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II. Moses Baldwin and Deborah Wright were married by Rev. Joseph Morgan, November 11th, 1735. Their children were (1) Keziah, born December 1st, 1736 ; (2) Hannah, born April 11th, 1738; (3) Ruth, born March 18th, 1740; (4) David, born February 16th, 1742; (5) Daniel, born March 19th, 1744; (6) Mary, born November 27th, 1749 ; (7) Andrew, born July 3d, 1751; (8) Elizabeth, born May 8th, 1756, and wife of Samuel Titus, son of Joseph Titus, Sen. She died July 30th, 1812. David, son of Moses, married Martha Burt, daughter of Edward Cornell, and had Moses, Benjamin, Daniel, Andrew (father of Deacon David G.), and daughters.
II. Elnathan, the youngest son, removed to the vicin- ity of Hightstown, and his two sons, Enos and Israel, were elders in the Cranberry Church, and Woolsey in the Freehold Church.
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JOHN TITUS and wife Rebecca, had sons, Joseph, An- drew, Samuel, Benjamin, Philip, John and Thomas ; daughters, Susanna wife of Thomas Blackwell, Mary wife of Josiah Hart. John T. owned the two farms since held by Joab and Noah.
II. Joseph had sons, Uriel, the father of Joseph, Jr., a ruling elder ; Samuel, father of Andrew, a deacon, and Joseph, second, father of Jonathan and Samuel (millers). Joseph, Sen., owned the farm above Titusville, where his son Uriel, and grandson Joseph, were born and died.
II. Andrew, son of John, married Hannah, half sister of Maj. Stephen Burrowes, and had children (1) Stephen the father of George, Andrew, Smith, Asa, John, for many years the cashier of Trenton Bank, Aaron Bur- roughs and Charles ; and daughter Sarah wife of John Howell, of Easton. (2) Jesse, who had sons, George W., Stephen, Jr., Jesse, Jr., Andrew, Jr., Lot and The- ophilus. (3) John, the father of Noah, Theodore, Charles and Theodosia, who married Samuel, son of Jesse Hunt. Andrew Titus owned the farm near Titus- ville, now in the hands of Mr. Wykoff Hendrickson.
II. Samuel, son of John, took the homestead, and had children: (1) Johnson, who divided the homestead between his sons Joab and Noah. (2) Solomon, a dea- con, who married Susanna, daughter of Nathaniel Reed, and had Reuben (a deacon), Nathaniel R., an elder, Abijah and Samuel; Susan, wife of Mr. Daniel Bowne, and Mary wife of Daniel J. Blackwell; (3) Benjamin, father of Randall, David L., Furman, Liscomb R., Andrew R., Benjamin Wesley, and Nathaniel H., and three daugh- ters, who married respectively Lewis Drake, Bayard Drake and Williamson Updike. (4) Enos, who by his first wife Mary Reed had Rebecca wife of Henry
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Blackwell, and by his second wife Elizabeth Hill, had Stephen, Charles, Adaline, Amanda first wife of Samuel H. Burroughs, Maria wife of Joseph Bunn, and Ruth wife of Asher Howell. This Samuel Titus, Sr. had daughters, Mrs. Mary Hunt, Mrs. Daniel Stout and Mrs. Merrill.
II. Benjamin, Sr., married a Moore, and had children.
II. John, son of John first, settled on the farm now in possession of the Muirheid family, but removed to a farm north of Harbortown.
II. Philip once owned the farm now the property of T. Frelinghuysen Titus.
The descendants of John Titus bearing the name are numerous, and if the kindred by marriage were included, it would greatly increase the number. The family has given to this church six ruling elders, four deacons, and four trustees; and to other Presbyterian churches three ruling elders and two deacons. John Titus probably emigrated from Hempstead, L. I.
EPHRAIM TITUS, of another family, was for many years an elder of this church, married Mary, daughter of Enoch Armitage, and through his daughters Martha and Lydia, has numerous descendents in this county.
TIMOTHY TITUS, the grandfather of the late Captain Timothy Titus, owned the lands of Aaron Stout, and the late Pierson Bake. Through Susanna, his daugh- ter, who married Edward Hunt, Sr. (on the river road), and through other female branches of the family, he is the ancestor of quite a number of this congregation.
EDWARD HART, from Stonington, Connecticut, was the commissioner who laid before the Presbytery of Phila-
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delphia the call for the pastoral labors of the Rev. John Guild. His farm is that now owned by the Temple family on the Hopewell and Ewing turnpike. His son John was baptized in the church at Maidenhead by the Rev. Jedediah Andrews, of Philadelphia, on the 12th month, 21st day, 1713, old style, corresponding to February 10th, 1714, new style. This John became a representative of the Provincial Legislature of New Jersey, a member of the Committee of Safety, a mem- ber of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. As his will was executed April 16th, 1779, and approved May 26th, 1779, the time of his death is nearly ascertained, which was prob- ably in the sixty-sixth year of his age. He was origin- ally buried in the private burying-ground of the Hunt family, but was a few years since removed to the cemetery of the Hopewell Baptist Church. On the oc- casion of dedicating the monument erected to his mem- ory, on the 4th of July, 1864, Governor Joel Parker of this State delivered an oration before a large assembly. He spent the latter part of his life on his farm adjoining the Baptist church, now the property of Moore Phillips. He gave the ground on which that meeting-house was built. John Hart's children were Jesse, Nathaniel, Edward, Sarah Wikoff and Deborah.
Edward Hart had a daughter, Sarah, who first mar- ried Timothy Temple, and after his death became the second wife of Stephen Burrowes, Sen., and mother of Major Stephen Burrowes.
RALPH HART, brother of Edward, lived over the town- ship line in Maidenhead, and left his real estate there to his sons Samuel and Benjamin; but two of his sons,
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Ralph and Josiah, settled in Hopewell, and Mary became the wife of John Carpenter. Ralph, Jr., married Jemima, daughter of George Woolsey, Sen., and had a son, Dr. Noah, and daughters, Jerusha, Hannah and Elizabeth. By a second wife, a widow Merrill, he had a daughter Mary wife of George Smith.
II. Josiah married Mary Titus, daughter of John, Sen., and had Elijah, Nathaniel, Andrew, Titus, Re- becca wife of Thomas Wilson, Sarah wife of Andrew Smith, Elizabeth wife of Jacob Ege, and Mary wife of Ishi Vancleve.
III. Elijah married Keziah, daughter of (river road) Edward Hunt, and had Enoch, Philip, Hannah wife of Edmund Phillips, and - wife of Peter Phillips.
III. Nathaniel married Abigail, daughter of Captain Joseph Scudder, and had Josiah, Elizabeth wife of Levi Knowles, Mary wife of Ephraim Roberts, and Joseph Scudder (who by his marriage with Abigail, daughter of Sackett Moore) became the father of Nath- aniel and Sackett Moore Hart.
III. Andrew, son of Josiah, married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Adam Ege, and their children were Asa, Amos, Esq., Abner, Adam, Mrs. Robbins, Mrs. Theophilus Stout, Sarah wife of John Phillips, and Rebecca.
III. Titus, son of Josiah, a deacon of the church ; by the first wife, Rebecca, daughter of Capt. Samuel Scud- der, he had Samuel, Noah, Mary (the wife first of Noah Stout and then of Benjamin Hendrickson), Abigail wife of Thomas Blackwell, Sarah wife of Joseph Furman, Rebecca wife of John P. Stout. By his second wife, Phobe Guild, Charity, second wife of Reuben Titus, and Hester wife of Peter Blackwell.
Of this Hart family, Titus Hart, and Daniel H. Hart,
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a son of Enoch, were deacons, and Nathaniel, and his son Josiah, trustees.
ABRAHAM TEMPLE lived on the farm more recently owned by the late Isaac Primmer, and there lies buried. He married Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel Moore, Sen., and had daughters Sarah and Joanna, and sons Benja- min and Timothy.
II. Timothy married Sarah, sister of Hon. John Hart, and had John and Nathaniel.
III. John married a daughter of his uncle Benjamin, and had Asher, Timothy, William, and Sarah wife of Asher R. Hart.
III. Nathaniel married twice, had a son John, a daughter, who married her cousin, William Temple, and another daughter wife of Benjamin Hendrickson.
IV. John, the son of Nathaniel, lived and died in Trenton ; had a son William H., who, by his marriage with Elizabeth McClellan, became the father of the Rev. Asher Brown Temple, of Seneca, New York.
JOSEPH HART occupied the farm, now Amos Furman's, had sons Joseph (the father of Aaron Hart, Sen., and grandfather of Jonathan Smith, Aaron, Jr., George H. and Ann, wife of James Burroughs). Besides Aaron, Sen., he had a son Israel, who married Mary Davison, and had several children, all now deceased. There were other sons of Joseph Hart, and a daughter Jane.
II. Amos, the son of Joseph Hart, Sr., was the father of Mrs. Daniel Furman, Rebecca wife of Ezekiel Fur- man, and Mary, second wife of Amos Laning, Sen.
Mary, daughter of Joseph, Sen., became the wife of Jeremiah Woolsey. From this Hart family the church has had one trustee, two ruling elders, and one deacon.
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JOHN HART, whose farm was on the west side o Roger's road, leading to Trenton, lately in possession of his grandson, Asher R. Hart, was of a separate family. Among the people of the township, the descendants of John Hart were called the white Harts, and the descend- ants of Edward and Ralph were called the black Harts.
John Hart had sons, Richard and John, and Mary, who married a Dean.
Richard had sons: (1) Joseph, (2) John R. (of Honey Hollow, who, by his wife Mary Dean, had Richard, John Dean, Phoebe, and Mrs. Naomi Baldwin). (3) Asher R., the father of Samuel Stockton Hart, and several daughters.
John, the son of John, settled on the farm long held by his grandson Abner. By his first wife had Elijah, father of Catharine Hunt, and grandfather of Charles, Elijah, and Theodore Hunt. 2 John, unmarried ; and by his second wife, Phillips and Abner. Phillips took the homestead, and was father of John, Abner, Benja- min, Joseph, Palmer, and Israel, with Mrs. Clara Dunn, Elizabeth wife of Elijah Atchley and Susan.
RALPH HUNT. There were two of this name. The one who lived on the Lawrence road, owning the lands now held by Israel Temple and his descendant, John H. Drake, was called London Ralph. He and his wife Elizabeth have the initials of their names, R. H. E., on the wrought iron latch of the kitchen door at the old homestead. Their sons were John, Edward, Nathaniel, William and Daniel.
II. John, son of Ralph, known as Captain Hunt, was unusual as to his stature, had Ruth wife of Stephen Hunt, and Betsy wife of Jesse Hunt, of Kentucky, by his wife, Martha Horsfull.
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II. Edward, son of Ralph, married Charity, daughter of William Cornwell, or Cornell, had sons : (1) Ralph, (2) John (the father of Asa, Ralph, Edward, Nathaniel R., Mary, the wife of Henry Drake, Martha, wife of John Laning, of Lawrence, Elizabeth, wife of Christo- pher Vankirk), (3) Abigail, wife of Robert Updike, and (4) a daughter Elizabeth, who married a Northrop.
II. Nathaniel lived in Lawrence, opposite Captain In- man's, and by his wife, Mary Phillips, had Joseph, Ralph, Samuel, and Mary, wife of William Hunt's son Ralph.
II. William's children were Ralph and Anne.
II. Daniel had Major Ralph, Dr. Benjamin (of Leb- anon), and Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Anderson.
This church is much indebted to the liberality of Ed- ward Hunt, Sen., his grandson, Asa, and to Mrs. Ruth Hunt.
The other RALPH HUNT, called Stony Brook Ralph, owned the farm below Mt. Rose, since held by Abraham Terhune. He was the father of Charity, wife of the Rev. John Guild, of Azariah, prominent in the public affairs of the township ; Nathan, for many years a ruling elder and trustee; Elijah and Noah.
II. Azariah's sons were Ephraim, who was killed by a horse, and Ralph (distinguished for his flaxen hair) was father of William, Catharine and Nancy.
II. Nathan's sons, John and Enoch, never married, but his son Noah, by his wife who was a Drake, had John, who married a sister of Theophilus Quick, Enoch, who married a daughter of Smith Titus, and another, who was wife of Andrew Blackwell.
JOHN HUNT, son of Edward of Newtown, L. I., owned the farm where Stephen Hunt now lives ; had, by Mar-
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garet, his wife, sons Noah, Wilson, John, Jonathan, Enoch, Gershom and Daniel; and daughters Johanah and Charity. He died in 1749.
II. Noah took the homestead, and had Stephen, a trustee, and Achsah, who married Josiah Vankirk. Ste- phen had two sons, Noah H. and Asa R., who did not live to inherit the estate. Achsah Vankirk had Sarah, who married Peter S. Schenck, and still lives, at the age of 87, mother of Rev. Noah Hunt Schenck. D.D.
II. Wilson finally settled northwest of Marshall's corner, and had (1) Elijah, who married and had child- ren. (2) James (Deacon), the father of Joseph, Wil- son, Peter, James, Elijah, and Jonathan, who took the homestead of James, the father. (3) Abraham, mer- chant in Trenton, and father of Wesley, Wilson, Abra- ham, Philemon, Robert and Theodosia. (4) Nathaniel had sons, Randall and Wilson, and Theodosia and Sarah, (5) Jonathan, who had one who live in Cranberry.
daughter. (6) Mrs. Susan Gordon. (7) Mrs. Johnes of Lawrence. (8) Charity wife of Dr. De Camp, of Stouts- burgh, (9) also a Mrs. Stout. (10) John Price, who, by his marriage with Margaret Guild, had Charity, who married a Wilson, Susan wife of James Stevenson, Mrs. Mary Bruere, Azariah, Wilson P., Elijah and John Guild. This is the Wilson P. Hunt who, under the pat- ronage of John Jacob Astor, crossed the Rocky Moun- tains to the Pacific.
II. Jonathan went to the South, had a son George.
II. John's children were John, innkeeper at Penning- ton (who had one daughter, Eliza, Mrs. Welch, of Boston), Wilson, Margaret wife of James Wilson of Am- well; Rebecca wife of Gershom Lambert, and by a second wife, had Lemuel, Isaac, and Eure wife of Cor- nelius Larrison.
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This Hunt family, in its several branches, has done much for the interests of the Church.
EDWARD HUNT, of quite another family. He was possibly the Edward to whom Ralph Hunt of Maiden- head, in his will, made 1732, bequeathed 150 acres in Hopewell. He married Susanna, daughter of his neigh- bor, Timothy Titus, and had Timothy, John, Keziah wife of Elijah Hart, Mary wife of Moore Scott, Phoebe wife of John Furman, Hannah and Sarah.
II. Timothy married Fanny, a daughter of Richard Phillips, and had children : (1) Richard, who married Hannah, daughter of John Phillips, and had children, Abner, Wilson, Elisha, Abigail wife of Abner Hart, Rhoda wife of Richard Brewer, and Frances wife of Smith Titus. (2) Timothy, by Catharine, daughter of Elijah Hart, and Theodore, Charles, Elijah H., and Francina-lived where Daniel H. Hart died.
II. John married Jane, daughter of Theophilus Phil- lips, and had children, (1) Theophilus, who by his first wife, a daughter of John Smith, Esq., had Philip Titus and John Smith ; and by his second wife Elizabeth Far- ley had George, and Jane wife of Daniel Howell Phillips.
From this family there have been two ruling elders in the Pennington Church and one elder in Titusville Church.
ANDREW SMITH. There is some interest attached to him, as the naming of this township probably origi- nated from the naming of his early purchase of land here, in date, so far as the records show, anterior to any other purchase for occupation. On the 20th of May,
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1688, Cornelius Empson, of Brandywine Creek, sold to Andrew Smith two hundred acres, which tract the deed says, he, the said Empson, "doth enfeoff and confirm unto the said Andrew Smith, heretofore laid forth in the county of Burlington aforesaid, and also settled upon, and by him the said Andrew Smith called and to be called, HOPEWELL." This 200 acre tract is probably the homestead near Harbortown. It is an interesting fact that he signed the call for Mr. Guild's services in 1739. Andrew Smith was a professional surveyor (as was also his son Timothy), and this would be reason sufficient for the adoption of a name suggested by him. He had three sons, Andrew, Jonathan and Timothy.
II. Andrew married Mrs. Mershon, and had Charles and Zebulon, both unmarried, and Andrew, who mar- ried Sarah, daughter of Josiah Hart, Sen., and had Ben- jamin (dead), George Washington, Esq., and Nathaniel.
II. Jonathan married Miss Hixon, and had (1) John Smith, Esq., both ruling elder and trustee in Penning- ton Church, who, by his wife, a daughter of Capt. John Moore, had Jonathan (father of John, ruling elder in Lambertville), Keziah wife of Daniel Atchley, Jane wife of Theophilus Hunt, Phoebe second wife of George W. Smith, Esq., Sarah wife of Crineyance Vancleve Jr., and the mother of Jonathan and Samuel Titus of Stony Brook Mill.
II. Timothy, the surveyor (and a beautiful penman), married Jane Lott, and had Joseph, Andrew, George, the father of Capt. Ralph H. Smith, and grandfather of Stephen B. Smith ; John Berrien, Sarah wife of James Wilson, Abigail wife of John Vannoy, Mary wife of Stephen Titus, Andrew's son.
From this family there have been two trustees and a
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ruling elder in Pennington church, and one elder of Lambertville Church.
JOHN WELLING came from Jamaica, L. I., bought 223 acres (of which he was then in possession by a year's lease) July 18, 1728, of Terit Lester, who had bought of John Muirheid, and he of John Fitch, to whom it had been conveyed by John Reading and James Trent, Commissioners of the Loan Office. His son, John Welling, Esq., married Esther, the oldest daughter of the Rev. John Guild. Their children were
(1) Enoch, born April 21, 1769, married Rebecca, sister of Samuel Green, who died March 12, 1837, in the 63d year of her age. Their children were Enoch G., who married Elizabeth Grover. He died June 7, 1848, in the 50th year of his age. The other son of Enoch, Sr., John, died August 31, 1832, in the 32d year of his age, married Sarah Grover, and has sons, Charles and Lewis.
(2) John, born January 17, 1772, died July 5, 1800, in the 29th year of his age, an enrolled communicant.
(3) Hannah, wife of John Davison, born April 10, 1774.
(4) Charles, born February 10, 1777, by his wife, Mary Sexton, had nine sons and one daughter, of whom Charles, of Missouri, and two others, survive. Charles Welling, died October 15, 1857, having been over fifty- seven years an elder of Pennington Church, and many years a trustee.
(5) Asa, born November, 1779, and died young.
(6) Isaac, born January 27, 1784, died February 29, 1868, having been thirty-eight years an elder. He married Hannah, daughter of Lewis Perrine, of Freehold. Their son John held the office of deacon in this church,
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and of ruling elder at Titusville. After a life of eminent piety and usefulness, he died, leaving three sons, John Calvin, Joseph and Henry. The two daughters of Mr. Isaac Welling are still with us, Mrs. Elizabeth Wiley and Mrs. Hannah Cooley ; also Dr. Henry P. Welling, a graduate of the College of New Jersey, 1828, and of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsyl- vania, and for forty-five years a skillful practitioner of medicine in this region. His son, Edward Livingston Welling, a graduate of the College of New Jersey, 1857, and M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, is now united with his fatherin the practice of his profession. His honorable record as a surgeon in the army during the late war deserves a fuller statement than can here be given.
John Welling, Sr., had, besides his son John Welling, Jr., a daughter named Elizabeth, born 1730, and there- fore ten years older than her brother John. She mar- ried Jacob Carle, a ruling elder in the Ewing Church, who died November 23, 1800, aged 75. She died May 22, 1801. Both lie in the Ewing churchyard. Their children were John, Jacob, Israel, Elizabeth, wife of John Van Mater, and Hannah. By the marriage of Hannah to Aaron Vancleve, she became the mother of Dr. John Vancleve, and of that remarkable woman, Elizabeth wife of Caleb Smith Green, whose children, John C. Green, George S. Green, Chancellor Henry W. Green, Caleb S. Green, and grandson Professor William Henry Green, are all well known in the community.
But there remains time only to name others, William Cornwell or Cornell, (with his five sons, Smith, William, John, Edward, and Benjamin), worthily represented by his descendant, Samuel C. Cornell, and whose old home- stead is occupied by one who bears the name William Cornell Lewis.
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There was Jesse Atchley, from Cranberry, with his six sons, Edward, Thomas, Levi, Asher, Daniel and Jesse, from which family there has been one ruling elder; there were Jonathan Furman, ancestor of The- ophilus, an elder, Samuel Hunt, Thomas Hoff, whose family gave us two ruling elders, Charles Hoff, whose family gave us one deacon, Francis Vannoy, John Phil- lips, Esq., of Pleasant Valley, originally from Lawrence, John Ketcham, his son Levi, grandson Enoch, both elder and trustee, and the great grandsons Joshua, Enoch, William Smith, and their nephew Samuel, a trustee, whose liberality as a family in the erection of the new church will not soon be forgotten; Robert Blackwell, who, through his sons Francis and Thomas, has spread over the township. From this family we have had an elder, a deacon, and a trustee ; Cryance Vancleve, whose son, Colonel John Vancleve, was a trustee, and a great grandson, John S., a deacon; Robert Drake, several of whose posterity have been on the church roll ; Andrew Morgan, Thomas Roberts, John Field, Joshua Bunn, John Bainbridge, son of the elder John Bainbridge, of Law- rence, Adam Ege, William Bryant, John Reed, Edmund and Philip Palmer, Abraham Pittinger, Josiah Beakes, John Davison, the Bakers, Robert Laning, Joseph Bur- roughs, son of John B., of Ewing, Samuel, and his son Jonathan Stout, and a little later came Joseph Vankirk from Amwell.
PENNINGTON.
In 1697, July 12th, eleven hundred acres of land (thirteen hundred in fact) were sold to Johannas Law- renson, of Maidenhead (Lawrence) by Thomas Revell, agent of the West Jersey Society. Lawrenson con-
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veyed his title to Richbell Mott, May 14, 1700, and Mott sold out his claim November 11, 1708, to John Cornwall, John Mott, Nathaniel Moore, and Thomas Read. It is on this section of land that this village of Pennington is built, measuring about one mile and three- eighths from north to south, and from east to west em- bracing about two square miles. The settlement of the village probably began near 1708. It was first named Queenstown, in honor of Queen Anne, the sovereign of Great Britain. As early as 1747 it began to be called Pennington, which name it has borne ever since.
The name by which the old congregation was known in its earliest history was
"THE PEOPLE OF MAIDENHEAD AND HOPEWELL."
The first authentic evidence that there were Chris- tian people in this region uniting together for the maintenance of religious worship, is found in the record of a deed bearing date 1698-9, March 18th, in which the Honorable Jeremiah Basse, Esq., Governor of the Provinces of East and West Jersey, and Thomas Re- vell, &c., agents of the Honorable the West Jersey Society in England, convey " for the erecting of a meet- ing-house, and for burying-ground and school-house," one hundred acres of land to " Ralph Hunt, John Bain- bridge, Johannes Lawrenson, William Hixon, John Bryerly, Samuel Hunt, Theophilus Phillips, Jonathan Davis, Thomas Smith, Jasper Smith, Thomas Coleman, Benjamin Hardin, William Akers, Robert Lannen, Philip Phillips, Joshua Andris, Samuel Davis, Elnathan Davis, Enoch Andris, Cornelius Andris, James Price, John Runyan, Thomas Runyan, Hezekiah Bonham, Benjamin Maple, Lawrence Updike, Joseph Sackett,
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and Edward Hunt, "inhabitants of the said township aforesaid, i. e., Maidenhead, and parts adjacent." There is a strong presumption that the first house of worship for the congregation was erected in what is now called Lawrenceville. Further, the baptismal records of the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, show that the Rev. Jedediah Andrews of that church administered the rite of baptism at Maidenhead in 1713 and 1714, and it is matter of ecclesiastical record that the Rev. Robert Orr, the first pastor, was ordained and installed October 20, 1715, in the meeting-house at Maidenhead. The second church edifice was in what is now known as Ewing township, built of logs in 1712, on land con- veyed by Major Alexander Lockhart, March 9, 1709, to Richard Scudder and sixteen others in trust. The third in order was erected in Pennington, as early as the year 1724 or 1725, on the site of the old brick church, which was taken down in 1847. The fourth edifice was built of stone in 1726, on or near the site of what is now known as the First Church, Trenton city.
The first ecclesiastical record of this congregation is found in the Minutes of the Presbytery of Philadelphia, May 11th, 1709, as follows :
Ordered, that Mr. Smith go to the people of Maidenhead and Hope- well, and confer with them on such matters as shall be propounded to him by them, concerning his being called to be their minister ; and that Mr. Smith preach to the people aforesaid on his way to New England or return from it, or both; and that this be intimated to Mr. Smith, and the people be writ to by Mr. Andrews.
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