THE LIBRARY
OF
THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES
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THOMAS SHOURDS.
Born 1805.
H I S T O R % I***
AND
GENEALOGY OF
rENWICK'8 COLONY
BY
THOMAS SHOURDS,
OF SALEM COUNTY.
ISRIDGETON, N. J.!
GEORGE E. NIXO^, PUBLISHER.
1876.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in tlie year 1S7G, by
Thomas Shoukds and George F. Nixox,
In the Office of tlic Librarian of Congress, at Wasliington, D. C.
INTKODUCTORY.
The enrliest attempts at settlement l)y tlie Europeans on the
shores of the Dehaware may l)e traeed to the second decade of
the seventeenth century. In 1621 a charter was o-ranted to the
West India Company by the United Netlierlands, whose pur-
pose was to transport cok)nists to these new Territories, and es-
tablish trade and commercial intercourse therewith. In 1623
Captain Cornelius Jacobson May, under the patronage of the
l)ef ore-named company, made a voyage to America, and sailed
up the Delaware river as far as the mouth of Great Timber
creek, a few miles l)elow the present site of Philadelphia, and
erected a trading post, Avliich was called Fort Nassau. The
Swedes and Finns soon followed, as in 1638 Queen Christiana
gave her countenance to the sending of a Colony to the same
rivei', and where a settlement was made. Passing over the
grant made by Charles I., king of England, to Edmund Ploy-
don, in 1631-, of certain territories in America, and the attempts
of the New Haven Colony, under Captain Nathaniel Turner, in
16-l:(>, to effect a settlement on the eastern shore of the river,
the English emigrants holding the right of government, and
title to the soil, under the conveyance made by the second
Cliarles to tlie Duke of York, 1664, were the next to establish a
Colony on the banks of the before-named river. The many
political changes, arising from the wars and internal commo-
tions of the homo government, added much to the attendant
troubles of the colonists, but at no time were they entirely lost
sight of, or their nationality oblitei'ated. Tlie language, the
customs, and the religions of each were distinctly preserved for
several generations, and even at this day have not entirely
disappeared.
The Dutch were the least successful in" establishing tliemselves
here, for the reason, doubtless, that much greater attractions lay
about New Amsterdam, and the many ditticulties in which they
were involved by the dissentions across the sea. The Swedes
and Films, yitdding generally to the condition of things around
them, and avoiding as nnu-h as possible any participation in
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(jiiarrels between the Dutch and English, soon made a settk'nient
on the eastern cr Ne^' Jersey side of the Dehiware river ; most
of wliieh can be traced with some degree of accuracy. In a
letter from William Penn, then living in Philadelphia, lie says :
"The first planters were Dutch, and soon after the Swedes and
Finns. The Dutch applied themselves to traffic, and the Swedes
and Finns to husbandry. The Dutch have a meeting place for
religious worship at New Castle, and the Swedes one at Chris-
tiana, one at Tinicum and one at Wicaco, "within half a mile of
this town. The Swedes inhabit the freshes of the river Dela-
ware. There is no need of giving any description of them who
are better known in England than here, but they are a plain,
strong and industrious people, yet have not made much progress
in the culture or propagation of fruit trees, as if they desired
rather to have money than plenty or traffic. But I presume the
Indians made them the more careless by furnishing them with
the means of profit, to-wit : all kinds of furs for rum and such
strong liquors. They kindly received me as did the English,
who were few before the people concerned with me came among
them. I must needs commend their respect to authority and
kind behavior to the English. They do not degenerate from
their old friendship between both kingdoms, as they are a peo-
ple, physical and strong of body, so have they line children, and
almost every house is full ; it is rare to find one of them M-ithout
three or four boys, and as many girls ; some of them have six,
seven and eight sons, and I must do them justice to say I see
few young men more sober and industrious." On the 'New Jer-
sey shore they had settled near Salem, on Raccoon creek, wdiere
Swedesboro now^ stands, at the mouth of Woodbury creek, and
other places on the navigation.
John Fenwick, on his arrival to this country, found much of
his territory occupied by the Swedes and Finns and Hollanders,
but he settled amicaljly with them l)y conhrniing their title to
the land they held in possession. Deeds for the Finnstown tract
and the Boughtown tract and other like conveyances appears on
record, and are curious documents in their way. Those settled
on Raccoon Creek had made their homes on either side of the
stream, and extending several miles aloug the same, with a
Church at Swedesboro. This Colony assumed such ])roportions
that the attention of travelers and historians were attracted to
it, and many detached sketches of their mode of living, their
political arrangement, their success as farmers, dealers in furs
and skins, may be found in the old books. Near the mouth of
Woodburv Creek a few fauiilies of Swedes had their farms and
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FENWICK S COLONY.
fisliei'ies, but tliis settlement alwaj's remained small, and was
eventiiall_y overgrown bj tlie English, avIio established a Friends'
Meeting there, and occnpied most of tlie land in that region. At
the outlet of Fennsiaukin Creek into the Delaware river at one
time stood a small stockade called Fort Eriwonock, surrounded
by a few Swedes and Fiims. This, like the Colony at Wood-
bury Creek, soon lost its identity, and the grants of land there-
abouts, as made by the proprietors of West Kew Jersey, took
precedence of any previous title to the same, saving always the
Indian ownership, ^vhich was recognii^ed and ccnnpensated for
previous to location. The more jiarticularity is given to the
description of these localities and names of such as resided
there, for the reason that many of the emigrant's families
l)ecame the ancestors of the present inhabitants living in West
Jersey and scattered through the different States of the Union.
The use of surnames was not general among the Swedes and
Finns for se\'eral years after tlie arrival and settlement of the
English under John Fenwick and William Penn. The custom
was overcome only by intermarriage with and the rigid usage of
the English in this regard, and has rendered it impossible to
follow the lines of families which took that direction. The
transposition of names, the alteration in spelling, as well as
Christain and surnames, is another source of confusion and leads
to endless difficulties in geneological research. Among the
Indians ; names were never hereditary, and one generation could
not trace its lines of blood through that of another by this
means. When any name could be found it was so utterly
unpronouncable and beyond tlie possibility of being spelled, that
our ancestors in despair abandoned all attempts at reconciling
the one language Avitli the other.
As early as the year 1G8-1-, the proper authorities of Salem
County were at nnich pains to secure a translation of the
language used by the Aborigines, and have the same on record
in one of the court's books of the Bailiwick, evidence of their
purpose to carry out a desirable object, and of how little was
accomplished thereby. These impediments are encountered by
the genealogist and antiquarian at every step, nudging dark his
pathway, and his 2>i"0gress in some degree uncertain. In
following the movements of the lirst English emigrants, the
inquiry very naturally arises why their places of settlement
were selected, as they were in this wilderness country, and the
causes that contributed such action. The cluirts of the new
world were defectiv^e, and knowledge of this particular section,
in like degree limited. These people were not surrounded witli
FFNWICK S COLONY.
prestige of any monied corporation, or backed l)_v the roj-al
])eroo:ative to assist them in this undertaking-. The l>reakingup
of their lionsehold was an end of all claims to an inheritance in
their native land. The persecutions they had passed through,
and tlie uncertainty of any change for the better, banished all
hopes of justice and tolerance for them. Wliatever may have
been their attachments, or however bitter the feeling incident to
separation from friends and home ; no hope of return softened
their grief or assauged their sorrow. Witli all their earthly
goods (limited among the most fortunate,) their families and
such of their associates as would make the venture, left the
shores of England never to return. Their departure was not
surrounded with any pleasant associations, neither had their
approach to the land of their adoption any anticipated welcome.
Privations and dangers met them at every step, but no means
were at hand whereby they could escape. They only knew that
the Delaware river was the western l)onndary of New Jersey,
but the most desirable localities whereat to make their settle-
ment no one had given them any information. The natives,
they looked upon as savages in a literal sense, and dreaded the
necsssity of any intercourse with them ; regarding the wild
l)3asts of the forest witli less fear, and more easily controlled.
Under these circumstances did our ancestors turn their ship
from the ocean into Delaware bay and ascend the river, ignorant
of where should be their abiding place.
John Fenwick, with his children, his associates and si'rvants,
in the little ship Grithti, Captain Griffith master, sailed up the
bay, al)0ut fifty miles along the eastern shore from Cape May,
and anchored opposite the old Swede's fort, Elsborg, near the
moutli of Assamliocking river, on the 23d of September, 1675,
old style. The day following they ascended the Assamliocking
river, now Salem, about three miles, and landed on the south
side of the river on a point of land pleasantly located, that
being, at the present computation of time, the fifth day of Octo-
ber, 1675. We can readily imagine tliat their minds were
turned to the author of their being in adoration and praise for
their safe arrival to their newly adopted country, after a long
and tedious voyage in crossing the Atlantic of more than two
montlis and a half. Fenwick soon determined on laying out a
town at the place where tliey landed ; it being one of those
pleasant autumnal days which are common in this latitude at
that season of the year. lie gave it the name of Salem, which
signifies peace, and wliich name it still bears, it being the first
Euii'lisli tnwn on the Eastern shore of tlie Delaware. The next
FENWICK S COLONY,
in order of time was tlie ship Kent, bringing tlie London and
Yorksliire commissioners and many families, intending to oc-
cupy the hmds of West New Jersey. For some reasons never
exphiined the ship passed only abont twenty miles higher np the
river than where the Griftin anchored, and the passengers went
on shore near the month of Raccoon creek, and where a settle-
ment of Swedes were fonnd. The destination of the commis-
sioners and many of the emigrants was Yegon's Island, now
Bnrlington City, which point was reached after mnch trouble
and delay. The reason the passengers l)y this ship went so far
up tlie river is explained l)y this fact that where Burlington now
stands, as early as the year 166S, a Hollander named Peter
Yegon built a house of entertainment for travelers. No other
settlement to that time had been sustained on the river front
al)ove the mouth of Raccoon creek until this point was reached,
and, as a consequence, no discretion was left the commissioners
if they sought comf(n*table lodgings. The sale of rum l)v Peter
to the Indians ended in a drunken riot, in which he was driven
away from the house, and forced to abandon the place. George
Fox and his companion, Richard Lippincott, was of them who
rested in the empty dwx^ling one night on their road from New
England to Virginia, which occurrence he mentions in his jour-
nal. These are well settled historical facts, and accounts for
the procedure on the part of the commissioners, and also
explains the name attached to the island l)efore the arrival of
the English. Several emigrant ships folloAved, and proceeded
at once to Burlington, where the people landed and soon found
homes in the neighborhood. The Newton settlers chartered a
vessel for their special use, the ship Adventure, and sailed from
Dublin harbor. With them they brought all their worldly
goods, and some implements of husbandry, and arriving in the
winter season, they only proceeded as far as Salem, where they
remained through the cold weather. Their purpose was to set-
tle on the Irish tenth, lying Ijetween Oldman's and Pennsahaw-
ken creek, and which they examined at once to carry out that
object. This was two years before William Penn first visited
America. A settlement was made on a stream falling into the
river Delaware opposite, and a short distance below the city of
Philadelphia, which they called Newton creek, and the same
name given to the location chosen. Why this place was pitched
upon, and M-hence the name adopted does not appear. This
settlement became allied with the Salem settlement more than
any other along the Delaware river ; marriages were frequent
among the inliabitants of the two locations'^ The prominent
fenwick's colony.
cause of this, I presume, was that very early after the arrival of
Fenwick's colony, and the one at Newton, Friends organized a
yearly and quarterly meeting, com])osed of members of both
localities, and likewise those of Burlington. The early emi-
grants, finding in the Aborigines excellent neighbors and relia-
ble associates, the relations brought about marriages between the
emigrants and natives, involving the genealogy of a number of
families in the Salem tenth, and likewise all West Jersey. It
is always to be regretted that so little pains has been taken to
trace the Indian blood, distributed in these latter generations,
and although much diluted, occasionally crops out, in feature or
form. Although, black hair, dark skin, and exact, graceful
form, may not always be taken as coming from this line, yet the
presumption is a fair one, that the parents of such ^\^th several
removes, were of this people, and the manor born. Like the
Swedes and Finns, however, their customs in regard to names
rendered it impossible to follow families in the ascending line,
and through neglect, much has been lost in the other direction.
In wa'iting the history and also genealogy of ancient families
of Fenw^ick colony, I have been assisted by a number of persons
who have kindly loaned me their family records. Among the
most conspicuous is Charles E. Sheppard, of Bridgeton, a
voung practicing lawyer, of much promise, who has a talent for
antiquarian researches. Gideon D. Scull, the eldest son of
David Scull, of Philadelphia ; Gideon has resided in England
for a number of years, a man of literature, has turned attention
extensively to the history and genealogy of his native land, and
has furnished me with several valuable charts of families,
which otherwise would have been difficult to olitain witli such
correctness in any other way. I am particularly indebted to
my valued friend and antiquarian, John Clement, of Haddon-
lield, who lias furnished me with much valuable information in
regard to the families and early history of West New Jersey.
Without such assistance it would be impractable for any one
after a lapse of two centuries to follow the ancient families to
the present time with much degree of accuracy.
JOHN FENWICK.
Jolm Fen wick, the proprietor of the one-tenth of West New
Jersey, was horn in Nortliuniherhmd connty, at Stanton Manor,
in Ent;-hin(l, in tlie year 1618. He was the second son of Wm.
Fen wick, and in the year KUO lie became a niemljer of the
chnrcli of Enghmch In tlie year 1(M5 he was a stndent of law
at Grey's Inn, in London. ISoon after he was made captain of
(Javahy by Cromwell ; he takin<>; sucli active part against the
crown, it has been the opinion of many, that it was the primary
canse, after Charles II ascended the throne, that there was so
little favor sliown him in the affairs of the colony. Abont the
year 1648 he married Elizal)eth Covert, of the county of Sapoy.
The Coverts as well as the Fenwicks w^ere ancient families, and
they can l)e traced back in English history as early as the 12th
century. He had tln-ee cliildren by Elizal)eth Covert, all daugh-
ters ; Elizabeth, Anne and Priscilla Fenwick. His second wife
was Mary Burdet, the daugliter of Sir Walter Burdet, but there
was no children by that connection. In 1665 he and liis wife
Elizabetli became nieml)ers of the society of Friends. He, like
many others of that religious faith and other descendants, were
imprisoned for conscience sake. About that time Lord Berkley
offered West New Jersey for sale. Tliere appeared to liave
been an understanding between Edward Billinger and John
Fenwick, for John Fenwick to purchase thewliole of West New
Jersey, and Fenwick to have the one-tenth of the wliole. The
deed was given l)y Berkley in the year 1673, and the con-
sideration money mentioned in the deed was soon after tlie
purchase by mutual understanding. The land comprising Salem
and Cumberland counties, as now divided, were set off as Fen-
wick's tentli. He immediately afterwards made preparations to
emigrate and take possession of tlie lands in West New Jersey,
in America, and lield out inducements for others to emigrate
\vith Idm. There Avas a large number accepted tlie invitation,
])rincipally members of liis own religious faith. Many of them
purchased land and paid liim for it before tliey end)arked, wliich
afterwards ga\(' rise t<> many (blhculties betwccii tliciii and llic
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proprietor, because their lauds ^\•ere uot surveyed to tlieui as
soon as tliev desired. The foHowiuo; are the names of some of
the prmcipal persons who embarked with Jolm Fenwiek : John
Pledger, Samuel Nicholson, James Nevil, Edward AYade, Rol)-
ert Wade, Sanniel Wade, Robert Windliain, Richard Hancock,
and their families, and several others. There were several sin-
iJ-le men, Samuel Hedge, Jr., Isaac Smart, and others. The
servants that hired in England to persons above mentioned, and
likewise to John Fenwiek and his two son-in-laws, were Robert
Turner, Gewas Bywater, Wm. Wilkinson, Joseph Worth, Jo-
seph AVare, Michael Eaton, Eleanor Gree^'e, Nathaniel Cliamb-
less, his son, Nathaniel Chaml)less, Jr., Mark Reeve, Edward
Webb, Elizabeth AVaiters. Smith, in his history of New Jer-
sey, says in many instances the servants became more conspic-
uous members of civil and religious society than their employ-
ers. I myself, in tracing families, lind the remark to be correct.
Fenwick's immediate family that came with him were his
his daughter Elizabeth and her husband, John Adams, his
daughter Anne Fenwiek, who married Samuel Hedge, Jr., the
spring following, and his youngest daughter, Priscilla, whose
husl)and was Edward Champney. His wife, Mary Fenwiek,
did not accompany him to his new home in the wilderness, for
some cause that has never been explained. The letters passed
between them manifested a sincere and filial attachment, and
they continued to correspond while life remained. They em-
l)arked from London in ship Griffith, Robert Griffith being
master, on the 23d of the 9th month. They arrived at the
montli of Assamhockin, and ascended the stream about three
miles, and landed at a point of land at a place Fenwiek and his
friends that were with him thought it a suitable location for a
town. He gave it the name of New Salem, because he remark-
ed to one of his intimate friends the name signifies Peace, but
it did not prove so to him, as the sequel of his history will show.
He, like his great friend and benefactor, AVilliani Peim, and
also Roger Williams, found in settling colonies that there were
more thorns than roses.
As soon as it was practical )le aftin* they landed, the proprie-
tor ht^ld a council with the ludian chiefs that lived witlun the
compass of Salem county, and purchased all their lands of them,
thereby securing perpetual peace with the natives, and the same
kind of a treaty was made with them by Billenge or his agents
for the remainder of AVest Jersey. They reserved certain rights
for themselves — trapping, fishing, and the privilege of cutting-
certain kinds of wood for the purpose of making baskets, also
JOHN FEN WICK. 11
ill making: their canoes and otlier things. The treaty was faith-
fully fuliilled. Ahout fifty years ago, the few remaining Indi-
ans in this State made application to the New Jersey Legislature
to sell all their riglits and privileges they held in the State,
which was accepted by the Legislature, and they w^ere paid the
price they asked. They then removed to the State of New York
to dwell with the Mohawks and other scattering tribes that re-
mained in that State.
John Fenwdck, after his arrival here, issued a proclamation
granting civil and religious liberty to all persons who should
settle within his province. In the year 1676, he turned his
attention to providing homes for his children, and accordingly
directed Richard Hancock, his surveyor, to lay out and survey
two thousand acres in Upper Mannington for Samuel Hedge,
Jr., and his wife Anne. The said land was called Iledgeiield.
He also directed him to survey two thousand acres for his son-
in-law, Edward Champney, and his wife Priscilla, which land
was bounded on the west by John Smith's land, on the north Ijy
James Nevel's farm, and Allow^ays creek on the south. To Jiis
son-in-law, John Adams and his wife Elizal)etli, he gave all that
tract of land located in what is now called Penn's Neck. It is
known at the present day as the Sapaney. Fenwick built him-
self a iiouse in tlie town of Salem on what he called Ivy Point.
From said house he was forcibly taken in tlie middle of the
night by a party of men from New Castle and taken to that
town, and from tlience sent to New York, and there imprisoned
l>y an order of Clovernor Andross, under pretence tliat he was
infringing upon the rights of that State, wliich they claimed to
own to the eastern shore of Delaware river. After he was re-
leased, he for some time neglected to attend meetings. Accord-
ingly Salem Monthly Meeting, held the 6th of tlie 8d month,
1678, appointed Pichard Guy and Christopher White to visit
.lohn Fenwick to iiKpiire of him whether he owned the truth
that lie formerly possessed, and if he owned it to desire him to
come to the next monthly meeting, if not, return his answer to
the next meeting. At the next meeting, the Friends that were
appointed to visit Fenwick on acconnt of his non-attendance of
meetings, reported they had an interview with him, and he in-
formed tliem that he loved the truth he formerly possessed, and
that an answer to a letter he had received from George White-
head, a distinguished Friend in London, he wished to be for-
warded to the meeting. The contents of the letter, I believe,
were never preserved, but the proceedings of the meeting shows
plainly that difficulties existed l)etween him and some of the
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members of his own society; wliieh was at fault, they or him, no
one can tell to a certainty at the present day. After two or three
years more of perplexities and trouble in endeavoring to estab-
lish a government in the colony, he wisely abandoned it by sell-
ing all the lands he had in the Salem tenth, (reserving (»ne
]iundred and fifty thousand acres for himself and family,) to
Governor Wm. Penn. The deed was given the 23d day of
March, 1682. From that time the whole of West Jersey w^as
under one government. The Legislature met at Burlington,
and Samuel Jennings, of that place, was elected Deputy Go\'-
ernor at the first Legislature afterwards. John Fen wick M'as
elected one of the members of that body from Salem county,
in the fall of 1683, but being unwell, he left his home in Salem
and went to Samuel Hedge's, his son-in-law, in UiDper Manning-
ton, there to be cared for by his favorite daughter, Anne Hedge,
in his last days, for he died a short time afterwards at an age of
65 years. He requested before his death to l)e buried in the
Sharp's family burying-ground, which was complied with. Tlie
said ground was formerly a part of the Salem County Alms-
house farm, but now belongs to Elmer Reeve. If the ground
could be designated Avliere the grave-yard was, although the
exact spot where Fenwick lays could not, it would be a grateful
deed for his descendents and the citizens of this c<.)unty to assist
in erecting a inonument to his memory there on the spot where
the grave-yard was, for gratitude for favors received is one of
the noblest traits of mankind. liis will, made not long before
his death, shows no alienation on liis part toward the niem]>ers
of his own religious society, for lie leaves his friend, William
Penn, one of his executors, and also trustee for his three oldest
grandsons, Fenwick Adams, Samuel Hedge and Jolm Chani])-
ney. His other three executors were Quakers, Samuel Hedge,
John Smith, of Smithtield, and Richard Tindnll, of Pcnirs Neck.
Tlie last named was his surveyor.
John Adams married Fenwick's oldest daughter Elizal)eth
wliilst in England. They liad tln-ee children born in that coun-
try, Elizabeth, Fenwick aud Mai-y Adams. Soon after their
arrival in this country lie built a house on Ivy Point, near the
one that Fenwick luiilt, both of wliich were located a few rods
west of Market street, on a rising ground near where Thomas
T. Ililliard's lime kiln is built. They were standing tliere about
lifty years ago, and there Jolm Adams and liis wife Elizabetli
ended their days, which event took place prior to 1700. Fen-
M'ick Adams, their son, married and settled on his parent's prop-
crtv in Penn's Neck. William Adnms was his a-randson and he
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liad one graiid-daiigliter whose name was Susannah, and she mar-
ried a man Ijy tlie name of Townsend, a native of Cape May
county. Tliey liad two daughters, Susannah and Sarali. Sus-
annah married Thomas Hartly, of Elsinhorough, wlio lived and
owned wliere William Morrison lives at the present time. —
Thomas and his wife had four children named Elizabeth, born
in the year 1765 ; Susannah, born 17T2 ; Sarah, l)orn 1774 ;
and Thomas, born 1775. Sarah Townsend married William
Nicholson, of Mannington, in 1773. Tliey had seven children
— Rachel, Milicent, Samuel, William, Daniel and Ann. The
two first mentioned died young. William married Elizabeth
Thompson, daughter of Joshua Thompson, of Alloways creek.
Daniel married Mary Chandlers. Sarah had two husbands, the
first Chambless Allen, the second Amos Peasley. Ann married
George M. Ward.
The first wife of the late Benjamin Griscom, of Salem, was
Susan Adams, a direct descendant of Fenwick Adams. Benja-
min and his wife Susan had five children, named Sarah, Andrew,
Benjamin, John and Mary. Edward Champncy and Priscilla
his wife had two children born in England, John and Mary
Champneys, also a son born in this county, Edward Ohampney,
Jr. ' I am inclined to think that John Ohampney married and
died a young man. Edward Ohampney, Jr., as late as 1720,
sold large tracts of land (l)eing part of the 2,000 acre allotment
that his grandfatlier, John Fenwick, deeded to his father and
mother) to Abel Nicholson and others. The Tylers became the
possessors of a large part of the said allotment, either by
marriage or purchase. Samuel Hedge 2d was the son of Samuel
Hedge, a merchant and citizen in London. To be a citizen at
that period required a person of wealth and influence to have
tlie privilege of voting for members of Parliament. It was the
opinion of some persons that there Avas an attachment formed
l)etween Samuel Hedge 2d and Anne, the daughter of John
Fenwick, whilst living in tlieir native land. Perhaps on that
account he was M'illing to leave his father's home wliere wealtli
and comforts abounded, to seek his fortune and happiness in
the wilds of America. By so doing he verified tlie lines of tlie
poet when he said : " Love is mightier than all."" They were
married at New Salem, in the spring of 167G, and soon after-
wards went and lived in Upper Mannington on a tract of land
containing 2,000 acres that Fenwick deeded them in the 11th
mo. of the same year. It was called the Hedgefield tract.
Samuel and his wife remained there until 1685; he being one
of liis father-in-law's executors, and having been appointed by
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Fenwick to carry out liis plans in laying out streets in Salem
and Coliansey. He built a brick liouse on Bra<lway street,
wliere they resided until their death. The old mansion was
i-emoved a few years ago by the late Wm. F. Miller, and he
l)uilt one of more modern architecture on the site of tlie old
one. The property is now owned and occupied by M. P. Grey.
Samuel Hedge and his wife Anne, died sometime between
the year 1694 and 169T, leaving one son, Samuel Hedge 3d,
and he married Rebecca Pyle. They had four children —
Samuel F. Hedge 4th, John Hedge, who died a minor, "William
Hedge, who died 1729, leaving his estate to his mother, and
Nathan Hedge, who died 8th mo., 1735. The latter, by his
will, bequeathed to his mother, (whom he also made his execu-
trix) the greater part of his estate. Her name at the time was
Rebecca Cox. Samuel Hedge 3d died 3d of the 11th mo., 1709,
His widow Rebecca Hedge, married Daniel Cox, of Burlington,
1712. Samuel F. Hedge 4tli, went to Greenwich to reside, and
went into partnership in the mercantile business with Nicholas
Gibbon. Sometime after the death of Nicholas Gibbon, Samuel
married his Avidow, whose maiden name was Anne Grant, the
daugliter of Alexander Grant. She had three children b}' her
iirst husband, Nicholas, Grant and Jane Gibbon. S;unuel F.
Hedge 4th, and his wife, Anne, had two children, Samuel
Hedge 5th, and one daughter, Rebecca Hedge. She was born
1st of the 2d mo., 1728, and her brother Samuel in 1726. In
1728 Samuel F. Hedge deeded one acre of ground on the south
side of Market street to the Episcopal church. In 1733 he died,
having made his will in 1732, leaving his wife, Anne Hedge,
executrix. He devised to his widow a lot of eight acres in
Salem, located on the south side of Market street ; also sixteen
acres of woodland adjoining the first mentioned lot. The wood-
land was Ijounded on the south l)y Nathan Hedge's land. He
also bequeatlied to her a lot of meadow on Fenwick creek, of
four acres, together with one thousand acres of Fenwick's Grove
out of 1,900 acres surveyed to him. The whole tract originally
contained 15,000 and was located in Upper Mannington, run-
ning from Mannington creek to Salem creek. It incbuled the
lands owned l)y the Bassett family at the present time, and
extended to Salem creek, and was bounded on the south by tlie
Hedgeiield tract. In 1735 Benjamin Acton, a practical sur-
veyor at that time, was employed to survey and set off the one
tliousand acres to the widow. The l)alance of the 1,900 acres
he devised to his son Sanmel Hedge 5tli. After the death of
Anne Hedge, the widow of Samuel Hedge, she left the property
JOHN FEJSrWICK. 15
in Salem that she received from her second husband, to Grant
Gibbon and Jane Gibbon, the children by her first husband
Nicholas Gibbon. Robert Johnson, Sr., married Jane, and she
Avas the mother of Robert G. Johnson. Alx)ut the year 1758
there was a division of the town lots on tlie soutli side of Mar-
ket street, between Samuel IIedi!;e 5th and Roljert Jolmson, Sr.
Rebecca Hedge, Samuel F. Hedge's daughter, married Giles
Smith. He was born the 18th of 2d mo., 1719, and was the
son of Samuel Smith, of Mannington, who lived on and owned
the southern portion of Hedgelield. Giles and his wife Rel)ecca
had one son whose name was Clnistopher Smith. Christoplier
married Rebecca Hancok in 1675. They had live children —
Rebecca was born in 1766, Elizabeth was born 1768, John Smith
was born 1770; he married the daughter of Benjamin Smith,
and left one son wliose name was Samuel. Susanna Smith was
born 1771; she married Jol) Ware of Alloways Creek, and left
no children. Esther Smith Avas born 1771, and married Robert
Moore of Easton, Maryland. Samuel Hedge 5th married Han-
nah Woodnutt of Mannington, daughter of Joseph and Rachel
Woodnutt. She was born in 1729. Samuel and his wife Rachel
resided in Salem in the old family mansion on Bradway street.
They had three children — Rebecca, born 20th of 1st mo., 1751,
Joseph W. Hedge, born 1756, and Samuel Hedge 6th, born
1758. In 1770, Rebecca Hedge, daughter of Samuel and Rachel
Hedge, married Thomas Thompson, of Salem. He was born
in 1715, and was the son of Thomas Tliompson, and grandson
of Andrew Thompson of Elsinborough. Josepli W. Hedge
and his brother Samuel Hedge, Jr., died in 1790, at the family
mansion in Salem, within a short time of each other, with an
epidemic fever that was prevailing at that time. Neither of
them was ever married, and consequently their large real estate
was heired by their sister, Rebecca Thompson. Tliomas
Thompson and his wife Rebecca had seven children. Their
names were Ann, Hannah, Hedge, Mary, Rebecca, Jane, and
Rachel. They lived and owned where the First Baptist church
now stands, and they lived together happily nearly sixty years.
Thomas died in his eighty-second year. His widow survived five
or six years after his death, Jind was in her eighty-lirst year at
the time of her deatli. Neither of them were members of the
Society of Friends but professors, and regularly attended all of
their meetings of divine worship. Tliey were buried in tlie
Friends' burying-ground at Salem, with their ancestors. Fenwick
Archer, their grandson, as soon as the Society permitted it,
much to his credit, had their graves done up, and his great
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uncles' graves, Josepli and Samuel Hedge, and his great-grand-
mother's, Hannah W. Hedge, and a small monument with their
names and ages cut upon them jilaced at the head of each.
Ann Thompson, daughter of Thomas and R.el)ecca Tliompson,
married John Firtli. They had four children — Elizabeth,
Thomas, John and Samuel Firtli.
Hannah Thompson's first husband was Jolm Anderson. They
had one daughter, Rebecca Anderson. Hannah's second hus-
band was Leonard Sayres, a native of Cuml>erland county, but
at that time his home was in Cincinnati, Ohio. Hedge Tliomp-
son, Thomas' son, married Mary Ann Parrott, daughter of
Richard Parrott. Iled^e and Mary Ann, his wife, had live
children — Richanl P., Thomas, Joseph H., Rebecca and Mary.
Richard P. married Maria Hancock; Thomas married AVilliam
Johnson's daughter; Dr. Joseph H. married Rebecca Kelly, and
Mary married Samuel Starr, an Episcopal minister. Rebecca,
youngest daughter of Thomas and Rebecca, married John Holme
of Elsinborough. She left one daughter, Reliecca Holme, who
married Gleorge W. Garrison. Jaue Thompson mari-ied Jolm
Smith, of Mannington, son of Hill Smith. Their children were
Ann, Hill, and Thomas T. Smith. Ann married George W.
Garrison, being his second wife, and Thomas T. married
Elizabeth Hancock, daughter of Joseph Hancock.
Rachel Thompson the youngest daughter of Thomas and
Rebecca Thompson, married Dr. Benjamin Archer ; they had
one son, Fenwick Archer. Mary Thompson, tliird daughter of
Thomas and Rebecca Thompson, died single.
Within a few years there has been different opinions respect-
ing the property in the town of Salem, held by the county.
Some persons have contended the land was given for a particu-
lar purpose, while others thought it was given to the county
without reservation, and held that the representatives of the
people of the county had a right to sell or rent any part of the
ground, as they should tliink would 1)e for the interest of the
county. Samuel Hedge was left to carry out the wishes and
designs in the town of Salem, and also in the town of Cohansey,
of his father-in-law, John Fenwick. After the death of Fen-
wick all the land on the south side of Bridge street, now Mai--
ket street, extending from Broadway to Fenwick creek, Samuel
Hedge and his wife, Anne, became the owners. The following
is an order I find in Ricluird TindalTs book of surveys, eigh-
teenth page. A wan-ant given 7th of 11th mo., 1(588.
"A warrant to Richard Tindall, Surveyor-general for the
county of Salem, and to John Woolidge, his deputy, to lay out
JOHN FEJSfWICK.
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one atTc of land in Salem town, given l)y John Fcmvick to erect
a Court House and Prison."
Agreeable to the M'ords of the warrant, it was certainly given
fur a particular use — to erect a Court House and Prison on —
and if the inhabitants of the county should in some future time
remove the said buildings from the said ground, it is reasonable
to supi:)Ose that the property woidd revert Inick to the heirs of
the donor.
Erick Yearness and Henry Neilson arrived in this country as
early as 1640, and located themseh^es at the first fast land
above the mouth of what is now known as Salem creek. They,
like tlieir neighbors the Swedes, believing the Indians to be the
rightful owners of the soil, purchased a large tract of land of
tlie Indian chiefs and gave it the name of Finn's town point.
AVhen John Fenwick arrived in this county, in 1695, he claimed
the lands that tlie Finns and Swedes were located upon. They
sul:>mitted to his authority, and in the year 1676 Kichard Han-
cock, Fenwick's surveyor, laid off one thousand acres of said
land and marsh for Erick Yearness, also a tract of the same
size for Henry Neilson, and gave them a proprietary deed for
the same. In the year 1688, by the request of Stephen Year-
ness, son of Erick, James ISTevell gave Richard Tindall an order
to re-survey the said tract at Finn's town point, and if there
should not be the full quantity to report to him at his office in
Salem within three months from date that the order was given.
T have no records to follow the family of Erick Yearness fur-
ther than his son, Stephen Yearness. Tradition informs us
tliat Edmund Giblxni married a young woman, OMnier of a large
tract of land at Finn's point, who was a lineal descendant of
Stephen Yearness. I believe Edmund and Avifc left four chil-
dren ; three sons and one daughter.
ACTON FAMILY.
Benjamin. Aeton, ucuording to the records, was one of the
prominent young men in the settlement of Fenwick Colony.
There is no record in what year he arrived at New Salem;
circumstances make it probable he came to America in company
with Christopher White, Henry Jennings, "William Hancock and
their families and servants, together with a number of other
emigrants. Tliey embarked in the ship Kent, from London,
(rregor}" l)eing master, and landed at New Salem 23d of sixth
month, 1G7'7. Soon after that time Benjamin is mentioned in
public affairs of the Colony. Doubtless he had a good education;
was a land surveyor by trade, and also a tanner and currier.
He purchased a lot of sixteen acres of John Fenwick, on
Fenwick street, now called East Broadway ; on that lot he built
iind made it his home, and carried on the tanning business
during the remainder of his life. His worth and ability was
early appreciated by the Society of Friends, of which he was a
consistent member. As early as 1682 he and another Friend
were appointed to repair and build an addition to the house that
the Society purchased of Samuel and Ann Nicholson, so tliat
the said house should be large enough in which to hold a Yearly
Meeting. When the town of New Salem was incorporated in
1695, Benjamin Acton was chosen recorder. In laying out a
puldic highway, in 1705, from Salem to Maurice River, lie was
one of the commissioners and surveyors; also, in 1709, to lay
out a public highway from Salem by the Avay of John Hancock's
new bridge to the town of Greenwich. Jolm Mason and Bar-
tholomew Wyatt, Sr., were the other Uvo commissioners. There
Avas another ancient highway laid out in 1706. It connnenced
at tlie upper end of Avhat is known as Yorkc street at tills time,
tlirough Elsinboro, crossed Ambclburv Swamp, continued on near
wliere the present road is to the brick mansion belonging to tlic
late Iledroe Morris, and Benjamin Acton, Walter Ileiglistin and
tfohn Mason were the commissioners. According to the records,
Benjamin was principally employed by private landholders to do
their surveying. Richnrd Tindall being surve^^or general, imd
BENJAMIN ACTON.
Born 1814.
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John Woolidge, of Salem, liis deputy, tliey did all the surveying
for the proprietor Avhile he lived; after his death they were em-
ployed hy the executors of Fenwick, and subsequently by James
Nevcll, William Penn's agent. After the death of N^evell and
Richard Tindall, James Logan, tlie faithful friend of William
Penn, became the principal agent of Penn's heirs, and he
employed Benjamin Acton and Thomas Miles, of Penn's Neck,
to do the surveying for the heirs of Penn in Salem tenth.
Benjamin Acton received an order from James Logan, of
Pennsylvania (it being near the close of a long and useful life),
to re-survey one thousand acres of land, lying on the south side
of Gravelly run, it being one of the branches of Stoe creek,
where the present village of Jericho is. The order was given
Ijy the urgent request of Samuel Deeming, of Maryland, who
had previously sold the said land to John Brick, Benjamin
Acton made his return on the 13th of 9th month, 1729. He
stated in his report that the said land was now re-surveyed, with
the assistance of John Brick and his two sons; that it proved
more chargeable than he expected. Signed by me, Benjamin
Acton, surve3'or of Fenwick Colony and Salem Tenth. He
married about 1688 or '9. Tlie following are the names of his
children: Elizabeth, the daughter of Benjamin and Christianna
Acton, was born at Salem, 26th of 12tli month, 1690; Mary,
born ITth of 10th month, 1692; Benjamim Acton, Jr., the 19th
of 8th month, 1695 ; Lydia, 21:th of 11th month, 169T'; Joshua,
9th of 7th month, 1700. Benjamin, in his old age, built himself
a b]-ick dwelling house on his lot on Fenwick street in 1727,
which is still standing; its roof is wdiat is called hip, resembling
very much the French or Mansard roof, which is common in
this generation. The ancient dwelling is o"\\aied at this time by
Joseph Test. Benjamin Acton, Jr., in 1729, built himself a
much larger dwelling than that of his father's on the same lot of
ground. The said house was remodeled by the late George
Llumsey, but the ancient walls remain. This property, in the
last generation, was owned by the Gibbs family. Elizal)eth, the
eldest daughter of Benjamin and Christianna Acton, born 26th
(if 12th month, 1690, married Francis Reynolds, 10th month,
1712. Mary Acton, their second daughter, born 17th of 10th
month, 1692, married William Willis, in 1715. Benjamin Acton,
Jr., married Elizabeth Hill, the widow of Thomas Hill, in 1727.
Her daughter, Sarah Hill, by her lirst husband, married John
Smith, of Amble])ury, the grandson of tlie emigrant. John and
his wife had two sons — Ricliard Smith, born 10th of 11th month,
l7lo, married Rachel Dennis, of Bacon's Neck, in 1762; tliey
20 ACTON FAMILY.
liad several daugliters. Hili Smith, the second sou, horn 15th
of ith month, 1745, married Ann Nicholson, daughter of John
Kicholson. They lived most of their time in Manningtou, on
the Tide Mill farm, devised to her by her uncle, James Mason.
Tliey had two sons — Hill and John Smitli. The latter married
Eliza, daughter of Israel Brown. John Smith married Jane,
the daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Hedge Thompson, of
Salem. Sarah Hill Smith's second husband was Aaron Bradway,
of Elsinboro; she was his second wife. (Aaron was the grand-
son of Edward Bradway, the emigrant.) Aaron and his wife
had one son, Thomas Hill Bradway; he inherited the sixteen
acre lot at the foot of Broadway street, Salem, which was
purchased by Edward Bradway of John Eenwick, in England,
1674. Thomas H. Bradway repau-ed the old brick mansion
built by his ancestor, Edward Bradway, in 1691 ; the building
luxd long been neglected, there being no windows or doors
remaining. At the beginning of the present century it was
further iitted up, and a piazza made in front of it l)y Jolm S.
Wood, the son-in-law of Thomas H. Bradway.
Benjamin Acton, Jr. and his wife Elizabeth Hill lived in the
large brick mansion built in 1729, wliich is still standing. He
was tanner by trade, and occupied the yard that was devised to
him by his father. Benjamin had live children, as follows :
John, born 31st of 8th month, 1728 ; Joseph, born 30th of
9th month., 1730 ; Benjamin, born 15th of 9th month, 1733 ;
he died in infancy ; the second Benjamin, born 28th of 12th
month, 1735 ; and Samuel, born 31st of 6th month, 1738. It
is probable that some of tlie children died young. Jolm Acton,
the eldest son, succeeded his father in tlie tanning business, and
married about the year 1752 or '53. There is no account to
show that John and his wife had more than one child — Clement
Acton. John Acton's second wife was Mary Oakford, of
Alloways Creek, the grand-daughter of Charles Oakford, and
sister of Aaron Oakford, of Darby, Pa. John and his wife,
Mary Oakford Acton, had several childi-en, as follows : Samuel,
.Jolm, (who afterwards became a'sea captain, and traded from
Philadelphia to West Indies ; he never married) ; Elizabeth,
(who married John Hancock, their descendants being quite
immerous in Alloways Creek township at this time) ; Barbara,
(who married Ephraim, the son of Jesse Carll ; their family
genealogy has been written) ; Susan, (who married Samuel Hall,
of Delaware); and Joseph Acton.
Clement Hall, the second son of Judge William Hall, who
('iniurat(Ml to New Jersev in 1677, was born at Salem, 30th of
ACTON FAMILY. 21
6 til month, 1706. He inherited purt of the sixteen acre lot pur-
chased by William Hall, lying between Samnel Nicholson's lot
and Edward Bradway's. Clement Hall died comparatively a
young man. He and his wife, Sarah Hall, had two children,
Ann and William. Ann married John Mason, of Elsinborough,
the son of Thomas and grand-son of John Mason, the emigrant.
John and his wife Ann had one daughter, Sarah H. Mason,
born 1763. She married Elgar Brown, by whom she had four
children, Ann, Elisha, Israel and John M. Brown. Sarah, the
widow of Clement Hall, built a large brick dwelling, which is
now owned by Morris Hall, who resides there. Sarah kept a
store in the dwelling for many years. Her son, William Ilall,
married Ilamiah Brinton, of Chester county, Pa., a sister of
Caleb Brinton. The Brinton famil}' is one of the oldest in
Chester county, and at one time was considered the largest
landholders in that section of Pennsylvania.
William Hall located on quite an extensive tract of land in
the State of Delaware, near St. Georges Creek, Kew Castle
county, and there he lived. He and his wife, Hannah B. Hall,
had four children, Mary, Hannah, Clement and Sarah Hall.
Hannah married Clement Acton, of Salem, son of John Acton.
Clement Hall, their son, married Ann Darrah, who was a
widow at the time of their marriage. Her first husband's
name was Darrah, a cousin. Clement Hall lived but a short
time after their marriage, leaving no children. His widow
afterwards married Col. Edward Hall, of Mannington, she
being several years his junior ; she had no children by any
three of her husbands. She was the daughter of Lydia Darrah,
of Philadelphia, of Revolutionary memory.
The youngest daughter of William and Hannah Brinton
Hall was Sarah Hall, born 6th of 12th month, 1768, married
Samuel, the eldest son of John and Mary Oakford Acton, born
10th of 11th month, 1764. WiUiam Hall married his second
wife, and by her he had one son, Samuel Hall, who, when he grew
to manhood, came to Salem county and subsequently married
Susan, the youngest daughter of John and Maiy O. Act(»n ;
tliey had several children. Clement and Hannah H. Acton had
two children, Benjamin and Hannah. Clement's second wife
was Hannah, the daughter of James M. and Margaret Wood-
nutt, of Mannington, born 16th of 1st month, 1780. By that
union there were two cliildren, Margaret and Clement Acton.
Benjamin, the eldest son of Clement Acton, married Sarah
Wyatt, daughter of Bichard and Elizabeth W. Miller, of Man-
nington. They had ten children : Richard Miller Acton, horn
ACTOJSr FAMILY.
■ith of 2d montji, 1810; Clement Acton, Lorn 8tli of 1st month,
I8I0 ; he died young ; Benjamin Acton, born in the 9th month,
1814; Hannah T. Acton, bom 10th of 2d month, 1816 ; Eliza-
l)etli Acton, born 28th of 10th month, 1818 ; Charlotte Acton,
born 9th of Tth month, 1821 ; Casper Wistar Acton, born 18th
of 10th month, 1823 ; Letitia Acton, born ITtli of 7th month,
1825 , Sarah Wyatt Acton, born 3d of 9t]i month, 1827; Catli-
erine, born 22d of 5th month, 1829.
Hannah H., the daughter of Clement Acton, was twice mar-
ried; her lirst husband was John, the son of Job and Grace
Tliompson AVare, of Alloways Creek. They had three chil-
dren, Clement A., William and Catharine Ware. Her second
linsband was Dr. Charles Swing, by whom she had five children.
CJiarles, the present meml^er of the Legislature from the upper
district, John, Hannah, Abigail and Margaret Swing. Marga-
ret, the daughter of Clement and Hannah Woodnutt Acton,
married Dr. John Griscom, a resident of Philadelphia. He
was the son of William and Ann Stewart Griscom, of Salem,
and grand-son of William and Rachel Denn Griscom. The
latter was the son of Andrew and Susannah Griscom, born the
10th of 11th month, 1747. There was an error made, when I
wrote the Davis family. It was Tobias Griscom, instead of
Andrew, the father of Andrew and William Griscom, the latter
married Sarah Davis, the eldest daughter of David Davis, and
was born in Salem county 30tli of 1st month, 1715. Soon
after their marriage they moved to the neighborhood of Haddon-
iield. Tobias, I am inclined to believe, was the son of Andrew
Griscom, the emigrant. Dr. John and his wife Margaret Acton
Griscom have two sons and one daughter ; Clement is the old-
est son. Clement Acton, tlie son of Clement and Hannah W.
Acton, left Salem many years ago and went to Cincinnati, Ohio,
he and his cousin, Thomas Woodnutt, carried on the mercantile
business in that city at the old stand of tlieir uncle, William
Woodnutt, for a number of years.
Richard Miller Acton, the eldest son of Benjamin and Sarah
Wyatt Acton, born 4tli of 2d month, 1810, was apprenticed to
learn the currier business in Wilmington, Delaware. He subse-
(juently carried on the business in Salem for scN'eral years. He
lias i)een entrusted to do considerable public business to general
satisfaction. At one time he was much interested in the public
schools in the city of Salem, and represented his county in the
Senate of New Jersey. He has recently been appointed one
of the Trustees of tlie State Normal Scliool. He married
Hannah, the daughter of Thomas and Haimali H. Mason, for-
ACTON FAMILV. 23
merly of Elsinborougli. They have had three children. Tlie
eldest, Mary Mason Acton, born 29tli of 1st month, 1836, mar-
ried "William C, the son of William F. and Mary Reeve, of
Allowaystown. Sarah M. Acton, born 14th of 11th montli,
1837, died in 1851. Richard W. Acton, born 26th of 6th
month, 1853, died in 1851. Benjamin, the third son of Benja-
min and Sarah W. Acton, born in the 9th montli, 1811, was for
a number of years one of the principal g-rain merchants in the
city of Salem, his place of business being at the foot of Market
street. In his younger days he was an active politician, and
represented this county in the Senate of the State. A number
of years since he relinquished the mercantile business, and soon
after was chosen one of the officers of the Salem J^ational
Banking Company. At the present and for a number of years
he has held the responsible office of cashier of that institution.
His wife is Sarah Jane, the daughter of Sheppard and Ann
Blackwood. They have had several children : Thomas W.,
Franklin Miller, Elizabeth, Louisa J,, and Charles H. Acton.
Thomas W. lived to maturity and died unmarried. Elizabetli
married Dr. B. 4- Waddington, the son of James AVaddington ;
she did not live long after that event, leaving no issue. Tlie
surviving children, Franklin M., Louisa J. and Charles IL, are
unmarried.
Hannah Thompson Acton, the eldest daughter of Benjamin
and Sarah W. Acton, born 10th month, 2d, 1816, married
Samuel P., the son of William and Mary R. Carpenter, of Man-
nington. She is deceased, leaving several children. John R.
Carpenter, the eldest son, married Mary, daughter of Joseph and
Elizabeth Thompson ; they have issue. Sarah Carj^enter mar-
ried Richard, the son of William F. and Mary Reeve. S.
Preston Carpenter married Reljecca, daughter of Elisha and
Hannah Ann ]3assett, of Mannington. A\^illiam Carpenter is
unmarried.
Elizabetli Wyatt Acton, born 2St]i of 10th month, 1818,
married Franklin, the son of William F. and Estlier Miller, of
Mannington. Franklin and liis wife died young, leaving one
daughter Hetty Miller, who sul)se(piently mai-ried ])aA-i(l E.
Havis, of Pilesgrove. Charlotte, the daughter of Benjamin
and Sarali W. Acton, l)orn 9th of Tth montli, 1821, married
Ricliard, the son of Clayton and Mary S. Wistar, of Mamiing-
tou. Tliey liave tln-ee cliildren, Clayton, Richard and Elizal^etli.
Clayton married Rebecca, daughter of Andrew and Mary
Thompson. Elizabetli married Richard 'JMnnnpson, of JNlitu-
iiington. Richard, Jr. is unmarried.
24: ACTON FAMILY.
Casper "Wister Acton, born 18th of lOtli niontli, 1823, inur-
ried Hacliel, dan2;liter of Thomas and Sarah J. Goodwin, for-
merly of Elsinhorough. Tliey liave had eiglit chikh-en — Richard
]\I., Ilannali, Henry, George, Catharine, Wyatt, Morris and
Thomas, the last deceased.
Letitia, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah W. Acton, 1)()rn
17th of 7tli month, 1825, married John, the son of Clayton
and Mary S. Wistar. Thej died young, leaving one son, John
Wister, ^yho is engaged in the iron and implement business in
Salem.
Sarah Wyatt Acton, horn 3d of 9th month, 1827, married
Emmor, the son of William and Letitia Heeye ; she is his second
wife.
Catharine, the youngest daughter of Benjamin and Sarah W.
Acton, born 22d of 6th month, 1829, is deceased.
Samuel, the son of John and Mary Oakford Acton, born lOtli
of 11th month, 170-4, learned the tanner's trade of liis father.
He married Sarah, the youngest daughter of William and
Hannah Brinton Hall, residents of Delaware. Samuel and his
half-brother, Clement Acton, were engaged in the mercantile
business for some time in Salem, occupying the Thomas Thomp-
son store, on Fenwick street, but afterwards known as the George
W. Garrison's. After the two brothers concluded to abandon
the business, Samuel purchased tlie tan yards that belonged to
John Ward, at Haddoniield, which has been represented to IvAve
been greatly out of order, and he spent a considerable sum upon
it for repairs. He died suddenly about 1800 or 1801, leaying a
widow and a family of children with limited means. The wddow
soon after remoyed to Salem Avith her young children, and Ayith
all her difficulties she neyer despaired, but persevered to keep
her children together until they -svere old enough to learn trades,
so as to enable them to provide for themselves, always having a
watchful care over their morals. She died at the liome of her
daughter, Mary A. ]jassett, in Maunington, in 1852, in the 84th
year of her age, having survived her husband more than half ;i
century. She lived to see her children not only in good outward
circumstances, but considered among the wealthy inhabitants of
Salem county — confirming the saying of tlic wise king of Israel:
''I never know tlie i-ightoous forsaken or their cliildren bego;in«:
l»read."
Clement, the eldest son of Samuel and Sai'ah J I. Acton, Ixu-n
al)Out 1790, learned tlie trade of a hatter of Caleb AVood, of
Salem, and followed the business for some time after lie became
of age, at the old shop located on Market street, wliere David
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Smith fonnerly carried on tlic hatting liusiness. Ho soon
;il>an(loned his trade and ])ecanie a trader in fur; purchased
Lirgely for a liriri in New York iov a few years, after which lie
changed liis business and kept a hnnber yard. He built a large
steam saw mill which was located on Penn street, near Fenwick
creek, and carried it on, together with his lumber yard, for
several years with profit, until the mill Avas burned. During
that time he purchased the old dilapidated building near the
centre of the town, on Market street, where the late John Denn,
of Manning-ton, formerly lived and carried on the hatting
l)usiness. Clement, soon after he purchased the property,
removed the old dwelling and built a large brick building large
enough for a commodious dwelling and store ; there he and the
l-ite Thomas Cattell kept a hardware store for a mimber of years.
Clement was twice married ; his first wife Avas Mary, the daughter
of Jol> and Ruth Thompson Bacon, of Cumberland county; she
died a young woman without leaving any children ; his second
wife was Sarah, the daughter of Owen and Elizabeth Jones, of
Port Elizabeth. They had three children — Elizabeth J., Clement
and Sarah Hall Acton. Clement is deceased. Their son,
Clement Acton, married Martha Ann Wills, of Burlington
county; he did not live long after his marriage, leaving a AvidoAV
and one daughter, Helen Acton. Mary, the daughter of Samuel
and Sarah Hall Acton, was born 10th of 8th month, 1798. She
learned the tailoring trade and followed it until she married
Benjamin Thompson, the son of Joseph and Mary Allen Bassett,
of Mannington. Benjamin and his wife had four children —
Sarah H., Rachel, Maria and Richard Bassett; the two last
mentioned were twins. Benjamin died a few years ago. Mary
A., his widow, is still living, at the advanced age of seventy-seven
years. Clement A., the eldest son of Benjamin and Mary O.
Bassett, born in 1829, died when he was seven years of age.
Sarah H., the daughter of Benjamin and Mary Oakford Bassett,
born the 20th of 11th month, 1831, married Barclay, the son of
Andrew and Martha Griscom. They have four children — Walter
D., Clei^ient B., Richawl and Henry Griscom. Rachel A., daugli-
ter of Benjamin and Mary O. Bassett, l)ornllth of lltli month,
l8o4r, married Collins, the son of Sanmel Allen, of Gloucester
county; they have two chikh-en — Sanuiel and Edgar Allen.
Maria and Richard Bassett, children of Benjamin and Mary O.
Bassett, were born 22d of 8th montli, ISoT. Maria married
Henry M., the son of George and Margaret Rumsey, of Salem ;
they liave three children — Margaret, George and Mary Rumsey.
Richard Bassett married Annie, the daughter of Jonathan and
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26 ACTON FAMILY,
Lvdia Grier; there arc two cliildren Ly this union, Benjumin A.
and George G. Bassett. Isaac Oakford Acton, the second son
of Samuel and Sarah H. Acton, learned the trade of blacksmith
in Pennsylvania ; not long after he became of age he connnenced
the business in Salem, Ids shop being on East Griffith street.
By industry and close application to business, he accunudated a
considerable fortune in a few years. His iirst purchase was on
Broadwa}'" street; the house and land formerly belonged to
Thomas Good^vin. Isaac soon afterward removed to the old
brick dwelling, and l>uilt a large three-story brick building for
dwelling and store; he there kept an iron store for some years.
He afterwards took a lot fronting on West Griffith street, being-
part of the Nicholson lot, belonging to Salem Monthly Meeting
of Friends, and erected a large iron foundiy, which is carried
on by him at this time. Isaac married Lucy Ann, the daughter
of Jonathan and Temperance Bilderback, of Mannington ; they
had three sons — Edward, AVilliam and Clement Acton. Edward
married Mary, the daughter of Jonathan and Mary Woodnutt,
of Mannington. Edward volunteered in the army at the time
of the Rebellion, and there died, leaving three children — Walter
W., Isaac Oalcford, and Jonathan W. Acton. William Acton,
the son of Isaac and Lucy Ann Acton, married Mary, the
daughter of James and Elizabeth Andrews; they have several
cliildren. Clement, the youngest son of Isaac and Lucy A.
Acton, married Beulali, the daughter of John and Beulah Tyler,
of Greenwich; Beulah is deceased, leaving one child — Lucy
Ann Acton. Samuel, the youngest son of Samuel and Sarah
H. Acton, born about 1801, learned the trade of a house
carpenter, and followed his business for several years. He
afterwards followed pumpmaking ; he, like his two elder brothers,
was uncommonly industrious, and applied himself closely to his
1 (usiness, and has accumulated a competency. His wife is Mary
Jane, the daughter of Jonatlian and Temperance Bilderback;
they had one daugliter — Sarah Jane Acton, who married Sanuiel,
the son of Caleb and Ann Thompson Lippincott, of Mannington ;
slie died a comparatively young woman, le*a^■ing two cliiUlrer. —
Mary O. and Sarah J. Lippincott. Joseph, the youngest son of
John and Mary Oakford Acton, nuirried Grace, the daughter of
Peter Ambler, of Mannington; they had two sons — Joseph and
Peter Ambler Acton. The latter was a school teacher, and died
a young man, innnarried. His eldest brother, Joseph, learned
the trade of wheelwrigliting. He married Rebecca, the datighter
of James Brad^vay, of Alloways Creek; they had two children
— William and Sarah Ann Acton. William follows the same
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trade as liis grandfather, Joseph Acton, being that of a shoe-
maker. He has heen Uvice married; his first wife was Mary,
the daughter of Jolm Bailey, late of Salem. They had tkree
children — Charles, Rebecca, and Enuna Acton. His second
wife was the ^\ddow of Henry Colgin, daughter of Jolm Riley.
Sarah Ann, the daughter of Joseph and Rebecca B. Acton,
married John Raphine; slie is deceased, and left tlie following-
named children — Mary Jane, Josephine, Hannah, William,
Charles, Fannv, and Elizaljetli Rapliine.
ABBOTT FAMILY.
George Abbott and bis two brotbers, Jobn and Tbomas, and
tbeir sister, Mary Abbott, emigrated from Engbmd, to tlie State
of Connecticut, in tlie year 1690. George left New England
witli bis wife Mary, and his sister, Mary Abbott, and located
tliemselves in tlie toAvnsbip of Elsinborongh, Salem connty,
New Jersey. In the year 1G96, George Abbott purchased of
Joseph, the second son of Samuel Nicholson, the emigrant, 136
acres of land, with buildings, out-buildings, and appurtenances
thereunto belonging ; it being Samuel Nicholson's country seat.
It was located on the north side of Monmouth river, now
Allowaj^s creek, it l)eing the lowest farm on the north side of
said river, to which was added various pieces and parcels of lands,
in succeeding years purchased of the Nicholson family. In
1704, George Abbott removed the Nicholson mansion, built a
brick dwelling, and in 1724 an addition, also of brick ; this
house is still standing, in good repair. It remained in the
Aljbott family to the fiftli generation, a period of 150 years.
The said property is now owned hy Andrew Smith Reeve.
The children of George and Mary Abbott were Benjamin,
horn 2d of 1st month, 1700 ; Hannah, born 30th of 9th month,
1702 ; George Abbott, Jr., born 13th of lOtli month, 1704 ;
Sarah Al)bott, horn 16tli of 2d month, 1709; Samuel C, born
20th of 6th month, 1712, and Mary Abl)ott, born 26tli of 8tli
month, 1714.
George, the parent of those children, died in the year 1729 ;
liis will, now in possession of the family, l)eing admitted to pro-
bate in that year, devising bis real estate to his son Sanuiel
Abbott. His personal property equally between his two
daughters, Hannah and Bebecca Abl)ott. Mary, liis widow,
survived liim eight years. I have no doubt that Benjamin,
George, Sarah and Mary died young and unmarried, as the will
of their fatlier makes no mention of them in 1729.
Hannah, I presume, died mnnarried. Rel)ecca, the daughter
of George and Mary Al)bott, married a man by the name of
Howell ; lie l)clonged to tlie ancient Howell family, of Glouces-
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ter county. By the M'ill made l»y Mary, widow of George
Al)l)()tt, in IT-iT, her property is devised to her two children,
Sanniel Abbott and Reljecea Howell; from this I infer, that
lier daughter had died previously, leaving no issue. Mary
A])bott, sister of George Abbott, who emigrated ^nth him from
tlie State of Connecticut, married William Tyler, Jr., who
emigrated from England witli his father in 1685 ; he was liorn
5tirof 7th month, 1680.
William and Mary Abbott Tyler, had six children. AYilliam
Tyler, 3d, born in 1712 ; Edith Tyler, born in 1714 ; Rebecca
Tyler, born in 1716 ; Mary Tyler, born in 1718 ; James Tyler,
born in 1720 ; Samuel Tyler, born in 1723 ; [See the geneal-
ogy of the Tyler family and Thompson and Allen family.]
AVilliam Tyler, Jr., made his will in 1732 and died the fol-
lowing year. Mary Al.)bott Tyler, widow of AVilliam, snrvived
liim several years, afterwards married Kobert Townsend, of
Cape May, in 1735 ; by this marriage she had one daughter,
Rany Townsend, and she subsequently married a man by the
name of Stites. The Stites' are one of the ancient families of
Cape May county. After the death of Robert Townsend, his
widow returned t(j Salem county, and lived with her Tyler
(•hildren ; the time of her death is not given. I have mentioned
lieretofore, that family l)urying grounds in the Urst settlement
of this country was common ; tlie Abljott family had theirs ; it
was a few rods east of their old mansion in Elsinborougli ; it,
like many others of the kind, has been passed over by the
plough, and no trace of the once honored spot is discoverable.
Samuel, the sixth child of George and Mary Abl)ott, was born
20t]i of 6th month, 1712 ; he was the only male descendant ;
married Hannah Foster, born 21st of lOtli month, 1715,
daughter of Josiah and Amy Foster, of Burlington county,
New Jerse}^, in the year 1733.
Samuel and Hannah F. Abbott had tln-ee cliildren — George
Abl)ott, their eldest son, born 29th of 11th month, 1734;
William Abbott, their second son, born -Ith of ith month, 1737 ;
and Rel)ecca, the daughter, Avas born 26th of lltli month, 1740.
Samuel, tlieir father, departed this life 25th of the 11th month,
1760, at the age of forty-eight years, of cancer of the face.
In a volume of Memorial of Ministers and tlie Distinguished
Members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, that lived during
tlie last century, I find the following account of Samuel Abbott,
although he died comparatively a young man. It shows how
highly he was appreciated by his fellow members and others:
" He was born of believing parents, who carefully educated
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" liiui in the way of truth, hiboring in the al)ility afforded them
" to bring up in the nui'ture and admonition of the Lord. Ilis
" father dying when lie was still young, the care of providing
"for the family fell upon him. In the responsible station to
"which he was thus raised, he endeavored to act with great
" watchfullness, in uprightness and integrity. His orderly,
" consistent walkiug amongst men, gained him a good report,
" and by his obedience to the inspeaking word of Divine grace
" he obtained the favor of his heavenly Father, As he contin-
" ued faithful to the manifestations of truth, a further increase
" of the day spring from on high was granted him, and about
" the twenty-second year of his age a gift of gospel ministry
" was committed to his charge. He was led by his beloved
" friends to travel in the different neighboring provinces in the
" work of the gospel, and in love to the souls of his fellow
" creatures, and good accounts of his labors in the churches
" abroad were received by his friends at home. His death took
" place 25th of 11th month, 1760, as one entering into a sweet
" sleep." Hannah, his widow, married Samuel Nicholson, of
Elsinborougli, she being his second wife, in 1763. She died
in the year 1793, aged seventy-eight years.
Josiah and Amy Foster, parents of the above named Hannah
Abbott, were residents, as before stated, of Burlington county.
They had a large family of daughters, who married in tlie
families of the Abbotts, Keeves, Newbolds, Millers, and
Whites, and others, whose descendants now in 1S76, distantly
connected, are very numerous in Philadelphia and New Jersey.
Josiah Foster died 1st of 9th month, 1770, aged eighty-eiglit
years. Ann', his widow, died 15th of 8th month, 1783, aged
ninety-eight years, three months and eleven days.
George, son of Sanniel and Hannah F. Abbott, born 29tli of
11th mouth, 1731, the family have no knowledge of, other than
that he signed two marriage certificates recorded in tlie Salem
Monthly Meeting of Friends, in the year 1756 and 1758. The
presumption therefore is, that he never married, and that he
died before his father, at about the age of twenty-four years,
as he is not mentioned in the will of his father, which is dated
8th month, 1759, nor does his nauie appear on any record
after the year 1758.
William, the second son of Samuel and Hannah F. Abbott,
was born 4th of the 4tli month, 1737, married Rebecca, the
daughter of William Tyler 3d, and Elizal)eth, his wife; Rebecca
was born 18th of the 2d month, 1713, and they were married
2d of the 2d month, 1763. They had three children — Sanmel,
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born 27tli of lltli month, lt63; George was born 27tli of 9tli
month, 1765, and Josiah Abbott born 23d of 9th montli, 1768.
William Abbott, their father, after an active life as a farmer, died
in the 1st month, 1800, in the sixty-third year of his age, devising
])V will dated 1st of 12th month, 1799, the old homestead farm
of the family, in Elsinborongh, to his eldest son, Samnel Abbott ;
George Al)l)ott, his second son, a farm whicth he pnrchased of
Christianna Miller, in the township of Mannington; to his son,
Josiah Abljott, the plantation purchased of Mark Miller and
Banjamin Wynhook; the said farm is located in Mannington,
near Salem. Rebecca, his widow, survived him about six years,
and died 28tli of 7th month, 1806, aged about sixty-four years.
Rebecca, the daughter of Samuel and Hannah Foster Abbott,
l)orn 26th of 11th month, 1710, married Joseph, the son of John
Brick, Jr., and Ann Nicholson Brick, of Gravelly Run, Cumber-
land county, 17th of 12th month, 1760. Soon after their
marriage they settled on a farm in the township of Elsinborongh,
that was left to his wife by her father, Samuel Abbott, who had
purchased it in 1756 of Thomas and Sarah Morris Good^^'iu.
Joseph and Rebecca Abljott Brick had three children — Ann,
Hannah, and Samuel Abbott Brick. Rebecca A. Brick, wife rf
Joseph Brick, departed this life 16th of the 11th montli, 1780,
aged thirty-nine years. Ann Brick, their eldest daughter, married
Joseph, son of Clement and Margaret Hall, of Elsinborongh.
[See genealogy of Hall family.] Hannah Brick, daughter of
Joseph and Rebecca A. Brick, married Anthony Keasby, of
Salem. Samnel Abbott Brick married Ann Smart, daughter of
Isaac and Ann Smart, of Elsinborongh. Samuel, the eldest son
of AVilliam and Rebecca Al)bott, born 27th of 11th month, 1763,
married Marcia Gill, daughter of John and Amy Gill, of
Iladdonlield, N. J. They were married 21th of 11th month,
1791. Their children were "William Abbott, born 22d of 8th
montli, 1792; Rebecca Abbott, born 29tli of 7th month, 1791;
and Hannah AlJjott, l)orn 3d of 4th montli, 1796 ; Sarah, the
fourth child, born 1797, died in infancy. William Abljott, son
of Samuel and Marcia Abl)ott, married Rachel Denn, daughter
of James Denn, of Alloways Creek ; by her had live children —
Ami, Hannah, John, Mary, and Amy Abbott. After the death
of William's wife, Rachel, he married Martha Reeve, of Cum-
l)erland county; they had no issue. William died 20th of the Itli
month, 1835, in his forty-second year. Rebecca, the second child
of Samuel and Marcia Al)l)ott, married Andrew, the eldest son of
Joshua and RebeccaA. Thompson, of Elsinborongh. They were
married 1st of 4th month, 1818. She died in 1821, aged twentv-
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se\'en years, leavinc; one daugliter, Ilaniiali Ann Thompson, wlio
sub.se(]uently niarriod Elislia, son of Elisha and Mary Nicholson
Bassett, of Mannington. Hannah, the daughter of Sanniel and
Mareia Abl)ott, married Jedediah T., son of David and Rebecca
Allen, of Mannington ; she was his second wife. They had
issue, two children — Hannah and Chambless Allen. Their
mother survived her husband several years; she died 25th of 12th
month, 1866, aged seventy-one years. Marcia, first wife of Samuel
Abbott, died 2d of the 1st month, 1798, aged thirty-four years.
Samuel Abbott's second wife was Martha Ogden ; married 1st of
lOtli month, 1809. She was the daughter of Sanniel and Mary
Ann Ogden, of Pilesgrove. She was born 2d of the 2d month,
1779. They had five children — Mary Ann Abl)ott, born 20th
of the lOtii month, 1810; Lydia Abbott, born 21st of the 1st
month, 1813 ; Samuel, born 14th of the 3d month, 1815 ; George,
born I3tli of 7th month, 1817; Martha Abbott, born 4th of 4t]i
month, 1811. Samuel Abbott was an active and successful
agriculturist, and accumulated a fortune. He died 14tli of 4th
month, 1835, in the seventy-second year of his age. In the division
of his estate, he gave his son, George Abbott, the old homestead in
Elsinborongh ; the same property was purchased by George
Abbott, the emigrant, in 1696. Samuel Abbott's widow died 4th
of the 5th month, 1848, in her seventieth year. George Abbott,
son of William and Rebecca Abbott, was born 27th of the 9th
month, 1765. He married Mary Redman, of Haddonfield.
George, soon after his marriage, sold the farm devised to him
l)y his father, William Abbott, and removed to the city of
Philadelphia, and pursued the business of a druggist. He died at
Haddonheld, N. J., 15th of 11th month, 1831, aged sixty-seven
years. His wife, Mary, died also at Haddonfield, a short time
before her husband. They had five children, who attained tJieir
majority. First their daughter, Rebecca. R. Abbott, born 2(1
day of the 5th month, 1798. She married Josiah Holmes, and
died without issue 6th of 4th month, 1824.
William, sou of George and Mary R. Abbott, l)orn 8tli of
8th month, 1800, died at Philadelphia, unmarried, 29th of
12th month, 1867. Samuel W., son of George and Mary R.
Al)l)ott, born 18tli <»f loth month, 18(»7, married Helen Lam-
bei't, of Lanil»ertvillo, New Jersey, and died without issue at
Philadelpliia, 27th of 2d month, 1868. Janu'S, son of George
and Mary R. Abbott, born 29th of 3d month, 1811, went to
Philadelphia in 1830, there married Caroline Montelius, 21st
of 12th month, 1837. Redman, son of George and Mary R.
Abbott, born 28th of 10th month, 1813, went to Philadelphia,
ABBOTT FAMILY. 33
there married Susan F. Leamini;, of Cape May county. Will-
iam, son of George and Mary R. Ablwtt, of the lirm of Wood
c^ Abl)ott, of Philadelphia, was a successful merchant. Ho
never married, and died in 1868, in his sixty-seventh year,
leaving a large estate. James Abbott, fourth child of George
and Mary Abbott, and his wife, Caroline Montelins Abbott,
liave six children — Montelins, Francis R., Mary H., Harry
James, William J., and Helen D. Abl)ott. Redman, son of
George and Mary R. Al>l)ott, and his Avifc Susan, have three
children — Ellen F., William Louis, and Gertrude xibl)ott. All
four of George Abbott's sons were merchants in the city of
Philadelphia.
Josiah, the third son of William and Rebecca Al)bott, was
l)orn 23d of 9t]i month, 1768. He married a young woman by
the name of Wilson. Soon after liis marriage he removed to
the city of Richmond, Ya., and carried on the hatting business;
having at Salem served an apprenticeship to that trade. Josiah
and his wife had two children, Josiah and Adaline Abbott;
they were born al)out the years 1792 to 1794. Josiah Abbott,
Ji-., studied law and practiced for some years; he married and
left three children, one son and two daughters. Josiah died in
1850, leaving a widow. His sister, Adaline Abbott, married
Thomas H. Drew, of Richmond. They had children.
Mary Ann Abbott, eldest daughter of Samuel and Martha
AlJjott, was born 20th of 10th month, 1810, departed this life
10th of 1st month, 1841, in the thirty-fourth year of her age.
Lydia, the second daughter of Samuel and Martha Abbott,
l)orn 21st of 1st month, 1813, and died 14tli of 6th month,
1845, aged thirty-three years. Martha Abbott the youngest
daughter of Sanniel and Martha Abbott, born 4th of 4th
month, 1819, married Samuel S. Willets 6th of 10th month,
1841, of Haddonlield, ISTew Jersey ; she departed this life 13th
of 7th month, 1845, aged twenty-six years, leaving one son,
Sanmel A. Willets, who subsequently married Al)by Evans,
(huigliter of Josiah and Hannah Evans, of Haddonlield. Sam-
uel, the eldest son of Sanmel and Martha Ogden Abl)ott, born
14th of 3d month, 1815, married Sarali Wistar 6th of 5th month,
1846, eldest daughter of Casper and Rebecca Wistar. He Avas
born 20tli of 6t;h month, 1818. Tlieir children are as follows:
Mary Ann Abl)ott, ])orn 24th of 9th montli, 1847 ; their son
Casper AV. Abbott, born 6th of 12th montli, 1848, died aged ten
uionths. Sanmel Al)l)ott, 4tli, was l)orn 28th of 7th month, 1851.
Rebecca and Catharine Abbott's twins were born 26tli of 2d
month, 1853. Mary Ann, the eldest daughter of Samuel and
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34: ABBOTT FAMILY,
Sarah W. Al)l(ott married, -itli of l^tli luontli, 18Y2, Josiali,
son of Clayton and Martha Wistar, hite of Mannington.
Samuel and his wife Sarah W. Abhott owns and resides in tlie
township of Mannington on the homestead of his father.
George, the second son of Samuel and Martha Ahbott, Itorn
13tli of Tth month, 1817, married Kuth S. Baker, Dth of the
10th month, 1845, daugliter of George W. and Ruth Baker, of
Kew Bedford, Mass. Their children were Henry B. Abbott,
l)orn 5th of 8th month, 1846 ; Charles T. Abbot, born 12tli of
4th month, 1848; George Abbott, 5th, born 11th of 9th month,
1849; William Abbott,l)orn 2d of 9th month, 1852, and died
30th of the 12th month, 1862, aged eleven years. Joseph B.
Abbott, son of George and Ruth Abbott, born 26th of 2d
month, 1857, and died 30fh of the 1st month, 1863, aged six
years. William Abbott, sixth son of George and Ruth Abbott,
born 13th of 2d month, 1868. George, the son of George and
Ruth Abbott, married Elizabeth Lippincott, 9th of 10th month,
1872, daughter of Aquila and Sarah Lippincott. They have one
son, Edward S. Abbott, born 2d of 9th month, 1873. George,
the son of Samuel and Martha Abbott, sold the old homestead
of the Abbott's, located in the township of Elsinborough. Said
property was devised to liim by his father. George purchased
a. valuable property in Mannington (it formerly Ijelonged to
Whittin Cripps), and resides thereon.
EDWARD BRADWAY HOUSE.
Salem, N. J.
Built 1691.
BEADWAY FAMILY.
Edward Bradway and liis wife Mary Bradway, and their three
cliildren — Mary, WiUiam and Snsannah Bradway, togetlier with
their three servants — WilHam Groon, Thomas Buekel, and
John Allen, embarked from London in the 3d month, in the year
1677, in the ship called the Kent. They landed at Salem, in
West IS'ew Jersey, in the 7th month following. There is no
doubt but that Edward Bradway had considerable means. When
he came to this country he had purchased one town lot and one
thousand acres of land of the proprietor before Fenwick embarked
for this country. As early as 1676 the street now known as
Broadw^ay was laid out and called Wharf street, and several town
lots were laid out and surveyed on said street; one for Edward
Bradway before his arrival, containing sixteen acres, commencing
near the public wharf at the creek, and running up the street a
certain distance, and from the line of said street a northerly
course to Fenwick creek. In the year 1691 Edward Bradway
built on liis town lot a large brick house which is still standing,
iov size and appearance surpassing any house T)uilt prior to that
date, and for many years afterward, in Salem. I think it far
excels in size and architecture the two houses built in Philadel-
])]iia al)out the same period — one built by William Penn in
Leatita court, and the other built l>_y Sanmel Carpenter on Second
street, corner of Norris alley. The Governor of this State
resided in tlie Bradway house some time after the death of
Edward Bradway; hence it went under the name of the Gov-
ernor's house for many years afterwards. It is still owned by
one of the lineal descendants of Edward Bradway, lieing tlie
seventh generation.
In 1093 the town of Salem was incorporated into a borougli,
and tlie authorities of the town changed the name of Wharf
street to Bradway street, in honor of Edward Bradway. Edward
had two children born in Salem — Sarah and Hannah Bradway.
His allotment of hmd that Richard Hancock surveyed foi' liim
in 1676, ])y order of John FenAvick, was located on the south
side of AlloM'ays creek, joining Clu-isto])her AVhite on the west
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and Wm. Malstiff's land on the east, running 800 rods, startino;
from the creek, course south thirtj-one degrees, east until it
reached Henry Salter's 10,000 acre tract. Mary Bradway, the
eldest daugliter of Edward Bradway, married William Cooper
in 1687, who was a Ijlacksmitli, and was the iirst that folloA\'ed
tliat business in Salem. Tliey had three children l)orn in Salem
— Mary Avas born in 1688, Sarah in 1690, and Hannah in 1692.
Edward Bradway, about the year before his death, deeded 300
acres of land to his daughter, Mary Cooper, being part of liis
allotment in Alloways Creek. He mentioned in his deed of
conveyance the natural affection he had for ]iis daughter Mary
Cooper, and gave her 300 acres of land, and then describes tlie
boundaries. She was to pay for consideration, if demanded, one
ear of Indian corn on the first day of the 9th month, c-ach and
every year forever. One of the largest l)ranches of Alloways
creek runs by the property; hence the name of Cooper's creek
was given it. About eighty years ago the grandson of William
and Mary Cooper, whose name was Benjamin Cooper, came from
Gloucester and resided on tlie property a few years, and then
sold it to different persons and returned to his native county.
William and Mary Cooper, soon after the death of her father,
which event took place, I think, in 1693, j)urchased a large tract
of land in the county of Gloucester, where the city of Camden
now stands, and removed from Salem to that place in 1694.
They had two sons ])orn at that place — William and Edward
Cooper.
William Bradway, the oldest son of Edward Bradway, married,
in 1691, Elizabeth White, the eldest daughter of Christoplier
Wldte. She was born in London in 1669, and liadfour children
— Edward, the oldest, was born in 1692; William, their second
scm, died young; Jonathan, tlie youngest son, was born 1699;
and their daughter Elizabeth was born in 1701. She married
the son of Fenwick Adams, of Penn's Neck. Hannah Bradway,
the youngest daugliter of Edward Bradway, Sr., was born in
1681. She married Joseph Stretcli, wlio had lately arrived in
tliis country from England. Tliey were married in 1701, and
from them sprung tlie large family of that name in this county.
Edward Bradway, the oldest son of William Bradway, became
the owner of the property in Salem on Bradway street, and was
married about the year 1720. It appears lie died a young man,
leaving one son named Aaron Bradway, who, in 17-1:5 or '16,
inarried a young woman that owned one-half of Middle Neck in
Elsinborough. Joshua Waddington now lives on and owns part
of said pr()})erty, Aaron and his wife Sarah liad two cliildren
HEADWAY FAMILY
37
— Josluia and Sarali Bradwav. Joslnia always remained single,
and after the death of his fathei- — his mother having died when
lie ^vas qnite young — he inherited all her real estate. His sister,
Sarah Bradwav, married Jonathaii Waddington, of Alloways
Creek. Jonathan Waddington and his Avife had six children, all
of them sons, named as follows: William, Aaron, Robert, Thomas,
Jonathan and Edward AVaddington. Aaron Bradway's second
wife was Sarah Smith, widow of John Smitli, who was the grand-
son of John Smith of Aml)lel»ury. Aaron and his wife Sarah
liad one son named Thomas Bradwav. Aaron Bradway's third
wife was widow Rolph, and hy her he had one danghter named
Hannah R. Bradwav, who afterwards became the wife of David
Bradway, of Alloways Creek.
Thomas Bradway became the owner of his father's real
estate in Salem on Bradway street by will. His wife was
Isabella Dnnlap, and I believe they had three children. The
oldest was Sarali Ann, who married John S. Wood of Cumber-
land county ; Thomas Bradway and Eliza Bradway. William
Bradway, Jr., the son of William Bradway, never married and
died young. Jonathan Bradway's first wife was Mary Daniels,
the daughter of James Daniels, Sr. They had three children
— AVilliam the oldest, born in 1728 ; Rachel and Jonathan
Bradway. His second wife was Susanna Oakford, the daughter
of Charles Oakford, Jr. They had three children — Edward
born in 1741; Saraband Kathan Bradway. AVilliam, the old-
est son of Jonathan Bradway, and his wife Sarali, had three
children — Adna, the oldest, died a minor ; William and Mary
Bradw^ay. The latter became the wife of John Thompson of
Elsinborough, and was the grand-mother of the present William
Thompson of that township. AVilliam Bradway, Jr.'s, wife was
Mary Ware, the daughter of John and Elizabeth AVare. They
had live children. The oldest was Sarah, who married Elisha
Stretch, and their children were Mary, Joshua, William, Ann
and Job Stretch. Anna Bradway married James Stewart, Jr.
Two children were born to them — Hannah and Mary Stewart.
Hannah died a young woman, and Mary married AVilliam
Clriscom.
William Bradway, the oldest son of Jonathan Bradway, was
l)orn in 1728, and married Sarah Hancock ; they had three
children — Admy, William and Mary Bradway. Mary's husband
was John Thompson, of Elsinborough. They were the grand-
parents of the present William, Joseph and Casper Thompscm.
William Bradway, Jr., married Mary Ware, daughter of John
and Elizabeth Ware, and they had five children — Sarah, Anna,
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Rachel, Ezra and John. Sarali, their oldest daughter's 1ms-
l)and was Elisha Stretch. They were the parents of Mary,
Joshua, William, Aim and Job Stretch. Ann Bradwaj mar-
I'ied James Stewart. Their children were Hannah and Maiy
Stewart. The latter was William Griscom's first wife. Anna's
second husband was Samnel Fogg, and they had one son, the
present William Fogg, who resides at Salem. Racliel Brad-
way's first Imsband was Joseph Stewart, the son of Samuel
Stewart, of Salem towTiship. Their children were Mary, Anna
and Lydia Stewart. Rachel's second Imsband was David Gris-
com, who was a teacher of Clermont Boarding School, near
Philadelphia, for several years. There were two children,
Rachel and David. Ezra Brad way married Mary Denn, daughter
of James Denn, of Alloways Creek. They had five children,
all of them being sons — William, John, George, Mark and
Charles. John Bradway's first wife was Hannah Pancoast,
daughter of John and Sarah Pancoast; and his second wife
was Clarissa Hancock. They had one son John, who is cashier
of the Woodbury Bank.
Jonathan Bradway's second son's name was Jonathan, and
he married Elizabeth Stewart, the daughter of John and Mary
Stewart. Their children were John, Mark and Thomas Brad-
way, The last mentioned died young. John married and
removed to the State of Ohio. Mark Bradway married the
daughter of Thomas Hartley, and they had one son named
Thomas H. His second wife was Martha Denn, and had one son
nained Mark Bradway, who was a merchant for several years at
Hancock's Bridge. Thomas H. Bradway was by occupation a
tailor, and did a very extensive business in that line for many
years. His house and shop were located on Fenwick street,
Salem, where William Holtz built his large brick dwelling.
Thomas' wife was Rachel Worthington, daughter of David
and Jail Worthington. Thomas subsequently purchased a
large farm in East Notingham township, Chester County, Pa.,
and removed there. The farm was nmch reduced wlien he
bouglit it, but by his industry and good management it proved
to be a profitable investment. He li^'ed to a great age. Most
of liis children reside thereat the present time. Rachel Brad-
way, the daughter of Jonathan, married Samuel Hancock.
There were tnree children, Rebecca, Prudence and Samuel.
R(>be(H;a's first Imsband was Samuel Padgett ; lier second, Bar-
zilla Jeffres. Prudence Hancock's husband was Thomas Rob-
erts. He was a merchant and a practical surveyor at Hancock's
Bridge during the greater part of Ids life. Few men had more
BRADWAY FAMILY. 3^
friends and less enemies at the time of their death than lie.
Those living there at that time testify that they never Avitnessed
such a large concourse of people of all denominations as
attended his funeral, showing that his friends and neighbors
duly appreciated his goodness of character, and were desirous
to pay their last respects to him on this earth. He left two
children, Samuel and Sarah.
Samiiel Hancock, Jr. married Hannah Pancoast, daughter of
Edward Pancoast, of Gloucester county. They had six chil-
th"en, named Pachel, Clarissa, Beulali, Joseph, Edward and
Samuel. Rachel lived past middle age and died single. Clar-
issa married John Bradway. Beulah w^as the first wife of
David Ogden, late of Woodbury. Joseph married Susan
Bacon of Philadelphia, and was for several years a member of
the Pennsylvania Legislature, and now is one of tlie Inspectors
of Buildings for the city of Philadelphia. Edward Hancock
married Susan Thompson, daughter of William Thompson, of
tins county. Samuel Hancock's wife w^as Charlotte Gillinglumi.
He is by occupation a lumber merchant, and is considered to
have more than ordinary talents. He was a member of tlie city
(touncil for several years, and now holds tlie responsible office of
City Comptroller for the city of Philadelphia.
Edward Bradway, the oldest son of Jonathan Bradway l)y his
second wdfe, Susanna Oakford, was born in 1741, and married
Elizabeth Waddington. Tliey had six children — David, Han-
nah, Edward, Waddington, Elizabeth and Adna. His second
Avife was Susanna Barbour. David Bradway's iirst wife and
mother of his children was Hannah Bradway, the daughter of
Aaron Bradway. Waddington Bradway's first wife was Mary
Bates, and their children Avere Edward, Elizabeth and Phebe.
His second wife was Hannah Stretch, the daughter of Jonathan
and Elizabeth Stretch. They had two children — Jonathan and
Mercy Bradway. Jonathan, their son, married Dorcas, daughter
of Andrew and Sarah Griscom. They have several children.
Mercy Bradway married Jacob Ridgway. Mercy is deceased,
leaving two children — Kesiah and Waddington B. Ridgway.
Kesiali is deceased. Waddington married Anna, the daughter of
John and Rebecca Powell. Waddington and his w'ife have
several children — one daughter and four suns. His third Avife
Avas Hannah Bainer, the daughter of Elisha and Lydia, Bainer,
of Cape May. Tlieir children Avere Waddington, Hamiali, Isaac,
Lydia, Susan and Josiah.
Adna BradAvay's first wife Avas Sarah Baker, tlie daugliter of
Esther Baker. She OAAmed the property where Quinton Harris
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now owns and lives. His second wife was Lydia Bainer, daughter
of Elislia and Lydia Bainer. Their chiklren were Sarah, Elisha,
Adna, Jacob, Edward, Lydia, Jonathan and Elizabeth. Sarah
Bradway, daughter of Jonathan, married William AcUims, of
Penn's Neck. They had two cliildren — Susanna and John
Adams. Jolni died young. Susanna was the lirst wife of the
late Benjamin Griscom, of Salem. Sarah's second husband was
Richard Ware, who owned the property in Quaker Neck where
Josiali Wistar lives. Thev had two children — Sarah and Eliza-
Ijetli Ware.
The AVa(l(lingt(in family were closely coimected with part of
the Bradway's. William AV^addiiigton arrived in this country
from England in 1695. He soon afterwards purcliased a tract
of land of Edward AV^adc, l)eing tlie S(^ut]iern portion of his
allotment adjoining Anna Salter's line on that property, and
1)uilt there and made it his permanent liome. He had one son,
Jonathan Waddington, who married a1)out tlie year 1728, ^uld
lived on his patrimonial estate. He and liis wife had four
children — Hannah, Jonathan, Elizabeth, and Jane. Hannah,
the oldest daughter, married Walker Beesley. Their chihhvn
were Walker, Hannali, Benjamin, Mary and Abner. Walker
was killed at the massacre of Hancock's Bridge during the
Revolutionary war in 1778. Hannah Beesley married her (;ousin
John Beesley. Tliey had two children, Walker and David.
Mary Beesley was the wife of Peter Townsend, late of Manning-
ton. Benjamin died young; and Abner Beesley married Mary
Mason, daugliter of John Mason.
Elizabeth Waddington's Imsband was Edward Bradway. Jane
Waddington married Edward Keasl)y, Jr. She was his second
wife. They had one daughter, Sarah Keasbey, whose husband
was John Pancoast, son of Edward Pancoast. They resided for
some time after they were married on tlie farm that was left to
her Ijy her father below the village of Canton. Richard L'elan
noAv owns it. After a few years they sold it and purchased a
farm of Josiah Reeve, which farm is owned at the present time
by Luke S. Eogg. After the death of Jane Keasby they sold
the property and renu)ved to Mullica Hill, and there ended their
days. Their children were Hannah, Achsah, -lohn, Israel, Jane,
David, and Aaron.
The father of Jonathan AVaddington, ."xl, died 1760, by cir-
cumstant^es not (H)nnnon in this country. On the evening of
18th of 'Sd month, 1760, the wind being south, it commenced
snowing and at sunrise the luwt UKn-ning it was clear, and the
snow was three feet deep on the level. 1 have been informed
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1)7 persons living at the time, that it required great exertions on
the part of those owning sheep to extricate them from under
the snow. Jonathan Waddington, Jr.. in endeavoring to save
]iis sheep, caught a \iolent cold and died three or four days
afterwards. At liis death there was but one infant son by the
UMme of Waddington in this county. Watson, in his Annals of
Philadelphia, mentions the account of the same fall of snow I
liave alluded to. It was the greatest that history gives any
account of since the first European settlement.
TJie family of Cooj)ers have scattered in nearly all the States
of tlie Union, I think ; nearly all of them are descendants of
William and Margaret Cooper, of Coltsliill, in the county of
Stafford, England ; tlie following are the names of their chil-
dren : William, the son of William and Margaret Cooper, was
1)orn at Coltsliill, 26th day of 9th month, 1660 ; Hannah,
daughter of the same parents, born 21st of 9th inontli, 1662 ;
Joseph, the son of William and Margaret Cooper, born 22d of
Tth month, 1666 ; James Cooper, son of William and Margaret
Cooper, born 3d of the 10th month, 1670; Daniel Cooper, son
of the same parents, born 2Tth of 1st month, 1673. William
Cooper and wife emigrated with their children in 1682 ; he
settled in Burlington county. The eldest son, William Cooper,
was by trade a blacksmith. He settled at Salem about 1684.
He married Mary, the daughter of Edward Bradway. They
subsequently moved to Gloucester, wliere the city of Camden is;
lie died in 1691, leaving one son and two daughters. He left
his father, William Cooper, and his father-in-law, Edward
Bradway, executors in his will. Joseph Cooper, son of William
and Margaret Cooper, married Jjjdm Riggs, in 1688. Daniel
Cooper married Abigail Wood, in 1693 ; his second wife was
Sarah Spicer, daughter of Samuel Spicer; they were married in
1695 ; she was the sister of Jacob Spicer. Hannali, the daughter
of William and Margaret Cooper, married, in 1704, John
Wolston.
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BRICK FAMILY.
John Brick was m iiati\'e of England; lie emigrated to Fen-
■\vick Colony previons to 1680, and pnrcliased a large tract of
land on tlie sontli side of the town branch of Stoe Creek, called
Gravelly Run; the village of Jericho is on the original tract of
land. Samuel Demming, of Maryland, bought tlie land of Jolni
Fenwick in 1679 ; he, Demming, sold the said land to John Brick,
Sr., about 1690. The land was reserved by Benjamin Acton
in 1729. John had several children; the oldest was John;
there was Joshua, who located himself in the neighl)orhood of
Maurice river; he Avas the father of the late Joshua Brick of
Port Elizabeth. Richard Brick, the third son of John, purchased
a tract of five hundred acres in tlie township of Mannington ; it
lay adjoining to the Hedgefield tract. lie M'as a large farmer;
likewise carried on the tanning and currying business A'ery
extensively. He left one son, John Brick ; I think he never
married. At his death his real estate was purchased by his
cousin, Joshua Brick, at Port Elizabeth, and Isaac Townsend of
the same place, and they conveyed to the late Jesse Boyd.
Samuel Brick, the youngest son of John Brick, Sr., married
and left issue. His son Samuel lived for a number of years on
his cousin John Brick's estate, in Mannington, and followed the
tanning business to some extent, and also farming. He was the
father of Josiah Brick, of Upper Penns Neck. The eldest son
of John Brick, Jr., inherited all of his father's real estate at
(Iravelly Run; he became a conspicuous and influential person
in the colony, was one of the Judges of Salem courts for many
vears. At the division of the county, the commissioners thought
of making the branch of Stoe Creek, where Seeley mill is
located on, the boundary line, but John Brick used his great
influence, for them to make the Gravelly run the line, thereby
throwing his property in the new county of Cumberland, which
he deserved. He married Ann, the daughter of Abel and Mary
Tyler Nicholson, of Elsinborough, in 1729. She was l)orn 15th
of lltli month, 1707. They commenced life together at Cohansey.
Thev had eiglit children! The oldest, Mary, born 10th of 2d
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jnontli, 1730; Elizabetli, Jolm, Joseph, Ann, Hannali, Rutli and
Jane, born lOtli of 1st month, 1743. John Brick, the father of
the l)efore mentioned children, died the 23d of the 1st month,
1758, and his widow, Ann N. Brick, in 1778, at tlie age of
nearly seventy-two years. Previous to his death Jolm Brick
purchased a consideraljle quantity of land in Alloways Creek
tr)Viaiship, lying on the south side of Alloways creek. Part of a
neck of land called Beesley Neck, which he devised to his second
son, Josepli Brick, wlio married Rebecca Abbott, the daughter of
Samuel Abbott, of Elsinboro, about the year 1758. Joseph and
liis wife resided for a short time on his property at Alloways
Creek, subsecpiently removed to Elsinboro on a farm that was
left to Ids wife by her father, Samuel Abbott, who had purchased
it, a sliort time previous to his death, of Thomas and Sarali
(Toodwin, it being part of Lewis Morris' estate. Joseph and his
wife Pel)ecca had tln-ee children — Ann, Hannah, and Sanmel.
Ilis wife, Rebecca, died IGth of the lltli month, 1780, aged thirty-
nine years. His second wife was Martha Reeve, daughter of
Joseph Reeve, Jr., and Milicent, his wife. Their home was on the
south side of Cohansey, opposite the town of Greenwich, Cumber-
land county. By her he had two sons — Joseph and Jolm. Ann
Brick, his oldest daughter, married Joseph Hall, son of Clement
Hall. Hannah Brick married Anthony Keasbey, of Salem, I
think he was the son of Matthew Keasbey. Anthony and his
wife had eight children — Rebecca, Matthew, Edward, Prudence,
Hannah, Artemesia, Anthony and Ann. Samuel Brick, the
eldest son of Joseph, married Anna Smart, daughter of Isaac
and Ann Smart, of Elsinboro, and had live children — Deborah,
Rebecca, Ann, Samuel and Joseph. The last two were twins,
and after they arrived at some age went to Philadelphia to learn
trades. I think they are both deceased at the present time.
Deborah always remained single, and lived to an old age.
Rebecca married Paul Hubbs, a native of Pilesgrove, but at the
time of his marriage was a resident of Philadelphia. He was
the son of Charles and Rebecca Hubbs, of Woodstown. Ann,
the youngest daughter of Samuel and Ann Brick, married John
Stevenson, Jr., son of Jolm Stevenson, of Mannington. John
and his wife, a short time after their marriage, removed to the
State of New York, His wife died not long afterwards, leaving
one or two children, Mary, the eldest daughter of John, Jr,,
and Ann IST. Brick, born 10th of the 2d month, 1730, married
Natlianiel Hall, of Mannington. Elizabeth Brick, the daughter
of John, Jr., and Ann N. Brick, Avas l)orn 4th of the 7th month,
1732. She married, in 1753, Jolm Reeve, of Cohansey. Ann
44: BRICK FAMILY.
Brick, the daiigliter of the before mentioned parents, was born
23d of 1st montli, 1738. She married Joseph Clement, of
Haddontield, in 1761. Ruth Brick, daughter of John and Ann
K. Brick, was born 1st of the 10th month, 1742, married
Benjamin Reeve, of Phihidelphia, in 1761. He was a clock and
watchmaker, and carried on that business in that city. He was
the youngest son of Joseph and Eleanor Reeve, of Cohansey ;
was born 2d of 7th month, 1737. Joseph, the eldest son of
Joseph and Martha Reeve Brick, married Elizaljeth Smith,
daughter of David Smith, a resident of Mannington. He was a
native of Egg Harbor. His wife was the daughter of Jonathan
and Mary Shourds Pettit. They removed to Salem county when
they were al)Out middle age. Joseph and his wife, Eliz{d)eth
Brick, had three or four sons and one daughter. His two oldest,
I have been informed, learned the brick laying business. They
subsequently became ci\Til engineers, Samnel following his
business in the city of Philadelphia, and was quite successful in
his calling. Joseph, his brother, removed to Brooklyn, State of
New York, and amassed a fortune in his adopted city. He is
now deceased, leaving a widow but no children living at the
time of his death. Samnel married; he and his wife have
several children. They reside on Arch street, Philadelphia.
John, the son of Joseph and Martha R. Brick, was a tanner and
currier by trade; his place of business was in Church alley; the
firm was known as Brick & Eldridge. They carried on their
business very extensively forty yeais ago or more. John
married; they had one daughter, and she married Clinton
Clement, of Salem. She did not live long afterwards, dying
leaving no issue. John died recently in the city of Camden, and
was brought to Salem and buried in the Friends' graveyard,
where his relatives lay.
WILLIAM BASSETT.
Born 1803.
BASSETT FAMILY.
The family of the Bassetts came from England in the .sliip
Fortinin 1621, and settled near Boston, Massachnsetts. Their
names were "William and Josepli Bassett; many of their descend-
ants remain about Lynn, Massachusetts, and in Rliode Island
and Connecticut. One of the family, William Bassett, came
from Lynn, Massacluisetts, in the year 1691, and settled near
Salem, IST. J., with his three sons, Zebedee, Elisha, and William.
Zebedee, the eldest, subsequently settled in tlie State of Dela-
ware, and was the ancestor of the Bassett branch in that State;
He was born about 1680, married, left two children — Daniel
and Rebecca Bassett. Daniel married a young woman l)y tlie
name of Lawrence. They had live children; their names were
Daniel, Zebedee, Elisha, Sarah, and Amy. There is no account
of any one of these children marrying, excepting Daniel, who
was born 5th of 9th month, 1722; he married Mary Lippincott.
They had two children — Daniel and Mary Bassett. Daniel's
second wife was Sarah Linch, of Pilesgrove; they were married
in 1760; they had four children — Hannah, SaraJi, Nathan, and
Elizabeth. Daniel Bassett, the son of Daniel and Mary Lippin-
cott Bassett, married Mary, the daughter of Gideon and JucHth
Scull, of Egg Harbor ; they had three children — Gideon, Daniel
and Mary. Gideon, their eldest son, died in 1779, aged two
years and a half. Dcmiel had live children by his second wife —
Hannah, Elizabeth, Mariv, Ebenezer and Ruth Bassett. Nathan,
the son of Daniel, married Sarah Saunders, had twelve children
— Hannah, Ann, Elizabeth, Del)orah, Josiah, Mary, Sarah,
Beulah, Mark, Rachel. Elisha Bassett, second son of William
Bassett, the emigrant, born about 1682, was about ten years old
when he came with his father to Salem. In 1705 he was elected
a consta])le for the town of Salem, and continued in that office
eight years. He married Abigail Elizabeth Davis, daughter of
John and Dorothea Davis, of Pilesgrove; they had "thirteen
children. Sarah, the oldest, born in 1719, married Thomas
Smith, of Mannington, in 1710 ; they had three sons — William,
David, and Thomas Smith. [See genealogy of Smith family.]
4f) BASSETT FAMILY.
Her second lmsl)and was Charles Fogg, of Alloways Creek; tliere
were four cliildren — Sarah, Rachel, Charles, and Aaron Fogg.
Elizabeth Bassett, the second danghter of Elislia and Elizabeth
Bassett, was born 2od of 2d month, 1720. She married Thomas
Davis; they had ten cliildren — Abigail, Elisha, Sarah, Isaac,
John, Charles, Elinor, and Elizabeth. Elisha married Hester
Scott; had five children. Josiah, the son of Elisha Davis,
mirried Ruth Brad way ; they had six children — Ann, Edward,
Albert, William, Hester, and Hannah Davis. Elisha Bassett,
Jr., son of Elisha and Elizabeth Bassett, was born 15th of 12th
month, 1822. He married Mary, the danghter of Joseph
AV^oodnntt, of Mannington ; they had six cliildren — Josepli and
Rachel both died young; Sarah, the third child, was born 10th
of 8tli month, 1759. SJie married Joseph Fettit. son of Jonathan
and Mary Shourds Fettit, of Tuckinton. Joseph and Sarah B.
Fettit's children were Woodnutt, Jonathan, and Mary Fettit.
Hmnah, the second daughter of Elisha and Mary AVoodnntt
Bassett, married John Roberts, of Haddontield; tliey had two
sons — Jacob and David Roberts. Joseph, the son of Elisha
Bassett, Jr., and Mary, his wife, was born 26th of Cth month,
1765. He married Mary, the daughter of David and Rebecca
Allen, of Mannington; they had nine children — Elisha, Joseph,
David, Hannah, Rebecca, Samuel, Benjamin, William, and Mary
Bassett. Davis, the son of Elislia and Elizabeth Bassett, was
born 1726; married Mary El well, of Fhiladelphia; they had six
children. Samuel,^ the son of Elisha and Elizabeth Bassett, was
born in 1728 ; he married Ann, the daughter of Lewis and Sarah
Morris, of Elsinborough; they had six children. Grace, the
eldest, was born 16th of the 3d month, 1756; William was born
4tli of the 2d month, 1758 ; Samuel was born oOtli of the 8tli
month, 1760; Morris was born 30tli of Itli month, 1763; Davis
was born 3d of tlie 8tli month, 1765; Ann Bassett was born 5th
of 1st month, 1767.
Rebecca, tlie daughter of Elisha and Elizabeth Bassett, mar-
ried J(jlin Fage. TJiey had nine (ihildreti — William, the son
of Elisha Bassett, was born in 1733, married Fliebe Coppeth-
waite ; their eldest daughter, Mary, was born 18th of 9tli
month, 1762 ; Abigail was born 16th of 9th month, 1766.
Mary Bassett, the chiugliter of AVilliam, married Isaac Snow-
den. They had six children. Rachel, the daughter of Elisha
andx^bigail E. Bassett, born about 1736, married Andrew Miller.
Isaac Bassett, the youngest son of Elisha Bassett,was Viorn in 1738,
married Deborah, tlie daughter of Zaclieus and Deborah Dunn.
She was boj-n 6th of 4th month, 1715 ; they had three chil-
BAS8ETT FAMILY. 47
dren — Deborali, born 3d month, 1T65. She snbseqnently was
a recommended minister. Abigail, the second dangliter of
Daniel and Deborah Bassett, married Joseph Erwin, M. D.
Isaac Bassett lived to a great age, about ninety -six years. His
father, Elisha Bassett, born in Massaclmsetts in 1082, died in
Salem comity, 1786, aged one hundred and four years. His
■wife, Abigail Elizabeth Davis, born on Long Island, 1698,
being sixteen years younger than her husband. Slie died
agreeable to Salem monthly record 30th of the 12th montli,
1770, aged seventy-two years.
Elisha, the oldest son of Joseph and Mary T. Bassett, Ijurn
26tli of 1st month, 1778, married Mary, the daughter of Dar-
kin and Esther Nicholson, of Elsinborough. They had eight
children — David, Josiali, Elizal)eth, Elisha, Edward, John T.,
Albert and Mary ; the latter died young. Elisha's second wife
was Mary, the widow of Samuel Lippincott, of Gloucester
county. She was the daughter of Thomas Clark of the same
place. They are both deceased, leaving no issue. David Bas-
sett, his eldest son, married Mary, the daughter of Evi Smitli.
Josiah Bassett died young. Elizal^etli Bassett married Biddle
Haiues. Elisha Bassett's wife was Hannah Ann, daugljter of
Andrew and Rebecca Abbott Thompson. Tliey have issue.
Edward Hicks Bassett's wife is Hannah, daughter of Evi
Smith; they have issue. John Thompson Bassett married
Susan Humphreys ; they have two daugliters. Albert Bassett
married Mary Shoemaker. Joseph and David Bassett were
twins. Joseph's first M'ifc was Lydia, daughter of Jonas and
Elizabeth Ereedland, of Quaker Neck. They had four daughters,
Elizabeth, Hannah, Lydia and Sarali. Their eldest daughter,
Elizabeth, married AVilliam G. Woodnutt, and has several
children. Hannah Bassett married William, the son of Burtis
Barbour ; they have issue.
Sarah Bassett, the tliird daughter of Joseph, married Edward,
the son of Samuel and Pliebe Hall, formerly of Manningtou.
They have issue. Lydia Bassett, the youngest, married John
Zerns, of Pennsylvania. They have two children, William and
Elizabeth. Josepli Bassett's second M-ife was Sarah, daughter
of Morris and Lydia Hall, of Elsiuljorough. They had one son,
Morris Bassett. Joseph's third wife was Anu, the widow of
Caleb Lippincott. They are both deceased, leaving no issue.
Few men left liehind them a more enviable cliarac^ter than
Josepli Bassett for his industry, integrity and upright dealino-s
with his fellow-men . David Bassett, his brother, married Vasliti
Davis, of Pilesgrove. They had five children — Joseph, William,
48 BASSETT FAMILY.
IlHiiiiali, Davis and Samuel ; I tliink three of them died
uninarried. Hannah married Samuel P. Allen, a native of
Gloucester ; they have children. Davis Bassett married
Martha Lippincott ; they had one daughter, Martha Yasliti
Bassett. David's second wife M'as Ilammh, daughter of Wood-
nutt Petti t. She lived but a short time, lea\'ing no issue.
David's third wife W'^as Ann Packer ; she survived her husband
several years. By tliat union there was no offsj^ring. Hannah,
daughter of Jose^^h Bassett, Sr., married Jonathan, son of
Samuel and Amy Pettit Cawley ; she lived but a short time,
leaving one daughter. Amy, who subsequently married Charles,
son of Samuel Lippincott, of Pilesgrove.
Rebecca, the second daughter of Joseph and Mary Bassett,
married Casper, son of John and Charlotte I^ewbold Wistar,
of Mannington. Their children were named Sarah, Joseph,
Charlotte, Mary, Bartholomew, Casper, Catherine, Rebecca,
Joseph and John. I think five of them died young — Joseph,
Charlotte, Bartholomew, Hannah and John. Sarali married
Samuel Abbott, of Mannington ; they have issue. Mary Wis-
tar's husband is Casper, son of John and Esther Thompson,
formerly of Elsinl)orougli; they have two children — Bebecca
and Casper Thompson. The wife of Casper Wistar, Jr., is
Emma, the daughter of Aaron Fogg. Catliarine AVistar mar-
ried Job Bacon, of Cumberland county. Joseph Wistar's wife
is Anne, the daughter of James Brown.
Samuel, the son of Joseph Bassett, Sr., married Mary Ann,
daughter of George Craft, formerly of Gloucester county.
There M'ere several children. Amanda Bassett married Jolm
Snowdon ; her second husband was a Baj^tist clergyman named
Cornell. Rebecca married Richard Ware. Benjamin Bassett
married Mary, the daughter of Sanniel and Sarali Acton;
they had five children — Clement, Sarah Ann, Rachel, Richard
and Maria ; Clement died young. Sarah Ann married Bar-
clay, son of Andrew Griscom ; they have issue. Rachel Bas-
sett married Collins, son of Sauuiel Allen ; tliey have issue.
Richard Bassett's wife is Anne, daughter of Jonathan Grier.
Maria Bassett married Henry M. Rumsey.
William, the youngest son of Joseph and Mary Bassett, l»orn
in 1S0;{, married Abigail, daugliter of Stacy Hazleton, of Mul-
lica Hill, Gloucester county. 1'Iiey had eight cliildren — Stacy,
Joseph, Charles, Sarah Ann, Clara, Wilbam Irving, Thomas
F. and Fenwick.
Mary, the youngest daughter of Joseph and Mary Bassett,
born in 1800, married George Craft, Jr., of Gloucester county.
BASSETT FAMILY. 49
(Teoi-«i;L' and his wife are l^otli deceased, leaving four cliildreii —
Edwin, Beulali, Mary and George. Edwin's wife is Eliza1)etli,
daugliter of Aaron Gaskill, of Philadelphia. They have issue.
Beulah Craft married Josepli Garret-son ; they have t\vo chil-
dren. Mar}' Craft's husband is Foster Flagg. There are three
children — Lydia, Maria and George. George, the youngest,
married iVnn Jessup ; they liave one daughter, Ann Craft.
There ai-e l)ut two living of the large family of cliildren of
Joseph and Mary Bassett at this time, Rehecca AV^istar and
William Bassett. "
7
VARLL FAMILV.
The Carll family is a lHri!;e and infiueiitial one in Salem and
Cnml)erland counties. EpLraim Carll emigrated from Germany
to this country about the year 1720, and subsequently married
and left two sons — Jesse Carll, the eldest, was born in 1733,
and his second son, Pldneas, in 1735. The latter subse(|uently
married and removed to Cumljerland county, near Cohansey
I^eck. lie and his wife had a large family of children, and
their descendants are very numerous. The wife of the late
Edmund Davis, of Bridgeton, was one of them. Jesse Carll,
l)orn in 1733, married Grace Hancock, in 1756; she was the
daughter of Edward Hancock, the son of John and Maj-y
Chambless Hancock. The latter reached America in 1680, in
company with her mother, Elizabeth Chambless, who came to
meet her husband, Nathaniel Chambless, who had emigrated to
this country in 1675, in company Avith John FenAvick. Jesse
Carll lived on a small farm containing about sixty acres of
upland, and a quantity of meadow which his wife Grace had
inherited from her fatlier. (The ]:»roperty was recently owned
by George M. Ward.) They had twelve chikh-en — Hannah,
Elizabeth, Lydia, Grace, Ephraim, Sarah (who died young).
Prudence, Jesse, William, John, Sarali, and Martha. Jesse
Carll, their father, died in 1806, and his wife in 1808. J^oth
of them were buried in Friends' graveyard, on tlio north side of
Monmouth river, where his wife's ancestors were intcr)-ed. By
industry and economy, qualities characteristic of the Gernums,
they accuuudated a large personal estate, and supported a large
family of children in a comfortable manner. It Jias been related
that John Wood, the father of the late John S. Wood, having
purcliased one of the large tracts of timbei- land near his Jericho
property, needed a consideral)le sum of money to meet his
payments. Having been imsuccessful in effecting a loan from
those whom he believed most likely to have money, he was
advised to apply to Jesse Carll. Wood replied that he had little
hope of getting it from that quarter, inasmucli as Carll had a
large family to support upon the income derived from the small
CARLL FAMILY. 51
property owned l)y his wife. He, however, applied to Jesse
Oarll for tlie loan, and upon being asked the amount of money
he wished, replied : " Three hundred pounds.'^'' "I can accommo-
date you with tliat sum," said Carll, "and more if you wish,"
and he accordingly counted out to him the required amount in
gold and silver coin, whicli he had laid away in his own house,
as was the custom with those who had money in those days
])efore banks were established. Such a practice at the present
day would be very hazardous, notwithstanding the boasted
advancement of the present generation in civilization and
(Jhristianity. After this event, John Wood was frequently
known to remark that when he needed money it was his rule
not to apply to those who made the greatest display, but to those
of industrious and economical hal)its, who made no ostentatious
show.
Hannah, the eldest child of Jesse and Grace Carll, l)orn 2'l:th
of 8th month, 1757, died a young woman, unmarried. Elizabetli,
nnother daughter, born 17th of 11th month, 1758, married Abner
F'itzpatrick, whose grandfather emigrated to this country from
the north of Ireland ; they now spell the name Patrick. Elizabetli
arul lier husband had six children — Mary, Phineas, Abner,
Jesse, Samuel and Elizabeth. Lydia, the daughter of Jesse and
(Irace Carll, born 14th of 12th month, 1760, married Edward
Iveasbey 3d, son of Bradway Keasbey. Their children were
Sarah, Prudence, Grace, Joseph, Elizabeth, and Edward. Grace,
the daughter of Jesse and Gra(;e Carll, born in 1762, married
Thomas Ware, of Cumberland. They had four children —
Asbury, Jacob, Hannah, and Lydia. Ephraim, the eldest son
of Jesse and Grace Carll, l)orn 17th of 11th month, 1764,
married Barbara, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Acton,
(Joseph was the son of Benjamin Acton, Jr., and grandson of
Benjamin Acton, M'ho emigrated to ]>[ew Jersey from England
about the year 1690.) Ephraim and his wife, Barbara, had
eight children — Edward H., Joseph A., Hannah, William,
Ephraim, Grace, Jesse, and Mar}^ Ephraim Carll, Sr., died
in 1803, and was buried in tlie same graveyard in which his
])arents were interred. Sarah, the daughter of Jesse and Grace
Carll, born in 1766, died a minor.
Prudence Carll, the daughter of Jesse and Grace, born lltli
of 5th month, 1768, married Bradway Stretch, and had one
daughter — Martha Stretch. Jesse, son of Jesse and Grace
Carll, was born 14tli of 12th month, 1760, and his wife was
Mary, the daughter of Edward Hancock, Jr. He and his wife
lived and owned the property that belonged to her father and
52 CAELL FAMILY.
graiidfatlier, formerly part of William Hancock's allotment
of 1,000 acres, Ixniglit by him of John Fenwicik, and snr-
veyed to him by Richard Hancock in 1676, At the death of
AVilliam Hancock, which took place in 1679, he devised all his
landed estate to his widow, Isabella Hancock. In 1681 she
sold 500 acres to John Maddox, an eminent Quaker, who emi-
grated to this country in 1680. In the year 1700, John Maddox
sold that part of the property lying next to Monmouth river,
to Jeremiah Powell, of Salem, and the southern portion adjoin-
ing the Salter tract, to John Hancock, the son-in-law of
Nathaniel Chambless. Jesse and his M'ife, Mary Carll, had five
cliildren — Rebecca, Elizaljetli* Sarah, Lydia and William Carll.
William, the son of Jesse and Grace Carll, born in 1773, died
a minor. John, the son of Jesse and Grace Carll, born in
1775, died a young man, unmarried. Sarah, the daughter of
Jesse and Grace Carll, 1)orn 15th of 7th month, 1778, married
Job Sheppard; they had two sons — John and AVilliam Sheppard.
Martha, the j^oungest child of Jesse and Grace Carll, born
15th of 8th month, 1780, married William AVaddington, the
oldest son of Jonathan, Jr., and Sarah Waddington, William
and his wife had six children — Anna, Sarah, William, Martha,
Hannah and Jesse Carll Waddington. Mary, the daughter of
Abner and Elizal)eth Patrick, married AVashington Smith, the
son of Captain William Smith, of Revolutionary memory.
Captain Smith commanded a company of the American Militia,
which led the advance when the British troops quartered at
Judge Smith's house, on the north side of Quinton's Bridge,
were attacked by order of Coh^nels Hand and Holme. He
was forced to retreat however, there being a greater number of
the enemy's troops in aml)uscade than his commander antici-
pated ; but he accomplished his retreat with credit, and to the
satisfaction of his superior officers. His horse was shot and
killed mider hiiTi during the engagement. AVashington and his
wife Mar}^ Smith had ten children — Maiy Ann, Peter, Eliza-
l)eth, John P., Abner, Lucetta, Phineas, Martha, Lydia and
AVashington Smith. Peter Smith married Elizabeth, the
daughter of James Elliott; they have issue. Samuel Smith,
his son, married Priscilla, the daughter of Sanniel Kelley; she
died young. His second wife was Lydia, the daughter of
David and Elizabeth Finley; they had issue. Ephraim, the
son of Peter and Elizabeth Smith, married Hannah, daughter
of Luke S. Fogg and Ann his wife. Ephraim and his wife
have issue. Peter, the S(»n of Peter and Eli/ahctli Smith, mar-
ried Ellen, daughter of James and Rachel Baker; they have
CARLL FAMILY, 53
issue. Thomas Jefferson Smith is a plivsician, and resides at
Bridgeton.
Elizabeth, the second dangliter of AVashington and Marv
Sinitli, married Oliver Smith ; they ^vere hrst consins. Thev
Irid three daughters — ArtJialinda, Sarah Elizabeth and Ann.
Arthalinda died a young woman nnmari-ied ; Sarah Elizabeth
married William, the son of Abner and Hannah Patrick; Ann,
the youngest, married Philip Y. Keen. Tlie wife of John P.,
tlie second son of Washington and Mary Smitli, was Hannah,
daughter of Joseph Allen. John and his family removed to
tlie State of Illinois many years ago, and both he and his wife
are deceased at this time, leaving four sons — Joseph A., Benja-
min, Washington and Phineas. Abner, the son of Washington
and Mary Smith, married Mary Ann, the daughter of Natlianiel
and Susan Stretch. Aljner died several years ago, leaving a
widow and one daughter, Susan Smith, who married Charles,
tlie son of George Hires, Sr., of Salem. Lucetta, the daughter
of Washington and Mary Smith, married Richard, the son of
Thomas Mulford. They have four children — Pliebe, Ann
Maria, Mary and Martha. Phebe Mulford is Luke S. Fogg's
second wife ; they have no issue. Ann Maria Mulford married
Ilichard, the son of Benjamin and Susan Irelan, she being his
second wife ; they have issue. His first was Phebe, daughter
of Jesse and Mary Carll ; she died leaving one daughter, Phebe,
since deceased. Mary Mulford's husl)and is A, Smith Reeves,
son of Charles and Mary Reeves; they have issue. Martha
Mulford married George A. Githens ; they have issue. —
Phineas, the son of Washington and Mary Smith, married
Margaret, the daughter of Daniel Green ; she died young,
leaving one son, Phineas Smith, Jr. Phineas' second M'ife was
Pliebe Sally ; they have one daughter — Margaret Smitli. —
Martha, the daughter of Washington and Mary Smith, married
Abner, the eldest son of Jesse and Ann Patrick. Abner and
his wife had one daughter, Elizabeth, Avho subsequently married
George Hires, Jr. Lydia, the youngest daughter of Wasldiiii;-
ton and Mary Smith, married John Mills. They have a laro;e
family of children — Martha, who married Elias Hicks Powell,
tlie son of John and Rebecca Powell; Joel, liucetta, Albert,
Chambless, Mary, Filmore, Kate, Washington and Thomas
Mills. The wife of Wasliington, the youngest son of Washiii<>-
ton and Mary Smith, was Hamiah Sack. They reside in Kansas,
and have four children — Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Hannah and
Phineas.
William, the son of Oliver Smitli, who was a son of Captain
54 OARLL FAMILY.
William Smith, was twice married. His first wife was tlie
(laughter of Ephraim Carll, Sr. His second wife was Rebecca
Fiiiley, daughter of John Finley ; they liad four children —
Mary, the oldest, married Samuel Patrick ; they had one son,
Winfield S., who married the daughter of Peter Harris ; Mary
died young. Rebecca, the second daughter of William Smith,
married Sanniel Patrick, his second wife, and who was a sister
of his first wife ; they have issue. Hannah S., daughter of
AVilliani and Rebecca Smith, married Anthony English, the
son of David S. English, formerly Sheriff of Salem county.
Both died young, leaving three children ; their names were
William S., David S., and Charles Leslie. Charles Leslie
Smith, son of William and Rebecca Finley, married the
daughter of Daniel and Pliebe Hood ; they have had two
cliildren — Elmer H., and William. James Smith, the son of
Oliver Smith, married Sarah, tlie daugliter of Edward and
Prudence Waddington. James is deceased, leaving three sons
— Edward W., Oliver and Keasbey Smith ; all tln-ee of them
are married. Edward, the eldest, married Anna, the daughter
of Lewis Fox ; they have children. Oliver, the second son of
James Smith, married Hannah, the daughter of Joseph H. and
Rachel A. Fogg; they have two children. Keasbey Smith,
married the daughter of Job Thorp ; they have children.
Ahner, the son of Abner and Elizabeth Carll Patrick, was
born the Sd of 2d month, 1788. There was a singular consan-
guinity in his marriage which does not often occur. His first
wife was Barbara Carll, the widow of his uncle, Epln"aim Carll.
There was no issue by tliat connection, and she died many years
before him. His second wife was Hannah, the widow of liis
l)rother, Samuel Patrick, and the daughter of his first wife, she
being the daughter of Ephraim and Barl)ara Acton Carll. Abner
and Hannah Patrick had four cliildren — Elizal»eth, l)orn in 1822 ;
Margaret, born in 1825; William, l)orn in 1827; and Hannah,
l)orn in 1831. Elizabeth Patrick married Lewis, the son of
William Fox ; they had three children — Anna, the eldest, married
Edward, the son of James and Sarah Smith; they have issue.
FLmnah, the second daughter, married Josiah, the son of Richard
Dubois; they have cliildren. Abner, tlie son of Lewis and
EUzabeth Fox, married Amanda Giberson; they have issue.
Mary Ann, the daughter of Abner and Hannah Patrick, married
Robert, the son of James Butcher. By that union there were
four children — Elizabeth, James, Hannah and Arthalinda.
Elizabeth married Robert, the son of Job Griscoin. Jjimes
Butcher's wife is Lydia, the daughter of Peter and Mary C.
CAKLL FAMILY.
Harris; they have issue. Hannah, daughter of Aluier and
Hannah Patrick, married Benjamin (). Rolnnson, the son of
William Robinson, Sr.; they have issue. Abner Patrick, the
father of the above mentioned children, die<l in 1834, aged about
forty -four years; his widow, Hannah Carll Patrick, daughter of
Ephraim Carll, Sr., departed tliis life in 1859, aged sixty-four
years and a few months.
Edward, the eldest son of Ephraim and Barbara Carll, died
when he was about fifteen years old, and William Carll, the
second son, departed this life in 1807, aged al)out eleven years.
Ephraim Carll, son of Ephraim and Bar])ara, born 30th of 8th
month, 1798, married Elizal>eth, the daughter of John Finley,
of Stoe Neck; they had three daughters. The oldest, Rebecca,
married William Plunnner, Jr.; they have several children.
Elizabeth, their eldest daughter, married (Teorge Hires, Jr., she
Ijeing his second wife. Sarah, tlieir second daughter, married
George R. Morrison, the son of W^illiam and Mary Ann Morrison.
George and his wife liave issue. The other children of William
Plummer are Rebecca, William and Loren. Barbara, Ephraim
Carll's second daughter, married James Butcher, Jr.; they ha\'e
tAvo children — Hannah and Isabella. The latter died young.
Hannah, their eldest daughter, married Edward, the son of
Joseph and Mar}^ Bro^ii ; they liave issue. James Butcher, Jr.,
came to an untimely death by a kick from his horse. Subsequently
his -widow, Barbara C. Butcher, married Charles, the son of
EdAvard and Catharine Fogg. Charles and his wife have issue.
Elizal)etli, the daughter of Ephraim and Elizabeth Carll, married
William, tlie son of Jonathan House, of Upper Alloways Creek;
they have issue. Ephraim CarlFs second wife was Mary Ann,
the eldest daughter of Washington and Maiy Smith, by whom
lie liad six children, M'ho are now living — Edward, Jessie, Lewis,
George, William Henry, and Charles. Edward Carll, their
eldest son, married Phebe, the daughter of Reuben Sayres ; they
have three children — Mary Ann, Milton, and Sarah.
Jesse P., the son of Epln-aim and Mary Ann Carll, man-ied
Phe1)e, tlie daughter of David and Elizabeth Finley. Jesse and
his wife had three children — Rosanna, James W., and Isabella
Carll; his second wife is Lucetta, the daughter of John and
Lydia Mills; they have issue. Lewis, the son of Ephraim and
Mary Ann Carll, married Arthalinda, the widow of Henry Clav
Miller; she is the daughter of James Baker. Lewis S. and his
wife have four children — Luke S., Lucius, Henry M., and Lucy
Carll. George C, the son of Ephraim and Mary Ann Carll, is
a physician, and resides in the (bounty of Cape May. His wiie
56 CARLL FAMILY.
if, Maggie, tlio daugliter of Jonas Miller, of that county. George
and his wife have issue. William Ileniy Carll married Elizaheth,
the daugliter of Charles and Mary Ilee\'es; thej have children.
Charles, the youngest son of Ephraim and Mary Ann Carll,
married Louisa Githens, the daughter of George Githeus, Sr.
She is deceased, leaving one daughter — Anna (t. Carll. Grace,
the daughter of Ephraim and Barl)ara Carll, was horn 10th day
of 10th month, 1800; she married AYilliam Mulford, of Roads-
town, Cundjerland county; their cliildren are Mary Eliza])eth,
George, and Ephraim Mulford. Jesse, the son of Ephraim and
Barbara Carll, was l)orn 20tli of ] st month, 1803, and married
Mary, the daughter of Sylvanus Sheppard ; there are live
children — Ephraim, Mary, William, Sylvanus, and Hannah Ann
Carll. Sylvanus "svas drowned in Alloways creek before lie was
of age, whilst going with his father to lish for shad in Delaware
bay. Ephraim, the son of Jesse and Mary Carll, married
Prudence, tlie daughter of David and Elizaljeth Finley; they
had four children — Sylvanus, Wintield, Laura, and Mary. Mai-y,
the daugliter of Jesse and Mary Carll, married Peter, the son
of Benjamin and Martha Harris; they have four children —
Lydia, Hannah Ann, Mary Elizabeth, and Benjamin. Lydia
married James Butcher, the son of Robert Butcher. The
husband of Hannah Ann is W. Wintield, the son of Samuel
Patrick. William, the son of Jesse and Mary Carll, married
Mary, the daughter of William Harmer, of Greenwich. His
second wife ^vas Harriet Applegate ; they had one son — A¥illiam.
Hannah Ann, the youngest daughter of Jesse and Mary Carll,
died a young Avoman, unmarrie(l.
Sarah, the daughter of Edward and Lydia Keasljey, married
Aaron Waddington, the son of Jonathan and Sarah Wadding-
ton; they had issue — Sarah Ann, I^ydia, Joshua, Bradway and
Jane Waddington. Sarah Ann Waddington, married John
Hill, of Salem, son of Vining Hill, of Lower Penns Neck ;
they have issue — Sarah, Ellen and John. Lydia, d^ulghter of
Aaron and Sarah Waddington, married Jonathan, the son of
Samuel and Jerusha White, of Pilesgrox'e ; her hus])and is
deceased, leaving one daughter — Gertrude. Joshua, the son of
Aaron and Sarah Waddington, married Anna Yanneman ; they
have issue — Pauline, Luella, Ernest, Sarah, Florence, Laura and
Jane. Bradway Waddington married Mary, the daughter of
Samuel and Jerusha White ; they had two cliildren — Adelaide
and Frank. Jane Waddington married James Fonda; she is
deceased, leaving one cliild — Adelaide Fonda.
CHAMBLESS FAMILY.
Nathaniel Cliamljless, and liis son Nathaniel, eml^arked for
this country in the year 1675. They were servants of Edward
Wade. About 1680 he purchased 250 acres of land of his
former employer, being a part of the allotment Edward Wade
1)0Ught of J(jhn Fen wick l>efore he embarked for this country.
In 1681, his wife Elizal)eth and daughter Mary emliarked from
L<)ndon in the ship Henry, and landed at Elsinborough in the
7th uKjnth of the same year. Soon after liis wife ciinie they
settled on his })i-()perty in Alloways Creek. He about that time
l)ought 250 aci'cs more, adjoining his lirst purchase, of Joseph
AVade. Botli com])rised tlie greater part of what is now called
Alloways Creek Neck. In 1688 their daugliter Mary married
Jolui Hancock, who emigrated to this country in 1679. He
was a native of England. John and his wife had nine children.
Their eldest son, John HanccK-k, was born 10th of 1st montli,
1690, in Alloways Creek Neck. The names of their other
children were William, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, Nathaniel,
Edward, Joseph and Grace. Some persons suppose that they
were of the same family of Hancock's as those hy that name
who resided in Elsinborough and Hancock's Bridge. There is
no evidence that any rehxtionship existed. Notwithstanding
Nathaniel Chambless and his son Nathaniel were servants when
they lirst came to this country, ])j industry and by maintaining
high moral character, Ijoth became eminent men in religious
and civil society in the early settlement of Fenwick Colony.
Nathaniel Chambless, Sr., was left executor of the great
estate of his intimate friend, Rudoc Morris, of Elsinborough,
who died in 1701, and also guardian of his minor children.
Several other of like trusts he was chosen to do, sliowing
conclusively that the men who lived in that generation had
implicit confidence in his ability and integrity. There is no
record that he and his wife ever had but two children — Natlianiel,
and Mary, who married John Hancock. I tliink he died about
1710. They formerly spelled their name Cliamness, l)ut the
family a generation or two afterwards changed it to Chambless.
58 CHAMBLESS FAMILY.
He deeded, before liis death, 100 acres of laud to liis daughter,
Mary Hancock ; the residue of liis real estate to his son,
Nathaniel Chambless.
James Chambless, son of Nathaniel and Eleanor Chambless,
was born 22d of the 1st month, 1689. Mary was born in 1692.
Elizabeth M'as born in ITOO. Hamiah was l)oru in 1702.
Nathaniel Chambless, 3d, was born in 1705. Rebecca Chaml)less,
the daughter of James Chambless, was born 3d of 11th month,
1716. Slie afterwards married Jeclediah Allen, son of Ephraim
Allen. Soon afterwards Jedediah purchased, I believe, John
Rolpli's estate in Mannington. It contained 500 acres, and was
located on the south side of Mannington creek, adjoining Jol)
Ridgway's land. Jedediah and his wife, Rel>ecca, had three
sons — Jedediah, David and Chambless. The latter's occupation
was that of a tailor, and he lived the greater part of his life in
the city of Philadelphia. The land in Mannington was divided
e(|ually between the two oldest sons, Jedediah and David.
James Chambless, Jr., son of James and Mary Chaml)less,
was born 29th of 1st month, 1721. About the year 1742 he
married Mary Fetters. They had three daughters named Sarah,
Mary and Rebecca. Sarah's husband was William Smith, the
oldest son of Thomas Smith, of Mamiington. Mary Chambless'
husband was David Smith, the brother of William, They lived
in the town of Salem, where he followed his trade, being a
hatter, and continued in that business until his death. Nathaniel
Chamliless, 3d, married Susan Oakford, the daughter of Wade
Oakford, in 1725. They had one daughter named Sarah
Chambless. When about eighteen years old, she marriedWilliam
Hancock, the son of John Hancock, the man who was instru-
mental in having a bridge built across Alloways creek as early
as 1720 — hence the name of the Bridge. The village derives
its name from him. He was a large landholder at the time of
his death. He had 500 acres that he inherited from his mother,
Isabella Hancock, being one-half of William Hancock's allotment
tliat he purchased of John Fen wick in the springof 1675, before
he came to this country. John Hancock purchased in 1720 of
James Thompson, of Elsinborough, 250 acres. (3n said property
was the family burying ground of the Thompson family, and by
tradition John Hancock himself was buried there, and his son
William, and his wife, Sarah Chambless Hancock, were likewise
interred tliere. It afterwards went under the name of tlie
Hancock burying ground. The Thompson family, after the
second generation, buried at Salem. A good fence made of
boards enclosed the graveyard within the memory of many per-
CHAMBLESS FAMILY. 59
sons living at the present time. I beKeve within a few years
past the fence has been removed, and the plongh has passed over
the remains of some of the foremost emigrants in pomt of
intelligence and moral worth that settled in West Jersey. But
that graveyard is not an exception ; all ancient family grave-
yards that I know of in this comity have shared the same fate.
The Sharp's, Bradway's, Stretch's, Oakford's, and Abbott's — all
of those families had family graveyards towards the close of the
17th century, not a vestige of which remains at the present day.
John Hancock also purchased a large tract of land in Penn's
Neck. All his real estate his son William inherited at his
death. AVilliam Hancock and his wife, Sarali Chambless
Hancock, had but one child, named Sarah. She afterwards
became the wife of Thomas Sinnickson, of Penn's Neck. Soon
after tlieir marriage they became residents of the town of Salem.
Thomas' occupation Avas that of a merchant. They left no
children. I have frequently been asked: "Where is the Cham-
bless family at the present time ? " The answer is : "The name
is lost on account of the last two of the male line. James
Chambless, Jr., and Nathaniel Chambless, 3d, having no sons;
their childi'en were daughters. Tlieir descendants are the Smiths,
Aliens, Bassetts, Foggs, and many other families that I could
name." William Hancock, in 1755, deeded a half-acre of ground
in the village of Hancock's Bridge to the Society of Friends to
build a meeting house upon, it being a more convenient location
than where the old house stood. The house was accordingly
built the year following ; it was of brick, and is still standing in
a good state of preservation. All accounts of him justify the
opinion that he was a man of more than ordinary mental al)ilities.
His father gave liim more school education than was common
at tliat time. His wealth and learning enabled him to have a
great influence in the county. He was a member of the Colonial
Legislature for twenty years in succession. His first wife dying
before she arrived at middle age, he in his old age married Sarah
Thompson, daughter of Joshua Thompson, of Elshil)orough. She
was many years younger than himself. During the Revolutionary
war part of the American militia quartered in his house at
Hancock's Bridge. In the 3d month, 1778, one of the most
cruel and murderous massacres of the war occurred at that house;
William Hancock liimself received a mortal wound. His l)rother-
in-law, Joshua Thompson, the same day took him to his liouse,
about half a mile from the scene of carnage, and tliere he died
of his wounds in a short time, leaving a young widow, and one
son by his last wife. The son's name was Jo] in Hancock, who,
CO CHAMBLESS FAMILY.
at the death of his father, was about five years of age. John,
when he arrived to manhood, married Eleanor Yorke, an amiable
and interesting young woman, daughter of Andrew Yorke, of
Salem, John and his wife had four children. Sarah Hancock
was the oldest; she married Morris Hancock, of Elsinborough.
Henrietta married Lewis P. Smith, formerly of Bucks county,
Pennsylvania. Thomas Yorke Hancock married Rachel Nichol-
son, daughter of William Nicholson, a native of Mannington.
Maria Hancock married Richard Parrot Tliompson, of Salem,
son of Hedge Thompson.
CATTELL FAMILY.
William Cattell, it is generally thought, came from Shrews-
Iniry, East Jersey, and settled at Salem about the year 1747.
His occupation was that of a merchant. He and liis wife had
two children, as recorded in the monthly meeting books of Salem.
Elijah, the son of William and Ann Cattell, was born 27t]i of
7th month, 1751. Mary Cattell, daughter of the same parents,
was born 24th of 9th month, 1757. Ehjah, it appears, was a
clerk for his father until tlie latter's death ; tlieir place of business
was at tlie corner of Market and Broadway street. After the
deatli of Elijah's father (William Cattell), Elijah Cattell and
William Parrott entered into partnersliip. During tlie war of
the American Revolution, Elijah left the Society of Friends, of
wliicih he w^as born a member, and took an active part against
the mother country; he was considered as ardent a patriot as
there was in the town of Salem. He married Hannah Ware,
she being a descendant of one of the oldest families of the Colony.
Tliei-e were four children — Ann, Margaret, Thomas W., and
Maria Cattell. Ann Cattell, the eldest, married William
Mnlford, a native of G-reenwich, at that time a resident of Salein ;
they liad several children. [See Mulford family.] Margaret,
(langhter of Elijah and Hannah W. Cattell, married David
Williams, of Salem; they had issue — Robert, Anna, and Sarah
Williams. Maria, the youngest daughter of Elijah and Hannah
W. Cattell, never married, and the only one of their children
living.
Thomas Ware Cattell, son of Elijah and Hannah W. Cattell,
was born in 1790. He possessed an amiable disposition, aiul
an uncommon active mind; was above ordinary men in mathe-
matics. His fellow citizens of Salem had full confidence in liis
integrity and ability as a calculator, therefore he was elected
Assessor of Taxes, which office he held for upwards of twentv
years. He was engaged in the mercantile business, nearly all
of his long and useful life ; was a partner at one time with his
brother-in-law, William Mulford, a good business man, on
Market street. Afterward, he and the late Clement Acton kept
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a liardware store and lumber yard for many years. Thomas,
after tlie iirm dissolved, confined himself exclusively to the
hardware store, and so continued until near the close of his life.
His death occurred in 1867, being seventy-seven years old. He
was a great loss to tlie public, as well as to his immediate family;
also to the Presbyterian clmrch, of which he had been, the latter
part of his life, an active and consistent member. Thomas,
wlien a young man, married Kesiah, the daughter of Alexander
and Esther Gilmore, of Lower Penn's Neck. She died several
years before her husband. They had seven children — Alexander
(t., Elijah, Esther, Thomas, Sarah, William and Samuel Cattell.
Alexander Gilmore Cattell, the eldest son of Thomas and
Keziah Cattell, was born in 2d month, 1816. He has been a
merchant from early life, first in his native town of Salem,
afterwards he and his brother Elijah Cattell went into tlie
grain business on Delaware avenue, in the city of Philadelphia.
Tliey at once took a leading part in that especial trade in that
city. Alexander in early life, took an active part in the public
affairs in liis native county and State, being affable, and pleasing
in liis address, wdiich he inherited from his father, also a ready
debator in public assemblies. These qualifications soon made
him conspi(;uous. When the inhabitants of the State of New
Jersey believed the time had come to have a new Constitution,
Alexander C Cattell, though a young man, was chosen one of
the members of the Convention to frame a new one, so as to
submit it to the voters of the State for their adoption, or
]-ejection. He at once became an active member from the
southern section of the State. He brought forward a section
in which he was anxious to be incorporated in the new Consti-
tution, and abvocated it with much ability. That was the
l)ieimial session of the State Legislature, but it was rejected by
the Convention. If it had become a part of the Constitution,
it would have been a great saving to the State in a pecuniary
way, besides a great deal of useless legislating. He was subse-
quently elected a member of the State Legislature, and after-
wards chosen a member of the United States Senate, in which
lie served one term. During the latter ])art of it his health
gave way, but upon becoming convalescent, he was sent by the
United States Government on an important mission to England,
respecting the finances of the country. After he removed to
Philadelphia, he took an active part in the commercial affairs
of that city ; was one of the first that originated the Corn
Exchange j>ank, and was elected President of that institution.
He mari-ied when young, Eliza Gilmore, a lady of refinement.
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daughter of Samuel Gilmore, of Lower Penn's Neck ; she
l>eing his cousin ; she has l)een deceased three or four years,
leaving no issue. Alexander and EHjah Cattell have each built
liandsome residences in Mercliant\'ille, Camden County, where
tliey reside.
Elijah Cattell, second son of Thomas W. and Kesiah Cattell,
married Catharine Hardy of Philadelphia ; tliey have three
children — Margaretta, Alexander and Edward Cattell ; his
occupation I have already mentioned in his l)rother Alexander's
history. Esther, the oldest daughter of Thomas and Kesiah
Cattell, married Joseph Fithian, M. D., a resident of Wood-
hnrj, Gloucester county. He is a native of Cumberland
county ; they have two daughters — Josephine and Sallie Fithian.
Thomas, the third son of Thomas W. and Kesiah Cattell,
married Anna Ashburner ; tliey have seven children — Jane,
Hetty, Mary, liillie, Sallie, Willie and Fannie Cattell. Thomas
Cattell, Jr. as likewise all of Thomas W. Cattell's children,
had the talent they inherited from the Cattell and Gilmore
families, that of a(;quiring school learning readily ; far superior
to the majority of students. He is one of the Professors of
Lincoln University, located in Chester county, Pa.
Sarah, the second daughter of Thomas and Kesiah Cattell,
married Henry B. Ware, of Salem, son of Bacon and Anna J.
Rumsey Ware. Henry was educated at West Point. After
he was through with his studies was elected Clerk of Salem
Bank ; continued in that office until his uncle George Pumsey's
death ; he was then elected Cashier, in the place of his uncle,
which office he filled with credit until his physical health became
\ery much impaired and he resigned, but was continued one of
the Directors until his death. Henry and his wife, Sallie Cat-
tell Ware, had three children — Anna, Thomas and Alexander
Ware. Sallie, his widow, is still living and holds the office of
Postmistress at Salem at the present time.
William, the fourth son of Thomas W. and Kesiah Cattell,
married Lizzie McKeen ; they have two children — James and
Harry Cattell. William holds the important office of President
of Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa. Samuel, the youngest
son of Tliomas and Kesiah Cattell, married Henrietta Malliard ;
they have ten children — William, Thomas, Samuel, Kesiah,
Elijali, Henrietta, Barron, Josephine, Joseph and Frank Cat-
tell.
COLES FAMILY.
The family of Coles, it appears was an ancient family of
England ; one of them liecame a meml)er of the Society of
Friends ; to avoid religions prosecution, he emigrated to West
New Jersey and purchased a large tract of land in Evesham
township, Burlington county. Samuel Cole, the eldest son
married, had two or three daughters. Martha, the eldest, mar-
ried David, the son of Judge David Davis, of Pilesgroxe,
Salem county. Samuel's daughter Mary, married a Newbold.
David and Martha C. Davis had three children — Jacob, Joseph
and Martha Davis. Samuel Cole made his will in the year
1772, leaving a large real and personal estate, after providing
lil^erally for his widow, Mary Cole, he devises the greater
part of his estate to his grand-children, Jacob, Joseph and
Martha Davis, also to his daughter Mary Newbold's children,
and likewise a legacy or two to his nephew Thomas Coles, eldest
daughter Mary Coles fifty pounds, and he also directs his
executors, his son-in-law David Davis and his friend Abraham
Allen, to pay fifty pounds to Haddonfield Preparative Meeting
of Friends.
About 1750 Thomas' nephew, Sanmel Cole, left Evesham
and located in Gloucester county, at a place since known as
Coles Mills. He soon afterwards married Alice Collins ; tliey
had eight children, their names were : Mary, Hannah, Thomas,
Samuel, Kiml:»le, Joseph, Hope and Alice Coles, all of whom
grew up, married and had issue. Mary, the eldest daughter of
Thomas Coles, married Jonathan Collins, by whom she had
seven children, whose names were: Alice, Benjamin, Sanmel,
Mercy, Elizabeth, Jonathan and Thomas. Hannali, the second
child of Thomas and Alice Coles, married Peter Strang ; they
resided in the immediate neighborhood and raised ten children
— Thomas, Sarah, Alice, Margaret, Peter, Charles, John,
Deborah, Hannah and David. Tliomas, the third child of
Thomas and Alice Coles, married Martha Stiles ; they raised
twelve children — Thomas, William, Bartholomew, Elizabeth,
Martha, Ann, Samuel, Joseph, Alice, Mary, Ephraim and Sarah.
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He came in possession of the mill property which consisted of
uljout 2,U0U acres of land on which lie lived until 1808,M'hen he
l)ought a mill property on Oldman's creek at what is noAv
known as IIarrison^'ille. He then moved to that place with
his large family of children, where he was engaged in the lumber
l)usiness until his death, which occurred in the year 182G. Sam-
uel, the fourth child of Thomas and Alice Coles, married Elizabeth,
the daughter of Joseph Pimm; they had three children —
Joshua, Sarah and Samuel. Kimble, the fifth child of Thomas
and Alice C(jles, married Kesiah, the daughter of John Lippin-
ci)tt, of Evesham, Burlington county ; tliey had children —
Mai'ia, Eliza, Jidianna, John, Benjamin, Charles and Harriet,
floseph, the sixth child married Margaret Scott, of Bilesgrove,
and settled on a farm near what is known as Richman's Mills,
where they raised five children, whose names are: Elizabeth,
Joseph, Margaret, Sarah and Esther. Hope, the seventh child,
married Abijah Collins, and raised five chihlren — Joseph, Isaac,
Abijah, William and Hannah. Alice, the eighth and youngest
child, married Israel Locke, of Repaupo, (irloucester county,
1)ut afterward mo\ed to Pilesgrove, Salem county, where they
raised eight children — Thomas, Susan, Hannah, Elizabeth, Har-
riet, Alice, Martha and Sanniel.
Alice, the eldest child of Mary and Jonathan Collins, nuirried
John Peterson, of Pilesgrove. Benjamin and Sarah never
married. Mercy, the fourth child, married Jesse Lenard, from
near Blackwoodtown, Gloucester county, but left no issue.
Elizal)et]i is living in Philadelphia, not married. Jonathan never
uuirried, is living in Philadelphia. Tliomas, the seventh and
youngest child of Mary and Jonathan Collins, died near Eldridge
Hill, in Pilesgrove, and left two cliildren — Mary and Alice; they
live in Pliiladelphia.
Thom;is, the eldest child of Jlannali and Peter String, nuii-ried
Hannah Albertson, with whom he removed to Ohio in 1815.
Sarah, the second child, never married. Alice married Alexander
S(-ott; they lived near to Coles' mill, and raised six children —
AVilliam, Esther, Hannah, John, Peter, and Thomas Scott.
Margaret nuirried Joseph Morgan, of BlackwoodtoAvn, Gloucester
county; they had children, but lost tliem when young. Peter,
the fifth child of Hanmdi and Peter String, first nuirried Eliza-
beth Pinnn, and was the father of four children — Martha,Thomas,
Josepii, and AVilliam. After her death he married Sarah, the
widow of Ephraim Garwood, of Pilesgrove. He lived to an
advanced age. The sixth cliihl, Charles, nuirried Rlioda Peterson.
He was a fanner and lived at wliat is now known as Springtown,
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66 COLKS FAMILY.
and raised tliree cliildren, M'liose uaine.s are Amos, Charles, and
tStacy String. John String", the seventh child of Hannah and
Peter String, married Amelia Stiles; they had children —
Hudson, Margaret, Peter, and Thomas String. Del)orah, the
eighth child, married a man hy the name of Clark, and moved
to Oliio soon after. Hannah married George Stiles. David,
the tenth and yomigest child, married Dehorali, tiie daughter of
Mica j ah Conover, and moved to Illinois.
Thomas, the oldest child of Thomas and Martha Cole?,
married Rachel Birch, and raised eight cliildren — Ricliard,
Samuel, Eplu'aim, Asa, Martha, Deborah, Alice, and Thomas
Coles. He died in the year 1822, where his l)rotlier iiartholomew
now lives. AVilliam, the second child of Thomas and Martha
Coles, married Ilel:»ecca, daughter of Sanmel Morgan, of Piles-
grove. He lived on the farm now occupied by his son, Riclnnan
Coles, until his death, which occurred in 1862. They raised
seven children, wliose names are Samuel M., Thomas, Rel)ecca,
William, Martlia, Riclnnan, and 1>. Fraidvlin Coles. Bartholo-
mew, the third (;hild, married Aima Agister, and raised nine
children — Harris, Thomas, Uz, William, Bartholomew, Chalkley,
Joseph, Stacy, and Ira Coles. He is still living, and is oxev
ninety years of age. I A'isited this aged man recently, and found
him quite healthy. He told me he cut, during last winter, "Hfty
loads of wood. Elizabeth, the fourth child, mai-ried Elijah
Horner, bj whom she had eight children, whose names were
Susau, Martha, Eliza, Caroline, Alice, George, Mary Anna, and
Elma. He was a farmer, and lived near Mullica Hill, Gloucester
county. Martha, the Hfth child, married Edward Pancoast, of
Pilesgro\e. She died in a few years, and left one son — Stacy,
Avho died young. Ann, the sixth child, lirst married Joseph
Lippincott, and by him had three children — Joshua, Thomas,
and Lydia. Slie afterwards married John Ilowey, and had one
child — Sarah Ann. Sanmel, the seventh child of Thomas and
Martha Coles, married Marianna Morgan, of Blackwoodtown,
Gloucester county, to which place they moved, and raised three
children — Elizabeth Ann, Joseph, and Thornas Coles. Joseph,
the eighth child, married Margaret, daughter of Samuel Morgan,
of Pilesgrove, l)ut died in a few years after, leaving one child
— Martha Ann Coles. Alice, the ninth child, married William
Garwood, of Mullica Hill, Gloucester county; had one child —
John Garwood, and died soon after. Mary, the tenth c-hild,
married Israel Kirl)v, and raised six children — Eli, Ann, Richard,
Tliomas, Mary, and Charlotte Ivirl)v. Ephraim, the eleventh
child, first married Lydia, daughter of Isaac and Tracy Ridgway,
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who died witliont cliildreii. He then married Rebecca Lippin-
cott, and raised eleven chikiren, whose names were Lydia,
Hannah, Eliza, Lippincott, Emily, Aaron, Charles, Ephraim,
Joseph, Rehecca, and Francis. He is still living, near Woods-
town. Sarah, the twelfth and youngest child of Thomas and
Martha Coles, married Nathan Gaunt and raised four children,
whose names are Joseph, Nathan, Sarah, and Alvin Gaunt.
Josliua, son of Sanuiel and Elizabeth Coles, married, l)ut
raised no cliildren. Sarah, their second child, married Daniel
Harker, she had three children — Elizabetli, Benjamin and
Samuel. Samuel, their youngest child, married Anna Ivirby ;
lie died young, leaving one child — Elmer K. Coles. Maria,
daughter of Kindle and Kesiah Coles, married William Cassady,
and raised six children, whose names are Lippincott, Mariah,
Beulah, Elmina, William and Edward. Eliza, the second child
of Kindle and Kesiah, married William Jones, by whom she
liad one son — Hiram Jones ; she afterwards married Daniel J.
Packer, of Woodbury, and had three cliildren — Daniel J.,
Edw'ard and Benjamin. Elizabeth, tlie eldest cliild of Josepli
and Margaret Coles, married Cornelius DuBois, and raised ten
children — Jjenjamin, Mary, Joseph, William, John, Elizabeth,
Ccjrnelius, Elwood, Edward and Samuel. Joseph, the only son
married Rachel Ri<-hman, and have six cliildren — Martha Jane,
Henry, Preston, Mary Ella, Resigna and Harriet. Margaret
married Joseph Harker, and liad two children — James and
Amy. Sarah married Matthew Rippe; tliey moved to Indiana
ill 1853. Estliei-, the youngest cliild of Joseph and Margaret
(Joles, married Samuel Dickinson, and died, leaving one chikl —
Joseph Dickinson.
Susan, daugiiter of Israel and Alice Locke, married Anion
Peterson, Ity whom slie had six children — Stacy, Joseph, Hannah,
Thomas, Anion, and Martha. She lives in Woodstown. Elizabeth
married Josiali Smith; she is deceased, leaving several children
living in the vicinity of Salem. Alice married Joseph Morgan,
(she is deceased,) and raised four children, three of whom are
living — Samuel R., Joseph, and Israel Morgan. Samuel Locke
married Abigail, daughter of Moses Richman; he died without
issue. Martha married Zaccheus Bassett; she lives near Dare-
town, and has children.
Samuel Coles, son of Thomas and Rachel Coles, married
Henrietta Dilks. He by profession is a miller, but lives retired
at Mullica Hill, Gloucester county. Xo children. Ephraim
married Pliebe, daughter of John Dsivis; their (children's names
are Mary, Ann, Lydia, Charles, and Isabella. IL; is also a
fiS COLES FAMILY.
miller, and lives at Dickinson's Mills, near Woodstowiu His
son Charles is associated with liim, Charles has been Collector
of Pilesgrove township for some years. Asa married Patience
Hnrff, of Hurffville, Gloncester county. He is a farmer, and
lives near Harrisonville ; has six cliildren — Anna, George,
Charles, Mary, Rebecca, and Asa. Martha married Josiali
Duffield, and lives near Sharpstown, Salem county; has tliree
children — James, Benjamin, and Caroline.
Sanmel M., the eldest son of William and Rebecca Coles,
never married, but lives with his motlier at Harrisonville. —
Thomas R. Coles, tirst married Charlotte Watson, who had
four children — Charles, Samuel, Henry and Marianna ; his
second wife is Lydia, daughter of John Duell and widow of
Stacy Coles ; he is a farmer and lives near Paulding's Station,
West Jersey Railroad. Rebecca, married Isaac C. Stevenson,
they live at Wenonah, Gloucester county, and have two children
— Charles and Saralu William M: Coles, married Lydia,
daughter of Samuel Duell ; he is a farmer living in Pilesgrove,
and has five children — Ida, Cooper, Ella, Emma and Clarkson
Coles, Martha married William Moore, they liave four children.
Richman married Lydia, daughter of Mark Horner ; he is also
a farmer living on the homestead farm, and has two cliildren —
Ellen and Susanna ; Richman is now a member of the Legisla-
ture of New Jersey. B. F. Coles, the youngest child of
William and Rebecca Coles, married Katurali, daughter of S.
II. Weatherby ; he is a mercliant and lives at Englislitown,
Monmouth county.
Harris, oldest son of Bartholomew Coles, nuirried Mary
Ilurff. He is deceased, leaving several cliildren. Thomas, the
second son, died a young man. Us, the third son, tirst mariled
Hannali Ballenger, and afterwards nuirried Mary Ballenger. He
is a farmer, living near Daretown, Salem county, and has tive
children — Jane, Isaac, Anna, Mary, and Sarah Coles. AVilliam,
tlie fourth son, married Louisa Whitaker. He was a farmer,
and died recently, leaving two children — William and Nancy
Coles. Bartholomew, the fourtli son of Bartholomew and Anna
Coles, married Rebecca, the daughter of Malachi Hornei-, of
Gloucester county. He is also a farmer, living near Whig Lane,
in Upper Pittsgrove, and has six children — Anna, Edward,
Eleanor, Martlia Amy, George, and Stacy Coles. Chalkley
Coles, tirst married IMartha Ann, daugliter of Josej^h and Mar-
garet Coles; Ills pi'csent wife is Elizal)eth, (bmghter of James
and Marianna H(n-ner ; tliey liave but one chihl living — Maggie,
.btseph (^oles tirst married E]i/.al)etli, daugliter of Asa Moore;
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afterwards married Postreina Groff; tliey have three children
by his first wife ; he is a farmer and lives in Gloucester county.
Stacy Coles married Lydia, daughter of John Dnell ; he died
and left one son — John D. Coles. Ira, ninth and youngest son
of Bartholomew and Anna Coles, married Martha Ann Adcock;
tliey have no children ; he is a farmer and lives where liis father
has lived for nearly sixty years.
Joseph, the oldest son of Samuel and Mariam Coles, married
Harriet Bateman, of Blackwoodtown ; he is a farmer and has
no cliildren. Thomas Coles first married Sarah . Slie
died and left two children ; he then married Eliza Kirkbride;
slie also died and left one child. Thomas lives at Blackwood-
tijwn. Lydia, the oldest child (.)f Epln-aim and Rebecca Coles,
married George Carter ; she died and left several children.
Hannah Coles married Richard Springer, of Bridgeport ; she
is living a widow with several children. Eliza Coles married
John Bishop ; they have a farm near Elmer, on which they live
witli tln-ee children. Lippincott Coles married Mary Duell and
liave two children. Charles Coles is married and lives in
Indiana. Aaron Coles married Ella, daughter of Barclay
Edwards ; has no children. Epliraim Coles married Mary Ann
Kirby ; he was killed by the exphjsion of a steam engine ; left
no children. Joseph Coles married a daughter of Josepli and
Racliel Coles. Rebecca married Henry Coles and have chil-
dren. Francis Coles married William, son of George Avis; he
is a miller and lives at IJaretowu.
DAVIS FAMILY.
John Davis emigrated from Wales and settled in Long Island,
lie married Dorotliea Hogbin, an English woman of large
wealth. He ])elonged to the sect called Singing Quakers,
worshiped daily on a stump, and was very pious and consistent.
He lived to the extreme old age of one hundred years. A
number of years before liis death, he moved with his family to
Pilesgrove township, Salem county, near wliere Woodstown is
now located, about 1705. His eldest son, Isaac, came to I^ew Jer-
sey hrst; John soon after, with his family, also came. The
latter and all liis family subsefpiently became members of
Friends' Meeting. Isaac, his eldest son, married and had one
son, who was shot by accident or otlierwise, not mentioned in
tlie record; he also had two or tln-ee daughters. The names of
.[(Jni Davis' other cliildren were Jolm, David, Malachi, Abigail,
Hannah, and Elizabeth; all born on Long Island. David Davis,
the tliird son, became the most prominent of any of his sons,
and his descendants are the most mmierous. He was appointed,
bv the Legislature, a Justice of the Peace; an office at that time
conferred only on those who had qualifications for tlie position,
intellectiudly and morally. David was subsequently appointed
Judge of Salem county Courts, and was one of the foiu- Friends
who assisted in organizing Pilesgrove Meeting, about 1724 or 5,
previous to winch time Friends in Pilesgrove were members of
Salem Meeting. He certainh^ was a man who left his foot-
})rints on the sands of time. His wife was Dorothea Cousins,
l»orn in England, 19th of 11th month, 1693, and lived to the
age of ninety-six years. David Davis, at the time of his death,
was sixty years of age. David owned a large tract of land near
lb(> Presbyterian church of Pittsgrove. He built himself a large
brick house on his property, which is still standing, and lie
)-esided there until his death. Thomas Chalkley writes that in
1740 he had a religious meeting at the house of David Davis,
and l)enches were brought from a neighboi'ing meeting house.
I presume it was the Presbyterian church, which was near by,
and at that time was ])uilt of lou's. He further states that the
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meeting m'hs large, and the people were orderly. Da\id and
Dorothea Davis had seven children — Sarah, Mercy, Aniy,Hannali,
David, l)orn 31st of 10th month, 1730; Abigail, born 20t]i of
inh montli, 1732; and Jacolj, Ijorn 22d of 4th montli, 1734-.
Sarah, the eldest daughter, married William, the son of Andrew
Griscom; they had two daughters — Hannah and De1)orah.
Hannah Griscom married a Clement; tliey had two daughters
— Elizabeth and Sarah. Elizabeth Clement married James B.
Cooper; they had one daughter — Hannali Cooper. Delxirah
Griscom married John Stewart, of Cuml)erland county, the son
of John {ind Mary AV^ade Stewart, of Alloways Creek. She was
his second wife, and surxived her husband many years. Mercy,
the daughter of David and Dorothea Davis, married Thomas
Redman, of Haddonfield, 1)eing his second wife.
Amy, the daughter of David and Dorotliea Davis, nuirried
John Gill, of Haddonlield ; tliey had six children. Mary, their
eldest daughter, married a Koberts ; Elizabeth Gill married
a Burroughs ; they had issue. Amy Gill married a Willis ;
they had one daughter — Elizabeth Willis, who married Benja-
min Coopei". Mercy Gill, the fourth daughter, married Samuel
Al)l)ott, of Elsinboro, Salem county, the son of William
Aljbott ; they had three children — William, Rebecca and Han-
nah. Sarah Gill married a Whital, at Red Bank. John Gill,
the son of John and Amy Gill, married Ann Smith; they had
one son — John Gill, Jr., his wife is Sarah Hopkins ; John is
President of the National State Bank, Camden. Hannah
Davis, the daughter of David and Dorothea Davis, married
Richard AV^ood 2d ; he was the son of Richard and Priscilla
Wood, was born 18th of 1st month, 1728, in Salem, now^ Cum-
berland (county. A¥lien he was married, some say, he resided
in Philadelphia, at which place he learned the coopering busi-
ness, but he lived the greater part of his life in the town of
Greenwich, where he foUow^ed his trade, and at that place their
two children were born. Richard, the son of Richard and
Hannali D. Wood, was born 2d of 7th month, 1755, and James,
the son of the same parents, was born 30th of 8th month, 17()5.
Richard Wood, son of Richard and Hannah Davis AV^ood, mar-
ried and had one son — David Wood, who died single. Richard's
second wife was Elizabeth Bacon, the daughter of Job and
Mary Stewart Bacon, the latter was the second wife of Richard
Wood 2d, George Bacon Wood, M. D., was the eldest son of
Ricliard and Elizabeth B. Wood; he married Caroline Halm,
who died, leaving no issue. Richard Davis Wood, the second
son of Richard and Elizabeth B. Wood, married Julianna
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V^
Rcindolpli, of Pliiladelpliia ; lie is deeeasefl, leavinj^ seven chil-
dren — Richard, Edward, Randolph, Julia, Mary, Georo;e B.,
Stewart and Walter Wood. Charles, tlie third son of Richard
and Elizaheth B. Wood, married a Randolph, and at his death
left five children — Elizabeth, George B., Naomi, Minnie and
Francis AVood. Horatio C, the son of Richard and Elizabeth
B. Wood, married Eliza1)eth Bacon ; their children were Rich-
ard, Horatio, M. D., John, George G., James, Mary Ann and
Elizal)eth AV^ood. Horatio's second wife was Abigail Evans,
dangliter of William Evans, they have one son — William Evans
Wood.
Hannah Davis Wood, daughter of Ricluird and Elizal)eth B.
AVood, married David Scnll, she being his second wife. Ann
Eliza!)etli, the youngest daughter of the above parents, married
John E., the son of J(jhn and Mary M. Shepjiard. She died
young, leaving one son — George W. Sheppard. James, the son
of Richard and Hannah Davis Wood, married Ruth CUement.
He resided in Bhiladelphia, and was a merchant, and being suc-
cessful in business, he acquired a (competency and retired to
Haddonfield. James and his wife had five children, of whom
Richard C. Wood, their eldest son, Rebecca and Sanniel are
dead, the latter died young and single. Hannah Ann Wood
married Isaac Tyson, of Baltimore. They had five children —
Richard W., Jesse, Isaac, James and Hannah Ann Tyson.
James, the youngest son of James and Ruth Wood, married Jane
Hicks.
David, the son of David and Dorothea Davis, l)orn 1730, like
his father, was a large land-holder. His wife was Martha Cole,
l»y whom he had several chikh'en. Joseph, their son married
Mary Haines, and they had two daughters — Martha and Anna
Davis. Martha's husband was William Folwell; they had one son
— Joseph D. Folwell. Anna married David, the son of John and
Sarah Pancoast. They are l)oth living at this time in Woods-
town, and have several children. David, the son of David and
Martha Cole Davis, married a Haines ; they had issue. Martha,
their daughter, married Andrew Griscom, the son of Benjamin
Griscom, of Salem ; they had six children. Anna, the daughter
of David and Mary Davis, married Allen Fenimore. Joseph
Davis, the son of David, married a Collins. The second son of
David and Mary H. Davis is named David Davis. Jacob, the
son of David and Martha C. Davis, married Elizabeth Coulson;
there were four children by that marriage. David C. Davis
married Mary Engle, daughter of Asa Engle ; they had several
children. David is deceased, Mary C. Davis died single.
DAVIS FAMILY. 73
Jacol), the son of Jacob and Elizal)etli Davis, niarried a Lippin-
cott. Hannah Davis married Jonathan D. Smith ; they ha\'c
issue.
Mary Davis niarried William Rogers, and their children ^v•ere
Rachel, Joseph, and Grace Rogers. David Rogers married
Lydia Evans; Grace Rogers married Thomas Ballinger; Rachel
Rogers married Zebedee Willis. Jacob, the son of Jacob and
Dorothea Davis, born in 1734, married Esther Wilkins, of
Evesham, who was liorn 1736. Jacob and Esther were married
at Woodstown, 21st of otli month, 1761, and had seven children
— Hannah, the eldest, born 30th of 4th month, 1762, died in
1765 ; David Davis, their son, born 19th of 8th month, 1763 ;
Jacob Davis, Jr., born 5th of 6th month, 1765, died 1767;
Thomas Davis was born 13th of 3d month, 1768 ; Josiah Davis,
born 21th of 10th month, 1770, died 1776 ; James Davis, born
21st of 2d month, 1773, died 1776 ; Esther Davis was born 18th
of 5th month, 1778. Esther Davis, their mother, died 8th of
3d month, 1785, aged abont fifty-nine years. Jacob Davis
remarried Mary Stratton 10th of 8th month, 1792, and she died
3d of 2d moiitii, 1809. Jacob died in 11th month, 1820, aged
eighty-six years and four months. Eew men have left behind
them as pure and unl)lemished a character as he. Esther, the
daughter of Jacob and Esther Davis, born 1778, married Joshua
Lippincott, in 1800. I tliink he was the son of Joshua Lippin-
C(»tt and grandson of Freedom Lippincott. They had two
daughters — Beulah and Lydia Lippincott ; the latter suljsequently
married David Scull. David, the son of Jacob and Esther
Davis, born 1763, married Hannah Scull, sister of Gideon Scull.
David and his wife Hannah had two sons and one daughter;
l)oth of the sons died young, and their daughter, Hannah Scull,
niarried George Hollingshead, and had one son and three
daughters, as follows: David S. Hollingshead, who is in the
mercantile business at Woodstown; Mary, who died a few years
ago; Martha and Margaret Hollingshead, who are also both
deceased. Da\i(l Davis' second wife was Abigail Ilowey. They
had one son, Dr. David M. Davis, who married Sallie Ann Smith,
daughter of James and Hannah A. Smith, formerly of Manning-
ton. James, her father, is now living in Salem, at a very
advanced age. Dr. David M. and Sallie Ann Davis have eight
cliildren. Thomas, the son of Jacolj and Esther W. Davis, born
1768, married Esther Ogden, in 1796, and 1)y her had ten
children — Samuel, the eldest, died 3^oung ; Martlia died single ;
Mary Ann Da\-is married William Johns, of Woodbury, who
(lied, leaving no issue l)y lier; Jacob married Sarali Ami, daugh-
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74 DAV18 FAMILY,
ter of Samuel Nicliolson, of Manning-ton. Tliey had three
c]iild]"en — AVilliam, Martha, and Hannah ])avis. Josiah, the
son of Thomas and Esther J)avis, married MaryMulford; they
had. four chiWren — James, William M., Joseph, and Thomas
Davis; the latter is deceased. Thomas W., the son of Tliomas
and Esther Davis, married Phebe Townsend, of Philadelphia.
They had five children — Joseph T,, Esther, Tliomas, Robert,
and Henry Davis. Estlier, the daughter of Thomas and Esther
Davis, died single. There were Richard W. and Sarah Davis;
the latter married William Waleott, and they had tme daughter
— Francis] D. Waleott.
DUBOIS FAMILY.
Lewis Dubois, wlio emigrated to America, was born aljout
the year 1630, and settled up tlie North river, in Ulster county,
X. Y., wliere a number of his countrymen had also come to
escape religious persecution. They were called Huguenots,
being followers of Calvin. The great persecution, amounting
almost to extermination of the Protestants, is genertdly referred
to tlie revocation of the edict of Nantes, which took place in
1685, in the reign of Louis XIV. Lew^is Dubois married
Catharine Blancon; she was born at Manheim, in Germany,
w^liere he had gone to escape persecution. It appears, by the
record of him after their marriage, tliey returned to France
again, and in that country their son, Abraham Dubois, was born
in 1638 ; soon after that event they left Strasburg for this
country, and settled in Ulster county. Their son, Jacob
Dubois, was born in 1662. About the year 1711- Jacob had
lieard there was a large quantity of good land for sale in the
southern part of New Jersey. He left his native county in
New York and moved to this State to view the lands he heard
so much of. Daniel Cox, of Burlington, after he married
Rebecca Hedge, the widow of Samuel Hedge, Jr., came in
possession of a large quantity of good land in Fen wick's tenth.
He owned large tracts of land in what is now Pittsgrove town-
ship. Jacob and his sister, John and Isaac Yanmeter, pur-
chased 3,000 acres of the said Daniel Cox, of this tract. Tlie
tliree last persons in the year 1716 conveyed 1,200 acres to
Jacob Dubois as his portion. There is no account of Jacob
Dubois ever liv^ing in New Jersey, but he divided the property
Iks ])Ought of Daniel Cox among four of his sons. Barrett
Dubois, one of his sons, settled at Pittsgrove soon after his father
liad purcliased the land in said township. It appears he was
married in the State of New York previous to his coming to
Salem county ; lie had eight children. Catharine, their daughter,
was born in 1716 ; Jacob in 1719 ; tlie latter married Jaiiite
Newkirk in 1717; he was a ])rominent church member of the
Presbyterian society, aiul was a deacon mid oiu^ of the trustees
76 DinoiS FAMrLY.
to whom tlie deed was given for the ground to erect the church
building upon. Lewis, the third son of Jacob Dubois, was
born at Ilurly, in Ulster county, N. Y., in 1695. His wife was
Mai'garet Janson; tliey were married in 1720. He emigrated to
AVest Jersey in company witli ids brotlier Barrett, and soon
after became the possessor of real estate amounting to 1,091
acres; his first purcliase was in 1726 of 350 acres in Alio ways
Creek township, having bought it of Joshua Wright. It was
the land that William llall bought of James Wasse, of London,
in 1706, being part of the Wasse tract of 5,000 acres that lay
on the borders of the head water of Allowa^'s creek. Lewis
and his wdfe were among the first members of the large and
influential congregation of Pittsgrove in 1742, at the time of
the flrst organization of the Presbyterian society at that place.
At that time he sold to the trustees of the clnn-ch two acres of
land for forty shillings, to erect a church l)uilding upon for tlie
use of said society, and in 1761 he sold flfty acres of land for
a parsonage for seventy-iive pounds proclamation money, in
addition to the fifty acres the society purchased in 1744 of
Abraliam Newkirk. One of Jacob Dubois, Sr.'s sons emigrated
about the time his brother came to this county to Lancaster
county. Pa., and made it his permanent home and one of his
grand-sons became an eminent Pi-esbyterian minister. Jacol)
Dubois, son of Lewis, had eight children; his oldest son, Joliu,
married Sarah Dubois, grand-daughter of Barrett Dubois ;
Mary, their oldest daughter, married William Pobinson, of
Lower Penn's Neck ; tliey had six children — Benjamin,
William, Rebecca, Margaret, Noah and John. The two last
mentioned died single. Benjamin married, I have been told,
and left two children. William and his wife left six children —
AVilliam, Noah, James, Mary, John and Benjamin. Rebecca,
the oldest daughter, married a man by tlie name of Patterson.
I have no knowledge whether she left any children. Mai-garet
Robinson's husband was Samuel Copner, the son of Josepli
Copner, of Penn's Neck. The Copner's were an ancient family
of that township, together with tlie Dunn family and several
others, were the prominent meml)ers of the Presbyterian
church, located near Pennsville. For some cause I never ha^'e
learned, he left the church of which he was a member tlie
greater part of his life, and joined the Friends' Society, and
near the close of his life made a will, and devised one-half of
his homestead farm to the Society of Friends ; he left two child-
ren — Samuel, and one daughter, who niari'ied a. Simiickson; she
left two chiiih-en — Cynice Siiiuickson and the late Ann Simpson.
rUBOIS FAMILY.
Benjamin Dubois married Mary Kobinson, sister of AVm.
Robinson, Sr., and had six sons and two daughters. All of
them, after their father's death, removed to one of tlie Western
states. Solomon Dubois, the youngest son of Jacob Dubois,
was a native of Pittsgrove; he purchased lands in Alloways
Creek townsliip, and married the daughter of Itichard Moore;
they had five children, four daughters and one son; their names
were Martha, Mary, Susan, Kebecca, and Richard Dubois.
Martlia married Benjamin Ireland; she died young, leaving one
daughter — Ann. She married a person by the name of Corlis;
they had no children. Mary, second daughter of Solomon, died
single. Susan Dubois, daughter of Solomon, married Nathaniel,
the son of David Stretc^h. Susan died, leaving one daughter —
Mary Ann Stretch. Rebecca Dubois died single. Richard
Dubois, son of Solomon, married Sarah, daughter of Ephraim
Sayre; she died, leaving one daughter — Ann Dubois. She
married Joseph Fogg; she is deceased, leaving issue. Richard's
second wife was Hannah Ann, daughter of Thomas Sayre; they
had four sons — Solomon, Tliomas, Richard, and Josiah Dubois.
Solomon, the eldest, married Kesiali Bowen; they had three
children — William, Elizabeth, and Ruth Dubois. Solomon, the
father of the above mentioned children, was killed by a mowing
machine while he was mowing. Thomas, the son of Ricliard
and Hannah Ann Dubois, married Elizabeth Stretch; they had
one daughter — Hannah Ann Dubois. Thomas' second wife is
Sarah Jane, daughter of John W. and Sarah Ann Maskell ; they
have no issue. Richard Dul)ois, Jr., married Elizabeth, the
daughter of Thomas Mulford; they have four children — Luella,
Hannah, Rachel, and Oakford Dubois. Josiah Dubois, youngest
son of Richard, married Hannah, daughter of Lewis Fox; they
have three children — Mary Jane, Anna S., and Tliomas S.
Dubois. Richard Dubois, Sr.'s, third wife is Mary Decroy;
they have no issue. Solomon Dubois' second wdfe was widow
Hedley; they liad one son, Jacob Dubois, who subsequently
married Ann Patterson; they had two cliildren — John and
Emeline. Jacob's second wife was Charlotte F, Miller; they
liad issue, two cliildren — Mary and Cliaides Diil)()is. Mary
(kM-eased.
ELAVELL FAMILY.
The Elwell family of this county, particularly those who
liave resided in the township of Pittsgrove, have had a large
influence ])oth in religious and civil society. Jacob Elwell, tlie
emigrant, was born in England, in tlie year 1700. He settled
in Pilesgrove township soon after he arrived in this country ; he
married Catharine Dubois, whose parents were French Hugeu-
nots and had left France on account of religious persecution, and
settled in Canada on Lake Ticondersigo. She and her mother
were captured by the Indians, and recaptured by her father,
wlio followed the trial after three days of great anxiety and
toil, which we can easily imagine, the party in pursuit succeeded in
killing two of the Indians. Soon after that event, Jacob Elwell
removed from Canada with his family to Salem county, and
soon afterwards purchased land of Daniel Cox, of Burlington,
in Pilesgrove township, and settled there. Catharine Dubois,
his daughter was at that time about twelve years old. Jacob
and his wife, Catharine Dubois Elwell, had five children —
David, Sanuiel, Jonathan, Rhoda and Rachel Elwell. David,
their eldest son, married, had Hvg children, their names were
Jacob, Cornelius, David, Yoiimacea and Mary Elwell. Samuel,
son of Jacob and Catharine D. Elwell, married Amelia Morgan ;
they had five (-hildren — Sanuiel, Mary, Sarah, Amelia and Sarah
Elwell. Jonathan, son of Jacob and Catliarine Dubois,
married Peggy Summerill, daughter of William Summerill,
tlie emigrant ; they had six children — William, Jacob, Jona-
than, Catharine, Rachel and Sarah Elwell. Rhoda Elwell,
daughter of Jacob and Catharine D. Elwell, married Henry
Riclimond ; they had three children — Jacob, Henry and Isaac
Riclimond; they all died minors. After her first husband's
death, Rlioda married William Ray ; they had two children —
Bigee and Henrietta. Rhoda's tliird husband was Josiah
Paullin ; there were two children — William and Mary Paullin.
William, the son of Josiah and Rhoda Paullin, died recently
aged about eiglity-two years. I have no kuowledg^t^ of his
familv. Mai'v married. Racliel, the daui^hter of Jacob and
ELWELL FAMILY. 79
Catliarine Dubois, married James Hutchinson ; tliey had no
issue. James turned a tory in the war of tlie Kevohition, and
Avas compelled to leave the country, leaving his wife in charge
of his mother. He lived hut a short time afterwards; liis widow
subsequently married Jonathan Sneighin.
Samuel, son of Samuel and Amelia Elwell, married Maiy
Johnson, [See Johnson family.] Mary Elwell married Isaac
Johnson, youngest son of John Johnson. [See Johnson fam-
ily.] Sarah, the daughter of Samuel and Amelia M. Elwell,
married Charles Chambers; they had issue — Charles, James
and Richard Chand)ers. Amelia, the daughter of Samuel and
Amelia Elwell, married Andrew Urion ; the}' had four cliildren
— Samuel, Elizabeth, Amelia and Sarah ITrion. Samuel Urion,
their son, is now a resident of Lower Penn's Neck, and a
large land owner, and is considered one of the best agriculturists
in that section of the country; he married Sarah, the daughter
of the late Elisha Wheaton. Sarah, daughter of Andrew and
Amelia Urion, married Asa Reeves; they have issue. Amelia,
daughter of 'Andrew and Amelia Urion, married William
Brown ; they have children. Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew
and Amelia E. Urion, married Joseph Ree\es ; they have issue.
Catharine Elwell, daughter of Jonathan Elwell, married Gar-
rett Newkirk ; there were three children — Margaret, Garrett
and Matthew Newkirk ; all three of those in after life became
eminent citizens. Garrett and Matthew are successful mer-
chants. Margaret equally as nmch so as her brotliers, as a bonnet
maker.
I shtdl conclude this short and reliable history of Jacol)
Elwell and his wife, Catharine Dubois ; for many of his descend-
ants I have alluded to heretofore in the genealogy of other
families. Jacol) Elwell, the emigrant, died in Pittsgrove town-
ship, aged se\'enty-three years ; his widow, Catharine Dubois
Elwell, in 1798, far advanced in years. As far as I have
learned, both of those aged ]wrsons left an enviable i'e]:)utation
and numerous descendants.
GUY FAMILY.
Richard Guv and his wife, Bridget Gu}', were ainuiig tlie
first emigrants to Fen wick's Cokmy, His occupation in his
native country was that of a cheesemonger; he resided in the
parish of Stepny, London, in Middlesex. He purchased one
thousand acres of hmd in what is now known as Elsinhoro.
The deed and receipt for the hmd was dated in the 9th month,
1676; the purchase money was ten pounds. The said land was
located bounding on Delaware river, extending from the old
Swede's fort to the present mouth of Salem creek. He was not,
however, a resident of the county l)ut a few years. And on tlic
same day he likewise bought of Fen wick, for liis friend Thomas
Pyle, a citizen and upholsterer of the (dty of London, ten
thousand acres of land, for whicli he paid fifty pounds sterling.
The following is the receipt of John Fenwick for said land:
'' Received on thirteenth day of the third month, called May,
" one thousand, six liundred and seventy and five, of and from
'' Richard Guy, of the parisli of Stepny, of the county of
" Middlesex, (chessemonger), the full sum of fifty pounds
" sterling, mentioned and expressed in a Deed, bearing even
" date herewitli, and made for me John Fenwick, late of Bin-
'' field, in the county of Berks, within the kingdom of England,
" Esq., and early Proprietor of the Province of New Cessavia,
"■ or Kew Jersey, in America, to the said Richard Guy.
" Witnesseth present :
"Peter Hoff, By me, Fenwk^k.
" Samuel Nicholsox,
" Richard Morgan,
" John Smith,
" Edw^ard Champney,
" Edward Wade,
" Thomas Anderson,
" Edmund Warner,
" Richard Noble,
" James Gardfildser."
The said land was surveyed by Ricliard Nobh> in 1076, and
JOHN FENWICK'S RECEIPT
TO
RICHARD GUY,
FOR
Ten Thousand Acres of Land, for his friend, Thomas Pyle.
Received, the one and thirtieth day of the Third Month,
called May, One thousand six hundred seventy and five, of
and from Richard Guy, of the Parish of Stepney, ahas Stebun-
heath, in the County of Middlesex, Cheesemonger, the full
sum of ffifty pounds Sterling, which is the same sum of ffifty
pounds mentioned and expressed in a certain Deed Poll bear-
ing even date herewith, and made from me, John Fenwick,
late of Binfeild, in the County of Berks, within the Kingdom
of England, Esquire, and cheif proprietor of the one moyetie
or halfe part of the Tract of Land within the Province of New
Cesaria or New Jersey, in America, to the said Richard Guy.
^a.
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GUY FAMILY. 81
was located in the upper part of Salem tentli, where tlie
township of Pilesgrove is now.
About 1690 Richard Guy and George Deacon removed with
tlieir families to tiie county of Burlington. Kichard died in a
short time afterwards, leavdng a widow, who survived him a
number of years. George Deacon lived until 1722, leaving
childi-en. Some of his descendants are still living in that county
at the present time.
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GOODWIN FAMILY.
Jolni Goodwin was tlie son of Jolni and Catharine Goodwin,
of the parish of St. Buttolph, in Algate, London. He was
born 25th of 10th month, 1680, and emigrated to Pennsylvania
in 1701. From thence, the foUowing year, lie removed to
Salem, and in 1705 he married Susannah Smith, the oldest
daughter of John Smith, of Smithfield ; they had four children
— John, Mary, Thomas and AVilliam Goodwin ; the two oldest
died young. Thomas Goodwin was born in 1721, and nuirried
Sarah Morris, the daughter of Lewis Morris, of Elsinborongh,
in the year 1713. Thomas and liis wife lived on her proj^erty
that she inherited from her father in Elsinborongh until 1656,
when they sold it to Sanniel Abbott, and purchased the property
in the town of Salem of John Mason. The said property was
located on Broadway street, and in the spring of 1757 they
removed to Salem, and here ended their days. In the lOtli
month, 1765, Sarah Goodwin, wife of Thomas Goodwin died,
ao'ed forty-one years, leaving no children. Thomas GoodM'in's
second wife was Sarah Smith wdio lived but a few years after
her marriage, and departed this life in the year 1783. Thomas
remained single for twenty years, and in 1803 he died,
aged nearly eighty-two years, lea^dng his estate to his
great nephews and nieces. William Goodwin, the young-
est son of John and Susannah Goodwin, was born in 1723,
and in 1714 he married Mary Morris, second daughter of Lewis
Morris ; they lived in Elsinborongh on her share of her
father's estate ; they had tive children — John, Lewis, Susannah,
Mary and William Goodwin. John Goodwin, their oldest son,
was born in 1745, and in the year 1772 he married Sarah Hall,
daughter of Clement and Margaret Hall. It was one of the
first marriages that took place at the present Friends' meeting
house in Salem. John Goodwin's wife lived but a short time
after they were married, leaving no children. Mary Goodwin,
the mother of John Goodwin, died in 1776, and consequently
the property belonged to him after his father's death. John
did not survive his mother but a few years, making a will and
GOODWIN FAMILY. 83
leaving his right of the real estate to his nephew, AVilliani
Goodwin, the son of Lewis Goodwin.
Lewis Goodwin, the second son of William and Mary Good-
win, married Rebecca Zanes, of Salem, danghter of Susan
Zanes ; they had two children — John and Susan Goodwin.
John married Abigail Carpenter and had three children — Lewis,
AVilliam and Thomas Goodwin. Lewds Goodwin's second wife
was Rachel Nicholson, the daughter of William Nicholson, of
JMannington, and they had three children — William, Thomas
and Morris Goodwin. William, the oldest son, married Iluldah
Townsend, daughter of Daniel Towmsend, of Cape May.
Thomas Goodwin married Sarah Jeiferis, daughter of Joshua
Jeiferis. Morris Goodwin married Sarah Smith. Susannah
Goodwin, oldest daugliter of William and Mary GoodAvin, was
Ijorn in 1750, and in 1773 she married John Mason, the son of
Thomas Mason, and grand-son of John Mason. He was a
widower when he married Susannah Goodwin, his first wife
was Ann Hall, daugliter of William Hall, Jr.. They lived
and owned on Broadway street in Salem, which j)roperty
is now owne'd by Morris Hall. John Mason and Ann his
wife liad one daugliter named Sarah, and she married Ed-
gar Brown. John Mason and his wife Susannah had six
children — William, Mary, Ann, Thomas, Elizabeth and John
G. Mason. Their oldest son, William, died in 1776. Mary
Mason married Abner Beesley and had four children — Mary,
William, Benjamin and Thomas Beesley. Her second lius-
1)aiid was Job Ware, ^vho had two children — Job and Elijah
AVare. Ann Mason was born in 1778, and married Joseph
Thompson, son of Joshua Thompson ; they had four children
— Susan, the oldest, married Joseph Pancoast. Elizabeth,
tlieir second daugliter died in her fifteenth year. Sarah Thomp-
son married Thomas Shourds. Ann Thompson married Tliomas
Eogg. Thomas Mason, their second son, was born 1780.
About the year 1812 he married Hannah Hancock, daugliter of
Joseph Hancock ; he and his wife lived but a short time after
they were married, leaving one child — Hannah Mason, and she
married Richard M. Acton. Elizabeth Mason was born in
1782, and she died single in the twenty-fourth year of her age.
John Goodwin Mason was born in 1785 ; he never married, and
died in 1839 in the fifty-hfth year of his age. John Mason,
their father, died about 1787 ; his widow, "Susannah Mason,
married Joshua Thompson and had two children — William and
Joshua Thompson. William Goodwin, Jr., was born in 1758,
and married Elizabeth Woodimtt, of Mannington; he and li
84 GOODWIN FAMILY.
wife liad six cliildren — Prudence, the oldest, married Atkinson
Conrad. Mary Goodwin married Jonathan AV^oodnntt. Racliel
Goodwin married Preston C. Woodnutt. Sarali Goodwin mar-
ried Henry Dennis, her second Inisband was Jonathan Wood-
nutt. Elizabeth and Al)igail Goodwin always remained single ;
they were remarkable for their kind and sympathetic feelings,
always willing to assist the poor and afflicted, going and looking
after them in the abodes of poverty, and administering to their
wants as far as their circumstances w^ould allow ; they continued
in their noble deeds of philanthropliy until old age and as long
as bodily strength permitted them to do it. It seemed that the
spirit of tlie immortal Howard had des(;ended upon them.
HAXCOCK FAMILY.
William Hancock, Sr., came from England to this county in
the year 1677, with his wife, Isabella Hancock, and two sons,
John and William Hancock. He took possession soon after his
arrival of allotment of land on the south side of Allowajs Creek,
containing 1,000 acres. The said land was surve^^ed by Richard
Hancock, by order of John Fenwick, in 1676. William Han-
cock died and left his estate to his widow, Isabella, who, the
year following, sold one half of the allotment to John Maddox.
She survived about ten years after her husband. In her will
she devised her real estate to her oldest son, John Hancock, and
lier personal estate to William Hancock ; and he purchased 500
acres of land in Elsinborougli, adjoining lands of John Mason on
the south, Samuel Nicholson on the east, Rudoc Morris' land on
the west, and by Isaac Smart's land on the north. In 1705 he
built a large brick house; it stood until within a few years ago,
and then it was torn down b}^ Richard Grier, the present OM'ner
of the property, and a large frame house erected on the site of
the old one. I believe William Hancock married Sarah Stafford.
Their son, Thomas Hancock, was born 5th of the 12th month,
1714. William Hancock held the office of Justice of tiie Peace
for many years, and he died about the year 1710. His son,
Thomas Hancock, married and had two sons — William and
Tliomas Hancock. At their father's death the landed estate
was divided equally between them. William Hancock, son of
Thomas, married Hannah Fogg, daughter of Charles Fogg, in
the year 1770. William Hancock, their son, was born Itn day
of the 7th month, 1771; he died a minor. John Hancock was
born the 21th day of Ith month, 1773; Elizabeth Flancock was
born the 17th of the 7th month, 1776. John died in 1794, and
made a will, leaving his estate to his cousin, William Hancock,
son of Tiiomas Hancock. Thomas Hancock married Mary
Goodwin, daughter of AVilliam Goodwin; they had live children
— Thomas Hancock, Jr., AV^illiam, Morris, Sarah, and Elizabeth
Hancock.
John Hancock, tlie eldest son of William and Isabella Han-
86 HANCOCK FAMILY.
cock, inlierited by his motlier 500 acres of land on the south sid£
of Alloways creek, where the viHage of Hancock's Bridge is now
located. All accounts we have of him go to show that he was
a man of great energy in relation to business. He added largely
to his estate. In the year 1708 he built a bridge across Allo-
ways creek. I have no douljt he was assisted by the public in
the work. It was know^l for many years as John Hancock's
bridge. In 1709 there were commissioners appointed by the
Court to lay out a public highw^ay from the town of Salem, by
the way of John Hancock's new bridge, to the town of Green-
wich. John died about 1725, leaving one son — AVilliam Han-
cock, and lie came in possession of one of the largest landed
estates in the county ; his lands lay mostly in Alloways Creek,
Elsinborougli, and Penn's Neck. William married Sarah, the
daughter of Nathaniel Chambless, Jr., of Alloways Creek. In
the year 178'1 , William Hancock built himself a large and
substantial brick dwelling, which is still standing, in good repair.
It is an historical house, on account of the horrible massacre
which took place in it by the British soldiers on the American
militia, wdio were cpiartered in it in 1778. William Hancock,
then an old man, received a mortal wound, and died in a short
time afterwards at the house of his brother-in-law, Joshua
Thompson, about half a mile farther clown the creek. William
had one daughter by liis first wife, Sarah Cliambless — Sarah
Hancock. She married Thomas Sinnickson, of Salem, son of
Andrew Sinnickson, of Penn's Neck. Thomas and his wife left
no issue. His second wife was Sarah, the daughter of Joshua
and Sarah Thompson, of Elsinborough ; they had one son —
John Hancock, who married Eleanor York, daughter of Andrew
York, of Salem; they had several children; four of them lived
to grow up, and had families — Sarah, who married Morris
Hancock, son of Thomas Hancock, of Elsinborough; Henrietta
married Lewis P. Smith; Thomas Y. Hancock married Rachel,
daughter of AVilliam and Elizabeth Nicholson; Maria married
Ricliard P. Thompson, son of Hedge and Mary Ann Thompson,
of Salem. William Hancock done a hu-ge amount of public
business, was a member of the Colonial Legislature for twenty
years in succession, and lield tlie office of Judge and Justice at
the time of liis death.
OBEDIAH HOLMES FAMILY.
The Holmes family, of the comity of Cumberland, are an
ancient and numerous family. At this late day it is almost
impossible to follow the various branches with any degree of
certainty, therefore I will endeavor to confine my remarks to
those branches who have kept a correct record of tlieir ancestors.
It appears that Obediah Holmes, Sr., was born 1606, at Preston,
Lancashire, England, and at the age of thirty-three he emigrated
to America, landing at Boston in 1639. He located at Salem,
in the State of Massachusetts, and most probably married soon
after that event. He was a Baptist clergyman of no ordinary
intellect, and for the doctrines he so aljly and po"^^erfully enun-
ciated, he was arraigned in 1650, and tried by a court of the
rigid Puritans of that day, and was condemned to be puljlicly
whipped, together with a number of Friends or Quakers, who
likewise held religious opinions, which they regarded as heresy.
I have no donl)t the Puritans, in their blind zeal, believed such
religious doctrines were detrimental to the peace and happiness
of their commonwealtli. Soon after that event, Obediah Holmes
removed, with his family, to Newport, Rhode Island, where
religious liberty was granted by just and liberal laws, made and
enacted by Roger Williams. He died at Ne\\'port, 15tli of 10th
month, 1682, aged seventy-six years. There is no mention at
what time his M'ife's death occurred, but I think it M'as previous
to his. They had eight children, most of whom siirvived their
parents ; some married in New England, one or more settled on
Long Island. Two of their sons, Obediah and Jonathan, came
to New Jersey and purchased a tract of land of the Indians,
amounting to 1,600 acres, located near where Middletown now
is, in Monmoutli county. The two brothers were constituent
members of the Baptist church at MiddletoM^i, which church is
said to be the iirst of that denomination constructed in the State.
Obediah, however, remained in Monmoutli county but a sliort
period, and removed and settled within Fenwick's Colony, in
the Cohansey precinct, on the south side of the river, in Shrews-
bury Neck, in 1685. He was one of the nine Baptists that
OBEUIAH HOLMES FAMILY.
assisted in organizing the iirst Baptist cliurcli in South Jersey,
in 1690. It does not appear that he was ever ordained a reguhir
clergyman, but he occasionally preached. He possessed, h^-
nature, a legal mind, and the early inhabitants of that section
of country soon appreciated, his business capacities, and when
the Salem courts were regularly established, in the early part of
tlie reign of Queen Anne, he and. Thomas Killingsworth were
appointed Judges, and John Mason, Samuel Hedge, and Joseph
Sayre, from Cohansey, were the Justices.
Obediali Holmes, Jr., married, a young woman Ijy the name
of Cole ; they had four children — two sons and two daughters.
The eldest daughter married a young person by the name of
Love, his second daughter married a person by the name of
Parvin. Botli the Love's and the Parvin's are among the first
families that settled in Cumberland county. Obediah's eldest
son, Samuel Holmes, was drowned when a Voung man ; liis
youngest son, Jonathan Holmes, married and died young, leaving
one son — Jonathan Holmes. The death of Jonathan Holmes,
Sr., occurred 8th of 9th month, 1715. Jonathan Holmes, Jr.,
in 1729, married Anna Dominick, of Long Island ; they had
eiglit children — Mary, born 16th of 10th month, 1731 ; Susanna,
born 3d of 11th month; Jonathan, born 14th of 4th month,
1735 ; Eunice, born 9tli of 5th month, 1736 ; Phebe, born 23d
of 2d month, 1738; Anna, born 23d of 10th month, 1739;
Abijah, born 3d of 4tli month, 1741 ; and Rachel, born 14th of
of 1st month, 1750. All of these died minors, excepting
Abijah and PlielK\ Jonathan and Ann Holmes were memljcrs
of the Presbyterian church, at Greenwich, and Jonathan Avas a
large contributor towards l)uilding the old brick meeting house
at that place, in 1735. He was, also, one of the elders of the
church, and continued to be, I presume, up to the time of his
death, and he assisted in purchasing the parsonage in 1749 for
the church. His remains lie, as also those of his son, Aljijah,
in the ancient cemetery of that place. Phebe Holmes, the
daughter of Jonathan and Ann Ilolmes, born 1738, married
Dr. Samuel Ward ; her second husband was Moses Bloomfield,
the father of Governor Bloomtield, of tliis State. Abijah
Holmes, son of Jonathan and Ann Ilolmes, born 3d of 4th
month, 1741, married Rachel Seeley, the daughter of Ephraim
and Hannah Seeley, on the 18th of 5th month, 1767. They
had five children — Sarah, born 1st of 5th month, 1771 ; Mary,
born 29th of 3d month, 1774; Jonathan, born, 10th of 9t]i
month, 1776 ; John, boi-n 3d of 8th month, 1778 ; and Ephraim
Holmes, born 13th of 7th month, 1780. These children were
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all minors at the time of their parents' death. Abijah, their
father departed this life 6th of 3d month, 1785, and their
mother, Rachel Seeley Holmes, 8th of 1st month, 1789.
Jonathan, the son of Abijah and Rachel S. Holmes, ])orn
10th of 9th month, 1776, was married l^hree times. His first
wife was Ljdia Watson, born 11th month, 1776, and died 19th
(jf 9th month, 1799, and was buried in tlie old graveyard of the
Baptists, near Sheppard's mill. She left one son — Abijah
Holmes, wlio is living, and is far advanced in years, and resides
i:i the city of Camden. Jonathan's widow, Clarissa Holmes, is
living in the city of Bridgeton, aged eiglity-nine years. They
have one son, living in the town.
John, the son of Abijali and Rachel Holmes, born 3d of 8th
month, 1778, ^vas married twice. By his first wife he had a son —
Alfred Holmes, who lives at this time in Lower Hopewell town-
ship, Cumberland county. John's second wife was aBowen; by
her he had three children; their son John Holmes lives at or
near Bowentown.
Ephraim, the son of Abijah and Hannah S. Holmes, was born
13tli of 7th montli, 1780, and married Harriet Potter Bowen,
13tli of 4th month, 1813; she was the daughter of David and
Jane Potter Bowen. Ephraim and his wife had five cliildren —
Edward B., the first son, born 29th of 7th month, 1815, married
Julia Dillingham, and died in New York 17th of 2d month,
1858, leaving a widow and one son. Ephraim, the second son,
born 11th of 7th montli, 1817, is at this time a practicing phy-
sician, and resides in the town of Greenwich. Mary P., the
third child, born 20th of 9th month, 1819, married Charles M.
Lawrence, and died 26th of 10th month, 1865, leaving three
children, two of whom are married. Her husband is still living
at Port Jervis, New York, and is a physician. David B. Holmes,'
the fourtli child, l)orn 5tli of 8th month, 1833, married Caroline
Elizabeth Gil>bon, daughter of Charles Gil)bon ; David and his
wife reside at Schuylkill Haven, Pa.; they have three children.
Harriet Bowen Holmes, the youngest child of Ephraim and
Harriet P. Bowen, !)orn 6th of 7th montli, 1825, died 31st of
8th month, 1850; she never married. Eijhraim Holmes, the
father, died 28th of 5th month, 1818, and was buried in the
Presbyterian graveyard at Greenwich. His wife, Harriet Potter
Holmes, survived him twenty years, her death taking place 2d
of 4th month, 1868, aged seventy-eiglit years.
Many persons think that the family of Holmes in Cuml)erland
and that of Salem are of one family. I think tliere is no
relationship existing between them. They spell their names
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(liffereutly ; the Salem (county family ^vrite tlieir's Holme, M'liile
Obediali Avrote his name Holmes, ami it is so recorded in the
Salem Court records, and I believe all his descendants write
their names the same way. Further, Obediah Holmes, Sr.,
landed at Boston more than forty years before Thomas Holme,
tlie surveyor-general for William Penn, and John Holme, (I
presume they were relatives,) arri\'ed from England to tlie
province of Pennsylvania. History informs us that John Holme
Avas one of the first Baptists in that province; that was a few
years before he came to Salem county to live.
HOLME FAMILY.
John Holme, emigrated from England, and settled in Pliila-
delpliia, soon after the city was fonnded by William Penn. It
appears he liad a family — wife and two sons ; one of his sons
l)ought a large tract of land within the county of Philadelphia
and settled thereon; the place is known at this day as Ilolmes-
Ijurg. His brother, Jolm Holme, purchased a large tract of
land in Salem county, situated in Monmouth precinct, and set-
tled thereon; that being in 1698 ; he was one of the first that
belonged to the Babtist ]-eligious association, that lived near the
town of Salem ; he died the early part of eighteenth century,
leaving one son — John Holme, who subsequently married; he
liad two sons and one daughter ; one of his daughters, Eliza-
beth Holme, married Joseph, the son of Joseph Fogg, the
emigrant ; they had nine children — David, Ebenezer, Cliarles,
Hannah, Ann, Elizabeth Holmes, Isaac and Rebecca Fogg.
Jolm Holme, the eldest son of John Holme 2d, inherited the
liomestead of his father's, located near Allowaysto\vn, erected a
Hour mill, known for many years as Holme's Mill. The said
mill and land was sul)sequently owned l)y Josiah M. Reeves
and brothers. Jolm Holme was at one time Judge of the
Salem courts, and an ardent patriot in the days of the American
Revolution. Benjamin H(jlme, the youngest son of John
Holme 2d, was born about 1730 ; his first wife was Jane, the
(huighter of Daniel Smith, Jr., who regided near the village of
(iuiuton's Bridge; about the year 1762 lie purchased what was
knowh as the I)avid Morris estate, it being large and valual)le,
in tlie townsliip of Elsinborough, of John Hart, ho being lialf
l)i'(.)t]ier of David Morris. Benjamin's first wife, Jane Smith,
(bed young, leaving no issue ; he subsequently married Esther
(ribbon, whose maiden name was Seeley ; her first husl^and was
Jolm Gibbon, son of Leonard Gibbon. Jolm volunteered in
the army, and was taken prisoner and died in one of the prison
ships of the British, near Kew York. Benjamin and his wife,
Esther Holme, had two children — John G. and Jane Holme.
Benjamin Holme was a historical man and a staunch Whig, in
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the American devolution, and was appointed a Colonel of the
American Militia, of the lower connties, operating with Colonel
Hand, of Cape May ; by so doing liis buildings in Elsinborough
were ])urned, hy order of Colonel Manhood, tlie Britisli com-
mander. After peace was restored he rebuilt his buildings and
lived to an advanced age, much respected l)y his neighbors and
friends. John G. Holme, son of Benjamin and Esther Holme,
married Rebecca, the daughter of Tliomas and Kebecca Tliomp-
son, of Salem ; slie died leaving one daughter — Rebecca Holme,
who subsequently married George W. Garrison. John G.
Holme's second wife was Margaret, daughter of Clement and
Rebecca K. Hall, of Elsinborough. John and Margaret Holme
liad three children — Benjamin, Jane and Caroline Holme. By
tills marriage of John Holme to Margaret Hall, (they having
issue) was the means of restoring the large landed estate Colo-
nel Holme bought of Jolm Hart, to the Morris family again.
Margaret was tlie fifth generation in lineal descent from Rudoc
Morris. Benjamin, son of John G. and Margaret Holme,
married Elizabeth, the daughter of Henry and Ann Smith
Dennis, of Salem ; tlieir children living are Caroline, John,
Henry, Lucy, Franklin and Jane Holme. John, the son of
Benjamin and Elizabeth Holme, married Lena, daughter of
James Woolman, of Pilesgrove ; they have issue. J ane,
daughter of John G. and Margaretta Holme, married John, tlie
son of Morris and Lvdia Hall, of Elsinborough. John is
deceased, leaving no issue ; liis widow, Jane Hall, resides in
Salem. Caroline, daughter of John and Margaret Holme,
died when she was about ten years of age. Jane, daughter of
Colonel Benjamin Holme and liis wife Esther, married a man
by tlie name of Harris, who resided at S\vedesl)oro, Glou-
cester county ; she died about a yeai' after marriage, leaving no
issue.
CLEMENT HALL.
Born 1819.
HALL FxVMILY.
In 1677 William Hall emigrated to this country in company
with John and Andrew Thompson, and their families. They
landed at Elsinborough the 22d of 12th month, the same year.
Before they sailed from Dublin, William Hall hired with John
Thompson for a number of years, and soon after his servitude
expired he removed to the town of Salem, and kept a small store.
In 1688 he married Elizabeth Pyle, daughter of Thomas Pyle,
who was a large landholder in the upper part of Eenwick's
tenth; one tract alone, bordering on Oldman's creek, contained
10,000 acres. When the different townships were laid off they
named the township where he lived, and most of his real estate
lay, Pylesgrove; then the largest township in tliis county, con-
taining 87,000 acres. It is belie^'ed William Hall came in pos-
session of considerable property, botli real and personal, by his
wife. Following are the names of William and Elizabeth Hall's
children, and the dates of births: Sarah was born 2Sth of the
2d month, 1689; Hannali in 1692; Elizabeth in 1694; Arm in
1699. Soon after the birth of Ann his wife, Elizabeth, died.
His second wife was Sarah Clement of the county of Gloucester;
they had three children — William Hall, Jr., born 22d of the
8th month, 1701; their second son, Clement, was born in 1706;
and Nathaniel in 1709; who, when he arrived at the age of
twenty-one, left this county and went and resided in the State
of Delaware. Clement, I presmne, died youngs jir hv^ Aact -^ o ■
AVilliam Hall was appointed, by the AVest Jersey Ifegislatiire,
a Judge of the Court for Salem county about the year 1709, to
take the place of Thomas Xillingsworth. It is to be regretted
tliat a fuller accomit of the last named individual has not been
written and handed down for the benefit of posterity. Accord-
ing to the limited accomits we have of him he was, undoubtedly,
more than an ordinary scholar, for that time, and a man in wdiose
judgment and integrity the first emigi-ants to this country had
implicit confidence. He was one of the first Baptists that came
to this county, and a clergyman of that religious denomination.
William Hall was Judge as late as 1710, and the ureatest land-
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holder in tlie county of Salem, owning one hundredth part of
Fenwick's tenth. His possessions in the town of Salem were
(considerable ; he owned one lot extending from Broadway street
to Fenwiok creek, bounded on the south ]:)y Friend's property
of sixteen acres, deeded to them by Sanmel Nicholson, in 1681 ;
on the west by Edward Bradway's lot ; also on the opposite
side of the same street another lot of land, bounded on the west
by the public fair grounds, on the south and east by Samuel and
Anne Hedge's land. Certainly he was a self-made man; no
doubt his natural talents were above the common men. By his
industry and good judgment he became one of the foremost men
of the Colony. The time of his death I have no positive means
to determine; most probably about 1718. I do not remember
ever having seen an account of him in tlie pul)lic records after
that time.
Soon after his death, his widow, Sarah Hall, being his execu-
tor, sold hirge tracts of land in ^^arious parts of the county
wliich the records show. His tract of 1,000 acres in upper
Mannington was left to his oldest son, William Hall, Jr.,
together with the greater part of his real estate in the town of
Salem. The said William Hall, Jr., on the 20th day of ninth
month, 1723, married Elizabeth Smith, the grand-daughter of
Jolm Smith, of Amblebury. They had seven children —
Clement, their oldest child, was born 15th of 12th month, 1723;
their daughter, Sarah, in 1727 ; Susan, in 1728 ; Nathaniel, in
1730; Elizabeth, hi 1735 ; Mary, in 1737 ; and their youngest
S(Hi, Edward, in 1710. William Hall built himself a large brick
house about tlie year 1725, on his property in upper Mannington,
and at tliat place he and his wife lived and spent their days.
The house still stands, and is owned by Samuel L. J. Miller, one
of tlieir lineal descendants. There is an ancient family bible of
Joliu Smith's that he brought with him from England in 1(575.
It was printed with ancient type in England, in 1631. Persons
not accustomed to seeing such ancient printing would find it
dithcult to read it. The book is in a good state of preservation,
and belongs to one of tlie Hall family at this time. I hope
some one of the family will prize it sutliciently to preserve it
for future generations as a momento of ancient times. In one of
the margins Elizabeth Smith Hall in 1730 wrote : " This day
John Smith is 106 years old." He was her grandfather. In
looking over the records of Salem Monthly Meeting, I find that
he was the son of John Smith, born in the county of Norfolk,
20th day of 4th month, 1623. The account shows that there
wore instances of longevity then as well as at the present day.
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William Hall, Jr., made his will in 1750, in Avliicli lie devises
jiis real estate in Salem to his eldest son, Clement Hall, and his
property in Mannington, to his two youngest sons, Xathaiiiel
and Edward Hall. Clement Hall, the son of William Hall,
Jr., married Margaret Morris, of Elsinborongh, ajjout the year
1748. Tliere were seven children — Ann, Sarah, Clement, John,
Joseph, Morris and Margaret, the last mentioned died when she
Avas quite young. The oldest daughter married John Goodwin,
She lived but a short time after her marriage, leaving no child-
ren. Sarah Hall's husband was Dr. Tliomas Rowen, of Salem.
They had three children — Sarah Rowen, the late Dr. Thomas
Rowen, and Elizaljeth Rowen. Sarah married Charles Penrose,
of Philadelphia. Dr. Rowen's wife was Hetty Sinnickson, the
daughter of John Sinnickson, of Lower Penn's Neck. They
are both deceased at this time, leaving no children. Clement
Hall's wife was Reljecca Kay, a native of Gloucester county.
Clement and his wife had seven children, named resj^ectively
Ann^ Margaret, Morris, Prudence, Sarah, Deborah and Rebecca.
Aim Hall married Samuel Nicholson Thompson. They had
six children — Samuel, Joshua, Clement, Charles, Isaac and Ann
Thompson.
Margaret Hall's husband was John Holme, of Elsinborongh;
she was his second wife ; there were three children — Benjamin,
Jane and Caroline. 'Benjamin's wife was Elizabeth Dennis,
the daughter of Henry Dennis, of Salem. Benjamin is now
deceased, leaving a widow and six children — Caroline, John,
Henry, Louisa, Franklin and Jane. Caroline died young.
Morris Hall married Elizabeth Woodnutt, the daughter of
James Woodnutt, of Mannington ; there were four children —
Margaret, Hannah, Rebecca and James Hall. Prudence Hall,
when far advanced in life, married Joseph Ogden, of Wood-
bury ; they are both deceased now, leaving no cliildren. Sarah
Hail died at middle age; she never married. Deborah Hall
married Samuel D. Ligham, of Pennsylvania, being his second
wife. Samuel and his wife are both deceased, leaving three
c;hildren — William, Rebecca and Mary Ingham. Rebec^-a Hall
married John Sinnickson, the son of Andrew Sinnickson, and
was his second wife ; they had three children — Howard, Clem-
ent and Mary Sinnickson.
John Hall, the second son of Clement and Margaret Hall,
married and lived in Salem on the property that was left him
by his father. It M'as purchased by one of the Norris family.
Joseph Corliss bought the old mansion. The Hall property
formerly extended to the town meadow. John was a merchant
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?n i died a young man; wlietlier he left any children I never
heard.
Josepli HalFs wife was Ann. Brick, the daughter of Joseph
and Rebecca Brick, of Elsinborough. Joseph Brick was from
an ancient and respectable family at Cohansey, the son of John
and Ann Brick, and was born 24:th of 3d month, 1735 ; soon
after he was of age he married Rebecca Abbott, the daughter
of Sanuiel Abbott, of Elsinborough ; they commenced life on
the farm that her father purchased of Tiiomas and Sarali Good-
win, in 1756 ; the farm is tlie one that William B. Carpenter
now owiis and lives on, Josepli and Rebecca Brick had tln-ee
children — Ann, Hannah, (wlio is tlie wife of Anthony Keasbey,
of Salem), and one son, Samuel Brick.
Joseph Hall and liis wife had nine children, named respect-
ively Samuel, William, Margaret, Rebacca, Martha, Ann,
Edward, James and Hannah. Samuel married Sarah Ware,
daughter of Jacub Ware ; he died young and left one son —
Josepli Hall, wli(^ now resides at or near Dunkirk, in the State
of New York. William's wife was Hannah Hall, daughter of
Jarvis Hall, of Mannington ; l)oth are deceased at the present
time, leaving three or four children. Margaret Hall married
John Denn, Sr., and the names of her children I mentioned in
a former number of the Denn genealogy. Rebecca married
David Ware, of Lower Penn's Keck, son of Jacob Ware ; her
husband has been deceased many years ; she died recently,
quite aged ; she possessed good mental abilities, and an uncom-
mon quiet disposition in all of her trials through life — for she
had many — and through them all she always manifested a quiet
an 1 evenness ofdisposition, which endeared her to her immediate
family and likewise to a large circle of relatives and friends.
Ann Hall married David Hall, the son of ]V^ orris Hall ; they
were first cousins ; they soon afterwards removed to the State
of New York and made it their permanent home. David has
been deceased for some time. I liave heard his M'idow is still
living ; they had several children. Martha Hall, their afflicted
daughter, was born blind and always remained so ; she lived to
an old age, and died a few years ago. Edward Hairs wife was
the daughter of David Lloyd, (jf Lower Penn's Neck ; they
left their native county soon after they were married, and Mere
for a time at Pittsliurgh, Pa. James Hall was a currier by
occupation, and resided for some time in the city of Philadel-
phia. Hannah Hall, their youngest daughter, accompanied her
sister Ann and husband when they Avent to tlie State of New
York ; she afterwards became the wife of Judge Orton, of that
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97
State. Joseph Hall, the father of the above named children,
died in the prime of his life ; he had imcommon physical
strength, which was characteristic in the Hall family, and he
was likewise endowed with uncommon natural abilities; his
death occurred about the time John Wistar died.
Daniel Garrison, who had been Surrogate for a number of
years, and w^as considered to be a good judge of the acquire-
ments of the leading men at that time in the county of Salem,
was asked which of the two men, John Wistar or Joseph Hall,
possessed the greatest natural abilities. His reply was, "If
Joseph Hall had the school education John Wistar possessed, he
would have been his equal, if not his superior." Joseph's widow
survived him several years.
Morris, the youngest son of Clement and Margaret Hall, was
l)orn in 1762.*^ He learned the wheel wrighting trade, but did
not follow it when he became of age, but worked as a journey-
man house carpenter with Jonas Freidland, and while building
a large dwelling house for that eminent philanthropist, Gal)riel
Davis, in Bacon's Neck, Greenwich township, they became
acquainted with two young women — Elizabeth and Lydia Potts,
daughters of John Potts, who lived in the same township.
Subsequently Jonas married Elizabeth, and Morris, Lydia Potts.
The length of time Morris worked at his trade after he was
married, I have no knowledge of, but not long before he went
to farming. He and his wife had live children — Clement, David,
Sarah, John, and Lewis Hall. Clement Hall's wife was Sarah
Hancock, daughter of Thomas and Mary Hancock, of Elsinboro.
Their children were mentioned in the Hancock family. David's
wife was Ann Hall, daughter of Joseph Hall ; they w^ere cousins.
Sarah Hall married Joseph Bassett, of Mannington. She left
one son, Morris Bassett. John Hall's wife was Jane Holme,
daughter of John and Margaret Holme. John's death occurred
several years ago. His widow resides in Salem. Lewis Hall
left his native State and located himself, I think, in the western
part of Pennsylvania, at first. Where he made his permanent
home, I have never heard. He is now deceased.
Clement and Margaret Hall, parents of the above mentioned
children, lived and died in tlie township of Elsinboro, at the
old residence of Margaret's ancestors, situated near the river
shore. The property was purchased of Richard Guy l)y Samuel
Carpenter, of PhiladeljDliia, for a countrj' seat, and built a brick
house about the year 1690, and in 1694 he sold it to Rudoc
Morris. The ju'oj^erty is still held l)y one of his descendants.
Clement Hall, Sr., died about the year 1772. In his will he left
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liis real estate in Salem to Lis son, John Hall, and his danghtcr,
Sarah. His wife survived him several years, and in 1782 she
made her will, leaving onedialf of her plantation to her oldest
son, Clement Hall, and the fishery at Fort Point eqnally between
Clement and her second son, John Hall. At John Hall's death
his share of the fishery was sold. Darkin Nicholson, living near
the month of Salem creek, was the purchaser, and at his death
the Hall family bought his right. It is evident that the Morris
and Hall families had full jurisdiction over the fishery along that
shore for more than one hundred and fifty years, notwithstanding
the neighboring State of Delaware undertakes to claim to Iom'
water mark along the Jersey shore. If their claim is good and
valid now, it was certainly good at that early period, when the
owners of the soil along the Jersey shore held undisputed pos-
session of the fisheries, and frequently rented them to persons
belonging to this and other States; fisheries being all within the
bounds of the twelve-mile circuit.
Margaret Hall willed one-half of her plantation to her two
youngest sons, Joseph and Morris Hall. Joseph subsequently
sold his share, and purchased part of Middle Neck, of Isaac and
Nathan Smart — he and his Avife Avere joint owners; it was on
this property where what is called the Elsinborough grape Avas
first discovered. The Smart family, very soon after they
l)Ought the land of Femvick, turned their attention to cultivating
grapes; they imported several varieties of English grapes.
Soon after they discovered a grape different entirely from any
they ever saw growing among their foreign grapes ; they sup-
posed it was a seedling, and gave it the name of the Smart
grape. The late Morris Hall informed me that was the tradi-
tional account of the grape ; he was born in the township and
his mother before him, and all he ever heard or saw from those
much older than himself, came to the conclusion it Avas not a
native of the toAoiship, but it originated in the Smart vineyard,
on said property ; since their death it has been sold to other
persons. Morris Hall purchased a farm adjoining his brother's,
of the administrator of Jolm Hancock, of Hancock's Bridge,
whose grand-father purchased it of James Thompson. Morris
and his wife both died there; after Morris' death (for he lived
many years after his wife was deceased) the farm went to his
son, John Hall, and his daughter, Sarah Bassett. The home-
stead is owned at this time by his grand-son, Clement Hall.
Nathaniel and Edward Hall, as has been previously stated,
l)ecame the owner of their father's homestead estate in upper
Manninijton. Edward was the owner of the old family man-
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si on and a large tract of land adjoining. jSTatliauiers share was
the western part of the Hall's allotment ; the greater part of
said land is now owned by Edward H. Bassett. He built him-
self a commodious brick house about the year 1756, and soon
afterwards married Ann, the eldest daughter of Judge John
and Ann Nicholson Brick, of Gravelly Run. He died in 1784,
aged fifty-four years, leaving five childi-en — "William, born in
1758 ; Ann in 1760; Elizabeth in 1763 ; John in 1765, and his
youngest son Josiah in 1767. Josiah was a clock and watch
maker by trade ; he followed it in the to^^ii of Salem and was
for several years Clerk of the county of Salem; his wife was
Elizabeth Smith ; he owned and lived where Joseph Test now
resides and owns ; he left no children ; his wife survived him
several years. Nathaniel left his plantation equally between his
two eldest sons — William and John Hall. William was the
owner of the homestead ; he married soon after he became of
age and had ten children — William, Josiah, Hannah, Mary,
Martha, Nathan, Ann, Achsah, Samuel and Horatio. John
Hall, when he was far advanced in years, married Phebe
Edwards, a young woman of Pilesgrove ; she lived but a short
time after they were married, leaving one son. Soon after tliat
event he removed to Salem, where lie died, in a few years, with
a cancer in his face. His son died within a short time after
his father ; his estate, which was consideral^le, was divided
among his relatives.
Elizaljeth, daughter of Nathaniel Hall, married Samuel Nich-
olson, Jr., the son of the eminent philantliropist, Samuel
Nicholson, of Elsinborough. They lived on his father's property
in the township of Mannington. After the death of liis father
lie became the owner; it now is part of the estate of Joseph
Stretcli, who lately died. They had five children — Jolm, who
married a yoimg woman by the name of Beesley; they left one
daughter — Catharine Nicliolson. Ann married Daniel Smith ;
Elizabeth died single; Samuel married a woman by the name of
Paullin; Josiah, their youngest son, married Pacliel Hall,
daughter of Jarvis Hall. He died many years ago, leaving a
widow, who is living in Salem at this time, and I believe three
cliildren, two sons and one daughter.
Edward Hall, the youngest son of William Hall, Jr., was
considered above mediocrity in physical and mental al)ilities.
His affability and pleasing address secured him many friends
among a large circle of acquaintances. His first wife was a
Willis, and by her he liad one son — Howell. At the commence-
ment of tlie Itevolutionary war lie abandoned the religious society
lOO HALL FAMILY.
of wliicli he and liis ancestors were members, and enlisted in tlie
army. There are many anecdotes of his sayings and doings
wliile he was in the service of his country. I will mention two
wliic'h are well authenticated hy tradition: The army under
Colonel Hand was at Cohansey Bridge, which is now Bridgeton.
Edward, on his way down to join it, met his intimate friend,
John Reeve, about his own age, who was a public minister, on
liis way to attend Salem quarterly meeting. After the usual
salutation, John remarked, "Edward, I notice thee is dressed in
soldier's clothes." '"I am," replied Hall, after consideration;
"I came to the conclusion it would be rii>:ht for me to ho-ht for
my country." John then replied : "If thee tliinks it is right, it
may be thy duty. I hope God will be with thee. I bid thee
good-by." They then separated and did not meet again until
tlie war was ended. Soon after he went to the army he was
made a Colonel in the West Jersey militia. It was the practice
in those days among some of the tanners when they had a
quantity of leather on hand, to take a load down among the
inhabitants along the sea shore and trade it for raw hides.
Sanuiel Austin told me of one of his adventures during the war.
He left his home in Mannington with a load of leatlier, which
lie had frequently done before, and proceeded to Egg Harbor
with it. There was at that time several vessels belonging to
England anchored in the bay, one of them having a quantity of
boxes of tea aboard. The officer told him he would excliange
a few Ijoxes of tea for leather. The love of great gain, whicli
is pi'edominant in the human family, made him yield to the
temptation. Thinking lie could evade the authorities, he covered
up tiie tea with some hides he purchased, and started for home.
Inadvertently he came by tlie way of Bridgeton, wliere the
American army was quartered, and was soon stopped by some
of the soldiers to search his load. He declared his innocence,
but they told him their orders were to search all wagons tliat
came from the seashore, and began to throw off his hides. At
that juncture, Colonel Hall came out of the tavern and saw
Austin, and then told the men to put his load on again, and
said: "He is a neighbor of mine, and a true patriot." He then
called Austin in to take a drink with him before he proceeded
on his journey. Samuel told me it was the first and last time
he ever undertook to traffic in contraband goods, and always
felt grateful to Colonel Hall, although lie did it ignorantly, for
his timely interference, as it prevented him from losing his team
and load, and likely his life.
Edward Hall's second wafe was the widow of David Stretch,
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of Lower Allowaj^s Creek. Soon after lie left liis native home
in Mannington, and went to reside on the farm that his wife
had a life-riglit in, being formerly the Christopher White estate,
near Hancock's Ih'idge. They had two children — Mary and
Edward Hall, Jr. After her death he returned to the old
family residence in Mannington, In a few years afterward he
married his third wife, Ann Darrah, of Philadelphia, the
daughter of the celebrated Lydia Darrah, who risked her life
in informing General Washington of the contemplated attack
of the Englisli army, during the severe winter that the American
army was at Valley Forge. I need not state the particulars of
her patriotic adventure. I trust most of the American readers
have seen the full account of it themselves. His last wife
survived him many years. I knew her well ; she w^as intelligent
and interesting conversationist. She lived the latter part of her
days with her husband's grand-daughter, Hetty Miller. She
had one brother, Joseph Darrah, who was a captain in the navy.
His home was at New Castle, Delaware. In 1825 his sister,
Ann Hall, employed me to take over to his daughter a consid-
able sum of money. Their father I think was deceased at that
time. Their residence was located on one of the principal
streets of the town. Howell Hall, the eldest son of Colonel
Hall, inherited the family mansion and a large portion of the
land belonging to it. The balance of the land was divided
l)etween Mary and Edward. Mary became the owner of the
greater part of the estate, her two brothers leaving no childi'en.
Her husband was Samuel L. James. They had six children
— Clara, James, Hetty, Caroline, Samuel and Edward James.
Clara was the first wife of David Reeves, of Bridgeton. They
subsequently removed to Pluenixville, Pennsylvania. Hetty's
lirst husl)and was Josiali Miller, of Mannington; Caroline
married Rol)ert Buck, of Bridgeton. Their three sons, James,
Samuel and Edward emigrated to one of the Western States.
In all generations there are noble and intellectual women,
who are cal(;ulated to make their foot-prints upon the sands of
time. Among such Avas Sarah Clement Hall, of Salem ; slic
descended from an ancient and respectaljle family, of England ;
her grand-father, Gregory Clement, was a citizen of London,
and also a member of Parliament ; Wfis one t)f the Judges in
the trial of Charles I, King of England. About 1G70 his son
James, and his wife, Jane Clement, emigrated to this country
and settled on Long Island ; their children were James, born
1670, who subsecjuently married Sarah Hinchman ; Sarah
Clement, born 1072, she married Judge William Hall, slie
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being liis second wife ; Tliomas, born 16T4 ; John, born 1676 ;
Jacob, born 1678, married Ann Harrison ; Joseph, born 1681;
Mercy, born 1683, married Joseph Bates ; Samuel, borii 1685,
and Nathaniel Clement, born 1687. William and Sarah C.
Hall had three sons — William, Clement and J^athaniel, who
are the ancestors of the Halls in the county of Salem. After
the death of her husband it devolved upon Sarah to settle his
large estate, and as far as the record appears she did it
admirably.
Aaron Learning, tlie ancestor of the large family of that
name in Cape May, came from Connecticut when about sixteen
years of age, and lived at Salem for a short period of time ; he
was poor and friendless, but soon found a friend in Sarah, the
the wife of William Hall ; he became a member of the Society
of Friends. Aaron's son, in his account of his father, says
that Sarah Plall was a lawyer of good ability for those times,
and had a large collection of books, and being very rich took
delight in my father on account of his sprightly wit and
genius, and liis uncommon fondness for the law which he read
in her library.
RICHARD JOHNSON FAMILY.
The ship " Josepli uud Benjamm," Captain Matthew Paine,
master, anchored at Fort Elsborg, on the 13tli of March, 1675.
Hypohte Lafetra, John Pledger and his wife, Elizabeth, with
their son, Joseph Pledger, aged three years, John Butcher and
Richard Johnson, landed in Elsinborongh. Afterwards the
ship and other passengers proceeded further up the Delaware.
Lafetra, a French Hugeunot, left his native country on account
of religious persecution, having imbibed the doctrinces of
George Fox, became a zealous Friend, and assisted in organizing
Salem monthly meetings, in June, 1676. He and John Pledger
bought of the proprietor, John Fenwick, 6000 acres of land in
the same year. The land was located in Mannington, including
what is now known as Quaker Neck, both branches of Fenwick
creek; its southern boundary was a small stream called Mill
creek, until it nearly reached AUoways creek. On part of the
tract on the north of Pledger creek, John Pledger, Jr., erected
himself a large brick dwelling in 1728, which is still standing,
and owned by Elisha Bassett. John Pledger, Jr., was born at
Salem, 27th of 9th month, 1680. Hypolite Lafetra sold his
share of the 6000 acres to Jeremiah Powell and several others.
Of the land that lies between the two streams, some 2000
acres, Benjamin Wyncook, an Englishman, became the owner ;
whether Lafetra left heirs is unknown at this time, and if he
did they were daughters, and the name of the emigrant is lost
in this county. John Butcher, it has been stated, was a cavalry
ofKcer in Cromwell's army. Like Fenwick, he became convinced
of the doctrine of George Fox, and eventually became a mem-
ber of the Society of Friends. His son, Thomas Butcher,
located a large tract of land in Cohansey precinct, lying between
the Gibbon's and Wood's land, now in Cuml)erland county, in
Stoe Creek township. The late James Butcher, of Alloways
Creek, was a lineal descendant, as was also John Butcher, of
Salem, and Richard M. Acton's wife, on her mother's side.
The tirst wife of Willirfm Griscom, of Woodbury, was a
descendant of one of the oldest branches on the male line, and
inherited a large share of the Butcher estate.
104 KICHARD JOHNSON FAMILY.
Ricliard Jolmson was a young man of marked ability and
rendered great assistance to the proprietor ; he came from the
county of Surry, England, and married Mary Grover, 25th
of 6th month, 1682, at Salem. The following named persons
signed their marriage certificate : James iTevell, his wife,
Creseda Nevell, John Wilkenson, Cecilia Morgan, Ellen Rob-
inson, Margaret Haselwood, Thomas Jolmson, cousin of Kichard,
George Haselwood, John Maddox and Henry Jennings. Kich-
ard was one of the Burgesses of the town of Salem after it was
incorporated as a borough in 1693, and was one of the Judges
of the Salem Courts and a Justice of the Quarter Sessions, as
also an influential member of the Salem monthly meeting of
Friends, and took an active part in building the flrst brick
meeting house in their ancient graveyard in 1699, wliicli was
completed in 1700 ; lie paid fifteen pounds towards its erection.
There was a subscription for the purpose of aiding poor Friends,
in 1697, that belonged to Salem meeting, for which he gave
twelve shillings; his place of residence was on Fen wick street
where Rumsey's stores are now, the dwelling being built of
brick with a hip or mansard roof. William Parrott purchased
tlie property in 1788 or '90. William soon after removed the
ancient dwelling and erected in its stead a large substantial two
story brick dwelling, one of the first private dwellings in the
city. In the year 1707, when men were chosen for their worth
and ability, Richard Johnson, William Hall, Bartholomew Wyatt,
Sr., and John Thompson, were elected to represent the Salem
tenth in the State Legislature of New Jersey, which held its
sessions at South Amboy and Burlington alternately. Richard
was a large landholder in the town of Salem and other parts of
the county; he owned five hundred acres of land on the south
side of Alloways creek. Thomas Jones Yorke, of Salem,
Samuel Kelty and the Hires' are the owners of the greater part
of it at this time. Richard and Mary Grover Jolmson had
three children — Robert, Elizabeth and Ann. Richard Johnson
died 1st month, 1719, aged seventy years ; his wife, Mary G.
Johnson, died in 1714 ; they were buried in the Friends' grave-
yard at Salem. Robert Johnson, their son, married Margaret,
tlie widow of Joseph Sayres, in 1717 ; they had three children
— Roljei-t, Mary and Ann ; he died 13th of 12th month, 1728,
aged thirty-four years ; his widow, Margaret Johnson, died in
1730, aged thirty-seven years. Elizabeth, the daughter of
Richard and Mary Johnson, married John Pierson, being his
second wife ; he was the father of John Pierson, pastor of St.
John's Episcopal church, in Salem, by his first wife. Elizabeth
KICHARD JOHNSOISr FAMILY. lO
Johnson Pierson died 5th of 5th month, 1720, leavmg one
daiigliter — Ehzabetli Pierson.
Anna Johnson, tlie danghter of Richard and Mary CI. John-
son, born 1687, married Alexander Grant, of Salem, in 1714,
who arrived from England a few years before ; his place of
residence was located on the w^est side of Market street, then
known as Bridge street ; the ancient house is still standing and
is o\\'ned by Anna G. Hnbljell, one of his lineal descendants.
Alexander and his wife, Anna Johnson Grant, had two chil-
dren — Anna and Barbara Grant, the latter died single. Anna
Grant, the eldest danghter, married Samuel Fen^dck Hedge,
the great grand-son of John Fenwick, and soon after their
marriage removed to Greenwich. Samuel F. Hedge and Nich-
olas Gibbon were in tlie mercantile business together at that
place. Samuel and his wife, Anna G. Fenwick, had three
children — Samuel, Rebecca and another daughter, who died in
infancy. Samuel F. Hedge died in 1731, making his will a
short time previous, in which he devised a large landed estate
to his widow, Anna G. Fen^\dck ; she afterwards married
Nicholos Gibbon, \sdio was a partner in the mercantile l.)usiness
with her first husband. Nicholas and Anna G. Gibbon had
hve children — Nicholas, Grant, Jane, Ann and Franci'?. Jane
became the wife of Robert Johnson, Jr., which I shall allude
to more fully in another place. Ann married Judge Edward
Weatherby, by whom she had one son, who died young.
Robert Johnson, Jr., whose father died when he was young,
lived sometime with his uncle, John Pledger, Jr., in Manning-
ton, to learn the farming business ; he married Margaret Mor-
gan, of Chester county, now Delaware. (The romance respecting
tlie marriage alluded to in the Sinnickson family genealogy.)
Her parents were consistent members of the Society of Friends
and she lierself always adhered to the same religious society.
The Morgans, Brintons, Palmers and Wades were among the
first Quaker families who emigrated and settled in the province
of Pennsylvania ; they trace their ancestors to the time that
William Penn landed at Chester in 1682, excepting Rol)ert
Wade, who emigrated with his brother Edward and Sanuiel
Wade in company with John Fenwick. Robert purchased
lands of the proprietor in the Salem tenth, but soon afterwards
sold the said lands and removed to Upland, now Chester, in
1678, and bought 500 acres of land on the soutli side of Chester
creek. Robert Johnson, Jr., and Margaret Morgan were mar-
ried 18th of 12th month, 1752, at Marcus Hook; she died
young, at the age of twenty-three years and seven months, Icav-
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106 KICHARD JOHNSON FAMILY.
iiig one child — Margaret Jolmson, born 2cl of Stli month, 1750.
I think Maroi;aret Mori-'an Johnson always retained her riii'ht
among Friends, her hnsband, therefore, had her l)uried in the
Friends' ancient gra^'eyard in Salem, and directed a small nuir-
l)le stone to be placed at the head of her grave ^vith her name
upon it, it being the lirst of the kind that was ever used in the
yard. I have no doubt he was actuated by the noblest motives
to mark the spot where the object of his iirst love lay moulder-
ing in the mother earth. Margaret, their daughter, sul)sequently
married Andrew Sinnickson, of Penn's jNfeck, 26th of 5th
month, 1779, the son of Andrew Sniaker, of tlie same town-
ship. Andrew and Margaret I. Sinnickson had one daughter,
Mary, and two sons — Thomas and John. Margaret Jolmson
Siimickson died 4:th of lltli month, 1792, aged tliirty-six years
and three months ; was 1)uried in the Swedes church yard at
Penn's Neck. Robert Johnson, Jr.'s second wife was Jane
Gibbon, daughter of Mcholas and Ann Gibbon; they were
married 3d of 11th month, 1767, and had one son— Robert
Gibbon Jolmson, born 23d of 7th month, 1771. Robert Jolm-
son, Jr., died 28th of 12th month, 1796, aged sixty-nine years;
his widow, Jane Gibbon Jolmson, died 16th of 8tli month,
1815, aged seventy-nine years and three months. Mary, the
daughter of Robert Jolmson, Sr. and Margaret Sayre Johnson,
married John Pledger, of Mannington; they had issue, one
son and a daughter. Joseph Pledger, their son, after he arri\'ed
at tlie age of twenty-one left his native county and settled in
Korth Carolina. Catharine Pledger, their daughter, married
John Ewing. Ann, the youngest daughter of Robert and
Margaret Sayre Johnson, was married three times ; lier first
husband's name was Hale, it does not appear tliere was any
cliildren by this marriage ; her second husband "was named
Scoggin, I think, a l)rother to Jacob Scoggin, who married tlie
daughter of William Tyler, od; they had one daughter, Avho
subsequently married a man by the name of Smith, and had
issue, one son — Scoggin Smith. Ann Johnson's third husband
was John Beesley, and tliey lived on and owned the projxM-ty
that her grand-father, Ricluvrd Jolmson, bought of the projH'ie-
tor,located on the south side of Alloways creek, not far from
Quinton's Bridge ; they had one son whose name was Jolmson
Beesley, Ann survived all three of her husbands, and in her
old age she went under the name of Nanny Beesley, and Avas
considered very skillful in curing many diseases with herbs ;
her son, Jolmson ]jeesley, nuirried and had one daughter, who
subsequently married Jolm, the eldest son of Samuel Nicholson,
EICIIAKD JOHNSON FAMILY. lOT
of Maunino-toii. John Nicholson and liis wife had one dano-hter
— Catliarine, who married Job Stretch, the son of Elisha and
Sarah Brad way Stretch, of Allowajs Creek; Job and Catharine
Stretch had two or three children. Marj, one of their daughters,
married John P. Moore, a native of Cumberland, but now a
resident of the city of Salem, and keeps a hardware store on
Market street.
Nicholas and Leonard Gibbon were the sons of Arthur and
Jane Gil^lion, of Gravesend, county of Kent, England. —
Arthur became possessed of 5,500 acres of land in Cohansey
precinct, now Cumberland county, lying in Greenwich and
Hopewell townships. A few years after, Nicholas married Ann
G., the widow of Samuel Fenwick Hedge, and they left Green-
wich and moved to Salem. He continued in the mercantile
business in that town, was Collector of the Port, and Surrogate
of the county of Salem, as also Colonel, and had command of
all the militia in the low^er counties. The place of their
residence was on Market street, in the house devised to his wife
l)y lier father, Alexander Grant. Nicholas died 2d of 2d month,
1758, aged hfty-five years and three months. His wife, Ann
G. Gibbon, died 24:tli of 3d month, 1760, aged fifty-seven
years. Their eldest son. Nicholas, born 5th of 11th month^
1732, and died 7th of 1st month, 1748, aged sixteen years.
Grant Gibbon, the second son, Ijorn 28th of 11th month, 1734,
was engaged in the mercantile business ; was Surrogate of the
county, and Judge and Justice, and Collector of the Port of
Salem after his father's deatli. He was a man of culture and
very prepossessing in his mannei's, which made him very popular
with tiie people. He was a warm j^atiiot, and a sympathizer in
all tlic measures of the American Revolution. On tlic 13th of
loth moiitli, 1781, a meeting was held in the county of Salem,
in wjdch tJie inhabitants unanimously proffered their sympathy
to their fellow citizens in Boston suffering under the oppression
of General Gage. At that meeting they proposed raising
inoney to alleviate the distressed condition of the people of
t'lat city, and it was resolved that Grant Gibbon, one in wliom
the pulilic had entii'e confidence in his integrity and patriotism,
take tlie l)urthen and trouble in soliciting money fer their relief
from the people. He cheerfully undertook this task, and collect-
ed the sum of £157 3s 2d, whicli vras speedily forwarded to
the Siitfei-ing poor in Boston. Grant Gibbon died comparatively
a young man, which event occurred 27th of ()th month, 1770,
aged forty-one years, being about seven daj's before the Decla-
ration of Independance was signed in Philadelphia. Jane
108 RICHARD JOHNSON FAMUA'.
Gil)l)on, his eldest sister, born 15tli of 5tli month, 17;J8, married
llohert Johnson, Jr.; Ann, the dunghter of Nicliolas and Ann
Gibbon, was born 29th of 4th month, 1741 ; and Francis, the
youngest son of Nichohis and Ann Gibbon, was born 14th of
5th month, 1744, and died lltli of 1st month, 1788, aged
forty-tln-ec years.
TJiomas Carney, born in Irehmd in 1709, emigrated to this
country early in life, and subsequently married Hannah, the
daughter of John Procter, of Penn's I^eck. He was a large
laudliolder. His lands were located along the Delaware river,
and extended easterly to Game creek. Thomas, the son of
Thomas and Hannah Carney, was born in 1740. Peter Carney,
their second son, was born in 1742. James, the third son, was
born in 1748, and died in the 1st month, 1776, aged about
twenty-eight years. John, the fourth son, was born in 1760,
and died in 1774, aged about fourteen years. Sarah Carney,
tlieir daughter, married George Clark. Naomi, the second
daughter of Thomas and Hannah Carney, married John Sum-
merill, of Penn's Neck. Mary Carney, the youngest daughter,
was thrice married ; her iirst husband was Henry James, by
whom she had one son — Henry ; lier second husband was John
Page ; and her third, Joseph Stout. Thomas Carney, the
father of the above mentioned children, died in the 5th month,
1784, aged seventy-live years ; and his amiable wife departed
this life in 2d month, 1778, aged about sixty-three years. They
were buried in the old Episcopal churcli yard at Church Landing
in Penn's Neck, and several of their children lie mouldering
tliere in their mother earth. When quite young, I heard several
aged people sj)eak of the Ijenevolence of Hannah Carney. By
tradition, she was in the practice of getting her husband to
slaughter a fattening bullock occasionally in the winter. Then
slie, with a boy to drive for her, with a pair of oxen and a cart
tilled with meat and Hour, (there were no spring wagons in Salem
tentli in those days,) she would go into the woods of Obisqua-
hasset among the poor and laboring classes wlio lived in small
log dwellings, and there on a cold Nortli American winter day,
she would dispense to them both flour and meat according to
their necessities. And above all, she was enabled, by the
Ivindness of her manners and expressions, to encourage the
despondent and administer by kind words to the sicik and
altticted among them. Surely she had her reward, when she
returned to her home in the evening, of feeling in lier own
mind that slie had endeavored to do something to alleviate tlic
suffering of lier fellow beings. On reflecting upon tlie character
RICHARD JOHNSON FAMILY. 109
of Hannah Carney, tlie sayings of David, the sweet psahner of
Israel, arrested my attention : " Blessed are those that consid-
" eretli the poor, for the Lord will deliver them in time of
" trouljle." Peter, the second son of Thomas and Hannah
Carney, married the daughter of Jonathan Rol)erts, of Man-
nington ; they had issue, two daughters — Elizabeth and
Margaret Carney. Elizaljeth died single, and Margaret married
John Tuft. They liad one son — Sinnickson Tuft, who died
single, in his twenty-second year. Thomas Carney, Jr., the
oldest son of Thomas and Hannah Carney, married Mary,
daugliter of Abel Harris ; they had three children — Ruth,
Harris and Hannah Carney. Ruth was born in the 5th montli,
1773, and married Benjamin, son of Whitten Cripps, of Man-
nington. Whitten Cripps descended from an ancient family on
liis father's and mother's sides. He married Martha Huddy, in
1759, which took place in the Friends' meeting house that
stood in the grave yard at Salem. There were two children —
Mary, who married Peter Andrews, and Benjamin Cripps.
Whitten took his name from his grandfather, James Whitten,
who located on the fai-ni in Maimington, long known as the
" John Denn Farm." Benjamin and Ruth Carney Cripps had
one son — Thomas Carney Cripps, who died aged about tweh'e
years. Ruth Carney Cripps, wife of Benjamin, died 17tli of
2(1 month, 1791, aged twenty-one years. Harris Carney, son of
Thomas and Mary Carney, died young.
Al)el Harris, the father of Mary Carney, died in 17S9. He
made his will in 1779, and devised £100 to tlie Episcopal
church in Pemi's Neck, and also the interest of £ir>0 to tlie
township of Alloways Creek, for the scliooling of chihh-en.
Hannah, tlie youngest daughter of Thomas and Mary 11.
Carney, was born 27th of 7th month, 1780 ; she married
Robert Gibl)on Jolmson, on tlie 19th of 6th month, 1798.
Robert and his wife had four children — Jane Gibbon Jolmson,
born in 1800 ; she died young. Mary Jane Johnson, their
second daughter, born in 1805, died in infancy. Ann Gibbon
Johnson, their third daughter, married Ferdinand AV. Hubbell,
Esq., of Philadelphia, a lawyer of (considerable eminence of
that city; he has been deceased several years. They had four
children — Robert Johnson, Ann L. Johnson, and Helena.
Robert Carney Johnson, the son of Robert Gibbon and Hannah
Johnson, married Julia Harrison, the daughter of the late
Josiah Harrison, Es(i., of Salem. Robert C. lives and owns the
pahitial dwelling where his father formerl}" lived, on Market
street, in Salem. Robert and his wife had two children —
110 RICHARD JOHNSON FAMILY.
Hobert Harrison, wlio died in infancy, and Henry Johnson.
Hannah Carney Johnson died wlien her son, Robert, was an
infant. Robert Gibbon Johnson's second wife was Juliana
Elizabeth, danghter of Paul and Esther Zantzinger, of Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania. They were married in 1813; she died
in 1851, aged seventy-three years. There was no issue. Robert
Gibbon Johnson and his wife, Hannah Carney Johnson, had
the largest and most valualjle real estate of modern tunes, in
Salem county. Robert inherited a large estate from his ances-
tors, and his wife became the owner of the great and valuable
estate of Thomas Carney, consisting of several farms, most of
tliem located in Upper Penn's iSTeck, Robert, like his uncle.
Grant Gibbon, was pleasing in his address; held in his time
several important offices, was a member of the State Legislature
two or three times, and was one of tlie Judges of Salem Courts
for several years. In his old age he wrote a history of Salem
county, whicli was published in 1839; it is often referred to at
the present time. He at one time informed me that he intended
writing and giving a more general history of the settlement of
this Colony ; but death intervened before he had an opportunity
to accomplisli it. He died 3d of 10th montli, 1850, aged
seventv-nine vears.
joins' JOHNSON FAMILY.
The name of Jolin.son lias Ijeen familiar in the comity of
Salem since the lirst riettlemout bj the Europeans. The Swedish
family by the name of Jonanson, located on the eastern shore of
the Delaware, now Penn's Neck, in 1640, but was soon merged
to Johnson. The first English einigrant that bore the name was
Richard and his cousin, Thomas Johnson, who came and located
in Fenwick's tenth a few months before the proprietor. John
Johnson, who was not any way connected, as far as appears, to
the before mentioned, emigrated with his wife, Jane Suayberry
Johnson, to Salem county from Ireland, about 1756. John had
considerable means at his disposal, and he located a large tract
of land in the township of Pilesgrove, now Pittsgrove, and
settled thereon. John and his wife had eight children — James,
John, Rebecca, Samuel, Phebe,William, Mary and Isaac. John,
the father of these children, departed this life the 31st of 3d
month, 1803, aged seventy-one years. His widow, Jane S.
Johnson, died 28th of 6tli month, 1825, aged ninety-two years
and eight months.
James, the eldest son of John and Jane Johnson, was born
31st of 10th month, 1757. Soon after the Avar of the American
Revolution commenced, he entered the Colonial army, and was
at the battle of Red Bank. He married Christiana Swing, of
Pittsgrove, 28th of 2d month, 1781. The year that James
rented the large and pi'oductive farm in Mannington, that for-
merly belonged to Bartholomew Wyatt, 3d, of William Carpen-
ter, son-in-law of Wyatt, I have no means of ascertaining. He
continued to reside on the Wyatt farm until the Spring o^f 1809,
when having previously purchased ^'aluable real estate in Lower
Penn's Neck, located a short distance from tlie town of Salem.
James with his family settled there in the year mentioned. James
and Christiana had sixteen children; six of them died young,
and his wife, Christiana, died 19th of 3d month, 1825, aged sixty
years and four months. James died 9th of 2d month, 1837, in
his eightietli year. He, in his time, possessed pliysical and
mental alnlities above the average of mankind, and also unconi-
112 JOHN JOHNSON FAMILY.
mon energy, conil)ined with a sound and comprehensive mind,
lie was one of the most successful agriculturists in the county
of Salem in his day. Although it appears his parents were
members of the Presbyterian Church, he was himself a deacon
and a consistent member of the Baptist Church of Salem up to
the time of his death.
Ruth, daugliter of James and Christiana Johuson, was born
1st of 12th month, 1781 ; slie married John Redstrake, in
1807, and tliey had six children — Mary, Ann, James J.,
Edward, Jane, Ruth and Isabella. Mary Ann married William,
son of William Hall, of Mannington ; they had issue. James
Johnson, son of John and Rutli Redstrake, has l)een twice
married, his first wife was the daughter of Edmund Gibbon, of
Penn's Necic ; she died young, leaving no issue ; his second
wife was named Brown, a native of Greenwich, Cumber-
land county. Edward, the second son of Jolui and Ruth Red-
strake, married a person by the name of Stout, and his children
are Mary Jane and John. John, son of Edward, married
Elizaljeth, daughter of Micliael Allen. Jane, daughter of John
and Jane Redstrealv, married Tliomas Gibbon ; they liave
issue, one son — Thomas Gibbon, Jr. Ruth, tlie daughter of
John and Ruth J. Redstrake, married a man by the name of
Jefferson, of Delaware; they had issue, two sons. Isabella
Redstrake married a person by the name of Murphy ; they
have issue. Sarali, daughter of James and Christiana John-
son, was born lltli of 6th month, 1783, married Jonathan, son
of Jolm Lindzey, of Upper Alloways Creek, in 1803 ; they
had issue — William, Ruth, John, Mary and James. William
went to one of the Southern States, Jolm married Ilannali,
the daughter of James and Hannali Butcher, of Alloways
Creek. Jolm is deceased, leaving four children — James,
Charles, John and Sarah Lindzey. Mary, the daughter of
Jonathan and Sarah Lindsey, married Lawrence Hoover Boon,
of Salem ; tliey have two daughters — Sarali and Maria Jose-
phine. Josephine married Alljert II. Slape, a lawyer and
Prosecutor of the Pleas for Salem and Atlantic counties.
William, son of James and Christiana Johnson, was born 12th
of lOtli month, 1788, married in 1810, Margaret Laml)sou, a
direct descendant of Thomas Lambson, who emigrated from
England, and located land and settled thereon in 1690, in the
township of Penn's Neck. William and Margaret Johnson
liad thirteen children — Isabella, Rebecca, Christiana, Mary
Jane, James S., William, Ephraim, Edward, John, Margaret,
Robert, Eerdinand and Charles. Isabella, daughter of William
JOHN JOHNSON FAMILY. 113
unci Margaret Jolmson, married William Meveling, of Mary-
land ; they have issue. Rebecca, the daughter of William and
Margaret Johnson, married Thomas, son of Dr. Hedge and
Mary Ann Thompson, of Salem. Thomas is deceased, leaving
a widow and two children — Hedge and Isabella P. Thompson.
Hedge married Achsah, daughter of Isaac and Achsah Hall
Peterson, of Salem ; his ^^^fe is deceased, leaving no issue.
Rebecca Johnson Thompson, Avidow of Thomas, resides with
her son in the State of Maryland. Isabella Thompson, their
daughter, married Charles Watson, of Philadelphia; she died
without issue.
Christiana, daughter of William Johnson, married George
Kelton, and reside near Haddonfield, Camden county ; they have
six children. James S., son of William and Margaret Jolmson,
resides in Penn's Neck, on the homestead of his father. He
married Sarah, daughter of John and Hannah Lindzey, 11th of
10th month, 1854; they have issue, three sons. William,
Ephraim, Edward, and John Jolmson, sons of William and
Margaret, are deceased. Margaret, daughter of William and
Margaret Johnsofi, married James, son of John and Lydia
Flanagan, late of Philadelphia. James and his wife are living
in Philadelphia, and have issue. — Mary and William. Charles
and Rol;)ert Jolmson, sons of William, remain single. Abraham,
son of James and Christiana Johnson, born 19tli of 7th month,
1792, married Mary Conaroe, of Salem. They moved to the
western part of New York, and both are deceased ; they died in
Buffalo, and left two daughters. Mary, daughter of James and
Christiana Johnson, born 23d of 5th month, 1790, married
Joseph Dennis, in 1810; he was a bricklayer by trade, and a
native of Greenwich, Cuml^erland county. They moved to the
State of New York, and both are deceased, leaving four children.
One of their daughters married Dr. Smith, of Chicago, Illinois.
Rebecca, daughter of James and Christiana Jolmson, born 8th
of 10th month, 1794, married Edward, son of Henry Mulford,
of Lower Alloways Creek ; they moved and settled near Fredonia,
New York; from thence they moved and settled near Chicago,
Illinois; Rebecca is deceased, leaving three children — James,
Edward, and Anna Mulford. James and Edward married, and
are deceased; they left issue. Anna, their sister, is married,
but has no issue. Edward Mulford, Sr., is living, at an advanced
age, near the city of Chicago, and possesses a princely fortune.
John, the son of James and Christiana Johnson, born 14th of
2d month, 1796, followed the sea in early life, was the captain
of theship Josephine, trading from Philadelpliiji to New Orleans
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114 JOHN JOHNSON FAMILY.
for a number of years. When lie was past middle age lie left
the seas and settled on the farm that his father left to him in
Fenn's ISTeck. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of John M.
and Ann Sinnickson, of Salem ; they had issue, one son. John
and his wife, and their minor son, are deceased. Ann, daughter
of James and Christiana Johnson, was born Ttli of 7tli month,
1802; married Jonathan, son of John Mulford, of Alloways
Creek, in 1826 ; they have five children, named Christiana,
Amanda, James, John, and Anna Mulford. Christiana, their
oldest daughter, is married, and resides in Boston, Massachusetts.
Lydia, daughter of James Johnson, born in 1801, married James
M. Challis, a Baptist clergyman, in 1823 ; she is deceased, leaving
live children — Joseph, William, Luther L., George, and Emma
Challis. Joseph, son of James and Lydia Challis, is married,
and lives at Frankford, Fa.; has issue. William Challis is a
])hysician, is married, and has issue. George, son of James and
Lydia Challis, is married, and has children. Emma, daughter
of James and Lydia Challis, married Richard Frobasco; they
are living in Talbot county, Maryland. Luther, William, and
George Challis are among the first inhabitants of the city of
Atchison, Kansas, and all three! are reputed to be very wealthy.
Rachel, daughter of James and Christiana Johnson, born 21st
of Itli month, 1805, married Josiah Hall in 1821; they moved
to Cecil county, Maryland, and had two children — James and
Christiana Hall. Josiah and his wife, Rachel J. Hall, are
deceased, leaving a large and valuable estate.
John, son of John and Jane Johnson, of Fittsgrove, born
1st of 10th month, 1759, married Elizabeth, daughter of Corne-
lius Dubois, in 1783; they had twelve cliildren. Cornelius
Johnson, their eldest son, born 12tli of 6tli month, 1781, married
Elizabeth Yick. John, son of John and Elizabeth D. Johnson,
])orn 7tli of 1th month, 1788, married Rebecca Jones. Jane,
daughter of John Elizabeth Johnson, born 13th of 3d month,
1690, married Robert, son of Samuel Dubois. Ann, daughter
of John and Elizabeth Johnson, born 5th of 5th month, 1792,
nvxcY married. David, son of John Johnson, born 8th of 5th
mouth, 1795, married Hannah, daughter of David Dickinson.
Benjamin, son of John and Elizal)etli Johnson, born lltli of Itli
montli, 1799, married Maria, daughter of AVilliain Mayliew.
Robert, son of John Johnson, born 28th of Itli month, 1801,
remains unmarried. Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth
Johnson, born 2d of Itli month, 1807, married Enoch, son of
David Mayliew. Three of John and Elizabeth Dubois Johnson's
children died young. Cornelius, John's eldest son, and Elizabeth
JOHN JOHNSON FAMILY. 115
Yick, ]iis wife, had six children. Cornelius, the eldest, died a
young man. Margaret, the daughter, married, but her husl^and's
name is not mentioned. James Johnson, anotlier son, is not
married. William married Ann, the daughter of Jacob Hitch-
ner. John and Rebecca Johnson had three children — Caroline,
Ruth Ann, and Hiram Johnson. Ruth Ann Johnson married
Cobert Iredell ; they had issue. Hiram Johnson married Sarah
Nixon, daughter of Martia Nixon. Robert Dubois and Jane
Johnson, daughter of John, had twelve children — Mary Ann,
Ruth, Alfred, Susan, Elizal)etli, Belinda, John, Frank, Charles,
Enoch, Elnia, and Amy. Susan, daughter of Robert Dubois,
married Albert Leurz; they had issue. Elizabeth Dubois mar-
ried Benjamin Lamb; they had children. Belinda Dubois
married Frederick Fox ; they have issue. Frank Dul)ois married,
his wife's name not known; they had children. Charles Dubois
married; they had issue. David Johnson, son of John and
Elizabeth Dubois Johnson, married Hannah Dickinson ; had five
cliildren; their names are Emeline, Edward, Mirah, John, and
Elizabeth Johnson. Emeline, the eldest, married John Venal;
they had issue. Edward married Rhoda S. E. Taylor; they
have children. Mirah married John, son of Isaac Mayliew;
tliey had issue. John, son of David Jolinson, married Sarah
Campbell; they have issue. Elizabeth Ann Johnson married
Alfred Rice ; they had issue. Rebecca, daughter of John and
Jane Johnson, was twice married; her first husband was Benja-
min Harding; he died, leaving no issue. Her second husband
was Hugli Maguire; they had three children — Ann, Jane, and
Alinda Maguire. Jane Maguire married Isaac Wood ; she is
deceased, leaving no children. Ann Maguire married a person
by the name of Cripps; he died, leaving no issue. Alinda
Maguire is still living, unmarried. Phebe, daughter of John
and Jane Johnson, married John Stewart ; they moved in the
State of Delaware ; they are both deceased, leaving issue. Mary
Johnson, daughter of John and Jane, married Samuel Elwell;
they moved to the State of Indiana in 1817; tliey had three
cliildren — Isaac, Elizal)eth, and Rel)ecca; all are deceased,
leaving issue.
William, the son of John and Jane Johnson, married Eliza-
beth Maguire ; they had two children — Hugh and Lucretia ;
they left tlieir native State, and moved to the State of New
York. Samuel, the son of John and Jane Jolnison, was twice
married ; Ids first wife was Nancy McClung, by wliom he liad
five children — Isaac, Samuel, Elizabeth, Mary and one who
(bed 3'oung ; liis second M'ife was Sarah Martin, by wliom he
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had eight children — Nancy, Sarali Ann, Samuel, Josiah, Char-
lotte, Ruth, George and Martha. Isaac, son of Samuel and
Nancy Johnson, was horn 20th of 7th month, 17S7, and mar-
ried Catharine, daughter of Eleazar Mayliew; she was horn
lOtli of 7th month, 1789. Eleazar Mayhew was a land sur-
veyor and conveyancer, and had six sons and one daughter —
Catharine, John, Stanford, William, Eleazar, Isaac and Elaw
Mayhew. The latter was a physician. Eleazar's family are all
deceased at the present time; they all married excepting Elea-
zar Mayhew, Jr., and left issue ; he himself was a large land
Jiolder at the time of his death. Isaac and Catharine Mayhew
Johnson had seven children, namely — John, Kebecca, Sallie,
Harrison, Nancy, Samuel and Doctor Mayhew, Catharine,
wife of Isaac Johnson, departed this life SOtli of 4:th montli,
1858, aged about sixty-nine years. Isaac is still living in his
eighty-uintli year, and enjoys excellent health, both physical and
mental, for one of his age ; he has been an uncommon active
man, and has done a large amount of public business, having
been Sheriff of Salem county a number of years ago.
John, the son of Isaac and Catharine Johnson, left his
native country and went to Indiana and there settled, and mar-
ried Mary Ann Shuster; they have seven children. Rebecca,
daughter of Isaac and Catharine M. Johnson, married Garrett
Frickett ; they have six children. Sallie, daughter of Isaac
and Catharine M. Johnson, married Edmund Dubois ; they
have twelve children. Harrison, son of Isaac and Catharine
M. Johnson, married Emma, daughter of Moses Richman,
Esq. ; they had seven children, five of whom are still living.
Nancy, daughter of Isaac and Catliarine M. Jolmson, married
Isaac Newkirk ; they had six children, three of whom are
deceased. Samuel, son of Isaac and Catharine M. Johnson,
married Susan Hitchner ; they had nine children, eight of them
are still living. Mayliew Johnson, M. D., the youngest son of
Isaac and Catharine M. Jolmson, lias been twice married; his
first wife was Isabella Tyngle, l)y whom he had tln-ee children ;
]iis second wife was Lizzie Norton, by whom he has three chil-
dren. Mayhew Johnson, M. D., resides witli his family at
Ponnsgrove, in which section of the county ho lias {piite an
extensive medical practice.
Sarah Ann, eldest daughter of Sanniel Jolmson by his
second wife of Sarah Martin Jolmson, married a person by the
name of Reynolds ; they had issue. Samuel and Isaiah, sons
of Samuel and Sarah M. Johnson, are both deceased leaving
no issue. Charlotte, daughter of Samuel and Sarah M. John-
JOHN JOHNSON FAMILY. IIT
son, married Henry Carroll ; tliej had issue. Ruth, dang] iter
of Samuel and Sarah M. Johnson, married a person by the
name of Taylor ; they had children. George, son of Samuel
and Sarah M. Johnson, left Salem county and settled in the
State of Georgia. Martha, the youngest daughter of Samuel
and Sarah M. Johnson, is still living, but never married.
Isaac, the youngest son of John and Jane Jolmson, born 21st
of 7th month, 1772, married Mary Elwell, born 23d of 5th
month, 1778; they were married 24th of 6th month, 1795,
and had twelve children, named Harriet, Elizabeth, Isaac,
Amelia, Mary, Sarah, John, Samuel, Emma Ann, William,
Benjamin F., and James. Isaac Jolmson, the father of the
before mentioned children, died 5tli of 1st month, 1852, aged
about eighty years. His widow departed this life 18th of 9th
month, 1862, aged eighty-four years, three months and twenty-
six days. Harriet, daughter of Isaac and Mary Jolmson, l)orn
3d of 10th month, 1796, married William Newkirk. Their
children were Mary, Isaac J., and Redma. Elizabeth, daughter
of Isaac and Mary Johnson, born 18th of 4th month, 1798,
married Isaac Abbott ; they had issue — Martha and Mary.
Elizal)eth, their mother, died in 1871. Isaac, son of Isaac
and Mary Johnson, born 1st of lOtli month, 1799, married
Rachel Dubois ; they had twelve children — Rebecca, Josepli,
Thomas, Isaac, Elizabeth, Hester, Adaline, Christiana, Mary,
Martha, Matilda and Emma. Their father, Isaac Johnson,
departed tliis life 1st of 10th month, 1874, Amelia, daugliter
of Isaac and Mary Johnson, born 26th of lOtli month, 1801,
married Daniel Clark ; they iiad seven children — David, Mary
Jane, Harriet, Amelia, Isaac J., Charles and Daniel. Mary,
daughter of Isaac and Mary Johnson, born 15th of 3d month,
1804, married Samuel Dubois ; they had seven children —
Rebecca, Adaline, Louis, Jane, Eliza, Emeline and Johnson.
Their father, Samuel Dubois, died in 1872. Sarah, daughter
of Isaac and Mary Johnson, born 18th of Sth month, 1805,
married Henry Elwell ; they had issue, seven children — Samuel,
Mary, William, Franklin, Charlotte, Eliza and Borden, John,
son of Isaac and Mary Johnson, born 5th of 3d month, 1810,
married Elizabeth Merrick ; their children were Mary, Isaac,
William, Clinton, Alonza and Larrie. Their father died in
1864. Samuel, son of Isaac and Mary Johnson, born 19th of
5th month, 1812, died in 1870. Emma Ann, daughter of Isaac
and Mary Jolmson, born 29tli of 9th montli, 1814, married
Ewalt Richman ; they have nine children — Charles, Isaac J.,
Henry, Wilbert, Clayton, Johnson, Harriet, Sarali and Anna.
118 JOHN JOHNSON FAMILY.
Benjamin F., son of Isaac and Mary Jolnison, born 15tli of
6tli month, 1818, married Anna Mickle ; they liave two chikh'eu
— Woodburn and Ella. James, son of Isaac and Mary Jonnson,
born 21st of 2d month, 1820, married Sarah Stull ; they have
issne — Caroline and Ella. Isaac Johnson, the father of the
before mentioned children, was an uncommonly active business
man ; he was heard to say when a young man, he was determined
to possess more broad acres of land than his father owned at
the time of his death, all of which he realized, and more. He
was the owner of a large tract of excellent land not far from
Daretown, containing upwards of 600 acres, together witli
large quantities of land in other sections, and the owner of one
or two flour mills at the time of his death. Besides attending
to his own business, which was extensive, he transacted much
public l)usiness, and was Sheriff of the county of Salem at one
time.
JENNINGS FAMILY.
Henry Jennings was a prominent member of Salem Monthly
Meeting of Friends, soon after its organization. He Avas the
son of William and Mary Jennings, born the 21st of Tth month,
164:2, in the county of Surrey, England. Henry and his wife,
Margaret Jennings, embarked for America in the ship Kent,
Captain Gregor}^, and landed at New Salem 23d of 6th montli,
1677. In 1682, Jolm Adams, son-in-law of John Fenwick, sold
Henry Jennings 200 acres of land. He likewise purchased a
considerable tract of land in Cohansey precinct, it being near
the town of Cohansey, (now Greenwich). Henry and his wife
removed from Salem and located in the city of Philadelphia,
about the year 1700, and at that place they ended their days.
He was a tailor by trade, and followed it in that city. He died
in 1706, and made his will the year previous; and, not having
any children, he devised most of his estate to his uncle, Isaac
Jennings, of London, and to the daughter of Isaac, Margaret
Jennings, his cousin.
Some persons have supposed that Henry and Samuel Jennings
were brothers. If they were relatives it was not nearer than
cousins. Samuel Jennings emigrated from Coles Hill, in Buck-
inghamshire, England, and located at Burlington, N. J., in 1680.
Soon after his arrival he built himself a large brick d^'ellino-,
which stood on the banks of the Delaware. In his house the
Yearly Meeting of Friends of Pennsylvania and West New
Jersey were held several years. The time-honored house was
removed about ten years since. He was a reconnnended minister
some four or live years before he left his native land, and M^as
highly appreciated as such in that Kingdom. Soon after his
arrival, Edward Byllings, the Propritary Governor, appointed
him his deputy, in which capacity he served up to 1683, when
he was chosen Governor for one year by the Assembly of New
Jersey, and continued so up to the time of his removal to Phila-
dt^lphia, in 1692. His abilities were highly appreciated by
William Penn. Soon after he moved to the Province he was
appointed to the Commission of Peace, in the city of his adoption.
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Al)ont that time the controversy with George Keitli arose, in
which Samuel Jennings was much engaged on belialf of tlie
Society. In the early part of 1694 he sailed for London, as a
respondent on the appeal of Keith, to the London Yearly
Meeting, in which body he ably vindicated the cause of his
American brethren from the aspersions of their detractors.
Soon after his return from England he removed to Burlington,
the place of his former residence. In 1702 the crown of Eng-
land, to which the government of New Jersey had l)een trans-
ferred by tiie proprietors, appointed him one of the procinial
council; and in 1707, the year preceding his death, he filled the
office of Speaker of the Assembly, in which position he distin-
guished himself l)y a bold and fearless opposition to the arbitrary
misrule of the bigoted Lord Cornbury.
Edward Hyde was the son of the Earl of Claridon, and was
one of the first officers wlio deserted the army of King James.
King William, in gratitude for his services, appointed him
Governor of New York and New Jersey, in 1702, and conferred
on him the title of Lord Cornl)ury, an office he was entirely
unfit for hj nature and education; he l)eing a bigoted belliger-
ent, and arbitrary in his disposition, not seeming to understand
the wants of tlie colonists; all which incapacitated him for an
executive officer. The inhabitants of tlie colony of New York,
as well as tliose of New Jersey, became wearied of his misgov-
ernment, and accordingly they determined to send an appeal to
Queen Anne for her to remove the Governor. Samuel Jennings
had the credit of writing the address, which was forwarded to
the home government, and by so doing he incurred the great
displeasure of CornV)ury, who is reported to have said "Jennings
was the most impudent man he ever knew." However, it had
the desired effect, and Lord Cornbury was recalled in 1708, the
year of Samuel Jenning's deatli. Proud, the historian, wrote
that "Samuel Jennings was worthy of memory, and endowed
with both spiritual and temporal wisdom; was suppressor of
vice and encourager of virtue." He was one of those rare
individuals in wliom was concentrated a ^^ariety of qualifications
and mental endowments^ by which, under the sanctifying power
of truth, he was made eminently useful to his fellow men, both
in Ins ministerial and civil capacity. He did more than any of
his cutemporaries in organizing the civdl go\'ernment of West
Jersey. At his deatli lie left no sons to perpetuate his name,
but three daughters.
Sarali Jennings, his eldest daughter, married Edward Pen-
nington, in 1699 ; lie was the youngest son of Isaac Penning-
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ton, an eminent citizen of London, a man of literature, who
wrote extensively in defence of Quakerism. Edward's mother,
when Isaac married her, was a widow of Sir William Sprignett,
a military officer. William left one daughter — Guielma Maria
Sprignett, who afterwards was the first wife of William Penn ;
there were two children — William and Letiti Penn. Tlie
second wife of William Penn was Hannah Callowhill ; they
had two sons. John, the only American child of William
Penn, was born in Philadelphia, in the house that Samuel Car-
penter built, on Second street, corner of Norris alley. The
secomd child by his second wife was Richard Penn. Edward
Pennington was a half-brother of Guielma Penn ; he was a
Surveyor-General of the province of Pennsylvania up to the
time of his death, which event took place in 1701, two years
after his marriage, leaving one son — Isaac Pennington. Ann
Jennings, the second daughter of Samuel, married William
Stevenson, in 1706, and the third daughter, Mercy, married
John Stevenson, the brother of William, in the same year.
Thomas, another brother, married Sarah, the widow of Edward
Pennington. John Stevenson, the great grand-son of Samuel
Jennings, emigrated from Burlington county to Upper Pemf s
Neck about seventy or eighty years hence, but remained there a
few years ; he afterwards removed to the township of Manning-
ton, on the Wyatt farm, when the late James Johnson left and
moved on his farm, in Penn's Neck. John's wife was Emily
Newbold, a member of the ancient family of that name in
Burlington county. John and Emily Stevenson had several
children — William, Mary, Daniel, Charles, Jolm and Emily
Stevenson. Mary married Clayton, the son of John and Charlotte
Wistar ; they had two sons — John and Pichard Wistar. Daniel
Stevenson married Ilannali, daughter of John Adams. Charles
Stevenson married Rachel, the eldest daughter of Samuel and
Margaret Ililliard. Jolm Stevenson, Jr. married Ann, daughter
of Samuel and Ann Brick, of Elsinboro.
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KEASBEY FAMILY.
Edward Keasbey, lirst of tlie Keasbey family in this county,
emigrated from England about the year 1694, and settlod in
the town of New Salem. He was then a young man. I think
it probable that he was a member of the Society of Friends
l)eforo he left his native land, and came here to avoid religious
persecution. Soon after his arrival he took an active part in
the affairs of the religious meetings of the Society, to which he
appeared to be so ardently attached. He gave the sum of
twenty dollars towards erecting the brick meeting house in the
grave yard on Broadway street. The house was completed in
1701. On 26th of 11th month, 1701, he married EHzabeth,
widow of Isaac Smart, of Elsinborough. She was the daughter
of Andrew and Isabella Thompson, and was born near Du])lin,
Ireland, loth of 8th month, 1666. Edward and his wife,
Elizabeth T. Keasbey, had four children — Mary, the eldest, born
11th of 3d month, 1703 ; Edward, Matthew and Susanna.
Matthew Keasbey, born in 1706, married, and had a large family
of children, most of whom were daughters, and consequently at
this late period the record of them is lost. Edward Keasbey,
Jr., eldest son of Edward and Elizabeth T., was born in 1705,
and subsequently married Elizabeth, the daughter of Edward
Brad way, Jr., and grand-daughter of the emigrant of that name.
Edward and Elizabeth B. Keasbey had three children —
Edward, Mary and Bradway. Edward Keasbey 3d, was born
1726, and afterwards nuu-ried Prudence, the daugliter of
Edward and Temperance Quinton.
Edward Quinton was the son of Tol)ias Quinton, who emi-
grated from England and purchased lands on the south side of
Alloways creek, where the village of Quinton is now located.
He died al)0ut the year 1705, leaving one son — Edward. Tem-
])erance Quinton was the daughter of Daniel, the son of Jolni
Suiitli, of Almesbury (it is now spelled Amebury). Daniel
Smitli was born near Norfolk, England, 10th of 12th montli,
1660. He came to tliis country with his father, in company
with John Fenwick, the proprietor, in 1675, ;ind subsequently
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purchased of liim 1,000 acres of laud on tlio nortli side of
Allowajs creek, opposite the present viUage of Quinton. At
the schism in the Society of Friends, made by George Keith,
Daniel Smith became an active partisan with the Keithites, as
they were called, and when Keith returned to England many of
his followers became members of the Baptist religious association.
Daniel Smith became a Baptist, and most of his family^did like-
wise, except his eldest son John, who still adhered to the Society
of his ancestors. John Smith left three sons — John, Benjamin,
and James. The latter became an eminent merchant in Phila-
delphia, his^ partner being the late Jacob Ridgway. James was
much the senior of his partner, and retired from business a
num])er of years before his death. He ended his days in the
city of Burlington.
Edward Quinton died in 1756, and his wife Temperance
departed this life in 1775, aged seventy-live years. Edward
and Prudence Q. Keasbey had ten children — Edward, Elizabeth,
Matthew, Sarah, Lewis, Phebe, Prudence, Edward the second,
Samuel and Anthony. Several of these cliildren died in infancy.
After the death of Prudence Q. Keasbey, Edward married Sarah
Quinton, sister of his first wife, by wdiom he had six children —
Temperance, Delniz C, Jesse, Rachel, Kizzie and Jane. The
father of the above mentioned cliildren died in 1779, aged iifty-
four years.
Matthew, the son of Edward and Prudence Keasbe}^, was
born in 1719, and lived to grow to manhood, when he went to
sea and was drowned. Lewis, his brother, born 1752, married
Sarah Grinnell ; he left issue. Anthony, the youngest son of
Edward and Prudence Keasbey, born in 1758, married Hannah,
the daughter of Joseph and Rebecca Abbott Brick, of Elsin-
borough. Anthony and his wife had eight children — Rebecca,
Prudence, Matthew^, Edward Quinton, Hannah, Anthony, Arte-
mesia, and Ann. Rebecca, their eldest child, married Dr.
Charles Hannah ; she left no issue. Prudence died at middle
age, unmarried. Matthew married Ann, the daughter of Michael
Fisher, of Woodbury; they had six children — Rebecca, Caroline,
Cliarles, Quinton, John, and Elizabeth. Dr. Edward Q. Keasbey
married a young woman by the name of Aertson. They had
four children — Anthony, Helen, Anna, and Edward.
Hannah, the daughter of Anthony and Hannali Keasbev,
married Thomas, the son of I^r. James and Ruth Vanmeter, of
Salem. Hannah is deceased, leaving Uvo daughters — Artemesia
and Martha. Anthony, the yoinigest son of Anthony aiul
Hannah Keasbey, sold his patrimonial estate to his brother, Dr.
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Edward Q. Keasbey, and went to one of the Southern States.
Arteniesia died a yonng Avoman, nnniarried. Ann, the young-
est daughter of Anthony and Ilannali B. Keasbey, married
James M. Hannah. They had three children — Charles Gilbert,
Cornelia, and Percival. Anthony, the father of the above men-
tioned children, died in the early part of tliis century, leaving
one of the largest landed estates of that period. His wife sur-
vived him several years.
Temperance, the eldest daughter of Edward and Sarah
Keasbey, married Judge John Smith, who resided near the
village of Quinton. They had one son — Edward K..Smitli,who
was a surveyor of land for some years, and afterwards was
elected Sheriff. He married the daughter of Andrew Sinnickson,
of Salem. He and his family subsequently removed to one of
the Western States. Delzin, the eldest son of Edward and Sarah
Keasbey, was a hatter, and followed his trade in Salem for a
number of years. His residence was in the ancient brick house
of the Keasbey's situated at the upjDcr end of East Broadway.
It is still standing.
Delzin Keasbey's wife was Kachel Smitli. Jesse, the second
son of Edward and Sarah Quinton Keasbey, married the
daughter of Thomas Rowen, Sr., of Salem, sister of the late
Dr. Thomas Kowen. Jesse and his wife had two children —
John and Ann Keasbey. Kachel, the daughter of Edward
and Sarah Q. Keasbey, married Leonard Gibbon, the son of
John and Esther Gibbon, who was born 15th of 11th month,
1766 ; they resided near Roadstown, Cumberland county. John
was the son of Leonard, who, with liis brother, Nicholas Gib-
bon, emigrated from England in the fore part of the last cen-
tury ; they purchased 6,000 acres of land at or near the town
of Coliansey, now Greenwich ; they likewise organized the first
Episcopal church in that town, and the first of that persuasion
in that section of Fenw^ick's Colony. The house of worship
was removed many years ago, and there is nothing remaining
to mark the place where it stood but a few tomb stones in tlie
vacant lot near l)y. John Gil^bon's wife was Esther, the
daughter of Ephraim Seeley. (The Seeleys are one of the oldest
families that settled at what Avas then c:dled the Coliansey
precinct, now Cumberland county.) She had several children
l)y her iirst husband. Edmund Gibbon married a .young-
woman in Penn's Neck who had large possessions' on Finn's
Point that she inherited from her ancestors ; they had several
children — Grant, Tliomas, Charles and one daughter, who
was the iirst wife of James J. Itedstrake, of Salem ; he was
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at that time a resident of Pemrs Neck, his native place.
Esther Seeley's second husband was Colonel Benjamin Holme;
she was his second wife, (his first being Jane, tlic daughter of
Daniel Smith ; she was killed a few years after her marriage hj
a horse, and left no children. Robert Johnson, in his history
of Salem county, said her maiden name was Smart; he was
informed incorrectly). Benjamin and his wife Esther had two
children — John and Jane Holme. John's first wife was
Rebecca Thompson, of Salem ; his second wife was Margaret,
daughter of Clement Hall, of Elsinborough ; their children
have been mentioned before. Jane, the daughter of Benjamin
and Esther Holme, married William Harris, a resident of
Swedesboro, Gloucester county ; she lived but a short time after
her marriage. There is some difference of opinion whether tlie
Holme family of Salem county are descendants of Obediah
Holme, who settled at Cohansey in the early settlement of the
English colony, and was one of the Judges of Salem county
for several years ; his descendants are numerous in Cumberland
county at the present day, and the most reliable information in
my possession is that they are a different family and no way
connected ; their names are different ; one is Holmes and the
Salem county family spell their names Holme. The ancestor
of the latter, John Holme, emigrated to and settled in Phila-
delphia at an early period ; he had two sons born in that city ;
the eldest son when married went to reside on lands his fathei'
bought of William Penn, where Holmesburg is lociated; it being
not far from Philadelphia. The j^ounger son, John Holme,
came to this county in 1698, and purchased a large tract of
land in what is now Upper Alloways Creek; he had two sons
and one daughter — John, Benjamin and Elizabeth Holme.
The latter in 1737 married Joseph Fogg, of Fogg's Landing,
(he Avas the son of Joseph Fogg, the tirst emigrant to this
county by that name.) Joseph and his wife had ten childi-en —
David, Ebenezer, Charles, Hannah, Ann, Elizal)etli, Holmes,
Isaac, Rebecca and Ann Fogg. John Holme, the eldest son,
inherited most of his father's real estate near Allowaystown ;
he, like his brother Benjamin, was a zealous Whig during the
American Revolution, but I think he was never in the rnilitaiy
service. The Holme family were one of the earliest families
of the Baptist Society that was organized near Salem.
Leonard Gibbon and his Avife Rachel K. had eleven children
— Mary, Harriet, Eliza, Mason Seeley, Francis, Robert G.,
Edward K., Anthony, Leonard, Quinton and Sarah Gibbon.
Eliza, tlie eldest daughter of Leonard and Rac-hel Gib])t)n,
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man-ied Jeremiali Parvin, of Deerfield township, Cumberland
county ; tliev liad issue, two sons and one daughter — Leonard,
(31iver and Harriet ; they are all living. Mason Seeley Gibbon,
tlie eldest son of Leonard and Rachel Gibbon, married Mary
Brooks, tlie daughter of James Brooks, of Roadstown. Mason
and his wife had six children — Caroline, Robert, James, Wil-
liam Henry, Leonard and Eliza Gibbon ; I think they are all
living, excepting Leonard. Edward K. Gibbon married twice ;
he removed to one of the Western States, and had one daughter.
Anthony Iveasbey Gibbon also went to one of the Western
States, and there married, and had issue, one son, who is still
living. Quinton Gibbon, the youngest son of Leonard and
Rachel Gibbon, is a physician in the city of Salem ; his residence
is on Market street. Quinton married Sarah, the daughter of
Morris and Sarah Han(;ook ; both of her parents were the
lineal descendants of William and Isabella Hancock, wlio
emiy-rated from Eno-hind to this county in 1677, and settled on
his allotment of land, containing 1,000 acres, that he purchased
of John Fen wick two years previous. Tlie land lay on the
south side of Monmouth river, wliere the village of Hancock's
Bridge now stands. Dr. Gibbon and his wife liave one daugh-
1 3r — Henrietta Gibbon. Sarah A. Gibbon, daughter of Leonard
a'.id Sarah Gibbon, lives in Salem, with her brother, Dr. Quinton
Gibl)on ; she is unmarried. Leonard Gibbon, tlie father of the
above mentioned children, died wlien most of his children were
minors; Racliel, his widow, died in Salem IStli montli, 1S51,
aged nearly seventy-eight years.
Bradway Iveasbey, the son of Edward 2d, fuid EHzabeth
Bradway Keasbey, was born in 1730 ; he married and settled
on part of James Daniels, Sr., estate, but whether he purchased
the property of one of the Daniels*' family or not, I have no
definite knowledge. Neal Daniels emigrated from Ireland to
this country in 1681, and purchased a tract of land of Annie
Salter, in the forks of Stoe Creek, and it was as good a soil as
there is in tliat section of the county. His son, James Daniels,
was born in Ireland ; he has left behind him the most interesting
and correct acconnt of the Indians, at the time of the iirst
Europeans landed here. He describes them as peacable and
quiet people, until spirituous liquor was introduced among them.
The alcohol produced a radical change among them, they were
then often troublesome and more difficult to get along with as
neighbors.
Edward Keasbey and his wife had one son — Edward Keasbey.
Bradway Keasbey's second wife was Jane Waddington, the
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daughter of Jonathan Waddington; they had issue, one daugli-
ter, Sarah Keasbey, who subsequently married John, the son of
Edward Paneoast. The hitter was a resident of Gloucester
county. John and his wife lived for a short time on her
property, that was willed to her by her fatlier. They, however,
in a few years sold it to Samuel Paneoast, and purchased a farm
of Josiah Reeves, in the same township, located on the north
side of Alloways creek, on the main road leading from Hancock's
Bridge to Salem, it being near the former place. John and
Sarah K. Paneoast had seven children — Hannah, Achsah, John,
Israel, Jane, David, and Aaron Paneoast. John Paneoast, sev-
eral years before his death, sold his property in Alloways Creek
township and purchased a farm of Aaron Paneoast, at Mullica
Hill, Gloucester county, and there he and liis wife ended their
days. At that place, Hannah, the eldest daughter of John and
Sarah K. Paneoast, married John, the youngest son of William
and Mary Bradway ; she died a comparatively young woman,
leaving hve children — Clayton, Sarah, Achsah, Ann, and Mary
Ann Bradwa3^ Achsah, the daughter of John and Sarah K.
Paneoast, married James Lippincott; they had issue, two daugh-
ters — Hannah Lippincott, who married Jonathan Colson, and
Sarah Ann Lippincott, who married William Dunn. John, the
eldest son of John and Sarah K. Paneoast, married tlie eldest
daughter of Benjamin and Susan Griscom, of Penn's ISTeck.
John and his wife had seven children — Benjamin, Mary Jane,
Beulah, John, Sarah, Susan, and Hannah Paneoast. Jane, tlie
daughter of John and Sarah K. Paneoast, married Andrew, the
eldest son of Benjamin and Susan Griscom; she died soon after
they were married, leaving no issue. Israel, the son of John
and Sarah Iv. Paneoast, married Sarah Ann Lippincott; they
had issue — Stacy Keasbey, Dilwyn, and Mary Ann Paneoast.
David Paneoast, son of John and Sarah K. Paneoast, married
Ann, the daughter of Joseph Davis, of Pilesgrove; they have
issue — Joseph D., Mary, Martha, Anna, David,William, Charles,
and Isabella Paneoast. Aaron, the youngest son of John and
Sarah K. Paneoast, married Anna Dunn; they have one daughter
—Deborah Paneoast.
Edward, the son of Bradway Keasbey, married Lydia, the
daughter of Jesse Grace Carll; they had issue — Sarah, Joseph,
Prudence, Grace, Elizabeth, and Edward Keasbey. Sarali, the
eldest daughter, married Aaron, the son of Jonathan and Sarah
B. Waddington; they had live children — Sarah Ann, Lydia,
Joshua, Bradway, and Jane Waddington. Joseph, the son of
Edward and Lydia Keasbey, married Hannah, the daughter of
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David Stretch ; lie died a young man, leaving no issue. Prudence
Iveasbey married Edward Waddington, brotlier of Aaron Wad-
dington. Edward and his wife had eight cliihlren — Richard,
Sarah, Edward, Prudence, Elizabeth, Joseph, Lydia Ann, and
Rebecca Waddington. Grace, the daughter of Edward and
Grace Keasbey, married Reuben Dare ; I think he was a native
of Cumberland county. They purchased a farm in Beesley's
ISTeck, in the township of Alloways Creek, being formerly a part
of the Joseph Brick estate. Reuben and his wife left several
children. One of their daughters married William, the son of
Edward Brad way; they own the homestead and reside thereon
at this time. Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of Edward and
Grace Keasbey, married William Plummer; they owned, and
while they lived occupied part of the homestead of her parents,
Edward and Grace Keasbey; they had three sons and one
daughter — William, Edward K., Cliarles, and Elizabetli Plum-
mer. William married Rebecca, the daughter of Judge Ephraim
Carll; they have issue. Elizabetli, the daughter of William and
Elizabeth K. Plummer, married Isaac, the son of David Allen;
they have several children. Charles, the youngest son of William
and Elizabeth K. Plummer, married Ann Eliza, the daughter of
Henry and Elizabeth B. Miller; they have issue.
Prudence, the daughter of Edward and Lydia Keasbey,
married Edward, the youngest son of Jonathan and Sarah
Waddington. Edward and his wife had eight children —
Richard, Sarah, Edward (who died a minor). Prudence, Eliza-
beth, Joseph, Lydia and Rebecca. Richard married Mary
Ann, the daughter of David Bowen, of Alloways Creek; they
have issue — Anna, Edward, David, Elizal)etli, George ancl
Mary. Anna married William, the son of Elijah and Beulali
Ware; they have issue. Edward, the eldest son of Richard
Waddington, married Mary, the daughter of Daniel Hood; they
have issue. David Waddington, married Maggie Stretch ; they
have one child. Elizabeth Waddington married Jonathan, the
son of Aaron and Mary Fogg. George Waddington's wife is
Mary, the daughter of Charles and Beulah Gaskill ; they have
issue. Sarah, the eldest daughter of Edward and Prudence
Waddington, married James, the son of Oliver Smith ; they
have three children. Edward, the eldest, married Ann, the
daughter of Lewis and Elizabeth Fox; they have issue. Oliver,
the second child, married Hannah, the daughter of Joseph H.
and Rachel Fogg; they have issue. Keasbey, the youngest
son, married Mary, the daughter of Jol) Thorp ; they have
issue. Prudence Waddinijton's husliand was Ebenczer Barrett.
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A few years after their marriage they removed to Illinois,
where, I think, Prndence died, leaving fom- or five children.
Ebenezer, soon after the death of liis wife, removed to Kansas
with liis family ; they remained at their new home but a sliort
time, and then emigrated to Nebraska, and settled near Omaha.
Elizabeth Waddington married John, the son of Maurice
Welch, of Mannington. John and his \vife are deceased, leav-
ing two children — Aaron and Lydia. Joseph, the youngest son
of Edward Waddington, married Ruth, the daughter of Joseph
and Jane Appleton ; the latter is the daughter of Hezekiah
Hews, and grand-daughter of Benjamin Wriglit, of Manning-
ton. Josepli and Ruth Waddington had six cJiildren — Emma,
Jane, who died young, Joseph, Tacy, Lydia Ann and George.
Lydia Ann, the daughter of Edward and Prudence Wadding-
ton, married Jonathan, the son of Adna and Lydia Bradway ;
they have one daughter — Lydia P. Bradway. Rebecca, the
youngest daughter of Edward and Prudence Waddington,
married Samuel Borden, a native of Upper Penn's Neck ; they
have issue. Edward and liis wife. Prudence, were buried in the
old grave yard on the south side of Alloways Creek, wiiere all
the bodies of their ancestors are mouldering in their native
dust, while their souls have entered upon immortality. Tlie
great American poet, Longfellow, wrote the following encour-
aging poem :
Life is real, Life is earnest,
And the grave is not its goal ;
Dust thou art, to dust returnetli,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Josepli Keasbey, tlie eldest son of Lydia Keasbey, married
Hannah, the daughter of David and Mary Street StretcJi. Joseph,
soon after he became of age, purcliased land in Elsinborougli,
being part of the Norris estate, bordering on Alloways creek;
it formerly belonged to the Stubbing family. Joseph and his
Avife Hannah commenced life on the said farm; he lived but a
short timp afterwards, dying in 1814, with typhus fever, which
disease was prevalent and very mortal about that time. He left
no issue, but devised about two-thirds of his real estate to his
widow, Hannah Keasbey. A certain portion he directed to l)e
sold for the payment of his debts, and the residue he devised to
Mark Stretch, a distant relative of his wife. His widow subse-
quently married Andrew Sndth.
Grace, the daughter of Edward and Lydia Keasbey, married
Reuben Dare. They owned and lived on property in Lower
Alloways Creek, on a point of land lying on the south side of
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the creek, called Beesley's Neck. I think it formerly belonged
to the Brick family. Reuben and his wife had several children.
AV^illiain W. Bradway, the present occupant of the farm, married
one of their daugiiters. Elizabeth Keasbey, the youngest daughter
of Edward and Lydia, married William Plummer, Sr. They
had four children — William, Edward, Elizabeth, and Charles,
William, the eldest, married Bebecca, the daughter of Judge
Ephraim Carll. The children of William and his wife, Bebecca
Blummer, have been mentioned previously. Elizabeth Plummer,
the daughter of William Plunnner, Sr., and his wife Elizabeth,
married Isaac, the son of David Allen, of Upper Alloways
Creek, now Quinton township. Isaac and his wife Elizabeth
have issue — David, Sarah, Thompson, and Charles Anna Allen.
Charles, the youngest son of Elizabeth and William Plummer,
Sr., married Ann Eliza, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth
Miller, of Elsinborough. Charles has been deceased several
years, leaving a widow and three children — Elizabeth, Henr}'-,
and Anna.
Bel)ecca, the eldest daughter of Jesse and Mary Carll, mar-
ried Bichard, the son of Bobert Moore, Jr. ; she lived but a
few years after her marriage, leaving issue. Elizal)eth, the
second daughter of Jesse and Mary Carll, born in 1799, mar-
ried Jonathan, the eldest son of David and Mary S. Stretch ; she
also died in early life, leaving no issue. William, tlie son of
Jesse and Mary Carll, born in 1801, married Ann, the daughter
of Larry Dowlin; they had seven children — Bebecca, Mary, Ann
Elizabeth, Arthalinda,. Jesse, Marietta and Janetta. Bebecca
Carll married William Allen ; she died young, leaving no issue.
Ann Elizabeth Carll married Thomas, the son of Epln-aim
Seeley, a native of Bridgeton ; they have issue — Kate and
Belford Seeley.
Jesse Carll, the son of William and Ann, married Elizabeth
Craig, of Cumberland county ; he is deceased, leaving a widow
and three cldldren — Lydia Ann, William and Catliarine.
Marietta Carll married Amos, the son of Aaron and Susan
Badgett; they have two children — Arthalinda and Anna.
Arthalinda married Daniel Ilogate; they reside in Salem.
Anna is still unmarried. The Padgetts are one of the oldest
families in Salem and Cumberland counties. Artlialinda,
Mary and Janetta Carll died minors. Sarah, tlie daughter of
Jesse and Mary Carll, married Joseph, the son of Isaac Mills ;
she has been dead many years, leaving issue. Lydia, tlie
youngest daughter of Jesse and Mary Carll, married Joseph
Bowen; tlicy have no issue. Jesse, the father of tlie above
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mentioned children, died in 1814 of the typus fever. Sarah,
tlie daughter of Jesse Carll, Sr. and his wife Grace, married
Job Shepj)ard, and had two sons — John and William. John's
wife was Sarah, the daughter of Samuel Ward, of Elsinborough;
tliey have five children — Samuel, Job, Sarah, Rebecca and
Mary Jane. Samuel Sheppard married Hannah, the daughter
of James Baker ; they have issue — Hannah, Alabedia and
Isabella. Jol) Sheppard's wife was Jane Fryant ; they had
four children — John, Roger, Job and Jenita. John, the eldest,
married Rachel, daughter of James and Rachel Baker; they
have issue. William, the youngest son of Job and Sarah
Sheppard, married Sarah Boyd ; there were two clnldren —
David and Sarah Ann. David's wife was Rachel Piphran ;
they removed to Indiana. Sarah Ann Sheppard married
William, the son of Mark Stretch; they also went to one of
the Western States; she is deceased now, leaving issue. William
Sheppard's second wife was Mary Ferrell, a widow, whose
maiden name was Smith, a native of Delaware. William Shep-
pard, when about ten years of age, lost his speech by that
scourge, scarlet fever, and he has been a mute, in a great meas-
ure, ever since ; he and his wife reside at Hancock's Bridge,
and both of them are past three score years and ten.
Anna, the eldest daughter of William and Martha Wadding-
ton, married Jonathan, the son of Jonathan and Joanna
Hildreth. They had one daughter — Joanna Hildreth, wdio
married Dr. Thomas P. Dickinson, a native of Pilesgrove.
Tlieir children are A. M. P. V. H. Dickinson, who married
Mary Springer ; Thomas and Hildreth, the latter is deceased.
Sarah, the daughter of William and Martlia Waddington,
married Daniel, the son of Daniel and Sarah Tracy ; they had
no issue. William, the son of William and Martha Wadding-
ton, married Elijia, the daughter of Davis and Fanny Nelson,
of Elsinborough. There were two children — Fanny and
William. Fanny's Inisband is William Jones. She is deceased,
leaving one daughter — Eliza. William married tlie daughter
of William Simms ; they have issue. Elizabetli Waddington,
the daughter of William and Martha Waddington, died a
young woman of pulmonary consumption. Martha, the daugh-
ter of William and Martha Waddington, married Joseph, the
son of John and Elizabeth Hancock. Joseph is deceased,
leaving no issue. Jesse C, the y(^ungest son of William and
Martha Waddington, married Rachel Scudders. They are both
deceased, leaving one daughter, Sarah Waddington, who subse-
quently married Henry Elwell ; tliey have issue.
LIPPINCOTT FAMILY.
The family of Lippincott, it is said, took its name from
Luffeiicott, a manor and parish at the western extremity of
the county of Devonshire, on the borders of Cornwall, England;
which remained their property and the place of their residence
from the time of King Henry III until the second year of
King Henry Y, A. D., 1414, or from 1243, or earlier to 1414.
One of the family, John Lippincott, between 1430 and 1450,
married Jane, daughter and co-heir of John Wyberry, which
brought the estate of Wyberrys into the family, and continued
their property until about 1775, when Henry Lippincott, the
last of the branch, sold it to Charles Cartcliff. There is a strong-
reason to believe that the first ancestor of the numerors family
of Lippincotts in America was Richard Lippincott, born in
Plymouth, Devonshire, England. He emigrated to Dorchester,
ISTew England, between 1636 and 1640. In 1644 he returned
to Plymouth, England, his native land, and about the year 1650
he joined the new religious sect, the Society of Friends, and
suffered much therefor. On the 20th of January, 1660, at
Plymouth, he was committed to prison by Oliver Creely, mayor,
and with others was taken from a meeting house. How long
he remained in prison we have no account. In 1663 he and his
family left England and located themselves in Rhode Island.
In 1669 he removed from Rhode Island and settled in New
Jersey, at Shrewsbury, in which place he became a large landed
proprietor. He died at Shrewsbury 25th of 9tli month, 1683,
and his widow, Abigail Lippincott, died 2d of 6th month, 1697.
Richard, a short time previous to his death, purchased 1,000
acres of laud of John Fenwick, in Cohansey precinct, being on
the south side of Cohansey river, in Shrewsbury Neck. Pre-
vious to the death of Abigail Lippincott, the widow of Richard,
she liberated all her slaves, which act is sutticient to perpetuate
her name to the latest posterity.
In the record of the town of Freehold, N. J., mention is made
of Richard Lippincott as one of the overseers of the town of
Shrewsbury, in 1670. This book of records is said to be the
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oldest deed book in New Jersey, it having been commenced the
1-ith of 12th month, 1667. Richard and Abigail Lippiiicott
had six sons and two daughters. Remembrance, their eldest
son, was born at Dorchester, New England, in 16-11. He was
baptized on the 19th of 7th month, 1641, and died 11th of 2d
month, 1723. He married Margaret Barber, of Boston; they
had issue, four sons and eight daughters. He resided in Mon-
mouth county, N. J. John, their second son, was born at
Boston, New England, 6th of 9tli month, 1611, and died 16th
of 2d month, 1720. He married Janetta Austin ; they had issue,
four sons and four daughters. They resided in New Jersey.
Abigail, their eldest daugliter, was born in Plymoutli, 17th of
11th month, 1646, died an infant. Restore Lippincott was born
at Plymouth, England, 3d of 5th month, 1618, and died at
Mount Holly, in the 5th month, 1711. He represented Bur-
lington county in the State Legislature, in 1703, the year that
East and West Jersey were united under one government, and
continued a member of that body for several years. At his
death, Thomas Chalkly mentions in his journal, that he was
present at the funeral. He further stated that he was informed
that Restore left behind him nearly two hundred children, grand-
children, and great-grand-children. Freedom, their fourth son,
was born 1st month, 1650, at Stone House, England, and died
in 1697; he was married llrth of 8th month, 1680, to Mary
Custin, of Burlington, and had three sons and two daughters.
Increase, their second daughter, was born at Stone House,
England, 5th of 10th month, 1657, and died 29t]i of 9tli month,
1695. She married Samuel Dennis, who came from England
and settled at Shrewsbury, in 1675 ; he died 7th of 6tli month,
1723, aged seventy-two years. He and his wife had two sons
and three daughters. Jacob, their fifth son, was born in England,
in the 3d month, 1660, and died 6th of 12th montb, 1686. He
married, and had one son and one daughter, both of whom died
in infancy. Preserved, their sixth son, was born in Rhode
Island, 25th of 12t]i month, 1663, and died in 1666. Restore,
their third son, married Hannah, daughter of William Shattock,
of Boston; they had three sons and six daughters. Samuel was
l)orn at Shrewsbury, N. J., and married Ann Hulet, of Shrews-
bury, on the 3d of 5th month, 1700. Abigail, the eldest
daughter, was born at Shrewsbury about 1678. There is no
account of her marriage. Hannah, the daughter of Restore
Lippincott, was born at Shrewsbury, in the 9th month, 1676.
Hope, tlieir second daughter, was born at Shrewsbury, in the
8th month, 1681. She married William Gladino; in 1701.
loi LIPPLN'COrr FAMILY.
Rebecca, daughter of the same parents, was born 24rth of 9th
month, 16S4:. James, their son, -was born at Shrewsbury, 11th
of 4th month, lt3S7. James married Anna Eves, in 1707.
Eliz:il>eth, daughter of Restore, was born at Shi-ewsburr, 15th
of 11th niouthri690. About that time Restore removed from
Shrewsbury to Bm-lington county, and located himself with his
familv near the town of Mount Holly, at which place his son
Jacob was born, in the 6th month. 1692. Jacob subsequently
married Mary, the daughter of Henry Burr, whose ^-ife was
Elizabeth Hudson, a native of Eugland. Jacob and his %vife
had six sons and two daughters. Rachel, the youngest daughter
of Restore and Haimah Lippincott, was born near Moimt Holly,
Sth of 11th month, 1695 ; she married Zachariah Jess. Jacob,
son of Restore and Hannah Lippincott, married Haimah Burr;
thev located in the lower part of Gloucester county, or Piles-
grove, Salem county, where most of their descendants are
residing at the present time, together with the descendants of
Samuel Lippincott, who was a public Friend; he was the son of
Freedom Lippincott, who was the son of Richard Lippincott, the
emigrant. Samuel was born 12th of 12th month, 172S, and
married Abigail, the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Bates ;
they had six children — Joseph, Samuel, Joshua, Mercy, Abigail,
and Elizabeth. Those two branches of Richard Lippincott's
descendants are inhabitants of Burlington, Camden, Gloucester,
and Salem counties, X. J., and Philadelphia.
Jacob Lippincott and liis wife, Hannah Bm-r, had eight chii-
(li-en — Caleb, Benjamin, Samuel, Joshua, Jacob, AVilliam,
Mary and Hannah Lippincott. Caleb, the eldest son, married
Hannah, the daughter of Daniel AVills, a resident of Rancocas,
in 17S5. Benjamin, second son of Jacob and Mary B. Lippin-
cott married Hope AYills, the sister of his brother Caleb's wife:
they h:id three children — Ehzabeth, Aaron and Benjamin
Lippincott. Caleb and his brother Benjamin owned property
on the east side of Oldman's creek, in Gloucester county, where
they and most of their children after them resided. Samuel,
the' third son of Jacob, married and left one daughter, who
married Isaac Barber ; they emigrated to Clark county, Ohio,
and were both living in 1848 at a great age. Joshua, the
fourth son of Jacob and Mary Lippincott, married Rebecca
Wood, and they had two sons and one daughter. Jacob, the
fifth son of Jacob and Mary Lippincott, married a young
woman of Abington, Pa. William, the sixth son, married
Sarah Bispham, whose father was a merchant of Philadelphia ;
they had two children — Joslma and Mary Lippincott. Joslma
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married Sarah Wetherill, of Pliiladelpliia ; there were three
children — Sarah Ann, Mary, and Josliua, wlio married a niece
of James Dnndan. Mary, the daughter of William and Sarali
Lippincott, married Sanniel Yorlce, of Philadelphia, and they
had seven children — Edward, William, Peter, Sarah, Mary,
Joshua and Samuel Yorke. Mary, the daughter of Jacob and
Mary Lippincott, married Jacob Spicer, Jr. Hannah, the
youngest daughter of Jacob and Mary Lippincott, mari-ied a
man by the name of Lord. Caleb, the eldest son of Jacob and
Mary Lippincott, married Hannah Wills about 1755, and had
six children — Letitia, who married Aaron Elkinton, Rebecca,
Elizabeth, Hannah, who married John Knight, William and
Samuel Lippincott. The latter married Mary, the daughter of
Samuel Ogden, of Pilesgrove, and had one son — Caleb Lippin-
cott, who married Ann, daughter of Joshua and Pebecca
Thompson, of Elsinborough ; they had issue, three sons —
Samuel, Clark and David Lippincott; the latter is deceased.
Samuel Lippincott's second wife was a Webster, and they had
three sons and one daughter — Samuel, Hannah, Josiali and
Charles Lippincott, His third wife was Christiana, daughter
of John and Mary Black, native of Burlington county, but at
the time of their daughter's marriage they resided in Salem
county. Samuel and Christiana had no issue. Samuel, the
eldest son of Samuel Lippincott by his second wife, Webster,
has had four wives ; his lirst Avas a Zanes, her parents residing
near Mullica Hill, and one son, Joseph Lippincott, was born
to them. Samuel's second wife, Lydia L-edell, had two daugh
ters — Sarah Ann and Hannah Lippincott ; his third wife was
Mary Haines, of Burlington county ; they had no issue ; his
fourth wife was Hannah Brown, of Chester county. Pa., and
both are living and reside at Woodbury, Gloucester county.
Hannah, the daughter of Samuel Lippincott, Sr., has been
twice married ; her tirst husband was Asa Moore, and her
second Samuel Duell, of Pilesgrove; she had no issue. Josiah,
the second son of Samuel Lippincott, married the daughter of
David and Hannah Clark Cooper, of Woodbury; they have
issue. Josiah and his wife are residents of Philadelphia at this
time. Charles, the youngest son of Samuel Lippincott, married
Amy, the daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Bassett Cawley.
William lippincott, tlie son of Caleb and Hannah Wills
Lippincott, married Elizaljeth, daughter of Thomas Folwell ;
they had eight children — Thomas, Samuel, Anna, Elizabeth,
Mary, Deborah, Hannah and William. Thomas married Anna
Stanger; their children were Joseph, Isaac, Anne, Daniel,
136 LIPPIKCOTT FAMILY,
Abigail Scull, Rebecca and Elizabeth. Samuel, the son of
William, was twice married ; by liis first wife he had four cliil-
dren — Ann F., Nathan T., Samuel M., and George Lippincott ;
the latter is deceased. Nathan T. Lippincott was twice married;
his first wife Avas Mary, the daughter of Caleb Borton; she
died, leaving five children ; his second wife was Priscilla, tlie
daughter of Ebenezer Wright. Samuel married the daughter
of Jonatlian Cawley by liis second wife. Nathan married
Priscilla, daughter of the late Ebenezer Wright, of Manning-
ton. Samuel's second wife was Abbie, the daughter of Thomas
Laurie, of Woodstown ; they had issue. Anne, daughter of
William and Elizabeth Lippincott, married a Buzby; she joined
the Shakers. Elizabeth, the second daughter of William Lip-
pincott, mari'ied Thomas Borton, of Woodstown; they removed
many years ago to Springfield, Ohio. Mary, the third daughter,
died single. Deborah, the fourth daughter, is deceased. Han-
nah Lippincott resided in 1848 with Thomas Borton, hi Ohio.
William, the youngest son of William and Elizabeth Lippincott,
followed the butchering business in Salem for many years ; he
married Llannah AVright, of Quaker Neck, the grand-daughter
of Ebenezer Miller, Jr. William and his wife Hannah had
two children — William and Priscilla Lippincott. William
married Elizabeth, daughter of David and Mary Engle Davis ;
they had issue; their daughter, Letitia, married Robert, the son
of Aaron and Mary Fogg, of Salem.
Benjamin, son of Jacob and Mary B. Lippincott, married
Hope Willis, a sister of his brother Caleb's wife, in IT-ll. He
resided on and owned a large tract of land adjoining Caleb
Lippincott, in the lower part of Gloucester, near the Salem
county line. Benjamin and his wife Hope Lippincott had three
sons — Aaron, Benjamin, and Jethro. Aaron, the eldest son,
married, and had two sons — John and Benjamin, both of wliom
married, and owned and resided on the pro2:)erty that their
grandfather purchased. Benjamin H., the second son of Aaron
Lippincott, married and had one son — Benjamin P., who subse-
quently married Ann Dewell, a lineal descendant of Samuel
Lippincott, an eminent minister, and a member of the Salem
Montldy Meeting of Friends. Samuel was the son of Freedom
Lippincott, who was tlie son of Richard Lippincott, the emigrant.
Ann Dewell's mother by her first husband had two sons, Samuel
P. and James Lippincott. The latter lived most of his time at
Mullica Hill, Gloucester county. Benjamin P. Lippincott's
second wife was Rebecca Howe ; they had issue — Lsaac, Barclay,
and Lydia. Barclay was a tailor, and carried on his business on
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137
Market street, Philadelphia. Joshua, the son of Jacob and Mary
Burr, married Rebecca "Wood, and had three children. James,
the eldest, was born 20th of 3d month, 1768; died 17th of 8th
month, 1822. Jane, their daughter, born 28th of 3d month,
1770, married Morgan Hollingshead, of Moorestown, K. J.
Joshua, the youngest son of Joshua and Rebecca Lippincott,was
born 23d of lOtli month, 1774, and died 16th of 12th month,
1805. He married Esther, tlie daughter of Jacob Davis, of
Woodstown, the 27th of 11th month, 1800. They had one
daughter, Lydia Lippincott, wlio was born 16th of 9th month,
180i, and married David, the youngest son of Gideon and Sarah
Scull, in 1823. The Lippincott family is one of the most
numerous in the State of New Jersey. I will not attempt to
follow the different branches further. James S. Lippincott, of
Haddonfield, I have been informed, intends writing a full
liistory of the large and interesting Lippincott family.
I have recently received information from Gideon Delaphine
Scull, now a resident of England, in regard to the ancestors of
his family in England. After mucli investigation he has ascer-
tained that there was a clergyman in London by the name of
JohnScull in the reign of Charles I, and in the year 1630 was
repelled from his living by Archbishop Laud, because he would
not conform to the new church rituals. Soon after that event
he left England and M'ent to Holland ; he likewise writes that
he recently found a will of Alice Skull, a widow, of Brink -
worth, county of Wiltshire, written in 1649, in which she says
that it is reported to her that her son, John Scull, has gone
into another country, and she does not know if he will ever
return to claim what slie leaves him. According to that infor-
mation, John Scull must luive emigrated from Holland about
1660, and located himself on Long Island, in America. By
the records, his son John Scull located on a large tract of land
at Great Egg Harbor as early as 1690; the said lands lay
adjoining John Somers'. John Scull's wife was Sarah Somers,
and it is probable she was the sister of John Somers. John
and Sarah Scull had several cliildren. Their son, Gideon, mar-
ried Judith, tlie daughter of James and Margery Belange ;
they had several children. At the first settlement of the prov-
ince of Pennsylvania there was one Nicliolas Scull, an eminent
surveyor, who resided in Philadelphia, and who left a family of
children; it does not appear that they are near connections of the
family that lived at Long Island, and afterwards at Egg Har-
bor ; although they miglit liave originated from the same
parents in England. Respecting the descendants of Nicholas
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LIPPINCOTT FAMILY.
Seull my knowledge is limited. There is a record of a family
that WHS buried in Friends' graveyard in Philadelphia, which
says that James Scull, son of Edward and Sarah, was buried
29th of 4th month, 1717. Sarah, the wife of Nicholas Scull;
was buried 8th month, 1717. Elizabeth Scull, daughter of
James, was buried 29th of 6th month, 1710. Sarah, tlie
daughter of Joseph Scull, buried 5tli montli, 1718. Abigail
Scull, daughter of the same parents, buried 9th month, 1749.
AYilliam Scull, son of William, buried 3d of 10th month, 1768.
Comfort Scull, wife of William, buried 14th of 9th month,
1775. Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Scull, was buried 17th of
4th month, 1792.
LAWSON FAMILY.
Jolui Lawson, from whom the family of tliat name in Salem
descended, was born in Liverpool, England, of Quaker parent-
age, in tlie year 1756. In early life he learned the coopering
business ; it appears soon after he learned his trade, he emigrated
to America, and located himself at Salem, and followed his
trade together with William Perry as a partner. He also was
a member of the Society of Friends. They both continued at
that business until the Revolutionary war broke out. John left
the religious society, of wdiich he was born a member, and
joined the iirst Battalion of ISTew Jersey, of Captain "William
Helm's company. Soon after peace was declared, he married
Jane White, of Salem, in 1788 ; they had three sons and one
daughter. , Edward, their son, born in 1790; was a seaman, and
was one of the six Jerseymen that was lost during a heavy
gale, on the night of 20th of 12th month, 1819, on the shoals oif
Barnegat, wdiile taking the Spanish brig, Le Tigre, which had
])een taken on a voyage from Laguira to Cadiz, by the South
American Privateer, Constitution, Captain Brown, who put a
]irize crew on board, who mutinied and brought her into the
Delaware bay and up the Cohansey creek, where she was seized
l)y James D, Westcott, Collector of the Port. The Spanish
Consul at New York put in a claim in the United States Court,
in behalf of the Spanisli Government, for the vessel and cargo,
which was decided in their favor. A new crew was put on
board to take her from Bridgeton to New York; the company
was composed of the following persons : Edward Lawson, from
Salem; Ilowell Mulford, Charles Dare, Thomas Whitney, Talman
Mulford and Oliver Russell, from Bridgeton; and two Span-
iards, Nicholas Carrega and Gregario Montot. During the
storm the vessel went on the shoals and all on board perished.
Samuel Lawson, the second son of John and Jane Lawson,
born in 1791, was a hatter by trade, and died in 1836 ; he
worked for many years as journeyman hatter for the late Delzin
Iveasbey. John Lawson, the third son of John and Jane
Lawson, was born in 1793; he learned the trade of a blacksmith
140 LAWSON FAMILY
with James Dennis, of Salem. lie showed in early life that
uncommon industry which was characteristic of Idm during his
long pilgrimage in this world of care. When lie was an
apprentice, instead of going ahont the streets in the evenings as
most other apprentice boys did, he sawed wood whenever he
could get an opportunity so to do ; he husbanded his earnings
so much so, when he became of age he had nearly enough
means within himself to start the business of blacksmithing ;
and by close application to his trade he acquired a competency
for himself and family, also to educate his children to tit them
for business. Mary Lawson, daughter of John and Jane
Lawson, was born in 1795, married Thomas James ; they had
three sons — Edward, James and Samuel James.
To digress, somewhat, there was a young man by the name
of William Perry, who learned the trade of a blacksmith about
the same time that John Lawson did, and I think with the same
man. Perry's father was a partner of John Lawson, Sr., in
tlie coopering business ; tlie two young men were quite intimate.
William Perry, sixty years ago or more, went to Cincinnati and
followed his trade at that place, and was very successful, and
accumulated a large fortune. It appears by the account I have
of him that he was greatly respected in his adopted city, so
much so that one of the principal streets in Cincinnati was
named Perry street to perpetuate Ids name. He was many
years one of the most prominent members of Friends' Meeting
in that city. A few years before the death of John Lawson,
William Perry and his wife came East, and spent several days
at Cape Island ; before they returned home he was desirous of
visiting his native town, and also to see the friend of his youth,
John Lawson, which he and liis wife did. He soon found his
friend, but they did not know each other at tirst ; but when
they did recognize eacli other, after an absence of more than
forty years, their feelings can better be imagined tlian descril)ed.
John Lawson served in the war of 1812, for wliich lie received
a pension ; he married Elizabeth Lummis, of Salem, in 1819,
and died 24tli of 3d month, 1866, aged al»out seventy-three
years. His father, John Lawson, brought o\'er with him from
England one of the first editions of Tliomas Chalkly's journal,
published in that Kingdom — a work whicli he much admired
and read, and liad his children's ages recorded in it. Tlie book
is still in possession of the family, wliich is highly prized as a
family relic. John and Elizabeth Lawson had five children —
Jane E., Mary, James D., John and Charles S. Lawson. Mary
the second daughter, married Powell, the eldest son of William
LAWSON FAMILY. . 141
and Mary Carpenter, of Elsinboro. Powell and his wife, Mary
Carpenter, had issne, one child, who died young before its
father, which event took place in 1850. Mary's second husband
is Evan C. Stotsenberg ; they were married in 1872 ; he is a
resident of Wilmington, Delaware, and a manufacturer in that
city. James D. Lawson is a merchant in AYoodstown ; his wife
is Mary D., the eldest daughter of David and Annie Pancoast,
of that town. James and his wife, Mary D. Lawson, have
issue, two daughters — Annie P. and Emma S. Lawson. Charles
S. Lawson, the youngest son of John and Elizabeth Lawson,
married Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Eli S. Mulford ; they have
four children — Elizabeth, John, Graham C. and Gertrude
Lawson. Cliarles has been Mayor of the city of Salem several
years, and makes an energetic and efficient officer. Jane E.
and her brother, John Lawson, are single, and occupy the house
in Salem where their parents lived.
GRISCOM, MADDOX AND DEKN FAMILIES.
Andrew Griscom was a native of England, and eniig-rated to
America in 1680. He purchased a large tract of land where
South Camden is at the present day, and married Sarah Dole;
they settled upon it and had two children — Tobias and Sarah
Griscom. Tobias, his son, married Deborah Gabitas, and they
settled on the lands he inherited from his father in Gloucester,
now Camden ; they had the following children — Andrew,
Samuel, William, Tobias and Mary Griscom. Andrew, the
eldest, was a blacksmith by trade, and settled near Tuckahoe on
lands that his grand-father had purchased several years previous;
he married Susanna Hancock, daughter of John and Mary
Chambless Hancock, of Alloways Creek, and had three chil-
dren — Sarah, Everett and William Griscom. Sarah, the eldest,
died in 1T62, aged twenty years. Andrew, by his second wife,
Mary, had three children — Mary, Andrew, born 1755, and
Del)orah Griscom. Andrew married Letitia Tyler, of Green-
wich, and had two sons — Benjamin, who married Susan Adams,
of Penn's Neck ; his second M'ife was Rel)ecca, the widow of
Joshua Thompson, of Elsinboro ; and Andrew Griscom, who
was twice married, his first wife the daughter of Esther Baker;
by his last wife, Sarah Griscom, he had four children — Dorcas,
Job, Martha and R-uth Ann Griscom. Samuel, the second son
of Tobias sind Sarah Griscom, was a house carpenter and ship
builder; he married, and carried on his trade in the city of
Bhiladelphia, and resided for some time on Arch street, between
Third and Fourth streets. It has been said he became in pos-
session of a large landed estate in the city, of Philadelphia. He
assisted in the erection of Independence Hall. As to his chil-
dren, and the other branches of the Griscom family I have not
mucli knowledge of, but think his children were daughters.
William Donaldson married Sarah Griscom, daughter of Sannu^l
Griscom, ul)Out the year 177-1 or '75 ; tlioir daughter, Margaret
Donaldson, was born in Philadelphia, 10th of 1st month, 1776,
and is still living. In 1793 she married Joseph Boggs ; in
1795 her husl)and died leaving one son, who is now dead.
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Margaret Boggs resides with her niece's husband, Dr. Stephen
T. Beale, at Germautown. William Griscom, son of Tobias,
married Sarah Davis, of Pilesgrove ; they settled at Haddon-
field, and had two daughters — Hannah and Deborah Griscom.
Mary, the daughter of Tobias and Deborah Griscom, married
Thomas Ilolloway.
John Maddox, the son of Ralph Maddox, was born in 1638, and
in 1668 he removed to London, and resided in the parish of St.
Sepulchre, where he followed the trade of a chandler. In 1669
he married Elizabeth Durham, the widow of Joseph Durham.
They had one daughter born in London in 1671, named Eliza-
beth. Li 1678 he and his wife, and their daugliter and son-in-law,
Richard Durham, and his three servants — Thomas Oder, Thomas
Iloatan, and Mary Stafford, sailed from London in the ship
Surry, Captain Steven Nichols. They arrived at New Salem in
the 9th month following. In 1682, James Maddox pm-chased
one-half of William Hancock's allotment of 1,000 acres, located
on the south side of Alloways creek, of Isabella Hancock,widow
of William Hancock, who died in 1779. In 1700, James
Maddox sold his property to Jeremiah Powell and Edward
Hancock, and in the year 1688 Elizabeth Maddox, daughter of
James Maddox, married James Denn. They had two children
— Margaret and John; Margaret was born 29th of. ith
month, 1689, and John in 11th of 6th month, 1693. John
married Elizabeth Oakford, daughter of Charles and Mary
Oakford, in 1717. She was born at Alloways Creek, 17th of
3d month, 1698. Their children were Naomi, born in 1718,
and John Maddox Denn, Jr., born 25th of 7th month, 1721.
His wife Elizabeth Denn died about the year 1724. In 1725
he built his brick house which is still standing within a few rods
of Alloways creek, now o^vned by one of his lineal descendants,
William Bradway. John married his second wife in 1728,wliose
name was Leah Paul. There were two children by his last wife
— Paul Denn, born in 1728, and their daughter, Leah Denn,
born 18th of 8th month, 1731. John Maddox Denn departed
this life in 1733. His son, John Denn, married Elizabeth
Bacon, of Cohansey, daughter of John and Elizabeth Smith
Bacon, in 1741. They had five children — Rachel, born 30tli of
2d month, 1745; James, born 19th of 11th month, 1746;
John, in 1751 ; David, born in 1756 ; Martha, in 1758. Rachel,
their oldest daughter, married William Griscom, the son of
Andrew Griscom, in 1773. They had six children — John,
William, Everett, Sanmel, Rachel, and David Griscom. William
Griscom, when married, followed the saddle and harness making
144 GKISCOM, MADDOX AND DENN FAMILIES.
business in the village of Hancock's Bridge, and after a few
years lie purchased a farm in the township of Mannington,
located near to a place called Guineatown, and at that place he
and his wife resided until her death. Their oldest son, John
Cirriscoin, commenced teaching school in early life, and subse-
quently married a young woman by the name of Haskins, and
had several children. After her death, and in his old age, he
married Rachel Denn, of Salem, daughter of John and Rhoda
iJenn. Many years of his life he taught school in the city of
New York, and was considered one of the best scholars in that
city. He was elected a professor in chemistry. When he was
past middle age he went to Europe, where his name as a scholar
preceded him. On his arrival in England he was at once intro-
duced among the literary people of that Kingdom; also on the
Continent — France, Belgium, Germany, and Netherlands. When
he returned home he published an account of his travels, called
his "Tour in Europe," which was much read at the time, and
greatly admired for its easy and beautiful language. I think it
is deficient in originality of thought, but upon the whole it is a
credit to the author, and will perpetuate his name to posterity
as one of the best American scholars in his time. Soon after-
wards he traveled through most of the cities and towns of the
Eastern and Middle states lecturing on Joseph Lancaster's system
of education in common schools. The plan was generally
adopted. He might be considered the father of that system in
this country, as Joseph Lancaster was in England. His letters
addressed to his mother during her last illness, whilst she was
suffering with that loathsome disease, the cancer, will always
reflect great credit to his memory for that kind and sympathetic
feeling tliey expressed to a kind and affectionate parent in her
great affliction.
William, their second son, was a blacksmith by occupation
in his younger days ; his wife was Ann Stewart, the daughter
of Samuel and Sarah Stewart, of Salem; they had six children.
Their names were Samuel, William, George, John, Mary and
Charles Griscom. Samuel, their oldest son, when quite young
opened a boarding school at Clermont, near Frankford, in
Philadelphia county, at the same place where his uncle, David
Griscom, had taught several years before. Greatly to his char-
acter he made a home for his aged parents until he married ;
his wife was Sidney Gillingham, the daughter of Yearness Gil-
lingham ; they had four children. Samuel now resides at
Galveston, Texas, with two of liis sons. William Griscom, the
second son, married Mary Stewart, the daughter of James and
GRISCOM, MADDOX AND DENN FAMILIES. 145
Anne Stewart, of Cumberland county; his wife died young
leaving three children — Hannah, Wade and James Stewart;
liis second wife was Sarah Whitelock, of Frankford, the
daughter of Isaac WJiitelock ; lie has three children l)y his last
wife — Isaac, Anne and Sarah. George Griscom is a lawyer,
and resides in Philadelphia; he married Mercy Brown; they have
two or three children ; their names I am not acquainted with.
John Griscom is a physician, and had a very large practice in
the city of Philadelphia at one time, but his health failing him,
of late years he has spent a considerable time in Europe for tlie
purpose of recuperating his failing constitution ; he married
Margaret Acton, of Salem, the daughter of Clement Acton,
Sr. I believe they have three children — Clement, Hannah, the
youngest, I believe, is a son, but his name I do not know.
Mary Griscom married Samuel Stewart, of Indiana, who was a
native of the county of Salem, and son of James Stewart, of
Alio ways Creek ; there were no children by that connection ;
he died a short time ago, and his widow is now a resident of
Woodbury. Charles Griscom's wife was Elizabeth Powell,
widow of Joseph Powell, and daughter of William Denn.
Charles died within two years ago of the pulmonary consump-
tion, leaving a widow and six children ; their names are Carrie,
Lillie, Charles, Everett, Mary and William Griscom.
David Griscom, the fifth son of William and Ann Griscom,
was above ordinary men in mental abilities, and a teacher the
greater part of his life ; liis first wife was Anne Whitelock; she
died young, leaving no children. After that event he resided
in the city of New York, as a private teacher for one Joseph
Walker, an English friend, to educate his two sons. About
the time they were througli with their education Josepli made
an extensive tour in Europe with his two sons, and David
accompanied them, and after tlieir return to this country David
married his second wife, she being a sister to the first one ; her
name was Jane Whitelock. He purchased a farm near Wood-
bury about that time, and started a nursery ; his pliysical health
was never very strong ; he died a few years ago with that great
scourge of the human family, pulmonary consumption, leaving
a widow and six children to mourn their loss ; he was very cir-
cumspect in his life and conversation, and at his death tliere
was a vacuum in general society in the neighborliood in M-liich
he dwelt that is not easily filled.
Everett Griscom, the third son of AVilliam and Rachel
Griscom, was drowned, while batliing, about the sixteenth year
of his age. The whole of that l)ranch of the Griscom family
146 GRISCOM, MADDOX AND DENN FAMILIES.
were remarkable for acquiring education above most other
children, and he was uncommonly precocious in his studies.
The late Dalymore Harris, Esq., told me he went to the same
school for some time with John, William, and Everett Griscom,
and it was astonishing to him, and he had often reflected upon
it during his life, how readily Everett Griscom comprehended
any branch of learning he undertook to study. He left all the
scholars behind ; even his brother John, who was considered an
adept in acquiring knowledge, could not compete with his
brother Everett. Mathamatics he comprehended without any
great effort ; his reading he never heard equalled during his long
life. This is the testimony of one respecting Everett Griscom,
who was an excellent judge, and was himself a good scholar,
and a practical surveyor. Persons of inquiring minds would
inquire why a whole family of children should be so precocious
in acquiring knowledge. I believe their intellect was transmitted
from their mother. Slie was the grand-daughter of John and
Elizabeth S. Bacon, both of whom, by all accoimts, had more
than common intellectual abilities. John was one of the Judges
of Salem county for many years before Cumberland was set off
from Salem. In those days men were elected to ofiice according
to their qualifications, not by political rings, which I fear is too
often done at the present day without regard to their abilities,
to fill such offices to which they are elected, creditably to them-
selves and beneficially to the public.
Samuel Griscom, fourth son, was a bricklayer, and followed
liis trade for many years in Philadelpliia. He was subsequently
chosen Superintendent of the Schuylkill Canal and Navigation
Company. I believe he held that situation at the time of his
death. His wife was Ann Powell, the daughter of Jeremiah
Powell, of Alloways Creek. They are both deceased at the
present time, leaving twelve children — Rachel, David, Sarah,
Powell, Elizabeth, Samuel, Edwin, William, Horace, Anne,
Clialkley, and Emmeline.
David Griscom, their fifth son, married Rachel Stewart,widow
of Joseph Stewart, of Salem. Her maiden name was Bradway,
the daughter of William Bradway. David kept the Clermont
boarding school, near Frankford, for several years. He after-
Avards purchased a farm in Chester county, Pennsylvania, gave
up his school and removed to it, and there ended his days, leav-
ing a widow and one daughter named Rachel. Slie afterwards
married Artheneal Alsop's son, wlio, I believe, was a school
teacher. Rachel Griscom, William and RacheFs daughter,
married, wlien she was past middle age, John Bullock, of
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147
Wilmington, Delaware, who kept a boarding scliool in that city.
James Denn, the oldest son of John and Elizabeth Deun,
after the death of his father, became the owner of the patri-
monial estate ; his wife's maiden name, I believe, was Kirbj,
native of Upper Pcnn's Neck; tliej had seven children — Eliza-
beth, Mary, James, John, Martha, Rachel and William. Their
oldest daughter Elizabeth, married Mark Stewart. Mary Denn
married Ezra Bradway. James Denn, Jr.'s wife was a Bacon ;
she left two sons, and one daugliter who married William Hunt.
Ilis oldest son, Theophilus Denn, died when he was about
twenty-one years of age. Job Denn, his other son by his first
wife, is still living, and resides in Salem at the present time.
James' second wife was Mary Haines ; there were live
children l)y his last wife — Franklin, John, who is a carpenter,
living in Salem, and three daughters. Martha Denn married
Aaron Evans , she left two children — Mary and Charles Evans.
Rachel Denn's husband was William Abbott, the oldest son of
Samuel Abbott. Rachel left two children — John and Hannah
Abbott. William Denn's wife Avas Mary Stewart, the daughter
of James and Mary Stewart ; they had seven children — Han-
nah Ami, Beulah, Claj'^ton, Samuel, Charles, Elizabeth and
Mary.
James Denn li\'ed to an advanced life very much at his ease,
having all his father's real estate ; enjoying the natural privilege
which were abundant in his time, li^dng mostly at home in a
retired way ; his brother John, was apprenticed at an early age
in the city of Philadelphia to his uncle, David Bacon, to learn
the trade of a hatter, and soon after he became of age he
commenced tlie hatting business in the village of Hancock's
Bridge. About that time he married Susan Fitzgerald; her
family belonged to Delaware ; they had three children — Samuel,
John and Rachel Denn. A few years later he removed to
Salem and followed his trade on Market street. The house and
shop w^ere located where Thomas Hilliard's house now is; he
continued at his trade until he purchased the Cripp's estate in
Mannington. Soon after he abandoned his trade, removed, and
took possession of his farm and soon became one of the most
successful farmers in that township — certainly he was one of
the best meadow men that ever lived in the county of Salem.
About that time his son, John Denn, married Rhoda
Shourds, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Shourds. He
built, and divided his farm, and his son, John, occupied the
part he built on until his deatli, which took place when he was
comparatively a young man, leaving a widow and live children.
148 GRISCOM, MADDOX AND DENN FAMILIES.
Their names were Racliel, Mary, Susan, Anne, and Rebecca,
who died young, Rachel, his daughter, married Professor
John Griscom, who has since died, leaving her a widow. Mary
Denn, the second daughter, died a young woman. Susan
remains single. Anne, the youngest daugliter living, married
William Gibbon, of Philadelphia ; he has been deceased several
years, leaving a widow and two children — Susan and Henry
Gibbon. The son died a few years ago. Tlie daughter resides
with her mother in Salem.
John Denn, Sr.'s daugliter Rachel, married Jacob Hufty,
she being his second wife. She lived but a short time after their
marriage, leaving no children. Samuel Denn was a merchant
in the town of Salem for several years, and married at an
advanced ago, Elizabeth Alford, tlie daughter of Samuel Alford.
They are both deceased, leaving no offspring. John Denn^ Sr.'s
second wife was Margaret Hall, daughter of Joseph and Ann
Hall, of Elsinborough. They had live children — Elizabeth,
John, Anne, Margaret, and Rebecca Denn. Elizabeth married
James Woodnutt, the son of Preston Woodnutt. John sold his
real estate in Mannington that was left to him by his father, to
George Abbott, and eventually removed to California. Anne
Denn remains single. Margaret married Edward Bilderback,
now deceased, leaving her a widow with two children. Rebecca
married a young man in the State of Maryland, and has been
deceased several years, leaving one daughter.
John Denn, several years before his death, made application
to the Legislature of New Jersey for a law for him to dig a
canal across the l)ottle of the meadow that lie owned in Lower
Penn's Neck, opposite his plantation in Mannington. The
greater part of said meadow formerly belonged to William
Penn. James Logan sold it to James Whitten, the former
owner of the meadow, in 1712, He likewise had the power to
contract the creek as soon as the canal became navigable. The
law was obtained, and he soon afterwards commenced opera-
tions. After the canal was completed sufficiently for navigation,
it was not of the capacity of the creek for draining the low lands
and the large tracts of meadow that lay above the mouth of the
canal, consequently the meadows w^ere greatly damaged by not
having sufficient fall of water, as great as formerly, before the
creek was contracted, accordingly there was a great opposition
by the proprietors of land above said canal. Meetings were
called- to devise some plan to prevent him from proceeding any
further in his operations. They insisted he should remove the
obstruction he had already made in tlie creek, but he continued
GKISCOM, MADDOX AND DENN FAMILIES. l-i9
firm in his undertalcings, tukiiii;' tlie precaution to keep within
tlie limits of the hiw. "lie l)ailt a bridg-e across tlie creek for
his own accommodation until such time as the canal would wear
sufficiently to vent the water above, so it would not be any great
detriment to the meadows. After fifty years or more there is
now a permanent dam and road across the creek where his
bridge was formerly. Therefore his plans and motives have
been^'fultilled, notwithstanding he did not live to see it all com-
pleted on account of his great age. At his death he was more
than fourscore.
David Denn, John's younger brother, lived to_ old age single.
He was a tanner and currier, and carried it on in a small way,
I believe, while he lived on his brother James' property, near
Hancock's Bridge. His sister, Martha Denn, married Mark
Bradway. They had one son, whose name was Mark Bradway.
Her second husband was Thomas Thompson. She survived him
many years.
MASON FAMILY.
John Mason was a native of Gloucestersliirc, England, and
resided in the parish of Winchconie. lie emigrated to America
when a young man, and hxnded.at Phihidelphia in 1683. Soon
afterward he came to Salem to live, and purchased a town lot
in the town, containing sixteen acres; it lay on the south side
of Broadway, and was bounded on the west by Samuel Hedge's
land. He erected a brick house there, and lived in it for some
time. In 1686 he purchased 5,000 acres of land, being part of
the 32,000 acres that was laid off for Eldridge and AVarner, to
secure the debt that John Fenwick owed them. James Nevell
sold the whole of the tract in the year before stated. About the
year 1690, John Mason purchased of Roger Milton 1,000 acres
of upland and salt marsh, in the tow^nsliip of Elsinborough ; it
was bounded on the east by Samuel Nicholson's allotment of
2,000 acres; on the west by Redroc Morris' land. In 1695 he
bnilt a substantial brick dwelling, left Salem, and lived on his
landed estate before described. In 1704 lie built a large addi-
tion to it, which made it one of the largest brick dwellings that
was in the county at tliat early day. John Mason married
Sarah Smith, daughter of John Smith, of Ambelbury ; she was
l)()rn near London, England, 27th of 10th month, 1671. Their
oldest child, John Mason, Jr., was born 19th of 7th month,
1697. Their daughter, Ann Mason, was born 21:th of 11th
month, 1699; William, the son of John and Sarah Mason, was
born 23d of 11th month, 1701 ; Sarah, daughter of John and
Sarah Mason, was born 2d of 2d month, 1704 ; Samuel, son of
John and Sarah Mason, born 15th of the 3d month, 1706 ;
Tiiomas son of John and Sarah Mason, was born 28th of
5th month, 1708. Rebecca Mason, born 1710, daughter of
John and Sarah Mason, owned land in various parts in Fenwick
tenth; he purchased considerable tract of land in Monmouth
precinct of Anna Salter, erected a flour mill about 1705 ; it
is now known as Maskell mill. He was appointed a Commis-
sioner for public highways in 1706 ; was a member of the Leg-
islature for two or tln-ee years, and one of the Justices of Salem
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Courts for a number of years. He was a large landholder in
the State of Delaware, likewise in Pennsylvania in the neigh-
borhood of Chester. Plis descendants are not very numerons ;
there are none at the present time by the name of Mason of his
descendents in this county. John Goodwin Mason, who died
in 1839, was the last of the male descendants. There are quite
a number in the female line who are direct descendants of John
Mason, the emigrant. John Mason, the son of Thomas and
grandson of John Mason, Sr., was born about 1729; his first
wife was Ann, the daughter of Sarah Hall, of Salem; by her
he had one daughter — Sarah Mason, who married Elgar Brown,
a native of Pennsylvania ; tliey had four children — Ann, Eli-
sha, Israel and John M. Brown. John Mason's second wife
was Susanna, the daughter of William and Mary Groodwin;
they had five children — Thomas, Mar}^, Ann, Elizabeth and
John G. Mason ; Thomas Mason, their son, married Hannah,
the daughter of Joseph and Hannah Butcher Hancock ; they
had issue, one daughter, who married Eichard Miller Acton, of
Salem. Mary Mason, daughter of John and Susanna Mason,
first husband was Abner Beesley, of Alloways Creek; they
had four children — Mary, William G., Benjamin and Thomas
Mason Beesley ; her second husband was Job Ware ; they had
two sons — Job and Elijah Ware. Ann Mason, daughter of
John and Susannah Mason, married Joseph Thompson, son of
Joshua and Sarah Thompson ; they had three daughters who
lived to grow and settle in life; Susan, Mdio married Joseph
Pancoast ; Sarah married Thomas Shourds ; and Ann Thomp-
son married Thomas Fogg. Elizabeth, daughter of John and
Susannah Mason, died a young woman unmarried. John G.
Mason, the youngest son of John and Susanna Mason never
married, died aged iif ty-six years.
Its probable Thomas Mason emigrated from England to
AVest New Jersey, aliout the same time his brother, John
Mason, did; he resided in the town of Salem some length of time.
After the death of John Fenwick he purchased 500 acres of
land in Upper Mannington, being part of Fen wick's grove; he
soon became a citizen of that township and continued to reside
there until his death. In 1720 he purchased of Sanniel Fen-
wick Hedge 500 acres of land, being part of Hedgefield.
There is nothing to show that he even took an active part in
the public aifairs of the Colony. I see by the court records
he occasionally served as one of the Grand Jurors. The fol-
lowing are the names of Thomas and Elizabeth Mason's children:
Mary, was born in Mannington 2d of 7th month, 1701 ; Aaron,
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was born in 1702; Martha, was born 12th of 9th month, 1704;
Joseph, was born 14th of 8th month, 1706. James Mason,
son of Thomas and Elizabeth Mason, born 11th of 6th montli,
1709 ; he became in possession of nearly all of the large landed
estate in the townsliip of Mannington that belonged to his
father, Thomas Mason. He married a daughter of Abel
Nicholson; tliey had no issue; he devised the greater part of
his landed estate to his nephew, James Mason Woodnutt, son
of Jonathan Woodnutt. James left his mill and farm adjoin-
ing to his wife's niece, Ann, the daughter of John Nicholson.
MILLER FAMILY.
The most reliable information that I have obtained, is that
Joseph Miller came from the State of Connecticnt in 1698,
and settled at Cohansey. His occnpation was that of a land
surveyor. It is well known that at that time, and for many
years previous, New England, excepting Rhode Island, was not
a place Avhere the Quakers could meet in peace, and worship
God according to the dictates of their conscience. Many of
them went to reside in Rhode Island under a more liberal
government, created l)y Roger Williams, and a large number
emigrated to the Middle States. Such men as Robert Zanes,
Richard Lippincott and their families, and several others, emi-
grated as early as 1675. Joseph Miller and his Avife had one
son — Ebenezer, born at Cohansey, in 1702. At the death of
Richard Tindall, Joseph was chosen deputy surveyor for the
lower section of Fenwick's tenth. There is no mention of him
as a public surveyor later than 13th of 9th month, 1729 ; he
re-surveyed at that time a tract of land of 1,000 acres for John
Brick, lying on the west branch of Gravelly Run or Stoe Ceeek.
The said tract of land had formerly been surveyed by Benjamin
Acton, of Salem, for Samuel Dumming, of Maryland, by order
of James Logan, agent of William Penn, Governor of the
province of Pennsylvania. My opinion is that he died about
the year 1730, and his son, Ebenezer Miller was his successor as
a public surveyor. In 1724 he married, I think, Sarah Collier,
daughter of John Collier; their son, Ebenezer Miller, Jr., was
born 15th of 9th month, 1725 ; their daughter, Hannah Miller,
was born in 1728 ; Josiah Miller, in 1731 ; their son, Andrew
Miller, in 1732 ; A¥illiani Miller, in 1735 ; John C. Miller, in
1737; Mark Miller, in 1740; Sarali Miller, in 1743, and
Rebecca Miller, 17th of 5th month, 1747. Tlie father of the
above mentioned children died in the town of Greenwich at the
age of seventy-two years, with a comfortable hope that all
would be well with him in a future state. His daughter, Han-
nah, in 1740, married Cliarles Fogg, son of Daniel Fogo-, of
Alloways Creek ; they had two children ; their eldest daughter,
Sarah Fogg, was born in the 5th month, 1747, and died the
20
154: MILLER FAMILY.
following fall. In IT-iO their daughter, Hannah Fogg, was
was born; she afterwards married William Hancock, son of
Thomas Hancock, of Elsinborougli, being his second wife. In
1771 their son, William Hancock, Jr., was born, and died
within the same year; their son, John, was born 24tli of 4th
month, 1773, and their daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1776.
William Hancock died when his son John was about ten years
of age, leaving his real estate to his son, subject to his mother's
thirds. John, before he arrived at the age of twenty-one, went
into the mercantile business at Hancock's Bridge, as a partner
with the late Captain John Tuft, of Salem ; he had a delicate
constitution, and there appears to have l)een an unpleasant feel-
ing between him and his half-sister, wlio had married a j^oung
man by the name of Daniels, of Alloways Creek; he was
determined that if he should die his sister should have nothing
of his estate, and he accordingly made liis will on the day he
arrived at the age of twenty-one, leaving his landed proj)erty to
his cousin, William Hancock, son of Thomas Hancock, and his
personal property to his mother; he died in a short time after-
wards. His mother's second husband was Aaron Thompson,
and they had no children. Hannah survived her husl)and
many years, and in the latter part of her life made her home
witli Elizabeth Miller, she being a cousin of Elizabetli's
husband, Richard Miller. In that family she ended her days
at a very advanced age. Not long before her death she
met Thomas Jones, Sr., on Salem street, and he accosted
her in this way: "Mrs. Thompson, I am sorry to see you
" lay aside your old-fashioned bee-hive bonnet that the aged
" Quaker ladies liave worn generally during my time. I was
" in hopes you would adhere to the old-fashioned bonnets
" whilst you lived. For my part," he continued, "I expect to
" continue in the old custom of having my hair done up in a cue
" whilst I live."
Ebenezer Miller, Jr., in 1751, married Ruth Wood, daughter
of Richard AVood, of Stoe Creek township, Cumberland county.
She was born in 1732. Their children were born in Cumbei--
land. Their daughter Hannah was l)orn 14th of 1st month,
1753; their son Ebenezer in 1761, and died in 1763; Priscilla
was bor;i in 1763 ; their second son Ebenezer Miller, was born in
1766, and their daughter Sarah in 1768. Some two thousand
acres of the Pledger and Lafetra allotment of 6000 acres, now
known as Quaker Neck, came in possession of Benjamin Wyn-
coop, he being an Englishman ; it's more than probable that
the said Wyncoop purchased the Itind of one of the lieirs of
MILLER FAMILY. 155
Ilypolite Lafetra. The liouse is still standing that was Lnilt
1 )j one of the family in the beginning of the last century. The
jM'operty that the old mansion stands on is owned at present by
George Griscom. It is certain, however, that at the commence-
ment of the Revolutionary War he was the owner of the whole
allotment which is now knoM^n as Quaker Neck, At that period
all the land from what is called Stone Bridge, which crosses the
branch of Pledger creek, called then the Neck, extending to the
Salem line, was covered with heavy timber. It went undei" the
name of Wyncoop's woods. Great changes have been wrought
there within 100 years. At the present time there is not less
than ten farms on said tract; most of them have large and
costly mansions, l)arns and other buildings, and the lands are
liighly cultivated. Upon the whole it is one of the most desira-
l)le situations for an agriculturalist in the county. Benjamin
Wyncoop being an Englishman by birth, had a strong predelic-
tion in favor of his native land. Traditional accounts state he
had fears that for the part he took in favor of England his
property would be confiscated, and he accordingly offered it for
sale.
After selling his possessions here he removed to Philadel-
phia, and owing to the depreciation in the currency, he
l)ecame poor, and died a few years afterwards in one of the
almshouses of that city. John Moimtain, an Irishman by
birth, who, by industry and econcjmy, in a short time had
become able to stock a farm, was fortunate enough to rent that
large and inprgved farm of John Mason, called the Mason's
Point Farm, in Elsinborough, at a very moderate rent. In a
few years he accumulated monej^ enough to purchase the home-
stead of Benjamin Wyncoop. At the time of his death Moun-
tain left one daughter, Mary, who became the owner of all his
real estate. Richard Parrott subsequently married her, and
they had two children named Mary Ann and Isabella Parrott.
Mary Ann became the wife of Hedge Thompson, of Salem.
Their children's names I mentioned in the account of the Hedge
family. Isabella remained single and lived to an old age. The
landed estate of their mother was divided between them. George
Griscom is now the owner of Mary Ann's share, and George
Abbott, Isabella's land. George Hall bought a lai-ge tract of
land of AVyncoop, l)eing part of tlie Neck, all woodland at the
time. Lucas Gibbs' of Salem, purchased al^out 175 acres, l3'ing
next to the town of Salem, and his brother Richard Gibbs
bought 200 acres or more adjoining the homestead. Both of
the Gibbs were Salem men. Lucas Gibbs' property was
156 MILLER FAMILY.
afterwards owned by Job Tyler, a native of Cumberland.
The Fogg family are now the owners of Richard Gibbs'
estate.
Ebenezer Miller, Jr,, purchased a farm of Wyncoop. —
Richard Ware, of AUoways Creek, bought land and lived there
the remainder of his days ; Josiah Wistar is tlie present owner.
Mark Miller, brother of Ebenezer Miller, purchased land known
at this time as the David E. Davis farm. William Abbott, of
Elsinboro, bought the farm and ended his days where his
grandson Samuel Abbott now owns and lives. Benjamin
Wright likewise bought 100 acres adjoining the Abbotts. —
Benjamin in his will devised the said farm to his grandson,
Benjamin Wright ; Joseph Waddington is the present owner.
Ebenezer Miller and his brother, Mark Miller, removed from
Cumberland, and made their homes on the lands they purchased
of Wyncoop. Mark's wife was Pliebe Foster ; they had live
children — four daugliters and one son — William F. Miller.
Mary Miller, their eldest daughter, married Jolm Sheppard, of
Greenwich. One married Jacob Wood. William F. Miller's
tirst wife was Esther Cooper, native of Gloucester; she died
several years before William, leaving one son named Franklin
Miller. William F. Miller's second wife was a Newbold from
Burlington county, and she survived her husband several years.
Franklin Miller married Elizabeth Acton, daughter of Benjamin
and Sarah Acton ; both of them died young of pulmonary
consumption, leaving one daughter, Hetty Miller, who inherited
a large estate from her grandfather and father; She was the
wife of David E. Davis, formerly of Pilesgrove, who is now
deceased.
Josiah Miller, the second son of Ebenezer Miller, Sr.,
married Letitia Wood in 1760, daughter of Richard Wood,
Sr., of Stoe Creek township, Cumberland county, she l)eing
a sister of his brother Ebenezer's wife. They had five chil-
dren — Josiah Miller, Jr., born 12th of 12th month, 1761 ;
Richard Miller, born 15tli of 4th month, 1761 ; John Miller,
l)orn in 1767 ; Letitia Miller, born in 1769, who subsequently
married William Reeve ; and in 1771 Mark Miller was l)orn.
Josiah Miller about that period ])urchased a large tract of
land in Lower Mannington, which formerly belonged to
the Sherron family, it being the southern part of James
Sherron's allotment of 1,000 acres that lie bought of John
Fenwick in 1676, being (considered one of the finest tracts of
taljle land within Fenwick's tenth. Josiah soon after liis pur-
cliase removed with his family from his native county and
MILLER FAMILY, 1 6T
resided on his land in Maniiington ; lie huilt tlie brick house
where his great-grand-son, Samuel L. J. Miller, owns and lives.
I think his two youngest sjns, Jolm and Mark Miller, died
young ; his wife Letitia survived him several years. Josiah
Miller, Jr., never married. After the death of his mother
he lived with his brother Richard, and after the death
of his brother he continued making his home with his widow
whilst he lived. In his will he devised his farm to his
sister-in-law, Eliza])eth Miller, during her natural life, and
afterward to her son Josiah Miller, and to his nephew
Josiah Miller Reeve, he devised $2,500, with other legacies to
his relatives.
The land Josiah Miller owned in Mannington was divided
between his two sons — Josiah and Richard. The latter mar-
ried Elizabetli, daughter of Richard Wistar, of Philadelphia,
by whom he had three children — Sarah, Letitia and Josiah.
Andrew Miller, third son of Ebenezer, married Rachel, daugh-
ter of Elisha and Abigail Bassett, of Pilesgrove. Andrew
died before he reached middle age, leaving a widow, and two
children, named Daniel L. and Rebecca. Rachel Miller, a
short time after the death of her husband, opened a small store,
whilst her son, Daniel, went into partnership with Abram Bois
and the late Judge Thomas Sinnickson, in the mercantile busi-
ness. The store was located where the drug store, known as
Ingham's Building, now is. In the year 1809 he withdrew
from the firm and moved to Philadelphia, as also did his mother
and sister. The two latter kept a boarding house on Arch
street and opened a retail dry goods store on Second street,
wliich shows that they possessed more than ordinai-y business
capacities. Daniel L. Miller, the son, and William Nicholson,
Jr., who had left his native county in tlie same year opened a
wholesale and retail dry goods store on Second street, under
the name of Miller & Nicholson. About that period Daniel
married Hannah Nicliolson, daughter of Abel Nicholson, a
citizen of tlie upper part of Glo\icester county, but whose fore-
fathers were natives of Salem. In 1812 William Nicholson
withdrew from the firm, and James Ivinsey, of Salem, and a
young man by the name of Cooper, of Pliildelphia, became
partners with Daniel L. Miller. The firm was known as Mil-
ler, Kinsey & Co. Daniel and his wife had eight children —
Charles, Elizabeth, Daniel L., William, Andrew, Rachel, Ann
and Hannah. William, the oldest, married Ann Maria Seth,
of Salem. Elizabeth became the wife of William Parrish, the
son of the eminent Dr. Joseph Parrish, of Philadelphia.
158 MILLER FAMILY.
Andrew married Josepliiiie Bunting. Daniel L. Miller, Jr.'s
wife was Ann Ridgway. Rachers husband was William Bid-
die, the son of tlie late Clement Biddle ; he kept a large hard-
ware store in Philadelphia. I believe his sons and grand-sons
are still in that business, and the lirm is one of the wealthiest
in that line in the city. Anna married Robert Biddle, the
brother of William. Daniel L. Miller continued in the mer-
cantile business until near the close of a long life ; his wife is
also deceased at the present time.
William Miller, the fourth son of Ebenezer, born 1737, mar-
ried Mary Magere, a native of Wilmington, Del., about the
year 1760, and had three children — AVilliam, Jr., Ebenezer and
Elizabeth. William Miller, Jr., married Rebecca White,
daughter of William White, of Pilesgrove, and they had two
children, both daughters — Sarali Ann and Eliza. Sarah Ann
married Amos Buzby, the son of Joseph Buzby. Eliza Miller
married Lewis Hancock, son of William Hancock, of Elsinbor-
ough.
John, fifth son of Ebenezer Miller, married Margaret Bacon,
of Greenwich, in 1767 ; she was the daughter of Joseph and
Mary Bacon, and was born 20th of 2d month, 1737. John
and his wife had five children ; their oldest son, Joseph, was
born 16th of 6th month, 1768 ; their daughter, Mary, was
born 1770 ; John Miller, Jr., was born 15th of 3d month,
1772 ; William was born 1771, and Isaac 20th of 5th month,
1776. Joseph Miller, John's oldest son, was a tanner and cur-
rier, and he and his brother John carried on that business in
the town of Greenwich the greater part of tlieir lives. Joseph's
first wife was Sarah Dawson, of Mount Holly, by whom he
had four or five children. They all died young except Marga-
ret Miller, who is still living, aged more than three-score-and-
ten. His second wife was Letitia Matlack, widow of William
Matlack, of Upper Greenwich, Gloucester county ; sluj lived
only four or five years, leaving no children by her second hus-
band. Joseph's third Avife was Mary Allen, daughter of
Anthony and Mary Allen, residents of Woodbury ; lie had one
son by his last wife^Joseph Allen Miller. Joseph survived
his last wife a number of years. Besides attending to his trade
he transacted considerable public business, such as settling-
estates, for which business he was well calculated. The inhabi-
tants of Greenwich had full confidence in his integrity and
impartiality in transacting important public business ; he died
at a very advanced age, regretted by a large circle of relatives
and friends.
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His son, Joseph Alleii Miller, received a good English
education; he married Ann Fogg, daughter of Samuel
Fogg, of Stoe Creek township ; two children — Joseph and
Franklin Avere born to them. Josej^h with his family removed
to Salem several years ago, and he was soon after elected
teacher of the male department of Friends' School in that city.
After a few years he was chosen principal in one of the public
scliools, and continued in that situation several years ; he is
now deceased. His wnfe soon after^ coming to Salem opened a
trimming store, and by good management and close application
to her business, has succeeded admirably. Mary, the daughter
of John Miller, Sr., married George Brown of Upper Green-
wich, Gloucester county, and had six children, four daughters
and two sons; their sons names were James and Miller Brown.
John Miller, second son of John and Margaret Miller, was a
tanner and currier by trade, and carried on that business in
partnership with his brother Joseph ; he married Margaret
Evans, daughter of Joshua Evans, of Haddontield; he was
remarkable for his exemplary deportment in his intercourse
with his fellow men, and for his unquestionable piety. It can
be said of him, with truth, "Behold a true Israelite M-ithont
guile." He and his wife had four cliildren — John, Evan, Mary
and Mark. John's wife was Mary Andrews, daughter of
Josiah and Elizabeth Andrews; they had five children — Eliza-
l)etli, Margaret, John, Annie and Franklin. Mary Miller mar-
ried Mark Rulon, and they both died young, leaving no chil-
dren. Evan Miller married Ann Lane, a widow, of Cincinnati,
Ohio ; her native place was Greenwich, and her maiden name
was Test.
William Miller, third son of John Miller, Sr., married
Susan Goodwin, daughter of Louis Goodwin, of Elsinboro. —
There were four children by this marriage — Louis, Rebecca.,
George and Susan. Louis married Emily Lippincott and
removed to the State of Ohio over forty years ago. Rebecca
married Charles Harmer, of Greenwich, and she died in a
short time afterwards. George Miller went to Philadelphia
many years ago and opened a confectionery store on Market
street, in which business he has prospered. Susan Miller, the
youngest, married William Nicholson, and she and her husband
have lived most of the time since their marriage in Philadel-
])liia ; slie died recently, leaving four children — Rachel, Susan,
William and Elizabeth Miller. Isaac Miller, foin-th son of
John Miller, married Mary Webster, of Stoe Creek ; they
had three daughters — Phel)e, Lctitia and Ann Miller. Pliebe
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was a Findley. Letitia married Thomas BroMai, of Hope-
well township, Cumberland county. Ann's husband was Jolm
Piitner.
MORRIS FAMILY.
Redroe Morris, son of Lewis Morris, was born in Wales, in the
Kingdom of England, about the year 1G58. In 1683, Redroe
Morris, with several others, emigrated to the province oi Penn-
sylvania; they landed at Philadelphia, in the 9th month, 1683 ;
in a short time afterwards he removed to Salem to dwell, and
from thence to Elsinborough, on part of Richard Guy's allot-
ment of land, that Samuel Carpenter, of Philadelphia., had pre-
viously purchased. About that time he man-ied Jail Baty,
daughter of Richard Baty ; she was born in Yorkshire, at a
place called Ilumpford, about 1658. She emigrated in company
"with Robert Ashton, for Pennsylvania, in the ship called the
Shoveld, of Stockton, Captain John Howell, master ; they
sfiiled from Hull, on the 8tli day of 3d month 1686 ; and
landed at New Castle in the iiftli month following. At that
time it was in the district of Pennsylvania. Redroe and his
wife Jail Morris, had six children, all of them born in Elsinbor-
ough. Jonathan Morris, their eldest son, was born 16th of 12th
month, 1690, he died a minor ; Joseph, the son of Redroe and
Jail Morris, was Ijorn 6tli of 6th month ; Sarah the daugh-
ter of Redroe and Jail Morris, was born 16tli of 12th month,
1693 ; Lev^is, the son of Redroe and Jail Moore, was born 23d
of 11th month, 1695 ; David, the son of the before mentioned
parents, was born in 1698. Redroe Morris died in 1701, aged
nearly forty-three years ; he was an active and useful mem-
ber of Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends. At the time of his
death he was owner of 1300 acres of land in Elsinborough; in
liis w'ill he directed his real estate to be equally divided among
his three surviving sons — Joseph, Lewis and David Morris. He
had also a large personal estate, which with his slaves, he left to
his widow and daughter, Sarah Morris. His friend, Nathaniel
Ciiam bless, of AUoways Creek, was tlie Executor. His widow
Jail Morris, married John Hart, of Salem, in 1703 ; they had
issue, one son — John Hart. Joseph Morris became tlie owner of
the homestead of his father ; he married and died young, leaving
one daughter — Margaret Morris; she subsequently married Clem-
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162 MORRIS FAMILY
ent, the son of AVilliam Hall, Jr., and Elizabeth Smith Hall, of
IMannington. Clement and his wife, Margaret Plall, had six
children, — two daughters and four sons, — Ann, Sarah, Clement,
John, Joseph and Morris Hall. Ann married in 1772, John,
the eldest son of William and Mary Morris Goodwin. Sarah,
the second daughter of Clement and Margaret Hall, mari-ied
Dr. Thomas Rowen, of Salem. Clement, the son of Clement and
Margaret M. Hall, married Rebecca Kay, of the county of
Gloncester. John Hall, the second son of Clement and Mar-
garet Hall, resided in Salem, dying, leaving no issue. Joseph
Hall, son of Clement and Margaret Hall, married Ann, the
daughter of Joseph and Rebecca Brick, of Elsinborough. Mor-
ris, the youngest son of Clement and Margaret Hall, married
Lydia Potts, of Cumberland County. Their children are men-
tioned in tlie genealogy of the Hall family.
Lewis, the son of Redroe and Jail Morris born 1695, married
Sarah Fetters, of Salem. Lewis and his wife left three daugh-
ters — Sarah, Mary, and Ann Morris. Sarah, the eldest daugh-
ter, married Thomas, the eldest son of John and Susanna Smitli
Goodwin ; the latter was the daughter of John Smith, of Smith-
Held ; Mary, the daughter of Lewis and Sarah Morris, married
William Goodwin, In-other of Thomas Goodwin. AV^illiam and
liis wife had live children — John, Lewis, Susanna, Mary and
William Goodwin, John, the eldest son, married a Hall. Lewis
was twice married, his tirst wife was a Zanes ; his second, was
Rachel, the daughter of William Nicholson, of Mannington.
Susanna, the eldest daughter of William and Mary Goodwin,
was twice married; her first husband was John, the son of Thomas
Mason, of Elsinborongli ; her second husband was Joshua Thomp-
son, of Alloways Creek, son of Joshua and Grace Thompson, of
Elsinborough ; Mary, the daughter of William and Mary Good-
win, married Thomas Hancock. AYilliam, the son of William
and Mary Goodwin, married Elizaljeth Woodnutt, of Manning-
ton. Ann Morris, the daughter of Lewis Morris, by Sarah his
wife, married Samuel, the son of Elisha and Al)igail Bassett, of
Pilesgrove ; they had six children — Grace, William, Samuel
Morris, Davis, and Ann Bassett. Sarah Fetters, the M^fe of
Lewis Morris, was a sister of Erasmus Fetters ; he was a tanner
and currier ; he resided in Salem, on Yorke street ; the house in
which he lived was a brick, with a hipped roof, it was standing
in ISIO. Erasmus died in 1760 ; in his will executed in 1756,
he left £10 each to William and Mary M. Goodwin's
daughters ; the like sum to each of James Chambless, Jr.'s chil-
dren — Sarah, Mary, and Rebecca Chambless. The two first
MOREIS FAMILY 163
named l)ecaine the wives of AYilliam and David Smith's of Man-
nington. Erasmus left to his niece Ann, the wife of Samuel
Bassett, £50, and the remainder of his estate, real and personal,
to his nephew, Henry Yanmeter, of Pittsgrove. David, the
youngest son of Redroe Morris, born in 1698, married. He
and his wife Jane Morris, had one son — Joshua Morris, horn
3d of loth month, 1723. The child and mother died in a short
time afterwards. David it appears, died comparatively a young
man, making a will, leaving his estate to his half-brother, John
Hart. Tlie real estate was large, comprising about 400
acres, also a flour mill located at the mouth of Mill Creek,
near Fort Point. However there were 160 acres of salt marsh
included with the -100 acre tract. John Hart sold his real
estate, (that was devised to him by his half brother David
Morris), to Col. Benjamin Holme, about 1T60. To show what
energy and perseverance ^^^ll accomplish, Margaret Hall Holme,
after the death of her husband Jolm Holme, the son of Col.
Benjamin Holme, purchased the 160 acres of salt marsh that was
owned by her husband, and part of David Morris' estate, for-
merly ; she banked and reclaimed it from the overflow of the
tide, notwithstanding great opposition from some of her neigh-
bors, who owned meadow adjoining ; that being over fifty years
ago. The said meadow is at the present day as productive and
profitable as any otlier portion of the large landed estate of
the Morris'.
NICHOLSON FAMILY.
Samuel Nicliolson, liv^ed in Wisetoii in the coimtj of Not-
tinghamsliire ; he was a husbandman; liis wife was named Ann;
they had live chikh-en, all born in England — Parobale, was
born 20tli of 2d month, 1659 ; she married Abraham Strand ;
Elizabeth Nicholson, the second daughter of Samuel and Ann
Nicholson, born 20th of 3d month, 1664; she married John
Abbott, and left three daughters — Rachel, Mary and Elizabeth
Abbott. Samuel, the son of Samuel and Ann Nicholson, born
6tli of 3d month, 1666 ; Joseph, the son of Samuel and Ann
Nicholson, born 30th of 2d month, 1669 ; Abel, the son of
Samuel and Ann Nicholson, born 2d of 5th month, 1672.
Samuel and Ann, his wife, with their live children, emigrated
in company with John Fenwick. With a number of others
they landed at where Salem is, on the 5th of 10th month,
1675. Samuel had purchased, previous to their sailing, 2,000
acres of land ; the said land was surveyed to him in 1676,
together witli sixteen acres for a town lot, in new Salem. He
died about the year 1690, on his property in Elsinborough ; he
was the !^iirst Justice of the Peace in Fenwick Colony. His
widow, Ann Nicholson, died in 1693 ; in her will she devised
her estate to her three grand-daughters — Rachel, Mary and
Elizabeth Abbott, and her three sons — Samuel, Josepli and
Abel Nicholson. Sanmel Nicholson, Jr., married, and he and
his wife both dying soon afterwards; he made a will devising
his large landed estate to his two brothers — Joseph and Abel
Nicholson; that was about 1695. Joseph parted with his
share, which included the old homestead of his parents, located
on the northern bank of Momnouth river, now known as
Alloways, to George Abbott, Henry Stubluns and John
Froth. Joseph Nicholson married and settled near Haddon-
iield, Camden county. Abel, the youngest son of Samuel
Nicholson, and Ann liis wife, married Mary, the dangliter of
William and Joanna Tyler; she was born in England in the
lltli month, 1677. Abel and liis wife resided in Elsinborough;
they were married about 169'1. Sarali, their eldest cliild, was
NICHOLSON FAMILY. 1C)1
born 19tli of 11th luoiitli, 16fc»l ; Rachel, the daughter of
Abel and Mary Nicholson, was born 7th of 7th month, 1698 ;
Abel, the son of Abel, by Mary his wife, was born 13th of
1st month, 1700 ; Joseph, the son of Abel and Mary Nichol-
son, was born 4tli of 12tli month, 1701 ; William, the son of
Abel and Mary Nicholson, was born 15th of 9th month, 1708 ;
he became the owner of 500 acres of Hedgelield, in Manning-
ton ; he built a brick mansion on the property, which is still
standing ; he married, he and his wife had three children —
llachel, Ruth and William Nicholson, the latter married Sarah
Townsend, of Penn's Neck. llachel, their oldest child, was
born 9th of 11th month, 1774 ; Milesant, the daughter of
William and Sarah Nicholson, was born 3d of Sth month, 1776;
William, the son of AVilliam and Sarah Nicholson, was born
Sth of 3d month, 1779, he died young ; Samuel, the son cf
William and. Sarah Nicholson, was born 2d of 7th month,
1781 ; William, the son of William and Sarah Nicholson, was
born 16th of 11th month, 1783 ; Sarah, the daughter of
William and Sarah Nicholson, was born in 1791 ; Daniel, the
son of William and Sarah Nicholson, was born 19tli of 1st
month, 1786, and Ann, the youngest daughter of William and
Sarah Nicholson, was born in 1793. Ann, the daughter of
Abel and Mary Nicholson, was born 15th of 11th month, 1707;
Ruth Nicholson, daughter of Abel and Mary Nicholson, was
born 9th of 9th month, 1713 ; Samuel, the son of Abel and
Mary Nicholson, was born 12th month, 1716 ; John Nicholsor.j
the youngest son of Abel and Mary Nicholson, was born 3d
of 6tli month, 1719. Ann, the daughter of Abel and Mary
Nicholson, married John Brick, Jr., of Gravelly Run, it is
now known as Jericho, Cumberland county. John was one of
the Judges of Salem courts for a number of years; he died
23d of ist month, 1758 ; he and his wife, Ann Nicholson
Brick, had eight children — Mary, their eldest daughter, who
married Nathaniel Hall, of Manningtou, was born lOth of 2d
month, 1730. Elizabeth, the daughter of John and Ann
Brick, was Ijorn 4th of 7th month, 1732, she was afterwards
the wife of John Reeve, of Cohansey. John, the son of John
and Ann Brick, was born lOtli of 11th month, 1733 ; Joseph,
the son of John and Ann Brick, was born 24th of 3d month,
1735 ; Joseph was twice married, his first wife was Rebecca
Abbott; his second wife was Martha Reeve. Ann, tiie daughter
of John and Ann Brick, was born 23d of 1st nu)nth, 1738 ;
she sul)sequently married Joseph Clement, of Iladdonlield, in
1761. Hannah, the daughter of John and Ann Brick, was born
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8t]i of 8(1 inontli, 1741 ; Rutli, the daughter of John and
Ann Brick, was horn 1st of lOth month, 1742; she married
Benjamin Reeve in 1761. Jane Brick was horn 10th of 1st
montli, 1743.
Sanniel ISTicholson, the son of Ahel and Mary Nicholson,
married Sarah Dennis, of Cohansey ; tliey had two children —
Sanniel and Grace Nicholson, tlie latter married Andrew, the
son of Joshua Thompson, of Elsinhorongh. Samuel Nicholson,
Jr., married the daughter of Nathaniel and Mary B. Hall, of
Mannington ; there were live children — John, Ann, Mary,
Samuel and Josiah Nicholson. John Nicholson, the youngest
son of Aljel and Mary Nicholson, married Jane Darkin, the
daugliter of John Darkin. John and his wife lived and owned
a large farm adjoining the Tylers on the north side of Alio ways
creek ; they had several children — Ann, Abel and Jane Darkin,
and one or two otlier daughters. Al)el became the owner of
the real estate of his parents ; he died a young man ; the prop-
erty was divided among his sisters. Darkin Nicholson became
the owner, by his grand-father's (John Darkin) mil, of the large
and valuable estate in Elsinborough, known as the Windham
estate ; it is a point of land adjoining tlie Salem town marsh ;
on that point the New Haven colony located -in 1640. Darkin
married Estlier Brown, a native of Chester county, but at the
time of her marriage, she lived in Elsinborough with her
mother, wlio had recently married William Goodwin, Sr. ; she
was William's second wife. The cliildren of Darkin and
Estlier Nicholson were Mary, Esther, James, Darkin and John
Nicholson. Mary was the first wife of Elisha Bassett, of Man-
nington. Esther Nicholson married John Thompson, of
Elsinborough, the son of John and Mary Brad way Thompson.
OGDEX FAMILY.
John Ogden was a native of England. It appears by the
record, he was a man of consideralile distinction in his nati\'e
country, and possessed more than ordinai-y intellect. For his
meritorious conduct towards his sovereign, Charles the L, King
of England, lie was presented witli a Coat-of-Arms, from Charles
the II., with this motto, " And if I make a show, I do not
" boast of it." This John Ogden was one of the persons to whom
King Charles the II. granted the Charter of Connecticut
in 1662. The record of the family states he lived for a length
of time on Long Island. About the year 1673, he settled at
Elizabethto^vn, in East Jersey, when in connection with Bailey
Baker and Watson, he purchased a tract of land of tlie Indians,
for which a patent was granted by George Nichols, who was
Governor of the colony under the Dutch, while tliey held New
York. The Elizabethtown grant, was the occasion of mucli
contention with English proprietors, and they looked upon
Ogden as a leading malcontent. The record of his is correct,
he Avas a true patriot, a leader of tlie people, an earnest Christ-
ian and an acknowledged pioneer of the oldest town in the State,
whose house the first white child of the settlement was born.
He died in the early part of 1682, leaving manj^ descendants.
His wife was Jane Bond, sister of Robert Bond. Judge Elmer
writes, (being well acquainted with the history of the State),
"that the descendants of John and Jane Ogden have held dis-
" tinguished places in the government of the State, among whom
" were Aaron Ogden, Governor in 1813, and his son Elias D. B.
" Ogden, Judge of the Supreme Court."
The family of the Ogdens are very numerous both in East
and West Jersey. John Ogden, the grandson of the emifj-rant,
came to Fairlield as early as 1690, and became a large land-
holder in that region ; he likewise became the owner of a large
tract of land of 655 acres, on the north side of|Cohansey,in Green-
wich township, adjoining lands of Nicholas and Leonard Gib-
bon. In 1729, the said John Ogden sold part of said land
adjoining Pine Mount, to Ebenezer Miller, of Greenwich. Sam-
168 OGDEJSr FAMILY.
iiel and Jonathan Ogden c.anio and settled in North Cohansey
precinct, al^out tlie same time that John did ; whether they
were brothers or cousins, the record of tlie family does not
determine. It is evident that Samuel Ogden settled at Deer-
field, as the ins(;ription3 on one of the tombstones in the Pres-
byterian Cemetery in that place fully confirms. The Samuel
Ogden that was buried in Deertield yard must have Ijeen the
son of Samuel Ogden, who emigrated to Fenwick's Colony, as
inscribed on the tombstone, " died in 1805, in his T2d year."
It is generally thought he was a member of the Assembly of
New Jersey in 1780, and member of Council in 1781, and of
the same hodj in 1783, and fourteen times afterwards; his last
services being in 1800. There M'as a Samuel Ogden no doubt
of the same family, appointed a Captain of the Militia, in 1776,
and afterwards a Major, and Lieutenant-Colonel. He died in
1785. The descendants of John Ogden, who settled near Fair-
t<)n, are very numerous in tlie County of Cuml)ei'land. John,
and many of his immediate descendants, lie bui-ied in the ancient
yard of the Presbyterians, that is located on the south hank of
Cohansey, near the town of Fairton.
The Ogden family of Cumberland, was, as it appears at the
time of the Revolutionary War, ardent Whigs, many of tliem
joined the American army among them was one Benjamin
Ogden, who was taken prisoner and died in prison in the city
of Pliiladelphia ; also Jolm, the son of David Ogden, served in
Washington's army at the time he retreated from New York.
David Ogden, the grandson of John Ogden, was a large land-
liolder in Fairfield township, likewise owned a flour mill, the
said mill was probably erected by John Ogden, his grandfather.
It is known at the present time as John Trenchard's Mill, and
is located on a branch of the Cohansey, called by the early
settlers. North Branch, afterwards Mill Creek. David Ogden
had eleven children. His oldest son, John Ogden, was born
1st month, 1755; he married Abigail Bennet 3d of 3d month,
1799. The following are the names of their children— Al^igail, born
13th of 12th month, 1779. John, born 21st of 1st month, 1782;
the latter owned property at Port Norris, and kept a tavern
there ; afterwards in Port Elizabeth. Hannah Ogden, daughter
of John and Abigail Ogden, was born 12th of 8th month, 1784.
Rachel was born 16th of 7th month, 1786 ; Theodocia Ogden
was born on 13th of 3d month, 1791 ; Aldon, was born on 27th
of 3d month, 1793; Elmer was born on 28th of 7th month,
1795 ; Benjamin was l)orn 4th of 10th month, 1797 ; Matilda
was born 2d of 12th month, 1799, and David Sayre Ogden was
OGDEN FAMILY. 169
born IStli of 5tli month, 1803. All of John and Abigail Ogden's
children lived to grow to matnrity, and married. Abigail, their
eldest daughter, married Ephraim Westcott; their daughter
Rachel, married George Summers, in 1801; John Ogden mar-
ried Charlotte Jones, in 1809 ; Hannah Sayre married John
Howell, in 1808; Theodocia Ogden married Joseph Hunt, in
1810, and Adam Ogden married Hannah Tliompson, in 1821.
Benjamin Ogden, son of John and Abigail B, Ogden, was born in
1797, and graduated at Princeton College in 1817 ; from 1818 to
1820 he studied for the ministry, in the Theological Seminary;
was licensed to preach in 1821, and was ordained the following
year. He was settled at Lewes, Delaware, until 1826 ; from
tlience he was called to Pennington, N. J. He continued in
the latter place until 1838, when he removed to tlie State of
Michigan ; afterwards he went to Valparaiso, Indiana, M'here
he died in 1853 ; his wife was Emily Sausbury ; they were married
15th of 10th month, 1821. Matilda Ogden married Harris Mat-
thias, 25th of 11th month, 1821 ; David, the youngest son of John
and Abigail Ogden, married Martha S. Ewing, 2d of 11th month,
1825. Elmer Ogden, son of John and AbigairOgden, resides at this
time, in the town of Greenwich ; he has been twice married ;
his first wife was Sarah, the daughter of Isaac Sheppard ; they
had seven children — Isaac S., Horace E., Joseph II., Matilda,
Henry S., Sarah J., and Amanda Ogden. Elmer Ogden's sec-
ond wife was the widow of Geoi-ge Hall, of Salem ; her maiden
name was Matilda Riley ; she is deceased, leaving no issue.
Isaac S. Ogden, son of Elmer and Sarah Ogden, married
Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Bacon, they have issue —
Mary, Matilda and Elmer Ogden. Horace Ogden married
Maria Jorden, they have six children living — Elizabeth J.,
Edward M., Ella, Clarence C, Sallie S. and Lydia J. Ogden.
Joseph married Lydia Fithian, daughter of Joel Fithian ; they
have one son — George B. Ogden, Matilda Ogden married Jon-
athan Fithian, their children are Cliarles, Frank, Rebecca,
Joel and Sarah Fithian ; Henry S., son of Elmer Ogden, mar-
ried Lizzie Syder, they have one son, Frank Ogden. Sarah S.
Ogden, daughter of Elmer and Sarah Ogden, remains single,
and resides with her father ; Amanda Ogden is deceased, and never
married ; Elmer Ogden has been an active business man, and at one
time was a member of the State Legislature, he is now in his eighty-
second year, having survived nearly all of his brothers and
sisters. His mother died in 1818, aged lifty-seven years, and his
father, John Ogden, died in 1832, aged seventy-seven years.
Harris Ogden who resides in Fairfield township, Cumberland
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170 OGDEN FAMILY.
county, is the son of Harris Ogden, and his grand-father was
of the same name. He is donbtless one of the leading agricul-
turists in the countj' at the present day ; his farm is located near
the old Presbyterian Stone Church ; his buildings and fencings
are not surpassed in that section. He is likewise prominent in
raising and feeding all kinds of stock, particularly cattle, and it is
generally cousidered tliat he has no equal in that particular in tlie
county of Cumberland, since tlie late Dr. AVilliam Elmer, of
Bridgeton.
It appears that one of John Ogden's sons or grand-sons left
Elizabethtown, ]^ew Jersey, and located in Pennsylvania near
the city of Pliiladelphia, where he and his family became mem-
bers of the Society of Friends. Samuel Ogden left Pennsyl-
vania in 1767 and settled in Gloucester county, about one mile
l)elow Swedesboro, known as Battento'\\ii. He being a tanner
and currier by trade, there he established his tannery ; the same
yard was afterwards occupied by his son Joseph Ogden, and his
<>-rand-son David Ogden, late of AYoodl)ury ; it is still occupied
by one of David's son's, lie being the fourth generation. Sam-
uel Ogden married Mary Ann Hoffman, of Gloucester county,
she was born 19th of 10th month, 1752. Samuel and his wdfe
Mary Ann Ogden had ten children, who lived to grow up,
married and had families of children. One of the family has
in possession the Coat of Arms, given l^y Charles the II, similar
to the one the family have in tlie county of Cumberland. Mary,
the daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann Ogden, was born 13tli
of 6th month, 1771 ; Esther Ogden, their second daughter was
born 15th of 2d month, 1773 ; Joseph, the eldest son of Samuel
and Mary Ann Ogden, was born ith of 8th month, 1775 ;
Martha, daugliter of the same parents, born 2d of 2d month,
1779 ; Hannah born 29th of 6th month, 1781 ; Ann Ogden
born 22d of 11th month, 1783 ; Sarah born 22d of 7th month,
1787 ; Samuel born 27th of 4th month, 1790 ; John Ogden
born 20th of 6th month, 1792, and David Ogden l>orn 19th of
2d month, 1796. Samuel Ogden, fatlicr of the above mentioned
children, purchased a farm near Woodstown, in Pilesgrove, there
lie and his wife ended their days, he dying 21st of 4th month,
1821, aged about seventy-six years ; his wife died three years
previously, aged sixty-six years. Mary, tlieir eldest daughter,
married Samuel Lippincott, of Glouc^ester, she died young,
leaving one son — Caleb Lippincott, (see Lippincott family).
Esther, the second daughter of Samuel Ogden, married Thomas,
the son of Jacob Davis, of A\^oodstown, they had several cliil-
dren, (see Davis family) ; Esther departed this life 1st of 8th
month, 1845, aged seventy-three years.
OGDEN FAMILY. 171
Joseph, the eldest son of Samuel and Mary Ann Ogden,
succeeded his father in the tanning lousiness near Swedesboro,
at that place he accumulated a large fortune, and retired many
years before his death to the town of Woodbury. He was
four times married ; his first wife was the daughter of John
Tatem, Sr., of Woodbury, she was the motlier of his children ;
tlieir names were David, Samuel, John, Elizabeth and Mary
Ann Ogden. One of Joseph Ogden's wives was Prudence
Hall, daugliter of Clement and Sarah Kay Hall, of Elsinboro,
she being his third wife. His last wife I think survived him, he
dying 20th of 11th month, 1863, being in his eighty-ninth year.
Martha, daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann Ogden, married
Samuel Abbott, of Mannington, Salem county, she was his
second wife ; they had issue ; (see genealogy of the Abbott
family); she died 5th of dtth month, 18-18, aged about sixty-nine
years. Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann Ogden,
married Isaac ToAvnsend, of Cape May county. Soon after they
were married tliey resided at Port Elizabeth ; they had issue ;
tlie names of their children were Samuel, Isaac, Ann, Hannah,
William and Charles Townsend. Isaac and his wife a few years
l^efore their death, removed to the city of Philadelphia. Ann
Ogden, daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann Ogden, mai-ried
John, son of Zadoc and Eunice Silvers Street, of Mannington,
about ISO-l or 1805. He sold his valuable real estate in said
township to John Wistar, and removed with his family to the
then new State of Ohio, and purchased a large tract of land in
what is now known as Columbiana county, and there founded a
town Avhich they called Salem, after Salem, New Jersey.
The Street family became one of the wealthiest families in
that section of the State. John, the oldest son of Zadoc and
Eunice S. Street, carried on a large business for many years as
a merchant ; he and his wife had several sons, but no daughters.
Tlie family of Streets have great energy of character and a
literary turn of mind. Aaron Street, the second son of Zadoc,
(after the North- West became open to settlers,) left Salem and
located in the territory of Iowa, and there founded a town he
called Salem, the said town was the capital of the territory for
some time. Aaron had a family ; one of his sons was named
Isaac Street, he also had a family ; one of his daughters was
named Mary Ann Street, she sul)sequently married a young man
by tlie name of Duncan, they were of Scotcli famih^ ; Mary
Ann and her husband reside at San Francisco, California. One
of the Street family located in Oregon, and there founded a
town and called it Salem. Ann Ogden Street, the wife of John,
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departed this life 31st of 8th month, 1861, aged iseventy-eight
years.
Sarali, daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann Ogden, married
Samuel Holmes, of Upper Penn's Neck; they had four children,
their names were Martha, Ann Eliza, Sarah and William
Holmes. Sarah Ogden Holmes died 26th of 2d month, 1829,
aged about forty-two years. John, the son of Samuel and Mary
Ann Ogden, has been twice married ; his lirst wife was Ann
Howe, daughter of Isaac and Abigail Howe, of Gloucester
county. John and his wife had three daughters — Mary Ann,
Martha and Ann Ogden. Soon after the death of their mother,
Ann Street who was on a visit to her relatives in New Jersey,
asked permission of her brother John to take two of his daugh-
ters home with her to Oliio, he gave his consent, and she brought
up and educated them as she would have done with her own chil-
dren. TJiey are both married, and in affluent circumstances,
living in their adopted State. John's second wife was Abigail
Atkinson, widow of Caleb Atkinson, lier maiden name was
Antrim; they have four children, two are deceased, Joseph and
Clement are living. John lived the greater part of his life
on the homestead farm near Woodstown. lie sold his farm
some years ago, and now resides in tlie city of Salem ; he is
the only one left of Samuel and Mary Ann Ogden's children ;
he is now in his eighty-lifth year. David, the youngest son of
Samuel and Mary Ann Ogden, married Sarah Ann Burr, of
Burlington county, tlieyhave had two children — Wharton and
Rebecca Ogden, the latter is deceased ; Wharton has a store at
Fort Elizabeth. David was a carriage maker, and soon after
he married, removed to Burlington county, there he followed
his trade until liis death, which event took place 2d of 7th
month, 1825, when lie was only twenty-nine years of age.
OAKFORD AND M(3SS FAMILIES.
Charles and Wade Oakford emigrated from England to West
Jersey about 1695 ; it is evident by the records of the Wade
family they were nephews of Edward Wade, instead of what
many supposed, tliat Charles Oakford's wife was the daughter
of Edward. The brothers, Charles and Wade Oakford, had
considerable means when they came in 1698, each of them con-
tributed quite a sum of money for that time, towards erecting
the first l^rick meeting house in the town of Salem. Charles
purcliased of liis uncle Edward Wade of his allotment of land,
located in Lower Monmouth precinct, quite a large tract, that
being about 1696 ; he married and settled ; the following are the
names of his children — Elizabeth, born at Alloways Creek,
17th of 3d month, 1698 ; Charles and Mary Oakford, born
20th of 1st month, 1701, Mary died young ; John Oakford,
l)orn 12th of 1st month, 1701. Charles' second wife was
Margaret Denn, daughter of James and Elizal^eth Maddox
Denn ; their daughter Mary Oakford, was born 21st of 1st
montli, 1706 ; Susanna Oakford, was born in 1709. Charles the
father of these children, died about 1728. His son Charles
inherited tlie homestead, and subsequently was one of the ablest
farmers in the lower precinct of Monmoutli. In the Assessor's
duplicate made by George ^Trenchard, Sr., Charles paid the
highest tax in the township, excepting William Tyler. In 1712
he built himself a brick dwelling, which is still standing. —
Charles died in 1760, leaving several children — Elizabeth, Isaac
and Samuel, also one or two other daughters whose names are
not given. Elizabeth married Samuel Xaylor, they had issue.
Their son Charles Oakford Naylor, married, had a son, Joseph
Naylor, who resides at Hancock's Bridge at this time, being
over seventy years of age. Isaac Oakford, (Charles' eldest son),
inherited the homestead and soon after sold the farm to John
Ware, and purchased lands near Darby, Pennsylvania, and tliere
ended his days. The Oakfords in the city of Philadelphia are
his descendants. Samuel Oakford settled in the State of Dela-
ware ; he lived to a very advanced age, and left issue. Mary,
i
174 OAKFORD AND M(1SS FAMILIKS.
tlie daughter of Charles and Margaret Oakford, married
James, the son of Nathaniel Chambless ; they had issue. —
Susanna Oakford, the daughter of Charles and Margaret Oak-
ford, married Jonathan, the son of William Bradway, she was
]iis second wife ; they had issue. John, the son of Charles and
Mary Oakford, married Margaretta Colsten in 1733, tliey had
several children ; they married in the Acton family of Salem.
Wade Oakford, tlie emigrant, brother of Cliarles, purchased
a large tract of land in the upper precinct of Monmouth, being
part of James Wasse's 7000 acres ; I never heard whom he
married. His son William Oakford married when he was past
middle-ago Rebecca Moss, daughter of Abraham Moss ; they
had two daughters, one of them died a minor. Notwithstand-
ing William's great possessions, he was a man of very industri-
ous habits. One day some of his friends called to see him and
he was not at home, they inquired of his housekeeper where he
was (his wife was deceased at that time), she told them he was
in the woods cutting wood. They went to look for him and found
him busily cutting cord wood ; they told him lie was too old a
man to work so hard, and abundantly able to live without, and
leave his only daughter well provided for. To wliich the old man
assented and replied, "that he expected some stranger would
"reap the benefit of his labors, inasnnich as some Dutcimian
" would come and marry his daughter one of these days." This
proved to be true, for in a short time one of Richard Wistar's
glassblowers by the name of Jacob Houseman married her. —
The name has since been abbreviated, and is now spelled House.
Jacob and Mary Oakford House had one son named William
House, who married Sarah, the daughter of Jonathan and
Milicent Wood. Milicent was the daughter of Peter Stretcli.
William House and his wife Sarah left two children — Jonathan
and Mary House. Jonathan House who is still living at an
advanced age, married Francis, the daughter of John Black-
wood ; they have issue. Mary House, his sister, married Wil-
liam, the son of James and Catliarine Sherron, of Salem. —
William and his wife are both deceased ; they left tln-ee or
more children — Samuel, Albert, and a daughter. Al})ert Slier-
ron resides in Sidem and keeps a grocery store, and has been
prosperous in his business.
Alexander Moss I think came to this country about 1720, he
located in Alio ways Creek township ; he and his wife Rebecca
Moss had four children — Richard, was born in lltli month,
1724 ; Isaac, was born 18th of 11th month, 172G ; Hannah, was
l)orn 14th of 7tli month, 1730, and Rebecca Moss was ])orn in
OAKFORD AND MOSS FAMILIES. 175
1733. Abraham Moss purchased part of Jonathan Smith's
estate, about the year 1735 ; he died about 1750, and his son
Richard Moss become tlie owner. In 1751 Charles Fogg
purchased the farm where "William Cooper now lives of William
Chandler ; in 1767 Richard Moss and Charles Fogg exchanged
farms. The Smith property or part of it has been in possession
of the Fogg family since. Richard Moss had two children— Isaac
and Rebecca Moss, both of them lived to old age, never married.
Isaac became the owner of his father's real estate, and subse-
quently sold it to John Vanculer.
PLUMMER FAMILY.
The laws of this country are well calculated to give every
young person, no matter how poor or obscure their parentage
is, an opportunity to rise in a social and political standing in
the community in whicli they live. Hence, many of the most
useful citizens in this section, and likewise throughout this
favored country, descended from what is called the lower order
of society. Samuel Plummer was the son of an emigrant from
England, named David Pluimner, as is supposed hy the family.
Tlieir record seems to have been lost. Samuel Plummer mar-
ried Amy Johnson ; tliey had seven or eight children ; their
names were — David, William, James, Sarah, Samuel, John and
Hannah Plummer. Samuel, the son of Samuel and Amy John-
son Plummer, was born the 29th of 9t]i month, 1813; in early
life, he was apprenticed to a carriage maker ; after he arrived to
manhood, he foUow^edhis trade for several years, I think at Sharps-
town in Salem county. He however, turned his attention to
politics, and subsequently was elected Sheriff of the county of
Salem. Soon after the expiration of his term of office, lie was
elected to the State Legislature, and the following year to the
State Senate; he now holds the important office of United
States Marshal for the State of New Jersey. He married Ke-
ziah Woodruif, daughter of Enos Woodruff, of Bridgeton, Cum-
berland county ; she can properly claim as long a line of an-
cestry as any other one in the county of Salem, being a lineal
descendant of Thomas Woodruff, who was the son of Jolm
Woodruff, yeoman, in the county of Worcestershire, England.
Thomas married Edith Wyatt, daughter of Joseph Wyatt, a
gentleman. The said Thomas Woodruif and his wife Edith,
left Worcestershire, and removed to London, at which place
they had several children born ; their names were Thomas,
Edith, John and Isaac Woodruff. In the year 1678, Thomas
and Edith Woodruff, together with their children, and in com-
pany with a number of others, emigrated for West New Jersey,
on board the ship Surrey, Steven Nichols, Captain. They
arrived at Salem in_4th month, 1679. Samuel Plummer and his
PLUMMER FAMILY. 177
wife, Keziah Woodruff, liave had eight children, only three of
them are living at this time — Charles, John E. and Sallie Plum-
mer. Charles has been twice married ; his first wife was Han-
nah, the daughter of Benjamin Heritage ; she died a young
woman, leaving one daughter, Willielmina Plummer. His sec-
ond wife is Anna, the daughter of Benjamin M. Black; they
have one daughter — Rebecca Plummer. Charles Plummer is a
merchant, and resides at Pedricktowm, in Upper Penn's Keck, at
wliich place he has an envial^le reputation ; his future career is
promising. He was elected last year to represent Salem county
in the New Jersey State Senate.
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PEESTON FAMILY.
John E. Preston, M. T)., a resident and practicing physician
in the city of Salem, New Jersey, is a lineal descendant of
Peregrine White, who was the lirst European born in this
countiy nortli of Mason and Dixon line. The following was
written for one of the Massachusetts' papers a short time since
by Susanna French, she being one of the family. " Peregrine
" Wnite was the son of William and Susanna White, who ar-
" rived on board of the Mayflower at Plymouth Eock, 22d of 12th
" month, 1620. Peregrine was the son of the before mentioned
"parents, and was born in the 11th montli, 1620, whilst the ship
" was anchored in Cape Cod, between Cape Cod and Plj^mouth
"Eock. Daniel White was the son of Peregrine White. John
"White, son of Daniel White, mai-riedMiss Skinner, they had a
" son — John, wlio married Mary Grover, he lived many jesiYS, in
" Mansfield and was a merchant at that place John and Mary
" Grover had nine children, named respectively — John, Abial,
"Otis, Calvin, Mary, Eacliel, Lavinia, Aziah and Susanna
" White, the latter, the author of the poem published some time
"ago ; she married William French, who was killed at the battle
"of Bunker Hill. At the intercession of his mother, she sul)-
" sequently married William's brother, John French, a resident
"of the city of Providence, Ehode Island. They afterwards
"moved to Dublin, New Hampshire. Lavinia, the daughter of
"John and Mary Grover White, married Aaron Preston ; they
"had several children. John E. Preston, M. D., the eldest son,
"who resides at Salem, New Jersey, he iK^ing tlie eighth gener-
"ation from Peregrine White, and the ninth from William and
" Susanna White."
REEVE FAMILY.
Mark Reeve was another of those early pioneers of America
who was calculated by his mental endowments and high moral
character to give a moral force to the neighborhood wherein he
dwelt. He turned his attention more to the religious associa-
tions than his intimate friend, William Hall, although the latter
is frequently mentioned in the early records of Salem Monthly
Meeting, showing that he was a consistent member of the Society
of Friends. Mark Reeve, in 1684, married Ann Hunt, of Salem,
and on the following year the executors of John Fenwick directed
John Woodledge, the deputy surveyor, to lay off sixteen acres of
land which Mark Reeve had purchased of them in the town of
Cohansey. It is most probable that Mark made that place his
home for a short time, but a few years later he purchased a
large tract of land on the south side of Cohansey creek, oppo-
site Cohansey (known at the present time as Greenwich). In
the year 1705, a four rod road was surveyed from Salem to
Maurice river, which, after crossing the Cohansey, passed
between James Pierce's and Mark Reeve's land. The Reeve
family held large tracts of land in that section for more than a
century and a half, but at this time the family have disposed
nearly or quite the whole of it. As early as 1698 James Dun-
can and Mark Reeve made application to Salem Friends for
assistance to build a meeting house. There was one erected,
having been built of logs, near the banks of the Cohansey, on
the main street, where the present brick meeting house now
stands. The exact time of Mark Reeve's death does not appear
in the records, but circumstances go to show that it was about
1716 or 1717. He left one son, Joseph Reeve, who married
Ellinor Bagnall, in 1722 ; they had live children — Mark, Josepli,
John, Mary and Benjamin. Mark, the son of Joseph and Elli-
nor Reeve, born 28tli of 12th mouth, 1723, became a highly
esteemed minister in the Society of Friends in early life. He
married about the year 1761 when he was past middle age. The
following are the names of his children — Josiah, Ann, Mark,
William and George Reeve. Josiah, his eldest son, was born
180 REEVE FAMILY.
23d of 9th month, 1762, His father purchased a tract of hmd
in Alloways Creek township, situated on tlie north side of the
creek, and built a substantial brick building on the property.
(It is now owned and occupied by Luke S. Fogg.) At that
place Josiah went to reside, and soon afterwards marriec^ At
the death of his father the said property was devised to him,
but he sold it soon afterwards to John Fancoast, and removed
to Burlington with his family to reside witli his wife's relatives.
She, I think, was a Newbold, and by her lie had two or more
children. Martha, their daughter, married Clayton, the son of
John and Charlotte Wistar, she being his second wife. They
had one son — Josiah. John Reeve, the son of Josiah, married
Friscilla, the daughter of John and Mary Slieppard, of Green-
wich. They had children.
The Sheppard family is one of the oldest and most numerous
in the county of Cumberland. David Slieppard emigrated from
England about the year 1683, aiKl with the Swing family and
a few others organized the Cohansey Baptist church, which is
considered the mother of the Baptist churches in this section of
the State. John and Mark, the grandsons of David Sheppard,
having become converted to the principles of the Society of
Friends, left the religious society of their father and became
members of the Friends' association, but far the largest portion
of the Sheppard family still adhere to the Baptist society, wiiile
a number of them are members of the Presbyterian church at
the present time. William, the son of Josiah and Hannah Reeve,
w^as born 11th of 12th month, 1766, and subsequently mar-
ried Letitia, the daughter of Josiah and Letitia Miller, of
Mannington ; they had eiglit children — Josiali Miller, Anna,
Elizabeth M., Letitia, William F., Mark M., Friscilla and Em-
mor Reeve. Josiah M., the eldest son, married a young woman
in Pennsylvania, by the name of Garrigues. She died not many
years after their marriage, having two dauglitcrs — Hannah and
Emma. His second wife was Mary, the daughter of Jonathan
Dallas, of Port Elizabeth. Josiah and his wife are l)oth de-
ceased at the present time, leaving one son — Dallas Reeve. Few
men that have lived in this county possessed a more energetic
cliaracter tlian Josiah M. Reeve ; his judgment was above that
of ordinary men, and he was of pleasant and agreeable tempera-
ment. He more than once represented his county in tlie State
Legislature. He with his two younger brothers, William F.,
and Emmor, carried on ship l)uilding witli success for a number
of years at Allowaystown. They did not however, confine their
attention exclusively to one particular business, but bought
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largely of land in tliat neighborhood, considered not worth
farming, which tln-ougli their energy and jndicions management
lias been made to produce more than four-fold. They also en-
larged and beautified the town of their adoption, with large and
substantial buildings, and no village in this section of the State
has superior improvements. I will here state that William
Reeve and his wife, after marriage, like his brother Josiah, re-
moved to the county of Burlington and made it his permanent
home. Their children were born and raised to maturity. Anna,
the daughter of William and Letitia Reeve, married William
Hilliard, who lived near Rancocas. Elizabeth M. Reeve, mar-
ried Jesse Stanger ; I believe they had issue. Letitia M. Reeve
remains single. William Foster Reeve's wife was Mary, the
daughter of William Cooper, of Camden ; they have four chil-
dren living — William Cooper, Augustus, Rebecca and Richard
H. Reeve. William, the eldest, married Mary, the daughter of
Richard M., and Hannah Acton, of Salem. Richard, the son
of William F., and Mary Reeve, married Sarah Ann, the daugh-
ter of Samuel P. Carpenter; they reside in the city of Camden.
Mary, tlie mother of the before mentioned children, died sud-
den recently, wliilst on a visit to her relatives in Camden, her
native city. William F. Reeve is the only one of the three
brothers, who still remains at AUowaystown, a place they did
so much to improve. Josiah M., his elder brother, died at that
place several years ago, and Emmor his younger brotlier, left
with his family a few years since and resides in the city of Cam-
den. Mark M. Reeve, the son of William and Letitia Reeve,
died a few years ago, unmarried, in one of the Western States.
The first wife of Emmor, the youngest son of William and
Letitia Reeves, was Susan the daughter of William Cooper;
tlicy had issue — Mark, Benjamin and Sarah Cooper. Enmior's
second wife is Sarah, the daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Ac-
ton.
Joseph, son of Joseph and Ellinor Reeve, was l)orn 5th of
7th month, 1725, and subsequently married Milicent, daugliter
of Joseph and Ilannah Wade, 29th of 6th month, 1729 ; tliey
had three children — Samuel, Martlia and Joseph. Samuel,
their eldest son, inlierited the landed estate of his father, located
on the soutli side of Coliansey, a part of wldch his great ances-
tor purchased of the executors of John Fenwick, and there he
ended his days. His wife was Ruth, the daughter of Gideon
and Judith Scull. The latter were residents of Egg Harbor,
and likewise tlie parents of Gideon Scull, who purchased land
near the liead waters of Oldman's creek, in Salem county, and
182 REEVE FAMILY.
carried on merchandising. It was known for many years as
Sculltown, but is now called Auburn. Gideon and his wife,
Judith Belange Scull, died in the winter of 1780 with the small-
pox, which disease they contracted in attending Salem Quarterly
Meeting, and both died with it a sliort time after they returned
to their homes at Egg Harbor. Samuel Reeve and his wife
Ruth had seven children — Joseph, Rachel, Ruth, Martha, Mary,
Samuel and Benjamin. Four of tliem died in childhood. —
Samuel died a number of years before his wife, and she subse-
quently sold the property and removed to Pliiladelphia with her
children. Her daughter Rachel married Henry, son of Thomas
P. Cope ; they had issue. Henry and his wife are l)oth de-
ceased at this time. Martha Reeve married a man by the name
of Pleasant ; her second husband was Lloyd ; she was several
years his senior.
Joseph, the youngest son of Joseph and Milicent Reeves, was
born 26tli of 9th month, 1756, and married Martha, the daugh-
ter of Preston and Hannah Carpenter, of Mannington. Soon
afterward he left his native county, Cumberland, and resided
for a while in Salem, where he taught the public school on
Margaret's Lane, as it was called at that time. The name of
this was derived from an old lady Avho lived there in a small
tenant house belonging to William Parrott. I believe tlie name
of the street has been changed two or three times within the
memory of some of the present generation. At one time it
was called South street, but at the present time it is known as
Walnut street. . Joseph Reeve subsequently purcliased a small
farm in Mannington, being part of his father-in-law's (Preston
Carpenter) pr(^perty, a part of James Sherron's great estate. —
He removed there and established a fruit nursery, and continued
in that business whilst he lived. His son Samuel carried it on
a number of years after his father's death. Joseph and his
wife liad five cliildren — Samuel, Milicent, Thomas, (who died
several years before his father,) Mary and Joseph Reeve. —
Joseph their father, was a religious man, and possessed a large
share of the milk of human kindness. His deatli was a great
loss to his immediate family, and to the religious society of
which he was a useful member. His eldest son Sanniel in time
purchased his 1)i'other's and sister's share of the farm, and car-
ried on farming and the nursery business until within a sliort
period of his death. He died not many years ago, being over
four score years. He married, when he was far advanced in
life, Achsa Stratton, of Burlington county; they had no issue.
Milicent, the eldest daughter of Joseph and Martha Reeve,
KEEVE FAMILY. 183
married Joseph Owen, of Gloucester. She has been deceased
some years, leavmg no children. Martha, the daughter of
Joseph and Milicent Reeve, was born 29th of 9th month, 1754,
married Joseph, the son of John and Ann Nicholson Brick ;
slie was the second wife of Joseph Brick. They had two sons
— Joseph and John R. Brick. Joseph, the eldest, born 13th of
8th month, 1785, married Elizabeth, the daughter of David
Smith. Joseph and his wife had several children — Samuel,
Martha, John E., Edward K. and Hannah Reeve. John Reeve
Brick married Elizabeth Kinsey ; they had one daughter who
married Clinton, son of Sanuiel and Eliza Clement, of Salem.
She died young, leaving no issue.
John, the son of Joseph and Ellinor Reeve, born 5th of 1st
month, 1730, married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Ann N.
Brick, in 1753. They had three children — John, who was born
3d of lltli month, 1754, Ellinor and Peter Reeve. John and
his wife lived on and owned a large landed estate in Cohansey
Neck, not far from what is now known as Sheppard's mill. He
and his elder brotlier Mark, and his younger brother Benjamin,
were recommended ministers, members of Greenwdch Monthly
Meeting of Friends, as was also the celebrated James Daniels,
Jr., who belonged to Alloways Creek Particular Meeting. —
James Daniels, Jr., traveled extensively in this country, as also
in England and Ireland, in the ministry. He died in Alloways
Creek township in 1776, and was considered one of the greatest
ministers the society ever had in "West Jersey. All four of
these men were eloquent in their discourses, and their lives
corresponded with their precepts, hence the Greenwich meeting
was denominated the "school of the prophets." John Reeve's
second wife was Jane West, of Woodbury, Gloucester county.
After that event he left his native place and went to reside
with his wife, and at that place ended his days at a very
advanced age. He w^as naturally an energetic business man,
and those habits of industry continued during his life. There
are many persons so contracted in their views of tlie duties of
this life, that they expect those who make a high profession of
religion, must necessarily abstain from the business concerns of
life, and put on sackcloth and go mourning on their way to
the grave. Such was not the opinion of John Reeve, as the
following well authenticated anecdote that has been handed
down by tradition proves. It took place in an aged counsellor's
office in Woodbury, not long before John's death. One of the
members of his own meeting remarked to the lawyer that he
thought friend Reeve attended too much to the things of this
IS-i REKVE FAMILY.
world for his age and wealtli. The attorney promptly replied
that " during his long acquaintance witli mankind he never knew
"a person so well adapted for this woi'ld and the world to come
" as Mr. Reeve." His son, John Reeve, born 3d of 11th month,
1754, inherited a large estjite, both real and personal, from his
father. He married and had one or more children. John
Reeve, his eldest son, married Sarah, tlie daughter of Jonas and
Elizabeth Freedland, of Mannington. They subseqnently re-
moved to one of the Western States. I think Ellinor, daughter
of Jolm and Elizabeth Reeve, M^as born 15th of 6th month,
1757, and died unmarried, Peter Reeve, John's youngest son,
born 1st of 2d month, 1759, married and liad issue — William,
who married Martha Bacon ; they left no children. Benjamin,
the youngest son of Joseph and Ellinor Reeve, was born 2d of
7th month, 1737. He was a clock and watch maker, and fol-
lowed his trade in the city of Philadelpliia. In 1761 he mar-
ried Rutli, the daughter of John and Ann N. Brick. I have
been informed they have a number of descendents living in the
city of Philadeldhia at the present day.
ROLPII FAMILY.
James Rolpb, it is generally tliouglit, first settled in East
Jersey; he came to Salem about the year 1700, and was a man
of considerable means. He purchased a lot on the west side of
Bridge street, and erected a l)rick dwelling thereon, it having a
hip-roof; lie also purchased a large farm in the township of
Mannington. He, John Yining, Alexander Grant, and Edmund
Whetherby, oi'ganized the first Episcopal Cliurch in the town of
Salem. He died at Salem in 1732, leaving his estate to his son,
John Rolph, wlio purchased some 300 acres of land in tlie town-
ship of Elsinborougli, being part of the Robert Windham estate,
known in more modern times as " Richard Darkin's land ;" it
was the part that was Josepli Darkin's, 'the son of Richard
Darkin. John Rolpli, agreeably to tradition, married the daugh-
ter of Joseph Darkin ; they resided in Elsinborougli until his
deatli, wliich occurred early in life, leaving one daughter —
Elizabeth Rolph. His widow subsequently married Aaron
Bradway, an inhabitant of the same township. They had one
daughter, who married David Bradway of Alloways Creek.
(See Bradway family).
Thomas Clement, a native of Gloucester county, and a lineal
descendant of Gregory Clement, of England, who was one of
the Judges thiat tried Charles the I., King of England, married
Elizabeth Rolph, daughter of John Rolph, of Elsinborougli.
Thomas and his wife, Elizabeth R. Clement, had three children —
Joseph, Ruth, and Samuel Clement. Thomas Clement*'s second
wife was Elizabeth Goodwin, widow of William Goodwin, Jr. ;
they had no issue; her maiden name was Woodruif. Thomas'
second wife also died several years before him. He resided on
his farm in Elsinborougli the greater part of his time ; it lie-
longed to his first wife. He M^as a merchant for several years
in the town of Salem. His business was on Market street,
where his son Samuel Clement afterwards occupied ; he became
one of the most eminent merchants that ever did business in
Salem. Thomas Clement lived to an advanced age, with his
daughter, Ruth Clement, who tenderly cared for him' until the
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186 ROLPH FAMILY.
last. lie could ])e justly styled " nature's nol)leinan ;" his manly
deportment and his upright dealings with his fellow man fully
warrants that assertion. He was born a member of the Society
of Friends, but lost liis right l)y marrying his tirst wife', altliough
slie was a professor. The rules of the society at that time were
nnich more strict than at present. He nevertheless maintaiued
a strong attaclnuent towards tlie society of his l)irth, and was a
.steady attender of meeting during his long life. Not many
years before his death, his daughter Ruth mentioned to liini tlie
propriety of his becoming a memljer again. He made this big-
niticant reply, " All I want in my old age is to be a meml)er of
" the Church militant." Joseph, the eldest s<jn of Thomas and
Elizabeth R. Clement, was born 17th of 7th mouth, 1777 ; lie
died at liis son's, Tliomas K. Clement, in Upper Pittsgrove,
lOtii of 4th month, 1861, aged eighty-three years, and was
buried in Friends' yard at Salem by request, wliere his ances-
tors Avere buried. He married Mary, daughtei' of Colonel Aaron
Levering, of Baltimore. She was l)orn in Baltinicjre, Maryland,
23d of 11th month, 1782, and died at the residence of her
daughter, Elizabeth Pratt, at Lancaster, Ohio, 25th of 1st month,
1864. Aaron Levering, her father, descended from an ancient
Clerman family of that name, wlio formerly belonged to the
Frankford Company, that settled at Germantown in 1684. The
Leverings were large landholders in Roxbury township, near
Germantown. Joseph Clement and Mary Levering were mar-
ried in the city of Baltimore, 17th of 4th month, 1803. Joseph
was a merchant for a number of years in the town of Salem ;
his place of business, also his dwelling, was located on Fenwick
street. He with his wife and most of Ids children, removed to
the State of Ohio. They had seven children — Aaron, William,
who died young, Thomas Rolph, Charles B., Elizabeth, William
Lawrence and Joseph Clement, Jr. Aaron L. Clement, their
eldest son, never married. Thomas Rolph Clement studied
medicine, graduated in 1832, and settled in Upper Pittsgrove,
and is a practicing physician up to the present time; he married
in 1847, Rebecca B. Elwell. They have had seven children —
Jerome, born 23d of 2d month, 1848; Mary Levering, born 18th
of 6th month, 1849, died in 4th month, 1868 ; Annie, l)orn 8th
of 2d month, 1851 ; Ara])ella, born 23d of 9th month, 1853 ; How-
ard born 23d of 12tli month, 1857 ; Thomas Rolph, born 15th of
3d month, 1868, and S. De Witt Clinton, born 13th of 1st
month, 1869.
Charles, son of Joseph and Mary Clement, married Martha
AYelch, of Cincinnati ; they have six children — Aaron L., Wa-
ROLPH FAMILY,
187
liaen, Joseph AVilliam, Mary Elizabeth, Sarah Ellen, and Charles
Clement ; two of their cliildren are deceased — Sarah Ellen and
Charles. Elizabeth, danghter of Joseph and Mary Clement,
has been twice married ; her first husband was George Creed ;
they had four children — Mary Levering, George W., John M.,
and Charles Creed. Mary L., the eldest, married Frederick Lowe
in 1857 ; they reside in San Francisco, California ; he has filled
several important oiiices, among which are United States Senator,
Governor of California, United States Minister to China ; and
at present he is President of the Bank of California. Elizabeth
Clement's second husband is James M. Pratt ; they have two
children — James Arthur and Jennie Creed Pratt. William
Lawrence Clement, son of Joseph and Mary Clement, married
Pauline Peben ; they have four children — John P., Mary,
Charles and William Lawrence Clement. Joseph, son of Joseph
and Mary L. Clement, married Maria Paul ; they have two
childi-en — Creed and Charles Clement. Joseph's second wife
was Lucy L)rake ; they had two children — John and Clinton
Clement. They reside in Iowa. Ruth Clement, daughter of
Thomas and Elizabetli Clement, resided in Salem the greater
part of her life, dying when she w^as past middle age ; she never
married. Samuel, youngest son of TJiomas and Elizaljeth Polph
Clement, was a merchant in Salem the greater joart of his useful
life ; he was so upright in all his dealings that he received — and
tliat justly — the name of "honest Samuel Clement." lie was
for many years in partnership with Gideon Scull, Jr. ; they did
a large business, particularly as grain merchants ; perhaps the
most extensive ever done in the city of Salem. Sanniel married
Eliza, daughter of Jacol) Ilufty ; they had two sons — Samuel
and De Witt Clinton Clement. Samuel Clement, Jr., married
a daughter of David and Martha Smitli ; he has been deceased
several years, leaving no issue. IJe W. C. Clement has been
twice married ; his first wife was the daughter of John Brick of
Philadelphia ; she died young, leaving no issue ; his second wife
is the daughter of Thomas J, Yorke, of Salem ; tliey have
children.
SINNICKSON FAMILY.
The Simiicksoii family is one of the oklest in South Jersey.
Originally they spelled their name Cinca, corrupted to Sinaker,
There is no delinite account that I know of fixing the year when
Anders Seneca left Sweden and settled on the shores of the
Delaware, but circumstances convince me that he and his family
came in (company with Minuit, the iirst governor of New Swe-
den, in 1638; Anders Seneca had two sons born in Sweden,
Broor and Anders. At what period Anders Seneca, Jr., came
and settled on the eastern shore of the Delaware is uncertain,
but it is safe to presume that it was soon after their arrival in
this country, for Anders Nilsson, Jonas Nilsson, Michael Nils-
son, Hans Peterson, Yan Nemans (now Yanneman) and several
other families were inhabitants of Penn's Keck as early as 1640,
and the Dahlbo family were likewise residing on the eastern
shore of the Delaware about that period. Tlie mortality among
the Swedes in the first settlement was very great. Ferris, who
liad an excellent opportunity to examine the records of the First
Swedes' Church, gives a list made by Charles Springer, in 1693, of
the numljer of inhabitants or residents of New Sweden at that
time, and the number in eacli family. The wliole number was
945, about 40 of whom were born in Sweden, and among these
were Broor and Anders Seneca. The church referred to was Ijuilt
near the mouth of the Christine creek for the convenience of
the brethren in Penn's Neck (as it was afterwards called), who
had to cross the Delaware in open boats to attend service.
Their parents, Anders Seneca and his wife, I suppose, were
deceased at that time, as they are not mentioned in the census
roll. Broor Seneca and his family, I think, made a home on
tlie western shore of the Delaware river, perhaps near the liead
waters of tlie Christine. At the time Charles Springer took the
census of New Sweden, Broor Seneca had seven persons in his
family. It is reasonable to suppose that most of the numljer
were his children. The Swedes that settled along both sides of
the river Delaware believed that the lands rightly belonged to
the native inhalntants, lience most of tliem purcliased the lands
THOMAS SINNICKSON.
Born 1786. Died 1873.
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they wished to occupy of the Indian cliiefs, thereby securing
perpetual peace between the aborigines and Swedish settlers ; so
much so that there never was known any bloodshed in a
contentious way between the Scandanavian and Indian races.
Anders Seneca, Jr., like his brethren, adopted that humane
policy, and bought a large tract of land in Obisquahasit, now
known as Penn's Neck, of the natives, and settled thereon ; that
being about thirty years prior to Fenwick's arrival with liis
English colony. Soon after liis arrival in this country to take
possession of his tenth of West New Jersey, in 1675, the
Swedes, and Anders Seneca among them, acknowledged his
claim, and in 1679 Fenwick deeded all of Anders' former pos-
sessions tliat lie got from the natives to him, he stipulating to
pay tlie proprietor or his heirs the sum of three shillings yearly
for quit rent. Anders Seneca, Jr., it would seem, left two sons
— Sinick and John. Sinick Seneca, the eldest son, married
Margaret "Wigorvie, 21st of 9th month, 1718. She, too, was of
Swedish descent, as the name would imply. They had one son
named Andrew, and three daughters — Sarah, Anna, and the
third's name is unknown at this time.
John, the youngest son of Anders Seneca, married Anne Gill
Jolmson. "William Gill Johnson bought land in Penn's Neck
of William Penn and Michael Lecroa in 168-1, it being two
years after William Penn purchased all of John Fenwick's right
and title of Salem county. William Gill Johnson left two sons
who inherited his property, Thomas and John Gill Johnson.
Thomas died in 1721, leaving a widow and six daugliters —
Christina, Rhina, Alice, Sarah, Catharine and Rebecca. Eleanor
Gill Johnson, the widow of Thomas Gill Jolmson, married
Thomas Miles al)out the year 1723. Thomas and his wife
bought of Christina, Rhina, and Alice their shares of the lands
inherited from their father. Thomas and Eleanor Miles had
one son, Francis, to whom they left the greater part of their
landed estate. He left a farm for educational purposes to the
township of Lower Penn's Neck, which is a part of the land
William Gill Johnson bought of William Penn. Rhina Gill
Johnson married Erick Gill Jolmson, supposed to be the son of
John Gill Johnson. Erick and Rhina luid four daughters.
Alice married Erick Skeer. Mary died intestate without issuf .
Sarah Gill Jolmson married Andrew, the son of Sinnick Sin-
nickson — the first of that family writing his name Sinnickson.
I think Andrew and Sarah Sinnickson were married about 1745
or 1746. They liad three sons, Thomas, Andrew and John,
and four daughters, Mary, Sarah, Eleanor and Rebecca. An-
190 SINNICKSON FAMILY,
drew resided on the patrimonial estate called Fenwick's Point.
At what time the death of Sinnick Seneca, the father of
Andrew and Ids l)rot]ier John, took place, I liave no means of
determining — I tliink not earlier tlian 1740. In 173-1 both of
tliem purchased large tracts of meadow and woodland of the
heirs of William Penn, as the following order, given to Thomas
Miles, the deputy surveyor for James Logan, will show: "An
"■order to Thomas Miles to survey to Sinnick and John Seneca,
" the marsh called Mud Island, and 100 acres of laud adjoining
" to their other tracts, and for William Philpot the point of land
" and marsh between his plantation and Salem creek, and for
" Oneiiferds Staidey, Margaret Bilderback and Thomas Bilder-
" back, 100 acres at a place called Hell-gate. Dated 7th of -1th
" month, 1733. The price of the nuu-sh is live and twenty
" pounds and 100 acres of woodland, thirty pounds for a 100
" acres clear of quit rents." Andrew Sinnickson, 3d, held
important offices in the colonial government in the town and
county in which he dwelt. He tilled the office of Judge of the
Court and Justice under George III., and was an ardent Whig
during the American Revolution. He died 20th of 8th month,
1790, aged seventy years, leaving to his heirs a large real estate,
which is considered as good and productive land as there is in
the county of Salem.
The Sinnicksons had a family burying ground on their prop-
erty in Penn's Neck, where most of them were buried for three
u-enerations or more ; whether the yard is kept in repair, or
ne'3"lected as many others of the like throughout the county, the
fence been removed and the plough passed over it, I have not
heard. The family, like most of the Scandinavian settlers,
belonged to the Swedish Lutlieran Church, and were members of
the church located on Christiana in the State of Delaware ;
regular in attending tlieir meetings, by tradition they were
remarkably so considering that they had to cross the Delaware
river, in open boats, in Sunnuer and Winter when the ice would
permit. There was no edirice for worship on the eastern shoi*e
of the Delaware nearer than tlie church located at Swedenbor-
ough ; at what time that was erected is uncertain, but most
probably in lC-1-1 or 1645. In the year 17-1-1, or about that
time, tlie Swedes, inhabitants of Penn's Neck and a few French
Ilugenots, the Jaquetts and some others, erected an edifice for
Divine worship at a place wdiich is known at the present day as
Church Landing, it being near the river. It has been said that
in the latter part of the seventeenth century there was a large
congregation belonging to tlie said c;hurch ; at the present time
SIXNICKSOii FAMILY. 191
but a small number belong to it. Like other Swedish churches
on the sliores of the Delaware such as those at New Castle,
Christiana, Wiccacoe or the church at Philadelphia and Swe-
denborough, all have become Episcopal Chui-ches. I presume
their church Rituals are nearly the same.
Thomas Sinnickson, the oldest son of Andrew, 3d, and Sarah
Sinnickson, took an active part in tlie Revolutionary war ; and
commanded a company in the Continental army. On account
of his writings and bitter opposition to British tyranny, he was
outlawed by Lord Howe, and a heavy reward Avas offered for
him, dead or alive. At the organization of this government,
he warmly approved of Alexander Hamilton's views, and hence
he liecame the leader of tlie Federal party in this section of
country, during the administrations of Washington and the
elder Adams. He frequently ]-epresented this county in the
State Legislature ; was a member of the First Congress of the
United States, which met in New York City, and also a men -
l>er of Congress from 1790 to 1798. For a mimber of years,
he was a Judge, and a Jnstice, and likewise County Treasurer.
His wife was Sarah Hancock, daughter of Judge William Han-
cock, who was massacred in his own house at Hancock's Bridge,
in 1778 by the British troops. Thomas Sinnickson resided the
greater part of his life in the town of Salem. I tliink he, or
his father bought lands of John Mason, and he built the house
where Jonathan Ingham lives at present, and made it his home.
He was a merchant in the early part of his life. His place of
business was where is now the Drug store of Eakin & Ballinger.
He died at an advanced age, leaving a widow who survived him
several years. Having died intestate, a large real and personal
estate was left to be divided among his numerous relatives. * An-
drew Sinnickson, 4tli, son of Andrew and Sarah Sinnickson, wf.s
born 2d of 3d montli, 1749. He had four wives ; the first Avas Mar-
garet, daughter of Henry Bilderback. By her he had two sons —
Henry and Andrew Sinnickson, Stli. Henry Sinnickson married
Elizabetli the daughter of Andrew McCollan, by whom he had
one son — John M. Sinnickson, who married Ann the daugliter
of Jonathan Dallas, of Port Elizabeth. Tliey had three cliil-
dren, two sons and one daugliter — Henry, Dallas and Elizabeth.
Henry Sinnickson married Harriet Wells, of Woodbury. He
was the secjond Mayor of Salem. Dallas, the second son of John
M. and Ann Sinnickson married Mary E. Sinnickson, daughter
of Jolm and Rebecca K. Sinnickson. Elizabeth Sinnickson
married John Johnson, son of James Johnson, of Lower Penn's
Neck. He died in n few years after their marriage, leaving a
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widow and one son, James I). Johnson, who are both deceased.
Andrew Sinniekson, 5th, married Margaret Walker. Thej
liad four sons and two daughters — Henry, Kobert, Thomas,
Andrew, ]\[aria, and Catharine Sinniekson; the oklest son Henr}',
died in infancy. Thomas married Chirrisa M. Stretch, daughter
of Daniel Stretch, in 1821, by her there were three sons and six
daughters — Ilannali Ann, Margaret, Robert, Ruth, Thomas,
Maria, and Jane, who died young; Andrew likewise died in
infancy. Hannah Ann married Henry D. Colley, and has four
children — Henry, Mary, Georgianna and Margaret Colley. Mar-
garet Sinniekson married in San Francisco. Robert is unmar-
ried and is a ])rinter by occupation. Tliomas married Caroline,
daugliter of Benjamin Lloyd. They have one son — Lloyd Sin-
niekson. Maria married Wesley Stretch; they had one daughter —
Clara Stretch. Kate is unmarried.
Robert, the third son of Andrew Sinniekson, married Tabitha
Burton, in Arkansas, 1816. He died in a short time, leaving
one son — x\.ndrew Jackson Sinniekson. The widow and child
reside in MacDonough County, Missouri. Maria Sinniekson
married Joseph B. Chew, wdio came from an old and respecta-
ble family of Gloucester county. They had eight children —
Arabella, Cliarles, Henrietta, Sinniekson, Edwin, Joseph R.,
Henry and Mary Cliew. Aral)ella married AVilliam Penn Chat-
tin ; they have one daughter — Hannah Maria Chattin. Charles
married Elizabeth King; they have six children. Henrietta
married John the oldest son of Calvin Belden ; they have three
children, one son and two daughters. Edwin Chew's wife was Eliz-
abetli Hewes ; they have three daughters. Sinniekson Chew is a
printer l)y trade, he was for a few years, a partner with AVilliam
S. Sharp, in publishing the " National Standard ;" but has for
several years edited and pnblished a paper in the city of Cam-
den ; he was three years Clerk for the Legislature of New Jer-
sey. He married Sallie, the daughter of Samuel W. ]V[iller, of
Tapper Alloways Creek. Joseph R. Chew, Jr., married Corne-
lia Mulford, and Mary married Thomas Dunn, of Salem. Henry
Chew married Marietta Fogg, daughter of James Fogg, of
Salem. Andrew Sinniekson married in Windsor, State of New
York, in 1858; died without issue. Caroline Sinniekson mar-
ried Eli Sharp, and had eleven children — William, (Benjamin F.,
and Sinniekson deceased,) De Witt Clinton, Harriet, Irene,
(Maria, and Eli deceased,) Louisa G., Elizabeth R., and Kate
Sharp. William's occupation is that of a printer. He was the
Editor and Publisher of the Salem "Standard," for a number
of years; at this time he publishes a paper in the city of Tren-
SINNICKSOK FAMILY. 193
ton ; lie married Indiana Leatlierbnry, from Maryland. De
Witt Clinton Sharp, married Ann Waddington, they have two
children — Kate and Eli Sharp. Harriet Sharp married William
Davis ; they have four children — Sallie, Clinton, Lonisa, and
Harriet, the others are unmarried. Andrew Sinnickson's sec-
ond wife was Margaret Johnson, daughter of Robert and Mar-
garet Morgan Jolmson ; tlie latter M'as a native of the town of
Chester, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, a descendant of a
Quaker family of that State, and was herself a member of that
society. Margaret Morgan fearing the distance which would
separate her from iier family and friends, if she should marry
and reside in Salem, at first declined the offer of Robert John-
son's hand. Impelled possibly by disappointment he made a
tour in Europe. On his return his ship stopped at Chester
where he recognized a slave of the Morgans, who told him that
his young mistress was still unmarried. Mr. Johnson renewed
his addresses, was accepted and shortly afterward they were
married.
The late Judge Thomas Sinnickson, a few years before his
death, invited me to walk in the Friends' grave yard, in Salem,
with him, to point out the grave of his grandmother, it having
been the first grave there to wliicli a marble monument had
been placed. It was put there by the direction of her husband
Robert Johnson, Sr., and merely mentioned the time of her
death, and her age. Andrew and Margaret J. Sinnickson had
four children, three sons and one daughter ; their names were
Mary, Robert, Thomas and John Sinnickson. Robert Sinnick-
son died in Pliiladelphia in 1803, unmarried. Mary married
John, the son of John and Millicent Smitli, of Alio ways Creek ;
they had three children — TJiomas S., Margaret J., and Mary
Smith. Thomas S. Smitli married Mary, daughter of Morris
and Sarah Hancock ; tliey have two children — Maria and
Thomas Smith, Jr. Margaret J. Smith married Edward G.
Prescott, son of Judge William Prescott, of Boston. She was
killed by a railroad accident in 1856, and left no children.
Mary Smith married Oliver B. Stoughton, of Salem ; they
have two children — Mary and Margaret Stoughton. Her
liusband has been deceased several years. Tliomas Sinnickson
married Elizabetli, the daughter of John and Mary B. Jacobs,
of Chester Valley, Pennsylvania. The Jacobs were an old
family of that place ; his wife, Mary Brinton, belonged to an
ancient, respectable and wealthy family of that name of Chester
county. Elizabeth Jacobs was a member of Friends' Meeting
at the time of her marriage, Thomas Sinnickson and his wife
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194 SIJSTNICKSON FAMILY,
Elizabeth liad four children, three sons and one daughter —
John, Charles, AndreAv and Margaret Sinnickson. John, the
oldest son, is a physician, unmarried. Charles, the second son,
married Caroline Perry, the grand-daughter of Jacob Hufty, of
Salem. Jacob Iluf ty was a self-made man ; raised liimself
to distinction by his own exertions, and was Sheriff of the county
of Salem at one time. I think that at the time of his death he
was a member of Congress. Cliarles Sinnickson and his wife
have two sons — Cliarles and Thomas Sinnickson. Andrew is
Counseller-at-Law, he married Louisa Booth, of Reading, Penn-
sylvania. They have two daughters. Margaret J., the daugh-
ter of Thomas Sinnickson, married Thomas Jones Yorke, and
has by him live children — Mary, Lizzie, Thomas J., Margaret
and Caroline Yorke. Judge Sinnickson had the misfortune to
lose his amiable wife when she was little more than middle age,
some twenty years before his death. He was Judge of the
court for many years ; was at one time a member of Congress ;
and sustained an excellent character in the community in which
he dwelt. He was a native of the township of Lower Penn's
Neck, but resided in Salem for nearly eighty years.
John Sinnickson, the youngest son of Andrew and Margaret
J. Sinnickson, was active both in body and mind. He, like his
brother Thomas, was above common men in muscular strength.
His first wife was Mary Howell, the daughter of Dr. Ebenezer
C. Howell. She was considered an accomplished lady, and was
unusually comely in appearance. John and his wife had four
children — Harriet, Robert, Thomas and William H. Sinnickson.
Harriet H. Sinnickson married in 1838, Jonathan Ingham, son
of Samuel D. Ligham, of Pennsylvania, a man that stood high
in his native state, and the possessor of superior abilities. At
one time he was a member of Andrew Jackson's Cabinet.
Jonathan and his wife have four children — George Trenchard,
Sarah A., William Henry and Mary Rebecca Ingham. Thomas
Sinnickson married Adeline Wood, daughter of John S. and
Sarah Ann AVood, of Cumberland county ; they have two chil-
(li-en — John and Mary Sinnickson. Robert and William Henry
Sinnickson died unmarried. John Sinnickson's second wife was
Rebecca K., the daughter of Clement and Rebecca Hall, by
whom he had three children — John Howard, Mary E. and
Clement Hall Sinnickson. J. Howard married S. E. Foreman,
of Freehold, Monmouth county, l)y whom he had three children
— Fanny, Harriet J. and John Foreman Sinnickson. Mary E.
Sinnickson married Dallas Sinnickson before mentioned. Clem-
ent H. married Sarah M. Smith, daughter of Lewis P. and
SINNICK80N FAMILY. 195
Henrietta Hancock Smith. He is at the present time (1876)
a member of Congress. Colonel John Sinnickson died in
1862, of a lingering disease, after an active and nsefnl life.
He was a farmer by occupation and resided the greatfer part of
his life in the township of Lower Penn's Neck, on the property
he inherited from his father. Some years before his death he
removed to Salem, and at that place ended his days. He repre-
sented his county in the State Legislature, and at one period of
his life ocicupied a seat on the bench as Judge and Justice.
Andrew Sinnickson's third wife was Sarah Sinnickson, widow of
Andrew Sinnickson, the grandson of John Sinnick, the brother
of Sinnick Sinnick. She was the daughter of Joseph Copner,
and had one son by her first husband, named Sinnick Sinnick-
son, who inherited a large real estate from his father, adjoining
Fenwick Point, in Lower Penn's Neck. He married a young-
woman in Burlington county by the name of Bruer, sister of
Richard Bruer. Sinnick Sinnickson and liis wife had four
children, named James, Joseph, Richard and Mary Sinnickson.
Mary is deceased at this time, and was never married. —
Richard removed to Cincinnati, and went into business with
the Longworth family, in the manufacture of wine, and it
is said became a millionare. James, I think, resides in
Penn's Neck at tliis time. Andrew, 4th, and his wife, Sarah
Copner Sinnickson, had one daughter, whose name was Ann
Sinnickson. She subsequently married Sheppard Blackwood.
They liad four children — Joseph, Eliza, Jane and Margaret
Blackwood. Eliza married Thomas D. Bradway, son of
Thomas and Isabella Bradway, and had three children —
Thomas, Charles and Isabella Bradway. Joseph Blackwood
married a young woman by the name of Sheppard, a native of
Cumbei-land county, and had several children. Jane Blackwood
married Benjamin Acton, Jr., of Salem. From this union there
were six children — Thomas W., Annie, Lizzie, Frank M., Louisa
and Charles H. Acton. Tliomas and Annie died single. Lizzie
married Dr. B. A. Waddington, son of James Waddington;
she is now deceased, leaving no offspring. Margaret Black-
wood, the youngest daughter of Sheppard and Ann Blackwood,
married Charles Cass Clark, the son of the late Dr. Clark, of
Cumberland county ; they have two children — Ciiarles C, Jr.,
and Emma Clark. Ann's second husband was Jolm Simpson,
of Salem, the son of James Simpson. Jolm died recently at
an advanced age, and was remarkable through a long life
for his honesty of dealing with his fellow men and was
greatly respected by his fellow citizens. His wife died a few
196 SINNICK.SON FAMILY,
years ago of a long and tedious disease. They had no issue.
Andrew Sinnickson's fourth ^\dfe was Elizabeth, the youngest
daughter of Thomas Norris, of Salem ; they had two daughters —
Rebecca and Sarali Sinnickson. Rebecca married Edward, the
son of Judge John Smith and Temj^erance Keasbey Smith,
They had three children — two sons and one daughter. Edward
and family subsequently removed from Salem, to the western
part of Pennsylvania, or to one of the Western States, I am
not certain which. Joel Fithian, of Cumberland married Sarah ;
tney had two sons and three daughters. They removed to one
of the Western States. Andrew Sinnickson was an ardent
Whig. During the American Revolution he raised a company
of men, commanded them at the battles of Trenton and Prince-
ton. After the war was over he held a commission as Judge
and Justice, and lived to an old age, and was greatly respected.
His death occurred in 1819, much regretted by his lai-ge family.
John Sinnickson, his brother and the youngest son of Andrew
and Sarah Sinnickson, married Susan, daughter of Daniel Bil-
derback. They had one son, Frank, who died a young man
unmarried, and a daughter, Esther Sinnickson, who subsequently
married Dr. Thomas Rowan, of Salem. They never had any
children. John's second wife was a widow named Delfant,
daughter of Dr. Jonathan McWright, of East Jersey. Tiiey
had no issue. He died a widower at Biddle's hotel in Penn's
JS^eck after a short illness, leaving to his heirs one of the largest
landed estates in the county. Eleanor, the second daughter of
Andrew and Sarah Sinnickson, married William Mecum. They
had seven children — George, Andrew, Sarah, Mai-garet, Rebecca
and Ellen Mecum. William, George and Ellen died unmarried ;
Andrew Mecum married Ann, daugliter of James Wright.
They had one son, James AVriglit Mecuin, who subse(jucntly
married Lydia Ann Ilai-rison. They have several chihh'en.
Sarah Mecum had three husbands — Robert Clark, Captain Wil-
liam Medliam, of New Castle county, Delaware, and a tliird.
She had no children. Margaret Mecum, daughter of William
and Eleanor Sinnickson Mecum, married Antrim Connarroe, a
descendant of Roger Connarroe, who emigrated from tlie county
of Devonshire, England, and landed at Elsinborough Point in
1681, with his wife Elizabetli Stevenson, Connarroe and several
other emigrants.* Roger and his wife settled at Salem, and at
* Roger spelled his name Conars. Isaac Conars, one of his descend-
ants, removed to Burlington county in 1740. Thomas Connaroe, great-
grandfather of the present George M., Esq., of riiiladelphia, was tlie
lirst, who changed the spelling to the present style.
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that town they ended their days. Some of tlieir descendants
afterward removed to Burlington county. Antrim and his wife
Margaret Connarroe had one son and four daugliters — George,
Sarah, Mary, Margaret and lieljecca Connarroe. George, early
in life, removed to the city of Philadelphia. His wife is Char-
lotte West; they have three children — George, Maria an
Ellen. When quite young he displayed a natural genius for
the fine arts, and has succeeded admirably in landscape and por-
trait painting ; so much so that he is a credit to the county wliich
gave him birth. Sarah Connarroe married Archibald Little,
and had seven children. Mary Connarroe's husband was Abra-
ham Johnson, the second son of James Jol^ison, of Lower
Penn's Neck. They have three chihlren. They removed to
Erie county, Pennsylvania. Margaret's hus])and was George
Rumsey, who, I think, was a native of Wilmington, Delaware.
He came to Salem a young man, and after a few years became
a successful mercliant. lie appeared to prosper in all his under-
takings, and the public had great confidence in his judgment.
He was elected Cashier of Salem Bank, which ofHce he tilled to
the credit of the institution until the close of his nseful life.
George Rumsey and his wife Margaret had one son, Henry M.
Rumsey, who married Maria, the daugliter of Benjamin and
Mary Bassett. Rebecca Connarroe married a youug man by
the name of Lawrence ; they had no issue.
Mary Sinnickson, the eldest daughter of Andrew and Sarah
Sinnickson, and sister of Eleanor Mecum, married George
Trenchard, Jr. I think they had two daughters — Jane, wlio
died unmarried, and Rebecca, who subsequently married James
Kinsey. Tiiey had no children, and ended their days in Salem
at the residence where Jonathan Ligliam lives at this time.
Sarah, the youngest daugliter of Andrew and Sarali J. Sinnick-
son, married Dr. Samuel Dick, of Salem, New Jersey.
Among the patriotic men of tlie last century, wlio took an
active part in troublous times of our country, was Dr. Samuel
Dick, of Salem, New Jersey. Dr. Samuel Dick was of Scotch-
Irish descent ; his paternal grandfather was a Presbyterian min-
ister, and resided in the north of Ireland. His father, John
Dick, married Isal)ella Stewart, a Scotch lady of superior mind
and cultivation. It is supposed that John Dick and his wife
came to America between the years of 1730 and 17-iO. Samuel
Dick, their third child, the subject of this memoir, was born
the lith day of llth month, 1740, at Nottingham, Prince
George's county, Maryland. His father, John Dick, in 174:6
was settled in New Castle, Delaware, as minister of tlie Presby-
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terian Church in that phice, and the churches in the vicinity,
until his death in 1748. His son, Samuel Dick, was educated
by President Samuel Finly, Governor Thomas M. Kean and
Dr. McWhorten, and under their pupilage, laid the foundation
of a classical knowledge, whicli few in our country have sur-
passed. He spoke and wrote five different languages besides
his own witli ease and correctness — Hebrew, Greek, Trench,
Spanish and Latin. His medical education, according to the
State medical report, was received at one of the medical schools
of Scotland. He served in Canada, in the Colonial army as
Assistant Surgeon, in tlie French war, which was terminated in
1760, by the conquest of that province by the English, and was
present at the surrender of Quebec. In 1770 he came with his
mother to Salem, New Jersey, and settled there as a Physician,
and purchased property on Fenwick street, corner of Walnut
street, and there he ended his days ; his descendants occupy it
at the present time. It is an ancient and substantial brick build-
ing built in 1730. In 1773 Dr. Dick married Sarah Sinnickson,
the youngest daughter of Judge Andrew Sinnickson, of Penn's
Neck. In 1776 he was a member of the Provincial Congress
of New Jersey, and was one of the committee of iive appointed
to pi-epare a draught of the Constitution of the State, and by
that Cona'ress was also given a commission as Colonel of the
militia, in which character he was an active and zealous officer
in the Kevolutionary War. In 1780 Dr. Dick was appointed
Surrogate of Salem county, by Governor Livingston, who higldy
esteemed him both as an officer and a man. This office he held
for twenty-two years. In 1783 Dr. Dick was elected by the
State of New Jersey to represent them in the Congress of the
United States of America, and was a member of Congress
when the treaty was ratified the llth of 1st month, 1784, by
which Great Britain acknowledged our independance. [See
Journal of Congress, Vol. IX, page, 21, 22-30.] In the years
1783, 1781, 1785 w^as a member of Congress held at Annapolis,
New York, and Philadelphia, and was selected by Congress
with others, to transact important business. He was made one
of the committee in 1781, consisting of Jefferson, Blanchard,
Gerry, Howell, Sherman, De AVitt, Dick, Hand, Stone, William-
son and Read, to revise the institution of the Treasury Depart-
ment, and report such alteration as they might think proper.
He was also a member of tlie Committee of the States, to sit
during the recess of Congress, consisting of some of the first
men of the country as to talents and influence. He was also
appointed by Congress on other committees, which showed
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the estimation in whicli he was held as to aljility and integrity.
In private life Dr. Dick was greatly respected in word and
deed, and was never known to speak ill of any person ; the
latter is inscribed on his tomb stone in the Episcopal CJnirch
yard, in Salem, New Jersey. His character is described ])y one
that knew him, in these words : " He was a man of brilliant
" talents and great requirements, refined taste, and polished
" manners, a skillful surveyor and physician ; a profound
" scholar, a discerning politician and zealous patriot." He
departed this life in Salem, IGtli of 11th month, 1812, leaving
a widow and six children ; their names were Sarah, Isabella,
Anna, Samuel Stewart and Maria Dick ; all of whom are
deceased. His only descendants now living are the children
and grand-children of his daughter Isabella, who married in
1804, Josiah Harrisson, a lawyer, now deceased. Josiah and
Isabella D. Harrisson had four children, all of them were
daughters. Maria and Henrietta Harrisson are single woman.
Lydia Ann Harrisson married James W. Mecum ; they liave
four children — George, Ellen, Maria H. and Charles Mecum.
Julia Harrisson married Robei't Carney Johnson ; they have
one son — Henry Harrisson Johnson.
Sarah, the daughter of Sinnick Sinnickson, Sr., married a
person l)y the name of Pichai-d. It does not appear that she
left any issue. Anna Sinnickson, Sarali's youngest sister,
married a person by the name of Peterson, who was also of
Swedish origin. They left children, but their record has not
l)een handed down to the present generation. John Sinaker
and his wife Ann Gilliamson Sinnickson had three children —
Sarah, Elizabeth and Sinnick Sinnickson. The latter liad one
son, Andrew Sinnickson, who subsequently married Sarah
Copner, daughter of Joseph Copner, of Lower Penn's Neck.
They had one son — Sinnick Sinnickson. Reference to his
wife and children have been made previously. Sarah Sinnick-
son, the eldest daughter of John and Ann G. Sinnickson,
married William Philpot ; they had issue. Their two grand-
sons, William and Francis Philpot came into possession of a
large landed estate, located in the township of Penn's Neck,
])ordering on Salem creek. They parted with it more than
fifty years ago and left their native county and located in one
of the Southern States. Elizabeth Sinnickson, sister of Sarah
Philpot, married Dennis Murphy ; they had three children —
John, Sarah and Catharine. Her second husband was Hobert
McCasson, and had three children — Joseph, Margaret and
Mary McCasson. Elizabeth's third husband was Ricliard Fitz-
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gerald ; there was no issue. John Murphy, tlie son of Dennis
and Elizabeth S. Murphy, died a young man unmarried. His
sister Sarah married Jolm Po\yers, and had iiye children —
Catharine, Eleanor, Samuel, Judith and Mary Powers. Cath-
arine died young, leaving no issue. Eleanor married Thomas
Dunn ; the Dunn's are an old family in Penn's Neck. Soon
after the reyocation of the edict of the Nantes by the order of
Louis Xiy. in 1684, many Huguenots emigrated to this country
to ayoid religious persecution. There were two brothers,
Zaccheus and Thomas Dunn, most probably natives of one of
the Rhenish Provinces, either Alsace or Lorraine, emigrated
to tliis country. Zaccheus settled in tlie upper part of Piles-
grove. He liad a son Zaccheus Dunn, born 2d of 12th
month, 1698. Seven of his children lived to grow up and rear
families. Thomas Dunn, liis brother, loc^ated himself in Penn's
Neck, and liad numerous descendants. He purchased 100 acres
of land of William Penn in 1689, which was surveyed to liim
by Richard Tindell ; the said lands joined Hans Corneleus and
widow Hendricks near Finn's Point. Thomas was a Calvinist,
and some of his descendants with the Copners and other fami-
lies organized tlie Presbyterian Church near Pennsville. His
brother Zaccheus became a memljer of the Society of Friends,
Thomas and Eleanor Dunn had three children — Sarah, Eliza-
beth and Mary Ellen Dunn.
Samuel Powers' wife was Rebecca Hancock; they had five
children — Catharine, Margaret, Georgiana, Atwood and John
Powers. Judith Powers married Ephraim Shaw. They had
issue. Mary, the youngest daughter of John and Sarah Powers,
married John G. El well, they had one daughter — Elizabeth
Elwell. Catharine, the youngest daughter of Dennis Murphy,
married John Patterson, and their children were — Martin, Mar-
garet, Elizabeth, Ann, William and Jane Patterson. Martin
Patterson's wife was Elizabeth, daughter of David Fogg, for-
merly a resident of Upper Alloways Creek. They have four
dauirhters — Mary, Elizabeth, Margaret and Martha Patterson.
Margaret, the daughter of John and Catharine Patterson, mar-
ried John Callahan. Their issue was Jolm, William and Sam-
uel Callahan. Catharine's second Imsband was Richard Sparks.
She had two daughters by her last husband — Jane and Anna
Sparks. The husband of Elizabeth, daughter of John and
Catharine Patterson, was Samuel Garrison. Their issue was
one daughter — Hannah Garrison. Ann Patterson married Ja-
cob Dubois, and left two children — John and Caroline Dubois.
William Patterson, their second son, married Lydia Ann Good-
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win. They had three children. "William's second wife was
Mary Finlaw, by wliom he had two children — Horatio and Lucy
Patterson. Jane Patterson married Joseph Shourds. Their
children are William and Sarah Shourds. William Murphy,
the son of Dennis and Elizabeth Sinnickson Murphy, married a
young woman by the name of Berry. Theii* children were
Sarali, Elizabeth, Thomas and John Murphy. The Sinnickson
family, for three generations after their settlement in New
Sweden, married with the Scandinavian race. It is evident by
the family record tliat their first connection in marriage with
the English emigrants was with Thomas Miles. The Gill John-
sons, who early connected themselves with the Sinnicksons by
marriage, were Swedes. Circumstances clearly indicated that
they were of tlie first families that settled at the mouth of the
Christine. In 1693 there were two of that family resident in
Penn's Neck, Erick Gill Jonsson and William Gill Jonsson as
they spelled the name of Johnson at that period. The Sinnick-
sons, as a family, have maintained a respectable standing for
more tlian seven generations in this county.
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SHEPPARD FAMILY.
The Slieppard family is the most nmnerous of any, excepting
the Thompsons, in the ancient connty of Salem. There were
three brothers — David, Thomas and John Slieppard; the}'- came
from Tipperary, Ireland. On their arrival in America, they
probably resided for a short time at Shrewsbury, East Jersey.
In 16S3 they settled in what is now Cumberland connty, on the
South side of the Cohansey, it being a neck of land bounded on
the north by tlie Cohansey river, on the south by a small creek
called Back creek. It is not improbable that they gave it the
name of Shrewsbury Neck, after the township in East Jersey,
where they first settled. The Sheppard family, I have no doubt,
were English ; their name implies as much. The Sheppards
were meml)ers of the Baptist Church of Cleagh Keating, in the
county of Tipperary, Ireland. They were also among the few
persons that organized the First Coliansey Baptist Church, in 1690,
at Shrewsbury Neck. Da\dd Sheppard's iirst known purchase
was fifty acres of land of Captain William Dare, he afterward
purchased fifty acres, on which he lived and died. I have no
doubt he became the owner of a large quantity of land in the
Neck.
The Sheppard, Westcott and Reeves families, during the last
century and the fore part of the present, were the principal
owners of Back and Shrewsbury Necks. David Sheppard, Sr.,
agreeable to the most authentic account, had six children — David,
born as early as 1690 ; John, Joseph, Enoch, Hannah and Eliza-
beth Sheppard. Hannah married a young man named Gilman.
She died 1T22, leaving one son — David Gilman. John, the son
of David Sheppard, Sr., died about the year 1716, without issue,
leaving his property to his brothers and sisters. David, the
son of David Sheppard, the emigrant, was born about the
year 1690, and inherited the homestead property of his father,
in Back Neck. He married about 1719. The children of David
Sheppard, Jr., and his wife, Sarah Sheppard, were Philip, born
1720; Ephraim, born 1722; David, 1721; Joseph, 1727, and
Phebe Sheppard. Philip, the eldest, inherited a large landed
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estate in Back Neck, on which he resided. The property is now
owned by one of the heirs of the hite Epln-aim Mulford. Phihp
was twice married, his lirst wife was Mary , his second Sarah
Bennett. He was considered one of the largest and most snc-
cessf nl farmers in that neighborhood. Tradition has it that he
was the first, in that section, that owned a covered wagon. I
do not suppose that it was an elliptic spring carriage, but plain
as it was I have no doubt it was considered by the inhabitants a
great innovation. It was then the custom to travel on horse-
back. Philip died 5th of 1st month, 1797, aged seventy-seven,
leaving a large real and personal estate to his children. His
widow, Sarah Sheppard, married John Remington, in 1801.
Philip was buried in the Baptist cemetery, near Sheppard's
mill ; he was a deacon in the church, and was considered one of
the most prominent citizens in that section of Cumberland
county. The inventory of his personal property at the time of
his death amounted to £580 and 6s. His children by his fij'st
wife, Mary, were Amos, Hannah, Mary and Naomi Sheppard.
By his second wife Sarah B. Slieppard — Ichabod, Harvey, Pliebe
and Williani Sheppard. Ephraim, the son of David Sheppard,
Jr., born 1722, was married three times. His first wife was
Kesiah Kelsey; his second was Sarah Dennis; third, Rebecca
Barrett. He lived in Hopewell township, on the road from
Bowentown to Roadstown, and was owner of a large landed
estate in that section ; leaving at his death large farms to all four
of his sons, all adjoining one another on the straight road from
Bridgeton to Roadstown. He was a highly respected citizen,
and like his brother Pliilip, was one of the deacons of Cohansey
Church. He died 8th of 5th month, 1783, «ged sixty years, and was
l)uried in the Baptist yard adjoining the clnirch, near Sheppard's
mill, by the side of his wife Sarah Dennis, who died 21st of 1st
month, 1777. She died in her fifty-first year. His third wife,
Rebecca Barrett, survived him twenty years. Slie was buried
at Shiloh, being a Seventh-day Baptist. Ephraim had ten chil-
dren, all by his second wife, Sarah Dennis. The oldest was
Joel, born 1718; Abner, born 28th of 5th month, 1750; James, born
25th of 12th month, 1752 ; Hannah and Rachel. Phebe married
Wade Barker, who was the grandson of Samuel Wade, Jr., of
Alloways Creek. She died young leaving no issue. Wade was
buried in the old Baptist yard at Mill Hollow, near Salem.
Sarah, Elizabeth and Hope Sheppard, who afterward married
Reuel Sayre, were the other children. Sayre subsequently
moved to the State of Ohio. Ephraim's youngest child was
Ephraim Sheppard. David, the son of David Sheppard, Jr.,
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was born in the year 1724. He married Temperance Sheppard,
daughter of Jonadab and Phebe Sheppard. They lived in the
township of Downe, Cumberhind county. He was a member of
Cohansey church, as was also his wife, and both became constit-
uent members of the Dividing Creek Baptist Church at its con-
stitution, 30th of 5th month, 1761 ; at that time he became
deacon of the church and afterwards a colleague of the pastor,
Samuel Heaton. David Sheppard died 18th of 6th month, 1774,
aged fifty years ; liis widow subsequently married a man by the
name of Lore. She was born in 1731 and died 28th of 7tli
montli, 1796, aged sixty-five years; she and her first husband,
David Sheppard, were buried at Dividing Creek Baptist grave-
yard. The following are the names of David and Temperance
Sheppard's children — Hosea, David, Owen, Jonadab, Tabitha,
Temperance and Mary Sheppard. Joseph, the son of David
Sheppard, Jr., was born in 1727 ; he married Mary Sa}Te. They
lived in Back Neck, and owned a large quantity of good land,
which he left to his children. I have been informed that most,
if not all, of said land has now passed out of their possession.
He also left a large personal estate for that time, amounting to
£647 and 12s. He and his wife were members of the Cohansey
Church. It seems he was a prominent man in that section. He
was chosen 22d of 12th month, 1774, one of the Committee of
Safety, for the county of Cumberland, to carry into effect the
resolutions of the Continental Congress, and in whose hands
rested the supreme authority after the war commenced, until
the formation of the new State Government gave an organized
power in ISTew Jersey. He died 8th of 1st month, 1782, aged
fifty-four years, and was buried on liis own farm in an old family
])urying ground, now long disused. His wife, Mary Sayre
Sheppard, died in 1790, aged fifty-eight years, and was buried
in tlie same yard. Their daughter Lydia, also lies there; all
three of them have tombstones at the liead of their gravies. This
family graveyard is an exception to the general rule. It was
the practice, in tlie early settlement of Fenwick's colony, to
have family burjdng grounds, but the plow lias passed over
nearly all of them, so no man kuowetli where many of our ances-
tors lie. I liave been informed that the ancient Swedish family,
the Sinnicksons, cleared tlieir old family graveyard a few years
ago, in Obisquahasett, and their intentions are to keep it in
good order — a noble deed. Dr. George B. Wood lias likewise
recently caused to be erected a monument to his great grand-
father, Richard Wood, who died in 1759, in the family grave-
yard in Stoe Creek township, county of Cumberland. Joseph
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Sheppard, the year before his death, built a large brick house
on his property, and died soon afterwards ; the house is still
standing, and the place is now owned by that enterprising cit-
izen, Richard Laning, the son of John Laning. The following
are the names of Joseph Sheppard's children : — David born
1758 ; Lydia, 1760 ; Paith, 17th of lltli month, 17G3 ; Isaac,
1766 ; Mary, and Lucy 11th month, 1773.
Amos, the son of Philip Sheppard, born about 1750, subse-
quently married Hannah Westcott, and died in 1788, at middle
age ; his widow married John Mulford. Josiah, the eldest son
of Amos and Hannah W. Sheppard, born 1-lth of 9tli month,
1778 ; his w^ife was Charlotte Westcott, daughter of Henry and
Jane Harris Westcott. He died ith of 10th month, 1850. His
son Henry was born 3d of 6th month, 1808, married and lives
in Fairfield township, near Cedarville ; they have a family of
children. Jane, the daughter of Josiah, born in 1811, and died
a young woman in 1828. Hannali, the daughter of Josiah and
Charlotte W. Sheppard, born 23d of 10th month, 1813, married
Ephraim Glaspey ; they have a family of children, and reside
near the city of Bridgeton. Harriet, the fourth child of Josiah
and Charlotte W. Sheppard, born 19th of 2d month, 1816, mar-
ried James Sheppard Kelsay in 1837 ; they have seven children.
Martha, the daughter of Amos and Hannah W. Sheppard, born
in 1780, subsequently married Charles Westcott, of Sayre's
Neck, Cumberland county. She and her husband afterward
moved to Covington, Kentucky, where she died in the winter of
1868, leaving children. Hannah, daughter of Philip and Mary
Sheppard, married Ephraim Shaw; they had three children —
Harvey, Mary and Lydia. Lydia, the j^oungest, in 1810 mar-
ried Henry Whitaker. They reside at Millville, and have a
large family of children, most of whom are married. Mary,
daughter of Philip and Mary Sheppard, never married, and died
17th of 5th month, 1799, aged about fifty years.
Naomi, daughter of Philip, married William Conner ; they
liad three children. Abigail, the eldest, born 31st of 8th
month, 1761, married Thomas Brooks in 1789 ; they had ten
children, Thomas died 16th of 9th month, 1829, and his widow,
Abigail Brooks, died 19th of 8th month, 1841, aged seventy-
seven years. Prudence, born 1766, and her first husband was
James Sheppard, son of Elias and Susanna Sheppard, (James
was a nephew of Mark Sheppard, who was one of the first of
the Sheppard family that became a member of the Society of
Friends.) Prudence had one daugliter by her first husband , James
Sheppard, which died in infancy. Her second husband was
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William Johnson. William and Prudence Johnson had eight
children. She died 2d of 9tli month, 1860 ; her last husband,
William Johnson, died 17th of 2d month, 1831. David Conner,
son of Naomi, left his native state and went to North Carolina,
and there married and had a large family of children. Ichabod,
son of Philip and Sarah Bennett Sheppard, born 11th of 12th
month, 1769, married Ruth Sheppard, daughter of Joel and
Hannah Jenkins Sheppard, (Joel was the cousin of Ichabod, being
the son of Ephraim Sheppard.) Ichabod and his wife had two
children — Phebe and Naomi. Ichabod died 22d of 4:th month,
1799, and his widow, Ruth Sheppard, married David Batoman,
a minister in the Baptist denomination ; they had three sons —
Isaac, Daniel and David Bateman. Ruth, their mother, departed
this life 29th of 7tli month, 1806. Soon after that event David
Bateman and his three sons — Isaac, Daniel and David — removed
to Ohio, where their children, or some of them, are still living.
Phebe, daughter of Ichabod and Ruth Sheppard, married 28th
of 3d month, 1819, John Reeves. There were two children by
tliat connection — one daughter living at this time in the city of
Bridgeton, and a son residing near Shiloh. Naomi, second
daughter of Ichabod and Ruth Sheppard, born 17th of 9th
month, 1800, and in 1817 she married Jonathan Young, who
was afterwards drowned at sea ; they had five children, all of
w^hom died young, excepting Lewis Young, who is a resident of
Bridgeton.
Harvey, son of Philip and Sarah B. Sheppard married in
1797, Hannah Smith, of Greenwicli, daughter of Isaac and Cyn-
thia Smith ; he had one daughter — Hannah, by his first marriage.
She married in 1818, John Test, the son of Francis Test, Jr.
Jolm and his second wife, Hannah S. Test, removed to Indiana.
He studied law, and was elected to Congress during Andrew
Jackson's administration. He was an uncle to Joseph Test,
wlio resides in Salem. The second wife of Harvey Sheppard was
Ruth Ogden, daugliter of Elmer and Charlotte Ogden, of Fair-
field township ; they had tln-ee cliildren — Philip, Abi and
Rntli. The third wife of Harvey Sheppard was Amelia Davis,
of Shiloh ; he and his last wife went west in 1818. Phebe,
daughter of Philip Sheppard, married Joseph Newcomb. Tliey
lived in Back Neck, and had two children — Joseph and Sarah
S. Newcomb. AVilliam, son of Philip Sheppard, born 29tli of
11th month, 1778, married 8th of 2d montli, 1803, Matilda
Westcott, daughter of Henry and Jane Harris Wcstcott ; they
had six children — Ichabod, William, Sarah, Harris, Phebe and
Elmer Ogden Sheppard.
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Joel, son of Epliraim and Sarah Dennis Slieppard, born in
1748, married Hannah Jenkins, who was born 1749 and died
in 1807 ; she left seven children, Dennis, Rnth, Sarah, Lydia,
Amy, Elizabeth and Renben Sheppard. Joel's second wife was
Letitia Platts, widow of David Platts and daughter of David
Oilman ; they had no issue. His third wife was Sarah Davis,
of Shiloh ; they had no children. Joel was deacon in the old
Cohansey Church, and was a large farmer, living in Hopewell
township, and was a prominent citizen. Dennis, son of Joel
and Hannah Sheppard, married a young woman by the name of
Ayars. They moved to one of the Western States in 1817.
Kuth, daughter of Joel Sheppard, married Ichabod, son of Philip
and a cousin of her father. Sarah, daughter of Joel and Han-
nah J. Sheppard, born 1775, married in 1799 Samuel Bond
Davis, son of Ehiathan and Susannah Bond Davis. Elnathan
was the greatest surveyor in his generation in this section of the
State, for many yenYS after the Revolution. The late Josiah
Harrison, of Salem, who died aged over ninety years, who was
a surveyor in his early life, told me a short time previous to his
death that he regarded Elnathan Davis as captain general of
the surveyors of Salem and Cumberland counties. Samuel B
and Sarah Davis had several children, one of whom, Jarman A.
Davis, lives in Shiloh, and is a Justice of the Peace. Lydia
Sheppard, daughter of Joel, married in 1804 Oswell Ayars ;
they had children but they are all deceased. Amy, daughter of
Joel and Hannah Sheppard, born 15th of 2d month, 1780 ; in
1803 she married Oliver Harris, son of Robert Harris. Oliver and
Amy Harris had seven children — Hosea, Hannah S., Mary, Eliza,
Samuel S. and Robert. Eliza was born 14th of 10th month, 1808,
and in 1826 married Hezekiah Johnson; they moved to Oregon
and are still living. One of tlieir children is Franklin Jolmson, I).
D., pastor of a Baptist Clnn'ch,at Newark, New Jersey. He is the
author of several commentaries on the International Sunday
School Lessons, now in general use. Samuel, son of Oliver
and Amy Harris, was born 24th of 11th month, 1813. Eliz-
abeth, daughter of Joel and Hannah Sheppard, in 1805 mar-
ried Eli Bereman. Soon after tlieir marriage they moved lo
Highland county, Ohio ; they had issue. Reuben, son of Joel
and Hannah Sheppard, married Elizabeth W. Dare. Reuben
and his wife moved to Oliio in 1817 ; they had one son — Wil-
liam Alfred Sheppard, who was a physician at New Viennji,
Clinton county, Ohio. He died in 1871, leaving children, one
of whom, Henry A. Sheppard, is a lawyer at Hillsboro, Ohio.
Abner, second son of Ephraim and Sarali Dennis Sheppard,
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born 28th of 5tli month, 1750 ; his iirst wife was Mary Dowd-
ney, who died about fifteen months after their marriage, leaving
one child. Abner's second wife was Ruth Panlin ; she died 1st
month, 1797. His third wife was Mary McGear, widow of John
McGear ; she died 29th of 4th month, 1809, and his fourth wife
was Elizabetli Fithian. Abner was a farmer, and lived in Hope-
well township the greater part of his life. At the time of the
American Kevolution he was in the Militia, and was in Colonel
Hand's regiment at the fight of Quinton's Bridge, and took
part in the battle; he died 12th of 3d month, 1824. The follow-
ing are the names of his cliildren — Mary, Ephraim, (who died
young,) Henry, Temperance, Phebe, Prudence, Delanali, Lafay-
ette, Ruth, Mary and Epliraim Elmer Sheppard.
James Slieppard, the son of Ephraim and Sarah Dennis Shep-
pard, was born 25th of 12th montli, 1752, His wife was Han-
nah Brooks, whom he married 23d of 1st month, 1774 ; she died
in 1777. His secjond wife was Keziah Barber ; they were mar-
ried in 1778. She died lltli of 6th month, 1824, and James,
her husband, 3d of 6th month, 1825. He was a deacon in Co-
hansey Baptist Church, a farmer and a large land owner in
Hopewell township, and had an excellent character for upright-
ness in his dealings with his fellow men, and was greatly re-
spected by all who knew him. The children of James and
Hannah B. Sheppard were David and Phebe Sheppard, and
by his second wife, Keziah Barber Sheppard, Hannah, Rachel,
Mary, Joseph, William, Prudence, Rebecca, Phebe and Hope.
Most of these children lived to grow up and marry. William,
the son of James Sheppard, born 30th of 7th month, 1785,
married 23d of 3d month, 1808, Ann Husted, daughter of
Henry and Ann Sheppard Husted, of Shrewsbury Neck. Wil-
liam was an ordained minister of the Baptist denomination, but
never had charge of a church. He was a farmer, and preached
as he had opportunity. They had thirteen children.
Hannah, the daughter of Ephraim and Sarah Sheppard, born
about 1754, married Daniel Moore ; she died about 1784. Rachel,
another daughter, born in 1761, married James Sayre, who was
wounded at the massacre at Hancock's Bridge in 1778. Ephraim,
son of Ephraim and Sarah, moved to Salem, and married Eliza-
1)eth, widow of John Challis, and mother of John and James
Challis; (the latter afterward became an ordained minister
among the Baptists.) Elizabeth Milbank, mother of these chil-
dren, was born at Waltham, England, 2d of 5th month, 1770.
Ephraim and his wife, Elizabeth M. Sheppard, had one daugh-
ter, Mary W., born in 1809.
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David, son of Joseph and Mary Slieppard, born 1^758, married
in 1783, Phebe, daughter of Providence and Sarah Ludlam ;
she died in 1799, leaving six children. Sarah, the eldest child,
married in 1803, William Walker, a resident of Upper Allo-
ways Creek, Salem county ; they had three children. Phebe
Walker, their eldest daughter, married Thomas Bilderback, of
Allowaystown ; they have children. William Sheppard, a son,
married Ann Stow, and lived on the homestead farm until his
death; since that event his widow and his daughters have
resided in Salem. Charles H. Walker owns and I'esides upon
the homestead farm.
Joseph, the son of David and Phebe L. Sheppard, born 9th
of 1st month, 1786, was elected pastor of the First Baptist
Church at Salem, in 1809, and was pastor of said church until
1829, and then removed to Mount Holly, where he continued as
pastor seven years, but his healtli failing him he resigned his
pastoral charge and moved to Camden. He never took another
pastoral charge, but preached occasionally when health per-
mitted ; he died in Camden in 1838, in the fifty-third year of
his age. His wife was Hannah F. Budd ; they had four chil-
dren — Mary, Phebe Ann, Hannah and Josephine Sheppard ;
they all married but Hannah. Phebe Ann lived in the state of
Georgia. Josephine lived in Washington, D. C, but died a
few years ago. David Sheppard's second wife was Miriam
Smith, widow of Isaac Smith ; she died in 1815, and David in
1827. He was a deacon of Cohansey Church, and was a promi-
nent citizen. For many years he lived on the homestead farm
in Fairfield township, but in later years he moved to Bridgeton,
and built a large brick mansion on the west side of the Cohansey,
where his son, Isaac A. Sheppard, lived and died. The dwelling
is now known as Ivy Hall Seminary for ladies. Providence
Ludlam, son of David Sheppard, born 21st of 2d month, 1788,
married Mary Letson, of New Brunswick, New Jersey. One
of their children, Ebenezer L. Sheppard, lives in Pittsgrove
township, and is a member and clerk of the Pittsgrove Baptist
Church. He has recently written and published a historical
sketch of that church. William Ludlam and David were twin
sons of David Slieppard, and were born 6th month, 1790.
William died in 1823, and never married. David, his brother,
studied for a physician, but died suddenly about the time he was
ready to commence the practice of his profession. Ercurius,
the son of David, married Martha Lupodius, of New Brunswick.
She is still living, but Ercurius is deceased. He left three chil-
dren — Mary, Sarah and Martha. Ebenezer, the son of David,
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born 23d of 7th month, 1798, died 6tli month, ISli. Maiy, the
daughter of David and Miriam Sheppard, liis second wife,
married in 1824, Jonathan J. Hann ; they had two children —
Maria and Mary Hann. The hitter married Joseph Moore,
homeopathic physician, of Bridgeton ; she died in 1860. Isaac A.
Sheppard, son of David, born in 1806, married 8th of 4th month,
1828, Jane H, Bennett ; she died in 1839, aged thirty-iive years.
Isaac's second wife was Hannah B. McLean, whom he married
in 1811, but she only lived a little over a year. His third wife
was Margaretta E. Little, who is still living ; they were married
in 1850. Isaac A. Sheppard died suddenly in his office in 1863,
having been found dead sitting in his chair. He was a deacon
of the First Baptist Church of Bridgeton. His oldest son,
Isaac A., born in 1829, died 11th of 4th month, 1832. Jane
B., daughter of Isaac A. Sheppard, born in 1831, married
in 1868, Horatio J. Mulford, the eldest son of the late Henry
Mulford, of Bridgeton. Horatio, with his brother Isaac W.,
and his sisters, were the originators and principal benefactors of
the South Jersey Institute, a school for both sexes, located in
Bridgeton. The cost of the building has been estimated at
§60,000. It has a fine corps of teachers, and has been in
operation six years, during which time it has established a
reputation equal to the best educational institutions in the
country. Horatio's wife, Jane Mulford, like her father, died
suddenly, and was found dead sitting in her chair, on the even-
ing of 9tli of 2d month, 1874. She was a woman of great
usefulness in the chm-ch and in the community, and her loss
was deeply felt by all. She left one child, a son, Horatio Jones
Mulford, Jr., who was born in 1869. There were seven other
children of Isaac A. Sheppard's — Miriam, Theodore, Francis,
Charles, Elizabeth, Frank and Frederick.
Isaac, son of Joseph and Mary Sheppard, born in 1766, mar-
ried Sarah, daughter of Jeremiah Bennett ; she died in 1797.
Isaac's second wife was Jane Harris Westcott, the widow of
Henry Westcott, and daughter of Ephraim and Jane Harris, of
Fairfield township. His tliird wife was Abigail B. Husted,
widow of Henry Husted, and daughter of Ichabod Bishop.
Isaac Sheppard died 16th of 12t]i month, 1815. He had five
children — Isaac, the eldest, never married ; Hemy, the second
son of Isaac and Sarah Sheppard, married 27th of 3d month,
1811, Eimice Westcott. Soon after their marriage they moved
to one of the Western States, and Henry died there. His
widow returned to her native state and died in 1868. They
had a family of children. Sarah, daughter of Isaac and Sarah
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Sheppard, bom 23d of lltli month, 1797, married I7th of 3d
month, 1819, Ehner Ogden; she died 21st of 12th month, 1853;
lie lives in Greenwich, and has several children, Ephraim,
the son of Isaac and Jane II. Sheppard, born 15th of 8th
month, 1801, married in 1819, Jane, daughter of Jehiel
and Mary Westcott ; she died in 1823. His second wife was
Mary, daughter of John and Mary B. Westcott, of Fairfield ;
she died in 1812, and he died 9th of 7th month, 1818. His
children by liis first wife were Ephraim, the eldest, who went
west, and died there ; and Elias Sheppard, who died young. —
Mary Jane, daughter of Ephraim and Mary Sheppard, mar-
ried Charles Campbell. Isaac Aplin Sheppard, son of Ephraim
and Mary Sheppard, went to Philadelphia to live, and subse-
quently was elected a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature
for several sessions. Isaac is the head of the great stove firm
of I. A. Sheppard & Company. Joseph, tlie son of Ephraim
Sheppard, married Sarah Flanagin, of Sculltown ; he now
lives in Camden county, between Haddonfield and Camden.
Lucy, the daughter of Joseph and Mary Sheppard, born in
11th month, 1773, married Isaac, son of Isaac and Judith
Wheaton, in 1792 ; Isaac was born in 9th month, 1769. By
that connection there were seven children — Joseph, the eldest,
born 17th of 3d month, 1795, died 3d of 3d month, 1871, never
married. Their second son. Providence Ludlam Wlieaton, born
21st of 4th month, 1798, died 1st of 3d month, 1867; his wife
was Ruth Foster; they had one son — Andrew Evans Wheaton,
who resides at Greenwich witli his mother. Mary Sheppard
Wheaton, the eldest daughter of Isaac and Lucy S. Wheaton
was born 20tli of 11th montli, 1799 ; she was the second wife
of Henry Mulford. Their three oldest children were Anna,
Maria, Hannah and Isaac W. Mulford. William Wheaton,
the son of Isaac and Lucy Wheaton, was born 18th of 4th month,
1801, is living in Hopewell township, and has a large family of
children. Isaac Wheaton, born 26th of 2d month, 1803, died
6th of 7th month, 1846, leaving no children. Hannah, the
daughter of Isaac and Lucy S. Wheaton, born 25th of 3d month,
in 1805, married in 1823 Gabriel Davis Hall, of Bacon's Neck,
son of Ebenezer Hall. Gabriel and his wife had several chil-
dren. She died 31st of 8th month, 1849.
Henry, son of Abner and Ruth Sheppard, was born in
1787, and married in 12th month, 1815, Margaret Lummis ; she
died 11th of 8tli month, 1817. Ilem-y's second wife was Sarah
B. Ogden, widow of John B. Ogden. They were married in
3d month, 1819 ; she died in 1858, and her husband, Henry
212 SHEPPAED FAMILY.
Sliepparcl, in 30th of 7th month, 1867. He was a hatter, and fol-
lowed the business many years in Bridgeton, wlierehe settled early
in life. He was postmaster for several years in that town. All
his children were by his second wife, Sarah B. Ogden. Jane
Buck, daughter of Henry and Sarah B. Sheppard, born 11th of
12th month, 1819, married in 1840, to Lorenzo Fisler Lee ; he
died 17th of 7th month, 184:8, leaving a widow and four
children — Henry Sheppard, Jr., born 8th of 11th month, 1821,
married 3d of dth month, 1845, Rhoda S. Nixon, daughter of
Jeremiah Nixon. A short time after their marriage they moved
to Springfield, Green county, Missouri ; and he has prospered
there. For many years he and his brother Charles did tbe
leading mercantile business of the place, but both have now
retired from active business. Henry commanded one of the
regiments of the militia of the state, and was out several times
during the Rebellion. That part of tlie state suffered much
from the war. They have four children — Francis Henry, John
Nixon, Mary Thompson and Margaret Sheppard. Charles, son
of Henry and Sarah Sheppard, born 5th of 9th month, 1823,
married 5th of 11th month, 1856, Lucy Dow, daughter of Ira
and Mary Dow, of East Hardwick, Yermont ; Charles and his
family are living at Springfield, Missouri ; he being cashier of
Greene County National Bank. There are three more children
of Henry Sheppard, Sr. — Sarah, Margaret and Josepli Ogden,
who reside in Bridgeton. Joseph is a physician, and during
the Rebellion for a time served as a surgeon in the army.
Ephraim Elmer, son of Abner and Mary Sheppard, born 2d
of 10th montli, 1804, married 1st of 5th month, 1828, Jane Eliz-
abeth Dare, daughter of David and Rebecca Fitliian Dare. —
They reside in Bridgeton. Ephraim was elected Clerk of the
county of Cumberland in 1852 and served to 1857. He was
appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said
county in 1863, and re-appointed in 1868, and was elected
Mayor of Bridgeton in the spring of 1873. His term expired
in 1876. Ephraim and his wife had eight children. Ephraim
Elmer, Jr., born 19th of 3d month, 1830, married 2d of 4th month,
1856, Cinderilla Maxson Bonham, daugliter of Ilezekiali Bon-
ham, of Sliiloh, They had several children, four of whom are
living. They reside at Elmer, Salem county. Elizabeth R.
Sheppard, born 6th of 4th month, 1832, married in 1850 George
W. Elwell. They live in Bridgeton, and have one son, Albert
Sheppard, born 17th of 3d month, 1853, who is a druggist.
Ruth N. Sheppard, daughter of Ephraim, born 2lst of 12t]i
month, 1834, is not married. David Dare Sheppard, son of
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Epliraim, born 15tli of 6tli mouth, 1836, married 18th of 10th
month, 1866, Cornelia All)ertson, daughter of Amos Buzby, of
Pilesgrove. He was in the dry goods business in Bridgeton
until 1870, when he moved to Springfield, Missouri, and went
into business with his brother, William 1). Sheppard, John
Caldwell Calhoun, son of Epln-aim Sheppard, born 23d of
4th month, 1840, married in 1861, Jane Elizabeth Smith, of
Philadelphia, and resides in that city. William D. Sheppard,
son of Ephraim, born 28th of 2d month, 1842, married 18th
of 3d month, 1869, Josephine M. Trull, daughter of ^Nathaniel
Trull, of North Tewsbury, Massachusetts. He moved to Spring-
field, Missouri, in the fall of 1866, and is in business with
his brother, David Sheppard. Enoch Fithian Slieppard, son of
Ephraim, born 21st of 8t]i montli, 1843, died in 1846. Charles
E., son of Ephraim and Jane Elizabeth Sheppard, born 1st of
11th month, 1846. He is a lawyer, and resides in Bridgeton.
The descendants of John and Thomas Sheppard, the emi-
grants from Ireland, are more difiicult to follow than the de-
scendants of David, the emigrant. John married, and his eldest
son, Dickinson, was born as early as 1685, and became a large
landholder. In 1722 he purchased 1,400 acres of land on the
south side of Antuxet creek. In the following year he made
another purchase of 1,600 acres adjoining his first purchase, all
in the township of Downe, Cumberland county. Dickinson and
his wife, Eve Sheppard, liad seven children — Patience, Stephen,
Dickinson, Jr., John, Jonadab, Ann and Eve Sheppard.
Mark Sheppard, son of Jolm, (probably the John wlio was the
son of Dickinson, and grandson of John, the emigrant,) was
born in 1728. His parents were members of the Baptist Church,
but he, when a young man, was convinced of the principles of
the Society of Friends, applied for membership, and was received
by the Society. By his first wife he had a daughter, Mary
Slieppard, who married James, son of John and Mary Stewart,
of Alloways Creek. She died young, leaving no issue. Mark
Sheppard's second wife was Mary Craven, whom he married in
1760. By that connection there were four children — Thomas,
born 12th of 11th month, 1764 ; Sarah, born 2d of 5th month,
1769 ; William, born 7th of 2d month, 1772, and Josiali, born
6th of 4th month, 1774. Mark Sheppard, the father, died tlie
16th of 5th montli, 1780, aged fifty-two years. During liis life he
resided in Bacon's Neck. His son, William Sheppard, afterward
married the widow of Ebenezer Hall, by whom he had fi\-e
children, as follows: William married a young woman at Shiloh,
a Seventh-day Baptist; Mary married Zebedee Clement; Charles
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married tlie daughter of Isaac Jones, of Conslioliocken ; Rich-
ard's lirst wife was Ann, daughter of Rachel Stewart, of Salem.
She died young, leaving one daughter, Rachel Ann, who married
Anthony Conard, near Wilmington, Delaware. She is deceased.
Richard's second wife is Martha Holmes, daughter of Samuel
Holmes, formerly of Upper Penn's Neck. Richard and his
wife live at this time at Westiield, Burlington county. Casper
W., the youngest son of William Sheppard, married the daugh-
ter of the late Henry Mulford. Casper died several years ago.
David Slieppard, who lived in Bacon's Neck, was probably a
brother of Dickinson. David and his wife, Ann Sheppard, had
six children — David, Abel, Thomas, Prudence, Lucy and Phebe.
David, their father, died in 17T1, and his son Abel succeeded
his father on the liomestead in Bacon's Neck. Abel and Abigail
Sheppard had nine children. Caleb, their son, born 1757, lived
in Bacon's Neck on his father's property during his life.
Job Sheppard, born 1706, was the lirst pastor of the Baptist
Church, at Mill Hollow, near Salem ; he died with the small-pox,
2d of 3d month, 1757, and was buried in the graveyard at that
place. He and his wife, Catharine Sheppard, had thirteen chil-
dren. Elnathan, their oldest son, married and lived in Hope-
well township, near the old Cohansey Church. Job Sheppard,
Jr., was born 6th of 7th mouth, 1735, married Rachel, daugliter
of Thomas Mulford, of Cumberland. Job and his wife lived in
Hopewell, near BowentoNvn. They had seven children. Belbe
Sheppard, son of Job and Catharine Sheppard, was born al^out
1737, married and resided in Alloways Creek. He died in 1761,
and from him the Sheppard family in Lower Alloways Creek
descend. Elizabeth, daughter of Job and Catharine Sheppard,
married, but died young and left no issue. Jemima Sheppard,
daugliter of Job, married and left no issue. Daniel, son of Job
and Catliarine Sheppard, married a young woman, a resident
of Salem. They had one son — Daniel Sheppard. Kerenhap-
puch, daughter of Job Sheppard,lived in Lower Alloways Creek.
Rebecca, daugliter of Job and Catharine Sheppard, married Jon-
athan Bowen, of Bowentown, she being his hrst wife. She died
y(ning, leaving one child, which died in infancy. Her husband was
the grandfather of the late Dr. William S. Bowen, of Bridgeton.
Catharine, daughter of Job, died when about sixteen years old.
Cumberland Sheppard, son of Job and Catharine, married Amy
Matlack, of Gloucester county. He lived and died there with
his wife. They had several children. Martha, daughter of
Job, married Isaac Mulford, of Hopewell. She did not live
more than a year or two after that event. She left one child.
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Keziali, daughter of Job and Catharine Sheppard, married Wil-
liam Kelsay. Robert Kelsay, their oldest son, followed tlie
sea. Daniel, their second son, married Grace Bacon, and had
one daughter, Tal)itha Kelsay, who married a man by the name
of Jerrell. They settled in one of the Western States. Daniel
Kelsay's second wife was Lovisa Mulford. They had two chil-
dren — Daniel Kelsay, Jr., who w^as a Baptist minister, and a
pastor of Pittsgrove Cluirch, and Maria Kelsay, who married
Noah Flaiiagin, and removed West. Daniel Kelsay's third wife
was Hannah, daughter of James and Keziah Sheppard. Tliey
had three children. Martha Kelsay, daughter of William and
Keziali, married Jacol) Richman, and lived in Greenwich, and
had four children — Joseph, Jonathan, Lydia and Mary. Rutli,
youngest cliild of Job and Catharine Sheppard, never married,
but died about the age of twenty-two years.
Moses, son of Thomas Sheppard, the emigrant, was born in
Fairfield township in 1698, and married in 1722, Mary, sister of
Philij) Dennis, of Bacon's JN'eck. Mary was born in 1701.
They had six children — Rachel, born 1723 ; Nathan, born 1726 ;
John, born 1730 ; Sarah, born 1732 ; Moses, Jr., born 1737,
and Mary D., born 1741. Moses was a prominent member of
the Baptist Church, but it is probable his wife inclined towards
the Friends, as her brother, Philip Dennis, was an influential
member of the Society, and a member of Cohansey meeting, as
it was then called. John Sheppard, their son, born 1730, sub-
sequently became a prominent member of the Society of Friends,
and married in 1756, Priscilla Wood, the youngest daughter of
Richard and Priscilla Wood, of Stoe Creek, Cumberland county.
Priscilla was born Irth of 3d month, 1731. Mark Reeve, in
1689, sold his lot of sixteen acres, it being on the east side of
tlie main street of Cohansey, adjoining the river, that he pur-
chased of the executors of John Fen wick in 1681, reserving his
family burying ground, where his wife, Ann Hunt Reeve, was
buried. Joseph Browne, a merchant in Philadelphia, purhcased
the property for £80, a considerable sum for such a small lot of
land at that period. The said Joseph Browne died in Philadel-
phia about the year 1711, leaving two sons — Josepli and Isaac.
The eldest afterward lived on his father's property, in Cohan-
sey, and a number of his descendants are at this time residents
of Cumberland and Salem counties. Joseph's widow was Mar-
tha Spicer, sister of Jacob Spicer, and was born in the state of
New York on the 27th of 11th month, 1676. In the year 1714
she married Thomas Chalkley, an eminent minister of tlie
Society of Friends, being his second wife. His first wife was
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Martha Betterson, of London, in which city they were married
in 1699. She died in Philadelphia in 1711. Joseph's youngest
son, Isaac, I believe, lived and died in London, England.
Joseph Brown, Jr., conveyed the lot in Coliansey to his father-
in-law, Thomas Chalkley, in 1738, and he to John Butler, who
sold it to Thomas Mulford. In a short time Mulford sold it to
"William Conover, and in the year 1760 Conover sold it to
John Sheppard, son of Moses and Mary Dennis Sheppard,
and the property is still owned by the Sheppard family.
John and Priscilla Wood Sheppard had six children, born as
follows : Rachel, 2d of 7th month, 1762 ; Mary, 4th of 11th
month, 1761 ; John, 29th of 1st month, 1767 ; Priscilla, 25th
of 11th month, 1769; Richard in 1771; Sarah, 22d of 8th
month, 1775, and Moses 3d of 2(1 month, 1777. John, son of
John and Priscilla W. Sheppard, married Mary, daughter of
Mark, son of Ebenezer Miller, deputy-surveyor for Fen wick's
Colony, after the death of Richard Tyndall. John and his wife
had ten children. Thomas R., born 29th of 4th month, 1789,
married Letitia, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Wistar
Miller, of Mannington. Thomas and his wife are deceased,
leaving one daughter — Sarah Sheppard, second wife of Sanmel
P. Carpenter. Mark Miller Sheppard, born 12th of 1st month,
1791, never married, and died 15th of 5th month, 1876, in his
eighty-sixtli year. Charles R. Sheppard, born 10th of 2d
month, 1793, died young. Benjamin Slieppard, born 14tli of
3d month, 1795, married Mary R. Saunders, daugliter of James
Saunders, of Woodbury. Benjamin and his wife had eight
children — Letitia, Samuel, Sarah, James, Morris, Mary, John
and Anna. Charles Sheppard, born 24th of 2d month, 1798,
married Rachel Redman Carpenter, daughter of William and
Mary R. Carpenter, of Mannington. They had two children —
William and Mary. The latter died young, and William
Sheppard married a young lady named Zerns, of Pennsylvania.
Tliey live in Mannington. Priscilla Wood Sheppard, born 15th
of 5th month, 1800, married John M. Reeve, of Burlington
county. He was the son of Josiali Reeve, a native of Shrews-
l)ury Neck, below Coliansey, and great grandson of Mark
Reeve, the emigrant. John and his wife Priscilla had ten
cliildren. The lirst wife of John E., son of John and Mary
Sheppard, born 25th of 11th month, 1802, was Ann Elizabeth
Wood, the eldest daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Bacon
Wood, of Greenwich. Their children are George and Elizabeth.
Elizabeth died young. George Wood Sheppard married Ruth,
daughter of Moses and Ann Sheppard. They have issue. John
SHEPPAKD FAMILY. 217
E. Slieppard's second wife is Margaret Garrett, The Garrett
familj'' is one of the oldest English families that first settled in
Pennsylvania. Their forefather came in the same vessel with
William Penn, and landed at Chester in 1682. John and
Margaret have three children — Philip G., Ann E. and Margaret.
Clarkson, the son of John and Mary Sheppard, born 14th of
4tli month, 1813, married Ann Garrett, daughter of Philip
Garrett ; Clarkson and Annie have three daughters living —
Rebecca C, Mary M. and Martha G. Clarkson's second wife
was Lydia Warrington, of Burlington county. He is a highly
esteemed minister of the Society of Friends. Richard, the son
of John and Priscilla W. Sheppard, born 1771, married Lydia
Foster, daughter of Josiali Foster, of Burlington county ; they
had seven children. Moses, the son of John and Priscilla Wood
Sheppard, married Rachel, the dangliter of Charles and Rebecca
Miller Bacon, of Bacon's Neck, Greenwich township. Rachel
Bacon's ancestors were among the first families in that part of
the colony. Her father, Charles Bacon, was the grandson of
John and Elizabeth Smith Bacon, one of the judges of the
Salem Courts for a number of years. His wife, Elizabeth, was
the youngest daughter of John Smith, of Smithfield, and
Rachel's mother was the youngest daughter of Ebenezer Miller,
Sr. ; she was born in the town of Greenwich, 17th of 3d montli,
1747. Moses and his wife, Rachel B. Sheppard, had two
children — Moses and Beulah ; the latter died young. Moses,
the son of Moses and Rachel B. Sheppard, married Ann, the
daughter of Job and Ruth Thompson Bacon ; they had three
daughters, as follows — Ruth, who married Goorge B. Sheppard ;
they reside in Stoe Creek township. Rachel, who married Job,
the son of John and Ann Bacon, of Bacon's Neck ; Rachel is
deceased, and left children, and Ann, who is not married.
Moses' second wife was from West Chester, Pennsylvania ;
they had no issue.
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SCULL FAMILY.
John Scull emigrated from Long Island about 1690, in com-
pany with others, who took up large tracts of land along the
sea shore. He was called a whaleman ; and a number of per-
sons at that time followed the Imsiness of catching whales from
Sandy Hook to the Capes of Delaware ; whales, at the first set-
tling of Jersey, being numerous enough to make the business
profitable. At tlie present time they, are rarely seen. John
Scull was the owner of a large tract of land not far from Great
Egg Harbor. John Fothergill, an eminent minister of the
Society of Friends, visiting the provinces in 1722, writes that he
had a religious meeting at the house of J olm and Mary Scull,
at Great Egg Harbor, which was well attended. Thomas
Chalkly also mentions having a meeting at John SculPs house
in 1725. John and his wife had thirteen children, eight sons
and five daughters. John, their eldest son, was stolen while an
infant, by the Indians, and was never recovered. They likewise
had a son named John Kecompence Scull, who lived to a great
age. The tribe of Indians who lived around Great Egg Harbor,
belonged to the Delawares, or Lenape or first people. In the
year 1758 the celebrated Indian Chief, Isaac Still, claimed land
from the mouth of Great Egg Harbor river to the head branches,
except the Soraers', Steelman's and Scull's tracts of land. John
Scull owned 550 acres of land, purchased of Jacob Yalentine ;
it being on Patounk creek. He died 1745. His son, Gideon
Scull, married Judith Bellanger. The Bellanger family, which
name has been corrupted into Bellangee, came from the pro\'-
ince of Poitou, in France, and emigrated first to England and
from thence to America, between the years 1682 and 1690. In
the early work of French Heraldy, the name is written de Bel-
linger. The arm borne by them, are given Avith very emblazon-
ment, and a shield, azure, with a chevan. This coat of arms
has been in possession of the family in New Jersey, since their
first arrival in America, and was given by Judith Bellangee to
her niece, the late Hannah Smith, of WoodstoAvn, whilst on a
visit to Philadelphia, sixty years ago ; and by her given to her
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grandson, Smith Bowen, of Philadelpliia. Judith Bellange and
her sister Christiana, who married Daniel Shourds, lived to be
over ninety years of age. The father of Iv^es Bellange was shot
during the clragonnades of Louis XIY., and his wife and five
children fled for refuge to tlie caves and forests of their native
province, where they were concealed for several months, until
an opportunity presented for them, in company with others, of
escaping to England, most likely to Dover, as in the year 1687
Theophilus Bellanger arrived there out of France, as the record
states. By reason of tlie late trouble, yet continuing in the
same year, the name of John Delaplaine, linen weaver, is also
found among the records, as living as a refugee, at Dover, and it
is likely he proceeded to America in company with the Bellange
family. Ives Bellange, a weaver, and Christiana Delaplaine, a
spinster, were married in 1697, at Friend's meeting, on Market
street, Philadelphia. Among the witnesses of their marriage
were James and Hannah Delaplaine, and thirty-nine others.
There were others of the name of Bellange besides Ives in
America at that time. James Bellange, in 1696, appears to
have been a Friend residing in Burlington, New Jersey, where
he held some town lots. There was a Henry Bellange, who, in
1684, located 262 acres of land in Evesham, Burlington county.
The general opinion is, tliat Henry, James and Ives Bellange
were brothers. This belief is founded on the tradition, that
the Huguenot children emigrated to America. There is reason
to believe that all the families in West Jersey, named Bellanger,
are the descendants from those above named. The change in
the orthography having taken place during the lapse of time.
In the old records of London, it is stated that Adrian de Bel-
lange, in the reign of James L, about 1622, was one of the house-
holders, being strangers within the liberty of St. Marlins le
Grand, London.
In the first report of the French Relief Committee in London,
dated December, 1687, fourteen months after the revocation of
the edict of Nantes, 15,400 refugees had been relieved during
the year. Of these, says Weiss, the historian, of tlie Hugue-
nots, 13,050 were settled in London, and 2000 in different sea-
port towns, where they had disembarked 140 persons of quality,
143 ministers, 144 lawyers and physicians, traders and burghers,
the rest artisans and workmen, for 600 of whom no work could
be found, and they were sent to America. Ives Bellange and
his wife, Christiana Bellange, soon after their marriage removed
from Philadelpliia to Egg Harbor. They had two children —
James and Ives Bellange. James married 9th month, 1727, at
220 SCULL FAMILY.
Great Egg Harbor, to Margery Smith, grand-daughter of Ricli-
ard Smith, the wealthy patentee of Smithtown, on Long Ishmd.
Tliere is a tradition of the Smith family of Egg Harbor, that
Richard Smith, the patentee, had nine sons, tM^o of whom pur-
chased lands at Great Egg Harbor and there resided. Three
of their descendants about seventy years ago, David, Jonathan
and Robert, died at Egg Harbor ; but the latter's widow, Doro-
thea, and her hve children, removed to Salem county. James
and his wife, Margery, had eight children — Pliebe, Judith,
Susannah, Christiana, Ruth, Margery, Thomas and James
Bellange,
Phebe Bellange married John Ridgway, and had live sons
and two daughters. Susan Bellange married John Ridgway,
Jr.; they had live children. Christiana Bellange married Daniel
Shourds ; she died in 1822, aged ninety years, leaving six child-
ren. Ruth Bellange married Job Ridgway; they had five
children. Thomas Bellange married Mary Barton ; there were
six children. James Bellange married Grace Ingle. Gideon
Scull, son of John and Mary Scull, born in 1722, married Judith,
the second daughter of James Bellange ; they had four sons
and six daughters. They died in 1776, of the small-pox, which
disease they contracted while attending Salem Quarterly Meet-
ing. William Lawrence, the second of the brothers, born in
Hertfordshire, England, in 1623, emigrated under the charge of
Governor Winthrop, Jr., to iSTew England, wdth his elder brother,
John Lawrence, in the ship Planter, in 1635. The younger
brother Thomas Lawrence came to America. William Lawrence
removed to LongIsland,and became one of the patentees of Flush-
ing, in which town he resided during the remainder of his life,
dying in 1680, leaving a large estate — his own plate and personal
property alone being valued at £1,430. His se( ond wife was Eliz-
abeth Smith, a daugliter of Richard Smith, before mentioned. His
son William, by his lirst wife, married in 1680, Deboridi Smith,
the youngest sister of his father's second wife, Elizaljetli. By
this marriage they had, among other children, Samuel, who
married Mary Hicks, living at Black Stump, Long Island.
They had nine children, the youngest of whom was Abigail,
born lltli of 3d month, 1737. She married at ISTewtowm, Long-
Island, in 5th month, 1758, to James James, of Philadelpliia.
She died at Woodstown, 6th of 5th month, 1770, and was
interred in the Friends' burying ground at that place. James
James died at Sculltown, 16th of 5th month, 1807, aged seven-
eightyears. JamesandAbigail L.James had live children. James
James married Kerranhappuck Powell, who lived in Sunbury,
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Georgia ; they liad three cliiklren. William died single in one
of the Southern States. Abigail James married Judge Francis
Child, of Morristown, New Jersey, where their descendants
reside. Hannah married William Wayman, of Long Island,
and subsequently moved to Woodstown ; they had live children.
Sarah married Abram Canfield. Mary James married Daniel
Harker, of Philadelphia ; they had one child — Abigail. Sam-
uel Lawrence James, the youngest child of James and Aljigail
L. James, married. Mary Hall, the daughter of Colonel Edward
Hall, of Mannington, grandson of William Hall, the emigrant,
who was a Justice and the second Judge of the Courts of Salem
county. Edward Hall's mother was Elizabet]i Smitli, grand-
daughter of John Smith, of Almsbury, who died at his grand-
danghter's in his one hundred and seve,nth year. He landed at
Salem in company with John Fenwick, in 1675. Samuel and
Mary James had eight children ; the eldest was Clara, who
married David Reeve, of Bridgeton, and suljsequently removed
to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania ; they had one son — Samuel, and
three daughters — Mary, Rebecca and Emily Reeve. Hetty
James, the second daughter of Samuel L. and Mary H. James,
married Josiah, the son of Richard and Elizabetli W. Miller ;
they had three sons — Richard, Samuel L. J. and Wyatt W.
Miller. Hetty was the second wife of David Reeve. James
James, the eldest son of Samuel, married Beulah Arney, of
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, daughter of Daniel Arney. They
went to Tennessee. They had cliildren, one of whom, Samuel
James, married a daughter of ^ a large cotton dealer, in Louis-
iana. Tiie fourth child of Samuel and Mary James was
Samuel, who lives in Missouri, unmarried. The fifth child,
Sarah, married Joseph Pierson, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana;
they had children. After the death of Pierson, she married
David Reeve, being his third wife. Caroline James, the sixth
child, married Robert Buck, of Bridgeton. He is one of the
proprietors of tlie nail and iron works of that city. They have
several children. Edward, the seventh child, married and lived
in Missouri ; they had several children. Mary Hall James, the
eighth child, I believe, remained single.
Gideon Scull, the grandson of John Scull, was born at Great
Egg Harbor, in 1756, married Sarah James, tlie eldest child of
James James, 29th of 4tli month, 1784. Gideon sold his share
of the patrimonial estate to his brother, Mark Scull, and removed
to Salem county to Lockheartsto\vn, being the Swedisli name of
a place on Oldman's Creek ; and at that place he followed the
mercantile business. It was called Sculltown fur upwards of
222 SCULL FAMILY.
sixty years, but lias been changed to Auburn. Gideon and his
wife had nine children, the eldest was Abigail, who died young.
The second child was named Abigail, who died in Philadelphia,
in 1867, at an advanced age ; she never married. James Scull
died at sea in 1820. Gideon Scull married Lydia Ann Rowen,
the daughter of Dr. Thomas Rowen, Sr., by his last wife; they
had five sons and five daughters. Gideon was an enterprising
business man. He and Samuel Clement were in the mercantile
business together on Market street, Salem, for a number of
years, and their's was the leading store in the town at that time.
He subsequently removed to Philadelphia and went into the
wholesale grocery business ; the firm was kno"\vn as Thompson
& Scull. Paul, the third son of Gideon and Sarah J. Scull, mar-
ried Hope Kay, whose parents resided near Woodbury. Paul
and his wife lived on the Plainfield farm, as it was called,
located about two miles from Woodstown. He was considered
one of the greatest agriculturalists in the couuty, energetic and
full up in all the modern improvements in the way of fertilizing
the exhausted virgin soil. He died before he was far advanced
in life, with pulmonary disease, and his death was a public loss.
He had one son and three daughters. Olliy, the fourth son,
died young; Sarah, the third daughter, died single, in the city
of Philadelphia. David, the lifth son, married Lydia, the
daughter of Joshua and Esther Davis Lippincott, in 1823. She
was born in 1801, and died in 1851. They had eight children;
three sons and five daughters, who are all living except two,
who died young. Their namgs are Caroline, Gideon Dela-
plaine, Hannah, Jane Lippincott, Lydia L., David, Jr., Edward
Lawrence, and Mary Scull. Hannah, the youngest child of
Gideon and Sarah J. Scull, married William Carpenter, Jr., the
son of William and Mary P. Carpenter, of Mannington; she
died the first year after her uiarriage, leaving no issue. David
Scull's second wife is Haunali D., daughter of Richard and
Elizabeth Bacon Wood, formerly of Greenwich, Cumberland
county.
Gideon Scull, before mentioned, was born in 1756, and died in
1825, aged sixty nine years ; and his M'ife, Sarah J. Scull, born in
1759, died in 1836, aged al)out seventy-seven years. She was a
recommended minister in tlie Society of Friends. The family
belonged to Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting. David Scull, their
youngest son, born in 1799, left his native place, Sculltown, many
years ago, together with his family, and went to Philadelphia,
where he kept a wholesale wool store on Market street. His
business capacity, and close application to business, enabled him
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to acquire a competency, and he has retired from the business,
two of liis sons having taken his place. Caroline, the eldest
daughter of David and Lydia Scull, died young. Gideon Dela-
plaine, the eldest son, born in 1824, married in 1862, Anna
Holder, of England. They have two children — Walter Dela-
plaine Scull, born in Bath, England, and Edith Maria Lydia Scull,
born at Great Malvern, England. At this time G. D. Scull
and family reside at the Laurels, Hounslow Heath, near London.
Hannah, the second daughter of David and Lydia Scull, remains
single. Jane Lippincott, the third daughter, married William
D. Bispham ; they have one son — David Scull Bispham. Lydia
Scull, daughter of David and Lydia Scull, died young. David
Scull, Jr., married Hannah Coale, of Baltimore, who is deceased ;
she left one son — William Ellis Scull. Edward Lawrence
Scull is single, and is in business with his brother David, on
Market street, Philadelphia. Mary, the youngest daughter of
David and Lydia Scull, married Paschal Harker ; they have no
issue.
SMITH AND DARKIN FAMILIES.
The original name of Elsinborougli township was Elfsborg,
called thus by the Swedes. The name was derived from a fort
that was erected on the soutli side of Assomhocking creek, so
called ])y the Indians. The Swedes named the stream Varick-
enkill, but it was afterward called by Fenwick's colony Salem
creek. The fort alluded to was built in 1643, by order of Gov-
ernor Printz. Ferris, in his history, of the early settlement on
the Delaware, whicli is the most reliable tliat I know of, says it
was erected on tlie south side of the creek, at its junction witli
the Delaware river. If that is correct, whicli I have no reason
to doubt, the mouth of the creek must have been a mile or more
further down the river than it is at the present time. Tlie
Swedes made no permanent settlement there. After they
abandoned their fort, which took place in 1651, their settlement
was further up and on both sides of the Delaware river ; on the
Jersey side as far as the mouth of Raccoon creek, on the oppo-
site shore from the mouth of Christiana creek to "VVeccacoe,
where Pliiladelphia is now located. The first English settle-
ment in the county of Salem was in Elsinborough, on a point of
land which now belongs to Amos Harris, and to AYilliam,
Joseph and Casper Thompson. The said point was called by
the aboriginal inhabitants Assomhocking point. An exploring
company from New Haven, Connecticut, reached here in the
year 1610. They were not over two years in this county, but
whilst here they explored a stream about four miles below
Salem creek, and named it Cotton river on account of tlie cotton
wood that they found growing in the low ground along the
shores of tlie stream. It is now known as Alio ways creek.
They were looked upon by the Swedes and Indians with con-
siderable jealousy, and in the winter of 1642 an epidemic broke
out among them, which they called the pleurisy, and more than
half of their number died of the disease, and those that escaped
returned in tlie summer to New Haven again. It does not
appear that there was any other settlement in the township
until John Fenwick arrived with his colony in the Spring of
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1675. Robert Windliara, in the fall of tlie same year, purchased
1,000 arces of land of the proprietor, it being the same that tlie
New Haven colony had partly cleared and left over thirty years
before. The said land was bounded on the west by Salem
creek, on the east by Alemsbury creek, south by John Smith's
land, south-west by Middle Neck, as it was afterward named.
Robert "Windham and his wife lived there until tlieir deatli,
wliich took place about the year 1686, leaving one daughter.
Her name was Ann Windham. She sliortly afterward married
Richard Darkin, who emigrated to this country from England
in 1683. He seems to have been a man above mediocrity, and
rendered great assistance to the new colony in their civil affairs.
He was likewise a consistent and useful member of the Society
of Friends. Richard and his wife Ann Darkin had four chil-
dren — Josepli Darkin, their eldest son, was born at Windham,
near New Salem, 8th of 1st month, 1688 ; their daughter,
Hannah Darkin, was born 3d of 9th month, 1691 ; their son,
John Darkin, was born on the 9th of 6th month, 1694, and
Ann Darkin was born 31st of 1st month, 1700. In 1717 John
Darkin, son of Richard Darkin, married Sarah Thompson,
daughter of Thomas Thompson. They had two children — J ale
Darkin, born 11th of lOth month, 1718. She married Jolm
Nicholson, son of Abel Nicholson. John Darkin, son of John
and Sarah Darkin, was l)orn in 1720. The last mentioned John
Darkin left no children, but left his Windham estate to his
nephew, Darkin Nicholson. In the year 1719 Josepli Darkin,
son of Richard Darkin, married Ann Smart, daughter of Isaac
Smart. They had one daughter. Her name was Hannah,
born 18th of 10th month, 1722.
John Smith was the son of John Smith. He was born in the
county of Norfolk, in England, 20th of 7th month, 1623. The
said John Smith married Martha Graffs, daughter of Christo-
pher Graffs, of Northamptonshire. They were married in 1658.
The following are the names of tlieir children born in Eng-
land: Daniel Smith, born 10th of 12th month, 1660; Sam-
uel Smith, born 8th of 3d month, 1664 ; David Smith, born
19th of 12th month, 1666, and Sarah Smith, born ith of 12th
month, 1671. John Smith, his wife and children, sailed for
West New Jersey, in America, on board the ship Grithth, Rob-
ert Griffith being master, and landed at a place they called
New Salem, 23d of 6th month, 1675. The names of their
children born in this country are as follows: — Jonathan Smith,
born in New Salem, 27th of 10th month, 1675 ; Jeremiah Smith,
born at Alemsbury, llth of 9th month, 1678. John Smith
29
226 ^ SMITH AND DARKIN FAMILIES.
purchased 2,000 acres of John Fenwick, tlie purchase ex-
tending from the head of Alemsburj creek to Allowajs creek,
and bounded on the east bj Edward Charapney's land, on the
west by Samuel Nicholson, After tlie townships were laid off,
one-half of said allotment of land was in Alloways Creek town-
ship. Daniel Smitli, the eldest son, bonght 1,000 acres in
in Alloways creek township, near what is now called Quinton.
The land lay on the north side of the creek. He built and lived
on tlie property that was owned by the late Ann Simpson. This
Alemsbury estate was divided between Samuel, David and Jon-
athan Smith. His daughter, Sarah Smith, married John Mason,
of Elsinhorough.
SAYRES FAMILY.
The Sayres family, it has been said, is of Swedish origin, but
at what time their forefatliers arrived in this country, is a mat-
ter of uncertainty. About the year 1716, Thomas Sayres, son
of Jonas Sayres, purchased a hirge tract of land, tradition says,
of William Hall. I think it not improbable, inasmuch as Hall,
about that time was the owner of a vast quantity of land in this
county, including what is now Cumberland county. The Sayres
land was located near Masons, now known as MaskelFs Mill.
Thomas Sayres and his wife Rachel, had several children —
Thomas, James, Leonard, Lot and Ruth. The latter afterw^ards
became tlie wife of James Daniels, an eminent preacher in the
Society of Friends; he died in 1T76, leaving Ruth, who was
several years younger than himself, a widow ; they had no chil-
dren. Thomas Sayres and Rachel Abbott were married in 17-12 ;
they had eleven children — Abbott, born in 1713, Reuben, Han-
nah, David, Reuel, Joseph, Dennis, Rachel, Thomas, Dorcas
and William. Abbott Sayres married, and died a young man,
leaving one daugliter — Hannah Sayres. The Sayres family, gen-
erally, were ardent Whigs during the American Revolution.
Reuben Sayres, the second son of Thomas and Rachel, born
5th of 11th montli, 1716, married Hannah, the daugliter of
Bradway Stretch, who was several years older than himself. He
volunteered in the army under Colonel Holmes, stationed at Han-
cock's Bridge. The morning of the bloody massacre at that
place he was killed. He succeeded in escaping from the house
with his musket, but was pursued by several of the Tories, and
one or two of the English soldiers. He ran for a large tract of
woodland that was about a half mile distant from the house of
William Hancock where the carnage took place, and reached it
in safety. His pursuers followed him closely, and he then ran
towards a swamp called the Holly Swamp, but as he climbed
upon the fence his pursuers shot and killed him. His remains
were not found for several days afterwards. He had two cousins
who took part in the same engagement. One of them, John
Sayres, was killed in the house whilst asleep, and James Sayres
228 SAYRES FAMILY.
was severely wounded, but finally recovered. Reuben left a
large real and personal estate, which was appraised at £1,345
8s. 9d. It appears there was considerable difficulty in appor-
tioning his personal estate between his relatives and widow.
The law at that period in reference to personal estates were not
easily to comprehend, owing, I have no doubt, to the unsettled
condition of the country. The administrators and heirs agreed
to leave it to three disinterested men as arbitrators, and Andrew
York, William Smith and Edward Hancock were ciiosen. The
following is their verbatim return. " We the undersigned being
" respectfully chosen to settle the personal estate of Reuben
" Sayres, deceased, between the administrators and the several
" heirs, this fourth day of February, 1779. We received the
" papers and heard the allegations and proofs respecting premises
" and the statement of the amount. We do agree and determine
" the annexed statement is just and true for settling between the
"heirs and the administrators. Witnesses our hands, that is
" the widow sJiould have the sum of £4-45 16s. 8d. Andrew
" York, William Smith, Edward Hancock." TJie widow, Han-
nah Sayres, afterwards married Wade Barker; they had one
daughter — Hannah Barker. After the death of lier second
husband, she married James Sayres, the cousin of her first
husband.
David Sayres, the son of Thomas and Rachel Sayres, was
born 3d of 11th month, 1751. I have been informed by the
family that he died a young man. He married and left one
son, whose name was Aljbott Sayres. Reuel, the son of Thomas
and Rachel Sayres, born 4th of 10th month, 1754, inherited the
farm which now belongs to Robert Butcher, and built the
present house on the premises ; it has l)een rebuilt within a few
years by the present owner. Reuel Sayres and his wife, I
think, sold it to Henry Mulford, the father of the late Charles
Mulford, of Salem. Reuel and his family removed to Ohio.
Henry Mulford, I think, retained the property whilst he lived,
and it was then sold, James Butcher being the purchaser ; hence
the proj)erty was brought back into the Sayres family. James
Butcher's wife, Hannah Sayres, was the daughter of Abbott
Sayres, a direct descendant of Thomas and Rachel Sayres.
William, the youngest son of Thomas and Rachel Sayres, born
in 1767, subsequently married Amy Evans ; they had issue —
Reuben Sayres, born in 1798, and Evan Sayres, born in 1800,
he died a minor. Samuel and Thomas Sayres were born in
1802. Reuben, the son of William and Amy Sayres, married
Clarissa Press ; tliey have issue. Their daughter Amanda
SAYEES FAMILY. 229
Sayres, was born in 1825. James Sayres, their son, was born
in 1829, subsequently married Martha, the daughter of Silas
Harris, of Salem ; they had issue, two daughters and one son.
He removed to Camden several years ago and followed his trade
of house carpentering. Amy Sayres, Reuben and Clarissa
Sayres' second daughter, married Edward, the eldest son of
Ephraim and Mary Ann Carll ; they have issue — Mary Ann,
Milton and Sarah Carll. Sarah D. Sayres, the youngest daugh-
ter of Reuben and Clarissa Sayres, born in 1837, is unmarried,
and remains at home. She has the charge, in a great measure,
of her aged and honorable parents, who have long been consist-
ent members of the Baptist Church at Canton. Paying a visit
to the aged couple, at one time, and observing the solicitous
care of their daughter towards her parents, it brought to my
mind the saying of a wise man in ancient times, in addressing
his son : " Go my son and observe the young stork of the
" wilderness. See he bears on his wings his aged sire, he carries
" him, lodges him in safety, and supplies him with food."
Thomas, the son of Thomas and Rachel Sayres, was born in
1763, and came in the possession of part of his brother Reuben's
real estate ; he married and had two daughters and one son —
Anna, Rachel and Thomas B. Sayres. Anna Sayres, daughter
of Thomas Sayres, Jr., married David Bowen ; iiiej had four
children — J. Madison, Rachel, Mary Ann and Thomas Bowen.
J. Madison Bowen came into possession of the homestead farm,
but afterwards sold it to Eliakim Smith, and removed to Cum-
berland county. Rachel, the daughter of David and Anna
Bowen, married Jervis Batcher, who was a hatter and followed
his trade in Salem. He died many years ago, leaving a widow
and one son — Jonathan Butcher. Mary Ann, the second
daughter of David and Ann Butcher, subsequently married
Richard, the son of Edward and Prudence Waddington ; they
had six children — Anna,, Edward, David, George, Elizabeth and
Mary Waddington. Mary Ann, tlie mother of the above
mentioned children, has been deceased for several years. —
Thomas, the youngest son of David and Anna Bowen, removed
to one of tlie Western States when a young man. Rachel, the
second daughter of Thomas Sayres, Jr., married David Elwell.
Her second husband was Benjamin Garrison, of Pilesgrove. I
have been informed they lived in Camden for some time, and
eventually removed to one of the Western States. Thomas
B. Sayres, the son of Thomas Sayres, Jr., married the daughter
of Sylvanus Sheppard ; they had issue. He and his family
went to one of the Western States many years ago.
230 8ATRES FAMILY.
James, the son of Thomas Sayres, the emigrant, was born
about 1720. The most reliable account I have is that he lived,
after he married, in Stoe Creek township, Cumberland county.
He had three sons — James, John and Ephraim Abbott Sayres.
James and John enlisted in the army of the American Revolu-
tion and ser\^ed under Colonel Hand. They were stationed at
Hancock's Bridge, at the time of the bloody massacre at that
place in 1778. John was killed while he was lying on the floor
asleep, and his brother James was thought to be mortally
wounded by having a bayonet thrust through him, but he finally
recovered. James' first wife's name I do not know, but they
had isswe — James Sayres, 3d. His second wife was Hannah,
tlie widow of Wade Barker, and the daughter of Bradway
Stretch. Her first husband was Reuben Sayres, cousin of her
third husband. James and his wife Hannah had one daughter,
Rachel, wlio subsequently married Daniel Oilman, of Cumber-
land. James Sayres' third wife was Sarah, widow of Job
Smith. Her maiden name was Sarah Mulford, and she had by
her first husband seven children — John, Jane, Sarah, Samuel,
Mary, Eliakim and Job. The latter is a cabinet maker and
undertaker, and carries on his business at Hancock's Bridge.
James and Sarah Sayres had one daughter, Hannah, who subse-
quently married Ednnmd, son of Conrad Hires, of Bridgeton.
Abbott Sayres, the son of James, married and had two or more
children — Hannah, who married James Butcher, and a son —
Abbott, Jr. The latter married Mary Harris, and had one son,
Abbott, who at the present time resides in Cumberland county.
Ephraim, the son of James Sayres, Sr., married and had one
son — Ephraim. The last named purchased a farm in Stoe
Creek township, Cumberland county, being originally part of
Ricliard Wood's landed estate, and resided thereuntil his deatli.
He had two children by his first wife — Mary and Abbott. His
daughter Mary married Reuben Dayton ; her second husband
is Edward, the son of Edward and Catharine Fogg, and they
have several children. His son, Abbott Sayres, married and at
this time resides at Bridgeton.
Ananias Sayres, brother of Thomas, the elder, married Mary,
the daughter of Richard Gibl)on, living near Roadstown. Mary,
it appears, inherited a farm from her fatlier on which she and
her luisband dwelt. They had issue — Hannah, Rachel, Mary,
Sarah, and Leonard G. Sayres. Hannah, their eldest daughter,
married Job Remington, of Greenwi(;h; they had one son —
Job, who was apprenticed in Philadelphia to learn the house
carpenter trade. He subsequently kept a lumber yard below
6AYEES FAMILY. 231
Green street wiiarf, in tliat citj, known as the George Knox
lumber yard, and accumulated a large fortune. He retired
many years before his death with a competency. His mother,
Hannah Kemington, married John Adams, a native of Egg
Harbor, but at the time of tlieir marriage followed his trade,
that of a carriage maker, in the town of Greenwich. John and
his wife had three children — Hannah, Joseph and John.
Rachel, the daughter of Ananias and Mary Sayres, mari-ied
Job Tyler, of Greenwich. They had issue — Benjamin, Jo]),
Mary and Richard, all of whom are noticed in the sketcli of the
Tyler family. Mary, the daughter of Ananias and Mary Sayres,
married David Mulford. Tliey had eleven children — Hannah,
born 9th of 2d month, 1776 ; Ephraim, Mary, Thomas, Nancy,
David, Sarah, Rebecca, William, John and Elizabeth. Hannah,
Nancy and Sarah died minors. John Mulford died unmarried
at the age of twenty-six. Ephraim, the son of David and Mary
Mulford, born 8th of 10th month, 1778, married Ruth Wheaton,
the second daughter of Isaac Wheaton, who lived at Cohansey
Neck, near the town of Green wicli, Tlie said Isaac Wheaton
and his eldest daughter were drowned off Billingsport, in the
Delaware river, with several others from on board the Green-
wich Packet, Rachel, during a violent gale on the niglit of the
15th of 2d month, 1802. Ephraim and Ruth had issue — Ana-
nias, William, Isaac and David Mulford. Ephraim's second
wife was Rhoda, daughter of John Laning; they had three
children — Ruth, Ellen and Alfred Mulford. Ephraim, their
father, lived far beyond the age allotted to man, having died at
the age of ninety-two years, leaving a large estate to his children.
Mary, the daughter of David and Mary Mulford, was boi-n 27th
of loth month, 1780, and married Dr. Charles Hannah, of Han-
cock's Bridge. She died a young woman, leaving one son —
James M. Hannah.
Thomas, the son of David and Mary Mulford, was born 19th
of 12th month, 1782, and married Phebe Butcher, sister of the
late James Butcher; they had issue — Richard and Charles
Mulford. His second wife was a widow, Rachel Evan Scudder ;
they had one daughter, Elizabeth Mulford, who subsequently
married Richard Dubois, Jr. Richard, the son of Thonias and
Phebe Mulford, married Lucetta, the daughter of Washington
Smith ; they had issue — Phebe, Ann, Maria, Mary and Martha.
Rebecca, the daughter of David and Mary Mulford, born in
1791, married Asa Couch. William, the son of David and
Mary Mulford, was born in 1792 ; he married Grace Carll, the
daughter of Ephraim Carll, Sr., and left several children.
232 BAYKES FAMILY
Sarali, the daughter of Ananias and Mary Sayres, married
Richard Cole. They liv^ed a number of years on the Isaac
Norris farm near Salem, and had four sons and one daughter,
Sarah Cole, who with her two eldest brothers, Charles and
Richard, died in early age of consumption ; soon after that
event Richard and his wife removed to Gloucester county, and
there ended their days. Leonard G. Sayres, the son of Ananias
and Mar}', appeal's to have left liis native county and settled in
tlie state of Ohio, when the city of Cincinnati was a village.
WJiether he married before he went West I have no knowledge.
He is reported to have prospered in his adopted State, and to
have accumulated a large fortune. Leonard's second wife was
Hannah Anderson, a widow, and the daughter of Thomas and
Rebecca Thompson, of Salem. Lot, the youngest son of Thomas
Sayres, married the daughter of John Warner, a member of the
Society of Friends. He, like many of that persuasion, became
a strong Whig, and at the battle of Quinton's Bridge, in the
revolutionary struggle, (notwithstanding he was an old man like
John Burns of Grettysburg memory,) took his musket and
volunteered in the skirmish. Lot and his wife had one
son. Job Sayres, who was born in 1765, and subsequently
married Sarah Padgett ; they had issiie ; their eldest child
was Street Sayres ; lie was born in 1791, and died a minor.
Rachel, the daughter of Job and Sarah Sayres, born in 1793,
married Captain Daniel Dixon ; their children were Thophilus
Beesley, Job S. and Daniel. Job Sayres' second wife was Mary
Tuft, sister of the late Captain John Tuft, of Salem. By that
union there were three children — Margaret, William and
Rebecca Sayres. Tlieophiliis B. Dixon married Harriet, the
daughter of Daniel Dorrell; they have six children — John F.,
Sarah, Mary, Bilbe, Martha and Theophilus B. Jr. Job Dixon
married Eliza F. Brown, one of the descendants (on her mother's
side) of Joshua Carpenter, of Philadelphia, being the seventh
generation. Slie was the daughter of Zaccheus, Jr. and Eliza
Fogg Brown. Job and his wife have four children — David
Fogg Brown, Zaccheus B., Daniel and Rachel Dixon. Daniel,
the son of Daniel and Sarah S. Dixon, married Mary, the
daughter of Edward Orr ; they have nine children — William,
Tliomas V., Joseph, Charles, George, Helen, Hannah, Mary
and Alljert Dixon. Margaret, the daughter of Job and Mary
T. Sayres, married Japhet Somers, of Penn's Neck ; they have
issue — A¥illiam, Mary and Ann Somers. William, the son of
Job and Mary T. Sayres, married Eliza Pendgar, of New York ;
tliey have no issue. Rebecca, the youngest daughter of Job
unci Mary T. Sayres, married William Simkins ; they have issue.
THOMAS SHOURD'S RESIDENCE.
Built by one of his ancestors (Joseph Ware, 2d,) in 1730.
SHOURDS FAMILY.
History informs iis soon after William Penn purcluised the
province of Pennsylvania lie traveled through parts of Germany
and Holland on horseback, inviting the inhabitants of those
countries to emigrate to his newly acquired province in North
America. Among tliose that accepted his invitation was Cor-
nelius Slioverde, a stadtholder of one of the provinces of Hol-
land. He and his family arrived at Philadelphia in 1 684. They
lived in a cave for a short period of time, near Germantown.
Subsequently he purchased 300 acres of land of the propri-
etor ; the said land was located in Penn's manor, nearly oppo-
site where Bordentown now is in New Jersey. Tliere was
a large stone placed at one corner of the allotment, witli his
initials cut on it, and the writer, in company with the late Hec-
tor Ivins, who at that time resided near by, visited the place of
his ancestor, where he lived and ended his days. His wife's
maiden name was Sophina Weimar, and most of their cliildren
were born in Holland. Their names were Samuel, Catharine,
Esther, Sarah and Sophina. Sophina, the youngest, married
Zebulon Gaunt, in 1715 ; their children were Samuel, Zebulon,
Israel, Hannah, Mary and Sophina Gaunt. Samuel, the son of
Zebulon and Sophina Gaunt, married Hannah Woolman; they
had seven children — Judali, Aslier, Reuben, Elihu, Peter, Se-
reptlia and Elizabeth.
Samuel, the son of Cornelius and Sophina Slioverde, married
Sarah Harrison, of Philadelphia; and he and his wife, Sarah
Slioverde, had a large family of children. Two of the youngest
located themselves at Tuckerton, and that generation of the
family changed the sj^elling of their name from Slioverde to
Shourds, Mary, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah Shourds,
married Jonathan Pettit. They resided at Tuckerton, and their
house was standing a few years ago in a commanding situa-
tion, near Barnegat bay. Their son, Joseph Pettit, married
Sarah, the daughter of Elislia and Mary Woodmitt Bassett, of
Mannington ; they had issue — Woodnutt, Jonathan and Mary
Pettit. Daniel, the son of Samuel and Sarah Shourds, married
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234 8HOUED8 FAMILY.
Christiuna BcUange, wlio died 21st of lOtli niontli, 1822, aged
ninety _years. Tliej liad six cliildren— Samuel, John, Daniel, Shady,
Ilannali and Amy Shourds. Samuel, the eldest, married Han-
nah Gray;* tliey had nine children — Grray, Thomas, Samuel, Ben-
jamin, John, Asa, Job, Daniel and Elizabeth Shourds. John,
the son of Daniel and Christiana B. Shourds, married Sarah
Johnson ; tliey had five children — David, Joseph, Hannah, Reu-
ben and Ruth Shourds. Samuel and his brother, John Shourds,
sold, their property at Tuckerton over lifty years ago. Samuel
rented a farm in Back Neck, Cumberland county, and resided
there for several years, and John Shourds rented property of
the late Dr. Thomas Rowen, in Penn's Neck, and he and his
family resided there several years. Samuel and. liis brotlier
John sul)sequently removed to New York with their families,
excepting David, the eldest son of John Shourds, who married
and settled in the township of Lower Penn's Neck; he was the
father of the present Joseph Shourds, of that township.
Samuel Shourds and his brother John purchased large tracts
in parts of Munroe and Genesee counties. New York. The
greater part of their land was then in its primitive state, it
being soon after the Erie canal was completed, but their prop-
erty advanced rapidly in value, and the natural result was they
became quite independent in a few years. An uncommon
circumstance occurred a few years before Samuel and John's
death. They felt desirous to visit their native place once more
before their death, and accordingly they came to Woodstown to
visit Jonathan and Hannah Smith, the latter being their sister,
and all four of them went to Tuckerton by land. Samuel was
then in his eighty-ninth year, his brother, John, tw^o years
younger, Jonathan Smith in his eighty-eighth year, and his
wife, Hannah, eighty-two years old. When they arrived at the
place of their nativity what pleasing and also sad reflections
* Samuel, the son of Daniel and Christiana Shourds as stated in the
Shourds genealogy, married Hannah Gray. She was a sister of Samuel
Gray. The Gray family I think were natives of Monmouth county.
Samuel Gray and his wife had four children — Charles F. H. Gray, Jesse,
who now resides near Pemberton, New Jersey, Hannah and Charity
Gray. Charles F. H. Gray came to this county in company with his
father many years ago, and married a daughter of the late Joseph
C. Nelson, an eminent land Surveyor of Pittsgrove. Charles and his
wife have several children. He has filled many and various township
offices. His father, Samuel Gray, ended his days at his son's house.
Charles' grandfather and one of his uncles, emigrated to Genesee
county, State of New York, more than half a century since, in comi^any
with Samuel and John Shourds.
SHOURDS FAMILY. 235
they must have had in recurring l)ack to tlie days of their youth.
How many of their former friends and associates liad gone to
tlieir linal resting phice. There was one, however, who resided
at Great Egg Harbor, their brother Daniel, who was still living
to receive his aged relatives. Daniel, the son of Daniel and
Christiana Shourds, married Rebecca Leeds ; they had issue —
William, Phebe, Matilda and Daniel, 2d. Shady, the daughter
of Daniel and Christiana Shourds, married Walter Wilson, of
Burlington city ; they have issue — William, who died a minor.
Hannah, the daughter of Daniel and Christiana Shourds, born
about the year 1765, married Jonathan Smith, a lineal descend-
ant of Richard Smith, of Long Island ; they had three children
— Jerusha, Elizaljeth and Jonathan Smith. Jerusha married
Satnuel, the son of William AVhite, of Woodstown ; their
children were Mary, Samuel, William, David, Wilson and
Jonathan. Jonathan married Lydia Waddington, the daugh-
ter of Aaron Waddington, of Elsinboro. Elizabeth was
twice married. Her lirst husband was Clement Hinch-
man ; they had issue, one daughter — Clemence Hinchman.
Her second husband was William Cawley, son of Samuel
Cawley, Jr. Elizabeth, the daughter of Jonathan and Hannah
Smitli, was twice married. Her first husband was Daniel
Bowen, M. D., a native of Bridgeton ; they had one son — Smith
Bowen, who married Ann Bisham, daughter of Samuel Bisham,
of Philadelphia ; they have three children — Mary, Elizabeth,
Anna Stoke and Samuel Bisham Bowen. Elizabeth Smith's
second husband was Hosea Fithian, M. D., son of Jonathan
Fithian, of Cumberland county ; they had three children —
Hannah, Mary and Elizabeth. Elizabeth, their mother, died
in 1854. Jonathan, the son of Jonathan and Hannah Smith,
married Hannah, daughter of Jacob Davis, of Pilesgrove ; they
had four children — Mary E., Samuel, who died young, Jonathan
a id Ellen Smith.
Samuel, the son of Samuel and Sarah Shourds, was born 2-lth
of Tth month, 1718. The latter was a clock and watcli maker,
and followed his trade in Bordentown, New Jersey. His wife
was Taminson, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Pancoast,
of Burlington county. Taminson was born 29th of 11th month,
1725. Benjamin, the son of Samuel and Taminson P. Shourds,
was born 7tli of 1st month, 1753. He subsequently married
Mar}^, the daughter of William and Rachel Silvers, of Piles-
grove ; they had seven children — Thomas, Rachel, Samuel,
Rhoda, William, Mary and Benjamin. Thomas, the eldest',
died 23d of lltli month, 1778. Rachel, the eldest daughter of
236 SHOUEDS FAMILY.
Benjamin and Mary Shourds, married Jervis Hall, of Manning-
ton ; she was liis second wife. There were two children —
Casper and Rachel Hall. E-achel, their mother, died when her
children were yonng. Casper Hall died in 1819, when lie was
about eighteen years old. Rachel, the daughter of Jervis and
Rachel S. Hall, married Josiah, the youngest son of Sanmel
Nicholson, of Mannington ; they had two or three sons and one
daughter — Hannah Nicholson, who married George Radcliff;
they have issue. Josiah Nicholson has been deceased many
years. His widow, Rachel Hall Nicholson, resides in the city
of Salem, and is a teacher in one of the public schools of that
city. Rhoda, the daughter of Benjamin and Mary Shourds,
married John, the son of John and Susan Denn, of Manning-
ton ; they had live children — Rachel, Mary, Susan, Ann and
Rebecca. The latter died yoimg. John Denn, Jr., died in
Mannington before he arrived to middle age. Soon after that
event Rhoda Denn removed to the town of Salem with her
children. She was above mediocrity in intellect, and remark-
able for self-denial. She was a recommended minister in the
Society of Friends for a number of years. Her communications
in public meetings were not extended to much length, but she
possessed a faculty of condensing and saying much for her
hearers to reflect upon in a few words. She has been deceased
a number of years. Her daughter, Rachel Denn, married Pro-
fessor John Griscom, the son of William and Rachel Denn
Griscom; she was his second wife. They resided in the city of
Burlington until his death. Soon after that occurred his widow,
Rachel D. Griscom, returned to Salem to live. Mary, the
t-econd daughter of John and Rhoda Denn, died a young
woman, unmarried. Susan Denn, the third daughter of John
and Rhoda Denn, remains single. She aiul her sister, Rachel D.
Griscom, keep house together, on Broadway, in Salem. Anna,
the fourth daughter of John and Rhoda Denn, married William
Gibbons, of Philadelphia ; they had two cliildren — Susan and
Henry Gibbons. William, their father, has been deceased
several years. Their son, Henry, died in tlie West Town
boarding school. He was a promising and interesting youth,
and if his life had been spared I have no doubt he would have
made his mark on the sands of time ; but such is life. Anna
Gibbons and her daughter, Susan, reside in tlie city of Salem.
William, the son of Benjamin and Mary Shourds, married
Martha, the daughter of Peter and Mary Andrews, of Man-
nington. Peter was a native of Great Egg Harbor ; his wife,
Mary, was the daughter of Whitten and Martha Iluddy Cripps,
SHOURCS FAMILY. 237
of Mannington,* William and Martha Sliourds had four
children — Rachel, Mary, Benjamin and William Shourds. —
Rachel, their eldest daughter, married Thomas Mullineux, of
Ulster county, New York ; her husband is deceased, and she
now lives at Mount Holly, Burlington county. Mary Shourds
lives in the city of Philadelphia, and remains single. Benja-
min, the eldest son, resides in Philadelphia, and is a brick layer
]^y trade. He is married and has several children. William
Shourds has been twice married ; his first wife was Hannah
Yardly, by whom he had three children — Martha, Letitia and
Hannah. His second wife is Rebecca Rainer. Mary, the
daughter of Benjamin and Mary Shourds, married Samuel
Hewes, of Delaware county, Pennsylvania; they are both
deceased, leaving one son — Charles Hewes. Samuel Shourds,
the second son of Benjamin and Mary Shourds, was born 6th
of 9th month, 1781 ; he married Elizabeth, the daughter of
Jacob and Mary Carpenter Ware. Jacob was the great grand-
son of Joseph Ware, the emigrant, who came to this country in
the sliip Griffith, as a servant, and landed at Salem 5th of 10th
month, 1675. Jacob's wife was Mary Carpenter, the daughter
of William and Mary Powell Carpenter. William was the
grandson of Joshua Carpenter, of Philadelp]iia. He was born
in the State of Delaware, and came to this county about tho
year 1715 or '16, and married Mary, the daughter of Jeremiah
Powell, Jr., who was several years younger than her husband ;
they had four children — Mary, William, Powell and Abigail.
Sanmel atid Elizabeth Shourds had three children — William,
Mary and Thomas. William died young. Samuel Sliourds,
*I have frequently alhided to the Cripps family without stating their
ancestry. It is an old family of England. Nathaniel, the tirst that I
have knowledge of was the sou of John Cripps, born about ItJoG. He
married, in England, Grace, sister of James Whitten, who located laud
in Lower Mannington, at the first settlement of Salem county.
Nathaniel and his wife, Grace Cripps, came to America in 1G78, and
settled in Burlington county. By tradition he was the founder of
Mount Holly. Nathaniel and Grace Cripps had six children — John,
Benjamin, Samuel, Virginia, Tlieophla and Hannah Ami Cripps. —
John, the eldest son, married INIary Eves, of Haddonfield. Benjamin,
the second son, married Mary Hough. Their chiklren were Whitten,
who in 1759 married Martha Huddy; John, their second son, died a
minor; Hannah, married Samuel Mason, of Mannington, in 1756, son
of Thomas Mason, of the same place ; Cyntha married James Bonsall,
of Darby, Pennsylvania. Whitten Cripps subsequently was the owner
of the landed estate of his great-uncle, James Whitten ; he had two
children — Benjamin, who married the daughter of Peter Carney, of
Upper Penn'a Neck ; and Mary Cripps, who married Peter Andrews, a
native of Egg Harbor.
238 SHOUKDS FAMILY.
the father of the before mentioned children, died in 1807, in
his twenty -sixth year. He resided, at the time of his death, in
Lower Penn's Neck, wliere his children were born. Mary
Shourds married William Bradway, the son of Ezra and Mary
Denn Bradway, of Lower Alloways Creek ; they have six
children — Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary, Anna, Bachel and Ellen
Bradway. Thomas Shourds was born 28th of 2d month, 1805,
and married Sarah, tlie daughter of Joseph and Ann Mason
Thompson, 10th of 1st month, 1828. Joseph Thompson, her
father, was the son of Josliua Thompson, a native of Elsinboro,
and the great grand-son of Andrew Thompson, the emigrant,
who landed at Elsinboro in 167T. Ann Mason, wife of Joseph
Thompson, was the daughter of John Mason, who was the
son of Thomas Mason, and he was the son of John Mason,
who emigrated from England and landed at Philadelphia
in 1681 ; (he, however, came and settled at Salem soon
afterwards.) Tliomas and Sarah Thompson Sliourds had
eight children — Anna T., Samuel, (who died when about
twenty months old,) Tlionipson, Samuel, 2d, Thomas M., Eliza-
beth T., Sarah W. and Mary Carpenter Shourds. Samuel
Shourds, 2d, died when lie was in his nineteenth year. Sarah
Ware Shourds died wlien she was in her twenty-lirst year.
Elizabeth Thompson Shourds died when she was about thirty-
one years old. Thompson, the son of Thomas and Sarah T.
Shourds, is a carpenter and builder, and follows that business in
Philadelphia. He married Racliel, the daughter of Comly and
Susan Tyson ; tliey have had three children — William, Anna
T. and Susan |T. Rachel, his wife, is deceased, as also their
oldest child, Willie Shourds. Tliomas Mason Shourds, the son
of Thomas and Sarah T. Shourds, married Anna, the daughter
of Joseph and Mary Brown, of Alloways Creek; they have
ihree children — Sarah W., Mary and TJiompson Shourds.
SUMMEEILL FAMILY.
The SmnmeriU's are a large and ancient family of Upper
Penn's Neck. The most relial)le account of the family is that
William Summerill and Thomas Carney emigrated from Ireland
about 1725, and settled in Penn's Neck, Salem county. William
Summerill, soon after his arrival, purchased a large tract of land
near the present Ijrick mill at the liead of Game creek, extend-
ing to Salem creek. He and his wife, Mary Summerill, resided
on that part now owned by Benjamin and Rebecca Summerill
Black, (she having inherited tlie property from her father.)
They had two sons — Joseph and John. When his children were
young he had the misfortune of losing his wife ; soon after which
he left the township of Penn's Neck and settled in Pittsgrove,
and there married a widow by the name of Elwell. By this
wife he had two daughters, one of whom subsequently married
a Newkirk, the parents of Garrett and Matthew Newkirk, of
mercantile fame of Philadelpliia. An incident, relating to the
introduction of those eminent men into business life in Phila-
delphia, w^as related to the writer more than thirty years ago by
an aged physician, then a resident of Pittsgrove. He said the
father of Garrett and Matthew Newkirk was in the practice of
going to Philadelpliia market with his poultry once in a year,
which was common among the farmers of Salem county at tliat
time. On one of his trips his eldest daughter accompanied him
for the purpose of buying a new bonnet, soon after they arrived
in the city, she went to one of the milliners and purcliased her-
self one, and whilst waiting for it to be trimmed to her liking,
she was impressed with the idea that she would be glad to have
the opportunity of learning the trade before she left. Slie
asked the milliner in attendance if she would 1)0 willing to take
her to learn the trade ; tlie milliner replied in the affirmative,
but when she mentioned tlie matter to her father he discouraged
and desired her not to undertake it. But her mind was settled
upon it ; she told her father that if he would pay her board
whilst learning the trade, that would be all of his estate she
wanted. He at last consented. After she had learned the busi-
240 eUMMEKILL FAMILY.
ness she set iTp on lier own account, and in a few years accumu-
lated a fortune. At the death of her fatlier she obtained a
situation in one of the dry good stores for her eldest brother
Garrett, and in a short time afterwards she found a situation for
her younger brother, Matthew; both of them eventually became
successful and wealthy merchants in tlieir adopted city. Wil-
liam Summerill, the emigrant, died in Pittsgrove, at a very ad-
vanced age.
Joseph, the eldest son of William and Mary Summerill, set-
tled in AV^ilmington, Delaware, and engaged in tlie shipping and
blacksmitliing Inisiness. He married and liad two sons and two
daughters; both of liis daughters married sea captains. His
sons, Joseph and Nelieraiah, became merchants in Philadelphia,
but finally failed, causing, also, the failure of their fatlier. Aftei-
which they removed to the interior of Pennsylvania, wliere, it
is said, some of their family still remains. Jolm, the youngest
son of William and Mary Summerill, married Naomi Carney,
daughter of Thomas and Mary Carney, of Carney's Point. The
Carriey's purchased a large tract of land on the Delaware river,
being part of the Bowtown tract of 1640 acres, that formerly be-
longed to Matthias Nelson, he being a Swede. John and his Mdf e,
Naomi C. Summerill, owned and lived on the property that his
father purchased when he first settled in New Jersey. It is now
owned and occupied l)y Benjamin and Rebecca S. Black, as
before mentioned. The old mansion house was burned during
the war of the Revolution by a marauding party from the Brit-
ish fl.eet that was lying in the Delaware river opposite Helms
Cove. There is now a large iron pot in the possession of the
Summerill family, that was in the old family mansion when it
was burned ; it certainly is quite a centennial relic. John
Summerill, 1st, died comparatively a young man, lea^^ng a
widow and four sons — John, Jr., Joseph, Thomas and William,
and two daughters — Mary and Rebecca. Naomi, their mother,
proved a parent indeed. She remained and carried on farming,
and raised and educated her six children. She never married
again.
John Summerill, 2d, mai-ried Christiana Holton ; they had
nine children. James and Josiah died minors. Their father
was a successful agriculturist, and at his death was the owner
of a large quantity of excellent land in tlie townsliip of Upper
Penn's Neck. He lived to be nearly fourscore years, leaving
four sons and three daughters — John, 3d, Naomi, Garnett,
William, Ann, Rebecca and Joseph C. Joseph Summerill, the
second son of Jolm, 1st, married Mary Linmin ; they had two
8UMMERILL FAMILY. 241
children — William and Mary; both of whom are deceased.
William Summerill, son of Joseph, married Elizabeth A. Cris-
pin. He purcliased the James Mason farm, in Manuiugton,
near Salem, and resided thereon until his death. lie left a
large family of children. Most of William Summerill's chil-
dren's names I have no knowledge of, excepting three of his
sons — James, Robert and Henry, who are residents of Upper
Pittsgrove. William's widow is still living. Mary, the daugh-
ter of Joseph and Mary L. Summerill, married Stephen
Straughn. He is deceased. Thomas, the son of John and
Naomi Carney Summerill, married Elizabeth Borden ; they are
both deceased, dying young, and leaving a family of young
children, who are all deceased excepting two daughters — Han-
nah and Elizabeth Paul. One of the sons was married, and
left two sons, who are in business in Philadelphia. Hannah,
the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth B. Summerill, married
Samuel Holton ; she is deceased, leaving one son. Elizabeth,
daughter of Thomas Summerill, married Somers Barber ; the
latter is deceased, and leaves two children, both living. William,
son of John and Naomi Summerill, died a young man, unmar-
ried. Mary, daughter of John and Naomi Summerill, was
twice married ; her first husband's name was Clark, and after
ids death she married John Holton ; they left tlu-ee sons —
Thomas, Samuel and Andrew Holton ; the last named is living ;
the two oldest brothers are deceased.
John Summerill, 2d, died in 1854, and left seven children.
The eldest son, John Smnmerill, 3d, died in 1865, aged sixty-
two years. He was above mediocrity in mental abilities. In
early life he became an active politician, was elected to the
State Legislature when a young man, and was subsequently
chosen a State Senator and served the full term with entire sat-
isfaction to his constituents. Ho was affable and very pleasing
in his manner. His wife was Emily Parker. At his death he
left two sons — John, 4th, and Joseph C. Summerill, both of
whom are store keepers ana large dealers in grain at Helms
Cove, a short distance below Pennsgrove. Tliere their father
commenced the same business in 1829.
Naomi, the daughter of John, 2d, and Christiana H. Sum-
merill, married Robert, the son of James and Elizabeth Newell.
Robert and his wife since their marriage, reside in the township
of Mannington. They have three sons and one daughter living.
John S. Newell, their eldest son, married Emma, the daughter
of William Morris, late of Sharpstown ; they have one child —
Robert. Their daughter, Josephine, married Edward A. Van-
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242 SUMMERILL FAMILY.
neman, of Upper Penn's Neck ; lier husband is deceased, leav-
ing children. The two younger sons of Kobert and Naomi
Newell are Robert, Jr., and James. Garnett, the second son
of John and Cln-istiana Summerill, is a farmer, and owns and
resides on the property tliat was formerly owned and occupied
by Peter Carney, the youngest son of Thomas Carney, Sr. Gar-
nett married Mary Borden, of Sharpstown. They liad four chil-
tli-en — James, Annie, William G. and John, M. D. James is
deceased ; Annie married Henry M. Wright ; William J. and
John M. Summerill are unmarried. William, the third son of
John and Christiana Summerill, married Hannah Vanneman,
He resides in Upper Penn's Neck. He and his wife have two
gons — Josiah and Daniel V. Summerill, both of whom are mar-
ried, and reside on farms near Pennsgrovo. William Summerill
does a large amount of public business in his native county,
having been, and is at the present time, one of the Judges of
the Salem County Courts, and is also one of the Directors of
the Canal Meadow Company. This canal was projected as early
as 1801 by John Moore White and Michael Wayne, two emi-
nent lawyers of West Jersey, who, at that time, owned a large
tract of low lands and meadow bordering on Salem creek. They,
in conjunction with the late Joseph Reeve, who resided near
Sharpstown, made an application to the State Legislature for a
law to cut a navigable canal for a two-fold purpose. The said
canal was intended to carry off the waters that flowed down the
upper branches of Salem creek into the river, instead of a cir-
cuitous route of more than twenty miles to the Delaware river
by the course of Salem creek, and only two miles and four rods
by the canal. The contemplated canal was dug, but proved a
failure. It was attempted about thirty years ago to open it
deeper, but it was soon abandoned as impracticable. Some
seven years since, there was an application made to the State
Legislature for a new law for tlie purpose of taxing all the
owners of the low lands and meadows that lay above John
Denn's canal to the head of tide water, for tlie purpose of defray-
ing the expenses of digging a canal large enough for navigation,
and also, to stop the creek some distance below the contemplated
canal. The meadow was surveyed by three commissioners chosen
for that purpose, wliich survey amounted to seven or eight
thousand acres, and a tax assessed on said meadow by a second
set of commissioners elected for that purpose, agreeable to their
law. The Directors decided in cutting the new canal on the
site of the old one, about half a mile below Hawk's Bridge,
that was dug nearly seventy years previous. Through the energy
SUMMERILL FAMILY. 243
and perseverance of Elislia Bassett, William Snminerill, George
Biddle, David Pettit and Robert Walker, the work was com-
menced and the canal was completed so as to be navigable, and
Salem creek completely stopped abont fifty rods below the canal,
where it empties into Salem creek. This public work was under-
taken through great opposition by some of the owners of land
that lay bordering on Salem creek, notwithstanding it is likely
to prove one of the greatest public benefits that was ever under-
taken and fully consummated of the kind in Salem county. In
regard to navigation it enables owners of land in Upper
Penn's Neck, a large part of Maimington and Pilesgrove town-
ships, as well as the owners of extensive meadows and low lands,
that lie below the dam, to send the products of their farms to
market without much cost, or labor. Tlie complete draining by
the canal makes their meadows more than two-fold profitable
than heretofore.
Ann, the daughter of John and Christiana Summerill, mar-
ried Elias Kaighn, of Camden, The latter is deceased, leaving
one daughter, but his widow is now living at Helm's Cove,
Upper Penn's Neck. Rebecca, the daughter of John and
Christiana Summerill, married Benjamin Black ; they own and
reside on the old homestead farm of the Summeriirs, as hereto-
fore mentioned. They have two sons and two daughters.
Joseph, the youngest son of John and Christiana Summerill, is a
Methodist clergyman, of which religious society, I think, most
of the Summerill family are members, Joseph married Sarah
I. Yanneman, and has six children, three daughters and three
sons — Hannali, Christiana, Louisa, Joseph C, Thomas C. and
Daniel Yanneman Summerill, At the death of Thomas Car-
ney, 1st, he left two sons — Thomas and Peter Carney, and two
or three daughters. He, as was the custom in that day, devised
all his real estate to his sons ; his daughters, particularly Naomi,
liis eldest daughter, who married John Summerill, 1st, did not
lieir any of her fatlier's real estate. Thomas Carney, Jr., left
one daughter to inherit his large estate, who afterward married
the late Robert Gr. Johnson, of Salem. Peter Carney, the
])rother of Thomas, left two daughters ; one of them married
Benjamin Cripps, of Mannington ; the other daughter married
John Tuft, of Salem, but died young, leaving one son — Sinnick-
son Tuft. There is a singular circumstance comiected with the
Carney and Summerill families that does not often occur.
Naomi Carney Summerill's descendants, now, after a lapse of
nearly a century, owns the larger part of the landed estate that
belonged to her two brothers, Thomas and Peter Carney,
ineludinu' several larire and vahial)le farms.
SHARP FAMILY.
The Sharps are an ancient family of tlie Sontli of England,
They held a large landed estate in Till)ury, in Gloncester, near
the city of Bristol. Anthony Sharp, the subject of this sketch,
being the eldest son of that lineage of the Sharps, inherited the
great landed estate of the family, in the county of Gloucester,
lie was born about 1630, and early in life became convinced of
tlie doctrines of George Fox ; likewise one or two of his younger
1)rothers became members of the persecuted religious sect, called
Friends or Quakers. Anthony Sharp, the eldest brother, emi-
grated from Tilbury, England, in the time of Cromwell, and
settled in Queens county, Ireland, and purchased a large county
seat called Houndwood, near Mount Mellick. That was his
home, although he resided and did an extensive mercantile busi-
ness in the city of Dublin. The estate called Roundwood is
still in the possession of the Irish branch of the Sharp family to
tliis day. Anthony Sharp purchased a large landed estate in
East and AYest Jersey. On the 22d of 4th montli, 1681, he
l)ouglit of Roger Roberts, of Dublin, tlie one-tenth part of the
onc-aundredth part of West New Jei-sey. Again in a deed,
dated 16tli of 9th mouth, 1700, he purcliased of Henry Mason
and Elizabeth his wife, and William Barnard, tlie sixteentli of
the twentieth part of the one-hundi-cdth part; he likewise
l)0Ught of the same parties the following day the tenth part of
the one-hundredth part of West New Jerse3^ Anthony Sharp
also purchased of Thomas AVarner, of Dublin, the one-third part
(if the one-half part of John Hay wood's, one of tlie East Jersey
])roprietors. The deed was dated 14tli of lOtli month, 16H2.
The said John Haywood, William Penn, Gwinn Laurie, Robert
Barclay, and eight others, all being members of the Society of
Friends, bought from George Carterett East New Jersey. The
said John Haywood sold his one-twelfth to Thomas Warner, of
Dublin, for £350 sterling ; not for himself alone, but including
in that transaction, as equal parties, were Anthony Sharp and
Samuel Claridge ; botli of these were citizens of Dublin. A
division was made of the one-third part each owned, tliat being
SHAKP FAMILY. 245
in 1682. Afterwards Antlionj Sharp purchased of Samuel
Claridge one-half part of his original one-thii-d of John Hay-
wood's moiety, as one-lialf part of the original one-twelfth of
East New Jersey. This deed bears date 20th of 2d month,
1694.
Anthony Sharp, the elder, had three sons — Isaac, Joseph and
Daniel, and one daugliter — Rachel Sharp. He died in the year
1707, and was bmied in the ancient Friends' burying-gronnd in
the city of Dublin. Isaac, the eldest son of Anthony, married
and had three sons — Anthony, Isaac and Joseph Sliarp, and four
daughters ; their names were Mary, Sarah Mason, Rachel and
Margaret Sharp. Anthony, the eldest son of Isaac Sliarp, mar-
ried and had two children, one of wJiom whose name was Isaac,
died during his minority. Tlie daughter, Francis Sharp, mar-
ried Lake Flood, of Queens county, Ireland. The family of
Floods are an ancient family of both England and Ireland
Francis and her husband resided on the great landed estate
called Roundwood, that was owned by the iirst Anthony Sliarp.
Mary, the daughter of Isaac Sharp, probably died unmarried.
Her sister Sarali Mason Sharp, married a person by the name
of Daniel Delaney, and Margaret, the youngest daughter of Isaac
Sharp, married a man by the name of Hill ; they afterwards
emigrated to America. Anthony Sharp, 1st, becpieathed to
liis third son, Daniel Sharp, and his heii-s in male line in the
order of primogeniture, one-fourth part of his lands in East Jer-
sey. He bequeathed to his second son Joseph, and his heirs in
the male line, one-fourth part of all his lands in East New Jer-
sey, and in default of such issue to his eldest son Isaac Sharp.
Joseph Sharp, second son of Anthony, married Catharine
Sewage of Ireland, had one daughter. Isaac, the second brotlier
of Anthony, 2d, emigrated to America, and settled in West Jer-
sey, at a place called Blessington, now known as Sharpstown.
He brought the frame of his house with him from Ireland, and
tlie site where he built his house is on the farm owned at the
present time by Joseph Robinson. The tract is known as " The
Park" to this day by the old inhabitants in that section. It is
probable that the said Isaac Sharp emigrated al)out the year
1730. He was appointed Judge of the Court of Salem county,
by George II., King of England, 1741. This is the copy:
" George the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain,
" France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and to our
" trusty and well beloved Isaac Sharp, Esq., Greeting : We,
" reposing especial trust and confidence in 3^onr integrity, pru-
" dence, and ability, have assigned, constituted and appointed,
24:6 SHARP FAMILY.
" and we do by these presents assign, constitute and appoint
" you, tlie said Isaac Sharp, to be om- officer. Judge of Inferior
" Court of Common Pleas, to be held in and for our county of
" Salem, in our Province of Kew Jersey, giving and hereby
" granting to you the said Isaac Sharp, full power and authority
" to exercise and enjoy all power and jurisdiction, belonging to
" the said Court, and to hear, try and determine all causes, and
" quarrels which is recognizable in our said Court, and to award
" execution therein accordingly. In testimony whereof, wc
" have caused the Great Seal of our said Province of New Jer-
" sey to be hereunto affixed. Witness our trusty and well beloved
'' Lewis Morris,Esq., Captain General and Governor-in-chief over
" our said Province of Nova Cesaviea, or New Jersey, and the
" territories therein depending in America, and Yice Admiral in
" the same, and at our city of Perth Ambo}", the sixteentli day of
" August, in the eighteenth year of our reign. Anno Domini,
" 1741. HoLilE."
Isaac Sharp married a daughter of Thomas Lambert, who
resided near the falls of the river Delaware, in the county of
Burlington, previous, however, to the marriage of his father.
Isaac, then residing on his country-seat, in Ireland, called Round-
wood, made a settlement on him, it being six hundred acres on
land at Blessington, situated in the township of Pilesgrove, in
the county of Salem, and all other (his) the said Isaac Sharp's
lands in the said county of Salem, and likewise one moiety, or
half of all other the said Isaac Sharp's lands within the said
province of East and West New Jersey, in America, except
1050 acres of land on Cooper's creek, in the county of Glouces-
ter, known by the name of Rush Hill ; also all the said Isaac
Sharp's personal estate in tlie county of Salem, or elsewhere in
America. Isaac Sharp, the emigrant and his wife, had three
sons and five daughters ; their names were Samuel, Edward,
Anthony, Mary, Jaicl, Hannah D., Sarah, Rachel Wyncoop, and
Elizabeth Sharp. Tlie time of the death of Isaac Sharp, the
fatlier of the above mentioned children, is not mentioned ; prob-
ably before tlie year 1770. I think his name is not mentioned
in Salem County Court records after that date. He had a l)irth
i-ight in the Society of Friends, and he continued to be a mem-
])er during his long and active life.
Anthony, the youngest mm of Isaac Sharp, of Sharpstown,
espoused the part of the patriots during the Revolutionary
struggle. He lay concealed in the barn whilst tlie British were
in the neighborhood of his home, and Samuel Humphries, the
projenitor of the present families of IJiimplii'eys, then a small
SHARP FAMILY. 247
boy, carried provisions to him in Lis place of refuge. He, how-
ever emerged from his retreat, and went with Dr. Ebenezer
Ehner, (tlie father of Judge L. Q. C. Ehner,) of Bridgeton, to
Fort Ticonderoga, to participate in the engagements on the
frontier. It was here tliat, altliough a Quaker, lie attained the
rank of Colonel in the army ; and his name now stands coupled
with the above grade on the roster of tlie otKcers of the Ameri-
can forces. When driven from their home the silver plate and
other valuables of the Sharps, of Sharpstown, were conveyed
across the Delaware river to their relatives, the Delaneys, who
resided at Wilmington, Delaware. The man who rowed the
boat was named Jonas Keen, and he related the circumstance
on his death bed as one that had made a deep impression on his
memory. The said Jonas Keen lived to the very advanced age
of ninety years, and has descendants now residing in Salem.
Edward, the second son of Isaac Sharp, the emigrant, as
stated before, married Martha Thompson, of Sussex county.
East Jersey. She was the daughter of Colonel Mark Thomp-
son, of Marksboro, in the above county, and who served with
the rank of Colonel in the Revolutionary army. Whilst
engaged under General Dickinson, at the battle of Princeton,
he was severely wounded, and was carried under the same tree
to which the soldiers had taken General Mercer. Dr. Jacob
Thompson Sharp, formerly of Salem, grandson of Colonel Mark
Thompson, alluded to above, was (until children were born to
him by his wife, Hannah Ann Smith, of Philadelphia,) the
sole surviving representative of the family of Sharp's, M'ho emi-
grated to Salem county from Ireland ; which is confirmed by
the report of Mr. Gifford before the Historical Society of New
Jersey, at Newark, several years ago, which expressly states that
the above assertion is true. There are other families bearino- the
same name in Salem county, likewise in New Jersey, which are
remote from the Sharps of Blessington, or Sharpstown. Ed-
ward Sharp alone married, tlie otliers dying witliout issue. He
married the daughter of Mark Thompson, as before stated ;
they had four sons — Samuel, Jacob Thompson, Breckenridge
and Edward Sharp, and one daughter — Mary ; all of whom
died before attaining their majority, except Jacob Thompson
Sharp, who studied medicine and practiced that profession many
years, in both East and West Jersey ; and now resides in Cum-
l)erland county. He married, as before stated, Hannah Ann,
daughter of Edward Smith, a prominent merchant of Phila-
delphia, and a native of Salem county, as were likewise his
ancestors for several generations. Dr. Jacob Thompson and
248 SHARP FAMILY.
liis wife, Hannah Ann Sharp, had six children, four of whom
are still living, viz : Dr. Edward S. Sharp, of Salem ; Sallie M.
Westcott, of Briclgeton, Alexander Henry Sharp, a lawyer of
Atlantic county, and Thomas M. Sharp, Esq., of Port Eliza-
abeth, Cumberland county Martha Thompson Sharp and
Jacob Thompson Sharp are deceased.
Joseph Sharp, younger brother of Isaac Sharp, of Blessing-
ton, near Salem, resided at the same place and doubtless emi-
grated from Ireland simultaneously with his brother Isaac.
Isaac Siuirp, 1st, did by his last will, bearing date 15th of 3d
month, 1734:, give to his two sons, Isaac, and Joseph, all his
lands wliatsoever in East and West Jersey, ratifying and con-
lii'ming the above mentioned conveyance to his father by Thomas
Warner to his heirs and assigns forever.
William, the younger brother of Anthony Sharp, born in
Gloucestershire, England, married a young woman by the name
of Covert ; they had a son by the name of Thomas Sharp.
Anthony Sharp, his uncle, gave to him, m'Iio was then about
emigrating to America, and in consideration of his, Thomas
Sharp, looking after Anthony Sharp's possession, tliere for his
ease and best advantage ; he, tlie said Anthony Sharp, granted
and confirmed unto him, and his lieirs, something over
1,000 acres tluit Anthony Sharp bought of Roger Roberts,
of Dublin, in 1681 ; and the deed of conveyance was nuide the
same year. This property was located on the King's Highway ;
Salem County Alms House farm is part of it. Thomas Sharp
had a son Isaac, who built in the first decade of the eighteenth
century a large and substantial brick dwelling, which is still
standing, in good repair. William Austin is now the owner.
That family of Sharps, like those of Sharpstown, liad a large
deer park, which is still visible.
Thomas, the father of Isaac Sharp, had a family burying
ground, wliich was common at the first settlement of this
country. John Fenwick was buried there ; the reason assigned
was — Fenwick was desirous to lay witli his wdfe's relatives, the
mother of his children, she being a cousin of Thomas Sharp.
Isaac, the son of Thomas Sharp, was one of the Justices of
Salem court from the year 1709 to 1739 ; he was an active and
useful member of Salem Meeting of Friends. Thomas Chalk-
ley mentions in liis journal being at the house of his worthy
friend Isaac Sharp, in 1730. Isaac's descendants are not
numerous ; he had a grandson that married Grace Bassett ;
their children were — Abraim and William Sharp. Dr. Grifiith
who resided in Salem a number of years ago, married a lady of
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that family. 'No part of the large and valuable estate of the
Sharp's family belong to their descendants at the present
time.
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JOHN SMITH (OF SMITHFIELD) FAMILY.
John Smith, the son of William Smith, was one of Fenwick's
executors. He ^vas bora in the county of Kent, in England, in
the year 1645. In 1673 he married Susannah Marcy, daugliter
()f Edward Marcy, and in 1685 he and his Avife, together witli
a number of emigrants, embarked for America on board the
si lip Ariel, Edmund Baily master. They landed at New Castle
in the 4:th month of tlie same year. In the 6th month
following, he came to Salem, in West New Jersey, and pur-
chased i,000 acres of land of Samuel and Anna Hedge, in
Upper Mannington, it being one-half of the Hedgefield allot-
ment, and there he made his permanent home. From that time
it was known as Smithheld. It has been said he was a relative
and also an inmiediate friend of John Fenwick. I presume
this was the reason he was made one of Fenwick's executors,
notwithstanding he had not arrived in this country at the time
of his death. It is generally admitted by those familiar with
the characters of the first settlers, that he had more than ordi-
nary intellect and lousiness capacities. He and his wife had two
cliildren born in England, who died the first year after they
arrived in this country. Their cliildren born in America were
Susanna Smith, born in Mannington 8th of 8th month, 1689 ;
Joseph Smith, their eldest son born in 1691 ; John Smith, Jr.,
born in 1693 ; Samuel Smith, born in 1696; and Elizabeth Smith,
l)orn 3d of 3d month, 1703. She mai'ried Judge John Bacon,
of Bacon's Neck. Joseph Smith, the son of John and Susanna
Smith, married and had one son — Thomas Smith, who in 174(1
married Sarah, the daughter of Elisha and Abigail Bassett, of
Bilesgrove ; they had three sons, the eldest was AVilliam, born
31st of 8t]i month, 1741. He married Sarah, the daughter of
James Chambless, Jr., of Alloways Creek; their children were
Mary, Charles, AVilliam, James, Beulali, Clement and Atilla
Smith. Mary, tlie eldest, married John Ellet, son of Charles
and Hannah Carpenter Ellet ; tlieir children were Hannah C.
and Maria Chambless Ellet, the latter remains single and resides
in Salem. Hannah Carpenter Ellet was twice married, her tirst
JOHN SMITH (of SMITHFIELD) FAMILY. 251
liusbfmd was George W, Smith, of Yirginia; they had issue, one
son — Cliarles P. Smith. Her second husband was Joseph E.
Brown, the son of Joseph and Ann Allen Brown ; they had
issue, two sons. James Smith, son of William and Sarah
Cliambless Smith, married Hannah, the daughter of Jediah and
Hannah Carpenter Allen, of Mannington ; their children are
Sarah Ann and Mary Smith. Clement, tlie youngest son of
William and Sarah Smith, married Hannah, the daughter of
William and Catharine Low Tyler, of Salem ; they had one
son — Clement Smith. Beulah, daughter of William and Sarah
Smitli, married Joseph H. Wilson, of Philadelphia ; their child-
ren were Mary, William, Emelinc, James, Harlin, Louisa and
Sarah Wilson. Charles, William and Atilla Smith never
married.
David Smith, the second son of Thomas and Sarah Bassett
Smith, was born 17th of 7th month, 1744-. He married Mary,
the daughter of James, Jr., and Mary Oakford Cliambless, sister
to his brother William's wife. They had no issue. David was
a hatter by trade and followed his business in the town of Salem
during his life. He adopted his nephew, the son of Thomas
Smith, and made him the heir of his estate. David, the son of
Thomas, married Martlia, the daughter of Thomas Jones, of
Salem. They had issue, three children — Mary, James and
Arabella ; one of whom married Samuel, the eldest son of
Samuel and Eliza Clement ; the other married a son of Judge
Hornlilower, of East Jersey.
Thomas, the youngest son of Thomas and Sarah Bassett, was
born 25tli of 1st month, 1717. He married Hannah Shillis ;
their children were Elisha, Stephen and David Smith. Elisha
married and left heirs — Stephen, Eliza and Ellen Smith. Ste-
phen married Mary W. Jones, of Philadelphia ; their children
were Sarah, James, Thomas, Charles, Elizabeth, Cliambless,
Clement and Isaac Smith.
Li 1718 Samuel Smith married Hannali Giles. Tlieir son,
Giles Smith, was born 18th of 10th montli, 1719, and their
daughter Hannah Smith was born in 1721. She, in 1712,
married Preston Carpenter, the son of Samuel Carpenter, and
grandson of Samuel Carpenter, Sr., who arrived in Philadelphia
in 1683, in company with his brother, Joshua Carpenter, and
other emigrants, and who was one of the first merchants in
that city, and in the year 1700 was computed to be the richest
man, except the proprietor, in the province of Pennsylvania,
but towards the close of his life he met with several heavy
losses, and his estate was considerably reduced l)ef<)re lie died.
252 .lOHN SMITH (of smithfield) familv.
Preston Carpenter and his wife liad, I think, seven children —
Thomas, EHzabeth, William, Hannah, Margaret, Mary and
Martha. TJiomas married a yonng woman in Gloncester whose
maiden name was Tonkins. They were the grand-parents of
Jndge Thomas Carpenter, of Camden. Willim Carpenter's
first wife was Elizal^eth Wyatt, daughter of Bartliolomew, 3d.
His second wife was Mary Redman, daughter of John Redman.
Elizabeth Carpenter married Ezra Firth, son of John Firtli.
Margaret Carpenter married James Mason Woodruff. Hannah
Carpenter's first husband was Charles Ellet ; her second hus-
band was Jedediah Allen. Mary Carpenter mai'ried Samuel
Tonkins. Martha Carpenter married Joseph Reeve.
Elizabeth Smith, youngest daughter of John Smitli, of Smith-
field, was born in 1703, and married John Bacon, of Cohansey,
in 1720. He was, I believe, the son of Samuel Bacon They
liad seven children, named respectively Thomas, John, Eliza-
beth, David, Martha, Mary and Job. Thomas Bacon, the old-
est son, was born in 1721, and was the father of Charles and
John Bacon. Charles married and settled on his father's prop-
erty in Bacon's Neck, Greenwich townsliip. They had five
children. Thomas, married a young woman in Mannington by
tlie name of Wright. They both died young, and left one son,
the present Thomas Bacon, formerly of Mannington. Benja-
min's second son married a young woman in Gloncester county
by the name of Allen. They liad two children. His second
wife was Susan Dallas, daughter of Jonathan Dallas. David
Bacon, their third son, never married, and Avas a merchant in
tiie town of Salem for several years, but after a time he removed
to Woodstown and there ended his days, leaving a legacy to
Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting for them to erect a school house,
which is now known as Bacon's School. Charles Bacon never
married, and died at an advanced age on his farm in Ba(;on's
Neck. Rachel Bacon married a Sheppard. She was the mother
of the late Moses Sheppard of Greenwich. John Bacon cam.e
to this county and made it his home. After a time he married
Hannah Denn, daughter of Paul Denn, of Alloways Creek.
They had five children — Thomas, Eleanor, Martha, Hannah and
John.
Elizabeth Bacon married John Denn of Alloways Creek, and
was the mother of the late John Denn, of Mannington. David
Bacon learned the hat trade in Philadelphia, and made liis per-
manent home in that city, where he followed his trade the
greater part of his life and amassed a fortune. He married and
left two children — Joseph and Hannah Bacon. Joseph Bacon
JOHN SMITH (of SMITHFIPJLd) FAMILY. 253
the son of David Bacon, married and had four sons named
Thomas, David, Joseph and Sanuiel Bacon. Hannah tlie dangli-
ter of David Bacon, married Jonathan Evans. Thej were the
parents of the late Tliomas Evans, who married Catherine Wistar,
tlie daughter of John Wistar, of this county. Job Bacon, the
youngest son of John and EHzabeth S. Bacon, was born 1735, and
married Mary Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, of Alloways
Creek. They had three children — Job, Elizabeth and George Ba-
con. Job Bacon, their son, had two children by his first wife— John
and Martha Bacon, His second wife was Ruth Thompson,
daughter of John Thompson, of Elsinborough. They had four
children named respectively Mary, Sarali, Ann and Josiah Bacon.
Mary w^as the lirst wife of Clement iVcton, of Salem ; Sarah
remains single and resides at Greenwich ; Ann married Moses
Sheppard ; Josiah Bacon went into the mercantile business in
Philadelpliia. It is believed tliat he has accumulated a large
fortune. He is one of the Pennsylvania Railroad directors.
The widow of Job Bacon, Sr., Mary S. Bacon, married Richard
Wood, Jr. He was born in Stoe Creek township, Cumberland
county, as it is now called, in 1728. He was tlie son of Riciiard
Wood, who purchased ] ,000 acres of land and built himself a
brick house, as early as 1725, which is still standing. He died
in the year 1759, and was buried in his own family burying
ground on his farm. I have been informed tliat his great grand-
son. Professor George B. Wood, of Philadelphia, has erected a
small marble monument in the old family graveyard to the
memory of his great ancestor.
Elizabeth, daughter of Job and Mary Bacon, married Rich-
ard Wood, 3d. He was ])orn 7th of 2d month, 1755. Eliza-
beth was his second wife. He was a successful merchant in tlie
town of Greenwich, and had six children — Professor George Ba-
con Wood, Richard, Charles, Horatio, Ann Elizal)eth and Han-
nah Wood. At tlie death of Richard Wood, 3d, the poor and
afflicted lost a valuable friend. He was ever ready to adminis-
ter to their necessities ; so much so that his name in (4rcenwich
and in the country around is held in grateful remenil)rance by
the inhabitants to the present day. He told his wife a few years
before his death to always look after the poor, and remarked
that there was no danger but there would be enough attention
paid to the rich. The case of this truly great man reminds me
of the wise man, wlio said he never knew the righteous forsaken
or liis children begging bread. This saying has been verified
respecting Richard Wood's children, as they have all been
successful in life in a renuirkable degree as to this world's
25-i JOHN SMITH (of SMITHFIELD) FAMILY.
goods, also a very respectable staiKlinii!; in general soeiety.
George Bacon, son of Job Bacon and Mary, his wife, married
Naomi Tyler. Tliey had four children — Ezra, George, Francis
and Mary Bacon. He was a partner in the mercantile business
with his brother-in-law, Richard Wood, several years, and he
was far above ordinary men in his conversational powers, easy
in his address, and without ostentation, which made his company
veiy agreeable and interesting. He wielded a great influence
ioY good in the town of Greenwich, and in society generally in
which he associated. He died at an advanced age greatly
regretted by all wlio knew liim.
STRETCH FAMILY.
Joseph Stretch emigrated to tliis countr}' from EngLuid about
tlie year 1695. In tlie year 1700 he married Ilannali, the young-
est daughter of Edward and Mary Bradway, who was born in
New Salem, the 7th of 7th month, 1681. Joseph and liis wife
settled on the southern portion of a tract of land which her
father had purchased of the heirs of John Fenwick, contain-
ing 900 acres of fast land and meadow. The said tract
was below the Salter line, now known as Stoe Neck. About
the year 1720, William Bradway, the son of Edward, had a
brick dwelling erected on his part of the property, and his nephew,
Bradway Stretch, built liimself a brick dwelling about the size
of his uncle's, on the jDroperty lie inherited from his mother,
about the year 1740. Tliere are standing at this time six brick
dwellings, all in siglit of each other, which were erected in the
fore part of the last century, — Daniel's, Brad way's. Stretch's,
Padgett's, Butcher's and Richard Wood's. They are located on
the head of the tide waters of the Unknown or Stoe creek. The
early emigrants universally made the iirst clearings and settled
on the navigable streams. I presume for two good causes — the
tirst M^as there were but few public highways, and they poorly
kept up for traveling, and what traveling they did do was on
horseback; the second was by living near to navigation they
could more readily get their produce to market in vessels and
boats. There was a more important cause than either before
mentioned: our hardy pioneers of the wilderness being men of
judgment and enterprise, soon discovered the most fertile lands
lay bordering on the navigal)]e streams and their trilnitaries,
which, I think, is the case in tlie counties of Salem and Cund)er-
land.
Jose])h and Hannah Stretch had two sons — Bradway, born
11th of 8d month, 1702, and Joseph, born in 1701. Bradway
subsequently married Sarah, tlie daughter of John and Mary
Cliaml)less Hancock, born 15th of 11th month, 1703. Thev
were married in 1721, and had eight children — Hannali,
William, David, James, Sarah, Mary, Bradway and Eleanor
246 STRETCH FAMILY.
Stretcli. William, the eldest son of Bradway and Sarah, mar-
ried and left one son, John Stretch, M'ho married a Finlcj.
lie afterwards sold his part of the Stoe Neck property to his
nephew, John Finlev. James, the son of Bradway and Sarah,
horn 4tli of 4th month, 1793, married Elizabeth Evans. She
inherited the hrick honse farm which belonged to her father,
a short distance below Harmersville. (The farm l)elongs at
the present rime to Peter E. Harris.) At that phice James
and his wife commenced life. They had three children —
James, Dorcas and Rachel. James' second wife was a
widow by the name of Allen ; they liad no issne. James lived
to reach about eighty-seven years. His son James had two
wives. The name of the first I never learned ; she lived
but a short time after marriage. His second wife was Mary,
daughter of Asa Jefferies ; they had several children. A shoit
time after his father's death lie sold the property inherited
from his parents and removed with his family to Indiana.
He and his ^vife are both deceased, leaving, I understand, a
large estate to their children. Two of their sons studied law,
and are successful in their profession. Dorcas, the daughter of
James and Elizabeth Stretch, married Samuel, the son of Ed-
ward and Hannah Pancoast. They were natives of Burlington
county, but subsequently removed to Gloucester, and there
ended their days, leaving a family of eleven children — Josepli,
Elizabeth, Eliakim, James, Hannah, Samuel, William, Dorcas,
Josiali, Charles and Anna. Joseph married Susan, the daugh-
ter of Joseph and Ann Thompson ; their children are mentioned
in the Thompson family. Elizabeth's husl>and Avas Malichi
Horner, of Gloucester, who is deceased ; they had no issue.
Eliakim kept a feed and flour store for a number of ^^ears in
Philadelphia, and married Tacy Roberts, of Byberry ; they liad
issue. John and Mary Pancoast both died young. The parents
of the above mentioned children are deceased. James was a
bricklayer, and followed his trade in Philadelphia during his
life. He married and left several children. Hannah, the
second daughter, possessed great natural abilities, a logical
mind, a remarkably mild temperament, and conversational
powers above mediocrity. The poet truly wrote :
There is many a gem that is born to bloom unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
She married Townsend, the son of Reuben llilliard. He was
a carpenter, and carried on his trade in Philadelphia. Tiiey
had nine children — Elizabeth. Sanniel, Joseph, Hannah, Reuben,
8TKETCH FAMILY. !3o <
Anna, William, Mary and Charles. Hannah P., the mother,
died several years ago of that loathsome and painful disease —
cancer, which appears to be hereditary in the Pancoast family.
Her husband is still living. All of their children (each of whom
evinced uncommon intellect) are deceased excepting Anna, who
married Bennett Smedley. Samuel, tlie son of Samuel and
Dorcas Pancoast, was sent in early life to Philadelphia to learn
the carpenter trade. After his term of apprenticeship expired,
he followed the business several years with success. He married
Mary, the daughter of Enoch and Beulah Allen ; she lived but
a short time, leaving no issue. His second wife is Malenia
Skirms, whose parents lived near Trenton, New Jersey. Sam-
uel and his wife have four children — Allen, Mary, Eveline
and Charles. Allen Pancoast's wife is Eliza Denfield ; they
have issue. Mary Pancoast married Oliver Lund ; they have
issue. Tlie younger children are unmarried. Samuel was a
member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania for two or tliree
terms. For many years of his life he pursued the business of
buying and selling real estate in the city of Philadelphia. He
has now retired from business and from public life, possessed
of a competency, and lives at his country seat at Tioga. Wil-
liam Pancoast, his brother, died a .young man unmarried.
Dorcas, the daughter of Samuel and Dorcas Pancoast, is
living with her relatives in Philadelphia, unmarried. Jo-
siah Pancoast removed when a yoimg man to one of the
Southern States, and died in a short time unmarried. Charles,
the youngest son of Sanniel and Dorcas Pancoast, resides in
Philadelphia, where lie has been an Alderman for a number of
years. He married Harriet Merrill, a widow, a native of Mas-
sachusetts. Charles and his wife have no issue. Anna, the
youngest daughter of Samuel and Dorcas, was very precocious
in acquiring an education, and was a teacher in the Philadelphia
schools the greater part of her life. She subsequently married
William Keyser, an eminent teacher in that city, a native of
Bucks county, Pennsylvania. They had one daughter — Eveline
Keyser. William died not many years after his marriage of
pulmonary consumption. Her second husband M'as Henry
Maguire ; tliey liad one child — Jenny. Anna is now deceased,
dying of the same disease of which her husband died. Sanmel
Pancoast, father of the above mentioned children, died in
Elsinborough, in 1833, of Asiatic cholera, which he contracted
while in Pliiladelphia on a visit to his children. Soon after
tliat event his widow, Dorcas Pancoast, removed to Philadel-
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p]ii;i and made lier lioiiie with one of lier dauij;liters ; she lived
to nearly fourscore yeai's.
Hannah, the daughter of Brad way and Sarah Stretch, Ijorn
6th of 2d month, 1725, married Wade Barker. They had
issue, a daughter, Hannah Barker, who sul)sequently married
Robert Watson ; her second husband M'as James Sayres. Rachel
Sayres, their eldest child, married a man by the name of Gil-
man, a native of Cumberland county. Sarah, the daughter of
Bradway and Sarali Stretch, born 14th of 2d month, 1736,
married Samuel Scudders ; tliey had issue. (They were the
great-grand-parents of William Evans Scuddcr, who keeps store
at Hancock's Bridge at the present time.) Mary, the daughter
of Bradway and Sarah Stretch, born 2-ith of 2d month, 1736,
married a Corliss. They had issne, Jacob Corliss, M'ho subse-
quently married and died a yonng man, leaving one son, Benja-
min Corliss, who inherited the farm that Jervis Hires now
owns, located near the village of Canton. Mary S. Corliss, the
mother of Jacob, departed this life 2d of 6tli month, aged over
sixty-seven years. Eleanor, the daughter of Bradway and Sarah
Stretch, born J6tli of 3d month, 1745, married a man by the
name of Evans ; she died in 1770, aged twenty-six years,
leaving issue.
Joseph, the son of Joseph and Hannah B. Stretch, was l)orn
12th of 8tli month, 1704 ; from liim there are numerous de-
scendants. He purchased more than two-thirds of the Christo-
pher White allotment of 1,000 acres bought of John Fenwick in
1676. The greater part of said estate was inherited by Josiah
White, the grand-son of Christopher. Joseph Stretch, Jr., was
the pnrchaser of a large part of it, inclnding the old brick
mansion that was built by Christopher White in 1691. Joseph
and Deliorah Stretch had eleven children — Sarah, Mary, Peter,
Joseph, Samuel, Jonatlian, Joshna, Martlia, Nathan, Aaron and
Rebecca. Sarah, the eldest daughter, born about 1725, married
Solomon, the son of Joseph Ware, Jr., and Elizal)eth Walker
Ware, There were eiglit children by that imion — Beter Strctcli,
Elizabeth, Job, Hannah, Elisha, Barsheba, Sarah and Solomon.
This large family of children all died minors excepting Sarah,
who was born 14th of 6th month, 1756. She subsequently
married Joshua Thompson, of Elsinborough, but died young,
leaving three children — Joseph, John and Elizabeth. John
died soon after his mother's deatli, aged about ten years. Those
whom Joseph and Elizabetli married, and their offspring, are
mentioned in the genealogy of the Ware and Tliompson
families
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Joseph Stretch, 3(1, l)orn 3d of 9th month, 1732, married
Sarah, daughter of Joseph Ware, 3d. She was born 2d of 8th
montli, 1737. They had issue — Jael, born in 1762, and Martha
in 1763. Samuel, the son of Joseph and Sarah Stretch, born
8th of 7th month, 1736, had two wives ; their maiden names do
not appear in the family records. The issue by his first wife
was Joseph Stretch, who subsequently married and left one son
— Jonathan Stretch. Samuel by his second wife had two sons
— Samuel and Luke Stretch. Samuel died a young man un-
married, and devised all the estate he inherited from his parents
to his brother Luke. The latter subsequently married Sarah,
daughter of Joseph and Mary Street Fogg. Luke and his wife
hud three children, two of them died young during the lifetime
of their parents. The other son, Aaron, became possessed of a
considerable estate, which had belonged to his parents. He
died young, and leaving no near relations of the Stretch family,
excepting the issue of Joseph Stretch, half brother to his father,
there originated a long contested law controversy for the pos-
session of the property. Tlie real estate was taken possession
of by Jonathan Stretch, a son of the half blood of Jjuke Stretch.
The personal property was decided by the legal adviser to
belong to Joseph Fogg, he being an own brother of Sarah F.
Stretch, the decedent's mother. The real estate, I believe, was
tiaally decided to l)clong to David Stretch, lie being a descend-
ant of the oldest male line of Samuel Stretch, and from him to
his son Nathaniel.
Sarah Stretch married Samuel Test in 1768. They lived on
a small property she inherited from her parents, about a mile
below Hancock's Bridge, containing about 50 acres. They had
issue, two sons. Samuel, the eldest, was born in 1768, and learned
th'i hat busiuess. His brother Mark, I think, married Dorcas
Jveasbey. The property after their parent's death was divided
ecpudly between the two brothers. Samuel's share was where
liis parents lived ; Josepli Brown is at the present time the
owner. It appears that Sanuiel Test, soon after the deatli of
his parents, sold his estate to Barzilla Jeffers, and removed to
Indiana, and settled in Kichmond, which at that time was a
small village, and there he followed his trade the greater part
of the remainder of his life, and acquired a competency. He
was a leading member in his middle and old age of the largest
Society of Friends on the Continent of North America — the
Indiana Yearly Meeting. After he reached nearly four-score
years he made a pilgrinuige to his native State and county, and
iii (•ompany with his friend, the late Josiah M. Reeve, visited
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the house in Avhich he was born, located in Alloways Creek
township. AVe can well imag-ine his emotions as he went from
room to room of the home of his youth. It doubtless brou<i;lit
back pleasing remembrances of his affectionate parents as he
again stood in that ancient building where he first uttered that
endearing name, mother, whicli the good and wise in all ages
have delighted to venerate. WJien he looked around his native
liome, and tlie generation of men he was familiar with in the
days of his youth, he realized that the friends and neighbors of
liis parents had gone to their final liome, and had been succeeded
by another generation whom he knew not. Such a visit and his
own reflections were amply suflicient to repay him for the long
and toilsome journey to his native home. I have l)een informed
he lived but a short time after he returned. Of his innnediate
family I have no means of knowing. His brother Mark and
his wife Dorcas Test had one son — Mark. He sold the estate lie
inherited from his parents more than forty years ago to Morris
Hancock, and settled near his uncle Samuel in the vicinity of
Richmond, Indiana.
Jonathan, the son of Joseph and Deborah Stretch, born 8tli
of 8th month, 1737, married Hannah, the daughter of Joseph
and Elizabeth Ware, born 4th of 7th month, 1739. They had
issue, seven children The eldest was Sarah, who was born in
1759, David, Deborah, Mark, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Jonathan.
Hannah W. Stretch, their mother, departed this life 18th of
12th month, 1775. Jonathan Stretch's second wife was Eliza-
l)eth Fogg. The}' had issue — Hannah Stretch. David, the son
of Jonathan and Hannah Stretch, born 25tli of 5th month, 1763,
married Mary, the widow of Joseph Fogg. Her maiden name
Avas Mary Street, and slie held a large tract of land in her own
right located near the village of Canton. David and his wife
had six children — Hannah, Jonathan, Nathaniel, David, Mark,
and Jael. David's second wife was Rachel Baker, of Manning-
ton. She Avas a widow, the daughter of Jedediah Allen. David
and his second wife had no issue.
Hannah, the daughter of David and Mary Stretch, was born
in 1778. Her first husband was Joseph Keasbey ; there was no
issue. Her second husband was Andrew Smith. They had
four children — Mary, Hannah, Catharine and David. The latter
married Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Thomas and Rachel
Hancock. They had issue — Morris and Sarah Smith. Mary,
the daughter of Andrew and Hannah Smith, married Charles,
son of Thomas Reeves. Charles B. and his wife had issue — A.
Smith, Elizabeth and Thomas. A. Smith Reeves nuirried Mary,
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261
the daugliter of Eichard and Lucetta Mulford ; tliey have issue.
Hannah, the daughter of Andrew and Hannah Smitli, married
Hiram Harris. Tlie}^ have two children — David and Catharine.
Catharine, the youngest daughter of Andrew and Hannali Smith,
married Amos, the son of Stretch and Rebecca Harris. They
have two children — Rebecca and Stretch Harris.
Jonathan, the eldest son of David and Mary Stretch, born
in 1790, married Elizabeth, the daughter of Jesse and Mary
Carll ; they had no issue. His second wife was Hannah Shep-
pard. He died not long after marriage, leaving no offspring.
His widow subsequently married Dr. David Jayne. Nathaniel
the son of David and Mary Stretch, was born in 1792. His
lirst wife «^as Susan, the daughter of Solomon Dubois. By that
connection there were three children — Mary Ann, Sarah F. and
Susan. (The last mentioned child died young). Mary Ann
Stretch, born in 1815, married Abner, the son of Wasiiington
and Mary Smith. Abner and his wife had one daughter — Su-
san, who married Charles Hires ; they have three sons. Nathan-
iel's second wife was Elizabeth, the daughter of John Harris.
The said John Harris served as a soldier during the whole of
the Revolutionary war, and was in the regular army the winter
that Washington and his army lay at Yalley Forge. He mar-
ried after he returned home, and he and his wife had four chil-
dren — Benjamin, Lydia, Elizabeth and Clara. Nathaniel Stretch
has been deceased for several years, leaving a widow, but no
issue by liis last wife.
David, the son of David and Mary Stretch, was l)orn in 1795.
His wife was Sarah, the daughter of Moses Hadley ; by that
(ionnection there were five children — George, Aaron, Jonathan,
Lydia Ann and Mary. The wife of George Stretch was Mary,
the daughter of David S. English. Aaron and Jonathan Stretch
removed in early life to Nashville, Tennessee. Lydia Ann
Stretch married William H. Nelson ; he died several years ago
leaving a widow but no issue. Mary, the youngest of David
and Mary Stretch's children, married Richard Sailor. Slie is a
widow at this time, her husband having been deceased for a
number of years. Mark, the youngest son of David and Mary
Stretch, was born in 1797. He, in after life, married Elizabeth,
the daughter of Jonathan and Joanna Hildreth. Mark and his
wife had four children — Joseph, Mary, Elizabeth and Joanna.
His second wife was Tamson Finley ; they had one daughter —
Deborah. Mark is deceased, and his son, Joseph H. Stretch,
lived beyond middle age. He died recently, leaving a lai'ge
landed estate ; he never nuirried. Mary, the daughter of Mark
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and Elizabeth Stretch, marriecl John II., tlie son of Wilham
Morris, of Pilesgrove. John and his wife liave one son — Wil-
ham. The hnsband of Elizabeth, the danghter of Mark and
Elizal)eth Stretch, is William A., tlie son of Joseph Casper.
They have issue — Ilildreth, William J., Annie, Elizabeth and
John. Joanna, the daughter of Mark and Elizabeth Stretch,
married Charles B. Reeves. She was his second wife, and by
that connection there were two sons. Joanna is deceased at
this time. Jael, the youngest daughter of David and Mary
Stretch, born in 1799, married David, the son of George Grier,
Sr. She was his second wife, (his first wife was Lydia, the
daughter of Jonathan and Joanna Ilildreth, who left no issue.)
David left two sons by his last wife, — George and Richard
Grier. George, the eldest, died a minor. Richard subsequently
married Amanda, the daughter of David and Mary Davis, of
Pilesgrove. Jael's second husband was William II., tne son of
Davis and Francis Nelson. She was a dutiful wife, and an
affectionate and loving mother. She died many years before
lier husband, leaving no issue by the last marriage.
Joshua, the son of Joseph and Deborali Stretch, born 28tli
of 12tli montli, 1740, married Lydia, the widow of Paul Denn,
and daughter of John and Mary Stewart. They were married
at Alloways Creek in 1762, and had three children — Job, Mili-
cent and Elisha Stretch. Job, the eldest son, was born 6th of
12t]i month, 1763. I think he died a young man unmarried.
Milicent was born 10th of 11th month, 1766, and married
James Hance ; she died not many years after that event, and
left no issue. Elisha, the son of Joshua and Lydia Stretch, was
born 17th of 12th month, 1768. His wife was Sarah, the
daughter of William and Mary Ware Bradway. They had
eight children, three of whom died young ; Mary, Joshua, Wil-
liam, Ann and Job Stretch all lived to mature age. Mary, the
eldest, married Mark, the son of Mark and Martha Bradway.
She lived but a short time after marriage, leaving no issue.
Joshua married Elizabeth, the daughter of Waddington Brad-
way, Sr. There was one son by that connection, Joshua
Stretch, who studied medicine, and practiced his profession in
Salem for a time. He married L3^dia, the daughter of Mark
Bainer, of Philadelphia. lie left Salem and removed to Phila-
delphia, where he died soon after of that insidious disease so
destructive to the human family, pulmonary consumption. He
left a widow and two or three children. His father, Josluia
Stretch, was remarkable for his high moral character. For a
number of years he taught school in Sal(;m with great credit to
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liimself, and with tlio approval of tliose wlio ])atronized liiin.
William, the second son of Elisha and Sarah Stretch, learned
the tailoring business, and followed it after he became of age
in Salem. He was very proficient in his calling, and his cus-
tomei's were the best in the town and county. Toward the
close of his life he left Salem with his family and removed to
Jersey City. He married several years before he left Salem,
but the name of his wife I have never learned. He died not
long after, leaving several children.
Ann, the youngest daughter of Elisha and Sarah W. Stretcli,
married John D., the son of Mark and Elizabeth Stewart.
They had seven children — Elizabetli, Charles, Elisha, Sarah,
James, John and Ann, Elizabeth, the eldest, died before her
mother, who died in 1857, aged over fifty-two years. Charles,
Elisha, Sarah, James and John died soon after they had arrived
to the age of maturity — a time when life is full of hope and
pleasure — leaving behind an aged and kind father and a beloved
sister to mourn their untimely end. Job, the youngest son of
Elisha and Sarah Stretch, was apprenticed to his brother Wil-
liam to learn the tailoring business, and he followed that occu-
pation in Salem during the remainder of his life. His wife was
Catharine, the daugliter of John Nicliolson, a lineal descendant
of the fifth generation of that eminent Eriend, Samuel Nichol-
son, who in 1675 emigrated to this country in company with
Jolm FenAvick and his family f]-om the county of Northampton-
shire, England. Job and his wife Catharine had tlu-ee children
— Eliza, Charles and Mary. Eliza, I have been informed, mar-
ried Joseph Paul ; tliey reside in Philadelj^hia. Mary Stretcli's
husband is John P. Moore, who keeps a hardware store on
Market street, in the city of Salem. He was a partner several
years in tjiat business with tlie late Thomas W. Cattell, tlie
father of Alexander G. Cattell. Job Stretch, the father of the
above mentioned children, died a number of years ago of con-
sumption, wliicli is hereditary in his mother's family. Elisha
Stretch's second w^ife was Mary, the widow of Ezra Bradway,
the daughter of James Denn. They had three daughters —
Beulah, Mary and Sarah. Beulah, the eldest, married Nathan
Kiger; by that connection there were four children — Alfred,
Mary, Anna and Nathan. Her second husband is Simon Wal-
len. Mary, the second daughter of Elisha and Mary Stretch,
died a young woman, unmarried. Sarah, their youngest daugh-
ter, married Joseph Mitten. I think they are at this time resi-
dents of California.
Rachel, the daughter of James and Elizabeth Stretch, married
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Jonathan Butcher. She died in early life, leaving one daugh-
ter, Ruth Butcher, wlio subsequently married George Grier,
Jr., the son of George and Rebecca Ware Grier. I shall
digress somewliat to mention the families that organized tlie
iirst Presbyterian Clnirch in Lower Alloways Creek. Richard
Moore (;ame from Pittsgrove and purchased land near what was
called Logtown about 1840. He had five children — Robert,
Joamia, Rebecca, Mary and Hannali. Robert, Jr., married and
died young, leaving two children — Richard and Rebecca. Jo-
anna Moore married Jonathan, the son of Joseph Hildreth.
They had five children — Lydia, Hannah, Elizabeth, one who
married Joseph Corliss, (being his first wife,) and Jonathan
Hildreth, Jr. Rebecca married George Grier, and had three
sons — Richard, George and David. Mary Moore maj-ried Solo-
mon Dubois ; they had three or four cliildren. Hannah Moore
married Daniel, the son of Peter Stretch ; they had several
children which I shall mention hereafter. Tliese families, to-
gether with tlie Sayres, Woodruffs and Padgetts, were the
principal families which constituted the Presbyterian congrega-
tion. The church stood ou tlie old road leading from Han-
cock's Bridge to the village of Canton, a short distance below
Harmersville. They also purchased a lot of ground for a grave-
yard adjoining the Baptist graveyard at the present time. I
have been informed that both yards are enclosed with one fence.
The Presbyterian clmrch was reduced to one or two families at
the beginning of this centmy, and they finally abandoned it,
and the house was removed after standing little over half a
century.
George and Ruth B. Grier had five children — Richard, the
eldest, died a young man unmarried ; Jonathan B., Ra(;hel, Rob-
ert and Charles. Jonathan B. Grier married Lydia, the daugh-
ter of David and Hannah Fogg. I think they have five children —
David, George, Rebecca, Anna and Jonathan B. Griej-. David
Grier married Gulielma, the daughter of Josiah and Sarah
Engle, of Pilesgrove ; they have issue. George Grier married
the daughtei" of Allen Wallace. Rebecca Grier, married James,
the son of John and Hannah Lindsey, of Lower Penn's Neck ;
they have issue. Anna Grier married Richard, the son of Ben-
jamin and Mary Bassett ; they have issue. Jonathan, tlie young-
est son, married Anna, the daughter of Samuel P. and Hannah
Allen, of Mannington. Robert, the son of George and Ruth
Grier, married Sarah, the daughter of William and Elizabeth
Thompson, of Elsinborough. They have five cliildren — Ruth,
Georgiana, Abigail, Richard and William T. Ruth, their eld-
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est daiigliter, married Robert, tlie son of George and Hannah
C. Boon. Georgianna married Joseph, the son of Aaron Lip-
pincott, of Mannington. Rachel, daughter of George and Rntli
B. Grier, married John, tlie son of Jesse and Ann Patrick. They
liad f 0111- childj-en— Richard, George, Charles and Morris. CharleF,
the youngest son of George and Ruth Grier, died a young man
unmarried. At the death of James, the son of Bradway Stretcli,
he devised his landed estate which he had inherited from his
father (being one-half of Stoe Neck farm), to his daugliter, Dor-
cas Pancoast, and his granddaughter, Rutli Butcher, afterM-ards
Grier. Samuel Pancoast and George Grier sold the said prop-
erty to John Finley, who some years l)efore had purchased one-
half of the Bradway Stretch farm of John Stretch.
Peter Stretch was advanced in years when he married, and
there is no definite record of the maiden name of his wife, Ijut
tradition says it was Temperance Howell, which I think quite
probable. (She named a son by her second husband, Howell
Hall.) Peter was a large landholder, and the greater part of
his real estate was located near Hancock's Bridge, and was orig-
inally the Christopher White estate. Peter, the son of Peter
and Temperance Stretch, born 16th of 2d month, 1767, married,
but died a young man, leaving issue — Elizabeth Stretch, who
died a minor. Anthony, the son of Peter and Temperance
Stretch, born 11th of 1st month, 1769, died at the early age of
three years. Daniel, the son of Peter and Temperance' Stretch,
was born 7th of 9th month, 1770. Peter Stretch died about the
year 1774:, leaving a widow and two minor children — Peter and
Daniel. Temperance, his widow, subsequently married Colonel
Edward Hall, of Mannington, and they had two cliildren — Sarah,
born 9th month, 1779, and Howell, born 18th of 1st month,
1785. Temperauce, their mother, died about 1787. Daniel, the
son of Peter and Temperance Stretch, subsequently married
Mary Stretch, a distant relative ; they had two sons — Peter and
Robert. Peter Stretcli died without issue in 1797, and the large
estate, both personal and real, descended to his brother Daniel.
Daniel's second wife was Hannah, the daughter of Richard and
Mary Moore, wdio was born 15th of 1th month, 1776. They
had six children — Daniel, Clarissa, Edward, Ann, Richard and
Temperance. Daniel and his wife Hannah died in 1813 at the
village of Canton, wdule their children were all minors. His
estate at the time of his death was larger than that of any other
person living in the township. Peter, his eldest son, married
Phelie, the daughter of Moses Hadley. They liad six children —
Emily, Elizabeth, Richard, Josiah, Wesley and Phebe. Peter
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266 STRETCH FAMILY.
and his wife are botli deceased at this time, and most of their
chikh-en died young. One of his sons, Wesley Stretch, I have
been informed, resides in Philadelphia, and is concerned in the
celebrated drug store of the late I3r. David Jayne, on Chestnut
street.
Daniel, the son of Daniel and Hannah M. Stretch, born 3d
of 11th month, 1799, married Eliza Iladly, sister of his brother
Peter's wife. They had two sons — Edwin and Pichard. I think
Edwin married the daughter of Joseph Boon; they have issue.
Richard Stretch married Lydia, the daughter of Edward and
Eliza Smith; they have several children.
Clarissa, the daughter of Daniel and Hannah M. Stretch,
born 26th of 1st month, 1802, married Thomas Sinnickson, of
Salem. They had issue, all of whom were noticed in the gene-
alogy of the Sinnickson family.
Edward, the son of Daniel and Hannah M. Stretch, born 3d
of 7th month, 1804, married the daughter of William Nixon.
There were three sons and one daughter by this union — AYilliam,
Edward, Peter and Hannah. William married Mary Ann,
widow of Robert Hancock, and the daughter of James Fisher.
William and his wife have several children,
Ann, the daughter of Daniel and Hannah M. Stretch, born
11th of 9th month, 1806, married Josiah Paullin ; they have
issue — Anne, Josiah B., George M. and William Hemy. Ann
subsequently married William Hunter. George M. was a sur-
geon in the army during the late rebellion, and is now a prac-
ticing physician in Canton. He married Annie, the daugliter
of John H. and Elizabeth Lambert ; they have issue. Richard
M., the son of Daniel and Hannah M. Stretch, was born in 1809.
He has for many years been in the mercantile business at Allo-
waystown. He married Rebecca, the daughter of Robert and
Anna Coe. They have four children — Charles, Anna, Robert
and Mary. Charles married Hannah Gray, of Philadelphia ;
they have issue. Anna married Benjamin I. Diament. Robert
is connected with the West Jersey Express Company, in Phila-
delphia.
Aaron, the son of Joseph and Deborah Stretch, l.)orn 14th of
10th month, 1746, married Elizabeth Reeves ; they had one son.
Reeves, and two or tln-ee daughters. Aaron died a compara-
tively young man. His widow afterwards married a man by
the name of Mills, by whom she had two children — Joel and
Keziah. Elizabeth's third husband was William Bradway, of
Stoe Neck ; they had no issue. Reeves, the son of Aaron
;md Elizalwtli Stretch, man-ied a Glaspe3^ They liad five
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children — Job, Racliel, Sarah, Kosanna and Reeves. Job, the
eldest son, married Rebecca, the daughter of Joseph Deal ; they
had issue. Elizabeth married Enoch, son of Richard Garrison,
of Cumberland ; they have three or four children. Job Stretch,
Jr.'s wife is Sarah, the daughter of Isaac and Martha Harris ;
they have live children. Richard, the youngest son of Job and
Rebecca Stretch, married Sarah, the daughter of Job Thorp.
Job Stretch, Sr.'s second wife was Charlotte, widow of Jacob
Dubois, and daughter of Jolin Finley.
Reeves, the youngest son of Reeves Stretch, Sr., married the
daughter of Richard Garrison. He died a young man, leaving
three minor sons — Richard, Charles and Reeves. Rachel, the
daughter of Reeves Stretch, married Daniel Barnes. Sarah,
tlie second daughter of Reeves Stretch, married Elisha Bonham,
the son of Justice Bonham ; they had two or tln-ee children.
She is deceased at the present time, Rosanna Stretch's husband
was George A. Githens of Greenwich. They had five children
— Hannah, Louisa, Cecelia, George A. and William H. George
and his wife Rosanna Githens are deceased at the present time.
Georgh A. Githens' wife is Martha, daughter of Richard and
Lucetta Mulford. For several years past he has resided in
Salem, and is in the mercantile business. Louisa Githens
became the wife of Charles, the youngest son of Judge Ephraim
Carll. She lived but a short period after her marriage, dying
of pulmonary consumption, leaving one child. Hannah, her
sister, lias paid the debt of nature since of a similar disease. I
think Cecelia is still livini::.
TYLEE FAMILY.
The Tylers in this country are descended from an ancient
Englisli family. Their ancestors came with William, the Con-
queror, into England, and fought in the Inittle of Hastings in
1066. They were residents of England for five hundred years.
About that period there were three brothers, branches of the old
English family, Avho emigrated to America. One settled in
Now England, one in the state of Virginia, (the ancestors of the
ex-President, John Tyler), and the other, William Tyler, came
to West Jersey about 1688, and purchased a lai-ge tract of land
on the north side of Monmouth river of John Champney, being
part of the 2,000 acres that John Fenwick deeded in 1676 to
James Cliampney, and his wife Priscilla Fenwick Champney.
William Tyler, whilst he was in his native country, married as
nearly as can be ascertained in 1676, Johanna Parson. They
liad four children born in England as follows — Mary T^yler, at
Walton, in the county of Somerset, 11th month, 1677 ; William
Tyler, 5th of 7t]i month, 1680 ; John Tyler, in the 5th month,
1682, and Johanna Tyler in 1684. The following certificate
given him by his friends in England sliow conclusively where
his residence was in his native land: " Whereas, William Tyler,
' of Walton, in the county of Somerset, Yoeman, intends to
' transport himself and family into the province of Pennsylva-
' nia, in America, if tlie Lord will, and has desired a certiticute
' on Ids behalf. We therefore, whose names are subscribed, do
' herel>y certify that the said William Tyler hath professed the
' truth for several years past, and that we do not know but that
' his conversation hath been answerable to his profession, and
' tliat we do know that he hath been ready and willing to con-
' tribute to the service of truth, as opportunity h.ith offered and
' occasion required, and that as to his dealings with the world,
' he has been punctual and of good report as far as any of us
' know or have heard, and we know nothing of debts or other
' entanglements on his part but that lie may with cdearness
' ])rosecute his intended voyage. In testimony whereof we
'liave hereunto subscribed our liands. Dated the eleventh day
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" of seventh month, called September, in the year 1685. Signed
" by Edward Chanyles, William Lidden, Thomas Howell, Jolm
" W. Bidder, and ten others." It is evident that William Ty-
ler's wife, Johanna, lived but a short time after their arrival in
this country. His second wife's first name was Elizabeth ; her
maiden name I never heard. He had three children by Eliza-
beth. Their oldest was named Catharine, who was born 13th
of 6th month, 1690 ; their son, Philip Tyler, was born in the
6th month, 1692, and Elizabeth Tyler, 1691. WiUiam Tyler,
the father of the above mentioned children, \vas a farmer, and
likewise carried on the tanning business. Pie made his will in
the 2d month, 1700, in which he bequeatlied a large landed
estate to his sons. The Champney property, where he resided,
he left to his oldest son, William, it being about 400 acres, and
to his second son, John Tyler, 800 acres situated in the lower
part of Alloways Creek township, together witli some other
lands in the same township. The witnesses to the will were
William Hall and John Firth. There appears no reliable record
of any time of liis death, but it is thought by the family to have
occurred in 1701. Mary Tyler, daughter of William Tyler, Sr.,
married Abel Nicholson, tlie son of Samuel Nicholson. They
had eight children — Sarah, Kachel, Joseph, William T., Ann,
Jolm, Ruth and Samuel.
John Tyler, the second son of William Tyler, married Han-
nah Wade, the daughter of Samuel Wade. He inherited a large
landed estate from his father, which I think was located in
Alloways Creek township, not far from the village of Harmers-
ville, being part of Annie Salters' allotment. John and liis
wife Hannah W. Tyler, had one son — Benjamin by name. The
year he was born is uncertain, prol)ably about the year 1720.
Soon after lie an-ived of age, he sold his patrimonial estate at
Alloways Creek, and purchased some 400 acres near the town
of Greenwich, now Cumberland county, being part of the Gib-
bon estate. In 1746 he married Naomi Dennis, the sister of
Philip Dennis, of Bacon's Neck. They had four children — Eliz-
abetli, born 28th of 2d month, 1748 ; Rachel, born in 1751 ; Jolm
in 1753; Letitia, 9th of 11th month, 1755. Tlie last mentioned
was young when lier mother died. In 1759 Benjanun married
his second wife, Mary Adams by name, and he had four chil-
dren — Job, l)orn in 1760 ; Lydia, in 1763 ; Ilannali, in 1765, and
Benjamin, 30th of lOth month, 1771. John Tyler, the son
of Benjamin, married Abigail Lippincott. They had three chil-
dren — Samuel, Benjamin and Naomi. His second wife was
Nancy Hall, but she died in a slK)rt time afterwards lea\'ing no
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issue. Benjamin's third wife was Hope Sharp, by whom lie had
one daui^hter — Hannah Y. Tyler. Elizabeth, the oldest daugh-
ter of Benjamin Tyler, married John Dunham. They had two
children — John and Elizabeth Dunham. The latter afterwards
become the wife of Job Tyler, Jr. Letitia's first husband was
Andrew Griscom. They had two children — Benjamin and An-
drew Griscom. Her second husband was James English, and
they had two children — Martha and Tyler English. Martha
afterwards became the wife of Benjamin Harris. Rachel Tyler's
husband was John Botts, Jr., of Bacon's Neck. They left chil-
dren. Job Tyler, the oldest son of Benjamin Tyler by his last
wife, married Rachel Sayre. Soon after they were married he
sold his farm tliat was left to him by his father, and his iirst
purchase in Salem county was the James Sterling farm in Man-
nington, .vhich property now belongs to John T. Bassett. Job
Tyler did not own the property long before he sold it, and
bought Lucas Gibbs' large farm in Quaker Neck. He was a
man of considerable energy, and was considered one of the best
farmers of his time in Salem county. His attention was turned
to grazing and feeding cattle ; perhaps he has never been equalled
in this section .of the country in that particular. He raised the
fattest, but not the largest, bullock that was ever exhibited in
Bhiladelphia. Its neat weight was 2,165 lbs. The inhabitants
of Salem county considered it a credit to the place, and the
directors of Salem Bank honored him by using the impress of
the Tyler ox on their one dollar notes for many years. Job
and Rachel Tyler had four children — Benjamin, the oldest, mar-
ried a young woman by the name of Burden, and had by her
one son named James, who subsequently married a woman by
the name of Penton, l)y whom he had two children, a son and
daughter, named Rachel and James Tyler. The latter married
one of the daughters of John H. Lambert, and Rachel is the
wife of John Lambert, Jr. Job Tyler, Jr., married Elizabeth
Duuhani, she being his cousin, lie inherited tlie homestead
farm in Quaker Neck. A few years after the death of his father
lie sokl it to Andrew Griscom and moved to Salem. He and his
wife had no children. His wife died some length of time before
him. At his death he willed the greater part of his estate, being
])rincipally in money, to his brother Benjamin's grandchildren,
Rachel and James Tyler.
Mary, daughter of Job Tyler, Sr., married John Bacon, son
Job Bacon, of Greenwich. She lived but a short time after her
marriage. Richard Tyler, the youngest son of Job and Rachel
Tyler, was one of the most promising young men, of his time,
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in the county. Remarkably pleasing in person and address, he
attracted to himself many friends. He died unmarried al)out
1819, witJi that distressing disease, the bilious dysentery, which
became an epidemic complaint in that year and the season
following in tliis county, and many, particularly the young, fell
victims to it.
Samuel Tyler, the son of John Tyler, married Rachel Peck,
by whom he had eight cliildren — Abigail, Benjamin, Martha,
Samuel, Clarissa, Nancy, Rachel and George. Abigail died
unmarried. Benjamin, his son, embraced the Presbyterian
faith. He studied for the ministry, and became a highly
esteemed clergyman of that sect. His wife was Mary Seeley,
the daughter of Richard Seeley. Benjamin died a compara-
tively young man, leaving a widow and three cliildren — Charles,
Joseph and Benjamin, who are living. Martha Tyler, daughter
of Samuel, married Oliver H. Williams. Samuel Tyler, Jr.
married Elizabeth Burden. Rachel Tyler married Auley B.
Wood. Clarissa and Nancy Tyler were twin children, both of
them died unmarried. George Tyler, the youngest son of
Samuel, married Emily Moore. But one of the eight children
of Samuel survived him, and that was Samuel, who has been
dead several years.
Bemjamin Tyler's, son of John Tyler, first wife was a
Thompson. By her he had six children — Hannah Ann, John,
Mary, Ebenezar, Lydia and Benjamin. His second wife was
Hope Allen, but they had no issue. His third wife was Martha
Owen, a widow, whose maiden name was Buzby, the daughter
of Nathaniel Buzby, of Port Elizabeth. She survived Benja-
min several years. Hannah Ann Tyler, daughter of Benjamin,
married Josiah Harmer. Her second husband was Evi Smith.
John Tyler married Beulah Griscom, daughter of Benjamin
Griscom, of Salem. Mary Tyler married Charles Harmer.
Her second husband was Andrew Thompson, of Mannington.
Ebenezar Tyler married Sarah Stewart, daughter of James
Stewart, Jr., of Alloways Creek. Lydia Tyler married Reuben
Hilliard, of Mannington, sou of Samuel Hilliard, of the same
place. Benjamin Tyler, Jr. married Alice Woolman, of Piles-
grove. Naomi Tyler, the daughter of John Tyler, married
George Bacon, of Greenwich. Their children were Eliza,
George, Richard, Francis and Mary Bacon.
William Tyler, Jr., the oldest son of William and Johanna
Tyler, was born at Walton, in England, 5th of 7th month, 1680.
At the death of his father he was about twenty-one years of
age. It appears that his father had much confidence in him, as
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he directed in his will that he should have charge of the younger
cliildren, some of whom were not more than two or three years
of age, and was left executor to his fatlier's will. Among his
papers tliat hav^e been preserved by liis descendants is a manu-
script inventory of his father's goods, wliich is as follows:
" An inventory of the goods and chattels of William Tyler,
" deceased, as they were brought l)efore us. Kudoc Morris,
" Joseph Parson and John Parson, this 25th of 2d month, 1701,
" l)eing appraisers." The amount of the personal estate of Wil-
liam Tyler amounted by the appraisement to £519, 9s, 2d, and
was recorded the 20th of 6th month, 1701, in Salem, by Samuel
Hedge, 3d, recorder. William Tyler, Jr., received as executor
to his father's will, through Elias Osborne, of England, agent
of his uncle, Thomas Parsons, of Philadelphia, a considerable
amount of money from England. It appears from a letter
dated 10th month, 1688, three years after William Tyler, Sr.,
emigrated to America, that Abraham Grundy was placed in
charge of his estate which he had left in England, and his son
William also kept up the corres])ondenee after liis father's death.
A letter dated 5th of lOtli month, 1702, lie writes to the execu-
tor of Abraham Grundy to pay him £20 sterling. I presume
it was the balance of his fatlier's estate in England. William
Tyler, Jr., married Mary Abljott, sister of George Abbott, the
emigrant, and by her had six cliildren. Their oldest, William
Tyler, 3d, was ' born 2d of 5th month, 1712; Editli, their
daughtei-, born 24th of 11th month, 1711:; Rebecca, born
29th of 3d month, 1716 ; Mary, born 16th of 1st month,
1718; James, born 30th of 12th month, 1720; and Samuel,
born 26th of 10th month, 1723. The mother of these chil-
dren survived their father, and afterwards married Robert
Townsend, of Cape May, in the 3^ear 1735. By this marriage
she had one daughter, Rany Townsend, who subsequently mar-
ried a man by the name of Stites. After the death of Robert
Townsend, his widow returned aiid lived with her Tyler children.
AVilliam Tyler, 2d, died in 1733, aged lifty-three years. A
short time previous to his death he made liis will, in whicli he
l)equeathed the plantation on which he lived to his son William,
(it is owned at the present day by William Robertson and
Thomas Yanmeter,) for M'hich William was to pay £50 to his
(huighter, Edith Thompson, the wife of Samuel Thompson, and
the like sum to his daughter, Rebecca Tyler. The said sums to
be paid by AVilliam in foiu" years after the decease of his father.
He left to his second son, James Tyler, a farm of 234 acres,
whicli he bought of William Hall. Ricliard McPherson and
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Aaron Fogg are the present owners of the said property. He
gave to his youngest son, Samuel Tyler, a tract of land com-
monly called Smith Neck, containing 150 acres. He also willed
to his two sons, William and Samuel Tyler, a tract of land
lying between the first mentioned messuages and the said
Smith Neck, containing 100 acres more or less. The said land
formerly belonged to John Maddox Denn. lie furtlier be-
queathed to his wife, Mary Tyler, and his daugliters, Edith and
Kebecca, all his personal estate, after his funeral expenses and
just debts were paid, to be equally divided among them. He
also willed that iiis wife should have the privilege and use of
one-half of his best mansion liouse to dwell in during her natu-
ral life, and also to keep a horse and cow upon the first men-
tioned messuage so long as she continued to dwell thereon.
He nominated and appointed his wife, Mary Tyler, and his son,
William Tyler, and liis son-in-law, Samuel Thompson, executors
of his last will and testament. The will was made 29th of 11th
montli, 1732. The inventory of his personal estate amounted
to £271, 13s. The appraisers were Abel Nicholson and Thomas
Taylor. William Tyler, 3d, married Elizabeth Thompson. Slie
was the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Thompson, and they
lived where Allowaystown is now located. She was born 1st
of 8th montl), 1716. They had three daughters. The oldest,
Sarah Tyler, married Samuel Stewart, the son of John and
Mary Stewart, of Alloways Creek. Their children were Joseph,
Mary, Mark and Ann. The last mentioned married William
Griscom. Joseph Stewart married Kachel Bradway. Mark's
wife was Elizabeth Denn, daughter of James Denn, and Mary
died unmarried.
Rebecca Tyler, William's second daughter, married William
Abbott, the son of Samuel Abbott, of Elsinborougli. Their
children were Josiah, Samuel and George. Mary Tyler, his
youngest daughter, married Jacob Scoggins, whose cliildren
were Tyler, Jonas, Mary, Phebe, Eebecca and Elizabeth. I
believe Tyler Scoggins died a young man and single. Rebecca
lived to an old age and died unmarried. Mary married Joseph
Piper and had tliree children. Elizabeth Scoggins' husband
was James Dennis. Their cliildren were Mary, Naomi, Jona-
than and Rebecca. It is probable that Jacob Scoggins and his
wife Mary bought the share of the homesterd farm of her two
sisters, Sarah and Rebecca, that their father, William Tyler,
inherited from his father. Sometime after the death of Jacob
and Mary Scoggins, their children sold the farm to John Lind-
sey, after having been in the Tyler family four generations.
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After the death of Lindsey the farm was divided between his
two sons, John and Joseph. Thomas Jones, Sr., pnrchased
Joseph Lindsey's farm, which was part of James Yanmeter's
wife's share of her father's estate. John Lindsey, Jr.'s farm
was sokl some time after his death, and WilHam Robertson was
the purcliaser, tlie father of the present \Yiniam Robertson.
Edith Tyler, danghter of William Tyler, 2d, married Samuel
Thompson, who was born 6th of 9th montli, 1707. He was the
son of William Thompson and grandson of Andrew Thompson,
who emigrated to this country in 1677, and purchased land of
Richard Guy in Elsinboro, and settled thereon ; whilst his son
William bought a large tract of land in Upper Monmouth,
where Allowaystown is now located, and at that place he resided
until his death. From them sprung numerous descendants.
Samuel and his wife had five children. The oldest M'as Samuel
Thompson, Jr. He was the grandfather of the late
Joshua Thompson, who died recently in Salem at an advanced
age. Aaron Thompson, their second son, married Hannah
Hancock, widow of William Hancock, of Elsinborough. Aaron
and his wife left no children. Hannah's maiden name was
Fogg, daughter of Charles Fogg. Their oldest daughter, I
think, was Sarah, she married Josiah Kay. He lived in Glou-
cester county, about three miles above AVoodbury. They had
one son, and a daughter — Rebecca Ivay. She married Clement
Hall, of Elsinboro, the eldest son of Clement and Margaret
Hall, of the same township. They had seven children — Ann,
Margaret, Prudence, Sarah, Morris, Deborah and Rebecca.
Edith Thompson, daughter of Samuel, married Jedediah Allen,
of Mannington. He was the oldest son of Jedediah Allen and
grandson of Nathaniel Chamblcss, of Allowaj^'s Creek. Their
eldest son, Samuel T. Allen, went to Philadelphia and became
an eminent merchant and sliipper, and accumulated a great
fortune. One of his cousins paid him a visit on one occasion,
and remarked to him whilst he was at his house upon the splen-
dor in which he lived, Samuel replied, "It does not produce
" happiness." Samuel married Maria Wilkins. They had four
daughters, one of whom married, and she and her husband emi-
grated to South America. Rebecca Thompson, the third daugh-
ter of Samuel and Edith Thompson, married David Allen, tlie
brother of Jedediah. From that union tliere were ten children
— Hannah Allen, born 5tli of 3d month, 1767, whose first hus-
l)and was Aaron Fogg ; second, David Bradway. Mary Allen,
born 1768, married Joseph Bassett. Ann Allen, born 1770,
married Josepli Brown. Rebecca and David Allen, twin chil-
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(Iren, born in 1772 ; Kebecca's first luisband was Josliua
Thompson ; second, Benjamin Griscom ; David Allen went to
the West Indies and there died. Edith Allen, born in 1775,
died I think unmarried. Beulah, born in 1779, died unmarried.
Samuel, born in 1781, married a young woman of Gloucester
county. Jedediah, born in 1784 ; his first wife was Sarah
Austin, his second wife Hannah Abbott. Chambless Allen,
born 1786 ; his wife was Sarah Nicholson, the daughter of
William Nicholson, of Mannington. David Allen died when
most of his children were minors. His widow, Kebecca Allen,
by her great energy and perseverence made lierself adequate to
the great charge that was committed to her in raising such a
large family of children. Rebecca Tyler, daughter of William
Tyler, 2d, died a young woman, unmarried. Mary Tyler,
daughter of the same parents, died young, before her father.
Johanna Tyler, daughter of AVilliam Tyler, was born at Wal-
ton, England, in 1684: She married Jonathan Waddington,
son of William Waddington, From this union sprung a line of
descendants. Old receipts still exist for the payment of her
paternal inheritance, which were given thirty years after the
death of her father. " Be it known to all men of these presents
" that we, Jonathan Waddington and Joan Waddington, liis
" wife, wliich is the daughter of William Tyler, deceased, do
" acknowledge we have received of lier brother William Tyler,
" 2d, executor of the last will and testament of her father, Wil-
" liam Tyler, aforesaid, deceased, the sum of one hundred and
" twenty-nine pounds in full satisfaction of a legacy left said
" Joan by said father, of which said one hundred and twenty-
" nine pounds, hj us received as aforesaid, we do acknowledge
" ourselves fully satisfied and paid. Of every part and parcel
" thereof we do clear, exonerate, and forever, by these presents,
" from the beginning of the world unto tliis day, as witnesses
" our hand and seal the 14th day of May, 1731. Signed, sealed
" and delivered in the presence of
" Jonathan Waddington,
Her
" Joan M Waddington.''
Mark.
Philip Tyler, son of William Tyler, 1st, was born 1692, near
Salem, New Jersey. His first wife was Elizabeth Denn, the
daughter of John Maddox Denn, and by her he had two chil-
dren — Enoch and Elizabeth Tyler. His second wife's name
was Moore, and by that connection were two daugliters, the
elder was named Rachel, the j'ounger one's name is unknown at
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the present time. Two of Pliilip's descendants were living in
1847. The description of their ancestor, as handed down to
them, was that he had been in person a tall and spare man. He
speculated in land largely, likewise in other business, was un-
successful, and died poor, about the year 1777, nearly eighty
years of age, and was buried in the ancient burial ground of
Friends, on the north side of Monmouth river, near Hancock's
Bridge. His son Enoch Tyler died a minor. His daughter
Elizabeth Tyler married a man by the name of AVatson ; they
had three sons — Thomas, Jolm and Tyler Watson. Rachel
Tyler, daughter of Philip by his last wife, died single ; her sister
married Ephraim Sayre, and numerous descendants sprung from
that union.
Rebecca Tyler, daughter of William Tyler, 1st, w^as born near
Salem in 1698, and married William Murdock. The Murdocks
are said to have married into the Wliital family near Woodbury,
the Whitals being recorded in the Tyler's family Bible seems to
corroborate it.
James Tyler, the son of William Tyler, 2d, and Mary his
wife, was born 30th of 12th month, 1720, and resided all his
life on the property on Alloways creek, that was left to him by
liis father. He built himself a brick house on the said property
about the year 1745. His wife was Martha Simpson ; they had
two children — James Tyler, Jr., and Ruth Tyler. He died at
the age of eighty years, and was succeeded on the farm by his
son James, who married a young woman by the name of Acron.
Their children were Catherine, William, Samuel and John
Tyler; the sons so far as known left no children. Catherine
Tyler married William Walker, a man of peculiar character,
Avho, after passing througli a variety of changes here, emigrated
aV)Out 1818 to Cincinnati, then to Indiana, where lie lived until
tlie war with Mexico. Being strongly allured by the military
spirit with which he was surrounded, he applied to the Govern-
ment for a Captain's commission. It was at first refused him
on the plea that he was too old, but was subsequently granted,
and he, when more than seventy years of age, marched at the
head of his company into Mexico ; was present at tlie battle of
Buena Vista, where he fell in 1847. He had several children,
who are still living in the West ; one a doctor, another son a
lawyer. Ruth Tyler, daughter of James Tyler, Sr., married
John Ware, the son of John and Elizabeth Ware, of Alloways
Creek Neck. Ruth inherited one-tliird of her father's real
estate. Wlien they were first married they lived on tlie farm
that was left liim by his father, and subsequently he built on his
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277
wife's property, and resided there until his death. When her
brother James' children offered for sale the property that they
inherited from their parent, John Ware sold his farm in Allo-
ways Creek to Mark Townsend, of Cape May, which enabled
him to purchase the whole of the property that once belonged
to his father-in-law, James Tyler. John and Ruth Ware had
two children — Martha and Eleanor. Martha died a young
woman whilst on a visit to her uncle David AVare, near l)arVjy.
Eleanor Ware married Jeremiah Tracy, who was many years
younger than hei'self ; there was no issue from tliis union. She,
during their marriage, deeded all her real estate to her husband,
and died a short time afterwards. This indenture conveyed the
last of 700 acres on Alloways creek that was purchased by
William Tyler, 1st, one hundred and seventy-live years ago.
Samuel Tyler, youngest child of William Tyler, 2d., and
Mary his wife, was born 26th of 10th month, 1723. He was
about ten years old at the death of his father. Wlien lie was
nearly eighteen years of age he apprenticed himself to Benja-
min Acton, of Salem, to learn the tanning business. An
indenture found among his papers, dated 1741, signed Samuel
Tyler, and witnessed by his mother, Mary Tyler, and George
Trenchard, specified that he was to serve four years at the busi-
ness. Soon after the expiration he sold his possesions on
Alloways creek, that he inherited from his father, and bought
of Rebecca Edgil, of Philadelphia, the property of the upper
end of Salem, since known as Tyler street. In the deed for
this purcliase, dated 1746, the house is called " a new brick
" liouse," making it at the present time more than one hundred
and twenty years old. It is now owned by William Davidson.
At this liouse he carried on the tanning business. In 1751 he
married Ann Mason, the daughter of John Mason, Jr., and
granddaugliter of John Mason, the emigrant. Their children,
live in number, were named William Tyler, born 3d of 11th
month, 1752 ; John, born 7th of 9th month, 1755 ; Mary, born
11th of 8th month, 1756 ; Samuel, born in 7th month, 1758 ;
and Rebecca, born in 6th month, 1764. Samuel lived to see
most of his children grow up, and died 26th of lltli month,
1778, at the comparatively early age of Hfty-five years. Ann
Tyler, his wife, died 23d of 2d montli, 1777, nearly a year
before her husband. William Tyler, 4th, administered on the
estate of his father. The property was appraised 5th of 1st
month, 1779 ; Samuel Stewart and Samuel Thompson were the
appraisers. The whole of his personal property amounted to
about £1,500, a large sum for that period. William Tyler wag
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twenty-six years old when his father died — his mother dying
the year before. He and his brothers and sisters were thus
deprived of both parents. They however, found a parent in
their maternal aunt, Mary Mason, wlio went to live with them,
and remained with some of the family until her death. Accord-
ing to the law at that time, William Tyler, 4th, as the oldest
S3n, was entitled to all the landed estate. He was not, however,
unmindful of liis brothers and sisters, but assigned them a share
of their father's property. It appears the family all remained
at tlieir native home until William's marriage with Beulali
Ridgway, in 1792. I think she was the daughter of Job
Ridgway, of Mannington. The Tyler family then separated,
and Jie continued at the paternal mansion. His wife lived but
a short time after they were married, and died leaving no issue.
In 179G he married his second wife, Catherine Low, daughter
of Hugh Low, of Philadelphia. She was born 5th of 2d
month, 1765, and died in 1825. Hugh Low was the son of
English parents, members of the Society of Friends, who came
over to tliis country with their family when he was an infant
and settled in Philadelphia. He was considered to be a man
of good natural abilities and strict integrity, liberal in his
feelings, and became a firm friend to the country of his
adoption.
John Mason Tyler, son of William Tyler and Catharine
Tyler, was born 28th of 5th month, 1797. Hannah Gillespey
Tyler, was born 30th of 8th month, 1798. Hugh Low Tyler,
was born 20th of 3d month, 1800. Mary Tyler, was born 21st
of 11th month, 1801. Annie Tjder, was born 1st of 3d month,
1805. William Tyler, fifth son of William and Catharine
Tyler, was born 16th of 9th month, 1806. William and Catha-
rine Tyler, the parents of the above mentioned children, lived
together more than twenty-seven years, it is said, with great
conjugal felicity. He w\as a man of retiring disposition, of few
words and was considered honest and impartial in his dealings
with his fellow men. He died after an illness of about two
weeks in 1823, in his seventy-second year. Catharine Tyler,
his wife, survived him fifteen months. Her death took place
23d of 3d month, 1825, when she was about sixty-nine 3'ears of
age. She was considered a discreet and sensible woman, with
warm sensibilities and devoted piety, sprightly in character and
was anxious that her children should be brought up aright, that
they might become useful and worthy citizens. John Mason
Tyler, the eldest son of William Tyler, in his youth left liis
parents' home and M^as adopted by his uncle, John Tylei-, and
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went to live with liiin. At this home he continued, succeeded
his uncle in business, and married Dorothea Graham Hoskins,
of Radnor, Pennsylvania, in 1832. Tliey had two children —
Catharine Low Tyler, born in 1833, and William Grraham
Tyler. Joseph Hoskins, the father of Dorothea Tyler, was a
native of New Jersey. He went to Delaware county, Pennsyl-
vania, settled on a farm and married Mary Graham, a descend-
ant of an old and respectable family at Chester. Hannah G.
Tyler married Clement Smith, of Mannington, in 1818. He
was the son of William Smith, and a lineal descendant of John
Smith, of Sraithiield. Clement and his wife Hannah Smith
had one son — Clement William Smith. He M^as born 28th of
9th month, 1819. Clement Smith, his father, died about the
year 1820, leaving a young widow and an infant son. Hugh
Low Tyler, second son of William Tyler, was born in 1800.
In 1835 he married Mary Shiply Miller, daughter of George
Miller and Mary Levis Miller, of Delaware county, Pennsylva-
nia ; he was a large landholder in that county. Hugh and his
wife had three children — William Levis Tyler, born in 1836 ;
George M. Tyler, in 1838, and John Edgar Tyler, in 1842.
His wife at the death of her father becoming possessed of a
valuable farm in that county, he left the farm at Salem and he
and his family moved to Delaware county and subsequently
sold the Tyler farm which had been in the family for more than
one hundred years. Mary Tyler, the second daughter of Wil-
liam and Catharine Tyler, was born in 1801. She is considered
by those persons that know her to be above mediocrity in
point of intellect. I think she is still living. William Tyler,
youngest son of William Tyler, when a young man made a long
tour through the Western States. After his return lie estab-
lished himself in 1832 in the leather business in Philadelphia.
There it was that his sister joined him and made one household
until he married. He was persevering and diligent in his
business, and it is said by untiring application became prosper-
ous in his circumstances. He married in 1847 Ann Painter,
daughter of Enos Painter, a farmer and extensive landholder
in Delaware county, Pennsylvania. He and his wife have two
sons — William Enos Tyler, born in 1848, and John J. Tyler,
born in 1851.
John Tyler, son of Samuel and Ann Tjder, was born in 1755.
At the time of his brother William's marriage he bought prop-
erty in the town of Salem, on Fourth street where his tan-yard
was situated ; he built himself a dwelling house on said property
in which he and his sister Mary resided. He followed the tan-
280 TVLEK FAMILY.
nins^ business all his life, and at it he acquired considerable
property. He was very unostentatious in his manners. A
cotemporary said of him at his deatli " An honest man is gone."
Late in life lie became a member of the Society of Friends in
whose mode of worsliip he was educated. He never married
and died in 1825 aged more than seventy years. Mary Tyler,
his sister, was born in 1756 ; she never married and spent most
of her life with lier brother Jolm. She died in the meridian of
life aged forty-eight years and a few months. Samuel Tyler,
the youngest son of Samuel and Ann Tyler, was born in 1758.
He married in 1796 Grace Acton, she being a widow. Her
maiden name was Ambler. Slie was the daughter of Peter
Ambler, of Mannington. Samuel Tyler about that time pur-
chased a small farm adjoining his native home and went to
farming, the said farm belongs at this time to Thomas B. Stow,
of Salem. Their children were Ann and Elizabeth Tyler. Ann
married Mark Smith, and by him had five children. Rebecca
the oldest, married William Davidson ; Beulali Smitli, tlie second
daughter, married William Dor man ; Samuel Tyler Smith,
Sarah Ann Smith and Elizabeth Smith. Samuel Tyler's daugh-
ter, Elizabeth, married John Miller, of Gloucester county. They
have seven children — Abigail, Lydia, Samuel Tyler, Emily, John
Mason, Anna and Edward Miller. John Miller, father of the
before mentioned children, lived near Paulsboro'; he was a pop-
ular man in his native county, and was several times elected to
the State Legislature, lastly was elected a Judge of the Court of
the coimty,
Rebecca, the youngest daughter of Samuel and Ann Mason
Tyler, was born in 1761. She lived in great retirement with
her brother John Tyler until his death. She never married. At
the death of her aunt, Mary Watson, and her sister Mary Tyler,
she fell heir to a considerable sum of money. She built herself
a house on Broadway, Salem, where she lived several years, but
subsequently removed to Gloucester county, and spent the last
years of her life with her niece, Elizabeth Miller. She died in
1843, aged seventy-nine years.
Nearly every family has an inclination for some particular
occupation. This was tlie case to a remarkable degree in the
ancient and respectable Tyler family. Their ancestor who em-
igrated to this country was a tanner, and his descendants for
four or five generations, particularly the Samuel Tyler line,
have followed and are to the present time following the occupa-
tion of manufacturing leather. It is likewise true of Benjamin
Tyler's lineage, that many of them became eminent agricultur-
TY'LEE FAMILY. *2H1
ists ; particularly Job Tyler, and his son Job Tyler, Jr., late of
Mannington or Quaker Neck. They are, as a whole, a family
of retiring disposition, avoiding ostentatious show.
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TIXDALL FAMILY.
Richard Tindall was one of Fenwick's executors and surveyor-
general, cliosen to that office in the year 1680 by John Fen-
wick, after the disagreement between him and Kichard Han-
cock. He was also chosen by James Nevell to survey the lands
l)elongiug to Governor William Penn, within the bounds of
Fenwick's tenth. Richard Tindall emigrated to this country in
1678, and soon afterwards purchased 500 acres of land being
part of the allotment of laud that was deeded to them in Penn's
Neck in 1676 by their father John Fenwick. Part of the said
land is now owned by Firman Lloyd, and was known formerly
as Tindall Grove. His immediate family I have no knowledge
of. His grandson, Benjamin Tindall, was born about the year
1720. Joseph Tindall, son of Benjamin and Hester Tindall,
was, born 16th of 6th month, 1749 ; and Mary Tindall, their
daughter, was born in 1751. She married Elijah Ware, of
AUoways Creek, he being a minister of the Society of Friends,
and remarkable for his meek and quiet disposition. He and his
wife left no children. By his will he devised that, after his
widow's death, a small farm located in Penn's Neck should go
to the Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends. Joseph Tindall,
the brother of Mary, married and left two sons — Benjamin and
Elijah W. Tindall. Benjamin married Rachel Thompson, the
daughter of Andrew Thompson, of Elsinboroiigh. She inherited
a small farm in Penn's Neck from her grandfather, Samuel
Nicholson, and on that farm Benjamin and his Avife lived most
of their time. A few years before his death Benjamin and his
wife removed to Elsinborough on a farm formerly belonging to
his wife's grandfather, Samuel Nicholson. Benjamin in a few
years afterwards died there, leaving four or five children. Jo-
seph Tindall, their eldest son, married Eliza Hancock, daughter
of Thomas Hancock, Jr., and they had one daughter named
Lydia Ann, who married Ebenezer Dunn, of Salem.
THOMPSON FAMILY.
Jolm Thompson, the son of Thomas Thompson and Eliz-
abeth his wife, was born in Yorkshire, Enghmd, in 1635. An-
drew Thompson, son of the same parents, was born in 1637. In
1658 Thomas and his wife Elizabeth, with their two minor
sons, John and Andrew, removed from England to Ireland
and located near Dublin. In tlie year 1665, John, the eldest son,
married Jane Humbly, daughter of Thomas Humbly. John
and his wife, Jane Thompson, had three children born in Ire-
land. James, the son of John and Jane Thompson, was born
in 1666. Ann, the daughter of John and Jane Thompson, 1st
of 9th month, 1672. Mary, the daughter of John and Jane
Thompson, was born 25th of 10th month, 1675 ; Thomas Hum-
bly, tlie father of Jane H. Thompson, was a native of the county
of Durham, England ; but at the time of his daughter's mar-
riage, resided in Ireland.
Andrew, the son of Thomas Thompson, married Isabella Mar-
shill, daughter of Humphry Marshill. Andrew and his wife,
Isabella Thompson, had three children born in Ireland. Eliz-
abeth, the daughter of Andrew and Isabella Thompson, was
born 15th of 8th month, 1666. AVilliam, the son of Andrew
and Isabella Thompson, was born 9th of 8th month, 1669. An-
drew, the son of Andrew and Isabella Thompson, was born 13tli
of 11th month, 1676.
In the year 1677, John and Andrew Thompson, with their
wives and children, (John had one man servant, William Hall,
who subsequently became one of the most eminent characters in
Fenwick's Colony), set sail on the 16tli of 9th month, in the ship
called the Mary, of Dublin, John Hall, Captain, and landed at
Elsinborough Point, in West Jersey, 22d of 12th month, the
same year. About the year 1680, the brothers, John and An-
drew Thompson, purchased of Richard Guy one-half of his
allotment of land that he had purchased of John Fenwick, some
few years previous. Andrew's location was near the mouth of
Salem creek ; he built himself quite a commodious house there.
The said house was standing since the memory of the writer,
284 THOMPSON FAMILY.
and was known as tlie " emigrant lionse." Jolm built and set-
tled on the property that is known at the present time as tlie
Morris Hall farm. John Thompson was a farmer, likewise a
brewer, which he carried on extensively for home use, and also
sent considerable quantity to Philadelphia and New Amsterdam.
The old brew house was standing until about 1850. On liis
farm was the family burying ground of the Thompson family ;
and after the property was sold in 1725 to Jolm Hancock, of
Hancock's Bridge, the family of Hancocks buried there for a
number of years, and kept it in good repair ; but it, like other
family burying grounds in Salem county, has been neglected of
late years. The fence has gone down, and the plow has passed
over the remains of some of the most useful emigrants tJiat ever
settled in the Salem tenth.
John Thompson, it appears, never took very active part in
the civil affairs of the Colony; but was an active, useful member
of Salem Monthly Meeting, and was an elder of the church
many years previous to his death. He took an active part in
erecting the first brick meeting house in West Jersey that there
is any record of, on the Nicliolson lot, in Salem. He had in a
great measure, the care and oversight in building it, and gave
£30 towards it, being the largest sum contributed by any one.
He died about 1710, aged about seventy-nine years, leaving a
son — James TJiompson, who married a young woman resident
of New Castle, State of Delaware. By that connection there
were several children ; all died young, exceptnig one son.
James Tliompson, son of James and Ann Tliompson, was
born in Elsinborougli, the 26th of 8th month, 1712 ; when he
became of age he sold the homestead of his grandfather, John
Thompson, to John Hancock, of Alio ways Creek, and went to
the State of Delaware to reside, and married Sarah Wood. She
possessed a large tract of land in her own right, it being near
the state line, between Delaware and Pennsylvania, The prop-
erty is still owned by some of the Thompson family. They are
quite numerous at the present day.
Andrew, the brother of John Thompson, was more of a public
man than his brother. He was appointed by Fenwick as one
of his Justi(;es of the Peace of the Colony ; from him the nu-
merous family of the Thompsons in this county originated.
Andrew and his wife Isabella Thompson had one son born in
America — J olm Thompson, Their son was born in Elsinborough
23d of 4th month, 1684. Andrew died about 1696 aged nearly
sixty years. Elizabetli, the eldest daughter of Andrew and
Isabella Thompson, was born in Ireland in 1666. She married
THOMPSON FAMILY. 285
Isaac Smart, who was the son of Roger Smart. Isaac was born
in the county of Wiltshire, England, in 1658. He came to
America in the sliip Griffitli, in company with the proprietor,
in 1675. He and Elizabeth Thompson were married 25th of
2d month, 1683. Isaac and his wife owned and lived on Middle
Neck, in Elsinborongh, adjoining the Thompson property.
They had five daughters and one son — Mary Smart, their
eldest, was born 20th of 10th month, 1685; Sarah, the daugh-
ter of Isaac and Elizabeth Smart, born 29th of 1st month, 1687;
Nathan Smart, son of Isaac and Elizabeth Smart, born 20th of
6th month, 1690 ; Hannah, the daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth
Smart, born 8th of 6th month, 1692 ; Rebecca Smart, daughter
of the same parents, born 23d of 12th month, 1695 ; Ann, the
daughter of Isaac and Elizabetli Smart, born 20th of 6th month,
1697. Isaac Smart died in 1700, and his widow, Elizabeth
Thompson Smart, married Edward Keasbey in 1701 ; by him
she had two sons and one daughter. [See Keasbey Family.]
William Thompson, the eldest son of Andrew and Isabella
Thompson, purchased a large tract of land in Monmouth pre-
cinct, where Allowaystown now is, and settled there. He was
three times married. Joseph Thompson, the son of AVilliam
and Sarah Thompson, was born 22d of 1st month, 1693 ; Wil-
liam, the son of William and Jane Thompson, was born 1 6th of
3d month, 1795. Jane, the daughter of William by his third
wife, Hannah Thompson, was born 29tii of 7th month, 1700.
Susanna, the daughter of William and Hannah Thompson, was
born 26th of 8th month, 1704. Samuel Tliompson, son of
William and Hannah Thompson, was born 6th of 9tli month,
1707. Mary, the daughter of William and Hannah Thompson,
was born 21st of 11th month, 1710. Rebecca, the daughter of
William and Hannah Thompson, was born 19th of 12th month,
1714. Benjamin, the son of William and Hannah Thompson,
was born 11th of 8th month, 1719.
Andrew Thompson, 2d, son of Andrew and Isabella Thomp-
son, married and settled on his father's property in Elsinborongh.
Jonathan, the son of Andrew, 2d and Rebecca Thompson, was
l)orn 16tli of 9th month, 1697. Hannah, the daughter of
Andrew and Rebecca Thompson, was born 12th of 1st month,
1699. Isaballa, daughter of Andrew and Rebecca Thompson,
was born 22d of lOtli montli, 1700. Andrew, the son of
Andrew and Rebecca Thompson, was born 2d of 2d month,
1704. Thomas, son of Andrew and Rebecca Thompson, was
born 28th of 11th month, 1707. Sarah, the daughter of An-
drew and Rebecca Thompson, was born 8th of 2d month, 1709,
2S6 THOMPSON FAMILY.
Abraham, son of Andrew and Rebecca Thompson, was born
26th of 10th month, ITIO. Joslnia Thompson, son of Andrew
bj his second wife, Grace Thompson, was born 2d of 2d month,
1713. Tiiomas, son of Andrew and Grace Tliompson, was
born 21st of 7th month, 1719. Abraliam, son of Andrew and
Grace Thompson, was born 27th of 5th month, 1721. Jona-
than, Isabella, Andrew and Thomas Thompson, children of
Andrew by his first wife, Rebecca Thompson, died yonng.
Nathan Smart, the son of Isaac and Elizabeth Thompson
Smart, was born 20th of 6th month, 1690 ; was married in 1713.
Mary, their oldest daughter, was born 22d of 5th month, 1714 ;
about that time he built an addition to the brick mansion that
was built by his father in 1696, which is still standing. Eliza-
beth, the daughter of Nathan and Deborah Smart was born 4th of
1st month, 1716. Ilannali, the daughter of Nathan and Deborah
Smart, born 23d of 12th month, 1718. Isaac, son of Nathan and
Deborah Smart, was born 4th of 2d month, 1721. Edward, the
son of Nathan and Deborah Smart, was born 14th of 5th month,
1724. Isaac, the eldest son of Nathan and Deborah Smart, mar-
ried Ann Wilson in 1756. Isaac inherited the homestead farm
in Elsinborough; he and his wife resided there whilst they lived,
and raised a large family of children. Mary, the eldest child
of Isaac and Ann Smart, was born 1st of 10th month, 1757 ; she
lived to an advanced age and died in Salem. Nathan Wilson
Smart, son of Isaac and Ann Smart, was born 20th of 12th
month, 1759. Nathan remained single, and died in middle age.
Isaac, the son of Isaac and Ann Smart, was born 2d of 3d month,
1761, and married Rebecca, the daughter of Jolm and Mary
TJiompson, of Elsinborough. Isaac and liis wife had nine chil-
dren — Ann, Nathan, Mary, Jolm, Deborah, Rebecca, Hannah,
Isaac and William Smart. Not one of the large and ancient
family of the name of Smarts is a resident of Salem county at
this time. Robert, the son of Isaac and Ann Smart, was born
19th of 11th month, 1763. Ann Smart, the daughter of the
same parents, w^as born 25th of 11th month, 1765. She died
in 1766. Ann Smart, daughter of Isaac and Ann Smart, was born
25th of 9th month, 1768. Slie married Samuel, the son of Jo-
sepli and Rebecca Abbott Brick. [See the Brick Family]. Jane,
the daughter of Isaac and Jane Smart, was born 26tli of 10th
month, 1775. Some of the children of Isaac and Rebecca Thomp-
son Smart are married and settled in the Western States.
Joseph, the son of William and Sarah Thompson, was born in
1693. He owned property not far from Remster's Mill, where he
built a brick dwelling, which was removed by James Fries, and
THOMPSON FAMILY. 287
a new frame dwelling was erected near the site of the old one.
The property at this time is owned and occupied by Daniel
Dial. Elizabeth, the daughter of Joseph and Sai-ah Thompson,
was born 1st of 8th month, 1716. Jane, the daughter of Joseph
and Sarah Thompson, was born 7th of 8th month, 1718. "Wil-
liam, son of Joseph and Sarah Thompson, was born 30th of 8th
month, 1720. Joseph, the son of Joseph and Sarah Thompson,
was born 30th of 1st month, 1723 ; he married Mary Conden,
of Mannington, in 1747 ; they had children. Samuel, the son of
William and Hannah Thompson, was born in 1707, and married
Edith Tyler, the daughter of William Tyler, 2d; they had
issue. Their son Samuel Thompson, M'as a tanner and currier, and
carried on his trade in tlie town of Salem ; tliey were the grand-
parents of tlie late Joshua Thompson. Rebecca, the daughter
of Samuel and Editli Thompson, married Da\dd Allen, of Man-
nington. David and his wife, Rebecca T. Allen, had eight
children — Hannali, Mary, Rebecca, Edith, Beulah, Samuel,
Jedediah and Chambless Allen. Benjamin Thompson, son of
William and Hannah Tliompson, was born 11th of 8th month,
1719 ; he married Elizabeth Ware, daughter of Joseph AVare,
2d, and Elizabeth Walker, his wife, in 17-15. Benjamin Thomp-
son did a large amount of public business ; had also the charge
of Richard Wistar's Glass Works near AUowaystown, whilst it
was in existence. He and his wife had issue. His son, Benja-
min Thompson, married a Willis ; they were the parents of the
late James Thompson, of Upper Penn's Neck. William Thomp-
son, the son of William and Hannah Thompson, married, and
settled near AUowaystown ; left children. His son, William,
succeeded his father to the old homestead. The property was
located near Stephen Reeve's Mill.
Joshua, the eldest son of Andrew Thompson, 2d, by his
second wife, Grace Thompson, was born 2d of 2d month, 1713.
He was twice married, and by his first wife he had two cliildren.
Andrew, tlie son of Joshua and Sarah Thompson, was born
29th of 5th month, 1739. Sarah, the daughter of Joshua and
Sarah Thompson, was born 21:th of 12th month, 1742. Joshua's
second wife was Elizabeth Gibson, of Woodbury, Gloucester
county, where lier parents resided. Joshua and Rebecca Thomp-
son, children of Joshua and Elizabeth Thompson, were born
8th of 6th month, 1748. John, the son of Joshua and Eliza-
beth Thompson, was born 7th of 4th month, 1752. Joseph,
the son of Joshua and Elizabeth Tliompson, was born 26th of
3d month, 1756. Joshua was left a widower several years
before his death, He was an elder and leading member of
288 THOMPSON FAMILY.
Salem Monthly Meeting for a number of years. It lias been
said of him, " that he was a true Israelite, without guile." He
was more than four-score years old, at the time of his death.
Andrew, the eldest son of Joshua Thompson, married Grace
Nicholson, of Elsinborougli, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah
Nicholson, of the same townsliip ; she was born lltli of 9th
month, 1746. Andrew and his wife, Grace Thompson, had five
children — Joslnia, born 19th of 9th month, 1767 ; Sarah, born
20th of 1st montli, 1769 ; Grace, was born 12th of 2d month,
1771 ; Kachel, born 7th of 5th month, 1773, and Samuel Nich-
olson, born 23d of 5th month, 1777.
Joshua, son of Andrew anl Grac3 Nicholson Thompson,
married Rebecca, daugliter of David and Hebecca Allen, of
Mannington ; they had three cliildren — Andrew, Ann and
David Thompson. Andrew, tlieir eldest son, was thrice mar-
ried ; his first wife was Rebecca, the daughter of Samuel Abbott,
of Mannington ; they had one daughter — Hannah Ann. An-
drew's second wife was Ann Elkinton, of Port Elizabeth, daugli-
ter of John Elkinton ; Andrew and liis wife liad issue, four
sons — Joshua, Clark, John and Andrew Thompson. Andrew's
third wife was Mary Horner, widow of Charles Horner, and
daughter of Benjamin Tyler, of Greenwich ; they had four
children — David, Richard, Anna and Rebecca Thompson. Ann,
daughter of Joshua and Rebecca Thompson, was twice married ;
her first husband was Caleb, son of Samuel Lippincott, of
Gloucester county ; tliey had tliree children — Samuel, David
and Clark Lippincott. Her second husband was Joseph, son of
Joseph and Mary Bassett ; they are both deceased, leaving no
issue. David, son of Joshua and Rebecca Thompson, when a
young man left his native county, went and resided in the
western part of the State of New York, where he ended his
days ; he never married.
Sarali, the daughter of Andrew and Grace Nicholson Thomp-
son, born 20th of 1st month, 1769, married Jacob, the son
of John and Elizabeth Ware, of Alloways Creek ; she was his
second wife ; they had tliree children that lived to maturity —
Sarah, David and Samuel Ware. [See the Ware Family.]
Grace, daugliter of Andrew and Grace N. Thompson, born 12tli
of 2d month, 1771, married Job Ware, brother of Jacob Ware.
He died young, leaving one son — John Ware. Rachel, daugh-
ter of Andrew and Grace Thompson, was born 7th of 5tli
month, 1773 ; she subsequently married Benjamin, son of Jo-
seph Tindell, of Penn's Neck; they had several children —
Joseph, Andrew, Sarah and Benjamin Tindell. Samuel Nich-
THOMPSON FAMILY. 289
olson Thompson, son of Andrew and Grace Thompson, was
born 23d of 5th month, 1777. He became the owner, bv will,
of Ills grandfatlier's (Samuel Nicholson) homestead farm in
Elsinboroiiojli. Samuel married Ann, the daughter of Clement
Hall, of Elsinborough ; tliey had six children — Samuel N.,
Joshua, Charles, Clement, Ann and Isaac Thompson.
Sarah, daughter of Joshua and Sarah Thompson, married
William Hancock, of Hancock's Bridge. He was killed at the
massacre in his own house during tlie Revolutionary war in
1778 ; leaving a widow and one son, John Hancock, the father
of Thomas Y. Hancock. Joseph, the son of Joshua and Eliz-
abeth Thompson, kept a store with his brother-in-law, William
Hancock,, at Hancock's Bridge, and was killed at the same time
with his partner. Joshua married Sarah, the daughter of
Solomon and Sarah Stretch Ware, of Alloways Creek, in 1773;
there were three children — Joseph, John and Elizabeth Thomp-
son. Joshua's second wife was Susanna Mason, widow of John
Mason, and daughter of William and Mary Morris Goodwin.
By her there were two sons — William and Josliua Thompson.
Joshua's tliird wife was Mary Shourds, of Salem, widow of
Benjamin Shourds ; there was no issue. She died several years
before her husband. He died in 1831, aged nearly eighty-three
years.
Joseph, the eldest son of Joshua and Sarah W. Thomp-
son, was born 27th of 10th month, 1771. He married Ann,
the daughter of John and Susanna Mason ; they had six chil-
dren (two sons who died young), Susan, Elizabeth, Sarah, and
Ann Thompson. His second wife was Elizabeth Powell ; they
have no children living. John, the son of Joshua and Sarah
Thompson, died when he was tln-ee years old. Elizabetli, the
daughter of Joshua and Sarah W. Thompson, born 13th of 11th
month, 1778 ; married William, the son of William and Sarah
Nicholson, of Mannington ; they had eight children — Elisha,
Ruth, Rachel, Beulah, Elizabeth, William, Joshua and Sarah
Ann Nicholson.
William Thompson, tlie eldest son of Joshua, by his second
wife, Susanna Thompson, married Elizabeth Carpenter, the
daughter of William and Elizabeth Ware Carpenter, of Elsin-
borough. William and his wife, Elizabeth Thompson, had nine
children — Susan, Eliza, Sarah, Joshua, William, Thomas, Abi-
gail, Lewis and Ann Elizabeth Thompson. William, the father
of tlie before named children, has been deceased for a number
of years ; their mother is still living at the age of nearly four-
score years. Joshua, the son of Joshua and Susanna Thomp-
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290 THOMPSON FAMILY.
son, died in 1820, in Salem, where he taught Friends' School
for a uumber of years ; he never married.
Rebecca, the daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Gibson
Thompson, born in 1748, married Isaac Jones, of Philadelphia;
they had issue, one son — Isaac Jones, born in 1773, who was a
merchant in that city. John, the son of Josliua and Elizabeth
G. Thompson, was born 7th of 4th month, 1752. In early life
he learned the blacksmi thing business, and followed his trade
many years in the town of Salem ; he and Jacob Hufty were
in partnership together. He afterwards purchased a farm in
Elsiuborough, being part of the Windham estate, but is gene-
rally known as Richard Darkin property. He soon after aban-
doned his trade, and went and settled on his farm; there he
and his wife remained, until old age. Both of them ended their
days in tlie town of Salem. His wife was Mary, the daughter
of AVilliam and Sarah Hancock Bradway, of Stoe Neck, AUo-
way's Creek township. John and his wife had four children —
Rebecca, Ruth, John and William B. Thompson. Rebecca,
their eldest daughter, married Isaac Smart; the names of their
children are mentioned in the Smart family. Ruth, the second
daughter of John and Mary Thompson, married Job Bacon, of
Greenwich, Cumberland county ; they had four cliildren — Mary,
Sarah, Ann and Josiah Bacon. Mary married Clement Acton
of Salem, and died young, leaving no issue. Sarah remains
single. Ann married Moses Sheppard, of Greenwich ; they had
three daughters — Rachel, Ruth and Mary Ann Sheppard. Ra-
chel, the eldest, married Job Bacon, the son of John and Ann
Bacon, of Bacon's Neck. Rachel is deceased, leaving children.
Ruth married George Wood Sheppard. Mary Ann Sheppard
remains single.
Josiah Bacon, the son of Job and Ruth T. Bacon, went to
Philadelphia when young ; he afterwards became an eminent
merchant in that city, and has been for some years one of the
Du'ectors of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
John, the son of Jolm and Mary Thompson, married Estlicr,
the daughter of Darkin and Esther Nicholson, of Elsinborough.
They had eight children — Ann, William, John, Joseph, Casper,
Mary, Elizabeth and Rebecca Thompson. Three of their chil-
dren are deceased — John, Ann and Rebecca. William, their
eldest son, married Rachel, daughter of Daniel and Mary
Nicholson ; they liave no issue. Joseph married Elizabetli, the
daughter of William and Mary B. Carpenter; they had two
children — Mary and John Tliompson. Casper Thompson, their
youngest son, married Mary, the daughter of Casper and Re-
THOMPSON FAMILY. 291
becca Wistar, formerly of Mannington ; they have issue.
Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of John and Esther Thompson,
married Kathaniel, a son of James and Millicent Buzby Brown]
Thomas, the son of Andrew, 2d, and Grace Thompson, was
born 21st of 7th month, 1719. Thomas Thompson learned the
tailor trade, and followed it in the town of Salem, on Broadway
street. His dwelling and shop were located where the First
Baptist Church is now situated. He married, had one son and
one or two daughters. Thomas Thompson, the son of Thomas
and Mary Thompson, was born 19th of 10th month, 1745.
He also learned the tailoring business of his father, and followed
it at the old homestead until about 1795. Thomas Thompson,
Jr., married Bebecca, the daughter of Samuel Hedge, 4:th, and
Hannah Woodnutt Hedge. Tliomas and his wife Rebecca
Thompson had seven children — Ann, Hannah W., Hedge,
Mary, Rebecca, Jane and Rachel Thompson. Ann Thompson,
the eldest daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Thompson, married
John Firth ; they had issue. Their sons who married were
Thomas and John ; there were two or more daughters.
Hannah, the second daughter of Thomas and Rebecca
H. Thompson, was twice married ; her first husband's name was
Anderson ; they had issue. Her second husband was Leonard
Sayres ; at the time of their marriage he was a citizen of Cin-
cinnati, State of Ohio. He was a nativ^e of Cumberland county.
He was a son of Ananias Sayres, the first Sheriff of that county,
when it was set off from Salem in 1748. Hedge Thompson,
the son of Thomas and Rebecca H. Thompson, was a physician,
and practiced it some years in his native town and county ; but
he abandoned his profession before middle ago. He was a
Member of Congress at one time, also one of the Judges of
Salem Court. His wife was Mary Ann Parrott, the daughter
of Richard Parrott. Hedge and his wife had five children —
Richard P., Thomas, Joseph, M. D., Mary and Rebecca Thomp-
son. Mary, the daughter of Thomas and Rebecca H. Thomp-
son died past middle age ; never married. Rebecca, daughtei*
of Thomas and Rebecca H, Thompson, married John Holme,
the son of Colonel Benjamin Holme, of Elsinborough. Re-
])ecca died young, leaving one daughter — Rebecca Holme.
Jane, the daughter of Thomas and Rebecca H. Thompson,
married John, the son of Hill and Ann Nicholson Smith, of
Mannington. John and Jane T. Smith had three children —
Ann, Hill and Thomas T. Smith. Rachel, the youngest daugh-
ter of Thomas and Rebecca H. Thompson, married Doctor
Benjamin Archer, at that time was a practicing physician,
293 THOMrsoN family.
residing in the city of Salem ; but lie was a native of Swedes-
boro, Gloucester county. He was a lineal descendant of
one of the oldest Swedish families that located on the eastern
shore of the Delaware river. Benjamin and his wife had one
son, Fenwick Arclier, who is now living, and resides in Salem,
where his parents formerly lived. Thomas and Redecca Hedge
Thompson lived happily together more than hfty years ; he
dying first, aged about eighty-two years. Rebecca, his widow,
died at about the same age.
Thomas, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Tliompson, was
born near Dublin, Ireland, about 1659 ; at Avliich place his
parents had removed from Yorkshire, England, witli their two
sons, John and Andrew, in the year 1658. In what year
Thomas emigrated to New Jersey is uncertain ; I think it more
than probable that he came in company with his brothers, John
and Andrew, on board the ship Mary of Dublin, and landed at
Elsinboro, 22d of 12th month, 1677; there was frequent
mention of him soon after that time up to the fore part of the
eighteenth century. He paid £18 in 1699 towards erecting a
Friends' Meeting House in Salem. Where his residence was is
somewhat of an uncertainty, but circumstances indicate that it
was in Elsinboro. He died about 1714. His son, John Thomp-
son, purchased a tract of laud in Alloways Creek, it Ijeing part
of Ann Salter's allotment, lying on the western branch of Stoe
creek, and lying between John Mason's Mill, now Maslvcll's,
and John Chandler's Mill, now known as Wood's Upper Mill.
The road that crosses tlie present mill-pond, was originally the
dam erected l)y John Thompson to raise a head of water for
his fulling mill; which business he followed for many years.
He left three sons and one daughter — Thomas, Andrew, Jacob
and Hannah Tliompson. Hannah married Philip Dennis, of
Greenwich, Cumberland county, in 1761 ; they had a lai-ge
family of children. Thomas married Deborah Oakford, in
1762. Andrew Thompson and Elizabeth Bassett were married in
the same year, 1762 ; they lived but a short time together. Eliza-
beth Thompson departed this life 9th of 7th month, 1770, and
Andrew Thompson, her husband, 15th of 1st month, 1775.
He was called Alloways Creek Andrew in the records to distin-
guish between him and Andrew Thompson of Elsinboro.
Thomas Thompson had one son — Thomas, born 1763, who
subsequently married, and had five or more children. Jacob,
the eldest, married Mary, daughter of Thomas Hartly, of Salem;
they had two children — Mary and Mark Thompson. The daugh-
ter died a minor, but the son is still living.
THOMPSON FAMILY. 293
Andrew, the second son of Thomas Thompson, married Ra-
chel, the daughter of Charles Shields, a native of Ireland ; tliere
were two sons — Josiah and Charles Thompson. Josiah's lirst
wife was Sarah, daughter of Jacob Thompson, who was a dis-
tant relative, by whom he had three children — Ephraim and
two daughters. His second wife was the daughter of Edward
Bradway. She died in a short time after her marriage. Soon
after his marriage with the third wife he left his native State
and moved with his family to the State of Illinois ; he after-
wards sent for his aged mother, who lived a few years and tlien
passed away. Josiah possessed good business capacities, and
was soon appreciated in his adopted home, and did considerable
public business ; he was appointed postmaster in the town in
which he lived. He died several years ago.
Tliomas, the youngest son of Thomas Thompson, married
Rebecca, the daughter of Richard Moore, of Alloways Creek.
Thomas and his wife had seven children — Lewis, Richard, Elea-
nor, Ann, Thomas, Rebecca and George Tliompson. Eleanor,
the oldest daughter, married Asbury Stiles. Ann married Isaac
Thompson, of Salem ; he was the youngest son of Samuel Nich-
olson and Ann Thompson, of Elsinboro. Rebecca, the young-
est daughter, married Samuel, the son of Jonathan Taylor, of
Alloways Creek ; she died several years ago. Thomas' sons,
I believe, left their native county for the purpose of bettering
their condition in some other parts of the country.
Jacob Thompson, son of John, was born about 1735 ; married
Hannah Harris. The forefather of the Harris family, as I have
lieen informed, 1)y the late Dalymoore Hai-ris, located near
Roadstown, about the year 1700. The children of Jacob and
Hannah Thompson, were Phebe, Hannah, Samuel, Rachel, Ja-
cob and Mary Thompson. Phebe, the eldest daughter, married
William Finlaw ; they had six children — John, Sarah, Hannah,
Phebe, David and Rachel Finlaw. John, their eldest son, mar-
ried Sarah, the daughter of Joshua Moore; they had issue —
Hiram, Charlotte, Sarah and Isaac J' inlaw. Hiram married,
and in a few years afterwards removed to the State of Del-
aware. Charlotte was twice married ; her first husband was
named Miller, of Philadelphia ; tliey had three children. Her
second husband was Jacob, the youngest son of Solomon Du-
bois. Sarah, the daughter of William and Phebe T. Finlaw,
married Daniel Ashton; they had issue. Hannah, the daugh-
ter of William and Phebe T. Finlaw, was twice married ; her
first husband was Samuel Padgett, and her second Abram
Dilks. Phebe, the daughter of William and Hannah T. Fin-
294 THOMPSON TAMiirr.
law, married William Padgett. David, the second son of
William and Hannah T. Finlaw, married Elizabeth, the daugh-
ter of Elijah and Lydia Sa^a-es Fogg. He was the son of
Samuel and Prudence Fogg, born 12th of 6th month, 1775.
David and his wife, Elizabeth Finlaw, had three daughters —
Prudence, Phebe and Lydia. Prudence, married Ephraim, the
son of Jesse and Mary Slieppard Carll ; they had seven chil-
dren, four of whom lived to man and womanhood — Sylva-
nus, Winfield, Laura and Mary. Phebe, the daughter of Da-
vid and Elizabeth Finlaw, married Jesse P. Carll, the son
of Ephraim and Mary Ann Carll. Phebe is deceased, and
leaves four children — James W., Rosanna, Laura and Isabella
Carll. Lydia, the youngest daugliter of David and Elizabeth
Finlaw, married Samuel P. Smith, the son of Peter Smith, of
Mannington. Their children are David F., Fanny, Phebe,
Franklin and Peter Smith. Rachel, the youngest child of Wil-
liam and Phebe Finlaw, married Joseph Corliss ; she was his
second wife. His first wife was the daughter of Jonathan and
Joan Hildreth. Joseph and Rachel Finlaw Corliss had two
children — Maiy and Phebe Corliss ; the latter died young, un-
married. Mary Corliss married Smith Robinson, who is now
deceased. She has two children living — Rachel F. and Joseph
Corliss Robinson.
William Mulford married Prudence Maskell, of Greenwich,
Cumberland county. They had six children, the eldest being
Abigail, who be(;ame the wife of Isaac Hall, of Philadelphia.
Jacob Mulford, their eldest son, was twice married ; his first
wife beino- Hannah, the dauofhter of Jacob and Hannah H.
Thompson, and his second wife was Tamson Mulford. Hope,
the third child of William Mulford, married Stephen Mulford,
who resided in Salem. William, the son of William and
Prudence Maskell Mulford, married Ann, daughter of
Elijali Cattell, of Salem. Rachel Mulford, the daughter
of William, married Captain Benjamin Sheppard. Maskell,
the son of William and Prudence Mulford, married Rachel
Ewing, a cousin of Judge Ewing, who died at Trenton of
cholera morbus more than thirty years ago. William Mul-
ford's second wife was Sarah Ewing, who was born 10th of
7th month, 1750. She was a grand-daughter on her mother's
side of Thomas Maskell, who emigrated from New England
about 1700 and settled at Cohansey ; and daughter of Samuel
and Abigail Fithian, of Greenwich. William and Sarah Mul-
ford had two sons — Thomas E. and James W. Mulford. Thomas
E. Mulford resided many years in Salem, and followed the
THOMPSON FAMILY. 295
coopering business ; he married Abigail Clark. James W".
Mulford also resided in Salem ; liis lirst wife was Sarah Alford,
and his second Abigial Woodruff. Jacob, the eldest son of
William Mulford, lived the greater part of his life in the city of
Salem, and his occupation was that of a diy goods merchant.
His place of business was where his grandson's (Dr. Patterson)
new buildings are located, on Fenwick's street. Jacob in early
life left the religious association of his parents (Presbyterian)
and became an ardent member of the Methodist Society, and
continued to the end of his days a consistent member thereof.
He was very exemplary in his deportment, and in his inter-
course and dealings with his fellow men. He twice married,
his first wife being Hannah, daughter of Jacob and Hannah
Thompson, of Alloways Creek. Her ancestors were members
of the Society of Friends from the first settlement of Fenwick's
Colony. Jacob and his wife Hannah Thompson Mulford had
six children, who all lived to be men and women — Clarissa, Pru-
dence, Hannah, William T., Charlotte and Jacob W. Mulford.
Clarissa married Edward Stout, a Methodist clergyman, by
whom she had live children — Joseph T., Hannah, Sarah Ann,
Clarissa and Dr. Daniel M. Stout. Prudence, the second
daughter of Jacob and Hannah Mulford, married in 1817,
James, the son of James Patterson, who emigrated from the
north of Ireland. He was born in 1749 of Scotch parentage,
and circumstances go to show that he left his native country
when young. There was a family of that name and nationality
who located themselves in Philadelphia. John Patterson also
came from Scotland, settling in the city of Baltimore, and
became an eminent and wealthy merchant. Jerome Boneparte
married his daughter, Elizabeth Patterson. The Salem family
have no knowledge that there is any relationship existing be-
tween the above mentioned families, but their nationalities are
the same, and their emigration took place about the same time.
I think it not improbable that there is a relationship between
them.
James Patterson, the Scotch-Irish emigrant, married Martha
Kent, a lineal descendant of Thomas Kent, who purchased a
lot of ten acres of the executors of John Fenwick, in 1686.
The said lot was at the junction of ISTevell street (now Kent)
with Yorke street. The family owned a large farm and brick
mansion with a Mansard roof. Anthony Keasbey became the
owner of the property, and his grandson, Quinton Keasbey,
holds the property at the present time. James and Martha K.
Patterson had five cliildren — John, Elizabeth, Mary, Rebecca
L'96 THOMPSON FAMILY.
and James Patterson. James, the father of the above men-
tioned children, died in 1806, aged abont fifty-seven years.
His wife sursdved him about six mouths. Their occupation was
farming. James and his wife, Prudence Mulford Patterson,
liad five chikh-en — William, James Kent, Jacob Mulford,
Theophilus, M. D., and Mary Jane Patterson. James, their
father, died in 1865, aged seventy-three years, and his wife,
Prudence Mulford Patterson, died in 1811:, aged fifty-two years.
AVilliara Patterson, their son, married in 1846, Amelia Rumsey
Ware, the daughter of Bacon and Anna J. Ware. Bacon was
the son of Job and Hannah Ware, of Bacon's Neck, Cumber-
land county. His wife Ann T. Rumsey, was the daughter of
Benjamin Rumsey, of Maryland. William and Amelia had
three children — Anna, Henry Ware, and George R. Patterson,
who died in infancy. William is a clock and watch maker, and
his place of business is on Broadway, nearly opposite Market
street, in Salem. James K., the second son of James and
Prudence M. Patterson, resides in Salem, and at present is
largely concerned in a canning establishment. He is unmarried.
Jacob Mulford Patterson, the son of James and Prudence M.
Patterson, married Clementina F. Lloyd, in 1851-. They have
four children — Theophilus, George Walter, William M. and
Pamela Patterson. They reside in Woodbury, Gloucester
county. Theopilus Patterson, M. D., married in 1858, Caroline
R. Ware, daughter of Bacon Ware. They have four children
— James Allen, George C, Carrie Ware and Amelia Rumsey
Patterson. Dr. Theopilus Patterson is much interested in the
cause of education, and for several years was Superintendent of
the Public Schools of the city of Salem. His services and
labors in that direction were duly appreciated, as was shown at
his last election, when he was chosen without any political
opposition by his fellow citizens. At the last annual election he
declined a re-election owing to his pressing professional duties.
Mary Jane, youngest child of James and Prudence Patterson,
married John C. Coote, in 1866.
Hannah, the daughter of Jacob and Hannah T. Mulford,
married Charles Rumsey, a silversmith, formerly of Wilming-
ton, Delaware. Cliarles and Hannah T. Rumsey had five chil-
dren — Charles, James, Jacob M., George Augustus and Han-
nah Ann. Charles, the father, has been deceased several years.
His eldest son, Charles Rumsey, was a merchant in Salem for a
number of years, but he is now living in Philadelphia. He has
been married twice ; his first wife was Emma Michner, of Phila-
delphia, by whom he had two children — Emma G. and Anna
TJIOMPSON FAMILY. 297
G. Rumsey. His second wife was Fanny Sovereign ; they have
six cliildren — Jennie, Fanny, Belle, Fred S., Horace M. and
Cliarles Leslie. The last two births were twins. James M.,
the second son of Charles and Hannah M. Rnmsey, resides at
Portsmouth, Ohio. He married Harriet Gaffy, and has four
children — John, James, Eliza and Willie. Jacob Mulford
Rumsey married Mary Stanger in 1857 ; they liave one child —
Edward Smith E-umsey. George Augustus Rumsey married
Cornelia, daughter of James M. and Ann K. Hannah. They
lived several years in the State of Ohio, but are now residing in
their native town of Salem. They have five children — \y alter,
Eugene, Anna, George A. and Carrol Livingstone. Hannah
Ann Rumsey married Samuel L. J. Miller, son of Josiah and
Hetty Miller, formerly of Mannington. Tliey have one child —
Wyatt W. Miller. Hannah Mulford, the widow of Charles
Rumsey, is still li\dng at an advanced age.
William Tliompson Mulford, eldest son of Jacob and Hannah
T. Mulford, succeeded his father in the mercantile business sev-
eral yeai'S. He married Eliza Fisler, and by her had one daugh-
ter, Emma D. Mulford, who subsequently married Jonathan J.
Broome, a merchant in the city of New York. They had one
daughter — Alice Broome. Charlotte, the youngest daughter of
Jacob and Hannah T. Mulford, born about 1803, was uncom-
monly apt in acquiring education, and was generally at the head
of her class in school. She married Peter Bilderback, 21st of
7th month, 1824, and died at an early age, leaving one son —
Edward M. Bilderback, wlio married Elizabeth Heishon, in
1845. Edward and his wife have five children — Cliarles H.,
Joseph H., Peter, Lorenzo Dow and Edward Bilderback.
Charles H. Bilderback, their eldest son, married Mary Elwell.
Joseph H. Bilderback, the second son, married Kate Robinson,
of Ohio ; they have one child — Elizabeth. Peter, the third
son, is a traveling minister of the Methodist denomination in
one of the Western States, where he married. Edward Bilder-
back and his family recently removed to the State of Ohio.
Jacob W. Mulford, the youngest child of Jacob and Hannah T.
Mulford, like his sister Cliarlotte, possessed more tlian ordinary
intellect. At one time he resided in the city of Philadelphia,
and was in the mercantile business, but towards the close of his
life he returned to his native town of Salem. His wife was
Jane Fisler. He left one son, Jacob, who is a lawyer residino-
in Camden, IST. J. The second wife of Jacob Mulford, Sr.,
was Tamson Mulford, and by her Ijad one son, James W. Mul-
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298 THOMPSON FAMILY.
ford, wlio married Emily L. Ford, of Delaware. James and
liis wife are both deceased, leaving no issue.
Samuel, the son of Jacob and Hannah Thompson, removed
to one of the Western States. Kachel Thompson, daughter of
Jacob, married Jacob Ware, of Cumberland county ; there were
two cliildren l)y this union — Beulah and Theophilus, but they
both died single. Jacob, tlie second son of Jacob and Hannah
Thompson, married Mary Finlaw, and by that union there wei'e
six children — Rachel, Hannah, Sarah, Mary, Margaret and Su-
san. Hannah, the second daughter, was married twice, her first
huslmnd ])eing Samuel, the son of Elijah Fogg, and her second
William Kates. Sarah Thompson was the first wife of Josiali
Thompson, son of Andrew; Mary Tiiompson married Hugh
Pogue ; Margaret Thompson married Horatio Emerson. Susan
Thompson, tlie youngest daughter of Jacob and Hannah Thomp-
son, married William Sheppard.
Jacob Thompson's second wife was Elizabeth Plummer ; they
had three children — Elizabeth, John and Margaret. Elizabeth,
the eldest, married James Harris; there were three children —
Jacob, Mary and Isaac Harris. John, the son of Jacob and
Elizabeth P. Thompson, married Abigail McPherson ; they had
five children — Rebecca, Ellen, John, Jacob and Eliza. Marga-
ret, youngest daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth P. Thompson,
born 24:th of 12th month, 1781, married David Allen, 4th of
3d month, 1801. She departed this life 15th of 1st month,
1813. She and David Allen had four children — Kent, David,
Sophia and Isaac. David, their second son, came to an untimely
death, in 1811. He was chopping wood, and while falling a
tree, a limb fell from one of the upper boughs and struck him
on the head, wliich caused his death in a short time. Sophia,
the daughter of David and Margaret Allen, married William
Robinson, Jr.; they liave five children — two sons and three
daughters — William, George, Sarah, Margaret and Rebecca.
They are all married excepting Rebecca, who remains single.
Isaac, tlie youngest son of David and Margaret Allen, married
Elizabeth, tlie daughter of William and Elizabeth Keasbey
Plummer, of Lower Alloways Creek ; tliey have several chil-
dren. Mary, tlie youngest daughter of Jacob and Hannah
Thompson, married Jason Garrison, of Cumberland county.
James Patterson, the emigrant, had a sister, Elizabeth Patter-
son, who accompanied him to America ; she afterwards married
Raneir Penton, of New Castle, Delaware. Tliey had several
children, one of whom, John Penton, married and left one daugh-
ter, Eliza Patterson Penton, who subsequently married Thomas
THOMPSON FAMILY. 299
W. Belville, Esq., of St. Georges, Delaware ; they had seven
children — Penton, Edward M., Thomas C, Lucy M., Sarah W.,
Georgianna and Belville. Elizabeth Patterson's second husband
was Henry Rowen, of New Castle, Delaware ; she died about
1806. John Patterson, the son of John and Martha Kent Pat-
terson, married Sarah Beard ; they had live children — Anna,
Elizabeth, James B., Rebecca and John. Anna Patterson mar-
ried a Casperson ; slie died young, leaving one child — Eliza
Casperson. Elizabeth, tlie second daughter, is not married.
James B. Patterson, the son of John, married Ann Skees, in
1832, of Pittsburg, Pa., and have six children — Sarah, William
S., John, Elizabeth, Mary and Harriet A. Patterson. James
B. Patterson, their father, died at Pittsburg, in 1833.
Elizabeth, the daughter of James and Martlia K. Patterson,
married James Robinson in 1806, and died in 1820. They had
six cliildren — Mar}', Benjamin, Prudence, Ann, James P. and
John, who died in infancy. Mary, the eldest daughter of James
and Elizabeth P. Robinson, married John Fowler, of Manning-
ton ; they had four children. John R. Fowler married Theo-
docia, the daughter of Benjamin and Theodocia Griscom, of
Salem. John and his family reside in Philadelphia ; he is a
commission merchant. Mary, the daughter of John Fowler,
Sr., married John Dawson. Benjamin married Elizabeth Linch,
and Susan Fowler married John McAllister. Benjamin, the
son of James Robinson, died in 1830. Prudence S., daughter
of James Robinson, married George T. Ivelch ; she died in
1811. Ann Robinson married John Taylor. James P., the
son of James and Elizabeth P. Robinson, married in 1839,
Elizal)eth Franklin, daughter of Benjamin Franklin, of Man-
nington; she died young, leaving one daughter — Mai-y Ennna
Robinson, M. D. James' second wife was Anna A. Hass, of
Philadelphia ; they were married in 1816, and have two children
now living — Ann Eliza and Lavinia. Ann Eliza married
George Coles, and Lavinia married Lewis R. Jessup, of Glouces-
ter county.
Mary, the daughter of James and Martha K. Patterson, mar-
ried David Fogg, of Upper Alloways Creek, in 1808. They
had four children — Martha A., Elizabeth, James P. and Isaac
Fogg. Martha, the eldest daughter, married Thackara Dunn.
Elizabetli, tlie second daughter, married Martin Patterson, of
Penn's Neck ; they have issue. James P. Fogg married Sarah
Dunn ; they had issue. Isaac Fogg married Mary Dewer.
Rebecca, tlie daughter of James and Martha K. Robinson,
married William Robinson, of Lower Penn's Neck, in 1811,
300 THOMPSON FAMILY.
and died in 1827, leaving six children — "William, ]S'oah, John
P., James T., Mary and Benjamin. The eldest married Sophia,
the daughter of David Allen ; their children were mentioned in
the Allen Family. Noah Robinson married Jemima Foster,
daughter of Joseph Foster, of Salem. Noah is deceased, leav-
ing children. James T. Robinson married Iverinhappuck Har-
ris, daughter of Isaac Harris, of Alloways Creek, the 3d of 3d
month, 1848. They had three children — Mary Ellen, Sallie E.
and Isabella. James' second wife is Sarah H. English, daugh-
ter of David and Sarah Ann English, the daughter of Judge
Anthony Nelson, one of Salem county's self-made men. His
pleasing address and correct language were far above the gen-
erality of mankind, and it is remarkable when we consider what
little opportunity he had in early life to acquire an education.
When quite young he was apprenticed to the late Samuel Brick,
of Elsinboro. Those who have a knowledge of how bound
children were treated a half century or more ago, will readily
agree that Anthony Nelson was, by nature, a superior man.
lie represented his native county at three or four different
periods in the State Legislature, and was one of the Judges of
Salem Courts for a number of years. James and Sarah H.
Robinson have nine children — Caddie L., Ennna Stretch, John
Douglas, Kerinhappuck Harris, Jael E., Frank L., James T.,
Fannie H. and Hattie S. Mary, the daughter of William and
Rebecca Robinson, married Jonatlian, tlie son of Jusc])h and
Mary Hildreth Corliss ; tliey have no children.
EDWARD VAN METER.
Born 1811. Died 1875.
YANMETER FAMILY.
The YanMeters in company with several other families, emi-
grated from Holland to tlie State of New York, between the
years 1650 and 1660, settling at what is now known as Ulster
county. Between the years 1712 and ITl-l, a company of the citi-
zens of the Dutch Reformed, or Presbyterian faith removed
from the neighborhood of Esopis, to Pilesgrove now Upper
Pittsgrove, their minister David Evans accompanied them, and
his tombstone, with appropriate inscriptions, can be seen in the
Presbyterian burial ground at Daretown, in Upper Pittsgrove,
Salem county, New Jersey. That these emigrants were families
of respectability, may be inferred from the standing of their
pastor, who was recognized as a man of learning and piety.
These families seemed to have been mindful also, of the advan-
tages of education, inasmuch as a iirst-class scliool for that early
time, was established by them, and the most competent tea(;hers
procured. Parents from long distances sent their children to
this school, and some of the most distinguished men in the State,
in subsequent years, were proud of the leai'uing obtained at the
Pittsgrove College, as it was termed. John Moore White, one
of West Jersey's ablest lawyers, was educated there. He
was one of the Associate Judges of the Supreme Court for
many years, and also Attorney Cieneral. Among the company
who left New York, were three brothers, and tlieir families by
tlie name of YanMeter. Some of the family settled in East
Jersey, chiefly in Monmouth county ; one of the brotliers, Jo-
sepli YanMeter settled in that county, and the other two brothers
Jolm and Isaac settled in Pilesgrove township, Salem county.
Occasional intercourse, as one of the family writes, and visiting
continued between the East Jersey and Salem county YanMe-
ters, for some years, but as the older members of the family
died, communication between the younger branches of the fam-
ily gradually ceased. For some reason the name in East Jersey
lias been changed in spelling to Yanmater, and Yanmartin, but
in West Jersey it is uniformly spelled YanMeter. The first and
earliest records of the family to be seen in the Clerk's Office at
302 VANMETER FAMILY.
Salem in 1714 is spelled in that way, and ever since, in all the
public records it appears tlie same.
The Presbyterian Church at Pittsgrove was organized 30th
of 4th month, 1741, David Evans being the pastor. Tlie church
covenant was signed by the following members : Isaac Yan-
Meter, Henry VanMeter, Cornelius Newkirk, Abraham Newkirk,
Barnett DuJjois, Lewis Dubois, Garrett Duljois, John Miller,
Francis Tully, Jeremiah Garrison, Eleazer Smith, William
Alderman, John Rose, Simon Sparks, Tliomas Sparks, Richard
Sparks, John Craig, William Miller, Natlian Tarbel, Hugh
Moore, Peter Haws, James Dunlap, Jacob Dubois, Jr., Joshua
Garrison, and Jost Miller. Tradition of a reliable nature states,
that the above families did not constitute themselves a church
organization, or connect with any Presbytery from the time of
their settlement. Religious services were held in their school
house and families, from 1714 until 1741, when they erected a
log church, and in 1767 the substantial brick church, which is
still standing, was erected. A new church opposite the parson-
age was dedicated 15th of 8th month, 1867. Many of those
earlv settlers seem to have been men of means. John and
Isaac VanMeter located in company with the Duboises, a
tract of 3,000 acres of land, from Daniel Cox, of Burlington,
New Jersey, the record of which can be seen in tlie Clerk's
Office in Salem, recorded in 1714. These parties divided their
lands by the compass, the Duboises taking theirs on the north
side of a line, the YanMeters the south side. The YanMeters
continued to purchase until they owned a very large portion of
the land, reaching from the Overshot Mill in Upper Alloways
Creek near Daretown, southerly, south-east to Fork Bridge,
about 6,000 acres in all, and most of the titles to the lands held
by the present occupants go back to the YanMeter titles. The
early YanMeters w^ere noted for their desire to reach out, and
obtain broad acres of land, and their love of good horses, the
latter is characteristic of the family to the present time,
although careful of display. At tlie organization of the church
in 1741 or 1742, John YanMeter's name does not appear, he
had no doubt died previously to that date, leaving a son Henry
to represent him, and in that Henry most, if not all of the
YanMeters who now reside in the county of Salem, can properly
claim their ancestorship. Isaac YanMeter was one of the
founders of the original church ; he had a son, Garrett, who
married a daughter of Judge Jolin Holme, in 1774. Garrett
emigrated to Virginia with his family, and some of his descend-
ents are there still.
A'ANMETEK FAMLLT. 303
Henry VanMeter, son of John, was married four times. The
following named children are mentioned in his will — Joseph,
Ephraim, John, David, Elizabeth, Kebecca, Jacob and Benja-
min YanMeter. Tlie two last were children of his last wife,
Marj Fetters, of Salem. About the year 1685, Erasmus La-
Fettre and wife emigrated from England to West Jersey, and
settled in the town of Salem. They lived on Yorke street, near
Elsinborough line, it being so near it was sometimes called Am-
blebury. Doubtless some of the elder inhabitants of the town
of Salem remember in the early part of the present century an
old hip-roof brick house, standing where David Fogg's apple
orchard is now. That was, I have been informed, LaFettre's
mansion. Erasmus LaFettre was a French Huguenot ; he left
his native country, together with thousands of others, soon after
the revocation of the edict of Nantz, by order of Louis XIY.,
and fled to England. Erasmus and his wife were members of
the Society of Friends. They had several children — Erasmus,
Thomas, Sarah, Mary, Hannah and one other daughter, wliose
name is not given, who married James Sherron's son ; they had
two children — Roger and Griiiith. Thomas Fettres, for that
generation of children omitted La wlien writing their names,
and spelled it Fettres. Thomas located in the city of Philadel-
phia, became a mariner in 1722, and settled on one of the Ber-
muda Islands. In the same year he gave his intimate friend,
Captain Benjamin Vining, a citizen of Philadelphia, and like-
wise a mariner, a general power of attorney to have charge of
liis estate in America, personal and real, and to sell and forward
the proceeds to him. The instrument of writing was executed
in the city of Philadelpliia the 8th of 8th month, 1722, before
James Logan. Sarah Fettres married Lewis, son of Rudroe
and Jael Morris, of Elsinborough ; there were live daughters —
Sarah, who married Thomas, son of John and Susanna Smith
Goodwin, of Salem ; Mary married William, brother of Thomas
Goodwin; Jael Morris married William Shipley; Ann married
Samuel, son of Elislia and Abigail E. Bassett; Hannah Morris
married John Whittal. Mary Fettres, as before stated, married
Henry YanMeter.
Erasmus Fetters, the eldest son of Erasmus, was a tanner by
trade and carried it on in the town of Salem at the old mansion
on Yorke street. In 1739 he purchased of John Acton, on Fen-
wick street, a house and tan yard, containing one acre and a
half of ground as set forth in the deed ; he was twice married,
his last wife was the widow of James Chambless, Jr., of Allo-
ways Creek. Erasmus died in 1757 without issue, making his
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will in 1756 and disposing of his estate in the following man-
ner: gave tlie house and premises bonght of John Acton to his
nephew John Whitel ; to Roger Sherron £56; to Griffith Sher-
ron £10 ; to John, son of William Goodwin, £10 ; Susanna
Goodwin £10 ; Lewis Goodwin, £10 ; to his last wife's three
daughters, Rebecca, Sarah and Mary Chambless, £10 each,
also their mother's wearing apparel ; to his niece, wife of
Thomas Goodwin, £10; to Mary Goodwin, wife of Wil-
liam, £10; to his niece Jail Shipley, wife of William, £10;
to his niece Ann, wife of Samuel Bassett, £10; to John
Winters two daughters, Hannah and Sarah Whitel, £5
each; his negro boy Dick he bequeathed to William Good-
win for ten years, on condition that at the expiration of that
time he should be set free. The remainder of his estate both
real and personal was bequeathed to his sister Mary YanMeter's
two sons, Jacob and Benjamin VanMeter. William Goodwin
and John Whitel were his executors. His personal estate, after
his just debts were paid, amounted to £1119 18s. 5d., as was
filed in the office at Burlington in 1758 by his exec-
utors.
Jacob VanMeter settled in Genesee county, New York, and
left a family, who in former days visited the home of their
ancestors. Benjamin YanMeter married Bathsheba, daughter
of Captain James Dunlap, of Pittsgrove ; he was the son of
Captain James Dunlap, Sr., of Penn's Keck. The Dunlaps
came from Delaware to Penn's Neck, and are supposed to be of
Irish descent. James Dunlap's will was written in 1758 ; he
died the same year, leaving three sons and one daughter — John,
James, Thomas and Mary Ann. James, Jr., married Anna
Hunter, and died 19th of 9th month, 1773 ; his wife died 16th
of 1st month, 1780. The Hunter family were from East
Jersey ; a branch removed and settled in Salem county. Rob-
ert Hunter died, leaving a widow and two daughters — Anne
and Mary. His widow married Hugh Moore; they had issue,
one son, Richard Moore, who settled at Lower Alio ways Creek ;
he died, leaving one son and five daughters. One of the daugh-
ters married George Grier. Johanna married Jonathan Hil-
dreth. One married James Sayres, one married Solomon Du-
bois, one married Daniel Stretch. As has been stated Anne
Hunter married James Dunlap, Jr. ; they had one son and two
daughters — Bathsheba and Mary Dunlap. Bathsheba, the
eldest daughter, married Benjamin, the son of Henry and Mary
Fetters YanMeter. Mary, daughter of Robert Hunter, married
Samuel Purviance ; left one sou and three daughters. Mary,
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the eldest daughter of Samuel and Maiy Purviauce, married
Samuel Eakin.a Presbyterian pastor, tlieir children were Samuel,
James, Ann, Susan and Johanna. The latter married Isaac Hazel-
hurst ; slie died in 1809, leaving five children — Richard Hunter,
Samuel, Isaac, Jr., Andrew Purviauce and Mary. The other
daugliter of Sanniel and Mary Purviauce married William P.
Leigh, of Virginia. These Hunters are believed to be the de-
scendants of Robert Hunter, one of the Colonial Governors of
New Jersey, who held office from 1710 to 1720. The Hunters
were distinguished in early history for their prominence in the
pulpit, and State offices, and for their leai'uing and eloquence.
Benjamin VanMeter, as before stated, married Bathsheba Dun-
lap. He settled in early life on his ancestral estate, and was a
useful man in his time, being a ruling elder in the Presbyterian
Church at Daretown. He was the owner of a number of
slaves, but becoming convinced in his own mind tliat it was an
evil to hold his fellow man in bondage, he liberated all of tliem
a few years before his death. At that time there was no law
to compel him to do it, and he had been so kind a master that
some of his slaves refused to leave, and accordingly ended tlieir
days with liim. Benjamin VanMeter departed this life 15th of
10th month, 1826, aged eighty-two years; his wife died 7th of
11th month, 1831, aged eighty-four years. Tlieir children were
James, Mary, Ann, Sarah, Erasmus Fetters, Robert Hunter and
Bathsheba. James, the son of Benjamin VanMeter, was a
pliysician, and commenced practicing medicine at Alloways
Creek when a young man. He boarded with John Hancock.
However he remained there but one year, and then removed to
the town of Salem, and soon afterward married Ruth, the
daughter of Thomas Jones. He had a very extensive practice
as a physician, perhaps greater than any other one physician
that ever resided in the town of Salem, particularly so among
the members of the Society of Friends. He was one of the
founders of the Presbyterian Church in that place, and died in
1847, aged eighty years. His wife died a few years before
]iim, aged sixty-three years. They left an only child, a son,
Thomas Jones VanMeter, who graduated in early life as a
physician. He never practiced to much extent. He married
Hannah, daughter of Anthony and Hannah Keasbey, of Salem.
Their children are Artemisa K., Martha J. and James Anthony
VanMeter (the latter died in childhood). Hannah, wife of Dr.
Thomas VanMeter, died in 3d month, 1871.
Mary, daughter of Benjamin and Bathsheba VanMeter, mar-
ried Matthew Newkirk, and died in early life, 7th of 7th month,
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306 VANMErEK FAMILY.
1802, leaving four daiigliters, Bathsheba, Elizabeth, Ann and Sa-
rah Newkirk. Bathsheba, the eldest, married Jeremiah Stull, and
had several eliildren. John married Julia, daughter of Dani.d
Garrison of Salem; Mary Stull married a person by the name
of Cloud, of Maryland. Caroline Stull married Dr. Wallace.
Sarah married James Johnson. Bathsheba married Jacob Mencli
— all of them have children. Elizabeth, daughter of Matthew and
Mary Newkirk, married a person by the name of Effinger, and
had several children. Ann, daughter of Matthew and Mary
Newkirk, married Henry YanMeter; they had one daughter, who
afterwards married a person by the name of Carruthers, and
had several children. Sarah, the daughter of Matthew and
Mary Ncwkirk, married a person by the name of Olmstead ;
they had several children. Ann, daughter of Benjamin and
Bathsheba VanMeter, died 10th of 9th month, 1851. Sarah and
Fetters YanMeter, children of Benjamin and Bathsheba Yan-
Meter, died in infancy. Erasmus, son of Benjamin and Bath-
sheba YanMeter, married Mary Burroughs; he inherited the
family homestead, and died 7th of 11th month, 1812, aged sixty-
six years. He was a ruling elder in the church of his fathers at the
time of his death; his wife died 10th of 8th month, 1860, aged sev-
enty-five years. Their children were Benjamin, Jolm, William,
James, Elizabeth and Bathsheba YanMeter. Benjamin YanMe-
ter married Hannah McQueen ; they had several children, and
remov^ed West. John YanMeter, son of Erasmus, married and
died, leaving children. William YanMeter, son of Erasmus,
went West, married there, and has several children. Elizabeth,
daughter of Erasmus YanMeter, married Samuel Swing; they
had four children — Erasmus Y., Mary Jane, Ruth Ann and
Alfred. Erasmus Y. Swing is a practicing physician. He mar-
ried a Burroughs, and settled in Pennsylvania. Alfred was killed
in the late rebellion. Bathsheba, daughter of Erasmus YanMe-
ter, married Thomas Brooks ; they had two cdiildren — Bebecca
and Benjamin Brooks. Rebecca married James Robinson, and
Benjamin married Amanda Johnson. James, the son of Eras-
mus and Mary YanMeter, married a sister of James and Wil-
liam Coombs ; they settled in the State of Ohio. Robert Hun-
ter, son of Benjamin and Bathsheba YanMeter, graduated as a
physician in 1TU9, and settled in Pittsgrove. His lirst wife wrs
Rachel Burroughs of the same place; she died three months
after marriage ; his second wife was Sarah Leake Whitaker,
daughter of J, Ambrose and Rachel Leake AVhitaker. They
moved to Salem in 1800. Dr. Robert YanMeter was also one of
the founders of the Presbyterian Church in Salem, and a ruling
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elder in the cliurcli at the time of his death ; tlieir children were
Emma, Mary, James, Roljert, Edward, Mason, Josiah and Harriet.
Emma, daiii^hter of Robert and Sarah A^anMeter, died near
Baltimore 16th of lltli month, 1869. Mary, daughter of
Robert and Sarah YanMeter, married Enos R. Pease, of Con-
necticut, and died 17th of -Ith month, 183-1, leaving one child,
Alvin Robert Pease, who died in Alleghany City, Pennsylvania,
in his seventeenth year. James, Robert and Josiah, children of
Robert and Sarah YanMeter, died in infancy. Edward, son of
Robert and Sarah YanMeter, married Caroline, daughter of Isaac
and Ann Whitaker. They had three children — Mary Caroline,
Harriet Fetters and Anna Hunter A^anMeter. Edward Yan-
Meter died Ith of 1st month, 1875. He studied law in early
life in his native town of Salem, and it appears at that time he
was not much attached to his profession, for he soon after went
into the mercantile ]:)usiness at Hancock's Bridge. The firm
was known as YanMeter & Dubois. Soon after leaving the
store he was employed by Jonas Miller as his book-keeper.
Jonas was the proprietor of one of the largest public houses at
the time on Cape Island. Edward continued with him two or
three seasons. Soon after he was married, he turned his atten-
tion to his first calling, that of law, as attorney and solicitor in
chancery. He did a large amount of public business in his time,
and was considered one of the l)cst business men in the city of
Salem.
Mason, son of Robert and Sarah YanMeter, is still unmarried,
living in Salem. Harriet, daughter of Robert and Sarah Yan-
Meter, married R. J. Cone, of New York, a clergyman. They
had two children — Norris Hunter and Charles Kirtland Cone.
Noi-ris Hunter Cone graduated from Lafayette College 6th
month, 1872, and went to Colorado where he now resides.
His brother, Charles Kirtland Cone, died at the age of nine
years.
Bathsheba, daughter of Benjamin and Bathsheba A^anMeter,
married A\''illiam Mayhew ; they had one daughter, Maria, who
married a person by the name of Johnson, and had one daugh-
ter, Anna, who married Charles Burroughs. After the death
of Maria's first husband she married James Richman, and has
several children. Bathsheba Mayhew died 17t]i of 9th month,
1866.
CHRISTOPHEK A¥HITE FAMILY.
Christopher Wliite, son of Thomas AVhite, was born at Omnar,
in the county of Cumberhmd, England, in the year 1642. From
thence he removed to London in 1666, and in 1668 he married
Elizabetli Leath. She was a widow, and was the daughter of John
Wyatt, of the county of Yorkshire. They had one daugliter
Elizabeth, who was born in Shadwell, near London, in 1669.
His first wife Elizabeth died about the year 167L It appears
he married his second wife in the year 1671-, whose first name was
Esther, but her last name is not given in the records. Josiah
White, son of Christopher and Esther White, was born in Lon-
don, in 1675. Christopher and his wife and their two children,
and their two servants, John Brinton and Jane Allen, emigrated
to America, and landed at Salem 23d of 6th month, 1677. They
had one son — Joseph White, born in Salem 5th of 11th month,
1678. Christopher White, like several other emigrants, had
purchased one town lot in Salem, together with 1,000 acres of
land, of the proprietor before he left his native country. He
I'esided on his property in Salem until about the year 1682, and
he then removed and took possession of his allotment of land in
Alloways Creek. In 1690 he built a large brick house on his
property in said township, the King's Highway from Salem to
Cohansey running through his lands, the house was built near
said road, not far from the meadow. There is a tradition in
the neighborhood that he sent to England for an architecture,
and likewise had the brick imported from that country for the
house. The following is the description and size of the build-
ing, given to me by Judge Ephraim Carll, who had an excellent
opportunity of knowing — he and his family having resided there
for several years, and was also present when the building was
taken down :
The main building was thirty-two by eighteen feet, and two
stories high. The walls were eighteen inches in thickness up
to the second story, and the joist of that story projected beyond
the walls five feet, making a projection of that width on three
sides of the building, and the Myalls from that point were twelve
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inches in thickness. The joist in the main building were clear
yellow heart pine, and floor boards were of the same material,
being one and a half inches in thickness. Beyond the main
walls of the building was an extension from the foundation built,
being eight l)y ten feet, for a stairway to the second story and
garret. On top of said walls was an arch roof which gave the
building a singular appearance. There was also a cellar under
the whole of the main building, which was paved by square
English brick. The basement floor, and likewise the second and
attic floors, were supported l)y large beams twelve by fourteen
inches, which extended across the middle of each floor. The
main entrance to the main building on the west side of it, took
five large stone steps from the ground to enter the building, and
on the east side there was a one-story kitchen attached, wliich
likewise was built of brick, sixteen by twenty feet in size.
There was a good sized yard around the house which, at one
time, was paved with square brick, but at the time the house
was removed many of the yard bricks had been broken up and
removed. I have been more particular in describing this build-
ing on ac'-ount of the interest the old inhabitants of the town-
ship had respecting it^ and when it was erected. The late
Robert G. Johnson told me the year after it was taken
down, that he regretted very much that there was Mot a photo-
graph drawing of the building for the Historical Society of New
Jersey.
Israel Ilarrisson married Esther, the daughter of Christopher
and Esther White, of Monmouth precinct, about 1693. Israel
and his wife Esther had two children. Joseph, their son, born
1694, and Sarah, the daughter of Israel and Esther Ilarrisson,
was born 14th of 12th montii, 1696. Israel died in 1704.
Christopher White died about the year 1698, leaving a widow
and three cliildren — Elizabeth, Josiah and Joseph Wliite.
Christopher White appears to have been a man of an energetic
turn of mind, and a high moral tone of character, and those
traits were transmitted to his descendants for several genera-
tions. His daughter Elizabeth married William Bradway, in
the year 1689. Josiah White, son of Christopher, I believe,
married Hannah Ashbury in 1698. Their son Christopher
White, was born 23d of 6th month, 1699, and died a minor.
Their son, Josiah Wiiite, was born in 1705. Hannah White,
daughter of Josiah and Hannah Wliite, was born at Alloways
Creek in 1710. Josiah White, Sr., died about the year 1726,
leaving his landed estate to his son, Josiah.
As early as 1698, the owners of the meadows and low lands
310 christoi>hp:k white family.
bordering on Alloways creek obtained a law from the West Jer-
sey Legislature to enable them to put a dam across the said
creek, and to put a sufticient sluiceway to drain all the low lands
lying above the present Hancock's Bridge. For some cause
which has never been explained, tlie work was not undertaken
until the year 1723, at which time the Company contracted with
Josiah WJiite to build the dam. He was the son of Josiah
White, and grandson of Christopher White, the emigrant. Jo-
siah was born 21st of 6tli montli, 1705, at the old homestead of
the family, called at that time Monmouth Precinct. He made
a contract to erect a dam and put in a sufHcient slui(;eway for a
spccilic sum, the amount of wliich I have never learned, and
guaranteed it to stand one year before he was to receive his pay.
But the meadow owners above the dam soon discovered that
their lands did not drain as well as before, and besides losing
the navigation of the creek, which was an incalculable loss, for
there was as much valuable timber on tlie land bordering the
creek at that time as in any part of West Jersey. Before the
expiration of the year the dam broke. Since that day innnense
quantities of the best quality of ship timber, and thousands of
cords of fire wood, together with products of the farms, have
been sent to market from the lands bordering the creek above
tlie dam, by the navigable highway which nature designed Mon-
mouth river to be. Within a few years past, by the wear of
the creek, many of the ancient piling and other timber on the
south side became a liindrance to navigation, and the Freehold-
ers of the county determined to have the timber removed out
of the stream. They offered proposals for the lowest bidders
to clear the navigation. Edward and Lewis S. Carll agreed to
do it, they being the lowest bidders, for the sum of $210. Many
of tlieir friends were fearful they would incur a loss by the un-
dertaking, but by good management and perseverance they have
been succ-essful in removing a large quantity of heavy timber.
Tlie dam was constructed with two cribs, twenty feet each,
making the width of the embankment full forty feet wide.
About iif ty or sixty feet from the south side of the creek, wdiich,
I presume, at that time, was near tlie channel, they found large
quantities of wood cut in lengths to cord tightly in between the
three rows of piling and land ties, which, I have no doubt, was
used as a tumbling dam until such time as the other part of the
enbankment could be raised above tide water. Many of the
piling, drawn b}' means of a stump puller, were imbedded fif-
teen and some nearly twenty feet in tlie mud and gravel. The
land ties drawn to the shore from the bottom of the creek, were
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over fifty feet in length, Jind squared twelve to fourteen inches,
they being to all appearance as sound as when put there — one
hundred and lifty-six years ago. They were of white oak.
The creek since that time lias clianged its cliannel northerly
fully sixty feet. The Urst bent on the south side of the stream,
with the piling and land ties, are at this time imbedded under
the mud fully three or four feet deep, extending under the
present tide bank.
I previously mentioned that the work was done by contract
by Josiah White. Tradition says the dam was cut on the night
before the year expired. Tiie company contended that the
stopping broke, but their statement found little or no credit,
and was never believed except by tliose persons who were
interested in the meadow company, and they decided not to pay
liira. Josiah was under the necessity of selling his large patri-
monial estate to pay the debt he had incurred in erecting the
works for their beneiit. At that time he was only twenty-three
years old. Many persons in the same adversity would have
become dispirited, but not so with one who had inherited from
his father and his grandfather tliose qualities of heart and
mind, which made him capable of witlistanding more than
ordinary trials. After disposing his estate to Joseph Stretch
and others, he was enabled to pay his indebtedness and have
£500 left. He then determiued to leave his native county, not
having any family. His widowed mother, Hannah White, had
died a short time previous. He went and settled in Burlington
county, at or near Mount Holly, and there purchased land on the
head waters of Rancocas creek. Soon after he made a dam
across the creek for the purpose of raising a head of water, and
then built a fulling mill, in which, I think, he carried on the
manufacturing of cloth tlie greater part of the remainder of his
life. He married 1st of 10th month, 1734, Rebecca, tlie
daughter of Josiah and Rebecca Foster, a highly respected
family of Burlington county ; she was a descendant of the
Borden family, from whom Bordentown, on the Dela-ware river,
derives its name. She was born 1st of 10th month, 1702.
Josiah and his wife, Rebecca F. White, had six children.
Their eldest daughter, Amy, born 13th of 5th. month, 1737, died
when she was about thirteen months old. Hannali, the second
daughter, born 2Sth of lltli month, 1739, married Tliomas
Prior, in 1763 ; her second husband was Daniel Drinker.
Josiah,son of Josiah and Rebecca White, born 21th of 4th month,
1752, died when two years of age. Rebecca, the daughter of
Josiali and Rebecca, born 15th of 3d month, 1745, married a
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young man by the name of Redman, of ITnddonfield. John,
the son of Josiah and Rebecca, born 9th of 7th month, 1747.
Josiali AVhite, the youngest son of Josiah and Rebecca, was
born 20th of 8th month, 1750. The father of the al)ove named
children was a minister in the Society of Friends, recommended
as such in the year 1743. On the same day the celebrated
John Woolman was also recommended by the Mount Holly
Monthlj^ Meeting. Josiah had the happy faculty of condensing
what he desired to express either in his public communications
or his private conversation, and his company was mucli sought
after. He and Dr. Benjamin Franklin were on quite intimate
terms, as he was also with Governor William Franklin, the son
of Dr. Franklin, whose country seat M-as near Mount Holly.
Josiah imbibed the idea similar to Homer, the father of poets,
that there were plants and herbs tliat grew to cure all diseases
the human family is liable to. I have been informed tliat for a
number of years of liis life he used no other medicine in his
family but wliat he made of herbs, and he was frequently sei.t
for by his neighbors to administer the same to their families.
He received the appellation of lierlj doctor. He certainly was
a man of clear and comprehensive judgment, and was well
calculated to leave his foot-prints on tlie sands of time, and
those great qualities were transmitted to his descendants to a
remarkable degree to the first, second and third generations, as
their lives and their undertakings for the public good (all of
which they accomplished) fully demonstrate.
Josiah lost his wife about nine years before his death ; she
died 6th of 12th month, 1771, aged nearly sixty-three years.
He was born at Alloways Creek, 21st of 6th month, 1705, and
died at Mount Holly, 12th of 5th month, 1780, aged nearly
seventy-five years. He descended from an ancient family of
the name of White, in the county of Cumberland, in England.
Tliomas White, his great-grandfather, became converted to the
principles of George Fox, and soon after tliat event left his
native county and removed to London. In the year 1664 he
was taken from the Bull and Mouth meeting, in that city, and
taken l)efore Alderman Brown. He told the Alderman that he
thought he had filled up the measure of his wickedness, at
w]ii(;h the Alderman, incensed, struck him in the face, kicked
him and sent him to Newgate prison. His grandfather, Chris-
topher White, also suffered much violence and persecution in
the city of London on account of his religious opinions. It is
probable for that reason he concluded to leave his native coun-
ti-y and emigrate to the wilds of America, where he could enjoy
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civil and religions liljertj. He accordingly pnrchased 1,000
acres of land of Jolm Fenwick before he left England, in the
early part of the year 1675, and with his family arrived at New
Salem in tJie 6th month, 1677. He became an active and use-
ful citizen in Fenwick's iiifant colony. He died on his planta-
tion in Monmouth Frccinct, now Alloways Creek township,
about the year 1696. His son, Josiah White, who was born in
London in 1675, succeeded liim and became the owner of his
real estate in said township.
John, the son of Josiah and Rebecca "White, born 9th of 7th
month, 171:7, married 7th of 6th month, 1775, Rebecca, daugh-
ter of Jeremiali Haines, of Burlington coimty ; she was born
28tli of 7th month, 1711. John and his wife Rebecca White
had four children. Jolm, tlie eldest, lived to grow up to man-
hood and died unmarried ; Christopher, their second son, died
a minor ; Josiah was born 4th of 3d month, 1781 ; and Joseph,
the yonngest, was born 28th of 12t]i month, 1785. John, their
father, died 22d of 8th month, 1785, aged about thirty-eight
years.
Josiah White, well known as the pioneer of introducing the
Schuylkill water for the use of the inhabitants of the city of
Philadelphia, also one of tlie first projectors of the Schuylkill
canal, and also tlie Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The
latter he commenced and completed nearly or altogether by his
own individual exertions, so as to enable the different coal com-
panies, which were then organizing in the anthracite coal
regions, to carry it to tlie Philadelphia market for common use
as fuel. Before that period it was not much used, owing in a
great measure to the high price of transporting it to market,
which put it out of reach of the common people, it being from
$25 to $40 per ton. Josiah was the third son of John and
Rebecca H. White, and was born 3d of 4th month, 1781. He
was married twice ; his first wife being Catharine Ridgway, of
Burlington county, whom he married in 1805. She died a few
years after her marriage, leaving no issue. Josiah's second wife
was Elizabeth, the daughter of Solomon and Hannah White, of
Philadelphia. There were five children by that connection —
Hannah, the eldest, married Richard Richardson, of Wilming-
ton, Delaware ; she is still living. Their next child was a son,
who died young. Solomon, their third child, lived until he was
in his nineteenth year. He has been represented as a yoimg
man of uncommon promise, and was possessed of a mind above
mediocrity, and consequently his untimely death was a great
loss to his aged and beloved parents. Josiah and Elizabeth
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314 CHRISTOPHER WHITE FAMILY.
White's fourth chiki was a son, M-ho died young. Rebecca,
their youngest chikl, is still living, unmarried. Josiah White,
the father, died l^th of 11th month, 1850, aged nearly seventy
years.
Joseph White, the youngest son of John and Kebecca IJ.
White, was born 2Sth of 12th month, 1785. Like his elder
brotlier, Josiah, he inherited fi'oin his ancestors that great
energy of character and a cast of mind which made them pio-
neers in new and important improvements for the benefit of
mankind. lie married Rebecca, the daughter of Daniel D. and
and Elizabetli Schooley Smith, of Burlington county. Daniel
D. Smith was a descendant of Richard Smith, M. D., who was
baptised 18th of 5th month, 1593, and died at Branham, York-
shire, England, in 1617. Elizabeth Schooley Smith was the
great-grand-daughter of Samuel Jennings, first Governor of
West New Jersey. Rebecca Smith, her daughter, was born
29th of 3d montli, 1787. Joseph and Rebecca S. White had
eight children — John Josiah, Daniel S., Elizabeth, Sarah S.,
Anna (who died young), Howard, Barclay and Anna Maria.
John J. White, the eldest son, resides in Philadelphia, in the
house on Arch street that was formerly occupied by his uncle,
Josiah White. He is a lawyer by profession. He has been
twice married, his first wife being Mary Kirkbride Shoemaker,
and his second wife Abigail Weaver.
Daniel S. White, the second son, married Rebecca L. Shreve.
Elizabeth, the eldest daughter, married Joshua Lippincott, of
Philadelphia. Sarah S. White died unmarried ; Howard died
unmarried ; Barclay married Rebecca Merritt Lamb, daughter
of Restore Lamb, of Burlington county. She died several years
ago, leaving issue. His second wife was Beulali Sansom
Shreve. Barclay at this time is one of the Government's Su-
perintendents of Indian Affairs, and is located at Omaha,
Nebraska. Anna Maria, the youngest child of Joseph White,
married J. Gibbon Hunt, M. 1). During the year 1808 Joseph
White and Samuel Lippincott purchased Josiah White's stock
of hardware and commenced business as importer of and dealer
in hardware, under the firm of White & Lippincott, at No. Ill
Market street, Philadelphia. The following interesting narra-
tive of Joseph White, written by his youngest son Barclay, and
forwarded to me a few mouths ago, shows that his life had been
extended to threescore years and ten ; he had the ability and
energy to have risen as high on the pinnacle of fame in the
history of his country as his elder brother. He died at the age
of forty-one years in the prime of his life.
CHRISTOPHER WHITE FAMILY. 315
In the year 1811 Josepli left Pliiladelphia with the intention
of traveling on horseback to St. Louis, Missouri, and other
places in the AYestern and Southern country, for the purpose of
extending the business of the firm, and collecting debts due to
it. Stopping at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, he stabled his horse
and strolled through the streets to view the town. Passing a
store, he noticed a man standing in its door, clad in such cus-
tom as denoted he was a member of the Society of Friends; and
being a stranger in a strange place, Joseph was attracted towards
this member of his own religious Society. Asking for some
trivial article of merchandise as an excuse for opening a conver-
sation, he entered the store. This new acquaintance proved to
be Elisha Hunt, who, witli his brotlier Caleb, were conducting
a mercantile business there. The conversation that ensued was
interesting to both Friends, and when supper was announced,
Joseph was invited to join the family circle. The Hunts made
a proposition tliat if Josepli White would give up his journey
on horseback and assist tliem in building and freighting a keel
boat, Caleb Hunt would in the spring join him on the trip to
St. Louis, thus making a more pleasant journey, with favorable
prospects of a successful mercantile venture. Such an arrange-
ment was agreed upon. Joseph White spent the winter at
Brownsville, the boat was built, and freighted witli general mer-
chandise, and in the spring of 1812, Caleb Hunt and Joseph
White, with a crew of French-Canadian boatmen, started her
from the landing at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, bound for St.
Louis, Missouri. Dm'ing the previous 11th month an earth-
quake, which is known as the "earthquake of New Madrid,"
had clianged and rent the banks of the Ohio river, adding to
the risks and labors of the voyage. As they pursued their course
with the current of the river, there was much leisure time, and
the boatmen noticed that Joseph frequently interested himself
by reading from a volume which he carried in his pocket, and
tliey asked that he would read to them. The volume was the
Bible, and Ijy commencing his readings with the narrative por-
tions, they became so interested in the book that the readings
were made regular and systematic during the remainder of the
voyage.
As far as the mouth of tlie Ohio the voyage was compara-
tively easy, recpiiring only watchful care to keep the boat in
the current and avoid obstructions, but from the Ohio's mouth
to St. Louis, against the rapid current of the Mississippi river,
was another kind of lal)or. They now doubled the number of
their men, and pulled tlic boat up stream with a long rope, a
316 CHRISTOPHER WHITE FAMILY.
number of hands on shore dragging it. This was called " cor-
delling" and " bushwhacking," as the men would catch a bush
with one hand and pull the rope with the other. This arduous
labor was well calculated to lead the reflective mind to consider
if some other power could not be successfully applied for pro-
pelling boats against such a current.
After reaching St. Louis the mei-chandise was sold, partly for
cash, the balance to be paid for in lead, which was to be deliver-
ed at St. Genevieve, Missouri, during the spring of 1813.
Having successfully disposed of their goods, and ascertained
that the St. Louis merchants, who were indebted to White &
Lippincott, were unable to pay the debt, the friends turned their
keel boat down tlie Mississippi river homeward bound. They
entered the mouth of the Ohio river, and proceeded up it as far
as Smithland at the mouth of the Cumberland river, where,
not finding an opportunity to sell their keel boat, it was com-
mitted to the charge of Joseph Wood, to sell, freight or charter.
Joseph White bought a horse of Wood for |50, and with
Caleb Hunt, left Smilhland on the 6th of 7th month, 1812, at
six o'clock A. M., on horseback for the journey home. From
the notes of this journey, which are now before me, they
passed through Louisville, Kentucky. At Hopkinville they
received the intelligence of war being declared with England.
The diary notes : — " We were much shocked thereat ; this un-
" expected intelligence overclouded my prospects, and makes
" my ride gloomy." " At Bowling Green, Kentucky, I fell in
" with the proprietor of a cave, who wanted me to purchase it.
" He asked $10,000. With five men he makes one hundred
"pounds of saltpetre per day ; to manufacture it costs him from
" five to six cents per pound ; it is now worth twenty-five cents
" per pound in Lexington, Kentucky."
At Sheppardsville, Kentucky, the friends separated, and
Joseph White proceeded to Louisville, where he found consider-
aljle commotion on account of a man being arrested on suspicion
of being a British spy, and fomenting the negroes to insurrec-
tion. He passed through Frankford, the seat of government,
which he describes as " a smart town, containing about one
" hundred and fifty houses." " Cynthina contains about fifty
" houses," tlience to Lexington, which he found to be " a delight-
" f ul place, with hospitable people and luxurious soil." Passing
through the gap of the Cumberland range of mountains, he
traveled on to Knoxville, Tennessee, which is mentioned as " a
" lively town, with from two hundred to three hundred houses ;
" liere I was introduced to the Governor of the State and several
CHRISTOPHER WHITE FAMILY. 317
"principal people." "Near Rogersville I exchanged horses
" with William Lyons, gave liim ^50 to boot, and am to pay $10
" more if he should think it a liard bargain." From Abington,
Virginia, he passed up the Valley of Virginia, or Shenendoah
Valle}'^, tln-ough Lynchburg, stopping to view the Natural
Bridge ; then on to " Strasburg, containing sixty or seventy
" houses," through " Winchester, a line place with about four
" hundred houses," passing by Harper's Ferry, where lie found
an extensive manufactory of arms, producing nine hundred
stand per month, rating at $12 each. Thence to Frederickstown,
Maryland, which he supposes " contains eight hundred or one
thousand houses,"thence through Columbia,Lancaster and Down-
ington, in Pennsylvania, arriving in Philadelphia, 16th of 8th
month, 1812. This horseback journey from Smithland, Ken-
tucky, to Philadelphia, appears to have occupied forty -one days.
During the autumn of 1812 Elisha Hunt visited Philadelphia,
and while there arrangements were made and a stock company
formed to construct steamboats and carry passengers and freight
by steamboats between Pittsburg and New Orleans. The stock
of this company was divided into six shares, of which Joseph
White owned two or one-third of the whole amount of stock.
Daniel French, a Connecticut man, owned a patent for steam-
boats, and had built a little stern wheel steamboat on his plan,
which was then running as a ferry boat between Cooper's Point,
Camden, New Jersey, and Philadelphia.
French said he could construct steamboats that would run five
miles an hour, against the current of the Mississippi river, and
an arrangement was made with him by which he sold to the
company the right to use his patent west of the Alleghany
mountains. The services of French were engaged, shops were
erected at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, tools for working in iron
were made, logs were cut into plank with whip saws, and with
the ferry boat above mentioned as their model, they constructed
the steamboat Enterprise, costing about fifteen thousand dollars,
and in the latter part of the summer of 1813 she left Pittsburg
for New Orleans, under the command of Captain Henry Shreve,
who was the son of Israel Shreve, of Burlington county, New
Jersey, a Colonel in the Revolutionary army.
The Enterprise reached New Orleans, and was there seized by
the State Marshal, at the instance of Fulton and Livingstone,
for coming within the limits of Louisiana, they having obtained
from the Legislature of that State a charter, granting them the
exclusive privilege of running steamboats on the waters of that
State. Captain Shrev^e gave security for trial, the Enterprise
318 CHRISTOPHER WHITE FAMILY.
was released, and i-eturned up the river with a full cargo of
freight and passengers. The charge for carrying freight was
eight cents per pound, and one hundred and twenty-five dollars
for each passenger. It was announced in the Pittsburg papers,
and copied into Cramer 6z Spears' Almanac that the steamboat
Enterprise had just arrived with a full cargo of passengers and
freight, in the remarkable short passage of twenty-six days from
New Orleans, thus proving the practicability of navigating the
Mississippi river by steam.
The Steamboat Company labored under a great disadvantage
on account of fuel and had axemen on board to chop wood,
which they took on the banks of the river and from drifts, as
they could find it. This occasioned great detention, but arrange-
ments were made for a supply at several landings against the
next trip. Tlie next time the Enterprise landed at New Orleans,
Greneral Jackson pressed her into the service of the United
States, and sent her up to Alexandria, on the Red river, with
provisions, ifcc, for the army there.
The Enterprise made about three round voyages between
Pittsburg and New Orleans, when peace was declared between
the United States and England. Passeno;ers and freight then
went around by sea. The Enterprise finally reached Shippins
Port, below the Falls of the Ohio river, and the river being low
above, and freights dull, the Captain anchored the boat in deep
water, and hiring two men to take care of her, went by land to
Pittsburg. One of the men went ashore and the other got
drunk and neglected the pumps, the weather was hot, the seams
of the boat opened, and the Enterprise filled and sank to the
bottom, where, as Elisha Hunt, in a letter written during the
year 1851, sa^'^s "she still is." Elisha further states that while
he was down in Kentucky, in 1818, a man offered him $1,000
for the wreck, as he thought he could get her engine out to run
a saw mill.
Fulton I.V: Livingston obtained judgment against the Company
in the State Court, but on appeal the United States Court set
that decision aside and left the navigation of the Mississippi
free, and open to all. Said suit cost the Company l)etween
S1500 and S2000.
TJie Stcaral.)oat Company then built a second boat called the
Despatch, designed for shoal water, she soon sank in the Ohio
river, after which the stockholders became discouraged, and the
Company dissolved.
The Enterprise was tlie first steamboat that ever went out of
the Monongahela river to New Orleans, and returned up against
tlie current.
CHRISTOPHER WHITE FAJSHLY. 319
One of Elisha Hunt's letters says : " The amount of dividend
" paid to the stockhoklers out of the profits of the boats I am
" not able to give, for no book account was ever kept by the
" Captain. On his return to Brownsville he brought his funds
" in several shot bags, of Spanish dollars, which were poured
" out on the counter of E. & C. Hunt's store, and laid off into
" six piles to the stockholders, with which they M^ere satisfied at
" the time."
In consequence of the sinking of the boats, the stockholders
lost all their investment, which was about $20,000. The Steam-
boat Company manufactured the tools necessary for the con-
struction of steam macliinery, and also constructed a cotton mill
at Brownsville, in which they placed a steam engine, manufac-
tured in their shops. After the close of the war the cotton mill
failed.
After Captain Henry Shreve left the service of the Steamboat
Company, he constructed a boat at Wheeling, called the Wash-
ington. Shreve was employed by the government to remove
the snags out of the river, and afterwards entered into an
engagement with the United States to remove the Ked river
raft. He invented a powerful snag boat, and with it improved
the navigation of the Ked river to Slireveport, wliicli town was
named after him.
One of Elisha Hunt's letters states : " The little office con-
" nected with our Brownsville store was the rendezvous of many
" intelligent and enterprising young men, and there , all the
" recent inventions for improving travel, etc., were argued and.
" discussed." Among the regular visitors there he mentions
Neal Gillespie Blaine, grandfather of Ex-Speaker Blaine, of
the House of Representatives, Robert Clark, Stephen Darling-
ton and others.
The lead which was to be delivered at St. Genevieve in part
payment for the keel boat merchandise, was on hand according
to contract, when the Enterprise stopped for it. The boat
carried it to Pittsburg, whence it was freighted to Philadelphia
in Conestoga wagons, and there sold, netting over one hundred
per cent, profit on the keel boat venture.
In 1813 or 1814: Elisha Hunt sent to Joseph White one barrel
of "Seneca Oil" gathered at Oil Creek, Pennsylvania, which
Joseph sold to Daniel Smith, a druggist in Philadelphia. The
oil was gathered by damming up the rivulets, and spreading a
blanket over the water to absorb the oil. The blanket was then
wrung over barrels, which caught the oil.
Joseph White was extensively engaged in coal operations in
320 CHRISTOPHER WHITE FAMILY,
the Lackawanna region during the latter years of his life, and
died in Philadelphia 25tli of' 5th month, 1827, aged forty-one
years.
After many years of mercantile life at Brownsville, Elisha
Hunt returned to his native place, Moorestown, New Jersey,
where lie passed many of his later years, and died in the summer
of 1873 in the ninety-fourth year of his age. It was my privi-
lege and pleasure on several occasions during those years to con-
verse witli liim upon his social and business connections with my
father, and the incidents above narrated have been chiefly
derived from such conversations.
It is more than probable that if Josiah White, Jr., had not
been defrauded of his just dues by the inhabitants of the Upper
Precinct of Monmouth, he would have remained in his native
county of Salem, a district of country for which nature has done
so much. The inventive genuis and uncommon energy of
character possessed by him and his descendants would have
been an incalculable advantage to this section of the State ; for
as William Penn wrote in one of his maxims respecting human
life : " Great minds were destined by Providence to be the pio-
" neers of all that is good and useful for the benefit of
" mankind."
Josiah White, while in his twenty-eighth year, sold all his
goods to his brother, Joseph White, and Samuel Lippincott, he
having by this time obtained the amount of property he desired
as being sufficient for him. It appears he was out of business
about two years, and in 1810 ho married his second wife Eliza-
beth, the daughter of Solomon and Hannah White. Her father
had been a successful merchant in Piiiladelphia, but was then
deceased. Notwithstanding his plans of life, it seems he was
designed for active life, and about two years after he sold out
his interest in Market street, there was a water power offered
for sale at the Falls of Schuylkill, belonging to Robert Kennedy,
comprising about four feet available fall, with all the water of
the river, with the right to construct a lock for navigation,
charging fifty cents toll on each boat for passing ; also, there
was four acres of ground on the east side of the river, and seven
or eight acres and an old tavern house on the west side adjoin-
ing the bridge. He built a large mill for the manufacture of
wire, and a smaller one for making nails, and entered himself
in the manufacture of these articles about that time. He asso-
ciated with him Erskine Hazard, who became a partner in the
manufacture of wire. In 1801 he took out a patent for rolling
iron, and in 1812 another patent for making wire and heading
CHKISTOPIIEK WHITE FAMILY. 321
nails. Li 1817 he and Josepli Gillingham endeavored to make
arrangements with the City Council. They offered to furnish
the city with tln-ee millions of gallons of water every twenty-
four hours for twenty years, at twenty-five thousand dollars a
year, and then three millions of gallons every twenty-four hours
at three thousand dollars a year forever. But it appears they
M'ero not successful in making a contract Avith the City Council
at tliat time.
About the year 1812 they made an experiment of anthracite
coal in their rolling mill. They procured a cart load of it which
cost them one dollar per bushel. This quantity was entirely
wasted without getting up the requisite heat, and another cart
load was obtained, and a whole night spent in endeavoring to
make a fire in the furnace, when the hands shut the furnace
doors and left the mill in despair. Fortunately one of them left
his jacket in the mill, and returning for it in about half an hour,
noticed that the furnace door was red hot, and upon opening it
was surprised to find the whole furnace of a glowing white heat.
The others w^ere summoned, and four separate parcels of iron
were heated and rolled by the same fire — before it required
renewing. The furnace was then replenished, and as letting it
alone had succeeded so well, it was concluded to try it again,
and the experiment was repeated wdth the same result. Coal
at that time was $10 per ton.
White & Hazard applied to the Legislature in 1813 to grant
them the privilege of making the Schuylkill navigable so as to
bring the coal to market, and supply their own wants at a
cheaper rate, but the idea M'as ridiculed. The members from
Schuylkill county said in the Legislature, that althougli they
had a black stone in tlieir county it would not burn, and they
were unsuccessful in obtaining the law for that purpose at that
time. [See Hazard Report, page 302]. White & Hazard
called a meeting for all those that were interested in the nav-
igation of the Schuylkill to meet at the tavern, corner of Fifth
and Race streets, Philadelphia, in 1815. Josiah White opened
the business of the meeting by proposing the application to the
Legislature for a company to improve the Schuylkill for slack
water navigation by dams and locks. This was the commence-
ment of the present Schuylkill Navigation Company. The Com-
pany was incorporated in 1815, showing clearly that he was the
originator of that inland navigation which has been millions of
dollars benefit to the city of Philadelphia and State of Pemisyl-
vania.
In 1819, White sSc Hazard sold their water-jioAvcr fit the
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322 CHRISTOPHER WHITE FAMILY,
Falls of the Schuylkill to the city of Philadelphia, They then
turned attention to the coal regions at Mauch Chunk. They
left the city on horsel)ack, and the greater part of the way they
liad to travel through tlie wilderness, particularly in the moun-
tainous regions, and arrived at Summit Hill in safety, a short
distance from Mauch Chunk.
In 1792 a company was formed called the Lehigh Coal
Mine Company, who took up a large tract of land contiguous
to that on which the coal had been found. White, Hazard &
Company rented ten thousand acres of land of said company for
twenty years, for one ear of corn a year, if demanded, and from
and after three years to send to Philadelphia at least forty
tliousand bushels of coal per annum on their own account. So
as to be sure of introducing it in the market, they immediately
set to work to improve the navigation of the Lehigh, with a
capital of two hundred thousand dollars, and afterward tlie stock
was increased to a million. In the year 1820 the dams and
locks being completed, the first anthracite coal was sent to
market by artificial navigation. The whole quantity, says
Josiah White, was three hundred and sixty-live tons. This, he
said, proved more than enough for family supplies in Philadel-
phia. In 1823 the navigation of the Lehigh was completed,
and was inspected by commissioners who reported it finished,
and the Governor issued his licence on the 17th of 1st month,
1823, authorizing them to take toll.
Josiah White removed his family from Philadelphia, in 1821,
near Mauch Chunk. Kext year a comfortable house was pro-
vided for his family upon tlie hill-side above the beautiful
river, with spacious grounds, adorned M'ith rocks and forest
trees. An extensive inclosure, called the Park, contained elk
and deer, for the amusement of his children, and at that place
his mother closed her life in the family of her son, in the
eighty-second year of her age. In 1831 the works of the com-
pany being so far completed as not to require his constant
attention, the family returned to Philadelphia, and resided at
the corner of Seventh and Arch streets. Soon after a heavy
domestic affliction was experienced by the parents in the loss of
their only remaining son, a prominent young man in his nine-
teenth year.
From 1820 to 1871 the production of coal from the Lehigh
Coal and Navigation Company from official reports amounts to
] 3,705,298 tons.
Josiah White was much interested in the subject of education,
particularly desiring its diffusion among the lower classes of the
CHRIS rOPirER WHITE FAMILY. 323
people, in a wuy to make tliem self-reliant and self-sn])portin^,
often contributing liberally of his means for sucli purpose. lie
bequeathed funds for the establishment of two manual labor
schools in the West — one in Indiana and the other in Iowa —
especially having reference to the religious training of tlie
pupils.
A short time before his death he visited Salem, and in
company with Kobert G-. Johnson, visited the native place of
his ancestors at Alio ways Creek. He died in Fliiladelphia the
14th of 11th month, 1850, in the seventieth year of his age.
Notwithstanding his life was a busy one and vast his under-
taking in improving the inland navigation of his adopted State,
which, by his perseverance and good management he completed,
and his mind appeared to be centred to the great first cause. He
wrote the following touching expressions, among others of a
similar nature, in his religious reflections not long before his
death : "When I consider the relationship of man to his Maker,
"how depending he is before him, yea, nothing but a cloud of
" dust, and the life he lives is only by the will and power of the
"Holy One; it is even He that created this dust, and gave it
" life and being and capacity to serve him, and to do his will
" and life forever." He left three daughters, two of whom are
still living. Hannah married Richard liicliardson and Rebecca
remains single.
I close the short account that I have written of this truly
great man by copying the remarks made by Charles V. Hagner,
from a woi'k he wrote of some of the leading men tliat lived
near the Falls of Schuylkill. After mentioning tlie various and
great undertakings Josiali White liad accomplislied f(jr the
benefit of the city and State, he says: "Have I not sliown good
" reasons for saying that I know of no man to whom the citizens
" of Philadelphia are so much indebted for substantial benelits
" tliey have so long enjoyed as they are to Josiah White. First
" we see him in company with Mr. Hazard, making experiments
" witli the anthracite coal, and succeeding in bringing it into
" practicable use in the rolling mill. Next in successfully con-
" triving gates to make it applicable for domestic use. Then
" starting the Schuylkill Navigation Company to bring down a
" supply of coal. Originating the idea of the Fairmount Dam,
" resulting in giving to the citizens of Philadelphia such a plen-
" tifiil supply of water as they never dreamed of before, and
" finally originating the Lehigh works. The warrior who slays
" thousands of liis fellow creatures is lauded and glorified, higli
"monuments are erected to iiis memory, on wliich are eml)la-
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" zoned Ids deeds of blood, but the modest, plain, unassuming
" citizen who does so much good for his fellow men, and wlio
" neither seeks or courts notoriety, sleeps his last sleep, conipar-
"atively unnoticed or forgotten."
JOSEPH WHITE FAMILY.
Joseph "Wliite descended from an ancient family of Nortli-
amptershire, England. He was the son of Samuel and Elenor
White, and was'born the 20tli of 1st month, 1651. He left
liis native place in England and removed to Ireland, in 1672 ;
soon after that event, he married Elizabeth, daughter of An-
tliony and Elizabeth Church, who had removed from Stafford-
shire, England, to Ireland, a few years before, and they became
members of New Garden Monthly Meeting, neai- Dublin. In
said meeting, about the year 1679, Joseph White and Elizabeth
Church were married. They, in company with a number of
friends, among whom were Hugh Middleton, from Gloucester-
shire, England, Allen Matthias and Hannah Ashbury, all
originally natives of England, set sail from Dublin harbor, and
after a passage of eight weeks and two days, they landed at
Elsinborough Point in West Jersey, on the 17th day of 9th
month, 1681. The same day they landed, they had a daughter
born, which they named Rema White. Josepli White located
on land in Elsinl)orough and resided thereon. He was an active
2nan in the civil affairs of the Colony ; and likewise an influen-
tial member of Salem Monthly Meeting. Joseph White, Jr.,
son of Joseph and Elizabeth White, was born in Elsinborough,
29th of 11th month, 1692. I think that Joseph White, Sr.,
died about the year 1703. 1 lind no mention of him after that
date in public records, or in the meeting books. The family
soon after his death left Elsinborough and settled in the upper
part of the (county.
Josepli White, 2d, married and had several children. John
White, S(m of Joseph and Mary White was born 19tli of 3d
month, 1717. Joseph White, 3d, son of Joseph and Mary
White, was born 21st of 10th month, 1719. AVilliam White,
son of the same parents was born in 1722. Here appears a
discrepency in the records. I have heard stated there were
two or three daughters. William White, son of Joseph, 3d,
married, and had several children, six daughters and one son.
William was l)orn in 1751 ; he subsequently became an eminent
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.TOSEl'H WHITE FAMILY,
land Siu-vejor. He died 18tli of lltli month, 1836, in Ids
eiglity-Hfth year. He enjoyed remarkal)le liealth, and was
never known to be sick during his long life, until a few days
before his death. He was married three times. His first wife
Avas a Fisher, by whom he had one daughter — Hannah White.
She married Benjamin Heritage, of Gloucester county. Benja-
min and his wife had ten children, four sons and six daughters.
"William White's second wife was Anne Paul, daughter of
Samuel Paul, of Gloucester ; they had ten children — William,
Samuel, Ann, Rebecca, Mary, Joseph, Sarah, Isaac, John and
Joel White. William White's third wife was Mary Silvers,
widow of Thomas Silvers ; they had no issue.
William, the son of William and Anne White, married Susan
Bates, of Gloucester county ; they had five children — William,
George, Samuel, Charles and Susan White. They are all
married and scattered in the Western States. Samuel, son of
William and Anne White, married Jerusha, daughter of Jona-
tlian and Hannah Shourds Smith, of Pilesgrove. Samuel and
his wife had eight children — Elizabeth, Jonathan, William,
Mary, Samuel, Caroline, David and Wilson White. Elizabeth,
daughter of Samuel and Jerusha White, has been twice married.
Her first husband was Clement Hiuchman, he however died a
short time after marriage, leaving one daughter — Clemence
Hinchman. Her second husband was William Carll, son of
Samuel Carll, Jr. Jonathan, the eldest son of Samuel and
Jerusha White, married Lydia, daughter of Aaron and Sarah
Waddington, of Elsinboro. Jonathan died young, leaving one
(U\ughter — Gertrude White. William, son of Samuel and
Jerusha White, married Emily Buzby ; he died without issue.
Mary, daughter of Samuel and Jerusha White, married Brad-
way, son of Aaron and Sarah Waddington. Bradway died a
young man, leaving two children — Ada and Frank Waddington.
Ada married a person in New York. Samuel and Caroline,
children of Samuel and Jeruslia White, died minors. David,
son of Samuel and Jerusha White, married a young woman of
Gloucester county ; they have cliildren. Wilson AVhite, mar-
ried a Lovcland ; they have issue.
Ann, daughter of William and Anne White, married William
Haines, of Gloucester county; they had five children — Joshua,
William, Ann, Sarah and Samuel Haines. Joshua, the son of
William and Ann White Haines, married Hannah Albertson,
of Burlington county; they had three children — Chalkley, Abi-
gail and liebecca Haines; Chalkley and Al)igail are married.
William, son of AV^illiam and Anna Haines died repently ; his
JOSEPH WHITE FAMILY. '327
wife was Rachel Lippincott. "William was a recommended min-
ister, and a member of Upper Greenwich Meeting; like liis
grandfather, lie was an eminent Sm'veyor. He and his wife
had fom- children — Job S., William, Emily and Hannah Ann
Haines. Job married Ellen Holmes ; tliey have fonr children —
Jacob, Stacy, Idella and Jesse Haines; William, son of William
and Eachel Haines, remains single. Emily married Joseph Livy-
ley; they have live children; Samuel, son of William and Anna
Haines, married Ann Eliza Holmes, of Upper Penn's Neck ;
they had one son — Howard Haines. Ann, the daughter of Wil-
liam and Anna Haines, married Champion Atkinson ; she died
leaving no issue. Sarah Haines, sister of Ann, married Cham-
pion Atkinson, former husband of her sister ; they are both
deceased, leaving no issue. Rebecca, daughter of William and
Anne White, was twice married ; her iirst husband was William
Miller, of Greenwich, Camberland county; they had three daugh-
ters — Sarah Ann, Eliza and Maiy Miller. Sarah Ann Miller,
their eldest daughter, married Amos, son of Joseph Buzby ;
they have ten children — Edward, Chambless, Joseph, William,
Samuel, Franklin, Emilj', Elizabeth, Rebecca and Cornelia
Buzby. Eliza, daughter of William and Bebecca Miller, mar-
ried Lewis, son of William and Martha Hancock, of Elsinboro ;
they had two daughters — Mary and Martha Hancock. Mary,
the daughter of William and Rebecca Miller, married Caleb
Borton ; they had three children — Omar, Mary and Bhebe Ann
Borton. Omar, son of Caleb and Mary Borton, is a successful
Apothecary in Woodstown ; his wife is the daughter of John
and Sarah Albertson, of Baltimore, Maryland. Omar and his
wife, have one daughter — Izetta Borton; she married Dr. La-
fayette Allen. Mary, daughter of Caleb and Mary Borton,
married Nathan Y. Lippincott ; they had five children — George,
Edward W., Ellen, Ilannah and Emma Lippincott. George,
son of Nathan and Mary Lippincott, married Rachel, the daugh-
ter of Allen Wallace ; they have issue. Edward W. Lippincott,
married Emma, daughter of the late Henry Ridgway, of Cros-
wicks, Burlington county ; they have no issue. Ellen, daugh-
ter of Nathan Y. Lippincott, married Daniel Taylor; they have
two daughters. Emma, daughter of Nathan Y. and Mary Lip-
pincott is not married.
Joseph, son of William and Anne White, was twice married ;
his first wife was Deborah, daughter of James Hewes ; he was
a lineal descendant of AVilliani Hewes, who purchased a large
tract of land of William Penn in Upper Penn's Neck, in 1689 ;
tlie said land was surveyed by Richard Tyndall, by an order of
328 JOSEPH WHITE FAMILY.
James Nevill, of Salem. Joseph and Dehorali White had three
cliildren — James II., Ann and Edward AVliite. Josepli White's
second wife was Lydia Moore, of Woolwich, Gloucester county;
they had five children, namely — Renben, Hannah, Del)orah,
Thomas and Martha. James, son of Joseph and Del)orali
White, married Mary Ann Holmes, daughter of Samuel Holmes,
of Upper Penn's Neck ; they had nine children ; their name s
are — Esther, Sarah, Samuel, Ann, Joseph, James, Franklir,
Martha and William White. Ann, the daughter of Joseph and
Deborah Wliite, married Aaron Lippincott, and have five chil-
dren, four sons and one daugliter. Joseph, married Georgianna,
daughter of Robert and Sarah Given, of Salem ; they thave no
issue. Deborah, daughter of Aaron and Ann Lippincott, mar-
ried Charles Ballenger; they liave two children. Edward,
Benjamin and David Lippincott are single.
Edward, son of Joseph and Deborah Wliite, is at the preseLt
time Surrogate of Cumberland county. He married Ann,
daughter of Jonatlian and Fanny House, of LTpper Alio ways
Creek; tliey have issue, two daughters — Fanny and Maiy
White. Isaac, son of William and Anne White, left his native
State, and went to the city of Kew Yorlv. John and Joel
White, sons of William, settled in one of the Southern States.
The family have not heard from them for a number of years.
WILLIAM CARPENTER.
Born 1792. Died 1866.
WARE FAMILY.
Joseph Ware came to this country in 1675 as a servant of
Edward Wade. Robert Wade, in 1678, sold his allotment of
land on the south side of Alloways creek, prior to his purchase
in Pennsylvania near the ancient Swedish town of Chester.
James Denn and Anthony Page were the purchasers. Soon
afterwards Page sold 250 acres to Joseph Ware, who subse-
quently bought another 250 acres adjoining his first purchase,
of Edward Wade, making in all 500 acres. In 1683 he married
Martha Groff, and their children were Joseph, born 1684 ; Sa-
rah, born 5th of 7th month, 1686 ; and John, born about tlie
year 1688. The latter settled at Cohansey, and became a mem-
ber of the Baptist Society. He had a son named John, born in
1722, who died in 1773, and was buried in the ancient Baptist
grave-yard at Cohansey. His son. Job, born in 1761, was also
interred in the same grave-yard in which liis father was bui-ied.
From this family there is a large number of descendants., Mas-
kell Ware, of Salem, being one of them. Joseph Ware, Jr., in
1707, married Elizabeth Walker. They had three sons and one
daughter, Elizabeth Ware, who married Benjamin Thompson,
near Allowaystown. Their sons were Josepli, 3d, Solomon and
John Ware. Joseph Ware, 3d, married Elizabeth, daughter of
Philip Blanchard, born 20th of 8th month, 1716. Joseph and
his wife had six children ; the eldest, Mary, born 22d of 8th
month, 1735 ; Sarah, Hannah, Rebecca, Joseph, 4th, and
Elijah Ware, born 30th of 1st month, 1748. Elijah's wife was
Mary, the daughter of Benjamin Tindall, of Penn's Neck, and
great-grand-daugliter of Richard Tindall, of Tindall's Grove.
Elijah and his wife had no issue. He died several years before
his wife, and made a will which, after the death of his widow,
devised a small farm to Salem Monthly Meeting, He was con-
sidered one of nature's noblemen — an honest man — and was an
approved minister of the Society of Friends, meek and humble
in his deportment, and wielded great moral influence in the
neighborhood in which he lived. Sarah Ware, the sister of
Elijah, was born 2d of Sth month, 1737, and married Joseph
43
330 WARK FAMILY.
Stretch, 3d, in 1761. They had two daiigliters, Jael, born in
1762, and Martha, born llth month, 1763. Solomon, the
second son of Joseph Ware, Jr., was born in 1717. His wife
M-as Sarah Stretch, whom he married in 1740. They lived on
the homestead farm of his father, the property upon which I
now reside. The house was built by Joseph Ware, Jr., in
in 1730, more than one hundred and forty years ago. Solomon
and his wife had eight children. Peter, the eldest, born 25th
of 8th month, 1741 ; Elizabeth, Job, Hannah, Elisha, Sarah
and Solomon; they all died minors excepting Sarah. Solomon
Ware died in 1761, at the age of forty-live years, and his widow
departed this life in 1765, four years after her husband. Only
two of their children, Elisha and Sarah, were living at that
time, and Elisha died with the pleurisy the year after his mother,
in liis eighteenth year.
The whole of the estate of Solomon Ware, consisting of a
farm of 250 acres, and a considerable personal estate, came into
the possession of the surviving daughter. Sarah "was born 12th
of 6th month, 1756, and married Joslma Thompson, of Elsin-
borough, in 1773. They had three children — Joseph, born 27th
of loth month, 1774; John, born in 1776, and died in 1779,
and Elizabeth, born 13th of llth month, 1778. The latter mar-
ried William, son of William and Sarah Nicholson, of Manning-
ton, and had eight children — Elisha, Ruth, Rachel, Beulah,
Elizabeth, William, Joshua T. and Sarah Ann Nicholson. Elisha
went as supercargo on a voyage to the West Indies, and
died of yellow fever on the passage home. He never married.
Ruth Nicholson's husband was Joseph Edgar Brown, and they
did not live together more than two or three years. She died
in 1827, and was regretted by a large circle of relatives and
friends for her many admirable qualities. She possessed a tine
intellect, pleasant and agreeable manners, and warm sympathies
for the afflicted. She left no children. Rachel Nicholson mar-
ried Thomas Y. Hancock. Tliere were live children. Elizabetii,
the eldest's, first husband was David, the son of Andrew Smitli,
of Elsinborougli; her second liusband was Sanuiel Fowser. Slic
died several years ago. Ellen, the second daughter, married
Dr. Henry Childs, of Philadelpliia. William N., the third child,
married Beulah, daughter of William Fowser. Cornelia, tlie
third daughter, lias not yet married. She conducted herself
most admirably during the late rel)ellion, having served with
the army of the Potomac the greater part of the war, attending
to the sick and wounded, and continued to assist in the hospitals
until the rebellion closed. Since the war ended she has been at
WARE FAMILY. 331
Charleston, South Carolina, teaching a school of colored chil-
dren. Thomas Hancock, Jr., the youngest child, was drowned
while bathing wlien he was not more than ten 3'ears of age.
Beulah, daughter of William and Elizabetli Nicholson, died
a young woman, in 1819 or 1820. Elizabeth, another daughter,
died in infancy. William Nicholson, their son, married Susan,
the daughter of William Miller, and had four children — Kachel,
Susan, William and Elizabeth. Rachel, the eldest, married
Thomas Mathers, near Germantown ; Susan married James Gas-
kill. William, Jr.'s wife is Florence Earl, and Elizabeth's hus-
band is Sylvester Garrett. Joshua Nicholson married Eliza
Smith, daughter of Stephen Smith, and moved to Illinois many
years ago. When the war broke out he enlisted in the Western
army, and from exposure was taken sick, I believe, near Nash-
ville, Tennessee, and died in one of the army hospitals, leaving
a widow and one son — Alexander Nicholson, Sarah Ann Nich-
olson married Dr. Henry Childs. She has been deceased many
years, leaving two children — Elizabeth and John. Joseph, the
eldest son of Joshua and Sarah Thompson, was born 27tli of
10th month, 1774. His first wife was Ann, the daughter of
John and Susanna Mason. Joseph and his wife had live chil-
dren — Elisha, who died when about two years of age, Susan,
Elizabeth, Sarah and Ann. Susan married Joseph Pancoast,
son of Samuel and Dorcas Pancoast, and had seven children —
Ann, Samuel, Elizabeth, Joseph, Thomas, Hannah and John.
Elizabeth Thompson, died in 1820, in her sixteenth year.
Sarah Thompson, their third daughter, born in 1807, married
Thomas Shourds, 10th of 1st month, 1828. Ann, the youngest
daughter of Joseph and Ann Thompson, born in 1809, married
Thomas, son of Aaron and Hannah Fogg, in 1827. They have
twelve children — Susan, Joseph, Elisha, Elizabeth, William,
Morris, Rebecca, Ann, Mason, Clarkson, Emily and Albert
Fogg. Ann Mason Thompson, the wife of Joseph Thompson,
departed this life in 1810, and in 1815 he married Elizabeth,
daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah Powell. They lived together
in conjugal felicity for more than thirty years. In the autumn
of 1845 he was attacked with inflammation of the bowels, and
after great suffering for upwards of two weeks, his strong con-
stitution gave way and death ensued. He was in the seventy-
first year of his age, and his death cast a gloom over a large
circle of relatives, neighbors and acquaintances. He was kind
and hospitable to the poor and needy, always ready to contrib-
ute to their necessities, and in the latter part of his life he
became greatly interested in pleading the cause of bondmen —
332 WARE FAMILY.
tlie bleeding slaves of our land. It can truly be said of him, —
" Mark the perfect and upright man, for the end of that man
" shall be peace, and assurance forever." His last wife was
nearly thirteen 3'ears younger than himself, and left no issue.
She departed this life in 1864:, being the possessor of talents of
liigh order, and if her early education liad been attended to, few
women in the country would have equaled her. She, like her
Imsband, was kind and sympathetic in her feelings. Always
ready to plead the cause of the oppressed, she was a co-worker
with her two Friends, at Salem, Elizabeth and Abigail Goodmn,
against the institution of slavery.
John, the youngest son of Joseph and Elizabeth Ware, was
born 3d of 3d month, 1720. He inherited the property from
his father where Samuel C. Pancoast resides at the present time.
He was a farmer and weaver. In 1750 he married Elizabeth,
sister of Joseph Fogg, who was born about 1730. They had
eight children, all of whom lived to grow up. They all married
and had children. John, the eldest, born 16th of 7th month,
1751, married Ruth, the daughter of James Tyler, and two
children, Martha and Eleanor, were born to them. Milicent,
the eldest daughter of John and Elizabeth Ware, born 12th of
lOtli month, 1753, married Jolm Smith, the great-grandson of
John Smith, of Amblebury. He owned and lived upon the
ju'operty in Lower AUoways Creek township, now belonging to
Jlobert Grier, which was part of the Smith allotment of 2,000
acres. John Smith and his wife Milicent had one son, John,
who subsequent}}^ married Mary, the daughter of Andrew Sin-
nickson. They had two sons and two daughters, named respec-
tively, Robert, Margaret, Thomas and Mary. Robert died in
infancy. Thomas married Mary, the daughter of Morris and
S.irah Hancock. Mar}^ married Oliver B. Stoughton, a native
of Connecticut, who came to Salem in company with his friend,
the late Calvin Belden, ujDwards of fifty years ago, and they
commenced the hardware and tinning business together in that
city. By industry and careful attention to business they each
ac(|uired a competency, and became useful and respected citizens
(if their adopted town and State. Oliver and his wife had
several children. He died several years ago, but his widow is
still living. Margaret, the eldest daughter of John and Mary
Smith, married Edward G. Prescott, an eminent Episcopal
clergyman. He was a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and a
brother of William H. Prescott, one of America's favorite
liistorians. I have been informed that Edward had symptoms
of pulmonary consumption before he came to Salem. He was
WARE FAMILY. 333
a man of great acquirements in the way of learning, and
possessed considerable oratorical powers. He l:)ore an enviable
reputation as a Christian minister. His physicians recom-
mended a sea voyage, thinking it would be the means of
arresting the fatal disease lurking within him. He repaired to
his native city to bid his aged father and family adieu. I have
been told that within a few days after the vessel sailed he died
and was buried at sea. I think he and his wife had no children.
Margaret, his M'idow, was killed near the city of Burlington,
together with several other passengers, at the terrible railroad
disaster in 1856. Mary Sinnickson Smith, the widow of John
Smith, is still living, l)eing more than ninety years of age. I
think she is the oldest person living at this time in the city of
Salem.
David Ware, the second son of John and Elizabeth Ware,
was born 5th of 4tli month, 1755. He commenced life on a
farm that was left him by his father, of which James Baker is
the present owner. His first wife was Sarah Oakford ; they
liad one daughter — Sarah Ware. Her mother died when she
was young. David Ware's second wife was Letitia, widow of
William Craig. He owned and lived about two miles above
Allowaystown, which is now known as Remster's Mill — it for-
merly belonged to Richard Wistar. Letitia's maiden name was
Morrison. She was an approved minister among Friends. David
sold his farm at Alloways Creek soon after his second marriage,
to his brother Jol) Wai-e, and purchased a farm near Grey's
Ferry, Philadelpliia county, wliere he went ,with his family to
reside. His dauglitei- Sarah AVare married. Aaron Ashbridge;
they had three children — Anna, David and Sanuiel Howell Ash-
bridge. Anna Ashbridge married John Firth, of Salem, son of
John and Ann Firth. Jacob Ware, son of John and Elizabeth
Ware, was born 28th of 11th month, 1759 ; he married Mary
Carpenter in 1780, the daughter of William and Mary Carpenter.
I think it would be right to digress to give the liistory of the
Powell family, as they are closely connected with the Ware and
Carpenter families by marriage. William and Jeremiah Powell,
brothers, emigrated to America and settled in Philadelphia in
1681:. William, the eldest, purchased of the proprietor a large
tract of land on the west side of the Schuylkill river. West
Philadelphia occupies part of the land that he purchased. He
established a ferry where the present Market street bridge
stands. [See Watson's Annals.] William's family after several
generations was narrowed down to one individual, a widow.
Her possessions were great and valuable. Tradition savs that
334 WAKE FAMILY.
a young man l)y the name of John Hare, a distant relative of
her husband, lived with her. She gave him to understand that
if lie would make application and have the name of Powell added
to liis name, lie should be her heir. This being accordingly
done, he become the owner of that large estate called Powell-
ton. Jeremiah Powell, the younger brother of William, settled
in this county. Whether lie was a married man when he came
to Jersey I am not certain ; most probably he was. He was one
of the contributors towards building the Friends' Meeting House
which was erected in 1700 where the grave yard is now in the
town of Salem. In that year he purchased a tract of land near
Hancock's Bridge of John Maddox, formerly part of William
Hancock's allotment, and leaving the town of Salem settled
thereon. His son, Jeremiah Powell, was born at Alloways
Creek, 18th of 3d month, 1701, and Samuel Powell, his second
son, was born in 1704. I presume they were the only children
he had, no others being mentioned in the records.
Robert Ct. Johnson, in his history states that the Friends'
meeting at Alloways Creek was established by the Powells and
others — it was a mistake. The meeting was organized in 1684,
several years before Jeremiah Powell was an inhabitant of the
county of Salem. Jeremiah Powell, Jr., in 1735 married Jane
Blanchard, the daughter of Philip and Mary Blanchard, who
resided in the township of Alloways Creek. They had three
children — Elizabeth, Mary and John Powell. Samuel Powell,
the brother of Jeremiah, married before his brother and settled
on the homstead farm in 1730. George Trenchard, Sr., was
chosen an Assessor for the whole township of Alloways Creek,
and William Tyler was the Collector. Samuel Powell was
assessed for the Powell property. Samuel died a young man
leaving no children. Elizabeth Powell, the eldest daughter of
Jeremiah and Jane Powell, was born in 1736, and married
Benjamin Smith, the grand-son of Daniel Smith. Benjamin
and his Mdfe resided in the township of Mannington. They
had three children — Joshua, Powell and Elizabeth. The last
married John Smith, the son of Christopher Smith. They
left one son — Samuel. Joshua Smith married a young women
a native of Gloucester ; they left two or three children. Powell
Smith married Sarah Am])lcr, daughter of Peter Ambler ; they
had two children — Sarah and Isaac Smith. Mary Powell,
daughter of Jeremiah and Jane Powell, was born I3th of 11th
month, 1738 ; she married William Carpenter, a native of the
State of Delaware, and grandson of Joshua Carpenter, of
Philadelphia. His age is not definitely known, but I think he
WAKE FAMILY. 335
was several years older than his wife. They had four children
— Mary, Powell, A¥illiam and Abigail. John, tlie son of
Jeremiah and Jane Powell, was born in 1740, and became a
farmer and weaver. When he was about twenty-three years of
age he married Ann Dickinson, whose parents lived in Upper
Alloways Creek township. John and his wife had one son,
Jeremiah Powell, 3d, born in 1764, John Powell possessed a
weak constitution, and died while young, leaving a young widow
and an infant son. He was pious, of strict integrity, and pos-
sessed more than ordinary abilities. Though young he fre-
quently was called upon to settle difference among his neighbors.
Like many persons in this country who have clear intellectual
minds,he fell a victim to that scourge of mankind, the pulmonary
consumption
Jacob Ware and his wife Mary, had two children — Elizabeth
and Millicent. The latter died young, and unmarried, Eliza-
beth Ware married Samuel, the son of Benjamin and Mary
Shourds. They had three children. William, the eldest, who
died young; Mary and Thomas Shourds. Mary Shourds was
born in the 1st month, 1804, and married William Bradway,
the son of Ezra Bradway ; they liad six children — Elizabeth,
Sarah, Mary, Anna, Rachel and Ellen Bradway. Jacob Ware's
second wife was Sarah Thompson, daughter of Andrew and
Grace Thompson, and grand-daughter of Samuel Nicholson. A
short time after they were married they went and lived on her
grandfather's property, in Lower Penn's Neck. Samuel Nichol-
son in his will left his large and valuable estate in said toM'nship
to Sarah Ware and Racliel Tindell, the wife of Benjamin Tin-
dell, they being his grandchildren ; Sarah was to have her share
during her life, and it then went to her oldest son, David Ware.
She died several years before her husband, leaving three chil-
dren — Sarah, David, and Samuel Ware. Jacob's third wife
was Sarah Reed, the daughter of Robert Reed, who formerly
was a resident of Pittsgrove township, and by her he had two
children — Ann and Jacob Ware. After the death of her hus-
band, Sarah Ware with her two children, removed to the State
of Ohio, in company with her father, Robert Reed, Jacob
Ware, her son, I believe, is still living near Columbus, Ohio,
Sarah Ware, the daughter of Jacob Ware, married Samuel
Hall, the son of Joseph Hall ; by him she had one son — Joseph
Hall, who resides near Lockport, New York, Her second hus-
band was John Vanculan, who owned and lived where William
Cooper now resides ; they had four children — Eliza, Sarah, John
and Samuel Yanculan. Her third husband was Sirge Ayres, a na-
336 WAKE FAMILY
tive of Cumberland county. They had one daughter — Emeline
Ayres. DaWd Ware's wife was Kebecca Hall, daughter of
Joseph and Ann Hall ; they had ten cliildren — Sarah, Ann,
Samuel, Joseph, Mary, Charles, Emeline, John, David and Re-
becca. Samuel Ware, son of Jacob and Sarah Ware, married
Ann Fox, daughter of Jacob Fox. They had one son who re-
moved West, and two daughters — Mary Jane and Annie. Both
of them are deceased.
Mary, the second daughter of John and Elizabeth Ware, was
born in 1757, and married William Bradway, Jr.; they had
five children — Sarah, Anna, Ezra, John and Rachel Bradway.
Sarah, the eldest, married Elisha, the son of Joshua Stretch,
and their children were Mary, Joshua, William, Ann and Job
Stretch. Anna, daughter of William and Mary Bradway,
married James Stewart ; they had two children — Hannah and
Mary. Hannah died a young woman, unmarried. Mary mar-
ried William, the son of William Griscom, Jr., and Ann
Griscom. Their children were Hannah, who married Charles
Marott, of Philadelphia ; William Wade Griscom, whose wife
was Sarah Cooper, the daughter of James Cooper, who resided
near Woodbury ; and James Griscom, w^ho married Hannah
Borton, daughter of William Borton, of Woodstown. Samuel
Fogg married Anna, the widow of James Stewart. By him
she had one son, William Fogg, who married Mary Hall, the
eldest daughter of Clement and Sarah Hall, of Elsinborough.
William and his wife have resided in Salem for several years.
Hannah, tlie third daughter of John and Elizabetli Ware,
was born 17th of 1st month, 1761. She subsequently married
her cousin, Edward Fogg. They had five children — Samuel,
Elizabeth, Ebenezer, Edward and David. Samuel's first wife
was Anna, the widow of James Stewart ; his second wife was
Rebecca, the daughter of Joseph and Letitia Harmer, of Green-
wich. Samuel and Rebecca Fogg had four children, named
respectively — x\nn, Joseph, Rebecca and Caroline. Ann mar-
ried Joseph Miller, Jr., of Greenwich, and had two chihiren —
Joseph and Franklin. Josepli, the son of Samuel and Rebecca
Fogg, married a yoimg woman at Shiloli. She was a member
of the Seventh-day Baptist Society. Rebecca, tlie daughter of
Samuel and Rebecca Fogg, married a young man by the name
of Tomlinson, of Stoe Creek township, Cumberland county.
Slie has been deceased many years. Caroline, daughter of Sam-
uel and Rebecca Fogg, married Franklin Dare, son of James
Dare, of Greenwich. Franklin lias lived in Bridgeton for a
number of years, where he has followed the drug business.
WARE FAMILY. 33T
They have one son — Cliarles Dare, a physician })racticing in tlie
village of Shiloh.
Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Hannah Fogg, died at
middle age, unmarried. Ebenezer Fogg's wife was Abigail
Hancock, the grand-daughter of William and Mary Powell Car-
penter. I3y her he had one daughter — Eliza Fogg, whose
tirst husband was Zaccheus Brown, Jr. Eliza, Ebenezer and
Zaccheus were the names of their three children. Her second
husband was Al^ner Penton, by whom she had three children —
Abner, Albert and Rachel Penton. Eliza's third husband was
Firraan Blew, who followed the sea in his younger days, but
towards the latter part of his life he purchased a farm near
Bridgeton, and at that place he and his wife in their declining-
years lived together happily. They are botli deceased at the
present time. Eliza, the eldest daugliter of Zaccheus and Eliza
Brown, married Job Dixon. They live together at Hancock's
Bridge, and have several children. El^enezer Brown married
Milicent, the daughter of James Holliday, and they had two or
three children. Edward Fogg, the third son of Edward and
Hannah Fogg, married Catharine Hartley, by Avhom he had
seven children — Mary, Casper, Thomas, Bichard, Edward,
Charles and David Fogg. Mary Fogg, their daughter, married
Joseph, the son of Joseph Brown. They have two children —
Anna and Edward Brown. Anna married Thomas M. Shourds,
and Edward's wife was Hannah, the daughter of James Butcher,
Jr. Casper Fogg resides in New Orleans. He is married and
has a family of children. Thomas Fogg died several years ago
unmarried. Richard Fogg's wife was Mary Woolman, of Piles-
grove ; they have several children. Edward Fogg married
widow Hunt's daughter, who resided in the town of Salem ; she
left one daughter. Edward's second wife is Mary Sayres, tlie
daughter of Ephraini Sayres, of Cumberland county. Charles
married Barbara Butcher, widow of James Butcher, Jr. David,
the youngest son of Edward Fogg, married Sarah Green. Ed-
ward Fogg, Sr.'s second wife was Sarah, daughter of Mark
Stewart ; there was no issue. They are botli deceased at the
present time. David, the youngest son of Edward and Hannah
Fogg, married Henrietta Davis. They are both deceased at the
present time, leaving no childi-en.
Eliza, the eldest daughter of Zaccheus and Eliza Brown, mar-
ried Job Dixon. They live near Hancock's Bridge, and have
several children. Ebenezer Brown married Milicent, the
daughter of James Holliday, and they had two or three chil-
dren. Elizabeth, the daughter of John and Elizabeth "Ware,
4o
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was born 2d of 3d month, 1763, and married AVilliam Carpen-
ter, the son of AVilliam and Mary P. Carpenter. Slie was an
uncommonly energetic woman, very zealons in attending reli-
gions meetings, and was desirous that lier children might be eg
trained as to l)e(iome useful and moral citizens in their day and
generation. Her husband, a few years after they were married,
upon an improving lease, rented a large farm of Samuel Nichol-
son, Sr., in the township of Elsinborough, for a number of
years. He was to l)ank and improve a large number of acres
of meadow, now known as the Mason Point Meadow Company,
that lay adjoining the upland. Upon that farm he and his wife
ended their days. William and his wife had seven children —
Samuel, Mary, Abigail, William, Elizabeth, Powell and Sarah
Carpenter. Samuel Carpenter, their eldest son, married Mary,
the daughter of James and Rebecca Mason, of Mannington.
They had three or four children, three of whom were named
William, Elizabeth and Rebecca Carpenter. Samuel and his
wife removed West a short time after they were married. He
is living at the present time, and is about ninety-two years of
age. Mary Carpenter, the eldest daughter of William and
Elizabeth Carpenter, married Thomas Hancock, of Elsinbor-
ough. They had four children, three daughters and one son
— Eliza, Lydia, Susan and Morris Hancock. The latter was
accidentally killed, when a lad. Eliza married Joseph Tindall;
Lydia's Imsband was George Bowen, of Salem. They did not
live together many years. I believe she died with pulmonary
consumption. Subsequently George married Susan Hancock,
sister of his first wife. Mary's second husband was Samuel
Cooper. They are both deceased at the present time, and leave
no children. Abigail Carpenter, the daughter of William and
Elizabeth Carpenter, married John Goodwin, of Elsinborough.
Soon after their marriage tliey settled in the State of Ohio.
She died comparatively young, leaving three sons — Lewis,
William and Thomas GoodM'in. LeM'is, I think, is still living
in one of the Western States ; William Goodwin is a wealthy
citizen of Philadelphia ; Thomas Goodwin, the youngest son,
died several years ago. William Carpenter was the second son
of William and Elizabeth Carpenter. He married Mary Bees-
ley, daughter of Abner and Mary Beesley, and had by her six
children — Elizabeth, Powell, Anne, AVilliam B., Morris and
John M. Carpenter. Elizabeth Carpenter married Joseph
Thompson, the son of John and Esther Thompson ; they liave
two children — Mary and John Thompson. Powell Carpenter's
■wHe was Mary Lawson, the daughter of Jolm Lawson, of
WAEE FAMILY. 339
Salem. Powell fell to the pavement from near the eaves of a
Baptist Clim-ch, whicli he was building, and died of congestion
of the brain. He left no children. He was a kind and affec-
tionate husband, a dutiful son, and his loss to his family and
relatives was great. He had uncommon business capacities,
and his death was considered a public calamity to the town of
Salem.
Anne, the daughter of William and Mary Carpenter, has been
deceased several years ; she never married. She was afflicted
many years previous to her death, but she bore all her suffer-
ings with Christian fortitude, and when the time of her depart-
ure from this life came she could say with sincerity, " Lord, thy
servant is ready.'' William Beesley Carpenter, the second son
of William and Mary Carpenter, married Martha Gaskill, the
daugliter of Josiah and Eliza Gaskill, formerly of Burlington
county. William and his wife had seven children — Howard,
Mary, Elizabeth, William, Louisa, Anna, Martha and Bebecca
Carpenter. Three of the before mentioned children, Howard,
William and Bebecca, are deceased. The wife of William B.
Carpenter died in 1868 of pulmonary consumption. She was
a dutiful wife, an affectionate parent, and a great loss to her
family. Her death was much regretted by a large circle of rel-
atives and acquaintances. William's second wife is Nancy Pease,
a native of Connecticut. They have two children — William and
Julia Carpenter. Morris H. Carpenter is a resident of the city
of Philadelphia, and is unmarried. Jolm Mason Carpenter, the
youngest son of William and Mary Carpenter, married Ann
Harvey, daughter of Minor and Lydia Harvey. Jolm and his
wife live in Salem. They had two children — Powell who died
young, and Geoi'ge Carpenter.
Elizabeth Carpenter married William Thompson, son of
Joshua Thompson. Their children I noticed in the Thompson
family's genealogy. Powell, the son of William and Elizabeth
Carpenter, resided the greater part of his life in Philadelphia.
His iirst wife was Eliza Slaughter ; she died leaving one son,
Charles Carpenter. His second wife was Ann Slaughter, sister
of his Iirst wife. Their children were Ann, William and Caroline.
Sarah, the youngest child of William and Elizabeth Carpenter,
married Joseph Hancock, of Mannington. They had four chil-
dren — Chambless, Elizabeth, Caroline and Hannah.
Job Ware, the youngest son of John and Elizabeth Ware,
was born 16th of 1st month, 1766. His iirst wife was Grace,
the daughter of Andrew Thompson, of Elsinborough She
died young, and left one son — John Ware. John married
340 WARE FAMILY.
IlrtTinali, the daughter of Clement Acton, of Salem. He died
vonns:, leavino- one son — Clement Ware. Job Ware's second
wife was the daughter of Christopher and Rebecca Hancock
Smitli, of Mannington, who lived but a. short time, and left no
children. His third wafe was Mary, the widow of Al)ner
Beesley, by whom he had two children — Job and Eliza Ware.
Job Wai-e, Jr., married Elizabeth Waddington; they are both
deceased, leaving one daughter — Sarah Ellen Ware. Elijah
AYare married Beulali Powell ; they have live children — Sarah,
AVilliam, Mary, Anna and Charles.
Sarah, the youngest daughter of John and Elizal)eth AVarc,
was born 11th of 4th month, 1769. She was four years old at
the time of her father's death, which occurred 2l8t of 2d
month, 1773, when he was fifty years old. He was buried with
his ancestors in the grave yard situated on the north side
of Allowa^^s Creek. Sarah AVare married Jeremiah Powell,
3d, in 1785. He was the son of John and Ann Powell. —
Jeremiah and his wife lived on the property that he inherited
from his father ; the said property lay adjoining tlie village of
Hancock's Bridge, where their grandson, Jeremiah Powell, now
owns and occupies. Jeremiah and his wife lived together more
than fifty-seven years in great unity. He was above ordinary
men in iutellect, and liad great argumentative powers. His
wife was an agreeable companion to liim, industrious, frugal,
and possessing a sympathetic natui'c. They had four cliikh'en
wlio lived to maturity — Elizabeth, Ann, John and AA'illiam.
Elizabeth was tlie second wife of Josepli Tiiompson. Ann
married Samuel Griscom ; they had twelve children, whose
names are given in the account of the Gi iscom family.
John Powell married Rebecca, the daughter of John Mow-
ers, of Upper AUoways Creek. Tliey had ten children — Sarah,
Jeremiah, William, Joseph, Samuel, Jolm, Elias, Hicks, Eliza-
beth and Rebecca. Eour of the al)Ove mentioned cliildren are
dead — AVilliam, Joseph, Elizabeth and Rel)ecca. John Powell
died in 1843 or 1844 in Elsinborough, with a cancer in his
stomach. His widow, Rebecca Powell, died four or five years
ago. Sarah, daughter of John and Rebecca Powell, married
Chalkley Griscom, of Pennsylvania. There are several children
from this union. Jeremiah Powell's wife was Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of AA^'illiam and Mary Bradway. They had four children —
Sarah, Ann, Louisa and John. Joseph Powell married Eliza-
beth, daughter of AVilliam and Mary Denn. He died young,
leaving one son — Joseph Powell. Samuel Powell's wife is Sa-
rah Jane, daughter of Josiah and Elizal)eth Smith. They have
AVARE FAMILY, 341
tliree children — one daugliter named Anna, and two sons, Sam-
uel and Franklin. Tlie wife of John Powell, Jr., was Emma
Sutton ; several children were born to them. Elizabeth Powell
married Quinton Harris, She died young, and left one daugh-
ter — Elizabeth Harris. Ann, tlie daughter of John Powell,
married Waddington, the son of Jacob and Mercy Ridgway.
They have five children — Lydia, John P., William, Henry and
Edwin,
William, the youngest son of Jeremiah and Sarah Powell,
married Sarah, the daughter of Aaron and Hannah Fogg,
The}^ had one daughter, Beulali Powell, who subseqnently
mari'ied Elijah Ware, William died several j-ears since, but
his widow is still living, and resides with her daugliter in the
city of Salem.
WADE FAMILY.
Robert Wade was a citizen and carpenter of tlie city of
London, He purchased of the proprietor of West New Jersey,
before he left England, 500 acres of land, which was sur-
veyed for him by Richard Hancock, in 1676, adjohiing his
brother, Richard Wade's, and William Hancock's allotments
of 1,000 acres each. The said lands lay on the south side
of Monmouth river, also a lot in the town of Salem, on the
north side of Market street. He never built on said lot, it
being the same, I believe, that Alexander Grant purchased
afterward and built himself a brick house on the premises, and
there lived. Samuel Fenwick Hedge's wife was j .is daughter.
Robert Wade sold his landed estate at Monmouth early in the
year 1678 to James Denn and Joseph Ware. He then went
to Upland, now known as Chester, and bought 500 acres
of land on the south side of what is known as Chester creek, of
one of the early Swedish settlers who had purchased a large
tract of land of one of the Indian chiefs, some thirty years pre-
vious to that date, and on that land he erected a large and com-
modious house for the purpose of entertainment, and gave it
the name of the Essex house. Some liistorians called it the
emigrant's house. About tliat time there were several families
of Friends, emigrants from England, that had bought lands in
that neighborhood and settled tiiere. Robert fitted up part of
his house for the purpose of holding meetings in, and in that
house was the first regular Quaker or Friends meeting held in
Pennsylvania.
^Vhen AVilliam Penn on his first arrival in the Delaware river
in 16S2, landed at Upland, (at that time it was a village of con-
siderable size) Robert met him there at the landing. The pro-
prietor turned to his intinuite friend Pierson, and asked : " What
shall we name this place?" He replied, " Call it Chester, after
my native county, Chestershire," William Penn and family
were the guests of Robert Wade for a few days. Robert was
likewise one of the members of the Provincial Assembly that
the Governor convened for the purpose of organizing a provin-
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cial government, and was a member of that Ijody for sevcra.
years af terwai'ds. Respecting liis descendants I have no definite
information, but I liave l)een told some of them are living in the
neighborhood of Chester at tlie present day.
Edward Wade was a cloth maker and citizen of London, and
with his wife, Prudence, arrived in this country in 1675. He
was one of the leading emigrants in Fenwick's colony, and pur-
chased of the proprietor a town lot on Bridge street, now known
as Market street, on the north side. Fenwick retained the land
on the south side of said street for himself and his heirs.
Edward Wade erected a brick house on his lot, and it was stand-
ing about forty years ago. By tradition it was the first that
was ever built on said street. Edward and his wife ended tiieir
days at that place, which event took place before the beginning
of the eighteenth century. There is no account that they ever
had any sons, but they had one daughter — Mary Wade.
In the year 1676, on the first 2d day in the 6th month, a few
Friends met together to organize a meeting of business, it being
the first of the kind held on Continent of North America. —
The following is the minute of their organization " It is unan-
" imously considered that the first 2d day of the week, in the
" 6th month, that Friends do meet in the town of New Salem,
" in Fenwick's Colon}^ ; and all Friends thereunto do monthly
" meet together, to consider of outward circumstances and bus-
" iness, and if such that has been convinced, and walked
" disorderly, that they may in all gravity and uprightness to
" God, and in tenderness of spirit and love to their souls, be
" admonished, exhorted, and also reproved. And their evil
" deeds and practices testified against in the wisdom of God, and
" in the authority of truth, that may answer the witness of
" God within them." Signed by John Fenwick, Edward Wade,
Samuel Wade, Francis Nebo, Samuel Nicholson, Richard Guy,
Edward Champney and Isaac Smart.
Women at tlie first rise of the Society of Friends did not
participate in meetings of business for more than a quarter of
a century afterward. The early sons of the morning of the
Quaker Society were not prepared to condemn what Jehovah
had declared in the beginning, " that he had made man in his
own image," but his evil deeds and practices.
I have digressed somewhat to show that Edward Wade par-
ticipated largely in religious as well as in the civil organization
of Fenwick's Colony. It appears he always was a firm and
steady friend of the proprietor, and was willing to make a due
allowance for his foibles and the impetuosity of his disposition,
believing his heart was right.
344 MADE FAMILY.
The brothers, Edward, Robert and Samuel Wade, were born
in Northamptonshire, England. They emigrated to this prov-
ince in company with John Eenwick. Samuel, the youngest,
was born in 1645, and in the year 1668 he married Jane Smith,
the daughter of Thomas Smith, of the same county. They had
tlu'ce children born in England, named respectively Henry,
Andrew and Ann, and one son born after tliey arrived in this
country, Samuel Wade, Jr., who was born at Alloways Cretk
in 1685. Their first three children died young. Edward Wade,
Samuel's brother, gave him a deed for 100 acres of land, being
part of his 1,000 acres of land that he purcliased of John Fen-
wick. In the year 1680 Samuel and his family settled at Allo-
ways Creek on his property, and in 1686 he built himself a one
story brick house, it being one of the first of the kind built in
South Jersey. Samuel and his wife died in the early part of
the eighteenth centurj^, leaving one son, Samuel Wade, Jr., who
nuirried and lived on his patrimonial estate until his death in
1733. He left four daughters, his two sons, Joseph and Sam-
nel, having died the year before their father. One of his
daughters married James Barker, and they had one son,
John Barker, whose occupation was that of a tailor. He
resided in Philadelphia, and at the breaking out of the
Revolutionary war joined the army, and was in a short time
promoted to a colonel, and continued in the army until the
war was ended. Soon after he was elected Mayor of the city
of Philadelphia, he being the Republican candidate and Robert
Wharton the Federal candidate. The contest for that office
was kept np between these two men for many years. Barker
was elected three or four different times, and Wharton also was
elected to the oflice for several terms.
Esther Wade, the third daughter of Samuel AV^ade, Jr.,
married Samuel Lewis, and she left one son — James Lewis.
He followed his trade, which was that of a tailor, in the village
of Hancock's Bridge. He left two children. Esther Lewis
lived the greater part of her life with her nncle, John Barker,
in Philadelphia, and after his death she came to Salem and
taught school for several years. Solomon Lewis was a chair
maker, and carried on that business several years in the town of
Salem. He man-ied a young woman by the name of Brown
in the county of Gloucester,and purchased a farm in that neigh-
borhood and became a farmer. Some of his children are
living there at the present time. Samuel's fourth daughter
married John Tyler, of Cumberland county, and she left several
children.
AVADK FAMILY. 345
John Stewart was born in Scotland in 1709. His parents
belonged to the nobility of Edinburgh, and lie consequently
received a liberal education. He left his native land in compa-
ny with two other young men of the same standing in society,
unknown to their parents. They arrived in West New Jersey
in 1728. John Stewart at that time was about nineteen years
of age. Soon afterwards he hired as a farm laborer witli
George Abbott, Jr., in Elsinborough, and remained with him
until he married Mary Wade, tlie eldest daughter of Samuel
Wade, Jr. He by that time, it is believed, received some
remittances from Scotland which enabled him to buy the three
other shares of the homestead farm of the Wades. Accordingly
he and his wife commenced life at that place, and both lived to
be over four-score years. He raised anotlier story on the old
brick house tliat Samuel Wade had built more than fifty years
before. John Stewart having more education than was common
for men to have at tliat time, was called on frequently to
transact business for the public. The community had great
confidence in his ability and integrity. He was also pleasing
in his address and a good conversationalist. Tliat latter trait oi
character was transmitted to his children and grand-children
generally. He and his wife Mary had nine children — Elizabeth,
Lydia, Samuel, John, Mary, Ann, James, Milicint and Joseph.
I believe two of them, Ann and Milicint, died minors. Eliza-
beth, the oldest, married a Bradway, which I mentioned in the
genealogy of the Bradway Family. Lydia, their second daugh-
ter, married a Duell of Pilesgrove, the grandmother of the
present John and Samuel Duell of that place.
Samuel Stewart married Ann Tyler, the daughter of William
Tyler. He and his wife bought what is known as the Cow Neck
farm, in the township of Salem, and at that place they spent
their days. He was much esteemed in general society for his
kindness and evenness of temper, and by reason of his clear and
excellent judgment, he was frequently called upon to settle dif-
ferences between persons in the neighborhood in which he lived.
He likewise often served as commissioner in dividing lands in
this and neighboring counties. It was in acting in that capacity,
dividing the great estate of Benjamin B. Cooper, in the lower
part of Cumberland county, that ho took a severe cold and died
a short time afterwards, leaving four children — Ann, Mark,
Mary and Joseph. Ann Stewart married William Griscom, and
they had six children — Samuel, William, George, John, Charles
and Mary Griscom.
Mark Stewart's first wife and mother of his children was Eliz-
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346 WADE FAMILY.
abetli DenD, the daughter of James Demi. Their children's
names were John, Samuel, Sarah, James, Joseph, William, Eliz-
aljeth and Mary Ann Stewai't.
Joseph Stewart's wife was Rachel Bradway, the daughter of
AVilliam Bradway. John Stewart's wife was Hannah Butcher,
of Cumberland. They left one son — James Stewart. Mary
Stewart married Job Bacon, of Cumberland ; they had three
children — Job, Elizabeth and George. James Stewart's first
wife was a Sheppard. She liv^ed but a short time after marriage.
His second wife was Mary Ballinger, wdiose parents resided near
Woodbury. They had five children — James, Deborah, Beulah,
Mary and Samuel. There were three men about of an age,
natives of the township of Alloways, who were above ordinary
men in intellect. Their names were Professor John Griscom,
William Waddington and James Stewart, Jr. The latter fol-
lowed the sea most of his life, and was considered an excellent
navigator. He married Sarah Smith, and left five children —
Ann, William, Mary, Sarah and James Stewart.
The grandfather of the above mentioned children died with
the cancer in his face about the year 1835. I went to see him
a few days before his death. The old man was sitting up in
his bedroom apparently comfortable and quite cheerful. In our
conversation I remarked the room looked ancient, and he said
it was, for his mother was born there and lived eighty-five years
and died in the same room she was born in, and eighty-five years
and a few days over, I was born in the same room and expect
to die here in a short time, which he accordingly did. Joseph
Stewart, the brother of James, was by trade a hatter, and fol-
lowed that business in the town of Greenwich, where he died in
the prime of his life of hemorrhage of the lungs.
WADDINGTON FAMILY.
"William Waddington was a French. Hugeunot, and emigrated
to this country about 1690. He purchased of Edward Wade
1,000 acres of land, it being the southern portion of his allot-
ment, and settled thereon. The said property was held by one
of the branches of the Waddington family until about ten years
ago. William and his wife had one son, Jonathan Waddington,
who subsequently married and had four or five daughters and
one son — Jonathan, Hannah, Ann, Elizabeth and Jane Wad-
dington. Hannah, tlie eldest daughter, married Maurice Bees-
ley ; they had five children — Walker, Hannah, Mary, Benjamin
and Abner Beesley. Walker, the eldest son, was killed at the
massacre in the Revolutionary war at Hancock's Bridge. Han-
nah, the daughter of Maurice and Hannah Beesley, married John
Beesley, her cousin ; they had two sons — Walker and David
Beesley. The latter died a young man, unmarried. Mary, the
daughter of Maurice and Hannah W. Beesley, married Peter
Townsend, of Cape May ; tliey had no issue. Benjamin, tlie
son of Maurice and Hannah W. Beesley, died a young man.
Abner, tlie youngest son of Maurice and Hannah Wad-
dington Beesley, married Mary, tlie daughter of John and Su-
sanna Mason, of Elsinborough ; they had issue — Mary, William,
Benjamin and Thomas Beesley. [See Mason Family.] Ann
Waddington, daughter of Jonathan Waddington, married in
1750 John Baracliff.
Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Waddington, married Ed-
ward, the son of Jonathan Bradway, in 1760 ; they had four
sons and two daughters — David, Hannah, Waddington, Edward,
who died young, Adna and Elizabeth ; the latter married
Abraim Silvers. Hannah Bradway, her sister, married Job
Stretch ; they had issue, Jane, the youngest daugliter of Jona-
than Waddington, married Bradway Keasbey, she being his
second wife ; they had one daughter, Sarah Keasbey, who
married John, the son of Edward and Hannah Pancoast. John
and his wife Sarah K. Pancoast had six children — Hannah,
John, Israel, Jane, David and Aaron Pancoast.
348 WADDINGTON FAMILY.
Jonathan Waddington, Jr., I think, married the grand-daugh-
ter of John and Mary Chambless Hancock. He died in 1760,
leaving an infant son — Jonathan Waddington, 3d. He was
tlie only one at the death of his father that bore the name of
Waddington in this country, and he subsequently married
Sarah, the daughter of Aaron Bradway, of Elsinborough.
Jonathan and Sarah B. "Waddington had six sons — William,
Robert, Aaron, Jonathan, Thomas and Edward Waddington.
William, their eldest son, married Martha, tlie daughter of
Jesse Carll ; they liad six cliildren — Anna, Sarali, William,
Martha, Hannah and Jesse Waddington. Kobert, second son
of Jonathan and Sarah Waddington, married, and died a young
]nan, leaving three sons — Aaron, Samuel and James Wadding-
ton. Aaron, the son of Jonathan Waddington, 3d, married
Sarali, the daughter of Edward Keasbey ; they have three
daugliters and two sons — Sarah Ann, Lydia, Joshua, Bradway
and Jane Waddington. Jonathan, the son of Jonathan and
Sarah Waddington, died unmarried. Tliomas, son of the
])efore mentioned parents, was twice married. By his first wife
lie had five children — Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary, Jonathan and
Thomas Waddington, and his second wife was Hannah Davis ;
there were two children — Beulah and Jane Waddington.
Edward, the youngest son of Jonathan and Sarah Bradway
Waddington, married Prudence, the daughter of Edward and
Lydia Keasbey; they had eight children — Richard, Sarah,
Edward, Prudence, Elizabeth, Joseph, Lydia Ann and Prudence
Waddington.
WHITACAR FAMILY.
The Whitacars are an ancient English family. Kicliard, the
ancestor of the Whitacars in West Jersey, was a native of Lon-
don. By tradition, he came to America at the time of the
plague, in 1665, or in the following year, after the great fire.
The record of the family in England is supposed to have passed
into the hands of otiier branches. About a hundred years ago,
an Englislnnan who was traveling in this country told a inem-
ber of the WJiitacar family that he knew a place in England
called Whitacarstield, which was doubtless the family property.
The early Wliitacars were very particular about the spelling of
their names, this liaving been enjoined upon them b}' liichard,
the emigrant, who stated that there were landed estates in Eng-
land belonging to the AVhitacars, which they might inherit at
some time were they careful to keep up tlieir record and the
olden way of spelling their nan:ies. In latter years, however,
the last syllable was changed from " car" to " ker," and it is
now generally spelled AVhitaker.
I have no doubt, if their tradition is correct, that Richard
landed in Maryland, and in company with some others entered
the Delaware bay in a small vessel, and ascended up the river
as far as Billingspoi't, he being the first of the company that
reached the shore, and was therefore tlie first Englishman that
set foot on AVest New Jersey. He sprang on shore, and with
a hatchet cut down a bush, according to the uiicient mode of
taking possession, in the name of King Charles II. He doubt-
less remained in America but a short time before lie returned
to England. It is probable that soon after his I'cturn he became
a member of the Society of Friends. When Fenwick was fitting-
out his expedition to West New Jersey, together with a innnber
of emigrants who had previously bought land of him, I find
Richard Whitacar was one of the number. William Hancock,
of the county of Middlesex, purchased 1,000 acres and one build-
ing lot of 1 6 acres in the town that the proprietor should lay
out when he arrived in West Jersey ; the said Hancock ap-
pointed his friend Richard Whitacar his Attorney until he came
350 WHIT AC AK FAMILY.
to take charge of it, which he accordingly did in 1677. The
power of Attorney reads : " Be it known nnto all men by these
" presents, tliat I, William Hancock, of the parisli of St. Len-
" ard, Shoreditch, comity of Middlesex, to Richard Whitacar,
" of ye city of London, to be my lawful Attorney, deputy for
" me, in my name, for all my lott or lotts of land situate, lying and
" being in New Jersey, or Nova Csessaria, America in ye parts.
" And I the said William Hancock, shall and will ratify, allow,
" confirm all and whatsoever my said Attorney or his substitutes
" shall lawfully do or cause to be done in or about the Premises,
" by virtue of these presents. In witness whereof, I, the said
'• William Hancock, have hereunto sett my hand and seal the
" sixth day of July, Anno Domini, 1675. And in ye 27th year
"of Reign of our Sovereign Lord. King Charles ye second,
" over England. William Hancock. Sealed and delivered in
" ye presence of ns, Thomas Sramodmo and William Johnson,
" Esq., Notary Public." It is said that tliis paper was executed
the day previous to the sailing of the ship Griffin, which is a
further confirmation that John Smith and Samuel Nicholson
were correct in stating that the ship anchored opposite Elsin-
borough Point 23d of 9th month, 1675, that making them two
months and sixteen days on the passage.
The power of Attorney, and a black morocco book in which
Richard Whitacar carried it over the sea, is still in the possession
of the family, which I have no doubt they highly prize. —
Richard Whitacar was made one of Fenwick's Council of Pro-
prietors to govern West Jersey, whicli office he held from 1676
to 1702, at which time the Colonial Government was formed.
He resided most of his time in the town of Salem until about
1690. On 17th of 1st month, 1679, he and Elizabeth Adkin
of Alloways Creek, were married in Salem at Friends' Meeting,
in the old log meeting house on the Nicholson lot. In 1690
he and his wife moved to the South Cohansic precinct, where
about that time there was a considerable emigration from parts
of New England and East Jersey, and at that place he located
on a large tract of land not far from New Englandtown, and
there they settled. The land lay in Fairfield township. —
Richard, soon after he settled in the township, built himself a
substantial brick dwelling. This property, I have been inform-
ed, belonged to the family until after the old French war. —
The house was taken down some ten years ago ; the piles of old
bricks were to be seen in various places in 1873 — all that
remained of the old Whitacar mansion.
Richard Whitacar and Henry Buck kept a store for several
WHITACAR FAMILY. 351
years near Kew England town, where they owned a large sloop
and traded with New York and Boston. The firm doubtless
transacted a great deal of business, this being tlie only store of
any importance in that region. The place where the present
thriving city of Bridgeton is now was then a wilderness. The
old store book of the lirm is still in possession of the family.
The writer had an opportunity of looking through it some time
since, and it is particularly interesting to the antiquarian, giving
as it does a knowledge of the names of many of the early inhab-
itants of that section of Cumberland county which otherwise
probably would liave been lost. The first entry in the book is
dated October 9th, 1704, and in the page before is written,
" We sailed from Boston September 18th, 1704." It appears
by the day book that they kept dry goods, groceries, ready-made
clothing, liquors and books, particularly scliool books, bibles and
psalm books, and farming implements. Richard Whitacar
and his partner, Henry Buck, did considerable public
business, as their names frequently appear in the Court
minutes to be seen in the Salem Clerk's Office, beginning
with 1706, but after 1709 Richard's name is missing. He
doubtless died the following winter, and is thought to have
been about sixty-six jears of age. Henry Biick died about
1726. Richard Whitacar left a number of children. One of
his sons, Richard, married and liad issue ; his oldest cliild was
Nathaniel, whose descendants are given. Of the otlier children
of Richard, Sr., and Elizabeth Whitacar and their branches it
is impossible to speak of with certainty. One of their daugh-
ters, however, probably married Samuel Alexander, of Fairfield.
Their daughters were merged into other families, but there
have always been sons enough to keep up the name. They are
scattered over the country, and it would be no easy task to
collect their genealogies. Silas Whitacar, one of the celebrated
party who burned the tea at Greenwich 22d of 12th month,
1774, was a descendant of Richard.
Although Richard Whitacar, Sr., and his wife, Elizabeth
Adkin Whitacar, and their children when young, were mem-
bers of the Society of Friends, most of their descendants at the
present time are Presbyterians. Nathaniel Whitacar, son of
Richard, Jr., married Mary Ann Dixon, I8th of 11th month,
1729. Their children were Ambrose, Lemuel (who died young,)
Lewis W., who married but died at an early age, leaving tlu'ee
children, whose names were Lydia, Lemuel and Lewis. Lydia
married her cousin, Nathaniel Whitacar ; Lemuel settled near
Muskingum, in Ohio, and died there, leavmg several children,
352 WHirACAR FAMILY.
being about eighty years of age at the time of his death. Lewis
settled at Muskingum, Ohio ; from thence to Henepin, Illinois,
and died there leaving several children. One of his children,
John Whitacar, was one of the framers of the Constitution of
Illinois, in 1818. Mary, the wife of Nathaniel Whitacar, died
13th of 9th month, 1738, Nathaniel's second wife was Ruth
Buck ; their children were Sarah, who died unmarried about
1808 ; Hannali, their second daughter, married Ephraim Foster;
Daniel Wliitacar, their son, died a single man; Ruth, the young-
est daughter, married Josiah Harris, by whom she had two sons —
Enos and John Harris ; Josiah died. Ruth's second husband
was a Davis, by whom she had two children, one of wliom was
named Sarah, wlio married a young man by the name of Mench ;
they settled at Cincinnati, Ohio. Nathaniel Whitacar died in
12th month, 1752, aged about fifty-eight years.
Ambrose Whitacar, the eldest son of Nathaniel, married
Freelove Stratton 16th of 1st month, 1755; tlie children were
Freelove, Mary, Nathaniel, Abigail and Catharine. Freelove,
wife of Ambrose Whitacar, died in her thirty-third year. On
the 10th of I2th month, 1766, Ambrose married Ruth Harris,
by whom he had the following children — David, Hannah and
Lewis. Ruth died, 5th of 10th month, 1772, in her thirty-ninth
year. Ambrose married his third wife, Rachel Leake; their
children were Recompence, Oliver, Freelove, Isaac, Sarah and
Leake. The last named married Dr. Robert H. YanMeter.
[See YanMeter Family.] Ambrose Whitacar departed this life
5th of 11th montli, 1796, in the sixty-sixth year of his age.
Rachel, his last wife, died 30th of 1st month, 1823, in her eigh-
tieth year ; both are buried in the same grave in the Presbyte-
rian church yard at Daretown.
Freelove, daughter of Ambrose and Freelove Whitacar, mar-
ried, when young, Butler Thompson ; she died while young,
leaving one daughter, Mary Thompson, who subsequently mar-
ried Thomas Sheppard, by whom she had four children — Lydia,
Sarah, Ann and Mark. Lydia Sheppard married Evi Smith,
son of David Smitli, of Mannington ; they had three children —
Charles, Mary and Hannah. Mary married David, the son of
Elisha and Mary Bassett. Hannah married Edward H. Bas-
sett; Hannah is deceased. Charles, the son of Evi and Lydia
Smith, married and resided in Philadelphia ; he is deceased and
left issue, two sons. Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Mary
Sheppard, married Anthony Taylor ; they Jiad six children —
Mary, Sheppard, Samuel, Joseph, Anthony and Sarah. Mark,
the son of Thomas and Mary Sheppard, married Patience
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Buzby ; tlieir children were Joseph, John, Lydia and Marj
Sheppard. Ann, the dauo;hter of Thomas and Mary Sheppard,
married Joseph Harmer, of Greenwich ; they had six cliildren
— Mark, Ruth, Sarah, Richard, Elwood and Letitia Harmer.
The second husband of Mary, tlie widow of Thomas Sheppard,
was Samuel Silvers ; tliey had one son, Thomas Silvers, who
resides in the city of New York. He married Anna V. Bird,
of Philadelphia ; they have three children — Helena, Isabel and
Melbourne Silvers. Thomas is quite an inventive genius ; his
most noted invention is the steam governor. His family resides
in the city of New York, but he himself spends most of his time
in London. Mary's third husband was William White, of
Woodstown ; he died many years before her. After his death
she resided at Greenwich with lier relatives, but died at Woods-
town over four-score years of age. Mary, daughter of Ambrose
and Freelove WJiitacar, married. Jedediah Ogden, in 1783 ;
they had live children — Isaac, Ambrose, Jedediah, Ruth, Nevo
and Daniel. Isaac Ambrose Ogden is a Presbyterian minister,
settled in Ohio, and has several children. Jedediah and Daniel
Ogden settled near Fairfield, Indiana, and have several children.
Ruth Ogden married Obediah Bennett, and in 1854 was a
widow with children. Neve Ogden died, leaxdng children.
Nathaniel, son of Ambrose and Freelove Whitacar, married
his cousin Lydia, in 1784- ; they had five children — Jael, Ruel,
Anna, Natlianiel and Lydia. Jael and Nathaniel settled near
Henepin, Illinois. Ruel married and had a number of children,
among whom are Abigail, Clara, Ephar and Harriet. Abigail
died unmarried. Clara has been twice married ; her first hus-
band was a Harris, and her second husband is Judge Whitacar,
of Fairton. Ephar is a Presbyterian minister, settled in South-
liold. Long Island, and has several children. Harriet married
Professor Clark, of Tjnnessee. Anna Whitacar married Pres-
cott Bishop. Lydia married James Craig, and settled near tLe
home of her ancestors in Cumberland county.
Abigail, daughter of Ambrose and Freelove Whitacar, mar-
ried Jeffrey Parvin, in 1785, and died in 1794, leaving two
cliildren — Sarah and Abigail Parvin. Sarah married Daniel
Simkins and died, leaving three children. Abigail married
Moses Riley and was left a widow with two children. Catha-
rine, daughter of Ambrose and Freelove Whitacar, married
Joshua Reeve, of Bridgeton, in 1782 and died in 1796, in her
thirty-fourtli year, leaving several children ; their names were
Samuel, Elizabeth, Joshua, Thomas, Catharine, Harriet and
Maria. Samuel, tlie eldest, died young ; Elizabeth maj-ried
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George Johnson, settled in Fhiladclphia and died in 1848,
leavinii: children ; Joshna enlisted in the army and died ; Thomas
married Eunice Bishop and died near Cincinnati, Oliio, in
1838, leaving six children — Daniel, Charles B., Caroline, Mary,
John B. and Horace. Catharine, the dangliter of Joshua and
Catharine ^V. Reeve, married Benjamin Forljes and died, leaving
several children ; Harriet married David ilnsted ; Maria mar-
ried Vickers Harris ttnd was left a widow in 1853.
David, son of Ambrose Whitaker, by his second wife Rutli,
married Catharine DuBois in 1788, and died 29th of 7th montli,
1807, aged forty years. They had six children — Peter, Ruth,
Elizabeth, Lewis, David and Rebecca. Peter married Nancy
Riley. Their children were Lorenzo, Lucius, William, Louisa
and James Lambert. Lorenzo, the eldest son, married Sarah
Cake; died and left two children — Lucius and Anna AVhitaker.
Lucius Whitaker married Ruth Nixon. There were three chil-
dren. William died unmarried. Louisa Whitaker married Wil-
liam Cole, of Woodstown ; he is now deceased. They had two
children — Annie and William Cole. James Lambert Whitaker
married Fannie Reeves, and settled in Bridgeton. He died 8tli
month, 1875, leaving one child. Ruth, daughter of David and
Catharine DuBois Whitaker, married David YanMeter ; botli of
them are deceased leaving children — Isaac W., David, Phebe
and Enoch YanMeter. Elizabeth Whitaker, daughter of David,
married Isaac Mayhew; both are deceased, leaving children.
Lewis and David Whitaker, sons of David, settled near Logans-
port, Indiana. Rebecca, the youngest daughter of David, mar-
ried Joseph Heward. They also settled at Logansport.
Hannah, the daughter of Ambrose and Ruth Whitaker, mar-
ried Ephraim Foster, by wdiom she had the following cliildren —
David, Ephraim, Nathaniel, Jonathan, Jeremiah, Phebe, Rutli,
Hannah, Elizabeth and Esther Foster. Phebe Foster married
Hosea Sneathen, and died without issue. Jonathan Foster died
a young man, unmarried. Ruth Foster married Samuel Thomp-
son, and died, leaving several children. Their names were
Sanuiel, Newcomb, Phebe, Harriet an<l Elizal^eth Thompson.
Hannah, daughter of Ephraim and Hannah Foster, married
John McQueen. She died in 1854, at an advanced age. Their
children wei-e Ephraim, Rel)ecca, Elizabeth, Sarali and Hannah.
Rebecca married Jonatlian Swing, of Pittsgrove. They had
several children. Elizabeth McQueen married John Garrison ;
tliey lived near Deeriicld. Elizabeth died leaving one child.
Hannah married Benjamin YanMeter. There were several chil-
dren by this union. Sarah McQueen never married. Elizabctli,
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the daughter of Ephraim and Hannali Foster, married Matthew
Newkirk, of Pittsgrove, (Newkirk's station) ; being his second
wife. She had children — Matthew, Nathaniel and Mary New-
kirk. Matthew married and died young, leaving one son, Mat-
thew, who married and resides in Ohio. Nathaniel, son of Mat-
thew and Elizabeth Newkirk, was a physician, and married
Martha, daughter of John and Ann Bacon, of Greenwich, Cum-
berland county. He died at Bridgeton, leaving issue. Mary
Newkirk, daughter of Matthew, is living, unmarried. Elizabeth,
widow of Matthew Newkirk, married Samuel Thompson. She
died at Bridgeton, leaving no issue by her last husband. Esther
Foster married Ethan Osborne ; he was an eminent Presbyterian
minister, of Fairfield church. Slie was his second wife, and
died without issue.
Lewis, son of Ambrose and Ruth Whitaker, was married to
Mary DuBois,in 1797, and died 1st of 10th month, 1828, in his
iifty-eighth year. Their children were Ambrose, Hannah and
John Whitaker. Ambrose is unmarried, and lives near Swing's
Corner, in Pittsgrove. Hannah Wliitaker married Benjamin
Burroughs. They settled near Cincinnati, Ohio, and left chil-
dren. John Whitaker married and died at Pittsgrove, leaving
issue. Lewis Whitaker was married the second time, and had
issue — Mary, Nathaniel, Benjamin B. and Ruth Whitaker.
Mary, daughter of Lewis Wliitaker, married John G. Sweat-
man, and died in 1851, at Watson's Corner, leaving no children.
Nathaniel Whitaker married and died in Pittsgrove. Benjamin
B. Whitaker is unmari-ied. Ruth married John Alounce, they
have no children.
Recompence, son of Aml)rose and Rachel Whitaker, (Rachel
was his third wife,) married Rachel Moore Gth of 3d month,
1800, and died in his thirty-sixth year, leaving live children.
, Their names were Al)igail, Enoch, Hannah, Caroline and Racliel
Leake Whitaker. Abigail, daughter of Recompence AVhitakei-,
married Buckly Carll, a Presbyterian minister. Her husband
is deceased, and buried at Daretown. Abigail is still living.
Hannah Whitaker, daughter of Recompence, married George
Hires ; she is still living, having no children. The other chil-
dren of Recompence Whitaker died young.
Oliver, son of Ambrose and Rachel Whitaker, married Mary
Summerill, 2d of 2d month, 1799. The children l)y this mar-
riage were Rhoda, Summerill, Rachel, Rutli and William.
Rhoda married William Biggs, of Cincinnati. They have a
large family of children. Summerill married early in life, and
went to the State of Illinois. Rachel Whitaker married Jacob
350 ^VHITACAR FAMILY.
Jolms ; tliey reside in Iowa, and have issue. Ruth married
William Yillers, near Cincinnati ; they have a large family of
children. William is deceasd, leaving no issue. Mary Sum-
merill, wife of Oliver Wiiitaker, died aged twenty-four years,
and in 1807 Oliver married Elizabeth Kirby. Their children
were Ambrose, Phebe, Oliver, Ephraim K., Joseph and Mary
Jane Wliitaker. Phebo, daughter of Oliver, married James
Buck, by whom she had one child — Sarah Elizabeth Buck.
Oliver Whitaker married Hannah R. Hollingsworth ; their
children were Isaac, Martha, Ann, Sarah Jane, Mary, Elizabeth,
Joseph B., Charles II., William A., and Abraham WJiitaker.
Ephraim K. Whitaker married Mar}' Vanderoot ; their children
were Bhebe, Sarah Elizabeth and Isaac Newton. Joseph
Whitaker married Rebecca McBriant ; the .* had four children —
Mary L., William Oliver, Ephraim X. and Elizabetli Ann.
Mary Jane died in childhood. Oliver Whitaker, Sr., soon after
his marriage with Mary Summerill, settled in Clinton county,
Ohio. His descendants are numerous, and scattered through
the AVest. He di(?d lltli of Pitli month, 1831, aged about
fifty-six years.
Freelove, daughter of Ambrose and Rachel Whitacar, mar-
ried David I)ui3ois, 23d of 4th month, 1804. Their children
are as follows : Henrietta, Jonathan, Jedediah, Edmund, Asher,
Janetta and I)a\id DuBois. Henrietta DuBois married James
Coombs, of Upper Pittsgrove. They had issue — Mary Ann,
Albert, Edwin, Jane, Oliver, Isabella and Henry Coombs.
Albei't, Jane and Isabella are deceased. Jonathan DuBois
inari-ied Martha Adcock ; he died, leaving two sons — Henry
and (xoorge DaB jis. Jedediah DuBois marriad Ann Adcock,
and died, leaving three sons. E(hnund DuBois married Sarah
Johnson; there are children. Asher DuBois married
Swing, and died, leaving children. Janetta DuBois married
Edward Shute, and died leaving issue. David DuBois married
a daughter of Adam YanMeter, they had one daughter. David
DuBois, Sr,, died in 5th month, 1837 ; Freelove, his wife, died
in 1st month, 1842, aged sixty-four years. Both are buried in
the old church yard at DaretowH. Isaac, the son of Ambrose
and Rachel Whitacar, married Ann, daughter of Jonathan
Fithian, of Deerfield, 10th of 3d month, 1814; they had twelve
children — Isaac, Ann, Mary, Sarah, Caroline, Oliver, Enoch,
Charles, Eliza, James, Lydia and Lewis Whitacar. Isaac, son
of Isaac and Ann AVhitacar, settled in Carlinville, Illinois,
about 1840. He married there Virginia B. Bement, formerly
of New York. He was known as Captain AYliitacar. His
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wife died leaving six cliildren — Mury Ellen, Harriet B., Edna
Caroline, Virginia, Charles and Clara Wliitacar. Mary Ellen,
married Victor Iloyt. Harriet B. married James Gand. Ann
married Jacob Webb ; they had five children — Harriet, Alexan-
der, Charles, Isaac W. and George Smith ; two snrvive,
Alexander and George ; l)otli of whom are married and have
children. Ann and husband arc deceased. Mary married
Edward Burton, of Bunker Hill, Illinois ; they have one child,
named Joseph. Sarah AYhitacar, daughter of Isaac, Sr., mar-
ried Daniel Smith ; she died in her forty-second year, leaving
the following children — Anna B., Elizabeth L., Caroline W.
and Franklin Smitli, Anna B. and Franklin are the only sur-
viving ones. Caroline, fourth daugliter of Isaac and Ann
Wliitacar, married Edward VanMcter, of Salem. [See Van-
Meter Family.]
Oliver, son of Isaac and Ann Wliitacar, married Sa ah
A. Fisher ; they had one child — Mary Wliitacar. Enoch
Whitacar married Ruth Diamond ; they had tliree children —
Lewis, Edward V. and Kicliard W. Whitacar. Charles, son of
Isaac and Ann AYhitacar, died in his nineteentli year. Eliza
died in infancy. James Whitacar, son of Isaac and Ann, mar-
ried Louisa Iszard ; they had five children — Joseph, Frank,
Louisa, Charles and Coleman AVhitacar. Lydia AYhitacar,
married Jonathan D. Ayres. Their surviving cliildren are as
follows : Harriet W., Robert S., Caroline V. and Florence
Ayres. Lewis, the youngest son of Isaac and Ann Wliitacar,
married Mary Elizabeth Shove ; they have four cliildren living
— Harriet, Anna, Elizabeth and Lewis Whitacar.
Isaac, son of Ambrose and Rachel Whitacar, wiicn lie was
about eighteen years of age, attended scliool at Woodl)ury, New
Jersey. Among his classmates was James Lawrence, afterwards
Captain James Lawrence, of the Chesapeake, wliose dying-
words, " Don't give up the ship !" liav^e often been quoted. When
Lawrence received his commission he tried to induce Isaac Whit-
acar, with whom he was very intimate, to accontj^any liini on
liis vessel, promising to get him a commission also, but Isaac
knowing his mother would never consent to such a thing, de-
clined, although very anxious to go. As a keepsake, James
Lawrence drew on a piece of paper, a ship in fnll sail, and pre-
sented it, before leaving school, to Isaac Whitacar, his cliosen
friend. This is now in possession of the family, and is highly
prized by them.
Isaac Whitacar, Sr., departed this life 23d of 2d month, 1857,
in his seventy-eighth year, Ann, his wife, died 23d of 4th
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month, 1855, in her sixty-third year. Both arc buried in the
Presbyterian cluirch yard at Deerficld. Most of their family
are living at the present time in Illinois.
WYATT FAMILY.
Bartholomew Wyatt emigrated to this county about tlie year
1690. I believe he came from the county of Worcestershire,
England. Soon after liis arrival he purchased 1200 acres of
land in Mannington, of Jolm Fenwick's heirs. The said land
was bounded on the east by James Sherron's land. The first
house he built on his property was a log house of considerable
size, as I was told by Samuel Austin, who was considered in his
time as the most correct antiquarian in that part of the county.
The said house stood upon the point of land near the meadow,
not far from a small creek, (called Puddle Dock), nearly half a
mile from where, a few years later, he built himself a large
brick house, it being not far from Mannington creek, which was
navigable at that time. He was a prominent man in his time
in the civil affairs of the Colony, frequently serving as a Grand
Juror, as the records of the Court show ; also an active mem-
ber of the Society of Friends, and was one of the largest con-
tributors to the fund for the erection of the Friends' brick
meeting house in the present graveyard in Salem. He and his
wife, Sarah Wyatt had two clnldreu — Bartholomew, who was
born 4:th of 1st month, 1697, and Elizabeth who was born in
1706. There is no mention in the records of the county, or of
the meeting's records later than the year 1728 ; therefore I pre-
sume he died somewhere near that period. His son Bartholo-
mew inherited all his father's real estate. He married about
the year 1730, Elizabeth Tomlinson, who was born in 1706. He
and his wife Elizabeth resided in Mannington during their lives,
and in the year 1731 their son Bartholomew Wyatt, 3d, was
l>orn. Their daughter Sarah Wyatt was born in the year 1733,
and subsequently became the wife of Richard Wistar, of Phila-
delphia. Bartholomew Wyatt, Jr., the father of the before
mentioned children, lived what was considered at that time
quite aged. He died in 1770, aged seventy-two years ; his wife
liad been deceased many years before. It is probable that the
disease with wliich most of the AYyatts and several of the V^h-
360 WYATT FAMILY.
tar family died witli (being pulmonary consumption), was hered-
itary ill his wife's family.
Bartholomew Wyatt, 3d, in physical appearance, I have been
informed by persons that knew him, was tall, and remarkably
pleasing in his address. He was considered one of the best
English scholars, at tlie time in wliich he lived, in the county of
Salem. The late Casper Wistar, when young, it is said, looked
very much like his great-uncle as to his size and the features of
his face. His company was very much sought after ; and being
of a benevolent turn of mind, he gave largely to the poor and
needy ; and when the Society of Friends at Salem and vicinity
thought it would be a benefit to them to build a larger meeting
house, he was tlie largest contributor, excepting Samuel Nichol-
son, of Elsinborough. Bartholomew died in the prime of his
life, at the age of tifty years, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth,
who, a short time before her father's death, had married Wil-
liam Carpenter, the son of Prescott Carpenter. William and
his wife Elizabeth had two children — Mary and Hannah. The
last named child died in infancy. Elizabeth Car])enter, their
mother, died before she arrived at middle age. Mary Carpen-
ter, their daughter, afterwards married James Hunt, a son of
John Hunt, of Darby, Pennsylvania. I believe she left three
daughters and two sons, and they disposed of the greater part
of the real estate of their ancestors in Mannington, to Andrew
Thompson, of Elsinborough.
Casper Wistar was the first of that name in this country.
He emigrated to the province of Pennsylvania hi the year 1717,
and as Watson states, was naturalized in 1722 as a citizen of the
province of Pennsylvania. His native place was Germany. It
appears he had three children — Richard, Casper and Sarah
Wistar, and was by trade a button maker. As soon as he had
sufficient funds by working by day's work at any employment he
found to do, he commenced business at his trade in manufactur-
ing buttons. They were small brass buttons, being nearly
round, and were used on short clothes whic^h were the common
wear at that time, and they were much sought after and readily
sold at renumerative prices. He would invest his money in
lands within tlie city limits, and as the town incrett^ed in size
the property became valual^le, consequently his heirs became
wealthy by the increased value of property.
Casper Wistar, Jr., I have bten informed, only left one
daughter, Elizabeth Wistar, who became the wife of Abram
Sliarpless, of Chester county, Pennsylvania. She and her hus-
band resided near Concord villc, in Delaware county. Abram
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owned a large tract of land in that neighborhood, and together
with his wife's property in the city of Philadelphia, enabled
them to leave to their two sons, Abram and Casper Wistar
Sharpless, princely estates. Both of them died a few years ago
with much reduced estates, fultilling the old saying : — " The
" tirst gets it, the second keeps it, and the third spends it."
Sarah Wistar, I am informed, never married, and lived to a
very advanced age. In her will she left four of her great-
nephews, all of them named Casper, £11,000 a-piece, and after
the specific legacies were paid, there was left £4:-i:,000 to her
legatees. Ricliard Wistar, the eldest brother, purchased a large
tract of land in Alloways Creek township, most probably from
William Hall, Jr. Soon afterwards he erected a glass factory
about two miles above the village of AUowaystown, and com-
menced the manufacture of glass. Johnson, in his history of
this county, stated it was the first of its kind in the United
States, but I think he was mistaken in that statement. Massa-
chusetts claims the first, which was started in 171:2. The most
reliable account I have ever seen respecting Richard Wistar
fixes the time he commenced operation in 17-11:, it being two
years later than the Massachusetts enterprise. Richard's glass
works, it has been stated, proved to be a very profitable invest-
ment. His own time was very much taken up in looking after
his great estate in the city of Philadelphia, and consequently he
employed Benjamin Thompson, a young man of great business
capacity, the son of William Thompson, of AUowaystown, to
be the overseer of his glass works. He filled the position, it
has been stated, during the time the glass works were in opera-
tion, much to the satisfaction of the proprietor. About the
year 1750 Richard married Sarah Wyatt, the daughter of Bar-
tholomew Wyatt, Jr., of Mannington. I think they had six
children — Richard, Casper, John, Thomas, Elizabeth and Cath-
arine. Ricliard Wistar, Jr., married and left two children.
Richard and Sarah died a few years ago. Casper became one
of the most eminent pliysicians of his time in the city of Phila-
delphia, and I l)elieve he left a family of children. John mar-
ried Charlotte Newbold, the daughter of Clayton Newbold, of
Burlington county.
At the death of Bartholemew Wyatt he owed his son-in-law,
Richard AVistar, £1,000. In making his will he devised one-
half of his real estate in Mannington to Richard and his wife
Sarah, provided he would cancel the debt, whicli was accord-
ingly done, and Richard Wistar became the owner. His son,
John, after his marriage, settled tliercon, and at tlie death of
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362 WYATT FAMILY.
his father the said property became a part of his share of his
father's great estate.
John Wistar, it can be truly said, was one of Nature's noble-
men, lie had an intellectual mind which he inherited from his
mother's family, and a large share of the milk of human kind-
ness. It has been stated, and I do not doubt the correctness of
it, because it was in accordance with his feelings toward suffer-
ing humanity, that he was the first to advocate the establishing
of the Salem County Alms House. He and his wife had, I
think, eight children ; their names were Mary, Bartholomew,
Clayton, Charlotte, Casper, Hannah, Catharine and John.
Their father, John Wistar, died in Ids fifty-sixth year, of pulmo-
nary consumption. It could be truly said of him he was lost too
soon for his family and his own religious society, and to the
comnnmity generally. His widow survived him several years.
Their oldest daughter Mary married Isaac Davis, of Philadel-
pliia. Bartholomew married a young woman by the name of
Newbold. He was a merchant in Philadelphia. Clayton
Wistar's wife was Mary Stevenson, the daughter of John Ste-
venson, who was a lineal descendant of that eminent man,
Samuel Jennings, of Burlington. Clayton and his wife had
two sons — John aad Kichard Wistar. His second wife was
Martha Reeve, the daughter of Josiah Reeve, of Burlington,
formerly of Cumberland. By this connection they had one
son, Josiah Wistar, of Mannington.
Charlotte Wistar married Jonathan Freedland, the son of
Jonas Freedland, who was one of Salem county's favorite sons.
Charlotte has been deceased several years, leaving no children ;
her husband is still living.
Casper Wistar's wife was Rebecca Bassett, daughter of Jo-
seph Bassett. Casper is now deceased, leaving a widow and
five children — Sarah, Mary, Casper, Joseph and Catharine.
Hannah Wistar married Dr. Theophilus Beesley. He had an
extensive practice in Salem when he was married, and a few
years afterward he and his wife removed to Philadelpliia. In
that city he stood high in his profession. They are both de-
ceased now. Catharine Wistar married Thomas Evans, the
son of Jonathan Evans, of Philadelphia. Thomas, whilst living
was an eminent minister in the Orthodox branch of the Society
of Friends. John Wistar, the youngest, was left the homestead
of liis father. In a few years he became of age, he sold it to
Thomas Bacon and removed to Philadelphia.
Elizabeth Wistar, the daughter of Richard and Sarah Wistar,
married Richard Miller, the son of Josiah and Letitia Miller,
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of Mannington. They lived most of the time after they were
married on the property wliere their grandson, Wyatt W. Mil-
ler, now owns and lives. Richard died in the prime of his life,
leaving a widow and three children. Their names were Sarah,
Letitia and Josiah Miller. Elizabeth W. Miller was considered
in her time more than ordinary in her physical and mental abil-
ities. She, when quite 3^oung, had an attack of scarlet fever,
which impaired her hearing, and before she reached middle age
she was entirely deaf ; but it often occurs when a person is de-
prived of hearing, the other senses are much stronger and it
was true with her to a remarkable degree. I well remember
when young in seeing her in Friends' meeting, at Salem, taking
her seat fronting the gallery, and if any one spoke she would
watch the lips of the speaker, and if the one that was speaking
remained motionless, it has been said she would get as good un-
derstanding of tlie discourse as others did who had their hearing.
Also in conversation, particularly with persons she was accus-
tomed to, there appeared to be no difficulty for her to under-
stand them. She resided in Mannington on the farm for a few
years after her husband's death, and then removed to Salem,
and died there aged over ninety years.
Sarah Miller married Benjamin Acton, son of Clement Acton,
of Salem. Benjamin and his wife Sarah had eight children —
Richard M., Benjamin, Hannah, Letitia, Elizabeth, Cliarlotto,
Sarah Wyatt, and Casper W. Acton. Benjamin and his wife
are both deceased, although she survived her husband several
years.
Letitia Miller's husband was Thomas B. Sheppard, the son of
John Sheppard, of Cumberland county. She died young,
leiiving one daughter.
Josiah Miller, the son of Richard and Elizabeth Miller, in
physical and mental abilities, was above the ordinary man, and
if he had cultivated his mind, with his wealth and family influ-
ence, he would have been one of the most useful men in his
generation.
Josiah married Hetty James, daughter of Savjuiel L. James.
She was amiable in her disposition, and was well calculated to
make home pleasant and agreeable. He died a comparatively
young man, leaving a widow and three minor children — Richard,
Samuel and Wyatt Miller. Tlie two youngest own and reside
on their patrimonial estate in Mannington. The said property
has been in the Miller family four generations.
Hetty Miller, the widow of Josiah lived until she was ad-
vanced in life, and then married David Reeves, of Pluenixvillo,
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Chester county, Pennsylvania. He was formerly a resident of
Bridgeton, Cumberland county, New Jersey, and was the son
of Tliomas Reeves, of Gloucester county. Tliat connection
was of short duration, however, as she was taken away by a
short and severe illness in a short period after they were mai*-
ried, and he survived her only a few years.
WHITTAN FAMILY.
James Wliittan purchased property in Mannington the latter
part of the seventeeuth century, adjoining lands of Richard
Woodnutt on the west, lands of Wheoeby on the east. lie and
his wife, Sarah Whittan, had two children — Ann, their daugh-
ter, was born in 1707, and tlieir son, Joseph Whittan, was born
in 1709 ; lie died a minor.
James Nevell and Richard Tindell died al)out the year 1703
or 1704. Nevell was a lawyer, and acted as agent for William
Penn in disposing of his lands lying in Fenwick's tenth. It
appears that Penn had implicit confidence in his ability and
integrity. The settlements he made with the proprietor for
lands he disposed of for him fully justify that opinion. Rich-
ard Tindell was considered in his time to be remarkably correct
in his surveying and in his calculations ; so much so, that I have
been informed the surveyors at, the present time have no ditfi-
culty in following the various lines of the numerous tracts of
land that he run and calculated more than one hundred and
eighty years ago. I call the attention of the reader to one
tract of meadow and swamp Richard Tindell re-surveyed by an
order from James Kevell in 1685, it Ijeiiig the town marsh
which was given by John Fenwick to the inhabitants of Salem
town in 1676, and was surveyed by Richard Hancock the same
year. Some five or six years ago the present owners of said
meadow agreed to have a general survey of it again. They
employed Belford Bonham, of Cumberland county, who is
considered one of the most correct surve3^ors in this part of the
State. The number of acres that Belford made of tlie meadow
was about the same tliat Richard Tindell surveyed one hundred
and eighty years ago,it being 560 acres. After the death of these
two eminent men, Novell and Tindall, James Logan, the faithful
secretar}'' of William Penn, took upon himself the task of dis-
posing the lands that belonged to the proprietor witliin the
l)oundaries of Fenwick's tenth. He accordingly appointed
Benjamin Acton, Jr., to be his surveyor. The said Benjamin
Acton resided in Salem, on the property formerly belonging to
306 WHITTAN FAMILY.
his fatlier. The property was on East Broadway, opposite
Johnson street. Benjamin Acton, Jr., built a hirge brick house
on the lot of ground in 1T27. The foundation is still remaining.
George Ramsey rebuilt it a few years ago.
After somewhat of a digression, I now come back to the
Whittan family again in 17i2. James Logan gave an order to
Benjamin Acton to survey 100 acres of meadow for James
Whittan, the said marsh being over the creek, opposite said
Whittan's plantation, for which he paid £20 pounds, new cur-
rency. James Whittan, I think died in 1730, leaving his estate
to his daughter, Ann Whittan. She married Benjamin Cripps,
and their son, Whittan Cripps, became the owner of the real
estate of his mother, Martha Huddy.
William Cripps married and had two children — Benjamin
and Mary. Mary married Peter Andrews. He was a native
of Egg ilarbor. Soon after their marriage they purchased a
farm of Robert Johnson, Ijeiug part of the Pledger property in
Mannington. Clark Lippincott is tlie present owner. On that
farm Peter and his wife resided. Whilst they lived they had
four children. Their names were Clara, Martha, Isaac and
Thomas Andrews. After the death of Peter Andrews his widow
and daughter, Clara, lived in Salem. Both of them died there
at an advanced age. Martha Andrews' husband was William
Shourds. They left four children — Rachel, Mary, Benjamin
and William Shourds. They all reside in Philadelphia except
Racliel, her home is in Mount Holly. Isaac married the daugh-
ter of John AVoodside, of Mannington. They subsequently
removed to the State of New York, near Rochester. Thomas
Andrews, likewise, went to the same neighborhood with his
brother. He, I believe, studied law, and afterward located liim-
self and family in the State of Micliigan. Whittan Cripps was
considered above mediocrity as to his native talent. At the
l)reaking out of the war of the American Revolution he left the
Society of Friends, of which he was born a member, and devoted
all his energies in assisting to carry it on in this part of the
county, and at the close of the Revolution he became an active
politician as a member of the Republican party as it was tlien
called, but afterwards known as Jeffersonian Democrats and
was considered to be the leader of that party in this county.
He was elected two or three times in succession to the office of
Sheriff, During his last term of office a law was passed by the
Legislature of this State, prohibiting any person holding the
office of Slicriff more than one term in succession, and his son,
Benjamin Cripps, was chosen Sheriff at the next election.
WHITTAN FAMILY- 36T
According to the accounts we have, men were much more
easily excited in politics the latter part of the last century, dur-
ing the organization of the government, and party feeling was
more acrimonious than it has been since. It was during one of
the strongly contested elections, Jacob Ilufty was a candidate
for the office of Sheriff on the Republican side. A person on
the opposite side of politics being at the polls at the time of
voting, asked what Mr. Hufty done with his broad-axe, he being
a ship carpenter. Whittan Cripps, who was within hearing,
quickly said that Hufty had buried it under the walls of Quebec,
where such a coward as you dare not show his head. After
Whittan's death the property in Mannington was left to his son,
and he, not having the management of his father, became intox-
icated with politics, neglected his business, and it is said, became
involved in debt, and that fine estate was put in market. John
Denn that time followed his trade in Salem, he being a luitter.
By industry and frugality he had accumulated a sufficient
amount of money to warrant him in l)uying it and in a few
years he had the property paid for. He was likewise one of
the best meadow men that was ever in this count3^
Nathaniel and his wife, Grace Cripps, came to America in
1678, and settled in Burlington county. By tradition he was
the founder of Mount Holly. Nathaniel and Grace Cripps liad
six children — John, Benjamin, Samuel, Virginia, Theophla and
Hannah Ann Cripps. John, the eldest son, married Mary
Eves, of Haddonfield. Benjamin, the second son, married
Mary Hough ; their children were Whittan, who in 1759 mar-
ried Martha Huddy ; John, their second son, died a minor ;
Hannah married Samuel Mason, of Mannington, in 1756, son
of Thomas Mason, of the same place. Whittan Cripps and his
wife settled on tlie landed estate of his great-uncle, James Whit-
tan, in Lower Mannington, Salem county. He and his wife
had two children — Benjamin and Mary Cripps. Benjamin
married the daughter of Peter Carney, of Upper Penn's Neck,
and Mary married Peter Andrews, a native of Egg Harbor.
WOODNUTT FAMILY.
Richard Woodnutt, the lirst one of the family of whom
there is any record, came from Engh^nd about 1690. It is
supposed he first settled in Philadelphia, but in 1695 it appears
he located at Salem. lie was a bricklayer by occupation, and
was a member of the Society of Friends, and a man of consid-
erable means. He paid $75 towards erecting the first brick
meeting house in West Jersey, which was built on the Nicholson
lot on VV^est Broadway, in Salem. Most probaljly he was the
master brick-layer of the said building. He came into posses-
sion of a large tract of land in Mannington, being part of John
Pledger's allotment, by marriage or purchase, I think in 1696.
Fie married Mary Pledger, some antiquarians think, but there
is no record of his having done so ; the names of his children,
however, seem to indicate it. Richard Woodnutt and his wife
Mary had four children. Joseph, the eldest son, was born 5th
of 7th month, 1697 ; Richard was born 22d of 12th month;
1700 ; Grace in 1703, and Sarah in 1708. Joseph in 1722
married Rachel Craven, and they commenced life on his patri-
monial estate in Mannington, near the town of Salem. Most
of said estate is owned at the present time by Ricliard Wood-
nutt, of Salem, he being the sixth generation from the first
emigrant of that name. The old mansion house was burned
down upward of fifty years ago,while in tenure of James Elliott.
Joseph and his wife Rachel had five cliildren — Thomas was
born in 1724, Mary in 1727, Hannah in 1730, Richard in 1732,
and Joseph in 1735. Thomas died a young man, unmarried.
Mary married Elisha, son of Elisha and Abigail Davis Bassett,
of Pilesgrove. Elisha and his wife Mary had six children —
tlieir eldest son, Joseph Bassett, died in infancy ; Rachel, their
eldest daughter, died a young woman, unmarried ; Sarah Bas-
sett was born lOtli of 8th month, 1759. She subsequently
married Joseph Petitt in 1779, and her children were Wood-
nutt, Rachel, David, Jonatlum, Thomas and Mary. Hannali,
daughter of Elisha and Mary Bassett, born in 1762, married
John Roberts, near Haddonfield, and had two children — Benja-
AvooDNurr family. 369
m'n and David Roberts. Joseph Bassett, 2d, born 26th of 6th
montli, 1755, married Mar}^, the daughter of David and Ee-
becca Allen. By that nnion there were nine children — Elisha,
Joseph, David, Hannah, Rebecca, Samuel, Renjamin, William
and Mary. Joseph and his wife lived above the age that is
alloted to man, he being more than four-score at the time of his
death. He was one of the most successful agriculturalists that
Salem county ever produced. David Bassett, his brother, died
a young man, unmarried.
Hannah, the youngest daughter of Joseph and Rachel Wood-
nutt, born in 1T29 married Samuel Hedge, 5th. They had four
children — Rebecca born in 1751 ; Mary born in 1753 (she died
a young woman unmarried in 1775) ; Samuel, born in 1775, and
Joseph in 1758. Neither of the sons married, and both died in
1797, in the old Hedge house on Broadway street, in the town
of Salem. Their great landed estate fell to their sister Rebecca,
who was at that time the wife of Thomas Thompson, the son of
Thomas Thompson, and grandson of Andrew Thompson, the
emigrant, of Elsinborough. The children of Thomas and his
wife Rebecca were noticed in the genealogy of the Hedge and
Fenwick families.
Richard Woodnutt, the son of Joseph, married Elizabeth,
daughter of William Hall, Jr., of Mannington. Richard died
when he was about twenty-eight years of age, leaving one dauo-h-
ter — Elizabeth, who married William Goodwin, Jr., of Elsin-
borough, the youngest son of William and Mary Morris Good-
win. By that union there were six daughters — Prudence, Mary,
Rachel, Sarah, Elizabeth and Abigail. Their genealogy has
been traced with the Goodwin family. EHzabeth's second hus-
band was Thomas Clement. Joseph, the youngest child of Jo-
seph and Rachel Woodnutt, was born in 1735. I think he died,
leaving no issue. The second husband of Rachel Woodnutt,
the widow of Joseph, was Daniel Garrison. Grace and Sarali,
daughters of Richard and Sarah Woodnutt, I think died unmar-
ried.
Woodnutt, the eldest son of Joseph and Sarah B. Pettit, mar-
ried Sarah Jess; they had ten children — Rachel, Hannah,
David, Joseph, Samuel, Samuel C, Ann, James, Ruth and
Sarah. Rachel married William G. Beesley, who has been
deceased more than thirty years, leaving no issue. Ilaimali
married David Bassett ; she is deceased, and left no issue.
David Pettit's wife is Martha B. Engle ; their children are
Mary, Woodnutt, William, Franklin, Hannah and David.
Joseph Pettit, son of Woodnutt, married Caroline, daughter of
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370 'vvooDaNuxr family.
Aaron Panooast, Thej liave four sons — George, Charles
Eliu and Joseph. Samuel Pettit died young ; Sanniel C. died
a young man ; Anna married Eliu Roberts, of Philadelphia,
and had three children — Woodnutt, Charles and Hannah Rob-
erts. James Pettit married Elizabeth W. Ilidgway. Tiieir
children are Clarkson, Puth and Dillwyn. Ruth died a young
woman. Sarah, the youngest child of "Woodnutt and Sarah
Pettit, married Edward P., son of David and Hannah Cooper,
of Woodbury. They have three sons — David, Courtlandt and
William. Rachel, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Pettit,
married Benjamin Hewitt ; she died young, and I think she
left no issue. David Pettit, son of Joseph and Sarah, died a
young man, unmarried. Jonathan Pettit married Ann, daugh-
ter of George Woolly, of Philadelphia ; her children were
Charles, Charlotte, Huldah, Lewis, Sarah Ann and Jonathan.
Thomas, the youngest son of Joseph and Sarah Pettit, died
young. Mary Pettit, their youngest daughter, married Nehe-
iniah Hogbin, and had one son, Charles Hogbin, now deceased.
The mother of Joseph Pettit, father of Woodnutt, was Mary
Shourds. Woodnutt's wife's (Sarah Jess) grandmother was
Ruth Silvers ; tlierefore Woodnutt and his wife were both
relatives of my family.
James Mason Woodnutt married Margaret Carpenter in 1776.
They had ten children — Sarah, Hannah, Thomas, Jonathan,
Preston, Elizabeth, William, Margaret, Mary and Martha. Sa-
rali, the eldest child, born 1777, died unmarried ; Hannah, born
in 1780, married Clement Acton, Sr., of Salem, being his sec-
ond wife. They had two children — Clement and Margaret
Acton. Clement went to Cincinnati many years ago and en-
gaged in the mercantile business, at the old stand of his uncle,
AVilliam Woodnutt. He married Fanny Biddle, and they have
two children — Helen and John Acton. Margaret, daughter of
Clement and Hannah W. Acton, married Dr. John Griscom, of
I'hiladelphia, son of William and Ann Griscom. They have
three children — Hannah, John and William W. Thomas Wood-
nutt was born in 178ti, and died single. Jonathan, the second
son of James and Margaret Woodnutt, l)orn 12t]i of lOtli montJi,
1784, married Mary, the daughter of William and Elizabeth
Goodwin. They had four children — Richard, William, Thomas
and Mary Woodnutt. Richard, tlieir eldest son, married Lydia,
the daughter of Clement and Sarah Hall, late of Elsinborough,
They have six children — Mary, Emily H., Sarah IL, Elizabeth
G., Mary and Richard II. Woodnutt.
William Goodwin Woodniitt, Jonathan's second son, married
WOODNUTT FAMILY. 371
Elizabeth, dangliter of Joseph and Lydia Bassett. They have
seven children — Emily C, Joseph B., Jonathan, Thomas, Anne
E., Howard C. and William A\^oodnatt. Tliomas, the youngest
son of Jonathan and Mary Woodnntt, removed to Cincinnati,
Ohio, and went into the mercantile business with his cousin,
Clement Acton. He married Hannah Morgan, a resident of
Ilichmond, Indiana, where he resides at the present time. They
have three children — Abbie, William, and Clement A. AVood-
nutt.
Mary, the daughter of Jonathan and Mary Woodnutt, mar-
ried Edward, the son of Isaac and Lucy Ann Acton. They had
four children — Walter W., Isaac Oakford, Elizabeth, and Jon-
athan Acton. Jonathan Woodnutt's second w^ife was Sarah, the
widow of Henry Dennis, (her maiden name was Goodwin, tlie
sister of his first wife). They lived together in much unity to
an advanced age, and in their death the poor and afflicted lost
kind and sympatliizing friends.
Preston, son of James M. and Margaret Woodnutt, was born
24:th of 1st month, 1787. His wife was Rachel, the daughter
of William and Elizabeth Goodwin, and a sister to his brother
Jonathan's wife. Prescott and his wife Racliel died about mid-
dle age, leaving five children — James, Elizabeth, Hannah Ann,
Edward and Pj-eston. Their eldest son, James, married Eliza-
beth, the daughter of Jolm and Margaret Denn, who were resi-
dents of Mannington. John and his wife had five children —
Charles, Henry, Franklin, Preston and Margaretta.
Charles Woodnutt, the son of James, married Mary Garret-
son. They have three children — Clifford, James and Edward.
Henry, the second son of James AVoodnutt, married Anna
Frost. They have five children — Ilannali, Thomas, Elizabetli,
Henry and Clifford. Franklin Woodnutt, the third son of
James, married Eveline Ware ; they have one daughter, Eliza-
beth. Preston and Margaret remain single. Elizabeth G.
Woodnutt, daughter of Preston and Kacliel, married Amsley,
tlie son of Benjamin Ncwlin, of Chester county, Pennsylvania.
Tliey had two children — Francis and Benjamin. Hannah A.
Woodnutt, daughter of Preston and Rachel, married Nathan
Baker ; there were two children — Mary E. and Henry Preston
Baker. I think Preston's two youngest sons, Edward and
Preston Woodnutt, remain single.
Elizabeth, the daugliter of James M. and Margaret, married
Morris, the son of Clement and Rebecca Hall, formerly of
Elsinborough. They had five children — Margaretta, James,
Franklin, Hannah and Rebecca. Marijjaretta married Joiin AV.
372 WOODNUTT FAMILY.
Ilighter, and their cliiklren were Elizabeth, James, William and
Charles. William, the son of James and Margaret Woodnutt,
was born in 1792. In early life he sold his patrimonial estate
in Mannington, and removed from his native county to Cincin-
nati, Ohio, wdiere he embarked into the mercantile business
which he pursued successfully, accumulating an ample fortune.
Some years before his death he sold out his interest in that city
to his two nephews, Clement Acton, Jr. and Thomas Woodnutt,
and ended his days in Philadelphia, leaving a large estate to be
divided among his relatives. I think he never married.
Margaret, the daughter of James M. and Margaret Wood-
nutt, born in 170-Jr, married William J., son of Isaiah Shinn,
of Pilesgrove. AVilliam and his wife had six children — Erne-
line, Joseph, Samuel, Elizabeth, Sarah and Martha. The last
mentioned cliild married Dr. Isaiah Clawson. Sarah Shinn
married Dr. Thomas Reed. Mary Woodnutt, the daughter of
James M. and Mai-garet, born in 1767, married Benjamin
Newlin, of Chester county, Pennsylvania. They had one
daughter, Martha, wlio married Thomas Travilla ; they liad one
daughter — Martha. Martlia Woodnutt, the daughter of James
M. and Margaret, born in 1799, married Joshua Reeves, the
son of Piddle Reeves, of Gloucester ; she was his second wife.
They had two children — Margaret and William Reeves. The
latter married Rutli, tlie daughter of James J. Pettit ; their
children are James P., Frank and Martha Pettit Reeves.
Ileiiry, the second son of Ridiard and Ann Wamsley Wood-
nutt, born 4th of 12th month, 173H, married Eve Wood ; they
liad three chihh-en — Ann, Margaret and Joseph Woodnutt.
Ann Woodnutt, Henry's oldest daughter, married John Wil-
liams; by that union there were six cliildren — John, Henry,
Margai-et, Josej^h, Thomas and Sarah Williauis. The first wife
(if John AVilliains, Jr., was Hester Harris; his second, Eliza-
beth Lambson ; his third, Hannah Brad way. There were
fourteen children — John, Rebecca, Elizabeth, David, Auumda,
Anne Mariaj Sarah, Margaret, Hester, Ann, William, Ciiarles,
Sarah Ann and Moses Williams. John l)y occupation was a
shoe maker ; I believe he followed it during his life in the city
of Salem, and he had an excellent reputation for integrity and
uprightness in all his transactions with his fellow men. Ilenry,
the second son of John and Ann W. Williams, was a tailor.
His wife was Rachel Hutchiuson ; their children were Wood-
nutt, Maria, Charles and Ilenry Williams. Margaret Williams,
the eldest daughter of John and Woodnutt Williams, has lived
a life of great usefulness as a faitliful and tender nurse ; she
WOODNUTT FAMILY. 373
remains single. Joseph, tbe third son of John Williams, mar-
ried Ann Welsli ; tliey liad fonr children — Sarah, Emeline,
Margaret and Tlionms Williams. Thomas Williams married
and had one child — Joseph AVilliams. Sarah AVilliams, tlieir
youngest daughter, it appears died single.
Margaret, the second daughter of Henry and Eve Woodnutt,
married Isaac Elwell ; they had two children — John and Mary
Ann Elwell. The latter subsequently married a man by the
name of Dolbow. The numerous branches of the Woodnutt
family at the present day, as far as I have the means of judging
endeavored to live so as to bring no reproacli upon their ances-
tors, and it should be the duty of the present generation to
adopt the many good, benevolent and christian acts they did in
their time, so that true civilization and Christianity jnay advance
in this and succeeding generations higher than it lias ever yet
obtained.
WOODRUFF FAMILY.
The Woodruffs are an ancient family in Worcestershire, Eng-
land. Thomas Woodruff, son of Jolin AVoodruff, was born, in
Worcestershire, about 1630, In early life he became a mem-
ber of the Society of Friends, and married Edith Wyatt, daugh-
ter of Joseph Wyatt, who located on a large tract of land, in the
township of Mannington, at the first settlement of the province.
Tliomas Woodruff and wife, soon after their marriage, removed
to London, Mdiere they had several children born, their names were
Thomas, Edith, John and Isaac Woodruff. In the year 1678,
Thomas and his wife Edith Woodruff, and their aforesaid children,
together with one man-servant, named Allen Hanway and his
sister, children of Leonard Hanway, of Weymouth, set sail for
America. They had a daughter born on the sea, named Maiy
Woodruff ; the name of the ship was Surrey, Stephen Nicliols
was the captain. They arrived at Salem in 4tli month, 1679, at
which place it is most probable, Thomas, and his wife Edith Wood-
ruff ended tlieir days. Their descendants are found in most of the
States of the Union. The family of Woodruffs is numerous in the
(u)unty of Cumberland at this time; this circumstance will jus-
tify tiie belief that some of Thomas Woodruff's sons located in
tlie Cohansey precinct, and became citizens of that part of Fen-
wick's Colony. I called a short time since to see the venerable
Daniel M. AVoodruft, (a linciil descendant of Thomas Woodruff,)
at his lioaie in Bridgeton ; although his sight was nearly gone,
on account of his great age, being nearly ninety, in other re-
spects he reta'ins his physicai and mental faculties remarkably.
He entei-ed into conversation in a lively and interesting manner,
inquiring after those with whom he was formerly acquainted,
and particularly those, of whom he formerly bought cattle,
when he followed the butchering business in the city of Bridge-
ton. He mentioned John Denn, William Carpenter, Wistars
and Bassetts ; he supposed they were all deceased. I answered
him in the alhrnuitive. He tlien said, " They were all honest
" men." Daniel at one time was Sheriff of Cumberland county,
also Clerk of the countv and Judge of the Court of Common
^VOODEUFF FAMILY. 375
Pleas, and for many years the principal auctioneer of Bridgeton
and the surrounding county. Mr. Woodruff, although not the
oldest person, is now the oldest living resident of Bridgeton.
YORKE FAMILY.
The Yorkc's spruno; from an ancient Englisli family. Thomas
Yorke was hio;h Sheriff of Emj^hind three different times in the
roit>:n of Henry the A'^IIE. Simon Yorke was horn at Calme,
in Wiltshire, EngLmd, and owned a large landed estate in that
county. He left AViltsliire soon after tlie death of Charles 1,
with the intention of leaving his native 1 md on account of t!ie
prominent part he had taken on the side of tliat unfortunate
monarch. It seems he changed liis mtention and settled at
Dover, in the county of Kent, and died tliere 2d of 3d montli
1682, aged seventy-six years, and was buried in the Church of
St. James, at Dover. He had iiv^e sons and one daughter. One
of liis sons was the fatlier of Simon Yorke, who lived at Ething,
in Derbyshire, and died 28th of Tth month, 1767, leaving issue,
the late Philip Yorke, a man not unknown to the literary world ;
he died 19th of 2d month, 1804, aged sixty-one years. He mar
ried Elizabetli, sister to Lord Brownlong, in 7th month, 1770
and had issue, Simon Yorke, formerly a member of Parliament
for Grantham. Philip the second son of Simon and Elizabeth
Yorke, born in Wiltshire in 1651, left his native place and set-
tled in the county of Kent, and there married Elizabeth Gib-
bon, a young woman of ancient family, daughter and heiress of
R. Gibbon, of Dover. Lord Chancellor Hardwick always quar-
tered the Gibbon arms, as may be seen in the middle of Temple
Hall.
Thomas Yorke arrived from England and settled in Salem as
early as 1685. In 1687 Richard Tindell received an order from
James Nevell to resurvey a tract of land containing 500 acres,
lying on Nicomer's Run, a part of Fen wick's Grove, in Man-
nington, known at that time as White's Vineyard. It was
owned by Thomas Yorke and Mary White, the faithful house-
keeper of John Fen wick. (He made an honorable mention of
her in his will, and devised to her a large landed estate). Thomas
Yorke resided in the town of Salem in 1690. I presume he
died without issue. The Yorke family, it seems, had forgotten
liim.
THOMAS JONES YORKE.
Born 1801.
TORKE FAMILY. 377
Thomas Yorke, the ancestor of the present Yorke famil)^
in the United States, came from Yorkshire, EngLmd, about
1728. He left in England a brother, two sisters, and his uncle,
Joseph Yorke, who was Lord Mayor of Dover, and ambassador
to Hague in the reign of George II. John Potts, founder of
Pottstown, Pa., married Ruth Savage. John and his wife Ruth
had three daughters — Elizabeth, Mary and Martha Potts. Eliz-
abeth, the eldest daughter, married Joseph Walker, and Mary
Potts, their second daughter married Deniah Cleaver. Thomas
Yorke, soon after he arrived in this country, went into partner-
sliip with John Potts in the iron business. In 1736 he married
Martha Potts, the youngest daughter of his partner. They had
two sons — Edward, the eldest, born 20tli of 9tli month, 1738,
died 12th of 4tli month, 1781; and Stephen, born about 1740.
Thomas Yorke's second wife was Margaret Robeson, a member
of the Robeson family of New Jersey. Secretary of Navy Robe-
son remarked recently in Salem that he could trace his family
in New Jersey for six generations. Tliomas and Margaret R.
Yorke had two sons — Andrew, who was born 26th of 11th
month, 1742, and died in 1794, and Thomas, born 16th of 11th
month, 1740. He joined the Royalists at the breaking out of
the Revolutionary war, and at its close went to England. He
Avas Mayor of Hull, England, for several years. He died with-
out issue. Thomas Yorke's third wife was Mary Robeson, a
niece of his second wife, Avho was a cousin to his Urst wife,
Martha Potts. Thomas and Mary Yorke had four children —
Robeson, Samuel, Martha and Margaret Yorke. Thomas Yorke
was Justice of the Peace in Pottstown in 1745 ; in 1747 he was
Lieutenant-Colonel in the French and Indian wars, and in 1757
and 1758 he represented Berks county, Pennsylvania, in the
Provincial Assembly. A short time afterwards he removed to
Philadelphia, and was appointed Judge of the Courts by the
crown of England.
Edward, the eldest son of Thomas and Martha P. Yorke,
l)orn about 1738, married Sarah Stille, and had nine children —
Thomas, Eliza, Stille, Stephen, Gustavus, Samuel, Peter, Mar-
tha and Edward Yorke. Thomas, the eldest son, died a young
man, single. Eliza, the eldest daughter, married a man by the
name of Cole ; they had one daughter, Eliza Cole, who died
without issue. Eliza's second husband's name was Farquhar,
and they had issue — Isabel, George, Emma (who married An-
drew Jackson Donaldson) and Edward Farquhar. Samuel, the
son of Edward and Sarah S. Yorke, married Mary Lippincott;
their children were Peter, Edward (who married Sarah Ilawn,
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378 YORKE FAMILY.
of Louisiana), Samuel and William (who married Mary Mur-
Peter, the sou of Edward and Sarah lorke, married Sarali
Haines ; they had issue, three children — Marian, Sarah and
Jane. Marian married an Adams. Sarah's hushand was An-
drew Donaldson Jackson, the adopted son of General Andrew
Jackson, and now resides at the " Hermitage," Tennessee. —
Their issue was Rachel Jackson, who married Dr. Canrum, of
Tennessee; they had issue — Andrew Jackson and Sanniel
Wetherill Jackson Canrum. Jane was married twice ; her lirst
husband |was S. M. AVetherill, and her second husband's name
was Taggart. Marian Yorke and Adams had one son —
John Adams. Jane Yorke, by her first husband, S. M. Weth-
erill, had five children — Ellen, Jane, Alfred, Sarah and Martha
Wetherill ; and by her second husband, Taggart, she had
two children — Edward and Rebecca Taggart.
Martha Yorke, the daughter of Edward and Sarali Stillc,
married Mordica Wetherill ; they had one son, Samuel M.
Wetherill, who married Jane Yorke, as before stated. Stephen
Yorke died single.
Andrew Yorke, the second son of Thomas and Margaret
Robeson Yorke, born in the city of Philadelphia 26tli of lltli
month, 1742, came to Salem in 1773, and lived and kept store
in the old brick building which is still standing at the corner of
Yorke and Magnolia streets. His wife was Eleanor Coxe, of
Manayunk, Pennsylvania. Their issue was Andrew, Eleanor,
Martha, Lewis and Thomas Yorke. At the commencement of
the Revolutionary war, Andrew took an active part in favor of
the Colonies, and was an aid to General Newcomb in the
Revolutionary Army. Andrew died at Salem, New Jersey, in
1794, and was buried at St. John's Episcopal church-yard in
that city. His son, Andrew Yorke, Jr., died M'ithout issue.
Eleanor, the daughter of Andrew and Eleanor C. Yorke, mar-
ried John, the son of William and Sarah Thompson Hancock,
of Hancock's Bridge. They had six children — William, Sarali,
Henrietta, Thomas Yorke, Maria and Caroline Hancock.
William, their son, died young. Eleanor Y., a short time
before her death, moved from Hancock's Bridge to Salem, to
reside wuth her daughter, Sarah, but died soon afterwards, and
was buried in the Episcopal grave-yard where her parents were
interred, her husband, John Hancock, having been deceased a
number of years previous. Sarali, the oldest daughter of John
and Eleanor Hancock, married Morris, the son of Thomas and
Mary Goodwin Hancock, of Elsinborougli ; they liad issue — •
YORKE FAMILY.
379
Morris, Eleanor, Mary, Sarah, John and Henrietta Hancock.
Eleanor, the eldest daughter, married Daniel Stratton, a Pres-
byterian clergyman, and a native of Bridgeton ; they had issue
— Morris H. and Daniel P. Stratton. The latter married Isa-
bella Barnes, daughter of the late Joseph Barnes, of Woods-
town, Daniel and his wife reside in the State of Missouri.
They have issue — Eleanor H. and Rebecca Stratton. Mary,
the daughter of Morris and Sarah Hancock, married Tliomas
Sinnickson Smith, son of John and Mary Smith, of Salem ;
they have two children — Maria and Thomas S. Smith. The
latter is a lawyer and resides in Salem. Maria, their daughter,
married Constant M. Eakin ; they have issue — Eleanor Y. and
Constance Eakin. Sarah, the daughter of Morris and Sarah
Hancock, married Dr. Quinton Gibbon, of Salem ; they have
issue — Henrietta Gibbon.
Henrietta, the daughter of John and Eleanor Hancock, mar-
ried Lewis P. Smith, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania ; they had
four children — Henry, Louisa, Genovie (who is now deceased)
and Sarah M. Smith. The latter married Clement Hall Sin-
nickson. He is a lawyer, and has an extensive practice in
Salem. He was elected to Congress from the First District of
New Jersey in 1874, Clement and his wife had issue — M. L.
Sinnickson, deceased. Thomas Y., second son of John and
Eleanor Hancock, married Bachel, daughter of William and
Elizabeth Thompson Nicholson, formerly of Manniugton.
Rachel's mother was a first cousin of Thomas Y. Hancock's
father, Jolm Hancock ; they had issue — Elizabeth, Ellen, Wil-
liam, Cornelia and Thomas Hancock.
Eliza])eth, daughter of Tliomas Y. and Racliel Hancock, was
twice married ; her first husband was David, the -son of Andrew
and Hannah Streteli Smith, of Elsinborough. David and
Elizabeth Smith had issue — Morris and Sarah M. Smith. Mor-
ris died young, and Sarali married Nathan, the son of Belford
M. Bonliam, of Cumberland county, Elizabeth H. Smith's
second husband was Sanniel, the son of AYilliam and Ann
Fowser. Elizabeth has been deceased several years. Ellen,
the second daughter of Thomas Y. and Racliel Hancock, mar-
ried Dr. Henry Childs, the son of John and Rachel Childs, of
Pliiladelphia, They have three sons — William, Edward and
Thomas. William, the son of Thomas Y. and Rachel Han-
cock, married Beulah, the daughter of William and Ann Fow-
ser ; they have issue — Anna F. and Ellen M. Hancock, Cor-
nelia, daughter of Thomas Y. and Rachel Hancock, has great
energy of character. During the recent rebellion, directly after
380 YORKB FAMILY
the battle of Gettysburg, she hastened there, and rendered great
assistance in caring for the sick and wounded in tlie hospitals.
She continued in the army hospital until the final overthrow of
the rebellion, after which event she volunteered in the praise-
worthy undertaking of teaching school for colored children,
near Charleston, South Carolina, where she is still in the same
employment. Thomas, the youngest son of Thomas Y. and
Rachel Hancock, was drowned wliilst bathing in Alloways
^ creek, when he was about seven or eight years old. Maria,
daugliter of John and Eleanor Hancock, married Richard P.,
tlie eldest son of Hedge and Mary Ann Parrott Thompson ;
they had issue — Isabella Thompson.
Louis Yorke, second son of Andrew and Eleanor C. Yorke,
married Mary, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Jones, of
Salem. Tliomas was of those men that made his own fortune,
beginning with small means at his disposal, by industry and
close application to his business acquired a competency ; lived
to an advanced age, and was greatly respected by his fellow citi-
zens. Louis and his wife, Mary J. Yorke, left Salem soon after
their marriage and located in the village of Hancock's Bridge.
Louis kept store with Lewis Paullin as partner in J olm Hancock's
store house, near the bridge, now occupied by Carll & Brother.
Louis and his wife had issue — Andrew, Thomas Jones and Louis
S. Yorke. TJieir father died in Pliiladelpliia in 1809, and was
l)uried in Christ Church burying ground in that city. Andrew,
tlie eldest son of Louis and Mary Yorke, died young. Their
second son, Thomas J. Yorke, was twice married. His first
wife was Mary, the daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Smith,
of Bucks county, Pennsyh^ania. Mary died a young woman,
leaving one son; — Louis Eugene Yorke. Tlie second wife of
Thomas J. Yorke was Margaret Johnson Sinnickson, daughtei'
of Thomas and Elizabeth Jacobs Sinnickson. She was from
Chester count}', Pennsylvania, and her pai-ents were consistent
members of the Society of Friends, descendants of the Jacobs'
and Brinton's being among the first Quaker families of Chester
county. Thomas and his wife, Margaret J. Yorke, have issue —
Mary A., Elizabeth S., Thomas J., Jr., Margaret and Caroline
P. Yorke. The eldest daughter, Mary A., married DeWitt
Clinton Clement, son of Samuel and Eliza H. Clement; they
have issue, one daughter — Eliza H. Clement. Margaret J.
Yorke married Dr. J. B. Parker, a surgeon in the United States
Navy, and their issue is Mary S. Parker. Caroline P. Yorke
married William F. Allen, editor of the " Travelers' Official
Guide ," their issue is Yorke and Frederica W. Allen.
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Thomas J. Yorke, early in life, went in the store of his grand-
father, Tlioraas Jones, in Salem. In 1817 he removed to Phil-
adelphia, and was clerk in one of the dry goods stores nntil
1821, when he returned to Salem and enfered into the mercan-
tile business with his uncle, Thomas Jones, Jr., in the same
store house that his grand-father, Thomas Jones, formerly
occupied. It is now known as the Star Corner building, corner
of Market and Broadway streets. The building is one of the
oldest store houses in the city of Salem. It was built by Wil-
liam Cattell, and his son, Elijali Cattell, occupied it as a store
during the greater part of his life, and soon after his death it
was sold to that eminent philanthropist, Isaac Moss, who, in a
short time afterwards, conveyed it to TJiomas Jones, Sr.
Thomas Jones Yorke continued in business with his uncle until
1847. He was elected a member of the State Legislature in
1835, and in the succeeding year he was elected to Congress,
taking his seat in 1837, and continued a member of that body
up to 1843. In the year 1853 he was elected a Director and
Secretary and Treasurer of the West Jersey Railroad Company,
which offices he held until 1866, when he was elected President
and continued in tliat position until 2d month, 1875, when, on
account of his failing physical strength, which is incident to old
age, he resigned the office. The Company, however, retained
him as one of its Directors. His eldest son, Louis Eugene
Yorke possessed more than ordinary abilities. He was educated
as a civil engineer at tlie Renselar Institute, in the State of
New York, and early in life he entered tiie service of the Penn-
sylvania Railroad Company, and assisted to locate tlie tunnel
tlii-ough tlie Alk'ghaney mountains. He was a resident engineer
of tlie Memphis and Charleston Railroad, and soon jiftcrward
was employed with the Iloboken Land Improvement Company,
and also had cliai-ge of the Bergen tunnel in 1860. At the
breaking out of the war of the rebellion the martial spirit he
had inherited from his ancestors was aroused, and in 1861 ho
entered the army as a private in the Seventh Regiment of the
New York Volunteers. By his great energy and bravery he
was soon promoted to Captain in the Fourteenth Regiment of
the Regular Army. He was on General Sherman's staff, and
later, chief officer to General Logan. He was wounded at
Arkansas Point, and made the march with General Sherman
from Atlanta to the sea. He resigned at the close of the war
with a commission as Brevet-Colonel in the Regular Army.
His wife was Mary Miller, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Eugene died
in that city in 7th month, 1873, aged forty- one years. Thomas
382 YORKE FAMILY.
Jones Yorke, Jr., second son of Thomas J. Yorke, by his second
wife, Margaret J. Sinnickson, assisted his father several years
in the Raih-oad Company, and was appointed Secretary and
Treasurer of the West Jersey Marl Company. He subsequently
entered into the coal business with his uncles, John and Charles
Sinnickson, in the city of Philadelphia, under the firm name of
Sinnickson & Co. Louis S. Yorke, the third son of Louis and
Mary Yorke, married Adelaide Patton, of Philadelphia ; their
issue was two sons and one daughter — Patton Jones, Louis A.
and Adelaide P. Yorke. Patton J. Yorke, their eldest son,
married Rebecca Coleman, of Louisana ; tlieir issue is Catharine
C. and Louis S. Yorke. His second wife w^as Lizzie Little, of
Albany, New York. Louis A., second son of Louis and
Adelaide Yorke, mai-ried Emma M., daughter of Robert Smith,
Esq., of Philadelphia.
Adelaide, tlie daughter of Louis and Adelaide P. Yorke, mar-
ried Charles King, of the United States Navy ; they have one
daughter — Adelaide King. Louis S. Yorke, the son of Louis
and Mary Yorke, in early life had an inclination to follow the
sea. Accordingly in 1818 his first voyage was in a brig, com-
manded by Captain Wood house, of the United States Navy,
from Philadelpliia to Rio Janeiro and the river La Platte, in
South America. Afterwards he made frequent voyages to
Monte Yidoe and Buenos Ayres as mate and master. After-
wards at different times he commanded several large ships in
the European and East Indian trade, going to India by tlie Cape
of Good Hope and returning through the Pacific by the way of
Cape Horn. He returned from the sea a number of years ago,
and resided in Salem and Philadelphia. When the war of re-
bullion broke out, he again went to sea and entered the United
States Navy as paymaster. At the end of the war he went to
Louisiana to reside with his eldest son, Patton. Patton Jones
Yorke, his eldest son, entered the service of the United States
as a volunteer before he was twenty-one years of age. He con-
tinued in the army through the war, and was promoted to Co-
lonel of the Second Regiment of New Jersey Cavalry. After the
war he married Rebecca Coleman, of Carroll Parish, Louisiana,
and there he settled. He has been several times a member of
tlie Legislature of his adopted State, and is a member of that
body at the present time. Louis A., the se(M)ud son of Louis A.,
and Adelaide Yorke, is paymaster in the United States Navy,
and is now in the East India squadron.
Thomas, the third son of Andrew and Eleanor Coxe Yorke,
was born at Saloni. When young ho went to Philadelphia in
YOKKE FAMILY. 383
the dry goods store of M. Plerbenton, in Soutli Second street.
In the war of 1812 lie joined the privateer Shadow as purser,
the ship being commanded by liis rehitive, Captain Taylor. When
the war was ended Thomas traded to the West Indies as captain
of a merchant vessel. lie afterwards went into the European
and East India trade as captain of a merchantman, and contin-
ued in that business a number of voyages. When he left the
sea he came back to his native county, and made his home with
his sister, Eleanor Hancock, at Hancock's Bridge. He lived
but a short time afterwards, and was buried in the Episcopal
church yard at Salem. Nature had done much for Thomas
Yorke. He was blessed with good abilities and above the ave-
rage of mankind, was prepossessing in looks, and dignified in
his manners and address — the latter being characteristics of the
Yorke family.
Martha, the second daughter of Andrew and Eleanor C.
Yorke, soon after her father's death, removed from Salera to
Hancock's Bridge, and resided at the latter place most of her
life. I think she never married.
The third wife of Thomas Yorke, the emigrant, was Mary
Robeson, as before mentioned ; they had four children. Their
eldest son, Robeson Yorke, died without issue. Their second
son, Samuel, married Tabitha Keen, of Dover, Delaware, and
had issue, Thomas Yorke, who married a young woman by the
name of Cox, by whom he had five children — Mary, Samuel,
Anna, Emma and AVilliam Yorke. Martha, the daughter of
Thomas and Mary Robeson Yorke, married James Humphreys ;
they had issue. Susan Humphreys, their eldest daughter, died
without issue. Their son, James Y, Humphreys, married
Louisa McAuley, and had one daughter — Sarah Humphreys.
Mary Y. Humphreys married Captain Graham, by whom she
had one child, Ella, who married John Armstrong, and had
issue — Mary Armstrong. Lewis Yorke Humphreys died
without issue. His sister, Martha Y. Humphreys, married
a man by the name of Madara ; they had issue, one child — Mary
Madara.
Margaret, the youngest daughter of Thomas and Mary R.
Yorke, married Ludwig Sprogell, and had issue. John, their
eldest son, died single. Their daughter, Mary Sprogell, died
young. Louis Sprogell was Captain in the United States
Army. Thomas Sprogell mari'ied Mary Stretch, and had issue.
Georgianna, their daughter, married Dr. J. Peaco, of the
United States Navy ; they had children. Their eldest son,
John Peaco, died young, and their daughter, Virginia Peaco,
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married Dr. J. Henderson, of the United States Navy. Dr. J.
Henderson and his wife, Vir-inia P. had six clnldren— John
Aiio-ustus, George, Virginia Mary, Sylvanus and Carohne.
LOCKE AND KOCKE FAMILIES.
There have been many of the African race born and raised in
Fenwick's Colony, that have shown considerable mental intel-
lect. Among tliose, tliere were two young men in modern times,
who grew up among us, manifesting uncommon abilities, con-
sidering their opportunity. Ishmael Locke was one of them ;
being born of poor parentage he was bound out to John Bal-
linger, a farmer residing in Upper Alloways Creek, near Quin-
ton's Bridge. Ishmael was sent occasionally to a common coun-
try school, during the winter season, but even with that limited
opportunity, he applied himself closely to his studies. Being
an excellent and careful workman, as a farm laborer, he found
no difficulty in procuring good places, and likewise the highest
wages. Soon after he arrived at the age of twenty-one, he hired
with the late William Carpenter, of Elsinborough, at which
place he continued several years ; by his orderly conduct and
close attention to business, he endeared himself to the family,
always studying in his leisui-e hours. Upon leaving Elsinbo-
rough, he taught* the colored school at Salem for some time.
From Salem, he went to Camden, and there taught the colored
school. Subsequently he went to Liberia for the purpose of
educating his race in that distant land. The climate was not
congenial to his health, and he returned to the United States,
after being absent a few years; he again opened a school in
Camden, but his health being much impaired whilst in Liberia,
he did not live long after his return. As a mathematician he
was seldom equalled by any one that was ever raised in Salem
county, and in the otlier branches of learning, there were very
few his superiors. His application was wonderful. The late
Richard P. Thompson, when he was State Attorney, remarked
to me once — " If 1 had wdien young, the indomitable application
" that Locke possessed, it would have been incalculable advantage
" to me in my profession."
John Rocke, Jr., possessed a fine intellect. He was born in
Elsinborough. His father, Jolm Rocke, was a good citizen and
an honest laborer. He luid a natural tuj-n for reading, and
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386 LOCKE AND ROCKE FAMILIES.
was above the ordinary men of his race in intelHgence. His
wife was Maria "Willetts. The Willetts were formerly slaves
to one of the ancient Quaker families in this county. Their
son, the subject of this sketch, showed in early life a thirst for
knowledge, and was by nature an elocutionist, being very fond
of reading. His parents, though poor, gave him every oppor-
tunity in their power for an education ; but as soon as he was
able to work he labored for a livelihood among the farmers in
his neighborhood, but when an opportunity afforded he was
always found endeavoring to improve his mind by reading and
also in mathematics. "When Ishmael Locke left the colored
scliool at Salem, John Locke, Jr., succeeded as a teacher. He
remained in that situation a few years, and then left his native
county and State, and went to Boston, Massachusetts. In a
short time after that event he studied medicine wdth one of the
noted physicians of that city. After due course of study he
received his diploma. There was a disease lurking about him,
for which he had to undergo a surgical operation, but without
success. He was induced by Charles Sumner to go to Paris,
to the celebrated surgeon that had operated on him a short time
previous with such good results. He accordingly went and was
operated upon. Rocke informed the writer, after his return to
this country, when on a visit to his parents, that the surgeon
told him "he liad better turn his attention to some other call-
" ing, that his physical disease was against his being a prac-
" titioner in medicine." He studied Law, and was admitted to
practice some two or three years afterward. He was a pleasing
and interesting speaker ; his oratory was not declamatory. He
showed great learning in his speeches, was cool and deliberate
in his address, so much so, that he attracted the attention of the
lawyers of his adopted city. He was a great favorite of the
eminent statesman, Charles Sumner, to such an extent, that by
his intercession he was admitted to practice in the United States
Courts, thereby being the first of his race that ever received such
a distinguished honor. Througli all his high attainments, he
was not unmindful of filial duties. He employed in Salem
county an agent, and furnished him funds to assist his parents
in procuring tlie necessaries of life. Soon after the death of liis
aged father, he took his mother to Boston with him, and main-
tained her in a comfortable manner, until lier death. He sur-
vived her but a few years, being a victim of !hat insidious
disease, pulmonary consumption. He was a credit to his race,
and an honor to the State and county of his birth.
:e3: z s GT o :eb ■3r
OF THK
RELIGIOUS BODIES OF FENWICK'S COLONY.
Comprising Sketches of their Places of Worsliip, and the
Lives of their most Prominent Members, carefnlly
prepared hy the Author, and arranged
in their seniority.
(88^j
FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE.
Salem, N. J. Built 1772.
FKIENDS SOCIETY.
I will endeavor to give an account of the first religious organ-
izations \vithin Fenwick's Colony, and a short notice of the con-
spicuous members of the different societies when they were
established.
The Swedes no doubt were the first, but their place of wor-
ship appears to have been at Christiana until about 1746, when
the Swedes and a few French Hugeunots, Jaquetts, Philpotts,
and others, built a church in Penn's Neck, at tlie place now
known as Church Landing. The principal families who were
members of the church were the Joansons, Wolversons, Hen-
dricksons, Tonsons, Hans Jeansons, Nielsons, Wolleysons, Sin-
nicksons, and several others. In all probability the first house
erected in West Jersey for Divine worship was at Maurice
Kiver, where there was a settlement of Swedes. Being zealous
Protestants, and a long distance from their mother church,
they built a place of worship near Mauricetown about 1640,
more than thirty years before Fenwick, with his Colony, arrived
at Elsinborough Point, which was on the 26th of 8th mouth,
1675, according to the present computation of time. Fenwick
ascended the Assamhocking up to the place where Salem
is now, and at that point of land he and the emigrants that
were with him permanently landed. Tha greater number of
the persons who accompanied him from England to his possess-
ions in New Csessaria were members of his own religious
Society.
At that place he determined to lay out a town to be the seat
of government for his colony. He named the town New Salem,
as he observed the name signified Peace. He chose from the
number of emigrants Richard Noble as his Surveyor General,
and directed him to lay out a street ninety feet in width from
the creek, which lie named Salem, to run in a south-eastern
course. The street was called Wharf street, but afterwards
called Bradway street, and at the present time it is known as
Broadway street. There was another street laid out start-
ing from Fenwick creek, a branch of tlie Salem creek, also to
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be ninety feet wide, until it reached the town marsh, but for
some reason it was nev^er opened further than Bradway street.
It was tlien called Bi-idge street, but is now known ae Market
street. Probably the cause tluit Fenwick's plans were not car-
ried out, is that he died at an early date of the history of
Salem, and left the direction of the improvement of the town
to his favorite son-in-law, Samuel Hedge, particularly respect-
ing the streets. He died in a few y«ars after the dettth of Fen-
wick (which event took place in the year 1693) before he could
consummate tlie proprietor's plans upon these two ipain streets.
The emigrants first settled upon Wharf street, where the first
religious organization took place of the English Colonies in
West New Jersey.
Samuel Nicholson, one of the wealthiest emigrants who
arrived with John Fenwick, and his wife, Ann Nicholson, with
their five children, came from Northamptonshire, England.
Soon after their arrival he purchased a lot on Wharf street
containing 16 acres, also a tract of land in Elsinborough con-
taining 2,000 acres, and built himself a house on his lot in
Salem, principally of liewn logs. At his house, in 1676, the
first religious organization in Fenwick's Colony took place, and
it is interesting to examine the records of that early time to see
the difficulty which the Friends had to find a permanent place
for public worship. On 2d of 4th montli, 1979, Richard Guy,
Edward Bradway, Isaac Smart and Edward Wade were ap-
pointed to select a place for a meeting house and burying
ground. It appears they were not successful, and at a meeting
held 5th of 11th month, 1679, Edward Wade, James Nevell,
John Maddox and George Deacon were appointed to treat with
Samuel Nicholson and William Penton for their houses and
plantations in Salem, and also to see Ann Salter, widov of
Henry Salter, about her lot of ground.
At a meeting held in 12tli month, 1679, George Deacon,
John Maddox and Henry Jennings were appointed to take a
view of Edward Bradway's house, and see whether it was
suitable for a meeting house. A minute was made at that
tune fixing upon the 1st and 4th days of the week for religious
worship, tlie meetings to be held first at Samuel Nicholson's,
next at Robert Zane's, and next at Richard Guy's housb.
In the 9th month, 1680, there was another commfttee ap-
pointed to endeavor to pwrchase a lot of ground of Edward
Champney to build a meeting house upon and for a burying
ground. They did not succeed in getting a lot to suit Dliem,
and finally in 1681, in the 6tli montli, Samuel Nidioleon and
FRIENDS' GRAVE YARD.
Salem, N. J. First used in 1681.
FKIBNDS SOCIETY. 398
his wife Ann deeded tlie whole of tlie 16 acres of land
situated on Bradway street, in Salem, for the use and benefit of
Salem Monthly Meeting forever, for a meeting house and grave
yard and other purposes. As soon as the deed was given,
John Thompson, of Elsinborough, and Robert Zane, of Salem,
were appointed by the meeting to repair the house, and get it
fit for Friends to meet in. About a year afterwards the same
persons were directed to enlarge the meeting house by adding
sixteen feet in length, and height equal to the old frame build-
ing, with a chimney and a pair of stairs. For some reason this
was not done until tlie next year, in 1683, at which time Ben-
jamin Acton was employed to build the addition. There was
a proposition to have the floors of the house made of boards,
but that failed, and on 27th of 12th month, 1687, Benjamin
Acton and Thomas Wood were appointed to have the old and
new house floored with a good clay floor, and have it ready
before the Yearly Meeting should convene.
The first Yearly Meeting was held at Salem 15th of 2d
month, 1684, and included the Friends of Haddonfield and
Burlington. It was held at Salem and Burlington alternately,
and was known as the Half Yearly Meeting. These meetings
were continued several years.
At the Yearly Meeting held at Salem in the 2d month, from
the 27th to the 31st, 1693, George Keith appeared with his
friends and laid before the meeting their proposals for the
settlement of tlie differences among them. These were in the
shape of several propositions covering the points at issue, and
discussing the reasons for their adoption, which led to much
controversy, and final separation of many members from the
Society. These proposals were signed by Jeremiah Colbert,
John Penrose, Nathaniel Sykes, Anthony Taylor, Samuel
Cooper, Isaac Tause, James Shattock, Samuel Adams, George
Keith, Thomas Budd, Henry Furness, Nicholas Pierce, Thomas
Withers, Andrew Griscom, and others. Thomas Sharp, member
of Newton Meeting, was Clerk of the Yearly Meeting at that
time. The Friends who adhered to George Keith, had great
influence in the Society, and most of them after Keith returned
to England became members of the Baptist Church. Andrew
Griscom became reconciled with his former friends, and died a
member of the Society, and many of his descendants have
been active and useful membersthereof.
The account I have of George Keith fully proves that he
possessed an uncommon intellect, was a forcible writer, and a
pleasing and interesting speaker. The nature of the proposition
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394 FBIENDS SOCIETT,
that lie and liis followers offered to the Yearly Meeting at
Salem, I have never fully understood, but it appears there was
no fault found of church discipline, the matter of dispute
beino- on religious dogmas. Keith advocated his peculiar views
so ably that lie drew forth the ablest minds in the Society
of Friends in England and in this country'- to confute his views.
After his return to his native land he joined the Chur(;li of
England.
Among the early Friends of Salem, William Cooper was
was quite prominent for a young man. lie and his father,
William Cooper, emigrated to America about the year 1678,
the father settling in Burlington county, wdiilst the son located
at Salem, and followed his trade, which was that of a blacksmith.
In the year 16S2 he married Mary, the eldest daughter of Ed-
ward and Mary Bradway, and had three children — John, Han-
nah and Mary Cooper. As near as can be ascertained, William
and his family left Salem in 1688 and purchased land where
Camden is now located, and resided there imtil his death, which
took place in 1691. In his will he named his father, William
Cooper, and his fatlier-in-law, Edward Bradway, his executors.
John, the son of AVilliam and Mary B. Cooper, married Ann
Clark. Hannah Cooper married John Mickle. Mary Cooper,
theii' youngest daughter, married Benjamin Thackray. John
Cooper died in 1750, leaving a widow and the following named
children — James, John, David, Mary, Ann, Sarah and Hannah.
My estimable friend, Judge John Clement, of Fladdonfield, who
as a genealogist and historian has no superior in West Jersey,
informed me that one of the collateral heirs of James Fenni-
more Cooper, the celebrated novelist and publicist, recently
came from his home in New York to trace the connection of
the Cooper family of West Jersey with his family. He found
by examining the wills and deeds that his ancestor, Fennimore
Cooper, was a descendant of William and Mary Bradway Cooper.
Robert Zane, who was active in organizing the first Friends
Meeting at Salem, purchased of tlie proprietor a 16 acre lot on
Fen wick street, tlie junction with the street now known as Yorke
street, located on the west side. The old house which his son
built and occupied is still standing, and has what is called a " hip
roof," which resembles in some measure the modern French
mansard roof. Such roofs were common at that time in this
country. Kobert Zane left Salem before the year 1690, and
purchased a large tract of good land near the old Newton Meet-
ing House, bordering on Newton creek, and there he and his
wife died. Most of his landed estate is still owned by his de-
FRIElSfDS SOCIETY. 39f
scendants, particularly in the female line. A part of tlie family
remained at Salem. Robert's 2;reat-granddangliter married Lewis,
son of William and Mary Morris Goodwin, of Elsinborough,
about 1778 or 1779. There were two children — John and Su-
sanna Goodwin.
The minute of the first organized Monthly Meeting of Friends
in West Jersey, was as follows : " At a meeting held last day
" of the fifth month, 1676, it was imanimously considered that
" the first second day of tlie week in the 6th month, that Friends
" do meet in the town of New Salem, in Fenwick's Colony, and
" all Friends thereunto, do monthly meet together, to consider
" of outward circumstances, and business. And if such that has
" been convinced, and walked disorderly, tliat they may in ail
" gravity and uprightness to God, and in tenderness of spirit
" and lov^e to their souls, be admonished, exhorted, and also re-
" proved, and tlieir evil deeds and practices testified against in
" the wisdom of God, and in the authority of truth, that may
"answer the witness of God within them. • Signed,
" Samuel IsTicholson,
" ROBEET ZaJSTES,
" Robert Wade,
" Edward Wade,
"Richard Guy,
"Isaac Smart,
" John Fen wick,
" Richard Johnson",
" and others."
After Samuel Nicholson and his wife sold their Salem lands
to the Society of Friends tliey removed to Elsinborough, on
tlie 2,000 acre tract, of land that he purcliased of the pro-
prietor in 1676, and tliere ended their days. The precise time
of liis deatli is uncertain, but events which occurred soon after
indicate that it was about 1690. Tlieir eldest daughter. Para-
ble, born in England 20th of 2d month, 1659, married Abraham
Strand, at New Salem, 25th of 9th month, 1677. Joseph, their
second son, born at Northamptonshire, England, 30th of 2d
month, 1669, married a young woman at Haddonfield. At the
death of Samuel Nicholson he devised that his landed estate
in Elsinborough should be divided between his eldest son, Sam-
uel Nicholson, Jr., and his youngest son, Abel Nicholson.
Samuel Nicholson, Jr., married, and died in a short time after-
ward, leaving no issue, and he devised the whole of his real
estate to his brother, Joseph Nicholson, who resided near Had-
donfield. Joseph, in 1696, sold about one-half of it to George
396 FRIENDS SOCIETY.
Abbott, who had recently emigrated from New England. The
balance was purchased by Samuel Stebbins and John Firth.
Joseph Nicholson died in 1702, intestate, leaving but two cliil-
dren — George and Samuel. George, in 1717, married Alice
Lord. Samuel had three wives. His first wife was Sarali
Burroughs, whom he married in 1722. In 1744 he married
Jane, widow of William Albertson, and daughter of John
Engle. Their descendants are numerous in the vicinity of
Iladdonfield. Samuel Nicholson died in 1750, leaving the fol-
lowing children — Joseph, their eldest, who married Catharine
Butcher, of Burlington county, in 1738 ; Samuel, who married
Rebecca, daughter of Aaron Aaronson ; Abigail, who married
Daniel Ilillman, in 1743 (her second husband was John Gill,
whom she married in 1769) ; Hannah, wlio married John Hill-
man ; and Sarah Nicholson, who died unmarried in 1756.
Abel Nicholson died in 1761 before his first child was born.
It proved to be a son, who was named Abel, after his father,
and subsequently married Rebecca, the daughter of Isaac Ellis.
From this son sprung the immediate family of tlie name of
Nicholson in the neighborhood of Haddonfield at the present
time. Abel Nicholson, the youngest son of Samuel Nicholson,
the emigrant, was born in England 2d of 5th month, 1672, and
he resided on his estate in Elsinborough which he inherited from
his father, the greater part of liis life. He married Mary, the
daughter of William and Joanna Tyler, who was bora in Eng-
land in the 11th month, 1677. TJieir children were — Rachel,
born 7th of 7th month, 1698 ; Abel, born 13th of 1st month,
1700 ; Joseph, born 4th of 12th month, 1701 ; and William,
born 15th of 9th montli, 1703. (Tlie latter subsequently
became tlie owner of 500 acres of land in Mannington, being
part of Iledgefield.)
Ann Nicholson was born 15th of 11th month, 1707, and
married John Brick, Jr., of Gravelly Run, in the county of
Cuml)erland. Rutli was born 9th of 9th month, 1713. Samuel
was born 10th of 12th month, 1716, and he became the owner
of all his father's real estate in the township of Elsinborough.
He married Sarah Dennis, of Greenwich, in 1742. John, the
youngest child, was born 6th of 3d month, 1719, and his wife
was Jael Darkin, of Elsinborough. The descendants of Abel
Nicholson I have mentioned heretofore.
Friends of Salem continued to hold their meetings in the
house purchased of Samuel Nicholson until the year 1700, at
Avhich time they built a new brick house where the present
grave-yard is. It stood east of the oak tree. Tlie meeting
FEIEND8 SOCIETY. Z9t
increased in numbers so much that the house was not large
enougli to accommodate them, and in 1770 members of Salem
Monthly Meeting bought a lot of ground on Fenwick street, of
Thomas Hancock and Robert Johnson, and erected the present
commodious building, which was completed in 1772.
There was an "Indulge Meeting," as is known in tlie Society,
in Elsinborough as early as 1680. The house stood on the
property of Richard Darkin (Casper W. Thompson owns the
land at this time.) There was a regular meeting of Friends
held at Alloways Creek, at the house of James Denn, in 1679,
and continued until 1685.
In the year 1684 Edward Champney and Jolm Smith each
deeded half an acre of ground to Christopher White and Sam-
uel Wade — one for a meeting house and tlie other for a grave
yard. The ground was a corner of each of their lots on Mon-
mouth river. Tlie same year Salem Monthly Meeting of
Friends agreed witli Christopher to build a meeting house on
one of the said lots, the cost of the building not to exceed £40.
He was also directed to clear a road from tiie King's Highway
to the meeting house, for which he charged £10 more. In 1685
the first religious meeting was held there, and so continued
until 1718. The greater part of tlie members resided on the
south side of the creek, and there being no bridge at that
period, they were put to great inconvenience in getting to
meeting.
Joseph Ware gave the Friends a lot of ground on his planta-
tion on the south side of the creek, the deed having been given
in 1717. As soon as the meeting house was finished, the mem-
bers on the north side of Monmouth river were attaclied to
Salem Particular Meeting. The families were the Abbotts,
Stubbins, Moss and Tylers. The meeting house was abaudoned
about that time, but the grave-yard was used for a number of
years after the meetings ceased to be held at that place. The
Friends subsequently purchased a lot of ground on the south
side of the creek, near Harniersville, for a burying ground,
which has been the principal place for interment up to this
time. A number of persons, however, have been buried in the
ancient grave-yard since the members of the Society, in a meas-
ure, abandoned it ; such families as the Waddingtons, Hancocks,
Carlls, and a few others, were desirous to be lain with their
ancestors. The principal families that were members of Allo-
ways Creek Meeting at the time alluded to were the Whites,
Bradways, Denns, Wares, Chambless, Oakfords, Wades, Dan-
iels, Hancocks, Stretches, Barbers, and several others. Friends
398 FRIENDS SOCIETY.
continued to hold their meeting in the house built on the Ware
property until tlie year 1756. In 1753 William Hancock
deeded a lot of ground to the members of Alloways Creek
Particular Meeting for a meeting house, as it was a more con-
venient location. The house was built at two different periods
of time, the oldest in 1756, the new, as it is called, in 1784.
The Friends meeting at Lower Greenwich w\as established at
an early period in the settlement of the English Colony. Mark
Reeves, William Bacon, James Duncan and others, made appli-
cation to Salem Monthly Meeting in 1698 for assistance in
Iniilding a meeting house. Previous to that time meetings were
held at private houses. Members of Greenwich Meeting, with
the assistance of Salem Monthly Meeting, built a meeting house
that year. It stood where the present meeting house is located,
near the Cohansey, for the purpose of accommodating the Friends
tliat resided on the south side of the river in Fairfield township.
Greenwich Meeting, in the fore part of the last century, increased
largely in the number of its members, so much so that it was
deemed necessary to build a larger house for their accommoda-
tion. There was a substantial brick house erected on or near
where the old frame house formerly stood. The influential per-
sons and their families that were members of Greenwich Par-
ticular Meeting during the middle and latter part of the 18th
century, were the Reeves, Davis, Millers, Woods, Sheppards,
Tests, Bricks, Dennis, Harmers, Bacons, Tylers, Stewarts, and
several others. Several of those mentioned above were conspic-
uous men in the generation in wliich they lived. The Reeves,
whom I mentioned in the genealogy of their families, and the
Woods have left an enviable reputation. There were four Rich-
ard Woods born in Cainberluud county, three of them being
influential members of Greenwich Meeting. The fourth Rich-
ard Wood left his native town and eventually resided and died
in Pluladelphia, and became an eminent merchant, and left a
large estate. The first Ricliard Wood that we have account of
in this country, resided on Gravelly Run, known at this time as
Stoe Creek township, Cumberland county. The Wood family
owned a large tract of land at that place. Ricliard's wife, I
think, was Priscilla, the daughter of Mark Reeve, the emigrant,
])orn about 1700. They had five children — Jane, Richard, Le-
titia, Ruth and Priscilhi Wood. The fatlier of these children
died in the year 1759, and was buried on his own farm in the
AVood's family burying ground. His son, Richard Wood, was
born 18tli of 1st month, 1728, and he learned the trade of a
cooper and foUow'ed it in the town of Greenwicli, and lie has
FRIENDS SOCIETY. 399
been represented to have possessed unusual business capacities.
Notwithstanding Jiis industrious habits, he never let worldly
affairs prevent him from attending to his religions meeting. He
traveled with his friend, Mark Reeve, as companion, on a relig-
ious visit through the New England States. He married twice.
By his first wife he had two children — Richard and James Wood.
His last wife was Mary, widow of Job Bacon, and the daugliter
of John and Mary Wade Stewart, born 6th of 1st month, 1746.
She had three children ]>y her first husband — Jol), Elizabeth and
George Bacon. Richard and ids last wife, Mary Wood, had no
issue. I have been told that he retired, in a great measure, from
business, and purchased tlie large brick house and a number of
acres attached, property formerly of Nicholas Gibbon, and at
that place lie spent the evening of his days, dying several years
before his wife. After his deatli the widow continued to reside
there, and her house was a resort of her numerous relatives and
acquaintances. She lived to an old age, and was truly a mother
in Israel.
Richard Wood, 3d, born 7th of 6tli montli, 1755, married
twice. There were two sons by his first wife. David, the eldest,
in after life, became largely interested in the u'on works at Mill-
ville. Richard's second wife was Elizabeth, the daughter of
Job and Mary Stewart Bacon. There were six children by that
marriage — George B., Richard, Charles, Horatio, Ann Elizabeth,
and Hannah Wood. It is but justice to tlie memory of Richard
Wood, 3d, to say that he is still held in grateful remembrance
by the old inhabitants of Greenwich, through his many acts of
kindness and benevolence to his fellow creatures.
Tlie Davis family were distinguished members of Greenwich
Meeting. I have no definite knowledge at what time Charles
Davis went to Cohausey to reside, but he became a large land-
liolder in Greenwicli township, at the place known as Bacon's
Neck. In 1739 lie married Elizabeth Dennis, of the same place.
There was one son, Gabriel Davis, who subsequently came in
possession of a large tract of excellent land tliat belonged to
his father, and in the year 1767 he married Sarah, the daughter
of Ebenezer Miller, Sr., born at Greenwich 17t]i of 3d month,
1746. They had no issue. Gabriel Davis was one who did a
great many acts of kindness in assisting young men who had
but little means, by loaning them money to commence business
with. Such acts of benevolence and kindness gave him a name
as a benefactor to the poor and needy in the section of country
in which he lived. In his will he devised the greater portion
of his landed estate to his nephew, Ebenezer Hall, whc subse-
400 FK1END8 SOCIETT.
quently married, and at his death, left tliree children — Gabriel,
Elizabeth and Ann Hall. Elizabeth married Thomas Bacon,
of Philadelphia. Ann, the youngest daughter, married John,
the son of Job Bacon.
There was a Friends Meeting established near the head of
Alloways river, at tlie village of Thompson's Bridge, The
name of this place has since been clianged to Allowaystown.
The meeting house stood on the north side of the creek, ad-
joining the farm owned by William F. Reeve at this time.
There was a burying ground near the meeting house, where
most of the early settlers in that section where interred. The
liouse was removed many years ago, but the lot is still enclosed.
The persons that belonged to Allowaystown Particular Meeting
were members of Salem Montlily Meeting, and the names of
the principal members were William Thompson, Thomas, Ben-
jamin, Samuel, Joseph and William Thompson, Jr., Joseph
Fogg, and his three sons, Joseph, Daniel and Samuel Fogg,
and their families, William Oakford and family, William Craig,
the Noblets, and a few other families. Samuel Fogg subse-
quently purchased land in the lower part of the township,
which is known at this time as Lower Alloways Creek. He
and his family became members of Alloways Creek Particular
Meeting. William Thompson, from whom Thompson's Bridge
derived its name, was tlie son of Andrew and Isabella Thomp-
son, and was born near Dublin, Ireland, 9th of 8th month, 1666.
He emigrated with his parents in 1677, and landed in New
Jersey at Elsinborough Point the same year. Benjamin
Thompson, son of William and Hannah Thompson, was born
11th of 8th month, 1719, and subsequently married Elizabeth,
daughter of Joseph Ware, Jr., the marriage having taken place
in 1745. Benjamin was considered the best business man of
his day in that section of country. He had the principal
oversight of Richard Wistar's glassworks the greater part of
the time it was in operation. The said glass works were located
about two miles east of Allowaystown, on the property now
owned by Jacob P. Reeves. The most authentic account I
have seen gives this factory as the second one of the kind in
the English Colonies in America. There was one started in
Massachusetts two years previous to Wistar's in Salem county.
Benjamin Thompson died about 1775, and his wife died in the
same year.
William Oakford, another distinguished member of Friends
Meeting at Thompson's Bridge, was a descendant of Wade
Oakford, and ho had large possessions in landed estate near
FRIENDS SOCIETY. 401
that place. Jonathan House, who owns and resides on part of
the Oakford estate, is a lineal descendant o£ "William Oakford,
as is also Albert W. Sherron, of Salem, on his mother's
side.
About tlie year 1725 there was a Friends Meeting established
at Woodstown, which was then called and still bears the name
of Pilesgrove Meeting, after the name of the township in which
it is located. The principal families which composed Piles-
grove Meeting at the time of its organization were the Lippin-
cotts, Davis, Barnes, Dunns, Silvers, and a few years later
Samuel and William Bassett, and several others, became mem-
Ijcrs. Although Pilesgrove Meeting was small in the beginning
it is at the present time the largest Friends Meeting in what is
known as Fenwick's Colony.
About the year 1760 there was a meeting established at Port
Elizabeth, the j^rincipal families of which were Jonathan Jones
and family, the Dallas, Buzbys, and several others.
In the fore part of this century, Coates and Britton, of
Philadelphia, banked a large tract of meadow land lying on the
lower side of Maurice river, and extending do^vn the bay nearly
or quite to West creek. After the said meadow and low lands
were completely reclaimed from the overflow of the tide, they
divided the property into small farms, and held out inducements
for persons to settle thereon. There were several families,
members of Friends Meeting, from Gloucester county and Cape
May settled there. George Craft, Sr., of Gloucester, was hired
by the proprietors to superintend the whole property, and most
of the persons that were tenants under Coates and Britton were
members of the Society of Friends. By that means the meeting
at Port Elizabeth was greatly increased in numbers. The
enterprise of reclaiming such a large body of swamp and salt
marsh appeared to ansv/er admirably for some years, but there
came a terrible storm and a great swell of the ocean in the 9th
month, 1819, which carried and swept away miles of their tide
l)ank along the bay sliore, and the inhabitants barely escaped
with their lives, whilst a large number of horses and cattle per-
ished. That disaster entirely broke up the little settlement,
and many families returned to their former homes. Although
the meeting at Port Elizabeth was diminished in numbers by
the catastrophe, it was kept up for a number of years afterwards
by the families of the Jones, Buzbys, Dallas, Elkintons, Town-
sends, Bradways, and others. Several of the heads of those
families have long since paid the debt of nature, whilst the
younger branches have moved to other parts of the country.
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402 FBIEND8 SOCIETY.
At this time there is no Friends Meeting kept up at PortElizabeth.
About the middle or Latter part of the last century there was
a Friends Meeting established at Pedricktowu, in the township
of Upper Penns Neck, it being a branch of Pilesgrove meeting.
The principal families that composed the meeting were the Ped-
ricks, Somers, Taylors, Greens, Kirbys, and a few others. The
Pedrick family is one of the oldest in the county of Salem.
On the 22d of 3d month, 1689, James Nevell gave an order
to Richard Tindall to resurvey for Roger Pedrick, at Oldman's
Creek, 1,000 acres, which the said Roger Pedrick had pur-
chased of the proprietor in the fore part of 1676. The Somers
family emigrated to this county from Great Egg Harbor.
Although somewhat foreign to the subject that I have written
upon, there has been much speculation respecting J acob Spicer.
Some have thought he emigrated to New Jersey from England,
but he was born at Long Island, of Quaker j^arentage, his
parents, Samuel and Hester Spicer, having resided at Graves-
end, L. I. They had six children — Abram, born 27th of 8th
month, 1666 ; Jacob, born 20th of 1st month, 1668 ; May, born
20th of 8th month, 1671; Sarah, born 19th of 4th month,
1674; Martha, born 27th of 11th month, 1676; Sarah, born 16th
of 2d month, 1677 ; and Abigail, born 26th of 1st month, 1683.
Hester Spicer, the mother of the children mentioned, was born
in 1647, and was a daughter of John and Mary Tilton.
Samuel Spicer, the father of Jacob Spicer, purchased lands
about the year 1683, near Gloucester Point, Gloucster county,
and he settled thereon. It is well kno'svn tliat his son Jacob
become conspicuous in the affairs of West Jersey, and died near
Cold Spring Inlet, Cape May county. His son Jacob was
equally as useful a man as his father. He and Learning wrote
the laws of West New Jersey.
As early as 1720 there was a Friends Meeting established at
Cape May composed of the founders of Egg Harbor, the Som-
ers, Sculls, Leeds, and a few other families ; the members of
Cape May were Richard Townsend, Peter Corson and Aaron
Leaming. The latter was a native of Connecticut. He came
to Salem when a boy and was early noticed by Sarah, the widow
of William Hall. He spoke of her as being very intelligent
and wealthy, and of having an excellent library, which she in-
vited him to her house for the purpose of reading. Whilst
Aaron resided at Salem he joined the Friends Society. Soon
after that event he went to Cape May and located a tract of
land at Goshen, and married Lydia Shaw, also a member. They
liad four children — Aaron, Jeremiah, Mathias and Elizabeth.
FRIENDS SOCIETY.
403
At a montlilj meeting of Friends held in New Salem, in
Fenwick's Colony, the 29th of 6th month, 1698, John Thomp-
son, Sr., Isaac Smart, Ruthro Morris and Richard Darkiii were
appointed to superintend the building of a meeting house, to be
of brick, for the use of Salem Monthly Meeting, and to raise
money by a voluntary subscription for that purpose.
The following are the names of Friends that contributed,
and the different sums of money each gave opposite their
respective names :
£ sh.
John Thompson, 30 00
Richard Darkin, 25 00
WiUiam Tyler, 20 00
Isaac Smart, 18 00
Richard Johnson, 15 00
Thomas Thompson, 18 00
John Smith, of Smithfield, 18 00
Bartholomew Wyatt, 18 00
Ruthro Morris, 16 00
William Ramsey, 15 00
Nathaniel Chambless, Sr., 15 60
Nathaniel Chambless, Jr., 15 00
Josiah White, 7 00
John Hancock, 10 00
Benjamin Thompson, 10 00
William Thompson, 10 00
A. Thompson, Jr., 10 00
Joseph Ware, 8 00
Abel Nicholson, 7 00
Richard Woodnutt, 6 00
John Shales, 3 00
Edward Goodwin,
Joseph White,
Esther Harrison,
John Mason,
John Remington,
Wade Oakford,
William Bradway,
Edward Keasbey,
Jeremiah Powell,
James White,
John Maddox,
William Savage,
William Hall,
John Smith, of Arbebbury,
Daniel Smith, son of the
above,
Charles Oakford,
Samuel Wade,
Esther White, widow of
Charles H. White,
James Daniels, the elder,
£ sh.
4 00
2 10
2 06
10 00
5 00
2 10
3 03
4 00
2 00
1 10
10 00
3 10
5 00
10 00
10 00
5 00
7 00
5 00
2 02
The names of Friends that contributed toward erecting tlie
building of dwellings in other places :
£ sh.
Samuel Carpenter, Philadelphia, 15 00
Edward Shippen, Philadelphia, 5 00
Samuel Jennings, Burlington, 5 00
Bridget Guy, widow of Richard Guy, 5 00
Rol)ert Ashton, of Delaware, 5 00
Thomas Smith, of Darliy, Pennsylvania, 2 00
Report of tlie Committee to the Monthly Meeting:
Cost for brick, stone and lime, and workmanship, .
For timber, boards, shingles and glass,
Iron work, nails and glazing, .......
Paying John Thompson for his trouble and expenses, and
overseeing the work,
37 00
£ sh.
188 11
194 03
37 17
5 00
425 11
404: FRIENDS SOCIETY.
The house was erected a few rods east of the large oak tree.
At that time, several of tlie ablest and oldest emigrants were
deceased, such as Fenwick, Samuel Nicholson, John Pledger,
Edward Bradway, Edward Wade, Andrew Thompson, Sr., Rob-
ert Windham, Christopher White. All of them lay in tlieyard,
except John Fenwick and Cliristopher White ; the former, by his
request, was buried in the family burying ground of the Sharp
family, in Upper Mannington, near the Alms House ; Christo-
plier White was buried in the ancient burying ground of Friends,
at Alloways Creek, not far from Hancock's Bridge. Said yard
is situated on the north side of Monmouth river. It was deeded
to Cln-istopher White and Samuel Wade, by Edward Champny.
the son-in-law of John Fenwick, in 1684.
There in that ancient yard stands a white oak which has be-
longed to Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends for nearly two
centuries. Its life has been in accordance with the laws which
liave always governed it, and has to a remarkable degree re-
tained the vigor of its early life. It has been a close attender
of all the meetings held for worship or discipline in tlie old
meeting-house, which formerly stood in the grave yard for up-
wards of seventy years, and has been present at all the funerals
which have taken place in the yard from 1681 up to the present
time ; it lias likewise been a large benefactor to the human race,
never having turned any one away who came for protection or
shelter from the storms or scorching rays of the noonday sun.
The laws which governed this ancient member are unchangable,
always standing upright among men, and not heeding their con-
Hiciting opinions, and while the earth, with all its allurements,
was kept firmly beneath liim, his watchword seemed to be up-
ward and onward, with each succeeding year ; it has been nour-
ished by its friends who lie buried there, and watered l)y the
tears of their mourners. The size of this ancient member at
this time — the trunk is twenty feet in circumference, the branches
parallel with Broadway street one hundred feet, from Broad-
way to the cast one hundred and ten feet.
BAPTIST SOCIETIES.
About the year 1683 some Baptists from tlie county of Tip-
perary, in L'eland, settled in the neigliborhood of Cohansey.
Among these, the early accounts name David Sheppard, Tliomas
Abbot and William Button. Tliey were members of a Baptist
Church at Cleagh Keating in Tipperary county. This churcli
was still in existence in 1838, but has since been disbanded.
Thomas and John Sheppard, brothers or cousins of David, set-
tled in the same neighborhood at the same time, and were doubt-
less also members of this church. In 1685, Obadiah Holmes
and Jo]m Cornelius arrived from Rhode Island. In 1688, Bi-
near Yan Hyst, John Childe and Thomas Lambson were bap-
tized by Rev. Elias Iveach, pastor of tlie Pennepeck Baptist
Church, Pennsylvania.
About this time. Rev. Thomas Killingsworth settled in Fen-
wick's Colony, and was the first Baptist clergyman wlio located
in South Jersey. He owned a fine tract of land on the King's
Highway from Salem to Mauiice River, nearly all of which lay
in tlie present limits of Salem township. After his death, tbe
property was owned by the Keasbey family. He was not only
a clergyman of considerable reputation, Init was tlie first judge
of Salem courts. Through the troublesome time of Corn bury 's
administration as the first Governor of East and West Jersey,
Killingsworth maintained the dignity of the Bench through all
opposition. Obadiah Holmes, who came from Rhode Island,
as already mentioned, was the son of Rev. Obadiah Holmes,
who was publicly whipped in Boston for his religious opinions
l)y the Puritans of that day, and who removed to Rhode Island,
and died at Newport, October 15, 1682, aged seventy-six years.
Two of his sons, Obadiah and Jonathan, removed to Middle-
town, Monmouth county, where they purchased a tract of 1600
acres from the Indians, and were constituent members of the
Middletown Baptist Clmrcli, the oldest in this State. Oba-
diah soon removed to Fenwick's Colony, and settled in Co-
hansey Precinct. He occasionally preached, though it does not
appear that he was a regularly ordained clergyman. He pos-
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scsscd by nature a legal mind, and represented the Coliansey
Precinct as Judge of Salem Courts, acting with Killingsworth
from the year 1700 to 1709.
1 have no doubt the Baptists held meetings in private houses
prior to 1690, in tlie spring of which year they organized a
church, now known as the First Cohansey Baptist Church at
Iloadstown. This was the first church of this denomination in
this part of the State. The first meeting house was built on
land of Da\dd Sheppard, in Shrewsbury Neck, on the south side
of the Cohansey, now owned by William Mulford. Killings-
worth was the first pastor, and served as such until his death in
tlie spring of 1709,
A company of Baptists emigrated to Coliansey Precinct from
Swansea, in Massachusetts, al)0ut the year 1687, aud settled
about what is now known as Bowentown. Among them were
the Bowens, Brookses, Barretts, Swinneys, &c. They had a log
meeting house at Bowentown, and maintained a separate organi-
zation on account of the differences of opinion concerning pre-
destination, laying on of hands, &c. Their pastor was Rev.
Timothy Brooks, who came with tnem. After the death of
Killingsworth, through the efforts of Rev.Yalentine Wightman,
of Groton, Connecticut, they united with the Cohansey Clnirch,
and Rev. Timothy Brooks became the second pastor of that
church in 1710, and continued such until his death in 1716, in
the 55th year of his age. The meeting house on the south side
of tlie Cohansey was soon after abandoned, and land was pur-
chased 23d of 12th month, 1713, on the north side of the river,
in Hopewell township, near what is now known as Sheppard's
Mill, and a meeting house erected. The new site was chosen,
(.loubtless, as a compromise between the old one on the south of
the river and the one where Mr. Brooks' company had wor-
shipped at Bowentown. Quite a number of Mr. Brooks' com-
pany afterwards liecame Sabbatarians, and were among those
who organized the Shiloh Seventh-Day Baptist Cluircjh in
1737.
After the death of Mr. Brooks, the church was witliout a
pastor for several years. Rev. William Butcher, from Chester
county, Pennsylvania, l)ecame the third pastor in 1721, but
after a short service of three years, died 12t]i of 12th montli,
1721, in the 27th year of his age.
Rev. Nathaniel Jenkins became the fourtli pastor in 1730.
lie was born in Caerdicansliire, Wales, 25tli of 3d month, 1678,
(;ame to this country in 1710, and settled at Cape May in 1712
as pastor of the churcli tlierc. He was a man of talents and
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education, and served also as a Trustee of the Loan Office and
as a member of Council, as the State Legislature was tlien
called. A bill being introduced into the Council in 1721,
" to punish such as denied the doctrine of the Trinity, the
"• Divinity of Christ and the Inspiration of the Scriptures," he
stood boldly forth on the platform of " soul liberty," declaring
that although he believed these doctrines as firmly as the warm-
est advocate of the bill, yet he would never consent to oppose
those who rejected them with law or with any other weapon
than argument. The bill was accordingly quashed. During
his pastorate branches of the Church'were established at Salem,
Pittsgrove, and Great Egg Harbor. A new meeting house was
also built in 1711, on the same site as the last, a frame building
Ihirty-six by thirty-two feet, which has since been removed.
The old grave-yard, which adjoined it, is still kept up in ordi-
nary repair. I visited the ancient cemetery some two years ago
and saw many names that were quite familiar ; such as John
and Job "Ware. They were the lineal descendants of Joseph
Ware, who emigrated to this county in company with John
Fenwick, the proprietor, in 1675, and located himself in Mon-
mouth precinct. On one of the tomb stones in said yard is a
historical record, " In memory of Deborah Swinney, who de-
" parted this life the 4th day of April, 1760, in the 77th year of
" her age. She was the first white female child born in Colian-
" sey." Mr. Jenkins died 2d of 6th month, 1754, in the 77th
year of his age, and the 25tli of his pastorate.
He was succeeded by Rev. Robert Kelsey. He was born in
Drummore, Ireland, in 1711, came to Maryland in 1734, and to
Cohansey in 1738. Having become a Baptist he was ordained
in 1750, and preached for the brancli at Pittsgrove, and on the
death of Mr. Jenkins was, by his recommendation on his dying
bed, called as their pastor. He declined at first, but afterward
accepted and became pastor in 1756, and served the cliurch
until his death, 30th of 5th month, 1789, in the 79th year of his
age.
Rev. Henry Smalley ])ecame the sixth pastor 3d of 7th
month, 1790. He was born at Piscataway, New Jersey, 23d of
10th month, 1765, and graduated at the College of New Jersey,
at Princeton, in 1788. A new brick meeting house was com-
pleted and dedicated in 1802, and is the one now used by the
Church, situate in the village of Roadstown. Its dimensions
are forty-five by sixty-tln-ee feet, with galleries, and is capable
of seating five hundred persons. The Church has, during tlie
last year, erected a commodious chapel adjoining. Mr. Smalley
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was a man of sterling wortli, and was well known and honored
thronghont the whole comnnmity, and the Chnrch greatly pros-
pered under his care. He died 11th of 2d month, 1839, in the
74th year of his age, and in the -49th of his pastorate.
Since liim Rev. Isaac Moore, Rev. Edward D. Fendall, Rev.
Jonathan G. Colhirn, Rev. Joseph N. Folwell, Rev. James M.
Challis, Rev. Thomas G. Wright, Rev. Thomas O. Lincoln, and
Rev. W. F. Basten, the present pastor, have served this
ancient church. The present number of members is two hun-
dred and sixty-six.
John Holme resided for h while in the city of Philadelphia
after he emigrated from England. He purchased a large quan-
tity of land of the proprietor where Holmesburg now is, and
one of his sons became the owner and resided on the property.
John Holme, about 1690, bouglit a tract of land in Alloways
Creek Precinct, not far from Allowaystown. In a short time
he left Philadelphia with his family and made that place his
home until his death, in the year 1701. He was the grandfather
of Benjamin Holme of Revolutionary memor3^ I think he and
Thomas Killings worth were the first members of the Baptist
Church who lived in the neighborhood of Salem near the time of
its first settlement. Baptist meetings were sometimes held at
the house of Thomas Ivillingsworth, at Salem, and at other times
at John Holme's, and were continued until the death of Killings-
worth, in 1709. Jn 1705, Ivillingsworth also had a preaching
place at the house of Jeremiah Nixon in Penns Neck. After
the death of Holme and Killingsworth, meetings were contin-
ued at the houses of Samuel Fogg and Daniel Smith, the last
named being a son of John Smith, of Almesbury. Daniel was
a follower of George Keith, but afterwards became a Baptist.
He was born in the county of Norfolk, England, 10th of 2d
month, 1660, and was a great favorite of John Fenwick, who
made an honorable mention of him in his will.
The Baptists of this section were connected with the Church
at Cohansey. Timothy Brooks, pastor of the Cohansey Church,
preached occasionally for them up to the time of his death, in 1716.
Their meetings were frequently held at the house of Edward
Quinton. After the death of most of the old members, the new
converts united with the Cohansey Church, and attended the
mother church until about the year 1741. After the member-
ship from the vicinity of Alloways Creek and Salem became
more numerous, they prevailed upon Nathaniel Jenkins, pastor
of the Cohansey Church, to come and assist them occasionally.
A])out this time three of the younger members of the Church
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who lived at Cohansey, Abraham Garrison, Robert Kelsey and
Job Sheppard were called to the ministry, and were permitted
to visit and preach to the branches of the church. About this
time the Baptists turned their attention towards building a
meeting house. A quarter of an acre of land was given them
by Daniel Smith, Jr., lying between Salem and Quinton's
Bridge, near the King's Highway that led to Maurice River.
The "i^lace was called Mill Hollow, and a meeting house was
built there in 1743. In the 12th month, 1748, by the urgent
request of the congregation of the new church. Job Sheppard,
tlieir minister, moved his family from Cohansey to what is known
at this time as the towmship of Quinton. They held regular
meetings every week. It was not until sixty-five years after the
commencement of Baptist meetings in and around Salem, and
twelve years after they had built their church at Mill Hollow,
tliat the church was constituted. It appears that in 1754 the
question of separation from the Cohansey Church and organ-
izing a new church at Mill Hollow came up for serious consid-
eration. The members of the church made an appeal to the
mother church to that effect. Their brethren at Cohansey, after
some time for consideration, sent the following answer :
" To our dear brothers in and near Alloways Creek, being in
" Church membership with us: — We, the Church of Christ, and
" Cohansey, baptized upon profession of our faith, holding and
" maintaining the baptism of believers by immersion, the laying
'' on of hands, the resurrection of the body, and eternal judgment,
" return this to you as. our answer."
Then followed the consent that the Baptists of Salem and
Alloways Creek, who met at Mill Hollow, should form a dis-
tinct Gospel Church. The names of the following constituent
members are signed to the church covenant : Job Sheppard,
pastor; Catharine Sheppard, Edward Quinton, Temperance
Quinton, Edward Koasbey, Prudence Iveasbey, Abner Sims,
Sarah Sims, John Holme, Daniel Smith, Jr., Seth Smith, Sam-
uel Simms, Joseph Sneathen, John Whittal, Sarah Smith,
Phebe Smith, Rachel Sneathen, Patience James, and Iveren-
happuch Blackwood. This was the first Baptist Church con-
stituted within the present limits of Salem county. The Baj)-
tists continued to hold their meetings at Mill Hollow until about
1790, when the old meeting house was sold, and moved into
Salem and used as a barn for several years. The colored Meth-
odists bought it finally and moved it to their lot on Eenwick
f»^rGet, where they need it m a place of. worship until recently*
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It stands now in the rear of their new brick churcli, and is used
at this time as a school for colored cliildren.
About the year 1670 the Baptist Society purchased 100 acres
of Abel Smith for a parsonage. The property was located about
one mile from Salem, on the Quinton's Bridge road. When
the church was built on Yorke street, in the town of Salem, the
Society was in debt about four himdred and seventy-one pounds.
Tlie incorporation fully agreed to dispose of the parsonage for
the relinquishment of the debt, and Anthony Keasl^ey, one of
the trustees, was the purchaser for about six hundred poimds.
Tlie property is known, at the present time, as the " Hannah
farm," and is one of the most valuable in this county. On the
lifth day of the 8th month, Mary Dunlap, a widow, deeded to
John Holme, Thomas Sayre, Benjamin Holme, Anthony Kcas-
bey, John Briggs, Samuel Yance and Howell Smith, a lot con-
taining one acre and a half, located on Yorke street, and joined
on the east by lands formerly belonging to Thomas Killings-
worth, but at that time owned by Antliony Keasbey. The lot
was conveyed to the before mentioned trustees of the Anti-
Pedo-Baptist Society to build a meeting house upon, and also
for a graveyard for said Society. It was stipulated in the con-
veyance that the Society should pay, as a consideration for tlie
property, one ear of Indian corn yearly, if demanded. The
liouse was completed about the year 1790, at a cost of fourteen
hundred and thirty-four pounds and some shillings, leaving a
debt of four hundred and seventy-one pounds and eleven pence
unpaid. The Baptist church at Salem, during the latter part of
the last century, increased slowly in numbers, and up to 1801
tliere were but seventy-four members. From that date, however,
to 1869 they numbered nearly seven hundred members. After
a time it was thought advisable, to have a meeting house more
in the central portion of the town, and the majority of the trus
tees purchased a lot on Broadway of the heirs of the late Thomas
Thompson, and they erected on this lot a large and substantial
brick cluirch, with a clock in the cupola, the tirst, I think, that
was ever placed in any building in the city of Salem. The
l)uilding was completed in 1845, and it is known, at the present,
as the First Baptist Church of Salem. C. E. Cardo is tlie pastor,
and it has a membersliip of 452. The congregation increased
so greatly in numbers that some of the members believed it
would be advantageous to tlie church to build another house for
worship, which was accordingly done. The church was erected
and completed in 1870 and stands at the corner of Parrot and
Fenwicl^ streets, fronting on the latter. The building is large
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and elegant in appearance, and is quite an addition to that part
of tlie town; it is called tlie Memorial Baptist Church, and has
208 members. A. C. Williams is the pastor.
An old manuscript book, wliich at one time belonged to
Thomas Killingsworth, the first Judge and Baptist clergyman
in Fenwick's colony, dates back to the 18th of January, 1690 ;
and at the death of Killingworth it was delivered to Cornelius
Copner, an inhal^itant of Penn's Neck, on the 16th of August,
1709. About 1725 or 1730 Thomas Miles, the celebrated
surveyor, became the possessor of it. In it it appears that Kil-
lingsworth kept a genealogical record of a number of families
that adhered to the Baptist faith, some of whom can be traced
a(;curately up to this day ; and others, whose children have
either left the State, or the name has been lost in the female
line. Most of the English families tliat he chronicled were
inliabitants of Penn's Neck.
Tliomas Baldwin was born in Oxfordshire, England, in De-
cember, 1657. His wife, Mary Baldwin, was, born in tlie Parisli
of Macefield, in the county of Sussex, England, 24:th of 8th
month, 1653. They emigrated to America soon after they were
married, and located in Fenwick's colony, in the township of
Penn's Neck, about the year 1683. Their stay in this county
was of a short duration, for in 1685 they removed to Chester
county, Pennsylvania. Thomas and Josepli Baldwin, the twin
sons of Thomas and Mary Baldwin, were born at Chester, Au-
gust 26th, 1685 ; William Baldwin, son of Thomas and Mary
Baldwin, born 19th of December, 1687 ; Anthony Baldwin,
born 10th of February, 1690; Mary, their daughter, born 25tli
of Fel)ruary, 1692 ; Martha and Mary, their daughters, were
born the 16th of December, 1694.
The Lambson is an ancient family of Penn's Neck. Thomas
and his wife, Ann Lambson, emigrated to America and located
in Penn's Neck, in 1090, and agreeably to Killingsworth, they
were of the Baptist faith. Giles, the son of Thomas and Ann
Eambson, was born the 22d day of July, 1692 ; Eleanor, their
daughter, was born the 21st day of March, 1694 ; Thomas was
born tlie 29th of December, 1696 ; Joseph was born the I5t]i
of Septeml^er, 1700 ; Catharine, their daughter, was born the
21st of March, 1703 ; Mathias Lambson, son of Thomas and
Ann, was Ijorn 31st of May, 1705 ; Micliael was born 29th of
September, 1707 ; Mary, their daughter, was born 13th of
April, 1710 ; Daniel was born the 1st day of February, 1715.
Many of the large families of Lampson, as well as the Copner
family, adhered to the religion of tlieir ancestors, althougli a
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number became active members of the Presbyterian Church
that was organized in the township, in 1760. Mathias Lamp-
son, of the present century, lived in and owned the ancient
brick dwelling that was built by his ancestor about 1730, which
stands near Salem creek. He had two or more children. His
daughter married the late Charles Swing, being his first wife.
His son, Thomas Lampson, not being contented to remain on
the farm, turned his attention to mercantile business. He
bouglit property at the foot of Broadway street, Salem, and
erected the spacious brick house that is now standing, whicli
belongs to the Steamboat Company. The old mansion and
farm in Penn's Neck is owned by the late John Lindzey's
Jicirs.
Cornelius Copner was one of the active English citizens of
Penn's Neck as early as 1695 up to his death, in 1731, as the
puljlic records of Salem county fully corroborate. He was
twice married. By his first wife, whom he married April 28th,
1701, he had the following named cliildren — Edmund, born 2d
day of February, 1702; Ann, born 16th of January, 1703;
Elizabetli, born 7th of April, 1705 ; Cornelius, born 25th of
July, 1707 ; John, born 11th of November, 1709 ; Edmund,
born 23d of February, 1712 ; Christian, third daughter of Cor-
nelius and Christian Copner, was born 17th of June, 1714.
Christian Copner, the wife of Cornelias, departed this life 18th
of June, 1714. Sarali, the second wife of Cornelius Copner,
was born 15th of September, 1696, and married on the 21st of
December, 1714. Christian, daughter of Cornelius and Sarah
Copner, was born 3d of January, 1716, and died two days
later; Tobias, the son of Cornelius and Sarah Copner, was born
lltli of February, 1717. Tobias was th'e father of Joseph and
Ebenezer Copner. Samuel, the son of Cornelius and Sarali
Copner, was born 17th of February, 1719 ; Sarah, daugliter of
Cornelius and Sarah, was born 9tli of February, 1720 ; Samuel,
2d, son of Cornelius and Sarali, born 20th of November, 1721.
Joseph Copner, at one time of his life, belonged to the Presby-
tca-ian Church, but in his old age, became a member of Salem
Monthly Meeting of Friends. Cornelius Copner owned a large
tract of excellent land, part of which still l)elungsto his family.
Benjamin Acton, of Salem, is the owner of a part of it, whose
wife is a lineal descendant of Cornelius Copner.
A few Baptists settled on Oldman's creek as early as 1665 ;
they were companions of Robert Carr. It does not appear that
tliey had any regular meetings for a number of years after they
first settled in Salem county. At a subsequent jjcriod they
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became members of Cohansey Church, it being at the time the
micleus around which the Baptists in West Jersey centered.
It appears, by tlie care of the mother church, those scattering
members residing on Oldman's creek and in Pilesgrove were
constituted a branch of the Cohansey Church, at Daretown, in
1743. At that period there were several families from New
England by the name of Reed, Elwell, Cheesman, Faullin,
Wallace, Champney and Mayhew. Many of their descendants
are still living in Pittsgrove at the present time, and most of
them, I have been told, still adhere to the religious sect of their
foro^athers. Robert Kelsay was their pastor soon after the
branch was organized, and continued to be until 1754. Accord-
ing to their record, the Baptists on Oldman's creek, in 1740,
purchased a piece of ground near the head of tide water, near
what in after time was known as Sculltown, for a burial ground,
on which they erected a log meeting house in 1771. It Jias
gone down, and the lot is used as a common burying ground by
tne neighboring inhabitants. In 1771 Pittsgrove Baptist
Church became a distinct Gospel Church. 'jPhe following-
minute made at Cohansey Church 9th of 5th montli, 1771, says,
" We conclude tliat all such of our members as shall join in
" said intended constitution are fully dismissed from us. So,
" recommending you to God, and the words of his grace, we
" rest your brethren in the Paith and Pellowship of the Gospel,'''
It was signed at their monthly meeting in belialf of the whole
church by David Bowen, Clerk. They further stated that the
members dismissed from Cohansey Ciiurch, wJio became mem-
bers of Pittsgrove, were John iVfayliew, iSr., VViiJiaiu Brick,
Jacob Elwell, Jolni Dickinson, CornL4ius Aubtm, ISaiuuei Briciv,
Johanna Mayhew, Eleanor iNelson, Estlier liewcs, Il;uinaii
Elwell, Matthew Aarons, Pamannah Garton, I'uhda liudteoii,
Mathias Dickinson, Piiebe Nelson, Iveuhania Austin, ana
Rachel Brick. The cliurch was incorporated in ITbti, and
John Mayhew, William Brick, William Dickinson, Jolm Kci-
ley, Samuel Rose, David Nichols, and Jacob Wright were made
Trustees. As was the custom in the lirst organization of the ,
Protestant Societies in this colony, the first Baptist meeting
house in Pilesgrove was built of logs. It stood in their grave
yard on the same spot where, in 1743, the frame meeting house
was built. This last was of moderate size, but was a substantial
structure, and remained over a century. It was sold in 1844 to
the colored people for a liouse of worship, and the present
brick house was built the same year (1844) at a cost of <^ii,200.
They have a parsonage situated about two miles from their
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church, near Pole Tavern, containing, at the present time,
a comfortable dwelling house, thirty acres of land, and other
buildings. In 1762, when Pilesgrove embraced the present
township of Pittsgrove, John Mayhew, Jr., in consideration of
£80 proclamation money, did give and convey 60 acres of land,
lying near Pole Tavern, to Jacob Elwell, John Mayhew, Sr.,
and John Dickinson, in trust, for the use and beneiit of such
person as shall be minister or teacher amongst us, and for the
Ana-Baptist congregation in Pilesgrove, aforesaid, and only
during his official connection with them. It seems, from a want
of legal authority in said person to receive the trust, it was
deemed necessary by the future generation that a deed of con-
lirmation of said trust should be made by the surviving heirs of
the original grantor. The last deed was given in 1809, by John
Mayhew, Sarah Worth, Susannah Smitli, and Lydia Davis,
heirs of John Mayhew, the elder, to Jonathan Elwell, Stanford
Mayhew, Samuel Aarons, Uriah Elwell, John Coombs, Joseph
Suxton, and John Duulap, trustees of the Baptist congregation
of Pittsgrove. At a subsequent period part of the said land
was sold, leaving about 30 acres. William Worth ^as received
into fellowship of the Pittsgrove Baptist Church, and became
their pastor in 1771, and continued in that capacity for twenty-
two years, during which time there were sixty -live new members
added to the congregation by baptism. Erom the year 1788
the aged Pastor Worth imbibed doctrines contrary to the fund-
amental creed of the Baptist faith. The effect of such doctrines
enunciated from the pulpit, was the cause of many of his con-
gregation attaching themselves to the neighboring Presbyterian
Church, whilst a number of male members of the Baptist
Church imbibed his doctrine. The conllict between the two
contending parts of the congregation was sliarp and very per-
sistent, and their historian states tluit, in 1803, after a struggle
of ten years, two deacons and William Worth were excluded
for heresy, Wortli being deposed from the ministry. He re-
mained a Universalist until approaching death induced him to
renounce his error.
After sucli severe contention the congregation was rent in
twain, the male members adliered to their pastor, wliilst many
of the female members maintained the doctrine of the mother
church at Cohansey. Their names were Susanna Elwell, Cath-
arine Harris, Heuhana Austin, Ann Iloberson, Tabitha Mayhew,
PrisciUa Blue, Abigail Joslin, Piiuhama Moore, Ilachel Hobi-
son, and Ilachel Brick. Being de})rived from meeting in tlie
chiircli ])y the apostate pastor, and, Avliicli was more trying, by
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their husbands and sons, these sterling women frequently held
their meetings in private houses, and in pleasant weather, in a
contiguous grove. Ancient Rome was saved at one time by a
heroic band of women, and the fundamental doctrines of the
Baptists were maintained at the Pittsgrove church by those
faithful women,whose names, I have no doubt, are held in grate-
ful remembrance by the congregation up to the present time.
From the year 1803 the congregation gradually increased, and
in the year 1876 they numbered two Inmdred and thirty-one,
Levi Morse being pastor.
The Dividing Creek Baptist Church was constituted 30th
of 5th month, 1761, by permission of Cohansey and Cape
May churches. The following are the names of the mem])ers
at the time of its organization : Jonadab Sliepj)ard, Thomas
Sheppard, William Paullin, William Dallis, Temperance Shep-
parcl, Ann Sheppard, Patience Paulin, John Terry, Sarah Terry
and Eve Sockwell. Their first meeting house was erected on a
lot donated by Seth Lore, in 1751. Edwards writes that their
first meeting house was destroyed by fire, in 1770, and was
rebuilt in 1771. The size of the building was 30 by 22 feet;
they continued to occupy the new building up to 1821 ; when
like the former clmrcli it was destroyed by fire. In 1823 they
Ijuilt a new building, 40 by 34 feet, and in 1860 there was added
in the length of the building twenty feet, and the old side gal-
leries removed and the entire building improved. It appears
by the record kept by the meeting as early as 1761, before the
church was regularly organized, steps were taken to secure a
permanent home for their pastor. The people of Nantuxet and
Dividing Creek, having agreed to build a parsonage, (it being
first introduced by four men, Samuel Heaton, the pastor, Jona-
dab Sheppard, David Sheppard, and William Paullin,) they pur-
chased of Alexander Moore, one hundred acres of land, on which
they erected a house and other necessary buildings, for the use
of their pastor. They paid two Inmdred pounds for it, and sold
it some few years since* for ^2,700, and in 1850 they secured a
lot in the village near their meeting house, on which they erec^ted
their present parsonage. Their pastor is II. B. Raybold. They
have 291 members.
The Alloways Creek Baptist Church, known as the Canton
Churc]i,was constituted in 1818. There was a Baptist meeting
held in this vicinity some years previous to the date of its organ-
ization, from tlie Cohansey mother church. At the decline and
final close of the Presbyterian Church at Logtown, many of its
members, together with the Mulford family, purchesed a lot
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adjoining the Presbyterian grave-yard and erected a meeting
]iouse thereon. At what time they commenced holding tlieir
meetings at that place I liave no means of determining. Frank
Spencer is the pastor. Nntnl>er of members 319.
Woodstown Baptist Chnrcli constituted in 1822. Tliey num-
ber 172 members, and have no pastor at the present time.
Allowaystown Baptist Church was constituted an independ-
ent Baptist Church in 1830. The persons who took the most
active part in the affairs of that meeting were William Walker,
the Lambert family, and a few others at that period. M. M.
Finch is the present pastor. There are 144 members.
A number of the inhabitants of Bridgeton, in the latter part
of tlie last century, were Baptists. They were members of the
old Cohansey Churcli. The advantage of establishing a meet-
ing for their denomination in Bridgeton, was early recognized
by the members then connected with the mother church at Co-
liansey. As a number of the members lived in the town of
Bridgeton and surrounding neighborhood, they were desirous of
liaving meetings that they could attend, nearer than the meet-
ings of the Cohansey Church, which at that time wei'e held in
the Neck, near Sheppard's mill. About 1797 the Baptists com-
menced liolding religious meetings every First-day afternoon
in the Court I^ouse in the town of Bridgeton. The Pastor of
Cohansey Church, Henry Smalley, generally attended their
meetings. His services were continued, and tlie number of
Baptists increased in the town. They soon found the need of
a house of worship, and although the large edifice at Roadstown
liad been finally completed but a few years before, at a largo
expense for that time, and tlie clouds of war were gathering
over the nation, the Baptists at Bridgeton resolved to wait no
longer, and selected a suitable lot. On the 6tli of 6th month,
1812, the matter was brought before the Cohansey Church, at
that time removed to Roadstown, and met their approval. A
committee was appointed to purcliase the lot already selected,
then belonging to Daniel Elmer. This committee promptly
attended to their duty, and reported at a meeting held July 16th,
of the same year, that they had secured a " deed" for two acres
of land, on condition that a house of worship be built thereon
within three years, and a street three rods in width was to be
kept 0]>en between the meeting house and his lot, and on failure
thereof the lot to bo "forfeited." The lot cost $155, and the
deed bears date July 16th, 1812. Tlio lot is the one so long
occupied by the church, bounding on Pearl, Marion and Bank
streets, ttwd k the «iM)>e where in itiU tht?I>" tsgmeiery, and whero
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tlio house stciuds which they built, now romodcled, enlarged and
occupied by the Pearl street Baptist Church, a branch of the
First Church. On July 23d, 1812, a committee was appointed
to procure materials and superintend the building of the meet-
ing house, and Moses Harris, Isaac Mulford and Moses Platts
were chosen. The chief share of the responsil)ility rested on
Mulford. But, as the result of the magnitude of the enterprise
for those interested in it, and the high prices incident to the war,
the l)uilding was not completed nntil the latter part of 181G.
In accordance with the custom of the greater number of the
religious denominations, the building was dedicated to the wor-
ship of Almighty God 17th of 12th month, 1816. Joseph Shep-
pard, pastor from Salem, preached the sermon on the occasion,
and the pastor, Henry Smalley, from the First Cohansey Church,
made tlie dedicatory praj^er. The meetings that were formerly
held at the Court House were transferred to the new house, and
were regularly held there thereafter.
The first meeting with reference to a separate organization
was held 1st of 2d month, 1827. At that meeting there were
thirty-eight members, men and women, applied for letters of dis-
mission from the First Cohansey Church, for the purpose of
forming a separate church. The letters of dismission were
granted at a meeting held 5th of 1st month, 1828, and the church
at Bridgeton was constituted a separate body the 31st of the 1st
month, the same year. The number of members belonging to
the new organization was forty, and George Spratt was their
])astor. He and his wife Elizabeth were from the Third Bap-
tist Church, Philadelphia. The rest of the congregation were
from the F'irst Cohansey Church, among whom were John Sil)-
ley, Curtis Ogden, Noah Ayres, Lewis Paullin, Ruth B. Ogden,
iSarah Sibley, and a number of others. The church was incor-
])orated by the name of the " Second Cohansey Baptist Church,
at Bridgeton." The first trustees elected were Smith Bowen,
Daniel Pierson and Garrison Maul, Mr. Spratt continued as
]jastor until 20th of lOth montli, 1830. He was succeeded by
John C. Harrison in 2d montli, 1831, who remained until 3d
month, 1834. Michael Frederick became the third pastor in
12th month, 1831r, and died in tlie pastorate, 13th of 11th month,
1837. Large numbers were added to the church during his
pastorate, and the numl)er of members at his death had in-
(ireased to one hundred and sixty-eight, ])esides thirty-one dis-
missed in tlie fall of 1836, to form a new church at Cedarville.
Galleries and a vestibule were put into the meeting house during
liis time, greatly increasing its acconunodations. The fourth
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pastor was Charles J. Hopkins, who commenced his labors 25th
of 11th month, 1838, and resigned 25th of 9th montli, 1813.
During his pastorate the church increased to two hundred and
thirty-nine members, and a chapel was built on Atlantic street,
near the centre of the town, for evening meetings and Sunday
School purposes, which was dedicated 11th of 1st month, 1840. The
liftli pastor was Charles E. "Wilson, wlio commenced his labors
Ttli of 4th month, 1844, and remained until 5th month, 1852.
Tho number of members had increased to 304 at the time of his
removal. The sixth pastor was William Cornwell, who was
installed 7th of 8th month, 1852, and remained until IStli of
7th month, 1856. Soon after his arrival, the subject of repair-
ing and enlarging the meeting house, or building a new one,
was advocated, and on 26th of 2d month, 1853, a meeting of
the ciuirch was held to consider the subject, and a resolution
was adopted to procure a lot in as central a location as possible
and build a new house of worship, and a committee, consisting
of James Stiles, Horatio J. Mulford and Isaac A. Sheppard,
was appointed to carry out the above resolution. A lot, 67
feet front and 126 feet deep, situated on the south side of Com-
merce street, just above Pearl and in the centre of the city, was
purchased for $1,300, of Azel and Henry R. Pierson, the deed
being dated 3d of 10th month, 1853. The size of the building
was 50 feet in width, and 99 feet in length. It has a basement
story for evening meetings and Sunday School purposes, and the
upper story is for the main audience room. The basement is
built of stone, and the rest of brick. The whole building is
rough-cast, with a tower in the centre of the front, surmounted
with a steeple rising 140 feet from the ground. The building
was completed in the fall of 1857.
Mr. Cornwell was succeeded, as pastor, l)y J. Spencer Ken-
nard, Itli of 1st month, 1857 ; the church prospered greatly
during his pastorate, which lasted until 11th of 9th month,
1859. He was succeeded by James F. Brown in 6th month,
1860, who remained until 3d month, 1868. William "Wilder
became the ninth pastor 1st month, 1869, and continued until
7th month, 1871, when he resigned, and was succeeded in 3d
month, 1872, by E. B. Palmer, the tenth and present pastor.
Tlie walls and ceiling of tlie audience room of their house of
worship were handsomely frescoed in the summer of 1872. A
parsonage, situated on Atlantic street, was purcliased in 1869,
at a cost of about $5,500. The church also has three chapels,
two frame and the other brick, used for Sunday school purposes.
The present number of members is three hundred and sixty-six.
6APTIST B0CIETIE8. 419
In 7th month, 1866, sixty-nine members of the First Church
were dismissed, and were constituted a new cluirch under the
name of the Pearl Street Baptist Church, of Bridgeton. Tlie
mother church gave them a deed for the old meeting house,
which they have since enlarged and handsomely improved, at a
cost of about $20,000. William K. McNeil became their first
pastor, and remained until 2d month, 1872. He was followed
by B. S. Morse, in 4th month, 1872, who resigned in the spring
of 1874. A. B. MacGowan is the third and present pastor.
They number two hundred and eighty-eight members at the
present time.
I am indebted to my young friend, Charles E. Sheppard, of
Bridgeton, for the particulars of the first Baptist churches, and
the time they were constituted in that city.
As a result of a series of meetings held at Cedarville in 1835
and 1836, by Mr, Frederick, pastor of the Bridgeton Baptist
Church, a large number of persons united with that church, and
on their application thirty-one persons were dismissed and con-
stituted a church at Cedarville, 6th of 9th month, 1836. Dur-
ing the last year the congregation have erected a large and
elegant building for a church edifice, and a building attached
where they hold their First day or Sunday school, which is a
very commodious room. The cost of the whole building was
nearly $10,000. Wm. A. Durfee is the pastor. There are at
present two hundred and thirty-five members.
The Baptist Church at Greenwich was constituted from Co-
hansey in 1850, and erected a plain and substantial brick edifice
on tlie main street of Greenwich. S. C. Dare is the pastor.
There are two hundred and tliirty-seven members.
The Baptist congregation at Newport built themselves a good
meeting house within the town a few years ago ; tlie church was
constituted in 1855. W. A. Durfee is the pastor, and they
liave one Inindred and thirty-seven members.
Within the recollection of some of the oldest inliabitants of
this section of the country, the place wliere Vineland is now
located was a wilderness, where many sportsmen of the towns
of Salem and Bridgeton, in the fall of the year, went in pursuit
of deer and otlier wild animals. When Landis purchased the
tract of land of the late Hichard Wood, it was in its primeval
state. He soon afterward commenced running out the land
into convenient lots, and held out inducements for persons to
settle tliereon, and many embraced the opportunity from several
states — the result i^, there is no part of South Jersey that has
a more cultivated set of inliabitants than can be found in Vine-
420 BAPTlSl' SOClE'riEia.
land. A seminary was built, and good school houses were
established; meeting houses were erected of nearly all religious
organizations; among them are two Baptist churches, whicli are
rapidly increasing in members. The first one was constituted
in 1SG5 ; N. B. Randall is tlie pastor, and has three hundred
and nineteen members. .The second, called Sonth Vineland
Baptist Church, was organized in 1871 ; Wm. W. Meacli is the
pastor, and it has fifty-six members.
The idea of a High School for the southern part of jSTew
Jersey, to be under the control of Baptists, originated with R.
F. Young, in 1819, then pastor of the First Baptist Church in
Salem. Through his influence a convention was subsequently
called, connected with the West New Jersey Baptist Associa-
tion, to be held at Salem. To this invitation a number of
churches responded. After deliberating on the propriety of the
enterprise, passed resolutions touching its desirableness and
importance. No corresponding act, however, followed, and the
whole project ended. It was revived again at a meeting of the
West New Jersey Baptist Association, held in Greenwich in
September, 1865. At that time tlie Association passed the
following resolutions :
Resolved, That this Association has heard, with pleasure, of
the establishment of a denominational school, for the education
of both sexes, at Ilightstown, and that in the judgment of this
body, the time has come when a high school, for the education
of both sexes, should be established within the bounds and under
the exclusive direction of the West Jersey Baptist Association.
Resolved, That this Institution shall be located in that place
which shall present the greatest inducement.
Resolved, That the minimum amount to be raised for the
buildings and grounds of said Institution, shall l)e twenty-five
thousand dollars.
There was a committee appointed at the time, to carry out the
ol)jects of the aforesaid resolutions. All the churches belonging
to the West New Jersey Baptist Association were represented
on the committee; they had power to act as trustees till the
next meeting of the Association. The first meeting of the com-
mittee was held 3d of 10th month, 1865, at the rooms of the
American Baptist pnblication society, 530 Arch street, Bhila-
dclphia. The following preamble and resolutions were passed :
Whereas, The sum of ten thousand dollars has been offered
l)y the following individuals, conjointly, II. J. Mulford, Isaac
W. Mulford, Anna Maria Mulford, Hannah Mulford and Lucy
BAPTIST fiiOClE'fiES. 421
W. Mulford, with the understanding tliat the proposed scliool
shall be located in Bridgeton, their place of residence, respect-
ively ;
Whereas, This is the highest sum offered for the location ;
Therefore,
Resolved, That the school shall be located in Bridgeton, New
Jersey, agreeable to the resolutions passed at the late meeting
of the West Jersey Baptist Association.
Horatio J. Mulford, in 1868, offered the ground for the Insti-
tute on west side of the Coliansey, containing ten acres and
forty-two rods, which was cordially accepted, as being ample in
size and most eligibly located. This Institute is located on tlio
west l)ank of the Coliansey. It is built of brick, with a mansard
or French roof, and is a great improvement to the city of Bridge-
ton. The school was opened in the fall of 1870, and lias taken
a higli rank in the community, and is in a prosperous ('ondition.
SEVENTH-DAY BAPTIST SOCIETIES.
The Seventli-Day Baptists are an ancient religious organiza-
tion in the American Provinces. As early as 1662, a large
number of Welsh Baptist emigrants, known as John Miles
Company, he being their pastor, arrived at Boston, and settled
in Massachusetts, and named their location " Swansea," after
tlieir native place in Wales. (See Davis' History of the Welsh
Baptist). Meeting with persecution from their Puritan neighbors,
a large number of their children and grandchildren, with some
Baptists from Scotland, moved to South Jersey, in the year
1687, and settled at Barratfs Run, Bowentown and Shiloh.
This colony from New England, was known as the "Rev.
Timothy Brooks," or the Bo wen Company ; and kept up a sep-
arate Society until 1710, when they united with the old Cohan-
sey Baptist Church. From 1695 to 1700, and subsequently,
Jonathan Davis, son of the pastor by the same name, of the
Miles Company from Wales, a Seventh-Day Baptist from Long
Island, (see Morgan Edward's History,) having married Eliza-
beth Bavven, one of the Miles Company, visited his Welsh
cousins at Bowentown, Shiloh and vicinity; he gained' many
converts to tlie Seventh-Day Baptist Clmrch. Tlieir mimbers
were also increased l)y additions from Pennsylvania, Delaware
and Maryland, and from Trenton, Bonhamtown and Piscata-
way. New Jei'sey. It appears from their old records, that in
1716 these Seventli-Day Baptists had a temporary organization,
and held meetings from house to liouse. About the year 1700,
Jonathan Davis moved from Long Island and settled at Tren-
ton, with his brother Elnathan Davis, who was the Surveyor
General of New Jersey ; from there Jonathan made frequent
visits to his brethren at Shiloh. Jonathan Davis, son of Elna-
than, the Surveyor-General, married Estlier, daughter of Isaac
Ayars, Sr., of Shih:)h, and located near by, and became a prom-
inent preacher of tlie Gospel. On the 27tli day of the 3d month,
1737, the Seventli-Day Baptist Church of Shiloh, was organized,
with the following articles of faith, and agreement, and the
names in the order as they are found in the old records. It
SKVENTH-DAY BAPTIST SOCIETIES. 42 S
commences thus: "We, whose names are hereunder written,
" do join together upon the articles of agreements following
" which includes nine articles of Faith. 1st. We believe that
" unto us there is but one God, the Father, and one Lord, Jesus
"Christ, who is the Mediator between God and mankind. Wc
" believe the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of God." The other ar-
ticles of faith I omit on account of brevity. John Swinney, his
wife Deborah Swinney, Dr. Elijah Bowen, Deborah Bowen,
John Jerman, now spelled Jarman, Caleb Barratt, Abigail Bar-
ratt, Hugh Dunn, Amy Dunn, Jonathan Davis, Jr., Esther
Davis, Caleb Ayars, Joseph Swinney, Deborah Swinney, Jr.,
Samuel Davis, Ann Davis, Jane Philips, of Newtown Square,
Pennsylvania, and Anna Swinney.
It should be borne in mind that many of the Seventh-Day
Baptists still held their membership vdth the First-Da}'^ Bap-
tists, and hesitated to become contentious members, among
whom were Timothy Brooks' two daughters. Some of the
consistent members had burial lots in other societies, and were
not interred at Shiloh ; among this class were the first two
names on the list who were buried in the old Baptist burying
ground of -Cohansey, located near Sheppard's Mill. On a
marble tombstone, still standing, are carved the words, " In
" memory of Deborah Swinney, who departed this life the 4th
" day of April, 1760, in the 77th year of her age." She was
the daughter of John Swinney, who was one of the first
European settlers at Cohansey. The inscription further states
that Deborah was the first wliite female child born at Cohansey
precinct. At the constitution of the church Jonathan Davis,
Jr., was chosen pastor ; ruling elders and deacons were also
elected officers of the church — the former to look after the
spiritual, and the latter the temporal interests of the flock.
About the year 1S30 the office of ruling elder was discontinued,
partly from an unwillingness on the part of some to submit to
the close spiritual oversight of the elders, partly on account of
the belief that the deacons should attend to the spiritual as well
as temporal concerns of the church. On the 24tli of 3d montli,
1738, Caleb Ayars, Sr., deeded to the church one acre of land,
near the village, for a meeting house lot and burying gi-ound ;
and a frame house for worship, size forty by thirty feet, was
erected the same year. The ministers of the Seventh-Day Bap-
tist Church were many of them noted for their learning and
piety. Jonathan Davis, of Trenton, was never a settled pastor
at Shiloh ; his wife was Elizabeth Bowen, sister, aunt and
cousin to the Bowens, Brookses, and Swinneys, who resided at
424r SEVENTH-DAY BAFHST SOCIETIES.
Bowentowu and vicinity. On acconnt of this relationship he
frequently visited Coliansey, and preached mostly at Shiloh ;
occasionally at the Coliansey Chnrcli. History says he was
very tall and large in proportion, and was sometimes called
" great liigh priest." Samuel Bowen, of the Timothy Brooks'
company, was colleague for many years of tlie first pastor, Jona-
than Davis, Sr, The younger Jonatlian Davis continued to be
pastor of Shiloh Clmrch till his death, wliich occurred 2d of 2d
montli, 1768, in his 60th year. He was succceeded by Jona-
than Davis, of the Welsh tract, now Brandywine, Delaware.
He married Margaretta Bond, of Delaware, a descendant of
tlie distinguished Sharpless family, of Chester county, Penn-
sylvania. Before settling in Sliiloh he founded Newark Acad-
emy, wliich has since grown into Delaware College. This
Elder Davis was born 7th of 7th month, 173-i, ordained in
Shiloh Church 1768, and continued to be their pastor till his
death, which event took place in 1785. It was this man, so
eminent for learning and true piety, tliat gave the beautiful
name of Shiloh, in imitation " of the Ark of God resting at
" Shiloh." Previous to that time the place was called Cohansey
Corners. Jonathan Jarman was his colleague fox some years,
and after his deatli supplied the church until he moved to Cape
May, where he died, but his remains were brouglit back to Slii-
loh for burial. For about two years Thomas Jones, a First-Day
Baptist minister, supplied the church, and Deacon Philip Ayars,
a prominent member of the church, administered the ordinance
of baptism, in the absence of a pastor. In 1786 Nathan Ayars
was called by the church, and ordained to the gospel ministry,
and remained pastor till his death in 1810. John Davis,
youngest son of Jonathan Davis, of Delaware, was ordained in
1807. He continued within the clmrch until 1842, when he
resigned on account of age. During his pastorate there were
large nuiiil)ers added to their church.
Azor Estee was the next pastor, who remained nearly three
years ; during that time, their records state, there were ninety
new members. In 1844, Solomon Carpenter took the oversight
of their church, but his transfer to the China mission left them
without a pastor. In 1845, Samuel Davison, a convert to the
Seventh-Day I'aptist Church, took the pastoral charge, and was
succeeded in 1848 by Giles M. Longworthy, whose sickness and
premature death again left them without a pastor. Enoch
Barnes, a convert from the Methodist Church, supplied the pul-
pit during the summer of 1850. Elder George R. Wheeler and
wife) joined the church under the ministry of Davison, m^ he
6EVENTH-DAY BAPTIST B0CIETIE8. 425
supplied the cliurch occasionally ; but living at Salem, twelve
miles distant, could not perform pastoral labor. Soon after, he
became pastor of tlie Seventh-Day Baptist Chnrch at Marl-
borough, located in Salem county near Cumberland line, it being
a branch of Shiloh Church.
William Jones became a convert to the Seventh-Day Baptist
Church, while laboring in Ilayti under the Baptist Free Mis-
sionary Society. He became the pastor of Shiloh Church in
1850, and continued there three years. During that time, the
present brick meeting house was completed, and dedicated. The
old building was donated to Union Academy, and fitted up es-
pecially for the wants of tliat institution, then so prosperous
under the principalship of Prof. E. P. Larkin. Their pastor,
"William Jones, continued after the new meeting house was com-
pleted, to hold meetings from night to night, which resulted in
a large addition to the church, principally young people. In
the year 1853, Jones resigned his charge to go as missionary to
Palestine, and was succeeded by Walter B. Gillette, after a
successful pastorate of nearly twenty years ; during his minis-
tration the cause of education advanced, and the present Aca-
demic building was erected. He resigned the pastorate to go
as missionary in the Western Association. In April 1873, A.
II. Lewis was elected as pastor of their church ; during his
ministration a parsonage in the village was purchased and re-
modeled at a cost of al)out three thousand dollars. Lewis is
above mediocrity as a pulpit orator, possesses great learning,
and is aifable and pleasing in his address, consequently many
joined the church during the last winter. It now numbers about
three hundred and seventy -five. In 1827 a Sabbath School was
organized, and I have been informed it has continued ever since,
uninterruptedly. The old, as well as the young, take absorbing
interest in the maintenance of the schools. The first settlei'S of
Shiloh were an intelligent people, and some were graduates of
institutions of learning. They soon established a library of
useful books in their village school ; the higher branches were
taught, as well as the rudiments of knowledge, and Shiloh be-
came noted for its schools. In 1818, an academy was opened
under the management of Prof. E. P. Larkin, which stood for
many years as the leading institution of learning in South Jer-
sey, and still continues to exert a healthful influence under the
care of Prof. G. M. Cottrell. The temperance cause enlisted
the feelings of the members of this ancient church. In 1833,
their Elder William B. Maxson, introduced the subject in their
liioeting, and so great m interest w^s mniiifeste^ t\\^t qi\q bu^,
H
426 6EYENTH-DAY BArTIST SOCIETIES.
dred and forty signatures to a temperance pledge were immedi-
ately obtained ; but none entered into the cause more heartily,
nor rejoiced more to see it prosper, as I have been informed, than
their venerable pastor, John Davis. Some years after the church
adopted a temperance clause, and as a clnirch has been com-
mitted to it ever since.
Although the church at Shiloh has from time to time
incurred heavy expenditures in money in building their churches
and academies, I have been informed that it is clear of debt.
They have obtained, by legacies and from other sources, consid-
erable sums of money. In 1774 Esther Davis, daughter of
Isaac Ayars, and widow of the first pastor, Jonathan Davis, left,
l)y will, a house and lot to the church. In 1754 Richard
Sparks, a Keithite Seventh-Day Baptist, left, by will, a lot on
Fifth street, Philadelphia, for a burial ground. George Keith,
the apostate Quaker preacher, in the latter part of the seven-
teenth and early part of the eighteenth century, left the Soxjiety
of Friends, of which he at one time was a consistent and useful
member, and with his followers adopted the Seventh day as the
Sabbath, and espoused the Baptist creed. Several of John
Smith's, of Amblebury, grand-children became the followers of
Keith, and others that resided within the Salem tenth, a number
that belonged to l^ewton meeting, also many Friends that were
citizens of Philadelphia and adjacent country, so much so that
there were three Keithite meetings established — one in Bybcrry,
one within the city limits, the third, I think, was located near
Radnor. George Keith, within a short time after these meet-
ings were established, returned to England, his native land, and
became a member of the Church of England. Most of his fol-
lowers in America, in a few years, became members of other
religious denominations, generally the old Baptist organization.
The city government soon afterward prohibiting interments
thereon, the New Market and Sliiloh churches took charge of
it, and realized some $4,000 or $5,000 from the part not occu-
pied by the graves.
In 1858 Deacon Ayars, grandson of Rev. Jonathan Davis,
3d, left, by will, $1,000 to the church, the interest only to be
used. In 1873 the late Caleb Sheppard left, by will, $500 to
tlie Shiloh Academy, and that sum, with the recent subscrip-
tions, will free the institution from debt.
PRESBYTERIAN SOCIETIES.
From the year 1690 np to 1745 there was a large emigration
from New England and New York States to Femvick Colony.
Many of the emigrants were Presbyterians, and they, like the
early Friends, were satisfied with erecting log houses for Divine
worship here in the wilderness. Tlie first Presbyterian church
erected in Fenwick's tenth was l)uilt at Fairfield, on the south
bank of Cohansey creek, about the year 1695. It was composed
of logs. The pastor of the church at that time was Thomas
Bridges, who, it is said, was called away to Boston in 1702.
A few years later the congregation erected for themselves a
frame edifice in the old New Englandtown grave-yard, on the
banks of Cohansey creek, it being about one mile from what is
known at this time as the old stone church. Howell Powell, it
seems, was one of the early pastors of Fairfield church. lie
died in 1717.
In the year 1727 Daniel Elmer emigrated to Fairton from
Connecticut. He was a young man, and a clergyman of con-
siderable note in his native State. He was a pastor of Fairfield
Prcsl)yterian church up to the time of his death, which occurred
in 1755. From him originated the Elmers of Cumljerland
county, many of whom have been distinguished men in profess-
ional and civil life up to tlie present day. The ancestors of the
Potter, Ewing, Fithian, Westcott and Bateman families also
came from New England and settled at Cohansey in the latter
part of the seventeenth or early in the eighteenth century.
They have held an infiuential position in Cumberland county
for several generations.
The Presbyterians from New England settled on both sides
of Cohansey creek, and quite a number of them purchased
homes in, and in the neighborhoood of, Cohansey (now Green-
wich). About the year 1705 they established and organized
the first Presbyterian church on the north side of Cohansey
creek, which was named Greenwich Church. I am indebted to
the venerable Dr. Fithian, of Greenwich, for much valuable
information respecting it. It appears that the early records of
428 PRESBYTEKIAN SOCIETIES.
the church were destroyed accidentally by lire, and the oldest
record in possession of the congregation is a deed of gift from
Jeremiah Bacon to Henry Joice and Thomas Maskell, for one
acre of land, in trust for the people called Presbyterians, living
on the north side of Cohansey creek, to build and establish a
cluirch for the public worship of God, dated 24:th of 4tli month,
1717. It is probable that this was a part of the thirty-two
acres of land that William Bacon purchased of the executors of
John Fenwick in 1688. The first pastor of the church was a
gentleman of the name of Black, and he remained as pastor for
about three years. In 1708 he removed to Le\ves, Delaware,
and in 1712 Ebenezer Goold, a native of New England, was
installed pastor. The year after the installation of Goold the
congregation procured a piece of land, on which they built a
parsonage. The deed for the land (six acres) was from Nicholas
Gibbon and Leonard Gibbon to Josiah Fithian, TJiomas Maskell
and Noah Miller. They made a provision in the deed that Presby-
terians should build a house for their minister to dwell in, by deed
dated 13th of 1st month, 1729. AVliat a noble example the two
wealthy men, Nicholas and Leonard Gibbon, set for future
generations ! They, though strict members of the Church of
England, were willing to assist other religious denominations.
The congregation did build a house on the land, in which their
pastor resided until it, together with the furniture it con-
tained, was consumed with fire, as also the early records of the
church. Ebenezer Goold, soon after he went to Greenwicli,
married Ann Brewster, a sister of Francis Brewster, one of the
elders of the church, and a descendant of Elder Brewster,
who landed from the Mayflower, at Plymouth, in 1620. The
congregation increased so greatly about the year 1735 that tlie
house of worsliip was too small to accommodate them. They
I'esolved to build a new church, and started a subscription for
that purpose. Perhaps it would be interesting to many at this
day to knowwlio were the leading members of the Presl)yterian
Church at Green^vich at that period, wlio subscribed to the
fund. They are as follows :
£ sh.
£sh.
Ebenezer Goold,
5 00
Jos. Simpkins,
1 00
Will. Watson,
10 00
Thos. Wartham,
3 00
Elias Getting,
10 00
Matthias Fithian,
5 00
Saniuol Clark,
5 00
Constant Maskell,
10 00
Benj. ])arc,
10 00
John Woolaey,
2 CK)
Thos. Ewing,
10 00
Ananias Sayre, '
4 00
Abel Carll,
5 00
Aaron Mulford,
3 00
Thos. Buryman,
5 00
Chas. Fordham,
3 00
PRESBYTERIAN SOCIETIES.
429
£sh.
£sh.
Abraham Reeves,
10 00
Wm. Perry,
4 00
Jonathan Sayre,
2 00
Jas. Carathers,
4 00
Nathaniel Bishop,
2 05
Thos. Eoad,
3 00
Samuel Miller,
4 00
John Woodruff,
3 00
Jonathan Holmes,
G 00
Noah Miller, Jr.,
4 00
Thomas Sayre,
5 00
Jos. Moore,
6 00
John Padgett,
8 00
Jas. McKnight,
2 00
Harbour Beck,
4 00
Ebenezer Smith,
1 00
Nehemiah Veal,
3 00
Nathan Lupton,
1 10
Balbie Sheppard,
1 00
John Tyler,
1 00
Francis Brewster,
2 00
Deborah Keith,
1 00
Samuel Moore,
5 00
John Plummer,
10
John Miller,
4 00
Elias Davis,
1 00
Joseph Peck,
2 00
Mercy Maskell,
2 00
Nathaniel Harris,
2 00
Samuel Bacon, Jr.,
15
Francis Tulies,
1 10
Josiah Parain,
4 00
John Shaw.
3 00
Thos. Padgett,
6 00
Philip Vickers,
5 00
James Crawford,
1 00
John Keith,
2 10
John Finlaw,
1 00
The subscription amounted to £234 10s. I think a number
of those who subscribed were members of Deerfield Churcli, tlie
members of which were in unison witli Greenwicli Presbyterian
Church. The sum raised was insutiicient to build the church,
which in size was 44 feet in length by 34 feet in width, and
it was not completed until 1751, It was built of brick, and has
since been taken down, and a more modern edifice has been
erected on the opposite side of the street.
When John Fenwick had determined upon laying out a town
on the banks of the Cohansey, to be called after the Indian
name of the river Cohansey; hence all the (-ounti-y on the north
and south sides of said river was known as Cohansey Precinct.
The country was known by the same name until about the year
1710 or 1720. In 1690 there were a number of emigrants from
Connecticut came to Fenwick Colony, and settled at a place
which they called Fciirton, on the south side of Coliansey river,
in Shrewsbury Neck, as it was called by the first settlers of
Fenwick Colony. The name was changed by the Eastern emi-
grants to Fairlield, after their native township in Connecticut.
There were also a number of families from the State of New
York and the Eastern States emigrated and settled in the town
of Cohansey and the country adjacent, such as tlie Denn, Miller,
Maskell, Padgett, Watson, Ewing, Seeley, and several other
families, who became conspicuous in the religious and civil
affairs of the Colony. The great-grandson of the lirst Watson
that settled at Cohansey removed to Philadelphia, and late in
life wrote ' Annals of Philadelphia," a work that will perpetuate
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Ids name for many generations. About the time the families
that I mentioned came from New England and New York,
the name of Cohansey was changed to Greenwich, after the
native town of some of the emigrants.
William Fithian emigrated from England to America, and
settled at East Hampton, New York, in 1639, and his son, Sam-
uel Fithian, removed from New York to Fairfield, in Fenwick
Colony, in 1700, with his family. His wife was Priscilla Bur-
nett. Tliey had six children — John, Josiah, Samuel, Esther,
Matthias and William. Josiah Fithian removed from Fairfield
and made Cohansey his permanent home, in 1706, and there
married Sarali Dennis. They had seven children — Jolm, Jere-
miah, Samuel, 3d, Hannah, (who subsequently married Ephraim
Seeley) ; Esther, Joseph, Sarah and Josiah. Josiah and Sarah
Dennis Fithian were the great-grandparents of the present Dr.
Enocli Fithian, of Greenwich.
By a deed dated 13th of 2d month, 1738, the Presbyterian
grave-yard was enlarged by the addition of one acre and a quar-
ter to its soutliern end, which was jDurchased for the sum of £25.
The deed, made by John Ogden, of Cohansey, conveyed to Jo-
siah Fithian, William Watson, and Abraham Reeves, " in trust
for the sole and proper use and benefit of the Presbyterian con-
gregation of Greenwich, for a meeting house and burying-
ground forever, and to and for no other use."
About tlie year 1700, William Hall, of Salem, and Daniel
Cox, of Burlington, came into possession of large tracts of ex-
cellent land in the southern portion of Pilesgrove township,
Deerfield, and other parts of the Colony. They held out in-
ducements to purchasers, and from the year 1715 to 1750 tliere
was a large emigration from New York and other places to
South Jersey. The Parvin, Harber Peck, Harris, Preston,
Foster, and several otlier families, most of tliem Presbyterians,
purchased lands in Deerfield, Cumberland county, as it is called,
since the division of Salem tenth. Nearly at the same period
tlic Newkirk, Vanmeter, Dubois, and other families bought
lands of Cox and the heirs of Hall in what is now Pittsgrove,
being formerly part of Pilesgrove. About 1737 the first Pres-
byterian Cimrcli was erectetl at Deerfield. It seems that the
churches at Greenwich and at Deerfield were in full unity with
each other, both of them being under the charge of a body of
deacons and elders who were members of both churches. Their
names were as follows : Andrew Hunter, their pastor, Josiah
Parvin, Harber Peck, Joseph Peck, Nathaniel Harris, Isaac
Preston, and Jeremiah Foster, of Deerfield Church; Jonathan
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Holmes, Isaac Mills, Francis Brewster, Thomas Padgett, Thomas
Ewing and Abraham Reeves, of Greenwich Clinrch. It appears
that Andrew Hunter succeeded Ebenezer Goold as pastor of
those two churches. He was born in Ireland about tlie year
1715, and has been represented to have had great oratorical
powers in the pulpit ; better than all, his moral and Christian
life was in accordance with his precepts. He married Annie
Stockton, of Princeton, New Jersey who survived him ; they
left no children. Andrew Hunter died 7th month, 2d, 1775,
and was buried in the ancient grave-yard at Greenwich, he being
at the time of his death about sixty years of age.
The Presbyterians, like the early Friends, seem to have had
dissensions among them. The old church at Fairfield adhered
strictly to the old Calvinistic doctrines, wliile the members of
Greenwich and Deerfield took a more liberal view of their modes
of faith; hence there was no unity between the two oldest Presby-
terian churches in Fenwick Colony. While the Fairlield mem-
bers adhered to what they called the old side, the members of
Greenwich and Deerfield churches strenuously advocated the new
modes of faith. It appears there was not full unity between the
two churches for nearly forty years. Tlie eloquence of Hunter,
however, attracted many persons from Fairfield Church, as "Welj-
ster, their historian remarked, to the congregation at Greenwich.
Pilesgrove Presbyterian Church is known at this time as
Pittsgrove congregation, on account of the division of the town-
sliip of Pilesgrove. The said church was organized by David
Evans, in 1741 ; it was associated at the first period of its
existence with the church at Gloucester, later with Deerfield,
the neighboring church, and finally with Quihawkin, located in
Pcnn's Neck. There appears to be no definite record showing
when the latter named church was founded. It is generally
believed by the members of that society that it was about tlie
time Pilesgrove church was organized. The families that were
members of Pittsgrove churcli at its establishment were — David
Evans, their pastor, DuBois, YanMeter, Newkirk and. Mayhew,
and at a later date the Coombs family, and a number of others
that I do not recollect at this time, whose descendants generally
are members of the same church that their forefathers assisted
in founding in the wilderness more than one hundred and
thirty years ago. The congregation at this time is said to be
large, and has a large moral and religious influence in that sec-
tion of the county.
I ^Quihawkin Church was located at Obisquahasit, now Penn's
Jfock, (m thQ banks of the ^hanangah (now DeLiware) river.
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near what is now Pennsville. The building was similar to the
old Presbyterian Church at C-rreenwicli, but less in size ; it has
been taken down for a number of years. Some of tlie persons
that were members of it at its organization were Tobias Copner
and family, and Dunn and Lambson families. Tradition asserts
that the Philpot family, Thomas Miles, and liis son Francis,
and a numl")er of otliers, were also members of said cliurcli.
There is no Presbyterian meeting now kept up in that township.
Joseph Copner, the son of Tobias, became a member of the
Society of Friends in old age, while the large and influential
family of Dunns have left the religious society of their ances-
tors, most of them being memljers of tlie Methodist church.
The records of the Presbyterian churcli located formerly at
Logtown, in Alio ways Creek, seems in lapse of time to have
been lost. Johnson, in his history of Salem county, says that
the said church was founded in 1750. The families that were
members of it at the time of its organization were James Sayre,
Joseph Hildredth, Richard Moore, a person by the name of
Woodruff, (I think it was Thomas, whose grandparents, Tliomas
and Edith Wyatt Woodruff, emigrated from Worcestershire,
England, to Salem county, in 1678), and Thomas Padgett,
Jr. Towards tlie latter part of the last century Solomon Du-
Bois, a young man from Pittsgrove, George (irier, Sr., Henry
Wood, and a few others, became members of said church. I
think it was not at any time large. The house of worship has
been taken down more than a half century. Tlie cemetery that
once belonged to tlie churcli is now enclosed with the Baptist
grave-yard, near the village of Canton, where the descendants
of the former members of the Presbyterian church still bury
their deceased relatives, and a number whose parents were
formerly members of the Logtown Churcli have become mem-
1:)er8 of the Baptist Society.
Bridgeton is comparatively a modern city in Fen wick's Col-
ony. Richard Tindall, after the difficulties between Richard
Hancock and the proprietor, was made surveyor-general of the
province by Fen\vick, in the year 1680. In 1682 Richard
Hancock erected a saw mill on the south side of Cohansey,
where Bridgeton is located, on a small stream that flows into
the Cohansey, called Mill creek. I presume that name was
given to it on account of Hancock's mill being located there.
What time ho remained there I have no means of determining,
but Judge Elmer thinks he left that place and purchased prop-
erty where Hancock's Bridge is located, find the family by that
namo at that placQ aro lu^ ipBcendantB, I am ioclined to think
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that Ricliard Hancock left no children, if any they were daugh-
ters ; hence tlie name of the family is lost. There were three
persons by that name wlio emigrated to this country. Richard
came with the proprietor in 1675. William Hancock, who pur-
chased one thousand acres of land of the proprietor before he
embarked to take possession of the province. William gave
Richard Whiticar the powder of attorney to take charge of his
landed estate until such time as he should arrive in this country
himself, which was in 1677. He died in 1679, on his allotment,
leaving two sons — John and William Hancock. John Hancock
was the father of William, who was killed at the massacre in
his own house during the American Revolution. William Han-
cock, the son of the emigrant, purchased lands in Elsinborough,
and was the ancestor of the family by that name in that town-
ship. John, the cousin of Richard and William Hancock, came
to this province in 1680, and married Mary, the daughter of
Nathaniel and Elizabeth Chambless, in 1681. Their descend-
ants are numerous in tlie county at this time.
Where the city of Bridgeton is now located the first bridge
across the Cohansey was built. The village, during the time of
the Revolution, went under the name of Cohansey Bridge.
The American Militia, under Colonels Hand and Home, was
quartered there for some time in the years 1777-8. I was told
many years ago by a celebrated antiquarian, the latc]^i)alyman
Harris, that a few years before the Revolution John Moore, a
native of Ireland, after he arrived in this country ,'^followed the
l)usiness of a pedlar of dry goods. According to the custom of
that day he carried the pack of merchandise on his back. By
strict economy he soon was enaljled to build a small building
on the north side of the creek, near the bridge, in whicli he
kept store. My informant further stated that he believed lie
married a young woman by the name of Reeve, grand-daughter
of Mark Reeve. They were the grand-parents of the late John
Moore White, of Woodbury. At the time of his death he was
more than fourscore years and ten. He was a good lawyer, and
for a number of years one of the Judges of the Courts.
Allen H. Brown, a divine of considerable eminence, gave the
following of the first Presbyterian Church built at Bridgeton,
in a discourse delivered in that city, in 1865 : " Sensible of the
" inconvenience of attending public worship in the neighboring
" churches, the people of Bridgeton determined, about the year
" 1774, to build a house for public worship and to form a con-
"gregation on or near the lot where the old session house re-
" cently stood. The revolutionary war coming on soon after,
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" tlio project was relinquished. In 1778 the subject was revived,
"l)ut because of disaj^reeincnt respecting the location, the site
"was not determined upon until 1791, The work was l>ei;;un
" in 1792, and in the same year the lionse was enclosed. In
" May, 1793, a lottery was started for raising two thousand
" dollars for the purpose of hnishing the building, which was
" drawn in January, 1791. In May, 1795, the house was
" opened and dedicated by Davenport, the pastor of Deerlield
" church.'' Although the same author further states that they
possessed a house, the people still felt unable to support the
Gospel alone. They made a proposition to Greenwich church
to unite with them as a collegiate church, under the name of the
" United Churclies of Greenwich and Bridgeton," with Imt one
set of church officers, and one cliurch session for both churclies,
and that for the present the officers of Greenwich church shall
control both churches, but in filling vacancies, elections shall be
held and officers chosen alternately at each church, Greenwich
congregation did not agree to the proposal, and the plan was
relinquished. Application was then made to the Presbytery for
a separate congregation in Bridgeton, and the prayer was
granted in 10th month, 1792. Tlie population at that place at
tliat period was about three hundred. Tliey now number aljout
eight thousand. I have been informed that at the present time
there are three Presbyterian churches in that city, besides a
large seminary called the West Jersey Academy, The said
institution, if the report respecting it be correct, is extensively
patronized.
I think many of the ancestors of tlie meml)ers of the Presljy-
terian churches of Bridgeton were members of the old Presby-
terian church at Fairfield. It can safely be said of Bridgeton
that it is a place of factories and churches, and tliere seems to
be a general industry and talent in its population that is calcu-
lated to produce good results upon their ciiaracter.
The Presbyterian church at Salem was founded about 1821.
At that time there were only six members — the late Dr. James
VanMeter, and his brother, Robert YanMeter, were two of the
principal members, and took an active part in its organization.
The corner stone of their clmrch was laid in the Ijeginning of
3d month, 1821, on a lot on Griftith street, which was given to
the church by Robert Johnson. In 1821 the congregation
increased from six to thirty-one members, and the number who
generally attended tlieir meeting was about two hundred. The
(congregation agreed about that time to give their pastor, Burt,
three hundred dollars per annum, and liis firewood, and find
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him a house to live iu. Their record further states that " their
" people are mostly of common circumstances. From the atten-
'• tion given to their minister the congregation confidently ex-
" pected, by the goodness of Divine Providence, that in a few
" years the Society will be so far increased in numbers that they
" may be able to support their minister without the aid of their
" brethren elsewhere." They further stated that " they will be
" thankful to their Christian friends for any pecuniary assist-
" ance they may feel disposed to confer upon the infant churcli
" at Salem."
Notwithstanding the Presbyterian church had erected a sub-
stantial brick edifice on the lot they obtained from Robert G.
Johnson, on East Griftith street, they soon found it too small to
accommodate the congregation, and a few years afterward they
built an addition to it. Their pastor at that period was Daniel
Stratton, a native of Bridgeton, New Jersey. He married
Ellen, the eldest daughter of Morris and Sarah Hancock, of
Salem. Daniel was educated for the ministry. In early life, I
liave been informed, he was threatened with consumption, and
soon after his marriage he removed witli his wife to Newburn,
North Carolina, where he was installed pastor of the Presbyte-
rian church of that town. Thinking, I have no doubt, tliat a
warmer climate would be more genial to his weak constitution,
lie continued in that place for several years, and in 1852 he and
his family returned to their native State. I think he was
installed pastor of the Salem Presbyterian congregation the
same year. He continued in that service until his deatli, in 8th
montli, 1866, which event cast a gloom over his admiring con-
gregation, a large number of relatives and acquaintances, and
the inhabitants of the city of Salem generally, by whom he was
nnich beloved for his Christian and moral deportment whilst
residing among them. He was succeeded in the pastoral charge
of tlie congregation by Frederic W. Banns, who continued to
fill tlie duties of pastor for sixteen or seventeen montlis, having
resigned the charge in 1868. He was followed by the present
popular pastor, William Bannard, who was installed by the
congregation the s 
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