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ST. MARY'S CHURCH.
HISTORY
OF THE
CHURCH IN BURLINGTON.
NEW JERSEY ;
COMPRISING THE FACTS AND INCIDENTS OF NEARLY TWO HUNDRED YEARS, FROM ORIGINAL, CONTEMPORANEOUS SOURCES.
BY THE
REV. GEORGE MORGAN HILLS, D. D.,
RECTOR OF ST. MARY'S PARISH, AND DEAN OF BURLINGTON; MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, ETC.
SECOND EDITION ; ENLARGED AND ILLUSTRATED.
TRENTON, N. J .: THE W. S. SHARP PRINTING COMPANY. 1885.
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by GEORGE MORGAN HILLS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
1147168
THIS VOLUME
IS INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF
THE REV. JOHN TALBOT, M. A., FOUNDER AND FIRST RECTOR OF THE CHURCH IN BURLINGTON,
WHO, AFTER TWENTY YEARS OF MISSIONARY TOIL,
WITH CEASELESS, BUT INEFFECTUAL, ENTREATIES
THAT A BISHOP MIGHT BE GIVEN TO AMERICA, WAS INDUCED TO RECEIVE CONSECRATION FROM A LINE OF NONJURORS, IN ENGLAND ; AND RETURNED TO BURLINGTON,
WHERE, AFTER THREE YEARS MORE OF MINISTRATION, FOLLOWED BY TWO OF INHIBITION, HE DIED, AND WAS BURIED
WITHIN THE WALLS OF THE CHURCH WHICH HE BUILT, NOVEMBER, A. D. 1727.
Толькоза- 1-50
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE. St. Mary's Church, Frontispiece.
Friends' Meeting House, 1683, 10
The Rev. George Keith, - 18 -
Col. Daniel Coxe,
164
Autograph of John Talbot (Fac-simile),
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185
Seal of John Talbot ( Wood-cut), 247
The Rev. Colin Campbell, -
- 254
The Rev. Jonathan Odell, 292
342 The Rev. Charles H. Wharton, D. D.,
Diagram of St. Mary's Church, 1769, 372
66 1831, 400 St. Mary's Church, enlarged 1834, 424 Diagram of = 435
Bishop George W. Doane, with autograph, 520
Bishop Odenheimer, with autograph, 560
Riverside,
568
The Rev. Wm. Croswell Doane, with autograph, 570
The Rev. Eugene A. Hoffman, 606
The Rev. Wm. Allen Johnson, 622
St. Mary's Hall, enlarged 1870, 650
The Rev. George Morgan Hills, D. D., 656
Altar vessels of St. Mary's Church, -
694
Diagram of old Church, restored 1876, 705
Enlarged photograph of Talbot's Seal, 720
The Talbot Memorial Tablet, - 734 Seal of Burlington College, 756
Graduate's Medal of St. Mary's Hall, 759
Spire of the Church, looking south, 768
Lych-Gate of St. Mary's churchyard, 774
PREFACE.
THIS work is a series of papers, arranged in chronological - order, with extracts, notes, and occasional explanations. Headings, where they did not exist, have generally been given, as a kind of introduction to what follows.
The first Parochial Register-a folio, bound in parchment- begun in 1702, by the Founder of the Parish, and continued, by successive rectors, for a hundred and thirty-four years, is still in possession. The paper is coarse and discolored, but its records are as legible as when they were first made.
From 1720-the year when Mr. Talbot left America, not expecting to return-there are no entries in it until after he ceased to officiate; which leads to the belief that his acts after his consecration, were recorded in a book exclusively his own ; and which may possibly be traced among the legal representatives of Thomas Herbert, a son of his wife by a former marriage, in the West Indies.
From 1733, the entries are continuous till 1836, when the rest of the book is left blank, and the next records are found in a new and modern volume, beginning with 1853-thus leaving a hiatus of seventeen years.
With the Minutes of the Vestry, the Parish has not been so fortunate. Three or four Churchmen of Burlington aver, that many years ago, they saw the first book of these; and they mention two or three things which sustain their assertion ; yet Bishop Doane, in an appendix to his sermon, preached at the consecration of old St. Mary's Church, in 1834, alludes to " 1784," as the "earliest year to which the records then in pos- session, extended." The present Minutes reach no further back than 1836-hence, two books, at least, are now wanting.
Regret for these losses is lessened by having copies of letters from the early Missionaries and others, some of which have been
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taken from the " Collections of the Prostestant Episcopal Histor- ical Society," printed in 1851; and others, from the Lambeth, Fulham, and S. P. G. MSS., procured in 1836, by the late Rev. Dr. Francis L. Hawks, and kindly furnished by their authorized custodian, the Rev. Dr. William Stevens Perry.
The extracts from Wills-except in two or three instances, where it is otherwise stated-were made from the originals in the Office of the Secretary of State, at Trenton, N. J. The orig- inal MS. of the sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Talbot, was received from descendants of the Rev. Colin Campbell, by the present rector of St. Mary's, after its absence from Burling- ton for more than a hundred years !
No further sources of information are named in this preface, because, in every other case, an acknowledgment of its author- ship is made with the contribution.
Where the spelling, abbreviations, capitals, punctuation, or lack of it, are extraordinary, it is because the originals have been minutely followed.
The reader will please keep in mind, that up to September, 1752, the legal year began with the 25th of March, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
G. M. H.
ST. MARY'S RECTORY, BURLINGTON, N. J.,
Feast of the Purification, 1876.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
Nearly ten years have elapsed since the next seven hundred and five pages were given to the public. What has been gath- ered during this decade is here presented as supplementary to those pages, which remain untouched; and the HISTORY is brought down to this date.
G. M. H.
ST. MARY'S RECTORY, BURLINGTON, N. J.,
Feast of All Saints, 1885.
HISTORY.
THE FIRST ENGLISH SETTLEMENT OF BURLINGTON.
"Among other purchasers of the West-Jersey lands," says Samuel Smith, in his " History of the Colony of Nova-Cæsaria, or New Jersey," printed in Burlington, in 1765, "were two companies, one made up of some friends in Yorkshire, (as hinted in the concessions,) the other of some friends in London ; who each contracted for considerable shares, for which they had patents. In 1677, commissioners (agreeable to expectation given) were sent by the proprietors, with power to buy the lands of the natives ; to inspect the rights of such as claimed property, and to order the lands laid out; and in general to administer the government, pursuant to the concessions: These commissioners were Thomas Olive, Daniel Wills, John Kinsey, John Penford, Joseph Helmsley, Robert Stacy, Benjamin Scott, Richard Guy, and Thomas Foulke. They came in the Kent, Gregory Marlow, master, being the second ship from London, to the western parts: After a tedious passage, they arrived at New-Castle, the 16th of the 6th month, O. S. King Charles the second, in his barge, pleasuring on the Thames, came along side, seeing a great many passengers, and informed whence they were bound, asked if they were all quakers, and gave them his blessing. They landed their passengers, two hundred and thirty in number, about Rackoon creek, where the Swedes had some
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scattering habitations; but they were too numerous to be all provided for in houses ; some were obliged to lay their beds and furniture in cow stalls, and appartments of that sort."
"Most of the passengers in this ship were of those called quakers ; some of good estates in England. The com- missioners had before left them, and were by this time got to a place called Chygoes Island,t (afterwards Burlington) their business being to treat with the Indians about the land there, and to regulate the settlements, having not only the proprietors, but Governor Andros's commission for that purpose."
The two parties agreed to unite in settling a town. " The commissioners employed Noble, a surveyor, who came in the first ship, to divide the spot. After the main street was ascer- tained, he divided the land on each side into lots ; the eastern- most among the Yorkshire proprietors, the other among the Londoners : To begin a settlement, ten lots of nine acres each, bounding on the west, were laid out; that done, some passen- gers from Wickaco, chiefly those concerned in the Yorkshire tenth, arrived the latter end of October. The London com- missioners also employed Noble, to divide the part of the island yet unsurveyed, between the ten London proprietors, in the manner beforementioned : The town thus by mutual consent
+ Smith's foot-note says : "From Chygoe, an Indian sachem, who lived there." The Rev. Wm. Allen Johnson, in a lecture delivered at Library Hall, Burlington, February 14th, 1870, says : " Chygoe is not an Indian name, but it is the spelling in English, as near as may be, of the French name Jegou. . An assertion, or conjecture, or possibly an imperfectly understood tradition, embodied by that usually careful historian, Samuel Smith, has been blindly copied by all other writers. In his curious suit at Upland Court, against Thomas Wright and Godfrey Hancock, two of the early English settlers of Burlington, Pierre Jegou declares 'that in 1668 he obtained from Gov. Carteret a grant of land called Leasy Point, lying over against Matinagcom Island and Burlington, to settle himself there, and build and keep a house of entertainment, for the accommodation of travellers; which he did, and continued there till 1670, when he was plundered and utterly ruined by the Indians, as is well known to all the world (!) but that it hatlı come to pass, by the arrival of these new comers, called Quackers, out of Eng- land, these defendants, Thomas Wright and Godfrey Hancock, have violently entered upon your Plaintiff's said land, and there have, by force, planted corn, mowed hay, made fences, cut timber for houses, etc., notwithstanding that they were forewarned by your Plaintiff's friend, Henry Jacobs, in the presence of Capt. Edward Cantwell, and afterward by ye Plaintiff summoned before ye Magistrates of Burlington, who making no end of it, the case was removed here before your Worships.' Justice triumphed, and Jegou gained his suit."
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laid out, the commissioners gave it the name first of New- Beverley, then Bridlington, but soon changed it to Burlington."}
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" Among the latter," in this ship, " was one Marshall, a car- penter, particularly serviceable in fitting up habitations for the new comers ; but it being late in the fall when they arrived, the winter was much spent before the work was begun; in the interim they lived in wigwams, built after the manner of the Indians. Indian corn and venison, supplied by the Indians, was their chief food: These people were not then much cor- rupted with strong liquors, but generally very friendly and help- ful to the English." "Having traced this ship's company into winter quarters, the next in course is the Willing Mind, John Newcomb commander; she arrived from London, in November, and dropt anchor at Elsingburgh ; brought about sixty or seventy passengers : Some settled at Salem, others at Burlington:" * * * "In this year also arrived the Flie-Boat Martha, of Burlington, (Yorkshire) sailed from Hull the latter end of summer, with one hundred and fourteen passengers, designed to settle the Yorkshire tenth :"
-X "In one of these ships, or about this time, arrived John Kinsey, then a young man ; his father one of the commissioners afore mentioned, dying on his arrival,¿ the care of his family fell to him: he was afterwards a man of distinguished services, in several public stations ; and his son after him, of the same name, the late chief justice of Pennsylvania, must be long remembered by many in both provinces."
FRIENDS' MONTHLY MEETINGS SETTLED.
The first minute in the Friends' MS. Book, is this :- " Since by the good Providence of god many friends with their families have transported themselves into this Province of
From Bridlington, Yorkshire, England-the rapid utterance of the first syllable, with a long i, making it sound as though spelled Burlington. There is no town in England spelled Burlington. G. M. H.
¿ The first recorded burial in the Friends' Book, now (1876) in the keeping of Richard F. Mott, of Burlington, is this : "John Kinfey Allias Kelfey Latte of Hadnam, in Hartfortfheere being taken wth a violent feavor & Payne in his Bowles about 8 days Pafsed out of ye Body ye 11th of ye Sth moth & was Layd in ye ground ye 14th of ye fame, 1677."' G. M. H.
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West New Jersey the said friends in those upper parts have found it needfull according to our practice in the place wee came from to Settle Monthly Meetings for the well ordering the affairs of ye Church it was agreed that accordingly it should be done & accordingly it was done the 15th of ye 5 moth 1678."
THE FIRST SHIP AT BURLINGTON.
The first ship that came so far up the Delaware, was the Shield, Captain Towes, from Hull, which arrived at Burling- ton in the 10th month, O. S., 1678. " Against Coaquanock, (the Indian name of the place where Philadelphia now stands,) being a bold shore, she went so near in turning, that part of the tackling struck the trees ; some on board then remarked it was a fine spot for a town: A fresh gale brought her to Burling- ton: She moored to a tree, t and the next morning the people came ashore on the Ice, so hard had the river suddenly frozen." -Smith's History.
THE FRIENDS' BURYING-GROUND.
The " 3d " record in the Friends' MS. Book of Minutes is this : " At ye Monthly Meeting in Burlington the 5th day of ye 7th moth 1678 Friends took into Consideration ye paling in of the burying ground."
At the Friends' Monthly Meeting on the " 1st of ye 5th moth 1680," it was ordered, "after harvist to fence in ye burying place aforementioned."
THE FIRST FRIENDS' MEETING-HOUSE.
At the " Men's Monthly Meeting held at the house of Thos. Gardiner ye 5th of ye 12th mo 1682," "It is ordered yt a meeting house be built according to a draft of six square build- ing of Forty feet square from out to out for which he is to have 160 € wh ye meeting engageth to see ye persons paid yt shall disburse ye same unto Francis Collings."
On the "2ª of ye 1st mo 1683," among a long list of sub- scribers we find, "Daniel Leeds £4, William Budd &3."
+ Tradition says, The enormous sycamore, still standing (1876) on the river bank, nearly in front of the residence of C. Ross Grubb.
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Amelia Mr. Ofsumaré
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Friends' Meeting House, Burlington, I. F.
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IN BURLINGTON.
The site of this meeting-house was just back of the present one (1876) in High street. The hexagonal structure had a roof which sloped upwards to a smaller hexagon ; and that, again, to a second roof, which terminated, rather abruptly, in a point. A painting, still extant, represents its ground enclosed; in front, with a high tight fence, of planks; at the sides, and in the rear, to the line of Wood street, with straight rail fences, dividing it into three lots, in the middle one of which, two cows are reposing. These grounds have been the Friends' Burial- Place, from that day to this.
AGITATION IN THE COLONY.
In February, 1688-9, information was received, from Great Britain, of the flight and dethronement of James II, and the grant of the crown to William and Mary .; The agitation everywhere in the colonies was intense. Some adhered tena- ciously to the fallen dynasty. They were mostly men of high standing, and great personal influence. A Jacobite party was thus formed. "Dr. Daniel Coxe, of London, the greatest pro- prietor of West-Jersey," says Smith, was at this time Governor, " having appointed Edward Hunloke his deputy ; some time afterwards a commission was sent to John Tatham, who being a Jacobite ; and as such by principle disqualified, him the Assem- bly rejected."
JOHN TATHAM'S LAND.
March 1689. Surveyed then for John Tatham a lot of land
+ Chief among the measures adopted to secure this transfer to the Prince of Orange, was a new Oath of Allegiance. The old oatlı implied hereditary right. It was therefore altered to read, "I, A. B., do sincerely promise and swear to bear true allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary." This oath was taken, in March 1688-9, by both Houses of Parlia- ment, with the exception of several lords spiritual and temporal, who rather than take it, withdrew from the house. The nonjuring prelates were Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, Turner, Bishop of Ely, Lake of Chichester, Ken, of Bath and Wells, White, of Peterborough, Lloyd, of Norwich, Thomas, of Worcester, and Frampton, of Gloucester. Their example, in declining the oath, was followed by about 400 other clergy, to say nothing of the laity, most, if not all, of whom were honest and peaceable, and would have gone on in the quiet discharge of their duties, had no fresh oath been required. On the first of February, 1690-1, Sancroft, Turner, Ken, White and Frampton- the other nonjuring bishops having died meanwhile-were, by Act of Parlia- ment, deprived of their Sees.
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in Burlington, att the North East corner of the Island, begining att the end of the Street which bounds the Watter Lotts by the Side of the Street leading by the Creek Side, from the River to broad Street and runs from the said end of the Street by the Creek Street fivety seaven Perches and a halfe to broad Street, then by broad Street fourty five perches to a Stake, then about North by East Sixty one perches and a halfe to the Said Street, bounding the Watter Lotts. Then by the said Street, thirty four perches and a halfe to the first, Being surveyed for fourteen ackers.
" Also att the same time, a watter lott begining att the said Creek Street by the River, and runs in breadth, by the river a hundred foot continueing the same breadth Southwards to the next Street.
" Both these Surveyed by Symon Charles and after Resur- veyed by me.
DANIELL LEEDS."
FRIENDS' MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. /
"WHEARAS there has been an Intention of Marriage duly Published according to the Laws of this Province of West New Jersey in America, & also at two severall Monthly Meetings of the People Call'd Quakers held at Burlington in the Province afforsd BETWEEN Robert Wheeler of the Town & Province afforsª Baker, & Rebecca Kenner of ye same, Spinster, And upon deliberate consideration & enquiry their being nothing to obstruct their proceedings therein (they being found clear & free of any other Engagement of this Nature) and having the consent of their friends & Relations in these parts of the world, they were allowed to consumate their Intended Marriage as in ye fear of God they should see meete.
THESE ARE THEREFORE to Certifie all persons whome it may concern that for ye full accomplishing of their sª Intentions . this second day of ye fourth month Called June, in ye year of or Lord one thousand six hundred ninety & two They ye sd Robert Wheeler & Rebecca Kenner appeard in a publick Assem- bly of ye afforesd people held in their Meeting house at Burling- ton afforsd And in a solemn Manner he the sd Robert Wheeler
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taking the sd Rebecca Kenner by the hand did openly declare as followeth, ffriends in the fear of the Lord & in the presence of you his people, I take this my ffriend Rebecca Kenner to be my Wife, promising to be unto her a faithfull & loving husband untill it shall please ye Lord to seperate us. And then & there in the sd Assembly the sd Rebecca Kenner did in like manner declare as followeth, ffriends in the fear of the lord and in the presence of you his people I take this my friend Robert Wheeler to be my husband, promising to be unto him a loving and faith- full wife, untill Death shall seperate [us.]
" AND the sd Robert Wheeler and Rebecca, his now Wife as a further confirmation thereof did then & there to these presents set their hands-And we whose names are hereunto subscribed being present amongst others at the solemnizing of their sd mar- riage & subscription in manner afforsd as Witnesses thereunto have also to these presents subscribed our names the day & year above Written-1692.
ROBERT WHEELER, REBECCA WHEELER.
John Budd
Wm Budd
Thos Gladwin
Thomas Gardiner
William Budd Jun™
Richard Guy
EDWARD HUNLOKE, JUSTICE
Isaac Marriott Charles Reade Mary Budd Sarah Righton
Bernard Devenish Ann Budd Mary Peachee
Tho : Peachee
Rebecca DeCou
Sibbilla Righton
Wm. Righton Mary Myers
Elizabeth Gardiner Jr.
Joseph Addams Rachell Marshalle
Henry Burcham Pricilla Love"
-Friends' MS. Records.
GEORGE KEITH.
In 1691, George Keith, a very eminent Quaker preacher and writer, who was widely known in the colonies, aswell as in Great Britain, proposed and urged some stricter regulations among the Friends. He made complaints against some_of them
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who were in the magistracy, at Philadelphia, for having execu- ted the penal laws against malefactors, alleging that it was inconsistent with their tenets; and he charged some of their most approved preachers with false doctrine. Such a violent controversy was thus awakened that, on the 20th of April, 1692, at a Meeting in Philadelphia, a " Declaration " was drawn up against him, wherein both he and his conduct were publicly disowned. This " Declaration" was confirmed at the " General Yearly Meeting," held in Burlington, on the 7th of July fol- lowing. Mr. Keith drew off a large number with him, fand set up separate meetings in various places. His adherents called themselves Christian Quakers-but they were generally called Keithians. Proud's History, Vol. I, pp. 363-7.
OFFICERS OF THE TOWN.
" By vertue of an Act of Assembly, formed and contrived for the Government of this Town of Burlington at a Sessions held in the said Town the 3d of October 1693 the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the said Town being Convened and Assem- bled the 5th day of April 1694 in pursuance of the Powers and Priviledges Granted unto them in and by the said Act and in conformity to the same due regard being had to ye Qualification of the Electors as prescribed and Limitted by the said Act Did Choose & Elect these officers following :
" Richard Basnet, Burgesse, or Chief Magistrate for ye town of Burlington. "John Tatham, Recorder. James Marshall }Councellors. James Hill
" George Hutcheson, Treasurer. James Hill, Town Clerk.
+ "The Quakers," says Bishop Burnet, in his History of the Church, (Vol. II) "have had a great breach made among them by one George Keith, a Scotchman, with whom I had my education at Aberdeen; he was esteemed the most learned man that ever was in that sect ; he was well versed both in the Oriental tongues, in Philosophy, and Mathematics. After he had been above thirty years in high esteem among them, he was sent to Pennsylvania to, have the chief direction of their youth. In those parts, he said he first discovered that which had been always denied to him, or so disguised that he did not suspect it ; it appeared to him that they were Deists, and that they turned the whole doctrine of the Christian Religion into allegories; chiefly those which relate to the death and resurrection of Christ, and the reconciliation of sinners to God by virtue of his Cross ; he, being a true Christian, set himself with great zeal against this."
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" Bernard Devonish, Serjeant Clerk of the Market Cryer of the Town and Officer to view the Assise of Bread & Lqiuors & to supervise and Examine Weights and Measures.
" Then it was Ordered and Concluded by unanimous Consent that the Town of Burlington should Assert and Maintain their Title and right to the Island in the River Delaware commonly called Stacy's alias Mattinecunk Island." First Entry in Town Minutes.
A BURYING-PLACE FOR CHRISTIANS.
On the 13th of July, 1695, a piece of land was bought ; the particulars of which are given in these portions of its Deed :
"WHEREAS several persons Inhabitants in & about Burlington together with John Tatham Edward Hunloke & Nathaniel Westland have agreed together to purchase a peece or parcell of Land in Burlington for the Conveniency of a burying place for themselves and also free for all other Christian People who shall hereafter be minded therein to bury their dead And for that intent & purpose have respectively disbursed or agreed to disburse into the hands of the said John Tatham Edward Hunloke & Nathaniel Westland (as ffeoffees in Trust) certaine sumes of money for the purchasing of said peece or parcell of Land as may be convenient & for the ffenceing & fitting the same Land when purchased for a burying place NOW WITNESSETH THIS INDENTURE that for & in consideration of the Sume of ffive pounds Currant silver money Robert Wheeler hath granted & sold unto the said John Tatham Edward Hunloke & Nathaniel Westland their Heirs & Successors forever one peece or parcell of Land in the Island of Burlington aforesaid being the Towne Lott or house Lott Conteyning Two Roods and six- teene perches as the same is now laid forth and surveyed begin- ning att a stake sett up being corner to Jonathan Wests lot on the North by Wood street And runs southward in ffront by Wood street ffive perches and Three feet and soe back the same breadth being in Length Eighteene perches and an halfe and bounded by the Lott of John Stoaks to the South TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Lott of Land unto the said John Tatham Edward Hunloke & Nathaniel Westland their Heirs and Suc-
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