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Gilbert Collins
GENEALOGICAL
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MEMORIAL HISTORY
OF THE
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
A RECORD OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF HER PEOPLE IN THE MAKING OF A COMMONWEALTH AND THE FOUNDING OF A NATION
COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF
FRANCIS BAZLEY LEE
VOLUME III
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NEW YORK LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
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COPYRIGHT 1910 BY LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY.
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SMITH Among the numerous families of
Smiths which have been identified with New Jersey and Salem coun- ties none has a more honorable record than that branch of the family which is at present under consideration.
(I) John, son of William Smith, the founder of the family in America, was born in county Kent, England, in 1645. He was one of the ex- ecutors of John Fenwick, and in 1685 he and his wife came to America on board the ship "Ariel," Edmund Baily, master. They landed at New Castle, June, 1695. The following August, Smith same to Salem and purchased one thous- and acres of land in Upper Mannington from Samuel and Anna Hedge, and here he made his permanent home. From that time to this the place has been known as Smithfield. It is said that he was a relative as well as a friend and an executor of John Fenwick, and the testimony of his contemporaries is that he was possessed of more than ordinary interest and business capacity. In 1673 John Smith mar- ried Susanna, daughter of Edward Marcy, and they had two children born in England who died the first year after they arrived in this country. Their children born in America were : I. Susanna born eighth month 8, 1689. 2. Jo- seph, referred to below. 3. John, Jr., born 1693. 4. Samuel, 1696. 5. Elizabeth, born third month 3, 1703, married Judge John, son of Samuel Bacon, of Cohansey.
(II) Joseph, second child and eldest son of John and Susanna (Marcy) Smith, was born in 1691, and by his wife had one son Thomas, referred to below.
(III) Thomas, only son of Joseph Smith, of Smithfield, married, in 1740, Sarah, daugh- ter of Elisha and Abigail (Davis) Bassett. She was born in 1719 and was the eldest child in a family of thirteen. Children of Thomas and Sarah ( Bassett) Smith were : I. William, referred to below. 2. David, born seventh month 17, 1744, married Mary, daughter of James Jr. and Mary (Oakford) Chambless, of Alloway's Creek. 3. Thomas, born first month 25, 1747, married Hannah Shillis.
(IV) William, eldest child of Thomas and Sarah (Bassett) Smith, was born eighth
month 31, 1741. He was a captain during the revolutionary war and served with great dis- tinction in the American army. Many anec- dotes have been preserved which prove his bravery and presence of mind, and the devo- tion which he inspired in his men. The fol- lowing is taken from pages 418-19, Historical Collections of New Jersey, by John W. Bar- ber: "During these petty manoeuvres of the enemy, the spirit of our soldiers was excited to such a degree, as that there appeared to be an almost unanimous disposition in the militia to go over the bridge and chastise them. The most wary of the officers opposed the move- ment proposed, because the orders of the com- manding officer had been peremptory that they were to stand their ground and defend the bridge to the last extremity, should the enemy attempt to force a passage in his absence. During this parley among them, a little Frenchman by the name of Decoe, a lieutenant, who was full of fight, represented to Captain William Smith, then the senior officer present, how easy it would be for them to go over and 'drub those insolent rascals.' Captain Smith being equally animated, forthwith mounted his horse, and called upon his men to follow. They immediately obeyed and marched on, or rather huddled promiscously along the road, with scarcely any military order. The decoying enemy, seeing the confused manner in which the militia were approaching them, feigned a retreat. Captain Smith, being in advance of his men, was calling upon them to hasten on, saying, 'We will have them before they get to Millhollow,'-a ravine over which the then road leading to Salem passed, and about two miles from Quinton's bridge. During this higgledy-piggledy marching, if I may so call it, no one thought, while passing, to examine either the barn, dwelling-house, or swamp in the rear of it. When the militia had advanced some yards beyond the house, the enemy rose up, and poured forth upon our people a most destructive fire, from the swamp, house, barn. and fences, under which many of them were secreted. The militia were thrown into con- fusion. It was at this moment that Captain Smith displayed great bravery and presence of
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mind in attempting to rally his men, but they were so completely surprised that he could not form them into line. The light-horse from the woods now came dashing among them; but their horses, being untrained, soon frightened at the clash of arms and report of guns, and could not be brought within striking distance of the sabre, except in a few instan- ces. Our people retreated fighting in small squads, and although at first surprised, and attacked in flank and rear, they made good their retreat across the bridge, but with the loss of between thirty and forty of their comrades. Colonel Hand, of the Cumberland militia. being informed by Colonel Holmes that the enemy were in Salem, put his regiment in mo- tion, and was hastening to join Holmes at Quin- ton's bridge, and by an unforseen Providence, as designed, he arrived there at the very moment when the enemy was dealing death and de- struction among our people. Immediately on his arrival, he placed his men in the trenches which our soldiers had but a little while be- fore left, and opened upon the pursuing enemy such a continued and well-directed fire, as soon put a stop to their career, and saved our people from being cut to pieces. Hand had with him two pieces of artillery, which, when they opened, soon obliged the enemy to face about. Captain Smith had some of his hair shot away from the back part of his head, a bullet grazed his loins, and his horse received two bullets in him, yet he carried his rider safe over the bridge, and then fell dead under him."
Captain Smith married Sarah, daughter of James Chambless, Jr., sister of his brother David's wife. Their children were: 1. Mary. married John Ellet. 2. Charles. 3. Washing- ton. 4. James, married Hannah Allen. 5. Beulah, married Joseph H. Wilson, of Phila- delphia. 6. Clement. 7. Attila. Charles and Attila never married.
(V) Washington, son of Captain William and Sarah (Chambless) Smith, had one son, Peter, referred to below. After her first hus- band's death Mrs. Smith married (second) Joseph E. Brown.
(VI) Peter, only son of Washington Smith, was born in Salem county, New Jersey, in 1805. He married Elizabeth Ann Ellet, and by her had six sons : James Washington, Jesse Patrick, Samuel Patrick, Ephraim Carll, Thomas Jefferson, Peter Elmer.
(VII) Thomas Jefferson, son of Peter Smith, was born in Salem county, New Jersey. April 21. 1841, and is now living in Bridge-
ton, New Jersey. Entering Williams College he graduated in 1862, and finished his medical studies in the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in the class of 1866. He then entered upon the practice of his profes- sion, and after spending one year in Camden, New Jersey, settled permanently in Bridgeton, where he has led an active, useful, honorable and successful life. During this time he has stood at the head of his profession in the county and state, and in more than one direc- tion has been the promotor and author of some of the greatest of the medical alleviations which the state enjoys. For many years he was the president of the Cumberland County Medical Society, and for ten years was the representative from that society to the State Medical Society. For eight years also he was chairman of the standard committee of the State Society, and edited its annual volumes of transactions. At the meeting of that body in June, 1894, in recognition of his ability he was elected second vice-president, and after serving for three years in this capacity the so- ciety bestowed upon him the greatest gift in its possession, the office of president. Dr. Smith is also a member of the American Acad- emy of Medicine, an organization composed exclusively of college graduates, and of the American Medical Association. In 1893 he was a delegate to the Pan-American Medical Congress held in Washington. From time to time he has contributed papers to the proceed- ings of the various medical societies to which he belongs, which have been of exceptional work and value. After the bill had been in- troduced and passed by the New Jersey leg- islature, in 1894, establishing a home for epi- leptics, and the bill had been voted by the gov- ernor, Dr. Smith, as soon as he became the president of the Jersey State Medical Society, began an active campaign to bring about the establishment of such a home, and his first address as president before the society on the problem of dependency is one of the most powerful pleas and arguments upon the sub- ject that has ever appeared, and its publication and distribution was the main cause for the bringing about of the establishment which he desired, in 1898. This finally took form in the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics at Skillman, New Jersey, where from three to four hundred epileptic patients find a home and care. From its inception Dr. Smith was one of the board of managers of the insti- tution and for ten years was its treasurer. The last position, however, owing to the pres-
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sure of overwork, he was obliged to resign. He has also for many years been the president of the medical staff of the Bridgeton Hospital. He has been the medical director of the Cum- berland County Hospital. Dr. Smith has been active and prominent in various societies and organizations, among which should be men- tioned the Sons of the American Revolution, the Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is an associate member, the Masonic order, in- cluding the Knights Templar. He is the presi- dent of the board of trustees of the South Jer- sey Institute, and is a member of the board of directors of the New Jersey Training School for Feeble Minded Children. He is a deacon in the Baptist church.
Thomas Jefferson Smith, M. D., married Mary, daughter of E. V. Glover, of Camden, New Jersey, March 28, 1871.
HAND According to the records of East- hampton, Long Island, the Hand family came originally from Stan- stede, county Kent, England, and according to Judge Alfred Hand, of Scranton, Pennsyl- vania, their arms are: Argent, a chevron azure between three hands gules. Crest : On a
wreath argent and a gules a buck trippant or.
(I) John Hand, first of the name in this country, appears on a whaling list in South- ampton in 1644. At the time of the settlement of Easthampton, Long Island, in 1848, he was one of the company from Southampton who founded the new settlement. He was born in 16II and died in 1660, leaving seven children, by his wife Alice, daughter of William Stan- borough, of Canons Ashbie, England, sister to Josiah Stanborough, of Lynn and Southamp- ton : I. John. 2. Stephen, died 1693 ; had eight children, one of whom, Joseph, was in West Jersey in 1705. 3. Joseph. 4. Benjamin, re- moved with his family to Cape May county, whence his descendants spread into Burling- ton and Hunterdon counties, New Jersey. 5. Thomas, referred to below. 6. Margaret or Mary. 7. Shamgar.
(II) Thomas, son of John and Alice ( Stan- borough) Hand, of Easthampton, Long Island, removed from Long Island to Cape May coun- ty, New Jersey, and died there in 1714, leaving a will written October 21, 1709, and proved November 3, 1714, in which he mentioned his wife, three daughters and four sons, two of whom, however, he does not name, and dis- poses of personal and real property including slaves. The witnesses are his brother, Sham- gar Hand, John Townsend and Samuel Mat-
thews. The inventory of his personal estate made October 9, 1714, by John Paige and John Parsons, amounted to £502, 14 shillings. By his wife Katharine, he had : I. John. 2. Recompense. 3-4. Two sons, mentioned but not named in his will. 5. Deborah. 6. Alice or Elsie. 7. Prudence, married a Crowell. 8. Thomas, referred to below.
(III) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (I) and Katharine Hand, was of age in 1699, died about May, 1732. In his will he mentioned the following nine children: I. Thomas (3). 2. Jacob, died 1772; married Experience Crowell. 3. Lidia. 4. Lucy. 5. Aaron, died intestate, between 1763 and 1768. 6. Levi, died intestate, between 1754 and 1758. 7. Jeremiah, of Maurice river, Salem county. 8. Mary. 9. Jerusha.
(IV-V) Up to the present time no docu- ment has come to light which will enable us to say with certainty exactly who the descend- ants of the two brothers Aaron and Levi Hand, the sons of Thomas (2) were. As the descend- ants of all of Thomas' other children are ac- counted, it is absolutely certain that Levi Hand, referred to below, is the grandson of one of these two men and it is to be hoped that a search of private papers and documents will bring to light not only the proof necessary to establish the exact relationship of Levi to Aaron, and Levi, sons of Thomas, but also to trace out the children of both these men.
(VI) Levi, grandson of either Aaron or Levi, sons of Thomas (2) Hand, lived in Middle township, Cape May county, New Jer- sey, and wrote his will October 31, 1818. It was proved October 26, 1820. In it he men- tions the following children : A daughter Zeviah (Sophia) Matthew; a son Levi, to whose son Levi he leaves his big. Bible; sons Aaron and Thomas, and grandson Samuel Matthew, who is his executor. The witnesses to this will are Naomi Hand, Jonathan Hand and Jonathan Hand, Jr.
(VII) Aaron, son of Levi Hand, of Middle township, names in his will, which is dated May 27, 1845, and proved June 14, 1852, his wife, Rebecca Mulford, his son, Aaron Dennis, who is to be guardian of his son Thomas, and his son, Ephraim Mulford; his daughters, Mary Hoffman and Rebecca Ann Wiley. Re- becca's husband was James Wiley ; Mary's was George Hoffman; Ephraim Mulford married Regina Cummings, of Fishing Creek. Aaron Dennis, referred to below.
(VIII) Aaron Dennis, son of Aaron and Rebecca ( Mulford) Hand, was born in Middle
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township, Cape May county, June 29, 1819, died there February 13, 1900. He was a farmer. In 1845 he married Anna Maria, daughter of Jonathan and Azuba Cornelia (Whitaker ) Fowler, born April 19, 1821. Their children were : I. Rebecca Mulford, died at age of eighteen ; married Albion Hall, and had one son, Swain Albion, died at two months. 2. Isaac Wiley, a farmer of Burleigh, New Jer- sey; married Clara Virginia. daughter of Charles and Barbara (Young) Shivers, and has one child, Jones Bean, who married Eliza Neal, and have one son, Aaron Mulford, born September 24, 1909. 3. Anna Maria, referred to below. 4. Seth Whidlin, died in infancy. 5. Aaron Wilmon, a Baptist clergyman living at Salem, New Jersey ; married Matilda Butler Williams, of Paterson, New Jersey, and had four children: Alexander Rogers, died in in- fancy; Mary Louise; Donald Dunstan; Ken- neth Cromwell. 6. Mary Hoffman, died at the age of seven years. 7. Harry Cobb, a druggist at Trenton ; unmarried.
(IX) Anna Maria, third child and second daughter of Aaron Dennis and Anna Maria (Fowler ) Hand, was born in Middle township, near Cape May City, New Jersey. She was sent to public and private school at Cape May Court House, after which for two years she attended the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton, and then entered the Womens' Medical College of Philadelphia, taking the full four years' course and graduating with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. She then took a post-graduate course at the Polyclinic, after which she became the resident physician in full charge of the Philadelphia Maternity Hos- pital, at Eleventh and Cherry streets, Philadel- phia. In 1892 she went to Cape May City where she entered upon the general practice of her profession and there she has remained ever since, gaining the affection and esteem of the community. Dr. Hand is the vice-president of the Cape May County Medical Society, and is the chairman of the local committee of enter- tainment which welcomed and entertained the New Jersey Medical Society at its meeting at Cape May City in June, 1909. She is also a member of the Cape May City Baptist church and has charge of the primary department in the Sunday school.
Dr. Hand's maternal grandfather, Josiah Whitaker, was one of the largest land owners of his day in Cumberland county. He was a revolutionary soldier, having served his coun- try during the war of the revolution and was one of the soldiers under Washington during
the memorable winter at Valley Forge. He was a pensioned soldier up to the time of his death.
TULLER Among the representative men of New Jersey of the pres- ent day who owe their origin to those who settled in other colonies, there is no more worthy representative than the Hon. Royal Paran Tuller, judge of Cumberland county, New Jersey, whose ancestry belongs to those hardy pioneers who left New England and New York in order to make the wilderness of the Ohio Valley blossom as a rose.
(I) Emery Rounds Tuller, father of Royal Paran Tuller, was born at Genesee, New York, October 1. 1824. While a young man he went from Genesee to Buffalo, from there to Cleve- land, Ohio, and later on removed to Fairfield. Ohio. After stopping for some time in New- ark, Ohio, he finally settled in Vineland, New Jersey, in 1866, where he remained engaged in the practice of his profession until his death in 1891. Shortly after removing to Ohio he began the study of medicine under Professor Beckwith, of Cleveland, and became one of the first homeopathic physicians in the United States. His brothers and sisters also left the paternal home in Genesee and removed else- where. Some of the descendants of the origi- nal stock are still living near Hartford, Con- necticut. Dr. Tuller married Jane, daughter of Dr. Lemuel Powers, of Plymouth, Ohio, whose mother was one of the Bacons of New England. Her Aunt Abigail was the wife of Millard Fillmore, the thirteenth president of the United States. Children : I. Malcolm Bacon, born September 8, 1852, deceased ; graduate of the Hahnemann Homoeopathic Medical College of Philadelphia ; survived by two children, Mary Bacon and Agnes. 2. Hor- ace Lamb, September 16, 1854, died in 1894; married Annie Jones, of Norfolk, Virginia. 3. Willis Norman, March 15, 1857; an attor- ney at law ; married Adah Wilder, of Cincin- nati. 4. Royal Paran, referred to below. 5. John Jay, December 26, 1861; physician in Philadelphia ; graduate of Hahnemann Homœo- pathic Medical College of Philadelphia; has taken post-graduate courses at Paris, Berlin and Vienna ; unmarried. 6. Daisy Elinor, May II, 1866; residing in Philadelphia; married Herman E. Bonschur, of Philadelphia, who has one child, Margaret Powers.
(II) Royal Paran, son of Emery Rounds, M. D., and Jane (Powers) Tuller, was born at Newark, Ohio, February 12, 1859, and is
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now living at Vineland, New Jersey. For his early education he was sent to the public schools of Newark, Ohio, and Vineland, New Jersey, where he came with his father when seven years of age. This training he supple- mented by private courses of study, after which he took up the study of law in the office of Edwin M. Turner, Esquire, of Vineland, and finally received his certificate of proficiency in legal study from the Hon. Thomas W. Walker, of Vineland. In June, 1881, he was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney, but did not immediately enter upon the practice of his pro- fession, being for a time engaged in other pur- suits. In November, 1892, he was admitted to the New Jersey bar as counsellor, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession. In politics Judge Tuller is a Republican, and he has been active and in- fluential in party affairs, both local and state. For some time he was the tax collector for both the township and the borough of Vine- land, and he has also been the solicitor for the city and the borough of Vineland. In 1907 Governor E. C. Stokes appointed him judge of Cumberland county, and February 16, 1909. he was reappointed to the same position by Governor Fort. He is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association and of the Cumberland County Bar Association. He is a firm believer in the benefits accruing from membership in the fraternal orders and organizations, and he is influential and occupies a high position in their councils. He is a past worshipful master of Vineland Lodge, No. 69, Free and Accepted Masons, of Vineland; a member of Eureka Chapter. No. 18, Royal Arch Masons, of Vine- land ; a Knight Templar, and a member of the Order of Junior Mechanics. Judge Tuller is a member of the New Jerusalem church. No- vember 21, 1903. he married Anna, daughter of John Wesley Smith, of Millville, New Jer- sey.
MAY The Mays are an old and substantial New Jersey family, and for perhaps more than a century have been quite numerous in Morris county. The earliest representative of the particular family here treated of whom there appears to be any reli- able account was born in Morris county, but there appears to be no present means by which to determine just how many generations of his ancestors may have lived there before his time.
(I) Isaac May, with whom our present narrative must begin, was born in Hanover
township, Morris county, New Jersey, previ- ous to the revolutionary war, but the exact period of his life is not known, nor the name of his wife, nor the date of their marriage. Their children were Edward, Lucy and Charles H.
( II) Charles H., son of Isaac May, was born in Hanover, New Jersey, in 1796, died in Paterson in 1856. He first came to Paterson about 1820; he then spent a number of years in Georgia and again returned to Paterson and spent the remainder of his days there. He was a harness maker by principal occupation. He is remembered as having been a well informed man on all subjects of local and general im- portance, having been given a good education in the common schools of his native town. In 1854 he was elected to the legislature and ap- pears to have exercised considerable influence in political affairs. He married twice and had children by both of his wives. The name of his second wife, whom he married in New York City in 1840, was Mrs. Maria ( Kier- stead ) Van Houten, born Fairfield, Morris county, in 1806 died 1872, widow of
Van Houten and daughter of Henry W. Kier- stead, of Fairfield. She was a direct lineal descendant of Anneke Jans, progenitor of one of the notable families of New York City and who at one time owned a considerable part of the vast possessions of the corporation of Trinity Church and its parish. The life and history of Anneke Jans is made the subject of special mention elsewhere in these annals, hence needs no repetition in this place. By her first husband Mrs. Van Houten had two sons, William Van Houten and Peter S. Van Hou- ten. By his first marriage Charles H. May had six children : Lucetta, Jane, Maria, Elizabeth, Edward and Fannie ; and by his second mar- riage he had one son, Charles H., Jr.
(III) Charles H. (2) son of Charles H. (I) and Maria ( Kierstead-Van Houten ) May, was born in Paterson, New Jersey, April 8, 1841. and for many years previous to his retirement from active pursuits was prominently identified with the industrial life of that city. He was educated in private schools and Trenton Acad- emy, and after his school days were ended be- gan his business career as bookkeeper for Todd & Rafferty, general machinists of Paterson, and remained with that firm about three years ; then was employed in the same capacity by the Watson Machine Company for the next four years. In 1864 he became senior partner of the firm of May. Rea & Company, and thereafter was actively engaged in industrial
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pursuits until about 1883, when he was made treasurer and general manager of the Enter- prise Manufacturing Company. This position he held for a few years and then retired from all business connections, although since that time he has given efficient service in various official capacities, member of the board of edu- cation for two years and deputy receiver of taxes from 1888 to 1902. In political prefer- ence he is a firm republican and always has shown a commendable interest in public affairs. He also for many years has been a prominent figure in Masonic circles and is a member and past master of Ivanhoe Lodge, No. 88, Free and Accepted Masons; member of Adelphic Chapter, No. 33, Royal Arch Masons ; member of Melita Commandery, No. 13. Knights Tem- plar, all of Paterson, and member of Mecca Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles Mystic Shrine, of New York City. He is a member of Paterson Lodge, No. 60, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and a member and for fifteen years one of the board of governors of the Hamilton Club, of Paterson. Mr. May is a stockholder in the Paterson Savings Insti- tution and the First National Bank of Pater- son.
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