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A supplication from sª new erection was bro't into the Presby request- ing to be set off from this Presby that they might joyn the Presy of New Brunswick. The Presby taking the affair under consideration, do judge that inasmuch as their engagements before mentioned are not yet ful- filled, they cannot consent to set them off from this Presby for the pres- ent, but if the business with respect to the setting of their house be accomplished to satisfaction, the Presby will be ready upon their appli- cation to them to take their request under consideration.
At the meeting of Philadelphia Synod in May, 1739, . Mr. Gilbert Tennent and his friends protested against the rule in reference to the examination of candidates ; severe censures were passed on the Presbytery of New
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Brunswick for licensing Mr. Rowland in violation of the order of Synod ; the New Side people of Hopewell and Maidenhead were rebuked for their course of action, and the following language used :
The Synod do judge that the said people have behaved with great in- decency towards their Presby by their unmannerly reflections and un- just aspersions, both upon the Synod and the Presbytery, and that they have acted very disorderly in improving Mr. Rowland as a preacher among them, when they were advised by the Presbytery that he was not to be esteemed and improved as an orderly candidate for the ministry ; and the Synod do wholly disallow the said complainants being erected into a new congregation until they do first submit to the determination of the place for erecting a new meeting-house to their Presbytery, as was formerly agreed between them and their neighbors as a condition of their being a separate congregation. The overture was approved by a great majority. And it is further ordered by the Synod, That when the Presbytery of Philadelphia meet at Hopewell and Maidenhead to fix the place of a new meeting-house, they shall call the following corres- pondents Messrs. John Pierson, John Nuttman, Samuel Blair, Aaron Burr, Nathaniel Hubbell and Eleazar Wales.
From this time we find nothing of this "new erec- tion " until May 29th, 1742, when they applied to the Presbytery of New Brunswick for supplies. October 12th, 1743, Rev. James Davenport being at this Pres- bytery, this people applied to have him settled as their minister. The Presbytery, however, upon conversation with him, judged that he had not retracted all his errors, and therefore that the way was not clear for his settle- ment, but gave them permission to employ him as stated supply until May, 1744. They sought, September 12th, 1744, for the services of the Rev. John Graham, of Southbury, Connecticut, but failed.
In a letter from the Rev. William Tennent, of Free- hold, to Mr. Prince, of Boston, in Gillies' Historical Collections, under date of October 11th, 1744, he says :
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About four weeks since, at the invitation of the people and desire of our Presbytery, I gathered a church and celebrated the Lord's Supper at a newly-erected congregation in the towns of Maidenhead and Hope- well.
Perhaps it was about this time that their house of worship was built, and a formal organization given to the church. On May 28th, 1745, they applied for the ministerial services of the Rev. Daniel Lawrence, and September 19th, 1745, sent in a call for him, which he " had not the clearness to accept;" and on the 21st of May, 1746, the application was renewed, but nothing permanent was secured. It was at this date that Mr. Davenport was received into the Presbytery, of which this is the record :
Mr. James Davenport, an ordained minister, having been for some time past preaching the gospel within our bounds, and being likely to abide still longer among us, made application to the Presy for ad- mittance as a member with us ; and having signified his satisfaction and consent to the doctrines contained in the Westminster Confession of Faith, and catechisms received by us, together with our plan of govern- ment, so far as he has had opportunity of inspecting into it, he was thereupon readily received as a stated member.
At the same date, May 21st, 1746 :
The Presbytery, considering the broken state of the towns of Hope- well and Maidenhead, with respect to their religious affairs, as being two distinct congregations, and being desirous that said congregations might be united into one under one minister, if any means can be found to accomplish it, the Presy, after much consideration and discourse upon sª affair, came into this conclusion that for a committee of the Presbytery, with correspondents from the New York Presy, to meet. at Hopewell, and treat with Mr. Guild and both congregations upon the subject, is the most likely means for it; and accordingly appoint Mr. Gilbert Tennent, Mr. Wm. Tennent, Mr. Beatty, Mr. M'Knight and Treat, to be a committee of Presy to meet at Hopewell the third Wednesday of June, and do invite Messieurs Dickinson, Pierson, Burr, and Brainard, as correspondents to meet with them at sª time and place, to consult about and assist in that important affair.
Maidenhead, October 15th, 1746. The committee appointed to mee at Hopewell met according to appointment, with correspondents, but
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finding it at that time impracticable to accomplish the design of their meeting, judged it best not to proceed in the affair.
October 12th, 1748, a call was brought into Presby- tery for Rev. Timothy Allen. He was never installed, although he resided on the parsonage and preached for them about three and a-half years, to May 27th, 1752. It is stated that there were several difficulties in the way, and "in the meantime they exhort all concerned to consult the things that make for peace." Several ineffectual efforts were made to bring matters into such a state as would justify Mr. Allen in accepting this call.
On the 30th of October, 1753, the Rev. James Dav- enport having been dismissed by the Presbytery of New Castle, on condition of his settlement with the people of Maidenhead and Hopewell, was received ; and on the 31st the call put into his hands, and he declared his acceptance. Messrs. Wm. Tennent, Chas. M'Knight, Israel Read, Thos. Lewis and Eliab Byram, were ap- pointed to attend on the installment, and Mr. Tennent to preside. It was recommended that within the com- pass of five years this people add five pounds to Mr. Davenport's salary, until it reach seventy pounds per annum.
At Freehold, May 28th, 1754, this committee re- ported to Presbytery that on the 26th of December, 1753, they met on the spot, and finding things not ripe for settlement, through the manifest neglect of the people, could not proceed in the affair.
The Presby do hereupon judge the conduct of said people to be highly abusive, both to the Presy and to Mr. Davenport ; but sª people having made some just reflections upon their conduct, and again presenting & call to Mr. Davenport, he declared his acceptance of it. A committee was appointed to instal him on the 27th of October. Mr. Lewis was ap-
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pointed to preach at Hopewell on the Sabbath previous, to prepare the way for sª instalment; also, in consideration of the disappointment and damage sustained by the delay of the instalment of Mr. Davenport through the default of the people of Hopewell and Maidenhead, the Presy do order that sª people advance Mr. Davenport's salary to £70 per an- num two years sooner than was recommended to them by the last Press, also the Pres" do recommend to the people of Maidenhead that they follow the example of the people of Hopewell in respect to half-yearly . payments of salary to Mr. Davenport.
The report of the installing committee was as follows:
October 22d, 1854. The committee met at Hopewell according to ap- pointment for the instalment of the Rev. Mr. James Davenport. Minis- ters present : Messrs. Wm. Tennent and Chas. M'Knight. Ministers absent : Messrs. Thos. Lewis and Israel Read. Mr. Tennent preached a sermon from Acts 25: 18; after which, finding the way clear, they installed Mr. Davenport as their pastor.
May 31st, 1757, the Maidenhead people asked to be discharged from the pastoral relation to Mr. Davenport. The request was granted. June 30th, 1757, the Hopewell people urged the same request. A committee was ap- pointed to consider the matter, but they did not act, be- cause the parties appearing had not been chosen by the congregation to act as their representatives. This matter engaged the attention of Presbytery at several subse- quent meetings ; but before it was issued, God took his servant home.
June 13th, 1758, the Rev. Thomas Lewis was called by this same people. The matter was considered at five other meetings of Presbytery besides this, but with- out favorable result. .
April 28th, 1761, Mr. Parkhurst, Mr. Smith, and Mr. M'Knight were appointed supplies, and on 11th October, 1763, the Rev. Enoch Green was appointed a supply. It was at this very date that the acre of ground on which the New Side Church stood was con-
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veyed to ten trustees, for the sum of four pounds, "to the proper use and behoof of a new erected congrega- tion belonging to New Brunswick Presbytery." This step was taken in the hope that the Rev. Enoch Green would receive and accept a call to settle as pastor. This matter of a call was brought up at every meeting of the Presbytery for about three years, but no satis- factory arrangement could be made. The last instance of an application for supplies was October 21st and 23d, 1766, at which time an arrangement for four Sabbaths after the latter date was concluded. It was early in this year that the new brick church at Pennington was opened, and there remained but an extremely feeble minority, and that for only a short period, to perpetuate the schism. About the time of the American Revolu- tion that house began to be used as a preaching place by Methodist ministers of the Trenton circuit. The ground had also been appropriated for burial purposes, and so continues to this day. The house was taken down in 1826, at the time of the erection of the first Method- ist Episcopal Church in the village (the building now occupied as a dwelling by Aaron S. Laning, Esq.). The only relic of that old church is a sun-dial on the south side of the M. E. Conference Seminary of New Jersey at Pennington.
This people had a chequered and painful history for nearly forty years. They met with unusual difficulty in raising funds for pastor or parsonage. They were much of the time dependent on the pastors of the Pres- bytery for supplies. At different meetings, as the extracts from the minutes show, they presented calls, that were declined, to Messrs. John Rowland, Timothy Allen, Daniel Lawrence, Thomas Lewis, Samuel Park-
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hurst and Enoch Green; and they were served occa- sionally by Messrs. John Graham, William Robinson, Henry Martin and James McCrea, and by Messrs. Hunter and Lamb. The only minister who was ever installed over them as pastor was the Rev. James Davenport, and at the time of his death steps had already been taken for severing this tie.
It may well be said that one of the greatest miracles of Christianity is that it has survived the fierce disputes and conflicts among its professors. That good and conscien- tious men should, in the excitement and war of words, in the name of the gentle and loving Prince of Peace, become the victims of intense prejudice, and employ caricature, misrepresentation, denunciation, and the most reproach- ful epithets, is a painful commentary on the weakness of human nature, and shows the necessity of applying the apostolic injunction, " Let not your good be evil spoken of." Schism is always to be deprecated. This breaking up of the visible Church into hundreds of fragments, each more anxious to win from the other than to bring souls to Christ, should cease everywhere, and untiring effort should be put forth to break down, or rather melt down, the walls that separate the true friends of Christ. ' Let there be "the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace," and the "love which never faileth," however it may be as to names and outward organizations. The existence of sects is a fruit and evidence of human de- pravity, and the bigotry, fanaticism, proselytism, pious frauds and carnal strategy which follow in the train are deplorable. It was well said by Paul, " Whereas there are strifes and divisions among you, are ye not carnal ?"
It is yet more unfortunate that these conflicts should so often come in to mar some of the most glorious dis-
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plays of divine power in the conversion of sinners. This is the policy of the prince of darkness to arrest the pro- gress of the work. So it was when the Rev. James Davenport was flying from place to place in New Eng- land and on Long Island, proclaiming of faithful, labo- rious pastors that they were unconverted men, and exhorting the people not to listen to them as spiritual teachers-in fact doing and saying what he could not review, except with deep regret and penitential sorrow.
The Rev. James Davenport was the son of the Rev. John Davenport, of Stamford, Connecticut, and grandson of the Rev. John Davenport, father of the New Haven Colony; born at Stamford, 1710; graduated at Yale, 1732. He was ordained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Suffolk, Long Island, October 26, 1738. His relation continued until 1744; but that interval of between five and six years was marked by some of the most extravagant and erratic proceedings which were ever appendages of revival scenes. His retractation' in full is printed in Dr. Sprague's Annals, and need not be copied. During the last years of his life he was quiet, meek and humble, content to labor in obscurity with the small number who continued at Maidenhead and Hopewell to adhere to the New Side. He did not live to participate in the happy reunion of the divided Presbyterian Church in 1758, although he had seen it foreshadowed in the famous "Irenicum Ecclesiasticum " of the Rev. Gilbert Tennent, in 1749.
He died at the New Side parsonage (the property of the late John Cain, in Hopewell, near the Lawrence line), November 10, 1757. His age on the tomb- stone covering his remains is given as forty; it should
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be forty-seven. In the midst of that little churchyard, one mile west of Pennington, you may read this in- scription :
IN MEMORY OF The Rev. JAMES DAVENPORT, who departed this life Nov. 10, 1757, Aged 40 years.
0, Davenport ! a Seraph once in clay- A brighter Seraph now in heavenly day- How glowed thy Heart with sacred love and zeal ;
How like to that thy kindred Angels feel. Clothed in humility thy virtues shone In every Eye illustrious but thine own ;
How like thy Master, on whose friendly Breast Thou oft has leaned and shall forever rest.
By his side lies his widow, who survived him over thirty years :
IN MEMORY OF PARNEL, wife of The Rev. James Davenport, who departed this life August 21, 1789, Aged 60 years.
Two children outlived them. The son, the Rev. John Davenport, was pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Deerfield, New Jersey, where he died. Elizabeth, the daughter, married Enos Kelsy, of Princeton, New Jersey, a merchant. Mr. and Mrs. Kelsy are buried in the Princeton Cemetery.
POSTSCRIPT .- The sources from which the facts and documents that make up this history are drawn are so numerous that they cannot well be recited.
EVERGREEN HALL.
DURING the year 1835 (and to some extent previous to that), some of the more enterprising citizens of Pen- nington consulted together with regard to the establish- ment of a Female Seminary, which might furnish the young ladies of the community with instruction in other branches than those usually taught in the public schools. The result was the organization of a stock company in 1836. The evidence of this is the following legal doc- ument, which is here copied in full :
Whereas, it has been signified to us the undersigned, that legal notice was given to the Association for constructing the Female Seminary of Pennington, to meet on the 18th of this instant, for the express purpose of choosing three Trustees to an institution for the promotion of learn- ing in that village, at which time and place the persons so associated and assembled did proceed to elect by plurality of voices three Trustees to the same Association. And by the minutes of the meeting, under the signature of the President and Clerk respectively, it was also signified that the undersigned were elected Trustees of the same.
Now, therefore, we certify that this Institution for the promotion of learning takes and would be known by the name of the Female Semi- nary of Pennington. And for the guidance and government of all per- sons who are or may be concerned, this writing is to be recorded in due form of law in the Clerk's Office of the County of Hunterdon.
Given under our hands and seals this nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Six.
JOSEPH TITUS, [L. S.]
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ISAAC WELLING, [L. S.] ANDREW TITUS, [L. S.]
Recª Mar. 29, 1836, at the Clerk's Office in Hunterdon County, and recorded in Vol. 2 of Incorporations, &c. Farlee, Clk.
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Besides the trustees above named, Dr. Henry W. Blachly, Dr. Absalom Blachly, Dr. James B. M'Nair and other gentlemen were interested, and subscribed liberally. A lot was purchased and an excellent brick building erected by Augustine M. Vankirk, architect. The services of the wife of the Rev. George C. Hyde, from New England, were engaged, and the seminary was set in operation. For the first year, success seemed to crown the effort, but for some causes, now unknown, the principal left at the end of the year. This discour- aging feature deterred many from subscribing additional stock sufficient to pay for the seminary edifice; the stock already paid in was voluntarily sacrificed, and Mr. Vankirk took the building on his own hands, to meet the cost of material and work.
While the property was held by Mr. Vankirk, for two or more years an excellent school was maintained by Roswell Howe, Esq., and two of his daughters. In the spring of 1841, having offered it for sale, it was bought by an association of gentlemen connected with the Presbyterian congregation of Pennington. Joseph Titus, of Titusville, assumed the payment of one-half the purchase-money, and the balance was made up by Asa Hunt, Aaron Hart, Sr., Rev. George Hale, Stephen B. Smith, Aaron Hart, Jr., J. Smith Hart, George Woolsey, Andrew Titus, Garret J. Schenck, and Eph- raim Woolsey.
The Misses Scovel were employed to take charge of the department of instruction, and Mrs. Ann Reed of the boarding department. This arrangement con- tinued until the month of November, 1842, when the young lady who was acting as principal accepted (as ladies have a right to do) a position for life as the
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companion of a worthy gentleman who had won her affections.
At this date began the labors of Miss Mary L. Hale, who eventually bought the property, and named it Evergreen Hall. Miss Hale continued in the discharge of active services as principal for twenty-seven years, having the aid of her two sisters after the spring of the year 1845. For about two years previous to the latter date, Mr. David N. Wiley superintended the boarding department. In consequence of the protracted and dangerous illness of one of the sisters, in connection with the death of another which had occurred a year or two previous, Miss Hale resolved, after the anniversary exercises in the summer of 1869, to discontinue the school for at least one year. At the end of that time, in July, 1870, Miss Wragge became the principal, and so continued for four years, with moderate success.
Miss Mary L. Hale resumed the charge of Evergreen Hall in September, 1874, and proposes to continue the work of education with such assistants as she may be able to obtain.
In the past there has been special effort to secure thoroughness in all the fundamental branches of educa- tion, while the languages, mathematics, sciences, and the ornamental branches, have received due attention. There has also been, without intermission, an earnest regard for the moral culture and the spiritual and eter- nal welfare of the pupils.
Not a little of the instruction has been entirely gratu- itous ; much of it at a greatly reduced price, and always at moderate charges, much below those of institutions of the same grade. The seminary was founded that it might be an instrument of good, and it has not been a
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failure. It has been eminently a blessing, not only in Pennington and its vicinity, but to families widely scat- tered through our country and in foreign lands. Several of the graduates have married ministers of the gospel ; some have gone out as missionaries to the heathen, and others have done themselves and their teachers credit by their usefulness in the spheres they have been called to occupy.
That this institution may yet prosper, the fervent prayers and earnest co-operation of the Christian people of the Pennington congregation are solicited.
SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR REBUILDING THE CHURCH, 1874-75.
The following record of the offerings of the donors to replace the church that was burnt down in January, 1874, is due to those who gave, and to others also, as an example of a prompt answer to a call of God for free-will offerings :
George Woolsey, $1100 00 Daniel C. Titus,
$350 00
John Smith Hunt,
1000 00
Archibald Updike, 325 00
Joseph A. Frisbie,
1104 50
John Stevenson Hunt, 300 00
C. H. & HI. P. Muirheid,
Theod. F. Titus,
310 00
Cash, 740 00
1111 58
Reuben Titus, Jr., 250 00
Wm. Harrison Muirheid,
180 00
David B. Burd,
225 00
John G. Muirheid,
240 00
Aaron Hart,
200 00
Sallie Muirheid,
150 00
John S. Vancleve,
200 00
E. M. Titus,
15 00
Reuben Titus, Sr., 225 00
John Ogden,
200 00
Henry J. Blackwell,
250 00
Wm. B. Muirheid,
200 00
Azariah Hunt, 200 00
Rev. Daniel R. Foster,
700 00
William C. Lewis,
200 00
John E. Burd,
600 00
Lizzie M'Lenahan, 225 00
Samuel B. Ketcham,
650 00
William Pomyea,
125 00
Catharine Ketcham,
450 00
Jesse Atchley, 125 00
Geo. W. Ketcham, Newark, 50 00
Joseph Pierson Blackwell, 110 00
Wm. Smith Ketcham, "
500 00
John Phillips Hart, 105 00
Louisa Ketcham, 100 00
John H. Drake, 100 00
Mary M. Ketcham,
60 00
Susan Chamberlain, 100 00
Maggie S. Ketcham,
60 00
Sarah S. Vannoy, 100 00
Henry B. Perrine,
580 00
John L. Phillips, 100 00
Isaac Voorhees, 525 00
Elizabeth Wiley,
100 00
Enoch A. Titus,
500 00
J. E. Parker, 150 00
Timothy H. Hunt,
550 00
Moses H. Burroughs, 150 00
Andrew Ege,
500 00 Enoch Armitage Blackwell, 100 00
Enoch Blackwell,
500 00
John H. E. Bake, 100 00
Joseph H. Golden,
300 00
Charles T. Blackwell, 100 00
Ralph Ege, 300 00
John Fleming, 100 00
Mary Lay Hale,
300 00
William B. Curtis, 100 00
Rev. George Hale, D.D.,
300 00
Hannah Atchley, 100 00
George Hale, Jr., M.D.
25 00
R. S. Leaming,
100 00
George Laning & Sons, 380 00
for Bell, $371 58
Enoch Ketcham, N. Y.,
1000 00
H. P. & E. L. Welling, 300 00
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Louisa Updike,
$100 00 Gideon B. Burd,
$20 00
S. Moore Hart,
100 00
Reuben H. Burd,
10 00
Abigail Hart,
50 00
Mary Brown,
10 00
Israel Hart,
100 00
Charles Schenck,
10 00
Levi T. Atchley,
100 00
Elizabeth Stout,
18 00
Aaron V. Stout,
100 00
William Hoppock,
5 00
George H. Titus,
100 00
Hannah Herron,
10 00
Hannah Moore,
50 00
Eliza Drake,
10 00
Nathaniel Hart,
50 00
Georgianna Young,
5 00
Edward Updike,
25 00
Jesse M. Temple,
10 00
William L. Burroughs,
85 00
Ida Hart,
20 00
Joseph B. Wiggins,
25 00
H. Welling Stout,
10 00
M. A. Wragg,
30 00
Ralph Phillips,
10 00
Hezekiah Anderson,
50 00
Robert H. Drake,
10 00
Asa Titus Hart,
25 00
Ralph S. Hart,
10 00
Isaac Primmer,
30 00
Elias Skillman,
10 00
Elizabeth Drake,
50 00
Noah H. Tindall,
30 00
Moses Stout Drake,
30 00
A. Titus Atchley,
15 00
Thomas Holcombe,
50 00
Sophia Harvey,
20 00
Furman D. Updike,
25 00
George Updike,
10 00
Wm. P. Manners,
50 00
Gertrude Taylor,
15 00
Samuel C. Cornell,
25 00
Wesley B. Taylor,
10 00
Anne C. Blackwell,
25 00
Elizabeth Temple,
10 00
William H. Moore,
25 00
Hannah M'Clellan,
30 00
Mary D. Coryell,
20 00
Lucinda Hurley,
5 00
William Morris Titus,
20 00
Daniel Hurley,
5 00
Hannah Titus,
30 00
James R. Bergen,
25 00
Rachel Updike,
5 00
Emma K. Titus,
10 00
Thomas P. Moore,
50 00
L. V. D. Schenck,
15 00
George R. Cooke,
48 50
E. L. Cheeseman,
10 00
David Chatten,
5 00
Sarah Wilgus,
15 00
Jonathan Anderson,
10 00
Phœbe Titus,
15 00
Isaac Hawkins,
10 00
Abbie Beakes,
10 00
Susan Whitenach,
10 00
Stephen H. Golden,
5 00
Robert H. Drake,
15 00
Asa H. Drake,
25 00
Richard Brewer Hunt,
3 00
Annie A. Schenck,
10 00
Keturah Phillips, :
10 00
George A. Hill,
20 00
R. Lavinia Hart,
10 00
Benj. S. Hill,
10 00
F. W. Swan,
25 00
Emma A. Titus,
5 00
Crook S. Conrad,
20 00
Isaac V. C. Wychoff,
5 00
G. Frelinghuysen Cook,
20 00
James V. Wilson,
5 00
P. S. Hoagland,
15 00
Joshua L. Allen,
5 00
Anthony Reed, Jr.,
10 00
Sedgewick F. Sharpe,
5 00
Alfred S. Burd,
5 00
J. A. Dilks,
10 00
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George S. Woolsey,
$5 00 A. J. Drexel,
Phila., $25 00
William K. Burd,
25 00
Geo. W. Childs,
20 00
George Anderson,
5 00 Miss Susan Dickson, " 80 00
Dr. S. M. Hamill, Lawrence, 75 00
Levi Knowles, 66 50 00
Rebecca Corwine,
10 00
Ashbel Welch, Lambertville, 150 00
Wm. H. H. Warman,
10 00
Elizabeth Seabrook, 66 10 00
Ellen Vandyke,
25 00
James D. Stryker,
66
50 00
Jonathan S. Bunn,
1 00
G. Williams,
66 10 00
A. P. Voorhees,
5 00
C. Frank Moore,
66
10 00
David C. Udy,
5 00
S. S. Holcombe,
66
10 00
J. P. Bobb,
10 00
Augustus C. Barber,
66
10 00
Jacob Dilts,
5 00
A. H. Holcombe, Jacob Servis,
66
5 00
J. J. Leming,
5 00
Charles V. Holcombe,
66
5 00
Benj. S. Drake,
5 00
Cornelia Bowne,
66
30 00
Rachel Page,
10 00
Jane Hart,
66
10 00
Mary C. Page,
5 00
Ann E. Weeclen,
66
25 00
Sarah Furman,
5 00
John R. Hendrickson,
66
2 00
Amos Furman,
5 00
William Hendrickson,
5 00
Livingston H. Titus,
25 00
Orin B. Faussett, 66
25 00
Mrs. Charles T. Blackwell,
20 00
Jacob Maple,
66
5 00
Mrs. Matilda Furman,
20 00
E. Webster Lanning, 66
66
5 00
L. J. Titus,
10 00
Eben'r R. Hendrickson, “
5 00
Charles H. Blackwell,
10 00
Samuel T. Atchley,
66
10 00
Mrs. John Golden,
2 00
William H. Cox,
66
5 00
Manning D. Scudder,
5 00
Eliza L. Hendrickson,
25 00
Abner Lemming,
10 00
Randolph S. Hunt,
66
10 00
Wilson Hunt,
25 00
Alfred Muirheid,
66
25 00
William A. Hough,
66
25 00
Children's List.
Amos Reeder,
25 00
Joseph G. Muirheid,
5 00
James B. Green, 66
15 00
S. H. Titus,
2 00
Alexander B. Green, 66
25 00
Charles M. Titus,
2 00
Joseph Swartzlander,
66 5 00
Hartley Updike,
3 00
James A. Hendrickson, “
5 00
L. & A. Updike,
1 00
Armitage Green & Bro. “
5 00
Benj. F. Taylor, 2 00
Paul Tulane, Princeton,
100 00
Charles Cheeseman,
1 00
C. O. Hudnut,
10 00
Rosalie C. Titus,
5 00 John V. Terhune, “.
10 00
Mary Titus,
2 00 Hon. H. W. Green, Trenton, 300 00
Allen Anderson,
62 Ephraim Woolsey,
100 00
Jacob Jaffer,
2 00
William E. Stryker, 66
5 00
John Blackwell,
25 00
J. A. Anderson,
E. S. M'Ilvain,
Ewing,
25 00
Julia Furman,
5 00
Charles Hart,
5 00
William Matthews,
10 00
John Handony,
2 00
Thomas Crozer,
10 00
Lizzie Woolsey,
5 00
15 00
50 00
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Samuel R. Smith, Trenton, $100 00
Hon. Jno. T. Nixon, Trenton, $50 00
Samuel Roberts, 66 50 00
Peter Katzenbach, 66 25 00
Edmund Roberts,
25 00 John S. Noble, 66 50 00
Hon. A. G. Richey,
100 00
William Dolton, 66
25 00
Caleb S. Green, Esq.
100 00
Alexander Dunn,
25 00
Dr. W. W. L. Phillips, "
25 00
William R. Titus,
50 00
H. G. Scudder,
66
50 00
Miller & Wiley,
66
25 00
George S. Green,
66
50 00
David Shaw, 66
5 00
Hon. E. W. Scudder,
100 00
Charles Baker,
5 00
Benjamin Fish,
6
50 00
J. R. Freese,
66
10 00
E. B. Fuller,
66
100 00
Albert D. Smith,
66
10 00
Joseph G. Brearley,
66
50 00
J. F. Stukert,
120 00
Jonathan Stewart,
150 00
B. Ridgeway,
66
100 00
William J. Owens,
66
25 00
Murphy & Bechtel,
66
10 00
Barker Gummere,
66 100 00
In addition to the above there were received by the Treasurer from the Ladies' Funds, from Harvest Homes, from the collection on Dedica- tion Day, and various other sources, $2,378 00.
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