{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3041", "width": "1797", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "fill", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "NOTES,\\nHISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL,\\nCONCERNING\\nELIZABETH. TOWN.\\nITS EMINENT MEN,\\nCHURCHES AND MINISTERS\\nBY NICHOLAS MURRAY\\nELIZABETH-TOWN:\\nPRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY E. SANDERSON.\\n18 4 4.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "TO THE\\na\\nFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION,\\nELIZABETH-TOWN,\\nTHE FOLLOWING NOTES,\\nFIRST PREPARED FOR THEIR INSTRUCTION, AND NOW PUBLISHED\\nAT THEIR REQUEST,\\nARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,\\nAS AN EXPRESSION OF SINCERE AFFECTION,\\nBy THEIR PASTOR,\\nTHE AUTHOR.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nThe histor} of the following Notes is very easily\\ntold. On my settlement in this town in July, 1833,\\nI felt no little desire to make myself acquainted with\\nthe past history of the venerable Church which in the\\nprovidence of God was committed to my care. I\\nsought for its Records, but soon found that there were\\nnone reaching farther back than the ministry of Dr.\\nKollock. All beyond were lost amid the confusion of\\nthe war of the Revolution, or during the partial in-\\nsanity of Mr. Austin. I next examined the Records\\nof the Trustees, which, although extending back up-\\nwards of one hundred years, yet contain but little\\nbeyond the mere details of business. From these\\ndetails, however, I have derived much information,\\nand several interesting facts. And with the excep-\\ntion of the short Sketch, prefixed to the Church\\n1*", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nManual, prepared by my predecessor, Dr. J. M Dow-\\nIf, T could find but little to satisfy my curiosity.\\nJ then determined, as far as possible, to draw up a\\nNarrative of tlie Church and its Ministers, and to\\nbegin with (he beginning. I searched for old re-\\n:o:d~. and examined old books, and conversed with\\nold people, and opened a correspondence with indi-\\nviduals in different and distant parts of the country,\\ndescendants or relatives of individuals who have re-\\nsided here, and the information thus collected lias,\\nfrom year to year, been read to my people wlien col-\\nlected in parish meeting for the transaction of busi-\\nI pss, on the first day of Januar3^\\nThus these Notes were originally intended to refer\\nonly to the First Presbyterian Church to it they\\nnow mainly refer. But as for nearly fifty years it\\nv/as the only church in the place and as until the\\nlast cjuarter of a century three-fourths of all the in-\\nImbitants of the town were connected with it, the his-\\ntory of that church is really the history of the town.\\nIt is pre-eminently the Historic Church of New- Jer-\\nsey. And in attempting its history, I was unavoida-\\nbly led to blend with it the history of the town.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PREFACE. VII.\\nTlie Notes thus made atui read, greatly interested\\nthe people of my charge, and others that heard them,\\nand heard of them. Until the passage of the follow-\\ning resolutions hy a unanimous vote, at a parish\\nmeeting of the First Presbyterian Ciiurch, held on\\nthe first of January last, all solicitations to give them\\nto the public have been resisted\\nWhereas, our esteemed Pastor, Dr. Murray, has\\nwritten a brief History of this Town and Congrega-\\ntion from its earliest settlement to the present time,\\nembracing many interesting incidents, in which our\\nforefathers were prominent actors with short Bio-\\ngraphical Sketches of several eminent and beloved\\nMen, whose memory is endeared to this Congregation\\nthe preparing of which has required much time and\\nresearch\\nResolved, that the thanks of the Congregation be\\nand are hereby respectfully presented to our Pastor,\\nand that he be earnestly requested to grant a copy of\\nthe same for publication,\\nResolved, that Messrs. John J. Bryant, EliasWi-\\nnans and James F. Meeker be a committee to present\\nDr. Murray with a copy of the above, with powers to\\nmake such arrangements for publishing said history,", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Vlll. PREFACE.\\nas they may deem consistent with the wishes and in-\\nterest of the Congregation.\\nA true copy from the Minutes.\\nJames R. Meeker, Clerk.\\nNo persons, but those who have made the trial, can\\nestimate the difficulty of making Notes like these.\\nAlthough no labor to give them accuracy has been\\nwithheld, and no incident on oral testimony has been\\nrelated without being established by two or three wit-\\nnesses, yet errors may be detected in these pages. I\\ncommit them to the public, deeply regretting that\\nsome one of the many eminent men who have here\\nresided have never compiled the Annals of our an-\\ncient Borough, and that the collecting of these Notes\\nhad not fallen into more competent hands, and earlier.\\nN. M.\\nElizabeth-Town, April 1, 1844.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nPage\\nTaking of Constantinople and its consequences, 13\\nDiscoveries of Columbus and Cabot, 14\\nSir Water Raleigh s settlement, 15\\nOriginal Grant of New-Jersey by the Duke of York, 16\\nPolicy of Berkley and Carteret, _ _ 17\\nGovernor Carteret s arrival at Elizabeth-Town, 18\\nThe Elizabeth-Town Grant, 19\\nElizabeth-Town Associates, 20\\nConflicting Claims, 21\\nGovernor Carteret s death, 22\\nCHAPTER n.\\nDescription of Elizabeth-Town, 23\\nFirst General Assembly, 25\\nCharacterof the first laws, 26\\nBoundaries of Elizabeth-Town, 27\\nCharter of the Borough of Elizabeth-Town, 28\\nCHAPTER III.\\nFirst Inhabitants, where from, 45\\nFirst Presbyterian Church, 45\\nBarclay s statement, 47\\nRev. John Harriman, _ _ 48\\nDivision into East and West Jersey, 49\\nProprietors surrender their rights, 50", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "X. CONTENTS.\\nGovernment of the Crown resumed,\\n51\\nLord Cornbury,\\n51\\nIncident illustrating his t^Tanny,\\n52\\nRtv. Mr. Melyne,\\n53\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nRev. Jonathan Dickinson, _\\n54\\nExtent of the parish in his day,\\n56\\nChurch in Westfield organised, (Note,)\\n56\\nSalaries of Ministers and Governor,\\n57\\nControversy in Synod of Philadelphia,\\n58.\\nNew-Jersey College founded,\\n58\\nDeath of Dickinson, _ _ _\\n59\\nRev. Elihu Spencer, D. D.,\\n60\\nFirst Presbyterian Church Incorporated,\\n61\\nAct of Incorporation, _ _ _\\n62\\nGovernor Belcher, _ _ _\\n70\\nCHAPTER y.\\nRev. Abraham Kcttletas, _\\n71\\nRev. James Caldwell, _ _\\n72\\nOrigin of his family, _ _ _\\n73\\nChurch burned and INIrs. Caldwell shot,\\n75\\nMr. Caldwell s death and funeral.\\n76\\nHis Character, _ _\\n77\\nAccount of his Children, _\\n79\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nResistance to Impost Laws,\\n80\\nExcitement in East Jersey,\\n81\\nGovernor William Livingston,\\n82\\nGeneral Ellas Dayton, _ _\\n84\\nLetter from Elias Boudinot,\\n85\\nFrancis Barber, _ _\\n86\\nHis services and death,\\n88.\\nL", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS, XI.\\nAbraham Clark, 89\\nHis various services, 90\\nCPAPTER VII.\\nSuffering of East Jersey during the Revolution, 92\\nFortifications built at Elizabeth-Town Point, 92\\nCommittee of Safety, 93\\nCapture of the Blue Mountain Valley, 93\\nGreat suffering of our citizens, 95\\nConnecticut Farms burned, 96\\nSpringfield burned, 97\\nA brave incident, 97\\nA daring exploit, 98\\nBuildings burned, 99\\nShades of the picture, 100\\nCornelius Hetfield, 101\\nPetition to Congress, 102\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nDeplorable condition of the Town, 108\\nMinistry of Dr. Ogden, and Mr. Armstrong, 109\\nElias Boudinot, L. L. D., 110\\nThe First Church erected, 112\\nRev. William Linn, D. D., 113\\nRev. David Austin, 114\\nHis sickness and its effects, 115\\nFourth Sabbath of May, 1796, 116\\nMr. Austin s reply to the Committee, 117\\nPetition to the Presbytery of New- York, 119\\nAction of Presbytery, _ 120\\nHis subsequent course, _ _ _ _ 122\\nHis Character, 123\\nThe Rev. John Giles, 125", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "XU. CONTENTS.\\nRev. Henry KoUock, D. D., 126\\nRev. John M Dowell, D. D., 107\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nProtestant Episcopal Church, 128\\nSecond Presbyterian Church, 132\\nMethodist Episcopal Church, _ _ 135\\nCongregationalist and Baptist Churches, 135\\nCHAPTER X.\\nRevivals of Religion, 136\\nAPPENDIX.\\nTown Meeting, 1699, 161\\nSecond generation of Associates, 162\\nThe plan on which the Town was settled, 162\\nIncidents, -163\\nFirst Centennial Anniversary of the settlement of\\nthe Town celebrated, 164\\nAbstract of last Census, 16.5", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "NOTES, c.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nThe taking of Constantinople by the Turks in\\n1453, an event which spread sadness and sorrow all\\nover Christendom, seems to have been tlie leaditig\\ninstrumentaUty in the civil and reli ^ioiis regeneration\\nof the world. The capital of the Greek en)pire was\\nthe residence of the scholars and learned men of that\\nage and its fall, was the means of their dispersion\\nall over Europe. Unable to stem the torrent of bar-\\nbarism and ignorance that rushed in with the tri-\\numphant arms of Mahomet II., they fled in every\\ndirection and wherever they wandered; they devoted\\nthemselves to the business of instruction. And thus\\nthey became the great promoters of the revival of\\nlearning which immediately succeeded the fall of the\\ncity of Constantine.\\nIn 1455, the art of Printing was invented worth\\nmore than the gift of tongues to the church and the\\n2", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14 DISCOVERIES OF COLUMBUS AND CABOT.\\nworld. In 1492, this Western World was discovered\\nby Columbus; and in 1517, the immortal Luther\\nblew the trumpet of the Reformation.\\nThese four great events, occurring within a single\\nlifetime, iiave rendered the age of their occurrence\\nsecond only in importance to that which is termed ia\\nscripture the fulness of time, and in which the\\nSaviour died for the redemption of a world. Thus it\\nappears, that before the great principles of civil and\\nreligious truth were unfolded, God prepared scholars\\nto defend them, and the press to circulate them, and\\nan asylum for their persecuted and banished be-\\nlievers.\\nThe discoveries of Columbus in America, lay all of\\ntliem to the South. In 1407, Cabot, the son of a\\nVenetian pilot, and born in Bristol, sailed on a voy-\\nage of discovery, under the patronage of Henry VII.\\nof England. He discovered New Foundland and\\nSaint Johns, and explored the coast as far as Caro-\\nlina. Because of this discovery by Cabot, the English\\nclaimed the whole countr}^ South to Florida, on the\\nprinciple of the law of nations, that whatever waste\\nland is discovered is the property of the prince at\\nwhose expense the discovery is made. The younger\\nCabot was, beyond question, the most exlraorilinary\\nman of his age and, although he gave to England\\na continent, the place of his sepulchre is un-\\nknown\\nMany years pass away before any advantage is\\ntaken of the dicovcry of Cabot. In the year 1584f", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "SIR WALTER RALEIGH s SETTLEMENT. 15\\nSir Walter Raleigh obtains for himself and heirs a\\npatent from Glueen Elizabeth, to possess for ever\\nwhatever lands they might discover not possessed by\\na Christian prince, nor inhabited by a Christian peo-\\nple. In virtue of this patent, Sir Walter settled a\\ncolony in Carolina and, in honor of his patron and\\nvirgin queen, gave the name of Virginia to that whole\\ncountry now extending from Maine to Virginia. The\\nonly memorable result of this colony was the intro-\\nduction of that vile weed, tobacco, into England, and\\nsome lectures to his royal mistress on the various de-\\nlights and benefits of its use.\\nWithout any regard to the rights of Raleigh,\\nJames I. granted a new patent of Virginia, as above\\ndescribed, to two cotnpanies, called the London and\\nPlymouth companies, which met with but little suc-\\ncess in their attempts to colonize it. A suit was en-\\ntered in the King s Bench in reference to these pa-\\ntents, which resulted in their forfeiture; and the title\\nto Virginia reverted to the crown, which was again at\\nfull liberty to grant it to others in whole or in part.\\nUp to this time New -Jersey was a part of Virginia.\\nSubsequently, however, it was a part of the province\\nof New-York, which, in 1664, extended South to\\nMaryland, East to New-England, Northward to the\\nriver of Canada, and Westward as far as land could\\nbe discovered.\\nBecause of the discovery of Cabot, the English\\nclaimed the right and title to the whole country from\\nMaine to Florida but the Dutch gained possession", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "IG ORIGINAL GRANT OF NEW-JERSEY.\\nof what is now called New- York, and claimed it as\\ntheirs in virtue of a discovery made in 1609 by Hen-\\nry Hudson, who, in the employment of the Holland\\nFast India Company, was in search of a Northwest\\npassage (o Ciiina. This gave great offence to Charles\\nII., now filling the British throne and for the purpose\\nof dispossessing them he gave a patent to the Duke\\nof York, his brother, for a large portion of the whole\\ncounlr\\\\-, in which was included the whole territory\\nnow known as New-York and New-Jersey. To place\\nthe Duke in the possession of this country, Sir Robert\\nCarr is sent over with a small fleet; and as the\\nDutch were ignorant of his object, and were unpre-\\npared for defence, he quietly lakes possession of New-\\nAmsterdam.\\nOn the 24tli of June, IGGl, the Duke of York,\\nnow the possessor of the soil under patent from the\\ncrown, granted and conveyed to Lord John Berkley\\nand Sir George Carteret, the tract of land lying be-\\ntween the Hudson and the Delaware rivers, and\\nextending from the ocean to the present Northerr\\nline of our Stale, for the yeaily rent of twenty no-\\nl)lcs, lawful money of England, to be paid in the\\nInner Temple, liondon, at the feast of Saint Michael\\nthe Archangel. It is to be regretted that we know\\n60 little in reference to these individuals, so high in\\nroyal favor, the iullucnce of whose laws and acts is\\nyet felt in our connnonwealth. We only know that\\nBerkley was one of the Privy Council and that Car-\\nteret was a member of I he same body, Treasurer of", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "POLICY OF BERKLEY AND CARTERET. 17\\nthe Navy, and Vice-Chamborlain of the Royal House-\\nIiold. Carteret, it seems, did not always enjoy an\\nunspotted reputation, as lie was expelled from the\\nHouse of Commons in 1669 for confused accounts as\\nChamberlain. For some time previous to the grant\\nto Berkley and Carteret, the district now included\\nwithin the boundaries of our State was called New-\\nCanary but after the grant it was called New-Jersey,\\nin honor of Carteret, who w as a native of the Isle of\\nJersey, and who defended it with great valor against\\nthe Long Parliament in the civil w^ars.\\nBerkley and Carteret are now the proprietors of\\nNew-Jersey, and their first care is to invite settlers to\\nthe province. In the pursuit of this object they mani-\\nfest great sagacity. They prepared and published a\\nConstitution, which, considering the day in which it\\nwas formed, contains nany admirable provisions.*\\nAnd although the first Constitution of New-Jersey,\\nand granted by Lords Proprietors, it guards as care-\\nfully the civil and religious rights of the people as that\\nunder which we now live. Whilst prelatical Virginia\\nand puritanical Connecticut had each their blue laws,\\nand those of the former no less absurd than those of\\nthe latter, it was an organic law of New- Jersey, that\\nNo person shall be molested or questioned for any\\ndifference of opinion or practice in matters of religious\\nconcernment. And it further provides, that the Assein-\\nbly shall have power to ajipoint as many preachers as\\nThis may be seen at large in the Grants, Concessions, o.\\nby Learning and Spiccr.\\n2*", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18 CARTERET SETTLES AT ELIZABETn-TOWR\\nthey see fit, and to establish their maintenance. It\\ngrants to every settler aimed with a good musket, bore\\ntwelve bullets to the pound, with ten pounds of pow-\\nder and twenty pounds of bullets, with bandaliers\\nand mntch convenient, and with six months provision\\nfor his own person, one hundred and fifty acres of\\nland English measure/ It further grants to every\\nparish two hundred acres of land for the support of\\nthe ministry, to be located under the direction of the\\nAssembly, and secures to the people the right to se-\\nlect their own ministry. This is one of the many\\ninstances in which avarice has paid its homage to\\nfreedom.\\nWith this charter, Philip Carteret, brother of Sir\\nGeorge the proprielor, came over as governor of the\\nprovince. With thirty English settlers he reaches\\nElizabeth-Town, in August, 1G65, which he makes\\nthe capital of the province, when it yet contained only\\nfour houses and gave it the name of Elizabeth-\\nTow-n, in honor of the wife of his brother, Lady Eli-\\nzabeth Carteret. He soon despatches messengers\\nthrough all the adjacent provinces, and es[)ecially to\\nNew-England, to make known the Concessions of\\nthe proprietors, and to invite settlers. Tliese came in\\nconsiderable numbers from New-England, and from\\nLong Island. And soon their number was increased\\nby the accession of the Scotch, of whom there came\\na great number.* New-England Puritans, English\\nQuakers, and Scotch Presbyterians, were the chief\\nSmith s History, p. G 2.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE ELIZABETH-TOWN GRAKT.\\n19\\nsettlers of this portion of New-Jersey, and the formers\\nof its moral character.*\\nPrevious to the arrival of Carteret, and before the\\ngrant of the Duke of York to Berkley and Carteret\\nwas yet known, John Bailey, Daniel Denton and\\nLuke Watson, of Jamaica, Long Island, purchased\\nof certain Indian chiefs residing on Siaten Island, a\\ntract of land, on part of which Elizabeth-Town now\\nstands. For this trad. Governor Richard Nicolls\\ngranted a patent to John Daker of New-York, John\\nOgden of Northampton, John Bailey, Luke Watson,\\nand their associates. The parly to the purchase on\\nthe part of the Indians, were the sachems Mattano,\\nManomowanne and Connescomen. The tract extend-\\ned from the Raritan to the Passaic river, and from\\nArlhur Cull bay, which separates the main land from\\nStaten Island, twice the length of its breadlh into the\\ncountry. This tract, now embracing Piscataway,\\nAmboy, Woodbridge, Rahway, Elizabeth-Town,\\nUnion, Springfield, Westfield, and how much beyond\\nthe Short Hills we cannot affirm, and containing five\\nhundred thousand acres of land, was purchased for\\ntwenty fathoms of trading cloth, two made coats,\\ntwo guns, two kettles, ten bnrs of lead, twenty hand-\\nfuls of powder, four hundred fathoms of while wam-\\npum, payable in one year from the day of entry upon\\nsaid lands. t This is what is afterwards known as\\nthe Elizabeth-Town Grant; and Baker, Ogden,\\nBancroft, vol. ii. 32.\\nt Learning and Spiccr, 67S.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20\\nTHE ELIZABETH- TOWN ASSOCIATES.\\nBaile} and Watson, wiLli their associates, are those\\nusually known as the Elizabeth-Town Associates.\\nThe names of these associates, as lecoided in an old\\nbook of records of surveys in my possession, are as\\nfollows\\nCapt. John Baker,\\nJohn Ogdcn,\\nJolm Baily,\\nLuke Watson,\\nThomas Young,\\nBenjamin Price,\\nJohn Woodruff,\\nPhilip Carteret,\\nRobert Bond,\\nSeely Champain\\nWilliam Meeker,\\nJcoffrey Jones\\nGeorge Ross,\\nJoseph Bond,\\nMatthias Hetfield,\\nBarnabas Winds,\\nRobert White,\\nPeter Morss,\\nJohn Winans,\\nJoseph Sayre,\\nRichard Beach,\\nMoses Tliompson,\\nThomas Thompson,- John Gray,\\nSanil. Marsh, William Johnson,*\\nWilliam Piles, John Brocket, jr.\\nPeter Coonhoven, Simeoik Rouse,\\nJohn Brocket, William Trotter,\\nJames Bollon, John Ogden, jr.\\nJacob Melyen, Jonas Wood,\\nNicholas Carter,- Robert Morss,\\nJeremiah Peck, Mr. Lcprary,\\nIsaac Whilohcad, Caleb Carwithc,\\nJoseph Meeker, William Perdon,\\nHumphry pinning, Stephen Osborn,\\nGeorge Morris, Joseph Osborn,\\nGeorge Pack, John Pope,\\nWilliam Oliver, Richard Painter,\\nCharles Tooker.\\nThe imnies of many of these arc as familiar as\\nhousehold words in our community, and in East Jer-\\nsey, dow n to the present day.\\nJonathan Ogdcn,\\nAbraham Shotwell,\\nV^David Ogden,\\nNathaniel Tuttlo,\\nBenjamin Price, jr.\\nRoger Lambert,\\nAbraham Lawrence,\\nJohn Hinds,\\nThomas I\\\\Ioor,\\nJoseph Frazey,\\nYokam Andross,\\nDenis White,\\nNathaniel Norton,\\nGreat John Wilson,\\nHur Thompson,-\\nBenjamin Oman,\\nEvan Salsbury,\\nLittle John Wilson,\\nStephen Crane,\\nHenry Lyon,\\nJohn Pr.rkcr,\\nJohn Dickenson,\\nLeonard Headley,\\nNathaniel Bonnel,\\nPardoy,\\nFrancis Barber,", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "CONFLICTING CLAIMS.\\n2t\\nIn this Grant three townships were soon formed\\nElizabeth-Town, Woodbriclge and Piscataway which\\nwere soon settled by emigrants chiefly from Long\\nIsland and Governor Nicolls gave to the whole tract\\nthe name of Albania,* in honor of his master the\\nDuke, whose title was Duke of York and Albany.\\nThe claims of these Associates and those of the\\ngrantees of the Duke of York, Berkley and Carteret,\\ncame often into terrible conflict, and gave rise to com-\\nmotions deeply perplexing and seriously injurious to\\nthe settlement. Some of the Associates took new\\ndeeds for their lands from the Proprietors, but others\\nresisted to the last; and although many suits at law\\nwere commenced, the diflkulties were never legally\\nadjusted. It is obvious from the meagre history of\\nthe times that the Associates were (lie stronger party,\\nand that public sympathy was in their favor, la\\n1670 contention raged with great violence. The\\npayment of quit-rents ^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2as demanded by the Proprie-\\ntors and refused by the Associates. Disputes weie\\nfollowed by confusion. And in 1672 the disaffected\\ncolonists sent delegates to a constituent Assembly at\\nElizabeth-Town,t which displaced Philip Carteret as\\nGovernor, and transferred his oflTice to tiie young and\\nfrivolous and dissolute James Carteret, who was a\\nnatural son of Sir George. Philip was compelled to\\nretire to England, leaving John Berry as a deputy\\nbehind him, and James Bollen as secretary, lie re^\\nElizabeth-Town Bill in Chancery, Gordon, 27.\\nt Bancroft, vol. ii. 34.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22 GOVERNOR Carteret s death.\\nturned in 1674, bringing with biin a pioclamalion of\\nthe King, and new instrucrions from Sir George,\\nwhich had for a while a good efiect in restoring peace.\\nHe continued Governor until his deatfi in 1682.\\nAlthough an amial)lej and in many points of cha-\\nracter an excellent man, Philip Carteret encountered\\nmany dilficulties and hardships as Governor. His life\\nwas embittered by the ceaseless disputes between the\\nAssociates and Proprietors. His right to govern New-\\nJersey by the authority of the Proprietors, was called in\\nquestion by the Governor of New-York, who held his\\ncommission from the Duke of York. In 16S0 he\\nwas seized by an armed force from New-York, and\\ntaken a prisoner to thai city, where he was imprison-\\ned, tried and acquitted. In partnership wilii his\\nbrother, the proprietor, a little settlement was formed\\non the bank of the creek, probably on the South side\\nof Water-street, where he built a house for his resi-\\ndence, the first government house of New-Jersey. He\\ncame to Elizabeth-Town when there were here but\\nfour houses, and these but log huts; and in 16S2,\\nwhen he died, there were residing here one hundred\\nand fifty families. Me died in this town and his\\nremains lie somewhere in the grave-yard of the First\\nPresbyterian Church.\\nIn proof that the controversy between the Asso-\\nciates and the grantees of the Duke of York contin-\\nued for a long time, and that it never was settled, we\\nfind in an old manuscript book in our possession, a\\nrecord of a town-meeting held on November ISlh,", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "DESCRIPTION OF ELIZABETH-TO \\\\VN. 4 6\\n1729, at which Benjamin Bond, Samuel Potter, Jo-\\nseph WoodrufT, Nathaniel Bonnel, John Blanchard,\\nJohn Harriman and Joseph Bonnel, were appointed a\\ncommittee with full powers to act in behalf of the\\nAssociates, and to defend their titles held under the\\npurchase from the Indians and the patent from Gov-\\nernor Nicolls. And from the same old book we learn,\\nthat, as late as 1735, being seventy-one years after the\\npurchase from the Indians, Joseph Williams, Jeremiah\\nCrane, Samuel Miller, Caleb Jaffrey, John Crane,\\nJoseph Halsey and Joseph Botmel, are appointed by\\nthe Associates to sell on their behalf a tract of land\\nlying West from Baskenridge, held under the same\\ntitle.\\nCHAPTER II.\\nFor many years after the settlement of the Pro-\\nvince, Elizabeth-Town was the largest and most im-\\nproving town in it. Here were all the public offices,\\nand here was the residence of most of the officers of\\nthe government. The place and people are thus de-\\nscribed by Thomas Rudyard, in a letter dated May,\\n1683\\nMy habitation with Samuel Groome is at Eliza-\\nbeth-Town and here we came first it lies on a\\nfresh, small river with a tide, ships of thirty or forty", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24 DESCRIPTION OF ELIZABETII-TOWN.\\ntons come before oiu doors. Wc cannot call onr habi-\\ntations solitary for wliat with public employ, I have\\nlittle less company at my house daily than I had in\\nGeorge Yard, although not so many passes by my\\ndoors. The people are generally a sober professing\\npeople, wise in their generation, courteous in their\\nbehaviour, and respectful to us in oflice among them.\\nAs for the temperature of the air, it is wonderfully\\nsuited to the huiiiors of mankind the wind and\\nweather rarely holding in one point, or one kind, for\\nten days together, 1 bless the liord I never had bet-\\nter health, nor my family my daughters are very\\nwell improved in that respect, and tell me they would\\nnot change their place for George Yard nor would I.\\nPeople here are generally settled where the tide\\nreaches.\\nGawcn Lawrie thus writes (o the proprietors, in a\\nletter dated EIi?:abeih-Town, 1 Month 2tl, 1084:\\nHere wants nothing but people. Tliero is not a\\npoor body in the province, nor that wants. Here is\\nrbut\\\\dance of provisions pork and beef at two pence\\nper pound tlsh and fowl pletUy oysters I think\\nwould serve all England Indian wheat two shillings\\nand six pence per bushel; it is exceeding good for\\nfood every way, and two or three hundred fold in-\\ncrease; cyder good and plenty for one penny per\\nquart good drink that is made of water and mo-\\nlasses stands in about two shillings per barrel, whole-\\nsome like our eight shilling beer in England good\\nvenison plenty, brought us in at eighteen pence per", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONSTITUTED. 25\\nquarter eggs at three pence a dozen all things very\\nplenty land very good as ever I saw vines, walnuts,\\npeaches, strawberries, and many other things plenty\\nin the woods.\\nBy the Concessions and Agreement of the Lords\\nProprietors, a General Assembly was established,\\nconsisting of the Governor, a Council, and a House of\\nBurgesses. This Assembly held it first meeting at\\nElizabeth-Town, on the 26th of May, 166S. The\\nCouncil consisted of seven, and the House of Bur-\\ngesses of eleven members, John Ogden, sen r, and\\nJohn Bracket, were the members from Elizabeth-\\nTown. It is very easily inferred that a New-England\\ninfluence was predominant in this first colonial legis-\\nlature, as we find the chief features of the Puritan\\ncodes transferred to the statutt^ book of New-Jerse}\\nAfter sitting four days, and passing sundry laws, they\\nadjourned to the third of November, when the Bur-\\ngesses were increased by the addition of some dele-\\ngates from the river Delaware. They sit but a few\\ndays and from the letters which pass between the\\nGovernor and Council on the one hand, and the Bur-\\ngesses on the other, we conclude that it was dissolved\\namid no little excitement.\\nThe inquiry naturally arises, what was the charac-\\nter and purport of the laws passed by this first colo-\\nnial legislature? The very first act respects the pun-\\nishment of disobedience to lawful authority and the\\nsecond, the defence of the rising Commonwealth, by ;j\\nenacting that all males from sixteen to sixty should\\n3 7\\\\", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "56 CHARACTER OF THE FIRST LAWS.\\nbe provided with fire-arms. The next are called\\nCapital Acts, in which severe punishments are\\nenacted against arson, murder, perjury, buggery, so-\\ndomy, burglary, stealing, conspiracy, undutiful chil-\\ndren, rapes, night-walking, and drinking in tapp-\\nhouses after nine of the clock at night. It was also\\nsolemnly enacted, that if any person be found to be\\na witch, either male or female, they shall be put to\\ndeath. It was also enacted, that no son, daughter,\\nmaid or servant, without consent of parents, guardians\\nor overseers, should marry nor then, without being\\ntiiree times published in some public meeting or kirk\\nnear the party s abode, or notice being set up in wri-\\nting at some public house near where they lived, for\\nfourteen days before.\\nAlthough in May, 1668, it was enacted that the\\nGeneral Assembly are to mieet on the first Tuesday\\nin November next, and so to continue their meeting\\nyearly on the same day until they shall see cause to\\nalter the said time of meeting, we find no record of\\nits meeting from November, 1668. to November, 167.5.\\nIt probably diil not meet during the intervening years,\\nowing to the great excitement and controversy be-\\ntween the Associates and Proprietors, and the confu-\\nsion caused by tlie Constituent Assembly of 1672,\\nwhich displaced Governor Carteret. In 1674 he re-\\nturns from England with new instructions from the\\nProprietors and the third session of the Legislature\\ncommences in 167,5, of which Henry liyon and Ben-\\njamin Price were the Burgesses from Elizabeth-lVwiii", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "BOUNDARIES OF ELIZABETH-TOWN. 27\\nAnd, with few exceptions, the General Assembly held\\nits annual sessions in this town during the subsequent\\nseven years. Up to 1682 the sessions of the Supreme\\nCourt were held here. Here were all the public\\nbuildings. There is not now a trace of these public\\nbuildings in existence nor does even tradition point\\nout the site on which they stood. In 1686 the Assem-\\nbly met at Amboy Perth. We know not that it ever\\nafterwards met regularly at this place. It alternated\\nbetween Amboy and Burlington, occasionally meeting\\nhere, until it became stationary at Trentown.\\nIn 1693, the Assembly resolved That the town-\\nship of Elizabeth-Town shall include all the land\\nfrom the mouth of Rahway River West to Woodbridge\\nstake, and from thence Westerly along the line of the\\ncounty to the partition line of the Province and from\\nthe mouth of said Rahway River, up the Sound to the\\nmouth of Bound Creek, and from thence to the Bound\\nHill, from thence Northwest to the partition line of\\nthe Province. Within these lines, if we rightly\\nunderstand them, were included Baskenridge, Pluck-\\namin, and a part of Lamington, now lying in Som-\\nerset county.\\nOn the 8th day of February, 1739, Lewis Morris\\nbeing Captain-General, Governor and Commander-in-\\nChief of the Province, and in the thirteenth year of\\nGeorge II., the Borough of Elizabeth received the fol-\\nlowing act of incorporation\\nLearning and Spicer, p. 329.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28 ORIGINAL CHARTER OF\\nGeorge the Second, by the grace of God of\\nGreat Britain, France and Ireland King, Defen-\\nder of the Faith, c. To all to whom these\\npresents shall come, Greeting\\nWhereas our loving subjects, Joseph Bonnel, An-\\ndrew Joline, Thomas Price, John Ross, John Blan-\\nchard, John Crane, Thomas Clark, Maithias HetfieliJ,\\nNoadiah Potter, John Halsted, Nathaniel Bonne),\\nSamuel Woodruff, Samuel Marsh, Jonathan Hamp-\\nton, William Chetwood, Edward Thomas, Cornelitrs\\nHetfield, and many other inhabilants and freeholdcFS\\nin Elizabeth-Town, in our County of Essex, in our\\nProvince of Nova-Cajsarea or New-Jersey, have late-\\nly by their humble petition presented to our (rusty and\\nwell-beloved Lewis Morris, Esquire, Captain-General\\nand Governor-in-Chief of our said Province of New-\\nJersey, in America in behalf of themselves and oth-\\ners the freeholders and inhabitants of the said town\\nhave humbly pray d for our Royal Grant by letters\\npatent under our great seal of our said Province of\\nNova-Cffisarea or New-Jersey, to incorporate tliem in-\\nto a body corporate and politic, with perpetual suc-\\ncession, by whatsoever name our said Governor and\\nCommander-in-Chief shall think tit; and that alt and\\nsingular the lands and tenements within the said town\\nmay for ever be within the limits of the said free town\\nand borough corporate, and for such immunities and\\nprivileges as may be necessary for the well ordering\\nand ruling (hereof: We being willing to grant the\\nreasonable requests and prayers of all our loving sub-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE BOROUGH OF ELIZABETH. 29\\njectSj and to promote good order among them Kuow\\nye therefore that we, considering the premises, and\\nbeing wiHing for the future that a firm, certain and\\npeaceable government may be estabhshed within the\\nsaid town of Elizabeth-Town, do of our especial\\ngrace, certain knowledge and mere motion, by these\\npresents will, ordain, grant and constitute, that the\\naforesaid town of Elizabeth-Town, from henceforth\\nfor ever may and shall be, and is-hereby, made and\\nconstituted and ordained, to be a Free Town and Bo-\\nrough of itself; and that all the houses and buildings,\\nlands, waters, water-courses, ponds, pools, rivers,\\nbrooks, meadows, marshes, soyle, lands and grounds,,\\nsituate, lying and being in the county of Essex and\\nprovince aforesaid. Beginning at the mouth of Rah\\nway River where it fails into the Sound, thence run-\\nning to the mouth of Robison s Branch, thence West\\ntwelve miles, thence Northerly on a direct line to the\\nmouth of Dead River where it empty s itself into\\nPassaick River, thence dqv/n the Passaick River to\\nwhere Minisink Path crosseth the same, thence on a\\ndirect line to the bluff end of the mountain called tha\\nNorth Mountain, from thence along the foot of the\\nsaid mountain to the division line between Newark\\nand EUsabelh-Towa aforesaid, theoco as that line\\nruns to Dividen Hill, thence to the head of the creek\\ncalled Bound Creek, thence down the said crsdk to\\nArthur Cull Bay, thence down the said bay io th\\nsound which parts Staten Island from Eiiisabsth-\\nTown, and thence down tha sound lo where it begiaiij\\na*", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30 ORIGINAL CHARTER OF\\nfrom hencelbrlh and for ever are and sliall be within\\nthe metes, bounds and jurisdiction of tiie said Free\\nTown and Borough of Elizabeth and that all and\\nsincfular the inhn,hitants of the said to^vn of Elizabeth\\naforesaid, and their successors, from henceforth and\\nfor ever, may and shall be one body corporate and\\npolitic, in deed, action and name, and shall be called,\\nnamed and distinguished by the name of the Free\\nBorough and Tow^i of Elizabeth And further, we\\nhave willed, given, granted, constituted, appointed\\nand ordained, and by this our present charter, of our\\nespecial grace, certain knowledge and mere motion\\nwe do, for us, our heirs and successors for ever, will,\\ngive, grant, constitute, appoint and ordain, that there\\nshall in the said borough or town corporate from\\nhenceforth be a body politic, consisting of a Mayor,\\nRecorder, six Aldermen, six Common Council-men\\nor Assistants, one Sheriff, one Coroner, one Cham-\\nberlain or Treasurer, one Town Clerk, one Marshal,\\none High Constable and six Petty Constables, four\\nAssessors and four Collectors of Taxes, and six Over-\\nseers of the Poor to be assigned, nominated, elected,\\nchosen, appointed and sworn in and for the said bo-\\nrough or town corporate, as is herein and hereby ap-\\npointed, directed and mentioned, to continue in suc-\\ncession for ever And for the more full and perfect\\nerection of the said corporation or body politic, to con-\\nsist, continue and be of a Mayor, Recorder, six Alder-\\nmen, six Common Council-men or Assistants, and oth^\\nfrs the before mentioned officers and ministers of th.e", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE BOROUGH OF ELIZABETH 31\\nsaid boroLigli and town, we, of our especial j^race, cer-\\ntain knowledge and mere motion, do by these pre-\\nsents, for us, our heirs and successors, create, make,\\nordain, constitute, nominate and appoint, our trusty\\nand well-beloved Joseph Bonnel, Esq r, to be the first\\nand new Mayor of said Borough and Town of Eliza-\\nbeth and Clerk of the Market thereof, giving and\\ngranting unto the said Joseph Bonnel, the present\\nMayor and Clerk of the Market, and unto the suc-\\nceeding Mayors and Clerks of the Market, power and\\nautliority to do, execute and perform, whatsoever shall\\nor does relate and appertain to the said offices, and\\ntherein to remain and continue until another fit person\\nshall be chosen, elected and sworn inio the said ofRces,\\nas herein after is directed and appointed And we do\\nalso, for us, our heirs and successors, by these pre-\\nsents, create, make, ordain, nominate and appoint,\\nour trusty and well-beloved John Blanchard, Esq r,\\nto be the present Recorder of the said Borough and\\nTown of Elizabeth, to do and execute all things\\nwhich unto the office of Recorder of the said borough\\nor town corporate doth or may belong or in any man-\\nner appertain, and to continue and be continued in the\\nsaid office of Recorder, and to execute the same until\\nanother fit person shall be by us, our heirs and success-\\nors, appointed and sworn into the said office: And we do\\nhereby appoint that the Governor or Commander-in-\\nChief for our said Province of New- Jersey for the time\\nbeing, at any time or times when and as often as\\nthey or any of them shall think fit, may displace and", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32 ORIGINAL CHARTER OF\\nremove the said Recorder or any oLlier Recorder here-\\nafter to be appointed And we do. for us, our lieirs\\nand successors, assign, ordain, nominate, constitute\\nand appoint, our well-beloved Andrew Joliiie, Mat-\\nthias Hetfield, Thomas Price, John Ross, John Crane\\nand Thomas Clark, Esquires, inhabitants of the said\\nborough or town corporate, piesent Aldermen of tiie\\nsame borough or town corporate of Elizabeth and\\nINoadiah Potter, John Halsted, Nathaniel Bonnel,\\nSamuel Woodruff, Samuel Marsh and Jonathan\\nHampton, gentlemen, to be the Assistants and Com-\\nmon Council of the said borough and town And we\\ndo also hereby nominate and appoint William Chet-\\nwood, Esq r, to be our present Sheriff of the said bo-\\nrough and town corporate and Joseph Bonnel, Esq r,\\npresent Mayor, to be present Coroner of the said bo-\\nrough and town corporate and Jonathan Dayton to\\nbe present Chamberlain and Treasurer of the said\\nborough and town corporate and Thomas Hill to be\\npresent Marshal of the said borougli and town corpo-\\nrate and also, we do hereby nominate and appoint\\nJohn Radley, George Ross, junior, Daniel Marsh and\\nJohn Scudder, Assessors Robert Ogden, John Odle.\\nJohn Terrill and William Clark, Collectors James\\nTownley, High Constable, and Robert Little, Na-\\nthaniel Price, Richard Harriman, John Looker, John\\nCraige and David Dunham, to be Pettil Constables^\\nfor the said borough and town corporate and we do\\nalso, by these presents, nominate and appoint Henry\\nGarthwaite, Cornelius Hetfield, John Radley, senioi,", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE BOROUail OF ELIZABETH. S3\\nJohn Allert, Epliraim Marsh and Daniel Day, to be\\npresent Overseers of the Poor of the said borough and\\ntown corporate: And we do further, of our especial\\ngiace, certain knowledge and mere motion, for us,\\nour heirs and successoKs, will, give, grant and ap-\\npoint that the said Mayor, Aldermen and Common\\nCouncil now be, and their successors shall for ever\\nhereafter be, in deed, fact and name, a body corpo-\\nrate and politic, and that they the said body corporate\\nand politic, shall be known and distinguished in all\\ndeeds, grants, bargain?, sales, writings, evidences, min-\\numents or otherwise howsoever, and in all courts for\\never hereafter plead and be impleaded by the name of\\nthe Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the Free\\nBorough and Town of Elizabeth and that tlie said\\nMayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Common Council-\\nmen, by the name aforesaid, shall be able and in law\\ncapable to have, get, acquire, purchase, receive and\\nlake and possess, lands, tenements, hereditaments,\\njurisdicons and franchises, as well without as within\\nthe said borough and town corporate, to them and\\ntiieir successors, in fee simple or otherwise howsoever;\\nand also goods, chattels and other things, of what na-\\nture or quality soever; and to grant, bargain, sell, let, set\\nor assign, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods and\\nchattels, contract and to do all other things whatso-\\never by the name aforesaid, in as full and ample man-\\nner, to all intents and purposes, as any person or\\nother body politic and corporate is able to do by the\\nlaws of our realm of England or of our said province", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34 ORICilNAL CHARTER OP\\nof New- Jersey And of our furilier grace, cerlaiu\\nknowledge and mere motion, to the intent tlie said\\ncorporation and body politic by these presents created\\nand begun may have perpetual succession and con-\\ntinue for ever, and we do for us, our heirs and suc-\\ncessors, hereby will, give and grant, unto the said\\nMayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Common Council-\\nmen, and to their successors forever, that the Mayor\\nand Aldermen of the said borough and town of Eliza-\\nbeth, for the time being, shall and may from time to\\ntime, and as often as they shall think meet, admit and\\nreceive under the common seal of the said corpora-\\ntion, to be of the commonalty of the said borough\\nand town corporate, such and so many persons as\\nihey the said Mayor and Aldermen, or tiie Mayor and\\ngreater pari of the Aldermen for the time being, shall\\nthink meet and every person and persons so as afore-\\nsaid admitted and received, shall immediately there-\\nafter be freemen of (he said borough and town corpo-\\nrate, and have and enjoy all such the same and so\\nmany privileges, franchises and imnun)iiies as if the\\nsaid person or persons had been especially and parli-\\nculatly named in this our royal charier to be of the\\nsame commonalty and that every person so to be\\nmade a freeman, shall pay on liis being made a free-\\nman, for the use of the said Mayor, Recorder, Alder-\\nnien and Common Council-men, and their successors\\nfor ever, a sum not exceeding five pounds proclama-\\ntion money and we do for us, our heirs and succes-\\nsors, give and grant unto the said Mayor, Recordefj", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE BOROUGH OF ELIZABETH. 60\\nAldermen and Common Council-men, and to their\\nsuccessors for ever, full power to ask, demand and\\nreceive the same to their own use and behoof, without\\nany accompt thereof to be given to us, our heirs and\\nsuccessors, or to any other person or persons whatso-\\never and no person or persons whatsoever other that!\\nfreemen, shall hereafter use any art, trade, mystery\\nor manual occupation within the said borough and\\ntown of Elizabeth, or the liberties and precincts there-\\nof, (except in the time of fairs there to be kept and dur-\\ning the time of the continuance of such fairs only\\nand in case any person or persons whatsoever not be-\\ning freemen of the said borough, shall at any time\\nhereafter use or exercise any art, trade, mystery or\\nmanual occupation, or shall by himself or other seller\\nexpose to sale any manner of merchandize or wares\\nwhatsoever by retail, in any house, shop, place or\\nstanding within the said borough or liberties thereof,\\n(no fair being then kept within the said borough,) and\\nshall persist therein after warning to him or them\\ngiven or left by the appointment of the Mayor of the\\nsaid borough for the time being, at the place or places\\nwhere such person or persons shall so use or exercise\\nany art, trade, mystery or manual occupation, \u00c2\u00a9r shall\\nsell or expose to sale any wares or merchandize afore-\\nsaid by retail, then it shall be lawful for such Mayor\\nto cause such shop window to be shut up, and also\\nto impose a reasonable fine for such offence, not ex-\\nceeding five pounds for every offence, and the same\\nfine or fines so imposed to levy and take by warrant", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "56 ORIGINAL CHARTER OF\\nunder the common seal of the said borough, by dis-\\ntress and sale of the goods and chattels of such\\nofTender, or by any otiier lawful ways and means\\nwhatsoever, to the use of the said corporation and their\\nsuccessors Provided, that no person or persons be\\nmade free as aforesaid but such as are our natural\\nborn subjects, or so made by act of Assembly of our\\nsaid province, or who has our letters of denization:\\niind further, of our especial grace, certain knowledge\\nand mere motion, we do by these presents, for us, our\\nheirs and successors, will, give and grant unto the\\nsaid Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Common Coun-\\ncil, that the said Joseph Bonnel and ins successors.\\nMayors of the said borough and town of Elizabeth\\nfor the time being, shall have the chaige and free\\ngovernment of the said borough and tow-n of Eliza-\\nbeth during the time of his or their beating the said\\noffice, in as full and ample manner as is usual and\\ncustomary for other Mayors to have in like corpora-\\ntions in our realm of England and further, because\\nthe said Mayor for the time being may many times\\nhave just occasion to be absent from the said town\\neither on the public affairs thereof or for his own pri-\\nvate respects, or may by sickness be incapable of do-\\ning the duties of his said office, we do therefore for\\nus, our heirs and successors, by these presents, give\\nand grant unto the said Mayor, Aldermen and Com-\\nmonalty, and to their successors, that the said Jo-\\nseph Bonnel and his successors, Mayor of the said\\n!x)rough and town of Elizabeth for the time being,", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE BOROUGH OF ELIZABETH. 3f\\nand each of thein for ever, shall liave full power and\\nauthority frorn time to time during his year of govern-\\nment, with the consent of the said Aldermen of the\\nsaid town for the time being or the greater number of\\nthem, to depute and appoint one of the Aldermen of\\nthe said borough for the time being in the place of the\\nsaid Mayor of the said borough and town for the time\\nbeing to be his Deputy, and as his Deputy in all mat-\\nters and respects to act and do all things which to the\\noffice of Mayor of the said borough and town within\\nthe limits and precincts thereof do or ought to belong,\\ndijring the sickness or in the absence of the said May-\\nor for the time being and we do hereby will and\\ngrant that every such Deputy or person so to be ap-\\npointed, shall have full power and authority to act and\\ndo, in the absence or during the sickness of the Mayor\\nfor the lime being, all and singular those things which\\nto the office of Mayor of the said borough belongs or\\nshall belong or appertain, to all intents and purposes,\\nthe Mayor of the said borough for the time being, by\\nvirtue of these presents or otherwise hath, shall or\\nought, to have And we further, for us, our heirs and\\nsuccessors, will, ordain and grant, that in case it\\nshould happen the present Mayor of the said borough,\\nor any of his successors Mayor of the said borough\\nfor the time being, shall dye during the time of his\\nmayoralty, then and in such case, upon and after\\nthe death of such Mayor, such Alderman for the time\\nbeing who shall have been so appointed to act in the\\nplace of or as Deputy to such Mayor, shall and he is\\n4", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38 ORIGINAL CHARTER OF\\nliereby appointed and declared Mn) or of the said bo-\\nrough, and to continue and be continued in and to\\nexecute the same office of Ma3 or of the said borough\\nfrom the death of such Mayor so dying until another\\nfit person shall be chosen and sworn into the said office\\nof Mayor of the said borough and town in such man-\\nner as in these presents is hereafter directed for the\\nrespective Mayers to be chosen and sworn, and so as\\noften as such case shall happen And we do further,\\nof our especial grace, certain knowledge and mere\\nmotion will, and by these presents for us, our heirs\\nand successors grant and give unto the said Mayor,\\nAldermen and Commonalty of the said borough and\\ntown of Elizabeth, and to their successors for ever,\\nthat they and their successors shall and may have and\\nhold in the name of us, our heirs and successors, one\\nCourt of Record within the said borough and town of\\nElizabeth and the liberties and precincts thereof, upon\\nthe first Tuesday in the month of March, June, Sep-\\ntember and December in every year, before the May-\\nor or his Deputy or the Recorder for the time being,\\nand any two or more of the Aldermen for the time\\nbeing, or any three or more of them, (whereof the\\nMayor or his Deputy or the Recorder for the time be-\\ning to be one,) who shall and may hold pleas and\\nhave cognizance of all and all (nanner of plaints, ac-\\ntions and pleas of any lands and tenements within\\nthe said borough and town of Elizabeth; and also of\\nall actions of trespass, vi and armis, (fcc, replevin,\\nejectments, trover and conversion, trespass on the", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE BOROUGH OF ELIZABKTH. 39\\ncase, debt, detinue, covenant, deceits, contracts, con-\\ntempts, penalties, forfeitures, and ail other actions and\\npleas, as well real and personal as mixed, arising and\\naccruing within the said borough and town of Eliza-\\nbeth and the limits thereof, together with full power\\nand authority to hear and determine the same, and\\nsuch actions and pleas and judgments thereon to ren-\\nder, and executions thereof to award and make, and\\nlo act and do every thing therein in such manner and\\nform, and by such and the like methods, process and\\nproceedings, as fully and amply as in other courts of\\nrecord in such and the like cases is used or can or may\\nbe acted and done, according to the laws of that part\\nof our kingdom of Great Britain called England and\\nof our said province of New-Jersey And further, we\\nof our especial grace, certain knowledge and mere\\nmotion, have willed, given and granted, and by these\\npresents do, for us, our heirs and successors, will, give\\nand grant unto the Mayor, Aldermen and Common-\\nalty of the said borough and town of Elizabeth, and\\nlo their successors for ever, that the Mayor, Deputy\\nMayor, Recorder and Aldermen of the said borough\\nfor the time being, be and shall be at all times for ever\\nhereafter, and hereby are assigned to be Justices, and\\neach of them a Justice, of us, our heirs and successors,\\nthe Peace of us, our heirs and successors within the\\nborough aforesaid and the limits, jurisdiction and\\nextent thereof to keep, and that they the said Mayor,\\nDeputy Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen of the said\\nborough for the time being, or any three of them.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40 ORIGINAL CHARTER OF\\n(whereof we will the Mayor, Deputy Mayor or Re-\\ncorder for the time being to be one,) shall and may for\\never hereafter yearly hold and keep four Courts of\\nGeneral Sessions of the Peace in and for the said bo-\\nrough and town of Elizabeth, to begin at certain\\ntimes in the year, (o wit one of them to begin on\\nthe first Tuesday in the month of March, another on\\nthe first Tuesday in June, another on the first Tues-\\nday in September, and the other on the first T uesday\\nin December in every year, each of which Sessions\\nof the Peace shall and may last, continue and be held\\nfor any time not exceeding three days; and also that\\nihesaidMayoi-jDeputyMayor, Recorder and Aldermen\\nof the said borough for the time being, or any three\\nor more of them, (whereof we will the Mayor, Deputy\\nMayor or Recorder for the time being to be one,) shaU\\nand may for ever hereafter have full power and au-\\nthority to enquire of, hear and determine, within the\\nsaid borough and town of Elizabeth, all and all man-\\nner of felonies, imprisonments, riots, routs, oppressions,\\nextortions, foreslallings, regratings, trespasses, offences,\\nand all and singular other w ills and deeds whatsoever\\nwithin the said borough, from time to time perpetrated,\\ndone, arising or happening, whicli to the oflTice of jus-\\ntices of the peace are incumbent, or do in any man-\\nner belong, or which hereafter shall happen to belong\\nor be incumbent on them, or which in any manner\\nbefore justices of the peace ought or may be inquired\\ninto, heard and determined, together with the correc-\\ntion and punishment thereof, and to do and execute", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE BOROUGH OP ELIZABETH. 4t\\nall Other things within the said borough and the liber-\\nties and precincts thereof, as fuli}^, freely and entirely,\\nand in as ample manner and form, as justices of the\\npeace of us, our heirs and successors, any where with-\\nin that part of our kingdom of Great Britain called\\nEngland, by the laws, statutes and customs of Eng-\\nland, or by any other legal method whatsoever, here-\\ntofore had exercised or hereafter to be had or exercised,\\ncould; can or might do, and in as ample manner and\\nform as if the same had been in these our letters pa-\\ntent particularly and by special words contained and\\nmentioned and that the said justices of the peace of\\nus, our heirs and successors in the borough and town\\nof Elizabeth aforesaid, may have and exercise juris-\\ndiction in all causes, matters and things whatsoever,\\nwhich to justices of the peace of our county of Essex,\\nin our province aforesaid, in any manner do, may or\\nought to belong And we do further will, and by\\nthese presents, for us, our heirs and successors, give\\nand grant unto the said Mayor, Aldermen and Com-\\nmonalty of the said borough and town of Elizabeth,\\nand to their successors, that they and their successors\\nfrom henceforth. for ever hereafter shall and may have\\nwithin the said borough, a fit and discreet man to be\\nand who shall be called the Town Clerk of the bO\\nrough aforesaid, to act and do all the things within\\nthe borough aforesaid which to any town clerk of and\\nin any borough or town incorporated any where in\\nthat part of our kingdom of Great Britain called Eng\\nland, by virtue of his office can or ought to do and.\\n4*", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42 ORIGINAL CHARTER OF\\nalso, that for ever hereafter the town clerk of the said\\nborough for (he time being shall also be clerk of the\\ncourt of record to be held before the Mayor or his De-\\nputy or the Recorder and any two or more of the Al-\\ndermen of the said borough and town of Elizabeth\\naforesaid, and also clerk of our peace and of the peace\\nof our heirs and successors, and of the sessions of the\\npeace for and in the said borough and town, from\\ntime to time to be held, and all and singular those\\nthings which to the office and offices of such clerk of\\nthe peace and of the sessions of the peace do and shall\\nappertain to do, act and execute, and also shall and\\nmay require, demand, take, accept, hold, keep and en-\\njoy, all fees, perquisites and profits which may to any\\nsuch common clerk, clerk of the peace and of the ses-\\nsions of the peace, do or ought to belong, or which to\\nany clerk of any inferior court of record in our said\\nprovince of New- Jersey do or ought to belong and\\nwe do hereby, for us, our heirs and successors, nomi-\\nnate, constitute and appoint Michael Kearney, Esq r,\\nto be present common clerk of the said borough and\\ntown of Elizabeth, and also clerk of the court of re-\\ncords aforesaid, and clerk of the peace and of the ses-\\nsions of the peace for and in the said borough and town\\nof Elizabeth so as aforesaid to be held, to continue in\\nthe said offices during his good behaviour, and to act\\nand execute the same offices and places by himself or\\nhis sufficient deputy and that after the death or legal\\nremoval of him the said Michael Kearney from the\\nexercises of the said places and offices in the corpora-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "TFIE BOROUGH OF ELIZABETH. 43\\ntion aforesaid, shall and may for ever thereafter nomi-\\nnate and appoint some other fit person to the same, in\\nsuch manner as herein after is directed And further,\\nof our especial grace, certain knowledge and mere mo-\\ntion, we do h) these presents, for us, our heirs and\\nsuccessors, give and grant unto the said Mayor, Alder-\\nmen and Commonalty of the said borough and town\\nof Elizabeth, and to their successors for ever, that\\nthey and their successors shall have a Common Seal,\\nunder which they shall and may pass all grants, war-\\nrants, deeds and specialties and other the affairs and bu-\\nsiness of concerning the said corporation, which shall\\nbe engraven in such form and with such inscription\\nas shall be devised by the Mayor, Aldermen and Com-\\nmon Council-men of the said borough and town of\\nElizabeth for the time being.\\n[The Charter then gives the Mayor, Aldermen and Common\\nCouncil authority to build a Common Hall or Town House; to\\nestablish Ordinances, By-Laws, c. to divide the Borough into\\nWards; and to appoint Inferior Officers. It provides that the\\nMayor be chosen annually by the vote of the greatest number\\nof them the said Mayor, Aldermen and Common Councii-men\\nthat the Aldermen and Common Council be chosen triennially,\\nby the vote of the greater number of the Freeholders and Free-\\nmen of the said Borough; and prescribes the oaths of office to\\nbe taken by the respective officers. It then gives the Mayor, Al-\\nderraen and Common Council power to grant licenses to Tavern-\\nkeepers to establish one free Market on the Wednesday in\\nevery week, and one Fair to begin and be holden v;ithin the said\\nBorough and Town on the first Tuesday in October yearly and\\nprovides for the election, by the greater number of the votes of\\nthe Freemen and Freeholders residing within the said Borough,\\nof one or two Burgesses (as the crown should direct) to repre-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44 ORIGINAL CHARTER.\\nsent the Borough in the future sessions of the General Assembly\\nof the Province; which provisions, in consequence of the space\\nthey occupy, are thus condensed. The Charter concludes as\\nfollows\\nTo HAVE AND TO HOLD, all and singular, (he\\nprivileges, advantages, liberties, immunities, franchises\\nand all other the premises herein and hereby granted\\nand given, or which are meant, mentioned or intended\\nto be herein and hereby given and granted unto them\\nthe said Mayor, Aldermen and Coiiimonalty of the\\nsaid free borough and town of Elizabeth, and to their\\nl)eirs and successors for ever yielding and paying\\ntherefor yearly and every year for ever hereafter, unto\\nus, our heirs and successors, at the Court-House in the\\nsaid Borough, on (he second Tuesday in the month of-\\nMarch, one Fatted Calf, if (he same be legally de-\\nmanded. In testimonie whereof, we have caused\\nthese our letters to be made patent, and the Great Seal\\nof our said Province of New- Jersey to be hereunto af-\\nfixed. Witness our trusty and well-beloved Lewis\\nMorris, Esq r, our Captain-General, Governor and\\nCommander-in-Chief in and over our said Province,\\nc. this eighth day of February, in the thirteenth year\\nof our reign, Anno Dom. 1739.\\nGreat\\nI Seal. S", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 45-\\nCHAPTER III.\\ne\\nFrom the pieceding narrative it will be seen that\\nthe first inhabitants of this town formed a mixed pop-\\nulation, made up of emigrants from New-England,\\nEngland, Long Island, and Scotland. As the Asso-\\nciates were chiefly from New-England and Long\\nIsland as Governor Carteret sent messengers to New-\\nEngland to invite settlers, whose mission was greatly\\nsuccessful and as in a short time there was a large\\naccession of the Scotch, we may safely infer that a\\nlarge majority of the first settlers were Congrega-^\\ntionalists or Presbyterians. And with equal safety we\\nmay infer that a portion of the English emigrants\\nwere Episcopalians but not probably many even of\\nthese, as much of the emigration from England at\\nthis time was in consequence of the intolerance of the\\nEstablishment, as wielded by the tyrannical Stuarts\\nand their pliant prelates.\\nThe First Presbyterian Church is the oldest in the\\ntown indeed it is the oldest congregation organized\\nfor the worship of God in the English language, in\\nthe State. The precise year of its organization is\\nnow unknown but from the character of the first\\nsettlers, who were always in the habit of carrying\\nwith them the Church, the school and the godly\\nminister, it must be nearly coeval with the town.\\nAs in 1664 there were here only four log huts, it\\ncould not be formed much earlier than 1666 or 166T..", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46 FlilST CHURCH EDIFICE.\\nWhen the old Piesbyteiian Church, biirneil during\\nthe RevoUition, was erected, is also uncertain. It\\nstood \\\\vlj|eie the First Presbyterian Church now\\nstands, and tlie following is as correct a description\\nof it as can be gleaned from its records, and from\\nwhat the aged fathers, in whose memory it yet lives,\\nslate concerning it. It was a building of wood, with\\ngalleries and when first erected was small. It had\\na high steeple w ith a town clock in it, of which a\\nMr. Miller had the caie for many years. We infer\\nfrom an Act passed in 1694 for settling and regula-\\nting the County Courts, that the General Assemblies\\nheld under the Proprietors sat in this house and that\\nso also did the Supreme Court. In that year it was\\nenacted that two Courts of Sessions should be held\\nin each county in the province and that in Essex\\nthey should meet at Elizabeth-Town on the second\\nTuesday of March, in the public Meeting-house.\\nIn 1766 this Church was enlarged by an addition of\\ntwenty feet in the rear. In 1767 the pulpit was or-\\nnamenletl liy the hidies with an elegant set of cur-\\ntains which cost twenty-seven pounds. For many\\nyears there was a part of the Church not seated, pro-\\nbably for the accommodation of those that attended\\nthe Legislature and the Courts but after its enlaige-\\nmcnt it was all neatly seated. This old teniple,\\namong the first erected in the State for the worship\\nof God, and the only one in this town for nearly half\\na century from its first settlement, was fired by the\\n(,orch of a refugee on the 25th of January, 1780", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "JOHN Barclay s statement. 47\\nand Phoenix:like, the noble structure which now oc-\\ncupies its site sprung from its ashes.\\nThere are now no means of ktjowing who minis-\\ntered to this Cluirch during the first tvvent}^ years of\\nits existence all its records previous to the Revolution\\nbeing either destroyed or lost. As this was the chief\\nlovvn of the province, and the residence of the Gov-\\nernor and the principal state officers, and the place\\nwhere the Assembly and the Supreme Court satj\\nthere can be no doubt but that public worship was\\nhere statedly maintained. The well-known charac-\\nter of the people of New-England, and of the Scotch,\\nwho formed so large a portion of the first inhabitants,\\ngives to this inference nearly all the strength of re-\\ncorded testimony.\\nIn January, 1684, John Barclay thus writes from\\nElizabeth-Town There be people here of several\\nsorts of religion, but few very zealous: the people\\nbeing mostly New-England men, do mostly incline\\nto their way and in every town there is a Meeting-\\nhouse where they worship publicly every week.\\nThey have no. public laws in this country for main-\\ntaining public teachers, but the towns that have them\\nmake way within themselves to maintain them we\\nknow none that has a settled preacher that follows\\nno other employment save Newark.\\nNor is it known what was the form of government,\\nwhether Congregational or Presbyterian, here first\\nadopted. As there was a strong mixture of Puritans,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0and of the Scotch, it was just as likely to be the one", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48 HEV. JOHN HARRIMAN.\\nas the oilier. It has, however, been so. long Presby-\\nterian, that neither tradition nor the memory of man\\nrunneth back to the contrary.\\nThe first Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church\\nof whom we have any record, was the Rev. John\\nHarriman. He was a native of New-Haven, Con.,\\nwhere his father hvcd for many years a respected\\nmember of the churcli, and the keeper of a house of\\npublic entertainment. He was brought up under the\\neye of Mr. Davenport was fitted for college in the\\ngrammar school of his native town, and graduated\\nat Cambridge in 1667. He probably entered the\\nministry soon after his graduation. We find him sup-\\nplying the church in liis native town in 1676, where\\nlie continues until 1682. He and a Mr. Taylor were\\nrival candidates for the pulpit there, and each having\\niheir warm friends two parties were formed, known\\nby the names of the two clergymen.* In 1682 Mr.\\nHarriman retired from the conflict and very proba-\\nbly came soon after to this town, and became Pastor\\nof the First Church. He died in 1704. He erected\\nthe southern part of the house in INIeadow-strcet,\\nwhich is now in the possession of his descendants of\\nthe sixth generation, and is the oldest building in our\\ntown. His fishes now repose beneath the present\\nChurch edifice. He was distinguished for his practi-\\ncal wisdom was considered in New-Haven the most\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0able of the candidates that sought their pulpit, and\\nBacon s Hist. Discourses.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "DIVISION INTO EAST AND WEST JERSEY,\\n49\\naided very much by his counsel in transacting the\\nbusiness of tliis town.\\nMr. Harriman conitnenced his ministry here at a\\nperiod of great confusion in the civil affairs of the\\nprovince. Carteret, deposed by the Constituent As-\\nsembly, has returned to England and James Berry\\nhis Deputy, and James Carteret the Governor of tlie\\nAssociates, are in daily conflict, Edmund Andross,\\nthen the violent and profligate Governor of New-Yoric,\\nassumed authority over New-Jersey, and for party\\nreasons was upheld by the Associates. In the name\\nof the Duke of York he demanded, in 16S0, the sub-\\nmission of the inhabitants; which being refused, lie\\nthreatened invasion and the people were on the\\nverge of a civil war.\\nIn addition, a short time previous to tlie settlement\\nof Mr. Harriman, the province was divided, owing\\npiobably to some differences among the Lords Propri-\\netors. For one thousand pounds, Berkley sold his\\nright to one half the State to John Fenwick. Fen-\\nwick sells the half thus purchased to four Quakers,\\nBillinge, Penn, Lawry and Lucas, making with Car-\\nteret five proprietors. These, by what is called (he\\nduintipartile Deed, dated July 1, 1676, divided the\\nprovince into East and West Jersey, George Carteret\\nretaining East Jersey. He dies in 1679, leaving East\\nJersey to trustees, to be sold for the payment of his\\ndebts. From these trustees it is purchased in IGS2\\nby twelve Quakers, headed by William Penn. To\\np.Uay the jealousies of the people, and to fortify them-\\n5", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a70 PROPRIETARY RIGHTS SURRENDERED^\\nselves at Court, these unite with tiiem twelve others\\nas partners, among whom was the Earl of Perthj\\nafter whom the point of land called by the Indians\\nAmbo, was called Pertli Amboy.\\nIn 1684, Charles II. dies, and is succeeded by his\\nbrother the Duke of York, as James II. As James\\nthe King, he had the least possible regard for the con-\\ntiacts of James the Duke, and he immediately forms\\nthe plan of annulling all tlie deeds and charters of\\nthese colonies. Pretended con)plaints are entered\\nagainst the people of the Jersies, and quo warranto\\nwrits are immediately issued. The proprietors remon-\\nstrate in vain. They have to do wiih a king and a\\nStuart, the most faithless and imperious race of men\\nthat ever held power. It is well for the world that\\nthe race has died out. By the sales and subdivisions\\nof their rigiits the Proprietors became too numerous\\nto manage the government with promptness, or satis-\\nfaction to the people. The people are divided. Con-\\ntroversy is rife, and is fomented by the crown. Thus\\nembarrassed by their own number, and by internal\\ndissensions, and by the position of the King, the Pro-\\nprietors of East and West Jersey are induced to sur-\\nrender their gubernatorial power to the crown. This\\nsurrender is made to Queen Anne, in 1702; she\\nimmediately unites East and West Jersey, and sends\\nout her kinsman. Lord Cornbury, as Governor. All\\nthis transpires during the ministry of Mr. Ilarriman,\\nand, as far as is known, without materially interfer-\\ning with his ministerial labors, or with the increase of", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "GOVEUNMENT OF THE CROWN. 51\\nthe province. It is apparent, however, frotn the an-\\nnals of these times, that the people were frequently\\ngreatly excited.\\nOn the 17th of April, 17^2, the government of the\\nProprietors ceases in New-Jersey, and that of the\\ncrown, now worn by the last of the Stuarts, com-\\nmences. A new Constiiulion for the Province is im-\\nmediately formed by the British Mini^^try, and Corn-\\nbury is sent over to administer it. Whilst it contains\\nmany wise regulations, we see in it the hand of the\\ncivil despot, and the high-cliurch tyrant; the one\\ncurtailing civil, and the other religious liberty. It de-\\nprives tlie popular will of its energy, and gives the\\nGovernor a veto on all the laws of the Assembly. It\\ncommands due encouragement to the Royal African\\nCompany formed for the purpose of prosecuting the\\naccursed slave-trade that the Book of Common\\nPrayer be read on Sundays and Holy-days, and the\\nSacraments to be administered after the Episcopal\\nform that all Ministers not Episcopally ordained be\\nreported to the Lord Bishop of London and that,\\nbecause of the inconvenience arising from the liberty\\nof the press, no paper, book or pamphlet be printed\\nwithout the license of the Governor.* With this new\\nConstitution, Cornbury reaches New-Jersey in August,\\n1703 and the province soon felt what it was to be\\ngoverned by the tyrannical and contemptible tool of a\\ntyrant. In their opposition to this profligate, the dif-\\nLearping and Spicer, 638-9.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52 LORD CORNRURY.\\nfeient Assemblies convened by him, won for themselves\\nunfading laurels. In 1709 he was deprived of his\\ncommission, after which he was impiHoned for debt\\nin New-York. He lay in prison until Ite l)ccame a\\npeer by the death of his father; when he returned to\\nEngland and died in 1723. Presbyterians have good\\nreason to remember him, as the persecnlor of their\\nministers, and the confiscator of their churcii proper-\\n\\\\y. The following circumstance, taken from Dr.\\nMiller s Life of Dr. Rodgers, iUustrates his character\\nThe meanness, as well as the contemptible bigot-\\nry of this man, will appear from the following anec-\\ndote, of uuifuestionabie authenticity. The Presbyte-\\nrians of Janiaica, on Long Inland, had erected a com-\\nmodious edifice for the worship of God, and also pos-\\nsessed a handsome parsonage-liouse and glebe, which\\nthey had enjoyed undisturbed for many years. A short\\ntime previous to the year 1702, when Lord Cornbury\\narrived, a few Episcopalians having settled in the\\ntown, began to view the Presbyterian churcli with a\\njealous eye; and at length carried their insolent vio-\\nlence so far as to seize on the church, between the\\nmorning and afternoon service, and endeavored to hold\\nit for the use of their own sect. After much contro-\\nversy, it was recovered out of their hands, and re-\\nstored to its proper owners. In the midst of this con-\\ntest, in the summer of 1702, a malignant fever break-\\ning out in the city of New-York, Loid Cornbuiy re-\\ntired to Jamaica. The parsonage-house, in which\\nthe Rev. Mr. Hubbard, the minister of the church,", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "REV. MR. MELYNE. 55\\nlived, was the best in the town. His Lordship beg-\\nged the loan of it for the use of his family and Mr.\\nHubbard put himself to no small inconvenience to\\ncomply with his request. In return for this generous\\nconduct, liis Lordship, on retiring from the house,\\nperfidiously delivered it into the hands of the Episco-\\npal party, whose feelings and principles permitted them\\nto leceive it.\\nFrom all such men, in all future ages, may the\\ngood Lord deliver both the church and the state.\\nWe may form some estimate of the number of in-\\nhabitants residing here in 1703 and 1704, from the\\nfact that about one hundred and thirty male inhabi-\\ntants, and most of these no doubt heads of families,\\ncontributed to the support of Mr. Hairiman as\\npastor.\\nMr. Harriman was succeeded in 1704, the year of\\nhis death, by the Rev. Mr. Melyne. His ministry\\nwas of short conlinuar.ce. There is a tiadition in\\nreference to him to this amount being strongly sus-\\npected of intemperance, the choir, on a certain Sab-\\nbath morning, sung a hymn as a voluntary, which\\nhe considered as designed to reprove and expose him.\\nWhilst being sung he descended fiom the pulpit, and\\ntaking his wife he walked out of the church, and\\nnever again entered it. Where he came fiom, how\\nlong he remained here, and where he went from herC}\\nare questions on which we cannot cast a ray of light\\nIn his time the (own contained about three hundred\\nfamilies.\\n5*", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54 RLV. jaNATHAN DICKINSON.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nThe next Pastor of tlie First Presbytcrinn Church,\\nwas the Rev. Jonathan Dickinson; the iinpicss of\\nwhose character is yet virible on our town, and indeed\\non the whole of the Eastern section of New-Jersey.\\nTliis great and good man was born in Hatlield, Mass.,\\nApril 22dj 1688, and was graduated in Yale College\\nin 1706.* He was settled here in two or three years\\nafterwards, and when he was about tw entyone years\\nor age. Of this congregation and town, he was for\\nnearly forty years the joy and the glo^3^ He had a\\nmind formed for inquiry and (o a keen penetration he\\nunited a disinlerested attachment to truth. With a\\nnatural turn for controversy he had a ha[)py govern-\\nment of his passions, and abhorred the perverse dis-\\nputings so common to men of corrupt minds. The\\neagerness of contention did not extinguish in him the\\nfervors of devotion and brotherly love. He advo-\\ncated with great zeal the doctrines of grace, and\\nadorned ihem by a holy life devoted to doing good.\\nHe was valiant for the truih. Unlike many at the\\npresent day, he never consulted his own ease or popu-\\nlarity at the expense of God s truth nor stood neutral\\nto see which side would prevail, and then throw him-\\nself on the popular current. Armed with the weapons\\nof truth and love, he boldly resisted every attack on\\nCroon s Discourses, 296.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "REV. JONATHAN DICKINSON. 55\\nthe liulli and order of God s lioiise, and manfully de-\\nfended from the assaulls of error all the great funda-\\nmental doctrines of our most holy religion. And his\\npublished works praise liim in all the gates of Zion,\\nand will transmit his name to all future generations.\\nThe most complete list of his published writings that\\nwe have seen is contained in Dr. Green s very valua-\\nble history of the College of New-Jersey.\\nDuring liis ministry this congregation prospered\\ngreatly. It shared largely in the glorious revival with\\nwhich God favored the country during the ministry\\nof Whitefield, Edwards, Brainerd and the Tennents,\\nwho were all his contemporaries; and in 1740 there\\nwas a large addition made to the conimunicants of the\\nchurch. It is a pleasant fact in our history that here\\nthe beloved Brainerd delighted to visit, and to com-\\nmune with his biolher Jonathan. During the second\\nvisit of Whitefield to this country in 1740, he visited\\nthis place and at the very short notice of about two\\nor three hours, preached at twelve o clock to an audi-\\nence of seven hundred people. At the close of the\\nservice he took up a collection, probably for the Orphan\\nAsylum, the largest in the list of collections for the\\nyear. From this fact we infer the great popularity of\\nthe preacher, that the town must have been considera-\\nbly populous, and that it must have been a time of\\nn)ore than ordinary attention to the subject of re-\\nligion.\\nThis parish is now a large and laborious one\\nbut in the days of Mr. Dickinson its boundaries", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56 REV. JONATHAN DICKINSON.\\nwere much iiioie exlcDsive tljan now. Il then\\nincluded all of Railway, VVesttiekl, Conneclicut\\nFarms and Springfield, and even a part of Chat-\\nham.* Then the people of Weslfiekl would walk\\nhere to worship God but those from Chatham were\\noftentimes in the habit of riding. Nor in those prime-\\nval days were (he people much deterred by bad roads\\nor biid weather. Hie Gospel w as precious to them,\\nand they could encounter dithculties to hear il.\\nBetween the Elizabeth-Town Associates and the\\nINew-Jersey Proprietors, the different parishes were\\nnot forgotten. I he former set apait a town lot of\\nthe largest size for the minister, and the latter appro-\\npriated two hundred acres for each parish. It is more\\nthan probable (hat the lot given by the Associates lay\\nin that part of our town through which Race-street\\nnow runs; as Mr. Dickinson resided in a house which\\nstood a few yards north of (he present residence of\\nCapt. Charles L. Williamson. But what became of\\n(he grant of the Proprietors, or whether it ever came\\ninto the possession of this congregation, there is ijo\\nmeans of ascertaining. There is a tradition, that Mr.\\nThe Church in WcstfieM was organized about 1730, and its\\nfirst pastor was the Rev. Natuaniel Hubbell. Tlicir first place\\nof worship was a log hut and the signal for public worship was\\nthe beating of an old drum. And as we find a law of the Dorough\\nof Ehzabeth, passed Sept. 1742, appointing stray sheep to be\\nsold on the green near the Mceting-liousesin Connecticut Farms,\\nWestfield, Kahwny and Turkey, churches must have been col-\\nlected and places of worship erected in all these places previous\\n10 that date.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "REV, JONATHAN DICKINSON. 57\\nDickinson, on Iiis decease, gave to the Church seve-\\nral acres of land to be added to ll)e original town lot.\\nThe great cheapness of all the necessaries of life,\\ntogether with the use of that lot and the parsonage,\\nand their devoting a part of iheir time to other pur-\\nsuits than those directly minislerial, account for the\\nsmall salaries given to the different pastors. Mr.\\nKettletas was paid but (wo pounds ten shillings per\\nSabbath. Mr. Caldwell was paid three pounds, one\\nshilling and six pence per Sabbath. In 1776 his\\nsalary was raised to one hundred and eiglity pounds\\nand he was paid by the week, and punctually every\\nMonday morning. Mr. Linn was settled on a salary\\nof three hundred pounds York currency, with the\\nparsonage house and lands. But (hen all other things\\nwere in proportion. The Governor s salary in East\\nJersey was one hundred and fifty pounds; in West\\nJersey two hundred pounds; and, at one time, they\\nwere paid that in peas, and corn, and tobacco, at fix-\\ned prices.* Beef and venison weve a penny a pound\\ncorn was two shillings and six pence per bushel, bai-\\nley two shillings and all other tilings in proportion. t\\nMaking due allowance for the changes that have ta-\\nken place, there is no doubt that pastors were much\\nbetter paid then than now.\\nA controversy which had existed for some lime in\\nthe Synod of Philadelj)hia, then representing the\\nwhole Presbyterian church in the provinces, resulted\\nGordon, 57. t Smith, 180.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58 REV. JONATHAN DICKINSON.\\nin dividing llmt Synod into two parts in 1741 the\\nSynods of New-York and Philadelphia. From the\\ntime of their sepaiation each made strong exertions\\nto educate youth for the ministry, with tlie mingled\\npurpose of elevating the standard of nnnisterial edu-\\ncation, and of strengthening their parly. New-Jersey\\nwent neaily inianiinonsly with theSynod of New York\\nand as tlje Presbyterian Clmrcli was much stronger\\nhere than in New- York, it was determined if possible\\nto establish a College, and to locate it in New-Jersey.\\nDickinson was the leader of his party in the old Sy-\\nnod of Philadelphia and after the separatioji was by\\nfar the most able man in the Synod of New-York.\\nHe it was, no dunht, ihat gave being and tliape lo\\nthe deliberations that resulted in the creation of tiic\\nCollege of New-Jersey. He had been for several years\\na very popular teacher of young men; and when the\\ninstitution was resolved upon, every eye rested upon\\nhim as best qualified to lay its foundations, and to\\nbuperinlcnd its concerns. A charier for a college was\\nbought, and ^ranled by Jolm Hamilton, who acted\\nas Governor, (Iteing the oldest member of the Coun-\\ncil,) between the death of Governor jMurris, in May,\\n174(),. and the induction of Governor Delcher into the\\ncliair of slate, in 1747. The college thus founded\\nwas commenced in this town, and Mr. Dickinson\\nwas chosen its first president. It is now in a flourish-\\ning stale, with an able and extended faculty, nume-\\nrous Ijuiltlings, and students; but then, with the ex-\\nception of an usher, the president was the only teach-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "REV. JONATHAN DICKINSON. 5^\\ny.. The number of students was about i\\\\venly, \\\\v ho\\nboarded with the pres^^ident and other famihes in the\\ntown, Tlie Academy which stood where our Lecture\\nRoom now stands, and which was burned down dur-\\ning the war of the Revolution, contained the first\\nfecitation room of the first classes ever attached to\\nNew-Jersey College. Although brought into exist-\\nence by the influence of Dickinson, he was spared\\nto act as its president but one year, as he died October\\n7th, 1747. The students were then removed to\\nNewark, and placed under the government of the\\nRev. Aaron Burr, who was the second president of\\nihe College. In 1757, when about seventy in num-\\nber, they were removed to Princeton, where the first\\ncollege edifice was erected, and which, in honor of\\nWilliam III. of England, Prince of Orange and Nas-\\ns^au, the asserter of protestant liberty, was called\\nNassau Hall.\\nThe great and good Dickinson died in the sixtieth\\nyear of his age, although not full of years, yet full\\nof honors. His must have been a life of great activi-\\nty and industry, when it is remembered that in addi-\\ntion to his duties as a pastor, and teacher, and farmer,\\nand the studies imposed by his numerous and ardent\\ncontroversies, he was a practising physician, and ob-\\ntained a considerable medical reputation. So devoted\\nwas he as a minister, so untiring were his ellbrts to do\\ngood, so discriminating and powerful was he as a\\npreacher, so dignified and bland were his manners,\\nso ardent was his attachment to the truth, and so", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "CO REV. ELIIIU SPENCER.\\nfirm and cogent was lie in its advocacy, that Iiis me-\\nmory is yet inestimably precious. It must iiave been\\na sad day in Elizabeih-Town when Mr. Dickinson,\\nand Mr. Vaughan the Rector of (he Episcopal cluncli,\\nwho are said to have come to this place on the same\\nday, and after laboring here forty years together were\\nboth corpses on the same day, the former having died\\nbut a few hours before tiie latter.\\nMr. Dickinson left behind him three daughters\\none of them married a Mr. Sargeant, of Princeton, of\\nwhom the Hon. John Sargeant, of Pliiladclphia, is a\\ndescendant. Another married the Rev. Caleb Smith,\\npastor of the church in Newark Mountains, now called\\nOrange, of whom the fomily of Greens of Lawrence-\\nville are descendants, one of whom, II. W. Green of\\nTrenton, is one of tiie ornaments of the New-Jersey\\nbar. And the other became the wife of a Mr. John\\nCooper. The remains of this venerated man sleep in\\nour grave-yard, and hallowed be the spot of their re-\\npose, until they awake to newness. of life.*\\nThe successor of Mr. Dickinson, as pastor of this\\nchurch, was the Rev. Elihu Spencer. D. D, From\\nbis venerable and respected daughter, Mrs. Lydia Bid-\\ndie, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, we learn the following\\nfacts respecting him. Dr. Spencer, tlie fourth son of\\nIsaac and Mary Spencer, was born at East Haddam,\\nConnecticut, Feb. 12, 1721. He entered Yale Col-\\nlege in 1742, where he graduated in 174G. He was*\\nDr. Green s Notes on New- Jersey College, and on the Presi-\\ndent Dickinson.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "REV. ELIHU SPENCER. 61\\nordained to tlie work of the ministry in the city of Bos-\\nton, in Sept. 1748 and on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 1750j\\nhe was installed pastor in this town. In October foK\\nlowing, he was married to Miss Joanna Eaton, of\\nShrewsbury. He continued a faithful and useful pas-\\ntor here until 1756, when he removed to Trenton,\\nand became the pastor of the church at that place;\\nwhere he died in 1784, in the 64th year of his age.\\nThe following is the inscriplion on the stone that\\nmarks his grave\\nBeneath this stone lies the body of the Rev. Elihu\\nSpencer, D. D., pastor of the Presbyterian church of\\nTrenton, and one of the Trustees of the College of\\nNew-Jersey who departed this life on the 27th of\\nDecember, 1784, in the 64th year of his age. Pos^\\nsessed of fine genius, of great vivacity, of eminent and\\nactive piety, his merits as a minister and a man, stand\\nabove the reach of flattery. Having long edified the\\nchurch by his talents and example, and finished his\\ncourse sviih joy, he fell asleep full of faith, and waiting\\nfor the hope of all saints.\\nIt was during the ministry of Dr. Spencer, that the\\nFirst Church received its act of incorporation. Jona-\\nthan Belcher became Governor of this province in\\n1747, and became a resident of this town, and a mem-\\nber of that church. A charter was now sought and\\ngranted by him, ?md bears date August 22, 1753.\\nThe Trustees named in the Charter, and the first that\\nexercised corporate powers in this ancient congrega-\\ntion, are, Stephen Crane, Cornelius Hetfield, Jona-\\n6", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "62 FIRST CHURCH CHARTER,\\nthan Dayton, Isaac Woodruff, Matthias Baldwin,\\nMoses Ogden and Benjamin Winans. Tlie charter\\nstates, that at the time it was granted, this is a\\nlarge and considerable congregation. Tt authorises\\nthe Trustees to build an Alms-house for the support\\nof the poor, and to build School-houses for the educa-\\ntion of the children of the town. The following is\\nthe document itself:\\nGeorge the Second, b}^ the grace of God of\\nGreat Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of\\nthe Faith To all to whom these presents shall\\ncome, greeting. Whereas the advancement of true\\nreligion and virtue is absolutely necessary for the pro-\\nmotion of peace, order and prosperity of the state\\nand whereas it is the duty of all Christian Princes\\nand Governors by tiie law of God, to do all they can\\nfor the encouragement tiiereof; and whereas sundry\\nof our loving subjects of the Presbyterian persuasion,\\ninhabitants of and about the Borough of Eliza-\\nbeth, within our Colony of New-Jersey, by their\\nhumble petition presented to our trusty and well be-\\nloved Jonathan Belcher, Esq,, oin- Captain General\\nand Commandsr-in Chief of our t*rovince of TS^ew-\\nJersey, and Vice-Admiral in the same, shewing that\\nthe petitioners and others of the same persuasion, in-\\nhabitants in and about the Borough df Elizabeth\\naforesaid, do make up a very large and considera-\\nble congregation That the most advantageous sup-\\nport of religion among them necessarily requires that", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "FUIST CHURCH CHARTER, 63\\nGOine persons should be incorporated as Trustees for\\nthe connnunity, (hat they may take grants of lands and\\nchattels, thereby to enable the petitioners to erect and re-\\npair public buildings for the worship of God and the\\nuse of the ministry, and school-houses and alms-houses,\\nand suitably to support the ministry and the poor of their\\nchurch, and to do and perform olher acts of piety and\\ncharity and that the same Trustees may have power\\nto let and grant the saine under a public seal, for the\\nuses aforesaid and that the san)e Trustees may\\nplead and be impleaded in any suit touching the\\npremises, and have perpetual succession That also,\\nthe known loyalty of the petitioners, and the Presby-\\nterians in general to us, their firm atfection to our\\nperson and government, and the Protestant succes-\\nsion in our royal house, gave the petitioners hopes of\\nall reasonable indulgence and ftivor, within the same\\ncolony where the religious rights of mankind are so\\nhappily preserved, and where our equal grace and\\nbounty to all our protestant faithful subjects, however\\ndiffering in opinion about lesser matters, has hitherto\\nbeen so sensibly felt and enjoyed. The said petition-\\ners, therefore, most humbly prayed our grant of an\\nincorporation to the petitioners, by the name of the\\nTrustees of the First Presbyterian Church in Eliza-\\nbeth-Tovviij with all such powers, capacities and pri-\\nvileges as might be effectual in law, for the purposes\\naforesaid and tliat Stephen Crane, Cornelius Het-\\nfield, Jonathan Dayton, Isaac Woodruff, Matthias\\nBaldwin, Mosfes Ogden and Benjamin Winans, might", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64 FIRST CHURCH CHARTER.\\nbe the first Trustees, (which petition, signed wiih the\\nnames of a great number of our faithful and loving\\nsubjects, inhabitants in and about the said town,) we\\nbeing willing to grant Know ye, that we, of our\\nespecial- grace, certain knowledge and mere motion,\\nhave willed and ordained, constituted, given and\\ngranted, and for us, our heirs and successors, by these\\npresents, do will, oidain, coiisliiute, give and granl\\nthat Stephen Crune, Cornelius Hei field, Jonaihai)\\nDayton, Isaac Woodruff, Matthias Baldwin, Moses\\nOgden and Benjamin Winans, from henceforth, and\\ntheir successors forever hereafter, shall be and remain\\none body politic and corporate, in deed, fact and\\nname, by the name of the Trustees of the First\\nPresbyteriao Church in Elizabelh-Town and them\\nand their successors, by the name of the Trustees of the\\nFirst Presbyterian Chinch in Elizabelh-Town, one\\nbody corporate and politic in deed, fact and name, really\\nand fully, we do for us, our heirs and successors, erect,\\nmake, ordain, constitute, declare and create, by these\\npresents, and by that name the}^ shall and may have\\nperpetual succession and also, that they and their\\nsuccessors by the name of the Trustees of the First\\nPresbyterian Church in F lizabcth-Town, be, and\\nforever hereafter shall be, persons able in law to pur-\\nchase^ takfe, hold, receive and enjoy any messuages,\\nhouses, buildings, lands, tenements, rents, possessions\\nand other hereditaments and real estate, in fee sin ple\\nor otherwise, so as the yearly clear value of the same\\ndoes not exceed the sum of five hundred pounds sterling,", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "FIRST CHURCH CHARTER. 65\\nthe Statute of Moilmuin or any other law to llie con-\\ntrary iioiwilhstaiiding and also, goods, chattels, and\\nall other things of what kind or quality soever. And\\nalso, that they and their successors, by the name of\\nthe Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church in\\nElizabeth-Town, shall and may give, grant and de-\\nmise, assign, sell, or otherwise dispose of, all or any of\\ntheir messuages, houses, lands, tenements, rents, pos-\\nsessions and other hereditaments and real estate, and\\nall their goods, chattels and other things aforesaid, as\\nto them shall seem meet. And also, that they and\\ntheir successors, by the name of the Trustees of the\\nFirst Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth-Town, be\\nand for ever hereafter shall be, persons able in law and\\ncapable to sue and be sued, implead or be impleaded,\\nanswer or be answered, defend or be defended, in all\\ncourts of judicature whatsoever. And also, that the\\nsaid Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church in\\nElizabeth-Town for the time being, and their suc-\\ncessors, shall and may for ever hereafter, have and use\\na common seal, with such device or devices as they\\nshall think proper, for sealing all and singular deeds,\\ngrants, conveyances, contracts, bonds, articles of agree-\\nment, assignments, powers, authorities, and all and\\nsingular their affairs and things touching or concern-\\ning the said corporation and also, that the said\\nTrustees and their successors for ever may, as oft as\\nthey see fit, break, change and new make the same\\nor any other their common seal. And furtiier, we\\ndo of our especial grace, certain knowledge and uiei.a\\n6*", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66 FIRST CHURCH CHARTER.\\nmotion, for us, our lieiis and successors, by these pre-\\nsents, will, ordain, constitute, give and grant, that\\nupon any vacancy among the Trustees of the said\\nFirst Presbyterian Cliurch in EHzabeth-Townj by\\ndeath, rennoval or other incapacity whatsoever, that\\nthe Minister or Ministers, Eiders and Deacons for the\\ntime being, of the said First Presbyterian Church in\\nElizabeth-Town, shall and may meet together at\\nElizabeth-Town aforesaid, and then and there elexi\\nand choose such person or persons out of the congre-\\ngation of the said church as they think proper, to supply\\nthe vacancy of such Trustee or Trustees, caused by\\ndeath, removal or other incapacity as aforesaid. And\\nalso, that at any and at all times whatsoever, when\\nthe said Minister or Ministers, Elders and Deacons of\\nthe church aforesaid, or the majority of them for the\\ntime being, shall and do judge it proper and for the\\nbenefit of the said corporation, that any Trustee or\\nTrusteiss should be removed or displaced from his or\\ntheir office of Trustee, that then and in such case, the\\nsaid Minister or Ministers, Elders and Deacons of the\\nsaid church, or the majority of them for the time be-\\ning, shall and may meet together at Elizabeth-Town\\naforesaid, and are hereby sufTicienily authorised then\\nand there to displace and remove from the office of\\nTrustee, any such Trustee or Trustees, and in their\\nroom and stead to elect and choose out of the congre-\\ngation of said church, any person or persons, to sup-\\nply the place or places of such Trustee or Trustees so\\njjisplaced and removed Provided, always, that tho", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "FIRST CHURCH CHARTER. 67\\nnumber of the said Trustees exceed not seven, and\\nevery Trustee so elected and appointed aforesaid, shall\\nby virtue of these presents, and of such election and\\nappointment, be vested with all the powers and pri-\\nvileges which any of the other Trustees has or has\\nhad. And we do further will and ordain, give and\\ngrant, that the Trustees of the said First Presbyterian\\nChurch in Elizabeth-Town, and their successors for\\nthe time being, shall from time to lime have power to\\nchoose their President out of the Trustees for the time\\nbeing, who shall have the custody of the public seal\\nof the said corporation, and all the books, charters,\\ndeeds and writings any ways relating to the said cor-\\nporation and shall have power from time to time,\\nand at all limes hereafter, as occasion shall lequlre, to\\ncall a meeting of the said Trustees at Elizabeth-\\nTown aforesaid, for the execution of all or of any of\\nthe powers hereby given and granted. And in case\\nof sickness, absence or death of the President, all the\\npowers by these presents granted to the President,\\nshall be and remain in the eldest Trustee upon record,\\nuntil the recovery or return of the President, or until\\na new President be chosen as aforesaid. And we do\\nfurther will and ordain, give and grant, that all and\\nevery act and order of five of the said Trustees, but\\nnot of any lesser number, consented and agreed to at\\nsuch meeting of the Trustees aforesaid, shall be good,\\nvalid and efifectual to all intents and purposes, as if the\\nwhole number of the Trustees had consented and\\nagreed thereto. And we do further will and ordain, thai", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "OO FIRST CHURCH CHARTER.\\nall llie acts of the said Trustees, s^liail fiom time to time\\nbe fairly entered in a book or books, to be kept for that\\npurpose by the President of the Trustees for the\\ntime being, which book or books, togetlier with the\\nseal of the said corporation, and all (he charters, deeds,\\nand writings whatsoever, belonging any ways to the\\nsaid corporation, shall be delivered over by the foinier\\nPresident to the President of the said Trustees newly\\nelected, for the lime being, as such President shall\\nhereafter from time to time successively be chosen.\\nAnd lastly, we do of our especial grace, certain know-\\nledge and mere motion, for us, our heirs and succes-\\nsors, b}^ these presents, give and grant unto the said\\nTrustees of the First Presbyterian Church in Eliza-\\nbeth-Town, and their successors for ever, that these\\nour Letters Patent, or the enrolment thereof, shall be\\ngood and effectual in the law, to all intents and pur-\\nposes, against us, our heirs and successors, without\\nany other license, grant or confirmation from us, our\\nheirs and successors hereafter, by the said Trustees of\\nthe First Presbyterian Churcli in Elizabelh-Town,\\nto be had or obtained, notwithstanding the not reciting\\nor mis-reciting, or not naming or mis-naming, of the\\naforesaid offices, franchises, privileges, immunities, or\\nother the premises, or any of them, notwitlistanding\\na writ of ad quod damnum hath not issued forth to\\nenquire of the premises, or any of them, before the en-\\nsealing hereof, any statute, act, ordinance or provi-\\nsion, or any other matter or thing, to the contrary\\nDotwithstanding: To iiave, hold and enjoy all and.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "FIRST CHURCH CHARTER. 69\\nsingular the privileges, advantnges, liberties, immuni-\\nties, and all other (he premises herein and hereby\\ngranted and given, or which are meant, mentioned or\\nintended to be herein given and granted, unto them\\nthe said Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church in\\nElizabeth-Town, and to their successors for ever.\\nIn testimony whereof, we have caused these our\\nLetters to be made Patent, and the Great Seal of our\\nsaid Province of New Jersey to be here-\\nunto affixed. Witness our trusty and\\nwell beloved Jonathan Belcher, Esq.,\\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief of\\nour said Piovince of New-Jersey, this\\ntwenty-fifth day of August, in the twenty-seventh\\nyear of our reign, and in the year of our Lord one\\nthousand seven hundred fifty and three.\\nI have perused and examined the within Letters\\nPatent, and find nothing therein contained but what\\nis consistent with the honor and interest of the crown.\\nAug. 18, 1753. Jo. Warrell, Att. Gen.\\nAugust 22d, 1753. The within Charter of Incor-\\nporation being read in Council, the same was appro-\\nved of, and his Excellency the Governor was advised\\nto grant the same. Cha. Read, Sec y.\\nLet the Great Seal of the Province of New-Jersey\\nbe hereunto affixed. J. Belcher.\\nTo the Secretary of the Province\\nof New-Jersey.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "70 GOVERNOR BELCHER.\\nThe nameofBELCHERj associated withlhe corporate\\nexistence of this congregation, and the patron of Nas-\\nsau Hall, deserves a passing notice. The righteous\\nshall he had in everlasting reniemhrance. He was\\nhorn in Cambridge, Mass., in 1681, and was gradua-\\nted in Harvard College, in 1699 (previous to which\\nhe became a pious man.) During an absence of tix\\n5 ears in Europe, he stored his mind with the trea-\\nsures of knowledge, and formed an acquaintance at\\nCourt, which laid the foundation of his future honors.\\nOn his return from foreign travel, he become a mer-\\nchant in Boston, where he acquired both reputation\\nand fortune. After serving in the Assembly and\\nCouncil of his native stale, he was sent in 1722 to\\nEngland, as the Agent of Massachusetts Bay. On\\nthe death of Governor Burnet, (the son of the worthy\\nBishop of that name,) he was made, in 1730, Gov-\\nernor of Massachusetts and New-Hampshire. Be-\\ncause of a contention between him and the people,\\ntransmitted to him by his predecessor, he was remov-\\ned from office. He immediately repaired to Court,\\nwhere he triumphantly vindicated himself from the\\ncharges of his enetiiies and on the death of Gov-\\nernor Hamilton, he was appointed Governor of New-\\nJersey, where he arrived in 1747. On entering on\\nhis new office, he found things in great confusion, but\\nby firm and judicious measines he reduced them to\\norder. With great popularity, and with the greatest\\njustice and moderation, he governed this province for\\nten years. He united to a commanding person, and", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "REV. ABRAHAM KETTLETAS. 71\\na richly cultivated mind, uncommon gracefulness and\\ndignity of manners, unshaken integrity, and the most\\nserious and fervent piety. He was the devoted friend\\nof Whitefield. He resided in Jersey-street, in the\\nhouse now occupied by Dr. Davis, where he died of\\nparalysis, in August, 1757, in the 76th year of his\\nage. His remains, after lying some time in the\\ngrave-yard of the First Church, were removed for bu-\\nrial, to Cambridge, his native town.\\nCHAPTER V.\\nThe successor of Dr. Spencer, as the pastor of the\\nFirst Presbyterian Church, was the Rev. Abraham\\nKettletas, v^ ho was installed Sept. 14, 1757. He\\nremained here but two or three years. The last time\\nhis name appears on the Treasurer s account, is on\\nthe 29th of Sept. 1760. The entry stands thus\\nTo cash paid Mr. Kettletas, in full, twenty-six\\npounds, seven shillings and six pence. Whether dis-\\nmissed at this time, or before, we cannot ascertain.\\nMr. Kettletas was born in the city of New- York, in\\n1733, and graduated in Yale College. His first set-\\ntlement as a minister, was probably in this town, and\\nafter his removal he preached for about two years in\\nthe Refortned Dutch Church in Jamaica; and after-\\nvvards in other places on Long-Island. Like most, if", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "72 REV. ABRAHAM KETTLETAS.\\nnot all of the Presbyterian clergymen of his age, he\\nwas a very decided Whig during the war of the Rev-\\nolution, and devoted, perhaps, too much of his time to\\npolitics. Indeed, he became a political writer of no\\nsmall note, and was the author of some very able po-\\nlitical tracts. He was a man of varied learning, and\\nhas left some manuscript sermons, written in French\\nand in Dutch. He died in Jamaica, Sept. 30, 1798,\\nand his ashes repose in the grave-yard of the Presby-\\nterian Church in that place. The following is his\\nepitaph\\nSacred to the memory of the Rev. A!)rnham Ket-\\ntletas, Obt. 30th Sept. 1798, ^E. 65 years, 9 mos. and\\n4 days. He possessed unusual talents, that were im-\\nproved by profound erudition, and a heart firmly at-\\ntrxhed to the interests of his country. His mind was\\nearly in)pres3ed with a sense of religion, which full}\\nmanifested itself in the choice of tlie sacred ot!ice, in\\nwhich he shone as the able and faithful divine. It\\nmay not pcriiaps be unworthy of record in (his in-\\nscription, that he frequently ofiiciated in three difi erent\\nlanguages, having preached in the Dutch and French\\nChurches in his native city of New-York.\\nRest from tliy labors now thy work is o er\\nSince Deatk is vanquished, now free grace adore\\nA crown of glory sure awaits the just,\\nWho served their God, and in their Saviour trust.\\nThe Rev. James Caldwell, of revolutionary and\\npatriotic memory, whose tragical end gives to his his-\\n^tory all the interest of romance, was the successor of", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "REV. JAMES CALDWELL. 73\\nMr. Keltletas. Between the removal of the one and\\nthe settlement of the other, the pulpit was supplied by\\nmany individuals, no doubt, as candidates for settle-\\nment. As they were in the habit of paying the\\npreacher every Monday morning, the Treasurer s ac-\\ncount is the only testimony we have as to who they\\nwere. Mr. Kilpatriclc, Mr. Treet, Mr. Carmichael,\\nMr. Horton, who afterwards settled at Bottle-Hill, Mr.\\nElmore, Mr. WoodruflT, Mr. Parkhnrst, Mr. Green, af-\\nterwards or at that time scltied in Hanover, and (lie\\nfather of the venerable Dr. Green, Mr. More, Mr.\\nPierson, Mr. McWhorter, Mr. Halsey, and a Mr. Jones\\nare among the number. But Mr. Caldwell was select-\\ned from them all, and was installed in December, 1 7(31 j\\nalthough he preached here several Sabbaths between\\nAugust, 17G0, and the date of his settlement.\\nWe learn from some of the descendants of this die-\\nlinguished man, of whom there are many, that his\\nfamily was of French origin. Driven from their\\ncountry b} the fierce persecution against the Hugue-\\nnots, they went over to Scotland. In the reign of\\nJames i. a branch of the family went over to Ireland\\nand settled in the county of Antrim. From this\\nbranch John Caldwell was descended, who emigrated\\nto this countr) biinging with him besides his wife\\nand children, four single sisters. He first seiiled ia\\nLancaster county, Pena., but soon removed to a set-\\ntlement called Cub Greek, in what is now called Char-\\nlotte county, Virginia. There James was born, April,\\n1734j the youngest of seven children. He was sent\\n7", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74 UEV. JAMES CALDWELL.\\nto Princeton College, where he graduated in 1759. In\\nabout a year afterwards he was Ucensed to preach the\\ngospel and whilst the dew of his youth was yet upon\\nhim he entered upon the chatge of this then large\\ncongregation. Soon after his settlement he was mar-\\nried, March 14, 1763, to Miss Hannah Ogden, of\\nNewark, who was in every respect a help meet for\\nhim, and whose cheerful piety and unshaken fortitude\\nsustained and comforted him amid the dark and try-\\ning scenes through wliich he was called to pass.\\nShortly after the settleniont of Mr. Caldwell here,\\nthose dilierences between the colonies and Great Bri-\\ntain commenced which resulted in the war of the Rev-\\nolution, and subsequently in the Independence of the\\nUnited Slates. Descended from the Huguenots, he\\nearly learned the story of their wrongs, and may be\\nsaid to have inherited a feeling of opposition to tyranny\\nand tyrants. Possessing warm feelings, and fine ge-\\nnius, and great muscular energy, he entered with all\\nhis heart into the controversy. He acted as the chap-\\nlain of those portions of the American army that suc-\\ncessively occupied New-Jersey, accompanied the Jersey\\nBrigade to the nortliern lines, and is said to have held\\nthe station of commissary for some time. He was\\nhigh in the confidence of Washington, with whom he\\nwas on the most intimate terms of friendship and in\\nlimes of gloom and despondency, by his eloquent and\\npatriotic appeals, contributed much to excite and sus-\\ntain the drooping spirits of officers and soldiers. And\\nperhaps no one man in this part of the State of New-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "REV. JAMES CALDWELL. 75\\nJersey contiiliLited so much to give tlirection and ener-\\ngy to the movements of our citizens. His popularity\\nwilli the soldiers and people was unbounded, and his\\npractical wisdom was held in the highest estimation.\\nBut the very things (hat made him popular with\\nthe friends of his country, made him equally unpopu-\\nlar with its enemies. To avoid the danger to which\\nhe was constantly exposed from the tories, and the\\nenemy then in tiie possession of Staten Island and\\nNew-York, he was compelled to remove his residence\\nfrom this place to Connecticut Farms, where he resi-\\nded until the day of his murder.\\nHe was sustained in his political action by his con-\\ngregation with scarcely a single exception. The\\nchurch in which he preached was cheerfully yielded\\nas a hospital for sick, and disabled, and wounded sol-\\ndiers, as some of the aged ones yet among us testify.\\nIt was its bell that sounded (hrough the town the notes\\nof alarm on the approach of the foe its floor was not\\nunfrequently the lied of (he weary soldier, and the\\nscats of its pews the table from whicli he eat his scanty\\nmeal. Its worshippers on the Sabbath were not un-\\nfrequently compelled to stand through the service\\nbecause of the greasiness of their seats, and the frag-\\nments of bread and meat by which they were covered.\\nIn vengeance on the pastor and the peop,Ie, this church\\nwas fired on the 25tli of January, 1780, by a refugee\\ncalled Cornelius Hetfield. Onthe25ih of the follow-\\ning June, whilst General Knyphausen was on his way\\nto Springfieldj Mrs. Caldwell was shot at Connecticut", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "76 REV. JAMES CALDWELL.\\nFarms by a refugee, through tiie window of a room\\nto wliich she had reliied with her children for safely\\nand prayer two balls passing through her body. Her\\nUfeless corpse was drawn from the building and laid\\nin the open street, when it was fired and soon all the\\nsurrounding buildings were in ashes. And on the\\n24th of November, 1781, Mr. Caldwell himself was\\nshot at Elizabeth-Town Point, whither he had gone\\nfor a young lady who had come under the protection\\nof a fiag of truce from New-Yoilc. IMie ball pierced\\nhis heart, and he expired in a moment. His corpse\\n-was laid in the body of a wagon covered with straw,\\nand was carried to the the house of Mrs. Noel, his\\nunwavering friend, whence it was buried. Dr. Mc-\\nWhorter, of Newark, preached his funeral sermon\\nfrom Ecclesiastes, eighth chapter and eighth verse.\\nThe remains of himself and wife He together in our\\ngrave yard. He died in the 49lh year of his age,\\nleaving a name as dear to the state as it is to the\\nciiurch of Jesus Christ. Tlius in less than two years\\nthis congregation was bereft of its church, and next\\nof the inestimable wife of their pastor, and next of\\nthat pastor himself And as a proof of (he estimate\\nin which he was held, his name was given to one of\\nthe townships of this county.\\nThe funeral of Mr. Caldwell was one of the most\\nsolemn scenes that this (own has ever m itncssed. He\\nwas shot on Satmday afternoon, and many of the\\npeo|)}e were ignorant of the tragical deed until they\\ncame to church on the Sabbath and instead of sitting", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "REV. JAMES CALDWELL. 77\\nwith delight under liis instructions, there was a loud\\ncry of wailing over his melancholy end. There was\\na vast concourse assembled to convey him to his tomb\\non the following Tuesday. After the rehgious servi-\\nces were ended, the corpse was placed on the large\\nstone before the door of the house of Mrs. Noel, now\\nthe residence of Miss Spalding, where all could take\\na last view of the remains of their murdered pastor.\\nAfter all had taken their last look, and before the cof-\\nfin was closed, Dr. Bcudinot came forward, leading\\nnine orphan children, and placing them around the\\nbier of tlieir parent, made an address of surpassing\\npathos to the multitude in their behalf. It was an\\nhour of deep and powerful emotion and the proces-\\nsion slowly moved to the grave, weeping as they went.\\nAnd as they lifted their streaming eyes to heaven, they\\nbesought the blessing of God upon the orphan group\\nand his kind interposition to crown their efforts\\nagainst their oppressors with success.\\nSo vivid are the recollections of many yet amongst\\nus of this devoted patriot and pastor, that we can de-\\nscribe him almost to the life. He was of middling\\nsize, and strongly framed. His countenance had a\\npensive placid cast but when excited was exceedingly\\nexpressive of resolution and energy. His voice was\\nsweet and pleasant, but at the same time so strong\\nthat he could make himself heard above the notes of\\nthe drum and fife. As a preacher he was uncom-\\nmonly eloquent and pathetic, rarely preaching without\\nweeping himself, and at times would melt his whola\\n7*", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "TS REV. JAMES CALDWELL.\\naudience into tears. He was one of the most active\\nof men, and seemed never wearied by any amount of\\nbodily or mental labor. Feelings of the most fervent\\npiety and of the most glowing patriotism possessed\\nhis bosom at the same time, without the one interfe-\\nring with the other. He was one day preaching to\\nthe battalion, the next marching with (hem to battle,\\nand if defeated assisting to conduct their retreat, and\\nthe next administering the consolations of the gospel\\nto some dying parishioner. His people were most\\nardently attached to liim, and the army adored him.\\nHis shed blood is mingled wiih our soil, and his ashes\\nrepose in our cemetery. Let his name be had in ever-\\nlasting remembrance.\\nHe was shot by a man called Morgan, who was\\ntried and found guilty of murder. It is said that\\nit was proved on his trial that he was bribed by Brit-\\nish gold to commit the murderous deed. He was\\nhung, giving signs of the most obdurate villainy. The\\nday of his execution was intensely cold, and his last\\nwords were, addressing with an oath the executioner,\\ndo your duly and don t keep me here suffering in\\nthe cold. The place of his execution is about half a\\nmile north of the Weslficld church, and is called Mor-\\ngan s Hill to this day.\\nMr. Caldwell left behind him nine orphan children,\\nwith but very little provision to sustain or educate\\nthem. The Lord raised up friends to protect them,\\nand they all lived not only to become members of the\\nchurch of Jesus Christ, but to occupy places of distin-\\nguished usefulness.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "REV. JAMES CALDWELL. 7^\\nMargaret, the oldest child, became the wife of Mr.\\nIsaac Can field, of Morristown.\\nHannah became the wife of Mr. James R. Smith,\\nfor many years a distinguished merchant of New-\\nYork.\\nJohn Edwards, was taken by Lafayette to France,\\nwhere he was educated for many 3 ^ears he was the\\nforemost in the ranks of the benevolent of the city of\\nNew-York was the editor of one of the first religious\\nperiodicals of the country, and did as much as any\\nother man in laying the foundation of the American\\nBible Society.\\nJames B. was for many years a Judge of the courts\\nof Gloucester county, and died in Woodbuiy.\\nEsther became the wife of the late Rev. Dr. Finley\\nof Baskenridge, afterwards the President of Athens\\nCollege in Georgia, whom she yet survives.\\nJosiah F. is now a citizen of Washington, D. C,\\nand an officer in the Post Office department.\\nElias B. was for some years the Clerk of the Su-\\npreme Court, and because of his noble efforts in the\\ncause of Colonization, one of the towns in Liberia is\\ncalled Caldwell in honor of him.\\nSarah, became the wife of the Rev. John S. Vre-\\ndcnburg, for many years pastor of the Dutch Reform-\\ned Church in Somcrville.\\nMaria, married Robert S. Robertson, a merchant of\\nNew-York, who with her husband yet survive. This\\nis the child which lay in the arms of her mother when\\nshe was shot.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "80 RESISTANCE TO IMPOST LAWS.\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nThe deep injustice of British legislation, in refer-\\nence to the Ameiican colonies, was very early felt in\\nNew-Jersey and perhaps, in no part of the colonies\\nwas there a more inteUigent or determined opposition\\nto taxation and impost than in Ehzabeth-Town.\\nMassachusetts led the way in resisting the impost\\nlaws of the crown, and New-.Tersey very promptly\\nfollowed. And when the merchants of Newport and\\nNew-York would import goods under the regulations\\nof the Parliament, meetings were held in Elizabeth-\\nTown in June and July 1770, in which resolutions\\nwere passed approving the non-importation agree-\\nments that had been adopted inother places, and declar-\\ning all that opposed them the enemies of their country,\\nand deserving to be treated accordingly.* The lan-\\nguage of the resolutions at these meetings, shew the\\nheat of those hidden fires, which, in subsequent years,\\nburst forth into an unquenchable flame.\\nIt would seem as if the people of Essex county\\nwere prepared, by a course of preceding events, for\\nthe sacrifices which they made, for the suffering they\\nendured, and for the valor which they displayed du-\\nring the war of the Revolution. During the whole\\nlime that Governor Belcher held the reigns of govern-\\nment, the greater part of East- Jersey was in a state of\\nGordon, 147.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "EXCITEMENT IN EAST JERSEY.\\n81\\nintense excitement, owing to clispntes between the\\ngrantees of Carteret and those holding lands under\\nthe Tndiati title. Robert Hunter Morris, and Janies\\nAlexander,* men high in civil station, and large pro-\\nprietors under the proprietory title, sued at law those\\nholding under the Indian title, for rent.t The civil\\ntribunals decided in their favor; when those holding\\nunder (he Indian title, iuunediatcly formed themselves\\ninto associations^; and they were enabled, by their num-\\nbers, union and boldness, to bid defiance to the laws,\\nand to hold possession of their lands. In 1745, these\\nassociations broke open the jail of Essex county and\\nset the prisoners at liberty, who were there confined\\non the suits of Morris and Alexander. And during\\nseveral consecutive years, the will of these associators\\nwas the law of the country, and the arm of the\\ngovernment was completely paralysed. The Gov-\\nernor and Iiis Council strove to inflict the severest\\npenalty of the law upon the rebels, but the House of\\nAssembly refused assent, and seemed rather disposed\\nto palliate than to punish their crime. We need not\\nwonder that men, trained amid conflicts like thes\\nwho, when the law would give them no redress, took\\nthat ledress into their own hands, passed the resolu-\\ntions of June and July 1770, severely punished the im-\\nporters of goods contrary to the non-importation agree-\\nment were prepared to peril all, when the great ques-\\nThe law tutor of Governor Livingston, and father of Lord\\nStirling.\\nt Gordon, 109,", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "82 GOVERNOR LIVINGSTON.\\ntion between the crown and the people was hbcity or\\nslavery.\\nAnd there were in this community, men swayed\\nand directed by other motives than those which in-\\nfluenced the associators in their resistance to the chums\\nof the proprietors. Tn their view, the conflict between\\nthe Crown and tlie Colonies involved principles dear to\\nthem as life, and which, if lamely surrendered, reduced\\nthem from being the citizens and subjects, to be the\\nslaves of Great Britain. Their minds comprehended\\nthe bearing of these principles, and their previous\\ntraining fitted them, at whatever sacrifice, to resist\\nthem.\\nAniong these, William Livingston stood con-\\nspicuous a lineal descendant of the Rev. John Li-\\nvingstone of Scotland, the fame of whose wonderful\\nsermon at the Kiifc of Shotis, is yet abroad in the\\nchurch. He was born in the city of Albany, in No-\\nvember. 1723. In 1741 lie was graduated at Yale\\nCollege, and soon after, he entered the office of James\\nAlexander, in the city of New-York, as a student of\\nlaw. In 1748 he is admitted to the bar as attorney,\\nand gradually rises to great distinction in his profes-\\npion. He enters with great spirit into the controver-\\nsies of the day, and soon becomes the leading writer,\\nboth in defence of popular rights, and in opposition to\\nwhat was then termed the American Episcopate.\\nHis occasional pieces on these subjects are numerous\\nc^nd valuable, and many of them were re-printed and", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOR LIVINGSTON. 83\\ncirculated in England, with no little efTect even upon\\nthe deliberations of the Cabinet. After accumulating\\na considerable fortune in the profession of the law, he\\nretired to Elizabeth-Town in 1772, where, in that and\\nthe subsequent year he erected the house which is yet\\ncalled by his name, and in which he resided until his\\ndeath. We find him soon elected a member of a\\nCommittee of Coriespondence, to meet other commit-\\ntees for the purpose of choosing delegates to the Con-\\ntinental Congress and soon a member of that Con-\\ngress which met in Philadelphia, in September, 1774.\\nHe was re-elected to the same body in 1775, in which\\nhe served on several of its most important committees.\\nIn 1776 he was elected Brigadier-General, and as\\nsuch, took the command of the New Jersey militia,\\nand fixed his camp at Elizabeth-Town Point, where\\nElias Boudinot was his aid-de-camp.\\nThe first Legislature of New- Jersey under the\\nRepublican Constitution, met in Princeton in August,\\n1776, and by it William Livingston was elected Gov-\\nernor of New- Jersey, the first Governor of the State\\nafter casting off its colonial dependence. And to this\\noffice he was elected by the successive legislatures for\\nfourteen consecutive years, until his death, which took\\nplace on Sunday, July 25, 1790. His remains were\\ninterred at Elizabeth-Town with those of his wife,\\nand in the course of the following winter were removed\\nto the vault of iheir son Brockholst, in New-York.\\nGovernor Livingston was a profound lawyer, an\\nincorruptible patriot, an able writer, and an humble", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "84 GEN. ELIAS DAYTON.\\nchristian. Professing principle?, and possessing habits\\nwhich unfitted him to be, and whicli foibid liini to aim\\nto be, the demagogue, he was j^et peibai)s the most\\npopular governor that ever filled the chair of state in\\nNew-Jersey. Nor must it be forgotten that he was\\nthe patron and friend of Alexander Hamilton. Ham-\\nilton came to this country from the SVest Indies, !)ring-\\ning a letter to Livingston from the Rev. Hugh Knox,\\na Presbyterian minister in St. Croix. Livingston sent\\nhim to school to Mr. Francis Barber, then a di^^lin-\\nguished teacher of this town. At the commencement\\nof hostilities, both teacher and pupil enlcred the army\\nthe teacher reached the rank of colonel the scholar s\\n\u00c2\u00abame and fame are known to the civilized world.\\nAnother of these men, raised up and fiited to meet\\nthe exigencies of the great occasion, was IjLtas Day-\\nton. His father, Jonathan, came to Elizabeth-Town\\nat an early jieriod of its history, from East Hampton,\\nLong Island, and held here a commission as captain\\nof militia under Governor Morris. His son Elias was\\nborn here in 1735. On reaching manhood he fol-\\nlowed a mechanical profession until the breaking out\\nof the French w^ar, when he joined the British army\\nwhich reduced Canada. Subsequently he was in\\ncommand of a company of militia that marched on an\\nexpedition against the Indians about the northern\\nlakes. On his return from this expedition he entered\\ninto the mercantile business. At the conunencement\\nof hostilities, vvc find him on the Conunittec of Safety", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "GEN. ELIAS DAYTON. 85\\nfor Elizabeth-Town. In 1775 or 1776, he was ap-\\npointed to the command of one of the New-Jersey\\nregiments, and continued at its liead until 1782, when\\nhe was promoted to the command of the New- Jersey\\nBrigade, He was in several of the principal battles of\\nthe Revolution, and had three horses shot under him,\\none at Germantown, one at Springfield, and one at\\nCrosswicks Bridge. After serving his country, and\\nproving himself a brave man and a skilful officer,\\nand gaining for himself a high place in the esteem\\nof Washington, on the close of the war, he resumed\\nhis mercantile pursuits in this town, in which he\\ncontinued until his death, which took place in\\n1807.\\nAfier he retired from the army, at the conclusion\\nof peace, he was several times elected to the Legisla-\\nture of New- Jersey for several years he served as\\nMayor of the Borough he was the first President of\\nthe Cincinnati of New Jersey, and for many years\\nserved as President of the Trustees of the First Pres-\\nbyterian Church. In the latter capacity, we find the\\nfollowing letter directed to him by Dr. Boudinot\\nPfiiladelphia, Feb. 26, 1800.\\nDear Sir Shall I request the favor of your pre-\\nsenting my respectful compliments to the Trustees of\\nthe Presbyterian church in Elizabeth-Town, of whom\\n1 presume you are still President, and beg their ac-\\nceptance of a pair of cut glass chandeliers, for the use\\nof their church.\\nThe many happy hours I have spent there, make\\n8", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86 CEN. ELIAS DAYTON.\\nthe remembrance of having been one of iheir society,\\namong tlie substantial pleasures of my life.\\nI have sent the chandeliers in two boxes, numbered\\none and two, by the sloop Sally, Captain Denike, di-\\nrected to you, to the care of Mr. Jona. Hampton Law-\\nrence, in New-York. The receipt of the officer you\\nhave enclosed.\\nBe so good as to give immediate directions that,\\nwhen taken out to be sent to Elizabeth-Town, tbey\\nmay be put into the cart upon an armful of hay or\\nshavings, and carted with great care. Any person,\\nwho has any knowledge of the form of chandeliers^\\ncan easily put them together, after they are care-\\nfully washed. They were in excellent order when\\nboxed up about ten days ago.\\nI am, dear sir, with great respect,\\nyour very humble servant,\\nElIAS BOUDINOT.\\nP. S. Mrs. Boudinot and Mrs. Bradford join me in\\nrespectful compliments to Mrs. Dayton and the whole\\nfamily.\\nGen. Elias Dayton.\\nRising by his own merits from comparative obscu-\\nrity to station, eminence, and usefulnet^s and having\\nobtained for himself by his patriotism, bravery and\\nservices, a rank among the fathers of our country, his\\nname deserves to be had in remembrance.\\nNor is the name of Francis Barber to be omit-\\nted from the list of able and patriotic men given by", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "COL. FRANCIS BARBER. 87\\nElizabeth-Town to fight the battles of our indepen-\\ndence. He was the son of Mr. Patrick Barber, who\\ncame to this country from Ireland, about the year\\n1750. He first located himself in Princeton, where\\nFrancis was born in 1751. He graduated in the Col-\\nlege of New^-Jersey, afier securing for himself a dis-\\nguished reputation for his classical attainments. As\\nwe might infer from the character of its first settlers,\\nmuch attention was paid to the subject of education\\nby the people of this town from its first settlement.\\nAnd to this we may attribute the strong influence\\nwhich for a long time it maintained in the Province.\\nWe find in 1767, a Mr. Pemberton and a Mr. Reeves\\nat the head of a school which was badly accommoda-\\nted with a building. A subscription was raised in the\\ntown, made payable to the trustees of the First Pres-\\nbyterian Church, for the erection of a building, on the\\ncondition that as long as Pemberton and Reeves con-\\ntinued, they should have the exclusive control of the\\nschool, but that when they resigned it, it should pass\\nunder the care of the trustees. With the- avails of\\nthis subscription, together with one hundred pounds,\\nbeing a legacy left to the First Church, by a Mr. Jo-\\nseph Ogden, the old Academy, burned down during\\nthe war, was erected on the spot where the Lecture\\nRoom of the First Church now stands. The individ-\\nuals appointed to superintend its erection, were Mr.\\nSmith, Mr. Spinning, Dr. Wm. Barnet, and Nehemi-\\nah Wade. From year to year visitors were appointed\\nby the trustees to attend the examination in this", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "So COL. FRANCIS BARBER.\\nschool. In 1769, Reeves and Pembeiton leave l!ie\\nschool, when Mr. C;iltlwell, Dr. Chandler, John Chet-\\nwood, Elias Boudinot, and others, were apponited to\\nprocure a good teacher. These gentlemen, fit judges\\nof the competency of applicants, select Mr. Barber,\\nwho is installed as rector of the school. With distin-\\nguished reputation, lie continues at its head until the\\ncommencement of the v;ar, when both teacher and\\nmany of the scholars, leaving the qiviet pursuits of\\nscience, fly to arms for the defence of their country.\\nIn 1776, Mr. Barber receives a commission from Con-\\ngress as Major of the third battalion of New- Jersey\\ntroops; and at the close of the year, he was appoint-\\ned Lieutenant-Colonel of the third Jersey regiment.\\nSubsequently be became assistant inspector general\\nunder Baron Steuben, who expressed the highest\\nopinion of liis ability and services.\\nCol. Barber was in constant service during the\\nwhole war. With his regiment, he served under\\nGeneral Schuyler at the north. He was at the bat-\\ntles of Tinconderoga, Trenton, Princeton, Brandy-\\nwine, Germantown, and Monmouth and came near\\nlosing his life in the latter. He was actively engaged\\nat the battle of Springfield. In 1781, he was at the\\ncapture of the Biilish army at Yorktown. And al\\nthe close of the war, and on the very dny on which\\nWashington was about to announce to the army the\\nsigning of the treaty of peace, he was killed iu the\\nvicinity of Newburg, as he was riding along the edge\\nefa wood, by the falling of a tree upon liim. He", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "ABRAHAM CLARK. 89\\nwas a fine scholar, a skillful and brave officer, and\\nrendered great and important services to his country.\\nHe has many descendants, who may well be proud of\\nhis name and fame. His son, George C. Barber, was\\nfor many years a Trustee of the First Church, and died\\nwhilst bearing the office of one of its Ruling Elders.\\nAlthough no wreath of military glory entwines his\\nblow, and his name stands entirely disconnected with\\nall narratives of battles lost or won, the memory of\\nbut few of the men contributed by New- Jersey to the\\nRevolutionary contest, should be more ardently cher-\\nished than that of Abraham Clark. As a native\\nof Elizabeth-Town, as a signer of the Declaration of\\nIndependence, as a member and Trustee of the First\\nPresbyterian Church, he demands at our hands a\\nbrief notice.\\nHe was the only son of Alderman Thomas Clark,\\nand was born in Elizabeth -Town, on the 15th of\\nFebruary, 1726. He was favored with an excellent\\neducation, and early discovered a peculiar talent for\\nmathematics. Although brought up on his paternal\\nfarm, he was unfitted for its severe labors, by a con-\\nstitution naturally feeble. A close and practical stu-\\ndent, he soon fitted himself for the discharge of many\\npublic duties; and his first occupations were convey-\\nancing and surveying. Such was the knowledge\\nwhich he acquired of the law, and his readiness and\\nability to impart advice gratuitously, that he was early\\ncalled the poor man s counsellor, although he never\\n8*", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "90 ABRAHAM CLARK.\\nentered the legal profession. Under the colonial gov-\\nernment he was High Sheriff of Essex county, Clerk\\nof the Assembly, and Commissioner to settle undivided\\ncommons. But neither the emoluments of office, nor\\nthe prospects of distinction, could induce him to side\\nwith the oppressors of his country, and we find him\\nat the commencement of hostilities, in the front ranks\\nof the phalanx of American patriots.\\nHe is an active member of the Committee of Public\\nSafety of Elizabeth-Town, of which we have already\\nspoken. He was a constant assistant at the popular\\nmeetings of the people. In conjunction with Richard\\nStockton, John Hart, Francis Hopkinson and Dr. John\\nWitherspoon, he was appointed by the Provincial Con-\\ngress in 17765 a delegate to the Continental Congress,\\nand with his compatriots, in July of this year, he\\nsigned his nanje to the Declaration of Independence.\\nIn November he was again elected by the Provincial\\nCongress, and with the exception of 1779, we find\\nhim a member of the Continental Congress until\\n1783. In 1786 he was again elected, and also for\\nthe two following years. During this long period of\\nservice in the national councils he was an intelligent,\\nactive, laborious and useful member. When he was\\nnot in Congress, he was usually a member of the\\nState Legislature, where his influence was both safe\\nand predominant. He was more than once the can-\\ndidate for Governor in opposition to Governor Li-\\nvingston.\\nIn 1787 he was appointed a member of the General", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "ABRAHAM CLARK AND OTHERS. 91\\nConvention which framed the Federal Constitution\\nbut he was prevented by ill health from attending\\nthat illustrious assembly. He was appointed in 1790\\na member of the Second Congress, which appoint-\\nment he continued to hold until a short time previous\\nto his death, which took place in the autumn of 1794.\\nHe died in the 69th year of his age, and his ashes\\nrepose in the grave-yard of the Presbyterian Church\\nat Rahway.\\nPatriotism, unbending integrity and piety were the\\ncharacteristics of this excellent and amiable man.\\nAlthough quiet and unobtrusive in liis manners, and\\ndisposed rather to shun than to seek popular applause,\\nyet even at the distance of half a century from his\\ndeath there is upon the mind of the whole community\\nthe deepest impression as to his great political and\\nmoral worth.\\nIn addition to these, might be named Aaron Ogden,\\nThomas Morrell, Oliver Spencer, William Crane, Da-\\nvid Lyon, and others. And, perhaps. America does\\nnot afford another instance of a town of the size of\\nthis, making such a contribution to the talent, the\\npatriotism, the military and diplomatic skill which\\nachieved our Independence. And with scarcely a\\nsingle exception, all these men were attached to the\\nFirst Presbyterian Church. And of many of them it\\nmay be said that they united the most fervent piety\\nto the most ardent and quenchless patriotism*", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "92 REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS.\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nPerhaps no part of the provinces sufTeied so severely\\nas the eastern part of New- Jersey, during the whole\\nRevolutionary contest. This is owing to two causes\\nit lay adjacent to the city of New-York, and to Stalen\\nIsland, which remained in tlie possession of the enemy\\nto the very last; and there were in it many tories,\\nwho did all they could to annoy their patriotic fellow\\ncitizens. And although no battles were fought here,\\nlike those of Princeton, Trenton or Monmouth, yet it\\nwas the scene of frequent skirmishes, and of constant\\npetty annoyances, which kept the community in a\\nconstant state of excitement. We shall state some of\\nthe Revolutionary incidents connected with Elizabeth-\\nTown, as far as we have been able to collect them\\nfrom the pages of history, and from those aged ones\\namong us, in whose memory they yet live. It is to\\nthe disgrace of our commonwealth that the Revolu-\\ntionary history of New- Jersey remains yet to be\\nwritten.\\nIn 1776, Sir William Howe appears off Slaten Is-\\nland with a very strong force and the news spreads\\nalarm through New-Jersey. Livingston, at the head\\nof the militia, fixes his camp at the Point, now con-\\nsidered the most exposed and important place in the pro-\\nvince, and commences putting it in a state of defence.\\nThen was the fort built whose foundations were only\\nremoved by the recent improvements there and", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS. 93\\nditches were dug and ramparts lluown up across all\\nthe roads and paths leading to the town. In addilion\\nto these, a breastwork was thrown up about a mile\\nlong, reaching from tlie Old to the New Point, which\\nwas mounted with a few cannon but we do not learn\\nthat these works were ever of any material use. They\\nwere built in a rude and unskilful manner, and but\\nlittle calculated to protect our men, or to repel the\\nenetny.\\nThere was here a Committee of Safety early ap-\\npointed, whose duty it was to see that the community\\nreceived na detriment, and which seemed to exercise\\na kind of military power over their fellow^ citizens.\\nOf that committee. General William Crane, Samuel\\nLyon, Jonathan Pierson, Abraham Clarkj and others,\\nwere members.\\nHearing that a British transport and provision ship\\nwas on the coast, the Committee resolve, at all ha-\\nzards, to captme her. They ordered out four armed\\nboats, and placed the liule armament under the com-\\nmand of Elias Dayton and William Alexander, called\\nLord Stirling. Oliver Spencer, then a ruling elder of\\nthe First Church, was captain of one of the boats, and\\nThomas Morrell.of another. They came in sight of\\nthe vessel about forty miles from Sandy Hook and\\nputting all their men under deck, they were mistaken\\nfor pilot, or fishing boats. The boats of Captains\\nMorrell and Spencer being the fastest sailors, came\\nfirst up with the ship and lifting their hatches and\\npouring their men on its deck, they captured hei", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "94 REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS.\\nwithout the loss of a man, and with scarcely a show\\nof resistance. She proved to be tlie Blue Moun-\\ntain Valley, Captain Dempster, mourning twelve car-\\nriage guns, and manned with about forty men, of\\nthree or four hundred tons burthen, and laden with\\nprovisions for the British army. By the way of Am-\\nboy she was brought to Elizabeth-Town Point, where\\nshe was dismantled and her cargo landed. This da-\\nring and heroic act, which obtained great popularity\\nfor all concerned in it, was performed in the summer\\nof 1775.\\nOn the retreat of Washington from the Hudson\\nthrough New-Jersey to the Delaware, the royalists in\\nevery part of the country became at once exceedingly\\nabusive and cruel to their more patriotic fellow citi-\\nzens. Feeling that all hope of obtaining independ-\\nence must be surrendered, and fearing no longer any\\ndread of punishment from the republicans, they cast\\noff all restraint. And their excesses were very great\\nin East Jerse} New-York was in the possession of\\nthe enemy flushed with victory and the mercenary\\nHessians, who considered themselves released from all\\nrespect to humanity and juslicCj and the British troo|)s,\\nbut little restricted in their career of. crime and plun-\\nder, went at liberty through East Jersey. Our citi-\\nzens were taken out of their beds at night and con-\\nveyed to New York, where they experienced every\\nsort of ill treatment.* They were shut up in the fa.-\\nBotta s Am. Rev. i. 397.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS. 95\\nmous Sugar House, and in churches, without any\\nprovision for their comfort. They were fed on ali-\\nment the sight of whicii excited disgust. The sick\\nwere confounded with tlie healthy and all were alike\\nexposed to the most shocking defect of cleanliness, and\\nto the outrages of the soldiers, and especially of the\\nloyalists. A confined and impure air, together with\\nunhealthy food, engendered diseases of which more\\nthan fifteen hundred perished in a few weeks. Some\\nof the officers made prisoners were carted through the\\ncity, though wounded and nearly naked, for the sport\\nof the populace and some of them were caned for\\nattempting to make some provision for their fellow\\nsoldiers who were dying of disease and hunger in\\ntheir infected dungeons. But very few of the old\\nfamilies of our town, except those who opposed tke\\nliberty of their country, which did not make their\\ncontribution to this list of sufferers.\\nAnd where individuals escaped being made prison-\\ners by the nightly marauding parties, led on by the\\nlories, their cattle were driven off* and killed, their\\nbarns and cellars were plundered, their wives and\\ndaughters were insulted, and, in many instances, their\\nhouses were demolished or burned. The English\\nofficers restrained from some of these excesses their\\nown soldiers but there seemed no restraint to the\\nHessians and the tories. And Eastern New- Jersey\\npresented only the vestiges of havoc and desolation.\\nThe winter of 1780, when Washington was en-\\nt:amped at Morristown, was one of severe trial to the\\ny", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "96 REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS.\\narmy, arising from the want of provisions and of pay.\\nRumors were rife among the British that tlie army\\nwas dissatisfied, that whole regiments were deserting,\\nthat the soldiers were in rebelUon against their officers,\\nand that New- Jersey was anxious to exchange iier\\ngovernment, and to return to lier allegiance to the\\ncrown. Believing these reports, Knyphausen was\\ndespatched with his mercenaries to New-Jersey, and\\non the Gth of June, under the cloak of night, landed\\nat the Point with about five thousand men, from Sla-\\nten Island. Early in the morning, he commenced\\nhis march to Morristown but as he passed along he\\nsoon experienced the falseness of the reports as to the\\ndisposition of the people; for he was annoyed from\\nevery bush, and every wood, and almost every tree,\\nap6 he passed along. He halted at Connecticut Farms,\\nand as is stated, at the request of Governor Tryon,\\nwho was with him, he ordered the village, the church,\\nand the parsonage, to be reduced to ashes. The\\nPresbyterian church there, like many others in tlic\\ncountry, was used as a barrack for the American\\narmy. It was on this occasion that Mrs. Caldwell\\nwas murdered. A refugee walked up to the win-\\ndow, and seeing her surrounded by her children,\\nwith an infant in her arms, deliberately shot her\\nthrough the heart. Her murdered body was drawn\\nfrom the house, and laid by the wayside, when the\\ntorch was put to her dwelling, which was soon in\\nashes. Having burned the Farms, he marched (o-\\nv/ards Springfield; but learning next morning, tha-t", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS. 97\\nWashington had marched an army to meet hhn, he\\nreturned to the Point, greatly annoyed by httle parties\\nthat every where concealed themselves. In about\\ntwo weeks afterwards he marched again upon Spring-\\nfield, with five thousand infantry, a large body of ca-\\nvalry, and several field-pieces. After a brave resist-\\nance, conducted by Major Lee, Colonels Dayton, An-\\ngel, Shreve, Ogdeii, and Captain Walker, our men\\nare repulsed. The English take possession of the\\ntown, and soon reduce it to ashes. The serious oppo-\\nsition he meets deters him from prosecuting his plans\\nfarther. On the afternoon of this day he returns to\\nthe Point, and during the night he passed over to Sta*\\nten Island. There was a large bridge of boats across\\nthe water separating the Point from Slaten Island\\nand on the following morning not a vestige of it is to\\nbe seen.\\nIt was on this second march of Knyphausen upon\\nSpringfield, that the following incident occurred As\\nthe main body had turned the corner opposite the pre-\\nsent residence of Mr. Richard Townley, a few young\\nmen, in the very sight of the army, and within mus-\\nket shot of it, captured the guard, and baggage, and\\nhorses, of a Colonel Fox. The baggage was after-\\nwards sold at auction for upwards of one thousand\\ndollars and one of the four prisoners being a colored\\nman, was taken to Pliiladelphia, and there sold into\\nslavery. Among the individuals engnged in tliis ex-\\nploit were Samuel Harriman, David Woodrufif Jesse\\nWoodruff Elihu Gale, Elihu Ogdcn, James Chandlerj\\n9", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "SS REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS;\\nHenry Inslee, and Mr. David Lyon, who yet survives^\\nand narrates the event. And some of the plate of\\nCol. Fox, bearing npon it the figure of a fox, is now\\nin possession of the descendants of Mr. Harriman.\\nThe following is among the most daring exploits\\nof the Revolution. A colonel of the American army\\nbeing taken prisoner, and there being no British officer\\nof a similar grade in their possession with whom to\\nredeem him, three men enter on tlie perilous enter-\\nprise of taking a colonel from the very midst of the\\nenemy then stationed on Staten Island. They cross\\nthe Sound on a dark night, and as they approach the\\nhouse where several officers were located, they find it\\nstrongly guarded. They steal by the guard, and take\\ntheir stand near a window ihiough which they can\\nsee what is going on within. Watching an opportu-\\nnity, they suddenly enter the house, and putting a\\npistol to the breast of a colonel, order him to march\\nout as their prisoner, threatening, in case of the least\\nnoise or resistance, to shoot him. They take him\\naway from his companions, and through the guard\\nby w^iich the house is encircled, and deliver him safe-\\nly in this town by sunrise the next morning. Mr.\\nHenry Willis, whose death occurred but a few months\\nsince, was one of these three valiant men. This da-\\nring act was a matter of common talk even in the\\nBritish court.\\nAs early as 1758, whilst the French war was ra-\\nging, we find an act of the Legislature of New-Jerseyj\\ndirecting Barracks (o be erected in Burlington, Tren-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS. 99\\nton, New-Brunswick, Anriboy, and Elizabeth-Town,\\ncompetent each for the accommodation of three hun-\\ndred men. It was ujider this act that the Barracks\\nwere erected which for nearly a quarter of a century\\nstood on the rising ground in Cherry-street, directly in\\nthe rear of the residence of Mr. Nathan Sayre. It\\nwas a building three stories high, and extending from\\nthe street to the river, facing the South. By an act\\nof 1770, Edward Thomas was appointed Barrack\\nMaster. Up to the commencement of hostilities, it\\nwas occupied by the royal troops, but subsequently it\\nwas possessed by the continental soldiers. It was\\nearly reduced to ashes by the enemy. The First\\nPresbyterian Church and the Court House were then\\nthrown open for the accommodation of our soldiers;\\nthese, together with the Parsonage, which, when de-\\nserted by Mr. Caldwell, was converted into a hospital,\\nwere reduced to ashes. When Colonel Barber, with\\nsome of his scholars, deserted the Academy for the\\narmy, the building was converted into a storehouse.\\nThis also, after being plundered of its provisions, was\\nfired by the enemy and whilst burning, a Mrs. Eg-\\nbert, whose death has occurred within two or three\\nyears, rolled out of it twenty-six barrels of flour, as-\\nsisted by a few other females, at the risk of being shot\\ndown on the one hand by the British soldiers, and of\\nbeing burned up on the other. These, with a few\\nbuildings towards the Point, are the only ones, as far\\nas we can learn, that were destroyed during the war,\\nin this towo-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "100 EEVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS-\\nBut with all ihe brilliancy of the picture of the pa-\\ntriotism of Elizabeth-Town, that picture has its shade?.\\nWhat was then called London trading the sup-\\nplying of the British with provisions, for which they\\npaid high prices was carried on to a great extent,\\nboth by whigs and lories. Tiie most ardent friends of\\ntheir country, were frequently caught at midnight on\\ntheir way with provisions to Slaten Island. Of this fact\\nWashington often seriously complains. Of this evil,\\nGov, Livingston llius writes to Washington This\\nevil, instead of being checked, hasgrawD tosoenormous\\na height, that the enemy, as 1 am informed, is plentiful-\\nly supplied with fresh provisions and such a quantity\\nof British manufactures is brought back in exchange,\\nas to enable the persons concerned to set up shops to\\nretail them. The people are outrageous, and many of\\nour officers threaten to resign their commissions.\\nAnd subsequently, in a letter to a mcnibor of Cor\\ngress, Livingston thus describes the corrupting and\\ndemoralizing influence London trading produced on\\nElizabeth-Town Solitary, indeed, is Q,ueen Eliza-\\nbeth s namesake to me, at present; wlien, instead of\\nmy quondam agreeable companions, the village now\\nconsists of unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty\\nlooking tories, and very knavish whigs.\\nAmongst the most notorious and malignant loyal-\\nists of this part of the country was Cornelius Het-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Sedgwick s Livingston, 245 6.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS. 101\\nFIELD. His name and fame will be long remembered\\nin East Jersey. His father was a man of excellent\\ncharacter, a Ruling Elder in the Church, the ardent\\nfriend of Caldwell and of his country. He manifested\\nin early life an ambitious and reckless spirit. At the\\ncommencement of hostilities with Great Britain, he\\nwas an ardent patriot. A candidate for the captaincy\\nof a company of militia raised in this town, he failed\\nof his election, and an individual to whom he bore a\\nbitter enmity was raised to the command. From that\\nday he declared iiostilily until death to his country,\\nand the friends of its freedom. He joined the British\\non Staten Island, and was placed at the head of the\\nrefugees, whose duty it was to carry on the work of\\npillaging and plundering at night, and -of annoying\\nthe whigs in all possible ways, except that of honor-\\nable and open resistance. He was at the head of\\nnearly all the midnight marauding parties that plun-\\ndered and captured our fellow citizens. It was he\\nthat applied the torch to the Church and the Court-\\nHouse, and was heard to lament that the Black\\nRebel, as he called Caldwell, was not burned in his\\npulpit. About the time when Huddy, of Tom s River,\\nwas executed in New-York, he was one of a company,\\nwho, in a drunken frolic, hung a whig, by the name\\nof Ball, at Bergen Point. Inheriting from his father\\na large plantation in this town, he returned here after\\nthe peace when he was taken and tried for the mur-\\nder of Ball. Colonel Ogden and Major Chetwood\\n9*", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "102 PETITION TO CONGRESS\\nwere his counsel; atid noUiing saved liini froni the\\ngallows, but the clause in the Treaty of Peace which\\nsecured the pardon of all offenders for all oflfences\\ncommitted during the war. Finding that there was\\nno safety for him here, as he was liable to be shot at\\nany nioment, he letired to England, where he died\\nnot many years ago, at an advanced period of life.\\nWe here insert the following document, because of\\nits connexion with the events now brought under re-\\nview. It was submitted to Congress with the affidavits\\nof very respectable individuals, to the accuracy of all its\\nstatements, but the claim was denied\\nTo the iionorable tho Senate and House of Representatives of\\nthe United States in Congress assembled\\nWe, the Pastor, Session, and Trustees, of the First\\nPresbyterian Church of Elizabeth-Town, in the\\ncounty of Essex, and State of New-Jersey, respect-\\nfully present to your honorable bodies the following\\nmemorial\\nThe church of which we are now the ecclesiastical\\nand corporate officers, is the oldest formed by the En-\\nglish in our state. It dates its origin from the year\\n1666, and was organized by our fathers soon after the\\nsettlement of our town. They, in the infancy of our\\ncommunity, erected a building for the worship of God,\\nand dedicated it to that holy purpose and for nearly\\nfifty years it was here the only temple consecrated to\\nthe service of Jehovah. Considering the lime and\\ncircumstances of its erection, it was large and com-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "IN BEHALF OF THE CHURCH. 103\\nmodious. As the population increased, it was en-\\nlarged by an addition of twenty feet in 1760; when\\nit was a substantial building, with galleries, a high\\nsteeple, a bell, and a town-clock. And as this was\\nthe chief town for many years in the province, it was\\nalways kept with great neatness, and in a fine state\\nof repair.\\nOn the first settlement of our town, a large town-\\nlot was set apart for the use of the pastor, on which\\nour fathers early erected a parsonage-house as a resi-\\ndence for their successive ministers. Tt was a long\\nbuilding, a story and a half high, and ample for the\\naccommodation of a large family. Tt was, like the\\nchurch, the public property of the congregation.\\nFeeling a deep solicitude for the education of their\\nchildren, our fathers, at a very early day in our his-\\ntory, here erected an Academy. It was substantially\\nbuilt of wood, two stories high, and amply commo-\\ndious for all the purposes of its erection. For many\\nyears it was the most celebrated institution of the kind\\nwest of the Hudson. In it a Burr, who once filled the\\nchair of President in your Senate chamber, and a\\nJonathan Dayton who presided in the House of\\nRepresentatives, an Aaron Ogden, a Stephen Van\\nRensselaer, and others not unknown to your council\\nchambers, nor to their country, received the first rudi-\\nments of their education. In that academy were laid\\nthe foundations of the College of New- Jersey now\\nlocated in Princeton and w ithin its walls President\\nJonathan Dickinson taught the first classes ever coa-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "104 PETITION TO CONGRESS\\nnected with that institution. This also was the pro-\\nperty, and was under the supervision of the Trustees\\nof our church.\\nWhen the glorious war of our Revolution com-\\nmenced, which resulted in our independence, these\\nbuildings were all standing and in good repair, and\\neach devoted to the purposes of its erection. The\\nRev. James Caldwell was then the pastor of this\\nchurch. His name and his fame are interwoven\\nwith the history of his country, and are as dear to the\\nstate as to the church of God. Influenced not less by\\nhis sense of our wrongs than by the impulses of Ins\\nvigorous mind and glowing enthusiasm, he became\\nearly and deeply interested in the conflict, and devoted\\nall his powers no less to the freedom of his country\\nthan to the service of his God. Such was his influ-\\nence over his people, that with few exceptions, they\\nbecame one with him in sentiment and feeling and\\nthenceforward he and they were branded as the rebel\\nparson and parish. To the enemies of his country\\nhe was an object of the deepest hatred and such was\\ntheir known thirst for his life, that while preaching the\\ngospel of peace to his people, he was compelled to lay\\nhis loaded pistols by his side in the pulpit. To avoid\\ntheir vigilance and violence, he was compelled to de-\\nsert his own home, with his large family of nine chil-\\ndren, and to seek a temporary residence in the interior.\\nThe parsonage thus vacated by him became the rest-\\ning-place of our soldiers. And to deprive them of its\\nshelter, and to vent a rankling enmity toward its", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "m\\nmi\\nIN BEHALF OF THE CHURCH. 105\\nrightful occupant, it was fired and burnt by the\\nenemy.\\nThe church in which our fathers worshipped God,\\nalso became the resting-place of our soldiers on several\\noccasions. There they lodged after the labors of the\\nday, while its steeple was their watch-tower, and its\\nbell pealed forth in quick succession the notes of alarm\\non the approach of danger. And for the purpose of\\ndepriving them of its shelter, and out of enmity to\\nthe patriotic and eloquent occupant of its pulpit, it\\nwas reduced to ashes by the enemy, on the night of\\nthe 25th of January, 1780.\\nAt the sound of the tocsin of war our academy was\\ndeserted. At their country s call, its scholars ran fioni\\ntheir masters, and with them, to the rescue and it\\nwas converted into a store-Uouse for the provisions of\\nthe American army. This, also, after plundering it\\nof its provisions, was reduced to ashes by the enemy,\\nwho immediately retreated to their camp on Stateii\\nIsland, carrying the beef and pork taken on the tops\\nof their bayonets.\\nNot satisfied with this, the accomplished wife of\\nour beloved pastor was shot by a British ruffian, on\\nthe 7th day of June, 1780, while she was with her\\nchildren in the retirement of her closet, praying tliat\\nvictory might perch on the banner of her country.\\nAnd on the 24th of November, 1781, our beloved\\npastor himself was shot by another ruffjan, a sentinel\\nof our own army, bribed to the horrid deed by British\\ngold. Thus, in the course of a few months, we wera", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "106 PETITION TO CONGRESS\\ndeprived of our Church, and of our Parsonage and\\nAcademy, and of our beloved Pastor and his wife\\nand so scattered and weakened and impoverished\\nwere we by the war, that for seven long years we were\\nwithout a sanctuary in which to worship God. And\\nyet amid these accumulated ills our fathers never fal-\\ntered for a moment. Tliey felt that, however dark\\nand lowering was the morning, that at eventide there\\nwould be light. However, in other parts of our coun-\\ntry, they may have been separated, on this soil prayer\\nand patriotism were united. The one inspired the\\nother with courage and confidence.\\nAs a people, we suffered as much in the loss of our\\ncitizens in battle as any town of the same population\\nin this land. The blood of our fathers and brothers\\nand neighbors mingles with the soil of Flatbush, and\\nMonmouth, and Princeton, and Trenton, and Bran-\\ndysvine, and Germantown. But for (Iipir sufferings\\nand blood, we feel amply repaid in the possession of\\nthat broad inheritance of civil and religious liberty\\nwhich they so dearly purchased for us.\\nAs a congregation we contributed our fair propor-\\ntion to the civil and military service of the Revolution.\\nTo the army we gave a Dayton, father and son, a\\nSpencer, an Ogden, and, as chaplain and commissary,\\nour beloved Caldwell. To the state and national\\ncouncils we gave a Boudinot, a Livingston, a Clark, a\\nDayton, an Ogden. Where, in our land, is tliere\\nanother congregation which has made a like contribu-\\nlion And we feel not merely proud, but thankful to", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "IN BEHALF OF THE CHURCH. 107\\nGod, that we were enabled to send such men to the\\nfield and to the cabinet in the day of darkness and\\nperil, when wisdom to direct was as necessary as valor\\nto execute.\\nOwing to our vicinity to Staten Island and New-\\nYork city, the grand depots of the enemy, we suffered\\nvery much as a people from midnight alarms and\\nplunder, from the burning of our houses and pioperty,\\nand from the taking of our ciiizens from (heir beds\\nand fields as prisoners, and incarcerating ihern in the\\nfamous Sugar House in New-York. Bat these things\\nwe regard as necessarily incidental to the great con-\\ntest and a few old Romans there are yet among us\\nwho remember the cup of wormwood, but who yet\\nrejoice in sufferings that have resulted so gloriously.\\nFor these things we ask no remuneration. Con-\\ngress could grant us no equivalent. We would not\\nsell the laurels we have won in the Revolutionary\\ncontest for the public domain. We mention these\\nthings merely to show you the amount of our contri-\\nbution to the wisdom, and valor, and firmness, and\\nsuffering, which achieved our glorious independence.\\nAll that we desire now from our country is a com-\\npensation for our public property destroyed and de-\\nstroyed because of being converted to public purposes\\nfor the benefit of the American army. And the evi-\\ndence that our Parsonage, and Church, and Academy,\\nWere so used, is hereby respectfully submitted with\\nthis our memorial.\\nAnd such is our sense of honor, that we do not wish", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "108 CONDITION OF THE CHURCH\\nto draw from the nnlional treasury the small compen-\\nsation hereby soHcited, unless it is considered right-\\nfully our due.\\nElizabeth-Town, N. J., Feb. 29, 1840.\\nNicholas Murray, Pastor.\\nSESSION.\\nDavid Megie, John J. Hryant,\\nAlexander Ogilvie, Elias Winans,\\ntownley mulford, jonas w. winans,\\nJames F. Meeker, James Ros.s,\\nVViLLiAM Brown, Edward Sanderson.\\nJoseph S. Meeker,\\ntrustees.\\nElihu Brittin, Pres t. Oliver Pierson,\\nJohn Stiles, A. S. Hetfield,\\nWilliam F. Day, M. M. Woodruff.\\n-Joseph Hindes,\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nWe return again to the history of the First Presby-\\nterian Church. At the opening of the year 1782. the\\nChuich aiid the community wdre in a deplorable con-\\ndition. The Church edifice was reduceil to ashes, its\\nPastor, having ft\\\\llen by a ruirian hand, was in his\\ngrave the people were scattered and peeled; many\\nof them were sulTering in the army many in the\\nfamous Sugar House widows and orphans were", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "AFTER MR. CALDWELl s DEATH. 109\\nmultiplied in every direction the Episcopal Cliurch\\nwas a stable, and its Rector had retired to Eng-land.\\nThere was no house in which to worship God, save\\nthe old red Store House, given by Elder Cornelius\\nHetfield nor was there any Minister, statedly to\\nbreak to the people the bread of life. A darker day\\nthis community never saw. And yet but few, if any,\\nSabbaths passed away without religious services of\\nsome kind. When there was no Minister to preach,\\nsermons were read and prayers were offered by the\\nElders. After the witiidrawal of Dr. Chandler, Dr.\\nUzal Ogden preached in the Episcopal Church, divi-\\nding his Sabbaths betv. een Newark and Elizabetlv\\nTown. He was a man of great zeal, liberality, and\\npiety and multitudes of all persuasions flocked to\\nhear him preach. His pungent and powerful appeals\\nwere blessed to the exciting of unusual attention to\\nreligion and a great revival ensued. And at this time\\nmany of the tnost stable and devoted christians which\\nthis part of the country has ever seen, were brouglit\\ninto the Church, some of whom continue until the pre-\\nsent day. And all feel that when the last of theni\\nhave taken their departure, we shall not soon see their\\nlike again. Mr. Armstrong, afterwards of Trenton,\\npreached here for nearly a year, commencing in Oo\\ntober, 1782, but losing his health by an attack of the\\nmeasles, he was compelled to retire when the coi\\ngregation was without any regular ministrations until\\n1786.\\n10", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "no DR. ELIAS BOUDINOTi\\nThere was connected with the Church at this time\\na man whose name deserves to be had in remem-\\nbrance. We refer to Dr. Klias Boudinot. He was\\nborn in the city of Philadelphia, on the second of\\nMay, 1740, and was a descendant of one of those\\npious Huguenots, who, on the revocation of the edict\\nof Naniz, fled to this country, in order to escape the\\nhorrors of papal persecution. After completing a course\\nof classical preparation, he studied law with Richard\\nStockton, a member of the first Congress, and whose\\neldest sister he afterwards married. When adu)itted\\nto the bar, he selected this town for his residence, and\\nlived several years in the old building, now almost in\\nruins, and known as the Whitlock House, in Mea-\\ndow-street, next south to the residence of Mr. James\\nG. Nuttman. His settlement here must be nearly\\nsimultaneous with that of Mr. Caldwell, of whom he\\nwas ever the attached and devoted friend. His piety,\\nprobity, patriotism and talents soon enabled him to\\nrise to the first rank of his profession, and biought\\niiim up to public notice. He was appointed by Con-\\ngress to the important trust of Conuiiissary General\\nof prisoners, and fulfilled its duties with great pru-\\ndence and humanity. In 1777, he was elected a\\nMember of Congress, and in 17S2, he was made its\\nPresident. In this capacity he had the honor of put-\\nling his signature to the Treaty of Peace, which es-\\ntablished his country s independence, lie was for six\\nyears a member of Cotigress mider the present Con-\\nBtitution and, on the death of the celebrated Ritten-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "UR. ELIAS BOUDINOT. Ill\\nhouse, he was appointed by Washington Director of\\nthe National Mint. On resigning this office, he retired\\nto the city of Burhtigton, where, surrounded by affec-\\ntionate friends, and visited by strangers of distinction,\\nhe filled up life in the exercise of tiie highest chris-\\ntian duties. His memory wiil be long precious to the\\nfriends of science and reHgion, for his munificent ben-\\nefactions whilst living, and his princely legacies in his\\nlast will. Whilst yet in its infancy, his large dona-\\ntions placed tlie American Bible Society, of which he\\nwas the first President, upon a sure and firm founda-\\ntion. With a heart expanded by the noblest princi-\\nples of christian benevolence, he liberally contributed\\nto various institutions whose objects were the exten-\\nsion of literature and religion yet his most liberal\\nbequests were to the General Assembly of the Pres-\\nbyterian Church, and to its Theological Seminary at\\nPrinceton, of which Church he was an exemplary\\nmember. His book on the origin of our Indian\\ntribes, called A Star in the West, and his able reply\\nto the Age of Reason, entitled The Age of Revela-\\ntion, bear ample testimony to his piety and learning,\\nand to his ability as a controversialist and writer. In\\nhis last will, he left a legacy to the First Presbyterian\\nChurch of this town, for the purpose of founding a\\nMinisterial Libraiy, This christian, patriot, philan-\\nthropist, and scholar, died in the city of Burlington,\\nOctober 24lh, 1821, in the 82nd year of his age.*\\nFor many of ttiese facts I am indebted to the late Judge Bay-\\nard, of Princeton, who was a relative, and one of the executors\\nof Dr. Bou,dino.t.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "U2\\nNEW CHUKCH EDIFICE.\\nAfter the close of the war, the citizen soldiers who\\nhad survived the conflict returned to their homes, and\\nto the pursuits which ihey had deserted for the camp.\\nAnd although greatly impoverished, and many of\\nthem without houses of their own, they soon resolve\\nto erect a house for the worship of God. In 1784,\\nthe first minute is made in reference to the new build-\\ning, and that is a record of a vole of the congrega-\\ntion, that the parsonage land against Mrs. Jelf s\\nshould be mortgaged to raise money to build a\\nChurch. In that year, then, we presume its foun-\\ndations were laid in fear and trembling and it was\\ndedicated to the worship of God, by Dr. Alexander\\njVJcWhorter, about the tirst of January, 1786. But\\nyet for several years it remained in a very unfinished\\nand uncomfortable state; the Minister preaching frora\\na rough platform of boards, and the people sitting\\nupon rough planks. To assist in completing it a lot-\\ntery was granted by the State, called the Elizabeth-\\nTown and Nev- -Brunswick Church Lottery, from\\nwhich was realized about fifteen hundred dollars. This\\none fact shows that we may possibly improve on the\\nwisdcun of our fathers^ however we may fall below\\nthem in energy. Collections for the purpose were also\\nmade in Newark, Bloomfield, and some other places\\nspecified in the accounts of the Treasurer. In No-\\nvember, 1792, after a sermon by Mr. Austin, a collec-\\ntion for the stone steps, and for paving the street, was\\ntaken up, amounting to fourteen pounds. So that whilst\\nit was commenced in 1781, and dedicated in 1786, it", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "REV. DR. WILLIAM LINN. 113\\nwas not completed until 1793. For its beautiful spire,\\nand much of its its interior comfort, it is indebted to\\nthe zeal and energy of the Rev. Mr. Austin. To pay\\nofi* tbe debts incurred by its erection, much of the par-\\nsonage property was sold. For this purpose, the par-\\nsonage lot where Dickinson and Caldwell lived, and\\non which the old Parsonage stood, was sold in 1792\\nAfter remaining for nearly six years without a settled\\nministry, the Rev. William Linn, D. D., was here\\ninstalled on the 14th of June, 1786. Dr. Linn was\\na native of Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1752.\\nWhen he was but twenty years of age, he graduated\\nin the College at Princeton, and soon thereafter we\\nfind him one of the Chaplains of the Revolutionary\\narmy. In 1784, he was the Rector of an Academy\\nin Somerset county, Maryland, where he acquired a\\nhigh reputation as a teacher and scholar. From that\\nplace he removed to this town in 1786. He remained\\nhere but a few months, as in the November after his\\nsettlement, he received and accepted a call to the Re-\\nformed Dutch Church of the city of New-York, In\\nconsequence of declining health, v;hich it was suppo-\\nsed a change of air might benefit, he removed Jo the\\ncity of Albany, where he died in 1808, having nearly\\ncompleted his 56th year. He was a very po|H)lnr and\\nuseful Minister. He was the father of tlie Rev. John\\nBlair Linn, the poet and orator, who died at the ago\\nof 27, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of\\nPhiladelphia and who gave promise, had his lifs\\n10*", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "114 REV, DAVID AUSTIN.\\nbeen prolonged, of being one of the ablest, as he was\\none of the most eloquent, divines of our country, A\\ndaughter of his was the wife of Simeon Dewitt, for\\nmany years the Surveyor General, and one of the\\nmost prominent citizens, of the State of New-York,\\nThe successor of Dr. Linn was the Rev, David\\nAustin, whose name and fame will be long remem-\\nbered in this part of the country. He was born in\\nNew-Haven, in the year 1760, His father was one\\nof the earliest settlers of that place, and was a man of\\ngreat respectability, of piety, and wealth. He was for\\nmany years Collector of the Customs, and afterwards\\na successful merchant. David was the eldest of a\\nnumerous family, all the members of which who lived\\nto maturity, becatne truly pious. He was early fitted\\nfor college, and graduated at Yale, in 1779, After\\ngraduating, he pursued his theological studies with\\nDr. Bellamy, of Bethlehem, in his native state, and,\\naccording to the custom of tiiat day, was soon licensed\\nto preach the gospel. He preached with great accept-\\nance, and, in several places, was strongly solicited to\\nsettle as a Pastor. Having determined to visit Eu-\\nrope before taking a pastoral charge, he declined all\\nthese proposals, some of which were highly flattering\\nand advantageous. He spent some time in foreign\\ntravel, and returned with an ardent desire for the\\nwork of the ministry. He married Miss Lydia La-\\nthrop, of Norwich, whose father was a wealthy and\\nhighly respected citizen of that town, and shortly af-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "REV. DAVID AUSTIN. J 15\\nlerwards, September 9th, 1788, he was hera ordained\\nand installed Pastor.\\nFrom the time of his settlement he continued his\\nlabors here, greatly beloved and extensively useful,\\nuntil the close of 1795. The effect of a natural ec-\\ncentiicity, connected with the most enlarged benevo-\\nlence, which his private fortune enabled him to exer-\\ncise, was only to increase the number of his ardent\\nfriends. In that year he had a violent attack of scar-\\nlet fever, from which he but slowly recovered, and\\nwhich very seriously affected his mind. During his\\nrecovery he commenced the study of the prophecies,\\nand the effect was soon obvious in a mental derange-\\nment from which he never wholly recovered. When\\nhe resumed his labors, he commenced preaching on\\nthe 60th chapter of Isaiah, from which he taught the\\ndoctrine of the personal reign of Clirist, and that his\\nsecond coming was to take place on the fourth Sab-\\nbath of May, 1796. The attention of the people now\\nbecame wonderfully excited, and such was the rush\\nfrom neighboring towns, that multitudes on the Sab-\\nbath could not get room to stand in the church.\\nAt length the appointed day drew near. On the\\nprevious evening a meeting was held for prayer and\\npreparation in the Methodist church, and the house\\nwas crowded. He dwelt on the history of the Nine-\\nvites who repented at the preaching of Jonah, and\\nexhorted to imitate their example. Weeping and\\nmourning were heard in all parts of the assembly.\\nThe next day the sun rose with more than its usuaJ", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "116 REV. DAVID AUSTIN.\\nsplendor, and a vast multitude of people crowded the\\nhouse and surrounded it. But the da} passed away\\nwithout any unusual occurrence and many of his\\nfollowers were only now convinced that he was under\\na delusion, and that he deluded them. His friends\\nhoped that disappointment would dissipate his delu-\\nsion, and the session remonstrated with him but his\\ningenuity soon found excuses for his Lord s delay,\\nand his enthusiasm was only inflamed. He charged\\nhis Session, and the members of the church that op-\\nposed him, with the sin and guilt of Uzzah, and\\nstated that it was because of the mere mercy of God\\nthat they did not suffer his punishment. At this time\\nhe took the vow of a Nazarite, and preached inces-\\nsantly, sometimes three sermons a day, through this\\npart of the country. Wherever he went crowds fol-\\nlowed him, and God overruled the excitement he pro-\\nduced to the conversion of many souls. His great\\ntheme was the near approach of the personal reign of\\nCinist upon earth and that as Joshua led the Jews\\ninto the promised land, as John Baptist was the fore-\\nrunner of the Saviour, so he was appointed of God to\\nbring in the glorious millenial reign of righteous-\\nness.\\nFinding the congregation seriously agitated by his\\nproceedings, and having declared that lie was about\\nto establish a new church upon earth, a public meet-\\ning was called and a committee of eleven appointed to\\nwait upon him. They stated their grievances, asked\\nsome questions as to his future proceedings, and re-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "REV. DAVID AUSTIN.\\n117\\nquested in reply a written answer. The following is\\nhis answer:\\nTo Jonathan Dayton, of the committee of eleven\\nappointed by the Congregation of Elizabeth-Town\\nto wait on Mr. Austin, their Pastor, in respect to\\nthe present course and object of his Ministry, and\\nof the concerns of llie Congregation in general\\nIn conformity to the request of the Committee, that\\nthe answer to their application might be given in\\nwriting, it may be said\\nIn respect to that part of the paper read, which\\nhinted at and complained of an avowed design of the\\nPastor to institute a new Church, and to set up a\\nnew order of things in ecclesiastical concerns, inde-\\npendent of Presbytery, of the Synod, or of the Gen-\\neral Assembly it may be openly answered, that\\nsuch is my fixed and unalterable determination For\\na warrant thus to proceed, reference may be had to\\nthe third and sixth chapters of the prophec} of Ze-\\nchariah, and to many other passages of scripture,\\nwhich foretell of these things and of these days.\\nOn the testimony of the scriptures, and on the in-\\nward teachings of the Holy Spirit of God, and on the\\npresent aspect of Providence, and on uncommon and\\nextraordinary revelations of the mind and will of God\\nto this point, dependence is had in proof of a special\\nand designating call to proceed in this solemn and\\ninteresting work.\\nBe it known, then, to the Couimittee and to iho", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "118 REV. DAVID AUSTIN.\\nCongregation, and to the Presbyterian Churchj and\\nto the world at large, that such extraordinary call I\\ndo profess to have received, and that it is my glory-\\nopenly to avow, and solemnly to profess my determi-\\nnation to maintain and to discharge the duties of it,\\nthrough the faith of that power and constant grace\\nwhich hath called and accompanied me in this con-\\ncern thus far\\nUnder such impressions, standing collected and\\nfirm, I again announce to the Committee, to the Con-\\ngregation, and to all concerned, that implicit obedi-\\nence to the voice of Heaven is my fixed determina-\\ntion\\nLet this declaration be productive of what conse-\\nquences it may, be it remembered, that the anticipa-\\ntions of Divine support are so ready and abundant,\\nthat the instrument of the Divine designs feels him-\\nself ready, and professes himself willing, to meet all\\nobstacles and to brave all dangers, in the prosecution\\nof the noble object which Infinite Wisdom hath placed\\nbefore him.\\nThe baptism of the cloud, and of the sea, opened\\nthe journey of God s ancient Israel towards the goodly\\nland, and answeringly to the former example, the\\npresent course of spiritual journeying is now to be\\ntaken up and if the scenes of the ancient warfare\\nare again to be repeated, faith in God pronounces his\\neternal arm to be mightily sufficient to secure the vic-\\ntory in every conflict in which his own shall be en-\\ngaged and it may be well for opposition to the pre-.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "REV. DAVID AUSTIN. 119\\ndestinated purposes of God to remember, that the disas-\\nters of those whose carcases fell through unbehef, and\\nthe utter extirpation of those who stood in the way of\\nthe advancing forward of the host of Israel in search\\nof the goodly land, are but a lively figure of what\\nthose are to expect who are found imitating their\\nfaithless and wicked example in these later days.\\nSubmitting the whole concern to the unqualified\\nsovereignty of God, and to the decisions of those to\\nwhom these presents may come, subscribe to the con-\\ngregation, an affectionate Pastor, and to the people of\\nGod in ^every place, an unfeigned friend, and servant\\nof God in Christ Jesus. David Austin.\\nEliz/Town, Friday, April 7th, A. D. 1797.\\nTwelve days after the receipt of the above answer,\\nthe following petition was sent to the Presbytery of\\nNew- York, with which the Church was then con-\\nnected\\nAt a meeting of the Elders, Deacons, Trustees and\\nmembers of the First Presbyterian congregation in\\nElizabeth-Town, at tiieir Meeting Mouse, on Wednes-\\nday, the 19th day of April, 1797, at two o clock in the\\nafternoon of that day, agreeable to adjournment, Mr.\\nElias Dayton was chosen Moderator, Mr. Aaron\\nOgden, Clerk. Resolved, unanimously, that the fol-\\nlowing petition be presented to the Presbytery of New-\\nYork, at their next session\\nThe Elders, Deacons, Trustees, and members of\\nthe First Presbyterian Congregation in Elizabeth-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "120 REV. DAVID AUSTIN.\\nTown, respectfully petition the reverend Presbytery of\\nNew- York, to dissolve the pastoral relation now sub-\\nsisting between the Uev. David Austin and said Con-\\ngregation, provided they are of opinion that the follow-\\ning reason is a sufficient foundation for the applica-\\ntion, namel} the declaration of the Rev. Mr. Austin s\\nintention to set up a new Church, independent of\\nPresbytery, Synod, or General Assembly as will fully\\nappear by an acknowledgment under his own hand,\\nand herewith sent.\\nResolved, unanimously, that Messrs. Jeremiah Bal-\\nlard, Benjamin Corey and Shepard Kollock, be a com-\\nmittee for the purpose of presenting the foregoing pe-\\ntition. Elias Dayton.\\nAttest, Aaron Ogden, Clerk.\\nThe following is the decision of the Presbytery in\\nthe case, which, whilst it dissolves his pastoral rela-\\ntion to the Congregation, and protests against his er-\\nrors, and warns the Churches against him, yet bears\\nample testimony to his moral character.\\nThursday, May 4, 1797.\\nThe consideration of the petition from Rlizabetlr-\\nTown was resumed. The Commissioners from I he\\nCongregation of Elizabeth-Town being asked whe-\\nther they had any thing further to ofTer respecting the\\nbusiness, answered, Not at present. Mr. Austin being\\nthen called upon to know whether he had any thing\\nto ofifer, res|)ecting the petiiion and application before\\nPresbytery from the Congregation of EIizabeth-Towr", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "REV. DAVID AUSTIN. 121\\nreplied, That he had no objection to the Presbytery^s\\ndeciding upon that petition as they should think pro-\\nper; and that he took this opportunity to signify his\\nintention to withdraw, and declared that he actually\\ndid then withdraw from his connection with this Pres-\\nbytery, and from all Presbyterial connection and gov\\nernment.\\nThe parties being removed, the Presbytery pfo-\\nceeded to deliberate and to form a judgment upon the\\ncase and, after due deliberation, unanimously judged\\nthat the way was clear for granting tlie prayer of the\\npetition from the Congregation of Elizabeth-Town, to\\nhave the pastoral relation between Mr. Austin and said\\nCongregation dissolved, and did accordingly dissolve\\nit, and hereby declare the Congregation vacant.\\nWith respect to Mr. Austin s declaration of his having\\nwithdrawn from his connection wilh this Presbyterj\\nand from all Presbyterial connection and government,\\nthey also unanimously declare that they are sensibly\\nand tenderly aflfected upon the occasion, and sincerely\\nlament the unhappy circumstances which have led to\\nthese measures. And whilst it is their wish to treat\\nMr. Austin s person and character with all possible\\ndelicacy and tenderness, and whilst they declare that\\nthey have nothing (o allege against his moral char-\\nacter, yet, as they are clearly of opinion that Mr. Aus-\\ntin is, and has for more than a year past, been under\\nthe powerful influence of enthusiasm and delusion,\\nevidently manifested by his giving credit to, and being\\nguided by, supposed revelations and communications\\nII", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "12^ REV. DAVID AUSTIN.\\nof an extraordinary kind iiis alleged designation\\nand call to particular important offices and services\\nhis undertaking to fix the precise time of the com-\\nmencement of the Millenium to the fifteenth day of\\nMay last, and to designate the circumstances of its\\ncommencement and his present declaration of his\\nintentions to institute a new Church, and to set up a\\nhew order of things in ecclesiastical concerns and\\nhis having persisted and stiil persisting in similar\\nviews and conduct, notwithstanding his having been\\nfaithfully and tenderly dealt with on this head by the\\nPresbytery in an extra-judicial capacity, as well as by\\nindividual members. The Presbytery having taken\\nthese things into consideration, feel themselves boundj\\nin justice to the Church of Christ in general, and par-\\nticularly to the Congregations under their care, to de-\\nclare that they cannot recommend Mr. Austin as one\\nwho, whilst under the influence of this enthusiasm\\nand delusion, promises usefulness in the service of the\\ngospel ministry but, on the contrary, feel it to be\\ntheir duty solemnly to caution all against giving heed\\nto any irrational and unscriptural suggestions and im-\\npressions, as delusions of Satan, the effects of a disor-\\ndered imagination, tending to mislead, deceive and\\ndestroy the souls of men, and to affect the union, the\\npeace and the harmony of the Church of Christ.\\nAfter his removal by the Presbytery from his Congre-\\ngation, Mr. Austin preached in the surrounding country\\nfor a short while, when he returned to New-Haveni\\ni", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "REV. DAVID AUSTIN, 123\\nBelieving in the literal return of the Jews to the Holy\\nLand, and that New-Haven was to be the place of\\ntheir embarkation from this country, he erected houses\\nand a wharf for their use. Unable to pay the debts\\nhe incurred, he was innprisoned for some time. During\\nhis confinement his mind seemed in some measure to\\nrecover itself; but yet on the subject of prophecy was\\ndistracted. He returned to this town in 1804, when\\nbeing refused admission to his old pulpit, subscriptions\\nwere circulated for putting the Methodist Church into\\na state of repair, for his use. The object was obtain-\\ned, and he preached there for a sliort wliile, but the\\nstate of his mind now became obvious to all his\\nfriends could no longer encourage him, and he again\\nreturned to New-England. His mind gradually emer^\\nged from the cloud that obscured it, and he again en*\\nters upon a career of usefulness. His excellent wife,\\npossessed of an ample patrimony, exerted a most happy\\ninfluence upon him, and greatly aided in restoring his\\nmind to its former balance. For a number of years\\nhe preached in vacant churches in the eastern part of\\nConnecticut. In 1815, he received a call from the\\nChurch in Bozrah, where he was installed on the 9th\\nof May of that year. Here he preached regularly\\nand with great acceptance and success until his death,\\nwhich took place at Norwich, February 5, 1831, in\\nthe 72nd year of his age.\\nMr. Austin was decidedly one of the most popular\\npreachers of his day. Up to the time of his great\\naffliction, no man coqld be ip.ore universally beloved", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "124 REV. DAVID AUSTIN.\\nand admired. Dignified in personal appearance, pol-\\nished in manners, eloquent in his public performances,\\ngiving ail his goods t\u00c2\u00a9 feed the poor, he exerted a com-\\nmanding influence, not only over his own congrega-\\ntion, but also over many of the lending minds of his\\nday. His memory was retentive, and his conversa-\\ntional powers extraordinary. His devotional exercises\\nwere peculiarly happy and impressive and all who\\nremember him testify, (hat few have ever surpassed\\nhim in public prayer. Besides performing a great\\namount of pastoral labors, he did good service for the\\ntheological literature of the country. He edited and\\npublished a Commentary upon the liible, some of\\nPresident Edwards s most valuable works and he\\ncommenced a monthly publication of original sermons\\nby living ministers, which reached its fourth volume,\\nunder the title of The American Preacher. When\\nat the high noon of his fame and usefulness that thick\\ncloud fell upon his intellect, which was never wholly\\nremoved during his life. We have seen but one pro-\\nduction of his in print, The Downfall of the Mysti-\\ncal Babylon, save his Proclamation for the Mille-\\noial Empire, published in folio sheet, in New-York,\\nin 1805.*\\nWe have dwelt thus long and thus minutely on the\\nhistory of Mr. Austin, because of the great veneration\\nWe are indebted (o the Eev. D. R. Austin, of Sluibridgc,\\nMass., the Rev. John Hjde, of Franklin, Con., and Mr. Sime-\\non Abell, of Bozrah, Con., for many of the facts and state.\\nmenls of this narrative.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "REV. JOHN GILES. 125\\nin which he is yet held by many of those who will\\nfeel an interest in this volume, and because of the les-\\nson which it teaches to all those who either teach or\\nfavor the revived fanaticism of a personal reign, and\\nthe speedy destruction of the world.\\nThe successor of Mr. Austin was the Rev. John\\nGiles. He was born in England, and whilst pur-\\nsuing a course of classical study became hopefully\\npious, and at an early age. Having completed iiis\\ntheological studies at Homerton, he was ordained and\\ninstalled pastor of an Independent church in Welling-\\nton, Somersetshire, on the 26th of September, 1786.\\nHere he continued for nine years, preaching the gos-\\npel with great success. His love of civil liberty, and\\nhis abhorrence of the ecclesiastical oppression he wit-\\nnessed around him, induced the desire to seek for his\\nrising family a home in this country. With this ob-\\nject in view, he sought a dissolution of his pastoral\\nrelation to his people, and whilst preparing for his\\nvoyage received an invitation to become the pastor of\\nNew Chapel, in Castle-street, Exeter, which by the\\nsolicitation of friends he was induced to accept and\\nhe was settled there in 1795. With this people he\\nremained three years, and from a small, distracted\\nband, he raised them up to be a large and flourishing\\nand united church. In 1798 he embarked with his\\nwife and six children to this country, where he land-\\ned in September. He came to this town in June,\\n1799, and buried his wife here on the 5th of August\\n11*", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "126 REV. HENRY KOLLOcK.\\nfollowing. He was installed on the 4th of June, 1800;\\nbut such was the effect of the death of his wife on\\nhis health and spirits as to unfit him for pastoral du-\\nties and he sought and obtained a dismission in the\\nfollowing October. After regaining liis health, he\\nsubsequently settled in Newburyport, Mass., in 1803,\\nwhere he continued, useful and beloved, until his\\ndeath, which took place September 28, 1824,\\nBringing with him ministerial manners and habits\\nto which the people were unaccustomed, his ministra-\\ntions were not at first very popular but they subse-\\nquently became so. Fie was an earnest, very ortho-\\ndox, and useful preacher. He brought with him the\\nhighest testimonials of character to this country; his\\nsubsequent career showed that they w^ere merited, and\\nby a faithful and stainless ministry of twenty-one\\nyears he embalmed his memory among the people\\namid whose tears and lamentations he went up to his\\nreward in heaven.*\\nThe successor of Mr. Giles was the Rev, Henry\\nKoLLocK. As an able and deeply interesting memoir\\nof him is written by his brother, the Rev. Shepard\\nK. Kollock, which is prefixed to a posthumous edition\\nof his Sermons, in four volumes octavo, but little\\nneed be said in regard to him here. He was ordain-\\nFor tlie materials from which this brief narrative is com-\\npiled, I am indebted to Mrs. Titcomb, of Newburyport, a daugh-\\nter of Mr. Giles, and to a sermon preached at his funeral by tho\\nRev. Samuel Porter Williams.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "REV. DR. JOHN RrDOWELL. 127\\ned and installed in this place, December lOih, 1800.\\nAfter a brilliant ministry of three yeais, of whose\\n^isefulness there are yet living witnesses, he removed\\nto Princeton in December, 1803, because of his elec-\\ntion to the office of Professor of Divinity in the Col-\\nlege of New-Jersey. He afterwards settled in Savan-\\nnah, where he died universally lamented, Decemb r\\n29th, 1819. He was principally distinguished for his\\nremarkable eloquence, which was unsurpassed in his\\nday in the American pulpit.\\nOn the 2Gth of December, 1804, the Rev. John\\nM DowELL, D, D. was ordained and installed the\\nsuccessor of Dr. Kollock, and continued the Minister\\nof the church for twenty-nine years, when he was dis-\\nmissed, April 30, 1833, to become the Pastor of the\\nCentral Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. With\\nthe exception of Dickinson s, his was tlie longest min-\\nistry that the First Church ever enjoyed and, probably,\\nwas the most useful of any. But as he is yet living,\\nand although in ihe fortieth year of his ministry, ac-\\ntive and useful, what might justly be said of him here\\nmust be left to his biographer to say, after the good\\nfight he has been so long waging is terminated, and\\nhe has gone up to wear his crown, and with those\\nwho have turned many to righteousness to shine as\\na star for ever and ever.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "128 PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nWhilst from the first settlement of this town there\\nwere; probably, some individuals and families whose\\nprepossessions inclined them to the Protestant\\nEpiscopal Church, yet the earliest information we\\nhave of the affairs of this Congregation commences\\nwith 1704. In this year, the Society for Propagating\\nthe Gospel in Foreign Parts, sent here as a Mission-\\nary the Rev. Mr. Brook. He commenced preaching\\nat the house of a Colonel Townley, to whom tlie\\nCongregation is indebted for the land now occupied\\nby their Church and grave-yard. When the house of\\nMr. Townley could no longer accommodate his hear-\\ners, Mr. Brook repaired to a barn, fitted up in a rude\\njnanner, for worship. The great inconvenience to\\nwhich they were thus subjected, induced them to re-\\nsolve on the erection of a church, whose foundations\\nwere laid in 1706. Mr. Brook died in 1707, greatly\\nlamented by his parishioners, and by the Society that\\nsustained him.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Vaughan, two or three years after\\nthe death of Mr. Brook, became the Rector of the\\nChurch, and continued its Minister for nearly forty\\nyears. He was remarkable for his amiable and social\\nvirtues, and was popular with his own people. Al-\\nthough he and Mr. Dickinson were the opposite of\\none another in natural temperament, and were fre-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 129\\n(|uently engaged in vviirm coiUioversy, iheir personal\\nrelations were always of the most pleasant character.\\nThe news of the death of Mr. Dickinson was carried\\nto Mr. Vaughan just as he was dying, and, amongst\\nthe last audible words that he was heard to utter were\\nthese, O that T had hold of the skirls of brother Jo-\\nnathan!\\nOn the death of Mr. Vaughan, the Church was oc-\\ncasionally supplied by the Rev. Mr. Wood, who at\\nthe same time supplied the Church at New-Bruns-\\nwick, But as the Congregation declined under him,\\napplication was made to the Society in England for\\na permanent Minister. Mr. Thomas Bradbury Chan-\\ndler was then appointed Catechist, and aftei wards\\nwas ordained Rector of the Church. He subsequently\\nrose to distinction, and was in his days amongst iha\\nmost able defenders of Episcopacy in the country.\\nUnder his ministry in 1762, the Church received a\\ncharter from the Crown, which is still the law for reg-\\nulating the temporalitiea of the Congregation.\\nThe war of the Revolution, says Dr. Rudd, had\\na melancholy and ruinous effect upon the concerns of\\nour communion. The Church of England being con-\\nnected with the slate government of that country, and\\nllie circumstance that the clergy of that Church were\\nbound by the oath of conformity and allegiance lo\\nsupport and defend the measures of the Crown, led all\\nthe common people to believe, and all the prejudiced\\npartizans of popular government to maintain, that a\\nChurchman and a foe to popular libeiiy were synony-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "130 PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.\\nmous terms. Dr. Chandler, on the commencemetit\\nof the war of the Revolution, felt it his duty to oppose\\nthe measures necessary to secure our independence.\\nFrom the active part which he and some members of\\nhis family took, he soon found his situation very un-\\ncomfortable, and he retired to England, where he re-\\nmained until the close of the war, and for some years\\nafter. He returned here in 1785, and died in 1790,\\nHis was a protracted and very able ministry, and Dr-\\nChandler s name will be long known and revered as\\none of the fathers of the Episcopal Church in New-\\nJersey. During the war of the Revolution this Con-\\ngregation was greatly scattered, and became much\\nenfeebled. The interior of the Church was all de-\\nstroyed, the pews and floors were torn up and burned,\\nand the building was converted into a stable by the\\nenemy. It was, however, soon repaired after the close\\nof the war, and was for some time the only Church\\nfor the worship of God in the town. And after its re-\\npair, and before the return of Dr. Chandler, and for\\nsome lime afterwards, Dr. Ogden preached in it with\\ngreat power and effect. Dr. Ogden subsequently be-\\ncame a Minister of the Presbyterian Church.\\nIn 1789, the Rev. Mr. Spragg, who had previously\\nbeen a Methodist Minister, was elected Rector. He\\nwas an amiable and affable Pastor, and enjoyed the\\nrespect and confidence of his people. He died sud-\\ndenly in 1794, after a brief ministry of five years.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Raynor was the successor of Mr.\\nSpragg. He also had previously been connected \\\\vith", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 131\\nthe Methodist cluirch. He became Rector in 1795\\nor 1796. He removed to Connecticut in 1801. And\\nthe man that gave up Methodism for Episcopacy,\\nsubsequently gave up Episcopacy for UniversaUsm,\\nand we believe yet survives to preach the doctrine\\nfirst announced in Eden by the Serpent to Eve, Ye\\nshall not surely die a doctrine whose claims to an-\\ntiquity are beyond all question.\\nThe next Rector was the Rev. Dr. Beaslf.y. The\\nCongregation enjoyed the genius and talents of this\\ninteresting man but a short while, as he resigned his\\ncharge and left the state in 1803. Dr. Beasley after\\na long professional and literary career, not a little dis-\\ntinguislied, has retired to this town, where at a green\\nold age, he is yet pursuing his literary toils with all\\nthe vivacity and sprightliness of youth.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Lilly succeeded Dr. Beasley in Au-\\ngust, 1803. He served the parish less than two years,\\nwhen he removed to the South, where he died.\\nThe successor of Mr. Lilly was the Rev. Dr. Rudd^\\nwho was regularly instituted in May, 1806, and who,\\nafter a very successful and popular ministry of twenty\\nyears, retired in 1826. He is now the Minister of a\\nlarge and important Church in Auburn, N. Y.\\nThe Rev. Smith Pyne was elected June 1, 1S26)\\nand retired in December, 1828.\\nThe Rev. B. G. Noble was elected March, 1829,\\nand resigned in 1833. And the present Rector, the\\nRev. Richard C. Moore, entered upon his duties\\nFebruary 16, 1834.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "132 SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.\\nHaving, wilhout success, applied to several individ-\\nuals competent to the task, for a chapter on the His-\\ntory of the Episcopal Church and its Blinisters, we\\nhave compiled this chapter, mainly relying on Dr.\\nRudd s Historical Notices of St. John s Church, for\\nour facts, dates and statements. We regret the brevity\\nof our notes on a Church so ancient, historic and re-\\nspectable.\\nTHE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.\\nThe various revivals of religion with which the\\nFirst Presbyterian Church was from time to time\\nblessed, so swelled the numbers of those who resorted\\nthere for the worship of God, that large and commo-\\ndious as is their house of worship, it could not ac-\\ncommodate them. As early as the great revival of\\n1817, tlie formation of a Second Church was deemed\\nnecessary but for various causes it was delayed\\nuntil 1820; and in the month of March of this year,\\nthe Second Church commenced separate religious\\nworship.\\nIt is here worthy of note that its erection grew out\\nof no dissatisfaction with the pastor of the parent\\nchurch, nor out of any difficulties among the people.\\nThe people were imiied among themselves, and ar-\\ndently attached to their pastor. But those attached\\nto Presbyterian doctrine and order, could not be ac-\\ncom.modatcd in the church, and their number was\\nyearly niultiplying. Indeed the pastor himself ori-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 133\\nginated the movement and some individuals were\\ndesignated to embark in the enterprise. And although\\nleaving a house endeared to them by many associa-\\ntions, and the ministry of the man who was instru-\\nmental in their conversion, yet they felt tliat the\\ninterests of Presbyterianism and of religion, required\\nthe sacrifice. And their work, and the blessings that\\nhave resulted from it, praise them in the gate.\\nFor more than two years, services where held in\\nthe old Lecture Room of the First Church in Wash*\\nington street and on the first Sabbath of December,\\n1820, the church was organized. Like many other\\nthings that have produced great and good results, it\\nwas feeble in its beginnings. When the question of\\nactual withdrawal from the parent church had to be\\ndecided, it was found that only thirty families and\\nforty communicants were prepared to embark in the\\nenterprise. But these few counted the cost, and were\\nnot to be deterred by difficulties. The number soon\\nbegan to increase. The corner stone of the Church\\nwas laid June 20, 1821, and on the first day of May,\\n1822, it was dedicated to the worship and service of\\nGod. Since that time it has largely shared in all the\\nrevivals of religion with which this community has\\nbeen favored an account of which may be found in\\na subsequent chapter and many have been added to\\nits communion.\\nThe growth of this Church has been remarkably\\neven and gradual. Each revolving year has added to\\nits size and strength. Rapidity of increase could not be\\n12", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "134 SECOND PHESBYfERIAN CHUitcti.\\nanticipated. The town itself, increasing but slowly, is\\nnot now much larger than when this Church was form-\\ned. Yet it has now upwards of four hundred mem-\\nbers, and its parent Church is larger in its number of\\ncommunicants, and more prosperous in all its fiscal\\ninterests, than when this Church was formed out of\\nit. And each of these churches is now doing more\\nfor the building up of the kingdom of Christ at home\\nand abroad, than the First Church did in its most\\nprosperous day previous to the separation. These\\nfacts speak volumes as to the duties of large churches\\nin our populous and flourishing villages. Many is the\\ntree that is benefitted by transplanting a shoot from its\\nroot, which shoot in a few years may emulate the\\nparent stock both in the richness and quantity of its\\nfruit.\\nThe formation of this Church has been a great\\nblessing to the town. It has greatly tended to cherish\\nand to keep in the ascendancy the religious princi-\\nples which were brought here by the first occupants\\nof this soil, and which for nearly fifty years were held\\nby the fathers of this community vi ithout opposition\\nfrom any quarter.\\nThis Church has never had but one Pastor. The\\nRev. David Magie, D. D., began his ministry with\\nthis people at the time of their organization and he\\nis their Minister still. This is a fact worthy of no-\\ntice the more so, because he and his wife are both\\nnatives of this town.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 135\\nTHE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.\\nAfter no little inquiry we have been unable to find\\nmuch definite information as to the history of this\\nChurch. The Church itself was formed in 1785\\nand those most efficient in its formation were Jonathan\\nMorrell and his wife, the parents of the late venerable\\nand excellent Rev. Thomas Morrell, who wer\u00c2\u00ab natives\\nof Newtown, hong Island, and who removed to this\\nplace 1771 or 1772. When their Meeting-house was\\nerected we cannot learn but it was not completed\\nuntil 1804, when its galleries were put up by the\\nfriends of the Rev. Mr, Auslin. They have been\\nfavored from time to time with the services of able\\nand useful ministers, whose labors have been greatly\\nprospered. Its present esteemed Pastor is the Rev,\\nJoseph Ashbrook.\\nThe Congregational Church at Elizabeth-Port,\\nwhose excellent Pastor is the Rev. Mr. St. John, and\\nthe Baptist Cliurch, whose Pastor is the Rev. Mr. Cox,\\nare of such recent formation, that we deem it only\\nnecessary to record the fact of their existence in these\\nNotes. The first was formed in 1S37 by the Rev.\\nMr. Brown; the other was organized in the fell of\\n1843.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "136 REVIVALS OF RELIGION.\\nCHAPTER X\\nIn the history of American Revivals of Religion, but\\nfew portions of tlie country have been more distin-\\nguished than this town. And as these successive re-\\nvivals have mainly tended to give to t!ie people the\\ncharacter for piety, stability, morality and good order\\nwhich they have ever possessed wherevei known,\\nthey demand and deserve to be placed on record in\\nthese pages. And as these revivals have been mainly\\nconfined to the Presbyterian Chuich, so must be our\\naccount respecting them. Under date of March 5th,\\n1832, the Rev. Dr. M Dowell thus writes to the Rev.\\nDr. Sprague of Albany, who asks from liim an ac-\\ncount of the revivals with which liis church had\\nbeen favored\\nOf the early history of this church, 1 have been\\nable to discover very httle. It is an ancient church,\\nhaving been founded about one hundred and sixty\\nyears since. VVhelher it was visited with revivals:\\nduring nearly the former half of the period of its ex-\\nistence, I have not been able to ascertaiiL The first\\nrevival of which any account has been transmitted to\\nus, was in the latter part of (lie ministry of that emi-\\nnent servant of God, the Rev. Jonathan Dickinson,\\nauthor of the Five Points, and of many other val-\\nuable works.\\nOf this revival, a particular and very interesting\\naccount was given by Mr. Dickinson, in a letter to\\nthe Rev. Mr. Foxcrofl, of Boston, which letter is in", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "REVIVx\\\\LS OF RELIGION. 137\\nprint. From this it appears, that this special work\\nvisibly commenced in June, 1740, under a sermon\\naddressed to the youth. The inward distress and\\nconcern of the audience, (Mr. Dickinson observes,)\\ndiscovered itself by their tears, and by an audible\\nsobbing and sighing in ahnost all parts of the assem-\\nbly. On the character and efTecfs of this revival, he\\ngoes on to remark Meetings for sinful amusements\\nwere abandoned by the youth, and meetings for reli-\\ngious exercises substituted in their place. Numbers\\ndaily flocked to their pastor for advice in their eternal\\nconcerns. More came to see him on this errand in\\nthree months, than in thirty years before. The sub-\\njects of tlie vv ork were chiefly youth. A deep sense\\nof sin, guilt, danger, and despair of iielp from them-\\nselves, preceded a hope in Christ. All the converts\\nwere for a considerable time under a law work, before\\nthey had satisfying views of their interest in Christ.\\nThe number of those who were savingly the subjects\\nof this work was about sixty.\\nIn 1772, this Church was blessed with a consider-\\nable revival of religion, under the ministry of the Rev.\\nJames Caldwell. An account of this revival, dated\\nElizabeth-Town, April 28, 1773, was found in the\\nlibrary of the Old South Church, Boston, by the Rev.\\nDr. Sprague. Although long, we here insert it with-\\nout abbreviation\\nElizabeth-Town, April 28th, 1773.\\nDear Sir, With a mixture of pleasure and self-\\ndiffidence do I now, agreeable to your request, attempt\\n12*", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "138 REVIVALS OF RELIGION.\\nto give you an account of tlie conslilulion of our reli-\\ngious societies. Tlie subject is indeed pleasing, but I\\nfeel myself unequal to the task. However, I think\\nam writing to one who will pass over with a friendly\\neye W hatevei may be amiss in tlie matter or maimer,\\nand knows how to make allowance for my inexperi-\\nence and youth. If I remember right, you desired\\nme to write only the constitution of the societies. In\\norder to do this fully, 1 find it absolutely necessary to\\nlake a view of the manner in which they have been\\nconducted from the beginning to the present lime.\\nNo previous plan was laid, but we have been directed to\\nevery measure that has been taken, just as the occasion\\nor circumstances required, by an all-wise and gracious\\nGod, who only knows what methods aie best to carry\\non his work. It will no doubt be agreeable to you,\\nif I make some digressions by the way, lo speak of\\nthe wonderful success that has accompaiiied our fee-\\nble endeavors, though in this I shall go beyond your\\nrequest. God has indeed given us the fullest evidence\\nthat he is a prayer hearing God. We must turn infi-\\ndels, yea, I had almost said atheists, to doubt his gra-\\ncious readiness to hear and answer the united requests\\nof his people. That Scripture has had its accom--\\nplishment among us, in a manner perhaps scarcely to\\nbe paralleled by any place around us, If two of you\\nshall agree on earth, as touching any thing that they\\nshall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father who\\nis in heaven. And that other. Before they call I\\nwill answer, and while they are yet speaking 1 will", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "REVIVALS OF RELIGION. 120\\nhear. Bui not to detain you too long from llie prin-\\ncipal thing in view, 1 will endeavor, as far as I am\\nable to recollect, and from the best intelligence 1 can\\nget, to give you a faiihful account of ilie rise and pro-\\ngress of the woik of God in ibis place.\\n1 cannot find that it began with any thing more\\nthan the uneasiness of one person about the amazing\\nstupidity and sloth fulness of christians in general, and\\nthe heartfelt sense this person had of the evil effects,\\nof the chilling influence which cold christians always\\nshed. Many fruitless attempts were made by this\\nperson to erect a praying society, for about a year. At\\nlength, however, in the fall of the year 1769, three or\\nfour young men were collected; who were members\\nof a society held upon Saturday evening, tlieoniy so-\\nciety then in town. These met together every Sab-\\nbath evening for prayer and other religious exercises,\\nbut without much appearance of life, or any addition\\nto their number, for the space of six months. During\\nthis time Mr. Caldwell was abroad, but a little before\\nhis return, two of this society got in some ineasure\\nawakened, and made some luiusual attempts to awa-\\nken others, not without success. Mr. C, upon his re-\\nturn, was applied to by these persons to set up catechi-\\nsing, which had been a long while neglected here. The\\nproposal was heaitily complied with, and I believe\\nabout ten or twelve persons collected. These lectures\\nwere the means of awakening many careless sinners,\\nand of stirring up to greater diligence those who had\\nreligion, but had been asleep ever since the last revi-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "140 REVIVALS OF RELIGION.\\nval of religion here. Mr. Caldwell finding the work\\nincrease upon h\\\\s hands, and being sensible of the\\nneed we stood in of the constant influence of the Holy\\nSpirit to give success to our endeavors, and to enable\\nhim to manage this work, and finding how much he\\nneeded the prayers of his people, set apart every Mon-\\nday evening lo meet with a number of praying souls,\\nand to consult measures for the reviving of religion\\namong us. In these meetings there was the greatest\\nchristian freedom used. Mr. Caldwell proposed such\\nmethods as he thought best, and listened attentively\\nto whatever might be suggested by the meanest\\nchristians.\\nOne of the first things proposed in this society,\\nwas, that every member should have a praying friend\\n(o whom he might communicate his difficulties, or\\n9,r}y thing in which he needed assistance and it was\\nno uncommon thing for one christian to be at prayer\\nin his closet for another v. ho is his friend, while he was\\nattempting to do good to some of his fellow creatures.\\nIt is impossible to tell all the happy efiects of these\\npraying engagements. Our hearts have cemented\\ntogether as one, and through these united prayers and\\nendeavors God has wrought wonders among us. An-\\nother thing proposed was, that each member should\\nfix upon some particular person, with whom he was\\nconnected, or was most likely to be useful to, and not\\nto give over striving with this person, until his ends\\nwere answered, or there was no encouragement to\\nproceed any faither. But a small repulse was not", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "REVIVALS OF RELIGION. 141\\nthought sutEcieiit to discourage any ihis, at least,\\nwas always held up to view. The liappy consequen-\\nces of complying with this proposal were soon seen.\\nGodsucceeded almost every attempt in a most remark-\\nable manner. Backsliding christians were recovered\\nfrom their wanderings; careless and secure sinneis\\nawakened to attend to the things which belong to\\ntheir peace. Into this society all difficult matters were\\nbrought, and directions given by Mr. Caldwell accord-\\ning as their nature and circumstances required. He\\noftentimes proposed his own difficulties, and begged\\nthe prayers of this little number for him. He some-\\ntimes told the subjects he intended to preach upon,\\nlaid the importance of them upon their minds, and\\nsent them home to pray fur him, while he studied for\\nthem and others. Time was frequently set apart by\\nthe members of this society for fasting and pra}er.\\nAfter having confessed and bewailed our own back-\\nslidings from God, and acknowledged his justice in\\nwithholding divine influences, and implored the return\\nof his Spirit, and revival of religion in our closets, we\\nall met together, and Mi. C discoursed upon son^e\\nsubject suitable to the occasion, and concluded with a\\nsolemn united address to the Father of mercies, for\\nhis special presence and assistance in carrying on his\\nown work.\\nTliese seasons of fasting and pruyer we have found\\nof special advantage to us in strengthening us against\\nour besetting sins. There are some kind of devils\\nwhich go out only by fasting and jnayer. Tin)e was", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "142 REVIVALS OF RELIGION.\\noften set apart, likewise, to give in account of the\\nmercies of God towards us. Tliis is now done in\\nwriting. This society continued a long while private.\\nAt length, however, a great rumor was made about\\nprivate societies. Some people did not understand\\nwhy religious meetings should be private. Curiosity\\nprompted some, and a desire of receiving benefit, oth-\\ners, to venture in, and it was found very difficult to\\ndeny admittance at last to any, so that it became quite\\npublic, and defeated the end for which it was appoint-\\ned, it was therefore altered from Monday to Thurs-\\nday. Of the management of the last 1 shall speak\\npresently.\\nThe Sabbath evening society mentioned in the\\nbeginning of this narrative, increased surprisingly, so\\nthat by this time there were near 150 persons attend-\\ned. Persons flocked in from all quarters of the town\\nsome came fi om other places, and went home refreshed\\nand animated. The lectures upon this evening were\\nthe most pathelical and pointed I ever heard in my\\nlife. Persons all about the room were overwhelmed\\nwilii tears, and could scarcely forbear crying out.\\nSome of every age and character were awakened.\\nSome of fifty or sixty years of age were brought to see\\ntheir lost, undone condition by nature, and driven to\\nseek help from God with earnestness and importunity.\\nSome little children of twelve or thirteen years of age\\nwere hopefully awakened, and brought to cry out\\nwhat shall we do to be saved What an aflecting\\nscene was it to see and hear those lambs of the flock", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "REVIVALS OF RELIGION. 143\\nasking the way to Zion with their faces thither-\\nward\\nThe Monday evening was now improved in this\\nmanner. Mr. Caldwell attended as often as possi-\\nble, and, after a short exhortation, liberty was given\\nto everyone to propose such difficulties as was thought\\nproper. Some would ask the meaning of difficult\\ntexts of Scripture. Others would propose cases of\\nconscience to be solved. Some would ask direction\\nin one thing, and some in another, according to the\\nvarious exercises of their own minds, or the difficulties\\nthey met with from without. But as some persons\\nhad not presence of mind enough to propose their dif-\\nficulties among so many of a mixed character, it was\\nthought best to write them, and give them to Mr. C.\\nthe week before. And this method gives him the ad-\\nvantage of opening each cjuestion more particularly.\\nLiberty is still given at the end of each question, to\\nenquire into any thing we do not understand, or has\\nnot been taken notice of in the explication.\\nThe Thursday evening society was begun, and is\\ncarried on in the following manner. No person was\\nadmitted as a member but such as we had reason to\\nhope was a true christian, and he first gave in his\\nname to Mr. C. Each member has the fullest liberty\\nto propose whatever may appear worth mentioning.\\nThe first evening the following things were suggested,\\nviz. that we greatly needed more of the presence of\\nGod in our public assemblies, more of the spirit of\\nprayer in our closets, more freedom and engagedncss", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "144 REVIVALS OF RELIGIOxV.\\nin conversation. A quarter of an hour on Monda}\\nWednesday and Friday mornings was set apart for\\nprayer and these matters were to be particularly\\nattended to on those mornings, until something new\\nwas proposed. The grand tiling constantly held up\\nas matter of prayer, was the influences of the Holy\\nSpirit. With the Spirit we were sure every blessing\\nwas connected. Any persons belonging to this society\\nwho labored under difficulties of any kind, were at\\nliberty to mention what might be proper, and prayer\\nwas made for support and direction, upon the morn-\\nings set apart for that purpose. Great care is taken to\\npromote tlie study of the Holy Scriptures among us.\\nIn several of our societies accounts have been given\\nin weekly of the substance of several chapters, great\\npart of which by some have been committed to mem-\\nory. And now in this society we read fourteen chap-\\nters every week, unless something of more importance\\nintei-feres; and a particular account is given in of those\\ntexts we think respect the latter day glory. Three\\nhundred and twenty-one promises were found in the\\nprophecy of Isaiah relating to this glorious time.\\nWho would imagine the Oible was so fidl of such\\nblessed promises, if they judged only from the prayers\\nof christians? It is indeed enough to animate every\\nlover of Zion, to think that there is a I.tlessed time\\ncoming, When all shall know the Lord fron) the\\nleast unto the greatest, and his knowledge shall fill the\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00acarth as the waters cover the sea.\\nA particular account likewise is given in here of", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "REVIVALS OF RELIGION. 145\\nour mercies and difficulties, in writing, as I hinted\\nabove. And as this society is collected from ahtiost every\\nother society among us, a particular account is given\\nin how each society goes on. So that this seems to\\nbe the fountain whence all the others, as streams,\\nflow. Our attempts to revive religion have not been\\nconfined to ourselves, but have extended to those\\naround us. Mr. C, and also many of his hearers,\\nhave frequently been among the neighboring churcl\\nes, endeavoring, each in their sphere, (o stir them up\\nto prayer and the use of every means to build up Zioii.\\nPrayer has been made by each member of this society\\nfor the blessing of heaven to accompany their endea-\\nvors. And that God has heard these requests is man-\\nifest by the effects that followed. In consequence of\\na short visit of iMr. C. to New Hempstead, a great deal\\nof good hath been done. Many praying societies have\\nbeen set up there, and many persons awakened to\\nattend the means with great earnestness. We have\\nhad several letters from this place, informing us of\\ntheir proceedings, and I think they are very encoura-\\nging-\\nPraying engagements are entered into betwixt\\nthat people and us and their societies seem to be\\nformed upon almost the same plan of ours. There\\nhas been also some awakening and concern at Spring-\\nfield and Newark and there is now a very encour-\\naging prospect at New-York, owing, in a great mea-\\nsure, to a visit Mr. C. made there some months ago.\\nI never saw more of the spirit of prayer among any\\n1^", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "146 REVIVALS OF RELIGION.\\npeople than those of the last mentioned place. Betwixt\\nthem and us there are hkewise praying engagements\\nand I am witness there are fervent cries (at least the\\nappearance of them) sent up to heaven on each other s\\nbehalf.\\nThe management of the Saturday evening society\\nhas been almost perpetually varying. At first each\\nmember of the society presided in alphabetical order,\\nand carried on altogether, or asked assistance as he\\nthought proper. But as numbers were added to this\\nsociety of those who were very young and not properly\\nqualified to lead the exercises, it was thought best to\\nchoose one who would likely conduct with the most\\ndecency and good order, to preside constantly. Every\\nmember, however, takes his turn in prayer. Some-\\ntimes, besides reading a practical sermon, wc consider\\na quesiion given out the week before. Sometimes\\ngive in an account of our difllculties, and make them\\nmatter of prayer upon that evening while together,\\nand when we have relurned home and also upon\\nthe Sabbath evening following. Sometimes each\\nmember renders an account of what he has been doing\\nthe preceding week tells the encouragement or dis-\\ncouragement he meets with in his attempts to do\\ngood. Tn general, particular notice is taken of all the\\nprovidences of God, and improved for the promotion\\nof religion. If any public wickedness has been gQing\\non in the town, we deprecate the judgments of God,\\nand earnest prayer is made in all our societies, that\\nBinners may be stopped in their career of folly and\\nV|a|", "height": "2813", "width": "1682", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "EEVIVALS OP RELIGION. 147\\nmadness, and their way hedged up that they may\\nproceed no further. And many sigtial and remarka-\\nble answers have we seen to those prayers. God haa\\nevidently opposed them \\\\n their wickedness he hag\\nfrowned upon them in liis providence, and taken off\\ntheir chariot wheels, (if I may so speak,) that they\\ndrove on heavily. By this means sinners have been\\noften restrained from their pursuits of wickedness, and\\nsome happily reclaimed. The same method has been\\ntaken when any other thing appeared that tlireatened\\nthe growth of true religion. And when we have\\nforeseen any thing that would tend to advance the\\nRedeemer s kingdom, supplication was made for the\\naccomplishment of it.\\nThese matters have been so numerous thati can-\\nnot be particular. However, I may say that I have\\nnot known one instance, when we have entreated the\\nGod of heaven to put a stop to public wickedness, or\\nto succeed the means to promote some public good, but\\nhe has appeared in a remarkable manner for the de-\\nfence of his people, and graciously answered their\\nrequests.\\nThere was some time ago a society held upon\\nWednesday evening with a design to promote a spirit\\nof government, good order, and discipline in families.\\nAbout twenty heads of families, T beheve, met with\\nMr, Caldwell once a fortnight, and consulted measures\\nto prevent young persons, servants and apprentices,\\nfrom being out at unseasonable hours of the night,\\nspending their time \\\\n frolics and scenes of dissipation.", "height": "2813", "width": "1682", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "148 REVIVALS OF RELIGION^.\\nAnd in this society means were devised to prevent\\ntavern-lmunting, gaming, and such kind of vices.\\nAnd some vigorous attempts were made to suppress\\nall these evils witii considerable success. Here also\\nmeasures were fallen upon to prevent the misbelia-\\nviour of young people in the house of God. Pro{3er\\npersons were therefore appointed to sit m different\\nparts of tf e church, to take nolice of every disorder,\\nand infornv their parents or masters, if they slighted a\\npersonal private admonition. And if those who h;id\\nthem more immedialely under their care, neglected\\ntheir duty, or the oITenders grew obstinate, complaint\\nwas made to the magistrate, who executed his office,\\nunless they promised reformation. There is vast\\nalteration in our galleries in this respect. The dis-\\nturbers of the public peace are so surrounded witb\\nguards, that they dare not go on in the manner tliey\\nused lo do. This seemed a lieavy stroke to the dev-\\nil s kingdom he now began to roar aloud. Scan-\\ndalous, profane, and threatening letters were sent to\\nthose who were the most zealous in suppressing these\\nevils. And a most infamous libel against Mr. Caldwell\\nand some of his friends was nailed up against the\\nmeeting-house. But these in nowise daunted the\\npersons who were thus treated, but ralherexcited then\\nto greater dihgence in promoting the cause they had\\nundertaken. They justly concluded that if no good\\nwas likely to be done, the devil and iiis emissaries\\nwould not have made such an uproar.\\nI am not able, sir, to tell you the one half of what", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "REVIVALS OF RELIGION. 149\\nGod has done among us. The reformation has been\\nextensive and great. Parents have been stirred up to\\nseek with uncommon earnestness the conversion of\\ntheir children, and children that of their parents the\\nrehgious husband tlie conversion of his ungodly wife,\\nand the beUeving wife her unbeheving husband.\\nThose that have separated themselves from their\\nwicked companions that they might serve the Lord,\\nhave turned back to call tlieir companions to share\\nwith them the same grace. And many of those who\\nhad been the ringleaders in vice, are now become the\\nzealous promoters of the cause of God. Some of the\\nmost inveterate enemies to religion, and serious peo-\\nple, and praying societies, have, through the grace of\\nGod, been brought to see the evil of their ways, and\\nto love and esteem those people they once thought be-\\nlow their notice. Many backsliding christians have\\nbeen recovered, and now are rejoicing in hope of the\\nglory of God. Formal professors and hypocrites have\\nseen the insufficiency of the external garb of religion,\\nwhile they were destitute of the internal power of it.\\nPrayer has been set up in those families where it had\\nbeen long neglected, and in many where it was never\\nbefore practised. Four or five children in some fami-\\nlies have been awakened, and we trust found mercy.\\nThe heads of some families have been so awakened\\nthat they have gone round to their neighbors, and\\ncalled upon them aloud to attend the means of grace,\\nand improve the present season of the outpouring of\\nGod s Spirit. And they themselves have brought their\\n13*", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "150 REVIVALS OF RELIGION\\nwhole family to town, in hopes that the careless might\\nbe awakened, and the serious stirred up. Sinners\\nhave flocked into the church as a cloud and doves to\\ntheir windows. The number of persons added to the\\nchurch the year before last was fifty, and the number\\nof praying societies was then eleven. At the con-\\nclusion of last year sixty more were added, and all the\\nsocieties amounted to about twenty. Some of these\\nconsist of men who meet by themselves, some women\\nby themselves, and others, little children by them-\\nselves.\\nUpon the whole, T think it is undeniable that God\\nhas been among us of a truth, and set his own hand\\nto the work. We have been remarkably kept from\\nerrors in judgtnent or practice. There have been few\\ninstances of persons being carried away with enthusi-\\nasm, indiscreet zeal, or impulses and revelations. We\\nhave been very much kept from vain disputes and\\ncontentions, backbiting and censuring, though the\\ndevil and evil minded men have endeavored to sow\\nsedition among us. Secular business, I believe, has\\nnot upon the whole been neglected. That time which\\nused to be spent in miith and vanity, is now^ spent in\\nreligion. There have been no remarkable instances,\\nas yet, of persons who have made a profession of reli-\\ngion drawing back again to the ways of sin. It would\\nbe strange, if this should not be the case with some,\\nwhen a time of trial and temptation comes. There\\nwas an apostate in Jesus Christ s little family. I can-\\nnot indeed say that there has been no instance of any", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "REVIVALS OF RELIGION. 151\\none person behaving so that others should be justly\\nstumbled concerning his profession, nor do I suppose\\nthere are no wolves in sheep s clothing. We liave\\nreapon to be deeply humbled before God for ourdead-\\nness and want of conformity to him, and that there\\nis so much reason for those wlio watch for our halt-\\ning to reproach us and religion. But that God has\\ndone great things for us, is too evident to need any\\nfurther proof.\\nThus, dear sir, 1 have given you a particular ac-\\ncount of God s work here;, and yet, considering how\\ngreat it has been, ai d how many things are worthy\\nto be written, it is but a very brief one. If what I\\nhave written should be the means of quickening and\\nencouraging you to use every means in your power\\nto promote religion among the people over Vv-hom you\\nmay preside, or to spread it among others, (though 1\\nwere under no singular obligations to you,) I should\\nthink myself amply rewarded,\\nYou have heard from what small beginnings and\\nfeeble instruments this work took its rise. God has\\nas it were begun at the lower end, and made up of\\nthe weak and foolish things of the world to confound\\nthe mighty, that no flesh should glory in his presence.\\n1 ask your prayers for this town, and would particu-\\nlarly beg an interest in them for him who is,\\nWith much respect, dear sir,\\nYour greatly obliged friend,\\nAnd humble servant.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "152 REVIVALS OF RELIGION.\\nWe again recur to the letter of Dr. M Dowell to\\nDr. Sprague\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2In 1784, this church was again visited in a spe-\\ncial manner with the influences of the Holy Ghost.\\nThis was just after the close of the revolutionary war;\\nand the people were without a house of worship, and\\nwithout a pastor the church having been burned and\\nthe pastor slain near the close of the war. This\\nrevival continued about two years and time has\\nabundantly proved that it was a genuine and glorious\\nwork of God. A number of the subjects are still\\nliving, and are truly fathers and mothers in Israel.\\nNearly all the session, and almost half the members\\nof the church, when the writer settled here, were the\\nfruits of this revival and he has had an opportunity\\nof knowing them by their fruits he has been with\\nmany of them when about to pass over Jordan, and\\nfrom their triumphant death as well as exemplary\\nlife, he can testify to the genuineness of the work.\\nFrom the time of this revival to the settlement of\\nthe writer, there were two seasons of more than ordi-\\nnary interest, when the number of additions to the\\ncommunion of the church was considerably increased.\\nThe subscriber was settled as pastor of this con-\\ngregation December, 1804. In August, 1807, a pow-\\nerful and extensive revival commenced. The first\\ndecisive evidence of the special presence and power of\\nthe Holy Spirit, was on the Sabbath, under a power-\\nful sermon on prayer, by the Rev. Dr. Gideon Black-\\nburn. A number were awakened that day and new", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "REVIVALS OF RELIGION. 153\\ncases of conviclion, and hopeful conversion, were for\\na considerable time occurring at almost every religious\\nmeeting. The special attention continued for about\\neighteen months, and the number added to the com-\\nmunion of the church, as the fruits of this gracious\\nwork, was about one hundred and twenty. The sub-\\njects of it were generally deeply exercised and most\\nof them continued for a considerable time in a stale of\\ndistress, before the}^ enjoyed the comforts of the hope\\nof the gospel. This revival was the first I had ever\\nseen; and it was a solemn situation, for a young\\nman, totally inexperienced in such scenes. It was\\ngeneral through the congregation, and in a few weeks\\nextended into neighboring congregations, and passed\\nfrom one to another, until, in the course of the year,\\nalmost every congregation in what was then the Pres-\\nbytery of Jersey, was visited.\\nThe next revival with which the Lord favored my\\nministry, visibly commenced in December, 1812. Ii\\nwas on a communion Sabbath. There was nothing\\npeculiarly arousing ia the preaching. 1 was not ex-\\npecting such an event neither, as far as I have evef\\ndiscovered, was theie any peculiar engagedness in\\nprayer, or special desire or expectation on the part of\\nChristians. I saw nothing unusual in the appearance\\nof the congregation and it was not until after the\\nservices of (he day were ended, when several called\\nin deep distress to ask me what they should do to be\\nsaved, that 1 knew that the Lord was specially in this\\nplace. This was a day of such power, (though I", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "154 REVIVALS OF RELIGION.\\nknew it not at the time,) that as many as ti)iity who\\nafierwaids joined the church, were then first awaken-\\ned. And it is a remarkable circumstance tliat the\\nsame powerful influence was experienced, on the same\\nday, in both of the Presbyterian churches in the neigh-\\nboring town of Newark. It was also communion sea-\\nsons in both those churches. This revival continued\\nabout a year and the number of persons *added to\\nthe communion of this church as its fruits was about\\none hundred and ten. The subjects of this revival\\ngenerally were deeply and long distressed, and in\\nmany instances, their distress afTected their bodily\\nframes. Frequently, sobbing aloud was heard in our\\nmeetings, and in some instances there was a universal\\ntrembling, and in others a privation of bodily strength,\\nso that the subjects were not able to get home without\\nhelp. In this respect this revival was difFerent from\\nany others which I have witnessed. I never dared to\\ncpeak against this bodily agitation, lest I should be\\nfound speaking against the II0I3 Ghost but I never\\ndid any thing to encourage it. It may be proper here\\nto relate one case of a young man, who was then a\\ngraduate of one of our colleges, and is now a very\\nrespectable and useful minister of Christ. Near the\\ncommencement of the revival he was led for the first\\ntime, reluctantly, and out of complaisance to his sis-\\nters, to a meeting in a private house. 1 was present,\\nand spoke two or three times between prayers in which\\nsome of my people led. l^he audience w as solemn,\\nt)Ut perfectly still. I commenced leading in the con-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "REVIVALS OP RELIGION. 155\\neluding prayer. A suppressed sob reached my ear\\nit continued and increased I brought the prayer\\nspeedily to a close, and cast my ej^es over the au-\\ndience, when behold, it was this careless proud young\\nman, who was standing near me, leaning on his chair\\nsobbing, and trembling in every part like the Philip-\\npian jailer. He raised his eyes towards me, and then\\ntottered forward, threw his arms on my shoulders, and\\ncried out, what shall I do to be saved? A scene\\nensued, the like of which I never witnessed. The\\nhouse was full, and there was immediately, by the\\npower of sympathy T suppose, a universal sobbing\\nthrough the assembly. He repeatedly begged me to\\npray for him. I felt so overcome with the solemnity\\nof the scene, and fearful of the disorder which might\\nensue in the excited state of feeling, that I held this\\ntrembling young man for half an hour, without speak-\\ning a word. I then persuaded him to go home with\\nme, and the audience to retire. His strength was so\\nweakened that he had to be supported. From that\\nhour he appeared to give his whole soul to the subject\\nof religion. He continued in a state of deep anxiety\\nand distress for nearly two months, when he settled\\ndown in a peaceful state of mind, hoping in the\\nSaviour.\\nAbout the beginning of February, 1817, this\\nchurch was again visited with a great revival of reli-\\ngion. It commenced most signally, as an immediate\\nanswer to the united prayers of God s people. The\\nsession, impressed with a sense of the comparatively", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "156 REVIVALS OF RELIGION.\\nlow state of religion among us, agreed to spend an\\nafternoon together in prayer. The congregation were\\ninformed of this on the Sabbath, and a request made\\nthat Christians would at the same time retire to their\\nclosets, and spend a season in prayer for the influences\\nof the Spirit to descend upon us. The season ap-\\npointed was the next afternoon and that evening\\nwas the monthly concert of prayer, which was unu-\\nsually full and solemn and before the week was out,\\nit was manifest that the Lord was in the midst of us,\\nin a very special manner. Many cases of awakening\\ncame to my knowledge; and the woik soon spread\\nthroughout the congregation. This revival was mark-\\ned, not by the deep distress of the preceding, but by a\\ngeneral weeping in religious meetings. There was\\ndoubtless much of sympathy. A larger proportion\\nthan usual of the subjects were young, and many of\\nthem children. Some were long in darkness; but\\nmost of them, much sooner than in either of the\\nformer revivals of my ministry, professed to have em-\\nbraced the Saviour. The number in the congrega-\\ntion who professed to be seriously impressed, amount-\\ned to several hundreds. The special attention con-\\ntinued about a year and the nuniber added to th.e\\ncommunion of the church during that time was about\\none hundred and eighty. It was during this revival\\nthat you visited this place, and spent some time with\\nus while a student in Princeton Seminary.\\nAbout the close of the year 1819, it pleased agra-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0cious God to grant to this church aiiothcr season of", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "REVIVALS OF RELIGION. 157\\nspecial refreshing. This was not so general through\\nthe congregation as the former; but was confined to\\nparticular neighborhoods. Christians did not appear\\nto be specially awake to the subject, either before it\\ncommenced or during its progress. The subjects\\nwere generally from among the most unlikely farai-\\nhes and characters from the highways and hedges\\nwhile the chikhen of the kingdom were generally\\npassed by. Tiie special atlention continued about a\\nyear; and the number added to the communion of\\nthe church as its fruits, was about sixty.\\nIn the early part of the year 1 824, there was a con-\\nsiderable increase of attention to the subject of reli-\\ngion, which continued through the year 1825. About\\nsixty were added to the communion of the church\\nduring this time, as the fruits of (his special influence.\\nBut the work did not terminate with this ingathering.\\nThese were but as drops before a mighty shower.\\nAbout the beginning of December, 1825, the work was\\ngreatly increased. It commenced visibly on a day of\\nfasting and prayer, appointed by (he Synod of New-\\nJersey, on account of the absence of divine influences\\nfrom their churclies generally. Within a few weeks\\nmany were awakened and brought to seek the Lord.\\nThis revival, with few exceptions, was not marked\\nby deep distress, and the subjects of it, generally, soon\\nprofessed to hope in Christ. It continued through the\\nyear 1826, during which 4,ime about one hundred and\\nthirty were added to the communion of this church,\\nas its fruits.\\nU", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "158\\nREVIVALS OF RELIGION.\\nIn the winter and spring of 1829, a partial sea-\\nson of refreshing was again experienced, and about\\ntwenty-five were added to our communion. Again it\\npleased a gracious God specially to visit some neigh-\\nborhoods of the congregation, through the winter and\\nspring of 1831. The fruits of this visitation, which\\nhave been gathered in through the year past, amount\\nto about forty.\\nIn 1820, a second Presljyterian church was organ-\\nized in the town and in the revivals which we have\\nexperienced since that congregation was formed, a\\nsimilar gracious influence has been enjoyed among\\nthem.\\nIn conclusion, 1 would add, that appearances\\namong my people at present are very favorable.\\nThere is much increase of attention to the means,\\nand of solemnity in attending upon them. Many\\nChristians appear to be much quickened in duty,\\nand to be earnestly praying that the Lord would\\nappear again in his glory in the midst of us, to build\\nup Zion and a number have recently been awaken-\\ned to serious concern about their souls salvation. We\\nare anxiously looking for a time of general revival,\\nbut what will be the result time must show.\\nWith sincere and fraternal respect,\\nI am, dear sir, yours,\\nJohn M Dowell.\\nRev. W. B. Sprague, D. D.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "REVIVALS OF RELIGION. 159\\nThe above account brings down the narrative of\\nrevivals in the Presbyterian Churches to nearly the\\nclose of the ministry of the writer in this town. Since\\nthen exceedingly interesting seasons of refreshing\\nhave been enjoyed under the ministry of the present\\npastors of these churches in 1834, 1835, 1836, 1838,\\n1842 and 1843. And these revivals, unlike many\\nexcitements that have prevailed in different sections\\nof the country, have been the result of God s blessing\\naccompanying the stated means of grace as adminis-\\ntered by the pastors of the churches.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.*\\nOn page 20 we have recorded the names of the\\n)riginal Associates and Proprietors of the Elizabeth-\\nTown purchase. In 1699 there was held here a\\ntown-meeting, composed of all the Associates then\\nliving, and those iiolding under them or some of\\ntliem, at which the following individuals were ad-\\nmitted to the rank and title of Associates, as posses-\\nsors, some of first, second, and third lot rights. A\\nfirst lot right is defined, in our old manuscript book,\\nto be, the least and lowest share of all the lands\\ncontained within the whole bounds and purchase of\\nElizabeth-Town a second lot right twice as large\\na share and division thereof as the first and a third\\nlot right is thrice as large a share and division of the\\nsame premises as a first lot right is. We insert the\\nnames of this second generation of Associates here,\\nfor the gratification of their very numerous descend-\\nAs we could not well introduce the following facts into the\\nNotes, we place them here together, by way of Appendix.\\n14*", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "102\\nAPPENDIX.\\nants, stating that the autographs of those of them who\\ncould write, are in the book fionci which we take their\\nnames. Not a few of them had to make their mark.\\nTheir names are as follows\\nWilliam Looker,\\nI, Benjamin Wade,\\nJohn Harriman,\\nWilliam Nicholls,\\nWilliam Brown,\\nNath l Whitehead,\\nJohn Thompson,-\\nJohn Woodruff,\\nWilliam Hill,\\nJohn Magie,\\nJoseph Woodruff,\\nAndrew Craig,\\nJoseph Hallsy,\\nJacob Mitchell,\\nGeorge Thorp,\\nSamuol Clarke,\\nJohn Clarke,\\nEphraim Clark,\\nObadiah Soles,\\nJonathan Ogden,\\nSamuel Carter,\\nJeremiah Crane,\\nWilliam Miller,\\nJohn Harriman, Jr.\\nAbraham Hetfield,\\nWilliam Cromer,\\nBenjamin Lyon,\\nThomas Darling,\\nJohn Johnson,\\nBenjamin Ogden,\\nSamuel Willis,\\nJohn Pearce,\\nJohn Gould,\\nCornelius Hetfield,\\nJoseph Whitehead,\\nSamuel Whitehead,\\nDavid Woodruff,\\nBenjamin Meeker,\\nMordecai Barnett,\\nJoseph Lyon,\\nEbenezer Lyon,\\nRobert Woolley,\\nDennis Morris,\\nJohn Osborn,\\nWilliam Strayhearni\\nNathaniel Lyon,\\nJohn Ailing,\\nAndrew Hampton,\\nSamuel Oliver,\\nRichard Clarke,\\nEbenezer Willson.\\nThe plan on which the town was settled, was this:\\neach proprietor had a town lot in the village, on which\\nto build his house; and the farms were located in the\\nsurrounding countr} But few houses were built in\\nthe country for years after the settlement of the town.\\nAnd the first houses were built on the banks of the\\ncreek, and near the tide water..\\nIncidents of themselves of a very tiifling import-\\nauce, go far to illustrate the character and simple", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 163\\nhabits of a people. It is for this purpose we narrate\\nthe two following facts:\\nIn 1761, the year in which Mr. Caldwell was set-\\ntled in the Presbyterian Church, a Mr. Thomas\\nWoodruff is paid two shillings for riding round the\\nparish and warning ihe people to a fast.\\nIn the early part of the same year a man is paid\\ntwo shillings for calling the Elders and Deacons to a\\nmeeting concerning Mr. Kettletas.\\nThe following incidents may reconcile us to some\\nof the occasional detentions which sometimes now\\nprolong a trip to New- York to ninety or one hundred\\nminutes.\\nIn 1739, the Rev. Mr. Whitefield left New- York\\nat noon for Elizabeth-Town. He reached here\\nin safety the next day, time enough to dine with the\\nRev. Jonathan Dickinson, and to preach in the after-\\nnoon.\\nAnd many of our aged ones well remember taking\\npassage for Ngw-York at the Point, in the fast sailing\\nboats, commanded by those favorite captains, Lee,\\nUzal Woodruff, and Twigley, whose cabins were be-\\ntween four and five feet high, and not unfrequently\\nlodging atBergen-Point, or Staten Island, when wind\\nand tide were adverse.", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "164 APPENDIX.\\nI find written on the margin of a copy of Learn-\\ning and Spicer s Grants and Concessions, a minute\\nto the following effect there are also oral traditions\\nwhich confirm its truth. The centennial jubilee, to\\ncommemorate the settlement of this town, was cele-\\nbrated here on tl e 28th day of October, 1764. On\\nthat day an ox was roasted on the common, in the\\ncentre of the town, nearly opposite Mr. Barnaby\\nShute s house.\\nWe find also the following note in the handwriting\\nof Wm. M. Ross, dated Elizabeth-Town, April 22,\\n1811, Monday afternoon.\\nAt the time when the ox was roasted on October\\n28; 1764, Matthias Williamson, junior, then a youth,\\nrecollects that the conversation of the period was, that\\nnone then living would be alive to partake that day\\nnext century of the ox to be roasted on a similar oc-\\ncasion, to celebrate the purchase of the town from the\\nIndians.\\nThey therefore concluded, and passed a resolve\\namong themselves, that those who should survive\\nhalf a century, should have another jubilee, as it was\\nconcluded that some of the guests at this centennial\\ndinner might live to see it.\\nThe reason why this jubilee was held on the 28th\\nof October, piobably is, that on that day Governor\\nNicolls granted leave to John Bailey and others, to\\nextinguish by purchase, the title of the Indians to", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n165\\nsome portions of land yet in their possession, withia\\nthe lines bounding the Ehzabeth-Town Grant. By\\nextinguishing that title they complete the purchase of\\nthe whole distiict. The month of August, 1864,\\nwill complete the second century since the anival of\\nGovernor Carteret in this town and may we not\\nhope that the day will be thankfully and joyfully\\ncelebrated by those who may live to see it.\\nThe following is an abstract of the last Census of\\nElizabeth-Town, taken from the Sixth Census of\\nthe United States\\nThe whole number of populationj\\n4184\\nWhite Persons.\\nMales. Females. Totals.\\nOf these, under 5 years, 306 316 622\\nBetween 5 and 10, 241 222 463\\n10 and 15, 228 193 421\\n15 and 20, 192 231 423\\n20 and 30, 348 450 798\\n30 and 40, 226 262 488\\n40 and 50, 166 158 324\\n50 and 60, 72 106 178\\n60 and 70,, 46 62 108\\n70 and 80, 27 41 68\\n80 and 90, 3 10 13\\n3906", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "166 APPENDIX,\\nFree Colored\\nPe\\nEISONS.\\nMales.\\nFemales.\\nTotals\\nUnder 10 years,\\n35\\n28\\n63\\nBetween 10 and 24,\\n33\\n46\\n79\\n24 and 36,\\n28\\n34\\n62\\n36 and 55,\\n24\\n24\\n48\\n55 and 100,\\n11\\n13\\n24\\n100 and upwards\\n1\\n1\\nSlaves,\\n1\\n1\\n278\\nPersons employed in Agriculture, 108\\nin Commerce, 37\\nManufactures and Trades, 433,\\nNavigation of the Ocean, 10\\nof Canals, Lakes and Rivers, 26\\nLearned Professions and Engineers, 34\\nPensioners for Revolutionary Services, 3\\nDeaf and Dumb,\\nBlind, 1\\nInsane and Idiots, 2.\\nAcademies and Grammar Schools, 3,\\nNumber of Scholars in do. 150:\\nPrimary and Common Schools, 10\\nNumber of Scholars in do. 393\\nat Public charge, 60\\nNumber of white persons over 20 years\\nthat cannot read or write, 5.\\nX\\niX?-", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2894", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "1754", "jp2-path": "noteshistoricalb00murr_0176.jp2"}}