{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3529", "width": "2020", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3382", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3382", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3382", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "SKETCHES\\nFIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS\\nNEWTON TOWNSHIP.\\nOLD GLOUCESTER COUNTY,\\nWEST NEW JERSEY.\\nBY JOHN CLEMENT, OF HADDONFIELD, N. J.\\nAn Ungrateful Generation Neglected the Memory of its Fathe\\nCAMDEN, N. J.:\\npRlNTEfi BY SiNNICKSON CheW, N. E. CoRNER FrONT AND MARKKT STREETS.\\n1877.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^OPM i\\npn", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Entered, according to an act of Congress, in the year 1877, by John Clement, in the\\noffice of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "TO\\nMY FATHER S MEMORY\\nTHIS WORK IS DEDICATED, THE MERITS OF WHICH, IF ANY IT HAS, ARE DUE TO HIS\\nINTEREST IN A CORRECT\\nHISTORY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS\\nABOUT HIS NATIVE PLACE, WHICH INTEREST HE SO FAITHFULLY SOUGHT TO\\nIMPART TO\\nTHE AUTHOR.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nTHE colle6lion and preservation of fa6ls illustrative of the\\nearly history of West New Jersey have always been,\\nto the author of this volume, a pleasing task. The little\\ninterest manifested in these events which are so rapidly\\npassing from memory, and which hitherto have attra6led\\nso little attention, has prompted this purpose and given\\nit greater importance. The arrangement of the material\\nhere presented to the public, it is hoped, may not be\\nentirely without value, for the reason that, by this means,\\nsome fa6ts may be saved from oblivion, inquiry assisted,\\nand new light shed upon a subjecSl too long neglected,\\nand too much mystified by time. The method of reference\\nwhich has been adopted will enable the reader to consult\\nthe authorities used, and thus any particular line of inquiry\\nmay be the more fully pursued.\\nIt is not claimed that these Sketches are a complete\\nhistory of the times to which they relate, although much\\neffort has been made in that direction nor that they are\\nentirely free from error; yet, if any interest shall be excited,\\nor any one stimulated to examine the subject still more\\ncritically, their purpose will not be wholly defeated.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nTHE first Dutch, Swedish and English settlements on the\\nDelaware river have been so comprehensively considered\\nby various writers within the last half century, except those\\nincluded within the limits of Newton Township, Gloucester\\nCounty, West New Jersey, now embraced in the city of\\nCamden and Haddon Township, Camden County, and places\\nadjacent thereto, that, to recite their history here, would be a\\nneedless repetition. Upon that subject little uncertainty now\\nremains, since nearly all the leading facts that, for many\\nyears, appeared contradi6lory or doubtful, have been reconciled\\nand settled, so that no reader, however particular or inquisitive,\\nneed go astray.\\nBut the persons who, separately or colleftively, made up the\\nEnglish colonies upon the New Jersey shore of the Delaware\\nshould not pass unnoticed; nor can they be lost sight of,\\nhowever prominently the results of their undertaking may be\\npresented. They were men of decided views and positive\\ncharacteristics, of clear and discerning minds, able to consider\\na subje(ft in all its bearings, and endowed with courage to over-\\ncome obstacles apparently insurmountable.\\nFeeling that the abuse of power had not only made their\\nproperty insecure, but was also destroying the quiet of their\\nfiresides, they naturally looked for some other land in which\\nthese troubles could be avoided. With the warmest attachment\\nto the fundamental principles of the government under which\\nthey lived, they were forced to seek a new home, where these", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8 INTRODUCTION.\\nprinciples could be enjoyed in their original purity. Adhering\\nto their religious belief with a tenacity that could not be shaken,\\nand in that belief finding nothing that encouraged resistance, the\\nPlantations in America were the only asylum in which the\\nproper administration of law could be assured, since these\\ncolonies were too distant, and of too little importance, to\\nattra6l the attention of those in authority at home. Not long\\ndid it take to put these conclusions into shape, and the unan-\\nimity with which they were accepted gave force and character\\nat once to the movement.\\nHere was a novel and responsible enterprise one new in its\\ninception, new in its development and uncertain in its results;\\ndependent for its success upon the business capacity and per-\\nsistence of those who had enlisted in the cause; yet little\\ntime elapsed before such as were equal, or unequal, to the\\ntask began to appe^ar. Among the original proje6lors, the timid\\nwere soon replaced by others more sanguine, and such as hesi-\\ntated, at once found those who were glad to accept their\\npositions.\\nWith a common object, no radical difference of opinion\\ndelayed its consummation hence a general outline of procedure\\nwas soon adopted, and the leaders found themselves clothed\\nwith responsibilities hardly anticipated. Their object was a\\ndeclared and open one, to be obtained without bloodshed, yet\\nthrough privation, suffering and sacrifice. They were not\\nmere adventurers in search of wealth to be procured by rapine\\nand the sword, regardless of the rights of others nor did they\\nendeavor to seduce the unsuspecting into their scheme by plau-\\nsible or specious promises. Their purpose was to secure a new\\nhome in the wilds of America, and, in so doing, to lay the\\nfoundations of a government that would give to themselves the\\nenjoyment of liberty in its legally restri6led sense, and would\\nperpetuate the same blessings to their descendants. How well\\nthey did this needs no answer from the present generation,\\nwhich now reaps the full fruition of the labors of these pioneers\\nin their efforts to obtain civil and religious liberty. In this light\\nit is proper to regard them, and to admire their fidelity in laying\\nso broad and deep the fundamental principles of human rights, so", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. 9\\nthat these have come to us, after two hundred years, as pure and\\ninspiring as when first published to the world. Nor did they\\nhesitate when they found themselves in a strange land, sur-\\nrounded by difficulties even greater than they had looked for.\\nWithout a dwelling, save such as could be made of the sails of\\ntheir vessels without an acre of land prepared for culture, and\\nwithout a friend to welcome or diredl them they at once\\nestablished their religious meetings, organized their form of\\ngovernment, and put in operation their code of laws, the\\nliberality of which is felt to the present time. Nothing shows\\ntheir intention to abandon the undertaking, or to yield to the\\ndiscouragements that met them; but each successive day proved\\nthe wisdom of their plans, and strengthened their belief that\\nsuccess must ultimately follow.\\nThe influence of female example also deserves to be com-\\nmended. Taken from their homes and from the circle of relatives\\nand friends where the refinements, if not the luxuries, of life\\ncould be enjoyed, and where the strongest ties of human nature\\nexist the courage and the faithfulness of the wives and daughters\\nof the first comers to the soil of New Jersey must excite the admi-\\nration of every reader. The trials and exposures through which\\nthey passed cannot, in our day, be fully appreciated. In the\\nmidst of a wilderness where even shelter was an object, these\\nwomen are found, showing by word and deed that no complaint\\nof theirs should bring despondency upon the little company.\\nResolute in the discharge of every duty, and unceasing in their\\nefforts to contribute to the comfort and encouragement of their,\\ncompanions, they displayed those traits of chara6ler which belong\\nto the sex alone, and which always accomplish so much when\\nbrought into a(5lion. Having shared every sacrifice and met\\nevery requirement, their position in the first endeavor to settle\\nour State with English colonists should be made a promi-\\nnent one and must ever command respe6l.\\nFrom these small beginnings at Salem, at Burlington, and at\\nNewton, can be traced the development of West New Jersey;\\nand to the families who made the first adventure, many of its\\ncitizens can follow their direct line of blood.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "The letters O. S. G., used in the foot notes, refer to the records in the\\noffice of the Surveyor-General of West New Jersey. All other references,\\nexcept those specially noticed, are made to the records in the office\\nof the Secretary of State, at Trenton, N.J. Those indicated by letters\\ncontain records of deeds, and those by numbers contain records of wills.\\nMany of the wills, probates and letters of administration of the firsti\\nsettlers in Burlington and Gloucester counties part of Mercer county thenl\\nbeing in Burlington, and Atlantic and Camden counties being part oS\\nGloucester are on file and not recorded. The like documents, however,\\nof Salem county then embracing what now form Salem, Cumberland and\\nCape May counties are entered in the Salem books in the same office\\nat Trenton. The records of many marriages of early times will be found\\nin the court minutes of Salem and Burlington counties some also will\\nbe found in the book of Licenses of Marriages, of later date in the\\nsame office.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "ROBERT ZANE.\\nROBERT ZANE was the pioneer of the settlement at\\nNewton. He was the first of that colony who left the\\nshores of his native land to seek a new home in an unknown\\nand unsettled country.^ He did not wait the tardy move-\\nments of his associates, but took advantage of the first\\nopportunity by which he could become acquainted with the\\nplace in which his life was to be spent, his children to be reared\\nand his bones to be laid. With the vigor of youth and a\\nfondness for adventure, he entered upon his purpose with a\\ndetermination that could not be foiled. He was too young to\\nbe the victim of religious persecution, yet his sympathies were\\nwith those whose estates were being wasted, and whose persons\\nwere at the caprice of unrestrained authority. While these\\nabuses excited his indignation, riper minds than his had con-\\nvinced him that new homes, new laws and new rulers were\\nthe. only hopes for security and peace. The records of his\\ntime follow so close upon his footsteps that he is seldom lost\\nsight of, and, from the first to the last, no question arises as\\nto his identity under so \u00e2\u0096\u00a0niany different aspects.\\nThomas Sharp, in his Memorial, refers to him as coming from\\nthe city of Dublin to Salem four years before he. Sharp, came\\nto Newton and all authorities agree that he was one of the\\nmembers of the first Friends Meeting established at Salem in\\n1675. He probably was in the ship with John Fenwick, among\\nmany other emigrants who arrived at Elsinburg in September\\nI Hazzard s Annals of Pennsylvania, 422", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nof the year named, this vessel being the first which came to\\nSalem under the auspices of that remarkable man. There is\\nabundant evidence that his stay at Salem was designed to be but\\ntemporary, although his name frequently occurs in the proceed-\\nings of the Friends Meetings of that place, from the year 1678\\nto the time of his removal. His name is not among those\\nsigned to the agreements made by the planters with the chief\\nproprietor nor was he of those who located lands in the\\nSalem Tenth, and received their title from the same person with\\na view to permanent settlement. He does not appear to have\\nparticipated in the government of the colony, or to have been\\na party to the troubles between Fenwick and his Dutch and\\nEnglish rivals. His only purchase of real estate during the\\nfour years of his residence there, was that of a town lot, which\\nhe subsequently sold to William Royden in 1689, several years\\nafter he had settled at Newton.^ Thus the whole course of\\nhis a6lions, previous to the coming of Thomas Thackara and of\\nthe others with whom he associated, shows that his departure\\nfrom home with John Fenwick was made in expe6tation of\\nbeing followed by them, and of their forming a united settle-\\nment within the bounds of the Irish Tenth, many miles from\\nthe place of his first arrival. The limits of the territory in\\nwhich this settlement was to be made, were shown to him soon\\nafter the arrival of the London and Yorkshire commissioners,\\nas lying between Penisaulcin and Timber creeks, two large and\\nwell defined streams. Beside these, but two others, at all navig-\\nable, found their way into the Delaware within the bounds\\nfixed upon any one of which the sele6lion could be made.\\nNo one can doubt that Robert Zane traversed each of these\\nto examine locations, test the soil and discover the most eligible\\nplace to settle down by. Opposite to where. the Swansons\\nhad made their farms, and where now stands the southerly part\\nof the city of Philadelphia, the mouth of Newton creek opened\\ninto the river and was in full view from the spot where their\\nhouses stood. Near their dwellings a few scattered huts were\\nalready built, which gave the place some pretensions to a town,\\nwhose inhabitants, however, at that time, were all Swedes.\\n2 Salem Deeds No. 4, 16", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "ROBERT ZANE. 13\\nAbout this time William Penn arrived at Shackomaxin, and the\\nprospe6l was that a town would be laid out, extending along the\\nriver front from the last named point down to the little Swedish\\nvillage; and including it. To be near this growing place,\\nRobert no doubt, considered desirable and, when his friends\\narrived from Ireland, he called their attention to these advan-\\ntages, and, through his representations, the place on the north\\nbank of Newton creek was fixed upon, and an embryo town\\nsoon built.\\nThese friends and associates, to whom reference has before\\nbeen made, may be known through two separate and distin6l\\npapers, bearing widely different dates, and made for entirely\\ndifferent purposes. The iirst is a deed, dated April 12th, 1677,\\nmade by Edward Bylinge and his trustees to Robert Turner,\\nof Dublin, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Robert Za/ie, of Dublin, Serge Maker, and others\\nfor one whole share of Propriety in West New Jersey; and\\nthe second is the Memorial of Thomas Sharp, dated in 1718, in\\nwhich a history is given of all their proceedings down to the\\nwriting of the same, covering a space of forty-one years, and\\nuntil after the death of several of those in the first interested.\\nTaking these papers together, the one as the first and the other\\nas the last, the coincidence of names, dates and localities are\\nremarkable, and puts at rest any question touching the persons\\nparticipant in that adventure.\\nAs an artisan, Robert Zane was a worker in wool, manufac-\\nturing a kind of material that bears the same name to this day,\\nand which is used for the same purpose.* It is probable that\\nhe brought his looms with him, but he found no use for them\\nhere for several years after his coming, for the reason that the\\nrequired material was not produced until agriculture had\\nbeen somewhat advanced, and the people had made themselves\\nfarms from lands where before had stood an unbroken forest.\\nA majority of his associates were educated to the same kind of\\nlabor, and, although producing a different stuff from their looms,\\nyet all came under the general head of Weavers, and were\\nthus known among their neighbors.\\n3 Lib. B-i, 52.\\n4 Lib. B-i, 52.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nIn 1679 he married Alice Alday, of Burlington, in the\\nFriends Meeting at that place. Alice was, in all proba-\\nbility, an Indian maiden. A faithful search among the names\\nof the early settlers reveals none similar to hers; and it may\\nfairly be concluded that Robert became enamored of the\\nbronzed beauty in one of his perambulations among the natives\\nof the soil. Perhaps some hunting expedition found him at\\nnight-fall, hungry and foot-sore, near the hospitable wigwam of\\nan Indian chief, by whom he was invited to rest and accept the\\ngood cheer set before him; and, while the assurance of welcome\\ndelayed him for the night, he may have noticed a daughter of\\nhis host, of artless ways and graceful movements.\\nWhat though the sun with ardent frown.\\nHad slightly tinged her cheek with brown,\\nhe could see in her a comely, and, to his youthful eye, an\\nattra(51;ive person. To the talk by the evening fire, during\\nwhich the old chief questioned him about the story of his life,\\nthe dark-haired damsel would listen, and with a greedy ear\\ndevour up his discourse, and thus give him an opportunity\\nto watch her interest in his words, and to draw from her, at\\nleast, a look of sympathy. In relating the sad story of the\\nwrongs that drove him, and those who were soon to follow,\\nfrom their homes, he enlisted her pity, and thus won her love.\\nIn settling the preliminaries of the marriage, a name known\\nin the English tongue must be agreed upon this trouble was\\neasily overcome by those whose hopes and wishes now so\\nclosely assimilated. A due regard for the discipline of the\\nchurch required that her ideas of religious belief should\\nconform to the notions of Friends; this being made satis-\\nfadlory, and a name having been fixed by her parents, nothing\\nremained but the consummation of the nuptials.\\nThis marriage doubtless brought together a strange assemblage\\nwithin the tent in which the meetings at Burlington were then\\nheld. Beside the plain and unpretending dress of the Quaker\\nmight be seen the gaudy and warlike costume of the aborigines,\\nand while the one was chara6leristic of non-resistance and\\npeace, the other bespoke resentment and revenge. In the one,\\nhumility and a patient waiting for results were apparent; a", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "ROBERT ZANE. 15\\nbold and defiant expression could be seen in the bearing of the\\nother. The restraining influence of civilization was strikingly\\ncontrasted with unlettered barbarism.\\nThe arrival of his friends from Dublin in 1681, and their\\npurpose to take up their abode in the Irish Tenth, made it\\nnecessary that Robert Zane should remove from Salem in order\\nto carry out the original agreement formed before his coming to\\nNew Jersey. This may be inferred from Friend Sharp s history\\nof that event, as well as from the deed before named. In the\\nsearch up and down, he doubtless was the leader, and\\npointed out the advantages and disadvantages of the different\\npoints, and gave them his knowledge of the surrounding\\ncountry. His right was one-tenth of a whole share, and this,\\nunder the several dividends, gave him the privilege of making\\nsurveys, of which he and his sons took advantage, as appears by\\nthe records of that time.\\nIn the division of the original survey of one thousand seven\\nhundred and fifty acres, as made in 1681, he took for his\\nshare, the upper part which extended from Newton creek to\\nCooper s creek, and which now includes the Collings estate,\\nthe Barton farm, and the plantation formerly held by Amos\\nHaines, with other sub-divisions. He was the owner of prop-\\nerty at Gloucester, which he disposed of previous to his death.\\nWith the political matters of the colony he had somewhat to\\ndo, being elected to the first Legislature in 1682, and returned\\nin 1685.* During these sittings many important laws were\\npassed, their necessity arising out of the new order of things,\\nand being based upon a new charter of rights. The most of\\nthese were found to be salutary, and but little complaint arose\\namong the people.\\nIn 1684 and also in the following year, he filled the office of\\nconstable but what executive duties he had to discharge when\\nthe inhabitants were so few, it is hard to understand. Each\\ntenth appears to have had an officer of this chara6ler, appointed\\nannually by the Legislature, whose authority was confined\\nto the bounds of the same, while the sheriff, who was also\\n5 Thomas Sharp s Memorial. 7 Lib. W., 59, O. S. G.\\n6 Revels Book, 52, 8 Learning Spicer s Laws.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "1 6 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nappointed by the same power and for the same time, had his\\nduties enlarged to the vaguely defined boundaries of the coun-\\nties, which boundaries in after years led to much trouble and\\nlitigation.\\nAlthough his name does not appear among the records of the\\nNewton Friends, yet he was an a6live member in that meeting\\nand sought to maintain and advance their religious principles.\\nIn his day and generation opinions were well defined upon\\nthose points, and men were advanced in accordance with their\\nviews expressed or understood.\\nIn the year 1686, Robert Zane fell into a difficulty with a\\nfemale, formerly a servant in his family, touching some obliga-\\ntions on his part not complied with. The trouble assumed such\\nproportions that it got beyond the control of the meeting, and\\nfound its way to the courts of justice, in which it became a\\nmatter of public record. The minute book of the court sitting\\nat Gloucester explains the dispute, and the entire copy, as\\nfound and extra6led by Isaac Mickle, Esq., is its best history.\\nUpon ye complaint of Rebecca Hammond against her late\\nmaster, Robert Zane, for want of necessary apparel, as also his\\nfailure in some covenants that he was by his Indenture to\\nperform it was ordered yt ye said Robert Zane before ye first\\nday of ninth month next, shall find and give to ye said\\nRebecca Hammond apparel to the value of three pounds seven\\nshillings and sixpence. And also fifty acres of land to her and\\nher heirs forever. And in case ye said Robert dislike this order,\\nthen to stand and abide by ye a6l of Assembly in ye like case\\nprovided. Whereupon the said Robert Zane did at last declare\\nthat he would comply with ye aforesaid order and answer ye\\nsame.\\nThis appears to have been an a6t within the power of the\\ncourt upon complaint of the servant, under the law passed in\\n1682, which gave authority to examine into and settle such\\ncontroversies between master and servant. The law required\\nthat the servant should have, at the end of the term, ten bushels\\nof corn, necessary apparel, two horses and one axe. The fifty\\n9 Mickle s Reminiscences of Old Gloucester, 39.\\nTO Learning Spicer s Laws.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "ROBERT ZANE. 17\\nacres referred to were known as head land, to which able\\nbodied servants were entitled, and which the court dire6led to\\nbe conveyed. Friend Zane was not lessened by this suit in the\\ngood opinion of his neighbors, for his name is found in\\nconne6lion with many positions of trust after that time.\\nHis house stood fronting Newton creek, near to, and perhaps\\na short distance above, the place where the Camden and White\\nHorse turnpike crosses that stream, and on the farm lately\\nowned by the heirs of Edward Z. Collings, deceased. Like all\\nothers of its day, no taste was displayed in its constru6lion, but,\\nbeing surrounded by the primeval forest, and near a beautiful,\\nliving stream of water, its wild and romantic appearance would\\nbe attractive to an artist s eye. The clearing of the land, at\\nthat day, was a slow process, accomplished with few laborers\\nand poor implements, while, to add to the difficulty, heavy\\ntimber had to be felled and removed yet these people soon\\nbegan to write to their friends at home of the prolific soil,\\nthe favorable climate, and the plenty that perVaded the land.\\nWith all such flattering accounts, however, it is to be sup-\\nposed that much of the means for the comfort and sustenance\\nof the first settlers was derived from the forest and streams that\\nteemed with game and fish of many kinds, which kept the wolf\\nfrom the door in more than a single sense.\\nAn incident that occurred during the career of Robert Zane,\\nshowing the care with which the Society of Friends regarded\\nthe disputes among their members, and how much scandal was\\navoided by the settlement of such troubles within the pale of\\nthe church, may be noticed here.\\nJohn White, a resident of Newton, died, leaving his brother\\nJoseph, William Bates, Thomas Thackara and Robert Zane,\\nexecutors of his will. The property which he left to be man-\\naged by his executors for the benefit of his children, was, for\\nthose times, considerable. In the progress of the settlement, a\\ndifficulty arose between Joseph White and the other executors,\\nwhich found its way into both the Newton and the Salem\\nMeeting, causing much discussion and ill feeling. A committee\\nof six members from each meeting was appointed to settle the\\nmatter. This committee met at the house of Thomas Gard-", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "1 8 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\niner, Jr., at Woodbury creek, to hear what could be said by\\neach party. A conclusion was reached, and an award ^signed by\\neleven of the committee, Richard Darkin of the Salem Meeting\\ndissenting. This award was laid before the Salem Meeting\\nupon the 26th day of the eighth month, 1691, and by it\\napproved. Joseph White appealed to the Quarterly Meeting,\\nwhich confirmed the a61; of the Monthly Meeting. In these pro-\\nceedings, Richard Darkin gave his reasons for not signing the\\naward, which were considered by each meeting in its review of\\nthe same. In regular order, the parties took the matter to the\\nYearly Meeting, held at Burlington, and, on the 29th day of\\nthe second month, 1693, Richard Darkin on the one part, and\\nThomas Sharp, one of the signers of the award, on the other\\npart, were heard by Francis Davenport, Alexander Brearley,\\nSamuel Carpenter and James Fox, the committee appointed by\\nthe meeting. After due consideration, the meeting confirmed\\nthe award aforesaid in all things. Much dissatisfa6lion still\\nexisted, but, on the 24th day of the fourth month, 1695, the\\ndecision of the committee of the Yearly Meeting was reported\\nto the Salem Meeting, and the controversy abandoned so far as\\nregarded the trouble among the executors.\\nJohn Hugg subsequently became the guardian of William\\nWhite, son of the said John White. He also fell into\\ndifficulty with Joseph White, the contentious executor, about\\nthe payment of money due the ward, which was in his\\nhands. In 1698, the guardian made complaint to the Salem\\nMeeting of this default, and, in the next year, Edward Shippen,\\nAnthony Morris and Isaac Norris were appointed a committee\\nto adjust the same. This committee reported against Joseph\\nWhite. In 1 703, the matter makes its appearance again at the\\nYearly Meeting in Salem. At this meeting Joseph White is\\nrebuked for his negledl in the premises. In the twelfth month\\nof that year, however, he appeared before the meeting at\\nSalem, and showed that a settlement had been made between\\nhimself and William White, thus putting an end to this tedious\\ncontroversy.\\nRobert Zane s will was executed in 1694, the year in which\\nhe departed this life. This paper is a ragged, damp-stained", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "ROBERT ZANE. 19\\nmanuscript, in the files of the ofifice of the Secretary of State,\\nwhere it has probably escaped the eyes of searchers, for a\\ncentury past. It contains much valuable information about\\nhis real estate, and also gives some fa(5ts concerning his family.\\nElizabeth, a second wife and mother of several of his children,\\nwas made executrix. She died in 1700, before a settlement\\nof the estate was effected. She was a daughter of Henry\\nWillis, of Hempstead, Long Island, who was appointed by the\\ncourt to close up the executrix s accounts. The posthumous\\nchild, as named in his will, was a daughter, and was called\\nRachel.\\nNothing appears upon the papers to show who were the\\nchildren of the first wife, so that the native blood can be\\ntraced to the later generations of the family. They were\\nNathaniel, who married Grace Rakestraw, of Philadelphia, in\\n1697 Robert, who married Jane Elnathan, who\\nmarried Simeon, who died without children\\nMary, Esther and Sarah. Nathaniel died in 1727 his children\\nwere Joseph, Jonathan, Ebenezer, Isaac, William, Margaret,\\nAbigail and Hannah.\\nRobert deceased in 1744; his children were Robert, who\\nmarried Mary Chattin Joseph William Simeon, who married\\nSarah Hooten Isaxic, who married Asuba Wilkins Rebecca,\\nRachel, Elizabeth, Esther and Sarah, who married James\\nWhitall.\\nElnathan died in 1732. He was a shoemaker, and resided in\\nHaddonfield. In 1703, he, Elnathan, sold 127 acres of land to\\nJohn Fisher, the same being part of the estate owned by his\\nfather, lying next to Cooper s creek. John Fisher sold to\\nArthur Powell in 1716, who conveyed to William Cooper,\\nof Philadelphia, in 1730.^* The same property passed through\\na branch of the Burroughs family to Amos Haines, who, in\\n1804, devised it to his son Amos. Two of the children of\\nElnathan Zane, Nathaniel and Elnathan, also lived in the\\nsame place the last named of whom married Bathsaba\\nHartley, in 1761, a daughter of Roger and Rebecca Hartley,\\n11 Gloucester files, 1700, 13 Lib. AB, 152.\\n12 Lib. No. 2, 510. 14 Lib. No. 3, 138. Lib. K, i.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nand half-sister to Mathias Aspden. This person was a son,\\nby a second marriage, of the widow of Roger Hartley with\\nMathias Aspden, in 1756. As a shipping merchant, he\\naccumulated a large estate and, upon the breaking out of\\nthe Revolutionary war, sympathized with the Crown and\\nremoved to England. In 1779, he was attainted of treason, and\\nhis property sold. In 1786, the attainder was removed, and\\ndamage awarded for the waste of his estate. He never married,\\nand died in London, August 9, 1824. His estate followed the\\ndirection of a will made by him in 1791, and went to his\\nheirs at law}^ These few words occupied the courts for more\\nthan twenty years, at an expense of thousands of dollars the\\nEnglish heirs being claimants on the father s side, and the\\nAmerican, being claimants in the maternal line. In 1833, Judge\\nBaldwin decided in favor of the first named. An appeal was\\ntaken, and a new trial granted. In 1848, the verdict of a jury,\\nbefore Judge Grier, in Philadelphia, was in favor of the Amer-\\nican claimants, which virtually put an end to the suit. The\\nestate amounted to $600,000, and was distributed accordingly.\\nIt will be seen that the male branch predominated in the Zane\\nfamily but many of them, having a spirit of unrest, incident\\nto the blood in the maternal line, wandered into the West, far\\nbeyond the line of civilization, and the original estate passed\\nout of the name in a few decades after the death of the first\\nowner. By his, Robert s, will, one-third of the estate went to\\nhis son Nathaniel, and the same proportion to his son Robert.\\nNathaniel died in 1727, and devised his part to his son Joseph,\\nwho also bought his uncle Robert s share in 1740. Joseph\\ndeceased in 1759, and gave this estate to two of his children,\\nEsther, wife of Richard Collings, and Rhoda, wife of Thomas\\nHeppard.^ The last named sold the undivided half-part to\\nRichard Collings, in 1762, whereby the latter became owner\\nof the original estate, as before named. A portion of the\\nsame is still held in the family but much the larger part has\\npassed to other owners.^*\\nThis Richard Collings (who was one of the descendants of\\nFrancis Collins), on account of the numerous family of that\\n15 Supreme Court of the United States, No. i6o. 17 Lib. W., 59, O. S. G.\\n16 Lib. No. 9, 238. 18 Lib. B, 316, Gloucester Records,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "ROBERT ZANE. 21\\nname in this region, and for the purpose of distin61;ion, changed\\nthe spelling of his name, by introducing the letter g this has\\nled to some confusion in genealogy yet the tradition is\\ngenerally accepted, and is looked upon as correct.\\nJames Whitall, who married Sarah, one of the daughters of\\nthe second Robert Zane, settled on a farm which he purchased\\nof Samuel Shivers, in 1725. This property fronted Cooper s\\ncreek, in Haddon township, and was formerly known as the\\nAnn Burr Farm. James Whitall must have died a few years\\nafter, for, in 1729, his executors sold the same to John Eastlack.\\nIn 1742, it became part of the estate of Elizabeth Estaugh (by\\nher husband s will), who deeded it to her nephew, Ebenezer\\nHopkins, in 1752; one of whose children was the before-\\nnamed Ann Burr.\\nIsaac Zane, a grandson of the second Robert, in his wander-\\nings among the early settlers of the Western States, was captured\\nby the Indians, and remained with them for many years. The\\ncontradi6lory statements made in regard to this person have\\nlead to much doubt as to the truth of the story and, with some,\\nhe is placed in a different family and conne6led with a different\\nhistory. DeHass, in his history of the Indian wars of Western\\nVirginia, published in 185 1, says that the family is of Danish\\norigin, that it first moved to France, thence to England, and\\nfinally emigrated to America and that one branch settled in\\nNew Jersey, nearly opposite to Philadelphia, and the other in\\nVirginia. From the Virginia branch, this historian traces the\\npioneers of the Western wilds, and places Ebenezer Zane at the\\nhead of these brave men. His first cabin was built where the\\ncity of Wheeling now stands, and there he ere6led a stockade\\nfor the protedtion of his family, in 1777. He was employed by\\nthe United States government in various positions of trust and\\nresponsibility, and always discharged his duties to satisfaction.\\nFrom this man the name and family have become numerous in\\nWestern Virginia. He died in 1811.^\u00c2\u00ae\\nReference is made to Jonathan and Silas Zane, brothers\\nof Ebenezer, who were his companions in arms against the\\nIndians. Jonathan was considered the most expert hunter in\\n19 DeHass s History of Indian Wars in Western Virginia, 331.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nhis day, and often aided in the capacity of a spy in the\\ntroubles with the red men. Reference is also made to Isaac\\nZane, who, the account says, was captured when about nine\\nyears of age, and, becoming thoroughly Indian in habits\\nand appearance, married the sister of a Wyandotte chief.\\nBy her he acquired a large landed estate, and had a family\\nof eight children. He remained true to the whites, and,\\nby timely information, saved them from many bloody\\nvisitations. In consideration of these services, the govern-\\nment granted him ten thousand acres of land on Mad river.\\nThe remarkable coincidence of Christian names in this narra-\\ntive with those of the descendants of the first-comer to\\nNewton, would suggest some error on the part of DeHass in\\nfixing the location of their settlement, and would lead to the\\nsupposition that he had been misinformed in this respe6l.\\nLetters and other memoranda now in possession of the family\\nin this part of our State, place the identity of Isaac beyond a\\nquestion. In 1798, an account of his captivity, marriage and\\nposition among the Indians, was published, and a visit which he\\nmade to his friends and relatives about Newton, goes to show\\nthat he was of the New Jersey family, and that Robert Zane was\\nhis ancestor.\u00e2\u0084\u00a2\\nThe family is numerous in most of the Western States it has\\nsprung from the hardy, brave men whose love of adventure and\\nfondness for the solitude of the wilderness, kept them in\\nadvance of civilization. About the old homestead plantation,\\nno one bearing the name has owned any of the soil for many\\nyears and, but for the titles and traditions that are inseparably\\nconne6led therewith, they would have long since been forgotten.\\n20 Family Papers.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THOMAS SHARP.\\nOF the few colonists who settled in Newton in 1681,\\nThomas Sharp was the master spirit. He infused his\\nEnergy and good judgment into the whole company was their\\nadviser and guide, and was, no doubt, as he deserved to be,\\ntheir leader in all important undertakings. He was an Irish-\\nman, and by occupation a woolstead comber, but appears to\\nhave had better opportunities for education than most persons\\nat that time, or, certainly, than those with whom he was\\nassociated.\\nAlthough, as he says, a young man, he had the entire confi-\\ndence of his companions, and the end shows that this confidence\\nwas not misplaced or abused. He was a nephew of Anthony\\nSharp, a wealthy merchant of Dublin, who became the owner\\nof several shares of propriety part of which he conveyed to\\nThomas, who also a6led as his agent in the sale of the\\nremainder. Under this conveyance he made all his locations,\\nand took part in the government of the Province.\\nA faithful sketch of the life of this man, from the time of\\nhis arrival in New Jersey until his death, would be a history\\nof Gloucester county for that period, and would be the most\\nreliable basis upon which the writer could found his statements.\\nHis thorough knowledge of the country, his acquaintance with\\nthe settlers, and his truthful accounts of the progress of the\\ncolony, as by himself recorded, have made him an authority\\nnot to be questioned.\\nI Lib. G-3, 36.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nTouching the first settlement at Newton, no better account\\ncan be given than_ his own, so that future generations may\\nhave the evidence of a participant therein. Although written\\nthirty-seven years after that event, yet it contains an exa6l\\nstatement of fa6ls, and embodies everything necessary to an\\naccurate knowledge of that undertaking. Every reader will\\nperuse it with interest, and may thank Friend Sharp for doing\\nso good a work for those coming after him. It is here\\npresented entire, as copied from Liber A, of Gloucester county\\ndeeds, page 98, in the office of the Secretary of State, at\\nTrenton, New Jersey\\nLet it be remembered yt upon ye nineteenth day of Sep-\\ntember, in ye year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and\\neighty-one, Mark Newby, William Bates, Thomas Thackara,\\nGeorge Goldsmith and Thomas Sharp, set saile from ye Harbor\\nbelonging to ye city of Dublin, in ye Kingdom of Ireland, in a\\npink called \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Ye owners adventure, whereof Thomas Lurtin, of\\nLondon, was commander, and being taken sick in ye city, his\\nmate, John Dagger, officiated in his place in order to trans-\\nport us, and yt we might settle ourselves in West Jersey, in\\nAmerica. And by ye good providence of God we arrived in\\nye Capes of Delaware ye eighteenth day of November following,\\nand so up ye bay until we came to Elsinburg, and were landed\\nwith our goods and families at Salem, where we abode ye\\nwinter. But it being very favourable weather and purchasing\\na boat amongst us, we had an opportunity to make search up\\nand down in yt which was called ye Third tenth, which had\\nbeen reserved for ye proprietors dwelling in Ireland, where we\\nmight find a place suitable for so many of us to settle down\\ntogether, being in these early times somewhat doubtfull of ye\\nIndians, and at last pitched down by yt which is now called\\nNewton creek, as ye most invitingist place to settle down by,\\nand then we went to Burlington, and made application to ye\\ncommissioners yt we might have warrants dire6led to Daniel\\nLeeds, ye Surveyor General, to survey unto every of us, so\\nmuch land as by ye constitution at yt time was alloted for a\\nsettlement being five hundred acres, or yt we had a right to, for\\na taking up it under, which accordingly we obtained.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THOMAS SHARP. 25\\nAt which time also Robert Zane, who came from ye city of\\nDublin, and had been settled in Salem, four years before,\\njoined in with us who had a right to a tenth. Mark Newby to\\na twentieth, William Bates to a twentieth, Thomas Thackara to\\na twentieth, Thomas Sharp (out of his uncle Anthony Sharp s\\nright) a twentieth, and George Goldsmith (under ye notion of\\nThomas Starkey s right) a tenth; all which of us, excepting\\nWilliam Bates who took his on ye southerly side of Newton\\ncreek, we took our land in one tract together for one thousand\\nseven hundred and fifty acres, bounding in ye forks of Newton\\ncreek and so over to Cooper s creek, and by a line of marked\\ntrees to a small branch of ye fork creek and so down ye same\\nas by ye certificate of it standing upon record in ye Secretary\\noffice it doth appear. And after some time finding some\\ninconveniency in having our land in common together being\\nat ye time settled at ye place now called Newton in ye manner\\nof a town for fear as aforesaid at which being removed we came\\nto an agreement to divide. George Goldsmith he choose the\\nhead of the creek, Thomas Sharp the forks or lower end of the\\nland next towards the river, by which means the rest kept to\\ntheir settlements without any disadvantage to themselves.\\nAnd so ye land was divided according to every man s right.\\nBut it is to be understood as I have so much hinted before, that\\nby ye constitution of ye country at yt time, no person, let his\\nright be never so great, should survey and take up above five\\nhundred acres in one tra6l to make one settlement of, and yt\\nwithin six months, or otherwise, it was free for any other person\\nthat had rights to land to survey it to himself as if it had never\\nbeen taken up for any other person. Whereupon many were\\nobliged in order to secure good places to themselves to give one\\nhundred acres to secure the rest and many were deterred from\\ntaking up their land yt could not find means to secure it leaste\\nthey should spend money to no profit. Now ye state of ye\\ncase touching George Goldsmith (having a full and certain\\nknowledge thereof) is this wise. Thomas Starkey did desire\\nand order George Goldsmith to take up some land for him in\\nWest Jersey when it is reasonable to suppose he had a right,\\nbut brought nothing with him to make it appear, and ye com-", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nmissioners at yt time gave way by ye credit of the report of ye\\nrest concerned that he might take up five hundred acres, but it\\nnever was returned in Starkey s name.\\nGeorge Goldsmith being uneasy under ye circumstance he\\nlay, writ several times to Thomas Starkey, giving him to under-\\nstand he had taken up five hundred acres of land for him\\nprovided he would allow him one hundred acres of it for\\nsettling the same as ye general custom then was. The letters\\neither miscarried or otherwise the demand being ungrateful to\\nhim he answered them in silence. Supposing as it may be\\nsupposed yt ye land being taken up for him could not be taken\\nfrom him, it could not be allowed.\\nNow this put George upon further thought what to do to\\nsecure himself, whereupon he made application to Robert\\nTurner and layeth his case before him, signifying if he would\\nallow him one hundred acres of yt land whereon he had made\\nhis improvements, he would suffer him to take yt five\\nhundred acres in his own right. Robert taking the matter\\nin due consideration and searching the records at Burlington\\nabout it, and finding it so to lie recorded in George Gold-\\nsmith s name, who had no right at any time to take up any\\nland in yt province, agrees to survey it to himself, and accord-\\ningly did, and records it as such in ye Secretary s office;\\nconveys one hundred acres of ye same, according to agreement,\\nto George Goldsmith, and unto his heirs and assigns forever.\\nThe other four hundred acres he sold unto Isaac Hollingsham.\\nThe foregoing is a true relation of yt settlement of Newton,\\nas also a true and impartial account of ye foregoing tract of\\nland, settled by George Goldsmith. Given under my hand the\\n3rd month, 3rd, 1 718.\\nThomas Sharp.\\nAllowed by John Kay, the 3rd month, 4th, 1718.\\nIn addition to the one thousand seven hundred and fifty\\nacres located as before named, there were also one hundred\\nacres of meadow land taken up at the mouth of Kaighn s run,\\nand fronting on the Delaware river. This was done for the\\npurpose of procuring hay for their cattle through the winters\\nand it shows how careful they were in obtaining lawful posses-", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THOMAS SHARP. 27\\nsion of the soil before they applied its products to their own\\npurposes.\\nIn many of the old papers this stream is called Little Newton\\ncreek, but, like others, this title has been lost and that of an-\\nadjacent owner substituted.\\nLike the larger tracts, the meadow was soon divided into\\nlots, showing that their being held in common led to trouble\\namong the owners.^ The map here given is the only history of\\nthat transa6lion, but is sufficient to show the manner in which\\nit was accomplished.\\nFor some reason not explained, the bounds of the county\\nof Gloucester were not defined by Legislative enadlment until\\nthe year 1694, although the judicial limits thereof seem to have\\nbeen recognized as early as 1682, in which year Thomas Sharp\\nwas appointed constable of the third tenth, which same\\nbecame part of the said bailiwick. This executive office,\\nalthough defined as that of constable, must have extended to\\nthat of sheriff, since, in the same year, Burlington and Salem\\ncounties each had a sheriff appointed under the same authority,\\nyet no such action was taken in regard to the third and the\\nfourth tenth. As suggested by Isaac Mickle, Esq., in his\\nnotice of this matter, the confusion caused by Edward Byllynge\\nin the colony, and the long adjournment of seven years of the\\nLegislature, may be accepted as the reasons, but nothing\\nsatisfactory appears of record in regard to the matter. The\\ninhabitants of that region of country, however, did not wait\\nthe tardy movements of their law makers, but proceeded with\\nall due solemnity to establish a county for themselves a\\nfaithful record of which action, made by Thomas Sharp at\\nthe time, is still preserved in the Clerk s office, of Gloucester\\ncounty, at Woodbury. It runs as follows\\nCxloucester, ye 28th of May, 1686. By ye propyetors, free-\\nholders and inhabitants of the third and fourth tenths, (alias.\\nCounty of Gloucester,) then agreed as followeth Imprimis\\nThat a courte be held for the jurisdi6lion and limits of the\\naforesaid tenths or county, one tyme at Axwamus, (alias,\\nGloucester,) and another tyme at Red Bank.\\n2 Revel s Book, 50-59.\\n3 Learning Spicer s Laws,.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nItem That the four courts for ye jurisdiction aforesaid,\\nbe held in one year at ye days and times hereafter mentioned,\\nviz Upon ye first day of ye first month, upon ye first day\\nof ye fourth month, upon ye first day of ye seventh month,\\nand upon ye first day of ye tenth month.\\nItem That ye first courte shall be held at Gloucester\\naforesaid, on ye first day of September next.\\nItem That all warrants and summons shall be drawn by\\nye Clerk of ye courte, and signed by ye Justice, and soe\\ndelivered to ye Sheriff or his Deputy to execute.\\nItem: The body of each warrant, c., shall contayne or\\nintimate the nature of ye a6lion.\\nItem That a copy of the declaration be given along with\\nye warrant by ye Clerk of ye courte, that soe ye defendants\\nmay have the longest tyme to consider ye same and prepare\\nhis answer.\\nItem: That all summons, warrants, c., shall be served,\\nand declarations given at least ten days before ye courte.\\nItem That ye Sheriff shall give ye jury summons six days\\nbefore ye courte be held on which they are to appear.\\nItem That all persons within ye jurisdi6lion aforesaid,\\nbring into ye next courte ye mark of their hoggs and other\\ncattell, in order to be approved and recorded.\\nWith these novel proceedings, clerk Sharp had much to do,\\nand, in all probability, prepared the paper as recorded which\\nin after years was received as legitimate, and so recognized\\nby the Legislature of the colony. After that time the records\\nwere regular, and, all such as had occasion to appear at courts,\\neither voluntarily or otherwise, submitted to the a6lion thereof\\nwithout protest. Isaac Mickle, Esq., author of The Rem-\\niniscences of Old Gloucester, has copied many interesting\\nthings from these ancient books into his valuable work, which\\nshow Thomas Sharp to have been an efficient recorder and\\nmaster of his duties. In view of the much labor and the poor\\npay, our clerk facetiously gets off the following lines, doubtless\\nafter a hard day s work\\nThe clerks of this county I think I may proclaim,\\nWill not at present the owner of it load with much gain.\\nT. S.\\n4 Lib. A, Court Minutes, Woodbury.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THOMAS SHARP. 29\\nMore truth than poetry is certainly here contained, yet\\nnothing appears to prove that any duty was negle6led, or\\nfurther complaint made by that worthy man. After the\\nmachinery of the new county was fairly adjusted and found\\nto run smoothly, Thomas Sharp withdrew from the duties\\nof clerk, and was succeeded by John Reading, who served\\nthe people for many years after.\\nBeing the only surveyor in these parts, his time was much\\noccupied in that kind of business. In addition to the recording\\nof deeds for the county, he kept a private book of all his\\nproceedings, in which he placed maps and memoranda, showing\\nhis great care in such matters and his ability as a pra6lical man.\\nHe also made other books containing plans of houses, calcula-\\ntions of the movements of the sun and moon, and many other\\nthings in accordance with his taste and leisure. One of these\\nvolumes was left in the hands of Hannah Ladd, after his decease,\\nand was deemed so valuable, that an a6l of the Legislature was\\npassed to have the same placed in the office of the Surveyor-\\nGeneral at Burlington, N. J. thus it was made a lawful record,\\nand has been so recognized to the present time. His money\\naccounts, settlements and charges, will be found scattered\\nthrough them. An occasional extract from them may prove\\ninteresting. In the year 1720, he paid several subscriptions for\\nJohn Estaugh, towards the building of the meeting house at\\nHaddonfield, of fifteen pounds each he, at that time, having\\ncharge of much of that person s estate, in the colle6lions of rents,\\nc. In the discharge of these duties, he traveled to Amboy in\\none dire(5lion, and to Cohansey in another, at each of which\\nplaces John Estaugh had landed estate. In 1686, he appears to\\nhave paid the expenses of transporting Isaac Gooden and family\\nfrom England, which he itemized in the following manner\\ns. d.\\nPassage for self and wife,\\nLost,\\nFor carrying goods,\\nFor burial of his wife,\\nFox nursing child,\\nExpenses from home to ship,\\nIn shors, [chores\\n18 05 06\\nII\\n00\\n00\\n2\\n03\\n00\\n00\\n15\\n00\\nI\\n16\\n00\\n00\\n06\\n00\\n2\\n00\\nCO\\n00\\n05\\n06", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nThese charges are light when compared with like expenses\\nof the present day, and show about the average cost of\\nremoval from the one country to the other at that time.\\nPerhaps the most curious part of these books is the poetry\\ntherein. Among the multifarious duties of this man as Sur-\\nveyor, County Clerk, as Judge of the Court, weaver, dyer,\\nand others not known, he found time to woo the muse, and\\nhas left in rhyme somewhat of the history of his times, of the\\ntrials that vexed the church, and of other things to be gathered\\nby the reader.\\nPart only is here given not to be criticised too severely\\nbut to show the character of the man, and the various occupa-\\ntions in which he engaged. Like many of the old records,\\nmuch has been defaced, and parts entirely obliterated by damp,\\nbut, perhaps, enough has been secured to show the meaning\\nof the author.\\nBy way of introdudlion\\nThe settlement of Newton and its state,\\nAs then it was, and now, I do relate,\\nBecause my knowledge thereof was most true\\nAs by what follows here doth plainly shew.\\nAn introduiSlion doth this work begin\\nLike silken clew for guide of strangers in,\\nThat in time to come it may plainly be.\\nAnd they that know not, may be made to see.\\nThe matters here contained, as thou may find.\\nHave been with pressure some years on my mind\\nBut now, at last, I have thought it well.\\nAnd to Posterity, its good to tell.\\nIn eighty-one, in Salem we did arrive.\\nAt which time then the People began to thrive,\\nAnd had in store for to supply our want.\\nWhich, otherwise, would have been rather scant.\\nIf to Burlington had gone, as we were bound.\\nWe should be lost and disadvantage found\\nIt would have been most surely unto us.\\nAnd must have pinched and punished ye purse.\\nNow being settled on this wise, I say.\\nThe winter mild, and nothing in the way.\\nWe had ye advantage for to try and find\\nA place that was agreeing to our mind.\\nAfter some time and labor spent, we agreed on\\nThe Creek, ye seat and place now called Newton.\\nThe persons yt thus had ye care to fix.\\nDid, in ye whole, amount to number six.\\nSo in ye Spring we made our settlement.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THOMAS SHARP. 31\\nAnd lived so as that we were content;\\nAlthough somtimes we were hard bestead,\\nYet the Lord in kindness did afford us bread.\\nIn Newton then there did shine\\nSome yt were zealous and divine;\\nThey largely did with care provide\\nFor those yt come from ye true guide,\\nTo diredl their minds to stand in truth.\\nThey had received in they er youth\\nYet in a while some youth did show\\nThat they in goodness did not grow.\\nBut now poor Newton is decayed\\nThe youth not zealous, I am afraid.\\nNor don t endeavor with ye care\\nTheir forfathers took a larger share.\\nI shall be glad I live to see\\nTheir zeal increased and better be.\\nAnd they endeavour to remove\\nBy real adlion in true love\\nThen I am in hopes ye case will mend.\\nAnd be far better in ye end\\nBut, if they careless do remain.\\nThen will ensue both loss and pain.\\nThe love I have yt they may come.\\nAnd with true drawings really won\\nAnd settle in ye lasting truth\\nTheir forfathers set in their youth,\\nThat in ye end they may obtain\\nThat which will be their lasting gain.\\nAnd leave yt odour unto theirs.\\nAs did their fathers who are in their.\\nBy T. S., the 14th of ye 12th mo., 1718.\\nTo return to the pra(5lical regarding the subje6l of our\\nsketch, he may be again found in the discharge of a good\\nwork, the keeping of a town book, commenced in 1723. This\\ncontains the record of the proceedings of the town meetings\\nof the people of Newton, the entries being made in his quaint,\\nodd manner, with a style of penmanship peculiar to himself.\\nThis duty he continued until 1728, inclusive, when his son\\nSamuel succeeded him. Thus, in every new undertaking, he\\nwas the pioneer, laying down the general outlines of pro-\\nceedings, and giving up the duties when the same went\\nforward properly.\\nHis map of the land in Newton township, made in 1700,\\nand here given, is a paper that must interest every resident\\nwithin its bounds, not only for the information therein\\ncontained, but also as showing the labor which he was willing\\nto bestow upon a subje6l purely for the public good. This", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "32 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nis but part of the valuable records of that nature which he\\nhas left, records, extending over a large amount of territory in\\nWest New Jersey, in which he was commissioned as a deputy\\nsurveyor. The compass and protracting instruments used by\\nhim were of rude constru6lion, compared with those of our\\nday, now so nicely and accurately adjusted by machinery\\nyet, laboring as he did under these disadvantages, his field\\nwork and maps are not behind the best of the present time.\\nIn 1689, he laid out the city of Gloucester, designed, no\\ndoubt, as a rival to Salem and Burlington, which were already\\nvillages of some pretension. These towns had even start with\\nPhiladelphia, but they have, many years since, lost all com-\\nparison in present or prospedlive importance.\\nBy appointment of the Legislature in 1684, with Henry\\nWood, Francis Collins and William Bates, he became one of\\nthe commission to lay out highways, which same appointment\\nwas continued the next year.\\nIn 1685, he was returned as a member of the Assembly, the\\nsession of which commenced May 12th, and sat for one day.*\\nAt the November session in the same year, his name does not\\nappear, which would seem to imply that two ele6lions,\\npreceding each sitting of that body, were had in each year.\\nThe trouble among the people settled about the Penisaukin\\ncreek, concerning the line between the counties of Burlington\\nand Gloucester, appears to have existed for several years, and\\nled to many wordy combats and considerable legislation.-\\nThe Grand Jury of each county took adion in the premises,\\nand assumed a belligerent attitude toward each other, seeming\\nto lay aside, for the time, the element of forbearance and\\nnon-resistance so prominent in the early days of Quakerism.\\nIn 1689, the courts of Gloucester county appointed a Com-\\nmission to run and mark the said boundary line, and Thomas\\nSharp was the Surveyor.* The people of Burlington county\\nwere notified, and, if they chose, could have appeared and\\nseen the work performed. Three years after the Legislature\\nappointed four of its number to report upon this difficulty,\\nbut, their decision being unsatisfa6tory, the law was repealed\\n5 Learning Spicer s Laws.\\n6 Minute Book, Woodbury.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THOMAS SHARP. 33\\nat the next session. In 1694, an a6l was again passed, defining\\nthe boundaries of Gloucester county, but still leaving the cause of\\nthe difficulty an open question, by not fixing upon which branch\\nof Cropwell river, or Penisaukin creek, the said boundary was to\\nrun. In 1709, however, an end was put to these differences\\nby a law clearly naming the south branch and this has\\nremained as then fixed to the present time.\\nIn 1700, Thomas Sharp was appointed one of the judges of the\\nseveral courts of Gloucester county, and, if pra6lical knowledge\\nhas any merit, he was eminently qualified for that position.\\nThat he took an interest in the advancement and prosperity\\nof the religious denomination of which he was a member, may\\nbe seen from the frequency with which his name occurs among\\nthe proceedings of that society. He was one of the trustees\\nof the Newton Meeting, and, no doubt, assisted in the ere6tion\\nof the first house that was set apart for religious worship.\\nWith Elizabeth Estaugh he selected the site for the meeting\\nhouse at Haddonfield, surveyed the lot, wrote the deed, and\\nput the same on record in his private book, after she returned\\nfrom England with it, having the signature of her father\\nthereunto attached. In this paper he has again shown his odd\\nstyle of description. It reads thus\\nAs they shall see convenient to lay out from the tra6l of\\nland settled by John Estaugh, lying in ye township of Newton,\\nany where on ye north side of ye road yt leads out of ye\\nKing s road to Newton, as far from ye west corner of John\\nGill s fence as where ye said road intersects the same.\\nUpon the deed he placed a map of the lot conveyed, by\\nwhich all vagueness and uncertainty of description are cor-\\nre6led. This remarkable man has left other interesting\\nmemorials and writings generally of a religious chara6ler\\nnot here copied for want of room. He participated in every\\npolitical movement in and about the colony, and his name will\\nbe oftener found among the records at Burlington, Trenton or\\nWoodbury, than that of any other man of those early times.\\n7. Learning Spicer s Laws.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34 FIJiST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nIn the division of the original survey as jointly held under\\nthe location, he says I took the forks or lower end of the\\nland next toward the river. There he settled, cleared a\\nfarm and improved some meadow. He owned property in\\nother parts of the county, although not the holder of much\\nreal estate.\\nThomas Sharp was also appointed ranger for Gloucester\\ncounty. The duties of this office cannot be better understood\\nthan by copying in full the commission and instru6lions to the\\nappointee.\\nProvince OF To Thomas Sharp, of ye county of\\nSEAL Gloucester, greeting\\nNew Jersey, C J u .i, j i\\n-I hou art hereby authorized by ye\\nWestern Division. power and order of ye Councill of\\nProprietors to be Ranger for Gloucester County. In all things\\nwell and faithfully discharging thy said office, and ye trust in\\nthee reposed, according to ye instru6tions herewith sent.\\nAnd from time to time and at all times, to give an account\\nof thy proceedings in ye said office to ye President of ye\\nCouncill for ye time being, when, and so often as thou shalt by\\nhim be thereunto required, and make good to him ye effe6ls\\ndue to ye Proprietors forth of ye Royalty of rangeing.\\nGiven under my hand and seal, ye fifth day of November,\\nAnno Dom., 1708.\\nAttached to the commission is a copy of instru6lions to\\nrangers, explaining at once the purposes of the office, their\\nduties and authority. These instru6lions are as follows\\nInstructions for Rangers.\\nist. All unmarked horses and mares above ye age of thirty\\nmonths shall be accounted wild, and none others.\\n2nd. It shall be lawful for ye several rangers within their\\nrespe6live limmitts to take up such horses and mares, and shall\\ngive notice thereof, by fixing of papers ffor discovery of ye\\nsame in three of ye most publick places in ye County where\\nthey shall happen to be taken up.\\n8 Revel s Book, 50.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THOMAS SHARP. 35\\n3rd. After such publication ye same not being owned within\\nye space of four weeks, they shall be appraised by two honest\\nmen, indifferently to be appointed by ye Constable of that\\njurisdi(?lion, and after that exposed to sale by public vendue,\\nye one half part of ye price thereof to be paid into ye hands\\nof ye President of ye said Councill for ye time being, and ye\\nother halfe to ye ranger.\\n4th. Any such horses, mares or other cattle which shall be\\nfound unmarked and taken up, being claimed by any person,\\nand its appearing by ye oaths or affirmations of two witnesses\\ntaken before one justice of ye peace within ye time above\\nlimited, that ye said creatures do belong to ye persons claiming\\nye same, and it happening yt ye owners and ranger cannot\\nagree about ye reward, they shall choose, each of them, one\\nindifferent and substantial man of ye same County to allot\\nand award ye said ranger his fees and reward, ffor taking up\\nye same.\\nHis first wife and the mother of his children was Elizabeth\\nWinn, whom he married in 1701. In 1729, he departed this\\nlife, and was, no doubt, buried in the old Newton grave yard.\\nHe left a will, executed in the year of his death, in which he\\nnamed his children and disposed of his property.^\\nFive years before his death, he probably married Judith\\nPotts, the widow of Thomas, and daughter of Smith.\\nFrom this marriage there was no issue. His children .were\\nThomas, who married Catharine Hollingham Isaac, who\\nmarried Margaret Brathwill; Samuel, who married Martha\\nHall; Joseph, an idiot; John, who married Elizabeth Paine;\\nElizabeth, who married John Hallowell; Mary, who married\\nSmith; and Sarah, who married Pearce.\\nIn 1723, Thomas Sharp gave by deed part of the homestead\\nproperty to his son Samuel, who settled thereon; and in the\\nsame year, he conveyed another part to his son John, who, in\\n1 73 1, sold to his brother Samuel. At that time John resided\\nin the parish of Christ s Church, London, and carried on the\\nbusiness of a weaver.^ He was the youngest son but why he\\n9 Lib. No. 3, 56.\\n10 Lib. DD, 358, O. S. G.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "36 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ntook up his home in the mother country does not appear.\\nSeven years after the death of his father, Samuel sold his land\\nto Tobias Halloway, and probably removed from the neigh-\\nborhood. In these latter days this estate is known as the\\nBurrough Farm, now part of the property of Samuel C.\\nChampion, deceased. As the holders of any land, none of\\nthe name have been residents hereabout for many years.\\nJohn Hallowell, who married Elizabeth, was a resident of\\nDarby, Pennsylvania, and the ancestor of a large and respe6l-\\nable family in that se6lion of the state. Mary and Sarah may\\nalso have left this part of the country after their marriages, as\\nthey cannot be traced with any certainty at this date. It is\\nremarkable that the descendants of a man who played so\\nprominent a part in the first settlement of Gloucester county,\\nand who, more than any other, was careful to have the history\\nof his time preserved to coming generations, should so soon\\nbe lost sight of, and not known among the families of the\\npresent day.\\nII John Burrough s Re-survey, 1810, O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "MARK NEWBIE.\\nTHIS man was an Englishman, a resident of the city of\\nLondon, and a tallow chandler. He was a member of\\na Friends Meeting, whose house of worship was in a street of\\nthat city, called Barbican. Some of the antiquarians say\\nthat it derived its name as follows\\nBarbican is a street near Smithfield, London.^ The\\nBarbican, originally a Roman watch tower, lay little north of\\nthis street it was an appendage to most fortiiied places,\\nand from it the street took its name. Another says: Bar-\\nbican is a good, broad street, well inhabited by tradesmen.\\nIn 1681, the persecutions that were carried on towards the\\nreligious society of which he was a member, led many Friends\\nto remove to Ireland, where the rigor of abused law was not\\nso keenly felt, and where for several years this class of citizens\\nenjoyed comparative peace and quiet. Among them was Mark\\nNewbie, who disposed of his property in London, and had a\\ntemporary residence in Dublin, with a view to settling in America\\nand making it his permanent home.\\nThe question of removal, was, at that time, and for the\\nreasons before stated, very gravely considered among Friends,\\nand, in fa6l, with some communities had already assumed a\\npra6lical shape. The movements of William Penn in this\\nmatter were watched with interest, for he had a controlling\\ninfluence in the Society, and his steps therein were ready to be\\n1 Smith s Antiquarian Rambles, Vol, 2, 170, c.\\n2 Murry s Hand Bookj 31.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "38 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nfollowed. His opinions soon became known, and these influenced\\nothers accordingly. In this movement Mark Newbie saw an\\nopportunity to assist in carrying out his previously settled purpose,\\nfor, in the same year, he joined with William Bates and a few\\nothers, to make the adventure which ended in their settlement\\nat Newton. The history of this has been well related by\\nThomas Sharp it combines the reasons, fa6ls and incidents\\nthereof, better than any other account given, or that could be\\ngathered at this late day. There are many reasons for supposing\\nthat Mark Newbie was a man or considerable estate, and,\\nalthough he lived but a short time after his arrival, yet he\\nbecame the owner of several trails of land, and had valuable\\npersonal property. The situation of his house in the settlement\\n(which was an humble and unpretending habitation, is a\\nquestion of more than ordinary interest to antiquarians, and\\nto all such as care to preserve the history of the times in which\\nlived these brave men, who planted the seed of civil and\\nreligious liberty now enjoyed by the millions occupying the\\nsoil.*\\nUpon an old map left by Thomas Sharp, designed to show\\nthe several tra6ts of land owned by Robert Turner, within\\nthe bounds of Newton township, this faithful historian has\\nmarked the position of several houses, as they were placed the\\nyear after the arrival of the settlers, and after their separation.\\nThis map fixes it near the north side of the main, or middle\\nbranch of Newton creek, opposite to where William Bates had\\nplaced his cabin, a short distance below the old grave yard,\\nbut above the late residence of Samuel C. Champion, deceased.\\nUpon consulting a later map made by Friend Sharp, in 1700,\\nmuch change may be seen as to the situation of the dwellings\\nof the inhabitants but the house designated as Mark Newbie s\\nhas the same position as on the first paper showing its locality.\\nAt the last date, Stephen Newbie owned that part of his father s\\nland extending from the main branch to fork branch, _^nd\\noccupied the old homestead while his brother Edward had\\nere6led buildings upon the part of the paternal estate that lay\\n3. Lib. A, 98, Gloucester Records.\\n4 File T, O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "MARK NEWBIE, 39\\nnorth of the last named stream, and there lived. This division\\nof the original property of Mark Newbie has been the cause of\\nsome doubt as to the true position of his residence, but the\\ncomparing of the two maps aforesaid places it beyond cavil.\\nIn one of the accounts of this colony left by Thomas Sharp,\\nin his quaint manner he says And immediately there was a\\nmeeting set up and kept at the house of Mark Newbie, and in\\na short time it grew and increased, unto which William Cooper\\nand family that lived at the Point resorted. This clearly\\nproves not only where the house was situated, but also that\\nwithin its walls was established the first Friend s Meeting in\\nGloucester county, and, after Salem and Burlington, the first\\nin West New Jersey. In this dwelling, built of logs, with the\\nearth for a floor and a bark roof for a ceiling, were the\\ndoctrines of a revealed religion first proclaimed upon our\\nshores by those who had left their homes and friends, to\\nenjoy this privilege that was denied them there.\\nThe lapse of time has swept away from us every appreciation\\nof this privilege, for no attempt has since been made to abridge\\nthe rights of citizens in the enjoyment of religious opinions.\\nNo change of government or political excitement, for the last\\none hundred and ninety years, (save the abortive attempt by\\nLord Cornbury,) has sought to -infringe this fundamental\\nprinciple, so plainly and broadly laid down in the conces-\\nsions and agreements of 1676. In this building assembled\\nthe families, in all not more than twenty persons, (attended,\\nperhaps, by a few friendly Indians, who must have observed\\nthe similarity of these silent sittings to their own dignified and\\nquiet assemblages,) who had come to take up their abode in the\\nwilderness, and build for themselves and their posterity a\\ngovernment free from intolerance and persecution.\\nWho among them, no matter how enlarged their views or\\nspeculative their notions, could foresee the nation which was to\\nrise out of such imperfe6l beginnings That the latent powers\\nembodied in their simple form of government should spread to\\nthe limits of a continent, and be the pride of a free and\\nindependent people That these elements, based in justice\\nand founded in right, would be the centre whence would", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "40 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nradiate civil and religious liberty, to be enjoyed and appre-\\nciated by all who should come within its influence\\nThis was the initial point whence originated the many\\nreligious communities according to the order of Friends that\\nare known in various parts of the country, some of which have\\ngone to decay, and to the present generation are unknown.\\nMark Newbie was also the founder of the first bank in the\\nState of New Jersey, having a charter granted to him by the\\nLegislature, the words of the a6l running in this wise\\nAnd for the more convenient Payment of small Sums, be it\\nenadled, by the Authority aforesaid, that Mark Neiobie s half-\\npence called Patrick s half-pence shall, from and after the said\\nEighteenth Instant, pass for half-pence Current pay of this\\nProvince provided, he, the said Mark, give sufficient Security\\nto the Speaker of the House, for the use of the General\\nAssembly from Time to Time being. That he, the said Mark,\\nhis Executors and Administrators, shall and will change the said\\nhalf-pence for pay Equivalent upon demand and provided\\nalso, that no Person or Persons be hereby obliged to take more\\n\\\\.\\\\\\\\?a\\\\ five shillings in one Payment.\\nThis law was passed at the session of May, 1682, and doubtless\\nwent into effect as soon as the said Mark had entered the proper\\nsecurity as required under the a6l.\\nThe history of this bank may be readily followed through\\nthe records of those days, and enough gathered to show its\\nbeginning, progress and end. As security to the people of the\\nProvince, and as required by law, Mark Newbie conveyed to\\nSamuel Jennings and Thomas Budd, as commissioners, a tra6l\\nof land in Newton township containing three hundred acres,\\nlocated by the said Mark,\\nWhen a settlement was made between the administratrix and\\nthe commissioners, a deficiency of thirty pounds was discovered\\nin the banking operations, which was, however, made good out\\nof his personal estate, thus releasing the land before named.\\nBy request of the widow, Hannah, Samuel Jennings and\\n5 Learning Spiger s Laws.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "MARK NEWBIE. 41\\nThomas Budd conveyed the same to Thomas Hohiies, William\\nBates and Thomas Jenney in trust for Edward Newbie, the\\nsecond son of Mark, in 1685 but, if Edward die before he\\nattain his majority, then to his brother and sister, Stephen and\\nRachel.\\nEdward, however, lived to become the owner in fee, and by\\nhis will gave said land to his two sons, Nathan and Gabriel.\\nNathan died single and intestate, and his estate was merged\\ninto that of his brother Gabriel, who devised the same to his\\nson John.\\nOn March 14th, 1764, John Newbie conveyed all the unsold\\nparts of said tradl to Isaac Cooper, in whose name and family\\nthe larger portion remains to this day.\\nThe deficiency before named was doubtless caused by the\\ndeath of the banker, the time being too short for him to perfe6l\\nhis arrangements in relation thereto. Had he lived, its useful-\\nness might have been much enlarged, accommodating the com-\\nmunity around him, and proving a profitable and commendable\\nenterprise.\\nThis half-penny was a copper coin struck by the Roman\\nCatholics after the massacre in Ireland in 1641, and was generally\\nknown as St. Patrick s half-penny; it had the legend Floreat\\nRex on the obverse, and on the reverse, Ecce Grex.** In\\n1680, half-pence and farthings were coined by royal authority,\\nwith the national symbol (the harp) and the date.* The worth\\nof the half-penny was about one cent of our currency, but, on\\naccount of the unsettled standard of values, varied from that\\naccording to circumstances.\\nStruck without the authority of law, and, perhaps, only to\\ncommemorate some event in the history of that unfortunate\\npeople, this coin never obtained circulation in the old country.\\nThrough the foresight of Mark Newbie, it was bought in quan-\\ntities at a slight discount, brought to West New Jersey, and\\nmade to answer the wants of the settlers, which wants were\\nrecognized by the Legislature in the a6l before named, and\\nit answered their purposes for several years.\\n6 Lib. B, 126. 8 Humphrey on Coins, Vol. 2, 511.\\n7 Lib. \u00c2\u00a5,78. 9 Vol. 2, 686.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "42 FIRST EMIGRANT ^ETTIERS.\\nIn these latter days this coin is not in circulation, and can only\\nbe found in the cabinets of those that are curious in such matters,\\nand fond of studying the progress of artistic mechanism in this\\nparticular line. Numismatics has, for many years, attra6ted the\\nattention of persons of taste and leisure, by whom large sums\\nof money have been paid for rare specimens of coin. Their\\ninterest and enthusiasm has done much to develop the progress\\nof art through the various ages of the world as conne(5led with\\ncivilization, with the advance of commerce and the spread of\\nthe human race.\\nAs a legal tender among the colonists, the a6t made a strange\\nprovision, if the value was as before stated for, by that a61:,\\nno person was required to receive more than a certain number\\nof pieces toward the discharge of a debt. As a matter of con-\\nvenience, this part of the law was perhaps a nullity, since the\\nsettling of accounts and all other ordinary money transatlions\\nwould necessitate the use of various amounts.\\nPreviously to the passage of the a61; regulating the value of\\nMark Newbie s money, the Legislature established the standard\\nof Old England shillings and New England shillings, and also\\nin 1693, did the same thing in regard to the Spanish coin,\\nwhich by that time had come to be in circulation. For many\\nyears after the first settlements in New Jersey, there was much\\ntrouble among the people concerning the standard value of the\\nvarious coins as established in the several Provinces. The\\ncolonial government attempted to remove this trouble, but it\\nseems to have utterly failed. Paper money, the first of which\\nwas issued in New Jersey in 1709, had a double value, that in\\nEast Jersey, regulated by the worth of a guinea in New York,\\nand that in West Jersey controlled by the worth of a guinea in\\nPennsylvania, thus leading to confusion and loss among the\\ninhabitants.\\nThe chapter styled Currency of New Jersey, attached\\nby Judge Elmer to his history of Cumberland county, is\\ninteresting and instru6live, being an exhaustive dissertation\\nupon that subje6l, and showing great labor and research.\\nIt is not to be supposed that Mark Newbie had any authority\\nunder the law, to make this coin for the purpose of keeping\\n10 Learning Spicer s Laws.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "MARK NEWS IE. 43\\nup the circulation, and to enlarge his credit, whereby to get\\ngain and establish his name as a successful financier but he\\nwas careful to keep the amount circulated within proper\\nbounds, for the very cogent reason that part of his estate\\nwas pledged, to make good any short-coming in this regard.\\nWithout these restraints, the influence of the church of which\\nhe was a member, and the watchful care of those around him\\nto prevent a hazard of his credit, made him what in these days\\nwould be called a careful banker, too slow to make money and\\naltogether behind the age.\\nIn this conne6lion the historian of the banking system of\\nAmerica, in his researches to discover where it originated, will\\nfall upon the aft of the Legislature of New Jersey, of 1682,\\nand at once seek to discover where this institution was situated,\\nhow constru6led, what its success, and what its end.\\nThe a6lion of the Legislature showed the foresight of our\\nlaw-makers, even at that early day, in securing the people\\nagainst imposition or fraud, and proves that they had a corredl\\nview of banking privileges, when they required a specie basis\\nwith real-estate security. To emulate this in these latter days\\nwould have saved much loss that has fallen upon innocent\\npersons, and would have prevented the scandal now surrounding\\nthis class of corporations.\\nWithin the same township, therefore, on the same spot, and\\nin the same building, originated the first religious denomination\\naccording to the order of Friends in Old Gloucester county, as\\nwell as the first banking corporation in New Jersey, perhaps, in\\nAmerica.\\nIf the early associations of the settlement of a neighborhood\\nhave any interest if the wide spread good of any institution,\\nbe it religious, political or financial, can be felt in a community\\nand traced to its beginning, be that beginning ever so humble\\nand unpretending such associations, such incidents, and such\\nhistory deserve some record, so that those who make inquiry\\nhereafter, may not consider this an ungrateful generation.\\nHere, the dawn of reason broke\\nUpon the trampled rights of man\\nAnd here a moral era woke\\nThe brightest since the world began.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "44 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nThe selecftion of Mark Newbie s house in which to hold the\\nfirst meetings of Friends, shows him to have been a leading\\nman in the church, and one who had much influence in matters\\necclesiastical. In the political affairs of the colony he took a\\nprominent part, and filled several positions of trust and respon-\\nsibility. At the May term, in 1682, of the Legislature, he\\nappeared as a member, and was sele6led by the Governor as\\none of his council. He was made one of the commissioners\\nfor the dividing of land, and one of the committee of ways\\nand means to raise money for the use of the government, at the\\nsame time. The amount of money assessed upon the third\\ntenth for that year, which consisted of what is now Gloucester,\\nAtlantic and Camden counties, was forty shilU?igs, a sum of\\nmoney that contrasts strangely enough with the large amounts\\npaid for taxes by the people in the same territory at the present\\ntime.\\nAt the September session of the same year, he again appeared\\nand sat as one of the Governor s council, and participated in\\nthe making of many important laws, and was again appointed\\none of the commissioners to divide land.\\nIn this year, the question whether the Proprietors had the\\nright of government seems to have been mooted a question of\\nserious import to the purchasers of the soil, and one which they\\nconsidered as involving their success as a colony, and materially\\naffecting their privileges in religious toleration.^ It assumed\\nsuch a shape that a committee was appointed to draft a number\\nof queries touching the question, to be submitted to the home\\ngovernment, and to Edward Byllynge, in order to know whether\\nany difficulty in this regard really existed. Mark Newbie was\\none of the persons selected to discharge this important duty,\\nbut he died many years before the question was settled.\\nIn the proceedings of the May term, 1683, the minutes say\\nthat Thomas Olive was appointed as one of the Governor s\\nCouncil, in place of Mark Newbie, Dead, thus showing that\\nhe deceased between the two terms of the Legislature and this\\ncorresponds with many of the records relating to his real estate.\\n11 Learning Spicer s Laws.\\n12 Learning Spicer s Laws.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "MARK NEWBIE.\\n45\\nHe died intestate, but no steps were taken to settle his estate\\nuntil the 4th of the 7th month, 1684, when administration was\\ngranted to his widow, who proceeded with the appraisement,\\nwhich amounted to one hundred and eighty pounds together\\nwith a large real estate.\\nSo far as can be discovered, his family consisted of two sons\\nand two daughters, all of whom were born before the parents\\nsettlement here. They were Rachel, who married Isaac\\nDecou, in 1695 Stephen, who married Elizabeth Wood, in\\n1703; Edward, who married Hannah Chew, in 1706; and\\nElizabeth, who married John Hugg, in 1714.\\nHannah, the widow of Mark Newbie, married James Atkin-\\nson in 1685. After this marriage it is probable that meetings\\ncontinued to be held ,at the house in which Mark had deceased\\nas the records refer to several marriages that were consum-\\nmated there. It does not appear there were any children by\\nthis marriage.\\nStephen and Elizabeth Newbie had but two children,^ Mark\\nwho died single, in 1735, and Hannah, who married Joseph\\nThackara.^* Stephen deceased in 1706.\\nEdward and Hannah Newbie s children were Nathan,\\nGabriel, Rachel, and a child unborn at the time of Edward s\\ndeath in 1715. Nathan died single; Gabriel married and\\ndeceased, leaving one child, John.^\u00c2\u00b0\\nIt will, therefore, be seen that, after two generations, the\\nfamily name was confined to one person, perhaps the last in\\nthis region of country. Hereabout, the blood may be traced\\nthrough the Huggs and the Thackaras, although in some lines\\nwith trouble and doubt.\\nAmong the children of Joseph and Hannah Thackara were\\ntwo sons, Stephen and Benjamin. Stephen deceased in 1767,\\nhaving lived on part of the original estate. He had three\\nsons, Joseph, Thomas and James, and perhaps other children.\\n13 Gloucester files 1683.\\n14 Lib. Bi, 126.\\n15 Lib. Y, 78. Lib. No. i, 169.\\n16 Lib. No. 4, 129.\\n17 Lib. No. I, 169.\\n18 Lib. Y, 78.\\n19 Lib. No. 2, 104.\\n20 Lib. Y, 78.\\n21 Lib. No. II, 106.\\n22 Lib. No. 4, 129.\\n23 Lib. W, 22, O. S. G.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "46 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nBenjamin owned and lived on tliat part of the property lately\\nheld by Samuel C. Champion, and there he died in 1785.\\nHis wife Mary and twelve children survived him. They were\\nIsaac, Abigail, Ann Hannah, who married Joseph Jones\\nMary, who married Joseph Elfreth Mark Margaret, who\\nmarried John Tuft; Benjamin, who married Hannah Horner;\\nWilliam; Rachel, who married Francis Bildei back Jacob;\\nand Elizabeth, who married Abraham Reeves.\\nPersons of this and other branches of the family settled in\\nSalem and Cumberland counties, but among them the name of\\nNewbie has never been known. The fatality that seems to have\\nattended the Huggs, has left but little opportunity to follow the\\nline in that direction, yet full access to the papers of the family\\nmight develop the whole conne6tion of the descent to the\\npresent day.\\nThe tracing of genealogies, or the knowledge of families, has\\nnot yet, in this country, become an attra6live feature in its\\nhistory and the meagre scraps that happen to be gathered\\nalready can only be hoped to make the beginning of a more\\ncareful and successful research. Labor under endless discour-\\nagements, is the only means of attaining the proper end in this\\nregard and, until better compensated, it will not enter a field\\nwhere profit is so seldom known to follow. As, among the\\ndescendants of Mark Newbie, there are many with whom the\\nname has become extin6l so, in others, it has spread so rapidly\\nthat quite as much trouble attends the arrangement of the one\\nas the other a difficulty seldom appreciated and never repaid.\\n24 Lib. No. 17, 461.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM BATES.\\nIN the year 1670, this person lived in the county of Wickloe,\\nIreland, where his occupation was that of a carpenter.^\\nThe county town, which has the same name, is situated on the\\ncoast of the Irish sea, about thirty miles south of the city of\\nDublin, at which place considerable trade is carried on with\\nother parts of Great Britain.\\nHere, also, all the courts are held for that distri6t, and here\\nmay be found the common jail for the security and punishment\\nof offenders within its limits.\\nIn this, and in several different previous years. Parliament\\npassed a6ts to prevent and suppress conventicles within the\\nkingdom. These a6ts were made especially oppressive toward\\nthe Quakers, and under them many outrages were committed\\nupon their persons and property.^ If the policy of the govern-\\nment, the administration of its laws and the condition of its\\npeople, be any evidence of the progress of civilization then\\nEngland stood in no enviable light, during the few years before\\nand after the date above named, in respe6t to religious toleration\\nwithin her borders.\\nLoathsome prisons crowded to suffocation, courts busy with\\nthe trials of unoffending citizens, and arrogant officials robbing\\nthe people of their hard earnings to sustain a voluptuous and\\nwicked clergy, are dark spots scattered through the history of\\na nation that boasts of the rights of her citizens.\\n1 Lib. Bi, 52.\\n2 Besse s Sufferings, Vols, i and 2.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "48 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nDuring these days a meeting of the religious Society of\\nFriends was held at the house of Thomas Trafford, in the\\ntown of Wickloe, at which place William Bates was a regular\\nattendant.^ Neither the small number that assembled there, nor\\nthe san6lity of a private residence, saved them from annoyance\\nby the soldiery, for they were soon dragged to the jail, and there\\nconfined for several weeks, away from their homes and families.\\nAt the next sessions they were indidled, and, upon refusing to\\nenter into bonds for their subsequent appearance at court, were\\nsent immediately to prison. No regard was paid to sex or\\ncondition in life while under confinement, and so obnoxious\\nwere the dampness and foul air, in which they were forced to\\nexist, that many died and the greater number suffered in health.\\nIn 1 67 1, a declaration suspending the penal laws in ecclesi-\\nastical matters was signed by Charles Second, at that time king.\\nThis was a great relief to this class of citizens but, on\\naccount of jealousy toAvards the Papists, the declaration was\\nwithdrawn the next year, and Friends again felt the displeasure\\nof those in authority.* Laboring under these disabilities, it\\nwas most natural that all such as sympathized with George Fox\\nand his doctrines, should seek for a new country where tolera-\\ntion, to a degree at least, existed, and where they could enjoy\\ntheir religious opinions in quiet.\\nDuring these persecutions the settlement of the land in\\nAmerica was much talked of, and some few colonies had been\\nsuccessful in getting a foot-hold, and had sent back to their\\nfriends in England flattering accounts of the country and\\nclimate. In the adjustment of the trouble between Edward\\nByllynge and John Fenwick, the attention of William Penn and\\nother prominent men in the Society of Friends, was attra6ted\\nto the territory, through which the river Delaware flowed, and\\nvery soon the initiatory steps were taken to secure a title for the\\nsame, and, which was most desirable, to have the right of\\ngovernment to follow in the same channel.\\nThe books of record of that date are full of the deeds made\\nfrom Byllynge and his trustees to persons wishing to get away\\n3 Besse s Sufferings, Vol. 2, 479.\\n4 Besse s Sufferings, Vol. i, 27.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM BATES. 49\\nfrom the abuses that surrounded them, and to remove to a wild\\nand unknown land, rather than to remain.\\nAmong these is a deed, dated April 12th, 1677, from William\\nPenn and others to Robert Turner, linen draper, of Dublin\\nRobert Zane, serge maker, of Dublin Thomas Thackara, stuff\\nweaver, of Dublin WilUain Bates, carpenter, of the county of\\nWickloc, and Joseph Slight, tanner, of Dublin, for one whole\\nshare of Propriety in West New Jersey.*\\nTouching William Bates, it is very safe to say that his\\nconclusions in regard to this step were reached in the common\\njail at Wickloe, where many dreary days were passed while his\\nfamily was suffering at home. However vague and indistindl\\nhis ideas of the rights of persons were, in the form of govern-\\nment under which he lived, or how much such rights could be\\nabused by authority of law, we cannot at this time judge but\\nwe may suppose that they had come to be practical questions\\nwith him, placed beyond discussion and without the chance of\\namendment. The decision to remove to New Jersey was made\\nunder much deliberation, and after considerable inquiry in\\nregard to locality, since it was important that the colonists\\nshould be near each other for fear of the Indians.\\nThis deed shows the place of residence and the occupation\\nof each grantee, and doubtless is a faithful record of these fa 5ls\\nat the time therein named, which, taken in connection with the\\nmemorial left by Thomas Sharp, shows conclusively who were\\nthe persons that originated the settlement at Newton. Mark\\nNewbie became a subsequent owner, while Thomas Sharp and\\nGeorge Goldsmith represented the interests of others, which six\\npersons were the founders of that settlement.\\nDuring the four years that elapsed between the date of the\\ndeed and their coming, Joseph Slight disposed of his interest,\\nand Robert Turner, having acquired a large amount of property\\nin Pennsylvania, turned his attention to that in preference to\\nhis West Jersey estate, and did not become a diredt partner in\\nthis enterprise.\\nIt is readily seen that Robert Turner was the merchant\\nthrough whom Robert Zane and Thomas Thackara disposed of\\n5 Lib. Bi, 52.\\n4", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "50 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ntheir manufa6lured goods, and that their business relations\\nbrought them frequently together, whereby the partnership\\nhere presented was created.\\nAlthough the county of Wickloe is some distance south of\\nthe city of Dublin, yet William Bates had business or religious\\nintercourse with Robert Turner, and was influenced by him\\nto be a participant in this novel and important movement.\\nOf all the callings, his was likely to be the most useful, and\\nhis services to be the most in demand, when once they had\\narrived at their place of destination, for the first thing to be\\ndone was to provide some kind of shelter ibr their families.\\nThis was in the shape of rude huts made of poles, placed\\npartly in the hill side, and covered with the skins of animals\\nor the bark of trees. Without any other floor than the earth,\\nwith no windows, a stick chimney and a single apartment, it\\nneeds no sketch of fancy to see how inconvenient and uncom-\\nfortable the habitations of these first comers must have been.\\nOn March loth, 1681, being the time of the survey made to\\nthe other partners on the north side of the middle branch of\\nNewton creek, for some unexplained reason, William Bates\\ntook his two hundred and fifty acres on the south side of the\\nsame stream, opposite the upper end of that tra6l, and there\\nhe built his house. Two years after he made another survey\\nadjoining the first and of like number of acres, and made a\\nsubsequent purchase of Robert Turner of other adjoining land,\\nwhich extended his estate from the Graysbury line to William\\nAlbertson s boundary. Much of this is included in the farms\\nnow owned by Jeremiah Ridgway and the heirs of Joseph\\nEldridge, deceased. His habitation stood by the creek, just\\nbelow the mouth of Bates s run, and near the house on the\\nRidgway farm.\\nIn common, however, with the other owners, he had an\\ninterest in the meadow land at the mouth of Kaighn s run,\\nwhence he obtained the hay for his cattle for the winter\\nmonths, a necessary provision, as no other means of sustaining\\ntheir stock was obtainable at that early day.^ As the master\\n6 Revel s Book, 25.\\n7 Kevel s Book, 53.\\n8 Revel s Book, 25.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM BATES. 51\\nmechanic, there can be no doubt, who planned and built the\\nfirst meeting house at Newton, in 16S4; who construfted the\\nrude seats and erected the plain unpretending galleries, in\\nwhich sat the forefathers of this people, who were faithfully\\ncarrying out the belief and the form of religious worship as\\nbrought with them across the sea.\\nTo the descendants of William Bates this is a reminiscence\\nworthy to be remembered, and to be told to their children,\\nbecoming more interesting as the lapse of time increases.\\nIn 16S3, he was one of the representatives from the Irish\\ntenth in the Legislature of the Province, and was the same\\nyear appointed constable. The next year, he was again returned\\nas a member, and was appointed one of the commissioners\\nfor laying out highways, which last office he held for two years.\\nThat he was a useful man, both as a mechanic and a private\\ncitizen, is evident, and in each position he commanded the\\nrespeft of those around him. He died in the year 1700,\\nleaving a will, now on the files of the office of the Secretary\\nof State, but never placed on record. His children were born\\nin Ireland, some of whom were married in a few years after\\ntheir arrival here. They were Jeremiah, who married Mary,\\na daughter of Samuel Spicer; Joseph, who married Mercy\\nClement in 1701; Abigail, who married Joshua Frame in\\n1687; William, who married an Indian girl; and Sarah, who\\nmarried Simeon Ellis in 1692.\\nJeremiah settled on part of the original tra6t, as conveyed\\nto him in 1693 by his father, who occupied it as a farmer.\\nAlthough his father left a will, yet the records say that he died\\nintestate as to another part of his real estate, of which Jere-\\nmiah, as the oldest son, became seized. This is possible, but a\\ncloser inquiry may explain the difficulty, if necessary, and\\nshow that the will covered all the real estate. This last named\\ntra6l, however, was given by Jeremiah Bates in his will to his\\nson William, who re-surveyed the same in 1731 and upon this\\nland the said William lived at that date.\\n9 Learning Spicer s Laws. ii Lib. G3, 348.\\n10 Lib. 03,257, and Newton Meeting Records, 12 Lib. No. 6,331. Lib. Mi, 165, O. S. G.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "52 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nJeremiah and Mary Bates were the parents of four daughters\\nand one son: Martha, who married James Wall; Abigail, who\\nmarried Thomas Thackara; Mary; Sarah, and William.\\nWilliam Bates married and had three children two of whom\\ndied in infancy leaving but a daughter, Mary, wJio married\\nWilliam Harry, of Philadelphia.^^ Jonathan Zane was her\\nguardian in 1750, her father having died two years before that\\ntime.^\\nIn 1759, Mary and her husband conveyed to Daniel Cooper\\na part of the land of which her father died seized, intestate;\\nin this deed her connection with the first William Bates is\\napparent. In this branch of the family, the name was lost in\\nthe third remove from the first comer.\\nJeremiah Bates deceased in 1723, leaving a will, in which\\ndocument he named his progeny, and disposed of his landed\\nand personal property. He sold part of his land in 1700 to\\nElias Toy, a Swede, who probably settled on the same.^\u00c2\u00ae\\nIn the year 1706, Joseph Bates settled on a tra(?t of land\\nwhich he purchased of Joseph Thorne. This lay on the south\\nside of the south branch of Cooper s creek, in Gloucester\\ntownship, near where the White Horse tavern now stands.\\nPart of this is now owned by Jacob Lippincott. His home\\nwas, in all probability, a cave in the hill fronting the creek,\\nwhere his children were born and his family reared. At that\\ntime, he was beyond the line of settlements that were extending\\nfrom the river towards the east and south, but was not far from\\nthe trail that went on the south side of the creek past where\\nLong-a-coming (or Berlin) now stands, towards the sea coast.\\nHis wife was a daughter of James and Jane Clement, who had\\ncome from England and settled on Long Island. She was the\\nfirst of the name within the bounds of Gloucester county; at\\nthe time of her marriage she lived with the family of John\\nHinchman, in Newton township, with whom she doubtless had\\ncome from Long Island. This marriage took place according\\nto the order of Friends, at John Hinchman s house, as was\\n13 Gloucester Files of Wills. 17 Gloucester Files of Wills.\\n14 Lib. S, 275. 18 Lib. G3, 321.\\n15 Lib. S, 274. 19 Lib. A, 84.\\ni6 Lib. No. 6, 375. Lib. No. 7, 97. 23 Lib. A, 47, of Divisions, Woodbury.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM BATES. 53\\nsometimes the pra6lice in those days, owing to the distance\\nfrom meeting houses and the bad condition of the roads.\\nThe difficulty in tracing this branch of the family is the same\\nthat often occurs in others; it arises from the continuance of\\none Christian name from father to son and grandson, compli-\\ncating the distin6lions beyond the possibility of solution.\\nThe records show that Joseph Bates died in 1731, and that\\nElizabeth Bates became his administratrix.\\nAmong the children was a daughter Abigail, who married\\nSamuel Lippincott, a son of Freedom and Elizabeth. They\\nresided in Pilesgrove, Salem county, N. J., with the following\\nchildren: Joseph, Samuel, Joshua, Mercy, Abigail and Eliza-\\nbeth. Many of the descendants of this branch of the family\\nstill reside in that se6lion of the State.\\nIn 1734, another Joseph Bates died, leaving a will; but\\nwhich of these was the subje6l of this sketch, it is difficult to\\ndetermine. The last named had a daughter, Abigail, who\\nmarried John Hillman, and other daughters.\\nHis sons were Benjamin, Thomas and Jonathan. Jonathan s\\nwife, Elizabeth, survived him, and died in 1765, leaving several\\nchildren. The estate passed out of the family in 1767, by\\ndeed to Jonathan Aborn, and, after several conveyances, became\\nthe property of John Cathcart in 1794, who built the present\\nbrick mansion standing on the premises. He had also a park\\nfor deer on part of his estate, for deer-hunt-ing was one of\\nthe manly pastimes, fashionable at that day. The adva.ice of\\nagriculture has done much to change the habits, amusements\\nand prejudices of our people, for, where once the hunter s horn\\nand the music of the hounds were heard at nearly all seasons of\\nthe year, now the generous soil may be seen yielding its fruits\\nto the husbandman. Where once were the well known haunts\\nof bears and burrows for foxes, are now spread out green\\npastures and growing crops, the assurance of reward to thrift\\nand industry.\\nAbigail Bates, who married Joshua Frame, removed to Penn-\\nsylvania with her husband, whose descendants at this day have\\n21 Lib. A, 47, of Divisions, Woodbury. 23 Lib. No. 3, 432.\\n22 Lib. No. 3, 140. 24 Lib. A, 47, of Divisions, Woo ibury.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "54 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nno knowledge of the pedigree of their maternal ancestor\\nneither is anything known of her in this region of country.\\nWilliam Bates settled on the east side of a tributary of the\\nsouth branch of Cooper s creek, known as Tyndall s run, about\\ntwo miles east of Haddonfield. His house was near the resi-\\ndence of Joseph Browning, and within the bounds of a\\nsmall survey which he made in 1687. In March of the same\\nyear, he purchased of Robert Turner an adjoining tra6l of land\\ncontaining two hundred and fifty acres, and increased his bound-\\naries by subsequent purchases. His place was near an Indian\\nsettlement, where this people raised their corn and pumpkins,\\nand made their homes through the winter, when not away upon\\ntheir hunting expeditions.\\nIt is possible that William Bates married an Indian girl, like\\nmany of the early settlers this would account for his making\\nhis home in one of the villages of the nation, and thus\\nsecuring the title of the land to himself.\\nIt is unfortunate that the records of the marriages of the\\nfirst comers to West New Jersey, with the native females have\\nbeen lost, in so many instances, and that so few are now\\nknown, and they only through a vague and uncertain tradition.\\nLike John Randolph of Roanoke, those who are sure of this\\nkind of connexion with the aborigines, boast of the purity\\nof their lineage, and are proud of this line of ancestry. In\\nvery many families, even at this late day, may be discovered\\nthe strain of Indian blood thus originated, unmistakably crop-\\nping out in feature or form, and showing the peculiarity so\\ndistin6lly as to place it beyond controversy.\\nAs in all newly settled countries, the scarcity of females\\namong the emigrants made it rather a necessity than a choice\\nto seek marriages among the natives. At the same time there\\nwere among these many comely and attra6live maidens, who,\\nbeing to the manor born, were much better suited to the\\nsituation than those unused to the hardships and trials of a\\nfrontier life. In these marriages the consent of the swarthy\\ngirl was not the only difficulty to be overcome, for she stood\\n25 Lib. Gi, 23.\\n26 Lib. G2, 131.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM BATES. 55\\nin all her native beauty, without a name known to the English\\nlanguage, and this defe6l had to be supplied before the cere-\\nmony could be performed in accordance with the law, then, as\\nnow, in existence.\\nOur ancestors being Friends, and using the language as\\nthey wore their clothing, pure and simple, would very naturally\\ncast aside all romantic or suggestive names, and attach to the\\nbride one after their own style, thus increasing the difficulty\\nof discovering her nativity.\\nThe enchantment lent by distance, has much to do with the\\nromance that has always surrounded these associations, and,\\nalthough the hand of the artist may favorably impress us with\\nthe beauty and grace of the female aborigines, yet an intro-\\ndu6lion into real life has invariably changed the notions of\\nsuch as have thus ventured.\\nSo far as good housewives were concerned, the little oppor-\\ntunity for display in this regard among the first settlers, placed\\nall upon a level, and, as the improvement in dwellings and the\\nsurrounding comforts increased, the chances were that the\\nIndian wife and mother kept pace therewith, and at last came\\nto be as cleanly and economical as the best.\\nIn this branch of the family somewhat more certainty can\\nbe reached, yet the knowledge of much that is desirable has\\nbeen lost.\\nWilliam Bates, the second, died intestate, and his estate\\ndescended to his son Joseph, who also dying intestate, the\\nsame estate, by the same law, became the property of his\\nson Thomas.\\nIt is a fair presumption that there were other children of\\nboth William and Joseph, but, at this late day, no means exist\\nwhereby they can be discovered, by reason of the law which\\nregulated descents of land and carried the entire real estate\\nto the oldest male heir.\\nThomas Bates deceased in 1783, having devised nearly all\\nthis estate to his son Jo.seph, who lived where his ancestor\\nmade his first settlement, near Tindall s run. At that time he\\nowned about four hundred acres of land in one tra6l, extending\\nfrom the farm now owned by Abel Hillman, on the west, to", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "56 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nPeterson s mill stream on the south, now divided into several\\nplantations.\\nIn the year 1786, Joseph Bates made a re-survey of these\\nlands, in which his title is fully set forth.\\nSarah Bates, who married Simeon Ellis, resided with him at\\nSpringvvell, which place was near where Ellisburg now stands.\\nShe survived her husband several years, and dealt somewhat in\\nreal estate after his decease. Her children were Simeon, who\\nmarried Thomas, who married Catharine Collins,\\nin 1722; Jacob, who married Cassandra Albertson, in 1750;\\nJonathan, who married Mary Hollingshead, in 1737; William,\\nwho married Sarah Collins Joseph, who married Mary\\nand Sarah, who married John Kay, in 1730.\\nIt will be seen that from Joseph and William, the sons of the\\nfirst emigrant of this name, must the family be traced, which,\\nin the lapse of one hundred and ninety years, has spread\\nthrough nearly every State of the Union.\\n27 Lib. U, 66, O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THOMAS THACKARA.\\nTHIS man was probably a native of Yorkshire, England,\\nwhere the family suffered much religious persecution, by\\nreason of their adherence to the opinions and pradlices of\\nGeorge Fox. In 1656, Thomas Thackara was taken from a\\nreligious meeting at Leeds, and confined for several weeks in\\nYork Castle. In the same year, Daniel and Christopher\\nThackara were sent to the Wakefield prison in Yorkshire,\\nand, in 1660, Thomas and Daniel were again confined in the\\nsame jail.* z\\\\t a later date, in 1683, Hannah Thackara with\\nseveral others was taken from the meeting at Leeds, and\\nconfined in the Moothall prison at that place, during cold\\nweather without fire, and there kept for nine weeks. From\\nthis kind of records it can be safely concluded that in and\\nabout Leeds in Yorkshire, the family of this name may claim\\ntheir nativity, and from the records thereabout may trace\\ntheir origin.\\nThe first information that can be discovered of the subjeft\\nof this sketch, is traced to Dublin, Ireland, where he was\\nengaged as a stuff weaver, in the year 1677, and became one\\nof the grantees of the deed made to Robert Turner, William\\nBates, and others, for real estate in West New Jersey. It\\nmay be too broad an assertion to say that he was the same\\nThomas Thackara who was imprisoned in York Castle, in 1656,\\nalthough the lapse of time between that occurrence and the\\n1 Besse s Sufferings, Vol. 2, i.\\n2 Lib. Bi, 52.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "5S FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ndate of the conveyance may be reconciled, supposing liim to be\\nbut a middle-aged man, when a resident of that city. This is a\\nquestion that can only be settled by access to private family\\ncorrespondence, very little of which has been preserved through\\nthe several generations that have lived since the coming of the\\nfirst adventurers being considered as worthless material by\\nmost of tidy housekeepers, and therefore committed to the\\nflames.\\nThe deed before named calls him a stuff weaver, one having\\nsomething to do with the manufafture of flax; large quantities\\nof which were cultivated in Ireland at that time, and made\\ninto the linen material so useful and so much admired, even\\nat the present day.\\nRobert Turner was tiie merchant who sold the manufa6lured\\narticle being a man of large estate, he was in intercourse with\\ntracers in other localities. This gave him the opportunit) of\\nknowing the inclinations and purposes of Friends in other\\nparts, and by this means, those in his neighborhood were also\\nadvised in regard to their removal to America. Of these\\nwere the persons joined with him in the deed aforesaid,\\nand thence their intentions may well be inferred. Thomas\\nThackara was a man of some estate; this is evidenced by the\\noriginal purchase, as well as by the many surveys made after\\nhis coming; he was also a married man with family before he\\nleft the shores of his native land to make his home in the\\nwilds of America. Whether he was a creditor of Edward\\nByllynge, or had made the purchase for the purpose before\\nnamed only, and, like many of the same religious persuasion,\\nhad determined that no change could be for the worse, does\\nnot appear.\\nEnough has been left on record, and enough therefrom\\nwritten, to show where and how originated the settlement of\\nNewton in 1681. Thomas Sharp, then a person just coming\\nto manhood, and filled with the spirit of adventure, gives\\nmuch by his memoranda, and the various writhigs left behind\\nhim. Imagination may readily carry us back to some humble\\ndwelling in the city of Dublin, in which these persons would\\nmeet from time to time, to consult as to the best means to", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THOMAS THACKARA. 59\\ncarry out their purpose, as well as to know how many were\\nbold enough to follow their example. Anthony Sharp and\\nRobert Turner, both Quakers, and both men of fortune, were\\nthe guides in this, and not only gave tiieir advice as to the\\ndetail of the movement, but also covered the doubtful points\\nby contributions of their means. Friends all, thus there was\\nbut a single channel wherein ran their opinions, as to the\\nnecessity of the thing, and, as the sequel proved, all other\\ndifficulties were forced o give way to the object before them.\\nThese meetings of business, like many of their religious sittings,\\nwere secret, and the conclusions arrived at were known only\\namong their own se6l. Robert Zane was the pioneer, and\\ncame with the Fenwick colonists to accomplish the necessary\\nexplorations, and to fix upon some pla^je where to make their\\nhomes. The difficulties existing between liyllynge and Fen-\\nwick, and the period occupied in their arrangement, gave\\nRobert Zane ample time to examine the country and write\\nhome to inform those of his partners who were to follow him,\\nof his opinions and success therein.\\nBy some agreement among the Proprietors, and for reasons\\nnot known, the third tenth was set apart for such of the\\nemigrants as came from Ireland, and within the limits of this\\ntenth it is apparent that the searchings for a site for a town\\nwere made. These limits were Penisaukin creek on the north,\\nand Timber creek on the south, extending back into the\\nwoods an indefinite distance and the point was not finally\\nsettled until 1765, when Samuel Clement first ran and fixed\\nthe head lines of the townships within the bounds of old\\nGloucester.\\nTo return with our sketch to Duljlin, where the receij^t of\\nletters from Robert Zane was looked for with much anxiety,\\nand where these were read before the little meeting of such\\nas were closing up their affairs to take a final leave of liome\\nand friends, it can be well understood what attention was given\\nto their import, their advice and their direction. What argu-\\nments arose out of their different construdtions, and how the\\nhopes and the fears of those pre.sent predominated as conclu-\\nsions were reached I How the sanguine temperaments were", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "6b FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nchecked by the more prudent and older heads, and how the\\nopinions and suggestions of some were modified and dire6led\\nby those of more experience, but of no less decision of char-\\nadler How wives, mothers and daughters attentively listened\\nto the expressions of opinion, made on such occasions, and now\\nand then participated, when their comforts were made part of\\nthe conversation How they encouraged the doubtful, and\\nrestrained the impulsive, smoothing over the rough points of\\nthe stronger sex, and healing the differences of opinion by soft\\nwords! How prolific a subjedl, and how beautiful a theme for\\nthe pen of the novelist, who desires to have his story based\\nupon fa(5l, and conform to the truths of history\\nIt was on the nineteenth day of September, 1681, from the\\nharbor belonging to the city of Dublin, in the kingdom of\\nIreland, that Thomas Thackara with his family set sail in the\\npink Ye Owners Adventure, with other persons of like\\nintent for the capes of the Delaware where they arrived\\non the eighteenth day of November following, and so up the\\nbay until they came to Elsinburg, and were landed with their\\ngoods and families at Salem, where they abode the winter.\\nTheir arrival was anticipated by Robert Zane, who had come\\nfour years in advance, and Avho in that time was familiar with\\nthe country and the difficulties that surrounded them. The\\ncondition of these was not so desolate as that of many others,\\nfor, upon their landing, they were welcomed by friends and\\nprovided with shelter at once. Although not at the end of\\ntheir journey, yet the exposure to an American winter was\\navoided by this arrangement, and opportunity given for the\\nmen to pass judgment upon the aftion of Robert Zane, and\\nto decide where to fix their permanent abode. The winter,\\nhowever, was mild, and their traveling about was done in a\\nboat which they purchased at Wickaco, of the Swansons, and\\nwith which the several creeks within the third tenth were\\nexplored before a conclusion was reached.\\nThis done, and they having submitted their title deeds to\\nthe commissioners at Burlington, Daniels Leeds, the surveyor-\\ngeneral, came in person to set apart their lands by metes\\n3 Lib. A, 98.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THOMAS THACKARA. 6i\\nand bounds, in accordance with the requirements as laid down\\nby the Proprietors. In all these operations Thomas Thackara\\ndoubtless took a leading part, and was familiar with every\\nstep made to secure a clear estate and to have the boundaries\\nwell defined. The survey bears date March tenth, i6Si, and\\nappears to have a discrepancy when compare\u00c2\u00abl with the time at\\nwhich they set sail from Dublin, (September nineteenth), in\\nthe same year, which, according to the present chronology,\\nwould make the taking up of the land some six months\\nbefore their departure from home.* This trouble is recon-\\nciled when it is understood that, under the old style, March\\nwas the last month in the year, and that the last day of the\\nyear was the twenty-fourth of that month, thus making the\\ntwenty-fifth of March under the old system correspond Avith\\nthe first day of January under the present.\\nThe first survey of i,6oo acres Mark Newbie, Thomas\\nThackara, Thomas Sharp, Robert Zane and George Golds-\\nmith held in common but it was soon found that this kind\\nof estate would lead to difficulty, and Thomas Thackara was\\nthe first to separate his interest by taking two hundred and\\nfifty acres as his share, and receiving a title therefor from the\\nother owners.^ In 1695, he purchased an adjoining tra6l of\\ntwo hundred acres of Isaac Hollingsham, and this purchase\\nextended his landed estate from Newton to Cooper s creek.\\nThese tracts lay between Robert Zane s share above, and Mark\\nNewbie s below, including the farm, now the property of John\\nCampbell, the old Newton grave yard and some other adjoining\\nlands. He erected his first house near where the present farm\\nbuildings of John Campbell stand, and there he continued\\nduring the remainder of his life. Excepting sixty acres that\\nhe gave to his son-in-law John Whitall, Thomas Thackara\\nretained the whole until his death; all then descended to his\\noldest son Benjamin.\\nBenjamin conveyed fifty acres to his brother-in-law, John\\nEastlack, and by his will gave the remainder to his son Joseph,\\nwho re-surveyed the same in 1760. Stephen, the son of Joseph,\\n4 Revel s Book, 25.\\n5 Revel s Book, 59.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "62 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ninherited this estate under the will of his father, and, by his own,\\ngave parts of it to his sons Joseph, James and Thomas. In\\nconnexion with this, Stephen held considerable land in Newton\\ntownship, coming to him through his mother but this, like\\nthe other property, passed out of the name many years since.\\nThe ele6lion of Thomas Thackara as a member of the first\\nLegislature that sat at Burlington to frame and adopt laws for\\nthe province of West New Jersey, shows him to have been a\\nleading man, and one on whose good judgment his neighbors\\nrelied. It was a responsible position for these new comers\\nfound themselves the inhabitants of a land without law, except\\nso far as generally promulgated through the original concessions\\nwhich did not enter into detail, or through the pra6tical appli-\\ncation of the principles therein embodied. This had to be\\ndone to put the government in operation and make it what was\\npromised by the owners of the soil. It is needless to write of\\ntheir success in this regard, for they gave to the world the\\nevidence of sound morality, unflinching justice and a faithful\\nregard for right, that has been the admiration of all lovers of\\nliberty from that time to the present.\\nTogether with Mark Newbie and William Cooper, he was\\nappointed one of the judges of the court for the third tenth\\nin the year 1682, and was continued in that place until 1685,\\ninclusive. The authority, in all probability, only extended to\\nthat of Orphans Court, Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas,\\nand was held for the judicial division as named in the law,\\nuntil the year 168^ when the third and the fourth tenth were\\nmade one bailiwick by the inhabitants, and thereafter so recog-\\nnized by the Legislature of the province. It does not appear\\nthat any records of their proceedings were kept if they were,\\nsome careless person has long since committed them to the\\nflames. How great the pity, that such valuable memoranda as\\nthese are not appreciated by every one into whose hands they\\nmay fall so that all like papers might be saved to coming\\ngenerations Where these courts were held what the business\\nwho the litigants, and whence the advocates tradition does not\\ngive any knowledge, and we are left to surmise and speculation\\n6 Learning Spicer s Laws.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THOMAS THACKARA. 6^,\\nupon a point of much interest in the early history of our\\nneighborhood. The records commence, however, in 1686,\\nand are carefully preserved in the clerk s office of Gloucester\\ncounty curious and instru6tive documents, to such as care\\nto be familiar with the doings of our ancestors.\\nThomas Thackara was also one of the land commissioners,\\nthe discharge of which duty was important and responsible\\nhe had to examine titles, dire6l the deputy surveyors in locating\\nland, and prevent the interference of adjoining surveys, which\\nduty required discretion, good judgment and firmness, but\\nwithal very often was liable to censure, and frequently to\\npersonal abuse.\\nPerhaps there was no one thing that proved the regard in\\nwhich this person was held, in the religious denomination of\\nwhich he was a member, and of the community at large, so much\\nas his selection to sign the address of the Newton meeting to\\nthe yearly meeting of London, protesting against the condu6l of\\nGeorge Keith, in his differences with the Society of Friends.\\nTo defend the opinions and pra6tices of the society against the\\nsubtle reasoning, and ingenious arguments of such a man,\\nrequired a thorough knowledge of the tenets upon which\\nit stood, and much talent, coupled with forbearance, to\\nsuccessfully guard them against overthrow. William Cooper\\nwas his associate in this, and the paper forwarded to the\\nFriends in London, proves them to have been equal to the\\noccasion.\\nThe first Friends meeting house built at Newton, stood\\nupon lands conveyed by him to the trustees of the society,\\nand doubtless without compensation. The original deed for\\nthis has been lost, nor is it of record, but enough remains\\nof memoranda and recitals, to settle any doubt in this matter.\\nLi the year 1702, administration was granted upon his estate,\\nwhich is evidence of the time of his decease.^ His first wife\\nprobably died after his settlement here, as in 1689 married\\nHepzibah Eastlack, a daughter of Francis, also a resident in\\nthese parts.\\n7 Gloucestei Files.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "64 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nHis children were Benjamin, who married Mary Cooper, a\\ndaughter of William, and a grand-daughter of the first William;\\nThomas, who married Ann Parker, and Abigail Bates Hannah,\\nwho married John Whitall Sarah, who married John Eastlack,\\nand Hepzibah (perhaps a child by the last wife), who died single.\\nBenjamin married Mary Cooper in 1707, according to the order\\nof Friends, and, the record says, at John Kay s house/ This\\nmay appear strange, but there is reliable information for asserting\\nthat a meeting was held there for several years, for the con-\\nvenience of Friends at Evesham and Penisaukin, alternating\\neach first-day with one held at Penisaukin for the same purpose.\\nJohn Kay s house stood on a farm now owned by the heirs of\\nJoseph W. Cooper, deceased, near Ellisburg; but no vestige\\nof it can be discovered at this day. He, Benjamin, settled\\non the property where his father deceased, and, being the\\noldest male heir, inherited the whole estate but, with that\\nfairness so commendable in all like cases, Jie gave his brother\\nand sisters a proportionate share of their parents property.\\nHe died in 1727, leaving his widow and three children,\\nJoseph, Hannah and Mary.\\nJoseph married Hannah Albertson in 1731, and Hannah\\nNewbie, a daughter of Stejjhen and grand-daughter of Mark\\nNewbie, the first of the name hereabouts.^ Hannah married\\nPeter Champion in 1740; Mary married Thomas Wright. It\\nis through this branch of the family that the present genera-\\ntion must trace their conne6lion with Thomas Thackara, the\\nemigrant from Ireland.\\nIn 1699, at the Newton Meeting, Thomas Thackara and\\nAnn Parker were united in the bonds of matrimony. She\\nwas a resident of Philadelphia, where she probably lived with\\nher parents. Jeremiah Bates, in his will, dated 1728, mentions\\nthat his daughter Abigail is the wife of Thomas Thackara.\\nBy these records, the matrimonial affairs of this son can be\\nunderstood with some certainty, and they show in what line\\nthe descendants may look for their pedigree. Thomas Thackara,\\nperhaps a son of the second Thomas, who married Elizabeth\\n8 Lib. No. I, 479. 10 Lib. No. 4, 129,\\n9 Lib. No. 2, 462. II Gloucester Files.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THOMAS THACKARA. 65\\nremoved within the limits of the Salem Meeting in\\nthe year 1759, where that branch of the family still remain.\\nTheir children were Hannah, born 1754; William, born 1756,\\nand dying in 1776; Stephen, born 1760; Jacob, born 1763;\\nJoseph, born 1765 and Thomas, born 1771.\\nJohn Whitall and Hannah Thackara were married according\\nto Friends rules, in 1696, at the house of the bride s father\\nin Newton township and, on the first day of March in the\\nsame year, (perhaps at the time of the marriage,) Thomas\\nThackara presented his son-in-law a deed for sixty acres of\\nland, the same being part of his homestead estate. This piece\\nof property lay in the northern part of his survey, and is now\\nincluded in the estate of the late John C. Decosta, deceased.\\nOn this John Whitall made his home, and there he resided until\\nhis death in 1718. The immediate position of the house can-\\nnot at this time be discovered, but, probably, it stood near the\\nresidence of the present owner, -an unpretending, comfortless\\nhabitation. The issue of this marriage, so far as can be\\ndiscovered, was three children Mary, who married John\\nWood Hannah, who married Henry Wood and Job, who\\nmarried Jane Siddon. Job settled at Red Bank, in Gloucester\\ncounty, and from him the name may be traced, which at this\\ntime is spread through every State in the Union. He deceased\\nin 1722. John Eastlack, who married Sarah, another daughter\\nof Thomas Thackara, also settled on part of his father-in-law s\\nestate. This was fifty acres, conveyed to his wife by her\\nbrother Benjamin, in 1706; it lay adjoining the land owned\\nby John Whitall, but no vestige of the house can be traced\\nat this time.^* Thomas Sharp, on his map made in 1700,\\nmarks one hundred acres as owned by John Eastlack, which\\nhad been previously held by George Goldsmith. Part of\\nthis tra6l is now owned by John Stoy, whereon he now\\nresides. It was taken from the northwest portion of Richard\\nMathews survey, which afterwards became the estate of John\\nHaddon. Whether this was the land mentioned by Thomas\\nSharp, as given to George Goldsmith, to settle the difficulty\\n12 Lib. No. 2, 257.\\n13 Lib. No. 2, 202.\\n14 Lib. A, 107.", "height": "3370", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "66 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nabout his locating Thomas Starkey s rights, does not appear;\\nyet its situation on Newton creek, about as high as the tide\\nflows, would seem to answer the calls of the deed, and fix\\nthe place of his first settlement.\\nBy an agreement with the widow of John Whitall, John\\nEastlack became the owner of this property in 1724, and so\\ncontinued until his death in 1736, at which time his son John\\nwas seized of both tra6ts by the will of his father; and upon\\nthis estate he lived and died.^^\\nIn 1760, he made a re-survey of the said two tratfts of land,\\nthereby settling the boundaries and showing the antecedent\\ntitle. This may, at some future day, prove to be a very\\nimportant record, now spread out in the books of the Surveyor-\\nGeneral s office of West New Jersey. In 1718, he purchased\\na farm of John Wright, in Newton township, lying on the\\nsouth side of the main branch of Newton creek, which estate\\nremained in the family for many years after. John and Sarah\\nEastlack had six children Sarah, who married James Mickle,\\nin 1732; Samuel, who married Ann Breach, in 1733; John,\\nwho married Mary Bolton, in 1737, and Patience Hugg, in\\n1 741; Daniel, who married Mary Cheesman, in 1740; and\\nEsther, Elizabeth and Hannah.\\nIn the immediate neighborhood in which Thomas Thackara\\nmade his first home, none of the name have lived for many\\nyears and the land which he sele6led as his choice of the\\nestate, having been held in common, passed into the ownership\\nof strangers before the third generation from himself had died.\\nAs in some other families, the female branches have pre-\\ndominated, and the day may soon come when the blood must\\nbe traced among other names.\\n15 Lib. No. 5, 131.\\n16 Lib. A, 100, III.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "GEORGE GOLDSMITH.\\nTHOMAS SHARP, in his memorial of the settlement of\\nNewton, says that George Goldsmith was one of the\\npersons who came with him in the pink called Ye owners\\nadventure, of which Thomas Lurtin, of London, was com-\\nmander. In another paper, also left by Friend Sharp, he says\\nGeorge Goldsmith is an old man, an expression rather\\nindefinite, but supposed to mean a middle-aged person without\\nfamily. It may also be inferred that he came without any\\nestate, since, in the location of land, he represented a tenth of\\none whole share owned by Thomas Starkey. Although he had\\nno written authority from Thomas Starkey, yet Thomas Sharp\\nhad knowledge of his desire that Goldsmith should make\\nsele6lions of land for him; and, upon these representations,\\nthe commissioners allowed a survey to be made, extending\\nfrom Newton creek to Cooper s creek, containing about five\\nhundred acres of land. Upon further investigation, it was\\ndiscovered that Thomas Starkey did not furnish the rights\\nnecessary to complete the title to said survey, and, as George\\nGoldsmith found himself in a strait, V he (Goldsmith) induced\\nRobert Turner, of Philadelphia, to return the location in his\\nown name, the latter allowing Goldsmith one hundred acres\\nof land, in view of his trouble in the premises.\\nThe one hundred acres which Robert Turner allowed to\\nGeorge Goldsmith, were conveyed by deed, dated the thirtieth\\nof the ninth month, 16S7, but in separate tracts, one of eighty\\nacres and one of twenty acres, lying some distance apart.\\nI tLib. G, 31.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "68 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nThe larger piece was part of the survey as made by Gold-\\nsmith it fronted on the main branch of Newton creek, and\\nadjoined the upper line of the first general survey of the\\nNewton peoples, as expressed in one of the old deeds. The\\nexadl position of this piece of land has been lost sight of\\nthrough the various alterations of boundaries, and the many\\nchanges of titles since that date.\\nThe smaller tra6l was situated near the forks of the main and\\nthe north branch of the last named stream, adjoining Thomas\\nSharp s and Stephen Newbie s lands.\\nGeorge Goldsmith made his improvements on the upper or\\nlarger piece of land, for he conveyed the twenty acres to\\nStephen Newbie the next day after he had procured his title.\\nOn the same day on which he sold the twenty acres to\\nStephen Newbie, (tenth month first, 1687,) he purchased a\\nlike quantity of land of Francis Collins, adjoining the upper\\nlot thus making his plantation of one hundred acres at one\\nplace on the creek, about as high as the tide flows.\\nThe map showing Robert Turner s lands in Newton town-\\nship marks the residence of George Goldsmith as on the twenty\\nacres in the forks of the creek but this is probably an error,\\nsince the records prove the conveyance of that piece of land\\nas before stated.\\nThis is further proved by the writings of Thomas Sharp in\\nthis relation, in which mention is made of the agreements\\nbetween Turner and Goldsmith to have his land, where he had\\nmade his improvements, referring no doubt to the five hundred\\nacres location.\\nBut little importance, however, attaches to this, except to\\nsho%v where the first comers ere6led their humble habitations\\nand removed the forest to plant their crops. The instances are\\nbut few where such first settlements are known to have been\\nmade, as later generations found more eligible spots, and had little\\nregard for the places where the old homes stood. Even with\\nthe original proprietor, such were only temporary buildings, and\\nwere changed as soon as time and circumstances would permit,\\nforgotten before the second generation had passed away.\\n2 Lib. G, 25.\\n3 Lib. G, 28.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "GEORGE GOLDSMITH. 69\\nRobert Turner kept the remainder of the five hundred\\nacres location until 1693, when he sold it to Isaac Hollings-\\nham, whose son Isaac, a few years after, conveyed the same\\ntp Sarah Ellis, widow of Simeon and in her family, parts\\nthereof remained for many years.\\nJoseph Ellis, a son of Sarah, settled on these lands, which\\nin progress of time passed to the female branches of his family,\\nand, consequently, out of the name.\\nAlthough the name of George Goldsmith enters much into the\\ndocuments and papers of the times in which he lived, yet of\\nhimself or family, if any he had, but little can be discovered.\\nHe was a member of Friends meeting, but the only notice\\nof his participation in religious matters is the minute of the\\nSalem Meeting in 1681, when Richard Robinson and George\\nGoldsmith were appointed a committee to speak to Thomas\\nSmith about his disorderly walking, c.\\nThis was during the first winter after his arrival from Ireland\\nand before the settlement at Newton, showing that, although a\\nstranger among the Salem people, yet he was soon called upon\\nto discharge a delicate and important religious duty. If the\\nfirst books of records of the Newton Meeting had been preserved,\\nperchance his name would have occured therein, and have\\nshown something of his standing among his neighbors and the\\ninterest he took in the advancement of the church in America.\\nHe appears to have been something of a land jobber, for, in\\n1693, he sold rights to William Albertson.*\\nIn 1694, he conveyed to Nicholas Smith twenty-four acres\\nof land in Newton township, situated on the north branch of\\nthe creek of that name, and, in the next year, conveyed one\\nhundred acres near the last named tra6l to John Iverson, who,\\nin 1697, sold said one hundred acres to Margaret Ivins.^\\nHe appears to have kept clear of the political troubles that\\nsurrounded him, and avoided all the religious controversies\\nthen being carried on in the colonies. His name is not men-\\ntioned among the appointments of colony, county, or township\\nofficers, nor in any of the paper warfare so diligently waged\\namong the reliarious zealots of the times.\\n4 Lib. G3, 199.\\n5 Lib. G3, 41, 242.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "70 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nThe records of the Friends meeting of Philadelphia in the\\nyear 1696, show that George Goldsmith and Ellen Harrison\\nwere married according to the good order of that Society,\\nafter the several passings then customary on such occa-\\nsions. As all means of identity (except the name) have passed\\naway, some doutt exists as to whether the two names mean\\nthe same person; or whether the George Goldsmith, of Newton,\\nin the colony of West New Jersey, is the same George Gold-\\nsmith that married Ellen Harrison in Philadelphia in 1696.\\nSuch marriages frequently occurred, and often mystify the\\ngenealogy of families, sometimes to the entire defeat of the\\nsearcher.\\nIt has happened that persons were supposed to have died\\nsingle, and the family tree has so been made up, when the\\ntruth is, that such had gone from their particular meeting and\\ncontracted matrimony in other places.\\nIf, as Thomas Sharp says, George Goldsmith was an old\\nman in 1681, the fifteen intervening years could not have\\nadded anything to his youth, or his inclinations toward matri-\\nmony; and the fair presumption is that the subje6l of this\\nsketch was not the person named in the records of the Phila-\\ndelphia Friends Meeting, in connection with the aforesaid\\nmarriage.\\nThe little that is known of him in after years, leads to the\\ninference that he removed from this region of country, dis-\\nposed of his real estate, and left none of his blood or name\\nbehind him. In Pennsylvania, and in other parts of New\\nJersey, the name sometimes occurs but, in Old Gloucester,\\nsince the beginning of the eighteenth century, and, in fa6l,\\nsince the departure of this man, but few of like surname have\\nresided.\\nThis, however, is speculation, and not intended to lead\\nany one astray, for his descendants may be traced through\\nthe female branches of his own blood, as definitely and as\\ncorreftly as in any other manner, if such theory be a proper\\none, and the starting point be beyond a doubt.\\nSuch difficulties in genealogy add much to the interest of\\nthe search, provided always that success attends the labor, and\\na knotty, troublesome question is solved.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "FRANCIS COLLINS.\\nFRANCIS COLLINS was a son of Edward and Mary\\nCollins of Oxfordshire, England he was born January\\n6, 1635. His father was the owner gf considerable landed\\nand personal property in that county, which, after his decease,\\npassed to the control of his widow. Francis was apprenticed\\nto a bricklayer, and subsequently removed to London, where\\nhe was convinced of the corre6lness of the religious principles\\nof George Fox, and at once became one of his followers. In\\n1663, he was married to Sarah Mayham, at the Bull and\\nMouth Meeting of Friends, and settled at Ratliff, in the parish\\nof Stepney, county of Middlesex, which parish was, at that\\ntime, within the built up portion of the city of London. In\\nan account book of his, still in existence, he made the following\\nentry: Francis Collins, his book, this 25th day of the first\\nmonth, 1675, now living at Ratliff Cross, next door to the\\nShip Tavern; fixing his place of residence at that time\\nbeyond a question.\\nHis adherence to the Quakers was obnoxious to his family,\\nas is shown by the will of his mother and also by that of his\\nsister Elizabeth.\\nIn the book before named are many curious things, written\\nin a style hard to decipher at this late day. Among these\\nare the names and dates of the births of his children by the\\nfirst marriage the names of many persons with whom he\\nhad business relations; also the account of moneys paid to\\nhim for rebuilding the Friends meeting house at Stepney", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "72 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nthat had been destroyed by a mob a few years previous to\\nthat time. This book also shows that he was a bricklayer\\nand builder, and kept a store, evidently seeking for gain in\\nvarious ways, yet adhering stri6lly to his religious opinions\\nand example.\\nAfter rebuilding the meeting house in 1675, no other dis-\\nturbance appears of record in that se6tion, much to the credit\\nof the authorities and much to the peace of Friends. The\\nparish of Stepney, like many other ancient places in and around\\nLondon, has its own legends, told to this day among the\\nsuperstitious, as no less wonderful than true. This parish being\\nby the side of the river Thames and a resort for seafaring\\nmen, a tradition still exists among the English sailors, that\\nall who are born upon the ocean belong to Stepney parish,\\nand must be relieved in case of distress by the authorities\\nthereof.\\nFrancis Collins was among those who were imprisoned and\\nfined for their adherence to their religious principles and\\nthis doubtless had much to do with his coming to America,\\nwhere his opinions could be enjoyed in peace.\\nFor the first two years after his arrival, his movements are\\nsomewhat uncertain he was employed, perhaps, in searching\\nto and fro through the primitive forests for a suitable location\\nfor himself and family.\\nIn 1682, he ere6led the first Friends meeting house in\\nBurlington, and, in the next year, he received two hundred\\npounds, and one thousand acres of land from the Legislature\\nfor building a market house and court room at the same place.\\nThere may be another reason for his coming to New Jersey,\\ndisclosed in a deed from the trustees of Edward Byllynge, made\\nin 1677, to Francis Collins, of Ratliff, of the parish of Stepney,\\nin the county of Middlesex, bricklayer, Richard Mew, of\\nRatliff, aforesaid, merchant, and John Bull, of London,\\nmerchant,^ for certain shares or parts of shares of propriety.\\nThe deed says that Edward Byllynge was indebted to Francis\\nCollins in the sum of two hundred pounds, to Richard Mew\\none hundred pounds, and to John Bull fifty pounds to\\nI Lib. B2, 681.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "FRANCIS COLLINS. 73\\ndischarge which this conveyance of real estate in New Jersey\\nwas made.\\nThe first taking up of any land by him was on the 23d day of\\n06lober, 1682, when he located five hundred acres in Newton\\ntownship, bounded on the west side by the King s road; upon\\nwhich land part of the village of Haddonfield now stands.\\nTwo days after, he made another and adjoining survey of\\nfour hundred and fifty acres, lying on the southwest side of\\nthe first and extending to the south branch of Newton creek.\\nPerhaps no better sele6lion for soil and situation could have\\nbeen made, showing that he a6led deliberately and understand-\\ningly in this the first step towards a settlement in a new and\\nunknown country.\\nTo secure a landing, he made a survey of one hundred\\nand seventeen acres, bounded on the south side by Cooper s\\ncreek most of which is now owned by John E. Hopkins and\\nJoseph C. Stoy.* Francis Collins sold this survey to Richard\\nGray, whose son John conveyed the same to Ebenezer Hopkins\\nin 1746.\\nFrancis Collins built his house on the hill south of the\\nvillage, where formerly resided John Gill, perhaps where he\\nfound a few acres cleared of the timber, and ready for him\\nto cultivate his summer crop.\\nHe styled his new place Mountwell, that being according\\nto the English custom of having some particular name for each\\nperson s estate; which name often follows through the various\\nconveyances from one generation to another for many years.\\nThe frequent changes in the ownership of land in New Jersey\\nmay be the cause of the disappearance of these names, yet\\nthe examination of old deeds and dilapidated records often\\ndiscovers curious things in this regard. The Mountwell estate,\\nat this day, is divided among many owners, and, if each were\\ntenacious of the old title, much confusion would ensue.\\nBeing here some years before Thomas Sharp and his com-\\npanions, he, in conne6lion with others, did something by way\\nof advice in their sele6lion of a place to settle down by;\\n2 Revel s Book, 39.\\n3 Lib. G2, 25.\\n4 Lib. GH, 360.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "74 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ngiving them his experience in the wild woods, and his inter-\\ncourse with the aborigines, a subje6l of much interest to these\\nnew comers.\\nHis residence was isolated, some five miles from the little\\nvillage at Newton, and without any intermediate settlements\\nfor, in 1700, Thomas Sharp places but five houses on his map\\nbetween Mountwell and Newton, thus showing how slowly the\\ncountry filled up in the intervening eighteen years.\\nThe Salem road marked out as passing near where the village\\nof Haddonfield now stands, could have been nothing more than\\na bridle path, and but seldom used except by the Indians.\\nHis dwelling, in all probability, was only a rude wigwam\\nsurrounded by many other like habitations, the homes of those\\nwho were becoming more and more familiar with the pale faced\\nintruders, in whom they could discover nothing but peaceful\\nintentions. Although of slow growth, the confidence once\\nestablished was never impaired by any a6l of emigrant, or of\\naborigines.\\nWith the political affairs of the colony Francis Collins had\\nmuch to do. In 1683, he was returned as a member of the\\nAssembly to represent the interests of the third tenth, and\\nat that session was appointed one of the commissioners for\\ndividing and regulating land. In the difficulty between the\\nproprietors and Edward Byllynge about the government having\\npassed with the fee to the soil, he was one of the committee\\nto adjust the matter among those interested.^ A long epistle\\nwas prepared, in which several queries were submitted to\\nsome Friends in London touching this important question\\nbut no conclusion was arrived at until the surrender in 1701,\\nwhen all the rights of the government were given to the Queen.\\nOn the eleventh day of the third month, 1683, Samuel\\nJennings was ele6led Governor, and named Francis Collins\\nas one of his council, showing that his Excellency, considered\\nhim worthy of that honorable and responsible position.\\nIn 1684, he was again eledled to represent the third tenth,\\nand, at that session, was made one of the judges of the several\\ncourts of that division of the territory of West Jersey, it being\\n5 Learning Spicer s Laws.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "FRANCIS COLLINS. 75\\nbefore the bounds of Gloucester county were defined and\\nsettled. In 1685, ^e was appointed to the duty of laying out\\nhighways, a task which seemed to have been easily discharged,\\nsince the Indian trails were generally adopted for roads, and\\nso remained for many years after that time.\\nMay 28th, 1686, the Proprietors, Freeholders and inhabi-\\ntants of the third and the fourth tenth, agreed to call that ter-\\nritory the county of Gloucester, and they established all the\\npolitical and judicial machinery necessary to set the bailiwick\\nin motion. In September following, the first court was held\\nat Arwamus, alias Gloucester, at which Francis Collins a6led\\nas one of the judges. In this position he continued for\\nseveral years, discharging his various duties acceptably to\\nthe people. Some mystery surrounds this, as he had removed\\ninto Burlington county soon after his second marriage; yet\\nhis name appears as one of the judges of Gloucester county,\\nand as participating in all the business thereof. He was a\\npublic man in many other positions, as the ancient records\\nconclusively show.\\nIn religious matters he doubtless took much interest. He\\nwas one of the leading members of the Newton meeting, then\\nthe only place of public worship in this region of country.\\nAmong the few marriage certificates preserved from those early\\ntimes, is one stating that Thomas Shable, of Compton house,\\nin ye province of West Jersey, was married to Alice Stalles,\\nof Newton township, in ye same province, twelfth month,\\ntwenty-third, 1686, at Newton meeting. The autographs to\\nthis, prove that all the daughters of Francis Collins were\\npresent, thus displaying the curiosity of the sex, and leaving\\nevidence that this chara6leristic is not of modern growth.\\nTheir hand writing shows them to have been young ladies of\\nmore than ordinary education, which was procured while they\\nwere residents of the mother country, since no opportunities\\nfor learning existed here at that time. Glad of any excite-\\nment about their quiet forest home, it was most natural that\\nthey should take advantage of such an interesting event, to\\nbreak the monotony that surrounded them. Their dress, made\\nto conform to the plainness of the sedl, did not destroy their", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "^6 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\ngraceful movements, ,or the comeliness of their persons. The\\nonly means of travel, except by water, being on horseback,\\nthey doubtless from long pra6lice were admirable equestrians,\\nwhich exercise detracted neither from health nor from beauty.\\nThey drew around them many admirers, and, in the progress\\nof time, left the parental home, and became the heads of fam-\\nilies, and the maternal ancestors to long lines of descendants.\\nMary, the wife of Francis Collins, died soon after his\\nsettlement here, leaving him six children, Joseph, who mar-\\nried Catharine Huddleston of Mansfield, Burlington county,\\nN. J., in 1698;\u00c2\u00ae Sarah, who married Robert Dimsdale, M. D.,\\nof Chatteris in Cambridgeshire, England, in 1713; Rebecca,\\nwho married Thomas Briant, in 1698; Priscilla, who married\\nJohn Hugg; Margaret, who married Elias Hugg; and Eliza\\nbeth, who married Josiah Southwick.\\nDoctor Dimsdale was a prominent man in his day, and\\ndeserves notice here. He was confined in the prison in Hert-\\nfordshire, for pra6licing medicine without a bishop s license;\\nwhether he refused or negle6ted to obtain one, does not appear.\\nHe was a man of much talent in his profession, and was the\\ninventor of some popular nostrums that brought money to his\\npurse and notoriety to his name.\\nHe came with William Penn to Pennsylvania, but, in 1683,\\nsurveyed a large tra6l of land, south of Mount Holly, in\\nBurlington county, lying on both sides of a stream that falls\\ninto Rancocas creek at Lumberton, called Dimsdale s run.\u00c2\u00ae\\nHe was owner of one-third of a whole share of propriety,\\nbought of Nicholas Lucas, in 1682.** On this tra6l he ere6led\\na brick house, and, being a man of wealth, dispensed a liberal\\nhospitality to his friends and visitors. He was somewhat\\ninterested in the political questions of the day, and sat as\\none of the judges of the courts of the county, wherein he\\nlived. In preparing for his return to England in 1688, he\\nappointed John Tathen and others, his attorneys to manage\\nhis estate in America. In 1699, he revoked this, and made\\nFrancis Davenport, John Shinn and John Scott, his agents.\\n6 Friends Records. 9 Lib. GH, 533.\\n7 Burlington County files, 1720. 10 Learning Spicer s Laws.\\n8 Revel s Book, 33. Basse s Book, 231.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "FRANCIS COLLINS. 77\\nwith like powers. His property here increased in value,\\nbut he did not return to look after it. The records show\\nmany of the transa6lions concerning his land in New Jersey,\\nbut may never get beyond the iron doors of the building\\nwhere now preserved, except as some enthusiast be curious\\nenough to disentomb them. In 1688, he returned to England,\\nand settled at Theydon Garnon, near Epping, in Essex, where\\nhe died in 1718. By a previous marriage, he had two sons,\\nJohn and William, neither of whom came to this country.\\nTheir estate in West New Jersey passed, in 1746, to Richard\\nSmith (the younger), and Ebenezer Large.\\nHis widow, Sarah, by whom there was no issue, returned to\\nNew Jersey, and resided in Haddonfield during the remainder\\nof her life, taking an a6live part in the religious society of\\nwhich she was a member, and being frequently associated with\\nElizabeth Estaugh in her christian labors. In these persons,\\nthe intimacy of the families, as it existed in England, was\\nhere represented, keeping alive the kindly feeling there so\\nclosely united, by reason of the trials and persecutions passed\\nthrough in the early days of their religious profession. The\\nname of Elizabeth Estaugh as a witness to her will, proves that\\ntheir friendship, ended only by her death. She died in 1739,\\ndistributing her estate among the children of her brothers\\nand sisters, by her last will and testament. By a deed from\\nher father in 1714, she became the owner of a tra6l of four\\nhundred and sixty acres of land in Newton township, being\\nthe second survey made by him now owned in part by the\\nHinchmans, Samuel Nicholson, Jeremiah Willits and others\\nextending from near Haddonfield, southwesterly to the south\\nbranch of Newton creek. Upon the first day of April, 1725,\\nSarah Dimsdale sold the whole tra6t to Simeon Breach and Caleb\\nSprague, who held it in common until April 30th, 1726, at\\nwhich date they made division thereof. By this deed of par-\\ntition, Caleb Sprague took two hundred and fifteen acres in\\nthe northerly part of the tra6l, and Simeon Breach took twp\\nhundred and forty-five acres next to King s run. None of the\\n11 Lib. B2, 487, 546, 66g. 13 Lib. No. 4, 208.\\n12 Lib. GH, 542. 14 Lib, A, 11.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "78 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\npapers touching this transa6lion are of record a circumstance\\nwhich may lead to much trouble in days to come, should some\\nsharp-scented lawyer insist on knowing the titles to these\\nlands from the first taking up. Such difficulties must often\\noccur in relation to the land in West New Jersey, by reason\\nof the frequent negle6l of owners in this regard.\\nJoseph Collins, the only son of Francis by the first mar-\\nriage, settled on the homestead farm, and there remained\\nduring his -life. Upon the second marriage of his father,\\nthis estate was involved in a trust to Robert Dimsdale and\\nJohn Budd, for the u\u00c2\u00a7e of such children as might be the\\nissue of that conne6tion. This was done to guard against\\nthe operation of the law of descents in force at that day,\\nwhich gave the oldest male child all the real estate of which\\nthe parent died seized. This trust was defeated in 1716,^*\\nas the father and his second wife, in conne6lion with the\\ntrustees, conveyed Mountwell to Joseph in fee, and, in 171 7,\\nthe children by the second marriage released all their right\\nin the same to their elder brother.\\nJoseph died in 1741, leaving the following children,\\nBenjamin, who married Ann Hedger; Sarah, who married\\nSimeon Ellis Catharine, who married Thomas Ellis and\\nRebecca, who married Samuel Clement.\\nBenjamin was a carpenter, and lived in Haddonfield. Joseph\\nCollins and his wife Catharine executed to Benjamin a deed\\nfor a portion of the Mountwell tra6l fronting on the south\\nside of the main street of the village, retaining to themselves\\na life estate therein. Part of this was sold by the parties\\ninterested, in 1734. Benjamin died in 1756, leaving two\\nchildren, Joseph and Priscilla, both minors at that time.^\\nIt will be noticed that the name in this branch of the family\\nis only perpetuated by two persons, Benjamin, the son, and\\nJoseph, the grandson.\\nPreviously to his death in 1735, Joseph Collins and Catharine,\\nlys wife, conveyed to Samuel and Rebecca Clement a part\\n15 Lib. A, 76. 18 Lib. No. 4, 294.\\n16 Lib. B2, 572. 19 Lib. No. 8, 395.\\n17 Basse s Book, 138. 20 Lib. No, 8, 395, 544. Lib. No. 4, 294.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "FRANCIS COLLINS. 79\\nof the Mountwell traft, for considerations which showed them\\nto be in favor with the parents. These were the sums of one\\nhundred pounds, and sixteen pounds, annually, during the life\\nof the said Joseph and Catharine and the survivors of them.*^\\nRebecca, who married Thomas Briant, lived with her husband\\non his estate near Mount Holly, Burlington county, where he\\nowned a large tradl of land. In an affidavit made by this man\\nin 1733, in relation to the identity of George Elkinton, who\\ncame to New Jersey as a servant of Daniel Wills, he says that\\nhe was born at Shippen Warden, Northampshire, England, and\\nin that year was sixty-eight years of age, and married Rebecca\\nCollins. He was, in all probability, a servant of Daniel Wills,\\nas Daniel appears to have brought several persons with him in\\nthat capacity, the most of whom became valuable and influ-\\nential citizens.\\nIn the year 1704, Francis Collins conveyed to Thomas Briant\\nand his wife Rebecca, a tra6l of land containing four hundred\\nacres situate in the forks of Timber creek, a short distance\\nwest from Chew s Landing. Rebecca survived her husband\\nand died in 1743.\\nHer children were Elizabeth, wife of Daniel Haines Sarah,\\nwife of John Fennimore; Ann, John, Abraham and Benjamin.\\nThe descendents of this woman are, at this day, connedled\\nwith some of the most respe6lable families in West New Jersey,\\nwho, with a little care, may trace their lineage to one of the\\nfirst settlers of the colony.-\\nJohn Hugg, who married Priscilla, had considerable estate\\nand resided at Gloucester, (now Gloucester city,) to whom\\nthe family now scattered over the country may trace their\\nancestry. His death is thus noticed by Smith in his History\\nof New Jersey\\nIn this year (1730) died John Hugg, Esq., of Gloucester\\ncounty. He was about ten years one of the council. Riding\\nfrom home in the morning he was supposed to be taken ill\\nabout a mile from his house when getting off his horse he\\nspread his cloak on the ground to lie down on and having\\n21 Liber EF, 65.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "8o FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nput his gloves under the saddle and hung his whip through\\none of the rings, he turned the horse loose, which going home\\nput the people upon searching, who found him in this circum-\\nstance speechless they carried him to his house and he died\\nthat evening.\\nIn 1695, Francis Collins conveyed to John Hugg and his\\nwife Priscilla a tra6l of land lying south of Haddonfield, and\\nbounding on Little Timber creek, which they in a few years\\nafterward sold to John Hinchman.\\nIt is to be regretted that nothing conclusive can be discovered\\nin regard to the children of Priscilla, as she had deceased, and\\nJohn Hugg had married a second wife, by whom there was\\nissue also. His children were numerous, but he made no dis-\\ntin6lion as to their mother. In regard to the children of\\nMargaret, a like difficulty occurs, v/hich may never be solved,\\nexcept by some persevering genealogist interested in tracing his\\nown blood.\\nJosiah Southwick, who married Elizabeth, the youngest\\ndaughter by the first marriage, was a resident of Mount\\nHolly, and interested in an iron foundry established at that\\nplace. He was a man of considerable estate and left some\\ndescendants, who still reside in New Jersey.\\nThe children of Josiah and Elizabeth were Josiah, James,\\nRuth and Maham. This family name never became exten-\\nsive in New Jersey, and now is confined to but few persons.\\nThe marriage settlement, as before named, between Francis\\nCollins and Mary, his second wife, bears date December 21st,\\n1686,^* about which time this marriage took place at Burlington\\niheeting. She was the widow of John Goslin, a pra6lising\\nphysician and merchant of the town of Burlington, and the\\ndaughter of Thomas Budd, one of the largest proprietors and\\nearliest settlers in the colony, who became a prominent man\\nin the religious and political troubles of that day.\\nThe one son by her first marriage is the ancestor of the\\nname in New Jersey. Upon the consummation of this mar-\\n22 Liber A, 183.\\n23 Census of Northampton Township, 1709.\\n24 Liber B2, 572,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "FRANCIS COLLINS. 8i\\nriage, Francis Collins removed to Northampton township,\\nBurlington county, where he resided during the remainder\\nof his life. Perhaps no more reliable information of this\\nman and his family can be had than from a copy of the\\ncensus of Northampton township, made in 1709, and pre-\\nserved by the Historical Society of New Jersey. Among\\nthose there noticed are these\\nFrancis Collins, aged 74 Mary Collins, aged 44 John\\nCollins, aged 17; Francis Collins, aged 15 j Mary Collins,\\naged II Samuel Collins, aged 9.\\nJohn died in 1761. His wife was Elizabeth, a daughter\\nof Benjamin Moore of Burlington county. They had a numer-\\nous family, of whom, according to the best data to be obtained,\\nthe following are the names and marriages Sybilla, who mar-\\nried Samuel Gaskill Susanna, who married Daniel Garwood in\\n1737; John, who married Patience Francis, who mar-\\nried Ann Haines (widow), and Elizabeth (he dying, the\\nlatter afterwards married Ishmael Kent) Joseph, who married\\nDiana Pritchett; Charity, who married Charles Kain Sarah,\\nwho married Samuel Bates Lizzie, who married Samuel Hugg,\\nRobert Friend Price and Daniel Smith Mary, who married\\nJames Budd, and Priscilla, who married Joshua Evans (his second\\nwife). Joshua Evans was a preacher among Friends, and of\\nthat society there was no more exemplary or self-denying mem-\\nber. He adhered stri6lly to the spirit and letter of his belief,\\nyet was not intrusive or objectionable in so doing. He saw the\\nevils of intemperance, and, by his example and precept, induced\\nmany members of the same society to abandon the use of liquor,\\neven at that early day. He resided on part of the estate now\\nowned by Joseph O. Cuthbert, near the centre of old Newton\\ntownship. A history of his labors as a public Friend, published\\nseveral years after his decease, shows him to have been an\\nacceptable member of his church, faithful in his duties and a\\nconsistent Christian.\\nIt may be seen that the blood of John Collins is distributed\\namong so many collateral lines, that its tracing would be almost\\nimpossible.\\n25 Lib. No. lOj 346.\\n6", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "82 F/J?ST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nFrancis settled on land (which his father conveyed to him by\\ndeed of gift,) on the north side of Cooper s creek, lately Aaron\\nMoore s.^ The house, a brick one, was burned in 1866. It\\nhad some pretension to size and style in its day, but was both\\nsmall and unsightly, when compared with those of the present\\ntime. He sold part of this land to Jacob Horner in 1718.\\nHis children were Joshua, who married Job,\\nwho married Haines anci Elizabeth Ballinger John,\\nwho married Ruth Borradale Priscilla, who married James\\nMulock, M. D. Charles, who married Ruth Starkey, and\\nSarah, who married Ephraim Haines.\\nMary, the only daughter by the last wife, married Thomas\\nKendall, and settled in Burlington county.\\nSamuel, the youngest child of Francis and Mary Collins,\\nmarried Abigail Ward in 1721. Their children were Samuel,\\nwho married Rosanna Stokes Mercy, who married Samuel\\nThomas and Solomon Haines.\\nSamuel and Rosanna settled at Colestown, where his business\\nwas that of a blacksmith. He purchased land of Thomas Cole\\non the west side of Penisaukin creek, and built a house and\\nresided there during his life. This property was since owned\\nand occupied by George T. Risdon, now deceased.\\nTheir children were Abigail, who married John Lippincott\\nRachel, who married Joseph Champion, and Hannah, who mar-\\nried Enoch Allen.\\nThe children of Samuel and Mercy Thomas were Samuel,\\nwho married Hannah Bishop, and Hannah, who married\\nClyne. Mercy s child by the last marriage was Elizabeth, who\\nmarried Isaac Mullen.\\nMuch speculation has arisen in regard to the first Samuel\\nhere named, as to his being a son of Francis and Mary Collins.\\nThat they had a son of that name is beyond cavil, and his\\nmarriage appears in the proper order of time. In 1728, Mary\\nCollins, as executrix of Francis Collins, deceased, conveyed to\\nthis person a lot of land at Gloucester and a portion of a share\\nof propriety, part of which share of propriety Samuel conveyed\\nto his son Samuel, the blacksmith. This, in connedlion with\\n26 Lib. H, 52. Lib. BB, 104.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "FRANCIS COLLINS. 83\\nother like data, seems to identify this person with Francis and\\nMary Collins in a manner sufficiently conclusive as to such\\nrelationship.\\nJohn (the son of John) settled in Waterford township, near\\nGlendale. His residence, a large brick house, not now remain-\\ning, stood upon the farm now owned by John Stafford. He had\\nconsiderable real estate in that region, and deceased in 1768.\\nHis wife survived him, and his child Mary, who was then the\\nwife of Samuel Hugg of Gloucester.\\nHe gave his land to his daughter during life, and to her\\nchildren (if any she left), in fee after her death; and, in default\\nof such issue, the same was to pass absolutely to John and Job\\nCollins, sons of his brother Francis.\\nThe daughter Mary died without children her surviving,\\nand the land became the property of John and Job, who occu-\\npied it for several years but, at this present time, none of it\\nis held in the name or blood of the family.^**\\nIn 1720, and but a short time before his death, Francis\\nCollins executed his will (which remains on file in the proper\\noffice), expressing his desire in regard to the remainder of his\\nproperty. To his children, as they arrived at their majority, he\\nconveyed portions of his land, a circumstance which decreased\\nthe amount of property that passed by his will. He was probably\\na man of wealth and a(5live business capacity. Much known\\nthrough the colony, he commanded the respe6l of all. He\\nlived to see his descendants increase in a remarkable degree,\\nand occupy much space in the land of his adoption. He took\\npart in all the changes and troubles of the colony, from the\\nbeginning until the government was fixed upon a solid basis,\\nand the people contented and prosperous.\\nHe could not but notice its advancement in all material\\ninterests, beyond the expe6lations of the most hopeful, and,\\nin his declining years, observe the many changes that had\\nbeen wrought since he set his foot upon the soil. Where had\\nbeen but a few Indian huts, towns and cities were coming\\ninto existence; and, where miles of forests once extended, the\\n27 Lib. No. 13, 297.\\n28 Gloucester County Records, 1805.\\n29 Burlington County Files, 1720.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "84 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nplantations of the settlers now gave evidence of progress and\\nprosperity. The do6lrines of George Fox had spread abroad\\nin the land, and the fruit thereof was a religious, moral, and\\nlaw-abiding community.\\nIn his visits to his son Joseph at Mountwell, where he first\\nbroke the virgin soil to test its produdliveness, he could see\\nhow rapidly the country was filling up, and that already an\\nembryo village had made its appearance, on the King s road\\nnear his place.\\nA site for Elizabeth Estaugh s meeting house had been\\nseledled. John Gill had fenced the land near the same, and\\na few mechanics had settled hard by, each extending his busi-\\nness as the folk increased in the neighborhood.\\nAt Gloucester also, where his daughters then lived, a marked\\nchange was observable since his first passage up the river to\\nBurlington and Philadelphia was already a place of growing\\nimportance, the centre of trade for West New Jersey and\\nPennsylvania.\\nNearly two hundred years have passed away generation after\\ngeneration has followed since that time, each increasing in\\nnumbers, and each augmenting the breadth of cultivated acres,\\nuntil the primeval forests have disappeared before a teeming\\npopulation, and the aggressive spirit of the age.\\nThe little companies who settled at Salem, Philadelphia,\\nBurlington and Newton, formed but the centres from which\\nhave radiated those energies, that till the soil, fill the work-\\nshops and crowd the cities.\\nFrom these have gone out the multitudes that have made the\\nwaste places to bloom, and the generous land to yield its\\nincrease that have changed our rivers into great highways\\nof commerce, and forced the mountains to give up their\\ntreasure that have founded a government, which has become\\nthe pride of its citizens and the admiration of the world.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM COOPER.\\nWILLIAM COOPER and his wife Margaret, before their\\nemigration to New Jersey, lived at Coleshill, in the\\nparish of Amersham, Hertfordshire, England. This town lies\\nabout twenty-six miles northwest of the city of London, in\\nwhich he was born in 1632. After he attained his majority,\\nhis occupation was that of a blacksmith. They were Friends\\nand members of the Upperside Monthly Meeting, in whose\\nminutes the records of the births of their children may be\\nfound, which are as follows\\nWilliam was born ninth month, 26th, A. D. 1660;\\nHannah was born ninth month, 21st, A. D. 1662\\nJoseph was born seventh month, 22d, A. D. 1666;\\nJames was born third month, loth, A. D. 1670;\\nDaniel was born first month, 27th, A. D. 1673.\\nJames probably died young, as no mention of his name\\nappears in any papers relating to the family the others came\\nover with their parents, and afterwards were the ancestors of\\nthe family in these parts.\\nLike others of the same religious persuasion, William Cooper\\nsuffered, both in estate and person, from those who considered\\nthat they were doing God s service, in molesting such as chose\\nto differ from them in opinion and pra6lice, despoiling him\\nof his horses and cattle, and dragging him to prison from the\\nplace where he was attending religious service.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "86 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nSamuel Smith, in his history of New Jersey, does not fix\\nthe time of the arrival of this person with his family which\\nwas probably not for a year after the first emigrants had come\\nto Burlington. Neither is the name of the vessel given, the\\nplace of landing nor the names of those who came with him.\\nAmong persons tracing their family from the one continent to\\nthe other, this break in their history is always a regret; it is an\\nomission that Samuel Smith might, perhaps, have filled, but, at\\nthat period, he did not attach much importance thereto. The\\ntime has passed, however, to remedy this defe6l, except in a few\\ncases, a defe6l which always leaves a shade of doubt as to iden-\\ntity, and, sometimes, a breach that nearly destroys it. In this\\nparticular case no question exists, since the documents of a\\nreligious and legal charafler follow each other so closely and so\\ncontinuously, that the William Cooper of Coleshill, of 1660,\\nwas the William Cooper of Pyne point, in 1682, beyond a\\ndoubt.\\nThe first is the certificate of the Monthly Meeting at Coles-\\nhill, which is as follows\\nWhereas, William Cooper, of Coleshill, in the parish of\\nAmersham, and the county of Hertford, hath signified unto\\nus that he hath an intention, if the Lord permit, to transport\\nhimself with his wife and children unto the plantation of\\nWest New Jersey, and hath desired a testimonial from this\\nmeeting for the satisfa6lion of Friends there or elsewhere,\\nunto whom he may be outwardly unknown\\nWe, therefore, whose names are here underwritten, do hereby\\ncertify all whom it may concern, that the said William Cooper\\nand Margaret, his wife, having lived in these parts for many\\nyears, ever since the first of their convincement, have walked\\nconscienciously and honestly among us, agreeably to the profes-\\nsion and testimony of truth, according to the best of our\\nobservation and knowledge of them.\\nIn witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands, this,\\nthe fifth day of the twelfth month, 167S.\\nThis fixes his nativity (the previous record showing the\\nnames and ages of his children), and also proves that he", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM COOPER. 87\\ncontemplated coming to the plantation of West New Jersey.\\nHe could not have arrived here before the middle of the year\\nfollowing, the twelfth month being February, ana not a proper\\nseason for ships to start upon long voyages. He could not,\\ntherefore, have come with the first adventurers.\\nThe next a6l of William Cooper, as the records show, was\\none for the purpose of locating lands in New Jersey; this,\\ndoubtless, occurred soon after his arrival here, and bears the\\ndate of October sth, A. D., 1680.^\\nAt that date, he sele6led fifty acres within the town bounds\\nof Burlington, and had the same surveyed and returned to\\nhimself. It is possible that there was some delay in having\\nthe bounds defined, and in putting them on record.\\nThere can be but little doubt, however, that on this piece\\nof land he eredled his first house and made a home for his\\nfamily. The troubles between the London and Yorkshire com-\\nmissioners in regard to the parts of the territory each were\\nto take, hindered the fixing of the boundaries of individual\\nsettlers, and may account for the difference in the known\\narrival of some and the return of their surveys yet, in the\\nthe case of William Cooper, the fa6l that the time of his\\narrival was not exa6lly known, leaves the taking up of his\\nfirst location and his coming still an open question.\\nIn a short time it was found that the lines of the fifty acres\\ninterfered with those of an adjoining tra6l, owned by the\\nwidow Perkins; this trouble was afterwards settled by\\nJohn Woolstan, unto whose wife William Cooper conveyed\\nthe same in 1695,^ she being his only daughter. Whether he\\ncontinued his business after his settlement here, and attended\\nto the necessary wants of the inhabitants, which, in his par-\\nticular line, were important, there is no record, for the worker\\nin iron of that day was skilled in many other branches of\\nmechanism, now in no way conne6led therewith.\\nHe probably had knowledge of the coming of the settlers\\nat Newton, some perhaps being known to him in the mother\\ncountry, as they had secured the title to their land but fifteen\\nI Revel s Book, 7,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a02 Lib. B2, 500.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "88 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nmonths before he accomplished the same for his property at\\nPyne Point, to which place he soon removed from Burlington.\\nThe intimacy so soon established between them warrants this\\nconclusion so do many other incidents scattered through the\\nhistory of the times, showing that the intercourse here was but\\na continuation of that begun before this aciventure was under-\\ntaken. The survey of three hundred acres at Pyne Point\\nbears the date of June 12th, 1682.^ Within its bounds was\\na large Indian settlement, and in this William Cooper with\\nhis family made his abode. The position was well taken,\\nbeing one of the most commanding in this section of the\\ncountry, and a good location for a town. The point of land\\nmade by the jun6lion of the creek (afterwards called by his\\nname) with the Delaware river, was selected as the site for his\\nhouse, this site now being under water by the encroachment\\nof the river upon the shore.\\nBefore William Cooper sele6ted this land, however, William\\nRoydon had made a survey lower down the river, with which\\nthe boundaries of William Cooper s tra6l was found to inter-\\nfere. It is evident that much controversy grew out of this\\ntrouble, and that it was not settled during the life of William\\nCooper. In 1723, William Cooper, the son of Daniel and\\ngrandson of William, became the owner of much the larger\\npart of Roydon s survey;* and, being seized of his father s\\nadjoining real estate at the same time, this difficulty may be\\nsaid to have ended there.\\nWilliam Roydon located other trails of land in New Jersey,\\nand crossed the ocean several times between the arrival of the\\ncommissioners at Burlington and his death. In his will he\\nstyles himself citizen and grocer of London, in which city\\nhe died during the year named.\\nIf tradition be corre6l, he was a shrewd business man, and\\ndid not always heed the precepts laid down by Friends, when\\nhis own interest was involved. Although he speaks in his will\\nof William Cooper as his trusty friend, yet the trouble\\nabout the bounds of their adjoining land did not make the same\\n3 Revel s Book, 32.\\n4 Lib. D, 456.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM COOPER. 89\\nimpression upon the mind of William Cooper. Nearly one\\nhundred years after his death a copy of his will was brought\\nto Philadelphia and recorded in the proper office, being a\\nnecessary link to the title to some of his real estate in America.\\nHis family, if he had any, did not settle here. He had a\\nbrother Robert and a sister, Esther Wright, both of Essex,\\nand a sister Eve, wife of Richard Crews of London.\\nThe Indians were not molested, and, although Arasapha,\\ntheir king, conveyed to William Cooper all the estate that\\nthey had within the bounds of his location, yet no claim was\\nset up by the grantee, and no trouble appears to have taken place\\nbetween the old and the new inhabitants. The consideration\\nin the deed between the aborigines and the settlers was made\\nup of rum, match-coats, beads, guns, pots, kettles, pans, and such\\narticles of general utility and fancy as satisfied this simple-\\nminded people and always prevented any trouble in the future.\\nThis town was opposite a similar Indian settlement on the river\\ncalled Shackomaxin between these places a ferry was already\\nestablished, as to the beginning of which the meniory of man\\nrunneth not to the contrary. Here the adventurers under\\nthe patronage of William Penn landed, and set up the first\\nFriends meeting in his colony. In the third month, 1681,\\na meeting was fixed at the house of Thomas Fairman and\\nit was thus kept for more than a year, until the Friends united\\nwith those in Philadelphia.\\nIt is interesting to observe the religious intercourse that was\\nmaintained between the Quakers on each side of the river,\\nan intercourse which lead to many marriages among the\\nyounger members, and to some complicity in tracing the\\ngenealogies of such.\\nIn 1682, a six-weeks meeting of business was held alternately\\nbetween Shackomaxin and Pyne Point, which was maintained\\nfor several months the said meetings being held at the house of\\nThomas Fairman of the one place and at that of William Cooper\\nof the other. This custom appears to have been established by\\nthe yearly meeting held at Salem, for the convenience of Friends\\nbut it did not long continue, for a place of worship was soon\\nbuilt at Philadelphia, and also one at Newton, thus avoiding", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "90 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nthe necessity of using private dwellings. The meeting at\\nMark Newbie s house, to which William Cooper of the Point\\nresorted, had been kept before he removed from Burlington,\\nshowing where the principles of George Fox were first pro-\\nmulgated in this se6lion, and making it a point of interest to\\nsuch as care to inquire thereinto.\\nThe intercourse of William Cooper with William Penn and the\\nother trustees of Edward Byllynge was frequent, by reason of\\nthe large amount of land which he purchased for himself, and\\nalso as agent for others, still residents of England or Ireland.\\nHe was present at the celebrated treaty of Penn with the\\nIndians, and doubtless gave that great man the advantage of\\nhis experience among this strange people. The similarity\\nof the condu6l of each toward them, and the continued and\\nlasting amity preserved from the first, show the same element\\nof kindness and fair dealing to have ailuated and controlled\\nboth. The same principles of justice and of right, so much\\nextolled in the condu6l of the Patroon of Pennsylvania, were\\nno less rigidly adhered to by the Proprietors of New Jersey,\\nalways accomplishing the same end and deserving the same\\nmeasure of praise.\\nIn the progress of time, the children of William Cooper\\ntook upon themselves the responsibilities of matrimony, and\\nset up their own establishments. Hannah married John Wool-\\nstan in 1681, and before her father removed from Burlington.\\nThis was his second marriage, the first wife being a sister of\\nThomas Olive, at that time governor of the province. He\\ncame in the same ship as the commissioners, and at his house\\nwere held the meetings of worshi]j for Friends in the early\\nsettlements. He was a worthy citizen, and the ancestor of\\nnumerous and respectable descendants. By the first marriage\\nhe had a son John, who, in 1683, married Lettice Newbold.\\nIn 1698, he (the father), died, disposing of a large landed\\nestate by will.^ His children by Hannah Cooper were Samuel,\\nwho died single Jonathan, who married Sarah Pearson in\\n1707; Hannah, who married George Nicholson in 1706; Sarah,\\nwho married Edward Borton Mary, who married Samuel\\n5 Burlington County File", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM COOPER. 91\\nBunting in 1713; Joshua, who married Michael;\\nElizabeth, who married Daniel Wills in 1714, and Rebecca,\\nwho married Francis Smith in 1714.\\nJonathan removed to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where\\nhe resided in 1715.*^ The daughters settled in their native\\nState, and became the maternal ancestors of some of the most\\nrespe6lable families hereabout.\\nThe name of John Woolstan occurs among the Friends in\\nEngland who suffered persecution for religious opinions. His\\nhouse was the first ere6led in Burlington, and in it, the first\\nmonthly meeting of Friends was held after their arrival.\\nHannah, his widow, married John Surkett of Burlington,\\nas her second husband; he deceased in 1709, and she then\\nmarried John Wills, son of Daniel, one of the commissioners,\\nand father of Daniel, who married her daughter Elizabeth.\\nThere was no issue by either of the last marriages.\\nWilliam Cooper married Mary, a daughter of Edward Bradway\\nof Salem, N. J., in 1682. He died in 1691, leaving a will, in\\nwhich he names his father, William Cooper, his father-in-law,\\nhis wife Mary, and three children, John, Hannah and Mary.*\\nHe probably died at Pyne Point, and perhaps unexpectedly,\\nas Samuel Spicer and Henry Wood, both residents near that\\nplace, were witnesses to his will.\\nThe inventory of his personal property discloses that he was\\na resident of Salem, and a blacksmith.^ His children married\\nas follows John married Ann Clark Hannah married John\\nMickle, and Mary Benjamin Thackara. As may be seen,\\nWilliam was about twenty years of age at the time of his\\ncoming to New Jersey. He was employed by his father\\nin his own calling; this made him a useful man among the\\nadventurers. He died young, and by his will left the care of\\nhis children to Edward Bradway and John Kay.\\nJohn deceased in 1730, leaving his widow Ann and the\\nfollowing children, James, John, David, Mary, Ann, Sarah,\\nHannah, and a child unborn.^\\n6 Lib. A, 38. 9 Lib. A, Salem Wills, 65\\n7 Lib. No. I, 337. 10 Lib. No. 3, 118.\\n8 Lib. A, Salem Wills, 85.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "92 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nJoseph Cooper married Lydia Riggs in 1688. This female\\nwas of Irish parentage, but at the time of her marriage was\\na resident of Philadelphia. It is probable that, in 1695\\n(in which year the ferry and adjoining land were given to\\nDaniel), William Cooper conveyed, by deed of gift, to Joseph,\\na tradl of land bounded by Cooper s creek, east of his father s\\nresidence, where he, Joseph, settled. On February iSth, 1708^\\nWilliam Cooper conveyed two hundred and twelve acres to\\nJoseph. The words of the deed are, William Cooper, late of\\nCooper s Point, in Newton, Gloucester county, New Jersey, to\\nJoseph Cooper, of the same place, for his house, land and farm\\ncalled Cooper s Point, where he lately dwelt.\\nHe had previously ere6led a house and out-buildings on a\\ntra6l of land which he had located on the north side of Cooper s\\ncreek, in Waterford, now Delaware, township. A portion of\\nthis house is still standing, it being part of the homestead of\\nBenjamin B. Cooper, deceased, about one mile from Ellisburg\\ntoward Camden and it is now one of the land marks of early\\ntimes. To this place he removed, but not long to remain, as\\nhe died in 1710.\\nIn 1697, Joseph Cooper purchased of Abraham and Joshua\\nCarpenter four hundred and twelve acres of land, in Newton\\ntownship, bounded by Cooper s creek, now constituting the\\nmost easterly part of the Cope estate. This he conveyed to his\\nson Joseph in 1714, just as he had purchased it of the Car-\\npenters. He owned much other real estate. He died in 1731,\\ndisposing of his property by will. His children were Isaac,\\nwho married Hannah Coates Joseph, who married Mary Hud-\\nson and Hannah Dent Benjamin, who married Rachel Mickle\\nand Elizabeth Burcham (^widow) Lydia, who married John\\nCox; Hannah, who married Alexander Morgan; Sarah, who\\nmarried Joshua Raper; and Elizabeth, who married Samuel\\nMickle.\\nThe most noticeable of these was Joseph, who ere6led a\\nlarge brick house on the Carpenter tra6l, and there lived.\\nThere were several children by his first marriage, all of whom\\n11 Lib. AAA, 382.\\n12 Lib. A, 08.\\n13 Lib. No. 3, 173.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM COOPER. 93\\ndied young, except Mary (and she before her father), who\\nmarried Jacob Howell. She left two daughters, Hannah, who\\nmarried John Wharton, and Mary, who married Benjamin\\nSwett in 1762. Joseph Cooper, in his will, gave a tradl of\\nland, situated on the south branch of Cooper s creek, in Water\\nford, now Delaware, township, to these children, subject to\\nthe life estate of his second wife, Hannah, which, after her\\ndeath in 1754, was divided between them. This tra6l of land,\\nin the old papers called the Wharton tra6l, many years\\nsince passed out of the family it is now divided into several\\nvaluable farms, among which is one owned by the widow of\\nCharles H. Shinn, deceased; and on it stands the old mansion,\\nbuilt before 1728, at which time it was occupied by George\\nErvin, a tenant of Joseph Cooper, the son of the first settler.\\nHannah Dent, the second wife of Joseph Cooper, whom he\\nmarried in 1735 in Philadelphia, was a minister among Friends,\\nand came from England to New Jersey in 1723. The memorial\\npublished by the monthly meeting of Haddonfield, after her\\ndeath in 1754, shows her to have been held in much esteem\\nby that religious society. There were no children by this\\nmarriage.\\nJoseph Cooper died in 1749. During his life he was an\\na(5live business man. He was a member of the Legislature of\\nthis State for nineteen consecutive years, which shows that he\\nrepresented the people of Gloucester county in a manner satis-\\nfactory and acceptable, and, although more than one hundred\\nyears have passed away since that time, yet no like confidence\\nhas been extended to any representative of the constituency\\nof this region. He held other official trusts in the county,\\nwhich he discharged with fidelity and he seems to have been\\nuniversally respected. The Haddonfield Monthly Meeting also\\nnoticed his death, and left on record evidence of the estimation\\nin which he was held by the Society of Friends.\\nDaniel Cooper, the youngest son of William, came to New\\nJersey when about seven years of age. There was no portion\\nof his life of which his recolledlions were so vivid as that\\noccupied in coming here. Alive to every object about him,\\n14 Lib, No. 6, 274.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "94 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nin the novel position in which he then was, he could never\\nforget them, and he doubtless in after years could enter more\\ninto the details of the voyage, than any other who shared it\\nwith him.\\nWithout a regret, he looked happily forward, and, amid ever\\nchanging scenes, did not share the sorrow of his seniors in\\nparting from friends and home. Of an age to attra6l atten-\\ntion, he doubtless made the acqaintance of all on board,\\nventured into every part of the ship, and was soon on social\\nterms with the crew. Their odd dress, wonderful sea stories,\\nand quaint ballads, excited his childish curiosity, and impressed\\nupon his plastic mind things there to remain as long as he\\nshould live.\\nDaniel was twice married. In 1693, to Abigail Wood, a\\ndaughter of Henry and Hannah, who lived near by his father s\\nplace, but on the opposite side of Cooper s creek. At that\\ntime he took possession of the Roydon ferry, previously pur-\\nchased by his father, and continued the same under the license\\ngranted to Roydon by the court sitting at Gloucester.\\nThe license, as granted, is a curious document, but it embodies\\neverything necessary to be said, either by way of explanation\\nor for the exercise of authority in exacting tolls. No better\\nhistory can be given of it than an entire copy from the record.\\nWhereas, at a court held at Gloucester upon ye first day\\nof ye first month in ye year one thousand six hundred and\\neighty-seven it was presented to ye Bench that a constant and\\ncommon ferry was very usefull and much wanted from Jersey\\nto Philadelphia, and also that William Roydon s house was\\njudged a place convenient, and ye said William Roydon a\\nperson suitable for that employ and therefore an order from\\nye court was then granted for ye establishment and fixing of\\nye same. Whereto ye bench did then and there assent, and\\nrefferred to ye Grand Jury ye methodizing of ye same, and\\nto fix ye rates thereof, which was by them agreed and con-\\ncluded upon as hereunder follows\\nTherefore we permit and appoint that a common passage\\nor ferry for man and beast be provided, fixed and settled in", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM COOPER. 95\\nsome convenient and proper place between ye mouths or\\nentrances of Cooper s creek and Newton creek, and that ye\\ngovernment, managing and keeping of ye same be committed\\nto ye said William Roydon and his assigns, who are hereby\\nempowered and appointed to establish, fix and settle ye same\\nwithin ye limits aforesaid, wherein all other persons are desired\\nand requested to keep no other common or public passage or\\nferry.\\nAnd ye said William Roydon shall prepare and provide\\ngood and sufficient boats, with other conveniences suitable to\\nye said employ, to be in readiness at all times to accommodate\\npeople s a6tions, and shall take no more than six pence per\\nhead for such persons that shall be by him ferried over ye\\nRiver, and not more than twelve pence for man and horse\\nor other beast, and so not exceeding twelve pence per head\\nfor any sort of beast so ferried over, as above said: except\\nswine, calves and sheep, which shall pay only six pence per\\nhead and no more.\\nGiven under our hands and seals at ye Court held at\\nGloucester for ye Jurisdi6tion thereof, this ye first day of\\nye first month, in ye year of our lord one thousand six hun-\\ndred eighty and eight.\\nFrancis Collins, Christopher Watkins,\\nAndrew Robeson, Samuel Spicer.\\nJohn Wood,\\nEntered, Examined and Recorded this 24th day of April,\\nAno 1689,\\nper me, John Reading, Recorder.\\nThe accommodations at this ferry were nothing more than\\nopen boats fitted with oars, and occasionally with sails, which\\noccupied much time in crossing, to say nothing of danger and\\nexposure to passengers. A few trips each day were all that\\ncould be made in fair weather, and during a storm communi-\\ncation ceased altogether. Abigail Cooper, the wife of Daniel,\\ndied in a short time after their marriage, and without children,\\nfor, in 1695, he married Sarah, a daughter of Samuel and Esther\\n15 Lib. Gi, iio.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "96 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nSpicer, who also lived on the north side of Cooper s creek\\nnear Pyne Point. On the 6th day of the second month, 1695,\\nWilliam Cooper conveyed to Daniel, the ferry, with one hundred\\nand fourteen acres of land attached, and by the same deed\\nother real estate in Gloucester county/ Daniel and Sarah\\nCooper s children were three sons, William, who married\\nMary Rawle, of Philadelphia; Samuel S., who married\\nand Daniel, who married\\nDaniel Cooper died intestate, in 1715.* The appraisement\\nof his personal property amounted to four hundred and fifty\\npounds, including two ferry boats, showing that he resided\\nat, and kept the ferry at the time of his decease. His real\\nestate was large, and he was, no doubt, one of the wealthiest\\nmen of his day. In 1 730, William Cooper, the son of Daniel,\\npetitioned Lord Cornbury, then Governor, for a license to\\nkeep a ferry where one had been kept for more than forty\\nyears; which license was granted, with the exclusive right\\nof ferry for two miles above, and two miles below, so long as\\nhe accommodated the people, upon the payment of one shill-\\ning yearly on the fast day of St. Michael the Archangel.\\nThis charter was certainly a liberal one, extending beyond\\nthe limits of the present city of Camden, without any time\\nfixed for its termination, and with a tax that, by the face\\nof the document, was to be but nominal. It was a monopoly\\nso far as regarded these privileges, within the distance named,\\nbut in after time it became modified, and finally was abandoned.\\nThe exa6l position of this ferry upon the river front is not\\nnow known it was probably between Cooper street and Market\\nstreet, as Royden s survey extended but a short distance above\\nthe first named street.\\nThe amount of business done at this river crossing may be\\ninferred from the number of inhabitants in this region in those\\ndays. The census of Gloucester county, taken in 1737, shows\\na population of three thousand two hundred and sixty-seven,\\nincluding one hundred and twenty-two slaves. A large pro-\\nportion of these lived near some navigable stream, depending\\n16 Lib. A, 39. 18 Lib. AAA, 249.\\n17 Gloucester Files. 19 Lib. GH, i.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM COOPER. 97\\nupon boats as a means of travel and, in going to Philadelphia,\\nthey would use their own transportation and not cross either at\\nGloucester or Cooper s ferry. Also it has been seen that, in\\n1 715, Daniel Cooper had but two ferry boats, no doubt of ordi-\\nnary size and without capacity for carrying many people which\\nkind of evidence goes very far to prove that the means, though\\nscanty, were sufficient for the wants of the public.\\nDaniel, the youngest son of Daniel, in 1728, settled near\\nthe head of the north branch of Cooper s creek, on the farm\\nlately owned by William Hooten, deceased. He was a farmer,\\nbut was sometimes called a drover. This latter occupation was\\nonly occasionally indulged in, to procure cattle from along the\\nsea shore for himself and neighbors. These were bred upon\\nthe meadows, and in the endless forests abounding there in\\nthose days. Wild and nearly unmanageable, it required much\\nta6l, patience and woodcraft to control them.\\nThe first William Cooper deceased in 1710, leaving a will,\\nin which he named his children and disposed of .the remainder\\nof his property. His personal estate amounted to upwards of\\nseven hundred pounds sterling, a large sum for the times, but\\nof small account in these days of wealth and pretension.\\nUnder the residuary clause of his will, parts of the estate\\npassed to his grandchildren, who, at the time of his death, were\\nJohn Cooper, Hannah Mickle, Mary Thackara, Joseph Cooper,\\nBenjamin Cooper, Isaac Cooper, Lydia Cox, Hannah Thackara,\\nSarah Raper, Samuel Cooper, Daniel Cooper, Jonathan Wool-\\nstan, Samuel Woolstan, Mary Bunting, Sarah Borton, Elizabeth\\nWills, William Cooper, Rebecca Smith, Hannah Nicholson, and\\nElizabeth Mickle.\\nIt is scarcely necessary to say that William Cooper was an\\neminent member of the Society of Friends, and participated in\\neverything that went to the advancement and stability of the\\nchurch whose tenets he had espoused. He was a preacher\\namong them, and lived at a time when the expounders of such\\ndo6lrines were especially obnoxious to the mass of the people\\nof Great Britain; he, therefore, like others, suffered much\\nthereby but, before his death, he saw the success of these", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "98 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ndo6lrines and their free development in the land of his adop-\\ntion. He had much to do with the political management of\\nthe colony, being a member of the first Legislature that sat\\nfor the framing of laws. This was a work of great labor,\\nbut, in the end, it showed good judgment and pra6lical com-\\nmon sense.\\nAdopting the statutes of England as the basis, they made\\nthe new features of their system conform thereto, so far as\\nwas consistent with the rights of the settlers. Inducements\\nwere held out for emigration, and the system of jurisprudence\\nmade as liberal as possible to accomplish that end. Through\\nthe several sittings of this session William Cooper was present,\\nand participated, no doubt, discharging his duties acceptably.\\nHe was appointed one of the commissioners to divide land,\\nand also one of the committee to devisg.^ means for raising\\nmoney for the use of the colony. The next year he was con-\\ntinued a member. In 1684, when the trouble with Edward\\nByllynge in regard to the government was taken up, and Samuel\\nJennings and Thomas Budd sent to England as commissioners\\ntherefor, the sum of one hundred pounds was allowed to each\\nfor expenses; and to William Penn was to be paid a like sum for\\nservices in the same matter. To assure the payment of these\\nseveral sums, William Cooper, with nine others, joined in a\\nbond as security therefor.\\nIn 1685, he was again returned as a member of the Leg-\\nislature, and also continued commissioner for the division of\\nland. In 1696, he was appointed one of the judges of the\\nseveral courts of the county of Gloucester he also filled many\\nother minor appointments in a township capacity.\\nThe remaining part of his original survey, being a small tra6l\\nof land fronting on Cooper s creek and adjoining William Roy-\\ndon s survey, William Cooper conveyed to two of his grand-\\nsons, John Cooper, son of William, and Joseph Cooper, son of\\nJoseph f this Avas the last of the real estate held by him in\\nNewton township. He had made other surveys in difi erent\\nparts of Gloucester county, some of which he conveyed, and\\nsome passed by his will.\\n21 Learning Spicer s Laws.\\n22 Lib. A, 28.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM COOPER. 99\\nParts of this real estate, particularly those within the city\\nof Camden, still remain in the family, and have followed the\\nblood of the first owner, under the proprietors, from genera-\\ntion to generation, for nearly two hundred years.\\nThis is remarkable where the laws regulating the descent of\\nreal property are so liberal, and where the third generation\\nseldom hold the land of their ancestors. Ability to possess,\\nand a desire to perpetuate, family estates, are commendable\\ntraits they deserve emulation and should become to a greater\\nextent chara6leristics of Americans. Yet, in our haste to get\\ngain, all things else become secondary, and the exceptions are\\namong those who are not willing to venture the paternal acres\\nin fortune s lottery.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM ALBERTSON,\\nTHE name of Albertson, or Albertsen, as it is sometimes\\nwritten, may be found among those of the earliest Dutch\\nemigrants to New Amsterdam, who came here to barter with\\nthe natives for furs and the few other commodities which they\\nhad among them for trade. As early as in 1650, the records of\\nbirths and baptisms in New York, indicate that Albert Albertson\\nhad a child baptized in the church of that place, and that\\nothers of this name had the same rite administered to their\\noffspring. Other records of that date show this family to have\\nhad several representatives in the colony, some of whom were\\nmen of considerable estate and influence.\\nAt this period a few small dwellings of the humblest char-\\nafter stood close around the fort at the outlet of Hudson river,\\nwhere the Hollanders had a small garrison for protection against\\nthe natives, and where also were colle6led the articles of exchange\\nthat made the little commercial trade about that spot.\\nIt was at the time when each Dutchman had his farm or\\nbowery, somewhere within the busiest part of the present city\\nof New York, and drove his cow to pasture along the tortuous\\npaths leading to his lot some of which same paths are now\\namong the most crowded thoroughfares of the metropolis of\\nAmerica. It was in the good old times of sour-krout and wild\\ntobacco, when a promising cabbage patch and a small quantity\\nof smoked herring, rendered each inhabitant happy for the\\nI Manual of Common Council, N. Y., 740, Library N. Y. His. Soc.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "I02 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ncoming year at least and these were the days when the ances-\\ntors of the Knickerbockers sought the Battery to enjoy a quiet\\nsmoke, and to listen to the merriment of the negroes at\\nCommunipaw.\\nAs the town enlarged, the family in question also increased,\\nand their names may be found in various relations as time went\\non. True to their native blood, litigations and difficulties grew\\nout of their stubbornness; and the court minutes show how\\ntenaciously any supposable right was adhered to, and how often\\nthese troubles ended in a law-suit. The Dutch settlements\\nupon the Delaware would naturally be the cause of more or less\\nintercourse with those upon the Hudson river and persons and\\nfamilies can be traced from the one to the other, they, doubt-\\nless, changing their abodes to improve their condition and\\nadvance their estate.\\nIn 1656, Hans Albertson purchased a patent for a tra6l of\\nland at Fort Casimir, on South (Delaware) river, whereon he\\nsettled. In 1672, Derick Albertson had built a mill near the\\nsame river, one-half of which was claimed by William Toms.\\nThis claim had to be settled by a suit at law. This was pre-\\nvious to the establishment of any court on South river, and,\\nas a consequence, the parties were forced to appear before their\\nHigh Mightinesses at New York, taking thereto all their wit-\\nnesses and proofs at much expense, a pra6lice yet charadler-\\nistic to the last degree. By this it may be seen that members\\nof this family found their way to the colony on South river, and\\nmade permanent settlements yet there can be no question of\\ntheir nativity, or of their arrival on the shores of America.\\nIn the progress of events William Penn became the owner\\nof the territory of Pennsylvania, which included all the Dutch\\nand Swedish settlements on the west side of the Delaware river.\\nThe do6lrine of ethics, laid down by him as the basis of his\\ngovernment, destroyed very much of the litigious element that\\nformerly existed, and produced a new state of things among\\nthe inhabitants. Quarrels and disputes that previously had\\nended in court, were now disposed of in a manner much less\\nconspicuous, and more satisfadlory to those interested.\\n2 Dutch Manuscripts, 383.\\n3 Dutch Manuscripts, 350, Library N. Y. His. Soc.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM ALBERTSON. 103\\nDifferences of opinion that often led to estrangements between\\nfamilies and among neighbors, were settled within the quiet\\nprecin6ls of the church, where the outside world was prevented\\nfrom meddling, and where good advice and restraining influ-\\nence prevailed.\\nGradual, 3^et positive and well defined, was the progress of\\nthe teachings of Quakerism among the older settlers and\\nits footsteps may be discovered from time to time, until the\\nnew dispensation pervaded the communities within its bounds,\\nand but slight traces of the old order of things could be seen.\\nOn May 2d, 1682, William Albertson located a tra6l of land in\\nNewton township, between the south and the middle branch of\\nthe creek that bears that name, and settled thereon.* It does\\nnot appear whence he came, but the probability is that he\\nwas of Dutch extraftion, as before named, and that his\\nparents were among the Hollanders of New York. The house\\nwhich he built no doubt, a small one stood by the middle\\nbranch, and nearly fronting the little settlement called Newton\\nbut in a few years it entirely disappeared. He was a mar-\\nried man with a family when he came there; shortly after he\\nremoved to Byberry, Pennsylvania, and gave the possession\\nof the estate to his son William. This occurred before 1692,\\nfor, in that year, he purchased a tra6l of land in the town bounds\\nof Gloucester, the deed for which names him as then a resident\\nof the place above mentioned.\\nUpon the setting apart of a lot of land at Newton whereon\\nto build a meeting house, he was one of the persons who\\naccepted the trust therefor, and no doubt took an aftive part\\nin the ere6lion of that place of worship. This trust was\\ncontinued until 1708, when other and younger men were called\\nto occupy the same position.\\nHe made several locations and purchases of land, while a\\nresident here but his removal so soon from this neighborhood\\nleaves but little of his history among us, yet, so far as his\\nrecord goes, he was a person much respecSled in his day and\\ngeneration. In 16S5, he was returned as a member of the\\n4 Lib. T, 355, O. S. G. 6 Lib. S6, 405, O. S. G.\\n5 Lib. G3, r4i. 7 Sharp s Book, 50, O. S. G.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "I04 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nColonial Legislature he also held other minor county and\\ntownship ofifices during his settlement here.**\\nHis children were William, who married Esther Willis,\\ndaughter of Henry and Mary, of Westberry, Long Island,\\nN. Y., in 1695;** Abraham, who married Hannah Medcalf;*\\nRebecca, who married Joseph Satterthwaite Ann, who mar-\\nried Walter Forrest and John Kaighn Cassandra, who mar-\\nried Jarvis Stockdale; Benjamin, who married\\nand Josiah, who married Ann Austin of Evesham, Burlington\\ncounty, N. J.\\nAt the time of his decease, he resided at Poquesin, in Bucks\\ncounty, Pennsylvania, where he owned grain and saw mills,\\nand considerable other property. He died soon after the\\nexecution of his will (1709), survived by his widow Hannah,\\nand by all his children except Ann.^\\nTo his son William, in the year 1698, he deeded the home-\\nstead property, whereon he remained until his decease in 1720.\\nThis was a valuable estate, and he improved it by enlarging and\\nbanking the meadow attached to the property, which, at that\\ntime, was the only soil from which hay and pasture were derived.\\nThe artificial grasses now used upon the upland, had not then\\nattra6led the attention of agriculturists, for which reason the\\nmeadow and marsh lands along the streams commanded much\\nthe higher price, and were considered as a necessary appendage\\nto every farm. The meadow land on each of the branches of\\nNewton creek, was, no doubt, the attra6lion that brought the\\nsettlers first to this place, and was, in fa6l, the only means they\\nhad for sustaining their cattle.\\nTo avoid expense and to secure the land from the overflow\\nof the tide, William Albertson placed a dam across the south\\nbranch, and reclaimed much of the marsh above the same.\\nIn this dam there were tide gates, the constru6lion and utility\\nof which need not be explained here. These were kept in\\nuse until the dyke was put across the mouth of the creek, at\\nthe river, in 1786, when all the improvements on the several\\n8 Learning Spicer s Laws. ii Lib. No. 6, Salem Records, 32.\\n9 Friends Records, Long Island. 12 Philadelphia Records. Lib. M, 75, O. S. G.\\n10 License Book, 25. Lib. No. 7, Salem 13 Lib. A, 104. Lib. G3, 139. Lib. No. 2, 139.\\nRecords, 156. 14 Albertson Papers.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM ALBERTSON. 105\\ntributaries of the same were abandoned. The utility of this\\nmanner of making meadow, in a sanitary point of view, is very\\nquestionable the miasma arising from the stagnant water and\\nfrom exposed vegetable matter, incident to the system, is una-\\nvoidable it spreads disease through the entire neighborhood,\\nand very much lessens the value of property within its baneful\\ninfluence.\\nThe owner ere6led a substantial brick house, which, at the\\ntime it was built, ranked among the best in this se6lion but,\\nwhen compared with the present system of archite6lure, it\\nappears insignificant enough. This house still stands, and\\nshows at a glance the many years that have passed away\\nsince its erection.\\nIn front of and at a short distance from it, may be seen the\\nditch and bank that surrounded the park for deer, which cov-\\nered many acres of land and extended to the south branch\\nof the creek. On the bank stood a high and substantial fence,\\nthat effedlually prevented the game from escaping when once\\nwithin its bounds; and there the owner and his invited friends\\ncould find excellent sport at any season of the year.\\nConne6led also with the place was a race course, where the\\nspeed of the pretentious horses in the neighborhood could be\\ntested, and where, doubtless, the conceit was often taken out\\nof various owners and backers, who resorted thither to fleece\\na jockey disguised as a greenhorn.\\nAll these prove not only that the owner was a man of wealth,\\nbut also that, in its enjoyment, the drift of his inclination\\nbrought around him a class of associates that had similar tastes.\\nWilliam Albertson was an a6live man in the affairs of the\\ncolony, and, besides holding other positions of public trust, was\\nreturned as a member of the Assembly in 1685.^^ He was for\\nseveral years a member of the council of proprietors, and at\\na time when men of the best judgment were called upon to a6l\\nin that capacity.^ In the affairs of the township his name\\nis often seen, which shows that he looked after the interests\\nof his neighbors as well as the enjoyments of his own estate.\\n15 Learning Spicer s Laws.\\n16 Minutes of Council, O. S. G.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "io6 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nHe died in 1720, leaving a widow and the following named\\nchildren John Abraham, who married Sarah Dennis Wil-\\nliam, Jane, Mary and Esther.\\nPart of this estate descended under the name of William\\nAlbertson through four generations to a daughter Sarah, the only\\nchild of the last William, who married David Henry, in whose\\nname a portion of the same still remains; thus continuing part\\nof the original property in the line of blood for nearly two\\nhundred years one of the rare occurrences of lineal inher-\\nitance touching landed property in New Jersey.^\u00c2\u00ae\\nAbraham settled on the tra6l of land which his father pur-\\nchased of Andrew Robeson in 1692, situated in the town\\nbounds of Gloucester and on the south branch of Newton\\ncreek, which his father conveyed to him in 1698/\\nHe died in 1739, leaving the following named family:\\nIsaac Jacob, who married Patience Chew Abraham, who\\ndeceased without children Ephraim, who married Kesiah\\nChew Joseph, who married Rose Hampton Aaron, who\\nmarried Elizabeth Albertson Levi, who married Kesiah Rob-\\nerts; Jonathan; Rebecca, who married Beverly,\\nand who married Richard Chew.\\nThe estate, as held by the father in 1757, belonged to four\\nof the sons, Jacob, Joseph, Isaac and Ephraim, among whose\\ndescendants parts of it were held for many years, but at this\\nwriting it has passed out of the name and blood.\\nOf Rebecca, who married Joseph Satterthwaite, nothing\\nis known as families after two or three generations are apt\\nto forget the maiden name of their maternal ancestors, and it\\nis probable that all traces of her as the daughter of William\\nAlbertson have been lost.\\nAnn, the wife of Walter Forrest, settled with her husband\\nin Salem county as early as in 1686. They were married at\\nNewton meeting, according to the order of Friends, to which\\nthey adhered as long as they lived. Her husband, in connec-\\ntion with his brothers Francis and John, purchased a large\\ntra6l of land in that county, in 1678, on Salem creek, of\\n17 Lib. No. 2, 139. 20 Lib. No. 5, 136.\\n18 Lib. T, 355, O. S. G. 21 Family Papers.\\n19 Sharp s Book, Lib. S6, 405, O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM ALBERTSON. 107\\nJohn Fcnwick, and there they ere6led a corn mill, called the\\nBrothers Forrest, perhaps the first of the kind in Fenwick\\ncolony. In the same year, they purchased other lands of John\\nFenwick, and afterwards became the owners of adjoining tra6ls.\\nAt the time of the first purchase they were residents of Bur-\\nlington, and doubtless came over among the first emigrants.\\nWhen Walter Forrest died in 1692, he was a resident of\\nByberry, Pennsylvania, where he had some estate.^ There\\nwas no issue by this marriage. About two years after his\\ndeath the widow married John Kaighn, who was a carpenter\\nand resided at Byberry, where it may be supposed the marriage\\ntook place. They soon after removed to Newton township,\\nand settled on a tra6l of land which he had purchased of\\nRobert Turner, fronting on the Delaware river.- At this\\nplace she died, leaving one child, Ann, who died in 1715,\\nunmarried, thus ending this branch of the family in the second\\ngeneration.\\nBy the will of his father, dated December 17th, 17.09,\\nrecorded in Pennsylvania, Josiah Albertson received a tra6l\\nof land in Gloucester township, bounded on the south side by\\nOtter branch, and thereon he settled and cleared a farm.^\u00c2\u00ae\\nIn 1727, he married Ann, a daughter of Francis Austin, of\\nEvesham, Burlington county, N. J. Her father was one of\\nthe first settlers in that neighborhood and many of this name\\nare still to be found thereabout. There the first habitation of\\nJosiah and Ann was built, on the land given him by his father,\\nat a short distance south of the old Salem road, where he\\nboth plied his calling of shoemaker, and at the same time\\nremoved the timber from the soil.\\nHe enlarged the breadth of his acres by purchase and loca-\\ntion until his possessions were double those left him by his\\nfather. In 1743, he built a large and substantial brick house,\\nperhaps on the site of his log cabin part of which is now\\nstanding and is occupied by his lineal descendant, Chalkley\\nAlbertson, who owns much of the original estate. Whether\\n22 Lib. B, 16. Salem Deeds. 26 Lib. G3, 127.\\n23 Salem Wills, A, 69. 27 Lib. No. 2, 162.\\n24 Salem Wills, No. s, 98. 28 Lib. Mi, 75, O. S. G.\\n25 Salem Deeds, No. 6, 32.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "io8 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nJosiah continued his business of making shoes, tradition does\\nnot reveal, but the chances are that his farming interests\\nand lumber operations consumed all his time, and that the\\nbusiness of his youth was soon forgotten.\\nThe children of Josiah and Ann Albertson were eight\\ndaughters and one son Hannah, who married Jacob Clement\\nMary; Cassandra, who married Jacob Ellis and Jacob Burrough\\nPatience, who married Isaac Ballinger Elizabeth Josiah, who\\nmarried Eleanor Tomlinson and Judith Boggs; Sarah, who mar-\\nried Samuel Webster; Katurah, who married Isaac Townsend,\\nand Ann, who married Ebenezer Hopkins and Jacob Jennings/\\nThese daughters were remarkable for their healthy look and\\ncomely appearance. In their attendance at meeting, they rode\\non horseback, presenting quite a cavalcade when several were\\ntogether.\\nTheir attra6live appearance abroad and substantial qualities\\nat home, made them desirable wives for those of the same\\nreligious denomination in search of such, and the records show\\nthat such qualifications were understood and appreciated; none\\nof those that arrived at suitable age were left as single sisters.\\nIn the collateral branches of thifi part of the Albertsons,\\nit may be seen how many families can trace their lineage to\\nthem; and how widely spread may become the conne6lions\\nof a particular stock, when the families are numerous and\\nchange their names, localities and associations.\\n29 Lib. T, 310, O. S. G.\\n30 Family Papers.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "ELIZABETH ESTAUGH.\\nTHE life and chara6ler of Elizabeth Estaugh are especially\\ninteresting to every resident of Newton township and its\\nneighborhood, since her name and example will always com-\\nmand the respeft and admiration of any one at all familiar with\\nher history. Although only the collateral ancestor of a large\\nfamily in this region, yet her name in this connexion is always\\nspoken of with commendable pride and deserving reverence.\\nThe passing away of one generation after another has not\\nblunted the interest felt in her good deeds, nor has the lapse\\nof time obliterated the traditions handed down from parent\\nto child. One hundred and fifty years have not destroyed\\nthe attra6lions that surround the romance of her early life,\\nand no mention can be made of the history of this neighbor-\\nhood, that is not conne6led with the adls and associations of\\nElizabeth Estaugh.\\nShe came to New Jersey a young, unsophisticated girl,\\ncomparatively alone. Fresh from the care of solicitous and\\naffe6lionate parents, she left a home in which she had been\\nsurrounded by friends and by all that rendered life attra6live,\\nto cast her lot in the midst of an unbroken forest, at some dis-\\ntance from her nearest neighbors a stranger in a strange land.\\nWhatever may have been her youthful fancy of a life in the\\nwilds of America, separated from her parents and friends, the\\nrealities of her situation must have occasionally pressed heavily\\nupon her spirits, and caused her almost to regret the strange", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "no FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nand responsible position which she had assumed. Perlmps at no\\nperiod of her eventful life, did the leading traits of her char-\\na6ler appear to a better advantage than thus early in her career.\\nSelf reliance and decision of purpose, based upon conscien-\\ntious motives, were here developed, and these in the hour of\\ntrial did not desert her.\\nShe was a daughter of John Haddon, a Friend, who lived in\\nRotherhithe, in the parish of St. George, boroiigh of South-\\nwark, county of vSurrey, England, then a suburb of the city\\nof London, and on the east side of the river Thames.^\\nThe long crooked street of Rotherhithe, lying, as it does,\\nnear to and parallel with the river, remains to this day the\\nsame narrow thoroughfare as when John Haddon resided there.\\nThe old Horslydown meeting near by, where Friends assem-\\nbled for worship, has long been abandoned, and it is now used\\nas a carpenter s shop. The Southwark meeting house has also\\ngiven way to modern improvements, and the ground where\\nonce lay the remains of deceased members, is now occupied\\nby the foundation of a railroad bridge, leaving no vestige of\\nthis place, of so much interest to such as care to visit the\\nhomes of their ancestors.\\nJohn Haddon was a blacksmith, extending his business to\\nthe making of anchors, and had his shop between the street\\nbefore named and the river.\\nDiligence and economy produced their legitimate ends, and,\\nin the course of time, brought to him a large estate, which he\\nused with discretion during life, and disposed of judiciously at\\nthe time of his decease.\\nThe ancestry of this man may possibly be traced to the\\nmanor of Haddon in Derbyshire, now part of the estate of\\nthe Duke of Rutland.\\nThe old baronial mansion of Haddon Hall is still standing,\\nand is one of the points of interest to be visited by tourists.\\nAlthough abandoned as a residence by the owner, yet every-\\nthing remains as used and occupied many centuries since. As\\nits name indicates, it was, perhaps, the seat of the Haddon\\n1 Lib. AAA, 6i, 245. Lib. A, 203. Lib. D, 413, 419.\\n2 Lib. G3, 458, Oi S. G. Sharp s Book. 43, O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "ELIZABETH ESTAUGH. iii\\nfamily before the conquest; but, in the arbitrary distribution\\nof territory by William, this estate was given to his son, and\\nthe original owners were driven from the soil, or degraded by\\ntheir Norman rulers.\\nJohn Haddon lived in the times of the persecution of Friends,\\nand suffered, in common with others of like persuasion, from the\\ntyranny and oppression of those in authority.^\\nHis children were born during this abuse of power. They\\nheard and, perhaps, saw much of the distress that was brought\\nupon their friends, and had impressed upon their youthful\\nminds the feelings and sentiments of the parents, which early\\nimpressions no doubt adhered to them through life. Whatever\\nof forbearance and forgiveness may have been instilled into\\ntheir riper opinions and judgment by the teachings of a true\\nreligion, the remembrance of these wrongs done to an unof-\\nfending and law-abiding people could never be obliterated.\\nHe was not among the first that became interested in the\\nlands of West New Jersey, but no doubt knew of, and perhaps\\nparticipated in, the advancement of the little colony, hoping\\nthat it might prove to be an asylum for those of like opinions\\nwho were, at home, borne down by the fanaticism of others.\\nAlthough the plan of settlement was novel, and the system\\nof government contained elements that were especially attract-\\nive to this class of professing Christians, yet it was no matter\\nof money speculation among those who originated it, and did\\nnot in the end accrue very much to their pecuniary advantage.\\nThe inception and carrying out of the whole plan were in good\\nfaith, and, although difficulties subsequently occurred, yet these\\nwere from no fault of the principles adopted by the Proprietors.\\nThe success of the scheme in its various phases was canvassed\\non many occasions at the home of John Haddon, by those\\nalready interested, and in the presence of his children; they\\nthus became familiar with its workings, and the progress which\\nit was making among the people. Various circulars and pamph-\\nlets were published, and letters also were written home by those\\nalready emigrated, which attra6led much attention; and the\\ndaughter Elizabeth could not have been indifferent to the move-\\nments made by her friends in that direction.\\n3 Besse s Sufferings, Vol. i, 126, 485.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "112 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nHe does not appear to have been a creditor of Edward\\nByllynge, and, like many others, to have accepted an interest\\nin the land to save a debt likely to be lost but he purchased\\nof Richard Matthews one-eighth of a right of propriety in the\\nyear 1698, some twenty-four years after the acceptance of the\\ntrust by William Penn and others for the purpose of paying\\nByllynge s debts.*\\nJohn Haddon had but two children, Sarah, who married\\nBenjamin Hopkins, a wine merchant of the city of London,\\nand Elizabeth, who was born in 1682 and married John\\nEstaugh.^\\nIn the year of the purchase above named, another was made\\nof Thomas Willis, a son of John Willis, of a tra 5l of land\\nin Newton tov/nship, bounded on the north side by Cooper s\\ncreek, containing about five hundred acres of land.^ In view\\nof these purchases, John Haddon may have contemplated\\nremoving to New Jersey with his family and settling among\\nhis friends, many of whom had already preceded him, in-\\ntending to make it their permanent home. There was some\\nrestraining influence, however, that prevented the carrying out\\nof this purpose, which cannot be explained, except that the\\ndaughter Sarah was already married and settled in the city\\nof her birth, whom the mother was not willing to leave behind,\\nperchance never to see her again. If intended, the idea was\\nabandoned before Elizabeth left her home, for her father execu-\\nted to her a power of attorney to become his agent in New\\nJersey for the location, purchase and sale of lands; this he\\nwould not have done, had he expe6led to come here in person.\\nIn 1 70 1, being in the nineteenth year of her age, Elizabeth\\nHaddon left the home of her parents, in company perhaps with\\na few friends, and came to New Jersey to occupy and look after\\nthe possessions of her father. In this a6l were first manifested\\nthat courage and decision of charadler, of which so much was\\nseen in after years. At that age, to attempt such an adventure\\nshowed a great sacrifice on the part of the parents, and much\\nself-reliance on the part of the child. In man nothing is so\\n4 Lib. G3, 458. 6 Lib. A, 80.\\n5 Lib. No. 3, 58. 7 Lib. G3, 347.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "ELIZABETH ESTAUGH. 113\\nmuch admired as high-toned moral courage, with a disinter-\\nested and unselfish purpose to accomplish and no less will be\\naccorded to this young female who assumed responsibilities\\nthat many of the other sex would avoid, even with much\\ngreater attra6lions than those that lay before her. Perhaps\\na motive, as yet undeveloped, may have had something to\\ndo with this a(5l, a motive to be explained by what occurred\\nwithin a year after her arrival and settlement in her new home.\\nA short time before this voyage was undertaken, a young man\\nof much talent a native of Kelvedon in Essex, afterwards a\\nresident of Rotherhithe, in Surrey\u00c2\u00ae had appeared among the\\nQuakers of London, and attracted considerable notice as a\\npublic speaker. He had scarcely arrived at man s estate, yet\\nhe stood an accepted minister in expounding and defending\\nthe religious belief of the Society of Friends.\\nAn acquaintance and frequent visitor at the house of John\\nHaddon, an intimacy grew up between himself and the daugh-\\nter Elizabeth, which very naturally ripened into a stronger\\nfeeling.\\nThis young man was John Estaugh, born upon the second\\nmonth 23d day, 1676, at Kelvedon, a small town about fifty\\nmiles northeast of London. He became convinced of Friends\\nprinciples by hearing Francis Stamper of London preach at\\nthe funeral of a neighbor; and he appeared in the ministry\\nwhen about eighteen years of age. He was a member of the\\nCogshall Quarterly Meeting, in the county of his birth.\\nHe received a minute from that meeting, dated seventh\\nmonth 28th, 1700, allowing him to go to America on a\\nreligious visit. He was accompanied by John Richardson,\\nand arrived in the river Patuxent, Maryland, in the first\\nmonth of the following year.\\nThey travelled in Virginia together, visiting many meetings,\\nand returned through Pennsylvania to Philadelphia. It was\\nat this time that John Estaugh first met Elizabeth Haddon\\nafter her arrival, while she remained among her friends, and\\nbefore she took up her abode on the estate of her father in\\nNew Jersey. Perchance a mutual pleasure was manifested when\\n8 Lib. A, 03.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "114 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nthey met, that betrayed a latent feeling common to both; and,\\nalthough taught from childhood to avoid expressions of joy\\nor grief, yet, upon an occasion like this, such expressions\\nwere pardonable in those whose hopes so closely and warmly\\nsympathized.\\nWhile in Philadelphia, on this occasion, John Estaugh\\nthought it his duty to go back to Virginia, not feeling his\\nmind clear of that province.\\nSome doubts existed in the minds of John Richardson and\\nJohn Estaugh, as to the propriety of separating, and several\\nof the elders were convened and made acquainted with their\\nprospe6ts in this regard, and, after proper deliberation, the\\nwishes of John Estaugh were granted. He therefore separ-\\nated from John Richardson, and spent considerable time in\\nVirginia, preaching among the people scattered through those\\nwilderness countries.\\nIn the meantime, Elizabeth Haddon was making preparations\\nto occupy her new home and the appearance among them\\nof so young a female, who had crossed the ocean without\\nher parents, attra6led the attention of the hardy pioneers.\\nThe scenes before her must have contrasted strangely with\\nthose that surrounded her home in the suburbs of the great\\ncity of London. Here the prospe6live streets of the town\\nwere only defined by marks upon the trees of the forest, and\\nthe few scattered houses showed but little of the large city\\nthat now occupies the soil. The hill-side upon the Delaware\\nfront was yet full of caves, where lived the emigrants who had\\nnot means or opportunity to ere6l better dwellings; and the\\nstrange appearance of the natives must have filled her mind\\nwith misgivings as to the security of the new settlers.\\nFrancis Collins, the friend and companion of her father,\\nwho had settled at Mountwell, extended to her the hos-\\npitalities of his house, and, by his dire6lion and advice, con-\\ntrolled her in much of her future condu6l. In going to his\\nresidence, they crossed the river at the ferry kept by Daniel\\nCooper, and performed the remainder of the journey on horse-\\nback, as nothing more than a bridle path led from one settle-\\nment to another. This road passed through a continuous", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "ELIZABETH EST A UGH. 115\\nforest, save the few settlements at Newton there she was\\ngreeted by those who had preceded her to this new country,\\nand who listened to such information as she might give them\\nof friends left behind.\\nThe surroundings to her were all new and strange. Every\\nthing being in a state of nature, she at last came to realize the\\nprivations through which her associates had already passed,\\nand the difficulties that must beset her in this novel under-\\ntaking. In passing along they turned away from the road to\\nlook at the land purchased of Thomas Willis, where this\\nyouthful emigrant was to make her home in the future,\\nand where she expedled to dispense the hospitalities of her\\nhousehold, in a manner consistent with her condition in life\\nand her liberality of spirit.\\nTwo miles beyond, they reached Mountwell, where the\\nyet single daughters of her escort gave her that welcome\\nwhich she, in her lonely condition, could well appreciate\\nand the kind regard for her comfort that was extended to her\\nin their humble dwelling, was proportionate to that which she,\\nin after years, fully and gratefully returned.\\nIt has been generally believed that she erected the first house\\non this tradl of land, bringing with her much of the material\\nfrom England. This is an error, as a map of the land made\\nby Thomas Sharp in 1700 (which was before her arrival), proves\\nthat buildings were already on the land and it is supposable\\nthat she occupied those already there. John Willis, the locator\\nof the survey, no doubt, put the dwelling there and lived on the\\npremises some time, for fourteen years had elapsed between\\nthe date of the taking up and John Haddon s title. She\\nprobably enlarged and improved the house, so as to accord\\nwith her notions of convenience and comfort, and to receive\\nher friends in a proper manner; for it is known that she never\\nturned the stranger away from her door, or suffered her acquaint-\\nances to look for entertainment elsewhere.\\nThis house stood on the brow of a hill on the south side of\\nCooper s creek, at Cole s landing, about two miles from Had-\\ndonfield, in a commanding situation, and near that stream,\\n9 Lib. A, 80.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "ii6 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nwhich in those days was much used as a means of travel and,\\naccording to the custom of the times in giving a name to such\\nsettlements, it was called Haddonfield.\\nThis name was retained until the building of the new house\\nin 1 713, ere6led still nearer the village as it now stands; after\\nwhicli it was called Old Haddonfield, in order to distin-\\nguish it from the more modern and extensive settlement last\\nmentioned.\\nMrs. Maria Child, in her story which she called The Youth-\\nful Emigrant, of which Elizabeth Haddon is the heroine, says\\nthat John Estaugh did not visit her until the winter following\\nher arrival and settlement here. That John cultivated forbear-\\nance as one of the Christian virtues, and attended closely to\\nhis Master s work, there can be no doubt; but the fair authoress\\nhas little knowledge of human nature, if she supposed that so\\ngreat a temptation as a visit to this new home of Elizabeth\\n(which home, by the way, was not the greatest attra6lion to\\nthis place in the forest) could be resisted. The many associa-\\ntions that surrounded their friends in England, furnished subje6ls\\nfor conversation, interesting and agreeable, to say nothing of\\nthe new and wonderful things that met their observation at\\nalmost every step in their present situation. The meeting at\\nNewton needed some one to minister spiritual things to its few\\nattendants and who could blame him for being present occa-\\nsionally at their sittings? and, after these, for accompanying\\nhis friend to her residence, to continue their conversation over\\nher plentiful board\\nAgain, in weaving together the threads of her romance,\\nMrs. Child presents the scene in which these two persons\\nare depi6led as adjusting the saddle girths of the horse upon\\nwhich Elizabeth rode, as taking place while on their way\\nto attend the Quarterly Meeting of Friends at Salem and,\\nwhile this is being done, she represents the fair damsel as\\nbreaking to John a subje6l, that she believed she was dire6ted\\nin this manner to approach, regardless of the conventionalities\\nwhich generally govern in like cases. Without any desire to\\ncriticise or destroy the drift of this well told story, we must\\nJO Lib. No. II, 113.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "ELIZABETH EST A UGH. 117\\nsuggest that the probability that these long journeys were\\naccomplished by water, must interfere somewhat with the\\nromance thrown around it, and mar the certainty of the fa6ls\\ninvolved, which, there can be no doubt, the authoress designed\\nto observe. For many years after the settlement of the country,\\nno extended journey was attempted, except by water, where the\\nplace to be reached was near a navigable stream; and, in the\\ncase in question, the facilities for traveling from Philadelphia to\\nSalem by packets were sujffiiciently attractive to avoid horseback\\nriding for so long a distance. Upon the last point, the delib-\\nerate condu6l of Friend Estaugh may have been rather slow for\\nElizabeth s impulsive nature, and, although something had been\\nevasively said upon the delicate subje6l, yet their probable sepa-\\nration for a time rendered it excusable on her part to wish to\\nhave the matter settled. It was a commendable proceeding;\\nand how many suitable companions by either sex might be\\nsecured, if more speed were observed by the one, and more\\ncourage by the other\\nWhether John performed this part of the courtship awk-\\nwardly, or whether Elizabeth showed her courage and good\\nsense by a6ling as before mentioned, matters not, for the mar-\\nriage was accomplished at her residence on the first day of the\\neighth month, 1702, in the presence of a committee of Friends,\\nand of a few invited guests. Among the guests several of the\\naborigines might have been seen. Their knowledge of the\\nbride was attained by hearing the story of her life from\\nher own lips, which excited their admiration for her courage\\namong them a leading virtue and she commanded their regard\\nand respeft ever after. They were dressed after their peculiar\\nstyle, in garments made especially for the occasion, displaying\\nupon these the rude taste of their people, and their interest in\\nthe present event.\\nTheir apparent indifference to the scene before them was\\nmuch like the calm demeanor of the rest of the company\\nyet they were keen observers of all that passed, and supposed\\nthe ceremony had but commenced, when they were told that\\nII Friends Memorials.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "ii8 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nthe brave pale-face girl and John Estaugh were husband\\nand wife, until death should separate them.\\nThe solemnizing of marriages in public meetings was not\\ngenerally observed in early times; for what reason does not\\nalways appear, yet such was the fa6l, as is seen in the record\\nreferring to those dates.\\nSoon after this marriage had taken place, John Estaugh\\nbecame the attorney of John Haddon, and took charge of\\nhis landed interests in New Jersey; which had become large\\nby location and purchase, and required much of his time and\\nattention. He, however, continued an acceptable minister among\\nhis people, and made many religious visits during his life.\\nHe was also, for several years, agent for an association in\\nLondon, known as the Pennsylvania Land Company, the\\nlast settlement with the society having been made by his widow\\nas his executrix two years after his death.\\nAs the country filled with settlers, mechanics became more\\nplentiful, and building materials were more readily obtained the\\neredlion of a new house was contemplated, more suitable for the\\naccommodation of their many friends and consistent with their\\nwealth and position in society. Another site was sele6led,\\nand, in 1713, a brick house was built, a short distance from\\nthe village of Haddonfield, where the present residence of\\nIsaac H. Wood now stands. This was on a tra6l of land\\nwhich John Haddon purchased of Richard Mathews, and,\\nafter the house was finished, it was called New Haddon-\\nfield. In a few years, however, the name was lost to both\\nplaces, and attached to the village which stands partly on the\\nlast named tra6l of land. The house was substantially built,\\nand bore the evidence of wealth and taste in the owner it\\nwas designed to secure the comfort of the occupants, so far as\\nthe knowledge of architedlure and convenient arrangement\\nwent at that day.^ Among other things, and what would\\nseem strange at this time, a distillery was attached to the\\npremises, and the smith shop which was there before the pur-\\nchase by John Haddon, was kept up, and the tools were\\n12 Lib. Gi, 203 Lib. AAA, 245. 14 Lib. B, 44, Woodbury.\\n13 Lib. Q, 460. 15 Lib. No. 11, 113.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "ELIZABETH ESTAUGH. 119\\ndisposed of by Elizabeth Estaugh in her will.^ This stood\\nnear the jun6lion of Tanner street and the turnpike road,\\nand was in existence within the memory of some now living.\\nThe garden was surrounded by a brick wall, part of which\\nis standing at this time. In the yard are the yew trees, planted\\nby the hands of the first residents they are the admiration\\nof every visitor to this interesting spot. One hundred and fifty\\nyears leave them as almost the only monuments of the liberality\\nand taste of those who originated this place, and, fortunately, they\\nhave stood through successive generations to conne6l the present\\nwith the past. The yard and garden show the care and judg-\\nment exercised by this remarkable woman and, what is com-\\nmendable in the present owner, everything that is known to\\nhave originated with her, is preserved with scrupulous care.\\nThe old house was destroyed by fire in 1842. To the anti-\\nquarian this place has much that is attra6live, for here may\\nbe found those relics of by-gone days that have escaped the\\ntoo often vandal hand of progress relics which grow more\\ninteresting with their age.\\nThe neighborhood of New Haddonfield was gradually being\\noccupied with new comers, most of whom were Friends, when\\nthe propriety of establishing a new meeting was considered\\namong them the Newton Meeting being several miles away,\\nwith miserably bad roads to travel most of the year. About\\n1720, and perhaps earlier, a meeting house was built near the\\nKing s road, and meeting was regularly continued there. The\\nenergy and liberality of Elizabeth Estaugh were again shown\\nin putting this meeting on a permanent basis, for, in 1721, she\\nwent to England, and procured from her father a deed for one\\nacre of land, and on this stood the new building, as a place of\\npublic worship.\\nThe quaint description of the boundaries no doubt originated\\nwith Thomas Sharp, who prepared the deed before it was taken\\nacross the ocean for the signature of the donor; and, as one\\nof the witnesses to this document, stands the name of Elizabeth\\nEstaugh, in her own peculiar style of penmanship. The trus-\\n16 Lib. No. II, 113.\\n17 The Friend, Vol. 4, 206.\\n18 Sharp s Book, 43, O. S. G.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "I20 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ntees were William Evans, Joseph Cooper, Jr., and John Cooper.\\nIn this way and at this time, originated the Friends Meeting at\\nHaddonfield, where it has until the present continued it\\nbeing, until the year 1818, the only place of public religious\\nworship in the village.\\nBy deed of gift, in 1722, John Haddon conveyed all the land\\nwhich he had purchased of Richard Mathews, to John and\\nElizabeth Estaugh, and in the deed called the tra61; New\\nHaddonfield; in 1732, they conveyed one and a quarter\\nacres adjoining the lot where the meeting house stood, to\\nJohn Mickle, Thomas Stokes, Timothy Matlack, Constantine\\nWood, Joshua Lord, Joseph Tomlinson, Ephraim Tomlinson,\\nJoseph Kaighn, John HoUinshead, Josiah Foster and William\\nFoster, as trustees to and for the use of the Society of\\nFriends.\\nIn 1763, the trust was continued by deed from Ephraim\\nTomlinson, Josiah and William Foster, to John Gill, Joshua\\nStokes, Nathaniel Lippincott, Samuel Webster, John Glover,\\nJames Cooper, John Lord, John E. Hopkins, John Brown,\\nIsaac Ballinger and David Cooper, as trustees for the same\\npurpose.\\nIn 1828, all these trustees were dead, and Samuel Webster, as\\nthe oldest son of Samuel Webster (one of the trustees afore-\\nsaid), continued the trust to other members of said meeting for\\nlike purpose. The first meeting-house was built of logs; it\\nwas much larger and more confortable than the old house at\\nNewton, but every part of the work was scrupulously plain, and\\nwithout paint or ornament of any kind. It stood upon the\\nsite of the brick house that was ere6led in 1760 and taken\\ndown in 1852, and, when the brick house was built, the old one\\nwas removed to the opposite side of the Ferry road and used\\nas a stable. If some person, curious in such things, had made a\\nfaithful sketch of the old log meeting-house, as it appeared in its\\nlatter days, and the sketch were in existence at this time, some\\nenterprising photographer would find for the duplicates a ready\\nsale in this region of country.\\n19 Lib. B, 44, Woodbury,\\n20 Lib. VV, 322, Woodbury.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "ELIZABETH EST A UGH. 121\\nJohn Haddon died in London, in 1723. In his will he men-\\ntions that his wife had just died, with whom he had lived for\\nforty-seven years a remarkable clause in such a document, but\\nplaced there to perpetuate his affe6lion for her, the companion\\nof a life time.\\nBy his will he devised his entire estate (except a few small\\nlegacies) to his two children, and made them executrixes. The\\nestate, however, was to vest as a joint tenancy to defeat which,\\nBenjamin and Sarah Hopkins, and John and Elizabeth Estaugh\\nconveyed said real estate to John Gill (who was their cousin\\nand resided at Haddonfield), in 1726, in trust for certain\\nuses.\\nIn this a61;, that regard for each other which existed between\\nElizabeth Estaugh and her husband, and which had been shown\\nfrom the first, was again manifested for, in the deed of re-con-\\nveyance from John Gill to them in 1727^^ for one-half of the\\nsame land, the estate was made to vest in the survivor, thus\\nshowing that any advantage that might be derived from the\\nlaw regulating the descents of land, should not defeat the wishes\\nof the owners.\\nThe husband, however, died first, and the entire estate passed\\nto Elizabeth Estaugh in fee simple, as if the deed had not been\\nexecuted.\\nJohn Estaugh had some skill in chemistry and medicine, which\\nhe made useful in his neighborhood, especially among the poor.\\nHe traveled in the ministry, beside writing many letters to\\nmeetings in other parts; and, while in London in 1722, he\\naddressed a long epistle to the Quarterly Meeting of Salem\\nand Newton of vi hich he was a member. His writings were\\ncolle(?ted and printed in 1744, by Benjamin Franklin in\\nPhiladelphia.\\nHe died in Tortula, one of the West India Islands, on\\nthe sixth of the tenth month, 1742, while on a religious visit\\nthere. The brick tomb eredled by order of his widow over his\\nremains which lay at that place, has long since gone to decay.\\n21 Liber No. 3, 58. 24 Liber W, 254.\\n22 Lib. D,4i3, 415. 25 Lib. No. 4, 357. Friends Memorial.\\n23 Lib. D, 419.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "122 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nhe being only known by the people there as a stranger, who, in\\nthe course of events, was soon lost sight of and forgotten.\\nNo better evidence need be had of the respe6t in which he\\nwas held by the community in which he lived, than the mem-\\norial set forth in the minutes of the Monthly Meeting at Had-\\ndonfield, immediately after his death. While mourning his loss\\nto themselves as a valuable member, it bears witness of his\\nconsistent religious life and usefulness among them, and added\\nto this is the testimony of his widow, recording the confidence\\nof a companion who knew him as a man and a Christian in the\\nevery-day walks of life. This sincere, but subdued expression,\\ncoming from a bereaved wife, proves that the traits of a true\\nprofessor, had controlled and governed him in all his intercourse\\nwith jhis fellow men. By his will he gave all his estate to his\\nwidow.\\nElizabeth Estaugh survived her husband some twenty years,\\nand lived in the house built in 1713, in the same manner as\\nduring his life, entertaining Friends in their visits to the various\\nmeetings in the neighborhood. Her consistent Christian pro-\\nfession showed itself in many ways, not the least of which was\\nher kindness toward the poor of the surrounding country,\\nobserving the Bible injunction of secrecy in this regard.\\nThe farm, of which about one hundred acres were arable\\nland, was under her own care, and received her personal\\nattention. Having no children of her own, she adopted Eben-\\nezer Hopkins, a son of her sister Sarah, who came to this\\ncountry, was educated by, and resided with, his aunt at New\\nHaddonfield, and who, in 1737, married Sarah, a daughter of\\nJames Lord, of Woodbury creek, and died intestate in 1757.^*^\\nIn 1752, his aunt conveyed to him a tra6l of land fronting\\non Cooper s creek, in Haddon township, generally known\\nas the Ann Burr farm, which adjoined other lands owned\\nby him at that date, and derived from the same source. On\\nthis estate he probably resided, and, in addition to his agri-\\ncultural pursuits, turned his attention to the surveying, the\\nlaying out and the conveying of land.\\n26 Lib. No. 9, 38.\\n27 Lib. S, No. 6, 124, O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "ELIZABETH EST A UGH. 123\\nHis wife survived him, and the following named children\\nJohn E., who married Sarah, a daughter of William Mickle;\\nHaddon, who married Hannah, a daughter of Joshua Stokes\\nEbenezer, who married Ann, a daughter of William Albertson;\\nElizabeth E., who married John Mickle; Sarah, who married\\nCaleb Cresson; Mary, who married Joshua Cresson, and Ann,\\nwho married Marmaduke Burr. From these came the Hopkins\\nfamily that is now spread through many parts of the United\\nStates one branch of which still remains in the neighborhood\\nof the first settlement, owning, however, but little of the\\noriginal estate.\\nAfter the death of her husband, Sarah Hopkins removed to\\nHaddonfield, and occupied a house and lot, purchased in\\n1752 by Elizabeth Estaugh of the estate of Samuel Mickle,\\ndeceased.^* The house stood on the westerly side of the Main\\nstreet, on the site of the present residence of Sarah Hopkins,\\nthe widow of a lineal descendant of Ebenezer and Sarah. It\\nwas removed some years since, and now stands on the north\\nside of Ellis street, owned and occupied by Mary Allen. It\\nis a small, hipped-roofed building, and, although somewhat\\naltered, yet retains much of its antiquated appearance.\\nNo other building is now left that can be associated with\\nElizabeth Estaugh. Here, doubtless, she made daily visits to\\nthe widow and her children, looking closely after the comfort\\nof the one, and the moral training and education of the others.\\nIt is evident that she took much interest in them, since in these\\norphans she saw the perpetuity of her large landed estate in her\\nown blood, and the tone of her will indicates a long settled\\nintention in this regard.\\nIn this house resided her only collateral descendants, and\\nthose who were to her the continuation of her family in\\nAmerica.\\nThere was perhaps no a6l of Elizabeth Estaugh during her\\nlife, that showed more of her business qualifications than her\\nlast will and testament, which bears date November 30th, ](i\\\\?\\nIn this is exhibited a thorough knowledge of her estate, both\\n28 Lib. Q, 480.\\n29 Lib No. II, 113", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "124 FIJiST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nreal and personal and in her disposition thereof is manifested\\nconsummate judgment and sound discretion. She provided for\\nher nearest relatives, but did not forget the humblest of her\\nservants.\\nHer real estate was principally given to the children of her\\ndeceased nephew, Ebenezer Hopkins, while some portion of\\nher personal property she gave to others of her connections.\\nIn disposing of some of her personal estate to the single daugh-\\nters of her nephew, she provided that they should marry in\\naccordance with the order of Friends, or the legacy should\\nfollow another diredlion, a contingency that might press hard\\nupon some of these young girls, yet it showed the bent of her\\nmind, and the strength of her prejudices in favor of her relig-\\nious belief.\\nThis remarkable woman died March 30th, 1762, in the eigh-\\ntieth year of her age.^ It is unfortunate that she did not, near\\nthe close of her life, prepare or dicJrtate her autobiography, so\\nthat the incidents of her eventful career could have been pre-\\nserved, as she would not then have left the most interesting and\\nromantic parts of her life to vague and uncertain tradition.\\nOf men s chara6lers much can be gathered from their partici-\\npation in public affairs, from their condu6l in the purchase and\\nsale of real estate, from the more general knowledge of them\\nin the community, and, finally, in the disposition of their\\nproperty by will but of femalei whose sphere of a6tion is\\nmore limited, whose duties are quite as important yet less\\nconspicuous, and whose influence may be observed in all classes\\nof a community, but not always acknowledged by the stronger\\nsex, the chances of securing a faithful history are at best uncer-\\ntain and perhaps erroneous. This may be said of the subje6l\\nof this sketch, who, although forced to assume responsibilities\\nthat many men would shrink from, still always exhibited the\\ncharacteristics of the true woman. The estimation in which\\nshe was held, appears in the notice taken of her death by the\\nmeeting of which she Avas a member; in which her valuable\\nservices are acknowledged, and by which it is shown that she\\nwas adorned with every Christian virtue. Her remains were\\n30. Friends Memorials.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "ELIZABETH EST A UGH. 125\\ninterred in the yard at Haddonfield, but nothing marks the\\nspot of her burial.\\nWho, at this day, would not be gratified if some monument,\\nhowever rough the stone or rude the letters, had been erefted\\nto show where were laid the remains of Elizabeth Estaugh,\\nwhose life was spent in contributing to the good of those\\naround her, and whose labor in well-doing is felt and appre-\\nciated unto the present day.\\nIs it not a noble thing to die\\nAs dies the Christian with his armor on\\nWhat is the hero s clarion, though its blast\\nRing with the mastery ot a world, to this?", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "JOHN GILL.\\nJOHN GILL came to New Jersey under the patronage and\\nguardianship of Elizabeth Estaugh. The blood relationship\\nthat existed between these two persons may be inferred from\\nexpressions that occur in the various papers of Elizabeth\\nEstaugh, in reference to John Gill, and in her will, particularly,\\nshe names him as \u00e2\u0096\u00a0her kinsman. His parents resided jn or\\nnear London, and his mother was probably a sister of John\\nHaddon, father of Elizabeth.\\nSome of the name lived in Cumberland, others in Cornwall,\\nDevonshire and Huntingdonshire being Friends they were\\nsubje6led to lines and imprisonments, for refusing to pay tithes,\\nor attend the national church, and to do other things required\\nunder the laws then in existence.\\nHenry Gill lived at Godalming, in the county of Surrey,\\nLondon, in 1670, and was fined on two occasions for not\\nattending church at Guilford. This was in the same part of\\nthat city in which John Haddon resided, and this Henry Gill\\nwas probably the father of John.\\nThis, however, is but conje6lure, and, until a faithful search\\nbe made among the records of the meetings in that part of\\nLondon, may so remain. The instances are but few in which\\nthe genealogies of families in America can be properly con-\\nne6led with those in England, a defe6l always to be regretted.\\nJohn Gill was a young man of considerable education, which\\nwas the exception at that day he certainly had the confidence", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "128 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nand good opinion of his uncle and cousin, this good opinion\\nbeing assured by the gift of a tra6l of land made to him by John\\nHaddon, which gift was bestowed, in all probability in order\\nthat he might participate in the political affairs of the colony,\\nthen in much confusion.\\nThe time of his coming over is in doubt, and that of his age\\nat such coming; yet enough may be seen upon the records to\\nprove that he must have followed his cousin very closely.\\nIn 1709, he was appointed administrator of the estate of\\nWilliam Higgs, deceased, of Newton township, conclusive\\nevidence that he had arrived before that date, and also had\\nattained his majority. So far as noticed, this is the first recor,d\\nof his name, and has much to do with settling the question\\nhere mooted.^\\nIn connection with John Estaugh, the management of John\\nHaddon s estate here was controlled by him, and, no doubt,\\nmany of the locations returned to John Haddon were seleifled\\nthrough his advice and observation.\\nJohn and Elizabeth Estaugh, and Benjamin and Sarah Hop-\\nkins conveyed all their landed estate to him in 1726, that\\nwhich was in New Jersey being large and valuable. It was\\ndone to defeat the joint tenancy created under their father s\\nwill, and to place each share within the absolute control of its\\nowner. After the decease of John Estaugh, he became the\\nattorney and adviser of his widow, and managed her large\\nestate in a proper and acceptable manner. It is needless to\\nfollow this line to prove the confidence that existed between\\nElizabeth Estaugh and John Gill, for, during his life, she took\\nno step in the disposition of her estate, without some a6l of his\\nappearing in connedtion therewith.\\nAs to his position as a church member, he may also be\\njudged by the intimacy between his cousin and himself; for\\nit can be accepted as a truth, that Elizabeth measured every\\none according to the religious tenets to which she so rigidly\\nadhered, and which were laid down by the great prototype and\\nleader in her belief, George Fox.\\n1 Gloucester Files, 1718.\\n2 Lib. D, 413, 415.\\n3 Lib. D, 419.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "JOHN GILL. 129\\nIn 1723, commences the record of the proceedings of the\\ntown meetings of Newton, in a book which Thomas Sharp\\nsays that he was ordered to purchase, and for which he paid\\nnine shilKngs. The first entry is this:\\nAt a town meeting held at Newton for the township, the\\ntwelfth day of the first month called March, 1723, in order\\nto choose officers for the ensuing year, Joseph Cooper and\\nJohn Gill were continued Overseers of the Poor, and having\\nmade up their accounts there is found to remain in bank for ye\\nservice the sum of six pounds fourteen shillings and ten pence.\\nThe overseers of the poor appear to have had charge of all\\nthe moneys of the township at that time, paying out the same\\nand rendering a yearly account of such disbursements. This\\nwas continued for several years, which made the office one of\\nthe most responsible and important in the township. But John\\nGill withdrew from that position after the next year, the reason\\nfor which appears in a minute made in the book. The discharge\\nof this duty he, no doubt, considered outside of his office, and\\nthat the best way to avoid a repetition thereof was to resign.\\nThe entry, as made, is as follows\\nAt said meeting it was agreed yt Jonathan Bolton give\\nsome hay and corn to Ann Morris s horse, in order to make\\nhim capable to carry her to ye place from whence she came,\\nand that she stay but until the seventeenth day of this instant\\nand after that the overseers of the poor force her away if she\\nrefuse to go and that what charge is expended in ye perfedting\\nof it shall be allowed by this meeting.\\nWhat became of Ann Morris or her horse, does not appear\\nfrom the record but, it being a new feature in the duties of\\nthe overseers of the poor, neither Joseph Cooper or John Gill\\naccepted the position for several years after that time.\\nWhen John Gill died, in 1749,* his son John was old enough\\nto take his place in the several positions which he, the father,\\nhad been called to fill, and, more particularly, in the manage-\\nment of the estate of Elizabeth Estaugh, which was constantly\\n4 Lib. No. 6, 231.\\n9", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "130 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nincreasing, and which required his personal attention and good\\njudgment; and, although Ebenezer Hopkins, her nephew, had\\nmarried in 1737 and settled near her residence, yet John Gill,\\nthe son, appears to have had the same oversight of her estate\\nthat his father had during his life time.\\nHe was a much more a6live business man than his father;\\nthis appears by his location, purchase and sale of lands in\\nvarious sections of the country, by his participation in political\\naffairs, and by the discharge of many duties involving the con-\\nfidence of his neighbors and the public. He was one of the\\npersons sele6led by Elizabeth Estaugh as executors of her will,\\nwhich trust, thus bestowed, evidenced her regard for his capa-\\nbility and honesty.\\nThe first grant of land made by John Haddon to John Gill\\nwas in 17 14; it was for two hundred and sixty acres of the\\nsurvey which he had purchased of Thomas Willis, a son of\\nJohn, in 1698.^ This land was situated in Waterford township,\\nnow Delaware, on both sides of the Haddonfield and Berlin\\nroad, and near the head of what was formerly known as Swett s\\nmill pond, now owned by Joseph C. Stafford, and others.\\nThe conveyance says that the land was then in the occupation\\nof John Gill, the inference of which is that he resided thereon;\\nif so, he lived in a small, hipped-roof frame house, which\\nstood on the north side of the stream that falls into the mill\\npond a house many years since torn down. It was surrounded\\nby locust trees, some of which yet stand and mark the spot\\nwhere his dwelling was situated. Although this place was in\\nthe midst of a forest, yet he was not entirely without neighbors.\\nWilliam Bates had settled on Tindall s run, about one mile\\nwest, where he was living with his Indian wife. George and\\nTimothy Matlack, who purchased land the same year, had their\\nplantations about two miles south and Joseph Cooper had\\ncleared some of the land given to him by his father, and had\\nbuilt a house on the opposite side of the stream, not far from\\nthe residence of John Gill. This was before his marriage, but\\nthe comforts of his bachelor home were, no doubt, looked after\\nbv some elderly female unknown to the present generation.\\n5 Lib. A, 13,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "JOHN GILL. 131\\nPreviously to the year 1739, this tra6l of land passed into\\nthe possession of Bartholomew Horner, who, with his wife\\nElizabeth, conveyed it to their son Jacob. Jacob died intes-\\ntate, and it descended to his oldest son, Isaac. He conveyed\\nto his two brothers, Nathan and Jacob, and the first conveyed\\nhis interest to the last in 1771. In Jacob s family it remained\\nfor many years, but it now has passed out of the name.\\nThe next residence of John Gill in Waterford township was\\nnear the north side of the south branch of Cooper s creek,\\nwhere the King s highway crossed the same, and where the\\nroad leading to Edward Clemenz s landing turned to the\\nwestward from that thoroughfare. This property is now owned\\nby James H. Billington.\\nIt was a public place at that time, the landing being the\\nhighest on the creek; and thither all the wood and lumber in\\nthe region round about, intended for the Philadelphia market,\\nwere taken to be transported in vessels. The remains of the\\nold wharf may yet be seen near the forks of the creek j and\\nthis place in the days of our ancestors was the scene of much\\nbusiness adlivity, occasioned by the teams in bringing, and the\\nboats in taking away the only articles of sale and exchange\\namong the people at that time. After 1715, it was known as\\nAxford s landing, and it still retains the name; but some of the\\noldest inhabitants must be found, before the inquirer can know\\nwhere to look for that place.\\nIn a deed from William Lovejoy to Thomas Kendall, in\\n1697, a tra6l of land was conveyed, situated at a place called\\nUxbridge, lying on the south branch of Cooper s creek on\\nthe road leading from Salem to Burlington.\\nThis tra6l of land was near where John Gill lived, and the\\nname was probably given in expe6lation of a town springing\\nup at that point, several years before there was any thought\\nthat Haddonfield, as a village, would have a name or an\\nexistence. The description in the deed is conclusive as to\\nthe locality, and, although affixed twenty-five years before the\\npresent name was attached to the village, yet it never obtained\\nany notoriety, and seems to have no history except in the old\\n6 Lib, B2, 645.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "132 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nconveyance above referred to. Although the name may more\\njparticularly apply to the land on the north side of the stream,\\nyet, if a few houses had been built in 1697, and the improve-\\nments extended to the south side of the creek, the chances are\\nthat our forefathers would have adhered to the original title\\ngiven at that period, and that the name of Haddonfield would\\nnever have been known, except as attached to the two residences\\nof Elizabeth Estaugh. From this it may be inferred that\\nWilliam Lovejoy came from the town of Uxbridge, which is\\nin Middlesex, England, about twenty miles* from London, and\\nthat he wished to keep the name of his native place in remem-\\nbrance, like many of his associates who came to New Jersey\\nabout the same time.\\nIn 1 7 18, Jolin Gill married Mary Heritage, a daughter of\\nJoseph and granddaughter of Richard Heritage, the first of\\nthat name in these parts. Richard was a carpenter, and came\\nfrom Brayle s Inn, Warwickshire, England. He purchased rights\\nof Edward Byllynge, in 1684, and, upon his arrival here, made\\na location of land on the north side of the south branch of\\nPenisaukin creek, in Burlington county, and called his new\\nhome Hatten New Garden. He purchased other rights,\\nand made other locations in that region. None of the land, as\\noriginally held by him, has been owned by the family for many\\nyears; and none of the name reside in that section of the\\ncountry at the present time.\\nRichard Heritage died in 1702, without a will, and such parts\\nof his land as he had not previously conveyed to his children,\\npassed to his oldest son John, as his heir at law. His children\\nwere John, who married Sarah Slocum in 1706; Joseph, who\\nmarried Hannah Allen in 1697; Sarah, who married William\\nClark in 1687; and Mary.\\nJohn died intestate in 17 16, leaving two daughters,^ Mary,\\nwho married Hasker Newberry, and Naomi, who removed to\\nBlanden county, North Carolina, and died a single woman.\\nHe lived on the homestead property after his father s death and\\nuntil his own decease, but his descendants never occupied it.\\n6 Lib. No. 8, 358. 9 Lib. AL, 456.\\n7 Lib. G2, 6q. 10 Lib. No. 2, 82.\\n8 Lib. Gi^ 141.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "JOHN GILL. 133\\nJoseph s father conveyed considerable land to him, much of\\nwhich he sold. It lay on both sides of the creek, and, at the\\npresent time, it is divided into several valuable farms. The part\\nwhich he occupied, was in Burlington county, and was bounded\\nby the creek. He died in the year 1756, leaving a will.^^ His\\nchildren were Richard, who married Sarah Whitall and Sarah\\nTindall; Joseph, who married Ruth Haines; Benjamin, who\\nmarried Kesiah Matlack; John, who married Sarah Hugg;\\nMary, who married John Gill and John Thorne; and Hannah,\\nwho married Roberts.\\nJohn and Mary Gill had but two children, John, who mar-\\nried Amy, a daughter of David Davis of Salem county, in 1741,\\nand Hannah, who married Thomas Redman of Haddonfield in\\n1737- John Gill died in 1749, and his widow married John\\nThorne in 1750.\\nIn 1728, John and Elizabeth Estaugh conveyed to John Gill\\ntwo tra6ls of land, one in Haddonfield, and the other (_meadow)\\nlying in Waterford (now Delaware) township. The first\\nnamed tra6l was bounded by the westerly side of the King s\\nroad, and extended from Cooper s creek nearly to the Metho-\\ndist church and contained eighty-seven acres. Four years after,\\nthe same persons granted John Gill three other lots, the largest\\nof which joined the last named on the southwest it is now\\ndivided by Grove street into nearly equal parts. The second\\nof these is owned by Rennels Fowler and the devisees of\\nJohn Clement, deceased, on the front but nearly all the original\\nlines have been obliterated. The third lot passed into the pos-\\nsession of his daughter, and upon it the old Thomas Redman\\nmansion formerly stood.\\nThese grants were for love and affe6lion, which the grant-\\nors bore the grantee. Part of this estate still remains in the\\nfamily, and is now owned by John Gill, whose lineage can be\\nreadily traced to the first of the name in this region.\\nThe first tra6l of land, as herein named, John Gill sold in a\\nshort time. He soon after came within the bounds of Newton\\ntownship, where he made his permanent residence upon the\\nII Lib. G3, 182. 13 Lib. E, 373.\\nX2 Lib. No. 8, 358. 14 Lib. E, 375.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "134 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nestate conveyed to him for a nominal consideration by John and\\nElizabeth Estaugh, between whom and himself there existed the\\npleasantest social intimacy.\\nThis tra6l of land, or a large part thereof, was an open field,\\ncovered with wigwams and cabins of the natives. Prior to\\n1720, John Gill had enclosed part of it, and had the land\\nunder cultivation for, in the description of the lot of land\\nconveyed by John Haddon to Friends for the meeting-house\\nlot, John Gill s fence is named as part of the boundary, which\\nfence stood near where the turnpike road leaves the main street\\nof Haddonfield.^^ On this field, and perhaps at John Gill s\\nhouse, were held the ele6lions for members of the Assembly,\\nannually. The.se ele6lions were condu6led in accordance to\\nlaw, but they would appear strange to us of these latter days.\\nBy the a6t of 1682, the freeholders could meet at any place\\nwhich they chose, and elecSl the members in any manner thought\\nbest at the time. The time, however, fixed by law, was the\\nfourteenth day of the second month (being the 14th day of\\nApril) of each year. This law was changed, and the sheriff,\\nor some other person appointed by the governor, was authorized\\nto take the ballot box from place to place within the county,\\nwith two other persons sele6led by the candidates to a6l as\\nofficers of eledlion. The consent of the candidates to remove\\nfrom the place last sele6led, was required, but the rule gener-\\nally required two days; at the end of that time, the polls were\\nchanged to some other desirable locality, within the county and\\nconvenient for the people. To accomplish an ele6lion there-\\nfore, several days were consumed, as the territory of Gloucester\\nwas large, Atlantic and Camden counties then being within the\\nbounds of the old bailiwick.\\nAnother curious feature of these ele6lioriS was the few votes\\nthen polled. In 1737, there was but nine hundred and thirty\\nwhite male persons above the age of sixteen, within the limits\\nof the county it may readily be seen how light the canvass\\nwas, and how few the inhabitants, even after some fifty years\\nfrom the first settlement. The voting was done by voice, and\\nnot by ballot, as now the name of the voter and that of the\\n15 Sharp s Book, 43, O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "JOHN GILL. 135\\nperson voted for, were recorded and copied for any person\\nwilling to pay for the same publicity thus being given to the\\na 5l of each person, a peculiarity that would not be allowed\\nat this time. The penalties against bribery and corruption\\nwere severe; but it is supposable that chicanery and deception\\nwere winked at among the ele6lors, and that every kind of\\nexpedient was used by one party to defeat the other, each\\narguing, no doubt, that, unless their opponents were defeated,\\nthe country would be utterly ruined.\\nGeorge Fox, the founder of Quakerism, during his travels in\\nAmerica in 1672, in going from Maryland to New York, passed\\nthrough West New Jersey, and was, on several occasions, enter-\\ntained by the Indians. It is well known that the Indian trail,\\nfirst traveled by the whites from Salem to Amboy, crossed\\nGloucester county near where Haddonfield now stands, and\\nthat the same trail was used for many years after the earliest\\nsettlements. Along that path George Fox and his associates\\nmust have traveled, and it is no stretch of fancy to say that\\nthey were entertained by the natives who lived at the Great\\nFields, now the town aforesaid. In his journal he says:\\nWe came one night to an Indian town and lay all night at\\nthe king s house, who was a very pretty man. Both he and\\nhis wife received us very lovingly, and his attendants (such as\\nthey were) were very respe6lfull to us. They laid mats for us\\nto lie on but provisions were very short with them, having\\ncaught but little that day.\\nWhether the king, whose fine appearance and noble bearing\\nattradled the attention of this remarkable man, resided here or\\nnot, cannot be known at this late day. It is, however, a pleas-\\nant incident in the early history of the village to associate his\\nmovements in this conne6lion.\\nIn the year 1740, John Gill, as attorney for the heirs-at-law\\nof Joseph Elkinton, deceased, went to England to recover an\\nestate claimed by them, and at that time remaining unsettled.\\nThis property was situated in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire,\\nwhere suits at law were prosecuted for obtaining possession\\nthereof; which, after several years of litigation, proved sue-", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "136 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ncessful. The children of Joseph Elkinton, who was a son of\\nGeorge, the first comer to New Jersey of that name, were\\nMary, the wife of David Stratton, of Evesham, Burlington\\ncounty, N. J. Ann, the wife of Stephen Brooks, of the same\\nplace Elizabeth, wife of John Lippincott, also of the same\\nplace Frances and Amy Elkinton. Numerous affidavits were\\ntaken here and appear on record, showing whence and when\\nGeorge Elkinton emigrated to New Jersey, whom he married,\\nand many other particulars necessary to conne6l the claimants\\nhere with the family remaining in England.^\u00c2\u00ae The matter was\\nfiercely contested in the courts, consuming much time and\\nmoney before its conclusion. The account book of John Gill\\nrelating to this transadlion, is still preserved in the family,\\nshowing the care and precision observed by him in rendering\\na statement of his proceedings in the premises.\\nDuring his absence, his wife Mary and son John, a6ting by\\nletters of attorney, sold a lot of land in Haddonfield to Timothy\\nMatlack (1744), and had general oversight of his affairs here-\\nabout. While living there (1746), he purchased a trail of\\nland of John Cox, also a resident of London, lying on the\\nsouth side of the south branch of Cooper s creek about two\\nmiles from Haddonfield. The next year after the purchase, he\\ndeeded this survey to his son John, a part of which has remained\\nin the family and name to the present day. The old Salem\\nroad passed through this trad, and the second John sold most\\nof that which lay west of the same. Like many other such\\npieces of land, the old lines, owing to the division, sale and\\nexchange of property, have become entirely unknown to this\\ngeneration.\\nThe account book before mentioned shows that John Gill,\\nwhile residing in London, frequently paid his brother William\\nfor diet and lodging, proving that there were others of the\\nname and family in that city. He never returned to the land\\nof his adoption, but died in London.\\nThe children of John and Amy Gill were Mary, who married\\nJacob Roberts; Sarah, who married Job Whitall; Amy, who\\nmarried Joab Wills Elizabeth, who married Jacob Burrough\\n16 Lib. AAA, 229.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "JOHN GILL. 137\\nJohn, who married Anna Smith and Mercy, who married\\nSamuel Abbott.\\nAmy deceased, and, in 1767, he married Abigail HiUman,\\nwidow of Daniel and daughter of Samuel Nicholson. She\\ndied without issue, and, in 1781, he married Sarah Pritchett,\\nwidow of Josiah and daughter of John Cowperthwaite. There\\nwas no issue by the last marriage. John died in 1794. A\\nnoticeable feature in the genealogy of this family is that, for\\nseveral generations, there has been but one son, to whom has\\nalways been given the christian name of the first comer, which\\nhas limited the surname of the branch of the family hereabout\\nto but few persons.\\nThomas Redman, who married Hannah, should be noticed\\nin this connexion. He was a son of Thomas, one of the first\\nsettlers in the city of Philadelphia, and one of the leading\\nmechanics at that time. In 171 2, he was a member of the\\ncity council, and participated much in the affairs of the colony\\nduring William Penn s residence there.\\nThe son was apprenticed to a druggist, and, upon attaining\\nhis majority, removed to Haddonfield, and continued the same\\nbusiness. He was held in great respect among Friends, and\\ntraveled much as a minister in that religious denomination.\\nHannah, his wife, died, leaving three children, Mary, who\\nmarried Mark Miller; Thomas, who married Mercy Davis in\\n1747, of Salem county; and John, who married Sarah Branson.\\nHe married Mary a second wife, and died in 1766,\\nleaving a will, in which he disposed of a large amount of real\\nand personal property; the appraisement alone amounting to\\nmore than five thousand pounds, sterling. There was no issue\\nby the last marriage.\\nThe third Thomas Redman was also educated as a druggist,\\nand continued the same calling, but was more of a public man,\\npolitically speaking, than his father. He was a careful business\\nman, and, as a conveyancer, had the confidence of the entire\\ncommunity. Although he adhered to the detailed and elab-\\norate forms of English titles, yet plainness of penmanship and\\nclearness of intention chara6lerized all his legal papers. His\\n17 Lib. No. 12, 363.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "138 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ncorre6lness in copying was proverbial, and Chief Justice Kirk-\\npatrick of this State, on one occasion, paid him the compli-\\nment of not comparing documents prepared by him, saying\\nthat papers from the hands of Thomas Redman needed no\\nsuch scrutiny.\\nHe was a valuable man in the society of Friends, and did\\nmuch to sustain the church in this region of country. Many\\nanecdotes are related of him, showing that he was an upright\\nbusiness man, plain of speech, consistent in his profession,\\nfaithful in his trusts, and scrupulous in all his dealings.\\nAmong the several positions of public trust which John Gill\\nwas called upon to fill, was that of commissioner of loans, he\\nbeing one of the three appointed for Gloucester county. The\\nobje6l of the law, and the duty of the commissioners, appear\\nto have been to loan bills of credit issued by the State, to such\\npersons as could give satisfactory security for the repayment\\nof the same and this security had to be in the shape of mort-\\ngages on real estate, of the value of which the commissioners\\nwere to be satisfied by personal view.\\nThese commissioners were constituted bodies politic and\\ncorporate, in succession, in fadl, and in law, to sue and be\\nsued, and with various other powers in the a(5l named. No\\ngreater sum than four hundred pounds, nor any less than fifteen\\npounds, could be loaned to one person for the space of twenty\\nyears, at five per cent, per annum. This system of supplying\\nthe country with money was in operation for several years, but\\nat last fell into disuse, and the law finally repealed. While\\nJohn Gill was thus a6ling as commissioner, and had charge\\nof the securities during the revolutionary war, his house was\\npillaged by a party of British soldiers, and, among other things,\\nthese were carried off and not recovered. By an a6l of the\\nLegislature of New Jersey, in 1779, he was idemnified from\\nany loss concerning the same.\\nAlthough many of this name may be found in New Jersey,\\nyet they do not appear to have originated with the family\\nherein mentioned.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "ARCHIBALD MICKLE.\\nTHIS man was an Irish Quaker. The records of Friends\\nin Philadelphia indicate that he came from Lisbrun, a\\ntown in the southern part of the county of Antrim, Ireland,\\nand that he arrived at that city on the second day of the sixth\\nmonth, A. D. 1682.\\nHe probably was among the adventurers that followed Wil-\\nliam Penn to his new colony, bringing with him considerable\\nestate and a full supply of implements to continue the business\\nof a cooper, in which calling he had served as an apprentice\\nin the land of his nativity. This^was worth much to him\\namong the settlers, who generally arrived with but little house-\\nkeeping material, and had to be supplied with their wooden\\nware of home manufa6lure, when a new establishment was to\\nbe set up. Coopers were also in demand along the sea coast,\\nas whale fishing occupied much of the time of the people, and\\nbarrels were necessary to carry away the oil. This Avas the\\nmost lucrative business among them, and more capital was\\ninvested in it than in any other branch. In a letter from the\\nWest New Jersey Society to Jeremiah Basse, their agent, then\\nresiding at Cape May, dated December 24th, 1692, he is\\ndire6led to secure the services of a French cooper at Plymouth,\\nskilled in making casks. The letter further says: In the\\nseason let him make a little wine and brandy, and send us\\nthe wine in casks and the brandy in bottles. Much is also\\nI Lib. B2, 423.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "I40 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nsaid about barrels for the fishing season, and the quantity-\\nrequired would certainly employ several persons, and among\\nthem it is possible that Archibald Mickle was one.\\nThe next notice made of him was in 1686, when he married\\nSarah Watts, at the same meeting at which his certificate of\\nmembership and the date of his coming had been recorded.\\nFour years after that time, he purchased a tra6l of land of\\nRobert Turner in Newton township, Gloucester county, con-\\ntaining two hundred and fifty acres. This survey was situated\\nnear the head of the south branch of Newton creek, adjoining\\nlands located by Francis Collins. This tra6l afterward became\\nthe property of Joseph Lowe, who occupied the same.\\nAt the date of this purchase, Archibald Mickle was still a\\nresident of Philadelphia, but he soon after came to Newton\\ntownship and settled, and there remained until his decease\\nin 1706. In 1697, he made another purchase from the same\\nman, of five hundred and ten acres, which survey fronted on\\nthe river Delaware and extended eastward towards Cooper s\\ncreek.* This deed excepted several meadow lots, and is valu-\\nable as showing the antecedent title of the grantor.\\nHe did not make the first improvements there, for a man\\nnamed Thomas Spearman lived in a house on the tra6l at the\\ntime of his purchase, which house stood near the river shore\\nand near where the former residence of Isaac Mickle, deceased,\\nis situated.\\nHe was the owner of considerable other real estate in the\\nneighborhood, and the inference is, therefore, that he was a\\nman of more means than most of his neighbors, and, excepting\\nWilliam Cooper, of any other in the township. In the political\\naffairs of the colony, his name does not appear, but the fa6t of\\nhis being a Quaker and a stri6l adherent to his se6l, may be\\ndrawn from that clause of his Avill which diredled that any one\\nof his children marrying without consent of Friends was to\\nonly have one-half of his or her share of his estate. This\\nis certainly a significant expression, and places his religious\\nproclivities beyond a doubt.\\n2 Basse s Book, 119.\\n3 Lib G3, 133.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "ARCHIBALD MICKLE. 141\\nHis will was dated in 1 706 in which he gave his real estate\\nto eight of his children.* His widow Sarah survived him, she\\nbeing the mother of all his children. After the father s death,\\nthe estate was conveyed to the widow, and she, by her will\\n(1718), gave the property to three of her sons, Archibald,\\nJames and Joseph,* who divided the same by quit claim in\\n1727.\\nSeven sons and three daughters were the representatives of\\nthis couple, as follows: John, who married Hannah Cooper\\n(daughter of the second William), in 1704; Samuel, who\\nmarried Elizabeth Cooper daughter of Joseph, in 1708;\\nDaniel, who married Hannah Dennis, in 1711 Archibald,\\nwho married Mary Wright in 1719 Isaac, who married\\nSarah Burrough, daughter of Samuel Joseph, who mar-\\nried Elizabeth Eastlack in 1723; James, who married Sarah\\nEastlack in 1732; Sarah, who married Ezekiel Siddon; Mary,\\nwho married Arthur Powell and Rachel, who married Benja-\\nmin Cooper in 1718.\\nJohn Mickle, the oldest son, was an a6live man in the politi-\\ncal matters of the colony in his day, and also dealt much in\\nreal estate. By Thomas Sharp, as his deputy surveyor, he\\nlocated several tra6ls of land in different parts of West Jersey.\\nIn 1733, he was appointed one of the judges of the several\\ncourts of Gloucester county, and filled other offices of public\\ntrust and responsibility.\\nIn 1703, for natural love and affe6lion, his father conveyed\\nto him a farm containing one hundred and fourteen acres,\\nbounded on the south side by the south branch of Newton\\ncreek, and being within the town bounds of Gloucester.\u00c2\u00ae On\\nthis farm he settled, and there remained during his life. He\\ndeceased in 1744, his wife and the following children surviv-\\ning him: William, who married Sarah Wright in 1732; John,\\nwho married Mary Stockdale, of Burlington county, in 1741,\\nand deceased in 1765: Samuel, who married Letitia Matlack in\\n1742 (he having deceased in 1750, she married Thomas Hinch-\\nman); and Hannah, who married John Ladd in 1732.\\n4 Lib No. I, 149. 6 Lib. A, 184.\\n5 Lib No. 2, 95. 7 Lib. No. 5, 63.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "142 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nSamuel Mickle was one of the first settlers in the village of\\nHaddonfield. He became the owner of a lot next adjoining\\nthe tavern property, lately belonging to John Roberts, deceased,,\\nand there he ere6led a dwelling. Timothy Matlack, his wife s\\nfather, owned the Roberts s estate and another lot to the east,\\nfronting on the street. Timothy was a shopkeeper, and was so\\ntaxed by the township.\\nOf John Ladd, the father, and John Ladd, the son, much\\nappears in the various records and traditions of their times,\\nwhich proves them to have been conspicuous persons. They\\nwere prominent in the political and religious matters that sur-\\nrounded them, and the subjedls of much hard talk, for which\\nsome of their defamers appear in no very enviable position.\\nAs early as 1690, Samuel Taylor puts himself on record,\\nadmitting that he had been uttering falsehoods about the elder\\nJohn Ladd and Sarah his wife, but upon what particular subjedl\\nthese words originated, does not appear. He, however, made a\\nclean breast, and admitted that all his assertions were slander,\\nand, in the form common in those days, the retra6lion thereof\\nhas come down to the present generation. The entire record is\\ncopied here to show the manner of so doing, a pradlice that\\nhas no existence now. It runs as follows:\\nThis may certify all persons whom it may concern; that,\\nwhereas, I, Samuel Taylor, of Gloucester river, within the\\nProvince of West Jarsey, Sawyer, have of late publicly reported\\nseveral false, scandalous, reproachful and detradling speeches,\\nof and concerning John Ladd, of ye same place aforesaid.\\nYeoman, and Sarah his wife, which were of infamous import,\\nand tending to prove ye said parties to be of unjust dealings\\nand evil and dishonest lives and conversations therefore I,\\nye said Samuel Taylor, being moved to ye said report by my\\nprecipitate and unadvised passion and anger against ye parties\\nabove said, do hereby certify that I herewith repent of, and am\\nunfeignedly sorrowful for my speaking, declaring and publishing\\nany report of such evil tendency aforesaid, and do freely and\\nvoluntarily own and acknowledge that I have grossly abused,\\ntraduced and wronged ye said John Ladd and Sarah, his wife,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "ARCHIBALD MICKLE. 143\\nby means of ye false, slanderous and defaming reports and\\nspeeches above said.\\nIn testimony whereof, I have hereunto put my hand this\\n24th day of June, Anno Domini, 1690.\\nSamuel Taylor.\\nRecorded by order of Court, this ye loth day of August,\\n1690.\\nJohn Reading, Recorder.\\nThe father was a pra6lical surveyor, and assisted in laying\\nout the city of Philadelphia for William Penn. The compass\\nand chain used by him in this work are now in the possession\\nof the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at its rooms in\\nPhiladelphia; they are preserved as a valuable relic of those\\nearly times. In compensation for his services, the Patroon\\noffered him thirty pounds, or a square of land, within the\\nlimits of his town, but John decided to take the money.\\nWilliam Penn, surprised at this, said: Friend John, thou\\nart Ladd by name, and a Ladd in comprehension. Dost thou\\nnot know this will become a great city?\\nIn measuring the distances over the rough soil, and in mark-\\ning the lines of the streets upon the trees, John could not\\nrealize the assertions of Friend William, and concluded that\\nhis expe6lations had gotten the better of his judgment.\\nWhile wading about the swamps of Dock creek, and fixing\\nthe interseftions of Market and Chestnut streets with those of\\nThird and Fourth streets in that vicinity, our surveyor doubtless\\nrefle6ted much upon what had been suggested, and thought the\\nwhole scheme was a huge castle in the imagination of his\\nemployer.\\nTime, however, as in all similar cases, has shown which of\\nthese entertained the better notions and, although the one was\\nconsidered as hazardous in his ideas, yet the other a6led as a\\nprudent man, and was influenced by the opinions of those\\naround him. But few of the men that accompanied William\\nPenn to America comprehended the extent and importance of\\nhis undertaking. This may account for many of the hindrances\\n8 Lib. G2, 72.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "144 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nwhich he met with in carrying out his proposed plans. Not\\nunderstood in his purposes, he soon became the obje6l of\\ncensure and abuse; but, as a Christian and a philanthropist,\\nhe has long since come to be appreciated. That he was actu-\\nated by the purest of motives and governed by the desire to\\npromote the welfare of his people, at this day, is not questioned.\\nAfter the lapse of another half century, John Ladd the son,\\nappears to have been traduced by one of his neighbors in some\\nof their political or religious controversies, and, not resting\\nvery comfortable under the same, he required of William Ives\\na legal admission that he had said s(3Tne ugly and untruthful\\nthings about him. This admission was spread upon the records\\nover his own signature, done in open court, and witnessed by\\nthe judges thereof.\\nA Knight of the Post implied that John had been con-\\nvidled of some petty offence, and been punished at the whipping\\npost, or set in the stocks, a means much in use at that time to\\nvindicate the honor of the commonwealth and to preserve its\\ndignity.\\nThe insinuation that he could not be trusted as a sworn\\nwitness, perhaps touched John s pride quite as much as the first\\ncharge, and led to the arrest of William Ives and his admission\\nto the falsity of the whole.\\nThis means of the vindication of the charadler has passed\\nout of use many years since, and to the present generation is\\nunknown. Like the first, the entire record is copied that the\\nreader may draw his own inference therefrom.\\nWilliam Ives s Acknowledgment, made in open Court\\nAT Glo ster.\\nWhereas, I, William Ives, of the township of Gloucester, in\\nGloucester, in the province of West Jersey, yeoman, in the\\npresence of divers creditable persons, inhabitants of the said\\ncounty, sometime since did falsely and without any cause or\\nreason, speak and say that John Ladd, of the said county was\\na Knight of the Post, and that I did not know but I might\\nsue one Henry Sparks, but that I could not trust to the said\\nJohn Ladd s testimony, and I acknowledge likewise, that I", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "ARCHIBALD MICKLE. 145\\nspoke and said sundry false, scandalous words touching and\\nconcerning the reputation and character of him, the said\\nJohn Ladd.\\nNow I do hereby acknowledge and publickly declare that I\\nhave wronged and injured the said John Ladd s chara6ler by\\nthe uttering and speaking the said false scandalous words and\\nsayings, having not the least shadow, colour or foundation for\\nthe same; and I do hereby desire forgiveness of the said John\\nLadd, for the injury done.\\nGloucester, ye 28 October, 1744.\\nWilliam Ives.\\nWitnessed by Ja. Hinchman, one of ye Judges of the\\nCourt of Common Pleas at Gloucester, Wm. Harrison, Daniel\\nMestayer.\\nRecorded February 8th, 1744.\\nCharles Read, Sec.\\nHannah Ladd survived her husband, and, being in possession\\nof his papers, she discovered that one of the books left by\\nThomas Sharp was among them. It was one of his private\\nrecords as surveyor and conveyancer, and was considered of\\nsuch value that an a(5l of the Legislature was passed, that it\\nmight be made part of the public records of the Surveyor\\nGeneral s office, where it has remained since that time.\\nDaniel Mickle deceased in 171 2, leaving a will. In that\\ndocument he mentioned his wife and a child unborn.^ This\\nposthumous child was a boy, and was named Daniel. His grand-\\nmother, Sarah Mickle, provided for his maintenance and\\neducation and also anticipated the needs of the widow.\\nArchibald Mickle died in 1735, without children; his widow\\nsurvived him, and, in 1736, married Blackinston Ingledon of\\nPhiladelphia, to which place she removed with her second\\nhusband.\\nJames Mickle deceased the year following the death of Archi-\\nbald, leaving his widow and two children, Rachel and Jacob.\\nEzekiel Siddon, the husband of Sarah, was a butcher, and\\nresided upon a property which he had purchased of Jacob Cofifing\\n9 Lib. GH, 41. II Lib. No. 4, 52.\\n10 Lib, No. I, 406. 12 Lib. No. 4, 65.\\n10", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "146 FIUST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nin 1709. This fronted on the river in Newton township, and is\\nnow part of the Mickle estate. He was the owner of other\\nreal estate near his homestead. He died intestate, and but little\\nis known of his family at this time.\\nArthur Powell, the husband of Mary, was a son of Arthur\\nPowell, who first settled on Penapaca creek, in Philadelphia\\ncounty, Pennsylvaiiia.\\nHe came thence from the town of Flushing, Long Island, in\\nthe State of New York, where his name, that of his wife\\nMargaret, and those of two sons are set down in the census list\\nmade in 1698. According. to that record he was of French ex-\\ntra6lion.\\nIn 1692, he (the father) purchased of Thomas Chaunders,\\none hundred acres of land in West Jersey, at Mulberry Point,\\non the sea coast, near Great Egg Harbor. In the same year, he\\npurchased a like number of acres of Robert Turner, at the same\\nplace, and thereon he probably settled. The value of the whale\\nfisheries, which were so attractive to the new comers in that\\nregion, may have induced his removal from Pennsylvania. He\\nhad two sons, Arthur, a carpenter, and Richard, a shoemaker.\\nHe died intestate in 1718.^^ In 1716, Arthur (the son) purchased\\na farm of John Fisher, in Newton township, bounded by Cooper s\\ncreek, being part of the original estate of Robert Zane, the first\\nsettler, and there he, Arthur, made his home.^ John Fisher\\npurchased said land of Elnathan Zane, a son of Robert, in 1703,\\nwho became owner thereof, by the will of his father, and sold\\nthe same when he attained his majority. Arthur and Mary\\nPowell had but three children (two of them daughters James\\nRachel, who married Lewis and who married\\nKent. In 1 730, he purchased a large tra6l of land on\\nTimber creek, of John Brown, and also became the owner of\\nother real estate. He died in 1749. In Newton township\\nthe family was never very large, yet in other parts of bid Glou-\\ncester coimty the name often occurs.\\nRachel, who married Benjamin Cooper, died in a short time\\nwithout children. Benjamin subsequently married Elizabeth\\n13 Lib. A, 144. 16 Lib. A, loo.\\n14 Lib. G2, 133, 134. 17 Lib, G2, 26.\\n15 Lib. A, 178. 18 Gloucester Files, 1749.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "ARCHIBALD MICKLE. 147\\nBurcham, widow of Jacob, and daughter of Samuel Cole. The\\nissue of this marriage was numerous, and as follows Joseph,\\nwho married Elizabeth Haines James, who married Sarah Ervin\\nand Hannah Saunders Samuel, who married Prudence Brown\\nBenjamin, who married Elizabeth Hopewell William, who\\nmarried Ann Folwell Isaac and Elizabeth, who married\\nGeorge Budd.\\nBenjamin Cooper was a son of Joseph, and a grandson of the\\nfirst William which William conveyed to the first Joseph, two\\nhundred and twelve acres of land in 1709, who also conveyed\\nthe same to his son Benjamin in 1728.^^ This included the ferry\\nat Cooper s Point, which Benjamin conveyed to his son Samuel,\\nwith about thirty-eight acres of land adjoining, in 1769.^\\nOf the division of Archibald Mickle s original purchase, as\\nmade between Archibald, James and Joseph in 1727, Joseph s\\nportion passed into the Kaighn family; and Isaac Mickle,\\nsenior, in later years, became the owner of Archibald s share\\nand James s also, and conveyed them to his nephew, Isaac\\nMickle, junior, in 1780.\\nThe land between the south line of the original Mickle\\nestate and Newton creek was located by Robert Turner (in\\n1687), 2.nd by Richard Arnold (in 1702). Richard Arnold\\npurchased of Robert Turner, and conveyed the two tra61;s\\nof four hundred and twenty acres to Martin Jarvis in 1700.^^\\nIn 1702, Martin Jarvis sold two hundred and eight acres from\\noff the eastern part of the tra6l to John Wright, and four years\\nafter conveyed the remainder to Jacob Cofhng. After various\\nconveyances, too numerous to name in this connexion, the\\nlarger part of the Turner and Arnold surveys became, in 1 790,\\nthe estate of Isaac Mickle, junior, who re-surveyed the same\\nin that year.^^\\nIn tracing the genealogy of this family, the want of heirs in\\nthe male line is constantly occurring, which frequently leads\\nto doubt, and occasionally to error. Like the Coopers, they\\nremained upon the original estate, and held tenaciously to the\\nacres of which Archibald first became the owner in some\\n19 Lib, AE, 205. 21 Basse s Book, 26.\\n20 Lib. AE, 213. 22 Lib. U, 443, O. S. G.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "148 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ngenerations increasing the family name, and, in others, finding\\nit reduced to but few persons; until, within the last decade,\\nit has passed entirely away. No portion of the land at this\\ntime remains in the blood of the Mickles; and already the\\nold estate is in the hands of strangers, traversed by avenues,\\nand divided into town lots. Another decade may see the\\nfishing grounds covered with piers and docks, the busy mart of\\ncommerce, and without a vestige of its present rural beauty.\\nIsaac Mi:kle, deceased, author of the Reminiscences of\\nOld Gloucester, was a descendant in the paternal line of this\\nfamily. That he was a zealous and reliable antiquarian, no better\\nevidence can be adduced than the book just named. In this\\nwork, his industry and good judgment are manifest; he has\\ncondensed and arranged many fa6ts touching the early history\\nof West New Jersey, not before noticed. Accepted as reliable\\non all subje6ls there treated, no library intended to illustrate\\nthe history of our State, is complete without it, and, as the\\ndesire to become better acquainted with this subjedl increases,\\nso will this book become more aiDpreciated. With all such as\\nare seeking knowledge in this dire6lion, the name of Isaac\\nMickle will be held in grateful remembrance.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "JOHN KAIGHN.\\nIN the year 1694, John Kaighn was a resident of Byberry, in\\nBucks county, Pennsylvania. He was a carpenter, and the\\nhusband of Ann, the widow of Walter Forrest and daughter of\\nWilliam Albertson.^ Walter Forrest came to Burlington in 1678,\\nand very soon purchased a large tra6l of land in Salem county,\\nbounded by Salem creek; in conne6lion with his brothers, he\\nere6led a mill thereon, the first in that se6lion of the State.\\nBefore his decease, however, he had removed to Byberry. This\\noccurred in 1692. By his will he gave considerable property to\\nhis widow s brothers, situated in Salem, which they in a few\\nyears disposed of.^ There was no issue by this marriage. Ann,\\nthe widow, so remained for two years, when she married John\\nKaighn. By this marriage there was one child, a daughter, who\\nbore the mother s name.\\nThe daughter was born June 24th, 1694, and the mother died\\nJuly 6th, of the same year. The daughter, who died single in\\n1 715, gave by her will her property to her two half-brothers\\nby the father s second marriage.*\\nIn 1696, John Kaighn married Sarah, the widow of Andrew\\nGriscom and sister of John Dole, then a resident of Newton\\ntownship.\\nThe blood of the Albertsons, therefore, was not connected with\\nthis family any longer than till the death of Ann, the daughter\\n1 Lib. No. 6, 32, Salem Records. 3 Salem Wills, A, 69.\\n2 Lib. B, 16, Salem Records. 4 Lib. No. 2, 162.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "I50 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nof Ann and John in 1715, leading those who Avish to follow the\\nmaternal line in another dire6lion.\\nAs a carpenter, John found abundant business, for every ship\\nthat arrived was crowded with emigrants, whose first purpose,\\nafter landing and sele6ling sites, was the ere6lion of dwellings.\\nThese, in most instances, were rude and unpretending, yet the\\nservices of a mechanic were necessary in some parts hence the\\nconstant employment of the carpenters of that early period in\\nproviding shelter for the new comers.\\nThe nativity of John Kaighn is easily traced through a letter\\nin possession of the New Jersey branch of the family, dated\\nAugust 26th, 1702, endorsed To Mr. John Kaighn Linener,\\nin West New Jersey, nigh on Delaware river side, opposit to\\nPhiladelphia city, in America. It was from his mother, Jane\\nKaighen. It was written from her residence, at that time, in\\nKirk Andrew, a town in the north of the Isle of Man, where\\nshe lived with her daughter and son-in-law, Daniel Lane.\\nShe informs her son that his father died the November previous\\nto her writing that his sister Ellen, born after he left the Isle,\\nwas married and settled in the parish of St. German, on the\\nwest coast of the island that, for a short time after the decease\\nof her husbaiid, she had lived with her son Charles, at Balla-\\ncragga, on the south-east coast, but, not being happy there, had\\nremoved to Kirk Andrew. On the same sheet of paper, John\\nKaighn has left an unfinished letter, without date, in reply to\\nhis mother, generally of a religious character.\\nIn this she is told that he had lost two good and loveing\\nwives, in a few years time and left alone with young babes;\\nthat these were two boys and one girl, the youngest yet at\\nnurse.\\nSarah Dole came with her father s family from Wales, but\\nfrom what part cannot be traced.\\nThe first purchase of real estate by John Kaighn in Newton\\ntownship, was on the fourteenth day of ninth month, 1696,\\nwhen Robert Turner conveyed to him four hundred and fifty-\\nfive acres of land, fronting on the Delaware river and extending\\nfrom Line street to Little Newton creek.\\n1; Lib G3, 127.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "JOHN KAIGHN. 151\\nLike many of the old English deeds, this discloses the whole\\nof the original title as vested in the grantor, at once valuable\\nand interesting to such as care to push their inquiries thus far.\\nIn 1699, John Dole purchased two hundred and twenty acres\\nof this tra6l from John Kaighn, and settled thereon.\u00c2\u00ae He was\\na shoemaker, and came from Long Island, N. Y. where he\\nhad married Mary Jessup, of Jericho, in 1688. He died in\\n1 715, and by his will gave this land to his two sons, John and\\nJoseph. Joseph Dole married Hannah Somers, a sister of\\nRichard, in 1714, and removed to Great Egg Harbor, where\\nhe died in 1727, leaving a will.* His children were Hannah,\\nwho married Daniel Ingersoll Sarah, who married John Scull\\nRebecca, who married Joshua Garwood Mary and Servia.\\nJohn Dole also removed to Great Egg Harbor, and died in\\n1748, without a will.\u00c2\u00ae What family he left, if any, is not\\nknown.\\nJohn Dole conveyed his undivided part of the tra6l of land\\nin Newton township, devised to him by his father, to his\\nbrother Joseph, who conveyed part thereof to John Kaighn in\\n1723, and the remainder to Joseph Cooper in the same year.\\nAndrew Griscom was the owner of a tra6l of land adjoining\\nthat of John Kaighn s and part of Samuel Norris s survey; but\\nfrom whom purchased, and the exact locality of the land, are\\nnot known.\\nAndrew Griscom, by his will in 1694, gave the same to his\\nwife and two children, Tobias and Sarah, and, upon certain\\ncontingencies, to John Dole in fee. At the time of John\\nKaighn s death, he was the owner of this land, but in what\\nmanner does not appear.^-*\\nTobias Griscom, a son of Andrew, married Deborah Gabitas,\\nat Burlington meeting, in 1711, and settled in Newton town-\\nship, where he remained until his decease.\\nHe dealt considerably in real estate, and made several loca-\\ntions in his own name under rights which he purchased in\\n1 716 and 1 71 7. In the last named year, he purchased of\\n6 Lib. G3, 240. 10 Lib. D, 52.\\n7 Lib. No. 2 of Wills, 08. 11 Lib. D, 436.\\n8 Lib. No. 2 of Wills, 430. 12 Lib. A, 83. Lib. D, 52, 54.\\n9 Lib. No. 6 of Wills, 331. Lib. C, 240. Lib. G3, 240.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "152 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nHugh Sharp, several tracts of land in Gloucester county, near\\nthe sea shore, valuable for the cedar swamps, some of which still\\nretain the name of the former owner. In 1721, and after his\\ndeath, his widow as executrix of his will, re-conveyed the same\\nproperties to the original grantor.\\nTobias Griscom deceased in 1719, leaving his widow and\\nthe following children William, who married Sarah Davis,\\nand who was a saddler and lived in Haddonfield Tobias, who\\ndied a minor; Andrew, who married Susanna Hancock, and\\nwho was a blacksmith and settled at Tuckahoe; Mary, who\\nmarried Tobias Halloway; and Samuel, a house and ship car-\\npenter, who resided in Philadelphia. The latter assisted in the\\neredlion of Independence Hall, and lived for many years on\\nArch street between Third and Fourth in that city.\\nJohn Kaighn had much to do with the settlement of the\\nestate of Walter Forrest, the deceased husband of his first\\nwife. A large part of the real property was purchased by\\nhim, among which was the mill called the Brothers Forrest,\\nand three hundred acres of land attached. This was conveyed\\nto him in 1701., but he sold it the next year to Isaac Pearson.^*\\nWith this sale his interest ended in that se6lion of West Jersey,\\nbut he continued to increase the borders of his land in Newton\\ntownship until he found himself one of the largest owners in\\nthis sedlion.^\u00c2\u00ae On March 7th, 1708, he became one of the\\ntrustees of the Newton meeting with Benjamin Thackara, Wil-\\nliam Cooper, William Albertson, Thomas Sharp, Joseph Cooper\\nand John Kay. He is thus shown to have been an a6live\\nmember of the religious Society of Friends and his remains\\ndoubtless lie buried within the walls that now surround part\\nof the first estate dedicated to such purposes in this region of\\ncountry. In 171 2, Benjamin Thackara conveyed a small adjoin-\\ning piece of land to the same trustees for the same use. In\\n1 771, it was discovered that all the trustees had died; and to\\ncontinue the property in the right channel, Josiah Kay, the\\nheir at law of John Kay, who was the last deceased, made\\na deed in the same year to John Gill, Joshua Stokes, Nathaniel\\n13 Lib. A, 87, 208. 15 Lib. No, 6, 32, Salem Records\\n14 Lib. No. 2, 132. 16 Lib. No. 7, 156.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "JOHN KAIGHN. 153\\nLippincott, James Cooper, John Brown, David Cooper, Joshua\\nLord, John E. Hopkins, John Evans, Isaac BalHnger, Samuel\\nWebster and John Glover.^\\nIn 1808 again, the trustees were dead, except Samuel Webster,\\nwho, in that year, made title to Joseph Glover, Joseph Burrough,\\nJr., John Albertson, Abel Nicholson, Josiah W^ebster, Joseph\\nKaighn, Joseph Sloan and Benjamin Cooper.\\nFrom about the year 1797 to 181 1, much trouble existed\\nbetween the trustees of the Newton Meeting house property\\nand James and Joseph Sloan, in relation to the boundaries of\\nthe same. James and Joseph Sloan had become the owners of\\npart of Thomas Thackara s estate, which adjoined the Friends\\nproperty, and claimed a portion of the land by them occupied, in\\nfa6l, that portion on which the old meeting house stood. This\\nparticular lot, measuring sixty feet in width and forty-five feet in\\ndepth, with another lot adjoining, was conveyed by Joseph Sloan\\nto James Sloan in 1810, and by him held until 1819, when he\\nreleased his interest therein to Samuel Eastlack and others, who\\nhad charge of one part of the burial ground.^- In 181 1, Joseph\\nSloan abandoned his claim by his deed to the trustees of the\\nHaddonfield Monthly Meeting, which extended to the old grave\\nyard within the brick wall, and some adjoining lands. The\\nremoval of Friends from the neighborhood, and the ere6lion\\nof other places of worship, gradually decreased the interest\\nof the society in these premises; and the destru6lion of the\\nold meeting house by fire on the night of December 2 2d, A. D.\\n1817,^\u00c2\u00b0 was the end of any further assembling upon the spot\\nmade memorable by the many associations that surround it.\\nThe disputes before named, which at that time were considered\\na scandal to the church, may be the means of identifying where\\nstood the old meeting house, where, at some future day, a suit-\\nable monument will be placed in remembrance of its purposes,\\nand to point out its locality.\\nIn 1699, Johi Kaighn was appointed by the Legislature, one\\nof the judges of the several courts of Gloucester county, and\\nwas so continued for three years thereafter. Upon the first\\n17 Lib. M, 172, Gloucester Co., Woodbury. 19 Lib. O, 597, Gloucester Co., Woodbury.\\n18 Lib. W, 585, Gloucester Co., Woodbury. 20 Joseph Hinchman s Journal.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "154 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nentry of his name, the clerk of the joint meeting, spelled it\\nCaliaen, which doubtless surprised Friend John, when he\\ncame to look upon the record and found the orthography of\\nhis name so sadly tortured, yet, when pronounced, so near\\ncorredl.^^\\nThe duties of the judges of the courts at that day had not\\nbeen well defined, and the minutes of their proceedings contrast\\nstrangely enough with those of the present. In township affairs\\nhe, no doubt, took part but, as Friend Sharp was not author-\\nized to buy a book until 1723, which was near the time of his\\ndecease, no record of such transactions has come down to the\\npresent generation.\\nIn 1 710, he sat as a representative from Gloucester county in\\nthe Legislature, only a few years after the surrender of the\\ngovernment by the proprietors to Queen Anne, and in the\\nmidst of the most troublesome times of the people.\\nJohn Kaighn s will was proved June 12th, 1724, in which\\nhe gave a house and lot in Philadelphia, to his wife Elizabeth,\\nand, after a life interest in some other parts of his property,\\nthe remainder to his two sons, John and Joseph.\\nThese sons were by the second wife, and were born as fol-\\nlows: John, December 30th, 1700, and Joseph, December 4th,\\n1702, each taking the blood of the Doles, and basing the\\nmaternal origin in New Jersey upon the same line as that of the\\nGriscom family.\\nHis third wife was Elizabeth Hill, of Burlington, at the\\nmeeting in which place they were married in 1710. By this\\nmarriage there was no children.\\nThe inventory of his personal estate amounted to two hun-\\ndred and thirty-five pounds, sterling, showing him to have been\\none of the substantial men of his day. The next year after\\ntheir father s death, Joseph conveyed to John all his interest\\nin the real estate devised to them, consisting of much valuable\\nproperty, with fisheries and meadows attached;-^ and, soon\\nafter, John re-conveyed the entire homestead property to Joseph,\\nwho so held the same until his death.\\n21 Learning Spicer s Laws.\\n22 Lib. No. 2, 267.\\n23 Lib. C, 19.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "JOHN KAIGHN. 155\\nIn 1727, Joseph Kaighn married Mary Estaugh, of Phila-\\ndelphia, a daughter of James and niece of John Estaugh, of\\nHaddonfield. This fa6l is proved by various expressions used\\nby Elizabeth Estaugh, in her will, wherein she names the\\nchildren of Mary Kaighn, and places them among her legatees.\\nJoseph Kaighn was an a6live man in the affairs of the town-\\nship. He was initiated therein by his ele6lion as one of the\\nsurveyors of highways, in 1723. His associates were Jacob\\nMedcalf, Samuel Shivers and Thomas Dennis. What the duties\\nof these officers could have been, may always remain a mystery,\\nas, at that date and for many years after, the roads were simply\\nthe widening of the Indian trails, without regard to the shortest\\ndistance or the best location yet these officers were annually\\nele6led, and, no doubt, had some important labors to perform.\\nThe year of his marriage, he was promoted to the position of\\noverseer of the poor, then the most responsible office of the\\ntownship. As such officer, he received and disbursed all the\\nfunds raised for public purposes, as appears by the annual\\nreport spread out on the pages of the township book.\\nFrom the year 1736 until his death (excepting the year 1738),\\nhe was assessor, and also held other minor positions among the\\npeople. His will bears date May 7th, 1749, in which year he\\ndied, having carefully described each tra6l devised to his chil-\\ndren by metes and bounds, a precaution too often negle6led\\nwhen a large real estate is thus to be disposed of.\\nThe old brick house near the Kaighn s Point ferry, was\\nprobably the residence of Joseph. It has lost its identity\\nwith the past, as the march of improvement has destroyed\\nits proportions, and left but part of the original building.\\nThe box and yew trees, which were planted when the dwell-\\ning was being ere6led, are the only land marks to show where\\none of the ancestors of the family had his home. The centre\\nbuilding was two stories high, and ornamented by various\\ncolored bricks, with a wing on each side built of stone. The\\nsite was well chosen, since a good view was had of the river,\\nand of William Penn s brave town, which, for many years,\\ndid not reach as far south as Dock creek.\\n24 Lib. No. 7, 05.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "156 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nThe farm and meadow land are now traversed by paved\\nstreets, and covered by the habitations of a thrifty population,\\nseparated only by such political divisions as are incident to all\\ngood governments, aiding in every respe6l the advancement of\\nthe people.\\nJoseph Kaighn s wife survived him, and the following named\\nchildren Joseph, who married Prudence Butcher, widow of\\nButcher, and daughter of Rogers; John, a physician\\nwho died single, about forty years of age Isaac, who died in\\nhis minority James, who married Hannah Mason and Eliza-\\nbeth, who married Arthur Donaldson.\\nIn 1753, Mary, the widow of Joseph, married Robert Stevens,\\na resident of Newton township, who died in 1759; and before\\nhis last wife. By this marriage there was no issue.\\nRobert Stevens s first wife was Ann Dent, whom he married\\nin 1739. She was an English lady, and sister of Joseph\\nCooper s second wife. They came from Yorkshire, the last\\nnamed being a minister among Friends, a testimony from\\nHaddonfield Monthly Meeting, showing that she was accept-\\nable as such.\\nAt the time of the death of Joseph Kaighn, all his children\\nwere minors. The real estate devised to the daughter, was\\nto be hers, if she married with her mother s consent, a\\nrestridlion mostly disregarded by parents as well as children.\\nJoseph and Prudence Kaighn had four children, William, Mary,\\nJohn and Joseph. The first three named died in their infancy,\\nand Joseph married Sarah Mickle, in 1795, a daughter of\\nJoseph.\\nIn 1732, John Kaighn married Abigail Hinchman, one of\\nthe children of John Hinchman, the first of that name who\\nsettled in Gloucester county. He deceased in 1749, leaving a\\nwill.^^ He was a blacksmith, and followed his business in\\nHaddonfield for several years; but afterwards he removed to\\na farm on Newton creek, where he died and was buried in the\\nold grave yard at the meeting house near his residence. The\\nproperty in Haddonfield he gave to his daughter Sarah, subjedl\\nto the use thereof by the mother during her life. His children\\n25 Lib. No. 6, 230.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "JOHN KAIGHN. 157\\nwere Sarah, born 1733; Elizabeth, born 1736; Samuel, born\\n1737, who married Mary Gerrard; John, born 1740, and Ann,\\nborn 1744.\\nThe widow Abigail afterwards married Samuel Harrison,\\nand resided near Gloucester. The issue of this marriage was\\na daughter, Abigail, born 1751, who married Richard Edwards\\nin 1768. They had ten children, all of whom died single,\\nexcepting Samuel, who married Martha Heulings, and Sarah,\\nwho married Joseph Collins. Abigail Harrison survived her\\nlast husband, and died in 1795, at Taunton iron works, Bur-\\nlington county, where lived her son-in-law, Richard Edwards.\\nLike his brother Joseph, John was somewhat of a township\\npolitician, for in 1725 he was ele6led freeholder, and, at dif-\\nferent times thereafter, held the same position. His name is\\nfound upon the town book almost every year from 1725 to the\\ntime of his decease. He a6led as clerk from 1732 to 1741,\\nwhen he was succeeded by Samuel Mickle.\\nThis family name is oftener associated with others of like\\npronunciation and different spelling than any other in this\\nse6f ion which has frequently led to trouble and difficulty.\\nOne family writes the name Cain, another Kain and another\\nKane, and they are in no wise related to each other.\\nThe descendants of John Kaighn, the subje6l of this sketch,\\nnever became numerous in this part of the State of New\\nJersey, but some of his descendants have adhered to portions\\nof the original landed property to the present time. The\\nincrease in the city of Camden has covered the larger portion\\nwith substantial improvements; and another half-century will\\nfind the entire estate thus occupied.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "THE GRAYSBURYS.\\nIN the year 1692, James, Joseph and Benjamin Graysbury,\\nbrothers and ship carpenters, came from the island of\\nBermuda, to Philadelphia. It does not appear whether they\\nwere Friends, banished from England, or whether they were\\nnatives of the said island. The opportmiity for getting ship\\ntimber to carry on their business was certainly an attra6lion\\nin these parts, and may have been the secret of their settle-\\nment here. They had their place of business in Philadelphia,\\nand probably, Joseph and Benjamin there remained during\\ntheir lives. The next year after their arrival, they joined in\\na purchase of five hundred acres of land, of Robert Turner,\\nwhich land was situated in Newton township, and on the south\\nside of the main branch of Newton creek.\\nAt that time, Robert Turner was a merchant in the city of\\nPhiladelphia, but owned much land in New Jersey, and par-\\nticularly in the neighborhood of the above named tra6l. From\\na map made by Thomas Sharp, showing his lands lying on\\nNewton and Cooper creeks, the amount appears to have exceeded\\ntwo thousand five hundred acres within the township he there-\\nfore was much the largest owner of real estate in this region.\\nThis map also indicates that Robert Philips, planter, had\\nalready settled thereon but where his habitation was, does\\nnot appear. After this man, James Graysbury made the first\\n1 Lib. G2, 174.\\n2 Lib. G3, 426.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "i6o FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nimprovement on this purchase; but where his cabin stood, is\\nalso in doubt. He probably cleared considerable land, looking\\nsomewhat to agriculture for the maintenance of his family.\\nThis man was the son of James, so far as the records can be\\ndigested yet the vague manner of expression used in many\\nconveyances and wills, renders a proper understanding of them\\nalmost impossible.\\nJames (one of the brothers) died in 1700, leaving one son,\\nJames, his two other children being born after his decease.\\nIn anticipation of this, he made provision in his will that his\\nshare of said tra6l of land should belong to his child or\\nchildren yet to be born, and it proved that the issue was\\ntwins, named by the mother, Elizabeth and Annie. In the\\nprogress of time the second daughter here named married\\nDaniel Martin, a resident of Philadelphia. In 1722, the sisters\\nconveyed the sard land to James, upon which he resided until\\nhis death.\\nBenjamin (another brother) died, seized of his share of said\\nfive hundred acres, leaving two children, Margaret, and Mary,\\nwho married Richard Kelley, also a resident of Philadelphia.\\nThey conveyed their interest to James, their cousin, in 1720.*\\nJoseph (the last brother) died intestate and without children.\\nHis undivded interest of said land descended to his nephew,\\nJames, he being the eldest son of James, who was the eldest\\nbrother of Joseph.^\\nThe law regulating the descent of real estates in force at that\\ntime, deprived tlie children of Benjamin and the sisters of\\nJames, of all right in the property of their uncle Joseph,\\nalthough standing in the same blood relationship as James.\\nThe rule of the oldest male heir is in this case clearly\\nexemplified, and shows how unjust was the application of the\\nlaw of primogeniture, a law that has long since, in the State\\nof New Jersey, given way to a more rational, just and equitable\\ndistribution of real estate. For many years the English code\\nobtained, contrary to the progress and spirit of the age, and\\nat variance with the liberality and intentions of our law makers.\\n3 Sharp s Book, 03, O. S. G.\\n4 Lib. D, 253.\\n5 Lib. M, no, O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "THE GRAYSBURYS. i6i\\nThe infringements on this were gradual, but always in favor\\nof the female heirs, until every barrier was swept away, and the\\ndaughters of an intestate had the same rights of inheritance.\\nImmediately upon obtaining the title to his property, James\\nGraysbury proceeded to perfe6l the same and to establish the\\nboundaries by a re-survey; which was accomplished in 1721.\u00c2\u00ae\\nIt will be noticed, that, after the death of the three brothers,\\nthere was but one person to represent the family name thus\\nbecame centered in James, the son of James, the genealogy of\\nfuture generations, as well as the title to most of the original\\nestate, as by them purchased of Robert Turner.\\nThe only severance from the first purchase was that of fifty\\nacres sold to John Willis, a ship carpenter of Philadelphia, in\\n1696; which land fronted on the creek. There John Willis\\neredled a house. This, however, after several conveyances,\\nbecame the property of Caleb Atmore, and in his name it\\nremained for many years.\\nJames Graysbury conveyed said estates to two of his sons\\n(James and Joseph), and they immediately after conveyed the\\nsame to their brother Benjamin, who then resided on the\\npremises. In 1783, Benjamin bought of Caleb Atmore the\\nfifty acres that had been sold to John Willis in 1696, by his\\ngrandfather and great uncles, and became therefore owner of\\nthe original tradl. This now includes the farm lately Joseph\\nFewSmith s, deceased, on the east, and that of Edward Bettle,\\non the west, and all the intermediate property, showing it to\\nhave been one of the best locations made in the township,\\nwhether soil or situation be regarded.\\nOn the farm first named is the old family graveyard, where\\nrest the bones of the earliest generations of the Graysburys,\\nand of some of their descendants. In the same neighborhood\\nlived Simeon Breach, Joseph Low, Caleb Sprague, John Hinch-\\nman, and others, who, in all probability, were also there interred,\\nwith many of their descendants. Nearly all were slave-holders,\\nas appears by the wills of several; this part of their personal\\nproperty found a final resting place in Hinchman s, now gener-\\n6 Lib. M, no, O. S, G.\\n7 Lib. A, 189.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "1 62 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nally known as Hurley s graveyard. For many years the memory\\nof the forefathers was held in respe6l, but the presence of\\nstrangers has left no trace of the immediate locality of the\\nold Graysbury graveyard.\\nPerhaps in this negle fled spot is laid\\nSome heart once pregnant with celestial fire.\\nHands, that the rod of empire might have sway d,\\nOr waked to ecstacy the living lyre.\\nIt is unfortunate that the genealogy of the three brothers\\nwho originated the family in New Jersey, cannot be traced with\\nmore accuracy, the greatest difficulty being that the female\\nbranches so largely predominated, the name thus soon dis-\\nappearing in subsequent marriages. The will of James Grays-\\nbury was executed in 1760, but he lived for some years after\\nthat time. His wife, Mary, survived him also the following\\nchildren James Joseph Mary, who married John Frank-\\nlin Ann, who married Warner; and Benjamin. The\\nnumber of Benjamin s marriages involves the maternal line of\\nhis progeny in much doubt. His first wife was Elizabeth, a\\ndaughter of Samuel Sharp, and granddaughter of Thomas\\nSharp (the first surveyor in Newton).^ His second was Lydia\\nMatlack, daughter of John; next he married Letitia Shivers,\\nand, after her death, he married Ann Morton. Ann survived\\nhim and married Jonathan Morgan.\\nIn 1783, it will be seen that Benjamin Graysbury was the\\nowner of the original estate, and was the only one of the family\\nthat remained in the neighborhood. He probably built the\\nhouse, part of which is still standing on the farm lately owned\\nby Joseph FewSmith, deceased, now by William Bettle\\nand there he resided during his life. He acquired much\\nother real estate, and was classed among the wealthy men of\\nhis day. A shade of romance conne6led with the third wife\\nof Benjamin may not prove uninteresting here.\\nBy the will of John Tomlinson, who died a single man, in\\n1760, he devised to Letitia Shivers nearly all of his estate,\\nout of regard to her. These are significant words, when\\n8 Lib. No. 12, 282.\\n9 Lib. AR, 35Q.\\n10 Lib. No. lo, 387.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "THE GRAYSBURYS. 163\\nused in the connedlion in which they here stand, and the most\\nrational conclusion must be that marriage was contemplated\\nbetween them, but that death prevented its consummation.\\nFifteen years after that time she became the wife of one of\\nthe most respedlable citizens of Gloucester county, and, per-\\nhaps, the mother of some of his children. Doubtless many\\nof the grandmothers of the last century could tell over the\\nsad romance conne6led with this affair; having knowledge of\\nthe particulars, and always remembering it as one of the inci-\\ndents of their younger days.\\nBenjamin Graysbury died in 1747. His children were\\nBenjamin James, who married Beulah Warrick Mary, who\\nmarried Isaac Kay; and Abigail, who married John Branson.\\nWhether these were the children of one mother or of more\\nthan one, does not appear, and may never be disclosed, unless\\nsome enthusiast indulge in a waste of time and labor never\\nrepaid and seldom appreciated. Although the collateral branches\\nof the family have become extensive in West Jersey, yet the\\nname has never been much known except in the neighborhood\\nof the first settler.\\nOn the south side of Newton creek and near the end of\\nAtmore s dam, not many years since, stood a small antiquated\\nhouse, built partly of brick and partly of frame, one and a half\\nstories high, with hipped roof, small windows and low, narrow\\ndoors. In early times this was kept as a tavern, and stood\\nbeside the public road leading from Philadelphia to the sea-\\nshore. It was probably built by John Willis, the ship carpenter\\nbefore noticed, as it was on the land which he purchased of the\\nGraysburys. The dam being the easiest means of crossing the\\nstream, all the travel passing between the points before named\\nwas centred here, making this hostelry a desirable stopping\\nplace, since here the greatest number of folks could be seen in\\na given time. It was enlarged until its ancient form was\\nentirely lost to the later generations, who did not know it as\\na resting place for travelers.\\nBeing the head of navigation, all the trade carried on with\\nPhiladelphia by water in that neighborhood started from that\\nn Lib. No. 38, 40.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "1 64 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\npoint, and, perchance, a packet left every day for the city to\\naccommodate the people, being a much easier means of com-\\nmunication than travel over the circuitous and, no doubt, bad\\nroads that led to the ferries. If the owners of the property\\nwere the keepers of the inn, then Joseph Kirlee succeeded\\nJohn Willis, and John, the son of Joseph Kirlee, followed,\\nwho, in 1 718, sold to Thomas Atmore. About the year 1773,\\nThomas died, and his son Caleb took possession, and by this\\nname it has been known among the people of later times. The\\nsituation being near the middle of the township, it was a\\nsuitable place for business meetings, and there the politicians\\nof that day most did congregate, to discuss the affairs of\\nthe colony. Here, for many years the few inhabitants ele6ted\\nthe various officers to carry on the machinery of their little\\nmunicipality, and, here, personal rivalry and political prejudice\\ncropped out, just as in these days of ambition and greed for\\noffice. Before the days of mails, this was the place where\\nnews from the city or county could be gathered, and whence\\ncorrespondence could be forwarded to various parts of Glou-\\ncester and Salem counties by the few travelers going to and\\nfrom their several homes. The name of this inn has passed\\ninto oblivion. No doubt, some high sounding title from the\\nmother country was emblazoned on the sign that hung before\\nthe door, and informed strangers that they approached the\\nBull and Mouth, the King and Cross, or some other names\\nthat, in these days, are not attached to such public resorts,\\nbut are regarded as antiquated and out of date.\\nInside, the low ceilings and ill arranged rooms told that\\nventilation and convenience were not regarded; yet the well\\nsanded floor and the bright pewter dishes betrayed the good\\nhouse-wife and thrifty matron. The bar-room opened by a\\ndouble door, cut horizontally, and within might be seen the\\ncrib which screened the liquors and prote6ted the dealer.\\nThe immense open fire-place, arranged with a bench on\\neach side, made sitting-room for guests by day, and beds for\\ndogs at night, to say nothing of the straight-backed slat-\\nbottomed chairs that stood around the walls. The visitors\\nwere mostly rude, uneducated people, unused to the refine-", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "THE GRAYSBURYS. 165\\nments of society, and contending with adversity in its many\\nugly shapes. The means of comfort, as now understood, were\\nnot at hand, and several decades passed away after the first\\nadventurers arrived, before anything beyond the necessity of\\ntheir conditions was attempted.\\nAt this old tavern might occasionally be seen a party of\\nhunters, pledging their good opinion of each other in a bowl\\nof whiskey-punch, or stone-fence, and enjoying in their\\npeculiar way the last of a successful chase. Wrestling, running\\nand jumping were indulged in, when a few of the neighbors\\nmet; and every man that participated, was soon graded as to\\nhis ability in each. The fare was abundant, and such as\\nepicures of the present day would revel in. It was dried\\nvenison, bear s meat, fresh fish, and wild fowl, with corn bread\\nor hoe cake, well prepared, and made inviting by the tidy\\nappearance of the surroundings. The liquors, also, though\\ndrawn from wooden casks, and drank from horn tumblers,\\nimparted an invigorating, healthy effect; and, when evapo-\\nrated by a good night s sleep, left no suspicious feelings after\\nthem.\\nOf this ancient house, not one stone rests upon another,\\nas it stood in the days of our forefathers and nothing but a\\nslight depression in the ground shows its place. In the midst\\nof a quiet, agricultural neighborhood, the visitor now cannot\\nappreciate the busy scenes that formerly surrounded it. The\\ncreek, once a beautiful, living stream, from being dammed at\\nthe mouth, was, for many years, only a muddy ditch; and,\\nwhere once spread the sails of the graceful water-craft, nothing\\nremained save a miasmatic bog, affe6ling the health of the\\nneighborhood, and the value of adjacent land as well. Of\\nlate years, -however, the tide is allowed to flow, and the many\\nadvantages incident thereto will follow in due time.\\nThe highway that took its tortuous course through the grand\\nold forests, passing around the heads of streams, avoiding the\\nhilly places, and extending for miles into the country without\\na habitation near it, this road, that brought the few travelers\\npast the doorj is scarcely known and is, in many places, entirely\\nobliterated.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "1 66 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nWealth, enterprise, and the increase of population, have\\nchanged these routes into straight, well cared-for thorough-\\nfares, while the Indian trails at this day cannot be remembered\\nby the oldest inhabitant. When this tavern at Atmore s dam\\nopened its doors to the public, or when ended the days of\\nits usefulness, no record can be found but, like many other\\nplaces of interest to the seeker after ancient things, enough\\nhas been gathered through tradition, that deserves a faithful\\nsearch the more thoroughly to know its history.\\nAround the broad, open fire of the bar-room, the legends,\\nthe arguments or the songs, will never be renewed nor, upon\\nthe green before the door, will the wrestlers ever again join\\nhands.\\nThither no more the peasant shall repair\\nTo sweet oblivion of his daily care\\nNo more the farmer s news, the barber s tale.\\nNo more the woodsman s ballad shall prevail\\nNo more the smith his dusky brow shall clear.\\nRelax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear\\nThe host himself no longer shall be found.\\nCareful to see the mantling bliss go round\\nNor the coy maid, half willing to be prest,\\nShall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "JOHN KAY.\\nAMONG the leading men of the times, the name of John\\nKay occurs as often as that of any other person. He\\nwas a son of Garvis Kay, and came to New Jersey about the\\nyear 1680. The history of this family in England is worthy\\nof notice in this conne(5lion, and may not prove uninteresting\\nto those of the name in this region of country, Lower, in\\nhis Di6lionary of Family Names, says: The family of Kaye\\nis of great antiquity in the county of York, being descended\\nfrom Sir Kaye, an ancient Britton, and one of the Knights\\nof the warlike table of that noble Prince Arthur, flower of\\nchivalry The truth seems to be that, at Woodsome in York-\\nshire, there resided in very early times a family of Kaye, the\\nhead of which, some centuries later, was created Baronet by\\nCharles I. The patent expired in 1810, but was revived shortly\\nafterwards in favor of the reputed son of the fifth Baronet.\\nSome of the family may be found in Durham and Berkshire,\\nbut it is more numerous in Yorkshire than in any other county\\nin England. Many of them were Friends, and consequently\\nsuffered persecution at the hands of those in authority, in the\\nshape of fines and imprisonments. At the court of quarter\\nsessions, held at Wakefield in Yorkshire, in 1661, John Kay,\\nBaronet, was the presiding judge, and committed sixty Quakers\\nto prison. Ten years after, John Kay was fined for attending\\nmeeting at York in the same shire. It is possible that the\\nlatter was the same person as the former; and that, while", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "1 68 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nthe committing magistrate, he became convinced of the truth\\nof the do6lrines preached by George Fox, laid aside his titles,\\nand suffered with the Friends in person and estate.\\nIn 1675, Garvis Kay of Holmforth, in the Parish of Kirk-\\nBurton, Yorkshire, was prosecuted for tithes, committed to\\nprison for contempt, and there kept for two years. He was\\nreleased for some flaw in the indi6lment, but again committed\\nby proceedings against him in the ecclesiastical courts.\\nAlthough it would be a venture to say that the two Kays\\nhere named were the same that came to New Jersey, yet the\\ndates and incidents may be reconciled, and such suggestion\\nreally may be a fa6l. This, however, must be left for some\\none in the blood, and curious to trace the family beyond the\\nocean.\\nThe first of the name hereabout was John Kay, who purchased\\none hundred acres of Francis Collins, in 1684, situated on the\\nnorth side of the north branch of Cooper s creek, adjoining\\na tradl of land which he (Francis Collins) afterwards sold to\\nSimeon Ellis. These one hundred acres are now part of the\\nfarm lately owned by Joseph W. Cooper, deceased, and lie about\\none mile east of Ellisburg, in Delaware township. In 1696,\\nJarvis Kay located one hundred acres of land situated on the\\nsoutherly side of the south branch of Cooper s creek; but, from\\nthe vague and uncertain description, its exa6l position cannot\\nbe discovered.* This tra6l is probably now included in the\\nlanded estate of John Gill, and lies about one mile south of\\nHaddonfield in Centre township, bounded by the stream afore-\\nsaid. Whether the Jarvis Kay here mentioned was the father\\nof John, or whether he lived on the survey before mentioned,\\nis unknown at this late day, and without much trouble and\\nbootless research, may always so remain.\\nThere is a tradition in the family that the first habitation\\nof John Kay on the tra6t of one hundred acres was a cave\\nin the hillside near the creek, and that there he and his family\\nresided. This is probable, as many of the first settlers adopted\\nthis mode of shelter, until time could be had to clear a portion\\n1 Besse s Sufferings, Vol. i, 14. 3 Basse s Book, 236.\\n2 Lib. A, 01, Gloucester Deeds. 4 Lib. A, 32, O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "JOHN KAY. 169\\nof their land and ere6l log cabins, which were universal in the\\nfirst settlement of the country. Were the dwelling a cave or a\\ncabin, there is much of interest surrounding the place where it\\nstood; and it deserves a faithful search in order to discover\\nits true locality.\\nIn 1685, a religious meeting was established by consent of\\nBurlington Friends, at the house of John Kay, in conne6lion\\nwith one of the same chara6ler to be held at the house of\\nTimothy Hancock, at Penisaukin, on alternate first-days, for\\nthe accommodation of Friends in Evesham, and about Penis-\\naukin and Cooper s creek. These meetings were continued\\nuntil 1707, at least, as the records show marriages to have taken\\nplace there as late as that time. William Clark and Mary\\nHeritage were married there in 1696. Benjamin Wood and\\nElizabeth Kay, and Benjamin Thackara and Mary Cooper,\\nwere married there in 1707, as were doubtless many others,\\nthe record of whose marriages has been lost.\\nAt that date (1685), the settlers in Evesham, or the Vale\\nof Evesham, as the neighborhood is called in some of the old\\ntitles, were but few, and wide apart.** Among them were\\nWilliam and Elizabeth Evans, who lived in a cave near Mt.\\nLaurel, on a tra6l of land which William had located in 1682;\\nand here were born their children. Noel Mew and his Indian\\nwife had settled on part of a large tra6l of land located by\\nhis father, Richard Mew. His habitation was on the farm\\nlately owned by James Wills, and near a stream of water\\ncalled Noel s run, which doubtless received its name from\\nhim. Thomas Evans, a brother of William, also settled in\\nthat neighborhood; his family was small, however, he having\\nbut a wife and one daughter.\\nJohn Inskeep resided east of Marlton, in a small cabin sur-\\nrounded by Indians, with whom he lived on excellent terms.\\nThomas Eves lived near by, as well as Henry Ballinger, Francis\\nAustin, and others, who were known in those days as the\\nEvesham Friends, and attended the meeting at John Kay s\\nhouse. Elizabeth Evans, the wife of William, was a public\\n5 Asa Matlack s Mem.\\n6 Revel s Book, 72.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "I70 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nFriend, and doubtless followed closely in the footsteps of the\\nfounder of her profession, and, in their meetings at this place,\\nfrequently exhorted those around her to do likewise.\\nJohn Kay s house was several miles from where these people-\\nlived, but it proved how much they were attached to their\\nreligious principles, and what difficulties they were willing to\\novercome in order to observe the requirements of the society.\\nIn this conne6lion it may be proper to notice another meet-\\ning of Friends, held at the house of Thomas Shackle, from the\\nyear 1695 to 1721. Some one who has had access to the\\nminute book of the Friends Meetings in this se6lion, has\\nmade the following extra6l therefrom\\nThe Monthly Meeting of Gloucester from the year 1695,\\nwas held alternately at Newton and at the house of Thomas\\nShackle, until the twelfth month, 1721, at which time it was\\nheld at the meeting house at Haddonfield, which was built\\nin the fore part of that year, on ground given by John Estaugh,\\nfor the accommodation of the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings.\\nAfter some time, two meetings a week for worship, were con-\\nstantly kept there, which are still continued, excepting when\\nthat on the first-day is held at Newton. The Monthly Meeting\\nis now constantly held at Haddonfield, and the Quarterly Meet-\\ning alternately there and at Salem. The Quarterly Meeting\\nwas first set up by order of the Yearly Meeting at Burlington,\\nto be held alternately at Salem and Newton.\\nThe house of Thomas Shackle stood upon the farm now\\nowned by Amos Kaighn, in Delaware township, a short dis-\\ntance northwest of the Haddonfield and Moorestown road,\\nand about one mile from Ellisburg.^ The land Thomas Shackle\\npurchased of Francis Collins in 1689, and, in 1735, it became\\nthe property of John Burrough.\\nThis extra6l fixes the year in which the meeting house at\\nHaddonfield was built, the ere6lion of which centred all the\\nmeetings at one point, much to the comfort and convenience\\nof the people.\\n7 The Friend, Vol. 4, 206.\\n8 Lib. Gi, 97.\\n9 Lib. X, 14.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "JOHN KAY. 171\\nProud, in a foot note to his History of Pennsylvania, says\\nthat John Kty was the first child born of English parents in\\nPhiladelphia, and that William Penn gave him a square of\\nground. He was born in a cave long afterwards known by\\nthe name of Penny Pot, near Sassafras street. He remem-\\nbers him to have been in the city about six years before his\\ndeath, which occurred in 1767. He was buried at Kennett, in\\nChester county, Pennsylvania, where he had previously resided.\\nThe subje6l of this sketch and the person named by Proud\\ncannot be the same, although the name is frequently spelled\\ndifferently, which sometimes leads to doubt.\\nJohn Kay became the owner of many trails of land near\\nhis first purchase, some of which he located, and some of which\\nhe bought of the settlers. One of the old deeds calls him a\\nclothier, which implies he was a manufacturer of, or a dealer in\\ncloth. Whether this had reference to his calling before or after\\nhis settlement here, does not appear.\\nThe coloring matter for his goods was not one of the troubles\\nin manufa6luring, for our Quaker ancestors were careful to avoid\\nanything in dress that pertained to style or pretension. Of\\nthe few changes that have made any inroads upon the pra6lices\\nof primitive Friends, this is the most radical. In England,\\nthe members of this sedl cannot be distinguished by their dress,\\nand such may soon be the case in America.\\nIn 1 7 10, John Kay purchased the Lovejoy survey, partly\\ncovered by the village of Haddon field, which purchase included\\nthe mansion house and corn mill built by Thomas Kendall in\\n1697, now part of the estate of Josiah B. Evans, deceased;\\nboth of which buildings stood on the south side of the creek,\\nand within the bounds of Newton township. To this place\\nJohn Kay removed, and he there resided until his death.\\nThis corn mill, in the days of our ancestors known as the\\nFree Lodge mill, as then constructed, would be a curiosity\\nto the mechanics of the present time. The driving of one\\nrun of stone was, perhaps, all that was desired, the machinery\\nbeing so heavily and clumsily made that it would contrast\\n10 Basse s Book, 237.\\n11 Basse s Book, 62.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "172 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nstrangely with the perfe6l application of power, the avoidance\\nof fri6lion, and the nice adjustment secured by experience\\nand ingenuity to the same uses at the present day.\\nThe mill stood some distance below the dam, at the end\\nof the race-way cut in the bank, which secured additional\\nhead and fall without increasing the expense. The remains\\nof this race-way may yet be seen, but the site of the mill is\\nentirely obliterated. That it literally was a corn mill there\\ncan be no question, as no other kind of grain was raised here\\nfor many years after its ere(5lion, nor was bolting apparatus\\nintroduced after other cereals were cultivated, but our fore-\\nfathers ate their bread made of the dark flour, taken up with\\nthe bran still remaining therein which, although it detradled\\nfrom the appearance, yet aided materially in the digestion.\\nA story is still extant, much to the scandal of our worthy\\nancestors, that, in going with a grist to the mill, they always\\nput a stone in one end of the sack, the better to balance the\\ngrain in the other, when hung across the horse or ox that\\ncarried it, not understanding that, with grain in place of the\\nstone, a double portion could be thus transported. If this\\nbe true, then the improvement in the mode of getting a grist\\nto and from the mill is quite as discoverable as the advantage\\nderived from modern well adjusted machinery. This was prob-\\nably the first grain mill in Gloucester county, and, if it stood\\nnow as in the days of its usefulness, many would be the visitors\\nto examine its arrangement and inspe6l its odd constru6lion.\\nIn 1685, John Kay was ele6led a member of the Assembly\\nof the province of West New Jersey, and, in 1 703 and 1 704,\\nagain filled the same position. During this time he was also\\nappointed one of the justices of Gloucester county, which,\\nunder the laws of the State, then existing, made him one of\\nthe judges of the several courts of the same. He held several\\nlocal offices, and discharged their duties to the satisfa6lion of\\nthe community.\\nIn 1 710, he was again ele6led one of the members of the\\nProvincial Assembly from Gloucester county, which was part\\nof the fourth session of the Legislature after the surrender\\n12 Minutes of Assembly, State Library, Trenton.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "JOHN KAY. 173\\nmade to Queen Anne, and in the ninth year of her reign.\\nUpon the meeting of this body at Burlington, he was chosen\\nspeaker, which appointment at that time was sufficient to mark\\nhim as a man of more than ordinary ability. Robert Hunter\\nwas governor, holding his commission from the Queen, and,\\nby her instru6tions and authority, striving to settle the diffi-\\nculties then existing between the colonies, but now united\\nunder his administration. Much depended on the discretion\\nand good judgment of the Legislature in making the surrender\\nacceptable to the people, and John Kay was a prominent man\\nduring all these difficulties. He was continued speaker through\\nthe sessions of 1711-12 and 1713.\\nUpon the meeting of the Legislature in 1716, Daniel Coxe\\nwas returned as a member of the Assembly in place of John\\nKay, and was chosen speaker. The proceedings of that body,\\nhowever, show in what way this occurred for William Harri-\\nson, sheriff of Gloucester county, was arrested and brought\\nto the bar of the House by the sergeant-at-arms, and repri-\\nmanded for adjourning the ele6lion poll from the great\\nfield near John Kay s house, to William Cooper s, several\\nmiles distant, without the consent of the candidates, which\\nwas contrary to law. By this transa 5lion, the defeat of\\nJohn Kay was brought about, which led to the censure of the\\nprincipal executive officer of the county. What sheriff Har-\\nrison s explanation or apology was, does not appear upon the\\nrecord, yet it is evident that he was in sympathy with Dr. Coxe,\\nand enlarged his authority to carry out his wishes. John Kay\\nat that time resided at the corn mill, and the great field was\\npart of John Haddon s estate, bounded by the King s road\\nand part of the village of Haddonfield.\\nAlthough several years had passed away since the assumption\\nof the government by Queen Anne, yet the participants in the\\npolitical troubles previous to that had not forgotten their ani-\\nmosities, as was evidenced in the foregoing transa6lion. Daniel\\nCoxe made himself obnoxious to Governor Hunter, and, at the\\nnext session, absented himself from the Assembly, at which\\ntime Jolin Kinsey was eledled speaker in his stead. Coxe was\\nafterward reprimanded and expelled from that body.\\n13 Minutes of Assembly, State Library, Trenton.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "174 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nAnother peculiarity about this ele6lion was the returning of\\nDaniel Coxe for the counties of Salem and Gloucester; so,\\nupon the organization of the Assembly, he was called upon to\\ndecide which of the two counties he would represent. After\\nmuch controversy, in which he manifested considerable ill feel-\\ning, as well as his ignorance of the laws, he concluded to serve\\nfor Gloucester, considering doubtless that the influence of John\\nKay would hinder the consummation of his plans, if sitting as\\na member at that time. This made it necessary that a warrant\\nshould issue for a new eledlion in Salem upon its return it was\\nfound that William Clews was ele6led but delay was caused\\nin his taking his seat by reason of his scruples in regard to the\\nnecessary oath. After considerable explanation, this trouble\\nwas overcome, and the hindrance caused by a faftious and\\nunprincipled man removed.\\nAmong the colonial records in the state paper office in\\nLondon, England, notice of his eledlion is entered; it is\\nthere imputed to the inundation of the Swedes,^* reference\\nbeing had to such of that nationality as were inhabitants of\\nSalem and Gloucester counties.\\nDaniel Coxe was the son of Dr. Daniel Coxe of London,\\nwho became the owner of twenty-two whole shares of propriety\\nin West New Jersey, and was governor of the province from\\n1687 to 1690. In 1 69 1, a number of persons, residents of\\nLondon, formed themselves into what they called the West\\nNew Jersey Society, and purchased of him the above named\\nshares, he reserving, however, surveys already made, being\\nlarge tradts in Salem county, then including both Cumberland\\nand Cape May. This deed also contained grants for two\\nhundred thousand acres, called the Merrisinbes Province,\\ncontiguous to West Jers,ey; two shares of propriety in East\\nJersey; three whole shares in Merrimack, New England; ten\\nthousand acres in Pennsylvania; a dwelling house and pottery\\nhouse with all the tools, in Burlington town-lots at Perth\\nAmboy, and Town-lots at Gloucester and Egg Harbor. The\\nsociety consisted of forty-eight persons having a common seal,\\nwith, perhaps, a charter from the King. Many large surveys\\n14 Publications of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol. 5, 93.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "JOHN KAY. 175\\nwere made and sold, realizing considerable money to the associa-\\ntion but the troubles with their agents here, and the dissensions\\namong themselves at home, finally reduced the number of persons\\nto but few, who eventually sold the entire estate to Benjamin B.\\nCooper, of Gloucester county, N. J. Even at this date large\\nsums of money are held by the treasurer, waiting the lawful\\nowners who may have some trouble in making the legal con-\\nnedlion, after such a lapse of time, with those who constituted\\nthe original society.\\nDaniel Coxe (the son) was bred to the law, and was a man of\\ngood education and many redeeming traits of chara 5ler, but of\\nan erratic and impetuous temperament, which was continually\\ngetting him into difficulty with those in authority. He was a\\nmember of Lord Cornbury s council, and sympathized with\\nhim in many of his arbitrary and illegal a6ls done under the\\ncolor of law; this rendered him especially unpopular with\\nthe Quakers of the province.\\nIn the year 1734, he was appointed one of the associate\\njustices of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and discharged\\nhis duties with much satisfadlion to the people age and exper-\\nience having tempered his composition and made him a valuable\\nand exemplary member of society. He remained on the bench\\nuntil his death, which occurred in 1739. Judge Field, in his\\nHistory of the Provincial Courts of New Jersey, says of him\\nHis early career in New Jersey was clouded by his con-\\nnedlion with Lord Cornbury, and his diff erence with Governor\\nHunter, but he lived to enjoy the confidence and respe6l of the\\ncommunity, and his judicial duties appear to have been dis-\\ncharged with ability and integrity.\\nAt the election which occurred in November, 17 16, John\\nKay was again returned as a member of the Assembly and,\\nalthough not ele6led speaker, he took a prominent part in all\\nthe proceedings of that branch of the government. Among\\nother matters of importance, he was chairman of the committee\\nto procure the settlement of the boundary line between New\\nYork and New Jersey, then a subje6l of much controversy and\\nill feeling.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "176 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nHe was also chairman of the committee to prepare a law to\\nfix the partition line between East and West Jersey, a matter\\nthat interested the council of proprietors of each division that\\nhas found its way into every tribunal in the State, and that\\nremains to this day a subje6l of trouble and litigation. At this\\nsession he also procured the passage of an a6l to make per-\\npetual an a6l entitled, An a6l that the solemn affirmation of\\nthe people called Quakers shall be accepted instead of an oath\\nin the usual form, and for qualifying and enabling the said\\npeople to serve as jurors and to execute any place of trust in\\nthe province. From this may be dated the law that relieved\\nFriends from the many difficulties that grew out of a legal\\nformality, and which had been a source of annoyance to theiiT\\nsince the surrender of the government to Queen Anne, and,\\nparticularly, since the arrival of Lord Cornbury, her first execu-\\ntive officer. He was in advance of his times in discerning the\\nnecessities of the people and the interests of the province. He\\ngrew up with the emigrants, had knowledge of all the political\\ndifficulties through which they passed, shared all their priva-\\ntions, was participant and assisted in the settlement of all the\\nleading questions of the day in which he lived, and enjoyed\\nthe confidence of his constituency until the last. He was a\\nmember of the Society of Friends, and one of the trustees of\\nthe Newton meeting from 1708 until his death.\\nAs one of the members of the Council of Proprietors of\\nWest New Jersey, he was also a prominent man, sought out\\nmany abuses incident to the location of land, and had the same\\ncorre6led during his continuance in that office. It does not\\nappear that he was a pra6lical surveyor, yet his thorough busi-\\nness qualifications placed him on an even footing with the\\ndeputies; by which means he understood the whole manner\\nof procedure in the laying on of rights according to the rules,\\nand, sometimes, to the discomfiture of that class of men.\\nJohn Kay died in 1742, a wealthy man, leaving a widow\\n(Sarah), who survived him several years. Their children were\\nJohn, who married Sarah Langstone in 1707; Sarah, who mar-\\nried James Norris; Mary, who married Benjamin Wood in\\n1707; Isaac, who married Mary Ann Gregory in 1738; Josiah,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "JOHN KAY. x-ii\\nwho married Rebecca Davenport in 17 13, a daughter of Francis,\\none of the first settlers at Burlington, N. J., who came from\\nWhittington, Derbyshire, England; Benjamin who deceased,\\nsingle, in 1732; and Joseph, who died in 1721, leaving a widow,\\nElizabeth, and children.\\nAt the time of his death, John Kay owned all the land on\\nthe east side of the main street in Haddonfield, extending from\\nCooper s creek to Ellis street (excepting a few lots which he had\\nsold); also land lying between the two branches of Cooper s\\ncreek, extending some two miles up each branch, and a large\\ntradl on the north side of the north branch, beside surveys in\\nother parts of Gloucester county. In 1727, he conveyed to his\\nson Josiah, the one hundred acres which he purchased of Francis\\nCollins, upon which Josiah settled, who, in 1745, conveyed the\\nsame to his son Francis. It is probable that this tra6t of land\\nremained in the family and name for many years after the last\\nconveyance, but, at this writing, it has lost its identity therewith.\\nIn the same year (1727), John Kay conveyed to his son Isaac\\nseveral tra6ls of land, the whole containing seven hundred and\\nthirty-four acres, situated on both branches of Cooper s creek.\\nIn this deed, the grantor is called John Kay of the Grist Mill,\\nat the head of Cooper s creek, in Newton township, Gloucester\\ncounty, New Jersey, his residence and occupation at that time\\nthus being proved beyond a question. The only part of the\\noriginal landed estate that has remained in the family and name\\nfrom the location to the present time, is the farm now owned by\\nJoseph Kay, of Haddonfield, and situated on the south side\\nof the north branch of Cooper s creek in Delaware township.\\nThis tra6t has descended continuously through the blood and\\nname for nearly two hundred years, never having passed by a\\ndeed from one owner to another in that time. Excepting a\\nsmall portion of the land occupied by Sarah Norris, the son John\\npossessed all the land owned by the father on the east side of\\nthe main street in Haddonfield, extending nearly to Ellis street.\\nHis children were Isaac, who married Hope French; John, who\\nmarried Rebecca Hartley; Mathias; William, who marrried\\n15 Lib. S6, 338, o. s. G.\\n16 Lib. DD, 17s.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "178 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nBarbary Smith; Rebecca; Hope, who died before her father,\\nsingle; Ann, who married Joshua Evans and Mary, who mar-\\nried Abraham Heulings.\\nJames Norris, a sliipwriglit, who married Sarali, built one of\\nthe first houses in Haddonfield, on land then owned by her\\nfather, where he, during his life, and his widow, after his death,\\nkept a store. James Norris deceased in 1742 intestate, leaving\\none child, Elizabeth, who married Isaac Smith in 1739, and\\nJohn Hinchman in 1747.\\nSarah Norris died in 1755, leaving a will. She gave Jona-\\nthan Axford two horses and the use of her house, set her slaves\\nfree, and bequeathed a sum of money to the Newton Meeting.\\nThe inventory of her personal property amounted to nearly\\nfour hundred pounds. She continued her store until her death,\\ndealing in all the various commodities incident to the trade\\nof a country merchant. Of such of her customers who were slow\\nto pay, she would hand over the accounts to the officers of the\\nlaw, to secure the debt already in danger, and as a terror to all\\nothers in like manner offending. Her property accumulated\\nunder her management, showing that she had good business\\nqualifications. Her daughter Elizabeth had two children by\\nher first husband (daughters but none by the last. She died\\nabout the year 1804, surviving John Hinchman several years.\\nHer children were Sarah, who married Joseph Hugg in 1761,\\nand Mary, who married Jacob Jennings in the same year.\\nMary (the wife of Benjamin Wood), deceased before her\\nfather, leaving four children, namely: Abigail, who married\\nRobert Hunt; Mary, who married Joseph Cole and Richard\\nMatlack; Elizabeth, who married Elias Toy; and Hannah, who\\nmarried Joseph Heulings.\\nIsaac (to whom his father had conveyed land in 1727) had his\\nresidence on Avhat is generally known as the Fotteral Farm,\\nnow owned by Hannah, the widow of Josiah B. Evans, deceased.\\nIn the year 1791, most of the land owned by Isaac was re-sur-\\nveyed by his son Joseph, and the boundaries settled.^\\n17 Lib. No. 4, 376. 20 Lib. S, 6i.\\n18 Gloucester Files, 1758. 21 Lib W, 190, O. S. G.\\n19 Lib. No. 7, 390.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "JOHN KAY. 179\\nIsaac Kay died in 1757, leaving the following children:\\nIsaac; Joseph; Sarah, who married Abraham Bryant; Eliza-\\nbeth, who married Isaac Horner; and one child not born at\\nthe time of his decease.^ This part of the estate has not been\\nin the name for many years.\\nAs before stated, Josiah lived on the old homestead, where\\nhe died in 1771. His children were Francis, who married\\nJemima French Joseph, who married Ann Thompson (and who,\\ndying before his father, left children); Isaac; and Elizabeth,\\nwho married Parker. This family increased rapidly.\\nThere is some doubt as to the correctness of its genealogy as\\nhere given.\\nAlthough the sons of the first settlers remained on the pater-\\nnal estate, yet the second generation soon spread far beyond the\\nlimits of New Jersey, and the name may now be found in all\\nsedtions of the Union.\\nThe descendants of Mary have multiplied largely; they\\nwould find some trouble in tracing their line of blood to its\\nsource, so tortuous and so diluted has it now become.\\nAt this day, it is probable that the family of Sarah Norris has\\nno existence. The second generation from her was limited to\\ntwo females, and, if from them it has been enlarged, no knowl-\\nedge of the fa6l is possessed in this region of country.\\n22 Lib. No. 8, 350.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "SIMEON ELLIS.\\nSAMUEL SMITH, in his History of New Jersey, says,\\nThomas Ellis came to Burlington, New Jersey, in\\n1677. He came from Burlington, in Yorkshire, England,\\nas one of the servants of George Hutchinson, who was a\\ndistiller. In reference to this class of persons, a note is\\nappended, which says: Many that came servants succeeded\\nbetter than some that bought estates. The first, inured to\\nindustry and the ways of the country, became wealthy, while\\nothers were obliged to spend what they had in the difficulties\\nof the improvements. And others, living too much on their\\noriginal stock, for want of sufficient care to improve their\\nestates, have in many instances dwindled to indigency and\\nwant. Thomas Gordon, in his history of this State, copied\\nafter Smith, and mentions another Thomas Ellis, who arrived\\na few years later; but the same person is probably meant,\\nas, by some oversight, the name may have been repeated.\\nHe settled on a town lot located to him in Burlington, in\\n1680, and died two years after, leaving a daughter Elizabeth,\\nwho was apprenticed to John Brown the same year. This\\nwas done by the judges of the court, and appears among its\\nproceedings.^\\nWilliam Ellis also came to Burlington county in 1683, and\\nmade a location of a considerable tra6l of land in Springfield\\nI Revel s Book, 04.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "1 82 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\ntownship. He was from Tunstall, in Holderness, Yorkshire,\\nEngland, and, in all probability, was of the same family as\\nThomas.^\\nOf the nativity, or of the arrival of Simeon Ellis in New\\nJersey, nothing is known and it may, perhaps, always remain\\na doubtful question, for the reason that very many of the\\nemigrants of that day had no entry made of their names upon\\nthe ship s books, and also because many of these books have\\nbeen destroyed through the carelessness of the owners, or of\\nthose into whose possession they may have fallen.\\nIt is probable, however, that he was not among the first that\\nlanded here, as he did not purchase any real estate until 1691\\nat which date many settlements had been made in Burlington\\nand Gloucester counties, and the city of Philadelphia had\\ncome to be quite a thrifty village. This purchase consisted\\nof two hundred acres of land conveyed to him by Francis\\nCollins, and was part of a survey of eight hundred acres made\\nby him, bounded by the north side of the north branch of\\nCooper s creek. The two hundred acres lay on both sides of\\nthe King s highway, as the same had been but a short time\\nbefore laid out by the commissioners appointed for that purpose.\\nSimeon built his log cabin near the stream, and but a short\\ndistance from the road; here he always after lived, and here\\nwere all his children born. As was the custom in those days,\\nhis place had to be designated by some title, and he adopted\\nthat of Springwell; but, like the position of the first habi-\\ntation, it has long since been forgotten. This pradlice was\\nbrought by our forefathers from England, where every gentle-\\nman s seat had a particular name, which name is tenaciously\\nadhered to from generation to generation by the family. The\\nconstant change of the title to land in New Jersey, and the\\ndisposition of many families to remove from the ancestral acres,\\nare reasons why so few estates at the present day retain the\\nnames by which they were christened at the first settlement.\\nSome, however, may so be found also, in possession of the\\nowners, may be seen the original title to the estate, coming\\n2 Lib. Bi, 121.\\n3 Lib, G2, 127.\\n4 Lib. P, 238.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "SIMEON ELLIS. 183\\ndown through the same blood, with the pride of family always\\napparent.\\nIn 1695, Simeon bought four hundred acres of land of Elias\\nand Margaret Hugg, adjoining his first purchase. This Margaret\\nwas a daughter of Francis Collins, who had conveyed the said\\nfour hundred acres to Samuel Jennings and Robert Dimsdale,\\nas trustees, in 1687 part of the eight hundred acres survey\\nbefore named.*\\nThese first purchases of Simeon Ellis, as described by present\\nlocalities, include the village of EUisburg, in Delaware town-\\nship they are almost equally divided by the Camden and\\nMarlton turnpike, and the Moorestown and Haddonfield road.\\nBut few of the original boundaries are left, excepting the water\\ncourse, as the purchase, sale and division of land, in the space\\nof one hundred years, obliterate very many ancient land marks.\\nSeveral other purchases were made, some of which lay on the\\nsouth side of the north branch, now included in the farms of\\nJohn Ballinger and of others adjoining. A part of this estate\\nis now owned by Joseph Ellis and the heirs of Josiah Ellis,\\ndeceased, lineal descendants of the first settlers. All the\\nremainder has passed out of the name many years since.\\nSimeon Ellis was not a participant in the political troubles of\\nthe times in which he lived, and does not appear as an office\\nholder upon any of the records. He was a member of the\\nSociety of Friends, and among those who made up the little\\nassemblage at John Kay s house, a short distance from his own\\nwhere he met the few of the same se6l that came from Evesham.\\nSimeon Ellis died in 1715, dividing his property by will\\namong his children. His personal effe6ls, by appraisement,\\namounted to two hundred and fifty-three pounds, sterling, and\\nhe, doubtless, was considered a well-to-do farmer by his\\nneighbors, for his estate ranged much above the average of\\nthat time. His wife, who survived him, was Sarah, a daughter\\nof William Bates, to whom he was married, according to the\\norder of Friends, in 1692, at the old Newton meeting house,\\nthen a short distance from the home of the bride.\\n5 Lib. G3, 71.\\n6 Basse s Book, 28.\\n7 Lib. No. 2, 05.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "1 84 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nSarah, the widow of Simeon Ellis, dealt somewhat in real\\nestate after the death of her husband, as, in 171 7, she bought\\nsome four hundred acres in Newton township, fronting on\\nCooper s creek, and extending to the main branch of Newton\\ncreek.* This she purchased of Isaac Holhngsham, and, the\\nnext year, her son Thomas conveyed her an adjoining tra6l,\\nmaking her at that time one of the largest land holders in the\\ntownship.\\nPortions of this property remained in the family and name\\nfor many years after the death of the widow, following the\\ncollateral branches to the present generation but they are now\\ndivided into lots and farms, parts being owned by Edward C.\\nKnight, William P. Tatem, John C. De Costa, and others.\\nThe landed estate of Simeon Ellis and of his widow Sarah,\\nin her own right, was therefore large; and, lying as it mostly\\ndoes, in the improved sedlions of Camden county, if taken\\nas a whole, it would now be of much value.\\nIn disposing of his property by his will, Simeon Ellis men-\\ntioned seven children, namely: Thomas, who married Catha-\\nrine Collins, daughter of Joseph, in 1722; Joseph, who mar-\\nried William, who married Sarah Collins, daughter\\nof Joseph; Simeon, who married Jonathan, who\\nmarried Mary Hollingshead (the latter surviving him, and after-\\nwards marrying Robert Stiles); Mary, who married\\nand Sarah, who married John Kay, in 1730.\\nThe homestead estate, which was devised to Thomas, William\\nand Simeon, was held by them, as given by their father, until\\n1754, when, owing to some trouble in regard to the boundaries,\\nthey joined in a re-survey of the same, which settled all matters\\nin dispute with adjoining owners. This proceeding also showed\\nin what manner the three sons held the paternal estate, and on\\nwhat part of which each lived at that time.\\nThomas had three hundred and nineteen acres of the western\\npart, fronting on the creek and extending north. His residence\\nwas on what is generally known as the Lewallen farm (a short\\ndistance from Stevenson s mill). The Ogden estate, being for-\\n8 Lib. A, 56, iDi\\n9 Lib. S, 338, O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "SIMEON ELLIS. 185\\nmerly the farm of Charles Collins, deceased, was part of\\nThomas s share; and also much other adjoining land; all this\\nis now divided and sub-divided into plantations, the primitive\\nforests being gone and most of the ancient boundaries oblit-\\nerated. In 1766, he sold the larger part of the same to\\nJoseph Collins, who, by his will, divided it among his sons.\\nThis Joseph Collins was, perhaps, the son of Benjamin and\\nnephew of Catharine, the wife of Thomas Ellis, and the only\\nperson of that branch of the family who carried the name to\\nthe present generations.\\nWilliam had two hundred and thirty-three acres in the most\\nnortherly part of the original tra6t, lying, as it now does, on\\nboth sides of the Haddonfield and Moorestown road, and\\nmostly absorbed in the farms of William Morris Cooper and\\nthe heirs at law of Batheuel Heulings, deceased. In 1757, he\\nlived in Newton township, at which time his occupation was\\nthat of a carpenter but he afterwards removed to his part of\\nhis father s estate, and there died intestate, in 1759. His wife\\nCatharine became his administrator. He had but two children,\\nnamely: Abigail, who married John Cox in 1744; and Ann,\\nwho married Peter Champion in 1746. John Stokes in 1751, and\\nSamuel Murrell.^\\nThe landed property was divided between the two daughters\\nit has many years since passed out of the name and blood.\\nThe daughter Ann, by her several husbands, had the follow-\\ning issue: By Peter Champion, one child, Joseph, who married\\nRachel Collins; by John Stokes, none; by Samuel Murrell, a\\nson Samuel, who married Hubbs.\\nThe children of John and Abigail Cqx, were William, who\\nmarried Phoebe Dufifield John, who married Tallman and\\nAnn Dylwin and Samuel, who married Sarah Emlen.\\nA short distance east of the Haddonfield and Moorestown\\nroad, and on the Heulings farm, is the spot where were buried\\nthe slaves of the Ellis family, a spot scarcely known to the\\npresent generation, but not as yet used for farming purposes.\\nOccasionally a member of the owner s family would be interred\\n10 Lib. L, 109, Woodburj 13 Book of Licences of Marriages, Trenton.\\n11 Lib. P, 4-9. 14 Lib. AH, 385.\\n12 Lib. No. 9, 213.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "1 86 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nat such place, and consequently be lost sight of among the after\\ngenerations of the proprietor.\\nSimeon had the larger share in acres, as well as the homestead\\nimprovements, for his portion of the paternal property, it being\\nthree hundred and sixty-six acres, with an extensive front on\\nthe creek. He occupied the house built by his father and tilled\\nthe land, from which the latter had cleai ed the timber, when he\\nmade his settlement at that place. He was an intelligent man\\nfor his day, and the ancestor of the family that still retain parts\\nof the original estate. As a tiller of the soil and one who\\nsought to develop agriculture, he was a public benefactor; as a\\ndispenser of the law in the guise of a country squire, he com-\\nmanded that deference which in years gone by was paid to such\\nindividuals, maintaining the dignity of the realm and respe6l\\nfor the King.\\nHis docket is a curious volume, interspersed with the entries\\nof a6lions at law, charges for grain, credit for money paid for\\nlabor on his farm, and much other matter, foreign entirely to\\nthe purpose for which the book was intended. In the year\\n1742, Sarah Norris, who kept a store in Haddonfield, being out\\nof patience with many of her delinquent customers, applied to\\nSquire Ellis, to try his remedy upon whose record her name\\nfrequently appears as plaintiff in suits there entered. To show\\nthat she was in earnest, the execution soon followed the judg-\\nment which meant that the claim must be discharged, or the\\ndefendant be sent to jail. That a man could more easily pay his\\ndebt when fast in* prison than at liberty, was one of the absurd-\\nities of English jurisprudence, brought to New Jersey by our\\nancestors; but the notion has been exploded, having given way\\nto common sense and a more liberal sentiment.\\nThe quarter sessions court, in fashion then, consisting of two\\njustices of the peace, with authority to try petty crimes, some-\\ntimes sat at Simeon s house. Perchance some scamp, without\\nthe fear of law before his eyes, had robbed his neighbor s hen-\\nroost, and he, while in the enjoyment of a meal therefrom, had\\nbeen pounced upon by a constable and taken at once to trial.\\nThe court, with all gravity, and, in consideration of the\\nimportance of the crime, would listen to the evidence; hear", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "SIMEON ELLIS. 187\\nthe story of the defendant; and, after much judicial hesita-\\ntion, declare the criminal guilty. If an old offender, twenty\\nlashes on the bare back would only be sufficient to vindicate\\nthe dignity of the law which sentence would be passed with\\na hint of more, if again convi6led.\\nTo a tree near by, in the most public manner, would the\\nculprit be taken; and there, in the presence of the crowd,\\ntied, stripped and beaten, a proceeding which degraded alike\\nthe vi6lim of the law, and those whose morbid tastes could\\ninduce them to witness the sentence carried into eff e6l.\\nLike the court, these scenes have become obsolete. Elements\\nof Christianity have been infused into the corrective systems\\nof our government, more charitable in their operation, and\\nless humiliating to the unfortunate.\\nBy the gracious favor of his Majesty, the peace officers of\\nthe realm were clothed with authority to solemnize marriages.\\nAlthough much the larger portion of the inhabitants in West\\nJersey were Quakers, and careful that the young folks should\\nadhere to their form in this regard, yet it sometimes happened\\nthat an alliance would be made in which the beau or belle\\nwas outside the pale of the church. In these cases, Simeon\\nEllis was often called upon and he, without the presence of\\nany one except the parties themselves, would join them in the\\nbonds of holy wedlock. This breach of discipline was fre-\\nquently overlooked; and, if a proper explanation was made,\\nand an acknowledgment forwarded to the meeting, the erring\\none was retained in membership.\\nFrom the year 1727 to 1791 inclusive, a law was in force\\nrequiring a man who contemplated marriage, to file a bond\\nunder his hand and seal, with the Governor of the State, with\\nsufficient security; the condition of which was that he had no\\nlawful let, impediment of pre-contra6t, affinity or consanguinity,\\nto hinder the same. A copy of one of these is here given,\\nwhich may prove of interest to the reader. It is as follows:\\nKnow all Men by these Presents, That We, James\\nMulock of the County of Gloucester, in the Province of New\\nJersey, Pra6licioner of Physick, and Robert Friend Price, of\\nthe same Place, Esq., are holden and do stand justly indebted", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "i88 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nunto His Excellency, Jonathan Belcher, Esq., Captain-General\\nand Governor-in-Chief of New-Jersey, c., in the sum of Five\\nHundred Pounds of current lawful Money of New-Jersey; to\\nbe paid to His said Excellency the Governor, his Successors or\\nAssigns. For the which Payment well and truly to be made\\nand done. We do bind ourselves, our Heirs, Executors and\\nAdministrators, and every of them,\\nfirmly by these Presents. Sealed with our Seals, Dated this\\nSixteenth day of April Anno Domini One Thousand Seven\\nHundred and Fifty-Seven, [1757].\\nThe Condition of this Obligation is such. That where-\\nas the above Bounden James Mulock hath obtained License of\\nMarriage for himself of the one Party, and for Priscilla Collins\\nof Gloucester County of the other Party, Now, if it shall not\\nhereafter appear, that they the said James Mulock and Priscilla\\nCollins have any lawful Let or Impediment of Pre-contra6l,\\nAfifiiiity, or Consanguinity, to hinder their being joined in the\\nHoly Bands of Matrimony, and afterwards their living together\\nas Man and Wife: then this Obligation to be void, or else to\\nstand and remain in full Force and Virtue.\\nJAMES MULOCK, [seal.]\\nROBT. FR D PRICE. [seal.]\\nSealed and Delivered in\\nthe Presence of\\nJos. Harrison.\\nIf no other good was accomplished, the great value of the\\npapers arising from the operation of the law is sufficient. These\\nbonds and certificates arranged in chronological order, are well\\ncared for in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton;\\nand they contain an amount of information that otherwise\\nwould have been lost. Occasionally the records show that the\\nparties were from another state, by reason, no doubt, of an\\ninexorable parent or stubborn guardian, whose consent to the\\nmarriage could not be had.\\nWeddings, in those times, frequently extended through days\\nof hilarity and frolic. Dancing, blind-man s buff, and pawns", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "SIMEON ELLIS. 189\\nwere the usual means of enjoyment, and were entered upon\\nwith a zest that proved that every one was in search of pleas-\\nure. Like many others, these customs have passed away, and\\ntime has interposed so many generations that the present has no\\nremembrance of them. Our sturdy ancestors on these occasions\\nseemed boisterous and rude, but it should be considered that\\nthey had other occupations than the study of refinement and\\npolish. Those who remove the timber and conquer the soil of\\na new country, seldom have time to indulge in education or\\nluxury.\\nSimeon Ellis di?d in 1773, leaving a will. Parts of his land\\nhe conveyed to his sons, but much passed to them by devise.\\nHe survived his wife, and left the following children Isaac,\\nwho married Mary Shivers (daughter of Samuel); Benjamin,\\nwho married Sarah Bates; William, who married Amy Matlack;\\nJohn, who married Priscilla Peterson (widowl; Sarah, who\\nmarried William Duyre; and Simeon, who married\\nBates (sister to Benjamin s wife.)\\nIsaac settled on that part of the homestead now included in\\nEllisburg, and built part of the present tavern house.\\nBenjamin ere6led a home on a few acres given to him by his\\nfather, on that side of the road opposite the late residence of\\nDavid D. Burrough, deceased, and there he lived and died.\\nWilliam removed to the landed estate of his Avife, near Glen-\\ndale, part of which is still owned by Joseph H. Ellis; he here\\noccupied himself as a farmer. His fondness for hunting and\\nfield sports drew around him, during the winter months, men\\nof like tastes, and his house was generally the starting point for\\nsuch as enjoyed those manly pastimes. These traits of char-\\na6ler have not been lost in the latter generations, and only lack\\nfull development from want of deer and foxes, so plenty in days\\nof yore.\\nSimeon remained on part of the original purchase, leaving\\nbut few immediate descendants.\\nJoseph settled on his mother s property in Newton township,\\nand probably had his home on the north side of the main\\nbranch of Newton creek, generally known as the former resi-\\n15 Lib. No. 16, 144.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "I90 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ndence of Jacob Stokes, deceased. He became the owner of\\nall, or the largest part of the maternal estate, and so held it\\nduring his life. His occupation was that of a farmer, and\\nhe does not appear to have participated in the political matters\\nthat occasionally agitated the community around him.\\nHe died in 1757, intestate. Having no sons, the estate,\\nupon his demise, soon passed out of the name, and, except by\\nthe examination of the old titles, no trace of it can be discov-\\nered. His immediate descendants consisted of four daughters,\\nnamely Priscilla, who married Jacob Stokes Sarah, who\\nmarried John Buzby and Isaac Mickle; Abigail, who married\\nCaleb Hughes; and Kesiah, who married Benjamin Vanleer,\\nM. D. Excepting the descendants of Jacob Stokes, none of\\nthe family are known in this region at the present day.^**\\nJonathan lived in Haddonfield, but what his occupation was\\ndoes not appear. In 1733, John Gill sold him a lot on the\\nwest side of the main street, where he built himself a house.\\nThree years after, he sold the property to John Kaighn. He\\ndied a young man and intestate.^\\n16 Lib. C, 241, Woodbury. 18 Lib. T, 398.\\n17 Lib. O, 368. 19 Lib. Q, 460, 475.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH TOMLINSON.\\nTHIS person came to New Jersey from the city of London.\\nHe was a member of the Horslydown Meeting of Friends.\\nThis meeting was on the Surrey side of the river Thames,\\nwhich, even at that day, had become part of the great metrop-\\nolis by means of the several bridges already eredled. He\\nappears to have been in some way under the patronage of\\nAnthony Sharp, an uncle of Thomas Sharp already mentioned.\\nMany of this name, however, suffered persecution in England,\\nfrom 1654 to 1690, for their religious opinions. These were\\nresidents of Lancashire and Derbyshire; they were fined and\\nimprisoned for conforming to the belief of Friends, laid down\\nat that period.^ Whether Joseph was of the same family can-\\nnot be known at this day, except by persistent and fortunate\\nsearch.\\nHe arrived previously to the year 1686, and became an\\napprentice of Thomas Sharp, who had settled on Newton\\ncreek five years before that time.^ Although his education\\nwas better than that of many of his day, yet his apprentice-\\nship was to learn the business of woolstead comber or dyer,\\nthat being the occupation of his master when not upon some\\nsurveying expedition, or not engaged in his official duties.\\nIn addition to this, he was further advanced in the common\\nbranches of English education, and, when he attained his\\n1 Besse s Sufferings, Vols. 1-2, 145, 327.\\n2 Sharp s Book, O. S. G.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "i92 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nmajority, was well fitted for business of any kind, and soon\\nparticipated in the political affairs of the colony. He was\\nsomething of a carpenter as well; for, in 1686, he made an\\nagreement with his master to build him a house for a specified\\nsum, and to furnished all the material except the nails. The\\ndimensions and style of this dwelling do not appear, but the\\npresumption is that it was small and unpretending in both\\nand required but little architectural skill in any particular.\\nIt is possible that Joseph Tomlinson was one of the persons\\nwho eredled the Friends meeting house in Newton, the first\\nbuilding set apart for religious worship in Gloucester county,\\nand the second in West New Jersey.\\nFor some reason the articles of apprenticeship were set aside,\\nand Thomas Sharp agreed to pay him five pounds per annum\\nfor his services, and four pounds at the end of the term. In a\\nletter copied by Sharp into his book, as written by Joseph Tom-\\nlinson to Anthony Sharp in Ireland, dated Newton, May 3d,\\n1691, mention is made of the trouble between them; but the\\nrecord is so much defaced by time, and the book so little cared\\nfor, that the matter contained therein cannot be deciphered.*\\nA copy, however, is here given, leaving blank such parts as\\ncannot be intelligently made out, to be supplied by such as\\nhave leisure and patience to make the attempt.\\nCopy of a letter sent by Joseph Tomlinson to my Uncle\\nAnthony\\nNewton, May 3, 1691.\\nMost Respected Master: Having this opportunity good\\nto write to thee, hoping thou together with my\\nthy family are in good health, as I am, praised be\\nwonder that I never received any letter from thee years,\\nbut only in a letter to thy cousin, wherein to\\ncomplain of us boath without just cause in Ireland\\nunderstand not the difficulties and thou seemest\\nto be offended with Thomas because which\\nI took of thee was not performed he tels\\ncomplained to thee by letter that I was demanding performance,\\n3 Sharp s Book, O. S. G.\\n4 Sharp s Book, O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH TOMLINSON. 193\\nbut my writing was not for that purpose you passed\\nstrange censure on my say I had deserved to have\\nmy time given to me not performed which I did\\nnot, for I thank God I have your charitie. God having given\\nme my limbs to my living and if I had com-\\nplayned of extraordinary to thee I should not only\\ndeserved to be released j (jj(j foj- jt would have\\nbeen worse for me if it had than it is, and I am\\nvery well satisfied that Yet notwithstanding if it had\\nbeen or could have for my parents sake and\\nmy fathers sake me had I dyed on it I would have\\ngone the effecSls that we have\\nused and the taking up of land here is more chary\\nthan you think of, and I myself was taken so danger-\\nously that I had like to have lost my and have lost one\\nof my big toes, and I was lame months and for the\\ncharge my master paid five pounds chisurgeon which\\nfor his lost time and promise i paid him again before I\\nleft him my service well and truly served and\\ncomputed the like services of me. the stock\\nwould at last have been five pounds and the goods that thou\\nsentest are merchantable. No more at present, but\\nreceive a Release from under your hand that wholy\\nfree from that, the which you have not so remayne\\nyour friend to serve you..\\nJoseph Tomlinson.\\nRemember my love to my father, mother, brothers and\\nsisters, and any of them be yet alive a\\nletter dire6ted to them come to thy hands.\\nFarewell.\\nFriend Sharp, with his accustomed particularity, made a\\nnote thereof in the same book, as follows: Joseph fell lame\\nthe 29th of July, 1688, and so continued until the 29th of\\nNovember, but in as much as he found himself some parts of\\nthe time, and did some small matters of work, we reckon but\\nSharp s Book, O. S. G.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "194 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nthree months diet at four shillings a week, c., Other\\nentries referring to him are made, which seem to show that the\\nrelations between them were not the happiest, perhaps growing\\nout of Joseph s youthful fancies, or Friend Sharp s exadling\\npolicy towards him. There is no doubt, however, that their\\nassociation was of much use to the younger person, since, in\\naddition to the moral and religious training which he received,\\nhis education was improved and advanced through the care of\\nhis preceptor. The difficulties before named do not appear to\\nhave destroyed the friendly feeling between them, for, in after\\nyears, the kind offices of his old master are seen in several\\nbusiness transa6lions.\\nAs time progressed, Joseph took unto himself a wife, and\\nsettled down to be a good business man and valuable citizen.\\nIn 1690, he located one hundred and seventeen acres of land\\non the east side of Gravelly run in Gloucester township, adjoin-\\ning a tradl of land which he had previously purchased of Joseph\\nWood, and on which he had settled and first lived after leav-\\ning the house of Thomas Sharp in Newton.\u00c2\u00ae This stream of\\nwater, sometimes called McGee s branch, is a tributary of the\\nnorth branch of Timber creek, and falls into the same on the\\nsouth side about two miles above Chew s Landing. He soon\\nincreased the breadth of his acres, so that his possessions\\nextended from Gravelly run on the north to Holly run, or\\nSharp s branch, on the south. These he retained through life,\\nand gave to his sons by will after his death.\\nWhat could have been the inducement for Joseph Tomlinson\\nto purchase and settle on land so far beyond the line of civili-\\nzation, is, at this day, difficult to imagine. At that time,\\nthe settlements had scarcely reached beyond the navigable\\nstreams, and even there were but few and far apart. Yet, in\\nhis case, his abode was surrounded with miles of unbroken\\nforest; and, was without any neighbors within half a day s\\ntravel, while large tra6ls of unlocated land were between\\nNewton and the place which he had sele6ted for his future\\nhome, the title of which could have been secured for a mere\\npittance. He had to go some ten miles to attend the Newton\\n6 Sharp s Book, O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH TOMLINSON. 195\\nMeeting, and, if, as a farmer, he took his produce to the\\nPhiladelphia market, the distance was still increased. True,\\nhe was within two miles of navigation on Timber creek, but\\nit is hardly to be supposed that he kept his boat to carry his\\nfamily to meeting, and himself to market in the city, or to\\ncourt at Gloucester and Red Bank.\\nIt is needless, however, to speculate upon these things one\\nhundred and eighty years after their occurrence; and the con-\\nclusion must be that the reasons for such an isolated settlement\\nas made by Joseph Tomlinson were sound and sufficient, unto\\nhis mind at least. His leisure hours in this secluded spot were\\nnot wasted, for he turned his attention to the reading and\\nunderstanding of the laws of the community of which he\\ndeemed himself a part, and in which he was soon to fill con-\\nspicuous and responsible positions. In examining the appoint-\\nments of the Legislature for Gloucester county, it is seen that he\\nwas made sheriff in 1695; and, for the year 1696, the following\\nmay be found, King s Attorney, Joseph Tomlinson.\\nThis means that he was made the law officer of the province,\\nto defend its honor and dignity, and for the prosecution of all\\noffenders against the peace and tranquility of the same. That\\nhe was first examined as a law student and licensed to pra6lice,\\nthere can be no question and he, therefore, stands as the first\\nattorney, according to the record, of Gloucester county. This\\nappointment appears to have been made for three years, for, in\\n1 700, he was re-appointed to the same position which shows\\nthat his duties were acceptably discharged, and that he retained\\nthe confidence of those in authority. It will be seen that these\\nduties commenced under the proprietary government, as insti-\\ntuted by our Quaker ancestors, and extended beyond the sur-\\nrender to Queen Anne, when the courts were put upon a different\\nbasis and surrounded by much more parade and display.\\nIn the first, the stri6lest simplicity was observed, both in the\\nmanner, and in the means of dispensing justice among the few\\nlitigants that sought their rights through this channel; for the\\njudges who sat were elders in their own religious denomination,\\nand regarded such things as essential to the purity of their\\n7 Learning Spicer s Laws.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "196 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nbelief. It is not too much to say that their Honors remained\\ncovered while on the bench, wearing their broad-brimmed hats\\nand their plain, uncolored coats as an evidence of their disre-\\ngard of the customs of the court and the vanities of the flesh.\\nIn the jury-box, the same thing could be observed in the dress\\nand demeanor of the bar, the same and, when a prisoner was\\ncharged, the style and phraseology of the language partook of\\nall such peculiarities. Perhaps so rigid was the court on this\\npoint, that no gesture or vehemence was allowed on the part of\\nthe advocates; and, without regarding the earnestness of the\\ntalker or the extremity of his case, any breach of decorum was\\ndeemed a contempt, and punishable accordingly.\\nNot so after the surrender. Lord Cornbury, cousin to the\\nQueen, and the first governor under her authority, came to the\\nUnited Province, filled with the forms and ceremonies of a\\nproud and exa6ling court.\\nIn 1 700, an a6t was passed making it the duty of the sheriff\\nof each county to meet the provincial judges and other officers,\\nwhen riding the circuit, at the verge of his county, to escort\\nthem to the seat of justice, and then remain in attendance until\\nthe court adjourned and they were again beyond his bailiwick.\\nThe costume of the judges consisted of scarlet robes with deep\\nfacings of black velvet, and powdered wigs adorned with silk\\nbags. The lawyers wore black silk gowns and wigs, and all\\nthe attendants were dressed in a somewhat similar manner.*\\nWith these innovations, were brought in many new forms and\\nrules, putting our Quaker judges completely at fault, and at\\nonce creating trouble and confusion. Obedience to those in\\nauthority was a maxim too deeply instilled to be entirely dis-\\nregarded, yet the presence of cocked hats, gold lace and side\\narms, was aFmost too much for that forbearance upon which our\\nancestors prided themselves.\\nThrough all these radical changes Joseph Tomlinson, as prose-\\ncutor of the pleas, attended to his duties, though, if very strict\\nas a Friend, he saw himself surrounded with much that was\\ninconsistent with his notions of propriety, and that taxed his\\npatience to the utmost.\\n8 Fields s Provincial Courts.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH TOMLINSON. 197\\nHe probably held the position of prosecutor of the pleas until\\n1 710; in this year he was appointed one of the judges of the\\nseveral courts of Gloucester county, for which position he was\\nwell fitted, after having so much experience in the modes and\\nprocedures of that branch of the government.^ Whether he\\naccepted the position with its observances of form and dress,\\nor adhered to the plainness and simplicity of his religious\\nassociates, does not appear. He remained a member of the\\ncourt until his death, doubtless a useful man therein, from his\\npra6lical knowledge and familiarity with its uses and purposes.\\nMany of these formalities were adhered to until after the\\nRevolutionary war; in fa(5l, within fifty years of this writing,\\nthe judges were escorted from the hotel to the court room by\\nthe sheriff, and constables bearing staves, who, in the large\\ncounties, made considerable parade. All these have gradually\\nfallen into disuse, until the true republican simplicity of our\\nancestors is a noticeable feature about our seats of justice.\\nIn the year 17 19, Joseph Tomlinson died, leaving his wife\\nElizabeth and the following named children Ephraim, who\\nmarried Sarah Corbit and Catharine Ridgway; Joseph, who\\nmarried Lydia Wade, of Salem, N. J., and Catharine Fairland,\\nof Chester, Pa., (the last in 1738); Ebenezer; Richard; John,\\nwho married Mary Fairland, of Chester, Pa., in 1736; Othniel,\\nwho married Mary Marsh, of Salem, N. J. William, who mar-\\nried Rebecca Wills; Margaret, who married Edward Borton;\\nElizabeth, who married Bartholomew Wyat, of Salem; Mary,\\nwho married Samuel Sharp; and Ann, who married Gaunt.\\nBartholomew Wyatt came from Worcestershire, England, to\\nSalem county, N. J., about the year 1690. His name first\\noccurs in the Salem Meeting records in 1693, when he was\\nappointed one of a committee to attend the Quarterly Meeting\\nat Newton, Gloucester county, N. J. In the same year (1693),\\nhe married Sarah- Ashton. They had two children, namely:\\nBartholomew, born 1697, who married Elizabeth Tomlinson;\\nand Elizabeth, born 1707, who married Robert Smith. The\\nfirst Bartholomew was a prominent man in the civil affairs of\\n9 Learning and Spicer s Laws.\\n10 Lib. No. 2, 136.\\n11 Lib. No. 4, 122. Lib. No. 5, 308.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "198 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nthe county, as well as a6live member of the Society of\\nFriends, and one of the largest contributors to the fund for\\nthe erection of the brick meeting-house which once stood in\\nthe present graveyard in Salem. He died in 1726.\\nThe second Bartholomew was also an a6live member of the\\nsame religious denomination. In 1730, he was recognized as\\na preacher, and much respe6led as a consistent and upright\\nman. His wife, in 1732, also appeared as a public Friend,\\nwhose preaching was acceptable. Bartholomew had two chil-\\ndren, Bartholomew and Sarah. The latter married Richard\\nWistar of Philadelphia.\\nEphraim, the oldest son, settled on a tradl of land which\\nhis father gave him by deed, adjoining the homestead on the\\neast, and extending towards the north branch of Timber creek.\\nIn 1732, he purchased of the executors of Abraham Porter,\\ndeceased, six hundred and nineteen acres, lying on both sides\\nof the last named stream; which extended his possessions\\nnearly to the south branch of Cooper s creek. He was a\\npreacher among Friends, and held in much estimation. A\\ntestimony from the Haddonfield Meeting is abundant evidence\\nof his consistent and exemplary life. He was born in 1695\\nand departed this life in 1780, leaving a second wife, Catharine,\\na son, Ephraim, and two daughters, Elizabeth, who married\\nAaron Lippincott and Mary, who married James Gardiner.\\nTo the son Joseph, the father devised the homestead property,\\ncontaining about two hundred acres of land, whereon he settled\\nafter the death of the testator. During his life he purchased\\nconsiderable real estate. He deceased in 1758, leaving a\\nwidow, Catharine, two sons, Joseph and Samuel, and three\\ndaughters.\\nBy the will of his father, John took about three hundred\\nacres of land higher up Gravelly run, upon which he settled\\nand remained until his decease in 1755. His wife survived\\nhim, and also three children, namely: Isaac; Hannah; and\\nEleanor, who married Josiah Albertson.\\nWilliam settled on a farm in Waterford township near Had-\\ndonfield, which he bought of the executors of John Lord in\\n12 Lib. DD, 200, O. S. G. 14 Lib. P, 187.\\n13 Lib. P, 230. 15 Lib- M2, 339, O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH TOMLINSON. 199\\n1733^ he lived there but a short time, as he died in 1737.\\nHis wife and three sons survived him. They were Samuel,\\nwho married Ann Burrough William and Daniel, who married\\nMary Bates.\\nOthniel, who married Mary Marsh in 1744, first settled in\\nSalem county, and, in the year 1753, removed to Chester\\ncounty, Pennsylvania, to a place within control of the Con-\\ncord Monthly Meeting. Othniel died in 1756.^\\nBy this marriage there was but one child, Mary, who married\\nSamuel Hibberd in 1770, and who had seven daughters. In\\n1760, the widow married Aaron Ashbridge. It is not known\\nwhether there was any issue by this marriage.\\nIt is probable that others of the sons deceased in their\\nminority, and the daughters, following the fortunes of their\\nhusbands, have long since been lost sight of in the genealog-\\nical labyrinth built up through this lapse of years. The family\\nhas not, however, lost its identity with the first settler, and\\nmuch of the landed estate owned by him still remains in the\\nname. Of the life of the subje6l of this sketch, there are\\ndoubtless very many interesting incidents, which, by patient\\nresearch among the musty records still extant, could be brought\\nto light, and would show much of the history of his times,\\nin conne6lion with the progress of the people in their social,\\njudicial and political condition; and which would contrast\\nstrangely with such as pervade our system at the present day.\\nThat he was a progressive man is shown by his sele6ling his\\nhome so far from the first settlements, in the depth of the\\nwilderness, surrounded only by the aborigines, where nothing\\nbut industry and perseverance could procure him a farm.\\nIn connexion with these difficulties he became proficient in\\nlegal knowledge. He, therefore, attra6led the attention of the\\ncommunity, and was called to fill the responsible positions\\nbefore named. These things, when viewed from a proper stand-\\npoint, stamp him as a man whose career through life is worthy\\nof being traced and recorded, and who deserves a much better\\nbiography than the foregoing brief and imperfe6l notice.\\n16 Old Deeds, not recorded.\\n17 Records of Salem Friends Meeting.\\n18 Goshen and Wilmington Meetings, Pa. and Del", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "200 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nIt is perhaps proper, in this conne6lion, to mention that John\\nTomlinson located and settled on a tra6l of land at the Indian\\ntown of Oneanickon, or Mount Carmel, in the year 1685.^^\\nThis, place was in Springfield township, Burlington county,\\nnear the old Copany meeting-house. He resided here until\\n1 69 1, when he sold the same to Matthew Champion, and\\nremoved from that locality. It is likely that he was a brother\\nof Joseph, and that he may have settled with him, on the head\\nof Timber creek, as he sold about the time of Joseph s purchase\\nat that place. Of his family nothing is known, and all of the\\nabove in relation to him, except the location and sale of the\\nland, is conje6lure.\\n19 Revel s Book, 77,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL COLE.\\nSAMUEL COLE and his wife Elizabeth emigrated from\\nCole s Hill, Hertfordshire, England, and landed on the\\nJersey shore above Philadelphia. His name does not appear\\namong those given by Smith or Gordon in their histories of\\nthe first settlements of New Jersey the reason for which may\\nbe that he came as a servant with but little estate.\\nHe was a haberdasher and hatter, and, in all probability,\\nplied his calling after his arrival here. He came among the\\nfirst of the emigrants, and made judicious sele6lion of his land\\nwhereon to seat himself, but, for some reason, soon after he\\nhad ere6led a dwelling, he sold his first location and removed\\nfurther into the country. The return of this survey bears date\\n3d month, 13th, A. D. 1682. It includes five hundred acres\\nof land on the north side of the mouth of Cooper s creek and\\nfronting on the river. William Cooper, who emigrated from\\nthe same place, had settled on the opposite side of the stream\\nin the midst of an Indian village, and over against the\\nIndian town of Shackomaxin, so that Samuel Cole s plantation\\nwas not far from other habitations of man, although in the midst\\nof the primeval forest. Being a neighbor to William Cooper\\nat Cole s Hill, he again finds himself near by; from this it\\nmay be inferred that he was governed in his choice by the\\n1 Lib. G2, 33.\\n2 Revel s Book, i", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "202 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nadvice and dire6lion of his former associate and friend. A few\\nsettlements were made near him, bounding upon the creek and\\nlaying higher up the stream, that water course at that time being\\nthe only highway upon which the people traveled to and from\\nthe city of Philadelphia.\\nHe was, perhaps, one of the creditors of Edward Byllynge,\\nas, in 1676, William Penn and the other trustees conveyed to\\nhim and Benjamin Bartlet one-ninetieth part of a share of pro-\\npriety; under which he claimed the title to the land by him\\ntaken up.^* Although this was a small portion, yet it placed\\nhim upon an equal footing with the largest holders as touching\\nthe political affairs of the colony; under this right he was\\nafterwards called to fill several important offices.\\nSamuel Cole cleared a few acres and built a house on the land\\nwhich he had located, but soon after sold the buildings and one\\nhundred acres of his survey to Henry Wood, who occupied the\\nsame.* In 1687, he sold the balance of the survey to Samuel\\nSpicer, as well as a quantity of rights, which Spicer soon appro-\\npriated.^ He had other lands at the same place, which were\\ndisposed of to settlers thereabout.\\nUpon the sale of his dwelling and part of his estate on the\\nDelaware to Henry Wood, he removed to a place called Penis-\\naukin and purchased five hundred acres of Jeremiah Richards\\n(1685), ^1 h^^ previously ere6led buildings thereon and cleared\\nsome land. This was near the settlement of William Matlack,\\nTimothy Hancock and others, but on the south side of the creek\\nthat now bears that name. The rights under which Richards\\nhad made his survey, he purchased of Henry Stacy, who had\\nemigrated to New Jersey, but soon returned to England, where\\nhe deceased. Like most of the settlers, he had not been long the\\nowner, before he gave his place the name of New Orchard,\\nwhich name was remembered for many years, but has long since\\nbeen lost sight of. This plantation was near the head of the\\nsouth branch of the stream before named, but has years ago\\nlost its identity by the division and sub-division, sale and trans-\\nfer, incident to real estate in New Jersey. Several other adjoin-\\n3 Lib. A, 4. 6 Lib, G, iii,\\n4 Lib. G2, 33. 7 Lib. B, 75.\\n5 Lib. B, 66.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL COLE. 203\\ning surveys were made by him, and, at his death, he was the\\nowner of more than one thousand acres of land, then in\\nunbroken forest, but now many valuable farms.\u00c2\u00ae The dire6l\\nand collateral branches of this family are still owners of much\\nof this land.\\nSamuel Cole had much to do in the political troubles of the\\nprovince among which was the settlement of the boundary line\\nbetween the counties of Burlington and Gloucester, and in\\nwhich he was personally interested, as his land lay on the\\nstream of water and on both sides of the highway where the\\ntrouble existed. He was a member of the Legislature in the\\nyears 1683 and 1685, in which last year commissioners were\\nappointed to fix the line, who settled it to be from the forks\\nof Penisaukin, up the south branch to the Salem road; then\\nalong the road to the north branch of the same creek; thence\\nto the head thereof; and thence upon a southeast course to\\nthe utmost boundary. With this boundary the people about\\nPenisaukin were dissatisfied, and, in 1693, the a6l was set aside,\\nand the present line was agreed upon about the year 1700.\\nA few years after Samuel Cole had settled at New Orchard,\\nhe returned to England to arrange some unsettled business; in\\ncoming back to New Jersey, the vessel touched at the island of\\nBarbadoes, Avhere he was taken sick and died. At this place\\nthere was a large settlement of Friends, many of whom had\\nbeen banished from England during the religious troubles, and\\nmany others of whom had gone into voluntary exile, to join\\ntheir connexions and to be free from intolerance and bigotry.\\nSamuel and Elizabeth Cole had but two children, Samuel,\\nwho married Mary, a daughter of Thomas Kendall and Sarah,\\nwho married James Wild.\\nThomas Kendall, above named, came to New Jersey as one\\nof the servants of Daniel Wills. Being a bricklayer, he was a\\nuseful man in the province. He built the first corn mill in\\nGloucester county, in 1697 (now Evans s, near Haddonfield),\\nand became the owner of considerable real estate. As Samuel\\nCole died intestate, and his widow was appointed administratrix\\n8 Basse s Book, 29.\\nq Learning Spicer s Laws.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "204 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nninth month, 23d, 1693, the whole of his real estate descended\\nto his son Samuel, who occupied the same until his death in\\n1728.^\u00c2\u00b0 He was a man of some political aspirations, having\\nbeen appointed sheriff in 1710, in 1713 and in 1724. He left\\na will, and the following named children Samuel, who mar-\\nried Mary Lippincott; Joseph, who married Mary Wood;\\nThomas, who married Hannah Stokes; Kendall, who married\\nAnn Budd Elizabeth, who married Jacob Burcham and Ben-\\njamin Cooper; Mary, who married Edward Tonkins; Susanna,\\nwho married William Budd; and Rachel, who married Enoch\\nRoberts.\\nIn 1739, the devisees of the second Samuel Cole re-surveyed\\nthe original estate, which shows how their ancestors held it.\\nThe old house, as eredled by the first Samuel Cole, is shown\\non the map, and is now (1877) standing, but it has been\\nlong since abandoned as a dwelling. It is built of logs, is one\\nstory high, has two windows and one door. It stands in the\\ndoor yard of the farm, formerly Joseph H. Cole s, deceased.\\nIt is used for various purposes and is fast going to decay.\\nAnother generation, and it will be forgotten.\\nJames Wild was a wheelwright, and settled on the north side\\nof the south branch of Penisaukin creek, on five acres of land,\\nwhich he purchased of John Cowperthwaite in 171 2, and at but\\na short distance from the residence of his father-in-law. He\\ndied in 1731, leaving a will.^^ His children were James, Sam-\\nuel, John, Sarah (who married Jonathan Thomas), Jonathan,\\nElizabeth, and Rachel. His widow Rachel, who was a second\\nwife, survived him. In his will he speaks of Alexander Morgan\\nas his brother-in-law, but how such relation existed, cannot at\\nthis writing be discovered. Four years after, his widow Rachel\\ndied, intestate, but leaving some considerable estate. Of this\\nfamily nothing is known at the present day, as none of the\\nname have lived in this region for many years and the above\\ndefe6live sketch is only here introduced, that something may be\\ngathered therefrom of interest to such as search with better\\nfacilities and greater success.\\n10 Gloucester Files, li\\n11 Lib. No. 3, 02.\\n12 Lib. No. 3, 450.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL COLE. 205\\nWithin the bounds of the land of which Samuel Cole died,\\nseized, on the west side of the King s road from Salem to\\nBurlington, and about one-half mile south of Penisaukin creek,\\nstands St. Mary s church, better known, however, as the\\nold Cole s Town Church, having been always under the\\ncontrol of the Protestant Episcopal denomination of New\\nJersey. The history of this church dates back into the begin-\\nning of the eighteenth century, and, in all probability, had\\nits origination in the Keithean controversy, which separated\\nmany Quaker families from the religious do6lrines as laid down\\nby George Fox, and, as a consequence, drew them around the\\ndissenter whose talent and eloquence made the tenets of his\\nnew belief attra6live and acceptable wherever he preached.\\nAfter his separation from Friends, brought about by contro-\\nversy upon do6lrinal points and church discipline, both in\\nAmerica and before the yearly meetings of London, he came\\nagain to the colonies under the patronage of the Society for\\nthe Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, established\\nin London by a few members of the church of England. He\\ntraveled through most of the towns and villages from Massa-\\nchusetts to South Carolina, seeking for his proselytes among\\nthe members of the society from which he had been expelled,\\nand established churches in many places where sufficient num-\\nbers of his followers lived in the same neighborhood. In his\\njournal, which was published before his death, he says: Sep-\\ntember 15th, 1703, I preached at the house of William Heulings\\nin West Jersey, which was but a short distance from where\\nthe old church stands, and this may be safely accepted as the\\nbeginning of St. Mary s church at Colestown. Although not\\nall the requirements of a religious organization were complied\\nwith at once, yet the interest then and there commenced was\\nnever lost sight of or abandoned, simply for want of numbers;\\nand the intervals of religious service at the dwelling houses\\nof such adherents as resided thereabout, were never so wi4ely\\nseparated as to destroy the connedlion of George Keith s\\npreaching in 1703 with the ultimate success and establish-\\nment of the church.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "2o6 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nThe first building was ere6led about the year 1752, and\\nwas repaired in 1825, without any change as to the interior\\narrangement. In subsequent years, and after the same religious\\ndenomination had ere6led churches at Camden, Moorestown\\nand Haddonfield, the old house was suffered to fall into decay,\\nand well nigh tumbled to the ground but a few of the\\ndescendaijts of the old families that worshiped there, with\\ncommendable liberality and good taste, in 1866 again repaired\\nthe old house, faithfully preserving its ancient form and anti-\\nquated appearance.\\nIn further connedlion with this matter, John Rudderow, who\\nemigrated from England about the year 1680, and who lived in\\nChester township, Burlington county, N. J., between the north\\nand south branches of Penisaukin creek, and died in 1729,\\ninserted the following clause in his will: I give ten pounds\\ntowards the building of a church in that place to be convenient\\nhereaway. This man, who settled at the place in which he\\ndeceased, was an Episcopalian, and was, no doubt, a participant\\nin the religious quarrel of which George Keith was the leader;\\naround him most of the few families in that region colle6led,\\nand formed the body of the church. His education (he\\nhaving graduated as a lawyer in England), and influence in\\nthe neighborhood as an upright and conscientious man, would\\nmake him, next after Keith, the principal person in such an\\nenterprise, and the devise made in his will shows clearly what\\nwas in contemplation even at that early day, and how desirous\\nhe was that such an enterprise should be carried out.\\nAfter the lapse of a few years, another incident occurred, that\\nestablishes an additional link in the history of this church, and\\nthat may be held quite as reliable as the devise of John Rud-\\nderow, before named; and is, in fadt, the conne(Sting link that\\nunites beyond controversy its earlier and latter days. To the\\nperseverance and care of Asa Matlack is due what is recorded of\\nthe^ sayings of Abigail Rudderow (widow of William, who was a\\ngrandson of the first John,) touching this matter. This lady\\nwas a daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Spicer, and of remark-\\nable intelligence and memory. She was born in 1742, and lived\\n13 Lib. No. 3, 308.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL COLE. 207\\nto the age of eighty-three. She always resided in the neigh-\\nborhood, and, doubtless, was conversant with every matter of\\nmoment which occurred in that sedlion of the country. She\\nwas married when she was about sixteen years of age, and lived\\nto see her descendants multiplied in more than ordinary pro-\\nportion, and scattered through the various States of the Union.\\nRelative to the traditions in question, her own version of it is\\nmore interesting than any other\\nAt nine years of age I was baptised at the church by Dr.\\nJenny, which at that time was being built, the roof being on\\nand the weather-boarding up as high as the window sills. The\\nground had been previously consecrated by Dr. Jenny from\\nPhiladelphia.\\nThis gentleman, the Rev. Robert Jenney, A. M., came to\\nNew York as chaplain in the royal army stationed in that city.\\nIn 1722, he was chosen re6lor of the church at Rye, in West\\nChester county. New York, but only remained there four years.\\nHe removed to Hempstead on Long Island, and afterwards to\\nPhiladelphia as re6lor of Christ church. He died in 1762,\\naged seventy-five years.\\nThis baptism, which occurred in 1751, and was so likely to\\nbe remembered by Abigail Spicer, fixes the eredlion of the\\nchurch beyond a question. Its subsequent history from that\\ntime to 1825, the year of her decease, was familiar to her; and\\nhow great the regret that some person had not saved it from\\nloss Being placed upon social equality with the clergy who\\nofficiated there, her knowledge of their coming, time of service\\nand removal, was reliable, and would have made the reminis-\\ncences of the old chapel of deep interest to such as emulate\\ntheir forefathers in worshiping around its altar.\\nThe births, baptisms, marriages and burials, were incidents\\nthat would naturally attra6l more or less attention in a rural\\ndistri6l and, with a person whose religious feeling was centred\\nin that spot, they would be indelibly marked upon the memory.\\nAlthough many years have intervened between the incidents\\nconnedled with this ancient church, yet they are so linked\\n14 History of Rye, 312.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "2o8 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ntogether, and relate so plainly to the same obje6l, that its\\nhistory can be traced through the times of its usefulness with-\\nout uncertainty or doubt; just as among the land marks of a\\nlong negle6ted pathway that time and circumstances have, in\\nthe lapse of years, well nigh destroyed, enough is sometimes\\nleft to trace its dire6lion and discover its place. Events are\\nevanescent, passing from the memory, never, perhaps, to be\\nre-called, and, but for the care of some, to make a record\\nthereof, would in a few decades be forgotten.\\nThe high, boxed pulpit, the small, narrow chancel, the dark,\\nill arranged galleries, and the badly shaped, uncushioned benches,\\nleave no doubt that this stru6lure was erecSled long before com-\\nfort was regarded, or convenience studied. The outside appear-\\nance is plain and unpretending without steeple or belfrey,\\nstained windows or arched roof, it stands, the evidence of\\nsimplicity in the taste of our forefathers, and of the little\\nmeans which they had to expend in such an edifice.\\nAround the building, and in the small burial ground origin-\\nally attached, lay the remains of those who worshiped within\\nits walls from time to time, and who, in the fulness of their\\ndays, passed to the same account as those before them, strength-\\nening the links of fraternal regard that have connected genera-\\ntion with generation unto the present day.\\nOf the ministers who have supplied this church at various\\nperiods, there is no continuous record. All, however, have adled\\nin the capacity of missionaries, the church standing in a thinly\\nsettled neighborhood, and being several miles from any town.\\nWilliam Sturgeon (the assistant of Dr. Jenny, who was then\\nre6lor of Christ church, Philadelphia,) visited the people once\\nin each month while the house was in progress of building.\\nNathaniel Evans, a young man of finished education and great\\ntalent, had charge also of St. Mary s and the church at Glou-\\ncester, and resided with his parents at Haddonfield. He was\\nadmitted to holy orders by Dr. Terrick of London, and came\\nimmediately to New Jersey in discharge of his duties. He was\\na man of much literary taste, and a volume of his poems was\\npublished after his death, a copy of which may be found in the\\nFranklin Library of Philadelphia. He followed Mr. Sturgeon", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL COLE. 209\\nand took charge of the church when finished, and there he\\npreached for six years. He died 06lober 29th, 1767, at the\\nage of twenty-five, and was buried at Christ church, Philadel-\\nphia. An interval of five years now occurred, when Robert\\nBlackwell was sele6led, November 19th, 1772. He married\\nRebecca, a daughter of Joseph Harrison, and resided in Had-\\ndonfield. During the Revolutionary war, he became a chaplain\\nin the army, and the church was again left without regular\\nservice.\\nHenry Miller, president of the college of Philadelphia, was\\nhis successor, and he was soon followed by the Reverend John\\nWade. He died in 1799. His remains were interred in front\\nof the main entrance to the church, the stone that marks his\\ngrave at this day being buried beneath the soil.\\nSamuel Sprague, who lived in Mount Holly, and ministered\\nin spiritual things to the people of that region of country,\\noccasionally preached here. Andrew Fowler, next followed in\\nthe quaint language of the recorder, he had a wife and three\\nchildren and three churches under his charge. When he was\\nthere, or how long he remained, is not known. After him came\\nLevi Heath, of Burlington, and then Samuel Pussey, who was\\nthe cause of much trouble in the church. He was an impostor,\\nhaving produced the ordination papers and their accompanying\\ndocuments of a clergyman who died on the passage over with\\nhim. With these testimonials he was accepted as a minister,\\nand so continued until the truth was discovered. In succession\\ncame Daniel Higbee in 1807, and, after him, Richard Hall.\\nThe last named person preached there in the year 1811.\\nSince that time, various vicissitudes have befallen the old chapel.\\nAs before stated, these fa6ls were gathered by Asa Matlack from\\nAbigail Rudderow, and may be relied upon as correal.\\nThe oldest legible stone now standing in the yard is that of\\nPhilip Wallace, who was there buried in 1746, aged eighty-two\\nyears and dated in the same year is that of Mary Wallace, his\\nwife, aged eighty.\\nThese were among the first English settlers about the mouth\\nof the Penisaukin creek, and were Friends until the schism\\ncaused by George Keith, when they became his followers and\\n14", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "2IO FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nwere identified with the church of England. The name is\\nsometimes differently spelled, but the family is the same.\\nIn 1760, Humphrey Day and Jane, his wife, were buried here,\\nthe first being seventy-five, and the latter, sixty-five years of age.\\nThey lived on the north side of Cooper s creek, owning part\\nof the estate lately held by the Shivers family. He was,\\nperhaps, a son of Steeven Deay (as he spelled it), who was\\na resident of Chester township, Burlington county, in 1696.\\nElias Toy was here interred in 1762, aged forty-seven years.\\nHis residence was in the last named county near the river shore,\\nwhere part of his land still remains in the name. He was a\\ndescendant of one of the Swedish families who settled on the\\nshores of the Delaware long before the English came, and\\nwhose ancestors worshiped at Tinakum and Wicaco, much\\nafter the faith and forms of the Protestant Episcopal church\\nof the present day.\\nMany of the rude, rough monuments ere 5led there to point\\nto the resting place of friends and families have yielded to time\\nand exposure, showing at this date only parts of letters and\\nfigures, from which nothing definite can be deciphered.\\nIf a descendant of Old Mortality had chanced here a\\nhundred years ago, wandering through the country, clad in\\nhodden gray, with black cloth leggins and strong clouted\\nshoes, riding upon a white pony around whose neck there\\nhung a canvass pouch containing his tools, following the bent\\nof his ancestor with the same sincere devotion, he would have\\nfound here abundant room to gratify his strange, but commend-\\nable vocation.\\nHere, day after day, could have been seen his faithful beast,\\ntethered among the graves, to seek, as best he could, a pre-\\ncarious living, while his master sat upon the defaced tomb-\\nstones, striving, with chisel and hammer, to restore the almost\\nworn-out names and dates to their original freshness. Refus-\\ning any reward, save the bare entertainment of himself and\\nbeast, his a6ts would have been held in grateful remembrance\\nby those who, but for him, might have sought in vain for\\nrelatives or friends in this long negledled spot. Considering\\nit a religious duty and upon himself incumbent, nothing would", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL COLE. 211\\nhave hindered him except his answers to the words of some\\nobserver curious to know his obje6l, and then, only to clear\\nhis glasses and arrange his tools, the better to prosecute the\\nwork before him. The task completed, and his pony sad-\\ndled for his departure, he, perchance, would have repeated the\\nmemorable language of his predecessor in view of the kind offices\\nextended to him. The blessing of our Master be with you.\\nMy hours are like the ears of the latter harvest, but your days\\nare in the spring yet you may be gathered into the garner of\\nmortality before me, for the sickle of death cuts down the green\\nas oft as the ripe and there is a colour in your cheek that, like\\nthe bud of the rose, serveth oft to hide the worm of corruption.\\nWherefore labour as one who knoweth not when his master\\ncalleth. And, if it be my lot to return to this spot after ye\\nare gone home to your own place, these old withered hands\\nwill frame a stone of memorial that your name may not perish\\nfrom among the people.\\nOther associations than these are, however, around this place.\\nAlong the King s road, which passed close to the door, traveled\\nall those going north or south to various parts of the province,\\nwhen our State was in its infancy, and the dwellings of the\\nsettlers were separated by miles of forest while here stood\\nthe church in a lonely spot, like an oasis in the wilderness,\\ninviting the travelers to rest under the shade of the broad\\ntopped oaks that grew near. If it were an ancient burial place\\nof the Indians, none of the tribes but would pause, in going\\nto their hunting grounds, to show their reverence for the\\ngraves of their fathers.\\nAlong this highway moved the contending armies during the\\nRevolutionary war, and, no doubt, the doors of the church\\nwere open alike to friend or foe. Here, under the prote6lion\\nof the standard of St. George, listened British officers to the\\npreaching of their chaplains, resting on their way to carnage\\nand death, to hear the persuasive eloquence of the teachers\\nof religion. Here, likewise, may the immortal Washington\\nhave laid aside his sword, and, kneeling at the little chancel,\\nhave partaken of the Holy Communion, after the re6lor had\\npreached peace on earth and good will to men. Here, the", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "212 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nrepresentatives of the King acknowledged the same religious\\ncreed that the early teachings of a mother had left upon the\\nthen impressible memory of the great commander.\\nIn this connedlion, it is gratifying to know that this relic\\nof olden times has been preserved to the present generation,\\nthrough the liberality of those who regard the days of their\\nancestors and hold fast to antiquated things. Would that more\\nwere like them.\\nElizabeth, the widow of the first Samuel Cole, married Grif-\\nfith Morgan, who was a mariner, and resided in Philadelphia.\\nThe license of marriage was granted by the chancellor of\\nPennsylvania, and bears date December loth, 1693. In 1697,\\nhe purchased a tra6l of land of William Frampton, situated in\\nGloucester county near the mouth of Penisaukin creek, whereon\\nhe settled, and remained until his decease. He also owned\\nother land in Gloucester county, as, in 1677, he purchased\\nreal estate of David Lloyd and Isaac Norris. The issue of this\\nmarriage was one son, Alexander, who married Hannah, the\\ndaughter of Joseph and Lydia Cooper, and grand-daughter\\nof William the first settler. Alexander remained on the home-\\nstead estate, which, before his death, became valuable. The\\nchildren of Alexander and Hannah Morgan were Joseph, who\\nmarried Agnes Evans; Benjamin, who married Jane Roberts;\\nIsaac Mary, who married Edmund Hollingshead Elizabeth,\\nwho married William Miller Lydia, who married Nathan\\nBeeks; and Sarah, who married Josiah Burrough. Both the\\nColes and the Morgans that came from the same maternal\\nancestors are, at this time, conne6led with the most respe(5lable\\nfamilies in the country, and have spread through all the United\\nStates.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL NICHOLSON.\\nAMONG the few persons who ventured with John Fenwick\\nacross the ocean to make the first settlement upon the\\nland in which he had become interested by purchase from Lord\\nJohn Berkley in 1673, were Samuel Nicholson, his wife Ann,\\nand their children. They came from Wiston, in Nottingham-\\nshire, England, in the ship Griffith of London, Robert\\nGriffin, master. They arrived in the Delaware river upon the\\n9th month, 23d, 1675. Their children were as follows:\\nParabol, born second month, 7th, 1659;\\nElizabeth, born third month, 2 2d, 1664;\\nSamuel, born eighth month, 30th, 1666;\\nJoseph, born second month, 30th, 1669\\nAbel, born fifth month, 2d, 1672.\\nThis little company ended their voyage upon the river Dela-\\nware, at Elsinburg, where they found a few Swedes, some\\nIndians, and myriads of mosquitoes, of which last they had heard\\nbut little previously, although they now were among the first to\\nmake their acquaintance. They were the pioneers of the English\\ncolonists, and, but for the sanguine temperament and deter-\\nmined chara6ler of their leader, might have allowed the dis-\\ncouragements that surrounded them to induce an abandonment\\nof the undertaking, and a return to their homes. There could\\nbe nothing in the ])rospe6l before them that was in the least\\nI Friends Records of Salem, N. J.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "214 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ninviting; to the females, especially, it must have been dark\\nindeed. They could not expe6l to obtain anything from the\\nsoil for more than a year, for it was still covered with timber,\\nand in no condition for raising a crop. The feelings of the\\nIndians towards them were yet to be discovered, and, if their\\ncondu6l towards those who had preceded them in the Massa-\\nchusetts colony, was to be an index, they derived but little\\ncomfort in that dire6lion.\\nThe Dutch and the Swedes had driven off a colony of emi-\\ngrants who came from New Haven in 1641, and had made a\\nsettlement on Varken s kill now Salem creek; and, at the\\ntime when Fenwick came, no vestige of their habitations could\\nbe found. The jealousy of these people, as well as the suspicions\\nof the Indians, had to be overcome, and no small degree of\\ndiplomacy was exercised to steer clear of these difficulties that\\nsurrounded them at once.\\nThe High Court at Upland had judicial authority over the\\nDutch and the Swedes on the eastern shore of the river, and\\nthe church at Tinacum was the place whither they all went to\\nattend to their religious duties, and to have their children chris-\\ntened. These were powers and prejudices hard to overcome,\\nand so antagonistic to the theory and pra6lice of those who\\nnow proposed to make a settlement, that no compromise could\\nreconcile the differences; and, to a disinterested spe6tator,\\nthis state of affairs would appear likely to lead to difficulty\\nand trouble. Although John Fenwick was impetuous and hasty\\nin much that he did when opposed, especially when his abso-\\nlute authority over the land of which he claimed to be the owner\\nwas questioned, yet the forbearance and good counsel of those\\nwho were with him, prevented any trouble with his neighbors,\\nso far as the management of their religious affairs was concerned.\\nImmediately after, or, perhaps, before they had landed, the\\nagreements between the patroon and the planters were drawn\\nup and signed by each of them. These may now be seen in\\nthe office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, in a good state\\nof preservation.^ The document is dated June 28th, 1675; it\\nembodies all the elements of a good government, and upon\\n2 Salem Records.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL NICHOLSON. 215\\nthis was afterwards established the kind of authority that made\\nthe colony a desirable place for settlement. Among the thirty-\\nthree persons who put their signatures to this paper, and who\\nwere mostly heads of families, may be found the name of Samuel\\nNicholson, signed by his own hand, which, by its style, shows\\nhim to have been a man of some education.\\nSteps were immediately taken to extinguish the Indian title;\\nthis was done for a satisfadtory consideration, by three deeds\\nfrom several chiefs, who held the territory bounded by several\\nlarge streams, by which the grants were defined therein. This\\nwas a proper and just movement, and, although the privileges\\nof the aborigines were not abridged in their hunting and fishing\\nexpeditions, yet their ideas of right were met and satisfied, to\\nthe avoidance of any trouble in the future.\\nAs soon as abodes were provided for their families, which\\nconsisted of the humblest kind of habitations, a religious\\nmeeting was established after the order of the Society of\\nFriends, and held at private houses for several years.* These\\nmeetings took place twice in each week for divine worship, and\\nonce in each month for church discipline. It is curious and\\ninteresting to examine the records of the Friends meeting at\\nthat place, and to notice the various movements taken to secure\\na locality for public worship.\\nUpon the fourth month, 2d, 1679, Richard Guy, Edward\\nBradway, Nathan Smart and Edward Wade were appointed to\\ngo on the seventh instant, and sele6l a place for a meeting\\nhouse and burial ground, and to report at the next monthly\\nmeeting. Upon the eleventh month, 5th, 1679, Edward\\nWade, James Nevil, John Maddox and George Deacon were\\nappointed a committee to treate with Samuel Nicholson and\\nWilliam Penton for their houses and plantations in Salem;\\nand, also, to see the widow Salter about her plantation, c.\\nUpon the twelfth month, 2d, 1679, George Deacon, John\\nMaddox, George Azeheard and Henry Jennings were appointed\\nto take a view of Edward Bradway s house for a meeting house.\\nAt this meeting a minute was made, fixing fourth day and first\\nday as the times for religious worship the first of which meet-\\n3 Johnson s Historj of Salem,", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "2i6 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nings was to be held at Robert Zane s house, the next at Samuel\\nNicholson s house, and tlie next at Richard Guy s house. This\\narrangement put at rest, for a short time, the troul)le about a\\nmeeting house; and not until the seventh of the fourth month,\\nin the next year, does anything further relative to the subje6l\\nappear. Then the subscription list was entered, showing who\\ncontributed, and the amount given by each person.\\nUpon the ninth month, ist, 1680, another committee was\\nappointed, to treate with Edward Champneys for a lot on which\\nto build a meeting house and a burial lot, and to report at the\\nnext Monthly Meeting. Soon after this, some arrangement had\\nbeen made with Samuel Nicholson for his property, for on the 3d\\nof the eleventh month, 1680, John Thompson and Robert Zane\\nwere appointed to look after the repairing of Samuel Nichol-\\nson s house (.ktely by him occupied) for a meeting house, and\\nforthwith get said house fit for Friends to meet in.\\nThe next year, Samuel Nicholson and Ann, his wife, con-\\nveyed to the trustees of the Salem meeting his sixteen acre\\nlot, whereon stood the house aforesaid and the same com-\\nmittee was dire6led to enlarge the house by adding sixteen\\nfeet in length, and in height equal to the old frame, with a\\nchimney and pair of stairs. For some reason, this was not\\ndone until tlie next year, when another committee was named\\nfor that purpose. Samuel Nicholson s house was, therefore, the\\nfirst building set apart for public religious worship in West\\nNew Jersey. Various alterations were subsequently made in\\nthe arrangement of the galleries, and in the mode of heating.\\nThis latter was done by large, open fire places built in the ends\\nof the house, a method which did much to preserve a circula-\\ntion of pure air in the room, but very little towards making\\nit comfortably warm. Several attempts were made to have\\nthe floor constru6led of boards; but they failed, as, on the\\ntwenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, 1687, Benjamin\\nKnapton and Thomas Woodroose were appointed a committee\\nto have both the old and the new end of the meeting house\\nfloored with a good clay floor, and to have it ready before\\nthe yearly meeting. The windows consisted of four panes\\neach, of thick bull s-eye glass, seven inches by nine in size.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL NICHOLSON. 217\\nand set in heavy sash. The doors were clumsy and small, cut\\nhorizontally in two parts, and had long iron hinges and wooden\\nlatch. Imagine a large open fire place in each end, no ceiling\\nunder the roof, and the benches without backs or cushions, and\\nsome idea of the inside appearance of this place of worship\\nmay be had. Forty-feet in front and sixteen feet in depth,\\npart of frame and part of brick, and, perhaps, ten feet in\\nheighth of story these items give a fair description of the\\noutside of a building which, at this day, would be looked upon\\nas an odd stru6ture for such uses.\\nThe first Yearly Meeting held at Salem was on the fifteenth\\nday of the second month, 1684; but the Burlington Friends\\nnegle6led to send a committee, a matter duly noticed. The\\nnext Yearly Meeting there held was on the twelfth day of the\\nsecond month, 1687; afterwards, the time for such meetings was\\nchanged to the twenty-seventh day of the second month, and so\\nyearly, from inconveniences and impediments being seen in\\nthe meeting falling out so early in the spring. These meet-\\nings were continued at that place for several years, making it\\nclear that Friends thereabout were able to entertain, and that\\ntheir place of worship had capacity to receive the strangers thus\\ncoming among them.\\nAt the Yearly Meeting held in Salem in the second month,\\nfrom the twenty-seventh to the thirty-first, 1693, George Keith\\nappeared with his friends, and laid before the meeting their\\nproposals for the settlement of the differences among them.\\nThese were in the shape of several propositions, covering the\\npoints at issue and discussing the reasons for their adoption.\\nThis led to much controversy, and to the final separation of\\nmany members from the society. These proposals were signed\\nby Jeremiah Collat, John Penrose, Nathaniel Sykes, Anthony\\nTaylor, Samuel Cooper, Isaac Jacobs, James Shattuck, Samuel\\nAdams, George Keith, Thomas Budd, Henry Furnass, Nicholas\\nPierce, Robert Granna, William Budd, Benjamin Morgan,\\nThomas Withers and Andrew Griscom.\\nThomas Sharp of Newton was clerk, at that time, of the Yearly\\nMeeting, wherein, no doubt, much excitement existed, and\\nmany controversies were had touching the merits of the matters", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "21 8 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nbefore them, which so sadly vexed the church. The persons\\nwho signed the proposals with George Keith were influential in\\nthe communities in which they lived, and were well calculated\\nto draw many other valuable members with them to the new\\ndogmas, as laid down by this bold and popular dissenter.\\nThe arrival of new settlers, the frugality and industry of the\\nold ones, and the evident success of the colony, made it neces-\\nsary that some new and better accommodations should be had\\nfor the religious meetings held in that place. The old house\\nmet the wants of the society for several years; but, on the\\ntwenty-ninth day of the sixth month, 1698, a committee of the\\nMonthly Meeting was appointed to have a new meeting-house\\nere6led. In the same year they agreed with Richard Wood-\\nnutt to do the brick work, and Robert Gillman to do the wood\\nwork. Matters did not go far, however, before the meeting\\ndecided that the house according to the plan would prove too\\nsmall, and ordered it to be increased to one of forty feet in\\nfront by thirty feet in depth. Whether it was ere6led on the\\nsite of the old one does not appear, but the capacity of the\\nnew was not very much greater than the old house, nor were\\nits proportion any better.\\nOn the thirtieth day of the first month, 1702, the committee\\nreported the building finished, and that the entire cost was four\\nhundred and twenty-five pounds, thirteen shillings and two\\npence. The long list of subscribers, and the amount of money\\nseverally paid, show how rapidly the neighborhood was being\\noccupied, and the increase of wealth among the inhabitants.\\nSeveral Friends in other parts contributed Samuel Carpenter,\\nthen a resident of Philadelphia, gave fifteen pounds; Samuel\\nJennings of Burlington gave five pounds, and many others con-\\ntributed, who doubtless were frequent visitors, and felt an interest\\nin the comfort and convenience of this religious society.\\nNext after the patroon, Samuel Nicholson was, perhaps, the\\nwealthiest man in the colony at that time, as he appears to have\\nmade several large surveys of land in the county, and also sev-\\neral purchases of real estate. He did not remain in Salem\\nmany years, but removed to a plantation which he owned upon\\n4 Salem Records No, 2.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL NICHOLSON. 219\\nAlloway s creek or Monmouth river, as it was then called,\\nwhere he died in 1685, intestate.* He took an a6live part in\\nthe religious and political advancement of the colony, but does\\nnot appear to have participated very much in the difificulties\\nof John Fenwick with the Dutch and the English authorities.\\nThey claimed that he was a usurper, and must, consequently,\\nbe driven away or imprisoned; this latter misfortune befell him,\\nmuch to his discomfiture and pecuniary loss. The oath of\\nSamuel Nicholson to show his allegiance to the government\\nof John Fenwick is here copied, it being the same that was\\ntaken by most of the planters upon their arrival\\nI, Samuel Nicholson, of the Town of New Salem, in Fen-\\nwick Colony, in the Province of New Caesarea or New Jersey\\nin America, Planter, do hereby declare and promise that I will\\nendeavor to promote the honor of Almighty God in all my\\nundertakings, who is the King of Kings and requires all men\\nto do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with their God\\nand, accordingly, I do further declare and promise that I will\\nbear true allegiance to the King of England, his heirs and\\nsuccessors, and also that I will be faithful to the interest of\\nJohn Fenwick, Lord or Chief Proprietor of the said colony,\\nhis heirs. Executors and assigns, and endeavour the peace and\\nwelfare of him, them and of his said Colony accordingly. In\\nwitness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, this July 5th,\\n1676, in the twenty-eighth year of the Reign of King Charles\\nSecond, c.\\nSamuel Nicholson must have been a favorite of the patroon,\\nfor he gave him his choice of lots in the town of Salem, which\\ncontained sixteen acres with a tra6l of marsh fronting on the\\ncreek. On this tra6t of sixteen acres he built his house, which,\\nafterwards, was used by the Friends as the place of meeting\\nbefore named.\\nAnn, the wife of Samuel Nicholson, survived him and died\\nin 1694. Of the children, Parabol married Abraham Strand in\\n1677; Elizabeth married John Abbott; Samuel died in 1694,\\nwithout family and immarried; Abel married Mary, a daughter\\n5 Salem Surveys, 1676.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "2 20 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nof William Tyler; and Joseph married Hannah, a daughter of\\nHenry Wood, in 1695.\u00c2\u00ae\\nJohn Abbott and his wife Elizabeth deceased before Ann\\nNicholson, leaving three children, Rachel, Mary and Elizabeth.\\nAbel settled in Elsinboro on the homestead property, and died\\nin 1 75 1. His children by his first wife were Sarah, Rachel,\\nAbel, Joseph, William, Mary, John Ruth, who married John\\nEvans and Samuel Clement Samuel, who married Sarah Den-\\nnis; and Ann, who married John Brick. His second wife,\\nIsabella, survived him.\\nIn the Friends meeting at Salem there was, perhaps, no\\nmore influential and adlive person than Abel Nicholson. The\\nminutes show that upon almost every important committee he\\nwas named. Among the young people he seems to have been\\na particular favorite, as scarcely a wedding occurred in which\\nhis name may not be found among those who attended on\\nbehalf of the meeting, to see that everything was condu6led\\nin an orderly manner.\\nUpon the death of Bartholomew Wyatt, he was appointed\\nto fill his place as one of the overseers of the meeting, and,\\nin 1733. was made an elder. In 1729, he married Isabella\\nDaniels, but by this marriage there was probably no issue.\\nSome of his children came into Gloucester and Burlington\\ncounties through whom some of the present generations\\nmay trace their lineage.\\nHenry Wood, whose daughter married Joseph Nicholson,\\nin 1682, purchased one hundred acres of Samuel Cole, in\\nWaterford township, near the mouth of Cooper s creek, front-\\ning on the river, with the buildings put thereon by Cole; to\\nthis place he removed, and there remained during his life.\\nHe called this place Hopewell.\\nThe same year in which Joseph Nicholson married his daugh-\\nter, he removed from Salem county to a tra6l of land on the\\nnorth side of Cooper s creek, that he had previously purchased;\\nhere he built a house and made a settlement. In 1699, he\\npurchased an adjoining tradl of James, a grandson of Henry\\n6 Salem Wills A, i o, 143. Salem Wills No. 5 41.\\n7 Salem Wills A, 120. Lib. No. 7, 250.\\n8 Lib. Bi, 66.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL NICHOLSON. 221\\nWood, which made his landed estate quite large at the time of\\nhis death.\\nSamuel Nicholson, the brother of Joseph, in his will gave him\\nhis entire estate the land of which he sold to George Abbott\\nin 1696. The deed says, Joseph Nicholson, late of Salem\\ncounty, now of Gloucester county. This language establishes\\nthe identity of Joseph beyond any question, and conne6ls the\\nfamily hereabout with Samuel, the first comer.\\nJoseph Nicholson deceased in 1702, intestate,^ and leaving\\nbut two children, George, who married Alice Lord in 171 7,\\nand Samuel, who had three wives. These were as follows in\\n1722, he married Sarah, a daughter of Samuel Burrough; in\\n1744, he married Rebecca Saint, and, in 1749, he married Jane\\nAlbertson, the widow of William, and daughter of John Engle.\\nThe last named female was somewhat remarkable in her mar-\\nriage relations, having had four husbands and, probably, dying\\na widow. The husbands were John Turner, William Albertson,\\nSamuel Nicholson, and Thomas Middleton.\\nAs the oldest son, Samuel inherited the landed estate of his\\nfather, and had his residence on the tradl of land purchased\\nof James Wood in 1699. This he re-surveyed in 1733, which\\nsurvey discloses the title and the number of acres contained\\nin the same.^ He was neighbor to the Spicers, the Woods,\\nand Humphrey Day, all of which families and names have\\nlong since been lost sight of in that region.\\nSamuel Nicholson deceased in 1750, leaving the following\\nnamed children but how distributed among the several wives,\\nthere is no means at this time of discovering. Joseph, the first\\nson, married Catharine Butcher, of Burlington, in 1738; in\\n1749, he purchased half an acre of land of John Gill in Had-\\ndonfield, at which place he at that time resided. This piece\\nof land is situated on the west side of the main street, and\\nis now owned by Joseph B. Tatem. He probably built the\\nhouse now standing on the lot but of this there are no certain\\ndata. Abel married Rebecca Aaronson, daughter of Aaron\\nAbigail married Daniel Hillman in 1743, and John Gill in\\ng Files of Gloucester Wills.\\n10 Lib M, 159, O. S. G.\\n11 Lib. No. 7, 02.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "2 22 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\n1767; Hannah married John Hillman; and Sarah died single\\nin 1756. Abel deceased in 1761, and before his first child\\nwas born. This proved to be a son, who was named for his\\nfather, and subsequently married Rebecca, a daughter of Isaac\\nEllis. The widow of Abel married Isaac Burrough, and deceased\\nin 1768. From the last named Abel, the family in this imme-\\ndiate neighborhood has descended. A few of the name reside\\nin Salem county, but the family is not large. In tracing this\\nfamily, care should be taken not to confound it with that of\\nGeorge Nicholson, who came from Borton Stathers, in Lincoln-\\nshire, England, and settled in Burlington county, N. J.^^ His\\nwife s name was Hannah, and their children were Grace, born\\nin 1677; Samuel, born in 1679; George, born in 1680; Joseph,\\nborn in 1684, and Mercy, born in 1687. Samuel died at Ches-\\nter, Pennsylvania, in 1684. Joseph and Mercy were born at\\nthe same place, the other children being born before the coming\\nof the parents to America. They probably came among those\\ndesigning to remain in Pennsylvania under the patronage of\\nWilliam Penn, but finally settling in New Jersey.\\n12 Friends Records, Cherterfield Meeting, Burlington Co.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "THOMAS HOWELL.\\nTHOMAS HOWELL was an Englishman, and lived in\\nStaffordshire previously to his removal to New Jersey.\\nIt is somewhat uncertain whether he was a creditor of Edward\\nByllynge, although the record would seem to show that he\\nwas; yet, if so, he did not have his debts discharged diredlly\\nby that man.\\nBenjamin Bartlett (or Braclett, as it is sometimes written,)\\nmarried Gracia, a daughter of Byllynge,^ through whom many\\nof the sales of proprieties were made, and who, surviving her\\nhusband and father, in 1728,^ sold all the remainder of her\\ninterests in New Jersey, derived as the only heir and surviving\\nchild of her father, to Daniel Coxe, of London, whose son\\nDaniel came here to look after his father s estate, and made so\\nmuch trouble in the political affairs of the colony.*\\nThe first estate that Thomas Howell acquired in New Jersey,\\nwas through Benjamin Bartlett and wife, in 1675, who conveyed\\nhim the one-half of one-ninetieth part of one whole share;\\nunder which he proceeded in 1685 to sever his interest from\\nthe common stock in land.^ Although his name does not\\nappear among those who first arrived here, yet he, no doubt,\\ncame among the earliest adventurers, and brought some con-\\nsiderable personal property, consisting of household goods and\\nI Lib. G2, 33. 4 Lib. A, 24.\\n1 Lib. A, 24. 5 Lib. G2, 33.\\n3 Lib. EF, 370.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "2 24 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nmoney. It is probable that his immediate residence in Staf-\\nfordshire was at Tamworth, a town in the western part of that\\ncounty,* about one hundred and ten miles northeast of the city\\nof London, for, in a division of his estate among his children\\nin 1687, his son Daniel received that property as part of his\\nshare. In a subsequent agreement between Daniel and Mor-\\ndecai, the estate passed to the latter, who, in all probability,\\nretained it during his life, it being the ancestral residence of\\nthe family, and for this reason deserving his adherence thereto.\\nIt does not appear that Thomas Howell was a Friend if such,\\nhe did not participate much in the religious affairs of that\\nsociety. The short time that he lived after his settlement here\\nmay account for this, as he deceased in 1687, only a few years\\nafter his arrival. He was, however, a member of the Assembly\\nin 1683, but only served a single year.\\nThe survey he made, fronting on the north side of Cooper s\\ncreek, in Waterford (now Delaware) township, included what is\\ngenerally known as the Jacob Troth farm, on the east, and\\nextended down that stream nearly one mile, and back into the\\nwoods about the same distance. This tra6l of land is, at the\\npresent day, divided into many valuable farms. It was located\\nfor six hundred and fifty acres, but doubtless contained within\\nits bounds a much larger quantity of land. Thomas Howell\\nere6ted a dwelling on the same, and there resided for the little\\ntime that he lived after his settlement. Without any tradition\\nas to where his house stood, the probability is that it was near\\nthe creek, and perhaps where the buildings on the Barton\\nfarm have been ere6led. He called his place Christianity.\\nThe will of Thomas Howell has no date, but is undoubtedly\\na genuine document. It discloses some matters of interest\\nwhich deserve notice here.** Reference is made to his wife s\\nnot coming to America, of whom he appeared to know nothing\\nat the time of making his will. He makes provision for her,\\nhowever, which shows that he had some regard for her comfort,\\nalthough she did not choose to participate in his adventure.\\n6 Lib. G2, 42. 10 Learning Spicer s Laws.\\n7 Lib. G2, 62. II Revel s Book, 68.\\n8 Lib. Gi, 42. 12 Lib. B, 140.\\n9 Lib. Gi, 42. 13 Gloucester Files, 1693.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "THOMAS HOWELL. 225\\nThe will is not signed by the testator, but is subscribed to by\\nthree witnesses, who appeared when the same was offered for\\nprobate. The court allowed, and the devisees accepted the will\\nas valid. It doubtless conformed to the custom of the Dutch\\ncourts in like cases, prevalent in New York at that date and\\nfor many years after. He made other locations in Gloucester\\ncounty, which showed him to be a man with means to buy, and\\nof good judgment in the location of his land. His family con-\\nsisted of a wife, three sons and three daughters, namely Samuel\\nDaniel, who married Hannah Lakin, of Philadelphia, in 1686;\\nMordecai; Priscilla, who married Robert Stiles; Marion, who\\nmarried Henry Johnson; and Catharine. Before his death\\nin 1687, Thomas Howell sold Richard Wright one hundred\\nacres of his land on Cooper s creek, where the family of the\\nlatter lived for several years thereafter.^*\\nOf the son Samuel, nothing appears to indicate that he was in\\nNew Jersey as he did not join in any of the conveyances of\\nreal estate after his father s death, nor is his name mentioned\\nat all, except in the will of his father. The son Mordecai was\\none of the witnesses in the controversy between the Penns and\\nLord Baltimore. In this, he says that he came to America about\\nthe year 1682, and ascended the Delaware river in company\\nwith the ship that brought William Penn to Philadelphia. This\\nevidence was given by him in 1736, which proves that he did\\nnot decease before that date.\\nAfter Thomas Howell s death, his son Mordecai returned to\\nthe paternal estate at Tamworth, England, and there remained\\nabout three years. Afterwards, he returned and lived on the\\nhomestead property on Cooper s creek. in 1697, he sold to\\nHenry Franklin, a bricklayer of New York, a part of the origi-\\nnal tra6l, which the latter sold to John Champion, in three\\nyears after.** Perhaps Franklin never came thither, but sold to\\nChampion, who then resided at Hempstead, in the same state;\\nfrom which place he removed soon after, remaining until his\\ndeath. He called his place Livewell, being situated on that\\n14 Gloucester Files, 1687. Friends Records, Phila. r6 Lib. Gi, 42. Lib. G2, 42.\\nLib. Gi, 42. Lib. G3, 17. 17 Lib. G2, 114. Lib G3, 03,\\n15 Lib. Gi, 14. Lib. Gz, 114, 117, 120. 121. i8 Lib. G3, 122, 465.\\n5", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "226 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\npart of the estate now known as the Champion farm, which\\nname has much significance, and perhaps originated with those\\nwho enjoyed the hospitality and good cheer of the owner.\\nPreviously to this sale, Mordecai Howell had ere6led a saw\\nmill on a small branch near the easterly part of the tra6l, where\\nthat stream emptied into Cooper s creek. This mill was kept in\\nuse many years after it came into the hands of John Champion.\\nIn 1687, Thomas Howell (the father) eredled the dam; but he\\nwas indicted by the grand jury of the county for stopping the\\nwater of the stream contrary to law, and consequently aban-\\ndoned the work.\\nIt is probable that Catharine, the widow of Thomas Howell,\\ncame to America with the son Mordecai upon his return, as she\\nwas a resident of Philadelphia in 1693, and conveyed eighty-\\neight acres of land to Henry Johnson, then about to marry the\\ndaughter Marion.^ This was part of the estate on Cooper s\\ncreek, on which the son Mordecai at that time lived. Henry\\nJohnson subsequently took up his abode there with his wife, and\\nthrough their family, the property passed to other names.\\nRobert Stiles, who married the daughter Priscilla, settled on\\nthe north side of the south branch of Penisaukin creek on land\\nnow owned by Samuel Roberts. He deceased in 1728, leaving\\ntwo sons, Robert and Ephriam from whom have sprung the\\nfamily of that name in these parts.\\nGabriel Thomas, the first historian of West New Jersey, thus\\nspeaks of the head of this family. The trade of Gloucester\\ncounty consists chiefly in pitch, tar and rosin, the latter of\\nwhich is made by Robert Styles, an excellent artist in that sort\\nof work, for he delivers it as clear as any Gum Arabick.\\nThomas Howell, in his will, gave his daughter Priscilla one\\nhundred acres of the homestead property. This herself and\\nhusband, in 1690, conveyed to her brother Mordecai.\\nThe minute book of the supreme court of New Jersey still\\nin good preservation, commencing 1681, and now in the\\nvaults of the office of the supreme court, at Trenton presents\\na curious trial of Daniel and Mordecia Howell in 1685, for\\n19 Lib. G3, 03. 21 Lib. G2, 94.\\n20 Lib. G3, 17. 22 Lib. B, 94.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "THOMAS HOWELL. 227\\nshooting and carrying away the hogs of WilHam Cooper. They\\nwere indicted, tried and convi6led, the court sitting at Burling-\\nton, and were fined five pounds each. The trial, which was\\na protracted one, discloses the peculiar manner of our ances-\\ntors in condu(Sling such cases. The identity of the porkers was\\nthe turning point in the case, as the ears had been cut off, and\\nthe marks destroyed. But when Daniel Cooper, son of William,\\ntestified to having seen a dead hog on the back of one of the\\ndefendants, before its ears were cut off, and identified it as one\\nof his father s swine, there was no room for further doubt, and\\nhence the convi6lion. There was much of that kind of litiga-\\ntion among the old folks hereabout, as the negle6l to enter the\\near marks in the court records was often a means by which\\npersons escaped punishment.\\nIn 1687, Daniel sold his brother Mordecai two hundred and\\nfifty acres of land with the buildings on Cooper s creek, prob-\\nably the farm on which their father deceased.^* In 1688, Daniel\\nsold one hundred acres of the homestead to Moses Lakin,\\nbounded by the stream before named. This person was,\\nprobably, a brother of his wife; but it does not appear that he\\never occupied it. He subsequently disposed of a great amount\\nof proprietory rights to various persons, showing that his landed\\nestate in New Jersey was large and valuable.\\nIn 1690, Daniel Howell sold sixty acres, part of the original\\ntra6t, to Josiah Appleton, which joined other lands owned by\\nJohn and Richard Appleton, at a place then called Apple-town.\\nThis was a village which stood near the most westerly boundary\\nof the original tra6l fronting the navigation of- Cooper s creek,\\nand, no doubt, deriving many advantages therefrom.^ What\\ntradition and ancient records have done for the faithful searchers\\nafter the curious and the true among the almost forgotten stories\\nand negle6led books that attradl the attention of antiquarians,\\nhas escaped the notice of such seekers, in order to bring down\\nto the present generation the site and history of x\\\\pple-town, a\\nplace that had a name and a locality in 1690, but, at the present\\nday, has left no trustworthy memorials.\\n23 Lib. G2, 62. 25 Lib. G2, 104, 108.\\n24 Lib. Gi, 83. 26 Lib. B2, 442.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "2 28 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nIn the year 1691, he removed from Cooper s creek to a new\\nresidence near Philadelphia, which he called Hartsfield; and,\\nafter a short stay at that place, he removed thence to Stacy s\\nMills, at the falls of the Delaware around which place now\\nstands the city of Trenton. Mahlon Stacy, who came over\\nwith the first emigrants, made a large survey on both sides of\\nthe Assunpink creek at this place, and ere6led a corn mill\\nthereon. A Friends meeting was established, and the buildings\\nere6led thereabouts soon began to assume the proportions of a\\ntown. In 1 714, Mahlon Stacy, son of Mahlon who deceased in\\n1703, sold this property, which his father called Bathfield, to\\nWilliam Trent, from whom the present name of the city was\\nderived previously to this sale, however, considerable of the\\nland had been purchased in small parcels, whereon to ere6t\\ndwellings.\\nAmong the first and most prominent of the settlers there, the\\nname of Daniel Howell occurs, who may have been a son of\\nThomas, before named. His religious proclivities were Presby-\\nterian, as he was an a6live man in that denomination, and\\nresided there when the first church was eredled. If these sug-\\ngestions are corre6t, then the descendants of Daniel Howell\\nin and about the city of Trenton can make the conne 5lion with\\ntheir emigrant ancestors complete, and can know where he lived\\nthe little time in which he remained in the forests of New\\nJersey, as well as his place of nativity in England, where, no\\ndoubt, the lineage of the family can be traced for many gen-\\nerations beyond his departure.\\nMordecai Howell was quite a land jobber, and dealt largely\\nin real estate in Gloucester county. In 1702, he purchased the\\nLovejoy survey of Henry Tredway. This included all that part\\nof Haddonfield, lying east of Main street, as far south as Ellis\\nstreet, and the corn mill built by Thomas Kendall, which\\nstood near the present mill, now owned by the heirs of Josiah B.\\nEvans, deceased.-\u00c2\u00ae While he held this property, he located fifty\\nacres of land on the opposite side of the stream, bounded on\\nthe north by Buckman s run, which falls into Cooper s creek,\\n27 Lib. G2, 138, 140.\\n28 Lib. No. 3, 382.\\n29 Basse s Bookj 239.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "THOMAS HOWELL. 229\\nat a short distance below where the present mill stands. By this\\nsurvey, the place then called Uxbridge, but having long since\\nlost its identity, is clearly defined. It may be said to have been\\nwhere the Salem road crossed the creek, before the King s high-\\nway was laid by law, nearly in its present position. This point\\nwas about one-fourth of a mile above the mouth of the run before\\nnamed, and, no doubt, above the head of the pond as the flow\\nthen stood which pond was a diminutive affair, in comparison\\nto the beautiful sheet of water that now covers the same and\\nmuch larger premises. The name, however, was not confined\\nto the particular place, but was applied generally to the sur-\\nrounding neighborhood yet, as the road was changed and the\\nbridge Avent to decay, the name, in like manner, was, in the\\nlapse of time, forgotten.\\nNear the head of the south branch of Cooper s creek in\\nGloucester township, he purchased several adjoining tra6ls of\\nland of different persons part of which was sold to Joseph\\nThorne in i7o6, who sold part to Joseph Bates in the same\\nyear. This property adjoined the estate of John Hillman,\\nincluding several farms around where the White Horse tavern\\nnow stands. The deed made by him to Joseph Thorne included\\nthe homestead estate on Cooper s creek, and, perhaps, extin-\\nguished his title to land in West New Jersey.\\nAt the time of the last sale he had removed to Chester county,\\nPennsylvania; previously to which he had visited the home of\\nhis ancestors in England to look after the interests given to him\\nby his father. His residence being beyond the bounds of New\\nJersey, there is no means of tracing him to the time of his\\ndecease. He was probably a bachelor, as his signatures to the\\nvarious conveyances made by him stand alone, conclusive\\nthat, however large his estate, he did not halve his sorrows\\nand double his joys by taking to himself a helpmate in the days\\nof his youth. Alas, for him\\n30 Lib. G3, 3.\\n31 Lib. A, 84.\\n32 Lib. A, 84.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM MATLACK.\\nt T 7ILLIAM MATLACK of the county of Burlington in\\nVV the Province of West Jersey, aged about seventy-two\\nyears, came before me the underwritten, being his Majesty s\\nJudge of the Common Pleas for said county, and, upon his\\nsolemn affirmation, did declare that he, the said William Mat-\\nlack, about the latter end of October in the year (1677), came\\nto Burlington along with his then master Daniel Wills, who was\\none of the commissioners for laying out the lands in the West-\\nern Division of New Jersey, and several others in the first boate\\nthat came there to settle the said Towne of Burlington; and\\nthat, as soon as he and the rest were landed, he was present and\\nsaw the lots fairly drawn for the nine acre lots mentioned in the\\nnext page and on the other side of this leaf in this book which\\nlots were surveyed by Richard Noble; and that the said lots\\nfell to the ten persons mentioned in said page, and in the three\\nfollowing pages, and in the same order as they are there set\\ndown. And further, this deponent says that he is well assured\\nand very well knows that the said Richard Noble was appointed\\nsurveyor by the commissioners, and did soon after survey all the\\nremaining part of the Island on the west side of the High street,\\nand bounded by the river and creek and when it was divided,\\nit was lotted to the said ten persons according as in the said two\\npages it is particularly described.\\nAttested before me, this tenth day of December, in the\\nseventh year of the reign of King George of Great Britain,\\nAnno Domini 1720. Joshua Humphreys.\\nI Basse s Book, 216.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "232 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nFrom the foregoing declaration much information may be\\ngathered beside that which pertains to the subject in question.\\nIt discloses the age of William Matlack in 1720; it shows that\\nhe had attained his majority before his arrival in America.\\nAccording to an agreement then common among the emigrants,\\nhe was to serve Daniel Wills for four years after his coming\\nhither in which service he worked as a carpenter. They came\\nin the ship Kent, Gregory Marlow, master; after having\\ntouched at Sandy Hook, they found their way into the river\\nDelaware, and, from some unknown cause, the passengers were\\nlanded near the mouth of Raccoon creek. Their destination\\nwas evidently higher up the stream, as the commissioners soon\\nleft the vessel, and proceeded in a small boat to Chygoe s\\nisland (afterwards Burlington), and, according to a tradition in\\nthe family, William Matlack was the first person that put his\\nfoot upon the shore. It is also shown that the island referred\\nto was not that in the river, but the piece of land on which the\\ncity of Burlington stands, nearly surrounded by the Assiscunk\\ncreek, which, Samuel Smith says, procured its name from\\nan Indian sachem who lived there. The first boate men-\\ntioned was the little craft in which the commissioners and a few\\nother persons came from Raccoon creek, and not the ship Kent,\\nwhich was probably injured, and did not proceed to the end of\\nthe voyage. The passengers, after suffering many privations,\\nmostly found their way to Burlington, and settled in the neigh-\\nborhood.\\nWilliam Matlack came from a .small village in Nottingham-\\nshire, England, called Cropwell Bishop, which lies about seven\\nmiles southeast of the city of Nottingham. As a mechanic, he\\nworked upon the first houses built in Burlington, and helped to\\neredl Thomas Olive s corn mill, the first of that kind in West\\nJersey. He saw a town rise up in the midst of the forest,\\nsurrounded by a thriving population, busy in clearing the land\\nand enjoying the reward of their labor. His leisure hours were\\nspent among the natives, watching their peculiarities and striv-\\ning to win their good will. Following the advice and example\\nof the commissioners, every promise made by him to the abo-\\nrigines was faithfully kept, and every contra6l stri6tly adhered to.\\na Smith s History of New Jereey, 93.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM MATLACK. 233\\nIn 1 68 1, there came from Brayles, a small town in the\\nsouthern part of Warwickshire, a young man named Ti niothy\\nHancock, accompanied by his sister, who was about h fteen\\nyears of age. Without friends or means, they lived in a very\\nhumble manner among the settlers, but the demand for wi ^rk-\\nmen soon found Timothy employment, and the demand for\\nwives did not leave Mary long without a suitor. She as\\nmarried to the subje6l of this sketch the next year. TheT\\nthen removed to a tradl of land which he had located betweeL^\\nthe north and south branch of Penisaukin creek in Chester\\ntownship, Burlington county. Her brother also located a\\nsurvey adjoining, and, in 1684, married Rachel Firman. These\\nsurveys contained one hundred acres each, and were generally\\nknown as head lands, being the quantity to which each male\\nperson coming as a servant was entitled under the regulation\\nestablished by the proprietors. Many young men were styled\\nservants and received their one hundred acres of land, who\\nwere persons of education, and who afterwards became promi-\\nnent citizens in the colony.\\nThis was near the Indian town of Penisaukin, where the\\nnatives for many years after had a village, and where may\\nyet be seen the remains of the graveyard which burial places\\nthey held in so much reverence and respect, that long journeys\\nwere made to visit the remains of their departed friends and\\nconne6lions. Within the memory of those now living, have\\nthese burial places been visited by this peculiar people, around\\nwhich they would remain for a few days, and then mysteriously\\ndisappear from the neighborhood. This sacred regard for the\\ndead formed a strange contrast with other characteristics of\\ntheir savage natures it showed a tenderness of feeling and\\na degree of refinement, not always found in civilization.\\nThis stream (Penisaukin creek) bears one of the few Indian\\nnames that have come down to the present generation, and,\\nalthough much corrupted, it has enough remaining to detect\\nits origin.\\nIn 1682, when John Roberts, William Matlack, and Timothy\\nHancock located the land, they called it Pen-is-au-kin giving\\n3 Basse s Book, 35.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "1\\n234 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nthe stream the same name as that by which the Indians styled\\ntheir vjiHage then adjoining. This word has been spelled in\\nvariou^s ways, with as many deiinitions, one of which is that\\nWilliatm Penn reserved a hawking privilege in the sale of lands\\ntherq, and thence called the stream Pennshawking creek. This\\nideajis at once demolished upon an examination of the records,\\nfor/there it may be found as obtained from the natives, and as\\nby them pronounced.\\nThe corruption, or reje6lion of the Indian names of streams\\nand localities in America, is to be regretted; for their signifi-\\ncance and beauty have no parallel in the English tongue, and\\nthey are passing away like the jjeople that gave them charadler\\nand expression, almost without a history or a kindly remem-\\nbrance. The yielding of the weaker to the stronger race, of\\nsavage life to the progress of civilization, has left but a remnant\\nof this people among us. Being without a written history, their\\nlegends, their language, and their names, will soon be among\\nthe things that have passed beyond the possibility of restoration.\\nIt is remarkable tTiat, in the development of literature and the\\nadvancement of education, so little has been done to colle6l\\nand arrange the language of the aborigines of our land. But\\na single record of their language is known to have been made\\nin West New Jersey, and that by the authorities of Salem\\ncounty it is contained in one of their first books, now on file in\\nthe office of Secretary of State at Trenton, in which much care\\nhas been taken, and from which much information may be had.\\nWilliam Matlack and Timothy Hancock soon found their\\nneighborhood was a desirable one; for new settlements were\\nmade there in a short time, and went on increasing until a\\nmeeting of Friends was established at the house of Timothy\\nHancock by the consent of Burlington Friends in 1685. This\\nwas held on alternate first-days with one at the house of John\\nKay, on the north branch of Cooper s creek, for the accommo-\\ndation of Friends at Penisaukin and Evesham. These were\\ncontinued until about the year 1707. At these places many\\nmarriages were solemnized during that time, the knowledge of\\nwhich would add much to the early history of this section of\\nthe State.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM MATLACK, 235\\nThomas Story, an eminent public Friend, who traveled in\\nAmerica in 1700, says that he went from Philadelphia to the\\nChester meeting (now Moorestown, Burlington county) by\\nwater, and upon his return stayed at night at the house of\\nEsther Spicer, the widow of Samuel Spicer, where he was well\\nentertained. This widow lady, who survived her husband sev-\\neral years, then lived near the river shore on the north side of\\nCooper s creek, now Stockton township, Camden county.\\nThe Matlack family in New Jersey have been remarkably\\nprolific, which peculiarity began with William and Mary; and\\nany attempt to follow the genealogy would lead to endless\\ncollaterals, and be attended with much doubt and uncertainty.\\nThe children of the first settlers, however, were John, who\\nmarried Hannah Horner and Mary Lee; George, who married\\nMary Foster and Mary Hancock Mary, who married Jonathan\\nHaines and Daniel Morgan William, who married Ann Antrimj\\nRichard, who married Rebecca Haines and Mary Cole Joseph,\\nwho married Rebecca Haines; Timothy, who married Mary\\nHaines Jane, who married Irvin and Sarah, who marrie^\\nCarlyle Haines. From these marriages has sprung one of the\\nlargest families in New Jersey, and, one which, at this date,\\nhas found its way into every state in the Union.\\nIn 1 701, William Matlack purchased about one thousand\\nacres of land of Richard Heritage, situated in Waterford and\\nGloucester townships, in Camden county (then Gloucester),\\nlying on both sides of the south branch of Cooper s creek,\\naround and near the White Horse tavern.*\\nIn 1705, John Matlack purchased two hundred acres of land\\nof Francis Collins in Waterford township. In 1708, he mar-\\nried Hannah Horner, and settled upon his purchase. A part of\\nthis estate is now owned by the heirs of John Wilkins, deceased,\\nwho there reside. The old house ere6led by the first owner\\nstood a short distance from the handsome edifice of the- present\\nocciapants this old house was pulled down a few years since, for\\none hundred and fifty years rendered it unfit, both in comfort\\nand style, for further use.\\nIn 1 7 14, William Matlack gave his son George five hundred\\nacres of land in Waterford township, being part of that which\\n4 Lib. (ji, 143.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "236 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nhe had purchased of Richard Heritage.^ George had previously\\nmarried Mary Foster, and settled on this tra6l. His house\\nstood near the residence of Israel Riggins, on the south side of\\nthe present Haddonfield and Berlin road, near Glendale. He\\nbuilt the saw mill on the south branch of Cooper s creek, for-\\nmerly known as Hilliard s mill, having gone to ruin many\\nyears since. This tra6l of land is now divided among several\\ngood farms.\\nIn 1 71 7, William Matlack purchased two hundred acres of\\nland of John Estaugh, as attorney of John Haddon, on which\\nhis son Richard settled in 1721 the same year in which he\\nmarried Rebecca Haines. This tra6l lies in Waterford and\\nDelaware townships. Upon it is situated the old Matlack grave-\\nyard, where lay the remains of nearly all the older branches of\\nthe family. Richard (the first settler), who deceased in 1778,\\nwas the second person buried here, his son Benjamin being the\\nfirst. In 1779, this estate passed out of this name to William\\nTodd, but was subsequently purchased by Richard M. Cooper,\\nfather of the present owner, and a lineal descendant in the\\nmateral line of the first settler.\\nIn 1 714, William Matlack gave his son Timothy the remain-\\ning part of the tract of land which he had purchased of Richard\\nHeritage in Waterford township. Here Timothy built a house\\nand settled. The house stood on the farm now owned by\\nEphraim Tomlinson, a short distance from Glendale. In 1720,\\nTimothy married Mary Haines. He remained on the farm\\nonly a short time, as, in 1726 he sold the same and removed to\\nHaddonfield, where he eredled a house and kept a store.\\nAmong the children of Timothy Matlack, a son Timothy was\\nborn in Haddonfield, 1730. He removed to Philadelphia at an\\nearly age, and became one of the prominent citizens of that\\nplace.* During the Revolutionary war, although a Quaker, he\\nheld a colonel s commission in the army, and was an a6live\\nofficer throughout that struggle. For this he was dealt with, and\\nlost his membership in that religious body. In connection with\\nBenjamin Franklin, Robert Morris and others, a society was\\n5 Lib. A, 09. 7 Lib. A, 08.\\n6 Lib. A, 50. 8 Lives of Eminent Philadelphians, c., 685,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM MATLACK. 237\\nestablished in Philadelphia, called the Free Quakers. He\\nwas secretary to the Continental Congress for some time, while\\nit sat in that city, and was known as an open and decided advo-\\ncate for the separation of the colonies from the mother country.\\nHis portrait now hangs in the Hall of Independence, among\\nmany of his contemporaries of that eventful period. He died\\nin 1829, and was buried in the graveyard of the religious society\\nof which he was a member, in south Fifth street, Philadelphia.\\nHe never lost his interest in the place of his nativity, and, in\\nhis declining years, often related the story of his being in one\\nof the apple trees in John Gill s orchard, and listening to John\\nEstaugh preach in the Friends meeting-house near by. This\\nwas when he was a boy. If Friend John had espied him preying\\nupon his fruit, the inclinations of the flesh would have prompted\\nhim to visit condign punishment upon the offender; but Tim-\\nothy understood his habits too well, not to know when to make\\nthese predatory excursions, and get safely away, loaded with\\nplunder. This further shows that John Gill s farm extended\\nalong the north side of the King s road to the meeting-house\\nmention of which is made in the deed for the meeting-house lot.\\nAsa Matlack, now deceased, a descendant of the first settler\\nand formerly residing near Moorestown, Burlington county,\\nNew Jersey, on a part of the original estate, colledled and\\npreserved a history of the dire6t and collateral branches of the\\nfamily, showing how rapidly it spread through the country and\\nbecame conne6led with those of the early settlers. Although\\nnot arranged for easy reference, yet the colledlion, as it stands,\\nevidences much labor, and is invaluable to any one in search\\nof genealogical matter connected therewith.\\nThe tra6t of lands owned by William Matlack and his sons\\nJohn, Timothy and Richard, extending from the White Horse\\ntavern to the farm of Joseph H. Ellis, both included, and lying\\non both sides of the Moorestown and Woodbury road, con-\\ntained some fifteen hundred acres; it passed out of the name\\nmore than sixty years since, part by marriage, but much the\\nlarger part by sale.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "JOHN HINCHMAN.\\nIN the year 1675, valuation of the estates of persons resident\\nin Flushing, Long Island, made known that John Hinch-\\nman was an inhabitant, and the owner of one negro, twenty-\\nfive acres of land, two horses, four oxen, four cows, two colts,\\nfour hogs and forty sheep. He was then a well-to-do farmer for\\nthe times in which he lived, and much in advance of most of\\nhis neighbors. In the year 1698, another list was ordered by\\nthe proper authorities of the same town (or township.) This\\nshows the nativity of each and among the French settlers occur\\nthe names of John Hinchman and Sarah his wife, and of their\\nchildren, John, James, Mercy, Mary and Sarah, as well as that\\nof one negro slave called Hed:or, set down as belonging to the\\nsaid John Hinchman; also the names of Thomas Hinchman\\nand of Miriam his wife, and two children, Thomas and Sarah,\\nAmong the names composing the list of freemen, is that of\\nRobert Hinchman. These assessments evince a degree of care\\nnot generally looked for at so early a date, and disclose many\\nvaluable and interesting fa6ts not to be obtained through any\\nother channel. The liberality of the Legislature of the State\\nof New York in securing, arranging and publishing all the\\ndocumentary evidence that relates to the early settlement of\\nthat state, cannot be too highly commended it deserves to be\\nfollowed by every other commonwealth in the Union. To this\\nliberality are all those indebted that would know anything touch-\\ning the history of the first comers, of their success and their\\nsubsequent movements.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "240 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nAmong the inhabitants of Oyster Bay, Southampton, Hemp-\\nstead, Flushing and other places on Long Island, may be found\\nthe names of many who became the heads of families hereabout,\\nand who did much to clear up and develope the virgin soil in\\nthis se6lion of the country.\\nThe inducements held out by William Penn, John Fenwick\\nand others, who were interested in the lands in New Jersey and\\nPennsylvania, made it to their advantage again to break up their\\nhomes and remove hither. Among them were the Hinchmans,\\nthe Burroughs, the Clements, the Harrisons and others, whose\\nnames are now familiar to every inhabitant in this region of\\ncountry. In fa61:, these two sections were so closely connected\\nin this regard, that the history of the one is, to a great extent,\\nthe history of the other. In ecclesiastical affairs they were\\nnearly identical, for what in church matters agitated the people\\nof one region was equally exciting among the people of the\\nother.\\nThe name was not confined to Long Island, as Edward\\nHinchman was a resident of Maryland in 1658, and was fined\\nfor refusing to bear arms. This person was a merchant, and\\nhad business intercourse with Barbadoes in 1672. He was\\nsubsequently banished for his Quakerism, and passed through\\nmuch bodily suffering therefor. There is nothing, however, to\\nindicate any conne6lion between the last named person and the\\nHinchmans of Long Island, and any search in that direction\\nmight prove fruitless.\\nOn the eighteenth day of May, 1699, John Hugg and Pris-\\ncilla, his wife, conveyed to John Hinchman of Long Island,\\none thousand acres of land, situated in Newton township,\\nGloucester county, New Jersey.* Part of this tra6l was given\\nby Francis Collins to his daughter Priscilla, and other parts\\nJohn Hugg had purchased of various persons. Parcels of this\\nland still remain in the name, but much the larger portion\\npassed out of the family many years since. According to the\\nbest data that can be colledled from old maps and indefinite\\ndescriptions, in ancient deeds, this estate extended from near\\nthe head of the south branch of Newton creek (including the\\nI Lib. G3, 279.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "JOHN HINCHMAN. 241\\nHurley farm on that side), northeasterly toward Haddonfield,\\ntaking in the Hinchman estate, the farm of Charles L. Willits\\nand other properties. Much information touching the title to\\nthis land may be derived from a re-survey of parts of the tra6t,\\nmade by the third John Hinchman in 1759; which re-survey\\nappears in the records of that year, in the Surveyor-General s\\noffice at Burlington. The house of John Hinchman stood on\\nthe north side of the stream named, about where the late resi-\\ndence of James S. Hurley, deceased, is ere(5led. Near the\\nhouse, but on the south side of the water-course, is an ancient\\nburial place, in these days known as Hurley s graveyard,\\nbut established by the first owner as a place to inter his slaves.\\nOf this kind of property, he was one of the largest holders in\\nthe country; their descendants make up many of the families\\nin this region, and these, until a short time since, were buried\\nat the place before spoken of.\\nPossessing an extensive tra6l of land, and a large number of\\nslaves, it may be inferred that he was a man of wealth, and\\nlived in somewhat more style than most of those around him.\\nHis residence stood near the king s highway, where it crossed\\nKing s run, in going from Burlington to Salem; it was a build-\\ning of some pretension, and one in which a liberal hospitality\\nwas dispensed. As a Quaker, his entertainments extended to\\nthose traveling Friends who felt it their duty to leave their\\nhomes in England to visit the churches in America, at that\\ntime scattered over a vast extent of country. The colonies in\\nNorth Carolina, Virginia and Maryland, to the south, and in\\nEast Jersey, Long Island and Connecticut, to the east, were a\\nlong distance apart; and the journey to and fro was always\\nattended with many difficulties.\\nThe journals of these missionaries all show that they passed\\nthrough the same kind of trials, and had the same obstacles to\\novercome. In his removal from Long Island, John Hinchman\\ndoubtless brought with him several slaves, the increase of whom\\nin a few years overcrowded his plantation with laborers, and\\nmade a full supply for his children as they settled in life.\\nSlave property was something more than that of horses or\\ncattle; in the purchase or sale of a slave a deed was executed\\n16", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "242 FmST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nand delivered, conveying the estate of the owner, and frequently\\nguaranteeing soundness and tra6lability. One of these indent-\\nures is here given in full, explaining in itself the chara6ler of\\nthe transaction, and the purposes for which it was made.\\nKnow All Men by these Presents, that I, John Hugg,\\nof Gloucester county, New Jersey, for and in consideration of\\nthe sum of thirty-five pounds to me paid by John Hinchman, of\\nthe same place, before the ensealing and delivery of these pre-\\nsents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have bar-\\ngained, sold, and by these presents do bargain and sell unto the\\nsaid John Hinchman a certain negro boy named Sambo, aged\\nten years next March or May, as is said. To have and to hold\\nthe said negro boy by these presents bargained and sold unto\\nthe said John Hinchman, his heirs, executors, administrators\\nand assigns for ever. And I, the said John Hugg, for myself,\\nmy executors and administrators, the said negro boy bargained\\nand sold unto the said John Hinchman, against me the said\\nJohn Hugg and against all and every other person whatsoever\\nclaiming or pretending to claim any right or property thereunto,\\nshall and will warrant and forever defend.\\nIn witness whereof, I have hereunto set my seal, this the\\nthird day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven\\nhundred and nine, 1709.\\nSealed and delivered _^^_\\nin presence of\\nThomas Sharp, I\\nJoseph Collins. J\\nJOHN HUGG. |l. s. I\\nNoticeable features in many of the last wills of the first settlers\\nin New Jersey are the number of slaves disposed of thereby,\\nand the high value which was attached to them.\\nWith some owners they were badly used, but among Friends\\nthey were generally treated with consideration. The unnatural\\nseparation of husband and wife, and of parents and children,\\nsoon attra6led the attention of the more considerate in the\\nSociety; and steps were taken to guard against this cruelty,\\nwhich eventually led to an open declaration, opposing the\\ninstitution itself.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "JOHN HINCHMAN. 243\\nThese humane influences ultimately extended to the law-\\nmaking power of the State; an a6l was passed, under which\\nmeans were adopted for the gradual extinguishment of slavery\\nwithin its borders. The operation of this law frequently entailed\\na burden upon families in which slaves had been held but it\\nwas accepted by the people as just to this unfortunate class,\\nand due to their inability to provide for themselves.\\nThe census of i860 showed but few slaves in the State of New\\nJersey these were too old and infirm at that date to carry a\\nvestige of the institution to the present decade.\\nJohn Hinchman dealt somewhat in real estate, and located\\nseveral surveys in Gloucester county. He does not appear to\\nhave meddled in politics, or to have joined in the religious\\nbickerings so prevalent in those days. His wife was Sarah,\\na daughter of Samuel Harrison, whom he married while a\\nresident of Long Island; where also part of his children\\nwere born. He deceased in 1721, leaving a will.^ The inven-\\ntory of his personal property amounted to two hundred and\\nthirty pounds, sterling, which he disposed of with his real estate\\namong his children. They were John, who married Sarah\\nand Elizabeth Smith (widow) Joseph, who married Phoebe\\nJacob, who married Abigail Harrison James, who\\nmarried Kesiah Sarah, who married Thomas Bispham\\nJane, who married Jones; Letitia, who married Thomas\\nThorne Ann, who married John Thorne Abigail, who mar-\\nried John Kaighn and Samuel Harrison and one child born\\nafter the father s decease, named William. John, the oldest\\nson, settled on part of the paternal estate, now mostly owned\\nby Charles L. Willits, Benjamin Cooper, Nathan B. Willits,\\nand others, extending southwardly from an ancient boundary\\nline, west of the old Salem road, to the head of Little Timber\\ncreek, adjoining the Jenning s estate. His dwelling house is\\nnow part of the residence of Charles L. Willits it will be\\nremembered by some as a small, hipped-roof, brick building\\nbut now entirely changed in shape and appearance. In its day,\\nit had some pretension to style and comfort, but, at this time,\\nno such claims would be made. In the political affairs of the\\n2 Lib. No. 2, 198.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "244 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ncolony John Hinchman participated, for, in 1705, he was\\nappointed ensign in one of the military departments of the\\ncounty; in 1722, he was made coroner, and afterwards a6ted\\nas sheriff. In 1747, he married Elizabeth Smith (a second\\nwife), the widow of Isaac, only child of Sarah Norris and\\ngranddaughter of John Kay, who was the first of the name\\nhere.* She survived him, and died the owner of considerable\\nreal estate in Haddonfield, situated en Potter s street. By this\\nmarriage there was no issue. He died intestate in 1754.* His\\nchildren were John, who married and died without\\nissue Hannah, who married Samuel Stokes Ann, who mar-\\nried Bispham; Amy, who married Joshua Stokes; Eliza-\\nbeth, who married Joseph Bispham, and, after his decease,\\nJohn Hatkinson.\\nJoseph Hinchman was a butcher, and lived on part of the\\noriginal estate in Newton township.^ He died in 1731, leaving\\na widow and two sons, James, who married Sarah Bircham, and\\nIsaac, who married Letitia Woolston. James settled in Green-\\nwich township, and Isaac, in Newton. Jacob Hinchman died\\nin 1742, leaving a widow and one child, Mary. James Hinch-\\nman took that part of his father s property now partly owned by\\nthe heirs of Jeremiah Willits, deceased, and, formerly, by James\\nS. Hurby, deceased; he lived where the last named person died.\\nIn 1733, he received a commission from the King appointing\\nhim ens of the judges of Gloucester county, in which capacity\\nhe appears to have acceptably served. He died in 1750,\\nleaving a widow, but no children.* The estate is now divided\\ninto several valuable farms, any one of which is more pro-\\ndu6live than the whole tra6l as then managed. Letitia, who\\nmarried Thomas Thorne, settled with her husband on land\\nwhich he purchased of Thomas Cole and James Wild, in\\nDelaware township, bordering on the south side of Penisaukin\\ncreek part of this property is now owned by Asa R. Lippin-\\ncott. Thomas Thorne also came from Long Island, but several\\nyears after John Hinchman. He was a man of large estate,\\nand, like his father-in-law, was the owner of numerous slaves,\\n3 Gloucester Files, 1758. 6 Lib. L, 384.\\n4 Lib. No. 7, 497. 7 Lib. No. 4, 366.\\n5 Lib. No. 2, 126. 8 Lib. No. 6, 423.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "JOHN HINCHMAN. 245\\npart, perhaps, the dowry of his wife, and part obtained by pur-\\nchase. They had three children, namely: Hannah, who married\\nGeorge Turner Sarah, who married Jacob Burrough, son of\\nSamuel and Thomas, who married Abigail Burrough, daughter\\nof Samuel. Although the property has not entirely passed out\\nof the blood, yet the name has been lost sight of for many\\nyears. Thomas Thorne died in 1757, intestate.^\\nJohn Thorne, the husband of Ann and brother of Thomas,\\npurchased a tra6l of land in 1702 of John Reading, lying in\\nCentre township between the south branch of Newton creek\\nand Little Timber creek, including the farm lately owned by J.\\nStokes Brick, deceased, the estate of John D. Glover, and other\\nproperties.^ By his will, made in 1768, he gave this real estate\\nto his son-in-law, John Glover, in fee. His children were\\nThomas, who deceased before the making of his will Mary,\\nwho married John Glover; and Sarah, who died single in 1769,\\nbut after her father. Ann died a few years after her marriage,\\nand John Thorne married Mary, the widow of John Gill and\\ndaughter of Richard Heritage. He died in 1769, having\\nremoved to Haddonfield several years before that occurrence.\\nHe was a man of considerable estate, and was much respe6ted\\nin the community in which he lived. Thomas, his son, died in\\n1759, leaving a will. His children were Elizabeth and Abigail,\\nthe wife of William Harrison.\\nWilliam Harrison owned and lived upon the farm south of\\nMount Ephraim, lately the property of Jesse W. Starr he was\\nburied in a small family graveyard, near the old brick house\\nnow torn down.\\nJohn s last wife survived him six years, as her will was\\nadmitted to probate on October 4th, 1775. This instrument\\nof writing puts at rest any doubt of her being the widow of\\nJohn Gill, and the maternal ancestor of the family of that\\nname in this region. There was no issue by her last marriage.\\nShe was in possession of more than a sufficiency of this world s\\ngoods, and disposed of them among her children and grand-\\nchildren. Of the many articles devised, she gave her son\\n9 Lib. No. 9, 38. 12 Lib. No. 17, 132.\\n10 Lib. W, 196. 13 Lib. No. p, 41 r.\\n11 Lib. No. 14, 192. 14 Lib. No. 17, 241,", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "246 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nJohn Gill a pair of gold studs and a silver spoon, /r^i-^w/^^\\nto her by Elizabeth Estaugh to which she evidently attached\\nmuch value, considering it an heir-loom worthy of her especial\\nregard. She lived to see several of her granddaughters married,\\nbut the surname of her first husband was limited at her death to\\ntwo persons, her son, and her grandson, John Gill.\\nSamuel Thorne also purchased land near Gloucester about\\nthe same time, and perhaps took up his abode thereon. In\\n1706, William Thorne (as the deed says, late of Long Island,\\nbut now of Gloucester county, N. J., purchased three tradls\\nof land of Mordecai Howell.^* Part of this land was near the\\nhead of the south branch of Cooper s creek, and the north\\nbranch of Timber creek. On one of the tributaries of the last\\nnamed stream, he eredted a saw mill, the site of which may\\nyet be seen; this stream is still known as Thome s mill branch.\\nAt this place he probably settled and reared a large family.\\nFor many years the name was a prominent one in that sedlion,\\nbut latterly it is scarcely known; as attached to any of the\\noriginal estate, it is almost forgotten, and, but for the ancient\\ndeeds, would not in these days be remembered.\\nThomas and John Thorne were the sons of Joseph Thorne\\nof Flushing, Long Island they came to West New Jersey,\\nafter the example of John Hinchman, Jacob Clement, and\\nsome others, seeking a home among the newly settled Quakers\\nin these parts.\\nJohn Glover also came from Long Island, where quite a\\nnumber of that name had settled. He was probably a son of\\nSamuel and Sarah Glover, who were residents of Southold as\\nearly as the year 1675. I year, his personal estate was\\nassessed at one ox, three cows, and one horse but, eight years\\nafter that time, his taxable property amounted to one hundred\\nand four pounds, proving him to be a thrifty man. In 1698, he\\nwas still an inhabitant of the same place, and was surrounded\\nby a numerous family. His son Samuel, in 1 700, was appointed\\nlieutenant in a company of infantry of that town, he having\\ndeparted from the example of George Fox, doubtless, much\\nto the chagrin of his parents.\\n15 Lib. A, 84,\\n16 Lib. Q, 4SI.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "JOHN HINCHMAN. 247\\nWith John Glover came two brothers, William and Richard.\\nWilliam settled in Newton township, the creek dividing his\\nestate from that of John s. He was a man of considerable\\nproperty, for, by his will, he disposed of legacies amounting\\nto more than one thousand pounds, sterling. He was a bachelor,\\nand deceased in the year 1798. Much of the estate in Newton\\ntownship still remains in the name, as well as that of John\\nGlover, in Centre township, coming to the present owners\\nfrom John Thorne, as before named. In 1728, Richard Glover\\nmarried Rachel Clark, and settled in Burlington county, N. J.\\nJohn Glover had a numerous family, namely Thomas, who\\nmarried Mary Stiles (he dying, she married Peter Thompson)\\nJohn T., who married Elizabeth, widow of Joseph Ridgway and\\ndaughter of Olden Sarah, who married Peter Hanna\\nIsaac, who married Phoebe, daughter of John Duel Rachel\\nwho married Isaac Stiles; Samuel, who married Hannah Albert-\\nson Mary, who married Thomas Potter Joseph, who married\\nSarah Mickle; and Jacob, who married Mary Branson.\\nThomas and Sarah Bispham settled in Philadelphia. His\\nbusiness was that of an inn keeper, but, in what part of the\\ncity, it is not known. Thomas died there in 1771, leaving a\\nwill.^^ His wife survived him, and the following children:\\nJoseph Benjamin, who married Hope Fortiner Thomas\\nHinchman and Elizabeth, who married James Hartley. They\\nheld a number of slaves, and owned land in New Jersey. By\\neach marriage the daughter, Abigail, had issue her descendants\\nmay easily trace the maternal blood.\\nJoseph Hinchman was a brother of the first John, and came\\nalso from Flushing, on Long Island, A. D. 1708. Any doubt\\nof the relationship is put at rest by a single passage in the will\\nof John, in which he devised a tra6l of land to his son John\\nin the description of one of the boundaries, he says, to a\\ncorner in the line of my brother Joseph Hinchman s land.\\nHe was a man of some estate, as he purchased knd of John\\nin that part of the original one thousand acres which lay nearest\\nto Haddonfield. His house stood on the west side of the king s\\n17 Lib No. 37, 413.\\n18 Lib. No. IS, 42.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "248 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nroad, a short distance from where it crossed the shore road\\nthat passed over Atmore s dam, going towards Philadelphia.\\nIt was perhaps nothing more than a log cabin, built of the\\ntimber that had stood upon the ground where it was eredled.\\nHe purchased about fifty acres of Joseph Collins, which brought\\nhis property to the stream of the main branch of Newton creek,\\nwhich still continues one of the boundaries thereof. He also\\nadded some other adjoining tra6ls, dying the owner of a large\\nbody of valuable land. His will bears date April 5th, 1737.\\nHe made his wife Sarah sole executrix, with power to sell land,\\nto discharge debts, and to manage the estate generally.^*\\nHis children were Thomas, who married Sarah Clement, a\\ndaughter of James of Long Island, and, after her decease, in\\n1750, Letitia Mickle, widow of Samuel and daughter of Tim-\\nothy Matlack Sarah, who married Edward Collins Hannah,\\nwho married James Gill Mary, who married Zane\\nDeborah and Emily.\\nThe paternity of Thomas Hinchman s first wife is beyond\\nquestion, as James Clement names her in his will, dated May\\n5th, 1724. By this marriage there was no issue.- By the will\\nof his father, Thomas was seized of all the real estate, and lived\\nthereon. He deceased in 1758, his wife dying seven years\\nbefore that time, and perhaps upon the birth of his only child,\\nJoseph, to whom the property, as purchased by his grandfather,\\npassed.\\nJoseph was born February i8th, 1751, in the old log cabin, for\\nhis father died before he had finished the erection of the house\\nnow occupied by William C. Hinchman, a house which, for\\nnearly one hundred years, was the only dwelling on the estate.\\nThe broad acres and primitive forests that surrounded him in\\nhis youth, his manhood and his old age, came to him through a\\nline of ancestry of which he was the only living representative\\nand he adhered to them with a tenacity that proved his deter-\\nmination never to break in upon the ancient land marks. His\\nknowledge of the titles, and his familiarity with the boundaries,\\nshow that his ownership had afforded hini a pleasurable study,\\nig Lib. No. 2, 154.\\n20 Lib. No. 10, New York Wills, 53.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "JOHN HINCHMAN. 249\\none of great advantage to himself, and to those who were to\\nfollow him. He married Sarah Kain, a daughter of William\\nand Charity, and great-granddaughter of Francis Collins, the\\nfirst settler in this part of Newton township. Of systematic and\\nindustrious habits, a close observer, and of good judgment, he\\ncombined the farmer and mechanic in a remarkable degree.\\nHe was one of the few persons of his day and generation, who\\ndeemed it necessary to make a record of events passing under\\nhis notice. His journal, commenced in 181 1 and continued to\\n1827 inclusive, is a curious book, and contains much that is\\nvaluable. The record of marriages, births and deaths, is of\\nlocal interest, and it should be preserved for reference to\\ncoming generations disclosing much that has been already\\nlost sight of, and that, but for such memoranda, could not be\\nrestored. Although portions of this book are taken up with his\\nprivate affairs, yet the larger part refers to matters of increasing\\nvalue in connexion with the families in this region of country\\nit will be consulted in future days upon important and material\\nsubjects.\\nIt is gratifying to know that more regard is manifested\\ntowards old manuscripts, and that an increasing interest now\\nprevails to save such from loss. How much of the history of\\nfamilies and of neighborhoods is now hidden in garrets and\\nnegle6ted, out-of-the-way places, where the hands of such as\\nwould appreciate their value may never reach them. The time\\nspent, and the ingenuity exercised in solving an intricate\\nquestion, may add to its interest but to be unable to establish\\nan acknowledged tradition for want of documentary evidence,\\nthoughtlessly destroyed, refle6ts sadly upon the want of care in\\nthis regard among the people.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "JOHN SHIVERS.\\nJOHN SHIVERS appears to have been the first of the name\\nin this neighborhood. He probably came as a servant\\nwith some of the first emigrants, and was consequently not\\nnamed among the lists of passengers; this class of persons\\nbeing numbered to the individual who entered them as emi-\\ngrants, a system which secured to each one a certain amount\\nof land upon his arrival. Very many young men who had\\nsome estate, and were proficient as mechanics, chose to come\\nout in this way, and, soon after their arrival, acquired more\\nproperty, and had better positions than those whom they were\\npledged to serve. Mechanics, in particular, were in great demand,\\nand, if economical, in a few years became classed among the\\nwealthiest of the inhabitants. The subje6t of this sketth was\\ncalled a butcher, which occupation he, no doubt, followed at\\nhome; but, when he came here and settled in an unbroken\\nforest, with but few families about him, his occupation was\\ngone. Apart from Philadelphia, there was, within his reach,\\nno colle6lion of dwellings that could be called a town, where\\nhe could ply his calling; but, perhaps, with the energy charac-\\nteristic of these pioneers, he traveled twice each week in his\\nboat to the embryo city, and supplied its people with their meat\\nfresh from the knife. The demand was small, and his means of\\nsupply were equally so, for people at that day had no appli-\\nances for raising and fattening cattle, except in giving them the\\nrange of the woods.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "252 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nIn fa6l this was so done, as, for many years after the begin-\\nning of the colony a law was in force requiring all persons to\\nmark their cattle, and report their mark to the clerk of the\\ncounty, so that the same might be recorded. An examination\\nof the old books of minutes of the counties will show this\\nin many instances the mark is illustrated by a fac-simile copy,\\nwithout any other description than the name of the person who\\nreported it. The similarity of these evidences of ownership\\noften led to disputes and litigation, in which much more money\\nand time were wasted than the cause of the trouble was worth\\nyet, as is frequently the case at the present day, those who were\\nfierce in the defence of their real or supposed rights, did not\\nstop to inquire whether such a course of policy would pay.\\nIn 1692, John Shivers purchased a tra6l of land of Mordecai\\nHowell, in Waterford township, which was bounded on the\\nsouth side by Cooper s creek and partly by a stream branching\\ntherefrom, whereon Mordecai had ere6led, or was about to ere6l,\\na mill for, in the next year, John Wright, an adjoining owner,\\nreleased to him the privilege of flooding the meadow for the use\\nof the same. On this tra6l John Shivers erected a dwelling,\\nand remained until his death. He deceased intestate in\\n1 716, his widow Sarah having been appointed administratrix.\\nHe was a man of considerable estate, and owned other lands\\nthan the tra6l here named among which was one-half of two\\nhundred acres that he had bought of Anthony Sturgiss in 1699,\\nlying-in Newton township, fronting on Cooper s creek, and\\nnearly opposite his homestead place. This tra6l he held in\\ncommon with Henry Johnson but at what time it passed out\\nof the family, and who were the subsequent owners, are matters\\nof no interest in this conne6lion.\\nIn 1720, Sarah Shivers, the widow of John, purchased of\\nJohn Wright before named, the adjoining tra6l of land which\\nlay between the homestead and Cooper s creek, and which he\\nhad, in 1693, bought of Mordecai Howell.* This purchase\\nextended the Shivers estate down and along the east side of the\\npond raised by Howell for the use of his mill, the remains of\\nI Lib. G3, 8. 4 Lib. GG, 297.\\n2. Lib G3, 513. 5 Lib. G3, 345.\\n3 Gloucester Files, 1721. 6 Lib. A, 170.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "JOHN SHIVERS. 253\\n.the dam of which can yet be seen. This was one of the first\\nsaw mills ere6led in Gloucester county, and, if in use at this\\ndate, with the primitive forest close around it, as in 1693, it\\nwould prove a useful and valuable institution. The site,\\nhowever, was not a desirable one, being subje6l to the flow of\\nhigh tides from the creek, which would frequently check the\\nspeed of the wheel for this reason it was abandoned many\\nyears since.\\nThe dwelling on the farm now owned by Richard Shivers in\\nDelaware township is, perhaps, the spot whereon John Shivers\\nere6led his first house and portions of the present building\\nmay have been used in the first. His dying intestate leaves\\nsome doubt as to the number of his children, their names, and\\nmarriages, yet they are judged to have been the following\\nSamuel, who married Mary Deacon John, who married Mary\\nClement Mary, who married Thomas Bates Hannah, who\\nmarried John Matlack; and Josiah, who married Ann Bates.\\nIn 1720, Samuel purchased two hundred acres of Francis\\nCollins, adjoining the homestead property on the north, and,\\nthe next year, he conveyed his interest in his father s estate\\nto his brother John, who remained on the old farm, and in\\nwhose descendants parts of the same remain to the present day,\\nand in all probability will so remain for many years to come.*\\nSamuel settled in Newton township on the property which his\\nfather purchased of Anthony Sturgiss in 1699, for, in 1724, he\\na6led as one of the surveyors of highways of that township,\\nas appears by Thomas Sharp s record of the same.\\nDuring the life of the second John, the house in which he\\nlived was by him kept as a tavern, standing, as it did, close by\\nthe north side of the ferry road leading out of Evesham, and\\nother parts of Burlington county, towards Philadelphia. This\\nwas no doubt a favorite stopping place for the market people,\\nwhere the price of poultry, eggs and butter could be discussed,\\nso that such as were on their way to sell, might know how to\\ndeal with their keen and wary customers. There is no\\ntradition, however, that a Jerseyman ever came off second\\n7 Lib. T5, Woodbury.\\n8 Lib. GG, 297.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "254 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nbest in a bargain, or that he left the market without the worth\\nof his commodities. The quiet, unassuming manner of these\\nfolks was sometimes taken for ignorance, and those who consid-\\nered themselves sharp in trade, only discovered their error\\nwhen they found the advantage was on the wrong side. The\\nnatives of this State are known throughout our land as shrewd\\ndealers, a trait that may have come down to us from our\\nQuaker ancestors, sharpened by long pradlice, and deeply\\ninstilled by continued example.\\nAfterwards Samuel removed to Greenwich township, Glou-\\ncester county, where he became a prominent citizen, and a\\nwealthy man. He deceased in 1771. Part of his real estate\\nconsisted of Raccoon island, situated at the mouth of the\\ncreek of the same name, in Gloucester county, which he pur-\\nchased of James Lowns in 1747.^\\nA part of this island he leased on the first day of April, 1769,\\nto William Kay for ninety-nine years, which term carried the\\npossession of the estate beyond several generations of his\\ndescendants, and rendered it questionable in some instances\\nupon whom the remainders a6lually fell. This lease was based\\nupon a rental of eighty pounds per annum, and the payment\\nmade a lien upon the estate. At that date, and for many years\\nafter, the only means of procuring hay and pasture was by\\nimproved meadow lands; which rendered the marshes fronting\\non the tidal streams of West Jersey valuable for such purposes\\nand the records show that these marshes or flats were sought\\nafter, and located at an early date. This lease is, perhaps, the\\nonly one in this region that covered so much time, and involved\\nso much valuable real estate. The devise of this was to three\\nof his daughters, involving the fee as well as the rent one-\\nfourth was given to Sarah Tatem one-fourth was given to\\nMartha Booys, and two-fourths were given to Anna Sydonia\\nShinn, who, perhaps, all enjoyed the income of rent during their\\nlives but the lapse of years was too great for them to say to\\nwhom the possession and fee of the land at the end of the\\nlease would come. Subsequently, the estate passed entirely\\n9 Lib. No. 15, 158.\\n10 Lib. IK, 423.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "JOHN SHIVERS. 255\\nout of the family, and some years since other owners had\\nsecured the title. The abolishing of the ancient limitations\\nas touching real estate in New Jersey, allows many new owners\\nto this kind of property in the course of one hundred years.\\nThrift, prudence and economy, are the only guarantees to the\\nlong keeping of land in any particular line under the present\\nlaws, and a disregard of these often makes room for enterprise\\nand improvement where old fogyism might reign forever.\\nJohn Shivers having but two sons, the name is even at this\\ntime limited to few families; this circumstance often occurs,\\nalthough the blood of the ancestors maybe found in the veins of\\nmany, distributed there by the female descendants, who, upon\\nmarriage, lose their names, and, after two or three removes,\\nalmost lose their genealogical identity.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "JOHN HILLMAN.\\nJOHN HILLMAN was an husbandman, and the first plan-\\ntation upon which he lived and which he owned, he\\npurchased of Francis Collins in 1697.^ It contained one hun-\\ndred and seventy acres of land, and was situated in Gloucester\\ntownship (now Centre), adjoining the estate of John Gill, part\\nof which is now owned by William Chapman. Like most of\\nthe early settlers, he sele6led a light sandy soil whereon to clear\\nhis farm this made that operation of much less trouble, and\\nthe tilling of it much less laborious. In 1697, agriculture had\\nmade but little progress, and had it not been for the timber,\\nthen so plenty, which our ancestors worked and sold, the wants\\nof the people would have been but poorly supplied. The\\nleading crops were corn and rye, which followed each other\\nin continued succession, until the return would hardly pay for\\nthe seed, and then another piece of land Avould be cleared and\\nused in like manner, with the same results. Everything was in\\nthe most primitive condition, not only the manner of farming,\\nbut also the implements wherewith to work. Wooden ploughs,\\nbrush harrows, straw collars and grapevine gearing, may be\\nthought to be an overdrawn pi6lure of the farming implements\\nof the early settlers in this region, and one which strikes the\\nfarmers of the present day with surprise. Yet these, and still\\nmore limited, were the means of the people to eke out a liveli-\\nhood in the wilderness of New Jersey. With no shelter for\\n1 Lib. C, 15.\\n17", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "258 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ntheir cattle, no prote6tion for their crops when gathered, and\\nwith the rudest of cabins for themselves, their condition can\\nscarcely be appreciated at this day by us, with our many\\nimprovements and comforts of every description.\\nJohn Hillman s farm lay on both sides of the present road\\nfrom Haddonfield to Snow Hill and his house stood near the\\npresent residence of William Chapman. Attached thereto was\\na portion of meadow land, from which were obtained pasture\\nfor his cattle during the summer, and hay to keep them alive\\nthrough the winter. The old Egg Harbor road passed near\\nhis house, which was in after years kept as a tavern, although\\nnot noted as a place of resort. At a short distance south of\\nthis place the old road forked; the branch was called the\\nSalem road, and crossed Timber creek at or near Clement s\\nbridge.\\nIn 1720, John Hillman, by deed of gift, conveyed this tra6l\\nof land to his son John, anticipating his will in that particular.\\nThe will bore date in 1707, but was not proved until 1729, soon\\nafter the decease of the testator. The inventory of his personal\\nproperty amounted to one hundred and ninety-two pounds.^\\nHis children appear to have been two sons and two daughters,\\nDaniel, John, Ann and Abigail. Margaret, his widow, also sur-\\nvived him.\\nAfter the death of his father, John Hillman sold the home-\\nstead but, by subsequent conveyances, it became the property\\nof Joseph Hillman (a son of the second John), who lived there\\na short time, and, in 1760, sold the same to Daniel Scull, of\\nEgg Harbor. In a few years after, it became part of the estate\\nof John Gill, who devised a portion of it to his daughter Mary\\nRoberts, during her natural life, and the remainder to her son,\\nJohn Roberts; the latter sold his share many years before his\\ndeath. For more than one hundred years the real estate upon\\nwhich the first John Hillman settled, has been out of the name;\\nit is now partly covered with the town of Snow Hill, and\\nis divided among many owners.\\nIn 1745, John Hillman (the second), who married Abigail,\\na daughter of Joseph Bates, a resident of that sedion, pur-\\n2 Gloucester Files, 1731.\\n3 Lib. No. 3, 432,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "JOHN HILLMAN. 259\\nchased about five hundred acres of land from Thomas Atkinson.\\nThis tra6l lay near the White Horse tavern, and extended from\\nthe south branch of Cooper s creek to the north branch of\\nTimber creek.* To this land he removed, and built the house\\nwhere now resides Hinchman Lippincott, whose farm is part of\\nthe original tra6l. Six years after this purchase, he bought at\\nthe sale of John Mickle, sheriff of Gloucester county, one\\nhundred acres adjoining, as the property of Meam Southwick.*\\nIncluded in the first purchase was a saw mill on Timber creek,\\nwhich was owned by Thomas Webster, Thomas Atkinson, and\\nMeam Southwick, and probably stood upon the site of the grain\\nmill now the property of Ephraim Tomlinson.\\nThese lands were located by Abraham Porter, in 1714, 15\\nand 16, who settled thereon, having his house near the south\\nside of Cooper s creek, on the farm now owned by Josiah\\nJenkins, where he, in all probability, kept bachelor s hall\\nOf this person there does not appear to be any tradition or\\nhistory among the people who now own and occupy his estate,\\nnor can he be traced with any certainty through the record\\nbeyond his day and generation. It is evident that he was not\\na Quaker, as he was appointed captain in the military depart-\\nment of the province in 1722, while William Burnett was\\ngovernor, during the reign of George I of England; he was\\nafterwards promoted to the rank of major. The little military\\nspirit that had been developed among the people at that early\\nday, in a neighborhood where the Quaker element overshadowed\\nevery other, would make it supposable that but few soldiers\\ncould be found thereabout. It is possible, however, that Capt.\\nPorter did command a company of volunteers of the county of\\nGloucester, about one hundred and fifty years ago, and ad:ed\\nas the escort of the Governor of the province in his circuit\\nfrom one part of the State to another, to hold the assizes for\\nthe crown.\\nThese visits of the governor to the lower counties of the\\nState were quite an event for, holding their commissions by\\nappointment for the crown, they are exceedingly pun6liIious\\n4 Lib. K, 85. 7 Lib. AAA, 182.\\n5 Lib. K, 83. 8 Lib. AAA, 187.\\n6 Basse s Book, 195.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "2 6o FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nand exa6ling in showing their authority, and, to that extent,\\nmade themselves obnoxious to our plain and matter-of-fa6l\\nancestors. The condu6l of Captain Porter must have pleased\\nthose who held the reins of government, for he was soon pro-\\nmoted to the rank of major, which position he could not have\\nobtained, unless he had been recommended to the king by those\\nwhose prerogative it was to fill all such appointments.\\nAbraham Porter did not live many years thereafter, as his\\nwill bears date 1729. It is a curious document, and discloses\\nthat he was a single man, or, if married, had no children.* He\\ngave to the churches at Philadelphia, Burlington and Salem,\\neach ten pounds to the minister at Raccoon, five pounds, and\\nto the meetings at Haddonfield and Salem, five pounds, each.\\nThe estate upon which he resided, consisted of some twelve hun-\\ndred acres, and he, no doubt, had a valuable personal property.\\nWhy he should have lived alone so far from the settled neigh-\\nborhood, and in a place that was some distance from the nearest\\nroad, and that one but little traveled, is an inquiry that can not\\nbe answered at this late day. After his death, his executors sold\\nthe land, and nothing appears to indicate that any of the family\\nhave been in that region since. Although a military man and\\nholding his commission from the king, yet he had regard to\\nthe advancement of religion and morality in West New Jersey,\\na trait that commends his memory to the respect of all, and one\\nwell worthy of emulation.\\nJohn Hillman lived on this tra6l of land many years, and,\\nlike many others, worked the timber that stood thereon into\\nlumber and cord wood, hauling the same to Chew s Landing\\non Timber creek, whence it went by water to Philadelphia, to\\nbe sold. As his sons grew to be men, they likewise settled\\nwithin the bounds of his surveys, and made farms for them-\\nselves, each of which was surrounded by the primitive forest.\\nIn this, as in some other families, a few favorite names have\\nbeen adhered to, names which, being attached to two or three\\nliving at the same time, mystify the genealogy when examined\\nthrough a lapse of one hundred years. From this cause a gen-\\neration is sometimes left out or added; this error it is often\\nimpossible to corred;.\\n9 Lib. No. 3, 94.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "JOHN HILLMAN. 261\\nAs before stated, John Hillman had two sons, Daniel and John,\\nand, probably, a son Joseph. Daniel deceased in 1754, leaving\\nhis wife Elizabeth surviving him, and four sons, John, Daniel,\\nJames and Joseph.^ John deceased in 1764, leaving his wife\\nElizabeth surviving him, and five sons, Joab, Josiah, Daniel,\\nJames and John. Joseph died in 1768, his wife Drusilla, his\\nsons, Daniel, Samuel, and a daughter, Letitia, surviving hira.^\\nBy this it will be seen that each son had a son Daniel, and two\\nof the sons had, each, a son John. One of these Daniels mar-\\nried Abigail Nicholson, and one of these Johns married Hannah\\nNicholson, both daughters of Samuel Nicholson, who lived in\\nWaterford township, near the river Delaware. The difficulties\\nof tracing a genealogy like this are at once apparent, and unless\\nthe family records are corre6lly and continuously kept, such dif-\\nficulties cannot be overcome.\\nIn 1745, John and Daniel Hillman purchased of Timothy\\nMatlack a lot of land in Haddonfield, on the northwest side of\\nthe street, where the Methodist church now stands, extend-\\ning to John Gill s line. Part of this became the property of\\nJohn Shivers in 1758, although a portion remained in the\\nfamily for many years after.\\nAs an evidence of the little interest taken in agriculture\\nduring the first hundred and fifty years of the settlement of\\nthis part of New Jersey, it is worthy of notice that the lands\\nof John Hillman, lying on the south side of Cooper s creek,\\nand the lands of the sons of William Matlack, which lay on the\\nnorth side of the same stream, were underlaid with green sand-\\nmarl, the fertilizing properties of which are now so well under-\\nstood. The existence of this peculiar deposit must have been\\nknown to the dwellers in that region of country, for no well\\ncould be dug, or excavation made, in which it would not appear\\nand yet there is no evidence that this material has been used\\nupon the soil until within the last forty years. These estates\\ntaken together and, as originally held, extending from the\\nnorth branch of Timber creek on the south, to the north\\nbranch of Cooper s creek on the north, covered very much\\n10 Lib. No. 8, 367.\\n11 Lib. No. 12, 8.\\n12 Lib. No. 12, 496", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "2 62 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nof the green sand-marl belt in this region of country, a deposit\\nwhich has made it one of the best agricultural distri6ls in the\\nState of New Jersey. Strange as this disregard for a fertilizer\\nso convenient and abundant may seem, it is, nevertheless, true;\\nand it can only be accounted for by the little value of farmers\\nproduce, and the consequent lack of interest in seeking out any\\nmeans to increase their crops or improve the soil. Commerce\\nand manufa6luring had not been sufficiently developed to con-\\nsume the excess that might have been thus produced therefore\\nno inducements existed, either to increase the breadth of cleared\\nland, or to advance the fertility of that already in use.\\nNew York and Philadelphia, in that day, made but little\\ndemand upon the country for their supplies, while the ashes\\narising from the consumption of wood, and the debris that\\ncolle6led in the street, were considered worthless, and given\\nto such as would remove them out of reach. The diminitive\\nbarns and corn-cribs of the farmers of one hundred years ago\\nwould compare strangely with the capacious buildings that now\\nstand upon the same land, filled to their utmost extent with the\\ncrops raised upon the same soil.\\nWithin the memory of the older people of the present day,\\nthe se6lion of country in question was covered with timber,\\ninterspersed with a few half cultivated farms, to which the\\nGloucester hunting-club looked for the best sport in their\\nmanly and exhilarating pastime. The thick underwood grow-\\ning from the rich soil made the best of cover for game\\nand no little skill was necessary to drive Reynard forth, the\\nsecuring of whose brush was the obje6l of the chase. The\\nyoung men of the neighborhood joined with the club in these\\nhunts, and showed as much horsemanship and daring as those\\nbetter equipped and more accustomed. Among these was\\nJonas Cattell, whose knowledge of wood-craft and wonderful\\nendurance made him ever welcome. So much was he liked,\\nthat the historian of the club secured his full length portrait,\\nand made it a part of his book.\\nDelightful scene\\nWhen all around is gay men, horses, dogs\\nAnd in each smiling countenance appear\\nfresh blooming health, and universal joy.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "JOHN HILLMAN. 263\\nDaniel Hillman settled on a tra6l of one hundred acres given\\nto him by his father in his will, which he had purchased of\\nWilliam Sharp, the locator in 1701 and here Daniel erected a\\nhouse and cleared his farm. This was situated in what was\\nthen Gloucester township, as distinguished from Gloucester\\ntown, but is now the township of Centre; it is partly included\\nin the farm of Zophar C. Howell. His dwelling stood near the\\npresent farm house on the Howell estate, and, perhaps, was a\\nsubstantial log cabin, with clay floor and stick chimney. Daniel\\ngradually extended his estate towards the south, while it adjoined\\nthe lands of the Clarks on the west, and those of the Albertsons\\non the east, which are now owned by the heirs of Joseph Davis,\\ndeceased, and others in that region.\\nThe Salem road that branched from the Egg Harbor road\\nnear the residence of his father, as before named, passed through\\nhis land toward Clement s bridge and South Jersey. This road\\nwas undoubtedly an Indian trail, and, consequently, was used by\\nour ancestors in traveling through the province, several years\\nbefore the Legislature established the king s highway; which,\\nalthough more diredl, was obje6tionable by reason of the many\\nferries to be passed on the route, found at every stream, where,\\nat the present day, good and substantial bridges supply their\\nplaces. Perhaps before Daniel, some one of the aborigines had\\ncleared a few acres, upon which the female part of his family\\ncould raise their corn and pumpkins, while the head of the house\\nand his able-bodied sons spent their time in hunting and fishing.\\nAll representations of Indian life prove that the women per-\\nformed the drudgery and labor, while the men led a life of\\nidleness and ease. These small spots of land, free from timber,\\nwere sought after by the first settlers, and were purchased from\\nthe Indians, as they facilitated farming operations, and saved\\nmuch labor and expense.\\nIn 1754, Daniel Hillman died, and, by his will, gave this\\ntra6l of land to his four sons, James, John, Daniel and Joseph,\\nwho held it for several years in common, and, doubtless, built\\ndwellings for themselves on various parts of it. In 1784, Jacob\\n13 Lib. D, 50. Basse s Book, 50.\\nJ4LibM,76. I,ib. U, 65. Lib. T, 338, O. S. G.\\n15 Lib. No. 8, 367.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "2 64 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nJennings became the owner of Joseph HilhTian s portion, and,\\nthe next year, re-surveyed the same.^ This inchided most of\\nthe one hundred acres located by William Sharp, and here stood\\nthe first dwelling of his father. In 1786, a re-survey was made\\nof other parts of the said land after which it was sold, and\\nnone of the present generation of descendants have any estate\\ntherein/ James had died before this, and his property was\\nrepresented by John Gill and his widow, then the wife of Joseph\\nGarwood, as executors thereof.\\nSamuel and Seth Hillman, sons of the third John, settled on\\nland in Deptford towmship, Gloucester county, on Almonessing\\nbranch; which estate came to them from their grandfather,\\nDaniel, who had purchased of John Ashbrook.^^ This family\\nhas now spread itself through nearly all the states of the Union\\nand, dire6lly and collaterally, has a very extensive relationship.\\nOf Daniel Hillman, there is one a6l worthy of notice, which\\nproves that he was a man of foresight and good judgment,\\nanticipating his wants and those of his children, as farmers.\\nIn 1726, in connexion with Joseph Lowe, he located the first\\ntra6t of cedar swamp on Great Egg Harbor river, below where\\nBerlin (Long-a-coming) now stands. It lay south of Blue\\nAnchor, where tradition says that the Indian trail crossed the\\nswamp, the only trail known to have existed for many years.\\nOn the east side stood an Indian wigwam, where travelers\\nwere entertained before the white man came, and where a\\nlodging place was kept for such as were going from one part of\\nthe State to the other. It is well known that, at Shamong in\\nBurlington county, and at Tuckahoe in Cape May county,\\nresided two powerful tribes of this peculiar people, who, being\\nupon friendly terms, kept up a constant interchange of visits.\\nIn going from the one place to the other, they crossed at the\\npoint above named, where may yet be seen the remains of a\\nrude bridge. The pathway through the swamp was narrow,\\ncrossing an island in its course, but generally going in a straight\\nline. Its position is well defined, as the owners of timber now\\nuse it for a wagon road, thus turning to pra6tical purposes the\\n16 Lib. T, 338, O. S. G. 18 Lib. U, 383, O. S. G\\n17 Lib. U, 327, O. S. G, 19 Lib. M, 77 O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "JOHN HILLMAN. 265\\npath in which, in olden times, traveled the kings and queens\\nof the aborigines of our land. In going eastward, the trail\\npassed near where Blue Anchor tavern now stands, and where\\nthe Indian trail going from the ocean to the Delaware river\\nwas interse6led, a circumstance which, in all probability, gave\\nrise to this once public place. Near the swamp may yet be\\nseen the spot upon which stood the house of entertainment in\\nwhich some Indian landlord dispensed cheer to all the passers\\nby, and that without license, restraint or fear of law.\\nThis accounts for Daniel Hillman s sele6ling his traft of\\nswamp at that place, while larger and more valuable timber\\nstood in profusion, above and below the same. For some\\nreason, this trail was abandoned, and another made about two\\nmiles lower down the river, where formerly stood the old\\nInskeep saw-mill. When the mill was first ere6led, has passed\\nbeyond the memory of man; but, in 1762, when John Inskeep\\nmade the survey where stood the building, he put a post as the\\ncommencement-corner by the east side of the river, and where\\na ford crosseth the same. This was the Indian path going\\nbetween the points before spoken of, as changed from the old\\ntrack, and was used by them so long as any remained at both\\nsettlements. Here they generally made a resting place for the\\nnight, always camping in the open air, without regard to the\\nseason, and never remaining after the sun rose in the morning.\\nDavid Beebe, lately deceased, whose father resided at that\\nplace, distinctly remembered that small companies of these\\npeople were wont to stop there for the night, and that the\\nfemales visited the house during the evening.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "THE CLEMENTS.\\nTHE name of Gregory Clement is conne6led with one of\\nthe most important events of English history; with one\\nof those convulsions of a nation that destroy its ancient land\\nmarks and ere6l new stru6lures upon their ruins; with one of\\nthose eras, the prominence and importance of which make new\\nstarting points for the religion, the morals, the habits and the\\npolitics of a people with one of the incidents, the causes of\\nwhich, the means applied and the ends accomplished, have been\\na theme for historians, and a subje6l for moralists, ever since\\nthe causes, the means and the end, have had an existence.\\nHe was born when the seeds were being sown that produced\\noppression, bloodshed and revolution. His early life was spent\\namong the contests for power and the lawful resistance of the\\npeople. His manhood brought him into contaft with those who\\nknew no limit to royal authority, as well as with those who\\ndared to threaten and accomplish their overthrow. His opin-\\nions and his chara6ler made him prominent among the men\\nwho were foremost in placing the government upon a new basis;\\namong those who sat in judgment upon the condu6l of their\\nking, and signed the warrant which brought that king to an\\nignominious death.\\nThe reign of Charles I. as Sovereign of England, from 1625\\nto 1649, is crowded with the deeds of a people advancing step\\nby step in civil and religious liberty. It is a period in which\\nthe vague and ill-defined outlines of the rights of citizens were", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "268 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ncoming into contadl with the kingly prerogative, and when the\\nlatent privileges of the subje6l, so long abridged, began to show\\nsigns of vitality and to bring forth some fruit. In like degree\\nalso, the abuse of power became more palpable, and bolder in\\nthe accomplishment of its purposes, culminating at last in the\\noverthrow of the goveirnment, the execution of the king and\\nthe exile of the royal family.\\nThen followed the Commonwealth, which brought to the\\nsurface the extravagance of religious fanaticism and the folly\\nof political bigots, combined with visionary and speculative\\nsystems of government, each failing in its turn, and reje6led\\nby the people.\\nThe trial of the king brought his judges into notice, who,\\nupon the return of his son to the throne, became the especial\\nobje6ts of punishment. The arrest of Gregory Clement is\\nrelated in this narrative. It took place about the same time\\nas those of his associates. Then followed the trials of the\\nregicides, the history of which has been faithfully given by\\nMr. Cobbett in his State Trials. Portions of these have\\nbeen herein copied, and may not prove uninteresting to the\\nreader. These trials began at Hick s Hall, Old Bailey, in\\nthe county of Middlesex, 06lober 9th, 1660. Twenty-nine\\npersons were indi6led by the grand jury; as each was brought\\nto the bar, he was charged. In the case of Gregory Clement,\\nthe language was as follows\\nClerk. Gregory Clement hold up your hand. How sayest\\nthou? Art thou guilty of the treason whereof thou standest in-\\ndi6led, and for which thou art now arraigned? or not guilty?\\nClement. My Lord, I cannot excuse myself in many par-\\nticulars; but, as to my indidlment as there it is, I plea d not\\nguilty.\\nClerk. How will you be tried?\\nClement. By God and the Country.\\nClerk. God send you a good deliverance.\\nAt this stage of the proceedings much altercation took place\\nbetween some of the prisoners and the court, in regard to the\\nform and substance of the various charges laid, which occa-\\nsioned considerable delay and confusion. On the third day", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "THE CLEMENTS. 269\\nThomas Harrison, Adrian Scroop, John Carew, John Jones,\\nGregory Clement and Thomas Scot were brought into court\\nfor the purpose of being tried together; but, on account of the\\ntrouble in regard to the challenging of jurors, the court deter-\\nmined to try them separately. Near the close of the fourth\\nday s proceedings, Gregory Clement was again brought to the\\nbar, and, being called, retra6led his plea of not guilty. Sir\\nOrlando Bridgman, Lord Chief Baron and president of the\\ncourt, then asked him, as follows\\nLord Chief Baron. If you do confess your offence, your\\npetition will be read.\\nClement. I do, my Lord.\\nLord Chief Baro7i. If you do confess (that you may\\nunderstand it), you must, when you are called (and when the\\njury are to be charged), you must say, if you will have it go\\nby way of confession, that you may waive your former plea and\\nconfess the fact.\\nClerk. Gregory Clement, you have been indicted of high\\ntreason, for compassing and imagining the death of his late\\nMajesty, and you have pleaded not guilty are you content\\nto waive your plea, and confess it?\\nClement. I do confess myself to be guilty, my Lord\\nClerk. Set him aside.\\nMany of the prisoners followed this example, seeing, as they\\ndid, that there was no escape under the ruling of the court\\nand the prejudice of the people. At the close of the several\\ntrials, each person convi6ted received the following sentence\\nThat you be led back to the place from whence you came,\\nand from thence to be drawn upon a hurdle to the place of\\nexecution and there you shall be hanged by the neck, and,\\nbeing alive, shall be cut down and your\\nentrails to be taken out of your body, and (you living) the\\nsame to be burnt before your eyes and your head to be cut\\noff, your body to be divided into four quarters, and head and\\nquarters to be disposed of at the pleasure of the King s\\nMajesty and the Lord have mercy on your soul.\\nBarbarous as this sentence may appear, yet it was literally\\ncarried out and many revolting scenes occurred at Charing", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "2 70 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nCross, where these sentences were executed, 06tober 17. The\\nnext day after being sentenced, Gregory Clement and Thomas\\nScot were taken on the same sled to the scaffold, disem-\\nboweled and quartered in the presence of an immense throng\\nof spe6lators.\\nOf the subje6l of this sketch, it is recorded that he was\\nvery silenl both in the time of his imprisonment at Newgate\\nand at the time of his execution at Charing Cross only it is said\\nthat he expressed his trouble (to some of his friends in prison)\\nfor yielding so far the importunities of his relations as to plead\\nguilty to the indictment; and, though he spoke little at the\\nplace of execution, yet, so far as could be judged by some\\ndiscerning persons that were near him, he departed this life\\nin peace.\\nAnother historian of the times says, these victims were\\nhanged, and, before life was extin6t, were cut down, and their\\nbowels taken out and burned in their presence. It is said of\\nGeneral Harrison, that, while cutting open his body, he rose\\nup and struck the executioner on the ear.\\nWhen Col. Jones, the last victim of that day, was brought\\nto the scaffold, the hangman was so horrified with what was\\npassing around him, that he fell fainting to the ground while\\nhis son, as his assistant, carried out the sentence of the law.\\nRevolting as it was, it refle6led the tone of public sentiment\\nat the time, which can only be offered as an explanation, and\\nnot as an apology, for such administration of justice.\\nLudlow, in his narrative of these dreadful events, says of\\nGregory Clement: He was chosen a member of Parliament\\nabout the year 1646, and discharged that trust with -great dili-\\ngence always joining with those who were most affe6lionate\\nto the commonwealth, though he never was possessed of any\\nplace of profit under them. Being appointed one of the com-\\nmissioners for the trial of the king, he durst not refuse his\\nassistance in that service. He had no good elocution, but his\\napprehension and judgment were not to be despised. He\\ndeclared before his death, that nothing troubled him so much\\nas his pleading guilty at the time of his trial to satisfy the\\nimportunity of his relations by which he had rendered him-\\nself unworthy to die in so glorious a cause.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "THE CLEMENTS. 271\\nStiles, in his Lives of the Regicides, says: He was a\\ncitizen of London a merchant, and a trader with Spain. He\\nreturned to Parliament in 1646. He sat in the trial of Charles\\nI., on January 8, 22, 23 and 29, 1648. He was expelled from\\nParliament for some misdemeanor, and did not return until\\nafter Cromwell s death. He secreted himself in a house near\\nGray s Inn, and was dete6led by better eatables being carried\\nthere than generally went into such humble habitations, and,\\nupon search being made, he was discovered and arrested May\\n26, 1660. There was much difficulty in identifying him,\\nuntil a blind man, who happened to hear him speak, and then\\nsaid That is Gregory Clement I know his voice.\\nThe Rev. Mark Noble, in his Lives of the Regicides, Vol. I,\\npage 145, says of Gregory Clement: It is probable he was a\\ncadet of a knightly family in Kent, and that Major William\\nClement in the London militia was his son.\\nImmediately after the Restoration, those in authority set\\nabout the trial and punishment of the judges of the king s\\nfather, using the greatest vigilence to prevent their escape from\\nEngland. A strange feature is that so few seemed to antici-\\npate the certain consequence of remaining within the realm,\\nand fell an easy prey to their enemies. The shadows of coming\\nevents could not have been mistaken, and the wonder is that all\\nsuch as participated in the trial of the king, did not flee from\\ntheir country and avoid what was sure to follow. Much to\\nthe credit of Charles II, but six of those who sat in the trial\\nwere executed, while the others were placed in the various\\nprisons of the country, and soon passed into obscurity. The\\nestate of Gregory Clement being confiscated, his family was\\nscattered, and one of his sons, James, and his wife Jane,\\nemigrated to Long Island in the year 1670. The family is\\nextensive in England, and can be traced from before the tenth\\ncentury down through the various political and religious\\nchanges that have occurred in the nation since that time.\\nThe wife of William Penn was one of the branches of the\\nfamily the Historical Society of Pennsylvania has colledted\\nand published some interesting correspondence between the\\nwidow of that great man and Simon Clement, her uncle.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "272 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nJames could not have been blessed with much of this world s\\ngoods at his first coming, for, in the valuation of estates in\\nFlushing in 1675, where he then lived, he is rated with four\\nacres of land, three cows, two young cattle, and two pigs.^\\nThe inference is that he was a member of the religious Society\\nof Friends, which inference is strengthened by his subsequent\\nconduct. At the time of the ere(5lion of the Friends meeting\\nhouse at the place last named, (1695), James Clement prepared\\nthe deed for the lot upon which the house was to be built, and\\nrecorded the same; for which service he received eleven shillings\\nand four pence. He also did some work about the building, and\\nreceived in payment a small pittance; all of which appears\\namong the papers of the society still in existence. In 1702, he\\nwas one of the grand jury of Queens county, that was diredled,\\nin the charge of the court, to find bills of indi6lment against\\nSamuel Bownas, an eminent Quaker preacher and one known to\\nall readers of the history of that se6l. This the grand jury refused\\nto do and the refusal led to much bitter controversy between\\nthe judge and that body. Friend Bownas was then in prison, and\\nso remained for nearly a year, as the judge hoped that the next\\njury empaneled would listen to his charge with more respe6l,\\nand obey his commands. He fell into a like mistake the second\\ntime, and ultimately released his prisoner and abandoned the\\nprosecution. This proceeding was chara6leristic of Lord Corn-\\nbury towards this class of citizens throughout both provinces,\\nand frequently led to trouble between that officer and the\\npeople, especially in West New Jersey.\\nDuring the year 1676, and while John Fenwick was a prisoner\\nin the fort at New York, Jacob Clement became one of the\\nwitnesses to several deeds executed by Fenwick to purchasers\\nin Salem county, N. J.^ This person was probably a brother of\\nJames, as it was two years before his son of that name was born.\\nHe may have been a resident of that city and have remained\\nthere, but his descendants are not known in these latitudes.\\nJames Clement was somewhat of a public man in the affairs\\nof the county wherein he lived, and, so far as can be discovered,\\n1 Doc. His. of N. Y., Vol. 2, p 263.\\n2 Thompson s History of Long Island.\\n3 Salem Records, No, i.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "THE CLEMENTS. 273\\ndischarged his duties acceptably. His second wife was Sarah,\\na daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Field. He died in 1724,\\nleaving a will, his wife dying the same year. The names of\\nhis children, and the time of their births were as follows James,\\nborn 1670, who married Sarah Hinchman Sarah, born 1672,\\nwho married William Hall, of Salem county, N. J. (second\\nwife); Thomas, born 1674; John, born 1676; Jacob, born\\n1678, who married Ann Harrison, daughter of Samuel Joseph,\\nborn 1681 Mercy, born 1683, who married Joseph Bates;\\nSamuel, born 1685, and Nathan, born 1687.* The only persons\\nof the family that can be traced to Gloucester county, were\\nJacob, Thomas, John, Sarah and Mercy, who emigrated from\\nLong Island with the families of Samuel Harrison, John Hinch-\\nman and some others, about the year 1700. In a sketch of the\\nhistory of the Presbyterian Church of West Jersey, made by the\\nRev. Allen H. Brown, he states that John Clement was employed\\nin 1 716, by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, to preach at Glou-\\ncester and Pilesgrove this person was, in all probability, the\\nson of James. If so, he had laid aside his Quakerism and had\\nentered a new ifield of religious duties, the antipodes of that\\nwhich he had left. His labors extended over a large territory,\\nwhich is now occupied by his own and other denominations,\\nshowing by their a6livity that the religious sentiment of our\\npeople has kept pace with their material advancement.\\nJacob and Thomas purchased lots at Gloucester and resided\\nthere for several years. Jacob was a shoemaker, and plied his\\ncalling in the old fashioned style, going to the dwellings of\\nmost his employers to do the work for the family. This was\\ncalled cat-whipping, and, like the harvests of our forefathers,\\ngenerally ended in a hard-cider frolic, accompanied with an all\\nnight s dance. These times, like the pleasant traditions that\\nsurrounded them, have passed away, and, by reason of modern\\ninnovations, may never be renewed.\\nWilliam Hall, who married Sarah, came to Salem county in\\n1677. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Pyle.\\nShe died in 1699, leaving three daughters. The children of\\n4 Lib. DD, 449.\\n5 Lib. Q, 182.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "2 74 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nSarah were William, born 1701 Clennent, born 1706, and\\nNathaniel, born 1709. From these sons have come some of the\\nmost respe6lable families in West Jersey, at one time holding\\nextensive trails of real estate. Branches, dire6l and collateral,\\nmay be found in every state in the Union, still retaining the\\nelements of wealth and respe6lability.\\nFrom Jacob, John and Thomas Clement, therefore, must the\\nfamily name be traced in West New Jersey which has also\\nspread far beyond the limits of this part of the State since the\\nfirst coming. In this immediate neighborhood, the children of\\nJacob and Ann Clement represent the family, from whom have\\ncome the direct and collateral branches thereof. They were\\nSamuel, who married Rebecca Collins, daughter of Joseph and\\nCatharine Thomas, who married Mary Tily Jacob, who\\nmarried Elizabeth Tily, daughters of Nathaniel, a cooper, and\\nresident of Gloucester; Ann, who married Joseph Harrison;\\nSarah and Mary.\\nIn the year 1735, Joseph and Catherine Collins executed a\\ndeed to Samuel and Rebecca Clement, for a large tra6l of land\\nat Haddonfield, extending from the main street southwardly to\\na line running from Cooper s creek westerly, a line at this day\\nentirely obliterated.\u00c2\u00ae The consideration for this was one hun-\\ndred pounds, and the annual payment of ten pounds so long as\\nthe survivor of the said Joseph and Catherine should live,\\na circumstance significant of the good feeling existing between\\nthe parents and children. Upon this property Samuel Clement\\nlived for many years, a consistent member of the Society of\\nFriends and a participant in the political affairs of his day and\\ngeneration. Being a pradical surveyor, he was intrusted with\\nthe running and settlement of the several township lines of the\\ncounty of Gloucester, and also of the boundaries between that\\nand Burlington and Salem counties. This was done in 1765;\\nit was the first attempt clearly to define these disputed matters,\\nwhich had caused much quarreling among the inhabitants, and\\nsome litigation between the several incorporations. This duty\\nSamuel Clement discharged faithfully, and the papers conneded\\ntherewith are still in good preservation,\\n6 Lib. EF, 65.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "THE CLEMENTS. 275\\nJacob Clement was a tanner. He settled in Haddonfield in\\n1743, where he purchased land of Timothy Matlack and William\\nMiller. His property was opposite the temperance house\\nin the village, and joined Sarah Norris s lot on the east there\\nhe carried on considerable trade.* In those days, most of the\\nhides were procured from the people living along the sea coast,\\nwho took in exchange the leather already prepared for use thus\\nkeeping up a business intercourse, although separated by many\\nmiles of dreary forest travel. The people of the present gen-\\neration, who move with railroad speed, cannot appreciate the\\npatience of our ancestors in performing these journeys, some-\\ntimes with teams of oxen, heavy, badly built wagons, and upon\\nthe worst of highways.\\nMercy Clement, who married Joseph Bates, settled with her\\nhusband on land which he had purchased of Joseph Thorne,\\nwhich lay on the south side of the south branch of Cooper s\\ncreek, about where the White Horse tavern now stands. None\\nof the estate has been in the name or family for many years,\\nand it would be difficult to trace the maternal blood in that line\\nat the present day.^ The family name of Clement is sometimes\\nconfounded with that of Edward Clemenz, who purchased a\\ntra6l of land lying in the forks of the north and the south branch\\nof Cooper s creek, near Haddonfield. There is no question of\\nthe distin6tion as the first is English, and terminates with\\nwhile the last is German and ends with z. In 1684, Edward\\nClemenz, who was called captain, removed from Long\\nIsland to a tra6l of land which he had purchased in Middlesex\\ncounty, N. J., on the south branch of Raritan river; whence\\nhe came in 1692, and settled on the land first named. He\\nestablished a landing where the two streams came together,\\nwhich, at that time, was the head of navigation and, for many\\nyears after, a place of much business. In his will he gave the\\nlanding and a few acres of land to his daughter Hannah Axford,\\nwhose name was attached thereto and has ever after so remained.\\nEdward Clemenz deceased in 1715, leaving five children,^\\nnamely Edward, who married Elizabeth Allen, a daughter of\\n7 Lib. HH, gi\\n3 Lib. L, 35.\\nLib. A, 84.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "2 76 FIRST EMIGRANT SET TIERS.\\nJudah and Deborah, (which Deborah was a daughter of John\\nAdams, one of the first settlers at Moorestown, Burlington\\ncountyj Hannah, who married Jonathan Axford Sarah, who\\nmarried Thomas Cheeseman Rachel and Mary, who married\\nThomas Bates. Edward removed to Chester township, Bur-\\nlington county, where he died in 1746, leaving his widow and\\nthree sons, Benjamin, Judah, and Ephraim. In 1764, Judah\\npurchased a tra6l of land of John Burrough, Jr., (late part of\\nthe estate of David D. Burrough, deceased,} near Ellisburg,\\nW lereon he settled. This was sold from him by the Sheriff in\\n1785 to Jacob Haines, who conveyed part to Esther Clemenz,\\nthe wife of Judah and, perhaps, the daughter of the grantor,\\nin 1789. Some portions of this branch of the family still reside\\nin this neighborhood. By the marriage of Jonathan and Han-\\nnah Axford there was one child, who deceased before the\\nmother. The landing and surrounding property they sold to\\nJohn Gill in 1763; these have been out of the name for many\\nyears.\\nThe descendants of Thomas and Mary Bates reside in this\\nse6lion of the country, intermarried with many of the old\\nfamilies, but not occupying any of the estate coming from their\\nGerman ancestor, and having scarcely enough of the native\\nblood to make it traceable.\\n10 Lib. No. z, 2.\\n11 Lib. No. 5, 283.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "HENRY STACY.\\nROBERT STACY was one of the persons who came to\\nWest New Jersey in 1678, to represent the interests of\\nthe Yorkshire owners of the land that they had taken of\\nEdward Byllinge, in consideration of moneys which he owed\\nthem, and which he was otherwise unable to pay. Joseph\\nHelmsley and William Emley were his associates, together with\\nThomas Olive, Daniel Wills, John Penford and Benjamin Scott,\\nwho represented the London owners, and who also became\\nseized of these lands from the same person and for the same\\nreasons. Robert Stacy first settled at Burlington in discharge\\nof his duties imposed upon him as commissioner; he here\\nbecame a leading member in the Society of Friends, and took\\npart in the political affairs of the colony. His occupation was\\nthat of a tanner; this business he did not resume until his\\nremoval to Philadelphia, which occurred a few years after his\\narrival; he there remained until his death. Among his chil-\\ndren was a son Henry, who, together with his wife Mary, came\\nto New Jersey soon after his father, and also settled at or near\\nBurlington. Besse, in his Sufferings of Friends, mentions\\nthat Henry Stacy was taken, on two different occasions, from\\nreligious meetings at Cirencester, in Gloucestershire, to prison,\\nand there detained for some time. This was in 1660 and 1662\\nthe subje6l of this sketch was, doubtless, the same person.\\n1 Gordon s History of New Jersey, 39.\\n2 Lib. G3, 128.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "2 78 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nDuring his stay here he was appointed to a membership in the\\ngovernor s council, a position at that day given only to persons\\nof talent and stri6l integrity, and a station which was one of\\nthe most responsible and difficult to fill.*\\nIn addition to the inducements offered by his father s coming\\nhere, he was perhaps tempted to try his fortunes in the new\\ncolony by letters sent to him from those already settled, whose\\nrepresentations of the country and its productions were cer-\\ntainly very flattering. A letter from John Cripps to Henry\\nStacy will show in what light New Jersey was held by those\\nalready here, in early times; and how they wrote to their\\nfriends still in England, whom they sought to induce to follow\\nthem to a countr} that had so many advantages. It is as follows\\nFrom Burlington in Delaware River,\\nThe 26th of the Eighth Month, 1677.\\nDear Friend: Through the mercy of God we are safely\\narrived at New Jersey; my wife and all mine are very well, and\\nwe have our healths rather better here than we had in England\\nindeed the country is so good that I do not see how it can rea-\\nsonably be found fault with. As far as I perceive, all the things\\nwe heard of it in England are very true, and I wish that many\\npeople (that are in straits) in England were here. Here is\\ngood land enough lies void that would serve many thousands of\\nfamilies, and we think if they cannot live here they can hardly\\nlive in any place in the world but we do not desire to persuade\\nany to come but such as are well satisfied in their own mind.\\nA town lot is laid out for us in Burlington, which is a conven-\\nient place for trade. It is about one hundred and fifty miles\\nup the Delaware the country and air seem to be very agreeable\\nto our bodies, and we have very good stomachs to our vi6luals.\\nHere is plenty of provision in the country; plenty of fish and\\nfowl, and good venison very plentiful and much better than ours\\nin England, for it eats not so dry, but is full of gravy like fat\\nyoung beef. You that come after us need not fear the -trouble\\nthat we have had, for now is land here ready divided against\\nyou come. The Indians are very loving to us, except here and\\n3 Learning Spicer s Lavv.^i.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "HENRY STACY. 279\\nthere one, when they have gotten strong liquor in their head,\\nwhich they now greatly love. But for the country, in short I\\nlike it very well, and I do believe that this river of Delaware is\\nas good a river as most in the world. It exceeds the river\\nThames by many degrees.\\nHere is a town laid out for twenty proprieties, and a straight\\nline drawn from the river side up the land which is to be the\\nMain street, and a market place about the middle. The York-\\nshire ten proprietors are to build on one side, and the London\\nten on the other side, and they have ordered one street to be\\nmade along the river side which is not divided with the rest,\\nbut in small lots by itself, and every one that hath any part in\\na propriety is to have his share in it. The town lots for every\\npropriety will be about ten or eleven acres, which is only for a\\nhouse, orchard, and gardens; and the corn and pasture grounds\\nare to be laid off in great quantities.\\nI am thy loving friend,\\nJohn Cripps.\\nMany such letters as the above were written by tlie new\\ncomers to their friends in England and Ireland, some of which\\nwere published as circulars among the people, and aided much\\nin the settlement of the colony. In 1698, Gabriel Thomas\\npublished a History of West New Jersey, where, as he says,\\nhe resided about fifteen years; it is a small book of thirty-\\nfour pages, part of which is taken up with a glossary of Indian\\nnames and translations. This curious old document was lost\\nsight of and remained out of print for many years, until a copy\\nwas secured by Henry A. Brady, of New York city, who had\\nthe same faithfully lithographed and a few copies reprinted,\\nmost of which found their way into the various public libraries\\nof the country. Gabriel excels all in his praises of the land\\nand climate in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and is only equaled\\nby some of the papers put forth by sharp land-speculators of\\nthe present day, by which many verdant folks are sadly cheated.\\nHenry Stacy did not remain here many years; he returned\\nwith his family to England in 1683, and settled at Stepney,\\n4 Smith s History of New Jersey.\\n5 Learning and Spicer s Laws.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "28o FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nnear London, where he deceased in 1689/ He had four chil-\\ndren, namely: Samuel, who died young; Elizabeth, who mar-\\nried William Burge in 1705, and settled in Philadelphia; Mary,\\nwho married Jonathan Wilson, and resided in London; and\\nSarah, who married Robert Montgomery, and lived in New\\nJersey.*\\nIn 1683, d before his departure for England, Henry Stacy\\n.made a location of four hundred and ninety acres of land in\\nNewton township, near the head of the middle branch of\\nNewton creek, and east of the Graysbury land.* By his will\\nall the real estate was given to his children and, by division of\\nthe same effe6led in 1711, the tra6l of land above named\\nbecame the property of Sarah, the wife of Robert Mont-\\ngomery. About the year 1715, Robert Montgomery built a\\nhouse on this tra6l of land, and removed thither from Mon-\\nmouth county, where he had previously resided.\\nOn April ist, 1715, Robert Montgomery and Sarah, his wife,\\nconveyed forty acres of land to Jonathan Bolton and Hannah,\\nhis wife, being part of the survey before spoken of. The deed\\nis a curious document, the purpose being to secure some means\\nby which the children of the grantors might have an opportunity\\nfor education. Jonathan was a shoemaker, and came from\\nBurlington county together with his wife Hannah, who appears\\nas an important personage in the transa6lion. The lot con-\\nveyed adjoined Thomas Miller s and Joseph Hinchman s land,\\nto be laid out proportionately in one entire square tradl until it\\namount to forty acres, to the said Jonathan and Hannah, his\\nwife, for ninety-nine years, if the said Jonathan and Hannah\\nshall so long live, or either of them durmg their natural lives.\\nThe consideration was the paying of one ear of Indian corn\\nyearly; and that the said Hannah shall, at any time hereafter\\nas soon as the said Bolton shall get a house built fit to live in\\nteach or instru61;, or cause to be taught or instru6led, to read\\nEnglish and to do seamstry work, or any other a6t or parts of\\na6ts that she, the said Hannah, is capable to perform, or inform\\n6 Lib, AAA, 128, 9 Kevel s Book, 37.\\n7 Lib. CH, 80. 10 Lib. A, 33.\\n8 Lib. A, 33. II Lib. A, 90.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "HENRY STACY. 281\\nor direct all the children of the said Montgomery and Sarah his\\nwife, or either of them, or their children, as it may happen, or\\nany child belonging to their family that they shall think fit to\\nsend to learn. Whether the said Hannah possessed any quali-\\nfications to discharge the duties thus imposed, does not appear\\nand whether the said Jonathan was to assist in the intervals of\\nhis making and mending, is also in obscurity yet it may be\\nassumed that this was the first institution of learning established\\nin the eastermost part of Newton township and it shows the\\nliberality of the founder to have been applied in a commendable\\ndirection. The covenants on the part of the said Jonathan and\\nHannah were equally curious. They were not to put any other\\nperson in their place or stead were not to take more than one\\ncrop of winter corn off the premises in each three years nor to\\nsell, steal or waste any timber, except for rails or fire wood. The\\nagreement on the part of Jonathan and Hannah that they would\\nnot steal the timber, would imply that Henry and Sarah ques-\\ntioned their honesty, but were forced to entrust the education\\nof their children to them by reason of the few persons suitable\\nfor such a purpose. The contra6ling parties appear to have\\nunderstood each other in this matter, and considered it best to\\nuse plain terms, not susceptible of double meaning or contro-\\nversy. On what part of the survey was laid out this proportion-\\nately square tradt of land, or, on what part of the same, Jonathan\\nand Hannah ere6led their seminary, no means are at hand to\\ndiscover a regret that all must feel, in view of its being the\\nspot where commenced the intelleclual development of our\\ncountry, at least in this particular seftion. Jonathan and Han-\\nnah s house, fit to live in, was nothing more than a log\\ncabin, of one room. The furniture was in keeping, and the\\naccommodation of the scholars may well be conje6lured. Little\\npatience and plenty of birch were part of the system of instruc-\\ntion in those days, and lessons in reading, writing and\\ncyphering were frequently enforced in this way, and thus\\nmade a lasting impression upon the mind of the pupil. With\\nthe approbation of parents, the pedagogue became the terror\\nof the rising generation in general, and of evil-doers in par-\\nticular.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nWell had the boding tremblers learn d to trace\\nThe day s disasters in his morning face.\\nFull well they laugh d, with counterfeited glee,\\nAt all his jokes for many a joke had he\\nFull well the busy whisper, circling round,\\nConvey d the dismal tidings when he frown d.\\nYet he was kind, or, if severe in aught,\\nThe love he bore to learning was in fault.\\nBut past is all his fame. The very spot\\nWhere many a time he triumphed, is forgot.\\nThis survey .lay east of, and adjoining the Graysbury land,\\nbounded partly by Newton creek and extending to John Had-\\ndon s estate; now owned by Rhoda Hampton, the Websters,\\nand others. The house ere6led by Robert Montgomery stood\\nnear the late residence of John M. Whitall, deceased, at a short\\ndistance east of the old Philadelphia and Egg Harbor road,\\nwhich then crossed Newton creek at Atmore s dam. After\\nresiding here for a few years, the owners of the land broke up\\ntheir establishment, and returned to Monmouth county, leaving\\nno one of the name within the limits of Old Newton. Of the\\nMontgomery family, Thomas H. Montgomery, of Philadelphia,\\nhas published a valuable genealogical history, showing a com-\\nmendable industry, of much credit to the author and interest to\\nthe reader.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "JOHN HUGG.\\nTHERE is no one thing that interferes so much with the\\nconne6ling of events in the early history of the settlement\\nof New Jersey with the adventurers who originated them, as\\nthe loss of the names of the passengers that came over in the\\nfirst ships. This was one of the difficulties that Samuel Smith\\nsought to overcome in the first history of the State; but the\\nfewness of the names which he secured, and the meagreness of\\nthe sketches given in his book, show that he has failed in this\\nparticular. In isolated cases a family of emigrants may be\\ntraced beyond the sea; but this is the case only when litigated\\nestates find a record among the archives of the Commonwealth,\\ninvolving the particular family before such emigration took\\nplace. It is remarkable that corre6l and complete records were\\nnot kept by the proprietors, in whose interest most of the early\\nsettlers came, and from whom the title to their land had to be\\nderived. If such were now in existence, much valuable and\\ninteresting information could be obtained. The number and\\nthe names of the vessels that arrived here have but a vague and\\nuncertain account rendered of them, while the families and\\nindividuals which they brought, in very many instances, have\\nbeen lost sight of altogether. The first record of Salem colony,\\nin 1675, gives the names of most of the persons that came over\\nwith John Fenwick but there doubtless were many names of\\nheads of families, and of those who afterwards became such,\\nthat were left out of these lists and the connedlion of such\\nwith their settlement at home has thus been entirely destroyed.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "284 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nThe court minutes of Burlington, commenced in 1680 a curious\\nvolume in its way, also give the names of most of the free-\\nholders that arrived but they are silent concerning such as\\nneither held land, nor fell into litigation with their neighbors,\\nconstituting a large number, perhaps, a majority of those that\\nmade up the community.\\nThrough this kind of negleft, it is impossible to trace the\\nhistory of persons whose participation in the affairs of the\\ncolony rendered them prominent during their day and genera-\\ntion of whose antecedents as well as those of their ancestors,\\nit would be desirable to know something. The subje6l of this\\nsketch is in this category.\\nJohn Hugg was probably an Irishman, coming from the parish\\nof Castle Ellis, in the county of Wexford, Ireland.^ Although\\nnot a partner in the Newton settlement, he had some dealings\\nwith those adventurers, and was acquainted with them in the\\nmother country. He was a Friend, since, in 1669, he was\\nimprisoned for not paying a tax to repair the church at Rosan-\\nellis, Queens county, Ireland. He was a man of considerable\\nestate, but was not a partner in the enterprise that brought his\\nwife s family to New Jersey, neither does his name appear in\\nany of the proceedings in relation to the title of their land.\\nHis first residence stood upon the Browning estate, where Little\\nTimber creek falls into Great Timber creek, but a short distance\\nfrom the river Delaware, commanding a view of both streams,\\nas well as of much of the river before his house. For the pur-\\nposes of a landing, and for the accommodation of the immediate\\nneighborhood, none better could be procured this made it a\\npublic place for many years after the death of the first owner,\\nas a wharf for wood and lumber to be taken away, and for hay\\nbrought thither from the river islands, to be consumed among\\nthe farmers in that region.\\nHis first location included five hundred acres, which he pur-\\nchased of Robert Zane in 1683; the property was bounded by\\nboth streams, extending more than a mile up the same, and by a\\nline running nearly south from one to the other. At this writing,\\n1 Lib. EF, 246.\\n2 Friends Writings.\\n3 Revel s Book, 55.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "JOHN HUGG. 285\\nit is probable that very little of the old head-line is in existence,\\nas the exchange and division of real estate adjoining the same,\\nsince its first running, have destroyed its identity.* For some\\nreason, the owner devised part of said traft of land to his great-\\ngrand-son William Hugg, who did not come into possession of\\nthe same for nearly a half century, showing the desire on the\\npart of the donor to keep his estate in the name and family.^\\nDuring that lapse of time, a bridge was built over the Great\\nTimber Creek, and a highway established between Salem and\\nBurlington, Avhich has also been changed and improved since\\nthe first laying out. What was then an unbroken forest, has in\\nthese latter years been brought into cultivation, and is now\\namong the most valuable of our real estate.\\nThe place where John Hugg s house stood has much of his-\\ntoric interest about it from the fa6l of its being claimed as the\\nspot where stood Fort Nassau, which was built by the Dutch in\\n1623, and was the first attempt at settlement by the Europeans\\non the shores of the river Delaware. This, for many years, has\\nbeen a mooted question among historians without any approach\\nto a conclusion, and it may always so be. Of the existence\\nof such fort, called by that name, built by the Hollanders and\\nnear that place, there can be no doubt yet the exa6l spot\\nwhere it stood will always remain an open question, and a\\nfruitful subject of controversy among antiquarians. On Van-\\nderdonck s map of 1656, it is placed below the mouth of\\nGreat Timber creek. The map found in Campanius s history\\nhas the fort in the same place, and Gabriel Thomas marks it\\nupon his map as a Dutch fort above the mouth of Cooper s\\ncreek. Upon a map of the Dutch and Swedish settlements\\nalong the Delaware, attached to Ferris s history, this point of\\ndispute is placed where the city of Gloucester now stands, and\\nis stated to have been ere6led twenty years before the fort at\\nElsinburg was built, or a settlement attempted to be made at\\nthat place. Other maps made in the interest of the various\\nclaimants, extending in date from 1656 to 1702, put the fort in\\ndifferent places, but always within a few miles of the mouth of\\n4 Dividend Book, 21, O. S. G.\\n5 Bull s Book, io6, O, S. G.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "286 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nTimber creek but as none of these were published until after\\nit was destroyed by the natives, such authorities may themselves\\nbe questionable upon this subjedl.\\nThe Historical Society of Pennsylvania, being much inter-\\nested in the settlement of this question, in 1852 appointed a\\ncommittee to institute inquiries touching the location of Fort\\nNassau, in which Edward Armstrong, of Philadelphia, took an\\na6live part, and visited several places near Gloucester for that\\npurpose.\u00c2\u00ae From what was colle6led, this gentleman prepared\\nand read a paper before that Society, and also before the New\\nJersey Association this paper was exhaustive and interesting,\\nyet he leaves the difficulty about where he found it, to be pursued\\nby some ambitious person determined to accomplish that in\\nwhich all his predecessors have failed. The attention of Mr.\\nArmstrong was called to the particular spot above named by\\nJohn Redfield, a gentleman who has for many years resided in\\nthe neighborhood, and taken much interest in the discovery of\\nthe site of the old fort.\\nA daughter of this gentleman having upon one occasion\\nbrought home a rare flower from the river shore, one which,\\nhe suspe6led, was not indigenous, he visited the spot where it\\nwas plucked, and found pieces of Dutch brick and ware near\\nby, and portions of a wall surmounted by a few logs, indicating\\nthe remains of a redoubt or building ere6led for defence. This\\nevidence is certainly very strong, and, in the absence of better,\\nwill go far towards settling this much vexed question. The\\ninterval of two hundred and forty-six years leaves a wide gap in\\nthe history of events and a careful preservation of interme-\\ndiate occurrences must happen, or else the corroding hand of\\ntime will destroy every trace.\\nWhether the house of John Hugg stood upon the site of the\\nold fort, partly built of Dutch brick and surrounded by Dutch\\nflowers, cannot be settled at this writing, but it is certain that\\nhe remained there until his death, which occurred in 1706.\\nHis children consisted of four sons John, who married Priscilla\\nCollins Elias, who married Margaret Collins (both daughters\\nof Francis) Joseph, who married Sarah and Charles.\\n6 Proceedings of N. J. His. Society, Vol, 6, loo, 102, 157, 185.\\n7 Lib. No. I, 166.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "JOHN HUGG. 287\\nHe was probably a middle-aged man when he came to New\\nJersey, and his children of marriageable age, for they soon set-\\ntled around him and became prominent citizens. Excepting as\\na member of the colonial Legislature in 1685, he does not appear\\nto have participated in political affairs, and but little is known\\nof him beyond his buying and selling of real estate in the\\nse6lion where he lived.* Among that which he disposed of, was\\na lot in Gloucester, sold to Henry Jennings, of Salem, in 1703.\\nThis is probably the individual about whom so much inquiry\\nhas been made, as being the conne6ling link between a large\\nnumber of descendants scattered through this region, and a\\nfabulous amount of money held in abeyance in the strong\\ngovernment chest in old England, seeking for an owner through\\nhis blood. He was a son of William and Mary Jennings, of\\nthe parish of Clemond-deane, in the county of Surrey, Eng-\\nland. He was born 7th month, 21st, 1642, and married Margaret\\nBusse, of the parish of St. Bartholomew, London, ist month,\\ni8th, 1666, a daughter of Paul Busse of York city. Their last\\nabode before emigrating was at Kingston-near-on-the-Thames.\\nThey came to Salem in the ship Kent, and arrived 6th month,\\n23d, 1677. By occupation, he was a tailor. He became the\\nowner of considerable estate in Salem and the neighborhood,\\nwhere he remained several years after his settlement there.\\nHis name frequently occurs among those of the first settlers\\nbut whether he was the prospective heir to the immense estates\\nwhich his descendants claim for him, may appear in the future.\\nHe removed to Philadelphia, where he deceased in 1705, leaving\\nbut a small family and a limited amount of property.\\nHis widow survived him, and in her will made mention of\\nhis family, and thus did much to conne6l her husband with those\\nof that name in these parts, with which, with but little trouble,\\nthe relation could be made complete. In that vvriting she gave\\na portion of her real estate to Isaac Jennings and Sarah Jennings,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^reputed son and daughter of my husband, Henry Jennings, a\\nsignificent expression, and one that may clear up a long con-\\ntinued difficulty.\\n8 Lib. 03,470. II Salem Records.\\n9 Basse s Book, iii, 12 Files of Salem Wills.\\n10 Salem Records. 13 Gloucester Files, 1718.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "288 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nAs a starting point, however, his settlement here is material,\\nand, if accepted as a basis, might lead to valuable developments\\nin both diredlions. If the half be true that is said of the\\nbarrels of coin and square miles of land awaiting the lawful\\nclaimants, more persistent efforts may be made to secure their\\ndistribution among the patient, yet hopeful owners.\\nJohn Hugg, Jr., was one of the most a6live public men of his\\nday. For six years from 1695, he was one of the judges of the\\nseveral courts of Gloucester county, and, for ten years, was\\nsele6led by the governor as one of his council, an evidence\\nof his worth as a just and upright man. 1703, he was\\nappointed one of the commissioners to purchase land of the\\nIndians, and to adopt a plan with that people to colle6l them\\ntogether in certain localities in West Jersey, a duty which\\nrequired good judgment and much delicacy, so as to avoid\\nthe difficulties that generally attend such undertakings, and\\nfrequently led to the shedding of blood. The strong attach-\\nment of the Indian to the home of his childhood and the graves\\nof his ancestors, has always been a marked feature in him, and\\nthe attempt to break in upon these feelings has seldom ended in\\npeace. In the discharge of these duties, however, the commis-\\nsioners accomplished everything, and, in after years, the last of\\nthis people took their departure for other and better hunting\\ngrounds, without a word of censure or reproach towards those\\nwho, very soon thereafter, occupied their abandoned possessions.\\nThe last public position that he held, was perhaps that of\\nsheriff, to which he was appointed in 1726, and in which he\\nserved for four years. Between 1696 and 1710, he made\\nseveral locations of land between Great and Little Timber\\ncreeks, extending nearly to the head of the latter and across to\\nthe former, including what is now known as the Crispin farm,\\nwhich, taken in conne6lion with the surveys made by his father,\\nbrought all that territory within the one family, from whom\\nthe title can be traced. He also made surveys on Mantua and\\nRaccoon creeks in Gloucester county, and on Alloway s creek\\nin Salem county.\\n14 Lib. AAA, 193.\\n15 Lib, A, 19 to no, 0, S, G,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "JOHN HUGG. 289\\nIn 1703, he conveyed to the church wardens of the Swedish\\nchurch at Raccoon, in Gloucester county, one lot of land\\nwhere the chui-ch was late ere^ed, and also another tra6l on\\nRaccoon creek. The church wardens were Wollo Dalbo,\\nWilliam Cobb, Wollo Peterson and Frederick Hoffman. This\\nchurch is one of the conne6ling links of the present with the\\nearly history of the settlements of West New Jersey, the history\\nof which deserves preservation. His wife, as the daughter of\\nFrancis Collins, had received from her father part of one of his\\nsurveys, which John Hugg and wife, in conne6lion with parts\\nof his own land, conveyed to John Hinchman in 1699.^* This\\ngrant extended to the north side of the south branch of Newton\\ncreek, including about one thousand acres of land the remain-\\nder of his estate reached southwardly to Great Timber creek,\\nshowing his landed property to have been large and, even at\\nthat early day, very valuable. The residence of this man was\\nprobably near the last named stream, on that part now known\\nas the Crispin estate, which he called Plain Hope; where a\\ngreat breadth of meadow land was secured, and the advantage\\nof navigation enjoyed. He was noted for the great number of\\nslaves in his possession, the descendants of whom now constitute\\na large part of the colored population among us.\\nJohn Hugg deceased in 1730, his death being noticed by\\nSmith in his history of New Jersey, in which reference is made\\nto his services as a public man and a trust-worthy public ser-\\nvant.^\u00c2\u00ae He was found on the ground near his house, speechless;\\nhe died the same day, respedled by all who knew him. His\\nsecond wife (Elizabeth Newbie, whom he married in 1714), and\\nthe following named children, survived him Mary, who mar-\\nried Thomas Lippincott Hannah, Sarah, Priscilla, Joseph,\\nGabriel, John, Elias and Jacob. John died under age, and\\nElias without children.\\nThe old homestead fell to the share of Elias Hugg, who lived\\nin the domicile occupied by his father, where he doubtless kept\\na store to supply watermen and lumber dealers with such provi-\\nsions as they found necessary. The occupation and chara6ter\\n16 Lib. EF. 126. 18 Lib. G3, 279.\\n17 Lib. A, 183. 19 Smith s Histoiy of N. J., 424,\\n19", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "290 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nof his customers made whiskey and tobacco large items in his\\nsales, and his premises furnished the scene of many carousals\\namong them when detained by wind or tide.\\nThe land that Francis Collins conveyed to Margaret, the\\nwife of Elias Hugg,^\u00c2\u00b0 they sold before the death of her father\\npart of this was purchased by Simeon Ellis, being bounded\\non the south side by the north branch of Cooper s creek.\\nIt included the town of Ellisburg, and several surrounding farms.\\nOther tra6ls they disposed of to various persons, and, at her\\ndeath, none of her estate remained in their possession.\\nJoseph Hugg settled at Gloucester Point, as known in 1722,\\nand kept the ferry for several years after that time. The estab-\\nlishment and maintenance of the ferry from Gloucester to Wick-\\naco can be traced through the records with much accuracy,\\nshowing that, although the distance was greater than ordinary,\\nyet the demand for transportation was sufficient to make it\\nremunerative. This, like others of its day, consisted of an\\nopen flat-boat, worked with long sweeps and small sails, but\\ncontrolled very much by the movement of the tide. The first\\nlicense for a ferry between the points above named, was granted\\nby the county courts to William Royden, in 1688, one year\\nbefore the town was laid out by Thomas Sharp. Wickaco had\\nalso been put in shape by the surveyor sent out by William\\nPenn; and what had been the residence of a few Swedes and\\nFinns, was now the embryo city of Philadelphia, with straight\\nand redtangular streets, meeting-houses and markets. In 1695,\\nJohn Reading became the owner, and was licensed by the same\\nauthority. In 1707, John Spey (whose term of office as sheriff\\nhad just expired,) became the proprietor, and so continued\\nuntil 1722, when Joseph Hugg succeeded him.^* He maintained\\nit for eight years, and disposed of the same to Richard Wildon,\\nwho was followed by John Ladd in 1735. As roads were\\nstraightened and improved, bridges built and the country more\\nthickly settled, Cooper s ferries had the preference among trav-\\nelers, since the distance across the river was much shortened,\\nwith less risk and much greater speed. These advantages had\\n20 Lib. G3, 71. 23 Lib. AAA, 80.\\n21 Lib. S, No. 6, 338, O. S. G. 24 Lib. AAA, 182.\\n22 Gloucester Records.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "JOHN HUGG. 291\\ntheir efifedl, which the public were prompt in discovering, and\\nthe Gloucester ferry, with varying fortunes, maintained but a\\nsecondary importance, until the introdu6tion of steam and\\nother various improvements on both shores of the river. It\\nneed hardly be said here that Gloucester was the county town\\nfor many years, where the courts were held and the records\\nkept. In the progress of improvement, it gradually lost its\\ncentral position and became less desirable for such purposes;\\nit was ultimately abandoned, and soon forgotten as the political\\nand judicial nucleus of the old bailiwick. In the early days of\\nthe colony, the records were not considered of much value, and\\nwere kept in the dwelling of the clerk, in constant danger of\\nloss by fire or miscarriage. An affidavit of John Reading, made\\nin 1711, in which year he was clerk, has been entered among\\nthe books at Burlington, showing that his house was burned in\\nthat year, and that many deeds and other valuable papers were\\ndestroyed. This accounts for the absence of many title papers\\noften inquired for, but never found, as well as for a break in\\nthe records of Old Gloucester, that has led to much trouble\\namong land owners and claimants.\\nJoseph Hugg deceased in 1757, leaving but two children,\\nSamuel and Joseph.^ The family at this day is limited,\\nand a continued decrease, for the next half century, may leave\\nnone of the name, where, for nearly one hundred years, it was\\nas numerous as any other. The large landed estate once in\\npossession of the second generation has long since passed away\\nfrom the blood, only to be remembered among the blurred deeds\\nand musty records of the past. Although the collateral branches\\nof the family maintained through the female line, are numerous,\\nyet a fatality seems to have attended the other sex and to have\\nwell nigh extirpated it from among us.\\n25 Lib. BBB, 93.\\n26 Lib. No. 9, 66.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL SPICER\\nSAMUEL SPICER was a son of Thomas and Michal Spicer,\\nand was born in New England, prior to 1640. In 1685,\\nhe (Samuel) purchased of Samuel Cole, part of his tra6l of\\nfive hundred acres, situated on the north side of the mouth of\\nCooper s creek, and fronting on the Delaware river, in Water-\\nford, now Stockton township, Camden county.^ The deed of\\nconveyance says that he then lived at Gravesend, on Long\\nIsland whence came himself, his wife Esther, and three chil-\\ndren, the next year, and settled thereon. Esther was a daughter\\nof John and Mary Tilton of Gravesend but they were married\\nat Oyster Bay, Long Island, the 21st of the third month, 1665.^\\nGravesend is one of the towns or townships of King s county,\\nNew York it has an ancient historical record running back to\\n1640, about which time a few English Quakers came from Massa-\\nchusetts and joined a number of others who were dire6l from\\nEngland. It is situated in the southwestern part of the Island,\\nfronting on the sea, where the Narrows open into the Atlantic\\nocean. Like many other towns of that date, it originated in\\nthe persecution of Friends, of whom some had previously\\nsettled in America, where intolerance was as vindictive and\\noverbearing as at home and some had come to seek an asylum\\nfree from such evils, in which religious opinions could be\\ndeveloped and enjoyed. Among those who came from Massa-\\n1 Lib A, 44. Lib. Gi, iii.\\n2 Friends Records, Long Island.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "294 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nchusetts was the lady Deborah Moody, a woman of rank,\\neducation and wealth, who entertained opinions in common\\nwith the followers of George Fox, and who had become an\\nobje6l of disfavor and ill-treatment among the Puritans of the\\nBay State.\\nThe patent for the town was obtained from Governor Kieft,\\nin 1645, and among the patentees was the name of the female\\nhereinbefore named, who appears to have been a person of\\ndecided opinions this ultimately led her into difficulty with\\nthe elders of the church, and caused her to be expelled there-\\nfrom, after which she removed to Long Island. The immediate\\ncause of her excommunication was her assertion that infant\\nbaptism was no ordinance of God, which, together with her\\nadherence to the doctrines of George Fox, made her obnox-\\nious to the rulers of the province of Massachusetts.\\nThomas Spicer was one of this little colony, and was the head\\nof a family, for, in 1656, among the freeholders of the town,\\nmay be found the names of Samuel Spicer, Jacob Spicer and\\nThomas Spicer, who were probably his sons, having then grown\\nto manhood and there settled. That Samuel Spicer, the person\\nwho bought the land of Samuel Cole in 1685, was a member of\\nthis family, there can be no doubt and, if the records of\\nFriends made at that date were accessible, the family could be\\ntraced beyond the sea.^\\nTradition says that Samuel Spicer purchased his land one year\\nbefore he came to settle on the same, from which it may be\\ninferred that he had been in this region, examining the various\\nlocalities, or perchance on a religious visit among the few who\\nhad taken up their residence here, and whose religious notions\\nagreed with his own. Henry Wood, who had purchased a part\\nof the same tra6l, was already a resident, around whom a few\\nemigrants had made their homes, generally choosing the land\\nfronting on Cooper s creek in preference to that upon the river;\\nwhich land had been, however, located and somewhat improved\\nbefore his coming. As the land was occupied, and the inhabi-\\ntants increased, facilities for travel became necessary, and various\\nmeans were used to accommodate the public, the first of which\\n3 Lib. A, 44. 4 Lib. Gi, iii. 5 Lib. Bi, 66.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL SPICER. 295\\nappear to have been ferries, across the smaller streams at\\nvarious points, to avoid the necessity of fording at places near\\ntheir source, which would have added much to the distance\\nbetween certain towns and more thickly inhabited se6lions.\\nBurlington county, about the present city of Burlington, had\\nfilled up with people more rapidly than any other part of West\\nJersey and, as land travel had begun between these parts and\\nthe embryo city of Philadelphia, Samuel Spicer soon found that\\nhis plantation lay in the most dire6l route between the two points,\\nand that a ferry over Cooper s creek was needed to maintain\\nthis line of travel. Such ferry he established, which was situ-\\nated near the site of the present bridge, and was always known\\nas Spicer s ferry It consisted simply of a flat-boat, suffi-\\nciently large, whereon to stand a few horses or cattle, moved by\\nropes on each shore, and only used when some one wished to go\\nover, provided the ferrymen were in good humor and the pay\\nlarge enough to compensate for their labor the demands of the\\npublic, or the wishes of travelers, being a secondary considera-\\ntion\\nThis ferry was maintained until 1747, when a new straight\\nroad was laid from Burlington to Cooper s ferries, and a bridge\\nwas ere6led in its stead.\u00c2\u00ae This was a draw bridge, and proves\\nthat considerable trade was carried on along Cooper s creek\\nby means of vessels transporting wood and lumber to Phila-\\ndelphia, which trade had its claims as well as those who traveled\\nby land. The manner in which the funds were to be raised\\nto build this bridge, as provided in the law, is worthy of notice,\\nand shows that the purpose of the Legislature was to make such\\nof the inhabitants pay for its erection as were most to be accom-\\nmodated therewith. In the a6l, the commissioners were dire6led\\nto receive voluntary contributions for six months, and then to\\nassess the remainder of the cost on the inhabitants of all the\\ntownships of the county of Burlington except the townships of\\nNottingham and Egg Harbor, and upon the inhabitants of that\\npart of Waterford township in Gloucester county which extended\\nfrom the river to the Salem road, and upon Cooper s ferries.\\nThis shows how sparse were the settlements in Burlington and\\n6 Lib. Gi, no.\\n7 Laws of 1747.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "296 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nGloucester counties at that day, and what part of the territory\\nwas to be accommodated by a bridge in the place of a ferry.\\nSamuel Spicer took a leading part in the religious and political\\naffairs of the colony, and his name may be found in many\\nmatters of public interest whereby the development of the\\ncountry was to be advanced. In religious matters he was a\\nconsistent and faithful member of his profession. For a long time\\nmeetings of public worship were held at his house these were\\ncontinued after his death by his widow, who was also an adlive\\nmember in the same denomination. In 1687, he was appointed\\none of the judges of the several courts of Gloucester county;\\nhe also filled other offices of minor importance. His will was\\nexecuted in 1692, in which year he probably died.^\\nEsther Spicer, his widow, remained upon the homestead estate,\\nentertaining many Friends, and extending her hospitality to\\nthe large circle of acquaintances that surrounded her. On the\\n24th day of the Seventh month, 1703, she was killed by light-\\nning in her own house, together with Esther Saxby, her servant,\\nand Richard Thackara, son of Thomas, he being about eleven\\nyears of age. This event is still preserved among the traditions\\nof the family. The sudden death of this person, at that season\\nof the year, necessitated an early burial. The funeral occurred\\nthe night after her decease, the family and friends going in boats\\ndown Cooper s creek to the river, and by the river to Newton\\ncreek, and thence to the Newton graveyard, the place of inter-\\nment. Each boat being provided with torches, the scene upon\\nthe water must have been pidluresque indeed. To the colonists\\nit was a sad spe6lacle, when they saw one so much esteemed\\namong them being borne to her last resting place. To the\\nIndians, it was a grand and impressive sight. Arasapha, the\\nking, and others of his people attended the solemn procession\\nin their canoes, thus showing their respe6l for one, the cause of\\nwhose death struck them with awe and reverence. The deep,\\ndark forest that stood close down to the shores of the streams\\nalmost rejedled the light, as it came from the burning brands of\\npine carried in the boats and, as they passed under the thick\\nfoliage, a shadow was scarcely refle6led from the water. The\\n8 Gloucester Files of 1692,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL SPICER. 297\\ncolonists in their plain and unassuming apparel, the aborigines\\nclad in gaudy and significant robes, and the negro slaves (as\\noarsmen) with their almost nude bodies, must have presented,\\nfrom the shore, a rare and striking pi6ture. Here all unde-\\nsigned was the funeral of a Friend, in which ostentation and\\ndisplay are always avoided, made one of the grandest pageants\\nthat the fancy could imagine, a fertile subje6l for the pencil of\\nthe artist, and one well deserving an effort to portray its beauty.\\nShe left a will and disposed of her estate, which together with\\nthat of her deceased husband, as retained by her, passed at that\\ntime to their children. The last will of each of them may be\\nfound on file in the office of secretary of state at Trenton these\\nprove them to have been persons of education, and of consider-\\nable property.^ Their children were born at Gravesend, where\\nthe names and ages of each may be found entered in the books\\nof the Friends Meeting of that place. They were as follows\\nAbraham, born 1666 Jacob, born 1668, who married Judith\\nMary, born 1671, who married Jeremiah Bates;\\nMartha, bom 1676, who married Joseph Brown and Thomas\\nChalkley Sarah, born 1677, who married Daniel Cooper;\\nAbigail, born 1683, who married Daniel Stanton Thomas,\\nborn who married Abigail Davenport and Samuel, born\\nwho married\\nThe old graveyard, which is on the land settled by Henry\\nWood, where many of the Spicers were buried, is still in exist-\\nence, and some degree of care has been given to it by the\\ndescendants of the family. It is on the farm now owned by\\nLemuel Horner, near the site of the Camden city water works.\\nAs in many similar instances, the rule of Friends was observed,\\nand no memorials were placed at the graves of the first settlers\\nof the soil, a source of unceasing regret with such as care to\\nknow the resting place of their ancestors. It is particularly\\nunfortunate for those in search of old things, as much valuable\\ninformation is often obtained from this source, which, but for\\nthis, would be entirely lost.\\nSamuel Spicer, in his will, gave his son Jacob one hundred\\nand fifty acres attached to the homestead, bounded by the river\\n9 Gloucester Files, 1702.\\n10 Lib. G3, 257. Proceedings of N. J. His. Society, Vol. ix, 02.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "298 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nDelaware and Cooper s creek; and to his other sons, Samuel\\nand Thomas, one hundred and seventy-five acres each. Samuel\\ndied a minor, and his portion of land passed to his brother\\nJacob. Subsequently, in 1728, Jacob and Thomas made an\\nexchange of land by which Jacob s amount of acres was\\nincreased to two hundred and sixty, and Thomas s, whose\\nplantation fronted the creek, had somewhat less within its\\nboundaries. Thomas remained on this property, and died\\nin 1759, leaving a will. His children were as follows Jacob,\\nwho married Mary Lippincott Thomas, who married Rebecca\\nDay and Samuel, who married Abigail Willard and Sarah\\nPotter. From this branch of the family, came those of the\\ncollateral issue, who retain the blood in these parts, although\\nthe name has disappeared for many years.\\nIn the year 1711, Jacob and Thomas made a division of some\\nother portion of their landed estate and, in the same year,\\nJacob sold parts of his share of the paternal property to Samuel\\nBurrough and other persons.\\nJacob removed to Cape May county, where he settled as early\\nas 1 69 1. He was a member of the Legislature from 1709 to\\n1723, and surrogate of that county from the last named year to\\n1 741, and for many years one of the judges of the court. He\\nwas born in 1668, and deceased in 1741. The reading of the\\nminutes of the proceedings of the legislature during the time in\\nwhich he sat as a member, discloses many curious things. One\\nof the troubles was the difficulty of keeping a quorum present\\nto do business and the sergeant-at-arms was always busy in\\nhunting for absentees. In 1716, this officer went to Gloucester,\\nSalem and Cape May counties in search of delinquents. It was,\\nat that day, a toilsome and difficult journey, even under more\\npropitious circumstances. These representatives heard of his\\ncoming, and, suspe6ling the purpose of his visit, started for Bur-\\nlington by another road than that usually traveled. Striking\\ntheir trail, he pursued them with his warrant of arrest nearly to\\nGloucester, where, again to avoid him, they betook themselves to\\nthe water, and crossed the river into Pennsylvania. Here the\\nsergeant-at-arms was completely at fault, and no remedy was\\n11 Lib. No. 9, 306. 13 Lib. A, 205.\\n12 Lib. A, 45. 14 Lib. No. 4, 318.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL SPICER. 299\\nleft to him but to report to the speaker of assembly. Some of\\nthem appeared in a few days and were reprimanded but Jacob\\nSpicer returned home, and writs were issued for a new ele6lion\\nin Cape May county. This did not cure the difficulty, for Jacob\\nwas again eledled, and still negle6led to appear as the represent-\\native from that county. Another warrant was issued, and the\\nofficer on this occasion, found him sick in bed. Not to be\\ncheated, the sergeant required the honorable member to proceed\\nto Burlington with him, and appear at the bar of the house,\\naccording to the requirements of authority in him vested.\\nJacob pleaded indisposition, and was released until he recovered\\nat which time he explained his absence, and was allowed to take\\nhis seat as a member.\\nHis son, Jacob Spicer, deserves a more particular notice. He\\nwas born in 1716, and became a member of the Legislature in\\n1744; which station he occupied for a period of twenty-one\\nyears, first in conne6lion with Henry Young, and afterwards,\\nuntil his death, with Aaron Leaming. He bore a prominent\\npart in the proceedings and business of the house, and was\\nappointed, in conne6lion with Aaron Leaming, to revise the\\nlaws of the State; and Leaming and Spicer s colle6lion,\\nthe result of their labors, is well known at this day as a faithful\\n_exposition of the statutes. He was a man of exemplary habits,\\nof strong and vigorous imagination, and stridlly faithful in his\\nbusiness relations with his fellow men.\\nHe married Judith, daughter of Humphrey Hughes, who died\\nin 1747, and afterwards married Deborah Leaming, widow of\\nChristopher Leaming, in 1752.^^ The marriage agreement\\nentered into with the last named female, shows much sound\\nsense and discriminating judgment. In 1756, he purchased the\\ninterest of the West Jersey Society in the county of Cape May,\\nconstituting what has since been known as the Vacant Right.\\nLi 1762, he made his will of thirty-nine pages, the most volumi-\\nnous and elaborate testamentary document on record in this\\nState. He died in 1765, and was interred in the family\\nburial ground at Cold Spring, a spot now overgrown with\\nlarge forest timber.\\n15 Maurice Beasley s Memo. 17 Lib X, 440 to 461.\\n16 Lib. A, 154. 18 Lib. B2, 549.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "300 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nHe kept a diary for many years, in which he not only recorded\\nremarkable events, but also entered in detail the cost of his\\nhousehold and the profits of his business. Stridlly honest in all\\nhis dealings, plain and decided in all his opinions, prompt and\\nexa6l in all his agreements, he had, as he deserved, the confi-\\ndence and regard of his neighbors through all the years of his\\nbusiness life, and served his constituents faithfully as their repre-\\nsentative until his death. Many extra6ls from his diary have\\nbeen published by the Historical Society of New Jersey, which\\nevince the peculiarities of the man, his views of duty toward\\nhimself, and toward those with whom he had intercourse.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "THOMAS STOKES.\\nTHOMAS HOOTEN of the Parish of St. Ann, Black\\nFriars, and John Stokes of Wentworth street, in the\\nParish of Stepney, both of which places are in London, in the\\ncounty of Middlesex, England, became the owners, as tenants\\nin common, of a certain amount of proprietory rights in West\\nNew Jersey. Thomas was a tallow chandler, and John a baker\\nby these avocations they respe6lively maintained their families,\\nand gained some extra means to make a venture in the enterprise\\nso much talked of among Friends at that time. The deed con-\\nveying this interest was made from William Penn and the other\\ntrustees of Edward Bylynge to Thomas Hooten in the year\\n1676, who immediately conveyed the undivided half-part thereof\\nto John Stokes.^ It is possible that they were creditors of\\nEdward Bylynge, whose failure in business a short time before\\ninvolved so many of his creditors in loss, and led to much\\ntrouble concerning his estate.\\nThomas Hooten and John Stokes were relatives perhaps\\ntheir wives were sisters both were members of the religious\\ndenomination of Friends, and were seeking some new place of\\nabode, where their notions of right might be more freely\\nindulged in, with some hope of promulgating their do6lrines\\nin peace. Thomas Hooten came immediately to New Jersey\\nto look after their interests, leaving his family in London until\\nhe should be heard from, and some conclusion be reached in\\nregard to a permanent removal to the new place. On the 29th\\nday of the 8th month, 1677, he wrote to his wife as follows\\nI Lib. BBB, 191.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "302 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nI am this present at the town of Burlington where our land\\nis it is ordered to be a town for the ten Yorkshire and ten\\nLondon Proprietors. I like the place well our lot is the second\\nnext the water side. It s like to be a healthful place and very\\npleasant to live in. I came hither yesterday, being the 28th of\\n06lober, with some friends that were going to New York. I\\nam to be at Thomas Olive s house until I can provide better\\nfor myself. I intend to build a house and get some corn into\\nthe ground. And I know not how to write concerning thy\\ncoming or not hither the place I like very well, and believe\\nthat we may live here very well. But if it be not made free, I\\nmean as to the customs and government, then it will not be so\\nwell, and may hinder many that have desires to come. But if\\nthese two things be cleared, thou may take thy opportunity of\\ncoming this simimer.\\nThomas Hooten.\\nThe reference here made about the customs relates to those\\nexa6led at New Castle by diredlion of Governor Andros, they\\nbeing a percentage upon all the goods brought by emigrants,\\nan impost which was so much complained of that it was in a\\nsh ort time abandoned. Thomas Hooten s wife soon closed up\\nthe affairs of her husband in London, and followed him to\\nAmerica. Thomas Hooten, the son, married Elizabeth Stanley\\nof Philadelphia, in 1686, at which place he then resided, and\\ncontinued to reside for many years after.\\nJohn Stokes, however, remained in London, supplying the\\npeople with bread, and husbanding his means to develop his\\ninterests here through his brother Thomas. Of this there is\\nundoubted evidence, for, as late as in 1719, in a conveyance of\\nland in this State, he is called John Stokes of Wentworth\\nstreet, London, biscuit baker, etc.*\\nThomas married Mary Bernard of Stepney, in 1668, where\\nhe remained until the proje6l of removing to America induced\\nhim to abandon his home and calling. He and his family\\ncame among the first, as they arrived at New Castle about\\n2 Smith s History of New Jersey, 105.\\n3 Friends Records, Philadelphia.\\n4 Lib. BBB, 191.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "THOMAS STOKES. 303\\nthe middle of the 6th month, 1677, in the ship Kent,\\nthe same that brought the commissioners appointed by Wil-\\nliam Penn and others and went immediately to Burlington.\\nHe perhaps remained here until the next year, with the others,\\nfor mutual defence, and to view the country before he made\\nsele6lion of a place for settlement. This was, however, done\\nin due time, and was chosen from among many on North-\\nampton river, or, as it is now generally known, Rancocas creek.\\nIt is probable that three of his children were born in London,\\nand three in New Jersey. They were as follows Sarah, who\\nmarried Benjamin Moore Mary, who married John Hudson\\nJohn, who married Elizabeth Green Thomas, who married\\nDeliverance Horner and Rachel Wright Joseph, who married\\nJudith Lippincott and Ann Haines (widow) and one other\\nson, who removed to North Carolina, but whose name and\\nfamily have been lost sight of. Mary, the mother of these\\nchildren, died in 1699, and Thomas, the father, in 1718, aged\\n78 years. The obligations of the family are due to Charles\\nStokes of Rancocas, a descendant, for colle6ling and arranging\\nmuch of the history of the same who also has taken pains to\\nsave from loss many incidents that relate to the early history of\\nWest New Jersey. How much might yet be preserved, if more\\nof our citizens would emulate his example. In this region,\\nnothing is known of John Stokes, save what may be gathered\\nfrom the records in the office of the secretary of state at\\nTrenton. In 1716, an inventory of his estate was made, upon\\nwhich is the following endorsement Came to his end by\\nan unnatural death, in ye lower end of Gloucester county.\\nToo many years have intervened to bring the story of his\\ndeath to the present generation, however interesting it might\\nnow be to his descendants.\\nIn the year 1709, the second Thomas herein referred to,\\npurchased of John Kay of Springwell, three hundred acres of\\nland in Waterford township, (now Delaware,) Camden county,\\nthe larger part of which tra6l is now owned Mark Ballinger,\\nand by the heirs of Jacob Anderson, Nathan M. Lippincott,\\nand Daniel Hillman, deceased. This land is bounded on the\\n5 Lib. No. 2, 138.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "304 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nsouth side by the north branch of Cooper s creek; it extends\\nalong both sides of a tributary of the same, and includes what\\nis now some of the best soil in the neighborhood.* He settled\\non this tradl, his house standing near the present residence of\\nMark Ballinger. By his first wife, Delieverance Horner, were\\nthe following children Thomas, who married Abigail Mat-\\nlack Deliverance, who married Darling Conrow Lydia,\\nwho married Samuel Haines; and Rachel, who married John\\nCowperthwaite. By the second wife, Rachel Wright, who\\nwas of Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y., to whom he was\\nmarried 7th month, ist, 1715, were Joshua, who married Amy\\nHinchman Hannah, who married Thomas Cole Jacob, who\\nmarried Priscilla Ellis; John, who married Ann Champion,\\n(widow) in 1751 Rosanna, who married Samuel Collins and\\nJoseph Browning; and Kesiah. Thomas deceased in 1736,\\nand Rachel in 1747.^\\nThis settlement, as made by Thomas Stokes in 1709, was in\\nthe midst of an Indian neighborhood, which extended from the\\nnorth branch southerly to a tributary of the south branch of\\nCooper s creek, that formed what is generally known as Peter-\\nson s mill-pond. On a map left by Thomas Sharp, showing a\\nlarge survey made to John Willis in 1686, he wrote beside the\\nwater course last named, the stream the Indian King liveth\\non. This was a survey of some thirteen hundred acres, and\\nlay on both sides of the branch, the original boundaries of\\nwhich have long since been obliterated.\\nJudging from the first settlement by the emigrants, the\\nresidence of the king referred to by Friend Sharp may be\\nbelieved to have been on the farm owned by Joseph H. Ellis.\\nAround his palace were colle6ted a few other wigwams, in\\nAvhich lived the retainers of the royal household. This\\ncommunity of aborigines was within the bounds before men-\\ntioned, consisting of some families with a few acres of cleared\\nland near the streams but all were subordinate to the authority\\nnamed by Friend Sharp. This authority was absolute, dispens-\\ning law and equity to the people, regardless of the precedent\\nand without appeal. The wigwam of the king doubtless had\\n6 Lib. BBB, 75. 8 Lib. No. 4, 98.\\n7 Friends Records, Long Island. 9 Sharp s Book, 11, O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "THOMAS STOKES. 305\\nmore pretension than others that surrounded it, and was distin-\\nguishable by its size and the more outlandish hieroglyphics seen\\nupon the skins that made its covering.\\nIt is unfortunate that our Quaker surveyor, in the multiplicity\\nof his records, did not leave some account of this people who\\nhave so entirely passed away from the land some history of\\ntheir principal settlements, their form of government, their\\nreligion, habits, language and traditions. His intercourse with\\nthem in the purchase of land, and his frequent entertainment\\nby them in their own manner of hospitality, while traveling\\nthrough the country as deputy surveyor, gave him abundant\\nopportunity to study all these peculiarities and in his own\\nquaint manner he might have saved to future generations that\\nwhich has been entirely lost. There is evidence that this\\nsettlement extended northwesterly, and along Tindall s run,\\nnearly to the main south branch, as the remains of one of their\\nburial places may be seen near Tindall s run, east of the\\nHaddonfield and Berlin road. Within the memory of some\\nnow living, a few of these people eked out a miserable\\nexistence on part of the land formerly owned by Thomas\\nStokes, near the residence of Aquilla Hillman and brothers\\ndrunken, lazy, worthless beings, they were a hinderance to\\na progressive community, and the last of an unfortunate race.\\nJoshua Stokes occupied the homestead after the death of his\\nfather, and there he remained during his life his brothers and\\nsisters settling in other parts of Burlington and Gloucester\\ncounties, whose various descendants have multiplied so rapidly\\nthat no attempt to trace them would prove successful. Of the\\nlanded estate, as purchased by the second Thomas in 1709, only\\na small portion is held by his descendants in the dire6l line.\\nOne hundred and sixty years have wrought many changes in the\\nownership of this property, the beginning and end of several\\ngenerations, and the gradual extin Slion of the many land marks\\nby which it was identified. But a single branch of the family is\\nleft, that feels any attachment to, or has any knowledge of\\nthe localities familiar to the first settlers that is able to tell\\nwhere the natives had their wigwams, and where they buried\\ntheir dead; where the medicine-man dispensed his nostrums,", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "3o6 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nand where the fortune-teller mumbled over her divinations, to\\nthe terror of children, the amusement of youth, and the won-\\nderment of all. The descendants of those who were born upon\\nthe soil, have passed away their places have been left to other\\noccupants who, after a like lapse of time, will also be forgotten.\\nA part of this family owned a tra6l of land in Newton township,\\nlying on the north side of the middle branch of Newton creek,\\nand resided there many years. These were the descendants of\\nJacob Stokes, who married Priscilla Ellis, a daughter of Joseph,\\nand granddaughter of Simeon and Sarah Ellis of Springwell,\\nthe first of the name hereabout. The original estate was con-\\nveyed by Isaac Hollingsham to Sarah Ellis, aforesaid, then a\\nwidow, in 171 7, which afterward became the property of her\\nson Joseph, who deceased in 1757, leaving four daughters, one\\nthe wife of Jacob Stokes.^ He died intestate; and, there being\\nno male issue, the land descended to his children in equal parts,\\nof which Jacob Stokes became the owner about the year 1760,\\nby purchase, and there he deceased. The other daughters of\\nJoseph Ellis were Abigail, who married Caleb Hughes Sarah,\\nwho married John Bubzy and Isaac Mickle and Kesiah, who\\nmarried Benjamin Vanlear, M. D.\\nPortions of the estate remained in the name until 1828, when\\nGeorge Lee, now deceased, became the owner of the homestead;\\nand by his name it is more familiarly known among the people.\\nOf the diredl and collateral line of this family much the larger\\npart remained in Burlington county, where they still represent\\na fair portion of the wealthy and influential inhabitants. The\\nname, however, may be found in many of the states of the\\nUnion, and may be traced to John Stokes, biscuit baker, of\\nWentworth street, in the parish of Stepney, Middlesex, which,\\nat this day, is within the limits of the city of London.\\n10 Lib. A, 56.\\n11 Lib. C, 241, Woodbury.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "GRIFFITH MORGAN.\\nAFTER Samuel Cole had fixed his abode at New Orchard,\\nacross the creek from the little village of Penisaukin, and\\nwas laboring diligently to increase the extent of his cultivated\\nacres, so that his farm might yield a comfortable support to his\\nfamily, he was summoned to his old home in Hertfordshire,\\nEngland, to arrange some unsettled business at that place. But\\nfor the care and attention extended to his wife and children by\\nthe few families then living at the town before named, their\\ncondition would have been lonely enough in their wild forest\\nhome; yet his absence was relieved by this friendly intercourse\\nand prote6lion, as well as by the confidence that had grown up\\nbetween the emigrants and natives, from whom they had nothing\\nto fear. The deference and respe(5l observed toward the wives\\nand daughters of the emigrants by these untutored children of\\nthe forest must always be a redeeming trait in their chara6ler,\\nand commend their memories to us for all time to come.\\nThough the emigrants were at their mercy for many years, yet\\nno accusation of tyranny or brutality is recorded against them\\nalthough the settlers were without the means of prote6lion or\\ndefence, yet no advantage was taken by the natives of their\\nsuperiority to satisfy a feeling of envy or revenge.\\nThe imperfedl knowledge of navigation, and the primitive\\nconstruction of vessels at that day, rendered a voyage across\\nthe ocean dangerous and tedious, and the time occupied\\nwas usually more than double that now taken by sailing-vessels.\\nThe time of return of Samuel Cole was doubtless fixed upon", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "3o8 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nbetween himself and wife, always excepting the dangers and\\ndelays of the sea, and, as the period of his coming approached,\\nthe anxiety of his family to see him again very naturally\\nincreased. On the return voyage of the ship in which he\\ncame, the island of Barbadoes was taken as a point of stop-\\nping this lengthened the trip, and in a degree added to\\nthe uncertainty of arrival. At that place, however, Samuel\\nCole was attacked by one of the diseases incident to those\\nlatitudes, and, before the departure of the ship, had died, and\\nwas buried. The extended distance of the voyage, and con-\\nsequent delay therefrom not being known to the wife, she made\\nfrequent visits to Philadelphia to meet her husband and welcome\\nhim to his family again. Tradition says that she would stand\\nfor hours by the water s edge, looking anxiously down the river\\nfor the sail that would bring the father of her children. These\\nvisits and watchings at last attra6led the attention of a young\\nmariner who frequented the port, and who was not long\\nin discovering the cause of her anxiety. Sympathizing with\\nher, he extended his inquiries in her behalf, and at last\\ndiscovered that her husband had died on his return, as before\\nnamed. Her grief for this sad bereavement enlisted his feelings,\\nand, finding that she was about to return home alone in her\\nboat, he offered to accompany her and manage the same. This\\noffer she accepted, and he sailed the craft up the river to Peni-\\nsauken creek, and thence nearly to her residence, thus bearing\\nthe sad news to her children and neighbors.\\nThis man was Griffith Morgan, who, after a proper interval of\\ntime, sailed his own skiff up the creek aforesaid to offer his\\nconsolations to the widow, and to interest himself about her\\nchildren and estate. This solicitude soon assumed another\\nshape, and culminated in the marriage of Griffith Morgan\\nand Elizabeth Cole. Many interesting incidents are still\\nremembered in the family touching this courtship and mar-\\nriage, and will pass from generation to generation by reason\\nof the commendable desire to preserve everything relating\\nthereto. The log house was but lately standing on the farm\\nowned by the heirs of Joseph H. Coles, now deceased, just\\nas left by Samuel Cole on his departure to his native place", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "GRIFFITH MORGAN. 309\\nin England its limited dimensions and primitive appearance\\nleave no doubt as to its many years of existence.\\nGriffith Morgan was probably a native of Wales, whence he\\nemigrated to America on account of the religious persecution of\\nFriends in that part of the kingdom of Great Britain. In 1684,\\nhe was imprisoned in Haverford West for not attending church,\\nwith many others who refused to pay tithes for the support of\\nthe redlor of the parish wherein they lived, or to attend at the\\nplace where he dispensed the gospel to the people. Some years\\npreviously to this time, he was arrested in the public road and\\nbeaten by the officers, for a similar disregard of the laws and\\ncustoms of the land in which he lived but to these exa6lions\\nhe could not yield, nor could he a6l in opposition to his religious\\nbelief in such matters.^ Although he appears to have been in\\nthis country in 1677, yet he may have visited his old home,\\nand have subjedled himself to the outrages above named, as\\nwas the case with many of the emigrants. Without assuming\\nthat any proof of identity be made out, yet the probabilities\\nare that these fadls relate to one and the same person.\\nThe marriage referred to took place in 1693, in Philadel-\\nphia, the issue of which was one son, Alexander. Previously\\nto this, however, Griffith Morgan had purchased several trails\\nof land in Gloucester county, New Jersey. This is evidence\\nthat he was a man of considerable estate. The probability is\\nthat he continued his sea-faring life, as he does not appear\\nto have participated in the religious or the political affairs of\\nthe colony at that time. Upon his marriage, he made a settle-\\nment upon a tra6l of land which he had bought of David\\nLloyd and Isaac Norris, executors, in 1677, being part of\\nthe estate of Thomas Lloyd of Philadelphia, a contemporary\\nand intimate friend of William Penn.^ This tra6l was bounded\\nby the river Delaware and partly by Penisauken creek. The old\\nmansion is still standing, but so much enlarged and changed as\\nscarcely to be recognized. This tra6l of land appears to have\\nbeen located by Samuel Jennings, the first governor of New\\nJersey; it was resurveyed in 171 7 by Alexander, the son of\\nI Besse s Sufferings, Vol. I., 748 759.\\na Lib. B2, 590.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "3IO FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nGriffith Morgan. It contained five hundred acres of land, and\\nextended more than a mile up the creek aforesaid, and about\\none-fourth that distance along the river.* The house is just\\nwhere a son of Neptune would have it, near the mouth\\nof the creek, with a clear and uninterrupted view of the river\\nDelaware, where every kind of craft on both streams must\\npass in sight.\\nElizabeth Morgan survived her last husband, and died in\\n1 7 19. By her will, she bequeathed much personal property\\namong her children.^ They were Samuel Cole and Rachel\\nWild, wife of James Wild (by her first husband), and Alexander\\nMorgan (by her last). This paper indffcates beyond question\\nthat she was twice married, and also the number of children by\\neach. Her estate was large for the day in which she lived, and\\nwas fairly distributed to those nearest of kin.\\nAccording to the good order of Friends at the Newton\\nMeeting, in the year 1717 Alexander Morgan was married to\\nHannah, a daughter of Joseph and Lydia Cooper, and grand-\\ndaughter of William Cooper, the first emigrant. This marriage\\nconne6ted the Morgan family with the Mickles, the Hopkins,\\nthe Ladds, the Coxes, the Coateses and the Clements, of West\\nNew Jersey, and with the Rawles, the Riggses, and other families\\nin Pennsylvania, forming a line of consanguinity which was\\nstrengthened by subsequent like connedlions and in some\\ninstances brought down to the present day.*^ Alexander Morgan\\nsettled and remained on the homestead property during his life,\\nmaking but little change therein, either by purchase or sale.\\nHe deceased in 1751, leaving his widow and several children,\\nas follows Joseph, who married Agnes Jones Benjamin, who\\nmarried Jane Roberts 1761 Isaac Mary, who married\\nEdmund Hollingshead Elizabeth, who married William Miller;\\nLydia, who married Nathan Beeks Sarah, who married Josiah\\nBurrough Hannah, Rachel, and Alexander, who died young.\\nJoseph and Agnes Morgan had one child, Griffith, who married\\nRebecca Clement, daughter of Samuel, in 1766. The first wife\\nof Joseph Morgan deceased, and he married Mary\\n3 Lib. W, 386. 6 Lib. No. 4, 77.\\n4 Sharp s Book, 39. O. S. G. 7 Lib. No. 7, 165-\\n5 Gloucester Files, 1718.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "GRIFFITH MORGAN. 311\\nTheir children were Joseph, who married Mary Evans and Mary\\nButcher Hannah, who married Saterthwaite Elizabeth,\\nwho married Joseph Reeves and Sarah, who married James\\nHinchman. Mary, the second wife of Joseph Morgan, having\\ndied, he married Mary, a daughter of Joseph Stokes. Their\\nchildren were Isaac, who married Sarah Ridgway Alexander\\nMary, who married Joseph Bennett, and Benjamin, who married\\nMary Champion. Mary, the third wife, deceased, and Joseph\\nMorgan married Elizabeth Atkinson. By the last marriage there\\nwas no issue. Benjamin and Jane Morgan s children were\\nHannah, Benjamin, who died young, and Benjamin R.,\\nwho never married. He owned part of the paternal estate on\\nPenisauken creek, which, at his death, he gave to his cousin\\nAlexander, of Philadelphia. Edmund and Mary Hollingshead s\\nchildren were Joseph, who married Alice Edmund,\\nwho married Hannah Foster Morgan, who married Rebecca\\nMatlack John, Samuel, Hannah, Lydia and Sarah. Nathan\\nand Lydia Beeks had one child, named Morgan. The diredl\\nline of connedlion with the Morgan family of such as are\\nof the blood in the region of Gloucester county, may be\\ntraced through Griffith and Rebecca. The issue of this\\nmarriage were three daughters Agnes, who married Enos\\nEldridge Rebecca, who married James B. Cooper; and Ann,\\nwho married William E. Hopkins. The family conne6lion is\\nvery extensive throughout the United States, yet, in many\\ncases, the blood is so much diluted as to be scarcely traceable.\\nWhere the Penisaukin creek falls into the Delaware, and\\nabout where the old Morgan house is situated, some two\\nhundred years ago stood Fort Eriwonack, it being one of the\\ncentres from which a colony was to radiate and fill the territory\\nthat now constitutes Pennsylvania and New Jersey with an\\nindustrious and happy people. In 1634, Charles I., king of\\nEngland, made a title to Sir Edmund Ployden, knight, etc., for\\nall the territory lying between New England and Maryland,\\nwith that vague and doubtful kind of description incident to\\nthe little knowledge of the estate being conveyed, a kind of\\ndescription which in so many instances led to disputes and,\\nsometimes, to bloodshed among the owners and settlers.^ No\\n8 Smith s History of New Jersey, 24 60.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "312 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nregard was paid to the claims of the Dutch or Swedes within\\nthe limits of this grant, and, as a consequence, trouble very\\nsoon emanated from this source so, in the same manner, was\\nPloyden s title ignored when the king made a deed to his\\nbrother, the Duke of York, for the same se6lion of country.\\nThe government was also fully vested in Sir Edmund, and the\\nterritory was called the Province of New Albion, to be and\\nremain a free County Palatine, in no wise subject to any\\nother. Sir Edmund was made Earl Palatine, which gave\\nhim regal power in all things save allegiance to the king and\\neach of his family was also titled, in contemplation of a\\nsettlement to be effe6ted in the wilds of America.\\nSteps were immediately taken to know something of this\\nland and Beauchamp Plantaganet, a friend of the earl, was\\ndespatched to America to make the necessary examinations\\nand report accordingly. This trip was undertaken in 1636;\\nand, after much traveling through the forests, and intercourse\\nwith the natives, this adventurer ascended the Delaware river\\nto the mouth of the Penisauken creek, where some of his\\ncompany had already ere6led a fort, and where they were\\nwaiting for the government of Sir Edmund Ployden to be\\nestablished. About the same time, another settlement was\\nmade near where Salem now stands but the adventurers\\nwere driven away by the Dutch and Swedes, who were jealous\\nof their success, and feared their influence among the natives.\\nThe fort at Penisauken creek was occupied for four years by\\nthose under the patronage of Earl Ployden, and considerable\\ntrade was carried on with the Indians. Subsequently, a small\\ncolony of Swedes occupied the place, and doubtless remained\\nuntil the proprietors assumed the government of West New\\nJersey and established their title to the land. It is needless\\nto follow the history of this matter, and only necessary to say\\nthat none of the brilliant imaginings of the founder of this\\npalatinate were realized, and that the whole thing was\\nultimately abandoned.\\nA remarkable feature in this attempt at settlement in\\n9 Mickle s Reminiscences, 24.\\n10 Mulford s History of New Jersey, 72,\\n11 New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings, Vol. I., 38.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "GRIFFITH MORGAN. 313\\nAmerica is that each of the historians of New Jersey, from\\nfirst to last, has been unsuccessful in colle6ling and arranging\\nthe fa6ls in relation thereto. Each in his turn has explored\\nmusty records and consulted new authorities upon the subject,\\nand has extracted something overlooked by his predecessor\\nyet each became satisfied that other and more reliable knowl-\\nedge was in existence, but knew not where to find such\\ndesirable information.\\nAs late as in 1784, a person named Charles Varlo came to\\nPhiladelphia, claiming to have an interest in the palatinate?\\nand enlisted that able jurist, William Rawle, in his behalf,\\nmaking some stir among the holders of the land in this region\\nby reason thereof. One faithful and industrious antiquarian of\\nthat day, John Penington, of the city just named, made this\\nmatter a specialty, bringing his knowledge and experience to\\nthe purpose, to accomplish what so many others had failed in\\nbut at last, despairing of success, he pronounced the whole\\nmatter a fabrication, and Sir Edmund Ployden an imaginary\\nbeing.\\nTo Isaac Mickle is due the merit of giving this matter a most\\nthorough investigation, and of colle6ling the reliable authorities\\nin his valuable book, so that the reader may see at a glance the\\ntrouble that has always surrounded it, and the doubts that may\\nalways attend it. It is, however, one of the incidents of the\\nhistory of New Jersey, and of this particular neighborhood,\\nthat is worth remembering the truth of which, at some future\\nday, may be brought to light, and may make the first settlement\\nof Griffith Morgan a point of particular attradlion to such as\\ncare to preserve those myths of historical romance so pleasantly\\nblended through the early settlement of our country.\\nA gold mine was also said to exist near Fort Eriwonack and\\nits value was held out as an inducement for persons to come\\nhere and settle, unbounded wealth being promised to such as\\nwould make the venture. This belief, like the old fort, has\\npassed away with those that occupied the land long before our\\nancestors came it being one of the fancies of the brain that\\npromised so much in the New El-dorado, and yet, for those who\\naccepted all as truth, realized so little. This spot is therefore", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "314 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nsurrounded with much of antiquarian interest and whether\\nthe story of the Palatine of New Albion be true or false, it will\\nalways be a fertile subje(5l of inquiry for those that labor with-\\nout reward and enjoy the search, though nothing be found.\\nTo such as have patiently turned from page to page among\\nthe dusty tomes that are crowded into the dark corners and\\nout-of-the-way shelves of the various libraries and offices of\\nrecord in our country, the last lines will be fully understood\\nand appreciated.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "THE BURROUGHS.\\nEDWARD BURROUGH was a distinguished Quaker in\\nEngland from 1652 to 1661, during the bitterest perse-\\ncutions that raged against that religious sedl. He resided at\\nUnderbarro, in Westmoreland. He was convinced through the\\npreaching of George Fox when a young man, and soon became\\na prominent defender and expounder of his belief. He\\nand a companion, who held the same faith, were the first\\nFriends that visited the city of London, and preached their\\ndo6lrines to the people. He addressed several letters to\\nOliver Cromwell, asking his prote6lion for those of his\\nbelief, and after his death appealed to his son Richard, but\\nwithout success.\\nIn 1654, he was mobbed in the city of Bristol for preaching\\nto the people in the streets, and cast into prison in Ireland for\\na like offence, and finally banished from the island.^ After\\nCharles the Second came to the throne, he obtained a personal\\ninterview with the king, and procured an order from him to\\nprevent the persecution of Friends in New England which\\norder the Friends in London forwarded by a ship that they had\\nchartered specially for that duty, at an expense of three\\nhundred pounds. He was an eminent preacher and an influ-\\nential man. It does not appear that he was ever in this\\ncountry.\\n1 Besse s Sufferings, Vol. I., 39.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "31 6 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nJohn Burrough was imprisoned in Buckinghamshire in 1660,\\nand Joseph Burrough suffered the same injustice the same year\\nin Essex. The son and daughter of William Burrough were\\nmaltreated in Warwickshire on their way to Banbury meeting.\\nThese facts prove that the family was numerous in England\\nand mostly Quakers. The names are here given to show the\\nprobability of their emigrating to America, for the same are\\nfound among the inhabitants of Long Island in a few years\\nafter the dates above given.\\nIn September, 1675, the assessor s list of the town of New-\\ntown, in Long Island, showed that John Burrough was the owner\\nof forty acres of land, one horse, four oxen, four cows, and\\ntwenty-four sheep and that Jeremiah Burrough was the owner\\nof six acres of land, two horses, two oxen, three cows, and one\\npig. In 1683, i^ the same town, Joseph Burrough was assessed\\nwith eighteen acres of land, one horse, one ox, and three cows\\nand John Burrough with ten acres of land, two horses, and one\\ncow. In this year, Jeremiah had increased his territory to\\ntwenty acres of land, two oxen, four cows, and two pigs. In\\nthe last named year, Edward Burrough was assessed in the\\ntown of Jamaica, in Long Island, with five acres of land, and\\none cow. In 1689, Jeremiah Burrough was lieutenant in one of\\nthe train bands of Newtown. This is rather strong evidence\\nagainst his being much of a Quaker yet he doubtless is the\\nsame person hereafter named in this conne6lion.\\nThe inference is but a fair one that the persons named as\\nhaving suffered in England for their religious opinions, and\\nthose named as being residents of Long Island, are the same\\nand it is only to be regretted that some better account of them\\nhas not been left on record, so as to make it conclusive. The\\nfirst of the name that came in Gloucester county was John\\nBurrough, who settled at Gloucester, and followed the occupa-\\ntion of a weaver.^ He was here in 1688, as, in the first month\\nof that year, he purchased rights of Robert Turner, and, in the\\ntenth month of the same year, he purchased more of such real\\nestate from Joseph Wood.^ These rights John Burrough put\\ninto one survey on the north side of Gloucester river or Great\\n2 Lib. G2, 57.\\n3 Lib. Gi, 129.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "THE BURROUGHS. 317\\nTimber creek, extending from Beaver branch on the south, to\\nLittle Timber creek on the north.* In 1690, he lived on this\\nsurvey, but the situation of his house is not known. This loca-\\ntion is now divided into many farms, among which are the\\nCrispin estate, the property of Isaac G. Eastlack, and others.\\nIn 1693, it became the property of Thomas Thackara, and\\nsubsequently was owned by the Huggs and the Harrisons. In\\n1759, this survey and the adjoining lands, extending north-\\nwesterly between the branches of Great and Little Timber\\ncreek to their jun6lion, were resurveyed this re-survey\\ndiscloses the title of the said lands, and is valuable in this\\nrespe6l.\\nThe next that canae was Edward Burrough, who purchased\\none hundred and seven acres of land of Thomas Atkinson in\\n1693, it being part of the tra6l that he had purchased of Francis\\nCollins in 1691.^ In 1698, Edward bought an adjoining tratSt\\nof John Martin, the same day that Martin sold another part of\\nthe said tra6l to Joseph Tindall, from whom the stream of\\nwater that passed through it takes its name. This land was\\nabout one mile south of Haddonfield, in Delaware township,\\nand fronted on the north side of the south branch of Cooper s\\ncreek, part of which is now owned by William H. Mason.\\nEdward Burrough built his house beside the old Salem road,\\na short distance from the stream, and there he resided several\\nyears. This old Salem road was not part of that laid out by\\norder of the Colonial Legislature, but was an Indian trail going\\nin the direction of that town, crossing the heads of most of the\\nstreams in its way. It has been lost sight of for many years,\\nand no part of it in this neighborhood is now open. It is\\npossible that he removed to Salem before his decease, as, in\\n1730, letters of administration were granted to Priscilla Bur-\\nrough upon the estate of Edward Burrough (her husband),\\ndeceased. No other reference in regard to his death has been\\nnoticed and, if this suggestion be true, his descendants may\\nbe found in that region of country.\\nThe tra6l of land before mentioned was held by those of the\\n4 Lib. G2, 172.\\n5 Lib. Gi, 01.\\n6 Lib. G3, 266,", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "3i8 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nfamily name for many years, and until Elizabeth Burrough, a\\ndaughter of John, married Samuel Matlack, whose descendants\\nstill hold portions thereof. This John, however, was a son of\\nSamuel, hereafter noticed but in what manner he became the\\nproprietor of this estate is not apparent at this writing, for\\nwant of sufficient records and a proper care of family traditions.\\nOf the immediate descendants of John and Edward Burrough,\\nnothing is known at this time, the male branches of the family\\nbeing but few, and not the owners of much land in this sec-\\ntion, a circumstance which adds to the difficulty of tracing\\ntheir lineage. Samuel Burrough (frequently spelled Burrows)\\nwas the third person of the name that came within the bounds\\nof Old Gloucester. He is first noticed at the little town of\\nPenisaukin, with William Matlack, Timothy Hancock and John\\nRoberts, where he married the daughter Hannah of the last\\nnamed person. This marriage occurred in 1699, at the house\\nof Sarah Roberts, widow of John. This female was a notice-\\nable character in her day. When the inhabitants of Chester\\ntownship, Burlington county, in the year 1696, thought proper\\nto assume the responsibilities of a corporation, Sarah Roberts\\nwas the only female that signed the agreement as one of the\\nresidents and taxpayers therein.\\nIn the year 1 700, James Adams, a son of John Adams, con-\\nveyed one acre of land to the Friends of Chester, for the\\npurpose of a meeting house and burying place. The grantees\\nconsisted of thirteen persons, of whom, Sarah Roberts was one,\\nshe being the only instance of a female a6ling in the capacity\\nof a trustee for real estate in that religious society. These\\nthings mark her as a woman understanding and participating\\nin matters generally left for the sterner sex to manage and con-\\ntrol, and show that her opinion was regarded, and her influence\\nsought in things of public importance.\\nThe first purchase of Samuel Burrough was made on the i6th\\nof November, 1698; it was one of three hundred acres of land\\nfrom Joseph Heritage. This tra6l lay on the south side of the\\nsouth branch of Penisaukin creek, in Waterford (now Delaware)\\ntownship, Gloucester county.* At that time Samuel was a\\n7 Lib. GH, 373.\\n8 Lib. G3, 285.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0326.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "THE BURROUGHS. 319\\nresident of Burlington county, and perhaps did not move to\\nhis plantation until his marriage in the next year. In 1699, he\\nbought of the same person an adjoining piece of land, and, in\\n1703, purchased of Richard Bromley two hundred acres, also\\nadjoining, which last was called a farm and thereon the said\\nRichard Bromley did lately dwell. To this place Samuel\\nBurrough soon after removed, and there he remained until his\\ndecease. The present residence of Edward Burrough, a lineal\\ndescendant of Samuel, in Delaware township, stands upon the\\nsite of the original dwelling ere6led by Richard Bromley.\\nSamuel Burrough must have been a man of large means, as he\\ncontinued to purchase real estate until the year 1730, when he\\nfound himself the owner of some two thousand five hundred\\nacres of land, which, at this day, includes many of the best\\nfarms in Camden county. He was a careful man in regard to\\nhis titles, for they may be found regularly upon record as the\\npurchases were by him made.\\nOne of these tra6ls was conveyed by Hugh Sharp, in 17 15,\\nto Samuel Burrough and Hannah, his wife, and to the heirs of\\ntheir bodies, not an ordinary expression in a deed, and one\\nwhich carried the estate to the survivor of the two persons\\ntherein named. In his will, he devised this particular tradl\\nto his daughter Sarah, if she please her mother, doubtless\\nreferring to her marriage. The evidence that she pleased\\nher mother in her marriage with Samuel Nicholson is that\\nshe made a deed for the same land, in 1732, to Samuel\\nNicholson and Sarah, his wife, thus carrying out the intention\\nof Hugh Sharp, who designed the estate to remain in the\\nfamily.^ Sarah died soon after the last title was executed, but\\nher husband, in good faith, conveyed the same to their son\\nJoseph in 1747. This shows that Joseph Nicholson in the\\ndiredl line descended from Samuel and Hannah Burrough,\\na fact which may be of interest to the present descendants of\\nthe said Joseph.\\nNeither John, Edward nor Samuel Burrough appears to have\\ntaken part in the politics of West Jersey, although each lived\\n9 Lib. A, 220.\\n10 Lib. AD, 242.\\n11 Lib. AD, 245.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0327.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "320 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nin Gloucester county when there was much trouble among the\\npeople in this regard. Samuel Burrough s will bears date June\\n19th, 1720, but was not proved until 1732, in which year he\\ndied.^^ The homestead property he gave to his son Samuel,\\nthus continuing for another generation this part of his estate in\\nhis own name. He divided his land among his children, giving\\nhis daughters a fair proportion, in opposition to the notion\\nentertained at that day regarding the rights of females, much to\\nhis credit, however, and far in advance of his generation. The\\nchildren of Samuel and Hannah Burrough were Samuel, who\\nmarried Ann Gray John, who married Phoebe Haines Isaac,\\nwho married Deborah Jennings and Abigail Hewlings Jacob,\\nwho married Sarah Thorne and Cassandra Ellis Esther, who\\nmarried William Bidgood Kesiah, who married Samuel Parr\\nand Sarah, who married Samuel Nicholson.\\nAsa Matlack, in a note made by him of this family, says that\\nSamuel Burrough and his son Benjamin were drowned in the\\nriver Delaware but under what circumstances, or at what\\nparticular time, it does not appear. A son Benjamin is men-\\ntioned in the will of Samuel Burrough, but no part of the\\nestate passed to him after the father s death, nor does his\\nname occur in any place conne6ted therewith. This would\\ngive the story some color of truth, and it may be accepted\\nas reliable, for, Asa Matlack who resided near the old homestead,\\nmade himself familiar with all the traditions of the neighbor-\\nhood. A son Joseph is also named, who probably died after\\nthe making of the will, and before his father. After the death\\nof Samuel Burrough, his widow Hannah married Richard\\nBidgood. There does not appear to have been any issue\\nby this marriage.\\nAnn Gray, the wife of the son Samuel, was a daughter of\\nRichard and Esther (Gillott), who settled on a tradl of land in\\nNewton township. Richard purchased land of Francis Collins\\nin 1 701, now mostly owned by Joseph C. Stoy and John E.\\nHopkins, fronting on the south side of Cooper s creek, where\\nFrancis Collins had his landing. Richard Gray deceased in\\n12 Lib. No. 3, 193.\\n13 Lib, G2, 25.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0328.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "THE BURROUGHS. 321\\n1736, leaving but two children, John and Ann. The second\\nSamuel was born, lived and died at the old homestead, and, in\\nthe course of his life, accumulated some other real estate. He\\nadhered stri6lly to the religious faith of his father, and was a\\nregular attendant at the Haddonfield Meeting. His children\\nwere numerous the following are their names Hannah, who\\nmarried Robert Stiles; Sarah, who married Isaac Mickle; Mary,\\nwho married Archibald Mickle; Ann, who married Joseph\\nTomlinson; Joseph, who married Mary Pine, Kesiah Aronson\\nand Lydia Tomlinson Abigail, who married Thomas Thorne\\nBathsaba, who married Jacob Haines Samuel, who married\\nSarah Lamb and Rachel, who married* Benjamin Pine and\\nDavid Davis. The intricacies of this genealogy are very\\napparent, and will hardly be ventured upon, except by some\\nexpert with much patience and little hope of reward. To his\\nson John, Samuel Burrough gave, by his will, four hundred acres\\nof land, lying on the south side of Penisaukin creek, which\\nhe increased by purchase from his eldest brother Samuel, in\\nthe year 1735. The most of this property passed out of the\\nname and blood many years since.\\nOn a part of this estate John Burrough lived his children\\nwere as follows John, who married Barbara Fussell Samuel,\\nwho married Spencer and Mary Black Josiah, who mar-\\nried Sarah Morgan; Gideon, who married Phcebe Burnett;\\nBenjamin, who married Phoebe Potter; Esther, who married\\nJuda Clemenz Martha, who married Benjamin Clemenz\\nMary, who married Richard Gibbs Enoch, who married\\nDeborah Middleton and Hannah, who married Joshua Gibbs.\\nAmong these maybe recognized the ancestors of severab families\\nof Gloucester and Burlington counties, at this day unknown\\nthrough the little care paid to the preservation of family bibles\\nwith their continued memoranda of births, deaths and marriages.\\nThe John last named, who married Barbara Fussel, was\\na blacksmith he owned and lived on part of the farm lately\\nDavid D. Burrough s, deceased, in Delaware township, near\\nEUisburg, where yet may be seen the remains of his shop.\\nHis residence was a tavern, standing near where the Eves-\\n14 Lib. No. 4, I\\n21", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0329.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "322 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nham road crossed the King s highway leading from Salem\\nto Burlington. This position made it one of the most public\\nplaces in the county. This was part of a survey made by William\\nCooper; it came into the Burrough family about the year 1720,\\nand became the property of John Burrough in 1735. Subse-\\nquently, however, it passed out of the name by sale, but, like\\nmuch other real estate, has again come to be owned by one of\\nthe name and family who held the fee nearly a century and a\\nhalf since. The house stands on the west side of the old road\\nit is built of brick and has every evidence of having been\\neredled many years ago. How long, and from what time it\\nwas kept as an inn, there is no means of knowing at this late\\nday, as those who received its hospitality and enjoyed the\\nmany sports that centered there, have gone to\\nThat undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns.\\nApart from its use to the traveling community and to the\\nneighborhood as a resort for business and gossip, it was a place\\nwhere many of the out-door manly pastimes were enjoyed, and\\nwhere colle 5led those who in them participated. In front of\\nand to the north of the house, was a level, straight piece of\\nroad, kept smooth and used as a race-course, where the quar-\\nter-nags from far and near were brought to compare their\\nmettle and speed, and where their owners and admirers would\\nback their opinions with a bowl of punch or a bottle of meth-\\neglin. Horses, like politicians, unless successful, soon wear\\nout in public estimation, and the animal that baulked, shied\\nor bolted, lost his friends and had no place upon the turf.\\nIn those early days, small purses and short races were the\\nfashion, and thimble-rig or faro-bank were unknown. This\\namusement with our ancestors was a genuine sport, clear of all\\nthe evil tendencies which now cling to it. The improvement\\nof the stock of horses was not set up as an apology, neither was\\njockeying then reduced to a science; but they engaged in it\\nfor the fun of the thing, and faced the censure accordingly.\\nFox hunting was also an out-door recreation. There was no\\nscarcity of game; the country was free from fences; good dogs\\nand practiced hunters abounded. Every farmer and farmer s\\nson had his steed and saddle, ready (after the crops were safe)", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0330.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "THE BURROUGHS. 323\\nto engage in the exciting sport. Being acquainted with the\\nhaunts and famihar with the habits of the animal, there was no\\nuncertainty of a day s sport whenever they took the field, and\\nfrequently more than one brush was secured during the\\nhunt. The assembling was generally by arrangement near\\nthe ground where game was plentiful but, by common consent,\\nthe day s sport ended at a country inn, where the incidents\\nand mishaps could be talked over before the open wood-fire\\nof the bar-room, and while surrounding a bowl of egg-nogg,\\ncalled in by the man who carried the brush in his hat. This\\nold way-side tavern was, in its palmy days, often the scene of\\nthe last of a hard day s hunt, where the boldest rider and the\\nluckiest sportsman would receive the rude gratulations of his\\ncompanions in the chase while others, who were unhorsed or\\nthrown out in some of the many ways incident to the sport,\\nwould arrive singly, only to be jeered and laughed at for their\\nill luck, and made to drown their chagrin by drinking deep\\nfrom the bowl before them. But, like the old tavern, their sports\\nhave passed away the inroads of agriculture upon the forests,\\nand the filling up of the country with a thrifty and industrious\\npeople, have left no shelter for reynard in this part of New\\nJersey.\\nJohn Burrough rented the tavern and his shop, and removed\\nto Haddonfield, where he plied his calling for several years\\nbefore his death.\\nIsaac Burrough, upon his marriage with Deborah Jennings,\\nsettled in Waterford township, near the Delaware river, but,\\nafter his second marriage, removed into Newton township,\\nwhere he deceased. His first wife was a daughter of Isaac\\nJennings, reputed to be a son of Henry, and claimed as the\\nperson who conne6ts the large property in England with so\\nmany expectants in the United States. The collateral branches\\nof the family are numerous in New Jersey. Their genealogy has\\nbeen carefully digested and arranged in anticipation of the call\\nfor the heirs of Isaac Jennings to receive the property which\\nhas so long been without an owner. The children were Isaac,\\nwho married Rebecca Nicholson (widow of Abel and daughter\\nof Aaron Aaronson); Priscilla, who married James Cooper;\\n15 Lib. No. 9, 157.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0331.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "324 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nJacob, who married Elizabeth Gill Hannah, who married\\nJoseph Mickle and Reuben and Jacob, who both died young.\\nSamuel and Hannah Parr settled on part of the Burrough\\nestate, in Waterford township, where Samuel deceased in 1753,\\nleaving the following children John, Mary, Samuel and\\nJames. Hannah, his widow, died in 1750. Samuel was a promi-\\nnent person in the Society of Friends, and, perhaps, a preacher.\\nNone of the name reside in this region at the present time.\\nWilliam and Esther Bidgood, in a few years after their mar-\\nriage, removed to Pennsylvania, where they both deceased.^*\\nNothing is known of the family.\\nSarah, the wife of Jacob Burrough, died soon after her\\nmarriage in 1751, as, in 1753, Jacob married Cassandra, the\\nwidow of Jacob Ellis and daughter of Josiah and Ann Albert-\\nson. The Burroughs are among the ancient Quaker families of\\nthe neighborhood of Haddonfield, and belong to those that\\noriginated and sustained the society hereabout for more than one\\nhundred years. In the name has been held some of the most\\nvaluable real estate in the county of Gloucester; but, in the\\nprogress of time, this has passed to other owners, strangers\\nto the blood. The collateral branches of the family are num-\\nerous as well as those in the diredl line; and much trouble\\nand uncertainty attend the effort to colle6l and arrange them\\ncorre6lly.\\ni5 Lib. No. 7, 312.\\n17 Lib. No. 8, 345.\\n18 Lib. Z, 297, 481", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0332.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "THE WOODS.\\nTHERE were more persons of this name among the first\\nEnglish emigrants who came to New Jersey than of any-\\nother. They must have been pleased with the scheme of settle-\\nment as laid down by the commissioners and proprietors, and\\nmust have considered its success as certain from the beginning.\\nThey were men of some estate, for they purchased their proprie-\\nties before they left their native land; and men of education, for\\nthey at once participated in the management and control of the\\nnew government, as novel in its operations as were the people\\nand the scenery that surrounded them in their adopted country.\\nMen of decided chara6leristics, they were well calculated to\\ndevelop any new system and, a6ling from a proper motive, they\\nwould soon draw around them those who naturally sought such\\nguides in this adventure. They were all Quakers, and a perusal\\nof Besse s History of that se 5l will show the reason why the\\nmembers of this family were so ready to break up their homes\\nin England and seek others in the wilds of America, regardless\\nof the privations and troubles that attend such an undertaking.\\nFrom 1654 to 1683, persons of this name were imprisoned\\nin the Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham, or Cum-\\nberland jails, for attending the meetings of Friends, no matter\\nhow quietly or secretly the same were held. Frequently some\\nof these were kept for two years in these loathsome places,\\nwithout any means of redress or opportunity to attend to the\\nwants of their families. The a6ls against conventicles, as passed\\nby the parliament, and the little reliance to be placed in the", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0333.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "326 FIUST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\npromises of the king, left no hope for an end of the persecu-\\ntions which this religious body suffered. As late as in 1681, the\\nHouse of Commons rejedled the following resolution\\nThat in the opinion of the House, the persecutions of the\\nProtestant dissenters upon the penal laws, is at this time grevi-\\nous to the subje6l, a weakening of the Protestant interest, an\\nencouragement to Popery and dangerous to the peace of the\\nKingdom.\\nThose who observed this reflex of public sentiment could not\\nbe mistaken in regard to the rigorous enforcement of the laws\\nand such as suffered thereby were forced to look to some other\\nplace where this kind of intolerance could not reach them.\\nWilliam Wood arrived at Burlington in the Willing Mind,\\nJohn Newcomb, commander, in November, 1677; and, in the\\nrecords of the first court held at that place in 1680, William\\nand Thomas Wood appear as grand jurymen, when that part\\nof the government was put in motion.^ William was the first\\nto change his place of settlement and take up his abode in New\\nJersey. In the year last named, he located thirty-six acres\\nwithin the town bounds of Burlington, where he, no doubt,\\nbuilt himself a log cabin, perhaps emulating his neighbors in\\nits style and finish. He married Mary Parnell in 1682.^\\nIn the year 1677, John Wood of Attercliffe in the parish of\\nSheffield, Yorkshire, purchased of George Hutchinson a quan-\\ntity of proprietary rights, to be used by him on his arrival in\\nWest New Jersey;^ and the ship book of the Shield has an\\nentry which says, that John Wood of Attercliffe, in the parish\\nof Sheffield, Yorkshire, was a passenger in that vessel, and\\narrived in the Delaware in the tenth month, 1678. His\\nfamily consisted of five children, who came with him, and\\nwhose names also appear on the said book.^ They were John,\\nJoseph, Esther, Mary, who married Thomas Coleman, and\\nSarah. Thomas Wood, a brother of John, came in the same\\nship he located a lot of land in Burlington and built a house\\n1 Smith s History of New Jersey, 102, 4 Historical Society of Pennsylvania.\\n2 Revel s Book, 12 5 Smith s History of New Jersey, 109.\\n3 Lib. Bi, g8, 6 Revel s Book, 79.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0334.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "THE WOODS. 327\\nthereon. He married Mary Howie in 1685, but of his family-\\nnothing is known.\\nThis was the first English vessel that passed up the river as\\nfar as Burlington.^ It was moored to a tree, and the next\\nmorning the passengers went ashore on the ice. A godlie\\ncompanie of Friends came in this boat, and doubtless were\\nwell received by those who had preceded them.\\nIn 1682, John, Constantine and Jeremiah were residents of\\nthe town of Bury in Lancashire, and in that year they each\\nbought of the trustees of Edward Byllynge proprietary rights\\nin anticipation of their removal to America.^ This town lies\\nabout forty miles northeast of Liverpool, and has, since their\\ndeparture therefrom, become a place of considerable proportions.\\nIt may be safely concluded that the first John herein named\\nis not the John herein secondly mentioned but, when spoken\\nof in other conne6lions, the distin6tion does not appear so clear.\\nJonathan Wood (husbandman), a resident of the parish of\\nMaltby in Yorkshire, England, also became the owner of rights\\nabout the same time but he abandoned the idea of moving to\\nthe Plantations in America, and sold his acres to Christopher\\nSnowdon in 1684, who came over and settled in Burlington\\ncounty about the time of his purchase.\\nJohn, Constantine and Jeremiah Wood came to New Jersey\\nthe same year in which they made their purchases. On\\nSeptember 4th, 1682, Henry Wood bought of Samuel Cole\\na tra6l of land on the north side of Cooper s creek, bounded\\nby the land which Samuel Cole subsequently sold to Samuel\\nSpicer and extending to the river Delaware. This appears\\nfrom maps of the Woods and Spicers lands in the office of\\nthe Surveyor-General at Burlington, N. J., as re-surveyed in\\n1723 and 1 728. The deed says situate at Arwawmosse, in West\\nJersey, also the dwelling house or tenement which he, the said\\nSamuel inhabiteth, with the folds, yards, c., excepting one\\ncow house, c. This farm fronted on both streams, and was\\npart of the survey returned to Samuel Cole a few months before\\nthis sale, upon which the improvements were all new. The\\n7 Revel s Book, 27. 10 Lib. Gi, 01, 03, 05.\\n8 Lib. Bi, 123 II Lib. Bi, 248.\\n9 Smith s History of New Jersey, 108. 12 Lib. Bi, 66,", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0335.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "328 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nIndian name of this plantation does not appear to have been\\nretained through many generations, as no mention of it is made\\nin any of the papers after that time.\\nThe Henry Wood last named was not of the family first\\nnoticed. He with his wife and children came from Newport,\\nRhode Island, as appears by the records of the Friends Meeting\\nof Newton but not until a year or so after the purchase, as his\\ncertificate of removal is dated twelfth month 5th, 1687. He\\nwas probably a son of William Wood, author of a much read\\nQuaker pamphlet, called New England s Prospe6l, published\\nin 1634; he returned to England in 1635 with his brother John\\nin the ship Hopewell, from which Henry named his homestead\\nproperty.\\nJohn, Constantine and Jeremiah seledled their land at the\\nmouth of Woodbury creek, also in Gloucester county, where\\nhad already settled a few Swedes. In 1683, John Wood located\\nthree hundred acres at that place, within the bounds of which\\nthese persons ere6led their habitations. This hamlet is deserv-\\ning of more than a passing notice, for from it radiated all the\\nsettlements in that part of Gloucester county, as well in the\\nunexplored forests as along the river shore. In John Wood s\\nhouse a meeting was established after the order of Friends, to\\nwhich place those in that se6lion resorted for religious worship.\\nIt was known among the people at that day as The Shelter,\\nalthough the name does not often occur, neither does it appear\\nto have any significance. This meeting was so kept until 1696,\\nin which year John Wood conveyed to Thomas Gardiner,\\nWilliam Warner and Joshua Lord, a lot of land for a grave-\\nyard, and upon this a meeting house was ere6ted the same\\nyear. No vestige of the old building remains, but the spot\\nin which were laid the bodies of those hardy pioneers is still\\nheld sacred. So may it always be.\\nThose who were contemporary with John, Constantine and\\nJeremiah Wood in this little colony, and who joined in the\\nmeeting at John s house, were Joshua Lord, Henry Tredway,\\nThomas Gardner, Thomas Mathews, John Ladd, George Ward,\\nWilliam Warner and others. The several locations of these\\n13 Revel s Book, 63. 15 The Friend, Vol. 4, 206.\\n14 Revel s Book, 43. 16 Lib. G3, 214.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0336.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "THE WOODS. 329\\npersons extended along the river shore as far as Eagle Point,\\nup the creek to about where Woodbury now stands, and also\\non Mathew s branch, a tributary of the last named stream.\\nPreviously to the settlement by the English, these localities\\nwere called Long Harris s creek and Batchelor s bank;\\nbut these names were soon lost sight of after their coming.\\nIn what way they were derived does not appear.\\nThere were a few Swedish families about the mouth of Wood-\\nbury creek previously to the coming of these colonists. This\\nmay have been an inducement for stopping at that place. The\\nDalboos had land thereabout, and Walla Swanson of Wickaco\\nwas likewise an owner of two hundred acres. In his will dated\\nin 1692, he gave these to his children, John, Peter, Swan, Mary,\\nwife of William Warner, Lydia, wife of Josiah Harper, Bridget,\\nCatharine, wife of James Laconey, and Judith.^ They divided\\nthe same in 1729.\\nIn 1 7 1 5 John Swanson conveyed to John Ladd, Henry Wood\\nand John Cooper, one acre of land on the west side of the\\ncreek and on the south side of the King s road, no doubt to\\nbe used for a burial place, and thereon to ere6l a meeting\\nhouse.\\nJohn Wood sat as a member of the Legislature in the year\\n1685, was appointed one of the commissioners for dividing land\\nin the same year, and, in 1687, one of the judges of the courts\\nof Gloucester county. From 1695 to 1700, he was continuously\\nappointed one of the coroners, and in 1701 made king s attor-\\nney. In 1687, he was, with William Warner, presented by the\\ngrand jury for assisting two notorious criminals to go out of\\nthe county. John Wood appeared at the bar of the court,\\nmade proper explanation of the matter and acknowledged\\nhis error; and the case was abandoned.^- It was, perhaps,\\nthrough his influence that the courts were held at Red Bank for\\na few years but this was soon found to be an out-of-the-way,\\ninconvenient place, and accordingly abandoned.\\nJohn Wood deceased in 1705, having a large landed estate,\\n17 Revel s Book, 68. 21 Revel s Book, 61.\\n18 Lib. Z, 454 22 Lib. A, 145.\\nLib. E, 423. 23 Minute Book of Gloucester County\\n20 Lib. X 177. Courts, Woodbury.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0337.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "330 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nwhich he disposed of by his will.^^ The homestead property\\nfronting on the creek and the river, he gave to his son John.\\nIn this devise he excepted the graveyard and meeting house\\nproperty, doubtless to avoid any trouble after his death in\\nregard to the boundaries and rights of the society to the same.\\nHis wife Sarah and the following named children survived him:\\nJohn, Joseph, Esther, Constantine, who married Alice and\\ndied in 1 734. Mary, Henry, Sarah, who married Joshua Lord,\\nand Alice.\\nIt is probable that the daughter Sarah died before her father,\\nas mention is made of her four children in his will. Portions\\nof this estate remained in the name and family for many years\\nafter his decease.\\nHenry Wood remained on the premises which he purchased\\nof Samuel Cole, and there died in 1691, having been a member\\nand constant attendant of the Newton meeting. He was some-\\nwhat of a public man, as he was a member of the Assembly in\\n1683 and 1684; but in the last year did not attend. In 1684,\\nhe was appointed one of the commissioners for laying out land\\nand purchasing from the Indians; and, in 1685, he a6led as a\\ncommissioner for opening highways and keeping the same in\\nrepair. He rendered service in many other minor positions,\\nand was a useful man in his time. All his traveling was done\\nby water, and the daughters as well as the sons were experts in\\nmanaging a boat. No fishing excursion was defeated for want\\nof a man to work the skiff, nor sailing party put off because the\\nbeaux were not there to manage the helm. To be equal to\\nevery emergency in this means of locomotion, was part of an\\neducation not to be negledled; and no little table talk origi-\\nnated in the rivalry of those who prided themselves upon their\\nnautical ability, and who were always ready to test their knowl-\\nedge by a race on the water.\\nNewton creek (perchance, before the tide was checked by\\ndam, or the stream narrowed by banks,) has been the scene of\\nmany such trials. The merits of every new craft must needs be\\ntested, and, with a good breeze, the temptation was too great\\nriot to know the strong and the weak points thereof. Some\\n24 Lib. No. I, 173.\\n25 Learning and Spicer s Laws.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0338.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "THE WOODS. 331\\npublic friendj upon his return from meeting, may have unwill-\\ningly found himself in the midst of one of these contests, and,\\nwhile having fast hold of his hat, may have yielded for the\\nmoment to the excitement that surrounded him, forgetting that\\nthe force of example always strengthened precept. In our day,\\nhorse flesh supplies this means of travel, and the followers of\\nGeorge Fox have now as keen an eye for the good points of a\\nroadster as our ancestors had for the sailing qualities of their\\nwater craft.\\nEarly and constant training will control the bent of our\\nnature, yet its latent propensities may occasionally crop out in\\na dire6lion not consistent with our education, or with the\\nexamples that sometimes surround us. The line that separates\\na commendable purpose from that which leads to error, may,\\nin our zeal, be overlooked, and, unless experience and ripe\\njudgment be regarded, the dangers of a wrong dire6lion are\\nmuch increased.\\nIn 1683, Henry Wood located three hundred and fifty acres\\nof land on the north side of and fronting Cooper s creek; this\\nhe afterward sold to Matthew Burden in 1686, who probably\\nsettled on the same. This grantee was a resident of Ports-\\nmouth in Rhode Island at the time of the purchase, and in\\nsome way conne6led with the grantor. The name of Burden\\ndoes not often occur among the early settlers hereabout.\\nRichard, a son of Matthew Burden, conveyed this land to John\\nCox in 1711 much of it is now included in the Browning\\nestate, and divided into various farms. He was the owner of\\nmuch other land in West New Jersey, but he disposed of the\\ngreater part before his death.-\\nHenry Wood s will bears date April 2d, 1691, and was\\nadmitted to probate in June of the same year.^^ Samuel\\nCarpenter of Philadelphia and George Smith of West New\\nJersey were made trustees, and Walter Clark and Benjamin\\nNewberry of Rhode Island were appointed executors. In this\\nwriting, he says that he was a resident of Hopewell, in\\nGloucester county, West New Jersey, which name has, how-\\never, been lost to the estate for many years. Although much\\n26 Basse s Book, 150. 28 Lib. BBB, 68.\\n27 Lib. BB, 67. 29 Lib. No. 13, 518.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0339.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "332 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nreal estate passed under this document, yet it does not\\nappear of record for more than half a century after its\\nprobate, an occurrence that but seldom happens, and that\\nremains unexplained. The appointment of persons residing\\nin Rhode Island as executors, is accounted for by his having\\nleft friends and, perhaps, relatives in that colony upon\\nhis removal hither. His children were Henry, James (a\\nshipwright, who lived in Philadelphia and married Mary\\nPellor in 1715); Richard; Judith, who married Thomas\\nWillard in 1 689 Abigail, who married Daniel Cooper in\\n1693; Hannah, who married Joseph Nicholson in 1695;\\nElizabeth, who married Stephen Newbie in 1 703 and\\nBenjamin, who married Mary Kay, daughter of John, in\\n1707.\\nHis widow Hannah survived him several years. In 1754,\\nthe son Henry died a single man, and by his will disposed of\\nthe real estate given to him by his father among his brothers\\nand sisters. Thomas and Judith Willard settled on a planta-\\ntion near that of her father s. Thomas died there in 1734,\\nintestate, leaving three sons, James, Henry and Thomas.\\nAbigail, the wife of Daniel Cooper, died in a short time after\\nher marriage, and without children. Joseph Nicholson, a son of\\nSamuel, and the first of the name that settled in Gloucester\\ncounty, became the owner of the homestead in 1699, by deed\\nfrom James Nicholson, and with his wife made that his home.^^\\nJoseph deceased in 1702, intestate, leaving but two children,\\nGeorge, who married Alice Lord in 171 7, and Samuel, who\\nmarried Sarah Burrough in 1722, Rebecca Saint in 1744, and\\nJane Albertson, widow of William and daughter of John Engle,\\nin 1749.^^\\nStephen and Elizabeth Newbie settled in Newton township\\non part of the land taken up by Mark, the father of Stephen.\\nHe died in 1706; his widow and two children survived him.\\nOf these, Mark died single in 1735, Hannah married\\nJoseph Thackara.\\nAfter the decease of Joseph Nicholson, Benjamin Wood\\npurchased the homestead estate, and thereon he resided until\\n30 Gloucester Files. 32 Lib. G3, 214.\\n31 Lib. W, 386. 33 Gloucester Files.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0340.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "THE WOODS. 333\\nhis death in 1738. Like his father, he called the old place\\nHopewell, the original Indian name of Arwawmosse, as men-\\ntioned by Samuel Cole when he conveyed to Henry Wood,\\nhaving been abandoned at an early date in their ownership.\\nBenjamin Wood s plantation fronted on the river. His wife\\nMary survived him, and the following children Mary, who\\nmarried Joseph Cole and Richard Matlack Elizabeth, who\\nmarried Elias Toy Hannah, who married Joseph Heulings\\nAbigail, who married Robert Hunt Benjamin, who married\\nthe latter dying in 1750; John, Judith and Jane.^*\\nBy his will, the real estate of which he died seized, passed to\\nhis children but in that generation much thereof was alienated,\\nand, at this writing, no part of the soil is held in the name.^^\\nThe graveyard commenced by the Woods and Spicers, which\\nstands upon the original tra6l of land as surveyed to Samuel\\nCole, is still in existence. Some of those in whose veins\\nflows the blood of the first English settlers, have with com-\\nmendable care preserved its boundaries, and saved it from\\nencroachment. In later years memorials have been raised to\\nshow where lie the remains of some of the younger branches\\nof the families but, of the first there interred, no tradition or\\nrecord has been left to point out their particular resting place.\\nThe majestic oaks that stood around, and upon whose bark\\nhad b(?en rudely traced the names of many of the occupants,\\nare gone. These marks, which, to the heedless axeman, were\\nwithout meaning, bore in themselves a history, full of interest\\nto the descendants of those whose memory they were designed\\nto preserve. No trace of these old, living monuments is left,\\nand with them passed away the only remembrance of the first\\nsettlers in that part of the colony. Where stood the primitive\\nforests, as owned by Henry Wood one hundred and eighty years\\nsince, the soil is now divided into valuable farms, and, before\\nanother like lapse of time, will be included in the city of\\nCamden and be covered with the dwellings of its inhabitants.\\n34 Lib. No. 7,. 367. V\\n35 Lib. No. 4, 135.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0341.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0342.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "RICHARD MATHEWS.\\nIN 1699, Richard Mathews was a factor, and resided in\\nStokenewington, in the county of Middlesex, England.^\\nHe had previously resided in the city of London, but had prob-\\nably been driven from that place on account of the persecution\\nof Friends. He was largely interested in the proprieties, and,\\nthrough his agents in West New Jersey, made several surveys in\\nGloucester county. In 1683, a survey of five hundred acres\\nwas returned in his name as made in Newton township upon\\nwhich now stands the larger part of the village of Haddonfield.\\nIn 1 69 1, he, through Elias Farr, his attorney, conveyed one\\nhundred acres of the same to William Lovejoy, it being that\\npart of the survey which lay east of the main street of the\\ntown, at that time nothing more than a bridle path or Indian\\ntrail. The remainder of the tra6l was by him sold to John\\nHaddon, in whose family it was held for many years. The\\nblacksmith shop, which is marked on a map of the same made\\nin 1 700, and is the only building thereon represented, was, in all\\nprobability, placed there by William Lovejoy, who attended to\\nthe wants of the small community around him in his particular\\nline. It is supposable that his business included the duties of a\\ntinker, a gunsmith and a clock maker also, and that he looked\\nafter all the hardware of the housekeepers near his place kept\\nall the fowling-pieces and muskets in good order; and regulated\\n1 Lib. G3, 458. 3 Basse s Book, 237. 4 Lib. G3, 93.\\n2 Revel s Book, 38. 5 Lib. Gi, 07.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0343.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "336 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nthe clocks thereabout when the sun shone and his dial was\\nproperly adjusted.\\nIn 16S4, Edward Byllynge appointed Thomas Mathews as his\\nattorney, with the consent of George Hutchinson, to sell thirty\\nshares of propriety of West New Jersey. This shows that he\\nhad the confidence of the patroon. It would appear that Wil-\\nliam Lovejoy was an apprentice to Thomas Mathews, for, in\\n1696, Thomas Gardiner, as administrator, conveyed to Lovejoy\\nfifty acres of land for services rendered.^ These services were\\nthose of a blacksmith; but this calling he abandoned after\\na few years.\\nIn 1686, a survey was made to Richard Mathews on a branch\\nof Woodbury creek, called Mathew s run, containing four hun-\\ndred and fifty acres, whereon his son Thomas and Thomas\\nGardiner, who married his daughter Hannah, settled. Another\\nsurvey was made near Red Bank of three hundred and fifteen\\nacres, which, together with all his other real estate, passed out\\nof the name many years since. There is nothing to show that\\nRichard Mathews himself ever came to America; while but\\npart of his family came, consisting of one son, Thomas, and\\na daughter, Hannah, who married Thomas Gardiner, Jr., in\\n1684, at Friends meeting in Burlington. The probability is,\\nhowever, that these were his only children, and that, like\\nElizabeth Estaugh, they came hither to look after the estate\\nof the parent.\\nThomas Mathews, the son, settled on the tra6l of land near\\nWoodbury creek, and, if he was not a bachelor, he died without\\nchildren, and intestate, as his entire landed property passed to\\nhis sister Hannah Gardiner, through whose blood at this time\\nthere remains no connection with this particular family in\\nNew Jersey. Richard Mathews died about 1696, and the\\nson Thomas about 1702.\\nIn the year 1683, Thomas Mathews made a proposition to\\nthe Legislature to exchange one thousand acres of land for a\\nsite to build a saw mill in the forks of Rancocas creek. The\\nmatter was referred to commissioners, and, perhaps, was con-\\n6 Lib. B, 129. 9 Lib. S, 465.\\n7 Lib. Gi, 139. 10 Basse s Book, 52, 123.\\n8 Lib. G2, 176.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0344.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "RICHARD MATHEWS. 337\\nsummated but where the saw mill stood, and whether it has\\nbeen maintained to the present time, do not appear.\\nIn 1685, he was returned as one of the members of the\\nLegislature from the fourth tenth at which time he resided\\nat Woodbury creek. In the same year, he represented Ben-\\njamin Bartlett, Robert Squib and Robert Squib, Jr., as their\\nproxy in the disposal of proprieties, and in voting for members\\nof the council of proprietors this privilege, from some\\nirregularity, the Legislature revoked, and passed a resolution\\nto meet the trouble. The Legislature was jealous of the\\npower and a6lion of the council, and much diplomacy had\\nto be used by the more conservative members of each body\\nto prevent difficulty between them. The interest of many\\nmembers of the Legislature in the soil, and their desire to\\nencourage emigration and settlement, prevented the clashing\\nof the two bodies, which, otherwise, would have led to\\ndisastrous results.\\n\u00c2\u00b12", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0345.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0346.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "ROBERT TURNER.\\nTHIS person was never a resident of New Jersey. Being\\na man of large estate, he became interested in the various\\nspeculations going on in England, touching the settlements\\nin America, and rendered much service to such as desired\\nto remove, but had not the means wherewith to accomplish that\\nend. He was an Irish Quaker, engaged in merchandise. He\\nresided in the city of Dublin, where he much advanced the\\nspread of the religious do6lrines which he had espoused and\\nthis brought upon him an equal measure of persecution from\\nthose who conceived their authority to be absolute. In 1662,\\nhe, with many others, was taken from a religious meeting of\\nFriends, and confined in the Bridewell prison. Two years\\nbefore he had been locked up in Newgate for a like offence.\\nIn 1665, he was imprisoned and despoiled of his goods, and,\\nin 1669, had his property again taken for the reason that he had\\nrefused to pay tithes. His estate seems to have had an attrac-\\ntion for such as, in those days, went about with religious zeal\\nto punish those who differed with them in opinion.\\nImmediately upon the consummation of the grant of territory\\nin America by the king to William Penn, he closed his\\nbusiness in Ireland, and removed to Philadelphia. He came\\nin the ship Lion of Liverpool from Dublin, with the certifi-\\ncate of the Men s Meeting of Friends from the last named\\nplace, and arrived in Philadelphia on the 14th of the eighth\\nmonth, 1683. He brought with him his family and some twenty\\nI Lib. Bi, 52.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0347.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "340 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\npersons as servants. With William Penn he was on the most\\nintimate terms, having been associated with him in his various\\nreligious difficulties and he was frequently his companion in\\nhis travels in England. From among the extensive correspon-\\ndence that occurred between them, it may not be uninteresting\\nto copy a letter, in which an explanation is given of the way\\nin which the appellation that his territory now bears, was fixed,\\nshowing how fearful he was that the same might appear egostis-\\ntical. It runs as follows\\nTo Robert Turner. 5 of ist Mo, 1681.\\nDear Friend My true love in the Lord salutes thee, and dear\\nfriends that love the Lord s precious truth in those parts.\\nThine I have, and for my business here. Know that after\\nmany waitings, watchings, solicitings and disputes in Council,\\nthis day ray country was confirmed to me under the great seal\\nof England, with large powers and privileges by the name of\\nPennsylvania a name the King would give it, in honour of\\nmy father. I chose New Wales, being as this is a pretty hilly\\ncountry, but Penn being Welsh for a head, as Penaumoire in\\nWales, and Penrith in Cumberland, and Penn in Buckingham-\\nshire, the highest land in England, he called this Pennsylvania,\\nwhich is the high or head Woodland; for I proposed, when the\\nsecretary, a Welshman, refused to have it called New Wales,\\nSylvania, and they added Penn to it and though I much opposed\\nit and went to the King to have it struck out, and altered, he\\nsaid it was past, and would take it upon him. Nor could\\ntwenty guineas move the under secretaries to vary the name,\\nfor I feared least it should be looked on as a vanity in me, and\\nnot as a respe 5l in the King as it truly was to my father, whom\\nhe often mentions with praise. Thou mayst communicate my\\ngrant to friends, and expe6l shortly my proposals. It is a clear\\nand just thing, and my God that has given it to me through\\nmany difficulties, will, I believe, bless and make it the seed of\\na nation. I shall have a tender care of the government, that\\nit will be well laid at the first. No more now, but dear love\\nin truth. Thy true friend,\\nWilliam Penn.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0348.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "ROBERT TURNER. 341\\nIn this letter are disclosed the real sentiments of the writer\\nupon the subje6l in question, as well as the history of a matter\\nnow of much interest to all. In a money point of view, this\\ngrant discharged a debt which the creditor feared never would\\nbe paid, and about which there had been much controversy and\\ndispute. The influence of William Penn with the king was\\na cause of jealousy among those who surrounded him, and who\\nsought the same position that he undoubtedly held at court.\\nThis was the secret of all the opposition to the settlement\\nof the claim, and the fa6l that hindered its consummation.\\nThe charter, which contained large powers and privileges,\\nhas become a venerable document. It has been framed, and it\\nnow hangs in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth at\\nHarrisburg. It is ornamented with heraldic devices on strong\\nparchment, and, at the top of the first page, displays a finely\\nexecuted likeness of Charles the Second, king of England, c.\\nThe letter contains one other sentiment worthy of note,\\nwhich is that this grant of land, and the laws that he proposed\\nto establish there, would make the colony the seed of a nation.\\nWhatever may have been the expedlations of this great man in\\nregard to the people that should spring up on his new acquisi-\\ntion, or whatever he hoped that time would develop in the\\nresources and advantages of the soil within its bounds, he\\nnever could have contemplated any such advancement as the\\npresent generation beholds at this day. He only knew it as it\\nlay upon the river Delaware which stream would offer all the\\nwater communication that was necessary for the wants of the\\npeople. The immense forests, the inexhaustible mineral\\nresources, the advantages of water power for manufa6luring\\npurposes and inland transportation, as well as the extensive\\nagricultural distridls that lay within the bounds of his pur-\\nchase, were things beyond his view, and beyond the scope\\nof his imagination. The tender care which he had for\\nthe government, that emigrants might be assured of justice\\nto all, marked him as a man of foresight and deserving merit,\\nand in this he certainly planted the seed of a nation.\\nMany difficulties occurred in regard to titles to land made by\\nPenn, some concerning the boundaries, and others, the right of", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0349.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "342 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\npossession these troubles were frequently referred to Robert\\nTurner, who mostly settled them to satisfa6lion. As Thomas\\nSharp, and those other adventurers who settled at Newton,\\ncame from Dublin, and took their land within the bounds of\\nthe Irish tenth, as laid forth in West Jersey, there can be\\nno doubt that Robert Turner knew them before they came,\\nand continued the acquaintance after their arrival here. In\\nthe memorial left by Sharp touching this part of their history,\\nreference is made to the adjustment of a difficulty by Robert\\nTurner in relation to land taken up by George Goldsmith.\\nIn this settlement he showed his good feeling toward Goldsmith\\nby conveying him a portion of the survey whereon he had made\\nhis improvements. The remainder of this survey he sold to\\nIsaac Hollingsham.\\nThe Graysburys purchased a tra6l of land lying in Newton,\\nwhich he had located on the south side of the main branch of\\nNewton creek. He made other surveys in the township, some\\nof which were bounded by Cooper s creek, and some by the\\nriver front, now included in the city of Camden.^ For the five\\nyears immediately after the first settlement, he perhaps owned\\nmore land in this township than any other individual, and no\\ndoubt took much interest in its advancement and progress.\\nIn the sales of land, as made in Pennsylvania by William Penn\\nto those who were settling there, and to many residents in\\nEngland, and Scotland, and Ireland, who never came thence,\\nthe name of Robert Turner often occurs and, at his death, his\\nlanded estates must have been large and valuable. In the city,\\nhe owned several squares of ground, which he, no doubt, used\\nfor farming purposes, but which are now in the centre of the\\nmetropolis.\\nThe wife of Robert Turner was Susanna, daughter of William\\nWelch, and their children were Edward, who married Catharine\\nCarter. (He dying, she married John Baldwin.^ She also\\nsurvived him and married Cloud of Chester county, Pa.\\nMartha, who married Francis Rawle and Mary, who married\\nJoseph Pidgeon.^ Mary Rawle, a daughter of Francis, married\\nWilliam Cooper in 1732, a son of Daniel and grandson of the\\n2 Sharp s Book, 03. O. S. G. 4 Lib- E, 69.\\n3 Lib. G3, 379. 5 Lib. BBi-, 352.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0350.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "ROBERT TURNER. 343\\nfirst William/ Her husband settled with her in Philadelphia,\\nwhere he remained until his death. He was the owner of\\nmuch land in Camden, coming to him from his paternal\\nancestors. Mary Pidgeon deceased in 1733, leaving one son,\\nJoseph. Francis and Martha Rawle had other children than\\nMary, as follows Robert, Francis, William, Joseph, John,\\nBenjamin, Jane, Rebecca, and Elizabeth. Robert Turner died\\nintestate.\\nAlthough not a resident of the colony, yet, in 1685, he was\\nreturned as one of the representatives of the third tenth in the\\nLegislature of West New Jersey; but he did not appear at the\\nfirst sitting thereof.^ At the second session, his name appears,\\nat which time he was appointed as one of the commissioners to\\nregulate the sale of land, and to contra6l with the Indians for\\nthe purchase of their right in the soil. He was also appointed\\none of the committee to examine proxies sent by the proprie-\\ntors residing in England, since some difficulty had arisen con-\\ncerning their legality, the manner in which they were obtained,\\nand the way in which they were being used.\\nThe exercising of these privileges by Robert Turner would\\nseem to show that he lived in West New Jersey for a short time,\\nalthough nothing beside would lead to such conclusion or that\\nthe custom prevailing in England at that time, and still, to some\\nextent, followed there, of ele6ling persons of one se6lion of the\\nrealm to represent those of another, in this single instance\\nobtained here. Supposing such to be the fa6l, the rule was\\nmuch strained in this case, for he then resided in another com-\\nmonwealth, based upon a different constitution and governed in\\nmany particulars by different laws. That he had large interests\\nhere is well known. He was also as desirous as the inhabitants\\nwere that wholesome regulations should be provided for the\\ngrowing colony, in order that new comers could be induced to\\nsettle; for, as a consequence, the value of the land held for\\nsale would be greatly increased. It would appear that Robert\\nTurner s interest in New Jersey was not confined to the western\\ndivision, for, in 1683, o^ ^f the owners of East New Jersey,\\n6 Lib. F, 03, Philadelphia Records.\\n7 Vol, IX., 19, New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings.\\n8 Learning Spicer s Laws of New Jersey.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0351.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "344 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nhe, by his proxy, voted to confirm Gawen Lawrie as deputy\\ngovernor of that province under the appointment of Robert\\nBarclay, he being empowered so to do by the original covenant\\nentered into with the proprietors.\\nHe was also one o f the signers of the letter from the pro-\\nprietors to the planters in that province, about the same date\\nin which is expressed a desire that equity and justice may\\nrule, and that right shall be done to all who may transport\\nthemselves into that country. But little is said of him in the\\nmany histories and narratives of those early times which is\\nsurprising in view of the large estates which he held in Pennsyl-\\nvania, East and West New Jersey. He did not participate very\\nmuch in the political affairs of these colonies, and is not known\\nin any of the troubles that occurred in those times. His place\\nseems to have been that of umpire in the settlement of personal\\ntroubles to the avoidance of law suits and other like scandal.\\n9 Learning and Spicer s Laws of New Jersey.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0352.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL CARPENTER.\\nTHE business relations of William Penn with Edward\\nByllynge and his creditors, and the disposal of the\\nlatter s landed estate in West New Jersey to settle their\\nclaims against him, as well as his troublesome diplomacy\\nwith John Fenwick, are said to have been the first motives\\nthat attra6led his attention toward the establishment of a colony\\nin America. The indebtedness of the crown to his father for\\nvaluable tiaval services, which remained unpaid at the time of\\nhis decease, and, in the financial condition of the government\\ntreasury at that period, were likely so to remain, was an additional\\nincentive for the son to petition for a grant of land in liquida-\\ntion of the claim.\\nThis petition was strongly opposed in the privy council some\\nof whom, on the subje6l of civil and religious liberty, were hostile\\nto his views. He succeeded, however, after much importunity,\\nin securing a charter for the territory of Pennsylvania, and at\\nonce took steps to transport emigrants thereto. His position in\\nthe Society of Friends, his known honesty and singleness of\\npurpose, soon drew around him very many persons who were\\nwilling to make the adventure, a greater part of whom had\\nsufficient of this world s goods to make their outfit comfortable,\\nwith enough, after their arrival, to prote6l them from want.\\nHis form of government and code of laws were especially\\nacceptable to such as were thus suffering from the intolerance", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0353.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "346 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nthat surrounded them in England and of these they took\\nadvantage by joining the various companies of emigrants\\ncoming to Pennsylvania. One important principle involved\\nwas set forth in these words: That all persons living in this\\nprovince, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and\\nEternal God to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the\\nworld, and that hold themselves obliged in conscience to live\\npeaceably and justly in civil society, shall in no wise be\\nmolested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion or prac-\\ntices in matters of faith and worship nor shall they be com-\\npelled at any time to frequent or maintain any religious worship,\\nplace, or ministry whatever.\\nAll these things took place within three years after the arrival\\nof the first emigrants at Burlington. The settlements of the\\nEnglish on both sides of the Delaware river, were thus made\\nalmost identical. The same enlarged views in the form of gov-\\nernment, and the same liberality in the sale and disposal of land,\\nwere as faithfully observed in the one colony as in the other\\nand whatever was considered as advantageous to the one was\\ncertain to be adopted by the managers of affairs on the other\\nside of the river. The social and religious intercourse that was\\nconstantly kept up between the settlements introduced many\\nbusiness transadlions, some of which involved the sale and pur-\\nchase of real estate on one side of the stream to persons residing\\nupon the opposite side and it was frequently the case that\\npersons in Pennsylvania owned considerable tra6ts of land in\\nNew Jersey many of which were held for terms of years,\\nand sometimes descended through several generations of the\\nsame family. Of these persons, Samuel Carpenter was one.\\nThe first purchase of land made by him in Gloucester county\\nwas of Samuel Jennings in 1684. It was one of six hundred\\nacres, lying on the south side of Timber creek, and having\\nconsiderable front on the river Delaware. This included\\nwhat has since become the valuable fisheries at Howell s Cove,\\nthough, at the time of purchase, they had no worth in the eyes\\nof the contra6ling parties. These lands remained in the family\\nfor many years, passing to the son Samuel, whose widow,\\nHannah, sold part thereof, as executrix of her husband, to\\nI Lib. Bi, 43.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0354.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL CARPENTER. 347\\nSamuel Ladd, through whom they descended to his daughter,\\nDeborah West.-\\nIn 1689, Samuel Carpenter bought fifty acres of William\\nRoyden, situated in Newton township, with a front on the river.\\nThis was part of the survey that Royden had previously made,\\nextending from the river easterly to Cooper s creek. Upon\\nthis now stands the principal part of the city of Camden,\\nwhich, after several conveyances, became the property of Wil-\\nliam Cooper. The fifty acres extended down the edge of the\\nstream from near Cooper street, and back frc/m the shore\\nsufficiently far to obtain the full quantity, as called for in the\\ndeed. This, however, he sold the same year. He did not\\nmake any subsequent purchase of land in the township. In\\nBowden s History of Friends, may be found a short sketch\\nof Samuel Carpenter. This says\\nHe emigrated to Pennsylvania a few years after its settle-\\nment. He had previously resided in Barbadoes, when, in 1673,\\nand again in 1685, he suffered considerably in distraints, for his\\nfaithful testimony in bearing arms. Next to William Penn, he\\nwas considered the most wealthy person in the province, for,\\nbesides large mills at Bristol, Darby and Chester, and dwelling\\nhouses, warehouses and wharves in Philadelphia, he also held\\nnearly twenty thousand acres of land in different parts of the\\nprovince, and was largely engaged as a merchant. In 1693,\\nbecame a member of the Assembly, and, a few years later, one\\nof the council, and ultimatel} treasurer of the province.\\nThrough a great variety of business, he preserved the love\\nand esteem o i a large and extensive acquaintance. His ability,\\na6tivity and benevolence of disposition in divers capacities, but\\nmore particularly among his friends, the Quakers, are said to\\nhave distinguished him as a very useful and valuable member,\\nnot only of that religious society, but also of the community in\\ngeneral. He died in 1713.\\nHe took an a6live part in the political affairs of the city of\\nPhiladelphia, being, for several years previous to 171 2, one\\nof the members of council, and, in 1701, also sitting as a\\n2 Lib. AL, 496.\\n3 Lib. C, 128, Lib. G, io8.", "height": "3415", "width": "1917", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0355.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "348 FIJ^ST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nmember of the Assembly, representing a larger constituency\\nthan any other person eledled. Beside the real estate which\\nhe held within the city bounds, he was also the owner of large\\ntra6ls of land in the interior of the State, the grant for which\\nwas made direftly to him by the patroon. Near the mouth\\nof the Schuylkill he had considerable marsh land, which he\\nimproved into meadow, and which for many years was called\\nCarpenter s island.\\nWhether he was a native of the Island of Barbadoes, or was\\nbanished from England on account of his religious principles,\\ndoes not appear; but that he was a consistent and a6tive mem-\\nber of the Society of Friends, cannot be questioned. On that\\nisland there were many of this religious pursuasion, and to this\\nplace nearly all the ministers of this Society that visited\\nAmerica resorted before their return to England. This was\\nbefore settlements were attempted in Pennsylvania or New\\nJersey; and the island was looked upon as a place of banish-\\nment for those who fell under the displeasure of the govern-\\nment, and whose adherence to their creed and pracflice could\\nnot be abated by any of the punishments infli6led at home.\\nA few years corre6led much of the misery and destitution that\\nwas intended by those in power, who not only imprisoned such\\nas became subje6l to their tyranny, but robbed them of their\\nproperty, and transported them without any means of future\\nsupport; for, in a short time, those who had been previously\\nsent for like offences, had, by thrift and economy, secured\\nenough to assist others who came under similar circumstances,\\nand to render their condition comparatively comfortable.\\nBy the industry and perseverance of this class of citizens,\\nthe agricultural advantages of the island were soon developed\\nand the increase of revenue to the home government, as well\\nas large exportations of the produ6ls to England for trade,\\nappeared as a reproach upon those who had so shamefully driven\\nthese people from their home and estates for opinion s sake.\\nThe purchase of New Jersey and Pennsylvania by Friends,\\nwhose liberal form of government was so attractive, opened\\nan asylum for such as remained under persecution. Hither\\nthey soon dire6ted their footsteps, and here they laid the found-", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0356.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL CARPENTER. 349\\nation for the institutions that now surround us, where none\\nshould make them afraid.\\nSamuel Carpenter married Hannah Hardiman in 1684. She\\nwas of South Wales, and came to Pennsylvania with her\\nparents.* Their children were Hannah, who married William\\nFishburn in 1701; John, who married Ann Hoskins in 1710;\\nand Samuel, who married Hannah Preston in 1711. Samuel\\nremoved to Gloucester county, New Jersey, where he deceased\\nin 1747, leaving a widow and children.^ Many of the name\\nare now residents of this State, and the dire(5l and collateral\\nbranches are numerous throughout the United States. As the\\nrecord of the family of Samuel Carpenter is uncertain, by reason\\nof the early branches thereof residing in another state, it is\\nperhaps proper that a conveyance of land made by Robert\\nTurner to Abraham Carpenter, a mariner, and Joshua Carpen-\\nter, a brewer, both of Philadelphia, in 1693, should be referred\\nto.\u00c2\u00ae This tra6l contained four hundred and twelve acres, and\\nlay in Newton township, fronting on Cooper s creek and adjoin-\\ning the lands of Archibald Mickle, Edward Newbie and others.\\nIn 1697, the Carpenters sold the whole to Joseph Cooper,\\nwho, in 1 714, gave the same to his eldest son, Joseph. This\\ntra(5l of land now constitutes the most easterly part of the\\nCope estate, lying between Haddonfield and Camden. These\\nmen were brothers of the first Samuel, and resided in Philadel-\\nphia. Joshua was a man of considerable real estate in the city,\\nand a6led as commissioner for William Penn in the sale of his\\nland in Pennsylvania.\\nThat the subje6l of this sketch was always a resident of Penn-\\nsylvania, and came to Philadelphia before it had shape as a\\ntown, has generally been accepted as historic truth. Yet there\\nis doubt upon this point, as will appear from the following\\nreferences. In the year 1685, he was a member of the Friends\\nMeeting at Salem, as, on the 30th day of the 9th month, he\\nwas one of a committee to visit a member for some shortcoming.\\nIn the next year, he discharged a similar duty, and was also a\\ncontributor (he subscribing the largest sum) to finish the new end\\nof the meeting house. On the 25th of 5th month, 1687, he\\n4 Vol. IX, 19, N. J. Historical Society proceedings. 6 Lib. A, 148.\\n5 Lib. No. 5, 433. 7 Lib. A, 08, Gloucester Deeds.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0357.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "35 o FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nwas appointed one of a committee to attend the Quarterly\\nMeeting at Newton.\\nIn tlie year 1 700, when the Yearly Meeting was held in Salem,\\nhe took an a6live part in the proceedings, and was one of the\\ncommittee to receive money for the support of the Yearly Meet-\\ning, on behalf of the Salem Meeting. In Learning and Spicer s\\nrevision of the laws of New Jersey, which also contains full lists\\nof the members of the Legislature, may be found the name\\nof Samuel Carpenter, as returned to represent the Salem tenth.\\nThis was in May 1685; and the inference would naturally follow\\nthat he resided within the limits of that division of the province\\nat that time, and was sele6led to look after the interests of the\\npeople in those parts. A note, however, appended to the list\\nsays, Robert Turner and Samuel Carpenter appear not.\\nA curious feature of this session was that the Legislature sat\\nbut a single day, and, in the words of the resolution, agreed\\nto continue things upon the same foot and bottom as formerly,\\nuntil things shall be controverted in England, or the king s\\npleasure be further known therein. The day was spent in\\nappointing justices, commissioners, treasurers, clerks, sheriffs\\nand constables for the several divisions, and in assessing a\\ngeneral tax upon the people.\\nOn the 25 th of the ninth month in the same year, this body\\nagain assembled, at which time Samuel Carpenter appeared and\\ntook his seat, representing the Salem tenth, and was appointed\\none of the council. The sitting on that occasion was for\\nnine days, in which time a number of salutary laws were\\npassed, and several resolutions a6led upon, concerning the\\nduties devolving upon them. All this looks as if Samuel\\nCarpenter had been a resident of West New Jersey until\\nabout the year 1702, as, in that year, he gave fifteen pounds\\nto ere6l the new meeting house at Salem, in which contribution\\nhe is mentioned as residing in Philadelphia, where he soon grew\\ninto the confidence of the patroon and rendered him valuable\\nservices in the government of the colony and the selling of his\\nland. In reference to the laws of New Jersey passed while he\\nwas a member of the Legislature, the first a6l recorded may\\ninterest many persons at the present day, as it shows how our", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0358.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL CARPENTER. 351\\nQuaker ancestors avoided the inconsistency that is generally\\ncharged upon them, in regard to the military establishment\\nattached to the province, which they saw the necessity of main-\\ntaining thereafter. It is as follows\\nThat whereas the purchasers and chief inhabitants for the\\ngenerality in this province of West New Jersey, are a people\\nwhose principles for conscience-sake cannot bear arms nor be\\nfound in the exercise of war: Nevertheless and notwithstand-\\ning, that such their principles may not be found or judged\\ninjurious to the King s and Queen s service, (under whose pro-\\nte6tion we now live, and heartily receive them as such, as by our\\nProclamations thereof may appear) Be it ena6led by the\\nGovernor, Council and Representatives now in General Assem-\\nbly met and assembled, and by the authority of the same, that\\nsuch our principles and pra61;ices as aforesaid, shall be no ways\\nbinding or obliging to restrain such of the inhabitants of this\\nprovince whose freedom and principles induce them to serve\\nthe King in the defence of the Province in such posture and\\nform as the Governor and Council shall seem meet, being the\\nliberty that we claim to ourselves, may not justly be denied to\\nthem, least we should do as we would not be done unto. Any\\na6l or law made to the contrary heretofore notwithstanding.\\nIn the framing and passage of this a6l, Samuel Carpenter, no\\ndoubt, took part. It bears the marks of great concession on\\nbehalf of Friends in this particular, and shows that no trouble\\nwould arise on their part with the executive of the govern-\\nment, touching a matter at that time considered so essential\\nto its dignity and existence. Andrew Hamilton was then\\ngovernor; he differed with the representatives of the people\\nin many matters relating to the laws, and in their observance\\nand enforcement; yet, in this enactment, he could not but see\\nthe yielding of this religious se6l to his wishes, and their desire\\nto avoid trouble among the people.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0359.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0360.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "THOMAS GARDINER.\\nTHOMAS GARDINER came to Burlington in 1678 with\\nhis wife and children, bringing also considerable estate.\\nHis house was the first dwelling ere6led within the limits\\nof the town. Although of logs, it was of larger dimensions\\nthan any other among his neighbors, and was finished with\\nmore care and expense in it was held the first Yearly Meet-\\ning of Friends in New Jersey. He probably came from the\\ncity of London, as some real estate owned by him there\\nbecame the property of his grandchildren, who were, at the\\ntime, residents of Burlington. This is an inference only, and\\nmay prove erroneous.\\nJames Bowden, in his History of Friends, says: At Burling-\\nton Monthly Meeting in the third month, 1681, it was concluded\\nto establish a Yearly Meeting, the first to be held in the sixth\\nmonth following. A notice of this conclusion was circulated\\namong Friends of the provinces of East and West Jersey, and\\non the 28th of the sixth month, 1681, the meeting assembled\\nat the house of Thomas Gardiner, of Burlington. But very\\nlittle information of the proceedings of this Yearly Meeting,\\nwhich occupied four days, has been preserved.\\nIn one of the manuscripts of Samuel Smith, the historian, has\\nbeen found the following passage: 1685. This year ere6led\\na large and commodious meeting house. Samuel Jennings,\\nThomas Budd, John Gosling, Richard Guy, William Brighton\\nand Thomas Gardiner were the principal promoters and con-\\n23", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0361.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "354 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\ntributors. The authority from which this is derived cannot\\nbe questioned, and is conclusive as to the building of the\\ngreat meeting-house at Burlington.\\nThe Monthly Meeting, as above named, was regularly estab-\\nlished three years previous to this time, the original records\\nof which have been preserved, and from which the first minute\\nthere entered is here copied, as follows:\\nSince, by the good Providence of God, many Friends with\\ntheir families have transported themselves into this province\\nof West Jersey, the said Friends in the upper parts have found\\nit needful, according to the pra6lice in the place we come from,\\nto settle monthly meetings for the well ordering of the affairs\\nof the church. It was agreed that accordingly it should be\\ndone the 15th of the fifth month, 1678.\\nThis Monthly Meeting consisted of Friends settled about the\\nFalls (now Trenton), and of the particular meetings of Ranco-\\ncas, in New Jersey Shackomaxon, and Chester in Pennsylvania.\\nFrom all of these places, Burlington could be reached by water\\nand of this easy mode of transportation those attending the\\nMonthly Meeting, no doubt, took advantage. It also shows\\nthat the Friends who had settled on the west side of the river\\nhad not as yet organized their meetings, and were not yet in a\\nposition to assume the business relations necessary to a proper\\nintercourse with kindred associations. In fa6l, the yearly meet-\\nings were, for several years, alternately held at Burlington and\\nPhiladelphia, which included all the meetings in New Jersey\\nand Pennsylvania.\\nThe history above referred to also contains a copy of the first\\nepistle of Friends at Burlington to the Yearly Meeting of Lon-\\ndon, written in 1680, and signed by the most prominent Quakers\\nthen resident in the province. It alludes to their present pros-\\nperous and hopeful condition, shows their attachment to the\\ndodlrines which they had espoused, and the zeal with which\\nthey adhered to their religious belief. To such as are interested\\nin the early history of this religious denomination, the work\\nabove quoted is especially attractive, the author having had\\naccess to much of the correspondence of the first emigrants,\\nand free use of the books of records of Friends in England,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0362.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "THOMAS GARDINER. 355\\nand in America, from which he has collated a reliable and inter-\\nesting history of Friends in America.\\nAmong the records of the Salem Friends Meeting are several\\nentries in regard to William Bradford, the first printer in West\\nNew Jersey, which may prove interesting in this connexion.\\nAt the Yearly Meeting held at Burlington in 1690, several\\nFriends agreed to raise a sum of money, if he would continue\\nhis press there, and publish Friends books as heretofore. Each\\nparticular meeting belonging to that Yearly Meeting was solicited\\nto assist in raising money, and the request was responded to\\naccordingly. This shows how well the new comers understood\\nthe free circulation of the dodlrines and opinions held by them,\\nin the shape of printed pamphlets; and, as William Bradford\\nwas the only artisan of that kind in these parts at that time,\\nit was necessary to hold out certain pecuniary advantages to\\nhave him remain. In England, this policy had been pursued\\nwith much advantage, and there was no reason why an equal\\nbenefit should not be derived here. As showing who was the\\nfirst printer in West New Jersey, his name and residence, this\\nparticular record has much interest and is worth preservation.\\nThe first meetings of Friends in Burlington were held in a\\ntent made of the sails taken from the vessels in which they\\ncrossed the ocean in it they assembled for the first year after\\ntheir arrival, and until Thomas Gardiner s house was finished:\\nthus proving that they allowed no difficulties or hindrances to\\nprevent them from discharging their duty, as sincere and consis-\\ntent Christians. In all the doings of this little colony, both\\nreligious and political, Thomas Gardiner took an adlive and\\nprominent part, and appears to have commanded the confidence\\nand respe6l of the community around him. He was a tailor,\\nand the chances are that he had the whole business to himself,\\nfree from competition and with no one to differ with him\\nabout the fashions, as, with singular tenacity, the society of\\nFriends, for nearly two hundred years, has adhered to the same\\nform of dress.\\nHe was a member of the first provincial legislature of West\\nNew Jersey, that sat at Burlington in 1682 was one of the first\\ncommissioners for dividing and regulating land and was one", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0363.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "356 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nof the committee of ways and means, who represented the\\nLondon tenth, to provide money to defray the expenses of the\\ngovernment, appointed at that sitting of the assembly/ At the\\nsame time, he was appointed one of the judges of the courts of\\nBurlington county. As such he served the people acceptably\\nfor several years. The next year he was appointed one of the\\ngovernor s council, and made one of the treasurers of the prov-\\nince. Some of these appointments were continued through\\nseveral years, and until refused. This shows in what estimation\\nhe was held by the people of his county and province. He\\ndeceased in 1694, leaving a widow and several children,* namely:\\nJohn, who deceased the same year as his father, unmarried;*\\nMathew, who settled at Raritan previous to 1716, but died with-\\nout children;\u00c2\u00ae Esther, who married John Wills; and Thomas,\\nwho married Hannah Mathews.\\nWithout any certain data to prove it, the probability is that\\nThomas Gardiner was a brother to Peter Gardiner, a public\\nFriend, who resided near Castle Hedingham, in Essex, England.\\nPeter Gardiner was an a6live man in the ministry during the per-\\nsecutions of Friends in England, and suffered in person and\\nestate, as did the most of those who dared to preach and\\npra6lise the do Slrines of George Fox and Robert Barclay in\\nthose times. Upon his return from a gospel mission to Scot-\\nland, he was taken ill of small-pox at Carlisle, in Cumberland,\\nand there died in 1695. Although Thomas Gardiner was the\\nfirst of the name that came to New Jersey, yet he was not the\\nfirst in America.\\nIn 1658, there resided at Newport, Rhode Island, a woman\\nnamed Hored Gardiner, who left her family of several children\\nto go on a religious visit to Weymouth, in the province of Mas-\\nsachusetts, distant some sixty miles, mostly through the wilder-\\nness. She carried with her an infant, and was accompanied by\\na small white girl only. At that time Governor Endicott was\\nmuch embittered against the Quakers, who deemed it proper\\nto make religious visits among the colonists, and whom he pun-\\nished severely for so doing. Upon this female s arrival at\\n1 Learning Spicer s Laws. 5 Lib. 2, 717.\\n2 Learning Spicer s Laws. 6 Burlington Files of Wills.\\n3 Lib. BBB, 82. 7 Basse s Book, 164, 280.\\n4 Smith s History of New Jersey.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0364.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "THOMAS GARDINER. 357\\nWeymouth, she was arrested and taken before the Governor,\\nwho used abusive language to her, and ordered that she and her\\nyoung attendant should receive ten lashes each upon their naked\\nbodies. This punishment was infli6ted upon the woman while\\nshe held her infant, which was only prote6led from the lash\\nby the arms of the mother. As repulsive as this kind of pun-\\nishment was to the more conservative class of citizens, yet the\\nauthorities indulged their malice and bigotry in many instances\\ntoward the people, and continued so to do until at last\\nrestrained by the home government, before which many com-\\nplaints were laid by those of like persuasion in England.\\nImprisonment in loathsome and filthy dungeons, dragging at\\nthe cart s tail, and sitting in the pillory, were some of the\\ninfli6lions visited upon the Quakers in New England in the\\nfirst colonizing of that part of America.\\nIn examining and reviewing the a6lions of the first English\\nsettlers in West Jersey, it is often inquired why they passed so far\\nup the river in sele6ling a site for a town, leaving behind them\\nso many suitable places, where greater depth of water could have\\nbeen had, and the settlement would have been many miles nearer\\nthe sea. The Swedish settlements did not extend far above\\nthe mouth of Raccoon creek, with the exception of a small\\nnumber of colonists at Woodbury creek and the next point\\nat which they found any inhabitants besides the natives, was\\nwhere a few Hollanders had settled, and where one kept a\\ntavern for the accommodation of travelers, on the river s\\nshore above the mouth of the Assiscunk creek, and near where\\nthese adventurers seledled their site for Bridlington. The\\nrecords of Upland Court as held at Chester, Pa., at the date\\nheretofore given, will prove conclusively that such a tavern\\nwas there kept at which place a ferry was also maintained\\nfor the use of the few persons passing from New York to Vir-\\nginia by the way of land, it being the only place below the\\nfalls where persons could cross with horses in going from the\\none point to the other. The record runs as follows", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0365.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "358 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nPeter Yegou, Plaintiff, It xi- c\\nIn an action of trespass\\nI upon the case.\\nThomas Wright and\\nGodfrey Hancock, Def ts.\\nThe plaintiff declares that in ye year 1668 he obtained a\\npermit and grant of Governor Philip Carteret to take up ye land\\ncalled Leasy Point, lying and being over against Mattinagcom\\nIsland, now Burlington, to settle himself there and to build and\\nkeep a house of entertainment for the accommodation of\\ntravelers, all which ye plaintiff accordingly hath done and\\nmoreover hath purchased of Cornells Jorissen, Jurirus Macelis\\nand Jan Clarssen, each their houses and land at Leasy Point\\naforesaid, which was given them by the Dutch Governor in the\\nyear 1666, for all which Governor Carteret promised your\\nplaintiff a patent, all which said houses and lands ye plaintiff\\nhad in lawful possession until the year 1670, at which tyme\\nyour plaintiff was plundered by the Indians, and by them utterly\\nruined, as is well known to all the world, so that your plaintiff\\nthen for a time was forced to leave his land and possessions afore-\\nsaid and to seek his livelihood and to repair his loss in other places\\nand to leave his land as aforesaid with intention to return when\\noccasion should present. But so it is, may it please your wor-\\nships, that with the arrival of these new comers called Quakers\\nout of England, these defendants, Thomas Wright and Godfrey\\nHancock, have violently entered upon your plaintiff s said land\\nand there have by force planted corn, cut timber for houses,\\nmowed hay and made fences. Notwithstanding they were fore-\\nwarned by your plaintiff s friend, Henry Jacobs, in your plain-\\ntiff s behalf in the presence of Capt. Edmund Cantwell and\\nafterwards by your plaintiff summoned before your magistrates\\nat Burlington, who making no end of it, the case was with said\\nmagistrates and these defendants consents removed by him\\nbefore your worships. Wherefore your plaintiff craves your\\nworships to order the defendants and all others not to molest ye\\nplaintiff in the quiet possession of the said land, c.\\nThe defendants in court declared themselves to be very will-\\ning to stand ye verdi Sl and judgment of this court. Whereupon\\nthe court (having heard the debates of both parties, and examined", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0366.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "THOMAS GARDINER. 359\\nall the papers) are of opinion that since Mr. Peter Yegou had\\nGovernor Carteret s grant, and was in quiet possession of ye\\nland before the said land was sold by John Lord Berkley unto\\nEdward Byllinge, and that he, ye said Peter Yegou, hath also\\nbought the land and payed ye Indians for ye same, that there-\\nfore Mr. Peter Yegou ought peaceably and quietly, to enjoy\\nye same land and appurtenances according to grant and pur-\\nchase.\\nThe Legislature of the province in 1683 ^.de restitution to\\nThomas Wright on account of the difficulty which he had thus\\nfallen into, by giving him one hundred acres of land in another\\nplace, to be surveyed according to the rules. In 1697, another\\naft was passed in relation to this piece of land, to confirm the\\ntitle to John Joosten and John Hamel, who held, after several\\nconveyances, under Peter Yegou this settled the possession\\nand estate of said land, so that, after eighteen years of litiga-\\ntion, the purchaser could hold it in peace. It is easy to dis-\\ncover by this how the name of Yegou, or Cheygou, attached to\\nthe island, which is really that part of the fast land surrounded\\nby the creek where the city of Burlington now stands, the name\\nbeing of Dutch origin, and not that of an Indian chief, as\\ngenerally considered. The truth of history often destroys the\\nromance and beauty that surround an obje6l, yet a faithful\\nadherence to fa6ls ought not to be disregarded.\\nGeorge Fox, in traveling from Middletown harbor to New\\nCastle, lodged at this place in 1672, and at this point he crossed\\nthe river. He says it had been deserted from fear of the\\nIndians. This statement is confirmed by the before-copied\\nrecord, and also explains why the first emigrants sailed so far\\nup the river, before they landed for, at this place, the only\\ninhabitants above Raccoon creek were found.\\nAn extra6l from his journal may not prove uninteresting upon\\nthis point it will show how well the history of this place is cor-\\nroborated. Next day we traveled fifty miles as we computed,\\nand, at night, finding an old house which the Indians had\\nforced the people to leave, we made a fire and lay there at\\nthe head of Delaware Bay. The next day we swam our horses\\n8 Publications of the Historical Society of Penna.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0367.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "360 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nover the river, about a mile, twice, first to an island called\\nUpper Dinidock and then to the main land, having hired\\nIndiana to help us over in their canoes.\\nDuring the first ten years that elapsed between the marriage\\nof Thomas Gardiner, Jr., and the death of his father, he resided\\non part of the estate owned by his wife at Woodbury creek,\\nwhere also her brother lived on part of the same property. At\\nthat time he was one of the trustees of the Friends Meeting\\nat that place, and participated somewhat in the political affairs\\nof the province. He was a pra6lical surveyor, and a6led as\\none of the judges of the court of Gloucester county, when\\nthey were held at Red Bank.^ After the death of his father,\\nhe removed to Burlington, and, in a short time, was appointed\\nsurveyor-general of the western division of New Jersey, by the\\ncouncil of proprietors, which office he appears to have filled\\nwith satisfadlion for several years. The duties of this position\\nat this time were onerous and responsible he was required to\\nreview all the maps and locations of land made by the several\\ndeputy surveyors, to examine the calculations as to the quantity\\nof acres named, to test the several bearings as marked upon the\\nmaps, and to certify to the council that they were corre6l in all\\nthese particulars. If any disputes occurred among the claimants\\n(which often happened), he became the executive officer, and\\nwent upon the land, so that he could report where the real\\ndifficulty existed. During the term of his office, which extended\\nfrom 1 701 to 1 71 7, (in which last year he died,) there was\\nmuch trouble among the proprietors in the taking up of land\\nwhere the Indian title had not been extinguished. In this\\nparticular, the council was careful to prevent surveys from\\npassing this board beyond the bounds of any purchase\\nalready consummated with this simple-minded people. It may\\nnot be uninteresting to copy here an advertisement published\\nby the council touching one of these purchases; it shows the\\nmanner in which the assessments were made, so that from such\\nfunds all the contradls should be faithfully carried out.\\nLearning Spicer s Laws.\\n10 Basse s Book\\nji Minutes of the Council of Proprietors, O. S. G.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0368.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "THOMAS GARDINER. 361\\nADVERTISEMENT.\\nThese are to give notice to the proprietors of the Western\\nDivision of New Jersey, that, the Council chosen to negotiate\\nthe affairs of the said division having resolved to proceed to a\\nfourth dividend, in order thereunto, have treated with the\\nIndians and bargained with them for a very large quantity\\nof land for which divers payments are to be made them in\\na short time. All persons that have rights to take up on a\\nfourth dividend, or any part or parts of their first, second\\nor third dividend are desired to meet the council of proprie-\\ntors on the 20th day of 06lober next, at Burlington, to enter\\nthe quantities which they have a right to, as also to provide,\\nas speedy as may be, their proportion of the purchase money,\\nwhich will amount by computation to six shillings of the cur-\\nrency of New York per hundred for the colle6lion of which\\nmoney with the least loss of time that may be (and converting\\nit into goods to be paid to the natives), Peter Fretwell at\\nBurlington, Richard Bull at Gloucester and John Budd at\\nPhiladelphia, are appointed to receive the same, and the\\nagents of such proprietors as are abroad, are desired to take\\nnotice hereof that due care may be taken of their constituents\\ninterests. May, 1717.\\nThis paper explains the manner in which the title of the\\nnatives to the soil was extinguished, and proves that the council\\nof proprietors would not consent to the occupation of their\\nlands until a contra6l had been made and carried out. Many\\nof these Indian deeds are still in existence; some among\\nthe owners of the estate conveyed, and many on file in the\\noffice of the secretary of state at Trenton, with all sorts of\\nhieroglyphics attached as the signatures of the grantors, which\\nare quite as unexplainable as the names which they stand to\\nrepresent. Under these grants no attempt was made by the\\nsettlers to interfere with the privileges of the Indians, or to\\nremove them from their places of abode; and, only as they\\ndeceased, and from time to time abandoned their towns, were\\nthese places occupied by the whites. Through West Jersey\\nthere are still many places remembered as Indian settlements,\\n13 Minute Book of the Council of Proprietors, O. S. G.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0369.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "362 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nand some of their burial grounds are known but the gradual\\nfalling off in numbers, and the colle6ting of families into the\\nmore thickly settled neighborhoods, which ended at Shamong,\\nor Brotherton, in Burlington county, gave the purchasers, under\\nthe rules of the proprietors, full and complete possession, with-\\nout any dispute or difficulty thus were avoided the bloodshed\\nand murders that attended the advance of civilization in the\\nWestern States at a subsequent period.\\nWith the framing of these titles fixing the boundaries of\\nthe se6lions of land to be conveyed, the surveyor-general\\nhad much to do. It was afterward his duty to watch the\\nprogress of the locations, and see that they were kept within\\nthe limits of the purchase. During the term of Thomas Gard-\\niner, the greatest of these troubles existed and, having to\\ncontend with avarice and unjust dealing in opposition to what\\nwas his sworn and palpable duty towards those whom he repre-\\nsented, he was often the subje6l of complaint to the council, and\\nof misrepresentation and abuse among the people. Under his\\nadministration, new and more rigid rules were established in\\ndefining the boundaries of locations, making them plainer and\\nmore definite and thus much contention and trouble were\\navoided in the future. In one instance, he found it necessary\\nto prevent his deputies from making locations in the new Indian\\npurchase until some existing dispute should be arranged\\nagain, in making surveys, he ordered that they should be laid\\nadjoining each other, and as near as possible in parallel lines.\\nThese, with other like regulations, were necessary and useful,\\nand showed him to be a man that understood and looked after\\nthe interests of those whom he represented. In 1710, Thomas\\nGardiner sold part of his real estate at Woodbury creek to James\\nWhitall, and subsequently disposed of all the land owned by his\\nwife at that place. He died, seized of considerable landed\\nproperty about Burlington, some of which he previously con-\\nveyed in trust for the use of his children. His family consisted\\nof two sons, Thomas and Matthew, and of two daughters,\\n13 Lib. A, 194.\\n14 Lib. E, 418.\\n15 Lib. GH, 51, 53.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0370.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "THOMAS GARDINER. 363\\nElizabeth, who married Abraham Bickley, and Hannah, who\\nmarried Isaac Pearson.\\nAbraham Bickley was a distiller; he lived in Philadelphia,\\nand died about 1747. Ten years before his death, he located\\na tra6l of land in Gloucester county, N. J., generally known\\nas the Blue Anchor tra6l whereon was the tavern that bore\\nthe same name, so long and favorably known by the traveling\\npublic in this section of the State. The old house stood upon\\nthe Indian trail that went from the coast to the Delaware river,\\nand at about an equal distance from each. This location made\\nit, for more than, a century, a place of rest for persons crossing\\nthis part of the State. The building of the Camden and Atlantic\\nrailroad has destroyed its usefulness, and the next generation\\nwill have no remembrance of it.\\nIsaac Pearson was a silversmith, and resided in the city of\\nBurlington, where some of his descendants still remain. The\\nmale branch of the Gardiners being limited, the name is not\\nvery extensive in West New Jersey, although the collateral\\nconne6tion is numerous.\\n16 Lib. BBB, 195, 318 17 Lib. Ba, 717. 18 Lib. BB, 318.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0371.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0372.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "JOHN CHAMPION.\\nAs early as in the year 1673, John Champion and Thomas\\nChampion and their families were residents of the town\\nof Hempstead, on Long Island, in the State of New York.\\nTen years after that date, the constable and overseers of the\\nsaid town made a valuation of the estates of the inhabitants\\nbut, for some reason, John Champion was not included in the\\nlist. His name, however, appears among those who were in\\ndefault, and had negle6led or refused to give the officers the\\nproper information. That paper was attached to the first, and\\nis headed as follows\\nThese under-written are ye remainder of ye inhabitants\\nof ye said towne, which, having not brought in their valuation,\\nare guest att by ye Constable and Overseers of ye towne afore-\\nsaid.\\nIn this the name of John Champion is seen, and his estate\\nis guest to be worth one hundred pounds, sterling. The\\nfamily was probably English, and was among the first that\\noccupied that part of Long Island, where the hardy pioneers\\nsoon made themselves comfortable homes. As soon as John\\nFenwick had effedled a landing at Salem, in 1678, and the\\nYorkshire and London Friends had fixed upon Burlington as\\nthe place for a town, the settlers about Long Island estab-\\nlished dire6l and frequent intercourse with them, which lasted\\nfor many years thereafter.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0373.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "366 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nMatthew Champion, who lived in Burlington about the year\\n1690, and purchased land of John Tomlinson, at Onanickon,\\nin Springfield, the next year, does not appear to have been of\\nthis immediate family. Neither is conne6led with it the family\\nof the same name which emigrated to Tuckahoe, in Cape May\\ncounty a family which was among the first settlers in that\\nsedlion, and which has now become numerous along the sea\\nshore of this State.\\nOn May 13, 1700, Henry Franklin conveyed to John Cham-\\npion, of Hempstead, Queen s county. Long Island, a tra6l of\\nland lying on the north side of Cooper s creek, in Waterford,\\n(now Delaware) township, Camden county, New Jersey, to which\\nplace the said John removed.^ This tradl contained three\\nhundred and thirty acres of land it was the same as that\\nwhich Henry Franklin had purchased of Mordecai Howell\\nthree years before, and which in that deed is described\\nas being situated at Livewell. Henry Franklin was a\\nbricklayer. He resided at Long Island at that time, but\\nperhaps never removed to this purchase. Part of this estate\\nis what has, for many years, been known as the Barton farm,\\nand thereon stood the residence of John Champion. This was\\nnear where one of the roads crossed Cooper s creek in going\\nfrom Burlington to Philadelphia, and where travelers had much\\ntrouble in crossing the stream. It is recorded in one of the\\nminute books of Old Gloucester, that John Champion makes\\ngreat complaint of his great charge in setting people over\\nCooper s creek at his house; whereon ye Grand Jury propose\\nthat in case ye said John Champion will find sufficient conve-\\nnience to put people over at all seasons, the said Champion may\\ntake for ferriage as follows For two persons together, two pence\\nper head; for one single person, three pence, and for a man and\\nhorse, five pence. To which ye bench assents.\\nIn connexion with this, Isaac Mickle says: It will be\\nobserved that no mention is made in any of these regulations\\nof carriages. Such refinements were not introduced generally,\\neven in Philadelphia, until the Revolution. In West Jersey,\\nmost journeys were performed on horse-back, and the marriage\\nI Lib. G3, 465-\\n3 Lib. C, 122.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0374.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "JOHN CHAMPION. 367\\nportion of the daughters of the most wealthy men consisted\\nof a cow and a side-saddle. Funerals were frequently attended\\nin boats, and the bodies of the deceased taken from Cooper s\\ncreek to the old Newton graveyard by water.\\nThe coming of John Champion from Long Island to New\\nJersey may be accounted for by the marriage of his daughter\\nElizabeth to John Wright, a son of Richard Wright, who had\\npurchased land of Thomas Howell, on Cooper s creek and\\nsettled there.* The minutes of the Gloucester county courts\\nof 1687, show a dispute between Richard Wright and Thomas\\nHowell about the conveyance of this land.^ The verdidl of the\\njury was in favor of Wright, and Howell was required to carry\\nout his contra6l. In 1691 and in 1693, the son John increased\\nhis possession by purchases of adjoining tracts from Thomas\\nHowell s heirs, which lands lay near to those of his father-in-\\nlaw. This marri6,ge is additional proof of the intercourse\\nexisting between the se6tions named, and shows that families\\nremoving from one place found easy means to preserve their\\nintimacies with friends living at the other.\\nThe application of John Champion for a ferry license is\\nevidence that he came hither soon after his first purchase and\\nhere he resided during the remainder of his life. Living, as he\\ndid, near a navigable stream, his intercourse with the city of\\nPhiladelphia was frequent, and he knew it long before sufficient\\nof the timber had been removed to show even the diredlion of\\nthe streets. The bank fronting the river Delaware, being filled\\nwith caves and rude huts, where the citizens lived and where\\nstood much of the primitive forest, must have presented a\\nstrange appearance in approaching it from New Jersey. Oppo-\\nsite the mouth of Cooper s creek was the most populous part of\\nthe town and perhaps he did not live to see it enlarged beyond\\nthe limits of Shackomaxon. The many troubles through which\\nWilliam Penn had passed, and the difficulties which he had in\\nregard to the sale and settlement of his lands in Pennsylvania,\\nwere a hinderance to the enlargement of the city, and prevented\\nthe rapid settlement that he had anticipated.\\n3 Mickle s Reminiscences of Old Gloucester, 42.\\n4 Lib. G, 14. Lib. G2, 114.\\n5 Lib. G3, 5.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0375.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "368 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nIn the year 1718, John Champion divided his landed estate\\nbetween his sons Robert and Nathaniel, by a line running from\\nthe creek into the woods, and made each a deed bearing the\\nsame date (April 24).^ His other children were Thomas and\\nPhoebe. He died in 1727, leaving a will, and, by that, disposing\\nof the remainder of his estate. The son Robert was made\\nexecutor. He had removed to the city of Philadelphia, where\\nhe deceased soon after his father, and before the will was offered\\nfor probate. The second son Nathaniel proved the writing,\\nand as administrator settled the estate.\u00c2\u00ae\\nOn September 13th, 1720, Robert Champion sold his part of\\nthe real estate given to him by his father, to Tobias Halloway,\\nbut the latter re-conveyed the same to him on the 24th day of\\nJuly, 1723. At the date of the deed (1720), Robert lived on\\nthe property at Cooper s creek, and, as no female joined with\\nhim in the conveyance, he was probably unmarried at that time.\\nLike a large majority of the settlers hereabout, he could not\\nwrite his name which inability was also the case with his\\nfather. He afterwards married, and had one child, a son,\\nPeter, who, in the year 1740, married Hannah Thackara,\\na daughter of Benjamin. She deceased, and, in 1746, he\\nmarried Ann, a daughter of Simeon Ellis (the son of Simeon).\\nBy the last marriage there was one child, Joseph. Peter\\nChampion deceased in 1748, and his widow, Ann, became\\nthe administratrix to the estate, he leaving no will.\\nA short time before his death, he conveyed a piece of meadow\\nland to John Shivers, being part of the homestead. He was\\ntherefore the owner thereof after his father s demise. In\\n1 75 1, Ann, the widow, married John Stokes, and, after his\\ndemise, she married Samuel Murrell, 1761. By each marriage\\nshe had children, thus rendering it difficult to trace the descend-\\nants of Ann Ellis, and to know the paternal line. Joseph\\nChampion, the issue of the second marriage of Peter, married\\nRachel Collins, a daughter of Samuel and Rosanna (Stokes).\\nSamuel was a blacksmith and plied his calling at Colestown,\\nthen in Waterford township. This Samuel Collins was a son\\n6 Lib. A, 165\u00e2\u0080\u0094166. 9 Lib. A, 236.\\n7 Lib. No. 2, 437. 10 Lib. No. 6, 76.\\n8 Lib. No. 2, 441. II Lib. AH, 385.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0376.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "JOHN CHAMPION. 369\\nof Samuel and Abigail (Ward), who was the youngest son of\\nFrancis and Mary, the last wife of Francis, the widow of John\\nGoslin, M. D. and daughter of Thomas Budd. Ann Ellis\\ninherited, through the blood of her ancestors, a tradl of land\\nin Delaware township, lying on both sides of the Haddonfield\\nand Moorestown road, now mostly owned by William M. Cooper\\nand the heirs of Batheuel Heulings, deceased.\\nIn 1723, Nathaniel Champion sold his lands on Cooper s\\ncreek to James Parrock, who, soon after the death of Nathaniel,\\nconveyed the same to Mary, his widow, she remaining the owner\\nthereof during her life and devising it to John Barton by her\\n^jj|_i2-i3 Nathaniel died in 1748, leaving the following children:\\nNathaniel, who married Benjamin, who married\\nAnn Hewitt Thomas, who married Deborah Clark, daughter\\nof William; Elizabeth, who married John Barton; and Sarah.\\nThe widow of Nathaniel remained on the estate for many\\nyears after her husband s decease. Her will bears date\\n1772. In this paper she names her children and several of her\\ngrandchildren. She gave the farm on Cooper s creek, where\\nshe then dwelt, to her son-in-law before named.\\nThomas, the son of Nathaniel, was a tailor, and resided in\\nHaddonfield, where some of his descendants were known to\\nthe older inhabitants now living. He probably owned the\\nlot whereon stood the mansion built by Matthias Aspden,\\nnow the property of the heirs of Benjamin W. Blackwood,\\nM. D., deceased. This house was one of the largest in the\\nvillage, and, when eredled, was more commodious and expen-\\nsive than most of those around it. Upon the death of Samuel,\\nthe son of Thomas, it passed out of the name and that\\nbranch of the family removed from the village.\\nJohn Wright, husband of the daughter Elizabeth, made his\\nhome on part of the Howell estate before John Champion\\npurchased his land. In the grant to him by Mordecai Howell\\nin 1693, Howell reserved the right to overflow the meadow and\\nuse the water in the stream for his corn-mill, which he built\\nabout that time. In 1702, he purchased two hundred and eight\\n12 Lib. A, 166. 13 Lib. GG, 356.\\n14 Lib. No. 5, 524.\\n24", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0377.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "370 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nacres of Martin Jarvis, in Newton township. This tra6l lay\\nnear the mouth of Newton creek, and extended up that stream\\nto Fork branch, and also up that on the north side for a consid-\\nerable distance. It now includes several valuable farms in that\\npart of the old township of Newton.^ The estate on Cooper s\\ncreek passed out of the name and blood many years since, even\\nbeyond the memory of the oldest inhabitant in that se6lion.\\nOnly such as have occasion to examine the ancient deeds or\\nrecords relating to the land here spoken of, will know that such\\nowners ever there resided and, unless some defe6l in the title\\nshould appear in passing through the heirs of Richard Wright\\nand of his son John, no inquiry may ever be started in regard\\nto their genealogy.\\nRichard Wright died in a few years after his coming hither,\\nleaving a widow named Constance, and three children, John,\\nSarah and Hannah. It is remarkable that so few of the name\\nof Champion are now living in the neighborhood of the old\\nestate and a few more decades may remove it entirely.\\nThe mutation of families is an interesting and instrudlive\\nstudy, deserving labor and attention. Some go on increas-\\ning for generations, while others fall away and altogether\\ndisappear. While one family may be found for a century\\nwhere the first settlers placed it, another has been scattered,\\nand the old homestead forgotten. Where one family adheres\\nto the land of its forefathers with an admirable tenacity,\\nanother has no regard for ancient things, and parts with\\nthem without a regret. The laws regulating the descent of\\nlands in New Jersey makes it of importance that a correal\\nknowledge in this regard should be had; but, in the absence\\nof legislative a6lion, it must always be surrounded with trouble\\nand doubt.\\n15 Basse s Book, 38.\\n16 Lib. A, lit.\\n17 Lib, G2, 177.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0378.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "JOHN EASTLACK.\\nAMONG the Friends who settled in the island of Bermuda,\\nsome of whom were banished by the British authorities,\\nwhile others followed to be near their families, was one Francis\\nEastlack, or Eastlake, as sometimes spelled, who appears to have\\nbeen a prominent man in that place. He was persecuted in like\\nmanner by the rulers of the island for the course which he pur-\\nsued in religious matters, and was frequently imprisoned and\\nsometimes beaten and put in the stocks. In 1660, he was taken\\nfrom a religious meeting and tied, hand and foot, so that he\\ncould not move; in 1666, he was beaten and fined, and, in\\nother ways, maltreated in person, and despoiled of his goods.\\nHe was a public Friend, and proclaimed his views and do6lrines\\namong the people. This made him obnoxious to those in power,\\nand the obje6t of dislike to such as differed with him in opinion.\\nDuring his stay at that island he fell into a religious controversy\\nwith one Sampson Bond, a leading man in some other persua-\\nsion. This ended in the printing of a book on each side, some\\nfew copies of which have been preserved by the curiosity-hun-\\nters in the literary line, and may be found hidden away in the\\nlibraries of such, being shown as typographical wonders though\\nbut seldom read These books made their appearance in the\\nyear 1683, and, like all such, were only of interest to those who\\nknew the parties and resided in that particular locality.\\nThe early Quakers were prolific in the produ6lion of pamph-\\nlets and books in defence of their do6lrines and mode of\\nworship; these led to replies from their opponents, and, conse-", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0379.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "372 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nquently, added much to the printed matter of those times, and\\nnow give a very fair reflex of the controverted points, as well\\nas of the manner of maintaining and rebutting them. The\\nbook of which Francis Eastlack was the author bears the title\\nof The truth in Christ Jesus with the Professors thereof in the\\nIsland of Bermuda, (Commonly called Quakers,) cleared from\\nthe three ungodly false charges. Charged upon them by Samp-\\nson Bond (teacher in said Island); in a Book entitled The\\nQuakers in Bermudas tryed, c., by a Friend and Lover of the\\nTruth in the same Island, called Francis Eastlacke.\\nThis was printed in London in 1683 and no doubt had con-\\nsiderable circulation in the island, as well as among Friends in\\nLondon and thereabout. Much pains has been taken of late\\nyears to colle6l and preserve all such publications which has\\nbrought to light many that had been lost sight of and, in the\\nlapse of years, entirely forgotten. About the date last named,\\nFrancis Eastlack came to West Jersey and settled in Newton\\ntownship; but the exa6l locality of his habitation cannot be\\ndiscovered, as he does not appear to have been the owner of any\\nreal estate. He was probably advanced in years, and did not\\nparticipate much in the religious or political matters of the\\ncolony. Those of his own religious persuasion doubtless\\nsympathized with him in the trials and persecutions through\\nwhich he had passed, to show the world his attachments to the\\ndo6lrines which he had espoused. So far as can be discovered,\\nhe had four children, namely: John, who married Sarah\\nThackara, daughter of Thomas Hepsibah, who married\\nThomas Thackara Jemima, who married William Sharp\\nand Elizabeth, who married Joseph Mickle. Taking this as\\nthe starting point, and assuming it to be corre6l, the surname\\nwas confined to one person even in the second generation, and\\nthe family, as a whole, limited to but few persons.\\nThe first settlement of John Eastlack was, in all probability,\\nupon fifty acres of land conveyed to him by his brother-in-law,\\nBenjamin Thackara, in 1706, who thus carried out the inten-\\ntions of the father of his wife, not consummated during his\\nlife.^ This adjoined another tra6l given to the daughter Han-\\nI Lib. A, 107.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0380.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "JOHN EASTLACK. 373\\nnah, the wife of John Whitall, who, with her husband, had also\\nthereon eredled a dwelling. The exa6l locality of this fifty\\nacres would be difficult to trace at this time, but it lies in the\\nestate late of John C. DaCosta, deceased, near the head of the\\nFork creek, in old Newton township. The building was doubt-\\nless a substantial log cabin, and, with the exception of a few\\ncleared acres for farming purposes, surrounded by the primitive\\nforest. The creek, at that time open to the flow of the tide,\\nprovided a means of travel, and a source whence food also could\\nbe procured thus removing all anxiety from the minds of these\\nadventurers in regard to a full supply for the inner man.\\nAmong the many inducements held out by these pioneers to\\ntheir friends still in the old country, none were made more\\nprominent than the abundant supply of food always at hand\\nin the rivers and forest and the fa6l that the danger of\\nstarvation- could not by any possibility surround them. From\\nGabriel Thomas to the last correspondent on record, this\\nassurance is faithfully held out and was always found good by\\nsuch as chose to test it.\\nThomas Sharp shows on his map of the lands in Newton town-\\nship, made in 1 700, one hundred acres owned by John Easly,\\nbeing part of Thomas Matthew s survey, afterwards owned by\\nJohn Haddon, at this writing held by the heirs of James Stoy,\\ndeceased. This title is so obscured by various conveyances and\\nthe tautology of English deeds, that no intelligent explanation\\ncan be arrived at and whether John Easly Eastlack had an\\nindefeasible estate therein, and disposed of it by the regular\\nchannel, is yet to be discovered.\\nJohn Eastlack was a man of some estate, and dealt in land,\\neven in those early times. In 1 716, he purchased a plantation\\nof one hundred and seventy-five acres, of Benjamin Richards,\\nsituated on the north branch of Timber creek, and three years\\nafter sold the same to Thomas Smallwood. This probably lay\\nwest of Chew s Landing, and parts of it may yet be in the\\nname of the last named grantee. In 1718, he purchased a\\nlot of meadow land of John Wright, in Newton township on\\n2 Lib. A, 109, 118.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0381.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "374 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nFork creek, near to or adjoining the fifty acres before named.\\nThis much enlarged his boundaries thereabout.^\\nThe old documents say that John was a weaver, a worker in\\nwool which calling occupied his long winter evenings in a\\nuseful and commendable manner. Buckskin breeches, with\\ncoat and vest to match, supplied in a great measure the\\ndemand for cloth and our worthy ancestors could often have\\nbeen seen in the gallery of the meeting house, or in the halls of\\nlegislation, clad in this array, making a very presentable appear-\\nance. Buttons for vests, and buckles for the knees of breeches,\\nwere, for several generations, considered an heir-loom and the\\nson who found himself the possessor thereof was always marked\\nas the favorite of the paternal head of the family. John Whitall,\\nthe brother-in-law of John Eastlack, died in 1718, having, by\\nhis will, diredled his land to be sold. John Eastlack was the\\nexecutor, and with the widow made a deed for said lands to\\nIsaac Willowby in 1724. Isaac Willowby re-conveyed the\\nsame to John Eastlack the same year. These were sixty acres\\ngiven by Thomas Thackara to John Whitall in 1696 upon his\\nmarriage they adjoined John Eastlack s fifty acres. These\\ntwo tradls passed to the second John by will, who re-surveyed\\nsaid lands in 1760.* As before hinted, these tra6ls lie in the\\nestate late of John C. DaCosta, deceased.\\nIn 1729, John Eastlack purchased another property in\\nNewton township, fronting on Cooper s creek, of which James\\nWhitall died the owner. He conveyed the same to John\\nEstaugh in 1735.^ By the will of John Estaugh, all his landed\\nestate passed to his wife, who deeded the said farm to her\\nnephew, Ebenezer Hopkins, in 1747.\u00c2\u00ae John Eastlack bought\\nand sold much other land in Gloucester county, showing himself\\nto have been a business man with an eye to thrift and care taking.\\nHe died in 1736, leaving a will by which, after a few legacies, he\\ngave the remainder of his estate to his sons, John and Samuel.\\nHe was a resident of Newton township, but of what part does\\nnot appear. An inventory of his personal effedls discloses their\\nvalue to be two hundred and sixty-three pounds. His children\\n3 Lib. A, 110. 6 Lib. S6, 124, O. S. G.\\n4 Lib. H, 4S4, O. S. G. 7 Lib. No. s, 131.\\n5 Lib. GG, og.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0382.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "JOHN EASTLACK. 375\\nwere Sarah, who married James Mickle; Samuel, who married\\nAnn Breach; John, who married Mary Bolton and Patience\\nHugg; Daniel, who married Mary Cheesman; Esther, Eliza-\\nbeth and Hannah. Samuel died intestate in 1744; Elizabeth\\nremained a single woman and deceased in 1757, also without\\na will.^\\nJames Mickle, the husband of Sarah, deceased in 1736, about\\nfour years after his marriage, leaving a will/ His wife survived\\nhim with two children, Rachel and Jacob.\\nThe husband of Jemima was probably a grandson of Thomas\\nSharp, the surveyor, and one of the first emigrants to Newton.\\nOf the descendants of this daughter nothing can be at this date\\ndiscovered.\\nDaniel Eastlack settled in Greenwich township now Glou-\\ncester county, and is the ancestor of the family in that region\\nof country. John Eastlack settled in Newton township on the\\nland by him re-surveyed; part of which came to him in a diredl\\nline from his maternal ancestor, Sarah Thackara, and part from\\nHannah Whitall, the widow of John. He also purchased a tra6l\\nof land in Newton township of Gabriel Newbie, in 1742. His\\ntwo sons, John and Samuel, were also grantees with him in the\\ntitle as joint tenants, and the son John, being the survivor,\\nconveyed the whole to Joseph Mickle in 1752. He became the\\nowner of much other real estate in Gloucester county, some by\\nthe v.nll of his father, and some by purchase. None of these\\nacres, now so valuable, have been in the name or family for\\nmany years, and, but for the time-stained deeds that carry the\\ntitle from one purchaser to another, the name would long since\\nhave been forgotten. The little increase in the male line will\\naccount for the small number of the name now left, and the\\nblood must in a few years be sought for among the female\\ndescendants.\\n8 Lib. No. 5, 86. 9 Lib. No. 8,\\n10 Lib. No. 4, (^.5.\\n437-", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0383.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0384.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "THE LIPPINCOTTS.\\n(CONTRIBI TED BY JaMES S. LiPPINCOTT OF HaDDONFIELD, NeW JeRSEY.)\\nSons of the Quaker sires.\\nAnd daughters of a noble race of old,\\nList while a love of olden time inspires\\nThe simple story in these pages told\\nHere shall ye find the faith that must prevail,\\nMighty, through God, o er every evil thing\\nThe faith that scorned the scaffold and the jail\\nCould, e en in dungeons, hallelujahs sing.\\nA love of liberty their souls possessed\\nNor sought they freedom for themselves alone\\nThe truth they brought, their hearts had truly blessed\\nAnd broad and deep their charity had grown.\\nNo servile sycophants to worthless kings,\\nNo semi-Jewish ritualists, were they\\nBut Christ s true light was their illumining,\\nAnd led their spirits by a better way.\\nThe native of the wilds, whose lands they bought.\\nThe swarthy Afric borne across the main\\nTo those the law of love and truth they taught\\nFrom these they struck the weight of slavery s chain.\\nNo fairer scene can history s page unfold.\\nNo more Arcadian age shall time display,\\nThan Jersey annals in our age of gold,\\nEre pure Astrsea took her heavenward way.\\nSons of the Quaker sires.\\nAnd daughters of those worthy ones of old,\\nRe-kindle, then, the pure and heavenly fires\\nThat warmed your fathers in our age of gold!\\nTHE name of Lippincott is one of the oldest English sur-\\nnames of local origin. It has been traced to Lovecote\\nof the Domesday book of William the Conqueror, compiled\\nin 1080. Lovecote still bears its ancient name. It is an estate", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0385.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "378 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nlying near Highampton, Devonshire, England. The earliest\\nknown name derived from Lovecote is found in the rolls of the\\nking s court of the time of king John, 1195, in which that\\nof Roger de Lovecote is recorded. In the time of Edward I,\\n1274, the names of Jordamus de Loginggetot and Robertus\\nde Lyvenescot and Thomas de Lufkote appear in the Hundred\\nRolls. The manor of Luffincott, now the parish of that name,\\non the west border of Devonshire, twenty miles distant from\\nLovecote, comprising nearly 1,000 acres, was the property of\\nRobert de Lughencot in 1243, and remained in the family until\\n1 41 5. This property is also described as having pertained to\\nRobert de Lyvenscot in 1346. The above mentioned names,\\nand many more which we could recite in a modified spelling,\\nare evidently the same upon which the early scribes tried their\\nskill and tested the plasticity of the English language.\\nAnother branch of the family resided at Webworthy, pro-\\nnounced Wibbery, in northwestern Devon, where they held\\nextensive estates for three hundred and fifty years. Their name\\nwas spelled Luppingcott and Luppincott. The last of the line,\\nHenry Luppincott, resided at Barcelona, Spain, and died in\\n1779. A branch of this family removed to Sidbury in East\\nDevon, about the middle of the sixteenth century, from which\\ndescended Henry Lippincott, a distinguished merchant of\\nBristol, who was made a baronet in 1778 by George HI; also\\nhis son Sir Henry Cann Lippincott, baronet, whose descendants,\\nRobert Cann Lippincott and his sons, Robert C. Cann Lippin-\\ncott and Henry Cann Lippincott, are probably the only living\\nmale representatives of this ancient branch of the family now\\nresiding in England. The residence of the last named is at\\nOvercourt near Bristol. The Lippincotts of England held a\\ngood position in the world, as is shown by the numerous coats-\\nof-arms granted to them. No less than eight coats appear to\\nhave been bestowed upon gentlemen of the name some of them\\nprobably as early as in 1420, when John Lippingcott of Wibbery\\nis found bearing his, from which several others were derived by\\nmodification. One style, granted to one whose name was\\nspelled Luffyngcotte, diverges widely from the others, and was\\nprobably granted at the time of the Crusades. A black eagle.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0386.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "THE LIPPINCOTTS. 379\\nsprinkled with drops of blood, and displayed upon a field of\\nsilver, is the description of this remarkable shield.\\nRichard Lippincott, the ancestor of the family in America,\\nemigrated from Devonshire, England. He was probably nearly\\nconnected with the branch settled near Sidbury, which early\\ninclined towards Puritanism. He associated with the settlers of\\nthe colony of Massachusetts Bay, and was made a freeman by the\\ncourt of BQston, May 13th, 1640. In 1641, Richard and his\\nwife Abigail resided in Dorchester, near Boston, when their\\neldest son Rememberance was born and baptized in the seventh\\nmonth of that year. They removed to Boston, where a son John\\nwas born in 1644; also a daughter Abigail, who died in infancy,\\nin 1646. In 1 65 1, having become influenced by other Christian\\nviews, he withdrew from the Church and was excommunicated\\ntherefrom, fifth month 6th, 1651. Thus this conscientious\\nman, having obtained a deeper insight into the nature of the\\ngospel of Christ, was preparing to accept the views held by the\\nFriends, though no books by the teachers of that se6l had yet\\nbeen issued. In 1652, he returned to England, and in the next\\nyear his son, Restored, or Restore, was born at Plymouth. This\\nname was, no doubt, bestowed in commemoration of his restor-\\nation to his native land and to the communion of more congenial\\nspirits. With these he early associated, was a partaker with\\nthem in suffering for his faith, and was imprisoned in the jail\\nnear the castle of Exeter in February, 1655. His offence appears\\nto have been his assertion, that Christ was the word of God\\nand the Scriptures a declaration of the mind of God. His\\nhome was now at Plymouth, where he was not a quiet spe6tator\\nof the wrongs inflicted upon the Friends, for, in May, 1655, as\\nstated in Sewell s history of the Quakers, he, with others, testi-\\nfied against the a6ls of the mayor and the falsehood of the\\ncharges brought against them. In the same year a son, Free-\\ndom, was born, doubtless, so named in commemoration of his\\nrelease from durance vile. A daughter, Increase, was added\\nto his family while residing at Stonehouse, near Plymouth, in\\nthe tenth month, 1657; and a son Jacob in the year 1660, at\\nthe same place, who died in 1689. In the latter year, he was\\nagain imprisoned by the mayor of Plymouth for his faithfulness", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0387.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "38o FIJiST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nto his religious convidlions, having been taken from a meeting\\nin that city. His release was brought about by the solicitations\\nof Margaret Fell and others, who influenced the newly restored\\nking (Charles II.) to grant the liberation of many Friends.\\nThe colony of Rhode Island offering to the Friends freedom in\\nthe exercise of their mode of worship, Richard Lippincott\\nagain removed to New England, where he sojourned for a time.\\nHaving been preserved from persecution and the perils of the\\nsea, he named his son Preserved, who was born here upon\\nChristmas day, 1663, but who died in infancy. The names of\\nthe surviving children of Richard and Abigail form the words\\nof a prayer, which needed only the addition of a son, Israel, to\\nhave been complete thus Remember John, Restore Freedom,\\nIncrease Jacob and Preserve {Israel^ This arrangement Avas\\ndoubtless accidental, having never been premeditated by the\\nparents, though inclined to ways in fashion among the Puritans\\nat that day.\\nA new charter having been granted by the king (Charles),\\nincorporating the Rhode Island and Providence plantations, in\\n1663, and the New Netherlands having come into possession of\\nthe English in 1664, and a patent having been granted to a\\ncompany of Friends from Long Island in 1665, who first bought\\nthe land of the natives, Richard Lippincott was induced, with\\nothers from Rhode Island, to become a patentee with the resi-\\ndents on or near Shrewsbury river. He thus became a member\\nof the first English colony in New Jersey, in which he was the\\nlargest shareholder. He was an a6live officer of the colony.\\nIn 1669, he was a deputy and overseer, and, in the next year,\\nan overseer of Shrewsbury town. In 1670, the first meeting for\\nworship was established by the Friends, which was visited by\\nGeorge Fox in 1672, who was entertained by Richard Lippin-\\ncott. His residence was on Passequeneiqua creek, a branch of\\nSouth Shrewsbury river, three-fourths of a mile northeast of the\\nhouse of his son-in-law, Samuel Dennis, which stood three-\\nfourths of a mile east of the town of Shrewsbury.\\nIt is probable that Richard Lippincott made another voyage\\nto England, and was there in 1675, when John Fenwick was\\npreparing to remove to West New Jersey and that he then", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0388.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "THE LIPPINCOTTS. 381\\nobtained a grant of 1,000 acres of land in Fenwick colony,\\nhaving advanced the purchase money to aid that colonist. In\\n1676, the title was conveyed, the consideration being twenty\\npounds with a royalty, or quit rent, of two bushels of wheat,\\nannually. This tra6l of land Richard conveyed to his five\\nsons in 1679, but it was never occupied by them. Having at\\nlength found a fixed place of residence, Richard Lippincott\\nlived an a6live and useful life in the midst of a worthy family,\\nin the possession of a sufficient estate, and happy in the enjoy-\\nment of religious and political freedom. Here he passed the\\nlast eighteen years of his life of varied experience, and here he\\ndied on the 25th of the ninth month (November, old style),\\n1683.\\nThe Dutch proprietors of New Amsterdam had long been\\nengaged in the slave trade, and, at the surrender in 1664, the\\ncolony contained many slaves some of whom were owned by\\nthe Friends. As early as in 1652, members of this society at\\nWarwick, Rhode Island, passed a law requiring all slaves to be\\nreleased after ten years service, as was the manner regarding\\nEnglish servants. The court of Shrewsbury colony also made\\na law against trading in slaves, in 1.683. These are the earliest\\ninstances of legislation in behalf of these oppressed bondsmen.\\nRichard Lippincott was owner of several slaves, some of whom\\nwere set free under the will of his widow Abigail, who deceased\\nin 1697, leaving to her children and grandchildren much real\\nestate and considerable bequests in money.\\nRememberance of Shrewsbury, eldest son of Richard, mar-\\nried Margaret Barber of Boston, and died in 1722, aged eighty-\\ntwo years. He was a prominent man in the affairs of the colony,\\nand an opponent, as were his brothers, of George Keith, in his\\nattempt to seduce the Society of Friends from its faith. He\\nhad received a gift in the ministry which was usefully exercised.\\nHis friends sum up his life in a few words: Rememberance\\nLippincott was a clerk of our Monthly and Quarterly Meetings\\nmany years, a diligent attendant of our meetings for worship\\nhis labour was acceptable to Friends. He had four sons and\\neight daughters, four of whom died in infancy they were\\nJoseph and Elizabeth (twins), Abigail, Richard, Elizabeth,\\nJoseph, William, Abigail, Sarah, Ruth, Mary and Grace.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0389.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "382 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nThe descendants of Rememberance through his sons, Richard\\nand William, were numerous. Some of these who derive their\\ndescent from Jacob, son of Richard, have resided in Chester\\ntownship, Burlington county, N. J., and have inter-married\\nwith the families of Clemenz, Rudderow and Matlack. Those\\nderived from William, son of Rememberance, claim their blood\\nthrough Wilbur, Samuel and Darius. Richard, one of the sons\\nof Wilbur, removed to Philadelphia, and married Mary Scull,\\ndaughter of Jasper of Reading, Pa. From Samuel a numerous\\nposterity has descended first, through his son Joseph, who\\nmarried Elizabeth Engle and lived for several years at Haddon-\\nfield, where he pra6liced the art of a silversmith, and adled as\\ntown clerk from 1777 to 1788. His children were Mary, born\\n1769, and married to Turner Risdon; Elizabeth, Hannah; and\\nSamuel, born 1778, who married Elizabeth Edwards. Samuel\\nresided in Philadelphia and Mauch Chunk, Pa., and was, for\\nthirty-three years, associated with the business of the Lehigh\\nNavigation Company.\\nSamuel, the son of William, the son of Rememberance, had\\nseveral sons, some born after he removed to Westmoreland\\ncounty, Pa. Many of their descendants now reside in Pitts-\\nburg and other western cities.\\nJohn Lippincott, yeoman, of Shrewsbury, second son of\\nRichard, was born 1644, and married Ann She dying\\nin 1707, he married Jennett Austin, three years after, and died\\nin 1720. His first wife left him eight children, John, Robert,\\nPreserved, Mary, Ann, Margaret, Robert and Deborah. Their\\nnumerous descendants reside chiefly in Monmouth county, N.\\nJ. Green county. Pa., and in the city of New York.\\nRestore Lippincott of Shrewsbury, afterwards of Northamp-\\nton, Burlington county. New Jersey, third son of Richard, was\\nborn in 1653, and married Hannah Shattock of Boston, in\\n1674. She deceased, and he married Martha Owen in 1729,\\nand died in 1741. By his first wife there were three sons\\nand six daughters; namely: Samuel, Abigail, Hannah, Hope,\\nRebecca, James, Elizabeth, Jacob and Rachel. Restore Lip-\\npincott was a useful citizen-, exemplary in all the relations of\\nlife, and much respedled by the community on account of his", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0390.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "THE LIPPINCOTTS. 383\\nregard for truth and justice. In 1703 and 1705, he was a mem-\\nber of the governor s council of West New Jersey, to which\\nhe had removed in 1692. In that year, he bought of Thomas\\nOlive five hundred and seventy acres of land in Northampton,\\nBurlington county, N. J., upon which he settled. About 1698,\\nhe made, in company with John Garwood, a further purchase\\nof 2,000 acres, lying to the east of the present town of Pem-\\nberton. Restore had many descendants. Of those from his\\nown son Samuel and the latter s son Samuel, who married Mary\\nArney, some now reside upon the first purchase, between Mount\\nHolly and Pemberton. Among the most a6live have been James,\\nthe Rev. Caleb A., a methodist preacher, and his son the Rev.\\nJoshua A., now professor of mathematics in Dickinson College,\\nPa., and Isaac K. of Freehold and Philadelphia, deceased.\\nThe descendants of James, who married Anna Eves, have\\nresided in Northampton, in Evesham and in Philadelphia.\\nAmong the latter and most noteworthy, are Joshua B., the\\ndistinguished publisher, Benjamin H., for many years a public\\nman in Burlington county, and Aaron S., a successful cotton\\nmanufa6lurer in Philadelphia.\\nThe descendants of Jacob, who was born in 1692, and mar-\\nried Mary Burr, daughter of Henry, in 1716, are numerous,\\nliving chiefly in Gloucester and Salem counties. Among them,\\nhowever, was Joshua of Philadelphia, at one time a dire6lor of\\nthe Bank of the United States and president of the Schuylkill\\nNavigation Company.\\nFreedom Lippincott, fourth child of Richard, described as a\\ntanner, lived by Rancocas creek, where the king s highway\\ncrossed the same, about where Bridgeboro now stands. Having\\nsold his Salem land, he located two hundred and eighty-eight\\nacres in 1687, whereon he settled. To the trade of a tanner he\\nprobably added that of a smith, and could shoe a horse or\\nupset the axes of his neighbors with some skill. However\\nthat may have been, we find that, in the summer of 1697,\\nwhile shoeing a horse, he was killed by lightning. His widow\\nand five children survived him, the oldest being but thirteen\\nyears of age. The children s names were Samuel, who married\\nHope Wills; Thomas, who married Mary Haines; Judith, who", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0391.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "384 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nmarried Joseph Stokes Mary, who married Edward Peake and\\nFreedom, who married Elizabeth Wills.\\nThe descendants of Freedom, through his sons, Samuel,\\nThomas and Freedom, are most numerous in the western town-\\nships of Camden and Burlington counties. Judith, who married\\nJoseph Stokes, became the ancestor of many of that name.\\nThe descendants of Samuel, through his youngest son Aaron and\\nthe latter s son Samuel, who married Theodosia Hewlings, have\\nresided in Evesham, near Marlton, Burlington county. Those\\nnow living and bearing the Lippincott name claim their descent\\nthrough Samuel s sons, Samuel and Jacob.\\nThomas, second son of Freedom, purchased in 1708 a tradl\\nof one thousand and thirty-four acres, extending from Penis-\\naukin creek to Swedes run, joining the No-se-ne-men-si-on\\ntra6l, reserved to the Indians; from which the name, Cinna-\\nminson, is derived. The village of Westfield stands upon the\\nnorthern border of the Lippincott tra6l. The name was origi-\\nnally given to the meeting-house which was eredled in 1800, in\\nThomas Lippincott s western field.\\nThomas Lippincott was an a6live and useful man in the busi-\\nness affairs of Chester township, in which his lands were then\\nincluded. The first house, built by him about 171 1, stood\\nwhere Samuel L. Allen now (1877) resides; and his descend-\\nants occupied the same and a second, built upon its site in\\n1800, for one hundred and thirty years. The first meeting of\\nFriends in this district was held in his house, and there con-\\ntinued to be held until 1800. He married Mary Haines in\\n1 71 1. Their children were Nathaniel, who married Mary\\nEngle in 1736; Isaac, who married Hannah Engle; Thomas,\\nwho married Rebecca Eldridge in 1745; Abigail, who married\\nThomas Wills; Esther, who married John Roberts; Mary,\\nwho deceased; and Thomas, who married Mercy Middleton.\\nThomas had three daughters, namely: Patience, who mar-\\nried Ebenezer Andrews in 1742; Phoebe; and Mercy, who\\nmarried Ephraim Stiles.\\nNathaniel Lippincott, son of Thomas, settled in Goshen,\\nChester county. Pa., about the year 1737, where his two eldest\\nchildren were born. Thence he removed to a farm on the road", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0392.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "THE LIPPINCOTTS. 385\\nleading from Haddonfield to Milford, now owned by Aquilla S.\\nHillman and brothers, in Camden county, N. J. The descend-\\nants of Nathaniel, through his sons, John, Caleb and Seth, are\\nnumerous. Those from John, through his son Thomas, settled\\nin Chester townshij), Burlington county, N. J., in Philadelphia,\\nand in the State of Illinois; General Charles EUet Lippincott,\\nnow auditor of the latter State, being the most distinguished.\\nCaleb and Seth have representatives living in the vicinity of\\nMoorestown and Haddonfield.\\nThe descendants of Thomas through his son, Isaac of West-\\nfield, are also numerous through the latter s sons, Thomas, Isaac\\nand Samuel; all of whom settled on part of their grandfather s\\ntradl in Cinnaminson and Chester townships, Burlington county,\\nand in Philadelphia. Among them may be noticed Joshua, a\\ncloth merchant, and Samuel R., a dire6lor of the National State\\nBank of Camden, N. J.\\nAlthough Freedom, youngest son of the first Freedom Lippin-\\ncott, settled early in Cropwell, Burlington county, N. J., but\\nfew of his descendants are now found there. His son Solomon,\\nborn in 1720, removed to Upper Greenwich, Gloucester county,\\nN. J. His name is commemorated by Solomon s Meeting,\\nwhich he built in that township. Another son Samuel, a mem-\\nber of Pilesgrove Meeting, Salem county, N. J., was a minister\\namong Friends. Descendants of the younger children are now\\nliving in Evesham and Haddonfield.\\nIncrease, only daughter of Richard and Abigail Lippincott,\\nmarried Samuel Dennis, and removed from Shrewsbury and\\nsettled in Salem county, N. J. Some of their children married\\namong the Mickles and Tindalls, and were members of the old\\nNewton Meeting in Gloucester county, N. J. The name of\\nDennis has not been known hereabout for many years, and no\\ntrace now remains of this branch of the family.\\n25", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0393.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0394.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES.\\nThe following lists of marriages, colle6led from various\\nsources, are defe6live in many particulars. Although the dates\\nand the names given may be considered as correct, yet there\\nare errors as to the meetings to which they are assigned more-\\nover they are not the whole record, nor are they arranged in\\nchronological order. They may, however, as here presented,\\nassist in tracing family descent, and aid in settling many\\ndoubtful questions.\\nBURLINGTON.\\nMarriages of Friends at the Burlington Meeting in Burlington\\ncounty, N. J., who were conne6led with the families belonging\\nto, or settled within the limits of, the Newton Meeting in Glou-\\ncester county, N. J.\\n1679 Robert Zane to Alice Allday.\\n1680 William Heulings to Doratha Eves.\\n1682 William Wood to Mary Parnell.\\n1686 Francis Collins to Mary Gosling, widow.\\n1698 Thomas Bryant to Rebecca Collins.\\n1 701 Thomas Sharp to Elizabeth Winn.\\n1 704 Thomas Stokes to Deliverance Horner.\\n1707 John Matlack to Hannah Horner.\\n1709 George Matlack to Mary Foster.\\n1 710 John Kaighn to Elizabeth Hill.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0395.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "388 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\n1 71 1 Tobias Griscom to Deborah Gabitas.\\n1 713 William Matlack to Ann Antrim.\\n1 716 John Wood to Susanna Furness.\\n1 72 1 Joshua Lord to Sarah Wills.\\n1 721 Bartholomew Horner to Elizabeth Wills.\\n1723 Samuel Shivers to Mary Deacon.\\n1730 John Hugg to Mercy Middleton.\\n1 73 1 William Tomlinson to Rebecca Wills.\\n1732 Thomas Webster to Sarah Vinacom.\\n1732 Thomas Lippincott to Mercy Hugg.\\n1 734 Isaac Decou to Hannah Nicholson.\\n1738 Joseph Nicholson to Catharine Butcher.\\n1738 Hugh Clifton to Mary Wood.\\n1 740 Thomas Smith to Rebecca Wood.\\n1 741 John Mickle to Mary Stockdale.\\nMarriages solemnized in open court at Burlington, N. J.,\\nas recorded in the Minute Book thereof, on file in the office\\nof the Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J.\\n1682 Charles Buggley to Elizabeth Stephens.\\n1682 Thomas Sherman to Frances Ward.\\n1682 Walter Reeves to Ann Howell.\\n1682 William Barnes to Martha Bromley.\\n1682 Francis Boswick to Priscilla Parrock.\\n1683 William Lee to Joan South.\\n1683 Richard Boyes to Mary Dodson.\\n1683 John Woolstan to Latitia Newbold.\\n1683 George Elkinton to Mary Bingham.\\n1684 Peter Jennings to Anne Nott.\\n1684 Jodia Higgins to Mary Newbold.\\n1684 Robert Ingalls to Joan Home.\\n1684 Jonathan Stephenson to Mary Allen.\\n1684 Timothy Hancock to Rachel Firman.\\n1685 Seth Hill to Mary Grubb.\\n1685 Edward Ingleton to Sarah Hoult.\\n1685 John Snape to Anne Clark.\\n1685 John Smith to Elizabeth Ball.\\n1685 Thomas Wood to Mary Howie.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0396.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES. 389\\n1685 Thomas Kendall to Mary Elton.\\n1685 Henry Tredway to Anne Driver.\\n1685 George Willhouse to Mary Hill.\\n1685 Samuel Smith to Mary Appleton.\\n1686 John Renshaw to Mary Stacy.\\n1686 Thomas Knight to Elizabeth Brown.\\n1686 John Langford to Isabella Bowman.\\n1686 Daniel Wills to Margaret Newbold.\\n1687 William Bustill to Elizabeth Tonkin.\\n1688 Daniel Sutton to Agnes Carr.\\n1688 John Chadwick to Elizabeth Light.\\n1688 James Creek to Frances Churther.\\n1688 Robert Rigg to Jane Bayliff.\\n1688 Anthony Elton to Elizabeth Revell.\\n1689 Thomas Peachee to Mary Miller.\\n1690 Thomas Kendall to Ann Jennings.\\n1690 Eleazor Fenton to Elizabeth Stacy.\\n1690 Joseph Houldin to Hannah Jonson.\\n1 69 1 Gilbert Murrell to Judith Hancock.\\n1 69 1 Edward Smout to Jane Abbott.\\n1 69 1 Edward Hunlock to Mary Bassett.\\n1692 John Tuelie to Judith Murrell.\\n1692 Thomas Clark to Margarett Duhurst.\\n1692 John Bowne to Frances Bowman.\\n1692 Thomas Wilson to Ann Silvers.\\n1693 Thomas Bibb to Ruth Kettle.\\n1693 Bartholomew Minderman to Jane Joyner.\\n1693 Henry Marjerman to Jane Rigg.\\n1694 John Meridith to Elizabeth Lambert.\\n1694 Joseph White to Ann Revell.\\n1694 Richard Francis to Mary Major.\\n1694 Edward Andrews to Sarah Ong.\\n1694 Nathaniel Cripps to Grace Whitten.\\n1695 Benjamin Maplin to Elizabeth Lee.\\n1695 Thomas Dugles to Mary Odonoghas.\\n1695 John Reeve to Ann Bradgate.\\n1695 William Heulings to Mary Lovett.\\n1695 William Righton to Sarah Biddle.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0397.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "390 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\n1695 Charles Sheepy to Elizabeth Davis.\\n1695 James Newbold to Elizabeth Powell.\\n1695 Daniel Wills to Mary Shinn.\\n1695 Richard Dell to Elizabeth Decou.\\n1696 John Baker to Mary Peachee.\\n1696 Robert Powell to Mary Perkins.\\n1698 Thomas Potts to Mary Record.\\n1698 Richard Dell to Elizabeth Basnett.\\n1698 William Ogborn to Mary Cole.\\n1699 James Harpen to Sabilla Clayton.\\n1699 John Paine to Abigail Curtis.\\n1699 Joshua Ely to Rachel Lee.\\n1699 Jacob Decou to Elizabeth Newbold.\\n1699 Robert Dummer to Martha Warren.\\n1699 Abinelock Hudson to Pricilla Beswick.\\n1700 Andrew Sim to Margaret Hutchinson.\\n1 701 Jacob Gibbs to Elizabeth Casson.\\n1 701 Hugh Huddy to Martha Hunlock.\\n1 701 Thomas Smith to Elizabeth Hibbard.\\n1 701 John Briggs to Sarah Smith.\\n1 701 James Verier to Valbert Williams.\\n1 701 Robert Edwards to Sarah Bennett.\\nSALEM.\\nMarriages solemnized in open court at Salem New Jersey, as\\nrecorded in the Minute Book thereof, No. 2., on file in the\\noffice of the Secretary of State, at Trenton, N. J.\\n1682 January 11, Anthony Dixon to Elizabeth Camel.\\n1682 January 19, John Paine to Elizabeth Wotton.\\n1683 July 16, John Fuller to Ellenor Lewis.\\n1683 August 23, Anthony Windsor to Elizabeth Adams.\\n1683 February 19, John Walker to Mary Smith, daughter of\\nJohn Smith.\\n1684 May 21, William Hall to Elizabeth Pyle.\\n1684 November 6, John Worledge to Ann Leupuvre.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0398.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "MARK I A GES. 391\\n1686 August 10, William Price to Ann Croutcher.\\n1686 August 10, John Allen to Mary Huthings, daughter of\\nRoger Hutchings.\\n1686 September 7, Mark Reeve to Ann Hunt.\\n1686 November 24, Thomas Jones to Hannah Prior.\\n1686 February 3, Hugh Hutchings to Mary Adams, daughter\\nof John Adams.\\n1687 June 14, William Shute to Mary Clark.\\n1687 August 18, Fenwick Adams to Ann Watkins.\\n1687 August 18, Alexander Smith to Hannah Ashbury.\\n1688 October 17, John Bacon to Elizabeth Smith, daughter of\\nJohn Smith.\\n1688 January i, Bernard Hedge to Elizabeth Prague.\\n1689 June 18, William Wilkinson to Mary Nicholson.\\n1690 April 24, John Hughes to Martha Buckley.\\n1690 October 5, Charles Angello to Katharine Noer.\\n1 69 1 March 18, Charles Peterson, widower, to Ann Kerrt,\\nwidow.\\n1 69 1 March 23, Joseph Burgin to Jane Silver.\\n1693 March 26, William Remington to Mary Woodhouse.\\n1693 August 7, Joseph Bacon to Elizabeth Pancoast.\\n1694 July 19, Ebenezer Ashbury to Margaret Depfos.\\n1694 January 22, Samuel Woodhouse to Ann Hudson.\\n1695 October 31, Samuel Hunter to Katharine S. Keene.\\n1699 January 16, Nicholas Winton to Doratha Davis.\\n1702 July 2, William Braithwaite to Ann Worlidge, widow.\\n1702 November 24, William Pope to Mary Hersley.\\nMarriages of Friends at the Salem Meeting in Salem county,\\nN. J., who were connedted with the families belonging to the\\nNewton Meeting, in Gloucester county, N. J., or who settled\\nwithin the limits of the meeting.\\n1677 Abraham Strand to Rachel Nicholson.\\n1687 William Bradway to Elizabeth Wood.\\n1692 William Cooper, Jr., to Mary Bradway.\\n1693 Bartholemew Wyat to Sarah Ashton.\\n1693 Abel Nicholson to Mary Tyler.\\n1704 Isaac Sharp to Margaret Brathwill.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0399.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "392 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\n1 710 William Tyler to Mary Abbott.\\n1722 Hugh Clifton to Elizabeth Tindall.\\n1723 Robert Smith to Elizabeth Wyat.\\n1729 John Brick to Ann Nicholson.\\n1729 Abel Nicholson to Isabella Daniels.\\n1730 John Evans to Ruth Nicholson.\\n1734 Joseph Tomlinson to Lydia Wade.\\n1737 Erastmus Fetters to Rebecca Thompson.\\n1740 William Griscom to Sarah Davis.\\n1740 John Nicholson to Sarah Powell.\\n1 741 John Gill to Anne Davis.\\n1743 Samuel Nicholson to Sarah Dennis.\\n1744 Othniel Tomlinson to Mary Marsh.\\n1746 Jacob Spicer to Mary Lippincott.\\n1747 Thomas Redman to Mercy Davis.\\n1748 Isaac Ellis to Mary Shivers.\\n1749 William Haines to Sarah Lippincott.\\n1749 Joshua Ballanger to Naomi Dunn.\\n1753 Andrew Griscom to Mary Bacon.\\n1756 Richard Haines to Elizabeth Test.\\n1758 Joseph Kay to Ann Thompson.\\n1 761 Joseph Clement to Ann Brick.\\nNEWTON.\\nMarriages of Friends who were members, or who married\\nmembers, of Newton Meeting, Gloucester county, N. J.\\n1684 James Atkinson, of Philadelphia, to Hannah Newbie,\\nwidow of Mark, of Newton.\\n1685 John Ladd to Sarah Wood.^\\n1686 Walter Forrest to Ann Albertson.^\\n1686 Thomas Shable to Alice Stalles.^*\\n1686 Samuel Toms to Rachel Wood.^\\n1687 Joshua Frame, of Pennsylvania, to Abigail Bates.*\\n1687 William Clark to Mary Heritage.\\n1 At Hannah Newbie s house.\\n2 At James Atkinson s house,\\n3 At Newton Meeting.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0400.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "MARRIA GES.\\n393\\n1688 John Hugg, son of John, to Pricilla Collins, daughter of\\nFrancis.^\\n1688 Joseph Cooper to Lydia Riggs.^\\n1689 Thomas Thackara to Hepsibah Eastlack.\\n1689 Thomas Willard to Judith Wood, daughter of Henry.*\\n1 69 1 John Butcher to Mary Heritage.^\\n1692 Simeon Ellis to Sarah Bates, daughter of William.^\\n1693 Daniel Cooper to Abigail Wood, daughter of Henry.\u00c2\u00ae\\n1695 Daniel Cooper to Sarah Spicer, daughter of Samuel.^\\n1695 William Sharp to Jemima Eastlack, daughter of Francis.*\\n1695 Joseph Nicholson, son of Samuel, to Hannah Wood,\\ndaughter of Henry.\\n1695 Isaac Decou to Rachel Newbie, daughter of Mark.*\\n1699 Thomas Thackara to Ann Parker, of Philadelphia.*\\n1 701 Joseph Bates to Mercy Clement, daughter of James.\\n1702 John Estaugh to Elizabeth Haddon.**\\n1703 Stephen Newbie to Elizabeth Wood, daughter of Henry.\\n1704 John Mickle, son of Archibald, to Hannah Cooper,\\ndaughter of William, Jr.^\\n1705 Josiah Southvvick to Elizabeth Collins, daughter of\\nFrancis.^\\n1706 Joseph Brown to Mary Spicer, daughter af Samuel.*\\n1706 Edward Newbie to Hannah Chew.*\\n1707 Benjamin Wood to Mary Kay, daughter of John.\\n1707 Benjamin Thackara to Mary Cooper, daughter of Wil-\\nliam, Jr.\\nAT NEWTON MEETING.\\n1707\\nJohn Hallowell, of Darby, to Elizabeth Sharp, daughter\\nof Thomas.\\nJohn Kay, son of John, to Sarah Langstone.\\nSamuel Mickle to Elizabeth Cooper, daughter of Joseph.\\nEzekiel Siddons, son of John, to Sarah Mickle.\\n1 At Francis Collins house.\\n2 At William Cooper s bouse.\\n3 At James Atkinson s house.\\n4 At Henry Wood s house, Hopewell\\n5 At Newton Meeting.\\n6 At Hannah Wood s house.\\n26\\n7 At Samuel Spicer s house.\\n8 At John Hinchnian s house.\\n9 At Elizabeth Haddon s house.\\n10 At Joseph Collins house.\\n11 At John Kay s house.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0401.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "394 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\n1709 Simeon Breach to Mary Dennis.\\n1 709 John Harvey to Sarah Hasker.\\n1709 Robert Braddoclc to Elizabeth Hancock, daughter of\\nTimothy.\\n1 710 Thomas Bull to Sarah Nelson.\\n1 7 10 William Harrison to Ann Hugg, daughter of John.\\n1 710 Thomas Middleton to Mercy Allen.\\n1 710 Joseph Stokes, son of Thomas, to Judith Lippincott,\\ndaughter of Freedom.\\n1 7 10 Thomas Sharp to Catharine Hollingsham.\\nI 711 Thomas Smith to Sarah Hancock, daughter of Timothy.\\n1 71 1 Jonathan Haines, son of John, to Mary Matlack, daugh-\\nter of William.\\n171 1 Daniel Mickle to Hannah Dennis.\\n1 71 1 Samuel Dennis to Ruth Tindall.\\n1 71 1 Thomas Lippincott, son of Freedom, to Mary Haines,\\ndaughter of John.\\n1 71 2 Abraham Brown to Hannah Adams, Jr.\\n1 714 Joseph Dole to Hannah Somers.\\n1 714 John Hugg to Elizabeth Newbie.\\n1 714 John Cox to Lydia Cooper, daughter of Joseph.\\n1 716 John Adamson to Ann Skew.\\n1 716 Francis Richardson to Sarah Cooper.\\n1 716 Thomas Robinson to Sarah Lowe.\\n1 716 William Sharp to Mary Austin, daughter of Francis.\\n1 71 7 Alexander Morgan, son of Griffith, to Hannah Cooper,\\ndaughter of Joseph.\\n1 718 Benjamin Cooper, son of Joseph, to Rachel Mickle.\\n1718 Thomas Rakestraw to Mary Wilkinson, daughter of\\nThomas.\\n1 718 Samuel Sharp to Martha Hall.\\n1 718 John Gill to Mary Heritage.\\n1 719 John Sharp to Jane Fitchardall.\\n1 719 Thomas Eyere to Pricilla Hugg.\\n1 719 Joseph Gibson to Elizabeth Tindall.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0402.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "MARRIA GES. 395\\nAT HADDONFIELD MEETING.\\n1720 Timothy Matlack to Mary Haines.\\n1720 Jedediah Adams to Margarett Christian.\\n1720 Joshua Raper to Sarah Cooper, daughter of Joseph.\\n1720 Thomas Adams to Hannah Sharp.\\n1722 Samuel Nicholson to Sarah Burrough, daughter of\\nSamuel.\\n1722 Thomas Ellis to Catharine Collins.\\n1723 Samuel Burrrough to Ann Gray.\\n1723 Joseph Mickle to Elizabeth Eastlack.\\n1724 James Wills to Sarah Clement.\\n1724 Thomas Sharp to Elizabeth Smith.\\n1725 John Hudson to Hannah Wright.\\n1725 Robert Jones to Sarah Siddon.\\n1725 Isaac Albertson to Rachel Haines.\\n1726 John Burrough, son of Samuel, to Phoebe Haines, daugh-\\nter of John.\\n1726 John Wills, son of Daniel, to Elizabeth Kaighn.\\n1727 Joseph Kaighn to Mary Estaugh, daughter of James.\\n1727 Ephraim Tomlinson, son of Joseph, to Sarah Corbit.\\n1727 James Cattle to Mary Engle, widow of John.\\n1728 John Haines to Jane Smith.\\n1728 Isaac Knight to. Elizabeth Wright.\\n1729 Thomas Wright to Mary Thackara.\\n1729 John Turner to Jane Engle.\\n1730 Timothy Matlack to Martha Haines.\\n1730 Samuel Sharp to Mary Tomlin.son.\\n1730 John Kay to Sarah Ellis.\\n1730 Bartholemew Wyat to Elizabeth Tomlinson.\\n1730 David Price to Grace Zane.\\n1 731 Daniel Morgan to Mary Haines, widow.\\n1732 William Mickle to Sarah Wright.\\n1 733 Samuel Abbott to Hannah Foster.\\n1733 Thomas Egerton to Sarah Stephens.\\n1733 Richard Bidgood to Hannah Burrough, widow.\\n1734 Peter White to Rebecca Burr.\\n1735 Nathan Beaks to Elizabeth Hooten.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0403.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "396 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\n1 736 Edward Borton to Margarett Tomlinson.\\n1736 Thomas Bishop to Rachel Matlack.\\n1736 Nathan Lippincott to Mary Engle.\\n1736 Walter Faucett to Margarett Rillings.\\n1736 David Stratton to Mary Elkinton.\\n1737 Jacob Taylor to Ann Andrews.\\n1737 Thomas Redman to Mercy Gill.\\n1737 Jacob Howell to Mary Cooper.\\n1737 Thomas Thorne to Mary Harrison.\\n1738 Thomas Egerton to Esther Bates.\\n1739 James Whitall to Ann Cooper.\\n1739 Charles French to Ann Clement.\\n1739 Robert Stevens to Ann Dent.\\n1739 Isaac Lippincott to Hannah Engle.\\n1739 Thomas Rakestraw to Mary Mason.\\n1740 Jacob Hinchman to Abigail Harrison.\\n1 741 Samuel Stokes to Hannah Hinchman.\\n1 741 Thomas Stokes to Abigail Matlack.\\n1 741 William Albertson to Jane Turner.\\nI 741 Joshua Stokes to Amy Hinchman.\\nI 742 Isaac Burrough to Deborah Jennings,\\n1742 John Ashard to Mary Middleton.\\n1742 Thomas Hooten to Mercy Bates.\\n1742 Samuel Mickle to Latitia Matlack.\\n1743 Henry Wood to Ruth Dennis.\\n1743 Daniel Fortiner to Rebecca Smith.\\nI 743 Joseph Wilkins to Sarah Hartshorn.\\n1743 Daniel Hillman to Abigail Nicholson.\\n1744 Abraham Haines to Sarah Ellis.\\n1744 Samuel Nicholson to Rebecca Saint.\\n1744 John Warrington to Hannah Ellis.\\n1744 Job Siddon to Achsa Matlack.\\n1746 James Cooper to Deborah Matlack.\\n1746 John Hillman to Hannah Nicholson.\\n1746 Samuel Noble to Lydia Cooper.\\n1747 William Miller to Elizabeth Woodward.\\n1747 Jacob Clement to Hannah Albertson.\\n1 748 Joseph Snowdon to Rebecca Howell.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0404.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES. 397\\n1748 Michael Lents to Rachel Richardson.\\n1 748 Samuel Clement to Ruth Evans.\\n1748 Benjamin Champion to Ann Hewitt.\\n1748 William Matlack to Mary Turner.\\n1748 Samuel Collins to Rosanna Stokes.\\n1 749 Samuel Nicholson to Jane Albertson, widow.\\n1749 James West to Mary Cooper.\\n1 749 Jacob Stokes to Pricilla Ellis.\\n1749 John Jaffereys to Mercy Butcher.\\n1749 Archibald Mickle to Mary Burrough.\\n1750 Thomas Hinchman to Latitia Mickle, widow.\\n1750 Jacob Ellis to Casandra Albertson.\\n1750 John Branson to Sarah Sloan.\\n1750 John Thorne to Mary Gill, widow.\\n1750 John Barton to Elizabeth Champion.\\n1750 Jonathan Fisher to Hannah Hutchison.\\n1750 Simeon Breach to Mary Shores.\\n1 75 1 Jacob Burrough to Sarah Thorne.\\n1 75 1 Enoch Burrough to Deborah Middleton.\\n1 75 1 John Glover to Mary Thorne.\\n1 75 1 Joseph Bispham to Elizabeth Hinchman.\\n1752 Samuel Hugg to Elizabeth Collins.\\n1752 Thomas Bates to Sarah Pancoast.\\n1752 Restore Lippincott to Ann Lord.\\n1752 Charles West to Hannah Cooper.\\n1752 James Hinchman to Sarah Bickam.\\n1753 Joshua Evans to Pricilla Collins.\\n1753 Nathan Beaks to Lydia Morgan.\\n1753 Robert Stevens to Mary Kaighn.\\n1753 Jacob Burrough to Casandra Ellis.\\n1754 Samuel Burrough to Hannah Spence.\\n1 755 John Hillman to Mary Horner.\\n1755 Isaac Ballinger to Patience Albertson.\\n1756 William Bates to Elizabeth Hooten.\\n1756 Isaac Horner to Elizabeth Kay.\\n1757 Josiah Burrough to Sarah Morgan.\\n1757 Caleb Hughes to Abigail Ellis.\\n1758 Samuel Clement to Bulah Evans.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0405.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "398 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\n1758 Daniel Tomlinson to Mary Bates.\\n1758 John Buzby to Sarah Ellis.\\n1758 Samuel Tomlinson to Ann Burrough.\\n1758 Joseph Morgan to Mary Stokes.\\n1759 Thomas Thorne to Abigail Burrough.\\n1759 Samuel Webster to Sarah Albertson.\\n1759 John Branson to Sarah Sloan.\\n1760 John Starr to Eunice Lord.\\n1760 John Brick to Abigail French.\\n1760 Thomas Champion to Deborah Clark.\\n1760 Chatfield Brown to Hannah Andrews.\\n1760 Constantine Lord to Sarah Albertson.\\n1 761 John Sharp to Sarah Andrews.\\n1 761 Simeon Zane to Sarah Hooten.\\n1 761 Elnathan Zane to Bathsaba Hartly.\\n1 761 Jacob Jennings to Mary Smith.\\n1 761 Richard Gibbs to Mary Burrough.\\n1762 Jacob Cozens to Esther Zane.\\n1762 John Mickle to Elizabeth E. Hopkins.\\n1762 James Brown to Catharine Andrews.\\n1762 John E. Hopkins to Sarah Mickle.\\n1762 Stephen Thackara to Elizabeth Sloan.\\n1762 David Davis to Martha Cole.\\n1762 James Gardiner to Mary Tomlinson.\\n1763 Job Kimsey to Elizabeth Eastlack.\\n1764 James Whitall to Rebecca Matlack.\\n1764 Caleb Lippincott to Ann Vinacomb.\\n1764 James Starr to Elizabeth Lord.\\n1764 James Cooper to Mary Mififiin, widow.\\n1764 Ebenezer Hopkins to Ann Albertson.\\n1765 Jonathan Knight to Elizabeth Delap.\\n1765 William Cooper to Abigail Matlack.\\n1765 Joseph Burrough to Mary Pine.\\n1766 Griffith Morgan to Rebecca Clement.\\n1766 Constantine Jeffreys to Patience Butcher.\\n1766 Isaac Townsend to Katharine Albertson.\\n1767 John Wilkins to Rachel Wood.\\n1767 Josiah Albertson to Elinor Tomlinson.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0406.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "MARRIA GES. 399\\n1767 Caleb Cresson to Sarah Hopkins.\\n1767 John Redman to Sarah Branson.\\n1767 Aquilla Jones to Elizabeth Cooper.\\n1767 Joshua Lippincott to Elizabeth Wood.\\n1767 Robert Cooper to Mary Hooper.\\n1767 Mark Miller to Mary Redman.\\n1767 John Gill to Abigail Hillman.\\n1768 Jacob Haines to Bathsaba Burrough.\\n1768 Samuel Brown to Rebecca Branson.\\n1769 Job Whitall to Sarah Gill.\\n1770 Joshua Cresson to Mary Hopkins.\\n1770 James Sloan to Rachel Clement.\\n1770 Jonathan Iredell to Elizabeth Hillman.\\n1771 Joseph Gibson to Sarah Haines.\\n1 77 1 Isaac Buzby to Martha Lippincott.\\n1772 Joseph Mickle to Hannah Burrough.\\n1772 Thomas Wright to Mary Branson.\\n1772 Benjamin C. Cooper to Ann Black.\\n1772 Amos Cooper to Sarah Mickle.\\n1773 Samuel Allison to Martha Cooper.\\n1773 George Ward to Ann Branson.\\n1773 John Barton to Amy Shivers.\\n1774 Joseph Reeve to Elizabeth Morgan.\\n1774 Benjamin Catheral to Esther Brown.\\n1774 Joshua Stretch to Lydia Tomlinson.\\n1774 William Zane to Elizabeth Hillman.\\n1774 William Kneas to Sarah Pederick.\\n1774 James Stuart to Mary Ballanger.\\n1774 Enoch Allen to Hannah Collins.\\n1775 Jo^b Wills to Amy Gill.\\n1775 William Edgarton to Tabitha Herison.\\n1775 John Haines to Hipparchia Hinchman.\\n1775 Caleb Lippincott to Zilpah Shinn.\\n1776 Nathaniel Barton to Rachel Stokes.\\n1776 John Clement to Hannah Griscom.\\n1776 Jonathan Brown to Sarah Ballinger.\\n1777 Samuel Tomlinson to Martha Mason.\\n1777 Joshua Evans to Ann Kay.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0407.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "400\\nFIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\n1777 Job Cowperthwaite to Ann Vickers.\\n1777 David Branson to Elizabeth Evans.\\n1778 Joseph Burrough to Lydia Stretch.\\n1778 Marmaduke Cooper to Mary Jones.\\n1778 William White to Ann Paul.\\n1779 Samuel Stokes to Hope Hunt.\\n1779 Joshua Paul to Mary Lippincott.\\n1779 James Hinchman to Sarah Morgan.\\n1779 Jededia Allen to Ann Wilkins.\\n1779 Benjamin Test to Elizabeth Thackara.\\n1779 Richard Snowdon to Sarah Brown.\\n1780 Benjamin Hooten to Sarah Snowdon.\\n1780 William Lippincott to Elizabeth Folwell.\\n1780 Samuel Tomlinson to Mary Bates.\\n1 781 Peter Thompson to Mary Glover.\\n1 781 John Gill to Sarah Pritchett.\\n1 781 Robert Zane to Elizabeth Butler.\\n1 781 Daniel Hillman to Martha Ellis.\\n1781 Isaac Ballinger to Mary Bassett.\\n1 781 John Webb to Amy Wills.\\n1 781 Edward Gibbs to Hepsibah Evans.\\n1782 Joshua Cooper to Abigail Stokes.\\n1782 John Barton to Rebecca Engevine.\\n1782 John Reeves to Beulah Brown.\\n1782 David Ware to Sarah Shinn.\\n1782 Restore Lippincott to Deborah Ervin.\\n1782 Joshua Harlan to Sarah Hinchman.\\n1783 Zacheus Test to Rebecca Davis.\\n1783 Isaac Stiles to Rachel Glover.\\n1783 Jacob Jennings to Ann Hopkins.\\n1783 Asher Brown to Mary Ward.\\n1784 James Thackara to Jane Guant.\\n1784 Charles Fogg to Ann Bates.\\n1784 William Knight to Elizabeth Webster.\\n1784 James Hopkins to Rebecca Clement.\\n1784 Darling Haines to Mary Lippincott.\\n1784 James Mickle to Hannah Lord.\\n1784 Jonathan Morgan to Elizabeth Fisher.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0408.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES. 401\\n1785 Daniel Roberts to Hannah Stokes.\\n1785 Abraham Warrington to Rachel Evans.\\n1785 Peter Thompson to Sarah Stephenson.\\n1785 John Stuart to Deborah Griscom.\\n1785 John Evans to Elizabeth Browning.\\n1788 Isaac Jones to Sarah Atkinson.\\n1788 Caleb Atkinson to Sarah Champion.\\n1788 Francis Boggs to Ann Haines.\\n1789 William Rogers to Mary Davis.\\n1789 Joseph Davis to Mary Haines.\\n1789 William Saterthwaite to Mary Prior.\\n1789 Samuel Glover to Hannah -Albertson.\\n1789 John Thorne to Mary Duberee.\\n1790 Thomas Knight to Hannah Branson.\\n1790 Thomas M. Potter to Mary Glover.\\n1790 James Wood to Ruth Clement.\\n1 790 Josiah Kay to Elizabeth Horner.\\n1 791 George Abbott to Mary Redman.\\n1 791 Samuel Abbott to Martia Gill.\\n1 791 Jeremiah Wood to Mary Horner.\\n1792 Joseph Burrough to Martha Davis.\\n1792 John Gill to Susanna Branson.\\n1793 Jesse Lippincott to Mary Ann Kay.\\n1793 Joseph Cooper to Sarah P. Buckley.\\n1793 Marmaduke Burr to Ann Hopkins.\\n1793 Jacob Glover to Mary Branson.\\n1793 Abraham Silver to Sarah Knight.\\n1 793 Joshua Roberts to Sarah Cole.\\n1794 Obediah Engle to Patience Cole.\\n1794 John Albertson to Ann Pine.\\n1795 Isaac Ballanger to Esther Stokes.\\n1 795 Job Bishop to Lardle Jones.\\n1795 Joseph Kaighn to Sarah Mickle.\\n1795 Jesse Smith to Mary Paul.\\n1795 William E. Hopkins to Ann Morgan.\\n1 796 Joseph Glover to Sarah Mickle.\\n1796 Aaron Pancoast to Ann Cooper.\\n1796 Joseph Bennett to Mary Morgan.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0409.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "402 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\n1796 Reuben Braddock to Elizabeth Stokes.\\n1797 Jonathan Knight to Elizabeth Kaighn.\\n1797 Peter Hammit to Mary Duel.\\n1797 Joseph C. Swett to Ann H. Clement.\\n1798 Richard M. Cooper to Mary Cooper.\\n1 798 Joseph Burr to Mary Sloan.\\n1798 Abel Ashard to Ann Jennings.\\n1799 Robert Rowand to Elizabeth Barton.\\n1 799 William Roberts to Ann Brick.\\n1799 Isaac Thorne to Rachel Horner.\\n1799 Samuel Hooten to Sarah Ballanger.\\nCHESTER.\\nMarriages of Friends who were members of Chester Meeting,\\n(Moorestown), Burlington county, N. J.\\n1692 William Hollingshead, son of John, to Elizabeth Adams,\\ndaughter of John.^\\n1696 Edward Buzby to Susanna Adams, daughter of John.^\\n1696 Francis Austin to Mary Borton.^\\n1697 Joseph Heritage to Hannah Allen, daughter of Juda.\\n1699 Thomas Eves, son of Thomas, to Mary Roberts, daughter\\nof John.*\\n1699 Samuel Burrough to Hannah Roberts, daughter of John.,\\n1 701 Juda Allen to Deborah Adams, daughter of John^\\n1702 Hugh Sharp to Rachel Allen, widow of Mathew.^\\n1705 Enoch Core to Sarah Roberts, daughter of John.*\\n1706 John Heritage, son of Richard, to Sarah Slocum\\nAT CHESTER MEETING.\\n1 712 John Roberts to Mary Elkinton.\\n1 714 Henry Allen to Abigail Somers.\\n1 714 John Antrim to Amy Andrews.\\n1 At John Adams s house. 5 At Chester Meeting.\\n2 At Thomas Wilkins s house. 6 At Rachel Allen s house.\\n3 At Richard Heritage s house. 7 At John Heritage s house.\\n4 At Sarah Roberts s house.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0410.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES. 403\\n1 719 Abraham Haines to Grace Hollingshead.\\n1 719 John Hancock to Mary Gurnell.\\n1 719 Henry Warrington to Elizabeth Austin.\\n1 72 1 Richard Haines to Agnes Hollingshead.\\n1722 Joseph Matlack to Rebecca Haines.\\n1724 Benjamin Clark to Mary Hooten.\\n1724 John French to Sarah Wickawan.\\n1724 John Lewdell to Hannah Ward.\\n1724 Henry Willard to Elizabeth Ballanger.\\n1725 Thomas Bickam to Elizabeth Hooper.\\n1727 Derrick Tyson to Ann Hooten, daughter of Thomas.\\n1728 Henry Warrington to Elizabeth Bishop.\\n1729 John Swain to Mary Buzby.\\n1729 Richard Heritage to Sarah Tindall.\\n1729 George Ward to Margarett Bennett.\\n1730 Hasker Newberry to Mary Heritage.\\n1730 William Hooten to Ann Sharp, widow.\\n1 731 John Buzby to Hannah Adams.\\n1 731 Anthony Sharp to Mary Dimack.\\n1 73 1 Thomas Clark to Mariba Parker.\\n1734 Hugh Hollingshead to Ann Eves.\\n1734 Samuel Haines to Lydia Stokes.\\n1734 John Cowperthwaite to Rebecca Stokes.\\n1736 Thomas Bishop to Rachel Matlack.\\n1737 Jonathan Ellis to Mary Hollingshead.\\n1737 William Sharp to Elizabeth Risdon.\\n1737 Andrew Griscom to Susanna Hancock.\\n1737 Benjamin Moore to Mercy Newberry.\\n1737 Edward Hollingshead to Mary Morgan.\\n1737 John Maxwell to Hannah Matlack.\\n1737 Nathan Allen to Martha Stokes.\\n1737 Ebenezer Brown to Elizabeth Ives.\\n1737 Robert French to Hannah Cattel.\\n1738 John Tanner to Susanna Alcott.\\n1738 John Higbee to Mary Barton.\\n1738 Amos Wilkins to Susan\\n1739 Isaac Warren to Pricilla Matlack.\\n1 740 Samuel Butcher to Mercy Newberry.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0411.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "404 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\n1 740 Abraham Iredale to Sarah Coffin.\\n1740 Daniel Packer to Ruth Warrington.\\nI 740 Michael Mills to Sarah Moore.\\n1 741 Habakuk Ward to Hannah Lord.\\n1 741 William Barton to Abigail Lord.\\n1 741 Joshua Robertsto Rebecca Stokes.\\n1 742 John Roberts to Esther Lippincott.\\n1742 Thomas Hooten to Mercy Bates.\\n1 743 Benjamin Heritage to Kesiah Matlack.\\n1743 George Matlack to Rebecca Hackney.\\n1744 James Delzel to Elizabeth Hancock.\\n1744 Edward Barton to Elizabeth Middleton.\\n1744 John Rowand to Sarah Matlack.\\n1745 Richard Matlack to Mary Cole.\\n1745 Hudson Middleton to Christian Hopwell.\\n1746 William Allen to Judith Stokes.\\n1746 Jphn Brown to Sarah Cooper.\\n1746 Joseph Stokes to Ann Haines, widow.\\n1746 Richard Ward to Hannah Warrington.\\n1746 George Ward to Martha Bates.\\n1747 Thomas Warrington to Mary Roberts.\\n1748 Ebenezer Andrews to Mary Warrington.\\n1749 Robert Hunt to Martha Ward, widow.\\n1749 Ezekiel Lindsey to Rachel Shores.\\n1750 William Middleton to Ann Barton.\\n1750 Thomas Eyres to Sarah Mills.\\n1750 Nathaniel Brown to Mary Bircham.\\n1750 Benjamin Matlack to Susanna Hewitt.\\n1750 Thomas West to Deborah Wills.\\n1750 Daniel Bassett to Mary Lippincott.\\n1750 John Risdon to Sarah Turner.\\n1750 Isaac Mason to Sarah Price.\\n1750 William Cushin to Phoebe Young.\\n1750 Joseph Browning to Kesiah Stokes.\\n1 75 1 Thomas Evans to Hannah Roberts.\\n1754 William Rogers to Sarah Warrington.\\n1754 William Snowden to Margarett Ballanger.\\n1754 Joseph Buzby to Hannah Warrington.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0412.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "MARRIA GES. 405\\n1754 Samuel Andrews to Phoebe Cowperthwaite.\\n1754 William Wilkins to Elizabeth Swain.\\n1754 Amos Haines to Mary Conrow.\\n1755 John Hankinson to Elizabeth Bispham, widow.\\n1755 William Cathcart to Mary Orin.\\n1755 Joseph Hackney to Agnes Haines.\\n1756 John Lippincott to Ann Matlack.\\n1756 John Newbold to Mary Cole.\\n1756 Caleb Evans to Abigail Hunt.\\n1757 David Saterthwaite to Mary Wright.\\n1757 Robert Stiles to Mary Ellis, widow.\\n1757 Hudson Middleton to Sarah Haines.\\n1757 Joseph Stokes to Atlantic Bispham.\\n1757 Jacob Wilkins to Ann French.\\n1758 Isaac Haines to Deborah Roberts.\\n1758 Aaron Wills to Rachel Warrington.\\n1758 Ephraim Haines to Sarah Cheesman.\\n1759 George Turner to Hannah Thorne.\\n1759 John Moore to Hannah Eyre.\\n1759 John Mason to Mary Moore.\\n1759 Lewis Darnell to Grace Thomas.\\nEVESHAM.\\nMarriages of Friends who were members of Evesham Meet-\\ning, Burlington county, N. J.\\n1703 Henry Newberry to Sarah Boyes, daughter of Richard.\\n1703 Henry Clifton, of Philadelphia, to Jane Engle, widow.\\n1705 William Newberry to Mary Hasker, daughter of William.\\n1707 John Engle to Mary Ogborn.\\n1 713 Mark Stratton to Ann Hancock, daughter of Timothy.\\n1 713 Emanuel Stratton to Hannah Hancock, daughter of\\nTimothy.\\n1 715 Thomas Evans to Esther Haines.\\n1 71 7 William Hudson to Jane Evans, daughter of William.\\n1 72 1 Richard Matlack to Rebecca Haines.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0413.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "4o6 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\n1 72 1 Luke Gibson to Sarah Clark.\\n1 721 Jacob Cofifin to Hannah Wilkins.\\n1 721 Carlisle Haines to Sarah Matlack.\\n1 721 Zachariah Pritchett to Mary Troth.\\n1722 John Darnell to Hannah Borton.\\n1723 John Ratherwell to Mary Ballanger.\\n1723 Jonathan Ladd to Ann Wills.\\n1723 John Pirn to Lydia Briggs.\\n1724 William Garwood to Jane Troth.\\n1725 Nathan Haines to Sarah Austin.\\n1725 Amaziah Ballanger to Elizabeth Garwood.\\n1726 Nathan Crosby to Elizabeth Garwood.\\n1727 Josiah Albertson to Ann Austin.\\n1727 Thomas Wilkins to Mary Core.\\n1728 Richard Clark to Elizabeth Flanagan.\\n1728 Edward Richardson to Mary Richardson.\\n1729 William Foster to Hannah Core.\\n1729 Thomas Pederick to Rebecca Bickam.\\n1 731 William Borton to Deborah Hedge.\\n1 731 Thomas Jennings to Ann Borton.\\n1 731 John Cripps to Mary Eves.\\n1 731 Samuel Cole to Mary Lippincott.\\n1 731 Amos Haines to Rebecca Troth.\\n1732 Philip Pederick to Hannah Bickam.\\n1732 Thomas French to Mary Cattel.\\n1732 John Wills to Abigail Lippincott.\\n1733 Joseph Hopwell to Sarah Briggs.\\n1733 Thomas Garwood to Mary Ballanger.\\n1733 Francis Dudley to Rachel Wilkins.\\n1733 David Davis to Mary Musgrove.\\n1734 Brazilla Newbold to Sarah Core.\\n1734 Josiah White to Rebecca Foster.\\n1734 Samuel Hopper to Mary Johnson.\\n1734 John Haines to Ann Ashard.\\n1737 Daniel Garwood to Susanna Collins.\\n1737 Isaac Decou to Mary Cripps.\\n1738 William Evans to Sarah Roberts.\\n1739 William Earl to Mary Sharp.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0414.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES. 407\\n1739 Thomas Budd to Rebecca Atkinson.\\n1739 Freedom Lippincott to Hannah Rakestraw.\\n1740 Joseph White to Martha Lippincott.\\n1740 Joseph Lippincott to Elizabeth Evans.\\n1740 John Lippincott to Elizabeth Elkinton.\\n1740 Jonathan Haines to Hannah Sharp.\\n1740 Thomas Middleton to Esther Barton.\\n1740 David Elwell to Mary Haines.\\n1740 Timothy Middleton to Elizabeth Barton.\\n1 741 Joshua Ballanger to Martha Stratton.\\n1 741 Sylvester Sharp to Mary Mills.\\n1 741 William Austin to Mary Robeson.\\n1 741 Samuel Wickward to Sarah Buzby.\\n1742 Jonathan Davis to Esther Haines.\\n1742 Ebenezer Andrews to Patience Lippincott.\\n1743 Freedom Lippincott to Elizabeth Ballanger.\\n1743 Eber Decou to Sarah Eves.\\n1743 Gabriel Davis to Sarah Ballanger.\\n1743 William Pinyard to Mary Young.\\n1743 Robert Stiles to Hannah Burrough.\\n1744 Solomon Lippincott to Sarah Cozens.\\n1744 Amaziah Ballanger to Ruth Collins.\\n1745 John Green to Catharine Hustead.\\n1745 Isaac Evans to Bathsaba Stokes.\\n1745 Thomas Lippincott to Rebecca Eldridge.\\n1745 Jacob Shinn to Hannah Lippincott.\\n1746 Aaron Lippincott to Elizabeth Jennings.\\n1746 Samuel Atkinson to Esther Evans.\\n1746 John Garwood to Charity Wright.\\n1746 Enoch Stratton to Amy Elkinton.\\n1746 Francis Collins to Ann Haines, widow.\\n1747 Samuel Hammock to Esther Sharp.\\n1747 Joseph Butcher to Prudence Rogers.\\n1747 John Fisher to Grace Mason.\\n1747 Jonathan Austin to Rebecca Mason.\\n1748 William Haines to Elizabeth Ballanger.\\n1749 Jacob Evans to Rachel Eldridge.\\n1749 Job Haines to Esther Hammitt.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0415.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "4o8 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\n1749 William Austin to Hannah Thomas.\\n1 749 John Pinyard to Martha Wilkins.\\n1749 Aaron Silver to Ann Hall.\\n1749 Obediah Borton to Mary Driver.\\n1 75 1 Amaziah Ballanger to Mary Ashbrook.\\n1751 James Lippincott to Elizabeth Lippincott.\\n1752 Thomas Eyre to Catharine Moore.\\n1752 John Eves to Jane Evans.\\n1752 Abner Woolman to Mary Aronson.\\n1752 Joseph Lowe to Rebecca Waite.\\n1752 Joseph Wilcox to Sarah Iredell.\\n1752 Thomas Andrews to Catharine Webster.\\n1752 Caleb Lippincott to Hannah Wilkinson.\\n1752 Julius Ersan to Sarah Middleton.\\n1752 Richard Saterthwaite to Elizabeth Wright.\\n1752 William Sharp to Mary Haines.\\n1753 John Ballanger to Mary Andrews, widow.\\n1753 Henry Burr to Elizabeth Foster.\\n1753 Aaron Lippincott to Elizabeth Tomlinson.\\n1753 Thomas Middleton to Jane Nicholson, widow.\\n1753 Joseph Johnson to Mary Ellis.\\n1753 Thomas Cummings to Mary Craig.\\n1754 Edward Darnell to Jane Driver.\\n1754 Joseph Sleeper to Hannah Haines.\\n1756 Edward Andrews to Tabitha Richardson.\\n1756 Ezekiel Lippincott to Bathsaba Matlack.\\n1756 Jacob Evans to Mary Cherrington.\\n1756 Joshua Lippincott to Rachel Dudley.\\n1756 Benjamin Gaskill to Sarah Heustead.\\n1756 William Montgomery to Mary Ellis.\\n1757 Joshua Gibbs to Hannah Burrough.\\n1757 William Troth to Esther Borton.\\n1757 Abraham Eldridge to Mary Lippincott.\\n1758 John Brackney to Mary Cheesman.\\n1758 John Peacock to Susanna Ballanger.\\n1758 Jacob Pritchett to Elizabeth Philips.\\n1758 Caleb Austin to Lydia Mason.\\n1758 Abel Lippincott to Jemima Evans.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0416.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES. 409\\n1758 William Sharp to Elizabeth Lippincott.\\n1758 John Haines to Mary Shreeve.\\n1758 John Miller to Sarah Andrews.\\n1758 Isaac Halloway to Mary Haines.\\n1759 Brazilla Pritchett to Sarah Sharp.\\n1759 Samuel Sharp to Rosanna Pritchett.\\n1759 Clayton Newbold to Mary Foster.\\n1759 John Painter to Susanna Stratton.\\n1760 Joseph Engle to Mary Borton.\\n1760 Thomas Rogers to Elizabeth Craig, Jr.\\n1 761 Isaac Borton to Mary Hooten.\\n1764 Thomas Stokes to Sarah Inskeep.\\n1 765 William Wills to Ann Craig.\\n1766 John Jessup to Elizabeth Ballanger.\\n1766 Joseph Gibson to Mary Ballanger.\\n1769 Jesse Thomas to Sarah Beckett.\\nWOODBURY.\\nMarriages of Friends who were members of Woodbury Creek\\nMeeting, Gloucester county, N. J.\\n1689 Joshua Lord to Sarah Wood, daughter of John.\\n1 709 Joshua Lord to Isabella Watts.\\n1 710 James Dilks to Ann Barker.\\n1 710 John Wood to Mary Whitall.\\n1 713 Samuel Ladd to Mary Medcalf.\\n1 714 Thomas Hackney to Rebecca Wilkins.\\n1 715 Henry Wood to Hannah Whitall.\\n1 716 Job Whitall to Jane Siddon.\\n1 71 7 Abraham Chatten to Grace Mills.\\n1 71 7 William Wickawan to Sarah Mason.\\n1 717 George Nicholson to Alice Lord.\\n1 718 James Whitall to Sarah Rakestraw.\\n1718 John Hill to Sarah Whitall.\\n1 721 John Lord to Mary Tindall.\\n1 72 1 Luke Gibson to Sarah Clark.\\n28", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0417.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "41 o FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\n1722 John Haines to Hannah Wood, widow.\\n1722 James Caffery to Margarett Zane.\\n1725 Richard Bickam to Mary Wood.\\n1725 James Smith to Jane Whitall, widow.\\n1727 William Clark to PhilHs Ward.\\n1728 Moses Ward to Mary Clark.\\n1730 John Borton to Elizabeth Lord.\\n1730 Thomas Wilkins to Joanna Wood.\\n1730 Joseph Parker to Mary Ladd.\\n1 731 John Saunders to Elizabeth Wilkins.\\n1732 John Ladd to Hannah Mickle.\\n1733 Francis Eastlack to Phoebe Driver.\\n1733 Richard Chew to Abigail Wood.\\n1733 John Wilkins to Sarah Wood.\\n1733 Obediah Gibson to Mary Lord.\\n1 733 Thomas Saunders to Ann Hopper.\\n1734 William Wood to Hannah Wood.\\n1734 John Howell to Catharine Ladd.\\n1734 Abraham Moss to Ann Ladd.\\n1734 Edmund Lord to Elizabeth Wood.\\n1737 Ebenezer Hopkins to Sarah Lord.\\n1737 John Jessup to Margarett Whitaker.\\n1737 James Wood to Sarah Kinsey.\\n1 739 James Whitall to Ann Cooper.\\n1739 William Wood to Rachel Stockdale.\\n1740 Thomas Kinsey to Hannah Ward.\\n1 740 Habakuk Ward to Hannah Lord.\\n1 741 William Barton to Abigail Lord.\\n1742 Robert Downs to Catharine Ladd.\\n1743 John Mitchner to Sarah Wilkins.\\n1743 Robert Zane to Martha Chatten.\\n1745 Abraham Chatten to Mary Wood.\\n1746 Joseph Gibson to Sarah Lord.\\n1747 Jacob Wills to Deborah Ladd.\\n1748 John Heustead to Sarah Lord.\\n1748 Joseph Cowgill to Ann Arnold.\\n1 75 1 Isaac Wilkins to Elizabeth Bliss.\\n1 75 1 Ebenezer Cook to Elizabeth Zane.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0418.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES. 411\\n1752 Thomas Robeson to Sarah Chatten.\\n1752 Francis Wood to Rachel Zane.\\n1752 John Lawton to Elizabeth Stevens.\\n1753 James Wood to Sarah Bickam.\\n1753 Nathan Lord to Ruth Snowdon.\\n1758 James Wood to Rebecca Wilkins.\\n1760 James Wilkins to Mary Ward.\\n1760 Samuel Mififlin to Mary Jessup.\\n1762 John Tatem to Sarah Ward.\\n1768 Jeremiah Andrews to Ann Wood.\\n1768 Thomas Saunders to Rachel Stevens.\\n1 7 71 Phineas Lord to Mary Gibbs.\\n1772 William Mickle to Sarah Lord.\\n1777 William Wood to Hannah Ladd.\\n1780 John Tatem to Elizabeth Cooper.\\n1780 Richard Wood to Ann Cooper.\\n1782 George Ward to Edith Wood.\\n1794 George Ward to Deborah Saunders.\\n1794 Benjamin Hopkins to Rebecca Ward.\\nLICENSES OF MARRIAGE.\\nA copy of the licenses of marriage granted by the Governor\\nof the State of New Jersey, as taken from the license books and\\nfrom the files relating thereto, in the office of the Secretary of\\nState at Trenton, N. J., of Burlington and Gloucester counties.\\n1727.\\nBenjamin Wood, of Gloucester county, to Mary Ashton, of\\nPhiladelphia.\\nThomas Thorne, of New York, to Laticia Hinchman, of Glou-\\ncester county.\\nRobert Bishop to Mary Hall, of Burlington county.\\nThomas Briant to Sarah Dunn, of Gloucester county.\\nRichard Buckle to Sarah Johnson,\\nThomas Cheesman to Sarah Coleman,\\nWilliam Ward to Mary Ann Warder,\\nJonathan Wood to Doratha Dogsflesh.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0419.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "412 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\n1728.\\nWilliam Budd, of Burlington county, to Susanna Cole, of Glou-\\ncester county.\\nJoseph Inskeep to Mary Matlack, of Burlington county.\\nRichard Glover to Rachel Clark,\\nJonathan Bolton to Mary Champion, of Gloucester county.\\nGabriel Hugg to Patience Ervin,\\nAmos Ashard to Cecelia Cheesman,\\nGeorge Gilbert to Hannah Fish,\\nBenjamin Ingersoll to Hannah Dole,\\n1729.\\nBenjamin Cooper, of Gloucester county, to Hannah Carlisle, 4J)f\\nPhiladelphia.\\nEdward Hurley to Frances Warrick, of Burlington county.\\nThomas Briant to Martha Middleton, of Gloucester county.\\nIsaac Tindall to Ann Harland,\\nJosiah Shivers to Ann Bates,\\nHenry Roe to Hannah Cheesman,\\n1730.\\nSamuel Harrison, of Gloucester county, to Mary Preston, of\\nPhiladelphia.\\nBenjamin Cheesman to Kesiah Lawrence, of Gloucester county.\\nJohn Testor to Hannah Briggs,\\nJoseph Heritage to Sarah Whitall,\\nWilliam Holmes to Rebecca Jones,\\n1731-\\nJacob Albertson to Patience Chew,\\nJoseph Thackara to Hannah Albertson,\\nEbenezer Jones to Mary Hampton,\\nJoseph Cole to Mary Wood,\\n1732.\\nEdward Gaskill to Elizabeth Lippincott, of Burlington county.\\nAaron Ward to Phoebe Holmes, of Gloucester county.\\nJohn Ashbrook to Esther Hamilton,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0420.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES.\\n413\\nJohn Holmes to Esther Fawsett, of Gloucester county.\\nThomas Cole to Hannah Stokes,\\nJohn Kaighn to Abigail Hinchman,\\nRemembrance Lippincott to Hannah Bates,\\nJames Mickle to Sarah Eastlack,\\nThomas Bates to Mary Shivers,\\nTobias Holloway to Mary Ladd, widow,\\n1733-\\nEdward Tonkins, of Burlington county, to Mary Cole, of Glou-\\ncester county.\\nSamuel Parr, of Burlington county, to Hannah Burrough, of\\nGloucester county.\\nRobert Hunt, of Burlington county, to Abigail Wood, of Glou-\\ncester county.\\nJacob Matlack to Ruth Woodathall, of Burlington county.\\nIsaac Matlack to Rebecca Bates, of Gloucester\\nIsaiah Ross to Ruth Tindall,\\nJohn Preston to Margarett Macintosh,\\nJohn Kentee to Hannah Sharp,\\nSamuel Eastlack to Ann Breach,\\nWilliam Kent to Sarah Powell,\\nJohn Wright to Ruth Mapes,\\nJohn Maher to Edith Jones,\\n1734-\\nBenjamin Cooper to Elizabeth Burdsall, widow, of Gloucester\\ncounty.\\nAbraham Siddon to Mary Cooper, widow, of Gloucester county.\\n1735-\\nGeorge Vaughn, of Gloucester county, to Hannah Smith, of\\nBurlington county.\\nAbraham Sharp to Mary French, widow, of Burlington county.\\nWilliam Sharp to Ann Austin,\\nHenry Cooper to Elizabeth Curtis,\\nThomas Budd to Jemima Leeds,", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0421.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "414 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\nBenjamin Collins to Ann Hedger, of Gloucester county.\\nThomas Potter to Rachel Wainwright,\\nJohn Eastlack to Margarett Hillman,\\nGeorge Ellis to Sarah Wild,\\nWilliam Heppard to Deborah Hinchman,\\nAndrew Morton to Emily Somers,\\nWilliam Guess to Christiana Archard,\\nElias Champion to Mary Steelman,\\nBenjamin Holmes to Hannah Roberts,\\nJohn Kain to Mary Worriman,\\nCharles Axford to Rebecca Beeks.\\nReuben Eldridge to Susanna Perkins.\\nSamuel Reeves to Mary Hill.\\n1736.\\nCharles Taylor, of Burlington county, to Rachel Horner, daugh-\\nter of Isaac, of Gloucester county.\\nJeremiah Wood, of Long Island, to Catharine Lloyd, of Salem\\ncounty.\\nBlackinstone Ingledon, of Philadelphia, to Mary Mickle, widow,\\nof Gloucester county.\\nJohn Chambers, of Philadelphia, to Mary Mickle, of Gloucester\\ncounty.\\nNathan Middleton to Mary French, of Burlington county.\\nAmos Austin to Esther Haines,\\nJohn Goslin to Sarah Budd,\\nHugh Caldwell to Jane Cox, of Gloucester\\nJohn Shivers to Mary Clement,\\nSamuel Morton to Lydia Cox,\\nHenry Willard to Ann Wetherill,\\nGeorge Flanagan to Sarah Jennings,\\nJohn Matlack to Hannah Shivers,\\nJeremiah Birch to Mary Jones,\\nSamuel Butcher to Susanna Marple, of Philadelphia.\\nCharles Hopkins to Ann Green, of Salem\\nJohn Hampton to Ann Deval,\\nAbraham Lord to Arnica MuUica,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0422.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES, 415\\n1737-\\nJohn Collins, of Gloucester county, to Elizabeth Moore, daugh-\\nter of Benjamin of Burlington county.\\nWilliam Hugg to Sai-ah Harrison, daughter of Samuel, of Glou-\\ncester county.\\nWilliam Kaighn to Abigail Cooper, daughter of Mary Siddons,\\nof Gloucester county.\\nSamuel Few to Susanna Collins, daughter of Edward, of Glou-\\ncester county.\\nAbraham Albertson to Hannah Medcalf, widow, of Gloucester\\ncounty.\\nJohn Bishop to Rebecca Matlack, of Burlington county.\\nRoger Hartley to Rebecca Packer,\\nJohn Hooten to Sarah Kay,\\nThomas Clement to Mary Tylee, of Gloucester\\nArchibald Jolly to Deborah Cheesman,\\nJoseph Albertson to Rosanna Hampton,\\nJohn Eastlack to Mary Bolton,\\nJohn Green to Elizabeth Browning,\\nJohn Norton to Hannah Eastlack,\\nEphraim Norton to Sarah Mickle,\\n1738.\\nIsaac Kay to Mary Ann Gregory, daughter of Joseph, of Glou-\\ncester county.\\nBenjamin Donnoly to Susanna Collins, daughter of Elizabeth\\nKent, of Burlington county.\\nHenry Siddons to Elizabeth Sharp, daughter of Samuel, of\\nGloucester county.\\nHenry Jones to Naomi Cheesman, of Gloucester county.\\nJonathan Thomas to Sarah Ellis, widow,\\nDaniel Barber to Margarett Hampton,\\nRobert Turner to Abigail Burne,\\nDavid Roe to Elizabeth Taber,\\nJohn Wiltshire to Elizabeth Williams.\\nJohn Johnson to Mary Redman.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0423.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "41 6 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\n1739-\\nJohn Chew to Ann Jennings, daughter of Isaac, of Gloucester\\ncounty.\\nIsaac Smith to Elizabeth Norris, of Gloucester county.\\n1740.\\nAbraham Inskeep to Sarah Ward, daughter of George, of Glou-\\ncester county.\\nJones Cattel to Mary Pratt, of Burlington county.\\nPhilo Leeds to Sarah Shinn,\\nWilliam Wallace to Dorathy Connolly, of Gloucester county.\\nJames Ward to Mary Hackney,\\nDaniel Eastlack to Mary Cheesman,\\nNathaniel Paul to Deborah Vaneman,\\nClement Russel to Sarah Purdy,\\nPeter Champion to Hannah Thackara,\\nJohn Wild to Sarah Chew,\\nThomas Spicer to Rebecca Day,\\nJacob Horner to Zabatha Wright,\\n1741.\\nGabriel Newbie, of Gloucester county, to Elizabeth McCop-\\npering, of Cumberland county.\\nJohn Heritage, of Burlington county, to Ann Hugg, daughter\\nof Joseph, of Gloucester county.\\nEdward Fennett, of Gloucester county, to Margarett Smith,\\nwidow, of Burlington county.\\nWilliam Bates, of Gloucester county, to Rebecca Tomlinson, of\\nBurlington county.\\nJohn Githens to Rebecca Frame, daughter of Joshua, of Glou-\\ncester county.\\nJacob Clement to Elizabeth Tylee, daughter of Ann Ellison\\nlate Tylee.\\nJames Shivers to Rebecca Doster, of Burlington county.\\nMichael Bowker to Mary Collins,\\nThomas Kingston to Sarah Cripps,\\nEdward Hampton to Sarah Breach, of Gloucester\\nJohn Eastlack to Patience Hugg, widow,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0424.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES. 417\\nJoseph Cooper to Deborah Taylor, of Monmouth county.\\nThomas Simpson to Abigail Burleigh, of Pennsylvania.\\nEphraim Albertson to Kesiah Chew, daughter of Thomas.\\nJoseph Heulings to Hannah Wood, daughter of Benjamin.\\n1742.\\nCasper Fish, of Gloucester county, to Sarah Collins, daughter\\nof Edward, of Philadelphia.\\nOwen Carty, of Gloucester county, to Esther Watson, of Bur-\\nlington county.\\nAbraham Albertson to Sarah Dennis, daughter of Esther Cowgill.\\n1743-\\nJohn Franklin to Mary Graysbury, daughter of James, of Glou-\\ncester county.\\nFrancis Kay to Jemima French, daughter of Charles, of Glou-\\ncester county.\\nWilliam Kay to Barbara Smith, of Burlington county.\\nSamuel Spicer to Abigail Willard, of Gloucester county.\\n1744.\\nJohn Cox, of Burlington county, to Abigail Ellis, of Gloucester\\ncounty.\\nHugh Middleton to Mary Fairly, of Burlington county.\\nLaban Langstaff to Ann Hewitt, of Gloucester\\nJoseph Morgan to Sarah Mickle,\\n1745-\\njames Wood, of Philadelphia, to Rachel Cooper, of Gloucester\\ncounty.\\nJohn Hammit to Sarah Hilliard, of Gloucester county.\\nJeremiah Chew to Hannah Ashbrook,\\n1746.\\nDaniel Bates, of Gloucester county, to Sarah Higbee, of Bur-\\nlington county.\\nJoseph Heritage to Ruth Haines, of Burlington county.\\nAbraham Hess to Elizabeth Hammit,\\n29", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0425.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "4i8\\nFIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\nVespasian Kemble to Rachel Haines, of Burlington county.\\nThomas Bates to Mary Clemenz, of Gloucester\\nJohn Erwin to Mary Bellows,\\nRichard Cheesman to Hannah Cheesman,\\nPeter Cheesman to Ann Ellis,\\nEdward Castle to Ann Norton,\\nThomas Clark to Ruth Hooten,\\nIsaac Mickle to Sarah Burrough,\\nSamuel Champion to Sarah Dilks,\\n1747.\\nJohn Bates, of Burlington county, to Sarah Collins, of Glou-\\ncester county.\\nJonathan Wright to Mary Inskeep, of Burlington county.\\nJames Inskeep to Mary Patterson,\\nJames Gill to Hannah Hinchman, of Gloucester\\nAbraham Hammit to Mary Hilliard,\\nWilliam Albertson to Hannah Harrison,\\nJohn Hinchman to Elizabeth Smith, widow,\\n1748.\\nCharles Collins to Ruth Starkey, of Burlington county.\\nJoseph Nicholson to Rachel Livzey, of Gloucester\\nDaniel Fortiner to Bathsaba French,\\nEdward HoUingshead to Susanna Shivers,\\nSamuel Packer to Elizabeth Hawkes,\\nJohn Holmes to Esther Carty,\\nJoel Hillman to Laticia Cheesman,\\nIsaac Kay to Hope French,\\n1749.\\nWilliam Southerly Cooper to Mary Cheesman, of Gloucester\\ncounty.\\nJoseph Harrison to Ann Clement, of Gloucester county.\\nCharles Hubbs to Mary Eastlack,\\n1750-\\nWilliam Dwyer to Sarah Ellis,\\nJosiah Ward to Kesiah Albertson,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0426.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES. 419\\n1751-\\nJohn Eastlack, of Gloucester county, to Elizabeth Read, of\\nSalem county.\\nRichard Lippincott to Hannah Clemenz, of Burlington county.\\nJohn Stokes to Ann Champion, widow, of Gloucester\\nEdward Browning to Grace Oldale,\\n1752-\\nJacob Spicer to Deborah Learning, widow, of Cape May county.\\n1753-\\nIsaac Hinchman to Laticia Woolstan, of Gloucester county.\\n1754-\\nThomas Bispham, of Burlington county, to Sarah Hinchman,\\nof Gloucester county.\\nJohn Mullen to Hannah Collins, of Burlington county.\\nJames Brown to Alice Wood, of Gloucester\\nHenry Crawford to Elizabeth McCuUock,\\nJames Hillman to Mary Smallwood,\\n1756-\\nLevi Albertson, of Gloucester county, to Kesiah Roberts, of\\nBurlington county.\\nJoseph Inskeep, of Salem county, to Hannah McCuUock, of\\nGloucester county.\\nJoseph Heulings to Elizabeth Hammit, of Burlington county.\\nAaron Albertson to Elizabeth Albertson, of Gloucester\\nElijah Clark to Jane Lardener,\\nWilliam Ellis, Jr., to Amy Matlack,\\nJonathan Knight to Elizabeth Clement,\\n1757-\\nAbraham Heulings to Sarah Perkins, of Burlington county.\\nThomas Rakestraw to Elizabeth Zane,\\nJames Mulock, M. D., to Pricilla Collins, of Gloucester county.\\nDavid Hurley to Sarah Branson, of Monmouth county.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0427.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "420\\nFIRST EMIGRANT SETTIERS.\\n1758.\\nJohn Buzby, of Burlington county, to Sarah Ellis, of Gloucester\\ncounty.\\nJohn Budd, of Salem county, to Rosanna Shivers, of Gloucester\\ncounty.\\nAbraham Heulings to Mary Ann Kay, widow, of Burlington\\ncounty.\\nJohn Inskeep to Elizabeth Buckman, of Burlington county.\\nJoseph Hiliman to Sarah Shivers, of Gloucester\\nWilliam Rudderow to Abigail Spicer,\\n1759-\\nBenjamin Cooper, of Gloucester county, to Elizabeth Hopwell,\\nof Burlington county.\\nThomas Ellis, Jr., to Hannah Albertson, widow, of Gloucester\\ncounty.\\nRichard Collins to Sarah Griffith, of Burlington county.\\nSamuel Gaskill to Sybilla Collins,\\nTitan Leeds to Hope French,\\nCharles Day to Laticia Albertson, of Gloucester\\nHugh Creighton to Mary French, widow,\\nWilliam Harrison to Abigail Thorne,\\nJohn Parker to Elizabeth Kay,\\nBiddle Reeve to Anne Clement,\\n1760.\\nCapt. Joseph Ellis to Mary Hinchman,\\nSimeon Ellis to Pricilla Bates,\\n1761.\\nIsaac Albertson to Deborah Thorne,\\nJames Cooper to Sarah Ervin,\\nThomas Heppard to Rhoda Zane,\\nJoseph Hugg to Sarah Smith,\\nJoseph Harrison to Kesiah Tallman,\\nJosiah Hiliman to Elizabeth Pancoast,\\nJoab Hiliman to Mary Matlack,\\nSamuel Hugg to Elizabeth Thorne,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0428.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "MARRIAGES. :42i\\nSamuel Murrel to Ann Stokes, of Gloucester county.\\nJohn Cane to Hannah Tice,\\nRobert Friend Price to Mary Thorne,\\n1762.\\nThomas Gill, of Gloucester county, to Mary Wallis, of Bur-\\nlington county.\\nSamuel Boggs to Margaret Halloway, of Gloucester county.\\nBenjamin Hartley to Mary Bates,\\nJohn Kay to Rebecca Hartley,\\nJoseph Holmes to Elizabeth Guthridge.\\n1763.\\nJoseph Hillman to Drusilla Cheesman,\\n1764.\\nNathan Albertson to Jane Thorne,\\nAbraham Albertson to Sarah Albertson,\\nvSamuel Hugg to Mary Collins,\\n1765-\\nThomas Ellis, of Gloucester county, to Anna Humphries, of\\nBurlington county.\\nAaron Albertson to Margarett Wells, of Gloucester county.\\n1766.\\nMoses Branson to Sarah Borrodale, of .Burlington county.\\nHaddon Hopkins to Hannah Stokes, of Gloucester\\nBenjamin Bates to Sarah Hugg, widow,\\nRobert Friend Price to Lizzie Hugg,\\nIsaac Tomlinson to Elizabeth Shivers,\\n1767.\\nIsaac Burrough to Rebecca Nicholson,\\nBenjamin Graysbury to Lydia Matlack,\\nJoseph Kaighn to Prudence Butcher,", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0429.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "42 2 FIRST EMIGRANT SETTLERS.\\n1768.\\nWilliam Bakely to Elizabeth Albertson, widow, of Gloucester\\ncounty.\\nSamuel Kaighn to Mary Gerard, of Gloucester county.\\nJoseph Bates to Judith Albertson,\\n1769.\\nGeorge Flanagan to Patience Collins, widow, of Gloucester\\ncounty.\\n1770.\\nJohn Lippincott to Abigail Collins, of Burlington county.\\nJacob Albertson to Elizabeth Flanagan, of Gloucester\\nSamuel Nicholson to Elizabeth Haines,\\nJohn Blackwood to Hannah Stretch, of Salem\\nJoseph Blackwood to Rebecca Moss,\\nJohn Eastlack to Jerusha Parks.\\n1771.\\nIsaac Burrough to Abigail Marshall, of Gloucester county.\\nBrazilla Hugg to Mary Wood,\\nJacob Rowand to Anne Heppard,\\n1772.\\nBenjamin Holmes to Phoebe Heulings,\\nAaron Haines to Pricilla Collins,\\n1773-\\nJoseph Albertson to Mary Albertson,\\nJob Kay to Rachel Adams,\\n1774-\\nVespasian Kemble to Esther French, widow,\\nSilas Lord to Elizabeth Bates,\\n1775-\\nEphraim Albertson to Elizabeth Warrick,\\nJacob Burrough to Elizabeth Gill,\\nSamuel Ellis to Hannah Gilbert,", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0430.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "MARRIA GES.\\nHenry Thorne to Elizabeth Tice, of Gloucester county.\\nBenjamin Graysbury to Laticia Shivers,\\nWilliam Zane to Alice Chatten,\\n1777.\\nBenjamin Bates to Mary Thackara,\\nThomas Burrough to Rebecca Fish,\\nBenjamin Bates to Sarah Hammel,\\nWilliam Davidson to Elizabeth Eastlack,\\nWilliam Kaighn to Mary Cole,\\n1779.\\nWilliam Buzby to Sarah Burrough,\\nJohn Kay to Kesiah Thorne,\\n1782.\\nIsaac Evans to Esther Collins, of Burlington\\nIsaac Albertson to Sarah Thackara, of Gloucester\\nEphraim Albertson to Charity Langley,\\nAbraham Bennett to Mercy Bates,\\nThomas Kay to Mary Mattson,\\n1783-\\nBenjamin Burrough to Hannah Wilkins,\\nLevi Ellis to Elizabeth Hillman,\\n1784.\\nSamuel Risley to Abigail Somers,\\n1785-\\nIsaac Ellis to Sarah Hillman,\\nAlexander Rowand to Phoebe Clement,\\n423\\n1786.\\nAbel Nicholson to Mary Ellis,\\n1791.\\nNathan Eyres, of Philadelphia, to Sarah Kay, of Gloucester\\ncounty.\\nJohn Roberts to Hannah Bassett, of Gloucester county.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0431.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0432.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nA\\nAbbott, Elizabeth, 220.\\nGeorge, 221.\\nJohn, 219, 220,\\nMary, 220.\\nRachel, 220.\\nSamuel, 136.\\nAborn, Jonathan, 53.\\nAdams, James, 318.\\nJohn, 276, 318.\\nSamuel, 217.\\nAdvertisement of Council of Pro-\\nprietors, 361.\\nAlbertson, William, 50, 69, loi, 103,\\n104, 105, 106, 123, I S2, 221,\\n332-\\nAaron, 106.\\nAbraham, 104, 106.\\nAnn, 104, 108, 123, 324.\\nBenjamin, 104.\\nCassandra, 56, 104, 108.\\nChalkley, 107.\\nDerric, 102.\\nElizabeth, 106, 108.\\nEphraim, 106.\\nEsther, 106.\\nHannah, 64, 104, 108, 247.\\nHans, 102.\\nIsaac, 106.\\nJacob, 106.\\nJane, 106, 221, 332.\\nJohn, 106, 153.\\nJonathan, 106.\\nJoseph, 106.\\nJosiah, 104, 107, 108, 198, 324.\\nKaturah, 108.\\nLevi, 106.\\nMary, 106, 108.\\nPatience, 108.\\nRebecca, 104, 106.\\nSarah, 108.\\n30\\nAllday, Alice, 14.\\nAelen, Deborah, 276.\\nElizabeth, 276.\\nEnoch, 82.\\nHannah, 132.\\nJuda, 276.\\nMary, 123.\\nSamuel, 384.\\nAntrim, Ann, 235.\\nAnderson, Jacob, 303.\\nAndrews, Ebenezer, 384.\\nAit LETON, John, 227.\\nJosiah, 227.\\nRichard, 227.\\nArasapha, 89.\\nArney, Mary, 383.\\nAronson, Aaron, 221, 323.\\nRebecca, 221.\\nKesiah, 321.\\nArmstrong, Edward, 286.\\nArnold, Richard, 147.\\nArwawmosse, 75, 327, ;^23-\\nI Ashard, George, 215.\\nAsHBRlDGE, Aaron, 199.\\nAsHBROOK, John, 264.\\nAshton, Sarah, 197.\\nAsPDEN, Mathias, 20, 369.\\nAtkinson, Elizabeth, 311.\\nJames, 45.\\nThomas, 259, 317.\\nAtmore, Caleb, 161, 164.\\nDam, 163, 166.\\nThomas, 164.\\nA I SPIN, Ann, 104, 107.\\nFrancis 107, 169.\\nJennett, 382.\\nAx FORD, Hannah, 275, 276.\\nJonathan, 178, 276.\\nLanding, 131.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0433.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "426\\nINDEX.\\nB\\nBaldwin, John, 342.\\nBallinger, Elizabeth, 82.\\nHenry, 169.\\nIsaac, 108, 120, 153.\\nJohn, 183.\\nMark, 303, 304.\\nBank, Mark Newbie s, 40.\\nBarber, Margaret, 381.\\nBarclay, Robert, 344, 356.\\nBartlett, Benjamin, 202, 223, 337.\\nGracia, 223.\\nBarton,. John, 224, 369.\\nBasse, Jeremiah, 139.\\nBatchelor s Bank, 329.\\nBates, William, 17, 24, 25, 32, 38,\\n40, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52,\\n53. 54, 55 56, 57. 130, 183.\\nAbigail, 51, 52, 53,64,258.\\nAnn, 253.\\nBenjamin, 53.\\nElizabeth, 53.\\nJeremiah, 51, 52, 64, 297.\\nJonathan, 53.\\nJoseph, 51, 52, 55, 56, 229,\\n258, 273, 275.\\nMary, 52, 199, 276.\\nMartha, 52.\\nSarah, 51, 52, 56, 189.\\nSamuel, 81.\\nThomas, 53, 55, 253, 276.\\nBeeks, Lydia, 311.\\nMorgan, 31 1.\\nNathan, 212, 310, 311.\\nBennett, Joseph, 311.\\nBernard, Mary 302.\\nBerkley, John, 359.\\nBettle, Edward, 161.\\nWilliam, 162.\\nBeverly, 106.\\nBiCKLEY, Abraham, 363.\\nBiDGOOD, Esther, 324.\\nRichard, 320.\\nWilliam, 320.\\nBiLDERBACK, Francis, 46.\\nBillington, James, 131.\\nBiRCHAM, Sarah, 244.\\nBishop, Hannah, 82.\\nBiSPHAM, Benjamin, 247.\\nElizabeth, 247.\\nHinchman, 247.\\nJoseph, 244, 247.\\nThomas, 243, 247.\\nBlack, Mary, 321.\\nBlackwell, Robert, 209.\\nBlackwood, Benjamin W., 369.\\nBlue Anchor tra6l, 363.\\nBogg, Judith, 108.\\nBolton, Jonathan, 129, 280, 281.\\nHannah, 280, 281,\\nMary, 66, 375.\\nBooYs, Martha, 254.\\nBORRADALE, Ruth, 82.\\nBoRTON, Edward, 90, 197.\\nSarah, 97.\\nBowDEN, James, 353.\\nBowNAS Samuel, 272.\\nBradford, William, 355.\\nBradway, Edward, 91, 215.\\nMary, 91.\\nBrady, Henry, 279.\\nBraithwill, Margaret, 35.\\nBranson, John, 163.\\nMary, 247.\\nSarah, 137.\\nBreach, Ann, 66, 375.\\nSimeon, 77, 161.\\nBrearley, Alexander, 18.\\nBrick, John, 220.\\nJ. Stokes, 245.\\nBridgman, Orlando, 269.\\nBrighton, William, 353.\\nBromley, Richard, 319.\\nBrooks, Stephen, 136.\\nBrotherton, town of, 362.\\nBrown, Allen H., 273.\\nJohn, 120, 146, 153, 180.\\nJoseph, 297.\\nPrudence, 147.\\nBrowning, Joseph, 54, 304.\\nBryant, Abraham, 79, 179.\\nAnn, 79.\\nBenjamin, 79.\\nElizabeth, 79.\\nJohn, 79.\\nRebecca, 79.\\nSarah, 79.\\nThomas, 76, 79,\\nBudd, Ann, 204.\\nGeorge, 147.\\nJames, 81.\\nJohn, 78, 361.\\nThomas, 40, 41, 80, 98, 217,\\n353. 369-\\nWilliam, 204, 217.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0434.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n427\\nBull, John, 72.\\nRichard, 361.\\nBunting, Mary, 97.\\nSamuel, 91.\\nBuRCHAM, Elizabeth, 92, 147.\\nJacob, 147, 204.\\nBurden, Matthew, 331.\\nRichard, 331.\\nBurlington, town of, 84, 86, 88, 90,\\n91, 170.\\nBurlington and Gloucester County\\nlines, 32, y^, 203.\\nBurr, Ann, 21, 123.\\nHeni-y, 383.\\nMarmaduke, 123.\\nMary, 383.\\nBurrough, Abigail, 245, 321.\\nAnn, 199, 321.\\nBathsaba, 321.\\nBenjamin, 320, 321.\\nDavid, 189, 276, 321.\\nEdward, 315, 316, 317, 318,\\n319.\\nElizabeth, 318.\\nEnoch, 321.\\nEsther, 320, 321.\\nGideon, 321.\\nHannah, 319, 320, 321, 324.\\nIsaac, 222, 320, 323.\\nJacob, 108, 136, 245, 320, 324.\\nJames, 324.\\nBurrough, Jeremiah, 316.\\nJohn, 170, 276, 316, 318, 320,\\n321, 324-\\nJoseph, 153, 316, 320, 321.\\nJosiah, 212, 310, 319, 321,322,\\n323-\\nKesiah, 320.\\nMartha, 321.\\nMary, 321, 324.\\nPriscilla, 317, 323.\\nRachel, 321.\\nReuben, 324.\\nSamuel, 141, 221, 318, 319,\\n320, 321, 324.\\nSarah, 141, 319, 320, 321, 324,\\n332-\\nWilliam, 316, 324.\\nBurnett, Phrebe, 321.\\nWilliam, 259.\\nBuRGE, William, 280.\\nBusse, Margaret, 287.\\nPaul, 287.\\nButcher, Catharine, 221.\\nMaiy, 311.\\nPrudence, 156.\\nBuzBY, John, 190, 306.\\nByllynge, Edward, 13, 27. 44, 48,\\n58, 72, 74, 90, 98, 112, 132,\\n202,223,277,301,327,336,\\n345, 359-\\nGracia, 223.\\nc\\nCampbell, John, 61.\\nCantwell, Edmund, 358.\\nCarew, John, 269.\\nCarpenter, Samuel, 18, 218, 331,\\n345 346, 347,349,350,351-\\nAbraham, 92, 349.\\nHannah, 347, 349.\\nJohn, 349.\\nJoshua, 92, 349.\\nCarter, Catharine, 342.\\nCarterett, Philip, 358, 359.\\nCassimer, Fort, 102.\\nCathcart, John, 53.\\nCensus of Gloucester County, 96.\\nChalkley, Thomas, 297.\\nChampion, John, 225, 226, 365, 366,\\n367, 368, 369.\\nAnn, 304.\\nBenjamin, 369.\\nElizabeth, 367, 369.\\nChampion, Joseph, 82, 185, 368.\\nMary, 311, 369.\\nMatthew, 200, 366.\\nNathaniel, 368, 369.\\nPeter, 64, 185, 368.\\nPhcebe, 368.\\nRobert, 368.\\nSamuel, 36, 38, 46, 369.\\nSarah, 369.\\nThomas, 365, 368, 369,\\nChampneys, Edward, 216.\\nCharles L, King of England, 267,\\n271.\\nCharles H., 219, 271, 315, 341,\\n380.\\nChapman, William, 257, 25S.\\nChattin, Mary, 19.\\nChaunders, Thomas, 146.\\nCheesman, Mary, 66, 375.\\nThomas, 276.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0435.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "428\\nINDEX.\\nChew, Hannah, 45.\\nKesiah, 106.\\nPatience, 106.\\nRichard, 106.\\nChild, Mrs. Maria, 116.\\nChristianity, 224.\\nChurch at Swedesboro, 289.\\nCi.ARK, Ann, 91.\\nDeborah, 369.\\nRachel, 247.\\nWaher, 331.\\nWilliam, 132, 169, 369.\\nClarssen, Jan, 358.\\nClement, Ann, 274.\\nGregory, 267, 268, 269, 270,\\n271.\\nJacob, 108, 246, 272, 273, 274,\\n275-\\nJames, 52, 248, 271, 272, 273.\\nJane, 52, 271.\\nJohn, 133, 273, 274.\\nJoseph, 273.\\nMary, 253, 274.\\nMercy, 51, 273, 275.\\nNathaniel, 273.\\nRebecca, 310.\\nSamuel, 59, 78, 220, 273, 274,\\n310.\\nSarah, 248, 273, 274.\\nSimeon, 272.\\nThomas, 273, 274.\\nWilliam, 271.\\nClemenz, Edward, 131, 275, 276.\\nBenjamin, 276, 321.\\nEphraim, 276.\\nEsther, 276.\\nHannali, 276.\\nJuda, 276, 321.\\nMary, 276.\\nRachel, 276.\\nSarah, 276.\\nClews, William, 174.\\nCloud, 342.\\nCoaxes, Hannah, 92.\\nCobb, William, 289.\\nCoFFiNG, Jacob, 145, 147.\\nCollat, Jeremiah, 217.\\nCollins, Francis, 20, 32, 68, 70, 72,\\n73. 74, 75. 76, 78, 79, 80,\\n81,82, 83, 95, 114, 140, 168,\\n170,177, 182, 183,235,240,\\n242, 249, 253, 257, 286, 289,\\n290, 3i7 3-0, 369-\\nAbigail, 82.\\nBenjamin, 78, 185.\\nCollins, Catharine, 78, 79, 184, 274.\\nCharles, 82, 185.\\nCharity, 81.\\nEdward, 71, 248.\\nElizabeth, 71, 76, 80, 81.\\nHannah, 82.\\nJob, 82, 8^.\\nJohn, 81, 82, 83.\\nJoseph, 76, 78, 79.\\nJoshua, 82.\\nLizzie, 81.\\nMargaret, 76, 286, 290.\\nMary, 71, 80, 81, 82, 83, 369.\\nMercy, 82.\\nPriscilla, 76, 78, 79, 81, 82,\\n188, 240, 286.\\nRachel, 82, 185, 368.\\nRebecca, 76, 78, 79, 274.\\nSamuel, 81, 82, 304, 368.\\nSarah, 56. 76, 78, 81, 82, 184.\\nSusanna, 81.\\nSybilla, 81.\\nCOLLINGS, Richard, 20.\\nEdward Z., 15, 17.\\nCole, Samuel, 147, 201, 202, 203,\\n204, 205, 212, 220, 293, 294,\\n307,308,310,327,330,333.\\nElizabeth, 203, 204, 212, 308.\\nJoseph, 178, 204, 30S, y^i.\\nKendall, 204.\\nMary, 204, 235.\\nRachel, 204.\\nSarah, 203.\\nSusanna, 204.\\nThomas, 82, 204, 244, 304.\\nColeman, Thomas, 326.\\nCoNROW, Darling, 304.\\nCooper, William, 19, 39, 62, 63, 64,\\n85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91,\\n92, 93, 96, 97,98, 140, 141,\\n147, 152,173, 185,201,212,\\n226,310,322,342,343,347,\\n369-\\nAbigail, 95, 332.\\nAnn, 91.\\nBenjamin, 92, 97, 141, 146,\\n147, 153, 175, 204, 243.\\nDaniel, 52, 85, 92, 93, 94, 95,\\n96, 97, 114, 226, 297, 332,\\n342.\\nDavid, 92, 120, 153.\\nElizabeth, 92, 141, 147.\\nHannah, 85, 90, 91, 92, 93,\\n141, 212, 310.\\nIsaac, 41, 92, 97, 147.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0436.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n429\\nCOOPKR, James, 85, 91, 120, 147, 153,\\n311. l^l-\\nJohn, 91, 97, 98, 120, 329.\\nJoseph, 85, 92, 93, 97, 98, 120,\\n129,130, 141,147,151,152,\\n156, 168, 212, 310, 349.\\nLydia, 92, 310.\\nMargaret, 85, 86.\\nMary, 64, 91, 93, 169.\\nRichard, 236.\\nSamuel, 96, 97, 147, 217.\\nSarah, 91, 92, 96.\\nCope Estate, 92.\\nCORBIT, Sarah, 197.\\nCoRNBURY, Lord, 39, 96, 175, 176,\\n196, 272.\\nCowpERTHWAiTE,John,i37, 204, 304.\\nCox, Abigail, 185.\\nJohn, 92, 136, 185, 331.\\nLydia, 97.\\nSamuel, 185.\\nWilliam, 185.\\nCoxE, Daniel, 173, 174, 175, 223.\\nCresson, Caleb, 123.\\nJoshua, 123.\\nCrews, Eve, 89.\\nRichard, 89.\\nCripps, John, 278, 279.\\nCrispin, William, 317.\\nCromwell, Oliver, 315.\\nRichard, 315.\\nCi;thberi, Joseph, 81.\\nD\\nDagger, John, 24.\\nDalbo, Walla, 289.\\nDaniels, Isabella, 220.\\nDarkin, Richard, 18.\\nDavenport, Abigail, 297.\\nFrancis, 18, 76, 177.\\nRebecca, 177.\\nDavis, Amy, 133.\\nDavid, 133, 321.\\nJoseph, 263.\\nMercy, 137.\\nSarah, 152.\\nDay, Humphrey, 210, 221.\\nJane, 210.\\nRebecca, 298.\\nStephen, 210.\\nDeacon, George, 215.\\nMai7, 253.\\nDeCosta, John, 65, 184, 373, 374.\\nDecou, Isaac, 45.\\nDennis, Hannah, 141.\\nSamuel, 380, 385.\\nSarah, 106, 220.\\nThomas, 155.\\nDent, Ann, 156.\\nHannah, 92, 93.\\nDimsdale, John, 77.\\nRobert, 76, 78, 183.\\nSarah, 76, 77.\\nWilliam, 77.\\nDole, John, 149, 151.\\nJoseph, 151.\\nHannah, 151.\\nMary, 151.\\nRebecca, 151.\\nSarah, 150, 151.\\nDoNALSON, Arthur, 156.\\nDuel, Phcebe, 247.\\nDuFFiELD, Phoebe, 185.\\nDuYRE, William, 189.\\nDylwyn, Ann, 185.\\nEastlack, John, 21, 61, 64, 65, 66,\\n371. 372, 373. 374,375-\\nDaniel, 66, 375.\\nElizabeth, 66, 141, 372, 375.\\nEsther, 66, 375.\\nFrancis, 63, 371, 372.\\nHannah, 66, 375.\\nHepsibah, 63, 372.\\nEastlack, Isaac G., 317.\\nJemima, 372.\\nSamuel, 66, 153, 374, 375.\\nSarah, 66, 141, 375.\\nEdwards, Elizabeth, 382.\\nRichard, 157.\\nSamuel, 157.\\nSarah, 157.\\n31", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0437.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "43\u00c2\u00b0\\nINDEX.\\nEldridge, Enos, 311.\\nJoseph, 50.\\nRebecca, 384.\\nElfreth, Joseph, 46.\\nElkinton, Amy, 136.\\nAnn, 136.\\nElizabeth, 136.\\nFrancis, 13^.\\nGeorge, 79, 136.\\nJoseph, 135.\\nEllis, Simeon, 51, 56, 69, 78, 168,\\n180,182,183, 184,186,187,\\n1 89, 290, 306, 368.\\nAbigail, 185, 190, 306.\\nAnn, 185, 368, 369.\\nBenjamin, 189.\\nCatharine, 185.\\nCassandra, 320, 324.\\nElizabeth, 180.\\nIsaac, 189, 222.\\nJacob, 56, 108, 324.\\nJohn, 189.\\nJonathan, 56, 184, 190.\\nJoseph, 56, 69, 183, 184, 189,\\n237 304. 306.\\nJosiah, 183.\\nKesiah, 190, 306.\\nMary, 184.\\nPriscilla, 190, 304, 306.\\nRebecca, 222.\\nSarah, 56, 59, 183, 184, 189,\\n190, 306.\\nThoriias, 56, 78, 180, 182, 184.\\nWilliam, 56, 180, 184, 185,189.\\nElmer, L. Q. C, 42.\\nElsinburg, II, 24.\\nEmlen, Sarah, 185.\\nEmley, William, 277.\\nEngle, John, 221, 332.\\nElizabeth, 382.\\nHannah, 384.\\nMary, 384.\\nEriwonack, Fort, 311, 313.\\nErvin, George, 93.\\nSarah, 147.\\nEsTAUGH, Elizabeth, 21, 2 77, 84,\\n109. 117, 119, 120, 121, 122,\\n123, 125, 127, 128, 129, 130,\\n132, i33 134. 155.236, 246,\\n336.\\nJames. 155.\\nJohn, 29, 112, 113, 114, 116,\\n117. 118, 120, 121, 128, 133,\\n134,155,170,236,237.\\nMary, 155.\\nEvans, Agnes, 212.\\nElizabeth, 169.\\nJohn, 153, 220.\\nJoshua, 81, 178.\\nJosiah, 171, 228.\\nMary, 311.\\nNathaniel, 208.\\nThomas, 169.\\nI William, 120, 169.\\nEves, Anna, 383.\\nThomas, 169.\\nFairman, Thomas, 89.\\nFairland, Catharine, 197.\\nMary, 197.\\nFarr, Elias, 335.\\nFenwick, John, 11,48, 107, 213, 214,\\n2 i9, 240, 272, 283,345,365,\\n380.\\nFell, Margaret, 380.\\nFenimore, John, 79.\\nFerry License, 94, 96.\\nField, Benjamin, 175.\\nElizabeth, 273.\\nFirman, Rachel, 233.\\nFiSHBURN, William, 349.\\nFisher, John, 19, 146.\\nFolwell, Ann, 147.\\nFortiner, Hope, 247.\\nForrest, Ann, 106, 149.\\nFrancis, 106.\\nJohn, 106.\\nWalter, 104, 106, 107, 149,\\n152-\\nFoster, Josiah, 1 20.\\nHannah, 311.\\nMary, 235, 236.\\nWilliam, 120.\\nFowler, Andrew, 209.\\nRennels, 133.\\nFox, George, 48, 57, 70, 84, 90, 128,\\n135,168,205,247,294,315,\\n33i 356,359- 380.\\nJames, 18.\\nFrame, Joshua, 51, 53.\\nFrampton, William, 212.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0438.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n431\\nFranklin, Benjamin, 121, 237.\\nHenry, 225, 366.\\nJohn, 162.\\nFrench, Hope, 177.\\nJemima, 179.\\nFretwell, Peter, 361.\\nFriends Meeting, Chester, (Moores-\\ntown), 318.\\nFriends Meeting, Burlington, 353,\\n354-\\nFriends Meeting, Haddonfield, 119,\\n120.\\nFuRNASS, Henry, 217.\\nFussEL, Barbara, 321.\\nG\\nGabitas, Deborah, 151.\\nGardiner, Thomas, 17, 328, 336,\\n353. 355. 356, 360, 362.\\nElizabeth, 363.\\nEstlier, 356.\\nHannah, 363.\\nHored, 356.\\nJames, 198.\\nJohn, 356.\\nMatthew, 356, 362.\\nPeter, 356.\\nGarwood, Joseph, 264.\\nDaniel, 81.\\nJohn, 383.\\nJoshua, 151.\\nGaskill, Samuel, 81.\\nGerard, Mary, 157.\\nGibbs, Joshua, 321.\\nRichard, 321.\\nGill, John, 33, 73,84, 120, 121, 127,\\n128, 129, 130, 131, 132,\\n133, 134, 135. 136, 138,\\n152, 168, 190, 221, 237,\\n245, 246, 257, 258,\\n264, 276.\\n261,\\nAmy, 136, 137.\\nElizabeth, 136, 324.\\nHannah, 133, 137.\\nHenry, 127.\\nJames, 248.\\nMary, 133, 134, 245.\\nMercy, 134.\\nSarah, 136.\\nWilliam, 136.\\nGillman, Robert, 218.\\nGiLLOTT, Esther, 320.\\nGloucester, county of, 27, 75, 92,\\n138.\\nGloucester and Burlington counties,\\nline of, 32, T,i, 203.\\nGlover, Isaac, 247.\\nJacob, 247.\\nJohn, 120, 153, 245,246,247.\\nJoseph, 153, 247.\\nMary, 247.\\nRachel, 247.\\nRichard, 247.\\nSamuel, 246, 247.\\nSarah, 246, 247.\\nThomas, 247.\\nWilliam, 247.\\nGoldsmith, George, 24, 25, 26, 49,\\n61, 65, 67, 69, 70, 342.\\nGooDEN, Isaac, 29.\\nGordon, Thomas, 180.\\nGoSLiN, John, 80, 353, 369.\\nGrannA, Robert, 217.\\nGray, Ann, 320.\\nEsther, 320.\\nRichard, 73, 320.\\nGraysbury, James, 50, 159, 160, 161,\\n162, 163.\\nAbigail, 163.\\nAnn, 160, 162.\\nBenjamin, 159, 160, 161, 162,\\n163.\\nElizabeth, 160.\\nJoseph, 159, 160, 161, 162.\\nMargaret, 160.\\nMary, 160, 162, 163.\\nGreen, Elizabeth, 303.\\nGregory, Mary Ann, 176.\\nGriscom, Andrew, 149, 151, 152, 217.\\nMary, 152.\\nSamuel, 152.\\nSarah, 149, 15 1.\\nTobias, 151, 152.\\nWilliam, 152.\\nGuANT, 197.\\nGuy, Richard, 215, 216, 353.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0439.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "432\\nINDEX,\\nH\\nHaddon, Elizabeth, in, 112, 113,\\n114, 116.\\nJohn, 65, no, 112, 113, 115,\\n118, 120, 121, 127, 128, 130,\\n134, 236, 282, 335, 373.\\nSarah, 112.\\nHaddonfield, Old and New, 74, 77,\\n80, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120,\\n125,133.134,135.136,137,\\n142,170,171,173,177,335.\\nHaines, Amos, 19.\\nAnn, 81, 303.\\nCarlisle, 235.\\nDaniel, 79.\\nElizabeth, 82, 147.\\nJacob, 276, 321.\\nJonathan, 235.\\nMary, 235, 236, 384.\\nPhcebe, 320.\\nRebecca, 235, 236.\\nRuth, 133.\\nSamuel, 304.\\nSolomon, 82.\\nHall, Clement, 274.\\nMartha, 35.\\nNathaniel, 274.\\nSarah, 274.\\nWilliam, 273, 274.\\nHallow AY, Tobias, 36, 152, 368.\\nHallowell, John, 35, 36.\\nHamel, John, 359.\\nHamilton, Andrew, 351.\\nHammond, Rebecca, 16.\\nHampton, Rhoda Ann, 282.\\nRose, 106.\\nHanna, Peter, 247.\\nHancock, Godfrey, 358.\\nMary, 233, 235.\\nSusannah, 152.\\nTimothy, 169, 202, 233, 234,\\n318.\\nHardiman, Hannah, 349.\\nHarper, Josiah, 329.\\nHarrison, Abigail, 157, 243.\\nAnn, 273.\\nEllen, 70.\\nJoseph, 188, 209, 274.\\nRebecca, 209.\\nSamuel 157, 243, 273.\\nThomas, 269, 270.\\nWilliam, 145, 173, 245.\\nHarry, William, 52.\\nHartley, Bathsaba, 19.\\nJames, 247.\\nRebecca, 19, 177.\\nRoger, 19, 20.\\nHatkinson, John, 244.\\nHatten New Garden, 132.\\nHeath, Levi, 209.\\nHedger, Ann, 78.\\nHelmsley, Joseph, 277.\\nHempstead, 19.\\nHenry, David, 106.\\nSarah, 106.\\nHeppard, Thomas, 20.\\nHeritA(;e, Benjamin, 133.\\nHannah, 133.\\nJohn, 132, 133.\\nJoseph, 132, 133, 318.\\nMaty, 132, 133, 169.\\nNaomi, 132.\\nRichard, 132, 133, 235, 236,\\n245-\\nSarah, 132.\\nHeulings, Abigail, 320.\\nAbraham, 178.\\nBatheuel, 185, 369.\\nJoseph, 178, 1,12,.\\nMartha, 157.\\nTheodocia, 384.\\nWilliam, 205.\\nHewitt, Ann, 369.\\nHibbard, Samuel, 199.\\nHiGBEE, Daniel, 209.\\nHiGGS, William, 128.\\nHill, Elizabeth, 154.\\nHillman, John, 53, 221, 229, 257,\\n258, 260, 261, 264.\\nAbel, 55.\\nAbigail, 137, 258.\\nAnn, 258.\\nAquilla, 305, 385.\\nDaniel, 137, 221, 25S, 261,\\n263, 264, 265, 303.\\nDrusilla, 261.\\nElizabeth, 261.\\nJames, 261, 264.\\nJoab, 261.\\nJoseph, 258, 260, 264.\\nJosiah, 261.\\nLetitia, 261.\\nMargaret, 258.\\nSamuel, 261, 264.\\nSeth, 264.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0440.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n433\\nHiNCHMAN, J(jhll, 52, 77, 80, 156,\\n161, 178, 239, 240, 241, 242,\\n243. 244, 246, 24S, 273, 289.\\nAbigail, 156, 243.\\nAmy, 244, 304.\\nAnn, 243.\\nDeborah, 248.\\nEdward, 240.\\nElizabeth, 244.\\nEmily, 248.\\nHannah, 244, 248.\\nIsaac, 244.\\nJacob, 243, 244.\\nJames, 77, 145, 239, 243, 244,\\n3\\nJane, 243.\\nJoseph, 77, 243, 244, 247, 248,\\n280.\\nLetitia, 243.\\nMary 239, 244, 248.\\nMercy, 239.\\nMiriam, 239, 243.\\nRobert, 239.\\nSarah, 239, 243, 248, 273.\\nThomas, 142, 239, 248.\\nWilliam, 248.\\nHoffman, Frederick, 11, 289.\\nHolmes, Thomas, 41.\\nHoLLiNGSHEAij, Edmund, 212, 310,\\n311-\\nHannah, 311.\\nJohn, 120, 311.\\nJoseph, 311.\\nLydia, 311.\\nMary, 56, 1S4, 311.\\nMorgan, 311.\\nSamuel, 311.\\nSarah, 311.\\nHoLLiNGSHAM, Catharine, 35.\\nIsaac, 61, 69, 184, 342.\\nHOOTEN, Sarah, 19.\\nThomas, 301, 302.\\nWilliam, 97.\\nHopewell, Elizabeth, 147, 220.\\nHopkins, Ann, 123.\\nBenjamin, 112, 121, 128.\\nEbenezer, 21, 73, 108, 122,\\n123, 124, 130, 374.\\nElizabeth, 123.\\nHaddon, 123.\\nJohn E.^ 73, 120, 123, 153,\\n^20.\\nHopkins, Mary, 123.\\nSarah, 121, 123, 128.\\nWilliam E., 311.\\nHORSLYDOWN, IIO, I9I.\\nHorner, Bartholomew, 131.\\nDeliverance, 303, 304.\\nHannah, 46, 235.\\nIsaac, 131, 179.\\nJacob, 82, 131.\\nLemuel, 297.\\nNathan, 131.\\nHosKiNS, Ann, 349.\\nHoWELL, Thomas, 223, 224, 225, 226,\\n367-\\nCatharine, 225, 226.\\nDaniel, 224, 225, 226, 227,\\n228.\\nJacob, 93.\\nMarion, 225, 226.\\nMordecai, 224, 225, 226, 227,\\n228, 246.\\nPriscilla, 225.\\nSamuel, 225.\\nZophar, 263.\\nHOWLE, Mary, 327.\\nHudson, John, 303.\\nMary, 92.\\nHuDDLESTON, Catharine, 76.\\nHUGG, John, 18, 45, 76, 79, 80, 240,\\n242, 2S3, 284, 285, 286, 288.\\nCharles, 287.\\nElias, 76, 183, 286, 289, 290.\\nGabriel, 289.\\nHannah, 289.\\nJacob, 289.\\nJoseph, 178, 287, 289, 290,\\n291.\\nMargaret, 80, 183, 290.\\nMary, 2S9.\\nPatience, 66, 375.\\nPriscilla, 79, 80, 240, 289.\\nSamuel, 81, 83, 291.\\nSarah, 133, 289.\\nWilliam, 285.\\nHughes, Caleb, 190, 306.\\nHumphrey, 299.\\nJudith, 299.\\nHumphreys. Joshua, 231.\\nHunt, Robert, 178, 333.\\nHunter, Robert, 173, 175.\\nHurley, James S., 162.\\nHutchinson, George, 180, 326, 336.\\n33", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0441.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "434\\nINDEX.\\nIngledon, Blackinstone, 145.\\nIngeksoll, Daniel, 151.\\nInskeep, John, 109, 265.\\nIsle of Man, 150.\\nIves, William, 144, 145.\\nIVERSON, John, 69.\\nIviNS, Margaret, 69.\\nJacobs, Henry, 358.\\nIsaac, 217.\\nJarvis, Martin, 147, 370.\\nJenkins, Josiah, 259.\\nJenney, Robert, 207, 208.\\nThomas, 41.\\nJennings, Deborah, 320, 323.\\nHenry, 215, 287, 323.\\nIsaac, 287, 323.\\nJacob, 108, 178, 264.\\nMary, 287.\\nJennings, Samuel, 40, 74, 98, 183\\n218, 309, 346, 347, 353.\\nSarah, 287.\\nWilliam, 287.\\nJessup, Mary, 151.\\nJohnson, Henry, 225, 226, 252.\\nJones, Agnes, 3x0.\\nJohn, 269.\\nJoseph, 46.\\nJoosten, John, 359.\\nJORISSEN, Cornelius, 358.\\nK\\nKaighn, John, 104, 107, 149, 150,\\n151,152,153,154,156,157,\\n190, 243.\\nAbigail, 157.\\nAmos, 170.\\nAnn, 149, 156.\\nCharles, 150.\\nElizabeth, 154, 156, 157.\\nEllen, 150.\\nIsaac, 156.\\nJames, 156.\\nJane, 150.\\nJoseph, 120, 153, 154, 155,\\n156, 157-\\nMary, 156.\\nPrudence, 156.\\nSamuel, 157.\\nWilliam, 156.\\nKain, Charity, 81, 249.\\nCharles, 81.\\nSarah, 249.\\nWilliam, 249.\\nKay, John, 26, 56, 64, 91, 152, 167,\\n168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173,\\n174, 175,176,177,183,184,\\n234, 244, 303. ZZ\\nKay, Ann, 178.\\nBenjamin, 177.\\nElizabeth, 169, 179.\\nFrancis, 177, 179.\\nGarvis, 167, 168.\\nHope, 178.\\nIsaac, 163, 176, 177, 178, 179.\\nJoseph, 177, 178, 179.\\nJosiah, 176, 177, 179.\\nMary, 176, 178, 332.\\nMathias, 177.\\nRebecca, 178.\\nSarah, 176, 179.\\nWilliam, 177, 254.\\nKeith, George, 63, 205, 206, 209,\\n217, 218, 381.\\nKelly, Richard, 160.\\nKendall, Mary, 82, 203.\\nThomas, 82, 131, 17 1, 203,\\n228.\\nKent, Ishmael, 81.\\nKirlee, John, 164.\\nJoseph, 164.\\nKiNSEY, John, 173.\\nKnapton, Benjamin, 216.\\nKnight, Edward C, 184.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0442.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n435\\nLaconf.y, James, 329.\\nLadd, Hannah, 29.\\nJohn, 142, r43, 144, 145, 291,\\n328, 329.\\nSamuel, 347.\\nSarah, 142, 143, 145.\\nLakin, Hannah, 225.\\nMoses, 227.\\nLamb, Sarah, 321.\\nLangstone, Sarah, 176.\\nLane, Daniel, 150.\\nLarge, Ebenezer, 77.\\nLaurie, Gawen, 344.\\nLeaming, Aaron, 299.\\nChristopher, 299.\\nDeborah, 299.\\nLee, George, 306.\\nMary, 235.\\nLeeds, Daniel, 24, 60.\\nLiPPiNCOTT, Aaron, 198, 383, 384.\\nAbigail, 53, 378, 380, 381,\\n382, 384, 385-\\nAnn, 382.\\nAsa, 244.\\nBenjamin, 383.\\nCaleb, 383, 385.\\nCharles, 385.\\nDeborah, 382.\\nElizabeth, 53, 382.\\nEsther, 384.\\nFreedom, 53, 380, 383, 3S4,\\n385.\\nGrace, 382.\\nHannah, 382.\\nHenry, 378.\\nHinchman, 259.\\nHope, 382.\\nIncrease, 379, 380, 385.\\nIsaac, 383, 384, 385.\\nJacob, 52, 379, 380, 382, 383,\\n384.\\nJames, 377, 382, 383.\\nLiPPiNCOTT, John, 136, 378, 380, 382,\\n385.\\nJoseph, 53, 382.\\nJoshua, 53, 383, 385.\\nJudith, 303, 384.\\nMargaret, 382.\\nMary, 204, 298, 382, 384.\\nMercy, 53, 384.\\nNathan, 303, 385.\\nNathaniel, 120, 153, 384.\\nPatience, 384.\\nPhoebe, 384.\\nPreserved, 380, 382.\\nRachel, 382.\\nRebecca, 382.\\nRememberance, 378, 380, 381,\\n382.\\nRestore, 379, 380, 383.\\nRichard, 378, 380, 381, 382,\\n383, 385.\\nRobert, 378, 382.\\nRuth, 382.\\nSamuel, 53, 382, 383, 384, 385.\\nSarah, 382.\\nSeth, 385.\\nSolomon, 385.\\nThomas, 384, 385.\\nWilliam, 382.\\nLloyd, David, 212, 309.\\nThomas, 309.\\nLondon Commissioners, 12, 87.\\nLong Harris s Creek, 329.\\nLord, Alice, 221, 332.\\nJames, 120, 122.\\nJohn, 198.\\nJoshua, 120, 153, 328, 330.\\nSarah, 122.\\nLOVEJOY, William, 131, 132, 171,\\n335 336.\\nLowe, Joseph, 140, 161, 264.\\nLucas, Nicholas, 76.\\nLuR i IN, Thomas, 24, 67.\\nM\\nMacelis, Jurirus, 358.\\nMaddox, John, 215.\\nMarlow, Gregoi7, 232.\\nMarsh, Mary, 197, 199.\\nMartin, Daniel, 160.\\nJohn, 317,\\nMason, Hannah, 156.\\nWilliam H., 317.\\nMathews, Hannah, 336, 356.\\nRichard, 65, 112, 118, 120,\\nThomas, 328, 336, 373.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0443.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "436\\nINDEX.\\nMatlack, William, 202, 231,\\n234,235,236,237,261,\\nAbigail, 304.\\nAmy, 189.\\nAsa, 206, 209, 237, 320.\\nBenjamin, 236.\\nGeorge, 130, 235, 236.\\nJane, 235.\\nJohn, 162, 235, 237, 253.\\nKesiah, 133.\\nLetitia, 141, 248.\\nLydia, 162.\\nMary, 235.\\nRebecca, 311.\\nRichard, 178, 235, 236,\\nSamuel, 318.\\nSarah, 235.\\nTimothy, 120, 130, 136,\\n235,236,237,248,261,\\nMayham, Sarah, 71.\\nMedcalf, Hannah, 104.\\nJacob, 155.\\nMew, Noel, 169.\\nRichard, 72, 169.\\nMiCKLE, Archibald, 139, 140,\\n145, 147, 321, 349-\\nDaniel, 141, 145.\\nKli/abeth, 97.\\nHannah, 97, 142.\\nIsaac, 16, 27, 28, 140,\\n147,148, 190,306,313,\\n366.\\nJacob, 145, 375.\\nJames, 66, 141, 145, 147,\\nJohn, 91, 120, 123, 141,\\nJoseph, 141, 147, 156,\\n372, 375-\\nLetitia, 248.\\nMary, 141.\\nRachel, 92, 141, 145, 146,\\nSamuel, 92, 123, 141, 142,\\nSarah. 123, 141, 145, 156,\\n232,\\n318.\\n237.\\n142,\\n275,\\n141,\\n141,\\n321,\\n375-\\n259-\\n324,\\n375-\\n157-\\n247.\\nMicKLE, William, 123, 141.\\nMiDDLETON, Deborah, 321.\\nMercy, 3S4.\\nThomas, 221.\\nMiller, Henry, 209.\\nMark, 137.\\nThomas, 280.\\nWilliam, 212, 275, 310.\\nMontgomery, Robert, 280, 281, 282.\\nSarah, 280, 281.\\nThomas, 282.\\nMoody, Deborah, 294,\\nMoore, Aaron, 82.\\nBenjamin, 81, 303.\\nElizabeth, 81.\\nMorgan, Griffith, 212, 307, 308, 309,\\n310, 311, 313.\\nAgnes, 311.\\nAlexander, 92, 204, 212, 309,\\n310, 311.\\nAnn, 311.\\nBenjamin, 212, 217, 310,311.\\nDaniel, 235.\\nElizabeth, 212, 310, 311,\\nHannah, 310, 31 1.\\nIsaac, 310, 311.\\nJane, 311.\\nJonathan, 162.\\nJoseph, 212, 310, 311.\\nLydia, 212, 310.\\nMary, 212, 310, 311.\\nRachel, 310.\\nRebecca, 311.\\nSarah, 212, 310, 311, 321.\\nMorris, Ann, 129.\\nAnthony, 18.\\nJohn, 309.\\nRobert, 236.\\nMorion, Ann, 162.\\nMouNTWELL, 73, 74, 78, 79, 84, 114,\\nMullen, Isaac, 82.\\nMULOCK, James, 82, 187, 188.\\nMuRRELL, Samuel, 185, 368.\\nN\\nNassau, Fort, 285, 286.\\nNevill, James, 215.\\nNewton, 9, ii, 16, 24, 66, 74, 84,\\n87, 89, 92, 103, 115, 170.\\nNewbie, Mark, 24, 25, 37, 38, 39,\\n40, 42, 44, 45, 46, 49, 61,\\n62, 64, 90, 332.\\nEdward, 41, 45. 349\\nNewbie, Elizabeth, 289, 332.\\nGabriel, 41, 45, 375.\\nHannah, 40, 45, 64, 332.\\nJohn, 41, 45.\\nNathan, 41, 45.\\nRachel, 45.\\nStephen, 38, 45, 64, 68, 332.\\nNewbold, Letitia, 90.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0444.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n43 7\\nNewcomb, John 326.\\nNewberry, Benjamin, 331.\\nHasker, 132.\\nNicholson, Samuel, 77, 137, 213,\\n215, 216, 218, 219, 220, 221,\\n222, 319, 320, 332.\\nAbel, 153, 213, 219, 220, 221,\\n222, 323.\\nAbigail, 221, 261.\\nAnn, 213, 216, 219, 220.\\nElizabeth, 213, 219.\\nGeorge, 90, 221, 222, 332.\\nGrace, 222.\\nHannah, 97, 221, 222, 261.\\nIsabella, 220.\\nJames, 332.\\nJohn, 220.\\nNicholson, Joseph, 213, 219, 220,\\n22i, 222, 319, 332.\\nMarj 220.\\nMercy, 222.\\nParabol, 213, 219.\\nRachel, 220.\\nRebecca, 323.\\nRuth, 220.\\nSarah, 220, 221, 319.\\nWilliam, 220.\\nNoble, Richard, 231.\\nNorris, Elizabeth, 178.\\nIsaac, 18, 212, 309.\\nJames, 176, 178.\\nSamuel, 151.\\nSarah, 177, 179, 186, 244, 275.\\no\\nOlive, Thomas, 44, go, 232, 277,\\n302, 383.\\nOwen, Martha, 382.\\nPaine, Elizabeth, 35.\\nParker, Ann, 64.\\n179-\\nParr, Hannah, 324.\\nJames, 324.\\nJohn, 324.\\nMaiy, 324.\\nSamuel, 320.\\nParnell, Mary, 326.\\nParrock, James, 369.\\nPearson, Hannah, 363.\\nIsaac, 152, 363.\\nSarah, 90.\\nPeake, Edmund, 384.\\nPellor, Mary, 332.\\nPenisaukin creek, 12, ^t,, 82.\\nPenn, WiUiam, 11, 13, 37, 48, 49,\\n76, 89, 90, 98, 102, 112,\\n137, 139, 143, 155, 171,\\n225, 234, 240, 271, 290,\\n301, 303, 309, 339, 340,\\n341, 342, 345, 347, 367.\\nPennington, John, 313.\\nPenrose, John, 217.\\nPenton, William, 215,\\nPenford, John, 277.\\nPerkins, Widow, 87.\\nPeterson, Priscilla, 189.\\nWallo, 289.\\nPhiladelphia, 84, 143.\\nPhilips, Robert, 159.\\nPidceon, Joseph, 342, 343.\\nMaiy, 343.\\nPierce, Nicholas, 217.\\nPine, Benjamin, 321.\\nMary, 321.\\nPlantagenet, Beauchamp, 312.\\nPloyden, Sir Edmund, 311,312,313.\\nPorter, Abraham, 198, 259, 260.\\nPotts, Judith, 35.\\nPotter, Phcebe, 321.\\nSarah, 298.\\nThomas, 247.\\nPowell, Arthur, 19, 141, 146.\\nJames, 146.\\nMargarett, 146.\\nMar}% 146.\\nRachel, 146.\\nRichard, 146.\\nPreston, Hannah, 349.\\nPritchett, Diana, 81.\\nJosiah, 137.\\nSarah, 137.\\nPrice, Robert Friend, 81, 187, 188.\\nPussey, Samuel, 209.\\nPyne Point, 86, 88, 89, 91, 96.\\nPyle, Elizabeth, 273.\\nThomas, 273.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0445.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "438\\nINDEX.\\nR\\nRakestraw, Grace, 19.\\nRandolph, John, 54.\\nRaper, Joshua, 92.\\nSarah, 97.\\nRawle, Benjamain, 343.\\nElizabeth, 343.\\nFrancis, 342, 343.\\nJane, 343.\\nJohn, 343.\\nJoseph, 343.\\nMartha, 343.\\nMary, 96, 342.\\nRebecca, 343.\\nRobert, 343.\\nWilliam, 313, 343.\\nReading, John, 29. 95, 143, 245,\\n290, 291.\\nRead, Charles, 145.\\nRedman, Hannah, 137.\\nJohn, 137.\\nMary, 137.\\nThomas, 133, 137, 13S.\\nRedfield, John, 286.\\nReeves, Abraham, 46.\\nJoseph, 311.\\nRichards, Jeremiah, 202.\\nBenjamin, 373.\\nRichardson, John, 113, 114.\\nRidgway, Catharine, 197.\\nJeremiah, 50.\\nJoseph, 247.\\nSarah, 311.\\nRiGGS, Lydia, 92.\\nRiGGiNS, Israel, 236.\\nRisdon, George T., 82.\\nTurner, 382.\\nRobinson, Richard, 69.\\nRoberts, Enoch, 204.\\nJacob, 136.\\nJane, 212, 310.\\nJohn, 133, 142, 234,258,318,\\n384.\\nKesiah, 106.\\nMary, 258.\\nSamuel, 226.\\nSarah, 318.\\nRobeson, Andrew, 95, 106.\\nROTHERHITHE, IIO, II3.\\nRoYDOiX, Robert, 89.\\nWilliam, 12, 88, 94, 95, 290,\\n347-\\nRuDDEROW, Abigail, 206, 209.\\nJohn, 206.\\nWilliam. 206,\\ns\\nSaint, Rebecca, 221, 332.\\nSalem, 12, 24, 116, 170, 198.\\nSalter, Ann, 215.\\nSaterthwaite, Joseph, 104, 311,\\nSaunders, Hannah, 147.\\nSaxby, Esther, 296.\\nScott, Benjamin, 277.\\nJohn, 76.\\nThomas, 269, 270.\\nScroop, Adrian, 269.\\nScull, Daniel, 258.\\nJasper, 382.\\nJohn, 151.\\nMary, 382.\\nShable, Thomas, 75, 170.\\nShackomaxin, 13, 89, 354, 367.\\nShattocks, Hannah, 382.\\nJames, 217.\\nShelter, The, 328.\\nSharp, Thomas, 11, 13, 18,23,25,\\n26, 27, 28, 29, 1,1, 34, 35,\\n38, 39. 49v 58, 61, 65, 67,\\n68, 70, 73. 74. 115. 9.\\n129, 141, 145, 152, 162,\\n191, 192, 194, 217, 242,\\n253, 290, 304, 342, 373,\\n375-\\nAnthony, 23, 25, 59, 1 91.\\nElizabeth, 35, 162.\\nHugh, 319.\\nIsaac, 35.\\nJohn, 35.\\nJoseph, 35.\\nMary, 35.\\nSamuel, 35, 36, 162, 197.\\nSarah, 35.\\nWilliam, 263, 264, 372.\\nShinn, Anna, 254.\\nJohn, 76.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0446.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n43 9\\nShippen, Edward, i8.\\nShivers, John, 251, 252, 253, 255,\\n261, 368.\\nHannah, 253.\\nJosiah, 253.\\nLatitia, 162.\\nMary, 189, 253.\\nRichard, 253.\\nSamuel, 21, 155, 253, 254.\\nSarah, 252.\\nSiDDON, Ezekiel, 141, 145.\\nJane, 65.\\nSleight, Joseph, 49.\\nSlocum, Sarah, 132.\\nSloan, Joseph, 153.\\nJames, 153.\\nSmallwood, Thomas, 373.\\nSmart, Nathan, 215.\\nSmith, Anna, 136.\\nBarbara, 178.\\nDaniel, 81.\\nElizabeth, 35, 243, 244.\\nFrancis, 91.\\nGeorge, 331.\\nIsaac, 178.\\nMary, 178.\\nNicholas, 69.\\nRebecca, 97.\\nRichard, 77.\\nRobert, 197.\\nSamuel, 79, 86, iSo, 232,353.\\nSarah, 178.\\nThomas, 69.\\nJoseph Few, 161, 162.\\nSnowdon, Christopher, 327.\\nSoMERS, Hannah, 151.\\nRichard, 151.\\nSouTHWicK, James, 80.\\nJosiah, 76, 80.\\nMeam, 80, 259.\\nRuth, 80.\\nSparks, Henry, 144.\\nSpencer, 321.\\nSpearman, Thomas, 140.\\nSpey, John, 290.\\nSpicer, Samuel, 91, 95, 202, 293,\\n294, 296, 297, 298.\\nAbigail, 207, 297.\\nAbraham, 297.\\nEsther, 95, 235, 293, 294.\\nJacob, 294, 297, 298, 299.\\nMartha, 297.\\nMaiy, 51, 297.\\nMichel, 293.\\nRebecca, 206.\\nSarah, 95, 297.\\nSpicer, Thomas, 206, 293, 294, 297,\\n298.\\nSpicer s Ferry. 295.\\nSpraGUE, Caleb, 77, 161.\\nSamuel, 209.\\nSpringwell, 182.\\nSquibb, Robert, 337.\\nStalles, Alice, 75.\\nStanton, Daniel, 297.\\nStanley, Elizabeth, 302.\\nStafford, Joseph C., 130.\\nJohn, 83.\\nStamper, Francis, 113.\\nStarkey, Ruth, 82.\\nThomas, 25, 26, 66, 67.\\nStarr, Jesse W., 245.\\nStacy, Elizabeth, 280.\\nHenry, 202, 277, 278, 279,\\n280, 281.\\nMahlon, 228.\\nMary, 280.\\nRobert, 277.\\nSamuel, 280.\\nSarah, 280, 281.\\nStevens, Robert, 156.\\nSt. Mary s church, Colestown, 205.\\nStiles, Ephraim, 226, 384.\\nIsaac, 247.\\nMary, 247.\\nPriscilla, 226.\\nRobert, 184, 225, 226, 321.\\nStoy, James, 373.\\nJohn, 65.\\nJoseph C, 73, 320.\\nStory, Thomas, 235.\\nStockdale, Jarvis, 104, 106.\\nMary, 141.\\nStokes, Thomas, 120, 301, 302, 303,\\n304, 305-\\nCharles, 303.\\nDeliverance, 304.\\nHannah, 123, 204, 304.\\nJacob, 190, 304, 306.\\nJohn, 185, 301, 302, 303, 304,\\n306, 368.\\nJoseph, 303, 311, 384.\\nJoshua, 120, 123, 152, 244,\\n304, 305-\\nKesiah, 304.\\nLydia, 304.\\nMary, 303, 31 1.\\nRachel,- 304.\\nRosanna, 82, 304, 368.\\nSamuel, 244, 368.\\nSarah, 303.\\nStrand, Abraham, 219.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0447.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "440\\nINDEX.\\nStratton, David, 136.\\nSturgeon, William, 208.\\nSturgiss, Anthony, 252, 253.\\nSURKETT, John, 91.\\nSwANSON, Bridget, 329.\\nCatharine, 329.\\nJohn, 329.\\nJudith, 329.\\nSwANSON, Lydia, 329.\\nMary, 329.\\nPeter, 329.\\nSwan, 329.\\nWallo, 329.\\nSWEDESBORO church, 289.\\nSwETT, Benjamin, 93, 130.\\nSykes, Nathaniel, 217.\\nT\\nTallman, 185.\\nTatem, Josepli B., 221.\\nSarah, 254.\\nWilliam P., 184.\\nTathan, John, 76.\\nTaylor, Anthony, 217.\\nSamuel, 142.\\nThackara, Thomas, 12, 17, 24, 25,\\n45, 49, 52, 57, 58, 60, 61,\\n62, 63, 64, 65,66, 153,296,\\n317. 372, 374-\\nAbigail, 46.\\nAnn, 46.\\nBenjamin, 45, 46, 61, 64, 65,\\n91, 152, 169, 368.\\nChristopher, 57.\\nDaniel, 57.\\nElizabeth, 46.\\nHannah, 46, 57, 64, 65, 97,\\n368.\\nHepsibah, 64.\\nIsaac, 46.\\nJacob, 45, 46.\\nJames, 45, 62.\\nJoseph, 45, 61, 62, 64, 65,\\n332.\\nMargaret, 46.\\nMark, 46.\\nMary, 46, 64, 97.\\nRachel, 46.\\nRichard, 296.\\nSarah, 64, 372, 375.\\nStephen, 45, 61, 65.\\nWilliam, 46, 65.\\nThomas, Gabriel, 226, 279, 285, 373.\\nHannah, 82.\\nJonathalr, 204.\\nMercy, 82.\\nSamuel, 82.\\nThompson, Ann, 179.\\nJohn, 216.\\nPeter, 247.\\nThorne, Abigail, 245.\\nElizabeth, 245.\\nThorne, Hannah, 245.\\nJohn, 133, 243, 245, 246, 247.\\nJoseph, 52, 229, 246, 275.\\nMary, 245.\\nSamuel, 246.\\nSarah, 245, 320.\\nThomas, 243, 244, 245, 246^\\n321.\\nWilliam, 246.\\nTiLTON, Esther, 293.\\nJohn, 293.\\nMary, 293.\\nTiLY, Nathaniel, 274.\\nElizabeth, 274.\\nMary, 274.\\nTiNDAi.i., Joseph, 317.\\nSarah, 133.\\nTodd, William, 236.\\nToms, William, 102.\\nToMLlNSON, Joseph, 120, 191, 192,\\n193. 194, 19s. 197. 200,\\n321-\\nAnn, 197.\\nCatharine, 198.\\nDaniel, 199.\\nEbenezer, 197.\\nEleanor, 108, 198.\\nElizabeth, 197, 198.\\nEphraim, 120, 197, 198, 236,\\n259-\\nHannah, 198.\\nIsaac, 198.\\nJohn, 162, 197, 198, 200, 366.\\nJoseph, 197, 198.\\nLydia, 321.\\nMargaret, 197.\\nMaiy, 197, 198, 199.\\nOthniel, 197, 199.\\nRichard, 197.\\nSamuel, 198, 199.\\nWilliam, 197, 198, 199.\\nTonkins, Edward, 204.\\nTowNSEND, Isaac, 108.\\nToy, Elias, 52, 178, 210, 333.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0448.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n441\\nTrafford, Thomas, 48.\\nTrent, William, 228.\\nTredway, Hemy, 228, 328.\\nTroth, Jacob, 224.\\nTuft, John, 46.\\nTurner, Robert, 13, 26, 38, 49, 50,\\n54, 57, 58, 59, 67, 68, 69,\\n107, 140, 146, 147, 150,\\n159, 161, 316, 339, 340,\\n342, 343, 349, 350-\\nTurner, Edward, 342.\\nGeorge, 245.\\nJohn, 221.\\nMartha, 342.\\nMary, 342.\\nSusanna, 342.\\nTyler, Mary, 219.\\nWilliam, 219.\\nUpper Dmidock, 360.\\nu\\nUXBRIDGE, 131, 132, 229.\\nVanlear, Benjamin, 190, 306.\\nV\\nVarlo, Charles, 313.\\nw\\nWade, Edward, 215.\\nJohn, 209.\\nLydia, 197.\\nWallace, Philip, 209.\\nMary, 209.\\nWall, James, 52.\\nWard, Abigail, 82, 369.\\nGeorge, 328.\\nWarner, William, 162, 328, 329.\\nWarrick, Beulah, 163.\\nWatkins, Christopher, 95.\\nWatts, Sarah, 140.\\nWebster, Josiah, 153.\\nSamuel, 108, 120, 153.\\nThomas, 259.\\nWelch, William, 342.\\nWest New Jersey Society, 139, 174.\\nWest, Deborah, 347.\\nWharton, John, 93.\\nTraa, 93.\\nWhitall, Hannah, 65, 372, 375.\\nJames, 19, 21, 362.\\nJob, 65, 136.\\nJohn, 61, 64, 65, 66, 282, 374,\\n375-\\nMary, 65.\\nSarah, 133.\\nWhite, John, 17, 18, 373.\\nJoseph, 15, 18.\\nWilliam, 18.\\nWiCKACO, 329.\\n34\\nWild, Elizabeth, 204.\\nJames, 203, 204, 244, 310.\\nJohn, 204.\\nJonathan, 204.\\nRachel, 204, 310.\\nSamuel, 204.\\nSarah, 204.\\nWiLDON, Richard, 291.\\nWiLKiNS, Arsuba, 1 9.\\nJohn, 235.\\nWillard, Abigail, 298.\\nHemy, 332.\\nJames, 332.\\nJudith, 332.\\nThomas, 332.\\nWillis, Esther, 104.\\nHenry, 19, 104.\\nJohn. 112, 115, 130, 161, 163,\\n164, 304.\\nThomas, 112, 1 15, 130.\\nWiLLiTS, Charles L., 241, 243.\\nJeremiah, 77, 244.\\nNathan B., 243.\\nWills, Daniel, 79, 91, 203, 231, 232,\\n277-\\nElizabeth, 97, 384.\\nHope, 384.\\nJames, 169.\\nJoab, 136.\\nJohn, 91, 356.\\nRebecca, 197.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0449.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "44^\\nINDEX.\\nWills, Thoma!^, 384.\\nWilson, Jonathan, 280.\\nWinn, Elizabeth, 35.\\nWiSTAR, Richard, 198.\\nWithers, Thomas, 217.\\nWood, Abigail, 94, 178, 332, 111.\\nAlice, 330.\\nBenjamin, 169, 176, 178,332,\\n333-\\nGmstantine, 120, 327, 328,\\nicP-\\nElizabeth, 45, 178, 332, m.\\nEsther, 326, 330.\\nHannah, 94, 178, 332,333.\\nHenry, 32, 65, 91, 94, 202,\\n219, 220, 294, 297, 327,\\n328, 329, 330, 331, 332,\\nHi-\\nIsaac, 1 18.\\nJames, 220, 221, 332.\\nJane, 333.\\nJeremiah, 327, 328.\\nJohn, 65, 95, 326, 327, 328,\\n329 33O Ti})?)-\\nJonathan, 327.\\nJoseph, 194. 316, 329, 330.\\nJudith, 332, y^z-\\nMary, 178, 204, 326, 330, m.\\nWood, Richard, 332.\\nSarah, 326, 330.\\nThomas, 326.\\nWilliam, 326, 328.\\nWOODNUTT, Richard, 218.\\nWooDROSE, Thomas. 216.\\nWoOLSTAN, Elizabeth, 91.\\nHannah, 90, 91.\\nJohn, 87, 90, 91.\\nJonathan, 90, 91, 97.\\nJoshua, 91.\\nTatitia, 244.\\nMary, 90,\\nMichael, 91.\\nRebecca, 91.\\nSamuel, 90, 97.\\nSarah, 90.\\nWright, Constance, 370.\\nHannah, 370.\\nJohn, 252, 367, 370, 373.\\nRachel, 303, 304.\\nRichard, 225, 367, 370.\\nSarah, 370.\\nThomas, 64. 358, 359.\\nWyatt, Bartholemew, 197, 198, 220.\\nElizabeth, 197, 198.\\nSarah, iqS.\\nYegou, Peter, 358, 359.\\nYegou s Island, Burlington, 359.\\nYorkshire Commissioners, 12, 87.\\nYoung, Henry, 299.\\nZane, Rc)l)ert, II, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,\\n17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, 49,\\n59, 60, 61, 146, 215, 216,\\n284.\\nAbigail, 19.\\nEbene/.er, 19, 21.\\nElizabeth, 19.\\nElnathan, 19, 146.\\nEsther, 19, 20.\\nHannah, 19.\\nIsaac, 19, 21, 22.\\nZane, Jonathan, 19, 21, 52.\\nJoseph, 19, 20.\\nMargaret, 19.\\nNathaniel, 19, 20.\\nRachel, 19.\\nRebecca, 19.\\nSarah, 19.\\nSilas, 21.\\nSimeon, 19.\\nWilliam, 19.", "height": "3414", "width": "1928", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0450.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "CORRECTIONS,\\nPage 73, second paragraph; for south, read north. Page 89, second\\nparagraph; for lead, read led. Page no, foot-note; omit O. S. G.\\nafter 458. Page 161, last paragraph for Low, read Lowe. Page 170;\\nfor Shackle, read Shable. Page 184, last paragraph; for being for-\\nmerly, read and. Page 202; in foot-notes 5 and 7, read Bi, c.\\nPage 213, first paragraph; transpose the words Griffith and Griffin.\\nPage 226, first paragraph; for saw-mill, read corn-mill. Page 253, near\\nthe top; for saw -mill, read corn-mill. Page 303, near the bottom;\\ninsert the word by between owned and Mark Ballinger. Page 304,\\ntop line; for south side by, read north by the south side of. Page 345,\\nlast line; for thus, i-ead then. Page 357, near the bottom; for here-\\ntofore, i^ead hereafter. Page 384, third paragraph, seventh line; insert\\nsubsequent meetings before continued.", "height": "3381", "width": "1906", "jp2-path": "sketchesoffirste01clem_0451.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "EXPLANATION\\nOf the Numbers P ound upon the Accompanying Map.\\nNo. on\\nMap.\\nI\\nName of the Locator.\\n1, 600 acres to Mark Newbie, Thomas Thackara,\\nRobert Zane, George Goldsmith and Thomas\\nSharp.\\n2 250 acres to William Bates.\\n3 100 acres to Mark Newbie, Thomas Thackara,\\nRobert Zane, William Bates, Thomas Sharp\\nand Robert Turner.\\n4 300 acres to William Cooper.\\n5 450 acres to William Roydon (also the island).\\n6 350 acres to Mark Newbie.\\n7 500 acres fo Francis Collins.\\n8 450 acres to Francis Collins.\\n9 490 acres to Heniy Stacy.\\nID 500 acres to Richard Mathews.\\n11 28 acres to John WHiite.\\n12 400 acres to Robert Turner.\\n13 500 acres to Robert Turner.\\n14 1,500 acres to Samuel Norris.\\n15 250 acres to Thomas Carlton.\\n16 900 acres to Robert Turner.\\n17 18 acres to John Ashton.\\n18 500 acres to John Willis.\\n19 117 acres to Francis Collins.\\n20 220 acres to William Albertson.\\n21 220 acres to Robert Turner.\\n22 200 acres to Richard Arnold.\\n23 500 acres to Robert Turner.\\nReference to Record.\\nRevel t\\nBook,\\n25-\\n53-\\n25-\\n32.\\n95-\\n42.\\n39-\\n39-\\n37-\\n38.\\n39-\\n44.\\n51-\\n5,2.\\n53-\\n51-\\n25-\\nLib.\\nA, 12\\n80.\\nRevel f\\nBook\\n39-\\nLib. 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