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Whether anything was done to carry out this order is unknown, but the wish of the people to obtain the ministrations of the gospel was not then realized.
In the Minutes of Presbytery of September 11th, 1711, it is written :
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Upon the desire of the people of Maidenhead and Hopewell signified by Mr. Wm. Yard, for our assisting them in getting a minister, it was agreed that in case the people of Maidenhead and Hopewell are not engaged with Mr. Sackett, that they use all opportunities they have for a speedy supply, and apply themselves to the neighboring ministers for assistance in getting a minister for them.
The Mr. Sackett here spoken of was the Rev. Rich- ard Sackett who graduated at Yale College in 1709, and died in 1727.
The congregation spread over this extensive territory continued as one under the ministration of three suc- cessive pastors, the Rev. ROBERT ORR, the Rev. MOSES DICKINSON, and the Rev. JOSEPH MORGAN, respecting each of whom a brief account will be given.
I. REV. ROBERT ORR .- His name indicates his Scotch origin, although the place of his birth is not known. He was received by the Presbytery of Philadelphia as a licentiate, September 15th, 1715, at a meeting held in New Castle, Delaware, when the following record was made :
Mr. Philip Ringo having presented a call from the people of Mai- denhead and Hopewell, in West Jersey, unto Mr. Robert Orr, the Pres- bytery called for, considered and approved his credentials as a preacher of the gospel, and likewise considered of and approved the call, which being presented by the Moderator unto the said Mr. Orr, he accepted of it ; whereupon it was appointed that Mr. Andrews, Powel, M'Nish, Jones and Morgan, after having been satisfied with Mr. Orr, his minis- terial abilities, shall solemnly ordain him by fasting, prayer, and impo- sition of hands unto the work of the ministry among the said people of Hopewell and Maidenhead on the third Wednesday of October next.
Again, in the Minutes of September 18th, 1716, it is recorded :
" Mr. Orr was ordained at Maidenhead according to appointment, only Masters M'Nish, Jones and Powel were absent, and in the room of these three other ministers assisted."
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Again :
Memorandum .- Mr. Robert Orr having performed those points of trial assigned him to satisfaction, namely, preached a popular sermon from James ii. 24, and given an Exegesis on that question, " An foedus circumcisione signatum a foedere Evangelico essentialiter differat," and also answered to several interlocutory questions touching theological matters, and given a specimen of his attainments in other parts of learn- ing to good approbation, he the said Mr. Orr was, on the 20th day of October, 1815, solemnly set apart to the work of the ministry by Masters Andrews, Morgan (Jonathan), Dickinson, Evans and Bradner, at Mai- denhead, before a numerous assembly.
Mr. Orr lived on the farm which until recently was the property of William A. Green, within the township of Lawrence, and on the Ewing boundary line. Mr. Orr lost a son by death, while residing there. The grave is in the Ewing churchyard, by the side of a son of Sheriff John Muirheid. The pastoral relation of Mr. Orr continued about four years. As the Minutes of the Presbytery of Philadelphia from 1717 to Novem- ber 9th, 1733, have been lost, there is no record of the time of the dissolution of the pastoral relation. His name is mentioned as being present at the meetings of Presbytery and Synod during his pastorate, and at Presbytery, September 18th, 1716, his elder Enoch Anderson appears with him. The last notice of Mr. Orr is in the Minutes of the Synod of Philadelphia, September 19th, 1719, when he is spoken of as "having no pastoral charge," and Mr. Andrews was ordered to prepare Synodical testimonials for him, which were made out and given him. The time of his death and the place of his burial are unknown.
II. The Rev. MOSES DICKINSON was the second pastor. He was born December 12, 1695, at Springfield, Mass., son of Hezekiah and Abigail Dickinson. He graduated
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at Yale College in 1717, in a class of five. members, every one of whom entered the Christian ministry. This was the year in which the college was removed from Saybrook to New Haven. Dr. Sprague states that Mr. Dickinson was settled as pastor of the Pres- byterian Churches of Hopewell and Maidenhead, New Jersey, some time before September, 1719, for his ill- ness at that time detained his brother (Rev. Jonathan Dickinson) from Synod. Owing to the loss of the records of Presbytery, this date cannot be verified. He first appeared in the Synod of Philadelphia Sep- tember 20, 1722, with his elder, Enoch Armitage, of the Hopewell Church, and was at Synod with the same elder in 1724 and 1725. He continued in the pastoral relation until after the 26th of June, 1727, when the Society of the Congregational Church, Norwalk, voted to request Mr. Dickinson to supply their pulpit, with reference to a settlement among them. He came, and after he had preached two or three Sabbaths, they gave him a call to become their pastor. The unwillingness of the Hopewell people to part with him is clearly indi- cated by an address, which that worthy elder, Enoch Armitage, wrote out and delivered before the people, entitled, " Some Meditations upon the 15th, 16th, 17th verses of the Twenty-Seventh Chapter of Numbers, occasioned by the removal of Mr. Dickinson, and de- livered at Hopewell Meeting-House by E. A."
Mr. Dickinson was pastor of the Congregational Church at Norwalk from 1727 until May 1, 1778. On his tombstone is the inscription, " Beneath this monu- mental stone lies interred the body of the Rev. Moses Dickinson, late pastor of the First Church of Christ in Norwalk, who departed this life May 1, 1778, in the
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83d year of his age, and 51st of his ministry in said church. A man of good understanding, well informed by study, cheerful in temper, prudent in conduct, he came to his grave in full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season."
The first church edifice at Pennington was erected during the pastorate of Mr. Dickinson. In the words of a memorandum, which was furnished by the writer to Dr. John Hall, in preparing his History of Trenton : "In the old records of Hopewell Township," we find the following :
" March ye 9th, 1725-6, agreed upon by the majority of the town to hold their town-meetings insuing at the new meeting-house by John Smiths." This John Smith was a merchant in the village, and owned the lands adjoining the church lot east and south. There is a tradition that before a church was built there was stated preaching in a school- house which stood on the ground that is now the south part of the Pen- nington graveyard, known from time immemorial as the school-house lot. This lot was conveyed by John Smith, for ten pounds, to Nathaniel Moore, William Cornwell, John Everitt, Ralph Hunt, Jonathan Fur- man, Reuben Armitage, and Stephen Baldwin.
This meeting-house stood nearly on the site of the brick building that was taken down in 1847, but six- teen feet further north. It was a frame building, thirty- four by thirty feet, weather-boarded with cedar shingles. The pulpit was on the north side, and the doors on the south. In 1765, when this frame church was replaced by another, the bilstead timbers were removed to the parsonage farm on the Scotch road, and used as the frame of a barn. That frame, with quite a number of the old weather-beaten cedar shingles, even yet service- able for weather-boarding, may be seen at the present day.
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That Mr. Dickinson was not without spiritual fruit . from his labors here, is evident from a letter written to Cotton Mather in May, 1721, in which the writer speaks of "the astonishing marks of a work of grace around him, and which were more plentiful among those who had been longer under the means of grace;" and in another letter, written in September, he speaks of "magnum incrementum ecclesiae in Mr. Dickinson's congregation."
III. The Rev. JOSEPH MORGAN was the third pastor. His name has led to the opinion that he was a native of Wales. He graduated at Yale College in 1702. President Woolsey, in a letter to the writer, says : " Some interest is attached to Mr. Morgan from the fact that he was not only one of the members of the first class in Yale College, but also the only one of the class who did not also take his degree at Harvard ; that is the only one veritably educated at Yale alone." He was licensed to preach in 1697, and ordained in 1700. He preached the sermon at the ordination of the Rev. Jonathan Dickinson of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, Sep- tember 9, 1709. He was settled in the ministry first at Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1710 he removed to Freehold, New Jersey, being received by the Presby- tery September 21, 1710. Here he remained as pastor until 1729, when he undertook the pastoral charge of the church of Maidenhead and Hopewell.
While at Freehold, he was greatly afflicted by the death of his son Joseph, a graduate of Yale, who was preparing for the ministry. He died on the 28th of November, 1723; on the 30th the father preached from Job x. 2, and on the next day from Psalm cxxxvii. 1.
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These discourses are in print, and to be found in the Library of Princeton Theological Seminary. Another printed sermon of Mr. Morgan's is deposited in the Library of the Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massa- chusetts.
During his pastorate of eight years, from 1729 to April 6, 1737, he resided at Maidenhead, on the pro- perty for many years occupied by the late George Brearley.
He was deposed from the ministry for intemperance, and afterwards restored. All the proceedings of the case now lie before me, but nothing would be gained by their publication. His name appears for the last time on the records of the Synod as an absentee, May 8, 1740. When and where he died, and where he was buried, has not been ascertained.
Shortly after Mr. Morgan began his ministerial labors in the congregation of Maidenhead and Hopewell, active measures were taken by the Hopewell people to pro- cure a parsonage farm. The original subscription reads thus :
We hereunto subscribed inhabitants of Hopewell, in the county of Hunterdon, in the province of West Jersey, do promise and oblige our- selves, our executors and administrators, to pay or cause to be paid unto Nathaniel Moore, Philip Ringo, and Thomas Reed, their heirs, execu- tors, administrators or assigns, or to any one of them, the several sums of money that are to our names annexed, one-half at or before the first day of May next ensuing the date hereof, and the other half at or before the first day of May, in the year of our Lord 1731, the said money being in trust with the said Nathaniel Moore, Philip Ringo, and Thomas Reed, toward the purchasing of a plantation to be a dwelling place at all times for such a gospel minister of the Presbyterian persuasion as shall be duly and regularly called by the major part of the inhabitants of Hopewell, which compose the Presbyterian society in that town, but to be enjoyed by such a minister no longer than he continues to be such a lawful and regular minister to that society, and when the relation
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between such minister and that society shall cease, then the said plan- tation shall return to the said society, to be a dwelling place for the the minister yt shall next be regularly called, to dwell on as aforesaid, and if the subscribers shall judge meet that if there be above one hun- dred acres purchased, that the said shall be set apart towards the found- ing of a Latin School upon the said plantation so purchased as above.
We give the names of the subscribers, omitting the sums of money :
Timothy Titus, William Lawrence, Thomas Burrowes, Jr., John Branes, Cornelius Anderson, Benjamin Severance, Francis Vannoy, Jonathan Moore, Edmund Palmer, Alexander Scott, Edward Hunt, Thomas Hendrick, Robert Akers, Peter La Rue, John Fidler, Andrew Milbourn, Roger Woolverton, Benjamin Wilcocks, Johannes Hendrick- son, Henry Oxley, Roger Parke, John Parke, Ralph Hunt, Joseph Hart, Abraham Anderson, Barth. Anderson, Joseph Price, Ephraim Titus, Robert Blackwell, Ralph Hunt, Jr., Richard Bryant, Jonathan Stout, Jonas Wood, Thomas Read, John Hunt, Jonathan Furman, Samuel Furman, John Carpenter, Samuel Hunt, Nathaniel Moore, George Woolsey, Jonathan Wright, Caleb Carman, Elnathan Baldwin.
It is not improbable that this effort was the first step towards the purchase of the parsonage farm on the west side of the Scotch road adjoining the lands of George Woolsey, Aaron Hart, and Stephen B. Smith, and where for many years lived the Rev. John Guild and the Rev. Joseph Rue, successively pastors of the First Presbyterian Church of Hopewell.
Before the ministry of Mr. Morgan closed, the Trenton people worshiping in the two meeting-houses, the one in the country and the other in the city, were organized into a separate congregation. The first recorded intima- tion of such a a movement is found in the Minutes of Philadelphia Synod, September 19, 1733 :
Upon a supplication of the people of Trenton, presented to the Synod by the cominittee of the Synod, it was recommended by said committee
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that the commission of the Synod do allow something out of the fund to Trenton as to them shall appear needful when they are settled with a minister ; which overture being read was approved by the Synod nemine contradicente.
The Trenton people afterwards procured the services of the Rev. David Cowell of Harvard University, 1732, a native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, who was or- dained and installed their pastor November 3d, 1736. Here Mr. Cowell continued until his death, which occurred December 1st, 1760.
IV. The REV. JOHN GUILD is the next pastor that claims our attention. He was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, in 1712, a son of John and Esther Guild. He entered Harvard College, at Cambridge, at the age of eighteen, and, after passing through the regular four years' course, graduated in 1734. He was taken under the care of the Presbytery of Philadelphia April 6, 1737, at the time when the result of Mr. Morgan's case dissolved the pastoral relation, through the action of a commission held at Maidenhead. On the 4th of August, 1737, he was heard in part and approved. On the. 13th of September, 1737, after having preached a sermon from Galatians vi. 15, before the Presbytery in the Market Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, he was licensed to preach the gospel. He was at once em- ployed by the Hopewell people to preach with a view to settlement. At this time the conflict which in 1741 divided the Church into two parts, the Old Side and the New Side, had begun to agitate the religious community here. At a meeting of the Presbytery, March 14,1737-8, the New Side men asked the privilege of hearing Mr. James Davenport, or some other minister, for three
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months. The friends of Mr. Guild quietly yielded, and a letter was drawn up addressed to Mr. Davenport by the ministers of the Presbytery. But this negotiation was not successful. Finally,' under appointment of Presbytery, the Rev. David Cowell, of Trenton, met the Hopewell people, and drew up the following call, to wit :
To MR. JOHN GUILD :
SIR :-- We inhabitants in and near Hopewell, being sensible that the Gospel ministry is the ordinary means by which the glorious Head of the Church carries on the interest of his kingdom in this world, and the necessity we are under in point of duty and the present situation of our affairs to have a gospel minister settled amongst us.
We having had Satisfactory Experience of your Ministerial Abilities and Christian Deportment during your abode with us, which is almost two years, do Call and invite you to be our settled Pastor, Promising subjection to you as our Minister in the Lord.
And forasmuch as those who minister in holy things are partakers of the Altar, and it is by the King of the Church ordained that those who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel, we do therefore Covenant and Promise to communicate to you of our worldly Substance according to our Ability for your comfortable subsistence among us while you re- main our minister.
THOMAS BURROWES,
NATHANIEL HEART,
RALPH HUNT,
EDWARD BURROWES,
THOMAS BALDWIN,
THOMAS BURROWES, JR., STEPHEN BURROWES, EDEN BURROWES,
RALPH HUNT,
HENRY WOOLSEY,
EDWARD HART,
JOHN BURROWES,
EPHRAIM TITUS,
JOSEPH DISBROW,
GEORGE WOOLSEY,
JOHN TITUS,
BENJ. TEMPLE,
NICOLAS ROBERTS,
EDWARD HUNT,
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS,
WILLIAM REED.
ANDREW SMITH,
RALPH SMITH,
PHILIP PALMER."
HOPEWELL, August 15, 1739.
Mr. Guild wisely judged it best not to declare his acceptance immediately, on account of the excitement
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kept up by the array of the contending parties against each other. But finally, on the 8th day of October, 1741, arrangements were made for his ordination, which took place agreeably to appointment, November 11th, 1741. Mr Guild delivered his trial sermon from John xiv. 6, in the presence of the Rev. Messrs. David Evans, Robert Cross, David Cowell and Jedediah An- drews. The ordination sermon was preached by Rev. David Evans, from John xii. 42, after which Mr. Guild " was by fasting, prayer and imposition of the hands of the Presbytery, solemnly, in the public meeting-house at Hopewell, ordained, and set apart to the sacred min- isterial work."
Mr. Guild gave one-fourth of his time to the Maiden- head church at least as late as 1769, when the major part of the New Side party (who had for nearly a quarter of a century worshiped in the church that stood from 1742 to 1826 in the graveyard, one mile west from Pennington) returned to the old church. In the Minutes of the New Brunswick Presbytery for April 18, 1769, the tabular statement puts Mr. Guild's name over against Hopewell; and Maidenhead is included among the vacant churches. Mr. Guild's relation to the Maidenhead church was never formally constituted, and no action taken in reference to the cessation of his labors.
It was under Mr. Guild's ministry that the second church edifice for the Hopewell people was built. It was commenced in 1765, and completed in 1766. The dedication sermon was preached by the Rev. William Kirkpatrick. (The Maidenhead people had already fin- ished in 1765 a new church about one-half the size of the one projected in Pennington.) It was placed sixteen feet further south than the frame church. The pulpit,
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shaped like a wine-glass, and with sounding board above, stood on the north side, between two large windows. The doors were on the opposite, or south side, opening into the churchyard; and there was a steeple surmount- ing the eastern end. It was built very substantially of brick. The aisles were paved with square brick ; a few of which yet remain, having been used for paving the south end of the side walk along the graveyard wall. There were four men who gave one hundred pounds each, viz. : Reuben Armitage, Ralph Hart, Edward Hunt and John Welling; and Reuben Armitage gave five pounds extra for the privilege of occupying a spe- cified seat. The names of only thirty-four other con- tributors have come down to us. A bell (the first ever heard in this village) was presented by the young men, John Muirheid and Jonathan Bunn taking an active part in its purchase. Mr. Moore Furman, of Trenton, gave the communion table, the marble slab of which was broken into two parts by a British soldier, when the British occupied the church, about a hundred years ago. The silk damask cushion for the pulpit was. the gift of Charles Cox, Esq., of Kingwood, Hunterdon county. The Building Committee were Noah Hunt, Edward Hunt, and Jeremiah Woolsey. As Mr. Wool- sey was then building a commodious brick house for himself (which has sheltered the family for one hundred and ten years, in at least five generations), he might be supposed to have some qualifications as a member of a church building committee. William Worth, of Law- rence, was the chief mason, and Alexander Biles and Josiah Beakes the carpenters.
The following paper shows who were the leading supporters of this church in 1769 :
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We the subscribers hereunto do Promise and Oblige ourselves to pay to Samuel Moore and Jeremiah Woolsey (or to either of them), both of Hopewell, in the County of Hunterdon, and Western Division of the Province of New Jersey, the sums of money as against our names affixed; on or before the first day of December next ensuing the date hereof ; the said sum or sums of Moneys being for the use and propriety of the Rev. Mr. John Guild as his Stipend or Sallery for Preaching and attend- ing on the Service of God, three Fourths of his time as heretofore has been usual and Customary at the Meeting-house in Pennington. Given under our Hands, and dated this twelfth day of December, in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty-nine.
(Name and amount torn off.) Ralph Hart.
£ s. d.
Stephen Burrowes, Jr.,
10
Joseph Moore,
15
George Huss, .
10
David Adair,
10
Theophilus Moore,
7 6
Amos Moore,
10
Joseph Baldwin,
10
John Moore,
7
6 Thomas Baldwin,
10
Joseph Hart,
1
5
Robert Combes,
1
John Welling, Jr.,
1
Henry Baker,
10
Theo's Bainbridge,
1
Noah Hart,
15
Miss Ringoe,
10
Amos Hart,
10
Nathaniel Moore,
15
Matthias Baker,
1
John Carpenter,
15
Jacob Ashton,
10
Timothy Hunt,
10
Joseph Vankirk,
5
Moore Scott,
7
6 Reuben Armitage,
1
4
Foster Burrowes,
15
John Hart,
15
Henry Mershon,
10
(Name torn out),
15
Jeremiah Woolsey,
1 10
Richard Hart,
15
Ralph Hart,
Martha Lanning,
5
Nathan Moore,
3
John Temple,
10
Stephen Burrowes,
1 10
Nathaniel Reed,
15
Andrew Muirheid,
1
5
Philip Roberts,
7
6
Asa'h Hunt,
1
Samuel Hart,
7
6
Wm. Bryant,
7
6 Gershom Moore,
8
William Burk,
2
6 Naomy Reed,
7 6
Andrew Hoff,
7
6 Noah Hunt,
1
Edward Cornell,
15
Samuel Titus,
1
Benjamin Titus,
5
Nathan Hunt,
15
John Ketcham,
1 16
Edmund Herin,
5
Edward Hunt, Sr.,
1
John Baker,
7 6
Ephraim Titus,
1
Thomas Houghton, . 15
Job Burrowes,
15
Lott,
15
£ s. d.
Wm. Campbell,
10
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£ s. d.
£ s. d.
William Cornell,
15
Robert Laning,
10
Josiah Hart,
15
Ralph Laning, 15
Timothy Smith,
10
John Titus, (am't torn off.)
Simeon Phillips,
10
Benjamin Cornell, 66
Seth Field,
10
Joshua Bunn,
10
Daniel Howell,
10
James Hunt,
7 6
John Akers,
1
Catharine Christopher,
7
6
Joseph Titus,
1
Thomas Blackwell,
5
Edward Hunt,
1
Joseph Burrowes,
1
John Hunt,
1
Job Sayer,
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This township entered with patriotic and self-sacri- ficing spirit upon the work of maintaining the liberties of the country in 1776. Three companies of men were raised, of which the names of officers and men are here recorded. They were revolutionary soldiers worthy of a lasting record.
I. Company. Captain, Henry Phillips, of Hopewell. Ist Lieut., Nathaniel Hunt. 2d Lieut., Daniel Howell. Ensign, Timothy Titus.
John Hunt, Innkeeper, Pennington ; Levi Hart, William Larrison, Roger Larrison, Daniel Campbell, Zebulon Burrowes, Elias Golden, John Field, Jacob Moore, John Muirheid, Jonathan Muirheid, George Muirheid, William Moore, Nathaniel Hart, Titus Hart, Godfrey Cham- berlain, Noah Chamberlain, Henry Burrowes, Joseph Smith (Tim's son), Andrew Smith (Tims), John Cornell, Samuel Ege, Jacob Ege, Joseph Smith (Jonathan's), Jonathan Smith, Andrew Hoff, Jacob Hoff, Abra- ham Golden, Jonathan Bunn, Col. John Vancleve, Ezekiel Rose, Moore Scott, William Muirheid, Levi Atchley, Jonathan Stout, Andrew Stout, John Knowles, Anthony Burrowes, Uriel Titus (camp fever), Peter Lott, Wm. Smith, Edmund Phillips, Andrew Phillips, Lott Phillips, Thomas Atchley.
IInd Company. Captain. Joab Houghton. Ist Lieut., Ralph Guild.
Overbrook.
2d Lieut., William Parkes. Ensign, Timothy Brush.
John Herin, Gershom Herin, Wm. Stout, Francis Vanney, John Van- ney, Samuel Stout (weaver), James Hunt, William Jewell, Jesse Stout, Andrew Morgan, Benjamin Morgan, Thomas Yates, Jacob Blackwell,
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Andrew Blackwell, Benjamin Blackwell, William Golden, David Hunt, Johnson Titus, Solomon Titus, Enoch Armitage, John Vankirk, Josiah Vankirk, John Hunt (Nathan's son), Stephen Hunt.
IIId Company. Captain, John Hunt. 1st Lieut., Ralph Lanning. 2d Lieut., Henry Merson. Ensign, Stephen Burrowes.
William Bainbridge, John Bainbridge, Ralph Hunt (son of Edward, died in the prison-ship), Elljah Moore, Amos Lanning, William Moore, John Temple, Nathaniel Temple, Ephraim Woolsey, Joseph Inslee, Timothy Mershon, Philip Hart, Abner Hart, Edmund Roberts, Jesse Moore, Edward Atchley, Levi Ketcham, Ely Moore, Moses Moore, Sam- uel . Beakes, William Baker, Joseph Burroughs (camp fever), James Burrowes (river road).
George Muirheid (aged 17), Uriel Titus, John Stevenson, and John Taylor, went to Elizabethtown during the war, on service alone. Col. Seeley was in command, refused them pay and rations, but finally at- tached them to Capt. Updike's company. They served out for their month in twenty days, and were honorably discharged. Deacon James Hunt was a brave soldier, killed a British soldier half a mile west of Pennington, in 1776. Benjamin Mershon saw a British soldier enter Thomas Burrowes' house, and having laid his gun by the fence, followed him in and took the soldier's gun from him, and took him prisoner. On the morning of December 26th, 1776, John Muirheid, John Guild, and David Lanning, escorted Gen. Washington and his army from the Eight mile ferry to the north end of Trenton.
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