seven  Years.  And  to  the  performance  of  all 
and  every  the  Covenant  aforesaid  Either  of  the 
Said  parties  bindeth  liimselfe  iinlo  the  other  firmely 
by    these   presents." 

The  Liarnc  Cosens  of  the  ahine  c|uuted 
articles  of  apprenticeship  was  one  of  the  prom- 
inent citizens  of  his  day  in  New  York.  April 
28.  ifx)/,  he  was  licensed  to  marry  Grace, 
daughter  of  Captain  William  Sandford,  of  the 
Island  of  liarbadoes  and  East  New  Jersey. 
He  was  secretary  to  the  governor  of  the  pro- 
vince and  clerk  of  the  royal  iirovincial  council, 
1698-1705;  and  in  1701  received  the  appoint- 
ment of  register  and  examiner  in  chancery. 
December  5,  1706,  "considering  the  dangers  to 
which  1  am  exposed  during  a  voyage  intendetl 
shortly  (by  God's  Grace)  to  be  made  to  Eng- 
land,'" he  made  his  will,  leaving  all  his  jiroperty 
to  his  children,  and  referring  to  his  wife,  only 
to  say,  "^ly  wife  Grace  shall  not  have  any  ad- 
ministration of  my  estate  nor  have  anything  to 
do  with  the  education  of  my  children."  A 
possible  explanation  of  this  curious  clause 
may  be  found  in  the  legacies  already  betiueathed 
to  his  wife  by  her  father,  who  died  in  1694, 
and  by  her  cousin,  Henry  Harding,  of  St. 
George's  parish,  Barbadoes,  who  in  1704  left 
her  "all  mv  estate  in  New  Jersey  near  Xew 
York." 

(I)  John  Stevens,  son  of  Richard,  of  St. 
Clement's  parish,  London,  came  to  New  York 
in  accordance  with  the  above  mentioned  agree- 
ment when  he  was  about  seventeen  years  old, 
which  would  place  his  birth  about  the  year 
1682.  After  com])leting  his  ai)prenticeship, 
which  he  seems  to  have  jjassed  through  with- 
out having  met  with  any  exceptional  or  note- 
worthy incident,  John  Stevens  began  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  in  New  York,  where  he 
continued  to  reside  until  September,  17 14, 
when  with  his  wife  and  four  children  he  re- 
moved his  home  to  Perth  Amboy,  where  he 
lived  the  remainder  of  his  life.  C)f  this  town, 
his  father-in-law  was  a  founder,  and  for  the 
first  si.x  years  of  its  existence  had  been  one  of 
its  most  prominent  citizens ;  and  for  the  suc- 
ceeding quarter  of  a  century  his  son-in-law  was 
to  follow  as  a  worthy  successor  in  his  foot- 
steps. Four  years  after  taking  up  his  resi- 
dence in  Perth  Amboy,  on  August  24,  1718, 
when  (iovernor  Robert  Hunter  granted  to  the 


city  its  first  charter,  John  Stevens,  who  was 
one  of  the  original  petitioners  for  this  iirivilege, 
and  as  such  is  mentioned  in  the  preamble  to 
the  document,  received  in  the  charter  itself  his 
appointment  as  the  first  chamberlain  and  treas- 
urer of  the  city.  As  the  registers  of  the  city 
officials  of  those  days  have  not  been  preserved 
it  is  impossible  now  to  determine  how  long  he" 
and  his  fellow  officials  held  their  offices,  but  it 
is  interesting  to  note  that  James  Alexander, 
father-in-law  of  one  of  his  sons,  was  recorder 
for  the  town,  while  the  coroner  was  the  hus- 
band of  his  wife's  younger  sister,  William 
Harrison,  whose  brother,  John  Harrison,  was 
sherilif  and  water  bailiff.  In  1722  one  of  the 
old  records  speaks  of  Air.  Stevens  as  an  "inn- 
keeper:" and  in  1735  he  was  appointed  as  clerk 
of  the  court  of  chancery.  It  is  also  said  that 
he  at  one  time  held  the  position  of  deputy  sur- 
veyor-general under  James  Alexander.  He 
died  August  29,  1737. 

July  30,  1718,  Governor  Robert  Hunter 
granted  to  St.  Peter's  Church,  Perth  Amboy^ 
its  royal  charter,  in  which  William  Eier  and 
John  liarclay  were  a])pointed  wardens,  and 
Thomas  (iordon,  John  Rudyard,  Robert  King 
and  John  Stevens,  vestrymen.  The  following 
year  the  two  last  mentioned  vestrymen  were 
replaced  by  William  Nicholls  and  Alexander 
l""ar(|uerson ;  but  in  1722  John  Stevens  was  re- 
turned as  one  of  the  wardens  and  continued  to 
hold  that  position  until  1726,  when  he  again 
became  one  of  the  vestrymen,  iu  which  cajjac- 
ity  he  served  until  1730. 

November  28,  I70(),  John  Stevens  married 
.\nn,  eldest  daughter  of  John  Campbell,  of 
Perth  .\mboy,  who  died  about  six  years  before 
her  husband,  March  I,  1730.  Her  father, 
.\pril  16.  1684,  had  bought  of  John  Drum- 
mond,  of  Lundy,  one  of  the  original  twenty- 
four  ])ro])rietors  to  wdiom  James  Duke,  of 
^'ork.  had  sold  his  l''ast  Jersey  rights,  one- 
eighth  of  one-twenty-fourth  share  for  himself, 
and  at  the  same  time  received  from  Druinmond 
a  power  of  attorney  to  act  for  him  in  the  new 
world.  This  John  Drummond,  of  Lundy,  was 
second  son  of  James,  third  Earl  of  Perth,  and 
brother  to  James,  fourth  Earl  of  Perth,  who 
was  his  fellow  proprietor.  In  1685  he  was 
created  \'iscount  Melford;  .August  12,  1686, 
I'.aron  of  Researtown  (one  of  the  papist  crea- 
tions of  James  II ),  and  again  in  1696,  Duke  of 
Melford.  He  was  secretary  of  state  for  Scot- 
land, and  a  member  of  the  privy  council  in  both 
kingdoms.  The  partner  and  proxy  in  East 
Jersey  of  his  brother  and  Sir  (jcorge  McKenzic 
was  David  Toshack,  with  whom  John  Camp- 


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bell  made  his  curious  agreement,  shortly  after 
settling  at  I'erth  Amboy,  that  in  consideration 
of  Toshack's  rclinciuisliing  to  him  "and  his 
heirs  bearing  the  name  and  arms  of  Campbell," 
all  his  (Toshack's)  interest  in  Amboy,  he 
(Campbell)  would  send  a  "footman  in  velvet, 
to  wait  on  Moneybaird  ( Toshack  was  Laird  of 
•Moneybaird)  as  a  proprietor  wdien  at  Parlia- 
ment in  East  Jersey  *  *  *  and  to  hold  his 
stirrup  during  the  foresaid  time  of  Parlia- 
ment." I'Vom  this  it  would  appear  that  John 
C'ampbell  was  a  near  relation  to  the  Duke  of 
-Argyle  and  Lord  Neill  Campbell,  although  not 
as  \\  illiam  Adee  Whitehead  conjectures,  a  son 
of  the  latter,  who  had  but  two  children — Col. 
Charles  Campbell,  who  fought  and  died  in  the 
rebellion  of  1685,  ^"'i  Right  Rev.  Archibald 
Cam])bell,  who  died  uimiarried  in  London, 
June.  1744,  having  accompanied  his  father  in 
1685  to  this  country  and  at  a  later  date  returned 
home.  John,  nephew  of  Lord  Neill  Campbell, 
was  father  of  the  second  Duke  of  .Argyle,  and 
never  came  to  America.  The  Archibald  Camp- 
bell, who  died  in  East  Jersey  in  1702,  is  vari- 
ously styled  in  the  deeds  "yeoman"  and  "work- 
man," and  was  brought  over  by  John  Camp- 
bell, of  Perth  Amboy,  as  one  of  the  three  serv- 
ants he  trans])orted  for  John  Dobie.  The 
Toshacks  had  intermarried  several  times  with 
this  branch  of  the  family,  and  David  Toshack's 
wife  was  a  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Campbell, 
of  Glenuchy,  grandfather  of  the  first  Earl  of 
iireadalbane.  and  descended  from  Sir  Colin 
Campbell,  of  (llenuchy,  who  was  a  cousin  of 
the  first  h^.arl  of  .Vrgyle,  and  the  third  son  of 
Sir  Duncan  Campbell,  of  Lochow,  a  direct  de- 
scendant (if  Diarmid  O'Dubin.  .A.  D.  404.  John 
Campbell  landed  at  the  Capes  of  Virginia  in 
October.  i(>84.  with  his  wife  Mary,  children 
Ann,  Gawinetta  and  John,  and  fourteen  serv- 
ants, eleven  of  them  indentured  to  himself  for 
four  years,  the  other  three  brought  over  for 
John  Dobie,  who  was  coming  over  later,  and 
to  whom  Campbell  had  sold  a  fourth  of  the 
I'^ast  Jersey  share  he  had  himself  ])urchased 
from  John  Drunimond,  of  Lundy.  In  addition 
Campbell  had  also  brought  over  with  him  ten 
servants  for  Captain  Andrew  Hamilton.  Com- 
ing overland  from  ALaryland  into  ICast  Jersey, 
("ampbell  settled  at  Perth  .\mboy,  and  in  lcs> 
than  si.\  months  was  commissioned  as  one  of 
the  two  additional  "members  of  the  court  of 
common  rights  outside  of  the  councill."  This 
court  was  the  highest  in  the  colony,  and  corre- 
sponded to  the  present  court  of  errors  and 
a|)|)eals.  It  was  made  i\\>  of  the  members  of 
the  governiii's  council.  e.x-Dfficin  and  additional 


members  chosen  for  their  legal  acumen  and 
knowledge.  John  Campbell's  commission  is 
dated  May  27,  1685,  and  he  was  reappointed 
March  14,  1686,  and  May  9,  1687.  April  8. 
1^)86,  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  representatives 
of  F'erth  .\mboy  in  the  general  assembly ;  and 
January  11.  1687,  with  the  governor.  Lord 
Neill  Cainpbell,  and  Captain  Andrew  Hamil- 
ton, he  formed  the  committee  of  East  Jersey 
jjroprietors  who  agreed  with  a  similar  one  of 
\\  est  Jersey  to  abide  by  the  decision  of  W'ill- 
iam  Emley  and  John  Keid  concerning  the  divi- 
sion line  of  the  province.  Resides  his  Perth 
.\mboy  property,  John  Campbell  owned  other 
tracts,  one  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  at 
liarnegat,  which  his  widow  afterwards  sold  to 
John  Reid,  of  Freehold,  another  of  five  hun- 
dred acres  at  the  Horseneck,  on  the  Passaic 
river,  sold  by  his  widow  to  Michael  Hawden, 
of  New  Vork,  who  also  purchased  Campbell's 
Amboy  ])roperties,  and  one  thousand  eight  hun- 
dred and  seventy  acres  on  the  west  side  of  the 
south  branch  of  the  Raritan  river,  which  weyt 
to  his  son.  In  his  will,  dated  December  25, 
1689.  proved  January  i,  1690,  he  leaves  legacies 
to  his  children,  and  makes  his  wife  Mary,  who 
survived  him  over  ten  years,  "sole  heiress  and 
executrix."  (iawinetta.  youngest  daughter  of 
John  Camjibell,  married  William,  brother  of 
hxlward  and  John  Harrison,  of  Perth  Amboy,  . 
and  Henry  Harrison,  of  Somerset  county. 
John  Campbell,  the  only  son,  settled  on  the 
Raritan  river,  was  high  sheriiif  of  Somerset 
and  Middlesex  comities,  and  died,  his  will 
being  proved  .\])ril  18.  1733.  leaving  a  widow 
Mar\-.  and  children:  Jt)lin,  Douglass,  James, 
.Margaret  (  married.  September  22.  1740,  Tobias 
\an  Norden),  Janet,  Ann  and  Xeill  (married 
(first),  .April  2,  1760,  Janet  McDaniel;  (sec- 
ond), January  10,  1763,  Rachel  Cothiel). 

liy  his  wife  .Ann  (Campbell),  John  Stevens 
had  nine  children,  the  first  five  horn  in  New 
^■(lrk  City,  the  last  four  in  Perth  .Amboy:  I. 
J  dim  Stevens,  died  in  infancy.  2.  Sarah  Ste- 
vens, born  1708;  died  May  26,  1790;  married, 
October,  1753.  Henry  Sulker,  of  New  \"ork. 
3.  Mary  Stevens,  born  December  30,  17 10; 
marriecl  Fenwick,  .son  of  David  and  Sarah 
Lyell,  who  died  in  1742;  after  having  been  a 
coimcillor,  like  his  father  before  him,  under 
(tovernor  Burnet,  and  also  a  member  of  the 
Cdimcil  nf  Ciovernor  Morris,  who  nominated 
him  in  1739  as  deputy  advocate-general  in  ad- 
miralty for  New  Jersey,  because  he  considered 
him  "a  good  lawyer  *  *  *  and  a  ])erson 
very  capable."  ( )ne  oi  their  children  was 
buried  at  Perth  Anibny.    4.  Ann  .Ste\-ens.  born 


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August  23,  1712;  died  February  8,  171 3.  5. 
Campbell  Stevens,  born  July  18.  1714;  died  in 
1770:  unmarried;  with  his  next  younger 
bruther  juiin  he  was  an  importer  and  merchant, 
and  as  a  captain  in  Colonel  Schuyler's  regiment 
of  "Old  Blues"  he  fought  in  the  French  and 
Indian  wars  at  Oswego  and  Fort  William 
Henry.  6.  John  Stevens,  referred  to  below.  7. 
William  Stevens,  born  January  28,  1718;  died 
March  6,  1742 ;  unmarrietl.  8.  Lewis  Stevens. 
born  in  1720;  died  unmarried,  April  19,  1772. 
9.  Richard  Stevens,  born  1723;  died  July  4, 
1802:  married,  March  31,  1758,  Susanna 
Kearney,  youngest  daughter  and  third  child  of 
'hilip,  son  of  Michael  Kearney  and  his  first 
wife,  Elizabeth  Brittain,  and  bis  own  first 
wife.  Lady  Barney  Dexter,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Ravaud.  Richard  .Stevens  is  said  to  have 
been  a  man  of  "small  stature,  with  retl  hair, 
and  all  the  vivacity  of  a  Frenchman."  Being 
largely  interested  in  landed  properties,  he  was 
constantly  traveling  through  the  province,  and 
died  in  consequence  of  injuries  received  by 
being  thrown  from  his  gig  while  on  his  way  to 
New  Brunswick,  living  only  one  day  thereafter. 
His  wife  died  the  next  year,  1803,  lying  an 
entire  winter  speechless  from  the  effect  of 
paralysis.  The  house  they  lived  in  was  after- 
wards the  residence  of  George  Merrit,  Esq, 
Differing  in  this  respect  from  the  greater  num- 
ber of  their  friends,  both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ste- 
vens were  violent  Whigs.  They  left  one  daugh- 
ter, who  married  John,  son  of  Rev.  Azel  Roe, 
for  many  years  Presbyterian  pastor  at  Wood- 
bridge  and  Metuchin,  and  the  descendants  of 
the  several  children  of  this  marriage  are  now 
living  in  ?ilassachusetts  and  Connecticut.  With 
the  exception  of  Richard  Stevens'  descendants, 
who  have  the  blood  but  not  the  name,  John 
Stevens  and  .A.nn  (Campbell)  Stevens  have  no 
representatives  of  their  name  save  the  issue  of 
John  (2)  Stevens,  who  will  now  be  considered. 
(II)  John  (2),  sixth  child  and  third  son  of 
John  Stevens  (i)  and  .\nn  (Campbell)  Ste- 
vens, was  born  in  Perth  Amboy,  October  26. 
1716;  died  at  his  son's  home  in  Hoboken,  in 
May,  1792,  and  was  buried  at  Bethlehem,  New 
Jersey.  After  the  death  of  his  father,  together 
with  his  elder  brother,  Campbell,  John  Stevens 
engaged  in  the  importing  and  mercantile  busi- 
ness, trading  principally  with  the  West  Indies 
and  Madeira.  .\t  that  time  it  was  a  common 
practice  for  the  larger  merchants  to  take  com- 
mand of  their  own  vessels  and  to  transact  their 
own  business  ventures  personally,  and  in  con- 
sequence John  Stevens  made  a  number  of  voy- 
ages to  different  ports.     In  1739  he  sailed  as 


master  of  the  sloop  "Martha;"  and  in  1741,  in 
the  brigantine  "Catharine,"  he  took  a  cargo  of 
flour  to  Medeira,  and  returned  with  one  of 
wine.  A  couple  of  years  later,  in  a  letter  dated 
December  10,  1743,  he  says,  "I  am  now  on 
settling  my  self  at  Perth  Amboy  and  believe  I 
shall  not  go  to  sea  again."  Whether  he  did  do 
so  or  not  there  is  no  record  to  show ;  he  how- 
ever continued  in  business  some  time  longer, 
and  apparently  retired  from  active  mercantile 
life  in  1761,  when  he  gave  himself  over  to  the 
management  of  his  large  landed  estates  and  his 
various  mining  projects  and  properties.  Among 
his  other  lands  he  owned  in  connection  with 
.\ndrew  and  John  Johnson  a  tract  of  sixty-one 
thousand  acres  in  Hunterdon  county,  and  he 
was  also  a  large  pro])rietor  in  the  tract  which 
is  now  the  site  of  Elizahethport,  as  shown  bv 
his  petition  to  the  legislature  in  regard  to  the 
changing  of  the  course  of  the  road  from  the 
town  of  Elizabeth.  He  likewise  possessed  a 
controlling  interest  in  the  Rocky  Hill  and  W'ell 
copper  mines  at  Rocky  Hill. 

In  April,  1752,  he  removed  from  Perth  i\m- 
boy  and  made  his  winter  quarters  in  New  York 
City,  where  nine  years  later,  in  1 76 1,  he  bought 
and  occupied  Xo.  7  Broadway,  which  was  then 
in  the  most  fashionable  part  of  the  town.  No. 
I,  which  stood  ne.xt  to  Fort  George,  was  owned 
by  Mr.  Archibald  Kennedy,  and  was  General 
Israel  Putnam's  headquarters  during  the  occu- 
pation of  New  York  by  the  Continental  troops 
in  the  spring  and  summer  of  1776.  It  was  also 
used  by  General  Howe  and  other  British  com- 
manders, and  when  New  York  was  regarded 
as  the  site  of  the  capital  of  the  Federal  govern- 
ment it  was  selected  as  the  presidential  man- 
sion. Next  door  to  it,  No.  3,  was  the  Watts' 
mansion ;  while  No.  5  was  the  home  of  Chief 
Justice  Livingston,  and  No.  9  the  Van  Cort- 
landt  residence.  No.  1 1  being  the  house  of 
Mrs.  Eve  Van  Cortlandt  White.  After  ten 
years  of  residence  in  this  New  York  home, 
John  Stevens,  in  1771,  removed  his  New  Jer- 
sey quarters  to  Lebanon  Valley,  Hunterdon 
county,  building  himself  a  large  house,  known 
for  a  long  time  afterwards  as  the  "Stevens 
mansion."  It  was  situated  a  few  miles  south 
of  the  present  Lebanon  station,  on  the  Central 
Railroad  of  New  Jersey,  and  was  standing 
until  1873,  when  it  was  torn  down. 

About  a  year  previous  to  his  removal  to  New 
York,  on  May  20,  1751,  John  Stevens  made  his 
first  appearance  in  political  life,  as  one  of  the 
members  of  the  general  assembly,  meeting  at 
Perth  .'Vmboy ;  and  from  his  very  first  entrance 
into  that  body  he  assumed  a  most  prominent 


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position,  becoming  a  member  of  all  of  its  most 
important  committees.  In  1755  he  took  a  very 
active  part  in  the  raising  of  troops  and  money 
to  send  to  Crown  Point,  which  was  originally 
an  English  trading  station,  but  which  had  been 
seized  twenty-four  years  before  by  the  French, 
who  had  built  there  l-'ort  Saint  Frederick.  In 
the  discussions  and  balloting  regarding  this, 
the  first  of  the  ex]3editions  to  retake  this 
frontier  post,  John  Stevens  gave  his  voice  and 
his  vote  in  every  instance  for  the  largest  ap- 
pro])riation  of  money  and  the  greatest  number 
of  troojis.  It  was  in  this  same  year  that,  with 
Andrew  and  John  Johnson,  Air.  Stevens  was 
engaged  in  the  building  of  the  blockhouses  at 
Drake's  I^ort,  at  Xormenach,  and  at  Philiips- 
burg :  and  it  was  in  the  ensuing  December  that 
with  Andrew  Johnson  he  was  appointed  a 
•committee  to  wait  upon  CjOV.  Thomas  Hardy, 
of  .\'ew  Jersey.  Gen.  William  Shirley,  the 
commander-in-chief  of  the  ])rovincial  forces, 
and  (jov.  Robert  Hunter  Morris,  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, to  ascertain  what  ste])s  they  had  taken 
for  defending  the  frontiers  of  New  York,  New 
Jersey  and  Pennsylvania  against  the  devasta- 
tions and  cruelties  of  the  Indians.  For  nearly 
a  century  such  of  the  red  men  as  were  natives 
of  New  Jersey  had  all  along  maintained  an 
intercourse  of  great  cordiality  and  friendship 
with  the  colonists,  being  interspersed  among 
them,  frequently  receiving  meat  at  their  houses 
and  other  marks  of  good  will  and  esteem. 
When  the  troubles  broke  out  among  the 
frontier  Indians  it  was  observed  that  some  of 
the  well  dis])osed  Indians  were  missing,  and  a 
few  murders  having  alarmed  the  jirovince,  the 
legislature  ap])ointed  commissioners  to  exam- 
ine into  the  treatment  the  Indians  had  received. 
Two  members  of  the  governor's  council,  .An- 
drew Johnson  and  Richard  Salter,  and  four 
special  commissioners,  Charles  Read,  John  Ste- 
vens, William  I-'oster  and  Jacob  Spicer,  had  a 
conference  with  the  Indians  in  I75('i  and  re- 
ported to  the  legislature  the  following  year 
when  they  were  given  increased  jiowers  ;  and 
in  the  ensuing  h'ebruary.  1758,  held  a  confer- 
ence at  Crosswicks,  lUirlington  county,  with 
Teedyescunk,  king  of  the  Delawares,  George 
IIo])ayock.  from  the  Sus(|uehaiiah,  and  thirty 
other  chiefs,  which  resulted  in  two  treaty  con- 
ferences being  held,  one  at  Fiurlington,  .'August 
7-8.  1758.  and  the  other  at  Easton.  Pennsyl- 
vania. ( )ctol)er  8-26.  1758,  in  which  the  Indian 
claims  were  fully  satisfied  and  their  differences 
with  the  colouists  adjusted.  It  was  also  during 
this  ])eriod  that  John  Stevens  was  paymaster 
of  the  "Old  I'.lues."  of  which  Colonel  Schuyler 


was  colonel,  and  in  which  his  brother  Campbell 
Stevens  was  a  captain.  Mr.  Stevens's  regi 
mental  account  book  has  been  preserved,  and 
is  full  of  interesting  items  and  valuable  infor 
mation,  especially  in  regard  to  the  hardships 
endured  by  the  different  privates  who  were 
made  ]jrisoners  at  ( )swego  and  I'^rvrt  William 
Henry. 

From  his  first  a])pointment  up  to  1762,  Air. 
.Stevens  was  a  memljer  of  the  lower  house  nf 
the  assembly:  but  on  January  8,  of  the  latter 
year,  he  received  his  appointment  as  a  member 
of  the  governor's  council,  of  wdiich  body  he 
remained  a  member  until  its  dissolution.  In 
the  fall  of  1765,  while  John  Stevens  was  re- 
siding at  New  \'ork,  the  British  parliament 
passed  its  famous  "Stamp  Act,"  wdiereby  "all 
legal  and  mercantile  documents  and  contracts, 
newspapers,  pamphlets,  almanachs,  etc..  were 
re(|uired  to  written  or  printed  on  stamjied 
])ai)er  up(jn  which  a  duty  was  to  be  imposed 
payable  to  officials  appointed  by  the  Crown." 
This  act  was  to  have  gone  into  effect  Novem- 
ber I.  1765.  On  that  day  the  flags  in  New- 
York  were  hung  at  half  mast,  stores  were 
closed,  bells  were  tolled,  and  the  streets  were 
thronged  with  excited  crowds.  The  Sons  of 
Liberty,  a  loose  secret  organization  extending 
through  the  colonies,  and  formed  for  the  ])ur- 
pose  of  concerting  resistance  to  the  act,  broke 
open  the  governor's  coach-house,  took  out  his 
chariot  of  state  and  jnit  into  it  two  images,  one 
of  the  governor  himself,  the  other  of  the  devil, 
so  arranged  that  he  seemed  to  be  whispering 
in  the  governor's  ear.  Hauling  the  chariot  and 
its  effigies  through  the  streets  until  they  caiue 
to  iMjrt  George,  with  lighted  torches,  they 
wound  up  their  demonstration  by  stoning  the 
fort  and  burning  the  chariot  in  a  bonfire.  So 
high  ran  the  excitement  that  civil  war  was 
imminent ;  and  Gov.  Colden,  in  order  to  allay 
the  apprehensions  of  the  populace,  November 
4.  1765,  addressed  a  letter  to  Mayor  John 
Cruger  and  Messrs.  Robert  R.  Livingston. 
John  .Stevens  and  I'lCverley  Robinson,  in  which 
he  promised  that  "he  would  not  issue  or  suffer 
to  be  issued  any  of  the  stamjjs  now  in  Fort 
George,"  and  recjuesting  these  gentlemen  to 
take  such  steps  as  would  insure  the  preserva- 
tion of  the  public  peace  and  safety.  This  letter 
brought  forth  the  following  manifesto :  "The 
Freemen,  I'^reeholders,  and  Inhabitants  of  this 
City,  being  satisfied  that  the  stamjis  are  not  to 
be  issued,  are  determined  to  keej)  the  peace  of 
the  City  at  all  events,  exce])t  they  shall  sec 
cau.se  of  complaint."  (Signed)  "John  Cruger. 
Robert  R.  Livingston,  John  Stevens,  Beverley 


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Ri>l)inson."  As  a  result  of  this,  the  obnoxious 
^tamped  paper  was  cleHvered  into  the  hands  of 
tlu'  mayor  and  the  corporation  of  the  city,  and 
wIkii  shortly  afterwards  a  vessel  arrived  with 
a  new  supply,  it  was  forcibly  taken  out  and 
lestroyed. 

In  1770.  in  reply  to  a  letter  from  Gov.  Will- 
iam F"ranklin  in  regard  to  certain  questions 
which  had  arisen  concerning  the  court  of  chan- 
cery, Mr.  Stevens  wrote  as  follows:  "1  am  of 
the  opinion  that  a  Court  of  Chancery  in  this 
Province  is  requisite,  and  that  it  ought  to  be 
kept  open,  hut  that  at  this  Time  and  ever  since 
the  \ear  1713.  the  Court  has  not  been  held  on 
a  pro])er  Establishment,  as  no  Ordinance  for 
erecting  said  Court,  or  qualification  of  several 
of  the  Chancellors  appears.  I  therefore  with 
submission,  advise  that  the  Governor  and 
Council  do  form  aii  Ordinance  for  the  Estab- 
lishment of  the  Court  of  Chancery,  to  consist 
of  his  Excellency  the  (lovernor,  with  such  of 
the  Council  or  others  as  shall  be  thought  jiroper 
or  fitting  for  the  Trust,  and  that  they  all  take 
the  necessary  qualification  for  the  due  dis- 
charge of  their  duty;  and  that  every  step  may 
be  taken  to  give  authority  and  permanence  to 
the  Court  1  would  jiropose  that  a  full  State  of 
the  Court  of  Chancery  as  to  the  manner  in 
which  it  has  been  from  time  to  time  held,  be 
made  and  transmitted  to  our  Most  Gracious 
Sovereign  for  his  further  instruction  to  the 
Governor  with  regard  to  his  will  and  pleasure 
therein"  *  *  *  Jn  1774,  together  with  his 
I  wife's  brother-in-law,  Walter  Rutherfurd, 
j  John  Stevens  was  appointed  on  the  joint  com- 
;  mission  which  undertook  to  settle  the  difter- 
'  enccs  which  had  arisen  with  resjiect  to  the 
boundary  lines  between  the  colonies  of  New 
!  York  and  New  Jersey,  and  their  report  was 
filed  in  the  following  November. 

.\t  the  outbreak  of  the  war,  John  Stevens 
was  presiding  over  the  colonial  council,  and 
feeling  that  the  prominent  position  he  held 
obliged  him  to  take  some  active  steps  against 
the  encroachments  of  the  Crown,  he  wrote  in 
June.  1776,  to  Governor  William  Franklin: 
"Sir:  It  is  with  the  greatest  concern  I  see  the 
j  dispute  between  Great  Britain  and  these  Colo- 
nies arisen  to  the  present  alarming  situation 
of  both  countries.  While  I  had  hopes  of  an 
accommodation  of  our  nnhap]iy  controversy  I 
was  unwilling  to  quit  a  station  which  enabled 
me  to  be  serviceable  to  my  Country,  but  the 
Continuation  of  Hostilities  by  the  British  Min- 
istery,  and  the  large  Armament  of  Foreign 
Troops  daily  expected  to  invest  our  Country 
leaves  me  no  longer  room  to  doubt  that  an 


entire  submission  of  these  Colonies  with  a  view 
of  Internal  Ta.xation  is  their  ultimate  object. 
Your  Excellency  will  not  wontler  that  1  should 
prefer  the  duty  I  owe  my  Native  Country  to 
any  other  consideration.  1  therefore  beg  leave 
to  resign  my  seat  at  the  Council  P)oard.  I  am 
sir.  Your  Excellency's  Most  Obedient,  Humble 
.Servant,  John  .Stevens.''  On  .\ugust  27  follow- 
ing he  was  chosen  to  represent  Hunterdon 
county  in  the  new  patriotic  council  which  was 
then  formed ;  and  one  week  later,  September 
3,  177(1,  he  was  unanimously  elected  to  fill  the 
chair  of  the  vice-j)resident,  a  position  which  he 
held  continuously  until  October  5,  1782,  and 
being  found  almost  always  in  his  seat.  An- 
other of  IMr.  Stevens's  anxieties  at  this  time 
was  the  care  of  the  treasury  of  the  new  state. 
Not  only  did  he  fretiuently  supply  its  defi- 
ciencies from  his  own  purse,  but  being  also 
one  of  the  sureties  for  the  provincial  treasurer, 
John  .Smyth,  he  seems  to  have  had  the  actual 
care  of  the  money  chest;  and  in  several  of  his 
letters  he  alludes  to  his  fear  that  it  will  be  cap- 
tured by  the  enemy,  and  also  speaks  of  its 
being  removed  to  various  places  for  greater 
security.  This  responsibility  was  finally  re- 
moved from  his  shoulders  by  the  appointment 
of  his  son,  Col.  John  .Stevens,  to  succeed  him. 
In  1 78 1,  John  Stevens  was  chosen  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  East  Jersey  projjrietors, 
and  two  years  later,  in  1783,  became  president 
of  that  body. 

November  6.  1782,  Mr.  Stevens  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Continental  congress  as  a 
representative  of  New  Jersey,  and  took  his 
seat  May  20,  1783,  but  the  session  was  simply 
a  business  one,  and  nothing  worthy  of  notice 
transacted.  September  17,  1787,  Mr.  Stevens 
was  elected  president  of  the  New  Jersey  state 
convention  that  ratified  the  Constitution  of  the 
Cnited  States  ;  and  instead  of  sending  the  rati- 
fication to  congress  by  mail  or  by  a  special 
messenger,  he  deemed  it  "more  seemly  to  the 
dignity  of  the  body"  he  represented  and  of  the 
one  to  which  he  was  accredited  to  deliver  it  in 
person.  His  own  account  of  the  delivery, 
which  was  the  fitting  close  to  a  long  and  event- 
ful political  career,  worthily  sustained,  is  thus 
given  in  a  letter  to  his  friend.  Chief  Justice 
Brearley.  "Iloboken.  I'ebruary  11,  1788.  Dear 
Sir : — .\s  soon  as  I  had  heard  there  was  a 
sufficient  number  of  members  met  to  make  a 
Congress  I  ])roceeded  to  New  'S'ork,  and  on 
l-"riday  the  first  instant  I  delivered  to  the  Presi- 
dent in  Congress  assembled  the  New  Jersey 
Ratification  of  the  proposed  Constitution  of 
the  Cnited  States;  and  I  have  the  pleasure  to 


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inform  )oii  thai  in  conversation  with  the  Presi- 
dent at  the  Chancellor's  (Robert  R.  Livingston, 
son-in-law  of  John  Stevens)  he  sayd  he  had 
no  instructions  to  make  me  any  answer  to 
what  I  said  to  him  on  delivering  the  Ratifica- 
tion, but  that  he  thought  it  the  most  ample  of 
any  that  had  been  <lelivcred  to  Congress,  and 
in  particular  the  Convention's  reciting  the 
powers  by  which  they  were  conveyed.  1  was 
exactly  in  time,  as  the  first  of  February  was 
set  down  for  taking  up  and  entering  the  sev- 
eral Certificates  and  1  delivered  ours  before 
they  began  that  business." 

John  Stevens,  it  is  said,  was  no  orator,  al- 
though he  was  a  very  fair  debater,  owing  to 
his  legal  training,  and  was  a  fluent  speaker  of 
great  clearness  and  conciseness.  Throughout 
his  life  he  was  a  zealous  supporter  of  the 
Established  Church  of  England.  During  his 
residence  at  Perth  Amboy  he  was  a  vestryman 
of  St.  Peter's,  1749-52,  when  he  removed  to 
New  York  and  was  transferred  as  a  communi- 
cant to  Trinity  Church  in  tiiat  city.  May  13- 
14,  1774,  with  his  brother  Richard,  Mr.  Hiet 
and  Richard  Dennis,  he  represented  the  laity 
in  the  convention  at  New  Brunswick ;  and  he 
contributed  largely  to  the  building  of  the  fraTne 
meetinghouse  at  Lebanon,  besides  being  one  of 
the  ])rinci])al  supporters  of  St.  Thomas's 
church  at  i'almyra,  Hunterdon  county,  near 
the  Cornwall  mansion,  the  residence  of  his 
brothers  Lewis  and  Richard.  I  lis  latter  days 
were  spent  with  his  son.  Col.  John  Stevens,  at 
Iloboken,  where  he  died  early  in  May,  1792. 
and  was  buried  at  the  frame  meetinghouse. 

In  I74<S  John  .Stevens  married  Elizabeth, 
fourth  child  and  second  daughter  of  James 
.Me.xander  and  Mary  (Sprat)  Provoost,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Sprat  and  Maria  De  Peyster,  and 
widow  of  .Samuel  Provoost,  whose  son  John, 
by  his  marriage  with  Eve  Rutgers,  had  a  son 
Samuel,  who  became  the  first  bishop  of  the 
Protestant  Episcojial  Church  in  New  York. 
James  Alexander,  born  iHgi,  in  Scotland,  died 
in  New  York  City,  I75'^>,  was  second  and 
youngest  son  of  \\  illiam  Alexander,  of  Edin- 
burg.  Emigrating  to  New  Jersey  in  1715,  he 
settled  as  a  practicing  lawyer  at  Perth  .\mboy, 
of  which  city  he  became  the  first  recorder. 
For  his  defence  of  John  Peter  Zenger,  when 
the  latter  was  accused  of  sedition  in  1733,  he 
was  temporarily  disbarred.  He  became  suc- 
cessively surveyor-general  of  ]'"ast  and  West 
Jersey,  receiver-general  of  (|uit-rents  for  East 
Jersey,  advocate-general,  member  of  the  King's 
council,  attorney-general,  and  again  advocate- 
general.     P>esides  being  one  of  the  most  promi- 


nent men  in  the  colony,  he  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  American  Philosophical  Soci- 
ety. Mary,  his  eldest  child,  married  Peter  van 
Brugh,  second  son  of  Philip,  Lord  of  Livings- 
ton Manor,  by  his  second  wife,  the  widow 
Ricketts.  James  .Alexander  (2)  died  at  eight 
3'ears  of  age.  \\  illiam  Alexander,  his  only 
other  son,  was  the  famous  patriot,  Alajor-Gen- 
eral  Lord  Stirling,  who  claimed  that  earldom 
through  descent  from  his  great-grandfather, 
Sir  \\  illiam  .\lexander,  Earl  of  Stirling,  1580- 
1640,  Elizabeth  .-\le.xander,  wife  of  John  Ste- 
vens, was  born  December  13,  1726,  and  died  at 
Clermont,  Livingston  Manor,  September,  1800. 
Catharine  .\lc.xander  married  (first)  Elisha, 
son  of  Col.  John  and  Janet  (Johnstone)  Parker, 
and  grandson  of  Elisha  Parker,  the  emigrant  to 
Perth  Amboy,  by  his  second  wife,  Hannah 
Rolph:  and  (second)  Major  Walter  Ruther- 
furd,  son  of  Sir  John  Rutherfurd,  of  Edgers- 
ton,  Scotland.  .\nnc  Alexander  died  single, 
antl  Susannah  Alexander  married  John  Reid, 
of  Scotland. 

Children  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Alexander) 
Stevens:  i.  John,  referred  to  below.  2.  Mary, 
died  in  Washington,  D.  C,  1814;  married, 
.September  y,  1770.  Chancellor  Robert  R.  Liv- 
ingstqn,  to  whom  she  bore  daughters — Eliza- 
beth Stevens  Livingston,  born  May  5,  1780, 
died  June  10,  1827,  married,  1800.  Edward 
Philip  Livingston;  and  .Margaret  Maria  Liv- 
ingston, born  April  11,  1783,  died  March  8, 
1818,  married,  1799,  Robert  L.  Livingston. 

(HL)  John  (3),  son  of  John  Stevens  (2) 
and  Elizabeth  ( .Alexander)  Stevens,  was  born 
in  Perth  .\mboy,  in  1749.  and  died  at  his  home 
in  Iloboken,  New  Jersey,  March  6,  1838.  He 
graduated  from  King's  (now  Columbia)  Col- 
lege, 1768,  and  shortly  afterwards  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar.  He  practiced,  however, 
very  little,  and  his  life  was  chiefly  devoted  to 
engineering  ex])eriinents  at  his  own  cost  for 
the  common  good.  He  ranks  "among  the  great- 
est of  the  engineers  and  naval  architects  of  the 
eighteenth  and  nineteenth  centuries."  During 
the  revolutionary  war  he  held  several  public 
offices.  He  and  his  imcle  Richard  were  both 
of  them  deputies  from  Hunterdon  county  to 
the  last  of  the  royal  provincial  congresses 
which  met  during  May,  June  and  .Vugust, 
1775  :  and  he  was  the  treasurer  of  the  state  of 
New  Jerse}',  1776-79.  -At  the  close  of  the  war 
of  Independence  he  married  and  settled  down, 
living  in  the  winter  at  No.  7  Broadway,  New 
York  City,  and  in  the  summer  on  the  island  of 
Iloboken.  which  had  been  confiscated  by  the 
state  of  New  lersev  from  William  Bavard,  the 


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royalist,  and  sold,  March  i(),  1784,  to  John 
Stevens,  for  £18,360.  About  1800,  Charles 
Loss,  a  civil  engineer,  made  for  John  Stevens 
a  map  of  about  half  the  upland  within  the 
present  city  limits  of  Hoboken,  and  March  20, 
1804,  the  first  sale  of  lots  from  this  map  was 
made  at  the  Tontine  coffee  house,  in  New 
York,  by  David  Dixon,  auctioneer.  Early  in 
1774  a  ferry  had  been  established  to  connect 
the  corporation  dock  at  Bear  market  in  New 
York  with  the  island  of  Hoboken.  At  first  the 
ferry  was  in  charge  of  Cornelius  Haring,  agent 
for  the  state  of  New  Jersey.  During  the  revo- 
ution.  like  all  other  ferries,  it  was  under  mili- 
tary control,  and  up  to  181 1  the  common  coun- 
of  New  York  leased  it  to  different  parties, 
although  since  1784  its  owner  was  John  Ste- 
vens, who,  April  13,  181 1,  obtained  the  lease 
for  himself  and  immediately  constructed  his 
steam  ferry-boat  the  "Juliana,"  which  carried 
ione  hundred  passengers  and  was  the  first  steam 
(ferry-boat  in  the  world.  It  made  si.xteen  trips 
but  not  being  as  economical  as  the  old  horse- 
boats,  was  then  taken  oft'.  In  June,  1817,  John 
Stevens  sold  all  of  his  interest  in  the  ferry  to 
John,  Robert  and  Samuel  Swartwout,  who 
assigned  it  in  iSig  to  Philip  Home,  at  which 
time  the  New  York  landing  was  changed  from 
\'esey  to  Barclay  street.  In  May,  1821,  the 
Stevens  family  repurchased  the  ferry  and 
agreed  to  pay  the  city  of  New  York  $1,800 
annual  rent  for  landing  privileges.  John  Ste- 
vens then  re-established  the  steam  ferry-boats. 
the  first  being  the  "Hoboken,"  which  made 
regular  trips  "every  hour  by  the  St.  Paul's 
clock."  In  this  boat  the  ladies'  cabin  was  below 
deck,  carpeted  and  warmed  by  open  fireplaces. 
In  July,  1836,  the  old  Spring  street  landing, 
which  had  been  in  use  since  1774,  was  changed 
to  the  [iresent  Christopher  street  slip.  In  1895 
the  Stevens  family  transferred  the  ferry. 

In  1787  the  legislature  of  New  York  granted 
John  Fitch  the  exclusive  right  to  navigate  the 
waters  of  that  state  with  steam  propelled 
vessels.  This  same  year,  while  driving  along 
the  banks  of  the  Delaware.,  near  Burlington, 
John  Stevens  saw  Fitch's  steamboat  pass  up 
the  river  against  the  tide.  His  interest  was 
excited,  and  he  followed  the  boat  to  the  land- 
ing where  he  examined  carefully  the  engines 
and  the  mechanism  of  the  pushing  paddles ; 
and  "from  that  hour  he  became  a  thoroughly 
excited  and  unwearied  experimenter  in  the 
application  of  steam  to  locomotion."  In  1790 
he  petitioned  congress  to  protect  the  rights  of 
American  inventors,  with  the  result  that  the 
committee  to  whom  his  petition  was  referred, 
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leported  the  bill  which,  as  the  law  of  April  10, 
1790,  forms  the  foundation  of  the  American 
patent  system.  Under  this  law,  in  1792,  John 
Stevens  took  out  patents  for  propelling  vessels 
by  steam  pumps,  modified  from  the  original 
steam  pumps  of  Savary.  Continuing  his  ex- 
periments on  dift'erent  modes  of  propulsion  by 
steam,  John  Stevens  now  associated  with  him- 
self the  elder  J^runel  constructor  of  the  Thames 
tunnel.  Chancellor  Robert  R.  Livingston,  his 
brother-in-law,  and  Nicholas  J.  Roosevelt,  and 
in  1798,  when  the  legislature  of  New  York 
oft'ered  a  monopoly  of  exclusive  privileges  to 
the  owner  of  a  boat  that  would  comply  with 
given  conditions  and  at  the  same  time  attam  a 
speed  of  three  miles  an  hour,  John  Stevens 
launched  the  first  steamboat  that  navigated  the 
Hudson.  This  boat  was  completed  in  1801, 
but  failed  to  fulfill  the  speed  conditions  im- 
posed, and  the  appointment  of  Robert  R.  Liv- 
ingston as  minister  plenipotentiary  to  France 
the  same  year,  interrupted  the  joint  experi- 
ments, and  resulted  from  Livingston's  subse- 
c|uent  association  with  Robert  Fulton,  whom 
he  met  in  Paris,  in  the  latter  winning  the 
monopoly  with  the  "Clermont."  Meanwhile 
Stevens  persevered  by  himself,  and  in  1804 
made  the  first  practical  application  of  steam  to 
the  screw  propeller.  His  boiler,  which  was 
multitubular,  he  had  patented  in  the  United 
States  the  year  before,  and  the  year  after  in 
England.  His  propeller  was  the  twin-screw, 
and  as  his  letter  to  Dr.  Robert  Hare,  of  Phila- 
delphia, shows,  a  helix,  and  identically  the 
short  four-headed  screw  that  is  now  in  use. 
The  engine  and  boiler  of  this  steamboat  are 
now  ])reserved  in  the  museum  of  the  Smith- 
sonian Institution.  Shortly  after  their  father's 
death  his  sons  [ilaced  this  engine  and  boiler  in 
a  boat  which  was  tested  before  a  committee  of 
the  American  Institute  of  New  York,  and  the 
speed  it  attained  was  about  nine  miles  an  hour. 
"The  engine  and  screw  *  *  *  show  the 
correctness  of  his  ideas,  as  well  as  the  imper- 
fection of  the  workmanship  of  that  period  that 
prevented  success."  To  the  day  of  his  death, 
John  Stevens  always  upheld  the  efficacy  of  his 
screw  and  its  great  advantages  for  ocean  navi- 
gation, and  the  years  succeeding  him  have 
vindicated  his  contention.  For  over  thirty 
years,  however,  he  stood  alone;  but  in  1837 
experiments  were  simultaneously  begun  both 
in  England  and  the  Ignited  States,  in  the  for- 
mer country  by  the  introduction  of  the  Archi- 
median  screw  of  a  single  thread,  and  in  Amer- 
ica by  the  trial  of  a  multi-threaded  screw  on 
the  surface  of  a  cylinder.    Both  of  these,  how- 


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ever,  were  soon  replaced  by  the  short  four- 
bladed  screw  of  Stevens,  the  conversion  in 
England  being  about  1842,  and  in  the  L'nited 
States  about  1847.  Three  years  after  launch- 
ing his  first  steamboat,  John  Stevens,  together 
with  his  son,  Robert  Livingston  Stevens,  per- 
fected the  invention  so  as  to  meet  the  require- 
ments of  the  Xew  York  legislature,  but  he  did 
this  not  with  his  screw  propeller  but  with  his 
paddle  wheel  steamboat,  the  "Phoenix;"  and 
being  a  few  daj's  later  than  Fulton  in  launch- 
ing his  boat,  he  was  shut  out  of  New  York 
waters  by  the  monopoly  of  'Fulton  and  Liv- 
ingston. .\s  a  consequence,  he  conceived  the 
bold  design  of  conveying  his  boat  to  the  Dela- 
ware river  by  sea,  so  in  June,  1808,  his  son, 
Robert  L.  Stevens,  took  the  "Phoenix"  down 
the  coast  from  New  York  to  Philadelphia,  thus 
reaping  the  honor  of  having  cominanded,  and 
with  his  father  of  having  invented  and  built, 
the  first  boat  to  navigate  the  ocean  by  steam 
power.  For  the  next  six  years  the  "Phoenix" 
plied  the  waters  of  the  Delaware  and  proved 
that  the  steam  navigation  of  that  river  was  a 
commercial  success. 

In  1813,  John  Stevens  designed  an  iron-clad 
steam  vessel  with  a  "saucer  shaped"  hull  which 
was  to  be  plated  with  iron  and  to  carry  a  heavy 
battery.  This  vessel  was  designed  to  be  secured 
to  a  sw'ivel  which  was  to  be  held  in  position  by 
an  anchor  in  the  channel  of  the  stream  to  be 
defended.  Screw  propellers  driven  by  steam 
engines  were  to  be  placed  beneath  the  vessel, 
where  they  would  be  safe  from  injury  by  shot, 
and  connected  with  the  machinery,  which  was 
arranged  to  cause  the  vessel  to  be  rapidly  re- 
volved about  the  swivel  in  its  center.  Each 
gun  was  to  be  fired  as  it  was  brought  into  line, 
and  was  to  be  reloaded  before  it  came  around 
again.  This  was  an  early  embodiment  of  the 
Monitor  principle,  and  was  the  first  iron-clad 
ever  designed. 

In  F"ebruary,  181J.  shortly  before  the  war 
with  England,  and  five  years  before  the  com- 
mencement of  work  on  the  Erie  canal,  John 
Stevens  addressed  a  memoir  to  the  New  York 
state  commission  a])])ointed  to  devise  water 
communication  between  the  seaboard  and  the 
lakes,  urging,  instead  of  a  canal,  the  immediate 
construction  of  a  railroad.  This  memoir,  to- 
gether with  the  adverse  report  of  the  com- 
missioners— De  Witt  Clinton,  Gouverneur 
Morris  and  Chancellor  Robert  R.  Livingston — 
was  published  at  the  time,  also  in  1852,  with  a 
preface  \>\  Charles  King,  president  of  Colum- 
bia College,  and  again  in  1882.  by  the  Railroad 
Gazette.     When  the  memoir  was  first  written. 


railroads  for  carrying  coal  had  been  in  use  in 
England  for  upwards  of  two  hundred  years, 
but  there  was  not  a  steam  locomotive  or  j)assen- 
ger  car  in  the  world.  John  Stevens's  pamphlet, 
entitled  "Documents  tending  to  prove  the  su- 
jjcrior  advantages  of  railways  and  steam  car- 
riages over  canal  navigation,"  ranks  its  author 
"even  if  he  had  failed,  as  he  tlid  not,  in  the  field 
of  invention,  to  be  held  in  grateful  remem- 
brance by  his  countrymen  for  his  broad  and 
statesmanlike  views,  keen  perception,  ardent 
patriotism,  and  a  demonstration  that  was  i>io- 
phetic  in  its  accuracy."  Mis  plans  and  esti- 
mates were  definite ;  and  his  proposal  was  to 
build  a  passenger  and  freight  railroad  for  gen- 
eral traffic  from  .\lbany  to  Lake  Erie,  having 
a  double  track,  with  wooden  stringers  capped 
with  wrought  ]jlate  rails  resting  on  piles,  and 
the  motive  power  to  be  steam  locomotives,  lie 
enumerates  comprehensively  the  advantage  of 
a  general  railroad  system,  naming  many  details 
that  were  afterwards  found  necessary,  and 
putting  the  probable  future  speed  at  from 
twenty  to  thirty  miles  an  hour,  and  possibly 
from  forty  to  fifty.  This  indentical  plan  was 
successfully  carried  out  between  fifteen  and 
twenty  years  later  in  the  construction  of  the 
South  Carolina  railroad,  commenced  in  1829, 
which  when  conii)leted  in  1832  was  the  longest 
railway  in  the  world,  the  first  long  railway  in 
the  Cnited  States,  and  a  convincing  proof  of 
the  accuracy  of  John  .Stevens's  estimates.  In 
spite  of  the  commission's  adverse  report  on  his 
memoir,  John  Stevens  was  anxious  to  put  his 
recommendations  into  ])ractice.  In  1814.  there- 
fore, he  a])plied  for  a  charter,  which  he  ob- 
tained I'ebruary,  1815,  from  the  state  ot  Xew 
Jersey,  "to  build  a  railroad  from  the  River 
Delaware,  near  Trenton,  to  the  River  Raritan, 
near  Xew  Brunswick."  This  was  the  earliest 
railroad  charter  granted  in  .\merica,  but  no 
tangible  result  followed  it,  because  the  scheme 
was  regarded  as  wild  and  visionary.  The 
introduction  of  the  steamboat,  coupled  with 
the  success  of  the  Duke  of  Bridgcwater  in  the 
introduction  of  canals  abroad,  had  made  these 
means  of  trans])ortation  more  popular  with 
capitalists  than  the  untried  railroad,  and  110 
tiiniiey  cfHild  be  raised  for  that  undertaking. 
John  Stevens's  interest  in  the  subject  of  inlenial 
communication  did  not  flag,  however,  on  ac- 
count of  this  failure,  for  in  1823,  through  his 
exertions,  acts  were  passed  by  the  legislature 
<if  Pennsylvania  for  the  incorporation  of  "The 
President.  Directors  and  Coin[)any  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Railroad  Coni]iany,  "  who  were  to 
"make,  erect  and  establish   a   railroad  on  the 


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r.  piite  laiil  uiit  I  from  I'hiladelj)hia  to  Columbia, 
Lancaster  county j,  to  be  constructed  on  tbe 
plan  and  under  the  superintendence  and  di- 
rection of  the  said  John  Stevens."  (Laws  of 
Pennsylvania,  1823,  Sec.  6,  p.  252 J.  Among 
the  incorporators  were  Stephen  Girard  and 
Hon.  Llorace  Binney,  brother-in-law  of  John 
Stevens.  October  23,  1824.  John  Stevens  ob- 
tained a  patent  for  his  method  of  constructing 
a  railroad  ;  and  about  two  years  later,  in  1826, 
when  seventy-six  years  okl,  he  constructed  at 
his  own  expense  a  locomotive  with  a  multi- 
tubular boiler,  which  he  o])erated  for  several 
years  on  his  estate  at  Hoboken,  on  a  circular 
track  having  a  guage  of  five  feet  and  a  diame- 
ter of  two  hundred  and  twenty  feet,  and  carry- 
ing,half  a  dozen  or  more  persons  at  a  rate  of 
over  twelve  miles  an  hour.  A  model  of  this 
locomotive,  together  with  the  original  multi- 
tubular boiler  which  formed  a  part  of  it,  is 
preserved  in  the  United  States  N'ational  Mu- 
seum. It  is  the  first  locomotive  in  America 
driven  by  steam  upon  a  track,  of  which  there 
is  a  reliable  record. 

Colonel  John  Stevens  was  an  excellent  class- 
ical scholar,  and  not  only  a  close  student  of 
natural  philosophy  but  fond  of  metaphysical 
speculations  ;  and  he  iias  left  behind  him  sev- 
eral phi!oso])hical  treatises  which  have  never 
been  published.  Throughout  his  life  he  was 
an  enthusiastic  botanist  and  amateur  gardener. 
When  he  died,  at  the  age  of  eighty-nine,  he 
had  seen  the  first  steam  engine  erected  on  the 
western  continent,  at  Belleville,  New  Jersey. 
During  his  lifetime  Watt  perfected  the  station- 
ary low  pressure  condensing  steam  engine. 
Within  his  memory  the  Duke  of  Bridgewater 
inaugurated  the  canal  .system  of  Cireat  Britain : 
Trevithick  developed  the  high  pressure  steam 
engine  into  a  commercial  success  and  success- 
fully applied  it  to  the  locomotive;  Nelson  won 
the  battle  of  Trafalgar:  Fulton  introduced 
steam  navigation  on  the  Hudson:  steamboats 
began  to  ply  on  the  Mississippi  and  the  lakes  : 
Captain  Rogers  made  the  first  experimental 
steam  voyage  across  the  Atlantic  with  the 
"Savannah :''  steam  was  introduced  into  all  the 
principal  navies  of  the  world ;  George  and 
Robert  Stejihensou  made  their  fame  as  locomo- 
tive constructors;  and  the  railway  systems  at 
home  and  abroad  were  organized.  Seven  years 
before  his  death,  the  locomotive  was  put  upon 
the  Camden  &  .Amboy  railroad,  connecting 
New  York  and  Philadelphia,  and-  on  the  first 
links  tif  the  Pennsylvania  railroad,  in  advocat- 
ing the  construction  of  both  of  which  he  had 
taken  an  active  part  twenty  years  before.     On 


the  day  of  his  death,  the  "Great  Western"  lay  in 
the  Thames  receiving  her  finishing  touches 
preparatory  to  making  the  initial  voyage  of  the 
pioneer  trans-Atlantic  steamship  line  between 
England  and  New  York.  Lie  was  the  copatriot 
of  Washington  during  the  New  Jersey  cam- 
paigns, the  correspondent  of  Barlow  and 
Franklin.  Chancellor  Livingston,  after  whom 
liis  second  son  was  named,  married  his  only 
sister,  and  although  he  was  Fulton's  rival  in 
introducing  the  steamboat  into  America,  they 
had  been  warm  friends  for  several  years  be- 
fore the  latter's  death  in  1815.  Charles  King, 
jiresident  of  Columbia  College,  writing  of  him 
in  1852,  says,  "Born  to  affluence,  his  whole 
life  was  devoted  to  experiments  at  his  own 
cost  for  the  common  good.  Lie  was  a  thor- 
oughly excited  and  an  unwearied  experimenter 
in  the  apjilication  of  steam  to  locomotion  on 
the  water  and  subsequently  on  the  land.  Time 
has  vindicated  his  claim  to  the  character  of  a 
far-seeing,  accurate,  and  skillful,  practical  ex- 
perimentalist and  inventor.  The  thinker  was 
ahead  of  his  age." 

October  17,  1782,  Colonel  John  Stevens  mar- 
ried Rachel,  eldest  daughter  of  Colonel  John 
Cox,  of  "Bloomsbury,"  New  Jersey,  near  Tren- 
ton, by  his  wife  Esther,  daughter  of  Francis 
Bowes,  of  Philadelphia,  and  Rachel,  youngest 
daughter  and  child  of  Jean  Le  Chevalier,  of 
the  Huguenot  colony  in  New  York  City,  and 
his  wife,  Maria  de  la  Plaine.  Jean  Le  Cheva- 
lier was  one  of  the  most  prominent  of  the 
French  refugees  of  New  York,  and  must  not 
be  confounded  as  he  sometimes  was  with  Jean, 
son  of  Pierre  le  Chevalier,  of  Philadel]ihia.  Jean 
Le  Chevalier,  of  New  York,  married  Marie  de 
la  Plaine,  in  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church,  June 
2"],  1692,  and  had  seven  daughters  but  no  sons. 
These  cliildren,  all  baptized  in  the  French 
church.  New  York  City,  were :  Marie,  born 
June  6,  1693  ;  Susanne,  Alarch  1 1,  1695  ;  Esther, 
I'ebruary  18,  1696;  Marie  (2d),  baptized  May 
14.  1699:  Elizabeth,  born  .August  26,  1702; 
Jeanne,  baptized  March  7.  1704;  Rachelle.  born 
l'"ebruary  16.  1707,  baptized  February  22  fol- 
Icnving,  married  Francis  Bowes,  and  after  his 
death  (second),  as  his  second  wife,  John,  son 
of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  Sayre.  The  children 
of  L'rancis  Bowes  and  Rachel  Chevalier  were ; 
Theodosius :  Samuel :  Mary,  born  March  5. 
1731;.  married.  September  28,  1758.  John,  son 
of  John  Sayre,  her  stepfather ;  John ;  and 
Esther,  born  January  6,  1741,  died  February 
10,  1814,  married,  November  16,  1760,  Colonel 
fiihn  Cox,  of  Bloomsbury.  Colonel  Cox  was 
son  of  William  Cox  and  Catharine  Longfeldt, 


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till-  granddaughter  of  Admiral  I-ongfeldt,  who 
fought  under  Aihniral  ()])dain  in  tlie  naval  en- 
gagement between  the  latter  and  Admiral  Sir 
William  I'enn,  the  father  of  the  celebrated 
Quaker  colonist.  Colonel  Cox  himself  was  one 
of  the  celebrated  men  of  his  day.  and  rendered 
good  service  to  the  Continental  army  as  assist- 
ant ([uarterniaster  under  (ieneral  (ireene,  the 
latter  having  made  the  appointment  of  John 
Cox  and  Charles  I'ettit  to  serve  under  him  a 
condition  of  his  acceptance  of  the  position  of 
i|uartermaster-general.  Not  only  did  Colonel 
Cox  hel])  to  provision  the  patriot  army,  he  also 
supplied  it  with  a  large  amount  of  ordnance 
from  his  foundry  at  Batiste,  New  Jersey.  At 
his  home,  "Ijloomsbury,"  now  "Woodlawn," 
the  Warren  street  home  of  Edward  H.  Stokes, 
General  Washington  had  his  headquarters,  and 
was  entertained  when  he  made  his  trium])hal 
entry  into  Trenton,  two  of  Colonel  Cox's 
daughter's.  Rachel  and  Sarah,  being  among  the 
thirteen  young  ladies  who  sang  the  ode,  'A\  el- 
cunie,  mighty  chief,  once  more,"  and  another, 
.Mary,  being  one  of  the  six  young  girls  who 
strewed  flowers  in  the  General's  path  over 
Trenton  bridge.  At  "Bloomsbury,"  the  Mar- 
quis de  Lafayette  and  the  Count  de  Rocham- 
bean  enjoyed  the  hosjiitality  of  Colonel  Cox, 
and  had  the  pleasure  of  conversing  in  their 
own  language  with  Mrs.  Co.x's  I-'rench  aunts, 
the  Demoiselles  Chevalier,  the  youngest  daugh- 
ters of  Jean  Le  Chevalier,  referred  to  above. 
Children  of  Colonel  John  Cox  and  Esther 
Bowes:  i.  Rachel,  born  November  i6,  1761  ; 
died  December,  1839;  married  John  Stevens 
(3).  2.  Catharine,  born  July  27,  1764;  mar- 
ried (first)  Samuel  Witham  Stockton;  (sec- 
ond) -Xathaniel  Sayre  Harris.  3.  Esther,  born 
August  23,  I7'^>7;  married  Dr.  Francis  Barton. 
4.  John  I'owes,  born  September  5,  1770;  died 
November.  1772.  5.  Mary,  born  March  22: 
died  March  13.  1864;  married  Colonel  James 
Chesnut,  of  "Mulberry."  near  Camden.  South 
Carolina.  6.  Sarah,  born  July  10,  1779;  mar- 
ried John  Redman  Coxe,  of  Philadel]iliia  (no 
relation  however  t.  7.  Elizabeth,  born  January 
22.  1783;  married  lion.  Horace  Fiinney.  ot 
Philadelphia. 

John  and  Rachel  (Cox)  Stevens  had  thir- 
teen children.  'J"he  first  two  died  in  infancy. 
John  Cox  Stevens.  Robert  Livingston  Stevens 
and  James  .Mexander  .Stevens  are  referred  to 
below.  Richard,  fifth  child,  born  February  l(^. 
1792:  died  unmarried,  October  7.  1835;  grad- 
uated from  Columbia  I'niversity,  1810.  and  re- 
ceiving his  ^L  D.  degree.  Francis  Bowes, 
sixth  child,  born  June  5.  1793  :  died  unmarried. 


in  1812;  graduated  with  his  elder  brother  from 
Columbia  Cniversity.  in  1810,  as  valedictorian 
of  his  class.  Edwin  .Augustus  Stevens,  se\- 
enth  child,  is  referred  to  elsewhere.  Elizabeth 
Juliana,  eighth  child,  and  eldest  daughter  of 
John  and  Rachel  (Co.x)  Stevens  born  April 
18,  1797:  married,  July  31,  1821,  Thomas 
.\nderson  Conover.  Commodore  U.  S.  N.,  son 
of  James  and  Margaretta  (Anderson)  Cono- 
ver; grandson  of  Peter  and  Mannah  (Forman  1 
Conover ;  great-grandson  of  Elias  and  Will- 
empje  (Wall )  van  Cowenhoven  ;  2-great-grand- 
son  of  Pieterand  Patience  (Davis)  van  Cowen- 
hoven :  3-great-grandson  of  Willem  and  Jar. - 
netje  (Montfort)  van  Cowenhoven,  a  second 
marriage ;  4-great-grandson  of  Gerrit  and 
.\eltje  (Cool)  van  Cowenhoven;  and  5-gfeat- 
grandson  of  Wolfert  Gerritsse  van  Cowen- 
hoven, emigrant  from  .\moorsfort,  near  L't- 
recht,  in  1630,  to  Rensellaerwyck,  New  Amster- 
dam, and  finally  settled  in  Flatlands,  Long 
Island.  Children  of  Commodore  Thomas 
Anderson  and  Elizabeth  Juliana  (Stevens) 
Conover :  l''rancis  Stevens  Conover,  married 
I  lelen,  daughter  of  Richard  Stockton  and  Mary 
(Ritchie)  Field;  Mary  Rachel  Conover,  mar- 
ried Rev.  Lewis  Carter  Baker,  of  Princeton ; 
Caroline  Conover,  died  May  13,  1875,  unmar- 
ried :  Richard  Stevens  Conover,  married  Sarah 
Jones,  daughter  of  James  and  Sarah  Jones 
( (jrimes  )  Potter  ;  and  Sophia  Conover.  Alary, 
ninth  child  and  second  daughter  of  John  and 
Rachel  (Cox)  Stevens,  born  .\ugust  7,  1799; 
died  in  1825;  became  first  wife  of  Joshua  R. 
Sands,  admiral,  U.  S.  N.,  and  bore  him  one 
child,  John  Stevens  Sands,  who  died  in  Hobo- 
ken,  in  1826.  After  her  death,  .Admiral  Sands 
married  (second),  1830,  Harriet,  tenth  child 
nf  John  and  Rachel  (Cox)  Stevens,  sister  to 
his  first  wife,  born  December  29,  1801,  died 
1844,  after  bearing  her  husband  seven  chil- 
dren: Joshua  Sands,  died  1832;  Mary  Ste- 
vens Sands ;  Matilda  Caroline  Sands,  married 
John  Garniss  Brown;  Anne  Ayscough  Sands, 
married  Robert  Livingston  Clarkson  ;  Harriet 
.■^tcvens  .'"iands,  married  George  W.  Wetmore ; 
John  Stevens  Sands,  married  Eliza  IVIiller ; 
Joshua  Sands,  married  widow  Louisa  Lewis; 
and  Samuel  Sands,  .\fter  the  death  of  his  sec- 
ond wife,  .Xdmiral  Sands  married  a  third  tmie 
and  had  tw'o  more  children.  Esther  Bow-es  and 
Catharine  Sophia  van  Cortlandt  Stevens,  the 
eleventh  and  twelfth  children  of  John  and 
Rachel  (Cox)  Stevens,  born  resjjectively  Au- 
gust Ck  1804.  and  May  27.  1806,  both  lived  to 
an  advanced  age,  but  never  married.  They 
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otter  aid  to  the  government  at  the  outbreak  of 
the  civil  war,  as  each  of  them  placed,  April  29, 
1861,  $1,000  at  the  disposal  of  the  governor 
of  New  Jersey. 

(IV)  John  Cox,  eldest  child  to  reach  matu- 
rity of  John  and  Rachel  (Cox)  Stevens,  w^as 
born  at  Castle  Point,  Hoboken,  New  Jersey, 
September  24,  1785,  and  died  in  New  York 
City,  June  13,  1857.  (iraduating  from  Colum- 
bia L'niversity  in  1803,  he  spent  the  early  part 
of  his  life  on  his  estates  at  Livingston  ^lanor 
and  later  in  Naw  York  City.  From  his  youth 
he  was  an  ardent  sportsman,  and  one  of  his 
;  horses  was  the  famous  American  "Eclipse," 
,  .sired  by  Sir  .\rchy,  and  grandsired  by 
"Dionied,"  the  Derby  winner  of  the  Dyerly 
;  Turk  blood,  and  by  "Darley  Barb."  a  descend- 
ant of  the  .\rab  brought  into  England  for 
breeding  purposes  by  King  James  I.  Mr.  Ste- 
vens was  also  a  devoted  yachtsman,  and  was 
one  of  the  organizers  and  founders  of  the  New 
York  Yacht  Club,  of  which  he  was  the  first 
commodore.  The  "America,"  the  winner  of 
the  famous  race  in  the  Solent,  and  of  the  cup 
ever  since  known  as  the  . America's  Cup,  was 
built  under  his  direction,  and  sailed  by  him  in 
the  famous  race.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers 
and  the  first  president  of  the  Union  Club  of 
New  York.  December  27,  1809,  John  Cox 
Stevens  married  ]\Iaria  C.  Livingston,  daughter 
of  Robert  and  Elsie  Swift  Livingston,  but 
there  was  no  issue  from  the  marriage. 

(I\')  Robert  Livingston,  fourth  child  and 
son  of  John  and  Rachel  (Co.x)  Stevens,  was 
born  October  18,  1787,  at  Hoboken,  and  died 
there  .\pril  20,  1856.  He  was  educated  chiefly 
by  private  tutors  and  in  his  father's  laboratory. 
Of  all  his  brothers  he  had  perhaps  the  strongest 
engineering  bias.  \\'hen  he  helped  liis  father 
to  build  the  first  twin-screw-  boat  he  was  but 
seventeen  years  old,  and  when  he  took  the 
"I'lioenix"  from  New  "N'ork  to  Philaiteljihia 
he  was  barely  twenty-one.  At  the  death  of 
I'ulton,  in  1815,  the  speed  of  steamboats  was 
imder  seven  miles  an  hour.  The  "Philadel- 
phia," built  by  Robert  L.  Stevens,  had  a  speed 
of  eight  miles ;  and  he  succeeded  in  increasing 
the  sjjced  of  each  successive  boat  that  he  built 
until  in  1832  the  "North  America,"  the  finest 
vessel  of  her  da)',  attained  fifteen  miles.  For 
twenty-five  years  after  181 5,  Robert  Livings- 
ton Stevens  stood  at  the  head  of  his  pro- 
fession as  a  constructor  of  steam  vessels.  In 
1 82 1  he  originated  the  form  of  ferry-boats  and 
ferry-sli])s  now  in  general  use,  constructing  the 
sli]5s  with  spring  piling  and  fenders.  In  1818 
he  invented  the  cam  board  cut-oft',  and  applied 


it  to  the  steamboat  "Philadelphia."  on  the  Del- 
aware, this  being  the  first  application  of  the 
expansive  action  of  steam  to  navigation.  In 
1 82 1  he  adopted  the  working  (or  walking) 
beam,  and  improved  it  by  making  it  of  wrought 
iron  strap  with  a  cast-iron  centre;  and  in  1829 
he  adopted  the  shape  now  universally  used  in 
this  country,  ile  invented  the  split  water-wheel 
in  1826,  and  in  1 83 1  the  balance  valve  which 
is  now  always  used  on  the  beam  engine.  He 
was  the  first  to  ])lace  the  boilers  on  the  wheel 
guards  over  the  water ;  he  adopted  the  Stevens 
cut-oft',  and  finally  left  the  American  working 
( or  walking )  beam  engine  in  its  present  form. 
Beginning  with  a  pressure  of  two  pounds  to 
the  s(|uare  inch,  he  increased  the  strength  of 
his  boilers  until  fifty  pounds  could  be  safely 
carried.  He  made  the  first  marine  tubular 
boiler  in  183 1.  He  reduced  the  vibration  of 
the  hull  and  added  greatly  to  the  strength  by 
the  overhead  truss  frame  of  masts  and  rods 
now  used. 

At  the  suggestion  of  Robert  L.  Stevens, 
jiresident  and  chief  engineer  of  the  road,  the 
ijroad  of  directors  of  the  Camden  &  Amboy 
railroad,  shortly  after  the  surveys  for  the  road 
were  completed,  authorized  Mr.  Stevens  to 
obtain  the  particular  kind  of  rails  he  advocated, 
which  was  an  all  iron  rail,  instead  of  a  wooden 
rail  or  stone  stringer  with  strap  iron,  the  one 
then  commonly  used.  .\t  that  time  no  rolling 
mill  in  .\merica  could  roll  T-rails :  so,  early  in 
( Jctober,  1830.  Mr.  Stevens  sailed  for  England 
in  order  to  obtain  what  he  required.  During 
the  voyage  he  wdiiled  away  the  hours  by  whit- 
tling thin  wood  into  shapes  of  rail-sections 
until  he  finally  decided  which  was  best  suited 
to  the  needs  of  the  new  road.  Seeing  that  the 
P)irkenshaw.  the  best  English  rail  then  laid, 
re(|uire(l  an  ex]>onsive  chair  to  hold  it  in  place, 
he  dispensed  with  the  chair  by  adding  the  base 
tu  the  T-rail,  designing  at  the  same  time  the 
"hook-headed"  spike,  substantially  the  railroad 
spike  of  to-day;  the  iron  tongue,  which  has 
been  developed  into  the  fish-bar :  and  the  bolts 
and  nuts  to  complete  the  joint.  Eighty  years 
have  elapsed  since  this  rail  was  adopted  by  the 
Camden  &  Amboy  company,  and  with  the  ex- 
ception of  slight  alterations  in  the  proportions 
incident  to  increased  weight,  no  radical  change 
has  been  made  in  the  "Stevens  rail,"  wdiich  is 
now  in  use  on  every  road  in  America,  and  noth- 
ing has  yet  been  found  to  take  the  place  of  the 
"hooked-headed"  railroad  spike  Robert  L.  Ste- 
vens designed.  Mr.  Stevens  spent  a  great  deal  of 
time  while  abroad  in  e.xamining  the  English 
locomotives.  The  Liverpool  &  Manchester  rail- 


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way  had  then  been  in  use  for  over  a  year.  The 
"Planet,"  the  "Rocket's"  successor,  built  by  the 
Stephensons,  had  just  been  tested  with  satisfac- 
tory results,  and  Air.  Stevens  ordered  a  locomo- 
timc  of  similar  construction  from  the  same 
manufacturers.  This  locomotive,  called  the 
"John  r>ull,"  was  put  into  service  in  i83i,andis 
the  ]jrutotype  of  those  now  in  general  use.  It  is 
now  preserved  in  the  United  States  National 
Museum. 

Toward  the  close  of  the  war  of  1812,  Robert 
Livingston  Stevens  was  engaged  in  making  a 
bomb  that  could  be  fired  from  a  cannon  instead 
of  from  a  mortar,  in  order  that  it  might  be 
applied  to  naval  warfare.  He  succeeded  in 
l>ro(Iucing  a  successful  percussion  shell  which 
was  adopted  by  the  United  States  government, 
who  purchased  a  large  quantity,  together  with 
the  secret  of  its  construction.  As  Mr.  Ste- 
vens's labors  upon  armored  ships  are  too  closely 
interwoven  w'ith  those  of  his  brothers,  espe- 
cially. Edwin  Augustus  Stevens,  to  be  treated 
separately,  this  part  of  Robert  L.  Stevens's  life 
will  be  found  treated  in  the  biograjihy  of  his 
brother  last  named. 

In  1850,  Robert  L.  Stevens  designed  and 
built  the  "Maria,"  the  fastest  sailing  vessel  of 
her  day.  It  was  this  yacht  that  defeated  the 
".America"  in  New  York  harbor,  a  few  months 
before  the  latter  won  the  memorable  race  on 
the  Solent,  when  Her  Majesty,  Queen  \'ic- 
toria.  having  asked  her  favorite  skipper  who 
was  first  and  second  in  the  race,  received  for 
a  reply,  "The  '.Kmcrica'  leads,  there  is  no  sec- 
ond." Mr.  Richard  Fowler  Stevens  (see below) 
has  a  picture  rejiresenting  Commodore  John  C. 
Stevens  assisting  on  board  of  the  ".America," 
as  his  guests,  Her  Majesty  and  the  Prince. 
The  "Maria"  was  lost  at  sea  in  1869. 

Robert  Livingston  Stevens  died  unmarried. 
"Me  will  be  remembered  as  the  greatest  Amer- 
ican mechanical  engineer  of  his  day,  a  most 
intelligent  naval  architect,  to  whom  the  world 
is  indeljted  for  the  commencement  of  the 
mightiest  revolution  in  the  methods  of  modern 
naval  warfare." 

(1\")  James  .Alexander,  fourth  son  and  child 
of  John  and  Rachel  (Cox)  Stevens,  was  born 
January  29.  1790,  at  No.  7  Broadway,  New 
\'ork  City,  and  died  October  7,  1873.  He 
studied  under  i)rivatc  tutors  and  entered 
Columbia  College,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  1808  at  the  head  of  his  class  as  primus  and 
salutatorian.  He  studied  law  with  Chancellor 
James  Kent,  of  New  A'ork,  but  never  practiced. 
Together  with  Thomas  ( libbons  he  established 
the  Union  steamboat  line  which  ran  between 


New  York  and  Albany,  and  led  to  the  famous 
suit  of  Ogden  vs.  Gibbons,  which  did  away 
with  the  old  method  of  granting  state  monop*- 
olies  of  navigable  streams  and  rivers,  and  re- 
sulted in  the  memorable  decision  that  placed 
all  of  the  navigable  waters  of  the  United  States 
under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  federal  govern- 
ment. 

February  11,  1812,  James  Alexander  Ste- 
vens married  Alaria,  daughter  of  Major  Theo- 
dosius  Fowler  (wdio  was  treasurer  of  the  Soci- 
ety of  the  Cincinnati,  when  Washington  was 
jiresident)  and  Mary  (Steele)  Fowler,  and 
granddaughter  of  Jonathan  Fowler  and  his 
wife  .\nn  Seymour,  an  aunt  of  Governor 
I  loratio  Seymour,  of  New  York.  Her  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Stephen  Steele  and  Cath- 
arine Schureman,  and  she  was  the  youngest 
of  two  children,  the  other  child,  her  brother, 
being  Hon.  William  Steele,  who  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Jonathan  Davton,  of  Spring- 
held,  New  Jersey.  .Stephen  Steele  was  born 
September  28,  1739,  and  was  the  son  of  John 
Steele,  who  came  to  .America,  and  was  made  a 
freeman  of  New  A'ork  in  1744.  His  son  Ste- 
])hen  was  an  active  Whig  during  the  revolu- 
tionary war,  and  being  obliged  to  abandon  his 
house  and  much  valuable  ])roperty  in  New- 
York  City  when  the  British  took  possession, 
he  removed  himself  and  his  family  to  New 
Jersey.  Children  of  James  .\lexander  and 
Maria  (Fowler)  Stevens: 

I.  Juliana  Stevens,  born  Jiuie  30.  1813;  be- 
came second  wife  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  Sayre 
Harris,  the  only  child  of  Nathaniel  Harris  and 
Catharine,  daughter  of  Colonel  John  Cox,  of 
Pdooiusbury,  New  Jersey,  whose  sister  Rachel 
married  John  .Stevens  (3),  and  widow  of  Sam- 
lu-I  Witham  .Stockton,  the  brother  of  Richard 
Stockton,  the  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  In- 
de])cndence.  Nathaniel  Sayre  Harris  was  a 
graduate  of  West  Point,  1825 ;  resigned  from 
the  army,  1835;  1837,  graduated  from  General 
Theological  Seminary,  New  A'ork;  1842-47, 
secretary  and  general  agent  of  domestic  mis- 
sion ;  i8r/)-7i,  rector  of  St.  Paul's  Protestani 
l'4jiscoi)al  Church,  Hoboken ;  dieil  in  Trenton, 
April  22.  1886.  He  married  (first)  Elizabeth 
Callender  (Andrews);  children:  John  .An- 
drews Harris,  rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church, 
Chestnut  Hill,  Philadelphia,  since  1864;  Eliza- 
beth Callender  IL'irris,  born  December  11,  1839, 
married  Francis  I'.owes  Stevens,  brother  to  her 
father's  second  wife:  and  Henry  Leavenworth 
I  larris,  now  Colonel  U.  S.  A.  By  his  second 
wife,  Juliana  Stevens,  referred  to  above,  Na- 
thaniel Sayre  Harris  had  twi^  children:  Theo- 


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Josiiis  Fowler  Harris,  born  August  31,  1848, 
iicd  March  7.  1850;  and  Julian  Sayre  Harris, 
tMjrn  January  i,  1851,  entered  Columbia  Col- 
lege, but  left  1870,  in  his  junior  year,  on  ac- 
lount  of  ill-health,  and  died  at  Bern,  Switzer- 
land, January  2-/,  1875. 

2.  Francis  Bowes  Stevens,  eldest  son,  born 
at  Trenton,  October  16,  1814;  died  in  Hoboken, 
May  22,  1908.  He  graduated  as  civil  engineer 
from  New  York  University ;  sujierintended  the 
construction  of  a  section  of  the  Camden  & 
Amboy  railroad,  with,  his  uncle,  Robert  Liv- 
ingston Stevens  (see  above)  ;  developed  a  num- 
ber of  patents,  among  them  the  Stevens  cut-off. 
ind  for  a  number  of  years  was  superintendent 
of  the  steamboats,  tugs  and  vessels  of  the 
I'nited  Companies  of  New  Jersey.  In  1865  he 
myrried  Elizabeth  Callender  Harris  (see  pre- 
ceding paragrai)h  )  :  children  :  .Mexander  Bowes 
Stevens;  I'rancis  Bowes  Stevens,  born  1868. 
died  May  z"^,  iyo8.  married  Adele  Horwitz : 
Elizabeth  Callender  Stevens,  now  Mrs.  Rich- 
ard Stevens,  of  the  ClifTs,  Castle  Point,  Hobo- 
ken (see  Richard  (\",),  Edwin  Augtistus 
(I\'))  ;  Meta,  born  July.  1872,  died  August  7, 
1873:  and  Theodosius. 

3.  James  .\le.\ander  Stevens,  Jr.,  see  sketch. 

4.  Catharine  Maria  Stevens,  married  Rev. 
Dudley  Atkins  Tyng,  son  of  Rev.  Stephen 
Higginson  Tyng.  and  .\nne,  daughter  of  Right 
Rev.  -Me.xander  Griswold,  Bishop  of  Eastern 
Diocese,  and  grandson  of  Dudley  Atkins,  who 
assumed  the  name  of  Tyng,  and  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Stephen  Higgifison.  Dudley  At- 
kins "'Tyng"  was  dcscendefl  from  Dorothy, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Dudley,  born  1576,  emi- 
grateil  to  .\merica,  1630,  and  became  governor 
of  Massachusetts  Bay,  1634-35.  The  Rev. 
Dudley  .Atkins  and  Catharine  Alaria  (Stevens) 
Tyng  had  chihlren :  .Anne  Griswold  Tyng, 
died  young:  Theodosius  Stevens  Tvng,  mar- 
ried Ida  Drake,  descendant  of  Sir  Francis 
Drake:  Maria  Fowler  Tyng;  .Anne  Griswokl 
'Tyng  (2d)  ;  James  .Mexander  Tyng. 

3.  John  Stevens,  died  young. 

6.  John  G.  Stevens,  born  1820;  was  a  civil 
engineer,  superintendent  of  Delaware  &  Rari- 
tan  Canal  Company,  and  in  1872  president  of 
Cnited  Railroad  of  New  Jersey.  He  married 
Theodosia  Woods,  daughter  of  Joseph  Hig- 
bee  ;  children  :  \'irginia  lligbee  Stevens  ;  Cath- 
arine Maria  Stevens,  married  James  Walter 
Woom;  Francis  Bowes  Stevens,  died  young; 
l-'rancis  Bowes  Stevens  (2d)  ;  Mary  Randolph 
Stevens  ;  Charlotte  Mcintosh  Stevens. 

7-8-9.  .Alfred,  .\melia  and  .Adelaide  Stevens. 
;d!  (lied  young. 


10.  .Anna  Isabella  Stevens,  born  .August  14, 
1828:  died  June,  1898;  married,  1865.  Elias  B. 
Harris.  M.  D.;  children:  Maria  Fowler  Harris  ; 
Isabel  Stevens  Harris;  Sylvia  Fowler  Harris; 
and  James  Stevens  Harris, 

11.  Theodosius  T'owler  Stevens,  born  1830, 
died  about  1844. 

12.  Richard  Fowler  Stevens  was  born  in 
Tlolxiken,  July  18,  1832,  and  is  now  living  in 
.South  Orange,  New  Jersey.  After  being  sent 
to  a  jirivate  school  for  his  early  education,  he 
entered  Columbia  University,  from  which  insti- 
tution he  graduated  in  1852.  He  then  took  up 
the  study  of  civil  engineering,  after  a  year  and  a 
half  of  which  he  went  to  Europe,  and  on  his 
return  took  up  a  commercial  course.  He  then 
w  ent  into  the  Camden  &  .Amboy  railroad  as  its 
cashier  and  auditor  and  finally  settled  down  to 
his  ]iresent  business  of  private  expert  account- 
ant. Mr.  Stevens  is  a  Democrat,  and  from 
i8fii  to  i8')5.  the  period  of  the  civil  war,  was 
a  brigadier-general  of  New  Jersey  militia.  He 
belongs  to  no  secret  societies,  but  is  president 
of  the  New  Jersey  Society,  Sons  of  the  Revolu- 
tion ;  also  president  of  the  Revolutionary  Me- 
morial Society  of  New  Jersey ;  a  member  of 
the  Wednesday  Night  Club,  and  the  Univer- 
sit\  Club.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
l'\ireigu  Missions  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  of  the  Board  of  Missions  of  the  Dio- 
cese of  Newark,  also  auditor  of  the  diocese, 
and  a  vestryman  of  St.  Barnabas  Protestant 
Episco]ial  Church  in  Newark.  He  is  also  one  of 
the  directors  of  theNewJersey  Marl  and  Trans- 
portation Company,  and  of  the  Tu.xpam  A  alley 
T'lantation  COmjjany.  September  29,  1857.  he 
married  in  Trenton,  Emily  Gouverneur.  (laugh- 
ter of  Philemon  and  Margaret  Corinne 
Clothilde  (Gobert)  Dickinson.  Children:  i. 
Richard,  unmarried.  2.  Theodosius  Fowler, 
died  September.  1889.  3.  Margueret  Corinne 
Cliitliilde.     4.  Mary  Dickinson. 


(  For  ancestry  see  preceding  sketch). 

(A")  James  .Alexander,  third 
."^'TIA'IC.WS  chikl  and  second  son  of  James 
Alexander  and  Maria  (Fowl- 
er) Stevens,  was  born  about  1815.  He  stud- 
ied engineering,  and  when  eighteen  years 
old  became  superintendent  of  the  Hoboken 
Ferry  Company,  which  position  he  held  until 
his  health  gave  out  and  compelled  him  to  re- 
tire at  about  the  age  of  fifty.  In  1845  he  mar- 
ried Julia,  daughter  of  Rev.  Frederick  Beasley, 
D.  D.,  born  about  1823.  died  January  18,  1875. 
Her  father  was  provost  of  the  University  of 
Philadelphia.      Children   of  James   .Ale.xander 


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and  Julia  (  Beasleyj  Stevens:  i.  Frederick 
William,  referred  to  below.  2.  Maria  Fowler, 
born  1848;  entered  religious  life,  and  is  now 
mother  superior  of  the  American  branch  of 
the  Sisters  of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  founded 
1851.  at  Clewer,  England,  by  Rev.  Thomas 
Thclusson  Carter,  D.  D.,  with  Harriet  Mon- 
sell,  widow  of  Rev.  Charles  Monsell,  and  a 
cousin  to  the  wife  of  Archibald  Campbell  Tait, 
D.  D.,  archbishop  of  Canterbury,  as  the  first 
mother  superior.  Maria  Fowler  Stevens  is 
known  in  religion  as  Mother  Mary  Angela.  3. 
Robert  Livingston,  born  1851,  still  living.  He 
graduated  from  Princeton  L'niversity,  1872, 
M.  A.  1876,  and  from  the  General  Theological 
Seminary,  New  York  City,  1878.  He  has  been 
rector  of  the  following  ])arishes :  1876-86,  at 
Albany.  Oregon :  1886-89,  at  Columbus,  Ne- 
braska;  1889,  at  Concord,  Pennsylvania:  1900 
to  1904.  of  Trinity  Church,  Vineland,  New 
Jersey:  1904-1908,  of  St.  Mary's  Church,  War- 
wick, Pennsylvania  :  and  1908  took  charge  also 
of  St.  Mark's  Church,  Honeybrook,  Cupola 
l)ost-office,  Chester  county.  Pennsylvania.  He 
married  (first)  Mary  Hope,  who  bore  him  one 
child:  (second)  Catharine  Burton.  4.  Eliza- 
beth, died  1874.  5.  Rachel,  living  unmarried, 
in  Princeton.  6.  James  Ale.xander.  graduated 
from  Cohnnbia  College  in  1880.  and  took  a 
postgraduate  course  in  C.ermany.  He  married 
Sarah  ( ilenn :  he  died  in  1892,  leaving  one 
child,  James  Alfred,  who  at  present  (1909) 
lives  in  Memphis,  Hull  county,  Texas.  7.  .Al- 
fred Francis,  born  .\ugust  29,  i860 :  is  unmar- 
ried, and  a  practicing  lawyer  in   Newark. 

(  \'l  )  Frederick  William,  eldest  child  and 
son  of  James  .Alexander  and  Julia  i  Beasley  ) 
Stevens,  was  born  June  i),  1846.  at  lloboken, 
and  is  now  living  at  Morristown.  lie  entered 
Columbia  College  University,  graduating  in 
1864,  and  later  received  his  degrees  of  M.  .\. 
and  I.E.  D.  from  the  same  university,  lie  read 
law  with  Judge  i-'dward  T.  Creen,  afterwards 
I'nited  .States  district  judge,  and  was  adiuitted 
to  the  bar  in  November,  1868.  as  attorney,  and 
in  November,  1871,  as  counsellor,  lie  prac- 
ticed law  in  Newark.  In  1S73.  when  the  dis- 
trict courts  of  Newark  were  established,  he 
was  made  judge  of  the  second  district,  a  ]iosi- 
tion  which  he  resigned  two  years  later.  In 
18(^6  he  was  ap])i)inted  vice-chancellor  by  Chan- 
cellor Mc(  iill.  and  this  position  he  has  held 
ever  since.  Toward  the  end  of  his  j)ractice  his 
work  was  ])rincii)ally  in  the  argument  of  cases 
before  the  higher  courts.  I  le  held  for  about 
two  years  the  office  of  counsel  to  the  Essex 
Countv   Board  of  Freeholilcrs.     In  ])(>litics  he 


is  a  Democrat.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Esse.x 
and  the  Lawyers'  clubs,  and  a  communicant  of 
The  Church  of  the  Redeemer,  Morristown.  In 
June,  1880,  he  married  (first)  Mary  Worth, 
daughter  of  Josejih  C)lden,  of  Princeton,  born 
about  1856,  died  October  31,  1897,  leaving  two 
children:  Katharine  Stevens,  born  August  15, 
1883,  and  Neil  Campbell  Stevens,  born  C)cto- 
ber  22.  1887.  He  married  (second),  Septem- 
ber 9,  1904,  Edith  de  Gueldry,  daughter  of 
Kinsley  and  Mary  Twining,  of  Morristown, 
who  has  borne  to  him  two  children :  Barbara 
Twining,  January  11,  1906:  and  Alice  de  duel- 
dry.  May  21,  1908. 


(For    ancestry    .see    John    Stevens    1). 

(IV)  Edwin  Augustus  Ste- 
STEVENS     vens,  eighth  child  and  seventh 

son  of  Colonel  John  and  Rachel 
(Cox)  Stevens,  was  born  at  Castle  Point,  llo- 
boken. New  Jersey,  July  28,  1795,  and  died  at 
Paris,  France,  .August  8,  1868.  As  a  young 
man  he  assisted  his  brother,  Robert  Livingston 
.Stevens,  in  his  engineering  work,  but  in  1820. 
by  a  family  agreement,  he  was  made  the  trustee 
of  his  father's  estate  in  Hoboken,  which  he 
managed  most  successfully.  It  was  during  this 
period  of  his  life  that  he  invented  and  patented 
the  Stevens  plow,  which  came  into  such  ex- 
tended use  and  favor.  In  1825,  with  his 
brothers.  Robert  Livingston  Stevens  and  John 
i'os.  Stevens,  he  bought  up  the  Union  line  of 
steamboats  which  plied  along  the  coast  between 
New  'S'ork  and  .New  P)runswick,  New  Jersey, 
and  ran  in  connection  with  the  line  of  stages 
nnniing  from  the  latter  city  to  Philadelphia. 
(  )f  this  enterprise  F,dwin  .Augustus  was  also 
made  the  manager,  and  imder  his  able  o])era- 
tion  it  continued  until  the  Camden  &  .Amboy 
railroad  superseded  the  line  of  stages.  In  1830, 
with  his  brother.  Robert  Livingston,  he  ob- 
tained from  the  legislature  of  the  state  of  New 
jersey  a  charter  for  that  railroad,  and  so  vigor- 
ousl\-  did  he  prosecute  the  work  of  construc- 
tion that  the  road  o|)ened  for  traffic  on  October 
<;.  1832.  with  his  brother,  Robert  Livingston, 
as  president,  and  he  himself  as  treasurer  and 
manager.  .As  a  testimony  to  the  exceptional 
executive  ability  of  Edwin  .Augustus  Stevens,  it 
shoidd  be  luentioned  that  during  the  thirty-five 
years  during  which  the  road  was  under  his  con- 
trol it  never  at  any  lime  ])assed  a  dividend.  Dur- 
ing this  period  also,  Mr.  Stevens  was  very  con- 
spicuous in  aiding  and  advancing  the  develop- 
ment of  railroads  and  railroad  interests  of  the 
United  States.  ( )n  his  own  road  he  invented 
and   introduced   many   a[ipliances  of  all   sorts, 


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and  the  gemis  of  many  improvements  after- 
wards perfected  on  other  roads  can  be  traced 
back,  as,  for  example,  the  vestibule  car,  to  Mr. 
Stevens's  inventions  for  the  Camden  &  Amboy 
railroad.  In  1842.  Robert  Livingston  Stevens 
applied  forced  draft  to  his  steamboat,  the  "Xorth 
America,"  and  its  use  immediately  became  gen- 
eral. In  the  same  year  Edwin  Augustus  Ste- 
vens patented  his  airtight  fireroom  for  the  use 
of  the  forced  draft  and  applied  it  to  many 
vessels.  Nowadays  this  double  invention  of 
the  Stevens  brothers  is  in  use  in  all  the  great 
navies  of  the  world.  Towards  the  close  of  the 
last  war  with  England,  Robert  Livingston  Ste- 
vens began  e.xperimeiiting  with  the  object  of 
making  a  Iximb  that  could  be  fired  from  a 
cannon  instead  of  a  mortar,  and  so  could  be 
made  of  practical  use  to  naval  warfare.  The 
result  of  these  experiments  was  the  first  per- 
cussion shell.  In  1814  Edwin  Augustus,  under 
his  father's  direction,  had  experimented  in  the 
effects  of  shot  against  inclined  iron  plating : 
and  in  184 1,  when  the  boundary  dispute  be 
tween  the  L'nited  States  and  England  had  di- 
rected the  attention  of  the  public  to  the  condi- 
tion of  the  naval  defences  of  the  country,  he 
made  another  series  of  experiments  which  he 
and  his  brothers  laid  before  the  government. 
.\s  a  result  of  this.  President  Tyler  ajipointed 
a  commission  of  army  and  navy  officers  to 
.superintend,  at  Sandy  Hook,  the  experiments 
of  the  Stevens  brothers  on  the  application  of 
iron  to  war  vessels  as  a  protection  against  shot. 
.\fter  many  trials  against  iron  targets,  this 
commission  reported  that  iron  four  and  one- 
half  inches  tiiick  resisted  effectually  the  force 
of  a  sixty-eight  pound  shot  fired  at  it  from  a 
distance  of  thirty  yards  with  battering  charges. 
.■\pril  14,  1842,  therefore.  Congress  passed  an 
act  authorizing  the  secretary  of  the  navy  to 
make  a  contract  with  the  Stevens  brothers  for 
the  construction  of  an  iron-clad  vessel.  The 
dry-dock  for  this  vessel  was  begun  immediately 
and  was  finished  within  a  year,  and  the  vessel 
itself  was  jilanned  and  its  construction  begun, 
when,  in  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1843,  a 
change  in  the  contract  was  made,  because  Com- 
modore Robert  Field  Stockton,  had  constructed 
a  wrought  iron  cannon  having  a  Ixire  of  ten 
inches,  which  threw  a  round  shot  that  could 
pierce  a  four  and  one-half  inch  target.  This 
was  the  beginning  of  more  experiments  and 
improvements,  and  as  each  increase  of  gun- 
power  at  home  or  abroad  demanded  increased 
thickness  of  armer  for  defence,  there  was  a 
consequent  increasing  of  the  tonnage  of  the 
vessel  t)eing  made  by  the  Stevenses.  and  there 


followed  necessarily  a  season  of  interminable 
interruptions  and  delays  and  of  changes  in  the 
specifications  and  the  contract :  and  for  many 
years  the  vessel  lay  a  familiar  figure  in  its 
basin  at  lloboken,  and  was  never  finished. 
This  vessel  was  the  first  iron-clad  ever  pro- 
jected, and  preceded  by  more  than  ten  years 
the  small  constructions  of  the  kind  which  were 
used  by  the  F"rench  at  Kilburn  in  1854.  Robert 
Livingston  Stevens,  who  had  signed  the  con- 
tract with  the  L'nited  States  government  for 
this  vessel,  becjueathed  it  at  his  death  in  1854 
to  Edwin  Augustus,  and  the  latter  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  civil  war,  presented  the  govern- 
ment with  a  plan  for  completing  it,  and  at  the 
same  time  gave  to  the  War  Department  a 
small  vessel  called  the  "Xaugatuck,"  by  means 
of  which  he  demonstrated  the  feasibility  of  his 
plans.  This  small  vessel  the  government  ac- 
cepted, and  it  later  formed  one  of  the  fleet 
which  attacked  the  "Merrimac.  "  It  was  a 
twin-screw  vessel,  capable  of  being  immersed 
three  feet  below  her  load  line,  so  as  to  be 
nearly  invisble,  while  it  could  be  raised  again 
in  eight  minutes  by  the  simple  expedient  of 
pumjiing  out  again  the  water  taken  in  for  pur- 
])oses  of  immersion  ;  and  it  could  also  be  turned 
on  its  centre  end  for  end,  in  one  and  one- 
(|uarter  minutes.  It  was  thus  the  forerunner 
of  the  modern  submarine.  The  government, 
however,  refused  to  appropriate  the  money 
needed  to  carry  on  the  plans  proposed  by  Mr. 
Edwin  .\ugustus  Stevens,  and  at  his  death  he 
left  the  vessel  to  the  state  of  New  Jersey,  to- 
gether with  a  gift  of  .Si, 000,000  to  be  used  for 
its  completion.  When  the  state  had  spent  this 
money  in  a  vain  endeavor  to  do  this,  it  sold  the 
vessel  and  it  was  broken  up.  Edwin  Augustus 
.Stevens  was  the  founder  of  the  Stevens  Insti- 
tute of  Technology  in  Hoboken,  to  which  he 
bequeathed  a  large  plot  of  land.  h'or  the 
building  of  the  institute  he  left  an  additional 
8150,000.  and  for  the  endowment  of  it  $500.- 
000  more.  His  widow,  who  survived  him  nearly 
fiftv  vears.  and  his  children  as  well,  have  added 
largely  to  these  gifts. 

Edwin  .Augustus  Stevens  married,  in  1836, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Rev.  Thoma.s  Picton,  of 
Princett>n,  New  Jersey.  Children:  Mary 
Picton.  referred  to  below  :  Elizabeth  Binney, 
died  in  infancy.  August  22,  1854,  Mr.  Stevens 
married  (second)  Martha  P.ayard,  eldest  child 
of  Rev.  Albert  Baldwin  Dod,  D.  D..  and  his 
wife  Caroline  Smith  P.ayard  (see  P.ayard  fam- 
ily I.  Children  :  I.  John,  born  July,  1850,  now 
dead;  married,  June  25,  1883,  Alary  Marshall 
McCiuire,  and  had  two  children:  Marv  Picton, 


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born  May  24,  1885,  married  Ogden  Haggerty 
Hammond  :  and  John  (2),  died  at  ten  years  of 
age.  2.  Edwin  .Augustus,  jr.,  referred  to 
below.  3.  Caroline  Bayard,  born  November 
21,  1859;  married,  June  3,  1879,  .\rchibakl 
Ale.xander:  one  child:  Archibald  Stevens,  mar- 
ried Helen  Tracy,  daughter  of  Charles  Tracy 
Barney,  of  New  York  City.  4.  Julia  Augusta, 
born  May  18,  1863:  died  December  25.  1870. 
5.  Robert  Livingston  Stevens,  born  August  26, 
i8f>4,  now  dead;  married.  June.  1893,  Mary 
Stuart  Wliitney;  children:  Martha  Bayard, 
born  March,  1896,  died  September  21,  1902; 
Robert  Livingston,  Jr.,  born  November,  1899, 
died  March,  1900;  Mary  Stuart;  Esther  Bowes 
and  Robert  L.  6.  Charles  Albert,  born  Decem- 
ber 14,  1865 ;  died  March  27,  1901  ;  married. 
November  15,  1889.  Mary  Madeleine,  daugh- 
ter of  Hon.  John  R.  Brady.  7.  Richard,  born 
May.  1868;  now  living  at  the  Cliffs,  Castle 
Point.  Hoboken ;  married  Elizabeth  Callender, 
daughter  of  Francis  Bowes  (V)  and  Eliza- 
beth Callender  (Harris)  Stevens,  his  first  cou- 
sin's daughter  :  and  has  children  :  Elizabeth 
Callender,  born  1895:  Caroline  liayard,  born 
1897:  Dorothy  and  Richard. 

(\  )  Mary  Picton,  eldest  child  of  Edwin 
.\ugustus  and  Mary  (Picton)  Stevens,  born 
May  19.  1840;  died  September  21,  1903;  mar- 
ried (first),  July  26,  i860,  Muscoe  Russell 
Hunter  Garnett  (VD.  (See  Garnett).  Mar- 
ried (seconfl).  June  I,  i8r)9,  Edward  Parke 
t'ustis  Lewis. 

(\')  Edwin  .Augustus.  Jr.,  second  child  and 
son  of  Edwin  .Augustus  and  Martha  I'ayard 
(Dod)  Stevens,  was  born  in  Philadel])hia. 
March  14,  1858,  and  is  now  living  at  Castle 
Point,  Hoboken,  New  Jersey.  For  his  early 
education  he  went  to  St.  Paul's  School,  Con- 
cord, New  Hampshire,  after  receiving  which 
he  entered  Princeton  Cniversity,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  1879.  He  then  read  law  with 
Robert  ( lilchrist.  of  Jersey  City  :  but  inheriting 
in  a  marked  degree  the  mechanical  genius  of 
his  father,  uncles  and  grandfather,  he  turned 
his  attention  to  mechanical  and  marine  engi- 
neering. He  has  always  been  occupied  with 
the  business  interests  of  the  family,  and  for 
years  has  been  the  president  of  the  Hoboken 
Land  and  Improvement  Company;  and  until 
the  family  sold  it,  was  also  president  of  the 
I  lobokcn  Ferry  Company,  which  had  a  con- 
tinued existence  as  one  of  the  family  prop- 
erties from  1784  until  1896. 

Mr.  Stevens  was  the  first  to  substitute  the 
screw  propeller  for  the  cumbersome  paddle- 
wheel   in   ferry-boajs  on  the  Hudson,  and   the 


"Bergen"  was  built  under  his  supervision  from 
plans  and  specifications  which  he  himself  had 
made.  He  has  always  devoted  his  energies  to 
the  development  of  Hoboken  and  the  improve- 
ment of  its  [lublic  facilities.  At  diiTerent  times 
he  has  been  park  commissioner  of  Hudson 
county,  tax  commissioner  for  the  city  of  Hobo- 
ken. and  commissioner  for  the  adjustment  of 
arrears  in  taxation  for  the  same  town.  He  has 
also  held  or  is  still  holding  the  positions  of 
president  of  the  Xew  Jersey  Ice  Company, 
treasurer  of  the  Hackensack  \\'ater  Company, 
director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Hoboken 
and  of  the  Hudson  Trust  and  Savings  Institu- 
tion, while  for  many  years  he  has  been  a  trustee 
of  the  Stevens  Institute.  A  number  of  years  ago. 
when  the  boundary  line  between  New  York 
and  New  Jersey  was  finally  determined,  he 
was  a  member  of  the  commission  which  revised 
and  completed  the  work  done  by  the  commis- 
sion of  1774,  of  which  his  great-grandfather 
had  been  a  member;  and  in  1893  he  served  as 
alternate  commissioner  to  the  Columbian  Ex- 
position in  Chicago.  For  a  long  time  also  he 
has  been  active  in  both  state  and  federal  poli- 
tics, serving  as  president  of  the  Democratic 
s(Kiety  of  New  Jersey,  of  which  he  was  one  of 
the  organizers,  and  as  a  member  of  the  Demo- 
cratic state  committee.  In  1888  and  again  in 
1892.  and  also  in  1904,  he  was  Democratic 
candidate  for  one  of  the  presidential  electors. 
His  military  services,  while  confined  to  his 
state,  have  been  many  and  various,  and  to 
them  he  owes  his  well  known  title  of  colonel. 
I'or  three  years  he  served  on  the  military  staff 
of  (ioveniors  Ludlow  and  .Abbett,  from  1880 
to  1883,  and  from  1883  to  1892  as  colonel  of 
the  Second  Regiment,  New  Jersey  Militia,  be- 
sides being  for  a  time  adjutant  of  the  Ninth 
New  Jersey  Militia.  Like  all  the  members  of 
his  family.  Colonel  .Stevens  is  an  ardent  and 
consistent  churchman  of  the  .Anglican  Catholic 
tvpe,  and  has  always  been  active  not  only  in 
tile  parochial  and  diocesan  but  also  in  the  na- 
tional affairs  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
church.  He  and  his  brother  Richard  are  trus- 
tees of  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Iimocents,  Ho- 
l)oken.  which  their  mother  built  and  established 
as  a  memorial  to  their  sister  Julia,  who  died  in 
childhood.  For  years  he  has  served  the  diocese 
of  Newark  as  a  member  of  its  standing  com- 
mittee, as  .secretary  of  its  board  of  trustees  of 
the  Episcopal  fund,  and  as  treasurer  of  the 
diocese.  In  1907  he  was  one  of  the  lay  deputies 
from  the  diocese  of  Newark  to  the  general 
convention  of  the  church  held  in  Richmond, 
\  irginia.     lie  is  a  trustee  of  the  Washington 


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Head(|uarters  Association  of  New  Jersey,  a 
member  vi  the  Builders  and  Underwriters 
Association,  of  the  Lawyers"  and  the  Univer- 
sity chibs  of  New  York,  of  the  German  and 
Columbia  clubs  of  Hoboken,  of  the  Atlantic 
Boat  Club,  and  of  the  American  Society  of 
Mechanical  Engineers.  He  belongs  to  no  secret 
societies. 

October  28.  1879,  Edwin  Augustus  Stevens, 
Jr.,  married  in  Berryville,  \'irginia,  Emily 
Contee,  daughter  of  Ceorge  Washington  Lewis, 
and  his  wife  Emily,  daughter  of  lion.  Reverdy 
Johnson.  Her  father  was  son  of  Lorenzo 
Lewis,  son  of  Lawrence  and  Eleanor  Parke 
(Custis)  Lewis,  and  grandson  of  Colonel  Field- 
ing Lewis  by  his  second  wife  Betty,  daughter 
of  Colonel  John  Washington.  Lorenzo  Lewis' 
wife  was  Esther,  daughter  of  Colonel  John 
Cox,  of  Bloomsbury,  New  Jersey,  a  younger 
sister  of  Rachel  Cox,  the  grandmother  of  Colo- 
nel Edwin  .Augustus  Stevens  himself. 

Children  of  Edwin  Augustus  and  Emily 
Contee  (Lewis)  Stevens:  i.  John,  born  Janu- 
ary 28,  1 88 1.  2.  Edwin  .Augustus  (3d),  Au- 
gust 15.  1882.  3.  Washington  Lewis,  Septem- 
ber 26.  1883  :  married,  October  28,  1905.  Nannie 
Nye,  eldest  child  of  Philip  Nye  and  Margaret 
(.\tlee)  Jackson  (see  Jackson  family).  4. 
Ravard.  born  |ulv  20.  1885.  5.  Martha  Bayard, 
December  9, '1886:  died  .April  12,  1888'.  6. 
Basil,  born  December  28,  1888.  7.  Lawrence 
Lewis,  November  29,  1889.  8.  Emily  Lewis, 
June  12,  i8(/). 


As  a  family,  the  Garnetts, 
G.ARNETT  thought  to  be  originally  from 
Lancashire,  England,  belong 
to  \'irginia  and  the  south,  but  by  their  alliances 
with  the  Stevenses  of  Hoboken.  one  line  of  the 
family  has  been  for  many  years  identified  with 
New  Jersey  and  requires  mention.* 

(I)  John  Garnett,  the  founder  of  the  fam- 
ily in  this  country,  emigrated  to  Gloucester 
and  Essex  counties,  X'irginia,  where  he  died  in 
1713,  his  will  being  proved  in  Essex  county 
court  March  1 1  of  that  year,  leaving  three 
sons:     James,   referred   to  below;   John   and 

.Anthony  :  his  wife  was  Ann . 

iU)  James,  son  of  John  and  .Ann  Garnett. 
was  born  in  Essex  county,  A'irginia,  January 
17.  1692,  and  died  there  May  27,  1765.  He 
was  one  of  the  large  landed  proprietors  of  the 
province:  he  was  one  of  the  justices  of  Essex 
count}-.   1720-40;  and  one  of  the  members  of 


•This  Garnett  genealogy  was  orlglnaUy  prepared 
by  James  Mercer  Garnett  and  copyright  has  been 
applied   for. 


the  \  irginia  house  of  burgesses,  1742-47.  He 
was  married  four  times  :  First  to  Sarah  Green. 
second  to  Elizabeth  Muscoe,  third  to  Mary 
(Rowzee)  Jones,  and  fourth  to  Margaret 
Scott.  By  his  first  marriage  James  Garnett 
had  children:  i.  John,  born  September  27, 
1717;  died  February  15,  1746;  married  Eliza- 
beth Evans.  2.  James,  born  October  15,  1719; 
died  February  23,  1745.  3.  Milly,  born  August 
23,  1721.  4.  Thomas,  January  19,  1723;  died 
Alarch  11,  1738.  5.  William,  born  July  11, 
1727:  died  February  21,  1759;  married  Anne 
Rowzee.  6.  Reuben,  born  June  15,  1729;  died 
October  7,  1749.  7.  Robert,  born  May  20, 
1732. 

The  second  wife  of  James  Garnett,  Elizabeth 
Muscoe,  was  daughter  of  Salvator  Muscoe, 
and  granddaughter  of  Salvator  Muscoe,  a  stone 
carver  of  Monmouth  street,  in  St.  Giles-in-thc- 
Fields,  London.  Her  father,  born  December 
28,  1674,  was  a  lawyer  of  Essex  county,  Vir- 
ginia;  justice  of  the  peace,  1720-40,  and  from 
1734  to  1736,  also  in  1738  and  1740,  a  member 
of  the  \'irginia  house  of  burgesses.  By  his 
wife  Mary  he  had  children:  Elizabeth,  who 
became  the  second  wife  of  James  Cjarnett ; 
Alary,  Frances.  Tabitha,  Sarah  and  Jane.  The 
only  child  of  James  and  Elizabeth  (Muscoe) 
Garnett,  was  Muscoe,  referred  to  below.  Eliz- 
abeth (Muscoe)  Garnett  died  August  23,  1736. 
By  his  third  wife  Alary,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Edward  Rowzee,  and  widow  of  Captain 
Thomas  Jones,  whom  James  Garnett  married. 
July  19,  1740;  he  had  five  more  children: 
Catharine ;  .Augustine ;  Elizabeth,  born  June 
20,  1744:  James,  .April  25,  1747.  died  October, 
1780,  married  Judith  Neale :  and  Betty,  born 
June  6,  1750,  married  John  Taliaferro,  of 
Hayes. 

r^>y  his  fourth  marriage  James  Garnett  had 
no  children. 

(  III  )  Muscoe,  only  son  of  James  and  Eliz- 
abeth (  Muscoe)  Garnett,  was  born  in  Essex 
county.  X'irginia,  .August  17,  1736,  and  died 
there  in  January,  1803.  He  was  baptized  by 
Rev.  Robert  Rose,  rector  of  St.  .Anne's  parish, 
and  July  9,  1767,  married  Grace  Fenton.  daugh- 
ter of  John  Mercer,  of  Alarlborough,  Stafford 
county,  Virginia,  by  his  second  wife,  Anne 
Roy.  Her  great-great-grandparents  were  Noel 
and  .Ann  (Smith)  Mercer,  of  Chester,  Eng- 
land, her  great-grandparents,  Robert  and  Eli- 
nor (Reynolds)  Mercer,  and  her  grandparents, 
John  and  Grace  (Fenton)  Mercer,  of  Dublin, 
Ireland.  Children  of  Muscoe  and  Grace  Fen- 
ton (Mercer)  Garnett:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  No- 
vember 25.   1768:  died    August  25.   1769.     2. 


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James  Mercer,  referred  to  below.  3.  Anne, 
born  January  5,  1773;  died  July  17,  1783.  4. 
Elizabeth  (2d),  born  September  6,  1775;  died 
September  25,  1776.  5.  Maria,  born  July  22. 
1777;  died  August  14,  1811;  married,  as  his 
first  wife,  James  Hunter,  and  had  children; 
Maria  (referred  to  below),  Muscoe  Garnett, 
Martha  Fenton,  James,  Jane  Swann,  William, 
Robert  Mercer  Taliaferro,  and  William  Gar- 
nett. William  and  William  Garnett  Hunter 
died  young,  and  all  the  others,  except  Maria 
and  Robert  Mercer  Taliaferro,  died  unmar- 
ried. Maria  (Garnett)  Hunter  having  died, 
James  Hunter  married  (second),  in  1821,  Ap- 
phia  B.  Rowzee,  who  bore  him  one  child,  Sally 
Harriet  Apphia  Hunter,  who  died  uimiarried. 
6.  Grace  Fenton,  born  October  20,  1779,  died 
October  4.  1846,  married  Muscoe  Garnett 
I  lunter,  brother  of  James.  7.  John  Mercer,  born 
March  24,  1783,  died  .\pril  3.  1856,  unmarried. 
8-9.  Muscoe,  Jr.,  and  William,  born  July  12. 
1786;  Muscoe  died  in  1869,  married  Maria 
P.attaile,  and  William  died  March  16,  1866, 
married  Anna  Maria  Brooke,  daughter  of 
Richard  and  Maria  (fiercer)  Brooke.  10. 
Robert  Seldcn,  born  April  26,  I78();  died  Au- 
gust 15,  1840:  married  Olympia  Charlotte  De 
( iouges. 

(IN)  James  Mercer,  second  child  and  eld- 
est son  of  Muscoe  and  Grace  Fenton  (Mercer) 
Garnett,  was  born  in  Essex  county,  Virginia, 
June  8,  1770,  and  died  there  April  23.  1843. 
He  became  one  of  the  visitors  of  William  and 
Mary  College.  1824.  and  served  several  terms 
as  a  member  of  the  \  irginia  legislature.  From 
1805  to  1809  he  was  a  representative  from 
\  irginia  to  the  ninth  and  tenth  congresses,  and 
in  1829-30  was  one  of  the  delegates  to  the  \'ir- 
ginia  state  constitutional  convention.  For 
twenty  years  he  was  the  ])resident  of  the  I'red- 
cricksburg  agricultural  society.  September  21, 
1793,  James  Mercer  (iarnett  married  Mary 
h'leanor  Dick  Mercer,  daughter  of  Judge  James 
Mercer  and  his  wife  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
Major  Charles  Dick,  of  [-"redericksljurg.  \"ir- 
ginia.  and  sister  to  the  celebrated  Major  .\lex- 
ander  Dick,  of  the  revolution,  judge  James 
.Mercer  was  son  of  John  Mercer,  of  Marl- 
borcjugh.  .Stafford  count)-.  X'irginia,  and  his 
first  wife  Catharine,  only  daughter  of  Colonel 
George  Mason  by  his  second  wife.  Elizabeth 
Waugh.  This  family  of  Mercers  must  not  be 
confused  with  that  of  General  Hugh  Mercer. 
M.  D.,  from  which  they  are  entirely  distinct, 
although  Doct(jr  (later  General)  Hugh  fiercer 
was  the  family  physician  of  tiie  family  of  John 
Mercer,  of  Ntarlborough.     Children  of  James 


Mercer  and  Mary  Eleanor  Dick  (Mercer)  Gar- 
nett: I.  James  Alercer,  Jr.,  referred  to  below. 
2.  .\nn,  born  .\ugust  15,  1797:  died  unmarried. 
October  3.  1835.  3.  .\lbert  Roy.  born  Febru- 
ary 28,  1800;  died  unmarried,  i'"ebruary  23, 
1852.  4.  Mary  I'^leanor.  born  Jinie  30,  1802; 
died  March,  1822;  married  Robert  I'ayne  War- 
ing. 5.  Grace  Fenton,  April  15,  1805;  died 
unmarried,  August,  1826.  6.  Maria,  June  12, 
1808;  died  September  i,  1841  ;  married,  as  his 
first  wife.  Rev.  John  Feyton  McGnire.  7. 
Charles  Fenton  Mercer,  born  October  7,  1810; 
died  unmarried.  March  6,  1886.  8.  Theodore 
.■"Stanford,  born  November  18,  1812;  died  May 
28,  1885:  married  Florentina  Isidora  Moreno. 
9.  Eliza  Lucinda,  born  May  6,  1815;  died  un- 
married, July  5,  1847. 

(\')  James  Mercer,  Jr.,  eldest  child  of  James 
Mercer  and  Mary  Eleanor  Dick  (Mercer) 
(iarnett,  was  born  at  Elmwood,  \'irgniia,  Oc- 
tober 30,  1794,  and  died  there  July  14.  1824. 
March  7,  1820,  he  married  his  first  cousin, 
Maria,  eldest  child  and  daughter  of  James  and 
Maria  (Garnett)  Hunter,  referred  to  above 
(see  HI),  granddaughter  of  William  Hunter 
and  Sarah,  daughter  of  \\'illiani  Garnett  and 
Ann  Rowzee  (see  H  above).  The  only  chik 
ni  this  marriage  was  Muscoe  Russell  Hunter 
( Iarnett,  referred  to  below. 

(\  I)  Muscoe  Russell  Hunter,  only  child  of 
James  Mercer,  Jr.,  and  Alaria  (Hunter)  Gar- 
nett, was  born  at  Elmwood,  Essex  county,  \  ir- 
ginia. July  25.  1 82 1,  and  died  February  14, 
1864.  Receiving  a  classical  education,  be  grad- 
uatetl  from  the  L'niversity  of  \  irginia,  studied 
law.  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  commenced 
practice  at  Loretto,  \  irginia.  In  1850  he  was 
a  delegate  to  tlie  X'irginia  state  constitutional 
conventidu.  and  was  a  member  of  the  state 
house  of  delegates  from  1851  to  1856.  De- 
cember I.  185C).  he  took  his  seat  as  rei^re.senta- 
tive  from  \  irginia.  in  the  thirty- fourth  con- 
gress, vice  lion.  Thomas  H.  Bayley.  deceased, 
Jiuie  23,  1856,  and  was  re-elected  to  the  thirty- 
fifth  and  thirty-sixth  congresses,  serving  until 
March  3,  1861.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  na- 
tional Democratic  conventions  at  Baltimore  in 
1852  and  at  (."incinnati  in  1856,  and  was  one 
of  the  members  from  X'irginia  to  the  first  Con- 
federate congress.  July  2(1,  \S,fio.  Muscoe  Rus- 
sell Hunter  Garnett  married  Mary  I'icton,  eld- 
est dauglUer  (only  child  to  reach  maturity)  of 
l^dwin  .\ugustus  Stevens,  of  Castle  Point,  Hc- 
boken,  Xew  Jersey  (see  sketch  of  John  Ste- 
vens, of  Perth  .\mboy,  and  Hunterdon  coun- 
ty), by  his  first  wife  Mary,  daughter  of  Rev. 
'riicima^i  Pictoii.  i>f  Princeton,     .\fter  her  bus- 


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baiul's  death,  Mary  I'icton  (Stevens)  Garnett 
married  (second)  Edward  Parke  Ciistis  Lewis, 
son  of  Lorenzo  and  Sarah  ( Coxe ;  Lewis, 
granddaughter  of  Lawrence  Lewis  and  Elea- 
nor Parke  Cnstis,  stepdaugliter  of  General 
(jcorge  Washington,  and  great-granddaughter 
of  Colonel  Fielding  Lewis  by  his  second  wife, 
Betty,  daughter  of  Lawrence  Washington.  The 
children  of  this  marriage  of  Edward  Parke 
Cnstis  Lewis  and  Mary  Picton  (  Stevens)  Gar- 
nett are :  Edwin  Augustus  Stevens  Lewis, 
born  1870.  died  September  5,  1906,  married 
Alice  .Stuart,  daughter  of  General  Henry 
\\'alkcr.  C.  S.  A.,  of  Morristown,  New  Jersey; 
Esther  ?klaria  Stevens  Lewis,  married  Charles 
!March  Chapin :  Julia  Stevens  Lewis,  married 
James  Millar  Gumming  (see  Gumming  fam- 
il\  ),  and  Eleanor  Parke  Gustis  Lewis,  married 
Thomas  liloodgood  Peck,  Jr.,  of  Xew  York 
City.  Children  of  ^luscoe  Russell  Hunter  and 
Mar\'  Picton  (Stevens)  Garnett:  James  Mer- 
cer and  Mary  P.arton  Picton,  botli  referred  to 
below. 

(\  II)  James  Mercer,  only  son  of  Muscoe 
Russell  Hunter  and  Mary  Picton  (Stevens) 
( iarnett.  was  born  in  Clarke  county.  Mrginia, 
July  7.  1 86 1,  and  is  now  living  at  Alount  \'er- 
non.  Xew  York.  In  Alay,  1896,  he  married 
]\Iar\-  \'irginia  Teatom,  who  died  March  24, 
1908,  leaving  children:  Mary  Barton  Garnett, 
born  January  11,  1898 ;  Muscoe  Russell  Hunter 
(jarnett.  April  11,  1899;  and  \'irginia  Garnett, 
November,  1906. 

(\II)  Mary  Barton  Picton,  only  daughter 
of  Muscoe  Russell  Hunter  and  Mary  Picton 
(Stevens)  Garnett,  was  born  I\Iay  28,  1863, 
and  is  now  living,  unmarried,  at  509  River 
.street,  Hoboken,  New  Jersey. 


The  Dutch  settlers  who 
\  .W  BL^SKIRK  made  up  the  pioneer 
immigrants  to  New 
Amsterdam  included  many  from  the  borders 
of  the  United  Provinces  of  the  Netherlands  ; 
some  from  England,  who  had  fled  from  relig- 
ious persecution  ;  many  from  France — Hugue- 
nots driven  from  their  homes — and  some  from 
Denmark,  who  joined  the  procession  of  home 
seekers  or  commercial  adventurers,  ho])ing  to 
benefit  themselves  an<l  families  by  emigrating 
to  the  New  \\'orld. 

These  settlers  were  generally  able  men,  skill- 
ed in  trade  and  mechanics  and  farmers  seeking 
better  soil  and  better  wages.  The  Dutch  polit- 
ical system,  as  it  obtained  in  the  Netherlands, 
made  the  judiciary  supreme  and  denied  all 
arbitrary  power  either  to  parliament  or  people, 


to  civil  rulers  or  to  religious  teachers  and 
taught  their  people  to  guard  against  its  exer- 
cise. As  a  writer  says — "The  feudal  shell  of 
the  Dutch  government  enclosed  the  seed  of 
liberty,  ready  in  fullness  of  time  to  germinate 
a  most  perfect  form."  In  1624  the  Dutch 
system  w^as  established  in  New  Netherlands ; 
in  1629  the  manorial  system  was  introduced, 
the  patrons  having  the  authorit}-  of  feudal 
barons,  but  no  political  or  judicial  changes 
could  be  made  without  consent  of  the  home 
government.  The  privileges  of  the  patrons 
being  found  obnoxious  to  the  people,  were  re- 
stricted in  1638  and  further  restricted  in  i640' 
and  with  these  restrictions  enforced,  the  rights 
of  the  free  settlers  proportionately  enlarged. 
The  people  were  settling  in  communities  and 
forming  villages,  and  on  a  sufficient  number 
being  thus  gathered  could  demanil  and  obtain 
local  government  by  officers  designated  by  the 
director-general  and  his  council  as  in  the 
Netherlands.  In  the  place  ©f  government,  pro- 
vision was  made  for  an  established  church,  the 
law  reading — "No  other  religion  is  to  be  pub- 
licly tolerated  or  allowed  in  New  Netherlands, 
save  that  taught  and  exercised  by  authority  of 
the  Reformed  Church  in  the  Cnited  Provinces," 
but  as  English  colonists  had  obtained  strong 
foothold  on  Long  Island,  the  provision  became 
of  none  etTect.  In  cases  of  trouble  either  from 
the  Indians  or  among  the  settlers  themselves  on 
differences  of  boundaries  of  towns  or  rights 
of  person — the  masters  and  heads  of  families 
assembled  in  the  fort  at  New  Amsterdam,  and 
when  the  freemen  convened  they  gave  their 
o])inioiis  on  the  question  before  them  and  ap- 
pointed twelve  men  to  continue  to  represent 
their  interests.  These  representatives  did  not 
confine  their  demands  to  the  cjuestions  at  issue 
that  brought  them  in  existence  as  a  representa- 
tive body,  but  they  demanded  reforms  and  new 
laws  and  this  was  the  beginning  of  legislature 
representatives.  This  worked  so  well  that  Gov- 
ernor Stuyvesant  continued  the  plan  by  ap- 
pointing nine  men  as  "tribunes"  of  the  people 
to  hold  weekly  courts  of  arbitration  and  advise 
the  director  and  his  council.  These  tribunes 
soon  demanded  a  burgher  government  and  they 
were  referred  to  the  states-general  for  decision 
and  a  more  liberal  government  obtained.  The 
wisest  of  the  immigrant  settlers  and  those  hav- 
ing tlie  largest  interests  at  stake  in  grants  of 
lands,  size  of  family  or  importance  in  trade 
and  commerce,  were  made  members  of  these 
committees  and  tribunes,  as  will  be  seen  in  the 
sketch  that  follows. 

(  I)    Lourens    Andriessen   came    from   Hoi- 


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stein.  Denmark,  to  New  Amsterdam,  where  he 
arrived  in  the  summer  uf  1655.  His  name  in 
the  records  of  the  government  of  New  Amster- 
dam, as  administered  hy  Governor  Stuyvesant, 
who  had  been  made  governor-general  in  1647, 
appears  under  the  date  of  June  29,  1656,  on  a 
deed  conveying  a  lot  on  Broad  street.  He  was 
by  trade  a  turner,  and  was  unmarried  at  the 
time  of  signing  the  deed.  He  evidently  did  not 
find  his  trade  jirofitable.  as  he  opened  a  drapers 
shop  in  New  .Amsterdam.  The  Dutch  had 
made  settlements  in  East  New  Jersey,  prin- 
cipally at  IJergen  across  the  river  from  New 
.Amsterdam.  In  1664  Charles  U.,  in  view  of 
the  difficulties  between  the  Sweeds  and  the 
Dutch,  caused  by  the  determination  of  Peter 
.Stuyvesant  to  force  the  Sweeds  to  acknowl- 
edge the  Dutch  rule,  assumed  sole  jurisdiction, 
took  possession  of  New  Amsterdam  and  grant- 
ed all  the  land  between  the  Connecticut  and 
Delaware  rivers  to  his  brother,  the  Duke  of 
York,  who  assigned  his  grant  to  Lord  Berke- 
ley and  Sir  George  Carteret,  and  the  region 
west  of  the  Hudson  river  was  named  New  Jer- 
sey, and  riiilip  Carteret  was  made  first  gov- 
ernor, he  having  been  governor  of  the  isle  of 
Jersey  under  the  King.  Aleantime  Lourens 
Andriessen  had  crossed  the  river  and  settled 
in  Bergen,  having  purchased  a  tract  of  land 
previously  granted  to  Claas  Cortensen,  the 
Norman,  at  Minkakwa,  which  tract  is  now 
Greenville,  New  Jersey.  On  November  20, 
1665,  he  took  the  oath  of  alliance  to  the  King. 
Me  had  up  to  this  time  been  a  foremost  man  in 
the  community;  he  settled  at  Bergen  and  con- 
tinued to  hold  sway  over  his  neighbors,  and  in 
1673,  when  the  territory  was  re-taken  by  the 
Dutch,  and  the  ])cople  expected  a  confiscation 
of  their  lands,  as  they  had  sworn  allegiance  to 
the  King.  Lourens  .Andriessen,  John  I>erry, 
Samuel  Edsall  and  William  Sandford  ap])eared 
before  the  council  at  Fort  William  llcndrick, 
.August  18,  1*173.  to  re(|uest  that  their  planta- 
tions "be  confirmed  in  the  privileges  which 
they  obtained  for  their  previous  Patrons"  antl 
when  the  ((uestion  of  the  supjiort  of  a  school- 
master and  concerning  fences  came  up  between 
the  peo])le  of  the  adjacent  towns  of  Pcnne])ogh 
and  Bergen,  he  again  appeared  before  the  coun- 
cil to  jilead  the  cause  of  his  neighbors. 

He  was  made  "Recorder  and  Marker"  for 
-Minkakwa,  .April  6,  1670,  and  "marker-gen- 
eral" for  the  town  of  Bergen,  October  8,  1676. 
atid  on  tlie  latter  date  he  was  also  made  ranger 
for  I'.ergen  with  tlie  power  to  name  deputies. 
His  duties  as  recorder  and  marker  was  to 
brand    all    horses   and    cattle    feeding   on    the 


meadows  and  common  jjasturage  lands,  and  as 
ranger  "to  bring  all  stray  horses,  mares  and 
cattle  in  to  a  place  of  safety."  He  was  com- 
missioned a  deputy  to  the  Bergen  county  court, 
February  16,  1677,  and  February  18,  1680,  and 
he  was  made  president  of  the  court,  August  31, 
i682.  He  was  a  member  of  the  council  of 
Governor  Carteret  after  Alarch  18,  1672,  fon 
several  years.  He  held  the  first  commission 
to  administer  "Crowners  quest  law"  in  Bergen 
ctjunty,  having  been  appointed  January  18, 
1672,  to  hold  an  inquest  on  a  child,  who  had 
died  under  suspicious  circumstances.  On  Jan- 
uary 6,  1676,  he  purchased,  with  other  residents 
of  Bergen  county,  a  large  tract  of  land  which 
became  known  as  New  Hackensack  on  the 
Passaic  river  and  on  which  he  resided  as  early 
as  1688. 

He  married,  September  12,  1658,  while  a 
resident  of  New  Amsterdam,  Jannetje  Jans, 
widow  of  Christain  Barenton,  and  part  of  the 
dower  she  brought  to  her  husband  was  four 
stalwart  boys,  her  sons  by  her  first  husband, 
and  by  her  second  husband  she  had  four  other 
chiklren.  When  he  settled  in  New  Jersey,  he 
added  liie  name  \  an  Buskirk  or  Boskirck  to 
that  by  which  he  was  known  in  New  Amster- 
dam. The  names  of  the  four  children  of 
Lourens  Andriessen  and  Jannetje  (Jans)  Van 
Buskirk  were:  i.  Andries,  baptized  Alarch  3, 
i6()0;  was  a  member  of  the  sixth  provincial 
assembly  of  New  Jersey  in  1710,  and  in  1718 
was  ai5])ointed  with  Alyndart  Garsabranl  to 
enforce  the  oyster  law.  He  died  in  1724.  2. 
Laurens,  married  Hendrickje  Van  de  Linde, 
and  re])resented  Bergen  county  in  the  fifth  pro-, 
vincial  assembly  in  1709;  his  will  was  dated 
Alay  7,  1722,  and  approved  January  4,  1724. 
3.  Peter,  born  January  i,  i6()6;  married 
Trentje,  daughter  of  Hans  llermanse,  of  Con- 
staples  lloeck,  and  they  had  children  ;  she  died 
.Xovember  7,  1 736.  and  he  died  July  21,  1738; 
tiu-ough  his  wife  he  became  owner  of  half  of 
the  Hoeck  tract  of  land  and  he  purchased  the 
other  half  and  some  of  his  descendants  still 
occu])y  part  of  the  land.  4.  Thomas,  sec  for- 
ward. The  father  and  mother  of  these  chil- 
dren l)oth  died  in  i()(j4.  the  mother  first  and 
the  fatjier  a  few  months  thereafter. 

(  II  )  Thomas,  youngest  of  the  four  sons  of 
Lourens  .Andriessen  and  Jannetje  (Jans)  Van 
lUiskirk,  was  born  probably  in  i()68  in  Bergen, 
East  New  Jersey.  He  married  Margreitje 
I  lendrickje  \'an  Der  Linde ;  children,  born  in 
Bergen,  .\'ew  Jersey:  I.  Johannes,  baptized 
July  I.  i(x)4.  2.  Abraham,  baptized  March 
25.  1700.    3.  Peiter,  see  forward.    4.  Laurens. 


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married  (first)  Sarah  Terhuiie,  May  7,  1726; 
( second  j  lleinlrickje  \'an  Buskirk,  January 
27,  1745.  5.  Andries.  b.  Isaac.  7.  ^licliael. 
S.  Fitje,  married  Andrus  Amack.  9.  Geutje, 
March  7,  1715.  10.  ^Jargretje,  baptized  Feb- 
ruar}-  17,  1723;  married  John  Church. 

(Ill)  I'eiter,  third  son  of  Thomas  and  Mar- 
greitje  Hendrickje  (\'an  Der  Linde)  Van  Bus- 
kirk, was  born  in  Bergen,  New  Jersey,  and  bap- 
tized in  the  church  of  that  place  September  6, 
1702.  lie  went  to  Holland,  where  he  remained 
up  to  about  1725,  and  on  his  return  from  Hol- 
laml  he  located  in  Bergen  county,  New  Jer- 
sey, at  Teaneck,  now  known  as  Englewood. 
On  September  i,  or  October  10,  1727,  he  mar- 
ried Alarytje  \'an  Hoorn.  Children,  born  in 
Teaneck.  Bergen  county:  i.  John,  see  for- 
ward. 2.  Cornelius,  settled  in  Bergen  county, 
but  later  removed  to  Staten  Island,  where  he 
married  and  where  his  descendants  are  to  be 
found. 

(1\')  John,  eldest  son  of  Peiter  and  Marytje 
( \an  Hoorn)  Van  Buskirk,  was  born  in  Tea- 
neck, Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  April  7, 
1738.  He  lived  with  his  parents  on  the  old 
homestead  and  was  a  farmer.  He  married 
Rachel  Dey.  Children:  i.  Peter,  lived  on  the 
homestead  farm  at  Teaneck.  2.  Elsie,  married 
John  Ackernian.  3.  Jacob,  see  forward.  4. 
Elizabeth,  married  John  Bogard.  5.  John,  set- 
tled at  Teaneck. 

(\')  Jacob,  second  son  and  third  child  of 
John  and  Rachel  (Dey)  Van  Buskirk,  was 
born  in  Teaneck,  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey, 
about  1780.  He  learned  the  trade  of  carpentei 
and  built  a  saw-mill  on  his  farm,  but  devoted 
himself  to  farming  rather  than  carpentering. 
He  married  Catharine,  daughter  of  Captain 
Abram  Haring,  a  soldier  of  the  American 
revolution.  Children:  i.  Sarah,  married  Ste- 
phen Lozier.  2.  John,  removed  to  Staten 
Island,  where  he  died.  3.  Abram,  lived  at 
River  Eilge.     4.  Jacob,  see  forward. 

(\'I)  Jacob  (2),  youngest  son  and  fourth 
child  of  Jacob  (i)  and  Catharine  (Haring) 
\  an  Buskirk,  was  born  in  Teaneck,  New  Jer- 
sey, Julv  26,  1807,  and  on  reaching  his  major- 
ity left  the  farm  and  carried  on  a  general  coun- 
try store  at  New  Milford,  1828-50  (approxi- 
mately). He  sold  out  his  business  to  J.  B.  H. 
\'oorhis.  and  with  his  brother  erected  a  grist- 
mill, which  was  subsecjuently  carried  on  by  his 
sons.  He  was  public-spirited  and  progressive 
in  his  ideas  and  methods  of  business  and 
manufacturing.  He  was  a  director  of  the  New- 
Jersey  and  New  York  Railway  Company  and 
of  the  Ik-rgen  County  Farmers'  Mutual  Insur- 


ance Company.  He  married,  August  5,  182b, 
Hannah  X'oorhees,  of  Kinderkamack.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  New  Milford,  Bergen  county, 
New  Jersey:  i.  Jacob,  see  forward.  2.  Henry, 
married  Margaret  \'oorhees,  and  had  three 
children:  A  son,  who  died  in  infancy;  Anna, 
married  John  J.  \  an  Wagoner;  Maria,  who 
died  unmarried.  Henry  married  (second) 
Christina  \  an  Buskirk  and  by  her  had  no  chil- 
dren. 3.  Eliza  Catharine,  married  Nicholas  R. 
\  oorhis. 

(\'I1)  Jacob  (3),  eldest  child  of  Jacob  (2) 
and  Hannah  (\'oorhees)  \'an  Buskirk,  was 
born  in  New  Milford,  New  Jersey,  July  23, 
1827.  He  attended  the  district  school  and  was 
sent  to  Lafayette  Academy,  Hackensack,  where 
he  paid  his  tuition  by  assisting  the  principal 
in  his  classes,  and  on  leaving  the  academy 
taught  the  district  school  at  Closter,  New  Jer- 
sc}',  for  a  short  time,  going  to  Kinderkamack 
as  teacher  of  a  larger  school  there.  He  became 
principal  of  the  Washington  Institute,  Hacken- 
sack, which  institution  he  conducted  for  over 
three  years.  His  successful  experience  as  a 
teacher  did  not  dull  his  keen  sense  as  a  busi- 
ness man,  and  with  his  brother  Henry  he 
formed  the  firm  of  J.  &  H.  Van  Buskirk  and 
conducted  the  milling  business  in  the  mills 
erected  by  his  father,  from  which  they  made 
an  excellent  business  return,  but  finally  sold 
out  to  the  "Hackensack  W'ater  Company  Re- 
organized." He  did  not  enter  into  public  life 
as  a  j)oliiician  and  only  accepted  a  single  office 
in  the  gift  of  the  town,  that  of  overseer  of  the 
higliwavs,  which  position  he  held  for  twenty 
years.  He  served  as  postmaster  under  Presi- 
dents Lincoln.  Johnson  and  (irant,  1861-77.  ^^^ 
was  the  original  promoter  of  the  borough  of 
Delford,  and  the  success  of  the  enterprise  is 
largely  owing  to  his  wisdom  and  business 
sagacity  in  placing  the  claims  of  the  place  be- 
fore the  public  so  as  to  induce  its  building  up. 
beautifying  its  streets  and  parks,  and  making 
it  an  attractive  and  inviting  jilace  of  residence 
for  suburban  home-seekers. 

I  le  married  Ursula,  daughter  of  Peter  and 
.Maria  S.  (Demarest)  Peack,  of  New  Milford. 
children,  born  on  the  old  homestead  at  New 
Milford:  i.  Sarah  Maria,  married  Jacob  Van 
XN'agoner.  2.  Hannah  .Amelia,  married  Huyler 
\'oorhis.  3.  Su.san  ]\Iartha.  4.  Catharine.  5. 
Fdmira.  married  Francis  H.  Waite.  6.  Jacob 
Henry,  died  in  infancy.  7-  Peter  Edwin,  born 
June  IT.  1868:  died  .\pril  27,  1905:  married 
Lillian  Maude  Hoffman  and  their  child,  Jacob 
Edwin,  was  born  May  i,  1901.  8.  .\rthur,  see 
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(\11I)  Artiiiir,  third  son  and  eightb  cliild 
of  Jacob  and  I'rsula  (Peack)  Van  Buskiik, 
was  born  in  New  Milford,  Bergen  county,  New 
Jersey,  July  4.  1871.  He  received  his  school 
training  in  the  public  schools  of  Oradell  and 
high  school  of  Hackensack,  graduating  from 
the  Jersey  City  Business  College,  of  Jersey 
City,  and  from  the  New  York  Law  School, 
New  York  City.  He  was  admitted  to  practice 
in  the  courts  of  New  Jersey  in  June,  1906,  and 
established  a  law  office  in  Hackensack.  He 
served  as  stenographer  in  the  state  senate  at 
Trenton,  New  Jersey,  1901-02,  having  become 
an  expert  stenographer  from  instruction  at  the 
business  college  and  through  practice  as  a  court 
stenographer  in  the  local  courts  of  Hackensack. 
He  also  served  as  private  secretary  to  Senator 
William  ^I.  Johnson  in  1900,  when  Mr.  John- 
son was  president  of  the  state  senate.  He  was 
admitted  to  membership  in  the  Holland  Society 
as  a  direct  descendant  in  the  eighth  generation 
from  Lourens  .Andriessen  (\'an  Buskirk),  New 
.\msterdam,  1655.  His  church  fellowship  is 
with  the  Second  Reformed  Church  of  Hacken- 
sack, which  has  been  the  church  of  his  fore- 
fathers from  the  time  they  settled  in  New 
Amsterdam. 

Arthur  Van  Buskirk  married,  June  19,  1900, 
Edith,  daughter  of  Edwin  and  Juliet  L. 
(Munn)  Clark,  of  Brooklyn,  New  'S'ork.  Their 
first  child,  .Arthur  Peack,  was  born  in  Hacken- 
sack, New  Jersey,  April  28,  1901,  and  their 
second  child,  Dorothy  Clark,  was  born  June 
I'T,  1907. 

The  name  of  Nevius  is  peculiar 
\E\TUS  in  the  sense  that  wherever  it  is 
found  it  is  practically  traceable 
to  members  of  a  single  family.  This  family,  it 
has  been  conjectured,  is  the  famous  one  of  tlie 
Roman  poet,  Gnaeus  Naevius,  who  flourished 
about  250  B.  C.  The  family  is  scattered 
throughout  .Spain,  Italy,  France,  Flanders. 
Switzerland,  Prussia,  Germany,  Russia,  Swed- 
en, Denmark,  (ireat  I'.ritain  and  Holland,  and 
while  the  forms  of  the  name  are  many,  at  least 
two  hundred  and  three  being  cataloged  etymol- 
ogists tell  us  that  there  is  no  other  name  which 
the  diflfcrent  forms  can  represent  except  the 
Latin  Nevius. 

(i)  The  Rev.  Juhannes  .\cvius,  or  as  his 
name  is  spelt  in  Holland.  Neeff,  is  the  first 
member  of  the  .American  fainily  of  whom  we 
have  definite  information.  He  was  probably 
the  son  of  Johannes  Nevius  and  Sara  Braeckel, 
and  he  seems  to  have  been  the  Johannes  de 
Neef,  of  Amsterdam,  who  was  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Leyden  in   1608.     Between    1609  and 


1619  he  fitted  himself  for  the  ministry  and  re- 
ceived a  call  from  the  church  at  Zoelen.  Here 
he  was  married  and  had  five  of  his  children 
baptized.  He  married,  July  25,  1625,  Maria, 
daughter  uf  Peter  liec.K.  a  merchant  of  Cologne. 
Children:  i.  Johannes,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Matthias,  baptized  .\ugust  10,  1628;  died  1682: 
became  a  duly  (|ualified  preacher  and  pastor 
of  Montfoort,  where  he  spent  his  life,  except 
fur  a  visit  which  he  paid  to  his  brother  in 
America,  in  1665.  3.  Peter,  baptized  January 
ID,  1630.  4.  Abraham,  baptized  July  13.  1631. 
5.  .Sara,  bajitized  October  21,  1632. 

(  11  )  Johannes  (2),  son  of  the  Rev.  Johaiuies 
(i)  and  Maria  (  Becx)  Nevius,  was  born  in 
Zoelen.  in  the  southern  Guelderland,  just  north 
iif  ISrabant.  and  died  in  May  or  June,  1672,  in 
Flatbush,  Long  Island.  He  entered  the  Uni- 
versity of  Leyden,  and  about  165 1  emigrated 
to  New  Amsterdam,  where  he  began  business 
as  a  merchant,  importer  and  trader.  About  a 
year  later  he  married  and  became  one  of  the 
most  ]3rominent  men  of  his  day  in  the  town. 
September  i,  1653.  he  was  appointed  arbitrator, 
and  November  30,  1664,  he  was  attorney  for 
his  father-in-law  in  the  celebrated  "De  Potter 
Case,"  and  the  ft)llowing  year  he  became  a 
deacon  in  the  Dutch  Churcli  in  New  Amster- 
dam. December  11,  1656,  he  was  made  arbi- 
trator again.  In  the  following  year  he  removed 
to  the  Ferry  on  the  P)rooklyn  side  of  the  river, 
and  was  chosen  city  secretary,  a  position  which 
he  continued  to  hold  even  after  the  English 
took  New  Amsterdam.  He  then  became  ferry 
master  about  1670.  He  married,  November 
18,  1^)53,  Adriaentje  Bleijck,  the  daughter  of 
Swaentje  Jans,  whose  second  husband  was 
Cornelis  de  Potter.  After  the  death  of  Jo- 
hannes his  widow  retained  the  ferry,  and  in 
1674  married  (second)  Jan  Aersen,  who  must 
not  be  confused  as  he  sometimes  is  with  Jan 
Acrtsen  Middagh.  She  died  sometime  between 
May  2.  1^)86;  and  January  4,  1690.     Children: 

1.  Johannes,  baptized  November  8,  if>54;  died 
probably  about  1664.  2.  Sara,  baptized  .Au- 
gust 27.  1656.  3.  Cornelis,  baptized  Septem- 
ber 2,  1657.  4.  Marie,  ba])tized  December  22, 
i(')5S.  5.  Cornelis,  baptized  January  19,  1661  ; 
died  betw^een  April  and  October,  171 1;  mar- 
ried, -April  13,  1683,  .Agatha  Joris.  6.  Pieter, 
referred  to  below.  7.  Sara  Catharina,  baptized 
February  16,   1663;  died  1722;  married.  May 

2.  t686,  Cornelis  Pieterse  Luyster.  8.  Johanna, 
bai)tizcd  March  11,  iC)C)S.\  died  1734;  married, 
.August  10,  1684,  Gerrit  Elbertse  Stoothof.  9. 
Catharine,  born  about  1670;  married,  about 
1691,  Garret  Pieterse  Wyckoflf. 

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Ailriacntjc  (Bleijck)  Nevius,  was  baptized  in 
Dutch  Cliurcli,  New  Amsterdam,  February  4, 
1663,  under  the  name  Petrus,  and  died  at  Flat- 
lands.  April  29,  1740.  He  was  the  younger  of 
the  only  two  males  descendants  of  the  immi- 
grant who  grew  to  manhood,  married  and  had 
children.  In  1687  he  took  the  oath  of  alle- 
giance to  the  English.  In  1689  was  elected  a 
deacon  of  the  Flatlands  Dutch  Church  ;  m  1700 
signs  a  protest  against  the  measuring  of  lands 
at  Flatlands;  February  19,  1705,  was  elected 
town  collector  of  taxes  and  later  in  the  same 
year  was  appointed  one  of  a  committee  to 
divide  the  common  lands;  took  an  active  part 
in  the  celebrated  controversy  between  Dominie 
Antonides  and  Dominie  Freeman;  in  1713  was 
captain  of  the  Kings  County  Company  at  Flat- 
lands,  and  in  1721-30  was  appointed  commis- 
sioner (if  Highways.  He  lived  to  be  older  than 
any  descmdant  of  his  father,  except  the  great- 
grandson  of  his  brother  Cornelis  Garret  Nevius, 
of  New  ISrunswick,  who  was  born  in  1755  and 
died  in  1839.  He  married,  at  Flatlands,  June 
22.  1684,  Janetje  Roelofse,  daughter  of  Roelof 
Martinse  and  Neeltje  Gerritse  (van  Couwen- 
liuven)  Schcnck,  who  was  born  in  1665.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Johannes,  born  about  1685,  died  1703. 

2.  Roelof,  about  1687.  died  1736:  married,  May 

3,  1 71 2,  Catalyntje  Lucasse  \''an  \'oorhees.  3. 
.\cltje,  probably  born  about  1689.  4.  Cornelis, 
born  .April  23,  i6gi.  died  1759  or  1760;  mar- 
ried   Magdallene   .      5.    Marten,   about 

1693.  died  about  1766;  married,  August  27, 
1715.  Willemptje  Lucasse  \'an  Voorhees.  6. 
Pieter,  referred  to  below.  7.  Neeltje,  about 
1697;  married,  May  17,  1715,  Jan  Janse  Van 
Voorhees.  8.  Arientje,  about  1698,  died  about 
1699.  9.  Arientje,  about  1700;  married,  March 
6,  1720,  Pieter  Garretse  Voorhees.  10.  David, 
April,  1702;  died  October  19,  1775;  married. 
March  29,  1728,  Margaret,  widow  of  Peter 
Stcwthof,  and  daughter  of  Albert  Coerte  \^an 
Voorhees.  11.  Johannes,  about  1704,  died 
about  April.  1750:  married,  April  10.  1731. 
Susanna  Martense  Schenck.  12  to  14.  Three, 
names  unknown,  died  in  infancy. 

(TV)  Pieter  (2),  son  of  Pieter  (i)  and 
Janetje  Roelofse  (Schenck)  Nevius,  was  born 
in  Flatlands,  July  28,  1695,  died  in  Blawen- 
hurgh  (Harlingen).  Somerset  county.  New 
Jersey,  September  16,  1768.  In  171 5  with  his 
brothers.  Marten  and  Cornelis,  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Captain  Ralph  Terhunen's  company 
of  Kings  County  militia,  but  two  years  later 
when  he  married  he  removed  to  Marlborough, 
Alonmouth  county.  New  Jersey,  where  he  was 
a  farmer  and  became  a  communicant  member 

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(if  the  Dutch  Church  of  I'^reeholdj  in  which  he 
was  in  1719  elected  a  deacon.  Here  he  lived 
for  about  twenty  years,  and  then  removed  to 
Blawenburgh,  where  his  brother  Alarten  had 
preceded  him.  He  married,  March  26  or  30, 
1717,  at  Brooklyn,  New  York,  Altje,  daughter 
of  Tobias  and  Elizabeth  (Hegeman)  Ten 
Eyck,  of  New  York,  who  was  baptized  in 
Brooklyn,  .\pril  29,  1694.  Children:  i.  Petrus, 
referred  to  below.  2.  Tobyas,  born  July  23, 
1720,  died  November  20,  1784;  married.  May 
18,  1747,  Rebecca  Polhemus.  3.  Jenneke,  De- 
cember 25.  1722;  married  (first)  Jerome  Ker- 
shaw, and  (second),  before  1767,  Frederick 
Blaw.  4.  James  or  Jacobus,  November  27, 
1724.  died  March  9,  181 1;  married  Leah 
.  5.  Elizabeth,  July  29,  1727,  died  De- 
cember 27,  1741.  6.  Johannes,  October  8, 
1729.  7.  Johana,  October  12,  1732;  married 
John  Sutphen.  8.  Sara,  October  13,  1734,  died 
.\pril  10,  1760;  married,  December  i,  1757, 
Petrus  \'oorhees.  9.  Maria,  May,  1737,  died 
July  \6,  1747. 

(\')  Petrus,  son  of  Pieter  (2)  and  Altje 
(Ten  Eyck)  Nevius,  was  born  July  31,  1718, 
died  at  Middlebush,  New  Jersey,  December  2, 
'793-  He  was  baptized  at  New  l^trecht,  and 
both  he  and  his  wife  are  buried  in  the  Pleasant 
Plains  graveyard  between  Middlebush  and 
Franklin  Park.  He  was  a  farmer  and  prob- 
ably removed  to  Middlebush,  where  his  wife's 
parents  were  living  about  the  time  of  his  mar- 
riage, and  where  in  1745  he  owned  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  acres  of  land.  One  of  the  fam- 
ily has  said,  "He  w-as  an  austere  old  gentle- 
man and  I  have  heard  our  grandfather  say 
(who  remembered  him  very  well)  that  his 
])resence  was  trul}'  awe  inspiring.  Following 
the  custom  of  the  early  Holland  immigrants, 
he  always  asked  a  blessing  at  table  with  his  hat 
on."  lie  became  possessed  of  a  great  deal  of 
real  estate,  a  large  part  of  which,  some  of  it  in 
Kentucky,  he  disposed  of  before  his  death.  He 
married,  before  May  24,  1744,  Johana,  born 
January  14,  1725,  died  January  28,  1794. 
daughter  of  Petrus  Stoothof.  Children:  i. 
Peter  P.,  born  June  2,  1749,  died  June  2,  181 5  ; 
married,  October  30,  1771,  Jane  Stoothof.  2. 
Martin,  February  21,  1751,  died  January  10, 
1820:  married,  October  20,  1773,  Sara 
.Stoothof.  \\'ilhelmina,  about  1756,  died  be- 
fore 1690;  married  as  second  wife  Guisbert 
Rogert.    4.  David,  referred  to  below. 

(VI)  David,  son  of  Petru^  and  Johana 
(Stoothof)  Nevius,  was  born  near  Six  Mile 
Run.  New  Jersey,  June  2,  1758,  died  at  Pleas- 
ant Plains,  New  Jersey,  March  12,  1825.    He 


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spent  his  life  on  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and 
fifty  acres  left  him  by  his  fatlier,  which  ex- 
tended from  the  road  leading  from  Midille- 
bush  to  Six  .Mile  Run  to  the  ^ilillstone  river, 
being  the  northerly  part  of  his  father's  four 
hundred  and  fifty  acre  tract.  June  5,  1793,  he 
was  commissioned  by  Governor  Howell  as 
lieutenant  of  Second  Company.  Fifth  Battalion, 
Thin!  Regiment,  of  Somerset  County  Militia, 
and  .April  14,  1798,  promoted  captain.  In  1799 
he  was  appointed  justice  of  the  peace,  but  it 
is  doubtful  if  he  qualified;  appointed  again 
Xovember  12.  1800,  qualified  January  6,  i8oi  ; 
rea]ipointed  1806- 12- 17,  and  probably  did  not 
qualify  the  first  and  last  of  these  dates.  His 
granddaughter  says  that  he  was  a  "man  of 
rather  striking  a]>pearance.  having  a  large, 
broad  face,  head  bald  in  front,  with  tufts  of 
hair  sticking  out  above  his  ears.  He  was  tall 
of  stature."  He  is  probably  the  David  Nevius 
mentioned  as  sergeant  in  Captain  Striker's 
troop  of  Somerset  County  Light  Horse,  during 
the  revolution.  .\t  one  time  he  was  the  cus- 
todian of  the  Six  Mile  Run  church  records, 
and  the  burning  down  of  his  house  in  1799 
destroyed  the  minutes  of  consistory  and  the 
first  register.  He  married,  November  4,  1781. 
Elizabeth,  born  .\ugust  2,  1761,  died  Septem- 
ber 13.  1831.  daughter  of  John  and  Antje  (de 
Remere-Stryker  )  Schurman.  The  inscription 
on  her  tombstone  says  she  was  "endeared  as  a 
wife,  a  mother  and  a  friend,  and  especially  as 
a  believer  in  Jesus  Christ."  Her  grandfather. 
John  Schurman,  was  the  son  of  Jacobus  Schur- 
man. who  with  Hendrik  Fi,sher  were  the  fam- 
ous co-workers  with  the  Rev.  Theodore  Jacobus 
Frelinghuysen.  Children:  i.  Peter  Schur- 
man. lK)rn   .August  23.   1782,   died   September 

27,  1870:  married.  January  13.  1803.  Maria 
\an  Doren.  2.  .\nn,  -May  8.  1784.  died  De- 
cember 27.  1832;  married,  1803,  her  cousin. 
Peter  P.ogart.  3.  John  Schurman,  November 
30.  1785.  died  February  5.  1835;  married, 
about  1809.  Lydia  \'an  Dyke.  4.  David,  re- 
ferred to  below.  5.  Wilhelmina,  July  4.  1789. 
died  July  16.  1831  ;  married,  March  17.  1814. 
Isaac'Skillman.  6.  James,  .Xpril  30.  1791,  died 
August  III.  1794.  7-  Martin,  February  28. 
1793.  died  .\ugust  14.  1794.  8.  Elizabeth,  No- 
vember 14.  1794.  died  May,  i8cK).  9.  James 
Schurman.  September  16,  1796.  died  December 

28.  1S51;:  married,  May  2,  1820.  Catharine 
Disborough  Polhemus.  judge  of  the  New  Jer- 
sey su])reme  "court.  lo.  Margaret.  .April  3 
1799.  died  September  if\  1862:  married,  1823, 
William  \an  Dyke.  11.  Martin.  April  15, 
1801.  died  July  30.  1817.     12.  Isaac.  October 


8,  1803.  died  June  29,  1866:  married,  October 
2.  1822.  Sarah  Hutchings. 

(\II)  David  (2),  son  of  David  (i)  and 
Elizabeth  (Schurman)  Nevius,  was  born  at 
Pleasant  Plains,  near  Six  Mile  Run,  New  Jer- 
sey, August  17,  1787.  died  near  Freehold,  New 
Jersey,  October  16,  1843.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  resided  eight  miles  north  of  Freehold  on 
the  road  to  New  Brunswick,  where  he  was 
buried  in  the  First  Church  yard.  His  first 
farm  was  across  the  river  from  the  city  of 
New  Brunswick :  subsequently  he  resided  at 
Aliddlebush,  where  he  owned  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres,  and  for  a  time  also  lived  near 
Bound  Brook.  In  1830  he  removed  to  a  farm 
near  Freehold,  where  his  last  child  was  born. 
In  one  of  her  letters  his  daughter  Catharine 
P.  says.  "Aly  father  was  a  man  of  magnificent 
physique.  He  was  much  beloved  by  every  one. 
Although  not  college  bred  his  knowledge  was 
extensive  being  a  great  reader.  There  existed 
between  him  and  his  brother  James  S.  (the 
next  youngest)  an  unusually  strong  brotherly 
afl:'ection,  and  it  was  a  ]ileasure  to  behold  them 
together,  as  they  appeared  like  lovers.  He  was 
a  man  of  sterling  qualities  and  noble  traits  of 
character.  He  was  a  most  liberal  Christian 
man.  a  most  affectionate  father  and  husband. 
He  was  the  most  hospitable  and  generous  man 
in  Monmouth  county.  His  home  was  ever 
open  to  all  who  needed  shelter,  and  assistance. 
At  meetings  of  synods  presbyteries,  etc..  the 
clergy  were  always  his  guests  and  right  wel- 
come he  made  them.  Many  noble  traits  of 
character  endeared  him  to  his  relatives  and  to 
all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  I  never 
heard  one  unkind  word  escape  from  his  lips." 
His  iie])hew.  William  James  Nevius,  of  Eliza- 
beth, writes  of  him,  "He  was  very  amiable  in 
his  dis])osition  :  not  so  enterjirising  in  his  occu- 
pation as  a  farmer;  generous  in  his  living  as 
well  as  hospitable,  I  often  visited  him  and 
greatly  enjoyed  his  society.  He  took  great  de- 
light in  fine  horses,  and  had  a  sleek  pair  of 
mares  at  one  time  which  it  was  enjoyment  to 
drive.  Like  nuist  of  the  family  he  was  tall  and 
good  ])ro]5ortioncd.  in  excellent  health  and  of 
uniform  tem|)erament.  L'nlike  most  of  the 
members  of  the  family  he  was  partially  bald." 
He  married,  December  7.  1810,  his  cousin- 
german  Margaret,  born  March  31,  1787.  died 
January  15,  1865,  daughter  of  James  and  Elea- 
nor (Williamson)  Schurman.  She  is  recorded 
as  having  been  "a  woman  of  great  amiability." 
Children:  I.  David,  born  September  11.  1811, 
(lied  l'"ebruary  13.  1840:  unmarried.  2.  James 
Schurman.  referred  to  below.    3.  John  Schur- 


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man.  Xovember  24,  1814;  living  in  1900;  mar- 
ried. November  16,  1843,  Harriet  Phillips 
Knox.  4.  Ellen  Schurman.  Xovember  24, 
1816;  baptized  Eleanor;  died  February  13, 
1848;  unmarried.  5.  Elizabeth.  September  i, 
1818:  died  i8iy.  6.  Anna  ^laria,  May  10. 
1820,  died  July  22,  1887;  married  (first)  De- 
cember 5,  1839,  Henry  \'an  Dyke  Scudder,  of 
Cranhury,  Xew  Jersey,  and  (second),  Sep- 
tember 20,  1842,  Peter  Isaac  Gijsberti  Hoden- 
pyl,  of  Grand  Rapids.  7.  Martin  David.  July 
13.  1822:  living  1900;  married,  December  14. 
1847,  Deborah  Ann  Smock.  8.  Elizabeth,  June 
15,  1824,  tlied  October  26,  1829.  9.  Margaret 
Schurman,  August  15,  1828;  living  1900;  mar- 
ried, January  29,  1851,  Joseph  Greer  Peppard. 
10.  William  Schurman,  January  6,  1829;  living 
1900:  married,  1862,  Mary  Stanton  \\'insor ; 
enlisted  in  civil  war  as  private  in  First  Xew 
\'ork  Cavalry,  promoted  to  captain.  11.  Cath- 
arine Polhemus,  Xovember  26,  1832 ;  living 
1900;  married  (first)  Xovember  5,  1851,  John 
Terhune,  Jr.;  (second)  James  Charles  Cam- 
eron. 

(  \'ni )  James  Schurman,  son  of  David  (2) 
and  Margaret  (  Schurman)  Xevius,  was  born 
near  Si.x  Mile  Run,  XeW'  Jersey,  April  i,  1813, 
died  near  Princeton,  Xew  Jersey,  April  24, 
1876.  tie  was  a  farmer,  "distinguished  look- 
ing man  who  died  suddenly  of  heart  disease 
while  pumping  water."  He  married,  Decem- 
ber 21,  1837,  Hannah,  daughter  of  James  and 
Mary  (  Brown)  Bowne ;  she  was  born  July  16, 
1816,  died  July  6,  1906,  in  Freehold,  almost 
nmety  years  of  age.  Children:  i.  Mary  Stod- 
dard, born  Xovember  7,  1838.  died  July  i. 
1840.  2.  Henry  Martin,  referred  to  bekw.  3. 
James  Bowne,  .\ugust  3,  1843  ■'  living  1909 ; 
married,  December  18,  1880,  Annie,  daughter 
of  Enos  P.  and  Hannah  (Sickler)  Reeves,  a 
farmer  of  Princeton,  Xew  Jersey ;  two  chil- 
dren, Carrie,  born  January  18,  1882,  and  James 
Reeves,  born  September  6,  1886.  4.  Margaret 
Schurman,  September  18,  1846:  living  1909; 
married,  Xovember  9.  1871.  John,  son  of  Dr. 
John  Tennant  and  Ann  (\\'yckoff)  Woodhull : 
children,  Stella,  born  September  31,  1872,  died 
May  2,  1886;  Margaretta  Xevius,  born  March 
22,  1879;  Carrie  Caroline  \'room,  born  May  7, 
1880,  died  May  3,  1884.  5.  Mary  Ann.  July  10, 
1849;  living  1909;  unmarried.  6.  Julia,  De- 
cember 19,  1851.  died  1902;  unmarried.  7. 
Eleanor  II..  July  I.  1854,  died  July  16.  1897; 
unmarried  ;  librarian  of  the  Freehold  Lyceum 
from  1886  until  its  close.  8.  Frank,  Xovember 
I,  1857.  died  1864.  9.  Kate  Terhune,  July  31, 
1861  :  living  1909;  unmarried. 


(IX)  Henry  Martin,  son  of  James  Schur- 
man and  Hannah  (Bow-ne)  Xevius,  was  born 
at  Freehold,  Xew  Jersey,  January  30,  1841, 
and  is  now  living  at  Red  Bank,  Xew  Jersey. 
I'^or  his  early  education  he  w^as  sent  to  the 
jjublic  school  and  to  the  Freehold  Academy 
and  graduated  from  the  Freehold  Institute  in 
1858.  In  the  following  year,  1859,  he  went  to 
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  where  he  took  a  post- 
graduate course  in  the  high  school,  and  in  the 
spring  of  1861  entered  the  law  office  of  Gen- 
eral Russell  A.  Alger.  When  the  civil  war 
began,  he  enlisted  August  12,  1861,  as  private 
in  Company  K,  First  Xew  York  (Lincoln) 
Cavalry,  under  Colonel  AlacReynolds.  The 
regiment  was  assigned  to  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac,  and  Mr.  Xevius,  holding  the  rank  of 
regimental  quartermaster-sergeant,  resigned 
December  31,  1862,  being  promoted  for  gal- 
lantry second  lieutenant,  Seventh  Michigan 
Cavalry,  one  of  the  four  regiments,  namely, 
the  First,  Fifth,  Si.xth  and  Seventh,  which 
comprised  the  brigade  under  General  George 
.\.  Custer,  under  whom  he  served  until  the 
winter  of  1863-64,  when  he  resigned  in  order 
to  take  position  in  a  regiment  then  forming 
at  Trenton.  The  raising  of  this  regiment  was 
abandoned  and  Mr.  Xevius  then  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  March,  1864,  in  Comiiany  E,  Twen- 
ty-fifth Xew  York  Cavalry,  where  his  promo- 
tion was  rapid,  and  upon  the  capture  of  Im- 
boden  with  nearly  one  hundred  of  Mosby's 
men  he  was  promoted  to  first  lieutenant,  and 
as  such,  July  11,  1864,  he  commanded  his  com- 
pany in  front  of  Fort  Stevens,  about  five  miles 
from  Washington,  as  the  centre  of  a  small 
band  which  resisted  the  attack  of  General 
Early  upon  the  city  and  led  the  charge  which 
forced  the  enemy  back.  His  left  arm  was  shat- 
tered by  a  bullet,  but  he  held  his  men  till  the 
crisis  was  passed  and  then  fell  to  the  ground. 
That  night  the  president  made  him  a  major. 
In  May,  1865,  he  was  discharged,  and  in  the 
following  year  was  appointed  deputy  collector 
of  internal  revenue  for  Monmouth  county, 
Xew  Jersey.  After  this  he  opened  an  office  in 
Marlborough  as  an  insurance  agent,  which  he 
continued  until  1868,  when  he  entered  the  law 
office  of  General  Charles  Haight,  with  whom 
he  remained  until  he  was  admitted  to  the  Xew 
Jersey  bar  as  an  attorney  in  F"ebruary,  1873, 
and  as  counsellor  in  1876.  Between  these  two 
latter  dates  he  had  his  office  in  Freehold,  but 
shortly  before  being  made  counsellor  he  went 
to  Red  Bank  where  he  formed  a  copartnership 
with  the  Hon.  John  S.  Applegate.  After  four 
years  he  set  up  in  his  profession  for  himself 


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and  continued  so  until  1888,  when  he  entered 
into  partnersliip  with  E<hiiund  Wilson,  a  for- 
mer student  of  his,  and  this  partnership  con- 
tinued until  i8y6  when  he  was  appointed  judge 
of  the  circuit  court  by  Governor  Griggs,  a  posi- 
tion which  he  held  for  seven  years  with  the 
approval  and  admiration  of  the  entire  bar  of 
the  state.  He  is  the  second  "Judge  Nevius"  to 
sit  upon  the  bench  in  New  Jersey,  and  White- 
head says  of  him,  "His  career  on  the  bench  has 
made  it  manifest  that  he  is  a  lover  of  justice. 
His  willingness  to  preside  continuously,  his 
uniform  courtesy  to  the  bar,  his  ability  to  grasp 
and  state  tersely  the  legal  principles  involved, 
have  combined  to  make  his  court  a  popular 
arena  for  litigation."  In  1904  he  became  prose- 
cutor of  the  pleas  for  ^lonmouth  county,  and 
served  as  such  till  October,  1908,  when  he  re- 
signed in  order  to  accept  his  election  as  com- 
mander-in-chief of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public. A  year  later,  when  his  official  term  as 
commander-in-chief  expired,  he  resumed  his 
private  practice  as  a  counsellor-at-law  and  a 
special  master  and  examiner  in  chancery.  Mr. 
Nevius  has  always  been  a  Republican,  and 
from  1880  until  i8r)0  he  was  being  continually 
urged  to  accept  nominations  both  to  the  assem- 
bly and  the  senate  and  also  to  go  on  the  stump 
for  his  party.  In  1887  he  was  unanimously 
nominated  for  the  senate,  and  after  declining 
the  nomination  three  times  he  was  forced  to 
accei)t,  and  in  a  strongly  Democratic  county, 
after  an  exciting  canvass,  in  which  he  made 
effective  addresses,  he  was  elected  by  a  major- 
ity of  four  hundred  on  the  Republican  ticket, 
the  county  going  twenty-five  hundred  Demo- 
cratic the  previous  year,  and  his  own  township 
giving  him  eight  hundred  majority.  In  1889 
his  name  was  ])roposed  as  a  candidate  for  gov- 
ernor, but  he  retained  his  senatorship,  and 
when  he  retired  in  1890  it  was  as  president  of 
the  senate.  It  was  during  his  last  session  that 
he  investigated  the  Hudson  county  frauds 
which  resulted  in  the  sending  of  sixty-eight 
men  to  states  prison.  He  also  did  most  effi- 
cient work  sjjeaking  throughout  the  state  in 
behalf  of  General  Harrison  in  both  of  his  cam- 
jjaigns.  and  in  that  of  1884  Mr.  Nevius  made 
as  many  as  sixty  speeches.  In  1884  he  was 
elected  conunander  of  the  department  of  New 
Jersey,  (jrand  .\rmy  of  the  Republic,  and  re- 
elected in  1885,  and  he  organized  .-Vrrowsmith 
Post,  No.  61,  of  which  he  was  commander  until 
1885.  He  always  took  a  deep  interest  in  the 
Grand  .\rmy.  and  attended  all  the  meetings  of 
that  order.  .After  being  chosen  by  the  Toledo 
meeting  in  1908  as  commander-in-chief,  he  de- 


voted almost  the  whole  of  his  time  to  the  Grand 
At  my,  and  made  the  enviable  record  of  travel- 
ing in  one  year  nearly  forty  thousand  miles  on 
inspections. 

December  27,  1871,  he  married  Matilda 
Holmes,  born  October  i,  1846,  daughter  of 
William  H.  and  Gertrude  (Schenck)  Herbert. 
Child,  Kate  Terhune,  born  December  27,  1874: 
married,  March  31,  1897,  John  .Anderson,  son 
of  Jervis  Ely.  of  Lambertville,  New  Jersey,  and 
has  Henry  Nevius  Ely,  born  January  21,  1903. 


John  Albert  Blair,  of  Jersey  City, 
BL.AIR  a  lawyer  of  high  ability  and  at- 
tainments, traces  his  ancestry  on 
the  paternal  side  to  the  noted  Blair  family  of 
Blair-.\thol,  Perthshire,  Scotland,  representa- 
tives of  which  came  to  America  as  early  as 
1720,  settling  in  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jer- 
sey. 

Among  them  were  two  brothers,  Samuel  an^! 
John  Blair,  both  of  whom  were  educated  at 
the  famous  Log  College  on  the  Neshaminy 
under  the  celebrated  William  Tennent,  and  he- 
came  distinguished  as  ministers  of  the  Presby- 
terian church.  The  Rev.  Samuel  Blair  was 
called  to  Fagg's  Manor,  in  Chester  county. 
Pennsylvania,  1739,  where  in  conjunction 
with  his  pastoral  work,  he  conducted  a  school 
that  was  among  the  most  noteworthy  of  the 
early  I^resbyterian  academies.  His  son,  also 
the  Rev.  Samuel  Blair,  was  pastor  of  the  old 
.South  Church  in  Boston  before  the  revolu- 
tion. He  became  chaplain  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania battalion  of  ritlemen  that  participated  in 
the  siege  of  Boston.  He  was  oftercd  the  presi- 
dency of  the  College  of  New  Jersey  (now 
Princeton  University)  but  declined  in  favor 
of  Dr.  ^\ltherspoon.  The  Rev.  John  Blair 
was  ordained  pastor  of  Big  Spring,  Middle 
I^pring  and  Rocky  S])ring.  in  the  Cumberland 
X'alley,  1742,  but  resigned  in  consequence  of 
the  fre(|uent  Indian  incursions  on  the  frt)ntier 
(  1755-57)  and  succeeded  his  brother  at  Fagg's 
Manor.  In  1767  he  became  professor  of  divin- 
ity and  moral  philosophy  at  Princeton,  and  was 
acting  i)resident  of  the  college  until  the  acces- 
sion of  Dr.  \\'ithers])oon  in  ij(>o.  He  died  at 
Walikill,  in  the  New  York  Highlands,  1 77 1. 
While  one  branch  of  the  family  was  thus  de- 
voting its  energies  to  the  work  of  the  ministry 
and  the  dissemination  of  knowledge,  another 
was  moulding  the  commerce  which  has  smce 
developed  into  one  of  the  mainstays  of  the 
state  of  New  Jersey.  In  the  latter  part  of  the 
eighteenth  century  .Samuel  Blair,  great-great- 
grandfather of  John  .Albert  Blair,  was  sent  by 


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a  Philadelphia  firm  to  take  charge  of  the  iron 
industry  at  Oxford  Furnace,  Warren  county. 
New  Jersey.  William  Blair, 'grandfather  of 
John  .\lbert  Blair,  was  a  resident  of  Knowlton 
township,  Warren  county,  New  Jersey ;  he 
married  Rachel  Brands,  and  their  son,  John 
H.  Blair,  married  Mary  Angle,  and  were  the 
parents  of  John  Albert  E51air. 

John  Albert  IMair  was  born  near  Blairs- 
town,  New  Jersey,  July  8,  1842.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  that  town,  and  this  knowl- 
edge was  supplemented  by  attendance  at  the 
Blairstown  Presbyterian  Academy,  and  Col- 
lege of  New  Jersey  at  Princeton,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1866  with  honors.  Later 
he  became  a  law  student  in  the  office  of  Hon. 
Jehiel  G.  Shipman,  at  Belvidere,  New  Jersey. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  an 
attorney  at  the  June  term,  1869,  and  as  a  coun- 
selor in  June,  1872.  Pie  located  in  Jersey  City, 
New  Jersey,  in  January,  1870,  and  there  form- 
ed a  partnership  with  Stephen  B.  Ransom,  an 
old  and  distinguished  lawyer  in  that  city.  On 
the  passage  of  the  law  creating  district  courts 
in  Jersey  City,  in  1877,  Governor  Joseph  D. 
Bedle  appointed  Mr.  Blair  and  Hon.  Benning- 
ton F.  Randolph  as  the  first  judges  to  fill  the 
positions  thus  provided  for.  In  May,  1885, 
he  was  ap])ointed  corporation  counsel  for  the 
city  of  Jersey  City,  continuing  in  that  office 
until  1889,  when  he  tendered  his  resignation. 
He  was  named  again  for  the  same  office  in 
1894,  which  he  accepted,  and  served  until  April 
I,  1898,  when  he  resigned  to  accept  the  ap- 
pointment of  judge  of  the  court  of  common 
pleas,  general  quarter  sessions,  and  orphans' 
court  of  the  county  of  Hudson,  being  named 
for  the  bench  by  Governor  Griggs  just  before 
the  latter  became  attorney-general  of  the 
Unitde  States  in  the  cabinet  of  President  Mc- 
Kinley.  Since  that  time  Judge  Blair  has  con- 
tinued to  preside  over  the  courts  referred  to 
adding  new  laurels  to  those  already  won.  He 
is  a  staunch  adherent  of  Republican  principles, 
and  although  active  in  the  councils  of  his 
party  has  never  soueht  public  office,  preferring 
to  devote  his  energies  to  his  professional  career. 
He  attends  the  services  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Jersey  City,  and  is  a  leading 
member  of  the  Palma  Club  and  the  Cnion 
League  Club  of  Jersey  City,  having  been  one 
of  the  organizers  of  the  latter  and  president  of 
the  same  for  a  number  of  years.  He  is  the 
owner  of  a  large  and  remarkably  fine  library, 
containing  many  noted  volumes  on  various  sub- 
jects, and  in  the  perusal  of  these  books  Judge 
Blair  finds  recreation  and  pleasure. 


Judge  Blair  is  a  close  student,  and  being 
endowed  by  nature  with  strong  personal  force 
and  full  of  magnetic  power,  he  has  drawn 
around  him  a  large  company  of  close  friends. 
.■\s  a  jurist  he  possesses  those  qualities  of  mind 
and  that  keen  intelligence  which  are  essential 
to  the  duties  of  the  position;  fair  and  impartial 
in  his  decisions,  learned  in  his  legal  interpreta- 
tions, and  upright  as  a  man,  he  reflects  honor 
upon  the  bench  that  he  adorns.  As  a  judge 
he  is  equally  prominent,  his  opinions  being 
models  in  their  way,  and  on  appeal  were  gen- 
erally upheld  by  the  highest  tribunals.  As  a 
citizen  he  is  actively  identified  with  his  adopted 
city  and  county,  and  is  an  important  factor  in 
every  movement  which  has  for  its  object  the 
welfare  and  development  of  the  community. 


The  Buzby  family  has  been  nu- 
BUZBY    merous  in  New  Jersey  for  many 

generations,  and  they  have  been 
of  the  sect  of  Friends  or  Quakers.  They  were 
among  the  Quaker  families  who  were  the  earli- 
est settlers  of  Rancocas,  along  the  creek  of  the 
same  name,  some  of  whom  (according  to  tradi- 
tion) lived  in  caves  at  first.  They  have  inter- 
married with  some  of  the  most  prominent 
Quakers  in  the  state,  and  have  always  been 
held  in  the  highest  respect  by  their  associates. 

(I)  Amos  Buzby  lived  at  or  near  Rancocas, 
and  was  married  twice,  his  second  wife  being 
Rebecca  Matlack,  by  whom  he  had  children : 
William,  John,  George,  Robert  C,  Hannah, 
.Mordica  and  Richard. 

(II)  George,  son  of  Amos  and  Rebecca 
(Matlack)  Buzby,  married  Esther,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Hannah  (Maxwell)  Haines;  chil- 
dren :  William,  died  at  age  of  twelve  years ; 
Mark  Haines;  Hannah  Maxwell,  died  at  age 
of  twenty-three  years ;  Martha,  died  at  age  of 
nine  years  ;  Sarah,  died  unmarried,  at  age  of 
thirty-two  years ;  Mary  Lippincot,  born  May 
8,  1839,  is  unmarried;  Joseph,  died  in  infancy; 
Rebecca,  died  at  age  of  seven  years.  George 
Buzby  was  born  near  Rancocas,  and  for  many 
vears  worked  at  harness  making  at  Burlington  ; 
later  he  removed  to  Masonville  and  purchased 
a  farm,  where  he  spent  the  last  forty  years  of 
his  life. 

(III)  Mark  Haines,  second  son  of  George 
and  Esther  (Haines)  Buzby,  was  born  in  1828, 
in  Burlington,  New  Jersey.  Pie  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  job  and  Agnes  (Alullin)  Darnell, 
of  Five  Points,  Burlington  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, born  in  1836,  and  died  in  1905.  Chil- 
dren:    Georgianna,  born  1857,  and  Walter  J. 

(IV)  Walter  J.,  only  son  of  Mark  Haines 


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and  Sarah  (Darnell)  Buzby,  was  born  October 
6,  1865,  at  Masonville,  New  Jersey.  He  at- 
tended the  public  schools  of  his  native  town 
and  then  took  a  course  at  the  Friends'  W'est 
Town  Boarding  School  in  Pennsylvania.  After 
spending  some  time  on  his  father's  farm  he 
removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  em- 
ployed as  a  boy  in  the  well-known  grocery 
firm  of  Mitchell,  Fletcher  &  Company,  and 
through  various  promotions  became  junior 
member  of  the  firm.  He  spent  fifteen  years 
successfully  in  the  business,  and  in  1898  be- 
came connected  with  the  Hotel  Chalfonte,  At- 
lantic City,  where  he  remained  two  years.  In 
1900  he  became  proprietor  of  the  well-known 
Hotel  Dennis.  He  has  enlarged  the  building 
and  made  many  improvements,  and  under  his 
able  management  the  hotel  now  has  the  reputa- 
tion of  being  one  of  the  best  hotels  on  the 
boardwalk,  and  has  a  capacity  of  si.x  hundred 
guests.  It  is  one  of  the  largest  on  the  coast, 
and  is  open  the  year  around.  Mr.  Buzby  is 
enterprising  and  progressive  in  his  business 
methods,  and  has  met  with  more  than  ordinary 
success. 

Mr.  Buzby  has  interests  outside  his  hotel ; 
he  is  a  director  of  the  Second  National  Bank 
of  .Atlantic  City,  and  of  the  Atlantic  City  h'ire 
Insurance  Company,  and  president  of  the  At- 
lantic City  Board  of  Trade.  In  politics  he  is 
a  Republican,  and  was  elected  to  the  city  coun- 
cil in  1905  and  re-elected  in  1909  for  a  three 
year  term  ;  since  entering  that  body  he  has  been 
chairman  of  the  street  committee.  He  is  a 
director  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation of  .Atlantic  City,  and  a  member  of  the 
lUisiness  Men's  League.  He  is  also  a  director 
of  the  Eastern  h'ire  Insurance  Company.  In 
religious  views  he  follows  the  precepts  of  his 
forefathers,  and  is  a  devout  member  of  the 
Quaker  sect. 

Mr.  Buzby  married.  May  19,  1892,  Emily 
Wills,  daughter  of  George  B.  and  Susan  W. 
Borton,  formerly  of  Rancocas,  New  Jersey; 
children:  John  Howard,  born  October  12, 
1903,  and  George  Haines,  April  22,  1906. 


John  Newman,  former  mayor 
NEWMAN    of  the  city  of  Bayonne,  New 

Jersey,  and  late  president  of 
the  Mechanics'  Trust  Com])any,  the  leading 
financial  institution  of  that  city,  was  born  in 
England,  I'cbrnary  12,  1831,  died  at  his  resi- 
dence on  .\venue  C,  Bayonne,  November  2, 
1901.  He  was  the  son  of  George  and  Eliza- 
beth Newman,  and  grandson  of  George  New- 
man. 


John  Newman  was  reared  under  christian 
influence,  and  his  education  somewhat  limited, 
was  acquired  in  the  parish  schools  of  his  native 
town.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  years,  nnpelled 
by  a  strong  desire  to  seek  his  fortune,  he,  with 
the  consent  of  his  father,  emigrated  to  the 
L'nited  States  and  after  a  long  sailing  voyage 
arrived  in  New  York  in  the  early  part  of  1848, 
with  no  other  friends  than  those  gained  during 
the  voyage.  On  his  arrival  in  New  York  he 
sought  out  an  old-time  friend  of  his  father's 
family.  Henry  Robinson,  who  at  that  time  was 
a  prosperous  merchant  at  No.  70  William 
street,  and  a  member  of  the  wholesale  dry 
goods  firm  of  Robinson  &  Parsons.  Here  the 
young  man  began  life  in  the  commercial  world, 
like  many  others  at  the  beginning  with  a  deter- 
mination to  succeed.  He  soon  found  favor 
with  his  employers,  and  by  his  strict  attention 
to  the  business  in  all  its  details  and  his  probity 
rose  to  positions  of  greater  responsibility  and 
remuneration,  his  employers  realizing  that  in 
their  yt)ung  employee  was  the  making  of  a 
thorough,  reliable  factor  in  their  business.  He 
remained  with  the  firm  until  the  civil  war  when, 
like  many  other  firms,  they  became  embarrassed 
owing  to  the  closing  of  the  southern  markets. 
\\'ith  the  careful  savings  acquired  by  nnich 
self-denial,  Mr.  .Xewman  began  to  look  ai)i)ut 
in  other  fields  of  enterprise  and  shortly  after- 
ward engaged  in  the  lighterage  and  |iacket 
trade  with  John  S.  Conklin,  a  fellow  clerk  in 
the  house  of  Robinson  &  Parsons,  with  head- 
(juarters  at  No.  87  Broad  street ;  the  firm  oper- 
ated three  transportation  freight  boats  from 
the  Xew  York  docks  to  various  destinations  in 
and  about  New  York.  .Xfter  a  ])artnership  of 
seven  years,  Mr.  Newman  sold  his  interests 
and  entered  into  the  fire  and  marine  insurance 
business  with  .\.  G.  Brown  under  the  firm 
name  of  Newman  &  Brown,  at  No.  105  Broad 
street,  which  in  later  years  was  transferred  to 
No.  35  .South  \\'illiam  street.  During  the 
period  of  the  firm's  success  Mr.  I'.rown  was  re- 
nKJved  by  death,  Mr.  Xewman  continuing  the 
business  up  to  his  death  in  his  own  name. 
Henry  Byron  Newman,  a  nei)hew,  was  ad- 
mitted to  partnership,  the  business  being  con- 
tinued mider  his  very  able  management. 

During  Mr.  Newman's  career  in  the  insur- 
ance worhl  he  became  associated  with  his 
brother  David  in  the  wholesale  and  retail  dry 
goods  business  at  Heaver  Dam,  Wisconsin, 
where  the  brother  took  up  a  residence.  The 
undertaking  was  eminently  successful  from 
the  start,  David  taking  the  management  of  the 
business  in  the  far  west  wliile   Inhn  assumed 


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the  buying  in  New  York,  with  regular  yearly 
trips  to  the  western  house.  With  an  already 
large  demand  for  their  products  and  the  repu- 
tation of  the  Newman  house,  the  enterprise 
speedily  developed  into  one  of  the  large  firms 
in  that  line  in  Wisconsin,  where  the  brothers 
continued  for  a  period  of  over  fifteen  years, 
subsequently  removing  to  Lincoln,  Nebraska, 
where  they  erected  a  handsome  business  block 
in  the  heart  of  the  business  district  of  that  city. 
Since  the  death  of  the  brothers,  which  occurred 
within  two  months  of  each  other  in  1901,  the 
business  has  been  leased,  the  heirs  of  each 
holding  their  respective  shares  of  the  profits. 
The  success  that  marked  iMr.  Newman's  man- 
agement of  the  two  vast  concerns  naturally 
attracied  the  attention  of  men  connected  with 
private  and  municipal  affairs  and  he  was 
eagerly  sought  for  influential  places  in  the  ad- 
ministration. L'pon  the  organization  of  the 
Mechanics'  Trust  Company  of  Bayonne,  he 
was  elected  the  first  president,  March  i,  1886, 
in  which  office  he  presided  until  his  death 
I'nder  his  careful  and  discreet  management  the 
bnsines-;  foundation  of  this  institution  was 
established,  upon  which  the  present  magnificent 
su])erstructure  has  been  built,  a  monument  to 
his  name  and  executive  ability. 

The  broader  field  of  his  activity  did  not  pre- 
clude his  interest  in  and  sympathy  with  the 
municipal  and  business  affairs  of  his  city.  His 
opinions  were  models  in  their  way  and  his 
name  was  looked  upon  as  the  most  favorable 
and  prominent  in  party  afl^airs.  He  served  for 
over  fourteen  years  as  member  of  the  city  coun- 
cil and  was  ])resident  of  the  board ;  he  was 
elected  mayor  of  Bayonne  in  1887  and  presided 
in  this  honorable  position  five  successive  terms, 
up  to  1 81; I.  gaining  great  credit  for  his  party, 
his  Republican  principles  being  fully  admin- 
istered during  that  period.  He  served  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Bayonne  Building  and  Loan  Asso- 
ciation. He  was  popular  in  social  life  and  a 
leading  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Athletic 
Club,  the  outgrowth  of  the  old  Argonata  Row- 
ing Association,  which  had  a  remarkable  his- 
tory of  winning  events.  He  became  its  presi- 
dent and  a  director.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity  and  was  made  a  member  of 
Bayonne  Lodge,  No.  99,  Free  and  Accepted 
iMasons,  July  i,  1869.  He  served  that  body 
as  its  worshipful  master  during  1874-75-78. 
and  was  treasurer  from  1880  until  his  death 
in  1901.  filling  these  offices  of  trust  with  great 
credit  to  his  lodge  and  himself.  He  was  for- 
merly a  member  of  Company  No.  i,  Bayonne 
Fire  Department,  and  was  formerly  regimental 


paymaster  of  the  old  New  York  Second  Regi- 
•  nent  \  olunteer  Militia  previous  to  the  civil 
war. 

As  in  public  life  so  in  private  life  Mr.  New- 
man was  a  model  man.  In  his  home,  which  he 
loved  so  devotedly,  he  was  all  that  a  loving 
husband  could  be.  In  the  church,  which  was 
his  snjjreme  delight,  he  was  a  pillar.  Reared 
in  the  Episcopal  faith,  he  soon  after  coming  to 
his  adopted  land  became  a  communicant  of 
the  Jane  Street  Methodist  Church,  New  York 
City,  where  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Mary 
Frances  La  Force,  daughter  of  David  and 
Abbic  (Burnet)  La  P'orce,  July  28,  1852,  the 
cereAmy  being  performed  by  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Longsberry.  She  later,  by  profession  of  faith, 
became  a  member  of  the  Metropolitan  Meth- 
odist Church,  where  he  was  leader  of  the  choir 
and  basso  for  a  number  of  years.  He  also 
was  secretary  and  librarian  of  the  Sunday 
.ichool.  In  September,  1865,  he  removed  to 
Baycnjie,  New  Jersey,  and  purchased  his  at- 
tractive residence  on  Avenue  C.  ^Ir.  and  Mrs. 
.Vewman  became  members  at  this  time  oi  the 
Dutch  Reformed  church,  where  they  wor- 
shiped aljout  tw  elve  years.  Later  both  became 
interested  in  the  organization  and  building  of 
the  I'irst  Presbyterian  Church,  the  faith  under 
which  Mrs.  Newman  was  reared.  Mr.  New- 
man tuok  a  keen  interest  in  the  affairs  of  this 
charcli  and  became  its  choir  leader  and  trustee, 
also  serving  on  other  executive  boards.  The 
religious  element  in  his  character  was  positive 
and  of  a  high  type.  He  was  a  close  student 
of  religious  subjects,  free  from  cant  and  nar- 
rowness, and  preserved  throughout  his  public, 
as  in  his  ])rivate  career,  the  pre-eminent  chris- 
tian character.  He  was  a  man  of  the  people, 
plain  and  simple,  possessed  of  a  strong  per- 
sonality that  greatly  endeared  him  to  all  who 
knew  him  and  came  in  contact  with  him.  He 
was  a  man  whose  strong  and  honest  convic- 
tions could  not  be  swerved  under  the  most  try- 
ing circumstances.  The  following  resolutions 
were  jjassed  at  the  time  <_if  Mr.  Newman's 
death  : 

■■.\t  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
of  Mechanics'  Trust  Company  of  the  City  of 
Bayonne,  New  Jersey,  held  November  6,  1901, 
the  following  Preamble  and  Resolutions  were 
unanimously  adopted  :  God  in  his  wisdom  has 
again  removed  from  our  councils  one  of  our 
most  active  and  valued  members.  John  New- 
man has  been  the  executive  head  of  this  com- 
pany since  its  organization  for  business  in 
1886,  and  has  served  in  that  capacity  with  great 
fidelity.     Our  exceptional  success  has  been  due 


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STATE    OF    XE\N'    JERSEY 


in  a  large  nicasuii.'  to  his  ceaseless  activity  and 
constant  interest  in  promoting  the  growth  of 
this  Institution.  His  intimate  knowledge  of 
the  municipal  affairs  of  this  city  gained  by  hav- 
ing held  for  a  number  of  years  various  posi- 
tions as  member  of  the  Board  of  Education, 
member  of  the  Common  Council  and  Mayor  of 
this  city',  gave  him  that  broad  experience  with 
men  and  affairs  which  increase  wonderfully 
his  usefulness  as  the  head  of  this  company. 
Through  its  infancy  and  during  the  formative 
period  of  this  company  his  ripe  experience, 
sound  judgment  and  conservative  methods  have 
inspired  that  confidence  in  this  institution  and 
its  management  that  has  led  to  its  attainirf^  the 
strong  financial  standing  in  the  community 
which  it  now  has.  He  was  a  positive  quantity 
and  a  born  leader  of  men.  Air.  Newman  is 
the  fourth  member  of  our  first  board  whose 
death  we  have  had  to  mourn  since  the  organi- 
zation of  the  company.  He  will  be  greatly 
missed  by  us  as  well  as  by  his  large  circle  of 
associates  in  other  lines  of  activity.  In  order 
that,  we  may  give  appropriate  expression  to 
these  our  sentiments  be  it  resolved  that  these 
words  of  resjiect  and  aijjireciation  be  recorded 
on  our  minutes. 

De  Witt   \  an   I'.uskirk,  \".    !'.. 
Chas.  D.  Noe,  Sec." 

The  following  resolutions  on  Mr.  Newman's 
death  from  the  Bavonne  Building  .Association, 
Xo.  2 : 

"At  an  adjourned  regular  meeting  of  the 
Bayonne  iiuilding  .\ssociatiou,  Ko.  2,  held  No- 
veml)er  26,  1901,  the  following  resolutions  were 
unanimously  adopted  :  Whereas  through  the 
death  of  our  late  President,  John  Newman, 
we  have  suffered  the  loss  of  one  whose  inter- 
est in  the  welfare  of  this  association  has  been 
evinced  by  earnestness,  jierseverance  and  zeal 
in  his  eft'orts  to  sustain  its  character  and  better 
its  condition.  Therefore  be  it  resolved  that 
we  ])lace  ui)nn  record  fitting  evidence  of  our 
sorrow,  at  being  de])rived  of  all  wise  councd 
and  cheerful  co-operation,  that  we  cherish  the 
recollection  of  his  labors  and  profoundly  ac- 
knowledge liis  many  noble  and  generous  iiuali- 
ties.  Resolved  that  with  this  tribute  of  our 
esteem  and  respect  we  extend  our  heart f el r 
sympathy  Id  his  family  in  their  affliction  and 
l)e  it  furtlier  resolved  that  these  resolutions  be 
spread  in  full  upon  tlie  minutes  and  that  a 
copy  of  the  same  be  sent  to  the  family  of  our 
deceased  associate. 

R.  H.  Ten  i'.rooch.  V.  1'. 
Schuyler  I..  Mackie,  Sec." 


This  name  originated  in  Italy  in 

I'HELl'.S  the  form  of  "W'elf,"  was  changed 
in  (iermany  to  "Guelphs"  or 
■■(iid])hs.  "  and  in  the  sixteenth  century  the 
family  emigrated  to  England,  where  the  name 
was  transposed  to  Phelps,  spelled  in  various 
ways.  The  first  of  the  name  to  be  of  import- 
ance in  English  history  was  John  Phelps,  with 
Andrew  Broughton  joint  clerk  of  the  court 
which  tried  and  condemned  Charles  the  First, 
and  two  of  his  descendants,  Hon.  William 
Walter  Phelps,  of  New  Jersey,  and  Hon. 
Charles  A.  Phelps,  of  Massachusetts,  caused 
to  be  erected  at  \'evey,  Switzerland,  in  1882. 
a  black  marble  monument,  stating  that  it  was 
erected  to  the  memory  of  John  Phelps,  who 
was  so  willing  to  accept  the  responsibility  of 
his  part  in  the  trial  as  to  sign  his  full  name  to 
each  record,  came  to  \'evey  and  died  like  his 
associates,  whose  memorials  are  near,  an  exile 
in  the  cause  of  human  freedom.  The  branch 
of  the  family  to  come  to  America  lived  in 
Tewksbury.  Ciloucester,  England,  where  their 
family  was  tnund  on  record  for  several  gen- 
erations. 

(  I )  ihe  first  of  whom  authentic  record  a])- 
pears  was  James  Pheljis.  born  about  1520,  at 
Tewksbury.  Cloucestershire,  England.  On  May 
10.  151^8.  commission  was  issued  to  his  relict, 
Joan  Phelps,  to  administer  his  goods  and  chat- 
tels, i  lis  children  were  baptized  in  Tewksbury 
.Abbey  Church,  as  follows:  \\'illiam,  August, 
1560;  Thomas,  .\ugust  10.  1563:  George,  Sep- 
tember 5.  1566;  .Mice.  December  24,  1572; 
Edward.  May  10.  1578;  Kenelm,  October  16, 
1580:  Richard.  ( )ctober  [6.  1^83;  Robert,  luly 
18.  1584. 

(  11  )  William,  first  ciiild  of  James  and  Joan 
1 'helps,  born  at  'I'ewksbury,  lived  and  died 
there.  September  28.  1611,  Dorothy  Phelps, 
his  widow,  was  cnnimissioned  to  administer  his 
estate,  lie  probably  died  in  that  year,  and  his 
widnw  jiassed  away  in  I')i3.  Tlieir  children 
were  bajjtized  in  Tewksbury  Abbey  Church 
as  follows:  Mary,  September  4,  1587;  Mary 
(2),  .April  23.  1588:  Thomas,  June  24,  1590; 
Dnrothy.  February  29,  1595:  William,  August 
">•  >5W-  James.  July  14,  ifoi  :  Elizabeth, 
.May  (;.  1^)03;  (ieorge,  1606. 

I  ill)  William  (2),  son  of  William  (l  )  and 
Durotliy  Phelps,  was  baptized  at  Tewksbury, 
England,  .\ugust  19,  1399.  and  lived  in  that 
ti>wn  until  the  birth  of  his  first  child,  and  soon 
after  thi>.  at  the  death  of  his  father,  he  re- 
moved to  one  of  the  southern  cfunities,  either 
Somerset   or   Dorsetshire,   no    record    having 


STATE   OF    NEW     I ERSEV. 


Leen  found  of  the  birth  of  his  other  tive  chil- 
dren. With  his  wife  and  six  children,  in  com- 
pany with  his  brother  George,  he  embarked 
for  New  England  in  the  "Mary  and  John," 
commanded  by  Captain  Squeb;  this  company 
had  organized  into  a  church  and  selected  their 
pastors  the  day  before  sailing.  They  started 
from  Plymouth.  England,  March  20,  1630,  and 
arrived  at  Hull,  Massachusetts,  May  30,  1630; 
settled  at  Dorchester,  being  the  first  settlers 
and  founders  of  that  place.  He  took  an  active 
part  in  town  aflfairs,  his  name  in  the  records 
being  spelled  Eeljjs,  Phelips  and  Phelps,  and 
became  a  freeman  very  soon.  During  the  first 
_\ear  he  was  one  of  a  jury  of  twelve  who  tried 
W  alter  Palmer,  in  connection  with  the  death 
of  Austin  llrotcher,  and  he  was  found  not 
guilty  of  manslaughter :  this  was  the  first  trial 
in  the  colony.  In  1631  ]\lr.  Phelps  was  chosen 
constable  of  Dorchester,  in  1634  was  one  of  a 
committee  of  three  to  determine  the  boundary 
between  r)Oston  and  Roxbury,  also  between 
Bostcjn  and  Dorchester,  the  same  year  delegate 
to  the  general  court,  and  in  1635  a  member  of 
the  general  court  from  Dorchester.  His  wife 
<lied  in  1635.  and  the  following  year  he  removed 
to  Windsor,  Connecticut,  supposed  to  be  under 
the  control  of  the  ^Massachusetts  colony,  and 
William  Phel]js  was  one  of  the  seven  men  who 
were  to  govern  the  new  colony,  the  name  at 
first  being  Dorchester,  but  the  next  year 
changed  to  Windsor.  In  1638  they  found  them- 
selves to  be  out  of  the  jurisdiction  of  Massa- 
chusetts ;  a  constitution  was  adopted  for  the 
colony  of  Connecticut ;  Mr.  Phelps  was  given 
the  ofifice  of  magistrate  from  1639  to  1643. 
1056  to  1662,  and  deputy  in  1651  ;  he  was  one 
of  the  makers  of  the  famous  '"lllue  Laws,"  of 
Connecticut,  many  of  which  are  still  in  force 
there.  He  was  given  the  title  of  "Mister," 
only  accorded  to  those  who  were  venerable  or 
<listinguished ;  was  one  of  the  most  highly  re- 
spected men  in  the  colony,  of  recognized  hon- 
esty and  uprightness  both  in  private  and  public 
life,  and  supitorted  the  authority  both  of  church 
anel  of  state.  His  second  wife  was  Mary 
Dover,  who  was  an  English  woman,  one  of 
the  passengers  of  the  "Mary  and  John."  and  by 
her  he  had  two  children.  .After  having  spent 
forty-two  years  in  New  England,  thirty-six  in 
Windsor,  he  died  July  14,  was  buried  July  15, 
1672,  and  his  wife  died  November  27,  1675. 
His  children  were  :  Richard,  baptized  in  Tewks- 
bury,  England,  December  26,  1619;  William, 
born  in  England,  in  1620;  Sarah,  about  1623; 
Saiuuel,  about  1625;  Nathaniel,  about  1627; 
Joseph:  Timothy,  bom  September  i,  1637,  in 


W  indsor,  Connecticut :   Mary,  born   March  2, 
1644.  in  Windsor,  Connecticut. 

(I\')  Joseph,  fifth  son  of  William  (2) 
Phelps,  by  his  first  wife,  was  born  in  England 
about  1629.  He  emigrated  to  America  settling 
in  Dorchester,  and  a  few  years  later  removed 
to  Windsor,  and  died  in  1684.  He  became  a 
freeman  in  1^)64,  and  in  1667  was  one  of  thirty 
to  receive  grants  of  land  in  Simsbury,  Con- 
necticut, where  they  settled;  they  suffered 
much  from  the  Indians,  and  March  13,  1676, 
the  general  court  ordered  that  the  people  of 
Simsbury  remove  to  neighboring  settlements 
or  ]3laHtations,  with  cattle  and  other  property, 
and  soon  after  this  date,  March  26,  the  Indians 
burned  the  entire  settlement,  making  a  com- 
])lete  devastation  of  the  property.  From  a 
neighboring  mountain,  called  Phelps  Alountain, 
it  is  thought  King  Philip  watched  the  conflagra- 
tion and  gloried  in  the  destruction  instigated 
by  himself.  During  the  same  year  most  of  the 
members  of  the  settlement  returned  to  Sims- 
bur}-,  and  May  4.  1677,  the  name  of  Joseph 
Phel])s,  with  nine  others,  is  signed  to  a  peti- 
tion that  the  general  assembly  assist  them  in 
taxing  on  account  of  the  loss  sustained  through 
the  lndian.s,  and  this  petition  was  partially 
granted.  He  married  (first),  September  20. 
1660.  Hannah,  daughter  of  Roger  Newton, 
who  died  in  1675,  at  Simsbury;  and  he  mar- 
ried (second),  January  9,  1676,  Mary,  widow 
of  Thomas  Salmon,  having  no  children  by  his 
second  wife.  By  his  first  marriage  he  had 
children  as  follows:  Joseph;  Hannah,  born 
February  2,  1668,  died  young;  Timothy,  May 
18,  1671  ;  Sarah,  May,  1672:  William,  May, 
1674,  died  unmarried. 

(V)  Joseph  (2),  eldest  son  of  Joseph  (i) 
and  I  lannah  (  Newton  )  Phelps,  was  born  Au- 
gust 20,  1667,  at  Windsor,  Connecticut.  He 
settled  in  Simsbury,  where  he  became  a  leading 
citi'zen.  He  held  the  ofifice  of  justice  of  the 
peace  for  many  years,  and  was  elected  to  the 
general  assembly  from  1709  to  1727,  twenty- 
eight  times,  during  which  time  the  legislature 
held  sessions  twice  a  year.  He  luarried  (first) 
Mary,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (San- 
ford)  Collier,  born  in  Hartford,  died  March 
13,  i(yi.j/.  at  Simsbury  :  (  second  ),  November  9, 
1699.  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah 
(  Spencer  )  Case,  born  August  14,  1676,  at  Sims- 
bury, where  she  died  May  2,  1704:  (third) 
Mary,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  Case, 
born  in  1669  in  Simsbury,  died  there  Septem- 
ber 10,  1757.  His  chilclren  by  his  first  wife 
were  :  Joseph,  born  October  9,  1689  ;  Hannah. 
(  )ctober   25,    1693;   Mary,   October    17,    1696; 


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by  his  second  wife:  Sarah,  August  ii,  1700; 
Damaris.  Xovember  5,  1703  ;  by  his  third  wife: 
John,  I-'ebruary  14,  1707;  Amos,  1708;  EHza- 
betli,  April  7,  1709;  David. 

(\'l)  Lieutenant  David,  fourth  and  young- 
est son  of  Joseph  (2)  Phelps,  by  his  wife. 
Mary  (Case)  Phelps,  was  born  in  1710,  in 
Simsbury,  Connecticut,  where  he  died  Decem- 
ber 9,  1760,  after  an  illness  of  nineteen  days, 
with  small-pox.  He  became  a  freeman  in  1734. 
represented  his  town  in  the  general  assembly 
several  times,  was  lieutenant  in  the  militia,  and 
served  in  the  French  war.  He  married,  .April 
25,  1731,  .Abigail  Pettibone,  born  in  Canton, 
died  in  1907,  at  Simsbury;  after  his  death  she 
married  Deacon  David  Strong,  of  Bolton,  Con- 
necticut, by  whom  she  had  no  children.  His 
children  were:  David,  born  May  7,  1732,  died 
July  19,  1732;  David;  .Abigail,  Xovember  5, 
1735;  Elisiia,  October  17,  1737;  Noah,  Jaini- 
ary  22,  1740;  Rachel.  December  10,  1741  ; 
Ruth,  ,Sei)tember  15,  1743;  Sarah,  October  13, 
1745:  Susannah,  January  4, 1748;  Louis,  March 
4.  1750. 

(VH)  Captain  David  (2),  second  son  of 
Lieutenant  David  (  i)  and  Abigail  (Pettibone) 
Phel])s,  was  born  March  26,  1733-34,  at  Sims- 
bury, Connecticut,  died  .Ajjril  17,  181 1.  He 
>ettled  in  Turkey  Mills,  Simsbury.  He  served 
in  the  revolution,  his  name  lieing  found  many 
times  in  the  state  archives;  in  1776  he  was  in 
Woodward's  brigade  as  lieutenant  in  the  Sec- 
ond Com]}any,  also  as  lieutenant  on  the  pay- 
roll in  the  Danbury  alarm,  also  in  the  New 
I  laven  alarm,  in  Captain  .Xoali  Phel])'s  com- 
pany in  1779;  one  of  his  descendants  has  his 
original  appointment  in  the  revolutionary  army 
as  captain.  lie  married  (first),  April  7,  1753, 
.Abigail,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Abigail  (Gay- 
.lord)  Criswold,  born  May  5,  1732,  at  Windsor, 
Connecticut,  died  May  6,  1795,  at  Simsbury; 
(  second  )  Hannah  I  lumiihrey,  by  whom  he  had 
no  issue.  .After  his  death  his  widow  lived  with 
her  son  (by  a  former  marriage )  in  .Albany, 
New  ^'ork,  where  she  died.  His  children  were: 
.Abigail,  born  Xovember  16,  1754;  Ozias,  May 
I,  1756;  David  and  Elizabeth,  twins,  Novem- 
ber 13,  1759;  Rhoda,  September  22,  1765; 
Roswcll,  October  31,  1767;  .Alexander. 

{  V'HI)  .Alexander,  youngest  son  of  Captain 
David  (2)  and  .Abigail  (Criswold)  Phelps, 
was  horn  I'ebruar)'  26,  1769,  at  Simsbury,  Con- 
necticut, and  died  in  that  i)lace  February  25, 
1832.  He  married,  December  12,  1793,  Eliza 
beth,  daughter  of  Captain  Jonathan  and  Mary 
Eno,  horn  .August  9,  1773,  died  in  1865  at  Sims- 


bury, and  they  had  children  as  follows  :  Alex- 
ander C,  born  October  25,  1794;  Horace  G.. 
February  2,  1797;  Jarman  Hart,  August  7, 
1799;  ICdward,  February  25,  1802;  Elizabeth, 
January  30,  1804:  Xorman.  Xovember  10, 
1806;  Mary  .Ann,  December  30,  1808;  John 
Jay;  Sherman  David,  July  20,  1814. 

(IX)  Hon.  John  Jay,  sixth  son  of  .Alex- 
ander and  Elizabeth  (Eno)  Phelps,  was  born 
October  25,  1810,  at  Simsbury,  Connecticut, 
died  Alay  12,  1869,  being  buried  at  his  birth- 
])lace.  He  was  the  first  of  his  family  to  seek 
a  fiirtune  in  Xew  "S'ork,  leaving  home  when 
but  thirteen  years  of  age,  and  before  he  came 
of  age  owned  and  edited,  in  partnership  with 
George  D.  Prentice  (afterward  of  the  Lonis- 
villc  Courier),  the  Nezv  England  Weekly  Re- 
z-icic.  ])ul)lished  at  Hartford,  Connecticut.  He 
began  the  manufacture  of  glass  at  Dundafif. 
l'cnns\'lvania.  in  1S27,  and  began  to  be  inter- 
ested in  the  coal  fields  of  Lackawanna  \  alley, 
later  becoming  much  interested  in  them.  With 
.Amos  R.  Eno,  his  cousin,  he  carried  on  a  large 
wholesale  mercantile  house  in  Xew  York  City, 
the  firm  name  being  Eno  &  Phelps,  doing  busi- 
ness for  ten  years,  when  his  partner  withdrew 
and  he  contiinied  in  the  mercantile  business 
alone,  at  the  same  time  dealing  largely  in  real 
estate,  llefore  he  was  forty  years  old  he  had 
built  a  handsome  block  on  the  site  of  the  old 
Grace  Church  and  another  on  the  site  of  the 
I'ark  Theatre,  doing  this  in  partnership  with 
.Mr.  I'.uo,  who  built  the  Fifth  .Avenue  Hotel. 
He  was  the  organizer  and  for  several  years 
president  of  the  Delaware,  Lackawanna  & 
Western  railroad  ;  resigned  this  office  in  1853. 
but  for  ten  years  thereafter  remained  on  the 
board  of  directors.  As  director  of  the  Erie 
railroad,  he  was  voted  thanks  by  both  branches 
I  if  the  -New  York  city  council;  he  was  also 
director  of  Mercantile,  Second  Xational  and 
State  banks,  Camden  &  .Amesbury  railroad. 
Manhattan  (jas  Light  Company,  Bleecker 
.street  Savings  Institute,  also  many  other  trusts, 
both  ])ublic  and  ])rivate,  being  highly  esteemed 
and  trusted  by  his  fellow-townsmen,  as  well  as 
all  who  knew  him.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
in  the  city  of  Xew  \'ork  to  use  freestone  in 
architecture.  Mis  will  made  bequests  to  sev- 
eral educational  and  charitable  institutions,  and 
the  bulk  of  his  property  to  his  only  living  son, 
\\  illi.im  Walter.  Me  married,  Jamiary  29, 
1833.  at  Dundafi".  Pennsylvania,  Rachel  Badge- 
ley,  daughter  of  Colonel  G.  Phinney,  born  De- 
cember 12,  18 1 2,  died  in  .Xew  York  City. 
Their  children  were:     Ella  .\da.  born  March 


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28,  1838;  married  Rev.  David  Stuart  Dodge; 
William  Walter ;  Francis  Alexander,  born 
April  I,  1841,  died  April  5,  1848. 

(X)  Hon.  William  Walter,  eldest  son  of 
Hon.  John  jay  and  Rachel  B.  (Phinney) 
Phelps,  was  born  .\ugust  24,  1839.  in  New- 
York  City.  He  graduated  from  Yale  College 
in  the  class  of  i860,  and  married  on  the  day 
of  his  graduation.  In  1863  he  graduated  from 
the  Columbia  College  of  Law,  and  in  a  few 
years  had  built  up  a  large  and  lucrative  prac- 
tice, being  employed  by  several  railroads  and 
other  large  corporations,  in  some  of  which  he 
later  became  interested.  .\t  the  death  of  his 
father  in  1869,  he  relincjuished  his  practice  so 
as  to  be  able  to  give  his  attention  to  the  man- 
agement of  the  large  estate  entrusted  to  him. 
and  soon  removed  to  Hackensack,  New  Jer- 
sey, where  he  became  greatly  interested  in 
political  affairs.  In  1872  he  was  elected  to 
congress  by  a  large  majority,  and  soon  estab- 
lished his  reputation  for  independent  thought 
and  action,  anil  that  he  had  the  courage  of  his 
convictions  was  shown  by  his  attitude  on  the 
"Salary  Grab,"  "Franking  Privilege,''  "Bank- 
ing Bill,"  and  other  bills  of  like  nature,  in  some 
cases  speaking  and  voting  against  his  party 
precepts,  and  making  some  very  pertinent  and 
eloc|ucnt  speeches.  Regarding  the  "Civil  Rights 
Bill,"  he  gave  his  opinion  that  it  would  never 
be  enforced,  and  later  events  proved  the  sound- 
ness of  his  judgment  in  this  matter.  His  ser- 
vices on  a  special  congressional  committee  ap- 
pointed to  investigate  the  "White  League," 
"KuKlux,"  and  other  societies  of  this  kind, 
were  so  well  appreciated  by  the  city  of  New 
Orleans  that  he  was  given  a  public  dinner  and 
shown  the  greatest  honor.  President  Grant 
offered  him  the  post  of  assistant  secretary  of 
the  treasury,  which  was  declined  by  him  ;  in 
1881  President  Garfield  appointed  him  minister 
to  Austria^  where  he  showed  his  diplomacy  in 
a  way  to  bring  him  commendation,  but  when 
I^resident  Arthur  held  the  reins  of  government 
he  resigned  his  position.  He  was  elected  to 
congress  a  second  time,  and  served  several 
times  until  he  declined  renomination.  At  this 
time  he  was  one  of  the  regents  of  the  Smith- 
.sonian  Institute,  and  was  for  a  long  time  a 
trustee  of  Y'ale  College.  He  was  a  leader  in 
what  was  termed  the  "Young  Yale"  movement, 
which  gave  the  alumni  a  share  in  governing 
that  institution.  In  1889  President  Harrison 
appointed  Mr.  Phelps  on  the  Samoan  com- 
mission, and  his  brilliant  achievements  in  the 
terms  of  the  treaty  with  the  English  and  Ger- 
man commissioners  were  duly  appreciated,  as 


shown  when  the  President  personally  handed 
him  an  appointment  as  minister  to  Berlin,  Ger- 
many, where  he  lived  up  to  his  reputation  as  a 
diplomat.  Mr.  Phelps  was  a  man  of  large 
nature,  and  one  to  inspire  confidence  in  his 
fellows,  being  a  fluent  and  convincing  speaker. 
He  was  the  counsel  who  won  the  suit  of  his 
sister's  father-in-law,  W'illiam  E.  Dodge,  in  his 
contest  for  a  seat  in  the  house  of  representa- 
tives, in  1872.  His  fine  education  was  supple- 
mented by  travel,  and  he  took  great  interest  in 
current  events,  and  kept  abreast  of  the  times. 
While  in  Germany  he  caused  the  monument 
to  be  erected  in  \'evey,  Switzerland,  as  men- 
tioned before  in  this  article,  showing  that  he 
appreciated  the  valiant  deed  of  his  ancestor. 
I  lis  estate  in  New  Jersey  is  known  as  Teaneck, 
and  contains  over  a  thousand  acres,  lying  be- 
tween the  Hackensack  and  Hudson  rivers;  the 
house,  with  many  valuable  pictures  and  other 
works  of  art,  was  destroyed  by  fire  in  1888, 
and  since  then  has  not  been  rebuilt.  The  home- 
stead of  the  family  in  Sinisbury,  Connecticut, 
is  now  owned  by  Rev.  D.  Stuart  Dodge,  the 
husband  of  his  sister. 

He  married,  January  26,  i860,  Ellen,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  Sheffield,  founder  of  the  Shef- 
field Scientific  School  of  Y^ale  College,  born 
-August  4,  1838,  in  New  York  City,  and  they 
had  three  children,  as  follows:  i.  John  Jay. 
2.  .Shefiield,  born  July  24,  1854;  married 
Claudia  Lea ;  he  is  editor  of  the  Jersey  City 
Jonnial.  3.  Marion,  born  .August  10,  1868; 
married  Dr.  Franz  von  Rottenburg,  of  Bonn, 
( iermany,  a  very  learned  scholar,  and  he  holds 
a  good  position  under  the  (jerman  government. 

(  XI )  Captain  John  Jay,  elder  son  of  Hon. 
William  Walter  and  EUen  (Sheffield)  Phelps, 
was  born  September  2~,  1861,  in  Paris,  France. 
He  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1883,  after 
having  attended  the  public  schools  of  Teaneck, 
.\'ew  Jersey,  and  Newburg,  New'  Y^ork.  He 
sjient  about  two  years  in  New  York  City,  being 
connected  with  the  Farmers'  Loan  &  Trust 
Com])any,  of  that  city,  and  then  prepared  for  a 
]ileasure  trip  around  the  world  in  a  sailing 
\  acht.  a  uni(|ue  trip,  as  he  is  the  only  American 
who  has  undertaken  such  a  voyage.  .-\s  he 
commanded  the  yacht  himself,  he  applied  to 
the  United  States  government  for  a  master's 
commission,  and  received  the  necessary  docu- 
ments. Upon  his  return  in  1887  he  settled  at 
Teaneck.  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  on  part 
of  the  estate  of  his  father,  and  near  his  resi- 
dence, laying  out  the  grounds  in  beautiful  and 
artistic  style,  and  erecting  a  commodious  con- 
servatory, after  which  he  turned  his  energies 


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ill  tlic  diicctiun  of  a  business  enterprise,  tak- 
ing for  his  business  title  "Red  Towers  Green- 
liouses,"  which  he  has  carried  on  with  great 
I)lcasure  and  profit  to  himself.  For  two  terms 
lie  occu])ied  the  jjosition  of  freeholder.  At 
the  opening  of  the  Spanish-American  war  he 
enlisted,  was  given  rank  of  ensign,  and  served 
until  the  close  of  the  hostilities.  He  is  a  man 
of  genial  nature,  fond  of  out-of-door  life,  and 
is  a  member  of  a  number  of  naval  and  social 
clubs,  in  both  Xew  York  and  New  Jersey.  Fie 
lias  the  record  of  the  longest  trip  with  a  four- 
in-hand,  having  travelled  fifteen  hundred  and 
fifty  miles  in  one  expedition,  and  is  a  famous 
whip.  He  is  not  content  with  social  life,  but 
gives  n  large  share  of  his  attention  to  business 
enterprises,  which  have  his  personal  super- 
\ision.  He  is  vice-president  of  the  Hacken- 
.sack  National  Bank,  is  connected  with  various 
(>ther  institutions,  and  is  always  ready  to  give 
his  attention  to  any  legitimate  business  under- 
taking. He  inherited  great  wealth,  which  has 
carried  with  it  large  res])onsibilities. 

Captain  I'hel]xs  married,  April  26.  1888,  Rose 
J.  Hutchinson,  in  New  York  City,  and  they 
have  two  children :  Dorothy,  born  in  Sep- 
tember. i8go,  at  Lake  tieorge.  New  York,  and 
Rose,  born  May,  1895,  at  Teaneck,  New  Je'r- 
sev. 


jonatlian  1  larned.  the  first 
II A  K  X  I'.n  member  of  the  family  of  whom 
we  have  definite  information 
was  born  it  is  said  in  Somerset  county,  Xew 
Jersey,  .ibout  173''>.  and  died  in  New  York 
City,  December  11,  1845.  I  lis  father  was 
probably  one  of  the  brothers  of  Nathaniel 
I  lariied.  ]v..  of  \\'ot)dbridge,  who  was  born 
December  ^.  iji<).  and  married  (first)  Anna 
Classon,  and  (second)  L'pheam  .Alward,  but 
as  yet  no  records  have  come  to  light  which  will 
<letermine  which  brother  it  was.  Xathaniel 
llarned.  I>r.,  father  of  Xathaniel.  Jr..  was  the 
.Xathaniel  Harned.  born  about  i(x;o,  whose 
brother  Jonathan  married  Judith  Piloodg(X)d. 
of  .Kmboy,  and  died  childless  about  1774:  and 
it  is  believed  that  Xathaniel,  Sr..  and  Jonathan 
were  the  brothers  of  I'.dward  Harnett  who  was 
in  I  hintington.  Long  Island,  at  the  same  time. 
(  1  )  According  to  the  family  tradition,  Jon- 
athan Harned,  of  Somerset  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, and  New  York,  was  a  FViend,  as  all  the 
W'oodbridge  I  larneds  were :  but  when  the  rev- 
olutionary war  broke  out  he  enlisted  in  the 
American  army,  and  being  taken  jirisoner  by 
the  liritisli  he  was  sent  to  Jamaica,  West  Indies, 
where  he  remained  until  the  close  of  the  war. 


when  he  returnetl  to  New  York  City,  married 
and  settled  down,  and  became  one  of  the  most 
prominent  of  the  old-time  merchants.  In 
his  "Old  Merchants  of  New  York,"  Walter 
Uarret  says  Jonathan  Harned  and  his  wife 
"lived  in  Pearl  street.  Mr.  Harned  was  one 
hundred  years  old  when  he  died,  and  his  wife 
was  ninety-three.  They  lived  together  sixty 
years."  He  married.  May  8,  1782,  Mary  Cot- 
trcll.  who  survived  him  and  died  shortly  before 
.\pril  2^.  1852,  when  her  son  was  granted 
letters  of  administration  on  her  estate.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  John,  referred  to  below.  2.  William 
H..  was  executor  of  his  father's  will  and  ad- 
ministrator of  his  mother's  estate.  3.  James 
R.     4.  Delia,  married  Henry  Shell.     5.  Mary, 

married I'aker.     6.  Charlotte,  married 

William  Cofifin. 

(  II  )  John,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Cot- 
trell )  Harned,  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
about  1785.  He,  died  before  his  father,  bemg 
mentioned  as  deceased  in  the  latter's  will.  He 
married  Susan  Biggs,  of  Philadelphia.  Chil- 
dren :  Henry  Shell,  referred  to  below  :  Caro- 
line. 

(Ill)  Henry  Shell,  son  of  John  Harned. 
was  born  in  .Xew  York  City,  July  20,  1819.  He 
removed  to  Philadelphia.  I'eiinsylvania,  where 
he  was  living  at  the  time  of  his  grandfather's 
will,  and  became  a  manufacturer  of  furniture. 
I  le  married  Harriet,  daughter  iif  F"rancis 
I'arkerson.  of  Norwich,  England,  where  she 
w  as  liorn  in  1 825.  Children  :  I .  I  leury  1  'arkcrson, 
an  architect  in  Chicago,  Illinois.  2.  Thomas 
Biggs,  referred  to  below.  3.  l*"rank  Parkerson, 
now  (1910)  manager  of  the  Penn  Chemical 
Works,  in  Philadelphia.  4.  John  Frederick, 
referred  to  below. 

(  l\")  Thomas  lliggs.  second  child  of  Henry 
Shell  and  Harriet  I  Parkerson )  Harned,  was 
born  in  l'hiladel])hia,  Pennsylvania,  March  15, 
1S51.  and  is  now  living  in  Ciermantown,  Penn- 
>\  ixania.  I'or  his  early  education  he  attended 
liie  i^iubhc  schools  in  Camden,  New  Jersey, 
which  was  his  home  for  the  first  forty  years 
■  if  his  life.  He  left  the  public  schools  when 
twelve  vears  of  age  and  was  errand  boy  and 
>hi|)ping  clerk  for  the  Cohansey  Class  Coni- 
paiiv  until  he  was  nineteen  years  of  age  when 
lie  studied  law  with  Charles  T.  Read,  F^scjuire, 
of  Camden,  at  the  same  time  supporting  him 
self  by  doing  newspaper  work  in  Philadelphia. 
In  June,  1874,  he  was  admitted  to  the  Xew 
Jersey  bar  as  an  attorney,  and  in  June,  1877,  as 
counsellor.  In  1892  he  was  admitted  to  the 
I'hiladelpliia  bar.  His  practice  has  led  him 
inli>  ,ill   the  different  courts,  but  perhajis  the 


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bulk  of  his  large  and  successful  practice  has 
been  in  the  field  of  corporation  law.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Camden  Bar  Association,  and 
of  the  f'liiladeljihia  Bar  Assix'iation.  In  addition 
til  his  law  ])ractice  Air.  Harned  has  turned  his 
attention  to  literature  and  art,  in  which,  by  those 
who  know,  he  is  considered  to  be  an  excellent 
connoisseur.  He  enjoys  the  distinction  of  hav- 
ing been  the  most  intimate  friend  of  Walt 
Whitman,  the  poet,  when  he  lived  in  Camden, 
and  he  entertained  the  latter  many  times  at 
his  own  home.  When  Whitman  died  he  made 
Mv.  Harned  his  literary  executor.  Mr.  Harned 
has  travelled  very  much  abroad.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Art  Club  of  Philadelphia,  of  the 
Philadelphia  Academ\'  of  Fine  Arts  and  the 
Lotos  and  Salmaginidi  chibs  of  New  York 
City.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  German- 
town  Cricket  Club.  In  politics  Mr.  Harned 
is  an  independent,  antl  in  religion  a  Unitarian, 
being  the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
the  Unitarian  church  at  Germantown,  and  ex- 
president  of  the  I'nitarian  Club.  He  and  his 
brothers  are  excellent  examples  of  self-made 
men.  as  without  the  advantages  of  college  edu- 
cation they  have  all  of  them  made  a  marked 
success  of  the  careers  which  they  have  chosen. 

In  1877  Thomas  P>iggs  Harned  married  Au- 
gusta, daughter  of  Morris  H.  Traubel,  of  Cam- 
den, Xew  Jersey.  Children:  i.  Anna,  who  is 
making  a  specialty  of  music  and  has  spent 
some  time  in  Paris  and  other  European  cities 
in  (|nest  of  her  musical  education.  2.  Thomas 
Higgs,  Jr.,  a  graduate  of  Penn  Charter  School 
and  later  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Penn- 
.sylvania,  receiving  the  A.  B.  degree  in  1905 
and  LL.  B.  in  1906,  now  a  practicing  attorney 
of  Philadel])hia,  having  been  admitted  to  the 
Pennsylvania  bar  in  1906.  3.  Herbert  Spen- 
cer, graduate  of  Penn  Charter  School,  class  of 
1905.  entered  the  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
receiving  the  degree  of  A.  B.,  1909,  now  com- 
pleting a  post-graduate  course  in  chemistry. 

( I\')  John  Frederick,  youngest  son  of  Henry 
Shell  and  Harriet  (Parkerson)  Harned,  was 
born  in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  March  5,  1857, 
and  is  now  living  in  that  city.  For  his  early 
education  he  was  sent  to  the  public  schools  of 
Camden,  after  leaving  which  he  learned  the  art 
of  printing  in  the  office  of  the  Jl'cst  AVtc  Jer- 
sey Press,  at  Camden.  He  then  studied  law 
in  the  office  of  Marmaduke  B.  Taylor,  Esqnire, 
at  Camden,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jer- 
sey bar  as  an  attorney,  November  10,  1882. 
and  in  1885  as  a  counsellor.  December  11. 
1882.  he  was  made  a  master  in  chancery,  and 


February  16,  1904.  a  special  master  in  chan- 
cery. June  10,  1904,  he  was  admitted  to  prac- 
tice in  the  L'nited  States  district  court,  and 
also  in  the  United  States  circuit  court.  Since 
his  admission  to  the  bar,  he  has  been  steadily 
in  the  general  practice  of  his  profession,  mak- 
ing a  s])ecialty  of  real  estate  law.  In  connec- 
tion with  the  latter  he  has  become  the  counsel 
for  a  lumiber  of  building  associations.  In 
politics  Mr.  Harned  is  a  Republican,  and  in 
religion  a  Unitarian.  He  is  a  member  of  Trim- 
ble Lodge,  No.  117,  F"ree  and  Accepted  Masons, 
of  Cainden,  and  also  a  member  of  the  general 
council  for  the  Carder  of  Brotherhood  of  Amer- 
ica, and  of  his  local  lodge.  He  takes  great 
interest  in  the  history  of  his  state  and  county, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical 
Society,  and  of  the  Camden  County  Historical 
Society.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Security 
Trust  Company  of  Camden,  New  Jersey,  and 
director  and  counsel  for  the  Camden  Fire  In- 
surance Association. 

John  Frederick  Harned  married.  November 
14.  1888,  Helen  Cooper,  born  October  9,  1861, 
(laughter  of  Jonathan  and  Martha  C.  (Eastlack) 
I'lurr,  for  wIkjsc  ancestry  see  Burr  sketch  ap- 
pended. Child,  lohn  Frederick,  Jr.,  born  July 
16,  189(1. 

(The    Burr    Line). 

Jehu  Burr,  founder  of  the  branch  of  the 
Burr  family  which  settled  in  P'airfield,  Con- 
necticut, was  born  in  England,  about  1600, 
died  in  Fairfield,  Coiniecticnt,  about  1670.   He 

married Stedman.    Children:     I.  Jehu. 

married  (first)  Mary,  daughter  of  Andrew 
Ward,  and  (second)  Esther,  widow  of  Joseph 
Boosey,  of  Westchester  county.  2.  John,  born 
in  England,  died  October,  1694;  married  Sarah 
Fitch.  3.  Nathaniel,  referred  to  below.  4. 
Daniel,  married  .Abigail  Glover,  of  New  Haven. 

(II)    Nathaniel,    son    of    Jehu    and 

(  Stedman  )  Burr,  was  born  probably  in  Spring- 
field, about  1640,  died  between  February  22, 
and  March  5,  1712.  He  was  a  freeman  of 
Fairfield  in  1664,  constable  in  1669,  and  repre- 
sented the  town  in  the  general  court  from  1692 
to  1695.  He  married  (first)  Sarah,  daughter 
of  Andrew  Ward,  of  Fairfield,  and  (second) 
the  Widow  Wakefield,  who  was  the  mother  of 
Cajjtain  Joseph  Wakefield.  Children,  two  by 
first  marriage:  I.  Sarah,  married  John  Wheel- 
er.   2.  Nathaniel,  married  Susanna  Lockwood. 

3.  John,  married  (first)  Deborah  ,  and 

(second)  the  Widow  Elizabeth  W^akeman.  4. 
Daniel,  referred  to  below.  5.  Ann,  married 
Gideon  Allen,     (i.  Marv,  married La- 


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Sloss.     8. 


Rebecca,  tiled  May  16.  1721;  married  Captain 
Samuel  Sherwood. 

(III)  Daniel,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Sarah 
(Ward)    Burr,   died   in  Jime,    1722;   married 

]\Iary ,  who  died  about  1743.    Children  : 

I.    Nathaniel,    married     Martha     Sillman.      2 

James,  married  Deborah  Twiney.  3.  John, 
referred  to  below.  4.  David.  5.  Rebecca, 
married  Robert  Turner,  of  Stratford.  6.  Mary, 
married  Nathaniel  Adams,  of  Norwalk. 

(IV)  John,  son  of  Daniel  and  Mary  Burr, 
died  in  1787.  He  married  (first),  October  14, 
1737,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Nash, 
who  died  March  29,  1740,  and  (second)  No- 
vember 9,  1740.  Grace,  daughter  of  Gershom 
Bulkley.  Children,  two  by  first  marriage:  i. 
Daniel,  referred  to  below.  2.  John,  born  Oc- 
tober 9,  1739,  died  October  9,  1749.  3.  Eliza- 
beth.   September    16,    1743 ;    married    

Bulkley.  4.  Talcott,  October  20,  1746;  married 
Mindwell  Banks.  5.  John,  February  9.  1751  ; 
married  Martha  Godfrey.  6.  Grace,  Febru- 
ary 2,  1753:  married  Thaddeus  \\!hitlocke.    7. 

Eunice,  Se])tember  24.   1755:  married 

Jennings. 

(V)  Daniel  (2).  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Nash)  Burr,  was  born  in  Fairfield,  Connecti- 
cut, March  5,  1737.  He  removed  to  Westport, 
Connecticut,  and  married  Abigail  Bulkley.  of 
(jrecn  Farms.  Children:  i.  John,  referred 
to  below.  2.  Zalmon,  born  August  31.  1773; 
married  Mary  Hanford.  3.  Elizabeth,  baptized 
July  18,  1779:  died  unmarried. 

(VI)  Jonathan,  son  of  Daniel  (2)  and  Abi- 
gail (Bulkley)  Burr,  was  born  at  Green  Farms. 
Connecticut.  November  5,  1769,  and  baptized 
January  28,  1770.  He  married  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  ICbenezer  Redfield,  who  was  born  in 
1770.  Children:  i.  Henrietta,  born  December 
'').  1791.  died  aged  twenty-five.  1849:  married 
Samuel  J.  Morehouse.  2.  Daniel.  July.  1794. 
died  March  21.  1879;  married  Charlotte  Pier- 
son.  3.  Elizabeth,  November  8,  I79''>.  died 
May  28.  1867:  married  Morris  .\lvord.  4. 
M.-irtlia.  Deceml)er  17.  1799.  died  December  18, 
1887;  married  William  C.  Hull.  5.  Sarah, 
July  27,  1802,  died  .\ugust  8.  1879;  married 
I'.dward  Hyde.  C>.  Abigail.  July  18.  1805,  died 
March  23.  1839;  married  William  H.  Burr.  7. 
lonathan.  referred  to  below.  8.  Ebenezer 
Ward.  March  19.  181 1.  died  December  29. 
1889:  married  Mary  E.  Stapes.  9.  \iigustns. 
October  C\  181 3. 

(VH)  Jonathan  (2).  son  nf  [onatiian  (i  1 
and  Sarah  I  Redfield)  Burr,  was  born  in  West- 
port.  Connecticut.  December  5,  1807.     .\t  six- 


teen he  went  to  sea,  was  a  sailor  for  twenty- 
one  years,  during  ten  of  which  he  was  com- 
mander of  a  vessel  plying  between  New  York 
and  South  American  ports.  At  thirty-seven 
years  of  age  he  went  to  Camden,  New  Jersey, 
and  started  in  the  grocery  business  at  Third 
and  .\rch  streets.  He  was  appointed  post- 
master by  I'resident  Pierce,  but  resigned  a 
year  or  two  later  and  went  into  the  real  estate 
business,  which  he  conducted  successfully  for 
forty-seven  years.  For  thirty-three  years  he 
was  secretary  of  the  Camden  Fire  Insurance 
Company.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat,  and 
for  fifty  years  he  was  one  of  the  most  rcmark- 
?ble  men  imd  best  known  residents  of  Camden. 
He  married  (first).  August  25.  1840,  Jane  T. 
liiay.  of  Cape  May  county.  New  Jersey,  who 
died  at  Mobile,  Alabama,  November  10,  1844; 
(second),  July  10,  1849,  Martha  C.  Eastlack, 
of  Camden,  New  Jersey,  who  died  there,  Feb- 
ruary ID,  1866;  (third),  January  5.  1870,  Mar- 
tha Edwards,  of  Camden.  Children,  one  by 
first  and  seven  by  second  marriage:  i.  Eliza 
}..  born  October  i.  1842,  died  May  7.  1844. 
2.  I*",liza  J.,  Jul}-  2b,  1850;  married  Abraham 
Anderson.  3.  Sarah  Redfield,  July  14,  1852; 
married  Charles  J.  Knapp.  4.  Jonathan  S.. 
December  8,  1854.  died  .November  10,  1856. 
"  Irank  J..  December  25,  1856;  married  Lillie 
1..  r>ritton.  6.  .\da  C,  May  17,  1859;  married 
Harry  .M.  Anderson.  7.  Helen  Cooper,  referred 
to  below.  8.  -Martha  C.  I'ebruary  10,  1866, 
died  July  ().   iSfti. 

(\'I1I)  Helen  Cooper,  tlaughter  of  Jona- 
than (2)  and  Martha  C.  (Eastlack)  Burr,  was 
born  in  Camden,  New  Jersey.  October  9,  1861  ; 
married.  November  14,  1888,  John  Frederick, 
son  of  Henry  .Shell  and  Harriet  (Parkerson) 
llarne(l.  of  Camden.  One  child,  John  Fred- 
erick I  larncd.  Ir. 


The    name    of    Johnson    has 
JOHNSON      been      familiar      throughout 

South  Jersey  from  its  first 
settlement  by  F.uropeaus.  but  in  various  forms, 
that  nf  the  family  here  under  consideration 
l>eiug  the  ancient  English  and  Scotch  form,  as 
dirt'ering  from  the  Continental  eciuivalents — 
johansnn,  Jansen.  etc.  The  Swedish  family 
of  Johanson  located  on  the  eastern  shore  of 
the  Delaware,  now  Penn's  Neck,  in  1640.  and 
their  name  was  soon  changed  to  Johnson.  The 
first  luiglish  emigi.'mt  Johnson  was  Richard, 
who  with  his  cousin  Thomas  came  and  located 
in  Fenwick's  Tenth,  a  few  months  before  the 
jiroprietor. 

( ] )    lolin  [ohnson,  who  was  not  in  anv  wav 


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connected,  so  far  as  now  known,  with  those 
above  mentioned,  is  the  founder  of  the  family 
here  considered.  He  emigrated  to  this  country 
about  1756,  from  Ireland,  being  of  the  sturdy 
Scotch- Irish  race  which  figured  so  numerously 
and  usefully  in  peopling  the  New  World.  He 
had  considerable  means  at  his  disposal,  and 
located  a  large  tract  of  land  in  the  township 
of  I'ile.sgrove,  now  Pittsgrove,  and  settled 
there.  He  died  March  31,  1802,  aged  seventy- 
one  \ears.  His  wife,  who  came  over  with  him 
as  a  bride,  was  Jane  Suayberry,  who  survived 
him,  and  died  June  28,  1825,  at  the  age  of 
ninety-two  jears  and  eight  months.  Children 
of  Joiin  and  Jane  (Suayberry)  Johnson:  1. 
James,  born  October  31,  1757,  died  February 
9,  1837;  married,  February  28,  1781,  Chris- 
tiana Swing;  sixteen  children.  2.  John,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  Rebeccah,  married  (first) 
Benjamin  Harding,  (second)  Hugh  ]\Iaguire. 
4.  Samuel,  married  (first)  Xancy  .McClung, 
(second)  Sarah  Martin.  5.  Phebe,  married 
John  .Stewart,  and  went  to  Delaware.  6.  Will- 
iam, married  Elizabeth  Maguire,  and  removed 
to  New  York  state.  7.  Mary,  married  Samuel 
Elwell,  and  went  to  Indiana.  8.  Isaac,  born 
July  J],  1772,  died  January  5,  1852;  married, 
June  24.   1795,  Mary  Elwell;  twelve  children. 

(  II  )  John  (2),  second  son  of  John  (i)  and 
Jane  (Suayberry)  Johnson,  was  born  October 
I,  1759-  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Cornelius  Dubois,  in  1783;  children:  i.  Cor- 
nelius, l)orn  June  12,  1784;  married  Elizabeth 
\'ick.  >.  John,  referred  to  below.  3.  Jane, 
born  Marcli  13,  1790;  married  Robert  Dubois. 
4.  Ann,  May  5,  1792,  died  unmarried.  5. 
David,  May  8,  1793;  married  Hannah,  daugh- 
ter of  David  Dickinson.  6.  F)enjamin,  A]iril 
14,  1799:  married  Maria,  daughter  of  William 
Mayhew.  7.  Robert,  April  28,  1801,  died  un- 
married. 8.  IClizabeth,  April  2,  1807;  marrie<l 
Enoch,  son  of  David  Mayhew.  9  to  12.  Died 
in  infancy'. 

(  111  )  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  and  Eliza- 
beth (!.)ii!)ois)  Johnson,  was  born  April  7. 
1788,  in  Johnson  Field,  Gloucester,  now  At- 
lantic county.  New  Jersey.  He  married  (first) 
Abigail,  daughter  of  .\sa  Stricklon ;  (second) 
Rebecca  Bell,  widow  of  William  Adams.  Chil- 
dren, all  by  first  wife:  i.  Elijah,  married 
Achsah  Pell.  2.  James,  married  Hannah  Bell. 
3.  ^lark,  married  Mary  Ann  Somers.  4.  Will- 
iam, married  Betsy  Kendall.  3.  Charlotte, 
married  John  Adams.  6.  Sarah,  married  Felix 
Adams.  7.  Enoch,  referred  to  below.  It  is  a 
curious   fact  well  worth  noting,  that  the  two 


oldest  sons  of  John  Johnson  each  married  a 
sister  of  his  second  wife,  while  his  three  young- 
est children  each  married  a  child  of  his  second 
wife  by  her  first  husband. 

(1\')  Enoch,  youngest  child  of  John  (3) 
and  Abigail  (Stricklon)  Johnson,  was  born  at 
Pomona,  Atlantic  county,  New  Jersey,  in  18 16, 
anil  died  January  15,  1889.  He  married 
Michal,  daughter  of  William  and  Rebecca 
(  Bell)  Adams,  who  became  later,  by  his  father's 
second  marriage,  his  stepsister  also.  Children  : 
1.  .\ndrew,  died  in  Missouri,  October,  1905, 
leaving  a  widow  Rachael.  2.  Josephine,  mar- 
ried (first)  Maurice  Souders,  (second)  Sam- 
uel Endicott,  the  latter  a  descendant  of  Gov- 
ernor Endicott,  of  Massachusetts  Bay  colony. 
3.  Eliza,  unmarried.  4.  Caroline,  died  unmar- 
ried. 5.  Sabrina,  married  Joel  lligbee.  6. 
Ella,  unmarried.  7.  Joseph,  married  Sarah 
Tilton.  8  and  9.  Names  unknown.  10.  Smith 
iMidicott,  referred  to  below.  11.  Somers,  died 
aged  six  years. 

(  \  )  Smith  Eiidicott,  tenth  child  of  Enoch 
and  Michal  (Adams)  Johnson,  was  born  Oc- 
tober 15,  1853,  '^^'-'^  's  now  living  at  Atlantic 
City,  New  Jersey.  After  receiving  his  early 
education  at  Smithville  and  Leeds  Point  he 
went  to  sea,  but  after  several  years  of  this  ex- 
])erience  he  engaged  in  farming,  in  which  he 
continued  until  1887.  A  man  of  excellent  abil- 
ities he  has  been  frequently  called  to  import- 
ant official  position.  In  1891  he  was  a  member 
of  the  New  Jersey  legislature,  and  during  his 
term  of  otifice  served  on  the  committees  on  elec- 
tions, and  on  law.  This  service  in  the  legisla- 
ture was  during  the  interval  between  two  of 
his  terms  as  sheriff,  the  New  Jersey  law  speci- 
fying that  no  sheriff  can  succeed  himself.  In 
cousec|uence,  while  Mr.  Johnson,  who  was 
elected  sheriff'  of  Atlantic  county  in  1887,  has 
not  had  a  continuous  service  in  the  office  until 
tii-day.  he  has  been  elected  regularly  at  every 
other  election  his  last  term  expiring  in  1908, 
when  his  son  was  elected  to  succeed  him.  It 
is  almost  unnecessary  to  say  that  he  is  regarded 
as  one  of  the  most  efficient  sherififs  that  the 
county  has  ever  had.  Mr.  Johnson  married 
Virginia  Sooy,  daughter  of  Joab  and  Mary 
(Sooy)  Higbee,  granddaughter  of  Eli  Higbee. 
( )n  both  sides  of  her  house,  Mrs.  Johnson 
comes  from  families  which  have  always  been 
prominent  in  the  history  of  South  Jersey,  and 
she  is  a  member  of  the  Lafayette  Chaj'jter. 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution.  Chil- 
dren of  Smith  Endicott  and  Virginia  Sooy 
(Higbee)    Johnson:      i.   Alfred  Higbee,  born 


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March  17,  1878:  married  Martha  S.  Armour, 
of  \\'estchestcr  county,  Pennsylvania.  2.  Enoch 
Lewis,  referred  to  below. 

(\'I)  Enoch  Lewis,  younger  son  of  Smith 
Endicott  and  \lrginia  Sooy  (Higbee)  Johnson, 
was  born  at  Leeds  Point,  Atlantic  county.  New 
Jersey,  January  20,  1883.  and  is  now  living  at 
Mays  Landing.  I'or  his  early  education  lie  at- 
tended the  ])ublic  schools  of  ^laj's  Landing  and 
Atlantic  City,  and  after  graduating  from  the 
high  school  read  law  in  the  office  of  George  A. 
fjourgeois.of  .\tlanticCity.  After  this  he  became 
a  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  sheriff  of  Atlantic 
county  during  one  of  his  father's  terms.  He  then 
became  one  of  the  under-sheriffs  of  the  county, 
and  in  November,  1908,  was  elected  to  succeed 
his  father  as  sheriff'.  No  greater  proof  could 
be  given  than  this  election  of  the  high  estima- 
tion in  which  Mr.  Johnson  is  held  by  those 
who  know  him.  .At  the  time  of  his  election  he 
was  only  twenty-five  years  old,  and  therefore 
not  only  the  youngest  sheriff  in  the  state,  but, 
so  far  as  is  known,  the  youngest  man  ever 
elected  to  that  honorable  office.  Mr.  Johnson's 
majority  was  far  ahead  of  his  ticket,  and  per- 
sons of  all  classes  and  shades  of  politics  speak 
in  the  highest  manner  of  his  honesty  and  effi- 
ciency. In  ])olitics  Sheriff  Johnson  is  a  Repub- 
lican. He  is  assistant  secretary  of  the  Repub- 
lican executive  committee  of  .Atlantic  City,  and 
a  member  of  the  Republican  organization  of 
the  Second  Ward  of  the  same  jilace.  fie  is 
the  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  .Atlantic 
Real  Estate  and  Investment  Company.  He  is 
an  ardent  and  enthusiastic  secret  society  man. 
He  is  a  member  of  Belcher  Lodge,  No.  180. 
F.  and  A.  M.,  of  .Atlantic  City;  of  Trinity 
Chai)ter,  No.  38,  R.  A.  M.;  of  the  order  of 
I'llks,  No.  276,  of  Atlantic  City;  and  Fraternal 
Mystic  Circle,  of  Atlantic  City.  In  religious 
affiliation  he  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church.  On  September  12,  1906 
Mr.  Johnson  married  Mabel  Smith,  born  Sep- 
tember 14,  1883,  daughter  of  Lewis  E.  Jeffiers, 
of  Mays  Landing,  New  Jersey. 


John   W'right,   the   first   of  the 
WRIGHT     family  of  whom  wc  have  defi- 
nite information,  was  Lord  of 
Kelvedon  Manor,  county  Essex,  England.     He 

married  Olive .     He  died  in  1551. 

(H)  Robert,  son  of  John  and  Olive  Wright, 
was  a  resident  of  Brook  Hall,  or  "The  Moat 
House,"  in  South  Weald,  county  Essex,  Eng- 
land. He  was  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Great 
and  Little  Ropers.  He  married  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of    Robert  Green,  of   Navestock,  county 


Esse.x,  England.  He  was  buried  January  25. 
1587-88. 

(HI)  Thomas,  son  of  Robert  and  Mary 
(Green)  Wright,  was  a  resident  of  Brook 
Hall,  or  "The    Moat    House."     He  married 

Rabidge   (or  Roberdge),  daughter  of  

Pake.  He  was  buried  November  17,  1603, 
and  his  wife  was  buried  October  21,  161 7. 
They  were  the  parents  of  eleven  children, 
namely:  Mary,  baptized  March  20.  1568-69; 
-Alice,  February  28,  1569-70;  Robert,  January 
12,  1750-51;  Joan,  January  i,  1671-72;  Tho- 
mazine,  January  9,  1672-73 ;  Katherine,  Janu- 
ary 9,  1572-73;  Alice,  Alay  21,  1574;  John,  Sep- 
tember 13,  1577;  \\'illiani.  October  22,  1578: 
Matthew ;  Olive. 

(I\')  John  (2),  son  of  Thomas  and  Rab- 
idge \\'right,  was  baptized  September  13,  1577. 
He  was  a  resident  of  Brook  Hall,  or  "The 
Moat  House."  He  married  Grace,  daughter 
of  Henry  Glascock,  of  High  Easter  Parson- 
age, county  Essex,  England.  They  were  the 
parents  of  eleven  children,  namely:  John,  bap- 
tized August  13,  1602;  Grace,  August  26. 
1604;  Anne,  May  5,  1605;  Martha,  April  12. 
1607;  Anthony,  January  23,  1608-09;  Thomas, 
November  19,  1610;  Grace,  February  15, 
1612-13;  Thomazine,  January  30,  1613-14; 
.Anthony,  February  27.  1615-16;  .Anne,  Sep- 
tember 7,  1618;  Ignatius,  .April  25,  1621.  John 
Wright  was  buried  May  30,  1640. 

(V)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Grace  (Glascock)  Wright,  was  baptized  No- 
vember 19,  1610.  He  emigrated  to  America 
and  is  found  at  Wethersfield,  Connecticut. 
1640.  He  was  deputy  to  the  general  court, 
1643.  The  name  of  his  first  wife  is  unknown. 
He  married  (second)  after  May  i,  1647,  Mar- 
garet, widow  of  John  Elson.  They  were  the 
parents  of  five  children,  namely:  Thomas, 
probably  born  in  England,  1630;  James,  1632; 
Lydia,  1634;  Samuel,  1636-37;  Joseph,  1639. 
Thomas  W'right  died  at  Wethersfield,  Con- 
necticut, April,  1670,  and  his  wife  died  in  the 
same  year. 

(VL)  Deacon  Joseph,  son  of  Thomas  (21 
and  Margaret  (Elson)  Wright,  was  born  1639, 
died  at  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  December 
17,  1714.  The  gravestone  was  still  visible  in 
1856.  He  married  (first)  December  10.  1663, 
Mary,  born  1643,  died  August  23.  1683,  daugh- 
ter of  Stoddard.     Married    (second) 

ATarch  10,  1685,  Mercy  Stoddard,  sister  of  his 
first  wife. 

(\'II)  Deacon  Thomas  (3),  only  child  of 
Deacon  Josejih  and  Mary  (Stoddard)  WVight, 
was  born  at  \\'ethersfield,  Connecticut,  Janu- 


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ary  18,  1676,  died  there  October.  1760.  The 
gravestone  was  still  visible  in  1856.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  October  4,  1705,  Prudence  Deal- 
ing ;  she  died  October  24,  1706.  Married  (sec- 
ond )   November  3,   1715,  Abigail  Churchill. 

(\  III )  Rev.  Ebenezer,  only  child  of  Deacon 
Thomas  (3)  and  Prudence  (Deming)  Wright, 
was  born  at  W'ethersfield,  Connecticut.  Octo- 
ber 2,  1706.  He  graduated  at  Yale  College, 
1724,  and  subsequently  took  degree  of  -A.  M. 
He  was  ordained  in  May.  1732,  preached  at 
Stamford,    Connecticut,   and    is   said   to   have 

been  a  powerful  preacher.  He  married ; 

she     married     (second)     St.     John; 

(third)   Rev.  Dickenson,  of  Norwalk. 

They  were  the  parents  of  five  children, 
namely :  Thomas,  married  Martha,  daughter 
of  r.enjamin  Butler,  of  Wethersfield  ;  Ebene- 
zer, born  January  14,  1742;  Joseph  Allen  was 
a  major  in  Continental  service  during  the  rev- 
olutionary war;  married  Abigail  Bostwick : 
Prudence,  married  Ebenezer  Wells ;  Hannah, 

married    Rev.    Kellogg;    preached    at 

North  Bolton,  now  X'ernon,  Connecticut.  Rev. 
Ebenezer  Wright  died  at  Stamford,  Connecti- 
cut, May  5,  1746. 

(IX)  Ebenezer  (2),  son  of  Rev.  Ebenezer 
(i)  Wright,  was  born  at  Wethersfield,  Con- 
necticut, January  14,  1742.  He  was  a  lieu- 
tenant in  Continental  service  in  the  revolu- 
tionary war.  He  married,  November  13,  1768, 
Grace,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Butler,  of  Weth- 
ersfield. and  sister  of  his  brother  Thomas' 
wife;  she  was  born  at  W'ethersfield,  January 
29.  1749.  They  were  the  parents  of  six  chil- 
dren, namely:  Ebenezer,  born  July  2,  1769; 
married  Beulah  Harrison,  of  Lyme,  Connecti- 
cut;  Benjamin,  born  October  10,  1770;  Allen, 
born  June  22,  1773;  married,  September  10, 
1798,  Mercy,  daughter  of  Matthew  Brown; 
Hannah,  born  .\ugust  3.  1776.  died  July  21, 
1815:  married  Parker  Halleck,  of  Rome,  New 
York;  William,  born  July  31,  1778;  was  a 
merchant  of  Rome,  New  York;  married,  De- 
cember 17,  1807,  Mary  Sophronia,  daughter  of 
Rev.  Henry  Ely,  of  Connecticut ;  Joseph  But- 
ler, born  Alay  2,  1783;  married,  March  25, 
18 10,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Josiah  Hurlbut,  of 
Vermont.  Ebenezer  ^^'right  died  at  Rome. 
New  York,  September  2,  1808:  his  widow  died 
July  14.  i82r. 

(X)  Benjamin,  son  of  Ebenezer  (2)  and 
Grace  (Butler)  Wright,  was  born  at  Wethers- 
field. Connecticut.  October  10,  1770,  died  Au- 
gust 24,  1842,  in  New  York  City,  where  he 
had  resided  for  many  years.  He  served  as 
county    judge,    member    of    state    legislature, 


chief  engineer  of  the  Erie  Canal  and  in  various 
other  important  public  works.  He  married, 
September  27,  1798,  Philomela,  daughter  of 
Rev.  Simon  Waterman,  of  Connecticut ;  she 
died  in  New  York  City,  May  13,  1835.  They 
were  the  parents  of  nine  children,  namely:  i. 
Henry,  born  October  14,  1799,  died  October 
25,  1826 ;  educated  at  Hamilton  College ;  was 
civil  engineer  and  surveyor.  2.  Benjamin 
Hall,  born  October  19,  1801  ;  graduated  at 
West  Point,  1822;  resigned  1823;  became  civil 
engineer  and  surveyor ;  was  instrumental  in 
introducing  railroads  in  Cuba,  West  Indies ; 
had  charge  of  works  of  importance  there,  in 
the  employ  of  the  Spanish  government ;  mar- 
ried. December  9,  1828,  Henrietta  D..  daughter 
of  Henry  Huntington,  of  Rome,  New  York: 
she  died  September  23,  1865.  3.  James,  born 
August  9,  1803,  died  at  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
December  20,  1857;  educated  at  Montreal, 
Canada  East ;  merchant  and  financier  in  New 
York  and  Philadelphia  ;  married,  July  15,  1829, 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Francis  Markoe,  merchant 
in  New  York  and  Philadelphia.  4.  Mary 
Smith,  born  June  29,  1806,  died  in  Brooklyn, 
Xew  York,  April  26,  1862  ;  married.  March  14, 
1832,  Thomas  Shepard  Nelson,  merchant  in 
New  York,  died  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  April 
12,  1862.  5.  Simon  Waterman,  born  F^ebru- 
ary  21,  1808,  died  August  24,  1854;  educated 
at  Captain  Partridge's  Military  School ;  civil 
engineer  and  surveyor  in  Cuba  and  United 
States.  6.  Albert  Wells,  born  Alarch  22,  1810. 
7.  Joshua  Butler,  born  March  9,  1812;  edu- 
cated at  Yale  and  Rutgers ;  lawyer  in  New 
York ;  married,  October  30,  1850,  Susan 
Louisa,  daughter  of  H.  D.  Bradford,  of  New 
York.  8.  George  Smith,  born  January  14, 
1814;  cashier  of  First  National  Bank  of  Mar- 
shall, Michigan;  married,  December  21,  1842, 
Susan  Maria,  born  March  24,  1823,  daughter 
of  Daniel  Pratt,  of  Marshall,  Michigan.  9. 
Frances  Eunice,  born  January  i,  1820,  died 
November,  1873;  married,  January  14,  1857, 
Chauncey  L.  Mitchell,  M.  D.,  of  Brooklyn, 
Mew  York. 

(XI)  .\lbert  Wells,  son  of  Benjamin  and 
Philomela  (Waterman)  Wright,  was  born 
March  22,  1810.  He  was  educated  at  Ham- 
ilton College,  Xew  York,  and  was  a  merchant 
and  broker  in  Xew  York.  He  married,  .'Vpril 
17,  1837.  Elizabeth  Adams,  daughter  of  Garret 
B.  Abeel,  of  New  York.  Children:  i.  Nelson, 
born  March,  1840.  2.  Theodore  Abeel,  born 
January  2,  1841,  died  August  7,  1842. 

(XII)  Nelson,  son  of  Albert  Wells  and 
Elizabeth  Adams  (Abeel)  Wright,  was  born  in 


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New  York  City,  March,  1840,  died  at  his  home 
in  Woodside,  Newark,  New  Jersey,  June  6, 
1876.  He  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life 
in  New  York  City,  where  he  was  a  manufac- 
turer of  telescope  lenses.  He  subsequently  re- 
moved to  Newark,  New  Jersey,  and  during  the 
last  few  j'ears  of  his  life  was  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  J.  M.  Quiiiby  &  Company,  carriage 
manufacturers.  \\  hen  the  civil  war  broke  out 
he  desired  to  go  to  the  front,  but  was  prevented 
by  the  wishes  of  his  mother,  although  he  was 
on  General  Ewing's  staflf.  He  was  a  commu- 
nicant and  vestryman  of  St.  John's  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  in  Newark.  He  married, 
in  1865.  .Anna  Emeline,  daughter  of  James 
Moses  and  Phebe  Ayres  (Sweazy)  Quinby,  of 
Newark,  New  Jersey  (see  Quinby,  XI). 
Children:  i.  Albert  Waterman,  born  in  New 
York,  died  December  8,  1873.  2.  Louisa  Elsie, 
born  in  New  York ;  married  Arthur  H.  Mackie  , 
children :  Elizabeth  Quinby.  born  in  Newark, 
April,  1904.  and  Nelson  Wright,  born  Novem- 
ber 13.  1906. 

(The  Quinby  Line). 

The  Quinby  family  are  supposed  to  have 
come  over  into  England  with  the  Danish  in- 
vasion, the  name  originating  at  Quarmby  or 
Quermby  near  Hotherfield,  Yorkshire,  and  the 
first  person  bearing  the  name  on  record  being 
Hugh  de  Quarmby,  1341.  Branches  of  the 
family  moved  into  Farnham,  Surrey,  near 
London,  and  in  the  south  transept  of  the  old 
church  there  is  a  tablet  to  Robert  Quynby,  one 
of  the  first  bailiffs  of  Farnham,  who  died  in 
1570.  According  to  tradition  a  Quinby  set- 
tled at  Stratford-on-.Avon,  and  is  said  to  have 
been  related  to  Shakespeare  through  Judith 
Shakesjjeare,  who  married  Richard  Quinby, 
but  the  researches  of  Dr.  George  A.  Quinby, 
of  New  York,  have  conclusively  proved  that 
this  is  an  error,  the  real  name  of  Judith 
Shakespeare's  husband  being  Quinny.  not 
Quinby.  The  arms  of  the  Quinby  family  are : 
Argent,  two  bars  sable  in  chief  a  proper  Corn- 
ish chough.  Crest :  .X  Cornish  chough  in 
arms. 

(I)  Thomas  Quinby,  the  founder  of  the 
.American  branch  of  the  family,  landed  in 
Salem,  Massachusetts,  about  1630,  accom- 
panied by  his  sons,  John  and  Robert. 

fll)  Robert,  son  of  Thomas  Quinby,  was 
a  ship  car])enter,  and  his  name  is  of  record  in 
Norfolk  county.  Massachusetts,  in  1643-46. 
.Among  his  children  was  a  son  William. 

(HI)  William,  son  of  Robert  Quinby,  was 
the  founder  of  the  Connecticut  and  New  Jer- 
sey families.     Accompanied  by  his  wife  and 


two  children  he  removed  to  Stratford,  Con- 
necticut, of  which  he  was  one  of  the  founders, 
and  where  his  sons,  John,  in  1654,  and  Thomas, 
in  1660,  are  of  record. 

(IV)  John,  son  of  William  Quinby,  was 
one  of  the  principal  proprietors  of  New  Cas-  ! 
tie,  Westchester  county.  New  York,  and  in 
1662  was  appointed  magistrate  by  Governor 
Pctrus  Stuyvesant.  He  married  Deborah 
Haight.  Children:  John,  Charles,  Josiah, 
Mary,   Deborah. 

(V)  Josiah,  son  of  John  and  Deborah 
(  Haight)  Quinby,  married,  in  1689,  Mary 
Mulleneux.  They  were  the  parents  of  eleven 
children,  of  whom  the  first  four  were:  i.  Jo- 
siah, referred  to  below.  2.  John,  married 
Anna  Kierstede.  3.  Ephraim,  born  February 
7,  1700,  died  1767;  married  Elizabeth  Halli- 
day;  moved  to  .Amwell.  New  Jersey.  4. 
Isaiah,  born   .April   11,    1716. 

(VI)  Josiah  (2),  son  of  Josiah  (i)  and 
Mary  (Alulleneu.x)  Quinby,  was  born  in  1692. 
He  married  Hannah  Cornell,  and  had  a  son 
Josiah,  referred  to  below. 

(\TI)  Josiah  (3),  son  of  Josiah  (2)  and 
Hannah  (Cornell)  Quinby,  was  born  in  1726, 
died  in  1804.  About  1746  he  settled  in  Orange, 
New  Jersey.  In  1776  he  was  a  lieutenant  in 
Captain  Potter's  company  of  the  Third  Battal- 
ion of  the  First  Establishment  of  the  New  Jer- 
sey line,  and  served  until  discharged  with  the 
battalion.  He  owned  a  large  farm  in  the 
region  of  what  is  now  Llewellyn  Park.  He 
married,  in  1747,  Martha,  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Alartha  (Sargeant)  Harrison,  grand- 
daughter of  Joseph  Harrison,  and  great-grand- 
daughter of  Sergeant  Richard  and  Dorcas 
(Ward)  Harrison.  Children:  i.  Moses,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  .Aaron,  born  1754,  died 
1824.  3.  Joseph,  died  at  \\'estfield.  New  Jer- 
sey, 1835;  married  (first)  Jemima  Downer; 
(second)  Polly  Elmer.  4.  John,  served  during 
the  revolution  with  the  First  Battalion  of  the 
.Second  Establishment  and  was  wounded  at 
lirandywine.  5.  Josiah,  moved  to  Troy  Hills, 
.New  Jersey :  married  Phebe  Harrison  and  had 
eight  children.  6.  Patty.  7.  Jemima.  8. 
Sarah,  born  1753.  9.  Phebe,  died  February 
14,  1789.  ID.  Hannah.  11.  and  12.  Two 
daughters,  names  unknown. 

(\'III)  Moses,  eldest  son  of  Josiah  (3)  and 
Martha  (Harrison)  Quinby,  was  born  in 
Orange,  New  Jersey.  T749.  died  there  in  1825. 
I'jy  his  wife  Mary  he  had  at  least  three  children 
who  were  baptized  in  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Orange,  October  16,  1774,  namely: 
Lois,  Caleb,  Jotham,  referred  to  below. 


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(IX)  Jotham.  son  of  Moses  and  Mary 
Oiiinby,  was  born  in  Orange,  Xew  Jersey,  May 
T,i.  1773.  He  resided  in  a  stone  house,  built 
in  1774,  on  the  Smith  property  on  Scotland 
street.  South  Orange.  This  old  house  he 
demolished  about  1834,  using  the  stone  in  the 
basement  of  his  new  house,  which  he  CH:cu])ied 
many  years.  He  married  Lillias,  daughter  of 
James  and  Flleanor  (Harrison)  Smith,  grand- 
daughter of  David  and  Martha  (Freeman) 
Smith,  and  great-granddaughter  of  James  and 
Mary  lialdwin  (Crane)  Smith,  the  latter  a 
daughter  of  Deacon  Azariah  Crane,  who  mar- 
ried Mary  Treat,  daughter  of  Governor  Treat 
of  Connecticut.  Children  :  Jonas,  James  Moses, 
referred  to  below ;  Antoinette,  Orlando, 
Hiram,  Hannali.  Lillias,  died  young. 

(X)  James  Moses,  second  child  of  Jotham 
and  Lillias  (Smith)  Ouinby,  was  born  in 
Orange,  Xew  Jersey,  October  5,  1804.  During 
his  boyhood  he  learned  the  trade  of  carriage 
making  in  the  "Hedenberg  \\'orks."  Xewark, 
Xew  Jersey.  Later  he  accepted  the  position 
of  foreman  for  the  firm  of  C.  &  A.  K. 
Carter,  remaining  in  their  employ  until  the 
failure  of  the  firm  in  1834,  when  he  engaged 
in  business  on  his  own  account,  building  up  a 
profitable  trade,  his  transactions  with  the  south 
becoming  so  extensive  that  he  established 
branch  factories  at  Montgomery,  Alabama,  and 
Columbus.  Georgia,  which  were  highly  remun- 
erative. Being  of  an  intensely  patriotic  dispo- 
sition, loyal  to  the  cause  of  the  L'nion,  he  was 
called  upon  to  make  many  sacrifices  in  his  busi- 
ness with  the  south  during  the  early  and  flark 
days  of  the  civil  war.  From  1851  to  1854  he 
served  in  the  capacity  of  mayor  of  Xewark,  ren- 
dering valuable  and  efficient  service,  there  being 
at  that  time  no  remueration  attached  to  the 
ofiice,  so  none  but  men  of  public  spirit  and  in- 
tegrity were  chosen  for  positions  of  public 
trust.  He  was  a  man  of  pleasing  personality, 
retiring  and  modest  in  manner,  always  willing 
and  anxious  to  advance  the  highest  interests  of 
his  city,  state  and  nation,  aiding  to  the  best  of 
his  ability  with  his  means  and  time.  He  also 
had  the  honor  of  being  the  first  Republican 
member  of  the  state  senate  elected  from  Essex 
county.  Xew  Jersey.  He  was  a  communicant 
of  and  for  many  years  a  vestryman  of  Trinity 
Church.  Xewark.  He  was  one  of  the  original 
managers  of  the  Xewark  Savings  Institution 
and  chairman  of  the  funding  committee,  and 
also  one  of  the  water  commissioners  of  the 
city.  Mr.  Ouinby  married  Phebe  Ayres, 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Hannah  (Hays) 
Sweazy,  granddaughter  of  William   Sweazy, 


born  at  Hope,  Xew  Jersey,  1766,  great-grand- 
daughter of  Barnabas  and  Hannah  ( Honey- 
well )  Sweazy,  the  former  of  whom  was  born 
at  Southold.  Long  Island,  1715,  died  February 
17,  1779,  great-great-granddaughter  of  Samuel 
Sweazy,  of  Southold,  born  March  2g,  1689, 
removed  to  Roxbur}-,  Massachusetts,  May  17. 
1737,  died  there  May  11,  1759.  Children  of 
James  Moses  and  Phebe  .-\yres  (. "sweazy) 
Ouinby:  I.  .Anna  Enieline.  referred  to  below. 
2.  Eliza  Sweazy,  married  Charles  liorcherling; 
died  leaving  one  child,  Frederick.  3.  Morris, 
died  young.  4.  Marie  .Antoinette,  referred  to 
below.  5.  James  Milnor.  married  Mary  V. 
Casey  ;  children  :  ^^'illiam  O'Cmrman  and  .\nna 
Wright.  6.  Ida.  married  Wallace  Mcllvaine 
Scudder.  7.  \\'alden,  died  young.  8.  I'lorence, 
died  young. 

(XI)  .\nna  Emeline.  daughter  of  James 
Moses  and  Phebe  Ayres  (Sweazy)  Quinby, 
married,  in  1865,  Nelson  Wright  (see  W'right, 
XII).  ChiMren:  i.  Albert  Waterman,  born 
in  New  York,  died  December  8,  1873.  2. 
Louisa  Elise,  born  in  New  York :  married 
.■\rthur  H.  Mackie ;  children :  Elizabeth 
Ouinby,  born  in  Xewark,  .\pril.  1904,  and 
Xelson  Wright,  born  Xovember   13,   1906. 

(XI)  Marie  Antoinette,  daughter  of  James 
Moses  and  Phebe  Ayres  (Sweazy)  Quinby, 
was  born  in  Park  place.  Newark,  New  Jersey. 
1846,  died  at  her  home  in  Xewark,  after  a  long 
illness,  March  7,  1909.  She  was  a  graduate  of 
St.  Mary's  School  at  Burlington,  Xew  Jersey. 
Beautiful  in  person,  with  a  fine  mind,  and 
charming  manners,  she  was  a  leader  in  society 
for  many  years.  Intense  patriotism  was  her 
ruling  passion,  and  with  all  the  power  of  her 
intellect,  and  personal  sacrifice,  she  materially 
aided  many  a  good  and  noble  work.  Gifted 
with  great  wisdom  in  management  and  great 
executive  ability,  possessing  a  wide  influence 
for  good,  and  persistently  using  all  her  eft'orts 
for  the  betterment  of  mankind,  success  invari- 
ably crowned  her  labors.  For  many  years  she 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  managers  of  the 
Colonial  Dames,  of  New  Jersey ;  member  of 
the  Trent  Chapter,  Daughters  of  the  .\merican 
Revolution,  and  manager  in  various  charitable 
organizations.  She  was  appointed  by  the  state 
to  represent  New  Jersey,  in  the  interests  of 
women,  at  the  ^^'orld"s  Fair  in  Chicago  in 
1892.  .\t  the  time  of  the  war  with  Spain  she 
was  one  of  the  leaders  in  procuring  funds  for 
the  fitting  out  of  the  relief  ship  "The  Solace," 
and  also  spent  days  and  nights  at  the  railroad 
stations  assisting  the  sick  returning  soldiers  on 
their  way.     She  was  the  organizer  of  Section 


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No.  II.  Army  and  Navy  Relief  Society,  and 
its  only  president.  She  was  the  founder  of  the 
Woman's  Piranch  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical 
Societv  and  its  president  since  its  inception,  de- 
voting a  large  share  of  her  time  to  its  work  and 
interests.  Her  death  removed  from  the  com- 
munity one  whom  all  that  knew  her  intimately 
revered  and  loved,  and  the  influence  of  her 
life  and  work  will  long  be  felt  and  will  be  an 
incentive  to  others  to  perform  well  their  part 
in  whatever  station  in  life  their  lot  is  cast. 


( ['^(ir  preceding  generations  see  Tlioiiias  Quinby   1). 

(XI)  James  Milnor.  fifth  child 
QUINBY  and  second  son  of  James  Moses 
and  Phebe  Ayres  (Sweazy) 
Quinby,  was  born  in  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
March  27,  1852,  died  at  his  residence,  24  Elm 
street,  Newark,  May  21.  1892.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  Koenigsberg.  Germany ;  engaged  in 
business  with  his  father  and  continued  for 
many  years,  finally  retiring.  He  married  Mary 
\'.  Casey,  born  November  10,  1854.  Children: 
I.  William  O'Ciorman.  referred  to  below.  2. 
.Anna  Wright,  born  March  10,  1882. 

(XII)  William  O'Gorman,  only  son  of 
James  Milnor  and  Mary  V.  (Casey)  Quinby. 
was  born  in  Orange,  New  Jersey.  March  4, 
1877.  For  his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the 
public  school,  after  leaving  which  he  entered 
and  graduated  in  iSq6  from  the  Newark 
.•\cademy.  He  then  took  the  course  in  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New  York 
City,  and  received  his  M.  D.  degree  from  that 
institution  in  1900.  For  the  next  two  years  he 
was  one  of  the  internes  of  the  City  Hospital, 
New  York,  and  for  a  time  also  one  of  the 
ambulance  surgeons  at  Roosevelt  Hospital.  In 
1902  he  came  to  Newark,  where  he  has  ever 
since  been  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of 
his  profession.  In  January,  1908,  he  enlisted 
in  the  Essex  Troops,  of  which  he  is  now  the 
surgeon.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  State, 
County  and  City  Medical  societies  of  New 
Jersey,  and  of  various  other  medical  organiza- 
tions of  the  Cf>untry.  in  ])olitics  Dr.  Quinby  is 
an  inde])endcnt.  and  in  religious  convictions  a 
Roman  Catholic. 


The  name  Reeve  has  been  con- 
REE  VE     nected  by   some   with   the   same 

root  as  the  German  "C^iraf," 
meaning  a  count,  or  prefect,  but  Skeat  and  the 
best  English  etymologists  derive  it  from  the 
.Anglo-Saxon  "gerefa,"  signifying  an  officer,  a 
governor,  and  meaning  originally  one  who  is 
excellent  or  famous.    The  word  is  a  common 


one  in  the  English  language,  though  in  modern 
times  its  form  is  somewhat  disguised,  as  in  the 
term  sheriff,  which  is  simply  a  shortened  form 
of  shire-reeve.  Pjoth  in  this  country  and  in 
England  the  families  bearing  the  name  spell  it 
in  the  forms  Reeve  and  Reeves,  the  latter  of 
which  was  originally  a  simple  possessive  case 
of  the  former  mistaken  for  the  nominative  case 
itself.  In  New  Jersey  the  families  of  the  name 
trace  their  ancestry  back  to  two  progenitors 
both  of  whom  probably  came  to  this  country, 
direct  from  England.  One  of  them,  Mark 
Reeve,  of  Cohansey.  Salem  county,  certainly 
did,  and  the  other,  the  founder  of  the  family 
at  present  under  consideration,  most  probably 
from  the  neighborhood  of  East  Barnett,  Hert- 
fordshire. England,  although  it  is  possible  that 
he  may  have  come  from  England  by  way  of 
Southold.  Long  Island. 

(  1 )  \\'alter  Reeve,  founder  of  the  family  of 
lUirlington  county.  New  Jersey,  came  to  lUir- 
lington  some  time  before  1682  and  settled  on 
Rancocas  creek,  where  he  died.  He  was  a 
farmer,  and  he  appears  also  to  have  traded 
with  foreign  parts,  as  there  is  in  the  archives 
of  the  New  Jersey  secretary  of  state  at  Tren- 
ton a  bill  of  lading  dated  April  3,  1691,  for 
cheese  and  flour  shipped  by  him  to  John 
Brett,  merchant,  of  r>arbadoes.  .\t  his  death 
A\'alter  Reeve  ]iossessed  two  plantations — one 
of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  and  the  other 
of  two  hundred  acres.  By  his  first  wife,  whose 
name  is  unknown,  and  whom  he  probably  mar- 
ried in  England,  he  had  at  least  one  son  John, 
who  is  referred  to  below,  and  ])ossibly  the  first 
three  who  are  here  credited  to  his  second  wife 
were  borne  him  by  his  first.  November  11. 
1682,  Walter  Reeve  married  (second)  Anne 
Howell,  who  survived  nearly  forty  years.  His 
will  is  written  May  16,  and  proved  June  18, 
1698,  while  hers  was  made  September  23, 
1732,  and  proven  July  31,  1733.  She  bore  her 
husband:  1.  .Susanna.  2.  William,  married, 
and  left  four  children.  3.  Joseph,  living  at 
date  of  bis  mother's  will.  4.  Walter,  l)orn 
about    1684,   died    March    21,    I7')4;   married 

.\nn  .     5.  Jonathan,  died  about   1726: 

married  Mary  Hevvlings,  widow.  6.  Itlisha,  on 
whose  estate  letters  of  administration  were 
granted  to  David  Watson.  December  13,  1750. 

7.  Caleb,  probably  died  unmarried,  before  May 

8,  17SV  8.  .Samuel,  died  about  17^7;  married 
Mary  Hill. 

(H)  John,  eldest  son  of  \\'altcr  Reeve,  was 
born  proliably  in  England,  though  possibly  in 
Long  Island,  and  died  in  Burlington  county 
most  probably,  although  perhaps  at  the  home 


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of  one  of  his  sons  in  Gloucester  county,  as  the 
inventory  of  his  estate  is  filed  there  aiul  in  it 
he  is  styled  as  "late  of  Flurlingtoii  county."  In 
1704  he  was  granted  the  right  to  keep  the 
ferry  between  Burlington  and  Philaiielphia.  In 
colonial  times  privileges  like  these  were  in  the 
grant  of  the  public  authorities  and  were  among 
the  most  valuable  of  the  franchises  granted. 
This  franchise  was  granted  by  Lord  Cornbury. 
When  he  died  his  estate  was  valued  at  ii300. 
February  22,  1692,  he  was  a  guest  at  the  wed- 
ding of  George  Deacon  and  Martha  Charles, 
and  he  himself  was  married  at  iSurlington,  in 
the  house  of  Thomas  Kevell,  the  noted  sur- 
veyor. July  22,  if>y5,  to  Ann  Bradgate,  who 
bore  him  the  following  and  possibly  other  chil- 
dren :  I.  riionias,  married  Sarah ;  re- 
moved to  Deptford  townshi]),  Gloucester  coun- 
ty, and  died  in  1782.  2.  Henry,  married  Abi- 
gail, daughter  of  James  and  Abigail  (  Lipiiin- 
cott )  ."^liiini  (^see  Lippincott),  and  died  about 
1735.  3.  -Abraham,  married  Susan  Briant.  4. 
\\'illiam.  referred  to  below. 

(HI  I  William,  youngest  son  of  John  and 
Ann  (  liradgate)  Reeve,  was  born  in  Burling- 
ton county,  Xew  Jersey,  between  1709  and 
1718,  and  died  September  16.  1808,  "over 
ninety  years  of  age."  By  his  wife  Mary,  born 
about  1726,  died  June  i.  1788,  he  had  at  least 
one  son  William  who  is  referred  to  below^ 

(I\  )  William  (2).  son  of  William  (i)  and 
Alary  Reeve,  of  Burlington  county,  was  born 
November  7.  1764,  and  died  October  6,  1822. 
He  was  a  farmer,  and  lived  in  Springfield 
township,  I'urlington  county,  where  he  married 

Mary ,  born   November  21.   1764,  who 

died  February  12,  1840.  after  bearing  him  thir- 
teen children:  i.  Gilbert,  referred  to  below. 
2.  Walter  S.,  born  June  10,  1787.  3.  L'riel. 
June  29,  1789.  died  January  27,  1840.  4.  Han- 
nah, born  July  12,  1791.  5.  Sarah,  May  30, 
1793.  died  October  10,  1819.  6.  Phebe.  born 
June  ().  1795.  died  January  24.  1867.  7.  Daniel, 
born  March  1,  1797.  8.  ^lary  C..  January  20. 
1799.  9.  Sophia,  March  30,  1801.  10.  Xancy. 
September  2,  1803.  11.  William  D.,  Septem- 
ber 16,  1805,  died  March  i,  1846.  12.  Fanny 
H.,  born  May  13,  180 — .  13,  Isaac,  born  July 
20.  1812.  died  July  7,  1813. 

iV)  Gilbert,  eldest  child  of  William  (2) 
anil  .Mary  Reeve,  of  Springfield  township, 
Burlington  county,  was  born  in  that  townshi]!, 
July  28,  1785,  and  ilied  there  T'ebruary  i,  1866. 
He  was  a  farmer.  February  25,  1809,  he  mar- 
ried Charlotte,  born  .\ugust  i,  1785,  died  Au- 
gust 8,  1863.  third  child  and  second  daughter 
of  .\hncr  and  loanna  (Meeker)  Savre.  ofRah- 


\\a\ ,  Xew  Jersey,  the  granddaughter  of  Jona- 
than and  Jane  (W'almley)  Sayre.  of  Elizabeth- 
town,  great-granddaughter  of  Daniel  and  Eliz- 
abeth ( l.yon  )  Sayre,  of  Elizabethtown,  great- 
great-granddaughter  of  Joseph,  son  of  Thomas 
Sayre,  the  emigrant  to  Southhampton,  Long 
Island,  and  grandson  of  F'rancis  and  Elizabeth 
(Atkins)  Sayre,  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  Buck- 
inghamshire, England.  Children  of  Gilbert 
and  Charlotte  (Sayre)  Reeve:  i.  Abner  Sayre, 
born  February  2,  1810,  died  January  4,  1883; 
married  (first)  Elizabeth  Woodruff,  who  bore 
him  one  child;  (second)  Rebecca  Ford,  who 
bore  him  five  children.  He  secured  the  charter 
for  the  Esse.x  County  Bank,  was  that  institu- 
tion's vice-president,  and  later  president  up  to 
his  death.  2.  William,  was  a  Presbyterian  min- 
ister stationed  for  a  time  in  Sullivan  county, 
Xew  York,  and  subse(|uently  for  thirty  years 
in  Oiuigue.  Long  Island,  where  he  is  buried. 
lly  his  wife,  l-'idelia  Mayhard,  of  Boston,  he 
had  four  children.  3.  Ezra,  was  a  carpenter, 
living  on  Clinton  avenue,  Newark,  a  member 
of  the  South  Park  Presbyterian  church,  died 
about  1885,  and  was  buried  at  Mount  Pleasant 
cemetery.      He    married     (first)     Mary    Ann 

;    (second)    Nancy    Pierson,   who  died 

before  1885.  Each  of  his  wives  bore  him  two 
children.  4.  Jonas  C,  referred  to  below.  5. 
I  'hebe.  married  Charles  Roosa ;  lived  in  Sulli- 
van county,  Xew  York,  but  died  in  South 
(Jrange,  Xew  Jersey;  no  children.     6.  David. 

was  a  carpenter,  and  married  Ellen ,  in 

East  Saginaw.  Michigan;  four  children.  7. 
Harriet,  married  Ira  Taylor;  lived  in  South 
(  >raiige,  Xew  Jersev. 

(  \'I  )  Jonas  C,  son  of  Gilbert  antl  Charlotte 
(  Sayre  )  Reeve,  was  born  in  Milburn  township, 
Esse.x  county,  and  died  in  Xew'ark,  where  he 
was  a  m-'ison  and  builder.  He  married  Har- 
riet L..  daughter  of  John  L.  and  Abigail 
((Iduld)  llnilson,  the  latter  of  whom  was  the 
ilaughter  of  Robert  Gould,  of  the  revolution- 
ary war.  Her  brothers  and  sisters  were  Rob- 
ert, Thiimas,  William  and  Elizal>eth  Gould. 
Children  of  Jonas  C.  and  Harriet  L.  (  Hudson) 
Reeve:  1.  William  Alexander,  referred  to 
below .  2.  Gilbert  Hudson,  now  dead,  who  has 
a  naval  war  record  in  the  civil  war,  and  mar- 
ried (first)  Mary  Snyder,  who  bore  him  one 
child  Charlotte,  who  married  Ferdinand  Wei- 
land,  of  the  Germania  Fire  Insurance  Com- 
pany, and  married  (second)  Fanny  Chappell, 
who  bore  him  four  children :  Gilbert,  now 
living  in  Chicago,  Illinois ;  Henry  A. ;  Harriet, 
died  in  infancy,  and  Delos.  3.  Theodore  Fre- 
linghuy^en.  died  as  a  member  of  the  27th  U.  S. 


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Infantry,  in  1861 ;  was  a  mason  by  trade;  mar- 
ried Enima,  daughter  of  Mr.  Yatmann,  pre.si- 
dent  of  the  Children's  Aid  Society  of  Newark 
Me  had  one  son,  Frank.  4.  Thomas,  was  a 
mason  and  builder,  and  lived  near  his  father's 
old  homestead  on  Clinton  avenue,  Newark ; 
married  Emma  Parkhurst;  children:  Arthur 
D.,  married  Margaret  Reid ;  Robert  F. ;  Grace, 
married  Dr.  Berlew,  dentist.  Broad  street, 
Newark.  5.  Harriet  Louisa,  died  in  infancy. 
7.  Jonas  C,  Jr.,  a  veterinary  surgeon,  who  died 
before  1899. 

(\TI)  William  .Ale.xander,  eldest  child  of 
Jonas  C.  and  Harriet  L.  (Hudson)  Reeve,  was 
born  in  Newark,  March  2,  1840,  and  is  now 
living  at  6i  South  Orange  avenue.  South 
Orange,  New  Jersey.  For  his  early  education 
he  was  sent  to  various  private  schools,  and 
thus  had  for  his  instructors  Rev.  Mr.  Horton 
Rev.  William  Bradley,  Rev.  Mr.  Davis,  Rev. 
Mr.  Hunt,  and  Rev.  Mr.  Osborne.  He  then 
entered  the  employ  of  his  father  in  the  con- 
tracting and  building  business,  and  remained 
with  him  until  1861,  when  he  accepted  a  posi- 
tion with  .Atwater  &  Carter  as  clerk,  which  he 
held  until  i8f)6,  when  he  returned  to  his  father 
and  continued  with  iiim  until  1874,  when  he 
returned  to  .\twater  &  Carter,  with  whom  he 
remained  until  1895,  when  he  removed  to 
South  Orange  and  went  into  the  grocery  busi- 
ness with  i^'dward  Tunison.  the  firm  name  being 
Tunison  &  Reeve.  In  1898  he  sold  out  his 
interest  in  tiiis  business  to  his  partner,  and 
started  in  the  hardware  business.  Mr.  Reeve 
is  a  Republican,  and  for  (^me  year  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  townshi])  board  of  trustees.  The 
only  secret  organization  to  which  be  belongs 
is  Century  Lodge,  No.  100,  1"'.  and  A.  M.  He 
attends  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church. 
March  2(;,  1866,  Mr.  Reeve  married  Charlotte, 
second  child  and  daughter  (it  James  Camp  and 
Phelie  (Kitchell)  Ogden,  born  I'ebruary  10, 
1845  (see  Ogden).  Children:  I.  I'^lorence 
r.^ouise,  born  March  29,  18^)7;  married  (first) 
Wilbur  Melton  Everden.  (second)  Frank  C. 
Richardson.  2.  Herbert  Ogden.  referre<l  t<i 
below. 

(\  III)  llerbert  Ogden,  younger  child  and 
only  son  of  William  .Mexander  and  Charlotte 
( ( )g<leti )  Reeve,  was  born  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  I'>bruary  25,  1873,  '^"•^  '^  "'^^^'  living 
in  that  city.  For  his  early  education  he  was 
sent  to  the  Newark  Academy,  in  1888.  He 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Mutual  Benefit  Life 
Insurance  Company.  June  i,  1893,  Mr.  Reeve 
married,  in  Newark,  Morence  A.,  born  Decem- 
ber z.  1874.  daughter  of  Thomas  V.  and  Mary 


Luff,  whose  sisters  are  Miriam,  who  is  living 
unmarried,  and  Ida  who  married  Melvin  M. 
Rutan.  and  has  one  child  Ethelyn.  Children  of 
Herbert  C)gden  and  P'lorence  A.  (Lufif)  Reeve: 
Herbert  Ogden,  Jr.,  born  July  19,  1895;  Will- 
iaiu  Homer,  .\]jril  25,  1897. 


Francis    Lee,    original   emigrant   and 

LEE  founder  of  the  Port  Elizabeth  and 
Trenton  branch  of  the  family,  was 
born  in  1749.  His  birthplace  was  in  the  "coun- 
ty of  the  town  of  Carrickfergris,"  an  .Antrim 
seaport,  ten  miles  from  Belfast.  Carrickfergus 
is  memorable  in  history  as  an  ancient  capital 
of  Ireland,  and  the  landing  place  of  William 
HI.  irxjo. 

Owing  to  the  destruction  of  family  papers  ' 
there  is  no  record  of  Francis  Lee's  ancestors, 
although  tradition  says  that  they  were  non-con- 
formists of  .Midland  luiglisli  stock.  Nothing 
is  known  of  Francis  Lee  until  November  21, 
1770,  when  he  married  Jane  Alexander,  a  schcx)l 
girl  of  good  family.  W'ith  her,  it  is  said,  he 
elo]ied  to  .America. 

It  is  supposed  that  Francis  Lee  landed  in 
Philadelphia.  He  soon  began  to  accjuire  prop- 
erty. In  1774  he  paid  a  £4  tax  in  the  Chestnut 
ward  of  Pliila(lel])liia,  and  is  named  among 
warrantees  for  thirty  acres  of  land  in  North- 
umberland county,  Pennsylvania,  and  two  lots 
in  Sunbury,  the  then  recently  settled  capital  of 
that  county.  During  the  revolutionary  war 
Francis  Lee  jirospered,  and  toward  its  close  he 
dealt  actively  in  real  estate.  In  1780  he  pur- 
chased in  Phila<lel])hia  the  attainted  Front 
street  land  of  George  Knapper,  and  in  1782 
acquired  large  tracts  in  the  Northern  Liberties. 
on  the  W'issahickon  road  and  in  Blockley  town- 
>hi|)  on  the  Ilaverford  road.  These  and  other 
transactions  involved  many  thousands  of 
jMiunds.  currency.  bVom  1778  to  1787  he  paid 
state  and  federal  supply  tax  as  a  "non-resident" 
of  .Xorthumberland  county.  Francis  Lee  a])- 
))ears  as  "imikeeper"  as  early  as  1774.  Sharf 
and  Westcott  are  authority  for  the  following 
statement : 

".\  movement  was  begun  which  might  have 
led  to  trouble  if  the  city  had  not  changed  hands 
so  soon."  (This  refers  to  the  P.ritish  occupa- 
tion ).  "It  originated  in  a  meeting  at  the  Indian 
Queen  ( kei)t  by  I'rancis  Lee)  and  the  object 
was  to  insist  on  exem]jtion  from  military  duty 
for  such  as  had  furnished  substitutes." 

Previous  to  this,  however,  the  journals  of 
the  Continental  congress  show  that  Francis 
Lee  had  furnished  the  Whigs  with  exi)resses, 
meals  for  soldiers,  a  stage  coach  for  the  use  of 


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■231. 


Generals  Prescott  and  McDonald,  and  later  had 
entertained  John  Paul  Jones.  In  the  Philadel- 
phia directory  for  1785  is  to  be  found  this 
reference: 

"Francis  Lee,  innkeeper  and  every  day  stage 
to  and  from  New  York,  Corner  of  4th  antl 
Market  street." 

The  stage  started  every  morning  at  4  o'clock 
from  the  "Indian  Queen."  The  "Indian  Queen" 
had  been  kept  by  Francis  Lee  until  about  this 
period.  Upon  March  8,  1783,  Jacob  ISerry,  a 
surveyor,  conveyed  to  Francis  Lee  a  tract  of 
land  in  Haverford  township,  Chester  county, 
Pennsylvania.  In  1786  or  1787  Francis  Lee 
removed  from  Philadelphia,  presumably  to  this 
purchase.  Upon  relin(|uishing  the  "Indian 
Queen,"  he  surrendered  an  inn  property  that 
was  one  of  the  finest  in  Philadelphia.  Some 
idea  of  the  house  nia\-  be  gathered  from  the 
journals  and  correspondence  of  Manasseh 
Cutter,  agent  of  the  Ohio  Land  Company,  who 
in  Jul\-  visited  Philadelphia,  during  the  session 
of  the  h\'deral  constitutional  convention  of 
1787.    Of  the  "Indian  Queen"  Cutter  says: 

"It  is  situated  on  4th  street  between  Market 
and  Chestnut  street  and  is  not  far  from  the 
center  of  t!ie  city.  It  is  kept  in  an  elegant  style 
and  consists  of  a  large  pile  of  buildings  with 
many  spacious  halls  and  numerous  small  apart- 
ments appropriate  for  lodging  rooms.  As  soon 
as  I  had  inquired  of  the  bar  keeper  if  I  could 
be  furnished  with  lodgings,  a  livery  servant 
was  ordered  immediately  to  attend  me,  who 
received  my  baggage  from  the  hostler  and  con- 
<lucted  me  to  the  apartments  assigned  me  by 
the  bar  kee])er,  which  was  a  rather  small  but  a 
very  handsome  chamber  (  Xo.  9),  furnished 
with  a  rich  field  bed,  bureau,  table  with 
drawers,  a  large  looking  glass,  neat  chairs  and 
other  furniture.  Its  front  was  east  and  being 
in  the  3rd  flot>r  afforded  a  fine  prosjiect  toward 
the  river  and  the  Jersey  shore. 

"The  servant  that  attended  me  was  a  young, 
s])rightly,  well  built  black  fellow,  neatly  dressed 
— blue  coat,  sleeves,  and  cape  red,  and  buff 
waist-coat  and  breeches,  the  bosom  of  his  shirt 
ruftled  and  his  hair  powdered.  .-Xfter  he  had 
brought  up  my  baggage  and  properly  deposited 
it  in  the  chamber,  he  brought  two  of  the  latest 
Lonilon  magazines  and  laid  on  the  table.  I 
ordered  him  to  call  a  barber,  furnish  me  with  a 
bowl  of  water  for  washing  and  to  have  tea  on 
the  table  by  the  time  I  was  dressed." 

.\mong  the  famous  visitors  who  W'ere  to  be 
found  during  this  period  in  the  "Indian  Queen" 
were  General  Washington.  Cornplanter  and  other 
notable  Tammany  chiefs,  members  of  congress, 


and  distinguished  military  characters  of  the 
revolution.  It  was  to  the  "Indian  Queen"  that 
President  Washington  retired  in  1797  after 
bidding  farewell  to  public  life.  The  hotel,  as 
stated  by  Sharf  and  Westcott,  was  an  ancient 
inn.  .\mong  proprietors,  other  than  Francis 
Lee.  were  John  Francis,  Samuel  Richardet, 
Robert  Smith,  Margaret  Thompson,  James 
Coyle  and  Thomas  Heiskell,  who  were  in  charge 
(if  the  liouse  from  1785  to  1825.  .\  famous 
sign  bv  Woodhouse  was  a  characteristic  of  the 
place.  The  inn  was  removed  to  make  way  for 
l)usiness  structures. 

I'Vancis  Lee  appears  as  a  private  of  the  rev- 
olutionary war,  being  upon  the  roll  of  Captain 
Tench  Francis'  company.  First  Battalion  Penn- 
svlvania  militia  in  .August,  1781.  (See  Vol  I, 
page  787,  "Philadel])hia  Associators  and  Mili- 
tia;" vol.  13,  page  128,  2nd  series,  Pennsyl- 
vania .Archives ;  vol.  5.  pages  533,  547,  558,  3rd 
series,  Pennsylvania  .Archives. )  During  the 
year  1781.  Captain  Francis"  company  brought 
to  Philadelphia  from  Boston  the  French  gold 
designed  for  the  use  of  the  Whigs.  Convey- 
ing the  fourteen  wagons  and  fifty-six  oxen, 
Francis  Lee,  on  account  of  his  ability  in 
matters  of  transportation  was  engaged  in  that 
service,  according  to  often  repeated  statements 
made  by  his  son,  Thomas  Lee.  The  gold  reach- 
ed Philadelphia  early  in  November,  1781. 

Francis  Lee  removed  from  Haverford  town- 
ship during  the  closing  years  of  the  century. 
On  lulv  II,  1796,  John  Kennedy,  of  East 
Whiteland.  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  con- 
veyed a  plantation  to  Francis  Lee.  On  the 
20th  of  .\Iay,  1800,  Francis  Lee  was  appointed 
justice  for  Tredyffryn.  Charlestown,  East 
Whiteland  and  West  \\'hiteland,  Chester  coun- 
ty, the  commission  being  signed  by  Governor 
Thomas  McKean. 

Until  his  deatli.  which  occurred  fifteen  years 
after  his  selection  as  justice,  Francis  Lee  added 
tii  his  landed  interests  and  as  a  breeder  of  run- 
ning horses  became  a  prominent  figure  in  Ches- 
ter X'alley.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Great 
N'alley  Presbyterian  Church,  under  the  pas- 
torate of  the  Rev.  William  Latta,  who  was 
Francis  Lee"s  e.xecutor.  Owing  to  the  de- 
struction of  the  church  records  previous  to 
1830.  no  record  of  Francis  Lee's  official  con- 
nection with  the  congregation  is  e.xtant.  He 
died  .A])ril  30th,  1815,  and  is  buried  in  the 
churchyard  of  the  Great  \'alley  Church. 

It  is  certain  that  Francis  Lee  was  three 
times  married,  and  probably  there  was  a 
fourth  union.  In  the  direct  line  of  the  New 
Jersej'  branch  of  the  family,  his  first  wife  was 


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Jane  Alexander,  the  exact  date  of  lier  birth 
and  death  being  unknown.  Conjectiirally  she 
was  born  about  1750,  and  died  about  1785. 
The  last  child  of  this  union  was  born  1784. 
( According  to  vol.  i.\.,  2nd  series  Pennsyl- 
vania Archives,  a  Francis  Lee,  on  December 
16,  1792.  married  Elizabeth  Bache.  in  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Philadelphia).  In  a 
real  estate  transaction  involving  property  in 
Blockley  township,  March  25,  1791,  "Eliza- 
beth" is  given  as  the  name  of  the  wife  of 
Francis  Lee,  innholder. 

On  November  18,  1793.  l-rancis  Lee  married 
Margaretta  Cloyd.  she  having  been  born  .Au- 
gust 18,  1771,  dying  July  4,  1805.  The  chil- 
dren of  this  marriage  were  :  David  Cloyd  Lee. 
born  July  15,  1795;  .\nne  Boyd  Lee,  born 
April  8,  1797:  died  April  22.  1797;  Mary  Lee, 
born  March  19,  1798;  Alfred  Gemmil  Lee, 
born  July  20,  1800:  died  May  10,  1838:  Fran- 
cis Lee,  born  .April  13.  1803. 

Mis  last  wife  was  Elizabeth  Cloyd,  whose 
will  was  dated  1818.  In  this  document  Eliza- 
beth Cloyd  Lee  mentions  her  sister,  Jane  Mc- 
Kee,  and  Mary,  wife  of  her  brother  David 
Cloyd,  Eleanor  lirick,  Alfred  Lee  and  Fran- 
cis Lee.     This  union  was  childless. 

By  the  marriage  of  Francis  Lee  and  Jane 
Alexander  there  were  the  following  children: 
I.  James  .Alexander,  born  September  4,  1771. 
ba])tized  SejJtember  22,  1771.  died  July  18. 
1820.  2.  William,  born  May  30,  1773,  died 
September  2j.  1773.  3.  Francis,  born  Octo- 
ber 2C),  1774,  died  of  yellow  fever,  1803.  4. 
William  J.,  born  Se]Hember  27,  1776.  died 
January  7,  1778.  5.  George,  born  Sc])tember 
21,  1778,  died  of  yellow  fever,  1798.  (>.  Jiihn, 
born  Xovember  28,  1779.  died  February  27, 
1780.  7.  Thomas,  born  Xovember  28,  1780. 
died  Xovember  2,  1856.  8.  Jane,  born  Novem- 
ber 30,  1 78 1,  deceased.  9.  Margaret,  born 
October  10,  1782,  died  Alay  17.  1783.  10. 
Hannah,  born  September  10,  1783,  died  .Sep- 
tember 28.  1783.  II.  Eleanor,  born  Septem- 
ber 13,  1784,  died  March  25,  1820. 

Of  these  children,  James  .Mexander  married. 
August  2,  1792,  Deborah  West,  born  May  24. 
1772,  died  June  i.  1833.  Of  this  marriage 
there  were  eleven  children. 

James  .Mexander  Lee  was  a  man  of  broad 
views  and  great  business  energy.  He  s])ent  a 
portion  (if  his  young  manhood  in  mercantile 
life  in  Phila(lel])hia,  i)Ut  being  attracted  by  the 
advantages  of  Port  Elizabeth,  Cumberland 
county.  New  Jersey,  which  was  established  by 
the  Federal  congress  as  a  port  of  delivery  in 
1789.    he    removed    from    Philadelphia    alnnit 


1796  and  settled  in  the  new  town.  From  1802 
until  1 810  he  was  postmaster  of  the  village, 
served  in  the  house  of  assembly,  from  Cumber- 
land county,  1805-06  and  as  a  judge  of  the 
court  of  common  pleas,  i8oi-'o6-'ii-'i6,  and  a 
member  of  the  board  of  chosen  freeholders, 
1800,  i8oi-"o(>"o7.  While  in  Port  Elizabeth, 
about  1799.  James  Lee  erected  glass  factories, 
selling  a  three-fourths  interest  therein  to  James 
Josiah,  Samuel  Parrish  and  Joseph  L.  Lewis 
(.t  Company.  This  was  the  Eagle  Glass  Works, 
now  abandoned  after  an  eventful  career. 
James  Lee  lived  in  one  of  the  finest  mansions 
in  the  Maurice  river  valley,  overlooking  the 
meadow  of  the  Manumuskin  creek.  The  ap- 
proach to  his  residence  was  through  two  rows 
of  Lombardy  poplars,  among  the  first  to  be 
imported  into  this  countr\'.  The  house  is  now 
obliterated.  According  to  "Brief  Notices  of 
Old  Residents  of  Cumberland  County,"  by  the 
late  Judge  L.  Q.  C.  Elmer,  printed  in  the 
"Briclgeton  Chronicle"  in  1875.  James  Lee,  in 
18 1 3.  disposed  of  his  interest  in  the  glass 
works,  and  joined  others  in  the  purchase  of 
the  L'nion  mill  property  and  in  erecting  a  blast 
furnace  for  iron  at  .Millville,  which  was  soon 
disposed  of  to  -Smith  &  Wood,  of  Philadelphia, 
and  which  David  C.  Wood  conducted  man\ 
\ears.  In  1814  Lee  removed  to  Bridget  on  and 
in  com])any  with  Ebenezer  Seeley  purchased 
the  propert}  adj(5ining  the  east  side  of  the 
stream  of  tlie  Cohansey  from  North  street  to 
Cornel's  branch.  Lee  &  Seeley,  with  Smith 
Bowen  who  owned  the  ])ro])erty  on  the  west 
side,  made  the  dam  and  thus  created  the  water 
])ower,  with  the  object  of  establishing  a  manu- 
factory of  some  kind:  but  not  having  sufticieni 
capital  to  do  this,  Seeley  and  Lee  reconveyed 
their  side  to  .Vbraham  Sayre  of  whom  they 
originally  ])urchased  it.  Smith  Bowen  sold  his 
side  and  half  the  water  ])t)wer  to  Benjamin  and 
David  Reeves,  who  commenced  the  manufac- 
ture of  nails.  This  dam  and  water  ])ower  is 
now  the  race  way  and  jiart  of  the  public  park 
>ystem  of  the  city  of  Bridgeton.  .About  1817 
Mr.  Lee  removed  with  his  family  to  Cincinnati, 
where  he  established  his  iron  works  at  a  ])oint 
a  few  miles  north  of  the  city.  Leaving  the 
work>  in  charge  of  his  son  Charles,  he  re- 
mo\(.(l  to  .Maysville.  Kentucky,  and  subse- 
i|iiently  engaged  in  levee  construction  on  the 
.\lississippi  river,  dying  of  yellow  fever  in 
New  (  )rleaiis. 

.Attracted  to  Port  IClizabeth  by  the  presence 
of  his  elder  brother.  Thomas  Lee.  about  1798, 
came  to  Cumberland  county  from  his  father's 
Chester  couiitv  home.     I'or  a  time  he  resided  in 


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Leesbiirg.  On  the  22nd  of  May,  1805,  Thomas 
Lee  married  Rhoda  Murphy,  who  was  born  in 
Whig  Lane.  Salem  county,  October  22nd,  1789. 
Thomas  Murphy,  father  of  Rhoda  Murphy 
Lee.  died  early  in  the  year  1802,  his  wife,  Jane 
Marshall  Murphy,  having  died  about  1793- 
Thomas  Murphy  was  the  son  of  John  Murphy, 
weaver,  a  resident  of  the  township  of  Piles- 
grove,  county  of  Salem,  Xew  Jersey.  John 
5lurphy  purchased  land  in  that  section  in  1759, 
the  deed  from  the  grantor  stating  that  John 
Murjihv  was  a  resident  of  the  township  of 
Martex,  county  of  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania. 
John  Murphy's  birthdate  and  the  maiden  name 
of  his  wife  are  unknown.  From  his  will  it  is 
learned  that  he  died  late  in  1776  or  early  in 
1777.  leaving  a  large  plantation  and  a  good 
library. 

Thomas  Lee  and  his  sixteen-year-old-bride 
resided  for  a  time  with  her  sister,  Catharine 
Hsler,  the  wife  of  Benjamin  Fisler,  who  in  his 
day  was  e(|ually  distinguished  for  his  ability  as 
a  minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  faith, 
and  as  a  physician.  Shortly  after  his  marriage 
Thomas  Lee  built  a  home  in  Port  Elizabeth, 
now  standing,  and  conducted  a  mercantile  and 
lumber  business,  his  interests  e.xtending  over 
the  counties  of  Cape  May,  old  Gloucester, 
Cumberland  and  Salem.  With  his  partner, 
Joshua  Ilrick,  who  later  became  his  bitter  polit- 
ical antagonist,  he  was  a  government  contractor 
during  the  second  war  with  England.  The 
political  quarrel  between  Thomas  Lee  and 
Joshua  Brick  was  of  the  bitterest  character, 
and  not  until  a  short  time  before  the  death  of 
Mr.  Brick  were  the  antagonists  reconciled. 
Subsec|uently.  from  his  large  tracts  of  timber- 
land,  he  obtained  supplies  of  wood  used  for 
fuel  in  Philadelphia  before  the  commercial  in- 
troduction of  antharcite  coal.  Thomas  Lee, 
with  his  sons  Francis  and  Benjamin  Fisler,  in 
juirtnershi]),  was  a  staunch  promoter  of  local 
enter])rises.  In  1837  Thomas  Lee  was  one  of 
the  incor])orators  of  the  Port  Elizabeth  Manu- 
facturing Company. 

During  Thomas  Lee's  association  with  the 
village  of  his  adoption — Port  Elizabeth — a 
lieriod  of  half  a  century,  he  was  constantly  in 
public  life,  being  as  was  his  father,  a  staunch 
anti-Federalist, and  laterajacksonian  Democrat. 
His  career  was  inaugurated  by  his  appointment 
to  the  position  of  judge  and  justice  of  the  court 
of  common  pleas  (  November  3,  1813 — Febru- 
ary 17,  1815).  During  this  period  he  was  an 
active  member  of  the  3c)th  general  assembly  of 
New  Jersey,  acting  in  1814-15  as  a  member  of 
committees  to  revise  the  small  courts  act,  the 


vice  and  immorality  act,  and  introducer  of 
legislation  upon  questions  of  arbitration  and 
execution.  From  October  31,  i8i8,  to  January 
2,  1833,  Mr.  Lee  s^ved  as  postmaster  of  Port 
Elizabeth,  being  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son, 
r-'rancis.  He  was  again  appointed  postmaster 
on  January  20,  1846.  which  ijosition  he  occu- 
lted until  June  11,  1849. 

I->om  1833  to  1837  Thomas  Lee  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  twenty-third  and  twenty-fourth 
congresses,  serving  in  the  house  of  representa- 
tives. His  principal  activity  in  Washington 
was  chairman  of  the  committee  on  accounts, 
David  Crockett  also  being  a  member  of  this 
committee.  It  was  during  this  ])eriod  that  Mr. 
Lee  was  the  personal  rej)resentative  of  Presi- 
dent Jackson  in  the  southern  section  of  the 
state.  In  this  struggle  for  political  supremacy 
Mr.  Lee  was  assisted  by  James  Ward,  an  Irish- 
man of  courtly  manners  and  great  ability,  who 
built  the  Roman  Catholic  chapel  at  Port  Eliza- 
beth, and  was  frequently  elected  sui^erintend- 
ent  of  public  schools. 

In  matters  of  public  education  and  philan- 
thropy, Thomas  Lee  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Port  Elizabeth  library.  He  was  also 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Port  Elizabeth 
Academy  in  its  time,  about  1815,  one  of  the 
leading  schools  south  of  Trenton.  He,  with 
his  wife,  Rhoda,  gave  liberally  to  all  religious 
denominations,  but  particularly  to  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  church  of  I'ort  Elizabeth. 
Thomas  Lee  died  November  2,  1856,  and  is 
buried  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  churchyard 
in  the  village  of  Port  Elizabeth,  as  is  al.so  his 
wife,  who  died  April  6,  1858. 

The  children  of  Thomas  and  Rhoda  Lee 
were:  i.  Francis,  born  March  31,  1808,  died 
May  13,  1888.  2.  Thomas,  born  November 
20,  1809,  died  September  4,  1838.  3.  Ellen 
Brick,  born  September  4,  181 1,  died  1836 
(Bowen).  4.  Elizabeth  Cloyd,  born  May  14, 
181 3,  died  1887  (Osterhout),  5.  Clement  Jones, 
born  March  24,  181 5,  deceased.  6.  Lorenzo 
I-'isler.  born  November  zt,.  1816,  died  July  17, 
1848.  7.  Benjamin  Fisler.  born  June  30,  1828, 
living. 

Benjamin  I'isler  Lee  was  born  iij  the  Lee 
Mansion,  Port  Elizabeth,  and  died  in  .Atlantic 
L'itv.  in  A|iril,  1909.  He  received  his  earl\ 
education  in  the  public  schools  and  academy 
of  the  village.  lie  subsequently  attended 
John  Ciummere's  School  in  Burlington,  New 
Jersey.  Returning  to  Port  Elizabeth  in  1845, 
Mr.  Lee  joined  his  father  in  business  as  a 
partner,  remaining  in  thi^  connection  until  the 
outbreak  of  the  civil  war. 


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Mr.  Lee's  active  political  career  began  in 
1850.  when  he  supported  Nathan  T.  Stratton 
for  congress.  Mr.  Lee  in  1856  served  as  a 
Democratic  presidential  elector  and  a  member 
of  the  Democratic  state  committee.  In  1859 
and  in  1861  he  was  nominated  for  the  New 
Jersey  house  of  assembly,  but  was  in  both 
instances  defeated  by  a  small  Republican 
majt)rity.  In  1870  he  was  nominated  for  con- 
gress and  succeeded  in  greatly  reducing  the 
large  Republican  majority  of  the  old  First 
Congressional  District.  Appearing  in  the  Dem- 
ocratic gubernatorial  convention  of  187 1  with 
the  entire  voting  strength  of  his  district,  Mr. 
Ixe  retired  in  favor  of  the  late  (Jovernor  Joel 
Parker.  During  the  following  legislative  ses- 
sion, Governor  Parker  sent  Mr.  Lee"s  name 
to  the  state  senate  for  confirmation  as  clerk 
of  the  New  Jersey  supreme  court,  he  entering 
upon  the  duties  of  this  office  upon  November 
2nd,  1872.  He  retained  the  position  until  No- 
vember 2.  1897,  when,  owing  to  the  transfer  of 
])ower  to  the  Re]Hiblican  party,  the  office  passed 
from  Democratic  control. 

From  1886  to  1895  Mr.  Lee  acted  as  treas- 
urer of  the  Democratic  state  committee,  while 
in  the  latter  portion  of  his  official  relations  to 
Iiis  office  as  clerk,  he  personally  directed  the 
collation,  arrangement  and  indexing  of  all  the 
documents  in  his  custody  relating  to  criminal 
and  civil  causes.  This  comprised  cases  from 
1685  to  1846,  previous  to  which  latter  date 
there  was  no  inde.x. 

Since  1850  Mr.  Lee  was  identitied  with  the 
development  of  railroad  interests  of  the  south- 
ern portion  of  New  Jersey.  Pearly  in  the  '50s 
he  wrote  extensively  upon  the  suijject,  partic- 
ularly in  the  Trenton.  Camden  and  Bridgeton 
news])apers,  with  the  i)urpose  of  identifying 
the  Camden  and  Amboy  railroad  with  the  de- 
■eloiiment  of  the  southern  section  of  the  state 
Jn  1853  he  became  one  of  the  incorporators  of 
the  West  Jersey  Railroad  Company,  and  in 
1859  was  one  of  the  incoqjorators  of  the  West 
Jersey  Central  railroad.  Cpon  the  9th  of 
March.  1863,  he  was  named  by  act  of  the  legis- 
lature as  director  of  the  Ca])e  .May  and  Millville 
railroad.  l'"lected  as  treasurer  (jf  the  company, 
he  retaiiK><l  the  jjosition  until  1872.  ffe  was  also 
active  in  the  building  of  the  Stockton  1  lotel 
at  Cape  May.  In  1866  he  was  an  incorporator 
of  the  I'ridgeton  and  Port  Norris  railroad, 
was  identitied  with  its  construction,  and  re- 
mained interested  until  its  transfer  and  change 
(if  name  to  *he  Cumberland  and  .Maurice  River 
railroad,  .\fter  associating  himself  with  the 
directorate  of  the  Went  Jersey  railroad  and  the 


W  est  Jersey  and  Sea  Shore  railroad,  Mr.  Lee 
was  instrumental  in  the  construction  of  the 
Maurice  River  and  Xewfield-Atlantic  City 
Ijranches. 

In  other  business  relations  Mr.  Lee  was 
president  of  the  Trent  Tile  Company,  of  Tren- 
ton, a  director  of  the  Trenton  Banking  Com- 
pany, director  of  the  Standard  Fire  Insurance 
Company,  of  Trenton,  president  of  the  Uni- 
versal Pa])er  Bag  Company,  and  director  of 
the  Cniou  Mills  I'aper  Manufacturing  Com- 
])any,  of  New  Hope,  Pennsylvania. 

In  1888  Mr.  Lee  was  named  as  manager  of 
the  State  Home  for  Feeble  Minded  Women  at 
X'ineland,  and  since  the  death  of  Alexander  G. 
Cattell  has  been  president  of  the  board.  He 
was  also  president  of  the  New  Jersey  State 
Conference  of  Charities  and  Corrections,  antl 
for  many  years  was  vestryman  of  Trinity  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  Church,  of  Trenton.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Historical 
-Society,  the  American  Academy  of  Political 
and  Social  Science  of  Philadelphia,  the  Mer- 
cantile Library  of  Philadelphia,  the  Lotus  Club 
and  the  Country  Club  of  Trenton. 

On  July  16,  iSh2,  Mr.  Lee  married  Anna- 
l)ella  W'illson  Townsend,  born  September  21, 
1835,  who  is  now  living.  Mrs.  Lee,  daughter 
of  the  late  William  Smith  Townsend,  of  Den- 
nisville,  .\'ew  Jersey,  is  descended  directly  from 
Richard  Townsend.  who  first  appeared  at  Ja- 
maica, Long  Island,  1656.  He  died  near  Oyster 
jiay  about  1671,  leaving  among  other  children 
John,  who  married  Phebe  \\'illiams,  daughter  of 
John  Williams.  John  Townsend  was  one  of 
the  earliest  settlers  of  Cape  May  county,  gave 
his  name  to  Townsend's  Inlet,  and  was  a  jus- 
tice and  one  of  His  Majesty's  high  sheriiTs. 
John  died  in  1721.  .\mong  his  children  was 
Richard,  ])r(ibal)ly  the  first  white  child  born  in 
CajjeMay  count}-,  born  1681,  died  1737,  married 
.Millicent  Somers,  of  Somerset  Plantation, 
now  Somer's  Point.  Her  father,  John,  was 
the  ancestor  of  Commodore  Richard .  Somers. 
( )f  the  children  of  Richard  and  Millicent  Town- 
send  there  were:  Isaac,  who  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  John  Willetts.  Of  this  union  was 
Isaac  (  II  I,  born  1738.  died  1 780.  who  married 
Keturah  .Mbertson.  daughter  of  Josiah  .Mbert- 
son  and  .Ainie  .\ustin.  Anne  was  the  daughter 
of  Francis  .\ustin,  of  the  \'ale  of  Evesham 
P.nrlington  comity.  Isaac  Townsend  (II)  had 
a  son  Isaac  Townsend  (  III)  who  in  1800  mar- 
ried Hannah  Ogden,  direct  in  descent  from 
David  Ogden,  who  in  1682  came  with  William 
Penn  to  Pennsylvania  in  the  "Welcome."  .A 
son    of    Isaac    Townsend    (III)    was    William 


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Smith  Tuwiisemi,  merchant  of  Deniiisville, 
Ca])e  May  county,  actively  identified  with  ship- 
building interests  and  the  construction  of  the 
Cape  May  and  Millville  railroad.  Born  in 
181 1,  he  died  in  1881.  In  1833  he  married 
Hannah  Smith  Ludlam,  <laughter  of  Henry 
Ludlam  and  Mary  Lawrence.  Hannah  Lud- 
lani's  descent  is  traced  to  Anthony  Ludlam, 
settler  in  Southampton,  Long  Island,  1640. 
His  son  Joseph  was  among  the  first  settlers  of 
Cape  May  county.  Of  the  direct  line  was 
Lieutenant  Henry  Ludlam,  of  the  Cape  May 
militia  in  the  revolution,  with  descent  from 
John  May,  the  founder  of  May's  Landing,  the 
county  seat  of  Atlantic  county. 

The  children  of  Benjamin  Fisler  Lee  and 
Annabella  W'illson  Townsend  Lee  are :  Francis 
Bazley  Lee,  born  January  3,  1869.  Anna 
Townsend  Lee,  born  September  16,  1870,  died 
July  23,  1871.  Marguerite  Alexander  Lee 
(Uixon),  born  December  25,  1875.  Marguerite 
.Alexander  Lee  was  married  to  Huston  Dixon. 
Esq..  of  Trenton,  April  14,  1904.  Of  this 
marriage  there  are  two  children.  Annabel  Lee 
Dixon,  horn  April  7.  1905,  and  Marion  Ross 
Dixon,  born  July  14,  1906. 

Francis  I'>azley  Lee.  the  author  of  this  work, 
was  born  in  the  Merchants'  Hotel,  Philadel- 
phia, on  January  3,  1869.  He  received  his  pre- 
paratory education  in  the  Trenton  Seminary, 
Lawrenceville  School,  during  the  last  year  of 
Dr.  Samuel  M.  Hamill's  principalship  and  the 
first  year  of  the  John  C.  Green  foundation,  and 
graduated  from  the  State  Model  .School  in 
1888.  While  at  the  Model  School  he  founded 
in  1885  The  Siij)iiil.  the  school  paper,  and  was 
secretary  and  president  of  the  Thencanic  Lit- 
erary Society.  Entering  the  junior  class  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  Mr.  Lee  com- 
pleted in  1890  a  special  course  in  American 
history,  political  economy  and  constitutional 
law  in  the  Wharton  School.  At  college  he  was 
active  in  the  reorganization  of  Iota  Chapter 
F'hi  Ka])pa  Psi  fraternity,  subsequently  becom- 
ing arclion  of  the  district,  was  an  associate 
editor  of  Tlic  Pcnnsykvnia,  and  made  special 
investigations  for  the  matriculate  catalogue 
committee.  Upon  graduation  he  was  ivy  orator. 
The  summer  of  1890  Mr.  Lee  spent  in  Europe, 
where  he  made  the  first  translation  from 
French  of  the  Belgian  constitution,  and  es])e- 
cially  studied  the  health  problems  of  munici- 
palities. During  the  following  autumn  and 
winter  he  took  a  special  course  in  English  litera- 
ture in  the  L'niversity  of  Pennsylvania. 

Having  completed  his  legal  studies  in  the 
office  of  the  Hon.  G.  D.  W.  Vroom,  of  Tren- 


ton, Mr.  Lee  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New 
Jersey,  June  term,  1893.  PVom  July  of  that 
year  until  May,  1894,  he  assisted  the  city 
solicitor  of  Trenton,  Edwin  Robert  Walker,  in 
legal  matters  connected  with  the  establishment 
of  the  sewer  system  of  that  city.  In  June 
term,  1896,  Air.  Lee  was  admitted  as  a  coun- 
sellor-at-law.  During  this  period,  with  Nelson 
L.  Petty,  of  Trenton,  Mr.  Lee  was  secretary 
to  the  commission  to  compile  the  general 
statutes  of  New  Jersey  issued  in  1896.  In 
1897  ^"''  1898  Mr.  Lee  was  the  receiver  and 
managing  editor  of  the  Trenton  Times,  also 
in  1905  becoming  acting  editor  of  the  Demo- 
cratic True  American,  at  the  personal  solicita- 
tion of  its  editor,  Joseph  L.  Xaar,  during  his 
last  illness.  He  is  a  director  in  the  Standard 
Fire  Insurance  Company,  of  Trenton,  and  suc- 
ceeded his  father  as  president  of  the  Trent 
Tile  Company. 

Mr.  Lee  has  contributed  largely  to  current 
historical  and  legal  literature.  He  has  written 
e.xtensively  for  the  daily  newspaper  press  of 
New  Jersey,  while  among  his  more  extensive 
contributions  are:  "Memorial  of  George  White 
Worman,"  1890:  "Supreme  Court  of  New  Jer- 
sey," Medico-Legal  Journal,  March,  1892; 
data  relating  to  Xew  Jersey  men  in  the  Matric- 
ulate Catalogue  of  the  L'niversity  of  Pennsyl- 
vania ;  a  series  of  articles  on  colonial  laws, 
legislation,  and  customs,  Nen'  Jersey  Law 
Journal.  i89i-i<j)02;  "Colonial  Jersey  Coinage," 
1893;  ".\gricultural  Improvement  in  Southern 
Xew  Jersey,"  1894:  "Jerseyisms,"  1894;  "His- 
tory of  Trenton,"  1895:  "History  of  the  Great 
Seal  of  Xew  Jersey,"  in  Zieber's  ".\merican 
Heraldry:"  and  "Outline  History  and  Com- 
pilations and  Revisions  of  the  Colony  and  State 
of  Xew  Jersey,  1717-1896,"  in  the  General 
Statutes  of  New  Jersey,  1896.  He  has  for 
several  years  been  a  member  of  the  publication 
committee  of  the  Xew  Jersey  Archives  and  has 
edited  \'ol.  II  of  the  2nd  series.  He  was  also 
chairman  of  a  committee  of  the  L'niversity  of 
Pemisylvania,  class  of  '90,  which  in  1895  pub- 
lished the  Ouinc|uennial  record  of  the  class. 
He  wrote  the  four-volume  history  "Xew  Jer- 
.sey  as  a  Colony  and  as  a  State"  and  prepared 
the  articles  on  "Xew  Jersey,"  "Xewark"  and 
"Trenton"  in  the  Encyclopedia  Americana.  An 
article  upon  "Receivers  of  Insolvent  Corpora- 
tii_ins"  in  the  American  Corporation  Legal 
Manual  is  also  from  his  pen. 

In  matters  of  public  health  and  parks,  Mr. 
Lee  has  taken  active  interest.  As  a  member  of 
the  Trenton  board  of  health  since  1901,  he  has 
led  a  campaign  for  mosquito  extermination.  By 


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ri'a.->i>n  of  resultant  agitation  in  11)03  the  com- 
mon council  of  the  city  of  Trenton  commenced 
the  ])lan  of  the  purchase  of  the  Delaware  river 
Iront.  Of  the  special  committee  on  the  ac- 
quisition of  park  lands  Mr.  I.ee  has  been  secre- 
tary. 

\Ir.  Lee  is  a  member  of  the  Xew  Jersey 
Historical  Society,  recording  secretary  of  the 
rrincetoii  Historical  Society:  member  of  the 
IJurlington  County.  Monmouth  County.  Salem 
County  (  Xew  Jersey)  Historical  societies,  and 
of  the  Bucks  County  (Pennsylvania)  Histor- 
ical Society ;  for  ten  years  was  corresponding 
secretary  of  the  New  Jersey  Sons  of  the  Rev- 
olution ;  formerly  a  member  of  the  board  of 
managers  of  the  Revolutionary  Memorial  Soci- 
ety and  active  in  the  attempts  to  preserve 
Washington's  hea(k|uarters  in  Rocky  Hill  and 
Somervillc ;  formerly  secretary  and  president 
of  the  State  Schools  Alumni  Association,  of 
which  he  was  one  of  the  organizers;  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Dialect  Society ;  of  the 
-Xew  Jersey  Society  of  Pennsylvania  and  of 
the  State  and  Mercer  County  liar  associations 
.Since  December.  1892.  lie  has  been  a  member 
of  the  board  of  managers  of  the  Xew  Jersey 
State  Charities  .Aid  Society,  and  is  a  member 
of  its  law  committee.  In  .-Xpril,  1895,  Mr.  Lee 
was  appointed  one  of  a  special  committee  to 
e.xamine  the  penal  laws  of  Xew  Jersey  and 
other  states,  and  to  rejjort  necessary  and  bene- 
ficial changes.  The  committee  reported  in 
favor  of  the  indeterminate  sentence  and  the 
probation  system,  and  ujjon  its  findings  much 
of  the  recent  beneficial  legislation  has  been 
enacted. 

Mr.  Lee  was  secretary  to  the  commission  to 
C(imj)ile  the  public  statutes  of  Xew  Jersey,  and 
was  in  charge  of  Xew  Jersey's  historical  ex- 
hibit at  the  Jamestown  Tcr-Centennial  Ex- 
|)osition,  and  is  also  historian  to  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Washington's  Crossing  Com- 
mission. 

Cpon  the  1 2th  of  June,  1894,  at  Trinity 
Protestant  Episcojial  Church,  Vincentown, 
.\ew  Jersey.  I'Vancis  P..  Lee  married  Sara 
.Stretch  Iviyre.  born  in  Junction  City,  Kansas, 
only  child  of  Captain  (ieorge  -Stretch  Eayre 
and  Marie  lUirr  llryan,  his  wife.  Captain 
iCayre  is  living  in  \'incentown,  three  miles 
distant  from  the  home  of  the  original  emi- 
grant, Richard  F.ayre.  founder  before  1710  of 
one  of  IJurlington  county's  colonial  commercial 
centers,  Eayrestown.  As  a  young  man  Ca]i- 
tain  Eayre  removed  to  the  west,  and  before 
the  age  of  twenty-one  was  clerk  of  the  legis- 
lature of  the  territory  of  Xebraska.      Among 


the  earliest  arrivals  in  Denver  he  was  engaged 
in  the  lumber  industry,  and  at  the  outbreak  of 
the  civil  war  enlisted  in  the  First  Colorado 
Cavalry  Regiment,  and  later  in  the  Colorado 
Independent  I'.attery.  This  battery  was  at- 
tached to  the  .Army  of  the  Frontier  and  the 
Army  of  the  Border.  Trans-Mississippi  De- 
])artment.  He  became  senior  first  lieutenant 
of  the  battery  June,  1 861,  and  received  a  cap- 
tain's commission  in  June,  1864,  for  bravery 
on  the  fiekl.  During  his  military  career  Cap- 
tain Eayre  participated  in  the  following  frontier 
engageinents :  .Apache  Canon,  Anderson's  Gap, 
Beaver  Creek,  I'entonville,  Big  Blue,  Bogg's 
Mills,  llranchville,  Jiull  Creek,  Cadd's  Moun- 
tain, Cane  Hill,  Carthage,  Cherokee  Xation, 
Des  Arcs,  Fort  Scott,  I'ayetteville,  I'^ort  Craig, 
Fort  I-'illmore,  Fort  Larned.  Cjrandy,  Independ- 
ence, Kansas  City,  Little  Blue,  Marais  des 
Cygnes,  Mine  Creek,  Xeosho,  Newtonia,  Osage 
River,  Pea  Ridge,  Pigeon  Ranche,  Rio  de  las 
.Vnimas.  Rio  Honato,  Smoky  Hill  and  \  al 
\  erde.  .After  residing  a  short  time  in  Iowa, 
Ca])tain  Eayre  returned  to  X'incentown.  Dur- 
ing recent  years  he  has  devoted  himself  to 
scientiiic  arboriculture  and  hi>rticulture,  e.x])eri- 
mcnting  especially  with  gra])es.  ])lums  and 
strawberries. 

Through  her  mother,  .Mrs.  Lee  is  directly 
descended  from  the  lUirr  family,  who,  like  the 
F.ayres,  were  large  owners  of  Burlington  coun- 
ty plantations  and  woodlands.  The  original 
emigrant  ti.>  Xew  Jersey  was  Henry  Burr.  To 
him  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Hudson  were  born 
several  children.  One  daughter,  Elizabeth, 
was  the  mother  c>f  John  Woolman,  the  most 
distinguished  .\merican  minister  of  the  Society 
of  I-"rieiids  during  the  ]ieriod  of  the  l-'rench  and 
Indian  war.  .Another  daughter,  Martha,  be- 
came the  mother  of  Colonel  Timothy  Matlack, 
the  "h'ighting  Quaker"  of  the  American  rev- 
olution, whose  portrait  hangs  in  Independence 
Hall,  and  to  whom  the  citizens  of  Philadelphia 
Ijresented  a  silver  urn  in  coinmemoration  of  his 
gallant  defense  of  the  city.  A  grandson,  son  of 
Henry  Burr,  was  Jose])h,  father  of  Keziah, 
wife  of  Cjovcrnor  Richard  Howell,  of  \'ew 
Jersey,  and  of  Lieutenant  William  Burr.  Lieu- 
tenant Piurr's  daughter  was  the  wife  of  Jeft'er- 
son  Davis,  president  of  the  (."onfederacy. 
.\  son  Josejih  was  the  grandfather  of  Joshua 
llurr.  of  \'incentown,  who  married  Mary  E. 
Xewbold,  descended  from  Michael  Xewbold, 
justice.  P>urlington,  1701  ;  Thomas  Xewbold, 
justice,  llnrlington,  1739:  William  Xewbold, 
member  llnrlington  County  Committee  of 
Safetv.   1775:  Major  P.arzillai   Xewbold,  serv- 


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iig  with  distinction  in  the  American  revohition. 
Mrs.  Lee  is  a  great-granddaughter  of  Joshua 
ind  Mary  Xe\vb61d   Burr. 

Major  Piarzillai  Xewbold  married  Euphemia 
Reathng,  of  one  of  the  most  distinguislied  an- 
:estral  Hnes  in  the  colony  of  New  Jersey. 
Through  Captain  John  ReacHng,  of  Cdoucester, 
Governor  John  Reading,  long  a  member  of 
His  Majesty's  Council  and  the  representative 
oi  the  crown  as  governor  and  chancellor,  and 
Captain  Daniel  Reading,  Mrs.  Lee  is  descended 
from  the  Ryersons,  of  Bergen  county,  and  the 
Reids.  of  Hortensia,  Monmouth  county.  It  is 
a  notewortiiy  fact  that  the  daughter  of  John 
Reid  married  (iovernor  John  .\nderson,  who 
with  ( lOvernor  John  Reading  were  the  only 
men  born  in  New  Jersey  who  filled  the  office 
of  governor  from  the  settlement  of  the  colony 
imtil  1790. 

I'^rom  the  Gloucester  county  family  of  How- 
ells,  of  "Livewell"  and  "Christianity,"  Mrs. 
I^ee  is  descended,  as  also  from  Thomas  Stretch, 
first  governor  of  the  "Colony  in  Schuylkill," 
who  came  to  America  with  his  father,  Peter, 
in  1703.  A  son  of  Thomas  was  Peter  (II)  a 
signer  of  the  Continental  bills  of  credit,  and  in 
1778  was  a  member  of  the  Philadelphia  light 
infantry  company.  Peter  (II)  married  Sarah 
Howell,  daughter  of  Sanuiel  Howell,  a  conspic- 
uous Philadelphia  merchant  and  earnest  sup- 
porter of  the  revolutionary  movement. 

L'i)on  the  5th  of  Xovembei*,  1898,  a  daugh- 
ter, Rhoda,  now  living,  was  born  in  Vincen- 
town.  New  Jersey,  to  Francis  B.  and  Sara 
Stretch  Eayre  Lee. 


The  Jube  family  belong  to  the  more 
yCHF'"      recent  arrivals  to  this  country,  but 

in  the  short  space  of  three  genera- 
tions they  have  already  won  their  place  and 
made  their  mark  among  the  prominent  families 
of  Newark  who  represent  the  forces  which 
have  given  the  city  a  name  and  rank  among 
the  foremost  of  the  manufacturing  centres  of 
the  L'nited  States. 

(I)  The  first  of  the  name  to  come  to  this 
country  was  Thomas  Jube,  who  was  born  in 
England  sometime  about  the  middle  of  the 
eighteenth  century.  \'ery  little  is  known  about 
him  except  that  he  emigrated  to  this  country 
and  settled  in  New  York  City,  and  that  it  was 
there  that  his  son,  John  Prosser  Jube,  who  is 
referred  to  below,  was  born. 

(II)  John  Prosser,  son  of  Thomas  Jube, 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  October  24,  18 12, 
died  at  his  residence,  973  Broad  street,  New- 
ark. New  Jersey,  February  g,  1905,  of  pneu- 


monia, after  an  illness  of  about  a  week.  He 
caiue  to  Newark  as  a  young  man  and  began 
his  business  career  in  1838,  as  a  manufacturer 
of  carriage  materials,  establishing  himself  and 
his  small  plant  on  Mechanic  street.  It  was  not 
long  before  his  business,  which  grew  rapidly, 
became  so  great  that  Air.  Jube  was  compelled 
to  seek  larger  and  more  commodious  quarters, 
and  he  therefore  transferretl  it  to  New  York 
City,  where  he  further  extended  and  enlarged 
it.  Here  he  continued  to  transact  his  business 
for  many  years  of  his  life,  until  he  retired  and 
gave  up  his  business  to  the  management  and 
control  of  his  son  William  M.,  but  he  continued 
to  live  and  make  his  home  in  Newark.  He 
retired  from  active  business  many  years  be- 
fore his  death,  having  amassed  a  fortune 
through  his  business,  and  augmented  it  greatly 
by  wise  investments  in  Newark  and  elsewhere. 
He  was  a  genial,  well-informed  man,  shrewd 
in  business,  active  in  good  works,  and  scrupu- 
lously fair  and  honorable  in  all  his  dealings. 
He  was  a  member  and  one  of  the  principal 
supporters  of  the  First  Congregational  Church 
of  Newark  and  contributed  very  largely  to  the 
fund  for  building  the  new  church  edifice  of 
that  congregation  in  Clinton  avenue.  For  a 
number  of  years  he  was  a  director  of  the  Na- 
tional State  Bank,  and  for  several  years  was 
its  president.  Among  other  financial  institu- 
tions of  Newark  in  which  he  was  interested 
was  the  Firemans"  Insurance  Company,  of 
which  for  over  forty  years  he  served  as  a  di- 
rector, being  one  of  the  original  direc^tors  and 
was  one  of  its  charter  members  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death  being  the  last  of  the  original 
thirty  members  of  the  board.  He  was  also 
interested  in  many  other  local  financial  enter- 
prises, and  was  connected  with  ([uite  a  num- 
ber of  charitable  and  religious  organizations. 
He  was  married  twice,  but  his  children  were 
all  borne  to  him  by  his  first  wife.  Mr.  Jube 
was  a  Republican,  but  he  never  held  any  office 
nor  did  he  see  any  military  service.  By  hi.s 
wife  Sarah,  the  daughter  of  LTzal  and  Fanny 
f  Bolles)  Ward,  John  Prosser  Jube  had  eight 
children:  i.  William  L'zal,  referred  to  below. 
2.  John  Jube,  married ;  lives  in  Brooklyn ;  has 
three  children:  John,  Albert  and  Mary.  3. 
Harriet  Newell,  married,  October  31,  1877, 
Edgar  Bethune,  son  of  Moses  Dodd  and  Jus- 
tina  Louisa  (Sayre)  Ward.  4.  Albert  B.,  re- 
ferred to  below.  5.  Mary  Jube.  6.  Amanda 
Ward,  married  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Feb- 
ruarv  i,  1871,  Charles  Francis,  son  of  Francis 
and  .Sarah  (Seaman)  Mackin,  and  grandson  of 
[ohn  and   Eliza    (Jenkins)    Mackin,  of   New- 


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burg.  Xcw  Yurk  (see  Mackiii).  7.  Eiuin:i 
Jiibe.    8.  Thomas  S.,  referred  to  below. 

(Ill)  William  L'zal,  eldest  son  and  child  of 
John  Prosser  and  Sarah  (Ward)  Jube,  was 
born  in  Newark,  Xew  Jersey,  and  is  now  living 
in  East  Orange,  Xew  Jersey.  Entering  his 
father's  business  in  early  manhood  he  succeed- 
ed to  the  management  of  it  on  his  father's  re- 
tirement and  is  now  carrying  it  on  at  97  Bow- 
ery, Xew  York  City,  inheriting  by  will  his 
father's  interest  in  same.  He  married  Electa 
^L  Heaton,  who  has  borne  him  three  children : 
I.  John  I'rosser,  died  at  eight  years  of  age.  2. 
Fanny,  married  Josepii  I'erian  and  has  one 
child.  Helen.  3.  Matilda  Heaton,  married 
I'rank,  son  of  Edward  and  Hannah  (Wade) 
Benjamin,  and  grandson  of  David  and  Cor- 
nelia (Smith)   Benjamin. 

(HI)  Albert  B.,  third  son  of  John  I'rosser 
and  Sarah  (Ward)  Jube,  was  educated  at  the 
Blairstown  .Academy,  and  upon  taking  up  the 
])ractical  duties  of  a  business  career,  he  became 
identified  with  his  father's  interests  and  con- 
tinued thus  engaged  for  a  number  of  years, 
when  he  finally  relinquished  his  active  duties 
owing  to  impaired  health.  He  is  a  Republican 
and  is  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church. 

(HI  I  Thomas  S.,  yt)ungest  cliild  of  John 
I'rosser  and  Sarah  (Ward)  Jube.  was  edu- 
cated like  his  brotlier  at  tiie  Blairstown  Acad- 
emj',  and  also  is  a  member  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational C'hurch  of  Xewark. 


.\maiuia  Ward,  si.xth  child  and 
.M.\CKIX     second  daughter  of  John  Pross- 
er and  Sarah  (Ward)  Jube,  was 
married  in  Xewark,  Xew  Jersey,  I-ebruary  i, 
1871,  to  Charles  I-'rancis  Mackin,  of  Xewark. 
Mr.  Mackin's  grandfather,  John  Mackin.  of 
Xewburg,  Xew  York,  was  born  in  1801.  died 
in  1829.     He  married  Eliza  Jenkins,  of  Xew- 
burg,   and    their   children    were:      i.    Giarles. 
married   a   Miss   Merritt.     2.  James,   married 
(first)   a   Miss  Wilsey.  and   (second)   a   Miss 
Brittain.     3.    Mary,   married   James   M.    Ker- 
naghan.    4.  Francis,  referre<l  to  below. 

Francis,  son  of  John  and  Eliza  (Jenkins) 
Mackin,  was  born  in  Newburg,  Xew  York, 
February  22,  1826,  and  is  now  living  in  New- 
ark, Xew  Jersey.  He  was  about  three  years 
old  when  liis  father  died,  and  he  was  sent  to 
live  with  his  uncle  in  Xew  York  City.  Here  he 
attended  tiie  public  schools,  and  on  the  death 
of  his  uncle  returned  to  Newburg  for  a  while, 
after  which  he  went  to  Chatham,  Xew  Jersey, 
to  live  anfl  there  s|)ent  eight  years  in  the  tailor- 


ing business.  He  then  came  to  Xewark,  where 
he  became  a  clerk  in  a  clothing  store,  and  learn- 
ing cutting,  remained  for  si.x  years.  In  1850 
he  started  in  the  clothing  business  for  himself, 
at  first  as  a  retailer,  and  shortly  afterwards  as 
a  wholesale  dealer.  In  1861  he  obtained  con- 
tracts for  the  army,  and  in  1865  retired.  In 
i8f)8  he  was  an  alderman  of  Newark,  and  in 
1869  a  member  of  the  state  legislature.  He 
attends  the  Universalist  church.  By  his  wife, 
.Sarah  (Seaman)  Mackin,  born  March,  1826, 
died  in  1891,  he  has  had  four  children:  i. 
Charles  Francis,  referred  to  below.  2.  Eliza 
1..,  marrieil  I'rancis  .\.  Carpenter  and  has  four 
ciiildren :  Charles  M. ;  I""rancis  Xewton,  mar- 
ried .\deline  Hoag;  Eugene,  married  a  Con- 
necticut girl ;  Adele  Prendergast,  married 
( )liver  Wolcott  Jackson.  3.  and  4.  Died  in 
infancy. 

Charles  I'rancis,  son  of  I-'rancis  and  Sarah 
(  Seaman  )  Mackin,  was  born  in  Xewark,  Xew 
Jersey,  l*"ebruary  3.  1849,  ^"'1  '^  "ow  living  in 
that  city.  I'or  his  early  education  he  was  sent 
to  the  Xewark  .\cademy  from  which  he  grad- 
uated in  i860,  after  which  he  went  to  the 
Eagle's  Wood  Military  Academy  at  Perth  Am- 
boy.  He  then  went  to  a  French  school  in  New 
■N'ork  City,  and  for  the  following  five  years 
worked  in  a  broker's  office  in  Wall  street.  For 
the  ten  years  succeeiling  this  experience  he  was 
engaged  in  the  le^ither  trade,  and  in  1897  came 
to  the  medical  department  of  the  Prudential 
Life  Insurance  Company.  Mr.  Mackin  has  held 
no  ])olitical  offices  nor  has  he  seen  any  military 
service.  He  belongs  to  no  secret  societies,  and 
is  a  member  of  no  clubs.  He  attends  the  Con- 
gregational church.  I'y  his  marriage  with 
.•\manda  Ward  Jube,  referred  to  above,  he  has 
four  children  living  and  two  died  in  infancy. 
riii>se  living  are:  I.  l-'rank,  married  Juliette 
Ileuschel.  2.  John  Prosser  Jube,  married  Jo- 
^epliine  1  larriet  Riker.  3.  Cliarles  I'rancis 
Mackin.  Jr.     4.  Edward  Harvey  Mackin. 


Tile  Hart  family  of  Orange,  which 

II  \l\'l"    is  represented  by  James  Hamilton 

Hart  and  his  son,  Percy  Grier  Hart, 

belongs   to   an    old   and   honorable    family   of 

Orangel)urg  county.  South  Carolina. 

(I)  Hamilton  Hart,  of  Orangeburg,  South 
Carolina,  grand fatlier  of  Mr.  James  Hamilton 
Hart,  was  a  joiner.  .Among  his  children  was 
Middleton  (J.^  referred  to  below. 

(II)  Middleton  C.,  son  of  Hamilton  Hart, 
of  Orangeburg  county.  South  Carolina,  was 
born  there  in  1816,  and  died  in  Horry  county, 
same  state,  in  1854.     He  took  up  the  study  of 


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medicine  and  became  one  of  the  best  known 
country  physicians  in  that  part  of  the  south. 
lie  was  a  Whig  in  politics,  and  for  twenty 
years  before  his  death  a  member  of  the  Meth- 
odist churcii.     His   wife,  Johanna  Josephine. 

daughter  of  James  and (Durant)  Bel- 

lune,  was  born  in  1824,  died  in  1859.  Child, 
James  Hamilton,  referred  to  below. 

(HI)  James  Hamilton,  son  of  Aliddleton 
Ci.  anil  Johanna  Josephine  (Bellune)  Hart,  was 
born  in  Marion  county,  South  Carolina,  Janu- 
ary 31.  1849.  f'^^""  I'i*  early  education  he  at- 
tended the  southern  public  schools,  and  then 
went  to  work  on  one  of  the  railroads  in  the 
south.  -After  this  he  went  into  the  naval  stores 
business.  Near  the  close  of  the  civil  war,  he  en- 
listed under  Captain  Maguire,  in  Company  K, 
Sixth  South  Carolina  Cavalry.  Confederate 
States  .\rniy,  and  served  until  the  close  of  the 
war.  He  then  came  to  Xew  York  City,  and  in 
1872,  with  John  R.  Tolar,  he  started  in  his 
present  cotton  commission  business  and  deal- 
ing in  naval  stores,  in  which  he  has  continued 
for  thirty-eight  continuous  years.  In  politics 
Mr.  Hart  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  an  enthusiastic 
secret  society  and  fraternal  organization  man, 
a  member  of  St.  John's  Chapter,  No.  i,  Union 
Chapter ;  Kane  Council,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons:  Damascus  Commandery,  Knights 
Templar,  and  of  Mecca  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine. 
Among  his  clubs  shoukl  be  mentioned  the  New- 
York  Southern  Society,  the  New  York  Con- 
federate Camp,  and  the  Essex  County  Country 
Club.  .Among  the  financial  institutions  in  which 
he  is  interested  outsitle  of  the  Tolar,  Hart  & 
Company,  should  be  mentioned  the  J.  S.  Bell 
Confectionery  Company.  October  19,  1880, 
Mr.  Hart  married  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
Lillie  Letitia,  daughter  of  Noah  Farwell  and 
Enieline  C.  (Wood)  Blanchard.  Children:  i. 
Percy  Crier,  referred  to  below.  2.  Edith  Lillie 
Cordelia,  born  January  29,  1883;  married. 
April  25,  1906,  Walter  Martin,  son  of  George 
and    Ltjuise    (Hendrichs)    Krementz. 

(  I\" )  I'ercy  Grier,  eldest  child  and  only  son 
of  James  Hamilton  and  Lillie  Letitia  (Blanch- 
ard 1  Hart,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
July  26,  1881.  After  receiving  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  Burnet  street  jjublic  school,  he  enter- 
the  Newark  .Academy,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated in  1901,  and  then  took  the  academic 
course  in  Princeton  L"niversity.  He  then  went 
to  work  under  his  father  in  the  firm  of  Tolar. 
Hart  &  Company,  160  Front  .street.  New  York 
City,  and  after  six  months  spent  in  thoroughly 
familiarizing  himself  with  the  business,  he  was 
taken   into  the  firm.     Later  he  went  into  the 


cotton  commission  business  for  himself,  with 
his  offices  at  49  Leonard  street,  New  York  City. 
In  politics  Air.  Hart  is  a  Republican  and  from 
religious  conviction  an  attendant  at  the  Central 
Alethodist  Episcopal  Church,  of  Newark. 
His  home  is  66  Hawthorn  avenue,  East  Orange. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Princeton  Association 
of  the  Oranges,  Essex  County  Country  Club. 
New  Jersey  Automobile  Club,  Wool  Club  of 
New  York  City  and  Cap  and  Gown  Club, 
Princeton  University.  April  26,  1905,  Mr. 
Hart  married  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Emily, 
daughter  of  Frank  B.  Adams,  of  that  city. 
Children:  I.  Percy  Grier,  born  July  30,  1906. 
2.  Mary  Frances,  August  24,  1908. 


It  is  well  established  that  those 
FULLER  bearing  the  name  of  Fuller,  so 
numerous  and  wide-spread  over 
the  United  States  and  Canada  have  de- 
scended from  eight  ancestral  heads,  the  dates 
of  whose  arrival  in  this  country  are  as  follows: 
Dr.  Samuel  and  his  brother  Edward,  of  the 
"Mayflower,"  came  in  1620.  John,  of  Ipswich, 
Massachusetts,  and  William,  of  Hamilton, 
New  Hampshire,  came  in  1634.  Thomas,  of 
Dedham,  and  John,  of  Newton,  Massachusetts, 
came  in  1635.  Robert,  of  Salem,  and  Thomas, 
of  Woburn,  and  later  of  Middleton,  Massachu- 
setts, came  in  1638.  Robert,  of  Dorchester, 
later  of  Dedham,  Massachusetts,  came  in  1640. 
.Although  ])ositive  evidence  is  wanting,  it  is 
very  probable  that  in  England  these  several 
heads  had  a  common  ancestry.  This  record 
attempts  to  deal  only  with  Thomas  Fuller,  of 
Woburn,  later  of  Salem  and  Middleton.  The 
coat-ot-arms  of  the  Fuller  family:  Argent, 
three  bars  gules,  on  a  canton  of  the  second  a 
castle  or.  Crest,  a  dexter  arm  embowed,  vested 
argent,  cuflfed  sable,  lu)lding  in  the  hand 
pro])er  a  sword  of  the  first  hilt  of  pommel  or. 
( .\rgent — white  :  gules — red  :  or — gold  ;  sable 
— black.  The  bar  is  one  of  the  honorable 
ordinaries  representing  a  belt  of  honor  given 
for  eminent  scr\'ices.  The  canton  is  a  subordi- 
nate ordinary  representing  the  banner  given  to 
Knights- Banneret ) .  This  coat-of-arms  has  been 
long  in  use  in  the  family,  and  Burke  in  his 
"General  .Armory''  described  the  same  as  be- 
longing to  a  Fuller  family  on  the  Isle  of  Wight. 
It  ap])ears  also  that  other  lines  of  Fullers  in 
this  country  are  using  it,  and  perhaps  right- 
fully: if  so  this  serves  to  confirm  the  opinion 
that  in  England  they  had  a  common  origin 
which  had  merited  this  military  prestige. 

(  1  )   Thomas  Fuller,  the  emigrant,  was  born 
|ir<il)alily  in  Wales,  in  A])ril,    ifuS.     He  came 


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from  the  western  part  of  England,  probably 
Wales  as  some  old  accounts  give  it.  in  1638, 
at  the  age  of  twenty,  on  a  trip  of  observation, 
intending  to  return  after  a  sojourn  of  a  year, 
but  changed  his  plans.  He  attributed  this 
change  of  jiurpose  to  his  conversion  under  the 
preaching  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Shepard,  of 
Cambridge,  while  others  assign  as  a  reason 
that  he  became  attached  to  a  maiden  who  re- 
fused to  accompany  him  to  England,  and  that 
he  went  alone,  and  having  secured  his  patri- 
mony from  his  father,  who  was  a  blacksmith, 
returned  to  this  country,  married  and  settled  in 
that  part  of  Cambridge  now  called  Woburn 
and  became  prominent  in  local  matters,  serving 
often  as  a  town  officer.  After  the  death  of  his 
wife,  evidently  seeking  a  broader  field  of  op- 
portunity for  his  growing  family,  he  obtained 
from  Major  General  Dennison,  of  Boxford, 
some  three  hundred  acres  of  land  in  the  vicin- 
ity of  Will's  Hill.  He  also  acquired  other  lands, 
having  extensive  tracts  in  the  townships  of 
Reading  and  Andover  as  well  as  other  land 
bordering  on  the  latter  near  the  Andover  line. 
As  nearly  as  can  be  ascertained  he  left  Wo- 
burn about  1665  and  settled  on  the  three  hun- 
dred acres  of  land  in  that  part  of  Salem  which 
sixty-three  years  later  was  incorporated  as 
tlie  town  of  Middleton.  His  home  was  not  far 
from  the  ])lace  where  twenty-five  years  after- 
ward the  infamous  Salem  witchcraft  develo])ed, 
and  he  locatetl  his  dwelling,  half  a  mile  east  of 
W'ill's  hill  on  a  stream  then  known  as  Pierce's 
brook,  tributary  to  Ipswich  river,  and  was  the 
second  white  man  in  that  vicinity.  It  appears, 
however,  that  in  ifxS4  he  once  more  became  a 
citizen  of  Woburn,  remaining  about  three 
years,  when  he  again  returned  to  Salem,  now 
Middleton,  and  remained  till  the  time  of  his 
death  in  June,  1698.  He  was  a  man  of  enter- 
prising sjnrit  and  sound  judgment,  which  his 
posterity  have  inherited  in  a  large  degree  and 
which  have  given  them  gimd  positions  in  soci- 
ety. 

He  married  (first)  June  13,  1643.  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  John  Tidd,  of  W'oburn.  Married 
(second)  August  25,  1684.  Sarah  Wyman, 
widow  of  Lieutenant  John  W'yman,  of  Wo- 
burn :  her  maiden  name  was  Sarah  Nutt ;  she 
died  May  24,  1688.  Married  (third)  Hannah 
Wilson,  of  \\'oburn,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Hannah  I'amer;  she  survived  her  husband  and 
returned  to  Woburn  to  live  with  relatives.  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife,  born  in  Woburn  :  i.  Thomas, 
born  April  30,  i^>44,  see  forward.  2.  Elizabeth, 
born  September  12,  1645;  married,  March, 
1662.   Joseph   Dean.     3.   Ruth,  born   May    17, 


1O48;  married  (first)  Wheeler;  (sec- 
ond)    Wilkins.     4.  Deborah,  born  Ma) 

12,   1650:   married    (first)    Isaac   Richardson; 

(second) Shaw.     5.  John,  born  March 

I,  1653:  married,  February  2.  1672,  Rebecca 
Putnam.  6.  Jacob,  born  May  14,  1655;  mar- 
ried, June   19,   1683.  Mary  Bacon;  died  1731. 

7.  Joseph,  born  .\ugust  8,   1658,  died  young. 

8.  Benjamin,  born  .\pril  15,  1660;  married, 
December  15,  1685,  Sarah  Bacon.  9.  Samuel, 
born  May  9.  1662,  died  young. 

(II)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i) 
l-'uUer,  was  born  in  Woburn,  Massachusetts. 
.\pril  30.  1644.  died  in  March,  1721.  Fie  mar- 
ried (first)  in  1669,  Ruth,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Mary  Richardson,  of  Woburn.  Married 
(second)  July  19,  1699,  Martha  Durg)'.  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife:  i.  Thomas,  born  February 
3.  1671  ;  married,  May  3.  1693,  Elizabeth  An- 
drews. 2.  Jonathan,  born  July  19,  1673;  mar- 
ried, January  3,  1694.  Susannah  Trask.  3. 
John,  born  December  22.  1676;  married,  Janu- 
ary 22,  1704.  Phoebe  Symonds.  4.  Joseph, 
born  .August  12,  1679,  see  forward.  5.  Will- 
iaiu,  born  November  30,  1685;  married  (first) 
October  16,  1714.  F^lizabeth  Coodalc;  (sec- 
ond) Jime  15,  1741,  Deborah  Hill.  Child  of 
second  wife:  6.  Stephen,  born  .\ugust  10, 
1700,  married.  January  1,  1723.  Hannah  Moul- 
ton. 

(IH)  Joseph,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  Fuller, 
was  born  August  12,  1679,  died  March  27, 
1748.  He  married  (first)  February  17,  171 1, 
Rachel  Buxton.     Married  (second)  November 

3.  1 71 3,  Susannah  Dorman,  who  died  (.Jctober 
6,  1765,  aged  eighty-four  years.  Child  of  first 
wife:  Joseph,  born  I'ebruary  12,  17 12.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife:  1.  Rachel,  born  .August 
I,  1714.  2.  Ruth,  born  March  5,  1716.  3. 
.Amos,  born  1717.  baptized  February  16,  1718. 

4.  Thomas,  born  1720.  baptized  April  10,  1720. 

5.  Flphraim.  born  March  7,  1722,  see  forward. 
( I\' )    l£phraim,  son  of  Joseph  Fuller,  was 

born  March  7,  1722.  died  February  20,  1792. 
lie  served  as  a  civil  officer  during  the  revolu- 
tionary war,  and  rendered  such  services  to  his 
country  as  made  his  descendants  eligible  to 
meiuhership  in  the  Society  of  the  Sons  and 
1  )aughters  of  the  .American  Revolution.  He 
resided  in  a  house  which  was  erected  presum- 
ably by  his  father,  not  later  than  1740,  and 
there  all  his  children  were  born.  He  married 
Mary,  born  1722,  died  December  14.  1786, 
daughter  of  Ensign  Ezra  Putnam,  wlio  died 
October  22,  1747.  Children:  i.  Nehemiah, 
born  October  5,  1750;  married  Ruth  Bixby, 
born    1754,  died  July   15,   1783.     2.  Elizabeth. 


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born  August  7,  1752.  3.  Abijali,  born  Sep- 
tember 22,  1754,  died  June  6,  1817.  4.  Simeon, 
born  August  12,  1759,  see  forward. 

(V)  Simeon,  son  of  Ephraim  Fuller,  was 
born  August  12,  1759.  He  married,  June  10, 
1793,  Rebecca,  born  in  Middleton,  September 

16,  1769,  died  October  30,  1844,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  and  Susanna  (Estey)  Berry.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Dean,  born  April  19,  1791,  died  March 

17.  1864;  tradition  says  that  he  was  called  out 
in  the  war  of  1812  on  the  alarm  list;  married, 
December  17,  1822,  Lydia  Berry,  born  Sep- 
tember I,  1801,  in  Andover,  died  March  20, 
1878.  2.  Ephraim,  born  January  15,  1793,  died 
March  4,  1865;  tradition  says  that  he  was 
called  out  in  the  war  of  1812  on  the  alarm  list; 
married,  April  27,  1820,  Sally  Kimball,  born 
1793  in  Andover,  died  November  7,  1866.  3. 
Fanny,  born  October  22,  1784,  died  May  27, 
1824;  married,  June  6,  1817,  Jesse  Flint,  born 
May  15,  1788,  died  July  27,  1858.  4.  Abijah, 
born  February  6,  1801,  died  July  13,  1878; 
married  (first)  December  14,  1826,  Abigail 
Frances  Weston,  born  September  3,  1808,  in 
Amherst,  New  Hampshire,  died  July  7,  1846; 
married  (second)  October  8,  1850,  Sarah 
Blake,  born  September  22,  1818,  in  Sandwich, 
New  Hampshire,  died  October  22,  1880.  5. 
Jesse,  born  March  18,  1803,  see  forward.  Re- 
becca (Berry)  Fuller  traced  her  ancestry  to 
William  Towne  and  Johanna  Blessing,  who 
were  married  March  25,  1620,  in  St.  Nicholas 
Church,  Yarmouth.  England,  one  of  the  finest 
buildings  in  that  city,  founded  in  iioi.  They 
came  to  Salem,  Massachusetts,  in  1632,  and 
moved  to  Topsfield  in  1652.  Of  their  eight 
children  the  eldest,  Rebecca,  born  in  1621, 
married  Francis  Nourse,  and  was  executed 
for  alleged  witchcraft.  The  sixth  child,  Mary, 
born  in  1634,  married  Isaac  Estey,  and  was 
also  executed  for  alleged  witchcraft.  The  sev- 
enth child,  Sarah,  was  also  apprehended  for 
the  same  crime,  but  was  afterward  released. 
The  third  child  of  Isaac  and  Mary  (Towne) 
Estey,  John,  born  January  2,  1662,  married 
Mary  Dorman.  Their  seventh  child.  Jonathan, 
born  May  4,  1707,  married  Susanna  Monroe, 
of  Lexington.  Massachusetts.  Their  fourth 
child,  Susanna,  born  January  26,  1741,  mar- 
ried Nathaniel  Berry.  Their  fifth  child,  Re- 
becca, became  the  wife  of  Simeon  Fuller,  above 
mentioned. 

(VI)  Jesse,  son  of  Simeon  Fuller,  was  born 
March  18,  1803,  died  August  18,  1872.  He 
married,  July  14,  1835,  Elizabeth  A.  Bartine, 
born  November  24,  1816,  died  June  18,  1906. 
Children,    all    born    in   New  York  City:      i. 


Thomas  Simeon,  born  April  14,  1836,  died 
June  I,  1903;  married,  September  15,  1855, 
Efiie  Birdsall,  of  New  York  City.  2.  Jesse, 
born  August  22,  1838,  died  October  27,  1839. 
3.  Rebecca  Elizabeth,  born  September  30,  1840; 
married,  August  22,  1883,  William  B.  Putney, 
born  in  Ashfiekl,  Massachusetts,  died  Septem- 
ber 10,  1904.  4.  Charles  Wesley,  born  July  2, 
1843,  see  forward.  5.  Henry  Dean,  born  Janu- 
ary 6,  1846.  6.  Sarah,  born  April  20,  1848; 
married,  December  17,  1879,  Joseph  Newhall 
Smith,  of  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  born  in  Dan- 
vers,  Massachusetts.  7.  Jesse,  born  April  2, 
1851 ;  married,  December  2,  1873,  ^^^  ^■ 
Goldey,  of  New  York  City.  8.  Lydia  Emily, 
born  June  20,  1853;  married,  October  9,  1889, 
Sydney  Fisher,  of  New  York  City.  9.  George 
Albert,  born. June  i,  1857;  married,  June  7, 
1882,  Fannie  Searles,  of  New  York  City. 

(VII)  Charles  Wesley,  son  of  Jesse  Fuller, 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  July  2,  1843.  He 
received  his  early  education  and  training  in 
the  public  schools  and  College  of  the  City  of 
New  York  and  in  the  public  life  of  Manhattan. 
He  was  engaged  in  business  in  New  York  City 
until  1 87 1,  when  he  removed  to  Bayonne,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  now  resides.  The  legal  life 
of  New  Jersey  fascinated  him,  and  he  gave  up 
business  for  the  profession  of  law.  In  1879 
he  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  and  in 
1885  to  the  bar  of  New  York.  He  is  one  of 
the  best  and  most  widely  known  corporation 
lawyers  of  New  Jersey.  Aside  from  his  continual 
and  active  interest  in  politics,  as  citizen,  legis- 
lator, sinking  fund  commissioner,  or  member 
of  the  state  sewerage  commission,  he  has  always 
taken  a  deep  interest  in  education,  whether  as  a 
member  of  the  Bayonne  board  of  education,  a 
trustee  in  the  state  normal  school,  or  as  state 
superintendent  of  public  instruction,  to  which 
])osition  he  was  appointed  in  1888.  He  is  one  of 
the  famous  after-dinner  speakers  of  New  Jer- 
sey, and  a  political  campaigner  of  convincing 
power  and  charm  of  address.  During  the  civil 
war  he  offered  his  services  in  behalf  of  his 
country,  enlisting  in  the  Seventh  New  York 
Regiment.  In  the  draft  riots  of  1863  and  the 
riots  of  1 87 1  he  rendered  valuable  services, 
for  which  he  was  highly  complimented.  In 
1868  he  was  appointed  adjutant  of  the  Fifty- 
fifth  Regiment,  National  Guard  of  New  York; 
in  1869  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  major 
and  in  1874  made  colonel,  commanding  the 
regiment  until  1874.  Colonel  Fuller  is  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
New  Jersey  legislature  in  1888.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  George  Washington  Post,  Grand  Army 


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of  the  Republic,  Department  of  New  York, 
and  is  also  a  member  of  many  clubs,  including 
the  L'nion  League,  of  Jersey  City,  the  Lotus, 
Lawyers'  and  Twilight  clubs,  of  Xew  York. 
From  the  Yankee  stock  of  Salem  and  the 
Huguenots  of  New  Rochelle.  Colonel  F'uller 
inherits  those  qualities  of  courage,  intellect  and 
good  nature  that  have  made  him  successful  as 
soldier,  lawyer,  orator  and  wit. 

Colonel  l'"uller  married.  May  29,  1867,  Ma- 
tilda ]').  Williams,  of  New  York  City.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Harry  Williams,  born  June  14,  1868; 
married,  October  16,  1901,  Mira  Belle  Shepard. 
of  New  York  City.  2.  I-'annie  Searles,  born 
June  2,  1871  ;  married,  June  15,  1898,  Major 
Lee  Toadvine,  of  Saulsbury,  Maryland:  chil- 
dren :  Matilda  Fuller,  born  in  Saulsbury, 
Maryland,  May  9,  1899;  Elizabeth  Wesley, 
born  in  Saulsbury,  Maryland,  July  2,  1900: 
Martha  Lee,  born  in  Bayonne,  New  Jersey. 


As  their  name  indicates,  the  Wards 
WARD     owe  their  origin  to  the  old  vikings 

who  made  themselves  masters  not 
only  of  the  sea  but  also  of  much  of  Europe. 
W'hen  William  the  Norman  came  over  into 
England  he  had  Wards  among  the  lists  of  his 
"noble  captains,"  and  there  were  other  Wards 
among  the  descendants  of  the  old  sea  kings 
who  fought  against  him  at  Hastings.  Later  on, 
among  the  banners  of  the  stalwart  Anglo- 
Saxon  men  who  fought  and  bled  and  died  in 
the  Crusades,  not  the  least  renowned  was  that 
of  de  la  Warde,  or  de  Wardes ;  "he  beareth 
arms:  azure,  a  cross  patonce  or,  a  mullet  for 
difference ;  crest :  a  saracen's  head  affrontee, 
couped  below  the  shoulders,  proper ;  motto : 
Sub  cruce  salus — salvation  is  beneath  the  cross." 
In  1 173  William  de  la  Warde  apj^ears  in  Ches- 
ter, and  from  that  time  on  his  family  and  de- 
scendants increased  in  wealth  and  imi)ortance 
until  eleven  or  twelve  generations  later  William 
W'ard,  of  Dudley  castle,  was  created  the  first 
earl  of  Derby.  The  family  spread  out  through 
Staffordshire,  Warwickshire  and  Northamp- 
tonshire, until  Robert  Warde,  of  Houghton 
Parva,  in  the  last-named  county, married  Isabel 
or  Sybil  Stapley,  of  Dunchurch,  county  War- 
wick. .\mong  their  issue  was  a  son  James, 
who  married  .Alice  b'awkes  or  Faulks,  and  had 
a  son  Ste])hcn,  who  married  Joice  or  Joyce 
Traford,  of  Leicestershire,  and  by  her  became 
the  father  of  the  famous  Sergeant  John  Ward, 
sometimes  called  John  Ward  Sr.,  of  Wethers- 
field,  I'lranford  and  Newark,  and  jirogcnitor  of 
a  large  anrl  illustrious  branch  of  New  Jersey 
men. 


Tradition  tells  us  that  about  the  time  Ste- 
phen Ward's  widow  and  children  emigrated  to 
New  England,  there  came  over  also  a  brother 
of  Stephen's  and  three  of  his  first  cousins, 
Lawrence,  George  and  Isabel  Ward.  This 
brother  is  said  to  have  been  the  Andrew  \\  ard 
who  was  in  Watertown  in  1634,  in  Wethers- 
field  the  next  year,  and  finally  settled  in  Stam- 
ford, Connecticut,  in  164 1.  The  father  of  the 
three  first  cousins  just  mentioned  is  progenitor 
of  that  branch  of  the  Branford-Newark  Wards 
in  which  we  are  at  present  interested. 

(I)  Lawrence  and  C^orge  Ward,  ship  car- 
penters, came  to  this  country  with  their  sister 
and  took  the  oath  of  fidelity  and  signed  the 
fundamental  agreement  of  the  New  Haven 
colony  in  1639.  Seven  years  later  they  and 
their  sister  Isabel  removed  to  the  new  town 
of  Totoket  or  liranford,  which  had  been  set- 
tled in  1643  by  a  company  from  Wethersfield, 
among  whom  was  Sergeant  John  W  ard,  already 
referred  to,  and  the  congregation  of  Rev.  Abra- 
ham Pierson,  from  Southampton,  Long  Island. 
.About  this  time  Isabel  Ward,  whose  only  son 
by  her  first  marriage  was  afterwards  known  as 
John  Catlin,  or  Catling,  of  Newark  and  Deer- 
field,  whither  he  removed  before  1684,  married 
a  seccjnd  time,  her  husband  being  Joseph  Bald- 
win, of  Milford,  whose  sons  were  later  among 
the  emigrants  to  Newark,  although  he  himself 
removed  in  1663  to  Hadley,  Massachusetts. 
Her  two  brothers,  es])ecially  Lawrence  W  ard, 
became  active  and  prominent  in  the  affairs  of 
their  new  home.  After  the  restoration  of 
Charles  I.  to  the  English  throne,  the  regiciiles. 
W  Iialley  and  Coft'e,  were  excepted  froiu  the  act 
of  indemnity,  escaping  arrest  they  fled  to  .Amer- 
ica, where  they  liveel  in  retirement,  hiding  in 
New  Haven  and  other  towns  of  the  Connecti- 
cut river  valley.  The  home  government  matle 
strenuous  efforts  to  arrest  them  even  here,  but 
they  were  always  defeated  by  the  concealed 
and  dissembled  op])osition  of  the  colonists.  At 
one  time  Micah  Tom])kins  hid  the  regicideS] 
when  the  chase  was  warm,  "giving  them  aid: 
and  comfort;  his  girls  not  aware  that  angels 
were  in  the  basement ;"  and  Lawrence  Ward, 
who  had  been  imjjressed  by  the  colonial  repre- 
sentatives of  the  home  government  to  make 
the  search  at  Milford.  ])erformed  his  task  so: 
successfully  that  the  authorities  deemed  and' 
re]iorted  that  he  had  made  a  most  thorough 
search  without  finding  them.  Lawrence  Ward 
was  chosen  in  1665-66  as  representative  of 
r.ranford  town  in  the  New  Haven  colonial 
assembly,  and  from  that  time  on  he  become^; 
one  of  the  leading  spirits  and  dominating  char- 


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icters  of  tlie  community  wherein  he  had  thrown 
bis  lot,  not  only  in  Rranford,  but  later  on,  when 
they  had  built  themselves  a  final  habitation  and 
resting  jilace  in  their  new  ark  of  refuge  on  the 
bank  of  the  Passaic.  Here  Lawrence  Ward 
Decanie  second  in  importance  only  to  Robert 
Treat  and  Rev.  Abraham  Pierson,  leaders  re- 
spectively of  the  Milford  and  Guilford-Bran- 
ford  contingents  of  the  Newark  colony.  When 
le  died,  in  1669  or  1670.  Lawrence  Ward,  in 
idclition  to  his  other  public  offices  and  posts, 
»vas  the  first  deacon  of  the  "church  after  the 
rongregational  way,"  which  he  had  done  so 
nuch  to  establish  in  its  new  home;  and  al- 
:hough  he  left  no  children,  his  widow  Eliza - 
jeth.  often  referred  to  in  the  old  records  as 
'the  \\  idow  Ward,"  enjoyed  for  many  years 
:he  \o\-e  and  respect  of  those  whom  her  hus- 
jand  had  served. 

George  Ward  appears  either  to  have  remain- 
ed in  IJranford,  or,  as  is  more  probable,  to 
lave  died  there  before  the  emigration,  leaving 
ions  John  and  Josiah,  both  of  whom  came  with 
;heir  uncle  Lawrence  to  Newark,  and  became 
prominent  in  town  afifairs  and  progenitors  of 
lumerous  gifted  descendants.  Josiah  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Captain  Samuel  Swaine, 
Alio  in  1668  was  Newark's  representative  in 
:he  assembly  of  East  Jersey.  She  is  said  to 
lave  been  the  first  person  on  shore  at  the  land- 
ng  of  the  pilgrims  on  the  Passaic ;  she  bore 
ler  husband  one  son,  Samuel,  who  married 
uid  had  eight  children  who  reached  maturity 
md  left  record:  and  when  her  husband  died, 
ihortly  after  their  arrival  at  Newark,  she  be- 
:ame  wife  of  David  Ogden,  of  Elizabethtown, 
;hrough  whom  she  became  mother  of  another 
llustrious  line.  To  John  Ward,  the  other  son 
)f  George,  of  Branford,  we  shall  now  refer. 

(II)  At  this  period,  what  is  now  the  state 
)f  Connecticut,  consisted  of  two  colonies,  Con- 
lecticut  and  New  Haven,  the  former  compris- 
ng  the  settlements  at  the  mouth  and  on  the 
janks  of  the  Connecticut  river,  and  the  latter 
ncluding  not  only  New  Haven  proper  but  also 
he  towns  of  Milford,  Branford,  Guilford  and 
Stamford  in  its  vicinity,  and  the  town  of  South- 
jld.  Long  Island.  In  the  last  mentioned  colony 
"epublican  views  were  greatly  in  the  ascendant, 
ukI  althongh  on  .\ugnst  21st,  1661,  the  towns 
ickiiowledged  formally  that  Charles  II.  was 
"lawful  King  of  Great  Britain,  France  and 
[reland.  and  all  other  territories  thereto  be- 
onging,"  bitter  dissensions  were  aroused  by 
lis  restoration  and  great  apprehensions  were 
felt  as  to  the  effect  of  that  event  on  the  future 
3f  the  colony.    In  consequence  of  all  this,  some 


of  the  most  prominent  men  in  the  New  Haven 
colony  seriously  debated  the  advisability  of 
establishing  a  new  home  elsewhere  more  fav- 
orable to  the  e.xercise  and  dissemination  of  the 
civil  and  religious  liberties  they  cherished ;  and 
the  first  to  carry  this  design  into  effect  was  a 
company  of  men  from  Milford,  with  Robert 
Treat  at  their  head,  who  after  negotiations  first 
with  the  Dutch  authorities  of  New  Nether- 
lands at  Albany  and  later  with  Governor  Philip 
Carteret  of  New  Jersey  and  the  Indian  owners, 
procured  land,  May  21,  1666,  for  their  new 
settlement  on  the  banks  of  the  Passaic,  at  what 
is  now  the  site  of  the  city  of  Newark.  Mean- 
while the  men  of  Branford,  under  the  leader- 
ship of  their  pastor,  Rev.  .Abraham  Pierson, 
had  been  making  negotiations  with  the  Milford 
I)eople  in  order  to  join  in  their  undertaking, 
and  October  30,  1666,  twenty-three  Branford 
families  subscribed  the  terms  of  agreement  and 
came  to  the  new  settlement  where,  though  not 
so  numerous  as  the  forty-one  signers  from 
Milford,  their  more  perfect  organization  as  a 
church  enabled  them,  the  later  comers,  to  change 
the  name  of  the  place  from  Milford  to  Newark, 
after  the  place  where  their  pastor  had  received 
his  early  training.  By  becoming  one  of  this 
liranford  band  and  signing  his  name  to  this 
document,  John  Ward  (or  as  he  then  spelt  it, 
John  Warde )  began  a  career  of  public  life  and 
usefulness  which  if  not  so  lengthy  as  that  of 
some  of  his  contemporaries  was  hardly  sur- 
passed by  any  in  its  zeal  and  value.  At  the 
very  start,  in  1666,  he  was  appointed  one  of 
the  branders  of  the  community,  where  his  main 
business,  the  keeping  of  the  records  of  the 
cattle  brands,  was  in  the  then  unsettled  condi- 
tion of  the  colony  by  no  means  unimpor- 
tant and  likely  at  times  to  prove  highly  respon- 
sible and  even  burdensome.  This,  however, 
was  only  one  of  his  tasks.  In  the  difficult  busi- 
ness of  allotting  and  dividing  the  land  among 
the  original  settlers  and  the  later  comers  and 
of  procuring  other  lands  to  meet  the  town's 
growing  needs,  John  Ward  played  a  prominent 
and  highly  satisfactory  part,  record  of  which  is 
to  be  found  among  the  entries  in  the  old  New- 
ark town  book,  1^173-79.  Lack  of  space  pre- 
vents a  pro])er  treatment  being  given'  to  this 
topic,  but  one  at  least  of  the  controversies  with 
which  John  Ward's  name  and  work  were  con- 
nected ought  not  to  be  passed  by  without  men- 
tion. In  September.  1673,  the  town  meeting 
determined  "that  a  Petition  should  be  sent  to 
the  CJenerals  at  Orange,  that  if  it  might  be,  we 
might  have  the  Neck,''  by  which  name  the  land 
between  the  Passaic  and  the  Hackensack  rivers 


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was  then  known.  This  was  the  beginning  of  a 
long  and  bitter  (]uarrel  that  was  not  finally 
ended  until  December,  1681-2,  and  was  the 
famous  "wrangle  over  the  Neck"'  in  which 
were  involved  not  only  the  townspeople  of 
Newark,  but  also  Major  Nathaniel  Kingsland, 
of  Barbadoes,  W.  I. ;  Nicholas  Bayard,  and 
Jacob  Melyn,  the  son  of  old  Cornelius  Melyn, 
of  New  York;  the  Dutch  court  of  admiralty  in 
Holland,  and  a  number  of  other  prominent 
colonial  and  old  world  officials.  Throughout 
the  whole  of  this  difficulty  John  Ward  seems 
to  have  played  one  of  the  principal  parts.  About 
a  mouth  after  the  petition  had  been  sent,  he 
and  his  cousin  John  Catlin,  who  three  years 
later  was  to  become  the  first  schoolmaster  of 
Newark,  were,  October  13,  1673,  appointed  a 
committee  to  purchase  Major  Kingsland's  inter- 
est in  the  iiro])erty.  and  about  ten  days  later  we 
find  him  on  the  committee  in  charge  of  the  final 
settlement  of  the  bargain  and  the  distribution 
of  the  new  land  tints  obtained;  and  on  com- 
mittee after  committee  relating  to  the  differ- 
ences over  the  Neck,  from  this  time  forward  his 
name  stands  either  first  or  second  in  appoint- 
ment. The  patent  for  his  property  was  not 
recorded  until  September  10,  1675,  when  he 
and  Robert  Lyman  and  Stephen  Davis  all  three 
received  theirs  together,  and  the  record  was 
made  in  the  East  Jersey  Patents,  liber  i,p.  139, 
from  which  we  learn  that  his  dwelling  house 
was  situated  "north  of  the  Elder's  lot,  south  of 
Richard  Lawrence,"  or,  according  to  our  pres- 
ent-day landmarks,  on  Park  place,  facing  Mili- 
tary I 'ark,  and  ojiposite  Cedar  street,  and  just 
about  where  Proctor's  theatre  now  stands. 
Later  on,  in  1679,  when  a  part  of  the  "Elder's 
lot"  was  given  by  the  town  to  John  Johnson, 
it  was  agreed  that  "John  Ward,  Turner,  hath 
the  Grant  of  the  remainder  of  the  Elder's  Lott 
which  is  more  tJian  John  Johnson  is  to  have, 
for  one  of  his  Sons  to  build  on."  The  designa- 
tion "Turner,"  sometimes  elaborated  into  "Dish- 
turner"  from  his  trade,  is  as  in  the  above  ex- 
tract always  appended  to  John  Ward's  name  in 
the  old  records  in  order  to  distinguish  him 
from  Sergeant  John  Ward,  his  contemporary 
and  fellow  townsman ;  and  in  the  same  way 
and  for  the  same  reason,  their  two  sons  were 
generally  s])oken  of  as  John  Ward  Jr.  and 
John  Ward,  Turner,  junior.  In  1670  John 
Ward  was  constable  for  the  town,  and  was  ap- 
pointed again  in  1679.  On  April  28.  1675,  he, 
together  with  Thomas  Johnson,  Stephen  Free- 
man, John  Curtis,  Samuel  Kitchell,  Thomas 
Huntington  and  .Samuel  Phnn.  were  chosen  as 
townsmen   for  the  year,  and  Jime   12,  in  the 


year  following,  he  was  returned  for  the  same 
office,  together  with  Samuel  Kitchell,  Samuel 
Plum  and  Thomas  Huntington,  the  new  men 
being  Joseph  Walters,  Azariah  Crane  and  Will- 
iam Camp.  In  1677  he  was  again  given  his  old 
office  of  brander,  and  at  the  same  time  was 
appointed  one  of  the  grand  jurymen  for  the 
year.  In  1679  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  fence 
viewers,  and  in  1684  he  was  reappointed  to  the 
office  of  w-arner  of  the  town  meeting,  an  office 
he  had  previously  held  in  1676.  One  of  the 
early  trials  and  responsibilities  of  the  settle- 
ment was  the  supplying  of  the  parson's  wood. 
This  had  been  arranged  for  by  ta.xing  each 
family  in  the  community  one  load  delivered  at 
the  parsonage.  For  a  time  this  worked  satis- 
factorily, but  later  on  delinquents  became 
numerous,  and  finally,  November  24,  1679,  a 
committee  of  eight  men,  two  for  each  quarter 
of  the  year,  was  appointed  to  see  that  every 
man  delivered  his  load,  the  committee  to  be 
exempted  from  their  contribution  for  their 
pains  and  care.  The  members  of  this  com- 
mittee for  the  third  quarter  of  the  year  were 
Deacon  Richard  Lawrence  and  John  Ward. 
The  will  of  John  Ward,  the  "Turner,"  was  jiroved 
July  i(),  1684,  when  letters  of  administration 
were  granted  to  his  widow  .Sarah.  su])posed  by 
some  to  have  been  a  daughter  or  niece  of  Rob- 
ert Fryman,  one  of  the  Milford-Newark  settlers. 
His  children,  three  of  whom  are  named  in  his 
w'ill,  were:  Sarah,  John,  Samuel,  Abigail, 
Josiah,  Nathaniel  and  Caleb.  Of  Sarah,  born 
1^151.  we  have  no  more  information;  but  little 
more  is  known  of  John,  1654-1690,  whom  .Mr. 
Conger  conjectures  had  a  son  named  Samuel 
Ward ;  Samuel,  second  son  of  John  Ward,  the 
"Turner,"  was  born  1656  and  died  October  14, 
1686,  leaving  his  wife  Phebe  to  administer  his 
estate;  Abigail  Ward  became  the  first  wife  of 
John  Ciardner,  who  joined  the  Newark  settlers 
in  1A77,  and  held  several  imijortant  offices,  one 
of  them  being  sheriff  of  Essex  comity  in  i(^*)S', 
to  Josiah  Ward  we  shall  refer  later:  Nathaniel 
died  in  1732,  having  married  Sarah,  grand- 
daughter of  Sergeant  Richard  Harrison,  one 
of  the  Bran  ford-Newark  settlers,  and  daugh- 
ter of  .Samuel  Harrison  by  his  wife  Mary, 
daughter  of  .Sergeant  John  Ward.  Nathaniel 
and  Sarah  (nee  Harrison)  Ward  had  two  sons, 
Nathaniel  and  .Xbncr,  and  a  daughter  Eunice,  1 
who  married  into  the  Woodruff  family.  Caleb,  1 
youngest  son  of  John  Ward,  the  "Turner,"' 
died  February  9,  1735.  leaving  ten  children, 
the  youngest  of  w-hich,  Hannah,  also  married  a 
Woodruff.  In  1709  Caleb  was  the  Newark 
overseer  of  the  poor. 


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(III)  The  land  purchased  by  the  Newark 
settlers  was  an  extended  tract  within  the  limits 
of  which  are  now  situated  Belleville,  Bloom- 
field,  the  Oranges,  Caldwell,  and  a  number  of 
other  towns  and  villages  of  the  present  day. 
The  first  division  of  lands  was  naturally  within 
the  bounds  of  Newark  proper,  where  the  set- 
tlers were  then  dwelling  together  for  mutual 
protection  and  help.  It  was  on  the  "home  lot" 
received  at  this  division  that  John  Ward  him- 
self seems  to  have  lived  and  died.  At  one  of 
the  subsequent  divisions  he  was  given  forty- 
four  acres  "beyond  second  river,"  the  name  by 
which  the  stream  at  Belleville  was  then  known. 
This  pro])erty  is  described  as  being  bounded  on 
the  north  by  Elizabeth  Ward  (widow  of  dea- 
con Lawrence  Ward),  on  the  south  and  west 
by  common  land,  and  on  the  east  by  the  river 
and  a  swamp ;  and  apparently  John  Ward 
turned  it  over  to  his  son  Josiah,  as  from  the 
patent  made  out  to  Joseph  and  Hannah  Bond 
on  May  i,  1697,  we  learn  that  Josiah  Ward 
was  at  that  time  living  there  and  owning  the 
property,  and  on  that  date  there  was  only  one 
of  his  name  alive  and  able  to  do  this,  namely 
Josiah,  son  of  John  Ward,  the  "Turner."  Of 
public  record  this  man  has  left  little  except  his 
will,  from  which  we  learn  that  September  19, 
171 3,  when  he  wrote  it,  he  was  fifty-one  years 
old,  which  would  bring  his  birth  in  1661  or 
1662.  His  death  was  some  time  prior  to  April 
8,  1715,  when  his  eldest  son  Samuel  chose 
Abraham  Kitchell  as  his  guardian,  although 
for  some  reason  or  other  the  father's  will  was 
not  proved  until  April  16,  in  the  following 
year.  Josiah  Ward  married  (first)  Mary, 
granddaughter  of  Robert  Kitchell,  the  settler 
in  .Xewark,  by  the  first  wife  of  his  son  Samuel, 
Elizabeth  Wakeman,  of  New  Haven.  The 
Abraham  Kitchell  who  became  the  guardian  of 
Josiah's  son  Samuel  was  Mary  Kitchell's  half- 
brother,  being  son  of  Samuel  Kitchell  by  his 
second  wife  Grace,  daughter  of  Rev.  Abra- 
ham Pierson.  Josiah  and  Mary  (nee  Kitchell) 
Ward  had  five  children — a  daughter  Sarah, 
and  four  sons  who  were  minors  in  1713,  Sam- 
uel, Robert,  Josiah  and  Laurence,  the  last  name 
being  spelt  according  to  that  in  his  father's  will, 
although  later  generations  have  preferred  the 
form  Lawrence.  The  second  wife  of  Josiah, 
son  of  John  Ward,  was  named  America,  and 
in  some  accounts  her  surname  is  given  as  Law- 
rence, and  she  is  said  to  have  borne  her  hus- 
band two  children,  Lawrence  and  Sarah.  In 
his  will  Josiah  says  that  Sarah  is  the  daughter 
of  his  first  wife,  and  that  his  second  wife's 
daughter  was  called  Mary,  and  that  she  is  ex- 


pecting another  child.  This  last  child  may 
liave  been  named  Lawrence  from  his  mother's 
maiden  name,  and  if  so  the  fact  would  account 
for  the  preference  shown  by  the  family  in  later 
days  for  that  spelling  of  the  name. 

( IV)  Laurence,  or  Lawrence,  son  of  Josiah 
Ward,  was  born  about  17 10,  and  died  April  4, 
1793.  His  home  was  in  Bloomfield,  on  the 
property  left  to  him  in  his  father's  will.  Like 
his  father  before  him,  he  was  a  quiet  country 
farmer,  and  does  not  appear  to  have  taken 
much  if  any  part  in  the  stirring  public  con- 
troversies and  movements  that  were  going  on 
around  him.  When  the  revolution  broke  out. 
Lawrence  was  nearly  seventy  years  old,  and 
though  he  did  not  go  himself,  four  out  of  his 
five  sons  enlisted  in  the  Esse.x  county  regiments 
and  served  in  the  patriot  armies.  His  will, 
almost  if  not  the  last  one  w'ritten  before  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  is  dated  May  3, 
1776,  and  in  it  he  leaves  to  his  sons  "all  my 
estate  both  lands  and  meadows  and  all  my 
moveable  estate  both  here  and  elsewhere."  By 
his  wife,  Eleanor  Baldwin,  Lawrence  W^ard 
had  children :  Samuel,  Jacob,  Jonathan  (or 
as  he  is  sometimes  called  Jonas),  Stephen,  Cor- 
nelius (to  whom  his  father  left  a  special  legacy 
of  £5),  Margaret  and  I'hebe. 

(\")  Like  his  father  Lawrence,  Jacob  Ward 
lived  and  died  in  Bloomfield,  but  unlike  him  he 
seems  to  have  been  quite  actively  engaged  in 
the  public  life  of  his  time  and  county.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  on  his  father's  farm,  w'here 
he  was  born  about  1750.  When  he  was  be- 
tween twenty-five  and  twenty-six,  war  was  de- 
clared between  the  colonies  and  Great  Britain, 
and  Jacob  answering  to  the  first  call  for  troops 
enlisted  in  the  Esse.x  county  militia,  where  he 
served  for  some  time,  although  unlike  his 
brother  Jonas  who  rose  to  the  rank  of  captain, 
he  never  Ijecame  more  than  a  private.  At  the 
close  of  the  war  of  independence  Jacob  Ward 
returned  to  his  home  in  Bloomfield  and  devoted 
himself  to  his  farm  and  family  and  the  inter- 
ests of  the  town  and  county  in  which  he  dwelt. 
Whether  the  stirring  times  and  incidents 
through  which  he  had  passed  and  in  which  he 
had  participated  led  him  to  establish  the  old 
Bloomfield  hotel,  or  whether  he  obtained  pos- 
.session  of  the  property  in  some  other  way  is 
uncertain ;  but  we  know  that  he  was  for  many 
years  its  owner  if  not  its  proprietor,  and  that 
the  place  became  one  of  the  political  head- 
cjuarters  of  its  day,  as  the  following  extracts 
from  the  Newark  town  records  testify.  Among 
the  resolves  passed  by  the  meeting  of  .\pril  11, 
1808.   the  fifth   reads,   "that  the  next  annual 


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election  be  opened  at  the  house  of  Jacob  Ward 
in  Hloonifield  and  continued  there  during  the 
first  day,  and  adjourned  to  the  court  house  in 
Newark  as  usual;"  while  the  sixth  resolution 
passed  April  9,  1810,  is  to  the  efifect  "that  the 
annual  election  shall  be  opened  at  the  house  of 
[acob  Ward  at  Bloomfield,  and  closed  at  the 
court  house  in  Newark."  Children  of  Jacob 
and  Mary  (Davis)  Ward,  all  born  in  Bloom- 
field:  Joseph,  Isaac,  Caleb,  Jacob  (see  for- 
ward), Mary  and  Lucy.  Mary  married  into 
the  Baker  family  and  Lucy  into  the  Jeroloman 
family. 

(\'I)  Jacob  (2),  son  of  Jacob  (i)  Ward, 
was  born  in  Bloomfield  in  1778,  and  died  in 
Hanover,  Morris  county,  December  2"/,  1848. 
lie  was  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm,  and 
trained  as  a  Presbyterian  by  Rev.  Jedediah 
Chapman,  the  famous  revolutionary  pastor  of 
the  Mountain  Society's  Church  at  Orange.  In 
1794  the  residents  at  Bloomfield  began  taking 
measures  for  procuring  and  perfecting  a  new 
church  organization  of  their  own,  and  a  peti- 
tion was  presented  to  the  jjresbytery  asking 
that  the  people  living  in  the  Bloomfield  district 
be  formed  into  a  distinct  congregation  as  the 
"Third  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  township 
of  Newark."  The  presbytery  advised  the  meas- 
ure as  soon  as  tlie  petitioners  should  prove 
their  ability  to  sustain  a  stated  minister,  and 
the  constitution  of  the  church  in  <lue  form  took 
place  in  June.  1798,  and  the  organization  was 
perfected  with  eighty-two  members,  twenty- 
three  being  transferred  from  the  Newark 
church,  and  fifty-two,  among  whom  were  Jacob 
and  his  family,  from  the  Mountain  Society. 
Two  years  after,  on  January  30,  1800,  Mr. 
Ward  was  married  in  the  church  he  had  hcl])ed 
to  foimd.  by  its  first  pastor,  Rev.  .Abel  Jack- 
son. In  1812  Jacob  Ward  purchased  a  large 
farm  in  Columbia,  now  .\fton,  Morris  county, 
New  Jersey,  and  removed  himself  and  his  fam- 
ily there,  where  the  remainder  of  his  life  was 
S])ent.  Here  he  soon  took  up  a  prominent  posi- 
tion in  the  community,  and  in  1813,  about  a 
year  after  bis  arrival,  he  was  chosen  one  of 
the  deacons  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Han- 
over, the  nearest  place  of  worsbi])  to  his  new 
home.  Shortly  after  this  he  became  one  of 
that  church's  ruling  elders,  and  these  two 
offices  he  held  until  the  day  of  his  death.  On 
January  23.  1849,  about  a  month  after  his 
death,  the  Newark  Sentinel  of  Freedom  pub- 
lished two  obituary  notices  of  him,  one  of  them 
a  simple  notice  of  his  decease  from  erysipelas 
in  the  seventy-first  year  of  his  age,  and  a  sec- 
ond one  in  the  following  words :    "At  Colum- 


bia, Morris  county,  on  the  27th  ultimo,  after 
eight  days  distressing  illness  occasioned  by 
animal  poisoning,  has  died  Jacob  Ward,  aged 
70  years.  For  nearly  35  years  he  worthily  filled 
the  offices  of  ruling  elder  and  deacon  in  the 
Presbyterian  Church  at  Hanover.  His  end  was 
peace."  Jacob  Ward  married  Abigail,  daugh- 
ter of  Moses  Dodd,  by  his  wife  Lois  Crane, 
whose  father,  Ezekiel  Crane,  was  one  of  the 
famous  "Jersey  Blues."  commanded  by  Colo- 
nel Schuyler,  during  the  revolution ;  while  her 
grandfather,  Azariah  Crane  Jr..  and  her  great- 
uncle,  Nathaniel  Crane,  were  the  two  promoters 
oi  Cranetown,  now  Montclair;  and  her  great- 
grandfather. Deacon  .-\zariah  Crane  Sr.,  was 
son  of  Jasper  Crane,  husband  of  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  Robert  Treat,  and  one  of  the 
most  important  members  of  the  early  Newark 
settlers.  Her  grandfather.  Isaac  Dodd,  w-as 
son  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  (nee  .\lling)  Dod, 
grandson  of  Daniel  and  Phebe  Dod,  who  were 
among  the  original  Bran  ford-Newark  settlers, 
and  great-grandson  of  Daniel  and  Mary  Dod, 
the  emigrants.  Children  of  Jacob  Ward  and 
.\bigail  (  nee  Dodd  )  Ward,  all  of  whom  reach- 
ed maturity  and  married:  i.  Stephen  Dodd, 
born  1800;  died  1858;  graduated  from  Prince- 
ton University;  became  a  Presbyterian  min- 
ister; married,  1830,  Mary  Hovey ;  (second), 
1836,  Laura  A.  Morse;  left  no  children  sur- 
viving him.  2.  Mary  Davis  Ward,  born  1801  ; 
died  1888;  became  wife  of  .\shbel  Carter.  3. 
Elizabeth  Dodd,  1803-74;  married,  1824.  John 
.\'.  \  oorhis.  4.  Moses  Dodd,  see  forward.  5. 
Joseph  Grover,  1807-37;  married,  1831,  Sarah 
Munn.  6.  -Aaron  Condit.  iSio-fk);  married 
Mary  O.  Mimn,  1832;  had  issue.  7.  Samuel 
Davis,  1812-83  ;  married,  1853,  Rebecca  Martin 
Miller;  three  children.  8.  Harriet  Newell, 
1814-67:  became  in  1839,  wife  of  Horace  Nor- 
ton. 9.  Amzi  .Armstrong,  born  1818;  married 
Hannah  Smith.  10.  James  Henry,  1824-91  ; 
married  (first)  Elizabeth  Russell:  (second) 
Louise  Burton.  11.  Jacob  II.,  born  March  25, 
1827;  now  ( 1908)  living;  married,  1885,  Sarah 
Elizabeth  Bogart.  12.  .\bigail  Sophia,  born 
1 83 1  :  still  living;  since  1853  has  been  wife  of 
George  Jones. 

(\'II)  Moses  Dodd,  second  son  and  fourth 
child  of  Jacob  (2)  and  .Abigail  (nee  Dodd) 
Ward,  w'as  born  at  the  old  homestead  in  Bloom- 
field, in  1806,  and  died  in  1888,  aged  eighty- 
two  years.  When  he  was  six  years  old  his 
])arents  moved  to  Columbia,  Morris  county, 
where  young  Ward  was  trained  in  the  life  of 
a  farmer,  which  he  followed  to  the  end  of  his 
life.  Like  his  father  he  was  brought  u])  a  Pres- 


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Dyterian,  and  inheriting  his  father's  strength 
Df  rehgious  princi])le  and  convictions  as  well  as 
lis  sturdiness  of  character,  Mr.  Ward  not  only 
^^lcceeded  his  father  in  the  office  of  elder  in 
:he  Presbyterian  church  in  Hanover,  but  also 
Decame  one  of  its  most  active  and  prominent 
supporters.  One  who  knew  him  has  remarked 
:hat,  "having  been  given  a  different  environ- 
nent  and  opportunities,  Mr.  Dodd  would  have 
nade  a  success  of  almost  any  undertaking;  but 
jven  as  it  has  happened,  he  has  left  an  inefface- 
able imprint  of  the  greatness  of  his  character 
Dii  his  neighborhood  and  church,  and  he  has 
raised  for  posterity  a  family  of  strong,  robust 
rhildren.  every  one  of  whom  has  made  their 
jwn  mark  in  the  world,  and  developed  remark- 
able business  sagacity  and  executive  ability." 
Moses  Dodd  Ward  married,  February  7,  1838, 
Justina  Louisa  Sayre,  eldest  of  the  two  chil- 
;lren  of  Elias  Sayre  and  Abigail  Hedges,  of 
i^fton,  Morris  county,  New  Jersey.  Her  grand- 
father was  Ebenezer  Sayre,  of  Columbia  Bridge 
(now  .\fton).  New  Jersey,  and  her  grand- 
nother,  Lois  Potter,  his  first  wife;  her  great- 
jrand  father  was  Ebenezer  Sayre,  of  Shrews- 
jurv  River,  Monmouth  county,  New  Jersey, 
whose  father  was  Daniel  Sayre,  of  Elizabeth- 
:own,  husband  of  Elizabeth  Lyon,  and  son  of 
Joseph  Sayre,  of  the  same  place,  whose  father 
riiomas,  son  of  Francis  and  Elizabeth  (nee 
Atkins)  Sayre,  was  baptized  in  Leighton  Buz- 
zard, Bedfordshire,  England,  July  20.  1597, 
:ame  to  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  some  time  before 
J638,  removed  with  Rev.  .\braham  Pierson 
md  his  congregation  to  Southampton,  Long 
Island,  in  i<iyj.  and  died  there  in  1670,  his  son 
Joseph  Sayre  having  five  years  before,  in  1665, 
emigrated  to  Elizabethtown.  Children  of  Moses 
Duild  and  Justina  Louisa  fnee  Sayre)  Ward. 
ill  of  whom  reached  maturity,  and  four  of 
whom,  tliree  sons  and  a  daughter,  are  still 
living:  Laura  Jane  Ward,  now  living  at  1092 
Broad  street,  Newark,  New  Jersey  ;  Elias  Sayre 
Ward,  Leslie  Dodd  Ward,  AL  D.,  and  Edgar 
Bethune  \\'ard,  all  of  whom  will  be  referred  to 
later ;  and  Jacob  Ewing  Ward,  whose  home  is 
in  Madison,  New  Jersey,  and  who  married 
Maria  E.,  daughter  of  Ambrose  E.  Kitchell, 
who  has  borne  him  one  son,  Carnot  M.  Ward 


(\  HI)  Elias  Sayre  Ward,  second 
W.-\RD  child  and  oldest  son  of  Moses 
Dodd  (q.  V.)  and  Justina  Louisa 
(Sayre)  W^ard,  was  born  in  Afton,  Morris 
county,  New  Jer.sey,  November  25,  1842,  and 
died  at  his  residence,  13  South  Ninth  street, 
Roseville,  Essex  county,  New  Jersey,  Decem- 


ber 23,  1896,  being  the  first  and  so  far  the  only 
one  of  his  father's  children  yet  to  die.  He  w'as 
one  of  the  most  prominent  of  the  business  men 
in  Newark,  and  was  well  known  not  only 
throughout  the  state  but  beyond  its  borders, 
and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  president  of  a 
great  electric  traction  company,  head  of  a  large 
leather  manufacturing  firm,  a  member  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  one  of  the  most  import- 
ant insurance  companies  in  the  country,  and 
an  ex-candidate  of  Essex  county  for  governor 
of  New  Jersey. 

Mr.  \\'ard's  early  life  was  passed  on  his 
father's  farm,  and  his  education  was  obtained 
at  boarding  school  in  the  Bloomfield  .-\cademy. 
.As  it  has  to  so  many  young  men,  the  call  of  the 
city  proved  too  strong  to  be  resisted,  and  when 
he  was  about  twenty-one  years  old  Mr.  Ward 
left  his  home  on  the  farm  and  came  to  New- 
ark to  begin  the  business  career  in  which  he 
was  to  prove  his  worth.  Entering  the  business 
world  as  salesman  for  a  New  York  house,  he 
became  widely  known  for  his  efficiency,  ability, 
and  the  thoroughgoing  conscientiousness  with 
which  he  performed  his  work.  His  vitality 
was  exhaustless,  his  nature  genial,  and  he  be- 
came a  familiar  figure  and  welcome  friend  to 
all  the  commercial  travellers  of  his  day.  It 
was  through  his  efforts  that  the  Commercial 
Travellers'  .Association  was  brought  about,  and 
he  was  the  means  of  putting  a  stop  to  the  prac- 
tice at  one  time  customary  in  several  states  of 
laying  a  special  tax  upon  salesmen  who  came 
in  from  other  states.  Mr.  Ward  being  called 
upon  to  pay  this  tax,  refused  on  the  ground 
that  it  was  a  discrimination  which  was  unfair, 
illegal  and  unconstitutional,  and  his  opposition 
led  to  a  suit  that  was  carried  on  in  his  name, 
finally  decided  in  his  favor  by  the  supreme 
court  of  the  I'nited  States,  and  caused  the 
abolition  of  the  practice.  Mr.  Ward's  busi- 
ness was  leather,  and  he  made  himself  a  master 
of  every  detail  of  leather  manufacturing.  For 
a  number  of  year  she  was  associated  with  others 
in  the  business,  being  for  a  few  years  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Butler  &  Ward,  and  in  1878 
forming  an  alliance  with  the  firm  of  T.  P. 
Howell  &  Company.  .\  year  later  he  deter- 
mined to  begin  the  manufacturing  of  patent 
and  enameled  leather  on  his  own  account,  and 
about  the  beginning  of  1880  he  organized  the 
firm  of  E.  S.  Ward  &  Company,  whose  plant, 
one  of  the  largest  in  the  city,  is  situated  on  the 
corner  of  Norfolk  and  Richmond  streets.  Mr. 
W^ard's  great  energy,  keen  discrimination  and 
untiring  perseverance  soon  made  this  venture 
a  prosperous  one,  and  he  accumulated  a  large 


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fortune.  At  his  death  the  firm  passed  into  the 
hands  of  his  eldest  son,  who  is  now  managing 
it. 

When  the  discussion  about  and  experiments 
with  electricity  as  a  motive  power  and  means 
of  propulsion  for  street  cars  began,  the  subject 
attracted  Mr.  Ward's  attention  and  he  became 
not  only  an  interested  student  but  also  one  of 
the  pioneers  in  the  introduction  of  electric 
street  railways  in  the  city  of  Newark.  He  was 
one  of  the  projectors  of  the  Rapid  Transit 
Railroad  Company  which  built  and  operated 
what  at  the  time  of  Mr.  Ward's  death  were  the 
West  Kinney  street  and  Central  avenue  line 
of  the  Consolidated  Traction  Company,  which 
later  became  the  North  Jersey  Street  Railway 
Company,  and  finally  in  1903  the  Public  Serv- 
ice Corporation  of  New  Jersey,  in  which  the 
Rapid  Transit  Company  is  represented  by  the 
Kinney  and  Central  avenue  lines.  The  old 
Newark  and  South  Orange  horse  car  railroad 
company  had  been  incorporated  March  7,  1861, 
and  built  at  about  the  same  time  as  the  Sprmg- 
field  avenue  line.  Like  the  latter  it  fell  mto 
financial  straits,  and  was  at  last  bought  by  Mr. 
John  Radel,  who  tried  the  experiment  of  run- 
ning it  with  his  son  Andrew  as  superintendent. 
In  1892  ;\Ir.  Ward  turned  his  attention  to  this 
line,  and  forming  a  company,  purchased  it, 
placed  it  upon  a  sound  financial  basis,  changed 
the  motive  power  to  electricity,  and  as  presi- 
dent of  the  new  company  directed  its  affairs 
until  his  death.  He  was  also  very  largely 
interested  in  other  electric  railroads  outside  of 
Newark,  both  in  and  without  the  state,  notably 
the  electric  railroad  at  Plainfield,  New  Jersey, 
and  the  I'.ridgeport  Traction  Company,  of 
L!ridge|)ort,  Connecticut,  which  he  organized 
in  1894,  and  of  which  he  became  vice-presi- 
dent. Soon  after  the  organization  of  the  Pru- 
dential Insurance  Company,  Mr.  Ward  became 
a  heavy  stockholder,  and  for  many  years  was 
prominent  in  its  board  of  directors  and  as 
chairman  of  its  executive  committee.  In  this 
as  in  all  other  enterprises  with  which  he  be- 
came connected,  Mr.  Ward  exhibited  a  broad 
public  spirit,  a  generous  liberality,  and  a  warm 
regard  for  the  welfare  and  comfort  of  his  em- 
ployees. At  the  time  of  his  death  Mr.  Ward, 
in  addition  to  all  the  other  posts  of  responsibil- 
ity that  he  held,  was  a  director  of  the  Fidelity 
Trust  Company.  He  was  a  Mason,  a  member 
of  the  Esse.x  Club,  of  the  Essex  County  Coun- 
try Club,  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society, 
and  of  the  Washington  Headquarters  .Asso- 
ciation, of  Morristown.  I-'cjllowing  in  the  foot- 
steps of  his  ancestors,  Mr.  Ward  was  brought 


up  in  the  Presbyterian  faith,  but  after  his  mar- 
riage became  a  communicant  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Barnabas  in  Roseville, 
where  he  made  his  home,  and  where  his  charit- 
able benefactions  though  not  widely  known 
were  very  widely  felt.  Mr.  Ward  was  always 
an  ardent  Republican,  and  from  the  early  days 
of  his  youth  took  an  active  interest  in  politics. 
He  made  liberal  contributions  to  the  party 
campaign  funds,  and  willingly  gave  his  time 
and  labor  to  advance  its  interests.  He  was 
not  an  office-seeker,  and  the  only  public  posi- 
tion ever  held  by  him  was  in  the  board  of 
chosen  freeholders,  of  which  for  several  years 
he  was  a  member.  In  1895,  at  the  earnest 
solicitation  of  many  of  his  friends,  he  became 
a  candidate  for  the  Republican  nomination  for 
governor  of  New  Jersey,  and  at  the  nominat- 
ing convention  at  Trenton  he  received  the  solid 
support  of  Essex  county,  besides  a  number  of 
votes  from  other  counties,  until  it  became  evi- 
dent that  John  W.  Griggs  was  the  choice  of 
the  convention.  In  October,  1896,  Mr.  Ward 
started  on  a  trip  to  Europe,  but  while  he  was 
in  London  he  was  taken  ill  with  an  attack  of 
kidney  trouble,  and  although  he  apparently  re- 
covered, he  decided  to  return  home  again, 
where,  a  short  while  after  his  arrival,  kidney 
disease  developed  again  and  reached  a  fatal 
termination  on  December  23,  1896.  This  was 
Thursday,  and  the  funeral  was  held  at  his  resi- 
dence on  the  following  Saturday  afternoon,  by 
Rev.  Stephen  H.  Cranberry,  of  St.  Barnabas, 
and  his  body  interred  in  Mount  Pleasant  ceme- 
tery, the  pallbearers  being  Vice-President  elect 
Garret  A.  Hobart,  Senator  William  J.  Sewell. 
Governor  John  W.  Griggs,  John  Kean,  John 
F.  Dryden,  \\'illiam  Scheerer.  Czal  H.  Mc- 
Carter,  Henry  '\\.  Dorenuis,  Judge  Gottfried 
Krueger  and  William  T.  Hunt.  On  the  day 
of  his  death  the  Republican  county  convention, 
of  which  he  was  a  member^  drafted  a  minute 
on  his  death  and  resolved  to  attend  the  funeral 
in  a  bod\-.  The  Re]niblican  state  committee,  of 
wliich  Mr.  Ward  was  also  for  a  long  time  a 
member,  took  similar  action  on  the  da_\'  of 
his  burial,  and  the  Eleventh  Ward  Republican 
Club,  by  a  rising  vote,  testified  to  its  sympathy 
with  the  family  and  to  the  great  loss  caused  by 
his  decease.  As  a  public  character  Mr.  Ward 
devoted  much  time  and  thought  to  the  improve- 
ment oi  the  city  and  the  advancement  of  its 
commercial  and  manufacturing  interests.  He 
was  an  active  member  of  the  Board  of  Trade 
and  of  many  other  organizations  of  a  semi- 
public  character,  all  having  tlie  betterment  of 
the  ciiinnnuiity  as  their  object.     In  jirivate  life 


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he  was  noted  for  his  genial  disposition,  his  un- 
ostentatious charity  and  his  never  failing  gen- 
erosit}'.  Few  men  in  the  state  had  a  wider 
circle  of  personal  friends,  and  a  common  opin- 
ion was  voiced  by  the  town  council  at  his  death, 
"Newark  is  poorer  today  in  every  way  for  this 
untimely  loss."  Elias  Sayre  \Vard  married, 
March  4,  1872,  Anna  Dickerson,  only  daugh- 
ter of  Joel  M.  Bonnell,  of  Newark,  who  died 
March  19,  1903.  Children:  i.  Jessie  Bonnell 
Ward,  born  June  20,  1873;  ^^'^^  o^  Henry  R. 
Angelo.  now  of  Copenhagen,  Denmark.  2. 
Robertson  Sayre  Ward,  who  will  be  referred 
to  later.  3.  Charles  Bonnell  Ward,  see  forward. 
4.  Allen  Bonnell  Ward,  died  in  infancy.  5. 
Laurence  Colin  Ward,  referred  to  later. 

(IX)  Robertson  Sayre,  second  child  and 
eldest  son  of  Elias  Sayre  and  Anna  Dickerson 
(nee  Bonnell)  Ward,  was  born  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  October  27,  1875,  and  is  now 
living  at  172  Harrison  street,  East  Orange. 
His  early  education  was  obtained  in  the  New- 
ark public  schools  and  in  the  famous  Newark 
Academy,  from  which  latter  institution  he 
entered  I'rinceton  University,  where  he  grad- 
uated in  1898.  On  leaving  college  Mr.  Ward 
at  once  returned  to  his  mother's  home  in  South 
Ninth  street,  Roseville,  and  in  the  ensuing  fall 
assumed  control  of  the  business  which  his 
father  had  organized  and  so  successfully  built 
up.  Under  his  management  the  firm  of  E.  S. 
Ward  &  Company,  which  now  (1909)  consists 
of  Mr.  Ward  and  Mr.  John  F.  Conroy,  has 
steadily  enlarged  and  prospered  until  the  work 
of  their  one  hundred  hands  in  the  manufacture 
of  patent  and  enameled  leather  for  furniture, 
carriages  and  automobiles,  has  become  known 
and  finds  a  ready  market  all  over  the  country. 
Like  his  father,  Mr.  Ward  is  a  staunch  Re- 
■  publican,  although  he  has  not  and  does  not 
wish  to  hold  any  office.  He  is  a  member  of 
many  clubs,  among  them  being  the  Essex  Club 
and  the  Essex  County  Country  Club,  of  which 
his  father  had  been  a  member.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Union  Club  of  Newark,  of  the 
Automobile  Club  of  New  Jersey,  of  the  Prince- 
ton Club  of  New  York,  and  of  the  College 
Club  of  Princeton.  On  April  2^,  1906,  Robertson 
Sayre  \\'ard  married  Marie  Baillieux,  daugh- 
ter of  Jacques  Baillieux,  of  Aix  les  Bains, 
France,  who  has  borne  him  one  child,  who  died 
in  infancy. 

(IX)  Charles  Bonnell.  son  of  Elias  Sayre 
and  Anna  Dickerson  ( Bonnell  j  Ward,  was 
born  in  Newark,  April  27,  1879.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools,  Newark  Academy 
and    Penn    Alilitary    Academy,   graduating   as 


B.  S.  He  went  to  Europe  with  his  brother  and 
later  to  Arizona,  where  he  lived  on  a  ranch 
for  three  years,  then  returned  to  Newark.  He 
married,  in  Newark,  Aima  Heller ;  they  have 
two  children  ;  address,  Livingston  Manor,  New 
York. 

(IX)  Laurence  Colin,  fourth  son  and  young- 
est child  of  Elias  Sayre  and  Anna  Dickerson 
( nee  Bonnell)  Ward,  was  born  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  July  24,  1882,  and  is  now  living 
with  his  family  at  257  Mount  Prospect  avenue, 
in  that  city.  For  his  early  education  Mr. 
Ward,  like  his  brother,  went  to  the  public 
schools  and  to  the  Newark  Academy.  In  1898 
he  entered  the  Lawrenceville  school  in  Law- 
renceville,  Mercer  county,  New  Jersey,  where 
he  made  his  preparation  for  entering  college. 
In  1901,  when  he  graduated  from  this  academy, 
he  determined  to  go  abroad  in  order  that  he 
might  perfect  himself  in  some  of  the  foreign 
languages,  especially  French  and  German,  be- 
fore he  began  studying  for  his  university  de- 
gree. Accordingly  he  went  to  Germany,  where 
he  lived  in  a  private  family  and  made  himself 
a  master  of  their  tongue.  Returning  to  this 
country  in  1902,  Mr.  Ward  entered  Cornell 
I'niversity  in  the  class  of  1906,  but  after  re- 
maining there  through  the  freshman  year  of 
that  course  he  decided  to  begin  at  once  upon  a 
business  career,  and  consequently  in  1903  he 
took  a  position  in  the  Prudential  Insurance 
Company,  with  whom  he  remained  for  the 
following  two  years.  Mr.  Ward's  gifts,  how- 
ever, lay  in  another  direction,  and  when  the 
opportunity  presented  itself  in  1905  of  pur- 
chasing the  machine  factory  and  business  of 
Seymour  &  \\'hitlock,  he  promptly  seized  it 
and  entered  upon  his  present  work.  This  busi- 
ness, which  is  large,  already  employing  fifty 
hands,  and  supplying  general  machinery  all 
over  the  country,  bids  fair  under  Mr.  Ward's 
able  management  to  be  as  great  a  success  as  is 
his  father's  and  brother's  leather  business.  On 
July  I,  1908.  the  firm  was  incorporated  under 
the  name  of  the  L.  C.  Ward  ]\Iachine  Com- 
pany. Like  his  father  and  brother,  Mr.  Ward 
is  a  Republican.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Zeta  Psi  college  fraternity  and  of  several  clubs, 
among  them  the  Union  Club  of  Newark,  the 
Automobile  Club  of  New  Jersey,  and  the  Cor- 
nell Club  of  New  York.  He  is  a  communicant 
of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church,  and  a 
member  of  Trinity  parish.  Newark.  Mr.  Ward 
married,  September  6,  1904,  in  Evanston,  Illi- 
nois, Marion  Roby,  daughter  of  Walter  T. 
Dwight,  by  his  wife  Julia  Terry,  who  was  born 
in  Evanston,  January  31.  1883.     Besides  Mrs. 


2  so 


STATE   OF    NEW    I  ERSE  Y. 


Ward,  he  has  had  three  other  children — Paul- 
ine, Dorothy  and  one  died  in  childhood.  Lau- 
rence Colin  and  Marion  Roby  (nee  Dwight) 
Ward  have  two  children :  Robertson  Dwight 
Ward,  born  June  i8,  1905,  and  Laurence  Colin 
Ward  Jr..  December  8,  1908. 


(\III)  Leslie  Dodd  Ward,  third 
WARD  child  and  second  son  of  Moses 
Dodd  (q.  V.)  and  Justina  Louisa 
(.Sayre)  Ward,  was  born  in  Afton,  Morris 
county.  New  Jersey,  July  i,  1845.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  village  school  at  home. 
and  then,  with  the  intention  of  afterwards 
going  to  Princeton  L'niversity,  entered  the 
Newark  Academy.  In  1863,  when  General 
Robert  E.  Lee  made  his  magnificent  march  into 
Pennsylvania  which  formed  the  climax  of  the 
Confederate  success,  and  created  such  intense 
and  widespread  alarm  through  the  northern 
states,  the  governor  of  New  Jersey,  in  answer 
to  the  appeal  of  the  invaded  state,  called  for 
volunteers  to  go  to  the  aid  of  Pennsylvania. 
The  answer  to  this  call  was  eleven  companies 
of  seven  hundred  men  and  officers.  One  of 
the  corporals  of  Company  F  of  this  regiment. 
Captain  William  J.  Roberts  commanding,  was 
Leslie  I).  Ward.  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year, 
the  camjiaign  being  enfled,  young  Ward  re- 
turned for  the  completion  of  his  academic 
course.  On  his  graduation  in  the  following 
year  he  enlisted  as  one  of  the  hundred-day 
men,  being  enrolled  June  13,  1864,  mustered  in 
on  the  23d  of  the  same  month,  and  being  mus- 
tered out  the  ensuing  (October. 

Whether  his  thoughts  had  already  been  di- 
rected towards  a  medical  career  or  not  previ- 
ously to  his  military  service,  it  was  his  ex])eri- 
ence  in  the  cam])  and  field  with  the  sick  and 
wounded  that  finally  determined  him  to  adopt 
the  life  of  a  j)hysician.  Consecjuently,  shortly 
after  his  return  from  the  war,  he  entered  the 
office  of  Dr.  I'^isher,  of  Alorristown,  where  he 
prepared  himself  to  enter  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons  in  New  York,  From  this 
institution  he  graduated  in  iS^iS,  and  imme- 
diately began  practicing  in  Newark,  associating 
himself  with  Dr.  Lott  Southard,  of  that  city, 
with  whom  he  continued  to  practice  for  two 
years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  opened  an 
office  for  himself.  By  this  time  Dr.  XN'ard  had 
become  well  and  favorably  known,  and  his 
practice  steadily  increased  not  only  among  the 
rich  and  well-to-do,  but  also  among  the  less 
wealthy  and  poorer  classes  of  society.  From 
his  experiences  with  these  latter  classes  espe- 
cially. Dr.  Ward  gained  his  large  insight  into 


the  lives  of  people  ami  became  familiar  with 
their  most  urgent  needs  and  necessities.  The 
alleviation  of  these  wants  and  distresses,  and 
the  best  means  of  aiding  people  in  sickness  and 
times  of  death,  now  became  one  of  the  cherish- 
ed aims  and  great  j)roblems  of  his  life,  and  he 
found  their  realization  and  solution  in  the  idea 
of  the  Prudential  Insurance  Company  of 
America,  or,  as  it  was  at  first  known,  the  Pru- 
dential Friendly  Society.  The  object  and 
methods  of  this  company  were  at  that  time 
(1873)  entirely  new  to  the  insurance  world. 
It  ])ro])osed  to  offer  insurance  to  the  industrial 
classes  on  healthy  lives,  both  male  and  female, 
from  one  to  seventy-five  years  of  age.  Policies 
are  issued  from  ten  dollars  to  five  hundred 
dollars,  and  the  premiums  collected  weekly  at 
the  homes  of  the  in.sured.  .\  special  feature 
of  the  business  and  one  in  which  Dr.  Ward 
was  particularly  interested,  is  that  all  policies 
are  ]iayable  at  death  or  within  twenty-four 
hours  after  satisfactory  proofs  of  death  are  fur- 
nished to  the  company,  in  order  that  the  money 
may  be  innnediately  available  for  funeral  ex- 
penses and  those  incurred  for  medical  attend- 
ance. In  ten  years  the  success  of  the  new 
method  was  phenomenal.  It  had  issued  nearly 
nine  hundred  thousand  policies,  paid  fifteen 
thousand  claims,  amounting  to  over  $875,000, 
and  had  accumulated  a  large  amount  of  assets 
and  a  handsome  surplus.  The  originally  sub- 
scribed ca|)ital  of  the  company,  .^30,000,  had 
also  been  increased  to  $106,000,  all  paid  up.  In 
this  work.  Dr.  ^\'ard  was  one  of  the  most 
active  laborers,  and  the  present  president  of 
the  com])any,  John  F.  Dryden,  says  that  it  is 
"largely  in  conse(|uence  of  Dr.  Ward's  untir- 
ing cfiforts  that  a  strong  board  of  directors  was 
secured  and  the  necessary  financial  support 
obtained  from  men  whose  standing  in  the  com- 
mercial world  was  second  to  none."  From  the 
outset.  Dr.  Ward  was  the  medical  director  of 
the  com])any  and  Mr.  Dryden's  associate  in 
putting  it  u])on  a  firm  foundation.  In  1884  he 
was  elected  first  vice-president,  in  place  of 
Hon.  Henry  J.  Yates,  ex-mayor  of  Newark, 
who  had  been  elected  treasurer.  .\s  the  com- 
pany's medical  director.  Dr.  Ward  had  from 
the  bcgimiing  shown  exceptional  skill  and  abil- 
ity in  managing  the  field  ojierations  of  the 
com])auy,  and  while  still  occupying  his  former 
position  he  devoted  himself  as  vice-president 
with  much  energy  to  the  outside  development 
of  the  comjiany's  interests.  During  late  years 
Dr.  Ward  has  been  the  executive  manager  of 
the  company's  field  force,  and  Hoffman's  "His- 
torv  of  the  Prudential"  savs  that  "it  is  not  too 


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mucli  to  say  that  nnicli  of  the  success  which 
the  company  has  acliieved  has  been  the  result 
of  his  exceptional  ability  and  devotion  to  the 
interests  of  the  company  and  to  the  promotion 
of  its  welfare."  In  1876  Dr.  Ward  became  a 
member  of  the  medical  board  of  St.  Michael's 
Hospital,  the  oldest  institution  of  its  kind  in 
Newark,  and  for  seven  years  he  was  its  secre- 
tary. He  was  at  this  time  also  visiting  surgeon 
uf  St.  Barnabas  Hospital.  Before  1876  the 
duties  now  performed  by  the  county  physician 
of  Essex  county  had  for  the  most  part  been 
done  by  coroners  and  magistrates  ;  but  in  1877, 
by  the  appointment  of  Dr.  Ward  to  the  office 
of  county  physician,  the  present  state  of  things 
was  inaugurated.  Dr.  Ward's  residence  is 
1038  Broad  street,  Newark,  and  his  country 
home  is  "Brooklake  Park,"  Madison,  New 
Jersey. 

He  was  a  delegate  from  New  Jersey  to  the 
Republican  national  convention  in  Philadel- 
[jhia,  June,  1900,  and  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee notifying  Mr.  McKinley  of  his  nomina- 
tion for  his  second  term.  He  was  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Chicago  convention  nominating  and 
the  committee  notifying  ^Ir.  Roosevelt  of  his 
nomination  for  second  term,  and  again  delegate 
to  Chicago  in  1908,  and  one  of  the  vice-presi- 
dents of  the  Republican  national  committee. 
His  clubs  are  the  Cnion  League  of  New  York, 
Esse.x  of  Newark,  Essex  County  Country  Club. 
Tuxedo  Club  of  Tuxedo,  Automobile  Club  of 
America,  Whippany  River  Club  of  Morris- 
town,  Morris  County  Country  Golf  Club, 
Morristown  Club  and  the  Flatbrook  \'alley 
Club.  March  5,  1874,  he  married  Minnie, 
daughter  of  James  Perry,  of  Newark,  and  has 
had  two  children :  Leslie  Perry  \\'ard,  and 
Herbert  E.  Ward,  married  Nancy  Currier,  and 
has  one  child,  Helen. 


(\"1H)  Edgar  Bethune  Ward, 
W.ARD      fourth    child    and    third    son    of 

Moses  Dodd  (q.  v.)  and  Justina 
Louisa  (Sayre)  Ward,  was  born  in  Afton 
(then  Columbia),  Morris  county,  New  Jersey. 
He  acquired  a  practical  education  in  the  village 
school,  and  the  knowledge  thus  gained  was 
supplemented  by  attendance  at  the  Bloomfield 
Academy  and  Cornell  University.  He  then 
directed  his  attention  to  the  study  of  law,  be- 
ginning his  reading  in  the  offices  of  Runyon 
&  Leonard,  the  senior  partner  of  which  firm 
was  the  well-known  chancellor  of  New  Jersey, 
and  completed  his  course  under  the  tuition  of 
Hon.  J.  Henry  Stone  and  John  P.  Jackson  Jr., 


who  at  that  time  were  practicing  under  the  firm 
name  of  Stone  &  Jackson.  In  1872  Mr.  Ward 
received  his  license  as  attorney,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  as  counsellor  in  1875.  During 
the  interim  between  1872  and  1875  he  acted 
as  managing  clerk  for  the  law  firm  of  Mc- 
Carter  &  Keen,  where  he  gained  by  actual  prac- 
tice the  ec|uipment  for  an  active  and  successful 
career.  Immediately  after  his  admission  as 
counsellor,  Mr.  Ward  opened  an  office  in  New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  for  the  general  practice  of 
law,  and  for  the  following  five  years  his  busi- 
ness steadily  increased  in  volume  and  import- 
ance. In  1880  an  opportunity  presented  itself 
which  enabled  him  to  concentrate  his  energies 
and  knowledge  of  law  along  special  lines.  The 
Prudential  Insurance  Company,  which  had 
been  incorporated  in  April,  1873,  and  organized 
October  13,  1875,  was  the  means  to  this  end. 
In  this  company  Mr.  Ward  became  deeply 
interested,  and  was  a  member  of  the  board  of 
directors  from  the  organization  of  the  com- 
pany. Mr.  Ward  was  ofi^ered  and  accepted  the 
I)osition  of  counsel  for  the  company,  which 
had  entered  into  active  competition  with  the 
old  line  companies  with  a  new  system  of  insur- 
ance that  was  at  once  both  popular  and  pro- 
gressive. In  1880,  when  it  was  clearly  appar- 
ent that  the  Prudential  Insurance  Company 
would  become  one  of  the  leading  companies 
in  the  country,  Mr.  Ward  was  forced  to  relin- 
quish his  general  practice  and  devote  his  entire 
time  to  the  work  and  responsibilities  of  the 
Prudential,  and  it  is  the  general  concensus  of 
opinion  that  it  was  the  skillful  management  of 
the  law  deijartment  that  materially  contributed 
to  the  development  and  success  of  the  company. 
Mr.  Ward  also  served  in  the  capacity  of  sec- 
ond vice-president  of  the  coinpany  for  many 
years.  In  addition  he  served  in  the  directorate 
of  the  National  State  Bank.  Fidelity  Trust 
Company,  Union  National  Bank,  I'iremen's 
Insurance  Company  and  the  old  Newark  and 
South  C)range  Railroad  Company.  During  his 
residence  in  Newark  Mr.  Ward  represented  his 
ward  in  the  board  of  education,  where  he 
proved  himself  to  be  a  firm  believer  in  the 
higher  education  for  the  masses.  He  is  a 
member  of  St.  John's  Lodge,  No.  i.  Free  and 
.\ccepted  Masons ;  of  the  Essex  Club,  Essex 
County  Country  Club,  Lawyers'  Club,  and  the 
.■\uto  Club  of  America  in  New  York.  In  1892 
Mr.  Ward  removed  to  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
and  later  to  his  present  residence  in  Harrison 
street.  East  Orange.  Both  he  and  his  wife  are 
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community,  and  are  in  hearty  sympathy  with 
all  that  tends  to  its  material  welfare  and  de- 
velopment. 

Edgar  Bethune  \\'ard  married  Harriet 
Newell,  daughter  of  John  P.  Jube,  of  Newark, 
3.  descendant  of  one  of  the  old  New  York  fam- 
ilies. Children :  Edgar  Percy  and  Newell 
Jube,  both  referred  to  below;  and  Kenneth 
Bethune. 

(IX)  Edgar  Percy,  eldest  son  and  child  of 
Edgar  Bethune  and  Harriet  Newell  (Jube) 
Ward,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Au- 
gust lo,  1879.  After  graduation  from  the 
Dearborn-Morgan  School  in  Orange,  he  enter- 
ed Yale  University,  class  of  1900.  After  his 
graduation  he  took  up  the  study  of  law  at  the 
New  York  Law  School,  and  upon  the  comple- 
tion of  his  course  accepted  a  position  in  the 
legal  department  of  the  Prudential  Company, 
where  he  remained  until  about  1906,  his  time 
being  especially  devoted  to  the  passing  on  titles 
for  real  estate  loans.  In  the  early  part  of  1906 
Edgar  P.  Ward  and  Gustave  W.  Gehin  organ- 
ized the  W'ard-Gehin  Company,  an  insurance 
and  real  estate  agency  corporation.  The  bril- 
liant prospects  before  this  new  tirm  and  its 
high  rating  in  the  business  world  of  Newark 
can  be  expressed  in  no  better  way  than  in  the 
following  words  taken  from  the  Expositor, 
which  is  one  of  the  most  authoritative  period- 
icals of  the  insurance  and  financial  world.  In 
the  issue  of  June  30,  1908,  it  says :  "The 
agency  has  been  in  operation  not  quite  two 
years,  but  during  this  period  it  has  made  a 
notable  and  creditable  record,  which  was  natur- 
ally to  be  expected,  owing  to  the  prominent 
connections,  high  standing  and  well-directed 
energetic  efforts  of  its  principals,  Messrs.  Ward 
and  Gehin."  Early  in  1909  Mr.  Ward  was 
elected  a  director  in  the  Firemen's  Insurance 
Com])any  of  Newark.  He  holds  membership 
in  the  I'nion  Club  and  Yale  Club  of  New  York. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  Edgar  Percy 
Ward  married,  June  10,  1903,  in  Boston,  Alass- 
achusetts,  Laura  Edith,  daughter  of  John  de 
Wolf  and  Mary  Catherine  (Miller)  Wilson 
Children:  Muriel,  born  March  5,  1904,  and 
Edgar  Bethune  (2d),  February  7,  1907.  The 
family  reside  at  No.  517  Centre  street.  South 
Orange,  New  Jersey. 

(IX)  Newell  Jube,  second  son  and  chilil  of 
Edgar  Bethune  and  Harriet  Newell  (Jube) 
Ward,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  April 
27,  1882.  His  educational  advantages  were 
obtained  in  the  Newark  .\cadcmy,  Lawrence- 
ville  Academy,  Westminster  Scliool  at  Dobbs 
Ferry,    New    York,    where    he   completed    his 


preparation  for  Harvard  University,  matri- 
culating in  the  class  of  1904.  He  afterwards 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Prudential  Insur- 
ance Company,  with  whom  he  continued  for 
more  than  five  years,  resigning  in  order  to  be- 
come the  vice-president  of  the  Allen  Adver- 
tising Company,  with  whom  he  remained  until 
1908.  when  he  was  elected  secretary  of  the 
Frank  Seaman  Company,  incorporated,  an  ad- 
vertising firm  at  No.  30  West  Thirty-third 
street.  New  York  City.  Mr.  Ward  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Essex  County  Country  Club.  Newell  Jube 
Ward  married  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
Ethel,  only  daughter  of  Theodore  H.  and  Mary 
(Coop)  Couderman.  They  reside  at  No.  lib 
Highland  avenue.  Orange,  New  Jersey. 


(MI)  Aaron  Condit,  the  sixth 
W.\RD     child  and  fourth  son  of  Jacob  (2) 

(q.  V.)  and  Abigail  (Doiid)  Ward, 
was  born  in  Bloomfield,  Essex  county,  Febru- 
ary 10,  1810.  He  was  about  two  years  old 
when  his  father  moved  the  family  to  Columbia, 
now  Afton,  Morris  county,  and  in  the  latter 
place  young  Aaron  was  brought  up  a  strict 
Presbyterian  and  received  his  education  from 
the  district  school,  and  his  vigorous  health 
from  the  out-door  farm  life.  He  was,  how- 
ever, of  a  mechanical  turn  of  mind,  and  the 
appeal  of  manufacturing  business  was  greater 
to  him  than  that  of  the  farm ;  consequently,  in 
1828,  when  eighteen  years  old,  he  found  his 
way  to  Newark  and  into  an  establishment  for 
making  sashes  and  blinds.  1  lere  his  genius 
found  the  material  it  needed  to  work  upon,  and 
it  was  not  long  before  he  had  devised  improve- 
ments in  the  then  existing  machinery  and 
finall}-  had  invented  a  machine  for  the  making 
of  wood  mouldings,  which  he  patented.  Mr. 
Ward,  who  inherited  his  share  of  the  business 
ability  of  the  family,  now  set  about  putting  his 
invention  to  use,  and.  taking  two  or  three 
others  into  his  confidence,  the  result  was  the 
founding  of  the  firm  of  Ward,  Huntington  & 
Company,  of  which  Mr.  Ward  was  senior 
partner  to  his  death,  and  the  building  of  a  fac- 
tory on  the  corner  of  Bruen  and  Lafayette 
streets,  in  wdiich  his  newly  patented  invention 
was  successfully  ojjcrated.  The  remainder  of 
Mr.  Ward's  life  was  devoted  to  his  business, 
his  family  and  his  church ;  he  was  a  Repub- 
lican, but  contented  himself  with  voting  with 
his  party,  and  with  acting  as  a  member  of  the 
Newark  board  of  education  from  1857  to  1858. 
Shortly  after  coming  to  Newark  he  had  allied 
himself   with   tiie   Sixth   I'resbvterian   Church 


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of  that  city,  and  for  many  years  was  not  only 
a  devout  member  and  finally  a  deacon,  but  he 
labored  indefatigably  in  its  Sunday  school  as 
teacher  and  superintendent.  On  the  day  of 
his  death,  June  25,  i860,  the  Newark  Daily 
Advertiser  not  only  put  the  usual  death  notice 
in  its  columns,  but  also  placed  an  obituary  of 
him  among  its  editorials.  He  was  buried  on 
the  Wednesday  following  his  death,  from  the 
Sixth  Presbyterian  Church,  and  bis  body  was 
interred  in  Mount  Pleasant  cemetery.  In  1832 
Aaron  Condit  Ward  married  Mary  Oliver 
Munn.  Children:  i.  Alexander,  born  1833; 
died  1903  ;  married  (first)  Henrietta  E.,  daugh- 
ter of  James  F.  Bond,  who  died  June  19,  i860, 
leaving  three  children — Francis,  Caroline  and 
.\nna  llond.  Alexander  married  (second) 
Miss  Hardam,  who  bore  him  one  child ;  and  on 
her  death  he  married  (third)  Mrs.  Francis, 
through  whom  he  became  father  of  George 
Ale.xander  Ward,  of  Newark.  2.  Elizabeth  T., 
born  June  18,  1834:  now  living  in  Newark; 
married  William  K.  Poinier,  born  July  3,  1832, 
died  September  3,  1895;  six  children.  (See 
Poinier).  3.  Joseph  Grover,  of  whom  further. 
4.  Margaret  .Anna,  born  May  i,  1838;  died 
March,  i(p3 :  married  Daniel  S.  Evans,  of 
Washington.  D.  C. ;  four  children.  5.  Julia, 
born  Februarv,  1840;  died  unmarried,  about 
1867. 

(\'ni)  Joseph  Grover,  third  child  and 
younger  son  of  Aaron  Condit  and  Mary  Oliver 
(Miuin)  Ward,  was  born  in  Newark,  October 
31,  1836.  and  died  in  that  city,  April  27,  1902. 
For  his  education  he  was  sent  to  the  famous 
school  started  in  his  native  city  in  1820  by  Dr. 
Nathan  Hedges,  in  which  so  many  of  Newark's 
business  men  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  re- 
ceived their  training,  and  after  graduating 
from  there  attended  for  a  while  at  the  seminary 
of  J.  Sand  ford  Smith.  When  he  was  about 
fifteen  years  old  his  father  apprenticed  him  to 
the  firm  of  Durand  &  Company,  manufactur- 
ing jewelers,  and  his  interest  in  this  kind  of 
work  became  so  great  that  when  his  term  of 
apprenticeship  was  over  he  voluntarily  con- 
tinued in  the  employ  of  the  same  firm  as  a 
journeyman.  Later  on  he  obtained  a  financial 
interest  in  the  business,  and  when,  owing  to 
deaths,  changes  were  made  in  the  personal  of 
the  firm  he  obtained  a  large  interest.  Had  he 
lived  not  c|uite  a  year  longer  than  he  did  he 
would  not  onlv  have  risen  from  apprentice  boy 
to  vice-president  and  half  owner  of  the  busi- 
ness, but  would  also  have  completed  a  half- 
centurv  in  the  branch  of  manufacturing,  the 
success  of  which  in  its  later  years  has  been 


largely  owing  to  his  genius  and  ability.  During 
his  life  he  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  leaders 
in  the  jewelry  trade,  and  many  of  the  medals 
for  international  athletic  events  were  not  only 
made  in  his  shops,  but  were  of  his  own  design- 
ing. In  an  obituary  published  in  the  Newark 
Evening  News  at  the  time  of  his  death,  he  is 
spoken  of  as  "the  best  jewelry  designer  in  the 
country."  While  still  a  young  man,  ^Ir.  Ward 
moved  to  Irvington,  where  he  continued  to 
live  for  about  thirty-five  years,  becoming  one 
of  that  village's  most  influential  and  representa- 
tive citizens.  For  many  years  he  was  presi- 
dent of  the  township  committee,  and  also  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  freeholders;  as  a  Repub- 
lican he  was  both  active  and  influential  not  only 
in  Irvington,  but  later  on  also  when  he  re- 
moved back  to  Newark. 

Mr.  Ward  was  a  Knight  Templar  Mason. 
Outside  of  his  business,  his  political  interests 
and  his  family,  he  gave  most  of  his  spare  time 
and  energies  to  his  religion.  For  many  years 
he  labored  long  and  earnestly  as  an  official  and 
superintendent  in  the  Sunday  school  of  the 
Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  Irvington,  and  as 
an  elder,  and  after  removal  to  Newark  became 
a  member  of  First  Reformed  Dutch  Church. 
Mr.  Ward  was  drafted  for  the  civil  war,  but 
the  state  of  his  health  obliged  him  to  send  a 
substitute  in  his  place,  as  even  then  the  begin- 
nings of  the  organic  disease  which  finally  over- 
came him  had  made  their  appearance.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Society  of  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  tracing  his 
ancestry  back  to  his  great-great-grandfather, 
grandfather  of  his  father's  mother.  Isaac  Dodd, 
private  in  the  Essex  county  New  Jersey  militia, 
although  he  was  also  entitled  to  his  member- 
ship from  his  descent  from  his  own  great- 
grandfather, Jacob  Ward  (i),  likewise  a  pri- 
vate in  the  Essex  county  militia. 

Between  1890  and  1895  Mr.  Ward  left 
Irvington  and  returned  to  Newark,  making  his 
home  at  33  Johnson  avenue,  where  he  remain- 
ed for  the  rest  of  his  life.  For  many  years  he 
had  been  troubled  with  an  organic  weakness 
of  his  heart,  which  ended  with  his  death.  This 
delicacy  of  health  made  Mr.  Ward  feel  that 
the  time  he  could  spare  from  his  business 
should  be  devoted  to  his  family ;  consequently, 
although  he  was  repeatedly  offered  the  director- 
ship in  banks  and  affiliation  with  other  financial 
institutions,  he  invariably  refused,  and  more 
and  more  confined  himself  to  his  home  and 
his  office  and  his  social  life.  His  end  was  sud- 
den and  peaceful.  He  was  apparently  in  ex- 
cellent health  for  him  when  he  left  his  desk  at 


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the  close  of  business  hours  on  Saturday,  and 
until  Sunday  evening  there  was  no  sign  of 
serious  trouble,  but  in  tlie  night  he  passed  sud- 
denly and  quietly  away.  The  funeral  was  from 
his  home  at  two  o'clock  the  following  Wednes- 
day afternoon,  Rev.  Timothy  J.  Lee,  of  the 
First  Reformed  Dutch  Church,  and  Rev.  Dan- 
iel H.  Martin,  of  the  Clinton  Avenue  Reform- 
ed Dutch  Church,  ofificiating,  and  the  interment 
being  at  Xew  Providence,  where  the  family 
burying-ground  is  located. 

Joseph  (irover  Ward  married  (first),  Octo- 
ber 8,  i8(w,  Julia  Smith,  third  child  of  Rev. 
Thomas  and  Eiuily  (  fjeach )  Cochrane.  Chil- 
dren: I.  .^aron  Condit  Ward,  AL  D.,  born 
March  8,  1862 ;  married  Sylvina,  daughter  of 
Hiram  Haskins ;  has  twin  children,  Walter 
Lester  and  Harold  Haskins.  Aaron  Condit 
Ward  was  one  of  the  medical  examiners  of 
the  Prudential  Life  Insurance  Company  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  2.  William  Cochrane  Ward, 
see  forward.  3.  Henry  Carr  Ward,  see  for- 
ward. 4.  Florence  Ward,  born  May  22,  1869; 
married  James  Edward  Young  Jr.,  of  Brook- 
lyn ;  one  child,  Marjorie.  5.  Arthur  Beach 
Ward,  see  forward.  6.  Joseph  Grover  Ward 
Jr.,  born  Xovember  15,  1876;  married  antl 
living  in  Jersey  City;  without  issue.  October 
23,  1898,  Joseph  Cirover  Ward  Sr.  married 
(second)  Elizabeth,  seventh  child  of  Rev. 
Thomas  and  Emily  (Beach)  Cochrane,  sister 
of  his  first  wife,  and  widow  of  Henry  J.  Carr, 
of  Xew  York.  V>y  her  first  husband  Mrs. 
Carr  was  mother  of  three  children — Edward 
Beach  Carr,  died  in  infancy;  William  Henry 
Carr,  a  i!rooklyn  barrister,  who  died  unmar- 
ried, at  the  age  of  thirty-si.\  ;  and  \\  alter  Les- 
ter Carr.  M.  D.,  of  Xew  York,  her  oklest 
child,  who  married  Grace  Elmendorf,  and  has 
two  children — Elmendorf  Lester  Carr,  and 
Rowland  Stebbins  Lester  Carr.  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth (Cochrane)  Carr- Ward  survives  her  hus- 
band, and  is  now  living  at  the  Irving  ajiart- 
ments.  224  Broad  street.  Newark. 

(IX)  William  Cochrane,  second  child  and 
.son  of  Joseph  Grover  and  Julia  Smith  (Coch- 
rane) Ward,  was  born  June  20,  1864,  in  New- 
ark, and  is  now  living  with  his  family  at  67 
Gleenwood  avenue.  East  Orange.  He  was  pre- 
pared for  college  in  the  Xewark  .\cademy,  and 
then  entered  Rutgers  College,  where  lie  grad- 
uated with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science 
in  1883.  He  then  started  in  the  jewelry  busi- 
ness in  his  father's  factory,  but  the  work  not 
proving  to  his  liking  he  soon  afterwards  ob- 
tained a  position  with  the  Xewark  Electric 
Light  and  Power  Company,  which  he  retained 


until  1900,  and  then  resigned  to  accept  another 
position  offered  to  him  by  the  Westinghouse 
Electric  and  Manufacturing  Company,  with 
whom  he  has  been  ever  since  and  where  now 
he  has  becoiue  assistant  sales  manager.  Mr. 
Ward  is  a  Republican,  and  during  the  resi- 
dence of  his  father's  family  in  Irvington  he 
was  quite  an  active  figure  in  the  politics  of  the 
village.  Starting  in  by  running  for  and  ob- 
taining the  smaller  and  more  unimportant 
offices,  he  gradually  rose  from  office  to  office 
until  he  became  chairman  of  the  township 
committee,  which  he  held  for  five  years,  and 
then  at  the  annexation  of  a  portion  of  the 
village  to  Xewark  dropped  out  of  politics  en- 
tirely. Mr.  Ward  belongs  to  no  secret  soci- 
eties. He  is  a  member  of  the  Rutgers  Alumni 
.Association  of  Xew  York,  the  University  Club, 
tile  Chi  Phi  Club,  the  Rutgers  Club  of  Xew- 
ark, the  Machinery  Club,  the  .\merican  Insti- 
tute of  Electrical  Engineers,  and  the  Xew  York 
Society  of  Electrical  Engineers.  For  some 
years  Mr.  Ward  has  been  a  deacon  in  the 
Dutch  Reformed  Church. 

Jime  20,  1886,  William  Cochrane  Ward 
marrieil  Corinne  .Andrews,  daughter  of  Joseph 
.Vndrews  and  Jane  (Morris)  Whittaker,  both 
(if  whom  were  born  in  England.  Mrs.  Corinne 
. Vndrews  (Whittaker)  Ward  was  born  in 
Irvington,  March  7,  i8()5.  and  is  the  youngest 
of  three  children,  all  of  whom  are  now  mar- 
ried. She  has  borne  Mr.  Ward  four  children: 
Julian  and  William,  both  of  whom  died  in 
infancy;  ilarry  Carleton  Ward,  born  March 
21,  1892;  and  lanet  Morris  Ward,  September 
30.  1898. 

(IX)  1  lenry  Carr,  third  son  and  child  of 
Joseph  Grover  and  Julia  Smith  (Cochrane) 
Ward,  was  born  in  Irvington,  Xew  Jersey,  Au- 
gust 27,  1866,  and  is  now  living  at  330  Clinton 
avenue,  Xewark.  L'ntil  1878,  when  he  was 
twelve  years  old,  he  attended  the  ])ublic  schools, 
and  was  then  sent  to  finish  his  educatinn  at  ihe 
private  school  of  E.  E.  Clarke,  at  Stratford, 
t'otmecticut.  ( )n  leaving  school  he  started  in 
the  jewelry  business  as  salesman  for  his 
father's  house,  Durand  &  Company,  and  has 
ra])idly  risen  in  his  career,  until  now  he  is  vice- 
l)resident  of  the  corporation.  In  ])olitics  Mr. 
Ward  is  a  Republican,  but  he  has  held  no 
office.  He  belongs  to  no  secret  societies;  he  is 
a  member  of  the  .Auto  and  Motor  Club  and  of 
tlie  Jewelers'  Club  of  Boston.  He  is  a  com- 
municant of  St.  .Stephen's  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  of  Xewark.  June  i,  1889,  Henry  Carr 
Ward  married  Grace  Louise,  eldest  daughter 
of  Ste|)hen  \'an  Cortlandt  and  Emilie  (  Ficiiter) 


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Cadmus,  by  whom  he  has  had  one  child,  Ray- 
onette  Emily  Ward,  born  .April  11,  1890,  died 
in  July,  1 89 1. 

(IXj  Arthur  Beach,  fourth  son  and  fifth 
child  of  Joseph  Grover  and  Julia  Smith  (Coch- 
rane I  \\  ard,  was  born  in  Irvington,  Xew  Jer- 
se}',  November  30,  1874,  and  is  now  living  at 
72  Nairn  place,  Newark.  His  early  education 
was  received  in  private  schools,  and  he  was 
then  sent  to  the  Newark  .\cademy,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  1891.  His  desire  was  to  fol- 
low in  his  father's  footsteps,  and  for  this  pur- 
pose he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Gorham 
Manufacturing  Company  in  New  York  imme- 
diately after  graduation  to  study  the  designing 
of  high  grade  jewelry.  His  father,  however, 
wished  him  to  become  an  architect,  and  in  the 
earl}'  part  of  1892  he  entered  the  office  of 
Henry  S.  Ihnen,  in  New  York  City,  where  he 
continued  until  the  fall  of  the  same  year,  when 
he  convinced  his  father  that  his  genius  lay  in 
another  direction  and  he  was  allowed  to  take 
the  place  he  wished  in  the  workshop  of  his 
father's  factory.  From  this  place  he  has  climb- 
ed steadily,  until  now  he  is  the  general  manager 
of  the  factory,  and  a  stockholder  in  the  cor- 
poration. He  is  a  Republican,  who  has  held  no 
office,  and  belongs  to  no  secret  societies.  His 
clubs  are  the  Esse.x  Bicycle  Club  and  the  New 
Jersey  Auto  and  Motor  Club.  His  church  is 
the  Clinton  Avenue  Dutch  Reformed.  Octo- 
ber 8,  1901,  Arthur  Beach  Ward  married  Min- 
nie, youngest  daughter  of  George  and  Dora 
( Spaeth  )  Schrick ;  children  :  Arthur  Beach 
Ward,  born  August  26,  1903 ;  Norman  Schrick 
Ward.  October  ir,  1907. 


(\n)  Samuel  Davis,  son  of  Jacob 
WARD  (q.  V. )  and  .\bigail  (  Dodd)  V\"ard. 
was  born  in  Morris  county.  New 
Jersey,  in  1812,  and  died  in  Railway,  New 
Jersey,  in  1883.  He  removed  to  Rahway  early 
in  life  and  became  there  a  successful  carriage 
manufacturer,  a  business  which  he  conducted 
for  many  years.  He  was  a  captain  of  militia, 
and  at  the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war  V(jlunteered 
his  services,  but  being  past  the  age  prescribed 
by  the  military  authorities,  his  application  was 
rejected.  He  married,  in  1854,  Rebecca  Mar- 
tin, daughter  of  Isaac  and  Susan  (Miller) 
Miller  (see  Miller).  Children:  i.  Clarence 
David,  referred  to  below.  2.  Frederick  W'ill- 
iam,  born  January  30,  1858 ;  died  .\pril  6, 
1899:  married  Jessie  Coe,  daughter  of  James 
and  Harriet  M.  (Hedden)  Peck;  children: 
Sterling  D.,  born  January  26,  1891  ;  Ethel  W.. 
born  ^larch  i,  1894;  Jessie  W'.,  born  October 


8,  1895  ;  Marjorie,  born  September  2,  1898.  3. 
Susan,  died  aged  four  years,  4.  Ella  Miller, 
married  Joseph  H.  Bryan,  of  New  York ;  chil- 
dren :  Chester  Ward,  Elva,  and  Doris  Bryan. 
(\'III)  Clarence  David,  son  of  Samuel 
Davis  and  Rebecca  Martin  (Miller)  Ward, 
was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  April  7, 
1856,  and  is  now  living  at  Rahway.  For  his 
early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  Rahway  and 
Newark  public  schools,  and  after  graduating 
and  receiving  his  LL.  B.  degree  with  the  class 
of  1877  from  the  Columbia  Law  School,  he 
read  law  with  the  firm  of  J.  R.  &  N.  English, 
at  Elizabeth,  being  admitted  to  the  New  Jer- 
sey bar  as  attorney  in  November,  1877,  and  as 
counsellor  in  November.  1881.  He  then  formed 
a  partnership  with  Hon.  Benjamin  A.  \'ail. 
which  continued  until  1904.  when  ^Ir.  \'ail 
resigned  and  ?klr.  \\'ard  continued  the  business 
by  himself.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics  ;  was 
a  member  of  the  common  council  of  Rahway, 
1883-86:  county  attorney  for  Union  county, 
1888-93.  ^"^1  "^'ty  attorney  of  Rahway,  1897- 
1902.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Royal  Arcanum, 
of  the  Independent  Order  of  Foresters,  and  of 
the  l^eptasophs.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
County  Bar  Association,  president  of  the  board 
of  Trustees  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Rahway,  and  counsel  and  manager  of  the 
Rahway  Savings  Institution.  He  married,  in 
Rahway,  June  24,  1886,  Annie  Pauline,  daugh- 
ter of  Frederick  and  Annie  M.  (Haydock) 
Schumacher,  who  was  born  June  24,  1865. 
Children:  i.  Helen  E.,  born  April  4,  1888.  2. 
Clarence  Arnold,  July  20,  1896.  Children  of 
Frederick  and  Anna  M.  (Haydock)  Schu- 
macher: I.  Dora  M.  2.  Jennie  E.  3.  Leonora. 
4.  Eva  S.  5.  .Knnie  Pauline,  referred  to  above. 
6.  Gertrude.    7.  Frederick. 

(The    Miller   Line). 

\\'illiam  Miller,  founder  of  the  family  at 
present  under  consideration,  died  in  17 11.  He 
was  probably  a  brother  of  Andrew  and  John 
Miller,  of  Easthampton,  and  all  three  were 
possibly  the  sons  of  John  Miller,  of  Southamp- 
ton. William  Miller  came  to  Elizabethtown 
about  1683.  but  returned  soon  afterward  for  a 
time  to  Long  Island.  In  1692  he  returned  to 
Elizabethtown,  and  drew  lot  No.  62  of  the  one 
hundred  acre  lots  at  "the  Edg  or  foot  of  y*^ 
mountain."  adjoining  Joseph  Lyon  at  Scotch 
Plains.  It  is  a  family  tradition  that  when  he 
went  to  reside  on  this  lot  so  far  away  from  the 
town  plot,  the  parting  was  rendered  very 
solemn  by  the  expectation  that  they  should 
seldom  if  ever  see  him  again,  but  to  their  sur- 


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prise,  when  the  townspeople  went  to  church  the 
next  Sunday  morning,  they  found  him  sitting 

on  the   steps.     He   married    Hannah  . 

Children:  i.  Sarah,  married  Peter  Ellstone. 
2.  Hannah,  married  Daniel  Crane.  3.  Samuel, 
born  about  1674;  died  1759;  married  Elizabeth 
Thompson  or  Elizabeth  Riggs.  4.  Richard, 
died  1759  or  1760;  married  possibly  Rachel 
Hatfield.  5.  Jonathan,  referred  to  below.  6. 
William.  7.  Andrew.  8.  Daughter,  married 
Samuel  Dayton. 

(H)  Jonathan,  son  of  William  and  Hannah 
Miller,  was  born  about  1682,  and  died  in  Rah- 
way  in  1727.  He  married  .Abigail,  daughter 
of  John  and  Abigail  (probably  Ailing)  Ross, 
who  was  born  in  Elizabethtown,  about  1687. 
Children:  Jonathan,  married  Elizabeth  Dick- 
inson; David,  born  about  1718,  died  1787,  mar- 
ried Sarah ;  Joseph  ;  James,  referred  to 

below. 

(HI)  James,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Abigail 
(Ross)  Miller,  was  born  in  Rah  way,  between 
1715  and  1725. 

(IV)  Abner,  son  of  James  Miller,  of  Rah- 
way,  was  born  about  1763,  and  died  in  1882. 
He  was  a  surveyor  and  farmer.  He  married 
Sarah  Phillips.  Children :  Isaac,  referred  to 
below  ;  Aaron ;  Abigail ;  Maria ;  Sarah ;  Eliza- 
beth. 

(V)  Isaac,  son  of  Abner  and  Sarah  (Phil- 
lips) Miller,  was  born  in  Rahway,  in  1791,  and 
died  in  1869.  He  married  Susan,  daughter  of 
William  Miller,  of  Elizabeth.  Children :  Mary 
Ann,  married  William  E.  Broadwell ;  Sarah 
Phillips,  married  Dr.  Frederick  Thomas; 
Susan,  married  William  Miller;  Elizabeth  M., 
married  John  Noc ;  Rebecca  Martin,  referred 
to  below  ;  Abner  Halsey  ;  James  Wesley  ;  W' ill- 
iam  Henry  Clay;  Isaac  M. 

(VI)  Rebecca  Martin,  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Susan  (Miller)  Miller,  was  born  in  1825, 
and  died  in  1895.  She  married,  in  1854,  Samuel 
Davis,  son  of  Jacob  and  .\bigail  (Dodd)  W'ard. 

(I\')  Samuel  Ward,  son  of  Josiah 
WARD     Ward    (q.   v.),  by   his   first  wife 

Mary,  daughter  of  Samuel  Kitch- 
ell  and  Elizabeth  Wakeman,  of  New  Haven,  is 
said  by  Mr.  Samuel  H.  Conger  to  have  died 
May  15.  1733,  at  the  age  of  fifty-two,  and  to 
have  been  buried  at  Orange.  This  is  evidently 
a  mistake,  because  this  would  have  brought 
Samuel's  birth  as  early  as  1681,  and  in  his 
father's  will,  dated  in  1713,  he  says  that  his 
son  Samuel  is  under  age,  and  two  years  later, 
when  his  father  died,  Samuel,  on  April  8,  1715, 
"a  minor  about   fourteen,"  chooses  Abraham 


Kitchell  for  his  guardian.  It  is  very  probable 
that  Conger  made  a  mistake  in  reading  the 
gravestone  record,  and  that  the  age  should  be 
thirty-two  instead  of  fifty-two,  which  would 
bring  Samuel's  birth  in  1701,  since  the  only 
other  Samuel  living  at  that  time,  Samuel,  son 
of  Samuel,  grandson  of  Josiah,  and  great- 
grandson  of  George  Ward,  of  Branford,  was 
not  born  until  1704  or  1705,  and  would  have 
been  designated  in  the  guardianship  papers  had 
he  been  the  one  referred  to  as  being  "under" 
and  not  "about  fourteen  years."  In  his  will 
Samuel  Ward  mentions  his  wife  Jemima,  and 
children  Bethucl,  Isaac  and  Daniel.  It  is  also 
said  that  he  had  another  daughter  Phebe,  born 
1725,  who  died  May  16,  1733,  one  day  after 
her  father  did ;  but  if  so  it  is  very  singular  that 
she  is  not  mentioned  in  any  way  in  his  will.  It 
has  also  been  conjectured  that  the  Jemima, 
wife  of  Samuel  Ward,  was  Jemima  Pierson ;  if 
so,  she  must  have  been  Jemima,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Pierson  and  Mary,  daughter  of  Ser- 
geant Harrison,  and  granddaughter  of  Thomas 
Pierson  Sr.  and  IVIary,  sister  to  Sergeant  Rich- 
ard Harrison.  This  Jemima  was  also  sister  of 
Judge  Daniel  Pierson,  and  aunt  of  Deacon 
Bethuel  Pierson,  which  would  account  for  the 
prevalence  of  those  names  among  her  children 
and  descendants. 

Children  of  Samuel  and  Jemima  Ward:  i. 
Bethuel,  left  a  will,  dated  1753,  in  which  he 
names  his  children,  Zenas,  Rebecca,  Elizabeth 
and  Mary.  Zenas,  married  Susanna,  daughter 
of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (Ogden)  Ward: 
Rebecca,  married  Sophar,  son  of  David  Bald- 
win, and  Elizabeth  and  Mary  were  born  one  in 
1747,  the  other  in  1749.  It  has  also  been  con- 
jectured that  this  Bethuel  had  another  son 
I'.cthuel,  who  was  ancestor  of  the  Bethuel 
Ward  Sr.  and  Bethuel  Ward  Jr.,  referred  to 
below,  but  there  is  no  trace  in  the  records  of 
this  Bethuel,  son  of  Sanuiel,  ever  having  been 
called  Betliuel  Sr.,  nor  of  his  conjectured  son 
and  grandson  over  having  been  referred  to  as 
Bethuel  Jr.  and  Bethuel  3d.  There  are  also 
other  reasons  given  below,  for  believing  that 
Bethuel  W'ard,  son  of  Samuel,  was  the  uncle 
and  not  the  father  of  "Bethuel  Ward  Sr."  2. 
Isaac,  referred  to  below.  3.  Daniel,  wrote  his 
will  in  1755.  and  in  it  mentions  wife  Mary,  and 
children  .Amos,  Samuel,  Jemima  and  Hannah. 
.•\s  he  also  speaks  of  his  "brother,  Amos  Harri- 
son," it  is  probable  that  his  wife  was  Mary, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Harrison  and  Jemima 
Williams,  granddaughter  of  Samuel  Harrison, 
son  of  Sergeant  Richard  Harrison,  and  Mary, 
daughter  of  Sergeant  John  Ward. 


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(\')  Isaac,  son  of  Samuel  and  Jemima 
Ward,  (lied  November  15,  1754,  aged  thirty- 
six,  and  was  buried  in  the  old  cemetery  of  the 
Mountain  Society  at  Orange.  This  would 
bring  his  birth  in  the  year  1718  possibly  in  De- 
cember, 1 7 17.  He  has  left  hardly  any  record 
behind  him,  and  as  yet  no  positive  facts  have 
come  to  light  concerning  him  except  that  about 
a  year  before  his  death,  in  1753,  he  was  living 
in  Orange  or  Bloomfield,  and  subscribed  £5 
10  shillings  towards  the  building  fund  of  the 
second  meetinghouse;  and  the  additional  fact 
that  he  died  intestate,  and  that  letters  of  ad- 
ministration were  granted  to  "his  widow  Re- 
becca," December  20,  1754.  The  reasons  for 
conjecturing  that  he,  rather  than  his  brother 
Bethuel.  was  father  of  Bethuel  Ward  Sr.,  of 
Bloomfield,  is  the  fact  that  Bethuel  Sr.  names 
his  eldest  son  Isaac,  instead  of  Bethuel,  names 
his  second  daughter  Rebecca,  and  has  no  Je- 
mima among  his  eleven  children,  waits  until  he 
has  six  children  before  he  names  one  after  his 
own  wife,  and  until  he  has  nine  before  he  calls 
one  after  himself.  As  it  was  much  the  more 
common  practice  to  name  children  at  this  period 
after  their  grandparents,  than  after  their  par- 
ents, the  weight  of  evidence  seems  to  be  in 
favor  of  the  line  Samuel,  Isaac,  Bethuel,  rather 
than  of  the  line  Samuel,  Bethuel,  Bethuel,  and 
it  is  accordingly  so  given  here. 

(\T)  Bethuel,  conjectured  son  of  Isaac  and 
Rebecca  Ward,  was  born  in  Bloomfield,  in 
1752,  and  died  in  that  place,  March  29,  1830. 
He  owned  a  good  deal  of  land  there,  some  of 
which  he  seems  to  have  inherited  and  some  of 
which  he  bought,  and  he  also  purchased  or  ob- 
tained land  through  the  foreclosure  of  mort- 
gages in  other  counties,  especially  Bergen.  June 
22,  1807,  he  sold  one  of  these  tracts,  which  he 
had  bought  from  Francos  Van  ^Vinkle,  to  Will- 
iam Ennis,  for  $350.  April  27,  1810,  he  sells  a 
tract  in  Bergen  county  to  James  K.  IMead,  of 
Saddle  river  township,  Bergen  county ;  and 
April  25,  1827,  he  sells  a  part  of  his  property 
in  Orange  township,  Essex  county,  to  Jotham 
Condit,  for  $272.  Other  pieces  of  property  he 
disposed  of  to  his  sons  at  different  times, 
among  such  being  a  tract  of  land  which  he  had 
bought  from  Samuel  L.  \N'ard  and  wife,  which 
he  sells  to  his  son,  Joseph  Smith  Ward,  for 
$5.  May  31,  1809;  and  another  tract  of  land  in 
New  Barbadoes,  Bergen  county,  which  he  sells 
to  his  son,  Dr.  John  Ward,  for  S41.85,  April 
26,  1827.  Bethuel  Ward  Sr.  served  during  the 
revolutionary  war  as  private  in  Captain  Pier- 
son's  company.  Second  Regiment  Essex  County 
Troops.  He  wrote  his  will  April  30,  1827, 
i-17 


leaving  legacies  to  children  and  grandchildren : 
I'irst,  to  son  Linus  Dodd,  the  homestead,  "to- 
gether with  the  distillery  and  its  appurtenances, 
situate  in  Bloomfield  aforesaid,  bounded  on  the 
north  by  the  Second  river,  on  the  east  by  the 
old  road  leading  to  Newark,  on  the  west  by  the 
turnpike  road  and  the  lot  on  which  James  Gibb 
now  lives,  and  on  the  south  by  a  cross  road 
running  from  the  said  old  road  to  the  turn- 
pike." To  his  daughter  Lydia,  wife  of  James 
Gibb,  he  gives  "the  house  and  lot  of  land  on 
which  she  now  lives  to  use  and  occupy  the 
same  during  her  natural  life,"  and  after  her 
death  to  his  surviving  five  sons  and  the  chil- 
dren of  his  deceased  son  Isaac.  To  each  of  his 
surviving  daughters,  Lydia,  Hannah  and  Fanny, 
he  gives  §100  each,  and  to  his  two  granddaugh- 
ters, "Hannah,  wife  of  Caleb  S.  Davis,  and 
Lydia  Dodd,  he  leaves  $50  each.  To  these 
daughters  and  granddaughters  he  also  leaves 
all  his  household  furniture.  The  residue  of 
his  estate  he  gives  to  his  five  surviving  sons 
and  the  children  of  his  deceased  son  Isaac ; 
and  he  appoints  as  his  executors  his  sons  Elea- 
7.ar  Dtxld  Ward  and  Bethuel  Ward  Jr.  Owing 
to  various  causes  the  executors  had  consider- 
able trouble  settling  the  estate,  and  it  was  finally 
adjusted  in  the  prerogative  court  five  years  after 
the  testator's  death. 

Bethuel  Ward  Sr.  married  Hannah,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Dodd,  the  assessor,  and  Jane, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  Smith,  and 
granddaughter  of  Joseph  Smith,  the  emigrant 
from  .Scotland.  John  Dodd,  the  assessor,  fre- 
quently called  in  the  old  records  "John  Dod 
3(1,"  to  distinguish  his  from  John  Dod,  the 
carpenter,  son  of  Daniel,  of  Guilford,  was  son 
of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Lampson)  Dod,  grand- 
son of  Daniel  and  Phebe  (Brown)  Dod,  and 
great-grandson  of  Daniel  and  Mary  Dod,  the 
emigrants.  February  23,  1776,  Hannah  Dodd, 
wife  of  Bethuel  Ward  Sr.,  entered  into  cove- 
nant with  the  Mountain  Society  at  Orange, 
then  under  the  pastorate  of  Rev.  Jedidiah 
Chapman  ;  and  about  six  weeks  later,  April  7, 
1776.  had  three  of  her  children  (Isaac,  Jane 
and  John)  baptized  by  him.  January  20,  1782, 
the  same  minister  baptized  her  sixth  child  and 
namesake  Hannah.  Children  of  Bethuel  Ward 
Sr.  and  Hannah  Dodd : 

1.  Isaac  \\'ard,  born  July  6,  1770;  died  be- 
fore .April  30,  1827,  when  his  father  wrote  his 
will ;  married  Joanna,  daughter  of  Isaac  and 
Mary  W.  (Baldwin)  Munn,  granddaughter  of 
Joseph  and  Sarah  (Williams)  Munn,  and  left 
several  children. 

2.  Jane,  born   .\pril  22,   1772;  died   March 


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29.  1826.  exactly  one  year  and  one  day  before 
her  father  wrote  his  will;  married  (first)  Rev. 
Mr.  Smith;  (second),  .March  i,  1798,  Isaac, 
youngest  son  of  Isaac  Dod  and  Jemima,  daugh- 
ter of  Matthew  and  Abigail  (Nutman)  Will- 
iams, granddaughter  of  Matthew  and  Ruth 
Williams,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Mat- 
thew Williams,  the  emigrant  from  Wales  to 
Wetherslield,  Connecticut.  Isaac  Dod  was  son 
of  Daniel  and  Sarah  ( .\lling)  Dod,  grandson 
of  Daniel  and  Phebe  (  Brown  )  Dod,  and  great- 
grandson  of  Daniel  and  Mary  Dod,  the  emi- 
grants. Isaac  and  Jane  (Ward)  Smith-Dodd 
had  children:  Hannah,  died  in  infancy;  Han- 
nah (2d),  married  Caleb  C.  Davis;  Horace, 
died  in  infancy:  Lydia,  married  Marquis  D. 
Thomas  :  Moreau,  died  two  months  old.  The 
second  Hannah  and  Lydia  are  the  two  grand- 
children mentioned  in  the  will  of  their  grand- 
father, Bethuel  Ward  Sr. 

3.  Dr.  John  Ward,  born  September  26, 1774 ; 
died  June  24,  1836;  studied  medicine  under  Dr. 
John  Condit,  of  Orange,  and  after  practicing 
in  Rloomfield  for  some  time  removed  to  New- 
ark, where  he  lived  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
I'.y  his  first  wife  Charlotte,  daughter  of  Dr. 
John  Condit,  and  his  first  wife,  Abigail  Halsey, 
Dr.  John  Ward  had  children :  Abigail,  after- 
wards wife  of  William  Garthwaite,  of  New- 
ark ;  Charlotte,  married  a  (}ould ;  and  Caleb  C, 
who  also  married.  Dr.  John  Ward  married 
(second)  Martha  Jackson,  said  to  have  been 
a  daughter  of  Rev.  .Abel  Jackson,  first  pastor 
of  the  Hloomfield  I'resbyterian  Church. 

4.  Rebecca,  born  January  i,  1777;  married 
Rev.  Simeon  R.  Jones,  of  Elmira,  New  York, 
and  died  leaving  no  children. 

5.  Lydia,  born  .August  10.  1779;  died  before 
January  19,  1833,  wlien  the  following  adver- 
tisement was  inserted  in  the  Sentinel  of  Free- 
dom and  posted  up  at  .Mr.  Darby's  tavern, 
M.  D.  Thomas's  store,  Horace  II.  Ward's  store, 
Linus  D.  Ward's  store,  and  Bethuel  Ward's 
store,  "the  five  most  public  places  in  the  town- 
.ship  of  Rloomfield."  The  advertisement  runs : 
"To  be  sold  at  publick  vendue,  March,  21,  1835, 
at  2  P.  M.,  a  house  and  lot  in  the  village  of 
Bloomfield.  and  adjoining  the  easterly  side  of 
the  Newark  and  Poniptun  turniiike,  late  the 
residence  of  Mrs.  Lydia  (iibb.  deceased."  This 
was  the  property  which  Lydia  (Ward)  Gibb 
had  been  given  the  life  interest  in  by  her 
father's  will  five  years  previously,  and  was  now 
sold  for  S361  to  her  nciihew,  Horace  H.  Ward, 
and  the  proceeds  divided  among  the  sons  and 
children  of  the  deceased  sons  of  Bethuel  Ward 


Ward    married    James    Gibb,    of 


Sr.      Lydia 
Bloomfield. 

(■).  Hannah,  born  November  17,  1781  ;  died 
in  1843.  .About  July  24,  i8cx5,  when  the  license 
was  granted  by  the  Essex  county  clerk,  she 
married  Matthias  Baldwin. 

7.  Joseph  Smith  Ward,  referred  to  below. 

8.  Eleazer  Dodd  \\'ard,  born  in  Orange, 
February  23.  1786:  died  in  Bloomfield,  Febru- 
ary 10,  1868.  .After  attending  two  courses  of 
medical  lectures,  one  in  Philadelphia,  the  other 
in  New  York,  he  went  to  Montclair,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  later  to  Bloomfield.  In  1816  he  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Essex  County  Aled- 
ical  Society,  and  after  practicing  continuously 
for  fifty-eight  years  retired  in  1865,  relinquish- 
ing his  ])ractice  to  his  youngest  son,  who  is 
still  carr\ing  it  on.  .August  10,  1807,  Dr. 
Eleazar  Dudd  Ward  married  (first)  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Isaac  and  Mary  (or  Polly) 
(James)  Dodd,  granddaughter  of  Amos  Dodd 
and  Hannah,  daughter  of  Isaac,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Peter  and  Mary  (Harrison)  Con- 
dit. and  great-granddaughter  of  John  Cunditt, 
the  emigrant.  .Amos  Dodd  was  son  of  Daniel 
and  Sarah  (.Ailing)  Dod,  grandson  of  Daniei 
and  Phebe  (Brown)  Dod,  and  great-grandson 
of  Daniel  and  Mary  Dod,  the  emigrants.  Eliza- 
beth (  Dodd)  Ward  was  born  .August  16,  1789, 
and  died  .August  8,  1828,  having  borne  her  hus- 
band eight  children:  James,  Emeline  Eliza- 
beth Jenette,  Charlotte,  W  illiam  Spencer,  .An- 
drew. .Anna  .Maria  and  Henry  Smith.  Dr. 
Eleazar  Dodd  W  ard  married  (  second  )  Crania 
Wheeler,  of  Connecticut :  ciiildren  :  Frances 
lane,  Lvdia  Cordelia  and  Edwin  Morrison. 
"M.  D. 

9.  Bethuel  Ward  Jr.,  see  sketch, 
b'anny    Pierson,    born    .April    11,    1789; 


10, 
died 
John 

I  r 
died 


1856;    her    husband    was 


December    1 8. 

W.  Baldwin. 

Linus  Dodd  Ward,  born  May  28,  1794: 
about      1841  ;     married      (first)      Mary 
W  harry  ;  (second)  Julia  Baldwin. 

(  \  II)  Joseiih  .Smith  Ward,  more  commonly 
s])oken  of  as  "Smith"  Ward,  seventh  child  and 
third  son  of  Bethuel  and  Hannah  ( Dodd ) 
Ward,  was  lx)rn  -March  15,  1784,  and  died 
intestate.  February  20.  1833.  Like  his  brothers 
he  kept  a  store  in  Bloomfield.  This  store  and 
his  dw^elling  house  with  the  remainder  of  his 
real  estate  were  sold  at  auction,  Se[)tember  16, 
1839,  and  bought  in  by  his  eldest  son  and  ad- 
mini.-^trator.  for  .$2,000.  Letters  of  adminis- 
tration on  his  estate  were  granted  March  9, 
1833,  to  Isaac  .Moreau  Ward.  Horace  II.  Ward, 


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and  the  widow,  Lucy  Ward.  The  cause  of  the 
four  years'  delay  in  selling  the  property  and 
settling  the  estate  was  the  minority  of  Joseph 
Smith  Ward's  youngest  son.  January  7,  1806, 
Joseph  Smith  Ward  married  Lucy,  youngest 
child  of  Samuel  Dodd,  by  his  second  wife, 
Sarah  Baldwin.  Samuel  Dodd  was  youngest 
son  of  Samuel  Dod  and  Mary,  daughter  of 
.Samuel  Pierson  and  Mary,  daughter  of  Ser- 
geant Richard  Harrison.  Samuel  Pierson  was 
eldest  son  of  Thomas  Pierson  Sr.,  the  emi- 
grant, and  brother  to  Rev.  Abraham  Pierson. 
Samuel  Dod  was  youngest  son  of  Samuel  and 
Martha  Dod,  and  grandsou  of  Daniel  and 
Mary  Dod,  the  emigrants.  Children  of  Joseph 
Smith  and  Lucy  (Dodd)  Ward:  i.  Isaac 
Moreau,  referred  to  below.  2.  Horace  H.  3. 
Alexander  Smith.  4.  Elizabeth,  died  before 
1839.  5,  Emily  T.,  married  Rev.  Elias  J. 
Richards,  D.  D.  6.  Julia,  married  Oliver  P. 
Hanks.  7.  Frances  ^\  .,  married  William  W. 
Backus.  8.  John  Augustine,  who  was  a  minor 
in  1833. 

(Vni)  Isaac  Moreau,  eldest  child  of  Jo- 
seph Smith  and  Lucy  (  Dodd)  Ward,  was  born 
in  1806.  in  Bloomfield,  New  Jersey.  In  1825 
he  received  his  B.  A.  degree  from  Yale  Uni- 
versity, and  tliree  years  later  his  M.  D.  degree 
from  Geneva  Medical  College,  having  pursued 
his  preparatory  studies  in  medicine  under  Dr. 
David  Hosack.  In  183 1  he  received  his  M.  A. 
degree  from  Yale  L'niversity.  He  established 
himself  at  once  as  a  practitioner  in  Newark, 
where  he  became  favorably  known,  in  1832 
and  on  several  occasions  afterwards  being 
chosen  one  of  the  delegates  to  the  State  Med- 
ical Society,  where  he  took  an  active  part  in 
the  proceedings.  After  a  few  years  spent  in 
general  practice.  Dr.  Ward  turned  his  attention 
to  the  methods  of  treatment  adopted  by  the 
Homoioiiathic  School  of  Physicians,  and  ulti- 
mately joined  their  ranks.  In  1841  he  removed 
to  Albany.  Xew  York,  where  he  assisted  in 
the  organization  of  the  American  Institute  of 
Homoeopathy,  and  on  the  formation  of  the 
New  York  State  Homoeopathic  IMedical  Soci- 
ety in  1849  he  was  elected  its  tirst  president. 
Soon  after  this  his  health  begiiming  to  fail,  he 
returned  to  Newark  and  in  the  suburbs  of  that 
city  made  his  home.  In  1853  he  was  called  to 
the  chair  of  obstetrics  and  diseases  of  women 
in  the  Homoeopathic  College  of  Medicine  in 
Philadelphia,  and  while  officiating  in  this  posi- 
tion was  instrumental  in  the  establishment  of 
a  medical  college  for  women,  of  which  for  two 
years  he  acted  as  dean.  Soon  after  this  he 
retired  from  practice,  and  spent  the  remainder 


of  his  life  <|uietly  at  his  home  near  Newark, 
or  at  his  winter  residence  in  Florida.  He  died 
February  24,  1895. 

In  his  will,  dated  December  9,  1889,  proved 
March  7,  1895,  he  leaves  to  his  wife  "the 
twenty-three  acres  making  the  southern  half 
of  the  Orange  Grove  at  .Arlington,  Florida,  on 
the  adjoining  north  half  of  which  Orange 
Grove  is  located  the  cottage  we  have  occupied 
as  a  winter  home,  which  said  Orange  Grove 
adjoins  the  property  known  as  the  Arlington 
Bluff  Association."  He  also  gives  her  the 
twenty-two  foot  lot  forming  the  "rear  part  of 
lot  number  66  in  Howard  street,  Newark, 
which  he  had  bought  from  Mrs.  Ann  Mul- 
giiire,  October  19,  1885.  He  makes  his  daugh- 
ter Mary  Caroline  the  trustee  of  $5,000,  to  be 
"used  by  her  in  defraying  the  expenses  of  the- 
Daily  Prayer  L'nion  iiublications  and  other 
tracts,  with  such  other  jniblications  for  the 
I)romotion  of  the  Christian  life  as  in  her  judg- 
ment may  seem  best,  either  for  the  advance- 
ment of  the  Prayer  Union  or  the  upbuilding  of 
the  Christian  life  in  the  hearts  of  God's  peo- 
ple." The  residue  of  his  estate  he  divides  into 
si-x  parts,  five  parts  being  distributed  among 
his  five  surviving  children,  and  the  remaining 
si.xth  among  his  three  grandchildren :  Helen 
M.  Breck,  William  B.  Breck  and  William  R. 
Ward  Jr.  His  executors  are  his  wife  and 
three  of  his  children. 

In  1832  Dr.  Isaac  Moreau  Ward  married 
Mary  Ogden.  second  child  and  eldest  daughter 
of  William  and  .-\bigail  (  C)gden  )  Rankin,  and 
granddaughter  of  William  Rankin,  the  emi- 
grant from  Scotland  to  Nova  Scotia  and  Xew 
York.  (See  Rankin  family).  Mary  Ogden 
Rankin  was  born  October  16,  181 2,  and  died 
January  19,  1896.  Her  will,  dated  about  a 
month  after  her  husband's  death,  in  March, 
1895,  and  proved  January  30,  1896,  leaves 
"that  part  of  my  homestead  property  at  Lyons 
Farms,  which  was  conveyed  to  me  by  my 
father  William  Rankin,  in  trust  to  be  occupied 
as  a  home"  by  her  three  unmarried  children, 
either  for  life  or  so  long  as  they  remain  unmar- 
ried. When  these  children  (Joseph  Beers, 
Mary  Caroline  and  Emily  Theresa)  have  all 
either  married  or  died,  the  property  is  to  be 
divided  like  the  residue  of  her  estate  which  is 
bequeathed  in  six  portions  in  the  same  way  as 
her  husband's  had  been.  Her  executors  are 
the  same  as  those  of  her  husband's  will,  leav- 
ing out  herself,  namely.  Mary  Caroline,  Emily 
Theresa  and  William  Rankin  Ward.  Chil- 
dren of  Dr.  Isaac  ^Moreau  and  Mary  Ogden 
(Rankin)  Ward:     i.  Joseph  Beers  Ward. born 


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July  22,  1833.  2.  Mary  Caroline  Ward,  born 
June  5,  1835;  now  living  at  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey. 3.  Emily  Theresa  Ward,  born  April  22, 
1837,  4.  Matilda  W'hiting  Ward,  born  June  3, 
1838;  married  William  P.  Breck;  children; 
Helen  M.  and  William  B.  5.  Susan  Duryee 
Ward,  born  July  22.  1840;  died  March  9,  1863. 
6.  William  Rankin  Ward,  referred  to  below. 

(IN)  William  Rankin,  youngest  child  of 
Dr.  Isaac  Moreau  and  Mary  Ogden  (Rankin) 
Ward,  was  born  in  Albany,  New  York,  No- 
vember 5,  1843,  and  died  in  Clinton  township, 
Essex  county,  January  3,  1897.  Mr.  Ward 
was  a  noted  horticulturist,  and  one  of  the  most 
prominent  men  engaged  in  that  business  not 
onl\-  in  but  out  of  the  state.  His  father  before 
him  had  done  a  great  deal  in  the  same  line  of 
work,  and  as  early  as  1856,  when  the  Concord 
grape  was  first  introduced  on  the  market,  had 
put  up  on  his  property  at  Lyons  Farms  a  prop- 
agating house  for  the  raising  and  sale  of  vines. 
His  son  became  very  much  interested  in  the 
work  and  made  his  life  study  the  cultivation 
of  fruits  and  berries.  He  was  one  of  the 
horticulturists  who  conceived  and  organized 
the  New  Jersey  State  Horticultural  Society  in 
1879,  and  from  1882  to  1884  he  was  the  presi- 
dent of  the  society,  while  in  1890  and  for  three 
years  afterwards  he  was  its  secretary.  At  the 
time  of  his  death  he  was  the  secretary  of  the 
Board  of  .\griculture  of  the  State  of  New 
Jersey,  and  also  secretary  of  the  board  of 
visitors  to  the  State  .Agricultural  College  and 
F.xperiment  .Station.  .\t  the  World's  Colum- 
bian Exposition  in  Chicago  in  1893,  Mr.  Will- 
iam Rankin  Ward  had  charge  of  the  horticul- 
tural exhibit  of  the  state  there,  and  his  labors 
during  the  ])reparati()n  and  successful  carrying 
through  of  this  work  laid  the  foimdations  of 
the  disease  which  later  on  caused  his  death. 

Mr.  \Vard  was  a  Republican,  and  served 
several  terms  as  one  of  the  chosen  freeholders 
of  Clinton  township,  besides  holding  from  time 
to  time  many  other  of  the  township  offices. 
He  was  verv  often  called  upon  to  speak  on 
horticultural  subjects,  and  was  in  great  de- 
mand for  this  purpose  both  in  as  well  as  out 
of  the  state.  For  many  years  he  was  a  promi- 
nent member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  at 
Lyons  Farms,  being  for  twenty-five  years 
superintendent  of  its  Sunday  school,  and  for 
eleven  years  one  of  its  elders.  He  was  buried 
in  Evergreen  cemetery.  In  his  will,  dated  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1896.  proved  January  18,  1897,  '^^ 
left  to  his  wife  his  "homestead  property  on  the 
northerly  side  of  Prospect  avenue,  Clinton 
townshij).    with    the    household    furniture    of 


every  kind  and  character."  To  liis  only  sur- 
viving son  he  left  a  '"farm  of  seven  acres  known 
as  the  Gamott  farm  on  Prospect  avenue,  Clin- 
ton township,"  and  also  his  "plot  of  salt 
meadow,  about  four  acres  in  the  same  town- 
ship." To  the  treasurer  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  in  Lyons  Farms  he  left  $500, 
the  residue  of  the  estate  to  be  divided  between 
his  wife  and  surviving  son,  who  were  made 
the  executors  of  the  will. 

March  18,  1868,  William  Rankin  Ward  mar- 
ried Mary  Robinson,  elder  daughter  of  Henry 
Meeker  and  Martha  Ann,  daughter  of  Jediah 
Johnson  and  Abigail  (Johnson)  Baldwin,  and 
granddaughter  of  Moses  and  Sarah  Baldwin. 
Her  father,  Henry  Meeker,  was  son  of  Oba- 
diah  Meeker  and  Jerusha  Cook,  daughter  of 
.Abraham  Harrison  and  Mary,  daughter  of 
Josiah  and  Phebe  Crane,  granddaughter  of  Jo- 
seph Crane  and  Abigail,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Lyon,  granddaughter  of  Henry  Lyon  and 
Mary,  daughter  of  William  Bateman,  of  Fair- 
field, Connecticut,  and  great-granddaughter  of 
Richard  Lyon,  the  emigrant  to  Fairfield,  Con- 
necticut. Jose]:)h  Crane  was  son  of  Jasper 
Crane  Jr.  and  Joanna,  daughter  of  Captain 
Samuel  and  Joanna  Swaine,  and  grandson  of 
Jasper  Crane  Sr.  and  Alice  his  wife.  Abra- 
ham Harrison  was  son  of  Timothy,  grandson 
of  .Abraham,  great-grandson  of  Benjamin  and 
Mary,  and  great-great-grandson  of  Sergeant 
Richard  Harrison.  Obadiah  Meeker  was  son 
of  Obadiah  and  Comfort  (Johnson)  Meeker. 
-Mary  Robinson  (Meeker)  Ward  was  born 
.August  28,  1837,  at  W'averly,  New  Jersey. 
Children  of  William  Rankin  and  Mary  Robin- 
son (Meeker)  Ward:  Henry  Meeker  Ward, 
born  .April  2.  i8fK),  died  July,  i8(59;  Joseph 
Moreau  Ward,  born  .April  2,  18(19,  twin  with 
his  brotlier  Henry  Meeker,  died  also  July, 
1869;  and  William  Rankin  Ward  Jr.,  referred 
to  below. 

(N)  Dr.  William  Rankin  W^ard.  only  child 
surviving  infancy  of  William  Rankin  and  Mary 
(Meeker)  Ward,  was  born  in  Clinton  town- 
ship, Essex  county,  December  9,  1870,  and  is 
now  a  practicing  physician  in  Newark.  For 
his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  Eliza- 
beth Institute,  which  he  attended  during  the 
years  1880  to  1884,  then  for  the  next  four 
years,  1884-88,  went  to  the  Newark  Academy, 
after  which  he  attended  the  New  York  Homoeo- 
pathic College  and  Hospital  for  the  years 
1891-02.  and  then  for  two  years,  1892-93,  the 
Hahnemaiui  Medical  College  and  Hospital  of 
Philadeljihia.  Since  1893  he  has  been  a  prac- 
ticing physician   in   Newark.     Dr.   Ward  is  a 


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Republican,  and  during  the  years  1897  to  1902 
was  a  member  of  the  Chnton  township  board 
of  education,  and  also  a  member  of  tiie  Clinton 
township  committee,  for  the  last  three  of  which 
years,  1899  to  1902,  he  was  chairman  of  the 
latter  body.  He  has  seen  no  military  service 
and  he  belongs  to  no  secret  societies.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Homoeopathic 
Medical  Society,  of  the  Essex  County  Homceo- 
pathic  Medical  Society,  and  of  the  Chiron 
Medical  Club  of  Newark.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Elizabeth  Avenue  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Newark. 

June  16,  1903,  William  Rankin  Ward  Jr., 
j\l.  D.,  married  Jennie  Warren  Prentiss, 
3'ounger  of  the  two  daughters  of  Chauncey 
and  Emily  (Hanks)  Prentiss,  of  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  where  the  marriage  took  place.  Jennie 
Warren  (  Prentiss  j  Ward  was  born  in  Cleve- 
land, October  17,  1870.  Children  of  William 
Rankin  and  Jennie  Warren  (Prentiss)  Ward: 
Caroline  Prentiss  Ward,  born  March  2"],  1905  ; 
Elizabeth  Baldwin  Ward,  September  4,  1906 ; 
and  William  Rankin  Ward  (3d),  September 
13.  1907-  

(  \"II)  Bethuel  Ward,  ninth  child 
WARD     and  fifth  son  of  Bethuel   (q.  v. J 

and  Hannah  (Dodd)  Ward,  com- 
monl)-  spoken  of  as  Bethuel  Ward  Jr.,  was 
born  in  Orange,  September  11,  1787,  and  died 
in  Bloomtield,  December  7,  1859,  intestate. 
Like  his  brother,  Linus  Dodd  Ward,  and  his 
cousin,  Horace  H.  Ward,  he  was  a  storekeeper 
in  Bloomfield.  He  was  also  one  of  the  execu- 
tors of  his  father's  will.  He  was  four  times 
married.  July  7,  181 1,  he  married  Lydia  Free- 
man, born  November  25,  1790,  died  February 

2,  1819.     Children:     i.  Isaac,  born  February 

3,  1812;  died  September  2},,  1875.  2.  Caroline, 
born  November  12,  1813;  married  James  Bald- 
win. 3.  John  Freeman,  born  September  28, 
1815:  died  July  11,  1873.  After  receiving  a 
common  school  education  he  entered  the  office 
of  his  uncle.  Dr.  Eleazar  Dodd  Ward,  and 
graduated  later  from  the  Jeflierson  Medical 
College  of  Philadelphia,  in  1836,  and  imme- 
diately established  himself  in  Newark,  where 
for  forty  years  he  was  one  of  that  city's  fore- 
most physicians.  April  20,  1837,  he  married 
Jane  D.  Gibbs,  of  Bloomfield,  who  survived 
him  until  November  13,  1874.  Their  surviving 
children  are :  Edward  Payson  Ward,  Cyrus 
Freeman  Ward  and  John  Freeman  Ward  Jr. 

4,  Uzal  Dodd,  bom  January  2,  1818;  died  Janu- 
ary I,  1879.  By  wife  Sarah  he  had  children: 
\\  illiam,  died  during  the  civil  war,  unmarried  ; 


Samuel,  now  living  unmarried  in  Newark ; 
Harriet,  married,  and  died  in  1908;  Amelia, 
married  a  Mr.  Bigelow,  and  is  now  living  in 
Newark  :  Annie,  unmarried,  now  living  in  New- 
ark with  her  brother  Samuel.  June  8,  1820, 
Bethuel  Ward  Jr.  married  (second)  Rhoda, 
sister  to  his  first  wife,  Lydia  Freeman,  who 
was  born  March  19,  1788,  and  died  December 
5,  1839.  Children:  Cyrus  Freeman  Ward, 
born  June  7,  1821,  died  September  29,  1844, 
unmarried ;  and  George  Smith  \\'ard,  referred 
to  below.  Alarch  10,  1841,  Bethuel  W'ard  Jr. 
married  (third)  Caroline  R.  Pierson,  born 
January  10,  1800,  died  April  10,  1851,  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  Cyrus  Pierson  and  Nancy,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Matthias  Pierson  and  Phebe,  daughter 
of  Isaac  Nutman.  Dr.  Alatthias  Pierson  was 
son  of  Samuel  Pierson  and  Mary,  daughter  of 
Jonathan  and  Mary  Sergeant,  granddaughter 
of  Jonathan  Sergeant,  of  Branford  and  New- 
ark, and  great-granddaughter  of  Jonathan  Ser- 
geant, the  emigrant  to  New  tiaven  and  Bran- 
ford.  Samuel  Pierson  was  son  of  Samuel 
Pierson  and  Mary,  daughter  of  Sergeant  Rich- 
ard Harrison,  and  grandson  of  Thomas  Pier- 
son Sr.,  brother  of  Rev.  Abraham  Pierson  and 
his  wife  Mary,  sister  to  Sergeant  Richard 
Harrison.  Dr.  Cyrus  Pierson  was  son  of  Dea- 
con Bethuel  Pierson  and  Elizabeth  Riggs  his 
first  wife,  grandson  of  Joseph  and  Hephzibah 
(  Camp)  Pierson  (who  was  a  brother  to  the 
Jemima  Pierson,  who  married  Samuel  Ward, 
great-grandfather  of  Bethuel  Ward  Jr),  and 
great-grandson  of  Samuel  Pierson  and  Mary, 
daughter  of  Sergeant  Richard  Harrison.  April 
13,  1853,  Bethuel  Ward  Jr.  married  (fourth) 
Ellen  S.  Russell. 

(\TIIj  Dr.  George  Smith  Ward,  younger 
of  the  two  children  of  Bethuel  Ward  Jr.  by  his 
second  wife,  Rhoda  Freeman,  was  born  in 
Bloomfield,  November  11,  1827,  and  died  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  at  his  home,  969  Broad 
street,  June  25,  1900,  from  a  complication  of 
diseases  from  which  he  had  been  suft'ering  for 
several  years  before  his  death.  He  obtained 
his  early  education  in  his  native  place,  where 
his  father  gave  him  every  advantage  that  he 
could  with  a  view  to  preparing  him  for  col- 
lege and  giving  him  a  fair  start  in  the  pro- 
•fession  in  which  so  many  of  the  members  of 
his  family  had  already  become  such  prominent 
personages.  When  he  was  ready  for  college 
and  almost  at  the  point  of  entering,  lie  was 
prostrated  by  a  fever  which  very  nearly  proved 
fatal  in  its  termination,  and  left  him  in  such  a 
condition  that  a  further  application  to  study 
was  for  a  long  time  precluded.    When  he  had 


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recovered  and  become  sufficiently  strong  to 
give  his  attention  once  more  to  his  books,  he 
entered  the  office  of  his  brother,  Dr.  John  Free- 
man Ward,  as  a  student.  Here  he  remained, 
studying  as  he  was  able,  and  regaining  his 
licalth  anil  strength,  and  when  this  was  accom- 
plished he  matriculated  at  the  College  of  Phy- 
sicians and  Surgeons,  New  York,  and  grad- 
uated from  that  institution  in  1849,  among  his 
classmates  being  Dr.  Arthur  Ward,  of  Lom- 
bardy  street.  Newark,  and  Dr.  William  Spen- 
cer Ward,  the  latter  of  whom  was  his  cousin, 
the  son  of  Dr.  Eleazar  Dodd  \\'ard.  Settling 
in  Newark,  he  soon  began  to  develop  the  quali- 
ties which  marked  so  many  of  his  branch  of 
the  family  and  made  them  such  success- 
ful physicians  and  surgeons,  and  lived  to  be 
not  only  one  of  the  most  successful  but  also 
one  of  the  oldest  practicing  physicians  in  New- 
ark at  the  time  of  his  death.  For  many  years 
he  was  attending  physician  to  the  City  Alms- 
house of  Newark.  The  disease  which  caused 
his  death  was  chronic  bronchitis  and  tuber- 
cular affection  of  the  lungs,  complicated  with 
other 'troubles,  from  which  he  suffered  for  a 
long  time,  his  illness  assuming  a  much  graver 
form  about  four  years  before  his  death,  when 
his  wife  died.  From  this  time  he  never  rallied, 
but  gradually  grew  worse.  May  9.  1850,  Dr. 
(ieorge  Smith  Ward  married  Frances  H.  Bald- 
win, in  Philadelphia,  who  was  born  in  1829. 
and  died  July  25.  1896.  Children:  i.  Charles 
Wilcox  Ward,  born  May  2,  1851 ;  died  Sep- 
tember 18.  1867.  2.  George  Crawford  Ward, 
referred  to  below.  3.  Clara  May  Ward,  born 
July  31.  1854:  died  June  26,  1899:  married 
(ieorge  F.  C.  Smiljie,  who  is  now  emjiloyed  in 
the  Bureau  of  Printing  and  Engraving  in 
Washington.  D.  C. :  children :  May  S.,  Fran- 
ces and  Keith,  the  first  two  of  whom  are  mar- 
ried. 4.  Anna  Baker  Ward,  born  May  9.  1859; 
died  unmarried,  January  9,  1901. 

(IX)  George  Crawford  Ward,  second  child 
and  son  and  only  surviving  child  of  Dr.  George 
Smith  and  Frances  II.  (Baldwin)  Ward,  was 
born  in  Newark.  New  Jersey,  September  6. 
1852.  and  is  now  living  in  that  city.  For  his 
early  education  he  went  to  the  public  schools 
of  Newark,  and  in  1867.  at  the  age  of  fifteen 
years,  he  became  a  naval  ajiprentice  on  board* 
of  the  ".Sabine."  From  this  vessel  he  was 
transferred  to  the  "Saratoga,"  on  which  he 
remained  for  twf)  years  more  and  then,  his 
term  of  enlistment  having  expired,  he  entered 
the  em])loy  of  the  Gilbert  Elevated  Railroad 
of  New  York  City,  and  in  1881  entered  the 
service  of  the  government  as  a  postal  clerk. 


After  thirteen  years  of  this  work  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  ocean  mail  service,  where  he  spent 
nine  years  more,  crossing  the  Atlantic  ocean 
back  and  forth  and  making  in  that  time  one 
hundred  and  ninety-six  trans-.\tlantic  voyages. 
In  1903  he  was  made  the  recorder  of  Salaam 
Temple,  Mystic  Shrine,  and  since  that  time 
has  lived  in  Newark  and  given  himself  up  to 
the  duties  which  this  office  has  imposed  upon 
him.  Mr.  Ward  is  a  member  of  St.  Alban's 
Lodge,  No.  68,  F.  and  A.  ^L ;  Union  Chapter. 
No.  7.  R.  A.  M. ;  Damascus  Commandery,  No. 
5,  K.  T.,  and  of  the  A.  A.  S.  R..  thirty-second 
degree.  February  11,  1881,  George  Crawford 
Ward  married  Kate  E.  Baker,  who  died  Sep- 
tember 23,  1885.  January  10.  1895,  Mr.  Ward 
married  (second)  Jennie  Bock,  of  New  York. 
The  marriage,  owing  to  Mr.  Ward's  inability 
to  leave  his  work  at  the  time,  was  performed 
in  London,  England.  There  have  been  no  chil- 
dren by  either  marriage. 


This  branch  of  the  Ward  family 

WARD     of  Newark  is  diflferent  from  that 

treated   on   preceding  pages,   and 

has  apparently  no  connection  with  it  until  after 

both  had  come  over  to  this  country. 

The  family  whose  founder  was  Sergeant 
John  Ward,  of  Newark,  New  Jersey,  traces  its 
ancestry  back  in  the  old  country  to  Robert 
Warde.  gentleman,  of  Knoll,  county  Warwick, 
England,  who  by  his  wife  Isabel  Stapley,  of 
Dunchurch.  county  Warwick,  had  children  :  i. 
James,  referred  to  below.  2.  John,  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  Haselford,  of 
Bra f eld,  county  Northampton,  where  he  him- 
self settled;  children:  i.  William,  of  Brafeld, 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Westlee, 
of  Eythorpe,  county  \\'arwick  ;  children  :  Rev. 
William  Warde,  rector  of  Sudbarrow,  died  un- 
married, 1681  ;  Mary;  Judith;  Elizabeth,  the 
last  two  died  without  issue;  and  John,  who 
married  Rebecca,  daughter  of  William  Moul- 
shaw,  of  Thingdon,  county  Northampton, 
gentleman,  John  being  born  about  i()o8.  and 
(l}ing  about  i(^/i.  ii.  Daniel. of  Houghton  Parva, 
county  Warwick,  married  Dorothy,  daughter 
of  Robert  Pargiter,  of  county  Northampton ; 
children:  William,  born  1605,  married  (first) 
Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Hughes,  and  (sec- 
ond )  .Mice,  daughter  of  Sergeant  Halton,  of 
Thames  Ditton  ;  John  ;  Robert ;  Margaret ; 
Elizabeth  and  Joane.  iii.  Mary,  married  Rich- 
ard Neale,  of  London,  iv.  Judith,  married  Ed- 
ward Gest,  of  Sutton,  county  Northampton, 
v.  to  X.  Jane,  Manasses,  Robert,  Mary,  Judith 
and   Isabel.     This  last  named  mav  have  been 


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the  Isabel  Ward  who  married  first  the  father 
of  Jolin  CatHn,  of  Newark,  and  afterwards 
Joseph  lialdwin,  and  was  the  relative  of  Dea- 
con Lawrence  Ward,  of  Newark.  3.  A  daugh- 
ter, who  married  one  of  the  Bagshaws.  4.  An- 
other daughter,  who  married  into  the  Brofelds. 
( II )  James,  son  of  Robert  and  Isabel  {  Stap- 
ley)  Warde,  of  Knoll,  county  Warwick.  Eng- 
land; married  Alice  Fawkes,  of  Dunchurch. 
county  Warwick,  and  had  one  cliild  of  record: 
Stephen,  who  is  referred  to  below. 

(I)  Stephen  (first  in  the  American  line), 
son  of  James  and  Alice  (Fawkes)  Warde,  of 
Dunchurch.  county  \\'arwick,  was  long  be- 
lieved to  have  died  in  England,  but  the  late 
.Sherman  W.  .\dams,  by  his  investigations  into 
the  records  of  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  has 
practically  proved  his  contention  that  Stephen 
(lid  come  to  America  and  was  killed  by  the 
Indians  at  Wethersfield.  Stephen's  wife  was 
Joyce  Traford,  of  Leicestershire,  England,  who 
came  with  her  husband  and  children  to  New 
luigland  in  1630.  and  with  him  removed  in 
1635  to  Wethersfield,  where  she  was  long 
known  as  the  "Widow  Joyce  Ward,"  and  died 
in  1640,  leaving  a  will  in  which  she  mentions 
all  hut  one  of  her  children,  and  makes  her  son- 
in-law,  John  Fletcher,  her  executor,  and  "Mr. 
Wollcrslove,  of  Clipsham,  county  Rutland," 
her  attorney.  Children  of  Stephen  and  Joyce 
(Traford)  Warde:  i.  .Ambrose,  born  before 
1619;  as  he  is  not  mentioned  in  his  mother's 
will  ])robably  died  young.  2.  Edward.  3.  An- 
thony. 4.  William,  born  about  1632;  died 
March  28,  ifiQo:  first  wife  was  named  Sarah, 
and  second  Phebe.  5.  John,  referred  to  below. 
f).  Robert.     7.  Mary,  married  John  Fletcher. 

( II)  John,  son  of  Stephen  and  Joyce  (Tra- 
ford) Warde,  was  born  ])robably  in  England, 
and  brought  to  this  country  when  a  child  by 
his  i)arents.  The  earliest  mention  of  him  is  in 
his  mother's  will,  and  the  next  occurs  in  1666, 
when  he  is  found  among  the  representatives 
of  I'ranford,  where  he  had  been  residing  since 
1644.  October  30.  i(VS6,  he  signed  with  the 
other  Bran  ford-Newark  settlers  the  funda- 
mental agreement,  and  from  that  time  until 
his  death  takes  his  place  as  one  of  the  fore- 
most of  the  citizens  of  the  "Towne  upon  the 
Passaick  river."  He  was  one  of  the  townsmen, 
1667-69:  a  surveyor  and  layer  out  of  high- 
ways, 1668-72:  up  to  1673  was  sergeant,  and 
after  1673  lieutenant  of  the  town:  1673  was 
burner  of  the  woods  and  meadows  :  he  was  one 
of  the  town's  magistrates,  1673-74;  1674  was 
one  of  the  town  committeemen;  one  of  the 
justices  of  the  monthly  court,  1675-80;  one  of 


the  town's  deputies  to  provincial  coimcil,  1675- 
76:  one  of  town's  alternate  deputies,  or  "third 
men, "  to  the  provincial  council,  1680-81.  De- 
cember 12,  1670,  the  town  presented  Sergeant 
John  Ward  with  an  e.xtra  fifty  acres  of  land  in 
the  town  as  a  reward  for  services,  and  Sep- 
tember 10,  1668,  and  b'ebruary  28,  1674,  re- 
sjiectively,  he  was  chosen  as  one  of  committee 
to  ])ass  on  excuses  for  tardiness  and  absence 
from  town  meetings,  and  "to  carry  on  the  town 
meetings  till  a  new  one  is  chosen."  In  1668 
he  was  one  of  committee  appointed  to  consider 
and  grant  with  due  precautions  for  the  iterests 
of  the  town  the  petition  of  Jonathan  Sergeant 
and  Daniel  Dod  for  their  grant  of  land  near 
the  lot  of  Hans  Albers.  In  1672  he  was  chair- 
man of  the  committee  "to  end  the  diiiference 
between  Deacon  Lawrence  and  Robert  Dalglish 
about  their  second  division;"  and  in  1673  '^^ 
was  one  of  the  inspectors  and  layers  out  of 
the  land  petitioned  for  by  Richard  Fletcher. 
January  25,  1669,  the  town  meeting  "in  general 
all  agreed  to  have  a  Division  of  Land,  viz: 
L'])land  to  be  laid  out  as  soon  as  can  be,  of  Six 
.Acres  to  every  Hundred  Pounds  Estate.  And 
thoy  chose  five  men  whom  they  impowered, 
and  would  confide  in  their  Faithfullness  and 
Discretion  to  make  as  just  a  Sizure  and  meas- 
uring out  of  the  said  Division  as  they  can ;  and 
wlioily  to  order  the  Manner  of  the  Lying  of 
the  .Several  Ranges  and  Shotts  of  Lotts  in 
each  Place  respectively,  with  all  necessary 
1  ligh  Ways  and  Passages  for  Carts  and  Cattle, 
commodiously  as  the  Places  will  afford  and  do 
call  for  every  where  *  *  *  And  the  Names 
of  the  Sizers  are  Air.  Robert  Treat,  Mr.  Sam- 
uel Kitchell,  Henry  L}on,  Thomas  Johnson, 
and  Sarj.  John  Ward  ;  and  any  three  of  them 
agreeing  have  F'ower  to  issue  any  Matter  under 
iJand  alx)ut  the  same."  February  21,  follow- 
ing, he  was  one  of  committee  chosen  to  lay  out 
corresponding  division  of  salt  meadows ;  and 
November  14,  1671,  he  was  chosen  as  the 
assessor  of  rates  for  the  north  end  of  the  town, 
his  pro])erty  lying  on  what  is  now  Washington 
street,  immediately  opposite  the  park  and  the 
end  of  Washington  place,  where  his  descend- 
ants, Josejjh  Morris  and  Marcus  L.  Ward, 
now  live.  In  the  following  year  he  was  one  of 
committee  to  settle  Jeremiah  Peck's  difficulty 
with  his  rates. 

In  1673,  when  New  York  and  New  Jersey 
were  again  in  the  possession  of  the  Dutch, 
Sergeant  John  Ward  was  one  of  those  chosen 
by  the  town  who  treated  with  the  authorities 
at  .Albany  for  the  purchase  of  the  Neck,  and 
was  one  of  those  chosen  to  take  out  in  his  own 


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name  on  behalf  of  the  town  the  patent  for  it. 
February  28,  1674,  he  was  one  of  the  three 
men  chosen  to  go  to  New  York  City  and  "lay 
an  arrest  on  the  Person  and  Estate  of  Nicholas 
Bayard,  who  was  the  attorney  of  Major  Na- 
thaniel Kingsland  of  the  island  of  Barbadoes 
and  negotiated  the  interests  of  his  client  in  the 
disposal  of  the  Neck."  Between  August  8, 
1673,  and  March  30,  1677,  he  was  again  and 
again  and  again  placed  on  committees  which 
had  in  charge  the  relations  of  Newark  to  the 
real  and  the  usurping  governors,  Sir  Philip 
Carteret  and  James  Carteret ;  and  also  on  the 
committees  which  consulted  the  governor  with 
regard  to  the  chartering  and  patenting  of  the 
town.  May  3,  1680,  he  was  one  of  the  com- 
mittee which  petitioned  the  governor  and  coun- 
cil for  land  at  Poquannock  to  replace  the  land 
on  the  Neck  and  at  Acquackononck  of  whicii 
they  had  been  deprived.  October  31,  1674, 
February  5,  1682,  and  March  25,  1689,  he  was 
chosen  as  one  of  the  special  committee  ap- 
pointed to  consider  and  arrange  for  such  things 
as  were  necessary  for  the  good  and  safety  of 
the  town,  and  February  12,  1678,  he  was  a 
member  of  the  committee  which  had  in  charge 
the  quarantine  arrangements  necessitated  by 
the  existence  of  the  small-pox  in  New  York. 
February  7,  1676,  he  was  one  of  the  committee 
which  went  to  Woodbridge  to  confer  with  the 
people  of  Elizabethtown  and  settle  the  bounds 
between  the  two  towns:  and  March  i,  1677, 
May  30,  1684,  and  February  7,  1686,  he  was 
on  the  committee  which  arranged  with  the 
Indians  for  the  purchase,  and  later  regulated 
the  appropriation  of  the  lands  at  the  top  of 
the  First  or  (Jrange  mountain.  April  19,  1682, 
he  was  one  of  the  committee  which  looked 
after  the  supply  of  wood  for  Rev.  Mr.  Pierson, 
and  February  12,  1683,  he  was  on  the  com- 
mittee which  arranged  for  the  reseating  of  the 
meetinghouse  and  mending  broken  seats.  The 
final  reference  in  the  town  records  is  his  ap- 
])ointmcnt  on  the  committee  which  made 
arrangements  with  Rev.  John  Prudden  to  be- 
come the  successor  of  Rev.  Mr.  Pierson  as 
minister  of  the  town.  This  was  in  .\ugust, 
1692,  and  two  years  later  he  died,  as  his  will, 
dated  October  31,  1694,  was  proved  the  follow- 
ig  November  20.  In  this  will  he  mentions  his 
house  and  lot  as  lying  between  those  of  John 
Morris  and  Nathaniel  Ward,  and  makes  his 
sons,  John  Jr.  and  Nathaniel,  his  executors. 
The  will  is  witnessed  by  Rev.  John  Prudden 
and  l^obert  \'()ung. 

Sergeant  John  \\'ard  was  twice  married,  but 
his  first  wife  was  the  mother  of  all  his  chil- 


dren. She  was  Saraii,  daughter  of  John  Hill, 
of  (luilford,  Connecticut,  who  had  emigrated 
from  Northamptonshire,  England,  in  1654,  by 
his  first  wife  Frances,  who  died  in  May,  1673. 
Sergeant  John  Ward's  second  wife  was  Han- 
nah (Crane)  Huntingdon,  daughter  of  Jasper 
Crane,  the  emigrant  (see  Crane),  and  widow 
of  Thomas,  son  of  Simon  Huntington,  the  emi- 
grant, who  died  on  the  passage  from  England 
to  Massachusetts  Bay  colony  in  1639.  Chil- 
dren of  Sergeant  John  and  Sarah  (Hill)  Ward  : 
I.  John,  referred  to  below.  2.  Mary,  born 
1654;  married  Samuel,  son  of  Sergeant  Rich- 
ard Harrison,  of  Newark.  3.  Phebe,  born 
June  II,  1655;  died  1720;  became  first  wife 
of  Colonel  John  Cooper.  4.  Nathaniel,  born 
1656:  died  about  1732;  married  Christiana, 
daughter  of  Lieutenant  Samuel  Swaine,  of 
Newark,  and  sister  to  Elizabeth  Swaine,  who 
married  (first)  Josiah,  brother  to  John  Ward, 
the  dish-turner,  and  (second)  David,  son  of 
John  Ogden,  of  Elizabethtown,  the  emigrant. 
5.  Hannah,  born  1658;  died  June  19,  1693; 
married  as  his  first  wife,  Jonathan,  of  Newark, 
son  of  Joseph  Baldwin,  of  Milford  and  Had- 
ley.  6.  Elizabeth,  born  1660.  7.  Dorcas,  born 
1(562:  died  January  25,  1738;  married  Joseph 
son  of  Sergeant  Richard  Harrison,  of  Newark. 
8.  Deborah,  died  some  time  after  1700;  became 
first  wife  of  Eliphalet,  son  of  Thomas  John- 
son, of  Newark.  9.  Sarah,  married,  1674, 
Jabez  Rogers. 

(HI)  John,  eldest  child  of  Sergeant  John 
and  Sarah  (Hill)  Ward,  was  born  April  10, 
1650.  in  Branford,  Connecticut,  and  died  in 
1693,  in  Newark,  New  Jersey.  There  are 
few  references  to  him  in  the  records  of  the 
town,  but  the  great  difficulty  of  distinguishing 
between  the  four  John  Wards  in  the  town  at 
this  time  (the  sergeant,  the  dish-turner,  and 
their  two  sons,  all  of  them  of  age  and  mar- 
ried), makes  it  practically  certain  that  the  sons 
succeeded  to  their  father's  activities  and  im- 
portance, and  that  after  the  death  of  the  seniors 
something  like  a  half  and  half  division  of  the 
lionors  and  references  in  the  town  book  would 
])robably  fall  to  each  of  the  sons,  .\ccording 
to  a  note  on  the  inventory  of  his  estate,  John 
Ward  Jr.  died  May  5;  the  inventory  is  dated 
.May  27.  1695,  and  makes  his  personal  estate 
£90  19  shillings,  and  his  will,  written  May  2, 
l)roved  .September  20.  i()95,  divides  his  estate 
between  his  second  wife  and  his  four  children, 
makes  his  widow  and  his  "brothers,"  Nathaniel 
Ward  and  Jc)se{)h  Harrison,  his  executors,  and 
is  witnessed  by  John  Curtise,  John  Brown  and 
Robert  Young.    December  20,  1695,  the  letters 


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testimonial  in  tlie  usual  form  were  granted  to 
his  widow. 

John  Ward  Jr.  married  (first)  Alary,  daugh- 
ter of  Henry  and  Mary  (Bateman)  Lyon,  and 
granddaughter  of  Ricliard  Lyon,  the  emigrant 
to  Fairfield,  Connecticut,  and  of  William  Bate- 
man,  of  the  same  place.  By  her  John  Ward 
had  one  child,  John  (3d),  died  December  27, 
1714,  married  Martha,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Rebecca  { I'ierson)  Johnson,  granddaughter  of 
Thomas  Johnson,  of  Newark,  and  of  Rev. 
Abraham  P^ierson.  John  Ward  Jr.  married 
(second)  Abigail,  born  1661,  died  1714,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  and  his  first  wife,  Elizabeth 
(Wakeman )  Kitchell,  and  granddaughter  of 
Robert  Kitchell,  the  emigrant  to  New  Haven 
and  ("luilford,  Connecticut,  and  his  wife  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Edward  Sheaffe,  of  Cran- 
brook,  county  Kent,  England.  In  1704  she 
bought  the  property  west  of  High  street,  New- 
ark, now  Sussex  avenue,  from  Samuel  Hunt- 
ington, and  in  her  will.  May  27,  1714,  be- 
queathes it  to  her  son  David.  She  bore  her 
husband  three  children :  Jonathan,  Davi<l  (re- 
ferred to  below),  Mary. 

(I\")  David,  son  of  John  and  Abigail 
(Kitchell)  Ward,  was  born  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  in  1680,  and  died  in  Morris  county, 
New  Jersey,  December  14,  1768.  He  was  a 
yc(  >man  and  was  apparently  well  to  do,  although 
lie  has  left  but  little  record  behind  him,  the 
only  existing  documents  found  being  a  deed 
signed  by  himself  and  wife  in  1750,  and  his 

.  will,  dated  September  9,  1764,  in  which  he 
names  four  of  his  children  but  makes  no  men- 
tion of  his  wife  or  of  his  youngest  son  Joshua, 

'  who  is  mentioned  in  the  will  of  his  maternal 
grandfather.  David  W^ard  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Daniel  Brown,  of  Newark,  and 
granddaughter  of  John  and  Mary  Brown,  of 
Mil  ford.  She  died  according  to  the  most  prob- 
able record,  February  23,  1753,  although  her 
gravestone  gives  the  year  as  1738.  Her  age  at 
death  was  sixty-three.  Children  of  David  and 
Mary  (Brown)  Ward:  i.  Moses,  referred  to 
below.  2.  Ezekielj  lived  in  Newark  highlands. 
3.  David  Jr.,  died  in  Morris  county,  1783; 
married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Alar- 
garet  Farrand,  of  Newark.    4.  Phebe,  married 

'  Nathaniel  Chandler.     5.  Joshua. 

(V)  Moses,  son  of  David  and  Mary 
(Brown)   Ward,  was  born  in  Morris  county, 

:,  New  Jersey,  in  1728,  and  died  September  25, 
1784.  He  was  a  cordwainer,  and  married 
Elizabeth,    daughter   of    Caleb    Ward    Sr.,   of 

i  Newark,  son  of  John  Ward,  the  dish  turner. 
(See   sketch  of   George   Ward,  of   Bran  ford. 


Connecticut).  By  this  marriage  Moses  Ward 
had  six  children:  i.  James,  referred  to  below. 
2.  Sarah,  married  (first)  Moses,  son  of  Joseph 
Baldwin  (see  Joseph  Baldwin  of  Milford  and 
Iladley),  and  married  (second)  Sayers,  son 
of  John  and  Hannah  (Johnson)  Crane,  and 
grandson  of  John  and  Abigail  Crane  (see  Jas- 
per Crane,  of  Newark).  3.  Stephen,  born 
November  20,  1759;  died  September  13,  1777, 
from  a  gunshot  wound,  in  house  of  Jonas 
Wade  at  Springfield.  4.  Mary,  married  Jo- 
seph Case.  5.  David,  born  1772;  died  in 
infancy,  September  12,  1776.    6.  Moses. 

(  \T)  James,  eldest  child  of  Moses  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Ward)  Ward,  was  born  September  27, 
1764,  and  died  in  Newark,  April  15,  1846.  He 
lived  in  Newark,  and  November  27,  1786,  mar- 
ried Lydia,  daughter  of  John  and  Eleanor 
Nesbit,  granddaughter  of  Samuel  and  Abigail 
(Harrison)  Nesbit,  and  great-granddaughter 
of  Nesbit,  the  exile  from  Scotland,  and  of 
Samuel,  son  of  Sergeant  Richard  Harrison 
and  his  wife  Mary,  daughter  of  Sergeant  John 
Wartl,  for  whose  ancestry  see  in  this  sketch, 
generation  IV. 

The  children  of  James  and  Lydia  (Nesbit) 
Ward  were:  i.  Moses,  who  is  referred  to 
below.  2.  Betsey,  born  March  21,  1789;  mar- 
ried David  Sands,  eldest  child  of  Gilbert  and 
Lavinia  (Wooley)  Brown,  born  October  8, 
1785.  died  Alay  10,  1872,  and  grandson  of 
I'ontus  and  Content  Wooley,  of  Poughkeepsie, 
New  York.  3.  Samuel  Nesbit,  who  is  referred 
to  below.  4.  Caleb  Wheeler,  born  May  24, 
1799;  died  March  2;^,  1852;  married  Mary 
VVoodruff,  died  September  11,  1837,  aged 
thirty-five  years  one  month  and  twenty-two 
days.  5.  Mary  Morris,  born  May  9,  1802 ; 
died  December  5,  1870;  married,  April  18, 
1822,  Caleb  Woodruft",  born  August  2,  1796, 
<lied  February  6,  1872. 

(  VH)  Moses,  the  eldest  child  of  James  and 
Lydia  (Nesbit)  \\'ard,  was  born  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  October  i,  1787,  and  died  in  that 
city,  May  5,  1866.  His  life  was  spent  in  New- 
ark, and  his  house  (now  torn  down)  was  on 
part  of  the  original  John  Ward  lot.  and  is  now 
in  possession  of  John  Herbert  Ballantine.  No- 
vember 14,  181 1,  he  married  Fanny,  daughter 
of  (jilbert  and  Lavinia  (Wooley)  I3rown,  and 
sister  of  David  Sands  Brown,  who  married  his 
sister,  Betsey,  above.  Children  of  Moses  and 
Fanny  (Brown)  Ward:  i.  Marcus  Lawrence, 
referred  to  below.  2.  Maria  Louisa,  born  No- 
vember 17,  1814;  died  in  May,  1892;  married, 
January  f\  1836.  Ziba  H.  Kitchen,  born  March 
15,    1812.   died   February  24,    1893;   five  chil- 


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dren.  3.  Lydia  Laviiiia,  born  February  23, 
1821  ;  died  unmarried,  March  28,  1858.  4. 
Susanna,  born  March  18,  1823;  died  March  28, 
following.  5.  Gilbert  Brown,  born  April  28, 
1824;  died  January  20,  1829.  6.  Francis,  born 
February  18,  1839:  died  March  18.  1839. 

(\I1])  Marcus  Lawrence,  eldest  child  of 
Moses  and  Fanny  (Brown)  Ward,  was  born 
in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  November  9,  1812, 
and  died  in  that  city,  April  25,  1884.  He  ranks 
alongside  and  in  some  ways  even  overshadows 
his  great  ancestor.  Sergeant  John  Ward.  In 
his  early  life  he  entered  into  trade  in  connec- 
tion with  his  father,  and  soon  became  con- 
nected with  the  financial  institutions  and  public 
enterprises  of  his  native  city.  His  wise  coun- 
sel, prudent  judgment  and  unswerving  integ- 
rity, have  all  been  felt  in  their  management 
and  success,  and  through  the  experience  thus 
obtained  Marcus  Lawrence  Ward  gained  that 
confidence  which  he  retained  to  the  close  of  his 
life,  despite  the  passage  of  years,  the  virulence 
of  party  warfare,  and  through  the  severest 
test  of  all— that  of  public  position  and  admin- 
istrative responsibility.  His  political  associa- 
tions were  with  the  Whig  party,  but  he  was 
among  the  earliest  to  recognize  the  necessity 
of  a  stronger  organization  if  the  growing 
rloniination  of  the  south  was  to  be  curbed.  He 
was  one  of  the  supporters  of  Fremont  and 
Dayton  in  the  presidential  campaign  of  1856, 
but  his  attention  was  not  seriously  drawn  to 
political  subjects  until  the  summer  of  1858.  In 
that  year  the  exciting  contest  between  the  aboli- 
tionists and  the  slave-holders  called  him  to 
Kansas,  and  while  there  he  fully  saw  and  ap- 
])reciated  the  importance  of  the  struggle  going 
on  in  that  territory.  During  his  stay  in  Kansas 
he  gave  his  prudent  counsels  and  generous 
contributions  to  the  Free  State  party,  and  on 
his  return  to  New  Jersey  he  engaged  enthusi- 
astically in  the  work  of  rousing  public  atten- 
tion to  the  impending  issues.  At  a  time  when 
])arty  spirit  was  thoroughly  aroused  and  when 
constant  misre])rescntations  were  confusing 
the  jniblic  mind,  his  clear  and  unanswerable 
statements  of  fact  were  received  with  the  confi- 
dence which  his  character  always  inspired. 
He  was  dee])Iy  interested  in  the  political  con- 
test of  the  ensuing  autumn,  and  none  more 
than  he  rejoiced  over  the  result  in  New  Jersey 
which  secured  a  L'nitcd  States  senator  and  an 
unbroken  delegation  in  the  house  of  re])resenta- 
tives  ])ledged  against  the  Lccompton  constitu- 
tion for  Kansas. 

In  i860  the  growing  political  influence  of 
Marcus  L.  Ward  began  to  be  felt  and  acknowl- 


edged, and  he  was  chosen  unanimously  a  dele- 
gate to  the  Republican  national  convention  the 
proceedings  of  which  culminated  in  the  nomi- 
nation of  AbrahaiTf  Lincoln  for  the  presidency. 
In  the  contest  which  ensued  he  bore  his  full 
part,  and  when  the  result  he  so  ardently  desired 
was  reached,  he  felt  amply  repaid  for  all  of 
his  strenuous  exertions.  He  neither  challenged 
nor  sought  to  avoid  the  consequences  of  that 
success.  When  the  signal  was  given  for  the 
secession  which  had  been  so  long  and  inevitably 
preparing  in  the  southern  states,  it  found  him 
ready  for  any  services  or  sacrifices  which  might 
be  necessary  to  defend  what  he  thought  was 
right.  He  was  neither  discouraged  by  defeats 
nor  unduly  elated  with  transient  successes,  but 
his  efforts  were  devoted  to  the  suppression  of 
civil  war,  and  the  preservation  of  the  L^nion. 
At  the  outbreak  of  hostilities  he  led  in  a  call 
for  a  ]niblic  meeting  to  sustain  the  government. 
As  the  struggle  increased  in  importance  and 
drew  into  the  ranks  of  the  L'nion  army  regi- 
ment after  regiment  of  New  Jersey  troops, 
Governor  Ward  saw  the  necessity  of  sustain- 
ing the  families  of  the  volunteers  during  their 
absence,  .\lone  and  unaided  he  devised  and 
carried  out  that  system  of  relief  the  advantages 
of  which  were  felt  in  every  county  of  the  state. 
The  ])ay  of  the  volunteer  was  collected  at  the 
cam])  and  ]jassed  over  to  the  wife  and  children 
at  home ;  if  the  soldier  was  killed  or  wounded 
the  pension  was  secured ;  and  this  continued 
until  after  the  close  of  the  war,  without  there 
being  a  charge  of  any  nature  upon  these  funds. 
Ihnidreds  and  thousands  of  families  were  in 
conse(|uence  ]ireserved  from  want  and  suffer- 
ing by  this  wise  and  considerate  scheme,  and 
of  all  the  means  devised  to  sustain  the  state  in 
its  patriotic  afl^orts  none  were  more  potent 
than  this.  But  his  active  efforts  did  not  termi- 
nate here.  It  was  through  his  efforts  and 
influence  with  the  general  government  that  a 
hospital  for  sick  and  wounded  soldiers  was 
established  in  Newark,  and  in  commemoration 
of  his  action  his  name  was  bestowed  u])on  it, 
and  Ward's  llos])ital  became  known  as  one  of 
the  best  managed  institution  of  its  kind  in  the 
country,  while  its  sanitary  arrangements  were 
even  then  fully  ai)preciated  by  those  most  com- 
petent to  judge  of  them. 

These  constant  and  indefatigable  services 
brought  (lovernor  Ward  into  immediate  con- 
tact with  President  Linci>ln  and  his  cabinet,  by 
whom  he  was  ever  regarded  as  justly  entitled 
to  the  highest  consideration.  In  1862,  so 
strongly  did  his  services  impress  the  Repub- 
licau*   of   bis   state   that   he   was   unanimously 


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nominated  for  governor,  but  in  the  absence  of 
so  many  Union  soldiers  of  the  state  in  the  field 
and  in  the  deep  depression  of  that  memorable 
vear.  he  was  defeated.  This  did  not  change  his 
tmswerving  loyalty  to  his  cause  or  affect  in  the 
slightest  degree  his  persistent  and  continuous 
labors  for  his  ideals.  In  1864  he  was  a  dele- 
gate-at-large  to  the  Republican  national  con- 
vention at  lialtimore.  which  renominated  Abra- 
ham Lincoln,  and  in  the  ensuing  election  he 
was  placed  on  the  Republican  ticket  as  a  presi- 
dential elector. 

The  close  of  the  war  and  the  defeat  of  the 
southern  cause  was  to  him  a  source  of  unmi.xed 
gratification,  and  it  brought  to  him  a  strong 
personal  popularity  evinced  upon  every  public 
occasion.  .As  regiment  after  regiment  of 
soldiers  returned  to  their  native  state,  they 
manifested  their  appreciation  of  the  "Soldier's 
Friend,"  and  his  political  opponents  admitted 
his  sincerity  and  patriotism.  This  was  the  hap- 
I)iest  period  of  his  life.  In  1865  he  again  re- 
ceived the  Re])ublican  nomination  for  governor, 
and  after  an  unusually  e.xciting  contest  he  was 
elected  by  a  large  majority.  His  administra- 
tion was  in  all  respects  one  of  the  best  which 
New  Jersey  has  known.  His  executive  ability 
was  fully  demonstrated,  and  his  honesty  and 
fidelity  were  unquestioned.  Every  department 
of  the  public  service,  so  far  as  his  influence 
could  reach  it,  was  economically  and  faithfully 
administereil.  The  laws  passed  by  the  legis- 
lature were  carefully  scanned,  and  pardons  for 
criminal  offenses  were  granted  only  when 
mercy  could  be  safely  united  with  justice.  His 
appointments  to  office  were  widely  approved, 
because  he  showed  by  them  that  he  regarded 
capability,  honesty  and  worth  as  the  basis  for 
them.  To  his  administration  New  Jersey  was 
deeply  indebted  for  many  important  measures 
atlecting  the  interests  of  the  state.  The  pres- 
ent public  school  act  was  passed  upon  his 
strong  and  urgent  representations,  and  its  ad- 
vantages have  been  felt  in  the  increased  edu- 
cational facilities  of  the  state,  and  in  the  more 
thorough  character  of  its  schools.  The  ripa- 
rian rights  of  the  state  were  by  him  called  to 
the  attention  of  the  legislature,  and  a  com- 
mission secured  through  which  the  state's  large 
and  valuable  interests  therein  have  been  pro- 
tected. His  constant  and  persistent  representa- 
tions to  the  legislature,  in  his  various  messages, 
of  the  mismanagement  of  the  state  prison  under 
both  political  parties,  contributed  largely  to 
the  passage  of  an  act  removing  it  as  far  as 
possible  from  partisan  government,  and  the 
result    has    been    large    savings    to    the    state. 


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\'arious  other  public  acts  and  measures  having 
an  important  bearing  upon  the  growth  and 
well-being  of  the  state  were  urged  and  sustain- 
ed by  him,  and  whenever  adopted,  they  were 
found  to  have  increased  the  state's  prosperity 
and  development.  The  close  of  his  administra- 
tion found  him  stronger  in  the  esteem  of  the 
people  of  the  state  he  had  so  worthily  served. 

In  1864  Governor  Ward  was  placed  upon 
the  Republican  national  committee,  and  in  1866 
he  was  chosen  chairman.  In  this  capacity  he 
made  the  preliminary  arrangements  for  the 
national  convention  which  nominated  Ulysses 
S.  Grant  for  the  presidency.  He  took  a  de- 
cided part  in  the  campaign  which  followed,  and 
his  services  and  efforts  were  fully  acknowl- 
edged. During  the  next  few  years  Marcus  L. 
Ward  lived  in  comparative  retirement,  but  was 
frequently  called  upon  to  perform  duties  of  a 
public  character.  He  was  the  first  president 
of  the  Newark  Industrial  Exposition,  and  by 
his  efforts  contributed  very  largely  to  its  suc- 
cess. The  Soldiers'  Home  of  Newark  was 
originally  established  through  his  exertions, 
and  as  one  of  its  managers  and  its  treasurer  he 
gave  it  constant  service.  It  seemed  natural 
and  proper  that  the  man  who  during  the  war 
had  protected  the  interests  and  families  of  the 
soldier,  who  had  provided  him  with  the  care 
and  attendance  of  a  hospital  when  sick  and 
wounded,  should,  when  the  war  was  over, 
still  secure  him,  crippled  and  maimed,  the  com- 
forts of  a  soldiers'  home. 

During  the  presidential  campaign  of  1872 
Mr.  Ward  was  nominated  for  congress  by  the 
Republicans  of  the  sixth  district  of  New  Jer- 
sey, anfl  was  elected  by  over  five  thousand 
majority.  L'pon  taking  his  seat  in  the  house 
of  representative  he  was  recognized  as  one  of 
its  most  valuable  members.  He  was  placed 
on  the  committee  of  foreign  relations,  where 
he  made  his  influence  felt,  always  in  the  direc- 
tion of  the  public  welfare.  He  made  no  pre- 
tentions to  the  role  of  a  speaker,  but  on  the 
few  occasions  when  he  addressed  the  house,  he 
commanded  its  attention  by  his  clearly  ex- 
pressed views  and  by  the  thorough  honesty  of 
liis  convictions.  In  1874  he  was  renominated 
unanimously  for  congress,  but  the  condition 
of  the  country  was  unfavorable  for  the  success 
of  his  party.  Financial  disaster  disturbed  all 
the  marts  of  trade,  and  the  large  manufactur- 
ing district  he  represented  was  most  severely 
affected.  Thousands  of  laborers  were  unem- 
]i!oyed,  and  the  hope  that  a  political  change 
would  return  prosperity  influenced  their  action. 
The  tidal  wave  which  swept  over  the  strong- 


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est  Republican  states  submerged  his  district 
also,  although,  as  he  always  did,  he  stood  the 
highest  on  the  Republican  ticket.  The  confi- 
dence and  attachment  of  the  people  were  never 
more  clearly  shown  than  in  the  regret  and  dis- 
appointment which  this  defeat  occasioned. 
After  the  expiration  of  his  congressional  term 
he  was  tendered  by  the  president  the  important 
post  of  commissioner  of  Indian  affairs,  which 
however,  while  fully  appreciating  the  compli- 
ment thereby  conveyed,  he  declined. 

The  following  ten  years  of  Marcus  L. 
Ward's  hfe  were  spent  in  attention  to  his  own 
private  aiifairs,  and  in  two  voyages  to  Europe, 
which  gave  him  great  and  unalloyed  pleasure. 
In  the  beginning  of  the  year  18S4  he  appeared 
to  be  in  excellent  health,  and  in  March  he 
determined  on  a  trip  to  Florida  with  a  portion 
of  his  family.  While  there  he  became  subject 
to  malarial  influences  which  developed  in  his 
system  during  his  return  and  detained  him  sick 
in  Washington  for  a  few  days.  He  was  brought 
back  to  Newark,  where  he  had  the  advantage 
of  the  very  best  of  care  and  the  highest  medical 
skill,  all  of  which,  however,  proved  in  vain, 
and  he  expired  after  a  short  illness.  The 
knowledge  of  his  death  was  received  by  the 
community  in  which  he  lived  with  universal 
sorrow.  The  minutes  of  the  institutions  with 
which  he  was  connected  show  their  apprecia- 
tion of  him,  and  that  of  the  managers  of  the 
Soldiers'  Home,  was  a  most  eloquent  tribute 
to  the  man.  His  funeral  was  also  another  testi- 
monial to  the  estimation  in  which  he  was  held. 
The  attendance  was  unprecedented,  and  for 
more  than  one  hour  the  line  of  mourners  pass- 
ed through  the  parlors  of  his  residence  to  take 
their  last  look  at  the  features  of  him  they 
mourned.  They  were  the  friends  of  a  long  life, 
the  veteran  of  the  war,  the  artisan,  the  laborer, 
the  people,  without  regard  to  color  or  to  race, 
showing  to  the  last  their  appreciation  of  his 
patriotism  and  virtue.  The  life  thus  suddenly 
closed  was  a  singularly  well-rounded  one  in 
every  respect.  For  forty- four  years  he  and 
his  wife  had  lived  together  in  mutual  love  and 
respect.  They  had  mourned  the  loss  of  chil- 
dren, but  two  of  his  sons  had  remained  and 
around  them  had  centred  the  hopes  and  affec- 
tions of  the  couple.  His  life,  too,  was  very 
free  from  personal  difficulties  and  anxieties. 
Accumulating  by  care  and  prudence  a  large 
fortune,  his  life  was  full  of  deeds  of  consider- 
able charity  which  were  as  ntnnerous  as  they 
were  blessed.  Many  a  struggling  artist  re- 
ceived from  him  the  generous  order  which  did 
not  degrade  the  spirit  while  relieving  the  neces- 


sity. His  charities  were  frequently  pursued 
for  years  unknown  to  the  world,  the  result  of 
the  native  kindness  of  heart  which  character- 
ized him.  Few  men  ever  brought  to  public 
duties  a  greater  amount  of  conscientious  prin- 
ciple. Every  public  act  was  governed  by  that 
law  of  justice  and  of  right  which  would  stand 
the  test  of  the  closest  scrutiny.  Popular  in  the 
highest  and  purest  sense  of  that  term,  he  would 
not  sacrifice  his  judgment  or  his  convictions 
to  the  caprices  of  the  multitude.  His  manners 
were  unassuming  and  popular,  but  he  reached 
position  because  he  possessed  the  qualities 
which  should  command  it.  He  "preferred  the 
true  to  the  false,  the  substantial  to  the  pre- 
tentious, and  his  life  was  one  which  may  be 
studied  by  all  who  seek  distinction  and  success 
in  public  life." 

June  30,  1840,  Marcus  Lawrence  Ward  mar- 
ried Susan  Longworth,  born  November  15, 
1815,  the  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Longworth)  Morris,  a  descendant  of  John 
(Thomas)  Morris,  of  the  Milford  colonists. 
Children:  i.  Joseph  Morris,  referred  to  below. 
2.  Elizabeth  Morris,  born  February  3,  1843; 
died  December  27,  1843.  3-  Frances  Lavinia, 
born  December  23,  1844;  died  August  2,  1846. 
4.  Marcus  Lawrence  Jr.,  referred  to  below.  5. 
Catharine  Almira  Alorris,  born  October  28. 
1849;  died  June  17,  i860.  6.  Nicholas  Long- 
worth,  born  Jainiary  15,  1852;  ilied  July  28, 
1857.  7.  John  Longworth  Morris,  born  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1854;  died  October  14,  1855.  8. 
Francis  Brown,  born  January  17,  1856;  died 
January  13,  1864. 

(IX)  Joseph  Morris,  eldest  child  of  Gov- 
ernor Marcus  Lawrence  and  Susan  Longworth 
(Morris)  Ward,  was  born  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  August  2,  1841.  aiul  is  now  living  in 
the  house  built  on  the  land  once  owned  by  his 
distinguished  ancestor.  Sergeant  John  Ward, 
at  49  Washington  street.    He  is  unmarried. 

(  IX)  Marcus  Lawrence  Jr.,  fourth  child 
and  second  son  (the  only  one  besides  his  elder 
brother  to  reach  maturity)  of  Governor  Mar- 
cus Lawrence  and  Elizabeth  Longworth 
(Morris)  Ward,  was  born  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  September  13,  1847,  and  is  now  living 
in  that  city  with  his  brother. 

(\TI)  Samuel  Nesbit,  third  child  and  sec- 
ond son  of  James  and  Lydia  (Nesbit)  Ward, 
was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  January  6, 
1797.  and  died  there  March  26.  1838.  He  mar- 
ried .\nn  Gardiner,  died  February  17,  184S, 
aged  fifty-three.  Roth  she  and  her  husband 
are  buried  in  the  graveyard  of  the  Second 
I'resbvterian  Church,  Newark.  Children:  Eliza 


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Bro\v)i.  Imrn  May  8.  1831,  married  Colonel 
Abijah  Seaman  F'ell ;  James  and  David  Brown, 
both  referred  to  below. 

(\'III)  James,  second  child  and  eldest  son 
of  Samuel  Nesbit  and  .Ann  (Gardiner)  Ward, 
was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  January  29, 
1821,  and  died  there  in  February,  1895.  Octo- 
ber 31.  1843,  he  married  Henrietta  Ann  Ford- 
ham,  born  .\Iarcli  3,  1822,  died  April  24,  1893. 
Children:  i.  George  Fordham,  born  .August 
6,  1844;  died  June  4,  1852.  2.  James  Samuel, 
born  August  5,  1846;  died  August  25,  1847. 
3.  -Anna  Gardiner,  referred  to  below.  4.  Jo- 
seph Judson.  born  June  20,  1850;  died  Sep- 
tember 21,  1 85 1.  5.  Jeannette  Gertrude,  born 
May  3,  1852:  died  May  12,  1857.  6.  Frank 
Fordham.  born  November  14,  1853;  married 
Mina  Mains.  7-8.  James  and  James  Nesbit, 
twins,  born  January  20,  1856:  James  died  July 
21,  1856,  and  James  Nesbit  died  July  25,  1856. 
9.  Charles  Woodruff,  born  March  28,  1857; 
still  living.  10.  Mary  Augusta,  born  Novem- 
ber 23.  1859;  still  living.  11-12.  William  F'aul 
and  Nettie  \'irginia,  twins,  born  August  23, 
1862:  \\'illiam  Paul  died  September  17,  1862; 
Nettie  \'irginia  is  still  living. 

(IN)  Anna  Gardiner,  third  child  and  eldest 
daughter  of  James  and  Henrietta  Ann  (Ford- 
ham) W'ard,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
June  14,  1848,  and  died  there  November  9, 
1889.  November  28,  1871,  she  married  Lyman 
Edward,  seventh  child  and  fourth  son  of  Will- 
iam Kane.  His  father  had  children:  Mary, 
married  John  Dean  ;  Minerva,  Jesse,  Francis, 
Susan,  \\'illiam.  Lyman  Edward,  Rachel  Au- 
relia  (married  David  Brown  \\'ard,  referred 
to  above),  and  David. 

Lyman  Edward  Kane,  born  November  22, 
1847,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of 
Newark,  and  then  entered  a  machine  shop. 
After  spending  some  time  here  he  set  up  in  the 
butcheruig  business  for  himself  in  partnership 
with  his  brother  Jesse,  the  name  of  the  firm 
being  Kane  Brothers.  Mr.  Kane  is  a  Demo- 
crat, was  police  commissioner  for  one  term 
in  1895.  alderman  for  two  terms,  and  police 
commissioner  again  in  1905.  During  the  civil 
war  he  served  as  a  drummer  boy.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  F.  and  .\.  M.,  and  also  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine.  Tie  and  his  family  attend  the 
Peddie  Memorial  Church.  By  his  wife,  Anna 
Gardiner  Ward,  referred  to  above,  he  has  had 
children:  i.  Grace  Gardiner,  referred  to 
below.  2.  Walter  Ward,  born  July  6,  1875: 
now  employed  in  engineer's  department  of 
Newark  City  Hall.  3.  Alice  (Oakley,  born 
May   13,   1877.     4-  Lyman  Edward  Jr.,  born 


October  i,  1879;  now  living  at  Phoenix,  Ari- 
zona. 5.  Helen  .Anna,  born  May  28,  1887.  6. 
.\nna  Dorothy,  born  November  11,  1890. 

(X)  Grace  (jardiner,  eldest  child  of  Lyman 
Edward  and  Anna  Gardiner  (Ward)  Kane, 
was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  September 
19,  1872,  and  is  now  living  with  her  husband 
and  family  in  that  city.  April  21,  1897,  she 
was  married  in  Newark,  to  William  Crue 
Nicoll,  a  descendant  of  John  Nicoll,  of  Islip, 
England,  in  1467.  His  father  was  Charles 
Henry  Nicoll,  and  his  mother  was  Catharine 
Crue,  and  their  children  were:  i.  Charles 
Henry  Jr.,  died  at  twenty-one  years  of  age. 
2.  Florence,  now  dead ;  married  Jacob  Gulick ; 
children,  Charles  and  William.  3.  Richard 
Floyd,  married  Bertha  StefTel;  children,  Flor- 
ence and  Charles.  4.  George,  died  aged  twen- 
ty-seven years.  5.  William  Crue,  is  referred 
to  below.  6.  Daisy.  7.  Ida,  died  at  age  of 
twenty-seven  years.  8.  Elmer.  9.  Chester. 
The  last  two  live  at  38  Tracy  avenue. 

William  Crue  Nicoll,  fifth  child  and  fourth 
son  of  Charles  Henry  and  Catharine  (Crue) 
Nicoll,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Jan- 
uary 25,  1 87 1,  and  is  now  living  in  that  city. 
After  going  to  the  public  and  high  schools  of 
Newark  he  entered  Columbia  University  and 
graduated  from  the  law  school  there  in  1893. 
He  then  read  law  in  Newark  and  later  in  New 
York,  and  is  now  a  practicing  lawyer  in  both 
cities.  From  1902  to  1905  he  held  the  position 
of  sheriff  of  Essex  county.  He  is  a  Democrat, 
and  in  1896  was  nominated  for  the  state  legis- 
lature, and  though  defeated,  received  the  high- 
est number  of  votes  cast  for  any  candidate  on 
the  ticket.  He  is  member  of  Kane  Lodge. 
F.  and  A.  M.,  and  also  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 
His  clubs  are  the  L'nion  Club,  the  Lawyers' 
Club,  and  the  Essex  Club.  He  attends  the 
North  Reformed  Church.  By  his  wife,  Grace 
Gardiner  Kane,  referred  to  above,  he  has  had 
children:  Anna  Ward,  born  February  2,  1899; 
Catharine  Crue,  January  4,  1904 ;  Alice  Olivia, 
.August  17,  1907. 

(\'III)  David  Brown,  third  child  and  sec- 
ond and  youngest  son  of  Samuel  Nesbit  and 
.Ann  (Gardiner)  Ward,  was  born  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey.  May  8,  1831,  and  died  there,  .April 
5.  1903.  March  14,  1855,  he  married  Rachel 
.\urelia,  eighth  child  and  fourth  daughter  of 
William  Kane,  and  sister  to  Lyman  Edward 
Kane,  who  married  Anna  Gardiner  Ward,  niece 
of  David  Brown  Ward,  here  referred  to.  (For 
ancestry  see  above).  Children  of  David  Brown 
and  Rachel  .Aurelia  (Kane)  \\'ard :  Eva  De 
Vor,   is   referred   to  below;   Marcus   Lincoln, 


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born  July  21,  1865;  David  Reynolds,  born  De- 
cember 27,  1867:  lessie  Earl,  born  March  17, 
1871. 

(IXj  Eva  De  \'or,  eldest  child  of  David 
Brown  and  Rachel  Aurelia  (Kane)  Ward,  was 
born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  October  23,  1856, 
and  is  now  living  in  that  city  with  her  husband 
and  children.  May  26,  1881,  she  married 
Abram  (q.  v.),  son  of  Michael  and  Elizabeth 
Wood  (Baylie)  Davis. 


.Vbraham    Davis,    grandfather    of 
U.W  IS     ^Abram  Davis,  was  born  January 

24,  179S,  in  Swedesboro,  New 
Jersey.  He  is  probably  a  descendant  of  the 
Long  Island  family  which  in  the  early  period 
of  the  history  of  the  colony  removed  to  and 
settled  in  Salem  county  and  from  there  spread 
out  over  the  whole  of  South  Jersey,  but  the 
records  and  documents  which  have  up  to  the 
present  time  come  to  light  afford  no  clue  to  his 
immediate  descent.  He  died  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  March  28,  1867.  Removing  from 
Swedesboro,  .\braham  Davis  at  first  settled 
near  what  is  now  Second  and  Green  streets, 
Philadelphia,  and  later  on  removed  to  what  is 
now  Second  and  Washington  streets.  Some 
time  after  his  coming  to  the  city,  he  married 
Christiana  Rivel,  born  January  13,  1795,  died 
November  7,  1832,  who  lived  in  what  was  then 
called  the  "Neck."  Children:  i.  Michael,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  Mary  .\niia,  born  June  4, 
1820:  married  Francis  Hougit.  3.  Marcus  .\1- 
phonsus,  January  3,  1823;  died  November  15, 
1894;  married  Elizabeth  Burling  Ruddiman.  4. 
Joseph,  January  29,  1825;  died  November  21, 

1888;  married  Margaret  .    5.  Hannah, 

February  28,  1827;  died  when  about  eighteen 
months  old.  6.  John  Filmore,  January  25,  1829  ; 
<lie(l  October  i  I,  1886.  7.  .Sarah  Jane.  l'"ebruary, 
16,  183 1  ;  died  October  18.  1899:  married  Val- 
entine Rodemisch. 

(H)  Michael,  eldest  child  of  Abraham  and 
Christiana  (Rivel)  Davis,  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia. April  21,  1818:  died  in  Beverly,  Bur- 
lington county,  New  Jersey,  January  24,  1880. 
He  was  by  trade  a  cabinet-maker,  in  which 
business  he  was  associated  with  his  father  for 
many  years.  At  first  he  made  his  home  in 
Philadeli)hia,  but  disliking  the  city  he  removed 
to  Beverly  and  made  his  home  there,  coming 
into  the  city  to  his  work  every  morning  and 
returning  every  evening.  Michael  Davis  was 
a  Rei)ul)lican.  a  Knight  of  Pythias  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Independent  r)r(ler  of  Odd  Fellows. 
He  atendcd  the  old  St.  (leorge's  Church.  By 
his  wife  b'lizabeth  Wood,  daughter  of  George 


Baylie,  of  Philadelphia,  he  had  nine  children, 
in  addition  to  John,  an  adopted  child,  who 
married  .\bigail  Lippincott,  and  has  one  child, 
Eihvard  Ronaldson.  now  deceased.  Children 
of  Michael  and  Elizabeth  Wood  (Baylie) 
Davis  were:  i.  Eliza  Jane,  who  now  lives,  her 
husband  being  dead,  at  Absecon,  New  Jersey ; 
having  borne  her  husband  three  children,  the 
two  youngest  of  whom  are  dead  and  the  eldest 
living  with  her  mother,  namely :  Ella  Mary. 
William  Edward  and  kla.  2.  Christiana,  de 
ceased.  3.  Josephine,  who  is  now  living  at 
Beverly,  New  Jersey.  4.  George  Washington, 
married  Florence  Bucher,  and  has  five  chil- 
dren :  Mary,  married  Frederick  Stinson,  and 
has  two  children  ;  Emma  :  George  Washington  ; 
.Anna,  married  Frank  Jones,  of  Beverly,  and 
has  one  child;  and  Edna.  5.  Emily  Matilda, 
married  Charles  H.  Rosseter,  of  Absecon.  6. 
Abram,  referred  to  below.  7.  Michael  Rivel, 
married  Catharine  Poole.  8.  Edward  Burd 
Grubb,  died  at  the  age  of  four  years ;  was 
named  after  General  Grubb.  10.  Mary  Ella, 
died  at  the  age  of  three  years. 

( III)  .Abram,  sixth  child  and  second  son  of 
Michael  and  Elizabeth  Wood  (Baylie)  Davis, 
was  born  in  Beverly,  Burlington  county.  New 
Jersey,  July  25,  1859,  and  is  now  living  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey.  For  his  early  education 
he  was  sent  to  the  public  schools  and  after- 
wards, in  1877,  to  Coleman's  Ikisiness  College 
in  .Newark.  He  then  became  an  accountant 
for  the  commission  firm  of  A.  W.  .Austin. 
.Afterwards  he  was  in  business  with  his  brother- 
in-law  for  twelve  years,  and  then  for  two  years 
more  with  C.  V..  Barker,  and  then  he  acce))ted 
a  position  with  Quinn  &  Company  which  he 
held  for  eighteen  years  longer.  He  is  now 
engaged  in  the  business  of  expert  accounting. 
Mr.  Davis  is  a  Rejniblican.  He  is  a  Knight  of 
Pytliias  and  a  member  of  St.  Paul's  Lodge,  No. 
jt).  lie  is  also  a  member  of  the  Marcus  L. 
Ward  Camp.  Sons  of  \'eterans,  which  he  help- 
ed to  organize  twenty-five  years  ago.  He  and 
his  family  attend  the  Peddie  Memorial  Church 
in  .Newark.  His  wife,  Eva  De  \'or  (Ward) 
Davis  I  see  Ward  IX  above),  has  borne  him 
two  children:  I.  Eugene  Bailey,  born  March  3. 
1882.     2.  Mabel  \\'ard,  September  19.  1884. 


Major  Carnahan,  the  first 
CAR.NAIIAN      member   of   the    family   of 

whom  we  have  definite  in- 
formation, died  May  31,  1788.  His  grand- 
parents on  both  sides  came  from  the  north  of 
Ireland  and  settled  in  CumlK'rland  county, 
Pennsylvania,  about    1720.      Major   Carnalian 


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owned  a  valuable  farm  and  was  a  man  of  influ- 
ence in  the  county.  In  the  revolutionary  war 
he  held  the  rank  of  major  in  the  Pennsylvania 
militia,  and  took  part  in  several  important  en- 
gagements. Becoming  dissatistied  with  the 
conduct  of  his  men,  he  resigned  his  office  and 
early  in  1780  removed  his  family  to  Sewickley 
settlement,  Westmoreland  county,  about  twenty 
miles  from  Pittsburg.  Here  he  purchased  a 
farm  on  which  he  resided  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  in  an  attempt  to  cross  the  Alleghany 
river  a  few  miles  above  Pittsburg.  He  mar- 
ried, and  had  four  children:  James,  referred 
to  below  ;  Hannah  ;  Archibald,  and  John. 

(H)  James,  son  of  Major  Carnahan,  was 
born  in  Cumberland  county,  Pennsylvania,  No- 
vember 15,  1775.  and  died  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  March  3,  1859.  He  obtained  his  early 
eilucation  at  the  Sewickley  settlement  school 
and  in  1793.  when  eighteen  years  of  age,  went 
to  Cannonsburg,  Pennsylvania,  to  study  at  the 
academy,  which  afterward  became  Jefferson 
College.  Here  he  acquired  a  thirst  for  knowl- 
edge, and  prepared  the  way  for  all  his  classical 
attainments  and  for  all  the  good  accomplished 
in  a  long  and  useful  life.  In  the  summer  of 
1797,  Dr.  Carnahan,  with  a  fellow  student, 
Joseph  Stockton,  had  charge  of  the  classical 
department  in  the  academy.  Dr.  Carnahan 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Franklin  Lit- 
erary Society.  His  classical  studies  were  di- 
rected by  Rev.  John  Watson  and  Mr.  James 
Mountain,  under  whose  instruction  he  ulti- 
mately became  an  excellent  Greek  and  Latin 
scholar.  For  some  time  Dr.  Carnahan  suffered 
financial  embarrassment  from  the  fact  that 
Major  Carnahan  had  become  surety  for  the 
treasurer  of  the  county  in  which  he  resided, 
who  was  also  deputy  treasurer  for  the  state. 
This  officer  having  defaulted,  his  sureties  be- 
came responsible.  Dr.  Carnahan  at  one  time 
felt  that  lie  would  have  to  give  up  college  and 
his  preparation  for  the  ministry  and  take  u]) 
the  study  of  medicine.  F'unds  were  obtained, 
however,  through  Dr.  S.  S.  Smith,  presideiu 
of  the  College  of  New  Jersey,  to  meet  his  col- 
lege expenses,  and  provision  was  also  made 
for  his  needs  through  his  pastor.  Rev.  Dr.  John 
McMillan,  with  whose  church  at  Chartiers.  Dr. 
Carnahan  had  united  in  1793. 

With  a  fellow  student.  Rev.  Jacob  Lindly, 
afterwards  first  president  of  the  University  of 
Ohio,  Dr.  Carnahan  crossed  the  Alleghany 
river  and  made  his  way  to  Princeton.  Mr. 
Lindly,  who  owned  a  horse,  shared  it  with  his 
comrade,  and  the  two  progressed  about  thirty- 
five  or   fortv  miles  each  dav.     Dr.  Carnahan 


entered  the  junior  class  at  Princeton  in  1798, 
and  was  admitted  to  first  degree  in  arts,  Sep- 
tember. 1800,  with  the  highest  honors  of  the 
institution,  and  spoke  the  English  salutatory. 
On  completing  his  course.  Dr.  Carnahan  de- 
clined the  office  of  tutor  in  the  college  for  the 
reason  that  he  was  so  recently  graduated.  He 
returned  to  Cannonsburg  and  spent  one  year 
in  the  study  of  theology  under  Rev.  Dr.  Mc- 
Millan. In  the  autumn  of  1801  he  returned  to 
Princeton  as  tutor,  discharging  the  duties  of 
this  office  for  two  years  and  continuing  his 
theological  studies  meanwhile.  In  September, 
1803,  he  resigned  his  position,  though  rec]uested 
to  remain  as  teacher  of  mathematics,  with  a 
better  salary  and  the  prospect  of  becoming 
professor.  In  April,  1804.  he  was  licensed  by 
the  presbytery  of  New  Brunswick  to  preach 
the  gospel.  After  visiting  several  churches  in 
Warren  county.  New  Jersey,  and  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, he  preached  in  the  Reformed  Dutch 
Church  at  Albany,  and  went  from  thence  to 
Utica  and  its  vicinity.  On  his  return  to  New 
Jersey.  Dr.  Carnahan  received  two  calls — one 
from  the  Dutch  Collegiate  Church  at  .Albany, 
and  the  other  from  the  L'nited  Societies  of 
Whitesboro  and  Utica.  He  accepted  the  latter 
call,  as  he  preferred  the  Presbyterian  church. 
I'or  the  six  ensuing  years  Dr.  Carnahan  labor- 
ed faithfully  and  with  good  results  in  his  new 
charge.  In  181 1  he  was  compelled  to  seek  a 
milder  climate  on  account  of  an  affection  of 
the  throat  from  which  he  never  entirely  re- 
covered, it  being  the  chief  cause  of  his  resign- 
ing the  presidency.  After  spending  a  year  in 
Mapleton.  New  Jersey.  Dr.  Carnahan  and  his 
family  removed  to  Princeton,  where  he  took 
charge  of  a  classical  school  for  nine  months. 
He  then  went  to  Georgetown,  D.  C,  and  open- 
ed a  classical  school.  This  proving  a  success, 
he  remained  eleven  years  at  Georgetown,  at 
the  end  of  which  time  he  was  chosen  by  a 
unanimous  vote  of  the  board,  May  12,  1823, 
president  of  the  College  of  New  Jersey.  Dr. 
Carnahan  immediately  accepted.  He  afterwards 
declared  that  he  would  not  have  done  this  so 
readily  if  he  had  fully  understood  the  condi- 
tion of  affairs  at  the  college.  As  was  the  cus- 
tom of  the  time.  Dr.  Carnahan  was  met  and 
escorted  on  his  entrance  into  Princeton  by  a 
large  number  of  students  on  horseback.  He 
was  inaugurated  August  6.  1823.  President 
Carnahan's  term  of  office  was  one  of  marked 
increase  in  the  growth  and  development  of  the 
college.  During  his  administration  of  thirty- 
one  years,  sixteen  hundred  and  thirty-four 
students  were  graduated  from  the  institution  ; 


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the  teaching  corps  was  increased  from  two 
professors  and  two  tutors  in  1823  to  six  pro- 
fessors, two  assistant  professors  and  four 
tutors  in  1854;  and  not  less  than  $75,000  was 
spent  in  erection  of  new  buildings,  purchase  of 
apparatus  and  books,  and  on  the  improvement 
of  the  college  grounds.  During  his  whole 
presidenc)-,  Dr.  Carnahan  gave  himself  with 
exemplary  diligence  to  the  duties  of  office, 
taking  a  full  share  both  in  instruction  and 
government.  He  was  a  wise  and  prudent 
counsellor,  kind  and  courteous  to  colleagues 
and  pupils,  always  self-possessed,  firm,  yet 
liberal.  Ready  to  make  all  allowance  for  youth- 
ful aberrations,  he  was  inflexible  in  the  dis- 
charge of  duty.  In  his  manner  he  was  un- 
assuming and  modest,  entirely  free  from 
selfishness  and  petty  jealousy.  If  good  was 
done,  he  rejoiced,  no  matter  who  suggested  or 
did  it.  His  financial  ability  has  frequently 
been  set  forth,  but  his  usefulness  to  the  college 
was  of  a  higher  order.  Maclean  says :  "I 
fjuestion  whether  in  the  circumstances  under 
which  he  conducted  the  affairs  of  the  college, 
any  man  could  have  been  found  who  would 
have  managed  them  with  so  much  wisdom  and 
ultimately  with  so  much  success."  In  1824, 
when  General  Lafayette  was  making  a  tour  of 
the  country,  he  was  received  with  great  hos- 
pitality at  Princeton,  and  was  presented  by 
President  Carnahan  with  a  diploma  of  Doctor 
of  Laws,  which  had  been  conferred  upon  the 
general  in  1790.  In  June,  1853,  President 
Carnahan  resigned  his  office,  but  consented  to 
retain  his  position  till  1854.  Dr.  Carnahan  was 
then  unanimously  chosen  a  trustee  of  the  col- 
lege, and  continu(*d  to  attend  meetings  of  the 
board  and  to  aid  them  by  his  counsel.  He  was 
also  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
Theological  .Seminar\',  and  a  most  useful  mem- 
ber. After  his  wife's  death,  in  1854,  he  went 
to  spend  the  winter  in  Newark,  at  the  home  of 
his  daughter,  Mrs.  William  K.  McDonald, 
where  he  died  March  3,  1859.  His  remains 
were  brought  to  Princeton,  where  the  funeral 
was  held  at  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  and 
was  very  largely  attended. 

A  letter  of  his  son-in-law's,  Mr.  McDonald, 
gives  illustration  of  Dr.  Carnahan's  singular 
modesty:  "The  only  meritorious  act  of  his 
long  life  which' he  thought  proper  to  record, 
has  reference  to  his  fondness  for  shade  trees, 
when  he  expresses  hope  that  the  people  of 
Princeton  will  remember  that  he  i)lanted  the 
trees  in  the  college  campus,  and  transplanted 
from  his  own  nursery  those  noble  ones  that 


adorn   the  entrance  to  the  vestibule  of  theii 
church." 

Dr.  Carnahan  had  two  children:  i.  Lydia 
married  Luther  Halsey  \'an  Doren,  pastor  o: 
the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  at  Middleton, 
New  Jersey.  2.  Hannah  Mahon,  born  July  7, 
1809;  died  May  21,  1878;  married  William 
King  McDonald  (see  McDonald). 


Alexander  McDonald,  found- 
McDONALD  er  of  the  family  under  con- 
sideration, was  born  near  In- 
verness, in  Scotland.  He  emigrated  to  Amer- 
ica previous  to  1784,  as  his  son  John  was  born 
that  year  in  New  York  City,  where  Mr.  Mc- 
Donald followed  the  occupation  of  cloth  mer- 
chant. He  married  (first)  Aliss  Muncton,  and 
(second)  Miss  McDowell,  who  w'as  a  resident 
of  Orange  county.  New  York.  Among  hi^ 
children  was  John,  referred  to  below. 

(II)  John,    son   of   Alexander  and  

(Muncton)  McDonald,  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  -April  23,  1784,  and  died  September  12, 
1812.  He  married  .Anna  King,  born  February 
25,  1786,  died  January  6,  1863. 

( III )  William  King,  only  child  of  John  and 
.Anna  (King)  McDonald,  was  born  in  .Alex- 
andria, \'irginia,  December  31,  1807,  and  died 
April  14,  1871.  He  graduated  from  Prince- 
ton in  1827,  read  law  with  -Adjutant  General 
Walter  Jones,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  and  be- 
came a  professor  of  belle  lettres  at  Washington 
College,  Pennsylvania.  Later  he  established 
a  classical  school  at  Bloomfield,  New  Jersey. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1841,  and  began 
practice  in  Newark,  where  he  was  clerk  of  the 
common  council  from  April,  1844,  to  April, 
1850.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
general  assembly  in  1856-57:  was  appointed 
state  comptroller  in  1865,  and  reappointed  in 
1868;  and  also  surrogate  of  the  county  of 
Essex  for  five  years.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Newark  Board  of  Education  from  i8r)4  to 
1866.  He  married  Hannah  Mahon,  daughter 
of  James  and  Mar\-  (\'an  Dyke)  Carnahan 
( sec  Carnahan  ) . 

(I\')  Jaiues  Carnahan,  only  son  of  William 
King  and  Hannah  Mahon  (Carnahan)  Mc- 
Donald, was  born  at  Princeton,  New  Jersey, 
October  i,  183 1.  .After  obtaining  his  early 
education  at  a  preparatory  school  in  Prince- 
ton, he  entered  Nassau  Hall,  Princeton  l^ni- 
versity,  graduating  in  1852.  He  then  read  law 
with  his  father,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New 
Jersey  bar  as  attorney,  November,  1855,  and 
as  counsellor,  November,  1858.   He  is  a  master 


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land,  and  was  baptized  there,  July  28,  1594. 
He  came  from  England  to  Wethersfield,  Con- 
necticut, in  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  until  1642.  He  is  mentioned  in  the  rec- 
ords 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  ( (Jldham  )  which  seemed  to  be  somewhat 
uncertainly  valued,  wee,  therefore,  think  meete 
to,  &  so  it  is  ordered  that  JMr.  Jo.  Plum  & 
Rich.  Gildersleeve,  together  with  the  constable, 
shall  survey  the  saide  inventory  and  perfect 
the  same  before  the  next  corte  &  then  to  de- 
liver 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  receive  the  corn  for 
W'ethersfield.  lie  held  'various  town  offices 
and  performed  many  juiblic  duties,  such  as 
marking  town  boundaries,  laying  out  roads, 
determining  lines  between  towns,  looking  to 
the  improvement  of  the  lands  of  tlie  planta- 
tions, and  attending  the  court  as  a  deputy.  He 
was  also  one  of  the  men  in  Captain  John 
Mason's  little  army  that  wiped  out  the  Pecjuot 
Indians  in  i(^T,7,  and  for  his  services  he  re- 
ceived a  grant  of  lands.  He  w&s  a  ship  owner 
and  it  is  thought  that  he  might  have  been 
owner  of  the  vessel  that  carried  seventy-seven 
of  Mason's  men  around  from  the  mouth  of 
the  Connecticiit  river  to  the  Narragansett.  In 
1644-45  lie  was  appointed  to  attend  the  clear- 
ance of  vessels  at  Wethersfield,  but  in  the 
former  year,  1644,  he  sold  his  lands  in  Wethers- 
field and  removed  to  Bran  ford,  where  in  1645 
he  is  mentioned  as  "Keeper  of  the  Town's 
liook."  He  died  there  in  1648,  and  his  wife. 
"Mrs.  Plume,"  administered  on  his  estate,  Au- 
gust 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  Sam- 
uel, who  lived  with  his  father  in  Bran  ford 
when  the  former  died.  I'y  wife,  Dorothy  John 
Phinic.  had  eight  children:  I.  Robert,  bap- 
tized December  30,  1617.  2.  John,  May  27, 
1619.  3.  William,  May  9,  1621.  4.  Ann,  Oc- 
tober 16,  1623.  5.  Samuel,  January  4,  1625- 
26;  see  forward.  6.  Dorothea,  January  16, 
1626.  7.  Elizabeth.  October  q,  1629.  8.  Deb- 
orah. July  28,  1633. 


(  II )  Samuel  I'lum,  son  of  John  and  Doro- 
thy Plume,  was  born  in  England,  January  4, 
i()25-26;  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  Jersey,  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  pur- 
chasers as  early  as  1667.  The  name  of  the  wife 
of  Samuel  Plum  is  not  known,  but  he  married 
and  had  eight  children:  i.  Elizabeth,  born 
January  18,  1650-51.  2.  Mary,  April  i,  1653. 
3.  Samuel,  March  22,  1654-55.  4.  John,  Octo- 
ber 28,  1657;  see  forward.  5.  Doratha,  March 
26,  1660.  6.  Joshua,  August  3,  1662.  7.  Jo- 
anna, March  11,  1665.  8.  Sarah,  born  prob- 
ably in  1676. 

(  III )  John,  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  in  1668  and  afterward  lived 
in  that  town.  His  children,  born  in  Newark, 
are  only  known  by  being  named  in  his  will  and 
other  wills  with  their  husbands  and  wives,  but 
the  dates  of  their  births  and  deaths  are  not 
known.  In  1677  John  Plum  married  Hannah 
Crane,  and  by  her  had  five  children :  i.  Mary, 
married  (first)  Elihu  Crane;  (second)  Rev. 
Jonathan  Dickinson.  2.  Sarah,  married  John 
Lindsley.  3.  Jane,  married  Joseph  Riggs.  4. 
Hannah.     5.  John,  see  forward. 

(I\')  John  Plume,  youngest  child  and  only 
son  of  John  and  Hannah  (Crane)  Plum,  was 
born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  about  1696;  died 
after  1785.  His  entire  life  was  spent  in  New- 
ark and  he  appears  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,  and  mar- 
ried   (second)    ^lary  .     He  had  in  all 

eight  children,  all  born  of  his  first  marriage: 
I.  Isaac,  October  i.  1734;  died  November  19 
1799:  married  (first)  Sarah  Crane;  (second) 
.\nn  \'an  Wagenen.  2.  Stephen,  died  1828, 
aged  seventy-three  years.  3.  Mary,  married 
Rufus  Crane.  4.  Jane,  flied  after  1780.  5. 
Phebe.  married  Cajjtain  Robert  Provost.  6. 
J()se])h.     7.  John,  see  forward. 

(\  )  John  I'lum,  youngest  son  and  child  of 
John  and  Joanna  (Crane)  Plume,  w-as  born 
in  Newark,  about  1743:  died  there,  about  Jan- 
uary. 1771-  He  always  wrote  his  name  with- 
out the  final  "e,"  and  his  example  has  been 
followed  by  all  of  his  descendants.     The  date 


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of  his  marriage  with  Susan  Crane  is  not  known, 
but  it  was  about  the  year  1764.  They  had  four 
children,  all  born  in  Newark:  i.  Joseph  R., 
Jidy  30,  1766;  died  November  12,  1834;  mar- 
ried (first)  Mary  Banks;  (second)  Anna  Price. 
2.  Matthias,  1768;  see  forward.  3.  David, 
1769;  died  August  2-],  1835;  married  Matilda 
Cook.     4.  Robert. 

(\T)  Matthias,  son  of  John  and  Susan 
(Crane)  Plum,  was  born  in  Newark,  1768: 
died  there,  in  1852;  having  spent  his  entire  life 
in  that  city.  He  married,  about  1793,  Phebe 
Woodruff,  and  by  her  had  five  children,  all 
born  in  Newark:  i.  Lucetta,  May  21,  1794; 
died  July  3,  1881 ;  married  Joseph  Plum.  2. 
Sarah,  September  19,  1797;  died  March  22, 
1875  ;  married  Ambrose  Williams.  3.  Stejihen 
Haines,  January  7,  1800;  see  forward.  4.  Elias, 
November  18,  1804;  died  .\pril  12,  1883;  mar- 
ried (first)  .Susan  Rankin;  (second)  Mary 
Mann;  (third)  -Martha  M.  Buell.  5.  David 
B.,  May  2,  1813;  died  July  15,  1851  :  married 
(first)  Leonora  Whittaker;  (second)  Anna  M. 
Arnold. 

(VH)  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  school  education,  and 
was  then  apprenticed  to  a  shoe  manufacturer, 
with  whom  he  remained  until  he  was  old 
enough  to  establish  a  business  for  himself. 
From  the  outset  he  was  very  successful,  and 
establishing  a  jjlace  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  flight  Company, 
of  which  he  was  for  a  number  of  years  a  di- 
rector. He  was  also  a  stockholder  and  director 
in  the  New  Jersey  Fire  Insurance  Company, 
the  Mechanics'  Fire  Insurance  Company  and 
the  St.  Mark's  Fire  Insurance  Company  of 
New  York.  He  was  a  man  of  high  character 
and  his  influence  was  always  felt  for  good. 
He  married  Margaret  Monteith,  born  in  Belvi- 
dere.  New  Jersey,  died  in  Newark,  January  6. 
1883,  daughter  of  Alichael  and  Martha  (Rams- 
den)  Todd,  the  former  of  whom  emigrated 
from  Glasgow,  Scotland,  to  .America  in  the 
latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  century.  Children, 


all  born  in  Newark:  i.  Charlotte,  born  1835; 
married  Theodore  B.  Coe.  2.  ^Matthias,  No- 
vember 24,  1839;  see  forward.  3.  Stephen 
Haines,  November  12,  1842;  a  sketch  of  wiiom 
also  appears  in  this  work. 

(\1II)  Matthias,  son  of  Stephen  Haines 
and  Margaret  Monteith  (Todd)  Plum,  was 
born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  November  24, 
1839.  He  attended  the  New  Street  Seminary 
and  the  school  conducted  by  Professor  Nathan 
Hedges,  who  was  widely  known  as  a  cultured 
man  and  a  thorough  instructor  in  the  educa- 
tional field.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  years  he 
secured  employment  in  the  firm  of  Martin  R. 
Dennis  &  Company,  book  sellers  and  stationers, 
with  whom  he  remained  twelve  years,  during 
which  time  he  acquired  a  thorough  knowledge 
of  every  branch  of  the  business.  He  then 
formed  a  partnership  with  Alessrs.  Williams 
and  Hardham  under  the  style  of  Williams, 
Hardham  &  Plum,  and  succeeded  Benjamin 
Olds  in  business.  This  connection  continued 
for  several  years,  after  which  Messrs.  Will- 
iams and  Hardham  retired  and  Air.  Plum  con- 
ducted the  business  alone,  increasing  his  stock 
steadily  and  adding  new  departments  until  at 
the  present  time  (1909)  he  has  the  largest 
business  of  its  kind  in  the  state  of  New  Jersey. 
In  addition  to  the  sale  of  books  and  stationery, 
he  does  all  kinds  of  printing,  book  binding,  and 
has  an  extensive  paper  warehouse.  During 
Mr.  Plum's  forty-three  years  connection  with 
business  he  has  always  enjoyed  the  confidence 
and  respect  of  his  associates  and  patrons,  owing 
to  the  fact  that  he  conducted  his  affairs  in  a 
straightforward  and  honorable  manner  and 
exerted  every  means  to  please  his  customers. 
His  life  has  been  one  of  unquestionable  integ- 
rity, of  fidelity  to  duty  and  of  sterling  worth, 
and  he  enjoys  the  acquaintance  of  a  large  num- 
ber of  ])eople  throughout  the  community.  He 
is  a  director  in  the  Firemen's  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  Newark,  and  was  formerly  connected 
with  many  of  the  financial  institutions  of  the 
city.  He  is  a  consistent  member  of  the  First 
Baptist  Church  of  Newark.  Mr.  Plum  mar- 
ried, September  4,  1862.  Josephine  .\.,  born 
-August  7,  1841,  daughter  of  William  and  .Anne 
Eliza  (Howard)  Terhune,  who  were  married 
January  15,  1839.  William  Terhune  was  born 
December  9,  1818,  and  his  wife,  August  28. 
1819.  Children  of  Air.  and  Mrs.  Plum:  i. 
Anne  Howard,  born  May  11,  1864;  married, 
October  25.  1882,  George  ^^'.  Downs;  child. 
Harry  Plum  Downs,  born  October  6,  1883.  2. 
Matthias,  December  8,  1865:  see  forward.     3. 


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Stc])lien  Haines,  June  6,  1872;  married  Madge 
Wilder ;  one  child,  Emeline  Plum.  4.  William 
Terhune,  April  14,  1876;  see  forward. 

(IX)  Matthias,  son  of  Matthias  and  Jo- 
sephine A.  (Terhune)  Plum,  was  born  in  New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  December  8,  1865.  He  was 
educated  at  Newark  Academy.  For  a  number 
of  years  he  was  associated  in  business  with  his 
father,  but  is  now  (1909)  operating  the  Wav- 
erly  Paper  Box  &  Board  Company's  plant  at 
Waverly,  New  Jersey,  of  which  he  is  pro- 
prietor. He  is  a  member  of  the  Morris  County 
Golf  Club,  Essex  County  Country  Club,  Essex 
Club  and  Trinity  Church  (Episcopal),  New- 
ark. He  married;  .April  23,  1890,  Mary  Camp- 
bell, born  November  4,  1870,  daughter  of 
Elisha  Bird  and  Mary  (Campbell)  Gaddis,  of 
Newark.  Children:  i.  Mary  Gaddis,  born 
-April  5.  1892.  2.  Elisha  Gaddis,  June  16,  1897. 
3.  Matthias,  third,  October  i,  1904. 

(IX)  William  Terhune,  youngest  son  and 
child  of  Matthias  and  Josephine  A.  (Terhune) 
Plum,  was  born  in  Newark.  New  Jersey,  .April 
14,  1876.  He  graduated  from  Newark  Acad- 
emy in  1895,  and  from  that  time  until  1906 
was  engaged  in  a  general  stationery  business 
in  Newark,  of  which  his  father  was  the  head. 
June  29,  1909,  he  built  and  became  the  sole 
proprietor  of  the  Meadow  Paper  Box  Board 
Mill  of  Newark,  manufacturers  of  bristols  and 
])aper  box  boards.  In  addition  to  this  he  serves 
as  director  in  Lyon  &  Sons  Brewing  Company, 
and  in  several  other  prominent  business  con- 
cerns in  Newark.  Pie  holds  membership  in 
various  subordinate  Masonic  bodies  at  New- 
ark, lodge,  council,  commandery  and  also  the 
.Sccjttish  Rite  bodies  U])  to  the  thirty-second  de- 
gree, being  also  a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 
He  is  a  menil)er  of  the  .Auto  and  Alotor  Club. 
Essex  County  Country  Club  and  Essex  Club. 
Mr.  Plum  married,  October  26,  1898,  Bertha, 
daughter  of  Gottfried  and  Bertha  (Lible) 
Krueger.  Children,  born  in  Newark:  i.  Will- 
iam Terhune  Jr.,  September  6,  1899.  2.  Gott- 
fried Krueger,  October  9,  1902;  died  Septem- 
ber 12.  1904.  3.  Bertha  Krueger,  October  6, 
1905. 

Elias  Truax,  the  earliest  member 
TRl'.AX     of  this  family  of  whom  wc  have 

definite  information,  was  born  in 
Shrewsbury,  in  July  1788,  and  died  June  2, 
1881,  in  his  ninety-fourth  year.  The  name  in 
the  various  spellings  of  Treuax.  Treux,  Trewex, 
Triax,  Tryax  and  Truax,  both  with  and  with- 
out the  prefix  "de"  is  foimd  in  the  old  records 
of  New  .Amsterdam,  but  there  is  no  evidence 


to  indicate  whether  the  prefix  is  the  French 
preposition  meaning  "of"  or  the  Dutch  article 
signifying  "the,"  and  it  is  consequently  im- 
possible to  determine  whether  the  family  is  of 
Holland  Dutch  or  French  Huguenot  extraction. 
Jacob,  second  son  of  Philip  de  Treuax,  who  is 
said  to  have  settled  in  New  Amsterdam  about 
1621,  was  baptized  in  the  Dutch  Church  in 
New  Amsterdam,  December  7,  1645;  on  .April 
14,  1682,  he  took  up  one  hundred  and  thirty 
acres  of  land  in  Freehold  township,  Alonmouth 
county.  New  Jersey,  between  Swimming  River 
and  Holmdel.  Here  he  settled  and  became  the 
ancestor  of  the  New  Jersey  branch  of  the  fam- 
ily. Elias  Trua.x,  referred  to  above,  a  descend- 
ant of  Jacob  de  Treua.x,  owned  a  large  farm  in 
Hamilton,  Alonmouth  county.  New  Jersey.  He 
was  originally  an  old  line  Whig  and  later  a 
Republican.  It  is  said  that  he  never  experi- 
enced a  day's  illness  until  attacked  by  the  pneu- 
monia which  caused  his  death.  In  the  war  of 
181 2  he  served  from  Se])tember  16  to  Decem- 
ber 9,  1814,  as  private  in  Captain  Daniel  D. 
Hendrickson's  company  of  riflemen.  Third 
Regiment  of  New  Jersey  Detailed  Alilitia.  1  le 
married  Hannah  Layton,  who  died  about  four 
years  after  her  husband,  at  the  age  of  ninety- 
four.  Children:  Anthony,  referred  to  below  ; 
John;  Sarah  .Ann,  married  Hamilton  Banta; 
name  unknown,  died  in  infancy. 

(II)  .Anthony,  son  of  Elias  and  Hannah 
(  Payton)  Truax,  was  born  at  Hamilton,  Mon- 
mouth county.  New  Jersey,  July  17,  1810. 
.\fter  attaining  his  majority  he  removed  from 
Hamilton  to  Poplar,  Alonmouth  county,  where 
he  added  various  speculative  enterprises  to  his 
agricultural  pursuits  and  invested  his  profits 
in  bank,  building,  loan  and  other  securities  of 
a  similar  kind.  He  was  an  active  Republican, 
and  for  twenty  years  was  a  justice  of  the  peace 
in  I'oplar.  In  1850  he  was  appointed  at  Free- 
hold commissioner  of  wrecks  for  the  Deal  dis- 
trict, and  as  such  had  charge  of  the  wrecks  on 
the  Jersey  coast  for  five  years.  He  was  a 
trustee  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  at 
W^est  Long  Branch  many  years.  He  married 
Tenty  .Ann  White,  born  September  28,  1812. 
Children:  Henry,  born  .August  20,  1835: Han- 
nah, married  Afatthias  Woolley  (see  Wool- 
ley)  ;  Jacob  W'hite:  Elias  L. :  Mary  Catharine, 
married  George  Taylor;  Cornelia,  married 
Charles  L.  Ilulick;  .Anthony  Taylor,  referred 
to  below:  (Icorge  \\' . ;  Joseph  Chattel;  names 
unknown,  died  in  infancy. 

(HI)  .Anthony  (2),  son  of  .Anthony  (i) 
and  Tenty  .Ami  (White)  Truax,  was  born  at 
Pojjlar.  New  Jersey,  October  17,  1847,  and  is 


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now  living  at  24  Rockwell  avenue,  Long 
Branch,  New  Jersey.  After  spending  a  brief 
period  in  the  public  schools  in  Poplar  he  as- 
sisted his  father  until  he  became  of  age,  and 
then  refusing  a  farm  which  his  father  offered 
to  give  him,  he  entered  the  grocery  store  of 
his  brother  at  Long  Branch,  where  he  remain- 
ed for  three  years.  In  185 1  he  opened  a  gro- 
cery store  in  Long  Branch  on  his  own  account 
and  conducted  it  successfully  until  1892,  when 
he  discontinued  it  and  became  extensively  en- 
gaged in  the  hardware  trade.  In  March,  1896, 
he  sold  out  his  hardware  establishment  and 
took  a  rest  from  active  business  until  Decem- 
ber, 1899,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
Isaac  H.  Cramer  under  the  firm  name  of 
Truax  &  Cramer,  lumber  merchants  and  dealers 
in  builders'  materials.  Mr.  Truax  is  a  Repub- 
lican, and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church  ever  since  he  was  fifteen 
years  old.  At  present  he  is  treasurer  and 
president  of  the  board  of  stewards  of  that 
church  at  Long  Branch.  He  has  always  taken 
a  great  interest  in  the  development  and  im- 
provement of  the  town,  and  a  number  of  the 
most  substantial  business  and  residential  prop- 
erties are  not  only  owned  but  were  designed  by 
him.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  city 
council  in  the  fall  of  1909.  He  married  (first), 
in  March.  1879,  Laura,  daughter  of  Charles 
Hulick.  of  West  Long  Branch,  granddaughter 
of  William  Hulick,  who  died  May  11,  1885. 
He  married  (second),  in  October,  1887,  Min- 
nie Behr.  daughter  of  Frederick  and  Wil- 
helmina  (  Behr )  Brinkhantz.  Children,  all  by 
first  marriage :  Charles  Lincoln,  died  in  in- 
fancy ;  Harry  and  Chester  Maps,  both  referred 
to  below. 

(R)  Harry,  son  of  Anthony  (2)  Taylor 
and  Laura  (Hulick)  Truax,  was  born  at  Long 
Branch.  New  Jersey,  July  17,  1881,  and  is  now 
living  in  that  town.  After  receiving  his  early 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Long  Branch, 
he  graduated  from  Columbia  University  Law 
School  with  the  class  of  1906.  He  then  studied 
law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  John  S.  Applegate,  of 
Red  Bank,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jer- 
sey bar  as  an  attorney  in  February,  1907,  and 
as  a  counselor  at  law-  in  February,  1910.  Since 
then  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  general  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  in  Long  Branch.  He  is 
a  member  of  Long  Branch  Lodge,  No.  78,  F. 
and  A.  M..  of  New  Jersey,  and  of  Standard 
Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  Long  Branch.  He  married, 
in  Long  Branch,  September  21,  1904,  Florence, 
daughter  of  Josiah  and  Eveline  (Sickles) 
Stratton,  granddaughter  of  Branson  Stratton, 


who  was  born  at  Long  Branch,  February  2, 
1885.  Child,  Margaret  H.,  born  June  11,  1907. 
{ I\' )  Chester  Maps,  son  of  Anthony  Taylor 
and  Laura  (Hulick)  Truax,  was  born  in  Long 
Branch,  New  Jersey,  April  5,  1884,  and  is  now 
living  in  that  town.  He  received  his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  Long  Branch  public  schools  and 
then  graduated  from  the  Chattle  high  school 
with  the  class  of  1900,  and  at  that  time  was  the 
youngest  graduate  from  that  school.  After 
this  he  went  into  the  lumber  business  in  his 
father's  firm,  where  he  remained  for  four 
years,  at  the  end  of  which  period  he  bought  up 
the  hardware  business  of  Slocum  Brothers, 
dealers  in  commercial  hardware,  paints  and 
liouse  furnishings.  Mr.  Truax  is  a  Republican- 
in  politics,  and  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church.  He  is  a  member  of  Abacus 
Lodge,  No.  182,  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  of  the 
Junior  Order  of  L'nited  Mechanics.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Long  Branch  Board  of  Trade. 
He  married  in  Long  Branch,  October  11,  1905, 
Ada  S.,  daughter  of  Christian  and  Anna 
{ Lanej  Brehm.  Child,  Laura  Gladys,  born 
May  9,  1907.  Children  of  Christian  and  Anna 
(Lane)  Brehm:  i.  Lucinda,  married  John  H. 
Sculthorpe  :  children  :  Chandler  B.  and  Alma 
Demaris  Sculthorpe.  2.  Ada  S.,  referred  to 
above. 


The  progenitors  of  this  branch  of 
PRICE     the   Price   family  of  New  Jersey 

came  direct  from  Connecticut, 
and,  unlike  others  of  the  same  name  leaving 
Connecticut,  did  not  first  settle  on  Long  Island, 
afterwards  removing  to  New  Jersey.  The  pro- 
genitors referred  to  were  among  the  first  white 
men  who  settled  and  established  homes  in  that 
territory  of  the  then  colony  of  New  Jersey, 
in  what  was  afterwards  created  into  the  county 
of  Sussex  (1753),  and  in  that  portion  of  its 
territory  subsequently  created  into  the  town- 
ship of  Frankford  (1797),  and  then  called 
Papakating,  after  a  stream  flowing  through 
this  territory. 

( I )  The  names  of  these  progenitors  were 
Robert  Price,  Samuel  Price  and  John  Price, 
three  brothers.  They  traced  their  origin  and 
claimed  to  be  of  Welsh  extraction,  and  that 
the  name  Price  was  formerly  spelt  "Pryce." 
Before  coming  to  what  became  Sussex  county, 
and  while  living  on  Connecticut,  the  three 
brothers  were  engaged  as  extensive  shippers, 
owned  vessels,  and  were  well  supplied  with 
worldly  goods.  The  brothers  sailed  in  their 
own  merchantmen,  and  continued  their  ship- 
ping business  in  New  England  until  their  loss 


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of  valuable  cargoes  by  shipwreck  compelled 
the  abandonment  of  their  business. 

It  is  related  of  Robert  that,  when  a  small 
boy.  he  and  his  mother  were  taken  prisoners 
by  the  Indians  at  one  of  the  massacres  in  the 
eastern  states,  and  marched  off  together.  She, 
being  somewhat  conversant  with  language  of 
the  savages,  soon  learned  from  their  conversa- 
tion and  gestures  that  she  was  to  be  dispatched, 
and  immediately  communicated  the  intelligence 
to  her  son.  She  told  him  that  he  must  not  cry 
when  they  killed  her,  or  they  would  kill  him 
too.  She  only  marched  a  few  rods  further 
before  she  was  killed.  The  boy  was  eventually 
adopted  by  one  of  the  squaws  as  her  child,  she 
•having  lost  one  of  her  own  a  few  days  previ- 
ous. Robert  lived  w-ith  the  Indians  until  he 
was  over  tw-enty-one  years  old,  and  was  then 
rescued  by  his  friends.  It  was  a  long  time  be- 
fore, he  became  thoroughly  reconciled  to  civil- 
ized societv.  and  he  sometimes  expressed  a  de- 
sire to  return  to  the  Indians,  but  the  feeling 
gradually  wore  away  after  his  release. 

John  Price  remained  only  a  short  time  in 
Frank  ford  and  returned  to  Connecticut,  and 
subsequently  to  seafaring  and  was  never  after- 
wards heard  of  by  his  other  brothers.  Robert 
and  Samuel  remained  in  Frankford,  where 
they  had  settled.  Robert  on  lands  near  what  is 
now  the  "Plains  Church,"  and  the  former  on 
lands  about  a  mile  distant.  Samuel  died  in 
1768,  aged  seventy-tive  years,  and  both  he  and 
his  wife  Sarah,  who  died  in  1761,  aged  fifty- 
five  years,  were  buried  in  the  cemetery  adjoin- 
ing the  "Plains  Church,"  which  the  Prices  laid 
out  and  gave  as  a  burial  place. 

Samuel  Price  is  thought  to  have  been  mar- 
ried prior  to  his  settlement  in  New  Jersey,  and 
left  a  family  of  children  in  Connecticut.  Cpon 
his  death  in  Frankford.  Sussex  county,  he  left 
two  sons,  viz.,  Zachariah  and  Francis.  Robert, 
who  died  after  his  brother  Samuel,  was  one 
of  the  Sussex  county  committee  of  safety,  Au- 
gust, 1775.  lie  left  children,  but  most  of  them 
went  west  and,  it  is  well  known,  settled  in 
( )hio  and  other  western  states. 

The  two  sons  of  Samuel,  viz.,  Zachariah  and 
Francis,  took  an  active  part  in  behalf  of  the 
independence  of  New  Jersey  as  a  colony,  and 
actively  served  the  cause  throughout  the  whole 
])eriod  of  the  war  of  the  .American  revolution. 
( -See  records  of  .\ew  Jersey,  adjutant-general's 
office). 

Francis,  son  of  Samuel,  though  married,  it 
is  claimed  left  no  children  surviving  him.  Zach- 
ariah, the  other  son  of  Samuel,  left  twelve  chil- 


dren— six  daughters  and  six  sons.  The  names 
of  the  latter  are  hereafter  given. 

( IIj  The  aforesaid  Zachariah,  son  of  Sam- 
uel Price,  was  born  in  Papakating,  Sussex 
county,  New  Jersey.  September  22,  1743,  and 
dietl  at  Frankford,  Sussex  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, in  August,  1806.  He  was  a  farmer,  and 
a  soldier  throughout  the  whole  of  the  Amer- 
ican revolution,  serving  as  a  private  in  the 
Sussex  county  militia,  and  also  in  Major  West- 
brook's  battalion  of  state  troops.  He  married 
Mary  De  Pew,  born  in  Sussex  county.  New 
Jersey,  October  20,  1754,  died  at  Frankford, 
in  August,  1816.  Children:  I.  Samuel,  born 
July  I.  1773;  died  July  25,  1803.  2.  Henry, 
born  March  20,  1775;  died  July  ]8,  1831.  3. 
Sarah,  born  February  15,  1877;  died  Septem- 
ber 13,  1822.  4.  ]\Iary,  born  December  21, 
^779-  5-  Zachariah,  born  January  i,  1781  ; 
died  December,  1806.  6.  Elizabeth,  born  July 
26,  1783.  7.  Jerusha.  born  July  26.  1785.  8. 
brancis,  referred  to  below.  9.  Rachel,  born 
August  26,  1789.  10.  Johanna,  born  Septem- 
ber 10,  1791.  II.  John,  born  February  10. 
1794;  died  June  29,  1822.  12.  Robert,  born 
October  7,  1796;  died  July  i,  1798. 

(Ill)  Francis,  son  of  Zachariah  and  Mary 
(  De  Pew )  Price,  was  born  at  Papakating,  in 
Frankford  township,  Susse.x  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, August  18,  1787,  and  died  in  the  city  of 
New  York,  June  2,  1864,  aged  seventy-seven 
years.  After  receiving  a  district  school  edu- 
cation he  started  in  life  as  the  keeper  of  a  gen- 
eral country  store  at  New  Milford,  Orange 
county,  New  York,  but  gave  this  up  in  order 
to  engage  in  the  real  estate  business  with  Ross 
W'inans,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland,  and  later  in 
New  York  City,  and  Hudson  county,  New 
Jersey.  In  1838-39  he  was  a  member  of  the 
New  Jersey  state  council,  and  one  of  the  judges 
I  if  the  New  Jersey  court  of  errors  and  appeal, 
from  P)ergen  county.  He  resided  many  years 
at  W'eehawken.  Hudson  county,  and  was  the 
founder  of  the  W'eehawken  ferry  to  New  York 
Citv.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  was 
brought  up  a  Methodist,  but  from  religious 
convictions  became  an  Episcopalian.  He  mar- 
ried (first),  October  20,  1807.  Jane  McCamly, 
of  Sussex  county.  New  Jersey,  who  died  April 
10.  1833.  and  (second),  March  18,  1840,  Maria 
Louisa  (Hart)  Suckley.  widow  of  Dr.  Suck- 
ley,  and  daughter  of  John  and  .Sarah  Hart,  of 
New  Yiirk  (_"ity,  and  a  member  of  a  family 
which  included  among  its  ranks  John  Hart, 
signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 
Children,  nine  by  first  marriage,  of  whom  six 
died  in  infancy. 


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( I\' )  Edward  Livingston,  son  of  Hon.  Fran- 
cis and  Maria  Louisa  (Hart-Suckley)  Price, 
was  born  in  W'averly  place,  New  York  City, 
December  25,  1844,  and  is  now  living  in  New- 
ark, New  Jersey.  He  received  his  education 
at  Dr.  Cattell's  Edgehill  School,  Princeton, 
New  Jersey,  at  Dr.  XN'oodhuH's  School,  Free- 
hold, Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey,  and  at 
Dr.  Pingrey's  School  in  Newark.  When  he 
was  sixteen  years  of  age  he  entered  the  L'nion 
army  as  second  lieutenant  of  Company  E,  Sev- 
enty-fourth Regiment  New  York  \  olunteers, 
antl  was  shortly  afterward  promoted  first  lieu- 
tenant, serving  as  such  from  July,  1861,  to 
April,  1862,  when  he  was  promoted  by  Major 
General  Hooker  on  his  personal  staff  as  ord- 
nance officer  of  Hooker's  Division,  Third  Army 
Corps,  serving  as  such  with  the  .Army  of  the 
Potomac,  at  the  siege  of  Yorktown,  Virginia, 
and  in  the  whole  of  the  Peninsular  campaign. 
In  August,  1862,  he  was  promoted  major  of 
his  old  regiment.  Seventy- fourth  New  York, 
with  which  he  served  and  which  he  commanded 
through  Pope's  campaign  in  \'irginia,  and  the 
battles  of  Hristow  Station,  Second  Manassas 
and  Chantilly.  I'^ebruary  18.  1863.  he  was  pro- 
moted colonel  of  the  C)ne  Hundred  and  Forty- 
fifth  New  York  \olunteers,  at  which  time  he 
was  only  eighteen  years  old.  He  served  with 
this  regiment  until  Januarj',  1864,  and  com- 
manded it  at  the  battles  of  Chancellorsville 
and  (iettysburg.  This  military  record  is  most 
remarkable,  and  is  one  of  which  his  descend- 
ants for  all  time  have  great  reason  to  be  proud. 
.After  the  close  of  the  war.  Colonel  Price  re- 
turned home  and  entered  as  a  student  at  law 
the  office  of  Hon.  Joseph  P.  Bradley,  who  be- 
came later  an  associate  justice  of  the  Cnited 
States  supreme  court.  Here  he  applied  him- 
self vigorously  and  earnestly  to  his  work,  and 
in  1866  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as 
an  attorney,  in  company  with  Garret  .A.  Hobart. 
afterwards  vice-president  of  the  L'nited  States, 
arid  .Andrew  Kirkpatrick,  later  a  judge  of  the 
L'nited  States  district  court  in  New  Jersey. 
Colonel  Price  now  located  himself  in  Newark, 
where  he  entered  upon  and  has  since  been 
continuously  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession. His  success  was  marked  and  imme- 
diate, and  he  soon  rose  to  prominence,  and  for 
over  forty  years  has  stood  in  the  front  rank  of 
New  Jersey's  legal  lights.  Having  a  strong 
power  of  analysis,  a  keen  discrimination,  and 
a  quickly  receptive  mind,  he  grasped  with 
rapidity  the  essential  points  in  a  case,  and 
never  loses  sight  of  the  weak  and  assailable 
points  in  an  argument.    He  has  been  connected 


with  most  of  the  important  litigation  in  eastern 
New  Jersey  since  his  admission  to  the  bar.  In 
1865.  when  he  had  not  quite  reached  his  major- 
ity, but  near  enough  to  it  for  him  to  be  twenty- 
one  years  of  age  when  he  took  his  seat,  Colonel 
Price  was  elected  a  member  of  the  general 
assembly,  and  in  1867  was  re-elected  to  the 
same  position.  As  a  legislator  he  met  the  most 
sanguine  hopes  of  his  many  friends,  and  ren- 
dered a  service  which  gave  abundant  evidence 
of  his  unusual  ability  in  legislative  affairs.  He 
is  the  author  of  many  measures  now  found 
upon  the  statute  books  of  the  state,  including 
the  law  creating  the  board  of  street  and  water 
commissioners  of  Newark  and  Jersey  City, 
which  made  the  wonderful  and  much  needed 
change  in  that  branch  of  municipal  govern- 
luent  in  large  cities.  The  law  has  stood  the 
test  of  many  courts,  and  thus  far  its  provisions 
stand  unchanged  by  a  single  adverse  decision. 
His  broad  knowledge  of  constitutional  law- 
made  his  services  especially  valuable  and  Colo- 
nel Price  was  regarded  as  one  of,  if  not  the 
ablest,  of  the  members  of  the  house.  For  many 
\ears  he  was  an  active  worker  and  effective 
speaker  on  behalf  of  the  Democratic  party. 
For  many  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Esse.x  county  Democratic  committee,  and  most 
of  the  time  he  has  been  the  chairman  of  that 
body.  He  is  especially  effective  as  an  organ- 
izer, and  has  led  his  party  to  victory  through 
many  campaigns.  He  has  also  been  chairman 
(if  the  Democratic  state  committee,  where  his 
work  has  been  no  less  efficient.  In  the  Newark 
munici])al  campaign  of  1896  Colonel  Price  took 
a  very  active  part  in  securing  the  election  of 
Hon.  James  M.  Seymour  to  the  mayoralty,  and 
it  was  a  fitting  and  deserving  reward  that  in 
May,  1896.  he  should  have  been  appointed  to 
the  important  position  of  corporation  counsel, 
and  should  be  reappointed  to  the  same  posi- 
tion b\-  the  same  mayor  after  his  re-elections 
in  i8y8  and  1900.  Since  his  first  appointment 
to  that  position.  Colonel  Price's  work  gave 
abundant  evidence  of  the  wisdom  of  the  choice 
made  by  Mayor  Seymour.  He  rendered  many 
written  and  verbal  opinions  relating  to  city 
affairs  which  have  met  with  the  fullest  ap- 
proval of  courts  and  lawyers,  and  have  the 
commendation  of  almost  the  entire  bar.  Colo- 
nel Price  not  only  has  abundant  learning,  gen- 
eral and  legal,  and  a  remarkable  acumen,  but 
he  is  also  a  politician  of  rare  power  and  dis- 
crimination. His  personality  is  commanding 
and  pleasing,  and  his  unfailing  courtesy  is 
manifested  alike  to  all,  he  is  easy  of  approach, 
possessed    of    a    charitable    and    sympathetic 


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nature,  and  endowed  with  all  the  distinctive 
characteristics  which  mark  a  man  as  the  gentle- 
man born  as  well  as  bred. 

Col.  Price  married  (first),  June  i,  1864. 
Emma,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  Ann 
Marriott,  of  Newark,  New  Jersey,' who  was 
born  in  England,  in  1843.  He  married  (sec- 
ond), A])ril  27,  1887,  Frederica  Theresa, 
daughter  of  Edward  C.  and  Eve  Elizabeth 
Eberhardt,  of  Newark,  New  Jersey,  who  was 
born  in  Newark,  August  22,  1853.  By  his  first 
wife  the  following  children:  i.  Edward  Liv- 
ingston, referred  to  below.  2.  Frances  Maria 
Josephine,  born  January  24,  1867;  married. 
January  9.  1890,  Edward  ]\Iyer  Spear,  who 
was  born  April  i,  1863:  child,  Edward  Ray- 
mond, born  .August  26.  1891.  3.  Marie  Louise, 
married  Hugh  Jones,  of  Lafayette,  Sussex 
county,  New  Jersey,  and  later  of  Kansas  City, 
Missouri:  two  children.     4.  Frances  M. 

(V)  Edward  Livingston  (2),  son  of  Ed- 
ward Livingston  (i)  and  Emma  (Marriott) 
Price,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Oc- 
tober 4,  1866.  For  his  early  education  he  was 
sent  to  the  Newark  public  schools,  after  leav- 
ing which  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Central 
Railroad  of  New  Jersey.  This  was  in  1882, 
and  for  seven  years  he  remained  in  the  office 
of  the  freight  department  of  that  railroad.  Two 
years  later,  in  1889,  he  entered  the  United 
States  railway  mail  service,  running  as  one  of 
the  mail  clerks  between  New  York  and  Pitts- 
burg. Mere  he  remained  until  1891,  when  he 
accepted  a  position  in  the  Jersey  City  Terminal 
of  the  Lehigh  Valley  Railroad,  which  he  re- 
tained until  1894,  when  he  took  up  his  present 
position  in  the  office  of  the  city  comi)troller  of 
Newark.  In  politics  Mr.  Price  is  a  Democrat, 
and  in  religious  conviction  a  Roman  Catholic. 

Mr.  Price  married,  October  2,  1893,  Mary, 
daughter  of  John  and  Mary  White,  of  Orange. 
Her  elder  brother  and  two  younger  sisters  are 
John,  Margaret  and  Annie  White.  Children 
of  P2dward  Livingston  and  Mary  (White) 
Price:  Marian  Livingston,  born  .September 
3,  1894;  Edward  Livingston,  January  29,  1896; 
Rodman  Francis,  March  18,  1903. 


.\t  the  conclusion  of  the 
TERIIU.Nl'".     treaty  of  peace  between   the 

Protestant  and  Catholic  pow- 
ers in  France,  made  June  24,  1573.  the  Frencli 
Huguenots  obtained  the  free  exercise  of  their 
religious  rights  in  sucli  cities  of  security  as 
Rochellc,  Nimes  and  Montauban.  This  excep- 
tion to  continue  prosecution  made  the  condi- 
tion  of   three  hundred   thousand   Protestants. 


who  lived  outside  of  these  borders,  the  more 
unbearable,  and  resulted  in  a  continuous  flow 
of  migrants  beyond  the  French  boundaries  to 
Holland  and  across  the  English  channel  to 
Great  Britain. 

While  it  is  generally  conceded  that  no  great 
movement  was  made  before  October  18,  1685, 
the  date  of  the  revocation  of  the  edict  of 
Nantes,  the  number  then  credited  to  thee.xodus 
resultant  to  the  revocation  and  placed  at  four 
hundred  thousand,  include  the  steady  flow  of 
liberty-loving  men  and  women,  who  for  three 
generations  had  been  making  new  homes  out- 
side of  Catholic  France  and  who  had  been  re- 
porting home  the  advantages  they  were  en- 
joying in  the  free  air  of  Holland  and  the  great 
commercial  advantages  of  England.  These 
migrants  included  the  most  industrious,  the 
most  intelligent  and  the  most  religious  of  the 
people  of  northern  France,  who  found  new 
homes  in  Holland,  Great  Britain,  Switzerland, 
Prussia  and  .America.  This  great  loss  to  France 
was  largely  merchants,  manufacturers  and 
skilled  artisans,  who  gave  the  benefits  of  their 
superior  knowledge,  taste  and  aptitude  to  create 
wealth  for  the  wiser  governments,  who  wel- 
comed these  forerunners  of  prosperity  and 
saw  in  this  influ.x  of  population  a  desirable 
citizenship,  willing  to  build  up  and  ever  reluct- 
ant to  tear  down.  .Among  this  class  of  Hugue- 
not immigrants  we  find  the  early  settlers  of 
New  .Amsterdam,  who  formed  the  basis  on 
w  hich  the  commercial  greatness  of  the  metrop- 
olis of  the  new  world  was  built. 

(I)  .Albert  Albertsen  (or,  as  then  written 
.Albertse').  immigrant  Huguenot  ancestor  of 
the  Tcrliunes  of  New  .Amsterdam  and  princi- 
pally of  Flatlands.  Long  Island,  and  Bergen 
county.  East  New  Jersey,  came  probably  from 
Hunen  (Huyncn)  in  Holland,  where  no  doubt 
his  parents  had  taken  refuge.  Tlie  first  record 
we  have  of  the  immigrant  is  in  New  .Amster- 
dam (New  A'ork),  February  16,  1654.  when 
Wolfret  \\'ebber  brought  a  suit  against  .Albert 
.Alhertse  in  the  burgomasters  and  schepens 
court  for  services  of  his  son,  hired  by  .Albertse, 
who  was  put  on  record  as  a  "lientwever" 
(  ribbon  weaver),  when  he  first  came  to  New 
.Amsterdam,  and  attempted  to  carry  on  his 
trade  in  the  Dutch  city.  He  next  appears  in 
1^157  as  having  rented  and  cultivated  a  farm 
on  the  Nyack  or  Najack  tract  in  New  l^trecht. 
Long  Island,  owned  by  Cornelius  \'an  Werck- 
hoven  and  held  for  the  heirs  of  the  estate  by 
Jac|ues  Cortelyou.  Here  he  evidently  built  a 
rude  home,  after  the  custom  of  the  early  Dutch 
farmers,  consisting  of  a  dugout  cellar,  covered 


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by  a  heav\-  thatch  of  rye  straw  and  generally 
located  on  a  side  hill  so  as  to  insure  drainage 
and  near  a  spring  so  as  to  secure  a  supply  of 
fresh  water.  It  was  such  a  house  that  the 
director-general  anfl  council  of  New  Amster- 
dam forced  him  to  leave,  after  he  had  either 
destroyed  or  unroofed  it,  and  move  his  family 
for  safety  against  the  Indians  into  the  village 
of  New  Utrecht,  where  was  to  be  made  up  of 
all  isolated  settlers  for  mutual  protection. 

This  "garrison  village,"  as  they  would  have 
called  it  in  Xew  England,  was  built  in  1660, 
but  not  until  great  opposition  on  the  part  of 
the  disturbed  farmers  had  been  overcome  by 
force  of  law,  as  it  is  recorded  of  Albert  Al- 
bertse  that  he  was  fined  fifty  guilders  by  the 
director-general  and  council  of  New  Amster- 
dam for  non-conformity  with  the  orders  of  the 
government,  and  when  he  refused  to  pay  was 
imprisoned  until  he  agreed  to  join  in  the  erec- 
tion of  the  village  of  New  Utrecht  and  he  be- 
came the  owner  of  one  of  the  first  twelve 
houses  built  in  the  village,  which  shows  that  he 
was  not  the  only  tardy  or  rebellious  settler. 
The  same  year  he  became  a  land  owner  by  pur- 
chasing fifty  acres  of  land  of  Jacob  Van  Cou- 
wenhoven  in  the  village  of  Flatlands,  for  which 
he  was  obliged  to  appear  before  the  burgo- 
masters and  schepens  court  in  New  Amster- 
dam in  order  to  force  Couwenhoven  to  give 
him  a  deed  as  provided  in  the  agreement  to 
purchase.  The  records  of  this  court  show  that 
Albert  .\lbertse  was  a  party  in  several  suits  in 
1660-61-62  and  we  note  one  against  Wessel 
Gerrizen  for  a  gun.  sword  and  heavy  belt, 
loaned  Gerrizen  at  Christmas. 

On  July  16,  1660,  he  obtained  a  deed  for  a 
piece  of  land  in  Flatlands  from  Jacob  Stend- 
man,  the  deed  being  recorded  in  Dutch,  on 
page  214,  of  "Calendar  of  New  York  His- 
torical Manuscript."  He  sold  the  lease  of  his 
New  Utrecht  farm  to  Natiianiel  Britton,  April 
3,  1664,  and  in  1665  purchased  more  of  the 
Couwenhoven  tract  and  a  tract  from  Elbert 
Elbertse  Stoothofl:'  and  on  the  Stoothoof  land 
he  erected  a  dwelling  house.  In  1675  his  prop- 
erty in  Flatlands  was  assessed  for  £58  sterling. 
His  name,  with  that  of  his  wife  Geertje,  ap- 
pears on  the  records  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church  at  Flatlands  as  members.  About  this 
time  he  joined  with  Jaques  Cortelyou  and  other 
residents  of  Flatlands,  including  the  Gerret- 
sons,  Van  Winkles  and  Speirs  in  the  purchase 
of  the  At|uaekanock  (  Passaick  )  patent  of  five 
thousand  acres  of  land  on  the  Passaic  river  in 
Bergen  county.  East  New  Jersey,  which  pur- 
chase was  the  beginning  of  the  settlement  that 


resulted  in  the  town  of  Hackensack.  The  pro- 
])rietors  of  the  Aquaekanock  patent  received  a 
conformatory  patent  from  the  governor-gen- 
eral and  council  of  East  New  Jersey  in  1685, 
as  recorded  on  page  118,  volume  i.,  of  the 
journal  of  the  government  and  council. 

The  family,  after  settling  in  Polifly,  after- 
wards known  as  Hasbrouck  Heights,  took  on 
the  name  of  Terhune,  possibly  from  the  name 
of  Hunen  or  Huynen  in  Holland,  making  it 
Albert  Albertse  from  Hunon,  or  Terhune.  Al- 
bert Albertse  died  in  Flatlands,  Long  Island, 
in  New  ^Amsterdam,  1685,  and  his  widow 
Geertje  in  1693.  Children:  i.  Jan  Albertse, 
see  sketch.  2.  Heyltje,  baptized  in  New  Amster- 
dam, January  12,  1650.  3.  Albert,  see  for- 
ward. 4.  Annetje,  baptized  in  New  Amster- 
dam, March  6,  1653.  5.  Styntje,  married  Class 
Jansen  Romeyn.  6.  Sachie  (Sarah),  married 
"X'olkert  Hans  Van  Nootstrant.* 

(II)  Albert  (2),  second  son  and  third  child 
of  Albert  (i)  and  Geertje  Albertse,  was  born 
in  New  Utrecht,  and  baptized  probably  in  the 
Dutch  Reformed  Church,  on  the  fort  at  New 
Amsterdam,  August  13,  1651.  He  was  a  farmer 
in  Flatlands,  Long  Island,  New  York,  where 
he  was  on  the  assessment  rolls  of  the  town 
1675-76,  and  in  1683  his  name  again  appears 
for  property  of  thirty-five  morgens  (seventy 
acres  ).  After  this  time  he  removed  to  Passaic 
patent,  purchased  by  his  father  and  other  resi- 
dents of  Flatlands  (or  it  is  possible  he  was 
himself  the  actual  purchaser,  instead  of  his 
father  to  whom  the  purchase  is  credited).  His 
name  i;;  on  the  church  records  of  the  Dutch 
church  in  Flatlands,  together  with  that  of  his 
first  wife,  as  members  in  1677,  and  his  name 
appears  on  the  records  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church  in  Hackensack,  1689.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  Jersey  legislature  in  1695-96, 
according  to  the  records  of  the  governor  and 
council  of  the  state  (vol.  4,  page  160,  N.  Y. 
B  and  G.  Records).  His  will  dated  February 
16,  1707-08,  was  proved  September  20,  1709, 
and  recorded  on  page  420  of  liber  number 
seven,  in  ofiice  of  surrogate  of  New  York. 
There  appears  to  be  no  record  of  the  date  of 
his  death  except  that  conveyed  by  the  date  of 
his  will  and  the  time  at  which  it  was  proven. 

Albert  .Mbertse  (2)  married  (first)  Will- 
emtze  Stevense  Van  \'oorhees,  by  whom  he 
had  no  children,  and  (second)  Weyntje  Brick- 
ers.  bv  whom  he  had  twelve  children,  and 
(third)    Maritie  De  Garrison,  widow  of  An- 

•Throughout  the  Terhune  narrative.s  there  are 
various  speUings  of  certain  proper  name.s,  different 
brandies  of  tlie  family  preserving  different  forms. 


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drew  Tarbot.  and  by  her  be  hail  three  children. 
Children  by  seccmd  wife  were:  i.  John  (q.  v.), 
born  1676.  2.  Willemtze,  baptized  April  2, 
1677;  died  young.  3.  .^nnett,  died  in  infancy. 
4.  Stephen,  born  April  4,  1680;  married  Lydia 
D.  Marie.  5.  .Antje,  born  1681 ;  married  Jacob 
Zabriskii.  6.  Gerebrecht,  born  August  13, 
1682;  married  Abram  Houseman.  7.  Will- 
emtje,  born  August  7,  1684:  married  Jacobus 
(James)  Boughart.  8.  Rachel,  born  August 
20,  1690;  married  John  H.  Hoppe.  9.  Goertjie, 
born  November  6,  1694;  married  Hendrick 
Hendrese  Banta.  10.  Albert,  born  August  10, 
1695;  married  Ann  Maria  Ackerman.  11. 
Johans,  born  June  21,  1700:  married  Gesjeii 
W'estervelt.  12.  Richard  (Dirck),  see  for- 
ward. By  his  third  wife  he  had:  13.  Weyntje, 
born  .\pril  i,  1705:  married  Garret  Lydecker 
and  Lydecker  married  as  his  second  wife  Jo- 
hanna W'aldrom,  of  Haarlem,  New  York.  14. 
Annetje,  born  December  15,  1706.  13.  Mar- 
retti.  born  .August  31,  1707:  married  Hendrick 
Barthold. 

(Ill)  Richard  (  Dirck).  fifth  son  and  twelfth 
child  of  .Albert  (2)  and  Weyntje  (Bnckers) 
.Albertse  (Terhune),  was  born  in  Polifly,  lier- 
gen  county.  East  New  Jersey,  November  15, 
1702.  He  married,  October  3,  1727,  Cath- 
erine, daughter  of  Nicholas  and  .Ann  (Breyant) 
Kip,  of  Hackensack.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Dutch  diurch  at  Hackensack  in  1728.  Ciiil- 
dren,  born  in  Hackensack:  i.  Albert,  .August 
14,  1728.  2.  .Annetje,  November  i,  1730.  3. 
Nicholas,  see  forward.  4.  Weyntje,  1737;  mar- 
ried Casper  W'estervelt.  5.  Jacob,  July  22, 
1739;  married  Elizabeth  Nagle.  6.  Elizabeth, 
July  22,  1739.  7.  Johannes,  .August  3,  1742.  8. 
Geertjc,  Jamiarv  i''),  1745.  9.  Peiter,  January 
31,1748." 

(TV)  Captain  Nicholas  (Nicasius),  second 
son  and  third  child  of  Richard  and  Catherine 
(Kip)  Terhune,  was  born  in  Hackensack,  Ber- 
gen county.  New  Jersey,  January  15,  1736; 
died  in  Polifly,  December  18,  1807.  He  was 
a  farmer  in  the  period  of  the  .American  revolu- 
tion and  was  commissioned  captain  of  the 
Polifly  Cam]),  connected  with  the  Bergen  coun- 
ty regiment,  comnianikd  by  Col.  Teuncs  Dey. 
His  commission  as  cajjtain  is  dated  I'ebruary 
28.  1776,  and  he  served  as  such  in  the  war  of 
the  .American  revolution  and  took  an  imjiortant 
l)art  in  establishing  .American  independence. 
(See  New  Jersey  records  at  Trenton  and  offi- 
cial certificate  of  R.  Heber  Brimptnall,  ad- 
jutant-general, and  Stryker's  "Officers  and 
Men  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,"  p.  414). 
He  married  (first)  Leah  I'orter,  December  15, 


1762;  (second)  Rysie  Haring.  Children  of 
second  marriage,  born  in  Polifly,  now  Has- 
brouck  Heights,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey: 
I.  Richard  Nicholas,  October  21,  1763;  see  for- 
ward. 2.  Regel,  September  20,  1767.  3.  Paulus, 
March  19,  1771 ;  married  Sarah  Paulison,  and 
died  in  1850.  4.  Peterus,  October  30,  1774.  5. 
Leah,  October  16,  1782. 

(\')  Richard  Nicholas,  eldest  son  of  Cap- 
tain Nicholas  and  Rysie  (Haring)  Terhune, 
was  born  in  Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  October 
21,  1763;  died  August  5,  1824.  He  married, 
December  19,  1790,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Nich- 
olas, and  granddaughter  of  Lucas  \'an  Voor- 
hees.  She  was  born  May  12,  1769,  died  April 
24, 1855.  Children,  born  in  Hackensack,  Bergen 
county.  New  Jersey:  i.  Nicholas  (Nicausa), 
January  14,  1792;  married  Aryana  Marsellise, 
and  their  only  son  was  John  Nicholas  Terhune, 
judge  of  the  county  court  of  Passaic  county.  2. 
Albert,  September  20,  1794;  married  Nelly 
Post.  3.  Paul,  see  forward.  4.  Dr.  Garrit, 
October  9,  1801 ;  see  sketch.  5.  Peter  Richard, 
July  9,  1803.  on  the  homestead  in  Lodi ;  mar- 
ried, •September  i,  1824,  Maria  Ikinckcrhoff, 
born  February  18,  1806,  daughter  of  Ralph 
and  granddaughter  of  Richard  i'rinckerhort' 
(  1747-1838),  of  Ridgefield  Park,  .New  Jersey; 
children :  Richard  Paul,  Margaret  and  .Albert 
Brinckerhoff.    He  died  January  18,  1879. 

(\  I)  Paul  (Paulus),  third  son  of  Ricliard 
Nicholas  and  Hannah  (\'an  \'oorhees)  Ter- 
hune, was  born  in  Lodi,  Bergen  county.  New 
Jersey,  .April  13,  1799.  He  married.  May  19, 
1821,  Hannah,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah 
(V^an  \'oorheese )  Zabriskie,  and  they  had  one 
son  Richard,  see  forward.  Paul  Terhune  died 
in  Lodi,  New  Jersey,  July  2,  1826.  and  his 
widow  married  John  Van  Dien. 

(VTl)  Richard,  only  son  of  Paul  and  Han- 
nah (Zabriskie)  Terhune,  was  born  in  Lodi, 
New  Jersey,  April  20,  1822;  died  there,  l'"ebru- 
ary  12,  1889,  He  married  .Ann  .Maria,  daugh- 
ter of  James  H.  and  Sarah  (Van  Giesen) 
Brinckerhofif,  December  9,  1841.  She  was  born 
December  6,  1820,  died  March  22,  1906.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  their 
residence  being  near  Lodi  in  that  county:  I. 
.Albert  R.,  December  7,  1843;  married  Alice 
Jane  Clark,  October  3.  187 1  ;  had  no  issue; 
died  .\ugust  19,  1876.  2.  Rachel  Romeyn,  Au- 
gust 13.  1846;  died  October  8,  1872:  married 
H.  P.  Doremus,  March  12,  1867;  had  two  chil- 
dren:  Annie  S.  Doremus,  married  Alfred 
Burrows,  and  had  two  children  :  .Allen  and 
Henry  P.  Burrows;  and  Richard  T.  Doremus, 
married  Gertrude  Mesillus,  and  had  no  issue. 


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3.  John,  August  8,  1847;  died  December  9, 
1874;  never  married.  4.  Anneta,  December 
29,  1849;  'li'^'I  October,  1879;  married  H.  P. 
DorenuLs,  September  9,  1874,  being  his  seconil 
wife;  she  had  no  issue.  Her  husband  died 
•  November  22,  1907.  5.  Sarah  Ehzabeth,  June 
I,  1852;  died  November  22,  1889;  married 
WiUiam  S.  .Anderson,  November  7,  1877,  she 
being  his  second  wife;  two  children:  Richard 
T.  and  Sarah  E.  Anderson.  6.  James  Henry, 
I'ebruary  7,  1855;  died  October  19,  1875;  un- 
married. 7.  .Aletta  \'an  Dien,  September  4, 
1857;  died  November  10,  1858.  8.  Herman 
\'an  Dien,  see  forward.  9.  Paul,  September 
25,  i8()i  ;  died  unmarried,  November  2,2,  1884. 
10.  Aletta  \'an  Dien,  June  15,  1864;  died  May 
28,  1887;  married  Edmund  H.  Simonton,  Sep- 
tember I,  1885;  they  had  one  child,  Alice 
Pauline  Simonton,  born  November  18,  1886. 
Ednuuid  Fl.  Simonton  died  June  25.  1893. 

(\III)  Herman  \'an  Dien,  fourth  son  and 
eighth  child  of  Richard  and  Ann  Maria 
(BrinckerhofF)  Terhune,  was  born  in  Bergen 
county.  New  Jersey,  at  his  parents'  home,  near 
Lodi,  September  29,  1859.  He  received  his 
secondary  education  in  Bergen  county  and 
took  a  full  course  in  Packard's  Business  Col- 
lege, New  York  City.  He  procured  a  clerk- 
ship in  the  office  of  the  Standard  Oil  Company 
of  New  Jersey  in  their  New  York  office,  where 
by  regular  promotion  he  is  now  occupying  a  re- 
sponsible position.  He  changed  his  residence 
to  Passaic,  New  Jersey,  in  1889,  where  he  be- 
came a  member  of  the  First  Reformed  Church, 
known  by  his  ancestors  as  their  church  home 
for  seven  generations,  but  first  known  as  the 
Dutch  Reformed  Church,  the  first  church 
erected  on  Manhattan  Island  and  in  which  his 
immigrant  ancestor,  Albert  i\lbertsen,  had  his 
children  baptized.  He  was  also  a  member  of 
the  Order  of  American  Mechanics.  He  is  un- 
married. 


(H)  Jan  Albertse  Terhune, 
TERHC.XE     eldest  son  of  Albert  Albertse 

(q.  V.)  and  Geertje  Terhune, 
was  born  in  Flatlands,  Long  Island,  or  more 
probably  in  New  Amsterdam,  but  no  record 
of  the  date  of  his  birth  appears  to  have 
been  preserved.  He  was  a  farmer  in  Flatlands 
and  his  name  is  recorded  among  the  members 
of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  of  that  place 
in  1677;  as  a  deacon  in  1687.  He  took  the 
oath  of  allegiance  to  the  English  crown  in 
1687  as  a  native,  and  he  was  lieutenant  of  mili- 
tia, 1691,  and  captain  of  the  militia  in  1700.  In 
1690  he  and  others  obtained  a  tract  of  land 


near  Duck  creek  at  St.  Johns  on  the  Delaware 
(vol.  iii.,  "Documents  of  Colonial  History"). 
According  to  the  records  of  the  Dutch  church 
at  Flatlands  he  paid  November  i,  1686,  16 
gl.  for  a  grave  for  his  son;  on  March  25,  1688, 
19  gl.  10  St.  for  a  grave  for  his  wife;  April  15, 
1693,  20  gl.  for  a  grave  for  his  mother;  De- 
cember I,  1703,  12  gl,  10  St.  for  a  grave  and 
the  use  of  a  pall;  and  November  5,  1704,  22 
gl.  for  graves  for  two  of  his  children.  His 
will  is  dated  February  20,  1696.  He  died,  it  is 
su])posed,  in  1705. 

lie  married,  June  6,  1691,  Alargreetje  Van 
Sychellen,  of  Flatlands,  and  their  children 
w-ere:  i.  Roelof,  married,  May  5,  1706,  Mar-  ^ 
rietie  or  j\Iaryke,  daughter  of  Gerret  Pieterse 
W'yckoff,  of  Flatlands,  and  they  had  eight  chil- 
dren. 2.  Albert,  see  forward.  3.  Anche,  of 
whom  there  is  no  further  trace.  The  grave 
]>urchased  by  the  father,  December  i,  1703, 
"for  a  grave  and  the  use  of  the  pall"  may  have 
been  for  this  child. 

(HI)  Albert,  second  child  of  Jan  Albertse 
and  Margreetje  (Van  Sychellen)  Terhune,  was 
born  in  Flatlands,  Long  Island,  and  baptized 
in  the  Dutch  church  in  that  place,  April  13, 
1684.  He  was  a  fariuer  in  Flatlands,  and  his 
will  was  dated  April  11,  1721,  and  probated 
December  18,  1721.  He  married,  December 
17,  1708,  Aaltje  \'oorhees,  who  was  baptized 
at  Flatlands,  Long  Island,  October  4,  1785; 
children:  i.  John,  see  forward.  2.  Gerret,  of 
whom  we  have  no  further  knowledge.  3. 
.\nna.  who  probably  married  Cornelius  Bulsen, 
and  had  a  son  Albert  Bulsen,  baptized  in  New 
\'(irk,  May  9,  1742.  4.  W'illemtje,  married, 
prior  to  1730,  Jacob  Duryee,  baptized  May  26, 
1750,  in  Kings  county.  5.  Sarah,  who  is  sup- 
jiosed  to  have  married,  about  1730,  Hermanns 
Barkeloo,  and  had  children :  Maria,  Johannes, 
1  lermanus,  W'illemtje,  Sarah  and  Jatjues  Barke- 
loo, born  between  1 731  and  1747. 

(I\' )  John,  eldest  child  of  Albert  and  .\altje 
(X'oorhees)  Terhune,  was  born  in  Flatlands. 
Long  Island,  New  York,  in  1709  or  1710.  He 
was  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm,  which  he 
inherited.  He  was  a  deacon  in  the  Dutch 
church  there  in  1723.  He  married  Nelly 
Denyse. 

(V)  .Albert  (2),  son  of  John  and  Nelly 
( Denyse )  Terhune,  was  born  in  Flatlands, 
Long  Island,  New  York,  in  September,  1733. 
He  appears  not  on  the  records  of  Flatlands 
and  evidently  removed  to  Middlesex  county. 
New  Jersey,  probably  with  his  father  and 
mother,  and  where  he  married  and  had  a  son 
.Abraham,  see  forward. 


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(\T )  Abraham,  son  of  All)€rt  (2)  Terhune, 
was  born  on  liis  lather's  farm,  near  Princeton, 
Mercer  county,  New  Jersey,  August  15,  1760; 
died  there,  in  1854.  He  married  Marcia  Will- 
iams and  lived  on  the  farm  three  miles  from 
Princeton  in  Mercer  county,  where  his  chil- 
dren were  born.  He  was  an  officer  of  the 
American  army  in  the  revolutionary  war,  serv- 
ing as  lieutenant  and  had  command  of  his  com- 
pany at  the  battle  of  Springfield,  Union  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  June  23,  1780.  He  was  also 
with  Washington  at  Valley  Forge  and  at  New- 
burgh.  New  York.  Children  of  Lieutenant 
Abraham  and  ^larcia  (Williams)  Terhune 
w^ere:  i.  Albert,  born  May  4,  1787.  2.  Albert, 
1790;  married  Rachel  Pittinger.  3.  Samuel, 
April,  1792:  married  a  Miss  Skillman.  4. 
John,  see  forward. 

(MI)  John  (2),  fourth  son  of  Abraham 
and  Marcia  (Williams)  Terhune,  was  born  in 
Mercer  county,  New  Jersey,  on  the  Terhune 
farm  near  Princeton,  May  4,  1793;  died  in 
New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  January  9,  1886. 
He  was  a  ])ublic-spirited  man  from  disposition 
and  inheritance,  and  served  his  county  as  lay 
judge  and  marshall.  He  married  (first)  Etta, 
daughter  of  John  and  Christina  (Letson)  Let- 
son,  of  Raritan  Landing,  New  Jersey.  They 
were  cousins.  John  and  Etta  (I.etson)  Ter- 
hune had  eleven  children,  born  in  New  Bruns- 
wick, New  Jersey,  three  of  whom  died  in  in- 
fancy and  so  young  tliat  they  were  not  named. 
Tiicir  eight  children,  who  were  named  at  bap- 
tism, were:  i.  W'illiam  Letson,  married  Mar- 
garet Little,  of  Mattawan,  New  Jersey,  and 
they  had  six  children.  2.  Mary,  married  James 
Parsons  Greenleaf,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
and  had  no  issue.  3.  Lewis,  died  unmarried. 
4.  .Xmia  Louisa,  born  December  8,  1826;  mar- 
ried Rev.  JoJin  Gaston.  5.  John,  married  Kate 
Ncvius.  6.  Rev.  Edward  Payson,  married, 
September  2,  1856,  Virginia  Ilaw-es,  of  .Amelia 
county,  Virginia,  popularly  known  under  the 
name  "ALirion  Plarland,"  and  their  son,  Al- 
bert Payson  Terhune,  author.  No.  200  West 
Seventy-eighth  street.  New  York  City,  and 
their  daughter  Christina,  became  popular  and 
versatile  literary  writers.  7.  Christina,  mar- 
ried ilatfield  Frazec.  8.  Margaret,  died  un- 
married. He  married  (second)  Mary  Jane 
Davidson,  a  native  of  Maryland. 

(VUl)  Howard  Davidson,  only  child  of 
John  and  Mary  Jane  (Davidson)  Terhune,  was 
born  in  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  Decem- 
ber 16,  1859.  He  received  his  entire  school 
and  college  training  in  that  city,  being  grail- 
uated  at  Rutgers  College,  .X.  B.,'1878.     He  re- 


ceived the  degree  of  LL.  B.  from  Columbia 
University  Law  School  in  1881  and  began  the 
practice  of  law  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  where 
he  had  a  law  office,  1881-84.  He  engaged  in 
the  banking  business  in  Mattawan,  New  Jer- 
sey, 1884,  and  in  1889,  with  other  financiers, 
organized  the  Hackensack  National  Bank  at 
Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  and  was  made  its 
cashier,  which  office  he  still  held  in  1909.  He 
became  in  this  way  closely  identified  with  the 
public  welfare  of  Hackensack  and  he  inter- 
ested himself  in  its  various  institutions  and 
enterprises. 

He  married,  December  21,  1881,  Jane  M., 
daughter  of  Cornelius  J.  and  Rachel  E.  (Ack- 
erman)  Cadmus,  of  Passaic,  New  Jersey,  and 
their  only  son.  John  Creswell,  was  born  Alarch 
21,  1886,  and  their  only  daughter.  Elizabeth, 
October  5,  1892.  The  Cadmus  family  dates 
from  John  Cadmus,  who  was  a  soldier  in  the 
.American  revolution  and  was  captured  by  the 
British  army  during  their  occupation  of  tlv 
city  of  New  York,  and  confined  in  the  Olrl 
.Sugar  House  in  Rose  street,  used  at  the  time 
as  a  prison  for  soldiers  captured  in  the  war. 
His  son.  Cornelius,  marrietl  Jane  \'an  Riper, 
and  their  son,  James,  married  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Michael  and  Mary  (Mandeville)  De 
Mott,  F^ebruary  28,  1828,  and  their  son,  Cor- 
nelius J.,  married  Rachel  E.,  daughter  of  Peter 
H.  and  Margaret  (Banta)  Ackerman,  and  their 
daughter,  Jane  M.  Cadmus,  became  the  wife 
of  Iloward  Davidson  Tcrluuie  and  the  mother 
of  John  Creswell  Terhune.  who  is  a  descend- 
ant in  the  si.xth  generation  from  John  Cadmus, 
the  patriot  prisoner  of  the  Old  Sugar  House, 
1777.  and  in  the  ninth  generation  from  Albert 
Albcrtse  Terhune,  the  Huguenot  immigrant 
settler  in  New  .Amsterdam  before  i'''54. 


(HI)  John  Terhune,  eldest 
TllRHUXIC  child  of  .Albert  (q.  v.)  and 
\\  eyntje  (  Brickers)  Terhune, 
was  born  in  Flatlands,  Long  Island,  1676.  He 
removed  to  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  and 
settled  in  Hackensack,  where  he  lived  with  his 
wife,  Elizabeth  P.artholf;  children:  I.  Hendc- 
syckje.  .April  2,  1 701  ;  married  Jacob  Deickse. 
2.  Martin,  .Xnvember  15,  1702  ;  married  Hcntje 
15artholt.  3.  .Albert.  Alay  2,  1704;  married 
Sarah  Lee.  4.  Martinse,  May  2,  1706.  5. 
Sarah,  March  4.  1708;  married  Lorins  Van 
Basherhen.  6.  Annetta,  May  29,  1710.  7. 
William,  December  20,  171 1.  8.  Stephanus 
(Stejjhen),  see  forward. 

(I\')   .Stephen,  youngest  child  of  John  and 
I'^lizabeth    (  Bartholf)    Terhune,    was   born   in 


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Plackensack-,  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey,  No- 
veniber  i,  1713.  He  married,  August  6,  1713, 
Susanna  Alje,  antl  after  her  death  married 
Waria  Bogart.  Children  of  Stephen  and  Sus- 
anna (Alje)  Terhune,  born  in  Hackensack, 
New  Jersey  :  i.  Jan  (John),  August  21,  1738  ; 
-I  rved  in  the  American  revolution  in  1776  with 
tiie  rank  of  ensign.  2.  Peterus,  August  31, 
1740.  3.  Elizabeth,  November  28,  1742.  4. 
Margitje,  I'ebruary  10,  1745.  5.  Antje,  Octo- 
ber 7,  I74f^>.  6.  Jocobus  (James),  October  26, 
1748.  He  married  Maydela  Nogel  and  served 
in  the  American  revolutionary  war  with  the 
rank  of  captain.  7.  Albert,  October  28,  1750. 
8.  (niilliam  (William),  see  forward. 

(\')  William,  youngest  child  of  Stephen 
and  Susanna  (Alje)  Terhune,  was  born  Janu- 
ary 21.  1753,  in  Hackensack.  Bergen  county, 
Xew  Jersey.  He  married,  about  1779,  Gaitje 
or  Margaret  Terhune,  born  in  1760.  Children, 
born  in  Hackensack:  I.  x-Mbert  G.,  February 
'),  1780:  died  January  19,  1832.  2.  Elizabeth. 
November  4,  1781 ;  married  a  Zabriskie,  whose 
christian  name  does  not  appear  on  the  records 
at  luuul.  3.  Martin  G.,  see  forward.  4.  Ste- 
])hen  G.,  February  17,  1783:  died  October  3, 
1864.  5.  Maria,  October  14,  1784;  married 
William  Rutan ;  she  died  August  20,  1835.  6. 
Margurite,  January  24,  1790;  married  John 
Leighton. 

(Vl)  Martin  G.,  second  son  and  third  child 
of  William  and  Gaitje  (Margaret)  (Terhune) 
Terhune,  was  born  in  Hackensack,  New  Jer- 
sey. September  8,  1782;  died  January  11,  1857. 
He  married  Tynje  Berdon ;  children:  i.  John 
Martin,  see  forward.  2.  William  C,  born  Jan- 
uary 19,  1827;  was  a  surgeon  in  the  civil  war, 
1861-65.  ^IT^I  practiced  his  profession  in  Hack- 
ensack, New  Jersey,  during  his  entire  life.  He 
married  Mary  Frances  Adams  and  they  had  no 
children. 

fVH)  John  Martin,  eldest  son  of  Martin  G. 
and  Tynje  (Berdon)  Terhune,  was  born  in 
Hackensack.  New  Jersey,  October  11,  1808. 
He  married  Marie  De  Born,  born  October  16, 
1808.  Children,  born  in  Hackensack,  New 
Jersey:  i.  Martin  J.,  married  Martha  M.  Ack- 
erman.  2.  W'illiam,  died  in  infancy.  3.  Al- 
bert J..  .August  8.  1828  ;  married  Margaret  Hill, 
and  they  had  three  children :  William  Eret, 
born  August  23,  1859,  died  young;  John  E,, 
married  Ellen  Vast ;  Mary  Alida,  died  unmar- 
ried.    4.  William  Henry,  see  forward. 

(YHI)  William  Henry,  fourth  son  of  John 
Martin  and  Maria  (De  Born)  Terhune,  was 
born  in  Hackensack.  New  Jersey,  September 
14.   1843.     ^^^  married  Euphemia  Post;  chil- 


dren, born  in  Hackensack,  New  Jersey:  i. 
John  Irving,  see  forward.  2.  Walter,  born 
August  28,  1869;  married  Nellie  S.  Phillips,  of 
Trenton,  New  Jersey,  and  they  had  two  chil- 
dren: Anna  Hazelton,  born  November  16, 
1892,  and  Katheline  Phillips,  born  June  6, 
1894. 

(IXj  John  Irving,  eldest  child  of  William 
Henry  and  Euphemia  (Post)  Terhune,  was 
born  in  Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  September 
6,  1865.  He  received  his  primary  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  Hackensack,  graduat- 
ing from  the  Hackensack  high  school.  He 
became  an  apprentice  in  a  machine  shop  in 
I'aterson,  New  Jersey,  using  his  leisure  time  in 
studying  mechanical  engineering  and  draught- 
ing under  a  ])rivate  instructor.  On  complet- 
ing his  apprenticeship,  he  accepted  the  position 
of  superintendent  in  another  machine  shop  in 
Paterson,  where  he  remained  up  to  1900,  when 
he  resigned  to  establish  the  business  of  mechan- 
ical engineering  and  building  on  his  own  ac- 
count. This  business,  as  the  J.  I.  Terhune 
Machine  Works,  soon  assumed  large  propor- 
tions and  ranked  among  the  first  in  that  city. 
His  knowledge  of  the  business  enabled  him  to 
act  as  patent  attorney  in  many  cases  referred 
to  him  that  came  before  the  courts.  He  affili- 
ated with  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  in  the 
order  was  regularly  initiated  in  the  various 
degrees  and  in  1909  was  a  member  of  the  Blue 
Lodge.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  was  past 
grand  of  the  Hackensack  Lodge.  By  right  of 
descent  he  became  a  member  of  the  Holland 
Society  of  New  York. 

He  married,  September  4,  1888,  S.  Idenia, 
daughter  of  William  H.  and  Sarah  Tilt.  They 
made  their  home  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey, 
where  their  children  were  born:  I.  Hazel  I., 
September  7.  1889.  2.  Morence  May,  January 
8,  1892;  died  March  6,  1892.  3.  Irving  Russel, 
April  8,  1893.  4.  Walter  E.,  April  26,  1896. 
These  children  are  in  the  tenth  generation  from 
Albert  Albertse  Terhune,  the  immigrant,  who 
ajipeared  in  New  Amsterdam  before  1654. 


(IV)  Albert  Terhune.  eldest 
TERHUNE  child  of  Richard  (Dirck)  (q. 
V.)  and  Catherine  (Kip)  Ter- 
hune. was  born  in  Hackensack,  New  Jersey, 
and  baptized  in  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church. 
August  14.  1728.  He  married  Mary  Demarest 
and  they  had  children  :  Catreynje,  January  31, 
1753;  Alaragretje,  January  22,  1755:  Dirck 
(Richard).  November  5,  1756;  Jacobus 
(James),   February  2,   1759;  Peter,  June  22, 


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ijOi ;  Johannes  (John),  February  2,  1765; 
EHzabeth,  May  i,  1767;  Albert,  see  forward. 

(\'j  Albert,  youngest  son  and  eighth  child 
of  Albert  and  Mary  (Demarestj  Terhune.  was 
born  in  I'olifly,  New  Jersey,  April  12,  1771. 
lie  married  his  cousin^  Rachel  Terhune,  about 
1793,  and  they  lived  in  I'aramus,  where  his 
children  were  born :  Alartin,  see  forward ; 
Hester,  married  Peter  A.  Ackerman  ;  Hendrick 
C,  born  February  13,  1803,  married  Maria 
Banta,  died  in  1851  ;  Paulus,  December  11, 
1804;  Jacob,  June  22,  181 1 ;  Phoebe,  Novem- 
ber 12,  1815. 

(\T)  -Martin,  eldest  child  of  Albert  and 
Rachel  (  Terhune)  Terhune,  was  born  in  Pa- 
ramus,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  February 
(J,  1795;  died  there,  May  4,  1839.  He  was  a 
well-to-do  farmer.  He  married  Catherine  Ack- 
erman, born  August  18,  1799,  died  December 
13,  1853.  They  had  at  least  seven  children  and 
probably  a  number  more.  These  children,  born 
in  Paramus,  were :  Peter  Blauvelt,  see  for- 
ward;  John;  Abram ;  David  Martin;  Rachel, 
married  Jacob  llngart;  two  other  children  who 
died  young. 

(VTI)  Peter  iUauvelt,  eldest  son  of  Martin 
and  Catherine  (Ackerman)  Terhune,  was  born 
in  Paramus,  Bergen  county.  New' Jersey,  where 
he  was  a  prosperous  farmer  and  died  in  1898. 
He  married  Maria,  daughter  of  Stephen  and 
Susan  (Rutan)  yuackenbush,  and  they  had 
children:    John,  see  forward,  and  Peter. 

(VHI)  John,  son  of  Peter  l')lauvelt  and 
^laria  (Quackcnbush)  Terhune,  was  born  in 
Godwinsville,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  Au- 
gust 4,  probably  in  1848,  and  died  in  Hacken- 
sack,  New  Jersey,  May  3,  1905.  Fie  was  edu- 
cated in  the  |niblic  schools  and  later  was  grad- 
uated from  the  New  Jersey  State  Normal  Col- 
lege and  from  Eastman's  Business  College  at 
P(nighkee])sie,  New  York.  He  was  an  authoi', 
j)ublicist  and  inventor,  I  le  identified  himself 
with  the  public  schools  of  New  Jersey,  having 
been  for  many  years  superintendent  of  public 
instruction  in  Bergen  county,  which  office  he 
held  at  time  of  death.  He  establishefl  the  first 
jniblic  school  libraries  in  the  United  .States,  and 
was  the  originator  of  the  teachers'  library  act. 
Through  his  infiuence  many  such  libraries  were 
estal)lishe<l  throughout  New  Jersey,  and  the 
idea  was  later  taken  uj)  in  most  of  the  other 
states.  He  associated  himself  with  the  Hon.  J. 
Sterling  Morton,  of  Nebraska,  in  encouraging 
the  planting  of  trees  and  in  making  .\rbor  Day 
a  (jractical  means  to  this  end.  Mr.  Terhune 
caused  many  new  and  modern  school  buildings 
to  be  erected,  and  through  his  efforts  the  innn- 


ber  of  school  teachers,  together  with  their 
average  pay,  was  very  greatly  increased.  Mr. 
Terhune  married  Elizabeth  Hall.  Children, 
born  in  Ridgewood,  New  Jersey;  Warren 
Jay,  see  forward;  Wilbur  Blauvelt,  born  Octo- 
ber, 1871,  married  Eva  Dawson,  has  one  child, 
Elizabeth. 

(IX)  Warren  Jay,  eldest  child  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Hall)  Terhune,  was  born  in  Ridge- 
wood, New  Jersey,  May  3,  1869.  He  attended 
the  public  school  at  Alidland  Park  and  the 
Hackensack  high  school,  and  was  graduated 
from  the  latter  in  1885.  He  was  appointed  a 
cadet  at  the  United  States  Naval  Academy, 
Annapolis,  Maryland,  by  Hon.  William  Walter 
Phelps,  representative  in  congress  from  tiie 
fifth  congressional  district,  and  was  graduated 
past-midshipman  with  the  class  of  1889.  He 
served  on  the  United  States  steamship  "At- 
lanta '  up  to  1891,  when  he  was  commissioned 
ensign  and  served  on  the  United  States  steam- 
ship ■' Bennington"  in  South  American  and 
European  waters  for  two  years.  While  in  the 
Mediterranean  waters  he  served  on  one  of  the 
three  caravels  built  by  order  of  the  LInited 
States  government  and  intended  for  exhibition 
at  the  Columbian  Exposition  at  Chicago  in 
1893  >  these  were  duplicates  of  the  three  vessels 
that  made  up  the  fleet  under  the  command  of 
Christopher  Columbus  when  he  crossed  the  At- 
lantic and  discovered  America  in  1492.  Mr. 
Terhune  was  present  at  the  national  reviews 
in  (ienoa,  Cadiz,  Palos,  and  later  in  the  inter- 
national reviews  at  Hampton  Roads  and  in 
New  York  harbor.  He  subse<|uently  served 
on  board  the  United  States  ship  "Mononga- 
hela,"  and  on  board  the  torpedo  boat  "Cusli- 
ing."  His  land  service  was  in  1896-97,  on  duty 
in  the  de])artmeut  of  the  navy  at  Washington, 
D.  ('..  in  the  office  of  the  judge-advocate-gen- 
eral. He  was  again  afloat  in  1898  on  b(jard 
the  United  States  steamship  "Yantic,"  in  South 
.\merican  waters.  In  the  Spanish- American 
war  he  was  assigned  to  the  United  States 
monitor  "Terror."  on  blockade  duty  on  the 
northern  coast  of  Cuba,  and  was  present  at 
the  bombardment  of  the  Siianish  fortification 
of  San  Juan.  Porto  Rico,  and  the  various  oper 
ations  of  the  naval  fleet  in  Cuba  and  Porto 
Rico  waters.  In  1899  he  was  ordered  to  the 
United  States  steam.ship  ".Alliance,"  serving  in 
\\'est  Indian  waters  up  to  July,  1899,  about 
which  time  he  received  his  well-earned  com- 
mission as  lieutenant,  being  honored  by  skip- 
l)ing  the  intermediate  rank  of  lieutenant-junior. 
He  was  on  duty  at  the  I'nited  States  Naval 
.Academy,  .Annapolis,  from  July.  1899,  to  June, 


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1901,  when  he  was  ordered  to  the  United  States 
steamship  "  Buffalo,"  served  on  that  ship  in 
European  and  West  Indian  waters,  and  subse- 
<|uently  in  the  same  ship  made  a  voyage  from 
New  York  to  Japan  and  return.  He  was  then 
ordered  to  the  L'nited  States  steamship  "Al- 
bany," anil  made  a  voyage  to  Cheefoo,  China, 
wliere  he  was  transferred  to  the  United  States 
steamship  "Raleigh,"  on  board  of  which  he 
was  executive  officer  up  to  June,  1904,  when 
he  was  ordered  home  from  China.  He  re- 
ceived promotion  to  lieutenant-commander  on 
Julv  I.  1905.  He  was  instructor  of  physics 
and  chemistry  at  the  United  States  Naval  Acad- 
emy, 1904-0^1,  and  in  the  latter  year  was  de- 
taciied  from  the  Naval  Academy  to  become 
executive  officer  on  board  the  United  States 
steamshi])  "Arkansas."  In  June,  1906,  he  was 
ordered  to  the  United  States  steamship 
"Maine."  flagship  of  Rear-Admiral  Evans, 
served  as  navigator  on  the  admiral's  staff  for 
one  year,  was  then  made  executive  officer  of 
the  "Maine,"  and  in  that  battleship  made  the 
celebrated  voyage  with  the  fleet  around  the 
world.  In  February,  1909,  Lieutenant-Com- 
mander Terhune  was  assigned  to  duty  on  the 
staff  of  the  admiral  commandant  of  the  navy 
yard  at  lirooklyn.  New  York.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Holland  Society  of  New  York,  New- 
York  Yacht  Club.  Army  and  Navy  Club  of 
New  York,  Hamilton  Club  of  Brooklyn,  Dyker 
Meadows  Golf  Club,  Fort  Monroe  Club, 
and  of  Pioneer  Lodge,  P'ree  and  Accepted 
Masons,  of  Hackensack.  The  decoration  of 
the  order  of  the  Bust  of  Bolivar  was  conferred 
upon  him  by  the  president  of  Venezuela  for  his 
services  in  promoting  friendly  relations  be- 
tween the  L'nited  States  and  that  country. 

Lieutenant-Commaniler  Terhune  married 
Josephine  Lee,  daughter  of  Colonel  Alexander 
McCurdy  and  Marianna  (Clark)  Smith.  They 
have  one  son,  John  Alexander,  born  at  Yonk- 
ers,  New  York,  August  23,  1895. 


(IV)  Jacob  Terhune.  third 
TERHl'NE  son  and  f^fth  of  the  nine  chil- 
dren of  Richard  (Dirck)  (c|. 
V. )  and  Catherine  (Kip)  Terhune,  was  born  in 
Hackensack,  New-  Jersey.  July  22,  1739.  He 
was  a  well  established  farmer,  a  member  of 
the  state  militia,  and  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee of  safety  in  the  American  revolution. 
He  was  married  to  Elizabeth  Naugel.  and  they 
had  children,  born  in  Hackensack.  New  Jer- 
sey, including  Jacob,  see  forward. 

(\')   Jacob  (2).  son  of  Jacob  (i  )  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Naugel)   Terhune,  was  born  in  Hack- 


ensack. Bergen  county,  New  Jersey,  about 
1770.  He  married  Maria  Bogart,  and  their 
three  children  were  born  in  Hackensack,  New 
Jersey,  as  follows:  i.  John  Bogart.  see  for- 
ward. 2.  Margaret,  married  .Simon  (garrison. 
3.  Peter  (2),  married  Sophia  I'.ulton,  who  was 
born  in  1825,  and  they  had  six  children,  only 
three  reaching  maturity,  as  follows :  i.  Abra- 
ham B.,  married  Charlotte  Dingley.  and  had 
six  children  :  Mann,  Charles  D.,  Allen  G.,  Jean, 
Perry  W.  and  Elliott  C.  ii.  Peter  P.  iii.  Al- 
bert D. 

(  \'I)  John  Bogart,  eldest  child  of  Jacob  (2) 
and  Maria  (Bogart)  Terhune,  w-as  born  in 
Hackensack.  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey, 
where  he  was  brought  up,  educated,  and  learn- 
ed the  trade  of  carpenter  and  builder,  which 
business  he  engaged  in  during  the  remainder 
of  his  life,  first  in  Hackensack,  where  his  three 
eldest  children  w-ere  born,  and  afterward  in 
New  York  City,  where  five  other  children  were 
born.  He  married  Nancy  Ann  Scott ; children: 
I.  Margaret  Jane,  married  George  W'right,  and 
they  had  four  children :  Ella,  G^rge,  Annie 
and  Peter  Wright.  2.  Maria,  married  (first) 
John  \'an  Brokel,  and  (second)  Alfred  R. 
Flammond ;  had  three  children  who  died  in 
early  life.  3.  Deborah,  married  Cornelius 
Westervelt,  and  had  three  children  :  Cornelius 
(2)  ;  John  and  Eleanor  Westervelt.  4.  Ellen, 
died  in  infancy.  5.  John  Jacob,  died  unmar- 
ried. 6.  Sarah  Scott,  married  Edward  E.  Pier- 
son,  and  had  three  children :  Henry  Edgar, 
Frank  B.  and  Albert  H.  Pierson.  7.  Richard 
.Scott.  November  27,  1857 :  see  forward.  8. 
William,  unmarried.  John  Bogart  Terhune 
died  June  27,  1886. 

(\'I1)  Richard  Scott,  second  son  and  sev- 
enth child  of  John  Bogart  and  Nancy  Ann 
(.Scott)  Terhune,  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
November  27,  1857.  He  received  his  school 
training  in  private  schools  of  his  native  city. 
He  married  (first)  Emily  F.,  born  May  7, 
1857,  died  July  30.  1896,  daughter  of  Daniel 
F.  and  Mary  (O'Connor)  O'Connell.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  New  York  City:  i.  Irene  M., 
Xi)vember  13,  1879.  2.  Walter  Bryant.  No- 
veniber  29,  1894.  He  married  (second),  Sep- 
tember 19.  1909,  Mary  A.,  born  December  19, 
1864.  daughter  of  John  and  Jane  (Giblin) 
Horev.  of  Schoharie  county.  New  York. 


(V)   Dirck    (Richard)    Ter- 

TERHUNE     hune, eldest  son  and  third  child 

of  Albert   (q.  v.)   and  Mary 

I  Demarest )    Terhune,    was    born    in    Polifly, 

Bergen  county,  New  Jersey,  November  5, 1756. 


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He  married  Mary  L'>erry,  burn  September  14, 
1 761,  died  June  16,  182 1,  and  by  her  he  had 
eight  children,  born  as  follows:  i.  Albert  (q. 
v.).  2.  William,  March  9,  1788.  3.  Jacobus 
(James),  October  14,  1789.  4.  John,  Decem- 
ber 31,  1791.  5.  Elizabeth,  March  14.  1794. 
6.  John  (2),  August  2,  1796.  7.  Mar}',  Octo- 
ber II,  1798.  8.  Catherine,  September  30, 
1 801.  Richard  Terhune  died  in  Polifly,  New 
Jersey,  March  6,  1842. 

(VI)  Albert,  eldest  of  the  eight  children  of 
Richard  and  Mary  (Berry)  Terhune,  was  born 
in  Polirty,  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey,  July  3, 
1786.  He  learned  the  trade  of  boot  and  shoe 
maker,  and  worked  at  his  trade  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey.  He  married  (first)  Mary  Suther- 
land, born  October  i,  1790,  died  June  9,  1835, 
and  by  her  he  had  eleven  children,  probably 
all  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  as  follows: 
I.  Mary,  October  16,  1809;  died  October  17, 
1809.  2.  Mary  Ann,  December  23,  1810;  died 
March  3,  1833.  3.  John  S.,  April  26,  1813; 
died  July  7,  1853.  4.  James  Albert,  October 
24,  181 5;  (j^ed  September  9,  1892.  5.  Richard 
Albert  (q.  v.),  November  4,  1817.  6.  Eliza- 
beth, February  21.  1821 ;  died  November  23, 
1821.  7.  Elizabeth  (2),  February  23,  1822;  died 
September  26,  1858.  8.  Albert  Hammond  (q. 
v.),  November  30,  1823.  9.  George  Roff,  De- 
cember 22,  1825;  died  February  21,  1845.  10. 
Robert  Payne,  May  12,  1828;  died  June  25, 
1877.  "•  Jo^'  Tay,  May  12,  1834;  died  May 
20,  1834.  Mary  (Sutherland)  Terhune,  the 
mother  of  these  children,  died  June  9,  1835, 
and  Albert  Terhune  married  (second)  Cath- 
arine Parker,  from  Monmouth  county,  New 
Jersey,  and  by  her  he  had  four  children — Kate, 
Mary  Aim,  Sarah  and  William.  Mary  i\nn 
Terhune,  thirteenth  child  of  Albert,  married, 
and  her  husband,  a  mason  by  trade,  lives  with 
her  on  Hollywood  avenue.  East  Orange,  New 
Jersey.  .Albert  Terhune  died  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  .September  6,  1865. 

(\'in  Richard  .\lbert,  third  son  and  fifth 
child  of  Albert  and  Mary  (Sutherland)  Ter- 
hune, was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  No- 
vember 4,  1 81 7.  He  was  a  carpenter  and 
builder  in  Newark,  and  later  settled  in  Orange, 
where  he  continued  the  business  until  three 
years  prior  to  his  death.  He  was  the  first  chief 
of  the  volunteer  fire  department  and  a  popular 
citizen.  He  married  (first)  Lavinia  Banta, 
and  they  had  one  child,  Mary  Elizabeth,  who 
died  unmarried.  Richard  .Mbert  Terhune  mar- 
ried (second)  Sarah  Maria,  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Nancy  (Hopper)  Baldwin,  and  by  her  he 
had  three  children  born  in  Orange,  New  Jer- 


sey, as  follows :  2.  Theresa  Adelaide,  Febru- 
ary 6,  1848;  married  Thomas  H.  Decker,  and 
had  four  chiklrcn :  Addie  Terhune,  Richard 
Martin,  Mabel  Gray  and  Randall  Hunt  Decker. 
2.  Henry  Preston,  April  30,  1850;  died  in  in- 
fancy. 3.  Harry  Rosenquest  (q.  v.).  Richard 
.Albert  Terhune  died  in  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
December  12,  1888. 

(A'HI)  Harry  Rosenquest,  youngest  child 
and  second  son  of  Richard  Albert  and  Sarah 
Alaria  (Baldwin)  Terhune,  was  born  in 
(Jrange,  New  Jersey,  September  4,  1859.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Orange 
and  graduated  from  the  Orange  high  school  in 
1876.  and  in  1877  took  a  position  in  a  stock 
broker's  office  in  New  York  City.  He  became 
thoroughly  instructed  in  the  brokerage  busi- 
ness, but  left  it  in  1891  to  take  the  office  man- 
agement of  a  hat  manufactory  in  Orange, 
which  business  he  managed  for  four  years. 
He  then  engaged  in  the  bicycle  business,  which 
he  conducted  for  one  year,  returning  to  the 
brokerage  business  in  New  York  City  in  1896, 
and  becoming  connected  with  the  firm  of 
Charles  Fairchild  &  Company,  29  Wall  street, 
with  which  firm  he  was  still  connected  in  1909.  ■ 
He  married,  April  8,  1885,  Emma  Terese, 
(laughter  of  AJarcus  and  Isabella  (Eeonard) 
Alitchell,  of  Orange,  New  Jersey.  They  have 
no  children. 

(ATI)  Albert  Hammond,  fourth  son  and. 
eighth  child  of  Albert  and  Mary  (Sutherland) 
Terhune,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
November  30,  1823.  lie  was  a  pupil  in  the 
public  school  of  his  native  city,  completing  the 
public  school  course,  and  then  engaged  as  a 
boot  and  shoe  dealer,  in  which  business  he  en- 
gaged 1834-96.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  civil 
war,  serving  in  the  Thirteenth  New  Jersey 
\  olunteer  Infantry.  On  his  return  from  the 
war  he  resumed  his  business,  which  he  carried 
cm  u])  to  ten  years  before  his  death.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  June  16,  1846,  Sarah  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Jacob  A'an  Ness;  children,  born 
in  .Newark,  New  Jersey:  i.  Anna  Melissa, 
married  William  H.  Harrison,  and  had  seven 
chiUlren :  Alary  A.,  Benjamin  F.,  Edward 
\'.,  I-'rederick.  Adelaide  F.,  Clifford  B.  and 
.Albert  \^  Harrison.  2.  Sarah  Martha,  mar- 
ried Cornelius  V.  Hopper  ;  children  :  Frank 
C,  Leslie  C.  and  Edith  F.  Hopper.  Sarah 
Elizabeth  (A'an  Ness)  Terhune  died  August 
14,  1852,  and  her  husband  married  (second). 
June  14,  1854,  Gertrude  .Anna,  daughter  of  ^ 
George  and  Jane  (Ackernian)  Smith,  of  New 
A'ork  City,  and  by  this  marriage  had  eleven 
children,  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  as  fol- 


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lows:  3.  (ieorgeH.  4.  Harriet  X.  5.  Millard 
v.,  October  16,  1859:  married  Ida  J.  Dodd ; 
one  child.  Ada  ]\1.  Terhune.  6.  Edith  G..  mar- 
ried Samuel  H.  \  an  Syckel ;  children:  Ger- 
trude T.,  Frederick  T.,  Edith  T.  and  Florence 
T.  7.  Charles  M.,  never  married.  8.  Leonard 
L.,  married  Harriet  Burtt ;  one  child,  Albert  H. 
Terhune.  9.  Robert  S.  I  q.  v.).  10.  Edwin  P., 
deceased.  11.  Florence  A.,  unmarried.  12. 
Helen  E.,  unmarried.  13.  Mar}-  J.,  twin  with 
I  lelen  E..  deceased.  Albert  Hammond  Terhune 
(lied  in  Xewark,  Xew  Jersey  October  10.  1906. 
(\"HI)  Robert  Sjiencer  Terhune,  a  promi- 
nent member  of  the  Newark.  Xew  Jersey,  bar, 
was  born  in  that  city,  October  12,  187 1,  son  of 
the  late  .-Vlbert  Hammontl  and  Gertrude  Anna 
(.Smith)  Terhune.  lie  received  his  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  Newark.  He  began 
the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Malcom  Mac 
Lear,  now  judge  of  the  district  court  of  New 
ark,  and  completed  his  law  course  in  the  Xew 
York  Law  School.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  as  an  attorney  in  June.  1903.  and  has  been 
successfully  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  the  city  of  New-ark  ever  since,  being 
associated  with  John  P.  Manning.  In  1904 
and  1905  he  was  journal  clerk  of  the  house  of 
assembly  of  Xew-  Jersey.  Mr.  Terhune  has 
been  identified  with  politics  for  the  past  ten 
years,  casting  his  first  vote  for  Benjamin  Harri- 
son for  president  of  the  United  States.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Essex  county  Republican 
committee  from  the  Eighth  \\'ard  of  Newark, 
where  he  has  been  district  leader.  At  the 
regular  election  in  Xovember,  1909,  he  was 
elected  to  represent  the  Imaginary  .Assembly 
District,  comprising  the  Eighth.  Eleventh  and 
Fifteenth  \\'ards,  in  the  Xew-  Jersey  legisla- 
ture. Mr.  Terhune  is  counsel  for  three  local 
building  and  loan  associations,  namely :  The 
Public  Building  and  Loan  Association,  the 
Modern  Woodmen  Building  and  Loan  Asso- 
ciation, and  the  Municipal  Building  and  Loan 
Association,  and  is  also  a  member  of  the  Xorth- 
ern  Republican  Club,  of  which  he  is  one  of  the 
auditors :  the  Republican  Indian  League,  elec- 
tive member  of  the  Essex  County  Republican 
Committee  and  member  of  the  Lawyers'  Club 
of  Essex  county.  He  is  a  member  of  Kane 
Lodge.  No.  55,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
and  the  Xewark  City  Camp.  Modern  \\'ood- 
men  of  .\merica. 


(\')    Pauhis    Terhune.    third 
TERHl'XE     son  of  Captain  Nicholas   (q. 
V.)  and  Rysie  (Haring)  Ter- 
hune.    born      in      Poliflv      (now-     Hasbrouck 


Heights),  Bergen  county,  Xew  Jersey,  March 
19,  1771  ;  married  Sarah  Paulison,  and  died  in 
Polifiy.  1850. 

(\'I)  Xicholas.  son  of  Paulus  and  Sarah 
(  Paulison)  Terhune,  was  born  in  PoIifly,  Xew 
Jersey.  May  4,  1804,  and  died  there,  in  1883. 
He  was  a  farmer  in  Polifiy.  He  married  Cath- 
erine Brinkerhoff,  who  died  about  1895,  in  the 
ninety-first  year  of  her  age.  Children,  all  born 
in  Polifly  :  Peter  Xicholas,  see  forward  ;  Rich- 
ard ;  Jacob,  married  Sarah  Christie ;  John  \'an 
der  Linda,  died  unmarried  ;  William  ;  Sarah  ; 
Catherine. 

(\'II )  Peter  Xicholas,  eldest  child  of  Xich- 
olas and  Catherine  ( Brinkerhoff )  Terhune, 
was  born  in  Polifly,  Xew  Jersey,  October  11, 
1829,  and  died  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey, 
December  16,  1902.  He  was  a  builder  and 
contractor,  doing  business  in  Jersey  City,  New 
Jersey.  He  married  Ellen,  daughter  of  Henry 
P.  and  (Gertrude  (Bogert)  \'an  Iderstine,  of 
Passaic,  Xew-  Jersey.  Ellen  Van  Iderstine 
was  born  May  27.  1834,  and  died  June  25. 
1887.  Children:  Mahlon,  born  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  December  18,  1857;  Nicholas,  see 
forward ;  Henry  Van  Iderstine,  see  forward ; 
William,  see  forward  ;  Gertrude,  born  in  Jer- 
sey City,  New  Jersey,  June  I,  1866;  Edward 
Stewart,  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  March  31 
1868;  .Annie,  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  July  29, 
1 87 1,  died  unmarried. 

(VIII)  Nicholas,  second  son  of  Peter  Nich- 
olas and  Ellen  (Van  Iderstine)  Terhune,  was 
born  in  Passaic,  Passaic  county.  New  Jersey, 
December  29,  1859.  He  w-as  brought  up  in 
Jersey  City.  Xew  Jersey,  educated  in  the  public 
schools,  and  on  being  graduated  from  the 
grammar  school  began  business  as  a  clerk  in  a 
mercantile  house  and  later  in  a  banking  house 
in  Xew  York  City.  In  1887  he  entered  the 
service  of  the  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis  &  Mani- 
toba Railway  Company,  now  the  Great  North- 
ern Railway  Company,  and  has  been  an  em- 
ployee and  officer  of  that  cor])oration  since 
that  time.  He  became  in  1901  assistant  secre- 
tary and  treasurer  of  the  corporation,  and  a 
director  in  the  Xorthern  Securities  Company. 
He  is  also  a  fiscal  officer  of  the  Chicago,  Bur- 
lington &  Quincy  Railroad  Company.  His 
clearly  defined  pedigree  back  to  Holland  ances- 
tors readily  secured  him  membership  in  the 
Holland  .Society  of  New  York,  and  his  revolu- 
tifjuary  ancestors  enabled  him  to  become  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  organized  in  New  York  in  1875  by 
John  Austin  Stevens,  in  connection  with  other 
patriotic  gentlemen  of  revolutionary  ancestry. 


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The  Xevv  York  Society  was  instituted  Febru- 
ary 22.  1876,  reorganized  December  4,  1883, 
and  incorporated  May  3,  1884,  to  "Keep  alive 
among  ourselves  and  our  descendants  the 
patriotic  spirit  of  the  men,  who,  in  military, 
naval  and  civil  service,  by  their  acts  and  coun- 
sel achieved  American  Independence ;  to  col- 
lect and  secure  for  preservation  the  manuscript 
rolls,  records  and  other  documents  relating  to 
the  War  of  the  Revolution  ;  and  to  promote 
intercourse  and  good  feeling  among  its  mem- 
bers now  and  hereafter."  Mr.  Terhune  is  a 
memlK'r  of  the  Collegiate  Reformed  Dutch 
Church  of  New  York,  of  the  I'nion  League 
Club  of  New  York,  the  Columbia  Yacht  Club, 
the  Lawyers'  Club  of  New  York  and  the  New 
York  .\thletic  Club — the  mere  recital  of  which 
exclusive  clubs  and  associations  gives  a  better 
estimate  of  the  tastes,  associations  and  asso- 
ciates and  the  regard  and  estimation  of  his 
fellow  men  than  any  eulogistic  words  written 
by  one  les,s  closeh'  identified  with  his  life  and 
companionship. 

He  married  (first)  Ida  Elizabeth  Xewkirk. 
of  New  York  City,  who  died  in  1898,  and  they 
had  children,  born  in  New  York  City  :  i.  Harold 
La  I-'orge,  October  10,  1884:  B.  S.,  Harvard, 
I90f) ;  bond  expert  in  banking  house  of  Spencer 
'JVask  &  Company;  is  a  member  of  the  Har- 
vard Club  of  New  York,  the  Society  of  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution  and  the  Delta  Phi  fra- 
ternity. 2.  Edith  i,itchfield,  May  17,  1889: 
graduate  of  Hillside  .\cademy,  Norwalk,  Con- 
necticut. Mr.  Terhune  married  (second) 
Charlotte  May  Crampton,  of  Rochester,  New 
York.    There  are  no  children  by  this  marriage. 

(\TI1)  Henry  \'an  Iderstine,  third  son  of 
Peter  Nicholas  and  Ellen  (  \an  Iderstine)  Ter- 
hune, was  born  in  Jersey  City  Heights,  New 
Jerse)',  l-"ebruary  5,  1862.  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  Jersey  City,  and  when  he 
reached  his  majority  he  engaged  in  the  foun- 
tain pen  business  in  New  York  City  :  he  has 
grown  up  with  the  business  which  was  in  its 
infancy  when  he  became  a  clerk  and  book- 
keeper for  E.  S.  Johnson,  of  New  York,  where 
he  remained  for  fifteen  years,  and  the  next 
twelve  or  more  years  he  has  been  associated 
with  L.  E.  Waterman  Company  of  New  York, 
manufacturers  of  fountain  pens,  and  in  1898 
he  was  given  charge  of  the  bookkeeping  de- 
l)artment  and  has  managed  that  dei)artment  up 
to  the  |)resent  time  (  190*)  I.  and  the  credit  de- 
])artnient  of  tlie  largest  foimtain  (len  manu- 
facturing establishment  in  the  United  States. 
and  controlling  the  trade  of  the  world.  His 
fraternal  affiliation  is  with  the  Roval  .\rcanuni, 


the  su])reme  council  of  which  was  organized 
at  IJoston,  .Massachusetts,  June  23,  1877,  and 
incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  common- 
wealth of  Massachusetts.  Mr.  Terhune's  resi- 
dence is  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey.  He  was 
married,  September  7,  1887,  to  Eloise  1{..  born 
P'ebruary  18,  1862,  daughter  of  John  .\.  and 
Fredericka  (  1  laberbusch  )  (ieiger.  of  Jersey 
City,  and  their  first  child,  Edward  Henry,  was 
born  January  29,  1891. 

(\Tn)  William,  fourth  son  of  Peter  Nich- 
olas and  Ellen  (\'an  Iderstine)  Terhune,  was 
born  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  March  21, 
1864.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Jersey  City,  and  on  com])leting  the  academic 
course  entered  the  banking  house  of  llarrv 
Content  &  Company,  50  Broadway,  New  York, 
where  he  learned  the  banking  and  stock  broker- 
age business,  and  in  1909  had  charge  of  the 
bookkeeping  department  of  the  house,  an  office 
he  had  then  filled  for  several  years.  He  mar- 
ried, February  18,  1890,  Margaret  Mandeville, 
born  February  18,  1865,  daughter  of  John  Cal- 
vin and  Jane  Maria  ( \'an  Winkle)  liogert, 
and  they  had  three  children;  William  Bogert, 
born  December  21,  1891,  died  March  23,  1892; 
Irma  Gertrude,  born  June  13,  1893;  Edgar 
.Malcolm.  l)uni  .September  13,  1895. 


(MI)    David     Martin     Ter- 
TI'".RHrXE     hune.    fourth   son  of   Martin 

(^q.  v.)  and  Catherine  (Ack- 
erman )  Terhune,  was  born  in  Paramus,  Ber- 
gen county.  New  Jersey,  November  17,  1825; 
died  at  Garfield,  New  Jersey,  January  6,  1884. 
lie  was  a  blacksmith  in  Hackensack:  late  in 
life  he  gave  up  work  at  his  trade  and  pur- 
chased a  farm  in  New  \'ork  state;  after  sell- 
ing it  he  settled  at  (larfield.  .New  Jersey,  where 
lie  s])cnt  his  last  days. 

I  le  married,  July  5,  1847,  Christina  \  an  der 
Finder,  born  at  Teneck,  liergen  county,  Au- 
gust II,  1826,  died  at  Passaic,  New  Jersey, 
June  3.  1896.  They  lived  at  Hackensack,  New 
Jersey,  where  their  children  were  born:  i. 
Catherine  Jane.  July  6,  1848;  niarrietl  John  J. 
Conklin,  and  had  four  children:  i.  Charles 
Conklin,  died  young;  ii.  Ida  Conklin,  married 
J.  Wesley  I'ennett,  and  had  three  children: 
May,  Ellen  and  John  Bennett;  iii.  (ieorge  W. 
Conklin  (2),  married  Anna  \reeland,  and  had 
one  child,  Catherine  Conklin;  iv.  Robert  Conk- 
lin, married  Mrs.  Adeline  (  Paterson )  Gott, 
and  had  no  issue.  2.  Janet  M.,  December  23, 
1849;  died  unmarried,  March  19,  1870.  3. 
."^arah.  January  21,  1832  ;  died  young,  4.  Jacob 
.\..  .\[)ril  2,  1855;  died  young.     5.  Eliza  .Ann, 


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DecenilxT  i(').  1S57 :  died  young.  6.  Charles 
Irving,  see  forward.  7.  \  an  Xelson,  March 
4.  1S63  :  married  (  first )  Anna  \'an  Roden,  No- 
vember 3.  1886,  no  issue;  married  (second). 
June  12.  i8yo.  Louisa  Mason,  and  had  one 
child.  Herbert  M..  born  April  30,  1891.  8. 
John  ilerl>ert.  April  22.  1865:  married  Mary 

.  and  had  four  children :  Ruth.  Herbert. 

Wallace  I.  and  Sophia.  9.  Minnie  Louisa,  De- 
cember 2~,  1866:  married  ^\'allace  Hover,  and 
had  one  child.  Mary  Hover.  10.  Alfred,  Feb- 
ruary 7.  i8(x;;  married  Mary  Post,  November 
4.  1891.  and  bad  four  children:  i.  Floyd  Irv- 
ing, born  July  15,  1892:  ii.  Edith  Hayden.  De- 
cember f),  1893;  iii.  Grace  Louise,  A])ril  2}^, 
1897;  iv.  Male  child,  died  unnnamed.  11. 
Daviil  Wesley,  April  29,  1872:  married  Jennie 
W'estervelt.  and  had  two  children.  Radcliffe  and 
Elva. 

(  \'II1  I  Charles  Irving,  second  son  and  sixth 
child  of  David  Martin  and  Christina  I  \'an  der 
Linder)  Terhune,  was  born  in  Hackensack. 
New  Jersey.  August  15,  1861.  He  received 
a  common  school  education  attending  the  pub- 
lic school  in  Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  and  in 
Tioga  county.  New  York,  to  which  place  his 
father  removed  about  1875  :  he  returned  with 
him  to  New  Jersey  and  worked  in  a  grocery 
store  in  Ridgefield,  New  Jersey,  up  to  1886, 
w^hen  he  removed  to  Passaic,  New  Jersey,  to 
take  a  po.sition  in  the  Dundee  Chemical  Works 
as  shipping  clerk.  He  was  made  assistant 
superintendent  of  the  works  in  1890,  his  chief 
being  James  ?>.  Ackerman,  with  whom  he  has 
worked  for  nearly  twenty  years.  His  political 
choice  was  the  Republican  party  and  his  relig- 
ious home  that  of  his  forefathers  for  seven 
generations,  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church,  now 
called  the  Reformed  Church  of  America. 

He  married  (first),  December  25,  1886, 
Mary  F.  Sanborn,  born  in  Fairview,  New  Jer- 
sey. She  died  July  5,  1887,  in  Passaic,  New 
Jersey.  Her  only  child,  Anna  Terhune,  died 
in  infancy.  ]\Ir.  Terhune  married  (second), 
October  2.  1889,  Lucy  .\lice,  daughter  of 
(ieorge  and  Libbie  (\'ernon  )  Baker,  of  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  her  father  being  a  native  of 
England  and  her  mother  of  Ireland.  She  was 
born  in   Hartford,  Alay   11,   1865.     Children: 

I.  Marion  Inez,  born  .\pril  12,  1894.  2.  Helen 
Adelaide.  .April  4,  1899.     3.  Alice  L.,  August 

II.  1906;  died  September  15.  1907. 


John    Browning   Clement,   of 

CLEMENT     Camden,  New  Jersey,  traces 

his    lineage    through    several 

lines   back    to   the    year    380,    tracing   descent 


through  King  Henry  I..  King  Alfred  the  (ireat. 
King  Edward  I..  Hugh  Ca])et  and  Dernint  Mc- 
Murrough,  Malcolm,  king  of  Scotland. 

Pedigree  of  King  Henry  I.  (  from  king  of 
I-"rance  through  William  the  Cont|ueror  )  :  (1) 
King  Charles,  of  France,  married  Lady  Rot- 
rude.  (  11 )  Pepin  L"Bref,  married  Lady  Bertha 
de  Leon.  (  III)  Charlemagne,  emporer  of  the 
west,  married  lady  of  Savoy.  (IV)  Louis  I., 
king  of  France,  married  Lad\'  Judith.  (V) 
Charles  fl.,  king  of  France,  married  Lady 
Ermentrudis.  daughter  of  count  of  Orleans. 
(  \  1  )  Count  Baldwin  I.,  of  Flanders,  married 
Lady  Judith.  (\TI)  Count  Baldwin  11.,  of 
Manders,  married  Lady  Ethel wida.  (\  III) 
.\ndolph  the  Great,  of  Flanders,  married  Lady 
.Mice,  daughter  of  Count  de  \'ermandois.  ^  IX  ) 
iSaldwin  HI.,  of  Flanders,  married  Matilda,  of 
Saxony.  (N)  Arnolph  11.,  of  F"landers,  mar- 
ried Lady  Susanna,  daughter  of  duke  of  Italy. 
(  NI  )  Baldwin  \\ ..  of  Flajiders,  married  Lady 
Eleanore,  of  Normandy.  (Nil )  Baldwin  \  ., 
of  Flanders,  married  Lady  Adele,  granddaugh- 
ter of  Hugh  Capet.  (XIII)  Matilda,  daugh- 
ter of  Baldwin  \ .,  married  William  the  Con- 
<|ueror,  \\'illiam  I.,  of  England.  (Nl\')  Henry 
1.,  king  of  England,  son  of  William  the  Con- 
i|ueror  and  Matilda. 

IVdigree  of  Edward  I :  (  I  )  Egbert.  Saxon 
king,  first  king  of  England,  married  Redburga. 
( II )  Ethelwolf.  king  of  Englaml.  married  Os- 
burga.  daughter  of  earl  of  Osiac.  (Ill)  -Al- 
fred the  Great,  of  England,  married  Ethelbith, 
daughter  of  earl  of  Ethelran.  (1\')  Edward. 
of  England,  married  Edgiva.  daughter  of  earl 
of  Sigeline.  I  \" )  Edmund  1.,  of  England, 
married  Elgiva.  (W )  Edgar,  of  England, 
married  Elfrida.  daughter  of  earl  of  Devon. 
(  \'I1  )Ethelred,  of  England,  married  Elgiva. 
(laughter  of  earl  of  Thorad.  (\TII)  Edmund 
II..  of  England,  married  Elgatha.  of  Denmark. 
(  IX  )  Prince  Edward,  king  of  England,  mar- 
ried .\gatha,  of  Germany.  (X)  Princess  Mar- 
garet, of  England,  married  Malcolm  III.,  king 
of  Scotland.  (  XI )  Henry  I.,  king  of  England, 
married  Princess  Matilda.  (XII)  Geoffrey, 
king  of  England,  married  Maud,  empress  of 
(icrmany.  (XIII)  Henry  II.,  king  of  England, 
married  Eleanor,  daughter  of  duke  of  Ac|uitaine. 
(Xl\')  John,  king  of  England,  married  Isa- 
bella, daughter  of  Count  de  .Augouieme.  (X\') 
Henry  III.,  king  of  England,  married  Eleanor, 
daughter  of  count  of  Provence.  (X\T  )  Ed- 
ward I.,  king  of  England,  married  Eleanor,  of 
Castile.  (X\T1)  Princess  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Edward  I.,  married  Humi)hrey,  earl  of 
Hereford.     (XMIl)  \\'illiam,  earl  of  North- 


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ampton,  married  Elizabeth.  (XIX )  Robert 
Eitz  .Alan,  tenth  earl  of  .Anmdel,  married  Eliz- 
abeth. (  .\X )  Sir  Robert  Goushill,  knight, 
married  Joan.  (XXI)  Thomas,  first  Lord 
.Stanley,  married  Margaret.  (XXH)  Sir  Will- 
iam Troutbeck.  (XXIIl)  Jane  Troutbeck. 
married  Sir  William  Griffith.  iXXIX)  Sir 
William  Griffith,  married  Jane  I'oleston. 
(  XX\'  I  Sibill  Griffith,  married  Owen  ap  Hugh. 
(XX\'I)  Jane  Owen,  married  Hugh  Gwyn. 
(XX\  11)  Sibill  Gwyn,  married  James  Powell. 
iXXXIH)  Elizabeth  Powell,  married  Humph- 
rey ap  Hugh.  (XXIX)  Owen  lluniphrey, 
married  Jane.  (XXX)  Rebecca  Humphrey, 
married  Robert  Owen.  (XXXI )  Robert  Owen, 
married  Susanna  Hudson.  (XXXII)  Mary 
Owe*,  married  Henry  Burr.  (XXXIH) 
Rachel  liurr.  married  Josiah  Foster.  (  XXX  1\' ) 
Mary  Foster,  married  .Samuel  Clement. 
(  XXX\' )  Robert  Wharton  Clement,  married 
Sarah  A.  Mathis.  (  XXX\I  )  Samuel  M.  Clem- 
tnt,  married  .\nnie'  I'>rowning.  (XXXX'II) 
John  lirowning  Clement,  of  whom  this  sketch 
treats. 

Pedigree  of  Hugh  Ca])et.  king  of  France,  to 
Edward  the  First  (^ through  William  the  Con- 
(|ueror)  :  (I)  Hengst.  king  of  Saxons.  (II) 
Hartwaker,  jjrince  of  Sa.xons.  (HI)  Hattevi- 
gate,  prince  of  Saxons.  (I\  )  Hulderic,  king 
of  Saxons.  (\')  Bodicus.  king  of  Sa.xons. 
(\'I)  Berthold.  king  of  Saxons.  (\'II)  Sig- 
hard,  king  of  Saxons.  (  \'HI )  Dietric,  king  of 
Saxons,  who.se  daughter,  (IX)  Diibrogera, 
married  king  of  Wonden — had  (X)  Wernicke, 
king  of  Saxons.  (  .\1  )  Witekind.  king  of 
Saxons.  (XT!)  Witekind  II.,  count  of  Wet- 
ten.  (Xlll)  Witekind  111.,  count  of  Wetten. 
(XIV)  Robert  Fortes,  duke  of  France,  i  X\' ) 
Robert  II.,  duke  of  France.  (XVI)  Hugh 
the  (jreat.of  P>nrgundy. count  of  Paris.  ( .\  \  1 1  i 
Hugh  Capet,  king  of  I'rancc,  married  .\delia. 
daughter  of  .Adelheld.  of  Germany.  (  .Will  ) 
Robert,  king  of  France,  married  Constance,  of 
Provence.  (XIX)  l^rincess  .\dela.  of  France, 
married  Baldwin  \\  of  Mandcrs.  whose  daugh- 
ter, (XX)  Matilda,  married  William  the  Con- 
queror, of  England,  whose  son.  (XXI)  Henry 
I.,  of  England,  married  Princess  Matilda, 
daughter  of  Malcolm  111.  king  of  .Scotland, 
and  wife.  Princess  Margaret,  of  England. 

Gregory  Clement,  first  of  the  line  lurcin 
treated  of  whom  we  have  information,  was  a 
knight  of  Kent,  comjjanion  of  Oliver  Crom- 
well. He  was  from  Kent,  afterward  of  Lon- 
don. I^ngland  :  member  of  long  ()arliament ; 
judge  reeicide  of  Charles  T. :  executed  bv 
Charles  II. 


(  1  I  James  Clement,  founder  of  the  Amer- 
ican branch  of  the  family,  was  one  of  the 
pioneer  settlers  of  Haddonfield,  New  Jersey, 
locating  there   in    1670.      He   married    (first) 

Jane  ;  (second)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 

Picnjamin  Field.     He  died  in   1724. 

ill)  Jacob,  son  of  James  Clement,  was  born 
ill  Haddonfield,  New  Jersey,  1678.  He  was 
liigli  sheriff  of  ( iloucester  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, i7o;)-io.  He  married,  1700,  .Aim.  (laugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Harrison. 

I  111  I  Samuel,  son  of  Jacob  (.'lenient,  was 
born  in  1710.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New 
Jersey  assembly.  1754-61-63.  He  married.  1735, 
Rebecca,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Catherine 
(  Huddleston )  Collins,  who  were  married  in 
1698,  and  granddaughter  of  Francis  Collins, 
who  came  to  .America  in  1682,  having  married 
Sarah  Alayham  in  \(^>(^1,.  and  before  leaving 
England  lived  in  Ste])ney,  county  Middlesex  : 
lie  was  judge,  member  of  governor's  council 
and  the  as.sembly  of  New  Jersey,  during  the 
greater  part  of  his  life. 

{  1\' )  Samuel  (2).  son  of  Samuel  (i)  Clem, 
eiit.  was  born  1737  :  died  1784.  Married  Beulali. 
daughter  of  William  Evans. 

(\  )  .Samuel  (3),  deputy  surveyor-general 
(if  the  state  of  New  Jersey,  son  of  Samuel  (2) 
(lenient,  was  born  in  Haddonfield,  New  Jer- 
sey, i/(>$.  He  married,  at  Burlington.  .New 
Jersey.  December  13.  1786,  license  from  (lov. 
William  Livingston,  by  Judge  Israel  Shreve, 
Mary,  born  .August  17.  1770,  'daughter  of 
Josiah  and  Rachel  (Burr)  Foster.  She  was  a 
descendant  of  William  and  .Mary  Hudson,  of 
Redness  I'oggerby  .Manor,  West  Riding.  Whit- 
gift  Parish.  Adliiigtleet.  York,  ^'orksllire.  luig- 
land,  a  noted  Quaker  preacher.  William  Hud- 
son was  born  1645,  died  1713,  buried  in  Quaker 
burial-ground.  York.  England.  Their  son, 
William  Hudson  Jr..  was  born  1664.  York- 
shire, luigland :  caiue  to  .\merica.  1682:  he 
was  an  original  common  councilman  I  see  char- 
ter. 1701.  for  city  of  Philadelphia,  by  William 
Penn.  in  Inde|)enileiice  Hall):  overseer  of 
William  Penn  Charter  School.  1712:  member 
of  provincial  assembly,  1706-24:  alderman. 
1715:  associate  justice  of  city  court,  1715: 
uia\or,  1725-26:  judge  of  orphans'  court:  died 
1742:  will  in  office  of  register  in  Philadel]>liia. 
l)robated  December.  1742:  married  (first). 
l-'ebruary  28.  1688,  at  l-Vieiids'  meeting.  Phila- 
delphia. Mary,  daughter  of  .Samuel  Richard- 
son, founder,  who  came  from  London  to 
.America  |)rior  to  1690;  provincial  councillor: 
justice :  member  of  assembly,  jirovince  of 
Penns\l\  ania.     fourteen    times.     1688-0^:    his 


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wife's  name  was  Elizabeth;  married  (second) 
Hannah,  widow  of  Robert  Barber,  of  Chester. 
Their  daughter  Susannah  married  (first),  No- 
vember 10,  1716.  Robert,  son  of  Robert  Owen, 
of  IJala.  Wales,  and  Merion,  Pennsylvania ; 
married  (second),  March  2,  1734,  at  Friends' 
meeting,  Philadelphia,  John  Burr,  bom  1691, 
who  married  (first)  Keziah  Wright,  of  Long 
Island.  Alary  Owen,  daughter  of  Robert  and 
Susannah  (Hudson)  Owen,  married,  January 
10,  i~;^(>.  Henry  Burr,  born  June  26,  1715,  son 
of  John  anil  Keziah  (Wright)  Burr,  afore- 
mentioned. Their  daughter,  Rachel  Burr, 
born  June  b,  1743.  at  Northampton,  New  Jer- 
sey, married,  November  5,  1764,  in  St.  Paul's 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  Philadelphia 
Josiah  F"oster,  and  died  at  Haddonfield,  New 
Jersey,  March  i,  1813.  Josiah  Foster  was 
born  May  20.  1743,  Evesham,  New  Jersey, 
died  at  Haddonfield,  New  Jersey,  January  15. 
1820;  he  was  judge  of  court  and  justice  of 
Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  from  1782 
until  1812;  Indian  commissioner  for  New  Jer- 
sey, 1775-76;  member  of  Burlington  county 
committee  of  observation  and  safety;  member 
of  New  Jersey  assembly,  1779.  Josiah  Foster 
was  son  of  ^^  illiam  Foster,  born  December  13, 
1707;  died  1778;  judge  of  common  pleas.  Bur- 
lington county.  New  Jersey,  for  1754;  Indian 
commissioner  for  New  Jersey;  married,  1729. 
Hannah  Core,  born  October  17,  1710,  died 
January  14,  1777  ;  Quaker  minister  forty  years. 
William  Foster  was  son  of  Josiah  Foster,  born 
16S2  in  Rhode  Island;  died  September  i,  1770, 
at  Evcsliam,  New  Jersey ;  married  Amy,  born 
at  l'"\csham.  March  4.  1684,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin I'lorden.  Richard  Threader,  of  London, 
came  to  New  Jersey  in  ibSi  ;  died  April,  1698; 

married    Alartha    ,    and    had    daughter 

Mary;  she  married  Robert  Hudson,  who  came 
to  .America  in  1681,  died  August,  1697;  they 
had  daughter  Elizabeth,  born  1666.  married 
Henry  Burr,  born  1664,  died  October,  1742. 
son  of  John  and  Susannah  (Hudson)  Burr, 
aforementioned.  Henry  Burr  was  an  associate 
of  William  Penn,  was  an  American  founder, 
settling  in  New  Jersey,  168 1. 

(\"I)  Robert  Wharton,  son  of  Samuel  (3) 
Clement,  was  born  December  2^,  1808.  He 
married,  1836.  Sarah  .\.  Matthis,  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, born  August.  1814. 

(\'H  )  Samuel  Mitchell,  son  of  Robert  Whar- 
ton L'lemcnt,  was  born  ( )ctober  23. 1837.  He  was 
committing  magistrate  of  Philadel])hia  county, 
1885-93;  high  sheriff  of  Philadelphia  county, 
1894-97;  vice-president  of  Penny  Savings 
Bank.  Philadelphia;  special  commissioner  from 


Philadelphia  to  Paris,  France,  an  Evans  will 
case ;  elder  of  Bethany  Presbyterian  Church, 
Philadeljihia  ;  member  of  I'resbyterian  Social 
I'uion;  L'nion  League  of  Philadelphia,  and 
(irand  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
I'ennhylvania.  He  married.  .August  31,  1858, 
.\nnie.  born  in  Philadelphia,  February  16,  1841, 
daughter  of  William  and  Eliza  (Miles)  Brown- 
ing, who  were  born  in  Oxford,  England,  and 
were  the  parents  of  four  other  children:  Job, 
William.  I'llizabeth  and  Martha  Browning. 
Children  of  Air.  and  Mrs.  Clement:  i.  John 
Browning,  see  forward.  2.  George  W.,  born 
October  16,  i860;  married  Margaret,  daughter 
of  John  A.  Macaulay,  of  Philadelphia; 
children:  John  Oliver,  Samuel  M.  (3rd), 
Alargaret,  Sarah,  Annie,  George  W.,  Harry 
M..  Robert  Wharton,  Joseph  Beggs.  3.  Sam- 
uel .M.  Jr..  born  March  24,  1873;  married 
Mabel  \  ..  daughter  of  Thomas  De  Q.  Richard- 
son, of  I'hiladelphia ;  children:  Agnes  Rich- 
ardson, Frederick  Rothermel  and  Grace  Anne. 
4.  Eliza  Miles.  5.  Sarah  A.  6.  .Anna  May.  7. 
Jennie  D. 

(\lll)  John  Browning,  son  of  Samuel 
.Mitchell  Clement,  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  July  9,  1859.  He  received  his 
echication  in  the  schools  of  J'hiladelphia.  P^or 
thirty  years  he  served  as  financial  manager  for 
the  Philadelphia  house  of  John  Wanamaker. 
and  in  advisory  capacity  of  the  New  York 
business  of  the  same  firm  ;  president  from  July, 
1905.  to  January,  1909,  of  the  Charles  E. 
Brown  Company  of  Philadelphia ;  one  of  the 
G.  C.  ^'.  Leather  Company,  and  from  Septem- 
ber 15.  1909,  to  the  present  time,  director, 
second  vice-president,  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  Central  Trust  Company,  kx'ated  at  Fed- 
eral and  Fourth  streets,  Camden,  New  Jersey. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  League  of  Phil- 
adel])hia,  Sons  of  the  Revolution.  Colonial 
Society  of  Pennsylvania,  Browning  Society  of 
Philadelphia,  Trans-Atlantic  Society  of  Phila- 
ilclphia.  Pennsylvania  Historical  Society,  Pres- 
hvteriau  .Social  l'nion.  .American  Academy 
Political  and  Social  Science,  New  England 
.Society  of  Pennsylvania,  New  Jersey  Society 
of  Pennsylvania,  Melita  Lodge,  No.  295,  Free 
and  .Accepted  Alasons,  Pennsylvania ;  Merion 
Cricket  Club,  and  Runnemede  Society  of 
.America. 

He  married.  October  19,  1882.  Dessa  W.. 
born  .September  30,  1861,  daughter  of  DeWitt 
Clinton  and  Hannah  .A.  (Eldredge)  Crowell, 
of  Norfolk.  X'irginia.  Children:  I.  Dessa 
Crowell.  attended  Wellesley  College.  Wellesley, 
Massachusetts;   Allen   School,   West    Newton, 


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Massachusetts :  Tilton  Seminar}-,  Tilton,  Xew 
Hani|)sliii-e ;  Sliiple\-  Scliool.  Uryii  Mawr.  2. 
Joliii  IJrowniiig  Jr.,  attended  llaverford  Schoul, 
llaverforcl  College,  Haverford,  Pennsylvania, 
and  Law  School,  L'niversity  of  Pennsylvania. 
3.  Gregory,  attended  Friends'  Select  School, 
i'hiladelphia ;  Haverford  School,  Haverford 
College,  Haverford,  Pennsylvania;  department 
of  mechanical  engineering.  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania. 4'.  De  Witt  Crowell,  attending  Haver- 
ford School,  previously  having  attended 
Friends'  Select  School,  Philadelphia. 

Dessa  \\'.  (Crowell)  Clement  traces  her  an- 
cestry to  Samuel  Crowell,  a  founder  of  Cape 
May,  Xew  Jersey,  first  magistrate,  justice  of 
peace,  performed  first  marriage  ceremony  in 
Cape  May  county,  Xew  Jersey,  to  Thomas 
Crowell.  to  Aaron  Crowell,  born  1710,  to 
Thomas  Crowell,  born  1735,  married,  January 

15.  1771,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Cornelius  Schell- 
inger,  to  .Varon  Crowell,  born  1 760,  private  of 
Second  Regiment,  Xew  Jersey  militia,  1782. 
who  married  Sarah  Page,  to  Thomas  Page 
Crowell,  horn  February  27,  1798,  died  August 

16.  1876.  married.  May  31,  1826,  Hannah  Mat- 
thews, born  September  24,  1806,  daughter  of 
Silas  Matthews,  to  De  Witt  Clinton  Crowell, 
born  February  5,  1828,  died  Xovember  25. 
1874,  married,  l<'ebruary  8,  1859,  Hannah  .\. 
FIdredge.  1)orn  May  22,  1836,  daughter  of 
William  FIdredge.  De  Witt  Clinton  Crowell 
was  captain  of  the  military  (Blues)  of  Xor- 
folk,  Virginia,  and  the  two  latter  named  were 
the  ]3arents  of  four  children :  Mary  Cecil ; 
Dessa  W.,  aforementioned  as  the  wife  of  John 
Browning  Clement ;  Eva  J.,  married,  October, 
1901,  Leonard  Owen  Smith,  children,  I-lloise 
Crowell  Smith  and  V.va.  \  irginia  Smith:  Han- 
nah .M.  Crowell. 

De  Witt  Clinton  L'rowell  traces  his  ancestry 
to  Cornelius  Schellinks  and  Abranah  Bennett, 
founders  of  Cape  May,  Xew  Jersey,  ancestors 
of  Sarah  (Schellinger  |  Crowell.  John  How- 
land.  "Mayflower"  passenger,  came  to  Amer- 
ica in  .Vovember  or  December.  1(120:  died  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1672:  married  l-"Iizabeth  Tilley,  died 
December  21,  1687,  daughter  of  John  Tilley, 
also  a  "Mayflower"  jjasscnger,  who  died  I-'eb- 
ruary  23,  1672.  Daughter,  Desire  Howland, 
died  Octoljcr,  ir>83;  married  John  Gorham, 
1643:  he  was  born  January,  1620.  at  Benfield, 
iCngland,  dietl  February  3,  1675,  in  Swansea ; 
he  was  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's  war,  in  which 
he  contracted  fever;  he  was  son  of  Ralph  Gor- 
ham, and  grandson  of  James  Gorham,  who 
married  .\gnes  Pennington,  in  England,   1575. 


The  tenth  child  of  John  and  Desire  (^How- 
land)  Gorham  was  14annah,  born  Xovember 
20,  1663:  married,  1683.  Joseph  Wheldon,  of 
Whilldin.  an  Indian  fighter  at  Mt.  Hope,  June 
24,  1675.  Their  .son.  Joseph  Whilldin,  born 
1690;  died  March  18,  1748;  married  Mary 
Wilman.  born  i()8y.  died  April  8.  1743.  Their 
daughter.  Mary  Whilldin.  married  Criah 
Hughes,  and  their  son,  Ellis  Hughes,  born  Au- 
gust 16,  1745,  died  April  16,  1817,  was  a  Cape 
^lay  county  patriot,  and  member  of  committee 
of  safety  in  war  of  American  revolution,  mar- 
ried, September  2i_,  1768,  Eleanor  Hirst  Whill- 
din. 

ilannah  A.  (  Eldredge)  Crowell  traces  her 
ancestry  to  Ezekiel  Eldredge,  a  founder  of 
Cai)e  May,  Xew  Jersey,  to  Samuel  Eldredge. 
a  founder  of  Cape  May,  Xew  Jersey,  to  Aaron 
Eldredge,  born  1735.  died  1785,  Cape  May 
patriot,  war  of  American  revolution,  member 
of  Cape  May  county  committee  of  safety,  mar- 
rietl  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  Stilhvell, 
to  .\aron  FIdredge,  born  1771.  died  1819,  mar- 
ried Hannah  Langdon,  born  1774.  died  1836, 
to  William  Eldredge,  born  1804.  died  1886, 
married  Esther,  born  181 1,  died  1897,  daughter 
of  Elijah  Ireland,  to  Hannah  A.  Eldredge, 
aforementioned  as  the  wife  of  De  Witt  Clinton 
Crdwell.  Elizabeth  (Stillwell)  Eldredge  traces 
her  ancestry  to  Thomas  Hand,  a  founder  of 
Cape  May.  Xew  Jersey,  whose  daughter,  Sarah 
Hand,  married  Richard  Stillwell.  1730.  Rich- 
ard Stillwell  was  born  1700,  son  of  William 
Stillwell,  born  1648,  settled  in  Cape  May,  1693, 
and  he  in  turn  was  a  son  of  Captain  Xicholas 
Stillwell,  born  1382,  an  .\merican  founder. 
i(^W)-  engaged  in  Indian  wars,  married  A.  M. 
\  an  Dyke.  Esther  (Ireland)  Eldreilge  traces 
her  ancestry  on  the  paternal  side  to  Japeth 
Ireland,  born  Xovember  24.  17-14,  died  Febru- 
ary 20,  1810,  married  Mary  Townsend,  born 
Xovember  30,  1786,  died  May  20.  1801.  Their 
.son,  Elijah  Ireland,  born  March  31,  1780,  died 
Xovember  17,  1823,  married  Rachel  Soiners, 
born  1783.  daughter  of  David  Somers,  born 
1738.  died  1838,  private  and  minute-man  in 
Gloucester  county,  Xew  Jersey,  state  militia, 
war  of  American  revolution,  married  Rebecca 

.     He  was  a  son  of  John  Somers,  born 

1733.  wounded  in  battle  of  Red  Bank,  October 
22.  1777,  and  served  as  captain  of  Third 
Battalion,  Gloucester  county,  Xew  Jersey,  mar- 
ried Esther  Risley,  died  June.  1783.  He  was 
a  son  of  James   Somers.  born  July   15,   1695, 

died  January.    1761,  married   Abigail  

born  July  21,   i^'93.     He  was  a  son  of  John 


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Soiners,  born  1640.  in  Worcester,  England,  set- 
tled in  America  1688,  manied,  1688,  Hannah 
llodgkin,  born  1667,  died  1738,  he  died   1723. 


John  Sobieski.  John  III., 
ZAIIRISKIE  king  of  Poland.  1674-96.  was 
one  of  the  greatest  warriors. 
lif  the  seventeenth  century.  His  father.  James 
Snhieski,  castillion  of  Cracow,  was  a  man  of 
virtuous  character,  and  in  behalf  of  his  fellow 
cotnitrymen  he  developed  a  warlike  spirit  which 
secured  to  him  the  throne  of  Poland.  He 
lirtiught  up  his  sons,  Mark  and  John,  born  be- 
tween 1624  and  1629,  with  the  utmost  care, 
and  they  completed  their  education  by  travel 
and  observation  in  France,  England,  Germany 
and  Italy.  On  the  death  of  their  father  in 
i<)48  they  were  recalled  home,  and  after  the 
defeat  of  the  Polish  army  by  the  Russians  in 
the  battle  of  Pilavvieez,  the  brothers  Sobieski 
took  up  arms  to  restore  the  fortunes  of  their 
ciiuntrymen,  and  Mark  fell  in  battle  on  the 
banks  of  the  Bog.  This  spurred  John  to 
greater  valor,  and  he  became  the  admiration  of 
the  Poles  and  the  dread  of  the  Tartans  and 
Cossacks.  He  received  the  highest  military 
rank  in  the  army,  and  November  11,  1673,  in 
the  great  battle  of  Choezim,  he  defeated  the 
Turks,  who  left  twenty-eight  thousand  men 
dead  and  woundetl  on  the  battle-field.  This 
led  to  his  unanimous  election  of  king  of  Poland, 
May  21,  1674,  and  he  was  crowned  at  Cracow. 
In  1683  the  Turks  besieged  \'ienna,  and  King 
John  III.,  with  twenty  thousand  Poles  aided 
by  the  German  auxiliaries,  raised  the  siege  by 
the  victory  of  September  12,  1683,  in  which 
battle  he  took  the  banner  of  Mohammed  and 
sent  it  as  a  trophy  to  the  pope.  His  entry  into 
\  ienna  was  that  of  a  conqueror,  and  the  citi- 
zens of  the  besieged  city  showed  every  demon- 
stration of  joy  and  thanksgiving  their  ingenuity 
could  devise  or  their  glad  hearts  express. 

John  Sobieski  was  not  only  a  warrior  and 
ruler  but  a  lover  of  science  antl  a  man  of 
gentle  disposition  and  agreeable  manner.  His 
constant  wars  did  not  allow  him,  however,  to 
attend  to  the  industrial  needs  of  the  citizens  at 
home,  and  the  want  of  such  fostering  care 
hastened  the  downfall  of  Poland.  He  died  of 
apople.xy,  June  17.  i6g6.  His  ancestors  had 
been  for  two  centuries  Palatine  nobles  of 
Poland  and  famous  soldiers  and  statesmen. 
It  is  from  such  ancestors  with  such  records  of 
military  and  executive  greatness  that  the  Za- 
briskies  of  New  Jersey  and  New  York  are  de- 
scended, and  the  cognomen  has,  through  the 
(German,  Holland  and  English  spellings,  evolved 


from    Zobrieski,    Saborowcski,    Sobrisco,    Za- 
brioski.  to  Zabriskie.* 

(I)  Albert  Saboriski,  son  of  a  brother  of 
James  Sobieski,  and  cousin  of  King  John  HI., 
of  IV)Iand.  who  like  his  nephew  was  a  famous 
soldier,  was  born  in  Zolkwa.  Poland  (or  Enghs- 
burg,  Prussia),  probably  in  1638.  He  was 
given  a  liberal  education,  being  sent  by  his 
father  to  .Amsterdam,  Holland,  with  the  hope 
that  he  would  enter  the  ministry,  and  he  direct- 
ed his  studies  to  that  end  for  a  time,  but  the 
l^reparation  jjroved  distasteful  and  he  abandon- 
ed theolog)- ;  subsequently  he  was  ])ressed  into 
the  Prussian  army.  To  fight  for  the  old  enemy 
of  Poland  was  far  more  distasteful,  and  he 
determined  to  seek  his  fortune  in  the  new 
world  and  join  his  friends  who  had  gone  from 
the  L'pper  Palatinate  to  New  Amsterdam  and 
made  homes  there  and  in  New  Jersey.  He 
took  ]jassage  in  the  Dutch  ship  "D'Vos"  (the 
"Fox"  ),  Captain  Jacob  Jansz  Huys,  at  Amster- 
dam, Holland,  August  31,  1662,  and  landed  in 
■New  Amsterdam,  where  he  lived  for  ten  or 
more  years  without  settling  in  any  one  place 
or  engaging  in  any  settled  business.  We  find 
him  in  Bergen  (now  Jersey  City)  about  the 
time  of  his  marriage,  which  is  registered  in  the 
books  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  of  Ber- 
gen, December  17.  1676,  and  the  marriage  cer- 
tificate recorded  as  issued  January  8,  1677.  He 
married  Machtelt  (  Matilda  ),  daughter  of  Joost 
\'an  der  Linde,  whose  brother,  Rolofif  \'an 
der  Linde,  became  one  of  the  largest  land- 
holders in  Bergen.  Upon  his  marriage  he  took 
title  to  a  tract  of  land,  patent  20,  21,  22.  In 
1682  he  obtained  patents  from  Lady  Cartaret 
of  several  adjacent  tracts,  thus  extending  his 
estate  from  the  Hudson  river  on  the  east  to  the 
Hackensack  river  on  the  west.  The  Indians 
also  bargained  with  him  for  land  at  Tappan, 
higher  up  the  river,  which  in  1702  he  nominally 
exchanged  for  twenty-one  hundred  acres  owned 
bv  the  Indians,  adjoining  his  original  purchases, 
and  this  second  purchase  became  known  as  the 
Xew  Paramus  Patent.  (See  map  of  Perth 
Amboy).  He  erected  a  house  at  Old  Acken- 
sack  (now  near  Ridgefield  Park),  and  his  eld- 
est sons,  Jacob  and  Jan  (John),  and  probably 
all  his  children,  were  born  there.  He  helped 
to  organize  the  church  on  the  green  at  Old 
Hackensack  in  1696.  his  name  appearing  on 
stone  in  jiresent  church  wall,  and  was  the  lead- 
ing member  and  supporter  of  that  church  for 

•Variou.'^  name.s  in  this  family  show  variations 
of  form,  appearing  differently  in  different  branches 
of  the  f.imil\".  and  are  so  pre.sorved  in  these  narra- 
tives. 


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over  twenty-five  years.  He  was  also  the  first 
justice  of  the  peace  of  Upper  Bergen  county 
( his  original  signature  appearing  on  deed  held 
by  Wesley  \'an  Eniburgh,  of  Ridgewood,  New 
Jersey),  his  commission  having  been  signed  by 
Governor  }Iamilton  in  1682.  He  died  in  Hack- 
ensack,  and  is  supposed  to  have  been  buried 
there,  September  11,  171 1,  according  to  the 
record  of  the  Lutheran  churches  in  and  about 
New  York,  and  his  age  is  stated  as  between 
seventy-two  and  seventy-three  years.  His 
widow,  born  in  1656,  died  in  1725..  In  the 
record  of  his  death  his  name  is  written  "Albert 
Saboriski." 

Children  of  Albert  and  Matilda  (\'an  der 
Linde )  Saboriski,  born  in  or  near  Hack- 
ensack,  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey:  i.  Jacob 
A.,  April  12,  1679;  see  sketch.  2.  Jan  (John), 
born  in  Hackensack,  about  1682  ;  married,  Sep- 
tember 20,  1706,  Elizabeth  Cloes  Romeyn,  of 
(jravesend.  Long  Island,  Xew  York,  born  1683, 
died  in  Hackensack  in  1712:  he  married  (sec- 
ond), December  6,  1712,  Marguaretta  du  Rij 
(Durie),  and  lived  on  the  old  homestead  fac- 
ing the  green  alongside  the  church  in  Hacken 
sack,  which  he  inherited,  and  besides  being  a 
farmer  he  was  active  in  public  affairs ;  he  had 
four  children  by  his  first  wife  and  nine  by  his 
second.  3.  Yost  ((Seorge),  see  sketch.  4. 
Christian,  see  sketch.  5.  Hendrick.  see  for- 
ward. 

There  is  a  tradition  in  the  family  that  Jacob 
.•\.,  eldest  son  of  Albert,  was  stolen  by  the 
Indian  sachem  when  seven  years  old  and 
carried  to  the  Indian  village  nearby,  and  that 
some  time  elapsed  before  his  whereabouts  be- 
came known.  As  his  father  was  a  true  friend 
of  the  Indians,  the  sachem  at  last  disclosed  the 
secret  of  taking  the  child,  and  he  expressed 
the  wish  that  he  be  allowed  to  keep  the  boy 
until  he  had  become  versed  in  the  Indian  lan- 
guage, that  he  might  be  able  to  maintain  the 
friendshi])  established  by  the  father,  and,  like 
him.  act  as  an  arbitrator  and  interpreter  in  any 
trouble  that  might  cunie  u])  between  the  Indians 
and  their  white  neighbors.  The  father  consented 
and  when  he  had  returned  to  his  father's  home 
he  iiad  acquired  the  language,  and  his  friend- 
shij)  for  the  Indians  was  a  fixed  ])rinciple  of 
his  life.  The  tradition  adds  that  in  considera- 
tion of  allowing  the  boy  to  remain,  the  second 
grant  of  I'pper  i'aramus  was  securt-d.  The 
fact.  Jiowever.  remained  that  valuable  mer- 
chandise, wampum  and  nionoy  was  ])aid  the 
Indians  by  .Albert  .Saboriski  for  the  land. 

(  II  )  Hendrick  Zabriskic,  youngest  cliild  of 
.\lbert   and    .Matilda    (  \  an   der    Linde;    Sabo- 


riski. was  born  Xovember  11,  1696.  He  settled 
in  the  Point  neighborhood,  now  East  Paramus. 
He  married.  May  16,  1719,  Gertie  (Gertrude) 
llendrikse  Hoppe.  sister  of  Christian's  wife. 

(  HI)  Jacob  Hendrikse,  third  son  of  Hend- 
rick and  tiertrude  llendrikse  (Hoppe)  Za- 
briskie,  was  born  in  Point  neighborhood,  Ber- 
gen county,  Xew  Jersey,  November  19,  1729. 
He  married  W'yntje  Terhune.  Children,  born 
in  the  Point  neighborhood:  i.  Hendrick  J.. 
Alarch  8,  1752;  married  Willentje  Bogert.  2. 
Martje,  April  15,  1754;  died  unmarried.  3. 
Geatina.  October  17,  1756 ;  married  Jacob  Dem- 
orest.  4.  .\ntje,  February  5,  1759;  married 
Johannas  Bogert.  5.  Albert,  October  18.  1760; 
married  Maria  W'estervelt.  6.  .Aaltje,  October 
31,  1762;  married  John  Christopher.  7.  Rachel. 
Alarch  6,  1765;  married  Joost  Zabriskie.  8. 
\\'}ntje,  Alarch  22,  1766;  died  young.  9. 
\\yntje,  Xovember  2,  1768;  married  Jacob  C. 
lianta.  10.  Elizabeth.  December  2,  1770;  mar- 
ried John  Terhune.  11.  Jannetje.  June  27, 
1773.  12.  .Abram,  January  14.  i/(>(>;  married 
."-Susanna  Helm. 

(I\')  Hendrick  J.,  eldest  child  of  Jacob 
llendrikse  and  W'yntje  (Terhune)  Zai)riskie, 
was  born  in  Point  neighborhood,  Xew  Jersey, 
March  8,  1752.  He  married  Willentje  Bogert. 
Children,  born  in  the  Point  neighborhood:  I. 
Jacob  H..  June  29,  r77o:  married  .Ann  J.  Hop- 
per. 2.  .\Iagdalina.  b'ebruary ').  1773;  died  un- 
married. 3.  Cornelius  J.,  July  14,  1776;  mar- 
ried Alary  \'an  Dien.  4.  Lydia,  August  17, 
1780;  died  unmarried.  5.  Nettie,  June  18.  1783. 
6.  Elizabeth.  .August  13,  1786.  7.  Alargarettje, 
I'fbruary  4.  17S1).  8.  Gerret.  Alarch  18,  1792. 
<>.  John,  .May  15.  1795.  10.  Maria,  September 
20,  1796.  1 1.  .\bram,  married  Sarah  \'an  Dien. 
12.  Mentlrick,  married  Christina  X'oorhees.  13. 
C'atherine.  married  .Andrew  .Ackcrman. 

(Y)  Jacob  H.,  eldest  child  of  Hendrick  J. 
and  Willentje  (  liogert)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in 
the  Point  neighborhood,  June  29,  1770.  He 
married.  Jiuie  29.  17<)0,  .Ann  J.  lio])]ier.  Chil- 
dren, born  to  them  in  the  Point  neighborhood: 
I.  Ilenr)-  J.,  March  30,  1798:  lived  at  .Saddle 
River.  2.  John  J.  II..  January  24.  1801  :  mar- 
ried Maria  \  an  der  Linda  ;  lived  near  Paramus 
church.  3.  Cornelius  J.,  October  3,  1803;  mar- 
ried Jane  llo|)per:  lived  near  Paramus  church. 
4.  William  )..  January  13.  1805:  married  Dolly 
Ackerman  ;  lived  at  Siccomac.  5.  Hannah. 
July  13.  1807:  married  James  IMauvelt ;  liveil 
;it  Cherry  Lane.  U.  l^llen  ]..  July  13,  1801); 
married  Ilenry  .\ckerman ;  lived  at  Saddle 
River,  7.  Jacol)  J..  .Xovember  30,  181 1  :  lived 
at   Paler.'-on.     8.  Gillian  J.,  October   13.    1812; 


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married  Levina  Osborn :  lived  at  Spring  \'al- 
ley.  New  Jersey.  9.  Abrain  J.,  August  28. 
i.'~!i3  :  married  Mary  Berdan  :  lived  at  Hohokus, 
New  Jersey.  fO.  Rachel  .Kiin,  .\ugust  28,  1815  ; 
married  Isaac  liugert ;  lived  at  W  earinius.  Xew 
Jersey. 

(  \'I  )  .\brani  J.,  seventh  son  and  ninth  child 
<>i  Jacob  H.  and  Ann  J.  (Hopper)  Zabriskie. 
w  as  born  in  Hohokus,  Xew  Jersey,  August  2S, 
1813.     He  married  Mary  Berdan. 

(  \'ll  )  John  Jacob,  only  child  of  Abrani  J. 
and  Mary  (Berdan)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in 
llnhokus,  Xew  Jersey,  June  22,  1847.  He 
married  ]\Iary  C.  Board,  of  Lower  Paramus. 

(X'HI)  Everett  Law,  only  child  of  John 
Jacob  and  Mary  C.  (Board)  Zabriskie,  was 
born  in  Hohokus,  New  Jersey,  November  10. 
1878.  He  received  his  education  in  the  local 
schools.  Trinity  Chapel  School  in  New  York 
City,  and  Xew  York  I'niversity  at  Morris 
Heights,  class  of  1901,  where  he  studied  scien- 
tific subjects.    He  turned  his  attention  to  engi- 

•  neering  woik  for  various  concerns,  having  the 
water  roofing  on  the  Rapid  Transit  Subway  in 
charge.  Later  he  specialized  along  general  con- 
structi.jn  lines.  He  is  interested  in  civic,  edu- 
cational and  religious  work  at  Ridgewood. 
Xew  Jersey,  and  is  interested  and  has  written 
on   historical   research   as   applied   to    Bergen 

I  county.    He  is  serving  in  the  capacity  of  presi- 

'  dent  of  the  Paramus  \'alley  Photographic 
Club :  president  of  \'allean  Cemetery  at  Pa- 
ramus. Xew  Jersey :  vice-president  of  Young 
Men's  Christian  .\ssociation,  Ridgewood,  Xew 

',  Jersey,  1909-10:  vice-president  of  Bergen 
County  Historical  Society:  trustee  of  the  Ber- 
gen county  branch  of  the  New  York  Holland 

.    Society  at  New  York  Citv;  officer  in  the  his- 

;  toric  Paramus  Church,  1907-10:  member  of 
the  executive  committee  of  the  Board  of  Trade, 
Ridgewood,  Xew  Jersey  :  member  of  the  Board 
of  Education,  Ridgewood,  1903-10,  and  a 
member  of  the  construction  committee  during 
the  building  of  three  schools:  member  of  the 
Xew  York  Holland  Society,  Xew  York  Gene- 

i  alogical  and  Biographical  Society,  Fidelity 
Lodge.  Xo.  113,  F.  and  A.  M.,  serving  as  treas- 
urer in  1907,  and  Junior  Order  American  Me- 
chanics. Everett  I^aw  Zabriskie  married.  May 
16,  1900.  Marion  S.,  daughter  of  John  H.  and 
Harriet  ( \"an  Horn)  Zabriskie;  children: 
Pierre  Board,  born  February  13,  1901,  and 
Everett  Law  Jr.,  born  January  2,  1910. 

Marion  S.  (Zabriskie)  Zabriskie  is  of  the 
ninth  generation  from  Albert  Saboriski,  the 
Polish-Holland  immigrant,  who  married  Mach- 
telt,    daughter   of   Joost    \  an    der    Linde,    of 


pure  Holland  descent,  and  were  among  the 
earliest  settlers  of  Xorth  Bergen  ( Ackensack), 
Xew  Jersey.  Everett  Law  Zabriskie  and  his 
wife,  Marion  S.  Zabriskie,  were  only  related 
before  marriage  as  descendants  of  a  common 
ancestor  in  the  first  American  generation, 
where  the  relationship  parts,  the  husband  being 
a  descendant  of  Hendrick  and  the  wife  of 
Christian  of  the  second  generation.  Her  line 
of  descent  is  as  follows:  (1)  Albert,  (II) 
Christian  A.,  (Ill)  Jacob  C,  (IV)  Christian 
J.,  (\")  Jacob,  (\T)  Guilliam,  (VH)  Albert 
(i.,  (\'III)  John  H.  The  ancestor  of  Marion 
S.  (Zabriskie)  Zabriskie  is  given  in  this  article, 
and  the  succeeding  generations  are  as  follows : 

(II)  Christian  A.,  son  of  Albert  Saboriski. 
was  born  in  "Old  Ackensack,"  New  Jersey, 
July  3,  1694.  He  married.  May  28,  1715,  Lea 
Hendrickse  Hoppe.  They  moved  to  Lower 
Paramus  and  built  upon  the  \\"essels  home- 
stead at  Dunker  Hook  (meaning  dark  corner). 
Children:  i.  Albert,  born  September  2,  1716; 
settled  the  Acrigg  place,  Paramus :  married 
Altje  Ackerman.  2.  Hendricks,  born  May  22, 
1718  :  settletl  the  Board  place.  Lower  Paramus  : 
married  ( first  )  Xeesje  \'an  Horn:  (second) 
Maria  Herring.  3.  Jacob,  born  January  22, 
1721  :  died  young.  4.  Jacob  C,  born  January 
10,  1725;  mentioned  below.  5.  Andries,  born 
January  15,  1729:  settled  ujjon  the  W'essels 
homestead.  Lower  Paramus  ;  married  Elizabeth 
Ackerman. 

(  III  )  Jacob  C,  fourth  child  of  Christian  A. 
Zabriskie,  was  born  in  Lower  Paramus,  Xew 
Jersey.  January  10,  1725.  He  moved  to  Areola, 
at  the  "Old  Red  Mill,"  and  was  an  intense 
])atriot,  his  determined  spirit  gaining  for  him 
the  name  of  "King  Jacob."  He  married  Lena 
Ackerman :  children,  born  at  the  Red  Mill, 
now  Areola,  Xew  Jersey:  i.  Garrit,  Septem- 
ber 23,  1750:  married  Martha  Mills:  lived  at 
Passaic.  2.  Lea,  July  29.  1752:  married  Isaac 
Sloat :  lived  at  Sloatsburgh,  Rockland  county, 
Xew  York.  3.  Christian  J..  1754;  mentioned 
below. 

(I\)  Christian  J.,  son  of  Jacob  Zabriskie, 
was  born  in  Areola,  Xew  Jersey,  1754.  He 
married  Maria  Terhune.  and  lived  in  the 
Thomas  \'.  P).  Zabriskie  jilace  in  Lower 
Paramus.  Children:  i.  Jacob,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Trentje.  married  R.  Paulison  :  lived  at  Hack- 
ensack.  3.  Maria,  born  April  15,  1771  ;  mar- 
ried Jacob  I'.revort:  lived  at  Areola.  4.  Cat- 
rina.  April  30,  1775:  died  unmarried.  5.  Elea- 
nor, August  10.  1777.    6.  Cornelius,  March  25, 

( \  )   Jacob,   son   of   Christian   J.    Zabriskie, 


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was  born  at  Lower  Paramus,  Bergen  county, 
New  Jersey.  He  lived  on  the  Thomas  V.  H. 
Zabriskie  i)lace  in  Lower  Paramus.  He  mar- 
ried Ehzaheth  Terhune ;  children:  i.  Chris- 
tian, born  January  6,  1798:  married  Hannah 
Demorest.  2.  Steven,  married  Jane  \  an  Bus- 
kirk.  3.  (juilham.  February  13,  1804;  men- 
tioned below.  4.  ^^argaret,  married  Henry 
\'an  Blarcom.  5.  Maria,  married  Garret  Bre- 
voort. 

(\T)  GuilHam,  son  of  Jacob  Zabriskie,  was 
born  in  Lower  Paramus,  February  13,  1804; 
died  Februarj"  12,  1874.  He  was  a  farmer.  He 
married,  November  18,  1826,  Caroline  Za- 
briskie, born  June  3.  1809,  died  May  12,  1877. 
He  had  several  children,  but  only  three  arrived 
at  maturity,  the  larger  number  dying  very 
young.  The  children  who  grew  up  were:  i. 
.\lbert  (j.,  born  June  9,  1829;  mentioned  below. 
2.  Jacob  tj.,  August  18,  1833;  married  Sarah 
Halstead.  3.  Peter  G.,  December  24,  1836; 
married  Mary  Garretson. 

(\'II)  Albert  G.,  son  of  Guilliam  Zabriskie, 
was  born  in  Lower  Paramus,  New  Jersey.  June 
9,  1829.  He  was  born  and  lived  on  the  Paramus 
road,  in  the  old  homestead.  He  married  Jane 
Maria   Halstead,  October  30,   1849:  children: 

1.  Carrie,  married  .\bram  Smith.  2.  John  H.. 
mentioned  below. 

(\TH)  John  H..  son  of  .Albert  G.  Zabriskie. 
married  Harriet  \'an  Horn,  and  had  two  chil- 
dren: I.  Marion  S.,  born  July  i,  1879:  mar- 
ried Everett  Law  Zabriskie,  above  mentioned. 

2.  Nellie  P..,  born  June  4.  1882. 


(Ill  Jacob  .\.  Zabriskie. 
Z.XP.RISKIE     eldest  "child  of  .\lbert  ( (|.  v.) 

and  Matilda  (\  an  der  Lin- 
de)  Zabriskie,  was  born  at  the  homestead  of 
his  father  at  Pamraho,  now  Bayonne,  Bergen 
county.  East  New  Jersey,  and  baptized  in  the 
Hackensack  church,  .\]iril  12,  1679.  He  was 
stolen  by  the  Indians  when  scarcely  .seven  years 
of  age,  became  a  favorite  with  the  chief,  ac- 
c|uircd  their  language,  became  acquainted  with 
their  modes  and  custom.s,  and  became  their 
friend  and  counsellor  after  he  was  restored  to 
his  family.  He  was  brought  up  to  the  life  of 
a  farmer  with  the  understanding  that  on  arriv- 
ing at  age  he  should  have  set  off  from  his 
father's  extensive  estate  a  farm  of  his  own, 
and  he  thus  acquired  a  fine  farm  in  L'pper 
Paramus.  He  married,  .\pril  22,  1699,  Antje 
Alberta  Terheuij  (Terhune), born  1680,  daugh- 
ter of  .Mbert  .Aalbertse,  born  1651,  and  Weyntje 
(Breckes)    Terheuij.      C"hildren.    ba])tized    as 


follows,  according  to  records  of  Dutch  Re- 
formed Church  in  Hacken.sack:  i.  Hendrickje, 
November  9,  1701  ;  married  .\nthony  L^azier. 
April  2,  1720.  2.  Feytje,  October  31,  1703; 
married  Peter  Lozier,  March  2,  1723.  3. 
.Maryje,  September  22.  1706.  4.  ,\lbertse,  Jan- 
uary 17,  1708;  married  Maritjen  Hoppe,  April 
28,  1739-  5-  Jan,  June  15,  1710;  see  forward. 
6.  Janetje,  December  13,  1713;  married  Hend- 
rick  Hudson,  Alarch  7,  1744.  7.  Rachel.  May 
8,  1715:  married  Johannes  Du  Marcoq,  in  the 
Dutch  church  in  New  York,  March  7.  1744.  8. 
Machtell,  January  27,  1717;  married  .\lberl 
Bogart,  October  21,  1737.  9.  Steven,  .August 
31,  1718;  married  Catryntje  Hopper,  Jamiary 
30,  1742.  10.  Jacob,  May  26,  1722;  married 
.-\altjen  Terhune.  .April  8.  1748.  and  had  seven 
children. 

(HI.)  Jan,  second  son  and  fifth  child  of 
Jacob  A.  and  Antje  Alberta  (Terhune)  Za- 
briskie, was  born  in  Copper  Paramus,  Bergen 
county.  New  Jersey,  and  baptized  in  the  Dutch 
church  at  Hackensack,  June  15,  1710.  He 
married  Alltje  Hopper,  October  26,  1729.  Qiil- 
dren,  born  in  L'pper  Paramus,  and  baptized  in 
the  Dutch  church :  Jacob,  October  30,  1734 ; 
.Andries,  September  17,  1736,  see  forward; 
. Mbert.  May  13,  1739;  Jan,  ^lay  12,  1745. 

(  1\' )  .Andries,  second  son  of  Jan  and  .Alltje 
(Hopper)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in  Upper 
Paramus,  and  ba])tized  in  the  Dutch  church, 
September  17,  1736.  Like  his  father  and 
grandfather,  he  was  a  husbandman  and  owned 
a  fine  farm  which  proved  an  excellent  pro- 
ducer, thereby  becoming  an  affluent  agricul- 
turist. I  le  married  Tenie  (  Christina  I.  daugh- 
ter of  Cornelius  and  Elizabeth  (Zabriskie)  Bo- 
gart, a  member  of  a  family  of  excellent  repute 
and  wealth  in  Bergen  county.  Children,  bap- 
tized, according  to  the  Dutch  church  records: 
I.  John,  Se]ncmber  28,  1760;  died  shortly 
afterward.  2.  John  .A.,  see  forward.  3.  Eliza- 
beth. October  5,  1777.  4.  .Alltje.  December  11, 
1782. 

(\  )  John  A.,  second  son  of  .Andries  and 
Christina  (Bogart)  Zabriskie.  was  born  in 
l'pper  I'aramus,  November  11,  1768  ;  no  church 
record  appears  of  his  baptism.     He  married 

Jane  ;  children:     .\ndrew  J.,  married 

Mary  \'an  Buskirk ;  Casparus  J.,  see  forward; 
John  C. :  Jacob:  Lavina. 

(  \'l )  Casparus  J.,  second  son  of  John  .A. 
and  Jane  Zabriskie,  was  born  in  Upper 
Paramus.  1799.  He  resided  on  the  homestead 
farm  in  U])per  Paramus.  He  married  Cath- 
erine [\i-t.    Children,  born  in  Upper  Paramus: 


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Jolin  L'.,  M'c  forward:  Catherine  Jane;  Maria 
.Mateiia;  Alleta  Lavina :  Andrew:  Sopliia : 
Robert. 

(\'I1)  John  C.  eldest  ehild  of  Casparns  J. 
and  Catherine  (I'ost)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in 
I'aranius,  September  12.  1820.  He  was  a 
farmer  by  occupation,  and  a  man  of  stantUng 
and  influence  in  the  church  and  community 
where  he  resided.  He  married  (first)  Ehza 
.Maria,  <laughter  of  Andrew  H.  Hopper.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Catherine  Christina,  born  February 
J5,  1843:  died  May  11,  1848.  2.  Andrew  J., 
lii'in  June  7.  1845;  died  1899:  married  Sarah 
I,,  .\ckerman.  who  survived  him.  3.  Maria 
Jane,  born  August  24,  1847.  The  motlier  of 
these  children  died  June  16,  1849.  John  C. 
Zabriskie  married  (second)  Jane  Demare.st, 
imrn  August  29,  1829,  daughter  of  David  S. 
and  Margaretta  (Durie)  Demarest.  Children: 
I.  l'"mma,  born  April  16,  1853;  died  Septem- 
ber, same  year.  2.  David  Demarest,  Novem- 
ber 27,  1856;  see  forward.  3.  Asa  (twin), 
November  15,  1858;  resides  in  California.  4. 
Ida  (twin),  November  15,  1858;  died  January 
o.  1 861.  5.  Alletta  V.  D.,  December  15,  i860; 
died  December  7,  1879.  6.  John  F.,  July  30, 
1862;  died  February  11,  1863.  7.  Simon,  Sep- 
tember 16,  1863;  died  April  2,  1864.  Jane 
(  Demarest)  Zabriskie,  the  mother  of  these 
children,  died  .\ugust  8,  1877.  John  C.  Za- 
briskie married  ( third  ),  1884.  Maria  C.  Bogart. 
John  C.  Zabriskie  died  March  zj,  1894. 

(  \'ni )  David  Demarest,  son  of  John  C.  and 
Jane  (Demarest)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in 
Faramus,  November  27,  1856.  He  attended 
the  district  school  of  his  native  town  and  pre- 
pared for  college  at  the  celebrated  high  school 
in  Flatbush,  Long  Lsland.  known  then  and 
now  as  Erasmus  Hall  Academy.  He  matric- 
ulated at  Rutgers  College,  New  Brunswick, 
New  Jersey,  the  alma  mater  of  so  many  noble 
men  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  in  Amer- 
ica, and  the  chief  college  in  the  eastern  portion 
of  the  United  States  under  the  denominational 
control  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church,  and 
Where  over  two  thousand  sons  of  that  church 
have  graduated  since  its  organization  in  1766. 
lie  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts 
at  Rutgers  in  1879.  became  a  law  student  in 
the  office  of  Collins  &  Corbin  in  Jersey  City, 
New  Jersey,  and  pursued  a  course  in  law  at 
Columbia  College  Law  School,  New  York  City, 
graduating  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Laws  in  1881.  He  was  licensed  as  an  attorney 
at  law  under  the  laws  of  New  Jersey  in  No- 
vember, 1882,  and  practiced  in  Jersey  City  as 
such  up  to  June,  i88g.  when  he  was  admitted 


as  a  counsellor  at  law,  which  admitted  him  to 
all  the  courts  of  New  Jersey  and  the  circuit 
and  supreme  courts.  He  served  as  counsel  for 
I'.ergen  county  during  the  years  1896-97,  after 
which  lie  was  appointed  by  Governor  Griggs 
judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas,  succeed- 
ing Judge  \'an  \'alen.  His  rulings  have  invari- 
ably stooil  the  test  when  appealed  to  the  higher 
courts,  which  fact  testifies  to  his  scholarly  at- 
tainments and  thorough  knowledge  of  the  law, 
whose  researches  have  carried  him  far  and 
wide  into  the  realms  of  legal  investigation,  and 
he  possesses  a  w'eight  of  character,  a  native 
sagacity,  a  far-seeing  judgment  and  a  fidelity 
of  purpose  that  commands  the  respect  of  all. 
His  duties  at  court  made  Hackensack  his  busi- 
ness home,  but  he  continued  to  maintain  his 
law  offices  in  Jersey  City  and  his  home  resi- 
dence in  Ridgewood.  He  was  an  organizer 
and  succeeded  General  Bird  W.  Spencer,  of 
F'assaic,  president  of  the  North  Jersey  Title 
antl  Guarantee  Company,  formed  for  the  con- 
venience and  protection  of  land  owners  and 
land  purchasers  in  northern  New  Jersey.  His 
fraternal  affiliation  with  the  Masonic  order 
came  through  membership  in  the  Fidelity 
Lodge,  No.  113,  of  Ridgewood.  His  patriotic 
affiliation  with  the  Holland  Society  of  New 
York  comes  by  right  of  descent  from  the  Van 
der  Lindas  of  Holland,  his  paternal  immigrant 
ancestor  being  of  Polish  blood.  His  religious 
birthright  as  a  son  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church  extends  to  the  church  as  it  w^as  founded 
in  Holland  and  transplanted  to  the  New 
Netherlands,  and  the  loyalty  of  the  family  to 
the  faith  of  their  forefathers  is  seldom  found 
wanting. 

Judge  Zabriskie  married,  October  21,  1883, 
Lizzie  S.  Suydam,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Mary 
(Runyon)  Suydam,  of  New  Brunswick,  New 
Jersey.  Their  only  child,  Ethelind  S.,  born 
"Se])tember  7,  1884,  died  August  3,  1905. 


(\T)  John  C.  Zabriskie, 
ZABRISKIE  third  son  of  John  A.  (q.  v.) 
and  Jane  Zabriskie,  was  born 
in  Ridgewood,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey, 
about  1800.  He  married  Sarah  A.  Stevens, 
"from  the  Ponds."  Children:  i.  Abram  Ste- 
vens, see  forward.  2.  Sarah  Jane,  married 
William  M.  K.  Ackerman,  of  Englewood,  Ber- 
gen county.  New  Jersey ;  she  died  October  28, 
1852,  aged  eighteen  years  two  months  two 
days. 

(\TI)  Abram  Stevens,  eldest  child  of  John 
C.  and  Sarah  A.  (Stevens)  Zabriskie,  was  born 
in  Paranius.  New  Jersey,  August  16,  1832;  died 


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there,  in  December.  1883.  lie  cultivated  a 
large  farm  in  I'aranuis,  where  he  lived  all  his 
life.  He  married  (first)  Jemima  Garrison, 
and  by  her  had  several  children,  only  one  reach- 
ing maturity,  Carrie,  born  March  17,  1862, 
married  John  A.  \'an  Emburgh.  He  married 
(second)  Cornelia  Wanamaker,  a  sister  of 
Maria  C.  Wanamaker,  who  married  Albert  S. 
Zabriskie  (  \  I  ),  a  practicing  physician  of  Suf- 
fern,  Rockland  county.  New  York.  By  this 
marriage  he  had  three  children,  born  in 
Faramus :  i.  Ida,  November  26,  1870;  mar- 
ried John  Edgar,  son  of  George  C.  Zabriskie ; 
children  lA'era,  Mildred  and  Lester.  2.  Arthur 
Stevens,  see  forward.  3.  Alice  Sloat.  born 
June  10,  1878;  died  June  9,  1879. 

(\'III)  Arthur  Stevens,  only  son  and  sec- 
ond child  of  Abram  Stevens  and  Cornelia 
(  \\  anamaker  j  Zabriskie,  was  born  in  Paramus, 
New  Jersey,  April  i,  1873.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools  of  Paramus  and  at  Lati- 
mer P)usiness  College,  Paterson,  New  Jersey. 
He  learned  the  lumber  business  in  the  office 
and  yards  of  S.  M.  Piirch  Company  of  Passaic, 
New  Jersey,  and  left  the  employ  of  this  firm 
in  1894  in  order  to  accept  the  position  of 
representative  of  the  paper  jobbing  concern  of 
Clement  &  Stockwell  of  New  York  City.  He 
remained  with  this  house  up  to  1901,  when  he 
became  the  representative  of  the  \\'anac|ue 
River  Paj)er  Company,  with  New  York  offices 
at  No.  290  Proadway.  Mr.  Zabriskie  is  a 
Mason,  having  been  initiated  into  the  secrets 
of  the  order  through  .Xstor  Lodge,  No.  603.  of 
New  York  City,  lie  married,  October  16. 
1895,  '"  Ridgewood.  New  Jersey,  Ida,  daugh- 
ter of  Albert  and  \'irginia  (Pothier)  Clark, 
of  Ridgewood.  New  Jersey,  and  they  made 
their  home  in  lirooklyn.  New  York,  where 
their  children  were  born:  Stanley  Clark,  May 
22.  1898:  l'"dythe.  May  15,  1901. 


(in  Joo.st  (probably  Yiist 
Z.M'.RISKI  1"  and  anglicized  Justus  or 
Jacelin,  but  arbitrarily  as 
Jushiia.  and  utten  as  George,  of  which  the 
Dutch  is  Joris).  third  son  of  Albert  (q.  v.) 
and  .\lachtelt  (or  Matilda)  (  \'an  der  Linde ) 
Zabriskie,  was  born  at  Pemmarjtegg,  also 
known  as  I'arendsse  and  Paramus,  1682.  His 
parents  were  married,  December  17,  1676.  in 
the  liergen  church.  His  marriage  record  in  the 
I  lackensack  church  reads,  "Joost  Zaboriskoo. 
young  man.  born  .\ckensack,  and  Christina 
Maby,  young  damsel,  born  in  New  York  and 
l)oth  lived  at  .\ckensack:  November  i,  1712." 
lie  was  of   .Schraalenburg,    New  Jersey,  and 


was  received  in  church  membership  in  Hacken- 
sack,  April  8,  171 1.  Children  of  Joost  ami 
Christina  (.Maebie)  (Maby)  Zabriskie:  i. 
Machteldje,  baptized  in  Hackensack  church. 
September  25.  1715.  2.  Kaspar,  April  7,  1717; 
married,  April  30,  1746,  Catharine  Van  Wag- 
enen,  of  Essex  county,  in  Acqueqneck  church. 
3.  Elizabeth,  July  19,  1719.  4.  Fytje  (Sophia). 
March  26,  1722:  married.  June  6,  1739,  Jacob 
Lizier.  5.  .\ntje.  May  30,  1728,  Scliraalen- 
burg  church;  probably  married.  April  8,  1745. 
.Stephen  Paldwin  (record  Dutch  church,  New 
York).    6.  .\lbert,  see  forward. 

(HI)  Albert,  second  son  and  sixth  child  of 
Joost  and  Christina  (Maebie)  Zabriskie.  wa,-- 
born  in  Schraalenburg,  P)ergen  county,  and 
baptized  in  the  church  in  that  place,  April  25. 
1730.  He  married  (jeortje  Westervelt.  Chil- 
dren, baptized  in  church  at  Schraalenburg. 
New  Jersey:  i.  Christina,  November  5, 
1752:  baptized  November  6,  1752.  2.  Benja- 
min. December  31,  1754;  baptized  January  19, 
1755-  3-  Joost,  see  forward.  4.  Casper  (Jas- 
jier),  baptized  Se])tember  9,  1759;  ])robably 
married.  .September  i.  1781,  Hannah  X'reeland. 
Dutch  church.  New  York  (marriage  bond, 
August  17,  1781).  5.  Jan,  baptized  May  8. 
1760,  Paramus  church,  b.  Hendrickje,  bap- 
tized December  20,  1761.  7.  Antjc,  baptized 
September  16,  1764.  8.  Osseltei  (?),  baptized 
Jainiary  18.  1767.  7.  Ragel,  baptized  January 
8.  \y(>i).  10.  Jan.  Noveml)er  19.  1770;  bap- 
tized December  10.  1770.  11.  Steven  (pos- 
sibly), baptized  March  31.  1776.  I'aramus 
church,  mother  "Geesje.''  12.  Jacob  (jjossibly), 
ba])tized  .\ugust  3,  1777,  "Albert  Jo  and  wife," 
parents. 

(1\  I  Joost  (probably  Yost  and  sometimes 
in  luiglish  George),  second  son  and  third 
child  of  .\lbert  and  Geortje  (Westervelt)  Za- 
briskie. was  born  in  Schraalenburg,  New  Jer- 
sey, March  C),  1757.  He  married  Rachel, 
daughter  of  Jacob  H.  and  Lavinia  (Wyntje) 
(  Terhune  )  Zabriskie,  granddaughter  of  Henry 
and  Gertrude  H.  (Ho])per)  Zabriskie.  She  was 
born  July  15,  1765.  and  baptized  in  the  church 
at  Paramus.  (hildren  of  Joost  and  Rachel 
(  Zabriskie  )  Zabriskie,  Iwrn  in  Schraalenburg  : 
I.  .Mbert,  see  forward.  2.  Jacob,  ( )ctober  27, 
1787;  married  twice;  <lied  June  2,  1857.  3. 
Benjamin,  .\pril  12.  I78();  married  Katie 
Gcritsic.  who  after  her  husband's  death.  May 
-''•  '833.  luanieil  a  joralomon.  4.  Henry. 
March  2().  1791  ;  died  July  20.  1791.  5.  Ger- 
trude. .'^ei)tember  20,  1792;  married  Simeon 
\'an  i\i|)cr.  6.  Henry.  October  24.  1794;  mar- 
ried, January  29,   1815,   Margareitje   Kuyper. 


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7.  Joost,  December  2^.  1798;  married  Eliza- 
beth Heyler;  died  February  22.  1875. 

(\)  Albert  (2),  eldest  child  of  Joost  and 
Rachel  (Zabriskie)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in 
Schraalenburg,  June  13,  1785,  and  baptized 
in  the  Schraalenburg  church.  June  26,  1785. 
I  fe  married  Helen  (  Heyltje )  \'an  Buren  ;  chil- 
dren, born  on  the  homestead  farm  near 
I'aramus:  i.  Joost  ((ieorge),  see  forward. 
2.  Thomas.  3.  Michael.  4.  \\'illiam.  5.  Peter. 
().  John  1;.  7.  Agnes,  married  Peter  B.  Ram- 
sey, of  Ramseys,  Xew  Jersey.  Albert  Za- 
briskie, father  of  these  children,  died  at  his 
home  near  Paramus,  Xew  Jersey,  June  3,  1853. 

(\'I)  (ieorge  (Joost),  eldest  son  of  Albert 
(2)  and  Helen  (Heyltje)  ( \'an  Buren)  Za- 
briskie, was  born  on  his  father's  farm  near 
l^aramus,  about  1810.  He  removed  to  Ocean 
count}-.  Xew  Jersey,  and  engaged  in  the  ship- 
ping business,  owning  a  considerable  fleet  of 
vessels  which  he  ran  from  Xew  York  to  vari- 
ous southern  ])orts,  and  became  wealthy  and 
influential.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter  of 
John  and  Sarah  Applegate,  and  they  lived  in 
Toms  River,  which  seaport  was  an  important 
rendezvous  for  privateers  in  the  American 
revolution,  until  about  1840,  when  they  lived 
])rinci])ally  in  Xew  York  City.  Children  of 
(ieorge  and  Sarah  (.Applegate)  Zabriskie: 
John  .Albert,  see  forward  :  Alichael  \'an  Buren  ; 
(ieorge  W. :  Benjamin;  Thomas  Beekman. 

(VH)  John  Albert,  eldest  son  of  George 
and  Sarah  ( Ap])legate)  Zabriskie.  was  born  in 
Toms  River,  .September  5,  1833.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  Xew  York  City, 
and  became  a  contractor,  his  work  being  prin- 
ciiiallv  on  railroads,  then  a  growing  industry, 
lie  removed  from  Toms  River  to  Xew  York 
City  in  1865,  where  he  still  resides.  He  built 
a  part  of  the  Long  Island  railroad,  the  Xew 
Jersey  Southern  railroad,  a  large  section  of 
the  Erie  railroad,  the  Xew  Jersey  and  New 
\'ork  railroad,  and  a  section  of  the  West 
.Shore  railroad.  Besides,  he  was  engaged  in 
large  ])rivate  enterprises,  and  became  a  stock- 
holder in  the  various  roads  and  other  corpora- 
tion work  he  contracted  to  build.  He  also  in- 
herited large  shipping  interests  which  he  con- 
tinued to  develop,  so  that  he  was  largely  inter- 
ested in  the  transjiortation  business  both  by 
rail  and  water.  He  retired  from  active  busi- 
ness management  in  1899.  John  Albert  Za- 
briskie married,  .April  12,  1856,  Alice  S.,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  C.  and  Margaret  (Crawford) 
Williams,  of  Toms  River,  X^ew  Jersey,  and 
granddaughter  of  William  Williams,  who  was 
captain   in   the   coast  guard   in   the   American 


revolution,  was  captured  by  the  British,  and 
sent  to  England  a  prisoner  of  war;  he  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Coward,  daughter  of  an  English 
clergyman.  Children  of  John  Albert  and  Alice 
S.  (Williams)  Zabriskie:  i.  Edwin  F.,  died 
in  childhood.  2.  Frank  L.,  see  forward.  3. 
Ray  Livingston.  4.  William,  died  shortly  after 
birth.  Edwin  F.  and  I'Vank  L.  were  born  in 
Toms  River,  Xew  Jersey,  and  Ray  L.  and 
William  in  the  city  of  Xew  York. 

(\'11I  )  Frank  L.,  second  child  of  John  .Al- 
bert and  Alice  S.  (  \Villiams )  Zabriskie,  was 
born  in  Toms  River,  Xew  Jersey,  Sejitember 
5,  i8()i.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Xew  York  City  and  the  College  of  the  City 
of  Xew  York,  formerly  known  as  "Free  Acad- 
emy." He  left  school  to  engage  in  the  dry  goods 
business  in  New  York  City,  and  after  becoming 
familiar  with  that  line  of  trade  he  became  inter- 
ested in  business  on  his  own  account  in  various 
mercantile  ventures  in  Xew  York  City,  which 
develojied  into  his  becoming  an  organizer  of 
corporate  business  enterprises.  He  promoted 
and  holds  office  in  the  following  corporations : 
President  of  "Xew  Jersey  Tribune";  director 
First  Xational  Bank  of  St.  Cloud ;  secretary 
and  director  of  Adirondack  Timber  and  Alin- 
eral  Company;  president  and  director  of  As- 
toria Investors  Com])any ;  president  and  di- 
rector of  Grand  Avenue  Laud  Company  ;  presi- 
dent and  director  of  Jewell  Baking  Powder 
Company;  assistant  secretary  of  Liberty  Life 
Insurance  Company;  treasurer  and  director  of 
Lords  Court  Iiuilding ;  director  of  Xew  York 
and  Florida  Lumber  Company ;  director  of 
the  Roy  Press,  and  assistant  secretary  of  the 
Savannah,  Augusta  &  Northern  railroad.  Mr. 
Zabriskie's  office  is  at  1 1 1  IJroadway,  Xew  York. 
He  has  passed  in  Masonry  through  the  lodge 
and  chapter  of  the  Royal  Arch  and  thence  to  the 
commandery  of  Knights  Templar,  and  is  a 
noble  of  Mecca  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine. 

Mr.  Zabriskie  married.  October,  1889,  Mar- 
garet A.,  daughter  of  Henry  P.  Powles,  of 
.New  York  City,  and  their  daughter,  Alildred 
Leslie,  was  born  in  Xew  York  City,  Xovember. 
1892.  Their  summer  home  is  "Balfour  Lodge." 
in  the  .Adirondack  mountains.  Town  resi- 
dence, the  "Estling."  Riverside  Drive,  New 
York  Citv. 


(II)      Christian     Zabriskie, 

Z Al'.RISKIl':     fourth  son  of  Albert  (q.  v.) 

and     Machtelt    or    Matilda 

(  \'an    der    Linde)     Saboroski.    was    born    in 

Hackensack.  I'pper  Bergen,  New  Jersey,  was 

bajitized  in  the  church  at  Hackensack,  Upper 


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Bergen,  Jul\  3,  i()</).  and  died  1774.  He  mar- 
ried. May  28,  1714,  I-ea  Ilendricksje  Hoope 
(Hopper).  He  lived  in  Lower  I'aramus,  and 
was  received  -in  the  church  at  Hackensack  as 
a  member  July  13.  1723.  when  he  appears  to 
have  spelled  his  name  "Zabbroski."  He  was 
probably  a  farmer,  as  his  father  had  large 
estates  in  New  Jersey,  which  afforded  the  best 
of  land  for  carrying  on  the  business  of  culti- 
vating the  soil,  and  in  fact  the  early  Hollanders 
and  Palatenates  were  farmers  and  both  men 
and  women  were  accustomed  to  working  in  the 
fields,  and  the  women  universally  were  the 
chief  dependence  in  milking  and  caring  for 
the  butter  and  cheese. 

Children  of  Christian  and  Lea  (Hendricksje) 
(Hopper)  Zabroski,  born  in  Lower  Paramus, 
New  Jersey:  i.  Albert,  baptized  September  2, 
1716;  married,  October  26,  1739,  Aeltje,  daugh- 
ter of  .\braham  and  Aeltje  (  \  an  Leer)  Ack- 
erman ;  her  parents  removed  from  New  York 
City  to  Bergen,  New  Jersey,  in  1694,  and  set- 
tled on  a  large  tract  of  land  lying  between  the 
Hackensack  and  Saddle  rivers  in  Bergen  coun- 
ty. (The  chart  of  the  Zabriskii  prepared  by 
Chancellor  Zabriskii  gives  Tjilletji  Ackerman 
to  this  Albert;  but  the  record  of  baptism  of 
Jacob,  son  of  Tjilletje,  has  the  fatiier's  name 
"Albert  Hen/'  and  not  "Albert  Christ."  She 
must  therefore  have  been  the  wife  of  Albert, 
son  of  Henry  and  Gertrude  H.  (Hopper) 
Zabriskii).  2.  Hendrick,  baptized  May  22. 
1718.  3.  Jacob,  bajjtized  January  22,  1721  ;  died 
young.  4.  Jacob,  baptized  January  20,  1725; 
married,  .\ugust  7.  1747,  Lena  .\ckerman.  5. 
Andries,  see  forward. 

(HI)  Andries  (.Vndrew),  fifth  son  and 
youngest  child  of  Christian  and  Lea  Hend- 
ricksje (Hopper)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in  Lower 
I'aramus,  January  3,  1729,  according  to  rec- 
ords of  the  Schraalenburg  church.  He  was  a 
farmer,  and  married,  in  1750.  Elizabeth  .\cker- 
man.  of  I'arannis.  Children,  baptized  in  the 
church  at  Parannis:  i.  Christian  A.,  see  for- 
ward. 2.  Jane.  January  1,  1761  ;  married  Cor- 
ponas  Bogert ;  children  :  Cornelius  C.  Bogert, 
and  Elizabeth  liogert,  who  married  William 
Pell  and  had  si.x  children.    3.  John  .\. 

{I\')  Christian  .\..  eldest  child  of  Andrew 
and  Elizabeth  (.Ackerman)  Zabriskie,  was  born 
in  I'aramus,  and  bajitized  in  the  church  there, 
I'ebruary  24,  175 1,  and  died  on  the  homestead 
of  the  farm  on  which  he  lived,  January  10, 
1813.  He  married  (first)  Rachel  Zabriskie, 
and  by  this  marriage  had  no  issue.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  Maria  Terhune.  and  they  had 
one    child.    Catherine.      He    married    (third) 


-Maria  Bogert:  children:  I.  Andrew  C,  born 
.\o\ember  14,  1784.  2.  Cornelius  C,  married 
Maria  Hopper,  and  had  one  child,  .\braham 
Ho])i)er.  Christian  A.  Zabriskie  married 
(  fourth  )  Maria  Housman,  and  by  this  mar- 
riage had  one  chil<l.  .\braham  C,  see  forward. 

(  \' )  Abraham  C,  only  child  of  Christian 
.•\.  and  Maria  (Housman)  Zabriskie,  was  born 
in  Paramus,  .May  3,  1791 ;  died  there,  Novem- 
ber 1').  1849.  '  le  was  a  farmer,  a  man  of  ster- 
ling integrity  and  of  excellent  standing  in  the 
communit)-.  He  married. October  6, 1818,  Maria, 
daughter  of  .\ndrew  and  Elizabeth  (Ander- 
son )  Zabriskie.  Cliildren,  born  in  Bergen 
county.  New  Jersey:  i.  Eliza,  June  23,  1820; 
died  October,  1905;  she  was  wife  of  Henry 
Demorest,  married,  -November  4.  1851.  2. 
Maria.  .April  30,  1823:  married,  Sejjtember  9. 
1841.  Cornelius  \  an  Houten;  she  died  Novem- 
ber 21,  1899.    3.  Christian  A.,  see  forward. 

(  \'l  )  Christian  A.  (2),  youngest  child  of 
.\braham  C.  and  Maria  (Zabriskie)  Zabriskie, 
was  born  in  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  March 
14,  1829:  died  at  his  home  in  PaS^saic,  New 
Jersey,  May  3,  1905.  He  was  engaged  in  the 
business  of  buying,  selling  and  milling  grain 
and  feed,  his  mill  being  located  on  the  site  of 
the  ])resent  village  of  (larfield,  New  Jersey, 
and  he  resided  near  his  mill  up  to  1892,  when 
he  relinquished  the  business,  owing  to  con- 
tinued ill  health,  and  removed  to  Passaic,  where 
he  spent  his  declining  years  free  from  business 
cares.  He  married  (first),  October  17,  1849, 
Jane  M.  Cadmus:  children:  i.  Mary,  born 
November  13,  1850:  married  W  illiam  F.  Gas- 
ton, October  I  I,  187').  2.  Elizabeth.  March  29, 
1853;  died  I'ebruary  5,  1856.  3.  Elizabetli, 
October  21.  1856;  died  .August  29,  1857.  He 
married  (second)  Rachel  .A.  Zabriskie,  No- 
vember 12,  i8(>2:  she  died  January  17,  1869; 
mother  of  one  child.  4.  John,  born  Jainiary  9, 
died  October  2,  186C).  He  married  (third) 
Saraii  L.  .Andruss,  October  18.  1870;  she  was 
born  .A])ril  30,  1834.  died  .A])ril  12,  1902, 
daughter  of  Ira  and  Harriet  (Logan)  .Andrus. 
Children  of  Christian  .A.  and  Sarah  L.  (.An- 
druss )  Zabriskie :  5.  .Annie  A.,  November  7. 
1871  :  died  unmarried,  .\])ril  29.  1891.  6.  Myra 
\'.  11..  .May  2j.  1873:  resides  at  Passaic,  New 
lersev. 


(Ill)   Christian      Zabriskie, 
Z.M'.RlSKll'.     fifth  son  and  si.xth  child  of 
Jan   (q.   v.)   and   Margretje 
(  Du  Riz )  Zabriskie.  was  born  in  Hackensack, 
-New  Jersey,  and  liajitized   in  the   Dutch  Re- 
formed Church  in  that  ]ilace.  May  5,  1734.  He 


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married,  February  10,  1753,  Eleanor  \'oorliees  ; 
children,   born    in    Hackensack,    New   Jersey; 

1.  Albert  C,  see  sketch.  2.  Margaretta,  July 
13,  1758;  died  August  10.  1762.  3.  John  C, 
January  19,  1764;  died  February  15,  1844.  4. 
Jacob  C..  December  4,  1767;  see  forward.  5. 
Margaretta,  i'ebruary  19.  1775.  6.  Maria  No- 
vember 29,  1779.  7.  Sarah.  March  30,  1789; 
died  January  11,  1793. 

I  1\  )  Jacob  C,  son  of  Christian  and  Elea- 
nor (\  oorhees)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in  Hack- 
ensack,  December  4,  1767:  died  in  Schraalen- 
bergh.  Xew  Jersey,  November  21,  1847.  He 
married  Maria  Brevoort,  December  20,  1797; 
children:     i.  Christian  Brevoort.  see  forward. 

2.  Child,  died  shortl\-  after  birth.  3.  John, 
born  March  20,  1806.  4.  Henry  Brevoort.  De- 
cember 5,  1808.  5.  Maria  Stoutenburgh,  July 
2.  1813.  6.  .Albert,  .\pril  11.  1815.  7.  Jacob 
W'esler  (twin  of  Albert).  8.  Helen  X'oorhees, 
October  10.  1819.  9.  Catherine  Jane.  June  14. 
baptized  July  7,  1822. 

( \' )  Christian  ]!revoort.  eldest  child  of 
Jacob  C.  and  Maria  (  I'.revoort )  Zabriskie,  was 
born  in  Hackensack,  June  29,  1801  :  died  June, 
1887.  He  was  a  noted  physician  and  surgeon 
in  New  York  City.  Both  Dr.  Zabriskie  and 
his  son.  Lieutenant  Elias  B.  Zabriskie,  render- 
ed loyal  and  efficient  service  to  their  country 
during  the  .Mexican  war.  The  two,  father  and 
son,  went  to  Jacksonville.  Illinois,  in  1840.  and 
at  the  Ijreaking  out  of  the  war  with  Mexico  in 
1846,  entered  the  United  States  army,  Dr. 
Zabriskie  as  surgeon  with  the  rank  of  colonel, 
and  the  son  as  lieutenant.  At  the  close  of  the 
war  they  went  to  California,  landing  at  San 
Francisco  on  July  4.  1849.  There  they  again 
engaged  in  the  defence  of  good  citizenship 
and  became  an  active  member  of  the  famous 
vigilance  committee.  Dr.  Zabriskie  W'as  every- 
where regarded  as  a  good  and  useful  citizen 
and  was  highly  esteemed  and  respected  by  all 
who  came  in  contact  with  him.  Dr.  Zabriskie 
married,  in  1824.  Josephine  Randolph,  daugh- 
ter of  ( ieneral  Pittcairn  Morrison,  and  they 
had  two  children  born  in  Hackensack,  Xew 
Jersey:  i.  Elias  Brevoort,  see  forward.  2. 
Juliette,  died  unmarried. 

(  \T )  Elias  Brevoort,  only  son  of  Dr.  Chris- 
tian Brevoort  and  Josephine  Randolph  ( Morri- 
son) Zabriskie,  was  born  in  Hackensack,  New 
Jersey.  June  22.  1825.  He  was  a  loyal  and 
patriotic  citizen,  and  like  his  father  was  highly 
respected  and  esteemed  by  all  his  associates 
ami  friends,  and  everywhere  proved  himself 
worthy  and  creditable  of  his  name  and  family. 
He  served  with  his  father  in  the  Mexican  war 


with  the  rank  of  lieutenant,  L'.  S.  A.,  and  ac- 
companied him  to  California  in  1849.  Elias 
B.  Zabriskie,  when  the  Comstock  Mines  were 
discovered,  accompanied  his  father  to  Nevada, 
When  President  Lincoln  called  lor  volunteers, 
Elias  B.  Zabriskie  organized  what  was  known 
as  the  Nevada  Battalion  of  Cavalry,  which  he 
recruited  for  service  in  the  Cnion  army.  The 
Indian  troubles  changed  the  direction  of  the 
recruits,  and  he  engaged  in  the  Indian  war.  In 
this  active  service  his  father  was  unable  to 
take  part  on  account  of  advanced  age,  but  he 
was  [ilaced  on  the  Lincoln  and  Hamlin  i)resi- 
dential  ticket  as  elector-at-large  for  Nevada, 
and  was  the  first  presidential  elector  from  that 
state.  .After  the  close  of  the  war  Elias  B. 
Zabriskie  resigned  with  the  rank  of  major  at 
Fort  Douglas,  where  he  remained  u|)  to  1870, 
when  he  removed  to  Carson  City,  Nevada, 
where  he  died  June  10,  1894. 

He  married,  December  17,  1863,  Justine 
Jackson,  born  New  Orleans,  September  17, 
1838,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Justine  (_de 
Cource\-  )  Jackson.  C)ne  child.  Christian  Bre- 
voort. 

(VII)  Christian  Brevoort,  only  child  of 
Major  Elias  B.  and  Justine  (Jackson)  Za- 
briskie, was  born  at  Fort  Bridger,  Wyoming, 
( )ctober  16,  1864.  He  was  sent  to  school  at 
St.  Mark's,  Salt  Lake  City,  L'tah,  and  also 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Carson  City, 
Nevada.  He  early  was  associated  with  mining, 
banking  and  railroad  building,  and  was  among 
the  i)ioneer  developers  of  the  gold  fields  of 
Nevada,  notably  the  Tonopah  and  (joldfields 
districts.  He  also  was  early  connected  with 
the  development  of  the  borate  deposits  of  the 
Pacific  coast,  extending  his  investigation  of 
those  important  deposits  to  the  western  coast 
of  the  continent  in  the  L'nited  States  and  South 
America.  He  was  manager  for  the  Pacific 
Coast  Bora.x  Company,  located  at  Columbus, 
Nevada,  about  1885,  and  about  the  same  time 
became  extensively  interested  in  railroads  and 
banking  institutions  in  Nevada.  In  1897  he 
removed  to  New  York  City  and  assumed  the 
eastern  management  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Bora.x 
Companv.  He  is  president  of  the  Bullfrog 
Goldfield  Railroatl  Company ;  vice-presitlent 
of  the  Indiana  and  Illinois  Railroad  Company ; 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Tonopah  .and 
Tidewater  Railroad  Company:  president  of  the 
Newark  P>ay  Short  Line ;  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Pacific  Despatch:  president  of  the 
T.  &  S.  C.  White  Sulphur  Company,  Bergen 
Point,  New  Jersey  :  vice-president  of  the  Me- 
chanics Trust  Company  of  New  Jersey  at  Bay- 


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onne,  New  Jersey;  vice-president  of  the  Ran- 
some  Concrete  5lacliinery  Company,  and  of 
the  Ransome  &  Smith  Company,  New  Jersey; 
treasurer  of  the  West  End  Mining  Company, 
and  a  director  and  investor  in  numerous  lesser 
corporations.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Society 
of  Chemical  Industry  and  the  American  Chem- 
ical .Suciet\-.  J  lis  hereditary  affiliations  include 
the  Holland  .Society  of  New  York  and  the 
-Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion.  His  Re- 
publican principles  find  a  home  in  the  Union 
League  Club  of  New  York.  His  investigation, 
development  and  distribution  of  the  commercial 
deposits  of  the  great  west  made  him  a  welcome 
member  of  the  Chemists'Club,  and  of  the  Drug 
and  Chemical  Club  of  New  York,  and  his  rail- 
road interests  led  him  to  membership  in  the 
Railroad  Club  and  the  Transportation  Club. 
Mr.  Zabriskie  finds  recreation  in  hunting,  fish- 
ing boating,  tennis  and  yachting.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Columbia  Yacht  Club.  His 
business  address  is  loo  William  street,  New 
York. 

He  married,  Se])tember  lo.  1888,  Margaret 
Louise,  a  native  of  Carson  City,  Nevada,  born 
August  15.  1867,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Catherine  ( Jenkins  )  Edwards,  and  they  have 
one  child,  Zayda  Justine,  born  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, California,  May  29,  i8qi.  They  are 
members  of  the  Episcopal  church. 


(HL)         lacob       Zabriskie, 
ZAI'.RISKIF     youngest  "child  of  Jacob  A. 

(q.  v. )  and  Antje  (Terhune  ) 
Zabriskie,  was  born  in  Paramus,  Bergen  coun- 
ty, New  Jersey,  March  3,  1722;  died  there, 
September  n,  1779.  He  married,  .'Kpril  8, 
1748,  .\altjen  Terhune,  lx)rn  December  19. 
1730.  died  November  10,  1803.  Children,  baj)- 
tized  in  the  Hackensack  church:  I.  Antje, 
January  22,  1749  (I'aramns);  married  Abra- 
ham Hooper;  died  October  21,  1803.  2.  Maria, 
l-'ebruary  10,  1751  ;  married  John  Garritson ; 
died  March  25,  1814.  3.  Albert,  see  forward. 
4.  Jan  (John),  born  December  25,  1755;  bap- 
tized January  10,  1756;  married  Christcna 
Zabriskie:  <lied  .August  24.  1780.  5.  Wyntje, 
June  10.  1758:  died  immarried,  Alarch  21, 
1806.  6.  Rachel,  January  13,  1765;  married 
Henry  iloppcr;  died  February  25,  1836.  7. 
Jacob,  .Kngust  25,  1771  ;  see  sketch. 

(T\')  Albert,  eldest  son  and  third  child  of 
Jaccib  anil  Aeltje  (Terhune)  Zabriskie,  was 
horn  in  I'aramus,  and  ba])tizcd  in  tlie  Dutch 
Reformed  Church  at  1  lackcnsack,  .\])ril  19, 
1753.  died  December  C\  1838.  He  married, 
October  15,  1780,  Metje  (Martha)  .Ackerman, 


born  December  7,  1756,  died  September  9, 
1833.  Children,  baptized  in  the  Schraalen- 
burg  church:     1.  Aeltje,  born  .August  23,  1781. 

2.  tierrit,  March  28,  1783.  3.  Rachel,  Febru- 
ary 26,  1785.  4.  John,  see  forward.  5.  Al- 
bert, I-'ebruary  25,  1792.  6.  Simeon,  Septem- 
ber 20,  1794.  7.  .Antje,  January  17,  1796.  8. 
Stephen.  Jamiary  13.  1801  ;  died  February  2^. 
1866.  .Stephen  Zabriskie  marrieil  Sarah  West- 
ervelt.  January  i,  1824.  She  was  born  Janu- 
ary 20,  1800,  (lied  July  2.  1870. 

(\  )  John,  second  son  and  fourth  child  of 
Albert  and  Martha  (.Ackerman)  Zabriskie, 
was  born  in  Paramus,  September  8,  1788,  where 
he  was  a  farmer  and  a  useful  and  resjiected 
citizen.  He  married,  in  1819,  Elizabeth  Za- 
briskie: children,  born  in  I'aramus:  i.  .Albert 
J.  A.,  see  forward.  2.  James.  3.  ^largaret. 
married  John  Fake.     4.  Simeon  J.,  February 

3,  1830.  5.  George.  6.  Martha,  married  Theo- 
dore Terhune. 

(  \T  I  Albert  J.  .A.,  eldest  child  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  I  Zabriskie  )  Zabriskie,  was  born  in 
.Vllendale.  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey,  about 
1819.  He  lived  in  .Allendale  during  his  entire 
life,  and  died  there,  .\ovember  6,  1908.  He 
marrieil  (  first )  Rachel,  daughter  of  Henry  H. 
\'oorhees :  children:     i.  John  H.,  see  forward. 

2.  Elizabeth,  died  young.  He  married  (sec- 
ond)   .Martha   Ackerman.  and   had  one  child: 

3.  .Mbert  L.,  married  Harriet  R.  Pulyng,  and 
liad  children.  ?iIyrion  and  .Amie. 

(\11)  John  H.,  eldest  son  of  .Albert  J.  A. 
and  Rachel  (X'ooriiees)  Zabriskie,  was  born 
in  .Allendale,  New  Jersey,  June  5,  1847.  He 
learned  the  trade  of  carpenter  and  builder,  and 
became  connected  with  the  car  shops  of  the 
Erie  railway  at  Paterson  in  18(39,  and  since 
that  time  has  continued  in  the  employ  of  the 
road.  H\s  fraternal  association  is  with  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  l-'ellows  and  the 
Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  founded  in 
1771  and  1834.  He  married  Catherine  Straut : 
children:  i.  Charles  \'oorhees,  born  October 
5.  18A5:  married  Edith  Deborah,  daughter  of 
John  and  Jane  (  Douglass)  Care.  2.  .Anna, 
November  24.  1867;  married  (/harles  Ho])per, 
<]f  Ridgewood,  New  Jersey,  and  had  one  child, 
John  Zabriskie,  born  Se|)tember  4,  1898.  3. 
Garry.  .April  8.  1870;  died  young.  4.  Eliza- 
beth. October  28,  1873;  married  John  D. 
Quackcnbush,  and  had  three  children :  J.  W^ar- 
ren,  David  P.  and  John  D.  Ouackenbush  Jr. 
5.  .Albert,  see  forward. 

(\'HI)  .Albert,  fifth  and  youngest  child  of 
John  11.  and  Catherine  (Straut)  Zabriskie, 
was  born  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  September 


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4,  1875.  He  received  a  public  school  education 
in  his  native  city,  and  entered  the  machine 
shops  of  J.  C.  Todd  in  Paterson,  where  he 
became  a  machinist  and  was  taken  from  the 
shops  to  the  office,  where  he  became  assistant 
to  the  proprietor,  and  on  the  resignation  of 
the  su]ierintendent  succeeded  to  that  position ; 
finally  succeeding  Air.  Todd.  In  order  to  en- 
large the  plant  and  meet  the  increasing  volume 
of  business  Mr.  Zabriskie  offered  an  interest 
til  .Mr.  I'inigan,  knowing  his  value  as  superin- 
tendent, and  the  firm  of  Finigan  Zabri.-kie 
Company  was  the  result.  In  1906  the  firm  was 
incorporated  with  Mr.  Zabriskie  as  president 
and  treasurer.  Two  months  after  the  incor- 
])(iratic(n  .Mr.  Finigan  went  to  South  Africa 
to  set  up  machinery,  manufactured  at  the 
works,  and  while  there  he  died.  Mr.  Zabriskie 
continued  the  business  alone.  The  plant  had 
for  a  long  time  been  known  as  the  Todd  mills, 
and  the  chief  business  became  the  manufacture 
of  machinery  especially  adapted  for  the  pro- 
duction of  cordage  fibre  from  tropical  fibre 
producing  growth.  This  machinery  is  all  ex- 
ported to  the  producing  countries,  and  the  ex- 
tent of  the  demand  procludes  the  manufacture 
of  domestic  machinery  to  any  great  extent. 
Mr.  Zabriskie  became  affiliated  with  the  Ma- 
.sonic  fraternity  through  Iknevolent  Lodge, 
No.  45,  of  Paterson.  and  he  was  also  initiated 
into  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks,  founded  in  1868,  through  Lodge,  No.  60, 
of  Paterson. 

He  married,  June  16,  1899,  Kittie  E.,  daugh- 
ter of  Ir\'ing  and  Rose  Crane,  of  Paterson; 
they  have  no  children. 

I  \'I  )  Simeon  ]..  son  of  John  ( \' )  and 
FJizabeth  (Zabriskie)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in 
Paramus,  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey,  Febru- 
ary 3,  1830.  He  was  prepared  for  a  pro- 
fessional life  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of 
his  native  state,  and  was  graduated  at  the  L'ni- 
versity  of  the  City  of  New  York,  M.  D.,  1856. 
He  practiced  medicine  in  Lodi,  New  Jersey, 
1856-57.  and  in  the  latter  named  year  removed 
to  Saddle  River  township,  near  .■\llendale, 
where  he  continued  his  practice  as  physician 
and  surgeon  up  to  1868.  He  located  in  West- 
wood,  New  Jersey,  in  1870,  and  retired  from 
active  practice  in  1904,  but  continued  his  resi- 
dence in  W'estwood.  He  affiliated  with  West- 
wood  Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, in  which  organization  he  is  held  in  high 
esteem.  Dr.  Zabriskie  married,  January  2, 
1857,  Sarah  Louise  Aloore,  born  January  2. 
1837,  died  September  22,  1907,  leaving  no  chil- 
dren. 


(IVj  Albert  Christian  Za- 
ZABRISKIE  briskie,  eldest  child  of  Chris- 
tian (q.  V,)  and  Eleanor 
(Voorhees)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in  Hacken- 
sack,  Hergen  county,  New  Jersey,  July  9,  1755  ; 
died  at  Teaneck,  Bergen  county,  December  24, 
1840.  He  served  as  sheriff  of  Bergen  county, 
was  for  thirty  years  treasurer  of  the  Bergen 
Turnpike  Company,  and  was  a  useful  and 
highly  respected  citizen.  He  married  Trentje 
(  Francesj  W'estervelt,  born  September  i,  1754, 
died  September  14,  1825.  Children,  born  in 
Hackensack,  New  Jersey:  i.  Maria,  Novem- 
ber 29,  1779;  baptized  in  the  church  in  Hack- 
ensack, December  11,  1779.  2.  Christian,  see 
forward.  3.  Helena  E.,  March  30,  1789;  bap- 
tized April  19,  1789. 

(V)  Christian,  eldest  son  and  second  child 
of  Albert  Christian  and  Frances  (Westervelt) 
Zabriskie,  was  born  at  Teaneck,  August  12, 
1785;  baptized  September  4,  1785,  died  at  his 
residence.  West  Twenty-first  street.  New  York 
City,  December  17,  1872.  He  was  for 
many  years  a  successful  merchant  in  New 
York  City.  He  married,  January  30,  1808, 
Jane,  daughter  of  John  J.  and  Mary  (Walters) 
Roome.  Jane  Roome  was  born  October  4, 
1788,  died  October  26,  1854,  in  the  family 
residence  in  Prince  street.  New  York  City. 
ISoth  were  consistent  members  of  the  Dutch 
Re  formed  Church.  Children,  nine  of  whom  were 
■  born  in  New  York  City :  i.  Mary  F.,  January  18, 
1810  ;  married,  July  28,  1829,  Allen  A.  Rabinau. 
2.  Albert  C,  June  12,  181 1  ;  died  .\ugust  7,  1880; 
married.  May  21,  1835,  Maria  \'an  Saun,  who 
died  December  12,  1879.  3.  John  C,  February 
6,  1813;  see  forward.  4.  Christian,  born  in 
Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  May  3,  1815;  died 
January  6,  1868;  married  M.  J.  S.  Le  Maire. 
5.  Helen,  September  8,  1817;  died  February 
16,  1849,  at  Monroe,  Michigan;  unmarried.  6. 
William  Henry,  January  6,  1820;  married,  No- 
vember 28.  1849,  .\gatha  E.  Miller.  7,  Hors- 
burgh,   February   18,   1822;  married,  July  28. 

1847,  \  irginia  Hartshorn.  8.  Jane  Ann,  May 
19,  1824;  died  September  16,  1845;  unmarried. 
9.  Serena  Mason,  July  31,  1826;  inarried.  No- 
vember 22,  1849,  Samuel  M.  Osgood,  of 
Springfield,  Massachusetts.  10.  Charles  Fred- 
erick. December  5,   1828;  died  November  20, 

1848.  at  Monroe,  Michigan. 

(\'I)  John  C.  second  .son  and  third  child 
of  Cliristian  and  Jane  (Roome)  Zabriskie,  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  February  6,  1813; 
died  September  9,  1895.  He  was  educated  in 
the  private  school  of  John  Holbrook,  a  noted 
teacher  of  his  day.     He  was  a   farmer.     He 


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served  as  county  collector  for  five  years,  also 
of  the  township  of  old  Hackensack ;  was  chair- 
man of  the  townshi])  committee  of  Midland 
township  for  five  years :  succeeded  his  grand- 
father, Albert  C.  Zabriskie,  as  treasurer  of  the 
Bergen  'I'urnpike  Company,  serving  in  that 
capacity  thirty  years.  He  married,  January  3, 
1838,  Sarah  Jane  Board,  born  in  Boardville, 
Passaic  county.  New  Jersey,  December  25, 
1817,  died  March  17,  1903,  daughter  of  Colonel 
Nathaniel  lioard,  who  had  served  thirteen  con- 
secutive terms  in  the  New  Jersey  legislature. 
Children,  born  in  Hackensack,  New  Jersey: 
I.  Jennie  Augusta,  May  4,  1839:  unmarried; 
has  her  home  on  Main  street.  North  Hacken- 
sack, New  Jersey.  2.  Nathaniel  Board,  Octo- 
ber 3.  1841  :  married,  October  25,  1870,  Emma 
L..  daughter  of  Jesse  Bull,  of  Oxford  Depot, 
f  )range  county.  New  York,  and  they  had  three 
children,  born  in  Hackensack,  New  Jersey:  i. 
John  Pell,  December  21.  1871  ;  marriefl.  Octo- 
ber 25,  1904,  Rosamond  (  Benedict )  Zabriskie, 
widow,  and  their  children  were,  Marjorie 
Rosamond,  born  January  i.  1907.  died  l'"el)- 
ruary  10,  1907,  and  Frederick  Nathaniel  Za- 
briskie, born  in  Hackensack.  New  Jersey,  July 
23,  1908:  ii.  Jesse  Frederick.  March  2.  1873: 
unmarried  :  iii.  Carrie  Suzzette.  February  28. 
1878 ;  unmarried. 

(\"I)  Christian  (2),  son  of 
ZAIlklSKil".  Christian  (i)  (q.  v.)  and 
Jane  (Roome)  Zabriskie, 
was  born  at  Hackensack.  Bergen  county.  New 
Jersey,  May  3.  1815;  died  in  New  York  City, 
January  6,  1886.  I  le  was  primarily  educated  in 
the  schools  of  Hackensack  ;  he  then  entered  Co- 
lumbia College,  graduating  therefrom.  He  did 
not.  however,  take  U])  any  profession,  but  finally 
engaged  in  business  in  New  York  City  and  be- 
came identified  with  a  number  of  successful 
enterprises.  He  became  known  as  an  astute 
business  man,  noted  for  his  integrity  and 
straightforward  methods  of  transacting  busi- 
ness. He  was  a  member  of  St.  Ignatius  Epis- 
copal Church  and  for  some  years  served  as 
warden.  He  married,  October  5,  1841,  Jeanette 
Louise  Suzette  Le  Maire.  born  Ajiril  29,  1818. 
daughter  of  Jean  and  Susan  Le  Maire.  The 
former  was  a  native  of  France  and  died  in 
New  York  City,  .\ugust  17.  1852.  aged  eightv- 
three  years  eight  months  and  twelve  days.  His 
wife,  Susan  (Re.scorla)  Le  Maire,  died  in 
Hackensack,  November  4,  1861,  aged  eighty- 
one  years.  Christian  Jr.  and  Jeanette  L.  S. 
(Le  Maire)  Zabriskie  had  two  children,  born 
in  New  York  Citv :  i.  Le  Maire,  born  I'ebruary 


3,  1844;  died  March  29,  1866.  He  received 
his  early  educational  training  in  the  public 
schools  of  New  York  City,  subsec|uently  taking 
up  the  study  of  medicine  in  the  medical  (lei)art- 
ment  of  Bellevue  Medical  College,  graduating 
with  the  degree  of  ^L  D.,  September  i,  1865. 
He  remained  with  his  alma  mater  and  success- 
fully practiced  his  profession  until  he  con- 
tracted typhoid  fever,  from  which  he  died 
March  29,  1866.  2.  Charles  Frederick,  see  for- 
ward. 

(  \  H  )  Charles  Frederick,  second  son  of 
Christian  1  2  )  and  Jeanette  L.  S.  (  Le  Maire  ) 
Zabriskie.  was  born  in  New  York  City.  March 
14.  1848.  He  received  his  early  educational 
training  in  the  schools  of  his  native  city  and 
continued  his  education  in  the  College  of  the 
City  of  New  York.  After  the  death  of  his 
father  he  succeeded  to  the  management  of  his 
estate.  He  is  a  member  of  St.  Ignatius  E]iis- 
copal  Church,  and  not  unlike  his  worthy  an- 
cestors has  followed  their  example  in  the  choice 
of  religion.  He  married,  April  12.  1883.  Min- 
nie Burt  Rogers,  daughter  of  Charles  Piatt 
and  Anna  (  Burt  1  Rogers.  Children:  I.  .\nita 
Louise,  born  September  i.  1885.  2.  Charles 
Le  Maire,  born  February  14,  1893. 


il\')   Jacob  Zabriskie,   sec- 
Z.VBRLSKIE     ond  son  of  Jacob  (q.  v. )  and 

.\ntje  .\lberta  (Terhune) 
Zabriskie,  was  born  in  Paramus,  Bergen  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey.  1771.  He  married  Leah  Ber- 
den.  August  2.  1795,  and  among  their  children 
was  John  J.  H.,  see  forward.  Jacob's  mother 
was  "the  second  child  of  Richard  (born  1702) 
and  Catherine  (  Kip )  Terhune.  granddaughter 
of  .VIbert  and  W'eyntje  Terhune.  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  Albert  Albertsen,  the  pro- 
genitor of  the  Terhune  family  in  America. 

(V)  John  J.  H.,  son  of  Jacob  and  Leah 
(  F.erden )  Zabriskie,  was  born  in  Paramus. 
January  24,  1801  :  died  December  2-,.  1845.  He 
married  Maria  \'an  de  Linda,  born  .\ugust  14, 
1793.  died  SeiJtember  20.  1878.  Children,  born 
in  I'aramus.  liergen  county.  New  Jersey:  i. 
William.  1821  ;  married  .\nn  Banta.  2.  Jacob 
J.  H..  see  forward.  3.  Henry  'SI..  1825;  mar- 
ried (first)  Charity  \\'iggins ;  (second)  Louisa 
W'anamaker.  4.  Cornelius  .A..  .April  25.  1831  : 
married  Elizabeth  I  {ill:  died  December  9,  1902. 
5.  Ann.  1833;  married  (first)  William  \'oor- 
hecs ;  (second)  Thomas  Lawrence.  6.  Mar- 
garet, 1835:  married  James  Stewart.  7.  Mary. 
1837:  married  John  Lawrence. 

^\'I  )  Jacob  J.  H.  (2).  second  son  of  John 
J.  I  [.  (I )  and  ]\Iaria  (\an  de  Linda)  Zabriskie. 


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was  born  in  IJergen  county,  Xew  Jersey.  Octo- 
ber 6.  1822;  (lied  July  23,  1889.  He  was  a 
carpenter  by  trade,  lived  in  Ridgewood,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  died.  He  married  Sarah 
Jane,  born  August  i,  1821,  died  January  2, 
1893,  daughter  of  Garrit  and  Hannah  (Baker) 
Terhune.  Children:  i.  Martha  Ann.  2.  Mar- 
garet Ann.  3.  Hannah  Maria  :  these  three  chil- 
dren died  young.  4.  John  Jacob,  see  forward. 
5.  Garrit  Terhune,  born  June  21,  1832  ;  married 
Alice  Westervelt.  6.  Henrietta,  .\ugust  9, 
1857 :  married  Garrit  L.  Hopper.  7.  Maria 
Jane,  F"ebruary  26,  1859 ;  never  married.  8. 
Elmer  Ellsworth,  see  forward. 

(  \  n  )  John  Jacob,  eldest  son  of  Jacob  J.  H. 
and  Sarah  Jane  (Terhune)  Zabriskie,  was 
born  in  Ridgewood,  November  11,  1850.  He 
lived  in  Ridgewood  up  to  1880,  when  he  re- 
moved to  Passaic,  New  Jersey.  He  married 
(first)  Jemima  \\'estervelt,  who  died  in  April, 
1898,  aged  forty-eight  years.  Children,  the 
first  four  born  in  Ridgewood,  and  the  fifth  in 
Passaic,  New  Jersey:     i.  Zenas,  died  young. 

2.  John   W'.,  October  21,   1875;  ^^^   forward. 

3.  Mabel,  (Jctober  7,  1877;  married  .\rthur 
Hemingway.  4.  Ethelmor,  November  i,  1879: 
married  Edward  .-V.  Stevens.  5.  Erwin,  Sep- 
tember 30,  1881  ;  married  Grace  Taylor.  In 
1900  John  Jacob  Zabriskie  married  ( second ) 
Emma  \"an  Dyke. 

(\II)  Elmer  Ellsworth,  youngest  child  of 
Jacob  J.  H.  and  Sarah  Jane  (Terhune)  Za- 
briskie. was  born  in  Ridgewood.  New  Jersey. 
October  i,  1861,  and  was  named  for  Colonel 
Elmer  Ellsworth,  the  commander  of  the  Ells- 
wnrth  Zouaves,  recruited  from  the  firemen  of 
\\w  York  City  for  three  months'  service  in 
the  civil  war,  1861,  and  who  met  his  death  in 
Alexandria.  \  irginia,  while  capturing  a  Con- 
federate dag  hanging  defiantly  from  the  fiag- 
staff  of  the  Marshall  House,  a  public  hotel  in 
that  city,  then  in  the  possession  of  the  United 
States  troops.  Elmer  Ellsworth  Zabriskie  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Ridgewood, 
and  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter,  which  he 
followed  with  that  of  building  on  contract  in 
Paterson.  New  Jersey,  during  his  active  busi- 
ness life,  making  his  home  at  185  Hamburg 
avenue,  Paterson.  New  Jersey.  His  fraternal 
atifiliations  included  membership  in  the  Im- 
proved Order  of  Heptasophs.  foundeil  in  1878: 
the  order  of  the  Maccabees,  founded  in  1881  : 
and  the  fraternity  of  Modern  Woodmen  of 
America,  founded  in  1883.  He  married,  Octo- 
ber 22.  1884.  Henrietta,  born  September  29, 
1864,  daughter  of  John  H.  and  Martha  .\nn 
(.\ckernian)    La  Rue,  and  granddaughter  of 


Garrit  D.  .\ckerman.  Elmer  E.  and  lleiuMetta 
(La  Ruej  Zabriskie  had  three  children,  born  in 
Paterson,  New  Jersey:  i.  Ina,  October  14, 
1886.  2.  Elmer  Ellsworth  Jr.,  April  5,  1893. 
3.  Ruth  .\.,  March  18,  1900. 

(  \'III )  John  \y.,  second  son  of  John  Jacob 
and  Jemima  (Westervelt)  Zabriskie,  was  born 
in  Ridgewood,  New  Jersey,  October  21,  1875. 
He  was  brought  up  in  Passaic,  where  he  at- 
tended school  and  learned  the  butcher  business, 
which  he  carried  on  in  a  retail  way  along  with 
considerable  success,  and  in  1904  formed  a 
partnership  with  John  W.  Speer  under  the  firm 
name  of  Speer  &  Zabriskie,  and  they  greatly 
enlarged  the  business  on  Washington  I'laceand 
dealt  largely  in  beef,  mutton,  lamb  and  pork, 
both  wholesale  and  retail.  He  married,  April 
7.  1897,  Julianna,  born  November  6,  1875, 
daughter  of  John  and  Katherine  (Lochman) 
Baumann.  Children:  John  Earl,  born  April 
26,  1902,  and  Erwin  Baunmann,  July  5,  1905. 
These  children  are  in  the  ninth  generation  from 
.■\lberdt  Zabriskie,  the  immigrant  ancestor  of 
the  Zabriskies  of  New  Jersey. 


( I\' )  John  Zabriskie,  fourth 
ZABRISKIE  son  and  tenth  child  of  Albert 
(III)  (q.  V.J  and  Gertrude 
I  Westervelt )  Zabriskie,  was  born  in  Schraalen- 
burg,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  November 
19.  1770,  and  baptized  December  16,  1770.  He 
married  Margaret  Smith,  and  had  two  sons: 
-Albert,  see  forward,  and  tieorge,  both  born  in 
Schraalenburg  before  the  beginning  of  the 
eighteenth  century. 

(\')  Albert,  eldest  son  of  John  and  Mar- 
garet (Smith)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in  Schraa- 
lenburg, 1795:  died  in  Paterson,  Passaic  coun- 
ty, October  5,  1859.  He  married  Susan,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Knapp.  She  was  born  in  Ber- 
gen county,  New  Jersey,  1792;  died  .\pril  20, 
1870.  .Albert  Zabriskie  was  a  skilled  musician, 
and  lived  in  Paterson  during  his  entire  adult 
life,  where  he  was  leader  of  the  first  brass 
band  organized  in  that  city.  The  children  of 
.\lbert  and  Susan  (Knapp)  Zabriskie  were 
born  in  I'aterson:  I.  .Angelo,  see  forward.  2. 
Katherine  Emma,  born  April  26.  or  May  27, 
and  baptized  September  29,  1850.  She  mar- 
ried George  Cameron,  and  they  made  their 
home  in  Holyoke,  Alassachusetts. 

(  \'I )  Angelo,  only  son  of  .\lbert  and  Susan 
(  Knapp )  Zabriskie,  was  born  in  Paterson. 
January  16,  1845,  and  baptized  July  2^.  1845. 
He  was  a  commercial  traveler  in  his  younger 
}ears,  and  for  some  time  was  manager  for  the 
Barlow   Wilson,   Primrose   &   West  theatrical 


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troups.  Later  in  life  he  took  up  the  vocation 
of  bookkee])ing.  in  which  hue  he  continued  up 
to  his  (leatli  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  JMarch 
19,  igo().  He  married.  September  5,  1866. 
Ehzabeth  A.,  daughter  of  John  and  Jemima 
(Ackerman)  CJoetschins.  She  was  born  Au- 
gust 7,  1842,  died  September  10.  1880.  Angelo 
and  Ehzabeth  A.  (Goetschins)  Zabriskie  had 
four  children,  born  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey : 
I.  Frank  Goklsmith.  January  7,  1868;  married, 
September  24.  1891,  Margaret  Hill,  and  their 
children  were:  Roy,  Jesse,  Jean,  Helen,  Mar- 
garet, John  and  Mary  May.  2.  John  Goetsch- 
ins, July  31,  18^)9;  he  is  a  noted  musician  and 
pianist  of  Paterson,  New  Jersey.  He  did  not 
marry.  3.  AMlliam  .Ackerman,  August  26,  1874; 
married.  January  26.  1897,  Isabel  S.,  daughter 
of  the  Rev.  Theodore  W.  and  Pllizabeth  Wells, 
of  Paterson,  and  their  first  child  Elizabeth  was 
born  |uly  29,  1898.  4.  Albert.  September  22, 
1876;"  died  October  12,  1878.  On  May  18, 
1885,  Mr.  Zabriskie  married  (second)  Annie, 
daughter  of  Herman  and  Louisa  (  \'an  Wag- 
ner) Wise,  and  their  children,  born  in  Pater- 
son were :  5.  Angelo,  see  forward.  6.  Elea- 
nor Mae,  December  17,  1892:  died  March  23, 
1894.  7.  Florence  Isabel,  November  13,  1894. 
8.  Charles  Wise  August  3,  1901.  9.  George 
Allien,  November  30,  1903. 

(\11)  .\ngelo  (2),  eldest  child  of  .\ngelo 
(  1 )  and  .\nnie  (Wise)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in 
Paterson,  February  7,  1886.  He  attended  the 
jjublic  schools  of  Paterson.  He  then  took  up 
tlie  study  of  dentistry  by  entering  the  Balti- 
more College  of  Dentistn,-,  where  he  was  grad- 
uated I).  I).  .^.  in  1907.  He  established  him- 
self in  the  ])ractice  of  his  ])rofession  in  Pater 
son.  in  which  he  met  w'ith  immediate  success 
and  rai>idly  gained  friends  as  well  as  practice 
among  the  very  best  class  of  people,  and  prom- 
ises to  make  his  mark  in  the  profession  through 
liis  thorougli  mastering  of  the  science  and  the 
skill  which  practice  gives  to  his  art.  He  makes 
his  home  with  his  widowed  mother  at  38  Tem- 
]ile  street.  Paterson. 


(  \'  I  Ste])hen  Zabriskie,  sixth 
/AIIRISKIF  son  and  ninth  child  of  .Al- 
bert (<|.  v.)  and  Metje  (.Ack- 
erman )  Zabriskie.  was  born  in  Paramus.  P)er- 
gen  county.  New  Jersey.  January  13,  1801.  Ik- 
was  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm  and  fol- 
lowed that  vocation  during  his  entire  life.  He 
married  .Sarah  Westervelt,  January  i,  1824, 
and  they  had  two  children:  i.  David  W.,  see 
forward.  2.  .Albert  S.,  born  about  1832;  died 
1902.  in  Snft'ern.  Rockland  cuunty,  New  ^'ork. 


where  he  was  a  practicing  physician.  He  mar- 
ried I  first )  F'lizabeth  Winter,  by  whom  he  had 
no  children,  and  (second)  Maria  C.  Wan- 
maker,  by  whom  he  had  three  children  :  Marw 
Catherine  and  Nellie. 

(  \I  )  David  \\'..  eldest  child  of  Stephen  and 
Sarah  ( \\'estervelt )  Zabriskie,  was  born  in 
Paramus.  February  6,  1826.  He  was  a  fanner 
and  lived  upon  the  homestead  farm  at  Paramus. 
where  he  died  May  3,  1888.  Fle  married 
(first).  January  2Ti.  1845,  ^laria  \"an  Wagner, 
who  died  December  7,  1848.  leaving  no  sur- 
viving cliildren.  He  married  (second),  Octo- 
ber ().  1849.  Catherine,  daughter  of  John  H. 
Hopper,  by  whom  he  had  two  children,  born 
on  the  homestead  farm  in  Paramus:  i.  Sarah, 
November  6,  1850;  died  unmarried,  March  5, 
1871.     2.  Nelson,  see  forward. 

{\H)  .Nelson,  only  son  and  second  child 
of  David  W.  and  Catherine  ( Flopper )  Za- 
briskie. was  brciught  up  on  his  father's  farm, 
attended  the  public  school  at  Paramus,  and 
the  Cniversity  of  the  City  of  New  York  (New 
York  Cniversity)  ;  he  was  graduated  from  the 
law  .school  connected  with  the  university,  where 
he  received  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  in  1875.  He 
then  served  two  years  in  a  law  office,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1877  ^nd  established 
himself  in  ])ractice.  .At  the  present  time  (  19CX/) 
he  has  law  offices  at  45  Broadway,  New  York, 
and  ranks  among  the  leading  attorneys  and 
counsellors  at  law  in  that  city.  He  was  a  gen- 
erous supjiorter  of  the  Pringle  Memorial  Home 
for  .\ged  Men  at  Poughkeei)sie,  New  Y'ork, 
and  served  as  secretary  of  the  corporation.  He 
married  (first).  June  20.  1894.  X'iola  C.  Betts. 
of  New  ^'ork  City,  and  by  this  marriage  had 
two  children,  born  in  New  York  City:  i. 
\'iola,  October  18,  1896.  2.  Gladys.  F'ebruary 
22,  1899.  His  first  wife  died  November  11, 
1904.  and  he  married  (second),  December  5. 
i()Of).  Harriet  R..  daughter  of  Charles  R.  and 
.Martha  (  Wandell )  ."^tillwell,  and  their  son 
.Nelson   |r.  was  horn   lanuarv  18.  1908. 


(V)  Simeon  Zabriskie.  foiunh 
ZAP.  RISK  IF  son  and  sixth  child  of  .Al- 
bert (q.  V.)  and  Metje  (.Ack- 
erman) Zabriskie,  was  born  in  Paramus, 
New  Jersey.  .Sejitember  20,  1794.  He  mar- 
ried Mary  SutTern,  and  among  thejr  children 
was  .Simeon  Templeton.  see  forward. 

(\'I)  Simeon  Temjileton,  son  of  Simeon 
and  Mary  (Sufifern)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in 
Hackensack,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1847.  He  was  educated  at  the  ])ublic 
and    |iri\ate    schools   of   Hackensack,    and   on 


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leaving  scliool  engaged  in  commercial  pursuits 
in  connection  with  the  lumber  trade  at  Passaic. 
New  Jersey.  "lirown"  .\ckermaii  had  in  181 2 
established  a  lumber  yard  on  the  wharf  of  the 
Passaic  river  in  that  town,  and  he  was  succeed- 
ed by  Peter  Jackson  who  was  followed  by  the 
firm  of  Post  &  Anderson,  and  this  firm  was  the 
predecessor  of  Anderson  Brothers,  with  whom 
.Mr.  Zabriskie  learned  the  business.  In  1876, 
with  W.  S.  -Anderson,  of  the  late  firm  of  .Ander- 
son iirothers,  the  firm  of  \\".  S.  .Anderson  & 
Comjiany  was  formed,  of  which  firm  Mr.  Za- 
briskie was  the  junior  partner.  The  business 
was  contimied  in  the  same  yard  established  in 
1812  by  Brown  .Ackerman,  and  on  the  death  of 
W.  S.  .Anderson  in  188"  the  business  was  re- 
organized as  the  .Anderson  Lumber  Company, 
with  Simeon  T.  Zabriskie  as  secretary  and 
treasurer,  later  becoming  president  of  this  cor- 
])oration.  which  was  still  in  active  ojieration 
in  1909,  with  Mr.  Zabriskie  still  holding  the 
office  of  president.  The  little  yard  of  Brown 
.Ackerman  on  one  side  of  the  Passaic  river  had 
been  enlarged  to  meet  the  requirements  of  in- 
creased patronage,  and  in,  1909  had  a  dockage 
of  two  thousand  feet  fronting  on  either  side  of 
the  river  which  was  spanned  by  the  Passaic 
count V  bridge  and  connected  with  the  yards 
were  si.x  hundred  feet  of  railway  track  on 
which  lumber  was  switched  to  and  from  the 
main  line  of  the  Erie  railway.  The  yards  are 
ill  both  Passaic  and  W'allington,  and  the  trans- 
portation is  largely  by  vessels  on  the  Passaic 
river.  Besides  lumber,  the  company  deal  with 
all  sorts  of  building  material.  The  coiupany 
also  o]5erate  large  planing  mills  at  W'allington. 
Xew  Jersey,  and  the  rapid  growth  of  the 
suburban  towns  in  Bergen  and  Passaic  coun- 
ties otifered  an  excellent  market.  Mr.  Zabriskie 
is  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  enterprising 
business  men  in  the  city  of  Passaic,  a  member 
of  the  board  of  trade,  and  connected  with 
many  local  enterprises  calculated  to  advance 
the  business  interests  of  the  city  and  ailjacent 
country.  His  line  of  direct  descent  from  the 
ancient  family  of  Sobieski — John  III.,  king  of 
Poland,  1674-96,  through  .Alberdt,  a  brother 
of  James  .Sobrieski,  and  cousin  of  the  king  of 
Poland,  who  established  himself  in  .Amster- 
dam. Molland.  and  came  thence  in  1662  to  New 
.Amsterdam,  and  thence  became  a  great  landed 
]iroprietor  in  Bergen  county,  Xew  Jersey,  gave 
.Simeon  T.  Zabriskie  a  right  to  claim  royal 
lineage  and  membership  in  the  Holland  Society 
<if  New  York.  A  study  of  the  prominent  Hol- 
land names  interwoven  with  this  Polish  exile, 
who  found  a  home  in  Holland  and  subsequently 


in  Xew  Jersey,  in  the  marriages  of  successive 
generations,  is  one  of  interest  heightened  by 
the  labyrinth  of  property  into  which  the  gene- 
alogist finds  himself  involved.  Simeon  T.  Za- 
briskie married,  .April  19,  1871,  .Anne  Euphe- 
mia  Westervelt,  born  .April  7,  1847,  daughter 
of  Rev.  Samuel  D.  and  Katherine  (Earle) 
Westervelt,  and  their  only  child,  Fred  Temple- 
ton  Zabriskie,  was  in  the  seventh  generation 
from  .Alberdt,  the  immigrant. 

(\TI)  Fred  Templeton,  only  child  of  Sim- 
eon Templeton  and  .Anna  E.  (U'estervelt)  Za- 
briskie, was  born  in  Hackeiisack,  March  26. 
1872.  He  was  prepared  for  college  in  the  best 
preparatory  schools  of  New  York  City,  and 
was  graduated  at  Columbia  University,  A.  B., 
1893,  and  at  the  New  York  College  of  Phy- 
sicians and  Surgeons  connected  with  the  uni- 
versity, Al.  D.,  1895.  He  established  himself 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  New  York 
City,  to  which  place  his  parents  had  removed, 
and  while  in  the  full  tide  of  success  in  his  pro- 
fession to  which  he  had  devoted  his  best  ener- 
gies and  most  careful  study,  after  a  medical 
career  of  ten  years  of  brilliant  success,  he  be- 
came a  victim  to  disease  which  he  had  so  suc- 
cessfully fought  in  the  cases  of  his  numerous 
patients,  and  he  died  unmarried,  November  5, 
1905-  

( \  I )  John  Beekman  Za- 
ZABRISKIE  briskie,  son  of  Albert  (q.  v. ) 
and  Heyltje  (A'an  Buren) 
Zaljriskie.  was  born  September  18,  1813.  He 
married  Patience  Alorgan,  and  lived  in  .Xew 
York  City.  Children  :  Edward.  William  Cum- 
mings.  J.  .Albert. 

I  \11  )  Edward,  eldest  son  of  John  Beekman 
and  Patience  (Morgan)  Zabriskie,  was  born  in 
.Xew  York  City,  .August  31,  1842;  died  there, 
September  27,  1897.  -At  the  time  of  his  death 
he  was  connected  with  the  Alanhattan  Ele- 
vated Railroad  in  New  A'ork  City,  having  been 
with  the  same  since  its  organization.  He  mar- 
ried. December  24,  1862,  Mary  Eliza,  born  in 
Butler.  .Xew  York,  .August  i,  1842,  died  in 
Xew  York  City,  May  6,  1897,  daughter  of 
.Abram  and  Sarah  Jane  (Stone )  Conklin.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  George  Henry,  born  October  i,  1863, 
at  Xew  York  City;  died  .April  i,  1864.  2. 
John  William,  see  forward.  3.  Mary  Jane, 
May  17.  1867,  at  Alatawan,  New  Jersey;  died 
unmarried,  June  6,   1902. 

(\']II)  John  William,  second  son  of  I"M- 
ward  and  Mary  Eliza  (Conklin)  Zabriskie, 
was  born  in  the  town  of  Union,  Keyjiort,  New 
Jersey,  January  16,   1866.     He  was  educated 


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ill  the  ])iiblic  schools  of  Xew  York  City,  where 
his  fatlier  was  engaged  in  the  railroad  business, 
and  in  early  manhood  entered  business  as  a 
clerk  in  the  stationery  and  job  printing  busi- 
ness. In  1894  he  became  associated  with  the 
firm  of  Sears  &  White,  No.  i  William  street. 
New  York  City,  and  in  1905,  when  the  busi- 
ness was  incorporated  under  the  name  of  the 
W.  W.  \\'hite  Manufacturing  Company,  he 
was  made  secretary  of  the  corporation.  He 
early  developed  musical  talent  as  a  vocalist, 
and  for  over  thirty  years  has  been  identified 
with  church  music  in  New  York,  being  attach- 
ed to  the  choirs  of  several  of  the  promi- 
nent I'rotestant  Episcopal  churches  of  New 
York  and  I'.rooklyn.  He  sustained  solo  parts, 
and  was  also  heard  in  concerts,  musicales,  etc. 
His  fraternal  affiliation  is  with  the  Royal  Ar- 
canum as  a  member  of  Our  Council,  No.  2^2. 
of  New  York  City,  and  with  the  Ancient  Order 
of  United  Workmen  through  Compass  Lodge, 
No.  35,  of  New  Jersey.  He  married,  July  7, 
1902,  Grace  jM.,  daughter  of  Ezra  and  Mary 
(Many)  Merritt,  and  they  made  their  home 
in  I'rooklyn,  .\'ew  York,  where  their  children 
were  born:  i.  Helen  Mabel,  May  11,  1903; 
died  May  18,  1903.  2.  Mary  Helen,  April  17, 
i9ofj.  3.  Grace  Adele,  March  31,  1908.  In 
1909  they  removed  to  New  Jersey  where  they 
reside  at  Hudson  Heights,  fjcrgen  county. 


(A'H)    William    Cummings 
Z.\PiRI.'^KIE     Zabriskie,  second  son  of  John 

lieekman  (q.  v.)  and  Heyltje 
(Van  lluren  I  Zabriskie,  was  born  in  New  York 
City.  November  18.  1844,  and  died  in  that  city, 
November  13,  i88().  He  engaged  in  the  pro- 
duce commission  business  in  New  York  City, 
lie  married  .Marion  Hastings,  and  they  had 
tliree  children:  I.  William  Hastings;  see  for- 
ward. 2.  Edson  Morgan,  born  April  10,  1870. 
3.  Elmer  Thomas,  February  8,  1878. 

(\'HI)  William  Hastings,  eldest  child  of 
William  Cummings  and  Marion  (Hastings) 
Zabriskie.  was  born  in  Xew  York  City,  .August 
5,  1870.  He  was  graduated  in  the  ])ublic 
schools  of  the  city,  and  on  leaving  the  grammar 
school  he  was  em])loyed  as  a  clerk  in  a  whole- 
sale commission  house.  In  1892  he  resigned 
this  situation  to  take  a  jjosition  in  the  county 
clerk's  office  of  I'.crgen  county.  Xew  Jersey, 
as  a  dc])utv  county  clerk.  He  remained  in  this 
position  u])  to  1899.  when  he  resigned  to  organ- 
ize the  North  Jersey  Title  Guarantee  Company 
of  Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  and  accepted  the 
position  of  general  manager  of  the  corporation. 
Under   his   management   the   business   proved 


satisfactory,  and  in  1902  he  was  elected  secre- 
tary of  the  board  of  directors,  which  position 
he  was  holding  in  1909.  He  was  elected  treas- 
urer of  the  consistory  of  the  Second  Reformed 
Dutch  Church  of  Hackensack  in  1902,  and  is 
still  the  custodian  of  the  finances  of  the  chui-ch. 
He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Holland  Soci- 
ety of  New  York  City.  Mr.  Zabriskie  married, 
June  22,  1898,  Genevieve  A.  Byrd,  and  their 
children  were  born  in  Hackensack.,  New  Jer- 
sey: I.  Kenneth  Hastings,  June  7,  1900.  2. 
Marjorie  Horton,  March  9,  1903.  3.  Marion 
Hyrd,  January  16,  1906.  The.se  children  are 
in  the  ninth  generation  from  .\lberdt,  the  immi- 
grant. 1662.  and  Machtelt  ( \'an  der  Linde) 
Saboroski,  original  settlers  in  Bergen  county. 
New  Jersey,  where  they  married  December  17, 
1676. 

(  \II)  John  Albert  Zabriskie, 
ZABRISKIE  third  son  of  John  Beekman 
(q.  V.)  and  Patience  (Mor- 
gan )  Zabriskie,  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
July  II,  1847.  He  engaged  in  tlie  decorating 
pnd  |)ainting  business  in  New  York  City,  and 
was  still  engaged  in  that  business  in  1909.  He 
married  Martha,  daughter  of  George  and  Mary 
(  Lyon)  Knox.  August  15,  1867.  and  they  had 
three  children  :  George  Albert :  John  Thomas, 
and  Edward  Cornell,  all  further  mentioned 
iielow. 

(\TII)  George  Albert,  eldest  child  of  Joim 
.\lbert  and  Martha  (Knox)  Zabriskie,  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  December  7,  1868.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  New 
York  City,  and  on  leaving  the  grammar  school 
engaged  in  the  grain  and  Hour  business,  and 
in  1883  was  made  a  member  of  the  New  York 
rroducc  Exchange,  He  is  still  (1909)  an 
active  flour  merchant,  and  a  director  in  various 
commercial  enterprises.  His  fraternal  affilia- 
tions included  the  Masonic  fraternity,  in  which 
he  became  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason,  and 
he  was  made  by  right  of  inheritance  a  member 
of  the  Holland  -Society  of  Xew  York.  Mr. 
Zabriskie  is  unmarried. 

(\'III  )  John  Thomas,  second  child  of  John 
.Albert  and  Martha  (Knox)  Zabriskie.  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  .August  8,  1870.  He 
engaged  with  his  father  in  the  painting  and 
decorating  business  in  New  York  City.  He 
married  Bessie  Stimson  Haines,  of  Waterbury, 
\'ermont,  October  4,  1898. 

(  \TI1  )  Edward  Cornell,  third  child  of  John 
Albert  and  Martha  (Knox)  Zabriskie,  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  October  20,  1873,  and 
in   1909  he   was  principal   in   the    Xew   York 


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jiublic  scliool  system.  He  was  graduated  from 
tlie  College  of  the  City  of  New  York  in  1893, 
and  was  a  post-graduate  student  in  Teachers' 
Cnllege,  and  in  Columbia  and  Harvard  Cni- 
\ersities.  His  collegiate  honors  included  mem- 
bership in  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  fraternity.  Mr. 
/ahriskie  married  Gertrude  Isabel  Quintard, 
daughter  of  Edward  Augustus  and  Mary 
iSkiddy)  yuintard,  on  June  2(j,  1897.  and 
they  have  two  children :  George  Albert,  born 
-May  I,  1898,  and  William  Isleworth,  born 
October  9,  1899.  These  children  are  in  the 
ninth  generation  from  Albert  Saborowski,  the 
immigrant  who  came  from  Poland  to  New 
N'ork  Citv  in  1662. 


(Jn    the    right    bank    of    the 
SLTPHEX      Yssel,    at    its    junction    with 

Berkel,  in  the  Xetherlandish 
province  of  Guelderland,  and  by  rail  twenty 
miles  south  of  Deventer  and  nineteen  north- 
east of  .\rnheim,  lies  the  fortified  town  of  Zut- 
phen,  with  its  church  of  St.  Walburga.  dating 
from  the  twelfth  century  and  containing  sev- 
eral interesting  monuments  of  the  counts  of 
Zutphen  :  its  chapter  house,  preserving  a  small 
but  very  valuable  library  of  medieval  manu- 
scripts and  books ;  its  tanning,  weaving,  oil  and 
paper  manufactures,  and  its  trade  in  grain  and 
timber  floated  down  from  the  lilack  Forest  by 
the  Rhine  and  the  Yssel.  At  one  time  Zut- 
]ihen  belonged  to  the  Hanseatic  league,  and  had 
an  extensive  foreign  trade.  It  has  played  a 
most  important  part  in  the  making  of  the  be- 
ginnings of  modern  Germany  and  Holland, 
was  more  than  once  besieged,  and  it  was  be- 
fore this  town  that  September  22,  1586,  Sir 
Phili]i  Sidney  received  his  mortal  wound  and 
gave  his  cup  of  water  to  the  dying  soldier. 
From  here  also  came  many  of  the  pioneers  of 
New  Netherland,  and  among  these  the  founder 
of  the  Sutphen,  Sutphin,  Sutfin  and  Sutvan 
families,  so  long  identified  with  Xew  Jersey 
history  and  progress. 

I  I )  Dirck  Janse  van  Zutphen  ( that  is,  Dirck, 
>on  of  Jan  I,  from  Zutphen,  came  to  Xew 
.Vetherland  in  1651  and  settled  first  at  New 
.\msterdam,  where  he  remained  but  a  short 
while,  removing  to  Flatbush,  Long  Island, 
where  he  made  his  home  for  a  number  of 
years,  married  and  had  several  of  his  children 
baptized.  The  dates  of  Dicrk's  birth  and  death 
are  unknown.  His  will,  recorded  in  volumes 
preserved  in  the  office  of  the  New  York  surro- 
gate, liber  7,  folio  319,  is  dated  September  4, 
1702,  and  was  proved  October  29,  1707.  June 
21,    1681,    he    sold    his    farm    at    Flatbush    to 


Denyse  Theunise  for  four  lots  of  woodland 
lying  together  at  Yellow  Hoek  {'i.  e.  Bay 
Kidge),  New  Utrecht,  Long  Island,  and  situ- 
ated on  the  north  side  of  land  belonging  to 
Rutger  Joesten  van  Brunt,  and  subject  to  a 
lease  of  three  and  a  half  of  the  lots  to  Gerrit 
Stotifelse.  As  a  bonus  to  the  trade,  Denyse 
Theunise  also  agreed  to  build  for  Dirck  a  boat 
eighteen  feet  long,  wood  measure,  and  a  barn 
antl  barrack  on  the  lots.  (See  Flushing  rec- 
ords, liber  .\A,  folio  155).  This  New  Utrecht 
farm,  on  which  Dirck  spent  the  remainder  of 
his  life,  included  lots  7  to  10,  Bay  Ridge,  and  is 
at  present  bounded  by  71st  and  79th  streets. 
Second  avenue  and  New  York  bay.  In  1686 
Dirck's  name  appears  among  the  patentees  of 
New  Utrecht  in  the  charter  granted  to  the 
town  by  Governor  Dongan,  and  the  following 
year  ( 1687)  he  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to 
the  English  crown,  stating  that  ho  had  been  a 
resident  of  Xew  Netherland  thirty-six  years. 
In  i(:)98  the  census  of  New  Utrecht  states  that 
his  household  consisted  of  himself,  his  wife 
and  eight  children,  besides  three  negro  slaves 
worth  £30  each.  The  last  reference  to  him  in 
the  records  is  in  1706,  when  he  was  assessed 
for  164  acres  of  land  in  New  Utrecht.  By  his 
will  he  devised  his  New  Utrecht  farm  to 
Jacobus,  his  eldest  son,  who  was  to  buy  up  and 
pay  off  the  interests  of  his  brothers  and  sisters 
in  the  property,  who  in  1718  sold  this  farm  to 
Jan  Pietersen  for  £300,  but  after  making  the 
sale  he  found  out  that  according  to  the  terms 
of  his  father's  will  he  could  not  give  a  valid 
title  until  his  brother  Dirck  Jr.  was  twenty-one 
years  of  age ;  consequently  Jacobus  bought 
liack  the  place  for  £280  and  held  it  until  1724. 
when,  the  conditions  of  the  will  being  fulfilled, 
he  made  another  sale  of  the  property  to  Pieter- 
sen. The  reason  for  this  sale  was  the  fact  that 
all  of  Dirck  Janse's  surviving  sons  removed 
about  1716  or  1717  to  Freehold,  New  Jersey, 
one  of  them,  however,  Abraham  Dirckse,  stop- 
ping on  the  way  at  Staten  Island.  In  conse- 
i|uence,  the  Sutphen  name  disappeared  from 
the  records  and  history  of  New  Netherland  and 
Xew  \'ork,  although  the  blood  continued  to  be 
re])resented  by  several  of  Dirck's  daughters 
and  their  descendants. 

Towards  the  latter  part  of  his  stay  at  Flat- 
bush, Dirck  Janse  van  Zutphen  married  Lys- 
beth,  daughter  of  Jan  van  Xuyse,  of  their 
eleven  children,  some  were  baptized  at  Flat- 
bush. the  others  at  New  Utrecht,  of  whom 
eight  reached  maturity  and  married,  and  three 
died  in  infancy  or  childhood.  These  children 
were:   i.  Hendrikje, baptized  December  18,1681, 


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at  Flatbush  :  witnesses  :  Jan  Aukerz  and  Evertje 
Jans  his  wife.  She  married  (first)  Pieter 
Turckse;  (second)  Benjamin,  second  child  and 
eldest  son  of  Jan  van  Cleef,  the  emigrant,  and 
Engeltje,  daughter  of  Louwerens  Pieterse.  By 
her  second  marriage  Mendrikje  Dirckse  had 
children :  Lysbeth,  Johannes,  Dirck,  Marytje, 
Dirckje,  Benjamin,  Nelke,  Louwerens,  Helena, 
Joseph,  Elsje.  and  Antje.  Her  descendants 
are  almost  all  of  them  in  Xew  Jersey.  2.  Jacobu.s 
Dirckse,  referred  to  below.  3.  Jan  Dirckse, 
baptized  December  18,  1685,  at  Flatbush,  by 
Dominie  \'arick ;  died  young.  4.  Jan  Dirckse 
(2d),  baptized  at  Flatbush,  February  6,  1687; 
married  Engeltje  Bennet;  in  1709  became  a 
member  of  the  Dutch  Church  at  Freehold, 
Xew  Jersey  ;  children,  all  baptized  in  Freehold  : 
Jan,  married  Catryntje  Langstraat ;  Agnietje, 
wife  of  Jan  W'ilmse  ;  Anneke,  wife  of  .\ndriaes 
\'()orhees  ;  Isaac;  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Mattheus 
Laen ;  Benjamin,  married  Eyda  van  Meteren. 
Geertje  Dirckse  was  baptized  in  the  Flatbush 
church,  and  died  young.  Dirck  Dirckse  mar- 
ried Margaret,  daughter  of  Aert  Teunisse  van 
Pelt;  left  New  Utrecht  after  his  marriage; 
was  a  member  of  the  Dutch  church  at  Free- 
hold, 1713-31  ;  children:  Dirck,  married  Jan- 
neje  X'oorhees ;  Aert,  married  Maria  Schenck ; 
Jan.  married  Neeltje  van  Pelt;  Petrus :  and 
.\bram.  tiuisbert  Dirckse  is  referred  to  below. 
Abraham  Dirckse,  baptized  at  New  Utrecht, 
Se])tember  25,  1696;  married  Mayke  (or  May- 
r)tje)  Barkclow ;  settled  first  on  Staten  Island, 
and  about  1720  at  Freehold,  New  Jersey;  chil- 
dren: (irietje;  Elizabeth;  Abraham;  Maria; 
Antje;  Jannetje;  Abraham  (2d)  ;  Jacob;  Cor- 
nelius; Antje  (2d).  C)f  Isaac  Dirckse  noth- 
ing more  is  known.  Elsje  Dirckse  married 
Herman  Gerritse.  Elizabeth  Dirckse,  born 
A]>ril  6,  1699,  married  Daniel  Lake. 

(II)  Jacobus  Dirckse,  second  child  and  eld- 
est son  of  Dirck  Janse  van  Zutphen  and  Lys- 
betli  Janse  van  Nuyse,  was  baptized  at  Flat- 
bush. January  20,  1684.  1  le  inherited  from  liis 
father  the  home  plantation,  and  remained  on 
it  a  number  of  years,  becoming  one  of  the 
important  personages  in  New  Utrecht,  where 
he  was  made  in  17 13  a  deacon  in  the  Dutch 
cliurch.  which  jiosition  he  retained  until  1717. 
when  he  removed  to  I-reeliold.  .Xew  Jersey, 
whither  his  brothers,  Jan.  Dirck.  Cluisbert  and 
Abraham,  had  already  gone.  As  has  been 
already  related  he  sold  his  father's  plantation 
in  1718  to  Jan  Pietersen,  bought  it  back  again 
six  weeks  later,  and  resold  it  to  the  same  buyer 
in  1724.  In  all  these  deeds  he  is  styled  "late 
of  New   I'tvecht.  now  of  I'reehold,   Xew  Jer- 


sey." In  1721  his  name  appears  upon  the  list 
of  the  meinbers  of  the  Dutch  Church  at  Free- 
hold ;  and  on  documents  he  signed  his  name 
"Jacob  van  Zutvin,"  or  "Jacob  Sutvin." 

About  1 716  Jacobus  Dirckse  married  Xelke 
Bennet ;  children  :  Jan  Sutphen,  baptized  Jan- 
uary 20,  1717.  in  I'lushing,  died  young;  Dirck 
Sutphen.  referred  to  below;  Jacobus  Sutphen, 
born  1720:  William,  twin  with  Jacobus;  Jan 
Sutphen.  baptized  in  Freehold,  October  18, 
1722,  married  Marytje  Cowenhoven ;  Antje 
Sutphen,  born  1725;  Isaac  Sutphen,  baptized 
Mav  22.  1730,  married  Jannetje  Barkelow ; 
David  Sutphen,  born  1732. 

(HI)  Dirck  Sutphen,  second  child  and  son 
of  Jacobus  Dirckse  and  Nelke  Bennet,  was 
born  in  Freehold,  New  Jersey,  in  1719,  and 
died  in  ]\Ionmouth  county,  in  1796.  In  177*^ 
there  were  in  Freehold  township  among  the 
taxpayers  three  Dircks,  a  Cornelius,  and  an 
Abram  Sutphen.  These  were  Abram  and  Dirck 
Sutphen,  sons  of  Dirck  Dirckse,  son  of  Dirck 
Janse  van  Zutphen ;  Cornelius,  son  of  Abra- 
ham Dirckse;  Dirck.  son  of  Guisbert  Dirckse, 
and  Dirck.  son  of  Jacob  Dirckse.  When  the 
Declaration  of  Independence  was  signed  Dirck 
Dirckse's  Dirck  was  sixty-four  years  old.  Guis- 
bert Dirckse's  Dirck  was  si.xty,  and  Jacob 
Dirckse's  Dirck  was  fifty-seven,  being  young- 
est of  the  three.  Conse(|uently  it  is  most  prob- 
able that  he  is  the  "Derrick"  Sutphen  who  was 
sergeant  in  Ca])tain  Waddell's  company,  first 
regiment  of  the  first  establishment,  and  later 
sergeant  of  Captain  .Smock's  artillery  com- 
pany. In  Captain  Walton's  troop  of  light  dra- 
goons are  found  the  names  of  three  of  his  sons 
as  privates — Joseph,  John  and  David.  Dirck 
Suti)hen's  willj  written  January  7,  1795.  when 
be  was  seventy-six  years  old,  proved  July  21, 
1796.  at  Freehold,  is  historically  a  very  inter- 
esting document  from  the  fact  that  it  proves 
the  tradition  of  the  family  that  the  battle  of 
Monmouth  was  fought  over  the  three  farms 
which  belonged  to  Dirck's  sons.  It  is  as  fol- 
lows : 

■In  the  Name  of  God  ,\men.  I  Dirck  Sutphen  son 
of  .I.TPob  Sutphen.  In  the  County  of  Monmouth  and 
State  of  New  Jersey,  being:  in  good  health  and  of 
sound  mind  and  memory  do  make  and  constitute 
this  my  last  Will  and  Testament,  To  my  dear  and 
beloved  son  Joseph  Sutphen  I  give  and  beiiueatli 
that  part  of  my  lands  on  which  he  now  lives,  be- 
Klnning  at  an  appletree  standing  in  the  fence  along 
the  road  that  leads  from  the  bridse  near  Mr.  Wood- 
hull's  schoolhouse  to  Mary  Perrines  thence  from 
the  said  appletree  nearly  north  In  a  straight  line 
In  a  mapletree  marked  for  the  purpose  at  the  brook 
llial    runs    along    llie    norlli    shle   nf   my    land    thence 


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from  said  mapletree  down  the  brook  to  Henry  Per- 
rines  land  thence  from  the  brook  nearly  a  south 
course  along  the  line  between  Henry  Perrines  land 
and  mine  to  the  South  East  corner  of  the  said  Per- 
rines land  and  the  North  East  eorner  of  my  wood- 
land thenoe  from  said  corner  nearly  west  along 
Henry  Perrines  line  to  tlie  mouth  of  the  lane  that 
leads  to  liis  house  then  southerly  and  by  west 
along  the  said  Perrines  line  to  three  hickory  sap- 
lings standing  together  and  marked  for  this  pur- 
pose thence  nearly  east  as  the  trees  are  marked 
for  the  purpose  to  my  cleared  land  again  thence 
along  the  fence  to  the  road  before  mentioned  and 
thence  Easterly  along  the  road  to  the  appletree 
marked  as  the  beginning  corner.  I  also  give  and 
bequeatli  to  my  said  son  Joseph  the  lied  with  all 
its  furniture  which  usually  stands  in  the  room 
called  the  Byroom.  To  my  beloved  son  Daniel  I 
give  and  bequeath  the  bed  with  all  its  furniture  on 
which  I  have  usually  slept.  To  my  beloved  son 
John  I  give  and  bequeath  the  clock  and  the  bed 
with  all  its  furniture  which  usually  stands  in  the 
stair  room.  To  my  beloved  son  David  I  give  and 
bequeath  £100  the  bed  on  which  he  has  usually 
slept  with  all  its  furniture,  the  weavers  shop  and 
llie  looms  which  he  lias  commonly  used  together 
with  all  its  utensils.  To  my  beloved  daughter 
-N'aomi  Tone  I  give  and  bequeath  the  cupboard 
whicli  usually  stands  in  tlie  by  room.  To  my 
beloved  daugliter  Rebeckah  Sutfin  I  give  and  be- 
•  tueath  £100  also  tlie  bed  on  which  she  lias  usually 
slept  with  all  its  furniture  and  the  cupboard  which 
stands  in  the  common  room.  The  residue  of  my 
estate  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  two  sons  John 
and  David.  To  my  dear  and  beloved  children,  Mary 
Van  Arsdalen.  Daniel  Sutfin.  Sarah  Freeman  Joseph 
Sutfin  John  Sutfin  Naomi  Tone  David  Sutfin  and 
Rebeckah  Sutfin  I  give  and  bequeath  all  my  re- 
maining moveable  estate.  I  constitute  and  appoint 
my  sons  Daniel  and  David  with  my  son-in-law 
Jacob  Van  Artsdalen  the  executors  of  this  my  last 
Will  and  Testament.  And  now  my  dear  and  beloved 
children  my  last  words  to  you  are  live  in  peace  and 
love  with  eacli  other  and  may  the  God  of  peace  and 
love  dwell  with  you  Amen." 

The  will  is  witncs.sed  by  John  W'oodhiill, 
Sarah  W'oodhuU,  and  "Sally  \Voo(lhull,  jr." 

The  name  of  Dirck  Siitphen's  wife  is  lost, 
but  from  the  fact  that  she  is  not  mentioned  in 
the  will  it  is  probable  that  she  was  dead  at  the 
time  when  it  was  written.  Of  the  eight  children 
mentioned  in  the  will.  Mary  married  Jacob 
\  an  Arsdalen ;  Sarah  married  a  Freeman ; 
John  is  referred  to  below  ;  Naomi  marrietl  a 
Tone.  Jose])h  and  David  were  privates  in 
C'aiitain  Walton's  company  of  light  dragoons 
in  the  revolution,  and  of  Daniel  and  Rebecca 
nothing  more  is  known. 

(1\)  Jdlm,  tiftli  child  and  third  .son  of 
Dirck  Sut])hen,  married  Lydia  liaker  ;  children  : 
Dirck  or  Richard,  referred  to  below:  John,  re- 
ferred to  below;  Daniel,  born  i8i8,  married 
Eliza  Woodruff,  and  had  children — Carlyle 
Edgar  and  Gertrude :  ^lary  Sutjjhen  ;  Ann ; 
I'hebe,  possibly  the  Phebe  Sutphen,  of  Somer- 


set county,  who  married  Isaac,  son  of  Icliabod 
and  grandson  of  Joseph  Leigh,  of  Perth  .Vm- 
boy ;  Sarah  Sutphen,  and  Elizabeth. 

(  \  )  Dirck,  or  Richard,  eldest  child  and  son 
of  John  and  Lydia  (Baker)  Sutphen,  was 
born  in  Freehold  township,  ilonmouth  coun- 
ty, in  1796.  His  wife  was  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Moses  Morris  and  Margaret  Scudder,  and 
granddaughter  of  Reuben  ]\Iorris  and  Eliza- 
beth Wetherill.  Reuben  Morris,  her  grand- 
father, was  born  September  16,  1737,  died  De- 
cember 3,  1801,  married.  May  30,  1762,  Eliza- 
beth Wetherill,  and  had  Moses  and  George, 
Moses  Morris  was  born  May  15,  1767,  mar- 
ried, November  13,  1793,  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Lemuel  Scudder,  and  a  daughter  of  Rich- 
ard Longstreet,  granddaughter  of  Jacob  and 
Abia  (Rowe)  Scudder,  of  Huntington,  Long 
Island,  great-granddaughter  of  Benjamin  and 
Mary  Scudder,  of  Huntington,  great-great- 
granddaughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Scudder, 
of  Salem,  Massachusetts,  and  of  Southohl  and 
Huntington,  Long  Island, and  great-great-great- 
granddaughter  of  "Old  Goodman"  Thomas 
Scudder,  and  his  wife  Elizabeth,  the  emigrants 
in  1635  to  Salem,  Massachusetts,  from  Dar- 
enthe,  county  Kent,  England,  Moses  and  ]\Iar- 
garet  (Scudder)  Morris  had  children:  John 
B.,  Scudder,  Elias,  William,  Margaret  (mar- 
ried Dirck  Sutphen),  Elizabeth  and  Caroline 
Morris.  When  he  was  tirst  married,  Moses 
took  his  bride  for  her  new  home  to  the  old 
house  of  his  grandfather,  John  Morris,  and 
here  all  their  children  were  born.  At  this  time 
Moses  was  quite  wealthy,  lived  in  "great  style," 
owned  a  number  of  slaves,  and  was  lavishly 
hospitable.  However,  he  lost  his  money  and 
removed  to  a  farm  near  Princeton,  and  Dirck 
Sutphen,  when  he  married  Margaret  Morris, 
rented  the  old  Morris  place  and  three  of  his 
children  were  born  there.  With  these  three 
children  (Reuben  Morris.  Lydia  and  Mar- 
garet), about  1825,  Dirck  Sutphen  and  his 
wife  migrated  overland  in  a  canvassed  covered 
wagon  to  the  southern  shore  of  Lake  Ontario, 
to  a  town  named  Ontario,  and  took  up  a  farm 
there,  where  the  remainder  of  their  children 
were  born,  his  wife  dying  when  their  young- 
est child  was  an  infant.  Mr.  Sutphen  was 
married  twice  afterwards,  but  there  were  no 
children  by  either  marriages.  John  Conover 
Morris,  referred  to  later,  obtained  the  Morris 
plantation  and  his  children  were  all  born  there. 
Children  of  Dirck  and  Margaret  (Morris) 
Sutphen:  Reuben  Morris,  referred  to  below; 
Lydia  ;  Margaret ;  Mary  ;  John  ;  William  Henry  ; 
(iilbert;  Elias,  and  one  who  died  in  infancy. 


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(\'I)  Reuben  Morris,  eldest  child  of  Dirck 
or  Richard  and  Margaret  (Morris)  Sutphen, 
was  born  on  the  old  homestead  near  Cranbury, 
New  Jersey.  1819:  died  in  1903.  at  the  home 
of  his  son,  Theron  Y.  Sutphen.  at  Short  Hills, 
\e\v  Jersey.  He  obtained  his  early  education 
at  Marion  .\cademy,  Xew  York,  and  matric- 
ulated at  the  University  of  Xew  York  in  1845. 
He  taught  school  at  Freehold  in  the  old  Truant 
school  house  to  obtain  the  money  needed  for 
his  medical  education,  and  obtained  the  degree 
of  yi.  D.  in  1847.  He  located  in  the  town  of 
\\'alworth,  Wayne  county.  Xew  York,  and 
there  practiced  for  twenty  years,  removing 
with  his  family  to  Xewark,  Xew  Jersej'.  in 
1867,  where  he  continued  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession  thirty-four  years,  completing  fifty- 
four  years  of  active  medical  practice.  His 
wife  was  Hannah  Virginia,  second  child  of 
John  Conover  and  Margaret  (  Bergen)  Morris, 
granddaughter  of  George  Morris,  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  Reuben  ^lorris.  referred  to 
above.  George  Morris,  son  of  Reuben  Morris. 
was  born  July  10.  1773.  died  January  4,  1856; 
married,  December  7,  1796,  Eleanor  Coven- 
hoven  :  children  :  Reuben  ;  John  Conover.  re- 
ferred to  below  :  Moses ;  Phebe :  Jane ;  Ann. 
married  James,  son  of  William  Scudder.  of 
Scudder's  Mills,  Middlesex  county.  Xew  Jer- 
sey, and  Eleanor,  daughter  of  James  Craig,  of 
Monmouth.  Xew  Jersey,  grandson  of  Colonel 
William  Scudder,  of  Huntington,  Long  Island, 
and  Sarah,  daughter  of  Mathys  \'an  Dyke,  of 
Xew  Brunswick,  and  Xoltys  Laen.  grand- 
daughter of  Jans  Janse.  of  Xew  Brunswick, 
au'l  .Annetje.  daughter  of  Jan  Janse  X'erkerk, 
great-granddaughter  of  Jans  Janse.  of  Amster- 
dam, and  Xew  L'trecht,  Long  Lsland,  and 
Teyntje,  daughter  of  Thys  Janse  Lanen  van 
Peit,  the  emigrant  from  Liege  in  1663;  and 
great-great-granddaughter  of  Jan  Thomasse, 
son  of  Thomas  Janse,  of  Amsterdam,  who 
with  his  wife  Tryntje  Haegan  and  his  children 
settled  at  Xew  L'trecht  in  1652.  Colonel  W'ill- 
iam  Scudder  was  second  son  and  fourth  child 
of  Jacob  and  Abia  (Rowe)  Scudder.  whose 
ancestry  is  g^ven  above. 

John  Conover,  second  child  and  son  of 
George  and  Eleanor  (Covenhoven )  Morris, 
was  born  March  21,  1799;  died  October  19, 
1874;  married.  February  12.  1822.  Margaret 
Rergen.  a  lineal  descendant  of  Hans  Hansen 
Bergen,  a  ship  carpenter  by  trade,  and  a  native 
of  Bergen,  Xorway.  wlience  he  emigrated  to 
the  Xetherlands  while  c|uite  young,  and  in 
1633  came  to  Xew  Amsterdam  as  one  of  the 
company  of   settlers   who  accompanied    Gov- 


ernor W'outer  van  Twiller.  He  occupied  a  lot 
on  what  is  now  Pearl  street,  Xew  York  City, 
and  owned  extensive  plantations  elsewhere,  and 
six  years  after  his  emigration,  he  married  Sara, 
elder  daughter  of  Joris  Jansen  de  Rapelje  and 
his  wife  Catalyntje  Trico.  of  F'aris  and  Xew 
Xetherland.  whose  younger  daughter  Marytje 
had  married  Mighiel  Paulussen.  For  a  long 
time  these  two  daughters  of  Joris  Jansen  de 
Rapelje  were  regarded  as  the  first  two  chil- 
dren born  in  Xew  Xetherland,  but  documents 
recently  brought  to  light  have  proved  conclu- 
sively that  that  honor  belongs  to  Jan,  son  of 
Guiliaume  \'igne  and  Adrienne  Cuville,  from 
N'alenciennes.  France,  he  having  been  born  in 
the  trading  post  on  Manhattan  Island  in  1614. 
while  Sara  de  Rapelje  was  not  born  until  June 
19.  1625.  Children  of  John  Conover  and  ^lar- 
garet  (Bergen)  Morris:  Eleanor,  born  June 
8.  1824;  Hannah  \irginia.  born  July  13,  1826. 
living  in  February.  1909,  widow  of  Reuben 
Morris  Sutphen,  as  stated  above;  Caroline 
Bergen  Morris,  born  December  8,  1828,  de- 
ceased: Jane  Morris,  March  30,  1831  :  Anna 
Elizabeth  Morris,  August  6.  1834:  George 
Morris.  March  20,  1838.  deceased. 

Reuben  Morris  and  Hannah  X'irginia  ( Mor- 
ris )  Sutphen  had  children :  Theron  Yeomans, 
referred  to  below:  and  Ella  X'irginia.  born 
March  2,  1855.  married  Edward  L.  Hanken- 
son,  of  Xewark.  Dr.  Sutphen  and  his  wife 
were  born  in  the  same  house,  near  Princeton, 
a  rather  strange  coincidence,  her  birth  occur- 
ring seven  years  after  his,  and  in  it  too  was 
performed  their  marriage. 

(\TI)  Theron  Yeomans.  eldest  child  and 
only  son  of  Reuben  Morris  and  Hannah  \"ir- 
ginia  ( Morris )  Sutphen,  was  born  in  Wal- 
worth, Wayne  county,  Xew  York,  June  6,  1850, 
and  is  now  living  in  Xewark,  Xew  Jersey,  and 
at  Short  Hills,  same  state.  After  receiving  his 
early  education  at  the  Walworth  .Academy  he 
was  brought  by  his  father  to  Xewark  in  1867, 
and  sent  to  the  Xewark  high  school,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1869.  He  then  attend- 
ed the  L'niversity  of  Xew  York  for  one  year, 
and  in  1871  entered  the  medical  college  in  con- 
nection with  Bellevue  Hospital.  Xew  York, 
where  he  graduated  and  received  his  degree  of 
M.  D.  in  1873.  Returning  to  Xewark,  he  be- 
gan as  a  general  practitioner  and  continued 
this  line  of  work  for  three  years,  when  he 
made  a  specialty  of  diseases  of  the  eye  and 
ear,  to  which  he  has  confined  his  attention  ever 
since.  In  1873  ^r.  Sutphen  became  an  attend- 
ing physician  at  the  Xewark  City  Dispensary, 
and  shortly  afterwards  was  appointed  one  of  the 


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district  physicians.  In  1874  he  was  appointed 
assistant  surgeon  in  the  eye  and  ear  department 
of  St.  Michael's  Hospital,  since  which  time  he 
has  been  associated  with  that  institution,  a 
period  of  thirty-five  j'ears,  in  the  same  capacity, 
with  the  e.xception  of  one  year  when  he  was 
assistant  eye  and  ear  surgeon  to  the  Newark 
Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary.  In  1880 
he  was  instrumental  in  reorganizing  the  eye 
and  ear  clinic  at  St.  Michael's  Hospital,  which 
had  been  abandoned  some  time  previously 
I'wing  to  the  organization  of  the  Newark  Char- 
itable Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary,  previously  men- 
tioned. He  has  also  served  as  consultuig  eye 
and  ear  surgeon  to  All  Souls  Hospital.  Morris- 
town,  -New  Jersey,  and  until  recently  consult- 
ing oculist  to  the  Memorial  Hospital,  Orange, 
New  Jersey.  He  is  a  member  of  the  state  and 
county  medical  societies,  the  Practitioners' 
Club,  of  Newark,  New  Jersey,  the  New  York 
Academy  of  Medicine,  the  American  Medical 
Association,  the  Congress  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  of  America,  the  .American  Ophthal- 
niological  Society,  .American  Otological  Soci- 
ety, .American  .Association  of  Ophthalmology 
and  Otolaryngology,  Holland  Society,  of  New 
York,  life  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Histor- 
ical Society,  and  member  of  the  Esse.x  Club,  of 
Newark,  and  of  the  South  Park  Presbyterian 
Church  for  thirty  years.  He  is  a  Republican 
in  politics. 

January  13.  1876,  Dr.  Theron  Yeomans  Sut- 
phen  married  Sarah  Locke,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam Penn  \'ail,  and  granddaughter  of  Davis 
\'ail,  of  Littleton,  New  Jersey,  born  August 
19,  1833.  died  October  14.  1907,  who  married, 
December  8.  1778,  Hannah,  eldest  child  of  Ste- 
plien  Moore,  of  Bridgehampton,  Long  Island, 
and  Speedwell,  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  and 
granddaughter  of  Daniel  Moore,  of  Pjridge- 
hampton.  and  .Anne,  daughter  of  Daniel  and 
Sarah  Sayre,  of  Sag  Harbor,  Long  Island, 
granddaughter  of  Daniel  Sayre.  of  Bridge- 
hampton, but  whether  by  his  first  wife,  daugh- 
ter of  Christopher  and  Frances  Foster,  or  his 
second  wife  Sarah,  is  uncertain,  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  Thomas,  son  of  Francis  and 
Elizabeth  (.Atkins)  Sayre.  of  Leighton  Buz- 
zard, county  Bedford,  England,  the  emigrant 
to  Lynn.  Alassachusetts,  and  afterwards  to 
Long  Island.  Daniel  Moore,  of  Bridgehamp- 
ton. was  a  farmer,  and  died  in  Bridgehampton 
May  10,  1 791,  in  the  eighty-third  year  of  his 
age:  his  wife,  .Anne  Sayre,  died  July  8.  1787. 
Of  their  eight  children,  Stephen  Moore,  born 
1737.  removed  from  Long  Island  to  Speed- 
well, near  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  where  he 


died  January  19,  1777.  having  married,  .April 
21,  1761,  Eunice,  daughter  of  Samuel  Ford, 
who  was  born  .April  3,  1743,  and  after  her  hus- 
band's death  married  secondly  John  Scott.  Of 
the  seven  children  of  Stephen  and  Eunice 
(  Ford)  Moore,  Hannah,  the  eldest,  born  1761. 
married,  December  8.  1778,  Davis  \'ail,  of 
Littleton,  New  Jersey,  for  a  long  time  a  mem- 
ber of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  of 
.Morristown.  and  afterwards  of  the  First  Bap- 
tist Church,  of  Littleton.  Their  children  were: 
Stephen  \'ail,  born  July  28,  1780,  died  July  12, 
1864,  married  (first)  Bethiah.  daughter  of 
Ephraim  and  Phebe  Young,  who  bore  him  six 
children,  married  (  second  )  Mary  Carter  Lidger- 
wood.  and  ( third  )  a  Aliss  Miller.  He  was  an 
iron  manufacturer  at  Speedwell,  and  furnish- 
ed the  capital  for  his  son  .Alfred  and  Professor 
Morse  to  make  the  first  telegraphic  instrument 
which  was  constructed  at  Stephen  X'ail's  works 
near  Morristown.  Lewis,  second  child  of 
Davis  and  Hannah  (Moore)  \'ail,  was  born 
November  2S.  1784.  married,  had  two  children, 
and  went  to  Ohio.  Eunice  \'ail..  born  .August 
31,  1787,  married.  May  2.  1807,  Isaac  Johnson, 
of  Littleton,  who  was  born  December  13,  1779, 
and  had  six  children.  Henry  \'ail,  born  Sep- 
tember 7,  1789,  died  December  17,  1789. 
Charles  \'ail,  born  September  25,  1793,  died 
January  19,  1836,  was  a  physician,  married,  and 
had  one  child,  Lewis  D.  \  ail.law\er  of  Philadel- 
phia. Julia  \'ail,  born  P'ebruary  17,  1797,  died 
September  12,  1821.  Eliza  \'ail,  born  Febru- 
ary 14.  1799,  died  Alay  5.  1821,  married  a  Kirk. 
Sarah  Davis  \'ail,  born  October  28,  1801,  died 
May  5.  1802.  Hetty  Baker  \"ail.  born  Octo- 
ber 28.  1801,  twin  with  Sarah  Davis  \'ail,  died 
-April  16,  1882,  married  Jacob,  son  of  Mahlon 
Johnson.  He  and  his  wife  were  members  of 
the  Brick  Presbyterian  Church,  of  New  York. 
He  removed  to  Alorristown  in  1836,  from  there 
to  Newark,  and  in  1864  back  to  Morristown, 
where  he  died  March  20,  1868,  and  his  widow 
removed  to  Germantown,  F'ennsylvania.  Of 
their  two  children,  Hannah  Moore  Johnson, 
of  Germantown,  is  the  author  who  writes  for 
"St  Nicholas,"  "Scribner's"  and  other  maga- 
zines. \\'illiam  Penn  \'ail,  youngest  child  of 
Davis  and  Hannah  (  Moore)  \"ail.  born  July  8, 
1803,  died  February  12,  1889.  married,  De- 
cember 28,  1830.  Sarah  Locke,  who  died  June 
13,  1873:  their  children  were:  i.  Horace  .Au- 
gustus \'ail,  born  February  3,  1833,  died  May 
12.  1883,  married.  May  26,  1877,  Frances  M. 
Thompson,  and  left  four  children — Howard 
Locke.  John  Burson,  Emma  Louise  and  Helen 
.Augusta  \  ail ;  ii.  Charles  Edward  \'ail,  mar- 


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ried,  November  13.  1872,  ^lary  A.  ^lead,  and 
died  August  21,  1886;  iii.  John  Davis  Vail, 
married.  June  26,  1878,  Melissa  Gregory,  and 
has  children — Mary  Gregory,  William  Penn, 
Anna  Blair  and  John  I.  Blair  \'ail ;  iv.  Anne 
Elizabeth  Nail,  married.  May  25,  1865,  Theo- 
dore F.  Johnson ;  v.  William  Henry  \'ail,  mar- 
ried (first),  May  i,  1872,  Caroline  Hamlin, 
(second)  Mrs.  Helen  R.  Uhle  ;  by  his  first  wife, 
who  died  .April  8,  1887,  he  had  children — H. 
Loraine,  Marion  Locke,  Cyrus  Hamlin,  Charles 
Edward  and  Arthur  Whitin  \'ail;  vi.  Emma 
Euphemia  Vail ;  vii.  Sarah  Locke  \'ail,  married 
Theron  Yeomans  Sutphen. 

Children  of  Theron  Yeomans  Sutphen  and 
Sarah  Locke  (  \'ail )  Sutphen  : 

1.  Edward  Blair  Sutphen,  born  in  Newark, 
February  20,  1877;  now  a  practicing  physician 
in  Morristown,  Xew  Jersey.  He  was  educated 
at  the  Newark  Academy  and  Princeton  Lni- 
versity,  after  which  he  went  to  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New  York  City 
and  then  became  associated  with  his  father, 
making  a  specialty  of  diseases  of  the  eye  and 
ear.  He  is  eye  and  ear  surgeon  of  All  Souls' 
Hosjiital,  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  attending 
surgeon  to  eye  and  ear  department  at  St. 
Michael's  Hospital,  Newark,  and  assistant  sur- 
geon of  New  York  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary. 
He  is  a  member  of  Morristown  Medical  Soci- 
ety, Summit  Medical  Society  and  State  Med 
ical  .Society.  In  1902,  Edward  Blair  Sutphen, 
M.  D..  married  Sara  C,  daughter  of  Wallace 
Durand,  of  Newark,  .\'ew  Jersey.  One  child — 
^^'allace  Durand  Sutphen.  Ixjrn  .August  13, 
1903. 

2.  Robert  Morris,  second  son  of  1  heron 
Yeomans,  M.  D..  and  Sarah  Locke  (Vail)  Sut- 
phen, was  born  in  Newark,  March  16,  1884. 
l-'or  his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  Rlair 
Hall  and  to  the  Newark  Academy,  after  which 
he  graduated  in  the  P.ordentown  Military  Insti- 
tute. Developing  early  a  taste  for  designing 
and  illustrating,  he  was  given  an  education 
along  those  lines,  and  in  1902  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  .\rt  Students'  League,  of  New  York 
City,  and  since  that  time  has  become  an  expert 
designer,  illustrator  and  draughtsman.  On 
Nf)vember  i,  1909,  he  went  into  partnershi]) 
with  Mr.  \'int  I'.  Breese,  a  well-known  minia- 
ture painter  and  cartoonist  of  Newark,  the 
combine  being  known  as  the  Sutphen-Brecse 
Illustrating  Com])any.  .\mong  the  numerous 
firms  and  cor])orations  which  have  sought  his 
work  and  whose  names  are  an  index  to  and  a 
guarantee  of  the  high  class  and  c|uality  of  his 
work  are  Marcus  &  Company,  jewelers;  Col- 


gate .\rt  (jlass  Company,  Weston  Electric  In- 
strument Company,  Edison  Laboratory,  Edison 
Phonograph  Company,  National  Phono  Com- 
pany, Bates  Manufacturing  Coin]jany,  Edison 
Storage  Battery  Works,  Edison  Manufactur- 
ing Company,  United  States  Patent  Office, 
\\'ashington.  District  of  Columbia ;  publishing 
firm  of  Scribner's  Brothers,  and  Life.  His 
offices  are  room  511  Globe  building,  Newark. 
In  his  profession  Air.  Sutphen  ranks  not  only 
at  the  head  of  his  profession  but  among  the 
most  able  and  brilliant  of  the  rising  generation. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Art  League,  of  New 
A'ork  City,  and  of  the  Art  Club,  of  Newark. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Mendham  (jolf 
Club.  In  religion  he  is  a  Roman  Catholic. 
June  15,  1904,  Robert  Alorris  Sutphen  married 
Mary  J.,  born  in  Newark.  1883,  daughter  of 
\\'illiam  J.  and  Alary  J.  (King)  O'Rourke,  of 
East  Orange.  Child — \'irginia  Alorris,  born 
January  16,  1906. 

3.  Alargaret  Alorris,  born  November  17, 
1896. 

(  \')  John,  second  clnld  and 
Sr TPHEN  son  of  John  (q.  v. J  and  Lydia 
(  Baker  )  Sutphen,  was  born 
in  I'Veehold  township,  Alonmouth  county,  New 
Jersey,  in  1802,  and  died  between  1850  and 
1855,  in  Rahway,  New  Jer.sey.  He  was  a  car- 
riage builder  and  manufacturer,  and  lived  most 
of  his  life  after  passing  his  majority  in  Rah- 
way. By  his  wife,  Zeruah  Danielson,  John 
Sutphen  had  children:  1.  Joanna,  born  in 
New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  October  2,  1829; 
died  in  Newark,  September  30,  1891  ;  married, 
January  8,  1852,  William  Barton,  son  of  Will- 
iam and  .Anna  Bloomfield  (Luke)  Enders,  and 
grandson  of  John  Enders,  the  Quaker,  and 
Captain  Robert  Luke,  of  the  revolutionary 
army.  (See  Enders).  2.  Jacob  Kirki)atrick, 
married  Elizabeth  Kelly.  3.  Ji>hu  Henry  Sut- 
phen, referred  to  below. 

(V'l)  John  Henry,  third  child  and  second 
son  of  John  and  Zeruah  (Danielson)  Sutphen, 
was  born  in  Freehold,  Alonmouth  county,  New- 
Jersey,  about  1825,  and  died  in  February,  1877. 
He  was  educated  at  the  famous  school  of  Dr. 
Hedges,  in  Newark,  and  after  leaving  there 
was  ap])renticed  to  a  hatter.  When  he  had 
learned  his  trade  he  went  to  work  for  Rankin, 
Duryea  &  Company,  with  whom  he  rose  to  the 
])ost  of  foreman,  a  position  he  gave  up  in  order 
to  accept  a  better  one  with  P.  W.  \'ail  &  Com- 
|)anv,  for  whom  he  was  for  many  years  general 
superintendent.  lea\ing  them  only  to  become 
superintendent  for  the  firm  of  Cory  &  Stewart. 


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with  will  nil  lif  rciiiained  until  his  death.  John 
lleni\v  .^ntphen  married  Mary  .\nna  Cnthbert- 
^"ii:  children:  Herbert  Sands  .Snt])hen,  re- 
ferred Uj  below  ;  Cieorge  C.  Sutphen.  married 
.Mary  Rniivoii :  Ralph  .M.  .Sntphen :  Cornelia 
.\.  Siitjihen. 

(\'II)  Herbert  Sands  Sutphen,  eldest  child 
oi  John  Henry  and  Mary  .Anna  (  Cuthbertson  ) 
.'^utplien,  was  born  in  Newark,  June  28,  1862. 
and  is  now  a  dental  surgeon  in  the  city  of  his 
birth.  For  his  early  education  he  attended  the 
public  schools  and  graduated  from  the  Newark 
high  school.  He  then  went  to  the  College  of 
the  City  of  New  York,  which  institution  he  left 
liefore  his  graduation  in  order  to  go  to  the 
fhiladelphia  Dental  College.'  from  which  he 
received  his  degree.  For  some  time  after  his 
graduation  he  was  a  bank  clerk.,  but  finally 
confined  himself  exclusively  to  his  profession 
cf  dentistry,  in  which  he  has  risen  to  the  front 
rank.  He  is  an  ex-president  of  the  Central 
Dental  .Association  of  Northern  New  Jersey, 
and  is  at  present  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
state  board  of  registration  and  examination  in 
dentistry.  He  is  a  Republican,  but  has  held  no 
office.  He  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason, 
and  a  member  of  the  .Ancient  .Arabic  Order  of 
Xobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  His  clubs  are 
the  Wednesday  Club  and  the  University  Club, 
of  Newark,  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  First 
Dutch  Reformed  Church,  of  Newark.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Holland  Society,  of  New  York. 
June  27,  i88y,  Herbert  .Sands  Sutphen  married 
in  New  Springfield,  New  York.  Jennie  Watters 
Simonson.  born  .September  30,  1864.  youngest 
child  and  only  daughter  of  Isaac  Jacques  and 
Katharine  (  Collins  )  Simonson.  Her  brother 
is  Joseph  Simonson.  Herbert  Sands  and  Jennie 
Watters  (Simonson)  Sutphen  have  no  chil- 
dren. 

iH)  (niisbert  Dirckse,  seventh  child  and 
fifth  son  of  Dirck  Janse  van  Zutphen  and  Lys- 
beth  Janse  van  Xuyse,  was  born  in  New  Ut- 
recht. Long  Island.  October  14,  1693,  and  died 
in  Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey,  August  16, 
1763.  (For  line  of  descent  see  sketch  of  Arthur 
Peter  .Sutphen). 


lir  the  line  here  traced  the  Kin- 
KI.\'NE^'     ney  family  has  been  resident  in 

New  Jersey  since  about  the  mid- 
dle of  the  eighteenth  century.  Originally  estab- 
lished in  Morris  county,  where  it  possessed 
extensive  landed  property,  it  was  identified 
with  the  early  iron  manufacturing  industry, 
and  took  an  active  part  in  public  affairs  before, 
during,  and  after  the  revolution,  and  removed 


in  the  latter  i)art  of  the  eighteenth  century  to 
.Xewark,  and  in  that  city  has  since  continued. 
The  succession  in  the  male  line  from  the  first 
ajipearance  of  the  family  in  New  Jersey  is  as 
follows:  ( I)  Thomas  Kinney,  of  Morris  coun- 
ty I  1731-93).  (H)  Abraham  Kinney, of  Morris 
county,  and  Newark  (1762-1816).  (HI)  W'ill- 
iam  I'urnet  Kinney,  of  Newark  (1799-1880). 
(I\  )  Thomas  Talmadge  Kinney,  of  Xewark 
(1821-1900).  (V)  William  I'lUrnet  Kinney, 
of  Newark  (  1871 ). 

Of  pure  Scottish  lineage,  traceable  with  gene- 
alogical precision  to  the  twelfth  century,  this 
family  bears  no  ancestral  relationship  to  other 
present  New  Jersey  families  of  the  name  Kin- 
ney, or  Kinne,  which  are  of  Dutch  origin,  de- 
scended from  .Adriaen  Pieterse  Kenne,  of  Flat- 
lands.  Long  Island,  1687. 

Kinney,  as  a  Scotch  surname,  is  derived 
from  Caennard,  a  local  or  place  name,  signi- 
fying "the  high  head,"  whence  the  form  Kin- 
naird,  which  is  found  at  a  very  remote  period 
in  the  counties  of  Stirling,  Forfar,  .Aberdeen 
and  Perth.  .As  in  the  cases  of  practically  all 
ancient  families,  the  orthographical  variations 
are  numerous.  These  include,  in  the  Scotch 
records,  the  following  forms  :  Keany,  Kenne, 
Kenney,  Kenny,  Keny,  Kilkenny,  Kinnaird, 
Kinnear,  Kinner,  Kinney,  Kynard.  Kyner,  Kyn- 
naird,  Kynneir,McKinnieand  McKynnie.  Even 
in  .America  there  were  several  variations  in 
early  times,  the  different  spellings  Kinney. 
Kenne\-.  Kenny  and  Keney  appearing  in  the 
eighteenth  century  Xew^  Jersey  records. 

In  the  Scottish  line  the  first  of  whom  there 
is  authentic  account  was  William  de  Kyner, 
l)roprietor  of  extensive  lands  under  the  juris- 
diction of  the  .Abby  of  Pialmerino,  in  Fifeshire. 
near  Dundee,  during  the  reign  (1165-1214)  of 
William  I.,  "the  Lion."  Balmerino  .Abbey 
( named  for  the  ancient  village  of  Balmery- 
nach  )  was  founded  by  Oueen  Emergarde,  con- 
sort of  William  I.,  and  in  the  next  reign  a 
monastery  of  the  Cistercian  order  was  attach- 
ed to  it,  both  being  royally  endowed.  For  gen- 
erations the  descendants  of  William  De  Kyner 
were  benefactors  of  the  abbey.  Two  of  them 
served  as  commendatators.  Land  grants  were 
made  to  the  institution  by  his  son,  Simon  de 
Kynner,  and  grandson.  .Sir  John  de  Kynner ; 
and  in  the  eighth  generation  David  Kinneir, 
"of  the  Ilk,"  was  bailie  to  the  abbot  of  Bal- 
merino. The  arms  of  the  Kinney  family  were 
registered  as  follows :  ".Sable,  on  a  bend  or 
three  martlets  (or  Kinnerie  birrs)  vert.  Crest, 
two  anchors  saltire  proper.  Alotto:  Vivo  in 
spes  (I  live  in  hope).    An  earlier  bearing  was 


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three  birds  displayed  on  a  bend,  and  a  still 
earlier  one  a  fesse  between  three  birds  dis- 
plajcd. 

Twelfth  in  descent  from  William  de  Kyner 
was  Farc|uhar  M'Kynnie,  whose  name  is  also 
written  M "Kinney,  Kynney  and  Kinney.  He 
was  of  Kilmore  and  Kilbride,  Scotland,  and  in 
1682  inherited  from  his  grandfather  lands  in 
Levinchullcin.  county  Bute.  His  wife,  .\gnes 
Lauder,  was  a  descendant  of  de  Lavedro,  one 
of  the  .\nglo-Xorman  barons  who  came  to 
-Scotland  with  Malcolm  Canmore  in  1056.  The 
Landers  belonged  to  the  historic  families  of 
Scotland  and  were  conspicuous  in  church 
affairs,  several  of  the  name  rising  to  the  dignity 
of  bishop.  The  children  of  P^arquhar  and  .\gnes 
(  Lauder  )  M'Kynnie  were  :  i.  James,  see  below. 
2.  John,  whose  name  in  the  American  records 
is  written  Kenny  and  Keney.  He  emigrated 
to  America,  and  resided  at  Hanover,  Morris 
county.  New  Jersey.  In  1840.  at  the  first  ses- 
sion of  the  court  after  the  organization  of  that 
county,  he  was  appointed  overseer  of  the  poor 
and  siu'veyor  of  highways  for  Hanover  town- 
shi])  (  1749-52),  was  high  sheriff'  of  the  county, 
and  for  twenty-five  years  was  one  of  the  most 
prominent  and  influential  citizens.  In  his  will, 
proved  March  n;,  \/()6,  he  names  daughters 
Mary  Parritt,  Johannah  Price,  Elizabeth  Kin- 
ney (wife  of  Thomas  Kinney,  below)  and  .\bi- 
gail  Coo]jer.  3.  Mordecai,  who  came  to  Leb- 
anon, Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey.  4. 
Thomas,  who  it  is  believed  also  came  to  New 
Jersey. 

James  Kinney,  eldest  son  of  Far(|uhar  and 
Agnes  (Lauder)  M'Kynnie.  of  Kilmore  and 
Kilbride,  was  born  about  1676.  He  remained 
in  Scotland,  inheriting  from  his  father  con- 
siderable estates  in  Carlung,  Kilbride,  hlister 
lirigend.  Kilwyning  and  Rankey,  and  also  (it 
is  believed  )  having  lands  in  Potterslown  and 
Tye-croft.  which  his  great-grandmother,  I*lliz- 
abeth  Lynn,  had  received  from  her  father. 
James  Kinney  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Kelsey ;  two  of  her  brothers.  Thomas 
and  Daniel  Kelsey.  removed  to  New  Jersey. 
Children :  1.  Thomas,  see  below.  2.  Daniel, 
who  lived  in  .Scotland  :  married,  and  left  two 
daughters,  both  of  whom  died  unmarried. 

(  I  )  Thomas  Kinney,  with  whom  the  New 
Jersey  line  begins,  was  eldest  son  of  James  and 
Elizabeth  (Kelsey)  Kinney.  He  was  born  in 
Carhnig.  Scotland.  .April  <j.  1731,  and  died  in 
Miirristown,  New  Jersey.  .Xjiril  2,  1793.  He 
jjrcjbably  came  to  .\merica  as  early  as  1755, 
for  it  is  known  that  he  was  inarried  in  New 
Jersey  and  that  two  of  his  children  were  bap- 


tized in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  of 
.Morristown  (see  "Combined  Registers"  of 
that  church  ).  Doubtless  in  making  this  change 
of  abode  he  was  actuated  by  the  examples  of 
several  of  his  near  kinsmen,  especially  his 
paternal  uncle,  John  Kenny,  who  (as  noted 
above)  had  for  some  time  been  established  and 
was  influential  in  Morris  county.  Possessing 
substantial  means,  he  soon  acc]uired  much  prop- 
erty in  lands,  and  also  interested  himself  with 
his  L'ncle  John  and  Colonel  Jacob  .\rnold  in  the 
iron  manufacturing  business.  The  second  slit- 
ting mill  in  the  county  was  erected  at  Speed- 
well, near  Morristown,  by  the  Kinneys  and 
.\rnold.  .Although  the  partnership  was  dis- 
solved in  1779.  Thomas  Kinney  contiinied  until 
his  death  as  one  of  the  ])roprietors  of  this 
foundry.  He  was  the  owner  of  a  large  farm 
in  Morristown,  on  which  stood  the  noted  tavern 
where  Washington  had  his  heackjuarters  in 
1777,  known  as  the  .Arnold  Tavern  (having 
been  sold  by  Kinney  to  his  partner.  Colonel 
Jacob  .Arnold).  It  has  since  been  moved  and 
now  constitutes  a  portion  of  All  .Souls'  Hos- 
pital. 

.\  man  of  energetic  character,  he  was  prom- 
inently and  usefully  identified  with  public 
aft'airs.  From  1773  to  1776  he  was  high  sheriff' 
of  Morris  county.  In  the  revolution  he  took  a 
zealous  and  influential  part  from  the  very  be- 
ginning. He  was  instrumental  in  raising  and 
e(|uip])ing  a  company  of  light  horse  for  service 
with  the  .\'ew  Jersey  forces,  of  which  he  was 
made  captain.  This  company,  under  his  com- 
mand, was  designated  by  the  revolutionary 
authorities  to  escort  the  Tory  governor,  Sir 
William  Franklin,  to  Connecticut — a  service 
for  which  he  was  rewarded  by  the  legislature. 
Resigning  his  military  commission,  he  was 
succeeded  by  Colonel  Jacob  .Arnold,  under 
whose  leadership  the  comjjany,  known  as 
.\rnold's  Light  Ilorse,  became  noted.  In  ij(i(j 
he  subscribed  to  increase  the  capital  of  the 
College  of  New  Jersey  (Princeton  Univer- 
sity), and  he  was  ])rominent  in  the  Masonic 
order,  being  a  meiuber  of  Newark  (now  St. 
John's)  Lodge.  No.  i,  established  in  1761.  In 
the  jjublic  and  other  records  he  is  always  re- 
ferred to  as  Thomas  Kinnev,  lis(|uire.  a  desig- 
nation of  distinction  in  those  times. 

He  married  his  cousin,  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  John  Kenny,  of  Hanover  township,  Morris 
county.  New  Jersey;  she  was  born  March  2^. 
1736.  died  .April  23.  1789.  Hu.sband  and  wife 
lie  buried  side  by  side  in  the  cemetery  of  the 
h'irst  Presbyterian  Church,  of  Morristown. 
Their  tombstones,  very  large  horizontal  slabs. 


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are  excellently  (jreserved,  and  the  inscriptions 
are  perfectly  legible.  Children:  i.  John,  bap- 
tized in  First  Presbyterian  Church,  of  Morris- 
town,  June  21,  i/to:  died  1832;  married,  Oc- 
tober 21,  1778,  Phebe.  daughter  of  Samuel 
Arnold ;  had  several  children,  one  of  whom, 
John,  was  the  ancestor  of  a  well-known  family 
of  Kinncys  in  Louisville,  Kentucky.  2.  Jabez, 
baptized  in  Mrst  Presbyterian  Church,  of 
Morristown,  June  2.2,  1760;  died  in  1797,  leav- 
ing ciiildren — .Abraham  and  Mannah.  .Accord- 
ing to  a  family  record  he  was  "drowned  in  en- 
deavoring to  save  a  large  property  in  mills  that 
were  destroyed  by  a  Hood  in  1797,  belonging  to 
the  three  brothers  in  the  county  of  Susses."'  3. 
.\braham,  see  below. 

( IJ  )  Abraham,  third  child  of  Thomas  and 
Elizabeth  (  Kenny  )  Kinney,  was  born  in  Speed- 
well. New  Jersey,  August  16,  1762;  died  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  January  31,  1816.  Like 
his  father  he  was  an  active  patriot  in  the  rev- 
olution, the  records  showing  that  on  Alay  14, 
1779,  he  was  ensign  in  the  Third  Regiment 
Pennsylvania  Line,  and  June  14,  1781,  lieuten- 
ant of  the  Second  Regiment  Continental  Dra- 
goons. .\fter  the  revolution  he  was  lieutenant- 
colonel  of  the  Morris  and  Sussex  cavalry,  and 
in  that  ca])acity  served  through  the  war  of 
1812,  being  stationed  at  Sandy  Hook.  Some 
years  after  his  marriage  he  removed  from 
Morris  county  to  Newark,  where  he  spent  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  His  high  personal  char- 
acter is  indicated  by  an  entry  in  the  family 
Bible  in  his  widow's  handwriting,  following  the 
record  of  his  death — "the  tenderest  and  most 
affectionate  of  husbands  and  fathers."  He 
married,  January  12,  1784,  Hannah,  daughter 
of  Dr.  W'iUiam  Burnet,  the  elder,  and  Mary 
Camp.  She  was  born  in  Newark,  May  24, 
1 76 1,  died  there,  April  6,  1832.  Remarkable 
for  her  ])iety  and  good  works,  she  was  much 
beloved  by  an  admiring  circle  of  friends,  and 
at  this  day,  nearly  eighty  years  after  her  death, 
philanthropic  and  christian  influences  which 
she  was  largel)-  instrumental  in  setting  in  mo- 
tion are  still  active  in  Newark.  She  was  one 
of  the  organizers  (January  31,  1803)  of  the 
Female  Charitable  Society  of  that  city,  and 
was  its  first  directress.  The  minutes  of  the 
society  contain  frequent  allusions  to  Mrs.  Kin- 
ney, and  in  several  passages  are  eloquently 
suggestive  of  her  e.xalted  spirit.  Under  date 
of  April  28,  1805,  it  is  stated  that  "Mrs.  Kin- 
ney read  a  most  tender  and  pathetic  address, 
composed  by  herself,  for  the  benevolent  pur- 
pose of  exciting  sympathy  in  the  bosoms  of 
all  present  for  the  afflictions  of  the  poor  and 


distressed."  For  some  years  after  her  hus- 
band's death  she  resided  with  a  brother  in  Cin- 
cinnati, but  the  concluding  portion  of  her  life 
was  [jassed  in  Newark.  She  left  a  number  of 
diaries,  jireserved  by  the  family,  which  are 
recortls  of  an  intense  but  practical  piety.  Her 
portrait  is  expressive  of  a  nature  of  e.xquisite 
delicacy,  sweetness  and  charm.  She  was  a 
descendant  from 

1.  Thomas  Burnet,  born  in  Scotland,  emi- 
grated to  Massachusetts,  and  removed  to 
Southampton,  Long  Island,  where  he  received 
his  allotment  of  land,  October  16,  1643,  and 
where  he  died,  his  will  being  proved  December, 
1684;  married  (second)  in  Lynn,  Massachu- 
setts, December  3,  1663,  Mary  Pierson ;  eleven 
children  by  his  two  wives,  of  whom  the  ninth 
was 

2.  Daniel  ISurnet,  removed  to  Flizabethtown, 
New  Jersey;  by  his  first  wife  had  three  chil- 
dren, the  second  of  whom  was 

3.  Ichabod  Burnet,  born  in  Southaiupton, 
Long  Island,  1684;  died  in  Elizabethtown, 
New  Jersey,  July  13,  1774;  educated  in  Edin- 
burgh, Scotland,  and  was  a  physician,  promi- 
nent and  influential  in  the  affairs  of  his  com- 
munity ;  married  Hannah,  and  had  two  chil- 
dren, the  elder  of  whom  was 

4.  William  Burnet,  known  as  Dr.  William 
Burnet,  the  elder,  born  in  Lyon's  Farms,  New 
Jersey,  December  2,  1730  (o.  s.)  ;  died  in  New- 
ark, C)ctober  7,  1791  ;  graduated  from  College 
of  New  Jersey  (then  in  Newark)  in  1749. 
studied  medicine  in  New  York  City,  and  re- 
sided and  practiced  in  Newark ;  one  of  the 
foremost  New  Jersey  revolutionary  patriots, 
active  in  raising  and  dispatching  troops ;  pre- 
siding judge  of  Esse.x  county  courts,  \^J^/(>■'&^ . 
in  1780  delegate  to  the  Continental  congress; 
a  leader  in  establishing  the  military  hospital  in 
Newark,  and  surgeon-general  by  appointment 
from  congress ;  one  of  the  founders  of  the  New 
lersev  r^Iedical  Society,  and  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  the  Cincinnati ;  married  (  first )  Janu- 
ary 2}^,  1754,  Mary, daughter  of  NathanielCanip, 
and  had,  by  her  eleven  children  (the  fifth  of 
whom  was  Hannah,  below),  of  these  being  Dr. 
William  Burnet,  the  younger  (whose  daugh- 
ter Mary  married  (Thief-Justice  Joseph  C. 
llornblower,  and  was  the  mother  of  the  wives 
of  Judge  Lewis  B.  \\'oodruff,  of  New  York; 
Justice  Joseph  P.  Bradley,  of  the  L'nited  States 
supreme  court,  and  Governor  William  Penn- 
ington, of  New  Jersey),  and  Judge  Jacob  Bur- 
net (who  removed  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  was 
a  prominent  citizen  there  and  author  of  the 
"Hi.story  of  the  Northwest  Territory")  ;  mar- 


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ried  (second),  1783,  Gertrude,  daughter  of 
Xicliolas  Ciouverneur,  and  widow  of  Anthony 
Rutgers,  and  liad  h)'  her  three  chilchen,  of 
whom  were  Isaac  Gouverneur  Burnet  (mayor 
of  Cincinnati),  and  David  G.  Burnet  (first 
president  of  the  repubhc  of  Texas,  1836). 

5.  Hannah  Burnet,  married  Abraham  Kin- 
ney, above. 

Children  of  Abraham  and  Hannah  (  Burnet) 
Kinney:  i.  Thoinas  Talmadge,  born  in  Speed- 
weh.  New  Jersey,  January  28,  1785;  died  in 
New  Yorlc,  January  2,  1826;  a  lawyer  of  emi- 
nent ability ;  many  years  surrogate  of  Essex 
county ;  member  of  New  Jersey  assembly,  and 
in  1 81 4  aide  to  Governor  William  Pennington  ; 
married,  July  5,  1809.  Maria  Webb,  who  died 
in  Summit,  New  Jersey,  Ajjril  15,  1880;  no 
issue.     2.  William  Burnet,  see  below. 

(HI)  William  Burnet  Kinney,  second  child 
of  Abraham  and  Hannah  (Burnet)  Kinney, 
was  born  in  Speedwell,  New  Jersey,  Septem- 
ber 4,  1799,  and  died  in  New  York  City,  Oc- 
tober 21,  1880.  He  was  baptized  William  Au- 
gustus Burnet  Kinney,  but  was  always  known 
as  William  Burnet  Kinney.  His  education 
was  received  under  the  supervision  of  his 
father,  a  man  of  much  culture,  who  made  him 
his  constant  companion  and  with  whom  as  a 
lad  he  served  for  some  time  in  the  war  of  1812. 
It  was  the  father's  intention  that  he  should 
enter  the  army,  and  accordingly  he  was  sent 
to  the  Military  Academy  at  West  Point;  but 
after  his  father's  death  he  resigned  his  cadet- 
ship  in  deference  to  the  wishes  of  his  mother, 
who  felt  that  his  talents  better  qualified  him 
for  success  in  one  of  the  learned  professions 
or  in  literary  pursuits.  He  then  completed  his 
studies  under  classical  and  mathematical  in- 
structors of  high  rejjute  and  took  up  the  study 
of  law,  at  first  in  the  office  of  his  brother, 
Thomas  Talmadge  Kinney,  and  afterward  with 
his  cousin,  Joseph  C.  1  lornhlower,  later  chief- 
justice  of  New  Jersey. 

.At  an  early  age  he  manifested  marked  ability 
as  a  speaker,  and  there  was  every  promise  of 
his  having  a  distinguished  career  at  the  bar, 
but  his  tastes  lay  in  the  direction  of  general 
literature  and  scholarshi]).  In  1820  he  became 
the  editor  of  the  New  Jersey  I'.ayle,  a  weekly 
newspaper  of  Newark,  which  he  conducted 
until  1825.  In  that  year  he  removed  to  New 
"S'ork  City,  where  he  became  active  in  organ- 
izing the  Mercantile  Library  and  was  its 
librarian,  and  also  associated  himself  with  the 
])ul)lisliing  firm  of  Harper  Brothers  as  one  of 
its  readers.  Returning  to  Newark,  he  assumed 
the  management  of  the  Newark  Daily  Adver- 


tiser, then  the  only  daily  newspaper  in  New 
Jersey,  with  which  he  united  as  its  weekly 
issue  the  old  Sentinel  of  I-reedo)ii.  To  this 
journal  he  gave  a  high  literary  standard. 

In  1840  he  was  elected  trustee  of  Princeton 
L'niversity,  which  had  previously  conferred 
scholarship  honors  upon  him ;  and  in  the  same 
year  he  was  chosen  delegate-at-large  to  the 
\\  big  convention  that  nominated  General  Har- 
rison for  the  presidency,  but  declined.  In  1844 
he  served  as  a  delegate  to  the  \\  hig  national 
convention  at  Baltimore,  and  in  1843  he  was 
the  Whig  candidate  for  congress  in  the  fifth 
district  of  New  Jersey,  but  owing  to  a  coali- 
tion of  opposing  forces  he  was  defeated.  In 
1 85 1  he  was  appointed  by  President  Fillmore 
minister  to  the  court  of  Sardinia,  at  Turin, 
where  he  served  with  distinguished  ability  and 
usefulness.  Enjoying  an  eminent  reputation 
for  literary  and  scholarly  culture  and  possess- 
ing a  personality  both  engaging  and  forcible, 
he  sustained  intimate  relations  with  the  lead- 
ing men  of  the  times  who  were  engaged  in  the 
reconstruction  of  the  Sardinian  government 
on  constitutional  lines.  "Count  Cavour  and 
other  master  minds  of  that  kingdom  were  in 
constant  consultation  with  him  in  reference  to 
the  ])ractical  working  of  our  republican  system, 
and  his  influence  was  strongly  apparent  in  the 
establishment  of  the  liberal  institutions  of  Italy. 
He  also  rendered  signal  service  to  the  govern- 
ment of  Great  Britain  in  consultation  with  its 
ambassador.  Sir  Raljjh  Abercrombie,  and  for 
some  important  diplomatic  business  intrusted 
to  him  he  received  a  handsome  official  acknowl- 
edgement in  a  special  dispatch  from  Lord  Pal- 
merston." 

.At  the  time  of  the  Kossuth  excitement  it 
was  largely  owing  to  Mr.  Kinney's  secret  dis- 
])atches  to  M  r.  Webster,  then  secretary  of  state, 
that  the  United  States  government  was  fore- 
warned of  the  perils  of  an  official  identification 
with  the  political  controversies  involved,  and 
was  thus  ])reserved  from  foreign  complication. 
While  at  the  court  of  Turin,  Mr.  Kinney's 
sympathies  and  influence  were  especially  exer- 
cised in  behalf  of  all  liberal  and  progressive 
causes.  One  noteworthy  instance  of  this  was 
his  i)rocurement  from  King  \'ictor  I'.manuel 
of  the  right  of  religious  toleration  for  the 
persecuted  Waldensians,  which  led  to  the  erec- 
tion of  the  first  church  edifice  that  sect  was 
ever  ])ermitted  to  have  in  Turin,  and  the  corner- 
stone of  the  church  was  laid  by  him. 

.After  his  term  as  ambassador  expired,  Mr. 
Kinney  lived  for  several  years  in  Florence. 
There  he  was  one  of  a  circle  of  famous  literary 


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and  artistic  characters,  which  inchuled  among 
its  members  the  Brownings  and  Iliram  Powers. 
For  many  years  he  liad  been  much  attracted  by 
the  romantic  history  of  the  Medici  family,  and 
during  his  stay  in  Italy  he  accimuilated  ma- 
terials for  an  exhaustive  historical  work  on 
the  subject,  which,  however,  was  left  uncom- 
pleted at  his  death.  While  abroad  he  kept  a 
diarv.  registering  incidents  of  his  official  and 
])rivate  intercourse.  This  is  in  the  possession 
of  the  family. 

.\bout  the  end  of  the  civil  war.  Air.  Kinney 
returned  to  his  home  in  New  Jersey,  where 
he  led  a  retired  life  until  his  death,  occupied 
chiefly  with  literary  work.  At  the  two  hun- 
dredth anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  New- 
ark, in  May.  18(16,  he  delivered  the  oration  in 
the  First  IVesbyterian  Church,  of  Newark 
( published  in  the  proceedings  of  the  New  Jer- 
sey Historical  Society).  During  the  closing 
period  of  his  life  he  etidured  much  suiTering, 
and  was  thus  prevented  from  realizing  cherish- 
ed literary  ]3rojects.  He  married  (first),  Sep- 
tember \fi,  1820,  Mary,  daughter  of  Finley  and 
Jemima  (Winans)  Chandler.  She  died  Janu- 
ary 28,  1841,  aged  thirty-eight.  She  was  de- 
scended from 

1.  Josejih  Chandler,  born  about  1668,  sup- 
posed to  have  come  from  Massachusetts  to 
Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey,  where  he  died 
June  I,  1755. 

2.  Samuel  Chandler,  died  in  Elizabethtown, 
January  i,  17" I. 

3.  David  Chandler,  born  May  13.  1742:  died 
January  3,  1786:  lived  in  Lyon's  Farms;  mar- 
ried, March  12,  1765,  Sarah  Thompson. 

4.  Finley  Chandler,  born  October  14,  1772; 
lived  in  Elizabethtown:  married.  March  12, 
17(13,  Jemima  Winans. 

5.  Mary  Chandler,  married  William  Burnet 
Kinney,  above. 

Children  of  William  Burnet  and  Mary 
(Chandler)  Kinney:  I.  Thomas  Talmadge. 
see  below.  2.  William  Burnet,  born  September 
10.  1824:  died  February,  1825. 

William  Burnet  Kinney  Sr.  married  (sec- 
ond). November  16.  1841,  Elizabeth  Clemetine, 
daughter  oi  Davicl  Low  Dodge,  and  widow 
of  Edmund  Burke  Stedman.  She  was  descend- 
ed from  William  Dodge,  settler  at  Salem. 
Massachusetts,  in  1629,  one  branch  of  whose 
family  was  established  in  Connecticut  in  rev- 
olutionary times  and  became  prominent  through 
the  educational  activities  of  David  Low  Dodge, 
the  head  of  a  private  school  in  Norwich,  who 
married  a  daughter  of  Rev.  .Aaron  Cleveland, 
grandfather    of    President    Grover   Cleveland. 


David  Low  Dodge  engaged  in  large  business 
enterprises,  finally  locating  in  New  York ;  his 
daughter,  Elizabeth  Clementine  (above),  by 
her  first  marriage  to  Edmund  Burke  Stedman 
was  the  mother  of  Edmund  Clarence  Stedman, 
the  eminent  man  of  letters :  and  his  son,  Will- 
iam  Earl  Dodge,  was  the  princely  New  York 
merchant.  Elizabeth  Clementine  Dodge-Sted- 
man  Kinney  was  a  woman  of  intellectual  ac- 
com])lishments  and  graces.  She  published 
"Felicita."  a  metrical  romance;  a  volume  of 
"Poems:"  a  tragedy  in  blank  verse,  and  other 
writings.  For  an  appreciative  notice  of  her 
the  reader  is  referred  to  "Authors  and  Writers 
.Associated  with  Morristown."  by  Julia  Keese 
Colles. 

Children  of  William  Burnet  Kinney  by  his 
luarriage  to  Elizabeth  Clementine  Dodge-Sted- 
man  Kinney :  3.  Elizabeth  Clementine,  mar- 
ried William  Ingraham  Kip,  son  of  Right  Rev. 
William  Ingraham  Kip,  first  bishop  of  the 
missionary  jurisdiction  and  later  of  the  diocese 
of  California  ;  surviving  children  :  i.  Elizabeth 
Clementine  Kip,  married  Guy  L.  Edie,  of  the 
Cnited  States  army  ;  ii.  Lawrence  Kip  ;  iii.  Mary 
Burnet  Kip,  married  Dr.  Ernest  F.  Robinson, 
of  Kansas  City.  4.  Mary  I'urnet,  married 
Nelson  .Starin  Easton,  of  New  York  City ;  sur- 
viving children :  i.  William  Burnet  Easton, 
married  Mittie  Case,  and  resides  in  Strouds- 
burg,  P^ennsylvania ;  ii.  Alexander  Nelson  Eas- 
ton ;  iii.  Laird  Easton ;  iv.  Henry  Clement  Eas- 
ton ;  v.  Mary  Content  Easton. 

(IV)  Thomas  Talmadge  Kinney,  eldest 
child  of  William  Burnet  Kinney  hy  his  first 
wife,  Mary  Chandler,  was  born  in  Newark, 
August  15,  1821,  and  died  there,  December  2, 
1900.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the 
Newark  Academy,  and  was  prepared  for  col- 
lege in  the  classical  school  of  Rev.  William  R. 
Weeks,  D.  D.  In  1841  he  was  graduated  from 
Princeton  I'niversity.  Among  his  classmates 
were  John  Craig  Biddle,  Francis  Preston  Blair, 
Amzi  Dodd,  Theodore  Ledyard  Cuyler,  and 
.Archibald  Alexander  Hodge.  As  a  student 
he  showed  particular  aptitude  for  the  natural 
sciences.  In  his  senior  year  he  served  as  assist- 
ant to  his  professor,  the  distinguished  Dr.  Jo- 
seph Henry,  and  the  intimacy  thus  established 
ripened  into  a  personal  friendship  which  con- 
tinued throughout  life.  After  his  graduation 
he  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Joseph  P. 
Bradley,  who  later  became  an  associate  justice 
of  the  supreme  court  of  the  United  States. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  in 
1844,  but  never  practiced.  L^pon  the  retire- 
ment of  his  father  from  the  editorship  of  the 


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Newark  Daily  Ad'.'crtiscr  in  185 1,  he  succeeded 
as  editor  and  manager.  To  his  work  he  de- 
voted much  energy,  maintaining  the  high  cliar- 
acter  of  the  paper  in  all  respects.  He  especially 
applied  himself  to  the  development  of  facilities 
for  newsgathering,  and  was  an  important 
factor  in  the  original  system  which  culminated 
in  the  comprehensive  organization  known  as 
the  Associated  Press.  In  i860  he  bought  the 
I)roperty  on  the  southeast  corner  of  Market 
and  Broad  streets,  Newark,  which  was  then 
and  still  is  the  business  center  of  the  city. 

Mr.  Kinney  was  the  projector  of  the  New- 
ark Board  of  Trade,  and  was  sent  by  that  body 
as  its  delegate  to  the  convention  which  organ- 
ized the  National  Hoard  of  Trarle  in  Philadel- 
phia. One  of  the  founders  of  the  Society  for 
the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Animals,  he  was 
for  many  years  its  president.  For  a  long  time 
he  was  a  trustee  and  the  active  manager  of  the 
.\sylum  for  the  Indigent  Deaf  and  Dumb  Chil- 
dren of  New  Jersey.  He  was  also  a  member 
of  the  New  Jersey  State  Board  of  Geology, 
and  from  1878  to  1882  was  jM-esident  of  the 
State  Board  of  .Agriculture,  of  which  he  was 
for  many  years  a  member.  In  i860  he  was  one 
of  the  delegates  to  the  Republican  national 
convention  at  Chicago,  actively  supporting  the 
nomination  of  Abraham  Lincoln  for  the  presi- 
dency. He  was  a  director  of  the  National  State 
Bank,  of  Newark,  the  Newark  City  Ice  Com- 
pany, and  the  .Stephens  &  Condit  Transporta- 
tion Com])any,  and  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Newark  Electric  Light  and  Power  Com- 
pany, and  the  Fidelity  Title  and  Deposit  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  was  president  for  many 
years  from  its  organization.  lie  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  hoard  of  Fast  Jersey  projjrietors. 
and  an  hereditary  member  of  the  Society  of 
the  Cincinnati,  .\bout  1895  he  retired  from 
the  management  of  the  Daily  Advertiser.  He 
was  a  staunch  Republican,  and  when  James  G. 
Blaine  was  secretary  of  state  received  the 
offer  of  minister  to  Italy,  which  he  declined. 
Having  always  a  decided  ])reference  for  quiet 
and  un])rctending  pursuits  and  the  life  of  a 
l)rivate  citizen,  he  was  never  a  candidate  for 
public  office.  In  his  personal  character  he  was 
active  and  earnest  in  devotion  to  his  duties 
and  obligations,  possessing  strong  domestic 
affections  and  warm  friendly  attachments,  and 
he  exerted  througlmut  his  life  a  useful  influ- 
ence. 

He  married,  Octoljer  i.  iSr)^.  Fstelle,  daugh- 
ter of  Joel  W.  and  Margaret  (  Harrison)  Con- 
dit. .She  was  ijorn  in  Newark,  and  died  there, 
December  26,  1907.     Her  life  was  marked  by 


keen  interest  and  much  activity,  quietly  exer- 
cised, in  philanthropic  work  in  Newark.  One 
of  the  founders  of  the  Babies'  Hospital  and  it> 
president,  she  was  incessant  in  her  efforts  to 
promote  the  usefulness  of  that  institution.  In 
a  resolution  of  the  board  of  managers  of  the 
hospital  the  following  tribute  was  paid  to  her; 
"Kind,  generous,  and  wise,  her  nature  wa> 
adapted  to  the  good  work,  and  her  great  busi- 
ness cai)acity  made  her  the  best  of  managers 
and  advisers.  The  hospital  is  a  monument  to 
her  goodness  and  wisdom."  The  Newark  Ex- 
change for  Women's  Work  was  established  in 
1881  at  a  meeting  held  in  her  home,  and  she 
was  its  ]jresident  until  her  death.  This  organ- 
ization also  has  placed  on  record  testimony  to 
her  conscientious  and  valuable  services,  in 
which  reference  is  made  to  "her  broad  and 
ready  sympath)  with  all  in  trouble  or  need ; 
her  innumerable  acts  of  charity  and  kindness, 
which  she  with  modest  spirit  made  nothing  of; 
her  genial  spirit,  which  was  an  uplift  to  all 
who  came  in  touch  with  her:  her  many  graces 
of  mind  and  heart."     She  was  descended  from 

I.  John  Condit,  who  came  to  America  in 
1678.  and  with  his  son  Peter  settled  in  New- 
ark, where  he  purchased  lands. 

-'.  I'eter  Condit,  died  1714;  married,  1695, 
Alary,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Ward) 
1  larrison,  and  granildaughter  of  .Sergeant  Rich- 
ard ilarrison,  of  Newark,  and  of  Sergeant 
John  Ward,  of  Newark. 

.V  .'Samuel  ( Dndit,  born  in  Newark.  Decem- 
ber 0.  1696;  about  1720  bought  land  lying  be- 
tween the  Orange  mountains  in  Pleasant  \'al- 
ley:  died  July  18.  1777;  married  (first),  1722, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Martha  Dod. 

4.  Daniel  Condit,  born  December  27,  1723: 
died  .November  II,  1785;  lived  on  projjerty 
which  he  inherited  from  his  father;  in  the  rev- 
(ilntion  was  a  soldier  in  the  l'"irst  Battalion  of 
the  Second  Establishment  of  New  Jersey  Mili- 
tia ;  married  Ruth,  daughter  of  Gershom  and 
Hannah   (Lampson)   Williams. 

5.  Joel  Condit.  born  about  1757:  revolution- 
ary soldier  :  married  Sarah  \\  heeler. 

6.  Joel  W.  Condit,  born  July  2,  1795;  died 
."September  II,  i8()o;  a  ]irominent  merchant  of 
Newark:  married,  February  10,  1823,  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Caleb  and  Keturah  (Crane) 
Harrison,  and  had  issue  as  follows:  Mary  H., 
Charlotte  M.,  Caleb  Harrison,  Margaret,  .Sarah 
Katherine,  Estellc,  .Alice  and  .Alice  again. 

7.  I'"stelle  Condit.  married  Thomas  TaK 
madge  Kinney,  above. 

(  liildren  of  Thomas  Talmadge  and  h'stelle 
I  Condit )  Kinney:     i.  .Marv  Clementine,  born 


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August  12,  1864;  married  William  Campbell 
Clark,  of  Newark ;  children :  i.  Estelle  Camp- 
bell Clark  ;  ii.  Mai  Felicity  Clark.  2.  Margaret 
Coiidit,  born  October  28,  1865;  married,  April 
14,  1904,  Carroll  Phillips  Bassett ;  children:  i. 
Carroll  Kinney  I'.assett ;  ii.  Estelle  Condit  Bas- 
5ett :  iii.  William  Burnet  Kinney  Bassett.  3. 
Estelle  Burnet,  born  July  9,  1868;  marrieil 
Frederick,  son  of  Hon.  Frederick  T.  Freling- 
huysen,  of  Newark ;  children :  i.  Frederick 
Frelinglniysen  ;  ii.  Thomas  Talmadge  Kinney 
j-'relinghuysen  ;  iii.  Theodore  Frelinglniysen  ; 
iv.  ( leorge  Frelinghuysen.  4.  William  Burnet, 
see  below.  5.  Thomas  Talmadge,  born  Octo- 
ber 24.  1S72:  tlied  February  14,  1885. 

(\'j  William  Burnet  Kinney,  fourth  child 
of  Thomas  Talmadge  and  Estelle  (Condit) 
Kinney,  was  born  in  Newark,  April  30,  1871. 
After  completing  his  preparatory  education  he 
entered  Princeton  University  as  a  member  of 
the  class  of  1894.  lie  pursued  legal  studies  in 
the  office  of  McCarter,  W'illiamson  &  Mc- 
Carter,  of  Newark,  and  in  1896  was  admitted 
to  the  New  Jersey  bar.  Mr.  Kinney  resides  in 
Newark,  with  a  summer  home  in  Elberon.  He 
is  a  director  in  the  National  State  Bank,  of 
Newark,  Firemen's  Insurance  Com]>any,  and 
Newark  District  Telegraph  Company,  and  is 
a  manager  of  the  Howard  Savings  Institution. 
As  a  descendant  of  .Abraham  Kinney  (.see 
above),  he  is  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
Chapter  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 

lie  married,  June  8,  1901,  Helen  M.,  daugh- 
ter of  Franklin  Murphy,  who  from  1902  to 
1903  was  governor  of  the  state  of  New  Jersey. 
Children:  i.  Janet,  txirn  .\pril  18,  1902.  2. 
Mai,  September  10,  1903.  3.  Constance,  July 
6.  i()05.    4.  Margaret  Condit.  August  23,  1909. 


Little   appears   to   be 
liOLIJNCSIlFAD     known    of    this    old 

and  highly  resj^ectable 
New  Jersey  family  previous  to  the  arrival  of 
its  .American  ancestor  on  this  side  of  the  .At- 
lantic ocean. 

(  1  )  John  HoUingshead,  the  immigrant,  and 
his  wife  Grace,  came  from  London.  England, 
some  time  during  the  year  1678  and  settled 
first  near  Salem,  removing  thence  in  1682  to 
the  vicinity  of  Rancocoas,  and  from  thence  to 
Burlington  townshi|>,  where  he  died  in  the  latter 
part  f>f  i''>99.  By  his  will  he  nominated  his 
wife  ( Irace  as  executrix.  So  near  as  is  known 
the  children  of  John  and  Grace  HoUingshead 
were  :  i.  William,  see  below.  2.  John,  born  in 
England,  about  i66g;  married,  1693,  Agnes, 
dauglitcr  of  Thomas  Hackney,  and  had  sons 


Thomas,  John  and  William,  and  daughters 
(irace  and  Agnes.  John,  the  father  of  these 
children,  was  an  early  sheriff  of  Burlington 
ct)unty,  and  the  same  office  was  afterward  held 
by  his  son  John. 

(  II  )  William  HoUingshead,  son  of  John  and 
Grace  HoUingshead,  was  born  in  England  and 
came  to  New  Jersey  with  his  parents.  Little  is 
known  of  him  except  that  he  married,  but  the 
name  of  his  wife  and  the  date  of  their  mar- 
riage is  not  known.  Four  of  his  children  are 
mentioned  in  the  will  of  their  grandfather: 
Grace,  Elizabeth,  George  and  Sarah,  but  there 
also  was  a  son  Jonathan  and  probably  other 
children  of  whom  we  have  no  account. 

(JH)  Jonathan,  son  of  William  HoUings- 
head, and  of  whom  nothing  is  known  except 
that  he  married  and  had  children. 

(I\')  Jacob,  son  of  Jonathan  HoUingshead. 
was   born    in    Moorestown,    New  Jersey,   and 

married Lippincott.      Their    children 

were :  .\nthony,  Sarah,  .Ann,  Enoch,  Jacob, 
Hugh  and  Thomas. 

(\' )  Enoch,  son  of  Jacob  and (Lip- 
pincott )  HoUingshead,  was  born  in  Moores- 
town,  and  married  Rebecca  .Austin.  Their 
children  were :     Charles,   Enoch  and  Martha. 

(\'I)  Charles,  son  of  Enoch  and  Rebecca 
(  .Austin  )  HoUingshead.  was  born  in  Moores- 
town, in  1800,  and  died  in  1875.  He  was  en- 
gaged in  farming  all  his  life,  which  was  mostly 
spent  on  the  old  homestead  place.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  He  mar- 
ried Esther,  daughter  of  Job  and  Martha 
Haines.  Their  children  were  :  Charles,  Na- 
than, Elwood.  Martha,  Esther.  Marv  Rebecca 
and  Enoch. 

(\'H)  Dr.  Enoch  HoUingshead.  son  of 
Charles  and  Esther  (Haines)  HoUingshead, 
was  born  in  Medford,  New  Jersey,  in  1844. 
His  literary  education  was  ac(|uired  in  schools 
in  Medford  and  the  Chester  County  Academy 
and  he  studied  medicine  at  the  L'niversity  of 
Pennsylvania,  where  he  graduated  from  the 
medical  department  in  1867.  .After  graduation 
he  began  practice  in  New  Egypt,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  remained  until  1877,  when  he  re- 
moved to  Pemberton,  where  he  has  remained. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  state  and  county  med- 
ical societies  of  New  Jersey,  the  Philadelphia 
Medical  Club,  antl  the  .American  Medical  .Asso- 
ciation. Politically  he  is  a  Democrat,  and  he 
was  born  and  brought  up  in  the  religious  faith 
of  the  Society  of  Friends. 

In  May.  1870,  he  married  Esther  Woodward,' 
born  near  Mount  Holly,  New  Jersey,  daughter 
of  Benajah  and  Rachel  (Buttersworth)  Wood- 


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ward.  Children:  i.  Irving  W.,  born  October 
12,  1871  ;  see  forward.  2.  Mary  I  J.,  born  in 
New  Eg>'pt,  September,  1874:  married  W.  C. 
Hancock,  coal  merchant  of  Philadelphia.  3. 
Lyman  B.,  see  forward.  4.  Charles  Herbert, 
born  P^briiary.  1880:  drowned  September  21, 
1896.     Two  other  children  died  in  infancy. 

(  \  HI )  Dr.  Irving  Woodward  Hoilingshead. 
eldest  child  of  Dr.  Enoch  and  Esther  (Wood- 
ward )  Hoilingshead,  was  born  at  New  Egypt, 
New  Jersey.  October  12,  1871.  and  received 
his  literary  education  in  public  schools  at  Pem- 
berton,  New  Jersey,  the  academy  at  .Mount 
Holly,  and  the  Friends'  Central  School,  Phila- 
delphia, He  afterward  took  a  course  in  biolog>- 
at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  also 
the  regular  course  of  the  medical  department 
of  the  same  institution  and  graduated  AI.  D. 
in  1894.  Since  he  came  to  the  degree  Dr.  Hoi- 
lingshead has  engaged  in  general  medical  prac- 
tice in  Philadel])hia,  He  is  a  member  of  the 
American  Medical  Association,  the  Philadel- 
l)hia  Medical  Society,  and  in  religious  prefer- 
ence never  has  departed  from  the  faith  of  the 
Societv  of  Friends  in  which  he  was  born.  He 
married.  October  15,  1902,  Florence  Bucking- 
ham, of  Worcester,  Massachusetts. 

(VIII)  Dr.  Lyman  B.  Hoilingshead,  son  of 
Dr.  Enoch  and  Esther  (Woodward)  Hoilings- 
head, was  born  in  Pemberton,  .\ew  Jersey, 
June  26,  1876.  He  attended  public  schools  in 
his  native  place  and  in  Mt.  Holly,  and  Swarth- 
more  College,  then  took  up  the  study  of  medi- 
cine at  the  Medico-Chirurgical  College,  Phila- 
delphia, where  he  came  to  the  degree  of  M.  D. 
in  1906.  I'pon  graduation  he  associated  him- 
self in  jjractice  with  his  father.  Dr.  Enoch 
Hoilingshead,  at  Princetun,  and  has  been 
identified  with  him  since.  In  .\ugust,  1908. 
Dr.  Hoilingshead  married  Daisy  H.  E.  Simp- 
son, daughter  of  Samuel  and  Jose])hine  \'an 
Home  Simpson,  of  Mauch  Chunk,  Pennsyl- 
vania. 


Edward  Kcasbey,  founder  ijf 
KI'^ASBl'-V    the    Keasbey    family    in    this 

country,  emigrated  from  Glou- 
cestershire. England,  about  the  year  1694.  and 
settled  in  Salem,  West  New  Jersey.  The  town. 
I'enwick  Settlement,  in  1684  was  called  New 
Salem,  and  the  town  of  Salem  was  incorporated 
in  \(*)-,.  lie  was  then  a  young  man  and  had 
probably  become  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends  before  leaving  England,  and  had  come 
to  this  country  in  order  to  avoid  religious  jierse- 
cution.  Soon  after  his  arrival  we  find  him 
taking  an    active   part    in    the   affair'^   and   t!ie 


religicjus  meetings  of  the  society.  His  subscrip- 
tion towards  the  erection  of  the  brick  Friends' 
meetingiiouse  in  the  graveyard  on  liroadway, 
now  I'.roadway  street,  Salem,  was  £5.  This 
house  was  completed  in  1701.  and  shortly  after- 
wards, I  I  mo.  2'),  1701,  he  married  Elizabeth, 
widow  of  Isaac  Smart,  of  Elsinborough.  daugh- 
ter of  Andrew  and  Elizabeth  (Marsliill) 
Thompson,  who  was  born  near  Dublin.  Ireland. 
October  15,  i6f)f).  His  will  is  dated  .\ugust 
13.  1712,  and  proved  December  24,  1712.  Chil- 
dren :  Mary,  born  May  11,  1703;  Edward,  re- 
ferred to  bel(jw  ;  Matthew,  born  170^);  Sus- 
anna. 

(  II  )  Edward  (2),  son  of  Edward  (i)  and 
Elizabeth  ( Thompson-Smart  j  Keasbey,  was 
born  in  Salem,  New  Jersey,  in  1705.  He  mar- 
ried Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  and  Eliza- 
beth (White)  Bradway.  The  house  built  by  Ed- 
ward liradway,  father  of  William  ISradway,  in 
i('xj].  is  still  standing.  Children:  I-'dward.  re- 
ferred to  below:  Mary:  Bradway. 

(Ill)  lulward  13),  son  of  Edward  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (  Bradway)  Keasbey,  was  born  in 
.Salem,  New  Jersey,  in  1726,  died  in  1779.  Hi.s 
name  was  first  on  the  list  of  patriots  proscribed 
in  the  proclamation  of  March  21,  1778,  after 
the  battle  of  Ouinton's  Bridge,  March  18,  1778. 
I  le  was  a  deputy  from  Salem  tt)  the  provincial 
congress  of  1775,  and  attended  the  session  in 
New  Brunswick  in  October  that  year,  when 
ordinances  were  passed  for  the  organization  of 
the  militia  and  the  is.sue  of  letters  of  credit. 
During  the  revolution  he  was  a  member  of  the 
cduncil  of  safety,  lie  married  (first)  Pru- 
dence, d.iughter  of  Edward  and  Temperance 
I  .Smith  I  (Juinton  ;  (seciind)  Sarah,  sister  of 
his  first  wife  (  for  their  ancestry  see  Quintonj. 
Children,  ten  by  first  wife,  si.x  by  second  wife: 
I.  Edward.  2.  Elizabeth.  3.  Matthew,  born 
1749;  drowned  at  sea.  4.  Sarah.  5.  Lewis, 
born  1752;  married  Sarah  Grinnell.  ().  Phebe. 
7.  Prudence.  8.  Edward  (2).  9.  Samuel.  10. 
AiUhony.  referred  to  below.  11.  Temperance, 
married  Judge  John  .Smith.  12.  Delzin,  mar- 
ried Rachel  Smith.  13.  Jesse,  married  a  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  I'owen  Sr.,  of  Salem.  14. 
Rachel,  married  Leonard  Ciblion.  15.  Keziah. 
i().  Jane. 

il\')  Anthonw  son  ot  l-ldward  and  Pru- 
dence ( (Juintoii )  Keasbey.  was  born  in  1758. 
lie  was  clerk  of  Salem  county,  and  a  member 
of  the  New  Jersey  assembly,  1798-1801.  He 
married,  in  1758,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Jose])h 
and  Rebecca  (  .\bbott  I  Brick,  of  Elsinborough 
(.see  Brick).  Children:  1.  Rebecca,  married 
Ch;ir!es   I  launa.     2.    Prudence,  died   in  middle 


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age:  unmarried.  3.  Matthew,  married  Ann 
Fisher,  of  Woodbury;  chilchen  :  Caroline  and 
Elizabeth,  who  died  unmarried,  and  Quinton. 
Quinton  was  a  senator  from  Salem  county  for 
two  terms.  His  son,  Howard  Buzby  Keasbey, 
is  a  lawyer  living  in  Salem ;  he  is  a  member  of 
the  common  council :  he  is  the  only  man  of  the 
name  of  Keasbey  living  in  Salem,  and  he  lias 
inherited  some  of  the  family  acres.  He  married 
Anne  llassett.  of  Salem,  a  descendant  of  one  of 
the  original  settlers,  William  liassett,  who  came 
to  Salem  county  from  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  in 
iCkji.  4.  Edward  Quinton,  referred  to  below. 
5.  Hannah,  married  Thomas  van  Meter.  6. 
Anthony,  went  south.  7.  Artemisia,  died  un- 
married.    8.  Ann,  married  lames  ^I.  Hanna. 

(  \' )  Edward  Quinton,  son  of  Anthony  and 
Hannah  (  lirick  j  Keasbey.  born  1795,  died 
1847.  ^^  ^^'^s  ^  physician  with  a  large  ])ractice 
a  judge  of  the  common  pleas,  and  one  of  the 
presidential  electors  for  Henry  Clay  in  1844. 
He  married  Mary  Parry,  daughter  of  Gillaem 
Aertsen,  of  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  who 
was  a  resident  of  Philadelphia.  Children;  i. 
Anthony  Quinton,  referred  to  below.  2.  Helen. 
3.  .Vnnie  Artemisia  Aertsen.  married  Wheeler 
H.  Peckham.  of  New  York.  4.  Edward  Keas- 
bey, married  (first)  Anna  Griffith,  (second) 
Louise  Pothier,  (third)  Sara  Steele.  His  chil- 
dren by  first  wife:  Henry  Griffith,  of  East- 
bourne, England:  Mary  Parry,  wife  of  Fran- 
cis .\.  Hardy,  of  Evanston,  Illinois ;  Robert 
Aertsen,  of  Montclair,  New  Jersey.  Child  of 
Edward  Keasbey  by  second  wife;  William  P., 
of  California. 

(  \'I  )  Anthony  Quinton,  son  of  Dr.  Edward 
Quinton  and  Mary  Parry  (.\ertsen)  Keasbey, 
was  born  in  Salem,  New  Jersey,  March  i, 
1826,  died  in  Rome,  Italy,  April  4,  1895.  After 
receiving  a  preliminary  education  in  Salem  he 
was  graduated  from  Yale  Ct)llege  in  1843,  ''"'' 
then  entered  the  office  of  Francis  Law  Mac- 
culloch.  Esq..  in  Salem,  son  of  George  P.  Mac- 
culloch,  of  Morristown  (see  Miller  family). 
Subse(|uently  he  went  to  Newark  and  continued 
his  studies  with  Cortlandt  Parker,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  New  Jersey  bar  in  October,  1846. 
He  then  returned  to  Salem,  where  he  practiced 
his  profession  until  after  the  death  of  his  wife 
in  1852,  when  he  removed  to  Newark,  where 
three  years  later  he  formed  a  partnership  (the 
first  law  partnership  in  New  Jersey  under  the 
act  of  1852)  with  Cortlandt  Parker,  which 
continued  until  1876,  when  it  was  dissolved  in 
order  that  Mr.  Parker  might  associate  him- 
self with  his  son,  Richard  Wayne  Parker,  and 
Mr.  Keasbev.  with  his  two  sons,  Edward  Quin- 


tmi  and  George  M.,  under  the  firm  name  of 
.\.  Q.  Keasljey  &  Sons.  Mr.  Keasbey  devoted 
himself  with  great  energy  to  the  practice  of  his 
profession,  acquiring  soon  a  good  clientele  in 
Essex  county,  while  still  engaged  in  some  im- 
portant cases  in  Cape  May,  including  the  insur- 
ance cases  that  arose  out  of  the  burning  of  the 
.Mount  N'ernon  Hotel.  It  was  there  that  he 
invoked  fur  the  first  time  the  jurisdiction  of 
the  United  States  court  in  which  he  was  after- 
wards so  jirominent  a  figure.  This  was  in 
iS.^().  when  the  state  of  New  Jersey  was  with- 
out a  chancellor,  and  in  order  to  obtain  an  in- 
junction Mr.  Keasbey  went  to  the  Long  Island 
coast  in  search  of  Judge  Dickerson,  whom  he 
finally  found  in  a  fishing  boat  in  Jamaica  Bay. 
In  .\i)ril,  1861,  he  received  from  President 
Lincoln  the  appointment  of  United  States  at- 
torney for  the  district  of  New  Jersey,  and  was 
reappointed  in  1865.  It  was  discovered,  how- 
ever, after  the  death  of  Mr.  Lincoln,  that  the 
commission  had  not  been  signed  by  him,  and 
Mr.  Keasbey  was  therefore  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Johnson  until  the  following  session  of 
the  senate,  when  in  1866  he  was  regularly  com- 
missioned for  another  term  of  four  years.  In 
1870  he  was  reappointed  by  President  Grant 
and  again  in  1874-78,  thus  holding  the  office 
continuously  for  twenty-five  years,  during 
which  time  he  performed  distinguished  serv- 
ice and  dealt  with  many  very  important  cases. 
During  the  civil  war  a  great  deal  of  his  work 
had  reference  to  persons  who  were  suspected 
of  giving  aid  and  comfort  to  the  enemy  in  his 
own  state  and  town,  and  also  to  the  enlistment 
of  st)ldiers  for  the  war.  Once,  having  prose- 
cuted a  man  who  attempted  to  abduct  a  young 
volunteer  from  Massachusetts,  he  received  a 
letter  of  commendation  from  Governor  An- 
drew, lie  al.so  took  an  active  and  efficient 
part  in  the  suppression  of  great  frauds  con- 
nected with  the  United  States  revenue,  being 
associated  in  this  with  the  I'ederal  officials  in 
Washington  and  with  the  district  attorneys  of 
several  states.  One  of  the  most  important 
cases  with  which  he  was  connected  in  his  offi- 
cial ca])acity  was  the  prosecution  which  re- 
sulted from  the  discovery  of  a  conspiracy  to 
defraud  the  L'nited  States  government  of  a 
legacy  of  $1,000,000  be(|ueathed  by  Joseph  L. 
Lewis,  an  eccentric  miser  of  Hoboken,  who 
directed  that  it  be  apjjlied  towards  the  pay- 
ment of  the  national  debt. 

Mr.  Keasbey  was  all  his  life  in  active  prac- 
tice as  attorney  and  counsel,  and  was  one  of 
the  recognized  leaders  of  the  bar  of  New 
jersev,  possessing  a  national  reputation.     Re- 


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sides  his  official  wtjik  as  L'liiteil  States  attorney 
he  had  a  large  general  practice  and  was  inti- 
mately connected  with  many  financial  institu- 
tions.    I'rom  icSTiS  to  1876  he  was  counsel  for 
the  .Mutual  Life  Insurance  Companj-  in  New 
Jersey,  and  e.xaminer  of  applications  for  loans 
and   of   the   titles  to  lands   in   Essex,   Union, 
Middlese.x  and  Monmouth  counties.     He  pos- 
sessed great  ability  as  a  trial  lawyer,  and  was 
especially  noted  for  his  skill  in  the  cross  exam- 
ination of  witnesses.     He  had  a  remarkable 
faculty  of  clear  statement,  and  his  gentle  man- 
ner enhanced  to  a  great  degree  his  power  of 
vigorous  deiuniciation  and  passionate  invective 
against  fraud  and  wrong.     He  was  engaged  in 
many  arguments  in  the  court  of  chancery  and 
in  the  New  Jersey  supreme  court  and  court  of 
errors.     He  also  had  a  large  practice  in  patent 
causes,  and  his  great  familiarity  with  the  prin- 
ciples   of    ecjuity,    combined    with    an    intense 
interest  in  new  inventions  and  discoveries,  gave 
him  many  advantages.     He  also  took  a  keen 
interest  in  all  |niblic  affairs.     .\s  a  young  man 
he  was  active  in  the  organization  of  the  Repub- 
lican party,  and  was  efficient  and  prominent  in 
its  affairs  in  city  and  state  throughout  his  life, 
becoming  distinguished  as  a  public  speaker  and 
an   able   advocate.      He   also   promoted   many 
plans    for   the   improvement   of   Newark,   and 
took  ])art  in  the  building  up  of  the  street  rail- 
way system,  being  one  of  the  leaders  in  carry- 
ing out  the  plan  whereby  the  different  lines 
were  consolidated  and  equipped  for  operation 
by  electricity.  He  was  one  of  the  incorporators 
of  the  Howard  Savings  Institution,  and  served 
for  nearly  forty  years  on  the  board  of  man- 
agers.    He  was  also  one  of  the   founders  of 
St.   Barnabas   Hospital,  and    from    1867  until 
his  death   one  of  its  managers.     He  was  a 
charter  member  of  the  Essex  Club,  and  served 
for  many  years  on  the  board  of  governors. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  His- 
torical Society,  and  contributed  some  important 
))a])ers  to  its  records,  notably  his  address  on 
the  lives  of  Judges  Meld  and  .Xixon,  a  paper 
on  the  bi-centennial  of  the  jiurchase  of  East 
Jer.sey,  and  another  published  after  his  death, 
on  slavery  in  New  Jersey.     His  opinions  on 
political  afTairs  and  legal  tjuestions  of  public 
interest  were  fre(|ueutly  ])ublished  as  editorials 
in  the  Xcwark  and  New  York  City  papers.  His 
reading  was  very  extensive  and  varied,  and  he 
was  familiar  not  only  with  the  best  literature 
of  the  past  but  also  with  the  latest  writings  of 
the  authors  of  his  day.    A  few  years  before  his 
death  he  built  a  country  house  in  Alorristown. 
and  in  the  latter  part  of  1894  made  it  his  home. 


In  the  spring  of  1895  he  went  to  Italy  with 
his  daughters  for  a  short  vacation,  was  taken 
suddenly  ill.  and  on  the  4th  of  April  he  died 
in  Rome.  The  following  estimate  of  his  char- 
acter was  given  in  the  Newark  Daily  Adver- 
tiser at  the  time  of  his  death  : 

"Mr.  Keasbey  was,  in  a  multitude  of  re- 
spects, one  of  the  most  eminent  men  of  the 
state.  In  learning,  in  culture,  in  refinement, 
in  the  profundity  of  his  legal  knowledge,  in 
the  sagacity  of  his  business  judgment,  in  the 
clarity  of  his  intellectual  ojjinions,  in  his  ap- 
preciation of  the  true,  the  beautiful  and  the 
good,  in  the  warmth  of  his  social  life  and  the 
intensity  of  his  friendship,  he  was  a  remark- 
able and  distinguished  man.  Few  men  in  our 
state  have  the  wide  range  and  sweep  that 
marked  Mr.  Keasbey's  intellectual  equipment. 
He  could  have  shone  on  many  fields  of  en- 
deavor, but  he  chose  the  law^  in  which  he 
achieved  so  many  and  so  brilliant  triumphs. 
In  the  world  of  letters,  had  he  chosen  to  walk 
in  that  field,  he  would  have  made  a  high  name 
and  fame  for  himself,  so  rich  was  his  power 
of  expression,  so  well  stored  his  mind,  so  wide 
his  grasp  of  essential  things.  Even  in  his  busy 
career  he  found  time  to  write  much,  and  in 
everything  he  wrote  there  was  a  fineness  of 
expression,  a  delicacy  of  touch,  a  force,  vigor 
and  charm  which  disclosed  the  true  man.  Of 
his  private  and  personal  life  this  is  not  the 
time  or  place  to  speak.  His  wide  circle  of 
friends  feel  too  keenly  the  sad  blow  of  his 
death,  to  give  any  definite  form  or  expression 
to  the  sense  of  their  profound  loss.  He  was 
the  most  genial  of  companions,  the  most  de- 
voted of  friends,  most  affectionate  in  all  the 
sacred  and  beautiful  relations  of  his  home. 
Time  cannot  diminish  the  intensity  of  the  loss 
created  by  his  death,  nor  will  it  efface  the 
recollection  of  his  distinguished  career  as  a 
lawyer,  jurist,  author  and  citizen,  nor  the 
memory  of  his  rare  qualities  as  a  friend,  coun- 
selor, companion  and  father.  Death  came  too 
soon  for  Mr.  Keasbey,  but  none  the  less  it 
found  him  prepared  and  in  that  beautiful  atti- 
tude of  readiness  which  he  loved  to  describe  in 
his  favorite  poem.  Emerson's  "Terminus' :" 

'•  A.*;  the  bird   triiti.s  her   to  the  gale, 
I   trim   myself   to   the   .storm  of   time, 
I   man   the   rudder,   reef  and   sail. 
Obey  the  voice  at  eve,  obeyed  at  prime; 
I.,owIy  faithful,   banish   fear. 
Filght    onward    drive    unharmed; 
The  port,   well  worth   the  cruise,   Is  near. 
And  every  w.ive  Is  charmed." 

.Mr.  Keasbey  married  (first)   Elizabeth,  sec- 


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ond  child  ami  daughter  of  Jacob  W.  and  Mary 
(McCulloch)  Miller,  of  .Morristown  (see 
Miller).  He  married  (second)  Edwina  Louisa, 
first  child  of  Jacob  W.  and  Mary  (McCulloch) 
Miller,  referred  to  above.  Children,  three  by 
first  wife :  I.  Edward  Quinton.  referred  to  be- 
low. 2.  George  McCulloch,  born  in  Salem,  New 
Jersey,  October  25,  1850;  lawyer  in  Newark; 
married  .\nnie  \\".,  daughter  of  William  M. 
Lewis,  of  Newark.  3.  Elizabeth,  died  1862, 
in  childhood.  4.  Mary  .\ertsen,  died  in  child- 
hood. 5.  Francis  McCulloch,  died  in  infancy. 
(1.  Henry  Miller,  born  January  16,  1859:  vice- 
])resident  of  National  Fire  Proofing  Company, 
of  Pittsburgh  and  New  York;  married,  April 
18,  1883,  Charlotte  Condit  Lewis.  7.  Rowland 
P.,  Ixirn  September  8,  1861  ;  treasurer  of  Na- 
tional Fire  Proofing  Company  ;  married  Minna, 
daughter  of  Edward  H.  and  Dora  (Mason) 
Wright,  of  Newark.  8.  Francis  H.  9.  Louisa 
Edwina.  10.  Lindley  Miller,  born  in  New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  February  24,  1867;  professor 
of  political  economy  in  L'niversity  of  Texas ; 
married,  June  8,  1892,  Cornelia  Simrall,  of 
Louisville,  Kentucky.  11.  Frederick  Wmston, 
born  January  29,  1870:  publisher  of  the  Cor- 
poration Manual  in  New  York  :  married  Mary 
Welsh,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  H.  Vibbert, 
of  New  York  ;  one  child — Julia  Newbold  Keas- 
bey. 

(\I1)  Edward  Ouinton  Keasbey,  son  of 
Hon.  .\nthony  Ouinton  and  Elizabeth  (Miller) 
Keasbey,  was  born  in  Salem,  New  Jersey,  July 
27,  1849,  3nd  is  now  living  in  ^Iorristown, 
Xew  Jersey.  He  early  attended  the  private 
school  of  Rev.  Julius  H.  Rose,  in  Newark,  and 
was  ])re]iared  for  college  at  the  Newark  Acad- 
emy. .\fter  taking  the  freshman  year  in  Co- 
lumbia College  he  entered  Princeton  College, 
from  which  he  w-as  graduated  with  first  honors 
in  1869.  He  received  the  degree  of  A.  M.  in 
1872,  and  delivered  the  master's  oration.  He 
began  the  stu<ly  of  law  in  the  office  of  Parker 
i'<:  Keasbey  immediately  after  leaving  college 
in  1869,  entered  Harvard  Law  School  the  fol- 
lowing year,  in  1871  received  the  degree  of 
LL.  P).,  and  remained  in  the  school  under  Pro- 
fessor Langdell  until  June,  1872.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  attorney  at  the 
June  term  that  year,  and  immediately  entered 
upon  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Newark. 
In  1875  he  received  liis  license  as  counsellor. 
On  the  dissolution  of  the  firm  of  Parker  & 
Keasbey,  in  March,  1876,  he  joined  with  his 
father  and  his  brother,  George  M.  Keasbey, 
in  forming  the  firm  of  A.  O.  Keasbey  &  Sons, 
and   this    firm   style   was   preserved   after   the 


death  of  the  father  (April  4,  1895)  and  until 
1904,  when  it  was  changed  to  Edward  Q.  & 
George  M.  Keasbey.  He  is  a  supreme  court 
commissioner  and  a  special  master  in  chancery 
and  served  as  a  L'nited  States  commissioner 
for  many  years. 

Mr.  Keasbey  has  had  an  extensive  and  varied 
practice  in  his  office  and  in  the  state  and  Fed- 
eral courts.  A  careful  student  of  the  law,  he 
is  thorough  in  the  preparation  of  his  briefs 
on  legal  (|uestions,  and,  with  the  faculty  of 
clear  statement  and  logical  argument,  is  espe- 
cially effective  in  the  presentation  of  legal  ques- 
tions in  the  appellate  courts,  anil  has  made 
some  notable  arguments  in  important  cases 
both  at  law  and  in  equity.  He  took  part  in 
the  argument  before  the  court  of  errors  in  the 
case  involving  the  constitutionality  of  the 
statute  providing  for  assembly  districts,  in 
which  it  was  held,  as  he  insisted,  that  the  statute 
was  unconstitutional.  He  has  had  experience 
in  i)atent  litigation,  and  has  argued  cases  of 
this  character  in  the  United  States  supreme 
court  and  the  United  States  circuit  court  of 
ap]ieals.  In  all  his  career  he  has  held  the  high- 
est standards  of  both  personal  and  professional 
conduct,  and  his  record  is  absolutely  untainted. 

Mr.  Keasbey  is  recognized  as  a  forceful  and 
industrious  author  along  jirofessional  lines, 
and  his  writings  have  enjoyed  wide  and  favor- 
able publicity.  It  was  in  the  line  of  his  pro- 
fessional studies  that  he  edited  and  wrote  for 
the  .VrTi'  Jersey  Lau'  Journal  from  1879  to 
1898.  He  has  contributed  articles  on  legal 
topics  to  the  Han'ard  Laze  Rez'icw,  the  Colum- 
bia Laze  Reineze,  and  the  Vale  Laze  Journal. 
He  delivered  an  address  before  the  American 
liar  .\ssociation  at  liufTalo  in  1899,  on  "New 
Jersey  and  the  Great  Corporations,"  which 
was  published  in  the  Harz'ard  Laze  Rcz'icze 
and  also  in  pamphlet  form.  He  wrote  a  sketch 
(if  the  life  and  judicial  decisions  of  Chancellor 
Henry  W.  Green  for  a  volume  of  biographies 
of  "(ireat  ludges  and  Lawyers  in  the  United 
-States."  He  is  the  author  of  a  law  book  en- 
titled "Electric  Wires  in  Streets  and  High- 
ways," published  by  Callaghan  &  Company  in 
1892,  and  again  in  an  enlarged  edition  in  1900. 
He  has  been  since  1888  the  editor  of  a  monthly 
paper.  The  Hospital  Rez'icze,  published  for  the 
ijenefit  of  the  Hospital  of  St.  Barnabas,  in 
Newark,  and  his  writings  in  this  have  covered 
a  variety  of  subjects. 

.Mr.  Keasbey  was  a  member  of  the  state 
legislature  from  Essex  county,  1883-85,  and 
took  a  [irominent  part  in  the  legislation  of  his 
secontl  term,  when  the  Republican  party  was 


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in  control.  He  is  the  counsel  in  New  Jersey 
and  a  director  of  the  North  .\merican  Com- 
pany, the  lialtimore  &  Ohio  Railway  system, 
and  many  other  important  corporations.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
Hospital  of  St.  Barnabas,  and  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Episcopal  Fund  of  the  Diocese 
of  Newark:  a  member  of  the  board  of  man- 
agers of  the  Howard  Savings  Institution  of 
Newark,  and  a  vestryman  of  St.  Peter's  Church, 
Morristown.  He  is  a  charter  inember  of  the 
Essex  Club,  and  a  member  of  the  Morristown 
Club,  the  Morris  County  Golf  Club,  the  Har- 
vard Club  of  New  York,  the  Princeton  Club 
of  Newark,  the  Harvard  Chib  of  New  Jersey, 
the  Lawyers'  Club  of  Essex  County,  the  Amer- 
ican liar  .Association,  and  the  New  Jersey  State 
I'ar  Association. 

Mr.  Keasbey  married,  in  Grace  Church, 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  October  22,  1885,  Eliza 
Gray,  daughter  of  Henry  Gray  and  Anne  Mc- 
Kenzic  (Drake)   Darcy  (see  Darcy). 

(The    Quinton    Line). 

Tobias  (Juinton,  founder  of  the  family  in 
West  Jersey,  emigrated  from  England  and 
purchased  land  on  the  south  side  of  AUoway's 
creek,  where  the  village  of  Quinton  is  now 
located.  He  died  between  October  16  and  De- 
cember i().  1700,  leaving  his  wife  Elizabeth 
sole  heiress  and  e.xecutri.x  of  his  real  and  ])er- 
sonal  estate,  which  was  to  be  divided  among 
his  children  after  her  death. 

(]1)  Ivlward,  son  of  Tobias  Quinton,  died 
in  175^;:  married  Temperance,  daughter  of 
Daniel  Smith,  of  Salem  county,  who  died  in 
1775.  aged  seventy-five  years. 

(HI)  Prudence,  daugiiter  of  Edward  and 
Temperance  ( Smith )  Quinton.  married  Ed- 
ward (3),  son  of  Edward  (2)  and  Elizabeth 
(  Hradway  )  Keasbey.  referred  to  below. 

(The  Bikk   Line). 

John  I'.rick,  founder  of  the  family  in  Salem 
comity,  emigrated  from  England  to  Fenwick's 
ct)lony  [)revious  to  1680.  and  ])urchased  a  large 
.  tract  of  land  at  (iravelly  Run.  where  the  village 
of  Jericiio  now  stands.  His  children  were 
John,  referred  to  below;  Ji>shua.  Richard  and 
Samuel. 

(  H)  John  (2),  son  of  John  ( i  )  llrick.  died 
I  mo.  23.  1733.  He  inherited  all  his  father's 
real  estate  at  (jravelly  Run.  became  a  conspic- 
uous and  intUiential  person  in  the  colony,  and 
was  for  many  years  one  of  the  judges  of  the 
Salem  court.  When  Cumberland  county  was 
set  (iff  from  .^alem,  it  was  owing  to  his  influ- 


ence that  the  Gravelly  Run  was  made  the  line, 
and  his  property  thrown  into  the  new  county. 
He  married,  in  1729,  Ann,  daughter  of  Abel 
and  Mary  (Tyler)  Nicholson,  of  Elsinborough, 
born  II  mo.  15  d.  1707,  died  in  1878.  Children : 
I.  Mary,  born  2  mo.  10,  1730,  married  Nathan- 
iel Hall.  2.  Elizabeth.  Ixirn  7  mo.  4,  1732. 
married  John  Reeve.  3.  John.  4.  Joseph,  re- 
ferred to  below.  5.  Ann,  born  i  mo.  23,  1738. 
married  Joseph  Clement.  6.  Hannah.  7.  Ruth, 
born  10  mo.  i.  1742.  married  l'>enjamin  Reeve, 
of  Philadelphia.    8.  Jane,  born  i  mo.  10,  1743. 

(HI)  Joseph,  son  of  John  and  Ann  (Nich- 
olson) Brick,  married,  about  1758,  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Foster)  Ab- 
bott, of  Elsinborough,  born  10  mo.  26,  1740. 
(lied  II  mo.  16,  1780.  He  married  (second) 
Martha,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Millicent 
(Wade)  Reeve,  born  9  mo.  29,  1754.  Chil- 
dren, three  by  first  wife:  i.  Ann,  married 
Joseph  Hall.  2.  Hannah,  referred  to  below. 
3.  Samuel,  married  .\nna  Smart.  4.  Joseph, 
born  8  mo.  13,  1785.  married  Fllizabeth  Smith. 
5.  John  Reeve,  married  Elizabeth  Kinsey. 

I  I\')  Hannah,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Re- 
becca (  .Vhhott )  lirick,  married  .\nthony,  son 
of  Edward  (3)  and  Prudence  (Quinton) 
Keasbev.  referred  to  below. 

^The  Darcy  Line). 

John  Darcy,  M.  D.,  was  born  October  11, 
i7()0.  (lied  I-'ebruary  13.  1822.  During  the  rev- 
olution he  was  surgeon's  mate  in  Spencer's 
regiment  of  the  Continental  army,  receiving  his 
a])pointment  January  i,  1777.  He  married 
(  first )  -May  24,  1787,  Phebe.  daughter  of  Sam- 
uel Stevens  and  Sarah  (Wheeler)  Johnes,  and 
granddaughter  of  the  Rev.  Timothy  Johnes, 
D.  1).,  who  was  the  first  pastor  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Morristown.  She  was 
horn  December  2(1,  1767,  died  June  9,  i8(X). 
He  married  (second)  Phebe,  daughter  of  Theo 
j)hilus  Miller,  born  October  25.  1778,  died  X(.> 
veinber  14,  1843.  Children,  seven  by  first  wife 
and  four  by  second  wife:  i.  John  Stevens, 
referred  to  below.  2.  Elizabeth,  born  .April  13, 
i78(;.  died  ( )ctober  2(),  1840;  married  Rev. 
llenrv  I-'ord.  3.  Timothy  Johnes.  born  No- 
vember 25.  i7(>o.  died  May  19.  1878.  4.  Will- 
iam, horn  May  h,  17(^2.  died  i^eptemlx'r  23. 
|8()(;.  3.  .Sarah  Caroline,  born  December  2(>. 
1 7(^3.  died  i^ecember.  1827:  married  Rev.  John 
I'ord.  6.  Edward  .\ugustus,  born  .Ai^ril  13, 
171/),  died  .Ai)ril  25.  1863.  7.  .\lexander.  born 
lune  3.  I7()8.  (lied  December  4.  1817.  8.  Jane 
Maria",  born  May  8.  180S,  died  October  2.  1882; 
married  Philip  C.  .'^cudder.    9.  William  Miller, 


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Ijdin  February  17,  1810.  10.  Eleanor, born  Octo- 
ber 4,  1812,  died  September  20,  1848;  married 
James  H.  Loiinsbury.  11.  Lucy  Ann,  born 
March  24.  1814,  died  August  11.  1844:  mar- 
ried Stephen  H.  Wainwright. 

(II)  John  Stevens,  M.  D..  son  of  Dr.  John 
and  Pliebe  ( Johnes  )  Darcy,  was  born  in  IM orris- 
town,  Xew  Jersey.  February  24,  1788,  and  died 

<  )ctober  22.  1863.  He  lived  in  Xewark,  Xew 
Jersey:  was  at  one  time  L'nited  States  marshal, 
and  was  the  first  president  of  the  Xew  Jersey 
Railroad  and  Transportation  Company,  and 
held  the  office  until  the  formation  of  the  United 
Company.  lie  married  Eliza,  daughter  of 
Jacob  and  Phebe  (Ward)  Gray,  of  Whippany 

(  hildren :  i.  Josephine  M.,  born  September 
I,  1812  :  died  July  ig.  1885  ;  married  Joseph  X. 
Tuttle,  of  Xewark.  2.  Plenry  Gray,  referred 
to  below.  3.  Caroline  S.,  born  January  2,  1817  ; 
married  Jeremiah  C.  tlartlnvaite,  of  Xewark. 

(III)  Henry  (iray,  only  son  of  Dr.  John 
Stevens  and  Eliza  ((.iray)  Darcy,  was  born 
July  17.  1814.  lie  married.  May  25,  1841, 
.\nne  McKenzie,  daughter  of  George  King 
and  Mary  Ailing  (Halsey)  Drake,  justice  of 
the  supreme  court  of  Xew  Jersey,  and  grand- 

<  laughter  of  Colonel  Drake  and  of  Jacob  and 
Jemima  (Cook)  Halsey.  who  was  born  Sep- 
tember 19.  1821. 

(  IV  )  Eliza  Gray,  daughter  of  Henry  Gray 
and  Anne  McKenzie  (  Drake)  Darcy,  was  born 
.April  17,  1849.  -^he  was  married  in  Grace 
Church.  Xewark,  Xew  Jersey.  October  22, 
1885,  to  Hon.  Edward  Quinton,  son  of  Hon. 
Anthony  Ouinton  and  h^lizabeth  (Miller)  Keas- 
bey  (see  Keasbey). 

Judge  foseph  Thompson, 
THOMPSON  of  Atlantic  City,  New  Jer- 
sey, descends  on  the  mater- 
nal side  from  an  ancient  and  honorable  family, 
celebrated  in  the  annals  of  Xew  Jersey  for  the 
famous  men  it  has  furnished  the  public  serv- 
ice. Two  of  the  Pennington  family,  father  and 
son.  have  been  governors  of  the  state.  Xa- 
than  Pennington,  great-grandfather  of  Judge 
rhom])son.  was  a  revolutionary  soldier  serving 
from  Xew  Jersey.  Hester  Taylor  Pennington. 
his  mother,  was  a  daughter  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth (Taylor)  Pennington,  of  Mays  Landing, 
.Xew  Jersey.  John  was  a  son  of  Nathan  (the 
rev(>lutiiinary  siildier)  and  Margaret  ( West- 
cot  t )  Pennington.  Nathan,  son  of  Judah  Penn- 
ington, was  born  at  Dutch  Farms,  near  New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  in  1758,  and  died  in  Newark, 
in  1810.  When  but  nineteen  years  of  age  he 
eidisted  in  the  revolutionarv  army.     He  was  a 


private  of  Cajitain  Lyon"s  company.  Second 
Essex  County  Xew  Jersey  Militia,  also  was  in 
Captain  Craig's  company.  Hay's  Battalion.  He 
was  taken  prismier  and  sent  to  Quebec,  where 
he  suffered  great  hardships  but  finally  escaped 
and  returned  to  his  home.  He  was  also  in 
service  during  the  'AMiiskey  Insurrection"  in 
Pennsylvania.  He  married  Margaret  West- 
cott  and  had  issue. 

John,  son  of  Xathan  and  Margaret  ( West- 
cott)  Pennington,  married  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Taylor.  John  settled  in  South 
Jersey,  at  Mays  Landing,  .\tlantic  county.  He 
reared  a  large  family:  i.  INIary  San  ford,  born 
September  24,  1813.  2.  Ann,  August  26,  1815. 
3.  William,  July  7,  1818.  4.  Margaret,  August 
19,  1820.  5.  John,  August  22,  1823.  6.  Hester 
Taylor,  see  forward.  7.  Elizabeth,  Xoveinber 
25.  1827.  8.  Anderson,  October  12,  1830.  9. 
Lewis  Walker,  born  October  15,  1833.  10. 
Sarah,  born  March  2/.  1836. 

Judge  Thompson  is  a  great-grandson  of  Elias 
Thompson,  of  Ijordentown,  Xew  Jersey,  and 
a  grandson  of  Jose])h  Thompson,  born  Febru- 
ary 25,  1802;  died  1888,  who  married.  July  11, 
1826,  Eliza,  daughter  of  John  Scott,  of  Bur- 
lington, Xew  Jersey.  Joseph  and  Eliza  (Scott) 
Thompson  had  one  child — William  Wright 
Thompson,  born  June  2^.  1830:  died  Decem- 
ber 2.  1865.  He  married.  January  I,  1851, 
Hester  Taylor  Pennington,  born  (Jctober  31, 
1825,  fourth  daughter  and  sixth  child  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  (Taylor)  Pennington,  of  Mays 
Landing,  Xew  Jersey.  William  Wright  and 
Hester  Taylor  (Pennington)  Thompson  were 
the  jiarents  of:  I.  Hannah,  born  Xovember 
28.  1831  :  died  in  1881.  2.  Jose])h,  see  forward. 
3.  Eliza  Scott,  born  .August  15,  i860.  She  was 
a  charter  member  of  General  Lafayette  Chap- 
ter. Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution,  of 
.Atlantic  City,  and  has  served  as  treasurer  since 
the  organization  of  the  chapter.  4.  William, 
died  in  infancy. 

Hon.  Jose])h  Thompson,  son  of  William 
Wright  and  Hester  Taylor  (Pennington) 
Thompson,  was  born  at  Mays  Landing,  Xew 
Jersey.  September  21,  1853.  He  was  educated 
in  the  schools  of  Mays  Landing.  He  began  the 
stud}'  of  law  in  the  office  of  Alden  C.  Scovil. 
of  Camden,  and  afterward  in  the  office  of 
William  Moore.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Xew 
lersev  bar  as  an  attorney  in  January,  1878, 
and  in  1880  removed  to  .Atlantic  City,  Xew 
Jersey,  and  began  the  ])ractice  of  his  pro- 
fession. In  1883  he  was  admitted  a  counselor 
at  the  Xew  Jersey  bar.  From  1 881  to  1883  he 
was   tax  collector  of   Atlantic  Citv.  and  then 


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began  the  active  political  and  professional 
career  that  carried  him  to  the  top  rank  of  his 
profession  and  to  important  public  positions  of 
honor  and  trust.  Judge  Thompson  is  a  Demo- 
crat of  the  old  school,  and  his  jiolitical  prefer- 
ment has  come  through  that  party,  although  he 
has  numberless  friends  in  the  opposite  party. 
For  ten  years  he  was  prosecutor  of  pleas  for 
.\t!antic  county,  serving  from  March,  1881,  to 
March,  1891.  In  April.  1892,  he  was  appoint- 
ed law  judge  of  Atlantic  county  by  Governor 
Werts,  serving  until  1898.  On  March  9,  1898. 
he  was  electetl  mayor  of  Atlantic  City.  In 
1880  he  was  appointed  by  the  board  of  chosen 
freeholders  as  solicitor  of  .Atlantic  county,  and 
served  for  twenty-five  years,  till  1905.  On 
January  25,  1898,  he  was  nominated  by  Gov- 
ernor Griggs  one  of  the  managers  of  the  New 
Jersey  State  Insane  Hospital,  to  fill  a  vacancy 
caused  by  the  death  of  Dr.  Joseph  F.  Edwards, 
and  was  confirmed  by  the  senate  on  the  31st 
of  the  same  month.  In  July,  1898,  he  was  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  state  board  of  ta.xa- 
tion  to  fill  a  vacancy,  and  in  1899  was  nomi- 
nated and  confirmed  for  the  full  term  of  five 
years.  In  all  these  offices  Judge  Thompson 
has  served  with  a  fidelity  and  zeal  that  has 
rendered  him  a  notable  figure  in  the  public  life 
of  the  state.  Mis  life  has  been  a  full  one,  for 
many  <>f  these  ])ositions  were  concurrent,  and 
in  addition  he  has  been  active  in  the  business 
affairs  of  his  city.  He  was  one  of  the  organ- 
izers of  the  Second  National  Bank,  of  Atlantic 
City,  and  of  the  Atlantic  Safe  Deposit  and 
Trust  Company,  and  served  as  director  and 
solicitor  of  both  institutions  since  their  organ- 
ization. For  the  past  twelve  years  he  has  been 
solicitor  for  the  Atlantic  City  Rail  Road.  Cor- 
poration law  is  a  specialty  with  Judge  Thomp- 
son, and  he  is  regarded  as  very  high  authority. 
He  is  president  of  the  South  Jersey  Title  and 
Finance  Company,  and  vice-president  and  a 
director  of  the  Ilammonton  New  Jersey  Trust 
Com])any.  I  le  is  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
State  and  of  the  .\tlanlic  County  Bar  Asso- 
ciations. His  fraternal  affiliation  is  Ma.sonic, 
belonging  to  Trinity  Lodge,  I'",  and  A.  M.,  and 
Trinity  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  both  of  Atlantic 
City.  His  church  membership  is  with  the 
Presbyterian  congregation  of  Atlantic  City. 
He  is  an  enthusiastic  yachtsman,  and  is  com- 
modore of  the  \'entnor  \'acht  Club.  His  social 
club  is  the  .\tlantic  City  Country  Club. 

Judge  Joseph  Thompson  married.  May  10, 
1877,  Isal'clla  I-ouisa  I'hilliiis,  daughter  of  Dr. 
W.  \V.  I..  Phillips,  of  Trenton,  New  Jersey. 
Children:     William  Phillijis.  born  1880;  John 


McKelevay.   born    1882;    .Alexander    Penning- 
ton, born  1884.  The  last  named  died  in  infancy. 

(The  Scott   Line). 

Benjamin  Scott,  son  of  William  Scott,  of 
Essex  county,  England,  was  progenitor  of  the 
family  in  New  Jersey.  He  was  one  of  nine 
commissioners  sent  by  the  proprietors  from 
London  in  1677  with  power  to  buy  lands  from 
the  natives.  They  procured  the  services  of 
Henrie  Jacobson  Falcombe  as  an  interpreter, 
anil  by  his  assistance  purchased  land  from 
Rankokus  creek  to  Timber  creek,  deed  bear- 
ing date  September  10,  1677;  from  Timber 
creek  to  C)ldman's  creek,  date  September  27, 
1077  ;  from  Rankokus  creek  to  Assanpink  creek, 
date  October  10,  1677.  Benjamin  Scott's  land 
was  located  both  sides  of  Assanpink  creek. 
The  homestead  farm  near  Burlington  is  now 
owned  by  Joseph  Scott,  one  of  his  descendants. 
I'cnjamin  Scott  died  near  what  is  now  Bur- 
lington, 1682. 

(II)  Henry,  son  of  Benjamin  Scott,  born 
1664:  died  1714;  married,  1698,  .Ann  Wright, 
and  among  their  children  was  a  son  Henry. 

(HI)  Henry  (2),  son  of  Henry  (i)  and 
.\nn  (Wright)  Scott,  born  1703;  died  1763. 
IK-  married,  1728,  Jane  Hancock,  and  among 
their  children  was  a  son  Joseph. 

( I\  j  Joseph,  son  of  Henry  (2)  and  Jane 
(Hancock)  Scott,  born  1739;  died  1794.  He 
married,  1770,  Hannah  Hancock,  and  among 
their  children  was  a  son  John. 

(  \')  John,  son  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Han- 
cock )  Scott,  born  1778;  died  1854.  He  mar- 
ried, 1798.  Hannah,  born  1780,  died  1854, 
daughter  of  Noah  and  Margaret  (Haines) 
l-'ldridge.  and  among  their  children  was  a 
daughter  Eliza. 

(\'])  Eliza,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah 
I  Eldridge)  Scott,  born  C)ctober  7,  1799;  died 
December  28,  1888.  Married,  July  11,  1826, 
Joseph  Thcimpson,  born  b'ebruary  25,  1802, 
died  .August  29.  1881,  and  among  their  chil- 
dren was  a  son  William  W. 

(  \'l  1  )  William  \\'.,  son  of  Joseph  and  Eliza 
(Scott)  'rhom]json,  born  June  23,  1830;  died 
December  2,  1865.  Married,  January  i,  1851, 
Hester,  born  October  31,  1825,  living  at  the 
|jresent  time  (loio).  daughter  of  John  and 
i'"lizabeth  (Taylor)  Pennington.  Children:  i. 
1  laniiah  T..  born  November  28,  1 85 1  ;  married, 
September  20,  1872,  William  Moore  Jr.;  chil- 
dren: i.  .Minnie,  born  Se])tember  16,  1873;  '•• 
Charles  Sumner,  born  January  27,  1875;  iii. 
Helen  .Sujiplee,  born  August  19,  1877,  married, 
.April  3.  1905,  Erwin  E.  Lanpher.     2.  Joseph, 


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born  September  21,  1853;  married  Isabella  L. 
Phillips,  daughter  of  Dr.  W.  W.  L.  and  Mar- 
garet ( j\IcKel\va\- )  Phillips  ;  children  :  i.  W'ill- 
iam  Phillips,  born  Xovemljer  11.  1879.  married, 
June  2.  1908,  Addine  De  Forest  Smith,  child — 
William  Jr.,  born  February  17,  1910;  ii.  John 
McKehvay.  born  December  20.  1881.  married. 
.March  14,  1907,  Lillian  M.  Young,  child — 
Joseph,  born  February  12,  1909;  iii.  .Alexander 
Pennington,  born  (October  18.  1885,  died  March 
28.  1888.     3.  Eliza  Scott. 


(For   ancestry   see   pp.   1-11). 

(I\" )  John  Freling- 
FRFLIXGHL'VSEX  huysen".  eldest  son  of 
(ieneral  Frederick 
and  ( iertrude  (  Schenck  )  Frelinghuysen.  was 
liorn  near  Millstone,  Zilarch  21,  1776,  and  died 
April  10,  1833.  After  receiving  a  good  prepara- 
tory education  he  graduated  from  Queens  Col- 
lege in  1792,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jer- 
sey bar  in  1797.  He  purchased  the  ancestral 
estate  in  Somerville,  in  1801.  antl  in  1803  return- 
ed to  Millstone,  after  his  father's  death.  In  1810 
he  was  again  living  in  Somerville.  He  was  an 
able  and  successful  lawyer,  a  prominent  poli- 
tician of  much  influence,  and  was  frequently 
cliosen  as  executor  of  estates.  From  1809  to 
1816  he  represented  Somerset  county  in  the 
state  council,  and  was  surrogate  from  1818  to 
1832.  "He  had  a  (juick  eye  and  a  clear  head,  a 
rapid  decision,  a  sound  judgment,  a  strong  will, 
and  invincible  courage.'"  He  married  (first) 
in  1797,  Louisa,  daughter  of  Archibald  and 
-Mary  (Schenck)  Mercer  (see  Mercer j,  who 
<lied  in  1809.  Children :  A  son,  who  died 
young :  Frederick,  died  at  two  years  of  age ; 
Mary  .\nn.  married  Henry  \'anderveer,  M.  D. ; 
( iertrude.  married  David  Magee.  November 
13.  181 1,  he  married  (second)  Elizabeth  Mer- 
cereau.  daughter  of  Michael  \  an  \'echten, 
born  December  11,  1790,  died  June  4,  1867. 
Children:  Theodore,  born  March  11,  1814, 
(lied  unmarried ;  Elizabeth  LaGrange,  married 
Henry  B.  Kennedy,  and  had  six  children  ;  Fred- 
erick John,  referred  to  below:  Louisa  Mercer, 
married  Talbot  W.  Chambers :  Sarah ;  Cath- 
arine ;  Sophia. 

(Y)    Frederick  John,  third  child  and  second 

I  .son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Mercereau  (\'an 
\'echten )  Frelinghuysen,  was  born  at  Somer- 
ville. New  Jersey,  October  12,  1818,  and  died 
at  Raritan,  New  Jersey,  May  5.  1891.    He  was 

I  educated  at  Somerville  and  Rutgers  College, 
and  his  legal  studies  were  pursued  under  the 
guidance  of  Hon.  Stockton  Field.  He  was 
licensed  as  an  attorney  and  practiced  at  Som- 


erville. He  was  count}'  sui)erintendent  of 
schools  from  1867  to  1873,  and  surrogate  from 
1873  to  1878.  He  was  interested  in  organized 
religious  work,  and  from  August  15,  1849, 
until  his  death,  was  secretary  of  the  Somerset 
County  Bible  Society.  For  many  years  he  was 
an  elder  in  the  Third  Reformed  Church,  of 
Raritan.  and  superintendent  of  its  Sunday 
school.  December  2y,  1855,  Mr.  Frelinghuy- 
sen married  \'ictoria  Bowen,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Joseph  and  Charlotte  (Ely)  Sherman, 
children :  Charlotte  Sherman,  married  Co- 
ventry Southwick;  John,  born  September  17, 
1858;  Elizabeth,  died  young;  Theodore,  died 
young:  Joseph  Sherman,  referred  to  below: 
Clarence,  died  young. 

(\T)  Joseph  Sherman,  fifth  child  and  third 
son  of  Frederick  John  and  Mctoria  Bowen 
(  Sherman )  Frelinghuysen,  was  born  March 
12,  1869.  For  many  years  he  has  been  identi- 
fied with  large  fire  insurance  interests  in  New 
York  City,  and  is  now  head  of  the  firm  of 
Jameson  &  Frelinghuysen.  In  the  Spanish- 
.\merican  war  he  was  second  lieutenant  of 
Troop  A,  First  \'olunteer  Cavalry  of  New 
York.  He  was  with  the  army  in  Porto  Rico, 
and  "for  zealous  and  efficient  services"  was 
recommended  for  brevet.  In  1902  he  was  his 
party's  candidate  for  senator  of  the  state  of 
Xew  Jersey,  but  was  defeated.  In  1905  he  was 
successful  in  receiving  the  election,  and  his 
second  term  expires  in  1911.  In  the  senate  he 
has  been  active  in  the  support  of  important 
measures  for  the  public  good.  In  the  session 
of  1906  he  introduced  and  against  strong  oppo- 
sition carried  to  its  final  enactment,  the  auto- 
mobile speed  law,  which  created  a  state  depart- 
ment to  control  it.  He  was  a  personal  aide  on 
the  stafif  of  Governor  Stokes,  with  the  rank  of 
colonel,  and  chairman  of  the  Somerset  Repub- 
lican county  executive  committee.  He  lives  at 
Raritan.  in  a  handsome  house  built  by  him  on 
the  old  Frelinghuysen  farm.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Union  League  Club,  of  New  York ;  of 
the  Athletic  and  Calumet  clubs,  of  New  York, 
and  of  the  Sons  of  the  .\merican  Revolution. 
Xovember  29.  1905,  Hon.  Joseph  Sherman 
Frelinghuysen  married  Emily  Macy,  daughter 
of  Elisha  Franklin  and  Sarah  (Macy)  Brews- 
ter, and  granddaughter  on  her  mother's  side  of 
William  H.  Macy,  and  had  one  daughter,  Vic- 
toria, born  April  28,  1907. 


The  name  Richards  like  most 

RICH.\RDS    of  the  other  surnames  derived 

from  christian  names,  is  the 

common    possession    of   several    difTerent    na- 


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tionalities.  and  even  in  the  state  of  New  Jer- 
sey the  bearers  of  the  name  can  be  traced  back 
to  ])rogenitors  of  EngHsh.  Welsh,  Dutch  and 
French  descent.  In  the  case  of  the  family  at 
])resent  under  consideration,  the  origin  is  Eng- 
lish and  the  emigration  dates  from  the  early 
years  of  the  nineteenth  century. 

(F)  Henry,  son  of  William  H.  Richards, 
founder  of  the  family,  was  born  in  Shropshire, 
England,  in  1801,  and  died  in  Northampton 
county.  I'ennsylvania,  Augirst  18.  1868.  Emi- 
grating to  this  country  when  fifteen  years  of 
age,  he  found  his  way  into  the  coal  regions  of 
Pennsylvania,  where  he  found  work  in  the 
mines.  Here  he  rose  to  the  position  of  an 
operator,  and  finally  became  superintendent  of 
the  Glendon  Iron  Company,  having  charge  of 
their  works  both  in  and  near  Easton,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  in  northern  Xew  Jersey.  He  mar- 
died  at  Durham,  Pennsylvania,  Jane,  who 
died  October  18,  i8y2,  aged  sixty-seven  years, 
daughter  of  John  Price,  a  farmer  of  Durham. 
Children,  now  living:  i.  Henry,  a  mining  engi- 
neer of  Dover,  New  Jersey.  2.  William,  an 
inspector  of  meats  for  the  L'nited  .States  gov- 
ernment, in  Chicago.  3.  Irenus,  superintendent 
for  a  West  Philadelphia  packing  company.  4. 
Mary.     5.  h'mily.    6.  Albert,  referred  to  below. 

( II )  .\lbert,  son  of  Henry  and  Jane  (  Price) 
Richards,  was  born  near  Easton,  Pennsylvania. 
.August  II,  1855,  and  is  now  living  at  Dover, 
New  Jersey.  I""or  his  early  education  he  was 
sent  to  the  ])ublic  schools  of  Easton,  after 
which  he  entered  Lafayette  College,  remaining 
tliere  a  short  time.  He  then  for  two  years 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  Judge  Lynn  T. 
Lai:)orte,  of  Dover:  but  finding  that  his  genius 
and  abilities  fitted  him  better  for  the  iron  min- 
ing business,  he  accepted  a  position  with  the 
Cilendon  Iron  Ctmijiany,  of  which  his  father 
was  su])erinten(lent,  and  went  to  Hurdtown, 
Xew  Jersey,  as  one  of  their  mining  contractors. 
For  the  next  eighteen  years  he  worked  in  this 
position,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time,  in  iSg^, 
he  purchased  the  Mansion  I  louse  in  Dover  and 
conducted  it  as  a  first-class  hotel  until  1905, 
when  he  retired  from  active  business,  and  re- 
sides in  his  fine  home  with  its  large  and  beau- 
tiful grounds,  on  South  Xcjrris  street,  Dover. 
lie  is  a  man  of  pleasing  ]ircscnce  and  attrac- 
tive i)ersonality,  of  much  affability,  and  of 
executive  finalities  of  a  very  high  order ;  and 
he  has  not  only  made  a  great  success  of  his 
business  career,  but  has  also  won  for  himself  a 
host  of  friends  both  in  the  community  in  which 
he  dwells  and  among  many  all  over  the  cotui- 
try  who  have  had  the  real  jirivilege  of  being 


entertained  by  him  at  his  hostelry.  In  politics 
Mr,  Richards  is  a  Republican,  and  from  1906 
to  1 90S  was  a  councilman  of  Dover.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  !•".  and  .\.  Masons,  and  of  the 
Elks. 

In  1898  Mr.  Richards  married  Blanche 
Hantz,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Elizabeth 
Christie,  of  Susse.x  county.  One  child — Jack 
\'an  Xostrand,  born  July  5,  1899. 


In  the  records  of  the  First  Re- 
H(  )PPER     formed  Dutch  Church  in  Hack- 

ensack,  Xew  Jersey,  it  is  writ- 
ten that  William  Hoppe  was  a  member  of  the 
church  there  as  early  as  1686,  that  Mattys 
Hoppe  and  his  wife  .\ntjie  Forkse  were  mem- 
bers of  the  same  church  in  1687,  and  that  their 
daughter  Christyna  Hoppe  was  baptized  there 
on  her  confession  of  faith  in  the  year  i68^'>. 
There  is  little  question  that  the  surname  Hoppe 
herein  mentioned  is  identical  with  the  ancient 
Holland  Dutch  name  of  Hopper,  which  has 
been  so  well  and  prominently  known  in  the 
region  of  Xew  Amsterdam  and  the  Xew  Neth- 
erlands for  more  than  two  and  a  half  centuries, 
but  the  exact  kinshi])  of  either  William  or 
.Mattys  Hoppe  and  (iarret  Hopper  is  not  clearly 
settled,  although  the  fair  ])resumption  is  that 
both  of  the  former  were  of  a  single  generation 
anterior  to  that  of  Garret  Hopper,  and  that  if 
one  of  them  was  not  his  father  they  both  prob- 
ably were  his  uncles,  and  not  of  a  more  remote 
degree  of  consanguinity.  During  the  half  cen- 
tury of  undisputetl  Dutch  dimiinion  in  .\merica 
the  family  names  of  llojipe  and  llopjier  occur 
fre(|uentl)'  in  church  and  borough  records  and 
they  both  are  known  to  stand  for  and  repre- 
sent a  substantial  element  of  the  sturdy  people 
that  followed  Hudson,  the  navigator  and  ex- 
])lorer  who  in  ificx)  ojiened  the  way  for  Dutch 
colonization  and  settlement  on  Manhattan 
islaiul,  originally  the  city  of  Xew  .\msterdam 
but  now  Xew  S'ork.  and  in  the  regions  adja- 
cent thereto,  which  during  the  dominion  of 
I  iolland  on  this  side  of  the  .Atlantic  ocean  were 
within  the  jurisdiction  of  that  sovereign  power 
under  the  name  of  Xew  Netherlands ;  and 
after  the  overthrow  of  the  Dutch  power  in 
.America  by  superior  British  might  both  names 
were  still  retained  for  generations  although 
that  of  Ho])per  became  finally  dominant  and  is 
generally  accepted  as  the  common  family  pat- 
ronymic. 

(  I )  Garret  Hoi)per  was  of  Holland  origin 
.uid  ancestry,  if  not  of  Holland  birth,  and  it  is 
to  him  that  genealogists  and  historians  have 
accuratelv  ascribed  progenitorsbip  of  the  par- 


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ticiilar  family  considered  in  these  annals.  He 
became  possessed  by  purchase  of  a  considerable 
tract  of  land  extending  from  Hackensack  river 
lo  Slaughter  dam.  and  from  which  was  taken 
an  ample  portion  of  about  five  hundred  acres 
for  the  family  mansion  and  estate.  There  he 
caused  his  mansion  house  to  be  built  and  there 
he  dwelt  in  comfort  to  the  end  of  his  days, 
cultivating  his  broad  acres  and  in  the  enjoy- 
ment of  the  fruits  of  industry  and  a  life  well 
s])eut.  The  name  of  his  wife  does  not  appear, 
nor  the  names  and  dates  of  birth  of  all  of  their 
children,  although  the  tradition  is  tliat  theirs 
was  a  goodlv  familv  in  numbers  as  well  as  in 
estate. 

(II)  Jacob,  .son  of  Garret  Hopper,  was  born 
previous  to  1730,  and  died  about  the  year  1815. 
He  had  his  residence  on  his  father's  estate,  and 
his  own  house  stood  on  the  Pollifly  road  lead- 
ing out  from  Paterson  turnpike  to  Carlstadt. 
He  too  was  an  husbandman  of  industry  and 
thrift,  giving  chiefest  attention  to  the  culti- 
vation of  his  lands  and  providing  abundantly 
for  those  who  were  to  come  after  him  in  in- 
heritance and  possession.  The  baptismal  name 
of  his  wife  was  Cornelia,  and  according  to 
records  which  are  regarded  as  reasonably  accu- 
rate they  had  four  children,  all  of  whom  are 
tielieved  to  have  been  born  on  the  old  home- 
stead :  I.  Katrina,  married  John  Earle,  who 
died  about  the  beginning  of  the  war  of  the  rev- 
olution. 2.  Henry  Garret,  who  with  his  brother 
John  occupied  the  paternal  estate  and  divided 
it  between  themselves.  3.  John  I.,  born  1775. 
4.  Elizabeth,  married  Cornelius  Terhune,  grand- 
son of  John  Terhune,  the  latter  the  ])rogenitor 
of  a  notable  family  in  early  .\ew  Jersey  his- 
tc  iry. 

(III)  John  I.,  son  of  Jacob  and  Cornelia 
I  lopper,  was  bc)rn  in  1775;  died  in  1833,  on 
the  family  homestead  in  Hackensack,  where 
his  life  was  chiefly  spent;  and  not  spent  in 
vain  endeavor,  for  he  is  remembered  as  having 
been  one  of  the  most  thrifty  and  successful 
farmers  in  Bergen  county  in  his  time,  bringing 
his  lands  to  the  highest  degree  of  cultivation 
and  prixluctiveness  and  tilling  them  according 
to  methods  which  in  many  respects  were  far  in 
advance  of  his  day.  The  products  of  his  farm 
were  always  of  the  best  quality  and  he  market- 

L  ed  them  in  Xew  York  at  good  cash  prices ;  his 
■  butter  often  brought  a  premium  award  because 
of  its  su]icrior  (|uality.  and  he  jirofited  not  a  little 
on  account  of  his  thrift  and  enterprise.  He  was 
one  of  the  very  first  farmers  to  carry  his  pro- 
duce to  market  in  a  wagon  with  springs  and 
to] I.  and  he  also  was  one  of  the  first  farmers 


of  the  region  who  sold  produce  in  Xew  York 
City.  He  is  said  also  to  have  been  a  man  of 
excellent  education,  and  it  is  known  that  he 
attended  the  private  school  in  Hackensack  of 
which  Dr.  Wilson  was  then  the  head  master; 
and  a  famous  pedagogue  he  was,  as  well  as 
being  a  man  of  high  educational  attaiimients. 

During  the  second  war  with  the  mother  coun- 
try Mr.  Hopper  was  drafted  for  service  in  the 
.\merican  army,  but  he  furni.shed  a  substitute 
to  take  his  place  in  the  ranks.  This  was  not 
because  he  was  scrupulous  of  bearing  arms, 
for  none  of  the  Hoppers  ever  were  wanting  in 
either  moral  or  physical  courage,  nor  is  it  be- 
lieved that  they  ever  were  opposed  to  war  on 
principle  ;  but  at  that  tittle  he  evidently  felt  that 
he  could  best  serve  his  country's  cause  by  fur- 
nishing a  substitute  in  his  stead  and  he  might 
be  free  to  care  for  his  family  anil  home  and 
farming  interests  which  otherwise  must  suffer 
loss.  In  i8i8'he  built  a  fine  substantial  man- 
sion house  of  brownstone,  on  a  commanding 
elevatiim  affording  a  good  view  of  the  sur- 
rounding country.  It  stood  on  what  in  com- 
paratively recent  years  became  known  as  Ter- 
race avenue.  He  was  zealous  in  religious  mat- 
ters and  for  many  years  was  officially  con 
nected  with  the  First  Reformed  Church  as  one 
of  its  elders  and  deacons.  For  a  long  time  he 
vigorously  oj^posed  the  movements  of  the  so- 
called  seceders,  but  finally  yielded  to  their  per- 
suasions and  joined  them.  His  wife  was  Maria, 
daughter  of  .\lbert  Terhune.  She  was  born 
about  1781,  died  January  i,  1856,  having  borne 
her  husband  nine  children:  i.  Cornelia,  mar- 
ried John  Terheun,  a  farmer  and  miller  of 
.\'ew  Uarbadoes,  wdio  died  in  1879,  aged  seven- 
tv-niiie  years.  2.  Altia,  married  .\lbert  .A. 
lirinkerhoff,  of  Hackensack,  3.  Catherine, 
married  Jonathan  I  lopper,  a  merchant  of  Pat- 
erson. 4.  Albert,  died  1833,  aged  twenty-four 
\ears.  5.  Jacob  I.  6.  John.  7.  Eliza.  8.  Alaria, 
married  Henry  Deniarcst,  of  Xew  York.  9. 
lane,  married  Dr.  George  Wilson,  of  .\ew 
York. 

(  I\' )  Jacob  I.,  son  of  John  I.  and  Maria 
(Terhune)  Hopper,  was  born  on  the  family 
homestead  in  Hackensack,  December  21,  1810, 
and  spent  his  whole  life  there,  engaged  in  agri- 
cultural pursuits  and  to  a  large  extent  in  mar- 
ket gardening  and  raising  small  fruits.  So 
earlv  as  1840  he  began  growing  strawberries 
on  an  extensive  scale  for  the  Xew  York  mar- 
ket, and  in  this  business  he  was  very  success- 
ful and  continued  it  for  many  years.  So  great 
indeed  was  the  yield  of  his  fields  that  his  daily 
shipments  are  said  to  have  averaged  more  than 


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three  tliousaiui  baskets.  This  of  course  would 
not  be  regarded  as  an  extraordinary  yield  for 
the  present  time,  but  it  must  be  remembered 
that  Mr.  Hopper  grew  market  berries  nearly 
three-quarters  of  a  century  ago,  when  even  a 
single  trip  to  the  market  required  a  half  day's 
time  in  going  and  returning,  and  when  the 
plough,  the  harrow  and  the  hoe  were  the  only 
implements  used  in  preparing  the  land  and 
cultivating  the  crops.  But  notwithstanding  all 
this  he  was  a  very  successful  man  in  his  busi- 
ness life  and  a  man  very  highly  respected  for 
his  sturdy  integrity  and  upright  life.  In  1835 
Air.  Hopper  married  Ann,  daughter  of  Ciarret 
Mercelis,  whose  wife  was  Lenah  de  Gray,  of 
J'reakness,  Passaic  county.  New  Jersey.  She 
was  born  December  13,  18 12,  died  in  June, 
1868.  They  had  two  ciiildren :  i.  John,  see 
forward.    2.  Ellen  M. 

(IV)  Judge  John,  son  of  John  1.  and  Maria 
(Terhime)  Hopper,  was  born  on  the  home- 
.stead  farm  in  what  now  is  the  township  of 
Lodi,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  March  2, 
1814;  died  in  I'aterson,  (jctober  15,  1897.  He 
acquired  his  earlier  literary  education  at  Wash- 
ington and  Lafayette  academies  in  Hackensack. 
and  prepared  for  college  under  the  tutorship 
of  the  Rev.  John  Croes,  at  whose  classical 
school  in  Paterson  he  was  a  student  for  some 
time,  and  also  under  the  special  instruction  of 
Mr.  Thomas  McGahagan,  the  once  famou-^ 
master  of  the  old  academy  in  Bergen  Town, 
now  Hudson  City,  New  Jersey.  In  1830  he 
matriculated  at  Rutgers  College,  entering  the 
sophomore  class,  completed  the  academic  course 
of  that  institution  and  was  graduated  A.  B.  in 
1833,  cum  laitdc,  dividing  second  honors  with 
Rol)ert  H.  Pruyn,  afterward  minister  i)kni- 
])otentiary  from  the  I'nited  States  to  Japan 
.Vfter  leaving  college  Mr.  IIop])er  took  up  the 
study  of  law  under  the  prece])torship  of  Gov- 
ernor Peter  D.  X'room,  of  Somerville,  New 
Jer.scy.  remaining  with  him  about  two  years, 
and  afterward  continued  his  studies  for  another 
year  in  the  office  of  Elias  B.  D.  Ogden,  of  Pat- 
erson. .\t  a  term  of  the  supreme  court  held  at 
Trenton,  September  8.  1836,  he  was  licensed  to 
|)ractice  as  an  attorney  at  law  and  solicitor  in 
chancery  in  all  of  the  courts  of  this  state,  and 
on  I'ebruary  2~.  1840,  he  became  a  counselor 
at  law. 

Having  cf)me  to  the  bar  Judge  Hopper  began 
his  ]irofessional  career  in  partnershij)  with 
his  former  i)receptor.  Judge  Ogden,  under  the 
firm  style  of  Ogden  &  Hopper,  which  relation 
was  maintained  until  1848.  when  the  senior 
partner  was  elevated  to  the  bench  of  the  su- 


preme court  of  the  state.  From  that  time  ho 
practiced  alone  until  1869,  when  he  took  as 
partner  his  own  son,  Robert  Imlay  Hopper, 
then  recently  admitted  to  the  bar  ;  and  thereafter 
this  partnership  relation  was  continued  so  long 
as  Judge  Hopper  was  engaged  in  active  practice, 
until  he  assumed  judicial  office  which  neces- 
sitated the  laying  aside  of  private  professional 
employments.  During  the  long  period  of  his 
])rofessional  career  as  an  attorney  and  coun- 
selor at  law.  Judge  Hopper  was  recognized  as 
one  of  the  ablest  lawyers  of  the  Paterson  bar ; 
a  man  of  the  highest  character,  a  lawyer  of 
distinguished  ability,  a  ripe  scholar,  and  an 
advocate  with  whom  principles  always  prc- 
vailed  over  expedients.  His  practice  was  largely 
on  the  civil  side  of  the  courts,  and  his  clientage 
was  such  and  the  character  and  mind  of  the 
man  were  such,  that  he  was  able  to  accept  or 
decline  cases  without  danger  of  pecuniary  loss 
to  himself;  but  he  would  not  refuse  a  case  in 
which  he  was  not  sure  of  ultimate  success  to 
his  client,  although  at  the  same  time  he  would 
not  allow  himself  to  be  drawn  into  an  action 
in  behalf  of  a  client  whose  personal  integrity 
he  had  reasonable  ground  to  cjuestion.  His 
methods  always  were  careful,  but  they  were 
not  laborious,  and  it  was  his  policy  to  discour- 
age rather  than  to  promote  litigation:  a  safe 
and  jjrudent  counselor  in  the  office,  he  never- 
theless was  a  power  in  the  trial  courts,  and 
with  him  it  was  a  cardinal  principle  never  to 
go  half  prepared  into  the  trial  of  an  important 
case :  jietty  actions  he  preferred  to  be  turned 
over  to  the  younger  members  of  the  profession. 
In  the  trial  of  a  case  he  always  was  properly 
deferential  to  the  court,  but  never  more  than 
that,  and  never  obse(|uious  in  his  manner  be- 
fore any  tribunal.  In  presenting  a  case  to  the 
jury  it  was  noticeable  that  he  ajjproachcd  the 
subject  in  hand  with  dignity  and  in  the  light  of 
principle  and  common  sense,  addressing  him- 
self to  the  understanding  of  his  hearers  and 
never  appealing  to  their  passions.  And  what 
may  have  been  true  of  him  as  a  lawyer,  whether 
in  private  practice  or  in  the  ca])acity  of  ])rose- 
cutor  for  the  j)eo])le,  also  was  true  of  him  as 
:i  magistrate  on  the  bench  of  the  court,  for 
there  too  he  was  ever  dignified  and  courteous, 
always  considerate  of  the  rights  of  attorneys 
representing  litigant  parties,  and  especially  con- 
siderate and  for  hearing  in  his  treatment  of 
the  younger  members  of  the  profession,  fre- 
(|uently  encouraging  them  with  fatherly  assist- 
ance and  advice. 

Thrdughinit   the   period   of   his   jjrofessional 
life  Judge  Ho])i)er  was  much  of  the  time  an 


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inciiinbeiit  of  office  in  conneetioii  with  the  oper- 
ation of  tiie  courts  and  the  administration  of 
the  law;  town  counsel  of  I'aterson  from  1843 
to  1847;  surrogate  of  Passaic  county  for  two 
terms,  1845  ^'^  '^^SS-  counsel  to  the  board  of 
chosen  freeholders  of  I'aterson  from  1855  to 
1864;  prosecutor  of  the  pleas  from  1863  to 
1868  and  from  1871  to  1874.  From  1868  to 
1871  ami  again  from  1874  to  1877  he  was  sen- 
ator from  Passaic  county  in  the  legislature  of 
the  state.  In  March^  1877,  he  was  appointed 
by  Governor  Bedle  judge  of  the  district  court 
of  Paterson,  serving  in  that  capacity  until  Janu- 
ary 8,  1887.  when  he  resigned  to  accept  Gov- 
ernor Abbett's  appointment  as  president  judge 
of  the  court  of  common  pleas,  orphans'  court 
and  c|uarter  sessions  of  the  peace  for  the  un- 
expired term  of  Judge  Absalom  B.  W'oodruiif, 
deceased.  He  was  reappointed  by  Governor 
Green,  March  15,  1887,  and  again  on  April  i, 
1887,  for  a  term  of  five  years;  and  on  April 

1,  1892,  he  was  reappointed  by  Governor  Ab- 
bett.  In  1879  he  was  appointed  by  Chancellor 
Runyon  one  of  the  advisory  masters  in  chan- 
cery. In  political  adherence  Judge  Hopper 
was  a  firm  Democrat,  and  while  he  was  looked 
upon  as  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the  state  in 
the  councils  of  his  party  his  democracy  was  of 
the  type  which  was  calculated  to  draw  strength 
to  the  party  and  not  to  engender  bitter  antag- 
onisms in  the  opposition  party.  I'rom  185 1 
until  the  time  tif  his  death  he  was  a  member 
of  the  board  of  trustees  of  his  alma  mater, 
Rutgers  College,  and  also  was  a  member  of  the 
New  Jersey  Historical  Society,  a  director  of 
the  Paterson  &  Rama])o  Railroad  Company, 
its  first  secretary  in  1844  and  was  elected  its 
treasurer  in  1851. 

On  June  16,  1840,  Judge  Hopper  married 
Mary  A.,  daughter  of  Robert  Imlay,  at  one 
time  a  prominent  merchant  of  Philadelphia; 
and  June  ifS,  1890,  Judge  Hopper  and  his  wife 
celebrated  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  their  mar- 
riage. They  had  six  children  who  grew  to 
maturity:  i.  John  H.,  silk  manufacturer,  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Hopper  &  Scott,  Paterson. 

2.  Robert  Imlay,  lawyer,  Paterson.  3.  Mary 
A.,  wife  of  Frank  W.  Potter,  late  United  States 
consul  to  Marseilles.  4.  James,  removed  to 
Texas.  5.  Caroline.  6.  Margaret  Imlay,  w-ifc 
of  John  T.  Boyd,  of  Brookline,  Massachusetts. 

(Y)  Major  Robert  Imlay,  son  of  Judge 
John  and  Mary  A.  (Imlay)  Hopper,  was  born 
in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  May  28,  1845,  ^'""^ 
received  his  elementary  and  secondary  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  of  that  city,  and  his 
higher    education    at    Rutgers    College,    grad- 


uating from  the  latter  with  the  degree  of  A.  B. 
in  18W).  He  read  law  in  his  father's  office, 
and  in  1869  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the 
courts  of  tins  state.  Since  that  time  he  has 
engaged  in  general  law  practice,  for  many 
years  in  partnership  with  his  father  and  after- 
wards alone;  and  in  connection  with  pro- 
fessional employments  he  has  been  somewhat 
]:)roniinently  identified  in  various  ways  with 
several  of  the  institutions  and  interests  of  the 
city  of  Paterson  and  also  of  the  state.  For 
many  years  he  has  taken  an  active  interest  in 
military  affairs  in  connection  with  the  national 
guard  of  New  Jersey,  having  been  appointed 
in  1 89 1  judge  advocate  with  the  rank  of  major 
on  the  staff  of  General  Steele,  reappointed 
inider  General  W'anser  and  also  under  General 
Campbell.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Army  and 
Xavy  Club,  of  New  York  City,  the  North  Jer- 
sey Country  Club  and  the  Hamilton  Club,  of 
Paterson  ;  member  of  Joppa  Lodge,  No.  29,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Paterson ;  3x3  Chap- 
ter, Royal  Arch  Masons,  of  Trenton ;  Melita 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  of  Paterson, 
and  of  Mecca  Temple,  Ancient  Arabic  Order  of 
Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  of  New  York 
City.  In  1878  he  was  elected  counsel  for  the 
board  of  chosen  freeholders  of  the  city  of  Pat- 
erson and  held  that  office  for  several  years. 

Major  Hopper  married  Ida  E.  Hughes,  of 
Paterson,  daughter  of  Robert  S.  Hughes,  who 
for  many  years  was  president  of  the  Rogers 
Locomotive  Works,  of  Paterson.  Only  one 
child  was  born  of  this  marriage — Ida  E.  Hop- 
per, A])ril  22.  1878.  Ida  E.  (Hughes)  Hopper 
died  April  24,  1878. 


It  is  claimed  that  the  surname 
11()PPER  Hopper  is  of  French  origin  and 
was  originally  spelled  Hop])e. 
There  arc  in  America  three  distinct  Hojjper 
families.  One  is  of  Irish  descent,  another 
came  from  the  county  of  Durham,  England, 
and  the  third,  by  far  the  inost  numerous,  is  of 
Dutch  ancestry.  The  immigrant  ancestor  of 
the  Holland  Hoppers  was  Andries  Hopper,  and 
the  New  Jersev  Hoppers  are  descended  from 
him.  Members  of  the  family  have  represented 
Bergen  county  in  both  houses  of  the  legisla- 
ture, others  have  worn  the  judicial  ermine 
with  dignity  and  respectability,  still  others  have 
held  from  time  to  time  county  and  township 
offices,  and  have  become  famous  as  physicians, 
clergymen,  lawyers,  mayors  of  cities,  publicists, 
mechanics,  sailors,  soldiers  and  agriculturists. 
( I  )  .\ndries  Hopper  came  from  Amster- 
dam,   Holland,    in    1652,   accompanied   by    his 


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wife  and  two  or  three  children,  and  settled  m 
in  New   Amsterdam   (now   New   York  Cityj. 
In    1657   he   was  granted   the  privileges  of  a 
small  burgher.  He  acquired  considerable  prop- 
erty but  did  not  live  long  to  enjoy  it,  as  he 
died  in  1659.     He  had  entered  into  an  agree- 
ment   with   one   Jacob    Stol   to   purchase    the 
Bron.x  lan<ls,  but  owing  to  the  death  of  both, 
the  transaction  was  not  completed.  The  maiden 
name  of  his  wife  was  Giertie  Hendricks,  and 
she  bore  him  several  children.     Those  born  m 
America   were:      i.   William,   born   1654;   see 
sketch.      2.    Hendrick,   born    1656;   settled   at 
Hackensack,  1687;  married  Mary  Johns  \  an 
Blarkum  :  seven  children.  3.  Matthew  Adolphus. 
(X.  r..     The  Hoppers  of  Sa<ldle  River.  Ridg- 
wood  and  Midland  townships,  Bergen  county, 
are  all   descended    from  these  brothers).     In 
1660  Andries  Hopper's  widow  married   (sec- 
ond)   Dirck    Gerritsen    \"an    Tricht.    thereby 
securing  to  each  of  her  three  children  the  sum 
of  two  hundred  gilders. 

(H)  Mathias  (Matthew),  son  of  Andries 
and  Giertie  (Hendricks)  Hopper,  was  born  in 
Xew  Amsterdam,  in  1658.  He  first  settled  in 
Bergen  (  Tersev  City  I  Xew  Jersey,  but  re- 
moved to"  Hackensack  in  1687,.  and  shortly 
afterward  purchased  of  Captain  John  Berry  a 
farm  of  about  three  hundred  acres  located  be- 
tween the  Hackensack  and  Saddle  rivers.  He 
became  a  verv  prominent  resident  of  Hacken- 
sack. and  a  "deacon  of  the  "Church  on  the 
Green."  He  married  Anna  Jurckes  Paulus. 
or  Anetje  Feterse.  Children:  i.  .\ndre\v, 
who  will  be  again  referred  to.  2.  Christine, 
born  1686:  married  John  Huysman.  3.  Lea. 
born  1695:  married  John  \anderhofT,  of  .M- 
banv.  Xew  York.  4.  Rachel,  born  1703:  twice 
married.  ;.  lohn.  born  1705:  married  Eliza- 
beth Kipp.'  All  were  born  in  Hackensack  ex- 
cept .\ndrew. 

(HI)  .\ndries  i.Xndrew),  eldest  child  ot 
Matthew  and  Anna  Hopper,  was  born  in  Ber- 
gen (now  Jersey  City)  in  1684,  and  died  in 
1 719.  He  resided  in  Hackensack.  He  mar- 
ried there,  .August  12,  1710,  Elizabeth  Bross. 
(I\')  Peter,  son  of  Andrew  and  Elizabeth 
(  Bross)  Hopper,  was  born  in  I  lackensack,  but 
the  date  of  his  birth  does  not  appear  in  the 
records  examined.  He  settled  as  a  i)ioneer  in 
Sadtlle  River  township.  P.ergen  county,  where 
he  acc|uired  possession  of  a  large  farm  con- 
taining three  hundred  acres,  and  became  a 
very  successful  tiller  of  the  soil.  In  rnore 
recent  vears  a  portion  of  this  estate  came  into 
the  possession  of  Henry  .■\.  Hopper,  formerly 
sheriff  of  Bergen  county.     Peter  Hoi)per  was 


an  uiui>ually  active  and  industrious  fanner, 
upright  in  his  dealings  with  his  fellow  men. 
and  retiring  in  his  habits.  His  death  occurred 
in  1818,  at  an  advanced  age.  He  married  Anne 
(  Dorenuis ).  and  she  died  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
eight  vears.  Children:  i.  Keziah.  married 
lacob  'Deniorest.  2.  Mrs.  \oorhis.  3.  Garre; 
"p.    4.  .\ndrew  P.    5.  Henry  P. 

I  \' )  (.;arret  P.,  son  of  Peter  and  Anne 
(  Doremus )  Hopper,  resided  at  Lodi,  in  Sad- 
dle River  township,  and  was  a  prosperous 
farmer.  In  all  probability  he  was  the  Garret 
Hopper  who  married  Rachel  Paulus,  and  had, 
according  to  information  at  hand,  two  sons — 
Jacob  G.  and  David. 

(\T)  Jacob  G.,  son  of  Garret  P.  and  Rachel 
(Paulus)  Hopper,  was  reared  at  the  homestead 
in  Lodi,  and  devoted  the  active  period  of  his  life 
to  agricultural  pursuits.  He  married  Gertrude 
\reeland:  children:  i.  Ann,  married  Jasper 
Yerance.  2.  Margaret,  married  Henry  \  er- 
ance.  3.  Eliza,  married  Peter  Cadmus.  4. 
Adrian,  married  Eliza  Ann  Post:  resided  in 
Passaic,  Xew  Jersey.     5.  Garret  J. 

(\  II)   Garret  J.,  son  of  Jacob  G.  and  Ger- 
trude (  \reeland )  Hopper,  was  born  in  Lodi. 
.\ugust  31,  1821.     He  was  an  apt  scholar,  and 
being   desirous   of   fitting   himself    for   educa- 
tional work  he  studied  diligently  with  that  end 
in  view.     I  laving  completed  his  preparations  in 
a  most  thorough  manner,  he  inaugurated  his 
career  as  a  pedagogue  at  Dundee,  Xew  Jer- 
sey,  and   soon   became   recognized   as   an   un- 
iis'uallv  able  and  succesful  educator.  He  finally 
became  principal  of  a  private  school  in  Pater 
son,  .Xew  Jersey,  where  he  taught  with  grati- 
fying success  for  many  years,  and  in  1895  re- 
linquished his  useful  'calling,   retiring  perma- 
nently from  professional  work.     His  character 
was  f'uUv  in  keeping  with  the  lofty  ideals  which 
he  impa"rted  to  his  pupils.     He  was  upright, 
just   and   manlv.   and    in   his  business   affairs 
was  the  soul  of  honor.     These  commendable 
(|ualities.  together  with  his  long  and  honorable 
career  as  an  educator,  naturally  gained  for  him 
a  wide  circle  of  warm  pcrsiMial  friends,  and  his 
death   which  occurred   at   his   home   in   River 
street,    Paterson,   February   3,    1900,   was  the 
cause  of  sincere  regret.     March  4,  1845,  Mr. 
Hopper   married  Rachel   A.   Snyder,  born  in 
Paterson.  December  11,  1824,  daughter  of  An- 
drew and  Sarah  (Bogert)  Snyder.     Children: 
I.  Sarah   Bogert.  born  August   u.   1847:  died 
lanuarv  14.  1848.    2.  Lidia,  born  December  21, 
"1848:  married.  September   15.   1874.   Edward 
\'an   Houten,  born    January   17.   1840,  son  of 
Edwanl  and  Ellen  (Lake)  Van  Houten. 


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(For  ancestry  see  preceding  sketch). 

(VI)  Henry  Peter,  son  of  Peter 
HOPPER  and  Ann  Hopper,  was  born  in 
Saddle  River  township,  in  the 
lloppe  homestead,  Bergen  county,  New  Jer- 
sey, in  1779.  He  married ,  and  his  chil- 
dren were  born  in  Saddle  River,  Bergen  coun- 
ty, New  Jersey,  as  follows:  i.  John  A.,  see 
forward.    2.  Benjamin.     3.  Andrew. 

(\  II)  John  A.,  son  of  Henry  Hopper,  was 
l)()rn  in  Ikrgen  county.  New  Jersey,  October 
II.  1804;  died  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Decem- 
ber  18,   1896.     He  married,   in    1826,   Keziah 
Westervelt,  of  Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  born 
November  5,  1808.     They  lived  first  at  Hack- 
ensack and  then  at  Oak  Ridge,  Newfoundland. 
Morris   county.   New  Jersey,   where  with  his 
two  brothers,  Benjamin  and  Andrew,  he  clear- 
ed up  a  large  tract  of  land,  which  they  divided 
into  three  adjoining  farms,  and  he  worked  the 
farm,  brought  up  a  large  family  and  late  in  life 
removed  to   Newark,   New  Jersey,  where  his 
children  resided.    The  eleven  children  of  John 
A.  and  Keziah  (Westervelt)  Hopper,  the  first 
six  born  in  Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  and  the 
others  on  the  homestead  farm  at  Oak  Ridge, 
Morris  county.    New  Jersey,  as   follows:      i. 
y\bram  T-  January  26,  1828;  married  Margaret 
Jane  Mandeville.    2.  John  W.,  August  5.  1830; 
died  February  28,  1906  ;  married  (  first )  March 
21,  1855,  Elizabeth  (  Bedell)  Hocker,born  Feb- 
ruary 27,   1834,  died  December  26,  1870,  and 
they  had  four' children :  Mary,  May  i,   1859; 
William,   February  23.    1861,  married   Emma 
Contes.    of    Newark;    .Abraham,    January    9, 
1867-  <liefl  young:  Edward  C,  May  3,   1869, 
died  young:   he  married    (second).   April    10, 
1 88 T.  Emma   Barrow,  born   March    14,    1858: 
child— Elmer  F..  born  June  12.  1883.    3.  Eliza, 
l^cember  24,  1832;  died  young.     4.  Thomas 
1',..    Tanuarv    22,    1834:    died    unmarried.      5. 
l-:iiza.  lanuarv  20,  1836;  died  young.    6.  Ben- 
jamin "W..   May    15.    1839;    see    forward.     7. 
Mary.    lune    29,    1841  :    died    unmarried.      8 
Henry. '.\ugust    30,    1843:    see    forward.      9- 
William    A.,    Mav    18.    1846;   married    Anna 
I       Fredericks.     10.  Jacob,  lulv  i,  1848:  see  for- 
ward.    II.  Levi  J.,  September  30,   1852;  see 
forward. 

(\1II)  Benjamin  W.,  fourth  son  and  sixth 
'  child  of  Tohn  .\.  and  Keziah  (Westervelt) 
Hojiper,  was  born  in  Bergen  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, near  Hackensack.  May  15,  1839.  He  was 
brought  up  in  Newfoundland.  Morris  county, 
1840-55,  where  he  received  his  school  training. 
He  was  apprenticed  to  the  trade  of  carpenter 
in  Newark  in  iS'^f^,  and  in  the  spring  of  1861 


arranged  to  go  to  Macon,  Georgia,  as  a  master 
mechanic  in  carpentering  and  building,  he  hav- 
ing accepted   a   flattering   offer   for   a  master 
builder  in  that  southern  city.     The  outbreak 
of  the  civil  war,  however,  changed  the  plan  and 
the  whole  current  of  his  future  life.     He  went 
south  as  a  soldier  instead  of  as  a  master  car- 
])enter,  and  on  September  I,  1861,  was  in  the 
ranks  of  the  L'nion  army  as  a  private  in  the 
Ninth  New  Jersey  X'olunteer  Regiment,  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel  Charles  A.  Hickman.     He  was 
assigned    to   Company    E,   and   in    December, 
1861,  was  promoted  to  sergeant.  He  went  with 
the  regiment  to  North  Carolina  in  the  Burn- 
side    exjjedition,   and   at    Roanoke    Island   his 
regiment  was  second  in  line  of  battle  in  the 
Second   Brigade   under  command  of   General 
Jesse  L.  Reno,  the  army  being  under  command 
of  Jilajor  General  Ambrose  E.  Burnside.     Ser- 
geant Hopper  distinguished  himself  at  Roanoke 
Island    when   the    troops    were    landed    under 
cover  of  the  gunboats,  and  as  General  Foster 
in  command  of  the  First  lirigade  had  awaited 
the  arrival  of  General  Reno  with  the  Second 
Brigade  no  fighting  occurred  between  the  two 
assembled  armies  until  Reno's  arrival  to  take 
his   place   on   the   left   with   the   Twenty-first 
Massachusetts,  which  had  the  right  of  the  line, 
followed  by  the   Ninth   New  Jersey  and   the 
Twenty-firs't   New  York,  and  the  three  regi- 
ments 'began  an  efifective  attack,  turning  the 
Confederate    right    by    marching    through    a 
thicket  of  briers,  shrubs  and  swamp  land,  al- 
most impenetrable.  This  was  February  8,  1862. 
and  after  the  capture  of  the  fort,  Foster  and 
Reno  pursued  the  enemy  to  the  northern  ex- 
tremity of  the  island,  where  an  unconditional 
surrender  of  the  entire  Confederate  force  was 
eftected.     .\fter  a   well-earned   rest  the  army 
proceeded  to  the  attack  on  New  Berne,  which 
place  was  reached  by  transports  under  guard 
of  the  gunboats.     Flere  again   Reno  had  the 
extreme  left  and  made  his  favorite  swing  to 
the   rear   of    the    Confederate   right,   and    the 
encmv  found  themselves  between  two  eiifective 
fires  and  broke  and  fled  to  the  town,  burning 
the  bridges  as  they  retreated,  and  in  that  way 
escaped   capture.  '  The  town  of   New   Berne, 
North  Carolina,  was  occupied  by  Burnside  and 
his  army  in  the  afternoon  of  March  14,  1862. 
Burnside  sums  up  the  victory  as  follows:  "The 
B.urnside  Expedition  has  passed  into  history ; 
its  records  we  can  be  proud  of.     No  body  of 
troops  ever  had  more  difficulties  to  overcome 
in  the  same  space  of  time.    Its  perils  were  both 
liy  land  and  water.    Defeat  never  befell  it.    Its 
experience  was  a  succession  of  honorable  vie- 


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tories."  The  gallantry  of  Sergeant  Hopper 
attracted  the  attention  of  Colonel  Hickman, 
who  promptly  promoted  him  to  a  lieutenancy 
and  subsequently  made  him  captain  of  the  com- 
])any.  He  followed  the  fortunes  of  his  regi- 
ment through  the  entire  war.  His  sword  hand 
was  disabled  while  leading  an  advance  on  the 
abattis  protecting  Fort  Darling,  May  14,  1864; 
at  the  terrific  combat  at  Drury's  Bluff,  ^lay  16, 
1864.  he  was  wounded  in  the  breast  and  arm 
and  was  ordered  to  the  rear  by  Regimental 
Surgeon  Gillette.  He  persisted  in  remaining 
with  his  command,  his  bleeding  arm  supported 
by  a  sling  which  the  surgeon  extemporized, 
and  he  sought  the  aid  and  comfort  of  the  hos- 
pital only  after  he  had  secured  for  his  dec- 
imated command  a  position  of  comparative 
safety.  Such  a  commander  could  not  fail  to 
secure  the  universal  respect  and  love  of  every 
member  of  the  company  and  the  esteem  of 
everv  member  of  the  regiment.  In  the  final 
campaign  of  the  Carolinas  after  the  fall  of 
Wilmington,  North  Carolina,  and  near  the 
close  of  the  war,  his  regiment  was,  with  a  tlivi- 
sion  of  the  Twenty-third  Army  Corps  under 
command  of  Major  General  Cox,  placed  in 
command  of  the  Beaufort  district.  The  Ninth 
New  Jersey  was  in  the  Second  Brigade  under 
Colonel  James  Stewart,  the  regiment  being 
commanded  by  Lieutenant  Colonel  Samuel 
Hufby.  The  duties  of  this  column  was  to  open 
the  railway  from  New  Berne  to  Goldsboro. 
Sergeant  Hopper  had  fought  with  his  regiment 
at  New  Berne  early  in  the  war,  and  now  at  its 
close  the  fortunes  of  war  carried  him  back  to 
familiar  places,  and  after  the  successful  battle 
of  New  Berne,  March  8-10,  1865,  the  Union 
army  occujiied  Kinston,  North  Carolina,  March 
14,  and  reached  Goldsboro  on  the  21st.  He 
led  his  company  into  Goldsboro,  North  Caro- 
lina, March  21,  1865,  and  secured  the  capitula- 
tion of  the  citizens  and  few  troops  who  had  not 
fled.  The  commander  of  the  Ninth  New  Jer- 
sey in  recognition  of  his  valor  and  daring  in 
capturing  the  city,  detailed  his  company  as  pro- 
vost guard,  and  Cajjlain  llo])per  was  made  in- 
spector general  of  the  Twenty-third  Army 
Corps,  the  onerous  duties  of  which  position 
were  so  well  performed  that  he  received  special 
commendation  from  General  Sherman  and 
Generals  Cox  and  Schofield. 

Cpon  his  return  home,  Captain  IIop[)er, 
through  the  kind  oflices  of  his  old  commander, 
now  General  Hickman,  was  appointed  a  con- 
ductor on  the  Central  Railroad  of  New  Jersey, 
and  he  held  that  res])onsible  position  together 
with  that  of  general  freight  agent  of  the  road 


for  over  forty  years,  becoming  personally 
known  to  everj'  regular  patron  of  the  road. 
He  died  in  Newark,  New  Jersej',  April  18, 
1906. 

He  married,  after  his  return  home  from  the 
army,  Mary,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Ros- 
anna  (  Froxell )  Keller,  of  Pennsylvania,  and 
had  four  children,  born  in  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey:    I.  Edward  Kellar,  May  i,  1871 ;  married. 

October   19,   1892,  ^lary,  daughter  of  

Malcom.  of  Connecticut.  2.  Herbert  W.  3. 
Emilie  Seitz,  married  Oakley  W.  Cooke.  4. 
Clarence  R. 

I  \TI1)  Henry,  fifth  son  and  eighth  child  of 
John  .\.  and  Keziah  I  \\'estervelt )  Hopper, 
was  born  in  Newfoundland,  Morris  county. 
New  Jersey,  August  30,  1843.  He  was  brought 
up  on  his  father's  farm  and  attended  the  public 
schools.  On  the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war  he 
was  eighteen  years  of  age  and  he  left  the  plow 
in  the  furrow  and  hastened  to  join  his  brother. 
Benjamin  \\".,  who  was  recruiting  volunteers 
to  fill  up  Company  E  of  the  Ninth  New  Jer- 
sey \'olunteers.  He  followed  the  fortunes  of 
his  brother  and  the  Ninth  New  Jersey  at  Hat- 
teras.  when  he  was  detailed  to  serve  on  the  gun- 
boat fleet  that  bombarded  the  fort  on  Roanoke 
Kland.  In  the  afternoon  before  the  eventful 
day  on  which  the  forts  were  captured,  he  urged 
strongly  to  be  allowed  to  go  ashore  with  the 
launch  carrying  howitzers  to  the  scene  of  the 
attack,  and  thus  became  temporarily  attached 
to  his  regiment  and  took  part  in  both  the 
battles  of  Roanoke  Island  and  New  Berne. 
His  brother,  then  a  private,  assisted  in  dragging 
and  firing  the  howitzers,  the  only  artillery 
a>hore  at  Roanoke  Island,  until  after  the  vic- 
tory had  been  won.  After  New  Berne  had 
capitulated,  and  seeing  ahead  no  more  gun- 
boat fighting,  he  procured  his  discharge  from 
the  naval  service,  and  from  that  time  until  the 
end  of  the  war  was  with  his  regiment  and  his 
brother  who  so  gallantly  commanded  Company 
E.  He  was  mustered  out  with  the  regiment  in 
July,  1865,  and  again  took  his  place  at  the 
plow  and  he  continued  on  the  farm  until  1873, 
when  he  went  to  Newark  and  obtained  employ- 
ment there.  In  1878  he  was  appointed  on  the 
police  force  as  patrolman.  He  soon  made  his 
services  to  the  city  and  the  de|)artment  so  valu- 
able that  he  w^as  promoted  through  the  grades 
to  captain  of  the  precinct  and  thence  to  chief 
of  the  police  force  of  the  city  of  Newark,  from 
which  honorable  jjosition.  esi)ecially  honored 
by  his  unimpeachable  character  and  service,  he 
resigned. 

He  married,  Januar\'  i,   i8(y').  Melissa  Ed- 


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wards,  born  May  3,  1845:  two  children  were 
born  in  Xewfoundland,  Xew  Jersey:  i.  Lizzie. 
December  22,  1867;  married  ( first  j  Charles 
Coy  Kendall :  one  child — Helen  Kendall ;  she 
married  (second)  Xornian  Smith.  2.  Mary 
Jane,  July  29,  1870,  who  never  married. 

(  \'1I1 )  Jacob,  seventh  son  and  tenth  child 
of  John  .\.  and  Keziah  ( W'estervelt)  Hopper, 
was  born  at  Oak  Ridge,  Xewfoundland,  Morris 
county,  New  Jersey,  July  i,  1848;  died  July 
16,  1891,  in  Bloomfield,  Xew  Jerse}-.  He  was 
brought  up  on  his  father's  farm,  attended  the 
district  school,  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter 
in  Xewark,  Xew  Jersey,  was  a  skillful  me- 
chanic, and  pursued  that  occupation  for  a  num- 
ber of  years ;  he  also  followed  farming  on  the 
old  homestead.  He  married  (first)  in  Xew- 
ark, Xew  Jersey.  June  13,  1871,  Mary  Cath- 
erine Farrand,  born  ;\Iarch  18,  1848,  died  in 
Xewark,  1886.  Children,  born  in  Xewark, 
New  Jersey:  i.  Lizzie  May,  born  May  25, 
1872;  died  unmarried,  February  6,  1891.  2. 
Louis  A.,  January  27,  1874;  died  unmarried, 
July  23,  1890.  3.  Harry  Centennial,  see  for- 
ward. 4.  Eva  Belle,  January  14,  1878;  died 
unmarried,  October  iS.  1894.  5.  Jennie  F., 
December  16.  1881  :  married  .\lfred  Baechlin. 
Mr.  Hopper  married  (second).  Xoveniber  23, 
1887,  Jennie  P'arrand,  sister  of  his  first  wife. 
Xo  children. 

(\  HIl  Levi  J.,  youngest  son  and  eleventh 
ciiild  of  John  A.  and  Keziah  (W'estervelt) 
llnpper,  was  born  at  Oak  Ridge,  Xewfound- 
land. Morris  county,  Xew  Jersey,  September 
30.  1852.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  town  and  the  public  schools  of  Xew- 
ark, and  at  the  age  of  about  nineteen  years 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Central  Railroad  of 
Xew  Jersey  in  the  freight  department,  under 
his  brother,  Benjamin  \\ .,  who  was  at  the 
time  general  agent  of  the  road :  he  received 
])r(imotion  and  in  1909  was  chief  clerk  to  the 
general  agent  of  the  road  after  a  continuous 
service  of  over  thirty-six  years.  He  married. 
May  17,  1877,  Ida  M.,  born  March  20,  1856. 
(laughter  of  Henry  and  Mary  Louise  (BrownY 
Kipp.  Children,  born  in  Xewark,  New  Jer- 
sey: I.  Grace,  born  March  7.  1878;  died  Au- 
gust 21,  1878.  2.  Bessie  L.,  October  30,  1879: 
graduated  at  the  Xewark  high  school  in  1897, 
and  in  1909  was  president  of  the  high  school 
alumnae :  she  has  always  been  active  in  the 
work  of  the  Christian  Endeavor  and  served  as 
president  of  the  Essex  County  Junior  Society 
of  that  organization;  she  married,  September 
6.  1905.  Frederick  S.  Crum,  of  Xewark,  son  of 
Lafayette  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Osborn)  Crum  ; 


children:  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  June  16,  1906, 
and  Robert  Hopper,  born  October  11,  1908. 
3.  Hazel  Turton.  born  December  11,  1884; 
died  May  17,  1885.  4.  Walter  Everett,  born 
September  20,  1886:  graduated  from  Xewark 
high  school  in  1904,  and  from  Cornell  L'ni- 
versitv,  .A.  B.,  1908. 

(  L\ )  Harry  Centennial,  second  son  and 
third  child  of  Jacob  and  Mary  Catherine  (  Far- 
rand )  Hopper,  was  born  in  Xewark,  Xew  Jer- 
sey, February  24,  1876.  He  attended  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Xewark,  and  at  the  age  of  four- 
teen years  became  an  apprentice  to  the  trade 
of  tailor,  and  on  acquiring  this  was  a  custom 
cutter  for  seven  years:  in  1897  he  became  en- 
gaged in  New  York  City  and  continued  to 
work  as  a  cutter  for  six  years.  He  established 
himself  in  business  as  a  merchant  tailor  in 
October,  1903,  at  13  Park  Row,  Xew  York 
City,  in  the  Park  Row^  Building,  occupying  a 
rooiu  on  the  sixth  floor,  Xo.  616,  where  he 
has  a  desirable  class  of  trade  made  up  of  the 
solid  business  men  having  offices  in  the  vicin- 
ity. He  affiliates  with  the  ^lasonic  fraternity, 
being  a  member  of  Bloomfield  Lodge,  Xo.  40. 
of  Bloomfield,  Xew  Jersey,  where  he  has  his 
home.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  First  Pres- 
b_\terian  Church,  of  Bloomfield.  He  married 
in  Xewark,  Xew  Jersey,  February  22,  1900. 
Ida  F.,  born  in  Germany,  March  15,  1873, 
daughter  of  Gustave  and  Caroline  (Ziterling) 
Wiedman.  Their  first  three  children  were  born 
in  Xewark  before  the  family  became  residents 
of  liloomfield.  Children:  i.  Harold  Arthur, 
born  January  18.  1901.  2.  Ellsworth  Louis. 
October  4,  1903.  3.  Eleanor  May,  February 
5,  1906.    4.  Edith  Caroline,  .April  19,  1908. 


As  its  name  indicates  the  Dea- 
DEACOX    con  family  of  New  Jersey  and 

of  England  has  an  ecclesiastical 
origin,  and  the  family  can  be  traced  back  as 
far  as  the  time  of  William  the  Conqueror,  when 
in  the  distribution  of  land,  recorded  in  Domes- 
day Book,  Walter  le  Deacon  is  styled  "tenant 
in  capite,"  denoting  the  most  honorable  tenure 
by  which  lands  could  be  held  in  that  day.  name- 
ly, immediately  from  the  king.  It  was  the 
clerical  standing  of  the  founder  of  the  family 
also  which  gave  the  design  for  its  arms,  w'hich 
are  an  arm  grasping  a  sheaf  of  wheat,  symbol- 
ical of  the  servant  of  the  church  distributing 
its  alms  to  the  poor.  Such  was  the  founder 
and  estate  of  the  family  which  has  since  its 
day  become  so  distinguished,  both  in  England 
and  .America. 

(I)   George,  son  of  Samuel  Deacon,  of  Lon- 


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STATE    (JF    NEW  JERSEY. 


dun,  was  born  in  1642,  in  Church  Waltham. 
county  Essex,  England,  and  died  in  Northamp- 
ton township,  lUirhngton  county,  West  Jersey, 
in  September  or  October,  1725.  He  is  sup- 
posed to  have  been  a  lineal  descendant  of  Wal- 
ter W  Deacon.  ISecoming  a  Friend,  he  set  sail 
to  the  Quaker  colonies  on  the  Delaware  in  the 
shi])  "Willing  Mind,"'  John  Xewcomb,  master, 
which  arrived  in  West  Jersey,  November  3, 
1677.  He  was  accompanied  by  his  father,  his 
wife  Frances,  of  Dedford,  county  Kent,  and  a 
servant  or  indentured  man  whose  passage  he 
had  paid,  Thomas  Edwards.  He  settled  at 
.\ew  Salem,  in  Fenwick"s  colony,  but  soon  re- 
moved to  Alloway's  Creek,  near  Hancock's 
bridge,  Salem  county,  where  he  soon  became  a 
man  of  consciousness  in  the  Society  of  Friend.^ 
and  in  the  civil  and  political  life  of  the  com- 
munity in  which  he  dwelt.  The  transaction  of 
many  important  matters  of  business  were  in- 
trusted to  his  hand.  He  was  a  trustee  for  the 
purchasing  of  lands  for  a  meetinghouse  and 
burial-ground,  and  the  then  big  oak  tree  of 
Salem  which  was  standing  as  late  as  1880 
marked  the  second  plot  in  that  vicinity  selected 
by  him  and  others  for  God's  acre. 

He  called  himself,  from  his  business  in  Eng- 
land, a  feltmakcr;  but  his  designation  in  all 
legal  documents,  except  where  his  official  titles 
were  used,  was  gentleman,  indicating,  accord- 
ing to  the  custom  of  that  day  and  generation, 
that  he  was  entitled  to  wear  coat  armor.  In 
the  Society  of  I-'riends  from  1677  to  1694  he 
was  frequently  chosen  as  committeeman,  trus- 
tee, or  delegate  to  the  conventions  held  at  New- 
town and  I'hiladelpliia.  He  never  came  under 
censure  e.\ce])t  once,  when  as  the  minutes  re- 
cord, December  28,  1(^)92,  "John  rhom])sonand 
Andrew  Thompson  ordered  to  speak  to  George 
Deacon,  Edward  Bellamy  and  Edward  Wade 
to  know  the  reason  why  they  broke  up  the 
meeting  before  Joseph  White  had  done  his 
declaration,  and  give  their  answer  to  the  next 
monthly  meeting."  'I'his  answer  must  have 
been  satisfactory,  as  the  next  monthly  meeting 
ordered  the  above  minute  "init  out."  He  was 
one  of  the  signers  of  the  grants  and  concession, 
and  at  an  early  period  was  president  of  the 
board  of  jiroprietors  of  West  Jersey.  From 
1 682  to  1685  he  was  a  representative  of  the 
general  assembly  and  also  one  of  the  justices 
for  Salem.  In  i('>85  he  was  a  commissioner  for 
laying  out  higlnvaxs,  and  also  a  rei)resentative 
f(jr  the  Salem  Tenth.  In  iCk/>  he  became  king's 
attorney  and  in  1701  provincial  judge,  the  last 
position  being  one  of  the  highest  in  the  prov- 
ince.      Under    Lord    Cornbury    and    (jeneral 


Hunter,  during  their  governorships,  he  was  a 
member  of  the  council,  and  as  such  took  a 
leading  part  in  .the  troubles  between  the  royal 
governors  and  the  people  which  eventuated  in 
the  establishment  of  the  po])ular  liberties  and 
the  adoption  of  forms  of  government  which 
bore  their  fruit  nearly  a  century  later.  In  these 
controversies  George  Deacon  was  always  in  the 
side  of  the  people,  and  when  Queen  Anne  re- 
moved some  of  his  associates,  in  compliance 
with  public  sentiment  and  policy  she  confirmed 
him  and  three  other  officials  in  their  position. 
An  enumeration  of  all  the  offices  that  he  held 
and  an  acount  of  all  that  he  did  would  neces- 
sitate writing  the  history  of  West  Jersey  in 
his  day,  as  he  was  undoubtedly  the  most  active 
and  influential  man  not  only  in  Salem  county, 
where  he  settled  at  first,  but  also  in  Burlington 
county,  to  which  he  removed  about  1704.  Many 
relics  still  exist  of  this  old  pioneer :  and  his 
transactions  proved  him  to  have  been  an  up- 
right, intelligent  and  freeminded  Quaker  who 
had  the  confidence  not  only  of  his  home  com- 
munity but  of  all  in  authority  in  the  mother 
country,  who,  although  strangers  to  him,  be- 
sought him  to  accept  trusts  of  importance 
which  required  execution  in  a  land  to  them 
foreign.  The  correspondence  still  extant  be- 
tween his  wife  and  her  relatives,  the  Bernards 
and  the  farms  of  Bishop's  Burton,  are  curious 
old  evidences  of  George  Deacon's  high  posi- 
tion and  great  worth  and  nf  the  good  circum- 
stances of  his  family. 

His  first  wife,  Frances,  apparently  died  with- 
out issue,  and  July  30,  1688.  he  declared  his 
intention  of  marriage  with  Margaret  Denn,  of 
.Salem,  who  lived  but  a  short  time  after  her 
marriage.  May  10.  1692,  he  laid  before  the 
meeting  again  his  intentions  of  marriage  with 
.^usanna,  daughter  of  Robert  .Ashton,  of  New 
Castle,  then  in  the  province  of  Pennsylvania, 
I'Ow  in  the  state  of  Delaware.  In  1693  he  was 
married  to  Martha  Farm,  widow  of  Simon 
Charles,  of  Northampton  townshi]),  P>urling- 
ton  comity,  who  bure  him  four  children:  I. 
(jeorge.  born  i6(;5:  died  1721;,  leaving  a  widow 
Jane  and  probably  no  children.  2.  Mary,  born 
1697:  married  Edward  Smith.  3.  Martha, 
born  1700:  married  .Samuel  Shivers.  4.  John, 
referred  to  below. 

(II)  John,  son  of  George  and  Martha 
(Farm)  Charles,  was  born  in  Salem  county. 
New  Jersey,  August  t6,  1702,  and  died  in  Bur- 
lington county,  November  26,  1760.  March 
26,  1726,  he  married  Hester,  daughter  of  John 
and  Flizabeth  (  bVampton  )  Wills,  granddaugh- 
ter of  James  and    Hester    (Gardiner)    Wills, 


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and  great-granddaughter  of  Dr.  Daniel  and 
Elizabeth  Wills.  Children:  i.  George,  which 
see  elsewhere.  2.  John,  married  Hannah  El- 
ton. 3.  Joseph.  4.  Martha.  5.  Elizabeth.  6. 
Barzillai,  died  1807,  leaving  widow  Hannah 
and  nine  children.  7.  William,  referred  to 
below.  8.  Samuel.  9.  Mary.  10.  Robert.  11. 
Sarah.     12.  Susanna. 

(Ill)  William,  son  of  John  and  Hester 
(  \\  ill>  )  Deacon,  died  in  lUirlington  county. 
New  Jersey,  in  1811.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Rogers,  who  survived  him.  Children:  i.  Jo- 
seph, referred  to  below.  2.  Daniel,  married 
Martha,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Prudence 
( Borton )  Ridgway :  her  mother's  grandmother 
was  cousin  to  .\aron  Burr.  3.  John.  4.  .Abi- 
gail. 5.  William.  6.  Deborah,  married  Daniel 
Brock. 

(I\')  Joseph,  son  of  William  and  Elizaljeth 
(Rogers)  Deacon,  was  born  in  Burlington 
county,  Xew  Jersey,  about  1774:  died  there  in 
1858.  He  lived  in  Westhampton  township, 
where  he  followed  the  occupation  of  gentle- 
man farmer  and  owned  one  of  the  largest 
estates  in  that  section.  He  married  ( first ) 
Marv.  daughter  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (  Fox) 
Chambers  :  (  second  )  Lydia  Ridgway,  who  died 
without  issue;  (  third),  in  1813,  Beulah,  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  and  Rachel  (  \'enicombe  )  Haines 
(see  Haines,  I\'),  Children,  the  first  by  first 
wife,  and  the  remainder  by  the  third:  i.  Henry 
C,  born  August  13.  1809;  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Israel  D.  and  Sarah  (Borton) 
Stokes.  2.  ]\Iary,  married  David  Cole.  3. 
William.  4.  Joseph,  referred  to  below.  5. 
Robert.  (>.  Joshua.  7.  Japheth.  8.  Benjamin. 
9.  Sallv  .\nn.     10.  Jeremiah. 

( \' )  Joseph  (2).  son  of  Joseph  (ii  and 
P>eulah  (Haines)  Deacon,  was  born  on  the 
old  homestead  farm  in  Westhampton  township, 
Burlington  county,  Xew  Jersey,  October  20. 
1807,  and  died  there,  October  6,  1879.  .After 
receiving  his  education  in  the  ]iublic  school  he 
engaged  in  farming  and  in  buying  and  selling 
real  estate.  He  was  a  man  of  great  influence 
and  prominence  in  his  community,  and  was 
frec|uently  called  upon  to  serve  on  committees 
and  boards,  and  for  a  great  many  years  was 
a  member  of  the  township  committee.  In  relig- 
ious conviction  he  was  affiliated  with  the  Soci- 
ety of  Friends,  He  married  Rebecca  .\.  Haines, 
daughter  of  .\bel  B.  and  Rachel  Woolston. 
Children:  I.  Joseph  Woolston.  2.  .Annie 
Haines,  married  John  P.  Lippincott.  3.  Ben- 
jamin Haines,  referred  to  below,  Rebecca  .A. 
Haines  (Woolston)  Deacon,  died  August  10. 
1890.     -Abel  I'..   Woolston  was  a  son  of  John 


and  I'.eulah  Woolston;  Rachel  was  a  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Woolston. 

(  \'I  )  Benjamin  Haines,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Rebecca  A.  Haines  (Woolston)  Deacon,  was 
born  in  the  old  homestead,  Westhampton 
township,  Burlington  county,  Xew  Jersey, 
.\pril  2,  1851,  where  he  is  now  living.  For  his 
early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  public  schools 
of  Burlington  county,  and  later  to  the  Mount 
Holly  Institute.  After  leaving  school  he  took 
up  farming  under  his  father,  and  has  since 
iidierited  the  old  homestead  which  has  been  in 
his  family  for  generations.  Here  he  has  spent  his 
life  in  agricultural  ])ursuits,  and  like  his  father 
before  him  became  one  of  the  most  influ- 
ential men  of  his  community.  I~or  ten  years 
he  was  the  township  clerk,  and  for  twelve  more 
he  served  a.s  the  district  clerk.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Alount  Holly  Meeting  of  p-riends, 
and  also  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of 
Cnited  Workmen. 

Mav  21,  1880,  he  married  Annie  S.  Zelley, 
who  died  the  following  year  without  issue.  In 
April,  1887,  he  married  (second)  .Adele,  daugh- 
ter of  Ceorge  Zelley.  Children,  all  by  second 
marriage:  I.  Joseph  E.,  born  January  16.  1888. 
2.  .Arthur  Woolston,  April  29,  1889.  3.  Jus- 
tice Z.,  .August  20,  1893. 

(The    Haines   Line,    see    Richard    Haines    1). 

(Ill)  leremiah  Haines,  son  of  William  (q. 
V.)  and  Sarah  (Paine)  Haines,  married  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Robert  Bonnell.  Children: 
I.  Sarah,  born  June  25.  1737:  married  Isaac 
Hilyard.  2.  William,  March  29.  1739:  mar- 
ried Mary  Eastlack.  3.  Robert,  referred  to 
below.  4.  Rebecca,  September  27,  1744:  mar- 
ried John  White.  5.  Frances,  October  10, 
1746:  married  John  Hilyard.  6.  1  lannah,  March 
16,  1749;  married  Samuel  Woolston.  7.  Jere- 
miah, September  14,  1751. 

(  I\')  Robert,  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Hannah 
(  Bonnell )  Haines,  married.  May,  1766,  Rachel, 
daughter  of  Francis  and  Rachel  (Lippincott) 
X'enicombe.  Her  grandparents  were  \\  illiam 
and  Sarah  (  Stockton-Jones )  \'enicombe,  her 
grandmother  being  Sarah,  daughter  of  Rich- 
ard and  -Abigail  Stockton,  the  emigrants.  Chil- 
dren of  Robert  and  Rachel  (\'enicombe) 
Haines:  I.  Hannah,  married  Samuel  Wools- 
ton.  2.  Robert,  married  .Ann  Powell.  3.  .Ann, 
died  unmarried.  4.  Mary,  married  Benjamin 
Davis.  5.  Rachel,  married  John  Bishop.  6. 
P.eulah,  married  Joseph  Deacon  (  see  Deacon, 
I\').  7.  Charlotte,  married  Michael  Wools- 
ton.    8.  William,  married  Mary  Mullin. 


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William  ( i.  Deacon,  a  grandson 

DKACUX  or  great-grandson  of  George 
Deacon  (q.  v.),  of  \\est  Jer- 
sey, is  the  first  member  of  this  branch  of  the 
family  of  whom  we  have  definite  information. 
He  lived  on  the  old  Deacon  homestead  near 
Burlington,  New  Jersey,  and  his  wife's  name 
was  Permelia.  Children  :  William  ;  Abigail ; 
Deborah,  married  probably  Joseph  \\'.  Cole ; 
Elizabeth :  Lydia :  Ann ;  Sarah ;  Maria ; 
Charles  H.,  referred  to  below. 

(Ill)  Charles  H.,  son  of  William  G.  and 
Permelia  Deacon,  was  born  on  the  old  Deacon 
homestead  near  Burlington,  .April  2,  1814,  and 
died  October  5,  1846.  He  married  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  Amos  and  Mary  Buzby,  who  was 
born  I-"ebruary  4,  1814,  and  died  in  1886.  Chil- 
dren:  ]\Iary  Anne,  born  January  23,  1840; 
Charles  H.,  referred  to  below  ;  .\mos  Buzby, 
born  August  11.  1843,  ^^^^^  April  13,  1878. 

(I\)  Charles  H.  (2),  son  of  Charles  H. 
(i)  and  Rebecca  (Buzby)  Deacon,  was  born 
at  Charlestown,  near  Moorestown,  New  Jer- 
sey, December  20,  1841.  and  died  Augu.st  30, 
1905.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools 
and  was  a  farmer  by  occupation.  In  Septem- 
ber, 1862,  he  enlisted  for  nine  months  in  Com- 
pany (;,  Twenty-third  Regiment  New  Jersey 
\'olunteers,  being  mustered  in  September  13 
and  made  corporal  at  the  time  of  his  enlist- 
ment. He  fought  in  the  battles  of  Fredericks- 
burg and  Salem  Church,  and  May  19,  1863, 
was  ])romoted  sergeant.  He  was  mustered  out 
June  27,  1863.  He  then  returned  home  to  his 
farm,  where  he  remained  until  1885.  when  he 
removed  to  Mount  Holly,  New  Jersey,  and 
went  into  the  hardware  business  with  Samuel 
Cline,  with  whom  he  remained  for  five  years. 
In  1900  the  Burlington  County  Hospital  for 
the  Insane  was  built  at  New  Li,sbon,  and  in 
1901  Mr.  Deacon  was  api)ointed  as  superin- 
tendent and  held  this  jiosition  up  to  the  time 
of  his  death.  In  politics  he  was  a  Republican, 
and  he  held  various  township  offices  at  dif- 
ferent times.  He  was  also  prominent  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Society  of  Friends. 

January  1 1,  1868,  he  married  Louisa,  daugh- 
ter of  I'enjaniin  and  I-.ouisa  (Stockton)  Pea- 
cock (see  Peacock).  Children:  Charles  Clar- 
ence, referred  to  below;  Harvey  R..  of  Cam- 
den, New  Jersey;  Marion,  married  Roland 
Warrick,  of  the  South  Jersey  Tobacco  Com- 
pany, of  Mount  Holly,  and  has  two  children — 
Eleanor  Louise  \\'arrick  and  William  Henry 
Warrick,  born  February  29,  1908:  Helen,  mar- 
ried Edwin  Rogers,  a  farmer  of  .Med  ford,  .\'ew 
Jersey. 


( \  )  Charles  Clarence,  son  of  Charles  H. 
(2)  and  Louisa  (Peacock)  Deacon,  was  born 
on  the  old  Deacon  homestead  near  Mount 
1  lolly,  in  1872.  .After  receiving  his  education 
in  the  schools  of  the  township  and  of  Mount 
Holly,  New  Jersey,  he  obtained  a  position  with 
Risdon  &  (Tompany,  of  Mount  Holly,  with 
whom  he  learned  the  business  of  merchant  and 
for  whom  he  worked  four  years.  He  then 
became  superintendent  for  C.  E.  Hires  &  Com- 
])any,  of  Philadel]ihia,  and  after  two  years 
si)ent  with  the  manufacturers  of  Hires  Root 
Beer,  he  went  in  the  employ  of  the  Remington 
Typewriter  Company  first  to  Cleveland  and 
then  to  Toledo,  Ohio,  remaining  in  the  latter 
place  seven  years.  He  then  accepted  the  offer 
of  a  position  as  traveling  salesman  for  the  De 
\'ellis  Manufacturing  Company,  whose  spe- 
cialty was  surgical  instruments,  with  whom 
he  spent  one  year,  covering  territory  from 
Washington,  D.  C,  to  Boston,  Massachusetts. 
He  gave  up  this  position  in  order  to  come  to 
New  Lisbon  and  assist  his  father,  who  was 
su])erintendent  of  the  Burlington  County  Hos- 
])ital  for  the  Insane,  and  when  his  father  died 
in  1905  he  was  appointed  to  succeed  him  as 
superintendent,  a  position  which  he  has  held 
ever  since.  He  is  also  treasurer  of  the  Browns 
Mills  Cranberry  Company,  organized  in  1908. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Mount  Holly  Lodge,  No.  14,  F.  and  A. 
M. :  of  Fort  Meigs  Chapter,  No.  29,  R.  A.  M., 
of  Toledo,  Ohio,  which  was  instituted  June 
26,  1844:  of  Toledo  Council,  No.  10,  Com- 
mercial Travellers  .Association.  .April  15,1908, 
he  married  Maud  \allette  Merritt,  of  Haver- 
straw,  Rockland  county,  New  York. 

(The  Peacock  Line). 

( I )  John  Peacock,  the  founder  of  this  fam- 
ily in  New  Jersey,  was  of  Scotch  descent.  He 
emigrated  to  West  Jersey,  where  he  died  intes- 
tate in  1738  or  1759,  leaving  a  son  John,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Peacock, 
married,  November  2,  1723,  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Zackariah  and  Ellipha  Prickitt.  progeni- 
tor of  the  Prickitt  family  of  West  Jersey.  The 
marriage  was  ])erft)rmed  before  John  (iosling, 
justice  of  the  peace,  of  Xnrtliam])ton.  New 
Jersey.  Children:  i.  Adonijah.  referred  to 
below.  2.  Abner,  born  April  25,  1727;  married 
Margaret  Hutton.  3.  Dianna,  born  June  i, 
1730;  married  John  .Sharp.  4.  Elizabeth,  born 
September  15,  1732;  married  Samuel  Sharp. 
5.  John,  born  December  29,  1734;  married 
Susanna  Ballingcr.     6.  .Alexander,  born  .April 


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■•  U3i7-  7-  Tamer,  born  June  2j.  1739.  8. 
James,  born  August  19,  1740.  9.  .Melcliezedec, 
born  January  31,  1742:  married  Abigail  Thorn. 
10.  ^largaret,  born  January  15,  1746. 

(  III )  Adonijah,  son  of  John  and  EHzabeth 
(  I'rickitt)  Peacock,  was  born  in  Burlington 
ciiunty.  New  Jersey.  October  5,  1724.  He  was 
killed  by  the  accidental  ignition  of  several 
barrels  of  gunpowder  which  he  was  drying 
over  a  fire  in  his  kitchen  during  the  revolution- 
ary war.  A  woman  standing  in  the  north  door 
when  the  explosion  occurred,  was  carried  fifty 
yards  without  injury,  except  the  scorching  of 
her  hair  and  clothing.  A  French  blunderbuss 
suspended  over  the  door  was  discharged,  and 
found  one  hundred  and  fifty  yards  from  the 
house,  which  was  literally  blown  to  atoms.  He 
marrieil.  about  1751,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  J 
I'.enjamin  Springer.  Children:  i.  .Ann,  born 
March  17,  1753;  married  Joshua  Owen.  2. 
Adonijah,  born  February  17,  1755;  died  in  in- 
fancy. 3.  Elizabeth,  born  May  21,  1756;  mar- 
ried James  Read,  and  went  west.  4.  .\donijah, 
born  September  16,  1757  :  marrietl  Sarah  \'oor- 
hees.  5.  John,  born  January  11,  1759:  mar- 
ried ^lary  Shemela.  6.  Benjamin,  born  Sep- 
tember 24,  1760;  married  twice.  7.  Thomas, 
born  July  8,  1762;  married  Ann  Sharp.  8. 
."^amuel,  born  June  6,  1764.  9.  George,  born 
•May  21,  1766;  went  to  Kentucky.  10.  David, 
referred  to  below,  11.  Jacob,  born  December 
8,  1769;  was  in  the  American  army  when  Gen. 
.St.  Clair  was  defeated,  and  went  to  Canada. 
12.  Levi,  born  December  13,  1773.  13.  Debo- 
rah, born  September  16,  1775  ;  married  Thomas 
I'.ishnp.  14.  Grace,  born  September  16,  1777; 
married  Wrigley. 

(IV)  David,  son  of  Adonijah  and  Elizabeth 
(Springer)  Peacock,  was  born  in  Burlington 
county.  New  Jersey.  February  2,  1768.  He 
lived  on  the  \'incentown  road,  and  married 
Sarah  HoUingshead.  Children:  Elizabeth: 
Mary:  Martha:  Sarah:  Benjamin,  referred  to 
below :  David. 

( \' )  Benjamin,  son  of  David  and  Sarali 
(HoUingshead)  Peacock,  was  born  and  lived 
in  Southampton  township,  Burlington  county, 
Xew  Jersey.  He  married  Louisa,  daughter  of 
.Stacy  and  Eliza  (Rossell)  Stockton.  Chil- 
dren :  Adeline  :  Cornelia  :  David  :  Mary  ;  Ben- 
jamin :  Louisa,  referred  to  below:  Howard: 
Ella. 

(\'Ii  Louisa,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and 
Louisa  (Stockton)  Peacock,  was  born  in 
Southampton  township,  Burlington  countv, 
New  Jersey,  June  11,  1844,  and  married,  Janu- 


ary II,   1868.  Charles  H.   (2),  son  of  Charles 
H.  Ill  and  Rebecca  (Buzbyj  Deacon. 


The  name   Van   Blar- 
\'AN   BL.\RCOM     com  is  one  of  the  many 

place  names  which 
have  crystalized  into  surnames,  and  its  origin 
is  found  in  the  little  village  of  Blarcom  or 
Blerkum  situated  near  the  city  of  Rotterdam 
in  Hiiiland.  from  whence  the  founder  of  tlie 
family  in  this  country  emigrated  to  the  New 
Netherlands  about  the  middle  of  the  seven- 
teenth century. 

(  1  )   Johannes  \'an  Blarcom,  founder  of  the 

family,  is  said  to  have  brought  with  him  to 

.America  a  large  family  of  children  and  settled 

in  what  is  now  Hoboken,  Hudson  county,  New 

ersey.     He  certainly  had  at  least  three  sons: 

1.  Pieter  Janse,  married  (first)  Jacomina  Cor- 
nelisse ;  (second)  in  1719,  Widow  Antje 
Meyer.  2.  Gysbert  Janse,  referred  to  below. 
3.  Johannes  Jr.,  married,  July  16,  1693,  Mitje 
Jans.  4.  Hester,  married,  August  27,  1707, 
Lourens  Barents. 

(H)  Gysbert  Janse.  son  of  Johannes  \'an 
Blarcom,  went  to  Hackensack  in  1715,  joined 
the  church  there  and  bought  land.  June  16, 
1706,  he  was  married  by  Dominie  Van  Giesen 
in  the  presence  of  the  court  at  Bergen  to  Mag- 
dalena  Lakomba,  and  it  is  said  that  at  her 
death  he  married  (second)  Antje  Christie. 
Children:      i.   Jan.   married   Vrouwtjen    Kip. 

2.  Marietje,  married  Coenradus  Bos.  3.  An- 
thony. 4.  Willen.  5.  Hendrick,  referred  to 
below.  6.  Helena,  married  Jacob  Ferdon.  7. 
Jacobus. 

(HI)  Hendrick,  son  of  Gysbert  Janse  Van 
Blarcom,  married,  June  15,  1749,  in  Hacken- 
sack, Elizabeth  Koienhoven,  and  among  his 
children  was  Henry,  referred  to  below. 

( 1\' )  Henry,  son  of  Hendrick  and  Elizabeth 
( Koienhoven  )  \'an  Blarcom,  served  during  the 
revolutionary  war  as  a  captain  in  the  Second 
Regiment  of  the  Essex  county,  New  Jersey 
militia,  and  among  his  children  was  Garret,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

( \' )  Garret,  son  of  Captain  Henry  Van 
Blarcom.  was  born  in  Bergen  county.  New 
Jersey,  about  1780.  died  in  1834.  He  served  in 
the  war  of  1812.  By  trade  he  was  a  mason, 
and  about  1820  he  settled  in  Sussex  county, 
where  he  carried  on  farming  for  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were  mem- 
bers of  the  North  Church  (Presbyterian)  of 
Hardyston'  township,  and  in  politics  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Democratic  party.    About  1804 


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STATE   OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


he  married  Mary  De  Graw,  the  descendant  of 
an  old  Huguenot  family,  also  a  member  of  the 
North  Church.  She  was  a  devout  christian 
woman,  and  died  in  1864,  aged  about  eighty 
years:  Children:  I.  Samuel,  born  1805.  died 
July  19,  1867  ;  married,  September,  1829,  Eliza, 
daughter  of  Peter  Gunderman.  2.  William, 
referred  to  below.  3.  Susan,  married  L.  L. 
Conklin.  of  Paterson.  4.  Mary  A.,  married 
J.  F.  Dunn,  of  Belle  Plain,  Iowa. 

(VI)  William,  son  of  Garret  and  Mary  (De 
Graw)  \'an  Blarcom,  was  born  at  the  "Ponds," 
Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  1814,  died  in 
1854.  In  1852  he  removed  to  Lafayette  town- 
ship, Sussex  county,  and  lived  a  quiet  life  as 
a  practical  farmer ;  he  never  sought  political 
place  or  the  emoluments  of  office.  He  mar- 
ried Catherine  A.,  born  1814.  daughter  of 
Jacob  and  Hannah  (Rorick)  Sutton,  of 
Hardyston  township.  In  1858  her  parents  re- 
moved to  Michigan,  where  both  died.  She  and 
her  husband  were  active  members  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church  and  assisted  in  building  the  church 
edifice  at  Monroe  Corner.  Children:  i.  Lewis, 
referred  to  below.  2.  Garret.  3.  Lucy  A., 
married  James  E.  Price,  of  Romeo,  Michigan. 
4.  Susan  C,  married  Nelson  Ackerson,  of 
Lafayette.  5.  Joseph.  6.  .Andrew  J.  7.  Han- 
nah, married  Charles  \.  Dolsen,  of  Newton. 

( \  II )  Lewis,  eldest  son  of  William  and 
Catherine  A.  (Sutton)  \'an  Blarcom,  was  born 
in  Sparta  township,  Sussex  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, July  19,  1835,  died  February  19,  1904 
His  early  education  was  obtained  at  the  com- 
mon school  in  his  native  township  and  under 
the  private  instruction  of  Edward  A.  Stiles,  a 
well-known  teacher  of  Wantage.  His  minor- 
ity was  mostly  spent  at  h<ime.  where  he  be- 
came inuretl  of  farm  work  and  learned  the 
inestimable  lesson  of  self-reliance  and  perse- 
verance. After  reaching  a  suitable  age  he 
became  a  teacher,  continuing  for  four  terms. 
In  1858  he  began  to  read  law  with  N.  R.  Kim- 
ble, of  Hamburg,  and  after  one  year  entered 
the  law  ofifice  of  John  Linn,  of  Xewton.  Au- 
gust 25.  1862,  he  enlisted  as  first  lieutenant. 
Company  D,  I-'ifteenth  Regiment,  New  Jersey 
X'olunteers.  and  for  meritorious  service  was 
promoted  in  June,  1863,  to  captain  of  Com- 
Ijany  C.  This  regiment  was  a  part  of  the  first 
New  Jersey  Brigade,  which  formed  a  part  of 
the  Army  of  the  Potnmac,  i'irst  Division, 
Si.vth  .\rmy  Corps.  During  his  service  he  was 
in  the  following  engagements:  Fredericks- 
burg, December.  i8(')2;  Second  I-Vedericksburg 
at  Salem  Heights,  May,  1863  ;  Gettysburg,  July, 


1863;  Rappahannock  Station,  November,  1863; 
Spottsylvania,  May  8,  1864.  In  this  latter  en- 
gagement he  was  wounded  and  captured  by 
the  enemy  and  had  his  leg  amputated  by  their 
surgeons.  After  remaining  in  the  hospital  for 
ten  days  he  was  carried  to  Richmond  and 
placed  in  Libby  Prison,  where  he  remained 
until  September  12,  1864,  when  he  was  e.x- 
changed  antl  placed  in  the  hospital  at  Annap- 
olis. December  19,  1864,  he  received  his  dis- 
charge from  service  and  returned  home.  After 
his  return  to  Newton  he  resumed  the  study  of 
law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  as  attorney, 
June,  1865,  and  in  June,  1868,  as  counsellor. 
He  then  began  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  Newton,  where  he  met  with  great  and  well- 
deserved  success.  From  1869  to  1873  he  was 
associated  in  business  with  Joseph  Coult,  from 
1873  to  1880  with  Lewis  Cochran.  Governor 
Randolph  appointed  him,  March  25,  1869, 
prosecutor  of  the  pleas,  and  he  discharged  the 
duties  of  that  ofifice  with  acknowledged  ability 
and  justice  for  a  term  of  five  years.  Politically 
speaking  Captain  \'an  Blarcom  was  a  Repub- 
lican and  a  leading  and  influential  man  in  his 
party  in  Susse.x  county.  He  was  the  Repub- 
lican candidate  for  county  clerk,  member  of 
congress,  but  failed  of  election  owing  to  his 
party  being  largely  in  the  minority.  For  two 
years  he  was  one  of  the  chosen  board  of  free- 
holders. For  many  years  he  was  the  chairman 
iif  the  Republican  county  committee. 

August  17,  1871,  he  married  Mary,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Alexander  H.  Thomson,  of  Marksboro, 
Warren  county,  New  Jersey  (see  Thomson, 
1\').  Children:  i.  Kate.  2.  Andrew,  referred 
to  below.     3.  Lewis  Jr. 

(\TI1)  .Andrew,  second  child  and  eldest 
son  of  Lewis  anil  Mary  (Thomson)  \'an  Blar- 
com, was  born  in  Newton,  Sussex  county.  New 
Jersey,  November  12,  1881,  and  is  now  living 
in  Newark,  New  Jersey.  He  was  educated  at 
tiio  Newton  Collegiate  Institute,  after  which 
he  read  law  in  the  office  of  Messrs.  Count  & 
Howell,  F.squires,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
.New  Jersey  bar  as  attorney  in  February,  1902. 
and  as  counsellor  in  I-'ebruary,  1905.  Since 
that  time  he  has  been  in  the  general  practice 
of  his  ])rofession  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
where  lie  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  rising  men 
of  the  present  generation.  In  politics  Mr.  \'an 
P.larcom  is  a  Rei)ublican.  He  is  a  Presbyterian, 
and  a  member  of  the  Essex  Club  of  Newark, 
of  the  Lawyers'  Club  of  Newark,  and  of  the 
Wednesday  Club.  May  9,  1906,  Mr.  Van 
Blarcom    married    in     .Newark,    Sara    Streit, 


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daughter  of  Joseph  M.  Riker.  Children:  An- 
drew Jr.,  born  April  19,  1907.  Sarah  Hunter, 
born  September  24,  1909. 

(The    Thomson    Line). 

Colonel  Mark  Thomson,  the  first  member  of 
the  family  of  whom  we  have  definite  informa- 
tion, settled  first  in  Ciiangewater,  and  then  in 
Marksboro,  Sussex  ( now  Warren )  county, 
New  Jersey,  the  latter  of  which  places  was 
named  in  his  honor.  He  was  one  of  the  lead- 
ing men  of  his  day,  was  commissioned  lieu- 
tenant-colonel of  Colonel  Stewart's  battalion 
of  minute-men,  February  15,  1776;  colonel  of 
the  First  Regiment  of  Sussex  County  Militia, 
July  10,  1776:  and  colonel  of  the  Battalion  of 
Detached  Militia,  July  18,  1776.  He  was  also 
after  the  revolution  apijointed  lieutenant-colo- 
nel and  aide-cle-camp  on  staff  of  Governor 
Richard  Howell,  June  10,  1793.  In  1775  he 
was  a  member  of  the  provincial  congress  of 
New  Jersey,  and  was  appointed  sheriff  of 
Sussex  county  in  October,  1779,  October,  1791, 
and  October.  1794.  From  1786  to  1788  he 
was  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  council  of 
state,  and  in  1779  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
as.sembly.  From  1795  to  1799  he  was  a  repre- 
sentative from  New  Jersey  to  the  fourth  and 
fifth  United  States  congresses.  He  died  De- 
cember 14,  1803.  In  1768  he  married  Ann 
Breckenridge.  Children:  i.  Robert  C,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  Jacob  Stern,  attorney  and 
counsellor  at  law,  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey 
bar  in  1796;  member  of  the  New  Jersey  coun- 
cil of  state,  1806;  member  from  Sussex  county 
to  the  New  Jersey  legislature,  1823-24;  and 
was  the  first  member  of  the  same  body  from 
Warren  county  in  1825,  the  year  in  which 
that  county  was  set  apart.  3.  Ann  Brecken- 
ridge, married  Dr.  Samuel  Fowler.  4.  Mar- 
tha, married  Edward  Sharp.  5.  Maria  C, 
married  James  V.  Anderson. 

(II)  Robert  C,  son  of  Colonel  Mark  and 
Ann  (  Breckenridge)  Thomson,  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  Jersey  assembly  from  Sussex 
county  from  1816  to  1819.  He  married  Maria, 
daughter  of  Elias  and  Mary  (Joline)  Woodruflf 
(see  Woodruff  X).  Children:  i.  Alexander 
Hamilton,  referred  to  below.  2.  George,  mar- 
ried his  cousin,  Susan,  daughter  of  .\aron 
Dickinson  and  (Irace  ( Lowrey  )  Woodruff.  3. 
Mark,  married  Ruth  Smith.  4.  Theodore.  5. 
Robert.     6.  Edward. 

(HI)  .\lexander  Hamilton,  son  of  Robert 
C.  and  Maria  ( Woodruff )  Thomson,  was  born 
in  the  old  homestead  at  Marksboro,  which  is 
still  standing.     He  graduated  from  Princeton 


College  in  1824,  and  then  took  his  degree  from 
the  Medical  School  of  the  L'niversity  of  Penn- 
sylvania. He  then  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession  at  Marksboro,  where  he  lived  for 
the  greater  part  of  his  life,  combining  with 
his  medical  services  the  management  of  a  farm 
and  a  milling  business.  He  married,  August 
19,  1830,  Rachel  Everitt,  born  June  7,  1809. 
Children:  i.  Susan  Dowers.  2.  Elizabeth 
Catharine.  3.  Mary,  referred  to  below.  4. 
Jane  Woodruff. 

(IV)  Mary,  daughter  of  Dr.  Alexander 
Hamilton  and  Rachel  (Everitt)  Thomson,  of 
Marksboro,  Warren  count}',  New  Jersey,  mar- 
ried, August  17,  1871,  Lewis,  son  of  William 
and  Catharine  A.  (Sutton)  \''an  Blarcom  (see 
\'an  Blarcom,  \TI). 

(The    Woodruff    Line). 

Thomas  Woodrove,  the  first  member  of  the 
family  of  whom  we  have  definite  information, 
appears  of  record  in  the  town  of  Fordwich. 
county  Kent,  England,  in  1508.  He  died  in 
1552.  In  1538  he  was  one  of  the  magistrates 
who  arranged  for  the  conveyancing  to  some 
favored  individuals  of  a  portion  of  the  pos- 
sessions of  the  monastery  of  St.  Augustine, 
which  had  been  despoiled  and  desecrated  by 
King  Henry  \  HI.  The  family  name  has  been 
variously  spelled  in  different  generations. 

(II)  William  Woodroft'e,  son  of  Thomas, 
died  in  1587.  He  was  a  jurat  or  magistrate 
of  Fordwich  in  1579,  and  also  key  keeper  of 
the  town  chest,  one  of  the  most  honorable 
offices  in  the  borough. 

(III)  Robert,  son  of  William  WoodroiTe. 
died  in  161 1.  He  and  his  brother  William, 
whose  family  became  e.xtinct  in  1673,  were 
freemen  of  Fordwich  in  1580,  and  Robert  was 
church  warden  and  jurat  in  1584.  He  married 
at  St.  Mary,  Northgate,  in  1573.  Alice  Russel. 

(I\')  John,  son  of  Robert  and  .Alice  (Rus- 
sel) Woodroffe,  was  born  at  Fordwich.  in  1574, 
died  in  161 1.  On  reaching  manhood  he  took 
up  his  residence  in  Northgate.  where  his  uncle, 
\\'illiam  Russel,  was  church  warden.  He  mar- 
ried, in  1601,  Elizabeth  Cartwright,  who  after 
his  death  married  John  Gosmer.  Esquire. 

(  \' )  John  Woodruff  (2),  only  son  of  John 
(I)  and  Elizabeth  (Cartwright)  Woodroft'e, 
was  baptized  at  St.  Mary,  Northgate.  in  1604, 
died  in  May.  i670.in  Southampton,  Long  Island. 
In  1636  he  was  church  warden  at  Fordwich,  and 
a  year  or  two  later  he  accompanied  his  mother 
and  step-father  to  America,  being  in  Lynn, 
Massachusetts,  and  Southampton,  Long  Island, 
in  1639  and  1640.  In  1657  his  step-father  deed- 


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ed  him  his  own  homestead.  He  married  .Ann, 
conjectured  to  have  been  the  daughter  either 
of  his  step-father,  John  Gosmer,  or  of  a  Mr. 
Hyde.  Cliildren:  i.  John,  referred  to  below. 
2.  -Ann,  married  Robert  Woolley.  3.  EHzabeth, 
married  Robert  Dajton.  4.  John,  married  Han- 
nah   . 

(VI)  John  (3),  eldest  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Ann  \\'oodrulif,  was  baptized  in  the  parish  of 
Slurry,  county  Kent,  England,  in  1637,  died  at 
Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey,  in  April  or  May, 
1691.  He  accompanied  his  parents  and  grand- 
parents to  Southampton,  and  April  30,  1657, 
is  included  in  the  list  of  arms-bearing  men. 
May  I,  1663,  he  was  elected  constable,  and  be- 
tween -August  29  and  September  7,  1665,  he 
sold  his  Southampton  lands,  preparatory  to 
removing  to  Elizabethtownj  in  which  latter 
place  he  soon  became  one  of  the  leading  citi- 
zens, holding  the  offices  of  ensign,  high  sheriff, 
magistrate  and  one  of  the  most  prominent  op- 
ponents of  the  lords  proprietors.  His  only 
brother  was,  like  himself,  named  John,  a  fact 
jiroven  by  their  father's  will,  but  as  the  latter 
remained  in  Southampton,  where  he  inherited 
the  bulk  of  his  father's  estate,  the  two  lines 
have  had  distinct  histories.     John  Woodruff, 

of  Elizabethtown,  married  (first)  Sarah ; 

and  (second)  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Ogden. 
Children:  i.  Sarah,  died  young.  2.  John,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  Jonathan.  4.  Elizabeth. 
5-  Benjamin.  6.  Sarah.  7.  Joseph.  8.  David. 
9.  Daniel,  married  Ann  Price.     10.  Hannah. 

( VH)  John  (4),  son  of  John  (3)  and  Mary 
(Ogden)  Woodruff,  was  born  in  Elizabeth- 
town,  New  Jersey,  and  was  a  joiner.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah,  daughter  of  Timothy  and  Eliza- 
beth (Munson)  Cooper.  Children:  i.  Timo- 
thy, born  about  1683,  died  1766:  married  Mary 
Baker.  2.  Elias.  3.  Thomas,  born  about  1689, 
died  1752 ;  married  Hannah  Ward.  4.  Jona- 
than. 5.  John,  married  Mercy  Carle.  6.  David, 
referred  to  below. 

(VTH)  David,  son  of  John  (4)  and  Sarah 
(Cooper)  Woodruff,  was  born  in  Elizabeth- 
town,  about  1689  or  1690,  died  there  in  1749. 
He  married  Eunice,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and 
.Sarah  (Harrison)  Ward,  of  Newark,  who 
died  in  Elizabethtown  in  1749.  Children:  i. 
David,  born  about  1720,  died  1795;  married 
(first)  Sarah  Davis,  (second)  Sarah  Zeleff, 
and  (third)  the  Widow  Meeker.  2.  Abner, 
born  about  1723.  died  1792:  married  Rachel 
Meeker.  3.  Nathaniel.  4.  Eunice,  married 
Thomas  Mann.  5.  Elias,  referred  to  below. 
6.  Jabez.     7.  Jonathan.     8.  Uzal,  born  about 


1745,  died  1774;  married  Elizabeth  Ogden.  9. 
Jediah.    10  to  12.  Three  sons,  names  unknown. 

(IX)  Elias,  son  of  David  and  Eunice 
(Ward)  \\'oodruff,  was  born  in  Elizabeth- 
town,  about  1739,  died  there  in  1802.  He  mar- 
ried, in  1 761,  Mary  Joline,  a  descendant  of 
.Andre  Joline,  a  French  Huguenot,  who  was 
a  member  of  the  French  Church  in  New  York, 
in  1688,  and  whose  son  Andrew  removed  to 
Elizabethtown,  where  he  became  alderman, 
February  8,  1739;  was  one  of  the  committee 
apjiointed  to  settle  the  division  line  between 
Newark  and  Elizabeth  and  from  1734  to 
1738  was  collector  of  Elizabethtown.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Aaron  Dickinson,  Esquire,  born 
1761,  died   1817;  married  Grace  Lowrey.     2. 

George  W.,  died  1846;  married  Jean  H.  . 

3.  Phebe.  4.  Mary  or  i\laria,  referred  to  be- 
low. 5.  Elizabeth,  married  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Howe.    6.  Susan.    7.  Harriet. 

(X)  Maria,  daughter  of  Elias  and  Mary 
(Joline)  Woodruff',  married  Robert  C,  son 
of  Colonel  Mark  and  .Ann  (Breckenridge) 
Thomson  (see  Thomson,  H). 


(\1I)  William  Henry  Irick 
HILLIARD  Hilliard,  D.  D.  S.,  son  of 
Franklin  (q.  v.)  and  Lydia 
Hewling  (Irick)  Hilliard,  was  born  in  Vin- 
centown.  New  Jersey,  in  1841.  While  a  lad 
his  father  removed  from  that  \Aace  to  Salem, 
C)hiu.  where  the  son  received  his  early  educa- 
tion. In  1861,  at  the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war, 
being  then  nineteen  years  of  age,  he  responded 
to  President  Lincoln's  call  for  troops,  and  en- 
listed in  Comjjany  H,  Nineteenth  Regiment 
Ohio  X'olunteer  Infantry.  He  was  offered  the 
cajitaincy  of  his  company,  but  declined  on  ac- 
count of  his  youth,  being  the  }oungest  mem- 
ber. .Against  his  protest  he  was  elected  hrst 
lieutenant,  and  served  in  that  capacity  until  the 
end  of  the  first  three  months  term.  He  was 
one  of  the  gallant  fellows  who,  at  the  expira- 
tion of  his  three  months'  service,  re-enlisted, 
taking  his  i)lace  in  the  ranks,  and  in  due  time 
was  commissioned  first  lieutenant.  He  served 
in  the  .Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  participated 
in  the  battles  of  the  .Shenandoah  \  alley  and 
with  the  .Army  of  the  Potomac.  In  the  last 
year  of  the  war  he  served  under  General  Phil 
Sheridan.  .At  the  battle  of  .Aldie  he  was 
wounded,  taken  prisoner,  and  was  recaptured 
the  next  nidrning,  and  lay  in  t!,e  hos])ital  three 
months  on  account  of  his  wounds.  He  was 
with  General  Siieridan  in  his  closing  operations 
cliising  with  the  surrender  of  General  Lee  at 


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Appomattox  Court  Mouse,  \irginia,  and  soon 
thereafter,  peace  having  been  restored,  was 
honorably  mustered  out  of  service. 

Returning  home,  he  turned  his  attention  to 
the  study  of  dentistry,  under  the  instruction  of 
Dr.  Stockton,  at  Mount  Holly,  and  then  com- 
pleted a  course  at  the  Penn  Dental  School, 
Pennsylvania,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1 87 1.  Later  the  same  year  he  located  in  Bord- 
entovvn,  where  he  has  since  remained,  and  has 
won  for  himself  a  more  than  enviable  reputa- 
tion in  his  jjrofession,  and  which  is  far  from 
being  merely  local.  He  is  an  honored  mem- 
ber of  various  dental  associations.  In  relig- 
ion he  is  a  Baptist.  He  is  affiliated  with  Mount 
Moriah  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons. 
Dr.  Hilliard  married,  in  1875,  \'irginia.  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Woolston)  Wools- 
ton,  of  Mount  Holly.  Children,  all  born  in 
Bordentown :  i.  Augusta,  married  Henry 
Brakeley,   of    Bordentown;    child — Henry   Jr. 

2.  Mary,  unmarried :  living  with  her  parents. 

3.  Helen,  married  John  Conard,  of  Beverly, 
New  Jersey ;  children — John  Jr.  and  William. 

4.  X'irginia  D.,  married  Edgar  F.  Satlerthwait. 


died    1768.     He  married 


Cleary,  died 


The  name  Wall  is  a  corruption  of 
\\'.ALL     De  \'a\,  and  it  was  introduced  into 

Ireland  by  the  Normans  in  1 169. 
The  bearers  of  this  name  settled  in  the  south 
of  Ireland  and  held  estates  in  Waterford  and 
Cork.  The  family  seat  was  at  Coolnamuck, 
Waterford.  They  were  sold  under  the  encum- 
bered estate  act,  1852,  and  are  now  held  by 
the  Ormond  Buttlers.  The  name  is  still  car- 
ried in  the  original  form  by  the  Italian  and 
I'rench  descendants  of  the  family.  In  some 
cases  it  is  written  Del  \  al,  notably  in  that  of 
Merry  Del  \'al,  secretary  to  F'ope  Pius  X,  who 
is  a  direct  descendant  of  the  Waterford  branch. 
The  name  was  introduced  into  Spain  by  Rich- 
ard Wall,  born  in  Waterford,  Ireland,  1693, 
died  at  Granada  in  1778.  He  entered  the 
Spanish  navy  while  still  a  youth,  and  rose  to 
the  rank  of  major-general.  He  served  as  pri- 
vate agent  of  Spain  at  Ai.x-La-Chapelle,  was 
minister  to  the  Court  of  St.  James,  and  later 
minister  of  foreign  affairs  to  Ferdinand  \'I. 
and  Charles  III.  It  is  to  his  antiquarian  zeal 
that  the  world  is  indebted  for  the  preservation 
of  the  Alhambra.  His  father  was  a  colonel  in 
the  army  of  James  II,,  and  had  two  brothers, 
one  of  whom  was  father  of  Garrett  Wall,  of 
whom  further. 

( I )   Garrett   Wall,  progenitor  of  the  Wall 
family   here   under  consideration,   born    1710, 


1779.  Among  his  children  was  a  son  James, 
see  forward. 

( II )   James,    son    of    Garrett    and    

(Cleary)  Wall,  was  born  in  1764;  died  1806. 
He  was  an  officer  in  the  United  Irishmen,  and 
ver\-  active  in  the  stirriixg  days  of  1798.  He 
was  somewhat  of  a  political  figure  in  his  time, 
and  his  services  were  much  in  demand  as  an 
orator.  He  married,  1794,  Mary  Brouders, 
born  1769,  died  1809.  Children:  i.  Patrick, 
born  1796;  see  forward.  2.  Garrett,  born  1799; 
died  1842.  3.  Ellen,  born  1801  ;  died  1851.  4. 
William,  born  1805;  died  1869. 

(HI)  Patrick,  eldest  son  of  James  and  Mary 
(Brouders)  Wall,  was  born  in  1796;  died 
1879.  He  was  a  contractor  for  army  clothing 
in  London,  England,  during  the  Crimean  war. 
He  returned  to  Ireland,  where  his  death  oc- 
curred, and  was  buried  in  the  family  plot  at 
Glanworth.  He  married,  1825,  Hanora,  born 
1797,  dietl  1881,  daughter  of  Michael  and  Mary 
(Birmingham)  Keleher,  who  were  married  in 
1796;  the  former,  born  1768,  died  1841,  and 
the  latter,  born  1770,  died  1800.  Children  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wall:  i.  Mary,  born  1826;  died 
at  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  1904 ;  mar- 
ried in  London,  England,  1853,  Jeremiah  Cole- 
man. 2.  Ellen,  born  1828;  died  1834.  3.  Mar- 
garet, born  1831  ;  last  heard  from  in  1854,  when 
she  was  living  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  where 
she  married  John  Sattier.  4.  James,  born  1833; 
living  in  London,  England;  married,  1864, 
Ellen  Courtney.  5.  Michael,  born  December 
2,  1836:  see  forward.  6.  John,  born  1838; 
went  to  Italy  as  secretary  to  one  of  the  British 
representatives  at  Rome  during  the  Papal  war  ; 
a  letter  received  from  him  stated  that  he  was 
wounded,  and  after  that  all  efforts  to  locate 
him  failed.  7.  Patrick,  born  1840;  living  in 
London,  England;  married,  1866,  Hanora, 
sister  of  Susanna  Greene,  wife  of  his  brother 
Michael. 

(IV)  Michael,  son  of  Patrick  and  Hanora 
(Keleher)  W'all,  was  born  December  2,  1836. 
He  was  educated  in  London,  England,  became 
a  military  tailor,  which  was  not  to  his  liking, 
so  he  abandoned  that  trade  and  became  a  trav- 
eling auctioneer.  He  settled  at  New  Bruns- 
wick, New  Jersey,  June  12,  1870,  where  he  took 
a  position  with  the  tailoring  firm  of  M.  D. 
\'incent  &  Company,  and  continued  in  the  same 
line  until  his  retirement  from  active  business 
pursuits  in  1897.  He  married.  May  11,  1866, 
Susanna,  born  February  2,  1839,  eldest  daugh- 
ter of  George  and  Mary  (Hennessy)  Greene, 


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who  were  married  in  1838,  the  former  burn 
181 1,  died  July  7,  1886,  the  latter  born  1819, 
died  1883.  (leorge  Greene  was  postmaster 
and  revenue  collector  at  Glanworth  fifty-one 
years.  Susanna  (Greene)  Wall  received  her 
education  at  the  Black  Rock  Convent  and  the 
l.^ublin  L'niversity  of  Teachers,  after  which  she 
became  ])rinci])al  of  the  Glanworth  public 
.schools.  Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wall:  i. 
John  P.,  see  forward.  2.  Hanna.  born  iSCxj ; 
died  aged  four  months.  3.  Susanna,  born  1873  '< 
died  aged  five  months.  4.  .\nnie.  born  1876; 
died  aged  eleven  months.  5.  Michael,  born 
1 88 1  :  died  aged  si.\  months.  6.  Mary  T.,  resi- 
dent of  lirooklyn.  New  York.  7.  Nora  M., 
resident  of  New  Brunswick,  Xew  Jersey.  8. 
James  M.,  resident  of  Xew  Brunswick,  Xew 
Jersey :  married,  January  7,  1903,  Emma, 
daughter  of  William  and  Fannie  (Breese) 
Wright ;  children  : — James  ClitYord  and  George 
Greene  Wall.  9.  Margaret  C,  graduate  of  St. 
Agnes  Academy,  and  State  Xormal  School  at 
Trenton,  1900,  now  a  teacher  in  public  schools 
of  Xew  Brunswick,  Xew  Jersey. 

{\' )  John  P.,  son  of  Michael  and  Susanna 
(Greene)  Wall,  was  born  January  22,  1868. 
His  education  was  acquired  in  the  Xew  Bruns- 
wick schools.  He  is  a  merchant.  Mr.  Wall  is 
noted  for  his  literary  ability,  and  among  the 
articles  of  note  which  he  has  written  are  the 
following:  "When  the  British  held  Xew  Brunr-- 
wick,"  "Xew  Brunswick  during  the  War  of 
1812,"  "How  Xew  Brunswick  became  the 
County  Seat,"  "Before  the  Railroad  came  to 
Town."  "When  County  Sheriffs  were  Hang- 
men." ".\ew  Brunswick's  Xavy  in  the  Revolu- 
tion," ".\ew  Brunswick  at  the  Critical  Period 
of  the  Revolution,"  "The  Moods  of  the  Rari- 
tan."  "When  the  Irish  came  to  .America,"  "The 
Settlement  and  Progress  of  the  Catholic  Church 
at  Xew  r.runswick.  Xew  Jersey,"  "A  History  of 
Clerical  Garments,"  "The  Boys  of  '98."  and  sev- 
eral others  of  more  or  less  im])ortance.  Mr.  Wall 
is  reputed  to  have  one  of  the  finest  private 
libraries  of  .\mericana  in  Xew  Jersey,  and  is 
considered  an  authority  on  local  history,  it 
was  under  his  direction  that  the  early  record- 
of  the  common  council  were  copied  for  the 
Xew  i'.runswick  Historical  Society.  He  estab- 
lished the  "Wall  Targuni  Prize"  at  Rutgers 
College,  lie  was  chairman  of  the  committee 
on  arrangements  to  welcome  home  the  soldiers 
from  the  .Spanish-.\merican  war.  Mr.  Wall 
married.  January  15,  i<P3.  Elizabeth  Hope, 
second  daughter  of  .Samuel  and  .Margaret 
(Harding)  Macom.  who  were  married  .August 
12.  1866;  the  former  was  born  September  29. 


1841.  (lied  December  9,  1889:  the  latter  was 
born  .August  i.  1844.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wall  have 
one  child — Evelvn  Macom. 


The  Howells  are  said  by  anti- 
HOW'ELL  quarians  to  be  of  Welsh  origin, 
although  the  surname  is  found 
more  frec|uently  in  England  than  perhaps  any 
other  portion  of  the  British  possessions.  It  is 
said,  too,  that  the  Welsh  Howells  trace  their 
ancestry  to  one  Hywel  Dda  ("Howell  the 
Good"),  of  Wales,  A.  D.,  800,  who  is  men- 
tioned as  "an  early  and  beloved  law-maker." 

The  Howell  family  of  the  branch  treated  in 
this  place  is  supposed  to  have  been  of  kin  with 
the  family  of  Edward  Howell,  who  is  mention- 
ed by  Burke  as  "the  owner  of  the  manor  of 
Westbury,  in  March  county,  Buckingham, 
which  he  soUl  prior  to  his  departure  for  .Amer- 
ica." He  was  a  son  of  William  Howell,  of 
\\  edon,  Bucks,  England,  who  died  1557,  and 
who  undoubtedly  was  a  descendant  of  remote 
Welsh  ancestors.  Edward  Howell  came  from 
England  in  1638,  and  settled  first  in  Lynn, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  had  a  grant  of  five 
hundred  acres  of  land.  This  he  soon  sold,  and 
with  others  formed  the  first  colony  that  left 
Lynn  and  settled  on  Long  Island,  where  they 
founded  the  town  of  Southampton.  F^rom 
there  the  Howells  scattered  and  settled  in  other 
jiarts  of  the  eastern  colonies,  and  a  fair  num- 
lier  of  them  came  over  into  the  Jerseys. 

(  1 )  Hugh  1  lowell,  with  whom  our  present 
narrative  begins,  was  born  in  Wales  in  1659, 
and  died  in  .\ew  Jersey,  September  14.  1745. 
He  is  believed  to  have  been  related  to  the  fam- 
ilv  of  Edward  Howell,  mentioned  in  the  pre- 
ceding ])aragra])h.  although  the  relationship 
seems  difficult  to  establish  at  this  time.  He 
undoubtedly  came  over  much  later  than  Ed- 
ward, but  whether  he  ever  lived  on  Long  Island 
at  any  time  is  unknown,  for  he  appears  in  Xew 
Jersey  at  a  period  much  later  than  that  during 
which  the  Xew  England  colonists  were  driven 
from  their  settlement  at  .'^oulhaml)ton  by  the 
Dutch  claimants  of  that  territory;  and  we  only 
known  that  Hugh  Howell  lived  for  a  time  in 
Xew  Jersey,  died  there,  and  was  buried  at 
Baptisttown  in  1745.  Chambers  in  his  "Early 
Germans  of  Xew  Jersey,"  takes  no  account  of 
Hugh  Howell,  and  begins  his  narrative  of  the 
family  life  there  with  the  .-second  son  of  Hugh. 
(  11  )  Sam])son.  son  of  1  lugh  Howell,  is  said 
to  have  been  born  in  1718.  and  died  b'ebruary 
3,  1803.  In  the  history  of  the  township  of 
ilope.  Warren  county,  Xew  Jersey,  it  is  writ- 
ten that  "The  llinvelis  located  on  the  east  side 


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of  the  township,  near  where  now  ( 1880)  stands 
the  I'nion  .MethocUst  Episcopal  church."   Samp- 
son Howell  was  the  pioneer  of  that  name,  and 
many  of  the  Howell  descendants  still  live  m 
that  locality.     On  his  death  Sampson  Howell 
was  buried   in   Union  cemetery,  a   few   miles 
from  Hope,  and  his  descendants  are  scattered 
throughout  Warren  and  Susse.x  counties.     He 
was  a  devout  member  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land,   and    according    to    his    gravestone    he 
preached  at  times.    The  baptismal  name  of  his 
wife   was  Jane,  but   her    family   name   is  not 
known.     They  had  three  sons :     1.  Levi,  born 
1746,  died  1825  ;  married,  and  had  sons,  George 
and  Samuel,  and  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Harris.     2. 
Sampson,  see  forward.     3.  Jonah,  born  1757, 
died    1849;  married,   and  had  sons,  Asa  and 
Caleb,  and  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Osmun. 

(HI)    Sampson    (2),  son  of  Sampson    (il 
and  lane  Howell,  was  born  May  i,  1750-  '''ed 
December  20,    18 10.     He  lived  in   Hardwick, 
Warren  countv,  and  married  Elizabeth  Rich- 
ards, born  March  3,  I759-  ^'ed  April  18,  1818; 
children  :    I.  Isaac,  born  1777,  died  1835  ;  mar- 
ried, and  had  Philip  S.,  David  K.  and  Eliza- 
beth      2.    lames,   born    Xovember   27,    1778; 
married,  and  had  John  L.,  Xichols,  Robert  and 
Mary  A.     3.  Levinah.  born   1780,  died   1854: 
married  George  \an  Horn,  and  had  William, 
Isaac,  Green,  Shaver  and  George  \  an  Horn. 
4   1  evi    married,  and  had  .Aaron.  Susan,  Xel- 
s„n  and   (larret.     5.   Garret,  born  September 
zS.  178V  died  January  12,  1837;  married,  and 
ha<l  Euphemia,  Letitia  and  Gideon  L.    6.  Na- 
than   born  Xovember  11,  1784.     7.  John,  born 
lune  26,   1788:  married,  and  lived  in   Blairs- 
town   New  Jersev.    8.  Aaron,  see  forward.    9. 
Achsah.   born    X'ovember    29.    1792:    married 
David   Kinnev,  of   Livonia,   New   ^  ork.      10. 
letitia.    born' May   8.    I795:    married   James 
I'.ucklev,  of  Alton,  Illinois.     11.  Uzal  Ogden. 
born  December  16,  1797,  died  .\pril  17,  1834; 
married,  and  had  .Alexander  C,  of  Hacketts- 
town    New  Jersev:  children:     Christian  L.,  of 
Corning.  Xew  York:  Uzal  H.,  of  \  lenna.  New 
Jersey;  Isaac  B.,  of  Hackettstown,  and  Samp- 
son O..  of  Vienna. 

I  (IV)   .Aaron,  son  of  Sampson  (2)  and  Eliz- 

abeth (Richards)  Howell,  was  born  in  Hope. 
New  Jersev,  October  3,  1790.  died  March  5. 
i8S7  He  'removed  to  Egg  Harbor,  New  Jer- 
sev in  1813.  and  afterward  lived  there.  He 
married  Marv  Dildine.  born  January  13.  1780. 
i  daughter  of  'Samuel  and  Rhoda  Ogden  Dil- 
■  ('ine"-  children:  i.  Caroline,  married  Godfrey 
Nolan.     2.  Laban,  see  post.    3.  Thaddeus.    4- 


Elizabeth.     5.  Thomas.     6.  George.     7.  Will- 
iam. 

(\)  Laban,  son  of  Aaron  and  Mary  (Dil- 
dine) Howell,  was  born  near  Hope,  Warren 
county,  Xew  Jersey,  March  6,  1820,  died  May 
19,  1868.  He  was  given  a  good  common  school 
education  in  his  home  township,  and  after- 
ward became  a  successful  farmer  in  or  near 
\'incentown,  where  his  business  life  was  chief- 
ly spent.  In  politics  he  originally  was  a  W  hig, 
and  later  became  a  Republican.  In  1842  he 
married  Clarissa  Lawrence,  of  New  Egypt, 
.Xew  Jersey,  and  had  five  children:  i.  John 
Richa'rd,  see  forward.  2.  Dr.  .Aaron,  now  of 
Camden,  Xew  Jersey.  3.  Mary,  now  living  in 
Mt.  Holly.  4.  -Adda,  married  J.  Sexton  hol- 
well.      5.    Ella,   now   dead,   married   Jeremiah 

Colkitt.  ,    ,, 

(  \1  )  John  Richards,  son  of  Laban  and  Cla- 
rissa (  Lawrence)  Howell,  was  born  near  \  in- 
centown,  Xew  Jersey,  January  i,  1844,  gained 
his  early  education  in  a  private  school,  and  in 
1866  began  his  business  career  as  proprietor  of 
a  general  store  in  \'incentown.     Still  later  he 
pu'rchased  his  father's  farm,  which  he  carried 
on  for  a  short  time,  and  then  exchanged  it  for 
a  store  and  business  in  Medford.    This  was  in 
1 87 1,  and  for  the  succeeding  five  years  he  en- 
gaged in  mercantile  pursuits  in  that  town.     In 
^87f)  he  was  elected  surrogate  of   Burlington 
countv,  and  discharged  the  duties  of  that  office 
for  ten  vears.     He  also  during  a  part  of  the 
period  last  mentioned  served  as  secretary  of 
the  Mt.  Holly  Insurance  Company,  and  after 
leaving  office  he  engaged  in  a  general  fire,  life, 
accident  and  bond  insurance  business,  continu- 
in''  to  the  present  time,  and  in  which  he  repre- 
sented  twentv-four   different   insurance   com- 
panies.   He  holds  membership  in  Ancient  Free 
and  .Accepted  Masons,  Central  Lodge,  No.  44, 
\iiiccntown ;  and  in  the  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks.     Mr.   Howell  married 
(first),  January  i,  1867,  Ann  Eliza,  daughter 
of  Clayton  and  Maria   (Eayre)   Pnckett :  she 
died  in   1879.     By  this  marriage  he  had  one 
daughter,   Laura   Clarissa  Howell,  born   July 
23,    1868.      He   married    (second),    .April    28, 
1886,  Susan  Deacon  Langstaff,  of  Mt.  Holly. 

The  Langstaffs  and  the 
I  ANGST.AFF    Hulls   both   came   to    Xew 

Jersev  from  the  district  of 
Piscatawav.  in  New  Hampshire,  whither  they 
had  come'originallv  with  the  colony  sent  out 
bv  Mason,  the  patentee  of  Xew  Hampshire,  in 
lr^■!,o      From  here,  attracted  by  the  promises 


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ofi'ered  lo  settlers  by  Governor  Carteret  and 
the  proprietors  of  East  Jersey,  they  formed  a 
party  of  the  original  settlers  of  Piscataway, 
New  Jersey,  named  after  their  New  Hamp- 
shire district,  and  from  that  time  to  this,  both 
families  have  been  prominent  among  the  in- 
telligent and  outspoken  freemen  of  the  new 
world. 

(I)  Henry  Langstaft'  Jr.,  who  emigrated 
with  his  father  to  New  Hampshire,  was  the 
first  of  the  line  to  come  to  New  Jersey  in 
1668,  and  it  is  through  his  son  John,  referred 
to  below,  that  the  name  has  been  handed  down 
to  posterity  in  New  Jersey. 

(H)  John,  son  of  Henry  Langstaff  Jr.,  was 
born  in  New  England  in  1647,  lived  and  died 
in  Piscataway;  among  his  children  were  James, 
through  whom  the  line  of  the  Middlesex  coun- 
ty Langstart's  has  descended,  and  John,  re- 
ferred to  below\ 

(HI)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (ij  Langstaff, 
of  Piscataway,  removed  from  Piscataway  to 
Springfield,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
where  he  died,  leaving  a  will  dated  November 
27,  1703,  and  proved  April  i,  1704,  in  which 
he  mentions  sons,  IMoses;  James,  referred  to 
below ;  and  David. 

(IV)  James,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Eliza- 
beth Langstaff',  was  a  minor  of  fifteen  years  of 
age  when  be  chose  his  mother,  Elizabeth  Lang- 
staff", April  25,  1704.  as  his  guardian.  \ery 
little  is  known  about  him  except  the  fact  that 
among  his  children  was  a  son  Henry,  referred 
to  below. 

(V)  Henry  (2),  son  of  James  Langstaff', 
became  one  of  the  largest  and  wealthiest  land- 
owners of  his  day  in  Fiurlington  county.  He 
died  leaving  a  .son  Henry,  referred  to  below. 

(AT)  Henry  (3),  son  of  Henry  (2)  Lang- 
staff, succeeded  to  his  father's  large  fortune 
and  pro]ierty.  and  died  when  his  only  son 
James  was  an  infant.  I  lis  widow  niarrieil 
(  second  )  Joshua  W'illets. 

(VH)  James,  son  of  Henry  (3)  Langstaff, 
was  born  in  Burlington  county  about  1796, 
and  was  educated  in  the  district  schools  there. 
Growing  up  to  manhood  on  the  old  homestead, 
which  with  the  rest  of  his  father's  large  prop- 
erty he  had  inherited,  he  came  as  a  young  man 
to  Mt.  I  lolly  and  engaged  in  a  mercantile  career, 
and  like  many  of  the  other  larger  merchants, 
who  owned  their  own  transjiortation  facilities, 
did  a  large  common-carrier  business  between 
Philadelphia  and  Mt.  Holly  and  Burlington. 
He  took  an  active  interest  in  the  prosperity  of 
the  town,  and  assisted  morally  and  financially 
in  every  good  work.     He  was  ])romincnt   in 


the  founding  of  the  Mt.  Holly  Bank,  and  was 
on  tlie  building  committee  and  a  vestryman  of 
the  Mt.  Holly  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 
Being  attracted  by  the  great  opportunities 
offered  by  the  west,  in  1844  'le  disposed  of  his 
New  Jersey  interests  and  removed  to  Paducah, 
Kentuck}-,  whither  he  went  by  stage.  Settling 
in  that  part  of  Paducah  known  as  Jersey,  he 
at  once  became  a  leading  factor  in  the  develop- 
ing of  that  new  country,  where  he  engaged  in 
the  milling  business  and  in  the  operation  of 
steam  boats  plying  the  Tennessee  river.  He 
established  a  large  and  prosperous  business 
which  was  afterward  carried  on  by  his  sons, 
but  after  spending  a  number  of  years  in  Ken- 
tucky his  health  failed,  antl  he  retired  from 
active  business  and  returnctl  to  Mt.  Holly, 
where  he  died. 

In  1830,  James  Langstaff'  married  Harriet, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Anna  (Deacon) 
Haines,  a  descendant  of  two  of  the  most  prom- 
inent of  the  old  Quaker  families  of  South  Jer- 
sey, Children:  i.  George,  referred  to  below. 
2.  .\nna  Haines,  married  Lieutenant  Wesley 
Hunt  Stock,  L'.  S.  N.,  who  was  afterwards 
engaged  in  the  milling  business  at  Paducah, 
Kentucky.  3.  .Samuel  Haines,  educated  in 
select  schools  of  Burlington,  went  to  Kentucky 
with  his  father,  where  he  succeeded  to  his  busi- 
ness, died  in  iSgi  ;  married  Augusta  Smith. 
4.  Susan  Deacon,  married  (first)  George 
Tucker  .Stock,  Es(|uire,  of  Alt.  Holly,  and  (sec- 
ond )  John  R.  Ilowell  (see  Howell);  she  re- 
sided in  the  home  her  father  built  more  than 
three-quarters  of  a  century  ago,  which  is  now 
one  of  the  most  substantial  and  attractive  resi- 
dences in  Mt.  Holly;  she  is  a  graduate  of 
Bucknell  College;  a  member  of  St.  .\ndrew"s 
Church.  Mt.  Molly:  of  many  benevolent  and 
charitable  societies,  and  is  manager  of  the 
Children's  Home. 

(\'1I1)  ( ieorge,  son  of  James  and  Harriet 
(Haines)  Langstaff,  was  born  in  Mt.  Holly, 
New  Jersey,  in  1831,  and  died  there  in  1899. 
He  was  educated  in  the  select  schools  of  Bur- 
lington, and  at  eighteen  years  of  age  graduated 
from  the  law  department  of  Princeton  Uni- 
versity with  honors  and  valedictorian  of  his 
class.  Removing  with  his  father  to  Kentucky, 
he  engaged  with  his  father  and  brother  Sam- 
uel in  the  milling  business,  and  after  the  re- 
tirement of  his  father  he  established  the  Lang- 
staff Orm  Manufacturing  Company,  which  be- 
came one  of  the  largest  of  the  lumber  indus- 
tries in  the  south.  Air.  Langstaff'  is  a  man  of 
scrupulous  honor,  and  the  highest  business 
integrity,  and  was  one  of  the  leading  s|)irits 


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in  the  building  up  of  the  now  thriving  city  of 
Paducah. 

In  1849  George  Langstaff  married  Frances 
Smith,  of  Louisville,  Kentucky,  who  was  of 
New  England  descent,  and  a  few  months  prior 
to  his  death  they  celebrated  their  golden  wed- 
ding. Their  two  sons  were;  I.  George  Jr., 
now  president  of  the  Langstaff  Orm  Manufac- 
turing Company,  and  one  of  the  leading  citi- 
zens of  Paducah,  Kentucky.  2.  James,  who 
was  drowned  while  out  sailing  in  1891. 


Among  the  immigrants  from 
PROBASCO  Holland  to  the  New  Nether- 
lands the  name  of  Probasco 
ai^pears  to  have  had  but  one  representative, 
but  by  intermarriages  with  the  Stryckers.  Rem- 
sens,  Luuibertsons,  Schencks,  Wyckofts  and 
\'an  Arsdales,  of  New  Amsterdam,  the  pure 
Holland  blood  was  intermingled  and  a  thrifty 
and  rugged  race  of  men  and  women  resulted. 
They  found  in  the  third  and  fourth  generations 
congenial  companions  and  neighbors  in  Hunt- 
erdon and  iiurlington  counties.  New  Jersey, 
where  the  Society  of  Friends  predominated, 
and  the  German  and  Dutch  commingled  and 
the  gentle  and  refining  influence  of  the  Quaker 
blood  added  a  new  element  to  the  building 
up  of  peaceloving  virtues  in  obedient  citizens 
and  useful  and  progressive  designers  and  con- 
structors of  great  engineering  undertakings. 

(I)  Christoft'el  Jurianse  Probasco,  the  com- 
mon ancestor  of  the  Probasco  family  of  New 
Lotts,  Long  Island,  New  Netherlands,  first  ap- 
peared in  New  Amsterdam,  to  which  place  he 
immigrated  from  Holland,  arriving  in  1652 
and  locating  at  New  Lotts  on  Long  Island. 
He  married  Ida,  daughter  of  Jacob  Garritse 
and  Ida  Huybrecht  Strycker,  of  Flatbush, 
Long  Island,  in  1654.  ( )n  .\ugust  8.  1671.  he 
purchased  nineteen  margins  of  land  at  Flat- 
bush,  adjoining  the  lands  of  Jan  Scrycker  and 
Dirck  Janse  \'an  der  \'liet.  and  abutting  Cor- 
laer"s  flats.  The  land  was  deeded  to  him  by 
the  owners.  Tomas  Lammerse  and  Tunis 
Jans  Crevers.  and  the  deed  was  the  first  on 
record  in  Brooklyn.  In  the  conveyance  he  is 
designated  Stoft"el  Jurianse  Probaske.  His 
name  is  on  the  assessment  rolls  of  Flatbush 
under  dates  of  1(175  and  1683.  He  became  a 
member  of  the  cluirch  in  Matbush  in  1677. 
and  was  an  elder  from  1678  to  1690.  He  served 
as  magistrate  of  the  town  in  1678  and  1686: 
was  justice  of  the  peace  in  1693.  and  on  the 
census  board.  1698.  He  took  the  oath  of  fidel- 
it\'  and  allegiance  to  the  English  crown  in 
1687.  In  1690  he  opposed  the  political  ambition 


of  (Jovernor  Leisler.  IJi^  own  written  signa- 
ture made  his  name  Stoffel  Probasco,  he  omit- 
ting the  name  Christoffel.  The  children  of 
Stoffel  and  Ida  (Strycker)  Probasco  were 
probably  born  in  order  as  follows:  i.  Jan.  2. 
Jacob,  baptized  July  9,  1682.  3.  Abraham, 
baptized  February  22,  1685 ;  married  Gertje 
Lubertse.  and  lived  in  New  Lotts.  4.  Aaltje, 
baptized  June  26,  1687.  5.  Lammertje.  6. 
Jurrgen,  baptized  October  30,  1695.  7.  Chris- 
toft'el, q.  V.  8.  Heyltje,  married  Jeremias  Rim- 
sen.  Stoffel  Probasco  and  Ida  Probasco  made 
a  joint  will  dated  October  3,  1724,  but  which 
does  not  appear  on  record. 

(II)  Christoffel.  fourth  son  and  seventh 
child  of  Christoft'el  Probasco,  was  born  in 
Flatbush.  Long  Island,  probably  in  1697.  He 
married  Catalina  Schenck,  and  they  settled  in 
the  Raritan  river  valley  in  Hunterdon  county. 
New  Jersey.  Catalina  Schenck  was  youngest 
(laughter  of  William  Schenck.  who  came  from 
Monmouth  county  and  settled  near  Ringoes,  in 
Hunterdon  county.  Her  mother  was  Mary 
Winters,  and  the  children  of  William  and  Mary 
(Winters)  Schenck  included:  Raljjh,  John. 
Josiah,  William,  .\braham.  Ann.  Polly  and  Cat- 
alina. Josiah  Schenck  married  Alabe  Wyckoft', 
and  had  fourteen  children.  He  served  for  three 
years  in  the  army  during  the  revolutionary 
war.  and  he  crossed  the  Delaware  with  Gen- 
eral Washington,  and  when  the  Hessians  were 
captured  he  nearly  lost  his  life  in  the  army 
wagon  that  accompanied  the  dash  made  upon 
the  British  camp.  He  was  deacon  in  the  Re- 
formed Dutch  Church  at  ^^'est  ^Millstone,  and 
died  about  1824-5.  The  children  of  Christoffel 
and  Catalina  (  Schenck  )  Probasco  included  : 
Lammatje.  married  Jan  Simonse  \  an  .\rs- 
daicn,  and  Garret  (q.  v.). 

(HI)  Garret,  son  of  Christoffel  and  Cata- 
lina (  Schenck  )  Probasco.  was  born  near  Rin- 
goes. Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey,  and  re- 
moved after  his  marriage  to  Buckingham. 
lUicks  county.  Pennsylvania,  where  he  suc- 
cessfully carried  on  a  large  farm,  but  after  his 
children  were  born  he  sold  it  and  removed  to 
Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey,  his  birthplace, 
and  the  home  of  his  j^arents.  where  he  died. 
He  married  Isabella  Ray. 

(I\')  Samuel,  son  of  Garret  and  Isabella 
(Ray)  Probasco.  was  born  in  Bockingham, 
Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  in  1799.  and  was 
carried  with  other  members  of  the  family  to 
the  paternal  homestead  near  Ringoes.  Hunter- 
don county.  New  Jersey,  where  he  was  brought 
up  oil  the  homestead  farm  and  learned  the 
trade  of  cooper   and   carpenter.      In    1823   he 


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went  to  New  VorU  City,  which  became  his 
home.  He  worked  in  the  LJrookljn  navy  yard 
as  a  car])enter,  and  for  the  Camden  &  Amboy 
railroad,  the  first  railroad  in  New  Jersey.  He 
married,  about  1830,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Jacob 
and  Mary  (Taylor)  Risley,  granddaughter  of 
Hontial  ancj  Catherine  Risley,  and  of  Edward 
and  Catherine  Taylor.  The  Risleys  were  of 
(lerman  origin,  and  Jacob  Risley  was  a  well- 
to-do  farmer  of  Hunterdon  county,  his  farm 
being  situated  between  the  settlements  of 
Frenchtown  and  Baptisttown,  near  the  Dela- 
ware river.  The  Taylors  were  royalists,  and 
when  the  fortunes  of  the  revolutionary  war 
turned  in  favor  of  the  rebels  they  went  to  New 
Brunswick,  Dominion  of  Canada.  Sarah  Ris- 
ley was  born  on  her  father's  farm  in  1801,  and 
died  in  New  York  City  in  1878,  the  same  year 
in  which  her  husband,  Samuel  Probasco,  met 
death  from  an  accident  while  on  a  visit  to  his 
boyhood  home  in  Burlington,  New  Jersey. 
Children  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Risley)  Pro- 
basco, born  in  New  York  City:  Samuel  Ris- 
ley (q.  V.)  ;  Mary  Jane,  born  1835. 

(V)  Samuel  Risley,  eldest  child  of  Samuel 
and  Sarah  (Risley)  IVobasco,  was  born  in 
New  York  City,  Se|itember  13,  1833,  and  died 
January  19,  igio.  He  was  a  pupil  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  New  ^"ork  City  up  to  the  time  he 
was  fifteen  years  of  age,  when  he  left  home 
and  shipped  in  a  vessel  bound  for  China  by 
way  of  Cape  Horn.  When  the  vessel  landed 
at  San  I'rancisco.  California,  he  went  ashore 
and  never  returned  to  the  ship,  but  went  to 
the  mining  camps,  and  after  a  year's  experi- 
ence in  the  life  in  the  "diggings"  started  on 
foot  across  the  continent  home.  On  reaching 
New  York  he  took  up  the  study  of  civil  engi- 
neering, being  his  own  instructor,  and  was  em- 
I)loyed  by  the  lirooklyn  Waterworks  Company 
from  1850  to  1867.  He  then  established  him- 
self as  a  professional  civil  engineer,  ami  was 
located  in  Mt.  Holly  and  Lumlierton,  Burling- 
ton county.  New  Jersey,  as  insjiector  of  pipe 
at  Lumberton  I-'oundry,  i857-(')5.  After  his 
marriage  he  made  his  home  in  Lumberton,  and 
his  first  three  children  were  born  in  that  town. 
He  removed  to  Burlington  in  1866,  and  after- 
ward made  that  city  his  home,  making  the 
journey  to  and  from  New  York  City  daily. 
In  1861;  lie  became  assistant  engineer  in  the 
construction  of  the  Brooklyn  suspension 
bridge,  of  which  Washington  A.  RDcbling  was 
engineer-in-chief,  and  on  the  com]jletion  of 
this  successful  undertaking.  May  24,  1883, 
he  continued  as  a  professional  engineer.     On 


the  consolidation  of  the  cities  of  New  York, 
Brooklyn,  Long  Island  City,  Yonkers,  and  ad- 
jacent territory,  and  the  election  of  Robert  A. 
\'an  Wyck  as  mayor  of  Greater  New  York, 
Mayor  Van  Wyck  ap])ointed  Mr.  IVobasco 
chief  engineer  of  the  Commission  of  Bridges, 
Board  of  Public  Inprovements  of  the  City  of 
New  York,  and  he  held  the  office  for  four 
years,  during  which  time  the  New  East  River 
Bridge  from  the  foot  of  Delancey  street,  Man- 
hattan borough,  to  a  point  between  South 
Fifth  and  .South  Sixth  streets  in  the  borough 
of  Brooklyn,  familiarly  known  as  the  W  illiams- 
burg  Bridge,  was  planned  and  construction 
commenced,  and  the  bridge  across  East  River 
over  Blackwell's  Island  was  also  planned,  to 
be  a  cantilever  bridge  sup])orted  by  four 
towers,  one  on  the  Manhattan  side,  two  on 
Blackwell's  Island,  and  one  on  the  Oueens- 
boro  side,  and  this  bridge  was  ojiened  for 
traffic  in  May,  1909,  and  is  known  as  the 
Oueenstown  Bridge.  j\lr.  Probasco  laid  out 
the  plans  for  both  these  gigantic  examples  of 
engineering  skill.  He  also  laid  out  the  plans 
for  the  Manhattan  Bridge  from  Catherine 
street.  Manhattan,  to  Sands  street,  Brooklyn, 
with  its  approaches  in  each  borough.  The 
entire  bridge  system  in  New  York  City  came 
under  his  supervision,  and  he  had  charge  of 
the  enlargements  of  terminal  accommodations 
and  of  the  repairs  and  changes  necessary  from 
time  to  time  in  the  economy  of  the  bridge 
management. 

Mr.  Probasco  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
Old  .Manhattan  Lodge,  I',  and  .A.  M.,  ami  was 
elected  its  first  secretary.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers 
and  of  the  Municipal  Engineers  of  the  City  of 
New  York.  He  married,  September  12,  1858, 
.\nne  M.,  daughter  of  Theodore  B.  and  Harriet 
(  Lorman  )  Phillips,  of  \'incentown,  Burling- 
ton county.  New  Jersey,  and  granddaughter  of 
.Anthony  and  Clarissa  Ednumds  Philliiis,  of 
\"incent()wn.  The  first  three  children  of  .Sam- 
uel Risley  and  .\ima  .M.  li'hillips)  Probasco 
were  born  in  Lumberton,  New  Jersey:  i. 
Helen,  July  24,  1859,  died  November  8,  1864. 
2.  Joseph,  January  26,  1863,  died  November  6, 
1864.  3.  Selden  Risley,  q.  v.  4.  Beatrice,  born 
in  Bm-lington,  New  Jersey.  .August  18,  1867, 
died  I'^ebruary  5,  1872.  5.  Samuel  Kiiigsley, 
born  iSCkj:  educated  in  tlic  ])ublic  school  of 
P.urlington,  at  Beverly  .\cademy,  the  Ilrown 
Pre])aratory  School  at  Philadelphia,  where  he 
was  fitted  for  college,  and  was  graduated  at 
the   I'niversity  of   Pennsylvania,   S.   B.,    1893, 


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and  at  the  Xew  York  Law  School,  LL.  l'>., 
1895.  He  practiced  law  in  Brooklyn  borough, 
in  the  city  of  Xew  York. 

(\'I)  Selden  Risley,  .'second  son  and  third 
child  of  Samuel  Ri.sley  and  .\nna  M.  (  Phil- 
li]))  Probasco,  was  born  in  Lumberton,  New 
jersey,  July  24,  1865.  He  gained  grammar 
school  training  in  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  to 
which  city  his  parents  removed  before  he  was 
one  year  old.  His  preparatory  scientific  train- 
ing was  acquired  in  Spring  Garden  Institute, 
riiiladelphia,  where  he  was  graduated  in  18S3. 
He  was  employed  by  the  Southern  Railway 
Company  as  a  rodman  from  1883,  and  gained 
by  promotion  in  the  engineering  service  a 
thorough  knowledge  of  civil  engineering  as 
applied  to  railroad  building.  In  1893  he  left 
the  service  of  the  company  to  take  a  position 
as  municipal  engineer  in  charge  of  laying  out 
waterworks  and  sewerage  systems  in  various 
cities  in  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey  as  an 
expert  employed  by  various  construction  com- 
])anies  Engaged  in  municipal  contracts,  and  his 
services  in  this  line  of  engineering  gave  him 
continuous  employment  for  ten  years.  He 
then  accepted  the  position  of  city  engineer  for 
llie  city  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  having 
previously  served  in  the  drainage  commission. 
1  lis  political  views  are  those  of  the  DeuKJcratic 
party,  and  his  fraternal  affiliations  is  with  the 
Benevolent  anil  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
Podge  No.  996,  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey. 
He  married,  1889,  .\nna  Lippincott,  daughter 
of  Joseph  and  Mary  (.-Mien)  Budd,  of  BurHng- 
ton  City,  New  Jersey.  Children  of  Selden  R. 
and  .\nna  Li]ipincott  (  Budd  1  Probasco,  born 
in  Eatontown  and  Burlington,  New  Jersey : 
I.  Joseph  Budd,  in  Eatontown,  November  19, 
1890,  2,  Samuel  Risley,  in  Burlington,  July  7, 
1895,  3-  Christopher  .Alien.  August  6.  i(j02. 
(See  Budd). 


John  Stilwell  .\pplegate 
APPLEGATE     LL.  D.,  of  Red  Bank,  one 

of  the  most  iirominent 
lawyers  in  the  state,  is  a  representative  of  one 
of  the  oldest  families  of  New  Jersey,  .\side 
from  his  parental  line,  he  numbers  as  ancestors 
those  who  were  among  the  most  cons]5icuous 
founders  of  the  colony — Sergeant  John  Gib- 
hr,ns ;  Richard  Stout  and  James  Grover,  all  of 
whom  were  patentees  of  the  Nicolls  or  Mon- 
mouth Patent ;  and  Richard  Hartshorne,  Will- 
iam Lawrence,  John  Throckmorton,  Nicholas 
.Stilwell,  Tames  Rowne,  and  John  Brav,  pioneer 
settlers  of  Monmouth  county,  and  who  bore  a 
leading  part  in  Colonial  history. 


The  .\])plegate  family  is  of  English  origin. 
The  immigrant  ancestor  was  Thomas  .Apple- 
gate,  who  was  in  Weymouth,  Massachusetts, 
in  1635,  and  at  (jravesend.  Long  Island,  in 
1647.  He  was  one  of  the  patentees  of  Hush- 
ing, Long  Island,  in  the  patent  given  by  Gov- 
ernor Kieft,  and  dated  October  19,  1647. 

Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (  i )  Applegate, 
moved  from  Gravesend,  Long  Island,  in  1674, 
to  Monmouth  county,  New  Jersey,  settling 
upon  land  which  he  purchased  from  the  In- 
dians, and  for  which  he  also  received  a  war- 
rant from  the  proprietors.  He  married  a 
daughter  of  Sergeant  Richard  Gibbons,  one 
of  the  most  prominent  men  of  his  day,  and 
who  was  a  leading  member  of  the  first  Gen- 
eral Assembly  held  at  Shrewsbury,  December 
14,  1677.  John  Stilwell,  grandfather  of  the 
immediate  suject  of  this  narrative,  was  quar- 
termaster of  the  Eirst  Regiment  of  Monmouth 
County  Militia  in  the  revolutionary  war. 

Jose])h  .Stilwell  Applegate,  son  of  Richard 
-Apjilegate  and  Mary  Stilwell,  daughter  of  said 
John  Stilwell,  was  born  in  1789,  and  was  a 
prominent  and  successful  farmer  of  Middle- 
town  township,  Monmouth  county.  In  1857 
he  built  a  residence  in  Red  Bank,  which  he 
occupied  until  his  death  in  1881,  at  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  ninety-two  years.  He  married 
.Ann  Bray,  a  descendant  of  Rev.  John  Bray, 
a  Baptist  minister  from  England,  who  founded 
the  first  Baptist  church  at  Holmdel,  and  do- 
nated to  it  the  lot  and  building  long  known  as 
Bray's  meetinghouse.  She  died  in  1878,  aged 
eighty-two  years. 

John  Stilwell  .Applegate,  son  of  Joseph  Stil- 
well and  .Ann  (Bray)  .Applegate,  was  born  in 
.Middletown  township,  Monmouth  county, 
Xew  Jersey,  .August  6,  1837.  I"  '858.  the 
year  in  which  he  attained  his  majority,  he  grad- 
uated from  Colgate  L'niversity,  Hamilton, 
Xew  York.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Xew 
Jersey  bar  in  1861,  and  at  once  entered  upon 
professional  practice  at  Red  Bank,  where  he 
has  resided  to  the  present  time.  His  practice 
e.xtends  to  the  state  and  federal  courts,  and  he 
is  recognized  as  one  of  the  most  prominent 
lawyers  in  the  state,  connecterl  with  many  re- 
ported cases  of  public  interest,  and  represent- 
ing as  counsel  some  of  the  most  important 
private  and  corporate  interests  in  New  ^Jersey. 
From  1875  to  1880  he  was  associated  in  part- 
nership with  Henry  M.  Nevius,  subsequently 
a  circuit  court  judge,  and  a  distinguished  sol- 
dier of  the  civil  war,  who  in  1008  served  as 
commander-in-chief  of  the  Grand  .Army  of 
the  Republic  of  the  United  States.     In   1884 


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Mr.  .\|)i)lcgate  and  I-Vederick  W.  Hope  be- 
came partners,  and  this  relation  continued  until 
1901.  He  subsequently  received  as  law  part- 
ner his  son,  John  Stihvell  Applegate  Jr.,  under 
the  firtu  name  of  John  S.  Applegate  &  Son, 
and  which  relationshij)  still  continues. 

Mr.  Applegate  during  the  civil  war  was  com- 
missioned as  special  deputy  of  the  Union 
League  of  America,  and  organized  a  number 
of  cha])ters  of  that  patriotic  organization.  In 
1862  he  was  nominated  and  elected  by  the 
Keiniblican  party  as  school  superintendent  of 
Shrewsbury  township  and  was  three  times  re- 
elected to  the  same  office.  He  served  as  mem- 
ber of  the  state  Republican  committee  in  the 
successful  gubernatorial  campaign  of  Marcus 
L.  \\'ard  in  1863.  He  was  president  of  the 
first  building  and  loan  association  of  the  shore 
section  of  Monmoutii  cinuity  t\)r  several  years, 
and  in  1875,  additional  banking  facilities  being 
a  plain  necessity  of  Red  Bank,  he  initiated  a 
movement  which  resulted  in  the  organization 
of  the  Second  National  Bank  of  Red  Bank, 
and  was  selected  as  the  first  president  of  the 
new  institution,  htilding  the  position  until  his 
resignation  in  1887.  He  was  a  strong  factor 
in  the  events  which  led  to  the  incorporation 
of  his  town  in  1871.  and  was  elected  as  one  of 
the  members  of  its  first  governing  body,  and 
chosen  as  its  chief  the  following  year.  In 
1 88 1  he  was  elected  state  senator,  being  the 
first  Re])ublican  to  represent  Monmouth  coun- 
t\-  in  that  ])osition,  and  receiving  a  majority  of 
nearly  one  thousand  votes  in  a  county  at  that 
time  regarded  as  the  (libralter  of  New  Jersey 
Democracy.  Lpon  the  f)rganization  in  1882  of 
the  New  York  &  .\tlantic  Highlands  Railroad 
Company,  he  was  elected  as  its  president,  serv- 
ing in  that  capacity  until  its  consolidation  with 
the  Central  Railroad  system. 

In  the  New  Jersey  senate  he  introduced  and 
passed  under  the  pressure  of  his  influence 
many  measures ;  among  others  a  bill  requiring 
the  public  printing  of  the  state  to  be  put  out 
by  contract  to  the  lowest  bidder,  instead  of 
farming  it  out  to  favorites  as  a  reward  to 
partisan  service — a  system  which  had  then 
been  in  vogue  for  many  years.  This  bill  in- 
curred the  bitter  hospitality  of  many  news- 
papers in  the  state,  hut,  notwithstanding,  its 
inherent  justice  commanded  the  unanimous 
sui)port  of  both  houses,  and  it  became  a  law, 
effecting  a  public  saving  of  $50,000  annually, 
lie  also  drafted  and  introduced  a  bill  of  great 
public  convenience  and  utility,  authorizing  the 
smaller  towns  and  villages  of  this  state  to  con- 
struct   and    maintain    waterworks.      This   bill 


became  a  law,  whereby  many  of  these  munici- 
palities have  organized  and  now  operate  effi- 
cient systems  of  public  water  supply.  Under 
this  act  he  was  appointed  in  1884  a  member 
of  the  first  board  of  water  commissioners  of 
Red  Bank,  which  office  he  has  held  continu- 
ously until  his  resignation  in  1905. 

Among  other  positions  of  honor  and  trust 
which  i\lr.  Applegate  now  holds  are  those  of 
president  of  the  Monmouth  County  Bar  Asso- 
ciation:  director  of  the  Red  ISank  Gas  Light 
Comjjany ;  president  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  the  Mrst  Bajitist  Church  of  Shrewsbury, 
at  Red  Bank ;  trustee  of  the  Monmouth  Battle 
Monument  Association.  He  is  a  member  of 
tlie  .American  Bar  As.sociation ;  one  of  the 
board  of  managers  of  the  New  Jersey  Society 
of  the  Sons  of  the  .American  Revolution ;  a 
charter  member  and  trustee  of  the  Monmouth 
County  Historical  .Association;  a  member  of 
the  I'hi  Beta  Kapjia  Society:  a  life  member  of 
the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Club  of  New  York 
City:  a  life  member  of  the  New  YoA  Gene- 
alogical and  Biographical  Society,  and  an  hon- 
orary member  of  the  Regimental  .Association 
of  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-seventh  New- 
York  .^tate  \'olunteers.  In  1880  he  delivered 
the  annual  alumni  address  at  Colgate  L'niver- 
sity :  and  in  1893  'i^  published  a  memorial 
volume  of  George  .Arrowsmith,  lieutenant- 
colonel  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-sevcntii 
New  York  State  \'olunteers,  killed  at  tiie 
battle  of  Gettys1)urg.  and  whose  name  is  com- 
memorated in  the  Grantl  .Army  Post  at  Red 
Bank.  In  1904  was  conferred  upon  him  by 
Colgate  L'niversity  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Laws. 

i  le  married,  in  1865,  Deborah  Catharine 
.Mien,  daughter  of  Charles  Gordon  Allen,  a 
])romincnt  citizen  of  Monmouth  county  and 
a  resident  of  Red  Bank.  His  surviving  chil- 
dren are  .Annie,  a  graduate  of  \'assar  College 
in  i8<)i.  and  the  wife  of  Professor  Charles  H. 
.\.  W  ager.  head  of  the  English  department  of 
( JlxTJiu  College:  Joiin  Stiiwell  .Applegate  Jr.. 
a  graduate  of  Colgate  University,  and  Harvard 
Law  School,  and  the  present  prosecuting  at- 
tc»rney  of  Monmouth  county :  and  Katharine 
Trafford,  a  graduate  of  \'assar  College,  class 
of  1S97,  and  the  wife  of  F'rancis  J.  Donald, 
F.s(|..  of  P.roughty  I-"erry,  Scotland. 


( )pinions  are  divided  as  to 
SIIEPP.VRI)     whether  the  Sheppards  are 

of  Scotch  or  English  ances- 
try :  but  they  were  among  the  earliest  settlers 
of  this  countf}-,  not  only  in  the  New  England 


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states  but  also  in  the  colony  of  New  Jersey. 
Shoiirds.  in  his  "Hist<jry  of  Fenwick's  Col- 
ony," says  that  they  emigrated 'from  England 
probably  as  early  as  1683.  and  alter  remaining 
in  Shrewsbury  for  a  few  years  finally  located 
in  what  is  now  Cumberland  county,  on  l^enn's 
Neck,  a  small  peninsula  bounded  on  the  north 
by  the  Cohansey  river  and  on  the  south  by  a 
small  creek  named  Back  creek.  Here,  on  Sep- 
tember 29,  1690,  the  three  brothers  James, 
Thomas  and  John  Shejjpard  bought  of  Jona- 
than Walling  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres 
apiece,  on  which  they  settled  and  in  the  region 
of  which  their  descendants  have  lived  for  cen- 
turies. Their  brother  David  had  previously 
bought  another  place  near  there,  and  the  de- 
scendants of  all  four  brothers  are  very  numer- 
ous throughout  all  that  part  of  New  Jersey. 
James  Sheppard  died  in  1690.  leaving  two 
daughters,  and  his  brothers  were  his  exec- 
utors: David  died  in  if>95,  leaving  a  wife  and 
seven  or  eight  children :  Thomas  Sheppard  ap- 
parently moved  up  into  Monmouth  county; 
John  Sheppard  is  treated  below. 

( 1 )  Besides  the  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres 
he  purchased  at  first.  John  .Sheppard  bought 
one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  more  adjoining, 
md  then  gave  the  whole  of  this  projierty  to 
iiis  eldest  son  Dickason  Sheppard,  at  the  same 
time  buying  another  three  hundred  and  eighty- 
iive  acres  for  himself  "near  Cohansey  and  ad- 
joining Edmund  Gibbons.'"  He  died  intestate 
in  1710,  leaving  seven  children:  Dickason,- 
David, » John,  Enoch,  died  1717:  Job.  treated 
below :  .Margaret,  married  Thomas  .\bbott : 
and  Hannah,  who  married  1  first)  Timothy 
Brook  Jr.,  and  (  second  )  Obadiah  Holmes. 

fll)  Job  Sheppard,  son  of  John,  was  born 
1706,  and  died  Alarch  2,  1757,  of  smallpox 
and  was  buried  in  Salem,  having  been  for 
many  years  the  first  pastor  of  the  Baptist 
church  at  Mill  Hollow.  By  his  wife  Catherine 
he  had  thirteen  children:  Elnathan.  married 
and  lived  in  Hopewell  township,  near  the  old 
Cohansey  church :  Job,  treated  below :  Belbe, 
1737  to  1764,  who  lived  and  died  at  Alloways 
creek:  Elizabeth,  died  young:  Jemima,  mar- 
ried, but  died  without  issue :  Daniel,  married 
and  lived  in  Salem,  and  had  one  child,  Daniel : 
Kerenhappuch,  who  lived  in  Lower  .-Vlloways 
Creek  township  ;  Rebecca,  who  became  the  first 
wife  of  Jonathan  Bowen,  and  had  one  child 
that  died  in  infancy:  Catherine,  died  about 
sixteen  years  of  age :  Cumberland,  married 
Amy  Matlack,  of  Gloucester  county,  and  had 
several  children :  Martha,  married  Isaac  Mul- 
ford,    of    Hopewell    township,    and    had    one 


child :  Keziah,  married  William  Kelsay,  and 
went  west ;  Ruth,  died  unmarried,  about  twen- 
ty-two years  old. 

(HI)  Job  (2),  second  son  of  Job  (i)  and 
Catherine  Sheppard,  was  born  July  6,  1735, 
lived  at  Hopewell,  near  Bowentown,  Cumber- 
land county,  and  married  Rachel,  daughter  of 
Thomas  ^Nlulford,  of  Cumberland,  and  had 
seven  children,  one  of  whom  was  fob,  treated 
below. 

(1\")  Job  (3),  son  of  Job  (2)  and  Rachel 
(Mulford)  Sheppard,  was  born  February  9, 
1 77 1,  and  died  November  13,  181 5.  He  was 
at  the  time  of  his  death  in  the  United  States 
army.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were  born  in 
Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey.  He  died  at 
Ihllingsport.  New  Jersey.  Ai)ril  26,  1796,  he 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  \\'illiam  Kelsey, 
who  was  a  paymaster  in  the  revolutionary 
army.  Children  :  William  Kelsey,  born  about 
1810:  Horatio  J.,  referred  to  below:  three 
other  sons  and  four  daughters. 

(\')  Horatio  J.  (who  always  went  by  the 
name  of  Horace),  son  of  Job  and  Sarah  (Kel- 
sey) Sheppard,  was  born  in  Camden,  New  Jer- 
sey. January  14.  1801.  He  was  a  carjienter  by 
trade  and  a  contractor.  He  moved  to  Fairton, 
New  Jersey,  lived  there  a  great  many  )-ears, 
and  died  there.  He  married,  September  27, 
1830,  in  Philadelphia,  Sophia  Bamford:  chil- 
dren :  Joseph  B.,  who  was  a  L'nion  volunteer 
in  the  civil  war,  and  died  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
July  20,  1861  :  \\'illiam  }\l..  referred  to  below; 
Alfred  S.,  a  farmer,  living  at  Fairton. 

(\"I)  William  M.,  second  child  and  son  of 
Horatio  J.  (or  Horace)  and  Sophia  (^ Bam- 
ford )  Shejipard,  was  born  in  Camden,  New 
Jersey,  December  19,  1838,  and  died  in  Cedar- 
ville,  New  Jersey,  October  24.  1904.  He  was 
educated  in  the  common  schools,  and  followed 
farming  for  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in 
Fairton.  Late  in  life  he  moved  to  Cedarville, 
where  he  owned  a  small  farm  and  spent  the 
remainder  of  his  life  there.  Originally  he  was 
a  Reiniblican.  and  later  became  a  F'rohibition- 
ist.  He  was  a  member  of  the  township  com- 
mittee, a  surveyor,  and  a  member  of  the  school 
board.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Independent 
C>rder  of  Odd  Felows,  of  Cedarville,  and  of 
the  Encampment.  He  w'as  a  member  and  a 
deacon  in  the  Baptist  church.  In  February. 
i8''i.  William  M.  Shejipard  married  Sarah  J., 
born  in  1842.  in  Fairton,  daughter  of  Oliver 
Campbell.  Children:  i.  Josepii,  born  in  Fair- 
ton,  now  a  Baptist  minister  in  Utica,  New 
\'ork :  married  Harriet,  daughter  of  William 
Scull,  of  Fairton,  and  has  Ethel,  .\liua.  Myrtle 


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and  William.  2.  Eiiinia,  married  George  1!. 
\\  illianis.  of  Greenwich,  now  a  farmer  in  Fair- 
ton  :  children  :  Prescott,  Camilla.  Sarah,  Lida, 
Ernest  and  Swing.  3.  Leula,  marrietl  Enos  W. 
Laning.  farmer  of  F'airton;  children:  Mildred, 
}'earl,  Roland.  -Minnie  and  Nelson.  4.  Mary, 
now  living  in  Renova,  Pennsylvania.  5.  James 
]•'.,  now  a  grocer  at  Roadstown  ;  married  Alin- 
nie  Gandy,  and  has  F'owler  and  Minnie.  6. 
William  M.  Jr.,  now  a  machinist  in  Bridgeton  ; 
married  Bertie  Husted,  and  has  .Arthur,  Mil- 
ton and  Horace.  7.  Horace  J.,  now  secretary 
of  the  railroad  division  of  the  Young  Men"s 
Christian  Association  at  Renova.  Pennsylvania. 
8.  Alfred  G.,  referred  to  below, 

(VH )  .Alfred  G.,  the  youngest  child  of 
William  M.  and  Sarah  J.  (Campbell)  Shejv 
[)ard,  was  born  as  were  all  of  his  brothers  and 
sisters,  in  F""airton,  Cumberland  county.  New 
jersey,  on  June  26,  1881.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools  of  Fairton,  at  the  South 
Jersey  Institute  at  Bridgeton,  and  at  the  Mary- 
land Medical  College  at  Baltimore,  graduating 
from  the  last  in  1907.  F'or  a  year  before  grad- 
r.ating  he  had  charge  of  the  hospital  in  the 
college.  In  1907  he  began  practicing  his  pro- 
fession in  I'lorence,  New  Jersey,  and  has  been 
in  that  town  ever  since.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Burlington  County  Medical  Society,  of  the 
State  .Medical  Society,  and  of  the  .American 
Medical  .Association.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Bajitist  church,  and  a  Democrat.  In  1903  .Al- 
fred (;.  Shepjiard  married  Lucy  B.,  daughter 
of  I'hili])  ]•".  and  Deborah  (  Lathboni )  Shep- 
Ijard  of  Cedarville.  Children,  born  in  Balti- 
more Maryland:  1.  Child,  died  in  infancy. 
2.  (krfield,  born  May  16,  1905.  3-4.  Branhan 
I'ord  and  ^luse  Alfred,  twins,  born  February 
15.  1007.  5.  Enos  Lanning  She])])ard,  born 
July  Ji,  1909. 

In  tracing  the  various  lines 
S.A.\1)I'(  >l\l)  of  the  families  of  the  name 
of  Sandford  in  New  Jersey, 
one  of  the  great  difficulties  is  to  kee]>  clear  and 
distinct  the  descendants  of  Ca])tain  William 
Sandford,  the  founder  of  the  family  at  ]iresent 
under  consideration,  and  those  of  Rev.  Cor- 
i.elis  Van  Santvoordt,  one  of  the  earliest  of 
llie  Dutch  Reformed  ministers  to  New  Nether- 
land.  The  descendants  of  both  men  si)read 
(  ver  much  the  same  territory,  and  the  Eng- 
lish Sandfords  living  among  their  Dutch  neigh- 
bors gradually  adopted  their  method  of  call- 
ing a  man  by  his  own  name  and  by  the  initial 
of  his  father's  name:  in  conse(|uence,  great 
c^re  and  e.xtreme  caution  is  needed  in  the  de- 


cipherment  and  interpretation  of  the  records 
and  documents. 

(ll  Ca])tain  (or  Major)  William  .Sandford 
came  to  this  country  from  the  island  of  Barba- 
(loes.  West  Indies,  in  the  year  1668,  on  July 
J  of  which  year  he  obtained  a  grant  of  all  the 
meadows  and  upland  lying  south  of  a  line 
drawn  from  the  Hackensack  to  the  Passaic 
rivers,  seven  miles  north  of  their  intersection, 
comprising  five  thousand  three  hundred  and 
eight  acres  of  upland  and  ten  thousand  acres 
of  meadow.  For  this  grant,  which  was  the 
famous  "Neck"  of  the  early  town  records  of 
-Newark,  he  agreed  to  pay  £20  sterling  per 
annum  ""in  lieu  of  the  half-penny  jier  annum 
for  ever."  July  20  following  he  purchased  of 
the  Indians  all  their  right  and  title  in  the  same 
tract.  .Nathaniel  Kingsland,  sergeant-major 
of  the  island  of  Barbadoes,  became  interested 
in  this  purchase ;  and  from  the  fact  that  in  the 
Newark  town  records,  under  date  of  Septem- 
ber 29,  1671,  the  freeholders  of  Newark  were 
empowered  to  "Buy  the  Neck  of  Capt.  Wm. 
Sandforfl  or  his  Uncle  or  Both  if  they  Could 
.Agree  for  it  and  pay  what  they  shall  engage," 
it  has  been  conjectured  that  Alajor  Kingsland 
was  William  Sandford's  uncle.  Of  the  Cap- 
tain's other  relations  all  that  is  known  with 
certainty  is  that  October  9,  1676,  the  author- 
ities at  New  York  granted  Captain  William 
Sandford  letters  of  administration  on  the  estate 
of  Robert  Sandford,  of  Barbadoes,  "his 
ne])hew,"  who  "by  an  unha])py  accident  came 
to  be  drowned  in  the  harbour  near  this  city  and 
died  intestate."  .August  18,  1673,  William 
.Sandford  received  the  confirmation  of  his 
grant  from  the  Dutch.  In  1669  he  was  offered 
a  ])lace  on  the  council  of  Governor  I'hilip  Car- 
teret, which  he  declined:  l)ut  when  after  the 
final  relin(|uishing  of  the  ])rovince  by  the 
Dutch,  (jovernor  Carteret  returned,  he  ac- 
cepted, November  6,  1674,  a  similar  position 
which  he  seems  to  have  retained  for  a  number 
of  years,  as  we  find  him  continued  by  royal 
])roclamation  as  a  councillor  in  the  instructions 
])roduced  by  (iovernor  Thomas  Rudyard,  De- 
cember 10,  1682,  and  again  in  those  presented 
bv  Rudyard's  successor,  (Jawen  Lawrie,  Feb- 
ruarv  28,  1684.  In  this  last  ai)pointment  Will- 
iam Sandford  is  spoken  of  as  "Major"  Will- 
iam Sandford.  His  title  of  Captain  was  con- 
ferred upon  him,  July  15,  1675,  while  he  was 
residing  at  Newark,  as  a  cajjtain  of  the  militia. 

.Ajiril  24.  1677,  Sandford  transferred  to  Mrs. 
Sarah  Whartman  in  trust  for  the  use  of  his 
"eldest  daughter  Nedemiah  and  the  children 
naturallv  born  of  the  said  .Sarah  Whartman. 


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viz :  Katharine,  Peregrine,  W'illiain  and  Grace" 
— one  e(|ual  third  part  of  all  his  pro]:)erty  be- 
tween the  rivers  Passaic  antl  Hackensack,  with 
one-third  of  the  stock,  household  stuffs,  etc., 
provided  it  were  improved  for  her  mainte- 
nance and  the  education  of  the  said  children 
and  the  principal  not  disposed  of  in  any  way 
without  his  consent.  August  lo,  1678,  Mrs. 
\\  hartman  relinquished  all  she  had  received, 
retransferring  it  to  Sandford,  having  of  her 
"own  head  and  obstinate  will"  violated  the  con- 
dition of  the  conveyance  by  removing  the 
stock.  September  i,  1692,  letters  of  adminis- 
tration were  granted  upon  his  estate,  and  Sep- 
tember 12,  1694,  his  will,  written  January  2. 
1690,  was  proved.  In  his  will  Sandford  ac- 
knowledges Sarah  W'hartman  as  his  lawful 
wife,  "some  considerable  reasons  having  en- 
gaged them  to  conceal  their  marriage,"  and  he 
attaches  to  the  will  a  certificate  of  the  marriage 
signed  Ijv  Richard  X'ernon,  as  having  been  per- 
formed "on  board  the  Pink  Susannah  in  the 
river  of  Surinam,  the  27th  March,  1667."  He 
desires  his  body  "to  be  buried  if  it  may  be  in 
his  own  plantation  without  mourning  pomp 
or  exjiensive  ceremonies,"  and  implores  the 
aid  of  "his  honored  friends"  Colonel  Andrew 
Hamilton,  Mr.  James  Emott,  Mr.  Gabriel  Min- 
vielle,  and  Mr.  William  Xicholls  of  New  York, 
"to  assist  and  favor  the  concerns  of  a  poor 
ignorant  widow  and  five  innocent  children 
(another  daughter  having  been  born)  with 
their  best  advice  help  and  council  to  preserve 
them  from  those  vultures  and  harpies  which 
prev  on  the  carcasses  of  widows  and  fatten 
with  the  blood  of  orjihans." 

Ghildren  of  Captain  William  and  Sarah 
(  Whartman  )  Sandford:  I.  Xedemiah,  mar- 
ried (first)  Richard  Berry,  and  after  his  death, 
leaving  her  with  several  children,  married 
(second)  Thomas  Davies.  2.  Katharine,  mar- 
ried Dr.  Johannes  \'an  Imburgh.  3.  Peregrine, 
died  young,  before  1708.  4.  William,  referred 
to  below.  5.  Grace,  married  P.arne  Cosans, 
of  New  York.  6.  Elizabeth,  married  James 
Davis  or  Davies. 

( II  )  William,  only  surviving  son  of  Captain 
William  and  Sarah  (W'hartman)  Sandford,  is 
mentioned  in  the  will  of  his  mother,  June  8, 
1708.  as  her  e.xecutor,  and  as  having  three  chil- 
dren— William.  Michael  and  Peregrine.  From 
a  news  item  in  the  Xew  York  H'cckly  Journal. 
November  5,  1739,  we  learn  that  William's  son 
I'eregrine  had  but  one  son_,  who  was  crippled 
for  life  as  a  voung  man  in  an  accident  in  a 
,     cider  mill  at  Newark. 

(Ill)    W'hicii    of    the   two   remaining    sons, 


William  or  Michael,  is  the  father  of  the  Peter 
Sandford  whose  descendants  are  under  consid- 
eration, is  a  matter  of  doubt ;  but  from  the  fact 
tiiat  Peter  named  his  eldest  son  William,  his 
fourth  Michael,  and  his  seventh  after  himself, 
it  is  probable  that  he  followed  the  common  cus- 
tom of  naming  his  first  born  after  his  father, 
and  that  the  line  should  run  Captain  William 
(1),  William  (II),  and  WilHam  (III),  which 
is  the  iiypothesis  adopted  here. 

(I\')  Peter,  conjectured  son  of  William 
Sandford,  owned  land  which  he  inherited  from 
his  father  on  the  west  .side  of  the  Passaic 
river,  and  by  his  wife  Eleanor  had  eleven  chil- 
dren:  William,  born  October  9,  1761.  prob- 
ably husband  of  Maria  \'an  Xess ;  Catharine, 
born  September  2,  1762;  John,  November  10, 
1765  :  Joseph.  September  17,  1767;  Mary,  Sep- 
tember I,  17^19:  Michael,  referred  to  below^ ; 
Thomas.  September  29,  1773;  Sarah,  August 
4,  1775:  Abraham,  .April  14,  1778.  whose 
wife's  name  was  Sarah:  Peter,  February  28, 
1781 :  Jane,  August  19,  1783.  Joseph,  Michael 
and  Abraham  removed  to  Belleville,  Essex 
county,  about  the  end  of  the  eighteenth  or  the 
beginning  of  the  nineteenth  century. 

(\')  Michael,  sixth  child  and  fourth  son  of 
Peter  and  Eleanor  Sandford,  was  born  in 
Essex  county,  December  24,  1771,  and  moved 
with  his  brothers  Joseph  and  .\braliam  to 
P.elleville.  He  was  a  farmer.  He  married 
(first)  Gitty  Cadmus;  (second)  Hannah  Les- 
lie. Children  by  first  wife:  i.  Diana,  mar- 
ried John  Coeyman.  2.  Peter  M.,  referred  to 
lielow.  3.  William  M..  referred  to  below.  4. 
Ellen,  married  William  Tise :  one  child.  Sarah, 
married  Benjamin  Baker.  3.  Jefferson.  6. 
John.     7.  Joseph. 

(  \'I )  Peter  M..  second  chikl  and  eldest  son 
of  Michael  and  Gitty  (Cadmus)  Sandford, 
was  born  in  Belleville,  March  i,  1795,  and 
died  in  Bloomfield,  where  he  spent  most  of  his 
life.  By  his  wife  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John 
and  Margaret  (Jerolomon)  Sjiier  (see  Spier)  : 
he  had  children:  i.  Amzi.  died  before  1884: 
married  .Anna  Rolston  :  one  child  :  Rosewell 
Graves  Rolston,  married  Isabel  Tichenor.  2. 
Margaret,  referred  to  below.  3.  Charles  Peronet, 
referred  to  below.  4.  Michael,  married  Cor- 
nelia \'an  Horn;  one  child,  Willard. 

(  \TI )  Margaret  Ann,  second  child  and  eld- 
est daughter  of  Peter  M.  and  Elizabeth  (Spier) 
Sandford,  was  born  in  Bloomfield,  September 
n.  1821,  and  died  March  28,  1802:  about 
T848  married  Mark  Washington  Ball,  born 
November  5,  1828.  grandson  of  Joseph  Ball, 
through    his    son    Isaac,   born    November    25, 


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1775.  died  December  25.  1824,  leaving  two 
children:  Mark,  referred  to  above,  and  Abi- 
gail L.,  married  Nathaniel  H.  Baldwin,  and 
had  three  children :  Elizabeth,  died  at  twenty- 
one  years  of  age;  Emma  Augusta,  married 
Herbert  i;iddul]:)h,  postmaster  at  Montclair, 
and  has  four  children :  Clarence,  Howard, 
Herbert,  and  Edith;  and  Heber  Baldwin, 
druggist,  at  Montclair.  Isaac  Ball's  wife  was 
Sarah  Osmun,  born  May  6,  1787;  died  No- 
vember 24,  1874.  The  only  child  of  Mark 
Washington  and  Margaret  .Ann  ( Sandford ) 
Ball  was  Mary  E.,  born  in  Bloomtield,  April 
II,  185 1,  now  living  at  797  High  street,  New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  who  married,  in  Newark, 
September  18,  1872,  John  William  Omberson, 
born  March  3,  1845,  fli^"^'  ^lay  28,  1906.  He 
was  the  second  child  and  only  son  of  William 
John  and  Elizabeth  Omberson,  his  two  sisters 
being  Jane  E.  Omberson,  who  married  Richard 
E.  Bennett,  and  had  Elizabeth,  who  married 
Mr.  Preston;  and  .\lma,  who  married  .\lbert 
("owdes.  His  younger  sister  was  Emma  L. 
Omberson,  who  married  Hiram  Van  Giesen, 
and  has  one  child,  Cornelius.  John  William 
Omberson  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
(jf  New  York  City,  but  being  in  poor  health 
his  attendance  was  irregular  and  a  part  of  the 
time  he  went  to  the  Bloomfield  Academy. 
Finally  he  went  to  live  with  his  uncle  in  New 
York,  and  then  took  a  position  in  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Jersey  City,  where  he  re- 
mained for  forty  years,  rising  from  the  posi- 
tion of  clerk  to  that  of  cashier,  which  latter  he 
held  at  the  time  of  his  death.  Mr.  Omberst)n 
was  a  Ke|)ul)lican.  but  held  no  office,  nor  did 
he  belong  to  any  secret  societies.  The  only 
club  he  belonged  to  was  the  Carteret  Club  of 
Jersey  City.  For  many  years  he  was  a  deacon 
in  the  First  Dutch  Reformed  Church  of  New- 
ark, and  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  one 
of  that  church's  elders. 

(NTl)  Charles  I'eronet,  third  chil<l  and  sec- 
ond son  of  I'eter  .Michael  and  I^lizabeth 
(Spier)  Sandfiird.  was  born  in  lUoomtield, 
New  Jersey,  and  spent  most  of  his  life  in  Mont- 
clair, where  he  was  for  many  years  postmaster. 
He  married  Phebe  C,  second  chihl  of  Calvin 
Munn  and  Mary  E.,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
S()uier,  who  was  born  November  9,  1826.  Cal- 
vin Munn,  her  father,  born  in  Bloomfield,  Oc- 
tober 21.  1799.  died  .\ugust  26.  1871.  was  son 
of  Ca])tain  Josej)!!  and  Martha  1\  (  Tomjjkins) 
Munn.  grandson  of  Isaac  Mumi  and  Mary  W'., 
daughter  of  Ezekiel  Baldwin,  great-grandson 
of  Josejih  Munn.  who  settled  in  Orange.  New 
Jersev.  from  Connecticut,  and  his  wife  Sarah, 


daughter  of  Matthew'  W  illiams.  Joseph  Munn 
is  supposed  to  have  been  the  son  of  John, 
grandson  of  John,  and  great-grandson  of  Ben- 
jamin Munn,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut.  Charles 
I'eter  and  Phebe  C.  (Munn)  .Sandford  had 
nine  children:  i.  Theron  H.,  married  Esther 
Mills.  2.  Charles  Wilbur,  referred  to  below. 
3.  Ella  'SI.,  referred  to  below.  4.  George  An- 
derson, died  in  childhood.  5.  Ida  A.,  referred 
to  below.  6.  .\mzi  A.,  died  November  19, 
1896;  married  .Adeline  King;  children:  Harold 
E.,  born  February  28,  1878,  married  Clara  A. 
I'.uttes ;  and  Edwin,  died  August  8,  1898.  at 
the  age  of  fifteen  years.  7.  Edward  B.,  died 
single.  8.  Joseph  .Albert,  referred  to  below. 
C).  Alary  A.,  married  .Albert  Hall,  of  New 
York. 

(\TH)  Charles  Wilbur,  second  child  and 
son  of  Charles  Peronet  and  Phebe  C.  (Munn) 
Sandford,  was  born  in  Montclair,  New  Jersey, 
I'cbruary  9,  i84(K  and  is  now  living  at  188 
C'laremont  avenue,  in  that  town.  His  early 
education  was  obtained  at  the  public  schools 
of  Montclair,  and  he  graduated  from  the  high 
school  of  that  place  in  1866.  For  a  short  time 
after  leaving  school  he  worked  in  the  office  of 
the  treasurer  of  the  Morris  &  Essex  Railroad 
Com])any ;  but  February  i.  1869.  he  entered 
the  employ  of  the  Mutual  Benefit  Eife  Insur- 
ance Company,  where  he  continued  for  three 
years,  in  1872  leaving  that  corporation  in  order 
to  take  a  position  with  the  Newark  Savings 
Institution,  where  he  remained  si.\  years 
longer.  .August  i,  1878,  he  once  more  entered 
the  emjiloy  of  the  Mutual  F>enefit  Life  Insur- 
ance Company,  this  time  as  bookkec])er,  and 
with  them  he  has  remained  ever  since,  being 
chosen  comptroller  of  the  comjjany.  December 
14,  1906.  Mr.  Sandford  is  a  Republican,  and 
from  1894  to  1903  he  was  one  of  the  council- 
men  of  the  town,  and  April  i,  1908,  was  ap- 
])()inted  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education 
cif  the  .State  of  New  Jersey.  He  is  a  member 
of  Montclair  Lodge,  No.  144,  F.  and  A.  M., 
of  which  he  is  a  past  master.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Montclair  Club,  and  since  1883 
he  has  been  an  elder  in  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Montclair.  .April  30,  1872,  Mr. 
Sandford  married,  in  Montclair,  Sarah  L., 
born  October  10,  1830,  only  daughter  of  Will- 
iam P).  Bogle  and  Margaret  W.  Taj)]).  They 
have  one  child:  Gertrude,  born  July  29,  1873, 
married  Jose])h  Torrens.  superintendent  of 
the  Butterick  Company,  lives  at  Montclair. 
and  has  one  daughter.  Margaret,  born  Febru- 
arv  6.  1905. 

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daughter  of  Charles  Peter  and  Phebe  C. 
(Munn)  Sandford,  was  born  in  ^lontclair, 
New  Jersey  ;  she  is  a  member  of  the  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution,  through  John 
Spear.  She  married,  June  20,  1876,  in  Me- 
tuchen.  New  Jersey.  James  Coffin  Stevens,  of 
New  "^'ork  City.  Iler  husband  was  grandson 
of  Isaac  Stevens,  a  coppersmith,  of  New  York 
City,  and  his  wife  Rachel  Stevenson,  and  the 
son  of  William  Henry  Stevens,  born  in  New 
'  York,  in  1816,  antl  died  in  1871.  William 
TIenry  Stevens  was  an  engineer  li\-  trade, 
building  and  operating  engines  in  connection 
with  John  li.  Roach,  of  New  York  City,  who 
built  the  steamers  "Providence"  and  "Dristol." 
I  By  his  wife,  Cornelia  J.  Casilear,  he  had  four 
I  children:  Rachel,  born  1842,  died  August  27, 
:  1858;  Cornelia  J.,  born  1845,  <^l'ed  October  15, 
1865  ;  Elizabeth,  born  1847.  married  William 
K.  Reeves ;  and  James  Coffin  Stevens. 

James  Coffin  Stevens  was  born  in  New  York 
City.  July  4,  1852,  and  is  now  living  at  42 
FuUerton  avenue.  Montclair.  New  Jersey.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools.  In  1867  he 
I  entered  the  employ  of  the  Guardian  Insurance 
Company  as  office  boy,  from  which  position  he 
rose  steadily  until  in  1886  he  was  appointed 
>ccretary  of  the  company,  which  post  he  held 
until  1890,  when  the  fire  insurance  firm  of 
1  'ayne.  Stevens  &  Newcombe,  95  William 
street.  New  York  City,  was  founded,  when  he 
took  his  ]3lace  in  that  as  one  of  the  partners 
in  the  enterprise.  He  is  elegable  to  the  Sons 
of  the  Revolution,  through  his  great-grand- 
father Stevens  A.  Stevens,  of  Captain  Gardner's 
iiimpany.  at  Haverstraw,  New  York,  fie  is 
treasurer  of  the  Firemen's  Relief  Association 
of  ^lontclair.  and  a  deacon  and  trustee  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  the  same  town. 
P>y  his  marriage  with  P'lla  AL,  daughter  of 
Charles  Peter  Sandford,  he  has  had  six  chil- 
dren: Cornelia  C.  Stevens,  born  1877,  mar- 
ried Samuel  Ketchum,  a  civil  engineer ;  James 
Coffin  Stevens  Jr.,  born  1879,  niarried  Sadie 
I'.rundage.  and  has  two  children:  James  P>. 
and  Wilbur  A.;  Charles  Sandford  Stevens, 
born  1881,  married  Anna  Segion ;  Elizabeth 
Reeves  Stevens,  born  1883.  married  Oliver 
Crane,  son  of  Edward  Canfield  and  Caroline 
II.  (Crane)  Lyon,  assistant  superintendent  of 
the  New  York  Telephone  Company ;  Albert 
Edward  Stevens,  born  1886;  and  ^^'ilbur  Sand- 
ford Stevens,  born  1890. 

(\'III  )  Ida  .\..  fifth  child  and  second  daugh- 
ter of  Charles  Peter  and  Phebe  C.  (Munn) 
Sandford,  was  born  in  Alontclair,  New  Jersey, 


and  was  married  in  that  town.  .March  22,  1883, 
to  David  Duncan  ^lurphey. 

Mr.  ]\lurphey  is  grandson  of  John,  and  son 
of  James  Murphey  and  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
James  and  Ellen  Duncan,  of  Perth,  Scotland. 
James  .Murphey  was  a  contractor  and  builder 
and  interior  decorator  in  New  York.  By  his 
wife,  Elizabeth  Duncan,  he  had  children:  i. 
Catharine  A.  Murphey,  married  James  How- 
ard. 2.  John  Murphey,  married  Elizabeth 
Ralston;  one  child:  Henry  Duncan  Murphey, 
married  ^lay  Peterson.  3.  James  Murphey, 
n.iarried  Maria  Elizabeth  Beers  ;  children  :  Her- 
bert and  Ethel  Beers,  both  married,  the  latter 
to  Dr.  William  Axtel.  4.  Elizabeth,  married 
Frederick  Odell :  children:  Frederick  Odell 
Jr.,  married  Rayne  Burmilla ;  Elizabeth  Dun- 
can Odell,  married  Charles  Hutton,  and  has 
one  child,  Charles  Duncan  Hutton ;  and  Sadie 
J.  Odell.  5.  William  Murphey.  6.  David 
Murphey.     The  two  last  named  died  as  babes. 

7.  Jennie  G.  Murphey,  married  Robert  Mitchell. 

8.  \\'illiam  Murphey.  married  Cora  Hender- 
son; children:  Herbert,  Edna,  and  Franklin 
Murphey,  the  first  of  whom  is  married.  9. 
David  Duncan  Murphey,  referred  to  above. 
10.  Ellen  Ferrier  Murphey,  married  Alexander 
Milwain. 

David  Duncan  Murphey,  born  in  New  York 
City,  September  18,  1857,  attended  the  public 
schools  and  the  old  Mount  \\'ashington  Col- 
legiate Institute.  He  then  accepted  a  clerical 
position  which  he  held  until  1894,  when  he  be- 
came connected  with  the  claim  department  of 
the  Prudential  Life  Insurance  Company,  which 
position  he  now  holds.  Mr.  Murphey  is  a 
Republican,  but  he  has  held  no  office.  He  is 
a  past  grand  master  of  the  Indei)endent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows  of  ^lontclair,  affiliated  with 
Watchung  Lodge,  No.  134.  He  attends  the 
Presbyterian  church.  By  his  wife,  Ida  Au- 
gusta, born  January  9,  1858,  daughter  of 
Charles  Peter  and  Phebe  C.  (Munn)  Sandford, 
he  has  had  si.x  children:  i.  Frederick  Duncan 
Mur]jhey.  born  January  31,  1884:  married,  De- 
cember 19,  1903,  Jose]ihine  Sugden.  of  Passaic  ; 
one  son,  Frederick  Sugden  Murphey,  born  Oc- 
tober 6,  1906.  2.  David  Duncan  Mur])hey  Jr., 
born  September  5,  1885:  married,  June  12, 
1909,  Elizabeth  Baisley  Nichols.  3.  Carolyn 
Sandford  Murphey,  born  September  10,  1887. 
4.  Ida  ]\Iay  Murphey.  March  13.  1889.  5.  Ed- 
ward Leslie  Murphey,  March  14,  1891.  6. 
Elizabeth  Murphey.  May  12,  1893. 

(VIII)  Jo.seph  '  .Albert,  eighth  child  and 
sixth    son    of    Charles    Peter    and    Phebe    C. 


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(Munn)  Sandford,  was  born  in  Montclair, 
New  Jerse_v,  August  4.  1867.  and  is  now  living 
at  42  Park  avenue.  East  Orange.  For  his  early 
education  he  was  sent  to  the  public  and  high 
schools  of  the  town  of  his  birth.  In  1886  he 
became  a  clerk  in  the  employ  of  the  Prudential 
Life  Insurance  Company.  Here  he  advanced 
from  step  to  step  until  in  1902  he  was  appoint- 
ed division  manager,  which  position  he  now 
holds.  Mr.  Sandford  is  a  Republican,  but  he 
has  held  no  office.  He  is  an  elder  in  the  Fifth 
Avenue  Presbyterian  Church. 

October  5.  1899,  Joseph  .Albert  Sandford 
married,  in  Nutley,  New  Jersey,  Lulu,  one  of 
the  nine  children  of  Henry  and  Jane  L.  (Wee- 
land)  Evers,  by  whom  he  has  had  one  child, 
Jean  Carolyn  Sandford,  born  September  13, 
"1905. 

(  \  I  )  W  illiam  M.,  third  child  and  second  son 
of  Michael  and  Gitty  (_Cadmusj  Sandford, 
was  born  in  Belleville,  New  Jersey,  April  3, 
1798,  and  died  in  the  same  place,  in  1888.  He 
was  engaged  in  the  carriage  manufacturing 
business  and  at  one  time  represented  Belle- 
ville in  the  legislature.  By  his  marriage  with 
Mary  Spear  Dow  he  had  five  children:  i. 
Theodore,  referred  to  below.  2.  .\nna  D.  Sand- 
ford, now  lives  in  Belleville,  and  survived  her 
father.  3.  Charles  Sandford,  lived  in  Pater- 
son,  New  Jersey;  married  Elizabeth  Taylor; 
children :  Charles  Henry,  married  F^rances 
Bat,  and  had  three  children:  Edward,  Char- 
lotte and  Frank ;  and  George,  married  Effie 
Snyder.  4.  Edmond  J.  Sandford.  lived  in 
Belleville:  married  Mary  Jane  Gourley ;  two 
children  :  Theodore,  married  Mary  Soule,  and 
had  two  children :  Elsie  and  Edmund  Theo- 
dore :  and  Sarah  Gertrude,  married  Stuart 
.Austin,  and  had  one  child,  Warren.  5.  Cath- 
alina  Dow.  died  January  iTi,  1S78.  agefl  forty- 
four  years. 

(V'll)  Theodore,  eldest  child  of  William 
Michael  and  .Mary  Spear  (Dow)  Sandfnrd. 
was  born  in  Belleville,  New  Jersey,  .August 
26,  1819.  and  died  February  26,  1910.  aged 
ninety  years  and  six  months.  F"or  his  early 
education  he  attended  the  only  school  in  the 
town  at  that  time,  a  two-story  stone  building 
standing  on  the  street  just  in  front  of  the  ])re-- 
ent  lecture  room  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church,  in  the  lower  i)art  of  which  a  school 
was  ke])t  by  I.  I.  I'.rower,  the  ])arents  paying 
a  certain  amount  jier  (|uarter  for  the  tuition 
of  their  children.  When  this  and  the  two 
l)rivate  schools  kejU  by  .Mrs.  Leslie  and  Miss 
Wallace  in  their  own  liomes,  were  sujjer^e  leil 
by  the  present   free  school  system,  Sei)teml)er 


4,  1852,  Theodore  Sandford  became  one  of 
the  first  of  the  school  trustees.  .After  leaving 
Mr.  Brower's  school,  Theodore  Sandford 
learned  the  trade  of  wheelwright,  at  the  same 
time  reading  law,  finally  giving  up  the  former 
trade  for  the  prosecution  of  the  latter  profes- 
sion, in  which  for  more  than  fifty  years,  as  a 
country  "squire  and  justice  of  the  peace,  he  has 
served  in  all  probability  longer  than  any  other 
man  in  New  Jersey.  .As  a  jniblic-spirited  citi- 
zen he  has  been  thoroughly  and  actively  identi- 
fied with  the  development  of  Belleville,  where 
he  has  spent  all  of  his  life,  respected  and  hon- 
ored by  all  who  know  him.  He  is  a  Repub- 
lican, and  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  frater- 
nity, and  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church.  He 
is  the  author  of  the  very  ably  written  chapter 
upon  the  history  of  Belleville  township  in 
Shaw"s  "History  of  Essex  and  Hudson  Coun- 
ties," published  in  1884. 

Theodore  Sandford  married,  November  it), 
1842,  Alargaret  Leah,  youngest  child  of  .Abram 
and  Alaria  (Spear)  \an  Riper.  Children;  i. 
Helen  .A.,  married  William  Jenkins  (now  de- 
ceased), of  Newark;  children;  i.  Frederic  C, 
married  Morence  T.  Walsh,  and  has  Florence 
W'.,  .Arthur  S.  and  Ruth;  ii.  Helen  S.,  married 
Thomas  M.  Watson,  of  Newark,  New  Jersey: 
iii.  Alargaret  \'.  R.,  married  Pierre  AI.  Looker, 
of  Newark,  and  has  Maxwell  Sandford  Looker 
and  Norman  Looker.  2.  .Arthur  Ellison,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3-4.  Sarah  .A.  and  Eliza 
Mary,  both  unmarried. 

(VHI)  .Arthur  Ellison,  second  child  and 
only  living  son  of  Theodore  and  Margaret 
Leah  (\'an  Riper)  Sandford,  was  born  in 
Belleville,  New  Jersey.  December  5,  1846,  His 
early  education  was  received  in  the  Belleville 
public  school.  .At  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
went  to  Chicago  and  there  became  a  clerk  in 
a  commission  house.  Later,  on  account  of  his 
ac(|uaintance  with  the  bankers  of  Chicago 
(  having  handled  a  large  bank  account  for  the 
hiiuse  he  was  with  the  previous  year),  he  was 
ofl'ered  a  position  in  the  F'irst  National  liank 
of  Chicago,-at  its  establishment,  and  which  he 
declined.  .\t  the  age  of  nineteen  he  returned 
to  Pielleville.  New  Jersey,  and  upon  attaining 
hi>  majority  engaged  in  the  general  c<intract- 
ing  business,  and  later  under  the  name  (^f 
Sandford  iv  Stillman  Company,  incorporated, 
which  was  later  changed  to  Sandford  &  Harris 
Compan\-,  and  subsef|uently  to  .\.  F..  Sandford 
Comi)any.  P>eing  gifted  with  a  natural  me- 
chanical mind,  inherited  probably  from  his  an- 
cestors, many  of  whom  were  mechanics,  early 
in  life  he  began  the  development  of  his  ability. 


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STATE   OF   NEW     IIIRSEV. 


3^' I 


accepting  contracts  of  all  kinds,  and  engaging 
in  the  timber  and  saw  mill  business,  securing 
timber  for  piles  from  the  woods  and  finally 
e(|ui])])ing  himself  with  machinery  for  driving 
them.  Thus  he  became  practically  familiar 
with  all  the  details  of  the  business.  The 
following  will  give  an  adequate  idea  of  the 
work  in  which  Mr.  Sandford  has  been  en- 
gaged in  connection  with  the  companies  afore- 
mentioned, and  which  stand  as  testimonials  to 
his  skill  and  ability:  The  reiinsylvania  freight 
bridge  over  the  llackensack  river;  the  county 
bridge  over  the  Hackensack  river  on  the  New- 
ark ])lank  road ;  Clay  street  Ijridge ;  Jackson 
street  bridge ;  the  foundation  for  the  Delaware, 
Lackawanna  &  Western  bridge  over  the  Pas- 
saic river  at  Newark;  piers  in  the  Central  rail- 
road bridge  in  Newark  bay  for  the  Sherzer 
lift  draws:  the  life  elevator  at  W'eehawken  ; 
four  tracked  the  Erie  road  from  Ramsey  to 
Suftern  on  the  main  line ;  double  tracked  the 
Greenwood  Lake  branch  from  Newark  to 
Great  Notch;  and  dejiressed  the  tracks  of  the 
Delaware,  Lackawanna  &  Western  railroad 
from  High  street,  Newark,  to  East  Orange. 
In  addition  to  his  extensive  business  interests, 
Mr.  Sandford  is  serving  in  the  capacity  of  di- 
rector of  the  Second  National  Bank  of  Hobo- 
ken,  and  for  five  years  was  one  of  the  free- 
holders of  Essex  county,  being  appointed  on 
the  finance  and  other  important  committees. 
He  is  a  Democrat,  and  a  member  of  the  North 
End  Club. 

Mr.  Sandford  married,  October  19,  1875. 
in  wdiat  is  now  known  as  North  Arlington. 
New  Jersey.  Cornelia  i\I.,  daughter  of  Cor- 
nelius and  .Sarah  (  Browe)  W'alsh.  of  Newark, 
New  Jerse}'. 

(A'HI)  I'eter  \'oorhees,  son 
\'OORHEES    of    IMartinus    (q.    v.)    and 

Elise  (\^an  Dyck)  Voor- 
hees,  was  born  May  17,  1787,  and  died  July  4, 
1833.  ^^^  lived  on  the  farm  he  inherited  from 
his  father  and  which  formerly  was  owned  by 
his  grandfather,  Peter  \'an  \'oorhees.  He 
was  a  man  of  much  influence  and  strong  char- 
acter. He  was  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
house  of  assembly,  1843-45,  and  judge  of  the 
court  of  common  pleas  of  Somerset  county, 
from  1833  to  1845.  ^^^  married,  March  2, 
1800,  Jane  Schenck.  born  December  28,  1787, 
died  July  22,  1843,  daughter  of  Captain  John 
Schenck,  Children:  I.  Alice,  born  February 
II,  1810,  died  August  18,  1878:  married,  Jan- 
uary 12,  1848.  Dr.  J.  V.  D.  Joline,  of  Camden. 
2.   fohn   Schenck.  born   March    18,   1812    (see 


post).  3.  Charity,  born  Se[)tember  22,  1814; 
married.  November  25,  1835,  Samuel  Disbrow 
Bergen,  born  .August  25,  1809.  4.  Mary,  born 
February  2,  1818,  died  December  17,  1867; 
married,  December  6,  1843,  Reuben  Armitage 
Drake  (see  Drake).  5.  .Ada  H.,  born  April 
14,  1820,  died  May  9,  1883.  6.  Jane,  born 
March  i,  1823,  died  June  16,  1873;  married, 
September  11,  1849,  Rev.  J.  B.  Davis.  7. 
Peter  L.,  born  July  12,  1825  ;  married,  October 
16,  1855,  Anna  F.  Dayton,  died  February  19, 
1880.  8.  Frederick,  born  April  9,  1832;  mar- 
ried, February  14,  1883,  Lizzie  M.  Barrett. 

(IX)  John  Schenck  X'oorhees,  son  of  Peter 
and  Jane  (Schenck)  \'oorhees,  was  born 
March  18,  1812,  died  June  19,  1877.  He  lived 
at  Elm  Ridge,  North  Brunswick,  Middlesex 
county.  He  married,  December  16,  1846, 
Sarah  .Ann  \"an  Doren.  Children:  i.  Abra- 
ham De  Hart,  born  March  23,  1848.  2.  Peter 
\'.,  born  June  18,  1852  (see  post).  3.  John 
Schenck.  born  November  30,  1855;  lawyer  of 
New  Brunswick.  4.  Anna  Margaret,  born 
April  19,  i860. 

fX)  Peter  Van  \'oorhees,  second  son  of 
John  Schenck  and  Sarah  A.  (Van  Doren ) 
X'oorhees,  was  born  in  New  Brunswick,  New 
Jersev,  June  15,  1832.  He  spent  his  boyhood 
on  the  home  farm  and  began  his  education  in 
the  neighborhood  schools,  then  entered  Rut- 
gers College,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1873, 
the  year  in  which  he  attained  his  majority. 
He  read  law  under  the  excellent  office  tutor- 
ship of  his  uncle,  Peter  L.  Voorhees  (one  of 
the  most  eminent  lawyers  who  ever  practiced 
in  New  Jersey),  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
as  an  attorney-at-law  in  June,  1875,  and  as  a 
counsellor  in  June,  1879,  and  was  associated 
in  practice  with  his  ]ireceptor  until  the  death 
of  the  latter  in  1895.  The  bond  of  esteem 
existing  between  the  two  was  particularly 
strong.  On  the  death  of  his  uncle,  Peter  \^an 
\'oorhees  received  by  gift  from  him  his  library, 
the  most  extensive  private  collection  in  the 
state,  and  also  succeeded  to  the  entire  business 
of  the  firm,  which  became  too  extensive  for 
one  ]ierson  to  conduct,  and  he  formed  a  part- 
nership with  George  Reynolds.  Throughout 
his  legal  career  Mr.  \'oorhees  occupied  a  posi- 
tion of  prominence  and  successfully  conducted 
many  important  litigations.  In  1900  he  was 
nominated  by  Governor  \'oorhees  as  a  judge 
of  the  court  of  errors  and  appeals  for  a  six 
year  term,  and  was  unanimously  confirmed  by 
the  senate. 

ludge  \'oorhees  was  active  in  community 
affairs,  and  at  the  time  of  hi-;  death  was  a  di- 


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lector  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Camden, 
the  Camden  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Company, 
and  the  West  Jersey  Title  and  (Guarantee 
Company.  He  was  also  a  manager  of  Cooper 
Hospital,  and  a  trustee  of  the  immense  Cooper 
estate.  He  was  a  vestryman  of  St.  Paul's 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  In  politics  he 
was  a  staunch  Republican,  and  e.xerted  a  broad 
and  salutary  influence  in  political  affairs.  In 
his  profession  he  was  an  able  advocate  and 
safe  counsellor.  His  mind  was  judicial  in  its 
character  and  trend.  IJy  nature  and  disposi- 
ticm  he  was  equipped  for  the  bench,  and  there 
found  his  rightful  place,  where,  with  a  mind 
well  poised,  he  calmly  viewed  both  sides  of  the 
([uestion  at  issue,  and  accurately  separated  the 
true  from  the  false.  In  his  persona!  attributes  he 
was  a  most  lovable  character.  To  the  young 
and  inexperienced  he  was  a  genial  friend  and 
kind  helper.  The  total  of  his  character  was 
unfailing  hope  and  unstinted  goodness. 

Judge  \oorhees  died  February  25,  IQ06. 
He  had  experienced  a  heart  ailment  about 
two  years  before,  but  death  was  mainly  due  to 
liver  complaint.  In  the  summer  of  1905,  on 
account  of  illness,  he  had  felt  obliged  to  resign 
his  position  on  the  bench.  His  resignation  was 
for  some  time  held  in  abeyance,  by  Governor 
Stokes,  who  finally  appointed  James  B.  Dill 
as  his  successor.  At  the  death  of  Judge  Voor- 
hees  the  Camden  County  Bar  Association  met 
and  paid  fervent  tribute  to  his  memory  in 
resolutions  of  respect,  and  appropriate  ad- 
dresses by  Judge  Garrison,  and  .Messrs.  Her- 
bert A.  Drake,  William  C.  French,  John  L. 
Semple,  E.  A.  Armstrong  and  Howard  AI. 
Cooper.  Like  action  was  also  taken  by  various 
other  bodies  with  which  tlie  lamented  deceased 
liad  been  associated. 

Judge  V'oorhees  married,  .\|)ril  20,  uScSi, 
Louise  Clarke,  daughter  of  James  B.  Daxtun. 
Children:  J.  Dayton  X'oorhecs,  and  one  who 
died  in  infancy. 

(XI)  J.  Dayton  V'oorhees,  son  of  Peter  V. 
and  Louisa  Clarke  (Dayton)  Voorhees,  was 
born  in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  April  23,  1882, 
and  received  his  earlier  literary  education  in 
private  schools,  the  I'riends'  School  in  Cam- 
den, the  I^enn  Charter  School  in  Philadelphia, 
and  afterward  for  two  years  continued  his 
prei)aratory  studies  under  a  private  tutor.  His 
higlier  education  was  ac(|uire(!  at  Princeton 
College,  where  he  entered  in  iqoi  and  gradu- 
ated Litt  B.  in  1905.  He  then  took  up  the 
study  of  law  and  for  two  years  was  a  student 
in  the  law  dejiartment  of  the  I'niversity  of 
Pennsylvania.     In  1908  he  was  admitted  to  the 


Camden  bar,  and  since  that  time  has  engaged 
in  general  practice  in  tliat  city.  Mr.  X'oorhees 
is  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Bar 
.Association,  the  Union  League  Club,  of  Phil- 
adel])hia,  the  Racquet  and  Princeton  Clubs  of 
Philadelphia,  and  Phi  Kappa  Sigma  fraternity. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  jiolitics,  and  an  Epis- 
copalian in  religious  ])reference. 


(V)    Daniel,   the   third    child 

SL'TPHEN     and  son  of  John   (q.  v.)   and 

Lydia  (Baker)   Sutphen,  was 

born  in  1 818.    By  his  wife  Eliza  Woodruiif  he 

had  two  children  Carlyle  Edgar,  referred  to 

below,  and  Gertrude. 

(\T)  Carlyle  Edgar,  only  son  of  Daniel 
and  Eliza  (Woodruff)  Sutphen,  was  born  in 
Irvington,  New  Jersey,  in  1837,  and  is  now 
living  in  Newark.  For  his  early  education  he 
attended  private  schools  in  Newark  and 
Orange.  He  then  learned  the  jewelry  trade, 
which  he  fallowed  for  some  time,  then  entered 
the  eni])loy  of  the  shirt  manufacturing  firm  of 
Robert  Johnston  &  Compan}-,  the  senior  part- 
ner being  his  father-in-law.  Finally  he  suc- 
ceeded to  the  business.  Mr.  Sutphen  is  a 
Republican,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the 
board  of  education  and  of  the  board  of  health 
in  Newark,  and  also  a  member  of  the  common 
council.  He  is  a  member  of  St.  John's  Lodge, 
F.  and  A.  M.,  of  Union  Chapter,  R.  .A.  M.,  and 
of  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society,  and  the 
Holland  .Society  of  New  York.  In  religion  he 
is  a  I'>a])tist.  Carlyle  Edgar  Suti)hen  married 
Jeannette,  daughter  of  Robert  Johnston;  chil- 
dren: Leila,  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-two; 
.Anne ;  Robert,  married  Rose  Morgan,  who 
after  his  death  became  the  wife  of  Frederick 
.Meeker;  and  Carlyle  Edgar  Jr.,  referred  to 
below. 

(\'H)  Carlyle  Edgar  Jr.,  youngest  child  uf 
Carhle  Edgar  and  Jeannette  (Johnston)  Sut- 
phen. was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  May 
28,  1871,  and  is  now  living  and  practicing 
medicine  there,  at  181  Roseville  avenue.  For 
his  early  education  he  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Newark,  and  graduated  from  \a.\c 
University  in  i8<y3.  lie  then  entered  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  .Surgeons,  New  York, 
;iiid  graduated  from  that  institution  in  1896, 
the  same  year  in  which  his  sister,  .Anne  Janet 
.'-^ut])hen,  received  her  B.  .A.  degree  from  Bar- 
nard College.  Dr.  Sutphen  now  took  a  two 
years  course  as  one  of  the  internes  at  the 
Roosevelt  Hos])ital  in  New  \"ork  City,  and 
then  came  to  his  ])resent  address  in  Newark, 
where  he  has  been  engaged  in  general  jjractice 


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ever  since.  He  is  one  of  the  visiting  surgeons 
of  the  City  Mospital  of  Newark,  and  a  member 
of  several  medical  and  other  societies,  among 
them  the  American  ]\Iedical  Association,  the 
Medical  Society  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey, 
the  Essex  County  Medical  Society,  and  the 
Practitioners'  Club.  He  is  a  Republican,  and 
a  member  of  St.  John's  Lodge,  F.  and  .\.  M. 
He  attends  the  Clinton  Avenue  Baptist  Church 
in  Newark. 

September  21.  1897.  he  married  Edna,  daugh- 
ter of  Leon  F.  Blanchard,  in  North  Conway, 
New  Hampshire,  and  they  have  one  child, 
Kenneth  Carlyle,  born  June  12,  1900. 


(\^I)   Garrit,    fourth   son   of 
TERHUNE     Richard  Nicholas  (q.  v.)  and 

Hannah  (Van  Voorhees)  Ter- 
luine,  was  born  in  Hackensack,  New  Jersey. 
October  9,  1801  ;  died  in  Passaic,  New  Jersey, 
July  8,  1885.  He  attended  the  district  school 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Classical 
School  of  Dr.  Sythoff.  He  matriculated  at  the 
College  of  New  Jersey,  Princeton,  with  the 
class  of  1823,  and  was  graduated  A.  B.  with 
that  class.  His  old  preceptor.  Dr.  SythofT,  had 
watched  his  course  through  college,  and  as  he 
inclined  to  the  profession  of  medicine  he  en- 
couraged his  ambition.  On  graduating  he  in- 
structed him  in  order  that  he  might  enter  Rut- 
gers Medical  College,  then  located  in  Jersey 
City,  and  he  was  graduated  under  the  tuition 
of  Professor  John  W.  Francis,  M.  D.,  1827. 
He  practiced  medicine  in  Hackensack  for  a 
time  and  then  located  in  Passaic,  where  he 
followed  his  profession  with  marked  success 
the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  affiliated  with 
the  medical  associations  of  the  state  and  was 
the  first  president  of  the  Passaic  County  Med- 
ical Society,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  found- 
ers. He  was  also  prominently  identified  with 
the  New  Jersey  State  Medical  Society. 

He  married,  in  1828.  Elizabeth  A.,  daughter 
of  Andrew  and  Elizabeth  (Anderson)  Za- 
briskie,  of  Johnsville,  New  York.  She  was 
born  July  25,  1805,  died  in  Passaic,  New  Jer- 
.sey,  December  16.  1883.  Children,  born  in 
Bergen  City,  New  Jersey:  i.  Richard  A.,  Jan- 
uary 9,  1829 ;  died  February  5,  1906,  in  Passaic, 
New  Jersey.  2.  Andrew  Zabriskie,  October 
29,  1831 ;  married,  June  25.  1862,  Christina, 
daughter  of  Ganesvoort  and  Jane  (Van  Riper) 
Ryerson,  of  Paterson,  New  JeYsey.  She  was 
born  November  7,  1837,  died  November  7, 
1905.  They  had  three  children,  born  in  Passaic. 
New  Jersey,  as  follows:  Frank  C.  November 
II,   i(%4:  Howard,  October  5,  1867,  married 


Delaphine  Romaine,  September  12,  1893,  '^"^ 
have  children:  Florence,  1894,  and  Evelyn, 
1896;  Cornelius  A.,  July  21,  1876.  3.  Jane 
Ann,  November  12,  1833;  died  unmarried.  4. 
Nicholas  Paul,  see  sketch.  5.  John  Zabriskie, 
March  19,  1837;  died  young.  6.  Ann  Elizabeth, 
December  14,  1839;  married  Robert  B.  Smith, 
September  25,  1862,  and  they  had  two  children, 
Annie  and  Bennie,  born  in  1868  and  1870,  re- 
spectively. 7.  Christianna,  February  i,  1845; 
married  James  B.  Randall,  June  i,  1865.  He 
was  born  January  9,  1836,  died  December  2^, 
1903.  The  six  children  of  this  marriage  were  : 
Frederick,  February  17,  1866;  Garritt  T.,  No- 
vember 26,  iS(>j  ;  William  AL,  August  11, 1869; 
Elizabeth,  November  2^,  1872;  Mary  C,  Sep- 
tember 13,  1874;  Samuel  F.,  November  24, 
1878,  died  April  28,  1887. 

(\'II)  Richard  A.,  eldest  child  of  Dr.  Gar- 
rit and  Elizabeth  Anderson  (Zabriskie)  Ter- 
liime,  was  born  in  Hackensack,  New  Jersey, 
January  9,  1829.  died  in  Passaic,  New  Jersey, 
February  5,  1906.  He  received  his  primary 
and  secondary  school  training  in  the  public 
primary  and  grammar  schools  of  Passaic,  and 
at  his  father's  home  he  received  instruction 
in  Latin  and  Greek.  He  displayed  an  early  de- 
sire to  take  up  the  study  of  medicine  and  sur- 
gery and,  as  his  father  was  not  averse  to  en- 
couraging this  inclination,  he  directed  his 
studies  to  that  end.  After  mastering  the  classics 
he  took  up  the  regular  course  in  medicine, 
anatomy  and  surgery  under  his  father's  su- 
perior direction,  and  comijleted  his  course  at 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in 
New  York  City  before  it  became  the  medical 
department  of  Columbia  L'niversity,  where  he 
was  graduated  ^L  D.  in  1850.  He  began 
practice  in  Passaic  in  association  with  his 
father,  and  the  father  and  son  practiced  to- 
gether for  eleven  years.  In  1861  he  opened 
an  office  and  began  an  independent  practice, 
which  grew  rapidly,  and  he  won  the  confidence 
of  the  community  and  secured  a  large  and 
lucrative  patronage.  He  took  an  active  inter- 
est in  the  affairs  of  the  city  of  Passaic  and 
was  a  valued  counsellor  in  civic  affairs,  as  well 
as  an  efficient  official  in  offices  of  trust.  The 
board  of  trade  of  the  city  elected  him  a  mem- 
ber and  he  served  as  president  of  the  board 
for  several  years.  He  took  active  measures  in 
procuring  a  charter  for  the  city  and  was  hon- 
ored bv  being  made  the  first  mayor  of  Passaic 
upon  its  incorporation  as  a  city  in  1873.  He 
also  served  on  the  water  board  as  a  member 
and  as  president  of  the  board.  His  political 
views    found    favor   in   the    Republican   party 


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and  his  public  offices  came  to  him  through  its 
unanimous  voice.  Dr.  Terhune  married,  June 
i8,  1861,  Emily  Louise,  daughter  of  .\lanson 
and  Mary  (  llutterworth  )  Randal,  and  \vidt)\v 
of  Richard  Morrell,  of  Hempstead,  Long 
Lsland.  She  was  born  August  11,  1830,  in 
Xewburg,  New  York,  died  April  19,  1903,  in 
Passaic,  Xevv  Jersey.  Their  children  were 
born  in  Passaic  as  follows:  i.  Child,  1863. 
died  in  infancy  unnamed.  2.  Bessie,  June  23, 
1S64;  unmarried.  3.  Percy  Hamilton,  see 
forward. 

(HI)  Percy  Hamilton,  only  son  and  third 
child  of  Dr.  Richard  A.  and  Emily  Louise 
(Randal)  (Morrell)  Terhuiie,  was  born  in 
Passaic,  New  Jersey,  February  26,  1867.  He 
received  his  school  training  in  the  jniblic  and 
private  schools  of  Passaic  and  in  Packard's 
Business  College  in  New  York  City.  He  began 
the  study  of  medicine  at  home  and  continued 
it  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
the  medical  department  of  Columbia  Univer- 
sity in  New  York  City,  and  was  graduated 
after  a  full  four  years'  course,  June  13,  1889, 
with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  He  then  took  a  post 
graduate  course  in  clinical  work,  operative- 
surgery,  etc.,  in  the  New  York  Polyclinic  and 
Hospital :  the  X'anderbilt  Clinic  and  North- 
western Dispensary.  He  began  the  private 
practice  of  medicine  and  surgery  in  Passaic, 
New  Jersey,  January  i,  1890,  occupying  the 
unique  position  of  the  third  generation  of  ]jhy- 
sicians  and  surgeons  in  a  contiiuious  jiractice 
in  the  same  city.  At  the  same  time  his  father 
was  in  active  practice  and  his  ])aternal  grand- 
father, Dr.  Ciarrit  Terhune,  had  practiced  in 
Passaic  and  vicinity  up  to  the  time  of  his  death. 
July^,  1885.  Dr.  Percy  H.  Terhune  spent  the 
winter  of  1897-98  in  Eurojie,  devoting  him- 
self to  clinical  work  in  the  hospitals  of  \'icnna 
and  Picrlin  and  in  o])erative-surgery  and  gyne- 
cology in  various  cities  in  (ireat  Britain  and 
the  continent  of  Euro])e.  His  medical  skill 
and  modern  methods  of  practice  commended 
him  at  once  to  the  small  class  of  e.xpert  practi- 
tioners, not  wedded  to  the  treatment  of  a  spe- 
cial disease,  and  he  has  constant  calls  as  a  con- 
sulting physician  and  surgeon  in  undefined  or 
uinisual  cases  not  coming  into  the  catagory  of 
diseases  suggesting  in  their  nature  the  services 
of  a  specialist.  His  learning  gave  him  jilace 
in  all  the  medical  societies  of  bis  city,  county 
and  state,  and  he  was  elected  to  membership 
in  the  .Alumni  .Association  of  Columbia.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  .American  b'lectro  Thera- 
peutic .Association,  New  Jersey  State  Medical 
.^ocietv,  Passaic  Countv  Medical  .Societv,  Pas- 


saic City  ^ledical  Society,  and  of  the  Holland 
Society  by  right  of  descent,  and  the  Yountakal 
Club  of  Passaic.  His  professional  services  to 
the  ])ublic  included  the  presidency  of  the  board 
of  health  of  Pas.saic,  1891-97;  city  physician 
during  the  same  period,  and  visiting  physician 
to  St.  Mary's  Hospital.  He  was  largely  instru- 
mental in  founding  the  Passaic  Hospital  .Asso- 
ciation, and  has  continued  an  active  worker 
in  the  same ;  he  is  one  of  the  visiting  physi- 
cians of  Passaic  Hospital  and  is  also  the  radio- 
grapher for  the  same  institution. 

Dr.  Terhune  married,  July  10,  1894,  .Alice 
Ethelyn  Tucker,  of  Monson,  Massachusetts ; 
they  had  two  children  who  died  of  scarlet 
fever  in  1898:  Mrs.  Terhune  died  June  20, 
1896.  December  10,  1903,  Dr.  Terhune  mar- 
ried (  second  |  I'.essie  Gibson,  daughter  of  John 
H.  and  Mary  {  Aleriwether )  Bartlett ;  children, 
born  in  Passaic,  New  Jersey :  Robert  D., 
born  December  15,  1904;  Richard  .\.,  Febru- 
ary 5,  1908.  They  are  in  the  ninth  generation 
from  .Albert  Albertsen,  immigrant  ancestor  of 
the  Terluines  of  Iiergen  county.  New  Jersey. 


(\  II)  Nicholas  Paul  Terhune, 
TRRHCNE  third  .son  and  fourth  child  of 
Dr.  C.arrit  (q.  v.)  and  Eliza- 
beth .Viiderson  (Zabriskie)  Terhune,  was  born 
in  Passaic,  New  Jersey,  November  24,  1835.  He 
received  his  classical  education  in  the  schcxils  of 
his  native  city  and  his  medical  training  under  the 
instruction  of  his  father  for  a  time,  but  taking 
a  dislike  to  the  jirofession  he  abandoned  his 
plans  and  became  a  clerk  in  a  hardware  store, 
where  he  soon  ac(|uired  a  thorough  knowledge 
of  the  business.  In  1858,  when  twenty-three 
years  of  age,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  his 
brother,  Andrew  Zabriskie  Terhime,  four  years 
his  senior,  in  the  hardware  business,  the  firm 
being  Terhime  lirothers  and  their  place  of 
business,  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey.  They  did 
a  general  hardware  and  kitchen  furnishing 
business  and  were  very  successful.  They  re- 
tired from  business  in  1870  and  Nicholas  Paul 
went  to  North  Carolina,  where  he  purchased  a 
plantation,  which  he  conducted  for  seven  years. 
In  1878  he  returned  to  Passaic  and  soon  after 
engaged  in  the  real  estate  business,  which  in 
1909  he  was  still  carrying  on  with  excellent 
results. 

He  married,  June  15,  1859.  .Mary  Jane,  born 
in  New  York  City,  1837,  daughter  of  Richard 
E.  and  Bertha  (Crane)  Arthur;  children:  i. 
.Albert,  born  in  Passaic,  New  Jersey;  married 
Catherine  Meade,  of  Passaic,  and  their  chil- 
dren were:     Mary,  Alice,  Ida  McK.,  John  and 


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Richard.  2.  Aliniiie,  born  in  Passaic;  died  aged 
about  three  years.  3.  Edward  Arthur,  born  in 
Jersey  City;  married  Ethel  Lyon,  of  Green- 
wich. Connecticut.  4.  George  Arthur,  born  in 
jersey  City:  married  Catherine  Conklin,  and 
their  children  are:  George  Arthur  Jr.  and 
lulitli  Louise.  5.  Kate  Crane,  born  in  Passaic, 
New  Jersey.  6.  Harry  Arthur,  born  in  North 
CaroHna;  died  aged  about  two  years.  7.  Rich- 
ard .Anderson,  born  in  North  Carohna;  mar- 
ried Edith  Gresenbacher ;  child,  Elsie  Ap])eHne. 
X.  Charlotte  May,  born  in  North  CaroHna ; 
married  David  A.  Cutler ;  child,  David  A. 
Cutler  Jr.  9.  Emilie  Louise,  born  in  North 
Carolina.  10.  Clarence  E.,  born  in  Passaic. 
New  Jersey.  11.  Elizabeth  Anderson,  born  in 
Passaic,  New  Jersey. 


(\'l)  Nicholas  (Nicausa) 
TERHUNE  Terhune,  eldest  child  of  Rich- 
ard N.  (q.  V.)  and  Hannah 
I  \'an  \oorhees)  Teriiune,  was  born  in  Hack- 
ensack.  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey.  January 
14,  1792.  He  married  Aryana  Alarsellise  and 
they  had  only  one  child.  John  N.,  see  forward. 
I  hey  lived  in  Politly,  Bergen  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, on  property  now  owned  by  John  Van 
I'lUssom. 

(\II)  Judge  John  Nicholas,  only  child  of 
Nicholas  and  Aryana  (  Marsellise )  Terhune. 
was  born  in  PoliHy,  New  Jersey,  May  14.  1819, 
died  October  22,  1898.  He  became  a  judge  of 
the  Passaic  county  court.  He  married,  No- 
vember 12,  1840,  Sophia  Alersellis.  born  .Au- 
gust 8.  1823,  died  November  24.  1894.  daugh- 
ter of  Edo  C.  and  Elizabeth  Garise  (Garret- 
son)  Mersellis.  Edo  C.  Mersellis  was  born 
March  18,  1795.  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Garise 
(/larretson.  was  born  December  22,  1803.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  .\drianna.  born  June  30,  1843.  "^I'^d 
December  9.  1893;  married.  Se])tember  19, 
1866,  Dr.  C.  \'an  Riper,  and  had  three  chil- 
dren: John  T..  .Arthur  Ward  and  Cornelius 
Z.  \'an  Riper.  2.  Iddo  M.,  see  forward.  3. 
Nicholas,  born  August  2,  1847,  died  January 
22.  1892:  married.  October  15.  1874,  Jane  E. 
Kip:  had  two  children.  Harold  and  Irving 
Terhune.  4.  John,  born  December  25,  1849 : 
married  (first)  Euphemia  Kip.  October  I, 
1873,  no  issue:  died  April  15,  1887;  married 
(second).  June  5,  1889,  Anna  S.  Emmons, 
born  September  15,  1864.  daughter  of  Captain 
.Silas  TL  and  Mirinda  (Myers)  Emmons:  two 
children  :  Margery  Anita,  born  September  7, 
1891,  and  John  Russell,  born  January  25. 
1897.  3.  Cornelius,  born  November  28,  t85i, 
(lied  October  6,  1852.    6.  Elizabeth,  born  Sep- 


tember 4,  1853,  died  October  17,  1857.  7.  Jane 
Ann,  born  November  16,  1856,  died  .August 
22.  1857.  8.  Garret,  born  June  14,  1858,  in 
Paterson,  New  Jersey;  educated  in  the  public 
school  and  in  the  Paterson  Seminary  under 
the  tuition  of  Alajor  Henry  Waters,  a  noted 
educator,  now  of  West  Point,  New  York ;  at 
age  of  twenty-one  Air.  Terhune  engaged  in 
the  chemical  manufacturing  business  at  Pomp- 
ton  Plains,  New  Jersey,  where  he  has  success- 
fully continued  in  that  line  of  enterprise  to 
the  present  time:  he  is  a  member  of  the  First 
Reformed  Church  of  Passaic,  New  Jersey,  of 
which  both  his  ])arents  were  for  many  years 
members;  he  married,  .August  10,  1886,  Irene, 
born  April  8.  1867,  daughter  of  Cyrus  and 
Eliza  (Courter)  Emmons,  of  Passaic,  New 
Jersey:  children:     Percy  N.,  born  November 

9.  1887;  Royal  E.,  Alarch  18,  1892.  9.  Carrie, 
born  January  17,  1861,  died  June  3,  1865.  10. 
Richard,  born  November  13,  1863.  died  juue 
21,  1865.  II.  Sophia,  born  Alay  23,  1867; 
married.  .April  6,  1887,  Charles  Denholm,  of 
Paterson,  New  Jersey,  no  issue:  she  died 
Alarch  6,  1892. 

(  \'HI )  Iddo  AL,  eldest  child  of  Judge  Nich- 
olas and  Sophia  ( Alarsellis)  Terhune,  was 
born  in  I'aterson,  New  Jersey,  September  12, 
1845.  died  at  his  home  in  Passaic.  New  Jer- 
sey, March  21,  1903.  He  began  his  business 
life  in  a  shoe  store  in  Passaic,  New  Jersey, 
and  conducted  that  business  during  the  early 
years  of  his  life.  After  gaining  a  competence, 
he  removed  to  his  farm  at  Lake  \'iew,  located 
on  the  Passaic  river,  between  Passaic  and  Pat- 
erson, and  spent  his  declining  years  in  his 
home  in  Passaic.  He  married,  October  18, 
1871,  Alargaretta,  daughter  of  John  \'.  S. 
and  ("atharine  (  Oldis  )  \'an  Winkle,  the  former 
of  whom  was  born  .Ai)ril  21,   1818,  died  June 

10.  1889.  Alargaretta  was  born  September 
26,  1849.  They  had  three  children,  the  two 
eldest  born  in  Passaic:  i.  Frank,  see  forward. 
2.  Bertha,  born  August  12,  1875;  married 
Henry  G.  Schaub.  3.  W'illiam  Snow,  born  at 
Lake  \'iew.  New  Jersey.  November  15,  1877; 
married,  September  16,  1908,  Alary  Elizabeth, 
born  .April  23,  1878,  daughter  of  Charles 
Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Zabriskie)  Temple. 
The  mother  of  these  children  survived  her  hus- 
band and  has  continued  to  maintain  the  home 
at  172  Jefferson  street,  Passaic,  New  Jersey, 
where  she  is  an  active  member  of  the  First 
Reformed  Church,  of  which  both  herself  and 
husband  were  members  during  their  entire 
wedded  life  and  in  which  their  children  were 
baptized  and  brought  up. 


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( IX  )  Frank,  eldest  child  of  Iddo  AI.  and 
Margaretta  ( \'an  Winkle  j  Terhune,  was  born 
in  Passaic,  Xew  Jersey,  March  9,  1873.  He 
was  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  of  Paterson, 
and  graduated  at  Latimer's  Business  College 
in  that  city  in  1889.  In  1890  he  became  a 
clerk  in  the  People's  Bank  &  Trust  Conijjany 
of  Passaic  and  he  remained  in  the  service  of 
the  banking  company  for  ten  years,  receiving 
well-merited  promotions,  due  to  his  industry, 
diligence  and  carefulness.  He  resigned  in 
1900  to  accept  the  treasureryship  of  the  Hobart 
Trust  Companj-  of  Passaic.  This  position  of 
trust  he  resigned  in  1906  to  take  the  position 
of  signature  clerk  in  the  Merchants'  National 
Bank  of  Xew  York  City.  His  fraternal  affilia- 
tions are  limited  to  the  Royal  .-Vrcanum ;  the 
Tribe  of  Ben  Hur  and  the  Xational  L'nion. 
His  political  principles  are  those  advocated  by 
the  Republican  party,  and  his  church  affilia- 
tions are  the  Reformed  Church  in  America, 
first  known  as  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church. 
His  generation  is  the  ninth  in  direct  line  from 
Albert  Albertse,  who  was  a  member  of  the 
first  church  (Dutch  Reformed)  on  Manhattan 
Island,  of  which  Dominie  Bogardus  was  pastor. 
Frank  Terhune  married,  October  4,  1898, 
Agnes  M.,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah 
(Kerr)  Johnson.  Thomas  Johnson  filled  the 
office  of  mayor  of  Paterson  for  one  term.  Child, 
born  in  Passaic,  Xew  Jersey :  Allen  Johnson 
Terhune,  born  June  20.  1904,  he  being  of  the 
tenth  generation  from  .Albert  .\lbertse,  imiui- 
grant  settler  in  Xew  .\msterdam  before  1634. 


Jane  McCracken  died  at 
McCRACKE.V      Senotue,    September    29, 

1807,  aged  eighty-eight 
years,  and  was  buried  in  the  Presbyterian 
burial-ground.  Mary  McCracken,  of  Xorth- 
umberland.  married,  after  1759,  Captain  Jo- 
seph, son  of  Samuel  Sherer,  the  immigrant, 
who  came  from  the  north  of  Ireland  in  1734. 
(I)  (ieorge  McCracken  was  born  Marcli 
25.  1788,  died  January  5,  1866.  He  married, 
February  22,  1814,  I'annie  Lambert,  born 
June  13,  1788,  died  February  8,  1834.  They 
were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Hacketts- 
town,  Warren  county,  Xew  Jersey,  and  there 
he  carried  on  his  trade  of  tailor  in  his  residence 
in  the  town,  and  the  homestead  erected  by 
him  is  now  situated  at  the  junction  of  Main, 
Mill  and  Mechanic  streets  in  Hackettstown. 
Their  children  were  born  at  the  homestead  as 
follows:  I.  William,  September  15.  1814,  see 
forward.  2.  Mary,  Se()tember  2;^.  1816.  died 
December  26,  1817.     3.  Mary  (2),  Xovember 


13,  1818.  4.  Peter,  January  12,  1821.  5. 
Catharine,   August  29,    1823;   never  married. 

6.  Charles,  June  6,   1827,  died  May  19,   1828. 

7.  lohn,  lanuarv  14,  1830,  died  December  18, 
1854. 

(II)  William,  eldest  child  of  George  and 
Fannie  (Lambert)  McCracken,  was  born  in 
Hackettstown,  Warren  county,  Xew  Jersey, 
September  15,  18 14.  He  was  brought  up  in 
his  father's  home  and  learned  from  him  the 
trade  of  tailor.  He  married,  March  15,  1838, 
Anna  C.  Clawson,  whose  father  owned  the 
"Warren  House,"  a  well-known  hotel  which 
owed  much  of  its  reputation  to  Mr.  Clawson's 
skill  as  a  landlord.  \\'illiam  McCracken,  after 
his  marriage,  continued  to  work  at  his  trade 
as  tailor  in  his  father's  shop,  and  in  1842  took 
charge  of  his  father's  farm  in  Warren  county, 
where  he  resided,  and  where  his  children,  ex- 
cept the  first  three,  were  born.  This  farm, 
now  known  as  the  "Delliker  Farm"  was  in- 
herited by  William  at  his  father's  death  in 
i8()(>.  and  he  remained  on  it  till  1868,  when  he 
sold  it  and  purchased  the  Warren  House,  where 
he  removed  his  family  and  became  its  pro- 
]3rietor  and  host  to  the  travelling  public.  He 
remained  landlord  of  the  hotel  for  twenty- 
five  years,  retiring  from  business  in  1891.  and 
removing  to  a  house  on  High  street  purchased 
for  him  by  his  son  Alpheus,  where  with  his 
devoted  wife  as  a  companion  he  ended  his  days 
in  comfort  and  perfect  independence.  He  was 
a  charter  member  of  Musconetconey  Lodge, 
Independent  ( Jrder  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  he 
was  during  his  last  years  the  oldest  living  mem- 
ber of  Independence  Lodge,  .\ncient  Free  and 
.Accepted  Alasons.  He  died  in  Hackettstown, 
Xew  Jersey,  March  23.  1897,  and  his  widow 
February  8,  1899.  Children  of  William  and 
Anna  C.  (Clawson)  McCracken  were:  i. 
Lewis,  born  March  2t,.  1839.  died  January  19. 
\()Oj.  2.  George.  |ul\  4.  1840.  3.  Reuel  S., 
I-'ebruary  14,  1842.  4.  .Mijheus,  see  forward. 
5.  Josepii  H..  March  30,  1845.  6.  Emma  E., 
.A|)ril  28.  1847.  /■  Theodore,  March  16,  1849, 
died   May  17,  1849.     8.  Jacob  C,  March  26. 

1850,  died    1006.     ().  Mary  C.  Xovember  22. 

1851.  10.  .Alice.  Xovember  22,  1853.  11. 
Zilpah.  July  31,  1853,  died  October  T2,  1878. 
12.  Reading  1'.,  Sei)tember  24,  1857.  died  I-'eb- 
ruary  26,  1858.  13.  Cortland  B.,  January  9, 
1839,  died  April  6,  1902.  14.  Ida  B.,  June  20, 
1861,  died  February  9,  1883.  That  in  the 
middle  of  the  nineteenth  century  we  should 
find  a  father  and  mother  the  parents  of  fif- 
teen children  born  within  the  space  of  twenty- 
two  \ears,  and  out  of  this  niunber  onlv  two  to 


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STATE   OF   NEW    lEKSEV. 


y-: 


(lie  in  infancy,  and  both  parents  living  to  reach 
the  age  of  eighty-three  years,  is  a  remarkable 
record  of  obedience  to  the  scriptural  injunc- 
tion given  to  our  first  parents. 

(Ill)  .\lpheus,  fourth  son  of  William  and 
Anna  C.  (Clawson )  McCracken,  was  born  on 
his  grandfather's  farm  in  Warren  county,  Xew 
Jersey,  August  31,  1843.  He  was  brought  up 
on  the  farm,  attended  the  district  school,  and 
when  eighteen  years  of  age  was  moved  by  the 
events  incident  to  the  clash  of  arms  between 
the  two  sections  of  his  native  country  to  give 
h.is  services  to  aid  in  putting  down  rebellion 
and  preserving"  the  unity  of  the  states  com- 
prising the  L  nited  States.  He  enlisted  in  the 
Thirty-first  Xew  Jersey  \  olunteer  Regiment 
in  1862,  as  a  member  of  Company  H,  which 
was  recruited  at  Hackettstown,  New  Jersey, 
and  he  shared  the  fortunes  of  that  regiment  as 
a  private  and  as  sergeant  of  his  company  in 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  his  four  most  prom- 
inent battles,  the  greatest  in  modern  history 
in  America  and  among  the  greatest  in  the 
world :  The  two  battles  before  Fredericks- 
burg: the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  and  the  battle 
of  Chancellorsville.  He  is  now-  a  pensioner 
on  account  of  limitation.  On  being  mustered 
out  of  the  service  with  his  regiment,  he  found 
employment  as  inspector  of  lumber  for  the 
I'ejinsylvania  railroad,  and  lie  continued  in 
the  service  of  that  great  corporation  for  thirty- 
two  years,  1863-97.  In  1897  he  resigned  to 
accept  the  presidency  of  the  Central  Trust 
Company  of  Camden,  Xew  Jersey,  of  which 
he  had  been  for  many  years  a  director  and 
vice-president.  His  ]X)litical  affiliation,  both 
as  a  soldier  and  as  a  citizen,  has  been  with  the 
Republican  party,  and  his  first  vote  was  cast 
while  in  the  army  for  the  Lincoln  and  Johnson 
electors,  in  Xovember,  1864,  and  for  the  regu- 
lar nominees  of  the  Republican  party  at  the 
recurring  eleven  presidential  elections,  includ- 
ing the  Taft  and  Sherman  elections  in  1908. 
He  was  an  active  member  of  the  Republican 
Club  of  Camden,  Xew  Jersey,  up  to  the  time 
he  changed  his  residence  to  \"ineland,  Xew 
Jersey,  in  iqofi.  He  has  been  Independent  in 
religious  views,  and  attached  himself  to  no  de- 
nomination of  Christians,  but  has  been  a  sup- 
porter of  the  charities  and  benefactions  main- 
tained by  each.  His  fraternal  affiliation  with 
the  Order  of  Ancient  Free  and  .\ccepted 
Masons  began  in  Camden  Lodge,  Xo.  15, 
where  he  was  an  apprentice,  fellow  craftsman 
and  master  mason :  to  the  York  Rite  Chapter. 
No.  20.  as  mark  master,  past  master,  most 
excellent  master,  and   Ro\al  .\rcli  ^lason  ;  of 


the  Bordentown,  Xew  Jersey  Council,  in  which 
he  was  royal  master,  select  master,  and  super- 
excellent  master,  and  passing  to  the  Com- 
mandery  as  a  Red  Cross  Knight,  Knight  Tem- 
plar and  Knight  of  Malta. 

Mr.  iMcCracken  married  (first)  December 
17,  1865,  Anna  E.,  eldest  daughter  of  George 
\\'.  and  Amelia  (X'andergrift )  Scott,  born 
September  24,  1844,  died  Xovember  19,  1877. 
To  them  were  born  two  sons,  George  Scott 
and  Robert  Scott,  both  further  mentioned 
below.  Mr.  McCracken  married  (second), 
Januar\-  21,  1879,  Lillian,  born  August  10. 
i8()0.  daughter  of  Ciideon  B.  and  Lillian  ( \"an- 
dergrift)  Blakey.  Three  children  were  born 
to  them:  Leah,  born  in  Camden,  March  25. 
18S4,  died  April  i,  1899;  Portia,  born  in  Cam- 
den, December  11,  1891  ;  and  Alpheus.  born  in 
Atlantic  City,  June  7,  1898.  In  1906  Mr.  Mc- 
Cracken removed  his  family  to  \'ineland, 
Cumberland  county,  Xew  Jersey,  where  his 
Nounger  children  are  pupils  in  excellent 
private  schools. 

( I\' )  George  Scott,  eldest  son  of  Alplieus  and 
Anna  E.  (  Scott)  McCracken, was  born  in  Bord- 
entown, Xew  Jersey,  February  15,  1871.  He 
attended  the  Chester  (Penn.sylvania )  Military 
College.  He  was  for  two  years  in  the  service 
of  the  C.  &  A.  railroad  at  Cooper's  Point. 
Camden :  for  ten  years  assistant  baggage  agent 
of  the  Pennsylvania  railroad  at  Altoona,  Penn- 
sylvania :  and  for  six  years  foreman  in  the 
freight  department  of  the  W.  J.  &  S.  railroad  at 
Atlantic  City,  Xew  Jersey.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men  at  Camden, 
and  the  Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle,  .Mtoona, 
Pennsylvania.  In  politics  he  is  independent. 
W  ith  his  family  he  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
church.  He  married,  in  Jersey  City,  Xovem- 
ber 2,  189*'),  Frances  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Adolphus  and  Mary  Ellen  Hileman:  she  was 
born  in  Altoona,  Pennsylvania,  and  her  father 
was  a  blacksmith.  Children:  Jean  Hileman 
McCracken,  born  in  .-Mtoona,  November  4, 
1900:  Robert  Alpheus  McCracken,  born  in 
.Atlantic  City,  June  20,  1905. 

Robert  Scott,  second  son  of  .\lplieus  and 
.Anne  E.  (Scott)  McCracken,  was  born  in 
Bordentown,  Xew  Jersey,  October  6,  1877. 
He  was  educated  at  the  Friends'  School  and 
J.  Xorthrop's  private  school,  in  Camden,  Xew 
Jersey,  ancl  the  Drexel  Institute,  Philadelphia. 
Pennsylvania.  For  si.x  years  he  was  cashier 
at  the  \'ine  street  station  of  the  Pennsylvania 
railroad  at  Philadelphia  :  one  year  in  the  right 
of  wav  department  of  the  Bell  Teleiihone  Com- 
panv  in  Philadelphia,  and  then  went  into  busi- 


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STATE   OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


ness  with  C.  V.  Risley,  under  the  firm  name 
of  C.  \'.  Risley  &  Co.,  dealers  in  railroad  ties 
and  lumber,  as  successors  to  Lewis  Thumpson 
&  Co.,  \o.  127  Walnut  street,  Philadel])hia, 
and  in  which  he  is  now  engaged.  At  the  out- 
break of  the  Spanish-American  war  he  enlist- 
ed in  the  First  Regiment.  National  Guartl 
Pennsylvania,  and  was  with  the  troops  assem- 
bled at  Chickamauga,  Georgia,  but  was  not 
called  into  active  service  on  account  of  the 
early  close  of  the  war.  In  politics  he  is  a  Re- 
jiublicau.  He  is  a  member  of  the  .\utoniobile 
Club  of  Germantown,  the  White  Marsh  \alley 
Country  Club,  and  the  Camden  .Automobile 
Club.  He  and  his  family  attend  the  Presby- 
terian church.  He  married,  in  the  Old  Swedes 
Church,  Wilmington,  Delaware,  May  18,  1891, 
Gertrude  Fricke,  of  Camden,  New  Jersey, 
daughter  of  Harry  and  Anna  (Schrack) 
iMicke,  whose  other  children  were  Welling, 
Harter  and  Elizabeth.  Children  of  Robert 
Scott  antl  Ciertrude  (Fricke)  McCracken : 
.\lpheus  Welling,  born  March  20,  1904,  and 
Roberts  Scott  McCracken  Jr.,  born  July  31. 
190^). 

The     name     Woodruff     is 
WOODRUFF     derived     from    Woodrove, 

or  Woodreeve,  the  word 
"reeve"  meaning  a  caretaker,  and  Woodreeve 
was  presumably  a  reeve  for  his  lords  forest 
or  woodlands.  During  the  Saxon  period  in 
England  the  nobility  who  owned  titles  estates 
had  their  caretaker,  which  was  a  most  exalted 
])ONition.  He  usually  levied  dues  ior  his  lord 
and  ])er formed  many  judicial  functions.  There 
are  many  si)ellings  of  the  name  Woodrufif: 
Woodreeve,  Woodrufe,  Woodrove,  Wood- 
roffe.  Woodroufe,  Woderofe,  Woodrofe, 
Woo<lrufe,  WoodrufFe.  Woodrow  and  Wood- 
rap.  The  name  and  family  is  of  purely  Tuig- 
lish  origin. 

(  I  )  The  first  of  the  name  recorde<l  was 
Thomas  Woodrove  (  Wrxidreeve),  who  resided 
at  Fordwich  (  Kentshire )  in  England  during 
the  reign  of  Henry  VH.  He  died  there  in 
1533.  He  is  shown  in  the  town  records  as  a 
property  owner  of  considerable  amount,  and 
a  deed  dated  1538  makes  Thomas  Woodrofifs 
owner  of  two  messuages  comjjrising  thirty  acres 
of  land,  with  three  gardens,  five  acres  of 
meadow  land,  and  eigliteen  of  forest,  situated 
in  I'ordwich.  There  is  record  made  of  him 
relative  to  payment  to  church  wardens  of  the 
rent  of  his  hou.se  which  the  church  owned, 
livable  in  advance  for  preceding  year.  Thomas 
Woodrove  was  a  rider  or  envoy  for  the  court. 


his  duty  being  to  take  long  journeys  to  sum- 
mons tlitferent  members  of  the  court.  The 
mayor  of  Fordwich  and  the  commons  were 
distinctively  at  ends  with  the  abbot  of  the 
monastery  of  St.  Augustus,  who  held  full 
Mvay  and  claimed  his  authority  and  many 
rights  in  the  district;  and  one  particular  claim  1 
which  was  unreasonable  to  the  mayor  and  his- 
office,  which  they  were  obliged  to  submit  to, 
was  that  the  abbot's  bailiff  should  be  present 
at  court  holdings  presided  over  by  the  mayor. 
'1  his  proved  wholly  obnoxious  to  his  lordshij), 
and  on  such  an  occasion  Thomas  Woodrove 
in  1 5 10  became  a  rider  for  the  court  to  sum- 
mon the  bailiff  of  the  Isle  of  Thanet.  He  be- 
came a  person  in  whom  the  court  had  full  con- 
fidence. He  performed  many  duties  of  town 
clerk  and  was  a  recognized  factor  in  his  town. 
He  became  a  jurat  in  1538,  during  the  time  of 
King  Henry  \  III,  when  he  put  down  the 
monastery  rule  to  be  given  over  to  his  follow- 
ers. In  1539  we  find  by  the  records  that 
'llicmias  \Voodrove  became  a  magistrate  at 
I'lirdwich  and  sat  with  his  followers,  who 
were  his  seniors,  and  it  was  at  this  time  that 
he  and  his  associates  acted  on  a  bill  in  favor 
of  the  courtiers  that  would  convey  to  them 
many  of  the  proper  possessions,  .\mong  his 
children   was  William,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  William,  son  of  Thomas  Woodrove. 
was  born  at  Fordwich,  Kentshire,  England, 
where  he  died  in  1587.  He  was  concerned  in 
the  advancement  of  tow-n  affairs,  and  held  the 
res])onsible  ofiice  of  keeper  of  key  of  the 
town  chest,  then  an  honorable  office  supposed 
to  be  conferred  on  the  most  resjionsible  citizen 
of  the  town.  The  responsibility  of  the  town 
records,  deeds,  wills,  etc.,  was  called  "the 
chest,"  and  he  was  paid  by  fees  for  the  custody. 
The  chest  was  to  be  found  in  the  courthouse 
of  Fordwich,  and  from  the  many  years  it  was 
subjected  to  use  it  became  a  well-worn  treas- 
ure re])ository.  He  was  enrolled  in  the  mili- 
tary comjjany  at  Fordwich  in  1573-74.  as 
shown  by  the  records,  where  he  was  furnished 
by  his  son  Robert  and  many  others  with  neces- 
sary imi)lements  of  defense.  lie  was  a  strict 
churchman  and  held  office  in  common  with 
others.  He  was  a  man  of  spirit,  and  appar- 
entlv  was  first  to  act  in  the  afTairs  of  the  com- 
niunitv.  He  was  undoubtedly  a  senior  jurat, 
nr  magistrate,  as  his  name  appears  in  the  court 
records.  He  was  in  close  association  with  the 
"Honorable  Mayor"  of  Fordwich,  often  acting 
in  his  stead.  He  was  a  freeman  and  yeoman, 
and  held  possessions  at  his  death.  Children : 
William;  Robert,  mentioned  below. 


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(lllj  Robert,  son  of  William  Woodruff, 
was  born  at  Fordwich,  England,  about  1547, 
died  in  161 1,  leaving  a  widow  and  two  sons. 
Like  his  father,  grandfather  and  brother  Will- 
iam, he  became  a  prominent  factor  in  the  im- 
]jortant  affairs  of  Fordwich.  He  was  admitted 
a  freeman  in  1580,  and  served  later  as  a  magis- 
trate, often  presiding  at  meetings  where  ques- 
tions of  importance  in  the  king's  name  were 
concerned.  He  served  the  parish  church  of  his 
town  as  warden  in  1584.  He  was  a  yeoman 
and  held  pro]ierty  interests,  inheriting  undoubt- 
edly lands  from  his  father.  His  marriage  to 
.Mice  Russell,  according  to  the  best  authority, 
occurred  in  1572.  She  was  of  Xorthgate  and 
nearby  parish  of  St.  Mary.  Uf  their  children 
were  John  and  William. 

(1\')  John,  son  of  Robert  Wootlroft',  w-as 
born  and  baptized  in  1574,  at  Fordwich,  Eng- 
land. He  was  a  yeoman  or  husbandman.  He 
lueil  the  major  part  of  his  life  at  Xorthgate, 
a  nearby  town  of  Fordwich.  He  married, 
1 601-2,  Elizabeth  Cartw  right,  who  was  un- 
doubtedly executor  of  his  will  and  affairs.  He 
made  his  will  in  September,  161 1,  during  his 
last  hours  when  he  was  "very  sick  and  infirm 
in  body,"  and  the  will  reads  that  "my  well  be- 
lo\ed  wife  bury  me."  It  was  proved  October, 
I  III  I,  shortly  after  his  decease,  and  names  wife 
1-llizabeth  and  son  John. 

(  \' )  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i  )  Woodroft', 
was  born  in  Northgate,  Kent,  England,  in 
1604,  and  was  baptized  at  St.  Mary's  the  same 
year.  On  the  death  of  his  father  in  161 1,  John 
Gosmer  ( (jozmer  in  records)  became  a  wit- 
ness and  signer  to  the  elder  John's  will,  which 
was  proved  in  October  of  same  year  at  North- 
gate.  .According  to  the  records,  "on  account  of 
the  privations  and  perilous  times  for  women 
and  children  when  they  needed  protection," 
John  Gosmer,  on  October  24,  161 1,  married 
the  Widow  Elizabeth  Woodroff,  and  became 
stepfather  of  the  younger  John,  who  grew  to 
manhood  and  married  Ann  Gosmer,  his  step- 
sister, John  Gosmer  became  mayor  of  Ford- 
wich in  1638,  but  owing  to  a  faction  arising  in 
1639  whereby  the  council  in  Wlutehall  de- 
manded from  ^Ir.  Gosmer's  successor  in  office 
an  unpaid  assessment  which  "should  long  since 
have  been  paid  to  the  sheriff'  of  Kent  or  the 
treasurer  of  the  navy,"  may  have  been  the 
cause  of  the  departure  of  John  Gosmer  and 
family  to  .America,  and  the  records  show  that 
John  Gosmer  and  wife  Elizabeth,  John  Wood- 
ruffe  and  wife  .Ann  with  their  infant  .son 
John,  then  about  two  years  of  age,  were  re- 
corded at  Lynn.  Massachusetts.  The  Gosmer 
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household  remained  but  a  short  time  there,  as 
the  records  of  Southaiupton,  Long  Island, 
show  that  June  4,  1640,  John  Liosmer  was  ad- 
mitted an  undertaker  there  and  became  a  man 
ui  considerable  note.  In  1657  his  stepson 
John  Woodruff e  and  son-in-law  succeeded  him 
in  the  whaling  squadron,  and  in  the  same  year 
was  deeded  to  John  Topping  a  home  lot  and 
five  acres  of  land  from  his  father-in-law,  John 
Gosmer,  February  20,  i(:t6o-6i.  July  29,  1O60- 
61  he  also  received  from  his  stepfather  gootls, 
chattels,  house  and  lands,  to  which  his  wife, 
Elizabeth  Gosmer,  consented.  John  Woodruft'e 
died  in  May,  1670,  aged  sixty-six  years,  leav- 
ing two  sons  by  the  name  of  John,  an  uncom- 
mon event,  but  nevertheless  a  positive  fact. 
The  first  John,  born  1637,  came  to  America 
as  an"  infant,  married  Mary  Ogden,  and  set- 
tled at  Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey,  and  had  a 
son   Joseph,   born    1674,   who   married    Mary 

,      This    Joseph    was    father    of    Hon. 

Samuel  W  oodruft'^  of  Boxwood  Hall.  The 
other  son  John,  born  at  Southampton,  in  1650, 
was  father  of  Joseph  Woodruff,  of  Westfield, 
who  married  Hannah  ,  and  his  de- 
scendants are  known  as  the  Westfield  Wood- 
ruff's. These  two  cousins  Joseph  were  dis- 
tinguished in  the  records  as  Joseph  Sr.  and 
Joseph  Jr.,  and  have  often  been  mistaken  for 
father  and  son  instead  of  Joseph  (  i )  and  Jo- 
seph (II)  as  is  now  customary. 

John  Woodruffe  married  .Ann  Gosmer,  as 
aforementioned.  Children :  Aime,  married 
Robert  Wooley ;  Elizabeth,  married  Ralph 
Dayton  ;  John,  mentioned  below :  Joseph. 

(\'I)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  Wood- 
ruffe,  was  baptized  in  1637,  in  the  parish  of 
Sturry.  Kent.  England.  .About  1638-39.  with 
his  iiarents  and  the  Gosiuer  household,  he  emi- 
grated to  America,  coming  first  to  Lynn,  Mass- 
achusetts, thence  to  Southampton,  Long  Island. 
Here  he  grew-  to  manhood,  and  according  to 
the  records,  .April  30,  1657,  then  at  the  age  of 
twenty  years,  was  able  to  bear  arms,  l-'ebru- 
ary  20,  1659,  about  the  time  of  his  marriage  to 
Mary  (Jgden,  he  became  a  landowner  and  pro- 
I-irietiir.  Mary  was  daughter  of  John  Ogden. 
who  gave  his  son-in-law-  a  tract  of  land  and 
in  1664  gave  him  the  house  and  homestead  lot 
on  Main  street  that  he  had  purchased  from  his 
nepl»ew-,  John  Ogden,  on  the  latter's  departure 
from  .Southam]3ton.  On  this  spot  in  1900, 
.Albert  J.  Post,  clerk  of  the  tow-n  trustees  of 
Southampton,  resided.  In  1664,  ow-ing  to  the 
bitter  feeling  and  adverse  conditions  among 
the  settlers  at  Southampton  on  account  of 
King    Charles    granting    Long    Island    to    his 


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brother  James.  Duke  of  \'ork  and  Albany,  for 
ihe  purpose  of  annexing  the  territory  to  Man- 
lialtan.  many  of  the  settlers  decided  to  quit  the 
territory  and  emigrated  to  Xew  Jersey.  John 
Woodruff  and  wife  Alary  and  John  Ogden 
came  that  same  year  to  New  Jersey,  settling 
in  Elizabethtown.  He  disposed  of  his  pro])- 
erty  at  .Southampton  in  the  summer  of  1665 
to  Robert  WooUey,  husband  of  his  sister  Anne. 
His  lands  he  disposed  of  to  other  townsmen. 
On  arriving  at  I''.lizabethtown,  whither  he  was 
accompanied  by  his  two  men  and  one  maid 
servant,  he  took  up  a  town  lot  of  one  and  one- 
half  acres  on  the  corner  of  Elizabeth  avenue 
and  Spring  street.  He  was  granted  a  farm  of 
three  hundred  acres  in  lieu  of  settling  at  Eliz- 
abethtown. which  was  later  known  as  the 
Woodruff  Farms.  He  also  had  extensive  pro[)- 
erties  besides  some  six  hundred  acres,  and 
was  among  the  well-to-do  yoemen  of  the  settle- 
ment and  a  prominent  factor  in  the  govern- 
ment of  the  town,  and  next  to  Governor  Car- 
teret the  largest  landowner  in  the  township. 
He  served  as  constable  from  Decemlier  11, 
1674.  and  was  high  sheriff  November  2S.  1684. 
He  had  a  gallant  career  as  ensign.  John  W'ooil- 
rut¥,  gentleman,  was  commissioned  ensign  of 
the  Elizabeth  foot  company  under  Lieutenant 
Luke  Watson  by  Governor  Phillip  Carteret. 
August  4.  1668;  commission  revoked  Octo- 
ber 31.  1670:  recommissioned  ensign  of  Eliza- 
bethtown militia  under  Captain  Knipp  by 
council  of  war  of  .\'ew  Netherlands  during  the 
Dutch  occu])ation.  Sejitember  14.  1673-74.  on 
recommendation  of  Governor  Phillip  Carteret ; 
recommissioned  ensign  of  same  company,  De- 
cember 3.  1683,  by  the  governor  and  council 
of  New  Jersey.  That  he  was  a  leading  citizen 
is  shown  in  the  fact  that  he  stood  up  bravely 
against  the  arbitrary  methods  of  the  pro- 
jjrietors.  lie  made  his  will  April  27,  1691,  at 
the  age  of  fifty-four  years,  as  the  record 
shows,  "in  the  hazzard  of  life."  and  was  jiroved 
Way  25,  1691.  His  son  John  being  the  oldest, 
held  all  landed  estates  according  to  the  old 
I-'nglish  law  by  will,  but  knowing  it  to  the  wish 
of  his  honored  father  gave  a  (|uitclaim  deed  to 
his  brothers  David,  Daniel,  Joseph  and  lienja- 
min.  of  all  the  Woodruff  farms. 

John  Woodrnffe  married,  about  1630,  Mary, 
(laughter  of  John  and  Jane  (  l>ond  )  Ogik'u. 
Children:  i.'  John,  born  ir/)5,  died  1722; 
married  Sarah  Cooper,  born  1676.  died  1727. 
2.  David.  3.  r.enjamin.  4.  Joseph,  mentioned 
below.  5.  Daniel,  born  1678:  see  sketch.  6. 
Elizabeth.  7.  Sarah.  8.  Ilaimah.  married 
Ca])tain  i'.cnjamin  Ogden. 


(\'II)  Joseph  Woodrutt  ( ist  or  Sr.),  son 
of  John  (3)  Woodrnlte,  was  born  at  Elizabeth- 
town,  New  Jersey,  1674-75,  <^l'ed  there  Sep- 
tember 25,  1746.  He  was  a  cousin  of  Joseph 
of  Westfield,  who  was  son  of  John  Woodruff 
(1650-1703),  of  Southampton.  Joseph,  of 
Westfield.  was  born  1676,  and  lies  buried  at 
Westfield,  New  Jersey.  The  two  cousins  were 
distinguished  as  Joseph  Sr.  and  Joseph  Jr. 
The  former  was  of  Pllizabethtown,  where  he 
lived  and  died,  and  is  buried  in  the  Presby- 
terian burial-ground  there.  He  was  an  elder 
in  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  had  a  seat  in 
the  synod,  1772.  His  son  Joseph  representeil 
his  church  in  the  new  synod,  September  19. 
1745.  In  1699  he  was  granted  a  first  lot  right 
of  land,  and  in  the  division  1699  took  up  a 
home  lot.  No.  148,  one  hundred  acres,  near 
where  Thomas  Darling  and  Henry  Thompson 
resides,  near  Rah  way  river.  He  was  a  sub- 
scriber to  Rev.  John  Harriman,  the  Quaker 
preacher,  who  was  later  a  Presbyterian,  and 
contributed  to  the  building  of  Harriman's  barn 
by  carting  luaterial  with  others.  In  January. 
if«)9,  he  accompanied  Harriman  to  Alelford. 
Connecticut,  where  they  had  a  conference  with 
( iovernor  Treat.  November  18,  1729,  with 
I'enjaniin  Piond  and  John  Harriman  Jr.,  he 
was  ap])ointed  trustee  or  committeeman  for 
the  deposed  of  the  common  lands.  He  was  a 
\eonian  and  painter,  and  was  paid  £10  6s  9(1 
for  painting  the  public  town  clock.  He  was 
in  an  action  of  ejectment  levied  on  him.  which 
after  a  number  of  years,  involving  great  ex- 
pense, was  finally  dropjjed  in  his   favor.     1  le 

married   Mary  .  born  1683,  died  .\pril 

4,  1743.  Children:  i.  Hon.  Samuel,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Joseph,  born  .-\ugust  24, 
1702.  died  August  20,  1776;  married  (first) 
Martha  Dusenbury,  born  December  12,  1702. 
died  October  13.  1759:  child.  Henry  Dusen- 
bury.   born    1732.    died    .September    i(),    179' •: 

married    (second) .   born     1721,    died 

1803.  3.  Isaac,  born  1722,  died  1803:  married 
.Sarah  .  born   1723,  died  1799. 

(\'lll  )  Hon.  Samuel  Woodruff,  son  of  Jo- 
seph W'oodrufif,  was  born  at  Elizabethtown, 
New  Jersey.  1700.  died  there,  August  to,  1768. 
He  was  reare(l  after  the  customs  of  the  times. 
.■\s  a  youth  he  imjirovcd  his  oii])ortnnities  and 
in  early  manhood  was  one  of  the  rising  young 
men  of  his  comnnuiity  and  became  a  leading 
man  of  the  town.  He  became  extensively  en- 
gaged in  merchandise  trading  to  the  \\'est 
Indies  and  elswhere  abroad.  His  name  ap- 
pears with  others  in  a  ]:)etition  in  1739  to  Gov- 
ernor   Morris    to   procure    from    the    King   a 


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charter  of  incorporation  of  the  town.  He  was 
also  a  yeoman  and  possessed  extensive  lands 
at  Elizabethtown.  and  was  prominent  in  one 
of  the  factions  concerning  proprietor)-  owner- 
ship. In  October,  1747.  a  secret  meeting  was 
held  at  his  manor  house,  "Boxwood  Hall,"  to 
ac(|uainted  Daniel  Cooper  that  in  a  fortnight's 
time  the  mob  intended  to  pay  him  a  visit.  He 
was  one  of  the  most  intluential  citizens  of  his 
town.  He  was  named  in  the  first  charter  of 
the  borough,  was  one  of  the  common  council, 
afterward  alderman,  and  mayor  of  the  borough 
from  175 1  to  1759.  For  thirty  years  he  sat  in 
the  justice  court  as  chosen  freeholder  and  also 
served  as  justice.  From  1750  to  1768  he  was 
king's  counsellor.  Samuel  Woodruff  and  Rob- 
ert Ogden  were  appointed  executors  in  trust  of 
the  will  of  George  Belcher,  July  14,  1755,  and 
was  one  of  the  first  trustees  of  Princeton  Col- 
lege. .\ugust  27.  1757,  three  affidavits  before 
Robert  Ogden  Esq,  are  published,  from  which 
it  ai)])ears  that  Samuel  Woodruff,  of  Eliza- 
bethtown, was  jiart  owner  of  the  schooner 
"Charming  lietsey.  "  William  Luce,  captain, 
which  was  loatled  at  Elizabethtown  in  Febru- 
ary, 1757,  with  provisions  and  lumber,  and 
sailed  from  the  Point  to  St.  Christopher,  West 
Indies.  Joseph  Jeif  at  that  time  was  of  full 
age  and  had  been  clerk  and  bookkeeper  up- 
ward of  three  years  for  Mr.  Woodruff,  and 
soon  afterwards  became  his  partner  in  busi- 
ness. Mr.  Woodruft'  owned  two  houses  in 
Jersey  street  that  he  sold  to  Hon.  Elias  Boudi- 
not,  LL.  D.  He  was  treasurer  of  the  F'resby- 
terian  church  at  Elizabeth,  also  trustee  and 
acted  as  president  of  the  board,  and  elder.  He 
was  on  the  building  committee  to  enlarge  the 
"House  of  Worship."  He  subscribed  to  the 
parsonage  house  and  paid  his  subscription  of 
$1,104.  "Mr.  Woodruff  was  directed  a  few 
months  later  to  'repair  the  roof  of  the  steeple, 
to  mend  the  Ball  and  Cock  on  the  top  of  the 
steeple  and  other  necessar\-  repairs."  For  nine 
years,  almost  from  the  beginning,  he  was  a 
trustee  of  the  College  of  New  Jersey,  and 
there  his  two  sons,  Benjamin  and  Joseph,  were 
educated,  graduating  together  in  1753.  Jo- 
seph took  part  in  his  father's  business,  and 
Benjamin  became  a  clergyman.  Hon.  Samuel 
Woodruff  died  intestate.  Benjamin,  being  the 
eldest,  was  heir  to  the  real  estate.  He  quit- 
claimed the  whole  to  Joseph,  and  the  same  day 
received  from  Joseph  a  mortgage  representing 
a  half  interest.  The  whole  settlement  of  the 
large  estate  presents  no  indication  but  what 
there  were  other  sons,  and  why  they  did  not 
share  in  their  father's  estate  is  not  conjectured. 


Joseph  carried  on  his  father's  business  with 
his  uncle  Isaac;  Joseph  died  the  following 
sjjring  and  left  a  single  son  by  his  first  wife. 
Humlake,  the  son,  became  a  surgeon  in  the 
Continental  army.  First  New  York  Regiment, 
and  died  in  Albany  in  181 1.  On  September  I, 
1768,  the  following  appeared  in  the  Xew  York 
Adzrrtiscr: 

The  Public  are  advertised  tliat  there  Is  to  be  sold 
at  the  late  Dwelling  house  of  Samuel  Woodruff 
Esvi..  deceased  of  Elizaiiethtowii  by  Public  vendue 
of  Tuesday  the  13th  inst.  a  great  variety  of  goods 
consisting  of  genteel  Household  Furniture  and  a 
number  of  Negros.  male  and  female.  Old  and 
Young  excellent  horses,  both  for  Saddle  and  Car- 
riage. A  neat  Caravan  hung  on  springs,  several 
pairs  of  good  oxen,  the  best  milch  cows,  a  number 
of  young  cattle  a  herd  swine  and  complete  set  of 
farming  utensils  a  quantity  of  well  cured  hay.  both 
English,  salt  and  fresh  Wheat  oats  flax  in  the  sheaf 
Indian  corn  in  the  Ground. 

Elizabeth     Woodruff, 

Administratrix. 

On  the  26  as  advertised  Two  large  boats  Anchor 
and  Cable.  A  neat  singing  clock  Currant  wine  a 
stout  Negro  man,  etc. 

New  York  "Gazette."  February  27,  1769:  To  let 
the  dwelling  house  of  the  late  Hon.  Samuel  Wood- 
ruff. A  very  large  handsomely  finished  house  with 
two  wings.  Two  stories  high  and  has  four  large 
rooms  on  each  floor  with  back  piazza  of  the  same 
length  of  the  house.  The  wings  are  also  stories 
high.  Lot  containing  3  acres  in  which  are  several 
convenient  outbuildings.  A  spacious  well  enclosed 
garden,   with   orchard   behind. 

Hon.  Samuel  Woodruff  married  Elizabeth 
Ogden.  Children:  i.  Rev.  licnjamin,  born 
1733.  died  1803:  married   (first),  1758,  Mary 

,  born  1735.  died  March  6,  1762;  child, 

Mary,  born  1759,  died  September  14,  1782. 
Married  (second),  1763,  Elizabeth  Bryant, 
who  died  March  17,  1805.  Children :  i.  \\ill- 
iam,  baptized  March  21.  1764:  ii.  Elizabeth, 
lulv  12,  1766;  iii.  Bryant.  November  4.  1767; 
iv.  Charlotte  Bryant,  September  3,  1769;  v, 
William,  September  15,  1771.  2.  .Abigail,  born 
1736,  died  1736.  3.  Captain  Seth,  mentioned 
below.  4.  Samuel,  born  I74''i,  diefl  174^).  5. 
Elizabeth,  born    1759;  married    ( first  >    Eben- 

ezer :  (second)  Rev.  Joseph  Treat.    6. 

Joseph,  born  1769:  married  (first)  Ann  Hum- 
lock:  child,  Humlock.  who  died  181 1;  (sec- 
ond) Rebecca  . 

(IX)  Captain  Seth  Woodruft',  son  of  Hon. 
.Samuel  \\oodruft",  was  born  at  Eliabethtown, 
New  Jersey,  July,  1742,  died  there  October  7, 
1814.  He  was  a  yeoman  or  farmer,  and  owned 
several  parcels  of  land  at  Elizabethtow-n,  as 
shown  in  the  deeds  at  Essex  county  court- 
house.    June  16,  1808,  estate  of  Colonel  Na- 


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tlianicl  I'.eacli  to  Setli  Woodruff,  land  in  local- 
ity of  Drift  Lane  near  High  street.  $420.75. 
December  30,  1808,  Mose.s  and  Polly  Roberts, 
John  and  ^lary  Roberts,  to  Seth  Woodruff, 
land  on  Washington  and  Academy  streets, 
S400.  May  8.  1810,  Jonathan  and  Elizabeth 
Keene.  to  Seth  W'ootlruff",  lots  7  and  8,  I'lain 
street,  29  acres  in  Newark,  S400.  June  i, 
1803,  John  J.  Crane  and  Rebecca  Crane,  of 
Xevv  York  City,  to  Seth  Woodruff',  land  for 
,'s36o.  January  15,  1804,  Seth  Woodruff'  buys 
land  of  Nathaniel  and  Rachel  Camp,  six  acres, 
bounded  east  by  Maple  Island  creek,  north 
only  on  ditch  of  Jonathan  Crane's  meadow  and 
likew'ise  on  meadow  on  estate  of  Samuel  Camp, 
deceased,  and  on  a  ditch  on  John  Johnson,  and 
southerly  on  a  ditch  and  land  of  Jabez  Ward 
and  Benjamin  Johnson,  deceased.  Also  two 
small  islands  surrounded  by  Majjle  Island 
creek  adjoining  said  six  acre  lot,  which  said 
lot  is  situated  lying  and  being  in  great  salt 
meadows  in  Elizabethtown.  Seth  Woodruff 
was  sergeant  in  the  revolution.  Captain  Ste- 
l)hen  C'handler's  company.  Colonel  PZdward 
'I'homas  (  I-"irst  Essex  County  Regiment).  He 
and  his  two  eldest  sons.  Parsons  and  Ubadiah. 
were  sent  to  the  prison  ship  at  Elizabethport 
for  a  time.  He  was  commissioned  ensign  by 
the  governor  in  1804  and  captain  in  1807.  He 
married,  January  6,  1763,  Phoebe  1  laines,  born 
June  13.  1742,  died  Se])tember  8.  1823,  daugh- 
ter of  Stephen  and  Joanna  Haines.     Children: 

I.  Parsons,  born  March  (1,  17(14;  mentioned 
below.  2.  Zurbiah,  February  11,  \/(M).  died 
June.  1844;  married  Ezekiel  Magee.  born  1768. 
died  1826.  3.  C)badiah,  born  November  8, 
1768,  see  sketch.  4.  Stei)hen  Haines,  born 
.September  30,  1770.  died  1850:  married  (first) 
Jane  L.  Woodruff,  born  1773.  died  1831  :  (sec- 
ond)   .Abigail   Meeker,  born    1798.  died    1887. 

5.  Flavcl,  born  .August  30,  T772.  died  August 
9,  1819.  6.  IMiebe,  born  September  20,  1774; 
married  Mathias  Plum.  7.  Seth  Haines,  born 
October  20.  1776,  died  June  8,  1809;  was  a 
Raptist  preacher;  married,  December  20,  1800. 
.  .8.   Betsey   (Elizabeth),  born  .August 

II.  1783.  died  1853;  married  Drake  Crane. 
born  1781,  died  1833.  9.  Elias  lioudiuot.  bt>rn 
October  15,  1785;  marrietl  l-lliza  .Ann  . 

(X)    Par.sons,  son  of  Cajjtain  Seth  Wood- 
ruff, was  born  at  P-lizabeth,  New'  Jersey.  March 

6,  1764,  died  there,  November  i.  1803.  and 
is  buried  in  the  old  Elizabethtown  Ijurial- 
ground.  He  was  brought  up  on  his  father's 
farm.  ac(|uiring  tjie  usual  district  school  cdu- 
:ation  of  a  farmer's  son  at  that  period.  His 
mother  w-as  left  a  widow,  and    Parsons  being 


the  eldest  son,  the  family  cares  fell  on  him 
until  he  was  married.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
resided  in  that  part  of  Elizabethtown  called 
"Wheat  Sheaf.  "  His  will  is  dated  October  5, 
1803.  To  his  wife  Mary  he  willed  £50,  one 
horse  and  reading  chair,  two  cows,  one  bed, 
bedding,  and  use  of  real  estate  until  son  .Archi- 
bald arrives  of  age  ;  to  his  three  sons  his  lands, 
houses  that  belong  to  his  real  estate,  to  share 
alike ;  to  his  three  daughters  (  Charity.  Phebe 
and  Hannah)  £100  each  to  be  paid  when 
eighteen  years  of  age,  and  the  balance  of  his 
estate  to  be  divided  equally  among  his  chil- 
dren. I  lis  father,  Seth  Woodruff,  and  David 
•Magee,  executors.     He  married,   February  3, 

1788,  Mary  Mulford,  born  July  20,  1769,  died 
October  23,  1853.    Children:     i.  Charity,  born 

1789.  died  i8'v;  married  Jonas  Wood;  chil- 
dren :    i.  Mary  :  ii.  Jane,  married Mills- 

paugh :  iii.  Emma.  2.  Charles,  born  1790.  died 
1828:  moved  to  New  Albany,  Indiana;  mar- 
ried (first)  .Ann  Plum;  (second)  .Ann  Childs ; 
( third  )  Ruth  Collins  ;  child,  .Amelia.  3.  .Archi- 
bald, born  .\ugust  21.  1792,  mentioned  below. 
4.  Hannah,  born  October  22,  1797.  died  Au- 
gust 21.  1856;  married  James  Reed  Shields, 
born  December  24.  1799,  died  October  27, 
1876;  children:  i.  Charles  Woodruff,  married 
(first)  Charlotte  \"ane ;  (second) Liv- 
ingston :  child,  Helen,  married  liayard  Stock- 
ton. 5.  Phebe,  born  April  30.  1795;  married 
.Andrew  Rankin ;  children :  i.  Cliarles ;  ii. 
.\lar\-.  married  Henry  Duryea  ;  iii.  James,  mar- 
ried Rachel  \'an  Dorn ;  iv.  (icorge;  v.  Anna, 
married  (jen.  William  Hillyer:  children:  a. 
William,  married  Alice  I'.aldwin ;  b.  Mary, 
married  .Andrew  Allen  Clark ;  c.  Annie ;  d. 
Allen  :  c.  Gladys  ;  f.  Margaret ;  James  ;  Rollins  ; 
Cirant.  6.  Stephen  Parsons,  born  1803,  died 
i8ck;. 

iNl)  .\rchibald,  son  of  Parsons  Woodruff, 
was  born  at  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  August  21. 
1792,  died  at  .Newark.  New  Jersey,  January  5, 
18(^5.  He  was  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm 
and  attended  the  district  select  school  on  the 
old  road  from  Elizabeth  to  Newark,  w'hich  is 
now  standing.  During  his  early  manhood  years 
became  t<'  Newark  and  .settled.  .After  a  time 
he  entered  the  general  store  business,  in  those 
days  consisting  mostly  of  West  India  goods, 
dry  goods  and  general  wares.  The  store  block 
at  the  corner  of  Pi  road  and  Cedar  streets,  with 
entrance  on  Broad  street,  he  owned  after  a 
time.  He  occupied  the  floor  above  the  store 
for  his  residence,  with  entrance  on  Cedar 
street.  I  le  was  prosperous  during  his  years  as 
a  merchant,  having  built  u])  a  large  and  lucra- 


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tive  trade.  In  iSii,  when  the  Newark  Fire 
Insurance  Company  was  organized  and  char- 
tered, Mr.  Woodruff  was  one  of  the  organ- 
izers. From  that  time  up  to  his  decease  he 
was  actively  identified  with  the  success  of  the 
now  oldest  insurance  company  in  the  state, 
and  was  secretary  and  treasurer  to  the  time 
of  his  death,  January  5,  1865.  He  amassed  a 
comfortahle  competence,  and  in  addition  to 
his  property  at  Broad  and  Cedar  streets  owned 
property  on  Cedar  and  Halsey  streets.  He 
was  a  staunch  W  hig  in  politics.  He  was  prom- 
inent in  the  affairs  of  Newark,  and  held  the 
office  of  city  assessor  and  other  prominent 
offices,  including  town  clerk  from  1824  to  1829. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Newark  \'olunteer 
Fire  Department,  and  was  secretary  of  Com- 
pany, No.  2,  on  New  street.  He  was  for  many 
years  elder  of  the  First  Fresbyterian  Church 
at  Newark,  also  treasurer.  He  was  a  man  of  very 
decided  o]jinions  and  rather  severe  nature, 
though  possessing  a  large  heart  and  charitable 
nature.  He  and  his  second  and  third  wives  are 
buried  in  Mt.  Pleasant  cemeteryat  Newark.  The 
following  inscription  is  to  be  found  on  his 
tombstone:  "For  I  know  whom  I  have  be- 
lieved and  am  persuaded  that  He  is  able  to 
keep  that  which  I  have  committed  unto  him 
against  that  day." 

.Archibald  \\  oodruff'  married  (,first )  Mar- 
tha, daughter  of  Judge  David  D.  and  Martha 
(ESanks)  Crane.  Children:  1.  Catharine  Chit- 
tenden, born  September  28,  1 820,  see  sketch. 
2.  David  Parsons.  December  25,  1822,  died 
l<"ebruary  25.  1858;  married,  i\Iay  20.  1845. 
Frances  ISragaw  :  children  :  i.  Katharine,  born 
June  17,  1846:  married  (first),  October  2-. 
1869,  George  H.  Stout;  children:  George 
Woodruff',  born  September  17,  1870:  Lewis 
Fitz  Randol])h.  March  17,  1873:  Fannie  B., 
July  17,  1874:  George  \\"ilson,  March  16, 
1879:  married  (second).  May  14.  1884.  Rev. 
Theodore  Shafer;  children:  Mary,  born  May 
22.  1885:  Katherine,  March  6.  1887:  ii.  Wilson 
Heath.  September  6,  1848,  died  July  12.  1876; 
iii.  Mary  T..  born  Ma\-  4.  iS^t  :  married.  June 
12.  1877,  Arthur  Griffin  Sherman,  son  of  Por- 
ter and  Katherine  (  Griffin  )  Sherman  :  child. 
Katherine  Woodruff",  born  January,  1881,  died 
lulv,  1881.  .Archibald  Woodruff' married  (  sec- 
ond 1  Catherine  John.son.  born  April  9.  i8or), 
died  January  23,  1846.  daughter  of  Josiah  and 
Betsey  (  Crane  )  Johnson.  Children  :  3.  John 
Crane,  born  1827.  mentioned  below.  4.  Eliza- 
beth Johns<in.  born  July  31,  1828,  died  .April 
I,  1872:  married.  October  24,  1848,  Rev.  Na- 
thaniel  Conklin,  born   .August   20.    1823,  died 


August  17,  1892,  son  of  Stephen  and  Cath- 
erine (Taylor)  Conklin;  children:  i.  Kath- 
erine Johnson,  born  Alarch  21,  1850,  died  Jan- 
uar_\-  13.  1890;  married,  December  22.  1884, 
Almon  Ba.xter  Merwin ;  ii.  John  Woodruff', 
born  December  30,  1851,  died  September  12, 
1909;  missionary  to  India;  married,  Septem- 
ber 16.  1880,  Elizabeth  J.  Lindsley ;  children: 
Jean,  died  in  India;  Elizabeth  Woodruff',  born 
Februarv  6,  1885;  .Archibald  Lindsley,  August 

28.  i88ri:  Robert  Heath  Lindsley.  Alarch  27, 
i8yi  ;  Sherman  Lindslew  January  20,  1894; 
iii.  .Archibald  Woodruff',  born  April  2,  1854, 
cashier  of  Union  National  Bank,  Newark ;  iv. 
Mary  Jane,  born  October  18,  1856;  v.  William 
Bogart,  born  April  30,  1859;  married,  June 
25,  1902.  Sarah  Hogate  Groff',  born  August  5, 
1868,  daughter  of  William  (Jaskell  and  Chris- 
tine (  Rammille  )  Hogate;  children:  Edward 
Groff',  Iwrn  September  6,  1904;  William  Groff', 
.November  9,  1905;  vi.  Dr.  Edward  Dore  Grif- 
fin, born  Alay  27,  1862;  married.  May  20, 
1891.  Helen  Ford;  child,  Alice  Ford,  born  No- 
vember,29,  1892;  vii.  Martha  Heath,  born  No- 
vember 18,  1864,  died  October  7,  1882;  viii. 
Amia  Clark,  born  October  2,  1867;  ix.  \  ernon 
Shields,  born  September  15,  1870;  Nathaniel 
Conklin  married  (second),  Alarch  17,  1880, 
Jennie  M.  Drinkwater.  born  .April  14.  1841, 
daughter  of  Captain  Levi  Drinkwater.  5. 
Cephas  Mills,  born  February  i,  1832,  died  June 

29,  1882;  married,  September  15,  1852:  Sarah 
Jane  Southard,  born  March  5,  1833,  died  .Au- 
gust 1(1.  1882;  children:  i.  Agnes  Heath,  born 
July  21.  1853;  ii.  Henry  Johnson,  August  24, 
1855,  died  May  20,  1855;  iii.  Nellie,  Januar\- 
13,  1857.  died  March  13,  18(18:  iv.  .Anna,  Jan- 
uary 13,  1857,  died  February,  1908;  v.  Caro- 
line Mills,  born  November  23,  1861  ;  vi.  .Archi- 
bald Mulford,  September  21,  1865:  vii.  Kath- 
erine Heath,  March  4,  1869;  married,  Febru- 
ary 14.  1895.  Edw-ard  Harris  Lum ;  child. 
Margaret  \Voodruft'.  born  November  22,  1895. 
died  .September  7,  1896;  Caroline  Woodruff, 
born  July  II.  1898.  died  .April  23.  1900;  Rich- 
ard, born  February  12,  1902;  Harvey  Man- 
dred.  born  May  26.  1906.  6.  Alary  Crine,  born 
December  4,  1843.  died  .August  31,  1867. 
.Archibald  Woodruff  married  (third)  Julia 
Toler  Johnson,  born  January  19.  1806,  died 
Mav  22,  1854,  daughter  of  Eliphalet  and  Sarah 
(Baldwin)  John.son.  He  married  (fourth) 
Widnw  Mary  Shields,  died  at  New  Albany, 
Indiana. 

1  XII  )  John  Crane  Woodruff',  son  of  .Archi- 
bald Woodruff',  was  born  at  Newark,  New 
lersev.  in  his  father's  homestead  at  Broad  and 


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Cedar  streets,  January  4,  1827.  His  elementary 
educational   training   was  obtained   in    Master 
Periam's  private  school,  corner  of  Broad  and 
Academy  streets.     He  subsequently   attended 
the  Newark  .Academy  under   Professor  Rich- 
ard  Axtell.      This    was    supplemented    by    a 
course  in  Dr.  Week's  school  on  Washington 
street,   near   ?tlarket  street,  imtil    1843,   when 
he  became  a  clerk  in  the   New  Jersey  State 
Hank,  where  he  remained  five  years.     For  six 
months,   in    1848,   he  was   clerk   in   the  hard- 
ware firm  of  Keene  &  Catlin,  after  which  he 
formed  a   partnership   with    Bennett   Usborne 
under  the  firm  name  of  Osborne  &  Woodruff, 
general    iiardware    dealers,    with    quarters   on 
Broad  street,  near  ]\Iarket.     After  three  years 
Mr.  Osborne  sold  his  interest  to  Mr.  Woodruff 
(  1853),  the  firm  name  changing  to  J.  C.  Wood- 
ruff.    In    iSCij   Mr.   Woodruff'  purchased   the 
property,   including  the  building  he  occupied, 
and  made  extensive  alterations  which  greatly 
facilitated   his  business,  putting   in   an   entire 
new  front,  the  building  now  on  Broad  street, 
near  Mechanic  street.     He  became  one  of  the 
leading  men  in  his  line  and  enjoyed  a  large 
and    renumerative   business   during   the   years 
he  was  actively  engaged.     In   1872,  owing  to 
impaired  health,  he  disposed  of  the  business, 
since  which  time  he  has  devoted  his  attention 
to  active  church  work.      From  a  youth   until 
eighteen  years  of  age,  Mr.  Woodruff  was  affili- 
ated  witii   the   First   Presbyterian   Church   of 
-Xewark.     He  subsequently  became  a  member 
of  the   First    Reformed    Church   of    Newark. 
.After  ten  years,  and  when  the  North   Dutch 
Reformed  Church  was  organized,  Mr.  Wood- 
ruff,   witli   other   prominent   members   of   the 
First  Church,  took  an  active  part  in  the  build- 
ing of  this  society,  where  he  had  been  one  of 
the  most  active  workers  for  the  cause  of  Chris- 
tianity.    He  occupied   the  offices  of   deacon, 
elder,  suijerintendcnt  of  Sunday  .school,  chor- 
ii-ter  and  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  soci- 
ety.    In   1893  Mr.  Woodruff  returned  to  the 
mother  church  of  his  youth,  the  First  Presby- 
terian, where  he  and  his  family  are  members 
and  supporters.  Mr.  Woodruff  is  a  ruling  elder 
of  this  church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Newark 
A'oung  Men's  Christian  .Association  ;  Newark 
Tract  Society,  and  for  a  number  of  years  has 
been  secretary  and  treasurer  of  Essex  County 
Bilile  Society.     In  ])olitics  he  is  a  staunch  Re- 
])ublican. 

He  married,  ()cti)ber  6,  1853,  at  Xewark, 
Jidia  Johnson  Williams,  born  .April  30,  1833, 
daughter    of     William     Brown    and     Harriet 


(Crane)  Williams,  of  Orange,  New  Jersey. 
W  illiam  B.  Williams  was  a  farmer  and  con- 
stable. Children:  i.  Charles  Hinsdale,  born 
Se])tember  22,  1856,  died  July  5,  1867.  2. 
.Anna  tlillyer,  born  December  31,  i860;  mar- 
ried, .September  14,  1887,  Charles  Henry  Van 
Ness,  born  March  4,  1859,  son  of  Matthew 
and  Elizabeth  (Hinchman)  Van  Ness;  chil- 
dren :  i.  Hendrick  Woodruff,  born  January 
21,  1889:  ii.  .Anneke,  August  3,  1892:  Ilelene 
(ieertru,  July  16,  1897;  Katharina.  June  i, 
1902.  3.  Julia  Toler,  born  February  24,  1868. 
4.  Helen  Johnson,  born  .November  28,  1872. 

(The  Crane   Line.) 

(II)  Jasper  (2)  Crane,  son  of  Jasper  (i) 
Crane  (q.  v.),  was  born  at  East  Haven,  Con- 
necticut, April  2,  1 65 1,  died  at  Cranetown 
(now  Montclair),  New  Jersey,  March  6,  1712. 
He  was  reared  in  Connecticut,  and  was  en- 
gaged with  his  father  in  his  various  high 
offices  of  trust.  After  his  marriage,  which 
occurred  in  the  New  Haven  colony,  and  the 
birth  of  his  first  child,  he  came  with  his  father's 
family  in  the  emigration  to  New  Jersey,  1684, 
jnirchasing  the  property  of  Robert  Lyman, 
who  had  returned  to  England.  Jasper  Crane 
Jr.  was  a  member  of  assembly  in  1704,  in 
Cornbury's  time,  and  also  a  magistrate.  He 
was  given  his  share  of  public  honors,  having 
been  chosen  by  popular  vote  to  fill  the  various 
offices  of  fence  viewer,  surveyor  of  highways, 
constable,  selectman,  committeeman,  deputy  to 
the  provincial  assembly,  1699-1702,  and  to  see 
about  settling  the  minister  and  the  boundary 
controversy  between  Newark  and  Elizabeth- 
town.  He  received  warrants  for  land,  April 
2J.  1694,  and  .April  10,  iri96,  aggregating  one 
hundred  twenty  acres,  located  on  branches  of 
the  Elizabethtown  river.  With  his  brothers 
John  and  Deliverance  he  owned  seats  in  the 
iMrst  Church  of  Newark  (First  Presbyterian 
on  Broad  street),  where  his  tombstone  stood. 
Jasjier  Crane  had  a  house  lot  located  on  the 
map  ])rinted  in  1806.  (See  Atkinson's  "His- 
tory of  Newark").  It  was  located  at  the 
corner  of  High  and  Market  streets,  not  far 
from  the  home  lot  of  Matthew  Williams.  It 
is  quite  certain  that  he  later  located  in  that 
jiart  of  Newark  called  Cranetown,  afterwards 
West  Bloomfield,  now  Montclair.  Soon  after 
the  year  1651,  at  which  time  the  town  of  New- 
ark ordered  the  laying  out  of  the  highway  as 
far  as  the  Mountain,  which  act  was  no  doubt 
for  the  accommodation  of  settlers  in  that  por- 
tion of  the  town  and  where  in   \(yi:)^  the  town 


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lecords  give  him  a  location,  it  is  said  that  his 
■k'scendants  ami  those  of  his  brothers  Azariah 
'■ccu])ied  nearly  if  not  quite  all  the  westerly 
^ide  of  the  town.  lie  died  March  6.  1712.  and 
his  will  names  his  six  children,  also  his  wife. 

Jasper  Crane  married  Joanna,  born  1631, 
(heel  September  16.  1720,  daughter  of  Cajitain 
Samuel  Swaine.  Children:  i.  Joseph,  born 
1676,  died  1726;  was  magistrate  of  county 
many  years  and  freeholder;  married,  1704, 
Abigail  Lyon;  children:  i.  Benjainin,  born 
Xovember  27.  1705;  ii.  Isaac,  October  8,  170;; 
iii.  Ezekiel,  May  8,  171 1;  iv.  Israel,  January 
2,  1713;  V,  Josiah,  January  2,  1716;  vi.  Joseph, 
December  28,  1717;  vii.  Joanna,  September  8, 
1 7 18;  viii.  Abigail,  April  i,  1727.  2.  Elilui, 
born  1689,  died  April  27,  1732;  overseer  of 
])()or  and  tax  collector;  married  ]\Iary  Plum; 
children:  i.  Lewis,  born  1718;  ii.  Christopher, 
1720;  iii.  Charles,  1724;  iv.  Elihu,  1726;  v. 
I>aac;  vi.  Hannah;  vii.  Phebe.  3.  David,  men- 
tioned below.  4.  Jonathan,  born  1678.  died 
June  25.  1744;  was  judge  of  court  of  common 
])Ieas  and  held  many  other  public  offices ;  mar- 
ried Sarah  Treat ;  children  :  i.  Samuel,  born 
1712;  ii.  Caleb,  1713;  iii.  Elijah,  1716;  iv. 
Xehemiah,    17^9;   v.    John    Treat;   vi.    ^lary, 

married Johnson  ;  vii.  Eunice.  5.  Sarah, 

born  1683,  married  Joseph  Wheeler.  6.  Han- 
nah, born  1690,  married,  1712,  Robert  Ogden ; 
children:  i.  Hannah,  born  1714;  ii.  Robert, 
( )ctober  7,  1716,  died  January  21,  1789;  iii. 
I'hebe,  1718,  died  October  14,  1735;  iv.  Moses, 
born  1722;  V.  Elihu;  vi.  David,  October  26, 
1726,  died  Xovember  2%.  1801  ;  married  Han- 
nah Woodruff. 

(Ill)  Lieutenant  David,  son  of  Jasper  (2) 
Crane,  was  born  at  Xewark,  Xew  Jersey,  1693, 
and  undoubtedly  removed  with  his  parents  to 
Cranetown  the  following  year.  He  became  a 
prominent  man  in  Xewark;  in  1742  was  col- 
lector of  taxes,  and  March  11,  1745-46,  was 
chosen  on  a  committee  to  prosecute  any  person 
or  persons  cutting  wood  or  timber  on  the  par- 
sonage within  the  space  of  seven  years  from 
that  date.  The  following  _\ear  he  was  chosen 
on  a  committee  to  have  charge  of  the  parson- 
age lands,  in  addition  to  the  power  to  prosecute 
offenders.  He  was  lieutenant  in  the  military 
company  at  Xewark.  His  sons,  Joseph  and 
David  Jr.,  were  subscribers  to  the  building 
fund  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Xew- 
ark, September,  1786.  Lieutenant  David  Crane 
is  buried  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Churchyard, 
llroad  street,  Xewark,  beside  his  wife,  and  his 
tombstone  has  the  inscription:  "Here  lyes  ye 
Remains  of  Lieut.  David  Crane  who  departed 


this  life  ]\Jay  ye   16  1730  in  the  57tli  year  of 
his  -Age. 

He   let  him  .-^leep 
Undisturbed    Dusle 
Until  the  Re.surrection  of 
The  Just." 

Lieutenant  David  Crane  married  Mary 


born  i()y5,  died  July  3,  1769.  Children:  i. 
Jedcdiah,  born  1710.  died  September  10,  1785. 

2.  David,  born  1721.  died  March  6,  1794;  mar- 
ried (first)  Sarah  Ann  Dodd ;  (second)  Abi- 
gail Ogden.     3.  Joseph,  mentioned  below.     4. 

.Abigail,  married  Johnson.     5.   Phebe, 

married  Lawrence.     6.  Mary,  married 

-Ailing.     7.    Dorcas.      8.    Sarah,   born 

August  24,  1734,  died  Xovember  24,  1779; 
married,  March,  1762,  Isaac  Plum. 

(  W )  Joseph,  son  of  Lieutenant  David 
Crane,  was  born  at  Cranetown  (Xewark), 
1732,  died  Xovember  21,  1789.  He  was  chosen 
constable,  March  10,  1778.  He  was  a  sub- 
scriber in  September,  1786,  to  the  building  of 
the  F"irst  Presbyterian  Church  to  the  amount 
of  £5.  He  was  a  farmer  and  the  possessor  of 
much  land  at  Xewark,  where  his  children  were 
all  born.  He  married  Patience  Crane.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Phinehas,  mentioned  below.  2.  James. 

3.  John.  4.  Sarah.  5.  Hannah,  married  John 
(litford,  mother  of  the  late  Archer  Gifford. 
().  .Abigail,  married  Criah  James.  7.  INIary, 
married  John  lialdwin. 

( \' )  Phinehas,  eldest  son  of  Joseph  Crane, 
was  born  in  Xewark,  Xew  Jersey,  February 
6.  1755,  died  in  West  Bloomfield,  now  Mont- 
clair,  Xovember  14,  1840.  During  his  minority 
he  learned  the  trade  of  shoemaker,  which  he 
followed  until  the  breaking  out  of  the  revolu- 
tion, when  he  enlisted  in  Captain  Henry 
Squire's  company.  Colonel  Philip  \'an  Cort- 
land's Second  Essex  County  Regiment,  at- 
tached to  Hurd's  upper  brigade.  About  1781 
he  removed  to  a  farm  in  West  Bloomfield,  now 
Montclair,  which  contained  upwards  of  forty 
acres.  His  homestead  and  some  eight  acres 
was  situated  on  the  Orange  road,  and  the  other 
tract  of  some  thirty  odd  acres  was  on  Cedar 
street,  near  the  Joseph  Ward  farm  and  bound- 
ed also  by  the  Orange  road.  This  consisted  of 
orchard  and  woodland.  ■Mr.  Crane  was  an 
old-fashioned  farmer  and  a  maker  of  cider. 
His  mill  was  situated  adjacent  to  the  home- 
stead. The  sale  of  his  cider  netted  him  a  hand- 
some yearly  income,  and  his  ])roduct  was  ship- 
ped to  Charleston  and  Savannah  and  other 
southern  ports.  He  raised  his  own  apples, 
'which  were  of  the  \'irginia  crop,  Harrison, 
Canfield  and   Xewtown   Pippin  varieties,  con- 


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sidered  the  best  cider  fruit  at  that  time.  The 
homestead  of  Phinehas  Crane,  now  in  an  ex- 
cellent state  of  preservation,  stands  on  tlie 
Orange  road  just  above  the  bridge,  and  is  now 
occupied  by  Thomas  Harrop,  its  owner.  The 
original  corn  crib  is  also  intact.  Phinehas 
Crane  was  of  medium  size,  of  a  quiet  and  con- 
scientious nature,  and  most  kind-hearted.  He 
was  a  constant  attendant  of  the  Presbyterian 
church  at  Bloomfield  ( West ) ,  in  the  graveyard 
of  which  he  and  his  wife  were  interred.  This 
burial-ground  was  taken  for  improvement  pur- 
poses, and  the  remains  of  he  and  his  wife  were 
removed  to  the  new  part  of  Rosedale  Ceme- 
tery. 

Mr.  Crane  married  Abigail  Baldwin,  born 
October  5.  1763,  died  November  3,  1824.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Elizabeth,  born  May  5.  1783.  died  Au- 
gust 28,  185 1  :  married  Josiah  Ward:  children: 
i.  Joseph,  born  I'ebruary  24,  1813,  died  April  29, 
1880;  married  (first)  ^larinda  Baldwin:  chil- 
dren: a.  Charlotte  Baldwin,  born  October  11, 
1837,  married,  March  12,  1883.  Albert  Mat- 
thews :  b.  Lucinda  Baldwin,  born  January  8, 
1842,  married.  Sei)tember.  1874,  Samuel  S. 
Neck:  child.  Jessie  Miranda,  born  March  15, 
1876:  married  (second).  October  19.  1832. 
Sarah  F.  Condit ;  children :  c.  Samuel  Condit. 
born  April  6,  1834,  married  Matilda  Donald- 
son ;  child,  Samuel :  d.  Ira  Harrison,  born  Oc- 
tober 23,  1836,  died  .August  24.  1894:  e.  Frank 
Condit,  born  February  5,  1838;  f.  William 
Condit.  born  .\pril  9,  1859.  died  .Aijril  9.  1873. 
2.  Mary,  born  .\ugust  29.  1790,  died  January 
2,  1876:  married  Jotham  PYeeman.  3.  Abigail, 
born  September  17,  1793.  died  June  21.  1891  : 
married.  December  16,  1817,  Ebenezer  Will- 
iams, son  of  .Aaron  and  Mary  (  Dodd )  Will- 
iams: children:  i.  .Alfred  Smith,  born  Novem- 
ber 2,  1818.  died  h>bruary  8,  1849:  married 
Maria  Baldwin;  child.  Alfred  Augustus,  born 
l-\'bruary  5,  1847:  ii.  Harriet,  born  October  i, 
1820,  died  September  30.  1844:  iii.  Mary  Olive, 
born  January  28.  1823.  died  August  24.  1877: 
iv.  Edward  Henry,  born  September  20.  1823: 
married.  January  13,  1870,  Ann  Elizabeth, 
born  March  i,  1830,  died  February  13,  i8(;4. 
(laughter  of  .\lbcrt  and  I'hebe  (Frost)  Will- 
iams: V.  Sarah  Crane,  born  January  30,  1828, 
died  .August  14.  1832:  vi.  .Aaron  Crane,  born 
.August  13.  1830,  whose  sketch  a|)pears  else- 
where in  this  work;  vii.  Ilorton  Dodil,  born 
.April  6.  1833.  whose  sketch  a|Ji)ears  elsewhere 
in  this  work;  viii.  Ceorge  Whittield,  Jjorn  De- 
cember 28.  1836.  died  .August  4,  1866;  i.x. 
Joseph  Ebenezer.  born  December  22,  1840. 
died  June   10.   1859.     4.  Sarah   Baldwin,  born 


June  20,  1798,  died  April  14.  1880.  3.  Harriet, 
born  April  6.  1801,  died  November  30.  i8()S: 
married,  October  3,  1827,  William  Brown,  son 
(jf  -Moses  and  Nancy  (Jones)  Williams;  a 
sketch  of  William  B.  Williams  ajjpears  else- 
where in  this  work.  6.  James  P..  born  Septem- 
ber, 1804.  7.  Evelina,  born  Alarch  20.  1807. 
died  lanuarv  4,  1882:  married  Nathaniel  E. 
Do.ld". 

Julia  Johnson  (  Williams  )  Woodruff,  daugh- 
ter of  \\  illiam  Brown  and  Harriet  (  Crane  ) 
Williams,  was  born  at  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
.A]jril  30,  1833.  She  married,  October  6,  1832. 
John  Crane  Woodruff,  a  sketch  of  whom  aj)- 
pcars  preceding  in  this  work. 


(X)  Obadiah  Woodruff. 
WOODRUFF  son  of  Captain  Seth  Wood- 
ruff (q.  v.),  was  born  at 
Elizabeth.  New  Jersey.  November  8,  1768. 
died  at  Newark.  New  Jersey,  July  27,  1842. 
He  was  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm, 
acquiring  the  usual  common  school  education 
of  a  farmer's  son  at  that  period.  He  early 
served  his  time  at  the  trade  of  mason,  which 
he  followed  many  years.  He  built  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  at  Newark,  became  one 
of  its  deacons  and  elders,  and  his  remains  are 
interred  in  the  burial-ground  back  of  the 
church.  He  was  deeply  religious  and  was 
known  always  as  Deacon  Woodruff  to  young 
and  old.  For  a  number  of  years  he  kept  a 
general  store  at  the  corner  of  Washington  and 
\\'arren  streets.  He  became  a  large  property 
holder,  and  with  Stephen  H.  Plume  owned 
from  the  old  canal  up  to  New  street  and  back 
to  Plane  street  and  to  the  old  road  near  the 
watering  place,  so  called,  besides  many  other 
valuable  parcels  of  real  estate.  His  latter 
vcars  he  spent  in  retirement,  having  a  large 
income.  He  was  an  ardent  Whig  and  a  man 
of  considera1)le  power  in  his  jiarty.  He  was 
a  member  of  St.  John's  Lodge.  F,  and  A.  M., 
at  Newark.  He  was  in  an  early  military  com- 
])anv  in  Newark,  and  was  overseer  of  the  jjoor 
in  1812-13-14.  In  the  early  part  of  the  nine- 
teenth century  he  was  one  of  the  leading 
officers  of  the  Newark  fire  de])artment.  He 
married.  February.  1792.  Elizabeth  Earle, 
born  Sei)tember  2^^.  1775.  Children:  i.  Phebe 
llaynes.  born  December  9,  1792.  died  June  27. 
1836:  married.  March  2.  1814.  Jo.scph  Fitz 
Randolph.  2.  Parnielia.  born  .\ugust  14,  I79.S. 
died  March  5.  183^1;  married,  November  <>. 
1814.  John  McGuinnes.  3.  Eliza,  born  June 
-3-  '7')^-  <1'<?'1  .f""^  '7-  1887;  married.  Febru- 
ary 4.  1818,  Joiin  W.  Stout.    4.  Edward  Earle, 


STATE   OF   NEW     ll'RSEV. 


m 


born  February  13,  i8oi  died  June  11,  1830. 
5.  Charles,  born  April  5,  1803,  died  August 
7,  1818.  6.  Jane  Earle,  born  March  i,  1805, 
died  October  21,  1893:  married.  Xovember  8, 
1837,  Lewis  Stout.  7.  Seth  Haynes.  born 
March  29.  1806.  8.  .Abbie  Earle.  born  March 
19,  1809.  died  March  6.  1887:  married,  Febru- 
ary 24,  1829,  James  Mitchell.  9.  Seth  Haynes, 
born  February  28,  181 2,  mentioned  below.  10. 
Lucetta.  born  Xovember  3,  1818.  died  July  31. 
18 — :  married.  May  5,  1849,  Victor  A.  Pepin. 
(XI)  Seth  Haynes,  son  of  Obadiah  \\'ood- 
ruff,  was  born  at  Xewark,  Xew  Jersey,  at  the 
corner  of  Washington  and  Warren  streets. 
I-'ebruary  28,  1812,  died  January  6,  1879.  His 
early  education  was  obtained  in  the  academy 
kept  by  Xathan  Hedges,  supplemented  by  a 
course  in  the  Xewark  Academy.  During  his 
early  manhood  days  he  learned  the  trade  of 
shoemaker,  which  he  followed  for  a  time,  buy- 
ing his  stock  and  making  it  into  the  finished 
product.  He  subsequently  entered  the  gro- 
cery business  on  Broad  street,  north  of  Xew 
street,  which  he  engaged  in  for  a  time.  In 
1844  he  opened  a  shoe  store  on  Broad  street, 
opposite  the  present  Trinity  Church,  and 
later  removed  to  a  location  where  the  present 
Bee  Hive  store  now  stands.  His  brother-in- 
law.  Charles  H.  Speer.  went  into  partnership 
with  him  under  the  firm  name  of  Woodruff  & 
•Speer.  They  made  anrl  sold  shoes  from  this 
location  up  to  1849,  when  the  partners  dis- 
solved their  relations,  ^Ir.  Speer  carrying  on 
the  business  for  a  time.  Mr.  WoodrufI'  in 
1849  went  to  Xew  Orleans  for  the  purpose  of 
collecting  accounts  due  him  for  his  manufac- 
ture of  goods  he  had  sold  there.  Owing  to  a 
bad  money  market  he  was  obliged  to  settle  by 
accepting  West  Indian  goods  for  his  bills,  and 
these  he  brought  north  and  disposed  of.  He 
subsequently  retired  from  active  business,  his 
father  having  left  him  the  homestead  place 
and  an  income.  During  the  civil  war  Mr. 
\N'oodruft'  again  engaged  in  active  work  and 
became  superintendent  for  Hannan  &  Red- 
dish in  the  making  of  Cuba  shoes,  remaining 
in  the  position  until  the  close  of  the  war.  when 
he  retired.  Mr.  Woodruff  became  owner  of 
many  valuable  properties  in  Xewark.  He 
owned  the  Park  House  where  the  present 
Proctor  Theatre  now  stands,  much  property 
on  Broad  near  Xew  street,  and  near  the  old 
City  Hall  on  Lafayette  street.  He  was  pos- 
sessed of  many  manly  traits  and  was  much  re- 
spected for  his  opinions.  His  jovial  nature 
won  him  many  friends,  and  he  was  much  liked 
in   ever^•    circle.      He   was   a    Presbvterian    in 


religion,  and  a  W  hig  and  Republican  in  politics. 
He  belonged  to  the  Society  of  Druids.  He 
married.  July  i,  1833.  Jane  Hedenburg  Speer, 
born  Xovember  20,  1813,  ilied  December  lO, 
1894,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Blendina  (  Heden- 
burg) Speer.  Children:  i.  Joseph  Fitz  Ran- 
dolph, liorn  August  18.  1834,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Obadiah,  born  February  27,  1837,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  .\nna  Elizabeth,  born  May 
18.  1839. 

(XII)  Joseph  h'itz  Randolph,  son  of  Seth 
Haynes  Woodruff",  was  born  in  the  old  Wood- 
ruff homestead,  at  the  corner  of  Washington 
and  Warren  streets,  Xewark.  Xew  Jersey,  .Au- 
gust 18,  1834.  He  attended  the  school  kept 
b}-  Xathan  Hedges,  then  on  Bank  street,  situ- 
ated where  the  present  Bethany  Church  now 
stands.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  years  he  began 
an  apprenticeship  of  five  years  in  the  hatter's 
trade  with  Rankin  Duryee  &  Company,  and 
there  he  was  employed  as  a  journeyman  until 
the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war.  He  enlisted 
.April  28,  1861,  in  Company  (j.  Second  Xew 
Jersey  X'olunteers.  and  was  mustered  into  serv- 
ice May  28,  1861.  .After  being  at  Camp  Had- 
den,  Trenton,  his  regiment  proceeded  to  Wash- 
ington and  were  encamped  on  the  site  of  the 
present  Library  building.  The  regiment  pro- 
ceeded to  Roaches  Mills  and  during  the  win- 
ter of  t86i  and  spring  of  1862  were  at  Camp 
Seminary.  His  regiment  under  Colonel  George 
W.  ]\IcLean.  Colonel  Isaac  Tucker.  Colonel 
lUick,  and  Colonel  \\  eibocken,  First  Brigade, 
was  attached  to  the  Sixth  Army  Corps.  Mr. 
\\'oodruff  saw  active  service  at  ^lechanics- 
ville.  Golden  Farm,  Chickahominy  Crossing, 
Charles  City,  Malvern  Hill  and  Fair  Oakes. 
At  the  time  of  his  discharge  he  was  in  the 
hospital.  L'pon  his  return  to  Xewark,  Xew 
Jersey,  he  took  up  his  trade  of  hatter  which  he 
followed  until  1888,  working  in  Boston.  Phil- 
adelphia and  other  places.  In  March,  1888, 
he  received  an  appointment  as  clerk  in  mailing 
dejiartment  in  the  Xewark  postoffice,  where 
he  remained  until  December  i,  1899,  when  he 
retired  from  acti\e  business.  Mr.  Woodruff 
and  family  are  attendants  of  the  Methodist 
Itliiscopal  church.  In  former  years  he  affil- 
iated with  the  Democratic  party,  but  of  late 
years  is  an  independent  and  a  believer  in  tariff 
revision.  He  is  a  member  of  Lincoln  Post, 
Xo.  II,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 

He  married,  Xovember  8,  1858.  Julia  Ella, 
born  I'>bruary  2},,  1841.  daughter  of  William 
and  Phebe  (Leonard)  Brower.  Children:  I. 
Charles  Haynes.  born  July  19,  1859:  married, 
April.     1894.     Charlotte    ( ireen ;    children:      i. 


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Charlotte,  died  young;  ii.  Charlotte:  iii.  Ethel 
\'eronica:  iv.  ^liriam.  2.  Frederick  William, 
August  16.  1861.  3.  Jane  Hedenburg.  August 
23.  1863,  died  May  11,  1864.  4.  Edwin  Speer. 
October  28,  1865.  drowned  June  27.  1871.  5. 
Joseph  Fitz  Randolph  Jr.,":March  28,  1868; 
married,  October  12,  1904,  Catherine  Ward. 
6.  .Anna  Elizabeth,  Alarch  18,  1871 ;  married, 
June  24,  1891,  Seymour  Smith  Young:  chil- 
dren: i.  Charles  Woodruff,  born  .\]M-il  17, 
1892;  ii.  Harriet  Louise,  June  i.  1901  :  iii. 
Seymour  Smith,  Jr.,  January  24,  1906.  7. 
Julia  Ella,  November  14,  1873;  married  Ralph 
Thompson.  8.  Harriet  Louise.  July  18,  1876. 
9.  Harry  Cincinnati.  December  30,  1879.  10. 
Jeannette  Hedenburg.  November  29,  1885; 
married,  July  2,  1907,  Claud  H.  Rivers. 

(Nil)  Obadiah,  son  of  Seth  Haynes  Wood- 
ruff, was  born  February  27,  1837,  in  the  old 
Woodruff'  homestead  at  the  corner  of  W'ash- 
ington  and  Warren  streets,  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, died  in  New  York  City,  July  15,  1892. 
His  elementary  educational  training  was  limit- 
ed to  the  private  school  of  Nathan  Hedges  on 
Rank  street,  one  of  the  most  noted  private 
schools  at  that  period.  He  subsecpiently  at- 
tended Newark  .Academy,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated with  high  honors,  being  a  leader  in  his 
class.  When  about  fourteen  years  of  age  he 
entered  a  career  that  was  to  be  his  chosen  occu- 
pation through  life  and  with  which  he  was 
identified  prominently.  .At  this  early  age  he 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Daily  Advertiser, 
the  leading  journal  of  Newark.  By  his  energy 
and  strict  attention  to  the  business  in  all  its 
details,  and  by  his  probity,  he  gained  such 
favor  with  his  employers  that  he  was  looked 
upon  as  a  valuable  and  promising  factor  for 
the  paper.  He  was  an  indefatigable  worker 
and  considered  among  their  most  valued  em- 
ployees, im|)licitedly  trusted  and  highly  esteem- 
ed by  his  associates.  His  close  application  and 
desire  to  master  what  was  to  be  his  chosen 
field  of  labor  fitted  him  for  positions  of  greater 
responsibility  and  remuneration.  He  filled 
many  different  posts  on  the  pajier  and  became 
familiar  with  the  work  of  almost  every  de- 
partment, lie  had  a  remarkable  ca])acity  for 
the  different  kinds  of  journalistic  work  and 
pos.sessed  an  active  temperament.  He  was  a 
man  of  strict  integrity  and  was  held  in  high 
esteem  not  only  by  his  colleagues  but  by  all 
who  knew  him,  for  his  honesty  and  for  the 
cheerfulness  of  his  disi)osition.  His  amiability 
characterized  him  among  his  friends  and  all 
others  who  came  in  contact  with  him.  He 
greeted  everybody  with  the  greatest  cordiality 


and  spared  no  pains  to  aid  those  who  applied 
to  him  for  assistance  or  information.  Being  a 
man  of  close  application  he  had  a  complete 
fund  of  useful  information,  especially  about 
state,  city  and  county  affairs.  He  had  been  so 
long  identified  with  the  interests  and  affairs 
of  Newark  and  the  state  that  he  would  refer 
with  the  greatest  facility  to  every  incident  of  im- 
portance in  the  political,  financial  or  commercial 
affairs  of  the  community.  He  had  a  remarkably 
retentive  memory  and  could  fi.x  a  date  in  <lis- 
pute  almost  instantly.  This  brought  him  int<' 
close  association  with  many  people  and  his 
wide  acquaintance  was  in  the  city  and  through- 
cut  the  state.  Air.  Woodruff  took  a  conspicu- 
ous part  in  public  affairs  as  a  politician,  though 
he  never  sought  political  ofifice.  .As  the  gift 
of  the  citizens  he  acted  as  clerk  of  the  Essex 
county  board  of  freeholders  for  twenty-four 
years,  and  during  this  long  period  the  affairs 
of  this  board  were  conducted  in  a  most  admir- 
able manner  by  him.  He  was  appointed  in 
1866  and  reappointed  each  year  until  1890, 
when  the  political  complexion  of  the  board 
changed.  During  all  these  years  Mr.  Wood- 
ruff' was  one  of  tlie  best  informed  men  on  the 
board  regarding  county  aff'airs,  and  his  advice 
was  frequently  sought  and  followed  by  the 
members  of  the  board  and  the  utmost  respect 
was  shown  to  such  suggestions  as  he  might 
make.  He  was  often  invited  to  accept  of 
political  honors  and  to  run  for  office :  was 
asked  to  accept  the  nomination  for  alderman 
and  assemblyman,  and  could  have  had  for  the 
asking  other  political  honors,  but  always  de- 
clined to  serve.  He  was  closely  affiliated  with 
the  Republican  party  and  its  principles,  and 
\\as  ardent  and  stalwart  in  his  service  in  the 
rank  and  file.  He  served  as  justice  of  the 
])eace.  For  a  number  of  years  Mr.  Woodruff 
was  one  of  the  directors  of  the  People's  In- 
surance Companv  before  its  embarrassment. 
He  was  for  many  years  an  active  and  ardent 
member  of  the  First  Reformed  Church,  a  true 
and  upright  Christian,  whose  influence  was 
broadly  felt.  For  a  long  period  he  served  his 
church  as  deacon,  and  about  1886  was  chosen 
one  of  the  elders  of  the  churcli,  and  served 
in  other  offices.  He  was  for  a  period  superin- 
tendent of  tlie  -Sunday  school.  He  was  pos- 
sessed of  a  j)hilanthropical  spirit,  and  at  one 
time  was  one  of  the  managers  of  the  News- 
boys' Lodging  House,  and  was  also  superin- 
tendent of  the  Alission  School  of  the  Park 
Presbvterian  Church,  then  on  West  Park 
street.  Many  of  these  charges  that  he  held  so 
faithfully  he  was  forced  to  relin()uish  owing 


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to  the  great  amount  of  extra  labor  involved. 
In  his  private  life  he  was  at  his  best.  He  was 
genial  and  pleasant  at  all  times  and  won  for 
himself  the  greatest  love  and  respect  from  his 
friends  and  associates.  Owing  to  impaired 
health  brought  on  by  great  mental  strain  and 
his  persistent  efforts,  his  system  both  mentally 
and  physically  became  undermined,  and  in  the 
fall  of  1891  he  relinquished  completely  all 
work  that  he  might  be  benefited  by  a  complete 
cliange,  but  this  respite  was  of  no  avail  and 
the  best  efforts  of  medical  skill  were  power- 
less to  resist  the  slow  but  sure  progress  of  his 
malady  and  his  death  occurred  as  above  noted. 
He  married,  at  Newark,  Xew  Jersey,  June 
14,  1859.  Jane  Elizabeth  Campbell,  born  at 
Rloomfield,  Xew  Jersey,  February  25,  1837, 
daughter  of  Edward  Harvey  and  Angelina 
Dodd  ( Ward )  Campbell :  her  father  came 
from  Scotch  ancestors,  descending  from  the 
Duke  of  .-\rgyle.  Children:  i.  Edward  Wil- 
son, born  June  26,  1861  :  married,  June  26, 
iqoi.  Helen  ]\Iay  Kraemer.  daughter  of  Ed- 
ward P.  and  Emma  (Baney)  Kraemer.  2. 
Clarence  Campbell,  born  ]\Iarch  3,  1869;  mar- 
ried. Tune  14,  1900.  Geneveve  \\'illis.  3.  Jennie 
Elizabeth,  born  February  5,  1872. 


(XH)  Catherine  Chitten- 
WOODRUFF  den  \\'oodruff,  eldest  child 
of  Archibald  ( q.  v. )  and 
Alartha  (Crane)  Woodruff',  was  born  at  Xew- 
ark,  Xew  Jersey,  in  the  homestead  of  her 
father.  Cedar  and  Broad  streets,  September  28, 
1820,  died  at  her  home  on  Broad  street,  May 
2.  1896.  On  the  death  of  her  mother,  when 
an  infant,  .she  was  taken  by  her  grandparents, 
whose  sorrow  for  their  deceased  daughter  was 
only  appeased  by  the  coming  of  her  mother- 
less child.  Her  early  educational  training  was 
received  in  the  best  schools  of  the  day  under 
excellent  instruction,  and  with  the  advance  of 
learning  she  improved  her  mind  with  those 
foundations  that  were  to  better  fit  her  to  be- 
come a  factor  in  the  home  and  abroad.  Her 
girlhood  days  were  spent  between  her  father's 
and  grandfather's  homes,  and  after  her  mar- 
riage to  Stafford  Robert  Wilson  Heath,  at 
her  father's  home,  the  place  of  her  birth,  she 
and  her  husband  took  up  their  abode  on  Clin- 
ton street,  where  they  resided  until  1863.  when 
they  removed  to  the  new  house  on  Broad 
street  and  settled,  residing  there  until  their 
deaths.  In  her  home  life  she  exemplified  all 
the  beauties  of  her  character,  giving  to  those 
nearest  and  dearest  to  her  the  best  there  was 
in  her.    She  added  materiallv  to  the  comfort 


of  the  inmates  of  her  home  by  devoting  to 
their  service  all  the  energy,  devotion,  thought 
and  love  of  which  she  was  capable,  and  she 
was  fully  recompensed  for  her  labor  by  the 
affection  and  reverence  of  her  luisliand  and 
children,  the  latter  of  whom,  during  their  life- 
time, willingly  testified  to  her  untiring  efforts 
in  their  behalf.  She  left  to  her  children  a 
heritage  of  right  living  and  thinking,  wdiich 
is  more  to  be  desired  than  wealth.  She  was 
greatly  devoted  to  her  church  and  her  christian 
influence  was  always  felt.  She  was  wonder- 
fully inspired  in  her  work  of  the  church,  and 
in  this  as  well  as  the  material  things  of  life 
she  possessed  a  wonderful  tact,  and  was  al- 
ways fearless  in  her  princijiles  of  right.  She 
was  reared  a  Presbyterian,  which  church  she 
attended  in  her  early  life,  but  after  marriage 
she  became  affiliated  with  the  First  Reformed 
Church  antl  subsequently  with  the  Clinton  Ave- 
nue Reformed  Church,  where  her  husband 
and  she  were  faithful  and  consistent  members. 
She  was  dee])ly  interested  in  the  Sunday  school, 
and  during  its  infancy  became  its  superintend- 
ent, remaining  so  for  a  time.  She  was  a  strong 
influence  in  the  Ladies'  Aid  Society  and  be- 
came interested  in  its  charities,  to  which  she 
contributed  liberally  but  with  no  ostentation. 
The  poor  have  man\-  times  found  occasion  to 
bless  her  for  her  philanthropy  and  kindness. 
She  became  active  in  the  work  for  the  Home 
for  Aged  Women  and  the  Xewark  Protestant 
Orphan  Asylum,  where  the  light  of  her  influ- 
ence shed  its  rays.  She  was  for  over  thirty 
years  the  treasurer  of  this  institution.  Cath- 
erine Chittenden  Heath  was  a  woman  of  rare 
refinement  and  capability,  beloved  and  respect- 
ed by  all  who  knew  her. 

She  married,  January  24,  1843,  Stafford 
Robert  Wilson  Heath,  mentioned  below.  Chil- 
dren :  1.  Martha  Crane,  born  February  4, 
1844,  died  I'ebruary  13,  1897;  married,  Octo- 
ber 3,  1867,  Samuel  Horace  Hawes,  son  of 
Samuel  P.  and  Judith  (Smith)  Hawes:  chil- 
dren :  i.  Horace  Sterling,  born  Xovember  4, 
1868;  married,  July  12,  1897,  Mary  Ried,  born 
January  17,  1876,  daughter  of  \\'illiam  and 
Lavinia  (  Ragland  )  Mac  Caw;  children:  Mary 
Ried,  born  June  7,  1898,  and  Anne  Sterling, 
born  April,  1900;  ii.  Heath  Woodruff",  born 
February  20,  1873,  died  July  19,  1873;  ''•• 
Katharine  Heath,  born  September  3,  1875.  2. 
Jane  Wilson,  born  Xovember  9,  1847;  mar- 
ried, June  10,  1868,  Frederick  S.  Douglas,  born 
October  31,  1844,  died  June  7,  1898.  son  of 
Samuel  and  Eliza  ( Rockerfellow  )  Douglas; 
children:      i.    Staff'ortl    Heath,   born   June   22, 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


i8~i.  (lied  December  31.  1877;  ii.  Frederick 
Heath,  born  Marcli  12.  1879:  married,  May  3, 
1907,  Edith  Rossiter:  child,  Elizabeth,  born 
March  9,  1909.  3.  Anna  Woodruff,  born  No- 
vember 16,  1853  ;  married,  November  13,  1873, 
Edward  Hall  Peters,  born  December  14,  1850, 
died  December  6,  1887,  son  of  Horatio  Nelson 
and  Emily  (Hall)  Peters;  children:  i.  Anna 
Heath,  born  November  17,  1876;  ii.  Horatio 
Nelson,  born  December  5,  1877,  died  Febru- 
ary 14,  1878:  iii.  Edward  Heath,  born  Novem- 
ber 15.  1881  :  married,  December  14,  1904, 
Aline  Laura  Peters,  daughter  of  George  Willis 
and  Lucy  (Dodge)  Peters:  child,  Anna  Wood- 
ruff, born  September  12,  1905. 

Stafford  Robert  Wilson  Heath,  husband  of 
Catherine  Chittenden  Woodruff',  was  born  at 
LJasking  Riflge.  New  Jersey,  July  8,  1820,  died 
in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  December  2,  1889, 
son  of  Daniel  and  Jane  (Wilson)  Heath.  He 
was  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm,  acquiring 
the  usual  common  school  education  of  a 
farmer's  son  of  that  period.  At  the  age  of 
fourteen  years,  with  an  earnest  desire  to  start 
life  and  make  a  mark  in  the  world,  he  was  per- 
mitted by  his  parents  to  go  to  Newark,  where 
he  sought  employment  and  entered  the  dry 
goods  establishment  of  David  Smith,  at  that 
time  one  of  the  leading  merchants  of  the  day. 
It  was  here  as  a  clerk  that  the  young  man 
formed  the  habits  of  industry  and  frugality, 
and  by  his  probity  and  good  de])ortnient  gained 
such  favor  with  his  employer  that  he  was  con- 
sidered a  valuable  factor  to  Mr.  Smith.  This 
close  opplication  to  business  and  his  propensity 
to  save  found  him,  March  4,  1841,  the  pos- 
sessor of  several  hundred  dollars  to  his  credit. 
With  this  nucleus  be  entered  into  business  for 
himself,  taking  as  his  i)artner  S.  Grover  Cro- 
well.  a  former  fellow  clerk,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Heath  &  Crowell.  The  partnership 
continued  four  years  when  it  was  dissolved, 
Mr.  Crowell  retiring,  when  Daniel  R.  Heath, 
a  brother  of  Mr.  Heath,  was  admitted  to  equal 
]iartnership  under  the  firm  name  of  Heath 
I'.rothers.  In  1847  Daniel  R.  Heath  was  re- 
moved by  fleath,  which  caused  another  change 
in  the  firm  name,  but  the  business  under  the 
management  of  its  sagacious  founder  pros- 
pered from  year  to  year  and  grew  into  one  of 
the  most  extensive  of  its  kind  in  the  city  of 
Newark.  In  1835  Mr.  E.  Cortlandt  Drake, 
who  as  a  clerk  had  been  with  Mr.  Heath  from 
boyhood,  became  associated  with  him  as  part- 
ner, and  in  i860  the  firm  name  was  changed 
to  Heath  i<:  Drake.  Such  was  the  success  of 
Mr.  Heath  that  in  1884  he  caused  the  erection 


u])un  llroad  street  of  a  spacious  edifice  for  the 
continuance  and  broadening  out  of  his  busi- 
ness, known  as  the  Heath  Building:  the  busi- 
ness was  conducted  there  until  it  was  closed 
up  by  the  estate  in   1898. 

In  1862  the  Mremans'  Insurance  Company, 
one  of  the  leading  insurance  corporations  of 
the  state,  elected  Mr.  Heath  as  its  president 
and  to  the  affairs  of  this  company  he  gave  at 
once  his  prompt  and  faithful  service.  In  fact 
he  seemed  to  take  more  pride  in  the  success 
of  this  enterprise  that  that  of  his  own  business, 
which  he  realized  could  not  be  in  more  tru.st- 
worthy  care  than  that  of  his  partner.  Mr. 
I^arke.  L'nder  Mr.  Heath's  management  the 
ct)m|)any  became  one  of  the  strongest  and  most 
successful  in  the  state.  His  sagacity  and  pru- 
dence and  sound  judgment  as  a  business  man 
brought  his  services  as  such  into  constant  de- 
mand. He  became  a  director  of  the  Newark 
City  National  Hank  in  1854  and  remained  as 
such  until  the  close  of  his  life.  He  was  also 
director  and  president  of  the  Newark  and 
Rosedale  Cement  Company.  He  became  presi- 
dent of  the  Peters  Manufacturing  Com[iany, 
and  a  director  of  the  New  Jersey  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company.  He  was  a  trustee  of 
Rutgers  College  from  1854  until  his  death  and 
an  active  member  of  its  finance  committee.  In 
1875  he  became  president  of  the  Hoard  of 
Domestic  Missions  under  the  Genera!  Synod 
of  the  Reformed  Church,  and  not  only  held 
official  positions  in  the  Bible  Tract  and  Tem- 
perance societies  but  gave  of  his  time  and 
means  to  further  their  progress.  The  various 
charitable  institutions  of  Newark  always  en- 
joyed his  sympathy  and  aid,  especially  the 
.Newark  Protestant  Orphan  .\s\lum,  of  which 
he  was  for  many  years  tjue  of  the  board  of  ad- 
visors. 


(MI)  Daniel  Woodruff, 
\\(K)1)RL'I-'F  son  of  John  ((].  v.)  and 
Mary  (Ogden)  Woodruft'. 
was  born  about  1678,  died  at  Elizabethtown. 
New  Jersey,  1741.  He  was  a  cordwainer  b\- 
trade,  and  followed  farming  in  connectinu 
therewith.  He  received  by  (|uitclaini  deed 
from  his  brotlier,  John  Woodruff,  of  ICliza- 
bethtown,  for  good  cause  and  consideration 
on  account  of  their  late  father's  desire — "Given 
granted  conveyed  and  confirmed  unto  my  lov- 
ing brother  Daniel  Woodruff'  of  Elizabethtown 
all  tracts  and  jiarcells  of  land  and  meadow 
known  as  the  "Woodruff"  Farms'  that  were  be- 
(|uested  to  him  by  my  deceased  father  John 
Woodruff',    bounded    northerly   by    highway — 


';?'^<^..^^^^ 


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easterly  by  my  lirotlicr  Joseph's  land —  south- 
westerly by  the  John  Parker  land — also  all 
that  tract  of  nieaclow  in  south  of  that  creek — 
easterly  by  (.Ireat  creek  the  line  of  meadow 
formerly  belonging  to  my  deceased  father  ii:c 
&c  together  with  all  manner  of  houses  edifices 
erections  or  buildings  thereon  litc  &c.  In  wit- 
ness whereoff  1  said  John  Woodruff  have 
hereunto  set  my  hand  and  seal  this  loth  day 
of  December  1713,  and  in  the  12th  year  of  ye 
reign  of  our  Soverign  Lady  Anne  by  Grace  of 
God  Great  lirittan  !■' ranee  &  Ireland. 

John  Woodruff'.'" 

Daniel  Woodruff'  married  Anne,  daughter 
of  John  and  granddaughter  of  Benjamin  and 
-Mary  (Sayre)  Price,  who  was  born  between 
i()8o  and  1690.  Children:  i.  Daniel.  2. 
.\braham.  died  1750;  married  Christian  De 
Camp.  3.  Josiah.  born  about  1724,  died  1790; 
married  Patience  W  ade.  4.  Stejjhen,  referred 
to  below.     5.  Jemima. 

(X'lII)  Stephen,  son  of  Daniel  and  .\nne 
(Price)  Woodruff,  was  born  about  1731,  died 
in  1789.  He  removed  from  Elizabethtown  to 
Springfield,  settling  in  that  part  of  the  town- 
ship where  his  descendants  have  since  lived. 
Here  he  brought  his  young  wife,  who  later 
died,  and  he  married  (  second  )  llannah  Pang- 
burn.  He,  like  his  father,  took  up  farming 
and  shoemaking,  as  was  the  custom  in  those 
days,  and  which  was  considered  honorable 
callings.  The  making  of  the  shoes  for  the 
family  required  the  cordwainer  or  shoemaker 
oft  times  to  remain  in  the  family  many  weeks, 
according  to  the  number  to  be  made,  and  the 
tradition  is  that  on  one  of  these  visits  Stephen 
Woodruff  became  acquainted  with  his  second 
wife  and  married  her  at  the  home  i>f  her  par- 
ents. He  and  his  brothers  all  served  in  the 
revolution  and  were  at  the  battle  of  Spring- 
field. Stephen  Woodruff  was  a  private  in  Cap- 
tain Jacob  Crane's  company.  Colonel  Elias 
Dayton's  First  Essex  County  Militia,  also 
state  troops  and  in  Continental  army.  1  le  was 
a  member  of  the  l~irst  Presbyterian  Church 
of  S]iringfield,  and  was  interred  in  the  burial- 
ground  of  this  church,  although  no  stone 
marks  his  resting  jilace.     He  married    (first) 

.     Married   (second),  in  i7fT<),  Hannah 

Pangborn.  Children:  i.  Joel,  died  before 
1786:  married  Elizabeth  Cauldwell.  2.  Rhoda. 
3.  Stephen,  born  1758,  died  1806.  4.  Gabriel, 
referred  to  below.  5.  Asher,  referred  to  below. 
6.  .Aaron. 

(IX)  Gabriel,  son  of  Stephen  Woodruff', 
was  a  revolutionary  soldier  and  partici])ated  in 
the  battle  of  Springfield.     1  le  married  Kath- 


-,  who   died   December    10,    1824. 


erme   

Children:  i.  Stephen  M.,  born  .April  17,  1790, 
died  .April  12.  1857;  married,  l^^bruary  29, 
181^),  Sarah  H.  Thompson;  children:  i.  Will- 
iam T.,  born  .March  15,  1817;  ii.  Caleb,  Sep- 
tember 12,  1819;  iii.  Davis  S.,  July  9,  1820; 
iv.  .Aaron,  Xoveniber  8,  1821  ;  v.  John.  CJcto- 
ber  25,  1823:  vi.  Asa,  March  19,  1829.  2. 
Aaron,  died  unmarried.  3.  Electa,  married 
Jose];)h  Pierson.  4.  Charlotte,  died  unmarried. 
Perhaps  other  children. 

(IX)  .Asher,  son  of  Stephen  Woodruff",  died 
at  Springfield,  Xew  Jersey,  1829.  He  was  a 
farmer,  owning  a  farm  of  some  twenty  odd 
acres  on  the  old  road  from  Springfield  to 
Scotch  P'lain.s,  and  was  considered  prosperous 
and  well-to-do  for  those  times.  His  home- 
stead was  two  stories  high  with  a  kitchen  ell 
on  the  end,  a  barn  and  outbuildings.  In  his 
earlier  days  he  followed  the  shoemaking  trade. 
It  is  more  than  probable  that  .Asher  Woodruff 
was  a  soklier  in  the  revolution  as  were  his 
brothers.  Gabriel  anil  Stephen.  He  was  a 
very  religious  man,  and  with  his  wife  was  a 
member  of  the  old  First  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Springfield.  He  married,  about  1795, 
Jemima  Roll,  or  Rawle,  wdio  was  affectionately 
known  throughout  the  neighborhood  as  ".Aunt 
Jemima."  She  was  a  very  motherly,  charit- 
able woman,  and  is  remembered  for  her  clever- 
ness and  general  capability.  She  outlived  her 
husband  many  years,  and  died  at  an  advanced 
age,  nearly  one  hundred  years.  October  6, 
1829.  administration  of  all  and  singular  the 
goods  and  chattels  right  and  credit  which  were 
of  Asher  Woodruff',  late  of  S])ringfield,  coun- 
ty of  Esse.x,  who  died  intestate,  was  granted 
to  Jemima  Woodruff',  of  said  county,  who  is 
duly  authorized  to  administer  the  same  accord- 
ing to  law.  .\mong  their  children  were:  i. 
David  Crane,  referred  to  below ;  he  was  the 
only  child  of  a  family  of  eleven  who  attained 
to  mature  years.  2.  Joel.  3.  Betsy.  4.  Rhoda. 
5.  Phebe.  6.  Mary  Ann.  7.  Xame  unknown, 
born  1810,  died  Xovember  11,  1820. 

(  X  )  David  Crane,  son  of  .Asher  and  Jemima 
( Roll  or  Rawle )  Woodruff',  was  born  at 
Springfield,  Xew  Jersey,  October  31,  1796, 
died  in  February,  1869.  He  was  brought  up 
on  his  father's  farm,  acquiring  the  usual  com- 
mon school  education  of  a  farmer's  son  at  that 
period.  He  early  learned  the  trade  of  black- 
smith, which  with  farming  was  his  chosen 
occupation  throughout  his  life.  His  farm  of 
fort\'  odd  acres  was  situated  on  the  Westfield 
and  Turkey  roads  and  Halsey  corner  in 
Springfield.     His  homestead  was  built  of  con- 


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Crete,  and  liis  blacksmith  shop  stood  on  the 
road  nearby.  He  was  a  very  industrious  man, 
doing  much  work  for  the  people  of  the  neigh- 
boring towns  as  well  as  of  S])ringtield.  In 
later  years  he  retired,  abaiidoning  his  shop. 
He  was  of  medium  build,  stout,  a  great  story 
teller,  and  of  a  jovial  dis])osition.  He  was  de- 
voted to  his  family  and  was  an  excellent  hus- 
band and  father.  .Although  brought  up  in  the 
Presbyterian  faith,  he  with  his  family  in  his 
later  years  joined  the  Methodist  church.  Both 
Mr.  Woodruff  and  his  wife  are  interred  in  the 
old  Methodist  burying-ground  at  Springfield, 
New  Jersey.  He  married,  February  9,  1818, 
Sally,  daughter  of  Joseph  ]\Iarsh,  who  was 
born  at  Mcndham,  .\ew  Jersey,  March  24, 
1748,  died  at  S])ringfield,  Xew  Jersey,  in  Janu- 
ary, 1873.  She  was  a  very  intelligent  and  cap- 
able woman,  and  was  known  as  an  old-time 
housekeeper.  For  several  years  before  her 
death  she  was  a  great  sufferer  from  paral- 
ysis. Children:  i.  .\aron,  born  June  21, 
1818,  died  October  16,  1895:  married  (first) 
Mary  I'Jawle  ;  children  :  .Aaron,  Xoah,  David, 
Catherine:  married  (second  I  Sarah  Sayre ; 
married  ( third  j,  December  8,  1859,  Margaret 
Smith;  children:  Philip  Marsh,  born  Janu- 
ary I,  1863:  resides  at  Summit;  married.  May 
7,  1891,  Josephine  S.  Sharp;  children:  Edith 
May,  born  August  21,  1893;  Lester  Marsh, 
born  February  24,  1895,  died  May  17,  1896; 
Ijlanche  Maud,  born  May  22,  1897;  X'iola 
Ruth,  born  October  24,  1899;  Martha  Eliza, 
born  May  14,  1866,  died  February  24,  1887. 
2.  George  Marsh,  born  August  14,  1820,  died 
June  28,  1823.  3.  Phebe.  born  April  5,  1823, 
died  April  7,  1824.  4.  Clark  S.,  born  April 
17,  1825,  died  October  8,  1827.  5.  Job  Squire. 
born  .\pril  2,  1827,  died  March  31,  1898;  mar- 
ried Phebe  I^lizabeth  Hitchcock,  born  1826; 
children  :  i.  (leorgc  Crane,  born  May  27,  1846, 
died  .August  4,  1846  :  ii.  Tuiiily  .Ann,  born  Mav  2. 
1847  •  '"•  David  Crane,  born  January  4,  1849  ;  iv. 
Sarah  E.,  born  July  17,  1850;  v.  George  Marsh, 
born  November  28, 1832  ;  vi.  James  Harvey, born 
Se])tember  2~.  1854;  vii.  Charles  Henry,  born 
June  5,  t83(').  6.  Joseph  M..  born  September  20. 
1829*  died  Alarch  21.  1831.  7.  Benjamin 
Marsh,  born  February  29,  1832,  (lied  .April  26. 
1906;  married,  .Xnvember  8  1857,  Henrietta 
Dayton  Woodruff:  children:  i.  Laura  Fran- 
ces, born  May  2,  i860,  died  November  13, 
1903;  married,  June  2,  1881,  Charles  Emery 
Walkins  ;  children  :  Elmer,  born  September 
15.  1882,  died  July  7.  1883;  Aila  Maudell,  born 
.April  4.  1886;  married,  June  29,  M)0<).  Jerome 
Lewis    Hoebmer;    ii.    .Albert    Benjamin,    born 


May  8,  1867,  died  July  8,  1867;  iii.  Ada  Lu- 
ella,  born  June  15,  1873.  8.  Mary  .Ann  ^L, 
born  June  22,  1834,  died  May  6,  1839.  9. 
James  Alarsh,  referred  to  below.  10.  John 
Stiles.  II.  Mary  Ann  Eliza,  born  April  5, 
1842  :  married  Albert  Wade  ;  children  :  i.  Ida. 
married  William  W'oodrutY;  ii.  Matilda,  born 
October.   1872. 

(XI)  James  Alarsh,  son  of  David  Crane 
and  .Sally  ( Alarsh )  Woodruff,  was  born  at 
Springfield,  Xew  Jersey,  September  16,  1837, 
died  at  Summit,  New  Jersey,  March  7,  1909. 
He  was  educated  at  the  district  school  at 
Branch  Mills,  and  was  apprenticed  at  an  early 
age  to  John  Silvers,  a  carpenter  at  Scotch 
Plains.  .After  working  at  this  trade  until  he 
became  of  age,  and  afterwards  as  journeyman, 
he  removed  to  White  Oak  Ridge,  remaining 
for  a  time,  and  subse(|uently  removed  to  Xew- 
ark,  where  he  was  a  journeyman  carpenter  for 
.Meeker  &  Hedden.  He  resided  at  W'estfield 
for  a  time  and  then  removed  his  family  to 
Springfield,  where  he  leased  the  farm  of  his 
brother,  Aaron  Woodruff,  and  devoted  several 
years  to  farming  and  working  at  his  trade. 
I  le  purchasd  fourteen  acres  of  his  father's 
farm  and  erected  a  homestead,  barn,  carpen- 
ter's shop  and  other  buildings.  He  conducted 
a  general  carpentering  business,  and  five  years 
later  took  several  large  contracts  for  buildings 
at  Summit,  Xew  Jersey,  which  necessitated 
his  removal  to  that  town.  He  erected  resi- 
dences for  Dr.  Rose,  XX'illiam  H.  De  I-'orcst 
and  others,  and  built  the  old  First  Presby- 
terian and  Baptist  churches,  also  the  first  Lack- 
awanna railroad  depot  at  Summit.  During 
his  residence  in  Summit  he  suffered  rever.ses 
in  his  business.  Later  he  was  ajipointed  suj^er- 
iiitendent  under  W.  Z.  Earned,  receiver  of 
the  Xew  Jersey  \\'est  Line  railroad  from 
-Sunuiiit  to  Bernardsville,  a  corporation  since 
ac(|uired  by  the  Delaware,  Lackawanna  & 
Western  railroad,  and  now  known  as  the  Pas- 
saic and  Delaware  branch  of  this  comi)any. 
Mr.  Woodruff  remained  in  this  position  three 
years.  In  the  early  eighties  he  purchased  the 
provision  market  of  John  Eckel,  which  he  con- 
ducted for  five  years,  at  the  exiiiration  of 
which  time  he  disposed  of  it  and  leased  a  farm 
of  W.  Z.  Earned  situated  on  Springfield  ave- 
nue, on  the  road  to  Xew  Providence.  Two 
years  later  he  purchased  a  fifty-two  acre  farm 
on  Stony  Hill,  near  Mountain  avenue.  Sum- 
mit Here,  with  the  assistance  of  his  son, 
Allen  G.  Woodruff,  he  engaged  in  the  dairy 
business,  enjoying  a  large  jjatronage  which 
vielded  a  handsome  vearlv  income.     Leaving 


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his  son  to  manage  the  Summit  farm,  Mr. 
Woodruff  removed  to  Newark,  where  he  open- 
ed a  branch  dairy  on  CUnton  avenue.  Later 
his  farm  pro])erty  was  destroyed  by  fire.  He 
then  traded  part  of  his  land  for  a  farm  of  six 
hundred  and  eighty  acres  in  Amelia  county, 
X'irginia,  where  he  built  a  homestead  and  en- 
gaged in  farming  and  tobacco  growing.  This 
enterprise  did  not  prove  successful.  He  re- 
turned to  Summit,  New  Jersey,  and  entered 
the  office  of  the  Summit  Express  Company, 
where  he  remained  until  a  short  time  before 
his  death.  Mr.  Woodruff  was  one  of  the  best 
known  citizens  of  Summit,  and  had  a  remark- 
able career  both  in  business  and  social  life.  His 
entire  life  was  marked  by  the  most  indomitable 
pluck  anil  perseverance  even  in  the  face  of  re- 
verses that  would  have  easily  discouraged  the 
ordinary  man.  He  possessed  an  individuality 
that  won  him  many  lifelong  friends.  In  poli- 
tics he  was  closely  allied  with  the  old  Demo- 
cratic ])arty.  and  in  latter  life  was  a  strong 
I'rohibitionist.  He  served  his  town  I  Summit ) 
as  assessor,  town  committeeman,  collector  of 
taxes  and  on  the  board  of  education.  He 
never  at  any  time  used  tobacco  or  liquor  in 
any  form.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were  mem- 
bers of  the  llaptist  church,  Mr.  Woodruff  hav- 
ing served  as  a  deacon  at  Milburn  and  later  at 
Summit,  up  to  the  time  of  his  death. 

He  married,  at  Scotch  Plains,  New  Jersey, 
June  7,  1857,  Margaret  Cleaver,  born  at 
Scotch  Plains,  January  3,  1837.  died  at  Sum- 
mit, New  Jersey,  December  25,  1885,  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  John  and  Hannah  (Hand) 
Darby.  Cajitain  John  Darby  was  a  farmer,  a 
veteran  of  the  Mexican  war,  and  a  captain  of 
militia.  Children  of  James  Marsh  and  Mar- 
garet (Darby  I  Woodruff":  I.  Xewton.  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  Serena,  born  September  5, 
1S68:  married,  January.  1889,  William  .\les- 
hury,  born  London,  England :  children :  i. 
-Mfred  William,  born  ^larch  5,  1890:  ii.  James 
Marsh  Woodruff',  born  June  12,  1895 :  iii. 
Cora  Pielle,  born  .April  13,  1909.  3.  Alice,  born 
December  19,  1873:  married,  October  12,  1897. 
.Vurman  Milo  llotchkiss.  born  March  23, 
1877.  son  of  Edwin  P.arrett  and  .\nna  Eliza 
(tiibbs)  Hotchkiss:  children:  i.  Edward  Milo, 
born  January  14.  1899:  died  October  6.  1899; 
ii.  Mabel,  born  February  12,  1902,  died  March 
19,  1902.    4.  .-Vllen  Gurney,  referred  to  below. 

(XII)  Xewton.  son  of  James  Marsh  and 
Margaret  Cleaver  ( Darby  I  Woodruff',  was 
horn  at  Westfield,  Xew  Jersey,  .August  15. 
1858.  When  he  was  an  infant  his  parents  re- 
moved to  the  adjoining  town  of  Springfield, 


where  he  received  his  early  education,  first  at 
a  private  and  then  at  a  public  school.  After 
the  family  removed  to  Summit  he  attended  Dr. 
Rose's  private  school  for  two  years,  next  tak- 
ing a  two  years  course  of  study  at  the  Peddie 
institute  at  Hightstown.  Xew  Jersey,  At  the 
age  of  eighteen  he  entered  in  a  small  way  into 
journalism,  editing  and  printing  a  clever  little 
paper  called  Tlic  Tnanpct,  which  had  a  con- 
siderable local  circulation.  He  subsequently 
started  the  Summit  Record,  a  six  column  folio 
paper,  which  he  edited  and  published  for  two 
years.  .After  disposing  of  his  interest  and 
good  will  to  William  H.  De  Forest,  who  in 
turn  sold  out  to  Thomas  Lane,  Mr.  Woodruff' 
icmoved  to  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  where  he 
devoted  two  years  to  the  life  insurance  busi- 
ness, after  which  time  he  removed  to  Chicago 
to  assume  the  position  of  editor  of  the  Humane 
Journal.  Two  years  later  he  accepted  a  posi- 
tion as  proof  reader  on  the  Chicago  Globe,  a 
Railing  paper  of  that  city,  and  later  still  occu- 
pied a  similar  position  with  the  Chicago  liitrr- 
Ocean,  where  he  remained  two  years.  He  then 
removed  to  Evanston,  Illinois,  where  he  start- 
ed and  published  The  Efitouie.  Owing  to  im- 
paired health  he  relinquished  this  business  and 
returned  to  his  native  state  where  after  recu- 
perating he  became  editorial  writer  for  the 
Summit  Herald,  then  under  the  ownershi])  of 
D.  M.  Smvthe,  a  former  editor  of  the  Summit 
Record.  He  remained  with  Mr.  Smythe  about 
three  years  and  while  associated  with  him 
]niblished  for  a  year  a  social  monthly  maga- 
zine called  Whims.  Mr.  Woodruff'  next  turn- 
ed his  attention  to  the  handling  of  real  e.state, 
soon  acquiring  an  extensive  general  business. 
Mr.  Woodruft'  was  elected  justice  of  tlie  jieace 
at  Summit,  and  served  five  years  in  the  faith- 
ful performance  of  this  duty.  During  the 
latter  part  of  his  term  of  office  he  acted  as 
police  justice  under  the  new  city  charter  of 
Summit.  Later  he  removed  his  real  estate 
business  to  Newark,  and  in  1903  took  up  his 
residence  in  Xutley.  Xew  Jersey,  where  in 
\^)0^^  he  was  elected  justice  of  the  peace.  He 
also  filled  with  credit  and  ability  the  office  of 
acting  recorder  of  the  town  of  Xutley.  and 
was  appointed  clerk  of  the  water  department, 
which  office  he  now  occupies.  In  politics  Mr. 
Woodruff'  is  an  ardent  supporter  of  Repub- 
lican princi])les.  In  religion  he  has  been  an 
active  member  of  the  Baptist  denomination 
since  he  was  admitted  by  profession  of  faith 
in  his  thirteenth  year  to  the  Baptist  church  at 
Millburn.  Later,  with  his  parents,  he  became 
a  charter  member  of  the  First  Baptist  Church 


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STATE    UF    NEW  JERSEY. 


at  Summit.  On  his  removal  to  Nutley  in  1903 
lie  took  liis  letter  to  the  Franklin  Reformed 
Church  of  Xutlev,  where  he  now  serves  as 
deacon. 

Mr.  Woodruff  married,  at  Summit,  May  27, 
1883.  Lytla  May.  born  at  Xewark,  New  Jer- 
sey, August  2,  ]8f)0,  daughter  of  Thaddeus  C. 
and  Elizabeth  (McKirgan)  Smith.  Thaddeus 
C.  Smith  was  a  civil  war  veteran,  and  a  maker 
of  uniforms  during  the  civil  war;  he  was  at 
one  time  on  the  Consolidated  Stock  Exchange 
of  New  York  City,  and  in  later  years  was  en- 
gaged in  the  real  estate  and  insurance  busi- 
ness in  Xewark,  Xew  Jersey.  Children  of 
Xewton  and  Lyda  May  (Smith)  Woodruff": 
I.  Ilka  Eloise,  born  March  27,  1885:  a  grad- 
uate of  Summit  high  school.  2.  Ralph  De 
Witt,  born  February  26,  1892;  in  junior  year 
of  Xutley  high  school. 

(Xll)  Allen  (iurney.  son  of  James  Marsh 
and  Margaret  Cleaver  (Darby)  Woodruff, 
was  born  at  Summit,  Xew  Jersey,  January  21, 
1878.  Me  attended  the  public  schools  of  Sum- 
mit until  his  seventeenth  year,  when  owing  to 
adverse  circumstances  he  was  obliged  to  fore- 
go his  natural  desire  for  a  college  education 
and  legal  studies  and  to  enter  the  employ  of 
his  father  on  his  dairy  farm.  .At  the  age  of 
nineteen  he  purchased  his  father's  interests 
and  continued  with  considerable  success  in  the 
dairy  business  until  in  1898  his  homestead  and 
effects  were  destroyed  by  fire.  In  the  same 
year  he  sold  his  interests  to  B.  M.  Dickerson, 
and  went  to  school  in  New  York  City,  spend- 
ing a  year  in  the  study  of  law  at  the  Xew 
York  Law  School.  Subsei|uent]\'  he  took  con- 
trol of  the  Commonwealtli  (Juarry  Company 
on  a  percentage  basis,  which  arrangement  con- 
tinued until  December,  1899.  In  the  summer 
of  1898  Mr.  Woodruff  jjurcha.sed  a  thirty-two 
acre  farm  of  the  old  Martin  estate,  situated  on 
Mountain  avenue,  and  as  soon  as  his  engage- 
ment with  the  Commonwealtli  Quarry  Com- 
l)any  was  ended,  he  took  up  his  residence  there 
and  engaged  in  market  gardening.  Mr.  Wood- 
ruff's tJiorough  knowledge  of  farming,  and 
active,  energetic  disposition  made  this  busi- 
ness a  considerable  success.  He  continued  in 
it  until  March  I,  1902,  when  he  formed  a  part- 
nershi])  with  his  brother-in-law,  Xorman  M. 
Ilotchkiss  under  the  firm  name  of  the  Sum- 
mit F.xprcss  Company.  .Mr.  WtKidruff,  as 
sole  manager,  conducted  the  business  with 
credit  and  success  during  the  two  years  which 
Mr.  Ilotchkiss  spent  in  the  United  States 
postal  service.  The  partners  now  conduct  a 
general  express,  storage  and  trucking  business. 


maintaining  a  daily  express  to  Xewark  and 
.Xew  'S'ork  City  and  return,  and  controlling 
the  local  branch  of  the  Sheppard  Transfer 
Company,  having  connection  with  the  Dela- 
ware, Lackawanna  &  W  estern  railroad.  The 
growth  of  Mr.  Woodruff's  business  is  the  high- 
est testimonial  that  could  be  given  to  his  excel- 
lent business  capability.  From  a  comparativelj' 
small  concern  in  1902,  the  business  has  now- 
increased  to  a  thriving  company,  controlling 
all  the  storage  business  in  ancl  adjacent  to 
Summit,  and  enjoying  the  highest  class  of 
])atronage.  The  first  storage  and  office  build- 
ing was  erected  in  1906.  In  1908  a  large  three- 
story  warehouse  was  added,  which  owing  to 
the  ra])id  growth  of  the  business  necessitated 
the  erection  of  a  four-story  warehouse,  just 
coni])leted.  .Mr.  Woodruff'  is  as  active  and 
]ironiinent  in  ]irivate  as  in  public  life.  He  is 
a  member  of  Crystal  Lodge,  Xo.  250,  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  of  Summit, 
and  is  also  a  member  of  the  Junior  Order  of 
.American  Alechanics,  and  Summit  Board  of 
Trade.  In  politics  he  is  an  Independent,  with 
a  strong  leaning  toward  Democracy.  He  and 
his  family  attend  the  Baptist  church  at  Mill- 
burn,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Woodruff  being  member> 
in  full  communion  of  that  society. 

Mr.  Woodruff'  married  at  Chatham,  Xew 
Jersey,  February  10,  1897,  Antoinette  Prince, 
born  in  Brooklyn,  Xew  York,  February  20. 
1877,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Ruth  (Prince) 
.Slie])herd.  Her  father  was  a  i)romineiit  ])liysi- 
cian  of  Brooklyn.  Children:  i.  .Marjorie 
.Antoinette,  born  December  6,  i8g8.  2.  .Allen 
Gurney  Jr.,  September  12,  1901.  3.  .Alice 
Prince,  May  16,  1903.  4.  Serena  ^largaret. 
May  6.  1904.  5.  Reginald  .Addison,  .April  15, 
1906.  6.  \'irginia  Catherine,  October  20,  1908. 


(XI)  Tohn  Stiles  Woo<l- 
WnoDRl'l'I''  ruff,  son  of  David  Crane 
(q.  V.)  and  Sally  (  Marsh) 
Woodruff,  was  born  at  Sjiringfield,  Xew  Jer- 
sey, .March  2^,.  1840.  on  the  homestead  of  his 
ancestors.  1 1  e  was  educated  in  the  nearby 
district  school  u|)  to  seventeen  years  of  age. 
From  a  lad  he  assisted  his  fatlier  at  farming, 
and  until  twenty-six  years  of  age  remained  at 
home,  engaged  in  the  duties  of  farming  and 
teaming.  He  subsequently  went  to  Xewark, 
remaining  for  two  years,  wjiere  he  learned  the 
trade  of  masc)n  with  his  brother,  Benjamin  M. 
WcKMlruft'.  He  then  returned  to  the  parental 
roof  and  remained  with  his  parents  until  their 
deaths,  when  he  purchased  of  the  heirs  his 
father's  pro]ierty.    I  lere  he  conducted  farming 


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and  fiilkiweil  his  trade  of  mason.  He  tinally 
sold  his  farm  to  Samuel  Blodgett  and  leased 
the  Munker  place  where  for  five  years  he  de- 
voted his  time  to  teaming  and  farming.  He 
teamed  paper  from  Springfield  to  New  York 
City  and  brought  back  stock  for  the  mills. 
Later  he  removed  to  Seven  liridge  road,  to 
the  James  RcjII  place,  which  he  later  purchased, 
and  engaged  in  the  dairy  business,  having  a 
herd  of  twenty  to  thirty  head;  he  also  con- 
ducted teaming.  At  the  expiration  of  eight 
years  he  sold  the  property  to  South  Orange 
township  for  sewerage  purposes,  retaining 
nine  acres  on  which  he  erected  a  homestead, 
where  he  remained  six  years,  during  which 
time  he  engaged  in  grading  and  cellar  excava- 
iing;  later  he  sold  the  farm  to  his  son,  Benja- 
min M.  W'oodruft'.  He  then  removed  to  the 
."-^outh  neighborhood,  where  after  three  years 
he  disposed  of  this  property  to  John  C.  Wood- 
ruff, a  son,  and  settled  at  Milburn,  where  he 
purchased  his  present  homestead.  Mr.  Wood- 
ruff has  retired  from  active  bu>iness.  He  is 
a  ^lethodist  in  religion,  which  church  his  fam- 
ily attends.  In  politics  he  was  formerly  identi- 
fied with  the  old  Democratic  party.  At  the 
age  of  twenty-one  he  served  his  town  as  road 
overseer.  In  later  years,  from  principle,  he 
became  affiliated  with  the  Prohibiticin  party. 
He  also  believes  that  the  franchise  of  the  ballot 
siioidd  not  be  granted  to  the  alien  until  a  citizen- 
ship of  twenty-one  years  has  been  established, 
thus  making  him  ec|ual  to  the  native-born  citi- 
zen, who  is  not  allowed  a  vote  of  franchise 
until  of  age.  This  he  believes  would  do  away 
with  the  present  bossism  existing  in  large 
cities,  a  detriment  to  either  parties. 

.Mr.  Woodrufi'  married,  Se])tember  14.  1862, 
I'liebe  Day.  born  .\])ril  17.  1839.  daugliter  of 
Daniel  and  ^lary  (I'.rown)  ComjJton.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Ira  Ellsworth,  born  May  23.  iS()3; 
married.  February  2j,.  1888,  Martha  Wash- 
ington, born  February  22,  1877,  daughter  of 
Charles  Bonnell  and  Sarah  (  Feiry )  Pa  reel  1 ; 
children:  i.  Lois  Elizabeth,  born  June  2,  1892: 
ii.  Hilda  Compton.  born  September  3.  1894; 
iii.  Darwin  Ellsworth,  born  Sejitember  21, 
189(1:  iv.  Martha  Olive,  born  October  22.  1902, 
died  January  19,  1906.  2.  Frank  ^^'esley,  born 
.\])ril  23,  1863:  married,  June  29,  1897,  Anna 
.-\ugusta.  born  May  i.  1874,  daughter  of  John 
Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (  Haslem)  Gentzel :  child. 
I'hebe  Elizabeth,  born  SeiJtember  19,  1903.  3. 
Mary  Etta,  born  January  11,  1868:  married, 
June  5.  1887,  William  John  Marshall;  chil- 
dren: i.  Raymond  Ellsworth,  born  May  13. 
1888:  ii.   Phebe  Comfort,  born  December  30. 


1889:  iii.  Marian  Ethel,  born  December  4, 
1890;  iv.  Irma  Beatrice,  born  September  8, 
1893,  died  July  8,  1898;  v.  Elsie  Madeline, 
born  December  i.  1894;  vi.  William  Elwood, 
born  Augu.st  20.  1896;  vii.  Robert  Everett, 
l)orn  July  29,  1898;  viii.  John  Chester,  born 
Se])tember  22.  1899.  died  January  24.  1904; 
ix.  Alma  Helen,  born  July  24.  1903.  died  Feb- 
ruary 8.  1907;  X.  Florence  Edna,  born  May 
15,  1906;  xi,  Clifford  Edward,  born  Decem- 
ber 17,  1907,  died  June  29,  1908.  4.  Benja- 
min Morris,  born  April  15,  1872;  mar- 
ried, September  2,  1900.  Esther  Tuthili 
Wardsworth  ;  children  :  i.  ( lertrude  Wards- 
worth,  born  October  i,  1901  ;  ii.  Kathleen 
l-"oort.  born  September  18.  1903.  5.  Lillian 
Jane,  born  (Jctober  30,  1874.  6.  Florence 
Edna,  born  Xovember  25,  1881  ;  married,  1906, 
Walter  Tipping,  born  January  20,  1885,  son 
of  Gains  and  Mary  Evans  Tipping;  child, 
\'erna  .\delle,  born  October  14,  1906.  7.  John 
Clifford,  born  March  4,  1883 ;  married,  June 
24,  1905.  Lillie  I--mnia.  born  March  31.  1885, 
daughter  of  W  illiam  Frederick  and  Anna  M. 
D.  (  Steurnagel )  Pulzier  :  children  :  i.  Doro- 
thy ^lay.  born  May  6,  1906;  ii.  Hazel  Irene, 
born  March  8,  1908. 


The     Summerills     are     a 
SUMMERILL      large  and   ancient   family 

of  Ipper  I'enn's  Xeck. 
although  not  among  the  earliest  of  the  old 
Colonial  families  of  that  portion  of  West  Xew 
Jersey.  They  have  not  only  by  their  inter- 
marriages with  the  old  families  of  that  region, 
but  also  by  the  influence  which  they  have  them- 
selves exerted  upon  the  community  in  which 
their  lives  were  cast,  made  for  themselves  a 
P'lace  in  the  foremost  rank  of  the  representa- 
tive ])ersons  of  Salem  county. 

(I)  William  Summerill,  founder  of  the  Xew 
Jersey  family,  emigrated  from  Ireland  about 
1725.  He  was  one  of  about  four  thousand 
l"ive  hundred  persons  chiefly  from  that  country 
who  between  1720  and  1730  emigrated  to  Phil- 
adelj)hia  and  the  Quaker  Colonies  around  that 
city  who  came  to  this  country  for  industrial 
and  sociological  rather  than  religious  reasons, 
.'-^mnmerill  was  a  yoiuig  man  at  the  time,  and 
it  is  not  known  whether  he  came  over  single 
or  married.  At  any  rate  it  is  known  that  he 
was  married  shortly  after  his  arrival  here,  if 
he  did  not  bring  his  wife  with  him.  as  in  the 
following  year  he  and  his  wife  Mary  were 
living  on  a  large  tract  of  land  near  the  old 
brick  mill  at  the  head  of  Came  creek  and  ex- 
tending over  to  Salem  creek,  in   Penn's  Xeck. 


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This  prupeity  is  now  owned  by  the  children  of 
Benjamin  and  Rebecca  (Sumnierill)  Black, 
the  latter  having  inherited  the  property  from 
her  father.  W  hen  his  children  were  still 
young,  William  Simimerill  lost  his  wife,  and 
soon  after  her  death  he  left  the  township  of 
Penn's  Neck  and  settled  in  Pittsgrove,  Salem 
county,  where  he  married  a  widow  by  the  name 
of  Elwell.  Here  he  remained  for  the  rest  of 
his  life,  and  died  at  an  extremely  advanced 
age.  By  each  of  his  wives  he  had  two  children 
— two  boys  by  the  first,  and  two  girls  by  the 
second.  These  children  were:  i.  Joseph,  set- 
tled in  Wilmington.  Delaware,  and  engaged  in 
the  shipiiing  and  blacksmithing  business.  lie 
had  two  sons  and  two  daughters.  The  daugh- 
ters married  sea  captains :  the  sons  engaged  in 
business  in  Philadelphia,  but  failed  and  moved 
into  the  interior  of  Pennsylvania,  wdiere  they 
founded  the  branches  of  the  family  now  found 
there  and  further  west.  2.  John,  referred  to 
below.     3.  .\  daughter.     4.  Another  daughter, 

married .\ewkirk,  and  became  mother 

of  Garrett  and  Mathew  Newkirk,  the  famous 
merchants  of  early  Philadelphia. 

(IIj  John,  younger  son  of  William  and 
Mary  Summerill,  was  born  in  Upper  Penn's 
Xeck.  Salem  county,  Xew  Jersey.  He  owned 
and  lived  on  the  property  that  his  father  pur- 
chased when  he  first  settled  in  Xew  Jersey. 
The  old  mansion  house  in  which  he  and  his 
father  lived  was  burned  during  the  war  of  the 
revolution  by  a  marauding  party  from  the 
British  fleet  that  was  lying  in  the  Delaware 
river  opposite  Helm's  Cove.  There  is  now  a 
large  iron  ])ot  in  the  possession  of  the  Sum- 
merill family  that  was  in  the  old  family  man- 
sion when  it  was  burned.  John  Summerill 
died  while  com])aratively  a  ytnmg  man,  and 
left  a  widow,  four  sons,  and  two  daughters. 
His  widow  lived  for  many  years  after  his 
death,  carried  on  the  farm,  and  raised  and  edu- 
cated her  family  of  six  small  children.  She 
never  married  again.  Mis  wife  was  Xaomi. 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Hannah  (  Procter  1 
Carnev.  ller  father,  Thomas,  was  one  of  the 
Irish  emigrants  who  came  over  about  the  same 
time  that  William  Summerill  did,  and  settled 
between  the  mouth,  on  the  Delaware  river,  of 
Bout  creek  and  Heuby  creek,  his  lands  ex- 
tending back  to  (lame  creek.  He  married  the 
daughter  of  John  Procter,  one  of  the  largest 
landliiilders  in  Salem  county  at  that  day.  and 
he  died  .May  16.  1784.  and  was  buried  in  St. 
George's  chmchyard,  Gliurchtown,  Lower 
Penn's  Xeck.  His  children  were:  Thomas 
Jr.,  died  unmarried  in   1778:  Peter,  who  died 


leaving  two  daughters;  Xaomi,  referred  h> 
above:  and  Mary,  married  Henry  Jeans,  and 
whose  only  child  Mary  married  Joseph  Stout, 
a  descendant  of  the  famous  I'enelope  Stout 
of  Monmouth  county.  Children  of  John  and 
Xaomi  (Carney)  Summerill:  i.  John  Jr.,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  Joseph,  married  Mary 
l.inmin;  children:  William,  and  Mary,  whu 
married  Stephen  Straughn.  3.  Thomas,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Borden.  4.  William,  died  young, 
unmarried.  5.  Mary,  married  (first)  Mr. 
Clark,  (second)  John  Holton.    6.  Rebecca. 

(HI)  John  Jr.,  son  of  John  and  .Xaomi 
(Carney)  Summerill,  was  a  successful  agricul- 
turist and  at  his  death  was  the  owner  of  a 
large  (|uantity  of  excellent  land  in  the  town- 
ship of  Upper  Penn's  Xeck.  He  lived  to  be 
nearly  four-score  years,  and  when  he  died  left 
four  sons  and  three  daughters.  By  his  mar- 
riage with  Christiana  Holton,  he  had  nine  chil- 
dren:  I.  James.  2.  Josiah ;  both  died  young. 
3  Xaomi,  married  Robert,  son  of  James  and 
IJizabeth  Xewell.  4.  (iarnet,  who  lived  on 
the  property  formerly  owned  and  occupied  by 
I'eter,  son  of  Thomas  Carney,  the  immigrant. 
His  wife  was  Mary  Borden,  of  Sharpstown. 
5.  W  illiam,  who  lived  at  Upper  Penn's  Xeck, 
and  b\'  his  wife,  Hannah  \'anneman,  had  sons 
J(i>iah  and  Daniel  X'anneman.  William  was 
a  juflge  of  the  Salem  county  court  and  one  of 
the  directors  of  the  Canal  Meadow  Company, 
an  enterprise  projected  as  early  as  1801,  and 
which  after  several  vicissitudes  was  finally 
comjjleted  many  years  later  and  added  three- 
fold to  the  fertility  and  profits  of  the  lands 
('.rained  by  it.  5.  .\nn,  married  Elias  Kaighn, 
oi  Camden,  Xew  Jersey.  6.  Rebecca,  referred 
to  above,  married  ISenjamin  Black.  7.  Josei)h 
Carne)',  who  is  referred  to  below.  8.  John 
(  3d  ) .  died  in  1865,  aged  sixty-two  years,  eleven 
years  after  his  father.  In  early  life  he  was  an 
active  ])olitician :  as  a  young  man  was  elected 
to  the  state  legislature,  and  was  later  chosen 
state  senate.  By  his  wife,  Emily  Parker,  he 
had  two  sons — John  (4th),  and  Joseph  Car- 
ney, both  of  whom  lived  at  I  lelm's  Cove,  ami 
both  of  whom  are  now  deceased. 

It  is  a  singular  circumstance  connected  with 
the  Carney  and  Summerill  families,  that  Xaomi 
(Carney)  Summerill's  descendants,  now,  after 
the  lajise  of  over  a  century,  owned  the  larger 
part  of  the  landed  estate  that  belonged  to  lier 
father.  Thomas  Carney,  Sr.,  the  emigrant. 

(  1\' )  Josejih  Carney,  son  of  John  and  Chri>- 
tiana  (  Holton)  Summerill.  was  born  at  Penn's 
( ,n>\e.  Xew  Jersey,  I-"ebruary  4,  1821.  and  died 
in  that  place,  February   1(1,   1882.     He  was  a 


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Methodist  clergyman,  and  during  a  long  life 
in  the  ministry,  proved  himself  one  of  the 
most  faithful  and  efficient  servants  of  that  de- 
nomination. He  married  Sarah  Jane,  born 
April  10,  1824,  daughter  of  Daniel  X'anneman, 
a  large  landowner  and  store-keeper  at  Penn's 
Grove,  New  Jersey.  Her  father  was  the  son 
of  John  and  Charity  \'anneman  ;  her  grand- 
father the  son  of  Andrew  \  anneman,  and  her 
great-grantlfather  the  son  of  Peter  and  Re- 
becca (Pitman)  \'anneman,  of  Salem  county. 
New  Jersey.  Her  ancestry  goes  back  to  the 
early  Swedish  occupancy  of  the  Delaware. 
Children  of  Joseph  Carney  and  Sarah  Jane 
I  X'anneman  )  Summerill :  I.  Hannah  \'anne- 
man,  married  James  White,  of  Harrison  town- 
ship, Ciloucester,  New  Jersey;  children:  Sam- 
uel Henry,  James  Stratton  and  Sarah  Sum- 
merill. 2.  Christiana  Rogers,  born  at  Clayton, 
New  Jersey  :  married  Rev.  William  R.  Rogers  ; 
children:  William  Harlow,  and  Sarah  Jane. 
3.  l'2nima  Louisa,  married  William  Diver,  of 
Penn's  Grove ;  children  :  Josejih  Summerill 
and  William  Rogers.  4.  Joseph  John,  referred 
to  below.  5.  Thomas  Carney  Jr.  6.  Daniel 
X'anneman,  born  at  Pennsville,  New  Jersey; 
married  Eleanor  Johnson,  of  Penn's  Grove, 
is  now  an  attorney  in  Camden,  New-  Jersey. 

(\")  Joseph  John,  oldest  son  of  Rev.  Joseph 
Carney  and  Sarah  Jane  (\'anneman)  Suni- 
erill.  was  born  at  Haleyville,  Cumberland  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  July  23.  1859,  and  is  now  living 
at  Woodbury,  (iloucester  county.  New  Jersey. 
For  his  early  education  he  attended  the  public 
schools  at  Harrisonville.  He  was  then  sent  to 
the  school  at  Mullica  Hill,  Gloucester  county, 
and  still  later  to  a  private  school  kept  by 
George  D.  Horner.  He  was  then  prepared 
for  college  at  1  'ennington  Seminary  and  enter- 
ed PrincetiMi  I'niversity  in  the  fall  of  1878. 
but  owing  to  trouble  with  his  eyes  was  obliged 
to  leave  college  before  his  graduation,  .\fter 
a  rest  his  eyes  became  better  and  he  took  up 
the  reading  of  law  with  Jklessrs.  Bergen  & 
liergen.  a  law  firm  in  Camden.  New  Jersey. 
Subsei|uently  he  entered  the  law  school  of  the 
I'niversity  of  \  irginia,  and  after  leaving  that 
institution  took  up  the  courses  at  the  .\lbany 
Law  School.  Albany.  New  York.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  an  attorney 
in  the  November  term  of  the  supreme  court. 
1887,  and  as  a  counsellor  in  the  November 
term.  1890.  In  his  practice  he  has  made  a 
specialty  of  corporation  and  real  estate  law, 
and  has  built  up  a  large  successful  and  lucrative 
practice  at  XVoodbury,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
has  his  office  and  his  home.     In  politics  Mr. 


."-iummerill  is  a  Democrat  with  inde])endent 
[iroclivities.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New  Jer- 
sey Bar  Association,  and  of  the  Gloucester 
County  Bar  Association,  and  a  communicant 
of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church.  He  has 
never  held  any  public  office. 

Rev.  Joseph  John  Summerill  married,  Se])- 
tcmher  17,  1890.  Althea  M.,  daughter  of 
Charles  W,  Simpers,  of  Cecil  county.  Mary- 
land. They  have  three  children:  1,  |ose])h 
John  Jr.,  born  August  8,  1891,  now  at  the 
William  Penn  Charter  School.  2.  Gertrude 
J\ittenhouse,  born  December  14,  1893,  now  at 
.Miss  Hills'  private  school,  Philadel])hia.  3. 
Charles  West-Leigh,  born  February   ii,   1909. 


There  are  several  traditions 
MEFxSELIS  regarding  the  racial  origin  of 
this  family,  and  it  may  be 
said  that  not  all  chroniclers  of  its  history  are 
agreed  in  respect  to  the  manner  of  spelling  the 
surname  now  generally  recognized  and  written 
as  Merselis.  Nor  is  this  sur|)rising  when  we 
cc  insider  the  fact  that  those  sturdy  old  Holland 
1  )utch  immigrants  came  to  .America  without 
family  names  and  when  finally  such  were 
adopted  they  frequently  were  spelled  phonetic- 
ally rather  than  in  accordance  w'ith  established 
family  custom.  .\.  A.  \'osterman  \'an  Oyen, 
keeper  of  the  Heraldic  College  genealogical 
arclii\es  of  the  Netherlands,  in  one  of  his 
publications  saj's  "although  the  ancestor  of 
the  family  known  to  us  and  belonging  to  the 
Danish  nobility  was  born  at  Hamburg  it  seems, 
however,  that  the  family  originated  from  some 
other  place,  very  likely  Denmark.  Several 
patrician  families  of  this  name  lived  in  Bel- 
gium, whose  coat  armour,  however,  not  only 
differ  each  from  the  other,  but  also  do  not 
show  any  comparison  with  the  dift'erent 
branches  raised  to  the  Danish  nobility."  J.  B. 
Rietstap.  in  his  "Coat  Armor  of  the  Nether- 
land  Nobility,  "  mentions  a  coat  of  arms  as 
follows :  "in  silver  an  elephant  in  natural  color 
u])on  a  meadow  whereon  are  three  trees :  the 
one  in  the  middle  is  placed  before  the  elephant. 
This  animal  carries  upon  his  back  a  tower, 
frcjni  which  a  female  rises  in  red  or  seen  from 
aside.  The  crest  is  the  elephant  with  the 
tower  and  female."  He  claims  this  to  be  a 
coat  patented  to  a  \'an  Marselis  September  17. 
1643.  The  first  \'an  Marselis  of  the  Nether- 
lands to  whom  the  .American  branch  can  trace 
its  ancestry  in  unbroken  line  is 

(  I  )  Jan  \'an  Marselis,  born  in  the  early  part 
of  the  year  1500,  married  \.  N.  \'an  der 
March.     Their  son 


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(II)  Ian  \  an  Marsclis  niarricil  Dina  \'an 
Duffel  d"Els\\itli.     TlK'ir  son 

(III)  Gabriel  \  an  Marselis.  resident  at 
Commissary  of  the  King  of  Denmark  at  Ilam- 
hin-g.  married  Anna  Elirmit  d'lMniitage.  and 
died  at  Hamburg.  July  20.  1^)43.  They  had 
four  sons — (iabriel.  I'ieter.  i,eonard  and  Sil- 
lin>.  and  one  daughter. 

(I\'l  Pieter  \'an  .Marselis.  stni  of  dabriel 
and  .\nna  Ehrmit  i  dWrmitage )  \"an  Marselis, 
was  born  in  Hamburg,  in  the  early  part  of 
1600.  He  re])resented  Russia  at  the  court  of 
I  )enmark  and  was  elevated  to  the  Danish 
nobilit\-  .September  17.  \(>4^.  and  granted  the 
coat  of  armor  described  by  Rietstap  in  his 
"Coat  Armor  of  the  Netherland  Nobility."  He 
was  progenitor  of  the  .American  branch  of  the 
\'an  Marselis  family.  He  left  .Amsterdam, 
Holland,  in  .April,  1661.  with  his  wife  and 
four  children  (aged  respectively  twelve,  si.x. 
four  and  two  years )  and  with  two  servants, 
in  the  Dutch  \\'est  India  shij)  "lieaver"  (or 
"llever")  and  arrived  at  .\'ew  .\msterdam 
(  .\ew  'S'ork )  .May  9  same  )ear.  The  ship's 
register  shows  that  he  paid  two  hundred  thirty- 
two  florins  passage  money  for  his  family  of 
eight  (jersons,  from  which  it  is  evident  that 
our  immigrant  ancestor  was  pf)ssessed  of  good- 
ly means  as  well  as  being  a  jierson  of  conse- 
(|uence.  He  soon  removed  to  ISergeu,  Xew 
Jersey,  settled  there,  and  died  in  1682.  His 
wife  died  there  in  1680.  The  ])lace  where  he 
settled  was  then  a  Dutch  hamlet  and  Indian 
trading  post  on  the  hill  between  the  Hudson 
river  and  Newark  bay.  in  the  Indian  count) 
of  Scheyichbi.  in  the  New  .Netherlands.  There 
he  acquired  lands  and  became  a  planter.  He 
\\as  ap])ointed  sche])en  (alderman)  of  llergen 
comity.  -August  18,  1673.  during  the  reoccu- 
l)ation  of  New  Netherlands  by  the  Dutch,  and 
as  a  mark  of  honor  was  buried  imder  the 
Dutch  Church  of  liergen,  at  his  deatli,  Septem- 
ber 4,  1682.  On  .August  20,  1682,  he  conveyed 
jiroperty  to  his  son-in-law,  R(jelofF  \  an  Hou- 
ten. 

In  this  connection  it  is  well  to  mention  that 
this  I'ieter  \'an  .Marselis  is  identical  with  him 
of  whom  Riker  records  as  Pieter  Marcelisen, 
or  Peter  Marcelis,  and  who,  according  to  the 
same  authority,  was  born  in  P>eest,  near  Leer- 
dam,  y)rovince  of  Ctrecht,  Holland:  and  he  is 
the  same  Pieter  Marcelisen  referred  to  by 
Neafie,  himself  a  descendant  of  Pieter.  and 
who  says  in  his  historical  narrative  that  Pieter 
"might  have  lieen  born  in  Leerdam.  but  when 
he  came  to  America  he  was  from  the  village 
fif  Peest.  near  the  town  of  Purcn.  in  the  prov- 


ince of  ( ielderland."  and  also  that  at  least 
three  of  his  children  were  born  in  ISeest.  Riker 
also  notes  that  he  is  said  to  have  been  \  an 
I'leest.  which  means  "from  Beest."  It  may  l)e 
stated  here  tliat  this  Pieter  \  an  .Marselis 
drop])ed  the  prefix  \  an  from  his  name. 

.\ccording  to  Harvey,  the  historian  of  P>er- 
gen  county,  the  children  of  Pieter  .Marcelisen 
were  James,  Jannetje,  Pieter.  Merselis,  Eliza- 
beth and  Hillegond.  .Mr.  Labaw  says  "the 
name  and  .se.\  of  the  first  one  we  do  not 
kiiiiw  ;  '  that  the  second  was  called  Marcelis 
(always  called  Marcelis  Pieterse )  ;  the  third 
Jannetje,  who  married  Roelof  Helmigse  \'an 
Houten  ;  and  the  fourth  Neesje  Pieterse,  wlm 
marrietl  Gerrit  Gerritsen,  Jr.  Put  -Mr.  l.abaw 
takes  account  only  of  the  four  children  of  I  'ieter 
who  accompanied  their  parents  to  .America. 
.\  more  recent  and  jierhaps  more  accurate  ac- 
count of  the  children  of  Pieter  \'an  Marcelis 
is  as  follows:  1.  llessil  Pieterse.  married 
(first)  Lysbcit  Kuper,  (second)  I'"ebruary  C>, 
1714.  .Magdelena  Pruvn.  2.  .Marcelis  Pieterse 
(see  ])OSt).  3.  Jannetje  I'ieterse,  married  Sep- 
tember 3,  i()j(>,  llelmigh  Roelofer  \"an  Hou- 
ten, ancestor  of  all  the  American  Van  Hou- 
teiis.  4.  Neesje  Pieterse.  married  May  11. 
1(181.  Gerrit  Gerritse  \'an  W  ageningen,  and 
bfcame  ancestor  of  the  \  an  \\'agoner  and 
( iarritse  families. 

(  \  )  Marcelis  Pieterse  \'an  Marselis,  sec- 
ond child  of  Pieter  \an  Marselis,  or  Mer- 
celisen,  is  accorded  progenitorshi]}  of  the 
Preakness  families  of  the  Merselis  surname. 
He  died  October  2j>,.  1747,  aged  ninety-one 
\ears,  hence  was  burn  about  i^isfi.  He  mar- 
ried, .May  12.  1681.  Pieterjie  \  an  \orst,  daugh- 
ter of  Ide  and  llieletje  (Hulda)  Jans.  She 
wa>  baptized  in  1(159  and  died  .September  3. 
1744.  Children  (perhaps  others  of  whom  a|i- 
pears  no  record  I  :  1.  Elizabeth,  baptized  .Ajiril 
18.  1682:  married.  .\\n'\]  21,  1701,  .Adrian 
Post.  Jr.  2.  Ilille.gontje,  born  September  27. 
i(\S4:  married.  May  30.  1707.  Harjiert  Garra- 
liant.  3.  I'ieter  (Peter),  (see  post).  4.  lulo. 
baptized  .Se])tember  15,  idgo  (see  ])ost).  5. 
.\inietje.  born  .March  24.  baptized  .A])ril  10. 
1604.  (1.  Catreyna,  born  November  17,  or  18, 
baptized  December  6,  1696:  married,  .Ajiril 
17,  1737,  Reynier  \"an  Geisen.  7.  Leena,  born 
.August  II.  baptized  .\ngust  27.  1699;  married, 
before  1731..  Dirck  \'an  Giesen  :  lived  in  old 
stone  house  still  (  1902)  standing  on  Totown 
avenue.  Paterson.  8.  Jannetje.  born  about  1701  : 
married,  November  26,  17 17,  Johanna  \'an 
Zolingen. 

(\'l  )    Pieter  \'an  Marselis.  son  of  Marcelis 


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(or  Merselis  I'icterse)  \  an  ^larselis.  was  bap- 
tized July  17.  1687,  and  died  April  i.  1770.  He 
married.  December  3.  1717.  Janneke  F'rior, 
who  was  baptized  at  I'.ergen,  January  24,  1699. 
and  died  October  3,  1779.  Children  I  bap- 
tismal names  of  several  unknown):  i.  .Mer- 
selis,  born  Se])tember  7,  1718,  died  October  28. 
1800;  married  before  1754.  Elizabeth  \'lier- 
boom,  born  (October  5,  1730,  died  February 
1 1 .  1823  :  ten  children.  2.  Child,  died  in  infancy. 
3.  Daughter,  born  October  29,  1730.  4.  I'ieter, 
baptized  .\pril  15,  1723.  at  V'«ergen  :  married  in 
.\"ew  '^'ork,  Ma\'  5.  1750.  Hannah  I-llsworth. 
3.  .\ndries,  born  February  14.  1725.  6.  John. 
Ijorn  about  1727;  married  in  Xew  York,  Au- 
gust 30.  1755.  ISeletje  \'an  W'agonen.  7.  Edo. 
born  January  2"/,  1729  (see  post  I.  8.  Child, 
died  in  infancy,  g.  Child,  name  unknown,  born 
October  15.  1732.  |M"obably  died  in  infancy. 
10.  Antje.  baptized  March  4.  1735.  11.  Jo- 
hannes, born  January  17.  1737.  12.  Jenneke. 
(  'ctober  26.  1740.  baptized  ITackensack.  Janu- 
ary 4.  1741  :  married  (jerrit  Sip.  13.  Rachel. 
14.  Mary.      15.   Elizabeth. 

(\TI)"  Edo  \'an  Merselis.  seventh  child  of 
I'ieter  and  Janneke  (Prior)  \'an  Merselis,  was 
bom  January  27,  1729,  and  died  October  12. 
17(19.  He  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  Merselis 
til  settle  in  what  afterward  became  Wayne 
townshij).  where  he  had  a  large  and  valuable 
tract  of  laiid  which  after  his  death  was  divided 
into  several  small  farms ;  his  old  homestead  is 
still  owned  by  his  descendants.  He  made  a 
public  donation  of  land  for  a  burial-ground 
and  meetinghouse  site.  He  married,  April  11, 
1754,  .\riantje  Sip,  born  May  30.  1732,  died  at 
I'reakness.  Mav  20,  1S13.  daughter  of  Ide  and 
Antje  ( \'an  \Vagoncn  I  Sip.  Children  (may 
have  been  others  of  whom  no  record):  I. 
Antje,  born  .March  28.  1755.  ilied  .\pril  19, 
1805;  married,  Iiefore  1776,  Simeon  \'an 
Winkle,  born  April  4,  1732,  died  December 
23.  1814.  2.  Jannetje,  born  about  1737;  mar- 
ried (  first  I  before  I77''i.  Adrian  \'an  Houten, 
(second)  ijcfore  1780,  Enoch  J.  Weeland.  3. 
Pieter.  born  May  24.  1759  (see  post).  4. 
Edo.  born  about  1760  (see  post ).  5.  Cornelius, 
born  March  14,  1763,  died  October  21,  1840: 
married,  before  1790,  Maria  Post,  born  Au- 
gust 29,  1765,  died  November  15.  1841  ;  chil- 
dren: i.  .\rriaentje  (Harriet),  October  iTi, 
1790:  ii.  Catherine,  September  28.  1792:  iii. 
Fdo  C.  March  18,  1795.  died  November  2, 
1834:  iv.  .\ntjc,  October  4,  1798:  v.  Peter  C. 
born  1814  or  1813.  died  August  30.  i8()i  :  they 
ma\'  have  had  other  children,  h.  John,  born 
September  9,    \~(^-\.  died   September  7,   1841: 


married,  at  Acquacknonk.  l'"ebruary  13,  1790, 
Jannetje  \'an  Riper,  died  January  3,  1856;  chil- 
dren :  i.Classje.  December,  1790  :  ii.  Arreynentje. 
.\ugust  2.  1797;  iii.  Edo.  ^iarch  30,  1800,  died 
Jul\-  13.  1813.  7.  Catlyiitje.  born  about  1770, 
died  July  26.  1818;  married.  July  23,  1792, 
l^aac  \  an  Saun,  of  Power  I'reakness.  8. 
.\rre\antjc.  married,  about  1797.  John  I'arke. 
g.  (ierrit,  born  October  i.  1777  (see  post). 

(  \  HI)  Pieter  Mar.selis,  third  child  of  Edo 
and  .\riantje  (Sip)  \'an  Marselis,  was  born  in 
I'icrgen  May  24,  1759.  and  died  in  Paterson. 
Mav  4.  1827,  in  the  old  stone  house  which  had 
been  built  liy  his  brother  lulo.  He  married, 
before  1787,  Jannetje  (Hettie)  \'an  Winkle, 
born  December  12,  1766,  died  October  4,  1844. 
Children:  i.  Edo  Peter,  born  Decemlicr  20, 
1787  (see  post).  2.  John  P..  born  August  25, 
I7i;3  I  see  post).  3.  Jane,  born  June  26.  1801. 
die(l  Julv  27,  1869;  married,  January  21,  1821, 
Richard  Powlison  ;  children  :  i.  Peter,  born 
(  )ctobcr  28.  1823.  died  Jaiuiary  16.  1844;  ii. 
Jane,  born  January  13.  1822,  died  January  8. 
i8y():  married,  December  20,  1838,  John  Kij). 
and  had  Peter  J..  Richard.  Clara  Jane  and 
Jane  .Amelia  Kip. 

(  IX  )  Edo  Peter  Merselis,  son  of  Pieter  and 
Hettie  (Kip)  Merselis,  was  born  December 
20,  1787.  and  died  April  8,  1832.  He  married. 
May  2},.  181 1,  Hetty  Kip,  born  March  19,  1792, 
died  July  20,  1875.  Children:  I.  Peter,  born 
February  2~,  1812  (see  post).  2.  (Catherine, 
born  March  26,  1819.  died  September  22,  1822. 
3.  Catherine,  born  March  25,  1825  :  married. 
December  21.  1843,  Cornelius  \"an  Riper:  chil- 
dren: i.  Clara  Jane.  May  11,  1843;  '•■  Edwin 
Merselis,  August  i,  i84<>:  iii.  Hily  Catherine. 
I-'ebruary  10.  1848;  iv.  Hily  Elizabeth.  Septem- 
ber 8,  1S92:  v.  Edo.  Se])tember  13,  1834. 

(IX)  John  P.  Merselis.  son  of  Pieter  and 
Hetty  (Ki]))  Merselis.  was  born  .\ugust  23, 
T7(>3,  and  died  July  28.  1857.  He  married. 
.Aiirii  30.  1 8 18,  Hily  (iarretse,  born  November 
f),  1801,  daughter  of  Jubn  Henry  and  Polly 
iX'reeiand)  (iarretse.  John  Henry  Garretse 
married.  June  19.  1800.  Polly  Weeland.  liorn 
Julv  ID.  1784.  daughter  of  F.lias  and  Elizabeth 
\rceland.  John  P.  and  Hily  ((iarretse)  Mer- 
selis had  ciiildren  :  i.  Peter  J.,  born  December 
I.  1826,  died  July  2,  1889:  married,  December 
i8,  1843,  Jane  Sij),  born  Sejitember  13,  1826. 
died  December  25.  1894,  daughter  of  John  Sip, 
and  his  second  wife,  .Arianna  Merselis,  and 
sister  of  ( iettie  Sip,  first  wife  of  Peter  Mer- 
selis. Peter  J.  Merselis  had  two  children  who 
grew  to  maturity:  i.  John  Edwin,  born  De- 
cember 24.    184');  marrie<l,  (  )ctober  30,   1878, 


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STAT1-:  OF    x]-:\v   iersey. 


Anna,  daugliter  (it  Peter  1".  anil  Catlicrinc 
Maria  ( Ackerman  i  Ki])  (and  had  Jennie  Sip, 
born  November  H,  i8So:  married.  January  21. 
1908.  Dr.  A.  DeWitt  I'ayne)  (and  has  child)  ; 
ii.  Hily,  Iwirn  March  26,  1853.  2.  Maria,  mar- 
ried, December  2g,  1836,  Eilo  Kip, 

(X)    J'eter    Merselis,    son    of    Edo    P.    and 
Hetty  (Kip)   Mer.selis,  was  born  in  Paterson, 
February  27,  1812,  and  died  at  Clifton,  New 
Jers^ey,   F'ebrnary   11,    1881.     He  lived   in  the 
(jld  stone  house  in  Paterson  where  his  father 
had  lived  and  which  was  built  by  his  father's 
brother.   Fldo  Merselis.     In   1836  he  removed 
to  Clifton,  lived  there  until  1848,  then  returned 
to  the  old  home  in  Paterson,  but  soon  after- 
ward went  back  to  Clifton  and  s]ient  the  re- 
maining years  of  his  life  there.     He  married 
(first),   January    12,    1832,    Gettie    Sip,    born 
May  16.  1813,  daughter  of  John  and  Arianna 
(Merselis)    Sip,  and  sister  of  Jane  Sip,  who 
married    Peter    J.    Merselis.      Peter    Alerselis 
married   (second)   Julia   Bogardus,  born  May 
9,  1824,  died  April  2,  1899,  daughter  of  Rev. 
W'illiam  R.  Bogardus,  who  was  born  February 
24,    1789.   died    February    12.    1862,   and   mar- 
ried   Charlotte    W'iltsie,    born    December    29. 
1788,  died  February  3,  1861.     Rev.  William  R. 
and  Charlotte  (  W'iltsie  )  Bogardus  had  children  : 
i.  Stephen,  born  .March  i,  1818,  died  I'ebruary 
22.  1853,  married  Catherine  Beng  ;  ii,  Julia, mar- 
ried Peter  Merselis ;  iii.  May,  born  November 
20,  1825.     Peter  Merselis  by  his  first  wife  had 
five  children,  three  of  whom  grew  to  maturity, 
and  by  his  second  wife  had  six  children:     i. 
John    Henry,   born    in    Paterson,   October   2/, 
1832.     2.  Edwin,  born  .\ugust  28.  1841  :  lived 
in  old  homestead  in  Clifton:  received  his  edu- 
cation in  public  schools  in  Clifton  and  Pater- 
son,  and   engaged    in    farming   pursuits   until 
1902,  when  he  retired  and  now  lives  in  Passaic  ; 
married,   November  9,   1870,  Anna  Jane  Van 
Riper,  born  March  29.  1846,  died  .Xovember  3. 
i892,daughterof  W'alingand  Eleanor  (  Brinker- 
hofT)  \'an  Ri]>er.    Children:    i.  Gertrude,  born 
.March  14,  — .died  aged  eight  da\s  ;  ii.  ( iertrude 
(2d),  born  December  15,  1873:  married,  .No- 
vember  12,    1901,  Richard  T.   Doremus.  born 
]''ebruary  12.  1871,  son  of  1  Knry  P.  and  Rachel 
(Terhune)   Doremus:  one  child,  born  Decem- 
ber 14,  1905.  died  in  early  life,     3.  Hily  .\nn. 
born  July  28.  1844:  married.  October  20,  1875, 
(ieorge  \'.  De  Mott.  of  Clifton,  born  in  Ber- 
gen,  .\j)ril  27.    1822.     4.   I'^lizalietli.  born   .Au- 
gust 7.    1853.     5.   Mary    I'.ogardus,  born   .Au- 
gust 3,  1856,  died  young.  6.  W'illiam  IJogardus, 
born  June  22,  1859;  was  enijjloyed  for  a  time 
in  hardware  store  in  Paterson,  and  afterward 


became  connected  with  Chatham  .National 
Bank  of  New  York;  married,  November  7, 
1888.  Jane  Boyd,  born  .August  2-,.  1868,  daugh- 
ter of  Criah  \'an  Riper  and  Catherine  (Post) 
\  an  Winkle:  children:  i.  Harold  ISogardus. 
licirn  Ma\-  13.  1890,  died  .April  30.  1893:  ii. 
\\  illiam  ISogardus  Jr.,  born  May  28,  1895;  "'• 
John  tiaston,  August  21,  1897.  7.  Catherine, 
born  August  15,  1861  ;  married  John  W',  De 
Mott  (see  De  Mott).  8.  Mary,  died  young, 
9.  Stephen,  born  September  24,  1867;  educated 
in  Clifton  and  F^aterson  public  schools,  and 
entered  Chemical  National  liank  of  New  York, 
and  is  still,  in  the  em]iloy  oi  that  institution; 
married  (first)  Minnie,  born  October  16,  1869, 
daughter  of  Henry  C.  and  Hattie  (Young) 
liaker  :  children  :  i.  Ralph  Clinton,  born  .April 
26.  1894,  died  September  4,  1895;  ii.  Stephen 
.Mien,  born  October  3.  i89r).  Stephen  Alerselis 
married  (second),  October  21,  1903,  Bessie, 
born  October  2,  1874,  daughter  of  Theodore 
and  Catherine  Elizabeth  (Ki]i)  \'an  Winkle 
(see  \'an  Winkle)  :  one  child  l)y  second  wife: 
Frederick  \\'alton,  born  November  26,  1906. 

(  \'in  I  Edo  Marselis,  fourth  child  of  Edo 
and  Ariantje  (Sip)  \'an  Marselis,  was  born 
:d)out  \j(io.  and  it  is  he  who  is  mentioned  in  a 
];rece(ling  paragraph  as  having  built  the  stone 
luiuse  "across  the  Passaic,  "  near  the  o])i)osite 
end  of  the  new  bridge,  at  the  entrance  to 
Laurel  (irove  Cemetery,  above  Paterson.  He 
married,  about  1786,  Helen  \'an  Houten,  born 
November  24,  1761,  died  July  15,  1821.  Chil- 
dren :  1 .  .Mary,  born  January  6,  1 787  :  married 
Henry  Godwin.  2.  Arrianna.  married  (first) 
John  \'an  \\'inkle,  (second)  John  .Sip.  3. 
Edo,  born  October  30,  T790  (see  post).  4. 
Cornelius,  born  November  7.  I79r):  married 
(first)  Elizabeth  \'an  .Saun,  (second)  Mrs, 
Jane  Benson,  (third)  Margaret  \'an  Saun.  5. 
Jane.  Ixirn  .\pril  15,  1794:  married  Cornelius 
\  an  Wagoner.  '1.  Peter  Edo,  born  December 
17,  1800,  died  Jul)    I.   1881  :  married.  May  28, 

1822,  Jane  DeMotte.  died  June  8,  i8()5:  chil- 
dren:     i.    .Mary    Manderville,   born    May    21, 

1823,  died  .May  10,  1883.  married  October  4, 
184^),  John  F  .Ackerman;  ii.  liemy.  born  April 
10,  1826,  died  October  21,  1905,  married  No- 
vember 7,  1843,  Catherine  \an  Winkle;  iii. 
I'.dwin.  born  January  I,  1828,  married  Sep- 
tember 18,  i8V)2.  .Amelia  M.  Kent;  iv.  John 
Cornelius,  born  .August  2f\  1831,  died  Decem- 
ber 16,  1878,  married,  F'ebruary  18,  i8(')i, 
Frances  Roe;  v.  Peter,  born  December  14,  1S34, 
died  .\pril  20,  1863:  vi.  Helen,  born  .\pril  13, 
18^7;  vii.  lane,  born  June  8,  1840,  died  March 
22,  1 866.  " 


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Of  the  children  of  I'eter  Edo  and  Jane  (  I^e 
Motte )  MerseHs,  jolin  Cornelius,  fourth  child, 
born  August  2(1.  1731,  married  PVances  Roe; 
children:  i.  Max  L)e  Motte,  born  August  y, 
1863.  married,  June  28,  1894.  Mary  Wester- 
\clt.  daugliter  of  Casper  J.  and  Emma  (  Smith  1 
W'estervelt  ( son  of  James  and  Margaret 
(  lV)gart )  W'estervelt )  and  had  Helen,  died 
young:  Eleanor.  April  3.  1897  ;  John  Cornelius, 
^^arch  7.  1899:  W'estervelt  De  Motte.  Decem- 
ber 20.  1901  :  Marguerite.  August  16.  1905  ;  ii. 
I>ank  Albertus.  born  October  7,  i8r/i.  mar- 
ried (  first )  1899.  Louise  C.  Master-s.  died  1894. 
leaving  one  child.  Gertrude  C,  born  May  30, 
1890:  married  (second),  June.  1898.  Lilian 
(iuthrie.  and  had  Catherine,  born  August. 
i<P3;  iii.  Roe,  died  single:  iv.  Jessie,  died 
single  ;  v.  Ernest,  died  single. 

(  IX)  Edo  Merselis,  third  child  of  Edo  and 
Helen  (  \'an  Houten  )  Merselis,  was  born  Oc- 
tober 30.  1790.  He  married  (first)  Elsie  \'an 
Riper,  (  second  )  Margaret  \'an  Winkle,  ( third  ) 
Mrs.  Margaret  Terhune,  Children  by  first 
marriage:  i.  Edo,  married  Mary  Cushie.  2. 
Jane,  married  Henry  Brinkerhoff.  3.  Jacob 
(  see  post ) . 

(X)  Jacob  Merselis.  son  of  Edo  and  Elsie 
( \  an  Riper )  Merselis.  was  born  near  Pater- 
son.  Xew  Jersey.  July  21.  1823.  and  died  May 
12,  1885.  During  the  early  part  of  his  business 
life  he  was  a  harness-maker  by  trade  and  had 
a  shop  on  Broadway  in  Paterson,  but  later 
ac(|uired  considerable  real  estate  interests  and 
also  engaged  in  railroad  enterprises,  being  at 
one  time  president  of  the  Xew  Jersey  and  Mid- 
land Railroad  Company.  He  married,  Xo- 
vember  2.  1846,  Jane  \'an  Blarcom.  born  Xo- 
vember.  2,  1829.  daughter  of  James  \'an  Blar- 
com. born  March  20,  1793,  died  February  8, 
1850,  married  Hettie  \'an  Saun,  born  Septem- 
ber 6,  1801.  Jacob  and  Jane  ( \'an  Blarcom) 
Merselis  had  children,  all  born  in  Paterson: 
i.  Margaret  Snyder,  born  January  0.  1848: 
marriefl  (  first )  Daniel  H,  \Vinfield.  (  second  ) 
J<ihn  X.  W'.  Wright:  no  children.  2.  Esther 
M.,  born  Octolier  25,  1849:  married  (first), 
October  25,  1869.  .Shepard  Stephen  Smith, 
l)orn  .August  31,  1848,  died  June  25,  1884: 
(second)  .August  20.  1888.  Robert  J.  Sherlock: 
she  had  three  children  by  her  first  and  one 
child  by  her  second  husband:  i.  Elsie  AL, 
March  25.  1872;  ii.  Fannie  M.,  August  24. 
1875.  died  December  13.  1893:  iii.  Shepard 
Stevens,  February  20.  1880;  iv.  Aubrey.  March 
28.  1889.  3.  Jennie,  born  August  5,  1854.  died 
Sejitember  12.  1907:  married.  June  6.  1872. 
Richard  Rossiter;  one  child.   ^Marguerite  ^L, 


l)orn  Paterson:  married.  June  28.  1900,  John 
W"esle\'  Kingsland.  born  Xovember  15,  1873, 
son  of  John  Kingsland  (see  Kingsland).  4. 
Edwin  Jacob  (see  post). 

(XI)  Edwin  Jacob  Mercelis,  son  of  Jacob 
and  Jane  (Van  Blarcom)  Merselis,  was  born 
in  Paterson,  Xew  Jersey,  October  24,  1864, 
and  received  his  early  education  in  public 
schools  in  Dutchess  county,  .\ew  York.  He 
lived  in  that  county  from  the  time  he  was  seven 
years  old  imtil  he  attained  the  age  of  thirteen 
years,  and  afterward  for  several  years  lived  in 
different  places  and  followed  various  occu- 
pations. He  then  hatl  a  desire  to  see  some- 
thing of  the  country,  so  travelled  about  and 
engaged  in  different  kinds  of  work.  Later  on 
he  settled  down  to  business  in  Xew  York  City 
and  liecame  engaged  in  the  real  estate  broker- 
age business  for  several  years,  finall}'  became 
interested  in  citron  fruits  in  I'orto  Rico.  He  is 
interested  in  real  estate  interests  in  Clifton, 
Xew  Jersey,  and  was  one  of  the  first  real  estate 
men  to  see  the  possibilities  of  that  now  flourish- 
ing town.  Mr.  ^lercelis  married.  |ulv  28, 
1888.  Winifred.  I.  McChan.  ChiklVen:  i. 
Ernest,  born  in  Xew  York  City.  July  31,  1889. 
2.  Lester,  born  in  Xew  ^'ork  City,  May  21, 
1891.  3.  P'lnier,  born  in  Clifton,  Xew  Jersey, 
April  26,  iSy^'i.  4.  I^lutli,  born  in  Clifton,  March 
4,  1898. 

(\'ni)  (^errit  Merselis,  youngest  son  and 
child  of  Edo  and  Ariantje  (  Sip)  \'an  Marselis, 
was  born  in  Preakness,  Xew  Jerse}',  October 
I,  1777.  and  died  .\]5ril  2,  1843,  on  the  old 
homestead  farm  where  his  life  chiefly  had  been 
spent.  He  married.  May  3.  1799,  Ellen  (or 
Lena)  De  Gray,  born  December  10,  1780,  died 
.April  20,  1848.  Children  (may  have  been 
others)  :  i.  Marea,  born  March  17,  1801,  died 
July  12,  1823.  2.  Jane,  born  1803,  died  No- 
vember 20.  1832.  3.  Edo,  born  1805,  died 
Januar\'  18.  1832.  4.  John  D..  born  Febru- 
ary 1 1.  iSog  (  see  post  I.  5.  .Ann.  6.  Peter  G.. 
born  May  11.  1815  (see  post).  7.  Ellen,  born 
1818.  died  September  3,  1820. 

(IX)  John  D.  .Merselis,  son  and  fourth 
child  of  Gerrit  and  Ellen  ( De  Gray)  JMerselis, 
was  born  February  11,  1809,  and  died  Febru- 
ary 21,  1877.  He  married  (first)  July  4,  1829, 
Catherine  Garritse,  born  September  28,  1810, 
died  I'ebruary  10,  1838:  ("second),  October  3, 
1839,  Esther  Jane  Berdan.  born  July  5,  1819, 
died  1888,  daughter  of  John  L  I5erdan,  born 
January  5,  1790,  died  October  18,  1862,  mar- 
ried, Xovember  3.  1815,  Elizabeth  Goetschius, 
born  January  18.  1794.  died  August  30.  1870. 
John  D.  Merselis  had  five  children  by  his  first 


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and  four  by  his  second  wife:  i.  Mary,  born 
April  i6,  1830:  never  married.  2.  Garrit,  born 
November  9,  1831  ;  married.  February  2,  1859, 
Annie  J.  Zabriskie ;  had  Catherine  Jane,  born 
November  23.  1859.  3.  John  Garritse,  bc?i"n 
March  4,  1833:  married  (jertrude  ^'an  Blar- 
com :  children:  John  D.,  born  January  15, 
1867;  Mary.  March  16,  1870;  Caroline.  Ajjril 
16,  1873:  Gerrit  and  Harry,  twins,  )ulv  28, 
1878:  Ellen  J.,  December  8.  1883.  4.  Ellen 
Jane,  born  .April  6,  1835 ;  married,  May  2, 
1855,  Nicholas  J.  Demarest :  children  :  Cath- 
erine Jane.  March  15,  1856:  Sadie  Jacobus, 
August  23,  1858,  died  December  28,  1859; 
Daniel,  .\pril  7,  1861,  died  December  i.  1897. 
married  February  14.  1889.  Jessie  McGregor 
(and  had  Lawrence  McGregor,  October  31, 
1890;  Daniel  Douglas.  July  9,  1892;  Helen 
Louisa,  February  11,  1894).  5.  Catherine 
Elizabetii,  born  I'ebruary  4,  1838,  died  in  No- 
vember, 1907;  married,  .Ajjril  13,  1859,  Peter 
A.  \'an  Houten:  children:  John,  Nellie.  Al- 
bert. Henry.  Gerrit  ^L.  Mamie  M..  Jennie  M. 
and  John.  6.  .\nna,  Ixjrn  September  15.  1841  : 
married.  May  15,  1864,  .\aron  K.  Garrabrant. 
who  died  in  June,  1873.  7.  David  Henry,  born 
November  2,  1S42.  died  July  29,  1872,  mar- 
ried, November  6,  1867,  Martiia  Jane  Titus; 
children:  Mary,  Richard  T.,  October  21.  1870. 
8.  Edo,  born  December  7.  1844,  died  .Septem- 
ber 9,  1845.    <).  Edo  I.  (see  post). 

(X)  Edo  I.  Merselis.  son  of  John  D.  and 
Esther  Jane  I  Berdan  )  Merselis,  was  born  in 
Clifton,  New  Jersey,  September  17,  1847,  and 
died  in  Pater.son,  January  5,  1808.  He  was 
given  a  good  education  in  public  and  private 
schools  of  his  native  city  and  also  in  a  busi- 
ness college  in  New  ^'ork  City,  from  the  latter 
of  which  he  was  graduated.  \\'hen  twenty-two 
years  old  he  secured  a  position  with  the  Pater- 
son  Savings  Institution,  of  which  he  was  one 
of  the  organizers,  and  was  actively  connected 
with  the  institution  from  its  inception.  I>eing 
eminently  titled  for  the  wnik  in  the  bank  by 
a  sound  business  education  and  ex]ierience  as 
a  clerk  in  one  of  the  other  banks  in  the  city, 
the  fidelity  of  the  young  man  won  for  him 
lecognition.  and  he  was  advanced  from  time 
ti:  time  until  he  was  considered  one  of  the  most 
valuable  men  iti  the  banking  rooms.  Scores 
of  men  and  women  have  waited  |iatiently  for 
Mr.  .Merseii>  to  l)e  free  in  order  that  tliex 
might  ])ersonally  obtain  his  advice  in  business 
matters.  He  won  the  confidence  of  the  public 
many  years  ago.  Ijecause  he  was  a  man  who 
never  practiced  (lece])tion.  doing  the  very  best 
he  could  to  liel])  his  fellow  men  in  a  way  that 


wordd  bring  them  the  highest  benefit.  His 
death  was  a  severe  loss  to  the  institution  and 
to  the  city  of  Paterson.  h"or  many  years  after 
his  marriage  Mr.  Merselis  lived  in  the  Merselis 
homestead  at  the  corner  of  Water  and  .Albion 
streets.  He  was  a  regidar  attendant  at  the 
Second  Reformed  Church,  near  his  home,  and 
an  active  worker  in  every  department,  holding 
the  highest  offices  in  the  congregation.  lli> 
e.Kaniple  before  the  youth  in  the  church,  in 
the  bank  and  among  his  friends,  was  alwa\^ 
one  that  could  be  followed  with  jjrofit  to  all. 
l-"or  several  years  previous  to  his  death  Mr. 
Merselis  lived  on  the  Eastside,  but  he  con- 
tiinied  to  be  faithful  to  the  over-the-river 
church.  He  was  interested  in  every  movement 
that  was  for  the  betterment  of  the  city  and  its 
people.  He  was  careful  in  expressing  opin- 
ions and  was  a  man  who  never  swerved  from 
what  he  believed  to  be  right.  His  c|uiet  and 
courteous  manner  was  noticeable  and  his  in- 
fluence in  the  right  direction  on  every  ques- 
tion was  marke<l.  He  ailvised  always,  it  was 
Hot  his  disposition  to  scold  even  when  there 
was  an  occasion  for  it.  The  bank  treasurer 
was  noted  for  his  regular  habits,  arriving  at 
liis  daily  duties  at  the  ])roper  hour,  performing 
his  tasks  in  a  conscientious  manner.  His  fam- 
ily always  knew  when  to  ex]iect  him  home — 
he  never  disapi)ointed  his  friends.  The  home 
life  of  Mr.  ^^erselis  was  ideal,  lie  loved  the 
aNS(jciations  of  his  own  fireside  and  it  can  be 
>aid  truly  that  his  whole  time  was  passed  be- 
tween his  duties  at  the  bank  and  the  home 
circle.  He  had  many  .social  friends  and  was  a 
man  who  gave  his  ac(|uaintances  a  warm  wel- 
come to  his  home,  but  he  seemed  to  be  content 
with  his  loved  ones,  for  wherever  he  went  hi-- 
com])anion  acc<im]5anied  him.  Mr.  Merselis' 
illness  was  of  short  duration,  but  it  seemed  to 
be  fatal  from  the  start.  He  was  at  his  duties 
the  day  after  New  Year's,  although  suflfering 
w  ith  a  severe  cold,  as  were  the  other  members 
of  his  family,  i  le  lost  bis  strength  rapidly  and 
on  Saturday  hi-,  fann'ly  knew  that  his  condition 
was  critical. 

.Mr.  Merselis  married.  .September  21.  iSik), 
Sarah  \  .  ZelutT.  born  .September  19.  1852. 
ilauglUer  of  John  P.  and  .Sarah  Jane  (  iloone) 
Zeliiff.  John  P.  Zelufl'  was  son  of  Peter  and 
Margaret  (  Secor )  Zelufi'.  and  Sarah  Jane 
Iloone.  whom  he  married,  was  daughter  of 
James  and  Catherine  (  \'an  Houten )  Poc^ie. 
Ivlo  I.  and  Sarah  \'.  iZeluff)  .Merselis  had 
one  child:  i.  (.'ilia  .Xrdella.  born  in  Paterson. 
August  10,  1870:  married,  .March  19.  iS'/). 
Leslie   \  an   Wagoner:  children:      l-'dith   .Mer- 


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sells,  born  I'cljruary  2ii.  1897;  l.-.abelle  Mer- 
selis.  January  29,  1899;  Sarah  Merselis.  Xo- 
vember  16,  1900. 

(  IX)  Peter  G.  i\Ierselis,  son  of  (jerrit  and 
Ellen  (  or  I,ena  )  (  De  Gray  »  Merselis,  was 
liorn  May  11,  1815,  and  died  August  30.  1891, 
having  sjjent  his  life  in  the  old  family  home- 
stead in  Preakness.  He  married  Eleanor  F. 
Sickles,  who  was  born  in  Xew  York  state,  and 
by  whom  he  had  two  sons:  I.  Gilbert  F.,  born 
I-'ebruary  5.  1838  (see  post).  2.  Iddo,  born 
.December  12.  1839:  married.  April  16.  1862, 
]'"mnia  Clementine  Xorton,  of  I''ompton.  born 
June.  1841  ;  children,  two  of  whom  died  in 
infancy.  Those  who  grew  to  maturity  were: 
i.  \irginia  R.,  born  I'"cbruary  16.  1870.  mar- 
ried, October  7,  1897.  .\lfred  L.  Edwards  (and 
had  A.  Xorton,  born  August  14,  1898,  and 
Catherine  \'irginia,  born  June  12,  1905):  ii. 
Henrietta  M..  burn  Se])tember  23,   1872. 

iX)  Gilbert  I''.  Mercelis.  son  of  Peter  G. 
and  Eleanor  ]■".  (  Sickles  )  Merselis.  was  bom 
h'ebruary  5.  1838.  anil  lives  in  Preakness.  on 
the  old  ancestral  homestead  farm  where  his 
great-grandfather  dwelt  many  years  ago.  He 
married  Sarah  Martha  Jacobus,  born  Septem- 
ber 19,  1841.  at  what  now  is  called  (ilen  \'iew. 
^forris  county.  Xew  Jersey.  Children:  i. 
William,  born  May  30.  1864.  died  young.  2. 
Peter  G..  born  April  30.  1867  1  see  post).  3. 
Abram  Jacobus,  born  October  26,  i86g  (see 
post).  4.  Gerrit  Edwin,  born  December  25, 
1874:  lives  at  home  with  his  father  on  the  old 
farm  in  Preakness. 

(XI)  Peter  G.  Merselis,  son  of  Gilbert  F. 
and  Sarah  Martha  (Jacobus)  Merselis,  was 
Ix^rn  in  T'reakness.  Xew  Jersey.  April  30.  1867, 
received  his  education  in  public  scliools  in 
Preakness  and  also  at  Latimer's  Business  Col- 
lege in  Paterson,  graduating  from  the  latter 
institution  in  1882.  F"or  a  time  afterward  he 
was  clerk  in  a  grocery  store  and  later  was 
employed  as  bookkeeper  for  William  H.  Col- 
lins, of  I'atersiin.  In  1883  he  became  book- 
keeper and  financial  manager  for  F.  C.  Van 
Dyk  &  Co..  large  furniture  tlealers  of  Pater- 
son. and  continued  in  that  cajiacity  until  1895. 
\\  hen  the  former  ])artnershi])  incorporated 
under  the  name  of  The  \  an  Dyk  Furniture 
Com[)any.  \\  hen  organization  was  effected 
imder  the  incorporation.  Mr.  Merselis  wa^ 
made  secretary  of  the  company  and  later  be- 
came vice-])resident  and  treasurer,  which  offices 
he  holds  at  the  present  time.  He  is  a  member 
of  Silk  City  Conclave,  Xo.  2^2,  Improved 
Order  of  Heptasophs.  the  Benevolent  Protec- 
tive Order  of  I'.lks.  and  of  the  Mecca  (_'lub  of 


Paterson.  Like  his  father  and  grandfather 
he  is  a  staunch  Republican  in  political  ])refer- 
ence.  and  also  an  attendant  at  the  services  of 
the  Dutch  Reformed  Church. 

(XI  )  Abram  Jacobus  Merselis,  of  129  Jack- 
son street.  Passaic,  son  of  (jilbert  l'.  and  Sarah 
Martha  (Jacobus)  Merselis.  was  born  in 
Preakness,  Xew  Jersey,  October  26,  1869,  and 
was  educated  in  the  public  .schools  of  that  town 
and  Latimer's  Business  College  at  Paterson. 
LI  is  business  career  was  begim  as  an  employee 
of  the  Richardson  Silk  Company  of  Xew  York 
and  Chicago,  at  first  in  a  minor  capacity,  but 
in  subsequent  years  he  advanced  through  sev- 
eral more  ini|)ortant  positions  to  that  which  he 
now  holds,  credit  man  and  office  and  store 
manager  of  the  Xew  York  branch  of  the  com- 
pany's vast  business.  Mr.  Alerselis  is  a  mem- 
ber and  deacon  of  the  Xorth  Reformed  Church 
of  Passaic.  meml)er  of  the  Holland  Societv  of 
Xew  York,  the  Xational  L'nion  Society,  and 
in  ]iolitics  is  a  Republican,  lie  married.  Jan- 
nary  21,  1897,  Mary  P.  Cooper,  born  L'aterson, 
and  has  one  child  now  living,  Sarah  Eleanor, 
born  Passaic,  December  20,  1898. 

I  \"I )  Edo  (or  Ide )  \'an  Marcelis,  son  of 
Marcelis  Pieterse  and  Pieterjie  (\an  Vorst) 
\  an  Marcelis,  was  baptized  .September  15, 
1690.  and  went  to  the  Raritan.  His  descend- 
ants are  located  in  Somerset,  Warren  and 
Hunterdon  counties.  He  and  his  wife  Ariantje 
were  rather  closely  related.  Peter,  father  of 
Edo,  and  Ide  Sip.  father  of  Arientje,  who  mar- 
ried Edo  \  an  Merselis.  were  first  cousins, 
their  mothers,  Pieterje  and  Johanna  \"an 
\'orst.  being  sisters. 

(\'II)  Edo  \'an  Alai'celis  was  the  first  of 
his  family  who  settled  in  what  now  is  Wayne 
township.  The  farm  on  which  he  located  is 
now  subdivided  into  several  lesser  tracts,  only 
one  of  which,  the  original  homestead,  was  occu- 
]jied  by  his  descendants  in  1908.  Of  the  chil- 
dren of  this  Edo.  Cornelius  settled  on  what 
now  is  the  Cahill  farm ;  John,  on  the  Ander- 
son farm  back  of  it:  Garrit.  remained  on  the 
homestead.  These,  at  any  rate,  remained  in 
l'reakne>s. 


\\  bile  the  famil_\-  here  described 
CCRRll"  has  been  rei^resented  in  the 
I'nited  States  only  a  matter  of 
about  fifty  years,  its  representatives  have 
proven  to  be  men  of  great  patriotism  and  love 
for  their  adojJted  land.  The  men  of  the  fam- 
ily have  been  zealous  and  industrious  in  busi- 
liess  life,  and  have  shown  their  interest  in 
iniblic  aft'air>  in  numerous  wavs. 


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(]j  Abraliam  Currie.  a  French  Huguenot, 
lived  and  died  in  I-'rance.  He  had  a  son  Abra- 
ham. 

(H)  Abraham  (2),  son  of  Abraham  (ij 
Currie,  was  born  in  France  and  hved  near  the 
Swiss  line.     He  had  a  son  George  Ferdinand. 

(HI)  George  Ferdinand,  son  of  Abraham 
(2)  Currie,  was  born  at  Etup.  March  11, 
1835,  Department  du  Dubs,  France,  near  the 
border  of  Switzerland.  He  came  to  the  United 
States  in  185 1,  spending  some  time  in  New 
York  City,  a  short  time  in  Philadel])hia,  and 
then  he  settled  at  Delaware  City  Delaware. 
He  spent  some  time  in  the  public  schools  at 
Delaware  City,  and  then  engaged  in  the  stove 
and  hardware  business  at  Millville,  New  Jer- 
se}',  and  in  1857  in  the  same  business  at  Abse- 
con,  same  state.  At  the  time  of  the  breaking 
out  of  the  civil  war,  ^Ir.  Currie  answered  the 
call  of  his  newly  adoptetl  country,  and  closing 
his  business  enlisted  as  fireman  in  the  navy ; 
he  enlisted  from  Absecon,  and  spent  most  of 
hi.s  time  in  the  United  States  steamer  "Kan- 
sas," on  the  James  river,  being  present  at  the 
engagements  at  Fort  Fisher  and  Port  Royal, 
^  irginia.  He  served  with  credit  for  two  years, 
and  received  his  honorable  discharge  in  fulv, 
1865. 

Returning  to  New  Jersey  at  the  close  of  the 
war,  he  located  at  Atlantic  City,  in  the  stove 
and  hardware  business,  and  his  keen  business 
sense  assured  him  of  the  great  future  in  store 
for  the  merchants  of  the  growing  summer  re- 
sort, so  that  in  1868  he  built  a  large  ware- 
house at  1212  and  12 18  .\tlantic  avenue.  This 
was  the  beginning  of  what  has  proved  to  be  a 
vast  business  enterprise,  and  is  now  an  incor- 
poration known  as  the  Currie  Hardware  Com- 
pany, in  which  his  sons  became  interested.  In 
1881.  at  a  meeting  held  in  the  hardware  store, 
the  .Atlantic  City  .National  Hank  was  organized, 
with  Mr.  Currie  as  one  of  the  directors  and 
Charles  Evens,  president.  Two  years  later, 
largely  through  the  efforts  of  Mr.  Currie,  the 
Second  National  Hank  was  organized,  and  he 
became  the  first  ])resident.  He  was  the  organ- 
izer of  the  -Atlantic  Safe  Deposit  &:  Trust  Com- 
pany, of  which  lie  is  president.  Mr.  Currie 
is  independent  in  religion,  although  his  ances- 
tors were  Huguenots,  and  he  is  a  Rcpul)lican 
in  politics.  I  le  is  a  charter  member  of  .Amer- 
ican Star  Eodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellow-s,  of  which  he  was  the  first  noble  grand  ; 
he  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  charter  mem- 
bers of  the  first  Masonic  Lodge  of  .Absecon, 
New  Jersey,  and  now  belongs  to  Trinity 
Lodge.  No.  79,  of  .Atlantic  City,  of  which  he 


\\as  a  charter  member  and  its  second  worship- 
ful master.  He  is  a  member  of  Trinity  Chap- 
ter, No.  38.  Royal  Arch  Masons,  and  .Atlantic 
Commandery,  No.  20.  Knights  Templar.  He 
was  the  second  commander  of  Post  No.  32, 
(Irand  .Army  of  the  Republic,  of  .Atlantic  City. 
Mr.  Currie  w'as  for  seventeen  years  a  member 
;in(l  director  of  the  board  of  freeholders  of 
.\tlantic  City,  and  served  several  years  in  the 
city  council:  he  was  the  president  of  the  first 
volunteer  fire  company  in  the  city. 

Mr.  Currie  married  at  Alillville,  Matilda  D. 
Haley,  of  Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey, 
born  November  16,  1834,  and  they  became 
parents  of  the  follow-ing  children:  i.  Alary 
I-ore.  married  Charles  E.  Schroeder,  and  has 
three  children.  .Alice,  Nelson  and  Walter.  2. 
Frederick,  died  in  1908 :  married  .Alberta 
Leeds,  and  they  had  one  child.  I'rederick,  Jr., 
deceased.  3.  .Annie  L..  married  Silas  Shoe- 
maker, treasurer  of  .Atlantic  Trust  Company ; 
tliey  have  one  child,  Ellen.  4.  George  F..  Jr., 
one  of  the  corporation  of  Currie  Hardware 
(  om]ian\- :  married,  May  26,  1906,  Mrs.  Annie 
.\])aulding  Lever,  a  widow,  daughter  of  Colo- 
nel John  AlacDonough  Langhlen.  born  in  Phil- 
adel])hia,   Pennsylvania. 


Thomas  Davis,  the  earliest  ances- 

1  ).\\  IS  tor  of  whom  w-e  have  any  account, 
was  born  in  North  Carolina,  mar- 
ried there  and  had  children. 

(  11  )  Isaac,  .son  of  Thomas  Davis,  was  born 
in  .North  Carolina,  and  married  Sidney  Win- 
berry,  b\-  whom  he  had  children. 

(Ill)  Jonathan,  son  of  Isaac  and  .Sidney 
(  Winberry )  Davis,  was  born  in  Elizabeth  City. 
North  Carolina,  and  during  the  early  part  of 
his  business  life  was  a  school  teacher  and  con- 
veyancer. Later  on  he  became  a  planter,  own- 
ing a  large  estate  of  from  six  hundred  to  seven 
hundred  acres  of  land.  He  is  said  to  have 
l)een  an  extensive  grower  of  juniper  berries, 
and  his  products  always  brought  the  highest 
market  prices.  He  also  engaged  in  other  busi- 
ness enterprises  and  took  many  contracts  for 
keel  timber  for  vessels.  He  married  Keturah 
Smithson,  also  a  native  of  North  Carolina : 
children:  Lavinia.  married  Joshua  Davis  :  and 
John  S. 

I  l\  I  John  .S.,  son  of  Jonatiian  ancl  Keturah 
(  .Smithson  )  Davis,  was  born  in  I'llizabeth  City, 
North  Carolina,  and  received  his  education  in 
the  county  public  schools  and  also  in  a  select 
school  kept  by  a  Air.  Poole.  He  began  his 
business  career  as  an  emplo\ee  of  the  print- 
ing establishment  of  Colonel  Stark,  an  officer 


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of  the  Confederate  "service  during  the  civil  war 
and  afterward  a  distinguished  lawyer.  After 
leaving  Colonel  Stark's  service  Mr.  Davis  be- 
came interested  with  his  brother-in-law,  Joshua 
Davis,  in  a  commercial  enterprise  and  carried 
on  a  coastwise  tratle  and  also  trade  with  the 
West  Indies.  Soon  after  the  outbreak  of  the 
war  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  a  regiment  of 
Xortli  Carolina  troops  and  served  six  months. 
At  the  expiration  of  his  term  he  again  entered 
the  service,  was  made  prisoner  in  the  battle  at 
Fort  Hatteras.  and  sent  with  others  to  Gov- 
ernor's Island  in  Xew  York  harbor.  He  was 
confined  there  until  on  account  of  an  epidemic 
oi  t\phoid  fever  he  with  others  was  sent  to 
Boston,  and  held  there  luitil  1864,  when  he  was 
released  at  a  general  exchange  of  prisoners. 
He  then  returned  south  and  settled  on  the 
farm  on  which  he  was  born,  remaining  there 
until  1884.  when  he  went  to  N'irginia,  pur- 
chased a  large  plantation,  and  engaged  exten- 
sively in  stock  raising.  He  also  bought  and 
sold  timber  lands  and  lumber,  and  continued  in 
active  business  pursuits  until  about  one  year 
before  his  death.  Mr.  Davis  was  a  Democrat 
in  ])olitics,  a  Baptist  in  religious  preference, 
anil  a  Templar  Mason.  He  married,  r^Iay  6. 
1882,  Emma  \irginia  Sawyer,  born  in  Eliza- 
!)eth  City,  North  Carolina,  in  1845,  and  died  in 
1808.  Children:  I.  Ouinton  Clarence,  born 
April  1.  1863;  a  Piaptist  clergyman,  living  at 
.'-^outh  Norfolk.  \'irginia.  2.  Lavinia,  born  Oc- 
tober. 1865:  lives  at  Mt,  Holly,  New  Jersey.  3. 
John  \\',.  born  1867;  a  lawyer  and  clergyman, 
living  at  Pedricktown,  New  Jersey,  with  law 
offices  at  Mt.  Holly  and  Philadelphia.  4. 
Keturah,  born  1869,  died  1891.  5.  Annie  J., 
born  1 87 1  :  lives  on  the  old  homestead  in  the 
south  :  married  Charles  H,  Powell.  6.  Mar- 
garet, born  1873.  died  at  Jefferson  Medical 
L\)Ilege  Hospital.  Philadelphia,  in  1907:  mar- 
ried Tully  Brown,  a  farmer,  of  Camden  coun- 
ty. North  Carolina.  7.  Addie  \'.,  born  De- 
cember 8.  1776:  married  John  W'.  Haskett,  of 
( iates  county.  North  Carolina.  8.  James  Mer- 
cer. b(5rn  March  15.  1878.  9.  Elizabeth,  born 
1887:  married  Joseph  R.  Hewitt,  a  real  estate 
dealer  of  Denver.  Colorado.  10.  W  innie.  died 
in  infancy. 

(  \')  Rev.  James  Mercer  Davis,  son  of  John 
S.  and  Emma  \'irginia  (Sawyer)  Davis,  was 
born  in  Elizabeth  City.  North  Carolina.  March 
15,  1878,  and  received  his  earlier  literary  edu- 
cation in  public  schools  in  .Norfolk,  \'irginia, 
and  in  a  private  school  in  Chester,  Pennsyl- 
vania. In  1897  he  came  north  and  entered 
Bucknell  I'niversity,  remaining  there  until  the 


end  of  his  s(.)phomore  year  and  then  trans- 
ferring his  studentship  to  the  academic  de- 
partment of  the  L'niversity  of  X'irginia,  con- 
tuuiing  there  during  one  year.  1  le  tlien  enter- 
ed Brown  L'niversity,  Providence,  Rhode 
Ii^land,  completed  his  collegiate  course  there 
and  graduated  with  the  degree  of  B.  .\.  in 
iyo2.  After  graduating  from  Brown  Uni- 
versity. Mr.  Davis  returned  to  Chester,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  became  a  student  in  Crozier 
Seminary,  remained  there  until  1904,  then 
matriculated  at  the  law  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  completed  the  coi.irse, 
and  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  LL.  B. 
in  ir>o6.  In  the  same  year  he  was  admitted  to 
practice  and  at  once  became  partner  with  his 
brother,  John  W.  Davis,  the  firm  having  offices 
in  Philadelphia  and  Mt.  Holly.  In  July,  1906, 
Mr.  Davis  was  ordained  clergyman  of  the  Bap- 
tist church,  and  became  pastor  of  the  church 
of  that  denomination  at  X'incentown,  New  Jer- 
sey, where  he  now  lives.  He  is  a  member  of 
Kajjpa  Sigma  fraternity,  is  an  Odd  I'^dlow, 
and  a  member  of  the  Miller  Law  Club. 

1  le  married.  June  29,  1905,  Margaret  Wilma, 
daughter  of  Minard  J.  and  Margaret  K. 
(Davis)  Sawyer,  of  Elizabeth  City,  North 
Carolina. 


The  Mills  family  of  Morristown 
MILLS  has  long  been  prominent  in  that 
])art  of  New  Jersey,  numbering 
among  its  representatives  on  both  sides  of  the 
house  those  who  have  added  lustre  to  the  colo- 
nial and  state  history  of  New  Jersey,  and  it 
ancestry  can  be  traced  back  for  many  genera- 
tions to  the  old  colonies  of  Long  Island,  where 
there  are  to-day  many  descendants  of  other 
branches  of  the  family  still  living.  The  Morris- 
town  branch  is  descended  from  Samuel  Mills, 
of  Long  Island,  at  least  two  of  whose  children 
settled  in  Morris  county.  New  Jersey,  in  about 
the  year  1740. 

(  1  )  Samuel,  son  of  Samuel  Mills,  of  Long 
Island,  was-  born  in  1720.  and  died  June  17. 
1805.  He  became  a  communicant  of  the  Pirst 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Morristown.  May  3. 
1765,  and  his  wife  Sarah,  who  died  January 
15,  1785,  aged  sixty-one  years,  was  received  in 
the  same  church  by  letter  March  i,  1761.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Timothy  Jr.,  born  about  1747,  died 
September  14,  1777.  2.  Edward,  referred  to 
below.  3.  George,  born  1751,  died  February 
26,  1840.  4.  Samuel,  born  1756.  5.  Daniel, 
born  ^larch  i.  17(11.  6.  Sarah.  .August  21, 
'7''.V    7-  Phebe.  June  15,  1766. 

I  II  )    Edward,    son    of    Samuel    and    Sarah 


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Mills,  was  born  in  Munis  county  in  1749,  and 
(lied  there  January  13.  1827.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  First  I'resbyterian  Church  of  Morris- 
liiwn.  He  was  a  private  of  Morris  coimty  in 
the  Continental  army  durinj^  the  revolutionary 
war.  and  also  a  sergeant  in  the  I^astern  Battlion 
of  the  Morris  county  militia.  May  11.  177S. 
he  married  I'hebe  l>yram,  who  died  August 
22,  1795.  at  the  age  of  thirty-seven  years. 
Children:  i.  .Vnn.  married  James  Cook,  i\Iarch 
21.  1821.  and  died  in  1859.  2.  Lewis,  referred 
to  below.  3.  Jabez,  born  1783,  died  June  17, 
1865^  married  Hannali.  daughter  of  Ebenezer 
Coc,  September  20.  1806.  4.  Sally,  born  1780. 
died  .\pril  13,  1841  :  married  .\rchibald  Ferris. 

Phebe  Byram  wa.s  a  daughter  of  Ebenezer 
liyram  Jr.  and  .\bigail  Alden.  She  was  Hne- 
aily  descended  from  John  .\lden  and  Priscilla, 
of  "Mayflower"  memory,  and  manv  of  her 
ancestors  were  distinguished  in  the  early  wars 
and  struggles  of  Xew  England. 

(HI)  Lewis,  son  of  Edward  and  Phebe 
(Byram)  Mills,  was  born  in  Alorristown,  Xew 
Jersey,  January  19,  1782,  and  died  there  March 
5.  i86(;.  Ilr  was  one  of  the  most  prominent 
citizens  of  Morristown.  On  May  i,  1812,  he 
became  an  elder  in  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Morristown,  and  was  actively  inter- 
ested in  its  welfare  at  the  time  of  his  deatli. 
On  January  19,  1809,  he  married  (first)  Mary 
.Armstrong  Pierson,  born  December  30,  1783, 
died  February  22,  1816,  eldest  daughter  of 
Benjamin  and  .Abigail  (  Condict)  Pierson.  Thev 
had  no  children.  He  married  (second),  De- 
cember II.  1817,  .Sarah  Ami  h'.ste,  born  .April 
30,  1793,  died  June  13.  1S42,  daughter  of 
IMajor  Closes  and  .Anne  (  Kirkpatrick)  Este. 
Pier  mother  was  a  sister  of  Tlon.  .Aiidrew 
Kirkpatrick,  chief  justice  of  New  Jersey.  I  Icr 
father  was  an  officer  of  the  revolutionary 
army,  and  at  the  battle  of  Monmouth,  being 
then  lieutenant  in  a  regiment  from  Hunterdon 
c(auity.  he  was  severely  wounded  and  left  on 
the  field.  \fter  the  battle  Colonel  Alexander 
Hamilton  found  him  and  had  his  wound  cared 
for  and  thus  saved  his  life.  l"or  his  services 
in  this  battle  he  was  ()romoted  to  a  captaincy. 
In  1803.  at  his  law  office,  Mr.  Hamilton  related 
this  interesting  incident  to  David  K.  Este,  a 
brother  of  Mrs.  Lewis  Mills,  who  was  then  a 
law  student  in  New  A'ork  and  subse(|uentlv  a 
judge  of  the  sui)reme  court  of  Ohio.  Air, 
Hamilton,  ui)on  learning  that  yomig  E.ste  was 
from  Morristown,  said :  "Do  you  know,  sir, 
that  but  for  me  you  would  not  be  here?  T 
knew  your  father  well.    Tn  ])assingover  the  field 


with  ( ieneral  Washington, "after  the  battle  of 
Alonmouth,  I  recognized  Captain  Este  lying  dis- 
abled, and  found  that  he  was  severely  wound- 
ed. Immeilialely  1  ordered  him  carried  fniui 
the  field,  and  with  care  and  .-ittention  lii>  life 
was  saved." 

Lewis  Mills  was  a  man  of  great  ])ublic  spirit. 
He  was  constantly  giving  from  his  means  and 
influence  to  whatever  tended  to  promote  the 
welfare  of  his  native  town.  In  1816  he  and 
otlier  public-spirited  citizens  of  Morristown 
|iurcliased  the  land  now  com])rising  the  historic 
"Alorristown  (ireen,"  or  park,  and  established 
the  trust  under  which  the  title  to  the  "Creen" 
IS  still  held  to  the  great  benefit  of  the  people 
of  Morristown.  In  1825  he  was  one  of  the 
number  of  patriotic  citizens  who  invited  ( Ien- 
eral Lafayette  to  revisit  Morristown,  and  ar- 
ranged for  the  reception  which  was  given  in 
his  honor. 

Children  of  Lewis  and  .Sarah  (Este)  Mills: 
1.  Edward,  born  October  1.  1819;  died  at  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  December  5,  1862:  never  mar- 
ried. 2.  Mary,  born  Seiitember  i,  1821  :  died 
October  6,  1888:  married  William  S.  Hub- 
bard, Septemljer  3.  1840.  3.  Hannah  l^ste, 
born  August  11.  1823;  died  November  18, 
1823.  4.  Lewis  Este,  born  October  I,  1825; 
diecl  .Seiitember  27,  1826.  5,  .Alfred,  referred 
to  below.  6.  James  Richards,  born  December 
21.  1829;  died  December  19,  1886:  married 
Ell.i  Thornton,  July  20.  1852,  7,  Howard 
W'illirun,  born  November  3,  1832  (still  living 
in  1910);  married,  .April  22,  1857,  Caroline 
.\melia,  daughter  of  Elias  l^'reeman  and  Mary 
.\nne  Condict.  8.  Lewis  Este  ( again) ,  born  .Au- 
gust 13,  1836;  died  at  Florence,  Italy,  .April  10, 
1878:  married.  Janttary  7,  1864,  Jean  Springer, 
of  Cincinnati,  ( )hio. 

(IN)  .Alfred  Mills,  son  of  Lewis  and  .Sarah 
(Este)  Mills,  was  born  in  Morristown,  New 
Jersey,  July  24,  1827.  He  is  a  representative 
of  the  old-fashioned  lawyer,  and  of  the  time 
when  to  be  a  member  of  the  legal  profession 
was  accounted  one  of  the  highest  honors  in 
secular  life,  and  he  rei)resents  the  ]irofession 
of  olden  times  in  more  senses  than  one;  care- 
ful, dignified,  of  an  established  character  for 
honest}-  and  integrity,  he  has  honored  his  pro- 
fession by  his  legal  attainments  and  unsullied 
character.  He  was  prepared  for  college  at 
the  Morris  .\cadem\'  at  Morristown,  entered 
^'ale  Cniversity  in  1844,  and  was  graduated 
fiiini  that  institution  with  high  honors  in  1847. 
\l  \  ale  he  was  a  member  of  the  famous 
"Skull  ;ind   P.oues"  societ\'.     \'erv  soon  after 


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kaving  cullege  he  entered  the  iiffice  i)f  liilwanl 
W.  W  hel])le\-,  afterwards  chief  justice  of  Xew 
Jersey.  I  le  was  licensed  as  an  attorney  in 
1S51,  and  a  counsellor  in  1S54.  In  1856  he 
entered  into  ])artnersliip  with  Jacob  \V.  Miller, 
]ire\inusly  for  twelve  years  I'nited  States  sen- 
ator from  New  Jersey.  lie  was  associated 
with  -Mr.  .Miller  until  the  latter's  death  in 
iXdj.  In  i8rj.  with  William  E.  Church,  he 
established  the  hrui  of  Mills  1.S:  (."hnrch,  wdiich 
continued  until  .\lr.  Church,  in  1S83,  became 
a  judge  of  the  L'nited  ,States  circuit  court  for 
the  district  of  nak(.>ta. 

-Mr.  Mills  has  all  his  life  been  activel\-  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  keep- 
ing his  offices  at  Morristown.  He  was  never 
an  aspirant  for  ])olitical  ofifice,  being  absorbed 
in  his  i^rofessional  duties,  but  has  been  fre- 
(|uentl\'  invited  by  his  fellow  citizens  to  become 
their  candidate.  In  1874  he  was  elected  mayor 
of  Morristown.  and  held  the  otlfice  until  187^), 
in  which  year  he  was  nominated  as  the  Re- 
l)ublican  candidate  for  congress  in  the  district 
wherein  he  resided.  It  was  understood  at  the 
time  of  nomination  that  his  election  was  im- 
]jossible.  but  his  patriotic  principles  as  the 
candidate  of  the  ])arty  with  which  he  affiliated 
would  not  iiermit  him  to  decline.  In  1867  he 
was  a])]Kiinted  prosecutor  of  the  pleas  for 
Morris  county,  and  ser\ed  with  marked  abilitv 
for  one  term.  Mr.  Mills  is  a  lawyer  of  un- 
common abilit\ .  well  read  in  his  ])rofession. 
always  a  student  and  keeps  himself  abreast 
with  the  modern  decisions  of  the  courts.  An 
intimate  friend  has  said  of  him  : 

"He  has  made  the  .'^tutl.N-  of  law  hi.^  deligrlit.  He 
rejoice.s  in  its  .symmetrical  definitions,  its  log:ical 
results,  and  its  abstruse  principles.  His  diction  is 
distinct,  precise,  and  to  the  point;  his  arguments 
convincing;  and  as  he  never  assumes  tlie  task  of 
conducting;  a  c-ause  where  any  difficult  principles 
are  involved  witliout  preparation;  he  never  fails  in 
presenting  all  the  arguments  necessary  to  support 
the  cases  intrusted  to  him.  His  mental  percep- 
tions are  actite,  and  in  the  trial  of  a  cause  before  a 
jury,  or  in  the  presentation  of  it  to  a  court,  he  is 
alert  to  seize  every  salient  point  and  ready  to 
grapple  with  every  question  presented  b.v  his  op- 
ponent. One  great  characteristic  of  his  practice  is 
his  entire  correctness  in  all  the  details  of  his  pro- 
fession. He  rarely,  if  ever,  makes  a  mistake.  He 
is  a  good  trial  lawyer.  He  is.  however,  more  fitted 
to  act  as  counsellor,  for  chamber  practice,  and 
arguments  before  the  higher  courts.  As  an  ad- 
viser of  clients  he  is  unrivalled,  his  great  knowl- 
edge of  legal  principles,  his  long  continued  re- 
search, his  industrious  study,  and  his  peculiar 
adaptability  of  mind  and  reason  to  select  the  rules 
suitable  to  the  case  in  point  rendering  him  in- 
valuable as  a  counsellor.  In  the  trial  of  a  cause 
he   is   bold    l.iut    not    i-eckless,    self-confident    but    not 


npiniunaled.  .'^agaciuus.  neA'cr  Uesccudi  ng,  liowevei". 
to  the  arts  of  the  cunning  a<lvocate,  never  ilevialing 
from  the  path  of  honesty." 

l"or  many  years  his  services  have  been  sought 
in  fiduciary  ])ositions,  such  as  executor,  trus- 
tee and  guardian,  lie  is  a  jnililic-spirited  citi- 
zen, res])onding  at  all  times  to  the  demands  of 
the  community  wherein  he  has  so  long  resided, 
lie  has  been  a  director  at  dilTerent  times  in 
twn  of  the  Morristown  banks  and  in  other  cor- 
piirations  and  institutions. 

In  1863  he  became  a  vestr\man  of  St.  I'eter's 
I'.piscojial  Church  in  Morristown.  Three  years 
later  he  was  elected  junior  warden,  and  has 
served  as  a  warden  of  his  parish  for  forty- 
l<iur  years,  having  been  its  senior  warden 
since  1873.  l-'or  several  years  he  was  superin- 
teiulcut  of  its  Sunday  school.  I'rom  1864  down 
to  the  ])resent  time  he  has  as  a  deputy  attend- 
ed with  great  regularity  the  annual  conven- 
tions of  his  dioce.se.  P'or  about  twenty-five 
\ears  he  served  on  its  standing  committee. 
Ilecause  of  his  familiarity  with  church  law 
and  his  willingness  to  hel])  in  the  solution  of 
church  troubles  his  advice  has  been  frequently 
s< 'light  from  ditTerent  parts  of  the  diocese  and 
slate.  He  has  been  for  many  years  closely 
identified  with  the  work  of  the  church  in  the 
country  at  large.  I'or  a  number  of  years  he 
was  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  ( ieneral  Theo- 
logical Seminar}.  ( )n  June  12.  1883,  he  be- 
came a  member  of  the  board  of  managers  of 
the  Domestic  and  I'oreign  Missionary  Society 
I  if  the  Episco]ial  Church  in  the  I'nited  .States, 
and  afterwards,  ni)on  the  reorganization,  a 
member  of  the  board  of  missions.  He  still 
regularly  attends  its  meetings.  In  1874  he 
was  first  chosen  as  a  deputy  to  the  general 
convention  of  the  church  and  since  that  date 
has  regularly  attended  each  triennial  meeting 
as  one  of  the  lay  deputies  of  his  diocese  repre- 
senting the  diocese  of  New  Jersey  in  1874, 
and  after  the  division  of  that  diocese  has. 
down  to  the  ])resent  time,  represented  the 
diocese  of  Newark  (at  first  called  the  diocese 
of  Northern  New  Jersey),  and  at  these  meet- 
ings has  served  on  many  important  committees. 

On  .SejJteniber  24,  1837,  Mr.  Mills  married 
Katharine  Elmer,  daughter  of  Judge  Aaron 
and  Katharine  (Elmer)  Coe,  of  Westfield, 
New  lersev.  Mrs.  Mills  was  born  January 
28.  1828.  and  died  May  27.  i88fi.  They  had 
children:  .Mfred  Elmer,  referred  to  below; 
Certrude  and  Jeannie,  died  in  infancy:  Kath- 
arine Elmer  and  Edith  Este,  and  Edward 
Kirkpatrick.  referred  to  below. 

Mrs.   MilN  mimbered  among  her  ancestors 


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many  of  those  prominent  in  revolutionary  and 
early  colonial  times,  including  many  of  the 
early  Dutch  settlers  in  New  York. 

(\  )  Alfred  Elmer,  eldest  son  of  Alfred  and 
Katharine  Rimer  Mills,  was  horn  at  Morris- 
town,  New  Jersey.  July  22,  1858.  He  re- 
ceived his  preparatory  education  at  prepar- 
atory schools  in  ^lorristown  and  at  Trin- 
ity School,  Tivoli-on-the-Hudson,  and  entered 
i'rinceton  L'niversity  in  1878.  He  was  gradu- 
ated therefrom  with  honors,  receiving  his  A.  15. 
degree  in  1882,  and  his  .\.  M.  degree  in  1885. 
He  then  read  law  with  his  father  at  Morris- 
town,  and  was  admitted  to  the  har  of  New 
Jersey  as  an  attorney  in  lime.  1886.  and  as 
a  counsellor  in  June.  iSSy.  In  1892  he  be- 
came counsel  for  the  town  of  Morristown, 
and  .served  for  a  term  of  two  years.  In  1898 
he  was  appointed  prosecutor  of  the  pleas  for 
Morris  county.  At  the  expiration  of  his  term 
ill  1903  he  was  appointed  president  judge  of 
the  court  of  common  pleas  of  Morris  county, 
and  in  1908  he  was  reajjpointed  to  the  same 
judicial  position  for  another  term  of  five  years, 
and  still  ])resides  over  the  county  courts. 

Mr.  Mills  is  a  member  of  the  Morristown 
Club,  of  the  Morris  County  Golf  Club,  the 
I'rinceton  Club  of  Xew  York,  the  Morristown 
Field  Club,  and  several  other  clubs.  He  is  a 
vestryman  of  St.  Peter's  Episcopal  Church, 
and  for  many  years  has  been  the  treasurer  of 
its  building  committee.  Since  1896  he  has 
been  treasurer  of  the  Washington  .Association 
of  Xew  Jersey.  He  is  also  one  of  the  boartl 
of  managers  of  the  .Morris  Countv  .Savings 
Bank. 

(  \' )  Edward  Kirkpatrick.  youngest  son  of 
Alfred  and  Katharine  Elmer  Mills,  was  born 
at  Morristown.  July  25.  1874.  I  le  was  jire- 
pared  for  college  at  the  Morris  .\cademy.  and 
was  graduated  from  I'rinceton  Cnivcrsity  with 
honors  in  1896.  .Subse<|uently  he  attended  the 
Law  School  at  Columbia  L'niversity.  and  after 
a  threu  years  course  received  the  degree  of 
LL.  11.  Me  was  admitted  as  an  attorney  at 
law  of  New  Jersey  in  1900,  and  as  a  counsellor 
in  1904.  Previous  to  his  admission  as  an  at- 
torney in  Xew  Jersey  he  ])assed  his  examina- 
tions for  admission  as  attorney  and  counsellor 
to  the  bar  of  tlie  state  of  Xew  York,  but  he 
has  confinetl  his  jiractice  to  Xew  Jersey.  bOr 
several  years  he  has  been  counsel  for  the  town 
of  Morristown.  In  1909  he  was  elected  as 
state  senator  from  Morris  county.  January  21, 
1905,  he  married  Laura  Emott  Slade.  daugh- 
ter of  Jarvis  .Morgan  Slade  and  Laura  IT. 
(Emott)  .Slade.     Thev  have  ciiildren  :  F.dward 


Kirkpatrick   Alills  Jr.,  born   March   19,   1906, 
and  .Alfred  Slade  Alills.  born  August  12,  1909. 


The  Cresse  family  of  Xew  Jer- 

CRESSE  sey  are  among  the  earliest  of  the 
inhabitants  of  what  is  now  known 
as  Cape  Alay  county,  and  it  has  been  well  said 
that  they  and  the  Townsends  and  their  asso- 
ciates, who  formed  the  first  settlers,  are  the 
strong  unalterable  and  secure  foundation  upon 
which  the  noble  history  of  that  county  rests. 
.Although  the  family  came  from  England,  the 
name  itself  is  b'rench.  Like  many  breiich 
names,  it  is  spelled  in  the  early  days  in  many 
ways,  and  in  this  particular  case  twenty-five 
have  been  enumerated.  The  present  spelling 
of  the  Xew  Jersey  branch  of  the  famil\'  i> 
Cresse.  The  Xew-  Englaml  branches,  however, 
seem  to  ]irefer  the  siielling  Cressey. 

Alighill  and  William  Cressy,  brothers,  came 
to  .Salem,  Massachusetts,  in  1649.  Alighill 
Cressy,  w  ho  was  at  that  time  twenty-one  years 
old,  settled  in  Salem  and  married,  in  1658, 
AIar\-.  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Batch- 
elder,  of  Royal  Side,  now  Beverly,  Alassachu- 
setts,  who  bore  him  one  child,  then  removing 
to  I])swich.  Alassachusetts :  he  married  (sec- 
ond) Alar\'  Ouilter.  who  bore  him  three  other 
children:  Alighill  Jr.,  William  and  Alary.  .After 
his  death,  in  .April,  1670.  his  widow  removed 
to  Rowlew  Alassachusetts.  From  his  children, 
have  descended  the  Cresseys  of  Alassachusetts 
and  Alaine. 

In  165^  William  Cressy  removed  to  Stam- 
ford. Connecticut,  where  he  married  Ann  Hid- 
(kn.  Mis  numerous  descendants  spell  their 
name  Cri>sey. 

(  1  )  Arthur  Cresse  is  the  founder  of  the 
.Xew  Jersey  liranch  of  the  family.  In  1692  he 
purchased  from  the  West  Jersey  Society  three 
Inindred  and  fifty  acres  of  land  in  Ca])e  Alay 
ci'unts.  -Xew  Jersev.  and  that  same  year  he 
and  John  Townsend,  the  founder  of  the  Town- 
send  family  of  .Xew  Jersey,  became  the  first 
collectors  of  the  county.  This  jjosition  they 
held  until  1700,  when  they  were  succeeded  by 
his  brother  John  Cresse,  and  Jacob  Spicer. 
The  first  "ear-mark"  in  the  archives  of  the 
Cajie  Alay  county  courts  was  recorded  by 
.Arthur  Cresse.  July  13,  1692.  Both  .Arthur 
and  his  son  John  were  ])i"ominent  in  establish- 
ing the  b'irst  Baptist  Society  of  Cajie  Alay 
county. 

(II)  Of  Lewis,  a  \-oungcr  son  of  .\rtliur 
Cresse,  little  is  known  except  that  he  was  a 
"planter"  of  the  county  about  171,^ 

(III)  Lewis   (2)   divided  his  time  between 


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Delaware  Hay  trade  and  a  farm  which  he  own- 
ed in  the  neighb(jrhood  now  known  as  Pierces 
Point  on  the  Delaware  bay  shore.  He  died 
about  1770. 

{l\  )  Daniel,  son  of  Lewis  {2)  Cresse,  was 
among  the  signers  of  the  famous  document  of 
^lay  2/,  1778,  which  declared  their  formal 
renunciation  of  allegiance  to  the  king  of  Eng- 
land. He  had  a  younger  bachelor  brother 
Lewis,  who  was  the  most  notorious  wag  and 
verse-maker  that  Cape  Alay  county  has  known. 
Daniel  Cresse  was  a  large  landowner,  the  pro- 
prietor of  Denin's  Creek  Tavern,  and  a  sea 
captain.  Daniel  Cresse  died  August  2,  1829. 
His  wife  Rhoda,  born  October  27,  1763,  died 
September  4.  1812. 

(\')  Daniel  (2),  son  of  Daniel  (i)  and 
Rhoda  Cresse,  was  born  January  15,  1784,  died 
April  12.  1859.  He  married,  November  6. 
1808.  Hulcla.  born  March  18,  1785.  died  March 
12,  1826,  daughter  of  Philip  and  Louisa  Hand, 
of  Cape  May  county.  Children:  i.  Eleanor, 
born  August  8,  1809,  died  in  early  woman- 
hood. 2.  Rhoda,  October  16,  1810:  died  Au- 
gust 21.  1812.  3.  Daniel  (3d),  born  October 
4.  died  December  2,  1812.  4.  Daniel  (4th). 
(October  (1.  1813,  whose  son  James  became  a 
prominent  citizen  of  Burleigh.  5.  Philip  lland, 
July  7,  i8i6:  died  December  18,  1879;  ^^'^^  an 
inventive  genius,  who  secured  a  number  of  im- 
portant ])atents  on  agricultural  machinery.  6. 
Rhoda  S.,  June  13.  1818:  died  April  2;^,  1840. 

7.  Lewis.  .\ugus*t  2^.  1821  :  died  June  9.  1822. 

8.  Lewis,  see  forward. 

i\'l)  Lewis  (3),  youngest  child  of  Daniel 
(2)  and  Hulda  (Hand)  Cresse,  was  born  June 
4,  1824.  at  ( iravelly  Run,  where  his  father  lived 
on  one  of  the  largest  plantations  in  that  region. 
He  was  educated  in  the  jirivate  schools  of  that 
county,  and  when  a  >oimg  man,  attracted  by 
the  discovery  of  gold,  he  went  to  California, 
where  he  remained  for  some  time.  Returning 
home,  he  married,  and  engaged  in  the  milling 
business,  but  later  purchased  a  farm  of  one 
hundred  acres  at  Townsend  Inlet,  now  Swain- 
tim,  where  he  has  since  resided.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Republican,  but  being  a  man  of  domestic 
tastes,  he  has  always  preferred  the  enjoyment 
of  his  fireside  to  the  affairs  of  public  life.  He 
and  his  wife  are  noted  among  the  community 
in  which  they  live,  for  their  strict  integrity 
and  their  warm  friendships.  Jaiuiary  2.  1859, 
Lewis  Cresse  married  Mary  .Ann.  born  l"el)ru- 
ary  29.  1840.  daughter  of  George  W.  Hoffman, 
born  February  12,  18 12,  died  December  27. 
1899,  and  his  wife  Mary  (Hand)  Hoffman. 
born  October  13,  1809.  died  May  8.  1880.    Her 


parents  were  married  December  26,  1836,  and 
sl;e  herself,  previous  to  iier  marriage,  was  the 
teacher  in  the  village  school  of  Gravelly  Run. 
Children  of  Lewis  and  Mary  Ann  (Hoffman) 
Cresse:  i.  Huldah,  born  .\pril  9,  1861  :  wife  of 
Coleman  Leaming  Jr.  2.  Mary  Hoffman,  born 
May  17,  186 — :  married  W'intield  Scott  Hand. 
3.  Lewis  ;\Iitchell.  referred  to  below.  4.  (leorge 
LJoft'man.  born  December  21,  1871  :  graduate 
of  Princeton  L'niversity,  and  later  of  Harvard. 
(\TI)  Lewis  :\Iitch'ell,  third  child  and  eld- 
est son  of  Lewis  (3)  and  Mary  Ann  (  Hoff'- 
nian )  Cresse.  was  born  at  Townsend  Inlet. 
Cape  May  county.  New  Jersey,  September  12. 
1867.  For  his  early  education  he  attendeil  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  village,  and  grad- 
uated from  the  high  school  of  Cape  yiav 
Court  House  in  1885.  He  then  attended  and 
graduated  from  the  Ouaker  School  at  Woods- 
town,  New  Jersey,  and  accepted  a  position  as 
the  principal  of  the  high  school  at  .\lmonesson, 
Gloucester  county.  This  he  resigned  in  order  to 
com])lete  a  business  course  in  the  National  Col- 
lege of  Commerce  in  Philadelphia,  from  which 
lie  graduated  in  1888,  and  became  one  of  its 
teachers  in  bookkeeping  and  accounting.  This 
work  he  gave  up  some  time  afterward  in  order 
to  become  cashier  of  the  Peoples'  Bank  of  Sea 
Isle  City,  where  he  remained  for  nearly  three 
years,  then  accepting  a  position  with  the  Union 
National  Bank  of  Atlantic  City.  Three  years 
later, in  1896,  Mr.  Cresse  became  executive  head 
of  the  Ocean  City  ofifice  of  the  Central  Trust 
Company  of  Camden,  New  Jersey,  which  was 
established  May  13,  that  year.  January  2, 
1902,  the  Central  Trust  Company  sold  its  busi- 
ness, wdiich,  owing  to  ^Ir.  Cresse's  efforts, 
enterprise  and  management,  had  been  highly 
successful,  to  the  First  National  Bank  of  Ocean 
City,  and  }\It.  Cresse  was  called  to  the  presi- 
dency. In  1910  Mr.  Cresse  was  instrumental 
in  organizing  the  Ocean  City  Title  and  Trust 
Companv.  antl  is  its  president.  In  addition  to 
discharging  the  duties  of  bank  presitlent,  ^Ir. 
Cresse  is  also  the  head  of  the  Pleasant  Mills 
Paper  Company  of  Philadelphia.  His  fine 
executive  ability  has  been  so  well  recognized 
that  he  has  had  many  calls  for  public  office  of 
trust.  For  a  number  of  years  lie  was  one  of 
the  most  efficient  of  the  members  of  the  Ocean 
City  Board  of  F.ducation.  In  1902  he  was 
elected  president  of  the  Ocean  City  Board  of 
Trade,  and  at  the  time  of  this  event  received 
one  of  ^e  highest  encomiums  ever  ])ublished 
1)\  that  wnservative  periodical,  the  .\'ew  York 
riihiiiciiil  Rc'iicw. 


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-Ml".  Cresse  has  always  been  actively  identi- 
fied with  the  Republican  party,  and  has  served 
in  its  local  organization  and  as  delegate  to  its 
conventions.  In  lyoo  he  was  a  candidate  to 
the  state  legislature,  was  elecl;ed  by  the  largest 
majority  on  his  ticket,  and  was  renominated 
and  re-elected  to  the  jersey  assembly  in  1901- 
02,  again  receiving  the  largest  number  of  votes. 
In  K;03  he  was  elected  to  the  Xew  Jersey  sen- 
ate. In  1907  he  was  nominated  and  elected 
without  opposition  for  the  ofifice  of  mayor  of 
C 'cean  City,  and  in  1000  was  again  nominated 
without  opi)osition,  being  the  only  candidate. 
During  his  terms  of  office  he  proved  himself 
one  of  the  most  capable  members  of  the  Kew 
Jersey  legislature,  and  he  has  filled  with  not- 
able distinction  the  chairmanship  of  the  com- 
mittee on  education,  and  membership  in  a  num- 
ber of  the  most  im])ortant  committees  of  that 


body.  Mr.  Cresse  is  a  .Mason,  and  a  member 
of  several  other  secret  orders;  he  is  at  present 
the  commodore  of  the  Ocean  City  Yacht  Club. 
Mis  success  in  all  that  he  has  undertaken  has 
been  marked,  and  his  methods  are  of  interest 
to  tile  commercial  world.  He  has  based  his 
business  princi])les  and  actions  ujjon  strict  ad- 
herence to  the  rules  which  govern  industry, 
economy  and  strict  unswerving  integrity. 

Mr.  Cresse  married,  September  12.  1896. 
Cecelia,  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Marion 
jlisloj),  of  Troy.  Xew  York.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Cresse  occupy  an  enviable  ])osition  in  social 
circles,  and  enjoy  the  highest  esteem  of  many 
friends,  lie  and  Mrs.  Cresse  have  traveled 
l)oth  in  .\merica  and  Europe,  and  diu-ing  his 
travels  acc|uired  a  rich  fund  of  general  infor- 
mation along  those  lines  indicative  of  high 
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