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"The people who owned redemptioners could sell them again if they chose; and it often happened that some of them passed into the possession of several families before they finally served out the term for which they had been sold. All sorts of people became redemptioners, -mechanics, labourers, and even professional men. Among the people who sold themselves into limited slavery there were schoolmasters, and it is stated that at one time the supply of redemptioner schoolmasters was so great that they became a drug in the market."
"It is said that these redemptioners were often treated much more harshly and cruelly than the negro slaves, and any one who assisted one of them to escape was severely punished."
"After a time there were laws made to protect the redemptioners. One of these was, that any person sold after he was seventeen years old could not serve for more than four years; and another provided, that, when a redemptioner's time of service had expired, his master should give him two good suits of clothing, suitable for a servant, one good ax, one good hoe, and seven bushels of Indian corn."1
From the foregoing, it will be seen that the dispute between Nathan Davis and John Parker was over the interpre- tation of the law as to what clothes the latter should have upon the termination of his term of service as a redemptioner.
1. From Stockton's Stories of New Jersey. Also cf. Gordon's History of New Jersey, Raum's History of New Jersey, and Barber and Howe's Historical Collections.
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At one time Thomas Maxson was censured by the church for carrying a couple to the justice of the peace to be married, contrary to law.
Again the church disciplined some of its members for partaking of the "Lord's Supper with the Church of England."
Formal excommunication from the church was no ordi- nary affair, nor was it to be thought of lightly. On the contrary, it was accounted a public disgrace ; and well might it be so considered. A formal letter of excommunication, known as the "Awful Sentence of Excommunication," was drawn up and read before the assembled multitude, at the regular service on Sabbath morning. One of these letters of excommunication, dated July 11, 1778, runs as follows :-
"WHEREAS, Joseph Auger, Elisabeth Auger, and Elisabeth Hampton, members of this church, having been under dealings by this church for some time on the account of breach of Sabbath, and have been cited to our church meeting sundry times, as can be made to appear by the records of this church, they having cast reproach on the authority of this church by not obeying the calls thereof, and still continue to live publickly in the breach of God's law, by Sabbath breaking, week after week; we therefore consulting the volume of God's Word, do look on it to be our abounding duty according to God's Word, to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus, and likewise are exhorted by the same apostle : He that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject ; and our Blessed Lord gave this direction to the church of Christ, concerning one brother with another, [and] says thus: If thy brother trespass against thee, tell him his fault between thee and him alone, and if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother, and if he neglect to hear thee, take with thee 2 or 3 more, and if he neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church, and if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. Which by consulting these things, we find that such persons after they are regularly proceeded against according to rule and the circumstance of the offenders or of the offender, I do therefore, in behalf of this Church and before this Congregation, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, deliver those persons mentioned before by name, to Satan according to the apostle's directions, so thereby depriving them of all the privileges of this Church as a church member, till God of His infinite mercy brings them to the light of his blessed truth in compliance with them. Amen. Which may God grant through Jesus Christ our Lord."
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THE "AWFUL SENTENCE OF EXCOMMUNICATION."
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In this connection it may be interesting to note that the last recorded official act of the church before it left New Jersey, was the public reading of the "Awful Sentence of Excommuni- cation" of three of its members, on August 16, 1789.
Troublous times beset the Shrewsbury Church. The War of Independence had begun, and the ranks of the Colonial armies claimed the father and sons from many an anxious home. Even the faithful pastor, Rev. Jacob Davis, enlisted as a chaplain. To add to the embarrassment and sorrow of the church, some of its members cast their lot with the royalists, and joined the British army.
At Monmouth Court House, now Freehold, only eight or ten miles distant to the northwest, was fought the celebrated Battle of Monmouth, where Washington administered his stinging rebuke to Lee; and where Molly Pitcher, "a stout, red-haired, freckled-faced young Irish woman with a hand- some piercing eye," and but twenty-two years of age. made herself famous for all time by her unique display of bravery.1
It was to observe the movements of the British army two days before this hotly contested battle that James Davis, the father of Rev. Jacob Davis, who was pastor of the church at the time of its removal from New Jersey to Virginia, mounted his horse and rode away from his home over to Monmouth Court House, only to return a few hours later fatally wounded by a stray shot from the battle-field, for his grief-stricken family to remove his lifeless body from his faithful horse.
On a line nearly east from Monmouth Court House, and slightly northwest from the village of Squan, at Colt's Neck, some six or eight miles distant, was the home of Captain Joshua Huddy, a terror to the British throughout Monmouth county, who, when captured by the enemy, was wantonly put to death by hanging.
Directly to the eastward, at the mouth of Shark River, some three or four miles distant, the British disembarked one day and burnt the salt works on both sides of the river. At about the same time they burnt the salt works and destroyed the kettles on both sides of the mouth of the Manasquan River, some five or six miles down the coast from Shark River.
I. Cf. Raum, History of New Jersey. Barber and Howe, Historical Collections. Stockton, Stories of New Jersey.
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Only a short distance away were the "Pines," infested by Indians, pirates, and other robbers, who lived in caves and preyed upon the surrounding country-a constant menace throughout the war.
But the ravages of war were not permitted to stop the advancement of the interests of the church. The pastor, Rev. Jacob Davis, obtained occasional furloughs from his duties as chaplain in the American army, and came home to administer to the spiritual wants of his flock. He preached, conducted communion services, and baptized and received new converts into membership in the church.
Under the zealous leadership of the devoted pastor, in January, 1778, the church opened a subscription for funds with which to complete a house of worship, and "accordingly a quantity of money was collected for that purpose."
The first record concerning a house of worship is dated March 3, 1775, when the church voted to build a meeting house "on the south-east corner of Zebulon Maxson's land lying on one of the branches coming out of the branch com- monly known as the Great Branch, the said Zebulon Maxson having given his free consent thereunto."
For this lot which was situated in the little village of Squan, Zebulon Maxson executed the following deed :-
"To all Christian People to whom these presents shall come :
"Know ye that I, Zebulon Maxson, of Shrewsbury Township, in the County of Monmouth and Eastern Division of New Jersey, Cord- wainder, for and in consideration of love, good-will, and affection which I have and do bear towards my loving brethren, the Seventh Day Bap- tist Church inhabiting in Shrewsbury Township as aforesaid, I have given, granted, and by these presents do voluntarily of my own free will and accord with the consent of Experience, my wife, give and grant unto the said church or society of people as aforesaid a lot of land for a meeting house lying near the road that goes across the South Branch of Little Brushy Neck, which said land the said Zebulon Max- son lays claim unto by virtue of a deed of sale from David Hall [?], beginning at a heap of stones planted in the earth about thirty links easterly of said road, first running north sixty-three degrees and thirty minutes east two chain and twenty-five links; secondly, south, twenty- six degrees and thirty minutes east two chain and twenty-five links; thirdly, south sixty-three degrees and thirty minutes west two chain and twenty-five links to the brook by the side of the road to where it crosses the said brook; fourthly, north twenty-six degrees and thirty minutes west to where it began, containing eighty-one perches, strict
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THE DEED FOR THE SHREWSBURY CHURCH LOT.
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measure, to have and to hold the said given and granted premises to- gether with the appurtenances free and clear, freely and heartily by them to be possessed and enjoyed without hurt [?], molestation, inter- ruption whatsoever to them and their heirs forever; and I, the said Zebulon Maxson, for me, my heirs, executors, and administrators do covenant with the said church that before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, I am the true, sole, and lawful owner of the above given and granted premises and have in myself full power and lawful author- ity to dispose of the same in manner aforesaid, and will forever, by virtue of these presents, hereafter warrant and defend from the lawful claims of all persons whatsoever. In witness hereof I have hereunto put my hand and seal this third day of April, in the year of our Lord God, one thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five.
"ZEBULON MAXSON, [L. S.]"
"Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of :-
"THOMAS DAVIS, JR.,
"JOHN MAXSON,
"JACOB DAVIS."
The building was ready for the roof by October 27, 1776, when it was voted to proceed with covering it as soon as pos- sible. It was built with a white oak frame, which after standing a century and a quarter, is still firm and solid. It was about thirty feet in length by twenty-five feet in width. On the 8th of August, 1789, the church voted to sell the meeting house and put the proceeds into the treasury of the church.
Four weeks afterward, or on "September the 6th, 1789, then did the body of this church remove from Shrewsbury in order to settle in the State of Virginia. Names: Our Elder, Jacob Davis, with all his family ; William Davis, senior ; John Davis ; Ephraim Maxson; Thomas Badcock [sic] ; and Zebu- lon Maxson; and Benjamin Thorp; with all their families. And on the thirteenth of the same month, set out from the same place these brethren ; vis., Simeon Maxson; William Davis, Junior ; and William Maxson ; with all their families."
The group which started first, appears to have stopped at Clay Pit Creek, in Middletown, for a farewell visit with such friends there as were not going to Virginia, and when joined at that place by the second group which started a week later from Shrewsbury, they all proceeded together on their journey.
Rev. Simeon Babcock, who was about five years of age at the time he accompanied his parents upon this journey, says there were "seven wagons in number." James Davis, who
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was sixteen years of age when the migration to Virginia took place, and who, also, was one of the company of travellers, says "The train consisted of fifteen wagons." Morgan Ed- wards, who visited Squan, November 18, 1789, a little more than two months after the departure of the emigrants, says "seventy-two souls" had gone. Still another member of the company, seventeen years of age at the time, says there were ten wagons with seventy souls. The church record shows that ten families started from Shrewsbury.
It is not only possible, but somewhat probable that the original company from Shrewsbury was augmented by re- cruits from Middletown, and from Piscataway. A daughter of the first William Davis lived at Piscataway, and from this place had started a movement westward, led by Samuel Fitz Randolph, before the Shrewsbury Church started. The differ- ent times of starting, as well as the possible several points of starting, make it possible for all the statements of eye wit- nesses as to the number of wagons and the number of emigrants to be correct.
When the procession was ready to start, the people all assembled in a grove, where their pastor, Rev. Jacob Davis, preached a short farewell sermon for those left behind, after which the travellers partook of refreshments provided for them by their friends, and then started on their long tedious journey, extending more than four hundred miles westward.
The emigrants settled on White Day Creek in what is now Monongalia County, West Virginia. Here they tarried for two years or more, where William Davis died July 15, 1791.
The new settlers were disappointed, however, in their land, which according to Morgan Edwards, was obtained through a man by the name of Reed.1
The new comers from New Jersey had friends a few miles away across the Pennsylvania border, north of the Cheat River. Among them was Samuel Fitz Randolph, who
I. In 1785, Reed and Ford entered lands in Monongalia County aggregating 10,000 acres; in 1786 John Reed entered, in the aggregate, 20,400 acres, on the waters of Big Steer Creek in Monongalia County; and in 1787, he entered an aggregate of 21,200 acres on Ten Mile Creek in Harrison County. Cf., Dyer's Index to Land Grants in West Virginia. Charleston, [W. Va.], 1895. Francis Reed owned lands on the West Fork, near the mouth of "Fall Run," as early as 1781; how much earlier is not known.
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had a short time before, purchased a tract of land lying on the waters of Ten Mile Creek, a branch of the West Fork of the Monongahela River, some fifty miles beyond White Day Creek. Samuel Fitz Randolph persuaded the dissatisfied set- tlers at White Day Creek to go and inspect his new purchase, as well as other lands adjacent, consisting largely of five thousand acre tracts. As a result, the new settlers from Shrewsbury purchased farms, and moved to this place, where was laid out the Village of New Salem, on the lands of Samuel Fitz Randolph.
The influences which drew the Shrewsbury Church away from its New Jersey home, as well as a history of the first settlement at New Salem, will be discussed in a subsequent chapter.
A LIST OF THE CONSTITUENT MEMBERS OF THE SHREWSBURY CHURCH.
WILLIAM DAVIS, "an aged minister of the gospel,"
JOSEPH MAXSON, "a ministering brother,"
JOHN DAVIS, "a ministering brother,"
THOMAS BABCOCK,
THOMAS DAVIS,
WILLIAM BRAND, JR.,
JOSEPH DAVIS,
ELISABETH DAVIS, (wife of John Davis the elder),
BETHIAH MAXSON, (wife of Joseph Maxson),
ELISABETH DAVIS, (wife of John Davis),
RUTH BABCOCK, (wife of Thomas Babcock),
BETHIAH DAVIS, (wife of Thomas Davis),
ELISABETH BRAND,
MARY STILLMAN,
JUDITH DAVIS, (wife of James Davis),
ELISABETH DAVIS, JUNIOR, [alias] Maxson.
NOTES CONCERNING THE MEMBERS OF THE SHREWSBURY CHURCH.
(Taken from the Church Records).
"Elisabeth Davis, widow, went in October, 1745, to live with her son Joseph Davis in Pennsylvania."
"Thomas Davis and family went to Pennsylvania in March, 1746."
"John Davis, chosen elder, July 19, 1746."
"Joseph Davis and his family returned to Westerly, he and his wife being recommended there in 1751."
"Thomas Davis and family returned from Pennsylvania in perhaps about two years and settled in Middletown, hard by Clay Pit Creek. Elisabeth Davis, widow, also returned and settled there, where also
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Joseph Maxson, husband of Elisabeth Maxson, James Davis, Joseph Stillman, and Mosher Maxson, now live in 1752."
"Mosher Maxson and family returned from Middletown, and settled at Manasquan, April, 1753."
"Joseph Stillman and his family went to settle in New England, he and his wife being recommended to the church in Westerly in September, 1753."
"Nathan Rogers of New London was the first that was baptized here but was recommended to the church in Westerly to be received a member because that was nigher to his habitation."
"The next that were baptized were Simeon Maxson and Comfort Davis, both in one day, and were joined to the church. The next were William Brand and Mosher Maxson, both in a day at Squankum, in the year 1749. The next were Joseph Stillman and Judith Davis alias Babcock at Squan in the year 1749. The next was Tacy Maxson of Squan in the year 1750. Next Joseph Maxson at Middletown, June 22, 1754. Next Anna Havens and Experience Davis, both in a day, July 13, 1754, at Squan."
"Rebecca Brand was the first baptized after brother John Davis's decease, and received as a member of the church, November II, about the year 1758, Rev. Jonathan Dunham being the administrator."
"Joseph Davis of Middletown was baptized by Joshua Maxson in the year 1760, and received into the church by Rev. Jonathan Dunham."
"Tacy Davis, wife of William Davis; Nathan Davis; John Brand; Tacy Davis (the daughter of William Davis) ; Elisabeth Davis, were baptized all in a day, by Rev. Jonathan Dunham, and received into the church about the year 1761."
"Ephraim Maxson about the year 1764 returned from New Eng- land, where he had been baptized and received into the Westerly Church, and soon after was received as a member of this Church."
"Jacob Davis, son of James Davis, was baptized and received into the church by Rev. Jonathan Dunham in the year 1772."
"Mary Davis, the wife of Jacob Davis was baptized and received into the church June 27, 1773, by Rev. Jonathan Jarman."
"Elisabeth Babcock, Experience Babcock, Ruth Maxson, baptized and received into the church, December 19, 1773, by Rev. Jonathan Jarman."
"Anna Davis, wife of Nathan Davis, baptized and received into the church," (no date).
"Thomas Davis, Junr., baptized and taken into the church by Rev. Jonathan Dunham near the year 1764."
"Elisabeth Hampton, wife of John Hampton, Hannah Smith, wife of Zebulon Smith, both of Shark River; and Penelope Davis, wife of Joseph Davis, of Middletown, baptized and received into the church all in a day, June 19, 1774, by Rev. Jonathan Jarman."
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THE FOLLOWING SIGNED THE CHURCH COVENANT WHICH WAS ADOPTED
JUNE, 1774.
THOMAS DAVIS,
JUDITH BABCOCK,
THOMAS BABCOCK,
TACY DAVIS,
WILLIAM DAVIS,
ELISABETH MAXSON,
JOSEPH MAXSON,
EXPERIENCE MAXSON,
EPHRAIM MAXSON,
REBECCA DAVIS,
NATHAN DAVIS,
ANN DAVIS,
THOMAS DAVIS, JUNR.,
HANNAH SMITH,
JACOB DAVIS,
ELISABETH BABCOCK,
JAMES DAVIS,
PENELOPE DAVIS,
JAMES DAVIS, JUNR.,
MARY DAVIS,
WILLIAM BRAND,
MARGARET MILLER,
ZEBULON MAXSON,
MARY MAXSON,
WILLIAM DAVIS, JUNR.,
ELISABETH BRAND,
WILLIAM MAXSON,
MARTHA DAVIS,
NATHAN MAXSON,
ANNA HAVENS,
JOHN DAVIS,
ELISABETH MAXSON, JUNR.,
JOHN MAXSON,
MARVEL MAXSON,
JOHN BRAND,
INCREASE LIPPINCOTT.
THOMAS MAXSON,
"About July 15, 1774, the following were baptized and received into the church by Rev. Jonathan Jarman: James Davis, eldest, James Davis, his son, Joseph Auger, Margaret Miller, Elisabeth Auger (wife of William Auger), Lydia Havens (wife of Jacob Havens), Martha Davis."
"December 4, 1774, John Parker, and Mary Maxson, baptized and received into the church by Rev. Henry Dawson."
"February 27, 1775, Zebulon Maxson, Nathan Maxson, William Maxson, William Davis, and John Davis, baptized and received into the church by Rev. Jonathan Jarman."
"May 14, 1775, John Maxson, and Marvel Maxson, baptized and received into the church by Rev. Jacob Davis."
"August 26, 1775, Margaret Miller, given letter of recommenda- tion."
"September 20, 1777, Increase Lippincott baptized by Rev. Jacob Davis."
"September 27, 1777, Increase Lippincott received into the church by Rev. Jacob Davis."
"April 14, 1778, Thomas Maxson baptized."
"April 14, 1778, Thomas Maxson received into the church by Rev. Jacob Davis."
JOSEPH DAVIS,
RUTH MAXSON,
JOHN PARKER,
LYDIA HAVENS,
SIMEON MAXSON,
EXPERIENCE BABCOCK,
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"April 28, 1781, Joseph Gifford was baptized."
"May 13, 1781, Margaret Newman and Elisabeth Gifford received into the church."
A LIST OF NAMES FOLLOWING THE MINUTES OF MEETING, AUGUST 10, 1783.
WILLIAM BRAND,
SIMEON MAXSON, JUNR.,
THOMAS BABCOCK,
JOHN PATTERSON,
WILLIAM DAVIS,
JUDITH BABCOCK,
ZEBULON MAXSON,
ELISABETH LAFFERTY,1
EPHRAIM MAXSON,
MARVEL DAVIS,
HENRY LAFFERTY,1
EXPERIENCE MAXSON,
NATHAN DAVIS,
ANN DAVIS,
WILLIAM MAXSON,
MARGARET MARTIN, AMY BABCOCK.
JOHN DAVIS,
"November 18, 1786, Zebulon Maxson, Anna Maxson, Eamy [Emma or Amy?] Babcock, Sally Patterson, Elisabeth Maxson (daughter of Zebulon), Bethiah Maxson, Prudence Maxson, Lydia Davis, were received into the church."
"December 13, 1786, Thomas Babcock, William Davis, Catharine Davis (wife of William), Hannah Davis, Mosher Maxson, James Maxson, Jacob Davis, Joseph Davis, Samuel Davis, Jesse Maxson, were baptized."
"December 24, 1786, David Davis, Nathan Davis, and William Den- nis were baptized."
"December 31, 1786, Susanna Maxson, George Maxson, Experience Maxson, and Mary Davis, were baptized. All young persons."
"January 7, 1787, William Davis, Catharine Davis (wife of William), Mosher Maxson, James Maxson, Jacob Davis, Joseph Davis, Jesse Maxson, Samuel Davis, were received into the church, having been previously baptized."
"January 21, 1787, Ananias Gifford, John Maxson, Hannah New- man, Sarah Gifford, were baptized."
"January 27, 1787, Experience Maxson was received into the church."
"February 5, 1787, Nathan Davis (son of Nathan), and George Maxson, were received into the church."
"February 25, 1787, James Davis, Mary Gifford, and Calvin Har- bert were baptized."
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