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A HISTORY
OF
19/08:
ONMOUTH AND CEAN OUNTIES,
EMBRACING A
GENEALOGICAL RECORD
OF EARLIEST SETTLERS IN MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUN- TIES AND THEIR DESCENDANTS.
THE INDIANS:
Their Language, Manners and Customs.
IMPORTANT HISTORICAL EVENTS.
The Revolutionary War,
Battle of Monmouth, The War of the Rebellion.
Names of Officers and Men of Monmouth and Ocean Counties engaged in it, etc., etc.
By EDWIN SALTER ..
BAYONNE, N. J. : E. GARDNER & SON, Publishers .. 1890.
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Edwin Halter
INDEX.
Title Page .
i
ILLUSTRATION Portrait of the Author
ii
Obituary Notice of Edwin Salter, the Author.
Biography of the Author
vii
Table of Contents
xi
Salter Family Crest
XV
Introductory
1
History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties .
5
An Ancient Patent
11
Founders of Monmonth
12
A Woman, of Course !
13
A Memorable Scene.
The First English Settler of New Jersey
The Twelve Patentees
The Rhode Island Monmouth Association
The Monmouth Patent.
Commencement of Settlements
The First Legislative Assembly in New Jersey
Buying Land of the Indians
Monmouth County When Established
- Discovery of Ocean County
37
Old Monmouth Described by an Ancient Writer.
Old Monmouth Under the Dutch
Causes of the Revolution, etc
Boston Acknowledges Monmonth Contributions
Indian Claims in Monmouth, Ocean, etc
Members of Provincial Assembly
Early History of Old Monmouth
62 64
Traditionary Stories of the Indians
Indian Will, an Eccentric Aboriginal. 67 Indian Peter . An Indian Dinner-A Savory Dish. 72 73 74
"Capt. William Tom
Privateering
Privateering During the Revolution 80
Old Monmouth During the Revolution. 85 Freehold in the Revolution.
14 16 16
17 24 27
32 33 36
38 10 42 52 58 60
Preface by the Editor iii V
INDEX.
Upper Freehold
92
Old Times-An Ancient Tavern Book 95
Old Times in Ocean County
99
The Coming of the White Man.
111
Townships in Ocean County ..
115
Our Coast 117
Scenes in Old Monmouth 121
Ancient Maps and Charts. 124
The Revolutionary War-Names of Soldiers. 131
The Battle of Monmouth 152
Old Times in Old Monmouth 166
The Attack on the Russell Family 170
Phil. White's Capture and Death 172
Mannahawken in the Revolution 174
Execution of a Spy 182
Capt. Joshua Huddy, the Hero of Toms River. 183
Toms River During the Revolution 191
Privateering at Toms River 194
Death of Capt. Joshua Studson 202
The Attack on Toms River 204
Capt. John Bacon, the Refugee Leader. 207
Bacon at Goodluck, Forked River, etc 208
The Massacre on Long Beach 209
Death of Bacon, the Notorious Refugee. 210
Dick Bird, the Potters Creek Outlaw.
212
The Refugee Davenport and his Death
213
Mannahawken in the Revolution 214
Fifth Company Monmouth Militia .. 214
ILLUSTRATION -Cuts of Old Tennent Church amd Parsonage 215
215
Visitors at the Battle Ground 216
220
Remarkable Trial of Rev. Wm. Tennent for Perjury 221
226
Toms River During the Revolution.
Barnegat. 237
Religious History 241
Methodism in Old Monmouth 242
Episcopalianism in Old Monmouth .
244
The Rogerine Baptists. 249
Mormonism in Ocean County 252
Episcopalianism in Barnegat 254 Religious Societies 255
Early Settlers -Creation of Townships, etc 267
Old Times in Ocean County-Last War with England. 290 Birthplace of Universalism 294
ILLUSTRATION -- Old Potter Church at Goodluck. 295
PORTRAIT of Parson Murray of Goodluck Church 297
Capt. Adam Hyler 298
The Old Tennent Church.
Captain Mollie Pitcher
INDEX.
New Jersey Watering Places 304 Centennial Year of Peace 309
High Price for a Moumouth Book 313 An Amusing Stratagem 314
The Skirmish at Mannahawken 316
ILLUSTRATION -Battle Monument, Freehold
319
The Battle Monument -Efforts to Erect it. 320
Monument Meeting 321
History of Battle Monument Organization 323
'Ocean County Soldiers in War of Rebellion 329
Ocean County Pensioners 347
Old Dover Township
351
Nevesink
354
Early Navigators 357
Purchasers of Shares of Land. 359
Records of Cattle Marks and Estrays 362
Geographical Index to Surveys in Ocean County 364
Early Surveys in Ocean County 369
Rev. William Mills 370
A Remarkable Indian. 371
381
An Old Irish Patent of Nobility.
382
History of the Potter Church . .
384
Presbyterianism in Forked River 394
Presbyterian Church at Forked River 396
Gen. John Lacey
400
History of the Baptists in Ocean County
403
Island Heights.
406
Methodism in Ocean County
409
The Battle of Monmouth
411
Inlets
418
Salt Works
419
Character of the Refugees.
420
Revolutionary Reminiscences
422
Almost Hanged by Mistake 423
The Murderer Peter Stout 425
Interesting Events 426
The Coasting Trade 428
Blacks in the Revolution 429
ILLUSTRATION-Ex-Governor Joel Parker 430
Memorial and Biography of Joel Parker 431
Persecution of Quakers. 438
Tales of the Forest and Sea 441
Was Oliver Cromwell's Brother an Early Settler ?
INDEX.
GENEALOGICAL RECORD.
A -- Abraham, Adam, Adams, Akins, Algor, Allen, Allmy, Anderson, Antonides, Antrim, Applegate, Arney, Archer, Arnold, Arrowsmith, Arsley, Ashton, Anmack, Austin, Austen, Aston, Anckman.
B-Baker, Barcalow, Barkelo, Baird, Bashan, Barnes, Barclay, Bailey, Baley, Baylis, Beakes, Bedle, Beedle, Biddle, Bennett, Beere, Beers, Berry, Bibby, Bibbe, Bigelow, Bills, Bird, Blackman. Boels, Boell, Bodine, Bollen, Booraem, Boorem, Borum, Borden, Burden. Bower, Bowers, Bowne, Bowker, Bowgar, Boude, Bowde, Boyd, Boys, Buys, Bray, Breese, Brinley, Brindley, Brittain, Britton, Brown, Brower, Brewer, Bryan, Bryer, Buckalew, Bunnell, Bonnell, Burrows, Burtis, Buck, Buridge, Butcher.
C - Campbell. Camburn, Camock, Cannan. Cannon, Carman, Cassa- boom, Carr, Carhart, Carter, Carwithey, Chadwick, Chamberlain, Cham- bers, Cheeseman, Cheshire, Child, Chute, Clark, Clarke, Clayton, Clifton, ('lothier, Codington, Coggeshall, Cole, Coleman, Collins, Colver, Colwell, Combs, Compton, Couklin, Cooke. Cook, Cooper, Corlies, Cottrell, Conrt- ney, Covenhoven, Conover, Covert, Coward, Cowdrick, Cowperthwaite, Cox, Craft, Crane, Cranmer, Craig, Crome, Craven, Crawford, Crowell.
D-Davis, Davison, DeBoogh, DeBogh, Debow, DeHart. Denise, Dennis, Denyke, Devill, Duell, Devereaux, De Wildley, Dey, Dye, Dikeman, Dyckman, Dillon, Dorsett, Douglass, Dove, Drummond, Dungan.
E Earle, Easton, Eaton, Eccles, Edge, Edwards, Ellis, Ellison, Empson, English, Estell, Errickson, Everingham, Evilman, Evillian, Emanuel, Emlay, Embley.
F Falkinburg, Fardon, Fenton. Flinn, Fithian, Fish, Forman, Foreman, Fuiman, Foxall, Freeborn, French, Frenean, Frythowart, Fullerton.
G Gauntt, Gibeson, Guiberson, Gibbons, Gifford, Goodbody, Gordon, Gould, Goulding, Goldling, Grandin, Grant, Green, Grover, Gulick.
H-Hall, Haight, Haines, Haynes, Halsey, Hamilton, Hampton, Hance, Hankins, Hankinson, Hanson, Hart, Harkent, Harker. Harts- horne, Haring, Hatton, Hutton, Havens, Haviland, Heaviland, Hawes, Heard.
L-Lefever. Lafetra. Laing, Laird, Lamson, Lambson, Lane, Lawrence, Lawrie, Lanrie, Layton, Lawton. LeCock. Lacock, LeConte, Leeds, Lefferts, Leffertson, LeLaistre, Masters, Leonard, Letts, Lewis, Lloyd, Light, Limming, Lemon, Lincoln, Lippencott, Lippit, Little, Longstreet, Lncar, Luker, Looker, Lyell.
M Maddocks, Malcolm, Mapes, Marsh, Mattox, McKay, Mcknight, Melvin, Merrill, Mestayer, Middleton, Millage, Milledge, Milner, Mills, Melon, Mellon, Moore, Moor, Morford, Morris, Mott, Mount.
N Neper, Napier, Newberry, Newman, Newell, Nicholls, Nismuth.
( Oakley, Ogborn. Oliphant. Ong, Onng, Okeson, Osborne.
P- Page, Paye, Pangburn, Parr, Patterson. Panl, Payne, Pearce, Pierce, Percy, Perkins. Perrines, Pew, Pharo, Phillips, Pintard. Platt, Polhemns, Potter, Powell, Predmore, Preston, Price, Purdain, Pardon, Purdy.
INDEX.
R Race, Rees, Randolph, Fitz Randolph, Reape, Resow. Rickhow. Reid. Relford. Remington, Reynolds, Ranolls. Ronshall, Rhea, Res, Richardson, Ridgway, Robbins, Robinson, Rockhead, Rockhed, Rogers, Romeyn, Romine, Rose, Buckman, Rue, Rulon, Russell, Ryall.
S Sudler, Salem, Salom, Scheuck, Scovel, Salmon, Scott, Seabrook, Serah, Serjeant, Shakerly, Shattock, Sharp, Sherman, Shepherd, Sheppar 1. Shinn. Shreve, Shockalea, Silver, Siliver, Silverwood. Sylvester, Sisse Il, Snssell. Skelton. Slack, Slaght. Slocum, Smith, Shock, Smack, Snawsell, Suowhill, Solomon, Sooy, Soper. Sonthard. Speare, Spicer, Spragy, Stanlie, Starkey, Stelle. Stephens, Stewart, Stillwell, Story, Stout, Stephen. Swain, Swingler, Swiny, Swinny.
T-Taber, Tabor, Tallman Tartle, Taylor, Tharp, Thorp, Thompson. Towson, Thornsborough, Throckmorton, Tomkins, Townsend, Truax, Tucker, Tunison. Turner.
U Usselton.
V - Van Brakle, Van Brockle, Vane, Van Arsdale. Van Brunt, Vau Gelder, Van Cleef, Van Cleve, Vanderveer, Van Doren, Vandoorn, Van Deventer, Van Dyke. Van Hook, Van Horne. Vanhise, Van Kirk, Van Me- ter, Vaughn, Vaughan, Verway, Vickers, Voorhees, Vredenburgh. Vroom.
W-Waer, Weir, Waeir. Wainright. Walker, Wall, Walling, Wallen. Walton. Ward, Wardell, Warford, Warne. Warner. Watson, Webb. Web- ley. Wells, Wills, West, White, Whitlock, Wilbur, Winner, Winnow, Wing, Wilkins, Willett. Willetts, Willis, Williams, Williamson. Wilson, Winder, Winter, Winterton, Wolcott, Woolentt, Wood. Woodmansee, Woodmancy, Woodrow, Woodward, Woolley. Worth, Worthley, Worden. Warden, Wyckoff, Wykoff.
Y-Yard.
[For additional names under H. I. J. K. L. and P of Genealogy, see pages lxvii to lxxx, as follows:
H -- Handell. Horndell. Harndale. Hearse, Hebron. Hepburn, Hedden, Hellens, Henderson, Hendrickson, Hepburn. Herbert, Harbert. Harbor, Heughes. Heyder. Hick. Higham, Higgens, Higbee, Hilborne. Hoff, Hoff- mire, Hoge, Holman. Horubin, Horn lell, Hornfull, Horner, Horsman, Howard, Hubbard, Hubbs, Huddy, Huet, Huit, Hewett. Hulet. Hulett, Hull, Hulshart. Holsaert, Hun, Hunn, Hunlock, Hunt, Hutchinson, Hut- ton, Hyers, Hiers, Heyers.
I-Imlay, Ingham, Ingram, Inman, Inness, Isaacs, Irons, Ivins.
J-Jackson, Jacob, James, Jeffrey, Jerney, Jorney, Jerson, Jenkins, Jennings, Jewell, Juel, Jones, Job, Jobs, Johnstone, Johnston, Johnson, Jolly, Jolley, Judah.
K-Kaighn, Kaighin, Ker, Kerr, Killie, Kimmons, King, Kinman, Kinmon, Ketcham, Kirby, Kipp, Kip, Knott.
L-Lacey, Lafetra, Lambert, Lucar, Leonard.
P-Parker.
PREFACE.
The work of gathering material and writing an accurate History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties covering a period of over two centuries, so full of interest to resi- dents of these counties and to the people of New Jersey, generally, occupied the spare time of the author of this work for nearly one-half of his life-time, or more than a quarter of a century. Not being engaged in active business during the last three years of his life, Mr. Salter's time was exclusively devoted to research and investigation for the purpose of securing reliable infor- mation in regard to the early settlers of Old Monmouth County of which the County of Ocean was once a part. In order to accomplish this great undertaking, the official records not only of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, and a number of other counties of this State were searched, but several other States were visited at great cost of time and means and the State and county records patiently and carefully examined-notably those of Western States, to which many of the citizens of Monmouth and Ocean Counties had from time to time emigrated. The result was, the obtaining of a vast amount of valuable historical information, the collection of a great number of interesting local incidents, and unquestionably the fullest aud most valuable Genealogical Record of the first settlers of Mon- mouth and Ocean Counties and their decendants, ever compiled. For twenty-five years previous to his death Mr. Salter was a corresponding member of the New Jersey Historical Society and the recognized authority on genealogical history, having been for years on its Stand- ing Committee of Genealogy of New Jersey families. It was conceded during the lifetime of the author that there was no man in the State so thoroughly informed of the
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history of first families of New Jersey (1664-1678) as Edwin Salter.
The design in publishing this book, primarily, is to carry out the long-felt desire of the deceased author to furnish the citizens of Monmouth and Ocean counties with a reliable and interesting historical work ; secondly, to perpetuate the honored name and memory of the dis- tinguished author, and thirdly, for the benefit of his esteemed widow, who for so many years encouraged and aided her husband in his arduous and responsible duties.
To the undersigned-between whom and the lamented author there existed for nearly twenty years a close and abiding friendship -- was assigned the duty of editing and preparing for publication the valuable material left by the deceased historian. In this responsible undertaking the Editor has studiously endeavored to omit nothing essential to the completeness of the history, but has striven to present the work in the form which he believes would have been acceptable to the lamented author. In the hope that it may be equally so to the citizens of Monmouth and Ocean counties, for whom it has especially been prepared, the work is respectfully submitted.
E. GARDNER, EDITOR,
December 1, 1889. Bayonne, N. J.
OBITUARY NOTICE. [From the Times and Journal, Lakewood, N. J., Dec. 22, 1888.] TO EDWIN SALTER'S MEMORY.
To give in a cold and conventional way an outline of the life of Edwin Salter would be an easy, and to us an ungrateful, task. It is so little to the purpose that he lived more than sixty years; that he died at Forked River; that he was a member of the Legislature and Speaker of the House ; that he was for a score of years a clerk in one of the Departments at Washington- these are the things that we all know, and in some sense he may be measured by them. But our immediate con- cern with his life, now that he is done with it, is how and to what purpose he lived it. Men of as little moment, after they go hence (and often before) as a dead letter in a waste-basket, go to the Legislature, sit in the Speaker's chair, or hold a clerkship under the government. The political status of the State has come to this, whether by progress or retrogression is of no moment here except to confront the face of the fact and be-it so happens often- rather belittled than distinguished by it. Edwin Salter was not one of the little men of either his time or his generation. When he sat as a servant of the people, it was to their honor and his credit. When he was a gov- ernment clerk, he was faithful and efficient. His public life was clean and meritorious. So much for truth and for him in this respect.
But, compared to his life as a student and chronicler of State history, his public life was as a flicker beside a flame. When the one is almost forgotten, and when it would be entirely so but for his name being linked with it, his contributions to the career of the State and his delineations of the character of its men and women, will
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be growing brighter in a steadier, stronger light. When the one will be almost valueless save as a chronological fact, the other will be invaluable as a historical heirloom to all future generations of Jerseymen. By this work he will live in the association of men of renown; his work will be perpetual, because upon its merits it will deserve perpetuity. His patience in collecting data, his industry in the pursuit of information, his care and judgment in selection, his love of veracity and respect for fact his clearness in detail and ability in setting the whole sum of his studies before the world, his modest and unpretentious concealment of himself-these are some, and only some, of the characteristics of Edwin Salter's life. Men of this stamp do not die and be forgotten. They are not ephemeral. They "still live" when the multiplying years have left their unrecognizable dust far behind. Students of history must pause to do honor to their memory and be grateful to them for the good they did with little hope of reward. Indeed, re_ ward, beyond such as necessity may have entailed, did not enter into the consideration with Edwin Salter. He loved his chosen work, and gave of his means to it as freely as he would have lightened the burdens of a beg- gar at his door, giving all that he had. His private life was that of the Christian man-pure and undefiled. He was generons to a double fault, honorable to the breadthi of a hair, mild and gentle as the village preacher whose life is perpetuated in undying verse, and true as the love that was beneficently given to him that he might share it with others. Thus we knew him, and here we lay this tribute to a beloved memory upon the bier of its de- parted shade.
BIOGRAPHY.
Edwin Salter died at Forked River, N. J., December 15, 1888, aged sixty-four years. He was the son of Amos Salter and Sarah Frazier, and was descended from some of the oldest families of Monmouth county-the Bownes, Lawrences and Hartshornes. His original ancestor in America emigrated from Devonshire, England, and set- tled at Middletown previous to 1687. He was a lawyer, a man of distinguished ability, which was illustrated in the part which he took as counsel with Captain John Bowne in the controversies of the people with the Lords' Proprietors.
Edwin Salter was born in Bloomingdale, Morris Co., February 6th, 1824. While a youth, he removed with his parents to the more northern part of the State. At the age of fourteen, he became a member of a Presby- terian Sunday school in Newark ; three years later he made a profession of his faith in Christ, in a church of the same order. He subsequently removed to Philadel- phia and was there employed as a clerk in a book-store, but afterwards removed to Forked River and taught school. For a time he led a seafaring life, being master of a schooner in the coasting trade.
In 1857 he was elected by the Republicans of Ocean county as their representative in the Assembly of New Jersey, the first Free Soil member in that body. He was returned for the two following years and in the session of 1859 he was elected Speaker and filled the position with great ability. In 1861 he received an appointment in the United States Treasury Department, which he held for five years, when he resigned. He was reappointed shortly afterwards to a clerkship in the Fourth Auditor's office, where he remained till 1886, when he returned to Ocean County.
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He had a taste for historical research, especially in the study of genealogical lines. He spent much of his time in his later years in prosecuting his researches into the history of the early families of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, his residence at Washington affording him peculiar facilities for the work, through his ready access to the National Archives. The information here obtained was supplemented by searches of the public records of States and counties, north and south. At the time of his death he had accumulated a vast amount of historical and genealogical matter-the work of years of patient and laborious research-for a history of Monmouth and Ocean counties, which he had long contemplated pub- lishing. Referring to notices he had prepared of the principal families now represented in Monmouth, he wrote in a letter to a friend on the 14th of November, 1888, only a month before his death, "Take the matter altogether, I believe it will be the most complete account of the early settlers (and settlement) ever published of any county in the United States settled previous to 1700." Mr. Salter was the author of a series of historical sketches published in the Monmouth Democrat, 1873-'74, entitled " Old Times in Old Monmouth." His frequent contri- butions to the journals of Monmouth and Ocean over the signatures of " Selah Searcher " and " Pilot," bear testi- mony among others to his zeal in historical study and his readiness to give the fruits of his rescarch to his fel- low citizens.
Edwin Salter's name stands enrolled as a member of a Presbyterian Sunday-school at Forked River, in 1831. In 1860, he was superintendent of the same school, beside teaching the Bible-class. He married, in 1852, Margaret Bodine, of Barnegat, who survives him. Their son, George W. Salter, a most estimable young man, died at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 27th, 1880, of typhus fever, while stationed at that port as paymaster's clerk of the United States Naval Depot.
Mr. Salter was a man of great force of character, gen- erous, open-hearted and strong in the maintenance of the
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right. He had no sympathy with lawlessness or lowness of aim. Without pretension, he aspired to the best in personal, domestic and social life. In his religions life there was no affectation or cant. A genuine heartiness and catholicity of spirit moulded his creed and his conduet. His manners were genial, his spirit was broad and liberal. He was a simple-hearted, earnest Christian gentleman. He filled a large place in the affections of his friends and acquaintances, by whom his death is most sincerely mourned.
He was elected a member of the New Jersey Historical Society on May 21st, 1863, and was esteemed one its most valuable members in promoting the purposes of its organi- zation. His remains were laid in the Masonic Cemetery at Barnegat, after a funeral service held at the Presbyterian Church.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
SUBJECTS.
OCEAN COUNTY-Olden Times in ; Discovery, Settlement; When set off and established ; Proprietors' Division of Lands ; First persous to take up lands; Basiness in Okl Times ; Genealogy; Church History, Revolu- tionary and Miscellaneous Matter ; Scenes on the Coast; Indian Tradi- tions ; Tales of the Forest and of the Sea, &c.
ILISTORY OF OCEAN COUNTY-Discovery by Henry Hudson in 1609; Exploring our Coast ; Buying Land of the Indians; Copy of the noted Monmouth Patent granted in 1665; Account of the purchases of lands from the Indians prices paid and names of purchasers; Settlers of Middletown. The Stout Family ; Tradition.
MONMOUTH COUNTY-When established. Henry Hudson's visit to Old Monmouth. Old Times in Old Monmouth ; The Battle of Monmonth; Causes of the Revolution-Principles involved ; The Battle Monument ; Monmouth under the Dutch.
THE INDIANS-Tools of the Indians ; Making Canoes ; Making Flour ; Indian Peter ; Traditions ; Indian Stories ; Indian Claims in Ocean and Monmouth Counties, and vicinity ; Indian Will, a noted character.
FIRST FAMILIES in Old Monmouth ; Privating on our Coast ; Old Mon- mouth During the Revolution ; Reminiscences, do; Captain Joshua Huddy, the Hero Martyr of Okdl Monmouth ; Captain William Tom ; Con- gressional Representatives ; Episcopalianism in Okl Monmouth.
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR-Soldiers of the Revolution ; List of Officers and Privates of Old Monmouth; Toms River during the Revolution ; Privateering ; Attack on Toms River ; Burning the Village ; A Day of Horror ; Capture of Captain Joshua Huddy ; Attack on the Russell Family; Captain Adam Hyler the daring Privateer of the Revolution; The noted Refugee Davenport and his death ; The last War with England.
TOMS RIVER-Origin of the name; Indian Tom; Religious History Captain William Tom ; The Rogerine Baptists ; Mormonism in Ocean County.
THE POTTER CHURCH-The Rev. John Murray the first preacher of Universalism in America ; He sailed from England for New York, July 21st, 1770 ; His accidental meeting with Thomas Potter and remarkable call to become a Preacher ; Birthplace of Universalism in America ; Celebration of the Centenary of Universalism at Goodluck in 1870.
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BARNEGAT-Its discovery over two hundred years ago ; The first house built at least as early as 1720; Religious Societies ; First Church was a Quaker Meeting House built in 1770; The Presbyterians among early r. ligions pioneers in 1760 ; The Episcopalians in 1750; the Methodists in 1829 ; Records of the Several denominations, &c.
HISTORY OF MONMOUTH-An Ancient Patent; Disputes between the Dutch and English in regard to its Settlement ; the Whites entering Sandy Ilook in 1524 ; Provisions of the Monmouth Patent ; "A good land to fall in with an. a pleasant land to see"; "Free liberty of Conscience without any molestation or disturbance whatsoever in the way of worship"; Was Oliver Cromwell's brother an early settler ?
THE FOUNDERS of Monmouth ; who they were and whence they came ; A Memorable Scene ; The first English Settler in New Jersey, Richard Stout, in about 1645 ; The Twelve Patentees ; The Rhode Island Monmouth Association ; List of names of persons who contributed toward buying the land in Monmouth of the Indians.
TOMS RIVER during the Revolution ; Sketches of the Leading Citizens of Dover township, &c.
OLD DOVER TOWNSHIP-The Town Book of old Dover containing a list of Officers, from 1733 down to 1361 ; Proceedings at ancient town meetings; The poor of the township sold annually ; Members of the Township Com- mittee allowed $1.00 per day for services ; The Fish laws : The record of Cattle marks and Estrays ; List of Presiding Officers or Moderators, from 1846 to 1861.
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